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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: WALKING Matches Found: 139 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 |
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