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| Searching... Subject: WIND Matches Found: 682 "BLOW, NORTHERN WIND", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Ichot a burde in boure bryght Last Line: "blou northernw wynd! Blou, blou, blou!" Subject(s): North Wind & YOU DO YOU LOOK UP, by DENNIS COOLEY Poem Source Last Line: On its way to loneliness Subject(s): Solitude; Wind 10-AUG, by JR. RALPH JOSEPH MILLS Poem Source First Line: Wind moves at %the porch door Subject(s): Sun; Wind A BALLAD OF APPEAL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Song wakes with every wakening year Last Line: Sweet water from the well of song. Subject(s): Spring; Wind A CARELESS HEART, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind has blown my heart away Last Line: The wind did blow my heart away. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Love; Wind A CAVEAT TO THE WIND, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sing high, sing low, thou moody wind Last Line: Meet co-mate for a shrew like thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Wind A COLD BELL RINGING IN THE EAST, by BRENDAN JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It woke me to this full moon Subject(s): Wind A COLD NOT THE OPPOSITE OF LIFE, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing but pine boards between her and wind that would not Last Line: Nothing but pine boards between her and wind that would not Subject(s): Nothing But Pine Boards Between Her And Wind That Would No A DANCING SONG TO THE MISTRAL WIND, by FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wildly rushing, clouds outleaping Last Line: Till it reach the farthest star. Subject(s): Wind A DEAD CALM AND MIST (TOWARDS EVENING), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The slow heave of the sleeping sea Last Line: Save just a dream of amethyst. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Evening; Sea; Wind; Nightmares; Sunset; Twilight; Ocean A DOUBLE BALLAD OF AUGUST, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All afric, winged with death and fire Last Line: Life yearns for solace toward the sea. Subject(s): August; Sea; Wind; Ocean A DREAM OF INSPIRATION, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To loll back, in a misty hammock, swung Last Line: Save fancy's hinted chime of unknown seas. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Dreams; Hammocks; Wind; Inspiration; Creativity; Nightmares A FINCH SITTING OUT A WINDSTORM, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Solemnly irritated by the turn Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Finches; Wind A FRAGMENT, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On battlemented morningside Last Line: The grasses and the leaves are still. Subject(s): Wind; Winter A GENTLE WIND, by FU HSUAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A gentle wind fans the calm night Last Line: To me they seem no more than weeds or chaff. Alternate Author Name(s): Hsiu-i; Fu Xuan Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Wind A GREEN WAVE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Between the salt sea-send before Last Line: With plumes from the grey clouds that fly. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Sea; Sky; Wind; Ocean A LAMENT FOR THE SUMMER, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Moan, o ye autumn winds! Last Line: And leave us desolate and earth forlorn! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Lament; Seasons; Summer; Wind; Dead, The A LANDSCAPE BY COURBET, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Low lies the mere beneath the moorside, still Last Line: Low lies the mere. Subject(s): Roundels; Summer; Wind A MOUNTAIN WIND, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cold limbs of the air Last Line: Brother to grass and stones. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Mountains; Wind; Hills; Downs (great Britain) A NIGHT-PIECE BY MILLET, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wind and sea and cloud and cloud-forsaking Last Line: Wind and sea. Subject(s): Roundels; Sea; Storms; Wind; Ocean A PRAYER TO THE WIND, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go, thou gentle whispering wind Last Line: Or else quite extinguish mine. Variant Title(s): Love's Errand Subject(s): Desire; Wind A PRINT BY HOKUSAI, by FLORENCE KILPATRICK MIXTER Poem Text First Line: Of what avail Last Line: And fill the night with death! Subject(s): Wind A SEA CHARM, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Winds that waft the fisher-fleet Last Line: My mermaiden! Subject(s): Mermaids & Mermen; New York City; Sea; Wind; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Ocean A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 31, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On wenlock edge the wood's in trouble Last Line: Are ashes under uricon. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Variant Title(s): On Wenlock Edge;wenlock Edge Subject(s): England; Shropshire, England; Time; Wind; English A SLEEPING BEAUTY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An alien wind that blew and blew Last Line: As he turned to go -- yet, pausing, gazed? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fairy Tales; Insects; Nature; Wind; Bugs A STAVE OF ROVING TIM, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind is east, the wind is west Last Line: Is in and out of haven. Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wind A STORM, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Arthur o'bower has broken his band Last Line: Cannot turn arthur of the bower. Variant Title(s): Riddle: The Wind Subject(s): Riddles; Wind A STORM IN SUMMER, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nature that day a woman was in weakness Last Line: Burst into tears. Subject(s): Nature; Storms; Wind A THEORY OF WIND, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is how the page must feel: it doesn't Subject(s): Wind A WIND-CALL, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dust thou art, and unto dust Last Line: Playfellow, return thou must. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Wind A WINDFLOWER, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind stooped down and wrote a sweet, small word Last Line: The wind's word in the grass. Subject(s): Wind A WINDY DAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dawn was a dawn of splendor Last Line: In a spatter of spiteful rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dawn; Prayer; Trees; Wind; Sunrise A WINTER HEDGEROW, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wintry wolds are white; the wind Last Line: The shrewmice sleep 'mid nested leaves. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Wind; Winter A WINTER HYMN, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O weary winds! O winds that wail! Last Line: On some fair spring-dawn fresh from god! Subject(s): Wind A WINTER'S NIGHT, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind has reverenced the splendor of the night Last Line: I would to-night the storms were all awake! Subject(s): Night; Storms; Wind; Winter; Bedtime A WORD WITH THE WIND, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord of days and nights that hear thy word of wintry warming Last Line: Far as foam that laughs and leaps along the sea. Subject(s): Dreams; Nature; Night; Sea; Wind; Nightmares; Bedtime; Ocean A YEAR'S CAROLS: FEBRUARY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wan february with weeping cheer Last Line: But lit with hopes that light the year's. Subject(s): February; Seasons; Wind A YEAR'S CAROLS: MARCH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, happy march, whose foot on earth Last Line: Of tempest and the towering morn. Subject(s): March (month); Seasons; Wind ABSENCE IN SPRING, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What boots it me to see this verdure fair Last Line: Her who doth hold my life and death in hers. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Life; Spring; Wind; Winter; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The AFTER, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And in the after silences Last Line: By monstrous rocks, a lonely soul. Subject(s): Silence; Soul; Wind AFTER A JUNE NIGHT'S STORM, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: O what a day of lovely light Last Line: By a draught of her gladdening wine. Subject(s): Nature; Storms; Wind AFTER SUNSET, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Straight from the sun's grave in the deep clear west Last Line: That love's last mortal word was not his last. Subject(s): Death; Night; Sun; Wind; Dead, The; Bedtime AFTER THE CHINESE, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By daybreak a north wind has shaken Last Line: Prefers a north wind Subject(s): Wind AFTERNOON OF SAND, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like retarded water Subject(s): Seashore; Wind; Beach; Coast; Shore AGAIN CONSIDER THE WIND, by BROOKS HAXTON Poem Source First Line: The wind continuing to turn and turn back Last Line: With three strokes so that the steel rang, I was there, %andthe wind carried the music across the po Subject(s): Wind AGAIN THE WIND, by JAMES J. DALY Poem Text First Line: You praise the wind, but I Last Line: Had the intolerable wind blown. Subject(s): Wind AIR, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Element that utters doves, angels and cleft flames Last Line: Like silence into music, opening a way through time. Subject(s): Air; Wind ALL FOR ME, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world grows green on a thousand hills Last Line: You and your court came north together. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Kisses; Summer; Wind AN ANTHEM IN HEAT, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now praise the lord, both moon and sun Last Line: And bids us live at evenfall. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Country Life; Evening; God; Nature; Praise; Summer; Wind; Sunset; Twilight AN END TO THE WIND, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The month-long wind had ceased. Trees that / were weary Last Line: And lift her cheek to springlike suns and dews. Subject(s): Wind AN ENGLISH BREEZE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up with the sun, the breeze arose Last Line: She gallops by the fields along. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Morning; Wind AN OPEN BOAT, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O what is that whimpering there in the darkness? Last Line: To fret the bare seas at the breaking of day. Subject(s): Boats; Death; Faces; Sea; Voices; Wind; Dead, The; Ocean AND THE RUSTLING BOUGH AS AN ALPHABET, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like anything else, the air in motion Subject(s): Wind ANDANTE FOR AUTUMN, by HERMAN SALINGER Poem Text First Line: Evening was brown and misty / the window Last Line: Marched untriumphant past. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Wind; Fall AS IF: (A) WIND, by MOLLY LOU FREEMAN Poem Source First Line: (that breeze was so touching.) Last Line: She left the window open, %said, come in Subject(s): Wind AT MIDNIGHT'S HOUR I RAISED MY HEAD, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: The word was whispered through the ranks, Subject(s): Night; Wind AT NIGHT; SONNET, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind is singing through the trees tonight Last Line: The freedom of the onward sweeping wind. Subject(s): Wind AT PLAY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There's a rogue at play in my sunlit room Last Line: For west wind is his name Subject(s): Wind AT THE WIND'S WILL, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So far, so far have I come Last Line: Blow on, strong wind! I will know. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Wind AUTUMN, by JESSE SILL Poem Text First Line: In token of his bounteous grace Last Line: Youth will not come to thy beck and call. Subject(s): Autumn; Decay; Leaves; Seasons; Wind; Fall; Rot; Decadence AUTUMN, by WILL H. SKALING Poem Text First Line: On distant hills, maples glow Last Line: Wild geese flying by. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Weather; Wind; Fall AUTUMN LEAVES, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: The autumn leaves are turning fast Last Line: The spirit doth reveal. Subject(s): Autumn; Cold; Leaves; Seasons; Wind; Fall AUTUMN SONG, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A keen west wind from the hills away Last Line: Hopes and dreamings and dead desires. Subject(s): Autumn; Desire; Hope; Memory; Seasons; Singing & Singers; Wind; Fall; Optimism; Songs AUTUMN TIME, by HERMAN J. D. CARTER Poem Text First Line: Tarnished leaves scurry across the plains Last Line: That he is not changing to moldy sod. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Wind; Fall AUTUMN WIND, by ALFRED D. BUTTS Poem Text First Line: Break, o wind! / break against the trees Last Line: Kick up your heels and run away! Subject(s): Autumn; Dust; Seasons; Weather; Wind; Fall AUTUMN WIND, by GEORGE H. DILLON Poem Text First Line: Now speaks the naked wind alone Last Line: It is the only endless song. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Wind; Fall AUTUMN WIND, by LIU CH'E Poem Source First Line: Autumn wind rises Last Line: Helpless before old age! Subject(s): Wind AUTUMN WIND, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It sings, and every flower and weed Last Line: Is all I have to give. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Wind AUTUMN WIND, by WU-TI (157 B.C.- 87 B.C.) Poem Source First Line: The autumn wind rises Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Wind AUTUMN WINDS, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The autumn gales are blowing Last Line: I'd breathe my life away. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Autumn; Life; Nature; Seasons; Wind; Fall AUTUMN WINDS, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O autumn winds, with voices far away Last Line: And stand forth free to struggle and endure! Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Trees; Wind; Fall AUTUMNAL, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The saffron-colored leaves are cresting into their moment. It's Last Line: It is to be here. And because we are not gone, still we are early Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Nature; Seasons; Wind AUTUMNAL, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To-night the tumult of the autumn wind Last Line: A little while, o leaves, and we shall know! Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Earth; Seasons; Wind; Fall; Dead, The; World AUTUMNAL VESPERS, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The clarion wind, that blew so loud at morn Last Line: My strength, o god! In thine Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Autumn; Life; Love; Memory; Seasons; Wind; Fall BALLAD OF THE SONG OF THE SEA-WIND, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is the song the sea-wind sings Last Line: Her central fires make one vast flame! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Sea; Wind; Ocean BEAUTIFUL SNOW, by MAJOR SIGOURNEY Poem Text First Line: Beautiful snow! Beautiful snow! Last Line: Pity the homeless exposed to the cold, icy snow. Subject(s): Beauty; Cold; Grief; Happiness; Homeless; Poverty; Snow; Wind; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight BECALMED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Would that the winds might Last Line: Ah! That the winds might rise and blow! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Mythology; Wind BECAUSE WORDS HAVE NO EFFECT UPON THE WIND, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Is to stay alive Subject(s): Language; Wind; Trees; Survival BEWARE OF THE WIND, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beware of the wind when it talks to your heart Last Line: And says such things as none should say. Subject(s): Life; Prudence; Wind; Caution BIG WIND, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Where were the greenhouses going Subject(s): Wind BIG WIND, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where were the greenhouses going Last Line: She sailed until the calm morning %carrying her full cargo of roses Subject(s): Wind BIRTHDAY THOUGHTS, by MABEL CELIA SAUNDERS Poem Text First Line: It is sad today / and the winds blow wild Last Line: I'll always be young. Subject(s): Wind; Youth BITTER CHOICE, by ELLEN MAGRATH CARROLL Poem Text First Line: I have leant upon a sword Last Line: Blow wild! Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Children; Swords; Wind; Weapons; Ammunition; Childhood BITTER-SWEET, by J. ROY ZEISS Poem Text First Line: Like the rustle of old silk thru barren halls Last Line: In fantastic transient moods. Subject(s): Solitude; Trees; Wind; Loneliness BLIND ALLEY, by F. B. CAPERIL Poem Text First Line: Oh, on the four wings of the wind Last Line: Stopped in the pastures, walled and windy. Subject(s): Wind BLOW WIND, BLOW! / AND GO, MILL, GO! (1), by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And into rolls make it, %and send us some hot in the morn Subject(s): Bread; Wind BLOW, WIND, by NORMA FARBER Poem Source First Line: I watched the waving milkweed tips Last Line: Purse up into a whistle Subject(s): Wind BLOW, WIND, BLOW! / AND GO, MILL, GO, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: And send us some hot in the morn Subject(s): Wind BONES, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It takes a long time to hear what the sands seem to bee saying Last Line: They extend farther than a man can see Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Sailors And Sailing; Sea Gulls; Shipwrecks; Storms; Wind BOUND AND FREE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come to me, love! Come on the wings of the wind! Last Line: That you must be bound, love, and I must be free. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Fate; Freedom; Life; Love; Wind; Youth; Destiny; Liberty BREATH OF THE BRIAR, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O briar-scents, on yon wet wing Last Line: My thirst to bite where she had bit. Subject(s): Brier; Love; Wind; Briar BY FAUGHAN, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For hills and woods and streams unsung Last Line: Between the silence and the wind. Subject(s): Flowers; Purple (color); Sea; Sheep; Violets; Wind; Ocean BY MARCH WIND LED, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wild beleaguering march wind storms my door Last Line: Your evil power -- my soul ye shall not daunt. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Wind CANDLE LIGHT, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hush, true love, as we sit and think Last Line: And we kiss by candle light! Subject(s): Candles; Love; Night; Sea; Soul; Wind; Winter; Bedtime; Ocean CAPE DREAD, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For those who come after, that is how we named it Last Line: But delectable, at least at that season Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Disasters; Sailors And Sailing; Shipwrecks; Storms; Weather; Wind CAPRICE, by ELLEN G. HILLEBOE Poem Text First Line: The roguish wind, when bored with play Last Line: The roguish wind. Subject(s): Wind CHANSON D'AUTOMNE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The autumn wind wails thin, / like a sobbing violin Last Line: When the winter gusts begin to and fro Subject(s): Wind; Grief; Winter CHINOISERIE, by BABETTE DEUTSCH Poem Text First Line: A cloud of shivering silver Last Line: The sky is a glowing poppy, all unfurled. Alternate Author Name(s): Yarmolinsky, Avrahm, Mrs. Subject(s): Clouds; Weather; Wind CHORISTERS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O wind and waters, ye alone Last Line: The echoes dies away. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Wind CHRIST AND THE WINDS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From bethlehem to calvary Last Line: We, wanderers, remain alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Wind CINQUAIN: NIGHT WINDS, by ADELAIDE CRAPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The old / old winds that blew Last Line: Should weep? Subject(s): Wind CINQUAIN: WIND, by KENNETH CHING Poem Text First Line: He shoots Last Line: A prisoner. Subject(s): Wind CLASSIC OF POETRY: 41. 'NORTH WIND', by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Chilly is the north wind Last Line: We must leave now! Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Wind CLEAR AWAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Clear away, clear away Last Line: Where the little cloud hid away Subject(s): Wind; Clouds CLEORA BECOMES A DAKOTAN, by HARRIET SEYMOUR POPOWSKI Poem Text First Line: Cleora rose and shivered, looking out Last Line: "you don't hear the wind after while . . . Or mind it . . . Much"" . . ." Subject(s): Wind CLIMATIC, by JEAN COOPER Poem Source First Line: The soft breeze caresses the epidermis Last Line: Until the breeze is no more! Subject(s): Weather; Wind COLD BELL RINGING IN THE EAST, by BRENDAN JAMES GALVIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It woke me to this full moon Last Line: In scrub, then dusk itself, %with its air of invisible mending Subject(s): Wind COMBINATIONS, by CATHERINE CATE COBLENTZ Poem Text First Line: Heartache and a crimson rose Last Line: But sorrow twists the mouth. Subject(s): Flowers; Grief; Roses; Wind; Wisdom; Sorrow; Sadness COMPOSITION, by ADAM DICKINSON Poem Source First Line: Collecting strewn branches after high winds Last Line: And find a way to release the genius %of a hill Subject(s): Collectors And Collecting; Trees; Wind CONTRADICTION, by ELIZABETH E. FOULKE Poem Text First Line: Today the wind toys with the trees Last Line: Are you the wind, shall I believe? Subject(s): Wind CONTRASTS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind is roaring down the lake Last Line: Will never bloom again! Subject(s): Evil; Mountains; Soul; Wind; Hills; Downs (great Britain) CONVERSATION WITH A KITE, by BOBBI KATZ Poem Source First Line: Come back, come back, my runaway kite! Last Line: That I give to a child of the land Subject(s): Wind COOK COUNTY, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The northeast wind was the wind off the lake Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Variant Title(s): Weather Subject(s): Nature; Weather; Wind COOK COUNTY, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The northeast wind was the wind off the lake Last Line: And snow on the sand where in summer the water was... Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Variant Title(s): Weathe Subject(s): Nature; Weather; Wind CORNISH WIND, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a wind in cornwall that I know Last Line: A wind in england like my cornish wind. Subject(s): Cornwall, England; Wind CRICK! CRACK!, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Crick! Crack! %wind at my back Last Line: One mitten to lose Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Wind DANGER, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With what a childish and short sighted sense Last Line: Lies hid the pebble for the fatal sling. Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Advice; Death; Wind; Dead, The DAWN WINDS, by VERA NICOLSON Poem Text First Line: The valley lies in shadow - all silver grey with dew Last Line: For they hear the glad reveille that the dawn winds blow. Subject(s): Dawn; Wind; Sunrise DAYS THAT THE WIND TAKES OVER, by KARLA KUSKIN Poem Source Last Line: Later the wind came back %alone Subject(s): Wind DEAD CENTER, by MICHAEL CAREY Poem Source First Line: He didn't know why he did it, he just did. There were seven tornadoes Last Line: Grass and a fading terror and the rush of blood in the urge to be lifted Subject(s): Disasters; Hurricanes; Weather; Wind DEDICATION TO POEMS AND BALLADS, 1ST SERIES, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea gives her shells to the shingle Last Line: Night sinks on the sea. Variant Title(s): Dedication: 1865 Subject(s): Earth; Nature; Sea; Seasons; Wind; World; Ocean DEIRDRE IS DEAD, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The grey wind weeps, the grey wind weeps, the grey wind weeps Last Line: Dust on her breast, dust on her eyes, the grey wind weeps! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Brigid Of Ireland, Saint (453-523); Death; Deirdre; Drowning; Grief; Wind; Bridget, Saint; Brigit Of Kildare, Saint; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness DIRGE IN WOODS, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A wind sways the pines Last Line: Even so. Subject(s): Forests; Pine Trees; Wind; Woods DO YOU FEAR THE WIND?, by HAMLIN GARLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you fear the force of the wind Last Line: But you'll walk like a man! Subject(s): Wilderness; Wind DOWN TIME'S QUAINT STREAM, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Or schedule of the tide Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Tides; Wind DRUMS OF THE WIND, by VIRGINIA HAW Poem Text First Line: The drums of the wind with gusty beat Last Line: Mark time for rain. Subject(s): Rain; Wind DURING WIND AND RAIN, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: They sing their dearest songs Last Line: Down their carved names the rain-drop ploughs. Subject(s): Death; Holidays; Mourning; New Year; Rain; Time; Wind; Dead, The; Bereavement DUST SPOUT, by MARY BEALE CARR Poem Text First Line: Behold, I am a spinner Last Line: When dust returns to dust. Subject(s): Wind DWARF JUNIPER, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing can more harshly interpret Last Line: Swept into stiffened spirals by gale winds Subject(s): Cyclones; Storms; Wind EAST WIND, by CHARLES BUXTON GOING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Gray-cowled wind of the east! Subject(s): East Wind EDDY-GRAMS: 4. STORM AND TRAVAIL, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Trees may crash beneath a cyclone Last Line: When he shall unlock the door. Subject(s): Cyclones; Lightning; Storms; Tragedy; Wind; Lightning Rods ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: WIND, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A dry wind over the valley Last Line: And I take on another life Subject(s): Farm Life; San Joaquin Valley, California; Wind ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: WIND (2), by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When you got up this morning the sun Last Line: Was moving under your skin and already far %from the small hives of your lungs Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California; Wind EMERGENCY COMMISSION, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Self-tossed out of heart Last Line: Carry the crush and shock? Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Storms; Wind EMPIRE (PERSEPOLIS), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The yellow waste of yellow sands Last Line: The memory of persepolis? Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Temples; Wind; Mosques EPIGRAM: 5, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He is not dead that sometime hath a fall Last Line: Doeth ryse again and greater wode doeth bind. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 60. From The City Subject(s): Death; Fortune; Sun; Wind; Dead, The EPITHALAMIUM, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For the first time the wind Last Line: My faith in it is passing. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Wind ERIE WATERS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A dash of yellow sand Last Line: With flying clouds and tossing gulls that weave and interlace. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Waves; Wind; Seamen; Sails; Ocean ERINNERUNG, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the door of my thatched hut Last Line: Sounds like the rustle of brocaded silk Subject(s): China; Gingko Trees; Wind ERINNERUNG, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At the door of my thatched hut Last Line: Sounds like the rustle of brocaded silk Subject(s): China; Gingko Trees; Wind EUROCLYDON, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Scarce loosed from crete Last Line: And undergird the ship. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Wind EVENING AFTER STORM, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Around these city towers there churns Last Line: Passing over, glances in. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Storms; Wind EXPLAINING THE BITTERNESS OF THE WIND, by RICHARD RAY KIRK Poem Text First Line: The wind has no home but the wide world Last Line: And the wind is bitter at times, and I think no wonder! Subject(s): Wind FAIR, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blow, blow, etesian gale! Last Line: Lucilla's cap is straight. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Wind FALL WIND, by MARGARET HILLERT Poem Source First Line: I scarcely felt a breath of air Last Line: Like drops of colored rain Subject(s): Wind FIRST WIND OF AUTUMN, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a wind blowing Subject(s): Wind; Autumn; Fall FLAME ON THE WIND, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O wind without that moans and cries, o dark Last Line: Mid dirges of white shapes that plunge and sway. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Desire; Fire; Hearts; Pain; Soul; Wind; Suffering; Misery FLAUBERT AT CROISSET, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The wind would veer, and over the sound Last Line: Often. Listening to them I died: %I died for every word Subject(s): Death; Wind FLIGHT OF THE WESTWIND, by NELLIE M. SHEVLIN Poem Text First Line: Smooth as the course of an arrow Last Line: Melting into sunset's glow. Subject(s): Wind FOOL-YOUNGENS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Me an' bert' an' minnie-belle Last Line: An' ist choke a-laughin'. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Laughter; Trees; Wind FOOLS OF DREAM, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You will find them in lone hidings Last Line: To the deathless fools of dream! Subject(s): Dreams; Fools; Laughter; Time; Wind; Nightmares; Idiots FOR ROSALINE'S ALBUM, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you hear the low winds singing Last Line: None must come save you and she. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Bells; Brooks; Mothers; Wind; Streams; Creeks FOR THE NIGHT TO WEAR, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: For the twilight, the wet snow Last Line: The polar wind. Subject(s): Snow; Wind; Winter FOUR WINDS, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The south wind brings wet weather Last Line: Old rhyme. Variant Title(s): Proverbial Weather Rhymes;the Winds Subject(s): Weather; Wind FOUR WINDS , by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Four winds blowing thro' the sky Last Line: Then will love be kind to thee Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Wind FRAGMENTS (6), by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From labours through the night, outworn Last Line: We mount to her, to her belong. Subject(s): Night; Wind; Bedtime FREE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Lost poems drift Last Line: Flying verse is free Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Wind FROM THE BOOK OF BALETTES, by THOMAS WILLARD CLARK Poem Source First Line: Blow, northern wind, come back centuries late Last Line: He'd dance to gladly if he but knew the tune Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Tom Subject(s): North Wind FUGITIVES, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight, far inland from the sea Last Line: The shaken reed, the scattered spray. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Wind GO WIND, by LILIAN MOORE Poem Source First Line: Go wind, blow Last Line: Not me- %not me Subject(s): Wind GOD OF THE WINDS, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE Poem Text First Line: I am a god of winds that are! Last Line: —s. D. State fair, second prize. 1932 Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Wind GOSHEN GAP, by KATHERINE SONIAT Poem Source First Line: Oaks make an altogether deadly rattle Last Line: That crippled pause in the moonlight Subject(s): Trees; Wind GRACE DARLING; OR THE WRECK OF THE 'FORFARSHIRE', by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As the night was beginning to close in one rough september day Last Line: And for her equal in true heroism we cannot find another. Subject(s): Disasters; Heroism; Pain; Sea; Shipwrecks; Steamboats; Storms; Survival; Wind; Heroes; Heroines; Suffering; Misery; Ocean GRAVES, by FRANCIS SALTUS SALTUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sad night wind, sighing o'er sea and strand Last Line: And lull the long grass over baudelaire. Subject(s): Graves; Grief; Night; Wind; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime HAD I WIST, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Had I wist, when life was like a warm wind playing Last Line: Had I wist.' Subject(s): Flowers; Life; Roses; Roundels; Wind HAPPY, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: The house was perfectly silent Last Line: And called it anything else: %daughter, cool wind, open window, silence Subject(s): Happiness; Mothers And Daughters; Silence; Wind HAPPY WIND, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, happy wind, how sweet Last Line: To be alive this day. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Wind HEALED, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The winds like a pack of hounds Last Line: And its face was the face of a mother, and its voice was the voice of a child. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Dust; Healing; Storms; Wind; Cures HENDECASYLLABICS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the month of the long decline of roses Last Line: "iron blossom of frost is bound for ever." Subject(s): Flowers; Seasons; Summer; Wind HESPERUS, by JAQUELINE NEWTON DELAMATER Poem Text First Line: Wind of the summer Last Line: Hesperus, bearer of memories! Subject(s): Wind HIGH WIND AT THE BATTERY, by RALPH POMEROY Poem Source First Line: The corner bank has lost a great window Last Line: That the city is getting a needed dusting - %means that we're that much nearer to slow-coming spring Subject(s): New York City; Wind HISTORY, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All night the wind Last Line: Creek remembers; and rages Subject(s): History; Morning; Night; Rain; Wind; Historians; Bedtime HORSEBACK ON THE LLANO ESTACANDO, by ANDY WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: The wind is the oldest river, rhythmic Last Line: Until the wind is a river no more Subject(s): Ranch Life; Wind HOW RUTHLESS ARE THE GENTLE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet's Biography Last Line: To qualify the wind Variant Title(s): Poem: 1439; Poem: 146 Subject(s): Wind HURRICANE, by JOSE MARIA DE+(1) HEREDIA Poem Source First Line: Lord of the winds! I feel thee nigh Last Line: Alone with the terrible hurricane Subject(s): Hurricanes; Sailors And Sailing; Wind HUSH-A-BYE BABY, by SUNDAIRA MORNINGHOUSE Poem Source Last Line: In a sun-sweet forest %of loving arms Subject(s): Wind HYMN TO THE WINDS, by JOACHIM DU BELLAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To you, troop so fleet Last Line: In the sun's heat. Alternate Author Name(s): Du Bellay, Joachim Subject(s): Wind I BET WITH EVERY WIND THAT BLEW, TILL NATURE IN CHAGRIN, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: And scuttle my balloon Subject(s): Wind I LIKE THE WIND, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are at or near that approximate line Subject(s): Wind I MUST GROPE AS I PICK, by OSHIKOCHI NO MITSUNE Poem Source Last Line: Though it howls as it goes, %can never be seen Subject(s): Wind I SAW THE WIND WITHIN HER, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet's Biography Last Line: I asked humility Variant Title(s): Poem: 1502; Poem: 153 Subject(s): Wind I SEE YOU, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: I see you, stranger, reaching out to touch Last Line: Where cold winds blow Subject(s): Cold; Strangers; Wind I SOWED TO THE WIND MY SIGH, by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK Poem Source First Line: I sowed to the wind my sigh Last Line: Rolled in the dust and blood - - Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman Subject(s): Wind I THINK THAT THE ROOT OF THE WIND IS WATER, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: In the atmosphere Subject(s): Wind; Water I-BRASIL, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's sorrow on the wind, my grief, theres' sorrow on the wind Last Line: Far away, far away. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Grief; Old Age; Peace; Singing & Singers; Wind; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sorrow; Sadness IN DEAR VENDOME, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My des autels, whose true Last Line: Your friend, ronsard. Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; Justice; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Wind; World; Paradise IN JULY (SOUTH OF ROME), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pale-rose the dust lying thick upon the road Last Line: Faint through the golden glimmer of the heat. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): July; Rome, Italy; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Wind IN NEW YORK: 4. IN THE NIGHT, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drifting, groping / for delight Last Line: Not there? Subject(s): Love; Night; Sleep; Wind; Bedtime IN THE HAMMOCK, by ROSE TERRY COOKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How the stars shine out at sea! Last Line: And my eyes shine -- I've been swinging. Subject(s): Hammocks; Wind IN THE NIGHT, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O wind, why break in idle pain Last Line: This thing that hath no grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Hearts; Immortality; Pain; Waves; Wind; Suffering; Misery INDIGNATION, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO Poem Source First Line: Blurred in a whirlwind, a mighty cloud of dust Last Line: I blotted out your light Subject(s): Anger; Wind INSIDE OUT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Look at leaves turning inside out Last Line: Leaves turning. Stay. Move on. Stay. Move on. Subject(s): Aging; Seasons; Wind INTELLECTUAL LIMITATIONS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Parunts knows lots more than us Last Line: "well, what is it, honey?" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Parents; Wind; Wisdom; Parenthood INVOCATION, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who will waken the wind for me? Last Line: Who will waken the wind? Subject(s): Earth; Leprosy; Night; Pain; Wind; World; Lepers; Bedtime; Suffering; Misery INVOCATION; WRITTEN IN THE GULF OF LYONS DURING A STORM, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Play me a lulling tune, o flute-player of sleep Last Line: Beyond the last, low, long, oblivious sigh. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Comfort; Lyons, France; Prayer; Sea; Sleep; Storms; Wind; Ocean INVOCATION; WRITTEN ON A VERY HOT DAY IN AUGUST, by HANNAH COWLEY Poem Text First Line: Cooling zephyrs haste away Last Line: But dart, with vigour, to my arms! Alternate Author Name(s): Matilda, Anna; Parkhouse, Hannah Subject(s): Heat; Travel; Wind; Journeys; Trips IT'S A LONG WAY, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's a long way the sea-winds blow Last Line: My dreams forevermore. Subject(s): Wind JUNE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O queenly month of indolent repose! Last Line: All hail the peerless goddess of the year! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): June; Wind L.T.N., by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Happy winds whose wings caress Last Line: For thine and love's sake, sweet. Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love; Love - Loss Of; Wind; Sorrow; Sadness LA VELIA (THE SEA GULL: PONTINE MARSHES), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here where the marsh Last Line: And the tumult of waters. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Sea; Sea Gulls; Wind; Ocean LANDSCAPE, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See the trees lean to the wind's way of leaning Subject(s): Trees; Wind LE MISTRAL, by MAIMIE A. RICHARDSON Poem Source First Line: O sea! That holds upon thy thumbling breast Subject(s): Wind LE VENT DE L'ESPIRIT, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind that sighs before the dawn Last Line: Draw warmth and light and life. Subject(s): Wind LEAF LITTER ON ROCK FACE, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Things are not / unmoving (or else what Subject(s): Wind LEAVES AND THE WIND, by GEORGE COOPER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Come little leaves,' said the wind one day Last Line: The snow laid a coverlid over their heads Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Seasons; Wind LEAVING THE HARBOR, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At last the great, red sun sank low Last Line: Lay on the shore of heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Harbors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Wind; Ocean LIKE RAIN IT SOUNDED TILL IT CURVED, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Then like elijah rode away %upon a wheel of cloud Variant Title(s): Poem: 1235; Poem: 124 Subject(s): Rivers; Wind LINES COMPOSED IN A WOOD ON A WINDY DAY, by ANNE BRONTE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring Last Line: And hear the wild roar of their thunder today! Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Acton Subject(s): Nature; Wind LITTLE CHILDREN OF THE WIND, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the little children of the wind Last Line: The little tremulous leaves of the wind. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Children; Leaves; Solitude; Tears; Wind; Childhood; Loneliness LITTLE SIDE STREET, by HALA JEAN HAMMOND Poem Text First Line: Sobs ghost-wind on a little side street Last Line: Peopled with dust-motes. Subject(s): Wind LOCH CORUISK (SKYE), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bleak and barren mountains keep Last Line: The eagle's scream or wild swan's cry. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Sound; Storms; Wind LOESS, by JARED LEISING Poem Source First Line: The wind started it. Lifting heavy handfuls of china's jet Last Line: Her, treading the sour emerald water Subject(s): Wind LONDON WIND, by LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind blows, the wind blows Last Line: And the clouds are atoss in the sky! Subject(s): London; Wind LONGFELLOW, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The winds have talked with him confidingly Last Line: Of nature's voice he sings -- and will alway. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882); Nature; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Wind; Songs LONGING, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O would I were the cool wind that's blowing from the sea Last Line: The grey silence, the grey waves, the grey wastes of the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Longing; Love; Sea; Solitude; Wind; Ocean; Loneliness LOOK HE SAYS LOOK AT THIS, by DENNIS COOLEY Poem Source Last Line: Look he says look Subject(s): Death; Storms; Wind LOVE AT SEA, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are in love's land today Last Line: Imitated from theophile gautier. Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon Subject(s): Love; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Wind; Seamen; Sails; Ocean LOVE FOR A BEAUTIFUL LADY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Blow, northerne wind [wynd] Last Line: More pen eny mon Subject(s): Love; North Wind LOVE IS STRONG, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A viewless thing is the wind Last Line: For she conquers shame and death. Subject(s): Death; Love; Samson; Shame; Wind; Dead, The LOVE'S CONQUERING, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If 't please you see how love's might overcame Last Line: To choose a child for lord; for guide, the blind. Subject(s): Hearts; Hope; Love; Wind; Youth; Optimism LUBBER BREEZE, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The four sails of the mill Last Line: Laughs in his sleeve. Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): Mills And Millers; Wind LYRIC AND EPIC, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little lyric the sunset gleamed Last Line: An elemental clash and cry. Subject(s): Life; Love; Wind; Memorial Day LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 63, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The trees in the autumn wind rustle Last Line: "thy foolish reverie?" Subject(s): Autumn; Night; Seasons; Trees; Wind; Fall; Bedtime MARCH, by INDIA HUNT Poem Text First Line: Alone upon the hilltop Last Line: To the comrade heart of me! Subject(s): Solitude; Weather; Wind; Loneliness MARCH, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The march wind rises through the skies Last Line: The sunshine to the daffodil. Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): March (month); Wind MARCH FIELDS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now shrink not from me for shamefacedness Last Line: O sober fields of march, your mood is deep, divine! Subject(s): March (month); Spring; Wind MARCH WIND, by FRANCIS MCMILLEN Poem Text First Line: Oh, this march wind, coming so soon before its time Last Line: A wind well-fit to please the infant spring. Subject(s): March (month); Wind MARCH WIND, by HAZEL PARTRIDGE THORNE Poem Text First Line: Here I come shrieking across the plain Last Line: Naught but a playground made for me. Subject(s): March (month); Wind MARINER'S CAROL, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So still the night swinging Last Line: We keep the long watches. %o star, shine before us! Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Sailors And Sailing; Storms; Wind MAY WIND, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I said, 'I have shut my heart Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Wind; Love MAY WIND IS BUSY, by KAZUE MIZUMURA Poem Source Last Line: That summer is near Subject(s): Wind MELODY, by NORMA SMITH Poem Text First Line: There is no song that I have missed Last Line: Intruder to my thought. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Wind MERMILL RD., MILTON CENTER, by MARK DALEY Poem Source First Line: We're watered down, this morning light diffuse Last Line: Wearing down like weather does a rock Subject(s): Floods; Rain; Storms; Weather; Wind METAPHYSIC, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dearie I! When I up and follows Last Line: And many a turnip-load! Subject(s): Dreams; Roads; Wind; Nightmares; Paths; Trails METEOROLOGY, by ALPAY ULKU Poem Source First Line: A storm front wanders down from the mountains, gray and white Last Line: The other riders wrapped in themselves like explorers lost in a blizzard %then they're gone, too, an Subject(s): Rain; Storms; Weathervanes; Wind MINUTE FINGERS OF A TINY WIND', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Walk back the way we came Subject(s): Relationships; Wind MISGIVING, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All crying 'we will go with you, o wind!' Last Line: It may not seem better to me to rest. Subject(s): Wind; Freedom MISSGIVING, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All crying, ‘we will go with you, o wind!’ Last Line: It may not seem better to me to rest Subject(s): Wind MISTRAL, by BARBARA HOWES Poem Source First Line: Percussive, furious, this wind Last Line: Bent low, deafened, I plunge %on, blind in the face of the storm Subject(s): Wind MISTRAL, by STEPHEN SARTARELLI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An occasional madness, airborne Subject(s): Wind MOAN, YE WILD WINDS!, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Moan, ye wild winds! Around the pane Last Line: Or ere ye cease, if shed for me. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Heaven; Rain; Wind; Paradise MOONRISE FROM IONA, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here, where in dim forgotten days Last Line: The bat flies and the owl doth brood. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Moon; Sea; Wind; Ocean MOTHER-LIKE, by ESTHER REINECKE Poem Text First Line: Breathless Last Line: And pray. Subject(s): Wind MOUNTAIN WIND, by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON Poem Text First Line: Watchful, in a canyon resting Last Line: Hurtling to the sea. Subject(s): Sea Monsters; Storms; Wind; Sea Serpents MURMURS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why wilt thou make bright music Last Line: That bids the world rejoice. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Earth; Peace; Religion; Wind; World; Theology MY BEAST, by SANDOR CSOORI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A little beast is visiting me Last Line: The scratching of black sedges Subject(s): Anacreon (582-485 B.c.); Poetry And Poets; Storms; Wind MY DWELLING, by FRANCES HALLEY BROCKETT Poem Text First Line: I'll build my cabin in the pass Last Line: To watch the clouds sail by. Subject(s): Clouds; Weather; Wind MY FRIEND THE WIND, by KING D. KUKA Poem Source First Line: I will call you Last Line: And we will fly to a very happy land Subject(s): Wind MY LITTLE MARCH GIRL, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come to the pane, draw the curtain apart Last Line: But bring her to me, wind, -- my little march girl. Subject(s): Wind MYSTERY, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mine ears have caught some melody of winds Last Line: And sense a hidden music in the world. Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Dawn; Music & Musicians; Nature; Wind; Sunrise NAMESAKES, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But where's the brown drifter that went out alone? Last Line: Ah, fare you well, my sailor. Subject(s): Hearts; Sailing & Sailors; Wind NEW YEAR'S EVE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sit here glad, glad of my comfort and so somber Last Line: With the helplessness of the newborn. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Solitude; Wind; Loneliness NEWS, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the low west falls suddenly shining Last Line: Is contented in faery land. Subject(s): Discontent; News; Rain; Storms; Wind; Dissatisfaction NIGHT, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As some dusk mother shields from all alarms Last Line: How beautiful the holy hours of night! Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Mothers; Night; Truth; Wind; Bedtime NIGHT AND MORNING SONGS: EBB TIDE, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's salt on your ashen lips, lady Subject(s): Wind; Rain NIGHT AND WIND, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night is light and chill Last Line: And the wind is the voice of my heart. Subject(s): Sleep; Wind NIGHT WIND, by F. G. HAGER Poem Text First Line: The darkness hides a hound upon a track Last Line: And all night long the hound runs close behind. Subject(s): Night; Wind; Bedtime NIGHT WIND, by ROSE CAROLYN KATTERHENRY Poem Text First Line: So soft you sigh as you pass by Last Line: And steal a good-night kiss from me. Subject(s): Wind NIGHT WIND, by MABEL WILES SIMPSON Poem Text First Line: Oh wind who kisses the trees to sleep Last Line: Who has taught you to ride the sea? Subject(s): Wind NIGHT-WIND, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Along the lifted line of sombre green Last Line: The carven botch of an idolater. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Wind NIGHT-WIND OF AUGUST, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: That it is only the night-wind Subject(s): Wind NOON-SILENCE (AUSTRALIAN FOREST), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A lyre-bird sings a low melodious song Last Line: And silence wakes and knows her dream is day. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Variant Title(s): The Bell-birds Subject(s): Australia; Birds; Silence; Singing & Singers; Wind NOONDAY WOODS - NIPIGON, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Between thin fingers of the pine Last Line: No more shall know his joyous tread. Subject(s): Forests; Trees; Wind; Woods NORTH WIND, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Loud wind! Strong wind! Sweeping o'er the mountains Last Line: That I hear not thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Wind NORTH WIND AT NIGHT, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good it is when northern winds come blowing / from the ice and bear Last Line: Care and pain depart like swallows lifting to a friendly land. Subject(s): Wind NORTH WIND IN OCTOBER, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the golden glade the chestnuts are fallen all Last Line: He passeth, and all again for a while is bright. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): October; Wind NORTH WIND, SOUTH WIND, by MARY BISHOP BULLARD Poem Text First Line: The north wind comes romping and racing Last Line: And make them angry or sad! Subject(s): Wind NORTHMAN, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gale that wrecked you on the sand Last Line: And drives me where I go. Subject(s): Wind NOTE, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Straw, feathers, dust Last Line: That's the way the wind goes Subject(s): Wind NOTHING NEW, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the dawn of spring till the year grows hoary Last Line: "murmurs -- ""rest." Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Earth; Sea; Wind; World; Ocean NOVEMBER, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lonely season in lonely lands, when fled Last Line: Of how her end shall be. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Autumn; November; Seasons; Time; Wind; Fall NOVEMBER, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER Poem Text First Line: Each sapless leaf that lingers here Last Line: These make amends! Subject(s): Death; Graves; Mourning; November; Wind; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement O WIND OF THE MOUNTAIN, by THOMAS WESTWOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O wind of the mountain, wind of the mountain, hear Last Line: O wind of the mountain, wind of the mountain, hear! Subject(s): Wind O WINDS!, by JEAN ANDERSON Poem Text First Line: O winds of the compass points Last Line: A lonely heart! Subject(s): Solitude; Wind; Loneliness OCTOBER, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stay, gentle sunshine, stay Last Line: Shall pay you with a kiss. Subject(s): October; Sun; Wind OCTOBER, by HELEN PRICE Poem Text First Line: Fill my lungs with october wind Last Line: In a heart too full for singing! Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; October; Seasons; Wind; Fall OH IT'S PRETTY WINDY OUTSIDE, by LARRY EIGNER Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: As the clouds move Subject(s): Wind OLD LOVE SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Blow, northern wind, send Subject(s): North Wind ON A MARCH DAY, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here in the teeth of this triumphant wind Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Wind ON A MARCH DAY, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here in the teeth of this triumphant wind Last Line: The last complete reunion with the earth Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Wind ON THE DARK, STILL, DRY, WARM WEATHER ... IN WINTER MONTHS, by GILBERT WHITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The imprisoned winds slumber within their caves Last Line: And float the deluged paths and miry fields. Subject(s): Air; Snow; Weather; Wind; Winter ONE THING WE GOT PLENTY OF, by GLEN DOWNIE Poem Source First Line: Heavy equipment %squats for sale out front Last Line: Yep wind is one thing %we got plenty of up here Subject(s): Aging; Sickness; Wind ONLY THE SOFT WIND, by FAITH EVELYN PACKARD Poem Text First Line: Life gazes long at me Last Line: Through the swinging treetops. Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations; Life; Wind ONLY THE WIND, by HAROLD VINAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Put all by save the wind, it will remain Last Line: Only the bullet-beaten bones of man. Subject(s): Wind OONA OF THE DARK EYES AND THE CRYING OF WIND, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have fared far in the dim woods Last Line: And the old tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Lament; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology - Celtic; Wind; Male-female Relations OPEN AND CLOSED ROOMS, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A man touches the world with his trade for a glove Last Line: Stand still. %no, fly on Subject(s): Gloves; Human Rights; Sky; Wind ORAN-BHROIN (A CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When all the west is blowing wild Last Line: Is blowing wild. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Children; Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Tears; Wind; Childhood; Bereavement ORGAN SONGS: REJOICE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rejoice,' said the sun; 'I will make thee gay Last Line: "and man said, ""I rejoice." Subject(s): God; Happiness; Humanity; Night; Sun; Wind; Joy; Delight; Bedtime PERPETUALLY ATTEMPTING TO SOAR, by MARY RUEFLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A boy from brooklyn used to cruise on summer nights. Subject(s): Likes & Dislikes; Wind; Breasts; Aging PHOSPHORESCENT SEA, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea scarce heaves in its calm sleep Last Line: Dim sea's on fire around our barque. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Sea; Sleep; Wind; Nightmares; Ocean PINE CAMP, by GORDON BAINE CLARK Poem Text First Line: There were the three of us and we were young Last Line: We hear winds in whisper with far-distant pines. Subject(s): Autumn; Camping; Seasons; Wind; Fall; Camps; Summer Camps PIRATE WIND, by MARY JANE CARR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The autumn wind's a pirate Last Line: And laugh to see you run! Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Wind POEMS ON THE DEATH OF PRINCE HENRY: VPON THE UNSEASONABLE TIMES, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fond vulgar, canst thou thinke it strange to finde Last Line: Men's sighes and teares are slight, and quickly done. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Mourning; Tears; Wind; Winter; Dead, The; Bereavement POETIC EPIGRAMS: 12. AT NIGHT, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind seems like a prayer Last Line: Unanswered everywhere. Subject(s): Night; Wind; Bedtime POETIC EPIGRAMS: 19. BY THE SEA, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: White on each mounded wave Last Line: As on a nameless grave. Subject(s): Graves; Sea; Wind; Tombs; Tombstones; Ocean POETIC EPIGRAMS: 25. PREMONITION, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind of a falling star Last Line: Coming from very far. Subject(s): Wind POINT LOMA BREEZES, by YETTA KAY STODDARD Poem Text First Line: Our south breeze is an actress, who skips with Last Line: Jazzing shamelessly. Subject(s): Point Loma, California; Wind POOR [OR, COCK] ROBIN, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The north wind doth blow / and we shall have snow Last Line: Poor thing. Variant Title(s): What Will Robin Do;the First Snow Subject(s): Nature; Robins; Wind POPLAR: 1, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The blinding sky's unkind Last Line: But the poplar hath her fill. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Poplar Trees; Wind PRACTICING FOR THE RAPTURE, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: In the grainy frames of an early film, a man straps on Last Line: To rise, and enter a realm of creatures %lighter than air Subject(s): Storms; Water; Wind PRAIRIE WIND, by GRACE DICKINSON SPERLING Poem Text First Line: I love to hear the prairie wind Last Line: Blow through the edge of town. Subject(s): Prairies; Wind; Plains PRAIRIE WINDS, by WILLIAM EARL HILL Poem Text First Line: O savage spirits of the air's unrest Last Line: We trust all shall be well—where winds are still! Subject(s): Prairies; Wind; Plains PRAYERS [FOR WIND]., by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let the winds come Last Line: The deep unquenchable answer of the wind. Subject(s): Wind PRECIOSA AND THE WIND, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source First Line: Jangling her parchment moon Last Line: The wind camped out on the roof %tears at the tiles in rage Subject(s): Survival; Wind PREFERENCE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: I don't mind a journey through arctic wind Last Line: But I'd rather leave that man behind Subject(s): Arctic; Travel; Wind PRYING WIND, by ALICE MACKENZIE SWAIM Poem Source First Line: Some prying wind keeps whispering innuendoes Last Line: Though we bank fires and plan out careful days, %this wind will fan piled ashes to full blaze Subject(s): Wind PUT OUT THE LIGHT, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Put out the light; - and then Last Line: To earth or sea or sky. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Light; Pain; Wind; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery RACERS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The winds from many a cloudy mane Last Line: The frenzy of the flight. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Wind RAIN IS LIKE A WOMAN, by MAY WILLIS SHELBURNE Poem Text First Line: Rain, in silver, wanders Last Line: She will follow him. Subject(s): Wind RED POPPIES (IN THE SABINE VALLEYS NEAR ROME), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the seeding grass Last Line: And the tall corn. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Variant Title(s): Red Poppies In The Sabine Valleys Near Rome Subject(s): Italy; Poppies; Rome, Italy; Wind; Italians REGATTA, by IVAN SWIFT Poem Text First Line: We have heard the roll of the signal - gun! Last Line: We've heard our signal-gun! Subject(s): Competition; Surfing; Track Athletics; Waves; Wind; Running Races; Pole Vaulting; Discus Throwing; Shot Putting; Running Hurdles REMORSE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wrote my remorse on a forest-leaf Last Line: I shall never know! Subject(s): Egypt; Grief; Remorse; Sea; Sphinx; Wind; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean REPOSE OF THE SOUL IN THE WOOD OF L'HAUTIL: THE GOD OF SUNNY DAYS, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Proud yearning of the wind above the forest deeps, of a wind that Last Line: Pair of horns from out my forehead grow. Subject(s): Forests; Trees; Wind; Woods REQUIEM, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where, oh where, should love be laid? Last Line: Human hearts are made. Subject(s): Eyes; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Night; Sea; Wind; Bedtime; Ocean RESIDENTIAL AREA, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Prevailing winds in this area below Subject(s): Wind RESIGNATION, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Struggle no more: let it go Last Line: It is dead. Subject(s): Death; Love; Water; Wind; Dead, The REVERY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dim grows the wood; the amber evening tints Last Line: Now tell me, is this heaven, or is it dawn? Subject(s): Bells; Day; Evening; Forests; Stars; Wind; Sunset; Twilight; Woods ROBBER RAIN/MISCHIEF WIND, by J. PATRICK LEWIS Poem Source First Line: Water gossips %on the roof Last Line: Who blustered in %and shoveled out the sky Subject(s): Wind SAILS TO THE BREEZE, by VELMA SPRIGG GEIGER Poem Text First Line: I pray that there will be no heavy gale Last Line: Their light, when it grows dark. Subject(s): Wind SANCTUARY, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweep over me, o lovely winds Last Line: Face down, and calls on you. Subject(s): Hearts; Pain; Rain; Sanctuaries; Wind; Suffering; Misery SAND & SPRAY: SEA-SYMPHONY. 2. VARIATIONS: 3. THE SANDS, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shalllow pools of water Last Line: Oozing upwards slowly in the dark wind-wrinkled sand. Subject(s): Sea; Seashore; Wind; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore SAND & SPRAY: SEA-SYMPHONY. 3. VARIATIONS: 3. NIGHT WIND, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wind of the night, wind of the long cool shadows Last Line: The night is cool and quiet and the wind has crept to the sea. Subject(s): Sea; Wind; Ocean SAND DUNES, by EVA WARNER Poem Text First Line: The winds of chance that picked us up Last Line: Conformant to a chance wind's will. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Wind SATURN, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is the place! / no moon, no mist, no sound Last Line: Oh love -- Subject(s): Death; Devil; Hope; Life; Moon; Planets; Sleep; Wind; Dead, The; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Optimism SEMIOTICS OF WIND, by PATTY SEYBURN Poem Source First Line: I am concerned we are reading the winds wrong Last Line: And though we are wed by staccato and susurrus, %o uncontrollable, I can't go Subject(s): Vision; Wind SHELTERED FROM HARM, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: With what word should I begin, with what disorder? The Last Line: The boy, accomplice to the wind, moves on, sheltered from harm Subject(s): Danger; Houses; Storms; Wind SHORE-SPELL, by RICHARD CALLAN Poem Text First Line: A spell is woven Last Line: Only the rugged pine trees know. Subject(s): Seashore; Wind; Beach; Coast; Shore SIGN ON THE NEW BRIDGE, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: (one place at least) %to heal Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Ruins; Storms; Wind SILENCE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My dear, that crying in the heart Last Line: They call the music of the spheres! Subject(s): Hearts; Music & Musicians; Silence; Summer; Tears; Wind SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 18, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O wind, why do you never rest Last Line: From the dim north bringing snow? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Wind SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 26, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O wind, where have you been? Last Line: Make the turf so sweet. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Violets In Spring Subject(s): Wind SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 74, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind has such a rainy sound Last Line: In the windy sea? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): The Wind;the Sound Of The Wind Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; Wind SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 90, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who has seen the wind? Last Line: The wind is passing by. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Who Has Seen The Wind;the Wind Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Wind; Theology SINGING PINES, by GRACE CAROLINE SISON Poem Text First Line: The autumn winds are calling me to leave my cares today Last Line: A harmony of minor mode, a melody divine? Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Wind; Fall SITTING IN A FIELD ON A WINDY DAY, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Surge of leaves; the grass leanng all one way Subject(s): Fields; Wind; Pastures; Meadows; Leas SLIGHTEST OF WINDS, by LUCIO MARIANI Poem Source First Line: Women die in autumn, in a hush Last Line: Of grief. The slightest of winds is enough Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Seasons; Wind; Women SMALL SONG, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The reeds give Last Line: The wind away Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R. Subject(s): Reeds; Wind SOME SONGS AFTER MASTER-SINGERS: 4. WIND OF THE SEA, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wind of the sea, come fill my sail Last Line: And bear me away! -- away! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Wind; Ocean; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron SONG, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The winds are scented with woods after rain Last Line: And the raindrop shed from the daisy's eye. Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Rain; Smells; Wind; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances SONG, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing but sweet music wakes Last Line: My own beloved! Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Rain; Smells; Wind; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances SONG, by JOHN TODHUNTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bring from the craggy haunts of birch and pine Last Line: From long ago. Variant Title(s): O Mighty, Melancholy Wind Subject(s): Wind SONG FOR THE ROYAL PALMS OF MIAMI, by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Everywhere they stand, slightly bent Subject(s): Change; Memory; Trees; Wind SONG OF THE DESERTS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wide, open, free, unbounded, vast Last Line: That bondage never yet hath known. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Singing & Singers; Wind SONG OF THE EVENING, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: How does it reach me, the forest wind that lulls the palms at night? Last Line: What, to me, is the forest wind, in sum, that so many tears I shed? Subject(s): Evening; Forests; Singing & Singers; Wind; Sunset; Twilight; Woods; Songs SONG OF THE SEA-PLANE, by MINNA IRVING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Daughter of venus and of mars am I Last Line: The conqueror of space. Alternate Author Name(s): Michener, Harry, Mrs. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Sea; Singing & Singers; Wind; Ocean; Songs SONG OF THE TREES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The wind Last Line: I am afraid of Subject(s): Trees; Wind SONG-IN-MY-HEART, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Song-in-my-heart, my heart's sorrow, my delight Last Line: In this noise of shaking storm in my heart and this blast sweeping my mind. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Longing; Love; Sea; Singing & Singers; Wind; Ocean SONG: 55, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like as the wind with raging blast Last Line: Of evil sown seed such is the fruit. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Of Love Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Grief; Life; Wind; Sorrow; Sadness SONG; IN IMITATION OF SHAKESPEARE'S 'BLOW, BLOW, THOU WINTER WIND', by JAMES BEATTIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blow, blow, thou vernal gale! Last Line: Nor mitigate her pride. Subject(s): Dramatists; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Wind SONGS FOR A WINTER FIRE: 2. JUST WHY, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just why the wind more sadly blows Last Line: Believe what I will of naked trees. Subject(s): Trees; Wind; Winter SONGS FOR A WINTER FIRE: 3. COUNTRY NIGHTFALL, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are no paths when the snow comes Last Line: For a man come home again. Subject(s): Home; Night; Snow; Wind; Bedtime SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 14, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rain-wind from the east Last Line: There, there, sweetheart! Subject(s): Rain; Wind SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 53, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think the sun when he turns at night Last Line: That they can sleep so still. Subject(s): Wind; Sun SONGS TO A.H.R.: 3. WHEN THE WIND IS LOW, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the wind is low, and the sea is soft Last Line: But you are eternity. Subject(s): Life; Love; Sea; Wind; Ocean SONNET: 3. THE WIND'S SONG, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dull-thoughted, walking among the nunneries Last Line: Awakened by the west wind was made free Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Wind SONNET: NIGHT-WINDS IN WINTER, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Winds! Are they winds? - or myriad ghosts, that shriek? Last Line: While perseus droops, touched by transfiguring shade! Subject(s): Wind SOOTHSAYERS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The winds that, gypsy-wise, foretold Last Line: No vestiges remain. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Wind SOUNDINGS, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The birdhouse made from a gourd is wired Subject(s): Wind Chimes SOUTH WIND, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where have you been, south wind, this may-day morning Last Line: When you stole to me shyly with scent of hawthorn. Subject(s): Environment; Soldiers' Writings; Trees; Wind; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation SOUTH WIND HAS A PATHOS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet's Biography Last Line: And for the foreignhood Variant Title(s): Poem: 719; Poem: 88 Subject(s): Wind SOUTH WINDS JOSTLE THEM, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Present them here! Subject(s): Bees; Butterflies; Wind SOUTH-EAST WIND, by LOLA RIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is remembered terror in your touch Last Line: And bitter healing of the roots of seas. Alternate Author Name(s): Lawson, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Wind SOUTH-WEST WIND IN THE WOODLAND, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The silence of preluded song Last Line: The union is eternal. Subject(s): Forests; Nature; Wind; Woods SPERANZA, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: England puts on her purple, and pale, pale Last Line: And every soul of man be satisfied.' Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Hope; Life; Sleep; Wind; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; English; Optimism SPRING FEVER, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A soft wind / blows from the evening star Last Line: Abelard, your god was too weak for it! Subject(s): Spring; Voices; Wind SPRING WIND, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O full-voiced herald of immaculate spring Last Line: And heard june's leaf-like murmur of sweet words? Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Birds; Spring; Wind SPRING WIND IN LONDON, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I blow across the stagnant world Last Line: It will not come again Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): London; Wind SPRY ARMS OF THE WIND, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet's Biography Last Line: To light, and then return Variant Title(s): Poem: 1103; Poem: 80 Subject(s): Wind STABBED, by JR. JOHN NIXON Poem Source First Line: Like daggers now is noonlight Last Line: The wind whittles the sunlight %into jagged splinters Subject(s): Wind STANZAS WRITTEN ON BATTERSEA BRIDGE DURING A SOUTHWESTERLY GALE, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The woods and downs have caught the mid-december Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Sea; Wind; England; Patriotism; Ocean; English STILL DAYS AND STORMY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday the wind blew Last Line: Is she yet mine? Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Marigolds; Wind STORM POEM, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The wind is eating Last Line: For you %let the windteeth break Subject(s): Storms; Weather; Wind STRONG WIND, by AUSTIN CLARKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All day a strong wind blew Last Line: The wind was telegraphing, hundreds %of miles. All ireland raced Subject(s): Wind SUMMER WINDS, by GEORGE DARLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up the dale and down the bourne Last Line: Till we're at our play again. Variant Title(s): Song Of The Summer Winds Subject(s): Summer; Wind SUNSET, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the clear dusk upon the fields below Last Line: I hear the creek laugh out from pebbly ways. Subject(s): Evening; Wind; Sunset; Twilight TANGLED SUNRAYS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Aslant from yonder sunlit hill Last Line: Mid the damp grass their race is run. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Grass; Wind TARDY SPRING, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the north wind ceases Last Line: And earth's green banner shakes. Subject(s): Nature; Spring; Wind TEMPEST NIGHT, by JOEL T. ROGERS Poem Text First Line: Wind in the void, where the white stars shake Last Line: And the night hangs heavily years and years? Subject(s): Sea; Sea Voyages; Storms; Weather; Wind; Ocean THALASSIUS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the flowery forefront of the year Last Line: And in thy soul the sense of all the sea. Subject(s): Life; Music & Musicians; Sea; Singing & Singers; Wandering & Wanderers; Wind; Ocean THAT FEVERED APRIL BREEZE MOVING THROUGH, by CAMILLE DUNGY Poem Source First Line: Today I felt the streets were mine Last Line: I had stripped myself too soon. I was slipping softly off %today. I felt the streets were mine Subject(s): April; Wind THE 'DISASTER', by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Without rudder, without sail Last Line: Lost -- exultant, desolate! Subject(s): Disasters; Night; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Soul; Storms; Wind; Bedtime; Ocean THE AUTUMN WIND, by WU-TI (157 B.C.- 87 B.C.) Poem Text First Line: Autumn wind rises: white clouds fly Last Line: Youth's years how few! Age how sure! Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Time; Wind THE AUTUMN WIND, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The autumn wind is wild and free Last Line: And screamed at every house in town Subject(s): Wind; Autumn THE AVENUE OF THE ALLIES (1917), by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the song of the wind as it came Last Line: Rides the proud night-wind and tyrannies die. Subject(s): Flags; Freedom; God; Singing & Singers; Wind; Liberty THE BOOK, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I moved from the sun-warmed garden-seat Last Line: Had made me a monk for evermore! Subject(s): Bells; Books; Love; Past; Voices; Wind; Reading THE BREEZE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through thee the ocean knows Last Line: Of life that cannot die. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Wind THE BREEZE FROM SHORE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Joy is upon the lonely seas Last Line: That make us truth's and heaven's again! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Nature; Pleasure; Wind THE BREEZE'S INVITATION, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come let's roam the breezy pastures Last Line: Such sweet music as he'll hear. Subject(s): Time; Wandering & Wanderers; Wind THE BRIDE'S TRAGEDY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind wears roun', the day wears doun Last Line: Blaws the wind and whirls the whin. Subject(s): Brides; Tragedy; Wind THE CHARMING OF THE EAST WIND, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Late in the month a rough east wind had sway Last Line: And down he sank, a captive to the spring! Subject(s): East Wind; Landscape THE CITY DWELLER, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These things I cannot forget: far snow in the night Last Line: The motion of men resounds like the thundering sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Cities; Thunder; Wind; Urban Life THE CLIFFSIDE PATH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seaward goes the sun, and homeward by the down Last Line: Wind is lord and change is sovereign of the strand. Subject(s): Sea; Sun; Wind; Ocean THE COLD WIND, by NORA (CHESSON) HOPPER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A cold wind entered the lamp-lit room Last Line: Will death's white rose match herself with this? Subject(s): Wind THE DANDELION, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A thousand poets have sung the rose Last Line: The dandelion! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Poetry & Poets; Seasons; Weeds; Wind THE DAY THE WINDS, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The day the wnds went underground I gasped for breath Subject(s): Breath; Wind; City & Town Life; Pollution THE DEAD LEAF, by ANTOINE VINCENT ARNAULT Poem Text First Line: Waif in the wind, o where Last Line: "where rose and laurel go." Subject(s): Leaves; Wind THE DEATHLESS WIND, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou canst not die; for who can slay Last Line: To know thou canst not die? Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Wind THE DIFFICULT LIFE OF A YOKOHAMA LEAF, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Each train that passes Last Line: By the delightful discovery drugstore. Subject(s): Leaves; Mountains; Trees; Wind; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE DREAM-WIND, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When, like a sleeping child Last Line: Breathes low in the gardens of sleep in the west. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Earth; Sleep; Wind; World THE DUTIES OF THE WIND ARE FEW, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet's Biography Last Line: However, know not I Subject(s): Wind THE EDGE OF THE WIND, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye stars in ye skies seem twinkling Last Line: And ye crickets cease to sing. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Light; Stars; Wind THE ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: WIND, by GARY SOTO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A dry wind over the valley Subject(s): Farm Life; San Joaquin Valley, California; Wind; Agriculture; Farmers THE ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: WIND (2), by GARY SOTO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you got up this morning the sun Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California; Wind THE EMPTY SONG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What have we but an empty song Last Line: But his soul is thirsty now. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Soul; Thirst; Wind THE EVENING WIND, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit that breathest through my lattice, thou Last Line: He hears the rustling leaf and running stream. Variant Title(s): To The Evening Wind Subject(s): Evening; Nature; Wind; Sunset; Twilight THE EVENING WIND, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The eastern mail comes lumbering in Last Line: From hence to athabasca lake. Subject(s): Evening; Wind; Sunset; Twilight THE FALL WIND, by JOHN STUART THOMSON Poem Text First Line: The wind has stalked adown the garden path Last Line: Wing south or somewhere; mute, discouraged band. Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Seasons; Storms; Wind; Fall THE FIRST BUD O' THE YEAR, by CHARLES GRANGER BLANDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There whispered in my ear Last Line: That shall the old loss mend. Subject(s): Graves; Grief; Wind; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness THE FOUR WINDS, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The four winds blow across the sky Last Line: (love and life and death together!) Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Rain; Sun; Wind THE FOUR WINDS, by CHARLES HENRY LUDERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wind of the north Last Line: The low mound where she lies. Subject(s): Wind THE FOUR WINDS (A SENECA LULLABY), by LUDWIG VON STOLZ MAYER Poem Text First Line: Little gahana, hush! Last Line: Neoga, the fawn, is near. Subject(s): Native Americans; Seneca Indians; Wind; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE GAP OF THE WINDS, by ROBERT NOTVEST Poem Text First Line: Rustling leaves, dancing with the breeze Last Line: And always the thorn protects the rose. Subject(s): Wind; Winter THE GODS AND THE WINDS, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The still gods, though they move apart Last Line: "we won our godship far too young." Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Railroads; Wind; Railways; Trains THE GREAT GOD PAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O pan is the goodliest god, I wist, Last Line: To his rollicking wraith below. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fantasy; Love; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Wind THE HARVEST MOON, by MARTHA ST. JOHN DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: The harvest moon rides in to-night Last Line: And silver hollyhock. Subject(s): Harvest; Moon; Orchards; Stars; Wind THE HOMEWARD-BOUND PASSENGER SHIP: DISASTER AT SEA, by EDWARD EDWIN FOOT Poem Text First Line: The captain scans the ruffled zone Last Line: ^1^ a figurative expression, intended by the author to signify the horizon. Subject(s): Disasters; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Wind; Ocean THE KING OF THE WIND, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He burst through the ice-pillared gates of the north Last Line: "a despot so great as the king of the wind!" Subject(s): Wind THE LANE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No one can take away from me Last Line: And the sound of the everlasting sea! Subject(s): Life; Rain; Sea; Wind; Ocean THE LEPER, by ANATOLE LE BRAZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Monna keryvel looks toward the west Last Line: "lo, thy bridegroom waits -- monna, it is death!" Subject(s): Death; Leprosy; Life; Tears; Wind; Dead, The; Lepers THE LIGHT OF LOVE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The clouds have deepened o'er the Last Line: With love and laughter here? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Despair; Light; Love; Night; Wind; Bedtime THE LITTLE CLOUD COMES DOWN, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The little spot of earth below Last Line: But the earth was as glad as the curly cloud! Subject(s): April; Clouds; Weather; Wind THE LITTLE LEAF, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: And so, the little leaf flew far – o far Last Line: And find where the little brook found the sea. Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Nature; October; Seasons; Wind; Fall THE LOST LAND, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What wind is it that stirs Last Line: Whence none returns, none goes. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Flowers; Loss; Roses; Wind; Youth THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 37, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it just the wind Last Line: But I only become more restless Subject(s): Wind; Anxiety THE LURE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw night leave her halos down Last Line: When south-east winds are blowing low. Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Wind; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE MAN-WIND AND THE WOMAN-WIND, by SUNG YU Poem Text First Line: Hsiang, king of ch'u, was feasting in the orchid-tower palace Last Line: "such is the woman-wind of the common people." Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Wind THE MARCH WIND COMES, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The march wind comes with a mighty sound Last Line: And soon the bold wind will ride past Subject(s): March (month); Wind THE MINUTE-GUNS, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stood within the little cove Last Line: I only heard the minute-guns. Subject(s): Hope; Life; Sea; Wind; Optimism; Ocean THE MOCKING WIND, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O wind, you will not break my house Last Line: Built me my house, -- my house of dreams. Subject(s): Home; Nature; Wind THE PASSING OF A ZEPHYR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up from, and out of, and over the Last Line: Of amiable calm. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Forests; Spring; Wind; Woods THE PIPER ON THE HILLS; A CHILD'S SONG, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There sits a piper on the hill Last Line: May blow her home again. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Variant Title(s): The Piper On The Hill Subject(s): Pipers; Wind THE POET, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! He traffics with the sun Last Line: And uncaring give us death. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Fate; Love; Poetry & Poets; Sea; Sun; Wind; Dead, The; World; Destiny; Ocean THE PRAIRIE WIND, by JESSIE KENNEDY SNELL Poem Text First Line: The prairie wind is ever constant, yet Last Line: The night-wind with its crooning slumber-song. Subject(s): Prairies; Wind; Plains THE RAINY MORNING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dawn of the day was dreary Last Line: Melted in mists of light. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Light; Morning; Rain; Wind THE ROARING FROST, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A flock of winds [or, wings] came winging [or, flying] from the north Last Line: And fold, and fall? Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Nature; Wind THE ROSE AND THE WIND, by PHILIP BOURKE MARSTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When, think you, comes the wind Last Line: Roses must live and love, and winds must blow. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Wind THE RUNE OF THE FOUR WINDS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the voice in the corries Last Line: On shore and shallow and sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Life; Nature - Religious Aspects; Voices; Wind THE SEA'S WITHHOLDING, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ladye's bower faced the sea Last Line: "can it be dawn and love away?" Subject(s): Disasters; Love - Loss Of; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Gulls; Shipwrecks; Storms; Wind THE SHADOW, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you hear the calling, mary, down by the sea? Last Line: Out in the darkness rose the calling of the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Sea; Shadows; Voices; Wind; Dead, The; Ocean THE SHORE, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again from the woods to the shore Last Line: And the bitter backward wash, is all, is all. Subject(s): Seashore; Wind THE SINGER, by DENISE BARRETTE Poem Text First Line: Over the ecru summer grass Last Line: A prairie jenny lind. Subject(s): Lind, Jenny (1820-1887); Prairies; Wind; Plains THE SNOW-STORM, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Announced by all the trumpets 0f the sky, / arrives the snow Last Line: The frolic architecture of the snow. Variant Title(s): The Snowstorm Subject(s): Nature; Snow; Storms; Wind THE SONG MY PADDLE SINGS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: West wind, blow from your prairie nest Last Line: Swelling the song that my paddle sings. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Birds; Canoes & Canoeing; Crows; Rivers; Wind THE SONG OF HIAWATHA: THE FOUR WINDS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Honor be to mudjekeewis!' Last Line: Kept the mighty mudjekeewis. Subject(s): Wind THE SONG OF THE SEA WIND, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How it sings, sings, sings Last Line: How it wails! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Sea; Wind; Ocean THE SONG OF THE SEA-WIND, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: King of the winds, o wind of the sea Last Line: Lord of all winds, o wind of the sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Sea; Wind; Ocean THE SOU'WESTER (BLOWING OVER THE OVERTON HILLS, CHESHIRE), by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Blustering, boisterous wind, that bloweth over the / bracken Last Line: I am the breath of a spirit that wandereth ever free!' Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Forests; Weather; Wind; Woods THE SOUTH WIND, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the kiss of love and the soul of song Last Line: When he quiets the earth by the south wind! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Nature - Religious Aspects; Wind THE SOUTH WIND AND THE SUN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the south wind and the sun! Last Line: They laugh and sail away. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fantasy; Love; Nature; Sun; Wind THE SOUTH WIND; A FISHERMAN'S BLESSINGS, by CHARLES KINGSLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh blessed drums of aldershot! Last Line: To bring such fishes back! Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Wind; Anglers THE SOUTH-WEST WIND, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We stood by the idle weir Last Line: Now all is still as death. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Grief; Wind; Sorrow; Sadness THE SPRING CALL, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What was it made me drop the spade and lift me head to look again? Last Line: "ah, clap a primrose in your cap and throw the spade away." Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Spring; Wind THE SPRING FEVER, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: There's a witchery to the winds that shiver so Last Line: Underneath the sleepy-headed summer trees. Subject(s): Nature; Spring; Wind THE STORM, by DOROTHY W. JANS Poem Text First Line: Mad swirling wind Last Line: As the storm wind dies. Subject(s): Rain; Storms; Thunder; Wind THE STORM, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: The sun sank in a sheer abyss of cloud Last Line: Upon the fallen tree, shout as they play. Subject(s): Lightning; Sea Voyages; Storms; Weather; Wind; Lightning Rods THE SUMMER WIND, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bugling of the summer wind Last Line: And rideth on a cloud! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Summer; Wind THE TERRIFIC CYCLONE OF 1893, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1893, and on the 17th and 18th of november Last Line: And both these storms will be remembered for a very long time. Subject(s): Cyclones; Death; Disasters; Dundee, Scotland; Wind; Dead, The THE THAW-WIND, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thro' the deep drifts the south wind breathed its way Last Line: That glitter'd, dripping down upon the sod. Subject(s): Wind THE THINGUMBOB SAT AT EVENTIDE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Subject(s): Nonsense;sea;wind; Ocean THE THREE CHILDREN, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Else had blown away on the east wind. Richard went away Last Line: Goodbye else, richard, hilary, goodbye, goodbye. Goodbye Subject(s): Children; Farewell; Wind; Childhood; Parting THE THREE WINDS, by LAURIE LEE Poet's Biography First Line: The hard blue wind of march Subject(s): Seasons; Wind THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a long sad row the old gods come Last Line: Lie scattered in the sand! Subject(s): Babylon; Death; Goddesses & Gods; Grief; Mythology; Wind; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE UNKNOWN COLOR, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've often heard my mother say Subject(s): Wind THE UNKNOWN WIND, by DOROTHY BURGESS Poem Text First Line: Wind from beyond the worlds, wind without sound Last Line: I would be swift upon a way you know. Subject(s): Wind THE UNKNOWN WIND, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the day darkens Last Line: When the dew is falling? Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dusk; Knowledge; Silence; Wind THE VILLAIN, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While joy gave clouds the light of stars Last Line: Into a dark and lonely wood. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Wind THE VOICE AMONG THE DUNES, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have heard the sea-wind sighing Last Line: Breathes drownëd sighs. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Dunes; Sea; Voices; Wind; Dead, The; Ocean THE VOICE OF THE WIND, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Many a voice is thine, thou wind! Last Line: From whose deep urn the tones are poured through all earth's harmonies. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Wind THE VOICE OF THE WIND, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let us throw more logs on the fire! Last Line: Hark to the voice of the wind! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Wind THE WANDERING WIND, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind, the wandering wind Last Line: To the wind, the wandering wind! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Wind THE WAY OF THE WIND, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind's way in the deep sky's hollow Last Line: The wind's way. Subject(s): Life; Roundels; Wind THE WAY TO WAKONDA; THE GREAT SPIRIT OF THE OMAHA INDIANS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wakonda's way is the way of the wind Last Line: And the land where the loved ones are. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Native Americans; Wind; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE WEST WIND, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the forest's skirts I rest Last Line: Thou lov'st to sigh and murmur still. Subject(s): Wind THE WEST WIND, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: When but a boy with eager ears Last Line: When the balmy west winds blow. Subject(s): Nature; Wind THE WEST WIND, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I come from out the west Last Line: Wild tempests to each shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Spring; Storms; Wind; Winter THE WHISP'RING WIND, by GROVER THOMAS SOMERS Poem Text First Line: You ask me why there's no return Last Line: The e'er recurrent whisp'ring wind! Subject(s): Wind THE WILLOW-SEEDS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look! The seeds of a willow-tree Last Line: Of more than mortal mysteries. Subject(s): Fate; Grass; Life; Omens; Wandering & Wanderers; Willow Trees; Wind; Destiny THE WIND, by HENRY BELLAMANN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Only the wind is ageless Last Line: Is ageless. Subject(s): Wind THE WIND, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across the barren moors the wild, wild wind Last Line: Fell on my burning eyes and burning brain. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Wind THE WIND, by LOUISE MOREY BOWMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind is a black-winged beast tonight Subject(s): Wind THE WIND, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: Sometimes he roars among the leafy trees Last Line: And all who saw and heard him were amazed. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Wind THE WIND, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Blow, blow, blow Last Line: Thou hast strewn with wrecks the sea! Subject(s): Disasters; Nature; Sea; Shipwrecks; Tragedy; Wind; Ocean THE WIND, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind it rushes in and out Last Line: "in whispers, ""there it goes!" Subject(s): Children; Wind; Childhood THE WIND, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind has voices, that defy Last Line: A sad, sweet language, all its own. Subject(s): Wind THE WIND, by LOUIS MERCIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All last night and all day long Last Line: He moves off. They can hear him in the leaves. Subject(s): Homeless; Storms; Weather; Wind THE WIND, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind went forth o'er land and sea Last Line: In tenderness or wrath, on land or sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Sea; Wind; Dead, The; Ocean THE WIND, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it some shade from paradise Last Line: What answer to thy passion? Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Grief; Wind; Sorrow; Sadness THE WIND, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind stood up, and gave a shout Last Line: And so he will! And so he will! Subject(s): Wind THE WIND, by RUTH TABER WHITTLESEY Poem Text First Line: From whence I come no man may know Last Line: I am the wind. Subject(s): Wind THE WIND (1), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now, in his joy Last Line: A blind, demented giant. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Wind THE WIND (1), by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A wind is blowing over my soul Last Line: Even with you. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Wind THE WIND (2), by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the sounds despatched abroad Last Line: In seamless company. Subject(s): Wind THE WIND (2), by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A tall tree talking with the wind Last Line: Free as the wind. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Wind THE WIND AND IT WAS WINDY WEATHER, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the winds are riding by Last Line: All the freedom of the sky! Variant Title(s): And It Was Windy Weather Subject(s): Flight; Wind; Flying THE WIND AND THE MOON, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said the wind to the moon, 'I will blow you out Last Line: She had never heard the great wind blare. Subject(s): Conceit; Wind THE WIND AT FIDENAE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fresh from the sabines Last Line: Bloweth the wind. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Heaven; Rome, Italy; Wind; Paradise THE WIND AT NIGHT, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O sudden blast, that through this silence black Last Line: Shall first know living. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Wind THE WIND CALLS, by EDWIN M. CASE Poem Text First Line: Wind-riding clouds, now flying out of sight Last Line: Where spirit breaking close confines will go. Subject(s): Wind THE WIND FROM THE WEST, by ELLA YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Blow high, blow low Last Line: I loved long ago. Subject(s): Wind THE WIND IN A FROLIC, by WILLIAM HOWITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind one morning sprang up from sleep Last Line: How little of mischief it had done! Subject(s): Children; Weather; Wind; Childhood THE WIND IN THE BOUGHS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the bugler wind amid the boughs Last Line: Of what these tongues shall threaten? -- who can say? Subject(s): Prophecy & Prophets; Wind THE WIND IN THE CORN, by EDWARD FORRESTER SUTTON Poem Text First Line: Summer silence dreaming downward with the cawing of the crow Last Line: Cries the wind in the corn! Alternate Author Name(s): Sutton, E. Subject(s): Corn; Wind THE WIND OF MARCH, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up from the sea the wild north wind is blowing Last Line: The healing of the spring. Subject(s): March (month); Wind THE WIND OF ONSET, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With potent north winds rushing swiftly down Last Line: O'er the scourged lands and turbulent oceans blown. Subject(s): Wind THE WIND ON THE HILLS, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go not to the hills of erinn Last Line: And the sun is in the west. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Omens; Wind THE WIND OUR ENEMY, by ANNE MARRIOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wind / flattening its gaunt furious self against Last Line: Wind. Subject(s): Wind THE WIND SHIFTS, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is how the wind shifts Subject(s): Wind THE WIND STRODE WILDLY, by ALFRED HENSCHKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wildly up from the river-bank strode the wind Last Line: Cloudy, broken, lightning-riven like the skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Klabund Subject(s): Wind THE WIND'S MESSAGE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There came a whisper down the bland between the dawn and dark Last Line: And strike once more the bridle-track that leads along the bland. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Cities; Life; Trees; Voices; Wind; Urban Life THE WIND'S PROPHECY, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I travel on by barren farms Last Line: Thy love is one thou'st not yet known.' Subject(s): Wind THE WIND'S QUEST, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, where shall I find rest? Last Line: Anarchist journal, the torch, in 1891. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Rest; Wind THE WIND'S VISIT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind tapped like a tired man Last Line: And I became alone. Subject(s): Wind THE WIND'S WHIMS, by GRACE MILDRED OLSEN Poem Text First Line: Look how a delicate poplar bends to the gale Last Line: Youth bends, but it is faithless age that breaks. Subject(s): Wind; Youth THE WINDS, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye winds, ye unseen currents of the air Last Line: Crowd back to narrow bounds the ancient night Subject(s): Wind THE WINDS, by SAMUEL EGERTON BRYDGES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sublime the pleasure, meditating song Last Line: And warn the wretch, who rolls in guilt, to heed. Subject(s): Wind THE WINDS, by WILLIAM KIRKPATRICK MAGEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who are the winds? Who are the winds?' Last Line: And ships are wreck'd, and shores are strewn.' Alternate Author Name(s): Eglinton, John Subject(s): Wind THE WINDS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O weary fa' the east wind Last Line: And let my ae love be. Subject(s): Marines - Great Britain; Nature; Wind THE WINDS DREW OFF, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Beware an austrian Subject(s): Wind; Nature THE WINDS OF GOD, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The winds of god are blowing Last Line: His tides are surging in. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): God; Wind THE WINDS OF GOD, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across the azure spaces Last Line: The winds of god go by? Subject(s): God; Peace; War; Wind THE WINDS OF GOD, by MARGUERITE AVIS WHITCOMB Poem Text First Line: Blow, winds of god / the bugle's call Last Line: Shall whisper god's unchanging plan. Subject(s): Wind THE WINDS OF MARCH, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The winds of march are wild and strong Last Line: But april-time was made for them! Subject(s): March (month); Wind THE WINDY DAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The wind was very bad that day Last Line: And never came again that day. Subject(s): March (month); Storms; Wind THE WINTER SHORE, by THOMAS WADE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A mighty change it is, and ominous Last Line: Reigneth omnipotent. Subject(s): Seashore; Seasons; Water; Wind; Winter; Beach; Coast; Shore THE WORD OF THE WIND, by LOUISE DRISCOLL Poem Text First Line: Wind that carries the sound of bells Last Line: And one white word for peace! Subject(s): Freedom; Grief; Peace; War; Wind; Liberty; Sorrow; Sadness THE YOUTH AND THE NORTH WIND; A TALE OF NORWAY, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once on a time - 'twas long ago Last Line: And money for his friends. Subject(s): North Wind; Norway THERE IS A WAIL IN THE WIND TONIGHT, by JOSEPH NOEL PATON Poem Source Subject(s): Wind THERE'S A SALT WIND ROAMING, by GWENDOLYN WESCOTT Poem Text First Line: There's a salt wind roaming the prairie grass Last Line: Who live in me again. Subject(s): Sea; Wind; Ocean THEY WILL COME BACK, by EDWIN H. ROLFSON Poem Text First Line: Blow, winds, blow Last Line: O they will come back, wind. Subject(s): Wind THINKING IN THE SPACE CAROL TALKS ABOUT, by DEBORAH BYRNE Poem Source First Line: Seeds tossed into the wind Last Line: I call you persephone, and cut the earth open Subject(s): Reason; Seeds; Wind THIS-THAT, by ELISABETH RYNELL Poem Source First Line: It scratches on the door Last Line: Rocked in the wind's cradle Subject(s): Emptiness; Grief; Rain; Storms; Water; Wind THO' LOVE HAS FLOWN, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let the wind wail on, my dear Last Line: He will come back. Subject(s): Hope; Love - Loss Of; Tears; Wind; Optimism THREE WINDS, by LAURIE LEE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The hard blue wind of march Last Line: My thirst's delirium Subject(s): Seasons; Wind THREE WOOD SONGS: 3. CHORALE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The branches of the sky bend grandly in the night wind Last Line: And splendor endures, and the glory of stars is forever. Subject(s): Night; Stars; Wind; Bedtime TO JAMES NEWTON MATTHEWS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oho! Ye sunny, sonnet-singin' Last Line: I lay them. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Wind TO JANE, by JOHN COULTER Poem Text First Line: Against a sloping wood it stands Last Line: Is this the house our dead love built? Subject(s): Forests; Houses; Wind; Woods TO MESDAMES ZASSETSKY AND GARSCHINE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind may blaw the lee-lang way Last Line: This happy lee. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Rain; Sea; Wind; Ocean TO NATURE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more I rise to offer with pure joy Last Line: On all the stars that shine and winds that blow. Subject(s): Happiness; Nature; Sea; Wind; Joy; Delight; Ocean TO T.H.L., by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I lament how all my days are fair Last Line: And ask no heaven, having found a friend. Subject(s): Life; Prayer; Sea; Stars; Terror; Wind; Ocean TO THE HAWTHORN-TREE, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hawthorn fair, whose burgeoning Last Line: E'er avail to lay thee low. Subject(s): Hawthorn; Love; Trees; Wind TO THE MARCH WIND, by EARL F. HUGHES Poem Text First Line: You search the mighty forest through Last Line: And leaves a cheerful home. Subject(s): March (month); Wind TO THE MARCH WINDS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Blow, ye march winds,--blow fiendish-like, blow Last Line: I'll come, yes, I 'll come and be free. Subject(s): March (month); Wind TO THE MOUNTAIN WINDS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mountain winds! Oh, whither do ye call me? Last Line: Darkly still may grow -- but never free! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Wind TO THE NORTH WIND, by FRANK WILMOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There will be no more rest Last Line: Pull fragrant logs along the valley rails. Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley Subject(s): Wind TO THE PUPPET, WIND, by GORDON JOWERS Poem Text First Line: Blow, blow, I defy you, wind Last Line: From going where my fancy wishes. Subject(s): Bodies; Freedom; Puppets; Wind; Liberty; Marionettes TO THE ROARING WIND, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What syllable are you seeking, Subject(s): Wind TO THE SOUTH WIND, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O sweet south wind! Last Line: Which the bad world sends forth, and all its wo! Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller Subject(s): Wind TO THE SUMMER WIND, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Art thou the selfsame wind that blew Last Line: Still wandering the world with thee? Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Wind TO THE THAWING WIND, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come with rain, o loud southwester! Last Line: Turn the poet out of door. Subject(s): Wind TO THE WEST WIND, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O wind of the west, thou art the one I need! Last Line: And sense of boundless power in every vein! Subject(s): West (u.s.); Wind; Southwest; Pacific States TO THE WESTERN WIND, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet western wind, whose luck it is Last Line: And all beset with flowers. Subject(s): Wind TO THE WIND, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Steer hither, rough old mariner Last Line: Your nature, willful wind! Subject(s): Wind TO THE WINDS, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye viewless minstrels of the sky Last Line: It seems the voice of god. Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Wind TO THE WINDS, by ANN RADCLIFFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Viewless, though heaven's vast vault your course ye steer Last Line: I ask the still, sweet tear, that listening fancy weeps! Alternate Author Name(s): Ward, Ann Subject(s): Wind TO THE WINDS, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye vagrant winds! Yon clouds that bear Last Line: Madness or death. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Wind TO THE WINDS; A SONG, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye winds, that in your hasty flight Last Line: Speak with thy eyes, I'll speak with mine. Subject(s): Wind TORNADO, by ADRIEN STOUTENBURG Poem Source First Line: Wind went by with people falling out of it Last Line: His legs reaching skyward, %and growing longer Subject(s): Tornadoes; Wind TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. THE WIND CHANTS WELL TO-DAY, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind chants well over the world to-day Last Line: And am as invisible as you. Subject(s): Weather; Wind TRANSLATION: 2. WIND, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Like the blast %that knocked down Last Line: One lemon %almost ripe Variant Title(s): Win Subject(s): Arabs; Death; Ghosts; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Spiritual Life; Supernatural; Wind TREES AND THE WIND, by HARRIET P. JORDAN Poem Text First Line: The fir trees bowed with cold disdain Last Line: Into the wind's embrace! Subject(s): Trees; Wind TWILIGHT ON SIXTH AVENUE AT NINTH STREET, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the tops of the houses Last Line: Washes a lonely wood. Subject(s): Evening; Streets; Wind; Sunset; Twilight; Avenues TWO EXTEMPORE POEMS SENT TO XIUWEI: 1, by YANG WAN Poem Source First Line: The east wind is lovable but also hateful Last Line: Has gone with the wind - to fall on whose house? Subject(s): Wind TWO EXTEMPORE POEMS SENT TO XIUWEI: 2, by YANG WAN Poem Source First Line: The east wind equally shields all within the curved fence Last Line: Don't let them be strewn wildly east of the songs' house Subject(s): Wind TZU TEG SONG: 3, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I will carry my coat and not put on my belt Last Line: "my tiresome petticoat keeps on flapping about; / if it opens a little, I shall blame the spring win Subject(s): Wind UNINTERPRETED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Supinely we lie in the grove's Last Line: Born of a rose or a patter of rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Nature; Trees; Wind UNKNOWN COLOR, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I've often heard my mother say Last Line: Poor little pigs, they see the wind' Subject(s): Wind VARIATIONS: 12, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wind, wind, wind in the old trees Last Line: None shall have mercy, but all shall have death. Subject(s): Death; Wind; Dead, The VERIS ET FAVONI, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sing, zephyr, sing Last Line: Most kind to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Wind VERITAS, by BERNICE BROWN BETTMAN Poem Text First Line: By wind and flame Last Line: Of the wind. Subject(s): Wind VETERAN, by FANNY HOWE Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I don’t believe in ashes; some of the others do Last Line: The one that moves around each form Subject(s): Wind; Beliefs VIGIL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why should it irk me, the night Last Line: Dearest, be mine with daybreak! Subject(s): Night; Sleep; Soul; Stars; Wind; Bedtime VIGIL, by CLAIRE AVEN THOMSON Poem Text First Line: Wind is a fool tonight - fierce - unfed Last Line: No telling what a fool will do! Subject(s): Wind VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 3: SATIRE: 5, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fie on all courtesie, and vnrulie windes Last Line: But waxen crowns well gree with borowed haires. Variant Title(s): The Coxcomb Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Wind; Fall VOICES OF THE AIR, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But then there comes that moment rare Last Line: The shrill quick sound that the insect makes. Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): Air; Sea; Voices; Wind; Ocean VOICES ON THE WIND, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wind and the whirling of white mists Last Line: Shoreward, yet holds my soul and keeps it from gaining sleep. Subject(s): Wind VOICES ON THE WIND, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far out at sea I hear the wind complain Last Line: Till there is no more sea, and winds are dumb? Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Wind WAYFARERS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind is very cold! Last Line: "follow the wind!" Subject(s): Cities; Dreams; Memory; Sea; Soul; Wind; Urban Life; Nightmares; Ocean WEATHER WISDOM, by VIVIAN HEYERDAHL Poem Text First Line: The day has a secret it warily keeps Last Line: Winking obscenly, finger to mouth. Subject(s): Wind WEST WIND IN WINTER, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Another day awakes. And who Last Line: He finds me 'twixt his wings. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Wind WEST WIND'S SECRET, by MARY JANE CARR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Do you see that willow standing Last Line: For the west wind told me Subject(s): Wind WESTERN WIND (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "western wind, when will thou blow" Last Line: And I in my bed again Subject(s): Wind WESTERN WIND (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o western wind, when wilt thou blow, / the small rain down can rain?" Last Line: "christ, if my love were in my arms / and I in my bed again!" Variant Title(s): The Lover In Winter Plaineth For The Spring;seventeenth-century Poem Subject(s): Absence;longing;love;love - Loss Of;wind; Separation;isolation WESTERN WIND (2), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "western wind, when wilt thou blow" Last Line: For I of my life am weary Subject(s): Wind WHAT IS IT THE WIND HAS LOST, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Under each leaf? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Wind WHAT THE WIND SAID, by RUSSELL HOBAN Poem Source First Line: Far away is where I've come from,' said the wind Last Line: That's mine,' the wind said. 'find your own.' and left Subject(s): Wind WHAT THE WIND SAID, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I muse to-day, in a listless way Last Line: The winter storm-king sigh.' Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Life; Mankind; Nature; Wind; Human Race WHAT THE WINDS BRING, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Which is the wind that brings the cold? Last Line: When the west begins to blow. Subject(s): Wind WHEN THE GREENNESS IS COME AGAIN, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The west wind lifts the plumes of the fir Last Line: The good green world. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): March (month); Spring; Wind WHEN ZEPHRYS BLOW, by SAMUEL TRAVERS CLOVER Poem Text First Line: When zephyrs blow and softly bring Last Line: When zephyrs blow. Alternate Author Name(s): Clover, Sam T. Subject(s): Love; Wandering & Wanderers; Wind; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes WHERE WOULD YOU BE?, by KARLA KUSKIN Poem Source Last Line: Out in the night with me? Subject(s): Wind WHERE YOUR FEET GO, by JOSEPH AUSLANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where your feet go no wind stirs Last Line: On my lids the gradual seal. Subject(s): Dreams; Nature; Sleep; Wind; Nightmares WHIRLWINDS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: The deepest dregs of direst woe Last Line: All whirlwinds. Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Wind; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress WHISPER, by JOHN TRAVERS MOORE Poem Source First Line: I do not believe in fairies' Last Line: And the whisper in the willows... %'oh-h-h-h!' Subject(s): Wind WHISPERING WIND, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: Whispering wind that blows across this lake Last Line: Whispering wind my love has gone away Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Love - Loss Of; Wind WILD CHERRY, by MILDRED J. ORR Poem Text First Line: The wild cherry is in bloom Last Line: Wild cherry. I give my heart to you. Subject(s): Cherries; Fruit; Moon; Noon; Wind WIND, by JOANNA BAILLIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pow'r uncontrollable, who hold'st thy sway Last Line: And on the ocean far it slowly dies away. Subject(s): Weather; Wind WIND, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The morning after the night before Last Line: Till I opened a window and kicked it out Subject(s): Wind WIND, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: Not kites, the wind didn't loft us Last Line: That the day could see and the crows Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Kites; Wind WIND, by DAFYDD AP GWILYM Poem Source First Line: Free-coursing wind from the sky Last Line: Return safe, you're a good wind Alternate Author Name(s): Dafydd Ab Gwilym; Dafyod Ap Gwilym; David Ap Gwilim Subject(s): Wind WIND, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wind, wind - heather gipsy Last Line: Whistling in my tree! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Wind WIND, by FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS GIFFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind bows down the poplar trees Last Line: Under his hand of memory. Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Fannie Stearns Subject(s): Wind WIND, by LINDA LEE HARPER Poem Source First Line: Summer, humid as an old aunt's apartment when she boils the fat out of Last Line: Horizon, pink and black as a mottled pig rooting for corn Subject(s): Nature; Seasons; Wind WIND, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This house has been far out at sea all night Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Wind WIND, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This house has been far out at sea all night Last Line: Seeing the window tremble to come in %hearing the stones cr y out under the horizons Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Wind WIND, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The wind has a language, I would I could learn Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Wind WIND, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He shouts in the sails of the ships at sea Last Line: Each is the wind I like the best. Subject(s): Wind WIND, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The wind is a tall, bare-headed beggar Last Line: Before his beggar will Subject(s): Wind WIND, by BETTY MILLER Poem Source First Line: Who but the wind Last Line: The wind Subject(s): Wind WIND, by EDNA E. SMITH Poem Text First Line: Wind, weary wind, born without home Last Line: Wind, weary wind, nowhere to rest. Subject(s): Wind WIND, by KAYE STARBIRD Poem Source First Line: In spring, the wind's a sneaky wind Last Line: And lean against the wind Subject(s): Wind WIND, by VENO TAUFER Poem Source First Line: From the south you bring rain Last Line: Plague breaaths flower seeds %blow blow Subject(s): Rain; Sailors And Sailing; Storms; Weather; Wind WIND, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If god has any voice it is the wind Last Line: "wheerrre, and begging, Subject(s): Wind WIND, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If god has any voice it is the wind Last Line: In his mouth my body tastes like stale milk Subject(s): Wind WIND, by HAROLD VINAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sway over the trees, wind, if you will, start them burning Last Line: Hush your breath, the child is asleep in the womb. Subject(s): Wind WIND, by BENNETT WEAVER Poem Text First Line: The sea, the hurtling sea is at the shore Last Line: Through the eternal spaces of my soul! Subject(s): Nature; Wind WIND (1), by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's like the light,-- %a fashionless delight Last Line: Best when it's done,-- %the everlasting clocks %chime noon Variant Title(s): Poem: 297; Poem: 30 Subject(s): Noon; Wind WIND AND SEA, by THOMAS KEOHLER Poem Text First Line: O fierce and rushing sea! O clamorous wind! Last Line: For me, for me alone is death's glad peace. Subject(s): Sea; Wind; Ocean WIND AND SEA, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea is a jovial comrade Last Line: Are singing the selfsame strain! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Sea; Wind; Ocean WIND AND WATER, by MIAO YIN Poem Source First Line: A steady wind scours the autumn moon Last Line: Why, then, does karma yet coil and bind? Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Wind; Zen Buddhism WIND AND WOMEN, by MAY WILLIAMS WARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Adam and eve in the garden Last Line: "a ...Cross..." Subject(s): Wind; Women WIND BLOWS PAPER, by HANNAH LYONS JOHNSON Poem Source Last Line: Wild kites without strings Subject(s): Wind WIND CHILL, by MARK VINZ Poem Source First Line: The voice on the radio is urgent. When you go outside, it says, exposed Last Line: #name? Subject(s): Cold; Radio; Weather; Wind WIND CHIMES, by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: Baser metals can't transmute to gold Last Line: While humans agonize our lives away. Subject(s): Music And Musicians; Wind WIND FEAR, by EDA LOU WALTON Poem Text First Line: Someday,' you said Last Line: That was your hair. Subject(s): Decay; Wind; Rot; Decadence WIND FROM THE SEA, by JOSE-MARIA DE HEREDIA (1842-1905) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Garden and wold by winter's hand are gript Last Line: The bud that in america was blown. Subject(s): Atlantic Ocean; Sea; Wind; Ocean WIND FROM THE SEA, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weary is the flesh, alas! With many books the eyes are dim Last Line: But hearken, o my heart, the singing mariners that hoist the sails! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Wind; Ocean WIND IDYL, by LORI PETRI Poem Text First Line: I lay, when wind was blowing Last Line: Breathe, each to each. Subject(s): Wind WIND IN THE BEECHWOOD, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The glorying forest shakes and swings with glancing Last Line: Moves with the chant and whisper of the glade. Subject(s): Forests; Soldiers' Writings; Wind; Woods WIND IN THE CHIMNEY, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Without crushing the ashes Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Chimney Sweepers And Chimneys; Nature; Wind WIND IN THE CYPRESS, by MARY BEALE CARR Poem Text First Line: Wind in the cypress, - sing to me! Last Line: Like broken chords from a harp unstrung. Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Wind WIND IN THE DUSK, by HAROLD MONRO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind feels hard enough tonight Last Line: On me the everlasting skies! Subject(s): Nature; Wind WIND IN THE WILLOWS, by VERNE TAYLOR BENEDICT Poem Text First Line: All through the night came the sound of the wind in the willows Last Line: The rain drummed the windows and ran in a silver cascade. Subject(s): Wind WIND INVITES WIND, by TADA CHIMAKO Poem Source Last Line: To devour the wolf Subject(s): Wind WIND MUSIC, by AILEEN FISHER Poem Source First Line: The west wind plays a merry tune Last Line: Can play on spider webs? Subject(s): Wind WIND OF SPRING, by MYRA COHN LIVINGSTON Poem Source First Line: The wind has picked me up Last Line: Blow me out from april %into may Subject(s): Wind WIND OF SUMMER, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O wind, thou hast thy kingdom in the trees Last Line: Lavish, large, soothing, refluent summerwind. Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper) Subject(s): Summer; Wind WIND OF THE MOOR, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wind of the moor, breath of the vast free reaches Last Line: And would fain forget -- forget, oh, wind of the moor! Subject(s): Wind WIND OF THE SOUTH, by JENNIE MCBRIDE BUTLER Poem Text First Line: Tender you were and shy, wind of the south Last Line: My love is dead, beneath the southern stars. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Wind; Dead, The WIND ON THE CORN, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Full often as I rove by path or stile Last Line: Faintly in that full wind that rocks the outstanding firs. Subject(s): Wind WIND ON THE HILL, by ALAN ALEXANDER MILNE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No one can tell me Last Line: But where the wind comes from %nobody knows Alternate Author Name(s): Milne, A. A. Subject(s): Wind WIND ON THE SEA, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The loneliness of the sea is in my heart Last Line: That may not wander as the wind or return as the sea. Subject(s): Sea; Wind; Ocean WIND PRARIE FANTASIO, by BENJAMIN ROSENBAUM Poem Text First Line: The wind swept the prairies with a cry of joy; the Last Line: Thirty years' absence; as a man, apprehensively, looking among the tomb stones. Variant Title(s): Wild Fantasio Subject(s): Wind WIND SONG, by LUCIA PEARL BOORNAZIAN Poem Text First Line: Cast my heart up on your barren shores Last Line: Dash the tingling spray over me. Subject(s): Sea; Singing & Singers; Spring; Wind; Ocean; Songs WIND SONG, by MARGARET HARVEY Poem Text First Line: Wind of the night, sing high, sing low Last Line: A lullaby song for my laddie-o! Subject(s): Wind WIND SONG, by LILIAN MOORE Poem Source First Line: When the wind blows Last Line: The quiet things %are quiet again Subject(s): Wind WIND SONG; OKLAHOMA ANNIVERSARY, APRIL 22, by ZOE AGNES STRATTON TILGHMAN Poem Text First Line: Wind of the prairie, sweeping adown from the hills Last Line: "but these are they who have conquer'd and kept, the people of eighty-nine." Subject(s): Native Americans; Oklahoma; Pioneers; West (u.s.); Wind; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Southwest; Pacific States WIND THAT ROSE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Restored in artic confidence %to the invisible Variant Title(s): Poem: 125 Subject(s): Wind WIND TOOK UP THE NORTHERN THINGS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The transport of the bird Variant Title(s): Poem: 1134; Poem: 115 Subject(s): Wind WIND WEAVING, by FRANCES HALLEY BROCKETT Poem Text First Line: A singing shuttle in the tree Last Line: That thought the pine, the bird, and me. Subject(s): Wind WIND WHIMSEY, by EDNA FREDERIKSON Poem Text First Line: The wind is in the dry leaves Last Line: Friendly -- but aloof. Subject(s): Wind WIND WILL COME FROM THE SOUTH, by CIRCE MAIA Poem Source First Line: A wind will come from the south with unleashed rain Last Line: Down the stairs, from the balconies, %calling to each other Subject(s): Cleanliness; Human Rights; Rain; Storms; Wind WIND'S RELIQUARY, by ERIC PANKEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The wind, everywhere and nowhere Last Line: That is how gods were named. One at a tme, like newborns Subject(s): Wind WIND'S WORK, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Kate rose up early as fresh as a lark Last Line: But the wind knows! Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): Wind WIND, ANT, HISTORY, by OZDEMIR INCE Poem Source First Line: The wind had hanged itself on the plane tree Last Line: This wind didn't commit suicide, they hanged him Subject(s): Wind WINDCHIME, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She goes out to hang the windchime Subject(s): Marriage; Wind; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WINDCHIME, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She goes out to hang the windchime Last Line: The problem scrunched into her forehead; %the little kissable mouth %with the nail in it Subject(s): Marriage; Wind WINDFLOWER LEAF, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This flower is repeated Last Line: The wind young and strong lets these last longer than stones. Subject(s): Flowers; Wind WINDS, by WILHELMINA STAVERS LEE Poem Text First Line: Spring winds / are singing strings Last Line: Her throat. Subject(s): Nature; Seasons; Wind WINDS A-BLOWING, by MAY JUSTUS Poem Source First Line: The north wind is a beggar Last Line: The spring wind is a gay lad %who blows a silver whistle Subject(s): Wind WINDS ARE THE WATCHMEN, by IVA PURDUM BRUTON Poem Text First Line: Winds are the watchmen of the broad sky - way Last Line: They are wise watchmen. Subject(s): Clouds; Sky; Wind WINDS AT BETHLEHEM, by WINIFRED MARY LETTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When jesus lay on mary's knee Last Line: The four great winds stood hand in hand %and worshipped there with wings outspread Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Wind WINDS OF LIFE, by MARJORIE DUGDALE ASHE Poem Text First Line: Ever the wind beats on my fastened door Last Line: Silence and darkness and a shrouded calm. Subject(s): Life; Wind WINDY AFTERNOON, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Through the wood Subject(s): Wind WINDY DAY, by HARRIET MILLS MCKAY Poem Text First Line: The wind blew in from the sea all day Last Line: I found them gallant company. Subject(s): Wind WINDY DAY AT KABEKONA, by THOMAS R. SMITH Poem Source First Line: Only a picture window stands between us and the full force of gusts Last Line: Torn from its place Subject(s): Storms; Wind WINDY EVENING, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This old world needs propping up Subject(s): Wind WINDY MORNING (CATALINE ISLAND, 1913), by ODELL SHEPARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn with a jubilant shout Last Line: High up against the sun. Subject(s): Catalina Island, California; Wind WINDY NIGHTS, by RODNEY BENNETT Poem Source First Line: Rumbling in the chimneys Last Line: The great gray seas Subject(s): Wind WINDY NIGHTS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever the moon and stars are set Last Line: By he comes back at the gallop again. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): A Child's Garden Of Verses: 9 Subject(s): Weather; Wind WINTER, by MARY BALDWIN Poem Text First Line: The wind blows high, the wind blows low Last Line: All silent, white. Subject(s): Frost; Hunger; Snow; Wind; Winter WINTER FANCIES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Winter without / and warmth within Last Line: In the heart of a nut! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Nature; Wind; Winter WINTER NIGHT, by MARY FRANCES MARSHALL BUTTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Blow, wind, blow! Subject(s): Wind WINTER WINDS, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At twelve o'clock tonight Last Line: Not to be oft aroused. Subject(s): Wind WINTER-FEAR, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rain has come Last Line: The sun, then, god! What agony these days of rain! Subject(s): Fear; Rain; Wind; Winter WINTRY WINDS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wintry wind blows down the village Last Line: Lounged along the open road, they played and dreamed throughout a busy land. Subject(s): Wind; Winter WOMAN OF AIR, WOMAN OF WATER, by GLORIA DIEZ Poem Source First Line: I know that a seaweed wind Last Line: Will be a woman of earth %a woman of fire Subject(s): Earth; Fire; Human Rights; Water; Wind WORD ON WIND, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cows go around saying moo Last Line: Right after you have said it somewhere where somebody is making fertilizer or glue Subject(s): Wind WOULDN'T YOU?, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I / could go Last Line: I'd go! Subject(s): Imagination; Wind; Farewell; Fancy WOULDN'T YOU?, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If I %could go Last Line: I'd go! Subject(s): Imagination; Wind WRECK OF THE SCHOONER 'SAMUEL CRAWFORD.', by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1886, and on the 29th of november Last Line: And to take the last look of their schooner in a blaze. Subject(s): Cold; Disasters; Hunger; Hurricanes; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Snow; Survival; Wind WRITTEN DURING A STORM OF WIND, by SUSAN EVANCE Poem Text First Line: Cease your desolating sound Last Line: —winds, in pity blow no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Hooper, Susan Evance Subject(s): Storms; Wind YOUTH AND AGE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O wanton youth, this wind was not Last Line: "the heart of youth is wise." Subject(s): Aging; Gardens & Gardening; Hearts; Memory; Wind; Wisdom; Youth |
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