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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: TALK Matches Found: 64 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "TO MY NIECE, A.M. WITH A NEW PAIR OF SHOES ON HER FIRST GOING ALONE", by A FEMALE HAND [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: When little girls begin to walk Last Line: And prove to all your friends around / your sex's province you have found Alternate Author Name(s): A Female Hand Subject(s): Girls;talk A GOOD CIGAR, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: A good cigar, long, brown, and fat Last Line: A good cigar? Subject(s): Smoking; Talk; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes A MODERN DIALOGUE, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why, bob, it's you! They got your name all wrong Last Line: (they ring off.) Subject(s): Courtship; Talk; Telephones ALL I WANT TO SAY, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I pass you this bowl Subject(s): Talk BECAUSE OF, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: I said good-bye to the stranger one morning Last Line: He fell silent then, imitating a rock. Subject(s): Solitude; Strangers; Talk BRIEF AND BLAMELESS OUTLINE OF THE ONTOGENY OF CROW, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight one said bluets the other said Last Line: Whistle it said asshole it thought it said Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Talk CONVERSATION, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Driving down eastern ave Last Line: You'll come down soon enough Subject(s): Talk CRAZY LADY SPEAKING, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was the one in the irt tunnel Last Line: From each of their graves I rise, daughter. Embrace me Subject(s): Insanity; Talk; Women DEPOSITION, by DANIEL SIMBO Poem Source First Line: Yes, I know. It seems I have been talking for a long time Last Line: All right. Continue Subject(s): Talk ENDING, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A fitting benediction of words Last Line: Opened its eyes and perished. Subject(s): Dreams; Talk; Nightmares EPIGRAM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "while his beard has grown gray, black as ever remain" Last Line: The brain has had little or nothing to do Subject(s): Italy;reason;talk; Italians;intellect;rationalism;brain;mind;intellectuals FAMILIAR EPISTLES ON A SERMON, 'OFFICE & OPERATIONS OF HOLY SPIRIT': 2, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No office seems more sacred and august Last Line: And from the sermon vindicate the text. Subject(s): Advice; Holy Ghost; Religious Education; Sermons; Speech; Talk; Teaching & Teachers; Holy Spirit; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools; Oratory; Orators; Educators; Professors FEVER, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In your sleep you talked Last Line: I love you too. Subject(s): Fever; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Sleep; Talk; Male-female Relations GROUP MEETING, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: Needs shift and shuffle in a circle Last Line: I've told you a dozen times %but that's your problem.' Subject(s): Talk HOW TO DO THINGS WITH WORDS, by JOAN RETALLACK Poem Source First Line: The subject of this paper, excuses, is one not to be treated Last Line: (death I think she said is no parenthesis) %(fuce Subject(s): Language; Poetry And Poets; Talk; Translating And Interpreting IF WHAT WE COULD WERE WHAT WE WOULD, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The impotence to tell Subject(s): Talk INTERRUPTING, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They say it's wrong to interrupt when someone talks / to you Last Line: Which proves he doesn't hear, nor even look at what I'm showing. Subject(s): Children; Parents; Talk; Childhood; Parenthood IS BIGGER BETTER?, by JUDY DIGREGORIO Poem Source First Line: Facilitate, communicate Last Line: Why don't we simply say, 'let's talk?' Subject(s): Language; Talk KEEPING WATCH, by BARRY SILESKY Poem Source First Line: Between the old friends I hadn't Last Line: Headed for home. It's about time Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Change; Friendship; Past; Talk MEN'S TALK, by JOHN TRANTER Poem Source First Line: I was one step ahead of the plausible talkers Last Line: Knocked the boy down %punishment Subject(s): Men; Talk NO WORD, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The trees hang silent Last Line: Has ever rung Subject(s): Silence; Talk NO WORD, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The trees hang silent Last Line: Like bells no one %has ever rung Subject(s): Silence; Talk ONE SPEAKS, by KATHARINE A. JENKINS Poem Text First Line: To you - someone to pass you a book Last Line: You would pass me by unknowing. Subject(s): Conversation; Love - Beginnings; Mouths; Speech; Talk; Oratory; Orators ONE WORD, by MYRTLE ADAMS Poem Text First Line: Which of us uttered it? And why? Last Line: One of us uttered, and one of us heard. Subject(s): Talk ONE-WAY CONVERSATION, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: There was a time Last Line: Into a one %way conversation Subject(s): Talk POINT LACE, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Kate, when you lace-work undertake Last Line: But none in what you say. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Lace; Silence; Talk; Work; Workers PROFITLESS TALK, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is a pleasant thing to find a man of cultivated Last Line: Pleasant 'tis, my friends, to view the man who talks of something new! Subject(s): Conversation; Friendship; Talk PROGRESS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Yapping, he can't stop yapping Last Line: Who said he always made %an awkward bow. Subject(s): Self-consciousness; Talk QUEEN MAYADEVI, MOTHER OF BUDDHA & MARY, MOTHER OF JESUS TALK ABOUT..., by JULIE MOULDS Poem Source First Line: The women agree. When mortals draw a cloud, most depict the cumulus Last Line: The open mouths of blasphemers, and baptizing the virgins without umbrellas Subject(s): Clouds; Mary (name); Mothers; Talk RAGE RADIO!, by CARL STILLWELL Poem Source First Line: Go do not go gentle into twilight prime time or the rush hour dawn! Last Line: Into any dialogue with them. Rage, rage, rage! Subject(s): Anger; Hate; Talk Radio RAILWAY DIALOGUE, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the train a lord chancellor, taking his seat Last Line: "to find myself seated so near the great seal." Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Railroads; Talk; Railways; Trains SARCASTIC, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Loud sir, I am Last Line: When jackasses are a-braying. Subject(s): Fools; Jokes; Talk; Idiots SONIC RELATIONS, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the space of an ear Last Line: He gathered round her %her warmth her terrible warmth Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Heat; Talk SPEAKING EYES, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are some faces, rarely met Last Line: What thou art speaking with thine eyes! Subject(s): Eyes; Talk SUMMER SMALL TALK, by LORNA CROZIER Poem Source First Line: Spiders Last Line: Shafts, their miners' %faces dusted gold Subject(s): Summer; Talk TALK, by WYN COOPER Poem Source First Line: You're going to ask me why I am Last Line: Of what you would say if you would talk Subject(s): Solitude; Talk TALK, by ANNA JANE GRANNISS Poem Source First Line: If talk were fire - 'twould burn the town Subject(s): Talk TALK, by CHRIS MANSELL Poem Source First Line: As we continued to talk Last Line: Too informal too personal %too unaesthetic %thing Subject(s): Talk TALK, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The body is never silent. Aristotle said that we can't hear the music Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Talk TALK, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The body is never silent. Aristotle said that we can't hear the music Last Line: Same way blood sounds at your ear. It is saying ssshhh, now that we, %at last, are silent Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Talk TALK IS CHEAP', by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the tongue, with ready art Last Line: Talk is gold when life is gold Subject(s): Talk; Silence TALK TO THE PEACH TREE, by SIPHO SYDNEY SEPAMLA Poem Source First Line: Let's talk to the swallows visiting us in summer Last Line: It's about time Subject(s): Human Rights; Language; Talk TALKING, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What I said to him and what he said to / me Last Line: "laughter—""we'd die of fright." Subject(s): Talk TEXT, by DENNIS SCHMITZ Poem Source First Line: A five-day %rain, & our flooded 95-year-old cellar's Last Line: Not the conversation of equals Subject(s): Conversation; Talk THE BEST OF THE BALL, by WILLIAM SAWYER Poem Text First Line: At last! O, sensation delicious! Last Line: For ours is the best of the ball. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Man-woman Relationships; Talk; Male-female Relations THE CHATTERBOX, by ANN TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From morning till night it was lucy's delight Last Line: Instead of our jest and aversion? Subject(s): Talk THE CRAZY LADY SPEAKING, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was the one in the irt tunnel Last Line: From each of their graves I rise, daughter. Embrace me Subject(s): Insanity; Talk; Women; Madness; Mental Illness THE INTERPRETER, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot talk the grown-up way Last Line: I understand them all quite well. Subject(s): Children; Talk; Childhood THE PARROT, by VINCENT BOURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In painted plumes superbly drest Last Line: And women are the teachers. Subject(s): Parrots; Talk THE PEDANT, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lysander talks extremely well Last Line: Full fourteen hours in four-and-twenty. Subject(s): Talk THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 210, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Talking about food won't make you full Last Line: Don't look around outside Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Talk; Buddha; Buddhists THE TALK; FOR MY FATHER, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many years we've circled round this date Last Line: And talk at last, though all our talk's too late. Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Fathers & Sons; Fear; Procrastination; Talk THIS WAS YOUR NOTION OF A NIGHT', by JEANNE WAGNER Poem Source Last Line: Luminous as the portal %to another world Subject(s): Talk THOSE WHO SPEAK, by DOUG FLAHERTY Poem Source First Line: There are those who speak Last Line: Is a bullet in the heart of the living dead Subject(s): Talk TO HEAR HIM TELL IT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I was just about to take a drink Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders;cowboys;ranch Life;talk;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States TOMBS AND RUMORS, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: We climb and then descend Last Line: In the same moment is extinguished Subject(s): China; Death; Graves; Talk UPON GRACIOSA, WALKING AND TALKING, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When as abroad, to greet the morn Last Line: And, by a word restored, live. Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Healing; Talk; Walking; Cures VERSES ON PREACHING EXTEMPORE, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hint I gave some time ago Last Line: But ex Æternitate too. Subject(s): Advice; Poetry & Poets; Preaching & Preachers; Speech; Talk; Oratory; Orators VOICE-OVER, by ELAINE EQUI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Climbing the tower of babel Last Line: Sometimes, we even answer. %glad we're not alone Subject(s): Conversation; Poetry And Poets; Talk; Voices WHISPERED--, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: Words %just small Last Line: Like animals %or grass Subject(s): Language; Talk; Voices WHY THE PHONE DOESN'T WORK, by JAMES CERVANTES Poem Source First Line: I never thought I would have to tell her %to go away Last Line: To correct the problem %by canceling what did not exist Subject(s): Repairing; Talk; Telephones WOODY WOODPECKERS THAT CALL TALK RADIO SHOWS FROM CAR PHONES, by ROBERT MICHAEL O'HEARN Poem Source First Line: Let me assume Last Line: Afterall, that's why you called in? Subject(s): Talk Radio WORDS AND THOUGHTS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He said as he sat in her theatre box Last Line: "and stir you with strange emotion." Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Love; Talk; Thought; Thinking WORKING STEP FOUR, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Just looked in Last Line: To face another %unforgiving truth Subject(s): Talk; Truth |
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