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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: VOICES Matches Found: 193 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A HUMBLE SINGER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A modest singer, with meek soul Last Line: "sing on immortally." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Immortality; Singing & Singers; Voices A MARSH MESSAGE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The melancholy marshes brood Last Line: The young fresh soul that was so fair? Subject(s): Death; Life; Sea; Soul; Swamps; Voices; Dead, The; Ocean; Bogs; Fens; Marshes A PEACE-HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a voice across the nation like a mighty ocean-hail Last Line: He sends us sailing on. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Hope; Kentucky; Sailing & Sailors; Voices; Optimism A PICTURE AND A PLEA, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes, your head a little downward bent Last Line: And bear sufficing witness of my love. Subject(s): Eyes; Love; Silence; Soul; Tears; Voices A SINGING VOICE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once, camping on a high bluff Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Voices A VOICE FROM THE FARM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is my dream to have you here with me Last Line: Our way toward home across the dewy fields. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Farm Life; Voices; Nightmares; Agriculture; Farmers A VOICE FROM THE SWEAT-SHOPS (A HYMN WITH RESPONSES), by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Praise god from whom all blessings / flow Last Line: When will he make it plain? Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Revivals; Social Protest; Speech; Voices; Religious Revivals; Oratory; Orators A VOICE FROM TOWN, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I thought, in the days of my droving Last Line: Is youth -- and I've thrown it away. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Towns; Voices; Youth AFTER ANY BATTLE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Voice of earth: these are my children's voices! Born Last Line: And butchery to sacrifice! Subject(s): Death; Earth; Tears; Voices; Dead, The; World AGAIN, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I thy singing next shall heare Last Line: Die, and be turn'd into a lute. Subject(s): Voices AGAINST THY KNEES, by STUART MERRILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Against thy knees my pallid brow Last Line: The kingdom they have robbed me of. Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Knees; Love; Singing & Singers; Voices; Dead, The ALMOST A VOICE, by ANGELA BALL Poem Source First Line: Listne as slowly as you can Last Line: Full of my uncle was, my mother was, %I was Subject(s): Family Life; Voices AMBASSADRESS, by ELMIRA GROGAN Poem Text First Line: One that has not heard a voice in anger Last Line: Haloes around the heads she touches. Subject(s): Death; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Voices; Dead, The AN INTERIOR, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because you cannot sit with me Last Line: Which brings death -- not escape. Subject(s): Books; Death; Pine Trees; Trees; Voices; Reading; Dead, The AN OPEN BOAT, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O what is that whimpering there in the darkness? Last Line: To fret the bare seas at the breaking of day. Subject(s): Boats; Death; Faces; Sea; Voices; Wind; Dead, The; Ocean ASPENS, by OLIVE WATKINS Poem Text First Line: As quivering aspen leaves reflect Last Line: The love notes of your voice. Subject(s): Aspen Trees; Trees; Voices BEGINNINGS OF SPEECH, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: You sling your voice Last Line: As you stamp at the rim of your canyon Subject(s): Speech; Voices BETTER MOMENTS, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mother's voice, how often creeps Last Line: Subdued and humble as a child. Subject(s): Mothers; Voices BOY UNABLE TO SPEAK, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The small boy is looking for his voice Last Line: Was getting dressed up like a cricket Subject(s): Silence; Voices CALLED, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: I'm being called Last Line: From inside my head. %same voice Subject(s): Voices CANTILENA MUNDI, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the rainbows rise through sunset rains Last Line: "to-morrow all the world is not." Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Absence; Earth; Presence; Rainbows; Voices; Separation; Isolation; World CHORUS, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wet bamboo clacking in the night rain Last Line: Ever about all that has yet to answer Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Choirs; Voices CLIFF DWELLER LYRICS: THE SOLOIST, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lady, you who sing soprano Last Line: Or I'll throw a bomb! Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos; Singing & Singers; Voices; Songs CLOISTER HYMN, by EMILY HANSON OBEAR Poem Text First Line: I heard them talk about this changing day Last Line: "yesterday, now, forever -- I am god." Subject(s): Voices 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 CRIES IN THE NIGHT, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I walked in the pines. A coyote Last Line: And knew that his cry was my cry. Subject(s): Animals; Night; Voices; Bedtime CUPID TURNED STROLLER, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At dead of night, when stars appear Last Line: Safe is my bow, but sick thy heart.' Subject(s): Cupid; Dreams; Night; Voices; Eros; Nightmares; Bedtime CUPID'S PROMISE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soft cupid, wanton, amorous boy Last Line: And, by thy grant, his power show? Subject(s): Cupid; Kisses; Oaths; Singing & Singers; Voices; Eros CUSHLAMOCHREE, by FRANCES WRIGHT TURNER Poem Text First Line: I'm calling you - calling Last Line: And turn back the years. Subject(s): Voices DIRGE FOR A LIVING POET, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What! Shall the mind of bard -- historian -- sage Last Line: Restore, restore, o god! Our poet's wandering mind! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Death; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Tears; Voices; Dead, The DREAM OF HAT AND MOUTH, by LIZ WALDNER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A voice, maybe mine, is saying this Last Line: It might have been the voice of the angry april day Subject(s): Dreams; Voices ECHOES, by HELEN M. FRANCIS Poem Text First Line: High up among the cobwebs of the roof Last Line: Save little answering voices all around. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Voices; Worship; Songs ECHOES, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still the angel stars are shining Last Line: Cry farewell, farewell! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Angels; Beauty; Farewell; Night; Voices; Parting; Bedtime ELEANORE, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet eleanore! - fair eleanore!' Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Sound; Voices; Songs ELEANORE, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poet's Biography First Line: Not the star - / the golden-winged herald of the morn Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Sound; Voices; Songs ENTANGLED, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stood as one enchanted Last Line: Fled down the mossy way. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Forests; Birds; Voices; Fear; Escapes; Freedom; Woods; Fugitives; Liberty EPIGRAM: 42, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O miserable sorrow withouten cure! Last Line: As was my pleasure when she was present. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Voices; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism EPIGRAM: TO AN UGLY WOMAN WITH A SWEET VOICE, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When first I met thee - in the dark alone Last Line: But when I saw thee, I was well again! Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Ugliness; Voices FIVE EASY POEMS; FOR ANNE-MARIE ALBIACH: 4 (MEZZA VOICE), by MICHAEL PALMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Does he incline his head to become calligraphy Last Line: Of the odeum? Subject(s): Voices FIVE EASY POEMS; FOR ANNE-MARIE ALBIACH: 4 (MEZZA VOICE), by MICHAEL PALMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Does he incline his head to become calligraphy Last Line: What is the space %of the odeum? Subject(s): Voices FOG-HORN, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Surely that moan is not the thing Last Line: As our cries were swallowed up and all hands lost Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Speech Disorders; Voices FORGOTTEN ORCHARD, by MURIEL DOE THURNEYSEN Poem Text First Line: The air is sweet with apples ripening Last Line: Must touch no windfall in the tangled grass. Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Orchards; Voices FULL CONSCIOUSNESS, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: You are carrying me, full consciousness Last Line: With the glowing diamond in its center Subject(s): God; Self-consciousness; Voices G'L'A'N'C'E'S, by JOAN RETALLACK Poem Source First Line: How to creep up on discover disclose distance in a connec Last Line: Light glanced off Subject(s): Language; Poetry And Poets; Tongues; Voices GERSUIND, by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some amorous demon wrought your limbs Last Line: And pray until the doom of dawn. Subject(s): Graves; Kisses; Love; Voices; Women; Tombs; Tombstones GLIMPSES OF CHILDHOOD: 4. EARLY LOVES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I mind me of a maid with tawny hair Last Line: A ten-year-old lamenting for his dead. Subject(s): Death; Love; Passion; Voices; Dead, The HELEN KELLER, by ZONA GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When first I heard the voice of helen keller Last Line: Concerning the god in man. Subject(s): Death; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Voices; Dead, The HER VOICE, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her eyes have already transfixed him Last Line: He is quiet. Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Eyes; Voices HER VOICE, by CONTENT SHEPARD NICHOLS Poem Text First Line: There is a sweetness in her voice Last Line: Too sweet for all to hear. Subject(s): Voices HER VOICE HAD A DEEP RESONANCE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That must have made her pubic hair %buzz Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Voices; Women HER VOICE WHEN SHE IS FEELING WEAK, by GEOFFREY BROCK Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her voice when she is feeling weak creates Last Line: And hear her say she's fine and won't be late Alternate Author Name(s): Brock, Geoff Subject(s): Voices; Women HOUND VOICE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because we love bare hills and stunted trees Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Dogs; Voices; Relationships I HEAR A VOICE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: I hear a voice from far away Last Line: Thy needs to satisfy. Subject(s): Holy Ghost; Prayer; Soul; Trinity, The; Voices; Holy Spirit IMPORTANT VOICE, by JESSIE M. DOWLIN Poem Text First Line: Quiet held the house, and all Last Line: Until the important cock had spoken? Subject(s): Animals; Houses; Silence; Sleep; Voices KIARTAN THE ICELANDER: DEDICATION TO F. H., by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When at one winter's end our boy looked forth Last Line: Fit for the world's one angel, love himself! Subject(s): Angels; Love; Voices; Winter LEWIS D. HAYES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the midmost glee of the christmas Last Line: Gave it again to him. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Christmas; Grief; Guests; Holidays; New Year; Voices; Nativity, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Visiting LINES TO A PHILANDERER, by BERTA G. GUIRK Poem Text First Line: Your voice no longer holds the power ... Thrill Last Line: I learned, at least, five others had a copy. Subject(s): Voices LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, by JOZE UDOVIC Poem Source First Line: Stars, and sky's crickets, %sang in night's meadow; as it approached Last Line: And its heart %a diving swallow Subject(s): Birds; Echoes; Melodies; Singing And Singers; Voices LONDON, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wander thro' each charter'd street Last Line: And blights with plagues the marriage-hearse. Variant Title(s): London Subject(s): Bible; Corruption In Politics; London; Mythology; Poverty; Voices LOVE'S CHARMING, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Maid of fifteen, in childlike beauty dight Last Line: These are the spells that charmed my wits away. Subject(s): Beauty; Charm; Laughter; Life; Love; Voices MENTAL CASES, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: --and the second is like unto it, thou shalt love Subject(s): Insanity; Nursing Homes; Voices; Madness; Mental Illness; Old Age Homes; Assisted Living MILKING SIAN, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give up thy milk to her who calls Last Line: Give up thy milk to her who calls! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Advice; Gifts & Giving; Heaven; Milk; Voices; Paradise; Milkmen; Milkmaids MIMI, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm no modest city creature Last Line: Smiling rosily, aurora. Subject(s): Love; Summer; Voices MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 13, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My darling scarce thinks music sweet save mine Last Line: Thou echo to the self she knows not yet. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Voices MOZARTIAN AIR, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your name to know I cared not Last Line: Bids youth and childhood back again. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791); Music & Musicians; Voices; Male-female Relations NEW DREAMS FOR OLD, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is there no voice in the world to come crying Last Line: New for old! Subject(s): Dreams; Voices; Nightmares NEW SPRING: 16, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If thou hast good eyes, and look'st Last Line: Thou wilt tread the forest mazy. Subject(s): Hearts; Singing & Singers; Voices; Songs NOT THE BIRD, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He's not the bird I took him for Last Line: And not a peacock, in the bragger! Subject(s): Birds; Peacocks; Voices NUMBER FIFTY-TWO: WINIFRED BENHAM, HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, by VIVIAN SHIPLEY Poem Source First Line: Joseph, my husband, couldn't [or, would not] hold his tongue Last Line: Cut and which trees will move to the center of the frame Subject(s): Voices OCTAVES IN A GARDEN: 32, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He is no lover of the sea who loses Last Line: Where the hills tire and the rough pathway bruises. Subject(s): Melodies; Music & Musicians; Voices ODE TO VOICE, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How I love my eyes, dressed up Last Line: Waiting for a beautiful nakedness to come along Subject(s): Voices ODE TO VOICE, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How I love my eyes, dressed up Last Line: Waiting for a beautiful nakedness %to come along Subject(s): Voices OMENS BY THE WAY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear god! Our pilgrimage Last Line: To meet this fluting run! Subject(s): Graves; Happiness; Omens; Sleep; Voices; Tombs; Tombstones; Joy; Delight ON THE WAY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: A gentle voice is music on the phone: Last Line: I'm coming along the quays in the rain.' Subject(s): Telephones; Voices ONE WITH A SONG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He sings: and his song is heard Last Line: And the blossoms everywhere. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Voices ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE, by MILAN DEKLEVA Poem Source First Line: Women talk the jargon of shattered flowerbeds Last Line: The hundred times safeguarded secret %of worthlessness Subject(s): Alphabets; Language; Speech; Voices OTHER VOICES, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Groaned the mill-wheel below Last Line: Voices of mock and unease. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Voices; Fall OUT OF THE DEPTHS (DE PROFUNDIS), by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Out of the depths comes a voice I hear calling Last Line: Oh thus spake the voice to me. Subject(s): Obedience; Voices PARTCH STATIONS: 4. HE HEARETH THE VOICE, by JANET HOLMES Poem Source First Line: I see little evidence that poets have studied Last Line: Crying through the fog of san francisco: %he heareth the many voices, that we may hear Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Voices PESSIMISM, by NEWTON MACKINTOSH Poem Text First Line: In the age that was golden, the halcyon time Last Line: And the voice of the turtle is dead in the soup. Subject(s): Cynicism; Pessimism; Poetry & Poets; Voices QUADRUPLE VOICES: QUADROPHENIA, by MAJDA KNE Poem Source First Line: A trembling poplar grew, %I graze the greenery in my village Last Line: Has risen from the rotten green fog Subject(s): Fear; Voices RECURSUS, by PALMER. MICHAEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The voice, because of its austerity, will often cause dust to rise. Subject(s): Voices; Language; Words; Vocabulary REMEMBERED MUSIC, by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, lonely heart! Why do thy pulses beat Last Line: Shall with glad seraphs sing, in god's great light. Subject(s): Earth; God; Grief; Hearts; Voices; World; Sorrow; Sadness ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: GEOFFRY RUDEL AND MELISANDA OF TRIPOLI, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the chateau blay still see we Last Line: On the wall, in shy confusion. Subject(s): Love; Pain; Spring; Voices; Suffering; Misery ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 13. MEETING AGAIN, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One summer eve, in the woodbine bower Last Line: Yes, I and the dead, who my side ne'er quitted. Subject(s): Death; Moon; Summer; Voices; Dead, The SARA, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sara stays at home. / her looks are plain Last Line: A white cloth against the glass Subject(s): Beauty; Grief; Insanity; Paintings & Painters; Suicide; Voices; Sorrow; Sadness; Madness; Mental Illness SEND FORTH THE VOICE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Send forth the voice; it never shall return Last Line: Nor shall that golden voice fall mute again. Subject(s): God; Soul; Voices SERENADE, by JOSE ASUNCION SILVA Poem Source First Line: The street is deserted, the night is cold Last Line: And a moan is breathed from the fragile strings %of the sweet guitar Subject(s): Guitars; Singing And Singers; Voices SINGING VOICE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once, camping on a high bluff Last Line: Common song like an %angelic memory Subject(s): Love; Singing And Singers; Voices SINGLE IRIS, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: The iris Last Line: Crashing downward Subject(s): Voices SISTER WATER: THE VOICES OF THE WATER, by AMADO NERVO Poem Source First Line: My drop seeks the entrails of the rock and penetrates them Last Line: Yea, sister voices, I sing Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Praise; Rhyme; Singing And Singers; Voices SOMETHING GRAND, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: From everywhere %we gather on this ground Last Line: Something. %something grand Subject(s): Voices SONG, by JOANNA BAILLIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What voice is this, thou evening gale! Last Line: The dead shall seem to live again. Subject(s): Voices; Love SONG: 66, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give place all ye that doth rejoice Last Line: Praise it who list, I like it not. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Cruelty; Faith; Hearts; Love; Voices; Belief; Creed SONGS FOR A WINTER FIRE: 1. BEHIND THE WAINSCOT, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silence is louder than any noise is Last Line: Things you have never dared venture on. Subject(s): Silence; Singing & Singers; Voices SONGS OF CAPTIVITY: O YE VOICES!, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O ye voices round my own hearth singing Last Line: Ne'er again! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Voices SONGS OF NEW YORK: THE VOICES, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the voice of the city Last Line: Forever blue is the sky! Subject(s): New York City; Voices; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple SONGS ON THE VOICES OF BIRDS; A POET IN HIS YOUTH, AND THE CUCKOO-BIRD, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once upon a time, I lay Last Line: To-morrow, man, if not to-day %now it murmurs, wait, wait, wait! Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Patience; Poetry And Poets; Voices SONGS ON THE VOICES OF BIRDS; CHILD AND BOATMAN, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Martin, I wonder who makes all the songs Last Line: Not I.' Subject(s): Animals; Children; Singing & Singers; Voices; Childhood; Songs SONGS ON THE VOICES OF BIRDS; THE WARBLING OF BLACKBIRDS, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I hear the waters fretting Last Line: "and a ""hey down derry, let's be merry! Little girl and boy!""'" Subject(s): April; Birds; Blackbirds; Voices SOTTO VOCE, by JOHN BREHM Poem Source First Line: To strip away this incessant chatter Last Line: Vanishes almost before she finishes Subject(s): Change; Voices SPRING FEVER, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A soft wind / blows from the evening star Last Line: Abelard, your god was too weak for it! Subject(s): Spring; Voices; Wind STRANGE VOICES SING AMONG THE PLANETS WHICH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And our own shadow hides light with a mask? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Voices STUDENT, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She never spoke, which made her obvious Last Line: For the body to blossom into speech Subject(s): Mouths; Silence; Speech Disorders; Voices; Women SUMMONS, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The eager night and the impetuous winds Last Line: Seeking the lost cause and the brave defeat. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Aging; Messengers; Nature - Religious Aspects; Spring; Voices SYNESTHESIA, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: What sound does sunlight make when it strikes Last Line: The body of a five pointed star Subject(s): Language; Speech; Voices THALATTA, by LEWIS P. MANSFIELD Poem Text First Line: Hark to the soft, imperious conversation Last Line: The ocean's roar is but the voice of wisdom there confined. Subject(s): Voices; Wisdom THE ANSWERING HEIGHTS, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shout at your sounding sea Last Line: Repeated notes down-falling. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Crying; Voices THE BOOK, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I moved from the sun-warmed garden-seat Last Line: Had made me a monk for evermore! Subject(s): Bells; Books; Love; Past; Voices; Wind; Reading THE CALL, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The unforgotten voices call at twilight Last Line: They will not give me peace at dawn and twilight. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Grief; Ireland; Loss; Memory; Voices; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Irish THE CALL OF THE BLOOD, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the water the shadows are creeping Last Line: Lights in the window and watch at the door. Subject(s): Blood; Fear; Life; Voices THE CONSOLATION, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In vain! O no; on zephyr's wings Last Line: Viola, why your stay prolong? Subject(s): Love; Peace; Voices THE DARK SIDE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou hast done well, perhaps Last Line: And god sees good in all! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Evil; Love; Sin; Voices THE DINING ROOM, by FRANCIS JAMMES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a rather dull cupboard here Last Line: "good morning, mr. Jammes, how are you today?" Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Guests; Memory; Spiritual Life; Voices; Visiting THE EPIPHANY OF THE MAD, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the voice of the outcast things Last Line: Approach and cleansed are. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Death; Moon; Singing & Singers; Voices; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dead, The THE EVERLASTING VOICES, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O sweet everlasting voices, be still Last Line: O sweet everlasting voices, be still. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Voices THE FLAMINGO, by LEWIS GAYLORD CLARK Poem Text First Line: Oh! Tell me have you ever seen a red, long-leg'd flamingo? Last Line: A water bird, a gawky bird, a sing'lar bird, by jingo! Subject(s): Bodies; Flamingos; Voices THE GOODLY SONG, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sad and lost I walked where wide Last Line: Us to each other in delight. Subject(s): Hope; Love; Singing & Singers; Voices; Optimism THE GREAT VOICE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I who have heard solemnities of sound Last Line: Silence, that speaks with deafening tones of god. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Silence; Voices THE INNER CHAMBER, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the outer court I was singing Last Line: Or the meaning of what I sing. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Life; Singing & Singers; Voices THE LEAVES, by FRANCIS VIELE-GRIFFIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The leaves, this morning Last Line: That even now, and alone, they intoxicate? Subject(s): Leaves; Singing & Singers; Voices THE LIVING VOICE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Her voice! Like a tone from a thread of gold Last Line: To the love of her love when the world was young! Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Voices; Male-female Relations 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 LOVER'S MESSAGE; SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go, tell amynta, gentle swain Last Line: Attends but death to close his eyes. Subject(s): Death; Love; Soul; Voices; Dead, The THE POET'S DESIRE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He craves not the boon of pleasure Last Line: And the voice before he dies. Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Earth; Poetry & Poets; Voices; World THE POET'S JOURNAL: THE VOICE OF THE TEMPTER, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night the tempter came to me, and said Last Line: And found her brow less dewy-wet than mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Love; Temptation; Voices; Youth; Dead, The THE RUNE OF THE FOUR WINDS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the voice in the corries Last Line: On shore and shallow and sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Life; Nature - Religious Aspects; Voices; Wind THE SHADOW, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you hear the calling, mary, down by the sea? Last Line: Out in the darkness rose the calling of the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Sea; Shadows; Voices; Wind; Dead, The; Ocean THE SINGERS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: When the twentieth century fadeth Last Line: For the distant sake of us who sleep? Subject(s): English Poetry - 19th Century; Hugo, Victor (1802-1885); Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Voices; Songs THE SONG I NEVER SING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As when in dreams we sometimes Last Line: Join in the song I never sing. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Sound; Time; Voices THE SONG OF THE THRUSH, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the beech-trees are green in the woodlands Last Line: Air! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Forests; Singing & Singers; Voices; Woods THE STUDENT, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She never spoke, which made her obvious Subject(s): Mouths; Silence; Speech Disorders; Voices; Women; Stuttering; Muteness THE SUMMER WOMAN, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O wild bee humming in the gorse Last Line: Wild bees, wild bees, come back again! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Eyes; Summer; Tears; Voices; Women THE TONE OF VOICE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: It's not so much what you say Last Line: Keep anger not only out of your words - / keep it out of your voice Subject(s): Voices THE TWO VOICES, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night darkens fast and the shadows darken Last Line: Lest they should wake to weep, should wake to weep. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; Doves; Morning; Night; Tears; Voices; Bedtime THE TYRANT AND THE CAPTIVE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was midnight when I listened Last Line: "has the strength of love and death." Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Tyranny & Tyrants; Voices; Dead, The THE VAICES THAT BE GONE, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When evenen sheades o' trees do hide Last Line: Do miss the vaïces gone. Subject(s): Children; Evening; Grief; Memory; Night; Voices; Childhood; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime THE VANISHED VOICE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There stood a tree beside his boyhood's door Last Line: Youth in the air and sunset in the west. Subject(s): Birds; Gardens & Gardening; Life; Singing & Singers; Trees; Voices; Youth; Songs THE VOICE, by ESTHER TROWBRIDGE CATLIN Poem Text First Line: I heard a voice at early morning say Last Line: "give me this day!" Subject(s): Guests; Voices; Visiting THE VOICE, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hear his voice and the sea's voice Last Line: Two melodies? Subject(s): Sea; Voices; Ocean THE VOICE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: The nightingale I had not heard Last Line: But you, my love, I thank with tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Birds; Voices THE VOICE, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rich is the music of sweet instruments Last Line: Or pale bržnhilde moans her bitter fate. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Voices; Songs THE VOICE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hear it in the twilight; I catch it in the dawn Last Line: "out of the days departed still call to me ""come back!" Subject(s): Aging; Voices; Youth THE VOICE AMONG THE DUNES, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have heard the sea-wind sighing Last Line: Breathes drownëd sighs. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Dunes; Sea; Voices; Wind; Dead, The; Ocean THE VOICE FROM THE GRAY MOON, by DONALD CHESTER EWING Poem Text First Line: The gray moon stretches wide her arms Last Line: And given the sword whereby they fall! Subject(s): Moon; Night; Voices; Bedtime THE VOICE FROM THE TOMB, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Two days we held our festival Last Line: And wander'd on the mountains side when the moon was shining bright Subject(s): Graves;voices; Tombs;tombstones THE VOICE OF MANY WATERS, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far away I heard it Last Line: From the throne of god. Subject(s): God; Praise; Singing & Singers; Voices; Songs THE VOICE OF THE WORM, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The prophets and the saints forever keep Last Line: "and cries, ""have courage! Live!" Subject(s): Courage; Death; Devil; Pain; Prophecy & Prophets; Saints; Voices; Worms; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Suffering; Misery THE VOICES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down in the night I hear them Last Line: Laughs in the shadow-land. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Night; Secrets; Voices; Bedtime THE VOICES OF ROME, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See, from the tower of the capitol, looking abroad Last Line: To build an everlasting state. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Past; Roman Empire; Voices THE VOICES TELL OVER, by GUSTAVE KAHN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The voices tell over: the song that breaks Last Line: Brusque reawakening and end of love. Subject(s): Flutes; Passion; Singing & Singers; Voices; Songs THE WIND'S MESSAGE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There came a whisper down the bland between the dawn and dark Last Line: And strike once more the bridle-track that leads along the bland. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Cities; Life; Trees; Voices; Wind; Urban Life THREE VOICES, by LISA FURMANSKI Poem Source First Line: Noise %I hear air warm, a warping din Last Line: As I break end from end do you bind me in petals in tears Subject(s): Grief; Medicine; Physicians; Sickness; Voices TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: 22. I KNO2 YOUR VOICE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I know your voice. I hear it in the wind Last Line: And purest love was its affinity. Subject(s): Voices TO O.A.E., by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your voice is the color of a robin's breast Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): Voices; Love TO SIR GODFREY KNELLER, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I beheld the fairest of her kind Last Line: And give more beauties, than he takes away. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Kneller, Sir Godfrey (1649-1723); Nature; Paintings & Painters; Speech Disorders; Voices; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Kniller, Gottfried; Stuttering; Muteness TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. I HEARD THE VOICE OF THE WOODS, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the voice of the woods and of the grass Last Line: Walk: and leave all to me. Subject(s): Democracy; Speech; Voices; Oratory; Orators TRANSLATION: 3. FIGURE OUT, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You have to be able to Last Line: You don't invent someone %who already is Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Translating And Interpreting; Voices TWO PURSUITS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A voice said, 'follow, follow'; and I rose Last Line: And will not leave me till I shall go hence. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Life; Religion; Voices; Theology TWO SONNETS TO MY WIFE, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because her voice is schonberg in a dream Last Line: She slaps its face and laughs at its surprise! Subject(s): Voices UNDER THE SOUND OF VOICES, by JOSEPHINE WINSLOW JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Shatters the granite of a world. Subject(s): Voices UNKNOWN VOICE, by CARLOS GERMAN BELLI Poem Source First Line: An unknown voice told me Last Line: I was not flung from the highest peak Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Voices UPON A HOARSE SINGER, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sing me to death; for till thy voice be cleare Last Line: Twill never please the pallate of mine eare. Subject(s): Voices UPON A VERY DEFORMED GENTLEWOMAN, BUT OF A VOICE INCOMPARABLY SWEET, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I chanc'd sweet lesbia's voice to hear Last Line: Whilst she hath tongue, or I have eyes. Subject(s): Physical Disabilities; Voices; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples UPON HER VOICE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let but thy voice engender with the string Last Line: And angels will be borne, while thou dost sing. Subject(s): Voices UPON JULIA'S VOICE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So smooth, so sweet, so silvery is thy voice Last Line: Melting melodious words, to lutes of amber. Subject(s): Voices US, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: There are so many of us in new york, you know Last Line: This one's all about you Subject(s): Friendship; Girls; Voices VOICE AND VISION, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I had never known your face at all Last Line: And the blind cry of all the seas that roll. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Variant Title(s): Sonnets To Miranda: 8 Subject(s): Faces; Pain; Soul; Voices; Suffering; Misery VOICE OF THE LIGHT, by JOHN ENGELS Poem Source First Line: Thins and hurls itself away Last Line: And in every direction at once Subject(s): Voices VOICE-OVER, by ELAINE EQUI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Climbing the tower of babel Last Line: Sometimes, we even answer. %glad we're not alone Subject(s): Conversation; Poetry And Poets; Talk; Voices VOICES, by RONALD BAATZ Poem Source First Line: I've been hearing voices calling me again Last Line: Cannot do that. They can't use %phones. Not even %pushbutton Subject(s): Voices VOICES, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you speak to me Last Line: As he feels the god stooping a bit, to touch his head. Subject(s): Voices VOICES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man died yesternight. To-day the town Last Line: Nay, ask me not: ask only god. He knows. Subject(s): Death; God; Hearts; Soul; Voices; Dead, The VOICES, by WANDA COLEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hear voices. I hear them often. I've heard them Last Line: I hear them. The voices. The noise of lies & analyses %threatening to follow me into life Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda Subject(s): Voices VOICES, by NORA MARKS DAUENHAUER Poem Source First Line: We sound like crying bullheads Subject(s): Voices VOICES, by PAUL DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Up and through the pasture small they climbed Last Line: Rhythms beyond the blood they brought, %music more than bones, %they talking toward each other Subject(s): Voices VOICES, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: There are voices that come from the beyond Last Line: Of god's eternity. Subject(s): Angels; God; Heaven; Mouths; Voices; Paradise VOICES, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: On the boulevards of towns Last Line: Which are then lost in death Subject(s): Neighbors; Towns; Voices VOICES, by HOMER C. HOUSE Poem Source First Line: All else shall die; voices alone live on Subject(s): Voices VOICES, by SHARON OLDS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our voices race to the towers, and up beyond Subject(s): Voices VOICES, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: The voices tell her it's wrong Last Line: Under budding trees in the green grass Subject(s): Voices VOICES (1), by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is it calling by the darkened river Last Line: Falling, 'dream!'? Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Voices VOICES (FOR JAMES LANE ALLEN), by VIRGINIA STAIT Poem Text First Line: I am not dead, I think Last Line: Or flesh to dust made fast! Subject(s): Allen, James Lane (1849-1925); Music & Musicians; Voices VOICES IN THE NIGHT, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lately as I've been drifting Last Line: Without their help Subject(s): Voices VOICES OF THE AIR, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But then there comes that moment rare Last Line: The shrill quick sound that the insect makes. Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): Air; Sea; Voices; Wind; Ocean VOICES OF THE PAST, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You wonder that my tears should flow Last Line: The echoes that remain! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Past; Soul; Tears; Voices VOICES TRANSLUCENT ABOUNDING OR TO SEE, by INGRID FICHTNER Poem Source First Line: Voices translucent abounding or to see Last Line: Darkness yet unaccented on the edge of the letter Subject(s): Voices WHAT VOICE AT MOTH-HOUR, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What voice at moth-hour did I hear calling Last Line: Once heard, hear the voice: its is late. Come home! Subject(s): Voices WHAT VOICE AT MOTH-HOUR, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What voice at moth-hour did I hear calling Subject(s): Voices WHEN WE LIFTED OUR VOICES, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: In a cold school auditorium Last Line: Lift every voice' to begin Subject(s): African Americans; Singing And Singers; Voices WHISPERED--, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: Words %just small Last Line: Like animals %or grass Subject(s): Language; Talk; Voices YOU SHOULD LISTEN CLOSELY, GOD, by MARTHA A. M. THOMS Poem Text First Line: How many voices must be echoing in heaven Last Line: "whimpering, ""father, bread!" Subject(s): Voices YOUNG DEATH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lying a-dying / such sweet things untasted Last Line: And god the temple. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Soul; Voices; Dead, The |
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