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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