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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: WEARINESS Matches Found: 125 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 1, by ESTHER TELLERMAN Poem Source First Line: Fatigue. %I mean a Last Line: Does not break away %from the angle. Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Weariness 2, by ESTHER TELLERMAN Poem Source First Line: In medias we saw %each date Last Line: Probably %in a paltry place Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Weariness 3, by ESTHER TELLERMAN Poem Source First Line: Rammed clay area. %we traveled. Last Line: I will weave you %in stone %in new% sites. Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Weariness A TIRED PRAYER, by ELSIE ROBINSON Poem Text First Line: Father: / the way is hard, and I am torn ... Doubt Last Line: For once, they tell me, you were tired too. Subject(s): Weariness; Fatigue ABRASION, by BROOKE HORVATH Poem Source First Line: In the photograph, grandfather hammers risers. They are both perfectly Last Line: Softly raw Subject(s): Aging; Weariness ALAS!, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! The woe the high of heart Last Line: And dies a victim to its strength. Subject(s): Reason; Weariness; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Fatigue ALL DAY: WEARINESS, by JEANNETTE AUGUSTUS MARKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day I have thought of rain-wet bark Last Line: Like weariness! Subject(s): Rain; Trees; Weariness; Fatigue AMORIS EXSUL: 1. MOONRISE, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am weary of living, and I long to rest Last Line: Of burning noontides, pallid with spent desire. Subject(s): Weariness; Fatigue AN OUT-WORN SAPPHO, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How tired I am! I sink down all alone Last Line: Say simply: she was tired. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Aging; Time; Wandering & Wanderers; Weariness; Fatigue AT THE SHOE-MENDING SHOP, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: Here's a homely gathering Last Line: To far perplexing places. Subject(s): Old Age; Weariness; Fatigue AT TWILIGHT (ON THE WAY TO GOLCONDA), by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weary, I sought kind death among the rills Last Line: And hope that conquers immemorial hate. Subject(s): Death; Old Age; Weariness; Dead, The; Fatigue AVOWAL, by JEAN MARIE MATHIAS P. A. VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forest and plain are gone Last Line: As nights bereft of wind. Alternate Author Name(s): Villiers De L'isle-adam, Auguste De Subject(s): Nature; Weariness; Fatigue BACK TO THE FARM, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'll buy a little farm somewhere,' the old Last Line: They turn their eyes to the old home farm. Subject(s): Farm Life; Old Age; Retirement; Weariness; Agriculture; Farmers; Fatigue BEFORE SENTENCE, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To-night, though every kind of poison sap Last Line: And thine enslaving amour with the slav! Subject(s): Courage; France; Honor; Justice; Trials; Waiting; Weariness; Valor; Bravery; Fatigue BEST, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: When the body is so tired it can't record Last Line: Dominant as ice or fever Subject(s): Weariness; Writing And Writers BIRTHDAYS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A birthday is a solemn thing; a fellow Last Line: A few more teeth have fallen out, but I'm as happy as a boy. Subject(s): Birthdays; Old Age; Weariness; Fatigue BLACK SHEEP, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From their folded mates they wander far Last Line: And marvel, out in the cold. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Hearts; Night; Sheep; Wandering & Wanderers; Weariness; Estrangement; Outcasts; Bedtime; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes; Fatigue BREATH, by JOAN+(1) MURRAY Poem Source First Line: He's rolled again onto his cracked rib Last Line: And as he leans his weight %I feel that lightness now Subject(s): Breath; Weariness CHARM FOR THE WARY SENSE, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: Thorned in the thicket / of briary days Last Line: On mint and on berry. Subject(s): Old Age; Weariness; Fatigue COPPER POT, by LENNART SJOGREN Poem Source First Line: The copper expands from within Last Line: Falls and becomes a flattened sheet of copper Subject(s): Weariness DAYS, THE MONTHS, THE YEARS, by DIEGO VALERI Poem Source Last Line: It's gone. And let it be Subject(s): Aging; Weariness DISORDER OF MY HAIR, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: My hollow eyes and gaunt cheeks %are your fault Subject(s): Grief; Weariness ENCOURAGEMENT, by ELIZABETH PHELPS ROUNSEVELL Poem Text First Line: I am so tired!' I cried Last Line: But you and I will know. Subject(s): Strength; Weariness; Fatigue EVEN THEN (FOR A TANAGRA FIGURINE), by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: A wearied earth prescribes the stale despair Last Line: "the sin of ""charming time""—""do come again""?" Subject(s): Time; Weariness; Fatigue FAGGED OUT; A POEM WITHOUT ENERGY ENOUGH TO FIND RHYMES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I want to let go Last Line: Oh, I want to let go. Subject(s): Imitation; Poetry & Poets; Weariness; Fatigue FAITH, by E. DEVILLIERS-HERTZLER Poem Text First Line: If I could lay my head upon your heart Last Line: If I could lay my head upon your heart! Subject(s): Comfort; Love; Strength; Weariness; Fatigue FASTING, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis morning now, yet silently I stand Last Line: And it is day! Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Lent; Love; Metaphor; Night; Selflessness; Sleep; Weariness; Similes; Bedtime; Fatigue FATIGUE, by NIKO GRAFENAUER Poem Source First Line: Winds bloat on the branches like a long restrained urge Last Line: The waste country before you greens with spreading mould Subject(s): Weariness FIRED, by FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fired! / why, here I am just as true Last Line: Though_ _ _ _ _ _fired. Subject(s): Old Age; Weariness; Fatigue FROM A LONG WAY OUT OF PAH-GATZIN-KAY, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With all those I love Last Line: I hold myself in my own arms like a dead friend Subject(s): China; Travel; Weariness; Journeys; Trips; Fatigue FROM ALTRURIA, by FRANCES M. MILNE Poem Text First Line: A little glimpse of heaven upon our wearied earth Last Line: The law of life eternal — the law of brotherhood. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Weariness; Fatigue GALLANT AGE, by N. M. FRIES Poem Text First Line: Oh, gallant age, with head held high Last Line: To keep young feet from going astray. Subject(s): Old Age; Weariness; Fatigue HARD WORK, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's hard to keep smiling when troubles are Last Line: Like a smile. Subject(s): Grief; Weariness; Sorrow; Sadness; Fatigue HOPE, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When all the world is dark and drear Last Line: The sunshine sifts like grains of gold. Subject(s): Hope; Weariness; Optimism; Fatigue I AM TIRED OF ALL THE YEARS CAN GIVE, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: My life is all but death Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Death; Weariness; Transcience I AM WEARY, MOTHER, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am weary, mother, and I fain would rest Last Line: I'll see once more the dear ones that I love. Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): Mothers; Weariness; Fatigue I'M A-WEARY, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm a-weary with care, I'm a-weary with care Last Line: Like the sea-waves around yon lone rock on the shore. Subject(s): Death; Old Age; Weariness; Dead, The; Fatigue IMPERIAL NOSTALGIAS: 4, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Withered, harvested, bare, the grass Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Weariness; Fatigue IMPERIAL NOSTALGIAS: 4, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Withered, harvested, bare, the grass Last Line: Dreams, like a giant huaco that keeps vigil Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Weariness INFIRM, by EDWARD SANDFORD MARTIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will not go,' he said, 'for well' Last Line: And took his hat and went to see. Subject(s): Courtship; Desire; Weariness; Fatigue LIFE, by KATHRYN RICH TICE Poem Text First Line: Yesterday - I met her, with her gladsome Last Line: It this be life, it still is death, to all the joys we know. Subject(s): Life; Weariness; Fatigue MICHAEL ANGELO, by AUGUSTE BARBIER Poem Text First Line: How sad a glance, how shrunk a face thou hast Last Line: Renowned but weary thou didst leave the light. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Weariness; Fatigue MOTHS, by JOSEPH U. HARRIS Poem Text First Line: We flit about Last Line: And our only speech a sigh. Alternate Author Name(s): Upper, Joseph Subject(s): Love; Old Age; Relationships; Togetherness; Weariness; Fatigue MOUNTAIN LIVING: 10, by HAN SHAN TE-CH'ING Poem Source First Line: I'm so rotted out Last Line: Like an evening's frost Subject(s): Weariness; Zen Buddhism MY HEART AND I, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enough! We're tired, my heart and I Last Line: I think, we've fared, my heart and I. Subject(s): Grieg; Weariness; Hearts; Fatigue NEARLY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The most interesting aspect of complete fatigue Last Line: Effect the nearly resurrection %of the nearly dead. Subject(s): Beds; Sleep; Weariness NEURASTENIA, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Recitation First Line: I watch the happier people of the house Last Line: How black it is, how fast it is, below? Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Variant Title(s): In Affliction Subject(s): Weariness; Fatigue NIGHT, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: The weary day has leaned her head in slumber Last Line: From them, and me. Subject(s): Night; Rest; Sleep; Weariness; Bedtime; Fatigue NOON, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Noon whose kingdom summer is, spread wide along the plain's expanse Last Line: Seven times thy heart made stronger in the furnace of thy loss. Subject(s): Noon; Weariness; Fatigue OFF CAPE SANTO GARCIA, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O sea! Thy waves are cold and dark Last Line: But not a faithless friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Old Age; Sea; Weariness; Ocean; Fatigue OLD TIMERS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When old men meet they ask for news of Last Line: "and dead they still remain," Subject(s): Old Age; Solitude; Weariness; Loneliness; Fatigue OUT OF THE DEEP', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have mercy, thou my god-mercy my god Last Line: Lord, I repent; help thou my helpless loss Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Weariness; Mercy; God OUTSIDER, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A disinterested act, stumbled on Last Line: I teeter between rage and scorn Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Homeless; Hunger; Weariness PATIO, by JORGE LUIS BORGES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With evening / the two or three colors of the patio grew weary Subject(s): Future Life; Old Age; Weariness; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Fatigue PATIO, by JORGE LUIS BORGES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With evening %the two or three colors of the patio grew weary Last Line: It is lovely to live in the dark friendliness %of covered entrance way, arbor, and wellhead Subject(s): Future Life; Old Age; Weariness PAVILION, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sit in the study Last Line: A kind of smile on my long dark lips Subject(s): Books; Writing & Writers; Weariness POOR ROSE, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beware!' you bird now in glee on the bough Last Line: But when will the best beware? Subject(s): Birds; Love - Loss Of; Weariness; Fatigue PUSH, by JAY P. WHITE Poem Source First Line: You can find me at the gym before noon where gray men Last Line: Radiating clemency and comedy, unspoken, no eye contact %made Subject(s): Old Age; Weariness QUEST, by CHARLOTTE KELTON Poem Text First Line: When april brings the chimney swift, her nest Last Line: The swifts, deserting home, row out of sight. Subject(s): Weariness; Wings; Fatigue RETURN OF THE LOST SON, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: It is color that carries our lives Last Line: The golden grip of sunflowers Subject(s): Fathers And Sons; Old Age; Weariness SATIETY, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have outlived my life, and linger on Last Line: A clod, perhaps at rest, within a clod. Subject(s): Weariness; Fatigue SHADE TREE, by ANN S. GOLDSMITH Poem Source First Line: Trapjaw was tired Last Line: In his mind, he moved toward it %stepping lightly, almost on air Subject(s): Trees; Weariness SINGER SITS DOWN, by JAMES CERVANTES Poem Source First Line: Too tired to sing, the singer sits down Last Line: The late-arriving fumes of night Subject(s): Singing And Singers; Weariness SONGS OF SOULS THAT FAILED, by MARION COUTHOUY SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We come from the war-swept valleys Last Line: To cover our grief and rest. Subject(s): Cowardice; Fights; Riots; War; Weariness; Fatigue SONGS OF THE NIGHT WATCHES: THE FIRST WATCH. TIRED, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, I would tell you more, but I am tired Last Line: O, I am tired! Subject(s): Life; Light; Love; Night; Sleep; Weariness; Bedtime; Fatigue SONNET, MARCH 1791, by MARY TIGHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As the frail bark, long tossed by stormy winds Last Line: And then, adorn her with thy grace divine. Alternate Author Name(s): Blachford, Mary Subject(s): God; Weariness; Fatigue SONNET: 8, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With many a weary step, at length I gain Last Line: And pleasant is the way that lies before. Subject(s): Climbing; Home; Life; Mountains; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Travel; Weariness; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips; Fatigue SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 99, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I am not of bronze Last Line: With so many blows Subject(s): Weariness SPEAK NOT, LET NO WORD BREAK', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: With the silence I have placed on them Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Loss; Relationships; Silence; Weariness SPEEDING YEARS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How swift the years roll on, my friend, how Last Line: Homeward on a dray; how swift the years roll on! Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Old Age; Weariness; Fatigue STILL TO BE DONE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Tiredness hits him, failure snuggles in close Last Line: Everything is still to be done. Everything. Subject(s): Aging; Disappointment; Weariness STRETCH OUT, FOR LIFE IS WEARY, by FRANCIS VIELE-GRIFFIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stretch out,for life is weary at your side Last Line: Sings in the radiance of her smile. ... Subject(s): Life; Weariness; Fatigue STUDENTS' DOG, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: The students play at breaking the ice Last Line: He is old %their age Subject(s): Old Age; Weariness SUNSET ON GIBRALTAR, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis sweet upon a summer eve to stand Last Line: Far buena vista's lights allure my weary feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Gibraltar; Soldiers; Spain - History; War; Weariness; Fatigue SWEET WEARINESS, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fatigue itself may be a pleasant thing Last Line: And looked, long, long, upon the opening rose. Subject(s): Weariness; Fatigue TAEDIUM VITAE, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weary of life! Ah! Wherefore live Last Line: But one dull longing for the end. Subject(s): Weariness; Fatigue TELLING THEM OF TAMPA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "weary months I've spent in tampa, where the luscious hardtack grows" Last Line: Down at -- o! Confound old tampa. Sister! Won't you pass / the cake! Subject(s): Camping;war Bonds;weariness; Camps;summer Camps;fatigue THE CORN HUSKER, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Hard by the indian lodges, where the bush Last Line: Like the dead husks that rustle through her hands. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Corn; Injustice; Labor & Laborers; Metaphor; Native Americans; Weariness; Work; Workers; Similes; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Fatigue THE DIRGE OF 'CLAN SIUBHAIL' (THE WANDERING FOLK), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sorrow upon me on the grass and on the wandering road Last Line: Sorrow upon me on the grass and on the wandering road. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Day; Grief; Night; Wandering & Wanderers; Weariness; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime; Fatigue 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 LAST FAY, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have wandered where the cuckoo fills Last Line: In the ancient stillness brooding there. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Merlin; Rain; Rest; Wandering & Wanderers; Weariness; Fatigue THE MELTING POT, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bearded old patriarchs, flippant young men Last Line: Heart of the ghetto on saturday night! Subject(s): Ghettos; Jews; Poverty; Weariness; Judaism; Fatigue THE MOTHER, by HELEN PEAVY WASHBURN Poem Text First Line: Since the black winter night when john was born Last Line: I stop, and look on empty beds. Subject(s): Weariness; Fatigue THE OLD MEN, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a handful of meal in the barrel, and a Last Line: With a stake in the great hereafter, sealed by the hand of death. Subject(s): Death; Old Age; Weariness; Wrinkles; Dead, The; Fatigue THE OLD WOMAN, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A lonely old woman sits out in the street Last Line: "muhammad-ar-rasul-allah." Subject(s): Old Age; Weariness; Fatigue THE POET'S DEATH-BED, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit of splendour! / linked to corruption! Last Line: Fare thee well! Fare thee well! Subject(s): Aging; Farewell; Poetry & Poets; Soul; Weariness; Parting; Fatigue THE POOR, by EMILE VERHAEREN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With hearts of poor men it is so Last Line: On earth's far plains of sun and wind. Subject(s): Pain; Poverty; Weariness; Suffering; Misery; Fatigue THE RAINBOW, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I chased a rainbow in my youth Last Line: Now I am growing old. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Old Age; Weariness; Fatigue THE RETURN, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The boy came home from a foreign land Last Line: "my son, my son, my wandering boy." Subject(s): Home; Old Age; Sons; Wandering & Wanderers; Weariness; Fatigue THE RUNE OF THE SORROW OF WOMEN, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the rune of the women who bear in sorrow Last Line: Bitter the sorrow of bearing only to end with the parting. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Farewell; God; Grief; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Pain; Pregnancy; Weariness; Women; Women - Bible; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness; Virgin Mary; Suffering; Misery; Fatigue THE SAILOR'S MOTHER, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, for the love of god, some small relief Last Line: It only leads me to that rest the sooner. Subject(s): Grief; Mothers; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Weariness; Sorrow; Sadness; Journeys; Trips; Fatigue THE SPIDER WEB, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: To-night I am very happy Last Line: I have taken long in the spinning. Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Weariness; Bugs; Fatigue THE WAVELET, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Once a merry little wavelet Last Line: Now and for evermore. Subject(s): Rest; Sleep; Weariness; Fatigue THE WHOLE HEAD IS SICK AND THE WHOLE HEART FAINT', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woe for the young who say that life is long Last Line: And this earth changeth and is perishing Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Youth; Disillusion; Weariness THE WORLD IS SO TIRED, SKY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text Last Line: Tired, tired world Subject(s): Sleep; Weariness THERE REMAINETH THEREFORE A REST FOR THE PEOPLE OF GOD', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come blessed sleep, most full, most perfect, come Last Line: And thou, with john, shalt lie upon my breast Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Calm; Sleep; Weariness THESE LEGS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Their flat earth rest Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Legs; Mountain Climbing; Nature; Weariness THRO' BURDEN AND HEAT OF THE DAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Thro' burden and heat? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Worship; Labor & Laborers; Weariness TIRED, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm tired, days and nights to me Last Line: For I am tired—I would rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Weariness; Fatigue TIRED, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was working on a farm, and brandished Last Line: Bugs. Subject(s): Weariness; Fatigue TIRED TIM, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poor tired tim! It's sad for him Last Line: Poor tired tim! It's sad for him. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Weariness; Fatigue TO MAKE ONE SONG, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: To make one song whose simple strain Last Line: To make one song? Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Weariness; Fatigue TO MY OLD WATCH, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O wondrous work of mind's invention Last Line: So near to thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Aging; Clocks; Time; Weariness; Youth; Fatigue TO ONE ASLEEP, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With a rush and a growl at cannon street Last Line: Here is man's eldest son?' Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Sleep; Social Classes; Weariness; Work; Workers; Caste; Fatigue TO RETIREMENT, by LUIS DE LEON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At last, o thou serene retreat Last Line: Mid such a sea of troubles blind and dire! Alternate Author Name(s): Fray Luis Subject(s): Rest; Weariness TO THE TRAVELLER, by ENRIQUE GONZALEZ MARTINEZ Poem Source First Line: Mine is this fount, mine all that greets your view Last Line: Tis not enough? There is no more. Pass on! Subject(s): Life; Old Age; Weariness TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. A SONG OF ONE IN OLD AGE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weary and broken, old age, art thou now come upon me? Last Line: Only perpetual joy. Subject(s): Old Age; Weariness; Fatigue TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. AFTER FIFTY YEARS, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Looking back now, after fifty years and more when the main work of life is done Last Line: My lovers, and they me, for evermore. Subject(s): Memory; Old Age; Weariness; Fatigue TWO ESKIMO SONGS: 2: HOW WATER BEGAN TO PLAY, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Water wanted to live Last Line: Till it had no weeping left %it lay at the bottom of all things %utterly worn out utterly clear Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Human Rights; Tears; Water; Weariness WANDERER'S SONG, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have had enough of women, and enough of love Last Line: Well, it's sound sleep and long sleep, and sleep too deep to wake. Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Weariness; Fatigue WE RETURN FROM THE COUNTRY, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: Moss stained, rejoicing in the swarm of lights Subject(s): Art And Artists; Pain; Poetry And Poets; Sleep; Weariness WEARINESS, by HARINDRANATH CHATTOPADHYAYA Poem Source First Line: I have grown weary of everything, of dreaming and love and desire Subject(s): Weariness WEARINESS, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God set him in a garden fair Last Line: And all he talked was loss & gain %and cold commercial strife %which makes it easy to explain %how t Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Weariness WEARINESS, by WILLIAM BRIAN HOOKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weariness: / neither pain Last Line: Weariness. Alternate Author Name(s): Hooker, Brian Subject(s): Weariness; Fatigue WEARINESS, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beloved, I am weary of the world Last Line: To place them with my soul beneath your feet. Subject(s): Death; Melancholy; Weariness; Dead, The; Dejection; Fatigue WEARINESS, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, is there no, no place on earth Last Line: And return to earth once more? Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): Weariness; Fatigue WEARINESS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O little feet! That such long years Last Line: How lurid looks this soul of mine! Subject(s): Weariness; Fatigue WEARINESS, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where are now the dreams divine Last Line: From the tired child at thy feet. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Time; Weariness; Fatigue WEARINESS, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh let me be alone, far from eyes and faces Last Line: Waiting the merciful night, the stately stars and the dew. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Weariness; Fatigue WEARINESS: 1, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are grey hours when I drink of indiffrence Last Line: The world as a cloud drifts by, or I drift by as a cloud. Subject(s): Weariness; Fatigue WEARINESS: 2, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am weary at heart, yet not weary with sorrow Last Line: I am old at heart, for my sorrow is sleepy, and nods before night. Subject(s): Weariness; Fatigue WELCOME TO DEATH, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Why should we linger on earth, when have fled Last Line: There's release from all ills in thy grasp! Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Old Age; Weariness; Dead, The; Fatigue WHEN I AM OLD, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: When I am old and bent with years Last Line: A praise to god that I am old. Subject(s): Aging; Weariness; Wrinkles; Fatigue WHO HAVE A FORM OF GODLINESS', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I am sick and tired it is god's will Last Line: Nor fainting though the time be almost past Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Poverty; Solitude; Weariness; God ZION SAID', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O slain for love of me, canst thou be cold Last Line: Oh take me to thyself and comfort me Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Comfort; Erotic Love; Weariness; God |
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