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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: TRUTH Matches Found: 372 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "NORTH, EAST, SOUTH, WEST", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "oh! I have been north, and I have been south" Subject(s): Travel;truth; Journeys;trips A KNIGHT-ERRANT, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though he lived and died among us Last Line: Raised his eyes to god, and died. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Knights & Knighthood; Life; Truth; Dead, The 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 NAKED TRUTH, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the mirror Subject(s): Truth A NEW DIALOGUE OF THE DEAD; ODYSSEUS AND ARISTOTLE, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: News from the earth, odysseus! 'tis of you Last Line: Thou hast endured, -- but o these literary men! Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Subject(s): Beauty; Poetry & Poets; Truth A REVERIE ON HATHERLEY CHURCHYARD, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Nay, mock me not with shifting human smiles Last Line: For thou art righteousness, and love, and christ, and god! Subject(s): Beauty; Churchyards; Earth; Love; Nature; Truth; World A TRUST I KEEP, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: A trust I keep, which time may not efface Last Line: With thankful heart that he may strive at all! Subject(s): Trust; Truth; Virtue ABENAMAR, ABENAMAR, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O thou moor of moreria Last Line: Well my wedded lord loves me Subject(s): Christianity; Courts And Courtiers; Truth ADD THIS TO THE HOUSE, by PETER GIZZI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Not a still life into which artifice may enter Subject(s): Houses; Truth AFTER A FRUITLESS ARGUMENT, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why of the truth could I persuade you not? Last Line: And in a kindly life our hearts may meet. Subject(s): Repentance; Truth; Penitence ALL GONE, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea drained off, my poverty's uncovered Last Line: Revive or drown, a liberating arm! Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Truth ALL IS TRUTH, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O me, man of slack faith so long Last Line: And sing and laugh and deny nothing. Subject(s): Truth ALL THE LITTLE ANIMALS, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Pregnancy; Sons; Truth AN ARTIST'S APOSTROPHE, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Too often they linger apart Last Line: Shall faint, fade, and perish. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Fate; Life; Truth; Destiny AN ASSURANCE, by NICHOLAS BRETON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say that I should say I love ye Last Line: You are blessèd out of measure. Subject(s): Love; Truth AND THEY ARE DUMB, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been across the bridges of the years wet with tears Last Line: And they are dumb! Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Kisses; Tears; Truth; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness ANOTHER DARK LADY, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Think not, because I wonder where you fled Last Line: That yours are cloven as no beech's are. Subject(s): Death; Hate; Truth; Dead, The ANOTHER TRUE STORY, by CANDICE STOVER Poem Source First Line: A man walks out the door waving Last Line: What on earth is she saying? %the story begins Subject(s): Death; Truth ANTINOMY, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: There is no truth! Last Line: This evil thing ye publish her woman-eyes disprove. Subject(s): Disdain; Lies; Love; Truth; Women; Scorn APPEAL, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Daphnis dearest, wherefore weave me Last Line: Damn me, dear, but don't deceive me! Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Truth ARBEIT MACHT FREI, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Work shall set you free:' a sensible sentiment Last Line: Pain to the piano with you, this quiet cry. Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Language; Truth; Words; Vocabulary ASK, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Did it happen at all? Last Line: Ask the dead Subject(s): Death; Faith; Truth ASOLANDO: DUBIETY, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will be happy if but for once Last Line: Truth ever, truth only the excellent! Subject(s): Truth AT THE END OF THE ROAD, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: This is the truth as I see it, my dear Last Line: Out in the wind and the rain. Subject(s): Aging; Freedom; Life; Marriage; Pleasure; Travel; Truth; Liberty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips BABY SHOWER, by SCOTT C. WITHIAM Poem Source First Line: It's quite possible I was born Last Line: Landing without a glitch no accidents %on the other hand I'd like his know-how Subject(s): Birth; Pregnancy; Truth BALLADE: 10, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My hope, alas, hath me abused Last Line: And I remain all comfortless. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Fortune; Happiness; Hearts; Hope; Truth; Joy; Delight; Optimism BALLADE: 34, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Had I wist that now I wot Last Line: Rooted at the heart must needs continue. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Faith; Truth; Belief; Creed BALLADE: 40, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sith it is so that I am thus refused Last Line: Sith thus doth reign this false new-fangledness. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Hearts; Truth BELIEVE IT OR NOT, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A japanese artist re-painted the mona lisa Last Line: But every playmate's piltdown man, compared to you Subject(s): Truth BLIGHT, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give me truths; / for I am weary of the surfaces Last Line: Of the toy's purchase with the length of life. Subject(s): Truth BLUE NUDE, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Please take this shy spanish girl Last Line: Already stirring toward morning, where it will be white. Subject(s): Silence; Travel; Truth; Journeys; Trips BOILING OVER, by E. J. MILLER LAINO Poem Source First Line: At rush hour, we are all cars Last Line: Trying to pay him back for everything Subject(s): Automobiles; Lies; Quarrels; Traffic; Truth BONDS, by SARAH JOSEPHA BUELL HALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye may place the trusty guard Last Line: He would pine with earth's poor thirst. Alternate Author Name(s): Hale, Sara; Hale, Sarah Josepha Subject(s): Slavery; Truth; Serfs BREAKING THE WALL, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Shifting always, tide of truth and lies Last Line: Blocking my eyes. Subject(s): Lies; Truth BRIDGE, by RUTH PITTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where is the truth that will inform my sorrow? Last Line: Let me go find my truth, over the river Subject(s): Truth CALEF IN BOSTON; 1692, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the solemn days of old Last Line: For the wrong he suffered here. Subject(s): Boston; Truth CASCADE EXPERIMENT, by ALICE FULTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Because faith creates its verification Last Line: Presuming your existence, let my glance be passional %towardthe universe and you Subject(s): Truth CEZANNE, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I returned from you in the blue of midnight Last Line: Yet she believes a man may say 'I love you' %on arriving, leaving, and all the night between Subject(s): Cezanne, Paul (1839-1906); Love; Paintings And Painters; Truth CHAMPIONS OF THE TRUTH, by JOHN KEBLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dull thunders moan around the temple rock Last Line: And faltering tones of guilt mar the confessor's hymn. Subject(s): Truth CHANT FOR THE BRYANT FESTIVAL, NOVEMBER 5, 1864, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One hour be silent, sounds of war! Last Line: Fulfil her poet's prophecies! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878); Fame; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Truth; War; Reputation CHASTE FLORIMEL, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No - I'll endure ten thousand deaths Last Line: Dear sir, and make me yours for ever. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Love; Truth; Dead, The CLUES, by MARY SINTON LEITCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Swift spirit of truth, unfaltering I pursue Last Line: Then, though you flee, I follow, follow still! Subject(s): Truth COLLOQUY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I died for beauty, but was scarce Last Line: And covered up our names. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Truth; Dead, The COMES TRUTH! COMES BEAUTY! COMES LOVE! (PRINCESS HELEN'S CHRISTMAS), by JOHN W. STOCKWELL Poem Text First Line: To hear, to speak, to see Last Line: Helen keller's eyes see the shining star! Subject(s): Beauty; Christmas; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Love; Truth; Nativity, The CONCERNING JESUS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If thou hadst been a sculptor, what a race Last Line: Never a true crown but thy crown of thorn! Subject(s): Art & Artists; Creation; God; Jesus Christ; Paintings And Painters; Poetry & Poets; Statues; Truth CONSCIENCE-STRICKEN, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Tho' cool the hour, a fever blazed within Last Line: Became our choice. Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Sin; Truth; Voices; Nightmares CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY: BOOK 3, METRE 11, by ANICIUS MANLIUS SEVERINUS BOETHIUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who truly longs the truth to see Last Line: Wee knew before and had forgott Subject(s): Truth COUNTERFEIT - A PLATED PERSON, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And vocal when we die Variant Title(s): Poem: 1453; Poem: 151 Subject(s): Truth CRICKETS AND THE RAIN, by CONRAD ARTHUR HILBERRY Poem Source First Line: Here is a truth not everybody knows Subject(s): Truth CRIME, by JASON SHINDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look another way Subject(s): Desire; Truth CRITICAL SONATA: THE TRUTH [LA VERDAD], by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Realism, idealism: how I dote on you both Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Idealism; Realism; Truth DAY EVERYBODY WAS HONEST, by MARC LEVY Poem Source First Line: Nobody disputes the morning edition's version of the truth Last Line: At midnight, the old crime reporter lips his bottle of vermouth Subject(s): Newspapers; Towns; Truth DEFINITE ARTICLE', by ELIZABETH MACKLIN Poem Source Last Line: And instantly repeated, definite, 'the truth?' Subject(s): Truth DIDACTIC, by JACK MERTEN Poem Text First Line: Truth and its verse more surely go Last Line: An even necklace, end to end. Subject(s): Truth DOCTOR GALL, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sing of the organs and fibres Last Line: Of craniological gall. Subject(s): Cupid; London; Physicians; Singing & Singers; Truth; Eros; Doctors DON'T LOOK SO SCARED! YOU'RE ALIVE, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who speaks? Now that the muses Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Radio; Truth DREAM, by SARAH FLOWER ADAMS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Methought I wander'd through a wilderness Last Line: Thou wilt in thine own time, -- thy will be done Alternate Author Name(s): Adams, Sarah Fuller Subject(s): Dreams; God; Truth DREAMS?, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My spirit slips away at night Last Line: Will waken daily with a smile. Subject(s): Dreams; Future Life; Soul; Truth; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life DRINKING WINE, by T'AO CH'IEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I built my hut near people Last Line: But it dies on the tongue when I try to speak Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Truth DRINKING WINE: 5, by T'AO CH'IEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I built my hut in a place where people live Last Line: In all this there's some principle of truth, %but try to define it and you forget the words Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Truth DUST, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Someone spoke to me last night Last Line: And you're just too tired to open it. Subject(s): Loss; Memory; Truth EMILY BRONTE, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What sacramental hurt that brings / the terror of the truth of things Last Line: Black sea, and curved uncouth sea-bitten shore. Subject(s): Bronte, Emily (1818-1848); Pain; Truth; Suffering; Misery EPIGRAM: 21, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lead a life unpleasant, nothing glad Last Line: Plain or rejoice who feeleth weal or wrong. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 88 Subject(s): Life; Pain; Singing & Singers; Truth; Suffering; Misery EPIGRAM: 31, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within my breast I never thought it gain Last Line: That list to blow retreat to every train. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Freedom; Pain; Truth; Liberty; Suffering; Misery EPIGRAM: THE QUID AND THE QUIS, by JOHN BYROM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In truths that nobody can miss / it is the quid that makes the quis Subject(s): Truth; Mysticism EPIGRAM: THE TRUTHFUL PRETENDER, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cinna, who lives in such a splendid style Last Line: Who know full well he is what he pretends! Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Truth EPISTLE TO THE LORD HENRY HOWARD, ONE OF HIS MAJESTY'S PRIVY COUNCIL, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Praise, if it be not choice, and laid aright Last Line: And though it hath not hap, it shall have fame. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Howard, Henry (1540-1614); Praise; Truth; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens EQUATION, by GUNNAR EKELOF Poem Source First Line: Only truth can explain your eyes Last Line: And explain your rapport with destiny Subject(s): Eyes; Love; Truth ERROR, by E. JUSTINE BAYARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a light cloud floating in the sheen Last Line: Leading through paths obscure, from error down to crime Alternate Author Name(s): Cutting, E. Justine Subject(s): Clouds; Truth EVANGEL, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What happens when the evangelist of truth Subject(s): Truth; Evangelists EVERYTHING THAT ACTS IS ACTUAL, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the tawny light Subject(s): Autumn; Imagination; Relationships; Truth; Fall; Fancy FABLES: 1ST SER. 26. THE CUR AND THE MASTIFF, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sneaking cur, the master's spy Last Line: The cur was hang'd, the mastiff clear'd. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Truth FABLES: 2ND SER. 6. THE SQUIRE AND HIS CUR, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man of pure and simple heart Last Line: The dog was cudgell'd out of place. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Truth FALSEHOOD, by WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still do the stars impart their light Last Line: And as the stream with murmur pass. Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Truth FIELD OF HONOR, by SARA HENDERSON HAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In truth, we might have known it from the start Last Line: Albeit by the ashes in my breast! Subject(s): Truth FOLLIES OF THE DAY, A SATIRE, SELECTION, by F. O. SAYLES Poem Text First Line: Whoe'er surveys the conduct of mankind Last Line: Let satire paint them for the public scorn. Subject(s): American Civil War; Mankind; Nations; Truth; U.s. - History; Human Race FOOL, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The day I knew my world is one of the glimpses Last Line: Then I asked myself if anyone has ever %seen anybody whole. Subject(s): Fools; Self-criticism; Truth; Writing And Writers FOR THE RIGHT, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let us stand for the right, whatever betide Last Line: Resisting the evil that dwells in the land. Subject(s): Good; Truth FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 12, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear, if I with guile would gild a true intent Last Line: But to find as fair as you. Subject(s): Truth; Flattery FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 15, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are you what your fair looks express? Last Line: For pure meetings are most sweet. Variant Title(s): "are You, What Your Faire Lookes Expresse?""; Subject(s): Beauty; Courtship; Truth FRAGMENTS FOR MY VOYEURISTIC BIOGRAPHER, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Write that I started in barcelona Last Line: I leave you the fragments the furniture the horrible fatigue Subject(s): Biography; Gays & Lesbians; Promiscuity; Truth; Biographers FREEDOM AND TRUTH, by SARAH MARGARET FULLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shrine is vowed to freedom, but, my friend Last Line: Comprising means and end in truth's great name. Alternate Author Name(s): Fuller, Margaret; Ossoli, Marchioness; Ossoli, Margaret Fuller Subject(s): Freedom; Truth; Liberty FROST AND HIS ENEMIES, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When robert frost set down a poetic whim, Last Line: Or a patch of snow or the steeple of a church. Subject(s): Fate; Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Innocence; Irony; Poetry & Poets; Truth; Destiny GOD'S EYES, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Father, what colour are god's eyes Last Line: God's eyes change slow from shade to shade. Subject(s): Eyes; Fathers & Daughters; God; Nature - Religious Aspects; Truth GOLLY, HOW TRUTH WILL OUT!, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How does a person get to be a capable liar? Last Line: And that is why I can never amount to anything politically or socially Subject(s): Truth GRIMM TRUTH, by GERI PETERSON Poem Source First Line: The cloak is mine Last Line: As teeth do, %my dear wolf Subject(s): Truth HALF TRUTH, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The words that trembled on your lips Last Line: Nor wholly just what you have done. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Variant Title(s): Not Wholly Just Subject(s): Truth HARD, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hard is it to persuade the public mind of its plain duty & true interest Last Line: Hang back behind the charitable will. Subject(s): Truth HE IS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The stranger has a black cross on his forehead Last Line: Between fiction and lies Subject(s): Crosses; Lies; Strangers; Truth HE PREACHED UPON 'BREADTH' TILL IT ARGUED HIM NARROW, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To meet so enabled a man! Subject(s): Preaching & Preachers; Truth HEARINGS. VICTIMS. UNDERWATER., by INGRID DE KOK Poem Source First Line: Do you promise to tell the truth Last Line: That's the truth. So help. Whole. To tell Subject(s): Truth HELEN KELLER, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What are eyes for but to see the truth she sees Last Line: And dead folk skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Eyes; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Truth HIS HEART WAS YOUNG; IN MEMORIAM, JAMES B. HAWKINS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: He was not old, although the fruited years Last Line: He lives, and still his spirit walks with me. Subject(s): Death; Life; Truth; Wisdom; Dead, The HISTORY / OF EARTH. AND OF, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Sewing & binding %each seam Subject(s): Truth HONOUR'S MARTYR, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon is full this winter night Last Line: If faithful in my own. Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Variant Title(s): M. Douglas To E.r. Glenden Subject(s): Honor; Truth; Self HOPE, by MARTHA J. HADLEY Poem Text First Line: When the dark shadows fall Last Line: As heretofore. Subject(s): Hope; Justice; Truth; Optimism HOPE IN OUR HEARTS DOTH ONLY STAY, by ALICE CARY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Hope; Faith; Truth; Love HUSH!, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: To music we listen Last Line: Sung there. Subject(s): Dreams; Music & Musicians; Nature; Truth; Youth; Nightmares HYMENAEI: TRUTH, by BEN JONSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upon her head she wears a crown of stars Variant Title(s): The Angel Describes Trut Subject(s): Truth HYMN OF THE TRUE MAN, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peace to the true man's ashes! Weep not for those Last Line: Is greener than the misletoe of the oak. Subject(s): Truth I KNOW THE TRUTH -- GIVE UP ALL OTHER TRUTHS, by MARINA IVANOVNA TZVETAYEVA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Who never let each other sleep above it Alternate Author Name(s): Tsvetayeva, Marina Ivanovna; Efron, Sergei, Mrs.; Tsvetaeva, Marina Ivanovna Subject(s): Truth I THOUGHT, BEFORE I LEARNED TO THINK, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Truth; Youth I'M NOT ALONE, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm not alone Last Line: The truth finds his own praise Subject(s): Solitude; Truth IDYLL 29. LOVES, by BLITHELY WHIRLING DISTAFF Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sincerity comes with the wine-cup, dear Subject(s): Wine; Truth IF SOMEONE TELLS YOU IT'S NOT FOR SURE, by JAIME SABINES GUTIERREZ Poem Source Last Line: Because he's also got to hear the crime of the cats %and keep his ears glued to the big clock they k Subject(s): Truth IN THE DAYS OF PRISMATIC COLOR, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not in the days of adam and eve, but when adam Last Line: "I shall be there when the wave has gone by." Subject(s): Truth INCANTATION, by CZESLAW MILOSZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Human reason is beautiful and invincible Last Line: Their enemies have delivered themselves to destruction Subject(s): Justice; Reason; Truth INCLINED TO SPEAK, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw that. One woman, her personality Last Line: Inclined to speak only to those closest to us Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Truth INSCRIPTION FOR A MONUMENT OPPOSITE BALLIOL GATEWAY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here latimer and ridley in the flames Last Line: And let the future expiate the past. Subject(s): Innocence; Latimer, Hugh (1485-1555); Oxford University; Ridley, Nicholas (1503-1555); Truth INSCRIPTIONS FOR A HOUSE, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cornerstone in truth is laid Last Line: I shall live. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Variant Title(s): For The Friends At Hurstmont Subject(s): Faith; Houses; Time; Truth; Belief; Creed INTELLIGENCE, by MARTHA ZWEIG Poem Source First Line: Believe it! There'll be the odd two, three Last Line: Of my baby teeth I want back. Pinch of my birthday dust Subject(s): Reason; Truth INVOCATION, by MAX EASTMAN Poem Text First Line: Truth, be more precious to me than the eyes Last Line: More sacred than the pleasing of a friend. Variant Title(s): Truth Subject(s): Truth IPHIGENIA IN TAURUS, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath your leafy gloom, ye waving boughs Last Line: So now, from living here, a second death. Subject(s): Truth; Virtue IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We will be what we could be. Do not say Last Line: Whatever our deserts. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Climbing; Life; Truth JORDAN (1), by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who says that fictions only and false hair Last Line: Who plainly say, my god, my king. Subject(s): Jordan River; Truth; Worship KOSMOS, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Life; Death; God; Truth; Dead, The LA BOCCA DELLA VERITA, by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I thrust my fingers, crossed in an artful lie Last Line: If I have truly lied in the mouth of truth %let my right hand forget her cunning Subject(s): Truth LA VICTIMA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don't believe anything I've said. Everything Last Line: How I lean to one side disappear into the haze Subject(s): Truth LAST LIE, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Some guy in the miserable convoy Last Line: Again into the faces of children %who called to us for food Subject(s): Truth; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 LATE WISDOM, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We've trod the maze of error round Last Line: Art warring with the mighty dead? Subject(s): Truth LET US BE CONFIDENT, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: In anything we think Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Truth LIMITATIONS, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Thou cravest sympathy yet never think Last Line: How much I dwarfed and wronged thy nature here below! Subject(s): Earth; Hope; Sympathy; Truth; World; Optimism; Empathy LINES, by LILLIAN R. WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Like a flickering lamp in the dark Last Line: And dies. Subject(s): Egoism And Egotism; Truth LINES WRITTEN IN SWITZERLAND, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What silence drear in england's oaky forest Last Line: . . . . . . Subject(s): Dramatists; England; Galileo (1564-1642); Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Pride; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Switzerland; Truth; English; Galileo Galilei; Dramatists; Self-este LOOKING FOR WORDS, by ROSALIND BRACKENBURY Poem Source First Line: Looking for words plain enough to tell the truth Last Line: Looking for words plain enough to tell the truth Subject(s): Human Rights; Language; Truth LOST AND FOUND, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: I found it yesterday, the book Last Line: And know thy blessing haunts me yet! Subject(s): Beauty; Tears; Truth LOVE'S DIVINATION, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: For love alone must conquer doubt Last Line: Truth's finest cadence may divine. Subject(s): Love; Truth LOVE'S QUICKENING, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ere love from barren chaos drew the skies Last Line: I find the ordered pathway of my soul. Subject(s): Heaven; Life; Love; Soul; Truth; Paradise LYING, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I do confess, in many a sigh Last Line: The instant that he tells you truth! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Truth LYING MY HEAD OFF, by CATE MARVIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's my head, in a dank corner of the yard Subject(s): Lies; Truth; Conduct Of Life; Relationships MAKING A LIVING, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: When a man lives in a city addicted to lies,' he said Last Line: Out of the eternal verities Subject(s): Cities; Lies; Truth MASQUERADE, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The lie is sometimes masqueraded as the truth Last Line: It may be only subtle darkness walking in disguise Subject(s): Truth MATINS: 1, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The authentic! Shadows of it Subject(s): Truth MATINS: 1, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The authentic! Shadows of it Last Line: Thrust close your smile %that we know you, terrible joy Subject(s): Truth MATINS: 7, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Marvelous truth, confront us Subject(s): Truth MATINS: 7, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Marvelous truth, confront us Last Line: Thrust close your smile %that we know you, terrible joy Subject(s): Truth MENDACITY, by ALFRED EDGAR COPPARD Poem Text First Line: Truth is love and love is truth Last Line: Little love, my love, come to me. Subject(s): Love; Truth MIND'S HEART, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Minds heart, it must Subject(s): Truth MOMENT OF TRUTH, by INGEMAR LECKIUS Poem Source First Line: Life keeps on welling up Last Line: He can not approach Subject(s): Truth MORE BLUES AND THE ABSTRACT TRUTH, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I back the car over a soft, large object Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Grandparents; Truth; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers MORE BLUES AND THE ABSTRACT TRUTH, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I back the car over a soft, large object Last Line: Even. If. The. Sky. Is. Falling. %my. Peace. Rose. Is. In. Bloom Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Grandparents; Truth MOTHER-RIGHT, by DEBORAH POPE Poem Source First Line: Whatever truth is Last Line: Wincing my heart, %a step before they do Subject(s): Honesty; Mothers; Truth MOUTH, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: To speak of an obvious thing Last Line: With an icelandic kitchen mouth Subject(s): Language; Speech; Truth MY LOVE FOR YOU, by ANGELA MORGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My love for you is such a wondrous thing Last Line: Compels a love that ever must be true. Subject(s): Love; Sincerity; Truth MY TRUTH, INSCRIBED IN LETTERS OF SMOKE...', by CHRISTIAN VIREDAZ Poem Source Last Line: Deep down in your eyes Subject(s): Language; Smoke; Truth NAKED TRUTH, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the mirror Last Line: Like a body silently & nakedly %& ecstatically as art Subject(s): Truth NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 2D PRECEPT, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Honour thy parents to prolong thine end Last Line: Shall have a child that will revenge the deed. Subject(s): Parents; Truth; Parenthood NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 4TH PRECEPT, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Defend the truth; for that who will not die Last Line: A coward is, and gives himself the lie. Subject(s): Truth NEVER TOO LATE: ISABEL'S SONNET, THAT SHE MADE IN PRISON, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No storm so sharp to rent the little reed Last Line: And god makes open what the world doth blind. Subject(s): Lies; Prisons & Prisoners; Reeds; Truth; Convicts NEW SPRING: 20, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rose is fragrant -- yet if she divineth Last Line: Would still be useful, we may well suppose. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Truth NEWSPAPERMAN, by KENNETH FEARING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This charge was laid upon me long ago; do not forget Subject(s): Truth NIGHT, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As some dusk mother shields from all alarms Last Line: How beautiful the holy hours of night! Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Mothers; Night; Truth; Wind; Bedtime NO ME: DHARAMS ALL, by HUI K'O Poem Source Last Line: The truth cries out %where the arrow strikes the target Subject(s): Hearts; Truth; Zen Buddhism NOTUS IGNOTO, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you sigh for the power you dream of Last Line: Are ever revealed! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Pride; Truth; Nightmares; Self-esteem; Self-respect OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 11. TROCHAIC VERSE: THE SEVENTH EPIGRAM, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Phoebe, all the rights elisa claimeth Last Line: That she's only true, thou only feigned. Subject(s): Truth OBVIOUS TRUTH, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know that when there comes disaster, that Last Line: And pull its whiskers and defy it, it skips to beat the band. Subject(s): Truth ODE ON TRUTH; ADDRESSED TO GEORGE DYER, by ANNE BATTEN CRISTALL Poem Text First Line: Where fancy paints with nature's simplest hues Last Line: And simple nature woo thy modest, plaintive lays. Subject(s): Truth ODE TO TRUTH, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou proud-eyed queen of noble souls Last Line: Or be I shielded by the grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Truth ODE TO TRUTH, by MARY WHATELEY Poem Text First Line: Descend, fair truth, celestial maid, descend Last Line: He'd fain divest our sex of common sense. Alternate Author Name(s): Darwall, Mrs. John Subject(s): Truth OH LITTLE VOICES OF THE THROATS OF MEN, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: You had not known whether they laughed or wept Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Truth ON WORKS OF MERCY AND COMPASSION; PROOFS OF TRUE RELIGION, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of true religion works of mercy seem Last Line: His love is heav'n; and want of it is hell. Subject(s): Mercy; Religion; Truth; Theology OPEN SECRETS, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The truth lies round about us, all Last Line: At heaven's gate with the lark. Subject(s): Truth OPINION IS A FLITTING THING, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Possess the oldest one Variant Title(s): Poem: 1455; Poem: 149 Subject(s): Truth ORGAN SONGS: LIGHT, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First-born of the creating voice! Last Line: For god is light. Subject(s): Christianity; God; Light; Nature; Truth PLAIN TALK, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Truth; Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity PLEDGE OF FAITH, by NELDA WOOD MARTIN Poem Text First Line: I would not lift my eyes again Last Line: You'd be as true to me. Subject(s): Truth PRELUDE TO 'WALKING SHADOWS', by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of those who fought and died Last Line: Then let them sleep, at dawn, with the forgotten. Subject(s): History; Shadows; Truth; Historians PREVARICATING MARY, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Mary told a little lie Last Line: He'd lie himself I think! Subject(s): Lies; Sin; Truth PROGRESS, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Mid faery voices, none Last Line: "on, on for aye!" Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Soul; Truth PROPHET, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say the truth will make you free Last Line: Which may be what you want to be Subject(s): Truth PSALM: 4, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou witness of my truth sincere Last Line: From dangers all securely keep. Subject(s): God; Hearts; Hope; Peace; Religion; Soul; Truth; Optimism; Theology QUEST, by LAURA M. GRADICK Poem Text First Line: Beyond the far horizon's rim Last Line: I shall have had the joy of quest. Subject(s): Truth RAVENS HIDING IN A SHOE, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is something men and women living in houses Subject(s): Truth; Poetry & Poets READING LIPS, by BERNADETTE GEYER Poem Source First Line: I am trying not to stare at the man Last Line: That truth I know he knows, but he doesn't yet realize Subject(s): Secrets; Silence; Truth REJECTED ADDRESSES: DRURY'S DIRGE, BY LAURA MATILDA, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Balmy zephyrs, lightly flitting Last Line: Never, never let us part! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Parnassus (mountain), Greece; Truth; Youth RESURGAM, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We doubted our god in secret Last Line: The living truth shall rise! Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Religion; Truth; Theology ROAD TO EMMAUS, by CAROLYN MILLER Poem Source First Line: All around us, secrets are continually Last Line: The kingdom is here, on the earth Subject(s): Country Life; Roads; Truth ROADSIDE POEMS: AFTER THOMAS KEMPIS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who follows jesus shall not walk Last Line: Of the one thing needful! Subject(s): God; Humility; Jesus Christ; Knowledge; Life; Pride; Truth; Vanity; Self-esteem; Self-respect ROADSIDE POEMS: ZACCHAEUS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To whom the heavy burden clings Last Line: And saved the lost whom he had won. Subject(s): Bible; Guests; Jesus Christ; Salvation; Truth; Zacchaeus; Visiting; Zaccheus ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: THE UNBELIEVER, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou wilt repose within mine arms Last Line: I lay my eager finger. Subject(s): Doubt; Truth; Vision; Skepticism RONDEAU: 4, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What vaileth truth or by it to take pain Last Line: What vaileth truth? Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 2 Subject(s): Deception; Truth SAPPHO IN LEVKAS, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Zeus, my father, once again Last Line: At last the comfort and the cleansing of the sea. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Life; Love; Mythology; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Truth SCIENCE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A million globes awhirl in unlit space Last Line: At last, the meaning of the master-mind. Subject(s): Faith; God; Science; Space & Space Travel; Truth; Vision; Belief; Creed; Scientists; Outer Space; Fourth Dimension SCIENCE, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Her temple crowns the common haunts Last Line: And glorifies our mortal dream. Subject(s): Nature; Science; Truth; Youth; Scientists SESTINA, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wandered o'er the vast green plains of youth Last Line: Where duty walks with love in endless youth. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Truth; Youth SHADOW OF TRUTH, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: At a reading she Last Line: His existance but %not for his art Subject(s): Shadows; Truth SIC VOS NON VOBIS, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye, that the untrod paths have braved Last Line: Kings that shall yet be throned and crowned. Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Truth SIMPLE TRUTH, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I bought a dollar and a half's worth of small red potatoes Last Line: In a form we have no words for, and you live on it Subject(s): Farm Life; Truth SOJOURNER, by SAM CORNISH Poem Source First Line: Wandering woman %struck down Last Line: Recite and perform) but never wrote %ain't I a woman Subject(s): Truth, Sojourner (1897-1883) SOJOURNER TRUTH, by SAM CORNISH Poem Source Subject(s): Truth, Sojourner (1897-1883) SONG, by ELIZABETH TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: Ye virgin powers defend my heart Last Line: Returns into my breast. Subject(s): Love; Truth; Wit & Humor SONG: 101, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now must I learn to feign Last Line: Seeing she will not so. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Absence; Death; Hearts; Life; Pain; Tears; Truth; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery SONG: 102, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, all my welfare Last Line: Of my great grief the great excess. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Faith; Farewell; Love; Pain; Seduction; Truth; Belief; Creed; Parting; Suffering; Misery SONG: 41, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mistrustful minds be moved Last Line: Thereof god send them part. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): God; Truth SONG: 6, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most wretched heart, most miserable Last Line: Since unhap cannot kill me so. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Fear; Hearts; Hope; Quarrels; Truth; Optimism; Arguments; Disagreements SONG: 61, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As power and wit will me assist Last Line: Even as ye list. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Happiness; Hearts; Life; Love; Truth; Joy; Delight SONG: 97, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Madam, I you require Last Line: Ye get not that ye lack. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Language; Truth; Women; Words; Vocabulary SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 11, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since my words, though ne'er so tender Last Line: Still to disbelieve the cause. Subject(s): Hearts; Nature; Truth SONNET FOR 'THE GERM', by WILLIAM MICHAEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When whoso merely hath a little thought Last Line: Truth is a circle, perfect, great or small? Subject(s): Truth SONNET. TO TELL THE TRUTH, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To tell the truth, those brick housing authority buildings Last Line: Now I've said everything nice I can about this Subject(s): Truth SONNET. TO TELL THE TRUTH, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To tell the truth, those brick housing authority buildings Last Line: Now I've said everything nice I can about this Subject(s): Truth SONNET: 1, by GEORGE CABOT LODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cut loose! Hoist sail! Leave the famililar shores Last Line: On shores of truth that always lie beyond! Subject(s): Truth SONNET: 18, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though I myself be bridled of my mind Last Line: Whereby his absence turneth him to sorrow.' Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 27 Subject(s): Grief; Honor; Love; Time; Truth; Sorrow; Sadness SONNET: 5, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dreamt I to-day the dream of yesternight Last Line: Truth is a dream, unless my dream is true. Subject(s): Dreams; Truth; Nightmares SONNET: ILLUSIONS, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not in the heavens alone is truth renowned Last Line: To sparkle still, when dawns the golden day. Subject(s): Truth SONNETS TO MIRANDA: 14, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Too long I wear this mask that I have made Last Line: But I am proud as you, magnificent one! Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Love; Truth SONNETS: 6. THE BERNINA SNOW-MOUNTAINS FROM THE VALE OF ROSEG, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In vista seen, like truth down glooms of thought Last Line: Beacons thy eternal snow's refulgent shield. Subject(s): Love; Mountains; Soul; Truth; Hills; Downs (great Britain) SORRY!, by BERNADETTE HIGGINS Poem Source First Line: For a long time now I have %wanted to apologise for Last Line: Except I'm very glad that %you now know the truth Subject(s): Forgiveness; Poetry And Poets; Truth SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: OAKS TUTT, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother was for woman's rights Last Line: "what is truth?'" Subject(s): Pilate, Pontius; Truth SPRING FANTASIES: 6. AS FLUTES OF ARCADY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The purity of water and the peace Last Line: And hero-deeds along a hundred hills! Subject(s): Beauty; Children; Dreams; Poetry & Poets; Truth; Water; Childhood; Nightmares ST. URSULA'S ORIGIN, by BARBARA CLAIRE FREEMAN Poem Source First Line: If I %could tell %the truth Last Line: Just how %I was %conceived Subject(s): Birth; Conception; Truth STANDING NAKED, by CHARLES P. RIES Poem Source First Line: I stand naked. I let everyone look into me Last Line: Naked to truths and secrets. Naked before a curtain %of spring rain Subject(s): Secrets; Truth STANDING ON TIPTOE, by GEORGE FREDERICK CAMERON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Standing on tiptoe ever since my youth Last Line: Dwells with the stars. Subject(s): Future; Truth STANZAS, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How well I remember the paths that I trod Last Line: How warm was my fancy, how cold is the truth. Subject(s): Truth STANZAS, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My hopes were as bright as the bow, when the storm Last Line: My bright, angelic mary. Subject(s): Truth STANZAS, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the lake of young life is a fairy boat Last Line: And holy the haven they find at last. Subject(s): Fairies; Boats; Love; Truth; Elves STANZAS, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dead leaves strew the forest-walk Last Line: Feel --that it all is cold and gone. Subject(s): Winter; Transience; Truth; Impermanence STEVENSON MAKES CONRAD WELCOME, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At last you come, my fellow of the seas Last Line: "how conrad's company will color heaven!" Subject(s): Dreams; Fates (mythology); Heaven; Sea; Truth; Nightmares; Paradise; Ocean SUGAR DADA, by J. ALLYN ROSSER Poem Text First Line: Go home. It's never what you think it is Last Line: Nothing is true, my dear. Not even this Subject(s): Truth SUNG ON A BY-WAY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What of all the will to do Last Line: Love has found itself the whole. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Hope; Love; Soul; Truth; Optimism SUPPOSE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Suppose the entire venture Last Line: To sit and listen to a seagull's cry Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Truth TELL ALL THE TRUTH BUT TELL IT SLANT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Or every man be blind Subject(s): Truth TELL ALL THE TRUTH BUT TELL IT SLANT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The truth must dazzle gradually %or every man be blind Variant Title(s): Poem: 1129; Poem: 126 Subject(s): Truth TENNYSON: 2, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How grand he would have stood, had he declined Last Line: Son of the morning -- how thy beams are shorn! Subject(s): Love; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Truth; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron TESTE SIBYLLA, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With a great cry the sibyl woke and left Last Line: While up in heaven a star rose in the east. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Truth THAT V. C., by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the days of front attack Last Line: He might have let me be a hero.' Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Army Life; Soldiers; Truth; Drills & Minor Tactics THE ADAMANT, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thought does not crush to stone. Subject(s): Truth THE BAR, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When bards the lybian desert sing Last Line: And final judgment close the scene. Subject(s): Life; Nations; Truth THE BETTER PART, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis weary treading every day Last Line: More dear than any pleasures are. Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Socialism; Truth THE BLIND WEAVER, by HELEN GOLTRA Poem Text First Line: My soul is like a weaver, who though blind Last Line: The pattern of the whole seem doubly fair? Subject(s): Sin; Truth; Youth THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: HE IS DECLARED TRUE OF WORD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Thus saith the great god thoth Last Line: And make me thy beloved' Subject(s): Mythology - Egyptian;truth THE CLOUDS OF MAGELLAN (APHORISMS OF MR. CANON ASPIRIN), by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I once dreamt that cezanne lectured on the circumnavigation of a pear Last Line: And peace. Subject(s): Creative Ability; God; Knowledge; Metaphor; Philosophy & Philosophers; Poetry & Poets; Revolutions; Truth; Inspiration; Creativity; Similes THE COQUETTE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alone she sat with her accusing heart Last Line: To loathe her beauty and to curse her fate. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Fate; Graves; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Truth; Destiny; Tombs; Tombstones THE COURSE OF TRUTH, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When royal truth, released from mortal throes Last Line: Vain searching whence it streams, and how to quench its rays. Subject(s): Truth THE DEMONSTRATION, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The highest things are easiest to be shown Last Line: To whom in them himself, and all things tend. Subject(s): God; Truth THE DESIGN, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When first eternity stoop'd down to nought Last Line: Even in that way that is the best. Variant Title(s): The Choice Subject(s): Time; Truth THE ENGINE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into the gloom of the deep, dark night Last Line: Alone will carry you through the night. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Fate; Night; Soul; Truth; Destiny; Bedtime THE FIDDLER OF BERLIN, by HERMANN HAGEDORN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night, and a black pall over the city Last Line: And broken women, and ghosts. Subject(s): Death; Fiddles; Loss; Military; Mourning; Musical Instruments; Soldiers; Truth; War; Dead, The; Bereavement THE FOGGY, FOGGY BLUE, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a young man, I loved to write poems Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Aging; Truth; Masks THE FOOL'S SONG, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I tried to put a bird in a cage Last Line: Heigh-ho! Truth in a cage. Subject(s): Truth THE GLORIOUS GAME, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I go about dumfoundedly, and show a dullard's glance Last Line: Sky-larking down the days! Subject(s): Faith; Music & Musicians; Truth; Belief; Creed THE GOD-MAKER, MAN, by DONALD ROBERT PERRY MARQUIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nevermore / shall the shepherds of arcady follow Last Line: Humble, but open eyed. Alternate Author Name(s): Marquis, Don Subject(s): Future Life; God; Immortality; Mythology; Religion; Truth; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Theology THE GREAT JOKESMITH, by ARTHUR SPINGARN Poem Text First Line: Those blind to beauty oft have brightest eyes Last Line: I wonder why, I wonder why? Subject(s): Beauty; Blindness; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Truth; Visually Handicapped THE HOUSE OF DREAMS, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I built a little house of dreams Last Line: And passed it by. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Truth; Nightmares THE INFINITE REASON, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rilke thought it was the human part Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Reason; Truth; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE LESSON, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The earnest are the easiest deceived Subject(s): Tadpoles; Family Life; Truth; Relatives THE LIBELLER'S SELF-REPROOF, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rash mortal, and slanderous poet, thy name Last Line: Says, the more 'tis a truth, sir, the more 'tis a libel! Subject(s): Truth THE LIE, by WALTER RALEIGH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Go, soul, the body's guest Last Line: No stab the soule can kill. Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter Variant Title(s): The Soul's Errand;the Lye Subject(s): Courage; Freedom; Lies; Social Protest; Soul; Truth; Valor; Bravery; Liberty THE LIGHT THAT CAME TO LUCILLE CLIFTON, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The truth is furiously knocking Subject(s): Self; Knowledge; Truth THE LORD SPOKE, by CHARLES VAN LERBERGHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lord said to his child Last Line: Be it all your truth. Subject(s): Advice; Knowledge; Truth; Voices THE MEASURE OF A MAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Not - 'how did he die?' but - 'how did he live?' Last Line: "but -- ""how many were sorry when he passed away?" Subject(s): Human Behavior;truth;virtue; Conduct Of Life;human Nature THE MIGHT OF TRUTH, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are proclaimed, even against our wills Last Line: And all the immortal ruin stands confessed. Subject(s): Truth THE OLD MAN'S PAEAN, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Vainly, ye libellers! Your page Last Line: "young septuagenary!" Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Life; Time; Truth; Youth THE PARSON'S LOOKS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That there is a falsehood in his looks Last Line: And sure they do not lie. Variant Title(s): On Hearing That There Was Falsehood Subject(s): Truth THE PATH, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far, far I've strayed me in the long endeavor Last Line: And just ahead, my home. Subject(s): Courage; Hope; Roads; Truth; Youth; Valor; Bravery; Optimism; Paths; Trails THE PINEAPPLES AND THE BEE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pineapples, in triple row Last Line: Can gather honey from a weed. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Pineapples; Truth; Wisdom; Beekeeping; Bugs THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION; A POEM. ENLARGED VERSION: BOOK 2, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus far of beauty and the pleasing forms Last Line: Nor so effaced the image of her sire. Subject(s): Imagination; Reason; Truth; Fancy; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 85, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some seek pleasure in love Last Line: Show you the mind not used in vain Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Pleasure; Truth; Buddha; Buddhists THE PROPHET, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say the truth will make you free Last Line: Which may be what you want to be Subject(s): Truth THE REPUBLIC, by PAUL MARIANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Midnight. For the past three hours Subject(s): Police; Truth THE ROAD THROUGH CHAOS, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is one road, one only, to the light Last Line: Conquer your world, and find the eternal goal. Subject(s): Beauty; Chaos; Hearts; Light; Pilate, Pontius; Roads; Truth; Paths; Trails THE SECEDERS: 1, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far from the pure castalian fount our feet Last Line: They fall on us as rain on logs and stones. Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Love; Truth THE SEEKERS, by LUCIA TREVITT AURYANSEN Poem Text First Line: Where men have held the vision clear Last Line: Shall shine the guiding star. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Truth THE SILENT SHEPHERDS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What's the best life for a man? Last Line: If any mind for a moment touch truth Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Truth; God THE SILENT WARRIORS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The sun shone in at the window Last Line: Whose mandates the world shall obey Subject(s): Justice;truth;war THE SIMPLE TRUTH, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I bought a dollar and a half's worth of small red potatoes Subject(s): Farm Life; Truth; Agriculture; Farmers THE SOLDIER GENERATION, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are the sons of disaster Last Line: Will yield of our strivings, god. Subject(s): Faith; Grief; Lies; Soldiers; Truth; Belief; Creed; Sorrow; Sadness THE SOMNAMBULIST, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Celestials must have piloted Last Line: Find heaven's rapture earth unveiled. Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Night; Truth; World; Bedtime THE SONG OF THE HAPPY SHEPHERD, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The woods of arcady are dead Last Line: Dream, dream, for this is also sooth. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Language; Truth; Shepherds & Shepherdesses THE SONG OF TRUTH, by ELIZABETH DOTEN Poem Text First Line: From the unseen throne of the great unknown Last Line: "hear me, o god! My god!" Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie Subject(s): Truth THE SOUL'S RUBAIYAT: 1, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Of him who walked a thousand years ago Last Line: Why dream I, mad? All dreams for man are vain. Subject(s): Death; God; Omar Khayyam (1048-1122); Salvation; Soul; Truth; Dead, The THE SYMBOL SEDUCES, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There in her old-world garden smiles Last Line: For love, I leave love's haunted bower. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Love; Seduction; Truth THE TABLET OF TRUTH, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sit down, mr. Clipstone, and take Last Line: To gaze on my tablet of truth. Subject(s): Death; Humility; Life; Love; Truth; Dead, The THE TASK: BOOK 3. THE GARDEN, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As one who, long in thickets and in brakes Last Line: For whom god heard his abraham plead in vain. Subject(s): Country Life; Gardens & Gardening; Truth THE THREAD OF TRUTH, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Truth is a golden thread, seen here and there Last Line: Pass by so many marks, so little heeding? Subject(s): Religion; Truth; Theology THE TOUCHSTONE OF TRUTH, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Truth is the trial of itself Last Line: Of the most worthy love. Variant Title(s): Truth;on Truth;to James Warre Subject(s): Truth THE TRUE MAN, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take thou no thought for aught save right and truth Last Line: Who hath it not, hath nothing, having all. Subject(s): Truth THE TRUTH, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since I have seen a bird one day Last Line: The last strong rival for his food. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Truth THE TRUTH, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Truth; Poetry & Poets; Ali, Muhammad (cassius Clay) THE TRUTH-SEEKERS, by FRANCIS CHARLES MCDONALD Poem Text First Line: They who sought truth since dawn Last Line: They met her, face to face. Subject(s): Truth THE TRUTH?, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, my enemies, my friends Last Line: Back to our old play! Subject(s): Enemies; Friendship; God; Heaven; Love; Truth; Paradise THE UNTELLING, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He leaned forward over the paper Subject(s): Reality; Truth THE WANDERER: 3. IN ENGLAND: THE FOUNT OF TRUTH, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was the place by legends told Last Line: Or -- was it never found? Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): England; Travel; Truth; English; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERING PILGRIM, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Will piggot must to coxwould go Last Line: Thus william's wishes crown. Subject(s): Fortune; Knights & Knighthood; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Truth THEORY OF TRUTH, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stand near soberanes creek, on the knoll over the sea, west of the road Subject(s): Truth THEORY OF TRUTH, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stand near soberanes creek, on the knoll over the sea, west of the road Last Line: Until the mind has turned its love from itself and man, from parts to the whole Subject(s): Truth THREE GATES [OF GOLD], by ELIZABETH DAYTON Poem Text First Line: If you are tempted to reveal Last Line: What the result of speech may be. Alternate Author Name(s): Day, Beth Subject(s): Truth TIS DARING WINS THE DAY, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Are you cold, or are you lukewarm Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Truth; Conduct Of Life TO A LITTLE GIRL WHO HAS TOLD A LIE, by ANN TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And has my darling told a lie? Last Line: And neither tell a lie nor need. Subject(s): Truth; Worship TO A PUBLICIST AND SAGE, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You that have found all being a blaze of / clearness Last Line: Who once has sighted truth, though from the mire. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Truth TO AN ELDERLY AMORIST, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Even in passion, when grape-hung Last Line: Is in the very look of thee! Subject(s): Beauty; Laughter; Soul; Tears; Truth; Youth TO AURELIO SAFFI, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To god and man be simply true Last Line: Prospering onward without end. Subject(s): Friendship; God; Love; Praise; Truth; Virtue TO HASEKAWA, by WALTER CONRAD ARENSBERG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps it doesn't matter that you died Last Line: But life has told on you. Variant Title(s): An Epitaph Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Life; Truth; Dead, The TO LADY NOEL BYRON, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men sought ambition's thirst to slake Last Line: Grows truth and tenderness. Subject(s): Alchemy & Alchemists; Ambition; Love; Pain; Truth; Suffering; Misery TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like a thin rock spinning across the lake Subject(s): Truth TO THE SKY, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Tis beauty's feast to scan thy shifting play Last Line: And what thy wisdom holds our need we blindly miss! Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Love; Truth; Nightmares TO THE UNKNOWN EROS: BOOK 1: 12. MAGNA EST VERITAS, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, in this little bay Last Line: When none cares whether it prevail or not. Subject(s): Truth TO WHAT SHALL I COMPARE HER, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Than the truth Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Women; Love; Beauty; Truth TONGUE - TO TELL HIM I AM TRUE!, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Least figure - on the road Variant Title(s): Poem: 400; Poem: 67 Subject(s): Truth TRAVELLERS, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think of the continent Last Line: Now, and how discredited we would find it Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Truth TRUE OR FALSE QUIZ, by JACK ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: A yellow cat is sitting in my doorway Last Line: If I had walked with you last night we would have seen the stars Subject(s): Lies; Life; Truth TRUTH, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man, on the dubious waves of error tossed Last Line: Humility is crowned, and faith receives the prize. Subject(s): Truth TRUTH, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Truth, they say, lies in a well Last Line: "is the ""veritas in vino." Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Truth; Wine TRUTH, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A rock, for ages, stern and high Last Line: The brightest blooms and fairest leaves. Subject(s): Truth TRUTH, by MICHAEL JOSEPH HEFFERNAN Poem Source First Line: Proust claimed truth is only a point of view Last Line: Who knew the paths of time and how they lead %past doors the dead would open if they could Subject(s): Proust, Marcel (1871-1922); Truth TRUTH, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Permit me, madame, to declare Last Line: To flatter them, I'd have you know. Subject(s): Lies; Man-woman Relationships; Truth; Male-female Relations TRUTH, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Truth is best found out by the time, and eyes Last Line: Falsehood winnes credit by uncertainties. Subject(s): Truth TRUTH, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: What do you mean by the truth of bed? Last Line: No man can fake an orgasm,' she said Subject(s): Sex; Truth TRUTH, by FRIEDRICH VON LOGAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When by night the frogs are croaking, kindle but a torch's fire Last Line: Ha! How soon they all are silent! Thus truth silences the liar. Alternate Author Name(s): Golaw, Salomon Von; Logau, Frederick Von Subject(s): Truth TRUTH, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There danger dwells where dwells not truth Last Line: The soul that knows her not is dead. Subject(s): Honesty; Truth TRUTH, by BETHANY PRAY Poem Source First Line: It's a sorry employment Last Line: Where nothing will be the same ever again Subject(s): Truth TRUTH, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old faiths light their candles all about Last Line: But burly truth comes by and blows them out. Subject(s): Truth TRUTH, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hero first thought it Last Line: The fountain unbroken. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Truth TRUTH, by SUSAN FROMBERG SCHAEFFER Poem Source First Line: Does the typewriter type Last Line: Tree leaves clatter masses %for leaves Subject(s): Truth TRUTH, by JIM SIMMERMAN Poem Source First Line: What we don't know won't hurt us Last Line: Of their fear was their faith Subject(s): Faith; Truth TRUTH, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was in the fields, when I set out Last Line: Closer than the world will confess, %in this bare bone of life that I pick Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Truth TRUTH, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: A jewel hidden in the depths Last Line: Should think to know his place. Subject(s): Honesty; Truth TRUTH, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Sharing bread / is sharing life Last Line: Wet canvases . . . Subject(s): Truth TRUTH, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sharing bread %is sharing life Last Line: A turned-over boat, %the walls %wet canvases Subject(s): Truth TRUTH, by R. ZWERIN Poem Source First Line: There is the oppressed Last Line: Upon the paths of the oppressor Subject(s): Truth TRUTH AND ERROUR, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twixt truth and errour, there's this difference known Last Line: Errour is fruitfull, truth is onely one. Subject(s): Truth TRUTH AND FALSEHOOD, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Truth by her own simplicity is known Last Line: Falsehood by varnish and vermillion. Subject(s): Truth TRUTH AND FALSEHOOD, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once on a time, in sunshine weather Last Line: Beloved by all who truth revere. Subject(s): Fables; Nudity; Nymphs; Truth; Allegories; Nakedness TRUTH AND LIES, by LORI POWELL Poem Source First Line: Lies are an empty room Last Line: Fist pounding the door Subject(s): Lies; Truth TRUTH AND SORROW, by PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths Last Line: And we are fools, and there's an end of us. Subject(s): Grief; Truth; Sorrow; Sadness TRUTH AT LAST, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Does a man ever give up hope Last Line: From doubt, or fear, or hope's illusion free. Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew Subject(s): Truth TRUTH IS AS OLD AS GOD, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A lifeless deity Variant Title(s): Poem: 836; Poem: 79 Subject(s): Truth TRUTH IS EVER BEST, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Whoso would him well advise Last Line: He who chooseth truth doth best Subject(s): Religion;truth; Theology TRUTH IS STIRLESS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That trusts her boldly up Variant Title(s): Poem: 780; Poem: 88 Subject(s): Truth TRUTH NEVER DIES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Truth never dies. The ages come and go Last Line: Truth never dies Subject(s): Truth TRUTH OF MY TIME, SO PROVED AND UNDEFILED, by WINFIELD TOWNLEY SCOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Truth TRUTH SERUM, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We made it from the ground-up corn in the old back pasture Subject(s): Truth TRUTH SQUAD, by DENNIS SCHMITZ Poem Source First Line: Roped against the bridge-pier so that Last Line: At least one of us will write your secret Subject(s): Chicago; Truth TRUTH TOLD AT LAST, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Says pontius in rage, contradicting his wife Last Line: You're a cuckold, says she; do I tell you truth now?' Subject(s): Anger; Life; Marriage; Truth; Unfaithfulness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy TWELVE P.M., by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To get home from some scene of gayety Last Line: Confronted the eternal verity. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Hallucinations & Illusions; Realism; Truth ULTIMA VERITAS, by WASHINGTON GLADDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the bitter waves of woe Last Line: I shall see him, and I will wait. Subject(s): Religion; Truth; Worship; Theology UNAUTHORIZED LEDA AND THE SWAN, by THOMAS RUSSELL (1762-1788) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the mirrorless locker room Last Line: That cold, white and bloodless %majesty of swans Subject(s): Mankind; Truth UNDER OATH, by PHILIP DACEY Poem Source First Line: I raise my right hand Last Line: I ever gave away Subject(s): Oaths; Truth UNTIL THE SUN SINKS INTO A GREEN, by ANATOLY STEIGER Poem Source Last Line: Yet autumn will soon tell us %the truth, in a cold voice Subject(s): Truth UTTERANCE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But what avail inadequate words to reach Last Line: Of goodness dropped in fallow-grounds of need. Subject(s): Religion; Truth; Theology VALIANT FOR THE TRUTH, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unfurl the christian standard! Lift it manfully on high Last Line: The kingdoms of this world shall be the kingdoms of his son! Subject(s): Truth VANITY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Thank you for listening, for looking. I admire Last Line: Something true Subject(s): Admiration; Gratitude; Truth; Vanity VERA, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A silent world - yet full of vital joy Last Line: "lives in the heart of god and hears him speak." Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): God; Truth VERITATEM DILEXI (IN MEMORIAM - ERNEST RENAN), by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Truth is an idol,' spake the christian sage Last Line: For no one truth thou lovedst, but the whole. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Variant Title(s): Ernest Renan Subject(s): Renan, Joseph Ernest (1823-1892); Truth VERSES ON TEXTS: PSALMS 43, 4, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy light and truth forth-sending Last Line: Is all-defending. Subject(s): Truth VERY SHORT, PASSIONATE POEM, by KENNETH LEONHARDT Poem Source First Line: Would I lie to you? Subject(s): Lies; Truth VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 1: PROLOGUE, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I first aduenture, with fool-hardie might Last Line: Truth be thy speed, and truth thy patron bee. Subject(s): Muses; Truth; Virtue VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 4: THE AUTHORS CHARGE TO HIS SATYRES, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye luck-lesse rymes, whom not vnkindly spight Last Line: Satis est potuisse videri. Subject(s): Death; Hate; Love; Truth; Dead, The VISION, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The vision shall come - the truth be revealed - but Subject(s): Truth VITAL TRUTHS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The vital truths are old and gray; they're old Last Line: Adopt; the truths which seem grotesquely new don't count, and may be dropped. Subject(s): Honesty; Truth VOTIVE TABLETS: THE UNANIMITY, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Truth seek we both -- thou, in the life without thee and around Last Line: The healthy heart is but the glass which gives creation back. Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von Subject(s): Truth W.H.; AD. 1778-1830, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between the wet trees and the sorry steeple Last Line: Titian and wordsworth live; the people marches. Subject(s): Beauty; Hazlitt, William (1778-1830); Love; Time; Truth WAKE UP, by LI SHIZHENG Poem Source First Line: Outside the window the sky is clean Last Line: Clean language clean language Subject(s): Human Rights; Language; Truth WE CAN'T WRITE OURSELVES INTO ETERNAL LIFE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And share the earth with earth Subject(s): Mortality; Writing & Writers; Truth WHAT HE PLANNED TO SAY TO HELEN, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: You should not censor or inquire deeply Last Line: Too long. We must seek a cooler fusion Subject(s): Truth WHAT IS TRUTH?, by JOHN BOWRING Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is truth ? Said pilate, groping Subject(s): Pilate, Pontius; Truth WHAT THE TRUTH TASTES LIKE, by MARTHA SILANO Poem Source First Line: Though homer used them to capture a restless Last Line: Sputtered and hissed. And I was somewhere else Subject(s): Truth WHAT WE ARE, by PEARLE MOORE STEVENS Poem Text First Line: I may not scale the mountain top Last Line: For what we really are. Subject(s): Good; Judgment Day; Truth; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man WHAT WE NEED, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What does our country need? Not armies standing Last Line: These are our country's pride, our country's need. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Mothers; Sin; Soul; Truth; Youth WHERE LIES THE TRUTH? HAS MAN, IN WISDOM'S CREED, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A happier, brighter, purer heaven than theirs Subject(s): Truth WHITER THAN SNOW, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whiter than snow! The soft flakes, shod with peace Last Line: Abides where christ's redeemed ones surely go. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Faith; God; Truth; Belief; Creed WHO AM I?, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My head knocks against the stars Last Line: My name is truth and I am the most elusive captive in the universe. Subject(s): Truth WHO HAS NOT HID A DREAM, by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON Poem Text First Line: Who has not hid a dream within his heart Last Line: For buying laughter with the price of truth? Subject(s): Truth WHY TRUTH GOES NAKED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: List to a tale well worth the ear Last Line: As naked as a marble goddess Subject(s): Nudity;truth; Nakedness WIND-CLOUDS AND STAR-DRIFTS, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Another clouded night: the stars are hid Last Line: We know not his whose love embraces all. Subject(s): Ambition; Faith; Idols; Love; Regret; Solitude; Sympathy; Truth; Worship; Belief; Creed; Loneliness; Empathy WISDOM, by CHARLES JOSEPH RIDER Poem Text First Line: You ask, what is it to be wise? Last Line: It is a gift that lovers of the truth receive. Subject(s): Truth WITHOUT DISGUISE, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I have erred in showing all my heart Last Line: "at least I have not lied to her nor thee!" Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Truth WITNESS, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She gathers quiet around her Last Line: The truths we know Subject(s): Women; Truth WOMAN; A FRAGMENT, by FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within a frame, more glorious than the gem Last Line: Why let the docile darling have -- her way! Alternate Author Name(s): Vane, Violet Subject(s): Freedom; Love; Memory; Truth; Women; Liberty WORKING STEP FOUR, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Just looked in Last Line: To face another %unforgiving truth Subject(s): Talk; Truth WRITTEN WHILE DRUNK, by T'AO CH'IEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I built my house near where others dwell Last Line: But when I start to tell it, I cannot find the words Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Truth ZARA'S EAR-RINGS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: My ear-rings! My ear-rings! They've dropped into the well Last Line: "and that deep his love lies in my heart, as they lie in the well!" Subject(s): Earrings;hearts;love;man-woman Relationships;truth; Male-female Relations |
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