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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 1892-1941, by LOUIS ZUKOFSKY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To be moved comes of want, though want be complete
Subject(s): Capitol, Washington, D.c.; Statues


A FRAGMENT, by REGINALD HEBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And by that mansion's western side there stoode
Last Line: And meeke unconscious state and winning majestie.
Subject(s): Monasteries; Statues; Abbeys


A GODDESS; A SONNET ON A GREEK HEAD, by JAMES DUVAL PHELAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: It is not awe that holds one - 'tis not love
Last Line: And humbly man remains devotional.
Subject(s): Statues


A KIND-HEARTED STATUE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The quiet little transvaal
Last Line: Why, it is blest again!
Subject(s): Kruger, Stephanus Johannes (1825-1904); Statues; Transvaal, South Africa


A PIONEER WOMAN, by IRENE WELCH GRISSOM    Poem Text                    
First Line: A statue stands in a city block
Last Line: "to lie in an unmarked grave."
Subject(s): Frontier & Pioneer Life; Statues; Heroines


A SOUL; A STUDY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She stands as pale as parian statues stand
Last Line: Her face and will athirst against the light.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Statues; Women; Women & Religion


A STATUE BY LYSIPPUS, by POSEIDIPPUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sculptor's country? Sicyon his name?
Last Line: Here in the porch I stand; my lesson take.
Alternate Author Name(s): Posidippus; Poseidippos
Subject(s): Lysippus (4th Century B.c.); Statues


A STATUE IN A GARDEN, by AGNES LEE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I was a goddess ere the marble found me
Last Line: The dead leaves are falling.
Alternate Author Name(s): Freer, Otto, Mrs.
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Statues


A STATUE OF CYPRIS, by ANYTE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here cypris dwells. Always it was her will
Last Line: Quivers to watch her radiant effigy.
Alternate Author Name(s): Anytes
Subject(s): Statues


A STUDY IN CLAY, by NELLIE MACK    Poem Text                    
First Line: The human face is a study to me
Last Line: Which the soul of the miser daily feed.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Marble; Sculpture & Sculptors; Statues


AGADIR, SELS., by ARTUR LUNDKVIST    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was reading of the hunter gracchus, whose coming was
Last Line: Never more %forever %agadir
Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Monuments; Statues; Stones


ANTINOUS, by NARCISSE WOOD    Poem Text                    
First Line: In sullen sweetness he stands, the fairest frail boy of
Last Line: When the ancient pitiful sins are blown as dust down the wind.
Subject(s): Statues


ARCHAIC TORSO OF APOLLO, by KENNETH PITCHFORD    Poem Source                    
First Line: We wouldn't recognize the shocking head
Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical; Statues


ARCHAIC TORSO OF APOLLO, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We cannot know his legendary head
Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical; Statues


ARCHAIC TORSO OF APOLLO, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We did not know his unfamiliar head
Last Line: Which does not see you. You must change your life
Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical; Statues


ARCHAIC TORSO OF APOLLO, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We cannot know his legendary head
Last Line: That does not see you. You must change your life
Subject(s): Apollo; Imagination; Men; Mythology - Classical; Statues; Vision


ARCHAIC TORSO OF APOLLO, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We never knew his head and all the light
Last Line: That does not see you. You must change your life
Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical; Statues


AT THE FARRAGUT STATUE, by ROBERT BRIDGES (1858-1941)    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: To live a hero, then to stand
Last Line: Still helps to make them loyal, strong, and free!
Alternate Author Name(s): Droch
Subject(s): Farragut, David Glascow (1801-1870); Heroism; Statues; Washington Square, New York City; Heroes; Heroines


BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU REMEMBER, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Vatican Palace; Statues; Memory


BEFORE A STATUE OF ACHILLES, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold pelides with his yellow hair
Last Line: The perfect body is itself the soul.
Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Statues


BEFORE A STATUE OF BUDDHA, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O buddha, of the mystic smile
Last Line: Atones for earthly pain.
Subject(s): Buddhism; Life; Love; Soul; Statues; Buddha; Buddhists


BEFORE THE BUDDHA AT KAMAKURA, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dead, thou never art
Last Line: Have they hurt thee?
Subject(s): Buddhism; Death; Memory; Statues; Buddha; Buddhists; Dead, The


BRAILLE FOR LEFT HAND, by OCTAVIO ARMAND    Poem Source                    
First Line: The world does not close in your eyes; there
Last Line: Lines, mole; make your little space; read
Subject(s): Statues


BRONZES: 1, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The bronze general grant riding a bronze horse in
Last Line: And make to ride his bronze horse out into the hoofs and guns of the storm.
Subject(s): Lincoln Park, Chicago; Statues


BRONZES: 2, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I cross lincoln park on a winter night when the snow
Last Line: Hold them past midnight and into the dawn.
Subject(s): Lincoln Park, Chicago; Statues


CAMARGO, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Carved marble face, enraptured secret smile
Last Line: Knowing the soul is born in sensual strife.
Subject(s): Ballet; Camargo, Marie Anne De (1710-70); Dancing & Dancers; Statues


CAPITAL SQUARE, by PATRICK JOHN MCALISTER ANDERSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Danger is silent in the bloodless square
Last Line: Harden and echo at a statue's voice.
Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Statues


CARYATID, by ELENI Z. AUERBACH    Poem Source                    
First Line: In spaces strewn, the masks
Last Line: Hair picked by wind %she leaps
Subject(s): Caryatids; Statues; Stones


CHILD AND HER STATUE, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your living glass is this unpolished stone
Last Line: Imprisoned in the stone, will still be free.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Statues


CODA, OVERTURE, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She stepped out of the framing circle of the dark
Last Line: Of hoofs trampling the wind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): History; Medusa; Mythology - Classical; Paintings And Painters; Statues; Stones; Historians; Granite; Rocks


CONCERNING JESUS, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If thou hadst been a sculptor, what a race
Last Line: Never a true crown but thy crown of thorn!
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Creation; God; Jesus Christ; Paintings And Painters; Poetry & Poets; Statues; Truth


DANCE TO BAAL, by FELIX KOWALEWSKI    Poem Text                    
First Line: With lithe young body sheathed in cloth-of-gold
Last Line: To greet her lord in virgin arrogance!
Subject(s): Bodies; Dancing & Dancers; Gold; Idols; Statues


DEATH, by JEAN FOLLAIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: From the bones of animals
Last Line: Pomona %naked and laughing
Subject(s): Bones; Cemeteries; Death; Memory; Statues


ELEPHANT ROCK, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The huge weight / and granite shape of it
Last Line: Ever known as the features of god
Subject(s): Statues; Stones; Granite; Rocks


EN TOUR; A SONG SEQUENCE: 1. THE GARGOYLE, by ALBERTA BANCROFT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Who carved that little gargoyle?
Last Line: And sometimes think of me?
Subject(s): Statues


EQUESTRIAN STATUE, by JORGE GUILLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Motion stays suspended here
Last Line: Clear in the heavnely cold!
Subject(s): Statues


FEMALE FIGURE IN GLASS WITH COPPER WIRE (6 X 6 ), by DEENA LINETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Girdled by copper filament stopped
Last Line: Gaze lifted to an absent sun, she satisfies
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Museums; Saint Kilda (scotland); Statues


FITZ-GREENE HALLECK, AT THE UNVEILING OF HIS STATUE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Among their graven shapes to whom
Last Line: The lines of halleck's name.
Subject(s): Halleck, Fitz-greene (1790-1867); New York City - 19th Century; Statues; Writing & Writers


FOR A STATUE OF LOVE, by VOLTAIRE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whoe'er you are, your master see
Last Line: He is, he was, or is to be.
Alternate Author Name(s): Arouet, Francoise Marie
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Statues


FOR A STONE GIRL AT SANCHI, by GARY SYNDER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Half asleep on the cold grass
Subject(s): India; Statues


FOR THE 'MOUCHE', by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I had a dream. It was a summer's night
Last Line: And I awoke at last in desperation.
Subject(s): Dreams; Magic; Mythology; Religion; Statues; Nightmares; Theology


FRAGMENT OF THE HEAD OF A QUEEN, by CATE MARVIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Have you known the roar of an estranging city
Subject(s): Heads; Statues; City & Town Life


FUTILE QUESTION, by DEZSO TANDORI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Why does he stand there, this short penguin
Last Line: The real question: what could he do instead?
Subject(s): Animals; Penguins; Picture Books; Statues


GEORGE ELIOT (SUGGESTED BY UNVEILING OF A STATUE TO GEORGE SAND), by ANNIE MATHESON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For thee we carve no statue: thou hast willed
Last Line: Still pass the 'cup of strength' from hand to hand.
Subject(s): Eliot, George (1819-1880); Sand, George (1804-1876); Statues; Evans, Mary Ann; Dupin, Amanda. Baronne Dudevant


GOD'S MEASUREMENTS, by LAURENCE LIEBERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: As incense smoke thins, a stupendous
Last Line: To the one diabutsu...Oh, look! The whole halo %is shimmering, dancing before our eyes!
Subject(s): Japan; Statues


GREETINGS, by SUSAN LASHER    Poem Source                    
First Line: As if one of the humbler statues %in the park - robert burns, schubert
Last Line: Order, and the million forms of farewell
Subject(s): Farewell; Greetings; Language; Parks; Statues


HAZARDS OF IMAGERY: AT THE COTTAGE OF MESSER VIOLI, by PAUL RANDOLPH VIOLI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mailbox, painted dark blue
Last Line: The neighbor's lawn, plaster deer %with real bullet holes in them
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Paintings And Painters; Statues


HAZARDS OF IMAGERY: IN THE LOUNGE AT THE PHYSICIAN'S GUILD, by PAUL RANDOLPH VIOLI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The standing nudes and odalisques
Last Line: Until a noteworthy physician arrived %and a paler otis was fully revived
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Drawing; Museums; Statues


HENRY MOORE'S STATUE AT LINCOLN CENTER, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After listening to durufle's requiem
Last Line: Of shapes which refuse to explain.
Subject(s): Moore, Henry (1898-1986); New York City; Statues; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


HERMIONE ON SIMULACRA, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For comfort I became a stone
Last Line: Whose visage so resembles me
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Death; Graves; Statues; Stones


HYMN FOR THE INAUGURATION OF THE STATUE OF .. ANDREW HINGHAM, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold the shape our eyes have known!
Last Line: A nation claims him as her own!
Subject(s): Statues


I STAND IN THE WARMTH OF A MAN'S HAND, by EVA STROM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Snow white: %I stand in the warmth of a man's hand
Last Line: And feel the hard pelvis through my soft hip
Subject(s): Sculpture And Sculptors; Statues; Stones


IN SIMON; CATERER FOR FASHIONABLE SUPPER-PARTIES, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear simon! Prince of pastry-cooks
Last Line: And bid them twine your bust with roses.
Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker
Subject(s): Friendship; Memory; New York City - 19th Century; Parties; Statues


IN THE MUSEUM AT TEHERAN, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A sentimental curator has placed
Last Line: I'm happy now I'm happy oh don't %move don't go away
Subject(s): Museums; Statues; Teheran, Iran


INSCRIPTION, FOR BAS-RELIEF BY PRESTON POWERS, DENVER PARK, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The eagle, stooping from yon snow-blown peaks
Last Line: Their graven semblance in the eternal stone.
Subject(s): Bison; Native Americans; Statues; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


INSCRIPTIONS: 2. FOR A STATUE OF CHAUCER AT WOODSTOCK, by MARK AKENSIDE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Such was old chaucer: such the placid
Last Line: To tame the rudeness of his native land.
Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Statues


ISAIAH OF SOUILLAC, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why the prophet is dancing the sculptor knew. If
Last Line: Upon them, dance, dance, and still to the same song
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Sculpture And Sculptors; Statues; Stones


IT WAS SUNDAY IN THE FAIR EARS OF MY BURRO, by CESAR VALLEJO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I mean my tremulous patriotic hairdo
Subject(s): Festivals; Peru; Statues


ITALIAN QUATRAIN: STATUE OF ST. PETER, by LEONORA SPEYER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This shining bronze is peter's living toe
Last Line: Thou who denied! Great saint, deny not these!
Subject(s): Peter, Saint (c. 64 A.d.); Statues


JOHN DONNE'S STATUE, by JOHN PEALE BISHOP    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He threw the shroud about his head
Subject(s): Statues


LAST OF THE AZTECS, by JOSE LEON DEL VALLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh, not for thee the pastoral flute's soft notes
Last Line: Neath the black feathers of thy royal plume!
Subject(s): Aztecs; History; Statues


LETTER TO STATUES, by JOHN MALCOLM BRINNIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The taxi halts before a pale museum
Subject(s): Statues


LINCOLN, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I mused by lincoln's statue on the square
Last Line: Ring out his eulogy in silver songs.
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Praise; Presidents, United States; Statues


LINES ON THE UNVEILING OF THE STATUE OF THE RIGHT HON. JOHN BRIGHT, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Seven years have fled since on thy honoured clay
Last Line: Inspire, sustain thy well-loved parliament!
Subject(s): Bright, John (1811-1889); Statues


LITTLE MARBLE BOY, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To catch a white fish
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): Statues


LITTLE MARBLE BOY, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: In an everlasting gesture %to catch a white fish
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): Statues


MADONNA OF THE POMEGRANATE, by ANDREW HUDGINS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The crowd the blue triangle of the madonna
Last Line: Or says goodbye because he will live forever
Subject(s): Statues


MARBLE PROPHECY, by JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The harlequins are out in force today
Subject(s): Statues


METAMOPHOSES: PYGMALION AND THE STATUE, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pygmalion loathing their lascivious life
Last Line: The city paphos, from the founder call'd.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Love; Mythology; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Pygmalion; Statues; Transfiguration; Translating & Interpreting


MILTON AT CRIPPLEGATE, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB    Poem Text                    
First Line: Me milton fain by cripplegate behold
Last Line: Quick in quotation on free lips I live.
Subject(s): Freedom; Milton, John (1608-1674); Statues; Liberty


NARCISSUS: A POMPEIIAN BRONZE, by VYACHESLAV IVANOVICH IVANOV    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful boy, like a faun here in loneliness roaming, who art thou?
Last Line: Stranger, I tremble,—anew, thou a narcissus shalt be.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology); Pompeii, Italy; Statues


NATURE SCULPTURE IN THE ANDES, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The seething random rain, the scraping ice
Last Line: By the smooth giant ankle
Subject(s): Sculpture And Sculptors; Statues; Stones


NIOBE, by LARS LUNDKVIST    Poem Source                    
First Line: Niobe %was changed into stone
Last Line: The way the devil reads the bible, said the devil
Subject(s): Archeology; Niobe; Statues; Stones


NUTHATCH SITTING ON A BEAR'S NOSE, by ROBERT WRIGLEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Really just a small cast iron representation
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Statues; Graveyards


O'CONNELL'S STATUE, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Chisel the likeness of the chief
Last Line: If to man you'd change the stone.
Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland; O'connell, Daniel (1775-1847); Statues


ODE ON THE DEATH OF HAIG'S HORSE: 3, by DOUGLAS GARMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Set up the statue: dull and staid
Last Line: Another civic statue's made.
Subject(s): Haig, Douglas. 1st Earl Haig (1861-1928); Honor; Statues; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron


ODE TO THE LITTLE CHINA MAN, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who art thou-sweet little china man?
Last Line: I'm miss eliza's beau!
Subject(s): China; Men; Statues


ON A FULL-LENGTH PORTRAIT OF BEAU MARSH; BETWEEN BUSTS NEWTON AND POPE, by PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Immortal newton never spoke
Last Line: "but folly at full length."
Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterfield, 4th Earl Of
Variant Title(s): On Mr. Nash's Present Of His Own Picture
Subject(s): Fools; Statues; Idiots


ON A TORSO OF CUPID, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Peach trees and judas trees
Last Line: Thou has a heart to feel.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Cupid; Italy; Statues; Eros; Italians


ON AN UNFINISHED STATUE BY MICHAEL ANGELO, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What beauteous form beneath a marble veil
Last Line: With barren husks and harvesting of dreams.
Subject(s): Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Statues


ON KNOCKING OVER MY GLASS WHILE READING SHARON OLDS, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO    Poem Source                    
First Line: The milk spread, %a translucent stain
Last Line: To refill my glass %with her wild and holy blood
Subject(s): Convents; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Nuns; Praise; Prayer; Statues; Women - Bible


ON MICHAEL ANGELO'S STATUE OF NIGHT: LINES BY GIOVANNI STROZZI, by GIOVANNI BATTISTA STROZZI    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thou seest the sleeping night in grace reclining
Last Line: Speak low, I pray thee, wake me not to pain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Strozzi, Giovanni Battista ,the Elde
Subject(s): Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Statues; Stones; Granite; Rocks


ON SEEING THE BUSTS OF NEWTON, LOCKE, AND OTHERS, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Louis the living learned fed
Subject(s): Statues


ON THE STATUE OF A PIPING FAUN, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark! Hearest thou not the pipe of faunus, sweeping
Last Line: By music and enchantment all surrounded.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Greece; Music & Musicians; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Statues; Greeks


ON THE STATUE OF AN ANGEL, BY BIENAIME, by WASHINGTON ALLSTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, who can look on that celestial face
Last Line: There lives within him an immortal part!
Subject(s): Statues


ON THE STATUE OF BACCHANTE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Restrain that bacchante! Ere the marble maid
Last Line: "leaps from the shrine, and seeks the forest glade"
Subject(s): Mythology - Greek;statues


ON THE STATUE OF CLEOPATRA, MADE INTO A FOUNTAIN BY LEO X, by BALDASSARRE CASTIGLIONE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whoe'er thou art whom this fair statue
Last Line: Whose shining scene with rich hesperia vies.
Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); Fountains; Statues


ON THE STATUE OF EBENEZER ELLIOTT BY NEVILLE BURNARD, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Glory to those who give it! Who erect
Last Line: Here they have met; may neither say farewell!
Subject(s): Elliott, Ebenezer (1781-1849); Statues


ON THE STATUE OF KING CHARLES I AT CHARING CROSS, by EDMUND WALLER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That the first charles does here in triumph.
Last Line: Loud as the trumpet of surviving fame
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649); Statues


ON THE STATUE OF LORD BYRON (1), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis strange that I, who haply might have met
Last Line: So still, so calm, so purely beautiful!
Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Poetry & Poets; Statues; Thorvaldsen, Bertel (1770-1844); Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron; Thorwaldsen, Bertel


ON THE STATUE OF LORD BYRON (2), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And near thee hands a page, in boyhodd penn'd
Last Line: Shares our fond gaze between itself and thee.
Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Poetry & Poets; Statues; Thorvaldsen, Bertel (1770-1844); Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron; Thorwaldsen, Bertel


ON VIEWING A STATUE OF DAVID, by EVA GORE-BOOTH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This was the shepherd boy who slung the stone
Last Line: The king is dead, immortal stands the child.
Alternate Author Name(s): Selina
Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Jews; Statues; Judaism


ONE OF OUR PRESIDENTS, by WENDELL PHILLIPS STAFFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He sits there on the low, rude, backless bench
Last Line: "I thought, ""thank god, thank god the ship rides true!"
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Statues


ONE OF THE SIGNERS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O storied vale of merrimac
Last Line: These sculptured lips shall not be dumb!
Subject(s): Bartlett, Josiah (1729-1795); Physicians; Statues; U.s. - Declaration Of Independence; Doctors


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


OZYMANDIAS, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In egypt's sandy silence, all alone
Last Line: Once dwelt in that annihilated place.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Variant Title(s): On A Stupendous Leg Of Granite
Subject(s): Egypt; Rameses Ii, King Of Egypt; Ruins; Statues; Transience; Vanity; Impermanence


PAX ANIMAE, by MANUEL GUTIERREZ NAJERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Speak not a word of wild, blaspheming grief!
Last Line: Infinite pity spreads its hue of white
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Death; Poetry And Poets; Silence; Statues


PIAZZA, by F. JOHN HERBERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The piazza backs on a palace in the center
Last Line: Follow the cold war to the telephone. %phone the acrobats
Subject(s): Fountains; Statues


PIGEONS, by ALASTAIR REID    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the crooked arm of columbus, on his cloak
Last Line: Appropriately on the head of each is perched, %as though forever, his appointed pigeon
Subject(s): Pigeons; Statues


PLUTARCH, by AGATHIAS SCHOLASTICUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Chaeronean plutarch, to thy deathless praise
Last Line: Their lives have parallels, but thine has none.
Alternate Author Name(s): Agathias Scholasticos
Subject(s): Praise; Statues


POEM OF JACOBUS SADOLETUS ON THE STATUE OF LAOCOON, by JACOPO SADOLETO    Poem Source                    
First Line: From heaped-up mound of earth and from the heart
Last Line: Or pride or wealth or empty luxury
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Statues


PORTRAIT OF JOSE CEMI [FROM THE NOVEL PARADISO], by JOSE LEZAMA LIMA    Poem Source                    
First Line: No combat did he unleash, as panting
Last Line: Between a column of air and the sacrificial stone
Subject(s): Portraits; Statues; Stones


PROTUS, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Among these latter busts we count by scores
Last Line: To give you the crown-grasper. What a man!
Subject(s): Decay; Statues; Rome, Italy; Rot; Decadence


PUZZLEMENT, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A crescent brow - aquiver thrown
Last Line: Such impudence of sweet persiflage!
Subject(s): Artemis; Mythology - Classical; Ruins; Statues


READY TO KILL, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ten minutes now I have been looking at this
Last Line: Ready to run the red blood and slush the bowels of men all over the sweet new grass of the prairie.
Subject(s): Statues; World War I; First World War


REPLICA, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The fake parthenon in nashville, stonehenge reduced by a quarter
Last Line: Everything of which there's one only in the form of its only maker.
Subject(s): Life; Reproduction; Statues; Mating


RUINED STATUES IN THE LOUVRE, by SUSAN GUBERNAT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Infant love left his palm print on this aphrodite's naked back
Last Line: Against each other in their tombs-for the hundredth time or so %that day, you let my hand go
Subject(s): Catholics - United States; Louvre, Paris; Statues; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States


SATIE: TROIS MELODIES, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The frog on the tumbler-game in the park
Subject(s): Trees; Statues; Time


SHAKESPEARE'S STATUE; CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In this free pantheon of the air and sun
Last Line: The reverence of what he was shall call it down
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Central Park, New York City; Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Statues


SOMOZA UNVEILS THE STATUE OF SOMOZA IN SOMOZA STADIUM, by ERNESTO CARDENAL    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's not that I think the people erected this statue
Last Line: I erected this statue because I knew you would hate it
Subject(s): Human Rights; Statues; Tyranny And Tyrants


SONNET: ISLES OF SCILLY, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw narcissus in a portico
Last Line: Stampeding by the lone scillonian isles.
Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T.
Subject(s): Sicily; Statues


SPANISH LIONS, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Guarding the doors of the hispanic society
Last Line: Not even the bas-relief of rosinante, %posed with his knightastride, on the opposite wall
Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs.
Subject(s): Statues


SPARROW SHELTERING UNDER A COLUMN OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Conceived first by whom? By the greeks perfected
Last Line: And that, though perhaps cold, he is at home there
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): British Museum, London; Museums; Scholarship And Scholars; Statues


SPOKEN BY VENUS ON SEEING HER STATUE DONE BY PRAXITELES, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "anchises, paris, and adonis too,"
Last Line: But where has this praxiteles been prying?
Subject(s): Praxiteles (370-330 B.c.);statues


STATION, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two boards with a token roof, backed
Last Line: At first light would get up and go on
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Hiking; Statues; Stones; Travel


STATUE AND BIRDS, by LOUISE BOGAN    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, in the withered arbor, like the arrested wind
Last Line: Fails on her breast
Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs.
Subject(s): Birds; Statues


STATUE AND BIRDS, by LOUISE BOGAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, in the withered arbor, like the arrested wind
Last Line: Fails on her breast
Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs.
Subject(s): Birds; Statues


STATUE OF A LITTLE HURT BOY, by SCOTT HORTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: That statue of a small boy, jo, do you
Last Line: Were hard and flinty like that boy of stone.
Subject(s): Children; Statues; Childhood


STATUES, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They more than we are what we are
Last Line: We love, that they may be, %they are, that we may know
Subject(s): Statues


STATUES, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These children playing at statues fill
Last Line: Stares at the image of his kingdom come
Subject(s): Statues


STATUES, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These children playing at statues fill
Last Line: Into an adamantine shapelessness, %stares at the image of his kingdom come
Subject(s): Statues


STATUES IN THE PARK, by BILLY COLLINS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I thought of you yesterday
Last Line: Forever begging for just one more day
Subject(s): Statues


STATUES IN THE PUBLIC GARDENS, by HOWARD NEMEROV    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Alone at the end of green allees, alone
Last Line: For a figleaf fallen from the withered tree
Subject(s): Statues


STATUETTE: LATE MINOAN, by CECIL DAY LEWIS    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Girl of the musing mouth
Last Line: As I, unblest
Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas
Subject(s): Statues; Girls; Time


STREET SONGS: 3. STATUARY, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The windy morn has set their feet to dancing
Subject(s): Cities; Statues; Urban Life


STREET SONGS: 3. STATUARY, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The windy morn has set their feet to dancing
Last Line: Then goes his way with all his fancy free
Subject(s): Cities; Statues


SWORDLESS STATUE (THOMAS BALL'S 'WASHINGTON'), by PETER DAVISON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A starling sits on the general's hat
Last Line: If any child can steal a sword %from the general, riding there
Subject(s): Statues


THE AMAZON (COPY OF A STATUE BY POLYCLITUS OF ARGOS, 5TH CENTURY B.C.), by FRANK ERNEST HILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This marble is a dream of woman grown
Last Line: Her body into growth, but not her wit!
Subject(s): Amazons; Statues; Women


THE APHRODITE OF PRAXITELES, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Shame! Cypris cries her statue when she sees
Last Line: "you saw me naked! When, praxiteles?"
Subject(s): Praxiteles (370-330 B.c.);statues


THE BAMBERGER REITER, by MARY KINZIE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the night there came to her the great
Last Line: The fiery god spoke, “yes. You.” and she'd come through
Subject(s): Statues


THE BRONZE BUDDHA, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: On the lotus blossom the buddha is sitting
Last Line: Of stillness and dreamless sleep.
Subject(s): Buddhism; Statues; Buddha; Buddhists


THE BRONZE STATUE OF NAPOLEON, by AUGUSTE BARBIER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The work is done! The spent flame burns no more
Last Line: And bear upon their backs the stones!
Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821); Statues; War


THE BURNS STATUE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This statue, I must confess, is magnificent to see
Last Line: In fear of not getting such a beautiful statue after they die.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Dundee, Scotland; Monuments; Statues; Stones; Granite; Rocks


THE CHRIST OF ARGENTINE, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: O, blood-red races, lift your eyes
Last Line: With christ of argentine!
Subject(s): Argentina; Chile; Peace; Statues; War


THE CHRIST OF PANAMA, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Down in the heart of the world
Last Line: Set we the image of christ!
Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Panama Canal; Peace; Statues; Canal Zone


THE CITY OF PERTH, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful ancient city of perth
Last Line: You're one of the fairest cities of the present day.
Subject(s): Cities; Courts & Courtiers; Rivers; Statues; Tourists; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips


THE COLLEGE ATHLETE, by WALLACE RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Statue-like standeth he forth, quick, elate
Last Line: Such as hath given martyrs mortal birth.
Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De
Subject(s): Athletes; Marble; Sculpture & Sculptors; Statues


THE COLOSSI OF THE PLAIN, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ancient of days! Before the trojan wars
Last Line: Helpless beneath heaven's penetrating smile.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Egypt; Statues


THE DUKE OF YORK'S STATUE, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Enduring is the bust of bronze
Last Line: And raised thee up to where thou art.
Subject(s): Statues; York, Frederick Augustus, Duke Of


THE DYING INDIAN, by JOSEPH WARTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dart of izdabel prevails! 'twas dipped / in double poison
Last Line: I go! Great copac beckons me! Farewell!
Subject(s): Death; Poisons And Poisoning; Statues; Dead, The


THE EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF WASHINGTON, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Well done! The statue, on its base of granite
Last Line: Still sit supremely, and survive the storm!
Subject(s): Honor; Presidents, United States; Statues; Washington, George (1732-1799)


THE FIGHT OVER THE NEWMAN STATUE IN OXFORD, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Is bigotry the order of the day?
Last Line: One universal faith! One hope! One heaven!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Newman, John Henry, Cardinal (1801-1890); Oxford University; Religious Discrimination; Statues; Religious Conflict


THE FUNERAL GENIUS; AN ANCIENT STATUE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou shouldst be looked on when the starlight
Last Line: When living light hath touched the brow of death?
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Funerals; Statues; Burials


THE HAND OF LINCOLN, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look on this cast, and know the hand
Last Line: The thought that bade a race be free!
Subject(s): Hands; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Statues


THE HAS-BEEN, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A stone face higher than six horses stood five thousand
Last Line: Clutch a secret.
Subject(s): Statues


THE LORDS' MASQUE: FOUR STATUES, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: See, see, prometheus, four of these first dames
Last Line: Let orpheus deck thy hymn, since pray we must.
Subject(s): Statues


THE MAD SCULPTOR, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Far up in the quarry / I hewed a stone for pure delight
Last Line: And reaches me his hands!
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Sculpture & Sculptors; Statues; Stones; Granite; Rocks


THE MADONNA OF THE PLAINS, by HONORA CARROLL HURD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Bronzed by the western sun, and wind
Last Line: Left peace, and patience, touched with dauntless grace.
Subject(s): Statues


THE POET'S JOURNAL: THE TORSO, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In clay the statue stood complete
Last Line: The ruined sculptor's monument.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Beauty; Hope; Life; Patience; Statues; Optimism


THE SPHINX, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I know all about the sphinx
Last Line: She was just cut out for that!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dreams; Egypt; Silence; Sphinx; Statues; Nightmares


THE STATUE, by ELLA (RHOADS) HIGGINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: That I might chisel a statue, line on line
Last Line: Enough, enough! We know thy statue's name!'
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Statues


THE STATUE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: First fashioned in the artist's brain
Last Line: That heaven reveals to earth.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Silence; Statues


THE STATUE AND THE BUST, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a palace in florence, the world knows well
Last Line: How strive you? De te, fabula!
Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Statues


THE STATUE AT CHARING CROSSE, by ANDREW MARVELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What can be the mystery why charing crosse
Last Line: To behold ev'ry day such a court, such a son.
Subject(s): Charing Cross, London; Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649); Osborne, Thomas. 1st Earl Of Danby; Statues


THE STATUE OF A LIBERTINE, by RON PADGETT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I've chosen this title not only because I like it
Last Line: Detonates the very tip
Subject(s): Statues


THE STATUE OF LIBERTY, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This statue of liberty, busy man
Last Line: In the dens of vice had died.
Subject(s): Statues


THE STATUE OF SHERMAN BY ST. GAUDENS, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the soldier brave enough to tell
Last Line: And rides through hell to save his country's life.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Variant Title(s): Saint-gauden's Statue Of General Sherman
Subject(s): Saint Gaudens, Augustus (1848-1907); Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891); Soldiers; Statues


THE STATUE TO PYGMALION, by FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gaze on! I thrill beneath thy gaze
Last Line: Great jove! I love, and therefore live.
Alternate Author Name(s): Vane, Violet
Subject(s): Kisses; Mythology; Statues


THE STATUES AND THE TEAR, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All night a fountain pleads
Last Line: Lean on and hate, watching it, eye to eye.
Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T.
Subject(s): Enemies; Statues


THE STATUES IN THE MUSEUM, by FLORENCE WILKINSON EVANS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Statues of fauns and wrestlers
Last Line: Who do not know.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkinson, Florence
Subject(s): Museums; Statues; Wellesley College; Art Gallerys


THE STATUES IN THE PUBLIC GARDENS, by HOWARD NEMEROV    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Alone at the end of green allees, alone
Subject(s): Statues


THE TEMPLE OF VENUS, by SOAME JENYNS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In her own isle's remotest grove
Last Line: And steer by chloe's eyes.
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Mythology - Classical; Statues; Temples; Venus (goddess); Mosques


THE TEPIDARIUM, by JOSE-MARIA DE HEREDIA (1842-1905)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Myrrh sweetens all their supple limbs; they muse
Last Line: Sleek and untrammelled round her bust of bronze.
Subject(s): Statues


THE UNFINISHED WORK, by JOSEPH FULFORD FOLSOM    Poem Text                    
First Line: The crowd was gone, and to the side
Last Line: And sank beside him on the bench.
Subject(s): Freedom; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Statues; Liberty


THE VENUS OF MILO, by PAUL ARMAND SILVESTRE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No live girl's body hath such pride impassioned
Last Line: Into the squalid vortex of despair.
Alternate Author Name(s): Silvestre, Armand
Subject(s): Beauty; Sculpture & Sculptors; Statues; Venus De Milo


TO A FRAGMENT OF A STATUE OF HERCULES, COMMONLY CALLED THE TORSO, by SAMUEL ROGERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And dost thou still, thou mass of breathing stone
Last Line: To draw down gods, and lift the soul to heaven!
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Statues


TO A GREEK MARBLE, by RICHARD ALDINGTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pótuia, pótuia / white grave goddess
Last Line: Thou hearest me not
Subject(s): Statues; Solitude; Loneliness


TO AN UNKNOWN BUST IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who were you once? Could we but guess
Last Line: Forgotten more profoundly!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): British Museum, London; Museums; Statues; Art Gallerys


TO THE EGYPTIAN LADY SENNUWY, by HELEN HOOVEN SANTMYER    Poem Text                    
First Line: With that same smile, scornful and sad and tender
Last Line: If beauty alwys is truth, after all.
Subject(s): Beauty; Egypt; Sennuwy, Princess (wife Of Hepzefa); Statues


TO THE STATUE ON THE CAPITOL; LOOKING EASTWARD AT DAWN, by JOHN JAMES PIATT    Poem Source                    
First Line: What sunken splendor in the eastern skies
Last Line: Whose savage garments from thy shoulders fly, %whose eagle clings in sunrise to thy crest!
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Capitol, Washington, D.c.; Crawford, Thomas (1814-1857); Sculpture And Sculptors; Statues


TOM REED'S SCHOOL DAYS, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tis often said and sung in prose and rhyme
Last Line: Renown's endowment to the ages trust.
Subject(s): Reed, Thomas Brackett (1839-1902); Statues


TOUCH-AND-GO, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sing praise for statuary:
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Statues


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. TWIN STATUES OF AMENOPHIS III AT THEBES, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thousands of years
Last Line: "and placed them here—to last as long as heaven."
Subject(s): Statues; Thebes, Greece; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips


ULYSSES BUILDS HIS BED, by JEAN DE BOSSCHERE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Glorious ulysses, returned from the war
Last Line: And the enraptured mothers smile.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Statues; Stones; Ulysses; Walls; Granite; Rocks; Odysseus


UPON SIR ROBERT VYNER'S SETTING UP THE KINGS-STATUE, by ANDREW MARVELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As cityes that to the fierce conqueror yield
Last Line: Yet we'd better by far have him than his brother.
Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); Statues


VANDALS SACK DENMARK, by BOB MCKENTY    Poem Source                    
First Line: A melancholy dane is she
Last Line: Whose heads are hollower than hers
Subject(s): Denmark; Statues


VILLANELLE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: She stood pale and correct
Last Line: As I well recollect.
Subject(s): Fantasy; Love - Unrequited; Statues


WHITE STATUE, by THIRZA J. MARTIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Since first I gazed at your unshrinking form
Last Line: That I, like you, may be unfeeling too.
Subject(s): Statues


YOUNG FLORENTINE SCULPTOR, by GREG HEWETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: She wants to carve
Last Line: No man built
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Medusa; Mythology - Classical; Sculpture And Sculptors; Statues