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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CITY HOUSEWIFE'S RONDEL, by ELOISE HERRING GORHAM    Poem Text                    
First Line: I walk among my garden blooms
Last Line: I walk among my garden blooms.
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Walking


A COUNTRY WALK, by THOMAS KINSELLA                        Poet's Biography
First Line: Sick of the piercing company of women
Subject(s): Walking


A LITTLE GIRL ON HER WAY TO SCHOOL, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the dark dawn humped off to die
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): Morning; Birds; Walking


A MAN GOES BY, by HAZEL HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where his sure feet pass
Last Line: As he walks upon a street.
Subject(s): Feet; Walking


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


A SONG OF THE ROAD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O I will walk wity you, my lad
Last Line: O I will walk with you.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Love; Roads; Travel; Walking; Wandering & Wanderers; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


A WALK, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cow-honeybourne, that dost survey
Last Line: The priestess and the bread.
Subject(s): Country Life; Courtship; Walking


A WALK, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: February on the narrow beach, 3:oo
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): Walking


AFTERMATH, by LOUISE WILSON DUNWELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Love came and walked beside me yesterday
Last Line: His smile will brighten all my future years.
Subject(s): Future; Love; Smiles; Walking


ALONG SUGARCREEK RAOD, by DONNA SHERRILL COBIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: You carried me %wrapped your arms around me
Last Line: Snuggled father into your coat. %rocked to sleep with each step
Subject(s): Memory; Walking


ALONG THE HIGHROAD THE WAY IS TOO LONG, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: On me, for the broad light of many suns
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Walking; Friendship


AN EVENING WALK AT CROMER, 1795, by AMELIA OPIE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hail scene sublime! Along the eastern hills
Last Line: In utterance fail, and silence I am thine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alderson, Amelia
Subject(s): Night; Walking; Bedtime


APRIL WALK WITH MY DAUGHTER, by CONNIE WANEK    Poem Source                    
First Line: She asks, would you call this twilight or dusk?
Last Line: Fresh and temperate, free of blemish
Subject(s): April; Daughters; Dusk; Walking


AROUND THE BLOCK, by KEITH WALDROP    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I will go for a walk before
Subject(s): Walking; Night; Thought; Bedtime; Thinking


BALANCING UP THE STAIRS, by GARY FINCKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm balancing my slow way up a single flight
Last Line: And transplant while we count our way to paradise
Subject(s): Knees; Walking


BALDOVAN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The scenery of baldovan
Last Line: And quacking in their innocent play.
Subject(s): Forests; Travel; Walking; Woods; Journeys; Trips


BE'MI'STER, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet be'mi'ster, that bist a-bound
Last Line: My bwones when I do vall asleep.
Subject(s): Beauty; Summer; Towns; Walking


BETWEEN THE GARAGE AND THE HOUSE, by LINDA LEE HARPER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have barely enough room
Last Line: Of your face returning %as blank and unfamiliar
Subject(s): Houses; Walking


CAN I TEMPT YOU TO A POND WALK?, by JAMES SCHUYLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tender fingers ran up my ankle
Subject(s): Walking; Time


CARRYING THE BANNER, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: (which is tramp-argot for walking the street / all night)
Last Line: And I said 'thank god' with all my heart, for it was day again!
Subject(s): Cities; Night; Solitude; Walking; Urban Life; Bedtime; Loneliness


CLEARING, by CHRISTIAN HAWKEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: No one spoke, though none of us knew where we were going
Last Line: A rope had been strung to guide us. %I kept my head low
Subject(s): Children; Forests; Walking


COMFORT FOR WALKERS, by JOHN OWEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ne'er did triptolemus in his chariot rise
Last Line: But studs and wheels demand a spacious road.
Subject(s): Walking


COTTAGES ON DIVISADERO, by GARY SOTO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm walking inside the cavern of a wino's mouth
Last Line: A sprinkler right where you're standing
Subject(s): Dreams; Walking


COUNTRY WALK, by THOMAS KINSELLA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sick of the piercing company of women
Last Line: The waters hurtle through the flooded night...'
Subject(s): Walking


EARTH'S BREAST, by ELIZABETH BARBARA CANADAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dear earth, it almost seems a sacrilege
Last Line: Of earth. It breathes so near the heart of god.
Subject(s): Earth; Walking; World


ELIZABETH WALKS IN THE AIR ABOVE PENNSYLVANIA, by NATALIE KENVIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: She is dreaming of the damp press
Last Line: Becomes a walking root
Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Walking


ELLEN LEARNING TO WALK, by FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My beautiful trembler! How wildly she shrinks!
Last Line: When her little light feet first upbore her!
Alternate Author Name(s): Vane, Violet
Subject(s): Children; Walking; Childhood


EVENING WALK, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You give the appearance of listening
Subject(s): Night; Trees; Walking; Bedtime


EXCEPT, RETURNING, BY THE MARLBORO, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I climb the last & drink the former still
Subject(s): Walking; Nature


EXODUS, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We are coming down the pike
Last Line: As you come down the pike?
Subject(s): Hiking; Walking; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism


FIRST STEPS, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like a desert vast and cheerless
Last Line: Sturdy legs, step out!
Subject(s): Children; Walking; Childhood


FLOW GENTLY, SWEET AFTON, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: As gandon walks the field, smoking sweet afton
Last Line: From time to time
Subject(s): Fields; Love; Walking


FOOTSTEPS, by PETRONELLA HELEN URASKY CHAPP    Poem Text                    
First Line: Footsteps always passing by
Last Line: Footsteps always passing by . . .
Subject(s): Walking


FOOTSTEPS, by TERRY MULERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Soon I will kill
Last Line: At the sound of my approaching %boots
Subject(s): Sound; Walking


FOR A CHILD: 1. WALKING SONG, by CHARLES WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here we go a-walking, so softly, so softly
Last Line: His wings.
Subject(s): Imagination; Walking; Fancy


GETTING ALONG, by LUCY LARCOM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We trudge on together, my good man and I
Subject(s): Aging; Birds; Life; Walking; Women


GOING UP FOR THE MAIL, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Walking up for the mail
Last Line: Setting the first blaze %on sobaka's ass
Subject(s): Travel; Walking


GOOD HOURS, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I had for my winter evening walk
Last Line: At ten o'clock of a winter eve.
Subject(s): Evening; Winter; Walking; Sunset; Twilight


HANDFISHING RETABLO: 3, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Walking from a corona of bees carumba
Last Line: He is a step ahead all ear and reverie way old way down
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D.
Subject(s): Walking


HAT OF MISS MAGEE, by JOANIE MACKOWSKI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw miss magee walking down the road
Last Line: Trembling close about her wild eyebrows
Subject(s): Walking; Women


HILL WALKER, by IDRIS CAFFREY    Poem Source                    
First Line: A girl picks purple heather
Last Line: Words to fall away, hardly spoken
Subject(s): Girls; Rainbows; Walking


HOME FROM A WALK, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Assassinated by the sky
Last Line: Assassinated by the sky
Subject(s): Feet; Travel; Walking


HOW THE STREETS IN FRONT OF KAUFMANN'S DEPARTURE STORE TELL ME ....., by RICK CAMPBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: For years I have been lost. Some nights I have known it
Last Line: For the light to change, together at last
Variant Title(s): How The Streets In Front Of Kaufmann's Department Store Tell Me....
Subject(s): Home; Loss; Moving And Movers; Night; Pennsylvania; Refugees; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Walking


I GUIDED THE LONG TRANSHUMANCE OF THE HERD, by AIME CESAIRE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To walk across the slumbers of cyclones that carry
Last Line: The flambe belly of receding fair weather
Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Walking


I'M WALKING VERY SLOWLY TODAY, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Outside and even in the house
Last Line: But I know I'm not likely to be given them
Subject(s): Aging; Walking


IN AUTUMN WHEN THE WOODS ARE RED, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And skies are gray and clear
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Autumn; Walking


IN THE STILLNESS O' THE NIGHT, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ov all the housen o' the pleace
Last Line: In the stillness o' the night.
Subject(s): Love; Night; Walking; Winter; Bedtime


INCREDIBLE!, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It must be I am mistaken; one bird note
Last Line: Who have winged with poetry beyond all prose!
Subject(s): Hearts; Seasons; Walking


INSPIRATION, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The common paths by which we walk and wind
Last Line: Of a star-filled winter's night.
Subject(s): Inspiration; Seasons; Walking


IT'S RAINING, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For so long there is nothing to do
Last Line: We are bright, two bulbs nearing the city from a dark roof
Subject(s): Leisure; Walking


JOY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: She looks, sees a face that loves being adored
Last Line: Savours the joy of being ignored.
Subject(s): Walking


LATE SHIFT (2), by MELODY GOETZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Imagine the body as a restingplace for the soul-no, a covering, the soul needs
Last Line: Yellow; branches wet & black & thin september morning, and I want to walk %& walk & walk
Subject(s): Bodies; Soul; Walking


LEARNING TO GO ALONE, by JANE TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, my darling, come away
Last Line: After such a walk as this.
Subject(s): Babies; Walking; Infants


LET'S GO SOME PLACE, by MYRL RHINE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come, let's go to london
Last Line: We might go for a walk?
Subject(s): Travel; Walking; Journeys; Trips


LETTER IN NOVEMBER, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love, the world
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Walking; Autumn; Fall


LONG WALK WEST, by DAVID H. ROSENTHAL    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I started out
Last Line: Now for quite some time: %meadow, shadow, tree
Subject(s): Walking; West (u.s.)


LOVE IN EXILE I: 4, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou walkest with me as the spirit-light
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Walking; Love; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


MAD ATTACK, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bless them that curse you, he said
Last Line: Of rain. She dodged and danced and walked away %with her good name.
Subject(s): Curses; Escapes; Walking


MARCH WALK, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was walking because I wasn't upstairs sitting
Last Line: Waiting for a single apple to tumble from the upmost limb.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Walking


MARGITES, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I neither plough the field, nor sow
Last Line: And think a life well lost is mine.
Subject(s): Walking; Idleness; Decay


MIRTH, by EDITH COURTENAY BABBITT    Poem Text                    
First Line: I walked, one winter day
Last Line: Of winter sun and bird at play.
Subject(s): Chickadees; Walking; Winter


MISS KILMANSEGG AND HER PRECIOUS LEG: HER FIRST STEP, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Supposing the trunk and limbs of man
Last Line: That promised a golden lion!
Subject(s): Amputees; Walking


MOMA POEMS IN TIME OF THE PLAGUE: 3. THREE MEN WALKING, by THOMAS AVENA    Poem Source                    
First Line: So close so %intent
Last Line: Either this or nothing
Subject(s): Desire; Mankind; Walking


MORE WALKS, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whene'er I take my walks abroad
Last Line: All better off than me!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas
Subject(s): Fortune; Walking


MY MEMORY LANE, by LULU MINERVA SCHULTZ    Poem Text                    
First Line: I know a lane where shadows fall
Last Line: A boy walks there -- but with a cane.
Subject(s): Memory; Roads; Walking; Paths; Trails


MY WOBBLE, by PHIL WEIDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Five days a week
Last Line: So I can sneak %up on perfection
Subject(s): Walking


NIGHT IS A CISTERN, by ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Night is a cistern. Owls sing. Refugees tread meadow roads
Subject(s): Night; Walking; Bedtime


NOCTURNE, by WILLIAM GREENOUGH SCHOFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So hand in hand again, through scented dark
Last Line: We now keep walking all the deadly while.
Subject(s): Moon; Walking


ODYSSEY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: She trudged a long way through mucky fields to feed birds
Last Line: She heard them singing afterwards.
Subject(s): Birds; Fields; Walking


OLD FINN (85) WALKS, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Why? Y don't have no car
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Nature; Old Age; Walking


ON A COUNTRY ROAD, A YOUNG MAN FALLS FORWARD AND GREETS REALITY, by ANDY WEAVER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nearby, a heron sits
Last Line: These broken branches %of metaphor
Subject(s): Country Life; Mankind; Reality; Walking


PAUL, by ROGER FIELD    Poem Source                    
First Line: He walks in from
Last Line: The eyes as black as ever
Subject(s): Mankind; Walking


PEDOMETER, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My thoughts beat out in sonnets while I walk
Last Line: O marvellous to stride and brood upon it!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Walking


PEPPERING ROADS, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If you wish to see roads in perfection
Last Line: Amply pay you for all you have passed!
Subject(s): Nonsense; Roads; Shoes; Travel; Walking


PERSPECTIVE, by GRAY JACOBIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: That tiny figure in the distance, an eighth of an inch tall
Last Line: And free, and I've yet to speak to him of my dismay
Subject(s): Life; Marriage; Walking


PICKING HIS WAY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: James joyce walks down a laneway
Last Line: Blind stylish man
Subject(s): Aging; Change; Cities; Ireland; Joyce, James (1882-1941); Walking


PILGRIMAGE, by LAURA CAMPBELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: I will tread on the golden grass of my bright field
Last Line: In the glow of the early day; and the east is red.
Subject(s): Beauty; Faith; Immortality; Nature - Religious Aspects; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Travel; Walking; Belief; Creed; Journeys; Trips


POETIC HISTORY OF THE 7TH IOWA REGIMENT: MARCH TO CAMP MONTGOMERY, by GEORGE S. RUTHERFORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Again we have orders, from high sources to march
Last Line: We completed this journey of four or five miles.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Camping; U.s. - History; Walking; Camps; Summer Camps


PRIVILEGE, by RUTH MILLER REED    Poem Text                    
First Line: If youth were all- fleet - footed, gay with song
Last Line: The master walked beside the least of these.
Subject(s): Grandchildren; Grandparents; Walking; Youth; Grandsons; Granddaughters; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


PUTTING DOWN, by JAMES P. SCOFIELD    Poem Source                    
First Line: One day he stumbled
Last Line: Death is not sleep. %walking away from him, I stumble
Subject(s): Sickness; Walking


REMEMBRANCE OF A FALL WALK, by IRA SADOFF    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once we were tangled in the branches
Subject(s): Walking; Childhood Memories; Home


REPETITION, by KAY RYAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Trying to walk
Subject(s): Walking; Habits


REPETITIONS, by DAVID WOO    Poem Source                    
First Line: When he kneels in the gravel
Last Line: Helpless, self-conscious, slightly lopsided, %like our father's
Subject(s): Family Life; Walking


SATAN'S HIGHWAY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: With satan joyously leading the way
Last Line: They follow the road to his old home town.
Subject(s): Homecoming; Roads; Towns; Travel; Travel Directions; Walking; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


SCARCE TOLERABLE LIFE, WHICH ALL LIFE LONG, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Song where the choirs of sunny heaven stand choired
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Nature; Walking; Desire


SCOUTING HIGH SIERRA, by PHIL WEIDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Slowly walking migration
Last Line: Boy for over 30 years %don't come close
Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Nature; Walking


SEA WASHES SAND SCOURS SEA, by THOM VANDER VEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Walking the shore taht day, each reaches down
Last Line: The day does not diminish other days
Subject(s): Sea; Walking


SMALL DEFEATS: WALKING THROUGH SEASONS, by GORDON WEAVER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lady, take a thoughtful, loving walk with me
Last Line: Lady, I ask you, what else earns its certain end so well as a too-short %loving walk?
Subject(s): Aging; Nature; Seasons; Walking; Women


SONG FOR A SUMMER'S DAY, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Through fen and farmland walking
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Country Life; Walking


SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 23, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Of your foot, give me the walk
Last Line: And of your stockings, the garter
Subject(s): Legs; Walking


SPRING DAY: WALK, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Over the street the white clouds meet, and sheer away without touching
Subject(s): Spring; Walking


STRANGE FEAST, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Went to war, returned, found peace
Last Line: Likes to walk the streets now, and the desolate beach
Subject(s): Love; Memory; Peace; Regret; Solitude; Walking; War


SUN USED TO SHINE, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun used to shine while we two walked
Last Line: Go talking and have easy hours
Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward
Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Herefordshire, England; Poetry And Poets; Walking


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


TAKING TO THE HILLS, by RACHEL WETZSTEON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If walking, like wine, only abets a sad mood
Subject(s): Walking; Nature; Mountains; Love; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


TALKING TO THE MOON, by JOHN KOOISTRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Out with the dog
Last Line: And all that space %that couldn't care less
Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Moon; Walking


THE BEST KICK, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I met a gentleman keen on walking
Last Line: "count me in on it, lad,"" said I."
Subject(s): Flight; Sailing & Sailors; Walking; Flying; Seamen; Sails


THE CORN ON JOSIE'S TOE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The board walk, atlantic city
Last Line: Tis a corn on josie's toe.
Subject(s): Accidents; Atlantic City, New Jersey; Feet; Toes; Walking


THE HILLS ARE TIPPED WITH SUNSHINE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Song where the choirs of sunny heaven stand choired
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Mountains; Walking; Nature; Weariness


THE MASTERPIECE, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas blush of morning as I went
Last Line: Cries 'lilac! Lilac! Lilac!'
Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs; Walking


THE RISING TIDE, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An idle man, I stroll at eve
Last Line: And still the lessening light is sweet.
Subject(s): Evening; Seashore; Tides; Walking; Sunset; Twilight; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE SCHOOL GIRL: AN IDYLL, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind that all the day had scarcely clashed
Last Line: Still shook and jingled in my dream.
Subject(s): Girls; Walking; Grief


THE SUN USED TO SHINE, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun used to shine while we two walked
Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward
Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Herefordshire, England; Poetry & Poets; Walking; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


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


THE TREES OF MADAME BLAVATSKY, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is always the cough. In the afternoon
Last Line: Showing her breasts to a boy in a cemetery.
Subject(s): Convalescence; Secrets; Singing & Singers; Trees; Walking; Songs


THE VISIT, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the snowdrop goes to town
Last Line: And weariness falls from the shoulders.
Subject(s): Country Life; Walking


THE WALKING MARATHON, by LOUISE LEIGHTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The hippodrome was vast and cold
Last Line: Around, around the floor.
Alternate Author Name(s): Purdy, Susan Louise
Subject(s): Walking


THE WEARY WALKER, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A plain in front of me
Last Line: Ever the road!
Subject(s): Walking


THEY WALK, SIT IN THE PARK, by ENDRE KUKORELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: They walk, sit in the park, an outing, the sun
Last Line: The sun and the wind, about these
Subject(s): Parks; Walking


THIRD PERSON, by LOUISE LOUIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: He must have walked
Last Line: "so too, are you!"
Subject(s): Walking; Wishes


THREE AMORETTI: 2. ON CANAL & BROADWAY, by RICK BAROT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Since you came back I've been all rhymes
Last Line: Here,' you say - word enough for me for now
Subject(s): Cities; Friendship; Streets; Walking


THREE MEN WALKING, THREE BROWN SILHOUETTES, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They remember the dead who died in the resistance
Subject(s): Men; Walking


THREE MEN WALKING, THREE BROWN SILHOUETTES, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They remember the dead who died in the resistance
Last Line: The snow grows heavier
Subject(s): Men; Walking


TO A WHITETHROAT, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If thou but pipe I will a pilgrim be
Last Line: The gentle exclamation of the dove.
Subject(s): Birds; Solitude; Walking; Loneliness


TO MY MOTHER, by FLORANZ HILDRUP EMTAGE    Poem Text                    
First Line: She walked a high road, I could see her there
Last Line: But this I know, that she still walks -- and sings.
Subject(s): Morning; Mothers; Roads; Singing & Singers; Walking; Paths; Trails; Songs


TWO DAYS, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Old mike clancy went for a stroll
Last Line: "o! Sure, this day was fine,"" sez he."
Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A.
Subject(s): Walking


TWO STREETS, by EMMETT MALOY COUNTS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Today, while walking through a hardened street
Last Line: Today I walked upon a velvet street.
Subject(s): Asphalt; Streets; Walking; Wandering & Wanderers; Concrete; Pavements; Avenues; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


UPON GRACIOSA, WALKING AND TALKING, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When as abroad, to greet the morn
Last Line: And, by a word restored, live.
Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T.
Subject(s): Healing; Talk; Walking; Cures


VELVET SHOES, by ELINOR WYLIE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let us walk in the white snow
Last Line: We shall walk in the snow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs.
Subject(s): Shoes; Silence; Snow; Walking; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


VERSES DESCRIPTIVE OF AN EARLY MORNING WALK IN APRIL: 1830, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The blithe voice o' spring through the woodlan's was ringin'
Last Line: "an' will lo'e till I leave't for ""the lan' o' the leal."
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Nature; Spring; Walking


WADING IN A MARSH, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nothing here in this rain-fed marsh
Subject(s): Swamps; Walking; Bogs; Fens; Marshes


WALK, by RAYMOND CARVER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I took a walk on the railroad track
Last Line: And go. Walking first on one rail %and then the other
Subject(s): Railroads; Walking


WALK THERE, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The way through the woods is past trees
Last Line: Walk there
Subject(s): Walking; Forests


WALKING, by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: In my head I am
Subject(s): Walking And Walkers


WALKING, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Walking back on a chill morning past kilmer's lake
Last Line: Dark endless weight of water.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Hunting; Nature; Walking; Water; Hunters


WALKING FIELDS AT NIGHT SOUTH OF HAMPTON, IOWA, by STEVE GEHRKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The last of the year's wheat is drought-bruised and bolted
Last Line: I say, if there never were stars I would %not miss them
Subject(s): Bodies; Fields; Iowa; Physical Disabilities; Walking


WALKING IN THE ZOO, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "the stilton, sir, the cheese, the o.K. Thing to do"
Last Line: "the horror and the agony, that sunday in the zoo"
Subject(s): Animals;sabbath;walking;zoos; Sunday


WALKING MANTRA, by PHIL WEIDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Walking laps at highland's
Last Line: But soon give it up. %too presumptious
Subject(s): Activity; Walking


WALKING MEDITATION, by CHASE TWICHELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm the first tall animal
Subject(s): Walking; Nature


WALKING TO SCHOOL, by SILVIA CURBELO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Father in a blue raincoat humming
Last Line: Old tin cups waiting to be filled
Subject(s): Walking


WALKING TO WORK, by TED KOOSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Today, it's the obsidian
Subject(s): Walking


WALKING-STICKS AND PAPERWEIGHTS AND WATERMARKS, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Walking among sceptre-headed
Subject(s): Walking; Canes


WE WALK, EXHAUSTED AND DIMLY CHANGED, by EDVARD KOCBEK    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Dressed, ready for a night journey, we have so far yet to go
Subject(s): Travel; Walking


WHAT TWO KIDDIES SAW, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Two kiddies once went out for a walk
Last Line: Tis lacking in grace to even laugh.
Subject(s): Children; Travel; Walking; Wandering & Wanderers; Childhood; Journeys; Trips; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


WHEN WE TWO WALKED IN LENT, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And we that were wise live free %to recall our happiness then
Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward
Subject(s): Happiness; Walking


WHEN YOU WALK, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When you walk in a field
Last Line: The beautiful clouds go by!
Subject(s): Cities; Country Life; Walking; Urban Life


WINTER WALK, by TWYLA HANSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The artist selects pink
Last Line: Another day is about to begin
Subject(s): Walking; Winter


WITH DAISY IN THE RAIN, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: There are many occupations
Last Line: When walking home with daisy in the rain.
Subject(s): Children; Rain; Walking; Childhood


WITH FLOWERS IN OUR HANDS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come let us walk thro' their burning hell
Last Line: Have to hurt us who carry flowers!
Subject(s): Evil; Flowers; Hell; Walking