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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: WORDS Matches Found: 480 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "DIRGE (TO THE MEMORY OF MISS ELLEN GREE, OF KEW ...)", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Peerless yet hapless maid of q! Last Line: Her dirge and leg Subject(s): Alphabets;bees;death;funerals;insects;language; "beekeeping;dead, The;burials;bugs;words;vocabulary; A CERTAIN SWIRL, by MARY RUEFLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The classroom was dark, all the desks were empty, Subject(s): Schools; Language; Students; Words; Vocabulary A DAY DREAM, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My eyes make pictures, when they are shut Last Line: Murmur it to yourselves, ye two beloved women! Variant Title(s): Eye Subject(s): Dreams; Language; Nightmares; Words; Vocabulary A DEFENSE OF POETRY, by CHARLES BERNSTEIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: My problem with deploying a term liek Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Language; Words; Vocabulary A DESCRIPTION OF SUCH A ONE AS HE WOULD LOVE, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A face that should content me wondrous well Last Line: And knit again the knot that should not slide. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Epigram;epigram: 29 Subject(s): Faces; Grief; Language; Sorrow; Sadness; Words; Vocabulary A DREAM-POEM, by ANTOINETTE DE COURSEY PATTERSON Poem Text First Line: Lost in a dream one night Last Line: Lyrical word! Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary A FALSE GALLOP OF ANALOGIES, by WARHAM ST. LEGER Poem Text First Line: There is a fine stuffed chavender Last Line: Stuff'd chavender, or chub. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary A GREAT SQUARE HAS NO CORNERS, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: "writes with a mop, ""a great square has no corners." Subject(s): Time; Language; Words; Vocabulary A LANCASHIRE DIALOGUE, OCCASIONED BY A PREACHER WITHOUT NOTES, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wus yo at church o' sunday morning, john? Last Line: James. If onny comes, I'll tak it; john,good bye! Subject(s): Clergy; Lancashire, England; Language; Preaching & Preachers; Speech; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Words; Vocabulary; Oratory; Orators A LANGUAGE, by SUSAN STEWART Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I had heard the story before Subject(s): Language; Teaching & Teachers; Miscarriage; Words; Vocabulary; Educators; Professors A LITTLE LANGUAGE, by ROBERT DUNCAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know a little language of my cat, tho dante says Last Line: As if crouching, springs / to life Variant Title(s): A Little Language Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Language; Words; Vocabulary A LITTLE WORD, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: I spoke a word Last Line: Be such as bring forth noble deeds. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Language; Religion; Words; Vocabulary; Theology A MARTIAN SENDS A POSTCARD HOME, by CRAIG RAINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Caxtons are mechanical birds with many wings Subject(s): Books; Civilization; Language; Reading; Words; Vocabulary A MEDITATION, by AGNES LEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rome has been dead these many hundred years Last Line: Rome still rules. Alternate Author Name(s): Freer, Otto, Mrs. Subject(s): Government; Language; Latin; Law & Lawyers; Legacies; Roman Empire; Rome, Italy; Words; Vocabulary; Attorneys A MINOR CANON, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: New phrases daily on our ears are prest' Last Line: "a minor canon,"" said the quiet dean." Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary A NEW SONG OF NEW SIMILES, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My passion is as mustard strong Last Line: And mute as any fish. Subject(s): Language; Metaphor; Words; Vocabulary; Similes A PATHETIC APOLOGY FOR ALL LAUREATS, PAST, PRESENT, AND TO COME, by WILLIAM WHITEHEAD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye silly dogs, whose half-year lays Last Line: ye silliest of all silly dogs. Subject(s): Language; Poets Laureate; Words; Vocabulary A PROJECT FOR FREIGHT TRAINS, by DAVID YOUNG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting at crossings and waiting for freights to pass, we have all noticed Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Railroads; Words; Vocabulary; Railways; Trains A SEASON IN HELL: THE ALCHEMY OF WORDS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Listen. The tale of one of my follies Last Line: That is over. Now I know how to greet beauty. Subject(s): Dreams; Language; Nightmares; Words; Vocabulary A SONG OF PATERNAL CARE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A lithuanian lithographer Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary A TEST OF POETRY, by CHARLES BERNSTEIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What do you mean by rashes of ash? Is industry Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Language; Words; Vocabulary A VIOL'S PLAINT, by ALBERT SAMAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My heart that dreads what time may bring Last Line: And on thy soft glove left a stain. Subject(s): Language; Man-woman Relationships; Pain; Words; Vocabulary; Male-female Relations; Suffering; Misery A VULNERARY, by JONATHAN WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: One comes to language from afar, the ear Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary A WORD THAT MAKES US LINGER (WRITTEN IN VISITOR'S BOOK AT GOPSALL), by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Kind hostess mine, who raised the latch Last Line: But I can't write that dreadful word. Alternate Author Name(s): Locker, Frederick Subject(s): Farewell; Language; Parting; Words; Vocabulary ADAM'S TASK, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, paw-paw-paw; thou, glurd; thou, spotted Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Animals; Bible; Language; Mythology; Eve; Words; Vocabulary ALICE DU CLOS: OR THE FORKED TONGUE. A BALLAD, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is not yet risen Last Line: Lies bleeding on the glade. Subject(s): Language; Lies; Words; Vocabulary ALPHABET OF MOTHER LANGUAGE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If kali were a car, what kind of car would she be? Subject(s): Alphabets; Language; Words; Vocabulary AMERICAN POETRY, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever it is, it must have Last Line: Uttering cries that are almost human. Subject(s): Language; Men; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary AN ABBREVIATED HISTORY OF SIGNS, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And not to be removed Subject(s): Language; Signs & Signboards; Words; Vocabulary AN EPIGRAM ON SCOLDING, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great folks are of a finer mould Last Line: For whore and rogue; and dog and bitch. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary AN IMAGINABLE CONFERENCE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Exchanging gentle grips, the men retire Last Line: Vistas of lilac weighted their shrewd lids Subject(s): Language; Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955); Words; Vocabulary ANAGRAMS, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many have rearranged their names Subject(s): Names; Language; Words; Vocabulary AND MOST OF ALL, I WANNA THANK ?Ǫ, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Patient language, always waiting to be Last Line: Me there, ring true and truly ring me there Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary AND SOMETIMES, by CHRISTIAN BOK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Syzygy pyx Last Line: Hhh my zzz Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary ANGEL WINGS, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High / on the great Last Line: Utah Subject(s): Creeley, Robert (b. 1926); Language; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary ANOTHER TRANSLATOR, by RICHARD HOWARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first one just happened to be there, a little like Last Line: Ma cherie, is pronounced “hap-pi-ness” Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph Subject(s): De Gaulle, Yvonne (1900-1979); Language; Translating & Interpreting; Words; Vocabulary ANTHOLOGY OF OOM, by ISIDOR SCHNEIDER Poem Text First Line: Make you mouth a cavern Last Line: A wave of oblivion. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary ANY LIT, by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are a ukulele beyond my microphone Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary APPLES FOR SALE, by LEWIS MANSFIELD KNAPP Poem Text First Line: In youthful days I saw old orchards bloom Last Line: I too, my friend, am polished and for sale. Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Language; Orchards; Words; Vocabulary ARBEIT MACHT FREI, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Work shall set you free:' a sensible sentiment Last Line: Pain to the piano with you, this quiet cry. Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Language; Truth; Words; Vocabulary ARCANA GARDENS, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cat's apprehensive inside her head Last Line: "time for your van morrison sir" Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Words; Vocabulary AREITO, by JAY WRIGHT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is my mitote, Subject(s): Language; Relationships; Nature; Words; Vocabulary AT NIGHT, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Home, home from the horizon far and clear Last Line: Your words to me, your words! Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Variant Title(s): To W.m.; Thoughts At Evening Subject(s): Birds; Language; Night; Words; Vocabulary; Bedtime AT THE SAN FRANCISCO AIRPORT, by YVOR WINTERS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the terminal: the light Last Line: In light, and nothing else, awake. Subject(s): Air Travel; Language; Words; Vocabulary BAIT GOAT, by KAY RYAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a / distance where Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary BALLADE OF THE STRANGE WORD, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: These warm spring days Last Line: "but ""apricate." Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Language; Life; Youth; Words; Vocabulary BALLADE: 33, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since that my language without eloquence Last Line: And I mine own, that yours may not. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Friendship; Language; Words; Vocabulary BEYOND HIS JURISDICTION, by HENRY (HARRY) HARBORD MORANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was a western manager, and a language-man was he Last Line: "that narks yez,"" michael answered""he's a cocky down in vic." Alternate Author Name(s): Breaker, The; Lumpkin, Tony Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Language; Sheep; Work; Workers; Words; Vocabulary BEYOND WORDS, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That row of icicles along the gutter Last Line: You wait Subject(s): Hate; Language; Words; Vocabulary BITCH, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, when he and I meet, after all these years Last Line: "saying, ""good-bye! Good-bye! Nice to have seen you again." Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Ill-tempered; Language; Love; Women; Women's Rights; Words; Vocabulary; Feminism BLUEPRINT, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had a blueprint Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary BOWLS, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the green / with lignum vitae balls and ivory markers Last Line: In nothing so much as in a letter. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary BRIGHT SINGING WORDS, by HARRY R. TRUSLER Poem Text First Line: Bright singing words may take a dull Last Line: Grow dark -- you are the sun! Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary BRIGHT WORDS, by ERIS GOFF Poem Text First Line: They floated through a purple haze of light Last Line: A bright wing like his word upon the ground. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary BROTHER GIAN, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear jesus christ, I'm brother gian Last Line: From eve his sins forever rise! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Language; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary BY A SWIMMING POOL OUTSIDE SIRACUSA, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All afternoon I have been struggling Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary CANADA IN ENGLISH, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mrs. Tinko says canada Last Line: Skulls – are for us Subject(s): Language; Chicanos; Words; Vocabulary; Mexican Americans CANTICLES 5:6, by ELIZABETH SINGER Poem Text First Line: Oh! How his pointed language, like a dart Last Line: Do the vain world no form or beauty see. Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Language; Love; Words; Vocabulary CANTO 36, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A lady asks me Subject(s): Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Social Commentaries; Language; Male-female Relations; Words; Vocabulary CEDES COEMPTIS SALTIBUS ..., by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This phrase of 'riches built on high' Last Line: Give us a better if you can. Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.); Language; Latin; Universities & Colleges; Words; Vocabulary CELTIC SPEECH, by LIONEL PIGOT JOHNSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never forgetful silence fall on thee Last Line: Remains wild music, even to the world's end. Subject(s): Language; Patriotism; Words; Vocabulary CERTAIN PHENOMENA OF SOUND, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cricket in the telephone is still Subject(s): Language; Sound; Words; Vocabulary CHANSON INNOCENTE: 1, FR. TULIPS, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In just - / spring - when the world is mud- Last Line: Wee Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Balloons; Language; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Spring; Words; Vocabulary CHANSON WITHOUT MUSIC, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You bid me sing, - can I forget Last Line: "dum ille clamat, ""dos pou sto!" Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary CHAPTER 1, by CHRISTIAN BOK Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Writing is inhibiting. Sighing, I sit, scribbling in ink this pidgin Last Line: Finish writing this writ, signing it, kind sir: nihil, dicit, fini Subject(s): Language; Vowels; Writing & Writers; Words; Vocabulary CHRIST'S WORDS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The words of christ are fruitful seeds Last Line: Here and through eternity. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Language; Words; Vocabulary CHRISTIAN BERARD, by GERTRUDE STEIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Eating is her subject. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Language; Words; Vocabulary CIPHERS, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, to be a wonder-child Last Line: Nature's old rosetta stone! Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary CLASSIFICATION, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think that love's a proper noun,' said miss angelia gay Last Line: "their grammar's not my grammar,"" said miss matila prim." Subject(s): Grammar; Language; Words; Vocabulary CLEAR WATER 3, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, yes. Fame never got anyone Last Line: Awhile. My words kill, killed, me, my lord. Yes. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary CLOSING HOURS, by ANN LAUTERBACH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This trace, if it exists, is alms for delusion. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary COAL, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I / is the total black, being spoken / from the earth's inside Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Language; Words; Vocabulary COMING TO THAT, by DOROTHEA TANNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If it comes to that,' he said, 'there'll be no preventing it.' Subject(s): Language; Mind, The; Words; Vocabulary COMPANY OF MOTHS, by PALMER. MICHAEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We thought it could all be found in the book of poor text Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary COMPULSIVE QUALIFICATIONS, by RICHARD HOWARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Richard, may I ask a question? What is an episteme? Last Line: A god being crucified Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph Subject(s): Writing & Writers; Language; Words; Vocabulary CONCEPTS AND THEIR BODIES (THE BOY IN THE FIELD ALONE), by PATTIANN ROGERS Poet's Biography First Line: Staring at the mud turtle's eye Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary CONSIDERED SPEECH, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strictly speaking' (he insisted) 'these are not - ' Last Line: But grave accentuations cut in the rind of the earth Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary CONVERSATION AMONG THE RUINS, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through portico of my elegant house you stalk Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary CREOLE, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Roman Empire; Names; Ancestors & Ancestry; Language; Creoles; Heritage; Heredity; Words; Vocabulary CRIB, by KAY RYAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the greek for / woven or plaited Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary DANGEROUS AGE, by F. W. VAN EMDEN Poem Text First Line: I cannot dance, I cannot sing Last Line: To bring you to my arms. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary DARK HARBOR: 29, by MARK STRAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The folded memory of our great and singular elevations Subject(s): Language; Self; Words; Vocabulary DARLING, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I break this toast for the ghost of bread in lebanon Last Line: "the word ""together"" wants to live in every house." Subject(s): Language; Lebanon; Mothers; Words; Vocabulary DEAD HOUSE SONNET, by BRIAN TEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: House of each sentence endlessly hinged, house of each phrase Subject(s): Language; Writing & Writers; Words; Vocabulary DEATH, by DONALD REVELL Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Death calls my dog by the wrong name. Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Language; Dead, The; Words; Vocabulary DEEDS, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man of words and not of deeds Last Line: You're dead, and dead, and dead indeed. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary DEMARCATIONS, by KARL CURTIS ELDER Poem Text First Line: Had you a whole line Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary DIALOGUE BEFORE SUNRISE, by JULES LAFORGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'd like to live; but truly Last Line: Go ajourneying with the moon. Subject(s): Conversation; Dawn; Language; Sunrise; Words; Vocabulary DISCUSS YOUR CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCE WITH LANGUAGE: 2. FATHER, by RICHARD JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I lay in fields of clover Last Line: Love with nothing but air. Subject(s): Fathers; Language; Words; Vocabulary DISGUST, by LIAM RECTOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was well towards the end Subject(s): Middle Age; Language; Words; Vocabulary DISILLUSION, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A scholar / weary of erecting the fragile towers of words Subject(s): Language; Suicide; Words; Vocabulary DIVERSITY OF CREATURES, by CORINNE HUNTINGTON JACKSON Poem Text First Line: The huntingtons within me stand aloof, and coldly distant Last Line: Butah, the phinneys hearken, puckish-wise, their celtic tongues in cheek. Subject(s): Immigrants; Language; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Words; Vocabulary DO WORDS OUTLAST, by GREGORY ORR Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary DOMESTIC INTERIOR: 6. THE MUSE MOTHER, by EAVAN BOLAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My window pearls wet Last Line: From this rainy street Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary DON'T SILENCE YOUR SELF, NO TE CALLES, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: He took some words from the bowl Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary DUE RESPECT, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come moo, dear moo, let's you and me Last Line: And that's the way it shapes up, moo Subject(s): Language; Mothers; Words; Vocabulary DUMBNESS, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sure man was born to meditate on things Last Line: And penetrate the heart, if not the ear. Subject(s): Babies; Freedom; Language; Infants; Liberty; Words; Vocabulary EACH SOUND, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Beginnings are brutal, like this accident Last Line: Unspeakable light. Subject(s): Language; Primitive Man; Progress; Words; Vocabulary; Cavemen ECHO & ELIXIR 2, by KHALED MATTAWA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cairo’s taxi drivers speak to me in english Last Line: The wicked binds, the cataclysmic fares Subject(s): Language; Cairo; Taxis; Relationships; Social Commentaries; Enemies; Words; Vocabulary EJACULATION, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this short interval to tear Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Language; Feathers; Words; Vocabulary ELLIPTICAL, by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Failure; Language; Relationships; Words; Vocabulary EMBARAZAR, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dairy association's huge success with the campaign got milk? Prompted them to expand Subject(s): Miscommunication; Language; Words; Vocabulary EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 15. RATHER DEEDS THAN WORDS, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You say you love, but I had rather see't Last Line: But doing, doing, that's the proving part. Subject(s): Activity; Language; Love; Exercise; Words; Vocabulary ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE, by APRIL BERNARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary ENGLISH FLAVORS, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love to lick english the way I licked the hard Last Line: Flavored and sharp -- to the ambiguities of meaning. Subject(s): English Language; English Language; Language; Mouths; Nuns; Pleasure; Taste (sense); Words; Vocabulary ENIGMA: 2, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A whimsical set we must often see Last Line: Yet us at this moment, fair reader, you see. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary ENIGMA: 5, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A term for autumn leaves when all their lovely tints are fled Last Line: Now, reader, I shall like to see this mystery unsealed. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary ENIGMA: 7, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you get into me, I have no sort of doubt Last Line: You're myself, if you practice unnatural graces. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary EPIGRAM ON A LATE CATTLE-SHOW IN SMITHFIELD, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old farmer bull is taken sick Last Line: He's had a fit of cattle-epsy! Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary EPIGRAM: EHEU FUGACES, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What horace says is / eheu fugaces Last Line: Sighing I murmur, 'o mihi praeteritos!' Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.); Language; Old Age; Words; Vocabulary ERRATA, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where it says snow Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary ERRATA, by KEVIN YOUNG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Baby, give me just Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary ESTATE SALE, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On igavel I bought Subject(s): Language; Fathers; Words; Vocabulary ETYMOLOGICAL DIRGE, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Calm comes from burning Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary ETYMOLOGY, by OLGA BROUMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I understand her well because I too practice love Last Line: That is a larger that. Subject(s): Faith; Language; Love; Mythology - Classical; Violence; Women's Rights; Belief; Creed; Words; Vocabulary; Feminism EXTENT AND ROOT OF (1). ELSEWHERE, THINGS TEND, by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As each syllable leaves these lips as touch, feel how onerous Subject(s): Despair; Language; Self; Words; Vocabulary FAILURES IN INFINITIVES, by BERNADETTE MAYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why am I doing this? Failure Subject(s): Failure; Language; Conduct Of Life; Words; Vocabulary FAIR WORDS, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy words are good, and freely given Last Line: A sin against the light. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary FAMILIAR EPISTLES ON A SERMON, 'OFFICE & OPERATIONS OF HOLY SPIRIT': 4, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gospel's simpler language being writ Last Line: Of brisker temperslet us next enquire. Subject(s): Bible; Bible, N.t. Gospels; Books; Language; Religious Education; Writing & Writers; Reading; Words; Vocabulary; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools FAREWELL, by BERT LESTON TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell!' another gloomy word Last Line: Without it? Alternate Author Name(s): T., B. L. Subject(s): Farewell; Fate; Language; Poetry & Poets; Parting; Destiny; Words; Vocabulary FATHER MERCY, MOTHER TONGUE, by LINDA GREGERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If the english language was good enough for jesus Subject(s): Language; United States; Words; Vocabulary; America FIDO: AN EPISTLE TO FIDELIA, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting one day beside a silver brook Last Line: That you intend to work no miracles. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Love; Writing & Writers; Language; Words; Vocabulary FINELY WRITTEN LABELS, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It isn't enough we knolw these pains Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary FIRE EXIT: 78, by ROBERT KELLY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The woods green moveless sea Last Line: Rebuking every image. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary FIRST WORDS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How can I tell thee, dear, what never words Last Line: The shifting of the changeful lights of fate. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Fate; Hearts; Language; Love; Pacific Ocean; Destiny; Words; Vocabulary FOR ?Ç£FIDDLE-DE-DE?Ç¥, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What’s the french for “fiddle-de-dee”? Last Line: —I think I know. But the word’s still mum Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary FOR REBECCA, FOR WHOM NOTHING HAS BEEN WRITTEN PAGE AFTER PAGE, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We have a language that serves us more, or less Subject(s): Grandchildren; Language; Grandsons; Granddaughters; Words; Vocabulary FORTY YEARS, by MARY OLIVER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For forty years / the sheets of white paper have Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary FOUR EPISTLES: MIRACLE AT THE FEAST OF PENTECOST: 1, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our folks gone a visiting, reverend sir Last Line: Was all by one language,as clear as the sun. Subject(s): Holy Ghost; Language; Miracles; Religion; Spiritual Life; Holy Spirit; Words; Vocabulary; Theology FOUR EPISTLES: MIRACLE AT THE FEAST OF PENTECOST: 2, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many thanks have been order'd this day to attend Last Line: Excuse the presumption.dear vicar, adieu! Subject(s): Apostles; Baptism; Bible; Language; Prayer; Religion; Spiritual Life; Disciples, Twelve; Christenings; Words; Vocabulary; Theology FOUR VARIATIONS ON THE HISTORY OF SPEECH, by IRA SADOFF Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen the sabotage of the body Subject(s): Speech; Language; Oratory; Orators; Words; Vocabulary FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 18, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Think'st thou to seduce me with words that have no meaning? Last Line: But alas! Who less could do that found so good occasion! Variant Title(s): "think'st Thou To Seduce Me Then""; Subject(s): Courtship; Language; Seduction; Words; Vocabulary FREE, by VIRGIL SAUREZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When we first arrived in the united states Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary FRIENDSHIP, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear friend, I pray thee, if thou wouldst be proving Last Line: To satisfy my mind. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Faith; Friendship; Language; Love; Belief; Creed; Words; Vocabulary GENTLE COMMUNION, by PAT MORA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even the long-dead are willing to move Last Line: Our own private green honey Subject(s): Language; Memory; Spirituality; Words; Vocabulary GERTRUDE AND LUDWIG'S BOGUS ADVENTURE, by CHARLES BERNSTEIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As billy goes higher all the balloons Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary GETTING A HOLD, by MARTHA RONK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The foreign objects are related to the accent Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary GETTING A WORD IN, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Very sad Last Line: Come out of nowhere) / very sad Subject(s): Grief; Language; Rain; Trees; Sorrow; Sadness; Words; Vocabulary GHAZALS: 20, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some sort of rag of pure language, no dictums but a bell Last Line: Be needed, the sibyl will return as an undiscovered lover. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Despair; Dreams; Language; Travel; Nightmares; Words; Vocabulary; Journeys; Trips GLUKUPIKRON; TO SAPPHO, by GREGORY ORR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Word you created / which we translate Last Line: Your word for love. Subject(s): Language; Love - Nature Of; Pain; Pleasure; Words; Vocabulary; Suffering; Misery GLYPHS, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: & the code / public record stopped midsentence Subject(s): Language; Native Americans; Poetry & Poets; Tongues; Words; Vocabulary; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America GOLDEN WORDS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some words are played on golden strings Last Line: Shall answer when you call. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Honor; Language; Love; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary GOSPEL, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The new grass rising in the hills, Subject(s): Landscape; Language; Words; Vocabulary GRANDGOUSIER, by RANSOM. JOHN CROWE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dry bones, / dry brains Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary HAPPINESS, by EDITH WHARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This perfect love can find no words to say Last Line: The sound of deep that calleth unto deep. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary HARSH WORDS, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Harsh words too cruelly sped, yet thoughts / unspoken Last Line: This is love's poor heaven. Yet not to love is hell. Subject(s): Language; Love - Complaints; Words; Vocabulary HE DID NOT KNOW, by GERTRUDE STAHLE VAN ERDEN Poem Text First Line: Her words as light as snow flakes Last Line: They melted into tears. Subject(s): Indifference; Language; Words; Vocabulary HE SAID, SHE SAID, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it something I said Subject(s): Language; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Words; Vocabulary; Male-female Relations HOLY LAND, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over beds wearing thick homespun cotton Last Line: Of their shoes. Subject(s): Israel; Language; Palestine; Women; Words; Vocabulary HOTEL FRANCOIS 1ER, by GERTRUDE STEIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a very little while and they had gone in front of it. It was that they had liked it Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Friendship; Language; City & Town Life; Art & Artists; Social Commentaries; Male-female Relations; Words; Vocabulary HOW PALESTINIANS KEEP WARM, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Choose one word and say it over Last Line: And when your shawl is as thin as mine is, you tell stories. Subject(s): Heat; Language; Palestine; Story-telling; Words; Vocabulary HOW ZEN RUIINS POETS, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before I knew that mind Subject(s): Language; Thought; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary; Thinking HOWYOUBEENS', by TERRANCE HAYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mostly people talk to people, holding Last Line: Wasting it. Dumb. Whining about the wind Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary I BROOD ABOUT SOME CONCEPTS, FOR EXAMPLE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A concept like 'I,' which I am told by many Last Line: To disclose. The thing itself ... Subject(s): Language; Philosophy & Philosophers; Thought; Words; Vocabulary; Thinking I CAN'T SPEAK, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's hopeless. Our heads are full of television Subject(s): Conversation; Language; Words; Vocabulary I DO NOT, by MICHAEL PALMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I do not know english Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary I WAVE GOOD-BYE WHEN BUTTER FLIES, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary IAMBICUM TRIMETRUM, FR. LETTER TO HARVEY, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unhappie verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state Last Line: "and I dye, who will saye"" this was, immerito?" Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary IF I TOLD HIM, A COMPLETE PORTRAIT OF PICASSO, by GERTRUDE STEIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: If I told him would he like it. Would he like it if I told him. Subject(s): Portraits; Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973); Language; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Words; Vocabulary IMAGE OF A SAINT, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Many favor sunflowers seeding Last Line: You walk in sandals unimpeded Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Saints; Words; Vocabulary IMITATIONS OF HORACE: EPISTLE 2.2, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear col'nel, corbham's and your country's friend Last Line: Whom folly pleases, and whose follies please. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary IN A HOSPITAL CORRIDOR, by ANNE-ELISE ROANE WINTER Poem Text First Line: She was an alien. Her large sloe- black eyes Last Line: Forgetting all her agony -- she smiled! Subject(s): Hospitals; Language; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Words; Vocabulary IN ANSWER TO QUESTION FROM GREEK GRAMMAR: WHAT FUTURES SPEAK, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They speak of never withering shades Last Line: Yet are believed again. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary IN EVERY LANGUAGE, by E. ETHELBERT MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remind me (again) how beautiful you are Subject(s): Love; Language; Words; Vocabulary IN MY TONGUE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the words in my tongue Last Line: In the heart of my lord! Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary IN THE ALLEY, by TED KOOSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: N the alley behind the florist's shop Subject(s): Refuse And Refuse Removal; Language; Words; Vocabulary IN THE HEART, by LOUISE DOUGLAS Poem Text First Line: A scholar's words could not define the curve Last Line: Curves sing in the heart and baffle sages. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary IN THE MUSEUM OF THE WORD (HENRI MATISSE), by ANN LAUTERBACH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was the shield of another language Subject(s): Travel; Language; Journeys; Trips; Words; Vocabulary IN THIS LIGHT, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sure, I used to say his name like a truth that, just Subject(s): Language; Grief; Words; Vocabulary; Sorrow; Sadness IN THIS SENSE, BEYOND, by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I apologize, but I do not apologize Last Line: But if grief needs to be it is in the end, anyway Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary INCOHERENCE, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We that are swift with words Last Line: Is trembling more than mine! Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Language; Silence; Words; Vocabulary INCOMMUNICADO, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The groundhog on the mountain did not run Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Groundhogs; Language; Woodchucks; Words; Vocabulary INFLUENCE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We know not what mysterious power Last Line: May, for a time, remember me. Subject(s): Language; Life; Love; Tears; Words; Vocabulary IT ALL STAYS OPEN, by ROBERT KELLY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Merchandise mind / middleman personality Last Line: That isn’t (entirely) me Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary IT WAS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: He seized her in the dark and kissed her Last Line: "he cried. She laughed and said, ""it is" Subject(s): Language; Words;vocabulary JABBERERS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I rise out of my depths with my language Last Line: As the shower at a scissors grinder's wheel.... Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary JAZZ FANTASIA, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Drum on your drums, batter on your banjos Subject(s): Jazz; Language; Music & Musicians; Words; Vocabulary JUST WORDS, by TILLA FERGUSON Poem Text First Line: Words, just little things are they Last Line: Of the words that do no wrong. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary LADIES AND GENTLEMEN IN OUTER SPACE, by RON PADGETT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is my philosophy Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary LANDED: A VALENTINE, by RICHARD HOWARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See how the brown kelp withers in air Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph Subject(s): Kelp; Language; Words; Vocabulary LANGUAGE, by FRANCES MARY FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is a country of little rivers Last Line: Inarticulate heart. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary LANGUAGE ACQUISITION, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Burn, or speak your mind. For the oak to untruss Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary LANGUAGE LESSON 1976, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When americans say a man Subject(s): Americans; Language; Play; United States; Words; Vocabulary; America LANGUAGE OF MUSIC, by ESTHER EUGENIA DAVIS Poem Text First Line: Two open windows where I went to sing Last Line: But music just begins where language ends. Subject(s): Language; Music & Musicians; Sound; Words; Vocabulary LANGUAGES, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are no handles upon a language Last Line: Blowing ten thousand years ago. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary LAST WORDS, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It wasn't oscar wilde who said, die my dear Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Language; Writing & Writers; Words; Vocabulary LAUREL'S EYES, by CHARLES BERNSTEIN Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary LETTER 7, by PALMER. MICHAEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But the buried walls and our mouths of fragments Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary LEVIATHAN, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Truth also is the pursuit of it Subject(s): Relationships; Reality; Language; Words; Vocabulary LIFE GOES ON, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over the dulling years you write Subject(s): Love; Language; Words; Vocabulary LIP-SERVICE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Julia once and once again Last Line: Perfect adoration! Subject(s): Language; Love; Words; Vocabulary LITTLE ERRAND, by BRIAN TEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I gather the rain Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary LOGICAL ENGLISH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "I said, 'this horse, sir, will you shoe?'" Subject(s): Animals;horses;language; Words;vocabulary LOGOS, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is not the place I would like to start Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary LOSING A LANGUAGE, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: A breath leaves the sentences and does not come back Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary LOUISIANA PERCH, by RON PADGETT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Certain words disappear from a language Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary LOVE SONNET OF A PLAYER, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Say, kid, d'you know, I just can't understand Last Line: I'll kill three baseball scribes by monday night! Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Language; Sports; Words; Vocabulary LOVE'S LANGUAGE, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Their little language the children Last Line: Which is hidden with love and thee. Subject(s): Language; Love - Nature Of; Words; Vocabulary LOVELILTS, by MARION HILL Poem Text First Line: Thine eyes, dear one, dot dot, are like, dah, what? Last Line: Dash, god! Dot stars, keep thou our secret dark! Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary LUCAS A NON; EPIGRAM, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You'll oft find in books, rather ancient than recent Last Line: That desunt means simply not decent to print! Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary LYRICK FOR LEGACIES, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gold I've none, for use or show Last Line: As my last remembrances. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary MAGISTER LINGUISTICUS, by FRANCIS CLAIBORNE MASON Poem Text First Line: His feet became too feeble for the stair Last Line: "he strove with bits of words until he died." Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary MANIFEST DESTINY, by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Northbound, on the way to the station, through the narrow rutted Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Prisons & Prisoners; Language; Reality; Convicts; Words; Vocabulary MARRY AT A HOTEL, ANNUL ?ÇÖEM, by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Language; Hotels; Words; Vocabulary; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses MARSH LANGUAGES, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dark soft languages are being silenced Last Line: The one language that has eaten all the others. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary MEDITATION AT LAGUNITAS, by ROBERT HASS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the new thinking is about loss Subject(s): California; Deconstructionism; Language; Longing; Words; Vocabulary MESSAGES AS TRANSLATION, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With all of sterling's poems in spanish Subject(s): Language; Spain; Translating & Interpreting; Words; Vocabulary MILLENNIAL POLKA, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Using words this way Last Line: Among the bloody berries Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary MISUNDERSTOOD, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: People do not understand me Last Line: And you will be understood. Subject(s): Knowledge; Language; Schools; Words; Vocabulary; Students MONOSYLLABIC, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me be monosyllabic today, o lord Last Line: Enjoy slow-pacing clocks. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary MORE BEST JOKES OF THE DELPHIC ORACLE, by BILL KNOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I vow to live always at trash point: to Last Line: To the inchworm's socialization progress. Alternate Author Name(s): Saint Geraud; Knott, William Subject(s): Dictionaries; Language; Lips; Progress; Words; Vocabulary MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 21, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hardly in any common tender wise Last Line: So gives back such a meaning in her own. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Language; Mothers & Daughters; Words; Vocabulary MY LIFE: REASON LOOKS FOR TWO, THEN ARRANGES IT FROM THERE, by LYN HEJINIAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where I woke and was awake, in the Last Line: Duration. Language makes / tracks Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary MY NAME, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A child saw my name passing into Subject(s): Self; Names; Language; Words; Vocabulary NATURE AND LANGUAGE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oft, when some happy thought for song is found Last Line: While all our sweetest thoughts go safe to heaven. Subject(s): Language; Nature; Words; Vocabulary NAVIGATION, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Evergreens have reasons Subject(s): Language; Mountains; Mouths; Nature; Navigation; Sky; Trees; Words; Vocabulary; Hills; Downs (great Britain) NERVES: TERRORIST FOR LANGUAGE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nerves, blind / attraction to Subject(s): Language; Literary Form; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary NEUTRA'S WINDOW, by MARTHA RONK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behind the glass barrier by moving her lips Subject(s): Children; Obedience; Language; Childhood; Words; Vocabulary NEW, by GERTRUDE STEIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We knew./anne to come Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary NIEGE FONDANT, by BARBARA GUEST Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Seen on the whimpering screen the white ruff a tongue wags out numbered Subject(s): Weather; Language; Words; Vocabulary NOT KNOWING THE LANGUAGE, by MARTHA RONK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A tendency towards mannerism and widening the streets Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary NOTES FOR ECHO LAKE 1, by PALMER. MICHAEL Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary NOTES FOR ECHO LAKE 4, by PALMER. MICHAEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who did he talk to Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary NOVEL CONVERSATION, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men believe that I can speak Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary NOYTA CCCP, by CHRISTIAN BOK Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary O, by RITA DOVE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shape the lips to say an o, say a Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary O-U-G-H. A FRESH HACK AT AN OLD KNOT, by CHARLES BATTELL LOOMIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm taught p-l-o-u-g-h Last Line: And killed him wiz a rough. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary OF BEING NUMEROUS, 3, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The emotions are engaged Subject(s): Language; New York City; Words; Vocabulary; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple OF CERTAIN ADJECTUIVES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A 'generous' liquor! Ah, if generous Last Line: God for the right! Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Language; Words; Vocabulary ON RHYME AND BLANK VERSE, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What a deal of impertinent stuff at this time Last Line: All the bus'ness he knows isto execute well. Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Rhyme; Singing & Singers; Words; Vocabulary; Songs ON THE ARROW TRACK, by J. H. G. Poem Text First Line: Coming from the arrow, I / with my empty dray Last Line: "ta-ra-ra boom-dee-ay!" Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Family Life; Language; Singing & Singers; Relatives; Words; Vocabulary; Songs ON THE DISPOSITION OF MIND, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To hear the words of scripture, or to read Last Line: To seek the truth, receive it, and retain. Subject(s): Bible; Books; Language; Reading; Words; Vocabulary ON THE DISPOSITION OF MIND (2), by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We ought to read, my worthy friend ponthieu Last Line: The book of books is ev'ry man's own heart. Subject(s): Books; Language; Religious Education; Reading; Words; Vocabulary; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools ON THE ROAD TO LARRY ROBIN'S BOOKSTORE, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are many monsters -- the ashes of the members Last Line: 100 poets reading for robin's Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Booksellers; Language; Literature; Pornography; Bookstores; Words; Vocabulary ON THE WORDS IN POETRY, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You want to know why and how I just began to write poetry Last Line: Ephemeral lives dangerous, great, and bearable Subject(s): Language; Men; Words; Vocabulary ON THOUGHTS, by MARGARET E. HENDRICKSON Poem Text First Line: Busy with thoughts Last Line: That go ever astray. Subject(s): Language; Mankind; Thought; Words; Vocabulary; Human Race; Thinking OUR LADY OF CONGRESS, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposition likes dry poems Last Line: But the luck we have left. Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Slavery; Words; Vocabulary; Serfs OUT OF A WAR OF WITS, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of a war of wits, when folly of words Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary PALIMPSEST, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it not strange to think that you alone Last Line: Now it were better if you had not read? Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Language; Writing & Writers; Words; Vocabulary PAN-AMERICA, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pan-america, glorious name! Last Line: But -- who holds the handle and what's in the pan? Subject(s): Language; South America; Words; Vocabulary PANAMA, by E. ETHELBERT MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the early twenties Subject(s): Immigrants; Language; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Words; Vocabulary PARADISE LIGHTNING DAZZLE: 8. EQUIVALENTS, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's `bride' and `bridge,' Last Line: The crashing cataract spews. Subject(s): Equality; Heaven; Language; Paradise; Words; Vocabulary PARADOXES AND OXYMORONS, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This poem is concerned with language on a very plain level Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary PARSLEY, by RITA DOVE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a parrot imitating spring Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Language; Parsley; Racism; Trujillo, Rafael (1891-1961); Words; Vocabulary; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry PARTING CONEY ISLAND, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We had so much to say; we had no faith in words Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary PASSAGE, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Words/after all Subject(s): Language; Nature; Words; Vocabulary PASSIVE PARTICIPLE'S PETITION, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Urban, or sylvan, or whatever name Last Line: Of preter tense, and participle too. Subject(s): Language; Magazines; Writing & Writers; Words; Vocabulary PERMANENTLY, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: One day the nouns were clustered in the street Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary PERSIMMONS, by LI-YOUNG LEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In sixth grade mrs. Walker / slapped the back of my head Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Education; Exiles; Language; Marginality, Social; Persimmons; Schools; Estrangement; Outcasts; Words; Vocabulary; Students PICKING BLACKBERRIES WITH A FRIEND .. READING JACQUES LACAN, by ROBERT HASS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: August dust is here. Drought Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary PIED BEAUTY, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Glory be to god for dappled things Last Line: Praise him. Subject(s): Beauty; Christianity; Environment; Fields; God; Language; Men; Nature; Religion; Worship; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Words; Vocabulary; Theology PITCHER, by ROBERT FRANCIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His art is eccentricity, his aim Subject(s): Baseball; Language; Men; Sports; Words; Vocabulary POEMS, by RUTH STONE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you come back to me / it will be crow time Last Line: The madness of my tongue. Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary POEMS FROM LEFT, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's something wrong that can't be salved Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Language; Human Behavior; Words; Vocabulary; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature POETIC MUSE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: With rhythm true the heart doth beat Last Line: And words, like music, then escape. Subject(s): Language; Muses; Music & Musicians; Words; Vocabulary POETRY, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Invited onto the grounds of the god Last Line: Being made into words even as we speak. Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary POETRY IS A DESTRUCTIVE FORCE, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That's what misery is Last Line: It can kill a man Subject(s): Language; Men; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary POETRY: WHAT IS IT?, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is poetry? This question has been often propounded Last Line: Rank and character of a true poet. Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Words; Vocabulary PONDYCHERRY, by BRENDAN GALVIN Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The way some people sing for themselves Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary POOEM, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, too, once hoped to have a hoopoe Last Line: (sighed) your far-off friend, u.E. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary POSITED, by JAMES MCMICHAEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: That as all parts of it Subject(s): Water; Language; Words; Vocabulary PRETTY, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Why is the word pretty so underrated? Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary PRETTY WORDS, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poets make pets of pretty, docile words Last Line: Gilded and sticky, with a little sting. Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary PROBLEMS OF TRANSLATION: PROBLEMS OF LANGUAGE, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I turn to my rand mcnally atlas Last Line: Por la mañanita Subject(s): Language; Social Commentary; Words; Vocabulary PROMISCUOUS, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mixes easily, dictionaries Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Language; Human Behavior; Words; Vocabulary; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature PROSE 31, by PALMER. MICHAEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A logical principle is said to be an empty Subject(s): Philosophy & Philosophers; Language; Words; Vocabulary PROVERBS 25, SELECTION, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Text First Line: A word fitly spoken Last Line: Is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary PURSUIT OF THE WORD, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What, shall there be word single to express Last Line: Over the blackened hills that hid the sun? Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary QUESTIONNAIRE, by CHARLES BERNSTEIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Directions: for each pair of sentences, circle the letter, a or b, that best Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Language; Words; Vocabulary READING HENRY FOWLER'S MODERN ENGLISH USAGE IN SALT LAKE CITY ..., by NATASHA SAJE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You note the one 'r' in iridescent Subject(s): Fowler, Henry (1858-1933); Language; Words; Vocabulary REASON AND SONG, by MAY FOLWELL HOISINGTON Poem Text First Line: Priestess ordained of the high god of speech Last Line: But not more heartbreaking. Subject(s): Language; Reason; Words; Vocabulary; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals RECURSUS, by PALMER. MICHAEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The voice, because of its austerity, will often cause dust to rise. Subject(s): Voices; Language; Words; Vocabulary REMEMBERING WILD WORDS, by REX HUNTER Poem Text First Line: I remember the wild words, the drunken words, the boast- Last Line: Before the smirking bully knocked them flat with his bony fist. Subject(s): Death; Language; Memory; Dead, The; Words; Vocabulary REPETITION OF WORDS AND WEATHER, by RUTH STONE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A basket of dirty clothes Subject(s): Words; Weather; Washerwomen; Poetry & Poets REPROACH TO DEAD POETS, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You who have spoken words in the earth Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary RESERVE, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Keep back the one word more Last Line: Lacking that word, you shall be poor indeed. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary RHETORIC, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is man's noblest edifice. All else Last Line: Beats futile hands on vague, invisible walls. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary RIDDLE: WORDS, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From rosy bowers we issue forth Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary RIGORISTS, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We saw reindeer Subject(s): Language; Men; Reindeer; Words; Vocabulary ROMANCE, by REBECCA WOLFF Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes even now I get this feeling Subject(s): Hitchhikers; Loneliness; Language; Words; Vocabulary RONDEAU, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: O jack, don't tease me every day Last Line: "that little word, ""I love." Subject(s): Language; Love; Words; Vocabulary SAMOVAR LOVE COMPONENT, by KHALED MATTAWA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love the word samovar, and I love Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary SAYING NOT MEANING, by WILLIAM BASIL WAKE Poem Text First Line: Two gentlemen their appetite had fed Last Line: "sir, I meant -- capers!" Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary SEE THAT MY GRAVE IS SWEPT CLEAN, by ERIC PANKEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Words are but an entrance, a door cut deep into cold clay Subject(s): Graves; Language; Tombs; Tombstones; Words; Vocabulary SERMON ON LANGUAGE, by ROBERT KELLY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But in my heart Last Line: Quench my thirst! Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary SESTINA: AS THERE ARE SUPPORT GROUPS, THERE ARE SUPPORT WORDS, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When visiting a distant (and imponderable) shire, Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary SF, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sf stood for sigmund freud, or serious folly Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary SHIFT, by KAY RYAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Words have loyalties Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary SHORT NOTE ON THE SPARSENESS OF THE LANGUAGE, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wow man I said Last Line: And my two books and cut and that was that Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary SHORT WORDS, by GERALD STERN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some dried-up phlox so old the blue was white Subject(s): Death; Language; Dead, The; Words; Vocabulary SI, SI, E.E., by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Warm legend, blue shadow Last Line: (& yes, they wore great big hats, size extra large Subject(s): Books; Cummings, E. E. (1894-1962); Language; Poetry & Poets; Reading; Words; Vocabulary SIMILIES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: As wet as a fish - as dry as a bone Subject(s): Language;metaphor; Words;vocabulary;similes SINCE YOU ASKED ME ...., by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For the sweet sake of inscapes Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 50, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A pin has a head, but has no hair Last Line: And baby crows, without being a cock. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): A Pin Subject(s): Language; Nonsense; Words; Vocabulary SIX FROM ARNO HOLZ'S ?Ç£PHANTASUS?Ç¥, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I want to know all the secrets! Last Line: Into a golden chamber pot Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Language; Words; Vocabulary SIX WORDS, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes / no Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary SLEEPING WITH THE DICTIONARY, by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I beg to dicker with my silver-tongued companion Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary SMALL TALK, by JOANIE MACKOWSKI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Someone pours more wine. A black moth opens Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary SO I KNOW, by HICOK. BOB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He put moisturizer the morning he shot Last Line: Of this word, / suddenly Subject(s): Language; Social Commentary; Words; Vocabulary SOME WODS INSIDE OF WORDS, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you've washed your clothes, and they are still wringing wet Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary SONG, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Hast thou gems for men to see Last Line: "than of thee." Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Language; Thought; Words; Vocabulary; Thinking SONG: 97, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Madam, I you require Last Line: Ye get not that ye lack. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Language; Truth; Women; Words; Vocabulary SONGS FOR MY MOTHER: 3. HER WORDS, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mother has the prettiest tricks Last Line: How beautiful they are. Variant Title(s): Her Words Subject(s): Language; Mothers; Words; Vocabulary SONNET, by BERNADETTE MAYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Name address date Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary SONNET: 41, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By bolstered words I am borne in hand Last Line: Is my 'no fears' of your 'no faith'. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Faith; Fear; Language; Belief; Creed; Words; Vocabulary SONNET: 65, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea Last Line: That in black ink my love may still shine bright. Variant Title(s): "time And Love (2);""since Brass, Nor Stone, Nor Earth, Nor Boundless Sea""; Subject(s): Beauty; Language; Men; Time; Words; Vocabulary SOON, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I say the word walk, or even spell it, Subject(s): Language; Dogs; Words; Vocabulary SOONEST MENDED, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Barely tolerated, living on the margin Subject(s): Language; Time; Words; Vocabulary SOUND-POSTURE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What we do get in life and miss so often in literature Last Line: And concrete symbol of communication in language Subject(s): Language; Men; Words; Vocabulary SPANISH LESSON, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We look down into a garden Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary SPECIAL WORDS, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mother she has special words Last Line: Don't really mean so awful much. Subject(s): Children; Language; Mothers; Childhood; Words; Vocabulary STEPS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man letters the sign for his grocery in arabic and english Last Line: Making the shadows that cross each other's smiles. Subject(s): Advertising; Children; Language; Letters; Signs & Signboards; Childhood; Words; Vocabulary STILL THERE ARE WORDS, by MINNIE MARKHAM KERR Poem Text First Line: Still there are words that never will be said! Last Line: Have almost captured them and made them mine. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary STUDY NATURE, by GERTRUDE STEIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do. / victim. Subject(s): Nature; Language; Words; Vocabulary SUGAR, by GERTRUDE STEIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A violent luck and a whole sample and even then quiet Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary SUN, by MICHAEL PALMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Write this. We have burned all their villages Subject(s): Language; Sun; Words; Vocabulary SWEAR IT, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother swore ripely, inventively Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary SWEATER WEATHER: A LOVE SONG TO LANGUAGE, by SHARON BRYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Never better, mad as a hatter Subject(s): Language; Rhyme; Words; Vocabulary SYMBOLS, by CHARD POWERS SMITH Poem Text First Line: It has been hard to learn that hair Last Line: He sits his throne. I climb to mine. Subject(s): Hair; Language; Love; Words; Vocabulary SYMPHONY NO. 3, IN D MINOR, by JONATHAN WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Language; Nature; Writering & Writers; Animals; Words; Vocabulary SYMPOSIUM, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: You can bring a horse to water but you can't make it hold Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary TAKING A WALK WITH YOU, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My misunderstandings: for years I thought muno bello meant Subject(s): Language; Knowledge; Words; Vocabulary TALENT, by MARION D. KENDALL Poem Text First Line: I am a namer of words Last Line: I am a poet. Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Words; Vocabulary TALKING TO THE MOON, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A defeated politician is in circulation Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Language; Moon; Words; Vocabulary TENDER BUTTONS: A SUBSTANCE IN A CUSHION, by GERTRUDE STEIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The change of color is likely and a difference a very little difference is prepared. Sugar is not a Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary THE, by MARTHA RONK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When having finished .....The Subject(s): Writing & Writers; Language; Words; Vocabulary THE ABRACADABRA BOYS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Language; Social Classes; Words; Vocabulary; Caste THE ADJECTIVE, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look not too coldly or too proudly down Last Line: Won him salaams who else had noteless passed. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary THE ADMISSION, by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: If you love me Last Line: To you. Subject(s): Language; Love; Words; Vocabulary THE ADMONITION BY THE AUCTOR TO ALL YONG GENTILWOMEN, by ISABELLA WHITNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye virgins that from cupid's tents Last Line: I live this hundred yeares. Subject(s): Language; Love - Nature Of; Words; Vocabulary THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One by one, the scholars come to learn the puritan tongue Last Line: The thirteen parallel pioneer stripes, justified and multiplied. Subject(s): Language; New England; Puritans; Words; Vocabulary THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#13): 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND THUNDER, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the dead man hears thunder, he thinks someone is speaking Last Line: The dead man speaks god's language. Subject(s): Death; God; Language; Religion; Speech; Spirituality; Thunder; Dead, The; Words; Vocabulary; Theology; Oratory; Orators THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#63), by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead man has up-the-stairs walking disorder Last Line: The dead man stands for living anyway. Subject(s): Death; Language; Love; Sickness; Dead, The; Words; Vocabulary; Illness THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#65), by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead man struggles not to become crabby, chronic or hypothetical Last Line: When the river met the shore. Subject(s): Death; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Language; Poetry & Poets; Reason; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Dead, The; Words; Vocabulary; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#68), by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead man likes it when the soup simmers and the kettle hisses Last Line: Some say the dead man was miserable to be so happy. Subject(s): Death; Language; Happiness; Story-telling; Dead, The; Words; Vocabulary THE BREEZE, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Language; Wnd; Words; Vocabulary THE CARELESS WORD, by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A word is ringing through my brain Last Line: Dwell weeping on a careless word. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary THE CHURCH WARDEN AND THE CURATE, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eh? Good daay! Good daay! Thaw it bean't not mooch of a daay Last Line: Fur they leaved their nasty sins I' my pond, an' it poison'd the cow. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary THE CLUE, by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, frame some little word for me Last Line: Save hers for whom thou makest it. Alternate Author Name(s): Roge, Mme. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary THE COMING OF THE WORDS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wistful words, singing words, come to me at times Last Line: Of love, and give my longing a presence and a name! Subject(s): Language; Life; Love; Soul; Tears; Words; Vocabulary THE COOL WEB, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Children are dumb to say how hot the day is Subject(s): Heat; Language; Words; Vocabulary THE COUNTRY OF BOUNDERS, by ERNEST FRANCIS O'FERRALL Poem Text First Line: The coach was creaking up the hill, the straining nags were nodding Last Line: "then drawled, ""hey, boss! Them blankers there is native 'boundahs' bounding!" Alternate Author Name(s): Kodak Subject(s): England; Kangaroos; Language; English; Words; Vocabulary THE DREAM REALM; WRITTEN WHILE HEARING ONE SINGING IN A FOREIGN TONGUE, by MAE BAKER HENLINE Poem Text First Line: Dear mona, asleep by the wonder well Last Line: Singing no more, you have left me ... A rose. Subject(s): Language; Singing & Singers; Words; Vocabulary; Songs THE EAR IS AN ORGAN MADE FOR LOVE, by E. ETHELBERT MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was the language that left us first Subject(s): Language; Love; Music & Musicians; Words; Vocabulary THE EMPRESS HOTEL POEMS, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just get up / and sit down again. Then Last Line: In the other poem. Subject(s): Hotels; Housekeeping; Language; Rooms; Tourists; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Words; Vocabulary THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 1, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! I the man, whose muse whylome did maske Last Line: More mild, in beastly kind, then that her beastly foe. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 2, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Right well I wote most mighty soueraine Last Line: And to be easd of that base burden still did erne. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 3, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It falls me here to write of chastity Last Line: The redcrosse knight diverst, but forth rode britomart. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 4, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rugged forhead that with grave foresight Last Line: That since their days such lovers were not found elswhere. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 5, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So oft as I with state of present time Last Line: We on his first adventure may him forward send. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 6, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The waies, through which my weary steps I guyde Last Line: That in another canto shall to end be brought. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 7. TWO CANTOS OF MUTABILITY, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What man that sees the ever-whirling wheele Last Line: O that great sabbaoth god graunt me that sabaoths sight! Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FATALIST: THE BEST WORDS, by LYN HEJINIAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The best words get said frequently—they are like fertile pips Last Line: For whom r would have released a flock of red canaries Subject(s): Language; Books; Words; Vocabulary; Reading THE FENCE OF THE TEETH, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not the burgeoning season (late may, early june) nor the centry fast Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary THE FLYING WORDS, by MORRIS GILBERT BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now through the skies do come impetuous messengers Last Line: In the staring terrible hours when sleep is slow. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary THE FORGOTTEN DIALECT OF THE HEART, by JACK GILBERT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, Subject(s): Language; Ancestors & Ancestry; Words; Vocabulary THE GIFT OF TONGUES, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once cast with men of language strange Last Line: And then flits back to heaven? Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary THE GREAT AUSTRALIAN ADJECTIVE, by W. T. GOODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sunburnt - stockman stood Last Line: "_____!" Alternate Author Name(s): Goodge, William Thomas Subject(s): Language; Obscenity; Words; Vocabulary THE HEART, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The heart you hold too small and local thing Last Line: The grandeurs of his babylonian heart. Variant Title(s): All's Vast Subject(s): Criticism & Critics; Hearts; Language; Words; Vocabulary THE HOLE IN THE SEA, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's there Last Line: The driest thing there is. Subject(s): Courage; Language; Religion; Sea; Secrets; Spirituality; Story-telling; Valor; Bravery; Words; Vocabulary; Theology; Ocean THE ILLITERATE, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Touching your goodness, I am like a man Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary THE INARTICULATE, by LELIA S. MARSTALLER Poem Text First Line: We are the inarticulate who know Last Line: Who have no language save to curse our fate. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary THE INVADERS, by ROBERT KELLY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Given: / when he saw the shape of the cloud Last Line: All I could do was say them so I did Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary THE KING'S HORSES, by HERBERT H. LONGFELLOW Poem Text First Line: I have been thinking about the sensibilities of a word Last Line: I must wait. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary THE LANGUAGE, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Locate I / love you some- / where in Subject(s): Language; Love; Words; Vocabulary THE LAST WORD, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As if your half-witted tongue Subject(s): Death; Language; Dead, The; Words; Vocabulary THE LATIN TONGUE, by JAMES J. DALY Poem Text First Line: Like a loud-booming bell shaking its tower Last Line: Ran straight for comfort up to god. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 26, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the time when Last Line: Brant write the character “heart” Subject(s): Hearts; Language; Nature; Words; Vocabulary THE MAN WHOSE VOICE HAS BEEN TAKEN FROM HIS THROAT, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remains all supple hands and gesture Last Line: Like an answer Subject(s): Language; Silence; Words; Vocabulary THE MASK, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In open palm the old man cradles his Last Line: I leave with her naked countenance. Subject(s): Language; Travel; Words; Vocabulary; Journeys; Trips THE MESSENGER, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a wild merriment of wind and bird Last Line: "blind to our agonies of death and birth!" Subject(s): Death; Language; Life; Messages & Messengers; Dead, The; Words; Vocabulary THE MUNICH MANNEQUINS, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children. Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Silence; Language; Munich, Germany; Words; Vocabulary THE MUSE, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There she was, for centuries, the big Last Line: The writer. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Alexander The Great (356-323 B.c.); Language; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Psychoanalysis; Writing & Writers; Words; Vocabulary; Psychoanalysts; Psychotherapy THE NEED FOR DICTIONARIES II, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is named Last Line: By its disguises. Subject(s): Dictionaries; Language; Words; Vocabulary THE NURSERY SAGE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: I know a quaint philosopher Last Line: That fond expressiondad! Subject(s): Babies; Fathers; Language; Mothers; Infants; Words; Vocabulary THE OBSOLETION OF A LANGUAGE, by KAY RYAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: We knew it / would happen, Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary THE OFFERING, by ANITA GRAY CHANDLER Poem Text First Line: If I could change these words to flow'rs Last Line: May never reach your heart. Subject(s): Language; Singing & Singers; Words; Vocabulary; Songs THE ORGY ON PARNASSUS, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You phrase-tormenting fantastic chorus Last Line: And here was a bard shall outlast you all. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Language; Life; Love; Muses; Parnassus (mountain), Greece; Words; Vocabulary THE P.R.B.: 2, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The p.R.B. Is in its decadence: / for woolner in australia cooks his chops Last Line: And so the consummated p.R.B. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Hunt, Holman (1827-1910); Language; Millais, Sir John E. (1829-1896); Pre-raphaelites; Rivers; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882); Smoking; Words; Vocabulary; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes THE PIG IN THE SPIGOT, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because he swings so neatly through the trees Last Line: An ape feels natural in the word trapeze Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary THE POEM OF THE LITTLE HOUSE AT THE CORNER OF MISAPPREHENSION AND MARVEL, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary THE POET, by MARIAN PHILLIPS JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: The poet reads and lives - and learns to feel Last Line: Do blend -- escaping not -- save through his pen! Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary THE POWER OF WORDS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a strange mystery, the power of words! Last Line: A word is but a breath of passing air. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary THE PUZZLED CENSUS-TAKER, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Got any boys?' the marshal said Last Line: The lady from over the rhine. Variant Title(s): Nein' Boys And Girls Subject(s): Census; Language; Words; Vocabulary THE RED WHEELBARROW, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: So much depends Subject(s): Language; Wheelbarrows; Words; Vocabulary THE SAXON LEGEND OF LANGUAGE, by MARY WESTON FORDHAM Poem Text First Line: The earth was young, the world was fair Last Line: To mate or man, or beast or bird. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary THE SONGS OF MAXIMUS: SONG 1, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Colored pictures Subject(s): Language; City & Town Life; Words; Vocabulary THE TIME OF OUR LIVES, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not sated first, then sad (the two words branch Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary THE TRADE-OFF, by RUTH STONE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Words make the thoughts. Subject(s): Language; Knowledge; Words; Vocabulary THE TWO, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When he gets off work at packard, they meet Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Restaurants; Language; Past; Grief; Male-female Relations; Cafes; Diners; Words; Vocabulary; Sorrow; Sadness THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wise men ask, 'what language did christ speak?' Last Line: Christ spoke the universal languagelove. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Language; Words; Vocabulary THE WHALER'S ODYSSEY, by C. H. WINTER Poem Text First Line: I met him on the lachlan side Last Line: When he pursued that gundaroo! Alternate Author Name(s): Riverina Subject(s): Language; Story-telling; Travel; Whales; Words; Vocabulary; Journeys; Trips THE WHOLE WORLD'S SADLY TALKING TO ITSELF - W. B . YEATS, by JAMES TATE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hands full of sand, I say Subject(s): Language; Farewell; Words; Vocabulary; Parting THE WORD (1), by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The word has no legs or eyes Last Line: Getting it / down Subject(s): Language; Writing & Writers; Words; Vocabulary THE WORD (2), by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was auden, I don't remember Last Line: After we are / not Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Language; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary THE WORDS OF BELIEF, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three words will I name thee -- around and about Last Line: Till in those three words he believes no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von Subject(s): Faith; Language; Belief; Creed; Words; Vocabulary THE WORDS-AND-MUSIC MEN, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They said they could make up songs Subject(s): Language; Music & Musicians; Words; Vocabulary THEIR LONELY BETTERS, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I listen from a beach-chair in the shade Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary THERE IS NO WORD, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There isn’t a word for walking out of the grocery store Last Line: I have willingly poured into it Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary THESE DAYS, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever you have to say Subject(s): Language; Men; Words; Vocabulary THREES, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was a boy when I heard three red words Last Line: Ham and eggs -- how much? -- and -- do you love me, kid? Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary TIE-DOWN OF A BONSAI, by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A ladder propped against a rainbow Subject(s): Bonsai; Language; Music & Musicians; Rainbows; Words; Vocabulary TO -, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As, in lone fairy-lands, up some rich shelf Last Line: Far from all words where love lies fathomless. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Love; Language; Words; Vocabulary TO A THESAURUS, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O precious codex, volume, tome Last Line: Farewell! Adieu! Good-by! So long! Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Language; Thesaurus; Words; Vocabulary TO A THESAURUS, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O precious code, volume, tome Last Line: Farewell! Adieu! Good-by! So long! Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Language; Thesaurus; Words; Vocabulary TO HELEN KELLER, by CRAVEN LANGSTROTH BETTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out from the dark leaved life, bloomed hope, riped love Last Line: Thus one brave heart ten thousand souls can stay. Subject(s): Faith; Hope; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Language; Love; Belief; Creed; Optimism; Words; Vocabulary TO HIS FRIEND TO AVOID CONTENTION OF WORDS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Words beget anger: anger brings forth blowes Last Line: Then for to murder friendship, by dispute. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary TO IGNACE PADEREWSKI, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Not yours? The softly spoken word Last Line: The country of the heart? Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Language; Nations; Poland; Words; Vocabulary TO MRS. GOODCHILD, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night-winds shriek is pitiless and hollow Last Line: Send the beforenamed book -- and am yours most sincerely. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary TO NO ONE IN PARTICULAR, by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whether you sing or scream Last Line: To no one in particular. Subject(s): Language; Murder; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Words; Vocabulary; Songs TO ONE WHO SCANTS WORDS, by IRENE M. MORSE Poem Text First Line: Love me, my dear, and tell me that you do Last Line: Love me, my dear, and tell me that you do. Subject(s): Hearts; Language; Love - Nature Of; Passion; Romance; Words; Vocabulary TO THE READER: IF YOU ASKED ME, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want you with me, and yet you are the end Subject(s): Language; Books; Words; Vocabulary; Reading TO WALT WHITMAN, by TOM MACINNES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hello there, walt! Last Line: Forever on their own! Subject(s): Admiration; Language; Poetry & Poets; Praise; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Writing & Writers; Words; Vocabulary TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. NOT OF MYSELF, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not of myself - I have no power over myself Last Line: Those who do not read them. Subject(s): Language; Writing & Writers; Words; Vocabulary TOWARDS THE DAY OF LIBERATION, by ROBERT KELLY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It doesnt matter what we see there Last Line: The shadow's own Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary TRANSLATION, by DEIRDRE O'CONNOR Poem Text First Line: Though there's no such thing as a 'self,' I missed it Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary TWO DEFINITIONS, by HELEN FIELD WATSON Poem Text First Line: Adaptability is constant willingness Last Line: To take detours. But purpose means a forward press. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary TWO PARTS, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Listen to me Last Line: Puking long streams of it Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary TWO ST. PETERSBURGS, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The statue turned Subject(s): Language; Saint Petersburg, Florida; Saint Petersburg, Russia; Words; Vocabulary; Leningrad; Petrograd TWO STONES WITH ONE BIRD, by CHARLES BERNSTEIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary UNSPOKEN WORDS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The kindly words that rise within the heart Last Line: Will strike another when in turn you seek Subject(s): Kindness;language; Words;vocabulary UP FROM SLOBBERY, by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): African Americans; Language; Social Commentaries; Negroes; American Blacks; Words; Vocabulary USELESS WORDS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So long as we speak the same language and do not understand each other Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary VENTRILOQUISM, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You girls by moonlight lovered Subject(s): Language; Flirtation; Words; Vocabulary VERBA DE VERBO VITAE, by ARMEL O'CONNOR Poem Text First Line: How vain, the world's artillery of words Last Line: And bless a poet's singleness of heart. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary VERBAL CALISTHENICS, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My love for you is more Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary VERBUM INDICTUM, by EDITH FOLWELL HUDSON Poem Text First Line: Words are hid in the depths of me Last Line: But the spoken word is master of me! Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary VERSES ON DANGER OF ATTACHING WRONG IDEAS TO WORDS OR EPITHETS, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis not to tell what various mischief springs Last Line: Resolv'd to post him for an arrant cheat. Subject(s): Idealism; Language; Words; Vocabulary VIGILS, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are talking about metaphor Subject(s): Language; Metaphor; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary; Similes VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 1: SATIRE 6, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Another scorns the home-spun threed of rimes Last Line: New coyne of words neuer articulate. Subject(s): Language; Virgil (70-19 B.c.); Words; Vocabulary; Vergil VOCABULARY OF DEARNESS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How a single word Last Line: And where is the rake? Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary VOLAPUK, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I can speak Last Line: Volapuk. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Language; Travel; Words; Vocabulary; Journeys; Trips VOWELS, by CHRISTIAN BOK Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Loveless vessels Last Line: We lose Subject(s): Language; Vowels; Words; Vocabulary W (A USER'S MANUAL), by CHRISTIAN BOK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the v you double, not the u, as if to use Last Line: At a vowel at a powwow in between sawteeth Subject(s): Language; Vowels; Words; Vocabulary WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE, by KAY RYAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That's water under Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary WAY OPPOSITE, by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite of walk? Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary WELLS II, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last sinhala word I lost Subject(s): Language; Childhood Memories; Farewell; Loss; Water; Words; Vocabulary; Parting WHAT THE TEACHER LEARNS, by RUTH STONE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The student from taiwan, Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary WHAT'S HERE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Idaho potatoes have made it to honolulu Last Line: I'll go soon. And, don't remember me. Subject(s): Honolulu; Language; Travel; Words; Vocabulary; Journeys; Trips WHEEL, by PALMER. MICHAEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You can say the broken word but cannot speak Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary WHEN HELEN KELLER SPOKE (WALT WHITMAN DINNER, 1918), by GEORGE JAY SMITH Poem Text First Line: After others had said their say Last Line: Which she could not hear. Subject(s): Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Language; Life; Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Words; Vocabulary WHEN I WROTE A LITTLE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poem in the ancient mode for you Last Line: The dark sure sea of our existence Subject(s): Language; Love; Words; Vocabulary WHEN THE WORD 'BALSA: BECOMES ART, by VIRGIL SAUREZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Makeshift / is a word Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary WHO IS TO SAY, by PALMER. MICHAEL Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary WHO SHAPES THE CARVEN WORD, by DAVID MORTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who shapes the carven word, the lean, true line Last Line: And footprints that no mortal feet had made. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary WHY NOT?, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "if bet bedecks herself with gems, bestirs herself when bid" Last Line: "herself with food, and feel beglad a nice book to beread?" Subject(s): Language; Words;vocabulary WIPE THAT SIMILE OFF YOUR APHASIA, by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As horses as for Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary WOMAN, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give us that grand word 'woman' once again Last Line: And leave the lesser word for lesser praise. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Language; Women; Words; Vocabulary WORD DRUNK, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think of the twenty thousand poems of li po Last Line: Suffused with light. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary WORD MADE FLESH, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Word whose breath is the world-circling atmosphere Last Line: A spirit clothed in world, a world made man? Subject(s): Language; Religion; Words; Vocabulary; Theology WORD PARK, by MATTHEA HARVEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Proper nouns are legible in any light and like to stay near their Last Line: The photograph the water is bluer than blue Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary WORD POWER, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: First doll, I rocked her blue-eyed blink in my lap Last Line: "I proclaimed, ""dirty." Subject(s): Dolls; Language; Names; Toys; Words; Vocabulary WORDS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Boys flying kites haul in their white-winged birds Last Line: But god himself can't kill them once they're said Subject(s): Finality;language; Words;vocabulary WORDS, by SAMUEL ALFRED BEADLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Words are but leaves to the tree of mine Last Line: Or the cindered dross of hell. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary WORDS, by LAURA M. BRADLEY Poem Text First Line: Oh, what are words? And what can words convey? Last Line: To catch our swift emotions on the wing. Subject(s): Language; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Words; Vocabulary WORDS, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Words are the stones I use in building Last Line: I know the worth of your words to you! Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary WORDS, by HAROLD CALEB DALTON Poem Text First Line: If music could be loosened from its bars Last Line: When she stood white, above her wordless dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Dalton, Power Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary WORDS, by ROBERT FINCH Poem Text First Line: There are words that can only be said on paper Last Line: And the undetectable words used in their stead. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary WORDS, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The simple contact with a wooden spoon and the word Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary WORDS, by CHARLES HARPUR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Words are deeds. The words we hear Last Line: A nobler feat than inkerman. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary WORDS, by JOHN MILTON HAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When violets were springing Last Line: Though all the trees are bare. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary WORDS, by ELLA LOUISE LUICK Poem Text First Line: Not enough sweet words of love Last Line: When you no longer live. Subject(s): Language; Love; Words; Vocabulary WORDS, by GRACE MANSFIELD Poem Text First Line: Our words are flame and ashes, fleet Last Line: The coin we used along the way we went. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary WORDS, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Axes / after whose stroke the wood rings Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary WORDS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Words are lighter than the cloud-foam Last Line: Echoes in god's skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Language; Life; Dead, The; Words; Vocabulary WORDS, by BENJAMIN ROSENBAUM Poem Text First Line: I have known words as swift shod as the wind Last Line: "words said with quiet thanks before ""amen." Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary WORDS, by LEW SARETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He never flickered a muscle, never stirred Last Line: And flood-tides find release. Subject(s): Language; Passion; Words; Vocabulary WORDS, by KATHERINE SEDGWICK Poem Text First Line: Words are coverings. - weddings Last Line: From her bleak caverns to the sky. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary WORDS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drudging democracy of words, alert Last Line: All lips that move not to their maker's praise! Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary WORDS, by LILLIAN E. ZELTZER Poem Text First Line: Words are so futile Last Line: Words are so futile ... Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary WORDS ARE NEVER ENOUGH, by CHARLES TORY BRUCE Poem Text First Line: These are the fellows who smell of salt to the prairie Last Line: These are the fellows who keep the salt in the blood. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Language; Nova Scotia; Anglers; Words; Vocabulary WORDS INTO WORDS WON'T GO, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are no things rain is like Last Line: There are no things change is like Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary WORDS O' CHEER, by ELIZABETH DOTEN Poem Text First Line: Although not present to your sight Last Line: Of heaven on ony. Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie Subject(s): Language; Speeches & Addresses; Words; Vocabulary WORDS OF PARTING, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The words of parting in our english tongue Last Line: Farewell, -- our very souls are in that cry! Subject(s): Farewell; Language; Life; Love; Soul; Tears; Parting; Words; Vocabulary WORDS THE DREAMER SPOKE TO MY FATHER IN MAINE, by ROBERT BLY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ocean light as we wake reminds us how dark Last Line: We could be there if we could lift our eyes Subject(s): Conversation; Language; Maine (state); Sea; Words; Vocabulary; Ocean WORDS WHEN WE NEED THEM, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before this early moment Last Line: We could still say. Subject(s): Dawn; Language; Morning; Silence; Sunrise; Words; Vocabulary WORDS, WORDS, WORDS, by MARGARET WADE CAMPBELL DELAND Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: I loved a maid (oh, she was fair of face!) Last Line: I learned the maiden some one else had married! Subject(s): Courtship; Language; Loss; Love - Loss Of; Time; Words; Vocabulary WRITING IS AN AID TO MEMORY: 17, by LYN HEJINIAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bird carries its peck up the branch Last Line: " lighting by trees is beautiful Subject(s): Nature; Language; Words; Vocabulary YESSIR MISTER, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yessir mister mystery dwells in dese dose dem Subject(s): Family Life; Language; Relatives; Words; Vocabulary YET DISH, by GERTRUDE STEIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Put a sun in sunday, sunday. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary |
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