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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: THOUGHT Matches Found: 366 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CHARACTER, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I marvel how nature could ever find space Last Line: Such an odd such a kind happy creature as he. Subject(s): Thought A DIALOGUE, by ELIZABETH CARTER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Says body to mind, ''tis amazing to see' Last Line: I'll snap off my chains and fly freely away.' Subject(s): Thought; Thinking A DROP OF INK, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: A drop of ink makes millions think, Last Line: And dissipate its energy. Subject(s): Inkstands; Thought; Writing & Writers; Thinking A FUNERAL THOUGHT, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the stern genius, to whose hollow tramp Last Line: My monument sublime. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Kisses; Love; Thought; Dead, The; Burials; Thinking A LITTLE SWIRL OF VERS LIBRA, by THOMAS RUSSELL YBARRA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am numb from world-pain Last Line: Fall flat on my face! Subject(s): Pain; Thought; Suffering; Misery; Thinking A LOVER'S DIARY: SONNET. ART, by HORATIO GILBERT PARKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Art's use; what is it but to touch the Last Line: Strikes fearless at all evil that it knows. Alternate Author Name(s): Parker, Gilbert Subject(s): Art & Artists; Thought; Truth; Thinking A MEMORY, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why did it flash at the window there Last Line: Twould matter naught were it wind or rain! Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Memory; Thought; Time; Thinking A MERRY HEART: THE GHOSTLING, by THELMA LUCILE LULL Poem Text First Line: I had a little ghostling Last Line: Whate'er results might be! Subject(s): Conscience; Imagination; Thought; Fancy; Thinking A PENNY'S WORTH OF POESY, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady, when you noted a deflection Last Line: What to write. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Poetry & Poets; Thought; Writing & Writers; Inspiration; Creativity; Thinking A POET'S FANCIES: 8. THE MODERN POET; A SONG OF DERIVATIONS, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I come from nothing; but from where Last Line: Presses this immortality. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Variant Title(s): A Song Of Derivations Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Thought; Thinking A POSSET FOR NATURE'S BREAKFAST, by MARGARET LUCAS CAVENDISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life scums the cream of beauty with time's spoon Last Line: And with this meat doth nature please herself. Alternate Author Name(s): Newcastle, Duchess Of; Lucas, Margaret Subject(s): Health; Nature; Reason; Thought; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Thinking A PRAYER, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been little used to frame Last Line: Make all of light, of heaven, we have. Subject(s): Thought; Prayer A QUESTION, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, who can tell which guide were best Last Line: In sunshine born of thought and love. Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Love; Thought; Vision; Nightmares; Thinking A QUIET SKIN, by LAURIE SHECK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thinking has a quiet skin. But I feel the break and fled of things inside it. Subject(s): Thought; Thinking A RAMBLER'S REVERIE, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: We wander up a golden lane Last Line: For back none ever strays. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Thought; Time; Fall; Thinking A SOLILOQUY ON THE COURSE AND CONSQUENCE OF A DOUBTING MIND, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I muse, I doubt, I reason, and debate Last Line: A blessed christian, or a cursed fool. Subject(s): Doubt; Reason; Selflessness; Solitude; Thought; Skepticism; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Loneliness; Thinking A STRANGE GARMENT, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O lassies unburdened with cares Last Line: The beautiful garment of thought. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Thought; Thinking A THOUGHT, by CORA RANDALL FABBRI Poem Text First Line: There are some pearls which lie beneath the sea Last Line: Fairer than other thoughts, perhaps, this thought. Subject(s): Thought; Thinking A THOUGHT, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: A thought that tired of liberty Last Line: In that great sky that's over thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Freedom; Thought; Liberty; Thinking A THOUSAND THOUGHTS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Full Text First Line: A thousand thoughts come in my head Last Line: And I'll wait until I'm big to see Subject(s): Thought ABOVE THE CLOUDS, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mid white sierras, that slope to the sea Last Line: For never were clouds but the sun came through. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Thought; Yosemite Valley And National Park; Thinking ACTION AND THOUGHT; SONNET, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a world where struggle and stern toil Last Line: "them that will hear, -- ""despair not! It is I." Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Faith; Metamorphosis; Thought; Belief; Creed; Thinking ADDRESS TO THOUGHT, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh thou! The musing, wakeful power Last Line: Their eyes to close. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Thought; Thinking AESOP, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He sat among the woods; he heard Last Line: In likenesses of beast and bird! Subject(s): Aesop (620?-560? B.c); Thought; Thinking AFTER 1918, by HARRISON HIRES Poem Text First Line: Into the gray mist I went dreaming Last Line: The world from passion and madness spent. Subject(s): Dreams; Sea; Sky; Thought; Nightmares; Ocean; Thinking AGAIN I FIND YOU, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A compulsive flasher, / the limp kelp rises up Last Line: Only the bird. Subject(s): Drowning; Imagination; Memory; Thought; Fancy; Thinking AGAINST WHICH, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Habit smacks / its dull skull Subject(s): Thought; Thinking ALBUMANIA, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O friendship, when I muse on Last Line: "he's lying, just the same!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Friendship; Life; Love; Thought; Thinking ALEXANDRA, by SARAH NORCLIFFE CLEGHORN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Breasting white whirlwinds Last Line: Ay, my comrade long and well-beloved, alexandra! Subject(s): Alexandra, Queen Of England; Love; Pictures; Portraits; Thought; Thinking ALL EARFTH'S DEVIDED, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All earth's divided in two parts Subject(s): Activity; Thought; Exercise; Thinking ALL MAD, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is mad as a hare, poor fellow Last Line: We are all of us -- all of us mad. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Insanity; Life; Pain; Thought; Youth; Dead, The; Madness; Mental Illness; Suffering; Misery; Thinking ALL THESE ARE GIFTS, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source Last Line: No mortar juts out of it, %no body hair looks out at its ankles Subject(s): Family Life; Thought ALWAYS YOUR SHADOW, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I remember the cold mornings Last Line: As the metamorphosis of breath. Subject(s): Chopin, Frederic Francois (1810-1849); Memory; Thought; Thinking AMORETTI: 75, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: One day I wrote her name upon the strand Last Line: Our love shall live, and later life renew. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Variant Title(s): "her Name;our Love Shall Live;to Immortalise His Love;one Day I Wrote Her Name;eternizing Her;""one Day I Wrote Her Name Upon The Strand,""; Subject(s): Art & Artists; Immortality; Love; Names; Seashore; Thought; Beach; Coast; Shore; Thinking AN AUTOGRAPH, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O'er the wet sands an insect crept Last Line: Shall 'scape oblivion's broom so long? Subject(s): Autographs; Fossils; Thought; Thinking AN IDEA, by JANUARIO PURUGANAN Poem Text First Line: Hark! / an idea / is like a tiny spark Last Line: Into a world of golden thoughts, a world of noble deeds. Subject(s): Thought; Thinking AN ORIGINAL THOUGHT, by MARIA ABDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Does the press wait for copy? I shrink from the task Last Line: With that capital prizean original thought. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Maria; Abdy, Mira; M. A. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Thought; Writer's Block; Writing & Writers; Inspiration; Creativity; Thinking ANABASIS: 1, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then we poised, in time's fullness brought Last Line: Blessed, among the many mansions Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Thought; Travel ANOTHER WALL TO WALK THROUGH, by ELAINE EQUI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Unwanted thoughts %become walls Last Line: A hesitation %that holds in place Subject(s): Thought APPREHENSION, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: I will awake with dawn, arise and go Last Line: Years have conspired their magic to destroy. Subject(s): Memory; Thought; Thinking ARM, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: One day you realize that your arm Last Line: But what now and what will be the consequences Subject(s): Ignorance; Thought AROUND THE BLOCK, by KEITH WALDROP Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will go for a walk before Subject(s): Walking; Night; Thought; Bedtime; Thinking AROUND US, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We need some pines to assuage the darkness Last Line: Of whatever good we did Subject(s): Gratitude; Pleasure; Thought; Thinking AROUND US, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We need some pines to assuage the darkness Last Line: Of whatever good we did Subject(s): Gratitude; Pleasure; Thought AS ELSEWHERE,', by CAROL ANN DAVIS Poem Source Last Line: You'd be foolish to name Subject(s): Nature; Thought ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 1, by PHILIP SIDNEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show Last Line: "fool,"" said my muse to me, ""look in thy heart, and write." Variant Title(s): "loving In Truth;""loving In Truth, And Faine In Verse My Love To Show,""; Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets; Thought; Thinking AT MIDNIGHT, by TED KOOSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere in the night Last Line: About his shoulders Subject(s): Thought; Old Age; Sunrise; Mallards; Drakes AT SOME THOUGHTS, by KANG GANGWOL Poem Source First Line: At some thoughts of him Last Line: Time will keep or lead you back Subject(s): Memory; Thought AT THOUGHT OF HILLS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At thought of hills where streams begin Last Line: A little hill. ...To ease my mind. Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Thought; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Thinking; Journeys; Trips AUF WIEDERSEHEN, by S. ABBOTT Poem Text First Line: The coals have lower, fainter burned Last Line: To meet again. Subject(s): Dreams; Hope; Thought; Nightmares; Optimism; Thinking AY WAUKIN, O, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Simmer's a pleasant time, / flowers of every colour Last Line: Ay waukin &c. Subject(s): Love; Memory; Summer; Thought; Thinking BAD THOUGHTS, MIXED MESSAGES, by ALPAY ULKU Poem Source First Line: It was after the nation-states broke down, and enclaves of races fought for Last Line: The insects burning, drifting down through the stunned %sleepless trees? Subject(s): Thought BECAUSE I CAN'T STOP, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Now goes around me three times Subject(s): Clothing And Dress; Desire; Japan; Slenderness; Thought BEGINNINGS, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN Poem Text First Line: All worthwhile beginnings follow a dream Last Line: Till consequent beauty in action unfolds. Subject(s): Dreams; Thought; Nightmares; Thinking BETRAYED, by MARION HAYN Poem Text First Line: My thoughts thread back to tinsel days Last Line: But wintry winds wail at my door. Subject(s): Betrayal; May (month); Thought; Thinking BETWEEN THE RIVER PRAT AND STREAM HIDKEL, by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK Poem Source First Line: Between the river prat and stream hidkel Last Line: The chosen of my heart not here yet? Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman Subject(s): Thought BEYOND, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What trees were they? Their roots were Last Line: Moves there without disasterwhile time's cloud fades on high. Subject(s): Nature; Thought; Thinking BORROWED THOUGHTS: 1. FROM 'LAVATER', by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Trust him little who doth raise Last Line: Trust him least and last of all. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Hearts; Thought; Trust; Thinking BORROWED THOUGHTS: 2. FROM 'PHANTASIES', by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have a bitter thought, a snake Last Line: Lest it should hear me and awake. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Pain; Thought; Suffering; Misery; Thinking BROKEN MUSIC, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know not in what fashion she was made Last Line: Lies coiled in dark defeat. Subject(s): Levy, Amy (1861-1889); Poetry & Poets; Thought; Thinking BROOKLYN, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: And you ask is this okay? Last Line: While I murmur and burn Subject(s): Girls; Memory; Thought CHANSON AU TABAC, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Exotic from that west Last Line: While fancy, from a fragrant clime re-chases care and smart! Subject(s): Death; Love; Memory; Thought; Dead, The; Thinking CHILDHOOD, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: With just a thought for childhood's hour Last Line: Into the larger place. Subject(s): Children; Memory; Thought; Youth; Childhood; Thinking CHRISTMAS AFT ERTHOUGHT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After a thoughtful, almost painful Last Line: "when he wuz ist a little boy like me!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Christmas; Santa Claus; Thought; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint; Thinking COME BACK--, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: Far inside Last Line: We'll run everywhere and pretend to hide, %every one of us, every one Subject(s): Absence; Thought CONCORDANCE, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brown bird, irresolute as a dry Last Line: Till then attended to Subject(s): Birds; Thought CONFUSION, by CHRISTOPHER HARVEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O how my mind / is gravell'd! Last Line: Else my soul dies famisht and starv'd with flesh. Subject(s): Herbert, George (1593-1633); Thought; Thinking CONSOLING THOUGHTS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We sleep as brutus slept of yore Last Line: Is not a den of murderers roman. Subject(s): Nations; Pride; Sleep; Thought; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Thinking CONTENTMENT, by EDWARD DYER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: My mind [or, minde] to me a kingdom is Last Line: Would all did so as well as I! Variant Title(s): Kingdom;in Praise Of A Contented Mind Subject(s): Contentment; Reason; Thought; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Thinking CRAUSHEEN, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: Ay so, a wee house, / an' three acres av green Last Line: "from broadwaymaureen!" Subject(s): Death - Children; Girls; Love; Thought; Death - Babies; Thinking CREATIVE, by ETHEL M. DAMMRICH Poem Text First Line: The silence of night, contrasting acutely Last Line: Vaster, latent thought divine? Subject(s): Thought; Thinking DARK THOUGHT, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You cannot discourage your wingspread' Last Line: "you cannot discourage your wingspread" Subject(s): Thought; Thinking DECISION MAKER, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: A book by a male author Last Line: With the grain in the floor Subject(s): Thought DEFAULT, SELS., by HANS FAVEREY Poem Source First Line: On a hiding to nothing Last Line: To free themselves of me as the same Subject(s): Thought DESCRIPTION OF AN IDEA, by BRUCE DAWE Poem Source First Line: You can nail it to a cross Last Line: And the billionth will reach for a dictionary Subject(s): Freedom; Human Rights; Ideas; Thought DESK CUTS, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am incredibly sad Last Line: Whacka %whacka %inseminate them Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Thought DIAL-THOUGHTS, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think of thee at daybreak still Last Line: But in thy breath from heaven above. Subject(s): Dawn; Death; Loss; Love; Marriage; Memory; Thought; Sunrise; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Thinking DID I KNOW YOU?, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: Did I know you Last Line: That rise up from my sleep: %did I know you? Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Thought DISTRACTION, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, that you ever wakened me from sleep! Last Line: Makes me pursue you in my discontent. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Insomnia; Love; Thought; Sleeplessness; Thinking DIVING, by CHARLOTTE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look into thought and say what dost thou see Last Line: The spirit lay dreadless and hopeless beneath.' Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Currer Subject(s): Thought; Diving & Divers; Thinking DO I KNOW HOW I FEEL? DO I KNOW WHAT I THINK?, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I do not know what, after, and I do not care either Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Thought DO YOU REMEMBER?, by ENRIQUE GONZALEZ MARTINEZ Poem Source First Line: Do you recall that evening when for the first time clearly Last Line: The clouds, the fields wide spreading, the seashore and %the sea Subject(s): Shadows; Thought DON'T TELL ME THE FACE, by MYONGOK Poem Source First Line: Don't tell me the face I have now Last Line: Seeking will not find the end Subject(s): Emotions; Grief; Thought DON'T THINK, by AHMAD FARAZ Poem Source First Line: And she %pouring red wine into my glass Last Line: Don't think so much Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Human Rights; Memory; Self-criticism; Thought DOWN HERE, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down here the lilies wither away Last Line: Always. Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme Subject(s): Dreams; Thought; Time; Nightmares; Thinking DUCK, by KAY RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It isn't ever / all green thought Subject(s): Ducks; Thought; Mallards; Drakes; Thinking EASY LESSONS IN GEOPHAGY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The leonids having fallen Subject(s): Thought; Thinking EASY LESSONS IN GEOPHAGY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The leonids having fallen Last Line: It loses energy as it gets older, traveling %through space Subject(s): Thought ECHOES, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The might that shaped itself through storm Last Line: Within a world of dreams. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Echoes; Love - Nature Of; Thought; Thinking EGERTON MANUSCRIPT: 102, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From thought to thought from hill to hill love doth me lead Last Line: Clean contrary from restful life these common paths I tread. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Love; Thought; Thinking ELEMENTARY THOUGHTS: POEM 20, by NELO RISI Poem Source First Line: To deny what we know Last Line: This is the new commandment Subject(s): Thought EPITAPH: 32, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As shining sand-drift Last Line: Whirl away. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Thought; Thinking ETHEREALIZING, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A theory if you hold it hard enough Last Line: To keep our abstract verse from being dry Subject(s): Thought EVENTIME, by JESSIE M. GILMORE Poem Text First Line: They gather around me at eventime Last Line: That I see by the ember's glow. Subject(s): Absence; Memory; Solitude; Thought; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness; Thinking EXCLUSIONS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across my thoughts the old wash of the sea Last Line: (I think there are yet things to be said of god.) Subject(s): Beauty; Bells; Evening; God; Thought; Sunset; Twilight; Thinking EXPERIMENT IN DIVINATION: VOICE AND CHARACTER, by REBECCA WOLFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a curiosity that knows Subject(s): Mind, The; Thought; Thinking FAMOUS LAST WORDS, by WILLIAM ZANDER Poem Source First Line: Time to go, be done, like a frozen lake Last Line: Time to screech whatever I have to say Subject(s): Death; Thought FLEEING AWAY, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My thoughts soar not as they ought to soar Last Line: Is the higher self that I long to be. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Life; Night; Thought; Nightmares; Bedtime; Thinking FREE, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I bear a joy, a lofty joy Last Line: The street of highest beauty. Subject(s): Freedom; Thought; Liberty; Thinking FROM MADAME DELUXE'S DISCOUNT BIN, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: What I've learned about religion Last Line: Thanks for stopping, %please come again Subject(s): Life; Thought FROM THE DEPTHS UP, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source Last Line: Dew clings like thought Subject(s): Pilgrims And Pilgrimages; Thought FUNDAMENTAL DISAGREEMENT WITH TWO CONTEMPORARIES, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From any event intervals radiate in Last Line: Their jaws were broken, they died %and lay unburied Subject(s): Mathematics; Thought GENIUS, by RICHARD HENGIST (HENRY) HORNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far out at sea - the sun was high Last Line: Far out at sea! Subject(s): Thought; Thinking GENTLEMEN, I ADDRESS YOU PUBLICLY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They said no one would ever care Subject(s): Thought; Time; Waiting; Thinking GENTLEMEN, I ADDRESS YOU PUBLICLY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They said no one would ever care Last Line: Some one screaming sees it from a boat Subject(s): Thought; Time; Waiting GLOAMIN' TIME, by WILLIAM MCQUEEN (1841-) Poem Text First Line: I set me doon and think when the fire burns bricht Last Line: And oor future will be blest whaure'er lies oor way. Subject(s): Thought; Thinking GNOSIS, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Thought is deeper than all speech Last Line: Melting, flowing into one. Variant Title(s): Knowing;thought Subject(s): Thought; Thinking GREAT THOUGHTS, by PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who can mistake great thoughts? Last Line: And close the soul with heaven as with a seal. Subject(s): Thought; Thinking HALF FLEDGED, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I feel the stirrings in me of great things Last Line: Oh, beautiful but half-fledged thoughts of mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Hearts; Thought; Thinking HARPOCRATES, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The message of the god I seek Last Line: "I am the truth that cannot change" Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Life; Love; Night; Thought; Bedtime; Thinking HAST THOU A THOUGHT, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When home I came after many a day Last Line: Thou hadst a thought of thy love far away! Subject(s): Thought; Thinking HEART BEATS, by FLORENCE STEINBERG Poem Text First Line: Time has vanished Last Line: Die. Subject(s): Memory; Thought; Thinking HIDDEN GEMS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We know not what lies in us, till we seek Last Line: Which, seeking, thou shalt find. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Gold; Pearls; Thought; Wealth; Thinking; Riches; Fortunes HOW IT HAPPENED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I got to thinkin' of her - both her parunts dead and gone Last Line: So I got to thinkin' of her -- and -- it happened thataway. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Variant Title(s): So I Got To Thinkin' Of Her Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Thought; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Thinking HOW TO THINK, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the hum of a fly surrounds a thinker Subject(s): Thought; Thinking HOW ZEN RUIINS POETS, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before I knew that mind Subject(s): Language; Thought; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary; Thinking I BROOD ABOUT SOME CONCEPTS, FOR EXAMPLE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A concept like 'I,' which I am told by many Last Line: To disclose. The thing itself ... Subject(s): Language; Philosophy & Philosophers; Thought; Words; Vocabulary; Thinking I BROOD ABOUT SOME CONCEPTS, FOR EXAMPLE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A concept like 'I,' which I am told by many Last Line: So that is what he inteded, they intended %to disclose. The thing itself.... Subject(s): Language; Philosophy And Philosophers; Thought I LIKE TO WANDER OFF ALONE, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Full Text Last Line: If I should never stop for play – I wonder Subject(s): Thought; Nature I OFTEN THINK, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: I often think, were I to die, dear Last Line: As the richest jewels from paradise. Subject(s): Love; Thought; Thinking I WOULD HAVE TO, by MAEHWA Poem Source First Line: I would have to take each and every Last Line: I have a longing that will not spare him Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Thought IF A BIRD MAY THINK, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Full Text First Line: If a bird may think, its thoughts are not so small Last Line: It's good for birds and children, thoughts need not fit inside Subject(s): Birds; Thought; Children IMAGINATION, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rich raptures, you say, our dreams assume Last Line: "and fondly believes that his thoughts are ""vast""!" Subject(s): Dreams; Imagination; Reason; Thought; Nightmares; Fancy; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Thinking IMPASSE, by FLOSSIE DEANE CRAIG Poem Text First Line: A thought evolved within my mind Last Line: What holds us captive where we are. Subject(s): Thought; Thinking IMPRESSION, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In these restrained and careful times Last Line: Being godlike, to be bad and mad. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Thought; Thinking IN ROOMS LIKE WOMBS, by RYAN ANDERSON Poem Source Last Line: In the instance of a breath Subject(s): Home; Thought IN THE BRIGHTNESS THAT MAKES THOUGHT, by STUART JOHN DYBEK Poem Source Last Line: Shading their eyes, touching hands, laughing - %they disappear into the glare Subject(s): Light; Thought INDIRECTION, by RICHARD REALF Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair are the flowers and the children Last Line: And the essence of life is divine. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Religion; Thought; Theology; Thinking INNER LANDSCAPE, by SANDOR WEORES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I squeeze the minutes out of stone Last Line: Out of cricket songs Subject(s): Heads; Memory; Thought INTELLECT: 3, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Since in the paths of mental liberty Last Line: Of thought's restraint. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Reason; Thought; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Thinking INTERIM: 3, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You have got into my blood like a subtle poison Last Line: So you will pass to other thoughts, in time. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Thought; Thinking INTERIM: 4, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wish that thoughts of me could be like water Last Line: As armoured steel for the defense of you. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Thought; Thinking INTERIM: 7, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Today I have no desire to instruct you Last Line: Better than light that floods upon smooth stone. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Memory; Thought; Thinking INTERIOR, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He took the universe in his room Subject(s): Thought; Thinking INTROVERT, by BENJAMIN SIMMONS Poem Text First Line: My mind is a swamp Last Line: O disinfecting thought! Subject(s): Thought; Thinking IS HE DEAD?, by FRANCIS CARCO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is he living, is he dead? Last Line: Whom the wind sped? Subject(s): Death; Life; Thought; Dead, The; Thinking IT IS ENOUGH, by ESTHER FRESHMAN Poem Text First Line: A lovely thought ... Last Line: Than one fine thought to last through all eternity. Subject(s): Thought; Thinking IT IS THE THINKING, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Last Line: You were such a good head Subject(s): Thought IT SOUNDS IT, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You & I out of all dreaming Last Line: This scheme Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Sleep; Thought; Nightmares; Thinking JUST A THOUGHT, by LEANDER M. ZIMMERMAN Poem Text First Line: Hasty words thoughtlessly spoken often separate dear friends Last Line: Grievous words oft stir up anger; soft replies quick tempers kill. Subject(s): Compassion; Thought; Thinking KOL NIDRE, by MAX OSIAS Poem Text First Line: In lonely hours of thought I long Last Line: O hymn of israel. Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Music & Musicians; Thought; Judaism; Thinking LADY ANNE'S MEDITATIONS DURING DIVINE SERVICE, by MARGARET TOD RITTER Poem Text First Line: Suppose I were to bite sir hubert's ear? Last Line: At sixty one is loath to fall from grace. Subject(s): Thought; Thinking LAST THOUGHTS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: If my last thoughts contain no wish Last Line: Until I think of you! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Love; Thought; Thinking LATE AUTUMN CHERISHING THOUGHTS OF MASTER JUN, by WEI YE Poem Source First Line: Wind's pure, moon white Last Line: Into white lotus pond Subject(s): Thought; Zen Buddhism LEAVING THE LAND, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: The sea has come to seek us Last Line: Your tragedies and your ostentations Subject(s): Sea; Thought LET GO OF THE MIND, THE THOUSAND BLUE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Each day to keep the world underfoot Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Reason; Self-reliance; Thought LETTER TO NO ONE WHO IS NAMED THE PAST AND THE THOUGHTS THAT ..., by JIM ELLEDGE Poem Source First Line: My dearest t.P.- Last Line: As I'd ever get the rest of my goddamned life Subject(s): Letters; Past; Thought LISTENING, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I listen and I listen Last Line: Will linger at my door? Subject(s): Memory; Solitude; Thought; Loneliness; Thinking LONG ENOUGH, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: How long did homer stay in purgatory? Last Line: A calm storm of thoughts unfullstopping her head Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Joyce, James (1882-1941); Poetry And Poets; Purgatory; Thought LOST THOUGHTS, by JANE M. STERN Poem Text First Line: In a dimly lighted room a woman Last Line: Naked thoughts, now made grotesque. Subject(s): Thought; Thinking LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 4, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You ask me what I thought about Last Line: I didn't have anything to think about Subject(s): Love; Speculation; Thought MADCHEN MIT DEM ROTHEN MUNDCHEN, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lassie, with the lips sae rosy Last Line: On that wee white hand should fa'. Subject(s): Absence; Thought; Separation; Isolation; Thinking MAGIC GLASS, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Thought; Mind, The; Thinking MAKING BEASTS, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was about ten Last Line: On the feet I never gave it. Subject(s): Children; Creative Ability; Thought; Childhood; Inspiration; Creativity; Thinking MAN CARRYING THING, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poem must resist the intelligence Subject(s): Thought; Thinking MEDITATION, by MRS. GALE SPINK Poem Text First Line: I love solitude and god Last Line: And lead to god. Subject(s): God; Introspection; Nature; Solitude; Thought; Loneliness; Thinking MEETING, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: In time when shall our meeting be Last Line: Of that one thought. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Thought; Thinking MEMORY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: When often I think and dream of thee Last Line: As I live those days with thee once more. Subject(s): Love; Memory; Past; Thought; Time; Thinking MEMORY LANE, by E. NOLD Poem Text First Line: When your day's work is done / and you have Last Line: As you wander down memory lane. Subject(s): Memory; Pleasure; Smiles; Thought; Thinking MIDSUMMER NIGHT THOUGHTS, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The full moon's mild and silvery light Last Line: What joy 'twould bring to me! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Night; Silence; Thought; Bedtime; Thinking MILLE ET UN SENTIMENTS (PREMIERS CENTS), by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: 1. I feel as though something is terribly wrong Last Line: I feel the humming of my hummingbird-heart, the one they gave me by mistake during the transplant Subject(s): Thought; Thinking MISSING, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: To watch you wave away Last Line: Not one loose button %not one frayed thread Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Thought MODERN THOUGHTS OF A LAYMAN, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: In these days of new thought and interpretation Last Line: For the goats, then will open the great jaws of hell. Subject(s): Clergy; Religious Education; Sermons; Teaching & Teachers; Thought; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools; Educators; Professors; Thinking MUSOPHILUS, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fond man, musophilus, that thus dost spend Last Line: Above the reach of lightness and contempt. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Muses; Philosophy & Philosophers; Thought; Virtue; Wisdom; Thinking MY MIND HAS THE SCENT OF A WHITE FLOWER, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source Last Line: Bleeding in the ellipsis ed their heads Subject(s): Memory; Thought MY MIND SKIS FROM VILLAGE TO VILLAGE, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source Last Line: Memory calls us ed their heads Subject(s): Memory; Thought MY THOUGHTS, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many are the thoughts that come to me Last Line: To their home elysian. Subject(s): Thought; Thinking MY THOUGHTS OF HIM, by MAEHWA Poem Source First Line: My thoughts of him are muscle and bone Last Line: Through these days after days Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Thought NATALIA, by WYN COOPER Poem Source First Line: The slide in the park shines under the moon Last Line: That vacant spot between the stars %which must be filled so she can sleep Subject(s): Solitude; Thought NATURAL HISTORY, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That lofty monarch, monarch mind, Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Thought; Thinking NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 3D PRECEPT, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Think that is just, 'tis not enough to do Last Line: Unless thy very thoughts are upright too. Subject(s): Thought; Thinking NEUROLOGY, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't resent Last Line: As he blinks into the rain Subject(s): Reason; Thought NEW NIGHT THOUGHTS ON DEATH; A PARODY, by WILLIAM WHITEHEAD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O night! Dark night! Wrapped round with stygian gloom! Last Line: Fools banter heav'n itself, o young!and thee! Subject(s): Death; Night; Thought; Young, Edward (1683-1765); Dead, The; Bedtime; Thinking NIGHT THOUGHTS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When, germany, I think of thee Last Line: And all my german cares beguiling! Subject(s): Germany; Night; Thought; Germans; Bedtime; Thinking NIGHT THOUGHTS, by LI PO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The moonlight falls by my bed. Last Line: Then ease down, thinking of home Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): Night; Thought NIGHT THOUGHTS, by CARL RAKOSI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the jostling on canal streets Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): Thought; Thinking NOTES FOR A POEM, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here are the long fields inviolate of thought, Subject(s): Landscape; Thought; Thinking OCTOBER LIGHTS A MATCH, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN Poem Source First Line: The car speeds like your thoughts Last Line: It smolders yellow and fleshless Subject(s): Memory; Thought OCTOBER THOUGHTS, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: How one loves %this great wine Last Line: An insect pauses %then goes on Subject(s): Solitude; Thought OF A CONTENTED MIND [OR, SPIRIT], by THOMAS VAUX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When all is done and said, in the end thus shall you find Last Line: The sweetest time of all my life to deem in thinking spent. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrowden, 2d Baron Vaux Of Variant Title(s): The Pleasures Of Thinking;content Subject(s): Contentment; Religion; Thought; Theology; Thinking ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Much have I traveled in the realms of gold Last Line: Silent, upon a peak in darien. Variant Title(s): To The Adventurous Subject(s): Books; Chapman, George (1559-1634); Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Thought; Translating & Interpreting; Reading; Iliad; Odyssey; Thinking ON FLOWER WREATH HILL, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An aging pilgrim on a Last Line: Circle of dancing gopis Subject(s): Forests; Introspection; Nature; Self; Thought ON FLOWER WREATH HILL: 1, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An aging pilgrim on a Last Line: In the streets of thhazy city Subject(s): Forests; Introspection; Nature; Self; Thought; Woods; Thinking ON FLOWER WREATH HILL: 4, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No leaf stirs. I am alone Last Line: Rustles softly like fine silk Subject(s): Forests; Introspection; Nature; Self; Thought ON FLOWER WREATH HILL: 5, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This world of ours, before we Last Line: Sands of the shores of all the world Subject(s): Forests; Introspection; Nature; Self; Thought ON HIS 'SONNETS OF THE WINGLESS HOURS', by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wrought them like a targe of hammered gold Last Line: Into the sun, and glitter through its dust. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Thought; Thinking ON THE LAST LEAF, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Finished at last Last Line: Such as my god may give to me. Subject(s): Thought; Thinking ON THOUGHTS, by MARGARET E. HENDRICKSON Poem Text First Line: Busy with thoughts Last Line: That go ever astray. Subject(s): Language; Mankind; Thought; Words; Vocabulary; Human Race; Thinking ONE NIGHT, by UMBERTO SABA Poem Source First Line: If only sleep would come as it has come Last Line: Ah, that which I have lost, only I know Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Night; Thought ONLY A THOUGHT, by CHARLES MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas only a passing thought, my love Last Line: Only a passing thought. Subject(s): Heads; Reason; Thought; Wisdom; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Thinking OUR BOB, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With humor as sweet as our basin Last Line: In a genius that's oursour bob! Subject(s): Lectures; Memory; Speech; Taylor, Robert Love (1850-1912); Thought; Addresses; Speaking; Public Speaking; Oratory; Orators; Thinking OUT OF SEASON, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: The first frost is overdue Last Line: And practice positive thinking my mother says %that crap! Subject(s): Psychoanalysis; Relationships; Thought OUTLET, by H. PAULINE ZEBO Poem Text First Line: Sometime when oft I revel Last Line: Lo! No escape. Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Sleep; Thought; Nightmares; Bedtime; Thinking PAUSE, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Now for my thought that seeks for thee, oh wait Last Line: Of day. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Thought; Thinking PERCEIVING IS THE SAME AS RECEIVING, AND IT IS THE SAME AS RESPONDING, by BRIAN TEARE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thought begins as small floral bowls Subject(s): Perception; Thought; Thinking PERSONALS, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Some nights I sleep with my dress on. My teeth Last Line: Eve. Stranger, to tell the truth, in dog years I am up there Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Thought PHANTASMATA: PROEM, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thoughts that from the soul come flowing Last Line: Judge not harshly of his day. Subject(s): Memory; Poetry & Poets; Thought; Thinking PLACE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unique planets break Last Line: The plume of mimosa %brushing the roof Subject(s): Thought POEM OF COFFEE, by JACK ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: Sometimes, even as you drink it, you cannot say how it tastes. Yet you Last Line: Curtains, this pencil writing. It is these words before you,any time of the %year, any time, any day Subject(s): Introspection; Life; Thought POETIC EPIGRAMS: 28. THE DEAD THINKER, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the slow silent hearse Last Line: Home to the universe. Subject(s): Death; Thought; Dead, The; Thinking PRELUDE, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When from the house where I was nursed Last Line: With her and god, I owe. Subject(s): Love; Meditation; Thought; Thinking PREMONITION, by CHRISTINA V. PACOSZ Poem Source First Line: Give me flat land Last Line: What's coming, take notes %on what just left Subject(s): Future; Thought PROEM, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no rhyme that is half so sweet Last Line: And the world would be richer one poet the more. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Thought; Thinking PURE THOUGHTS, by WASHINGTON DELGADO Poem Source First Line: Mr. Shareholder, mr. Civil-servant Last Line: For your days on earth are numbered Subject(s): Thought QUATORZAINS: 2. THOUGHTS, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet are the thoughts that haunt the poet's brain Last Line: Listens all evening to its whispering. Subject(s): Thought; Thinking QUESTION OF SINGING-PART III, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Tryptch - part iii %by this river, see my face Last Line: Sing only when I want to Subject(s): Singing And Singers; Thought REINCARNATE, by JOSEPH U. HARRIS Poem Text First Line: Somewhere my spirit, in the long ago Last Line: As they troop back into my memory. Alternate Author Name(s): Upper, Joseph Subject(s): Death; Memory; Thought; Dead, The; Thinking REJECTED ADDRESSES: PLAY-HOUSE MUSINGS, BY S. T. C., by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My pensive public, wherefore look you sad? Last Line: [exit hastily. Subject(s): Beauty; Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Life; Poetry & Poets; Theater & Theaters; Thought; Thinking REMARKS ON COLOR, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: 1. Highway patched with blacktop, service station at the crossroads Last Line: 40. Take me witcha man when you go Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Variant Title(s): Remarks On Colou Subject(s): African Americans; Colors; Thought REMEMBRANCE, by ELSIE GLENN Poem Text First Line: Why do I bother to think of you on rainy days? Last Line: Now that I have no right? Subject(s): Absence; Thought; Separation; Isolation; Thinking REPOSE, by HENRY DE ZIEL Poem Source First Line: Do not come between my thoughts just now Last Line: Who knows to laugh and take a beating too Subject(s): Thought REST, by PAULINE CAHN Poem Text First Line: I am so tired-so tired Last Line: The hoof-beats of my thoughts are growing faint. Subject(s): Absence; Thought; Separation; Isolation; Thinking REVERIE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: The landscape gleams in the soft moonlight Last Line: Are with us still at eventide. Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Memory; Silence; Thought; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Thinking RICHES, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have no riches but my thoughts Last Line: To gain their immortality. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Thought; Thinking RUSTIC PARADOX, by ROSEMARY FARRAR Poem Text First Line: Most tolerant of men, my neighbor Last Line: Another's thoughts are bent. Subject(s): Thought; Thinking SECOND THOUGHTS, by ELAINE EQUI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: 1. Once one has learned the trick of keeping up appearances Last Line: 29. Even a landscape can make a gesture toward us Subject(s): Language; Latin; Poetry And Poets; Thought SECOND THOUGHTS, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: ... And then of course the weeping: some demurely, some Last Line: That's sunlit at times %and at other times darkened Subject(s): Reason; Thought SEED, by THEODORE ANTHONY STANFORD Poem Text First Line: O freighted thought, trembling within my mind Last Line: And destiny is ineluctable! Subject(s): Seeds; Soul; Spring; Thought; Thinking SEEDS AND THOUGHTS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who plants a seed, he little knows Last Line: Who plants in human souls a thought. Subject(s): Thought; Thinking SILENCE, by MARCELLA DARLING MILBURN Poem Text First Line: The flooding, black silence of the night Last Line: In the streets outside. Subject(s): Silence; Thought; Thinking SITTING UNDER THE BO TREE, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Taken into the other mind, I was spellbound, beside Last Line: To speak to me, saying: 'I am that, I too am that' Subject(s): Thought SLAVERY, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Slave of my thoughts I made thee, sweet Last Line: Their wings to attempt the moon are gone! Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Thought; Thinking SLEEPING ON MY RIGHT SIDE I THINK, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: On my back I snore with my dog Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Sleep; Thought SNOW, by JAVIER SOLOGUREN Poem Source First Line: One behind another the hours Last Line: To where I am alone, in isolation Subject(s): Absence; Solitude; Thought; Writing And Writers SOMETIMES MY BIG FRONT TEETH BITE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: What is this argument all about? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Teeth; Thought SOMETIMES. A SORT OF ERASURE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Through pursued by the magna mater Subject(s): Thought SOMEWHERE THERE'S A MAN, by ROBERTO JUARROZ Poem Source Last Line: But only when one had stopped seeing all the rest Subject(s): Death; Memory; Thought SONG, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Hast thou gems for men to see Last Line: "than of thee." Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Language; Thought; Words; Vocabulary; Thinking SONG OF THOUGHTS, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let the lays from poet-lips Last Line: Wander, wander, while ye may. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Thought; Thinking SONGS TO A.H.R.: 13. TRANSIENCY, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, let us watch that rock down in the tide Last Line: Toward paradise! Subject(s): Dreams; Home; Love; Thought; Nightmares; Thinking SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 10, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why, harry, what ails you, why look you so sad? Last Line: For one it relieves, and it strengthens the other. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Grief; Thought; Wine; Sorrow; Sadness; Thinking SONNET, by E. JUSTINE BAYARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sprung from the arid rock devoid of soil Last Line: And fill with fruitful life what else were desolate. Alternate Author Name(s): Cutting, E. Justine Subject(s): Thought; Thinking SONNET. PHILOSOPHY, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Throughout the world in vain, in vain they sought Last Line: Nor mind, nor nature breathed heaven's holiest whisper, rest. Subject(s): Nature; Rest; Thought; Thinking SONNETS TO MIRANDA: 9, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If all the thoughts of all the minds of men Last Line: And beauty perfect from the hands of god. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Beauty; Reason; Sea; Thought; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Ocean; Thinking SONNETS WRITTEN TO BOUTS-RIMES: 6, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah welladay and wherefore am I here? Last Line: Thankful if one would take her by the hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Dawn; Hearts; Hope; Thought; Sunrise; Optimism; Thinking SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 119, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: He who would like to know Last Line: And take down notes on the wind Subject(s): Love; Thought SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 121, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My thoughts are like the smoke Last Line: As they go higher Subject(s): Thought SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 88, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Thought, which, as light as birds Last Line: You well know where Subject(s): Love; Thought SPRING TONIC, by AMY GERSTLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Clouds obscure the glory Last Line: And more enduring and bright, like diamond Subject(s): Spring; Thought SPRINGTIDE OF THE SOUL, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The flesh to fragrant whitening of the bough Last Line: Deep meanings, silent, 'mid earth's melodies. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Spring; Thought; Thinking STEAM SHOVELED NEEDED, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mind is like the panama canal Last Line: And all traffic is halted. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Reason; Thought; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Thinking STILL BURNING, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Me trying to understand say whence Subject(s): Books; Thought; Reading; Thinking SUFFICIENT, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ancre ridgedge et poissoble gongpoint Last Line: Invariant as grace, as the answer %plenum Subject(s): Social Protest; Thought SUNDAY AFTERNOON, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this season of 'sweet / silent thought' on sunday afternoon Subject(s): Imagination; Madrid, Spain; Thought; Fancy; Thinking SUNDAY AFTERNOON, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this season of 'sweet %silent thought' on sunday afternoon Last Line: Will be erased by the brightness you find here Subject(s): Imagination; Madrid, Spain; Thought SUNSHINE: A THOUGHT, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sweet and merry sunshine makes the very churchyard fair Last Line: Though it plays upon a grave-stone through the gloomy cypress tree. Subject(s): Bones; Churchyards; Coffins; Thought; Thinking TEMPLE OF CONSCIOUSNESS, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: I have devoted more than one day simply Last Line: Pine-cones are strewn like roses Subject(s): Caves; Temples; Thought THE ANCIENT AND MODERN MUSES, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The monument outlasting bronze Last Line: With strains of fuller harmony. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Thought; Thinking THE BALLAD OF PROSE AND RHYME, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the ways are heavy with mire and rut Last Line: Then hey! For the ripple of laughing rhyme! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Thought; Thinking THE BOY IN ARMOR; HE SPEAKS TO THE GATHERED NATIONS, by HERMANN HAGEDORN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tremble, o world! Bow down! Cringe! Be afraid! Last Line: For you shall think! And ghosts will drive you on! Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Lectures; Patriotism; Social Protest; Soldiers; Supernatural; Thought; War; Dead, The; Addresses; Speaking; Public Speaking; Thinking THE DEEPER THOUGHT, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Below the surface stream, shallow and light Last Line: The central stream of what we feel indeed. Variant Title(s): "below The Surface-stream""; Subject(s): Thought; Thinking THE DOMAIN OF THOUGHT, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond an avenue where silence reigns Last Line: Rehearse the charms their favored eyes beheld. Subject(s): Thought; Thinking THE FLY, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: An angry fly within the brain Last Line: Pale lethargy of death's exchange. Subject(s): Thought; Thinking THE GIFT, by ALICE EWING BLACKWELL Poem Text First Line: Oh the glory of high places, wind-blown Last Line: In the glory of the morning, to height of heights I fly. Subject(s): Silence; Thought; Thinking THE HEAD AND THE HEART, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The head is stately, calm and wise Last Line: The light, without the heat? Subject(s): Love; Thought; Thinking THE HOUR OF THOUGHT, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The orb of day is sinking Last Line: Grave oblivious, thou shalt hear! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Solitude; Thought; Declaration Day; Loneliness; Thinking THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 80. FROM DAWN TO NOON, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the child knows not if his mother's face Last Line: Those unknown things or these things overknown. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Thought; Thinking THE HUMAN TOUCH, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High thoughts and noble in all lands Last Line: These need I most, and now, and here. Subject(s): Life; Soul; Thought; Touch (sense); Thinking THE IMMORTALITY OF GENIUS, by SEXTUS PROPERTIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Orpheus, 'tis said, the thracian lyre-strings sweeping Last Line: And round the forehead wreathe the unfading crown. Subject(s): Genius; Poetry & Poets; Thought; Thinking THE INFERENCE: 1, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well-guided thoughts within possess Last Line: I may possess of his eternal treasure. Subject(s): Details; Thought; Things; Thinking THE INNER VISION, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most sweet it is with unuplifted eyes Last Line: Of inspiration on the humblest lay. Subject(s): Love; Thought; Thinking THE INTERPRETERS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Days dawn on us that make amends for many sometimes Last Line: July 16th, 1885. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Soul; Thought; Thinking THE JESTER'S PLEA, by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world! Was jester ever in Last Line: Forgive the bells their jingle. Alternate Author Name(s): Locker, Frederick Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Thought; Thinking THE JOB, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But, god, it won't come right! It won't come right! Last Line: from sky lines and wood smoke. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Creation; Lightning; Rain; Storms; Thought; Thunder; Lightning Rods; Thinking THE LIFE OF TOWNS: THOMAS TOWN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hand in hand into his mind never Last Line: A thought came but that other. / followed Subject(s): Thought THE LINES OF HER WARY BODY..., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lines of her wary body lure the eye Last Line: Till love clear cool of passion and of hate! Subject(s): Bodies; Storms; Thought; Thinking THE LOST THOUGHT, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a thought that through my mind Last Line: If 'twas that thought I dreamed! Subject(s): Children; Thought; Childhood; Thinking THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 4, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You ask me what I thought about Subject(s): Love; Speculation; Thought; Thinking THE MARTYRS OF THE MIND, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Honour to the sacred past! Last Line: From the martyrs of the mind. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Mankind; Thought; Human Race; Thinking THE MINT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Nature has made my mind a mint Last Line: May judge my metal's worth no better. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Thought; Thinking THE MOON, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now gently night steals on, and deep'ning shades Last Line: Thou givest peace and sweet forgetfulness! Subject(s): Memory; Moon; Night; Peace; Thought; Bedtime; Thinking THE ODYSSEY, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As one that for a weary space has lain Last Line: The surge and thunder of the odyssey. Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets; Thought; Ulysses; Iliad; Odyssey; Thinking; Odysseus THE OGRE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet child, / little girl with well-shaped legs Last Line: These are my excuses. Subject(s): Daughters; Thought THE OPTIMIST AND THE PESSIMIST; A DIALOGUE, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: How glorious is the summer sun to-day! Last Line: Woman and god. Subject(s): Hope; Pessimism; Thought; Optimism; Thinking THE PLACE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unique planets break Subject(s): Thought; Thinking THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION: BOOK 1, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With what attractive charms this goodly frame Last Line: And tune to attic themes the british lyre. Subject(s): Imagination; Perception; Philosophy & Philosophers; Reason; Thought; Fancy; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Thinking THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION; A POEM. ENLARGED VERSION: BOOK 3, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What tongue then may explain the various fate Last Line: "I flung me, sad, faint, overworn with toil." Subject(s): Imagination; Reason; Thought; Fancy; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Thinking THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION; A POEM. ENLARGED VERSION: BOOK 4, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One effort more, one cheerful sally more Last Line: The palm of spotless beauty doth resign. Subject(s): Imagination; Prophecy & Prophets; Reason; Thought; Fancy; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Thinking THE POET OF TODAY, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: More than the soul of ancient song is given Last Line: From the near heavens, of old so dim and far! Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Thought; Thinking THE POOR, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among the mountains I wandered and saw blue haze Subject(s): Thought; Poverty; Social Commentaries; Thinking THE PUZZLED CENTIPEDE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A centipede was happy quite Last Line: She lay distracted in the ditch / considering how to run Variant Title(s): Perils Of Thinking Subject(s): Centipedes;thought; Thinking THE RAIN ON THE ROOF, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the eaves is the haunt I love! Last Line: The rain on the roof. Subject(s): Life; Rain; Roofing & Roofers; Thought; Thinking THE REASON, by LEONARD BACON (1887-1954) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The reason why our work is brittle Last Line: And think so little of so much. Subject(s): Thought; Thinking THE RETURN, by CLARA FOX Poem Text First Line: Late on a winter afternoon Last Line: Are sweeter thoughts left to share. Subject(s): Pain; Thought; Winter; Suffering; Misery; Thinking THE REVIEW, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Did I grow, or did I stay Last Line: Shall still revive, and flourish in the dust. Subject(s): Children; Innocence; Thought; Childhood; Thinking THE SHARING OF THE EARTH, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take the world,' cried god from his heaven Last Line: "we'll admit you whenever you call!" Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von Subject(s): Earth; Poetry & Poets; Thought; World; Thinking THE SINGER OF ONE SONG, by HENRY AUGUSTIN BEERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He sang one song and died - no more but that; / a single song carlessly complete Last Line: "high over all the lonely bugle grieves." Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Thought; Thinking THE SNOW, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The snow! The snow! 'tis a pleasant thing Last Line: Upon the falling snow! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Cold; Memory; Mysticism; Snow; Thought; Winter; Thinking THE SOMETHING, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here come my night thoughts Subject(s): Thought; Thinking THE SONNET, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is a sonnet? 'tis the pearly shell Last Line: Mid-ocean deep to the sheer mountain walls. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Thought; Thinking THE SOWER AND HIS SEED, by WILLIAM EDWARD HARTPOLE LECKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He planted an oak in his father's park Last Line: And will never be heard again. Subject(s): Farm Life; Oak Trees; Thought; Agriculture; Farmers; Thinking THE STAMPEDE, by THERESA M. MCLEAN Poem Text First Line: After the stampede yesterday Last Line: "and thought of you." Subject(s): Love; Thought; Thinking THE STONE, by IRENE M. MORSE Poem Text First Line: From life and love and the fresh green grass Last Line: I do keep on thinking soof you! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Memory; Thought; Thinking THE SUFFICIENT, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ancre ridgedge et poissoble gongpoint Subject(s): Social Protest; Thought; Thinking THE THOUGHTS OF YOUTH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lisping maid Last Line: Yet more for what he may be. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Love; Thought; Youth; Thinking THE WHITE THOUGHT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We, teeming transients of the sun Last Line: Fixed in a white, immortal thought. Subject(s): Immortality; Sun; Thought; Thinking THE WINDOW, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All night long, by a distant bell Last Line: "and the arms of god around her, she quietly takes her rest." Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Perception; Thought; Vision; Thinking THE WOLF, THE HORNET, AND THE NIGHTINGALE, by STANTON ARTHUR COBLENTZ Poem Text First Line: A wolf, a hornet, and a nightingale Last Line: Slaying the rapturous song-bird on the wing! Subject(s): Birds; Hearts; Hornets; Nightingales; Thought; Wolves; Thinking THERE IS NOTHING IN VAIN: A THOUGHT, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a mission, no doubt, for the mole in the dust Last Line: And the agents are needed, for god has supplied. Subject(s): Agents; Missionaries & Missions; Pride; Thought; Trust; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Thinking THERE SHALL COME FAINT LIGHT', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of a meditative white crane Subject(s): Self; Thought THEY DIDN'T THINK, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once a trap was baited Last Line: Cause you didn't think. Subject(s): Thought THINK-ABOUTS, by DAISY MAUD BELLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was very little, and had been put Last Line: "into garlands, and the flowers answer all my ""think-abouts." Subject(s): Flowers; Habits; Thought; Thinking THINKIN' BACK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've be'n thinkin' back, of late Last Line: I hear laughin' on ahead! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Memory; Past; Thought; Youth; Thinking THINKING MACHINE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love my neural network Last Line: Can now only be concrete Subject(s): Computers; Thought THINKING REED, by PHILLIP FOSS Poem Source First Line: You observe the drainage of air, enflamed harvest Last Line: At winter solstice, a blue heron wades through the reflected sky: %cloud wisps; no memory Subject(s): Nature; Reeds; Thought THINKING TOGETHER OR GRAVITATION, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of what are you thinking now, dear Last Line: Is it not sweet and true? Subject(s): Thought; Thinking THIS AS INCLUDING THAT, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is true that you live on this rock Subject(s): Thought; Thinking THOMSON'S BIRTH-PLACE (EDNAM, ROXBURGHSHIRE), by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is ednam, then, so near us? I must gaze Last Line: How oft our joys depend on ignorance! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Children; Memory; Scotland; Thomson, James (1700-1748); Thought; Childhood; Thinking THOSE WORDS WERE UTTERED AS IN PENSIVE MOOD, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Nor they from it: their fellowship is secure Subject(s): Thought THOUGHT, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thought is fragrant like shining grass Last Line: Or the feathery line of a fir-tree spray. Subject(s): Knowledge; Thought; Thinking THOUGHT, by EDMUND DOERF Poem Text First Line: Creative thought drives the universe with Last Line: Constructive thought used the spark to kindle the camp fire. Subject(s): Thought; Thinking THOUGHT, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no place at all by night or day Last Line: A great eternal mark upon my face. Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. Subject(s): Thought; Thinking THOUGHT AS PHILOSOPHICAL TORMENT, by WILL ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the mirror of excessive drift Last Line: Bound to invisible comradery Subject(s): Thought; Thinking THOUGHT AT NIGHT, by RAVI SHANKAR Poem Source First Line: Nearly impossible to separate Last Line: Realization that I don't belong to myself Subject(s): Night; Thought THOUGHT IS FOR WALKING, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source First Line: When I moved in sullen thickness Last Line: With straggle thimbles, %exposing birds splendidly Subject(s): Thought THOUGHT-MAGNETS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With each strong thought, with every earnest longing Last Line: Of what thy soul can feel. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Thought; Thinking THOUGHTS, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The greenwood sighs Last Line: Wakes them in me? Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Thought THOUGHTS, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: City of merchants, lords of trade and gold Last Line: Then build his temple on high, -- not, not till then. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Earth; Thought; World; Thinking THOUGHTS (1), by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I can make my thoughts come forth Last Line: So much more lovely than the rest? Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Thought; Thinking THOUGHTS (2), by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I am all alone Last Line: Than women and men. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Thought; Thinking THOUGHTS AT LAKE SJODAL, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: Was it the mountain-horn played by the waterfalls Last Line: And in our blood, %the one that rejuvenates the world Subject(s): Dreams; Thought THOUGHTS III, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thoughts are the angels which we send abroad Last Line: Which rightly used make his creatures kings. Subject(s): Thought; Thinking THOUGHTS OF A MIDDLE-AGED MANDARIN, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Breaking in a new idea Last Line: No bite or parch. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Thought; Thinking THOUGHTS ON A NIGHT JOURNEY, by TU FU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A slight wind stirs grasses along the bank. Last Line: But a solitary gull between earth and heaven Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu Subject(s): Night; Solitude; Thought THOUGHTS ON A NIGHT JOURNEY, by TU FU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A slight wind stirs grasses along the bank Last Line: But a solitary gull between earth and heaven? Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu Subject(s): Literature; Poetry And Poets; Thought THOUGHTS ON IMPUTED RIGHTEOUSNESS, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Imputed righteousness! - beloved friend Last Line: That 'twas by faith attracted into her. Subject(s): Faith; Mankind; Thought; Belief; Creed; Human Race; Thinking THY SONGS AND MINE, by JULIA CAROLINE RIPLEY DORR Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Sing thou my songs for me when I am dead! Last Line: Sing thou my songs, and thine, when I am dead! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Thought; Thinking TO A BRETON BEGGAR (DOL CATHEDRAL), by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the brown shadow of the transept door Last Line: The glamour of the celt! Subject(s): Celts; Old Age; Poverty; Prayer; Solitude; Thought; Loneliness; Thinking TO A THINKER, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last step taken found your heft Last Line: But trust my instinct——I'm a bard Subject(s): Thought TO HAVE A THOUGHT, by STEVE EDWARDS Poem Source First Line: When light strikes a cat's eyes Last Line: Doors. Doors as wide as buses %and invisible to the naked eye Subject(s): Dreams; Thought TO INEZ; IN LAMENT, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh thou! Who in my happier days Last Line: Oh! Teach me humbly to resign! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Absence; Thought; Separation; Isolation; Thinking TO LEAP FROM MOUNTAINS, A FIGURE OF THOUGHT, by FRIEDERIKE MAYROCKER Poem Source First Line: Of course, he said, but it's contingent on physics and chemistry Last Line: We felt this would not let go of us Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Graves; Thought TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: 12. OLDEN THOUGHTS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I love to talk of old things and old times Last Line: Receives a vision of eternal truth. Subject(s): Thought; Thinking TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: 4. PLEASANT THOUGHTS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: It will be pleasant when old age shall come Last Line: You, my friend, in obedience helped me. Subject(s): Pleasure; Thought; Thinking TO ONE WHO HAD SCOFFED AT THE POET'S POVERTY, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, I am poor, callistratus! I own Last Line: A hundred of the crowd resemble thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Thought; Thinking TO THE RIVER, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis nearly night: a healing night Last Line: Rimmed with a fragment halo? Subject(s): Rivers; Thought TO THE WEST, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not to the crowded east Last Line: The singers and thinkers for whom we wait. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Nature; Poetry & Poets; Thought; Thinking TRANSCENDENTALISM: A POEM IN TWELVE BOOKS', by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stop playing, poet! May a brother speak? Subject(s): Thought; Philosophy & Philosophers; Music & Musicians; Thinking TREES WRITE THEIR THOUGHTS, by A. PEARLE CARTER Poem Text First Line: Trees write their thoughts upon the sky's wide page Last Line: Words of calm patience, and a faith sublime. Subject(s): Thought; Trees; Thinking TRIOLET, by MRS. S. W. RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: Pansies are for thoughts, you know Last Line: The thoughts that bring heart's ease. Subject(s): Love; Pansies; Thought; Thinking TWILIGHT MUSINGS, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, at this hour, when silently Last Line: To the life-key of thy soul! Subject(s): Memory; Silence; Thought; Time; Thinking TWO OCTAVESL 1. UNITY, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As eons of incalculable strife Subject(s): Thought; Thinking TWO POEMS, WITH BIRDS: 1. ADDENDUM TO ANY DAY, POEMS, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Assume, in a bird's eye, the world as a dainty bulge Subject(s): Birds; Thought; Thinking TWO THOUGHTS OF DEATH: 1, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her heart that loved me once is rottenness Last Line: Their's too shall be as tho' it had not been. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Love; Thought; Worms; Dead, The; Thinking UNKNOWN QUANTITY, by LEONARD BACON (1887-1954) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man must ponder Last Line: To me unknown. Subject(s): Beauty; Orion (constellation); Thought; Time; Thinking UNRELATED THOUGHTS, by NANCY WALSH Poem Text First Line: At night before my final sleep, I know Last Line: The secrets of its undiscovered way. Subject(s): Reason; Thought; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Thinking V. (ONE MIGHT THINK), by PAUL ANTSCHEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One might think that everything that was said about the acacia-cross would Last Line: Horse stolen from the neighbors? Who avoided his cloak, who... Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul Subject(s): Thought VALUE NEUTER, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Traders, parsons, and stoolpigeons Last Line: The best income tax attorneys Subject(s): Philosophy And Philosophers; Speculation; Thought VERSES WHY BURNT, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many verses have I thrown Last Line: Was irrecoverably lost! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Thought; Thinking VIBRATION, by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON Poem Text First Line: You live, afar, across a continent Last Line: I feel your thoughts wing by! Subject(s): Absence; Memory; Thought; Separation; Isolation; Thinking VOLFRAM, SELS, by MILAN JESIH Poem Source First Line: Unseen angels walk noiselessly-barefoot without stirring the wind Last Line: I take a clean napkin; an immense drop of the sun's light floods the shadows %of earth Subject(s): Memory; Poetry And Poets; Sleep; Thought WANDERING THOUGHTS, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Climbing o'er the mountain Last Line: Ecstatic bliss in one elysian field. Subject(s): Love; Thought; Wandering & Wanderers; Thinking; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes WANTED, A START, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I want to think a brilliant thought Last Line: Would learn the thinker's art. Subject(s): Thought; Thinking WHAT BLIGHT, by MAEHWA Poem Source First Line: What blight is this eating into my desire Last Line: To know what lies in my far sight Subject(s): Desire; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Thought WHAT THEY ASK, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Always they greet you and say Last Line: "and what have you been doing?" Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Dreams; Thought; Nightmares; Thinking WHEN I WOKE IN THE MORNING MY SKELETON HAD GONE SOFT, by EVA STROM Poem Source Last Line: Give me ordinary things, only ordinary things now Subject(s): Morning; Thought; Waking WHEN THE PEOPLE GET TO THINKING, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: And the hero deeds are done Subject(s): Thought WHERE ARE THE THOUGHTS, by WYN COOPER Poem Source First Line: Words flash, phrases gather and disperse Last Line: A dot on the page %that says stop Subject(s): Thought WHERE DO THOUGHTS COME FROM?, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The minute I'm awake in bed Last Line: Especially the good and true! Subject(s): January; Memory; Thought; Thinking WITCHCRAFT, by LUIS G. URBINA Poem Source First Line: I did not hear when you came in. Dark in the shadow Last Line: Fireflies-dreams glittered, as before the latest of my griefs Subject(s): Grief; Magic; Thought WITH THOUGHTS OF ROUSSEAU, by HIRSCH LAZAAR SILVERMAN Poem Text First Line: I hence would kneel upon the grassy brink Last Line: That cools the thirst of all the wilderness. Subject(s): Brooks; Thought; Streams; Creeks; Thinking WITHIN THE HEART, by RUFINO BLANCO-FOMBONA Poem Source First Line: I called to my heart. No one answered. No one was Last Line: And I remained gazing at the heights Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Memory; Soul; Thought WORDS AND THOUGHTS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He said as he sat in her theatre box Last Line: "and stir you with strange emotion." Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Love; Talk; Thought; Thinking YOU CAN FEEL THE RISING, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: At the center of the house Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Thought YOUR THOUGHTS ARE LIKE WARTS, by EVA STROM Poem Source First Line: Your thoughts are unpleasant, they are like warts, they Last Line: Your eyes are like lakes, like lakes Subject(s): Memory; Thought YOUR THOUGHTS DON'T HAVE WORDS EVERY DAY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Nor its infrequency Variant Title(s): Poem: 1452; Poem: 147 Subject(s): Thought |
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