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Subject: SIMILES
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First Line: Let dirty streets be paved with flow'ry green
Last Line: "ere smoky towns shall vie with rural plains, / and city cockneys rival country swains"
Subject(s): Metaphor; Similes


A NEW SONG OF NEW SIMILES, by JOHN GAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My passion is as mustard strong
Last Line: And mute as any fish.
Subject(s): Language; Metaphor; Words; Vocabulary; Similes


A RED, RED ROSE, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O, my love's [or, luv's] like a red, red rose, / that's newly sprung in june
Last Line: Tho' it were ten thousand mile.
Subject(s): Absence; Flowers; Love; Love - Marital; Metaphor; Passion; Roses; Separation; Isolation; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Similes


A RIPPLE OF DEER, A METAMORPHOSIS OF BEAR, A METAPHOR, by MARGARET FERGUSON GIBSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I dream of mountains repeatedly
Alternate Author Name(s): Gibson, Margaret
Subject(s): Metaphor; Similes


A SIMILE, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear thomas, did'st thou never pop / thy head into a tin-man's shop?
Last Line: Always aspiring, always low.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Metaphor; Mythology; Similes


A SORCERER BIDS FAREWELL TO SEEM, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm through with this grand looking-glass hotel
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Metaphor; Similes


A SUNDAY DRIVE THROUGH EAGLE COUNTRY, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Near no name, colorado
Last Line: I knew I'd lost it.
Subject(s): Colorado (state); Creative Ability; Death; Deer; Loss; Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911); Metaphor; Poetry & Poets; Pregnancy; Writer's Block; Writing & Writers; Inspiration; Creativity; Dead, The; Similes


AND AS IN ALICE, by MARY JO BANG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Alice cannot be in the poem, she says, because
Subject(s): Metaphor; Similes


FASTING, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis morning now, yet silently I stand
Last Line: And it is day!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Lent; Love; Metaphor; Night; Selflessness; Sleep; Weariness; Similes; Bedtime; Fatigue


FORGETFULNESS, by HAROLD HART CRANE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Forgetfulness is like a song
Last Line: I can remember much forgetfulness.
Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart
Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Metaphor; Similes


HARVEST TIME, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pillowed and hushed on the silent plain
Last Line: Then sleeps and dreams for a year again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; Metaphor; Summer; Agriculture; Farmers; Similes


IN AND OUT OF THE PINE-WOOD; A SIMILE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beyond the pine-wood all looked bright and clear
Last Line: Our stars are carried out, and vanish not!
Subject(s): Metaphor; Stars; Similes


LOVE IN JUNE, by MARY GENEVIEVE MANAHAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Love is a rose that blooms
Last Line: Ere we too pass away.
Subject(s): Flowers; Love - Nature Of; Metaphor; Roses; Similes


LOVE'S SIMILITUDES, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: In vernal grove a poplar slim
Last Line: Perfection's perfected in thee!
Subject(s): Creative Ability; Love; Metaphor; Nature; Trees; Inspiration; Creativity; Similes


MAROON BELLS, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How can I love you more than
Last Line: The light love you and love you
Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of; Metaphor; Similes


METAPHOR AS DEGENERATION, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If there is a man white as marble
Subject(s): Metaphor; Similes


MY FATHER'S GARDEN, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On his way to the open hearth where white-hot steel
Subject(s): Fathers; Junk And Junkyards; Metaphor; Mills And Millers; Steel; Similes


NOT WRITING POEMS ABOUT CHILDREN, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once I gave birth to living metaphors
Last Line: Springs from the very separateness of things.
Subject(s): Children; Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Loss; Metaphor; Parents; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Childhood; Similes; Parenthood; Feminism


QUATORZAINS: 6. A FANTASTIC SIMILE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A lover is a slender, glowing urn
Last Line: Deep-caverned in a fringed lake of blue.
Subject(s): Love; Metaphor; Vases; Similes


QUATORZAINS: 7. ANOTHER FANTASTIC SIMILE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis a moon-tinted primrose, with a well
Last Line: And sheath their minds in scorn and self-conceit.
Subject(s): Birds; Fairies; Metaphor; Poetry & Poets; Elves; Similes


SIMILIES, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: As wet as a fish - as dry as a bone
Subject(s): Language;metaphor; Words;vocabulary;similes


SONG: DU BIST WIE EINE BLUME, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair art thou as a flower
Last Line: As fair and pure as now.
Subject(s): God; Love; Metaphor; Similes


THE BANDRUIDH, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My robe is of green
Last Line: The sweet sound of the south!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Metaphor; Nature; Spring; Similes


THE CHASE OF THE METAPHOR, by RICHARD BLACKMORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The stones and all the elements with thee
Last Line: Job.
Subject(s): Metaphor; Similes


THE CLOUDS OF MAGELLAN (APHORISMS OF MR. CANON ASPIRIN), by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I once dreamt that cezanne lectured on the circumnavigation of a pear
Last Line: And peace.
Subject(s): Creative Ability; God; Knowledge; Metaphor; Philosophy & Philosophers; Poetry & Poets; Revolutions; Truth; Inspiration; Creativity; Similes


THE CORN HUSKER, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Hard by the indian lodges, where the bush
Last Line: Like the dead husks that rustle through her hands.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Corn; Injustice; Labor & Laborers; Metaphor; Native Americans; Weariness; Work; Workers; Similes; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Fatigue


THE CRITICAL SPECIMEN: 1. A SIMILE, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So on maeotis' marsh (where reeds and rushes)
Last Line: And swells his bloated corps to largest size.
Subject(s): Metaphor; Similes


THE HOMING BEE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You are belted with gold, little brotherb of mine
Last Line: For others, your gold.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Metaphor; Nature; Beekeeping; Bugs; Similes


THE LAST MAN: METAPHOR OF RAIN, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An amorous cloud
Last Line: Lets down her rustling hair over the sun.
Subject(s): Metaphor; Rain; Similes


THE ROSE AND THE THORN, by MARY FRANCES WARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Love is like a charming rose
Last Line: When you grasp it tightly.
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Metaphor; Roses; Similes


THINKING OF A RELATION BETWEEN THE IMAGES OF METHAPHORS, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wood-doves are singing along the perkiomen
Subject(s): Metaphor; Similes


TO DELIA: 39, by SAMUEL DANIEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Read in my face a volume of despairs
Last Line: The temple where her name was honored still.
Subject(s): Despair; Helen Of Troy; Love; Metaphor; Mythology - Classical; Similes


TWO SONGS, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sex, as they harshly call it
Subject(s): Desire; Love - Erotic; Metaphor; Similes


VERY LIKE A WHALE, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One thing that literature would be greatly the better for
Subject(s): Metaphor; Similes


VIGILS, by JOSEPHINE MILES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We are talking about metaphor
Subject(s): Language; Metaphor; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary; Similes


YOUTH, by SALLIE GAFFNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Youth is like a child in a swing
Last Line: To the lower regions of despair.
Subject(s): Metaphor; Youth; Similes