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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SHADOWS Matches Found: 229 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BIRD'S SONG, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shadow of a bird Last Line: But the soul-love is soaring out of reach forevermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew Subject(s): Birds; Shadows; Hope A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 4, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow! Last Line: The sun still proud, the shadow still disdained. Variant Title(s): Follow Subject(s): Love; Shadows; Sun; Time A CHRONICLE, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All about the blown wind's ways Last Line: Are my shadows near it. Subject(s): Shadows A HEART-HAUNTED HOME, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At lisnamaine, since thither he comes no more Last Line: Let so his eyes be dark, his heart be cold. Subject(s): Absence; Haunted Houses; Mothers & Sons; Shadows; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness A LECTURE UPON THE SHADOW, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stand still, and I will read to thee Last Line: And his first minute, after noone, is night. Subject(s): Shadows; Sun A MEMORY, by IRVILLE CHARLES LECOMPTE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shadows up the hillside creeping Last Line: Fluttered to the floor. Subject(s): Shadows A SHADOW, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I heard a noise and wished for a sight Last Line: "shadow, or she, or both, or choose you whither: / blest be the thing that brought the shadow hither Subject(s): Shadows A TWILIGHT SONG, by EDWARD MASLIN HULME Poem Text First Line: When swallows fly Last Line: To me again. Subject(s): Evening; Shadows; Sky; Stars; Sunset; Twilight ABSENCE OF SHADOWS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Beyond the shadows %where the wind dwells Last Line: In the kingdom of absences Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Shadows ABSENCES, by EUGENE GRINDEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dull delight and petty mystery Last Line: And the shadows wait for me. Alternate Author Name(s): Eluard, Paul Subject(s): Absence; Dreams; Shadows; Separation; Isolation; Nightmares ACCUSATION, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If this is what you meant Last Line: If this is what you meant? Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Moon; Rain; Shadows; Sky ADUMBRATIO, by MICHAEL DENNIS BROWNE Poem Source First Line: You were so strongly in the dream Last Line: Which also can, in those small hours, %undo me Subject(s): Shadows ALL NIGHT THEY WILL SPEAK ABOUT LILACS, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: Still burning %out of season. The sky flames, embracing all Last Line: Await us %on the jericho road? Subject(s): Emptiness; Night; Shadows ALLIANCE, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: An alliance with fire is still possible, you used to say Last Line: Black, reject? And so, to the shadow's suppliant mouth, I, inexorable, refuse all water Subject(s): Shadows ARIA, by ROBERT DE MONTESQUIOU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Appearances in hiding Last Line: Echo, reflection of a sound. Subject(s): Shadows AT THE FOOT OF A CYCLOPEAN WALL, THE MAN IN THE BLUE WORKSUIT, by JOSEP VICENC FOIX Poem Source First Line: In a fable and sleep I know that man who Last Line: When the shadow of both is the single shadow' Subject(s): Dreams; Sailors And Sailing; Shadows ATONEMENT, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in a lonely garden on the hill Last Line: O let my death atone! Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Shadows; Dead, The BAD DREAMS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The square is shadowy Last Line: It wasn't you I was looking for Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Dreams; Shadows CAROL, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady, the dew of years Last Line: With grace carried a flower Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Shadows CLOUD SHADOW, by MICHAEL T. YOUNG Poem Source First Line: If it comes over me without my noticing Last Line: And the last visitors are turned away Subject(s): Death; Museums; Paintings And Painters; Shadows COULD IT HAVE BEEN A SHADOW?, by MONICA SHANNON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What ran under the rosebush? Last Line: To guard a gleaming pot of gold %for a busy leprechaun Subject(s): Shadows COUNTERSHADOW, by PHILIP BOOTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In daylight, even Last Line: Light, dissolves %in dark cement Subject(s): Shadows CROWNS OF FIRE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Autumn draws its crowns of fire %as in a wakeful sleep Last Line: I am happy galloping in this autumn of reddish horses Subject(s): Autumn; Hearts; Love; Seasons; Shadows; Solitude CRUISERS' VERSE, by VICTOR NOEL Poem Source First Line: Look at them Last Line: Of salt and flesh Subject(s): Blood; Death; Shadows; Warships DEAD MEN, TO A METAPHYSICIAN, by WILLIAM HERVEY ALLEN JR. Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: If they were shadows walking to and fro Last Line: Of questions solved by posing an enigma. Alternate Author Name(s): Allen, Hervey Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders; Shadows; Enigmas; Oddities DEAD WAVES, by MANUEL GUTIERREZ NAJERA Poem Source First Line: In the deep darkness underneath the ground Last Line: O deep and silent currents of my soul! Subject(s): Death; Graves; Rest; Shadows; Silence DILEMMA, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shadows fall as the sun sinks down Last Line: Or be lost on a midnight-road? Subject(s): Night; Shadows; Sun; Travel; Bedtime; Journeys; Trips DO YOU REMEMBER?, by ENRIQUE GONZALEZ MARTINEZ Poem Source First Line: Do you recall that evening when for the first time clearly Last Line: The clouds, the fields wide spreading, the seashore and %the sea Subject(s): Shadows; Thought DOUBTING ANGELS, by TIMOTHY GEIGER Poem Source First Line: They follow me everywhere - %rain-streaked shadows Last Line: Iridescent skin, shallow eyes %blue and sorry for nothing Subject(s): Shadows DRIVING ALONGSIDE THE HOUSANTONIC RIVER ALONE ON A RAINY APRIL NIGHT, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember asking Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Shadows; Automobiles; Cars DUSK, SCIRCLEVILLE, by MARTIN WALLS Poem Source First Line: Dust enters the coppice Last Line: The hard life patiently grows quiet in the cottages Subject(s): Dusk; Shadows EAST OF THE SUN AND WEST OF THE MOON, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say the year is the year of the phoenix Last Line: Creates the image in which the world is Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Dreams; Fables; Fantasy; Masks; Shadows ENIGMA: 17, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the child of the brightest thing Last Line: Till for ever away I flee. Subject(s): Shadows ESCAPE, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shadows, shadows Last Line: Profound. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Shadows EVERNESS, by JORGE LUIS BORGES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One thing does not exist: oblivion Subject(s): Memory; Shadows FIELDS OF SORIA: 4, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, these are they that move 'twixt land and sky Last Line: Their shadows slowly lengthen as they pass Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Fields; Shadows; Travel FOOT-PRINTS, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER Poem Text First Line: Shadows of lilac echo the form Last Line: Unchanging, changing—you remain. Subject(s): Footprints; Native Americans; Shadows; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America FRANCESCA / INFERNO, V, by JOSE ANTONIO MAZZOTTI Poem Source First Line: You are seeing her again for the very first time, the tired eyes, the tiny hand Last Line: Her corpse still arouses %desire in passersby Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Shadows; Supernatural FRIDAY NIGHT, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Friday night! Come draw the curtain Last Line: On this peaceful sabbath night. Subject(s): Dreams; Jews; Night; Sabbath; Shadows; Nightmares; Judaism; Bedtime; Sunday FROM AN ANALYST'S NOTEBOOK: TEN A.M., by HENRY M. SEIDEN Poem Source First Line: On the wall, over the hans hofmann poster Last Line: Lying latent too, intimations of a coming spring Subject(s): Shadows GANG, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: His shadow looks stronger than he does Last Line: His way of growing old Subject(s): Shadows; Strength GARDEN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Standing at the window at night Last Line: A lord of shadows. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Growth; Shadows; Strength GHOST-BEREFT; A SCENE FROM BOGLAND IN WAR-TIME, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I thought by now for sure the sun was down Last Line: A shadowy form begins to move up the path from the river. Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Shadows; Soldiers; Supernatural; War; Dead, The GHOSTS OF THE PAST, by SARAH RUTH COLEMAN Poem Text First Line: Meadows and streams Last Line: "of ""never more!" Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Shadows; Supernatural; Dead, The GLORY AND SHADOW, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Who art thou, o glory Last Line: Is waiting for you. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Honor; Shadows GRANNY'S LITTLE FLOCK, by CHARLES J. HANFORD Poem Text First Line: The lamp's dim, the fire's low Last Line: To her sleepy flock. Subject(s): Grandparents; Shadows; Weaving & Weavers; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers HAIKU, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am you loving Last Line: Thisd noontime butterfly Subject(s): Shadows; Love; Butterflies HALLOWEEN, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On bala lake the wind is high Last Line: On bala lake. Subject(s): Mortality; Shadows; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen HOLLOW DAYDREAM, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: He who thinks of nothingness Last Line: To hail a gloomy occupant Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Shadows I CHOSE THIS BRANCH, by HONGJANG Poem Source First Line: I chose this branch of mountain willow Last Line: In tht new leaf me Subject(s): Absence; Love; Memory; Shadows I DEFINE THE DARKNESS CORRECT: THE BRIGHTER FLESH, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where is the center of human Last Line: Between dark between cities Subject(s): Bodies; Labor & Laborers; Mankind; Shadows; Work; Workers; Human Race I LOOKED FOR LIFE AND DID A SHADOW SEE, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some little splinter Last Line: In the hollows of her eyes Subject(s): Beauty; Girls; Night; Shadows; Bedtime I MASCHI, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: The masked rowers %came for him Last Line: A sight he would never again see Subject(s): Boats; Sailors And Sailing; Shadows; Solitude I'VE SEEN SKIES, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source Last Line: Their shadow an echo Subject(s): Dreams; Shadows; Sleep IDEA: 13. TO THE SHADOW, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Letters and lines we see are soon defac'd Last Line: May in my shadow my love's story read. Subject(s): Love; Shadows IF HE WERE NOT ENTHRALLED ...., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her parasol's a mushroom turned a bowl Last Line: And leave releasing to the nightingale. Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales; Shadows IN MY WINDOW-SEAT, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am sitting in my window-seat Last Line: And the world is very still. Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Rest; Shadows; Silence; Sleep; Nightmares; Bedtime IN THE SHADOW, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We walk within the shadow, and we feel its Last Line: But the shadow fades at dawning, and the east is flecked with gold. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Echoes; Memory; Rest; Shadows IN THE SHADOW, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O she will have the deep dark heart, for all her face is fair Last Line: A heaven of peace it is beside this mockery of a grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Advice; Despair; Love Affairs; Man-woman Relationships; Shadows; Unfaithfulness; Male-female Relations; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy IN THE SHADOWS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As the shadows filled the room with peace Last Line: Missed some beloved face. Subject(s): Faces; Hearts; Peace; Shadows IN THE SHADOWS, by FLORENCE COPLEY WHITE Poem Text First Line: Last night the wind went singing Last Line: Upon the harp. Subject(s): Grief; Shadows; Sorrow; Sadness INCOMPLETENESS, by DORIS ELFRIDA ESTCOURT Poem Text First Line: Through the clean silence of the wakening / day Last Line: We glimpse it, but it melts to mist again. Subject(s): Dreams; Shadows; Nightmares INTO THE SHADOW, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Back again into the shadow-after the sun! Last Line: But the gradual gloom grows less as god's daylight breaks afar. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Shadows; Nightmares; Bedtime INTRUDER, by JOAN OLIVER Poem Source First Line: You enter my dream with a torch Last Line: In whirlwinds Subject(s): Dreams; Shadows; Sleep JUST ANOTHER PARADIGM SHIFT, by PAUL GRANT Poem Source First Line: Just a shadow. Hardly that. But audible Last Line: Back down into the woods, whispering %once upon a time Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Memory; Shadows KATHLEEN O'DARE, by DOROTHY B. YOST Poem Text First Line: The evening shades are falling within the orchard grove Last Line: While the shadows gather in the sky. Subject(s): Evening; Orchards; Shadows; Sunset; Twilight LAST AUTUMN, by GEORGE H. DILLON Poem Text First Line: Sparrows flock into a tree out of the gutter Last Line: And it is shadows I keep. Subject(s): Shadows; Sparrows LEAVES, SHADOWS, AND DREAMS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen all things pass and all men go Last Line: Grey shadows in the grass. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Gray (color); Green (color); Leaves; Shadows; Dead, The; Nightmares; Grey (color) LETRILLA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When the wind, mother %rustles the leaves Last Line: I am cradled in sleep %under shadowy trees Subject(s): Shadows; Sleep LIGHT & SHADOW, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rest you by this various planet Last Line: Swaying in the tender light & shadow Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Shadows LIGHTS AND SHADOWS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See how the shifting lights and shadows fall Last Line: Whether with shine or shade the hours we fill. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Life; Light; Shadows LIVING SHADOW, by BORIS NOVAK Poem Source First Line: Shadowy ancestor, I seek you everywhere Last Line: I have been relieved from my shadow Subject(s): Shadows LONG SHADOW, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crossing from a chore as the day Last Line: Makes a path from my feet; I am my path Subject(s): Shadows LONG SHADOW, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crossing from a chore as the day Last Line: Makes a path from my feet; I am my path Subject(s): Shadows LONG SHADOWS, by TERRI L. JEWELL Poem Source First Line: There are shades of day Last Line: Not knowing those long shadows %bear you through all the sorrow Variant Title(s): Felled Shadow Subject(s): Shadows LONG SHADOWS, by JILL MAUGHAN Poem Source First Line: Our shadows lean across Last Line: That long shadows fall on Subject(s): Shadows LOOKING AT YOUR HAND, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This shadow passing over your hand Last Line: For a moment it can shape itself into a cup of water. Subject(s): Hands; Mankind; Shadows; Human Race MAN WITH NO SHADOW, by JAMES P. SCOFIELD Poem Source First Line: Odd the things that snag our fears, this time Last Line: Thunder of release clutching, shouting until %done Subject(s): Fear; Shadows MATINS: 4, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A shadow painted where Subject(s): Shadows MEMORY'S DREAM, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: I dreamed a dream-but who can tell Last Line: They both were mine and must not go! Subject(s): Memory; Shadows MIDDAY WITHOUT SHADOW, by YANN LOVELOCK Poem Source First Line: I say sun and mean %ripening fields, bread's wheel Last Line: Midday shimmers %beneath ashen mountains Subject(s): Shadows; Sun MIDNIGHT CEREMONY, by LISA FURMANSKI Poem Source First Line: Rains end, the season to ascend Last Line: A ripple in distant, pillowed thoughts Subject(s): Night; Shadows; Sleep MY ANTIQUE LAMP, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: My antique lamp from old japan Last Line: And take myself to bed. Subject(s): Antiques; Lamps; Light; Night; Shadows; Sleep; Bedtime MY DREAM, by MANUEL MARIA FLORES Poem Source First Line: By night a dream was with me. Beneath a gloomy Last Line: Left sweet and glowing kisses upon my lifted brow Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Shadows 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 SHADOW, by W. HODGSON BURNETT Poem Text First Line: I have a sort of shadow that goes out sometimes with me Last Line: Had forgotten all about me and had gone to vote instead! Subject(s): Great Britain - Parliament; Shadows; Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894) MY SHADOW, by AILI JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: I'm not my shadow, %my shadow's not me Last Line: Laughs when I laugh %and dances divinely Subject(s): Shadows MY SHADOW, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me Last Line: Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): A Child's Garden Of Verses: 18 Subject(s): Children; Imagination; Shadows; Childhood; Fancy MY SHADOW, by ORHAN VELI Poem Source First Line: I am through Last Line: My shadow %at someplace, %I %someplace else Subject(s): Shadows MY SHADOW'S STATURE, by JOHN JAMES PIATT Poem Source First Line: Whene'er, in morning airs, I walk abroad Last Line: Crown'd with the sun and all the heaven's smile - %my head is in the shade and valley too Subject(s): Shadows NIGHT AND SHADOWS, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE Poem Text First Line: But yesterday I watched the shadows play Last Line: If I remember morning speeds the night. Subject(s): Light; Moon; Night; Shadows; Bedtime NIGHT OF SHADOWS, by CHARLES GUERIN Poem Text First Line: Night of shadows, tragic, helpless night! Last Line: The sleep of the conquered and the sleep of the dead. Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Shadows; Sleep; Stars; Nightmares; Bedtime NIGHT OF THE JAGUAR, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Night like a velvet screen of winged smoke, the limpid Last Line: In the night of the jaguar %swift as a %deep song Subject(s): Jaguars; Paintings And Painters; Shadows NIGHT SERENE, by LUIS DE LEON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I contemplate o'er me Last Line: Re-echoing vales where every balm %distils! Alternate Author Name(s): Fray Luis Subject(s): Night; Serenity; Shadows NIGHT-BORN, by MARY LANIER MAGRUDER Poem Text First Line: You loved the wind at twilight, and the snow Last Line: Beyond the door to which we have no key. Subject(s): Shadows NIGHTFALL, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eve goes slowly Last Line: Bold then beaten—now long lost, and here! Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Shadows; Silence; Dead, The; Paradise NIGHTFALL, by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: I blink, and the sun has swept up the last shadows Last Line: The silence taking all of me %into its mouth Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Shadows; Silence; Sleep NIGHTFALL ON THE LYNNHAVEN, by MARY SINTON LEITCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love lynnhaven river at this hour Last Line: Slowly to darkness and oblivion. Subject(s): Night; Rivers; Shadows; Bedtime NILE SHADOWS, by OLIVE SCOTT STAINSBY Poem Text First Line: Soft shadows slipping from the dark'ning sand Last Line: Or cry of lonely beast could now be heard. Subject(s): Hearts; Shadows NO SIGN OF LIFE, by JORGE TEILLIER Poem Source First Line: Why give signs of life? %I could hardly send you a message Last Line: And that our children can dream of being economists or dictators Subject(s): Absence; Love; Shadows NOCTURNE, by XAVIER VILLAURRUTIA Poem Source First Line: All that the night Last Line: Dies on my hard lips Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Shadows; Silence NOCTURNE IN A MINOR KEY, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will say: I walked alone in whistling darkness Last Line: The lover, ridiculous; the loved, sublime. Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Shadows; Sleep; Nightmares; Bedtime NOCTURNE VARIAL, by LEWIS ALEXANDER Poem Source First Line: I came as a shadow Last Line: There's a warmth in the light. %I came as a shadow, %to dazzle your night! Subject(s): Shadows NORTHERN CALIFORNIA NIGHT (STRAITS OF CARQUINEZ), by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like miraculous shining electrum / this wide amber light Last Line: Hushes heaven, whence radiance is drifting! Subject(s): Calm; Moon; Night; Shadows; Silence; Sleep; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Bedtime NOVEMBER, by JOZE UDOVIC Poem Source First Line: The house shrank into itself Last Line: Turned up to the rotten ceiling Subject(s): Ghosts; Houses, Deserted; Shadows; Supernatural OBJECT AND ITS SHADOW, by JORGE CARRERA ANDRADE Poem Source First Line: Reality, faithful architecture of the world Last Line: Let the eye prepare its vessel %for a new discovery Subject(s): Architecture And Architects; Shadows OBSERVATION, by LARS LUNDKVIST Poem Source First Line: The shadows of the trees Last Line: Primeval, unfathomable Subject(s): Aging; Childhood Memories; Shadows ON A SHADOW IN A GLASS (RIDDLE), by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: By something form'd, I nothing am Subject(s): Riddles; Shadows ON HIS SHADOW, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, my shadow, constant, true Last Line: Unless I fall upon her. Subject(s): Shadows ON THE GARDEN WALL, by HELEN FIELD WATSON Poem Text First Line: Sometimes shadows seem to me Last Line: Better than reality. Subject(s): Reality; Shadows PENETRALIA, by ELFRIDA DE RENNE BARROW Poem Text First Line: Blurred formations Last Line: Of shadow-stirring twilights. Subject(s): Evening; Shadows; Sunset; Twilight PENUMBRAE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shadows have their seasons, too Last Line: Like a stairway that does not rise Subject(s): Shadows PENUMBRAE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shadows have their seasons, too Last Line: Like a stairway that does not rise Subject(s): Shadows PHANTOM LIFE, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My days are phantom days, each one Last Line: Among my shadows to and fro. Subject(s): Phantom Of The Opera (movie, 1925), The; Shadows POEM 2, by ABELARDO SANCHEZ LEON Poem Source First Line: Why did that have to be the only answer? It's true Last Line: Without being afraid of my body, without lowering the eyes Subject(s): Memory; Shadows POEM FOR MARIANA'S SHADOW, by PAUL ANTSCHEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Love's spearmint grew like an angel's finger Last Line: We love each other or we don't Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Shadows PRELUDE TO 'WALKING SHADOWS', by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of those who fought and died Last Line: Then let them sleep, at dawn, with the forgotten. Subject(s): History; Shadows; Truth; Historians PUTTING ON MY FATHER'S SHADOW, by LINDA RAMEY Poem Source First Line: As a girl I'd dress in its lengthy shape Last Line: As a girl I'd dress in its lenghty shape Subject(s): Daughters; Fathers; Shadows QUATRAIN: THE SHADOW, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O shadow, in thy fleeting form I see Last Line: In darkness, thou wilt leave me all alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Shadows QUERY, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: What holds the swift enquiring mind Last Line: Murmured a spell to guard the soul. Subject(s): Insanity; Reason; Shadows; Wandering & Wanderers; Madness; Mental Illness; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals QUERY, by HELEN YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Because I am / so short and fat Last Line: Tall! Subject(s): Shadows RAIN IN BIELSKO, by LINDA NEMEC FOSTER Poem Source First Line: Men working Last Line: The rain gets lost. %its shadow marries sidewalk.' Subject(s): Rain; Shadows REFLECTION (1), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like stars that in the waves below Last Line: Are shadows of a fairer light. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Flowers; Shadows REFLETS, by BENET ROSNY Poem Text First Line: Young green planets of jade Last Line: Teeth meet within it. Subject(s): Fantasy; Memory; Shadows REMEMBRANCE, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It lies on our life like the stars on the sea Last Line: Life's woe from our weariful faces. Subject(s): Memory; Shadows REMOTE LUNAR LIGHT OF MEMORY, by OSTEN SJOSTRAND Poem Source Last Line: Like fish scales near the airy film of the sea Subject(s): Acropolis Of Athens; Memory; Shadows RISE NOW, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rise now, an end to rest. The wind sighs / from the west Last Line: On boughs that tap the pane thy soft farewell to speak. Subject(s): Memory; Past; Shadows ROADSIDE POEMS: THE SHADOWS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My little boy, with smooth, fair cheeks Last Line: Those shadows, lord, for thee! Subject(s): Children; God; Religion; Shadows; Childhood; Theology ROMAN, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The new moon Last Line: Of the superstition! Subject(s): Moon; Rome, Italy; Shadows SHADOW, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A shadow makes us think twice, thus we link it with doubt and Last Line: In-the-making, half half-told-story, a sweet balance between style %and disclosure Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Shadows SHADOW, by C. HATAKEYAMA Poem Source First Line: It caught my eye, my shadow, as it ran Last Line: Come from the hills and fields and the far skies Subject(s): Shadows SHADOW, by ANTOINETTE MORRIS Poem Text First Line: Shadow in the moonlight / beautiful whirling Last Line: Beauty never should be such. Subject(s): Shadows SHADOW, by LIA PURPURA Poem Source First Line: Drama in which a rose Last Line: Darkness becomes you. %and that plunging Subject(s): Art And Artists; Shadows SHADOW, by LOLA RIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though -- statued to a savage innocence Last Line: Night stretching a vast cross of ebony. Alternate Author Name(s): Lawson, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Night; Shadows; Bedtime SHADOW, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Night fell once you had forded the stream Last Line: God, talk and breathe and laugh and be your shadow is much difference between footprints Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Shadows; Sleep SHADOW, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shadows lie soft on the grass Last Line: The shadow apart from the light! Subject(s): Shadows SHADOW, by OPAL WHITELEY Poem Source First Line: And this I have learned Last Line: Grownups do not know the language of shadows Subject(s): Language; Shadows SHADOW IN THE OTHER'S HEART, by DABNEY STUART Poem Source First Line: He has none, of course Last Line: Like a mute veil from the world Subject(s): Hearts; Relationships; Shadows SHADOW OF MY HAND, by MARY GRAY Poem Source First Line: When the sun rolls up, orange Last Line: The twining sinews of bark my hand so loves Subject(s): Nature; Shadows SHADOW OF TRUTH, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: At a reading she Last Line: His existance but %not for his art Subject(s): Shadows; Truth SHADOWLAND, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: One by one the flakes are falling Last Line: "vacant will be shadowland." Subject(s): Ghosts; Shadows; Spirituality; Supernatural SHADOWS, by ISABEL R. BOYER Poem Text First Line: Last night, the shadows dark'ning in my room Last Line: "of peace on earth good will to every man." Subject(s): Shadows SHADOWS, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I see the long wild briers Last Line: Wrap my heart up in her shroud. Subject(s): Shadows SHADOWS, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Text First Line: I am here, the other elsewhere, the silence seems to live Last Line: I must pray, for it is the hour of the sovereign of the world. Subject(s): Night; Prayer; Religion; Shadows; Silence; Bedtime; Theology SHADOWS, by PADRAIG J. DALY Poem Source First Line: I have come indoors again to shadow Last Line: With flowers in tusb and water falling %and the radiant company of the dead Subject(s): Death; Shadows SHADOWS, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: Shadows are inverted souls Last Line: The shadow of a word is an echo Subject(s): Death; Shadows; Soul; Spirituality SHADOWS, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shadow of the lantern on the wall Last Line: Restlessly dancing on a cloudy wall. Subject(s): Memory; Shadows SHADOWS, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We run, %we run Last Line: We must break through these shadows, %we must find the sun Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Shadows SHADOWS, by ARTHUR F. KRAMER Poem Text First Line: Shadows walk the world and leave a stain Last Line: Till darkness drops upon them and they die. Subject(s): Shadows SHADOWS, by HENRIK NORDBRANDT Poem Source First Line: I have been thinking so much about you Last Line: Leaving the shadows doubly deep and cold Subject(s): Relationships; Shadows SHADOWS, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A song of shadows: never glory was Last Line: The shadow of thy beauty over me. Subject(s): Beauty; Shadows SHADOWS, by LAWRENCE RUSS Poem Source First Line: What do we know about the race of shadows Last Line: And in that moment, without my knowing, %my soul grew darker Subject(s): Shadows SHADOWS, by ELIZABETH S. SMITH Poem Text First Line: The sun is sinking in the west Last Line: My love still calls for thine. Subject(s): Shadows SHADOWS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye shrink not wholly from us when the morn Last Line: The pledges of returning night and rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Shadows SHADOWS, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We saw our shadows walking before us Last Line: With the dark sea booming into the night. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Shadows SHADOWS, by ZARO WEIL Poem Source First Line: Moon %last evening you Last Line: Until morning Subject(s): Moon; Shadows SHADOWS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gloomy the earth on the shadowless days Last Line: For the darker the shadows, the brighter the sun. Subject(s): Shadows SHADOWS AT CLOSE OF DAY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: A pekinese lay dreaming Last Line: Shadows at close of day. Subject(s): Night; Peace; Shadows; Silence; Sleep; Soul; Bedtime SHADOWS OF RECOLLECTION, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is no dream! Yet haunting visions come Last Line: To quench all memory of a former state? Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Memory; Shadows; Vision SHADOWS THERE ARE, by ARTHUR JAMES MARSHALL SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Last Line: They grow transparent, and as sharp, as glass. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, A. J. M. Subject(s): Shadows SHADOWS TO-DAY, WHILE SHADOWS SHOW GOD'S WILL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In darkness for the city luminous Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Darkness; Shadows; God SHAPES AND SHADOWS, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: We are but shapes and shadows Last Line: But the screen remains unchanged! Subject(s): Death; Earth; Life; Shadows; Time; Dead, The; World SILHOUETTES, by ANNIE KNOWLTON PILLSBURY Poem Text First Line: Grandma's shadow on the wall Last Line: Fifty years ago, -- that's all? Subject(s): Shadows SLEEPING AND WAKING, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She said to herself - 'twas a girl ranging / pleasaunce and lawn Last Line: Where desire of all hearts dwelleth deep in a dream of the dream. Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Shadows; Sleep; Waking; Nightmares; Bedtime SOMETHING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting by the glimmer Last Line: Something after all. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fireplaces; Shadows; Soul SONATA IN PATHOS, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, I am tired; tired of all these years Last Line: I shall remember till I die. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Shadows; Dead, The SONG FOR MY SHADOW, by KIM PYONGYON Poem Source First Line: You follow me as I come and go Last Line: You leave without a trace! Subject(s): Shadows SONG: SUNBEAM AND DEWDROP, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O sunbeam, o sunbeam Last Line: Sparkling, starlike, everywhere. Subject(s): Dreams; Shadows; Nightmares SOUL SHADOW, by FREDERIC LAWRENCE KNOWLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If the shadow this body casts Last Line: The shadow of a soul! Alternate Author Name(s): Paget, R. L. Subject(s): Shadows; Soul SOWER OF STARS, by ENRIQUE GONZALEZ MARTINEZ Poem Source First Line: Thou shalt pass by, and men will say, 'what pathway Last Line: Will keep on scattering through life the stars from out the %sky Subject(s): Death; Night; Shadows; Stars SPHINX MOTH, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: A moth the size of a hummingbird Last Line: And a silky smear from another world Subject(s): Fate; Poetry And Poets; Shadows SPIRIT PHOTOGRAPHY, by ELAINE EQUI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where do we reside Last Line: We can no longer see Subject(s): Memory; Photography And Photographers; Pictures; Shadows; Vision STARLIGHT THROUGH THE SHADOWS, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy dear one is with jesus now Last Line: With thee all the way. Subject(s): Memory; Shadows STRANGE, by MRS. L. B. SARTAIN Poem Text First Line: Strange - the darkest shadows Last Line: Delight in hurting me. Subject(s): Happiness; Moon; Shadows; Joy; Delight SUNDAY A.M. NOT IN MANHATTAN, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across the street, closed shops Last Line: It all, the scene, the whole Subject(s): Hopper, Edward (1882-1967); Shadows SWAN AND SHADOW, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Dusk / above the / water hang the Subject(s): Birds; Shadows; Swans SWAN AND SHADOW, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dusk %above the %water hang the Last Line: Sudden dark as %if a swan %sang Subject(s): Birds; Shadows; Swans TEDIUM, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The hours of tedium hang on Last Line: What an eternity the dried-up foliage %has been sobbing! Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Shadows; Sleep; Solitude TENEBRIS, by ANGELINA WELD GRIMKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a tree, by day Last Line: Or is it a shadow? Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Shadows TETHYS' FESTIVAL: SHADOWS, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are they shadows that we see Last Line: Thought must length it in the heart. Variant Title(s): Eidola Subject(s): Shadows THE ANIMAL INSIDE THE ANIMAL, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The short shadow Last Line: Over the rooted bloom Subject(s): Soul; Shadows THE DEATH OF DAWN, by GERTRUDE RATHBUN Poem Text First Line: Morning light on a quivering leaf Last Line: The cold, gray shadow, hate. Subject(s): Cold; Death; Shadows; Silence; Snow; Dead, The THE DUEL, by HAROLD TROWBRIDGE PULSIFER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once I fought a shadow Last Line: Left blood on my sword hand. Subject(s): Shadows THE ELDRICH DARK, by CLARK ASHTON SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now as the twilight's doubtful interval Last Line: Gathered beneath a greater shadow's wings. Subject(s): Moon; Night; Shadows; Bedtime THE FAIR WATERS OF DREAM, by MARIE DE REGNIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the fair waters of asia, in a green countryside Last Line: The stroke gone by. Alternate Author Name(s): D'houville, Gerard; Heredia, Marie De Subject(s): Dreams; Fountains; Shadows; Water; Waves; Nightmares THE IMAM BARA: 1, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the sombre shadows Last Line: Ali! Hassan! Hussain! Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Shadows; Dead, The; Bereavement THE LADY UNKNOWN, by ALEXANDER (ALEKSANDR) ALEXANDROVICH BLOK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Of evenings hangs above the restaurant Last Line: I also know: truth lies in wine. Variant Title(s): The Stranger Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Dreams; Friendship; Imagination; Shadows; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Nightmares; Fancy THE LORDS OF SHADOW, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the water whispers 'mid the shadowy rowan-trees Last Line: And sealed my eyes with dew beneath the shadowy rowan-trees. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Comfort; Death; Fairies; Mythology - Celtic; Shadows; Vision; Dead, The; Elves THE OUTGOING OF SABBATH, by ALTER ABELSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shadows have taken the place of the sun Last Line: The last strain of sabbath's zemiroth is sung. Subject(s): Heaven; Jews; Sabbath; Shadows; Paradise; Judaism; Sunday THE PHANTOM COMPOSER, by IRENE DAKIN Poem Text First Line: The round silver disk of a cold sun Last Line: On the cold white keyboard of a winter's day. Subject(s): Shadows; Snow; Sun; Winter THE PRAYER OF ISLAM, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We praise thee, o compassionate! Last Line: Ya rahman! Ya raheem! Subject(s): Compassion; Death; Memory; Prayer; Shadows; Dead, The THE PROPHETESS, by KATHERINE AGNES HUME Poem Text First Line: I watched you o'er the tea-cloth's cool Last Line: Of old, for still do life and stream seem one. Subject(s): Absence; Shadows; Separation; Isolation THE RETURN, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: The shadow far and wide Last Line: Its home where great souls dwell. Subject(s): Death, Return From; Shadows; Soul THE RING-DOVE, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Mid beechy umbrage, bosky dell Last Line: Brief solace for my wounded mind. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Love; Memory; Shadows; Nightmares THE SHADOW, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tapping. On the window an insistent Last Line: Those dark, kindly creatures, the summer my father died Subject(s): Shadows; Mexican Americans THE SHADOW, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you hear the calling, mary, down by the sea? Last Line: Out in the darkness rose the calling of the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Sea; Shadows; Voices; Wind; Dead, The; Ocean THE SHADOW LAND, by PEARL LENORE POLLARD CURRAN Poem Text First Line: Sunlight dancing, and the earth Last Line: May not be finished. Alternate Author Name(s): Worth, Patience Subject(s): Shadows; Sun THE SHADOW ON THE STONE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went by the druid stone Last Line: My head unturned lest my dream should fade. Subject(s): Shadows THE SHADOWED ROAD, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our shadows moved before us on the road Last Line: "light falls about us from a surer sphere!" Subject(s): Shadows; Death; Love; Dead, The THE SHADOWMAN, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the backyard, I saw the shadow of a Subject(s): Shadows THE SINGING SHADOWS, by CLEMENT WOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These things that star a casual day's beholding Last Line: With only death to seek your deathless face. Subject(s): Beauty; Shadows THE SONS OF HEAVEN, by GRANT HYDE CODE Poem Text First Line: Deep in the shoreward crags of earth is cleft Last Line: Sightless before the ruddy sons of heaven. Subject(s): Heaven; Paintings & Painters; Shadows; Paradise THE TREE'S DOUBLE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How beautiful the tree shadows lie on Last Line: Dances upon the grass to the same measure. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Autumn; God; October; Seasons; Shadows; Trees; Fall THE UNKNOWN WOMAN, by ALEXANDER (ALEKSANDR) ALEXANDROVICH BLOK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I have foreknown thee! Oh, I have foreknown thee Last Line: Yet terror clings to me. Thy image will be strange. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Facades; Shadows; Women; Dead, The; Nightmares; Appearances THE VESPER CHIME, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a spirit comes to me Last Line: And sounds the vesper chime. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Shadows; Nightmares; Bedtime THE VICES OF THE EVENING, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The way the light and shadow Subject(s): Evening; Shadows; Sunset; Twilight THE VISION AND THE QUEST, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: A will-o-the-wisp that ever evades the sight Last Line: Whilst over his sinking shadow it dances bright! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Shadows THE WAKERS, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The joyous morning ran and kissed the grass Last Line: And there was the old scolding of the birds. Subject(s): Angels; Birds; Death; Heaven; Rebirth; Shadows; Sleep; Dead, The; Paradise THICK BLACK SHADOWS, by REBECCA ZEH Poem Text First Line: The thick, black shadows Last Line: And six feet of yellow clay! Subject(s): Shadows THROUGH THE DARK, by CHARLES VAN LERBERGHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dusk's orisons / are sable swans Last Line: It is morn. Subject(s): Dusk; Night; Shadows; Bedtime TICK-TICK, TICK-TICK, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: The sky all dark, clear Last Line: On all the planets, here too -- in the wolves, the swans, %in the giraffes grazing high in the trees Subject(s): Astronomy And Astronomers; Earth; Planets; Shadows; Universe TIME OF SHADOW, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the hour marais told us about Last Line: And singing again out of the dark trees Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Shadows; Time TO MY BROTHER MIGUEL, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brother, today I sit on the brick bench outside the house Last Line: Coming out. All right? Mama might worry Subject(s): Brothers; Memory; Shadows; Soul TO MY SHADOW, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Friend forever in the light Last Line: "never thence wilt thou." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Shadows; Sympathy; Empathy TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. I COME FORTH FROM THE DARKNESS, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I come forth from the darkness to smite thee Last Line: Joy, joy! The earth is thine. Subject(s): Death, Return From; Shadows TRIAD: 2. VISIT, by ALEJANDRO ESCALONA Poem Source First Line: You invade the fullness of an afternoon Last Line: The love that joined us...Never and always Subject(s): Angels; Death; Shadows TRIAD: 3. REQUIEM, by ALEJANDRO ESCALONA Poem Source First Line: Be gone from my thoughts once and for all Last Line: Written in your memory Subject(s): Death; Memory; Shadows TWILIGHT TERROR, by GEORGIANA RICE Poem Text First Line: Evening comes with peace to some Last Line: Oh, comfort me! Subject(s): Evening; Grief; Shadows; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness TWO PANELS: OR, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A kind of silence only possible at night and far away. Or Last Line: The bloody stars of our teeth when we have spoken too much Subject(s): Shadows; Silence UNFAMILIAR SHORE, by ZHAO ZHENKAI Poem Source First Line: These sails are slack Last Line: A gull swoops down, but will not light %on your outstretched hand Subject(s): China - Democracy; Shadows VISIT OF THE PRINCE, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: I never know what the words will bring to me, they like Last Line: Dampness of the rocks to the swamp of shadow, night entire in his boundless eyes Subject(s): Guests; Night; Shadows WEATHER, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Church steeple through gray mist Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Pictures; Shadows; Weather WEATHER, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Church steeple through gray mist Last Line: Direction then another, day after day Subject(s): Photography And Photographers; Pictures; Shadows; Weather WENDOVER, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Uplifted and lone, set apart with our love Last Line: Low lying on wendover town.' Subject(s): Life; Love; Peace; Shadows WHEN SHADOWS ARE CREEPING, by JENNIE E. HUSSEY Poem Text First Line: When over the woods and the river Last Line: The red and white clovers are sleeping. Subject(s): Clover; Evening; Forests; Shadows; Sunset; Twilight; Woods WHEN SHADOWS LENGTHEN, by LOIS MAHAVIER Poem Text First Line: I am no longer young, and drifting fast Last Line: No echo answers; yet serene, I go. Subject(s): Old Age; Secrets; Shadows WHERE HEROES SLEEP, by L. ELEANOR VOSWINKEL Poem Text First Line: In picardy the shadows creep Last Line: In picardy. Subject(s): Death; Heroism; Shadows; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines WITH MY FANCY, by KONSTANTIN DMITRIYEVICH BALMONT Poem Text First Line: With my fancy I grasped at the vague shadows straying Last Line: And the stairway was swaying underneath my light tread. Subject(s): Shadows WOMEN MEN'S SHADOWS, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Follow a shadow, it still flies you Last Line: Styled but the shadows of us men! Variant Title(s): Song: That Women Are But Men's Shadows;the Shadow Subject(s): Courtship; Shadows; Women |
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