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Subject: TEARS Matches Found: 566 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "GO, SONG OF MINE", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "dishevelled and in tears, go, song of mine" Last Line: To seek its maker at the heavenly shrine Subject(s): Grief;tears; Sorrow;sadness 1 THE EAGLE WARRIOR: AN INVOCATION, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This life-size ceramic man costumed as an eagle Last Line: Tense-taloned, %be their emblem, be their witness, be their scribe Variant Title(s): The Eagle Warrior: An Invocatio Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Trail Of Tears (1838-39) 2 THE CHEROKEE LOTTERY, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the cherokees refused to leave Last Line: The thunder rolled away, %and no rain fell Variant Title(s): The Cherokee Lotter Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Trail Of Tears (1838-39) 3 THE TRAIL, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Past corn Last Line: Tear %trail Variant Title(s): The Trai Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Trail Of Tears (1838-39) 4 THE PUMPKIN FIELD, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What a grand lot they were Last Line: And glowing still when I awoke-- %as they do now, and as they always will Variant Title(s): The Pumpkin Fiel Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Politics; Trail Of Tears (1838-39) 5 THE BONE-PICKER, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the old days, when a choctaw died Last Line: And in my heart I feel his claw, %and on the wind I hear his wail Variant Title(s): The Buzzard Ma Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Trail Of Tears (1838-39) 6 THE PLAYERS, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A curtain of green divides--and there they are Last Line: There will be no surrender, general. There will be no peace; %only the murderer who waits, only the Variant Title(s): The Player Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Trail Of Tears (1838-39) 7 SITTING BULL IN SERBIA, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A hundred years ago, they say, buffalo bill Last Line: Plunge down the western sky %headlong into the night Variant Title(s): Sitting Bull In Serbi Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Trail Of Tears (1838-39) A BLINDED POILU TO HIS NURSE, by AGNES LEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know you only by your tears Last Line: I know you only by your tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Freer, Otto, Mrs. Subject(s): Hospitals; Mourning; Nurses; Soldiers; Tears; War; World War I; Bereavement; First World War A BRIDE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O I am weary!' she sighed, as her billowy Last Line: To kneel in dumb agony down and weep near her! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Brides; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness A CHANGELING, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little changeling spirit Last Line: That I shall find her there. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Children; Graves; Tears; Childhood; Tombs; Tombstones A CONTRAST, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Can you open that ebony casket? Last Line: Who is living in me to-day. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Life; Memory; Tears; Time A CROWN OF SORROW, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A sorrow, wet with early tears Last Line: Upon my brow. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Grief; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness A DEAD PAST, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spare her at least: look you have taken Last Line: Even dearer still, -- since I have nothing more. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Future; Pain; Past; Soul; Tears; Suffering; Misery A DIVERTED TRAGEDY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gracie wuz allus a careless tot Last Line: "an' cried, ""my child! My precious child!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Tears; Toys; Childhood A DOG'S GRAVE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: My dog lies dead and buried here Last Line: That links such lives with my dog's death! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; Tears; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness A DREAM, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh for my love, my only love Last Line: Most near altho' most far away. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Dreams; Faith; Love; Tears; Nightmares; Belief; Creed A DREAM OF LIFE, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our time-career is yon dark cloud Last Line: God grant! Shall mock their glance. Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Life; Tears; Time; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness A DUMB FRIEND, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I planted a young tree when I was young Last Line: In shade the cypress weaves. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Seasons; Tears; Trees A GOLD STAR MOTHER SPEAKS, by VIRGINIA ARMISTEAD NELSON Poem Text First Line: My little lad of other days sleeps there Last Line: They'll guard his grave, and bloom about his cross. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Lilies; Sons; Tears; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones A LADY WEEPING, by JUAN PEREZ DE MONTALVAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As when some brook flies from itself away Last Line: Melt into jasmines here, there into roses. Subject(s): Tears A LEAVE-TAKING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She will not smile; Last Line: Thus, some day! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Lips; Smiles; Tears; Dead, The A LETTER, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear, I tried to write you such a letter Last Line: Through the twilight shadows of my heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Dreams; Letters; Love; Tears; Nightmares A LOVE TOKEN, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you grieve no costly offering Last Line: Glittering at her side. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Hope; Love; Pain; Tears; Optimism; Suffering; Misery A MAXIM REVISITED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "ladies, to this advice give heed" Last Line: "why, cry, cry, again" Subject(s): Tears A MOTHER'S TEAR, by ANNE TERESE STOMMEL Poem Text First Line: Whence hast thou sprung Last Line: Of busy mart! Subject(s): Mothers; Tears A MYSTERY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why should a fir-tree stark against the sky Last Line: A mystery. Subject(s): Happiness; Pain; Rain; Snow; Tears; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery A NEW MOTHER, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was with my lady when she died Last Line: -- well, I loved my own dear lady best. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Love; Marriage; Mothers; Tears; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A PARADOX, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Till memory die one spot I shun Last Line: To ye this heaven I owe! Subject(s): Love; Memory; Soul; Tears A PASTORAL, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell, dear alexis, tell thy damon, why Last Line: Whom present you revere, him absent praise. Subject(s): Cambridge University; Heaven; Life; Soul; Tears; Paradise A PICTURE AND A PLEA, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes, your head a little downward bent Last Line: And bear sufficing witness of my love. Subject(s): Eyes; Love; Silence; Soul; Tears; Voices A PRIZE FOR EURIPIDES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In athens of old when the women wailed of war Last Line: Sorrow and pity and love, across the years! Subject(s): Athens, Greece; Euripides (484-406 B.c.); Love; Sun; Tears A PROTEST, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The horses bisect the field Last Line: Cruel, unkind! I say farewell! Farewell! Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Song: 4 Subject(s): Farewell; Heaven; Life; Love - Unrequited; Tears; Parting; Paradise A RAINY DAY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day, against the window pane Last Line: For days clear shining after rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Mothers; Pain; Tears; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery A RECORD; A FRAGMENT, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the dark tempestuous sea Last Line: Through birth and death, doth upward range. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Kisses; Sea; Soul; Tears; Nightmares; Ocean A SONG FROM SHIRAZ, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The singers of shiraz are feasting afar Last Line: Thy goblet of love, o mohamed ali! Subject(s): Death; Grief; Silence; Tears; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness A TEAR, by MARGARET HENDERSON Poem Text First Line: A daisy shakes a drop of dew Last Line: A tear for you. Subject(s): Tears A TEAR, by SAMUEL ROGERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O that the chemist's magic art Last Line: And guides the planets in their course. Subject(s): Life; Tears A TWILIGHT MUSING, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Ye who in this vain life Last Line: Lighten and cheer? Subject(s): Earth; Evening; Life; Music & Musicians; Tears; World; Sunset; Twilight A VALEDICTION: OF WEEPING, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me pour forth / my tears before thy face, whilst I stay here Last Line: Whoe'er sighs most, is cruellest, and hastes the other's death. Subject(s): Tears ABSOLUTELY ORDINARY RAINBOW, by LES A. MURRAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The word goes round repins, the murmur goes round lorenzinis Last Line: Evading believers, he hurries off down pitt street Alternate Author Name(s): Murray, Leslie Allan Subject(s): Human Rights; Tears ACME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, unforgotten sorrow, sleep awhile Last Line: The toughest oak groans long but rends at length. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Grief; Pain; Sleep; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery AD ASTRA: 45, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: And shall I cry for ever, and in vain? Last Line: And every gleam augmenteth my despair! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Despair; Grief; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness AFFRONTENBURG, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Time fleeteth, yet that castle old Last Line: With bonds accurst, and pining sadly. Subject(s): Envy; Fear; Ships & Shipping; Tears; Time AFTER ANY BATTLE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Voice of earth: these are my children's voices! Born Last Line: And butchery to sacrifice! Subject(s): Death; Earth; Tears; Voices; Dead, The; World AFTERNOON, by ELIZABETH HAYNES SANDS Poem Text First Line: Out of the dust of yesterday Last Line: And bitter, burning tears. Subject(s): Afternoon; Sea; Tears; Youth; Ocean AFTERNOON AT A PARSONAGE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What wonder man should fail to stay Last Line: Doth near its fellows seem to be. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Children; Dreams; Memory; Night; Plays & Playwrights ; Tears; Childhood; Nightmares; Bedtime; Dramatists AGAINST MODESTY IN LOVE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For many unsuccessful years Last Line: Had foolishly denied. Subject(s): Cupid; Fear; Kisses; Love; Modesty; Tears; Eros ALL SOUL'S DAY, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Quiet with amber light Last Line: Doth courage and assurance bring. Subject(s): All Souls' Day; Death; Soul; Tears; Dead, The ALMOST BEYOND ENDURANCE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ain't a-goin' to cry no more, no more! Last Line: I ist ain't goin' to cry no more, no more! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Family Life; Tears; Relatives AN AMULET, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At noon, the cruel blow fell on his heart Last Line: An amulet of ardor and of dew. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Memory; Night; Tears; Dead, The; Bedtime AN ELEGY UPON THE DEATH OF MRS. BEHN; THE INCOMPARABLE APHRA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "summon the earth (the fair astrea's gone,)" Last Line: Nor would endure the world when he had lost his throne Subject(s): "behn, Aphra (1640-1689);death;earth;heaven;tears;" "dead, The;world;paradise; AN IDEAL, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While the gray mists of early dawn Last Line: For that bright morning dream of mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Love; Pride; Tears; Self-esteem; Self-respect AN OCTOBER AFTERNOON, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Never again / the world all gold Last Line: Never again! Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Tears; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness AN ODE, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nights were short, and daies were long Last Line: I hyed me home my sheep to folde. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Subject(s): Spring; Tears AN ORDER FOR A SONG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Make me a song of all good Last Line: And heaven lean to hear. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Grief; Singing & Singers; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness AN UNPRAISED PICTURE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a picture once by angelo Last Line: Yet trembles forth a word of prayer and praise. Subject(s): Portraits; Praise; Tears; Time; Youth AND THEY ARE DUMB, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been across the bridges of the years wet with tears Last Line: And they are dumb! Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Kisses; Tears; Truth; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness ANNIE (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Annie is fairer than her kith Last Line: For many a weary day. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Beauty; Grief; Hearts; Love; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness ANOTHER UPON HER WEEPING, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She by the river sate, and sitting there Last Line: She wept, and made it deeper by a teare. Subject(s): Tears ANSWER TO CLOE JEALOUS, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, fairest proof of beauty's power Last Line: Who, dying thus, persists to love thee. Subject(s): Beauty; Jealousy; Nature; Tears; Youth ANTICLIMAX, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I walked a city street, and suddenly Last Line: Fell on a mood more merry than mine own. Subject(s): Hearts; Night; Streets; Tears; Bedtime; Avenues APAUKEE, THE HALF BREED, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Apaukee, the half-breed, rode on the edge of the canyon Last Line: And claws of the coyote could not defile it. Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Fate; Love; Native Americans; Tears; Destiny; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America APPENDIX TO 'LAZARUS': 2, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My head by the maiden swarthy but fair Last Line: To bear heaven's dispensations. Subject(s): Bodies; Fate; Kisses; Tears; Destiny APPENDIX TO 'LAZARUS': 5, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw them laughing, smiling gladly Last Line: The bitterness of this last hour. Subject(s): Corpses; Laughter; Tears; Cadavers APRIL, by ANNE WOLF Poem Text First Line: In billowy bloom the apple trees wave Last Line: Do your tears fall, my pretty one? Subject(s): Tears ARTIST AND HIS PENCIL: A SEARCH FOR THE PUREBLOODS, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sixty-three indian tribes were represented in oklahoma - all Last Line: Each one, each untouched tribe, recorded in a never-ending moment, %distinct and clear Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Trail Of Tears (1838-39) ASPECTS OF AUTUMN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the wonder of their weaving lie the forests and the fields Last Line: Yea, utterly forgotten, every one. Subject(s): Autumn; Forests; Hearts; Love; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Seasons; Tears; Fall; Woods AT CROWN HILL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leave him here in the fresh greening grasses and trees Last Line: It is midnight to us -- it is morning to him. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Lilies; Love; Tears; Trees; Dead, The AT DAWN, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Children, my children, the daylight is breaking Last Line: Anoint with your love or arraign with your pardon? Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Tears; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness AT SEVENTY-THREE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well, let us face things as they are Last Line: For I am over seventy-three! Subject(s): Aging; Family Life; Life; Mankind; Tears; Youth; Relatives; Human Race AT THE LUXEMBOURG, by GUY-CHARLES CROS Poem Text First Line: I remember a maiden Last Line: And is the author of a baker's dozen volumes of light or delicate verse. Subject(s): Children; Grief; Household Employees; Luxembourg; Tears; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Servants; Domestics; Maids AT THE THEATER: THE DEATH OF OSCEOLA, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The theater was packed, and just before the curtain rose Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Native Americans - Removal AT THE THEATER: THE DEATH OF OSCEOLA, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The theater was packed, and just before the curtain rose Last Line: Osceola's head, along with the others in the doctor's cabinet, %went up in flames Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Trail Of Tears (1838-39) BALLADE: 20, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To wet your eye withouten tear Last Line: If I have the mock, ye shall have the loss. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Loss; Tears BALLADE: 3, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The restful place, reviver of my smart Last Line: Wherefore with tears, my bed, I thee forsake. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Bodies; Grief; Hearts; Labor & Laborers; Pain; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Work; Workers; Suffering; Misery BALLADE: 31, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! My dear, the word thou spakest Last Line: Alas, my dear. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Hope; Life; Tears; Dead, The; Optimism BALLADE: 35, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Horrible of hue, hideous to behold Last Line: My heart for sorrow yet feel I quake. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hearts; Sea; Tears; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean BANGLA DESH: 2. THE BLOOD IN MY EYES, by FAIZ AHMED FAIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Layer by layer, the dust of bitterness Last Line: Will be cleansed of blood forever. Alternate Author Name(s): Faiz, Faiz Ahmad Subject(s): Bangladesh; Blood; Eyes; Healing; Tears; Cures BEFORE THE TEARS, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You looked as sad as an eclipsed moon Last Line: So thrust my hand in yours and shook farewell. Subject(s): Farewell; Pain; Tears; Parting; Suffering; Misery BEIJING, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mao wanted to get rid of birds Last Line: A watery eye is its only home Subject(s): Grief; Tears BEING HIS MOTHER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Being his mother, -- when he goes away Last Line: As when not christ alone was crucified. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Absence; Mothers; Sons; Tears; Separation; Isolation BIRD, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: Why do clear, clean sky Last Line: But my heart is still bound Subject(s): Birds; Freedom; Grief; Tears; Wings BLUE MARROW, by LOUISE BERNICE HALFE Poem Source First Line: Grandmothers hold me. I must pass all that I possess, every Last Line: Of our struggling hearts? Subject(s): Explorers; Hunting; Native Americans - History; Native Americans - Wars; Trail Of Tears (1838-39) BORN OF TEARS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: A thing that's rich in tears is sweet Last Line: Could say – 'my mother's name is tears.' Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Tears BROOK 2, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: Last night he came Last Line: Man is not an animal!' Subject(s): Grief; Prisons And Prisoners; Sensibility; Tears BUFFALO HUNTER, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing moved in this great emptiness Last Line: To join him for his european tour Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Trail Of Tears (1838-39) BURNING OF MALMAISON, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a brisk cool evening when the wind Last Line: All that was left: this small blue stain Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Politics; Trail Of Tears (1838-39) BY CELIA'S ARBOUR, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By celia's arbour all the night Last Line: But tears of sorrow shed by me! Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Grief; Love - Nature Of; Pain; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery CASIDA OF THE WEEPING, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: I have closed up my balcony Last Line: And nothing is heard but the weeping Subject(s): Tears CHARM OF THE RAINS, by FRANCISCO CONTRERAS Poem Source First Line: It rains, and rains, and rains. The clouds hang low Last Line: Meanwhile it rains, rains, rains, and does not tire Subject(s): Crying; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Tears CHARMS, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hold to a cup my mother gave me Last Line: Is this phylactery of our vows! Subject(s): Charms (jewelry); Tears CHILD-PLAY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As children play with toys Last Line: Realities that choke them here. Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Tears; Toys; Childhood; Nightmares CHOCTAW STICK-BALL GAME, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: During a period of several sunsets, by the cleansing Last Line: That ball game that the tribe had called %'little brother to war' Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Trail Of Tears (1838-39) CINQUAINS, by GEORGE NOBBE Poem Text First Line: A mischievous wind / blew a swirl of leaves Last Line: In infinity? Subject(s): Grief; Melancholy; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Dejection CLARISSA, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All my charming loving offers Last Line: Till they scratch thy nose severely. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Sympathy; Tears; Empathy CLAUDE MATTHEWS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Steadfastly from his childhood's Last Line: By this divine promotion of his death. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Tears; Youth; Dead, The; Destiny CLEAR WATER, by J. M. SOLIS Poem Source First Line: Marvellous clearness of the gentle water Last Line: Thou saidst, 'amen' Subject(s): Absence; Crying; Tears CLOE JEALOUS, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forbear to ask me, why I weep Last Line: My answer to thy dubious verse. Subject(s): Beauty; Jealousy; Mythology - Classical; Riddles; Tears; Venus (goddess) COMPLAINT, by EDWARD RALPH CHEYNEY Poem Text First Line: Not that grief will sear with so much pain Last Line: He makes complaint . . . . But that it leaves a callus. Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Ralph Subject(s): Grief; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness CONSTANTINT THE GREAT: DEDICATION: TO VERNON RENDALL, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lover of greece, her laughter and her tears Last Line: The firm, the brave, the fair fidelities Subject(s): Beauty; Faith; Greece; Laughter; Love; Tears CORPUS, CAMBRIDGE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing can I recall Last Line: Walked and blasphemed on corpus sod. Subject(s): Cambridge University; God; Mass; Singing & Singers; Tears CORYDON'S LAMENT AND RESOLUTION, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have wept and I have sighed Last Line: Nor one tear for chloe shed. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Grief; Lament; Love; Marriage; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CROSSING, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That winter the southern land had all the contours Last Line: Into the throat of the beast Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Trail Of Tears (1838-39) CRY BABY, CRY; DEDICATED TO STERLING A. WOOD, JR., by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He's little cry baby from cry baby town Last Line: The day is for play, but the night is for rest. Subject(s): Babies; Tears; Infants CRYSTALLIZATION, by MABEL LYON Poem Text First Line: The tears that belong to the poet Last Line: Has melted it back to tears. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Tears DAWN SONG, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Like tears of lead Last Line: The tiny bells of dawn %are tinkling through Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Dawn; Grief; Tears; Time DAY LABORERS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They straggle down the street; the morning light Last Line: And leaveth not the poor uncomforted. Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Labor & Laborers; Tears; Nightmares; Work; Workers DEAD IN SIGHT OF FAME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dead! Dead! Dead! Last Line: Will see it and be reconciled. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Fame; Heaven; Tears; Dead, The; Reputation; Paradise DEARTH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hold your trembling hand Last Line: Than e'en your broken sobs may now declare. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Tears DEATH CRY FOR THE LANGUAGE, by DIANE GLANCY Poem Source First Line: Grandmother %tuya:taht'a branches at the top Last Line: The narrow passages from this world Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Cherokee Indians; Native Americans - History; Native Americans - Wars; Trail Of Tears (1838-39) DEATH OF AN INFANT, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death found strange beauty on that cherub Last Line: The signet-ring of heaven. Subject(s): Beauty; Death - Children; Tears; Death - Babies DEATH'S DIGNITY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies a common man. His horny hands Last Line: The strange and sudden dignity of death. Variant Title(s): Mortis Dignitas Subject(s): Death; Faces; Life; Tears; Dead, The DEFEAT, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though you have struck me to the bloody core Last Line: Lift up your shadow eyes to mine still wet. Subject(s): Eyes; Hearts; Tears DEFERRED, by JAMES BINNEY Poem Text First Line: The knights of old are long since dead Last Line: To drink the tears of man. Subject(s): Grief; Old Age; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness DESCRIPTIONS, by VIRGINIA A. ALLIN Poem Text First Line: The clouds pregnant with rain Last Line: At the slightest wind of annoyance. Subject(s): Grief; Old Age; Rain; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness DIE KUCHE, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She lets the hydrant water run Last Line: She lets the hydrant water run. Subject(s): Children; Tears; Water; Childhood DINING OUT, by JOHN KRUMBERGER Poem Source First Line: A man sings romantic ballads in the piano lounge swaying like a bear Last Line: Cliff Subject(s): Dinners And Dining; Grief; Love - Complaints; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Tears DIRGE FOR A LIVING POET, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What! Shall the mind of bard -- historian -- sage Last Line: Restore, restore, o god! Our poet's wandering mind! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Death; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Tears; Voices; Dead, The DIRGE WITHOUT TEARS, by HERBERT J. LIPSITZ Poem Text First Line: Grass will not wither when you have left me Last Line: Little enough need for wringing of aged hands. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Tears; Dead, The DIVINE AND HUMAN PLEADING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would the saints could hear our prayers Last Line: "as I was, so thou art." Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Life; Prayer; Saints; Tears DOMESDAY BOOK: GEORGE JOSLIN ON LA MENKEN, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, coroner merival, look at this picture! Last Line: And reads this letter to the jurymen: Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Soul; Tears DON QUIXOTE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Smiles for him, yes, and tears -- but most of all Last Line: Who wrought so beautifully -- in his dream! Subject(s): Don Quixote; Dreams; Knights & Knighthood; Smiles; Soul; Tears; Nightmares DORA, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A waxing moon that, crescent yet Last Line: To learn that tears are obsolete. Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Love; Moon; Tears; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism DORKIN'S NIGHT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "twas dorkin's night, and the house was a sight" Last Line: For an actor can be but a man Subject(s): Laughter;night;silence;tears; Bedtime DOWN TO THE DOGS, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This afternoon it rains as never before; and I Last Line: Don't feel like staying alive, heart Subject(s): Peru; Rain; Tears; Weather DREAM AND LIFE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The day was glowing, my heart, too, glow'd Last Line: A nasty insect meets my sight. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Dreams; Life; Tears; Nightmares DREGS, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This afternoon it rains, as never before; and I don't Last Line: This afternoon it rains, it pours. And I don't %want to live, heart! Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love; Rain; Tears; Weather DURING MUSIC, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O tears that well up to my eyes Last Line: Too strange the hopes, too strange the fears. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Eyes; Life; Soul; Tears ELEGY, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sad nymphs of u l, u have much to cry for Last Line: They lately brought fresh bricks the walls to 10 (heighten.) Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Death; Hair; Memory; Tears; Dead, The ELEGY, by LEO YANKEVICH Poem Source First Line: After the tears, heartfelt tears and crocodile tears Last Line: And nothing is more eloquent than its goodbye Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Tears ELEGY ON THE EARL OF ROCHESTER, by ANNE WHARTON Poem Text First Line: Deep waters silent roul, so grief like mine Last Line: For to make him she exhausted all her store. Subject(s): Grief; Tears; Wilmot, John (1647-1680); Sorrow; Sadness; Rochester, 2nd Earl Of EMANGLONS, SELS., by HENRI MICHAUX Poem Source First Line: Without any apparent cause an emanglon Subject(s): Tears EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 44. TEARS THE SYMPTOM LOVE, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There can be now no further cause of doubt Last Line: Proceeds from pent-up flames that scorch within. Subject(s): Love; Tears ENCHANTED BAMBOO ARROW, by LARRY EVERS Poem Source First Line: Enchanted enchanted bamboo arrow Last Line: Decaying %decaying %decaying Subject(s): Fights; Landmark Preservation; Native Americans - Wars; Trail Of Tears (1838-39) ENCHANTMENT, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who made me an immortal in the night! Last Line: When the mad sun's clear face is dimmed with rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Immortality; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness END OF THE RANGE, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weep ye protein herders weep Last Line: And the foreigners are fighting back Subject(s): Aliens; Immigrants; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Extraterrestrials; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Native Americans - Removal ENDING IN THE DEFINITION OF THE ANCIENT GREEK WORD EION, by ZONA TETI Poem Source First Line: Dreams of eden swirl in thin smoke Last Line: That 'lower part of the face over which tears flow' Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Tears EPIGRAM: 37, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Plain ye, mine eyes. Accompany my heart Last Line: His flamed heat shall sometime make ye warm. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Tears; Dead, The EPIGRAM: 47, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see my plaint with open ears Last Line: Is that I see myself alive. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Eyes; Life; Tears EPITAPH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A slave yet wearing on my head a crown Last Line: I fell a victim to the jealous turk. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Epitaphs; Slavery; Tears; Serfs EPITAPH ON A NEPHEW, IN CATWORTH CHURCH, HUNTINGDONSHIRE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stay, stranger, stay, and drop one tear Last Line: His father's fifth, her only son. Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Grief; Tears; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness ESTHER: 2, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, who shall tell the value of our tears Subject(s): Tears EUGENE FIELD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With gentlest tears, no less than Last Line: The love of little children laurels him. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Singing & Singers; Tears; Childhood EULOGY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Better than all the tombstones' glosses sleek Last Line: Give me warm mention on the lips of men. Subject(s): Grief; Lips; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness EURYDICE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Orpheus, the night is full of tears and cries Last Line: Wait, and see hell yield up eurydice. Subject(s): Dreams; Mythology - Classical; Night; Orpheus; Tears; Nightmares; Bedtime EVA, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, I loved him all too well Last Line: Ye may meet at length in heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Grief; Love; Sin; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness EX NIHILO, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of nothing we are made Last Line: The incarnation that we live. Subject(s): Life; Religion; Tears; Theology EYES AND TEARS, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How wisely nature did decree Last Line: These weeping eyes, those seeing tears. Subject(s): Eyes; Tears FAILURE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For them that on the mountain fight beneath Last Line: Unvigilant, unwounded; they but sheep! Subject(s): Dreams; God; Life; Tears; Nightmares FAIR ORIANA, by ROBERT JONES (1616-) Poem Text First Line: Fair oriana, seeming to wink at folly Last Line: Long live fair oriana!' Subject(s): Grief; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness FAITHFUL TEAR, by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK Poem Source First Line: If you see me shedding tears Last Line: To pass over me with a sigh Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman Subject(s): Tears FAREWELL TO ETNA, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great mountain, swathed in blue with foamy crest Last Line: May counsel with my soul to rival his. Subject(s): Farewell; Mountains; Soul; Tears; Parting; Hills; Downs (great Britain) FIELD, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The afternoon is dying Last Line: In the distance, love's darkness waits for you Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Grief; Love - Complaints; Tears; Travel FLORIDA MEMORIES, by FRANKLIN N. WOOD Poem Text First Line: The old rose color of crepe myrtle trees Last Line: That salt taste on my lips -- must be a tear. Subject(s): Tears FLOW MY TEARES FAU FROM YOUR SPRINGS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Grief; Tears FLOW ON, THOU SHINING RIVER, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Like those sweet flowers on thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Grief; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness FOOTSTEPS OF PROSERPINE: 4. SAINT VERONICA, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Veronica, speedwell, eyelet of the hedge Last Line: Life conquer death, and love at last prevail. Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Saints; Tears; Dead, The FOR KYRA GRAY O'DALY, by SAM HAMILL Poem Source First Line: Yellow maple leaves Last Line: Baby kyra's tears Subject(s): Grief; Tears FOR THEM THAT DIED IN BATTLE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How blossomy must be the halls of death Last Line: And honor's music on them like sunrise. Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Tears; Youth; Dead, The FOUND FROZEN, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She died, as many travellers have died Last Line: But I, who loved her first, and last, and best, -- I knew. Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Cold; Death; Love; Tears; Dead, The FRESCO-SONNETS TO CHRISTIAN S.: 5, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At evening's silent, melancholy hour Last Line: And many a year has dragg'd me thus along. Variant Title(s): A Lock Of Hair Subject(s): Love; Silence; Tears FRIENDSHIP?, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis not in the bitterest woes of life Last Line: To learn that they are not worth our love. Subject(s): Friendship; Life; Love; Pity; Tears FULL CIRCLE: THE CONNECTICUT CASINO, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O / o / o the first full moon of the year 2000 Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Native Americans - Removal FULL CIRCLE: THE CONNECTICUT CASINO, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O %o %o the first full moon of the year 2000 Last Line: And where all races live together %in lasting peace and perfect harmony Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Trail Of Tears (1838-39) GAUTAMI WEEPING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Beautiful, soft, black, and all in great waves Last Line: Should such a hero as this dwell in a hermitage? Subject(s): Buddhism; Tears GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 8, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From cologne to hagen it costs to post Last Line: "of ""vive l'empereur!"" repeated." Subject(s): Freedom; Germany; Tears; Liberty; Germans GLADYS AND HER ISLAND; AN IMPERFECT TALE WITH DOUBTFUL MORAL, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O happy gladys! I rejoice with her Last Line: And mind your english. Subject(s): Fables; Heroism; Islands; Story-telling; Tears; Youth; Allegories; Heroes; Heroines GLIMPSES OF CHILDHOOD: 2. IN THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: May be it was her littleness, may be Last Line: And cherished her; her tears became my tears. Subject(s): Children; Hearts; Noon; Tears; Childhood GLOOMY RAIN, by EMMA BERGSTROM Poem Text First Line: Gloomy rain, I hear you on my window pane Last Line: There's gladness in my domain. Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Pain; Rain; Tears; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery GRAY WAVES, by LEOPOLDO LUGONES Poem Source First Line: It rains above the sea in gentle murmurs Last Line: The rain would never stop Subject(s): Death; Grief; Mourning; Rain; Tears GUERDON, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the white cheek of the cherub year I saw a tear Last Line: My sorrow's guerdon. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Soul; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness HARLIE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fold the little waxen hands Last Line: At the city's golden gates. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Tears; Dead, The; Paradise HEART'S COUNSEL, by HASSOLDT DAVIS Poem Text First Line: Look, lord judas, here, in the diligent brain Last Line: A cross's width between. Subject(s): Dishonor; Dreams; Jesus Christ; Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.); Tears; Nightmares HELEN'S BEAUTY, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That lady, chiefest slave of love her lord Last Line: When april's gone, october bringeth tears. Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Goddesses & Gods; Helen Of Troy; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Tears; Youth HERITAGE, by BLANCHE LEE Poem Text First Line: I have been down the long twisting road of pain Last Line: I know the road the wizards built for elfin lads and lasses. Alternate Author Name(s): Lee-adams, Blanche Ruby Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Pain; Roads; Tears; Heritage; Heredity; Suffering; Misery; Paths; Trails HINC ILLAE LACHRYME, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Embosomed deep it lies, the fount of tears Last Line: And fruitfulness, and all that drowns dark death in life. Subject(s): Life; Love; Tears HIS GRIEF, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With my words / I'll make rocks Last Line: To make them sing. Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Grief; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness HIS HEART, INTO A BIRD, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tears o'erflow'd fair cynthia's eyes Last Line: Then pleas'd, she laugh'd, and dried her face. Subject(s): Tears HOPE IN GRIEF, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me not that death of grief Last Line: And surely will uprise the day. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hope; Life; Tears; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism HORATIANS: 54, by VICENT ANDRES ESTELLES Poem Source First Line: My cousin came by today Last Line: And brought me a glass of water Subject(s): Tears HOW FAR IS IT TO THE LAND WE LEFT?, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the first day of his life Last Line: And he won't even flinch. Subject(s): Babies; Eyes; Rest; Tears; Infants HOW M'GINNIS WENT MISSING, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let us cease our idle chatter Last Line: Going drifting out to sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Fate; Rivers; Sea; Sleep; Tears; Destiny; Ocean HYMN, by PHINEAS FLETCHER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Drop, drop, slow tears Last Line: See sin, but through my tears. Variant Title(s): A Litany Subject(s): Tears I WEEP, by ANGELINA WELD GRIMKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I weep / not as the young do noisily Last Line: I wept. Subject(s): Tears I WEEP, by PHILIP MAX RASKIN Poem Source First Line: I weep for the morning, the sun-favoured morning Last Line: I weep for my heart that could love and could suffer, %and suffered in vain Alternate Author Name(s): Raskin, P. M. Subject(s): Tears ICE CANNOT CRY, by FLORENCE STEINBERG Poem Text First Line: Tears drop / splashing the heart Last Line: Melt. Subject(s): Cold; Eyes; Grief; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness IF TEARS WERE PEARLS, by UNKNOWN+299 Poem Source First Line: If tears were pearls, I would have Last Line: That is my new sorrow Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Tears IF THEY MEANT ALL THEY SAID, by ALICE DUER MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Charm is a woman's strongest arm Last Line: To feel your cook's afraid of mice. Subject(s): Charm; Tears; Women IF WE HAD THE TIME, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I had the time to find a place Last Line: If we had the time! Subject(s): God; Life; Soul; Tears; Time IF YOU WERE HERE, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: These flowers would lose their wistfulness Last Line: If you were here! Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Pain; Tears; Separation; Isolation; Suffering; Misery ILIA'S DREAM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "then startled from her sleep, she spoke" Last Line: "until my sleep departed -- and, oh! My heart was sore" Subject(s): Dreams;sisters;sleep;tears; Nightmares IN GOD'S ACRE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Marmoreal hands across unbreathing breasts Last Line: Of souls who rest on the almighty arm! Subject(s): God; Peace; Sleep; Soul; Tears IN TEARS, THE HEART OPPREST WITH GRIEF, by PIETRO METASTASIO Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Like sorrow—in a tear? Alternate Author Name(s): Trapassi, Pietro Antonio Domenico Subject(s): Tears; Grief IN THE NIGHT, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A cry like a child's cry lost in the rain Last Line: Laughed and kissed in ecstasy! Subject(s): Children; Faces; Flowers; Kisses; Night; Rain; Tears; Childhood; Bedtime INFLUENCE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We know not what mysterious power Last Line: May, for a time, remember me. Subject(s): Language; Life; Love; Tears; Words; Vocabulary INSCRIPTION ON MONUMENT OF DOROTHY, LADY HUBERT AT LANGLEY, by ANNE KING Poem Text First Line: Reader upon this field of marble see Last Line: Being both the dead's, and living's monument. Subject(s): Death; Love; Tears; Dead, The INSTEAD OF TEARS, by JOSEPH AUSLANDER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Instead of tears my eyes have stones Last Line: I should not know, I should not know. Subject(s): Tears INTRUSION, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lilies sag with rain-drops Last Line: Your silence and the mist of soft words breaking it. ... Subject(s): Flowers; Grief; Lilies; Silence; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness INVOCATION, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep of the cooled lids and breath of flowers Last Line: Bring back the purple to my hills of dream. Subject(s): Flowers; Science; Sleep; Tears; Youth; Scientists IV THE TALKING LEAVES: SEQUOYAH'S ALPHABET, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alone for hours on end, he meditated on his mission Last Line: Yet climbs the mountainside to touch the stars Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Trail Of Tears (1838-39) IX CHRISTMAS IN WASHINGTON WITH THE CHOCTAW CHIEF, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pushmataha, the great choctaw chief, arrived in washington Last Line: Of the modern boundary between arkansas and oklahoma Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Trail Of Tears (1838-39) JAPANESE WOMAN BESIDE THE WATER, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: As rain is bending the urgent pine needles Last Line: And later we live for the sky in her arms Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Rain; Tears; Water JASON LEE, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: A cry from the gloom of the western wilds! Last Line: The stalwart jason lee. Subject(s): Death; Native Americans; Pioneers; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); West (u.s.); Dead, The; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Native Americans - Removal; Southwest; Pacific States JOHN CLARK RIDPATH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To the lorn ones who loved him Last Line: We met him smiling, we shall meet again. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Love; Tears; Dead, The JOURNEY TO THE INTERIOR, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He has gone into the forest Last Line: And every road leads on within %and none leads out Subject(s): Aids (disease); Cherokee Indians; Sickness; Trail Of Tears (1838-39) JULIA WEEPING, by JOHN HALL (1627-1656) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fairest, when thy eyes did pour Last Line: Soft under water, hard above. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall Of Durham, John Subject(s): Tears LACHRYMATORY, by ISAAC CATES Poem Source First Line: A vessel for their tears Last Line: With their half-forgotten pain Subject(s): Tears LACRIMAE RERUM, by PALLADAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weeping I came to life, weeping I go Last Line: Swept under earth to lie and rot below! Alternate Author Name(s): Pallades Subject(s): Tears LACRIMARE, LACRIMATUS, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strum / a ton / a rung Subject(s): Crying; Latin Language; Poetry & Poets; Tears; Tongues; War; Women LACRIMARE, LACRIMATUS, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strum %a ton %a rung Last Line: I wonder what dido understood Subject(s): Crying; Latin Language; Poetry And Poets; Tears; Tongues; War; Women LADY ISABELLA (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady isabella, / thou art gone away Last Line: We too may pass away. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Grief; Heaven; Tears; Women; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise LAGRIMAS, by JOHN MILTON HAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God send me tears Last Line: I shall not weep again. Subject(s): Tears LAMENT FOR A VIOLIN, by KEN HUGHES Poem Text First Line: There lies my broken violin Last Line: It cannot feel. Subject(s): Lament; Tears LAMENT OF A DESPISED LOVER, by JUAN RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Say, lovelorn heart, that art condemned upon despair to feed Last Line: And thou, poor tortured body, thou art wasted with thy pain Alternate Author Name(s): Archpriest Of Hita; Arcipreste De Hita Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Lament; Love - Complaints; Tears LAST WORDS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He left me for a foreign land Last Line: "shall beam upon us -- there!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): God; Sun; Tears LATE WISDOM, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above the roof, the sky expands Last Line: Of long ago. Subject(s): Life; Tears LAURENCE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He knew she did not love him; but so long Last Line: No, never. Some men are such gentlemen!' Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Soul; Tears; Youth; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 8. THE EVICTION, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In early morning twilight, raw and chill Last Line: And firesides buried under fallen thatch. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Grief; Labor Unions; Landlords & Tenants; Orphans; Police; Poverty; Strikes; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Foundlings; Labor Disputes; Lockouts LE JET D'EAU, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dear, your lids are weary Subject(s): Eyes; Tears LE JET D'EAU, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dear, your lids are weary Last Line: Falls like an opulent glistening %of tears Subject(s): Eyes; Tears LIKE CLEAR MUSIC, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long-buried women, ye arise for me Last Line: And do but freshen with the fall of years. Subject(s): Life; Music & Musicians; Tears; Women LINES TO A LADY WEEPING, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weep, daughter of a royal line Last Line: Repaid thee by thy people's smiles! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Tears LITTLE CHILDREN OF THE WIND, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the little children of the wind Last Line: The little tremulous leaves of the wind. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Children; Leaves; Solitude; Tears; Wind; Childhood; Loneliness LONG WEEPING, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have in a dream been weeping Last Line: My tears have made me blind. Subject(s): Tears LONGING, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: At last the sunset and the quietness Last Line: And then, together, home. Subject(s): Dreams; Longing; Love; Peace; Tears; Nightmares LOST AND FOUND, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: I found it yesterday, the book Last Line: And know thy blessing haunts me yet! Subject(s): Beauty; Tears; Truth LOVE AND DEATH, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Watcher, whose eyes are fever bright Last Line: For death's vast mystery grows clear. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Tears; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness LOVE IN JAPAN, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The semi is silent Last Line: Eater of dreams! Subject(s): Dreams; Japan; Love; Tears; Nightmares; Japanese LOVE UNKIND, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out upon the bleak hillside, the bleak Last Line: Wept the sweet morn her crystal tears that love should prove unkind! Subject(s): Crying; Grief; Love - Complaints; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness LOVE'S ATTRIBUTES, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ceres rules the fields of grain Last Line: Are consecrate to love. Subject(s): Demeter; Flowers; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Orchards; Tears; Ceres LOVE'S BURIAL, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let us clear a little space Last Line: We will walk a separate way. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Funerals; Love; Tears; Dead, The; Nightmares; Burials LOVE'S MASQUERADES: LOVE, THE POET, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: In broad brocades, three laughing ladies sat Last Line: And poesy had stolen all love's space. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets; Tears LULLABY, by HENRY BELLAMANN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tears for your pink, curled hands Subject(s): Tears LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 2, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From out of my tears all burning Last Line: The nightingale's tuneful song. Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales; Tears LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 23, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O if the tiny flowers Last Line: Who thus hath wounded my heart. Subject(s): Flowers; Love - Complaints; Tears LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 41, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The blockheads, their holidays keeping Last Line: And softens my bosom to tears. Subject(s): Love; Nature; Sparrows; Tears LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 45, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On hearing the strains enthralling Last Line: I quench my anguish and grief. Subject(s): Grief; Love; Singing & Singers; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 54, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When two fond lovers are parted Last Line: Too surely came by-and-by. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Tears LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 6, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O lean thy beauteous cheek on mine Last Line: I'll die of my love's sweet yearning. Subject(s): Love; Tears LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 60, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In vision I lately was weeping Last Line: Continued to flow as before. Subject(s): Dreams; Graves; Love; Tears; Nightmares; Tombs; Tombstones LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 61, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All night in vision behold I thee Last Line: And the word is forgotten completely. Subject(s): Eyes; Grief; Night; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 62, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis autumn, the night's dark and gloomy Last Line: She looks with many a tear. Subject(s): Autumn; Love; Night; Seasons; Tears; Fall; Bedtime MADRIGAL, by JOHN FARMER Poem Text First Line: You pretty flowers that smile for summer's sake Last Line: Feeding mine eyes redoubles tear for tear. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Tears MANUELA, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the doorway, manuela, in the sunny april morn Last Line: T is the alazan that gallops, 't is bernardo's self that rides! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Tears MASSA'S IN DE COLD GROUND, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Round de meadows am a ringing Last Line: "down in de corn fields, etc" Subject(s): African Americans;death;slavery;tears; "negroes;american Blacks;dead, The;serfs; MATER DOLOROSA, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She, brooding ever, dwells amidst the hills Last Line: Peace hath she not and therefore cannot give. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Pain; Peace; Silence; Tears; Suffering; Misery MAUREEN ASHORE, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My lovely wife, who yestermorn didst bring Last Line: 08/12/09 Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Grief; Love; Marriage; Tears; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MAURINE: PART 7, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With much hard labor and some pleasure fraught Last Line: Gazing upon us from the mystic shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Hope; Love; Soul; Summer; Tears; Women; Optimism MELANCHOLY WATER, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: There is an intelligence in joy Last Line: I hear only the cry of a goose Subject(s): Melancholy; Rain; Tears; Water MISSING YOU, by GONG PEIYU Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A multicolored chart without a boundary Last Line: Only this. Alternate Author Name(s): Shu Ting; Shu Ding Subject(s): Absence; China - Democracy; Chinese Literature; Grief; Tears; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness MONICA PEVERIL TURNBULL, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more wild march, her mantle shaken Last Line: "for new buds' swelling." Subject(s): Death; Dreams; March (month); Soul; Tears; Dead, The; Nightmares MONODY, by OVRO'OM RAISIN Poem Text First Line: She is playing Last Line: I'm the dark ... Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Tears; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness MOTHER, by M. E. PETEET Poem Text First Line: After your life of steadfast faith Last Line: With the eternal blest. Subject(s): Rest; Tears MOTHER OF MOSQUITOS, by DIANE GLANCY Poem Source First Line: Woman %swat. %why mosquito fly near us? Last Line: Your life is our blood Subject(s): Forests; History; Native Americans - Wars; Trail Of Tears (1838-39) MRS. BENJAMIN HARRISON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now utter calm and rest Last Line: God's will her will. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Sleep; Tears; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness MY BACHELOR CHUM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A corpulent man is my bachelor Last Line: On the tears of my bachelor chum. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Faces; Friendship; Single People; Tears; Bachelors; Unmarried People MY JOURNAL, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is a dreary evening Last Line: And my eyes are dim to-night. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Books; Life; Tears; Time; Reading MY LADY'S TEARS, by JOHN DOWLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw my lady weep Last Line: Which only breeds your beauty's overthrow. Variant Title(s): Lute Song Set By John Dowland (4) Subject(s): Love; Tears MY LEMAN ON THE ROAD, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: When I see by the road Last Line: If only I can, %if only I can Subject(s): Grief; Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice; Nostalgia; Tears MY SHATTERED DREAMS, by C. CELESTE DE SILVA Poem Text First Line: The dream of my life has been shattered Last Line: And god may there on them smile. Subject(s): Dreams; Pain; Tears; Nightmares; Suffering; Misery NATIVE AMERICAN BROADCASTING SYSTEM, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Five hundred years from now, archaeologists will discover Last Line: The grasses grow %the rivers flow Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Cherokee Indians; Greyhounds; Native Americans - History; Native Americans - Wars; Nuclear War; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Travel NATURAL HISTORY OF TEARS, by KAY ANN MURPHY Poem Source First Line: In the afternoonwalk through an arboretum Last Line: Into a monument perfectly fitting its living Subject(s): Nature; Tears NATURE'S INSURGENTS, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Ye mighty powers that haunt us Last Line: Shall find us restful still. Subject(s): Fate; Life; Love; Nature; Tears; Destiny NEVER WILL YOU RETURN, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source Last Line: To your brothers, %and to life Subject(s): Friendship; Pain; Prisons And Prisoners; Tears NEW SPRING: 12, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! I yearn for tears all-burning Last Line: Into my scarce healed breast. Subject(s): Love; Tears NIGHT AND DEATH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the sunlit hours are o'er Last Line: Death is life, and death alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Nature; Night; Tears; Dead, The; Bedtime NIGHT OF STARS, by LUIS DE LEON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I behold the sky Last Line: Deep valleys with a thousand blessings dight Alternate Author Name(s): Fray Luis Subject(s): Blessings; Grief; Mortality; Oppression; Tears NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 5. THE RELAPSE, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lorenzo! To recriminate is just Last Line: Tis the survivor dies. -- my heart! No more. Subject(s): Contentment; Death; Fortune; Grief; Life; Night; Pride; Tears; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime; Self-esteem; Self-respect NOTHING BUT STONES, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think I never passed so sad an hour Last Line: In blaze of gorgeous light. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Churches; Grief; Stones; Tears; Cathedrals; Sorrow; Sadness; Granite; Rocks NOVEMBER, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How has november won Last Line: How close the tears! Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; November; Tears; World NOW, by LAURA STILL Poem Source First Line: Now it is our turn Last Line: Send us love-send us power- %send us grace Subject(s): Grief; Prayer; Tears NUNC DIMITTIS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am dying; but what of that? Last Line: That I've found you -- at the last. Subject(s): Death; Happiness; Love; Pain; Tears; Dead, The; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery O, THERE IS A BLISS IN TEARS! - IN TEARS THAT FLOW, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Gush after gush, in purer streams away Subject(s): Tears ODE TO SENTIMENT, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Daughter of dulness! Canting dame! Last Line: Usurp the play -- 'tis your's -- but spare the pantomime. Subject(s): Laughter; Love; Tears OF BEAUTY, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG Poem Text First Line: There is a love so passionate it tears Last Line: To loveliness that we should be denied? Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Pain; Passion; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery OF FEATHERS, by BETTINA T. BARRETT Poem Source First Line: Cindy is dying and all day Last Line: Of the air I can feel on my skin Subject(s): Grief; Tears OF ONE AFFLICTED WITH DEAFNESS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She moves about the house with meek content Last Line: And hear a constant singing in her heart. Subject(s): Comfort; Deafness; Friendship; Love; Tears OLD CHEROKEE WOMAN'S SONG, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have taken my land Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Native Americans - Removal OLD CHEROKEE WOMAN'S SONG, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have taken my land Last Line: Beyond the red water Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Trail Of Tears (1838-39) ON MISS HELEN FAUCIT'S JULIET, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been wandering in enchanted ground Last Line: From other lips, sweet lady, than from thine. Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Love; Tears; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes ON THE DEATH OF GEORGE III; WRITTEN AT WINDSOR THE DAY AFTER FUNERAL, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw him last on this terrace proud Last Line: For the people's pity and wonder. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Variant Title(s): The Contrast Subject(s): Bells; Birds; George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); Tears ON THE PROMENADE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O joyous idler in the sun Last Line: O youthful dreams that come no more! Subject(s): Fate; Health; Tears; Wealth; Youth; Destiny; Riches; Fortunes ONCE AND FUTURE DEAD, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Weep for their history. We call it %rain Subject(s): Death; Grief; History; Tears ONE WOMAN'S TEARS, by RUTH MALONE Poem Text First Line: Tears that well through selfish sand Last Line: Are hidden tears of loneliness. Subject(s): Solitude; Tears; Loneliness ORAN-BHROIN (A CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When all the west is blowing wild Last Line: Is blowing wild. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Children; Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Tears; Wind; Childhood; Bereavement ORINDA UPON LITTLE HECTOR PHILIPS, by KATHERINE PHILIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twice forty months of wedlock I did stay Last Line: The last of thy unhappy mothers verse. Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda Variant Title(s): On The Death Of My First And Dearest Child Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Loss; Tears; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness OUR WIDOWED QUEEN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The husband of the widow care for her Last Line: Then may her husband praise. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Albert Of Saxe-coburg-gotha (1819-1861); Death; Love - Loss Of; Tears; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Widows & Widowers; Prince Consort Of Queen Victoria; Dead, The OUT OF THE RANKS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the bitter fight I have made my way Last Line: And hope for the dawn of a better day. Subject(s): Death; Faces; Fights; Tears; Dead, The OVER THE MONTH OF JUNE THE RAIN IS FALLING, by HOMERO ARIDJIS Poem Source Last Line: The lights of the city come on for further exploits Variant Title(s): The Rain Is Fallin Subject(s): Death; Grief; Rain; Tears; Water PEACE IN A PALACE, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You were weeping in the night,' said the emperor Last Line: "the little eyeless faces of the drowned." Subject(s): Faces; Kisses; Life; Peace; Tears PEACE-YEARNING, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O let thy wounds bleed on, and let Last Line: Our loving mothers never bore us. Subject(s): Graves; Grief; Peace; Tears; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness PEELING ONIONS, by DINA ELENBOGEN Poem Source First Line: You loved to watch me undress Last Line: That tonight I peeled onion, %and when I threw away their tiny jackets %everything inside me wept Subject(s): Onions; Tears PEELING ONIONS, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only to have a grief Subject(s): Onions; Tears PEELING ONIONS, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only to have a grief Last Line: These old tears in the chopping bowl Subject(s): Onions; Tears PERDITA, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I go beyond the commandment.' so be it. Then mine be the blame Last Line: And nothing, nothing, nothing, can do away with the past. Subject(s): Past; Soul; Tears PETALS RAINED, by KYERANG Poem Source First Line: Petals rained from the pear trees Last Line: And return weary of travel Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Tears; Travel PHAON IN HADES, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: To-day the very dead would love his face Last Line: Of blame, were I to love his beauty less! Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Faces; Hades; Persephone; Tears; Dead, The; Proserpine; Proserpina PICTURES IN THE FIRE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is it you ask me, darling? Last Line: And the fire had died away. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Tears; Travel; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Journeys; Trips PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 1: 5. HOMAGE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye songs! O my trusty numbers! Last Line: By her who last govern'd thy kingdom. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Hearts; Tears; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 1: 7. IN THE CABIN AT NIGHT, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea its pearls possesseth Last Line: In calm and radiant but excessive love. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Sea; Tears; Ocean PIETA, by ALLEN AFTERMAN Poem Source First Line: I leave it for you to say why it is Last Line: Why is it that every moment we are awake we do not weep? Subject(s): Death; Grief; Human Rights; Tears POEMS OF THE HOME: THE LAMP, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: Blessed be my lamp! It does not overwhelm me Last Line: Lamp to dim the brightness of its tears! Subject(s): Crying; Pain; Tears POEMS ON THE DEATH OF PRINCE HENRY: OF THE RAIN-BOW, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was ever nightly rain-bow seen? Last Line: Though clothed in a svmmer weed. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Night; Rainbows; Seasons; Tears; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Bedtime POEMS ON THE DEATH OF PRINCE HENRY: VPON THE UNSEASONABLE TIMES, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fond vulgar, canst thou thinke it strange to finde Last Line: Men's sighes and teares are slight, and quickly done. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Mourning; Tears; Wind; Winter; Dead, The; Bereavement PRAIRIE CHICKEN, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look at him there in that prairie dirt Last Line: He looks for another prairie chicken Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Native Americans - Removal PRELUDE FOR LOT'S WIFE, by JAMES T. GALLAGHER Poem Text First Line: Let soft white silver of her tears Last Line: A pillar of salt. Subject(s): Fear; God; Salt; Tears PSALM: 6, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let mee not lord Last Line: And fly with sudden shame. Subject(s): God; Pain; Praise; Soul; Tears; Suffering; Misery PSYCHOLOGY FIVE, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: No more of despair you poets Last Line: "only means sanitation and health." Subject(s): Despair; Grief; Poetry & Poets; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness QUATORZAINS: 4. TO SOUND, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit, who steals from silence's embrace Last Line: Or sleep for ever in my charmed ear. Subject(s): Beauty; Grief; Sound; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness QUATRAIN: TEARS OF GLADNESS, by FREDERIC FAIRCHILD SHERMAN Poem Text First Line: These happy tears, like drops of dew Last Line: Reflect the glory of the skies. Subject(s): Happiness; Tears; Joy; Delight RACHEL, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No days that dawn can match for her Last Line: Her strange, new hours of ease. Subject(s): Tears RACHEL'S TEARS, by VLADISLAV FELITZIANOVICH KHODASEVICH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Peace to the evening, sinful world! Last Line: One good refrain appears: %rachel's disconsolate tears! Subject(s): Tears RAIN, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: A bird, %a small bird Last Line: And piles %on the hollyhocks Subject(s): Freedom; Grief; Prisons And Prisoners; Tears RAIN, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's all very well for you Last Line: And invite you down again! Subject(s): Kisses; Rain; Tears RAIN FELL LAST NIGHT, by VIRGINIA DICKSON Poem Text Last Line: I held you in my arms and slept. Subject(s): Tears RAINBOW, by JEAN MUTTER Poem Text First Line: Like dew on the blossoms Last Line: And the rainbow, I kissed. Subject(s): Mist; Rainbows; Tears RAINY NIGHT, by E. FLEMING HOTT Poem Text First Line: Black of night; soft-dripping rain Last Line: Alone, in darkness, my heart grieves. Subject(s): Melancholy; Mourning; Rain; Tears; Water; Dejection; Bereavement RATCLIFF, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dream-god brought me to a landscape fair Last Line: And through sheer terror I awoke from sleep. Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Flowers; Love; Tears; Nightmares RECOLLECTIONS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see a lad deserted by his mates Last Line: They found him -- dazed and dumb that this could be. Subject(s): Death; Fear; Hearts; Love; Memory; Soul; Tears; Dead, The REJECTED ADDRESSES: THE REBUILDING, BY R. S., by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am a blessed glendoveer Last Line: "no, thank you! One tumble's enough!" Subject(s): Death; Fire; Law & Lawyers; Southey, Robert (1774-1843); Tears; Dead, The RENUNCIATION, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O wherefore thus, apart with drooping wings Last Line: Thou sweetest, dearest angel! Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Heaven; Jesus Christ; Tears; Paradise RENUNICATION, by CORINNE CHANDLEE DAVIS Poem Text First Line: It is not selfishness that bids me say Last Line: Not you! Subject(s): Selfishness; Tears REQUIESCAT IN PACE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The end with outstretched hands Last Line: Lord of eternal rest! Subject(s): Death; Sea; Tears; Dead, The; Ocean RETRIBUTION, by HELEN MARGUERITE PERRI Poem Text First Line: Teardrops splash the windows of the soul Last Line: To prove a heart has broken—died—and bled! Subject(s): Grief; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness REVERSIBLE BRIDGES, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source Last Line: Accomplished, one pool %of automatic light appears Subject(s): Grief; Tears RIME 49, by PETRARCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bicause I have the still kept fro lyes and blame Last Line: And onely my loke declareth my hert. Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 25;sonnet: 16 Subject(s): Hearts; Lies; Tears RIVER, by JORGE HUBNER Poem Source First Line: The music of the river, full of our human weeping Last Line: Where memory floats as lightly as the roses on the stream Subject(s): Crying; Solitude; Tears ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: THE MOORISH KING, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To the alpuxarres' exile Last Line: In the land of andalusia. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Grief; Moors (people); Tears; Time; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Sorrow; Sadness ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 15. TO THE ANGELS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is dread thanatos indeed! Last Line: Ye angels, grant matilda your protection! Subject(s): Angels; Life; Marriage; Tears; Weddings; Husbands; Wives RONDEL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kissing her hair I sat against her feet Last Line: Kissing her hair. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Mythology; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness ROUNDELAY, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chloe found amyntas lying Last Line: Kiss'd him up, and eas'd his pain. Variant Title(s): Rondelay Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Tears SAD MADRIGAL, SELECTION, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What care I that you be wise? Last Line: With the storm the bloom appears. Subject(s): Eyes; Grief; Storms; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness SAD ONE, MUST YOU WEEP, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sad one, must you weep alway? Last Line: "pray you, let it be!" Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love; Melancholy; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Dejection SAINT PETER TALKS ABOUT GOODNESS, by LARRY EVERS Poem Source First Line: Saint peter %sitting at heaven's door Last Line: Talks %talks %talks Subject(s): God; Heaven; Native Americans - Wars; Religion; Saints; Soldiers; Trail Of Tears (1838-39) SALT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is as salt Last Line: What he needs Subject(s): Grief; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness SALT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is as salt Last Line: Strain the ocean for and %what he needs Subject(s): Grief; Tears SEA IN MOURNING, by EDUARDO URIOS-APARISI Poem Source First Line: There outside your window, adela, the Last Line: And you can't watch it from sorrow Subject(s): Grief; Mourning; Tears SECLUSION, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shut out the world, shut in the home! Last Line: Live thine own life, and win the day! Subject(s): Life; Love; Solitude; Tears; Loneliness SECRETS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Think not some knowledge rests with thee alone Last Line: Shall drag thy secret out into the light. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; God; Secrets; Tears; Dead, The SEEKING WATERS, by DORIS R. BECK Poem Text First Line: E'en as all waters seek the sea Last Line: I am the waters -- thou, the sea. Subject(s): Solitude; Tears; Loneliness SERAPHINA, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When at evening in the forest Last Line: Each in the other's love blest. Subject(s): Grief; Kisses; Moon; Night; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime SHE DRIED HER TEARS, AND THEY DID SMILE, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Smiles; Tears; Masks SHOCKING RAPE AND MURDER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Jane williams had a lover true Last Line: Cut off when in their prime Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;love;marriage;murder;rape;tears; Weddings;husbands;wives SILENCE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My dear, that crying in the heart Last Line: They call the music of the spheres! Subject(s): Hearts; Music & Musicians; Silence; Summer; Tears; Wind SILVER TEARS, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Many tributes life hath brought me Last Line: For my wild heart's suffering. Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Melancholy; Tears; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness; Dejection SOLDIERS OF PEACE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is the brave that first forget Last Line: One future, just and free! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Fate; Peace; Soldiers; Tears; Destiny SOLITUDE, by HAROLD MONRO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you have tidied all things for the night Last Line: Solitude walks one heavy step more near. Subject(s): Grief; Solitude; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness SOMEDAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someday: - so many tearful eyes Last Line: Bring round to them, someday. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Pain; Soul; Summer; Tears; Suffering; Misery SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "flow not so fast, ye fountains" Last Line: Must still fall dropping from their spheres Subject(s): Grief;tears; Sorrow;sadness SONG, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the world's asleep Last Line: Or fly within and bid them close the gate? Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Tears; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness SONG (3), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We buried her among the flower Last Line: Fair, with the selfsame smile. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Funerals; Grief; Tears; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness SONG OF THE DESPERATE ONE, by CHARLES VILDRAC Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down the days and down the years Last Line: Over every joy. Alternate Author Name(s): Messager, Charle Subject(s): Grief; Pain; Singing & Singers; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery SONG OF THE DISPOSSESSED, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You came across the water, %like gods you walked ashore Last Line: That robbed us of our country %and carried off our dreams Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Trail Of Tears (1838-39) SONG, FR. SYLVIA (OPERA), by GEORGE LILLO Poem Text First Line: The sweet and blushing rose Last Line: And grief on joy attends. Subject(s): Grief; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness SONG: 101, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now must I learn to feign Last Line: Seeing she will not so. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Absence; Death; Hearts; Life; Pain; Tears; Truth; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery SONG: 112, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Might I as well within my song belay Last Line: Causeless because that I have suffered smart. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Cruelty; Hearts; Pain; Tears; Suffering; Misery SONG: 2, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where shall I have at mine own will Last Line: For I am gone for evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Fortune; Life; Singing & Singers; Tears; Dead, The; Songs SONG: 24, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since you will needs that I shall sing Last Line: Within my heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Faces; Grief; Singing & Singers; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs SONG: 44, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: There was never nothing more me pained Last Line: Alas the while! Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Love; Pain; Tears; Suffering; Misery SONG: 74, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Duress of pains and grievous smart Last Line: Heart, sigh no more, I pray thee, break. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Happiness; Hearts; Life; Pain; Tears; Dead, The; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery SONG: 79, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I might have at mine own will Last Line: That force perforce I do sustain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Hearts; Heaven; Life; Pain; Tears; Paradise; Suffering; Misery SONG: 83, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, cruel heart, where is thy faith? Last Line: Farewell my love and all my woe. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Cruelty; Faith; Hearts; Love; Tears; Time; Belief; Creed SONGS OF NEW YORK: THE LIGHTS, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ten thousand jewels flash out Last Line: Till the stars have faded away. Subject(s): Light; New York City; Tears; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 4, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, weep no more, for 'tis in vain Last Line: We've paid already with our eyes. Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Heaven; Love; Tears; Wandering & Wanderers; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise SONNET, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Loe here behold these tributerie teares Last Line: In word, in deed, by moane, by zeale, by fire. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Subject(s): Tears SONNET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some say that love and joy are one: and so Last Line: Though burning for a martyr's diadem. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Happiness; Love; Pain; Tears; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery SONNET (FROM THE PSALMS), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All through the livelong night I lay awake Last Line: Witness that such a quietness is best. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Prayer; Silence; Tears SORROW WITHOUT CONSOLATION, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, wherefore shouldst thou try Last Line: Thou'dst rather bid them weep, and seek their comfort so. Subject(s): Comfort; Grief; Love; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness SOUND OF RAIN, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: I close my eyes Last Line: Man, %what are you doing!' Subject(s): Crying; Prisons And Prisoners; Rain; Tears SOUVENIR, by ALFRED DE MUSSET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I weep, but with no bitterness I weep Last Line: My soul to god shall bear. Subject(s): Death; Gethsemane; Grief; Nature; Souvenirs; Tears; Time; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 110, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Weep, my eyes, weep Last Line: That a man should cry Subject(s): Crying; Grief; Love - Complaints; Tears STARTING TO RAIN, by ELAINE EQUI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Distracted, I leave %the therapist's office Last Line: How did they manage %to make themselves heard? Subject(s): Grief; Psychoanalysis; Rain; Tears STYX RIVER ANTHOLOGY, by CAROLYN WELLS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I couldn't help weeping with delight Last Line: I did. Subject(s): Death; Masters, Edgar Lee (1869-1950); Rivers; Tears; Women; Dead, The SUBSTITUTION, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tears that my own eyes have shed Last Line: My enforced usury of tears. Subject(s): Tears SUNKEN TREASURES, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the uneasy waves of life subside Last Line: And bring a single jewel from its breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Fate; Life; Tears; Treasures; Destiny SUSAN, by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He dropt a tear on susan's bier Last Line: And let herself be woo'd again. Alternate Author Name(s): Locker, Frederick Subject(s): Death; Tears; Women; Dead, The SUSPENSE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A woman's figure, on a ground of night Last Line: "throbs love's eternal lie -- ""lo, I can wait!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Despair; Love; Suspense; Tears SWEET BLOOMS AT DUSK, by JAMES H. DEVLIN Poem Text First Line: Oft wet with tears on haloed ground Last Line: Forgotten soon and death its goal. Subject(s): Death; Dusk; Grief; Tears; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness SYMPATHY, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Watch me in the gloaming Last Line: Loving god and man. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Peace; Sympathy; Tears; Dead, The; Empathy TEAR, by MARIN SORESCU Poem Source First Line: I weep and weep a tear Last Line: O, my arctic eyelid Subject(s): Tears TEARES (1), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Teares most prevaile; with teares too thou mayst move Last Line: Rocks to relent, and coyest maids to love. Subject(s): Tears TEARES ARE TONGUES, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When julia chid, I stood as mute the while Last Line: The eyes by tears speak, while the tongue is mute. Subject(s): Tears TEARFUL IMPROVISATION AFTER GETTING DRUNK WITH QIU QIANZHI, by HU WENRU Poem Source First Line: A sad song substitutes for tears, but sadness overflows Last Line: A pair of tears dropped at once into the golden goblet Subject(s): Tears TEARS, by TUMADIR BINT IBN AL-SHARID AL-KHANSA Poem Text First Line: Tears, ere thy death, for many a one I shed Last Line: (r. A. Nicholson) Alternate Author Name(s): Tumardir Bint `amir Al-harith Ibn Ash-sharid; Al-khansa Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Grief; Tears; War; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness TEARS, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thank god, bless god, all ye who suffer not Last Line: And leave the vision clear for stars and sun. Subject(s): Consolation; Grief; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness TEARS, by DENISE CHAVEZ Poem Source First Line: Tears, wells of love-meshed tresses Subject(s): Tears TEARS, by JOHN DOWLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weep you no more, sad fountains Last Line: Sleeping. Variant Title(s): Lute Song Set By John Dowland (6);sleep;a Song For Music Subject(s): Grief; Love; Sleep; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness TEARS, by RICARDO GUTIERREZ Poem Source First Line: Angel of my earthly paradise, star of my gloomy night Last Line: My soul been left without thine! Subject(s): Angels; Graves; Grief; Tears TEARS, by VELMA HITCHCOCK Poem Source First Line: Three kinds of tears there be Subject(s): Tears TEARS, by DOROTHY LA PELL-SUBOTA Poem Source First Line: Tears can wash away many mental troubles Subject(s): Tears TEARS, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mine fall, and yet a tear of hers Last Line: They do not fall in vain. Subject(s): Tears TEARS, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: How full of tears is love, for thee Last Line: Be pity's king. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Love; Tears TEARS, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thank god for tears when cold hearts turn to stone Last Line: Thank him for blessed tears Subject(s): Tears TEARS, by PAUL H. OEHSER Poem Text First Line: No eye-tears ever drown our deepest woe Last Line: While heart-tears gnaw their human prey piece-meal. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hearts; Tears; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness TEARS, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I consider life and its few years - Last Line: Homer his sight, david his little lad ! Subject(s): Grief; Life; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness TEARS, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Tears born of wild emotion Last Line: And all is stainless gold! Subject(s): Earth; Grief; Memory; Tears; World; Sorrow; Sadness TEARS, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tears that trickled down our eyes Last Line: Where tears flow not forevermore! Subject(s): Tears TEARS, by CHARD POWERS SMITH Poem Text First Line: When I have seen you weep, I hear the drum Last Line: And we take hands and leap into the dark. Subject(s): Grief; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness TEARS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O hands that I have held in mine Last Line: I bring my tears to you as wine. Subject(s): Tears TEARS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the deep are we Last Line: Beats to the yawning grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Tears TEARS, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It seems I have no tears left. They should have fallen Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Soldiers; Tears TEARS, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It seems I have no tears left. They should have fallen Last Line: And silence, told me truths I had not dreamed, %amd have forgotten since their beauty passed Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Soldiers; Tears TEARS, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tears! Tears! Tears! / in the night, in solitude, tears Last Line: Of tears! Tears! Tears! Subject(s): Grief; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness TEARS AND KISSES, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are tears sweet, refreshing like dewdrops that rise Last Line: There are kisses that live in the hearts of the dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Kisses; Tears TEARS FALL IN MY HEART, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: My heart is so full if pain Subject(s): Grief; Tears; Love – Absence Of; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness TEARS FOR SALE, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wept a tear Last Line: It's a thing that poets do. Subject(s): Tears TEARS OF THE EXCAVATOR, by PIER PAOLO PASOLINI Poem Source First Line: Only loving, only knowing Last Line: And, as then, they disappear, singing Subject(s): Grief; Tears THE ACCOLADE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the lamp in the tavern yard Last Line: "thou hast made me more of a king!" Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Evil; Tears THE BALLAD OF SMILES AND TEARS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the gleeful spring on Last Line: Then hearts that are heavy may melt in tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Seasons; Smiles; Soul; Tears THE BARD'S INSCRIPTION IN HIS DAUGHTER'S ALBUM, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The thoughtful reader here may see Last Line: The fervent blessing of a father! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Daughters; Friendship; Life; Tears THE BARD'S SONG TO HIS DAUGHTER, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O daughter dear, my darling child Last Line: While thus I clasp thee to my breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Daughters; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Tears THE BIRTHDAY OF SPRING, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cry holiday! Holiday! Let us be gay Last Line: If my joy be suppressed, I shall burst into tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Birthdays; Earth; Echo (mythology); Nature; Spring; Tears; World THE BURNING OF MALMAISON, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a brisk cool evening when the wind Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Politics & Government; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Native Americans - Removal THE CHIMERA'S KISS, by JEAN RICHEPIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fierce chimera's hooded eyes Last Line: Immortal in one moment's bliss. Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Love; Mythology; Tears; Dead, The THE COMING OF THE WORDS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wistful words, singing words, come to me at times Last Line: Of love, and give my longing a presence and a name! Subject(s): Language; Life; Love; Soul; Tears; Words; Vocabulary THE COSMIC TRAIL, by EDWIN M. ABBOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since I have thought so long on greater Last Line: The landscape widens as I onward go. Subject(s): Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Native Americans - Removal THE CROSSING, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That winter the southern land had all the contours Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Native Americans - Removal THE DARK MEMORY, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was our love's gethsemane, and you wept Last Line: Shed for my sake, and how you wept alone. Subject(s): Farewell; Solitude; Tears; Parting; Loneliness THE DEATH-CHILD, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She sits beneath the elder-tree Last Line: Knoweth that he is dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Children; Death; Dreams; Tears; Childhood; Dead, The; Nightmares THE DELUGE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Drowning, drowning, I espie Last Line: Of a world to drowne but one. Subject(s): Tears THE DREAM, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I woke to find my pillow wet Last Line: Was I thy captive all o'erthrown? Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Love - Complaints; Tears; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness THE FAREWELL OF THE OLD GUARD AT FONTAINEBLEAU, 1814, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stately court of fontainebleau Last Line: Falls no more on fontainebleau. Subject(s): Faces; Farewell; Silence; Tears; Parting THE FATED RACE, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: I stood on the banks of the klickitat Last Line: Must sink beneath the flood. Subject(s): Native Americans - Wars; Oregon; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Native Americans - Removal THE FOUNTAIN OF PITY, by HENRY BATAILLE Poem Text First Line: Tears are within us. There is security Last Line: And the tears weep also, as they flow away. Subject(s): Children; Consolation; Fountains; Pity; Tears; Childhood THE FOUNTAIN OF TEARS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you go over desert and mountain Last Line: May he find a place for the tears! Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. Subject(s): Grief; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness THE FOUR BRIDGES, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love this grey old church, the low, long nave Last Line: Nor sleep so sweet: -- the word was -- eglantine. Subject(s): Churches; God; Grief; Landscape; Love; Soul; Tears; Cathedrals; Sorrow; Sadness THE GATE OF TEARS, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far upon the farther side Last Line: Through the gate of tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Tears THE GIFTS OF GOLD, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Desire of joy - how keen, how keen it is! Last Line: Desire of joy and tears -- ah, gifts of gold! Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Gold; Happiness; Tears; Joy; Delight THE GRETNA GREEN BLACKSMITH, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though my face is all smutty not fit to be seen Last Line: With his rang, tang, hammer and nail. Subject(s): Blacksmiths; Life; Tears THE HAPPY ISLES, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How comes the spring in those far lands of yours? Last Line: And on their crest the calm of sunset. Subject(s): Islands; Soul; Spring; Tears THE HAPPY MAN, by GILLES MENAGE Poem Text First Line: La galisse now I wish to touch Last Line: Deprived him of his life. Subject(s): Death; Happiness; Life; Tears; Dead, The; Joy; Delight THE HEART KNOWETH ITS OWN BITTERNESS' (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weep yet a while Last Line: Who died below, who lives for thee above Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Tears; God; Grief THE HEREAFTER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hereafter, o we need not Last Line: The mute beyond is just. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Happiness; Tears; Dead, The; Joy; Delight THE IMMORTAL RESIDUE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love and the lofty heart and tears - these three Last Line: Hold back their portion due of tears and dark. Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Socrates (470-399 B.c.); Tears; Nightmares THE ISLE OF LOST DREAMS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is an isle beyond our ken Last Line: Drift through the isle beyond our ken. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Tears; Time; Nightmares THE LACHRYMATORY, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From out the grave of one whose budding Last Line: And tully's daughter, mourned so tenderly. Subject(s): Tears THE LAST ANSWER (WRITTEN TO BOUTS-RIMES), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She turned round to me with her steadfast eyes Last Line: But she, meanwhile, only grew statelier. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Love; Tears; Dead, The THE LEPER, by ANATOLE LE BRAZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Monna keryvel looks toward the west Last Line: "lo, thy bridegroom waits -- monna, it is death!" Subject(s): Death; Leprosy; Life; Tears; Wind; Dead, The; Lepers THE LITTLE BRETHREN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brendan went to the greenwood Last Line: Wept: and he heard their tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; Brendan, Saint (484-578); Fairies; Flowers; God; Jesus Christ; Soul; Tears; Brendan Of Clonfert; Brandan, Saint; Brandon, Saint; Brennainn, Saint; Brendan The Voyager; Elves THE LITTLE MOTHERS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strange mockery of motherhood! Last Line: Give them a fate more frolicsome. Subject(s): Home; Loss; Mothers; Tears; Time; Women THE LOVER AND THE BIRDS, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Within a budding grove, / in april's ear sang every bird his best Last Line: Most comforting and gentle thoughts I had. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Courtship; Love - Nature Of; Pity; Sensibility; Tears THE MARTYR, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See, the sun hath risen Last Line: Satisfied with hopeful rest, and replete with god. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Heaven; Martyrs; Religion; Sin; Tears; Paradise; Theology THE MODERN FIRST LADY, by SOAME JENYNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Skilled in each art that can adorn the fair Last Line: And with true scorpion rage she stings herself to death. Subject(s): Death; Exiles; Grief; Tears; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE MOOR'S SERENADE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To my sleeping dear zuleima's Last Line: And blood from the heart's wounds flowing. Subject(s): Grief; Love; Moors (people); Tears; Sorrow; Sadness THE MOTHER'S MISTAKE, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heard you that piercing shriek -- the throe Last Line: Outgushing tears, and gasping sobs. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Errors; Fear; Grief; Kisses; Mothers; Tears; Mistakes; Fallacies; Sorrow; Sadness THE NEW MAGDALENE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: She turns her with sick heart Last Line: Can work her no more harm. Subject(s): Grief; Hair; Hearts; Tears; Worship; Sorrow; Sadness THE OLD BARLOW ROAD, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: Tread softly, boys, 'tis sacred dust Last Line: And each clod a coffin nail. Subject(s): Pioneers; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Travel; West (u.s.) - Exploration; Native Americans - Removal; Journeys; Trips THE OLD GENTLEMAN WITH THE AMBER SNUFF-BOX, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old gentleman, tapping his amber snuff-box Last Line: Laughed, and the statesman's reputation grew. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Hearts; Life; Tears; Youth THE OLD SCHOOL-CHUM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He puts the poem by, to say Last Line: His eyes are not themselves to-day. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Schools; Tears; Students THE ORIGIN OF TEARS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When eve, the twilight heavens to view Last Line: Bestowed his blessing ere he knew. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Tears THE PAST, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I fling my past behind me, like a robe Last Line: My new robe shall be richer than the old. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Past; Tears THE PATH OF TEARS: 6. SUPPLICATION, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love, it were not such deep unmeasured wrong Last Line: A gift of tears to save my stricken soul! Subject(s): Compassion; Grief; Love; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness THE PATH OF TEARS: 7. THE SLAYER, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love, if at dawn some passer-by should say Last Line: "with the swift spear of grief." Subject(s): Grief; Love; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness THE PAUPER'S FUNERAL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What! And not one to heave the pious sigh? Last Line: I pause—and ponder on the days to come. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Graves; Grief; Honor; Poverty; Self; Tears; Estrangement; Outcasts; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness THE PILGRIMAGE TO KEVLAAR, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mother stood by the window Last Line: "o mary, blessed be thou!" Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sickness; Tears; Dead, The; Illness THE PILGRIMAGE TO KEVLAAR, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the window stood the mother Last Line: "praise, mary, be to thee!" Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sickness; Tears; Dead, The; Illness THE PILGRIMAGE TO KEVLAAR, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mother stood at her lattice Last Line: "o mary, blest be thou!" Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sickness; Tears; Dead, The; Illness THE POET'S JOURNAL: MORNING, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Along the east, where late the dark impended Last Line: The freedom of the sun! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Morning; Night; Tears; Bedtime THE POET'S JOURNAL: THE COUNT OF GLEICHEN, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I read that story of the saxon knight Last Line: Is happier for thy sake! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Kisses; Knights & Knighthood; Life; Love; Tears THE POET'S JOURNAL: YOUNG LOVE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are not old, we are not cold Last Line: Comes never, never, nevermore! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion; Tears; Youth THE POOR, by EMILE VERHAEREN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are poor souls Last Line: Wherever men are born. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Grief; Tears; Graveyards; Sorrow; Sadness THE PRINCE IS DEAD, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A room in the palace is shut. The king Last Line: The prince is dead. Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Nations; Tears; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The THE QUIET PILGRIM, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When on my soul in nakedness Last Line: Lord, I go softly all my years! Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Soul; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness THE REFLECTION, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was the eve my mother died Last Line: With lines of sorrow drawn! Subject(s): Grief; Mothers; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness THE RIDER, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the horses of desire Last Line: Shall find my tomb. Subject(s): Despair; Graves; Moon; Tears; Tombs; Tombstones THE SECOND BAPTISM, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When tiny babes we touch on brow and breast Last Line: Wetting them with our tears. Subject(s): Baptism; Fear; Smiles; Soul; Tears; Christenings THE SHOES, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have a pair of new shoes Last Line: "they are nice. They have low heels." Subject(s): Shoes; Soul; Stars; Tears; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers THE SHOWER, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On every budding leaf and flower Last Line: Thy life, thy grace, thy light Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Rain; Tears; Water; Showers & Showering THE SILENT SINGERS, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And proserpine, still fragrant of the air Last Line: But pluto's mouth, o mother proserpine! Subject(s): Death; Goddesses & Gods; Hearts; Mythology; Singing & Singers; Tears; Dead, The THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 93, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Straight was she gather'd to that gentle breast Last Line: Neath veiling lids her own dull ache did screen. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Grief; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness THE SONG-VISION, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, warble not that fearful air! Last Line: By its unhallowed gaiety. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Memory; Pain; Singing & Singers; Tears; Suffering; Misery THE SOUL TO THE BODY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old mate, who long hast friended me Last Line: I may behold thee face to face! Subject(s): Bodies; Friendship; Peace; Singing & Singers; Soul; Tears; Time; Songs THE SOUL'S CRY (THE HIGHER ANTHROPOMORPHISM), by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My father, let thy little child Last Line: "to land, by the hushed wondering sea!" Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Children; Fathers & Daughters; Grief; Soul; Tears; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness THE STATUE OF THE EMPRESS ELIZABETH. MERAN, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She is seated by the river Last Line: Where all rivers wend their way. Subject(s): Flowers; Grief; Soul; Tears; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness THE SUMMER WOMAN, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O wild bee humming in the gorse Last Line: Wild bees, wild bees, come back again! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Eyes; Summer; Tears; Voices; Women THE TEAR, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When friendship or love our sympathies move Last Line: All I ask -- all I wish -- is a tear. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Tears THE TEARS OF AMYNTA FOR THE DEATH OF DAMON; A SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a bank, beside a willow Last Line: Love and damon are no more. Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Love - Loss Of; Singing & Singers; Tears; Dead, The; Songs THE TEARS OF FEAR, by PAULUS SILENTIARIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet is my lais' smile, and sweet the tide / of tears that flood her eyes Last Line: "you will desert me: men are never true." Alternate Author Name(s): Paul The Silent; Paul The Silentiary Subject(s): Fear; Tears; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE TEARS OF PSSAMENITUS, by JOHN RUSKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Say ye I wept? I do not know Last Line: The tears of him—who will not weep again. Subject(s): Csmbyses Ii, King Of Persia (d. 522 B.c); Grief; Psamtik Iii, King Of Egypt; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Psammenitus Iii THE TEARS OF SCOTLAND, by TOBIAS GEORGE SMOLLETT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mourn, hapless caledonia, mourn / thy banished peace, thy laurels torn! Last Line: Thy banished peace, thy laurels torn.' Subject(s): Mourning; Scotland; Soldiers; Tears; War; Bereavement THE TRIBUTE OF HIS HOME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bowed, midst a universal grief Last Line: Our common friend and fellow citizen. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Flags; Grief; Home; Tears; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE TWO VOICES, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night darkens fast and the shadows darken Last Line: Lest they should wake to weep, should wake to weep. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; Doves; Morning; Night; Tears; Voices; Bedtime THE UNION, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You that have gathered together the sons of all races Last Line: One singing star of the world. Subject(s): Dreams; Flags; Freedom; Mankind; Nations; Tears; Nightmares; Liberty; Human Race THE UNKNOWN DEAD, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The graceful column and the lofty arch Last Line: "we know the worthy in the ""dead unknown." Subject(s): Death; Life; Tears; Dead, The THE WEEPING CHILD, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: What makes thee weep so, little child Last Line: And any woman be thy mother? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Children; Tears; Childhood THE WESTWARD MARCH, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: Beside some lost alaskan lake Last Line: As the waters fill the sea! Subject(s): Native Americans - History; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Travel; West (u.s.) - Exploration; Seamen; Sails; Native Americans - Removal; Journeys; Trips THE WIFE-BLESSED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In youth he wrought, with eyes ablur Last Line: As mother mary wore. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Blessings; Faces; Paintings And Painters; Tears; Youth THE WIND FIRE, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sadly I may suppose how motion wears, and to dust Subject(s): Tears THE WOOD, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come with me to the mossy places Last Line: If I kissed you, the wood-gods would not tell! Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Forests; Kisses; Life; Tears; Dead, The; Nightmares; Woods THE WORLD, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, what a palace rare hast thou created Last Line: And the blood-offering of a grateful heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Flowers; Happiness; Tears; Joy; Delight THE WRECK OF THE 'STELLA', by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Easter comes like the gleam of a dawn that delivers the slave Last Line: For great is the empire of earth, more great the command of the soul. Subject(s): Earth; Easter; Holidays; Love; Tears; Time; World; The Resurrection THEN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You can not understand, dear little one Last Line: "then?"" in the dream-like years when I am dead." Subject(s): Faces; Memory; Tears THERE IS A NEED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a need for every ache or Last Line: Before us -- there's a need. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Happiness; Pain; Tears; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery THESE ARE NOT TEARS, by BETTY HESSLER Poem Text First Line: She groped in the coiled labyrinths of her mind Last Line: "these are not tears." Subject(s): Tears THEY DO NOT KNOW, by ALBERT MOCKEL Poem Text First Line: Far in the meadow, through the fountainrain Last Line: I had known my own kisses again. Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Melancholy; Solitude; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Dejection; Loneliness THEY SAID I WAS A CRYING BRIDE, by ALBERTO ALVARO RIOS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mr. And mrs. Clemente rios Last Line: Come from my eyes, the water being water %was so easily explained as tears Subject(s): Marriage; Tears THINGS THAT MAKE ME CRY INSTANTLY€”, by KIMIKO HAHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Tears; Happiness; Nostalgia; Love; Joy; Delight THO' LOVE HAS FLOWN, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let the wind wail on, my dear Last Line: He will come back. Subject(s): Hope; Love - Loss Of; Tears; Wind; Optimism THREE EVENINGS IN A LIFE: 3, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The house is all deserted Last Line: God, and her own true heart! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Grief; Life; Soul; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness THREE MOMENTS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The child said: pretty bird Last Line: "oh happy thou!" Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Birds; Children; Mothers; Pain; Tears; Childhood; Suffering; Misery THREE NUNS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shadow, shadow on the wall Last Line: "the spirit and the bride say, come." Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Life; Nuns; Singing & Singers; Tears; Dead, The THREE YEARS, by PETER TUCCI Poem Text First Line: There's weeping in my heart tonight Last Line: As just six feet of earth. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Tears; Dead, The THROUGH TEARS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An artist toiled over his pictures Last Line: Of a world that looks on through its tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Grief; Poetry & Poets; Tears; Time; Sorrow; Sadness TIME ROCKING ON, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fell far from tribe Last Line: & raise to ear Subject(s): Grief; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness TITA'S TEARS; A FANTASY, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A certain man of ischia - it is thus Last Line: Alas, for tita's tears! Subject(s): Tears; Mourning; Bereavement TO A LADY WEEPING, by WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O now the certain cause I know Last Line: This from your cheeks, that from your eyes. Subject(s): Eyes; Grief; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness TO A MOCKING-BIRD, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy taunting happiness Last Line: Beareth the blue, homeric, star-entangled tide! Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Hearts; Mockingbirds; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight TO A MOCKING-BIRD: FROM TAORMINA, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The nightingale has a golden heart Last Line: With the free, proud heart of a man. Subject(s): Birds; Life; Love; Mockingbirds; Nightingales; Tears TO A PRESSED FLOWER (FOUND IN AN OLD LATIN DICTIONARY), by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Forgotten bloom that years ago was buried Last Line: I to a busy world of joy and tears. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Funerals; Graves; Grief; Tears; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness TO A YOUNG WRITER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Cry, if you will. I'd say, though, rather than Last Line: The knifey bunch are out to cut you down. Subject(s): Escapes; Smiles; Tears TO AN ELDERLY AMORIST, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Even in passion, when grape-hung Last Line: Is in the very look of thee! Subject(s): Beauty; Laughter; Soul; Tears; Truth; Youth TO C. P., by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her spirit's loveliness was such Last Line: That now are grey with tears for me. Subject(s): Bodies; Eyes; Tears TO CLOE WEEPING, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See, whilst thou weep'st, fair cloe, see Last Line: But that dear breast on which they fall. Subject(s): Birds; Grief; Love; Singing & Singers; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness TO DELIA: 21, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These sorrowing sighs, the smokes of mine annoy Last Line: Once let her love indeed, or eye me never. Subject(s): Love; Tears TO EACH HIS DREAM, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With each his little, secret dream Last Line: Throws back a wonder on each face! Subject(s): Dreams; Lies; Life; Love; Soul; Tears; Time; Nightmares TO HELEN KELLER, by MARY CAMPBELL SCOTT Poem Text First Line: I used to marvel at the sunset glow Last Line: Smile through their tears, and faith and hope renew. Subject(s): Faith; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Soul; Tears; Belief; Creed TO LEONAINIE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leonainie!' angels missed her Last Line: Than the morning skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Heaven; Tears; Death - Babies; Paradise TO MILTON, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As well house up the homeless bedouin stars Last Line: Thou nomad of god's universal night! Subject(s): God; Love; Night; Tears; Bedtime TO MRS. AMY BEACH, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In silence lie the snowy keys Last Line: We thank thee . . . With our tears. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Hearts; Silence; Tears TO MY DEAR SISTER, MRS. S.: THE TEARS, by WILLIAM HAMMOND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You modern wits, who call this world a star Last Line: Will, at last, see to recompense her pain. Subject(s): Mourning; Tears; Bereavement TO MY LORD BUCKHURST, VERY YOUNG, PLAYING WITH A CAT, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The amorous youth, whose tender breast Last Line: She deep will mark her new disgrace. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Children; Jealousy; Tears; Youth; Childhood TO SAPPHO, by MARGUERITE E. ROSEBERY Poem Text First Line: Oh lonely lyric sappho Last Line: The glory of a dream. Subject(s): Absence; Dreams; Solitude; Tears; Separation; Isolation; Nightmares; Loneliness TO THE FIRST SLAVE SHIP, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First of that train which cursed the wave Last Line: A friend, -- a father in their god. Subject(s): God; Pain; Ships & Shipping; Slavery; Tears; Suffering; Misery; Serfs TO THE KING OF THULE, by HENRI ALLORGE Poem Text First Line: O thou, whose name is as a sigh exhaled Last Line: O king of thule, it is thine. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Tears; Thule (island); Time; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TO THE UNIVERSITY, by ALICIA D'ANVERS Poem Text First Line: Hail peaceful shade, whose sacred verdant side Last Line: And please my self, if pardon'd first by you. Subject(s): Fame; Tears; Reputation TOKINISH, by JAMES THOMAS STEVENS Poem Source First Line: Truth is a native Last Line: Drunke, and they shall sleep a perpetuall sleepe, and not wake Subject(s): America - Exploration; History; Islands; Native Americans; Navigation; Sea Voyages; Trail Of Tears (1838-39) TOMMY SMITH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dimple-cheeked and rosy-lipped Last Line: Little tommy smith. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Love; Tears; Childhood TRANSFIGURATION OF THE RAIN, by JORGE CARRERA ANDRADE Poem Source First Line: The rain with its hair glided by the sun Last Line: Till you become an eternal eye of stone Subject(s): Death; Grief; Mourning; Tears TUMBLED DOWN, AND HURT HIS ARM, AGAINST A BIT OF WOOD, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: We think we're all heard quite enough of this your sad disaster! Subject(s): Boys; Pain; Tears TWICKNAM GARDEN, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with tears Last Line: Who's therefore true, because her truth kills me. Variant Title(s): Twickenham Garden Subject(s): Love; Tears; Twickenham, England TWO ESKIMO SONGS: 2: HOW WATER BEGAN TO PLAY, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Water wanted to live Last Line: Till it had no weeping left %it lay at the bottom of all things %utterly worn out utterly clear Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Human Rights; Tears; Water; Weariness TWO MOTHERS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One night two lonely women met Last Line: "would god that mine were dead!" Subject(s): Grief; Mothers; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean UPON ELECTRA'S TEARES, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upon her cheekes she wept, and from those showers Last Line: Sprang up a sweet nativity of flowres. Subject(s): Tears UPON L.M. WEEPING, by JOHN SUCKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whoever was the cause your tears were shed Last Line: But for the guilt of this one fact ne'er enter. Subject(s): Tears UPON TEARES, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Teares, though th'are here below the sinners brine Last Line: Above they are the angels spiced wine. Subject(s): Tears URANIA: THE DIVINE MUSE, ON THE DEATH OF JOHN DRYDEN, ESQ., by SARAH PIERS Poem Text First Line: When through the universe with horrour spread Last Line: Nor find that dryden's dead, while garth does live. Subject(s): Death; Dryden, John (1631-1700); Muses; Tears; Dead, The VAIN, by PAUL JEAN TOULET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life is an image vain Last Line: It's a queer pain. Subject(s): Death; Pain; Tears; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery VASHTI, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In all great shushan's palaces was there Last Line: "he will but bless me when he doth repent!" Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Jews; Love; Tears; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism VICTORIA, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: O rock-ribbed city of the western sea Last Line: "guard well ""britannia's far-flung battle line!" Subject(s): Trail Of Tears (1838-39); West (u.s.); Native Americans - Removal; Southwest; Pacific States VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 1: SATIRE 5, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Another, whose more heauy hearted saint Last Line: That waiteth for the wandring ghosts retire. Subject(s): Fates (mythology); Muses; Tears VIRGIN CRIES TEARS OF OLIVE OIL, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The papier-mache virgin Last Line: Than what they're given here, %even the tears Subject(s): Tears; Virginity VOICES OF THE PAST, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You wonder that my tears should flow Last Line: The echoes that remain! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Past; Soul; Tears; Voices WAR, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These are not the hours Last Line: Not worth it! -- of one torn and martyred one! Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Hope; Love; Pain; Tears; War; Optimism; Suffering; Misery WAR VARIATIONS, SELS., by AMELIA ROSSELLI Poem Source First Line: The stay in hell was of a divine nature Last Line: Neighbor bigger than me has left, I follow him Subject(s): Love; Melancholy; Tears WATER SONGS, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: A disconnected connection Last Line: And everything is alright Variant Title(s): March Water Songs Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Grief; Reality; Singing And Singers; Tears WEEP NOT FOR HER, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weep not for her! Her span was like the sky Last Line: Weep not for her! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Consolation; Death; Grief; Tears; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness WEEPING, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See where she sits, and in what comely wise Last Line: So cold, that I admire they fall not haile. Subject(s): Tears WELL, by JAIME TORRES BODET Poem Source First Line: I know not why, but in the night I hear mysterious Last Line: Salty and of a bitter savor! Subject(s): Crying; Grief; Tears WET EARTH, by RAMON LOPEZ VELARDE Poem Source First Line: Wet earth of liquid evenings when the rain Last Line: An acolyte of camphor, %slightly swordfish, slightly %saint isador labrador... Subject(s): Angels; Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Tears WHAT BRINGS YOU TEARS?, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: Today on the road that brought me here Last Line: So what brings you here today? %what brings these tears? Subject(s): Grief; Music And Musicians; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Tears WHAT GAIN?, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, while thy rounded cheek is fresh and fair Last Line: Sweetheart, but bitter pain? Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Faith; Hearts; Love; Pain; Tears; Youth; Belief; Creed; Suffering; Misery WHAT LOVE DOES, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fused together, after years %and years of it, mostly the two legs Last Line: Rough arms and straining legs of the other Subject(s): Emotions; Hearts; Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Pain; Quarrels; Tears WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, poet - you, who sing Last Line: When they take away our tears. Subject(s): Grief; Night; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime WHAT STRUCK ME, by UNKNOWN+299 Poem Source First Line: What struck me from the sound Last Line: As though tears rose from green Subject(s): Absence; Emotions; Grief; Love; Tears WHEN BABY WOKE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When weenty - teenty baby woke Last Line: When baby woke, -- when baby woke. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Babies; Dreams; Sleep; Tears; Infants; Nightmares WHEN IT RAINS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When it rains, and with the rain Last Line: With the golden bow of promise as it drips. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Heaven; Rain; Tears; Paradise WHEN SHE COMES HOME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When she comes home again! A thousand ways Last Line: Again is hidden in the old embrace. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Home; Kisses; Love; Tears WHITENESS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: White roses set in ivory urns Last Line: The white sea of the tears of god. Subject(s): Blood; Drinks & Drinking; Flowers; Jesus Christ; Night; Roses; Tears; Wine; Bedtime WINTER RAIN, by EVA BERRY HARRIS Poem Text First Line: The day is gray and chill and bleak Last Line: Still leaden gloom and whistling rain! Subject(s): Rain; Tears; Water WITH A DIAMOND, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While time a grim old lion gnawing lay Last Line: Signing the will that leaves it to an heir. Subject(s): Diamonds; Inheritance & Succession; Tears; Time; Heirs WITH YOU, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I would not have them back again Last Line: With you, sweet heart, with you! Subject(s): Courage; Life; Love; Tears; Valor; Bravery WORDS FOR WEEPING, by HAZEL HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If in your mind are hanging colors Last Line: Why not weep a tear or two? Subject(s): Tears WORDS OF PARTING, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The words of parting in our english tongue Last Line: Farewell, -- our very souls are in that cry! Subject(s): Farewell; Language; Life; Love; Soul; Tears; Parting; Words; Vocabulary YOU AND MY SONG, by PRISCA PLAUL Poem Text First Line: How many times from life away I fled Last Line: You and my song shall meet and blend somewhere. Subject(s): Tears; Wisdom YOUR EYES, by KEN HUGHES Poem Text First Line: Two temples of beauty are Last Line: Lurk in those pools—your eyes. Subject(s): Eyes; Grief; Soul; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness |
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