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Subject: TOGETHERNESS
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Last Line: "as free-will gifts, as bonds of love"
Subject(s): Family Life;jews;love;parents;togetherness; Relatives;judaism;parenthood


A GORGEOUS DAY, by ESTELLE WEBB THOMAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: You and I planned a gorgeous day
Last Line: But in simply being together!
Subject(s): Rain; Togetherness


A PAIR, by LAURA RIDING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Those two had sewed themselves a dignity
Last Line: Even had they encompassed a success.
Alternate Author Name(s): Jackson, Laura Riding
Subject(s): Togetherness


A SCHOOL COMPANIONSHIP, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "seven years, seven happy, careless years"
Last Line: "within my heart, still shared with you"
Subject(s): Brotherhood;classmates;schools;togetherness; Schoolmates;students


A SEA-SIDE WALK, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We walked beside the sea
Last Line: Seen haply each was sad.
Subject(s): Walking; Silence; Togetherness


A SUPPLICATION, by EFFIE TRUEX COOK    Poem Text                    
First Line: I could not be
Last Line: And tree.
Subject(s): Nature; Solitude; Togetherness; Loneliness


A WOMAN SPEAKS ACROSS THE YEARS, by ADELAIDE WARREN PETERSON LOVE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wherever you may be in all the world
Last Line: When two have shared so much of loveliness.
Subject(s): Togetherness


A WOMAN WITH FLAXEN HAIR IN NORFOLK HEARD, by ROBERT KELLY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wherever you are
Last Line: In the middle of things
Subject(s): Togetherness


AD ASTRA: 171, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Yea: unity!-but under god, not man
Last Line: Ah, from this bond may closer union spring!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): God; Heaven; Togetherness; Paradise


AD ASTRA: 52, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: No outward sign I ask of love's awaking
Last Line: The swift response that maketh all things clear.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Togetherness


AD ASTRA: 71, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: We cannot live without our fellow-men
Last Line: As bone knits bone, brother uniteth brother.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Brothers; Togetherness; Half-brothers


AIRS SUNG AT BROUGHAM CASTLE: THE LORDS WELCOME, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Welcome is the word
Last Line: Far may it shine, long may it live, to all a public blessing.
Subject(s): Togetherness


AKIN TO MARRIAGE, by LAUREL SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: One of you balances the checkbook
Last Line: The other lights a match
Subject(s): Marriage; Togetherness


ALL LAST NIGHT I HAD QUIET, by LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Dreams; Togetherness; Nightmares


ALTERED STATES, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: While you miss
Last Line: When you embrace him %you lifted you legs %and you went up %like her
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Togetherness


AND ONE SHALL LIVE IN TWO, by JONATHAN HENDERSON BROOKS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Though he hung dumb upon her wall
Last Line: And one shall live in two each year.
Subject(s): Togetherness


APRIL WOMAN, by RICHARD LEON SPAIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I walked against a sudden blue of sky
Last Line: For something passing in the april weather.
Subject(s): April; Togetherness


BALLAD OF HUMAN LIFE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When we were girl and boy together
Last Line: We're boy and girl, and lass and lad, and man and wife together.
Subject(s): Togetherness


BRIDGEING, by MARGE PIERCY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Being together is knowing
Subject(s): Togetherness; Bridges


BRONZED, by DEAN YOUNG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That dusty bubble gum, once ubiquitous as starlings
Subject(s): Transience; Togetherness; Impermanence


BUT TODAY, by BEULA CHAMBERLAIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Somewhere the tree is growing
Last Line: I live my hour.
Subject(s): Life; Love - Nature Of; Togetherness


BY STARLIGHT, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now far from those harsh lightsand the glare over cities
Subject(s): Stars; Togetherness


CHRISTENING THE PRINCE: A STATE OCCASION, by EDWARD EDWIN FOOT    Poem Text                    
First Line: One circle round our sun - and o'er
Last Line: Edward beheld his bride, happy and free.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Happiness; Hearts; Love; Togetherness; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Joy; Delight


COHOBA, by VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sky folds and enters your tongue
Last Line: That just stares at you %with its sound
Subject(s): Love; Togetherness


COMING TO THIS, by MARK STRAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We have done what we wanted.
Subject(s): Togetherness


COMPANIONS, by LARS LUNDKVIST    Poem Source                    
First Line: The street sweeper and the redstart both know
Last Line: Saw them both fly off toward the southwest
Subject(s): Togetherness


COMPOSITION: 2, by LOREN KLEINMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In this night, in my half hour dreams, I
Last Line: The light, when in an instant, it is lost?
Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Love; Togetherness


CONFESSIONAL, by LOREN KLEINMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I think maybe you
Last Line: Like wide hips %over our hot skins
Subject(s): Love; Romance; Togetherness


CONNECT THE DOTS, by EVE FORTI    Poem Source                    
First Line: If we saw ourselves and one another
Last Line: And what we imagine ourselves to be? %connect the dots
Subject(s): Togetherness


CONNECTIONS, by JACK ANDERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: We are all connected, one unto anotherr
Last Line: Henry! Come quick! The lights seem to be going on and off for no reason
Subject(s): Light; Togetherness


COOPERATION, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come,' said the little ether-atoms
Last Line: His will upon earth was done!
Subject(s): Togetherness


COUPLE SHARING A PEACH, by MOLLY PEACOCK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's not the first time
Subject(s): Peaches; Togetherness


COUPLES SYNDROME, by EDWARD FIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My mother's argument
Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce
Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Togetherness; Mothers; Prejudice; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men


DIALOGUE: LUCASTA, ALEXIS, by RICHARD LOVELACE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell me, alexis, what this parting is
Last Line: But time nor fate can part us joined thus.
Subject(s): Farewell; Togetherness; Parting


DOWN THE WOOD-PATH, by JOHN HENRY HOPKINS JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Down the wood-path winding slow
Last Line: Walk no more together!
Subject(s): Togetherness


EASTER SUNDAY, by LAURA TOHE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Driving to the mountains at noon
Last Line: Family together %give thanks %we eat now
Subject(s): Dinners And Dining; Easter; Family Life; Food And Eating; Holidays; Native Americans; Togetherness


EGOISME A DEUX', by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the great universe hung nebulous
Last Line: Was it divine?
Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S.
Subject(s): Togetherness


ENLACEMENT, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's something holy about
Last Line: Hands touching and holding
Subject(s): Love; Sleep; Togetherness


EPISODE IN GREY, by CONRAD AIKEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So, to begin with, dust blows down the street
Last Line: Saying no word, since there's no word to say
Subject(s): Togetherness


ESTHER: 39, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And so we went our way, - yes, hand in hand
Subject(s): Togetherness; Hope; Optimism


EVASION, by ALICE B. CRAIG    Poem Text                    
First Line: We go pretending, dearest fool
Last Line: Bind you to me and me to you.
Subject(s): Togetherness


EXPLORERS, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They arfrive inside
Subject(s): Togetherness


FAR FROM KINGDOMS, by PATRIZIA CAVALLI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Togetherness


FIGHT, by III FRANK S. PALMISANO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tonight, we avoid the sting of sharp words, finding separate
Last Line: I drape my arm over your sleeping body, hoping to take you in %and never let go
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Togetherness


FIVE STILLS, by ELISABETH RYNELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our first night together
Last Line: We uttered together, almost frightened by our gravity
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Peace; Silence; Togetherness


FOR BILL VITT, by DIANE DI PRIMA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Brother, I rest on your arm
Last Line: & I need no dream
Subject(s): Brothers; Love; Togetherness; Half-brothers


FOR BILL VITT, by DIANE DI PRIMA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Brother, I rest on your arm
Last Line: & I need no dream
Subject(s): Brothers; Love; Togetherness


FULL WOMAN, CARNAL APPLE, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Full woman, carnal apple, hot moon
Last Line: Until it is and is not more than lightning in the darkness
Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo
Subject(s): Carnations; Hearts; Togetherness; Women


GETTING TOGETHER (2), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The couple pass the wineshop, arm in arm
Last Line: When love unites, farewells to cares and fears
Subject(s): Togetherness


GLUE THAT HELD EVERYTHING TOGETHER, by PHILIP S. BRYANT    Poem Source                    
First Line: We were all
Last Line: But our wings got us nowhere
Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Togetherness


GRAVID, by HELEN HOYT (1887-1972)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You go slender and light as before
Last Line: But out of the air too is the flower grown.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lyman, W. W., Mrs.
Subject(s): Togetherness


HALF AN HOUR, by JEAN VALENTINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hurt, hurtful, snake-charmed,
Subject(s): Togetherness


HE LEAVES THEM:, by JEAN VALENTINE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: - the other thing holds us %in its mouth
Variant Title(s): Away From Yo
Subject(s): Togetherness


HEART SONGS AND HOME SONGS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And you and I must sing them
Subject(s): Songs; Togetherness


HELPMATES, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Says the land. 'o sister sea
Last Line: "tis in thy strength they stand!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Sympathy; Togetherness; Empathy


HERE, WITH MY KNEE UPON THY STONE, by EMILY JANE BRONTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis
Subject(s): Farewell; Togetherness; Parting


HOLDING KATHERINE, by DAVID BAKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let us look up tonight where the white trees surround us
Subject(s): Togetherness


HYMN OF UNITY, by KALONYMOS BEN KALONYMOS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who shall narrate thy wonders wrought of old?
Last Line: Who shall narrate?
Subject(s): Angels; Jews; Peace; Togetherness; Judaism


I'LL COME WHEN THOU ART SADDEST, by EMILY JANE BRONTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis
Subject(s): Togetherness


IDYL OF THE MOUNTAIN, by DEMETRIO FABREGA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Have you not seen two springs of pure water, among
Last Line: Slowly yours will go on drawing nearer to mine!
Subject(s): Mountains; Panama; Togetherness


IF YOU COULD COME SOFTLY, by AUDRE LORDE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba
Subject(s): Togetherness


IN SPRING, SANTA BARBARA, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have been happy two weeks together
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Spring; Togetherness


IN THE NAME OF UNITY, by LEON VASILYADIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A conspiracy of opposites, %a vulgarity of privilege
Last Line: In the name of belonging %and sustaining the wounds
Subject(s): Togetherness


IN THIS CORNER, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For as we are hurtling, sucked
Last Line: In this corner stopped still
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Togetherness


JOHN ANDERSON, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: John anderson, my jo, john, / when we were first acquent
Last Line: John anderson, my jo.
Subject(s): Aging; Home; Love - Marital; Marriage; Sex; Togetherness; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


JOHN THOMAS' FINAL POEM, by JOHN THOMAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I dreamed there is a heaven coexisting alongside us
Last Line: Not even death can separate us
Subject(s): Death; Poetry And Poets; Togetherness


JOURNAL ENTRY NO. 2, by LOREN KLEINMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: 2:13 am %ride the past
Last Line: To put you
Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Togetherness


LARGO, by BRIAN TEARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now the rain
Subject(s): Rain; Togetherness


LOVE IN THE DAWN, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dawn, with hallowed flame, seemed to sing your name
Last Line: Dawn again, dawn again, dawn again—with you!
Subject(s): Dreams; Happiness; Love; Sympathy; Togetherness; Nightmares; Joy; Delight; Empathy


LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 17, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let us sleep together here tonight
Last Line: Our heads on the rocks
Subject(s): Sleep; Togetherness


LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 6, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Just us %in our little house
Last Line: Listen. Hear the wind in the trees.'
Subject(s): Calm; Togetherness


LOVE'S DELAY, by EDWARD CRACROFT LEFROY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They sat - they two - upon the cliff together
Last Line: Still pledged to move, and still love-anchored there.
Subject(s): Love; Togetherness


MARE AMORIS, by GAMALIEL BRADFORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: If your ecstasies implore
Last Line: Where I enter I destroy.
Subject(s): Sea; Togetherness; Ocean


ME HOLDING YOUR HAND HOLDING BACK, by DENNIS COOLEY    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Sound of blood rumbles in them
Subject(s): Love; Snow; Togetherness; Winter


MENTAL HARMONY, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We have had pleasant hours, but they are gone
Last Line: One volume from its treasures, into day.
Subject(s): Past; Togetherness


MESSAGE TO BARLEYCORN, by GAYLORD BREWER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I need to see you tonight
Last Line: Then darken as goats bleat %in their private nightcomings
Subject(s): Relationships; Togetherness


METAPHORIST, by GEORGE ADDISON SCARBROUGH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Crossing the bog we stood together
Last Line: Raven and cochineal can enliven %we moved on together
Subject(s): Birds; Togetherness


MID-AMERICA PRAYER, by SIMON J. ORTIZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Standing again / within and among all things
Last Line: Strength, vision, unity and continuance
Subject(s): Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage; Togetherness


MISGIVINGS, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Perhaps you'll tire of me, muses
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): Togetherness; Love - Complaints


MOTHS, by JOSEPH U. HARRIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: We flit about
Last Line: And our only speech a sigh.
Alternate Author Name(s): Upper, Joseph
Subject(s): Love; Old Age; Relationships; Togetherness; Weariness; Fatigue


MOUNT KEARSARGE SHINES..., by DONALD HALL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mount kearsarge shines with ice; from hemlock branches
Last Line: For the government of two
Subject(s): Togetherness; Weather


NIGHT TALK IN A DREAM CHAMBER, by HUMBERT WOLFE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whether by sea or river or in mountains
Last Line: Intimate whispers, our bodies become at one
Subject(s): Love; Passion; Togetherness


NIGHTSONG, by PHILIP BOOTH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beside you,
Subject(s): Togetherness


NOW THAT YOU'RE HERE, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now that you're here again, what's thirst or hunger?
Subject(s): Togetherness


O TO SAIL, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O to sail with thee, my dear
Last Line: Far from heart-ache, far from heart-break, on the great heart-healing sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Togetherness


O WANDER NOT SO FAR AWAY!, by EMILY JANE BRONTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis
Subject(s): Togetherness; Death; Dead, The


ODE, by JOHN WOLCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That I have often been in love, deep love
Last Line: Who hate variety, and sigh for chains.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pindar, Peter; Wolcot, John
Subject(s): Love; Togetherness


OH, TELL ME THAT THE BIRD HAS WINGS, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Togetherness


OLD COUPLE, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Old Age; Togetherness; Mortality


ON GUARD, by MARGE PIERCY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I want you for my bodyguard
Subject(s): Togetherness


ON THE BRIDGE, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Midnight falls across hollow gulfs of night
Last Line: We together, we alone together in the night.
Subject(s): Bridges; Togetherness


ONE OF US, by ISTVAN VAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Find one person among us
Last Line: He's one of us - let's drink to that
Subject(s): Critics And Criticism; Opportunity; Togetherness


ONENESS, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As surely as it is about air
Last Line: Water will seep between fingers %for the unknown must remain unknown
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D.
Subject(s): Sex; Togetherness


OPPOSITES: 12, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the opposite two?
Last Line: A lonely me, a lonely me
Subject(s): English Language; Hair; Synonyms & Antonyms; Togetherness; Solitude


OUR LOVE, by XAVIER VILLAURRUTIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: If our love were not
Last Line: Our love would not be!
Subject(s): Hearts; Passion; Togetherness


OURS, by ROSA MULHOLLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Little gay chamber, thick-set walls of gold
Last Line: That holds my feet till I may run to thee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gilbert, Lady
Subject(s): Togetherness


PARTING AFTER PARTING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Never to part more
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Farewell; Reunions; Togetherness


PRIDE'S CROSSING, by JAMES TATE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the railroad meets the sea
Subject(s): Railroads; Sea; Togetherness; Railways; Trains; Ocean


QUATRAIN: DRIFTWOOD FIRES, by RUTH CLAY PRICE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I thought our moments driftwood fires
Last Line: Forever in my brain.
Subject(s): Togetherness


RAIN, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No, the queen must not look upon
Last Line: With your wet nipples in the rain
Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo
Subject(s): Dreams; Rain; Togetherness


RENDEZVOUS AT AUVERS, 1873, by FLOYD SKLOOT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cezanne alone among the stone huts longs
Last Line: White skies the moment they are together
Subject(s): Togetherness


RETURN, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: And after the threats, %time drowned
Last Line: In the rosy texture %of the water's cheeks
Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Togetherness


REUNION, by BOB HICOK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The story's that my great-aunt was killed by her mother
Last Line: How hard we are to love, how desperate to stay together
Subject(s): Reunions; Togetherness


ROBERTA, by PAMELA GEMIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Roberta, girl cousin %the stalks are ready in their green rows
Last Line: And not to worry %to just be girls
Subject(s): Girls; Togetherness; Women


SAY GOODNIGHT (4), by TIMOTHY LIU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No kisses. Not tonight. Stand
Subject(s): Night; Togetherness; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men


SILENT IN THE MOONLIGHT, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Silent in the moonlight, no beginning or end
Last Line: Silent in the moonlight, no beginning or end
Subject(s): Togetherness


SKIN SONG, by PHILIP DACEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: If when you come the first
Last Line: Because it was I because it was you
Subject(s): Togetherness


SO CLOSE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Missed out even more than %all the time
Subject(s): African Americans; Togetherness


SOLACE COME DOWN SWEETLY PLEASE, by DARA WEIR    Poem Source                    
First Line: So we agreed we'd put our heads together
Last Line: And help out any way we could
Subject(s): Togetherness


SONG, by WILLIAM HAYLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: From glaring shew, and giddy noise
Last Line: A perfect world to me!
Subject(s): Solitude; Togetherness; Loneliness


SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 28, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the cool of dawn I rose
Last Line: There was no more solitude.
Subject(s): Togetherness


SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 36, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun is lord of a manor fair
Last Line: And a rosy head by mine.
Subject(s): Togetherness


SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 72, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At night upon the mountains
Last Line: Through an enchanted land.
Subject(s): Togetherness


SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 83, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A woman sat by the hearth
Last Line: She stood by the open door.
Subject(s): Transience; Togetherness


SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 55, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like two trees we are
Last Line: But the boughs are mated
Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Marital; Togetherness


SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 95, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Give me your hand. We shall go
Last Line: The pearls which you there shed
Subject(s): Love; Togetherness


SPEECH IS DESIGNED TO PERSUADE, by MARY JO BANG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here we are, my dear, so near we could touch
Subject(s): Togetherness


SPIRITS AND BODIES, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Two spirits in two bodies, love
Last Line: As neither one could go alone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Love; Togetherness


STILL POND NO MORE MOVING, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let's not do anything in particular
Last Line: Makes us fit so well together?
Subject(s): Togetherness


STONE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The stone gathered in %translucence bound together
Last Line: Beneath the pillow %of the sea
Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Togetherness


STRING, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At certain hours we may rest assured that nearly everyone inside
Last Line: Although we did not live in that house
Subject(s): Lace; Togetherness


SUGGESTED COMPROMISE, by DAVID AVIDAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: With a long finger of efficiency %they located the core. But the residue
Last Line: To form. On the verge of definition %he won't be able to withhold his admiration
Subject(s): Togetherness


SURFACES AND MASKS; 3, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She takes him into “the rape of europa”
Last Line: The only play picasso ever wrote
Subject(s): Venice, Italy; Music & Musicians; Writing & Writers; Togetherness; Italians


SWEETHEART, FORBEAR, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweetheart, forbear.' thus said I to my dear
Last Line: And all the stress and conflict stilled and past.
Subject(s): Togetherness


TABLE AND THE CHAIR, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Said the table to the chair
Last Line: Till they toddled to their beds
Subject(s): Brothers; Nonsense; Togetherness; Walking


THAT DAY SHE SEIZED, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: That day she seized me like a bee
Last Line: "and who's the poor weak fly?"
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Togetherness


THAT LOVELY PALLOR WHICH SOFT SMILES HAVE STRIVEN, by PETRARCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Why doth my faithful friend go forth from me?
Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco
Subject(s): Togetherness; Heaven


THE CAPTIVES, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Apart forever dwelt the twain
Last Line: But soul to soul and heart to heart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Togetherness


THE CONVICT'S RETURN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye mountains and glens of fair scotland I'm with ye once again
Last Line: I will bid ye all good-bye.
Subject(s): Homecoming; Prisons & Prisoners; Reunions; Togetherness


THE COUPLE, by DAVID BAKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Day after day their deep love sofens
Last Line: Weeping. Song. They are so much alike, after all
Subject(s): Love – Nature Of; Togetherness


THE ENLACEMENT, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's something holy about
Subject(s): Love; Sleep; Togetherness


THE ESCAPE INTO YOU, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Eight years of making it, who deserves
Subject(s): Togetherness


THE FLIGHT, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look back with longing eyes and know that I will follow
Last Line: But what if I heard my first love calling me once more?
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Birds; Death; Eagles; Togetherness; Dead, The


THE IRISH CONVICT'S RETURN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye mountains and glens of old ireland
Last Line: And help me through coming years.
Subject(s): Homecoming; Prisons & Prisoners; Togetherness


THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 17, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let us sleep together here tonight
Last Line: Our hearts are on the rocks
Subject(s): Sleep; Togetherness


THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 6, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Just us / in our little house
Last Line: Listen. Hear the wind in the trees
Subject(s): Calm; Togetherness; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility


THE OLD COUPLE, by EDWIN H. ROLFSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: He wanders about the house
Last Line: Forty years ago.)
Subject(s): Old Age; Togetherness


THE PLATEAU, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The climb was long
Subject(s): Togetherness; Relationships


THE SILENCE, by TIMOTHY LIU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She took the spareribs out of the oven
Last Line: Wish I was there with you
Subject(s): Mothers; Farewell; Absence; Gays & Lesbians; Togetherness; Relationships; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men


THE STUDENT'S SERENADE, by ANNE BRONTE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have slept upon my couch
Last Line: Though that bliss be shared with me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Acton
Subject(s): Students; Winter; Freedom; Togetherness; Liberty


THE TABLE AND THE CHAIR, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Said the table to the chair
Subject(s): Brothers; Nonsense; Togetherness; Walking; Half-brothers


THERE ARE HOSTILE NATIONS, by MARGARET ATWOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In view of the fading animals
Subject(s): Togetherness; Survival


THEY SIT TOGETHER ON THE PORCH, by WENDELL BERRY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Aging; Togetherness


TO HER, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cut loose a hundred rivers
Last Line: Go clean-hearted to her!
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Subject(s): Cowboys; Horseback Riding; Roads; Togetherness; Paths; Trails


TO JUDITH ASLEEP, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My dear, darkened in sleep, turned from the moon
Last Line: Time still must tick this, I am, we are are
Subject(s): Sleep; Time; Togetherness


TO THE READER: POLAROIDS, by CHASE TWICHELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who are you, austere little cloud
Subject(s): Togetherness


TOGETHER, by HANNAH K. AKEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: He lays his paper by, refills his pipe
Last Line: And such true friends. Oh! These are happy days.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Relationships; Togetherness; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


TOGETHER, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They were young and glad together
Subject(s): Love; Togetherness


TOGETHER, by DIANE BONDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: They are together, the woman
Last Line: Look at the woman's flaming hair, %her scarlet dress, her crimson lips
Subject(s): Togetherness


TOGETHER, by JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sweet hand that, held in mine
Subject(s): Togetherness


TOGETHER, by MARY MAGOG GOGGINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: My dear, we are getting old
Subject(s): Aging; Togetherness


TOGETHER, by ITO HIROMI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let's do a wee-wee together'
Last Line: Let's have a shit together' %sometimes I'm overcome by the desire to suggest this
Subject(s): Togetherness


TOGETHER, by LUDWIG LEWISOHN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You and I by this lamp with these
Last Line: And this is marriage, this is love.
Subject(s): Togetherness


TOGETHER, by DAVID WILLIAM ROMTVEDT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Elisabeth walking in the woods with ann
Last Line: To be with a man again, maybe, a man %who will have waited for one year or two, maybe
Subject(s): Togetherness


TOGETHER, by MARGARET ELIZABETH SANGSTER (1894-1981)    Poem Source                    
First Line: They lay together in the sun and waited for the end
Last Line: Peter, from delancey street, in new york town
Subject(s): New York City; Togetherness


TOGETHER, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The moments fly, the days fulfil the year
Last Line: Fire-forged, time-tested are the bonds of years.
Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Old Age; Togetherness


TOGETHER, by LEO VROMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A window without landscape
Last Line: And see us both together in the dark %with the window gliding past the clouds
Subject(s): Togetherness


TOGETHER AGAIN, by PAUL ANTSCHEL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It will rain tonight on the green, calcareous dunes
Last Line: Will climb a tardy ladder to bite your forehead
Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul
Subject(s): Nature; Togetherness


TOPOGRAPHY, by SHARON OLDS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After we flew across the country we
Subject(s): United States; Togetherness; America


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. ONE AT A TIME, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A million faces, loves, bodies, lives - a million souls
Last Line: And love, the lord of all, shall dwell between us.
Subject(s): Togetherness; Universe


TRANSLATION: 7. HUMAN VESSEL, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Around the cape of no-hope
Last Line: Holding each other %when the wave breaks
Variant Title(s): Human Vesse
Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Sailors And Sailing; Sea; Togetherness


TROUBLE IN THE PORTABLE MARRIAGE, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We walk the dirt road toward town through the clear evening
Last Line: No one passes us the whole length of the road
Subject(s): Togetherness


TRYST, by AMY LATHROP    Poem Text                    
First Line: Two of us at table - we
Last Line: You and I -- and destiny!
Subject(s): Togetherness


TRYSTING, by EDNA DENHAM RAYMOND    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, mystery lake, and mystery night, and tender silver stars
Last Line: As I remember our trysting night when beauty and wonder stood still.
Subject(s): Flowers; Kisses; Love; Togetherness


TWO LIVES. PART 2: 11, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Had it not been ours, had she been mine. - a fate
Last Line: With querulous fingers? Was it not enough?
Subject(s): Togetherness


UNITED, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here buried side by side
Last Line: We slumber, son.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Graves; Togetherness; Tombs; Tombstones


WAVELENGTH, by DAVID ST. JOHN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They were sitting on the thin mattress
Subject(s): Books; Togetherness; Reading


WE, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You lift your face to mine
Last Line: I worship an idol, / the self
Subject(s): Togetherness


WHAT HOLDS US TOGETHER, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Is almost nothing, a little
Last Line: Of the bodies we tremble across the world in
Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Togetherness


WHEREIN OBSCURELY, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the road with billowing poplars
Subject(s): Togetherness


WINIFREDA, by DAVID LEWIS (1683-1760)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Away, let nought to love displeasing
Last Line: And I go wooing with my boys.
Subject(s): Togetherness


WITH YOU, by THOMAS H. BRIGGS JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, the blue, blue depths of the sky
Last Line: Heaven on earth with you!
Subject(s): Love; Togetherness


WORLD THEY WENT INTO, by DAVID KELLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nothing seemed different, at first. After
Last Line: This world each [or, they each] went separately forth into
Subject(s): Hearts; Heaven; Love; Togetherness


YESTERDAY FROM MY FEVER, by GALWAY KINNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And dreads, the fevered earth, plunged gratefully again
Subject(s): Sickness; Togetherness


YOU AND I, by HENRY ALFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My hand is lonely for your clasping, dear;
Last Line: We ought to be together, you and I.
Subject(s): Togetherness


YOU AND I, by FRIEDRICH HEBBEL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We dreamed of one another
Last Line: Into the throat's abyss
Alternate Author Name(s): Hebbel, Christian Friedrich
Subject(s): Dreams; Togetherness