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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: WAKING Matches Found: 55 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 4 A.M., by LINDA PASTAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What blandishments the world offers Last Line: The breathing out, the breathing in Subject(s): Dawn; Insomnia; Sleep; Waking AM, by LINDA PASTAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The child gets up Last Line: Over the side of the bed Subject(s): Waking; Morning; Cold; Childhood Memories ANTI-LULLABY, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wake up from a dream Last Line: At the café spartacus Subject(s): Morning; Waking AT FIVE, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This morning I woke up at five Last Line: To hear the milkman at the door! Subject(s): Morning; Waking AT ONE AGAIN: 4. THE WAKING, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over his head the chafer hummeth Last Line: The dreamer hears it, and starts to wake Subject(s): Sleep; Waking AWAKENING, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: In those moments of my grief when I am Last Line: Doctors. I had been taking it all out on susan Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Love - Loss Of; Waking AWAKING, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After night, the waking knowledge Last Line: And my aware awaking loves %the day - until I start to care Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Waking BEFORE MY EYES, by CH'AN CH'ENG Poem Source First Line: The fragrance comes in Last Line: Take a sip from the flower Subject(s): Eyes; Vision; Waking; Zen Buddhism CALLED FROM BED, OR LIZZIE AND KATE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With merry eyes against the golden west Last Line: With those white darlings, and their naked feet. Subject(s): Waking DAWN'S FIRST VOICE, by VIOLA MEYNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I awoke - perhaps too late? Last Line: Of hope to a heart that breaks. Subject(s): Birds; Dawn; Hope; Waking; Sunrise; Optimism DAY-DREAMS, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, sweet are the dreams that darkness brings Last Line: The dreams of our waking hours. Subject(s): Day; Dreams; Love; Waking; Nightmares DREAMS ARE WELL, BUT WAKING'S BETTER, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Leading to no day Variant Title(s): Poem: 449; Poem: 45 Subject(s): Waking FIRST EARLY MORNINGS TOGETHER, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Waking up over the candy store together Subject(s): Waking; Morning; Togethernes; Pigeons GLOW, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I wake up earlier than you and you Subject(s): Waking; Love GOOD MORNING, SPRING, by MARY MORRISON Poem Text First Line: Earth yawned / really Last Line: There are tulips to be bubbled! Subject(s): Waking IN THE MORNING YOU ALWAYS COME BACK, by CESARE PAVESE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The glimmer of dawn / breathes with your mouth Last Line: You are light and morning. Subject(s): Morning; Rebirth; Waking LET ME GET UP EARLY ON THIS SUMMER MORNING, by EUGENE GUILLEVIC Poem Source Last Line: Already, this is victory Subject(s): Waking LIFE, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the infinite sea of eternity Last Line: Through one short hour of fretfulness. Subject(s): Birth; Light; Waking; Child Birth; Midwifery MAN WAKING, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The room was already light when Last Line: Not the utter darkness he desired Subject(s): Waking MORNING, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER Poem Text First Line: The day hath risen from her sleep Last Line: For that benignant smile fills every one with cheer! Subject(s): Greetings; Morning; Waking MORNING AWAKENING, by TS'AN LIAO TZU Poem Source First Line: Dark crane trills daybreak Last Line: Shadows sully my robe Subject(s): Waking; Zen Buddhism MORTAL PRACTICE, by GABRIEL ZAID Poem Source First Line: Raise the oars, be carried Last Line: Where you have landed Subject(s): Life; Waking ON RISING FROM THE DEAD, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saturday noon: the morning of the mind Last Line: With dionysus, singing from the cross! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Morning; Religion; Resurrection, The; Waking; Women; Women's Rights; Theology; Feminism POEM IN ORANGE TONES, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Curtains hung closed, sealing off the window Last Line: To come out on top. Subject(s): Dawn; Nature; Waking; Sunrise SECOND SONG OF INSOMNIA, by MARY A. KONCEL Poem Source First Line: A stranger is humming outside my window. He looks like my dead Last Line: Something that brings night closer to day Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleepwalking; Waking SLEEPING AND WAKING, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She said to herself - 'twas a girl ranging / pleasaunce and lawn Last Line: Where desire of all hearts dwelleth deep in a dream of the dream. Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Shadows; Sleep; Waking; Nightmares; Bedtime SLEEPING AND WORKING, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Clever demons sleep in the mind Last Line: Live as if they'll never sleep again Subject(s): Devil; Reason; Waking SOMETHING WAKES YOU, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source Last Line: In the base of your spine Subject(s): Dreams; Waking SONGS OF THE DAYS AND NIGHTS: SONGS OF THE SPRING DAYS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A gentle wind, of western birth Last Line: That we desire no more? Subject(s): Day; God; Happiness; Heaven; Hope; Nature; Spring; Waking; Joy; Delight; Paradise; Optimism SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 61, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The forest leaves were all asleep Last Line: Lest joy should pass and come no more. Subject(s): Waking SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 76, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the october wind stole in Last Line: Had spent the night with me. Subject(s): Waking; Memory SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 140, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The stars run and run Last Line: There I will see the dawn Subject(s): Insomnia; Waking THE AWAKENING, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you lie sleeping; golden hair Last Line: What though your heart should ache! Subject(s): Passion; Waking THE MORNING FIELDS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I looked from my window Last Line: I thought them dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Fields; Morning; Sleep; Waking; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE SUNLIGHT, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sunlight, the sunlight, / it cometh apace! Last Line: Of heavenly light. Subject(s): Day; Light; Sun; Waking THE THRUSH AND THE MAN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Time to get up! Time to get up! Says the thrush Last Line: Time to get up! O thrush, I rise—I hear! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Advice; Birds; Calm; Mankind; Noises; Thrushes; Waking; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Human Race THE WAKENING, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many thousands are wakening now! Last Line: How shall the sleepers arise from the tombs? Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Waking THE WAKING, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow Subject(s): Men; Night; Religion; Sleep; Waking; Bedtime; Theology THE WAKING, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blue plums in the pewter bowl Last Line: I breathe moths in my cupped hands. Subject(s): Sleep; Waking THE WAKING (2), by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I strolled across / an open field Subject(s): Fate; Waking; Destiny THREE AWAKENINGS IN NEW ENGLAND: 1. WAKING EARLY, by PHILIP BOOTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: 3:00 a.M. %storm rain come quick Last Line: Loved waking to read, reading %to sleep Subject(s): Waking THREE AWAKENINGS IN NEW ENGLAND: 2. WAKING LATE, by PHILIP BOOTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One settles. %into a chair Last Line: In the bowl on the kitchen table Subject(s): Waking UP IN THE MORNING EARLY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cauld blaws the wind frae east to west Last Line: Up in the morning's, &c. Subject(s): Morning; Waking WAKENING, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Looking up at the last from the first sleep Last Line: Than this light or than any remembered heaven Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Day; Dreams; Light; Waking WAKING, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Whither through the morning fled Last Line: Seek to influence—or defeat? Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Sleep; Waking WAKING, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow Last Line: I learn by going where I have to go Subject(s): Men; Night; Religion; Sleep; Waking WAKING (2), by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I strolled across %an open field Last Line: Sang in my veins %that summer day Subject(s): Fate; Waking WAKING EARLY SUNDAY MORNING, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O to break loose, like the chinook Last Line: In our monotonous sublime Subject(s): Sabbath; Waking; God WAKING FROM SLEEP, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inside the veins there are navies setting forth Subject(s): Morning; Waking WAKING FROM SLEEP, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inside the veins there are navies setting forth Last Line: Our whole body is like a harbor at dawn; %we now that our master has left us for the day Subject(s): Waking WAKING UP, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: It is the strangest way to wake up: Last Line: Being born, a word in the air like breath: %superfluous. Subject(s): Solitude; Waking WALLPAPER, by LENNART SJOGREN Poem Source First Line: The birds play in the wallpaper Last Line: And the birds lift from the wallpaper Subject(s): Light; Morning; Waking WHEN I WOKE IN THE MORNING MY SKELETON HAD GONE SOFT, by EVA STROM Poem Source Last Line: Give me ordinary things, only ordinary things now Subject(s): Morning; Thought; Waking WORLD OF NOISE, by NICK MOUDRY Poem Source First Line: The landscape was full of newsreels Last Line: Told us we could no longer sleep & we lay always awake Subject(s): Landscape; Noises; Reality; Waking YOU GET UP. YOUR SILOUETTE, by JOAN BROSSA Poem Source Last Line: From the sky Subject(s): Waking |
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