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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: WELLESLEY COLLEGE Matches Found: 193 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A FLOWER-GIRL SINGS, by MARGARET COMBS PINNEY Poem Text First Line: Wreaths for your grave, crocus and hyacinth Last Line: All hail, korallion! Subject(s): Graves; Wellesley College; Tombs; Tombstones A GARDEN SPOT, by PRINGLE BARRET Poem Text First Line: A garden spot may be a noisy place Last Line: And god communes with earth the livelong day. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Wellesley College A GROWN UP SONG, by DOROTHEA LAWRANCE MANN Poem Text First Line: I have known strange and precious things Last Line: The spell the years themselves have told. Subject(s): Wellesley College A HEARTH-FIRE VERSE, by SOPHIE JEWETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A dim, drowned world, where, dull and cold Last Line: Keep this house ever bright and blest. Alternate Author Name(s): Burroughs, Ellen Subject(s): Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College A MIGRANT THRUSH, by MARY RUSSELL BARTLETT Poem Text First Line: For one rare moment on a naked spray Last Line: Which stranger keeps a holy song within. Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes; Wellesley College A MOUNTAIN SOUL (KATHARINE COMAN), by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A mountain soul, she shines in crystal air Last Line: And stain it not. Subject(s): Wellesley College A PILGRIMAGE, by NANCY BARR MAVITY Poem Text First Line: I put off my smoke-dimmed garment Last Line: And my heart sang aloud for a sign! Subject(s): Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Wellesley College A SONG, by MIRIAM VEDDER Poem Text First Line: Days, I go very gayly Last Line: Wanting my own little house and light. Subject(s): Wellesley College A SONG IN SEPTEMBER, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The distant hills are gleaming gold Last Line: But hear your golden songs again. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Wellesley College; Songs A SONG OF BATTLE, by MARY BELTZHOOVER JENKINS Poem Text First Line: Sing me a song of battle Last Line: Smiles on the battle-peace. Subject(s): War; Wellesley College AGE, by BERTHA PALMER LANE Poem Text First Line: I hear an old man's voice Last Line: Far off. Subject(s): Old Age; Wellesley College AMONG THE HILLS, by ETHEL AMBLER HUNTER Poem Text First Line: I love the valleys, where the slow, brown brooks Last Line: The far horison, and the sunset light! Subject(s): Mountains; Wellesley College; Hills; Downs (great Britain) AN OLD FRONT YARD, by JESSIE GIDLEY CARTER Poem Text First Line: Flushed peonies bend above the flagstones gray Last Line: As in those radiant, roselit junes of old. Subject(s): Plants; Wellesley College; Planting; Planters AN OLD MAN'S SONG, by HELENE BUHLERT BULLOCK Poem Text First Line: All day I played, and grew with the flowers Last Line: "life is death." Subject(s): Old Age; Wellesley College AN OXFORD GARDEN, by MARTHA HALE SHACKFORD Poem Text First Line: A shy elusive sound of soft winds blowing Last Line: And drifting silence over all the place. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Wellesley College ANSWER, by ISABEL FISKE CONANT Poem Text First Line: I demanded beauty, tasking Last Line: Guard your words! Subject(s): Beauty; Prayer; Wellesley College APART, by GERTRUDE SPALDING HENDERSON Poem Text First Line: I would not call thee back to me to-night Last Line: We still shall touch each other soul to soul. Subject(s): Absence; Wellesley College; Separation; Isolation APRIL, by MARY RUSSELL BARTLETT Poem Text First Line: After the month of the double face Last Line: For the sweet little month of folly. Subject(s): April; Wellesley College AT PARTING, by ABBIE CARTER GOODLOE Poem Text First Line: Now must we go our separate ways, beloved Last Line: "and breathes in tranquil rapture, ""here is peace!""?" Subject(s): Farewell; Wellesley College; World War I; Parting; First World War AT THE SIGN OF THE ALMOND TREE, by LOUISE MANNING HODGKINS Poem Text First Line: To the inn of the sign of the almond tree Last Line: Beyond the peaceful almond tree. Subject(s): Almond Trees; Trees; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College ATLAS, by VIOLA CHITTENDEN WHITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Age after age the titan held Last Line: "and shall I always hold the earth?" Subject(s): Wellesley College BEAUTY'S SOUL, by MARION PELTON GUILD Poem Text First Line: Yes, beauty dies; / beauty of flowers and eyes Last Line: Doubt not it shines and sings. Subject(s): Beauty; Wellesley College BROADWAY REMEMBERS HER CHILDHOOD, by FLORENCE WILKINSON EVANS Poem Text First Line: Sisters, little country roads I knew and loved Last Line: I remember and I envy each of you! Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkinson, Florence Subject(s): Children; Wellesley College; Childhood BROWN ROADS, by MIRIAM VEDDER Poem Text First Line: Brown roads we wandered Last Line: I could not go. Subject(s): Wellesley College BY THE OLD COACH ROAD, by SUSAN WILBUR JONES Poem Text First Line: Butterfly weed creeps up on this old garden Last Line: Drops fragrance and white blossom. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Wellesley College CATHERINE BRESHKOVSKY AT WELLESLEY (FEBRUARY 19, 1919), by MARGARET SHERWOOD Poem Text First Line: Childlike, promethean, immortal, one Last Line: From youthful face to face kindles white flame. Subject(s): Innocence; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College CHAUCER, by MARY MCLEAN CHASE Poem Text First Line: A stately lady's fair-haired little page Last Line: That blooms in sunshine after april rain. Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Wellesley College COLLEGE NIGHT, by CHRISTINE TURNER CURTIS Poem Text First Line: In that last twilight of the may we sat Last Line: And steers to beauty through the gulfs and gales. Subject(s): Night; Wellesley College; Bedtime COME SOON, by RUTH COLEMAN Poem Text First Line: Come soon! Before we both forget! Last Line: Before we both forget! Subject(s): Wellesley College CREATED, by RUTH METZGER MCCULLOCH Poem Text First Line: Hold your breath and come not nigh! Last Line: Filtered through eternity. Subject(s): Wellesley College CRIPPLED, by MARION PELTON GUILD Poem Text First Line: Beethoven deaf, and milton blind! Last Line: Crippled or no, we dare the race! Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Milton, John (1608-1674); Music & Musicians; Physical Disabilities; Wellesley College; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples DAFFODILS, by CAROLINE HAZARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The golden sun looks gladly down Last Line: Ye golden-throated daffodils! Subject(s): Daffodils; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College DEDICATION, by ALFARATA BOWDOIN HILTON Poem Text First Line: Because I know you fine amid life's tinsel Last Line: You are the door. Subject(s): Wellesley College DESTINY, by MARY MCLEAN CHASE Poem Text First Line: I love old gardens Last Line: Make the work true! Subject(s): God; Wellesley College ELAN VITAL, by VIOLA CHITTENDEN WHITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some days I tend with careful sun and showers Last Line: How deep the source, how inexhaustible. Subject(s): Wellesley College ELUSIVE, by RUTH COLEMAN Poem Text First Line: Touch me not. / I am more elusive Last Line: But touch me not. Subject(s): Wellesley College EVENING IN OXFORD, by KATHARINE SCOTT RIDLEY Poem Text First Line: Dim pinnacles against the amber sky Last Line: "o love, do you remember, or forget?" Subject(s): Oxford, England; Wellesley College EVOLUTION, by MARY DILLINGHAM FREAR Poem Text First Line: My brother stone lies sleeping Last Line: Is precious in his sight. Subject(s): Wellesley College FOR OLD BELIEFS FORSAKEN, by HELEN HOOVEN SANTMYER Poem Text First Line: We felt no sense of loss when, years ago Last Line: Tongue-tied with passions god would understand. Subject(s): Faith; Wellesley College; Belief; Creed FREEDOM, by VIRGINIA CLAY HAMILTON Poem Text First Line: The clean dawn wind and the hard white beach Last Line: For freedom's a lonely thing. Subject(s): Freedom; Wellesley College; Liberty FRIENDSHIP, by DOROTHY GRAFLY Poem Text First Line: O friend, we sit together, and the room Last Line: I bid thee open thy soul and give it liberty. Subject(s): Friendship; Wellesley College FROM OVER-SEA, by SOPHIE JEWETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In italy how comes the spring? Last Line: In italy. Alternate Author Name(s): Burroughs, Ellen Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College; Italians; Journeys; Trips FULL-SAILED, by JEANNETTE AUGUSTUS MARKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes, full-sailed like thought, a great ship Last Line: When a great ship rides battling down to death. Subject(s): Death; Ships & Shipping; Wellesley College; Dead, The GLOUCESTER NIGHTS, by ELIZABETH HART PENNELL Poem Text First Line: So often on a night like this Last Line: Upon a night like this. Subject(s): Gloucestershire, England; Wellesley College GREY BIRCHES, by MARGARET SHERWOOD Poem Text First Line: We lead the life of desk and book, the life that fails and strives Last Line: But oh! The little leaves of green that do not need to speak! Subject(s): Birch Trees; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College GYPSY-HEART, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The april world is misted with emerald and gold Last Line: All the world is here. Subject(s): Wellesley College HAIR CLOTH, by MARTHA HALE SHACKFORD Poem Text First Line: I wear no hair cloth next my flesh Last Line: Who with the saints belong. Subject(s): Wellesley College HARK, HARK, THE LARK; A POET'S REQUIEM. JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY, by ISABEL FISKE CONANT Poem Text First Line: Bird-lovers, walking, / down on earth's meadow Last Line: "the lark at heaven's gate sings!" Subject(s): Peabody, Josephine Preston (1874-1922); Wellesley College HARMONY, by HELEN FRANCES MCMILLIN Poem Text First Line: Something there is, deep in my heart, that knows Last Line: And I shall know that I have always known. Subject(s): Wellesley College HERE ENTER NOT, by KATHARINE CANBY BALDERSTON Poem Text First Line: As sun is to a mist-filled valley, rain Last Line: Close by you, and can only touch your hand. Subject(s): Wellesley College HOMESICK IN TEXAS, by ANN COBB Poem Text First Line: Grandsir' fell out of his cornfield and broke his neck Last Line: Only ole pine top can fill. Subject(s): Homesickness; Texas; Wellesley College HOUSE, by ISABEL FISKE CONANT Poem Text First Line: He who loves an old house Last Line: Can it sing old songs. Subject(s): Houses; Wellesley College I AM THE BUILDER, by MIRIAM VEDDER Poem Text First Line: I am the builder of dreams that crumble Last Line: I am life. Subject(s): Wellesley College I CLEANED MY HOUSE TODAY, by KATHARINE CANBY BALDERSTON Poem Text First Line: I made my house quite clean today Last Line: And then -- I saw you passing by. Subject(s): Wellesley College IF LIFE WERE A BANQUET, by JOSEPHINE AUGUSTA CASS Poem Text First Line: If life were a banquet, and beauty were wine Last Line: And pure lips alone touch the chalice! Subject(s): Wellesley College IMMORTAL, by MIRIAM VEDDER Poem Text First Line: Dust will go back to dust. There is no charm Last Line: Time is no measure for immortal things! Subject(s): Wellesley College IN ARCADIE, by JOSEPHINE AUGUSTA CASS Poem Text First Line: How swift the days fled, one by one Last Line: In arcadie! Subject(s): Arcadians; Friendship; Wellesley College; Arcadia IN MEMORIAM: LEO, A YELLOW CAT, by MARGARET SHERWOOD Poem Text First Line: If, to your twilight land of dream Last Line: Of gentle words and gentle hands. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Death - Animals; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College IN MEMORIAM; SOPHIE JEWETT, by MARGARET SHERWOOD Poem Text First Line: By still lake shore, or oak wood ser Last Line: With vision of the perfect end. Subject(s): Jewett, Sophie (1861-1909); Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College IN MEMORY: MISS JEWETT, by GRACE ALLERTON ANDREWS Poem Text First Line: In paradise 'how comes the spring?' Last Line: Since you are there. Subject(s): Jewett, Sophie (1861-1909); Wellesley College IN THE SUN, by ISABEL FISKE CONANT Poem Text First Line: Towns there were in flanders Last Line: All in good time. Subject(s): Towns; Wellesley College INDIAN SUMMER, by MARGARET SHERWOOD Poem Text First Line: Faint blue the distant hills before Last Line: Fall of a leaf against the blue. Subject(s): Indian Summer; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College JOSEPH SEVERN, by MARTHA HALE SHACKFORD Poem Text First Line: Severn, thy 'name is writ' with that of keats Last Line: A golden world seems ever present there. Subject(s): Severn, Joseph (1793-1879); Wellesley College LAKE WABAN, by LOUISE MANNING HODGKINS Poem Text First Line: Lake of grey at dawning day Last Line: Peaceful, happy dreaming. Subject(s): Contentment; Lakes; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College; Pools; Ponds LARGESS, by FRIDA SEMLER SEABURY Poem Text First Line: Life gave me once a little perfect hour Last Line: Life gave me once a little perfect hour. Subject(s): Wellesley College LATE SPRING, by SALLY WOOD RAUSHENBUSH Poem Text First Line: I have not seen the spring this year Last Line: Young spring lies dead. Subject(s): Spring; Wellesley College LEAF SONG, by HELEN AUGUR Poem Text First Line: Come, come, with us for a last wild fling Last Line: They shall freeze our hearts a-dancing. Subject(s): Leaves; Wellesley College LINES TO A PUMPING ENGINE FOR A RELIGIOUS HOUSE: 1. OLD STYLE, by FLORENCE CONVERSE Poem Text First Line: This is sister water's cell Last Line: Sing laus deo! Subject(s): Religion; Water Supply; Wellesley College; Theology; Dams; Reservoirs; Water Mains LINES TO A PUMPING ENGINE FOR A RELIGIOUS HOUSE: 2. NEW STYLE, by FLORENCE CONVERSE Poem Text First Line: The little grassy hollow is sunny Last Line: So-called. Subject(s): Religion; Water Supply; Wellesley College; Theology; Dams; Reservoirs; Water Mains LINES WRITTEN TO A TRANSLATOR OF GREEK POETRY, by MARGARET STEELE ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A wild spring upland all this charmed page Last Line: To the great voices of old tragedists! Subject(s): Translating & Interpreting; Wellesley College MANY SORROWS, by JEANNETTE AUGUSTUS MARKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful she was to look upon Last Line: And to sleep. Subject(s): Mothers; Wellesley College MEETING, by ALICE FREEMAN PALMER Poem Text First Line: One day we gave each other, one more day Last Line: To meet our future glad and unafraid. Subject(s): Relationships; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College MEMORIES: 1, by CLAIRE MORRIS GANNON Poem Text First Line: Leaves that cling to the tired ground Last Line: Breathe transient happiness into you? Subject(s): Memory; Wellesley College MEMORIES: 2, by CLAIRE MORRIS GANNON Poem Text First Line: Whenever I hear a bluebird sing Last Line: Those glorious happy other days? Subject(s): Memory; Wellesley College; World War I; First World War MIRAGE, by SARAH BIXBY SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shimmer, shimmer, summer air Last Line: In meadows brown and dry. Subject(s): Mirages; Wellesley College MY GARDEN, by KATHARINE CANBY BALDERSTON Poem Text First Line: I have a private garden plot Last Line: To walk in the garden again with you. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Wellesley College NOCTURNE, by ALFARATA BOWDOIN HILTON Poem Text First Line: Quiet and dreams and a lost voice calling Last Line: Peace and forgiveness and fading light. Subject(s): Wellesley College NORMAN PEASANTS, by MARTHA HALE SHACKFORD Poem Text First Line: Those workers in the fields and heat Last Line: To meet the fading stars, each day. Subject(s): Normandy, France; Peasantry; Wellesley College NORUMBEGA HALL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not on penobscot's wooded bank the spires Last Line: And norumbega is a myth no more. Subject(s): Horsford, Eben Morton (1818-1893); Wellesley College NOT FROM HER WORDS, by MIRIAM VEDDER Poem Text First Line: Not from her words will you be made more wise Last Line: As windless leaves against an evening hill. Subject(s): Wellesley College OF LOVE, by FRIDA SEMLER SEABURY Poem Text First Line: They sing of love who never won his grace Last Line: Are stricken mute. Subject(s): Love; Wellesley College OF TRANSIENT BEAUTY, by SOPHIE JEWETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rose-flower and flower of grass and flower of flame Last Line: The years may fashion an immortal name. Alternate Author Name(s): Burroughs, Ellen Subject(s): Beauty; Transience; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College; Impermanence OLD WOMAN, by MIRIAM VEDDER Poem Text First Line: A very old woman once lived in a house Last Line: And what the old woman wrapped 'round her at night. Subject(s): Old Age; Wellesley College; Women ORIOLE SONG, by MARION PELTON GUILD Poem Text First Line: The orioles are tilting Last Line: With magic of the may! Subject(s): Orioles; Wellesley College PAN, by MURIEL BACHELER DAWKINS Poem Text First Line: The old earth lies asleep in the sun Last Line: And what is heaven when he is by? Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Wellesley College PAN'S HARVEST HYMN, by VIOLA BLACKBURN HULBERT Poem Text First Line: Gather the sacred acorns, come! Last Line: In the name of our father, pan. Subject(s): Harvest; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Wellesley College PERUGINO, by MARTHA HALE SHACKFORD Poem Text First Line: Oh happy painter! You who stayed Last Line: And thus you painted life, content. Subject(s): Perugino [pietro Vannucci] (1450-1523); Wellesley College PERVERSITY, by KATHERINE HAYNES GATCH Poem Text First Line: I long to lose my body and become a tree Last Line: As now I hate mobility? Subject(s): Wellesley College PORTUGUESE FISHERMEN, by ALFARATA BOWDOIN HILTON Poem Text First Line: Bare, brown, singing throats Last Line: The heart to sunnier lands and years. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Wellesley College; Anglers PRAYER, by ALFARATA BOWDOIN HILTON Poem Text First Line: Not peace, but strength, for peace shall be unending Last Line: Of pity to its farthest limits pressed. Subject(s): Wellesley College RED ROSES, by MARION PELTON GUILD Poem Text First Line: I roam in a garden vestal-fair Last Line: To the red, red roses beyond the gate! Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Wellesley College REINCARNATE, by LILLIAN BARNES LONG Poem Text First Line: From sky to sky a silent land Last Line: I won or lost a world. Subject(s): Wellesley College REQUIEM, by DOROTHY COLLINS Poem Text First Line: Sleep, sleep, dear heart! Your orders all are taken Last Line: Your tasks are ended; mine are still undone. Subject(s): Death; War; Wellesley College; Dead, The REVERIE IN A CLASSROOM, by DOROTHY LAUD BROWN Poem Text First Line: The sun and the shadow on the rusty brick houses Last Line: Clang! Back to work! Shouts the great brass bell. Subject(s): Schools; Wellesley College; Students ROADSIDE, by SARAH BIXBY SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a roadside ditch I know Last Line: And sugar beets in long straight rows. Subject(s): Wellesley College ROSES, by HELEN AUGUR Poem Text First Line: Roses bloomed on every bush Last Line: Ah, what a fool was I! Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Wellesley College SEMPER PLUS ULTRA, by MARION PELTON GUILD Poem Text First Line: Through the storm - and beyond! Last Line: O, but the heart must sing! Subject(s): Wellesley College SEPTEMBER, by MAVIS CLARE BARNETT Poem Text First Line: My leaning birch is yellower today Last Line: And half a troubled thought of growing old. Subject(s): September; Wellesley College SHALL WE FORGET?, by ESTELLE MAY HURLL Poem Text First Line: Shall we forget, now victory has come Last Line: Shall we forget to pray? Subject(s): Wellesley College; World War I; First World War SHIPS OF FORTUNE, by ISADORE DOUGLAS COYLE Poem Text First Line: The port of hearts' desire lies far Last Line: For ships that never come home. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; Wellesley College SILENCE, by MAVIS CLARE BARNETT Poem Text First Line: God must have loved a silence for he laid Last Line: And silent, old, unconquerable love? Subject(s): Religion; Silence; Wellesley College; Theology SILENCE, by JOSEPHINE PRICE SIMRALL Poem Text First Line: I sought a word, the perfect word, the one right Last Line: Encompasses the rest. Subject(s): Silence; Wellesley College SINGING, by CECILIA MACKINNON Poem Text First Line: I would make for you a song Last Line: And mine should be at ease. Subject(s): Wellesley College SOLDIERS OF FREEDOM, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They veiled their souls with laughter Last Line: As lightly as a rose. Subject(s): Patriotism; Wellesley College; World War I; First World War SONG, by HELENE BUHLERT BULLOCK Poem Text First Line: It lies all fair about me Last Line: My black garment showeth. Subject(s): Wellesley College SOUL SOLITUDE, by GERTRUDE WOODCOCK SEIBERT Poem Text First Line: Poor fools, we fondly gaze at one another Last Line: Till in his likeness all shall wake. Subject(s): Soul; Wellesley College SPANISH MOSS, by FRANCES LANCE FERRERO Poem Text First Line: A wisp and a tangle Last Line: Or blot this dear picture from southland and me! Subject(s): Moss; Wellesley College SPRING, by ELLA TREW SIMPERS Poem Text First Line: There is work to be done in the world, I know Last Line: For the gods of spring are by. Subject(s): Spring; Wellesley College SPRING IN WELLESLEY, by ELIZABETH HART PENNELL Poem Text First Line: Again the promises of spring appear Last Line: In wellesley now? Subject(s): Spring; Wellesley College SPRING MORNING, by MAVIS CLARE BARNETT Poem Text First Line: The day before the bluebird came Last Line: Out to eternity and back within one trill! Subject(s): Spring; Wellesley College SPRING SONG, by ESTELLE MAY HURLL Poem Text First Line: Do you smell the coming of spring in the breeze? Last Line: Like sunny spring days in the great out-of-doors? Subject(s): Spring; Wellesley College STEPS, by JEANNETTE AUGUSTUS MARKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a stair to climb Last Line: Men climb to god. Subject(s): God; Wellesley College STILLNESS, by MARGARET COMBS PINNEY Poem Text First Line: By sappho's sea the lesbian hil Last Line: Hush thou to mountain stillness, love. Subject(s): Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Wellesley College SUNSHINE AND SILENCE, by MARTHA HALE SHACKFORD Poem Text First Line: Back to back with the still, old earth Last Line: I -- in my sunshine and doubt? Subject(s): Wellesley College TEMPERAMENT, by FRANCES BARBER Poem Text First Line: A quiet little person lived Last Line: Thrown bluntly at his feet. Subject(s): Wellesley College THE AMERICAN IN ENGLAND, by KATHARINE SCOTT RIDLEY Poem Text First Line: The little red road climbs the hill Last Line: "who were a hundred years away." Subject(s): Americans In England; England; Travel; Wellesley College; English; Journeys; Trips THE ANOINTED, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was a little gleaner Last Line: The tears make all things shine. Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs. Subject(s): Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College THE BROKEN DOOR, by JEANNETTE AUGUSTUS MARKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the place! I know Last Line: Time's step is slow to follow. Subject(s): Wellesley College THE BROWN WORD HOME, by BERENICE VAN SLYKE Poem Text First Line: About the brown word home Last Line: Home, the flame, the stream. Alternate Author Name(s): Heaton, Maurice C., Mrs. Subject(s): Home; Wellesley College THE COMING OF THE STORM. TWO PICTURES: 1, by CORNELIA ELIZABETH GREEN Poem Text First Line: The far off clouds are one dark purple mass Last Line: In yellow splendor on the river grass. Subject(s): Storms; Wellesley College THE COMING OF THE STORM. TWO PICTURES: 2, by CORNELIA ELIZABETH GREEN Poem Text First Line: The golden glory fades from grass and tree Last Line: That shaking flash of light! The storm is here. Subject(s): Storms; Wellesley College THE CONQUEST OF THE AIR, by MARY WRIGHT PLUMMER Poem Text First Line: Another world we have, we that have made Last Line: Of thy first gift -- lord, art thou not afraid? Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Environment; Wellesley College; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation THE DEBT, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because the years are few, I must be glad Last Line: Poor that I am, a coin of golden joy. Subject(s): Aging; Holidays; Thanksgiving; Wellesley College THE DIVINE RIGHT OF KINGS, by MARY WRIGHT PLUMMER Poem Text First Line: The right divine! What king that hath it not? Last Line: Such right divine as this hath every king. Subject(s): Wellesley College THE DREAMER, by DOROTHY COLLINS Poem Text First Line: When he goes down to his sleep Last Line: God! To the dreamer be kind. Subject(s): Dreams; Wellesley College; Nightmares THE ELIZABETHAN POETS, by MARTHA HALE SHACKFORD Poem Text First Line: Like slender, rippling willow leaves Last Line: Eternally are glad. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wellesley College THE FLOWER FACTORY, by FLORENCE WILKINSON EVANS Poem Text First Line: Lisabetta [or lizabetta], marianina, fiametta, teresina Last Line: Fill their baby hands with roses, joyous roses of the sun! Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkinson, Florence Subject(s): Flowers; Wellesley College THE FUGITIVE, by PRINGLE BARRET Poem Text First Line: I said, I will escape Last Line: But peace still tarries, and I wait alone. Subject(s): Solitude; Wellesley College; Loneliness THE GOLDEN SHOES, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The winds are lashing on the sea Last Line: God saw that I was young! Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs. Subject(s): Shoes; Wellesley College; Youth; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers THE GUARDIANS, by VIOLA CHITTENDEN WHITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When step by step fate beats me farther back Last Line: With mute, appraising eyes, -- and turn aside. Subject(s): Wellesley College THE HAPPY SWAN, by FLORENCE CONVERSE Poem Text First Line: In the cathedral close at wells Last Line: Every time you rang a bell! Subject(s): Birds; Swans; Wellesley College THE HEART OF THE WOODS, by FLORENCE WILKINSON EVANS Poem Text First Line: I like the leafy-murmuring solemn hush Last Line: Wild, labyrinthine, dim and fancy-haunted. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkinson, Florence Subject(s): Forests; Wellesley College; Woods THE HOUR OF JUDGMENT, by VIOLA CHITTENDEN WHITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You think that, clad in lightning, he Last Line: And the old order is dead. Subject(s): Wellesley College THE HOUSE OF GREAAT CONTENT, by FLORENCE WILKINSON EVANS Poem Text First Line: There is a certain gracious garth I know Last Line: A house of great content. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkinson, Florence Subject(s): Wellesley College THE IDEAL, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the promise of noon's blue splendor in the dawn's Last Line: I am thine angel of judgment; mine eyes thou must meet in the end. Subject(s): Cape Cod; Wellesley College THE LAST VICTORY, by MARY SOPHIA CASE Poem Text First Line: So faint with mortal weariness I lie Last Line: Even mine own faltering I can face, and will. Subject(s): Death; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College; Dead, The THE LEAST OF CAROLS, by SOPHIE JEWETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Loveliest dawn of gold and rose Last Line: "exceedingly." Alternate Author Name(s): Burroughs, Ellen Subject(s): Christmas Carols; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College THE LESSER BEAUTY, by MARGARET STEELE ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You are the first wild violet of the year Last Line: We would not barter for things more divine! Subject(s): Flowers; Violets; Wellesley College THE LOON, by ELEANOR STIMSON BROOKS Poem Text First Line: A silent, winding stream, that wanders slow Last Line: Since the dim days that did creation mark. Alternate Author Name(s): Brooks, Van Wyck, Mrs. Subject(s): Loons; Wellesley College THE LOVER TO HIS LUTE, by ELIZABETH HIRST FLEISHER Poem Text First Line: I would make a song for my beloved Last Line: That she may know how grave a thing my love is, and be glad. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Wellesley College; Songs THE MARRIAGE OF TRUE MINDS, by FRANCES LANCE FERRERO Poem Text First Line: Nay, master shakespeare, marriage of true minds Last Line: Completest self in two right lives together. Subject(s): Wellesley College THE MATERIALIST SPEAKS, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have desired life Last Line: For these I desire life. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Materialism; Wellesley College THE NEW YEAR'S QUEST, by HARRIET ALLEYNE RICE Poem Text First Line: Another milestone passed along the road Last Line: Take up the endless life in a new birth. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Wellesley College THE PARK, by JOSEPHINE PRICE SIMRALL Poem Text First Line: From petty round of homely work and care Last Line: The park lies, -- like god's answer to a prayer. Subject(s): Wellesley College THE PILGRIM, by SOPHIE JEWETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pilgrim feet, pray whither bound? Last Line: Long must be my pilgrimage. Alternate Author Name(s): Burroughs, Ellen Subject(s): Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College THE PRAIRIE TOWN, by HELEN HOOVEN SANTMYER Poem Text First Line: Lovers of beauty laugh at this gray town Last Line: Lies like an old sea-road, star-pointed north. Subject(s): Prairies; Towns; Wellesley College; Plains THE RAINBOW OVER THE ROAD, by FRANCES JACKSON DELANO Poem Text First Line: A high road, a hard road; it ofttimes plungeth down Last Line: A new road, an old road, on, through eternity. Subject(s): Future Life; Wellesley College; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE RED HEARTH, by MARY CALDWELL DAVIS Poem Text First Line: The child, playing by the red hearth Last Line: While the woven spell of the hearth fire clings. Subject(s): Wellesley College THE SAD TREES, by ELOISE ROBINSON MUCHMORE Poem Text First Line: The white oak and the ash and fir Last Line: The tall young trees of france. Subject(s): Trees; Wellesley College THE SANDPIPER, by MARY HEFFERAN Poem Text First Line: Straight as the sedges hiding her Last Line: "peep-po, peep-po." Subject(s): Sandpipers; Wellesley College THE SECRET HOST, by ELVIRA SLACK Poem Text First Line: All night I heard the constant passing and re-passing Last Line: In these thousand drifting wisps of snow. Subject(s): Wellesley College THE SOLDIER, by SOPHIE JEWETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The soldier fought his battle silently Last Line: And all men praised the soldier when he died. Alternate Author Name(s): Burroughs, Ellen Subject(s): Soldiers; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College THE SQUIRREL, by FRANCES STACY KEELY Poem Text First Line: As quick as fire, as light as flame Last Line: Soul wrong side out a-dance. Subject(s): Squirrels; Wellesley College THE STATUES IN THE MUSEUM, by FLORENCE WILKINSON EVANS Poem Text First Line: Statues of fauns and wrestlers Last Line: Who do not know. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkinson, Florence Subject(s): Museums; Statues; Wellesley College; Art Gallerys THE STRAIN, by CHRISTINE TURNER CURTIS Poem Text First Line: The old new england soul of me Last Line: Close akin to tears. Subject(s): Wellesley College THE UMBRIAN PLAIN, by VIDA DUTTON SCUDDER Poem Text First Line: Thou art a holy poem, sweet umbrian plain Last Line: Still holds his voice for those who understand. Subject(s): Umbria, Italy; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College THE VEERY'S FLUTE, by LUCY BRANCH ALLEN Poem Text First Line: Clear from the tangled thicket, where a lone Last Line: With the falling cadence of the veery's flute. Subject(s): Flutes; Wellesley College THE WORLD'S SLEEP, by SARAH CHAMBERLIN WEED Poem Text First Line: Haste, cover yourself in the shrouded skies Last Line: And let the old world sleep. Subject(s): Sleep; Wellesley College THERE IS NO QUIET, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no quiet since you left the earth Last Line: There is no quiet since you left the earth. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Wellesley College; Dead, The THEY DID NOT KNOW, by ELIZABETH WELLS Poem Text First Line: The styx is black, they say Last Line: Where radiantly live the dead! Subject(s): Charon; Hades; Wellesley College; Styx (river) THIS HOUR, by MIRIAM VEDDER Poem Text First Line: Make not this hour less lovely with the fear Last Line: And this brief hour enfold eternity. Subject(s): Time; Wellesley College THIS TOO WILL PASS, by GERTRUDE WOODCOCK SEIBERT Poem Text First Line: Poor heart, break not, though cruel be thy wound Last Line: His heart of love thine every sorrow shares! Subject(s): Religion; Wellesley College; Theology THIS TRANSIENT WORLD, by LILLIAN QUINBY Poem Text First Line: If all of life must be spent in grief Last Line: And life is brief. Subject(s): Transience; Wellesley College; Impermanence TIME, by CAROLINE HAZARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We measure life with our short span of years Last Line: Growth till we wake, and shall be satisfied. Subject(s): Time; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College TO 'MY LADY DUCHESS' WINDOW' IN THE PALACE OF URBINO, by ANNIE BEECHER SCOVILLE Poem Text First Line: Closed the window, / closed and dead Last Line: While a new world goes its way. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Wellesley College; Windows TO A LADY, by CAROLINE KLINGENSMITH GARDNER Poem Text First Line: Her face is thoughtful, like the twilight sky Last Line: In windless woods, where soon no birds will sing. Subject(s): Wellesley College TO A SOLDIER FRIEND, by KATHERINE DONOVAN MACKINNON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You go not forth alone, with single power Last Line: And follow you unchallenged, unafraid. Subject(s): Soldiers; Wellesley College TO ALMA MATER, by ANNIE BARRETT HUGHES Poem Text First Line: To alma mater, wellesley's daughters Last Line: Answer to her ev'ry call. Subject(s): Wellesley College TO BE SENT IN A MAY BASKET, by HELEN HOOVEN SANTMYER Poem Text First Line: Here's just one sprig of water-cress, another one of Last Line: We gathered them together once, and so I send you these. Subject(s): Plants; Wellesley College; Planting; Planters TO DANTE ALIGHIERI, by FRANCES LANCE FERRERO Poem Text First Line: O mighty master of the human song Last Line: Sad exile, now at home in every land! Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Wellesley College TO DOROTHY WORDSWORTH, by ELLEN MONTGOMERY CRAWLEY Poem Text First Line: You loved those vivid, crisp, autumnal days Last Line: That filled with its deep tones a poet's speech. Subject(s): Wellesley College; Wordsworth, Dorothy (1771-1855) TO EMILY DICKINSON, by MARY BOWEN BRAINERD Poem Text First Line: A harp aeolian, on a lonely sill Last Line: Yet bearing ever nature's sad refrain. Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College TO HERRICK - A HANDFUL OF HERBS, by LILLIAN BARNES LONG Poem Text First Line: From rue and mint and rosemary Last Line: Dear rue, and dearest rosemary. Subject(s): Herrick, Robert (1591-1674); Poetry & Poets; Wellesley College TO MADAME CURIE, by SARAH VIRGINIA SHERWOOD Poem Text First Line: Which of us, finding the bright path to fame Last Line: These must we covet, as we bid you hail. Subject(s): Curie, Marie (1867-1934); Wellesley College TO THE WINGED VICTORY, by MARGARET ELLIS BROWN Poem Text First Line: We feel the rush of wind, triumphant, swift Last Line: And claims immortal victory for thine own. Subject(s): Wellesley College TO THEOCRITUS, by HELEN MURIEL MORRIS Poem Text First Line: Theocritus, thou singer of old greece Last Line: Thou foundest for greek shepherds on the hills. Subject(s): Theocritus (310-250 B.c.); Wellesley College TWO HELPERS, by MARY RUSSELL BARTLETT Poem Text First Line: One climbed, a comrade, up my garret stair Last Line: The strength of god that bore my spirit through. Subject(s): Wellesley College UNDER THE SEA, by HESTER ANDERSON REIDER Poem Text First Line: Pale glimmering amber light through shadowed green Last Line: While in its wake the glittering bubbles gleam. Subject(s): Sea; Wellesley College; Ocean UNSEEN, by MIRIAM VEDDER Poem Text First Line: Some spring, for every lover Last Line: And all lost loveliness? Subject(s): Wellesley College WAR-TIME IN THE MOUNTAINS, by ANN COBB Poem Text First Line: Dulcimer over the fireboard, hanging sence allusago Last Line: Beat and beget sons and daughters to sing the old songs at his feet. Subject(s): Dulcimers; Kentucky; Mountains; Music & Musicians; Wellesley College; World War I; Hills; Downs (great Britain); First World War WE ARE GROWN STILL, by KATHERINE HAYNES GATCH Poem Text First Line: We are grown still now we have come to love Last Line: From things that unexpressed would give no peace. Subject(s): Love; Wellesley College WELLESLEY IN AUTUMN, by MIRIAM BERRY WOOD Poem Text First Line: In yellow and in saffron it is dressed Last Line: Is snow at birth. Subject(s): Alumni; Wellesley College WHAT IS THE SPIRIT?, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the spirit? Nay Last Line: A seed of seraphim. Subject(s): Wellesley College WHEN BEAUTY DIES, by SOPHIE JEWETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Should change fall in its fated hour Last Line: I shall seek these, when beauty dies. Alternate Author Name(s): Burroughs, Ellen Subject(s): Beauty; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College WHEN FIRST YOU CAME, by CAROLINE KLINGENSMITH GARDNER Poem Text First Line: When first you came, it was as if a breeze Last Line: So fair the mood you left, when first you came. Subject(s): Wellesley College WHILES, by MARY DILLINGHAM FREAR Poem Text First Line: I listen in vain for a voice most sweet Last Line: For the grass grows under the swing! Subject(s): Wellesley College WHITE MOMENTS, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The best of life, what is it but white moments? Last Line: -- the starry shrines along our pilgrim road. Subject(s): Wellesley College WHITENESS, by MARION PELTON GUILD Poem Text First Line: Long, long years my heart has worshipped whiteness Last Line: Lead me to thy citadels of whiteness! Subject(s): Wellesley College; White (color) WHY?, by MARY WOOD DALEY Poem Text First Line: Pity him not, the soldier dead Last Line: The challenge of your why. Subject(s): War; Wellesley College WINGED YOUTH; ON A BOY SWINGING, by DOROTHEA LAWRANCE MANN Poem Text First Line: He swings / on joyous wings Last Line: The hermes feet shall lead him to the arches of the day. Subject(s): Swings; Wellesley College WITH A GIFT OF CONS, CHEMICALLY COLORED FOR THE FIRELIGHT, by LILLA WEED Poem Text First Line: From the tops of the tallest pines Last Line: And an intimation of everlasting glory. Subject(s): Wellesley College WORK, by MARGARET STEELE ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mine is the shape forever set between Last Line: He prays that he may find me after death! Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Wellesley College YELLOW WARBLERS, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first faint dawn was flushing up the skies Last Line: A nest of stars, beneath untroubled wings. Subject(s): Birds; Wellesley College |
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