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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: THIRST Matches Found: 39 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A HOT DAY IN AGRIGENTO, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Temples look like discarded alphabets. Subject(s): Thirst; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature AQUARIUM, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: Water tends to occupy the spaces love cannot reach Last Line: The sea is afraid of falling into the earth Subject(s): Disasters; Rain; Shipwrecks; Survival; Thirst; Water CITY OF DREADFUL THIRSTS, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stranger came from narromine and made his little joke Last Line: That narrow-minded person on his road to narromine. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Cities; Clouds; Rain; Thirst; Urban Life DEPRIVATION, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dull knife cuts our hand Last Line: For a long time Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Solitude; Thirst; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Loneliness DRAWING WATER, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He had drunk from founts of pleasure Last Line: With a golden chain of prayer. Subject(s): Life; Prayer; Thirst; Water DRINKING FROM A STREAM, by LOA HAHL Poem Text First Line: When fragrant summer snow Last Line: Your ardent thirst is cooled! Subject(s): Thirst DRY SEPTEMBER, by ELIZABETH CONRAD VANBUSKIRK Poem Source First Line: It has been not raining Last Line: We must go to war Subject(s): Drought; Thirst EPIGRAM (3), by MELEAGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I was thirsty Last Line: Pours now for me Alternate Author Name(s): Meleagros Subject(s): Homosexuality; Thirst EPIGRAM: 27. THE FRUIT, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fruit of all the service that I serve Last Line: Amids my help, and helpless doth remain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Fruit; Hunger; Pain; Tantalus (greek Mythology); Thirst; Suffering; Misery GOOD OLD ALE, MILD OR PALE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And dreams of different beers Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Beer; Thirst GREEN, GREEN IS EL AGHIR, by NORMAN CAMERON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sprawled on the crates and sacks in the rear of the truck Variant Title(s): El Aghir Subject(s): Oases; Thirst; War GREEN, GREEN IS EL AGHIR, by NORMAN CAMERON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sprawled on the crates and sacks in the rear of the truck Last Line: Are added unto them that have plenty of water Variant Title(s): El Aghi Subject(s): Oases; Thirst; War HIS THIRST, by ROBERT WELLS Poem Source First Line: It was the utmost of his thirst Last Line: And quiet his body with its touch Subject(s): Thirst HOUR'S KNOT, by RAMON PINYOL Poem Source First Line: I will find you where wells never die Last Line: A trip on high seas the boat on the waves Subject(s): Love; Thirst; Water HUNGER AND THIRST, by LOUIS GINSBERG Poem Source First Line: Of all the fruits I ever pluck Subject(s): Hunger; Thirst I COULD NOT DRINK IT, SWEET, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The thoughtfulness of thirst Variant Title(s): Poem: 818; Poem: 81 Subject(s): Thirst I WOULD BE CLAD IN CHRIST'S SKIN, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: I will find there rich, nourishing food Last Line: That let his whole heart out to let mine in Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Thirst IMAGES: 1, by VALERY LARBAUD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One day, in kharkov, in a crowded slum Last Line: Level with the lips of the child who had kneeled to drink it. Subject(s): Kindness; Russia; Thirst; Water; Women; Soviet Union; Russians LADY WITH THE HERON, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk athirst Last Line: At the feet of a heron Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Drought; Fables; Thirst; Water LINES WRITTEN IN THE DOG-DAYS; HOW HOT IT IS!, by WILLIAM WOTY Poem Text First Line: The sun now darts his fervid rays Last Line: How charming now, and cool it is! Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; Labor & Laborers; Oppression; Sun; Thirst; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Observe when mother earth is dry Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Thirst; Drinks & Drinking; Wine ONE OF THE HUNDRED VIEWS OF FUJI, BY HOKUSAI, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Being thirsty, / I filled a cup with water Subject(s): Hokusai Katsushika (1760-1849); Fuji, Mount; Thirst PARAGRAPHS OF THIRST, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: Beast of the desert, sex. Expelled from joy. What does it still Last Line: Beast of the desert, butting against the wall Subject(s): Deserts; Drought; Food And Eating; Sun; Thirst POEMS OF THE HOME: THE EARTHEN JAR, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: Earthen jar, dark as my cheek, how easy of access you %are to my thirst! Last Line: Noon, a cool jar for their sorrowful lips! Subject(s): Home; Poverty; Thirst ROMNEY, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, romney, nay -- I will not hear you say Last Line: You know not what love is -- now go away! Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Lips; Love - Loss Of; Thirst; Wine SAN ANTONIO MI SANGRE: FROM THE HARD SEASON, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The 2 a.M. Whistle of the long train Last Line: In a car streaking the thirsty land. Subject(s): Drought; Thirst SONG OF THE MAD MENAGERIE, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I on whom the wild sun Last Line: The body behind bone Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Drought; Poverty; Thirst; Water SOUL THIRST, by HELEN ODERKIRK O'ROURKE Poem Text First Line: Drink deep, o soul, of hours that swiftly Last Line: So seam and sere this thirsting soul of mine! Subject(s): Thirst THE BLESSED RAIN, by FRANK LEBBY STANTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear heart, dost thou complain Last Line: For every drop that quivers on a clod! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Rain; Thirst; Wine THE EMPTY SONG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What have we but an empty song Last Line: But his soul is thirsty now. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Soul; Thirst; Wind THE FLITCH OF BACON: MY OLD COMPLAINT (ITS CAUSE AND CURE), by WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm sadly afraid of my old complaint Last Line: With the cause and the cure of my old complaint! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Thirst; Wine THIRST, by MAX GARLAND Poem Source First Line: It's a small, physical prayer for water Last Line: The help of actual water, pulling %the reader forward like rain Subject(s): Thirst THIRST, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My spirit wails for water, water now! Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): Thirst VIOLIN SONGS: HARD TIMES, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am weary, and very lonely Last Line: Awake thy life in me. Subject(s): God; Grief; Solitude; Thirst; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness WARNING, by ELIZABETH SAWYER Poem Text First Line: Who drinks of rumor's unguent brew Last Line: More spiced than the first. Subject(s): Thirst WATER FOR THE GANDER, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You take a man who has ever posssessed an infant son or daughter Last Line: But I bet he has to go and get himself a drink of water first Subject(s): Thirst WATER SONG, by SOLOMON IBN GABIROL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The feast's begun Last Line: Like streams of water, streams of water. Alternate Author Name(s): Ibn Gabirol; Solomon Ben Yehuda Ibn Gabirol Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Fasts & Feasts; Jews; Thirst; Water; Wine; Judaism WATER!, by STEWART VAN DER VEER Poem Text First Line: Standing at dawn on blue mountain, beside the old spring Last Line: "worship the great god water till your blood, bones and sinews are dust." Subject(s): Thirst; Water WINE SONG, by JUDAH AL-HARIZI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear friend, beneath this spreading tree Last Line: Oceans of wine that e'er grows old. Alternate Author Name(s): Yehuda Alharizi; Judah Ben Solomon Harizi Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Jews; Thirst; Wine; Judaism |
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