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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: WRITING & WRITERS Matches Found: 461 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 16 NOVEMBER 1964, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As this morning seemed special when I woke up Last Line: Where is it? Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers :THREE POEMS ON DEMAND: TURTLES GENERATE POEMS, by JORDAN DAVIS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Turtles; Writing & Writers; Tortoises A BALLAD OF ANTHOLOGISTS, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An urchin at his father's knee Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Writing & Writers; Editors A BARD'S EPITAPH, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is there a whim-inspired fool Last Line: Is wisdom's root. Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers A BRIEF MANUAL FOR SWIMMERS, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: History has written its ritual runes and we Subject(s): History; Writing & Writers; Swimming & Swimmers; Historians; Swimmers A BRIEF, SYMBOLIC HISTORY OF THE TWO OPPOSED FORCES AT DAILY WORK IN THE UNIVERSE, WITH INTERIM SCEN, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Later, in europe, paper mills Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Paper; Writing & Writers; Printing & Printers; Shoah A CURIOUS LIFE POEM, by MRS. H. A. DEMING Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour? Last Line: 38. William shakespeare Variant Title(s): Life (a Literary Curiosity) Subject(s): Life; Writing & Writers A CURSE FOR A NATION: THE CURSE, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because ye have broken your own chain Last Line: This is the curse. Write. Subject(s): Curses; Writing & Writers A DREAM OF 'DREAMS', by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day I read your book, at eve Last Line: To see his face so fair. Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): Shreiner, Olive (1855-1920); Writing & Writers A DROP OF INK, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: A drop of ink makes millions think, Last Line: And dissipate its energy. Subject(s): Inkstands; Thought; Writing & Writers; Thinking A LETTER, by ISOBEL (ISABEL) PAGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, be pleas'd these lines to read Last Line: Alas! The old muir-hen. Subject(s): Letters; Writing & Writers A LETTER, ON HIS DEPARTURE FORM LONDON; TO R.L., ESQ., by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear peter, your absence at present I rue Last Line: If so, I'll go see it, or 'twill be a hard case. Subject(s): Expressionism - Poets; Letters; News; Pens & Pencils; Writing & Writers A LITERARY MISS, by OLIVER MARBLE Poem Text First Line: There once was a lit'rary miss Last Line: Thirty days to describe half a kiss. Subject(s): Literature; Pens & Pencils; Writing & Writers A NEW POET, by WILLIAM CANTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I write. He sits beside my chair Last Line: We two have made the angels smile! Subject(s): Pens & Pencils; Poetry & Poets; Rhyme; Writing & Writers A PENNY'S WORTH OF POESY, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady, when you noted a deflection Last Line: What to write. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Poetry & Poets; Thought; Writing & Writers; Inspiration; Creativity; Thinking A POET'S EPITAPH, by EBENEZER ELLIOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stop, mortal! Here thy brother lies Last Line: Who drew them as they are. Alternate Author Name(s): Corn-law Rhymer; Elliot, Ebenezer Variant Title(s): Burns Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers A POST-IMPRESSIONIST SUSURRATION FOR THE FIRST OF NOVEMBER, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Does anything get more tangled and higgledy-piggledy than the days as they drop Subject(s): Writing & Writers A RIVAL, by RACHEL WETZSTEON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Names flow from her mouth as so many hearty allies; Last Line: She dips her pen in a lake of ink, and the pen flies Subject(s): Writing & Writers A SCRIBBLER FROM THE NORTHERN BEAR, by THOMAS SHERIDAN (1687-1738) Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Then home he'll go and break his heart Subject(s): Writing & Writers A SONG FOR MURIEL, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No one explains me because Last Line: To see how they get it wrong. Subject(s): Death; Women; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Dead, The; Feminism A SONNET. ON THE PICTURE OF CAVALIER GUARINI PAINTED BY BORGIANNI, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You, who to fam'd guarini, now he's dead Last Line: Borgianni's painting, or guarini's books. Subject(s): Guarini, Giovanni Battista (1538-1612); Paintings & Painters; Writing & Writers A STRICTURE ON BISHOP WARBURTON'S DOCTRINE OF GRACE, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Writing or scripture, sacred or profane Last Line: To deify a book is bibliolatry. Subject(s): Bible; Clergy; Holy Ghost; Religious Education; Warburton, William (1698-1779); Writing & Writers; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Holy Spirit; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools A SUNDAY DRIVE THROUGH EAGLE COUNTRY, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Near no name, colorado Last Line: I knew I'd lost it. Subject(s): Colorado (state); Creative Ability; Death; Deer; Loss; Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911); Metaphor; Poetry & Poets; Pregnancy; Writer's Block; Writing & Writers; Inspiration; Creativity; Dead, The; Similes A VALENTINE TO SHERWOOD ANDERSON, by GERTRUDE STEIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I knew too that through them I knew too that he was through, I knew Last Line: Been blessed let us bless it. Subject(s): Anderson, Sherwood (1876-1941); Holidays; Valentine's Day; Writing & Writers A VERY WOEFUL BALLADE OF THE ART CRITIC (TO E.A. ABBEY), by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A spirit came to my sad bed Last Line: "take up the pen, my friend, and write!" Subject(s): Art & Artists; Museums; Portraits; Writing & Writers; Art Gallerys A VISIT TO THE POET, by RODOLFO PUCELLI Poem Text First Line: The bard received me with open-heartedness ... Last Line: Bowed underneath the universe. Subject(s): Books; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Reading AD QUODLIBET, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wheel around on best days riding the hum Last Line: Raise cup of quest to speeding fugitive Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers ADVICE, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To write as your sweet mother does Last Line: Lie quiet in your breast. Subject(s): Writing & Writers AFRICA, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Quit writing / and in morocco Subject(s): Morocco; Writing & Writers ALAS!, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot write the old jokes Last Line: And I haven't got the files. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Humor; Jokes; Writing & Writers ALL SHE WROTE, by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Letters; Writing & Writers ALWAYS BRING A PENCIL, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There will not be a test Last Line: To move around. Subject(s): Pens & Pencils; Writing & Writers ALWAYS ON THE TRAIN, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Writing poems about writing poems Last Line: And the black high flung patterns of flocking birds. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers AMERICAN THEMES FOR A GILBERT, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sir william gilbert, master of the / lightsome and the lyrical Last Line: An opera on the task of finding some one to produce it. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Satire (as Poetic Genre); Writing & Writers AMORETTI: 48, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Innocent paper! Whom too cruel hand Last Line: And speake her good, though she requite it ill. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Innocence; Writing & Writers AN EVENING'S LOVE, OR THE MOCK ASTROLOGER: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My part being small, I have had time to-day Last Line: And please you to a height, or not at all. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Dramatists AN EXCUSE FOR SO MUCH WRIT UPON MY VERSES, by MARGARET LUCAS CAVENDISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Condemn me not for making such a coyle [coil] Last Line: Thus write I much, to hinder all disgrace. Alternate Author Name(s): Newcastle, Duchess Of; Lucas, Margaret Variant Title(s): An Apology For Writing So Much Upon This Book Subject(s): Books; Writing & Writers; Reading AN HANDFUL OF MEAL, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I sat in my cosy study, with naught but the light from Last Line: From sharing our joys alway. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers AN INFORMAL EPITAPH IN MEMORY OF A YOUNG POET, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You who so loved all grey religious things Last Line: And long and long for your return alone! Subject(s): Criticism & Critics; Death; Dowson, Ernest (1867-1900); Friendship; Poetry & Poets; Praise; Writing & Writers; Dead, The AN ORIGINAL THOUGHT, by MARIA ABDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Does the press wait for copy? I shrink from the task Last Line: With that capital prize—an original thought. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Maria; Abdy, Mira; M. A. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Thought; Writer's Block; Writing & Writers; Inspiration; Creativity; Thinking APPEAL TO AMERICAN AUTHORS, by NATE SALSBURY Poem Text First Line: When kaiser wilhelm's little war Last Line: America -- long may she wave! Alternate Author Name(s): Ireland, Baron Subject(s): Debt; World War I; Writing & Writers; First World War APRIL TWENTY-THIRD, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Death sallied forth upon this fateful day Last Line: "and shakespeare bowed: ""you are don quixote still." Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Cervantes, Miguel De (1547-1616); Death; Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Writing & Writers; Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel De; Dead, The ARCANA GARDENS, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full 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 ARS DURA, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many evenings, walking soberly Last Line: He greets the paper as the groom the bride! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Writing & Writers ART, by DAVID MERRITT CARLYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He wrote of a folk imagined Last Line: "a wonderful work of art!" Subject(s): Art & Artists; Fables; Pens & Pencils; Writing & Writers; Allegories AURORA LEIGH: BOOK 1, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of writing many books there is no end Last Line: Deliver us from evil, let us pray. Subject(s): Marriage; Cousins; Writing & Writers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AURORA LEIGH: BOOK 2, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Times followed one another. Came a morn Last Line: Except through swirl of spray and all that roar. Subject(s): Marriage; Cousins; Writing & Writers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AURORA LEIGH: BOOK 3, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To-day thou girdest up thy loins thyself Last Line: When they two had their meeting after death. Subject(s): Marriage; Cousins; Writing & Writers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AURORA LEIGH: BOOK 4, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They met still sooner. 'twas a year from thence Last Line: If that's your way, poor insect.' that's your way! Subject(s): Marriage; Cousins; Writing & Writers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AURORA LEIGH: BOOK 5, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aurora leigh, be humble. Shall I hope Last Line: And would not interrupt your life with ours. Subject(s): Marriage; Cousins; Writing & Writers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AURORA LEIGH: BOOK 6, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The english have a scornful insular way Last Line: Which angels were too weak to roll away. Subject(s): Marriage; Cousins; Writing & Writers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AURORA LEIGH: BOOK 7, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The woman's motive? Shall we daub ourselves Last Line: Dissolving slowly, slowly, until lost. Subject(s): Marriage; Cousins; Writing & Writers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AURORA LEIGH: BOOK 8, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One eve it happened, when I sat alone Last Line: Much rather than I read it. Thus it ran. Subject(s): Marriage; Cousins; Writing & Writers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AURORA LEIGH: BOOK 9, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even thus. I pause to write it out at length Last Line: The rest in order: -- last, an amethyst.' Subject(s): Marriage; Cousins; Writing & Writers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AUTHORS, WE GREET THEE, by LULA ENSLEY HATTON Poem Text First Line: Authors, today as a nation we bring Last Line: Let only love remain. Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Writing & Writers BEFORE SEXTET, by BERNADETTE MAYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Use a new conductor every time-out Subject(s): Desire; Relationships; Writing & Writers BETWEEN THE LINES, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O friend, you have read it aright Last Line: Ah!—you never got it at all. Subject(s): Friendship; Writing & Writers BONAPARTISME, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Napoleon on st. Helena Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821); Writing & Writers BOOKS WE HAVEN'T TOUCHED IN YEARS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The person who wrote yes! Last Line: Beside the road. Subject(s): Books; Writing & Writers; Reading BREVITY, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How many strive for the sublime Last Line: Before they fall asleep. Subject(s): Writing & Writers BURNING HILLS, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So he came to write again Subject(s): Memory; Writing & Writers BURNS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No more these simple flowers belong Last Line: "but spare his ""highland mary!" Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Heather; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers BYRON, by ROBERT POLLOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Admire the goodness of almighty god Last Line: To fill the embrace of all eternity! Alternate Author Name(s): Pollok, Robert Variant Title(s): The Genius Of Byron Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron CACOETHES SCRIBENDI, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If all the trees in all the woods were men Last Line: Call for more pens, more paper, and more ink Subject(s): Writing & Writers CARELESS LINES ON LABOUR, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O ye that lie on the sandy beach Last Line: I spoke of in ii and iii. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers CARLYLE AND EMERSON, by MONTGOMERY SCHUYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A balefire kindled in the night Last Line: The star that beams above the seas. Subject(s): Carlyle, Thomas (1795-1881); Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Writing & Writers CERTAINTY, by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If it is real the white Subject(s): Writing & Writers CERVANTES, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are who gather with decisive power Last Line: Of lightsome mirth, whose cause he seeks in vain. Subject(s): Cervantes, Miguel De (1547-1616); Happiness; Writing & Writers; Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel De; Joy; Delight CHAMFORT, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's chamfort. He's a sample Last Line: "come and take me." Subject(s): Suicide; Writing & Writers CHAPTER 1, by CHRISTIAN BOK Poem Full 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 CHARGE OF THE ROUGH WRITERS, by HAROLD MACGRATH Poem Text First Line: Pens by the hundred Last Line: Of parnassus, and smoke their dope! Subject(s): Pens & Pencils; Writing & Writers CHARLES DICKENS; IN MEMORIAM, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Thou master of thought and depicter of men Last Line: Gives thee immortality. Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Dickens, Charles (1812-1870); Praise; Writing & Writers CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER, by JOHN HUSTON FINLEY Poem Text First Line: There's not much good in life save friends' Last Line: Heard in an aldine night long, long ago. Subject(s): Friendship; Warner, Charles Dudley (1829-1900); Writing & Writers CHIGWELL, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: School that, in burford's honoured time Last Line: Tho' not quite all vexation. Subject(s): Fate; Life; Nature; Schools; Writing & Writers; Destiny; Students CODICIL, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Schizophrenic, wrenched by two styles, Subject(s): Writing & Writers COLERIDGE AT CHAMOUNY, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I would I knew what ever happy stone Last Line: Dims the proud glory of its heavenward flight. Subject(s): Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Death; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Dead, The COLLEGE UNDER WATER, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who are these women and offices Last Line: Lies on the other side of the poem. Subject(s): Commencement; Exchange Students; Universities & Colleges; Writing & Writers; Graduation; Foreign Exchange Programs COLUMCILLE THE SCRIBE, by COLUMCILLE Poem Text First Line: My hand is weary with writing Last Line: Whence my hand is weary with writing. Alternate Author Name(s): Columba Subject(s): Columba, Saint (521-597); Writing & Writers; Colum, Saint; Columcille, Saint COMMENT ON THIS: IN THE REAL SCHEME OF THINGS, POETRY IS MARGINAL, by RICHARD JONES Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: All things - / the empty wine bottle under the bed Last Line: "I'm nobody,"" she spoke for us all." Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers COMPULSIVE QUALIFICATIONS, by RICHARD HOWARD Poem Full 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 CONSEQUENCE, by ROBERT DE MONTESQUIOU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here among the hills Last Line: The hills make. Subject(s): Writing & Writers COUPLET, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jove was alike to latian and to phrygian Last Line: For you well know, that wit's of no religion. Subject(s): Writing & Writers COUPLETS IN CRITICISM, by JOHN ALBERT MACY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whan that aprille' - these five hundred years Last Line: Tame jungle tigers and make lambkins wild? Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers CREATIVE WRITING, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blobb learned one thing in workshops: be concrete! Subject(s): Writing & Writers CREPUSCULAR, by RICHARD HOWARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Late in the afternoon the light Last Line: Max and I know this too: it will be night Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph Subject(s): Writing & Writers DAILIES, by JEAN PELLERIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You're right; my mind should drink Last Line: The evening papers. Subject(s): Writing & Writers DAY DREAMS, by TSO SSU Poem Text First Line: When I was young I played with a soft brush Last Line: But refusing with a bow, retire to a cottage in the country. Alternate Author Name(s): T'ai-ch'ung+(1) Subject(s): Books; China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Writing & Writers; Reading DE AMORE, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Love-I -- thou -- me-off-pissest Last Line: Everything's changed for the best Subject(s): Love; Romance; Writing & Writers DEAD HOUSE SONNET, by BRIAN TEARE Poem Full 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 DEAR READER, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Baudelaire sees you as his brother Subject(s): Writing & Writers DEDICATION OF THE COOK, by ANNA WICKHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If any ask why there's no great she-poet Last Line: Will blossom from the ashes of my kitchen! Alternate Author Name(s): Hepburn, Patrick, Mrs. Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Feminism DEDICATIONS AND INSCRIPTIONS: 6. GRUACH, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now, when my life is more than half consumed Last Line: The duty that I offer, I too your friend. Subject(s): Writing & Writers DETERMINATION TO WRITE, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Writing & Writers DEUS INENARRABILIS, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Did ever author pen a book Last Line: That men might make a book of it. Subject(s): Books; Creative Ability; God; Writing & Writers; Reading; Inspiration; Creativity DEUTSCH DURCH FREUD, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I believe - / I do believe, I do believe Last Line: For certain; I don't know enough german Subject(s): German Language; Writing & Writers DICKENS IN CAMP, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above the pines the moon was slowly drifting Last Line: This spray of western pine. Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): Books; Dickens, Charles (1812-1870); Pine Trees; West (u.s.); Writing & Writers; Reading; Southwest; Pacific States DISCLOSURES, by PALMER. MICHAEL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the writing on the wall Subject(s): Writing & Writers EACH ONE, PULL ONE, by ALICE WALKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We must say it all, and as clearly Subject(s): African Americans; Writing & Writers; Artists; Negroes; American Blacks ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 5. WALTON'S BOOK OF LIVE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are no colors in the fairest sky Last Line: Around meek walton's heavenly memory. Subject(s): Walton, Izaak (1593-1683); Writing & Writers EGO DOMINUS TUUS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the grey sand beside the shallow stream Last Line: Would carry it away to blasphemous men. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Past; Writing & Writers ELEGIAC SONNET: 29. TO MISS C - ... WRITING A COMEDY, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Would'st thou then have me tempt the comic scene Last Line: And chiefly thine, my ever partial friend! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Writing & Writers ELEGY FOR A WRITER, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We met where people like us meet Last Line: And get it right. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Authors - Conferences And Workshops; Love; Writing & Writers; Writer's Conferences And Workshops ELEUTHERIA, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was named eleutheria Subject(s): Child Molesting; Fathers & Sons; Freedom; Marriage; Relationships; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Child Abuse; Liberty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism EMERSON; CONCORD, by SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farther horizons every year' Last Line: Content with nothing short of god. Alternate Author Name(s): Coolidge, Susan Subject(s): Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Writing & Writers EOTHEN, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Although I have not seen thee face to face Last Line: Or the last slave-bride to her lord is brought. Subject(s): Books; Writing & Writers; Reading EPIGRAM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Stab as you will with venomed quill Last Line: Because -- she's seldom read Subject(s): Writing & Writers EPIGRAM, by ARTHUR DE MARSY Poem Text First Line: With perfect ease,' a scribbler cried Last Line: "they cost you what they're worth." Alternate Author Name(s): Marsy, Comte De Subject(s): Writing & Writers EPIGRAM, by DENIS SANGUIN DE SAINT PAVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tircis makes rhymes as fast as ticking Last Line: But mine will live when I'm in earth. Subject(s): Epigram (as Literary Form); Rhyme; Writing & Writers EPILOGUE: HURLO-THRUMBO; A PLAY BY SAMUEL JOHNSON, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hurlo: ladies and gentlemen, my lord of flame Last Line: Their looks make sense or nonsense in our isle. Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784); Supernatural; Writing & Writers EPISTLE TO DR. ARBUTHNOT, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shut, shut the door, good john! Fatigued I said Last Line: Thus far was right, the rest belongs to heav'n. Variant Title(s): Prologue To The Satires Subject(s): Addison, Joseph (1672-1719); Arbuthnot, John (1667-1735); Booksellers; Critics & Criticism; Gay, John (1685-1732); Hate; Physicians; Poetry & Poets; Politics & Government; Writing & Writers; Bookstores; Doctors EPISTLE TO MR. POPE: THE BLACK MILITIA OF THE PEN, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These labouring wits, like paviours, mend our ways Last Line: Compose the black militia of the pen. Subject(s): Criticism & Critics; Writing & Writers EVE OF EASTER, by BERNADETTE MAYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Milton, who made his illiterate daughters Subject(s): Children; Writing & Writers; Writing & Writers; Childhood EXPERIENCE, by NAOMI REYNOLDS Poem Text First Line: I wrote of simple things Last Line: I know too much to write. Subject(s): Writing & Writers EXPERIENCE, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To write, I first must live, they said Last Line: I cannot bear to write. Subject(s): Love; Writing & Writers FACILITY, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So easy 'tis to make a rhyme Last Line: I've got to make my living. Subject(s): Paris, France; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers FALSE YOUTH: AUTUMN: CLOTHES OF THE AGE, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three red foxes on my head, come down Subject(s): Writing & Writers 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 tempers—let 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 PETITION TO J.C.H., ESQ., by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou yclep'd by vulgar sons of men Last Line: And scribbling songs grow dutiful and live! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Beckford, William (1760-1844); Hobhouse, John Cam (1786-1869); Writing & Writers; Broughton De Gyfford, Baron 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 FILLING IN THE BLANKS; FOR CONSTANCE MERRITT, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blank verse, as good as marlowe's mighty line Last Line: Overhead, the circling, screaming birds. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Birds; Crossword Puzzles; Games; Messengers; Writing & Writers; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements FIN-DE-SIECLE BLUES, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At seventeen I'm told to write a paper Last Line: Seize the day. Subject(s): Morality; Philosophy & Philosophers; Poetry & Poets; Politics & Government; Tyranny & Tyrants; Women; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Ethics; Dictators; Feminism FITZ-GREENE HALLECK, AT THE UNVEILING OF HIS STATUE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among their graven shapes to whom Last Line: The lines of halleck's name. Subject(s): Halleck, Fitz-greene (1790-1867); New York City - 19th Century; Statues; Writing & Writers FOOTLIGHT MOTIFS: 2. PHOEBE FOSTER, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sighed for themes to write on Last Line: "oh for a worthy pen!" Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Foster, Phoebe (1916-1975); Writing & Writers FOR A CRITIC WHO TRIES TO WRITE POEMS, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well, well, little poet Last Line: In the middle of a thunderstorm! Subject(s): Criticism & Critics; Poetry & Poets; Storms; Writing & Writers FOR WHOM SHALL I WRITE?, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: For whom shall I write, and what purpose in sight? Last Line: I shall write for the souls who with truth sympathize. Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Writing & Writers FOR WILLIAM EDWARD BURGHARDT DU BOIS ON HIS EIGHTIETH BIRTHD, by BETTE DARCIE LATIMER Poem Text First Line: I have awakened from the unknowing to the knowing Last Line: Crushed us into reverence. Subject(s): Du Bois, William Edward B. (1868-1963); Reform & Reformers; Writing & Writers FOR YOU - TRULY, by YVONNE FLORENCE Poem Text First Line: I dare not write too lightly Last Line: To tell you what you are! Subject(s): Beauty; Sea; Trees; Writing & Writers; Ocean FOUNDERED STAR, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little fevered island, blued to closing Last Line: About ourselves that aren't true. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Social Problems; Writing & Writers FREDERIC, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As these sheets came in from the printer Last Line: When I heard little frederic was dead. Subject(s): Death; Writing & Writers; Dead, The FREDERIC DAVID MOCATTA, by JAMES MEW Poem Text First Line: Of what avail in low estate to weep Last Line: And wake! With god's own likeness, satisfied! Subject(s): Death; Jews; Peace; Writing & Writers; Dead, The; Judaism FROM A REVOLUTIONARY TO J. L. BORGES, by ROQUE DALTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: According to our code of honor Last Line: Another infamy Subject(s): Borges, Jorge Luis (1899-1986); Writing & Writers FUTILITY, by CHARLOTTE BLAISING Poem Text First Line: I'm burning the well-known midnight oil Last Line: But all my stuff is pastel pink! Subject(s): Writing & Writers GEORGE SAND SAYING, by ETHEL TONRY CARPENTER Poem Text First Line: Preludes drip from your pale slim fingers, chopin Last Line: "not wasting time on worthless fools like these.)" Subject(s): Sand, George (1804-1876); Writing & Writers; Dupin, Amanda. Baronne Dudevant GRISELDA: CHAPTER 3, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who has not seen the falls of tivoli Last Line: From love to life. Her first strong grief was o'er. Subject(s): Novels & Novelists; Women; Writing & Writers GUILIELMUS REX, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The folk who lived in shakespeare's day Last Line: T is he alone that lives and reigns! Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Writing & Writers; Dramatists HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN, 1805-1875, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A being cleaves the moonlit air Last Line: Grow luminous! Subject(s): Andersen, Hans Christian (1805-1875); Writing & Writers HARRIET BEECHER STOWE, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: She told the story, and the whole world wept Last Line: A race to freedom and herself to fame. Subject(s): Slavery; Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896); Writing & Writers; Serfs HAWTHORNE, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How beautiful it was, that one bright day Last Line: Unfinished must remain! Subject(s): Concord, Massachusetts; Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864); Writing & Writers HAWTHORNE, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Harp of new england song Last Line: The ear still waits for what it did not tell. Subject(s): Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864); Writing & Writers HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW; IN MEMORIAM, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not to be tuneless in old age!' / ah, surely blest his pilgrimage Last Line: By charles' or thamis' wave. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882); Writing & Writers HENRY WARD BEECHER, by CHARLES HENRY PHELPS Poem Text First Line: His tongue was touched with sacred fire Last Line: Wherever men lay bound he clave. Subject(s): Beecher, Henry Ward (1813-1887); Clergy; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Politics & Government; Writing & Writers; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Antislavery Movement - United States HER LETTER, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She has written her little letter Last Line: When she had a half-hour free. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Letters; Writing & Writers HER ONLY PILOT THE SOFT BREEZE, THE BOAT, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: No fleeting spirit, but my own true love? Subject(s): Muses; Imagination; Memory; Writing & Writers HIERARCHY OF ANGELS, by THOMAS HEYWOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mellifluous shakespeare, whose enchanting quill Last Line: And he's but now jack ford that once was john. Subject(s): Dramatists; Ford, John (1586-1639); Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Writing & Writers; Dramatists HIS HIEROGLYPHS, by GRACE KIESS SWIGGETT Poem Text First Line: Like phantom symbols placed throughout the world Last Line: And then, remodel life by god's own plan. Subject(s): Books; God; Writing & Writers; Reading HORATIO ALGER (1834-1899), by MADELINE DEFREES Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Books were the air I breathed, curled in the morris Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Alger, Horatio (1832-1899); Clergy; Writing & Writers; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops HORSEBACK, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never afraid of those huge creatures Last Line: I just wanted to tell you about it, ray. Subject(s): Carver, Raymond (1939-1988); Horseback Riding; Sports; Women; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Feminism HOUSE, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shall I sonnet-sing you about myself? Last Line: He! Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Writing & Writers; Dramatists I HAD BEEN A POLAR EXPLORER, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had been a polar explorer in my youth Subject(s): Writing & Writers; Imagination; Fancy I HAVE LIVED THIS WAY FOR YEARS AND DO NOT WISH TO CHANGE, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hope you'll forgive the black paint Last Line: The chocolate-covered cotton balls Subject(s): Writing & Writers; Conduct Of Life I MISSED HIS BOOK, BUT I READ HIS NAME, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though authors are a dreadful clan Last Line: "of anantanarayanan — Subject(s): Writing & Writers I WRITE, by EMMA MAGRUDER COOK Poem Text First Line: Because my soul is groping for the light, I write Last Line: And so to give them birth, I write. Subject(s): Writing & Writers I WRITE TO TELL, by ANNA ELISABETH MATHIEU DE NOAILLES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I write to tell, when I have ceased to be Last Line: And he gathers me, of all most favored, to his breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Brancovan, Princess Subject(s): Books; Writing & Writers; Reading IDEM 1, by PALMER. MICHAEL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Desire; Writing & Writers IF THE POETS HAD FEARED THE ADVERTISERS, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hear the sledges with the bells Last Line: The liquefaction of her feminine apparel. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers IN A COPY OF OMAR KHAYYAM, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These pearls of thought in persian gulfs were bred Last Line: Groping, you may like omar grasp a pearl. Subject(s): Omar Khayyam (1048-1122); Writing & Writers IN A GARRET, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In deep twilight / the rain taps upon the skylight Last Line: Hath but now disclosed the shadowy flood of death. Subject(s): Grief; Success; Writing & Writers; Sorrow; Sadness IN MEMORY OF WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back to the flower-town, side by side Last Line: His faultless fame. Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Landor, Walter Savage (1775-1864); Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers INSTRUCTIONS TO BE LEFT BEHIND, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've included this letter in the group Last Line: All that you (and I too) wanted to be: you. Subject(s): Legacies; Letters; Love; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers INSUFFICIENCY (1), by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I attain to utter forth in verse Last Line: Fit peroration without let or thrall. Subject(s): Soul; Writing & Writers INVITATION, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In those good days when we were young and wise Last Line: We should not know the tales you have to tell? Subject(s): Archeology; Writing & Writers IT CAN BE DONE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: She rides in a limousine Last Line: On $10 a week. / she writes them Subject(s): Money;writing & Writers IT WAS IN HOUSTON, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was in houston I saw this disgusting sideboard Subject(s): Furniture; Writing & Writers IZAAC WALTON, COTTON, AND WILLIAM OLDWAYS, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Son cotton! These light idle brooks Last Line: Just like these idle waves, son cotton! Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Books; Literature; Walton, Izaak (1593-1683); Writing & Writers; Reading JOHN KENDRICK BANGS, by JOHN HUSTON FINLEY Poem Text First Line: Who had more literary pseudonyms Last Line: Famed lecturer in the united states. Subject(s): Bangs, John Kendrick (1862-1922); Literature; Politics & Government; Writing & Writers JUST AS GOOD, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You write a book that makes a hit; it's full Last Line: Letters. Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Books; Writing & Writers; Reading JUSTICE, COME DOWN, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A huge sound waits, bound in the ice, Subject(s): Writing & Writers; Stories; Disappointment LA FLOR, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had been reading what you have written of your idleness Last Line: I have imagined of any living thing -- which is now manifest. Subject(s): Flowers; Writing & Writers LA/DRIVING POEMS #1, by EILEEN MYLES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the emerging Subject(s): Writing & Writers; Automobile Drivers LACHRYMAE MUSARUM (THE DEATH OF TENNYSON), by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Low, like another's, lies the laurelled head Last Line: With flower of perfect speech. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Variant Title(s): Lacrimae Musarum Subject(s): Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Writing & Writers; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron LACHRYMOSE WRITERS, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye human screech-owls, who delight Last Line: To bless the exhaustless grace they now deny. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Earth; Life; Soul; Writing & Writers; World LAST WORDS, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full 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 LE FOU, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Who plots, then, the lines Subject(s): Writing & Writers LEO SAID, by EILEEN MYLES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You've gotta Subject(s): Writing & Writers LET THEM ALONE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If god has been good enough to give you a poet Last Line: Before it was quite unsheathed from reality Subject(s): Fame; Writing & Writers; Reputation LETTER TO B.W. PROCTOR, ESQ., FROM OXFORD; MAY, 1825, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In every tower, that oxford has, is swung Last Line: And unpersuaded drop the paper down. Subject(s): Education; Letters; Nature; Oxford University; Poetry & Poets; Procter, Bryan Waller (1787-1874); Spring; Writing & Writers; Cornwall, Barry [pseud.] LETTER TO JOHN GOUDIE, KILMARNOCK, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O goudie! Terror of the whigs Last Line: As gleg's a whittle. Subject(s): Writing & Writers LETTERS TO YESENIN: 8, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cleaned the granary dust off your photo with my shirt-sleeve Last Line: Years of seconds. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural; Writing & Writers; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925) LIMERICK, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The reverend henry ward beecher Last Line: And thus did the hen reward beecher. Variant Title(s): Eggstravagance Subject(s): Beecher, Henry Ward (1813-1887); Clergy; Writing & Writers; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops LINES FOR A SUN-DIAL, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With shadowy pen I write Last Line: Some far off sun. Subject(s): Light; Pens & Pencils; Writing & Writers LINES FOR AN ALBUM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would not trace the hackneyed phrase Last Line: My spirit hand has written there. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Peace; Prayer; Writing & Writers LINES ON WRITING A TRAGEDY, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, by all melting joys of love Last Line: -- am I not fit to write a tragedy? Subject(s): Writing & Writers LINES WRITTEN AT THE GRAVE OF ALEXANDER DUMAS, by GWENDOLYN B. BENNETT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cemeteries are places for departed souls Last Line: Nor speaks nor sings. Subject(s): Dumas, Alexandre (pere) (1802-1870); Writing & Writers LITERARY REMINISCENCES, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time was, I sat upon a lofty stool Last Line: Barilla -- byron -- tallow -- burns -- and flax! Subject(s): Writing & Writers LITERATURE, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Most people who have things to sell now Last Line: Sweat, must take whatever they can get. Subject(s): Literature; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers LOCAL COLOR, by LOIS RANDOLPH Poem Text First Line: The navajo shepherd tends his sheep Last Line: She-tha-sie. Subject(s): Native Americans; Navajo Indians; Tourists; Writing & Writers; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America LOGIC, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Palmam qui meruit ferat'-he who wins the Last Line: Are wise. Subject(s): Books; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Reading LOS SEDENTARIOS, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Most of the time we sit down Last Line: Now is the time to get up Subject(s): Writing & Writers LOVE'S INSPIRATION, by TRISTAN LECLERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sit at the rosewood table Last Line: And swiftly from my pen the pages darken. Alternate Author Name(s): Klingsor, Tristan Subject(s): Creative Ability; Paper; Pens & Pencils; Singing & Singers; Writing & Writers; Inspiration; Creativity; Songs LOVE'S INTERPRETATION, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: A maiden sat beside the sea Last Line: Fall in love with the author of the book! Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Books; Writing & Writers; Reading MACDOWELL, by RACHEL WETZSTEON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For once I fought back Subject(s): Writing & Writers; Artist Colonies MACHO DAISY DUCK, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: People are only sane when they're writing Last Line: That. Jesus it's only a quarter to twelve. Subject(s): Writing & Writers MAKER OF THE SONGS, by HAZEL HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take strands of speech, faded and broken Last Line: Of glittered breath that you have known. Variant Title(s): Maker Of Songs Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Writing & Writers; Songs MAKING POETRY, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little one, what are you doing Last Line: Suffering before you sing. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers MANDRAKE'S SONG; FRAGMENT, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Folly hath now turned out of door Last Line: Heigho! Foolscap! Subject(s): Clowns; Fools; Laughter; Writing & Writers; Idiots MARGINALIA, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes the notes are ferocious Subject(s): Writing & Writers MEMORABILIA, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, did you once see shelley plain, / and did he stop and speak to you Last Line: Well, I forget the rest. Variant Title(s): Shelley;something To Remember Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Writing & Writers MEMORIAL VERSES, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Goethe in weimar sleeps, and greece Last Line: Hears thy voice right, now he is gone. Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von (1749-1832); Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Writing & Writers; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron MIAMI HEART, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a long text, on live tv, in an amphitheater, in the soil Last Line: One writes with one's desire. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Discontent; Popular Culture - United States; Writing & Writers; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dissatisfaction MORTIFICATION, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone dies & / then a cat dies Subject(s): Native Americans; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America MR. SMITH, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How rewarding to know mr. Smith, Subject(s): Writing & Writers MY BOOK, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before I drink myself to death Last Line: A right, a glory and a song. Subject(s): Books; Paris, France; Writing & Writers; Reading MY CASTLES IN SPAIN, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ho, joyous friend with beard of brown! Last Line: In andalouse or aragon. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Spain; Writing & Writers MY LIFE: ONE BEGINS AS A STUDENT BUT BECOMES A FRIEND OF CLOUDS, by LYN HEJINIAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back and backward, why, wide and wider. Such that art is inseparable Last Line: Of comprehension in a reader's mind to content in a writer's work. But not bitter Subject(s): Writing & Writers MY MASTERPIECE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's slim and trim and bound in blue Last Line: That little book I never wrote. Subject(s): Books; Paris, France; Writing & Writers; Reading MY MOTHER'S NOVEL, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Married academic woman ten Subject(s): Jews - Women; Writing & Writers MY NIGHT-GOWN AND SLIPPERS, by GEORGE COLMAN THE YOUNGER Poem Text First Line: Tom, dick and will, were little known to fame Last Line: "and all the bubble's broken:—let us see." Subject(s): Writing & Writers NIL ADMIRARI, ETC., by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Horace and creech! Last Line: Write it again. Thy mysteries! Subject(s): Writing & Writers NINETEEN FORTY, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun just drops down through the poplars Last Line: Individual wild ducks scraped and screamed in along a marsh. Subject(s): England; Evening; Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941); World War Ii; Writing & Writers; English; Sunset; Twilight; Second World War NO INFANT SOTHEBY, WHOSE DAUNTLESS HEAD, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Writing & Writers NOBODY, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Line after line smearing off into elephantine Subject(s): Writing & Writers; Illness NOT WRITING MY NAME, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the snow, that is. The 'j' could have been Last Line: I have become the place the crow didn't appear. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Snow; Winter; Writing & Writers NOTES FOR THE FIRST LINE OF A SPANISH POEM, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We remember so little Last Line: Outside the mind, the snow undresses and lies down Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers NOTES TO A NEOPHYTE, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take the general mumble Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Writing & Writers NOVEMBER 4TH, 1937, by LEONARD BACON (1887-1954) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As ogden nash might say, I hate intenchly Last Line: May they be merry then as we are now. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Century Association (new York City); Literature; Writing & Writers NOVICES, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Anatomize their work Last Line: "crashing itself out in one long hiss of spray." Subject(s): Writing & Writers O PRECIOUS MUSE, by DELLA MCDANIEL Poem Text First Line: Had I, when I was younger Last Line: A modest hour with you. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Life; Love; Muses; Writing & Writers; Inspiration; Creativity OCTAVES: 22, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The prophet of dead words defeats himself: Last Line: Of anguish to the liberated man. Subject(s): Writing & Writers ODE ON THE DEATH OF THE AUTHOR, by JOSEPH WARTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No more of mirth and rural joys Last Line: "well-pleas'd I listen to thy lays of love." Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love; Mourning; Praise; Warton, Thomas (1688-1745); Writing & Writers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement ODE ON THE DEATH OF THE AUTHOR, BY A LADY, by J. W. Poem Text First Line: Accept, o sacred shade, this artless verse Last Line: Save me from slavish vice, from folly, and from ill. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Mourning; Warton, Thomas (1688-1745); Writing & Writers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement ON A BOX CONTAINING HIS OWN WORKS, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I break up cypress and make a book-box Last Line: To be left by them to give to my grandchildren. Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): Books; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Writing & Writers; Reading ON A BUST OF DANTE, by THOMAS WILLIAM PARSONS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See, from this counterfeit of him Last Line: The marks have sunk of dante's mind. Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Sculpture & Sculptors; Writing & Writers ON A LADY WHO SPOKE WITH SOME ILL-NATURE OF AD OF MY LITTLE WORK, by CHRISTIAN MILNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Says pert miss prue Last Line: And raising such a racket! Alternate Author Name(s): Ross, Christian Subject(s): Criticism & Critics; Rhyme; Writing & Writers ON A SAINT'S DAY, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And long ere dinner-time I have / full eight close pages wrote Last Line: Well done, sir walter scott! Subject(s): Duty; Writing & Writers ON A TOO PROLIFIC ESSAYIST, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cruellest torture that a man can know Last Line: The eternal trickle of this blameless quill. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Essays; Writing & Writers ON BEING ASKED TO WRITE AN ORIGINAL POEM, by ALICE JUDD Poem Text First Line: An original poem! Is that all you ask? Last Line: For his is the god-given gift of heaven. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers ON BUILDING WITH STONE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To be an ape in little of the mountain-making mother Last Line: Beggar) were not bitter in the teeth? Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Writing & Writers; Work; Workers ON COWEE RIDGE, by JONATHAN WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: John gordon boyd / died on the birthday Subject(s): Death; Writing & Writers; Mourning; God; Dead, The; Bereavement ON CRITICS; IN IMITATION OF ANACREON, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let 'em censure: what care I? Last Line: And lose the nymph, to gain the bays. Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Fame; Singing & Singers; Writing & Writers; Reputation; Songs ON HIS WRITING VERSES, by JOHN HAWTHORN Poem Text First Line: Well may they write, that sit in parlours fine Last Line: And so [I] write as nature dictates to me. Subject(s): Writing & Writers ON RECEIVING A BOOK TO WRITE IN, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tost in what corner hast thou lain? Last Line: Before I scribble more than this. Subject(s): Writing & Writers ON REREADING TELEMAQUE, by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I place thee back upon the shelf Last Line: Until another man was sent her! Subject(s): Books; Man-woman Relationships; Writing & Writers; Reading; Male-female Relations ON THE ART OF WRITING, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sure 'twas some god, in kindness first to men Last Line: Which gives us lasting words, and lasting things. Subject(s): Writing & Writers ON THE DEATH AND WORKS OF MASTER GREENHAM, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some skilfull caruer helpe me to endorse Last Line: But emulate thy works eternitie. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Graves; Time; Trees; Writing & Writers; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones ON THE DEATHS OF THOMAS CARLYLE AND GEORGE ELIOT, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two souls diverse out of our human sight Last Line: The light of little children, and their love. Subject(s): Carlyle, Thomas (1795-1881); Eliot, George (1819-1880); Writing & Writers; Evans, Mary Ann ON THE DIFFICULTY OF CONJURING UP A DRYAD, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Imagination; Writing & Writers; Dryads; Fancy ON THE FATE OF NEWSPAPERS, by ISABELLA LICKBARROW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What changes time's swift motion brings Last Line: If so, we'll write and sing again. Subject(s): Newspapers; Refuse & Refuse Disposal; Writing & Writers; Journalism; Journalists ON THE HURRY OF THIS TIME, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With slower pen men used to write Last Line: With slower pen. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Time; Writing & Writers ON THE PORTRAIT OF SHAKESPEARE, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This figure, that thou here seest put Last Line: Not at his picture, but his book. Variant Title(s): To The Reader Subject(s): Books; Dramatists; Droeshout, Martin; Engraving & Engravers; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Writing & Writers; Reading; Dramatists ONE EASTER, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stores wore christmas perfectly Last Line: And bit by bit the page begins to fill Subject(s): Writing & Writers; Easter; Dogs ONE FOR SHERWOOD ANDERSON, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I forget about him and his peculiar Last Line: He was as far away from fitzgerald as he was / from paris Subject(s): Anderson, Sherwood (1876-1941); Writing & Writers ONE TASTE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lone spot on the chanter who is writer Subject(s): Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Solitude; Writing & Writers; Paradise; Male-female Relations; Loneliness OPUS POSTHUMOUS, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love the way the dead keep writing to us Last Line: Place beyond desire and meanness, beyond dust Subject(s): Death; Writing & Writers; Dead, The OUT FROM BEHIND THIS MASK, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out from behind this bending, rough-cut mask Last Line: Then travel, travel on. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Writing & Writers OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 126: THE DOUBTING MAN, by LYN HEJINIAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We had found a pretext for not going out--swarms of such pretexts are here every day to en Last Line: Here that the writer puts his lies Subject(s): Writing & Writers 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 PAPERWORK, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enough tea and cigarettes have been consumed here Subject(s): Writing & Writers PARIS DAY, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've had it here craving for new york city every day Last Line: Let's go back immediately! Subject(s): Berrigan, Ted (1934-1983); New York City; Writing & Writers; Berrigan, Edmund Joseph; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple PARLEYINGS WITH CERTAIN PEOPLE OF IMPORTANCE: DANIEL BARTOLI, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don, the divinest women that have walked Last Line: "you think we vanish scared by the cock's crow." Subject(s): Bartoli, Daniello (1608-1685); Clergy; Writing & Writers; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops 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 PAVILION, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sit in the study Last Line: A kind of smile on my long dark lips Subject(s): Books; Writing & Writers; Weariness PERHAPS ...; FOR THE LONELINESS OF AN AUTHOR, by GONG PEIYU Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps these thoughts of ours / will never find an audience Last Line: We have no choice Alternate Author Name(s): Shu Ting; Shu Ding Subject(s): Anxiety; Chinese Literature; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers PHANTASUS, by ARNO HOLZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Its roof among the stars projected Last Line: A dreamer and a prodigal. Subject(s): Death; Pain; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery PHILIP - A FRAGMENT, by ANN TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Peggy, his sole domestic, slowly grew Last Line: Old peggy sent the manuscript to me. Subject(s): Household Employees; Man-woman Relationships; Writing & Writers; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Male-female Relations PLEASE DESCRIBE HOW YOU BECAME A WRITER, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Possibly I began writing as a refuge from our insulting first grade text book. Come, jane, come. Loo Subject(s): Writing & Writers PLUMA, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once, when there were no riches, somewhere in southern Last Line: A dog had started to bark arid lights were burning Subject(s): Mexico; Pens & Pencils; Writing & Writers POE'S COTTAGE AT FORDHAM, by JOHN HENRY BONER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here lived the soul enchanted Last Line: Have cenotaphed his fame. Subject(s): Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Writing & Writers POEM, by LAURIE SHECK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am sorry not to have written you sooner. Subject(s): Writing & Writers POEM - UNFINISHED POEM, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What a way to spend the golden years, tomasito Last Line: To hell with that word, tomasito! Let's go out in the sun! Subject(s): Fathers; Poetry & Poets; Sons; Writer's Block; Writing & Writers POEM DEDICATED TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF AVIATION, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But that's all different now. They've got it fixed Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Writing & Writers; Critics & Criticism POETIC EPIGRAMS: 11. SCRIPT, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No word the wild geese cry Last Line: In silence on the sky. Subject(s): Geese; Writing & Writers 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 POSTCARDS ON MY WINDOW LEDGE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He's there, yes with hardy, larkin heaney Last Line: My face, tiny, watching him Subject(s): Great Britain; Soccer; Writing & Writers; Fathers; Poetry & Poets; Childhood Memories POSTSCRIPT, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He wrote the whole novel in his head Subject(s): Writing & Writers; Birthdays; Typewriters PRAISE OF FAMOUS MEN: 3. HANS ANDERSEN, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Then, when you are tucked up snugly Last Line: Singing in her tree. Subject(s): Andersen, Hans Christian (1805-1875); Writing & Writers PRIVATE AND PROFANE, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: From loss of the old and lack of the new Subject(s): Religion; Philosophy & Philosophers; Art & Artists; Writing & Writers; Conduct Of Life; Theology PRO FEMINA: THREE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will speak about women of letters, for I'm in the racket Last Line: And the luck of our husbands and lovers, who keep free women. Subject(s): Juvenal (decimus Junius Juvenalis); Literary Form; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Progress; Women; Women Writers; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Male-female Relations; Feminism PROGRESSION, by VIRGINIA WOODS MACKALL Poem Text First Line: When I first drew an author's breath Last Line: I'll know enough then not to sing. Subject(s): Aging; Writing & Writers; Youth PROLOGUE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, 1673, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What greece, when learning flourished, only knew Last Line: But 'tis your suffrage makes authentique wit. Subject(s): Greece; Oxford University; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Greeks; Dramatists PROMENADES AND INTERIORS, SELECTION, by FRANCOIS COPPEE Poem Text First Line: I am writing near the lamp. It's fine weather. Pleasant stillness Last Line: Mother, blessèd among all women may you be! Subject(s): Cold; Memory; October; Weather; Writing & Writers PROMISING AUTHOR, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Driving on the road to stinson beach Last Line: Who wept for mercy as you died. Subject(s): Disappointment; Driving & Drivers; Women; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Feminism PROSE OR VERSE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Prose or verse - or verse or prose? Last Line: Prose or verse -- or verse or prose? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers REMARKS ON DR. BROWN'S 'ESTIMATE OF THE MANNERS OF THE TIMES', by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The book appears to my perusing sight Last Line: All-bearing meekness, and all-conq'ring love. Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Books; England; Writing & Writers; Reading; English REMEMBERING AND HONORING TONI CADE BAMBARA, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How to respond to the genius Last Line: Read everything? Saw everything? Subject(s): Bambara, Toni Cade (1939-1995); African Americans – Women; Social Protest; Writing & Writers REVIEWING THE TAPE; I.M. PIERO HELICZER, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Calling 1959 calling 1959 what does he know Last Line: Cave equals room equals window Subject(s): Books; Writing & Writers; Reading ROBERT BROWNING, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is delight in singing, though none hear Last Line: The siren waits thee, singing song for song. Variant Title(s): To Robert Browning Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers ROOM WITH REVOLUTIONISTS, by EDWIN ROLFE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look at this man in the room before you Alternate Author Name(s): Fishman, Solomon Subject(s): Writing & Writers SACRED OBJECTS, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am taking part in a great experiment Subject(s): Suburbs; Writing & Writers SAD MAIL, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's strange to think how letters used to be letters, letting you know Last Line: Time. Subject(s): Letters; Postal Service; Writing & Writers; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen SALVE, REX DEI GRACIA!, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There lived a man who was wise and old Last Line: And how on earth should a singer know? Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Death; Poverty; Writing & Writers; Dead, The SAM AND JIM, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When old sam johnson sat in state, that Last Line: Pompous prodigies lie down, and, dying, kill off their renown. Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Biography; Old Age; Writing & Writers; Biographers SATIRE: 1, by DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENALIS Poem Text First Line: Still shall I hear, and never quit the score Last Line: Arraign them in the persons of the dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Juvenal Variant Title(s): The Satires Of Juvenal And Persius: The First Satire Of Juvenal Subject(s): Writing & Writers SCRIPT MIST, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hang on to moment, naked, fair Last Line: In the great carpentry Subject(s): Epitaphs; Screen Writing; Writing & Writers; Motion Pictures - Play Writing SECOND-BEST, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A celtic spearman forcing the cromlech-builder's brown daughter Last Line: In this charged world: - write and be quiet Subject(s): Writing & Writers; Life Modern SECRET WRITING, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the outward world about us Last Line: Of the spirit comes to light. Subject(s): Family Life; Writing & Writers SEQUEL TO A SHARP TURN, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enter / swallow / each calling Subject(s): Film (photography); Italy; Screen Writing; Sea Voyages; Travel; Writing & Writers; Italians; Motion Pictures - Play Writing; Journeys; Trips SHAKESPEARE, by EDWARD L. PONTZ Poem Text First Line: Thou livest still: some modicum of time Last Line: None but thyself thyself could valuate. Subject(s): Dramatists; Imagination; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Praise; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Writing & Writers; Fancy SHELLEY, by ALEXANDER HAY JAPP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The odor of a rose: light of a star Last Line: And dwell in free aerial abodes. Alternate Author Name(s): Page, H. A. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Writing & Writers SHERIDAN TO DAN JACKSON, by THOMAS SHERIDAN (1687-1738) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear dan, it does amaze me quite Last Line: My meaning. Subject(s): Jackson, Daniel (1686-17?); Writing & Writers SIGNET, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So old, so new, so white, so olive-green Last Line: May reap the harvest -- for the harvest waits. Subject(s): Fools; Harvard University; Writing & Writers SILET, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I behold how black, immortal ink Last Line: To plague to-morrow with a testament! Subject(s): Writing & Writers SLEEPERS AWAKE, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Cervantes was asleep when he wrote don quixote Subject(s): Writing & Writers; Sleep SO YOU WANT TO BE A WRITER?, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If it doesn't come bursting out of you Subject(s): Writing & Writers; Patience SOME FRENCHMEN, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Monsieur etienne de silhouette Last Line: Developed just in time for bed Subject(s): Ampere, Jean Jacques Antoine (1800-1864); Capital Punishment; Daguerre, Louis (1789-1851); France; Guillotin, Joseph Ignace (1738-1814); Paintings And Painters; Sax, Adolph (1814-1894); Silhouette, Etienne De (1709-1767); Writing & Writers; Hanging; Exec SOMETHING FOR THE TRADE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Please note well, all you writers, editors, directors Last Line: For the simple truth that should sustain us all Subject(s): Writing & Writers SONATINA TO HANS CHRISTIAN, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If any duck in any brook Subject(s): Andersen, Hans Christian (1805-1875); Writing & Writers SONG OF THE PEN, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not for the love of women toil we, we of the craft Last Line: Work is its own reward! Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Pens & Pencils; Singing & Singers; Writing & Writers SONG: 57, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My pen, take pain a little space Last Line: My pen, I prithee write no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): To His Pen Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Pens & Pencils; Writing & Writers SONNET WRITTEN IN A WORKHOUSE, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, blessed ease! No more of heaven I ask Last Line: Must be to me a castle in the air. Subject(s): Poorhouses; Writing & Writers; Workhouses SONNETS WRITTEN TO BOUTS-RIMES: 10A, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Would that I were a turnip white Last Line: With deep-cut scolloped edges and a rim. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Writing & Writers SONNETS: AFTER READING KEATS, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down his great corridors of sumptuous Last Line: That passionate lover, young endymion! Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers SPECIOUS AND SUPERFICIAL WRITERS, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How rare the case, tho' common the pretence Last Line: Paid without scruple,—he enjoys the trash. Subject(s): Books; Reason; Writing & Writers; Reading; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals SPIN OR LACE IT IN STORY, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a spinster Subject(s): Fairy Tales; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Story-telling; Women; Writing & Writers; Male-female Relations SPRING BEAUTIES, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The abandoned campus, / empty brick buildings and early june Last Line: By some unknown impressionist. Subject(s): Typewriters; Universities & Colleges; Writing & Writers ST. LIRRIPER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When dickens first dawned on Last Line: But from the heart no reader may resist. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dickens, Charles (1812-1870); Writing & Writers STAGE FRIGHT, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poets and writers Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers STILLBORN, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These poems do not live: it's a sad diagnosis. Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Writing & Writers SUCCESS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "he wrote a sordid novel, full" Last Line: How very true to life!' Subject(s): Writing & Writers SUN THE BLOND OUT, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That's my mind out nines in coke Last Line: Rich pieces of orchestra shimmer in this century only. Subject(s): Publishing; Writing & Writers; Publishers SURFACES AND MASKS; 3, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She takes him into “the rape of europa” Last Line: The only play picasso ever wrote Subject(s): Venice, Italy; Music & Musicians; Writing & Writers; Togetherness; Italians SWEETEST WORDS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Inclosed find check!' the sweetest Last Line: "world is glad that was a wreck, changed by the words, ""inclosed find check." Subject(s): Letters; Postal Service; Writing & Writers; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen 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 TENNYSON, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shakespeare and milton - what third blazoned name Last Line: Will find no gift, where reverence is, unmeet. Subject(s): Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Writing & Writers; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron THE, by MARTHA RONK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When having finished .....The Subject(s): Writing & Writers; Language; Words; Vocabulary THE AFFINITY, by ANNA WICKHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have to thank god I'm a woman Last Line: Is free to be very hungry, very lonely. Alternate Author Name(s): Hepburn, Patrick, Mrs. Subject(s): Marriage; Sexism; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism THE AFTERLIFE: LETTER TO SAM HAMILL: 1, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You may think it strange, sam, that I'm writing Last Line: Don't go way. I'll be right back Subject(s): Hamill, Sam; Letters; Writing & Writers THE AMERICAN JOKE (READ AT THE BIRTHDAY DINNER TO S.L. CLEMENS), by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A traveller from the old world, just escaped Last Line: "I type their master-mood. Mark twain made me." Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Birthdays; Jokes; Twain, Mark (samuel Langhorne Clemens); Writing & Writers THE APPLE GARTHS OF AVALON, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here the face turns Last Line: A single old Subject(s): Writing & Writers THE ARGUMENT OF HIS BOOK, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sing of brooks, of blossoms, of birds, and bowers Last Line: Of heaven, and hope to have it after all. Variant Title(s): His Theme;lyric Argument;preface To Hesperides;the Argument Of Hesperides;hesperides Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Books; Writing & Writers; Reading THE BEST NAME, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: When writing verses, dear, to you Last Line: You bear, I still must call you mine. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Names; Writing & Writers; Male-female Relations THE BURIAL OF ROBERT BROWNING, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon st. Michael's isle Last Line: Or trafalgar. Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper) Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Funerals; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Burials THE CAMPS; FOR MARILYN HACKER, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the young brown-haired Last Line: Rest on the unmoving forms. Subject(s): Cruelty; Death; Despair; Love; Poetry & Poets; Violence; Writing & Writers; Dead, The THE CELL, SELECTION, by LYN HEJINIAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: It is the writer's object Last Line: It is not imperfect to have died Subject(s): Writing & Writers THE CENSOR, by MAUDE HICKS HICKMAN Poem Text First Line: Who is it, I should like to know Last Line: Then, surely, they are good. Subject(s): Publishing; Writing & Writers; Publishers THE CITY OF THE OLESHA FRUIT, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Outside the window past the two hills there is the city Last Line: Somewhere inside the mind. Subject(s): Cities; Kisses; Man-woman Relationships; Physical Disabilities; Weather; Writing & Writers; Urban Life; Male-female Relations; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples THE COMMON LITTLE THINGS, by HILDA SHUTTS FARQUHAR Poem Text First Line: I should like to write a story Last Line: Lead to god? Subject(s): Writing & Writers THE DEAD ONES, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We have grown up in the belief that all the Last Line: Five cents a yard. Subject(s): Addison, Joseph (1672-1719); Authors And Authorship; Books; Poetry & Poets; Politics & Government; Writing & Writers; Reading THE DECEASED, by KEITH CASTELLAINE DOUGLAS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was a reprobate I grant Last Line: He had an excellence which you miss. Subject(s): Writing & Writers THE DOUBLE STANDARD, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Important is the nation's health Last Line: Says advertising mr. Hyde Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Editors; Newspapers; Publishing; Writing & Writers; Journalism; Journalists; Publishers THE EDICT, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: Write, said the editor unto the saint Last Line: So they will read it -- and read it again. Subject(s): Writing & Writers THE FAMILY SKELETON, by J. A. S. Poem Text First Line: Things at home are quite exciting Last Line: "she must live and live and live!" Subject(s): Writing & Writers THE FIRST STORY, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: Mid seaweed on a sultry strand, ten thousand years ago Last Line: So he wrote the first of stories with his little fingernail. Subject(s): Babies; Octopuses; Prehistoric Peoples; Writing & Writers; Infants THE FOX WHO WATCHED FOR THE MIDNIGHT SUN, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Across the snowy pastures of the estate Last Line: As if the dead hare were soon to awaken. Subject(s): Animals; Dramatists; Ibsen, Henrik (1828-1906); Medicine; Plays & Playwrights ; Trapping & Trappers; Writing & Writers; Drugs, Prescription; Dramatists; Traps; Snares; Trappers THE FUTURE OF THE CLASSICS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "no longer, o scholars, shall plautus" Subject(s): Future;literature;poetry & Poets;writing & Writers THE GOAT AND THE HORSE; FROM YRIARTE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A goat who lent a ravished ear Last Line: Their works may win applauding breath! Subject(s): Fame; Writing & Writers; Reputation THE GODDESS OF THE ISLANDERS, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the midmost page, the bookworm's pasturage Last Line: And the opal's flame-fraught snows. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Islands; Mysticism; Mythology; Writing & Writers THE GOOD AUTHOR, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Contrary to the views Last Line: To any word you say. Subject(s): Games; Women; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Feminism THE JOY OF WRITING, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where is the written doe headed, through these written woods Last Line: Revenge of a mortal hand Subject(s): Writing & Writers THE LETTER, by HENRI BARBUSSE Poem Text First Line: I am writing; the lamp listens Last Line: Whether it's I who write, or you. Subject(s): Letters; Writing & Writers THE LETTER, by HENRI BARBUSSE Poem Text First Line: The clock ticks the slow minutes out Last Line: Whether 'tis I who write, or thou. . . . Subject(s): Letters; Writing & Writers THE LIGHT BULB, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday owen barfield died at ninety-nine Subject(s): Barfield, Owen (1898-1997); Writing & Writers THE LOST LEADER, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just for a handful of silver he left us Last Line: Pardoned in heaven, the first by the throne! Subject(s): Freedom; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Writing & Writers; Liberty THE LOVE LETTER, by LILLIAN VIGGERS Poem Text First Line: More than a word in writing Last Line: Is far too frail to hold the key. Subject(s): Letters; Love; Messengers; Writing & Writers THE MAGIC CARPET, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every american is a movie critic Last Line: "and ""siponelle,"" large worm." Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Paris, France; Writing & Writers; Movies; Cinema THE MUSE, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full 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 NABOB, by KENNETH SLESSOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Coming out of india with ten thousand a year Subject(s): Writing & Writers THE NICEST STORY, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm going to write a story Last Line: The kind that chil'ren need. Subject(s): Writing & Writers THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH; LAST POEM, ROME, MAY, 1861, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now give us lands where the olives grow Last Line: Said the south to the north. Subject(s): Andersen, Hans Christian (1805-1875); Writing & Writers THE PEN, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sandy road, the bright green two-inch lizard Last Line: Not moving / held Subject(s): Writing & Writers THE PLUTE'S LIBRARY, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, stately books, in handsome cases, all Last Line: Come and read them. Subject(s): Books; Dramatists; Libraries & Librarians; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Writing & Writers; Reading THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 113, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My writing and judgment aren't that bad Last Line: Just might score a hit Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Judgments; Writing & Writers THE POET OF THE PRISON ISLE: RITSOS AGAINST THE COLONELS, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So there you are Last Line: Just over the border Subject(s): Prisoners Of War; War; Writing & Writers THE POET PERPLEXT, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brain! You must work! Begin, or we shall lose Last Line: So gentle brain! I thank you and conclude. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Reason; Writer's Block; Writing & Writers; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE POETASTER, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When a poet, as poetry goes now-a-days Last Line: The man, after all, is but just where he was. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Books; Pens & Pencils; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Reading THE REASON OF MY PERFECT EASE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Writing & Writers THE RISING OF THE SESSION, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To a' men living be it kend Last Line: Wi blythsome glee. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Farm Life; Time; Writing & Writers; Agriculture; Farmers THE SCHOOLROOM OF POETS, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An autumn dusk darkened my window-panes Last Line: Boy-dreamers by the fireside, arm on arm! Subject(s): Literature; Pens & Pencils; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers THE SCRIBE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A leafy grove surrounds me quite Last Line: Well speeds my quill beneath the copse Subject(s): Writing & Writers THE SCRIBE, by COLUMCILLE Poem Text First Line: For weariness my hand writes ill Last Line: Till wearied all am I to-night. Alternate Author Name(s): Columba Subject(s): Secretaries; Writing & Writers THE SCRIBE'S PRAYER, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When from my fumbling hand the tired pen falls Last Line: Yet do I know thy love: have mercy, lord -- . Subject(s): Prayer; Writing & Writers THE SEAMY SIDE OF MOTLEY, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady, when we sat together Last Line: Funny every day. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Books; Editors; Humor; Writing & Writers; Reading THE SERIAL, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I burst upon the reader's eye Last Line: But this goes on forever. Subject(s): Books; Writing & Writers; Reading THE SHEPHERD'S PIPE: FIFTH ECLOGUE; TO HIS FRIEND CHRISTOPHER BROOKE, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Willie incites his friend to write Last Line: ^2^ cuttie, christopher brooke. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Brooke, Christopher (1570-1628); Writing & Writers THE SONG OF HIAWATHA: PICTURE-WRITING, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In those days said hiawatha Last Line: On the grave-posts of the village. Subject(s): Native Americans - Languages; Writing & Writers THE SUCCESSFUL AUTHOR, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When fate presents us with the bays Last Line: Tis not recorded what he said. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Writing & Writers THE TIME, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summer is the time to write. I tell myself this Last Line: Maybe it is a title and this life is the poem. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Summer; Time; Writing & Writers THE TIN CAN, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have gone into the tin can; not in late spring, fleeing a stewing Subject(s): Writing & Writers THE TRITON OF THE MINNOWS, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why don't you strike out something new? Last Line: "the triton of the minnows." Subject(s): Fame; Goddesses & Gods; Hope; Mythology; Time; Writing & Writers; Reputation; Optimism THE UNKNOWN HAND, by CLIFFORD BAX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hans andersen, when he was old and frail Last Line: Squire turner pounds on shanks's de la mare! Subject(s): Writing & Writers THE WAY WE WRITE LETTERS, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We must lie long in the weeds Last Line: From the meadow. Turn on the poem & the light. Subject(s): Letters; Poetry & Poets; Travel; Women; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Journeys; Trips; Feminism THE WILD GALLANT, REVIVED: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all dramatic writing, comic wit Last Line: In hope it may their staple trade advance. Subject(s): Comedy; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Dramatists THE WORD (1), by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Full 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 WORLD'S WAY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: He wrote his soul into a book Last Line: "behold, the world brought out his book!" Subject(s): Books;rhyme;writing & Writers; Reading THE WORM IN THE EAR, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If peasants had written they would have ceased to be peasants Last Line: Chin up? Ready? Subject(s): Peasantry; Writing & Writers; Heidegger, Martin (1889-1976); Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) THE WRITER, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the shade of the pyramids Last Line: Fled away like a flame. Subject(s): Mythology; Pyramids; Troy; Writing & Writers THE WRITER OF MANY BOOKS, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The writer of many books was weary Last Line: Nor the master that sent ye out in the barren fields. Subject(s): Writing & Writers THERE IS A PLEASURE IN POETIC PAINS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Or rain-drop lingering on the pointed thorn Subject(s): Writing & Writers THESE AGELESS THEMES, by KIRKE MECHEM Poem Text First Line: Ah, yes! It has been said a thousand times Last Line: Shall tune their lyres to these eternal themes Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Writing & Writers THINGS TO DO WITH LIFE, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hang out with quantum generation Last Line: From l'oeil de ma jeanne Subject(s): Writing & Writers THOMAS JANVIER, by JOHN HUSTON FINLEY Poem Text First Line: Janvier of ebon barb and mighty frame Last Line: Who in the crow's nest sat to cool his broth. Subject(s): Janvier, Thomas (1849-1913); Writing & Writers THOUGH THE BOLD WINGS OF POESY AFFECT, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: With brow in penitential sorrow bent! Subject(s): Nature; Writing & Writers THREE SECRETS FOR ALEXIS, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eliot's lesson from dante Last Line: About the candle catching fire. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972); Writing & Writers TO 'J', by E. PEARL DANCEY Poem Text First Line: I'm not sentimental, heaven knows Last Line: You see . . . I know your dear hand wrote it there. Subject(s): Writing & Writers TO A CERTAIN VOLUMINOUS SCRIBLER, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forbear the public to abuse Last Line: Dy'd of a diabetes. Subject(s): Death; Diabetes; Writing & Writers; Dead, The TO A CHILD OF QUALITY, FIVE YEARS OLD. THE AUTHOR THAN FORTY, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lords, knights, and squires, the num'rous band Last Line: When she begins to comprehend it. Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood; Letters; Writing & Writers TO A DEAD STUDENT, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I knew not your thoughts, nor regarded your books Last Line: Ere the books and the thought be forgot! Subject(s): Death; Praise; Writing & Writers; Dead, The TO A FRIEND, WHO DEPLORED BRIEF LIFE OF LITERARY PERSONALITY, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is most true - and most untrue Last Line: Our thought is living -- and lives on! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Fame; Writing & Writers; Reputation TO A GENTLEMAN, DESIROUS OF SEEING MY MANUSCRIPTS, by CHRISTIAN MILNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm gratify'd to think that you Last Line: And I expect no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Ross, Christian Subject(s): Manuscripts; Social Classes; Writing & Writers; Caste TO A LADY WHO DID ME THE HONOUR TO CALL AT MY HOUSE, by CHRISTIAN MILNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That ne'er-to-be-forgotten day Last Line: I try in vain to stop it. Alternate Author Name(s): Ross, Christian Subject(s): Writing & Writers TO A PERSON WHO WROTE ILL, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lie, philo, untouched on my peaceable shelf Last Line: So may he cease to write, and learn to think. Subject(s): Envy; Love; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers TO A YOUNG LADY WHO ASKED ME TO WRITE SOMETHING ORIGINAL FOR HER ALBUM, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An original something, fair maid, you would win me Last Line: Excepting original sin. Subject(s): Writing & Writers TO A YOUNG WRITER, by YVOR WINTERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here for a few short years Subject(s): Writing & Writers TO ALEX. CUNNINGHAM, WRITER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My godlike friend - nay! Do not stare Last Line: The process of bewitching? Subject(s): Writing & Writers TO DIVES; A FRAGMENT, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unhappy dives! In an evil hour Last Line: In scorn and solitude unsought, the worst of woes. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Beckford, William (1760-1844); Writing & Writers TO E.C. MARCHANT ESQ., by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Sir, who some eight and forty years ago Last Line: Who once heard you expound it day by day. Subject(s): Writing & Writers TO E.G. DEDICATING A BOOK, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A broken tale of endless things Last Line: And does not mean to end. Subject(s): Books; God; Gosse, Sir Edmund (1849-1928); Story-telling; Writing & Writers; Reading TO EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is a various tribute you command Last Line: Your peerless gift of song -- your life of toil. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers TO ELSIE; INTRODUCTORY POEM TO 'IT, AND OTHER STORIES', by GOUVERNEUR MORRIS (1876-1953) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Crown the heads of better men Last Line: Babies, oh my love—and you! Subject(s): Love; Writing & Writers TO FLETCHER REVIV'D, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How have I been religious? What strange good Last Line: Yet all men henceforth be afraid to write. Subject(s): Fletcher, John (1579-1625); Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers TO GEORGE BORROW (LAVENGRO), by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: No 'book,' but your own heart, was written, borrow Last Line: Knight of the ancient ruth and fearless fibre! Subject(s): Borrow, George (1803-1881); Depression, Mental; Hope; Writing & Writers; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Optimism TO HIMSELF, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So you've come to me now without knowing why Subject(s): Writing & Writers; Time TO HIS READER, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behold, once more with serious labour here Last Line: But only to have in mine own again. Subject(s): Writing & Writers TO MADAME DE SEVIGNE, by MATHIEU DE MONTREUIL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You charm when you talk, walk, or move Last Line: When the bandage is off -- for his mother! Subject(s): Sevigne, Marie De (1626-1696); Writing & Writers TO MARGARET, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who hath seduced thee to this foul revolt Last Line: To write is human -- not to write divine. Subject(s): Writing & Writers TO MISS JANE AUSTEN, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Madam, I must express respectful wonder Last Line: Our people are creations. Subject(s): Austen, Jane (1775-1817); Critics & Criticism; Novels & Novelists; Writing & Writers TO MR. MOTTEUX, ON HIS TRAGEDY CALLED BEAUTY IN DISTRESS, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis hard, my friend,to write in such an age Last Line: So great a poet and so good a friend. Variant Title(s): To Peter Antony Motteux Subject(s): Friendship; Motteux, Peter Anthony (1660-1718); Plays & Playwrights ; Tragedy; Writing & Writers; Dramatists TO MR. SOUTHERN, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sure there's a fate in plays, and 'tis in vain Last Line: And the next age will learn to copy thine. Subject(s): Comedy; Plays & Playwrights ; Southerne, Thomas (1660-1746); Writing & Writers; Dramatists; Southern, Thomas TO MY FATHER, by BEULA CHAMBERLAIN Poem Text First Line: They tell me that I have this gift from you Last Line: Writing a poem upon the window-sill. Subject(s): Fathers; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers TO MY OLD FRIEND, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You, who through every change remain Last Line: The days of eighteen-ninety-five! Subject(s): Change; Competition; Nostalgia; Poetry & Poets; Time; Writing & Writers TO MY TRULY VALIANT, LEARNED FRIEND .. ART GLADIATORY INTO MATHEMATIC, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark, reader! Wilt be learn'd I' th' wars? Last Line: And she writes with his sword. Subject(s): War; Writing & Writers TO ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Robert louis stevenson! / blue the lift and braw the dawn Last Line: Robert louis stevenson. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894); Strangers; United States; Writing & Writers; America TO STEPHEN COLLINS FOSTER, by ELEANORE RANDALL LAMKIN Poem Text First Line: Dear friends and gentle hearts,' he wrote Last Line: Sleep well! Oh gentlest of them all! Subject(s): Foster, Stephen Collins (1826-1864); Writing & Writers TO THACKERAY, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O gentler censor of our age! Last Line: Makes the pantheon where he lies. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-1863); Writing & Writers TO THE DEAN OF ST. PATRICK'S (4), by THOMAS SHERIDAN (1687-1738) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear sir, since you in humble wise Last Line: And thus I'll keep you under. Subject(s): Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Writing & Writers TO THE MEMORY OF BEN JONSON, by JOHN CLEVELAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The muse's fairest light in no dark time Last Line: With sorrow here, with wonder on his book. Subject(s): Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers TO THE MEMORY OF THOMAS HOOD, by BARTHOLOMEW SIMMONS Poem Text First Line: Take back into thy bosom, earth Last Line: Shall hover, unforgetting. Subject(s): Hood, Thomas (1799-1845); Writing & Writers TO THE UNKNOWN AUTHOR OF OBITER DICTA, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though I may rest in some leafy place Last Line: The vagrant thoughts I chased in vain. Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): Writing & Writers TO VICTOR HUGO, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Victor in drama [or, poesy], victor in romance Last Line: To younger england in the boy, my son. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hugo, Victor (1802-1885); Writing & Writers TO VIRGIL, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Roman virgil, thou that singest Last Line: Ever moulded by the lips of man. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Virgil (70-19 B.c.); Writing & Writers; Vergil TO W.E. BURGHARDT DU BOIS, by SCUDDER MIDDLETON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The race that wheedles mercies from its god Last Line: Proud of that ancient ebon of its face! Subject(s): Du Bois, William Edward B. (1868-1963); Reform And Reformers; Writing & Writers TO W.E.B. DUBOIS - SCHOLAR, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grandly isolate as the god of day Last Line: Light of our impotence! Joy of our tongue! Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Du Bois, William Edward B. (1868-1963); Reform & Reformers; Writing & Writers 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 TRAKL, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In reality the barn wasn't clean, ninety men Last Line: The large sunken eyes of horticulture. Subject(s): Memory; Trakl, Georg (1887-1914); War; Writing & Writers TUNK (A LECTURE ON MODERN EDUCATION), by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look heah, tunk!-now, ain't dis awful! Last Line: Place in school! Subject(s): Education; Writing & Writers TWO POETS BY THE LAKE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lakeshore modulated to a cove Last Line: The balked need urgent in your words, and mine. Subject(s): Boats; Lakes; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Wright, James (1927-1980); Writing & Writers; Pools; Ponds; Feminism UNDER A THOUSAND WORDS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A thousand words on courage. -this request Last Line: "but you call this instinct." Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Courage; Writing & Writers; Valor; Bravery UNDER SATURN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do not because this day I have grown saturnine Last Line: November 1919 Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Home; Promises; Writing & Writers UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 39. DEDICATORY POEM, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To her, for I must still regard her Last Line: Still, if you love me, criticise! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Criticism & Critics; Love; Writing & Writers UNWRITTEN, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Numberless letters that form across the page Last Line: But fold my hands till the terrible joy is past? Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Letters; Memory; Old Age; Writing & Writers UPON LOOKING INTO MY MIRROR, by MIRIAM S. LEWIS Poem Text First Line: The writing of fourteen-line sonnets Last Line: Too few are for half-quatrain! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Writing & Writers VARIATIONS ON A TEXT BY VALLEJO, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will die in miami in the sun Subject(s): Writing & Writers VERSES, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Madam, / since anna visited the muses' seat Last Line: What margaret tudor was, is harriet harley now. Subject(s): Muses; Oxford, England; Women; Writing & Writers VERSES ADDRESSED TO A FRIEND, LEAVING A FAVOURITE RETIRMENT, by SAMUEL HENLEY Poem Text First Line: Ere yet your footsteps quit the place Last Line: And heaven's blest mansion be your last! Subject(s): Writing & Writers VERSES IN THE SCRIBLERIAN MANNER (1), by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tho the dean has run from us in manner uncivil Last Line: We'll not be slow to visit dr. Swift. Subject(s): Arbuthnot, John (1667-1735); Gay, John (1685-1732); Harley, Robert. 1st Earl Of Oxford; Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718); Physicians; Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Writing & Writers; Mortimer, Earl Of; Doctors VERSES TO MISS --, by J. WILDE Poem Text First Line: From six o'clock I traversed to and fro Last Line: Though all this stuff laid somewhere in my head. Subject(s): Greyhounds; Writing & Writers VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 2: SATIRE: 1, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For shame write better labeo, or write none Last Line: For shame write cleanly labeo, or write none. Subject(s): Cupid; Troy; Writing & Writers; Eros VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 3: THE CONCLUSION OF ALL, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thus have I writ in smoother cedar tree Last Line: And meet my far-fetch'd stripes with waiting sides. Subject(s): Writing & Writers VOICE, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have always laughed Subject(s): Writing & Writers VPON HIS SABBOTH, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whiles greenham writeth of the sabboths rest Last Line: Hard is to say whether is the happiest. Subject(s): Rest; Sabbath; Soul; Writing & Writers; Sunday W. E. B. DUBOIS AT HARVARD, by JAY WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In harvard square Last Line: Your intense, communal daring Subject(s): Du Bois, William Edward B. (1868-1963); Harvard University; Reform And Reformers; Writing & Writers WAKING THE MORNING DREAMLESS AFTER LONG SLEEP, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But with the sentence: “use your failures for paper.” meaning, I Last Line: Of ruined paper into a basket, pulling them out again Subject(s): Middle Age; Writing & Writers WANTED - A THEME, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The spring is here again, mother! She bursts upon our sight Last Line: For I love a morning doze, mother, -- I love a morning doze. Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Writing & Writers WE CAN'T WRITE OURSELVES INTO ETERNAL LIFE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And share the earth with earth Subject(s): Mortality; Writing & Writers; Truth WELCOME ADDRESS, TO THE WESTERN ASSOCIATION OF WRITERS, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Westward the course of empire takes its way,' / so berkeley said Last Line: The city has no will but yours! Subject(s): Writing & Writers WHAT EFFECT HAS YOUR NEW SON HAD ON YOUR WRITING LIFE?, by RICHARD JONES Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: While andrew sleeps Last Line: Andrew wants his bottle. Subject(s): Children; Fathers & Sons; Parents; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Childhood; Parenthood WHAT LASTS, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So help me, love, you and I Last Line: The flower itself is to something or other. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers WHERE MY BOOKS GO, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the words that I utter Last Line: Storm-darken'd or starry bright. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Books; Writing & Writers; Reading WHILE READING BASHO, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Basho, you made / a living writing haiku? Last Line: The goldfish are still. Subject(s): Books; Writing & Writers; Reading WHO WOULD THINK, HEREIN TO LOOK, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: You did a sillier, and you did it gratis! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Writing & Writers WHY DO POETS WRITE?, by RICHARD JONES Poem Full Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: My wife, a psychiatrist, sleeps Last Line: Things I would tell to a poem. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Psychiatry; Writing & Writers; Psychiatrists WHY I WRITE NOT OF LOVE, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some act of love's bound to rehearse Last Line: When love is fled, and I grow old. Subject(s): Love; Writing & Writers WITNESS, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We can't write ourselves into eternal life Last Line: And shared the earth with earth Subject(s): Mortality; Writing & Writers WRITERS, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let him that writes pursue a worthy game Subject(s): Writing & Writers WRITING, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When words we want, love teacheth to endite Last Line: And what we blush to speake, she bids us write. Subject(s): Writing & Writers WRITING FOR MONEY, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My friend and I have decided to write for money Last Line: "that’s why I’m writing this poem, Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Travel; Writing & Writers; Journeys; Trips WRITING IN THE AFTERLIFE, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I imagined the atmosphere would be clear Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Writing & Writers; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life WRITING IN THE EIGHTIES, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Memoirs used to be written Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Writing & Writers WRITING POETRY, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I bear no grudge against the andes Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers WRITTEN FOR AN ALBUM, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See to your book, young lady, let it be Last Line: And such, young lady, always may you be. Subject(s): Writing & Writers YOU, by KATE CRICHTON GREDLER Poem Text First Line: To you, my dear, I never write Last Line: By rule of thumb. Subject(s): Writing & Writers |
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