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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: YOUTH Matches Found: 1335 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 1917 - THE WAR CLASS, by GEROID TANQUARY ROBINSON Poem Text First Line: Down the long white road beneath the / moon Last Line: One great humanity? Subject(s): Guns; Military Education; Soldiers; War; Youth; Military Schools 95 POEMS: 57, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old age sticks Last Line: Gr %owing old Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Youth A BACHELOR'S VALENTINE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: If I were younger, mary jane Last Line: And she will love me dearly! Subject(s): Courtship; Holidays; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Single People; Valentine's Day; Youth; Male-female Relations; Bachelors; Unmarried People A BAREFOOT BOY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A barefoot boy! I mark him at Last Line: Like unto the clasp of an old pocketbook. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Brooks; Children; Youth; Streams; Creeks; Childhood A BIRTHDAY, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Light wakes you with no gentler kiss Last Line: Is fête to spare. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Birthdays; Children; Youth; Childhood A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 2, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though you are young and I am old Last Line: Thou fool! To-morrow thou must die!' Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Youth A BOOK OF DREAMS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lay and dreamed. The master came Last Line: And all but me asleep! Subject(s): Birds; Children; Churches; Crucifixion; Death; Desolation; Despair; Dreams; Fathers; Flowers; God; Hope; Lilies; Memory; Prodigal Son; Sleep; Swans; Youth; Childhood; Cathedrals; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The; Nightmares; Optimism A BOY'S NEED, by HERBERT CLARK JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: A boy should have an open fireplace Last Line: And dream of being men -- and boys should dream. Subject(s): Youth A CASTLE IN THE AIR, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I built myself a castle Last Line: Only -- I looked beyond. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Castles; Dreams; Grief; Hope; Youth; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism A CHILD'S SONG, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the child played in galilee Last Line: Stood high as heaven. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth A CHRISTMAS CHILD, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She came to me at christmas time and Last Line: Within her tiny, crumpled hand I touched the mighty hand of god! Subject(s): Catholics; Christmas; Holidays; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Nativity, The A CHRISTMAS THOUGHT, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sweetest gift the father's love Last Line: That thrilled the bethlehem way. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Christmas; Gifts & Giving; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary A CHRISTMAS WISH, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: At christmas season's glad return Last Line: And god's rich love be understood. Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Christmas; Holidays; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Love; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology A COMPARISON [ADDRESSED] TO A YOUNG LADY, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet stream that winds through yonder glade Last Line: And heaven reflected in her face. Variant Title(s): The Stream;to A Young Lady;addressed To A Young Lady Subject(s): Brooks; Youth; Streams; Creeks A CRADLE SONG OF THE VIRGIN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The virgin stills the crying Last Line: "my jesu, sleep!" Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth;mary. Mother Of Jesus;women - Bible; Virgin Mary A DRINKING SONG, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Faces prim and starched and yellow Last Line: Hang-lip melancholy! Variant Title(s): The Cavalier's Song Subject(s): Bacchus; Courtship; Mythology - Classical; Youth A FAREWELL [TO C.E.G.], by CHARLES KINGSLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My fairest child, I have no song to give you Last Line: One grand, sweet song. Subject(s): Farewell; Youth; Parting A GIFT OF SPRING, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: For all thy youth given up to me so worn and weary Last Line: While round my head the golden midday burns. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Youth A GIRL OF POMPEII, by EDWARD SANDFORD MARTIN Poem Text First Line: A public haunt they found her in Last Line: Itself, imperishably pure. Subject(s): Pompeii, Italy; Youth A HINT TO CYNICS, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Youth, beauty, love, delight Last Line: That's blended with decay? Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Beauty; Cynicism; Love; Youth A LEGEND OF THE CHILD JESUS; WRITTEN FOR A CHILD, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: You ask a story, dearest. Here is one Last Line: Healed by the kisses of the holy child. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century) A LITTLE KNOT OF BLUE, by SAMUEL MINTURN PECK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She hath no gems of lustre bright Last Line: That little knot of blue. Variant Title(s): A Knot Of Blue; For The Boys Of Yale Subject(s): Yale University; Youth A LIVING PEARL, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At sixteen I came west, riding Subject(s): West (u.s.); Youth; Southwest; Pacific States A LYRIC FROM THE BOOK OF POETRY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: You seemed a guileless youth enough Last Line: Would some day bind us two no more Subject(s): Love;youth A MAN'S HEART: THE EARL AND THE GIRL, by CHARLES MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Westwood, sitting sadly by himself Last Line: And issued bulletins from day to day. Subject(s): Betrayal; Boys; Youth A MAN'S VOCATION IS NOBODY'S BUSINESS, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Overcome with humility in the american west Last Line: Bound for the edge of the world Subject(s): History; Past; West (u.s.); Youth; Historians; Southwest; Pacific States A MAY MONODY, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside my opened window pane Last Line: "come again! Come again!" Subject(s): Birds; Faith; May (month); Memory; Youth; Belief; Creed A MEMORY OF YOUTH, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moments passed as at a play Last Line: Tore from the clouds his marvellous moon. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Youth A NATION SPEAKS, by MARION L. ULMER Poem Text First Line: You claimed my youth. Into your hands I gave them Last Line: "to live the ancient prayer ""they kingdom come""." Subject(s): Hate; Love; Youth A NEW PILGRIMAGE: 26, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Youth is all valiant. He and I together Last Line: Leaning on ugliness, and did not shrink. Subject(s): Youth A NEW YORK CHILD?ÇÖS GARDEN OF VERSES, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In winter I get up at night Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Youth; City & Town Life; Family Life; Relatives A NIGHTMARE, by ELIZA OGILVY Poem Text First Line: I dreamed that I was sick and sore at heart Last Line: And still the pulse beat stronger for the pain. Subject(s): Dreams; Fate; Pain; Youth; Nightmares; Destiny; Suffering; Misery A PAGE SINGS, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where leads my way? Last Line: Tis all of you! Subject(s): Morning; Singing & Singers; Youth A PARAPHRASE ON THE 13TH ODE OF THE 3RD BOOK OF HORACE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While sol with thee, dear fountain, plays Last Line: While you reign each a naïad of the stream. Subject(s): Fountains; Nature; Praise; Water; Youth A PRAYER FOR LIFE, by GEORGE SHEPARD BURLEIGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O father, let me not die young! Last Line: I cannot now die young! Subject(s): Mortality; Prayer; Youth A RECOLLECTION, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I well remember in my youthful day Last Line: Veil'd, as we met, her blushing cheeks with gold. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Memory; Youth A REPUTATION VINDICATED, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A bachelor of forty five Last Line: For two years past, she had a baby! Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Youth A ROSE-BUD BY MY EARLY WALK, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Youth; Beauty A SHORT SONG OF CONGRATULATION, by SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long-expected one and twenty Last Line: You can hang or drown at last! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson, Dr. Variant Title(s): One And Twenty Subject(s): Birthdays; Inheritance & Succession; Labor & Laborers; Marriage; Wealth; Youth; Heirs; Work; Workers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Riches; Fortunes A SIGH FOR KNOCKMANY, by WILLIAM CARLETON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take, proud ambition, take thy fill Last Line: To pipe the song of youth again. Subject(s): Ambition; Youth; Disappointment A SONG OF EIGHTEEN, by DIGBY MACKWORTH DOLBEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strain them, o winds, the sails of the years Last Line: Till the age her times fulfil. Alternate Author Name(s): Dolben, Digby Augustus Stewart Mackworth Subject(s): Youth A SONG OF GOUNOD'S, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By a dim seacoast, long ago Last Line: Wedding us there eternally! Subject(s): Death; Hair; Hearts; Sea; Singing & Singers; Youth; Dead, The; Ocean; Songs A SONG OF SIXPENCE, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sing a song of sixpence Last Line: And a pocket full of rye! Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Youth A SONG OF YOUTH, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O world, they say you are old, you are old Last Line: For I, I am youngI would know, I would know! Subject(s): Youth A STRANGER IN SEYTHOPOLIS, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eager he wandered the streets of scythopolis Last Line: Though he knew not yet that to him should the gentiles seek. Subject(s): Bethshan (seythopolis); Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Palestine A SUMMER'S DAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The summer's put the idy in Last Line: The dreams that never comes ag'in. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Summer; Youth; Childhood A TALE, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: This youth too long has heard the break Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Youth; Life A VALENTINE, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: There was a time, when we were young together Last Line: The rose of health. Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Holidays; Life; Love; Valentine's Day; Youth A VILLANELLE OF COLLEGE, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: The moon o'er the hills to-night! Last Line: The setting of youth's delight! Subject(s): Dartmouth College; Scholarship & Scholars; Universities & Colleges; Youth A VOICE FROM TOWN, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I thought, in the days of my droving Last Line: Is youth -- and I've thrown it away. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Towns; Voices; Youth A WOMAN'S DREAM, by MARCELINE DESBORDES-VALMORE Poem Text First Line: Wilt thou begin thy life once more Last Line: "nay! Pitying saviour! Let me die." Subject(s): Aging; Time; Youth A YOUNG GIRL'S SONG, by YANNIS PAPADIAMANTOPOULOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fennels said, 'he is so fond' Last Line: (may god have pity on my soul!) Alternate Author Name(s): Moreas, Jean Subject(s): Love; Youth A YOUNG WOMAN, A TREE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The life spills over, some days Subject(s): Trees; Women; Youth A YULETIDE TALE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Twas on a merry yuletide night Last Line: And put it - in her hair Subject(s): Youth ACQUA FREDDA, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By acqua fredda's cloister-wall Last Line: Long lost to me, is treasured there. Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Life; Soul; Youth ACTS OF YOUTH, by JOHN WIENERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And with great fear I inhabit the middle of the night Last Line: Worshipped in the pitches of the night Subject(s): Youth AD ASTRA: 140, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Life calls to us, 'o seize the fleeting hour Last Line: The precious hours that still to thee remain! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Love; Youth AD ASTRA: 61, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Such the first cry of youth before it learns Last Line: Dazzles, while love glows steadfast from afar! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Love; Passion; Youth ADA RUEL, by RANSOM. JOHN CROWE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The queens of hell had lissome necks to crane Subject(s): Youth; Women - Old Age ADIRONDACK SOUNDS, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: I put the words in his mouth Last Line: I say to him paradise %and hear the pure word Subject(s): Adirondack Mountains, New York; Fathers And Sons; Heaven; Youth ADOLESCENCE, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: We were alone together Last Line: From her mournful eyes Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Romance; Youth ADOLESCENCE, by LEROY OLIVER MCLEOD Poem Text First Line: White morning, like a frosted window-pane Last Line: Was dark with secrets as the depths below. Subject(s): Adolescence; Growth; Maturity; Time; Youth; Teen Agers ADVENT, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: Once to this troubled world Last Line: To weary eyes. Subject(s): Babies; Christmas; Hope; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Peace; Worship; Infants; Nativity, The; Optimism ADVISING MYSELF, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the world comes to you muffled as through a glass Last Line: Burning with joy or despair, you've known she was right Subject(s): Advice; Youth; Love – Nature Of AFTER 'LES FLEURS' (PAUL ELUARD), by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am 20 years old and holding on Last Line: When I close my eyes I kill you. Subject(s): Dreams; Love - Beginnings; Youth; Nightmares AFTER READING THE RUBAIYAT, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still burning, let me cast the cup of youth aside Last Line: The blood of life's unraptured warriors. Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Night; Youth; Nightmares; Bedtime AFTER SAPPHO, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I loved you, leslie, long ago Last Line: When I was just an ungainly boy Subject(s): Love; Past; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Youth AFTER SAPPHO, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I loved you, leslie, long ago Last Line: When I was just an ungainly boy Subject(s): Love; Past; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Youth AFTER THE GENTLE POET KOBAYASHI ISSA, by ROBERT HASS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In the saucepan Subject(s): Nature; Youth; Aging AFTER THE SYMPHONY, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The last finale had crashed Last Line: Then slow sleep muted all to oblivion. Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight AFTERGLOW, by CHARLES GRANGER BLANDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I pray that time full many years may bring Last Line: And I the long decembers count by half. Subject(s): Aging; Singing & Singers; Spring; Time; Youth; Songs AFTERNOON, by ELIZABETH HAYNES SANDS Poem Text First Line: Out of the dust of yesterday Last Line: And bitter, burning tears. Subject(s): Afternoon; Sea; Tears; Youth; Ocean AGE AND YOUTH, by KATHRYN CROSS Poem Text First Line: O age, thou hast priceless serenity Last Line: And wonder who is richer, you or I. Subject(s): Youth AGE AND YOUTH, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I tell thee,' said the old man, 'what is life' Last Line: "whose consciousness is as an unknown curse?" Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Old Age; Youth AGE AND YOUTH, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: We have left our youth behind Last Line: What till then, oh, what till then? Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Aging; Youth AGE SPEAKS TO YOUTH, by JANIE SMITH RHYNE Poem Text First Line: The windows of my soul are shadowed so Last Line: My soul fares forth on its immortal quest. Subject(s): Old Age; Youth AIRS SUNG AT BROUGHAM CASTLE: SHADOWS, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shadows dark'ning our intents Last Line: Our nightly sports and prophecies we end. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Love - Beginnings; Night; Youth; Bedtime AIRS SUNG AT BROUGHAM CASTLE: THE DANCE, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Robin is a lovely lad Last Line: March around and make a stand. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Love - Beginnings; Youth ALAS FOR YOUTH, by FIRDAUSI Poem Text First Line: Much have I labored, much read o'er Last Line: "alas for youth, for youth gone by!" Alternate Author Name(s): Firdosi; Abul Kasim Mansur; Firdusa; Abu Ol-qase Subject(s): Youth ALDRICH, 1866-1907, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What has become of it, your youth and mine Last Line: Planet you dwell, our youth and gladness are. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Aldrich, Thomas Bailey (1836-1907); Novels & Novelists; Poetry & Poets; Youth ALL MAD, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is mad as a hare, poor fellow Last Line: We are all of us -- all of us mad. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Insanity; Life; Pain; Thought; Youth; Dead, The; Madness; Mental Illness; Suffering; Misery; Thinking ALLEN BROOKE, OF WINDERMERE, by AMELIA OPIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say, have you in the valley seen Last Line: My allen brooke, of windermere. Alternate Author Name(s): Alderson, Amelia Subject(s): Grief; Love - Unrequited; Man-woman Relationships; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations ALMAE MATRES (ST. ANDREWS, 1862; OXFORD, 1865), by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: St. Andrews by the northern sea Last Line: That is a haunted town to me! Subject(s): Oxford University; Schools; St. Andrews University (scotland); Youth; Students ALONG WITH YOUTH, by ERNEST HEMINGWAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A porcupine skin Last Line: When the hotel burned down / at seney, michigan Subject(s): Youth ALWAYS THE HILL REMEMBERED, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text Last Line: With heart wholly expectant of a miracle Subject(s): Youth; Memory AMANTES, AMENTES, by HENRY HARRISON Poem Text First Line: Lovers, lunatics. There must be truth Last Line: A thing I realize I ought not to! Subject(s): Fools; Love - Nature Of; Youth; Idiots AMORETTI: 4, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: New year, forth looking out of janus' gate Last Line: Prepare your selfe new love to entertaine. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Winter; Spring; Youth; Old Age; Life; Death AN ANCIENT FEUD, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The young rack the old Last Line: One all to lose. Subject(s): Aging; Death; Fights; Youth; Dead, The AN EMPTY NEST, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I find an old deserted nest Last Line: A phantom guest of empty dreams. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Summer; Youth; Nightmares AN ENGLISH PADLOCK, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Miss danae, when fair and young Last Line: And clap your padlock -- on her mind. Subject(s): Cupid; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Youth; Eros AN IMAGE FROM A PAST LIFE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never until this night have I been stirred Last Line: Of the hovering thing night brought me. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Youth; Past; Memory AN ODE (5), by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While blooming youth, and gay delight Last Line: While still we wake to joy, and live to love. Subject(s): Love; Women; Youth AN OLD MAN TO AN OLD MADEIRA, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When first you trembled at my kiss Last Line: To other younger sinners. Subject(s): Aging; Kisses; Past; Youth AN OLD MAN'S ASPIRATION, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O glorious sun! Whose car sublime Last Line: And mine old age attest its meliorating power! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Aging; Faith; Fate; Poetry & Poets; Youth; Belief; Creed; Destiny AN OLD MAN'S MEMORY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The delights of our childhood is Last Line: And the joy of the swet of his brow! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Nature; Past; Spring; Youth AN OLD MAN'S SONG, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye are young, ye are young Last Line: Death cometh at last. Subject(s): Old Age; Youth AN OLD SONG OF A YOUTHFUL TIME, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I went for a woodland walk Last Line: I have thought of it oft since then! Subject(s): Charm; Man-woman Relationships; Youth; Male-female Relations AN OXFORD IDYLL, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah little mill, you're rumbling still Last Line: Are twenty-two for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Oxford University; Youth AN UNPRAISED PICTURE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a picture once by angelo Last Line: Yet trembles forth a word of prayer and praise. Subject(s): Portraits; Praise; Tears; Time; Youth ANACREONTIC, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "drink, in the glory of youth" Last Line: "be mad, be wise as thou listest" Subject(s): Youth ANAESTHETICS, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: I dreamt I saw a healer stand Last Line: "upsteals the saintly moon!" Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Soul; Time; Youth; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lucy doolin, first day on the job, stroked his goatee Subject(s): Refuse & Refuse Disposal; Rats; Murder; Fathers & Sons; Conduct Of Life; Memory; Youth; Relationships AND THEN, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: Goldin plays it over yet again, this time with the never-ending Last Line: The screens Subject(s): Universities & Colleges; Youth AND THEY ARE DUMB, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been across the bridges of the years wet with tears Last Line: And they are dumb! Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Kisses; Tears; Truth; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness ANDREE REXROTH, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Purple and green, blue and white Subject(s): Love; Past; Solitude; Youth; Loneliness ANDREE REXROTH, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Purple and green, blue and white Last Line: Flesh is utterly consumed Subject(s): Love; Past; Solitude; Youth ANSWER TO CLOE JEALOUS, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, fairest proof of beauty's power Last Line: Who, dying thus, persists to love thee. Subject(s): Beauty; Jealousy; Nature; Tears; Youth ANTHEM FOR DOOMED YOUTH, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Last Line: And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds. Subject(s): Mortality; Mourning; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Youth; Bereavement; First World War ANYWHERE, NOWHERE, by JOHN WILLIAM LLOYD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the ignominy! Oh the shame of it, the Last Line: Forever be nowhere? Alternate Author Name(s): Lloyd, J. William Subject(s): Homeless; Poverty; Youth APOCRYPHA, by BABETTE DEUTSCH Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: When john the baptist was so young Last Line: He shaped a kiss: all day she smiled. Alternate Author Name(s): Yarmolinsky, Avrahm, Mrs. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.); Mothers APOLOGY TO A LADY, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair sylvia, cease to blame my youth Last Line: And never settle more! Subject(s): Beauty; Forgiveness; Love; Women; Youth; Clemency APRIL, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A black north wind that chills Last Line: When I was young! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): April; Country Life; Memory; Nature; Spring; Youth AQUELLOS VATOS, by TINO VILLANUEVA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Simon, %we knew him as la zorra - ubcouth but Last Line: And by going to the zoo on a greyhound bus with miss foxx Subject(s): Barrios; Youth ARABEL, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twists of smoke rise from the limpness of jeweled fingers Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets; Books; Youth; Reading ARS LONGA, VITA BREVIS, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I started on a lonely road Last Line: Till I am lost amid the crowd. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Life; Nature; Roads; Youth; Paths; Trails AS A BOY WHEN DESPERATE I'D PRAY WITH BARE KNEES, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But from the window I look like an old man Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Boys; Men; Nature; Old Age; Prayer; Youth AS A CHILD I LOVED TO SQUARE-DANCE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: After it touched a new girl's hand Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Children; Courtship; Nature; Youth AS I SIT IN THE SILENCE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many pleasures of youth have been buoyantly sung Last Line: As I sit in the silence and gaze in the fire. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Variant Title(s): Envoy Subject(s): Aging; Memory; Past; Silence; Youth AS LONG AS YOUR EYES ARE BLUE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Will you love me, sweet, when my hair is grey Last Line: Just as long as your eyes are blue. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Eyes; Love; Soul; Youth ASHES, by MARY KATE HUNTER Poem Text First Line: The wishing heart of youth / stirred with Last Line: And the heart insatiate. Subject(s): Youth ASPHALT, by JOHN MINCZESKI Poem Source First Line: At st. Stans, back in seventh grade Last Line: Center of the earth Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Children; Race Awareness; Youth ASSUAGEMENT, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I am head what shall this sorrow matter? Last Line: To be a symbol of my heart's glad singing. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Youth AT MAJORITY, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you are old and beautiful Last Line: The stillness of antiquity Subject(s): Youth AT NAZARETH, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little child, a joy-of-heart with eyes Last Line: His daily speech so innocently wise %that all the town went telling: 'jesus saith' Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth AT PEGASUS, by TERRANCE HAYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: They are like those crazy women Last Line: Wet & holy in its mouth Subject(s): Youth; Love - Beginnings; Desire AT SEVENTY-THREE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well, let us face things as they are Last Line: For I am over seventy-three! Subject(s): Aging; Family Life; Life; Mankind; Tears; Youth; Relatives; Human Race AT THE MOVIE: VIRGINIA, 1956, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is how it was: Subject(s): Racism; Southern States; Motion Pictures; Youth; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; South (u.s.); Movies; Cinema ATHLETIC ODE, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hear a rumour and a shout Last Line: Youth has her perfect crown, and age her old desire. Subject(s): Athletes; Youth AUSTRALIA IN LONDON, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Between the battle over Last Line: We fought, as you, to be free. Subject(s): Australia; Freedom; Kisses; London; Youth; Liberty AUTOGRAPH OF YOUTH, by MARTHA C. COCHRAN Poem Text First Line: The youth should be normal with laughter and song Last Line: Whose triumphs were never too great to be kind. Subject(s): Youth AVENGING CHILDE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hurrah! Hurrah! Avoid the way of the avenging childe Last Line: My daughter now may pay the vow she plighted long ago!' Subject(s): Fights; Vengeance; Youth BAALBEK, by JOHN STONE Poem Source First Line: Near the temple of bacchus Last Line: With all the ages Subject(s): Youth BACCHANALIAN SONG, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fill up your cups, drink down your wine Last Line: Aye, they're worth all your gold! Subject(s): Love; Youth BALLAD, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forgive me if I laugh Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Youth BALLAD OF THE PRIMROSE WAY, by ROSE EDITH MILLS Poem Text First Line: Life, through the arc of a century Last Line: Earth's olympus is primrose way. Subject(s): Life; Primroses; Youth BALLADE OF A DEAD LADY, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All old fair things are in their places Last Line: Ah! Where have they hidden those great eyes? Subject(s): Aging; Death; Nature; Spring; Youth; Dead, The BALLADE OF LOST OBJECTS, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where are the ribbons I tie my hair with? Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Religion; Youth; Theology BALLADE OF LOST OBJECTS, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where are the ribbons I tie my hair with? Last Line: But where in the world did the children vanish? Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Religion; Youth BALLADE OF MIDDLE AGE, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our youth began with tears and sighs Last Line: "life's more amusing than we thought""!" Subject(s): Youth BALLADE OF THE STRANGE WORD, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: These warm spring days Last Line: "but ""apricate." Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Language; Life; Youth; Words; Vocabulary BALLADE OF YOUTH AND AGE, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring at her height on a morn at prime Last Line: These are a type of the world of age. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Brown, Thomas Edward (1830-1897); Old Age; Youth BALLADE: 22, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since love is such that, as ye wot Last Line: The power wherein I am possessed. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Fortune; Love; Youth BEDTIME IN GALILEE, by BERENICE RICE Poem Text First Line: When the little jesus had been fed Last Line: Before she lost her little lad. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth BEDTIME STORY, by ROBERT MEZEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Accidents will happen - still, in time Last Line: Let him go. We choose our time to die. %come, love, come close, and murder me with a kiss Variant Title(s): If I Should Die Before I Wak Subject(s): Boxing And Boxers; Death; Ketchel, Stanley (1886-1910); Old Age; Youth BEN BOLT, by THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Don't you remember sweet alice, ben bolt Last Line: Ben bolt of the salt-sea gale. Subject(s): Youth BEST TIMES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When old folks they wuz young like us Last Line: Them wuz the best times ever wuz %er ever goin' ter be! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Youth BETHLEHEM, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: For paten and for chalice Last Line: To the majesty of the least. Subject(s): Babies; Bethlehem, Palestine; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Infants BETWEEN THE WARS, by ROBERT HASS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I ran, it rained. Late in the afternoon Last Line: Starved children begging chocolate on the tracks Subject(s): Youth; War BEWARE!, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I know a maiden fair to see Last Line: "trust her not, / she is fooling thee!" Subject(s): Youth BEWITCHED PLAYGROUND, by DAVID RIVARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each could picture probably Subject(s): Daughters; Youth BIRCHES, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I see birches bend to left and right Last Line: One could do worse than be a swinger of birches. Subject(s): Birch Trees; Children; Environment; Trees; Winter; Youth; Childhood; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation BIRDS, by LUIS G. URBINA Poem Source First Line: Childhood, how deep the memories you stir! Last Line: As you bore hence the white birds and the blue! Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Youth BIRTH OF THE SUN, by PABLO ANTONIO CUADRA Poem Source First Line: I have invented new worlds. I have dreamed Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Jungles; Youth BIRTHDAY THOUGHTS, by MABEL CELIA SAUNDERS Poem Text First Line: It is sad today / and the winds blow wild Last Line: I'll always be young. Subject(s): Wind; Youth BLACK TEA, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That wedding song keeps thrumming in my head like da vinci's Last Line: Into worlds of wild honey. The gods are in the leaves. Subject(s): Absence; Love - Beginnings; Youth; Separation; Isolation BLAZES, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A man come home with my brothers Last Line: I thought of a burning bush Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Fire; Love - Nature Of; Youth BLOOM AND BLIGHT, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The scene is desolate and bleak Last Line: To which our sunshine is like shade. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Aging; Life; Youth BLUE GIRLS, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Twirling your blue skirts, traveling the sward Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Transience; Youth; Impermanence BLUE GIRLS, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twirling your blue skirts, traveling the sward Last Line: Since she was lovelier than any of you Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Transience; Youth BLUEBEARD, by RUTH FITCH BARLETT Poem Text First Line: Who has not been a bluebeard to himself Last Line: Because he closed one door when he was young? Subject(s): Youth BODY BESIDE THE TIES, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can't seem to wake you, kid, guess it Last Line: I had a lot to do a lot to see Subject(s): Death; Youth BOOKS ET VERITAS, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a youngster just going to school Last Line: And I still am convinced that they are. Subject(s): Classmates; Youth; Schoolmates BOUND AND FREE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come to me, love! Come on the wings of the wind! Last Line: That you must be bound, love, and I must be free. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Fate; Freedom; Life; Love; Wind; Youth; Destiny; Liberty BOY CHRIST, by HELENE GALLAGHER MULLINS Poem Source First Line: Exquisite face that agony must tear Last Line: Yourselves upon less loving hands that will %not fail to strike you on that shameful hill Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth BOY OR GIRL, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White rows of suburbs alternate with trees Last Line: Turn off your light and take the nighttime in Subject(s): Youth; Suburbs; Night BRAVE ANGUS CAMERON; THE WINNER OF THE QUEEN'S PRIZE, WIMBLEDON, 1866, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brave cameron, it needs not the lore of the seer Last Line: Thy laurels in age be as green as in youth. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Victory; Virtue; Youth BREASTS, by RYNN WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: By summer camp they already hung heavy Subject(s): Breasts; Youth BRIC-A-BRAC LOVER, by RUTH HERSCHBERGER Poem Source First Line: O my lover, bric-a-bac lover, with your eyes Last Line: As aged flesh looks forward to a soul Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Memory; Youth BRIDES, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: They must vanish of course Last Line: Over their delicate motions. Subject(s): Brides; Sea; Youth BRIDGING THE GAP, by GEORGE HELD Poem Source First Line: To bridge the gap between our ages Last Line: Unbridged the gap between our ages %unstreaked your hair and made mine grey Subject(s): Aging; Youth BRING FLOWERS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bring flowers to strew in the conqueror's path! Last Line: They break forth in glory. Bring flowers, bright flowers! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Youth; Nightmares BROKEN OFF, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: In the spring-time of youth didst thou bless me Last Line: I leave thee for death. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Pride; Time; Youth; Dead, The; Self-esteem; Self-respect BROKEN WINGS, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Gray-headed poets, whom the full years bless Last Line: Immortal lays. Subject(s): Death; Fame; Fate; Poetry & Poets; Youth; Dead, The; Reputation; Destiny BROWN PENNY, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I whispered, 'I am too young' Last Line: One cannot begin it too soon. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Variant Title(s): The Young Man's Song Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Youth BUSIED YOUTH, by EARLE HENRY MACLEOD Poem Text First Line: Busy little boy Last Line: All depends on you. Subject(s): Youth BUYING EARTH, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time was, when I was a boy Subject(s): Youth; Aging BY-AND-BY, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By-and-by, the maiden sighed -- by-and-by Last Line: Keep the promiscd by-and-by -- by-and-by? Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Hope; Mothers; Soldiers; Time; War; Youth; Optimism CAIN, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: I met cain Last Line: To do the same Subject(s): Cain; Youth CALDER: A MEMORY, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet calder! On thy flowery marge Last Line: Though youth and joy have fled. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Memory; Nature; Past; Youth CANADA: CASE HISTORY: 1945, by EARL (EARLE) BIRNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the case of a high-school land Subject(s): Canada; Youth; Modern Life; Canadians CANDY APPLE RED, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: A boy in a shark-finned car Last Line: Laid out, burning, just for you Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Relationships; Romance; Youth CANTILENA, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Spring in young hearts sets tenderness Last Line: From old hearts, memories. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Hearts; Old Age; Youth CANZONE A LA SONATA (TO. E.P.), by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What do you find to boast of in our age Last Line: Gape openwhere's your grinning melody? Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Youth; Heritage; Heredity CAROL OF JESUS CHILD, by FRANCIS MACNAMARA Poem Text First Line: What danger, mary ...' Last Line: "by-by, lullay." Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth CARP POEM, by TERRANCE HAYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After I have parked below the spray paint caked in the granite Last Line: Packed so close they might have eaten each other had there been nothing else to eat Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners; African Americans; Youth; Poetry & Poets; Convicts; Negroes; American Blacks CARPENTER, by LESLIE SAVAGE CLARK Poem Source First Line: He sang at his bench in nazareth Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth CARPENTER, by ISABEL FISKE CONANT Poem Source First Line: To the kind, the tall carpenter Last Line: The tree-souls whispered %music without words Subject(s): Carpenters; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth CARPENTER, by PHYLLIS HARTNOLL Poem Source First Line: Silent at joseph's side he stood Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth CARPENTER, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O lord, at joseph's humble bench Last Line: Home to thy father thou shalt bear %another child made thee like to thee Variant Title(s): At Joseph's Benc Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth; Religion CARPENTER, by GEOFFREY ANKETELL STUDDERT-KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder what he charged for chairs at nazareth Last Line: Men cheat and lie to one another so; %it's hard to be a carpenter Alternate Author Name(s): Willie, Woodbine Subject(s): Carpenters; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth CARPENTER OF ETERNITY, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wish I had been his apprentice Last Line: And worked in the nazareth shop. Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill Variant Title(s): In The Carpenter Shop Subject(s): Carpenters; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth CARPENTER OF NAZARETH, by GEORGE BLAIR Poem Source First Line: In nazareth, the narrow road Last Line: Mould thou into the perfect part, %o carpenter of nazareth Subject(s): Carpenters; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth CARPENTER OF NAZARETH, by WALTER+(1) SMITH Poem Source First Line: Were it table, trunk or stool Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth CASIDA OF THE GOLDEN GIRL, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The golden girl %was bathing in the water Last Line: And the water turned her gold Subject(s): Water; Youth CASTING THE FIRST VOTE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From mountain homes engirdled Last Line: And truth's brave deeds are wrought. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Freedom; Marching & Marches; Patriotism; War; Youth; Liberty CE QUI DURE, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How cold and wan the present lowers Last Line: Then thou hast, love! That deathless heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme Subject(s): Aging; Transience; Youth; Impermanence CEASE, FOOLISH ROSEBUD, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cease, foolish rosebud, cease unfolding Last Line: By thy yet lovelier self to-morrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Flowers; Growth; Roses; Youth CEMETERY, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: When we were smaller, silk ladies Last Line: Like granite sunk into the untended %green grass of their eyes Subject(s): Cemeteries; Grandparents; Graves; Revolutions; Youth CHATTING ABOUT THE PAST WITH HUANG THE ELDER (CHING-JEN), by HUNG LIANG-CHI Poem Source First Line: All ambitions of youth yield place to calamities Last Line: Trying to find the leanest horse to ride down the capital street Subject(s): Youth CHERRY TIME, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Tis cherry time, ripe cherry time Last Line: I'll pick and give sweetheart to you! Subject(s): Cherries; Courtship; Fruit; Youth CHILD, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The young child, christ, is straight and wise Last Line: For the young child. Christ, straight and wise. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Religion; Theology CHILD OF MARY'S SOUL, by SUSIE MONTGOMERY BEST Poem Text First Line: The star came out to hail him Last Line: Come in and make me whole! Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary CHILD THOUGHT, by JOSIE MANUS Poem Text First Line: When jesus was a child like me Last Line: He was a child like me. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth CHILDHOOD, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: With just a thought for childhood's hour Last Line: Into the larger place. Subject(s): Children; Memory; Thought; Youth; Childhood; Thinking CHILDLESS CHRISTMAS, by ROWENA MILLAR KELL Poem Text First Line: Mary, from your throne of grace Last Line: Who put no child tonight to bed. Subject(s): Childlessness; Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary CHILDREN OF NEWPORT BEACH, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: There is sun and sea Last Line: But you and I %have discovered %that they only know %how to be children Subject(s): Boats; Seashore; Youth CHILDWIST, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Rapt dreamer, what revealments dost thou see? Last Line: Still silent cherish till the daylight dies! Subject(s): Dreams; Wisdom; Youth; Nightmares CHLOE'S VALENTINE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: With growing sense of diffidence Last Line: When chloe's years are riper! Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Holidays; Love; Valentine's Day; Youth CHORDS: 1. VIOLINS, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Youth, you lay out Last Line: In a morning bright %with martins Subject(s): Adolescence; Youth CHORUS, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Surely in no benignant mood Last Line: The disenchanted ledges of old age. Subject(s): Aging; Goddesses & Gods; Life; Mythology; Youth CHRIST AT EIGHT, by ERNEST HARTSOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little boy, gentle boy Last Line: To slay them all in battle! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; Youth CHRIST'S STAR, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: How many stars so high and white Last Line: Till we shall find the promised king! Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Worship; Virgin Mary CHRISTMAS, by GRANT HYDE CODE Poem Text First Line: This is the day the great god pan lies dead Last Line: To soothe his sobbing with the pipes of pan. Subject(s): Christianity; Christmas; Holidays; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Nativity, The CHRISTMAS, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Youth, in the heart of faith now wearing old Last Line: Eternal in youth, and hope, and love and home! Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Christmas; Hope; Love; Youth; Nativity, The; Optimism CHRISTMAS, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: O babe who slept on mary's breast Last Line: "the swords of war at last are broken." Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary CHRISTMAS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We love to think of bethlehem Last Line: Comes yet on christmas day. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Babies; Bethlehem, Palestine; Birth; Children; Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery; Childhood; Nativity, The CHRISTMAS (1), by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let us go a journey' Last Line: She wept, 'o my lord!' Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Christmas; Happiness; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Nativity, The; Joy; Delight CHRISTMAS BELLS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, christmas bells, your music swells upon Last Line: Honest youth, the days he's left so far behind. Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Christmas; Gifts & Giving; Holidays; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Santa Claus; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint CHRISTMAS DAY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of all dear days is christmas day Last Line: In all the winds that blow. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Children; Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Peace; Childhood; Nativity, The CHRISTMAS EVE, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: The north wind rustles in the roads Last Line: His blessing gave to struggling men. Subject(s): Christmas; Gifts & Giving; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Santa Claus; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint CHRYSILLA, by HENRI FRANCOIS JOSEPH DE REGNIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spare me from seeing, goddess, by my bed Last Line: Close unto everlasting night mine eyes. Subject(s): Life; Love; Time; Youth CLARION, CLARION, by THEODORE B. HUNT Poem Text First Line: Clarion, clarion, singing so boldly Last Line: Give me the young men, the young men, I say. Subject(s): Courage; Soldiers; World War I; Youth; Valor; Bravery; First World War CLAUDE MATTHEWS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Steadfastly from his childhood's Last Line: By this divine promotion of his death. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Tears; Youth; Dead, The; Destiny CLIMBING EVEREST, by FREDERICK SEIDEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The young keep getting younger, but the old keep getting younger. Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Love - Age Differences; Youth; Old Age COLD, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The boy's hands are blue with cold Last Line: The forecast is not good. Subject(s): Cold; Poverty; Youth COMING BACK, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I went through the ancient town Last Line: Who knew me not and passed. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Variant Title(s): The Meeting Subject(s): Homecoming; Longing; Loss; Towns; Youth COMING OF AGE, by RICHARD KELL Poem Source First Line: Though I have seldom slept alone, sharing Last Line: I could teach myself-when-young a thing or two Subject(s): Aging; Youth CONTRA MORTEM: THE CHILD, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Otherwise considered being is a force Last Line: Lowest of low quickest unlife the immense lordling Subject(s): Children; Youth; Childhood CONTRA MORTEM: THE CHILD'S BEING, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Extended and always uncentered which is why it scares Last Line: A being freeborn and intricate like the day Subject(s): Children; Youth; Childhood COURTESY, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the beginning of time Last Line: On meeting a lady, instinctively raise one's hat. Subject(s): Likes And Dislikes; Love - Beginnings; Man-woman Relationships; Youth; Male-female Relations COZY APOLOGIA; FOR FRED, by RITA DOVE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could pick anything and think of you- Last Line: I fill this stolen time with you Subject(s): Boys; Hearts; Love - Beginnings; Youth CRABBED AGE AND YOUTH, by THEOPHILUS Poem Source First Line: Old husband and young wife never agree Last Line: One night: day finds her in another harbour Subject(s): Aging; Love - Age Differences; Youth CRABBED AGE AND YOUTH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Crabbed age and youth cannot live together Last Line: For methinks thou stays too long Subject(s): Old Age; Youth CRUCIFIXUS PRO NOBIS: 1. CHRIST IN THE CRADLE, by PATRICK CAREY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look, how he shakes for cold Last Line: Gives in a groan; or mary in a tear. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth CUB LOVE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I am thinking tonight of the sweethearts I had Last Line: The best in the world for my wife. Subject(s): Courtship; Kisses; Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Youth; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CURLY LOCKS, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Curly locks, what do you know of the world Last Line: On the way that you soon must go? Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Youth DAEDALUS, by ALASTAIR REID Poem Source First Line: My son has birds in his head Last Line: My son has birds in his head Subject(s): Birds; Daedalus; Icarus; Mythology - Classical; Youth DAISIES, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down on the hill on grandfather's farm Last Line: You bring to me to-day. Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Memory; Youth DAMAETAS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In law an infant, and in years a boy Last Line: And what was once his bliss appears his bane. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Youth DANCING, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Home from school I found Last Line: He asked if some evening he could take me / dancing Subject(s): Grandparents; Dancing; Youth; Old Age DANTE ÉTUDES: BOOK THREE: IN MY YOUTH NOT UNSTAIND, by ROBERT DUNCAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Youth DAPHNE, by VERA MARY BRITTAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sunrise and spring, and the river agleam in the morning Alternate Author Name(s): Catlin, George E. G., Mrs. Subject(s): Youth; Hope; Optimism DARKNESS, by SHARON RUBENSTEIN Poem Source First Line: Darkness steals a city Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Neighbors; Schools; Youth DAVE FIELD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me write you a rune of a rhyme Last Line: Toward the topmost heights, dave field. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dawn; Dreams; Rhyme; Youth; Sunrise; Nightmares DAVID, by MARY WINTER WERE Poem Text First Line: Why should the gay, the beautiful, the young Last Line: Not davidbut goliath paid the price.' Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Goliath; Old Age; Soldiers; War; Youth DAY-BREAK, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: With the little infant day / wake, and play! Last Line: Let him watch the things you do. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Day; Youth DEATH IN YOUTH, by JUANA INES DE LA CRUZ Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I noted once a fair castilian rose Last Line: "tis fairer fortune to die young than old." Alternate Author Name(s): Ramirez, Juana De Asbaje Y; Cruz, Juana Ines De La; Juana Ines De La Cruz Subject(s): Death; Love; Youth; Dead, The DEATH IN YOUTH, by GEORGE CABOT LODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy lips grow cold against the lips of death Last Line: While death prepares the spiritual day. Subject(s): Death; Youth; Dead, The DEATH OF A YOUNG LADY; AT THE RETREAT FOR THE INSANE, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Youth glows upon her blossom'd cheek Last Line: Weep not as others weep. Subject(s): Death; Psychiatric Hospitals; Sleep; Youth; Dead, The; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums DEATHLESS TALE, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Had he not breathed his breath Last Line: Unutterably dim %our bright world, lacking him Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth DEBATE: QUESTION, QUARRY, DREAM, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Asking what, asking what? - all a boy's afternoon Subject(s): Youth; Childhood Memories; Sons; Hunting; Hunters DECEPTRICES, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because they are not Last Line: The unalterable conclusion Subject(s): Youth DENVER STREET, by WILLARD JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: A garish flare of magazines Last Line: And navels before breakfast! Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Oranges; Youth; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men DISCIPLINE, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is stormy, and raindrops cling like silver bees to the panes Last Line: Is complete for the moment, yet wait, and you'll see that my flower will live. Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Discipline; Youth DISILLUSIONED, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: We slumber in youth Last Line: Of glory divine? Subject(s): Earth; Life; Love; Youth; World DITTY IN IMITATION OF THE SPANISH: ENTRE TANTO QUE L'AVRIL, by EDWARD HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now that the april of your youth adorns Last Line: And that which is not youth's, is age's prey. Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord Subject(s): Youth DOCKERY AND SON, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Relationships; Disappointment; Ancestors & Ancestry; Middle Age' Universities And Colleges; Youth; Heritage; Heredity DOCUMENTARY, by BRUCE BOND Poem Source First Line: I watch your hospital tv as you sleep Last Line: His face flushed, bursting like a match Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Television; Youth DOLLIE, by SAMUEL MINTURN PECK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She sports a witching gown Last Line: Little rose! Subject(s): Dolls; Toys; Youth DOMESDAY BOOK: CONSIDER FREELAND, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look at that tract of land there -- five good acres Last Line: Of elenor murray: -- Subject(s): Life; Love; War; Youth DOMESDAY BOOK: HENRY MURRAY, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Henry murray, father of elenor murray Last Line: The while she spoke: Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Marriage; Youth; Dead, The; Relatives; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DON'T TRUST ANYONE OVER THIRTY, by WILHELM SZABO Poem Source First Line: They don't trust Subject(s): Youth DORA, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A waxing moon that, crescent yet Last Line: To learn that tears are obsolete. Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Love; Moon; Tears; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism DOWN BY THE SALLEY GARDENS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet Last Line: But I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Variant Title(s): An Old Song Resung;the Salley Gardens Subject(s): Love; Youth DOWNTOWN, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: We are out late without Last Line: Back laughing and the street %is a frenzy of white uniforms Subject(s): Revolutions; Theater And Theaters; Youth DRAWING 101, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Asked about the meaning of his abstract Last Line: Fucking, he says, just fucking Subject(s): Drawing; Sex; Youth DRAWING SWASTIKAS ON THE FOGGED WINDOWS OF ST. JOSEPH'S GRADE SCHOOL, by WILLIAM JOSEPH MEISSNER Poem Source First Line: After school we cleaned bruised boards Last Line: The lights blacked out, %the windows steamed Subject(s): Children; Nazis; Nuns; Schools; Youth DREAM, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Son of folly, dream thou ever Last Line: Vain laments no longer raise! Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Love; Youth; Nightmares DREAMED, by ALICE FERRIN HENSEY Poem Text First Line: We dreamed, when we were very young Last Line: Each heart knows well the taste of rue. Subject(s): Youth DREAMLAND, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I woke from dreams of rare delight Last Line: And reawaken . . . Nevermore. Subject(s): Children; Death; Dreams; Sleep; Youth; Childhood; Dead, The; Nightmares DREAMS IN WAR TIME, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wandered through a house of many rooms. Subject(s): Dreams; Youth; Transience; Nightmares; Impermanence DREAMY DAYS, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! The dreamy days of youth Last Line: Interesting. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Youth DRIFTS, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: With drifts of bloom on the hills Last Line: Through the drifts of smiles and tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Youth DRIVE OF YOUTH, by LOIS STANTON PHILLIPS Poem Text First Line: Are you, too, parents, whose ideas are old Last Line: Their driving has a purpose, thought out well. Subject(s): Youth DUNOON, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little maggie sitting in the pew Last Line: Of hearts that stir not from their places. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Youth DURAND, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To the ancient house of balbi Last Line: Through the empty halls of heaven. Subject(s): Heaven; Sleep; Youth; Paradise DURAND OF BLONDEN, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tow'rds the lofty walls of balbi, lo! Durand of blonden hies Last Line: "ever calling, ""blanca! Blanca!"" through the desert halls of heaven." Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love; Sleep; Youth; Dead, The; Paradise EARLY, by LARS LUNDKVIST Poem Source First Line: Da mi basia mille %deinde centum Last Line: Send your bread across the water Subject(s): Happiness; Love; Youth EHEU, FUGACES!, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time was when sleep and I were well acquainted Last Line: Ah me! I was a fair young cyclist then! Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Youth ELD TO YOUTH, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Would I exchange Last Line: And the lord alone?) Subject(s): Youth ELEGIAC SONNET: 76. TO A YOUNG MAN ENTERING THE WORLD, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go now, ingenuous youth! - the trying hour Last Line: May'st die, as hampden or as sydney died! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Freedom; Youth; Liberty ELEGY, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where are ye, dear companions of my youth? Last Line: That hope would gild life's fast-declining day. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Friendship; Girls; Youth ELEGY FOR JANE, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I remember the neckcurls, limp and damp as tendrils Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Fathers & Daughters; Labor & Laborers; Youth; Dead, The; Work; Workers ELEGY FOR JANE, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember the neckcurls, limp and damp as tendrils Last Line: I, with no rights in this matter, %neither father nor lover Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Fathers And Daughters; Labor And Laborers; Youth ENCOURAGEMENT TO EXILE, by TITUS PETRONIUS NIGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Leave thine own home, o youth, seek distant shores! Last Line: Who disembarks, fearless, on alien sands. Alternate Author Name(s): Petronius Arbiter; Tactitus Arbiter Elegantiae Subject(s): Independence; Youth ENGLISH SCHOOLBOY, by JOHN HEYWOOD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All my pleasure is in catching of birds Subject(s): Youth EPILOGUE; IN MEMORIAM, CHARLES TOPPIN, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Four decades back, obedient to the best Last Line: In love, as added lustre to your fair renown. Subject(s): Boys; Gratitude; Youth EPISTLE TO DR. ENFIELD ON HIS REVISITING WARRINGTON IN 1789, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friend of those years which from youth's sparkling fount Last Line: A daughter's sorrows o'er her father's urn! Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Youth; Friendship; Guests; Visiting EPISTLE TO THE LADY ANNE CLIFFORD, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unto the tender youth of those fair eyes Last Line: Than th' ancestors' fair glory gone before. Subject(s): Clifford, Anne. Countess Of Pembroke; Eyes; Praise; Silence; Women; Youth EPITAPH, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O youth, o beauty, ye who fed the flame Last Line: To deck your glory, not his false renown. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Youth EPITAPH ON HER SON HECTOR PHILIPS, by KATHERINE PHILIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What on earth deserves our trust? Last Line: Bury'd in a morning cloud. Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda Variant Title(s): Epitaph On Her Son H.p. At St. Syth's Church Subject(s): Beauty; Death - Children; Epitaphs; Life; Youth; Death - Babies EPITAPH: ELEANOR BOYES (1758-1784), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "short was my race, long is my rest" Last Line: "god called me hence, it pleased him best" Subject(s): Epitaphs;youth EPITAPH: ON HIMSELF, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Reader, approach my urn--thou need'st not fear Last Line: Alas! The young, the gay is now no more! Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Youth; Dead, The EPITAPH: RALPH BALDWYN (1671-1689), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: His early vertue took a pitying view Last Line: O' th' world and like it not and bid adieu Subject(s): Epitaphs;youth EPITAPH: SARAH EAMES (1815-1827), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Here is a tender branch laid low Last Line: A sweeter flower could never blow Subject(s): Epitaphs;youth EPITHALAMIUM, by EDWARD SANDFORD MARTIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The marriage bells have rung their peal Last Line: Here's tosuccess to her successor! Subject(s): Grief; Love - Unrequited; Marriage; Wedding Song; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Epithalamium ESTHER: 4, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And thus it is. The tale I have to tell Subject(s): Youth EVEN-SONG, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the west is warm, and now Last Line: Welcome are the wings of love! Subject(s): Aging; Evening; Love; Youth; Sunset; Twilight EVENING ON LAKE COMO, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside my garden's ivied wall Last Line: The dreams of youth come back to me. Subject(s): Evening; Gardens & Gardening; Lakes; Life; Youth; Sunset; Twilight; Pools; Ponds EXCEEDING ALL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long life's a lovely thing to know Last Line: The loveliness of youth! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Health; Life; Youth EXIT, by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Easily to the old Last Line: In the churchyard grieve. Subject(s): Death; Youth; Dead, The EXPECTANT, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: Yes, I shall watch the sky tonight Last Line: With heavenly halo on his head. Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Children; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Childhood EXPLORER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The magpie explores the cowdung Last Line: In the land of forever young. Subject(s): Country Life; Youth FAC ET SPERA, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Time may have taken Last Line: As long as men need it. Subject(s): Youth FACTS OF LIFE, by GEORGE+(2) ROBERTS Poem Source First Line: Valerie is not in class again today. As we open our books she is outside Last Line: Facts of life. And I am learning them as well Subject(s): Life; Youth FADED FLOWERS, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, ye perish'd flowers Last Line: The spirit back to god! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Youth FANS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: It begins as if the body itself were a fan Last Line: He shows her the sea %before love, %waves Subject(s): Love; Youth FARM BOY, by ALEXANDERA MERTES Poem Text First Line: Have you seen him Last Line: Solitary dawns, and clearing skies. Subject(s): Youth FARM CHILD, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look at this village boy, his head is stuffed Last Line: Earth breeds and beckons to the stubborn plough Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Farm Life; Youth FATHER WILLIAM [QUESTIONED], FR. ALICE IN WONDERLAND, by CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are old, father william,' the young man said Last Line: Be off, or I'll kick you downstairs!' Alternate Author Name(s): Carroll, Lewis Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Southey, Robert (1774-1843); Youth FATHER WILLIAM; A NEW VERSION, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are old, father william, and though one would think Last Line: "is my answer -- the toe of my boot." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Aging; Youth FERN HILL, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs Subject(s): Children; Farm Life; Innocence; Nature; Time; Wales; Youth; Childhood; Agriculture; Farmers; Welshmen; Welshwomen FERN HILL, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs Last Line: Time held me green and dying %though I sang in my chains like the sea Subject(s): Children; Farm Life; Innocence; Nature; Time; Wales; Youth FESTE'S SONG (1), FR. TWELFTH NIGHT, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O mistress mine, where are you roaming? Last Line: Youth's stuff will not endure. Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Holidays; Love; Valentine's Day; Youth FIFTEEN AND FIFTY, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, darling, put your frown aside! Last Line: When thus you tyrannize. Subject(s): Middle Age; Youth FISH FOR BREAKFAST, by HENRY T. CHAMBERS Poem Text First Line: In utah becky's place Last Line: "spring is an old man's friend." Subject(s): Spring; Youth FIVE CRITICISMS, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old pantaloon, lean-witted, dour and rich Last Line: And we're the lonely dreamers after all. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Criticism & Critics; Death; Dreams; England; Hate; Pride; Soul; Youth; Dead, The; Nightmares; English; Self-esteem; Self-respect FIVE LITTLE WANDERINGS: 3. YOUTH, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is warm and the wind is sweet Last Line: There's a pot of gold at the end for me! Subject(s): Youth FLEETING YOUTH, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE Poem Text First Line: Frail, round-eyed youth surveys in ecstasy Last Line: Her spread her glistening wings and flit away! Subject(s): Farewell; Youth; Parting FLIES, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You, familiar houseflies Last Line: You, my old friends, %to me evoke everything Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Youth FLIGHT INTO EGYPT, by PETER QUENNELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Within heaven's circle I had not guessed at this Last Line: And to make dumb our theft %the white and moving sand that will not bear a print Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth FLOWER OF YOUTH, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lest heaven be thronged with grey-beards hoary Last Line: "and say: ""thank god, he has enough!" Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): God; Heaven; World War I; Youth; Paradise; First World War FLOWERETS, by ACHILLE PAYSANT Poem Text First Line: Think not I could forget your graces fallen asleep Last Line: His tomb. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Love; Night; Youth; Dead, The; Bedtime FOLLY'S HARVEST, by BERNARD RAYMUND Poem Text First Line: Superb impertinence of youth Last Line: Its unacknowledged way. Subject(s): Harvest; Youth FOR A BEAUTIFUL YOUTH, by THALIA BELL Poem Text First Line: I always loved the splendour of your youth Last Line: So long as beats one visionary heart. Subject(s): Beauty; Immortality; Youth FOR A VIRGIN AND CHILD, BY HANS MEMMELINCK, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mystery: god, man's life, born into man Last Line: Harsh nether darkness, and make painful moan. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Variant Title(s): Sonntes For Pictures: 1. A Virgin And Child, By Hans Memmeling Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Memmeling, John (1430-1495); Paintings And Painters; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary; Memling, Hans; Memlinc, Hans; Memmelinck, Hans FOR FRECKLED-FACED GERALD, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Now you take ol rufus. He beat drums Subject(s): African Americans; Prisons & Prisoners; Youth; Negroes; American Blacks; Convicts FOR FRECKLED-FACED GERALD, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now you take ol rufus. He beat drums Last Line: And at night light upon his back Subject(s): African Americans; Prisons And Prisoners; Youth FOR MY SON ON THE HIGHWAYS OF HIS MIND, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today the jailbird maple in the yard Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Youth FOR THE HOLY FAMILY, BY MICHELANGELO (IN THE NATIONAL GALLERY), by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Turn not to the prophet's page, o son! He knew Last Line: The seed o' the woman bruise the serpent's head. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Catholics; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Women In The Bible; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Virgin Mary FOR THE LAST SUMMER, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That summer with a thousand julys Subject(s): Music, Rock; Youth; Summer; War; Desire; Rock & Roll FOR THEM THAT DIED IN BATTLE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How blossomy must be the halls of death Last Line: And honor's music on them like sunrise. Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Tears; Youth; Dead, The FORTUNY'S PIPING SHEPHERD, by MELVILLE UPTON Poem Text First Line: What youth is that who pipes so lustily Last Line: And mirth and laughter of a youth divine. Subject(s): Pipers; Youth FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH, by JOSEPHINE B. MORETTI Poem Source First Line: I have found the secret of how to stay young Last Line: It's my own, my lovable rascals %that are making my hair turn gray! Subject(s): Aging; Children; Fountain Of Youth FOUR POEMS FOR ROBIN: SIWASHING IT OUT .. IN SISULAW FOREST, by GARY SNYDER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I slept under rhododendron Subject(s): Camping; Oregon; Love; Youth; Memory; Camps; Summer Camps FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 7. CHERRY RIPE, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a garden in her face Last Line: Till cherry-ripe themselves do cry! Subject(s): Beauty; Conceit; Faces; Love; Youth FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 9, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Young and simple though I am Last Line: Love he must or flatter me. Subject(s): Youth; Love FREDERICK HENRY HEDGE, D.D. ON HIS 80TH BIRTHDAY, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: What lapse or accident of time Last Line: His mellowest music be his last. Subject(s): Birthdays; Hedge, Frederick Henry (1805-1890); Life; Youth FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH ONCE AGAIN, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: The cup of cuban coffee Last Line: You probably don't know %that today has been friday %friday the thirteenth %once again Subject(s): Cuba; Youth FRIENDS OF YOUTH, by CAROLINE CLIVE Poem Text First Line: I sought you, friends of youth, in sun and shade Last Line: Triumphantly the echo answered, 'there!' Alternate Author Name(s): V; Meysey-wigley, Caroline Subject(s): Friendship; Youth FROM INLAND, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed that you and I were young Last Line: That fled so bravely to its death. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Old Age; Past; Relationships; Youth FROM THE GREATER TESTAMENT (XXII, XXIII, AND XXVI), by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I doe bemoan my youthful sinne Last Line: My heart comes nigh to break in two. Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Subject(s): Old Age; Youth FRUITS AND VEGETABLES, by UMBERTO SABA Poem Source First Line: Greens and fruit the color of the loveliest Last Line: He departs on light feet, with his shadow Subject(s): Youth FURNITURE, by PHYLLIS MASEK HARRIS Poem Source First Line: There are youngsters now %younger than I, moving as nomads Last Line: Adnorments; themselves the only %shelter they have found Subject(s): Youth GAUDEAMUS IGITUR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Let us live then and be glad Last Line: Die the starch-neck philistine! / scoffers and defamers! Subject(s): Youth GETHSEMANE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In golden youth when seems the earth Last Line: The purpose in gethsemane. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Despair; Earth; Gethsemane; Soul; Youth; World GETTING READY, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: I'm the thousand-change girl, getting ready for school, standing in my Last Line: What you're wearing? Subject(s): Children; Parents; Youth GHAZAL, by HAFEZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday morning I chanced to drink a cup or two, and from the Last Line: Heart had fallen into the snare of love. Alternate Author Name(s): Hafiz, Kwaja Shams Al-din Muhammad; Hafiz Of Shiraz; Hafez, Mohammad Shams Od-din Subject(s): Longing; Youth GHAZAL, by HAFEZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The east wind at the dawn of day brought a perfume from the Last Line: The sufi manner. Alternate Author Name(s): Hafiz, Kwaja Shams Al-din Muhammad; Hafiz Of Shiraz; Hafez, Mohammad Shams Od-din Subject(s): Longing; Youth GHAZAL, by HAFEZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O cupbearer! Bring the joy of youth; bring cup after cup of red Last Line: Give cup after cup hafiz; pour, whether it be sin or sanctity. Alternate Author Name(s): Hafiz, Kwaja Shams Al-din Muhammad; Hafiz Of Shiraz; Hafez, Mohammad Shams Od-din Subject(s): Longing; Youth GHAZAL, by HAFEZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The heart is the veil behind which is hidden his love; his eye is Last Line: Benevolence! Alternate Author Name(s): Hafiz, Kwaja Shams Al-din Muhammad; Hafiz Of Shiraz; Hafez, Mohammad Shams Od-din Subject(s): Longing; Youth GHAZAL, by HAFEZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If that beauty of shiraz would take my heart in hand, I would Last Line: Hath shed upon thy poetry the harmony of the pleiades. Alternate Author Name(s): Hafiz, Kwaja Shams Al-din Muhammad; Hafiz Of Shiraz; Hafez, Mohammad Shams Od-din Subject(s): Longing; Youth GIVE ME A CHANCE, by THOMAS T. BLEWETT Poem Text First Line: Give me a chance to do my work Last Line: Give me a chance. Subject(s): Chance; Youth GLAD YOUTH, by CALISTA BARKER CLARK Poem Text First Line: Glad youth and strength! Last Line: What must heaven be! Subject(s): Heaven; Youth; Paradise GLADYS AND HER ISLAND; AN IMPERFECT TALE WITH DOUBTFUL MORAL, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O happy gladys! I rejoice with her Last Line: And mind your english. Subject(s): Fables; Heroism; Islands; Story-telling; Tears; Youth; Allegories; Heroes; Heroines GLORY OF PROGRESS, by SALOME URENA DE HENRIQUEZ Poem Source First Line: It is not enough for a free people to put on the crown of Last Line: Amid the applause of thinkers, sing to the world the great %hosanna of progress! Subject(s): Knowledge; Poetry And Poets; Progress; Wisdom; Youth GOD'S YOUTH, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I often wish that I had been alive Last Line: When god was young and blithe and whimsical. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Youth GOLDEN DAYS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Golden days -- where are they? Last Line: Golden days? Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Grief; Love; Past; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness GRACE, by ADELIA PRADO Poem Source First Line: The world is a garden. A light bathes the world Last Line: Like the sky, the real world is pastoral Subject(s): Memory; Youth GRAMPA SCHULER, by RUTH SUCKOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Grampa schuler, when he was young Last Line: "young fools coming to!" Subject(s): Grandparents; Old Age; Youth; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers GRAVITY'S FIRST LESSON, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: Tired of raging ive decided Last Line: Let myself go %gently Subject(s): Games; Introspection; Self; Youth GREEN APPLES, by DUDLEY RANDALL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What can you do with a woman under thirty? Last Line: It's only just that young women get what they deserve. %a young man Subject(s): Women; Youth GRISELDA: CHAPTER 1, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An idle story with an idle moral! Last Line: Was slow of speech, or that he slept too well! Subject(s): Humanity; Love - Marital; Novels & Novelists; Women; Youth; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love GROWNING DOWN, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time was I thought of growing up Last Line: And so to him I'm growing down. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Youth HAPPY CHRISTMASTIDE, by GERTRUDE ELOISE BEALER Poem Text First Line: Holly berries red and bright Last Line: Theirs a gladsome song! Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Festivals; Singing & Singers; Youth; Childhood; Nativity, The; Fairs; Pageants; Songs HARRY PARRY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "oh, rare harry parry / when will you marry?" Last Line: And dance and sing all the night Subject(s): Labor & Laborers;youth HASSAN AND HASSOUN, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said hassan to hassoun: / ''t were a boon Last Line: Both hassoun and hassan! Subject(s): Islam; Wisdom; Youth HAVE PATIENCE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The goblets all are broken Last Line: Are very near us. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Grief; Life; Patience; Youth; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness HE WENT FOR A SOLDIER, by RUTH COMFORT MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He marched away with a blithe young score of him Last Line: Borne with the hell called war! Alternate Author Name(s): Young, Sanborn, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events; Loss; Soldiers; Women; World War I; Youth; Dead, The; First World War HE'S GOT A GIRL, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We used to think, his ma and me Last Line: My, how it has improved that boy! Subject(s): Courtship; Youth HEAVY AIR, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: Your adolescent fury is spending itself on mozart Last Line: Tapping on the snare of your bedroom door Subject(s): Adolescence; Sons; Youth HEBE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Youth! Thou art a lovely time Last Line: Asking but to rest or break. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Youth HEBE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the twinkle of white feet Last Line: To pour for thee the cup of honor. Subject(s): Hebe (goddess Of Youth And Spring) HELEN'S BEAUTY, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That lady, chiefest slave of love her lord Last Line: When april's gone, october bringeth tears. Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Goddesses & Gods; Helen Of Troy; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Tears; Youth HER NEIGBOURS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: They lingered at her father's door Last Line: With one word answered - 'you' Subject(s): Lent;love - Beginnings;youth HERACLES FURENS: YOUTH AND AGE, by EURIPIDES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To me the hours of youth are dear Last Line: And love and beauty bow the knee %to gold's supreme divinity Subject(s): Youth HERE IS MUSIC: 12. THE ELECTRIC CHAIN, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: I rang. I waited. Jangled voices came Last Line: Shall we, in mystic marriage, speak from throne to throne? Subject(s): Youth HERE IS MUSIC: 16. CHANT ROYAL, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Because I, spiritually starving, knew Last Line: An-hunger'd and full fain for former happiness. Subject(s): Aging; Happiness; Love - Marital; Youth; Joy; Delight; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love HERE IS MUSIC: 19. BEFORE AND AFTER: BEFORE, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Books as my background. Books Last Line: Of e'er-increasing anger, ice-cold, hun-ward hate. Subject(s): Books; History; Libraries & Librarians; Scholarship & Scholars; Youth; Reading; Historians HERE IS MUSIC: 5, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: If, decades back: in days Last Line: Peaceyes, and passion likewise: food for body, soul and mind. Subject(s): Aging; Youth HERE IS MUSIC: 6, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: In callow youth Last Line: Far down, from heaven, towards hell. Subject(s): Youth HERE IS MUSIC: 9. BALLADE, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Into this tiny, trivial, one-horse town Last Line: And lets me, singing, loving, live my little hour. Subject(s): Children; Memory; Youth; Childhood HERE IS MUSIC: ARTHUR RIVERS FREELING; IN MEMORIAM, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Friend of my youth, for all time young to me Last Line: Where I miss no man as I now miss you. Subject(s): Men; Youth HERE IS MUSIC: CHANT ROYAL; FOR NORMAN WHATLEY, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Frustrate and failure, fortune's footstool, fate's Last Line: Shall not look down on one who wholly lived in vain. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Youth HERE IS MUSIC: DOUBLE BALLADE WITH DOUBLE REFRAIN (3), by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Long since, in hours of eld, full fain Last Line: "so little done! So much to do!" Subject(s): Youth HERE IS MUSIC: EPILOGUE, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: If, even as goethe, women's tears Last Line: Twin things beget true artists ... Love and cruelty. Subject(s): Children; Love; Singing & Singers; Youth; Childhood HERE IS MUSIC: FOR VINCENT KEYTE, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: A devon field. The glad, sweet scent of grass Last Line: Of generous youth at playwhite-cladon english green. Subject(s): Boys; Youth HERE IS MUSIC: RESPICIT PHILOSOPHUS, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Boys, of my blood but whom Last Line: Send you god's truth, man's love. Subject(s): Philosophy & Philosophers; Youth HERE IS MUSIC: VILLANELLE, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: I would not be a boy again Last Line: For castle situate in spain. Subject(s): Aging; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Youth; Loneliness HERODIAS, SELECTION, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, for myself, myself I flower forlorn! Last Line: Its chill gems part at last. Subject(s): Dreams; Virginity; Youth; Nightmares; Vestals HERUCLES FURENS: YOUTH, by EURIPIDES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I count it always a joy to be young Last Line: The beasts of their fear. Subject(s): Youth HIDING, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: Because the moon in late october made landmarks glow: the broken gate, our yar Last Line: Materializing through trees. Subject(s): Children; October; Sisters; Youth HIGH SCHOOL BOYFRIEND, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You were willing to like me, and I did something, Last Line: Is so wrong Subject(s): Youth; Love - Beginnings HILLTOPS, by LESLIE SAVAGE CLARK Poem Source First Line: No doubt on the hills of nazareth Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth HIS HEART OF CONSTANT YOUTH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Turn through his life, each word Last Line: And how he loves you now. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Love; Youth HIS LAST PICTURE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The skies have grown troubled and Last Line: To where it wound into the skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Flowers; Paintings And Painters; Sky; Youth HIS PHOENIX, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a queen in china, or maybe it's in spain Last Line: I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Beauty; Youth HIS YOUTH, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: But all too soon the much-loved father died Last Line: For they in him found sweet companionship, %and he found good and god in everything Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth HIS YOUTH, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dying? I am not dying. Are you mad? Last Line: Hushed his wild words. Well, has he found his youth? Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Sickness; Youth; Dead, The; Illness HOLBAIN, by ANNE BATTEN CRISTALL Poem Text First Line: Down sunk the sun, nor shed one golden ray Last Line: And happier scenes unfolded to their view. Subject(s): Youth HOLLY AND PINE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When christmas comes with mirth and cheer Last Line: When again the christmas angels come. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Children; Christmas Trees; Gifts & Giving; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Public Worship; Childhood; Church Attendance HOLY SONNET: TEMPLE, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With his kind mother who partakes thy woe Last Line: By miracles exceeding power of man. Variant Title(s): Jesus In The Temple;la Corona: 4. Temple;temple Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Religion; Theology HOMESICKNESS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dwell in a region of valleys fair Last Line: And die in the land where I was young. Subject(s): Death; Homesickness; Life; Youth; Dead, The HONEY DRIPPING FROM THE COMB, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How slight a thing may set one's Last Line: So bitter, yet so sweet! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Blessings; Honey; Youth HOPE AND FEAR, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the shadow of dawn's aerial cope Last Line: "hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all." Subject(s): Fear; Hope; Youth; Optimism HOPE AND TIME, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the great city rear'd, my fancy rude Last Line: And knows not whether he is first or last. Subject(s): Fables; Hope; Poetry & Poets; Time; Youth; Allegories; Optimism HOW LONG?, by JUHAD HA-LEVI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How long wilt thou in childhood's slumber lie? Last Line: Of souls that seek god's goodness evermore Alternate Author Name(s): Judah Ha-levi Subject(s): Aging; God; Jews; Youth; Judaism HOW ONE CHOSE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the sea, in a green land Last Line: "seek you, for I am wearied out." Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Youth HOW TO REMAIN YOUNG, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strive always to be calm; be cheerful and sleep well Last Line: Be thou like christ in heavenly patience and in love. Subject(s): Children; Youth; Childhood HUSH!, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: To music we listen Last Line: Sung there. Subject(s): Dreams; Music & Musicians; Nature; Truth; Youth; Nightmares HYLAS, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jar in arm, they bade him rove Last Line: "keep -- young!"" but who knows how?)" Subject(s): Youth HYMEN AND DEATH, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sixteen, d'ye say? Nay then 'tis time Last Line: Secure that death will set them loose.' Subject(s): Bodies; Lust; Man-woman Relationships; Reproductive System; Women; Youth; Male-female Relations; Sex Organs; Genitalia HYMN WRITTEN FOR ... BOSTON YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN UNION, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our father! While our hearts unlearn Last Line: And nobler work to do! Subject(s): Youth HYMN: 2. TO APOLLO, by CALLIMACHUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hah! How the laurel, great apollo's tree Last Line: Adown the mountains where thy daughters haunt. Alternate Author Name(s): Kallimachos Subject(s): Apollo; Beauty; Envy; Love; Mythology - Classical; Youth HYMNS FOR CHILDREN: 2. CHRISTMAS CAROL, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What though the snow be on the hill Last Line: Let us behold thy guiding light! Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Children; Christmas Carols; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Childhood I AM UPSTAIRS, TRYING TO BE QUIET, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: When I think of her, I think of silence Last Line: They are tearing her limb from limb Subject(s): Affliction; Parents; Youth I AM YOUNG AND FAIN TO SING, by GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: "yet almost wept: ""come, for hope dies." Subject(s): Youth I DEFINE THE DARKNESS CORRECT: JOY'S THE AIM, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man was leading us through trees. We saw darkness in the Last Line: Relations; ... Then, & I was young: ... Suddenly. Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Youth; Nightmares; Bedtime I LOVE ACACIA, by EDITH LOVELL Poem Text First Line: Once when I was very young Last Line: Akin to youth and my ideal. Subject(s): Acacia; Aging; Trees; Youth I MET THEE, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I met thee when thy youthful charms Last Line: Like hope the future, while I wept. Subject(s): Past; Youth I REMEMBER WHEN JESUS WEPT, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Fat legs %frozen %in the air Subject(s): Arabs; Christmas; Holidays; Jerusalem; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine I SAW FROM THE BEACH, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw from the beach, when the morning was shining Last Line: Gave out all its sweets to love's exquisite flame! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Youth I SAW HIM WALKING ALONE SLOWLY AT NIGHT, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Jews; Youth; Courage; Judaism; Valor; Bravery I SLEPT, AND BACK TO MY EARLY DAYS, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Should revive what time destroys Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Dreams; Sleep; Youth I THOUGHT, BEFORE I LEARNED TO THINK, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Truth; Youth I'M 'WIFE' - I'VE FINISHED THAT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: "I'm ""wife""! Stop there!" Subject(s): Spinsters; Youth IF I GROW OLD, by ETHEL BERRY ALLEN Poem Text First Line: If I grow old let every wrinkle show Last Line: Is mine. How sweet the chant no noise defiles. Subject(s): Aging; Pity; Youth IF MAMA, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If mama / could see Last Line: Clean up your room Subject(s): Family Life; Mothers; Youth IF YOU MUST, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: If you must choose, she said, between praise and blame Last Line: Praisewords keep soul and body young %in amazing ways. Subject(s): Flattery; Women; Youth IL IMMATURO; EPITAPH, by THOMAS FLATMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brave youth, whose too too hasty fate Last Line: And this cold stone had ne'er said, here he lies. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Youth; Dead, The ILLUSION, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we were young, because we Last Line: We thought we were middle-aged Subject(s): Fictional Characters; Youth IMITATIONS OF SHAKESPEARE, by JOHN ARMSTRONG Poem Text First Line: Now summer with her wanton court is gone Last Line: And murmuring brooks within their channels play. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Youth; Dramatists IMMORTAL YOUTH, by KHUSHHAL KHAN Poem Text First Line: My two-and-sixty years are flown Last Line: The golden summer everywhere. Subject(s): Youth IN A BOX, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw them last night in a box at Last Line: With that far-away look in her eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Night; Old Age; Youth; Bedtime IN A SPRING STILL NOT WRITTEN OF, by ROBERT WALLACE Poem Source First Line: This morning %with a class of girls outdoors Last Line: The beautiful and young %all poems are for Subject(s): Youth IN APPEAL, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Dear critics, do not criticise Last Line: Dear critics, do! Subject(s): Youth IN BETHLEHEM, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come back to-day to bethlehem Last Line: Where yet the angels are! Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Stars; Nativity, The IN DALMATIA, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A brotherhood of bleached, air-scourged peaks Last Line: Pauses to gaze adown, and, smiling, dives. Subject(s): Death; Life; Sea; Youth; Dead, The; Ocean IN DEFENSE OF YOUTH, by ROBBINS WOLCOTT BARSTOW Poem Text First Line: We call them wrong! God pity us, the blind Last Line: By truth and duty, youth is on god's side! Subject(s): Youth IN HAITI: 2. AT THE SPRING, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am the boy perched in the high Last Line: Thigh-deep in a limestone cliff. Variant Title(s): Haitian Suite Subject(s): Boys; Girls; Haiti; Spring; Youth IN HOWARD PARK, by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Call me away not yet a vagrant while! Last Line: Here will I come and dream again my dreams. Subject(s): Grief; Parks; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness IN IMMEDIATE ENTERING, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source First Line: That putting, %the first time Last Line: The virtue %of seeing Subject(s): Youth IN MEMORIAM, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poor little child, my pretty boy Last Line: Where are they now? Beyond what star? Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Youth IN MEMORIAM, E. H., by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I knew a silver head was bright beyond compare Last Line: Honolulu. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Youth IN MEMORIAN TECHNICAM, by THOMAS HOOD JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I count it true which sages teach Last Line: With all the darkness danced away! Alternate Author Name(s): Hood, Tom, The Younger Subject(s): Love; Passion; Youth IN NAZARETH, by LESLIE SAVAGE CLARK Poem Source First Line: During happy boyhood years Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth IN OLDEN DAYS, by XAVIER DE MAGALLON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In olden days, your youth and the dawn together Last Line: Over the sad hills, now it comes alone! Subject(s): Youth IN THE CARPENTER SHOP, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth IN THE CARPENTER'S SHOP, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mary sat in the corner dreaming Last Line: All the years. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth IN THE EVENING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the evening of our days Last Line: In the evening of our days. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Evening; Kisses; Marriage; Youth; Sunset; Twilight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives IN THE SHADOWS: 2, by DAVID GRAY (1838-1861) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whom the gods love die young.' the thought is old Last Line: Hymn, o ye mourners! Hail immortal youth auroral! Variant Title(s): I Die, Being Young Subject(s): Death; Youth; Dead, The IN THE SHADOWS: 2, by DAVID GRAY (1838-1861) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If it must be; if it must be, o god! Last Line: The law of life in patience till the day. Variant Title(s): I Die, Being Young Subject(s): Death; Youth; Dead, The IN THE TEENS, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Butterflies, and treasure Last Line: Junejulynineteen. Subject(s): Teenagers; Youth IN THOSE OLD DAYS, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In those old days you were called beautiful Last Line: A deeper rhythm hearing mine: can it be indeed for me? Subject(s): Beauty; Memory; Youth IN YOUTH, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps, through life, 'twill not be always so Last Line: I wonder that so much of joy can be. Subject(s): Past; Youth IN YOUTH IS PLEASURE, by ROBERT WEVER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a harbour grene, aslepe whereas I lay Last Line: In youth is pleasure, in youth is pleasure. Alternate Author Name(s): Weever, Robert Subject(s): Youth INCARNATION, by GILES FLETCHER THE YOUNGER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A child he was, and had not learned to speak Last Line: Where gold, to make their prince a crown, they all present Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth INDEPENDENCE, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: I never did like 'what are young people coming to?' Last Line: "I like to be ""modern."" it's fun." Subject(s): Change; Independence; Youth INDISCRIMINATE KISSES, by NANCE VAN WINCKEL Poem Source First Line: Foreplay of obscene graffiti carved Last Line: Some distance from where I set in Subject(s): Kisses; Man-woman Relationships; Youth INNOCENCE, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fire on the mountain, fire under the lake Last Line: An image of fire and water. Subject(s): Children; Innocence; Youth; Childhood INNOCENCE (2), by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the old stone bridge he met a van Last Line: That blew away so peacefully? Subject(s): Children; Innocence; Peace; Youth; Childhood INSCRIPTION, FR. THE SINLESS CHILD, by ELIZABETH OAKES PRINCE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet eva! Shall I send thee forth Last Line: To love, and peace, and youth. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Seba (e. Oakes), Mrs.; Oakes-smith, Elizabeth Subject(s): Children; Love; Peace; Youth; Childhood INTEGRITY, by WILLIAM LEROY STIDGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He made honest doors Last Line: And on a cross he died! Subject(s): Carpenters; Honesty; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth INVOCATION, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep of the cooled lids and breath of flowers Last Line: Bring back the purple to my hills of dream. Subject(s): Flowers; Science; Sleep; Tears; Youth; Scientists IRONY OF GOD, by EVA WARNER Poem Source First Line: In vain %they shook their garments Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth JANE HOLLYBRAND; OR, VIRTUE REWARDED: THE GOOD YOUNG SQUIRE, by EDWARD EDWIN FOOT Poem Text First Line: It hap'd a gentle youth - a lordly heir Last Line: And forth they'd come. Subject(s): Clergy; Friendship; Guests; Youth; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Visiting JANET, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I remember / that november Last Line: There's a heart of youth within her. Subject(s): Aging; Youth JANUARY 20 OR AGE 30, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your age frightens me Subject(s): Youth; Transience; Impermanence JESSIE MITCHELL€™S MOTHER, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Youth JESUS AND THE DOVE, by MARIA WHITE LOWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mary, the mother good and mild Last Line: And kneel'd before her child. Subject(s): Doves; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth JOHN JONES: 5. OFF THE PIER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One last glance at these sands and stones! Last Line: You would hardly salute me by choice, john jones? Subject(s): Time; Wharves; Youth; Piers JOHNNY-BOY, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ive sixteen sisters more or less Last Line: "but a ""johnny-boy""he counts a heap." Subject(s): Boys; Brothers; Family Life; Youth; Half-brothers; Relatives JOSEPH, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Never in all her sweet and holy youth Last Line: Is not yet given ... One day I may know! Subject(s): Children; Christianity; Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Childhood; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM, by MAXWELL ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: Soldier! Last Line: He hears me - he is coming. %jesus - darling! Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth JUBILATE!, by ADELINE M. JENNEY Poem Text First Line: We do not need, dear friend, to seek Last Line: And jubilance of christmas day! Subject(s): Birth; Christmas; Holidays; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Love; Child Birth; Midwifery; Nativity, The JUDICIUM PARIDIS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I said, when young, 'beauty's the supreme joy' Last Line: Renders me back a saint unto myself! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Beauty; Youth; Aging; Wisdom; Courtship; Time; Likes & Dislikes JUGGLER, by SIV CEDERING Poem Source First Line: I had practiced for years. Whenever I had a chance, I juggled with Subject(s): Love; Youth JUST TO BE YOUNG, by MARSHALL ILLSLEY Poem Text First Line: Just to be young, just to breathe deep and see Last Line: Cæsar to joy, pizarro of the sun. Subject(s): Youth JUVENILE SUICIDE, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Life was such a big piece of candy for a little boy Last Line: And he didn't want either one Subject(s): Youth JUVENTA PERENNIS, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If youth be thine Last Line: God's grapes are always red. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Youth KARINTHA, by JEAN TOOMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her skin is like dusk on the eastern horizon Last Line: ...When the sun goes down %goes down Subject(s): Beauty; Man-woman Relationships; Youth KINGRY'S MILL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On old brandywine - about Last Line: Down around old kingry's mill! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Mills And Millers; Past; Youth LA JEUNESSE N'A QU'UN TEMPS, by HENRI MURGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fanned by twenty summers' sun Last Line: Youth is only of to-day! Subject(s): Friendship; Youth LADY HAMILTON, by ISABELLA LICKBARROW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Round sizergh's antique, massy walls Last Line: In solemn dirges o'er her tomb. Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Hamilton, Lady Emma (1765-1815); Supernatural; Youth; Dead, The LALEH OF CARAVY STREET, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The way I dress, men think Last Line: Out, black dress, luggage for shoes Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Youth LAMENT (OF ONE OF THE OLD REGIME), by EMMA CATHERINE (MANLY) EMBURY Poem Text First Line: O the times will never be again / as they were when we were young Last Line: "to show the ""march of mind." Alternate Author Name(s): Ianthe Subject(s): Lament; Life; Poetry & Poets; Youth LAMENTATION OF AN OLD-GERMAN YOUTH, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The man on whom virtue smiles is blest Last Line: At cassel a sentry's position. Subject(s): Lament; Youth LATIGO TOWN, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You and I settled this section together Last Line: Dreams of the glorious youth that we had! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Youth LAUGHTER, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You, whom these eyes, no longer mine Last Line: Youthful and cruel, wild, divine! Subject(s): Youth; Old Age; Self LAUGHTER (YOUTH SPEAKS TO HIS OWN OLD AGE), by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You, whom these eyes, no longer mine Last Line: Youthful and cruel, wild, divine! Subject(s): Old Age; Youth LAUREL'S WORTH, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My too great love of you hath been my bale Last Line: And on their fame the fates shall have no hold. Subject(s): Fates (mythology); Homer (10th Century B.c.); Love; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Soul; Youth; Iliad; Odyssey LAURENCE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He knew she did not love him; but so long Last Line: No, never. Some men are such gentlemen!' Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Soul; Tears; Youth; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives LAURIGER HORATIUS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Laurel-crowned horatius Last Line: "if we may not kiss the girls, / drink while time's a-flying?" Subject(s): Alcohol & Alcoholics;youth LE REPOS EN EGYPTE: THE SPHINX, by AGNES REPPLIER Poem Source First Line: All day I watched the stretch of burning sand Last Line: Lay stretched o'er-wearied. On my breast of stone %rested the crucified Subject(s): Egypt; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth; Sphinx LEAN DOWN, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lean down and lift me higher, josephine! Last Line: And lean, and lift me higher. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Hope; Life; Soul; Youth; Optimism LEDDY MARY: A BALLAD, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Mirk was the nicht, an' the hour it was late Last Line: My malison on him that wrocht thee sic harm! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Girls; Youth LEEK STREET, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In bruges, was a cul-de-sac so narrow Last Line: Float out over the canals. Subject(s): Bruges, Belgium; Children; Future Life; Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews; Love; Muskrats; Pain; Redemption; Salvation; Tongues; Torture; Violence; Youth; Childhood; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Judaism; Suffering; Misery LEGEND, by RICHARD HENRY STODDARD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The young child jesus had a garden Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth LET US THEN REJOICE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: And the tiresomeness of old age %earth will hold us Subject(s): Old Age; Youth LETTER AND ANSWER, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After so many years she wrote, but why Last Line: "restore the life that once joined me to you?" Subject(s): Letters; Love - Loss Of; Love Letters; Man-woman Relationships; Past; Youth; Male-female Relations LETTER TO JEANNE (FROM TASJARA), by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dry heat of the tasajara canyon Last Line: On these new, jagged hills Subject(s): Youth LETTER TO N.Y., by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In your next letter I wish you'd say Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Youth; Work; Workers LETTER TO N.Y., by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In your next letter I wish you'd say Last Line: What are you doing and where you are going Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Youth LIFE STORY, by JOE CISLO Poem Source First Line: Join the army,' my grampa said Last Line: Finding a clean, quiet place to do my thing Subject(s): Biography; Idleness; Life; Youth LIKE MIST ON A MOUNTAIN TOP BROKEN AND GRAY, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Whose feast of young smiles I may never share more! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Youth; Aging LIMERICK, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a young lady of corsica Last Line: That expensive young lady of corsica Subject(s): Wealth; Youth LIMERICK, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a young person whose history Last Line: She sate in a ditch, although no one knew which, %and composed a small treatise on history Subject(s): History; Youth LINES, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The lines at the corners of her mouth Last Line: In one so young? Subject(s): Mouths; Strength; Wrinkles; Youth LINES ON MY THIRTY-NINTH BIRTHDAY, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah me!-the moments will not stay! Last Line: At twice the count of thirty-nine! Subject(s): Aging; Birthdays; Time; Youth LINES ON SEEING THE SABBATH SCHOOL PROCESSION OF 3RD JULY, 1862, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Were thousand angels sinless, bright Last Line: Like him who took your nature on. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Children; God; Religion; Sabbath; Youth; Childhood; Theology; Sunday LINES TO A DESERTED STUDY, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hush! Feel ye not around us teem Last Line: Tread gently, we were flowers. Subject(s): Aging; Life; Time; Youth LINES WRITTEN BENEATH AN ELM IN THE CHURCHYARD OF HARROW, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spot of my youth! Whose hoary branches sigh Last Line: And unremember'd by the world beside Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Harrow, England; Youth LINES WRITTEN IN A COMMONPLACE BOOK, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, sweet and gentle maiden Last Line: An earnest of the skies! Subject(s): Books; Women; Youth; Reading LINES, WRITTEN ON SEEING MY HUSBAND'S PICTURE, PAINTED WHEN YOUNG, by ANNA SAWYER Poem Text First Line: Those are the features, those the smiles Last Line: And pity pour her healing tear. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Paintings And Painters; Youth; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love LITTLE FELLER, by PHIL PERKINS Poem Text First Line: Little feller - sure you knew him Last Line: Don't you pity grown-up men? Subject(s): Aging; Boys; Youth LITTLE JESUS, by BARBARA SCHAFFER Poem Source First Line: Who worships the meek? The meek, of course Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth LITTLE JESUS, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Little jesus, wast thou shy Last Line: Has not changed since thou wast young! Variant Title(s): Ex Ore Infantium;a Child's Prayer Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Prayer; Childhood; Nativity, The LIVING PEARL, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At sixteen I came west, riding Last Line: She will be one year old Subject(s): West (u.s.); Youth LOOKING FOR OMAR, by E. ETHELBERT MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm in the school bathroom Subject(s): Youth; Violence; Religious Discrimination; Religious Conflict LORELEI, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Youth and I went out to sea Last Line: On the reef I cling, bereaved. Subject(s): Youth LOS PASTORES DE BELEN: A SONG OF THE VIRGIN MOTHER, by FELIX LOPE DE VEGA CARPIO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As ye go through these palm-trees Last Line: Stay ye the branches. Alternate Author Name(s): Lope De Vega Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary LOST AND FOUND, by CHARLES SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the mildest, greenest grove Last Line: In calm supernal gleams. Subject(s): Canada; Love; Nature; Youth; Canadians LOST ART, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was young and light of heart Last Line: May mock my youth's hypocrisy! Subject(s): Youth LOVE AND AGE, by THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I played with you 'mid cowslips blowing Last Line: Will be an hundred years ago. Subject(s): Love; Old Age; Youth LOVE AND AGE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I played with you 'mid cowslips growing Subject(s): Old Age; Youth LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While from the skies the ruddy sun descends Last Line: He shall adorn my songs, and tune my voice to love. Subject(s): Friendship; Love; Singing & Singers; Sun; Youth LOVE AND YOUTH AND WAR, by DERRICK NORMAN LEHMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love and youth to the war they sent Last Line: When love and youth to the war have gone? Subject(s): Hate; Love; Murder; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; World War I; Youth; First World War LOVE TRIUMPHANT: SONG FOR A GIRL, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Young I am, and yet unskill'd Last Line: I shou'd long to be fifteen. Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Youth; Songs LOVE'S ACOLYTE, by ELSA GIDLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Many have loved you with lips and fingers Last Line: Ashamed of what small gifts she brings Subject(s): Love; Youth LOVE'S CONQUERING, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If 't please you see how love's might overcame Last Line: To choose a child for lord; for guide, the blind. Subject(s): Hearts; Hope; Love; Wind; Youth; Optimism LOVE'S EVENING, by ANNA C. CARRAHER Poem Text First Line: Love cannot always burn at noonday heat Last Line: And wait, with you, the coming of the night. Subject(s): Aging; Love - Marital; Memory; Youth; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love LULLABY FOR 17, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are so young Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Youth LULLABY OF THE VIRGIN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "sleep, child - thy mother's first-born" Last Line: A thousand songs of praise Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth;mary. Mother Of Jesus;women - Bible; Virgin Mary LUTHER BENSON; AFTER READING HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poor victim of that vulture curse Last Line: And praise to him who gave release. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Galilee, Palestine; Peace; Sea; Self-criticism; Youth; Ocean LYING IN THE GRASS, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Between two russet [or, golden] tufts of summer grass Last Line: The mowers are all gone, and I go too. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Mowing & Mowers; Youth; Lawn Mowers LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 43, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A youth once loved a maiden Last Line: Will soon be broken in two. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Youth MADRIGAL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "thou art but young, thou say'st" Last Line: O me! That I were young again! And so repent thee Subject(s): Youth MAIDENHOOD, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Miaden! With thy [or, the] meek brown eyes Last Line: For a smile of god thou art. Subject(s): Youth MAN OF GALILEE, by HILDEGARDE HOYT SWIFT Poem Source First Line: He waw no dreamer, dwelling in a cloud Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth MARJORIE'S KISSES, by WALTER LEARNED Poem Text First Line: Marjorie laughs and climbs on my knee Last Line: When marjorie's seventeen. Subject(s): Charm; Kisses; Youth MARY AND CHILD, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: How lovingly she looked on him Last Line: Of cross against the sky? Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women - Bible; Paradise; Virgin Mary MARY AT NAZARETH, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I know, lord, thou hast sent him Last Line: Out of my heart the tares %are torn by awe! Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MATURITY, by HARRIET SEYMOUR POPOWSKI Poem Text First Line: Seeing the fury of the rushing rain Last Line: Pools whose quiet flow sustains an ocean. Subject(s): Maturity; Nature; Youth MAUREEN ASHORE, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My lovely wife, who yestermorn didst bring Last Line: 08/12/09 Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Grief; Love; Marriage; Tears; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MAY, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hebe's here, may is here! Last Line: In the hearts of roses. Subject(s): Hebe (goddess Of Youth And Spring); May (month); Spring MAY EVENING IN CENTRAL PARK, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lines of lamp light Subject(s): Central Park, New York City; Youth MEETING-POINT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: When the poet and the philosopher meet to speak Last Line: A young man tells other young men %how to make a fortune. Subject(s): Philosophy And Philosophers; Poetry And Poets; Youth MEIN KIND, WIR WAREN KINDER, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My child, we were two children Last Line: The belief, and the love, and the truth. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Youth MEMORIES OF THE PACIFIC COAST, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know a land, I, too Last Line: And sets my sail to seek another sky. Subject(s): Beauty; Home; Memory; Pacific Ocean; Soul; Winter; Youth MIDNIGHT, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dank earth reeks with three days' rain Last Line: O love's unutterable stings! Subject(s): Youth; Longing; Grief MILLY'S EXPIATION, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are times when all these terrors Last Line: Be restored to god again. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Fear; Love; Murder; Trials; Youth MIND, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man looks at his watch to see Subject(s): Food & Eating; Youth; Schools; Family Life; Students; Relatives MINOR EPIC, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rock where the sword was stuck Last Line: Beneath the sovereign english rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Youth MIRRORS, by HERBERT H. LONGFELLOW Poem Text First Line: I am told that beauty is a reflection Last Line: I am looking at a mirror and a reflection. Subject(s): Beauty; Mirrors; Old Age; Women; Youth MISSING, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: The lads come back in autumn Last Line: Despite the fact he died. Subject(s): Dartmouth College; Scholarship & Scholars; Universities & Colleges; Youth MODERN ON THE SURFACE (2), by NIA FRANCISCO Poem Source First Line: Vibrant naive naabeeho women Subject(s): Native Americans; Navajo Indians; Youth MONSOON, by REBECCA CIRALSKY Poem Source First Line: What do you think about sex Last Line: Within my dad's colored sock drawer Subject(s): High School Students; Sex; Teenagers; Youth MORAL COSMETICS, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye who would save your features florid Last Line: Time, fortune, fate. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Life; Time; Youth MORNING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Breath of morning - breath of Last Line: Let us be as we have been! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): May (month); Morning; Youth MORNING COMB, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Comb out ashes Last Line: Scarlet & everywhere Subject(s): Youth MORNING ON THE FARM, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Get up, my lad! The sun is rising, it is a Last Line: Shoulder blades! Subject(s): Farm Life; Morning; Mothers & Sons; Youth; Agriculture; Farmers MOTH, by JOANNE MCFARLAND Poem Source First Line: In this room shadows fall blue-violet as Last Line: Heat that draws you to it then sets fire to %all you have Subject(s): Curiosities And Wonders; Death; Pleasure; Youth MOTHER MOST POWERFUL, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: That thou so often held him in thine arms Last Line: Shows thou wert mortal,mother,yea, and more! Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary MOTORCADE, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: I was seven when it happened Last Line: And accelerating madly %out of view of the camera Subject(s): Assassination; Death; Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963); Schools; Youth MOUNTAIN, by JAMES BINNEY Poem Text First Line: Like eternal dust it sweeps Last Line: This mountain stands, this oldest thing is youth. Subject(s): Youth MURIAS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the sunken city of murias Last Line: In the city of murias. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Aging; Cities; Love; Sea; Youth; Urban Life; Ocean MY BROTHER THE ARTIST, AT SEVEN, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As a boy he played alone in the fields Subject(s): Brothers; Play; Solitude; Youth; Half-brothers; Loneliness MY CHILDHOOD HOME, by OLETA FOX CLOOS Poem Text First Line: I am thinking today of the 'old home Last Line: The scenes of my dear childhood home. Subject(s): Home; Memory; Past; Youth MY DEAD, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give back the soul of youth once more! Last Line: I shall behold my dead again? Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Life; Past; Youth; Dead, The MY DREAM GIRL, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like a flower in the mist of the moorland, spectral, / shadowy Last Line: The flower in the mist of the moorland, lonesome and shadowy. Subject(s): Death - Children; Flowers; Imagination; Love; Solitude; Youth; Death - Babies; Fancy; Loneliness MY GANG, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many people have been frightened & died in cemeteries Last Line: Be cruel, I'll be cruel Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack Subject(s): Youth MY LITTLE SISTER, by MAY WILLIAMS WARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My little sister had everything Last Line: Death at twenty. Subject(s): Death; Sisters; Youth; Dead, The MY LOST YOUTH, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Often I think of the beautiful town Last Line: "and the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts." Variant Title(s): Sea Memories;lost Youth Subject(s): Children; Memory; Portland, Maine; Sea; Youth; Childhood; Ocean MY MOTHER'S BIBLE, by GEORGE POPE MORRIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This book is all that's left me now Last Line: It taught me how to die! Alternate Author Name(s): Morris, George Perkins Subject(s): Bible; Mothers; Youth MY MOUNTAIN HOME, by MARJORIE A. SCHRIER Poem Text First Line: The snow covered mountain in the distance Last Line: For that dear old home high on the mountain side. Subject(s): Memory; Sensibility; Youth MY OLD FRIEND, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You've a manner all so mellow, Last Line: My old friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Friendship; Memory; Time; Youth MY PROLOGUE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If heat of youth, 'tis heat suppressed Last Line: It well may be; and they that read will know. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Praise; Youth; Nightmares MY RIVAL, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I go to concert, party, ball Last Line: When I am forty-nine. Subject(s): Youth MY ROSE, by JANICE FORD Poem Text First Line: There is a lovely rose that never dies Last Line: The fragrance that has made it mine. Subject(s): Immortality; Youth MY SWEETHEART, COME CLOSER, by HIBYONG ILTO Poem Source Last Line: Let your arms be placed around my neck. %we are both young. O youth, be everlasting! Subject(s): Youth MY YOKE IS EASY, by GLADYS LATCHAW Poem Source First Line: The yokes he made were true Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth MY YOUTH, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My youth was my old age Last Line: Till this late hour. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Aging; Youth MYRTLE IN THE MIST, by ROSEMARY TREBON Poem Text First Line: Below the cliff an overhanging rock Last Line: There's something in every soul that's better unprofess't. Subject(s): Youth NAME US NO NAMES NO MORE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sing, oh, rarest of roundelays! Last Line: "taste salt tears in our ""tee-hee-hee""!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Laughter; Names; Singing & Singers; Youth NAPLES, 1590, by HELEN YETTA WALKER Poem Text First Line: The same old scene of the same old play Last Line: Over her silken knees. Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Naples, Italy; Romance; Youth; Male-female Relations NAZARETH, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Source First Line: Rome still holds her rod of power Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth NECESSARY ANGELS; POEMS IN THEIR YOUTH, by STEPHEN KUUSISTO Poem Text First Line: We stopped beside the road Last Line: And chewed the cemetery grass. Variant Title(s): Breton-esque Subject(s): Blindness; Poetry & Poets; Saints; Worship; Youth; Visually Handicapped NEIGES D'ANTAN, by ROSAMUND MARRIOTT WATSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sunlight, and birds, and blossom on the trees Last Line: That sun is set, and mute the spirit that sang. Alternate Author Name(s): Tomson, Graham R. Subject(s): Youth NEVER AGAIN, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Anger flashing in the fist, the stick Last Line: Go with the stranger, or go alone. Subject(s): Ireland; Solitude; Violence; Youth NEVER TOO LATE: FRANCESCO'S ROUNDELAY, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting and sighing in my secret muse Last Line: "wo worth the faults and follies of mine eye!" Subject(s): Beauty; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Men; Women; Youth; Male-female Relations NEVER TOO LATE: FRANCESCO'S SONNET, CALLED HIS PARTING BLOW, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Reason, that long in prison of my will Last Line: Subscribes to thee, and takes the better way. Subject(s): Love; Repentance; Sin; Youth; Penitence NEVER TOO LATE: FRANCESCO'S SONNET, MADE IN THE PRIME OF HIS PENANCE, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With sweating brows I long have plough'd the Last Line: I find no time too late for to amend! Subject(s): Penance; Repentance; Youth; Penitence NEVER TOO LATE: THE PALMER'S ODE, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old menalcas, on a day Last Line: "the way to good is never late." Subject(s): Courtship; Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Youth; Male-female Relations NEVER TOO LATE: THE PENITENT PALMER'S ODE, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whilom in the winter's rage Last Line: "man is sin, and flesh is grass!'" Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Regret; Sin; Youth; Male-female Relations NEW AND OLD (TO A YOUNG LADY), by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For what is old you nothing care Last Line: The other only stays a minute! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Old Age; Youth NICARAGUAN TRIPTYCH, by FELIX RUBEN GARCIA SARMIENTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I remember two dwarfs, back there in our country home Last Line: Under the impassivity of the firmament Alternate Author Name(s): Dario, Ruben Subject(s): Central America; Clowns; Laughter; Memory; Nicaragua; Youth NIGHT I MET LITTLE FLOYD, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A friday or he would not have come to town--he would have Last Line: Our face like mascara--a big bearded stranger with a book of%poems in his lap Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Abortion; Youth NINON! QUE FAIS-TU DE LA VIW?, by BORRIES FREIHERR VON MUNCHHAUSEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What are you making out of life Last Line: When you grow old, ninon! Subject(s): Aging; Life; Youth NOCTURNE, by LE BARON COOKE Poem Text First Line: Moonlight, and the sparkle of nude boys Last Line: Unafraid, they all creep into the shelter of the the throbbing dark. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Youth; Male-female Relations NOTHING AND THE INCIDENT IN THE STREETS, by GREGORY ORR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing forced those kids Last Line: Will be their voice. Subject(s): Nothingness; Social Protest; Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989; Universities & Colleges; Youth; Nihilism; Voids O HADA CIBERNETICA: 18, by CARLOS GERMAN BELLI Poem Source First Line: My parents, know it well Last Line: And count as human-beings Subject(s): Children; Mankind; Parents; Youth O MASTER WORKMAN OF THE RACE, by JAY THOMAS STOCKING Poem Source Last Line: That it may be our highest joy, %our father's work to do Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth; Religion O YOUNG AND FEARLESS PROPHET OF ANCIENT GALILEE, by S. RALPH HARLOW Poem Source Last Line: Triumphantly to lead us along god's holy way Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth; Religion ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I behold the festive train Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Youth; Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He, who instructs the youthful crew Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Festivals; Youth; Drinks & Drinking; Fairs; Pageants; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gentle youth! Whose looks assume Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Youth; Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE FOR THE FYRST OF MAYE, by JEAN PASSERAT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Quit thy bed and sleepe of twilight Last Line: That letteth love goe bye. Subject(s): Love; Spring; Youth ODE ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETON COLLEGE, by THOMAS GRAY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye distant spires, ye antique towers, / that crown the watery glade Last Line: Tis folly to be wise! Variant Title(s): On A Distant Prospect Of Eton College Subject(s): England; Eton College; Youth; English ODE TO YOUTH IN MEMORY, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Days, when the ball of our vision Last Line: Of all the world, we peck at and are filled. Subject(s): Aging; Mythology; Youth ODES I, 9. TO WINTER, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold yon mountain's hoary height Last Line: These, these are joyes the gods for youth ordain. Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Variant Title(s): To Thaliarchus Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.); Love; Translating & Interpreting; Winter; Youth ODES IV, 10. TO LIGURINUS, A BEAUTEOUS YOUTH, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis true, thou yet art fair, my ligurine Last Line: Why am I old? Or why was ever young? Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Beauty; Old Age; Youth ODES SUNG IN COMMEMORATION OF THE MARINE SOCIETY: 1, by ANNE (HUGHES) PENNY Poem Text First Line: Social virtue's liberal plan Last Line: Her foes shall bend beneath her yoke. Alternate Author Name(s): Christian, Mrs. Thomas Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Youth ODES SUNG IN COMMEMORATION OF THE MARINE SOCIETY: 2, by ANNE (HUGHES) PENNY Poem Text First Line: See these happy youths, now made Last Line: The golden band of social love! Alternate Author Name(s): Christian, Mrs. Thomas Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Youth ODES: BOOK 1: ODE 11. ON LOVE - TO A FRIEND, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No, foolish youth -- to virtuous fame Last Line: Where is the firm, the cautious, or the wise? Subject(s): Youth; Friendship OF DYING BEAUTY, by LOUIS ZUKOFSKY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spare us of dyhing beauty,' cries out youth Subject(s): Youth OF THREE CHILDREN CHOOSING A CHAPLET OF VERSE, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You and I and burd so blithe Last Line: And by the flowers be crown'd. Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Flowers; Youth OF YEARS, by WHILHELMINA T. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: It does not matter who you are Last Line: But their strength. Subject(s): Old Age; Time; Youth OH BABBLE NOT TO ME, GRAY EILD, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Youth's dreams of sweet content Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Youth; Repentance OLD ACQUAINTANCE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Thy water, alteryn Last Line: And fair as childhood -- still? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Youth OLD AGE IN HIS AILING, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: As, reduced to skimmed milk, to slander the cream Subject(s): Old Age; Youth OLD AND YOUNG, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: They soon grow old who grope for gold Last Line: For them old age itself is young. Subject(s): Old Age; Youth OLD AUSTRALIAN WAYS, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The london lights are far abeam Last Line: And know what clancy knew. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Nature; Spring; Youth OLD MEMORIES, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bright flashes of sunshine - sweet snatches of song Last Line: Where the robin a requiem will sing o'er my head. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Memory; Past; Youth OLD SONG FROM MY YOUTH, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Until I die.' well, perhaps not Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Life; Nature; Youth OLNEY HYMNS: 22. PRAYER FOR A BLESSING ON THE YOUNG, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bestow, dear lord, upon our youth Last Line: That jesus whom we preach. Subject(s): Youth OLNEY HYMNS: 23. PLEADING FOR AND WITH YOUTH, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sin has undone our wretched race Last Line: "prepare to meet thy god!" Subject(s): Sin; Youth ON A BRIGHT WINTER DAY, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Foolish old heart, as glad of wind and sun Last Line: Off, mocking fear, and let the young heart play! Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Aging; Youth ON A BUST OF ANTINOUS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon your face, with all its youthful glory, Last Line: Oh, blithe bithynian boy! Subject(s): Sacrifices; Sculpture & Sculptors; Youth ON A DEAD GIRL, by ALFRED DE MUSSET Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Lovely she was, if so be night Last Line: Whereof she never spelt a word. Subject(s): Death; Youth; Dead, The ON A PACKET OF OLD LETTERS, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: The choicest blooms that ever blent Last Line: Unshadowed joy, immortal youth! Subject(s): Death; Letters; Life; Love; Memory; Youth; Dead, The ON A YOUNG LADY'S GOING TO OWN IN THE SPRING, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One night unhappy celadon Last Line: Not satisfied with private sway at home. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Night; Spring; Youth; Bedtime ON A YOUTHFUL PORTRAIT OF STEVENSON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A face of youth mature; a mouth Last Line: And all your lovely poems calling to you? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Faces; Portraits; Youth ON HEARING THAT THE STUDENTS OF OUR NEW UNIVERSITY JOINED AGITATION .., by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where, where but here have pride and truth Last Line: Restraining reckless middle-age? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Youth ON HIS PITIABLE TRANSFORMATION, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I who was young so long Last Line: I who was young so long. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Aging; Youth ON JOHN DUKE OF BRIDGEWATER, WHO DIED IN THE TWENTY-FIRST YEAR OF AGE, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Intent to hear, and bounteous to bestow Last Line: These honours, egerton, were all thy own! Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Youth; Dead, The ON MRS. MARGARET PASTON, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So fair, so young, so innocent, so sweet Last Line: Now she is gone, the world is of a piece. Variant Title(s): Epitaph On Mrs. Margaret Paston, Of Barningham, In Norfolk Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Youth; Dead, The ON MY OWN MINIATURE PICTURE, TAKEN AT TWO YEARS OF AGE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And I was once like this! That glowing cheek Last Line: Spirit of spenser! Was the wanderer wrong? Subject(s): Life Change Events; Maturity; Nations; Portraits; Self; Youth ON MY WEDDING DAY, by SARAH FYGE EGERTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Abandon'd day, why dost thou now appear? Last Line: And be like me, that's by thy self no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Edward, Mrs.; Fyge, Sarah Subject(s): Happiness; Marriage; Soul; Youth; Joy; Delight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ON MY YOUTHFUL LETTERS, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look at the leaves I gather up in trembling Last Line: They are not mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Letters; Youth ON RECEIVING A SOUVENIR POSTCARD, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the little desk before me Last Line: And we're chums and lovers still. Subject(s): Postal Service; Youth; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen ON THE DEATH OF A VERY YOUNG GENTLEMAN, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He who could view the book of destiny Last Line: Imagine all in one, and think that one is he. Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Soul; Youth; Dead, The ON THE DEATH OF A YOUNG GENTLEMAN, by FRANCIS FAWKES Poem Text First Line: Short and precarious is the life of man Last Line: And bloomed renewed in everlasting life. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Immortality; Youth; Dead, The ON THE DEATH OF A YOUNG GIRL, by EVARISTE DE PARNY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Scaping from childhood, still a child Subject(s): Death - Children; Youth; Death - Babies ON THE PROGRAM, by ANNETTE PATTON CORNELL Poem Text First Line: The well - dressed throng of women murmured - stirred Last Line: "spoke graciously, ""your songs enchanted me!" Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Youth; Songs ON THE PROMENADE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O joyous idler in the sun Last Line: O youthful dreams that come no more! Subject(s): Fate; Health; Tears; Wealth; Youth; Destiny; Riches; Fortunes ON THE SLAIN COLLEGIANS, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Youth is the time when hearts are large Last Line: And kill them in their flush of bloom. Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History; Youth ONE BOY TOLD ME, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Music lives inside my legs Last Line: Isn't that happiness? Subject(s): Boys; Mankind; Youth; Human Race ONE PRAYER, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: And now must I lose thee, o dark-eyed love, o darling? Last Line: This once I look thee in the eyes and speak. Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Passion; Widows & Widowers; Youth; Parting ONE RADIANT MORNING, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like a smile breaking over teeth Last Line: A drop could change everything. Subject(s): Girls; Lust; Railroads; Youth; Railways; Trains OPEN DOOR, by IDA NORTON MUNSON Poem Source First Line: There passed the low door of the nazareth home Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth OPEN, TIME, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Open, time, and let him pass Last Line: Into country grass. Subject(s): Death; Time; Youth; Dead, The ORGAN SONGS: TO A.J. SCOTT, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When, long ago, the daring of my youth Last Line: High love is queen, and sits without a mate. Subject(s): Friendship; Love; Youth OTHER SIDE, by MARK VINZ Poem Source First Line: Hoods were the ones who knew Last Line: Trapped behind the window glass Subject(s): Children; Teenagers; Youth OUR BOYHOOD HAUNTS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! I'm going back where Last Line: Boneset, mint, and pennyroyal. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Brooks; Children; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Youth; Streams; Creeks; Childhood OUR JUNIORS, by ANNA M. ALLEN Poem Text First Line: They set a light upon the hill Last Line: Upon the hill a beacon light. Subject(s): Courage; Light; Youth; Valor; Bravery OUR LADY OF THE TERRACES; FOR ROBERT BAGEHOT PORCH, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Terrace and turf and tow'r! Last Line: Serene, august, smiles down on severn's gracious plain. Subject(s): Youth OUR YOUTH, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Of bricks. Who built it? Like some crazy balloon Subject(s): Youth OUT OF BOUNDS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little boy of heavenly birth Last Line: Join in to get him back his ball! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology OUT OF EGYPT HAVE I CALLED MY SON, by CAROLINE HAZARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The might river flows as when thine eyes Last Line: Which gave its shelter to thine infant grace, %and nourished thee to be the life of life Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth OUT OF THE SHADOWS: AN UNFINISHED SONNET-SEQUENCE 15, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: Beyond the lifted clouds the dark sweeps by Last Line: Dawn's breath of glory for a moment's fare? Subject(s): Love; Youth OUT TO OLD AUNT MARY'S, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wasn't it pleasant, o brother Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Variant Title(s): Old Aunt Mary's Subject(s): Aunts; Nostalgia; Youth OUT TO OLD AUNT MARY'S, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wasn't it pleasant, o brother Last Line: Asleep this morning, whispering, %'tell %the boys to come.' ... And all is %well %out to old aunt ma Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Variant Title(s): Old Aunt Mary' Subject(s): Aunts; Nostalgia; Youth OUTLOOK, by IVAN SWIFT Poem Text First Line: As though with new eyes I have seen the dawn Last Line: Old sufferer, old sage, old horoscope! Subject(s): Youth OZARK ODES: GIRLHOOD, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mother had one. She and bernice racing for the river Last Line: To hear what their paperdolls were fixing to say Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Dolls; Play; Toys; Youth PARENTAL ADVICE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, where in the gutters of naples Last Line: "but ""see young america first""!" Subject(s): Youth PARKING, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today I live where I have always been Last Line: Lands, and coos like a fool in the dark Subject(s): Automobiles; Middle Age; Youth; Passion PARTIAL RESEMBLANCE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A doll's hair concealing Subject(s): Youth PATCHWORK, by GLADYS VERVILLE DEANE Poem Text First Line: Into that deep that yields no bright return Last Line: While I sewed seams beneath the apple tree. Subject(s): Apples; Dreams; Fruit; Youth; Nightmares PATHS, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Going out into the fields of learning Last Line: The spider's silk hypotheses unfold / tenancious, tenable Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Youth; Work; Workers PATHS, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Going out into the fields of learning Last Line: The spider's silk hypotheses unfold %tenacious, tenacious, tenable Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Youth PEG OF LIMAVADDY, by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Riding from coleraine Last Line: Peg of limavaddy! Subject(s): Limavaddy, Ireland; Travel; Youth; Journeys; Trips PEPITA, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Scarcely sixteen years old Last Line: She with her sixteen years! Subject(s): Youth PERIMEDES, THE BLACKSMITH: SONNET (2), by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The siren venus nouric'd in her lap Last Line: Rich'd with such flowers as virtue yieldeth thee. Variant Title(s): Adonis Reproved Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess); Youth PHILIPER FLASH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Young philiper flash was a promising Last Line: Whacked his jugular open and went to smash. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Death; Youth; Childhood; Dead, The PIAZZA PIECE, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a gentleman in a dustcoat trying / to make you hear Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Death; Mortality; Old Age; Youth; Dead, The PIAZZA PIECE, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a gentleman in a dustcoat trying %to make you hear Last Line: I am a lady young in beauty waiting Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Death; Mortality; Old Age; Youth PICTURE OF THE INFANT CHRIST WITH FLOWERS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the bright hues from eastern garlands Last Line: O'er blooms that mocked our hope, o'er idols that forsook! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 2: 7. QUESTIONS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the sea, by the desert night-cover'd sea Last Line: And a fool is awaiting an answer. Subject(s): Riddles; Sea; Youth; Ocean PIERROT, by DIMOND CRISP Poem Text First Line: And pierrot said Last Line: The futility of all things.... Subject(s): Youth PIQUED, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: For beauty's sake she lives Last Line: She 's not the entire show! Subject(s): Beauty; Charm; Youth PIRATES, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I'm agitated when I read of pirates Subject(s): Pirates; Youth; Piracy; Buccaneers PIRATES, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm agitated when I read of pirates Last Line: Insatiable they be, and everywhere Subject(s): Pirates; Youth PLAINT OF A YOUNG LAWYER, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: The rain runs rivers down the streets, the fog is on the / sea Last Line: A youth-renewal fountain. Subject(s): Dartmouth College; Retrospection; Youth PLAYBOY VICE ROYALS, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: The ripe stink of brilliantine Last Line: Nibbled clean with waiting Subject(s): Puberty; Youth POEM (TO JAMES SCHUYLER), by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There I could never be a boy Last Line: And I have masterred the speed and strength which is the armor of the %world Subject(s): Youth POEM ABOUT NOTHING, by GREGORY ORR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was young / I fell in love / with nothing Last Line: And we lack for nothing. Subject(s): Grief; Nothingness; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness; Nihilism; Voids POEM IN OCTOBER, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: It was my thirtieth year to heaven Subject(s): Birthdays; Youth POEM IN OCTOBER, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was my thirtieth year to heaven Last Line: On this high hill in a year's turning Subject(s): Birthdays; Youth POEM OF REMEMBRANCE FOR A GIRL OR A BOY OF THESE STATES, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You just maturing youth! You male or female! Last Line: Do you see death, and the approach of death? Subject(s): Youth POEM OUT OF CHILDHOOD, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry : Subject(s): Children; Youth; Comng Of Age; Human Behavior; Childhood; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature POLYHYMNIA: FRAGMENTS, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These prov'd themselves from pegasus derived Last Line: Perchance, as youthful now as I was then. Subject(s): Horse Racing; Knights & Knighthood; Youth POLYHYMNIA: THE YOUTH IN THE BOAT (FRAGMENT), by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When we our young and wanton houres Last Line: And one his load-star was..... Subject(s): Love; Youth PONCE DE LEON SPEAKS, by LOIS STONEHAM Poem Source First Line: And do you mock me? I who sought to find ...' Subject(s): Fountain Of Youth; Ponce De Leon, Juan (1460-1521) PORTRAIT, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My childhood is memories of a patio in sevilla Last Line: And almost naked like the children of the sea Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Memory; Spain; Youth PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: He came from the high country, he had known thirst and the Last Line: The severity of snow came later Subject(s): Portraits; Youth PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR AS A YOUNG ANARCHIST, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While things were going on in europe Subject(s): Anarchism And Anarchists; Poverty; Social Classes; Social Protest; Wealth; Youth; Caste; Riches; Fortunes PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR AS A YOUNG ANARCHIST, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While things were going on in europe Last Line: Stole out and shat in the golf holes Subject(s): Anarchism And Anarchists; Poverty; Social Classes; Social Protest; Wealth; Youth POSSESSION, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A youth sat down on a wayside Last Line: The world and its giving belonged to him. Subject(s): Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Youth; Journeys; Trips PRAYER AFTER YOUTH, by MAXWELL ANDERSON Poem Text First Line: Oh gods of all enchanting lies Last Line: That I am lost beyond devising. . . Subject(s): Mortality; Prayer; Youth PRAYER FOR A GIRL NO LONGER YOUNG, by INA DRAPER DEFOE Poem Text First Line: Autumn, be kind to her, slow your arrival Last Line: Stay, while she joyfully hurdles love's fences. Subject(s): Youth PRELUDE, by NEIL TRACY Poem Text First Line: A thing long sought Last Line: With a thing long sought. Subject(s): Death; Faith; Relationships; Youth; Dead, The; Belief; Creed PRIVILEGE, by RUTH MILLER REED Poem Text First Line: If youth were all- fleet - footed, gay with song Last Line: The master walked beside the least of these. Subject(s): Grandchildren; Grandparents; Walking; Youth; Grandsons; Granddaughters; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers PROEM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We found him in that far-away that yet to us seems near-- Last Line: The hearts of all his time are his, with your hale heart and mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Hearts; Youth 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 PROGRESSIVE LOVE, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Who says that a second is not as good? Last Line: And its present is fire divine. Subject(s): Courtship; Love; Youth PROM NIGHT AT GROSSE POINTE HIGH AND LAFAYETTE CLINIC, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: The boys wear tuxedos Last Line: You're a sweet girl,' he says Subject(s): Insanity; Proms; Youth PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three images flash on the screen Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Pasteur, Louis (1822-1895); Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Books; Youth; Reading PYTHONIC, by LESTER LYNN RUDOLPH RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: The man who flew back to yesterday Last Line: The monotony was such a bore. Subject(s): Boredom; Men; Youth; Ennui QUANTRAINS: YOUTH AND AGE, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pleasure!' cries youth. 't is pleasure I demand Last Line: "and am content if quiet ease remain." Subject(s): Aging; Youth QUESTION, by LE BARON COOKE Poem Text First Line: All morning long Last Line: In song? Subject(s): Sparrows; Youth RABBIT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I s'pose it takes a feller 'at's be'n Last Line: Fer eatin' purposes! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Animals; Country Life; Rabbits; Youth; Hares RACE, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Leave me here those looks of yours! Last Line: Unto each that yet shall live. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Beauty; Race Awareness; Youth RACHEL MOURNETH, by CORINNE HUNTINGTON JACKSON Poem Text First Line: Where are my babes, husband, where are my babes? Last Line: Butgodwhere are my babes? Subject(s): Children; Parents; Youth; Childhood; Parenthood RAHIM MULTANI: 1. KING PRAWNS, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When kiran went out of town I took the girls to get haircuts Last Line: Nights we wore our best saris, women everywhere rustling %in the room Subject(s): Friendship - Selectivity; Youth RAIN SONG, by KHALED MATTAWA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The radio blares “dialogue of souls Last Line: Those who despair Subject(s): Rain; Despair; Youth; Family Life; Coming Of Age; Relatives RAIN: SUNDAY SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF AND BLIND, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: It is palm Last Line: A lesson about jesus %into his palm Subject(s): Catholics; Jesus Christ; Palm Sunday; Religion; Sabbath; Youth RAKING LEAVES IN FAIRPORT, NEW YORK, by JOHN KOOISTRA Poem Source First Line: Back where my youth occurred Last Line: I have been standing here %all these years Subject(s): Leaves; Memory; Youth RANDOLPH FIELD, 1938, by ROBERT SAMUEL GWYNN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Framed by the open window, a lone stearman Last Line: Before he sideslips into dreams of fire. Alternate Author Name(s): Gwynn, R. S. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Military; Sickness; World War Ii; Youth; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Illness; Second World War REASONABLE MELANCHOLY, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Tell me no more of sweets & joyes Last Line: Arabia, & can sooner reach the skie. Subject(s): Fertility; Marriage; Melancholy; Nature; Rites & Ceremonies; Spring; Youth; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dejection RECAPITULATIONS, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was born downtown on a wintry day Subject(s): Birth; Family Life; Jews; World War Ii; Coming Of Age; Youth; Blacks; Divorce; Christianity; Conduct Of Life; Child Birth; Midwifery; Relatives; Judaism; Second World War REJECTED ADDRESSES: DRURY'S DIRGE, BY LAURA MATILDA, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Balmy zephyrs, lightly flitting Last Line: Never, never let us part! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Parnassus (mountain), Greece; Truth; Youth REMEMBRANCE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man hath a weary pilgrimage Last Line: The days that are no more. Subject(s): Aging; Memory; Youth REPLY TO ADVICE TO YOUTH, by MARION DOYLE Poem Text First Line: And what of old age without memories Last Line: And time stand still, and the last frail hope go blind. Alternate Author Name(s): Doyle, Marion Stauffer Subject(s): Advice; Aging; Youth REPRESSION, by HELEN FIELD WATSON Poem Text First Line: You said I could not count the stars Last Line: Immensity? Subject(s): Youth RETROSPECTION, by ROBERT CLAY Poem Text First Line: I stand with time upon the planet's brink Last Line: Sang adonais through the kilbourne meadows! Subject(s): Adonis; April Fool's Day; Mythology - Classical; Youth; All Fools' Day RETROSPECTION, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you and I were young, the days Last Line: "when you and I were young." Subject(s): Youth RETURNING THANKS, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take me up, to put me down Last Line: Thank you, thank you, memory! Subject(s): Gratitude; Memory; Youth RHYTHM AND BLUES, by SUSAN WOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Those days our bodies dove us, churning Last Line: Every part of them on fire Subject(s): Youth; Music & Musicians RICH COMPANIONS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: While I have these two rich companions left Last Line: Can age find any richer friends than these? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Aging; Youth RIDING DOWN, by NORA PERRY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, did you see him riding down Last Line: The little lass who blushed to see! Subject(s): Youth RITES OF PASSAGE: 1946, by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Through a window the wind Last Line: To whistle at my fears. %I shall burrow among women Subject(s): Homosexuality; Youth RIVULET, by PEDRO DE CASTRO Y ANAYA Poem Source First Line: Stay, rivulet, nor haste to leave Last Line: Than thus, a youthful danube, perish Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Youth ROCK ME TO SLEEP, by ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Backward, turn backward, o time, in your flight Last Line: Rock me to sleep, mother, -- rock me to sleep! Alternate Author Name(s): Percy, Florence; Chase, Elizabeth Anne Subject(s): Home; Mothers & Daughters; Time; Women; Youth ROMANCE, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last farewells were said, friends hurried ashore Last Line: Ere it goes down to darkness, whence it came! . . . Subject(s): Betrayal; Boats; Death; Happiness; Lies; Love; New York City; Youth; Dead, The; Joy; Delight; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 9. THE COOLED-DOWN ONE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When we are dead, we long must lie Last Line: And happy be, -- without a riot. Subject(s): Death; Love; Soul; Youth; Dead, The ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: TO THE YOUNG, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heed not the confusion, resist the illusion Last Line: To die thus in triumph in babylon town! Subject(s): Youth ROW GENTLY HERE, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Take day and night for woman's lovewhat angels we should be! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Variant Title(s): Venetian Air Subject(s): Love; Youth RUBBER TIRES, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some soothing balm the soul requires, when Last Line: "as they leave, on learning bent, they whisper, ""what a sinful gent!" Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Labor & Laborers; Youth; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops; Work; Workers RUTH, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She stood breast high amid the corn Last Line: Share my harvest and my home. Subject(s): Autumn; Beauty; Jews; Love; Ruth (bible); Seasons; Women In The Bible; Youth; Fall; Judaism SACRED EPIGRAM: CHRIST IN EGYPT, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You, o nile, show him to your people by a greater flock Last Line: Now you yourself may be the flood of your own joy Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth SACRED EPIGRAM: ON THE DARK ANS STORMY VOYAGE OF ... LORD, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Does the night hold these tender wayfarers, the mother with her son Last Line: And he let them bathe: and finally let them be released in the morning %so that the day itself may d Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth SACRED EPIGRAM: THE BOY JESUS IN THE MIDST OF THE DOCTORS, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man is deceived who hangs on every bearded chin Last Line: Not to think that whiteness of the head is the head Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth SACRED EPIGRAM: THE INFANT CHRIST IS PRESENTED TO HIS FATHER, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let the lamb go, and let him play at the feet of his butting father Last Line: This is the gift, this is it, which surely should dare %to be worthy of god himself: of course it is Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth SAD STEPS, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Groping back to bed after a piss Subject(s): Youth SAD STEPS, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Groping back to bed after a piss Last Line: That it can't come again, %but is for others undiminished somewhere Subject(s): Youth SAGE TO THE YOUNG, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O youth whose heart is right Last Line: It may be thou shalt gain %the hell-defended fort Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Youth SAINT BRIDE'S LULLABY, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, baby christ, so dear to me Last Line: Sang bridget bride. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Brigid Of Ireland, Saint (453-523); Fear; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Marriage; Nuns; Singing & Singers; Bridget, Saint; Brigit Of Kildare, Saint; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Songs SAM PERRY (A GENIUS UNRECORDED), by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stood by a grave and white grave-stone Last Line: "and tell what you do, and where you are!" Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Memory; Science; Youth; Graveyards; Dead, The; Scientists SAMPLER WORKED BY MARY OGDEN SHOWING PICTURE OF BLISDON, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Children like tender oziers bend the bow Last Line: For what we learn in youth to that laone %in age we are by second nature prone Subject(s): Youth SCHOOLBOYS IN WINTER, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The schoolboys still their morning rambles take Last Line: In the pale splendour of the winter sun. Subject(s): Youth SCIENCE, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Her temple crowns the common haunts Last Line: And glorifies our mortal dream. Subject(s): Nature; Science; Truth; Youth; Scientists SCROLL OF FIRE 8, by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK Poem Source First Line: And the waters spewed the youth forth in a land far, far away, in a foreign Last Line: Soul and the twilight of dawn the song of his life Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman Subject(s): Youth SEA RHAPSODY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By day, the tremble of the boat Last Line: Restless, that yet bring rest. Subject(s): Boats; Dreams; Earth; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Sleep; Youth; Nightmares; World; Seamen; Sails; Ocean SEPTUAGENARIAN MURDERER KNITS NONSTOP, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The k-9 unit given her long white prom gloves, her pillowcase Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Girls; Youth SESTINA, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wandered o'er the vast green plains of youth Last Line: Where duty walks with love in endless youth. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Truth; Youth SEVEN TIMES TWO [ - ROMANCE], by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You bells in the steeple, ring, ring out your changes Last Line: Such as I wish it to be. Subject(s): Bells; Youth SHADOWS OF CRIME, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His early youth was formed in virtue's way Last Line: The mantle of the tomb is on him cast. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Evil; Temptation; Virtue; Youth SHAVINGS, by GRANT HYDE CODE Poem Text First Line: Furtive as those condemned to dwell Last Line: To pace the narrow city blocks. Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners; Youth; Convicts SHE LOOKS BEYOND TO-MORROW, by RUTH FITCH BARTLETT Poem Text First Line: I will wear purple bonnets Last Line: Tell me any foolish thing! Subject(s): Hats; Life; Old Age; Youth SHEAF OF MEMORIES, by AVIS TURNER FRENCH Poem Text First Line: I longed to free my heart from broken hopes of olden years Last Line: Though they were part of yesteryears, they helped to make today. Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Youth; Nightmares SHEMA YISRAEL ADONAY-ELOHAINU ADONAY-ECHOD, by IBBIE MCCOLM WILSON Poem Text First Line: Shema yisrael,' is the lesson we learn Last Line: "shema yisrael!" Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Youth; Judaism SHINGLING THE NEW ROOF, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the roof of the garage my father was Last Line: A sharp impression deepening to a bruise. Subject(s): Accidents; Labor & Laborers; Mothers & Sons; Youth; Work; Workers SHORT STORY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Billy bunter and jane austen Last Line: Hates being a child Subject(s): Austen, Jane (1775-1817); Novels And Novelists; Play; Youth SHOTGUN LOADED WITH ROCK SALT, by THOMAS LUX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So I took my shotgun Last Line: And that big boy's fat ass Subject(s): Guns; Youth; Robbery SIGHT, by IDA NORTON MUNSON Poem Source First Line: In nazareth he know each narrow street Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth SILVIO'S COMPLAINT: A SONG, TO A FINE SCOTCH TUNE, by APHRA BEHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the blooming time o'th year Last Line: For wishing to be king. Alternate Author Name(s): Astraea; Behn, Afara; Behn, Apharra; Amis, Ayfara Subject(s): May (month); Singing & Singers; Spring; Wishes; Youth; Songs SIMEON IN THE TEMPLE, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: She hated to give him up Last Line: For the sun to slip through Subject(s): Catholics; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Temples; Women - Bible SINCE NINE O'CLOCK, by CONSTANTINE P. CAVAFY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Half past twelve. The time has passed quickly Alternate Author Name(s): Kavafis, Konstantinos; Cavafy, C. P. Subject(s): Youth SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA RECOUNTS A FOLKTALE, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No, no, no, no she said, squirming Last Line: As a scythe, the hook Subject(s): Passion; Youth SKATEBOARD, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tow head on his skateboard Last Line: Therefore suggest the spirit Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Skateboards; Sports; Youth SLIPPERS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: When youth is gone, and beauty too Last Line: Will not the other heed? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Youth SNAKE HILL, by JAY PARINI Poem Source First Line: The dirt road rose abruptly through a wood Subject(s): Youth SO MANY NATURAL LAWS, by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: So many natural laws %between the sun and moon, Last Line: In garments they were lent. Subject(s): Aging; Youth SON OF MSIPPI, by HENRY DUMAS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up/from msippi I grew. Subject(s): Youth SONG, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, my caelia, why so coy Last Line: Nor know a second spring. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Spinsters; Youth; Male-female Relations; Old Maids SONG, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Daughter of egypt, veil thine eyes! Last Line: My struggling manhood drown! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Summer; Youth SONG (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh roses for the flush of youth Last Line: Before in the old time. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Aging; Flowers; Youth SONG AND SINGER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw him once, the while he sat and played Last Line: Keep an immortal youth. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Singing & Singers; Time; Youth; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs SONG FOR THE NINETEENTH, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The morning sky is hung with mist Last Line: Why say 'twas in your nineteenth year. Subject(s): Military Service, Compulsory; Youth; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service SONG FOR YOUTH, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O flower-like years of youth Last Line: Hold him at bay. Subject(s): Youth SONG OF CHANG-KAN, by LI PO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When my hair just began to cover my forehead, Last Line: Ignore the long distance, even to long wind sands Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): Longing; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Youth SONG OF YOUTH, by LULU PIPER AIKEN Poem Text First Line: The lodestar guides the sailor on Last Line: So long as I am I! Subject(s): Youth SONG: 1, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come here fond youth, whoe'er thou be Last Line: For if thou thus hast lov'd, oh! Never hope a cure. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Youth; Love - Erotic SONG: UGLY SLAVE, by XIN QIJI Poem Source First Line: In my distant younger days Last Line: Is this cooling autumn weather! Subject(s): Grief; Poetry And Poets; Youth SONGS BEFORE SUNRISE: PRELUDE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between the green bud and the red Last Line: The sacred spaces of the sea. Subject(s): Flowers; Sea; Soul; Youth; Ocean SONGS FOR A WINTER FIRE: 9. OF SUCH STRANGE STUFF, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Slowly my window darkens: each bare limb Last Line: Of neither night nor morrow will be afraid. Subject(s): Time; Trees; Youth SONGS OF LOVE AND YOUTH: PROLOGUE, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Even as one who finds his face Last Line: But ever battling upwards,battling towards the light. Subject(s): Family Life; Hearts; Love; Mothers; Youth; Relatives SONGS OF NIGHT TO MORNING: 5, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: And shall I then complain if thou, the sea-wind meeting Last Line: With equal kindred deep impassioned eyes. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Passion; Youth SONGS OF THE DAYS AND NIGHTS: SONGS OF THE AUTUMN NIGHTS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O night, send up the harvest moon Last Line: Till I am old no more. Subject(s): Autumn; Corn; God; Grief; Night; Old Age; Seasons; Youth; Fall; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime SONGS OF THE DAYS AND NIGHTS: SONGS OF THE SPRING NIGHTS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The flush of green that dyed the day Last Line: I pass into thy spring. Subject(s): Aging; Change; God; Nature; Night; Spring; Stars; Youth; Bedtime SONGS OF TRAVEL: 2. YOUTH AND LOVE: 1, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once only by the garden gate Last Line: For god to plough them under. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Life; Love; Youth SONGS OF TRAVEL: 3. YOUTH AND LOVE: 2, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To the heart of youth the world is a highwayside Last Line: Sings but a boyish stave and his face is gone. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): Youth And Love (2) Subject(s): Love; Youth SONGS TUNELESS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He kisses me! Ah, now, at last Last Line: And rake the ashes over it. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Night; Youth; Bedtime SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 20, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Phillis, give this humour over Last Line: Live in far more perfect joy. Subject(s): Beauty; Faith; Happiness; Pride; Women; Youth; Belief; Creed; Joy; Delight; Self-esteem; Self-respect SONNET TO DUNNINGTON CASTLE: 2, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As slow and solemn yonder deepening knell Last Line: Heeds how the faithless bauble melts away. Subject(s): Death; Faith; Mortality; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Youth; Dead, The; Belief; Creed SONNET: 10, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forgive - that thus the trumpet I have blown Last Line: Are surely worth the tribute of a rhyme. Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets; Youth SONNET: 11, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The strong man's hand, the snow-cool head of age Last Line: The bitter north of life -- a frozen clime. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Youth SONNET: 2, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Parted by time and space for many a year Last Line: And fluted in those old virginia groves. Subject(s): Absence; Seasons; Youth; Separation; Isolation SONNET: 20. PICTURE OF A YOUNG LADY, by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was sitting, sad, and all alone Subject(s): Memory; Beauty; Youth, Aging SONNET: 32, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was never file half so well filed Last Line: And the reward little trust forever. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 16 Subject(s): Time; Youth SONNET: 96, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness Last Line: As, thou being mine, mine is thy good report. Subject(s): Youth SONNET: YOUTH, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Youth, ageless youth, the old gods' attribute! Subject(s): Youth SONNETS IN TIME OF TRIAL, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Queer! There was no premonitory twitch Last Line: "said, ""what a jolly, sunny sunday morning!" Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Life; Love; Pain; Youth; Suffering; Misery SONNETS TO MIRANDA: 16, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then, 'twas the fancy of a fevered mind Last Line: The bloom and odour of this day of days. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Life; Youth SONNETS WRITTEN TO BOUTS-RIMES: 10C. VANITY FAIR, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some ladies dress in muslin full and white Last Line: Go to the bason, poke them o'er the rim. -- Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Women; Youth SONNETS WRITTEN TO BOUTS-RIMES: 8, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Methinks the ills of life I fain would shun Last Line: And I shall sorrow that I must forget. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Grief; Life; Love; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness SONNETS: HOW BRAVELY NOW I FACE THE MARCHING DAYS, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How bravely now I face the marching days Last Line: Old age shall take me tenderly at last. Subject(s): Youth SOSPETTO D'HEROID [D'HERODE] (THE SUSPICION OF HEROD), by GIAMBATTISTA MARINI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Muse, now the servant of soft loves no more Last Line: So much? Rude shepheards. What his steeds? Alas %poore beasts! A slow oxe, and a simple asse Alternate Author Name(s): Marino, Giambattista; Marino, Giovanni Battista Variant Title(s): Herod's Suspicion Subject(s): Devil; Herod The Great (73-4 B.c.); Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth SOUL BEAUTY, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Grace incarnate, glory's heir Last Line: Ripened for supernal glory. Subject(s): Beauty; Nature; Soul; Time; Youth SOUND DOCTRINE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Quick, beat the drum, and be not afraid Last Line: And also because I drum not amiss. Subject(s): Drums; Kisses; Musical Instruments; Sleep; Youth SOUR GRAPES, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: I never cared the least for lou Last Line: Are very trying. Subject(s): Charm; Flirtation; Love - Age Differences; Youth SOUTH, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: It could have been of hay, or lemon trees, but no: it was of Last Line: My balcony. I must defend myself from this sharp blade. At my throat Subject(s): Youth SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 122, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Though you see me a fallen woman Last Line: And I may be green again Subject(s): Youth SPANISH ROSES, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Roses, roses / yellow and red Last Line: A kiss for a kiss, and a sigh for a sigh! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Variant Title(s): Roses Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Kisses; Love; Roses; Youth; Dead, The SPEECH TO THE YOUNG. SPEECH TO THE PROGRESS-TOWARD, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say to them Last Line: Live in the along Subject(s): Youth SPEECH TO THE YOUNG. SPEECH TO THE PROGRESS-TOWARD, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say to them Last Line: Live in the along Subject(s): Youth SPIRIT OF LIBERTY, by MRS. M. L. OBERHOLTZER Poem Source First Line: Bright is the moon that hangs aloft Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: AMI GREEN, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not 'a youth with hoary head and haggard eye' Last Line: Is just arrested growth. Subject(s): Youth SPRING FEVER, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: My right shoulder aches when snow melts, %air softens, and baseballs Last Line: Citizen, old ballplayer that I am, I walk %my aching shoulder home Subject(s): Balls; Baseball; Boys; Sports; Youth SPRING SONG, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Make me over, mother april Last Line: When the sap begins to stir! Subject(s): April; Youth SPRING TO THE POORHOUSE, by BEULA CHAMBERLAIN Poem Text First Line: Once when spring came these eyes were lifted up Last Line: Know only that she brings hot days, and flies. Subject(s): Kindness; Poorhouses; Spring; Youth; Workhouses STANZAS, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In youth have I known one with whom the earth Last Line: Wearing its own deep feeling as a crown. Subject(s): Nature; Youth STANZAS TO PUNCHINELLO, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou lignum-vitae roscius, who Last Line: First of head-breaking and side-splitting actors! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Death; Faces; Youth; Dead, The STANZAS WRITTEN ON THE ROAD BETWEEN FLORENCE AND PISA, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story Last Line: I knew it was love and I felt it was glory. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): All For Love Subject(s): Fame; Love; Youth; Reputation STANZAS; WRITTEN AFTER THE SECOND READING OF 'CORINNA', by EMMA CATHERINE (MANLY) EMBURY Poem Text First Line: Childhood's glad smile was on my lip, life's sunshine on my brow Last Line: The reed when wooed by zephyr's breath, the oak when tempests lower. Alternate Author Name(s): Ianthe Subject(s): Fear; Life; Love; Youth STEM WORD OR SENTENCE, by REGINA KING Poem Source First Line: While offering freedom to continue Last Line: Into the power lines Subject(s): Youth STRANGE MEETINGS: 10, by HAROLD MONRO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A flower is looking through the ground Last Line: They don't recognise each other. Variant Title(s): Forgetfulness Subject(s): Youth STREAK OF LIGHT, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After a party to celebrate the mid-term break Subject(s): Youth; Admiration STREAMLET FLOWS INTO THE SEA, by LUIS DE GONGORA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sea through a brief streamlet seeks to pass Last Line: The violence of the watery father, crowned %with foam and w eeds, in green and white display Alternate Author Name(s): Argote Y Gongora, Luis De Subject(s): Obedience; Youth STUDENT-SONG, by JOHN MILTON HAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When youth's warm heart beats high, my friend Last Line: Of love and song and wine. Subject(s): Youth SUMMER IS WANING, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Summer is waning, the roses are dead Last Line: Sweet memories, never to fail! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Future; Life Change Events; Summer; Time; Youth SUMMER'S REVEL, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! But my mind is weary! Last Line: "come, friend -- you've drunk your last now.'" Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Flowers; Life; Summer; Youth; Wine SUMMIT OF DELIGHT, by JORGE GUILLEN Poem Source Last Line: Now I only can sing! Subject(s): Love - Marital; Youth SUNSHINE AND SHOWER, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Blow soft, ye winds, from out the south Last Line: Her peaceful radiance! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Heaven; Love - Nature Of; Peace; Youth; Paradise SURE HE WILL, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He's cocksure in all his opinions Last Line: He'll get over it too! Subject(s): Youth SUSANNAH TO THE ELDER, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: Eyes that pierced my nakedness Last Line: Crush the juice from one Subject(s): Bodies; Nudity; Old Age; Relationships; Youth SWEET SEVENTEEN, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I knew a maid; her form and face Last Line: Beloved, bewitching, innocent. Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Youth SYLVIA IN THE SPRINGTIME, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Voice of the youth of the year Last Line: Oh, to see sylvia's face! Subject(s): Beauty; Singing & Singers; Youth TAKE YOUR CHOICE: ACCORDING TO FRANKLIN P. ADAMS, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Young chloris had ringlets clear down to her eyebrows Last Line: "and painting the appian way!" Subject(s): Adams, Franklin Pierce (1881-1960); Girls; Youth TEMPLE OFFERING, by LESLIE SAVAGE CLARK Poem Source First Line: Did times grow hard in nazareth Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth TENDER MOODS, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Watching by the river where the lilies blow Last Line: With the sublime and sacred light of truth. Subject(s): Life; Love; Singing & Singers; Youth; Songs THE 16-YEAR OLD POET, by SOLOMON IBN GABIROL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the prince the song Alternate Author Name(s): Ibn Gabirol; Solomon Ben Yehuda Ibn Gabirol Subject(s): Jews; Mysticism - Judaism; Poetry & Poets; Youth; Judaism THE ACTS OF YOUTH, by JOHN WIENERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: And with great fear I inhabit the middle of the night Last Line: Worshipped in the pitches of the night Subject(s): Youth THE AGE OF GOLD, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: A silver shilling for his white-haired granny Last Line: When you, all eyes, were richer far, though poor. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Youth THE AIR BASE AT CHATEAUROUX, by SHEROD SANTOS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the american schoolyard Subject(s): Youth THE AMENITIES, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I owe you an explanation. Subject(s): Youth; Memory; Rape THE ANTIQUE DESK, by ROBERTA ROBERTSON Poem Text First Line: This maimed antique still holds Last Line: By time and scars and truth. Subject(s): Antiques; Furniture; Nostalgia; Past; Youth THE APOLOGY, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Chide not if here you haply find Last Line: The country love, the country blush! Subject(s): Country Life; Muses; Youth THE BABE OF BETHLEHEM, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O cruel manger, how bleak, how bleak! Last Line: Break, o heart, for thy god! Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mothers & Sons; Worship THE BABE TO THE GIFT-BEARER, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot hold within my hands Last Line: Till I am older grown. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE BALLAD O' MARY MUIREN, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The pride o' the clachan, the rose o' the glen Last Line: "may she ne'er dree the dule o' the drucken man's wife!" Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Girls; Scotland; Youth THE BALLAD OF CHRISTOPHER STREET, by FLOYD DELL Poem Text First Line: Is it still there, I wonder, down in christopher street Last Line: Eleven christopher street. Subject(s): Change; Christopher Street, New York City; Greenwich Village, New York City; Time; Youth THE BALLAD OF THE COMFORTING, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mary smiled on her little son Last Line: Her torn heart beat again? Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Calvary; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth THE BALLAD OF THE FOUR YOUTHS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A youth to the hilltop glanced and said Last Line: With nothing but love to gain. Subject(s): Adolescence; Youth; Teen Agers THE BALLAD OF THE STUDENT IN THE SOUTH, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was no sooner than this morn Last Line: And love the whole night through. Subject(s): Youth THE BAREFOOT BOY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Blessings on thee, little man Last Line: Ere it passes, barefoot boy! Subject(s): Children; Memory; Youth; Childhood THE BARRIER, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I dreamed I stood once more Last Line: When once we stand outside! Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Youth THE BED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, of all god's gifts the best Last Line: Softest, safest, blessedest. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beds; Dreams; Sleep; Youth; Nightmares THE BELLS OF YOUTH, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bells of youth are ringing in the gate Last Line: And is singing, singing, singing thro' the world. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Bells; Singing & Singers; Spring; Youth; Songs THE BEST SLOW DANCER, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the sagging clotheslines of crepe paper Subject(s): Youth; Dancing & Dancers THE BIRDS, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When jesus christ was four years old Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth THE BIRTH OF LOVE, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis joy to feel the spirit leap Last Line: And pass into love's burning sphere. Subject(s): Love; Youth THE BITTER WITHY (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: As it fell out on a holy day Last Line: "oh! The withy, it shall be the very first tree / that perishes at the heart" Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth;punishment THE BLACK POINT, by GERARD LABRUNIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: When to the sun a man hath raised his eye Last Line: Unblinded face the sun! Alternate Author Name(s): Nerval, Gerard De Subject(s): Pride; Sun; Youth; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE BLACK RIVIERA, by MARK JARMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: There they are again. It's after dark. Last Line: So insular, so quiet, it enters the earth Subject(s): Youth; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin THE BLIND MAN, by FLOY BOYER Poem Text First Line: A youth, with nature's candles long burnt out Last Line: Who hurry on, unheedful of the blind. Subject(s): Blindness; Nature; Youth; Visually Handicapped THE BLIND WEAVER, by HELEN GOLTRA Poem Text First Line: My soul is like a weaver, who though blind Last Line: The pattern of the whole seem doubly fair? Subject(s): Sin; Truth; Youth THE BODY BESIDE THE TIES, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can't seem to wake you, kid, guess it Subject(s): Death; Youth; Dead, The THE BOY JESUS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once, measuring his height, he stood Last Line: I've seen the tears upon his cheek. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Variant Title(s): The Child At Nazareth Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth THE BOYS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where are they? - the friends Last Line: Of faces asleep where the bumblebees drone! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Friendship; Time; Youth; Childhood THE BOYS AT TWILIGHT, by GLYN MAXWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alive to the lilac, dead to the blue Subject(s): Youth; Coming Of Age THE CANDLE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: The life and death I once did mark Last Line: Converts ye candles into starrs. Subject(s): Candles; Christianity; Faith; Humanity; Youth; Belief; Creed THE CARELESS LAD, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The careless lad went through the wood Last Line: Who never looked behind. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Boys; Caregivers; Man-woman Relationships; Sickness; Youth; Male-female Relations; Illness THE CASE OF ALBERT IRVING WILLIAMSON, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, albert irving williamson was innocent / and young Last Line: Our hero did not win a single solitary pot. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Fools; Gambling; Innocence; Youth; Idiots; Wagering; Betting THE CHALLENGE, by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I challenge you!' you said to me Last Line: Or else -- in greek mythology. Subject(s): Love; Youth THE CHAPERON, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: The chaperon was powerful, a stern and doughty lady Last Line: "chaperons? Groans! Good-bye!" Subject(s): Parties; Youth THE CHILD, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The little feet running upon the floor Last Line: And even the sweets the heart thought past recover. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Feet; Kisses; Mothers; Youth; Childhood THE CHILDREN OF KENSINGTON GARDENS, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strings of shells whose lively convolutions Last Line: Hold one dear hand ere I, too, be past! Subject(s): Sin; Youth THE CHRISTENING OF THE STADIUM, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: It was the greatest game that year that mortal ever / saw Last Line: The celebrated christening in famous oughty-three. Subject(s): Competition; Memory; Sports; Youth THE CHRISTMAS CHILD, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We see not god, yet while we grope Last Line: Our life! Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Gifts & Giving; Holidays; Jerusalem; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Childhood; Nativity, The THE CHRISTMAS HOUR, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: This is the hour my heart has waited for Last Line: "peace and good-will dwell in the world again!" Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Christmas; Holidays; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Nativity, The THE CHRISTMAS STAR, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: Shine gently down, o radiant star Last Line: In every little baby's birth. Subject(s): Birth; Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Child Birth; Midwifery; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary THE CHURCH OF BROU, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down the savoy valleys sounding Last Line: The rustle of the eternal rain of love. Subject(s): Hunting; Death; Churches; Youth; Graves; Hunters; Dead, The; Cathedrals; Tombs; Tombstones THE CITY OF MY YOUTH, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: The town I knew is sunk from sight Last Line: Thy happiness my tears. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Cities; Youth; Urban Life THE CLOVER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some sings of the lilly, and daisy, and rose Last Line: While my soul slips away on a breth of purfume. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Clover; Flowers; Youth THE COMMON LOT, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When youth and summer-time are gone Last Line: The sailing of the caravan. Subject(s): Time; Youth THE CONFLICT, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Listen, listen to the blowing bugles! Last Line: Till you fall into an open grave. Subject(s): Perseverance; War; Youth THE CONVERSATION, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It always has been thought discreet Last Line: How many damons, how few dorsets, live! Subject(s): Conversation; Love; Strangers; Youth THE COQUETTE, by APHRA BEHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Melinda, who had never been Alternate Author Name(s): Astraea; Behn, Afara; Behn, Apharra; Amis, Ayfara Subject(s): Beauty; Flirtation; Youth THE CRY OF YOUTH, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard youth crying in the night Last Line: "yea, I am youth because I die!" Subject(s): Death; Social Protest; Youth; Dead, The THE CUP OF YOUTH, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See, gaspar, how I hold the hours of love Last Line: [exit gelosa. Subject(s): Aging; Death; Love Affairs; Youth; Dead, The THE DAYS GONE BY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O the days gone by! O the days gone by! Last Line: In the golden olden glory of the days gone by. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Memory; Past; Youth; Childhood THE DAYS OF OUR YOUTH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: These are the days of our youth Last Line: "joy of joys for an hour to-day; then away, farewell!" Subject(s): Hearts;love;memory;passion;youth THE DECEPTRICES, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because they are not Last Line: The unalterable conclusion Subject(s): Youth THE DIFFERENCE, by ANGELO PHILIP BERTOCCI Poem Text First Line: You spoke one word Last Line: I had grown old! Subject(s): Aging; Dreams; Youth; Nightmares THE DIRGE, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have been where the white lilies blow Last Line: Tis in wild eden. Subject(s): Aging; Singing & Singers; Youth THE DIVAN: L'ENVOI, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go forth, my prentice-book, and if Last Line: Before life's battle-work began. Subject(s): Youth THE DREAM OF THE LITTLE PRINCESS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a curious dream, goo Last Line: Of the sandals of his feet! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Youth; Nightmares THE DYING SPANIEL, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old oscar, how feebly thou crawl'st to the door Last Line: And the friend and the foe pass away, one by one! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Memory; Old Age; Youth THE EGLANTINE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun was setting in the summer west Last Line: And memories of the by-past, sad and sweet. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Love; Memory; Roses; Youth THE EMBLEM, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the last days of the sun Subject(s): Bicycles; Youth; Bad Bheavior; Cycling THE EMPTY PURSE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, run to the dry on this wayside bank Last Line: Drew our thoughts to earth's lowly for food. Subject(s): Mythology; Wealth; Youth; Riches; Fortunes THE END OF TIME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou who art dreary Last Line: And soon must end the night, and soon must dawn the day. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Fear; Hope; Time; Youth; Dead, The; Optimism THE ENDURING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A misty memory - faint, far away Last Line: "have god thy friend: he passeth all the rest." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Friendship; God; Life; Memory; Youth THE ENGLISH BOY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look from the ancient mountains down Last Line: The altars of the land. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Duty; England; Youth; English THE FIRST CHRISTMAS, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: O mary, drooping by the door Last Line: Before thy son, the king. Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Love; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary THE FLAPPER, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night long the darling daughter squirms Last Line: The canto amoroso of her hips. Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Youth THE FLIGHT OF YOUTH, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No, though all the winds that lie Last Line: Can have no other end but death. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Aging; Time; Youth THE FLIGHT OF YOUTH, by RICHARD HENRY STODDARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are gains for all our losses Last Line: But it never comes again. Variant Title(s): Never Again;lost Subject(s): Transience; Youth; Impermanence THE FLIRT, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: Beautiful boy, lend me your youth to play with Last Line: Than what I am! Subject(s): Aging; Boys; Desire; Flirtation; Youth THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fount the spaniard sought in vain Last Line: The hope of times unborn! Subject(s): Youth THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH: A DREAM OF PONCE DE LEON, by HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A story of ponce de leon Last Line: The beautiful fountain of youth. Subject(s): America - Exploration; Florida; Fountain Of Youth; Ponce De Leon, Juan (1460-1521) THE FRIVOLOUS GIRL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Her eyes were bright and merry Last Line: "while the gossips say, ""would you think it, / of only a frivolous girl?" Subject(s): Youth THE GARDEN, by EMMA CATHERINE (MANLY) EMBURY Poem Text First Line: O what a world of beauty lies within Last Line: With a most tremulous stillness. Alternate Author Name(s): Ianthe Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Eden; Gardens & Gardening; Youth; Nightmares THE GIRL OF ALL PERIODS; AN IDYLL, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And even our women,' lastly grumbles ben Last Line: Said he'd stop too, and call on old sir francis. Subject(s): Youth THE GOLDEN AGE, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Money abundant, at an easy rate! Last Line: That gold alone can make no golden age. Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): England; Freedom; Materialism; Muses; Wealth; Youth; English; Liberty; Riches; Fortunes THE GOLDEN AGE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: When the morning breaks above us Last Line: Nourished by eternal truth. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Day; Earth; Youth; World THE GOLDEN CORPSE, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stripped country, shrunken as a beggar's heart Last Line: And the ice harden like a god's disdain on it. Subject(s): Youth THE GOLDEN DREAM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: She sleeps; her head is pillowed where Last Line: Break not her golden vision's spell! Subject(s): Grief;sleep;youth; Sorrow;sadness THE GOLDEN SHOES, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The winds are lashing on the sea Last Line: God saw that I was young! Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs. Subject(s): Shoes; Wellesley College; Youth; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers THE GOLDEN SHOVEL, by TERRANCE HAYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of hunger, we end too soon Subject(s): Family Life; Youth; Relatives THE GRAY FOX, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone I know is dying, at seventeen Last Line: Watch him, ten yards away, unafraid. Subject(s): Death; Foxes; Nature; Youth; Dead, The THE GREAT CITY, by FAITH EVELYN PACKARD Poem Text First Line: The great city / stretches out huge steel claws Last Line: The souls of the young. Subject(s): Cities; Hearts; Soul; Youth; Urban Life THE GREY EROS, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are desert leagues apart Last Line: Do not lay thy rapture down. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Aging; Time; Youth THE GROATSWORTH OF WIT: LAMILIA'S SONG, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fie, fie on blind fancy! Last Line: To count love a toy. Variant Title(s): Fancy Subject(s): Imagination; Love; Youth; Fancy THE HAPPY DAYS WHEN I WER YOUNG, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In happy days when I wer young Last Line: In happy days when I wer young! Subject(s): Happiness; Memory; Winter; Youth; Joy; Delight THE HEART THAT'S YOUNG TO LOVE HATH YOLD, by W. H. TOURJEE Poem Text First Line: Youth is young and age is old! Last Line: To love is to live! Long be love's wold. Subject(s): Love; Youth THE HEAVENS AT NIGHT, by CHRISTIAN ERNST SCHNEIDER Poem Text First Line: I love to lie at eventime Last Line: Of god's celestial truth. Subject(s): Admiration; Night; Wandering & Wanderers; Youth; Bedtime THE HERITAGE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rich man's son inherits lands Last Line: Well worth a life to hold in fee. Variant Title(s): The Poor And The Rich Subject(s): Poverty; Wealth; Youth; Riches; Fortunes THE HILLS OF HOME, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After the mighty levels of the west Last Line: The hills of home! Subject(s): Home; Memory; Soul; Trees; Youth THE HOP GARDEN: BOOK 1: HOPS AND PROPS, by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When phoebus looks through aries on the right Last Line: They've felt; 'tis then we fell sublimer props. Subject(s): Cold; Plants; Seasons; Winter; Youth; Planting; Planters THE HOUSE IN WHICH WE NOW LIVED WAS OLD, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Family Life; Youth; Fear; Household Employees; Relatives; Servants; Domestics; Maids THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 13. YOUTH'S ANTIPHONY, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love you, sweet: how can you ever learn Last Line: Through two blent souls one rapturous undersong. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Love; Youth THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 24. PRIDE OF YOUTH, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even as a child, of sorrow that we give Last Line: Even as the beads of a told rosary! Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Love; Youth THE HUNGER BOY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hunter boy of hazelwood Last Line: Hunter boy of hazelwood! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Forests; Happiness; Hunting; Youth; Woods; Joy; Delight; Hunters THE ICONOCLAST, by ROSE TERRY COOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A thousand years shall come and go Last Line: The soul that knows its god was dust. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Soul; Time; Tragedy; Youth; Dramatists THE INNOCENTS, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the cock in the dish Last Line: "to quiet his crying." Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Herod The Great (73-4 B.c.); Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth THE JOYS OF THE ROAD, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the joys of the road are chiefly these Last Line: For him who travels without a load. Subject(s): Autumn; Roads; Seasons; Wandering & Wanderers; Youth; Fall; Paths; Trails; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE KIND OLD MAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The kind old man - the mild old Last Line: When he was as tough as they! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Memory; Old Age; Youth; Childhood THE KING IN THE CRADLE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "my sweet little babie, what meanest thou to cry" Last Line: "lulla, la lulla, lulla, lullaby" Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth THE LADLE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The sceptics think, 'twas long ago Last Line: Tis all a wish, and all a ladle. Subject(s): Fables; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; War; Youth; Allegories THE LAKE (VERSION 1), by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In youth's spring it was my lot Last Line: An eden of that dim lake. Subject(s): Lakes; Youth; Pools; Ponds THE LAKE (VERSION 2), by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In spring of youth it was my lot Last Line: An eden of that dim lake. Subject(s): Lakes; Youth; Pools; Ponds THE LAMB, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little lamb, who made thee: / dost thou know who made thee? Last Line: Little lamb god bless thee. Variant Title(s): The Lamb Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Lambs; Mythology; Religion; Theology THE LAST SOUL, by CATULLE MENDES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The heaven was void of gods and, altarless Last Line: And, as departing incense, soared to god. Subject(s): Fear; Heaven; Soul; Youth; Paradise THE LEGEND OF ESPIRITU SANTO, by ISLEA SHRIVER ELLIS Poem Text First Line: Many years ago the spaniard came from far across the ocean Last Line: Sing a song of joy and gladness in the sunshine of the southland. Subject(s): De Soto, Hernando (1500-1542); Legends, Native American; Youth THE LEGEND OF WAUKULLA (1513), by HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through darkening pines the cavaliers marched Last Line: Waukulla. Subject(s): America - Exploration; Bimini (island); Fountain Of Youth THE LEPRECHAUN, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She was so beautiful and light Last Line: His whisper hoarse? Subject(s): Death; Girls; Youth; Dead, The THE LITTLE CHILD, by ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A simple-hearted child was he Last Line: For the thorns that it must wear. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth THE LITTLE FAT DOCTOR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He seemed so strange to me, every Last Line: "as the little fat doctor does!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Memory; Physicians; Youth; Doctors THE LOST COMRADES, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When we are dancing in the former places Last Line: When I see the shadows round usthe young, young faces. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Loss; Memory; Youth THE LOST LAND, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What wind is it that stirs Last Line: Whence none returns, none goes. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Flowers; Loss; Roses; Wind; Youth THE LOST ROOM; QUATRAIN, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I came out of the fair house of youth Last Line: That I can find that portal never more. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Youth THE LOST SHIPMATE, by THEODORE GOODRIDGE ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Somewhere he failed me, somewhere he slipped away Last Line: Shall I find you south of the gulf?or are you dead in my heart? Alternate Author Name(s): Roberts, T. G. Subject(s): Loss; Past; Youth THE LOVELINESS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, what a long and loitering way Last Line: Forever brightening. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fairies; May (month); Youth; Elves THE LOVING-CUP, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis the time of year for the loving-cup Last Line: Where the babe and mary are. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Children; Christmas; Gifts & Giving; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Love; Childhood; Nativity, The THE MAYPOLE [DANCE], by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "come, lasses and lads, take leave of your dads" Last Line: "and each a two pence, two pence, two pence gave him; and went away" Variant Title(s): The Rural Dance About The Maypole Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers;youth THE MEETING, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The music under the linden-tree sounds Last Line: And shun now the sight of each other. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Nymphs; Youth THE MERRY MATRON, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: James james / morrison morrison Last Line: And since it's the rage not to be your age, well, what can any son do? Subject(s): Aging; Mothers; Youth THE MESS OF IT, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: The gods made a sorry old mess of it Last Line: But left man to add love as the test of the truth. Subject(s): Love; Youth THE MIDGET DANCE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I scan the storied pages Last Line: Finds life . . . A midget dance! Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Life; Love; Nations; War; Youth THE MISSED SUNSET, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At dusk in my spacious garden Last Line: Had vanished the sunset glow. Subject(s): Beauty; Evening; Grief; Life; Youth; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness THE MONODY OF ISLA THE SINGER, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it time to let the hour rise and go forth as Last Line: And hear her voice like mournful bells crying on the wind. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Aging; Dreams; Mourning; Time; Youth; Nightmares; Bereavement THE MOURNING MOTHER, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What woe is thine, pale mother? - say Last Line: To moloch offered up. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Grief; Mothers & Sons; Temperance; Temptation; Youth; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Sorrow; Sadness; Prohibition THE MOURNING-GARMENT: SONG OF COUNTRY SWAIN AT THE RETURN OF PHILADOR, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The silent shade had shadow'd every tree Last Line: "and therefore farewell the follies of my youth." Variant Title(s): Menalcas - The Prodigal's Return Subject(s): Youth THE MULBERRY TREE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, it's many's the scenes which is dear Last Line: They go racin' acrost fer the mulberry tree. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Mulberry Trees; Youth; Nightmares THE NEW LIFE, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps they laughed at dante in his youth Last Line: So answers dante to the heart of youth! Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Youth THE NEW YEAR'S NIGHT OF AN UNHAPPY MAN, by JEAN PAUL RICHTER Poem Text First Line: Once on a time, it was the new year's night Last Line: The golden years can never more return. Subject(s): Aging; Holidays; New Year; Old Age; Sin; Youth THE NINTH OF AB, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, vain for hand of mine to strike this harp of / golden strings Last Line: A testimony to mankind that god shall keep his word. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Christianity; Disasters; Earthquakes; God; Israel; Jews; Memory; Mourning; Pain; Pity; Tragedy; Youth; Judaism; Bereavement; Suffering; Misery THE OCTOBER REDBREAST, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Autumn is weary, halt, and old Last Line: This singing-bird's a lad, a lad. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Birds; Youth THE ODE OF YOUTH: 1. EARLY MANHOOD, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And first, oh youth, I see thee with the plume Last Line: The thought that shall redeem and lift man higher yet. Subject(s): Youth THE ODE OF YOUTH: 2. MAIDENHOOD, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But lo! Another form appears Last Line: Your mingled streams along. Subject(s): Girls; Youth THE ODE OF YOUTH: INTRODUCTION, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now upon the tree of life there rise Last Line: And birdlike thoughts that sing. Subject(s): Youth THE OLD GENTLEMAN WITH THE AMBER SNUFF-BOX, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old gentleman, tapping his amber snuff-box Last Line: Laughed, and the statesman's reputation grew. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Hearts; Life; Tears; Youth THE OLD HOME-FOLKS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such was the child-world of the long-ago Last Line: "of like views with ""the noted traveler." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Home; Youth; Childhood THE OLD MAN'S BLESSING, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mine eye is dull, my hair is white Last Line: By hearts like thine is freedom won! Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs. Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland; Old Age; Youth THE OLD MAN'S COMFORTS AND HOW HE GAINED THEM, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are old, father william,' the young man cried Last Line: And he hath not forgotten my age. Variant Title(s): Father William Subject(s): Clergy; Comfort; Faith; God; Men; Old Age; Prayer; Youth; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Belief; Creed THE OLD MAN'S PAEAN, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Vainly, ye libellers! Your page Last Line: "young septuagenary!" Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Life; Time; Truth; Youth THE OLD MILL-POND, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is evening, quiet evening Last Line: Far from me you're all to-night. Subject(s): Lakes; Memory; Youth; Pools; Ponds THE OLD SONG, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let the dead go wed the dead Last Line: God have mercy on all lovers! Subject(s): Daisies; Death; Flowers; God; Love; Singing & Singers; Youth; Dead, The THE OLD SONG, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a young lad of happy sixteen Last Line: "and my last breath shall whisper, 'god bless grannia wael.' " Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Death; Ireland; Youth; Dead, The; Irish THE OLD SWIMMIN'-HOLE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! The old swimmin'-hole! Whare the crick so still and deep Last Line: And dive off in my grave like the old swimmin'-hole. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Swimming & Swimmers; Youth THE OLD WOMAN LAMENTS THE DAYS OF HER YOUTH, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I seem to hear lamenting / the armoress who once was fair Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Subject(s): Beauty; Old Age; Women; Youth; Transcience THE OUTCASTS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The smile of god was in the air Last Line: While they remain uncomforted. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Beauty; Death; Youth; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dead, The THE PAINS OF YOUTH; SONNET, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A shadow, a light cloud, an april rain Last Line: Sigh, tremble, weep, pass onward and forget. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Youth THE PAMPERING OF LEORA, by THYLIAS MOSS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Therefore, no more recounting of dreams, a routine thing Subject(s): Youth; Babies; Breast Feeding; Infants; Nursing (infants) THE PARTING, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Without one bitter feeling let us part Last Line: Remember that I thank you from my heart! Subject(s): Absence;hearts;love;youth; Separation;isolation THE PASSING OF YOUTH, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At pisa, where the cypress-spires alway Last Line: "beyond the flaming rampire of the world." Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Aging; Courage; Death; Melancholy; Pisa, Italy; Youth; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Dejection THE PASSOVER IN THE HOLY FAMILY (FOR A DRAWING), by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here meet together the prefiguring day Last Line: And mary culls the bitter herbs ordained. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Catholics; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Paintings & Painters; Roman Catholics; Catholicism THE PATH, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far, far I've strayed me in the long endeavor Last Line: And just ahead, my home. Subject(s): Courage; Hope; Roads; Truth; Youth; Valor; Bravery; Optimism; Paths; Trails THE PATHS OF PEACE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He would have holiday - outworn Last Line: Of all his loveliest dreams! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Forests; Peace; Spring; Youth; Nightmares; Woods THE PEACE OF COLLEGE, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: So forceful are the giant elms, the hills Last Line: Where strive the millions of humanity. Subject(s): Dartmouth College; Scholarship & Scholars; Universities & Colleges; Youth THE PICTURE OF ST. JOHN: PROEM. TO THE ARTIST, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because no other dream my childhood knew Last Line: In double faith, and from a twofold call! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Poetry & Poets; Youth THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 101, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I recall the days of my youth Last Line: Who'll show an old man pity Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Aging; Chinese Literature; Memory; Youth THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 111, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I carried books and a hoe in my youth Last Line: To save a poor fish in a rut Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Abandonment; Chinese Literature; Disappointment; Youth; Desertion THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 115, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bridegroom liu is eighty-two Last Line: Then killed by the girls from the blue Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Aging; Chinese Literature; Marriage; Youth; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 127, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When an old man takes a young wife Last Line: Both show the other affection Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Marriage; Old Age; Youth; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 140, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When master tung was young Last Line: Who on earth was that Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Wealth; Youth; Riches; Fortunes THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 36, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What makes a young man grieve Last Line: These words pain an old man Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Aging; Chinese Literature; Duty; Grief; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 51, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A black-maned roan and coral whip Last Line: There's your isle of penglai Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Aging; Chinese Literature; Youth THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 8, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A fine young man on horseback Last Line: Mean nothing when you're dead Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Courage; Death; Mortality; Youth; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 1, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since I came to tientai temple Last Line: All I see are youngsters Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Temples; Time; Youth; Buddha; Buddhists; Mosques THE POET TO HIS GARRET, by PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER Poem Text First Line: Thrice welcome the place where at twenty I sought Last Line: Ah! Life in a garret at twenty is gay! Subject(s): Youth THE POET'S JOURNAL: LOVE RETURNED, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He was a boy when first we met Last Line: And rooted in my heart of hearts! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Happiness; Hearts; Life; Love; Youth; Joy; Delight THE POET'S JOURNAL: PREFACE. THE RETURN OF THE GODDESS, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not as in youth, with steps outspeeding morn Last Line: Pardoned, and loved again! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Shame; Youth THE POET'S JOURNAL: THE VOICE OF THE TEMPTER, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night the tempter came to me, and said Last Line: And found her brow less dewy-wet than mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Love; Temptation; Voices; Youth; Dead, The THE POET'S JOURNAL: YOUNG LOVE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are not old, we are not cold Last Line: Comes never, never, nevermore! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion; Tears; Youth THE PRAISE OF AGE, by ROBERT HENRYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wythin a garth, under a rede rosere Last Line: The more of age the nerar hevynnis blisse.' Alternate Author Name(s): Henderson, Robert+(1) Subject(s): Old Age; Youth THE PRETTY GIRL OF LOCH DAN, by SAMUEL FERGUSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shades of eve had crossed the glen Last Line: And walk to luggelaw again! Subject(s): Lough Dan (lake), Ireland; Youth THE PRISONER'S RELEASE, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, in the east the wan moon climbs Last Line: Now I come I come to thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Death; Inquisition; Prisoners Of War; Venice, Italy; Youth; Dead, The THE PROFFERED CUP, by MARY SINTON LEITCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night across the meadows of a dream Last Line: And so . . . Still singing . . . Passed into the night. Subject(s): Cups; Dreams; Fountain Of Youth; Immortality; Sacrifices; Nightmares THE PROGRESS OF ART, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O happy time! Art's early days! Last Line: As nothing to the young! Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters; Rembrandt Harmensz Van Riij (1606-1669); Youth THE PROPHECY OF FAMINE; A SCOTS PASTORAL INSCRIBED TO JOHN WILKES, by CHARLES CHURCHILL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis First Line: When cupid first instructs his darts to fly Last Line: "who most enjoys and best deserves, their love." Subject(s): Class Struggle; Courts & Courtiers; Cupid; England; Fate; Ramsay, Allan (1686-1758); Scotland; Wilkes, John (1725-1797); Youth; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Eros; English; Destiny THE QUEEN OF THE YEAR, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When suns are low, and nights are long Last Line: With the christ-child in her arms. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary THE RAIN BATH, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you remember how in camp one day Last Line: We ran forth naked to the morning bath. Subject(s): Floods; Youth THE RESSONING BETUIX AIGE AND YOWTH, by ROBERT HENRYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Quhen fair flora, the godes fo the flowris Last Line: O yowth thy flowris faidis fellone sone!' Alternate Author Name(s): Henderson, Robert+(1) Subject(s): Old Age; Youth THE REST, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He rests at last, as on the motherbreast Last Line: We'll not believe that till he tells us so. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Death; Life; Mothers; Youth; Childhood; Dead, The THE RETURN OF THE LEAVES, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Leaves and the sweet-choired blue Last Line: Fled, with all but its pain. Subject(s): Hearts; Leaves; Pain; Youth; Suffering; Misery THE RETURN OF YOUTH, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My friend, thou sorrowest for thy golden prime Last Line: More musical in that celestial air? Subject(s): Youth THE ROAD TO OLD MAN'S TOWN, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fields of youth are filled with flowers Last Line: The road to old man's town! Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Flowers; Roads; Towns; Youth; Paths; Trails THE ROSE, by OLIVER GOLDSMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Child of summer, lovely rose Last Line: Tis lasting beauty to be wise! Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses; Summer; Youth THE ROYAL MISCHIEF: EPOLOGUE, by DELARIVIERE MANLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our poet tells me I am very pretty Last Line: May stamp our poet's work, and nature's too compleat. Subject(s): Nature; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Youth THE RUBICON OF YOUTH, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We launched a boat and were soon afloat Last Line: On that wondrous cruise 'neath the arching sky. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Youth; Seamen; Sails THE SCHOOL GIRL, by WILLIAM HENRY VENABLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From some sweet home, the morning train Last Line: And every flower. Subject(s): Youth THE SEA CHILD, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Into the world you sent her, mother Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): Sea; Youth; Ocean THE SECRET (F.P.D.), by CAROLINE GILTINAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In bethlehem the stable was small and mean and old Last Line: Then held him close against her breast, for little jesus smiled. Alternate Author Name(s): Harlow, Leo P., Mrs. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Jesus Christ - Legends; Joseph, Saint (1st Century B.c.-a.d.); Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary THE SHELL TO THE PEARL, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grow not so fast, glow not so warm Last Line: Cling close, my child. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Child Care; Youth; Baby Sitters; Governesses THE SHORT ROAD TO HEAVEN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a short road to heaven, but you must take it young Last Line: The night darkens on themand there's god at the door. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Heaven; Mothers; Roads; War; World War I; Youth; Paradise; Paths; Trails; First World War THE SICK HEART, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O sick heart, be at rest Last Line: "I will be wise in age!" Subject(s): Youth THE SIGN, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: Faithful hearts had long been watching Last Line: And the signa little child! Subject(s): Angels; Faith; Heaven; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Worship; Belief; Creed; Paradise THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 21, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The fire which smoulder'd in those aged eyes Last Line: So courted he the conflict from afar. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): War; Youth THE SOLDIER'S SEA CHANGE, by DANIEL HUGH VERDER Poem Text First Line: What do you carry, slow moving ship Last Line: Crimsons the dismal flowing flood. Subject(s): Death; Patriotism; Soldiers; War - Casualties (statistics, Etc.); World War I; Youth; Dead, The; First World War THE SON, by ROBERT LEOPOLD WOLF Poem Text First Line: When jesus was a child, did people say Last Line: The gallows, or the cross, or some bad end. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth THE SONG OF THE LIGHT-HEARTED, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Let's leave our sorrow for to-morrow! Last Line: Will soon enough be mute. Subject(s): Dartmouth College; Youth THE SONGS OF MALDOROR: 9, by ISIDORE LUCIEN DUCASSE Poem Text First Line: I intend, unemotionally, to declaim aloud the cold and serious strophe Last Line: Ancient ocean! Alternate Author Name(s): Lautremont, Le Compte De Subject(s): Sea; Waves; Youth; Ocean THE SONNETS OF ISHTAR: 2, by GEORGE CABOT LODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My face lives always in the quenchless light Last Line: I watch the last-born laughing in mine eyes! Subject(s): Death; Faces; Sin; Youth; Dead, The THE SPRING RUNNING, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tho' skies still are cold and grey Last Line: I swoon asleep in the dusky wold. Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill Subject(s): Seasons; Spring; Youth THE STATUE OF THE EMPRESS ELIZABETH. MERAN, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She is seated by the river Last Line: Where all rivers wend their way. Subject(s): Flowers; Grief; Soul; Tears; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness THE STRANGE YOUNG MAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a strange young man of the dreamy times Last Line: "namely, that he is a strange young man!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Strangers; Youth THE STUDENT; A FANTASIA, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sat the student alone in his chamber Last Line: The worship and praise of the sire! Subject(s): Dreams; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Youth; Nightmares THE SWEETWATER CAVERNS, by KIMIKO HAHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Curious to see caverns Subject(s): Lakes; Caves; Youth; Aging; Disappointment; Pools; Ponds; Caverns THE SWISS COTTAGE, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye gastric graces of pall mall Last Line: Is bright illumination. Subject(s): Dreams; Fate; Youth; Nightmares; Destiny THE SYMPHONY, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wonder in happy eyes Last Line: And find new life and deeper wonder there. Subject(s): Beauty; Eyes; Happiness; Singing & Singers; Youth; Joy; Delight THE THOUGHTS OF YOUTH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lisping maid Last Line: Yet more for what he may be. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Love; Thought; Youth; Thinking THE TOILET OF CONSTANCE, by JEAN FRANCOIS CASIMIR DELAVIGNE Poem Text First Line: Haste, anna! Did you hear me call? Last Line: At the ambassador's of france. Alternate Author Name(s): Delavigne, Casimir Subject(s): Accidents; Dancing & Dancers; France; Youth THE TOMB OF ETERNAL LIFE, by KATHRYN WHITE RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From a port-hole his boy-face gazed back Last Line: Crowds heave eternal life on him. Subject(s): Future Life; Graves; Soldiers; War; Youth; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Tombs; Tombstones THE TROUBADOUR: THE HARPER'S STORY: 1. TRAGEDY MARGAIDA AND TROUBADOUR, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet margarida, dreaming in her bower Last Line: The hound's sleek head that on his knee did rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Grief; Man-woman Relationships; Tragedy; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations THE TWO ARCHERS, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At break of bright may-morning Last Line: Winged and all soul, into the sky.' Subject(s): Archers & Archery; Love; Youth THE VALLEY OF PALE BLUE FLOWERS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a hidden valley a pale blue flower grows Last Line: My soul slowly, slowly, slowly, will sink to its ultimate hour. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Memory; Nothingness; Salvation; Youth; Nightmares; Nihilism; Voids THE VANISHED VOICE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There stood a tree beside his boyhood's door Last Line: Youth in the air and sunset in the west. Subject(s): Birds; Gardens & Gardening; Life; Singing & Singers; Trees; Voices; Youth; Songs THE VETERAN; MAY, 1916, by MARGARET ISABEL POSTGATE COLE Poem Text First Line: We came upon him sitting in the sun Last Line: "nineteen, the third of may." Subject(s): Veterans; Women; World War I; Youth; First World War THE VIRGIN'S CRADLE-HYMN; COPIED FROM A PRINT OF THE VIRGIN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "sleep, sweet babe! My cares beguiling" Last Line: "come, soft slumber, balmily" Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth;mary. Mother Of Jesus;women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE VIRGIN'S LULLABY (PIEDMONTESE), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "sleep, oh sleep, dear baby mine" Last Line: "sleep my child, and lullaby" Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth;mary. Mother Of Jesus;women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE VIRGIN'S LULLABY (SICILIAN), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The virgin thus to jesus did sing Last Line: "sleep now that my tears freely may flow." Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth;mary. Mother Of Jesus;women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE VITAL CHOICE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Or shall we run with artemis Last Line: Shun or too devoutly follow. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Youth THE VOICE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hear it in the twilight; I catch it in the dawn Last Line: "out of the days departed still call to me ""come back!" Subject(s): Aging; Voices; Youth THE WAKEFUL BRIDE, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The old earl lay in his restless bed Last Line: The smouldering heart's pent fire. Subject(s): Love - Age Differences; Old Age; Youth THE WANDERER: DEDICATION, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As, in the laurel's murmurous leaves Last Line: With thoughts less fond arise! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Youth; Memory; England; English THE WEDDING FEAST, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I chanced to walk, not long ago Last Line: Betoken singularity. Subject(s): Feasts; Marriage; Youth; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WHISTLER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "'you have heard,' said a youth to his sweetheart" Subject(s): Kisses;whistles & Whistling;women;youth THE WHOLE CREATION GROANETH, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Art glad with the gladness of youth in thy veins Last Line: The colors that read us its meaning aright. Subject(s): Aging; Pain; Youth; Suffering; Misery THE WHOLE HEAD IS SICK AND THE WHOLE HEART FAINT', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woe for the young who say that life is long Last Line: And this earth changeth and is perishing Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Youth; Disillusion; Weariness THE WIFE-BLESSED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In youth he wrought, with eyes ablur Last Line: As mother mary wore. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Blessings; Faces; Paintings And Painters; Tears; Youth THE WILD GEESE COME OVER NO MORE, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wild geese come over no more Last Line: Memory, care, and rue. Subject(s): Geese; Hearts; Memory; Youth THE WILD WIND, by SARA NICHOLS Poem Text First Line: It's only on nights like this Last Line: Childhood memory. Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Gulls; Youth; Nightmares THE WIND'S WHIMS, by GRACE MILDRED OLSEN Poem Text First Line: Look how a delicate poplar bends to the gale Last Line: Youth bends, but it is faithless age that breaks. Subject(s): Wind; Youth THE WINE OF LIFE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Earthen jar of quaint design Last Line: Tis in age that one lives best. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Life; Youth; Wine THE WISDOM OF ELD, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We spend our lives in learning pilotage Last Line: And ancients musical at close of day. Subject(s): Old Age; Wisdom; Youth THE WRAITHS, by EDYTHE C. TONER Poem Text First Line: Hosts of the martyred dead! Last Line: "thus die ... Thus die?" Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Social Protest; Soldiers; Supernatural; War; Youth; Dead, The THE WRECK ON THE A-222 IN RAVENSBOURNE VALLEY, by JONATHAN WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Where the car hit him, fireweed sprang with Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Death; Youth; Dead, The THE YOUNG, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So here they are Last Line: Telling them how it is Subject(s): Youth THE YOUNG, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I watch them going up and down the hill on their Last Line: Come on, let's find something to do Subject(s): Youth THE YOUNG MYSTIC, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We sat together close and warm Last Line: "I saw him strike a match!" Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Lightning; Storms; Youth; Lightning Rods THE YOUNG OFFICER, by MAX ENDICOFF Poem Text First Line: A supple speckless figure in costly habilements Last Line: A world-wide exhibition of the tailor's art. Subject(s): Military Police; Youth THE YOUNG PRINCES, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a time: we were young princelings then Subject(s): Youth; Aging THE YOUNG SUICIDES IN IRELAND, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sky is lined Last Line: Ticking, tipping them forward. Subject(s): Ireland - Famine; Suicide; Youth THE YOUNG THAT DIED IN BEAUTY, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If souls should only sheen so bright Last Line: Than when they died in beauty. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Youth; Dead, The THE YOUNG WATCH US, by DONALD HALL Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The young girls look up Variant Title(s): Lovers In Middle Age Subject(s): Youth; Marital Love THE YOUTH AND THE MILL-STREAM, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pretty brooklet, gaily glancing Last Line: Tell that maiden all my passion! Subject(s): Brooks; Love; Youth; Streams; Creeks THE YOUTH OF AGE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There comes a moment when, with pained surprise Last Line: The stars are heralding another dawn! Subject(s): Aging; Health; Life; Youth THE YOUTH OF THOUGHT, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh happy days! Oh joyous time! Last Line: Again the world shall think and sing. Subject(s): Youth THE YOUTH WITH RED-GOLD HAIR, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gold-armoured ghost from the roman road Last Line: Forlorn.' Subject(s): Aging; Sun; Youth THE YOUTHFUL PRESS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little georgie tompers, he Last Line: Truths that shape our destinies. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Printing And Printers; Youth THEM FLOWERS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take a feller 'at's sick and laid up Last Line: Is a-leakin' -- I'm blamed ef they ain't! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Youth THEODORA, by ELIZA KEARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seventy to-day - my birthday Last Line: Good-bye? -- theodora! Subject(s): Old Age; Youth THERE LET THY BLEEDING BRANCH ATONE, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Youth; Memory; Trees; Wood Carving; Whittling THERE WAS A TIME WHEN MY CHEEK BURNED, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Youth; Tolerance; Bad Behavior THERE WAS A WAR GOING ON, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: They hung on to high school, warm Last Line: Sweet, and slight, and young %they melted like candy on the tongue Subject(s): High School Students; War; Youth THERE WAS A YOUNG PERSON IN GREEN, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Which envelloped that person in green Subject(s): Youth THERE WAS A YOUNG PERSON IN PINK, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Which vexed that young person in pink Subject(s): Youth THERE WAS A YOUNG PERSON IN RED, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Besides some long ribands of red Subject(s): Feathers; Youth THERE WAS A YOUNG PERSON OF AYR, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Which dazzled the people of ayr Subject(s): Nonsense; Youth THERE WAS A YOUNG PERSON OF KEW, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Which destroyed that young person of kew Subject(s): Virtue; Youth THERE'S NOTHING LIKE INSTINCT, FORTUNATELY, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I suppose that plumbers' children know more about plumbing that plumbers do Last Line: Writing that the young ones parents should not undermine theself-confidence of which Subject(s): Youth THEY NEVER ONCE LOOKED AT HER SHOES, by SUSAN CHIAVELLI Poem Source First Line: We order margaritas Last Line: Where my dreams were painted on black glass Subject(s): Memory; Youth THINKIN' BACK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've be'n thinkin' back, of late Last Line: I hear laughin' on ahead! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Memory; Past; Thought; Youth; Thinking THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 16, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If thou longest so much to learn, sweet boy, what 'tis to love Last Line: They would make thee straight return. Subject(s): Youth; Time; Love THOU SHALT WALK IN THE MIDST OF THY TUTORS, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once on a time a youthful cove Last Line: Vy! Vot a cove he'll be! Subject(s): Children; Education; Language; Lear, Edward (1812-1888); Paintings And Painters; Youth THREE FRIENDS, by VIRGINIA SCOTT Poem Text First Line: Many the friends you name Last Line: Thrust in my side. Alternate Author Name(s): O'neill, Virginia Scott Subject(s): Hope; Pride; Youth; Optimism; Self-esteem; Self-respect THREE PASTORAL ELEGIES: 1, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A ciuill youth, whose life was led in court Last Line: Me to recall my flocks, and he his loue. Subject(s): Love - Cultural Differences; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Youth THREE PASTORAL ELEGIES: 3, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sunne that had himselfe a courtier beene Last Line: How much you fauour vs, wee honour you. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love - Cultural Differences; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Youth; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THREE PASTORAL ELEGIES: TO THE READER (2), by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A shepheards youth dwelt on the plaines Last Line: He tooke his pipe and sate him downe and vers'd. Subject(s): Youth THY DREAMS ARE THE DEEDS OF MEN, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Or mighty sons now sleeping and of mighty sons to be Last Line: Till our infantry win victory 'neath the flag of brother-hood. Subject(s): Dartmouth College; Dreams; Youth; Nightmares TIME AND SENTIMENT, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see a fair young couple in a wood Last Line: Even such, and by this token, is their youth. Subject(s): Aging; Time; Youth TIME TO YOUTH, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Ah, fold her fast in thy victorious arms Last Line: To find some diminution of her charms! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Beauty; Youth TIMOLEON (394 B.C.), by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If more than once, as annals tell Last Line: And never for corinth left the adopted shore. Subject(s): Brothers And Sisters; Timoleon (d. 337 B.c.); Youth TIR NA N-OG, by ROBIN ERNEST WILLIAM FLOWER Poem Text First Line: I heard the summer calling across great breadths of sea Last Line: And the landwind mocks my longing and the sea-wind saddens all. Subject(s): Fairies; Summer; Youth; Elves TO - (2), by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Should my early life seem Last Line: Endure! -- no -- no -- defy. Variant Title(s): A Dream Within A Dream, Or To - Subject(s): Youth TO A CERTAIN SHOP GIRL, by AGNES KENDRICK GRAY Poem Text First Line: She should be buying pearls and persian brass Last Line: And casts a glamour on her prison-place! Subject(s): Beauty; Pity; Shopping; Youth TO A CHILD, by FRANK PUTNAM Poem Text First Line: The years stretch far above thee Last Line: His work will not forget. Subject(s): Children; Fathers; Hope; Time; Youth; Childhood; Optimism TO A CIVIL SERVANT, by EDMUND JOHN ARMSTRONG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brim the jewelled cup, lad Subject(s): Youth; Drinks & Drinking; Wine TO A FLAPPER, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They make a lot of fuss about Last Line: And not as bad as you are painted. Subject(s): Youth TO A FRIEND IMPRISONED IN GERMANY, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The young man's heart labours with many a birth Last Line: Is sweet, and sweet the friendship of the dead. Subject(s): Prisoners Of War; Friendship; Youth TO A FRIEND IN DEATH, by GUILLERMO VALENCIA Poem Text First Line: Thou,gentle youth, wast rival in thy grace Last Line: Of him who perished in the nile's pale arms. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Nile (river); Youth; Dead, The TO A FRIEND INQUIRING IF WOULD LIVE OVER MY YOUTH AGAIN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do I regret the past? Last Line: Again to wake in light. Subject(s): Future Life; God; Past; Regret; Youth; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TO A HIGHLAND GIRL; AT INVERSNAID, UPON LOCH LOMOND, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet highland girl, a very shower Last Line: And thee, the spirit of them all! Subject(s): Scotland; Youth TO A NEST OF YOUNG THRUSHES, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear little birds, you're ready now to fly Last Line: From day to day. Subject(s): Birds; Explorers; Nature; Solitude; Youth; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Loneliness TO A PICTURE OF MY MOTHER AS A GIRL, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Did ever a youth pass by the spot Last Line: Without that heart of gold! Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Girls; Portraits; Youth TO A SHRED OF LINEN, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Would they swept cleaner! Last Line: Thine apotheosis immortalise. Subject(s): Housewives; Linen; Youth TO A YOUNG ARTIST, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is good for strength not to be merciful Last Line: And shards in the temple porches, turn home Subject(s): Art & Artists; Youth TO A YOUNG COUPLE, BY HALF OF AN OLD(ISH) COUPLE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You think that all the world is fair Last Line: It's better all the time! Subject(s): Love - Marital; Youth; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love TO A YOUNG GENTLEMAN IN LOVE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: From public noise and factious strife Last Line: Love is a jest, and vows are wind. Subject(s): Heaven; Life; Love; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess); Youth; Paradise TO A YOUNG GIRL, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Do not forget, / when you are old Last Line: "once and for aye enshrined you as her lover." Subject(s): Aging; Death; Honor; Love Affairs; Youth; Dead, The TO A YOUNG MURDERESS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair yellow murderess, whose gilded head Last Line: Nay, kiss me, sweet! Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. Subject(s): Death; Love - Complaints; Murder; Youth; Dead, The TO A YOUTH, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See, with strong heart, o youth, the change Last Line: Companionably down. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Growth; Soul; Youth TO ADOLPHE GAIFFE, by THEODORE FAULLAIN DE BANVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Young man free from melancholy Last Line: Words! Words! Come gather roses. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Spring; Wisdom; Youth TO ALMON KEEFER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This first book that I ever knew Last Line: And I will listen as you read. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Books; Friendship; Youth; Reading TO AN ADOLESCENT WEEPING WILLOW, by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't know what you think you're doing Last Line: It means you are a boy. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Grief; Willow Trees; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness TO AN ELDERLY AMORIST, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Even in passion, when grape-hung Last Line: Is in the very look of thee! Subject(s): Beauty; Laughter; Soul; Tears; Truth; Youth TO BE YOUNG, by HELEN ELDRED STORKE Poem Text First Line: Amid the fresh salt surf one's bit of buoyant life to fling Last Line: One, face to face, the beauty of each wave's surmounted crest. Subject(s): Life; Youth TO DAD, by MARY CRANE CLARK Poem Text First Line: He never feared november days Last Line: Of youth revitalized by age. Subject(s): Aging; Fathers; Soul; Youth TO DELIA: 16 (2), by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why should I sing in verse, why should I frame Last Line: And that makes happy lovers ever dumb. Subject(s): Love; Sacrifices; Singing & Singers; Youth; Songs TO DELIA: 44, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Drawn with th' attractive virtue of her eyes Last Line: And muse-foe mars abroad far fostered be. Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Youth TO DICK, ON HIS SIXTH BIRTHDAY, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tho' I am very old and wise Last Line: The angel sent the stars to you. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Birthdays; Old Age; Youth TO DR SHERLOCK, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forgive the muse, who, in unhallowed strains Last Line: And glad all heaven with millions thou hast saved. Subject(s): Death; God; Heaven; Life; Muses; Youth; Dead, The; Paradise TO G. W. C., by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still shines our august day, as calm, as bright Last Line: Hope, faith, and strength for life's dim future borrow. Subject(s): Life; Soul; Youth TO HELEN KELLER, by COVINGTON HALL Poem Text First Line: You who never saw the sun-flamed hills Last Line: Be evermore your slave. Alternate Author Name(s): Ami, Covington; Ami, Covami Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Youth; Nightmares TO JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You who to the rounded prime Last Line: The book of joyous children. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Life; Youth; Childhood TO JULIA WARD HOWE; ON HER EIGHTY-SEVENTH BIRTHDAY, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Youth is thy gift -- the youth that baffles time Last Line: Enchant -- queen of the long-ago and now. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Howe, Julia Ward (1819-1910); Youth TO L.C.P., by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the slow-moving shadows on the grass Last Line: From the sad eyes of dark mnemosyne. Subject(s): Dreams; Eyes; Heaven; Life; Nature; Youth; Nightmares; Paradise TO LADY ANNE FITZPATRICK, WHEN ABOUT FIVE YEARS OLD, by HORACE (HORATIO) WALPOLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O nymph, compar'd with whose young bloom / hebe's herself an ancient fright Last Line: and some years hence he'll send the rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Orford, 4th Earl Of Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Sea; Shells; Toys; Youth; Childhood; Ocean; Conchology TO LUCREZIA, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pause we within the sunset, love Last Line: This barrier -- thy loveliness! Subject(s): Eyes; Love; Time; Youth TO MISS --, THEN TWO YEARS OLD, by JANE BOWDLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet blossom, opening to the beams of day! Last Line: To endless peace, and purest bliss above. Subject(s): Aging; Babies; Gentility; Innocence; Youth; Infants TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: 16. THE GREAT PRIVILEGE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: It is a great privilege to be deemed Last Line: For angels gladly would their tasks assume. Subject(s): Youth TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: 17. REGENERATING THOUGHT, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: The thought of youth it is that shall remake Last Line: And age, if there be age, shall come indeed. Subject(s): Youth TO MR. GRANVILLE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Auspicious poet, wert thou not my friend Last Line: Thou copiest homer, and they copy thee. Variant Title(s): To Mr. Granville, Afterwards Lord Lansdowne Subject(s): Granville, George. Lord Lansdowne; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Tragedy; Youth; Dramatists TO MY GRANDMOTHER; SUGGESTED BY A PICTURE BY MR. ROMNEY, by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This relative of mine Last Line: Grandpapa. Alternate Author Name(s): Locker, Frederick Subject(s): Grandparents; Home; Romney, George (1734-1802); Youth; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers TO MY LORD BUCKHURST, VERY YOUNG, PLAYING WITH A CAT, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The amorous youth, whose tender breast Last Line: She deep will mark her new disgrace. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Children; Jealousy; Tears; Youth; Childhood TO MY OLD WATCH, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O wondrous work of mind's invention Last Line: So near to thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Aging; Clocks; Time; Weariness; Youth; Fatigue TO ONE WHO NEVER KNEW I CARED, by ELSIE THOMAS CULVER Poem Text First Line: I wonder what it was that made me say Last Line: And hear you chafe about my woman's club! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Relationships; Youth TO ROBIN FEDDEN, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: A huge, but unpaved, place. An ancient halles Last Line: Katharine fedden called me true and worth-while friend. Subject(s): Aging; Friendship; Youth TO TEACHERS OF THE YOUNG, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Husbandman, for work prepare Last Line: Finds an early tomb. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Youth; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers TO THALIARCHUS, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A spectral form soracte stands, snow-crowned Last Line: The ring from finger half resisting wrung. Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Youth TO THE CHILD JESUS, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Could every time-worn heart but see thee once again Last Line: Safe to its home in thy presence above. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Variant Title(s): The Nativity Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth TO THE JUDGE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friend of my earliest youth Last Line: Can't you arrange to come down? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Friendship; Judges; Spring; Youth TO THE MASTER, by KATHRYN CROSS Poem Text First Line: You are the torch that came to light Last Line: To true reality. Subject(s): Wisdom; Youth TO THE MEMORY OF WILFRED OWEN, by CHARLES NORMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Into the sunset of their youth they strode Last Line: When lads before them paced to pave the ground. Subject(s): Death; Honor; Memory; Military; Owen, Wilfred (1893-1918); Poetry & Poets; Soldiers; Youth; Dead, The TO THE MISS WEBSTERS, WITH DR. AIKIN'S WISH, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not this the wish in life's first, gayest page Last Line: Your wish is transport, and your hopes are bliss. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Youth; Wishes; Hope; Optimism TO THE VIRGINS, TO MAKE MUCH OF TIME, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gather ye rosebuds while ye may Last Line: You may forever tarry. Variant Title(s): Counsel To Girls;counsel To Virgins Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Flowers; Holidays; Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; New Year; Roses; Time; Youth; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO THE YOUNG, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let your feet not falter, your course not alter Last Line: O drunk death-triumph in babylon! Subject(s): Youth TO THEE -- O FOOLISH YOUTH, by CARMELITA K. D'ADDIO Poem Text First Line: O foolish youth Last Line: After you have tired of play? Subject(s): Youth TO VIRGINS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hear, ye virgins, and I'll teach Last Line: Gifts will get ye, or the man. Subject(s): Youth TO WISH MYSELF COURAGE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the day when youth is no more upon me Last Line: Long at the birth -- and sing me the youth-song! Subject(s): Youth; Aging TO YOUTH, by MATHILDE DORE Poem Text First Line: If I remember youth and its brief years Last Line: Content to bear the memories of its name. Subject(s): Youth TO YOUTH, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where art thou gone, light-ankled youth? Last Line: And both, alas! Take flight. Subject(s): Youth TO YOUTH -- IN SECRET JOY, by FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS GIFFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shut out the wind, shut out the gloom Last Line: Sometime your life may need this day! Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Fannie Stearns Subject(s): Youth TOM TWIST, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tom twist was a wonderful fellow Last Line: Where it still continues to spin. Subject(s): Activity; Sailing & Sailors; Wandering & Wanderers; Youth; Exercise; Seamen; Sails; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes TOO YOUNG FOR LOVE, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Too young for love? / ah, say not so! Last Line: Ah, no! No! No! Subject(s): Love; Youth TOUCH, by TERRANCE HAYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We made our own laws. Last Line: For collision. We called it touch Subject(s): Games; Youth; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. DEEP BELOW DEEP, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep below deep Last Line: I knew him for many months, but there was no thaw or change to speak of. Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Pain; Youth; Recessions; Suffering; Misery TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. CHRISTMAS EVE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! The bells ringing Last Line: Shrine of the soul, shrine of the new-born godof man himself. Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Love; Nativity, The TRANQUIL AFTERNOON, ALMOST, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography Last Line: And to be able tenderly to recall them Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Calm; Youth TREE HOUSE, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last spring a neighbor boy / nailed up a house in a tree Subject(s): Houses; Play; Trees; Youth TRUE GIFT, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As a young maiden, in the morning air Last Line: Than heaped-up flowers no thoughtful care disposes. Subject(s): Flowers; Orchards; Roses; Spring; Youth TRUE LOVE, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In silence the heart raves. It utters words Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Youth TRYING TO FEEL SOMETHING, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone is always trying to feel something Last Line: Although I drink it anyway for something to do? Subject(s): Judges; Youth; Conduct Of Life; Judgments TUNNEL, by NICANOR PARRA Poem Source First Line: In my youth I lived for a time in the house of some aunts Subject(s): Aunts; Spinsters; Youth TWENTY DAYS, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twenty days are barely gone Last Line: Other twenty days like these. Subject(s): Aging; Man-woman Relationships; Youth; Male-female Relations TWENTY-ONE, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dossing it here in the model, dreary, bedraggled, / dry Last Line: ^1^ let him drink and forget his proverty. prov. Xxxi., 7. Subject(s): Maturity; Youth TWENTY-ONE, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: I, that am twenty-one--a man-- Last Line: I, that am twenty-onea man! Variant Title(s): Twenty-one: The Youth Subject(s): Soldiers; War; World War I; Youth; First World War TWENTY-ONE: THE OLDER MAN, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Could I be twenty-one again- Last Line: Could I be twenty-one again! Subject(s): Longing; Soldiers; World War I; Youth; First World War TWENTY-THREE, by LIAM RECTOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When he was 23 and beautiful Subject(s): Youth; Human Bedhavior; Conduct Of Life TWO THOUGHTS ON YOUTH, by RETTA IRWIN LEICHLITER Poem Text First Line: Full of slang Last Line: Of love our youth are sowing. Subject(s): Hope; Pessimism; Youth; Optimism UGLINESS, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The windows I see into Last Line: What tear shall I ever / be some of a man to? Subject(s): Cousins; Youth; Juvenile Delinquency UNBORN, by CAROLINE GILTINAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mary, full of grace thou art Last Line: These months when god is part of thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Harlow, Leo P., Mrs. Subject(s): God; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary UNCLE SIDNEY'S VIEWS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hold that the true age of wisdom Last Line: Through the moon, like a round yellow hole in the sky. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Faith; Wisdom; Youth; Belief; Creed UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 11. TO WILL H. LOW, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Youth now flees on feathered foot Last Line: We have come the primrose way. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Beauty; Low, Will Hicok (1853-1932); Youth UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 4, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the season now to go Last Line: Upon their lips in madrigals. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): The Difference;in The Season Subject(s): Youth UNFORGOTTEN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh unforgotten! / how long ago? One spirit saith Last Line: The single grain shall wax to ten. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Youth; Dead, The UNRELIABLE, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On james p. Jinks you can't depend-he Last Line: They made. Subject(s): Idleness; Youth; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence UNREST, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Books I would read, but most go unread Last Line: While the whole world lies quiet in your hands. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Youth UNREST, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the youth of the year, when the birds were building Last Line: O where is the treasure which men call rest? Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Birds; Grief; Soul; Summer; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness UPON A VENERABLE RIVAL, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Full thirty frosts since thou wert young Last Line: Who old, though grey, a fool. Subject(s): Love; Middle Age; Youth VAGRANT SIRENS, by SHARON RUBENSTEIN Poem Source First Line: Love's thin galt Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Neighbors; Schools; Youth VERSES ON THE CALDER IN ITS COURSE BY ST. ENOCH'S, ROSEHALL, ETC., by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lone calder! Sweet calder! Beloved of my youth Last Line: A song that is nameless thy beauties to sing. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Nature; Past; Youth VERSES TO A YOUNG FRIEND, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If, long ere this, no lay of mine Last Line: And on a fool 'tis wasted! Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Youth; Praise VERSES WRITTEN IN THE LEAVES OF AN IVORY POCKET-BOOK, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Accept, my dear, this toy, and let me say Last Line: And all your praise is but -- to copy well. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Youth; Learning VERSES: THE FIRST BOY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Milton pursued in numbers more sublime Last Line: "milton alone attempted with success." Subject(s): Boys; Youth VICARIOUS, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: The price? Youth laughs and life is very good Last Line: Demand of you, our great one, that you make good. Subject(s): Youth VICTORIAN LADIES, by MILDRED HATTON BRYAN Poem Text First Line: This picture that you see, sir, on the wall Last Line: "you've seen her often here. My daughter, sir!" Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Irony; Youth VICTORY, by FANNY HOWE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no rescue mission where it isn’t freezing Last Line: Into hip-hop? Dunno—but it’s wonderful Subject(s): Youth; Social Commentary; City & Town Life VIEWS OF LIFE, by ANNE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When sinks my heart in hopeless gloom Last Line: And bliss shall reign for evermore! Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Acton Subject(s): Experience; Hope; Youth; Optimism VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 4: SATIRE: 6, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wote not how the world's degenerate Last Line: At our low sayle, and our hye happinesse. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Happiness; Soldiers; Youth; Joy; Delight VIRGIN YOUTH (1), by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now and again Last Line: Tired and unsatisfied. Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Virginity; Youth; Vestals VIRGIN YOUTH (2), by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now and again Last Line: On nothingness. Pardon me! Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Virginity; Youth; Vestals VISION, by ETHEL VEVA KING Poem Text First Line: You see a woman in velvet and satin Last Line: And ever so slyly I try to hide mine. Subject(s): Eyes; Vision; Youth VISIONS OF JESUS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: In bethlehem a babe I see Last Line: Before that throne on judgment day. Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Cavalry; Courts & Courtiers; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Religion; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Theology VISITATION RITES, by JACK ELLIOTT MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My gentle son is performing tricks for me on his bicycle Last Line: Just in a flash in the sun he's suddenly perfected, and I'm gone. Subject(s): Bicycles; Divorce; Farewell; Sons; Youth; Cycling; Parting VISTAS OF LABOR: 4. FACTORY CHILDREN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here toil the striplings, who should be a-swarm Last Line: "my kingdom is made up of such as these." Subject(s): Child Labor; Factories; Life; Religion; Youth; Theology WAR, by ELOISE ROBINSON Poem Text First Line: I laugh to see them pray Last Line: There was no milk for him. Subject(s): Death; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; War; Dead, The WAR DISPLAY, by EDMUND VANCE COOKE Poem Text First Line: This is the song of the thousand who are multipled by twelve Last Line: For oh, we are proud that we flaunt this flesh in the markets of dismal death! Subject(s): Death; Military Service, Compulsory; Military Service, Voluntary; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; Youth; Dead, The; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service WAY BACK, by WYN COOPER Poem Source First Line: The sound the form the way it is Last Line: Sleep to take us way back home Subject(s): Homecoming; Past; Roads; Travel; Youth WAYWARD WINGS, by EDWARD GRUSE Poem Text First Line: Hope rose triumphant, when ascending wings Last Line: To tyros skies lay not their secrets bare. Subject(s): Adventure & Adventurers; Courage; Youth; Valor; Bravery WE GATHER BACK, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: We gather back again, boys Last Line: Whose deathless name we cherish. Subject(s): Dartmouth College; Youth WE REAL COOL; THE POOL PLAYERS. SEVEN AT THE GOLDEN SHOVEL, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: We real cool. We / left school. We Last Line: Die soon. Variant Title(s): We Real Cool Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Children; Americans; Death; Labor & Laborers; Men; United States; Youth; Negroes; American Blacks; Dead, The; Work; Workers; America WE'RE ALL YOUNG ONCE, by DAVID BROMIGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deliriums of pleasure, doors Subject(s): Youth WHAT EVERY GIRL KNOWS, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: In my bedroom, in my boudoir Last Line: In the ten cent store. Subject(s): Shopping; Youth WHAT GAIN?, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, while thy rounded cheek is fresh and fair Last Line: Sweetheart, but bitter pain? Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Faith; Hearts; Love; Pain; Tears; Youth; Belief; Creed; Suffering; Misery WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sky is up above the roof Last Line: The youth away Subject(s): Aging; Life; Mourning; Youth; Bereavement WHAT THE OLD WOMEN SEE, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The baby with his heavy head keeps tipping over Subject(s): Old Age; Youth; Mothers WHAT WE NEED, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What does our country need? Not armies standing Last Line: These are our country's pride, our country's need. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Mothers; Sin; Soul; Truth; Youth WHEN CHILDHOOD DIED, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I can recall the day Last Line: But was slain. Subject(s): Children; Youth; Childhood WHEN I ROVED A YOUNG HIGHLANDER O'ER THE DARK HEATH, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Youth; Love; Scotland WHEN I WAS THIRTY-FIVE YOU TOOK MY PHOTOGRAPH, by RUTH STONE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am lying full length on the grass Last Line: By modigliani's nudes. Subject(s): Memory; Photography & Photographers; Youth WHEN I WAS TWENTY, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I was june, and I was twenty Last Line: It was june, and I was twenty Subject(s): Youth WHEN I WAS YOUNG, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I was young and loved life's laughter Last Line: There are no more tall hills to climb Subject(s): Youth WHEN ONE IS YOUNG, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: When one is young what matters care? Last Line: When one is young. Subject(s): Old Age; Youth WHEN SPRING CAME TO NAZARETH, by MARY SINTON LEITCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes the man of nazareth Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth WHEN WE WERE YOUNG, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was young and thou wast young Last Line: A word light as a feather. Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Children; Love - Beginnings; Youth; Childhood WHILE HIS BODY'S VIGOR IS WHOLE, by BHARTRIHARI Poem Source Last Line: When the house is already burning? Alternate Author Name(s): Bhartrhari Subject(s): Youth WHITE STEPS, by MARY MOSES MUNDT Poem Text First Line: At night old women sit on their white steps Last Line: But now you sitperhaps god meant it so. Alternate Author Name(s): Mundt, Mrs. Karl E. Subject(s): Life; Old Age; Women; Youth WHO COMES SO GRACEFULLY?, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: And the nextgone! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Youth WHO GOES WITH FERGUS?, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who will go drive with fergus now Last Line: And all dishevelled wandering stars. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Youth; Fear WHY I CHOOSE BLACK MEN FOR MY LOVERS, by LA LOCA Poem Source First Line: Acid today is trendy entertainment Last Line: No wonder malcolm called them devils Subject(s): African Americans; Communism; Growth; Guevara, Ernesto (che) (1928-1967); Youth WHY I MIGHT GO TO THE NEXT FOOTBALL GAME, by DENIS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes you know Last Line: Was wide open! The end was wide open . . . Subject(s): Youth; Love - Beginnings WIDER FIELDS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The young men drift away from home; they Last Line: The-hole! Subject(s): Farewell; Fields; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Youth; Parting; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Journeys; Trips WILD WORLD, by CAT STEVENS Poem Source First Line: You know I've seen a lot of what the world can do %and it's breaking... Last Line: Oh baby, baby, it's a wild world, %and I'll always remember you like a child, girl Subject(s): Advice; Rushdie, Salman (b. 1947); Youth WILLIE THE MINER, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Ghastly and strange was the relic found Last Line: Standing still with her lover dead! Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Love - Loss Of; Mines And Miners; Youth; Cadavers; Dead, The WITH FLOWERS, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I send to you a nosegay that but now Last Line: Then love me, while thou'rt fair, ere youth is gone! Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Love; Time; Youth; Dead, The WITH THE FIRST RAINS, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: To open one's hands. As if the wind were the marvel. To Last Line: To let him leave, still young. With the first rains Subject(s): Independence; Youth WORDS FROM THE FRONT, by RON PADGETT Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Youth Y IS FOR YOUTH, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Would I had met you in my days of strength Last Line: And perish in the brain that gives them birth. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Youth YE VERNAL HOURS, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye vernal hours, glad days that once have been! Last Line: And youth, once past, for aye hath past away! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Time; Youth YOLANTE AND MARY, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Both these ladies know by instinct Last Line: There have reign'd, then been dismiss'd Subject(s): Hearts; Poetry & Poets; Youth YOU MOCK ME IN YOUR YOUTH, by SAMUEL HA-NAGID Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Building their coffins for boys Subject(s): Old Age; Youth YOUNG, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So here they are Last Line: Telling them how it is Subject(s): Youth YOUNG, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I watch them going up and down the hill on their Last Line: Come on, let's find something to do Subject(s): Youth YOUNG BEAUTY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: When at each door the ruffian winds Last Line: Can feel the joy of summer's heat. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Beauty; Youth YOUNG BLOOD, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He woke with a sick taste in his mouth Last Line: And bitter loathing crept up all his limbs. Subject(s): Youth YOUNG EDEN, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flushed from a fairy flagon Last Line: The apple in her hand! Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Apples; Eden; Fairies; Fruit; Love; Poison Ivy; Story-telling; Youth; Elves YOUNG FACE ONE DAY APPEARS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Walks another mythical monster Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Nature; Youth YOUNG GAZELLE; A MOORE-ISH TALE, by WALTER PARKE Poem Text First Line: In early youth, as you may guess Last Line: I'll never have a young gazelle. Subject(s): Gazelles; Moore, Thomas (1779-1852); Youth YOUNG JESUS, by LESLIE SAVAGE CLARK Poem Source First Line: O little son, upon your brow Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth YOUNG LOVE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On a flower in a forest Last Line: My last sob-note is sung! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Singing & Singers; Youth YOUNG MAN, by JOHN HAINES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I seemed always standing Subject(s): Youth; Death; Dead, The YOUNG MAN IN A GALILEAN DOORWAY, by HERBERT DRAPER GALLAUDET Poem Source First Line: Yes, utterly he loves his nazareth Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth YOUNG MAN IN SUIT, by LAUREL SPEER Poem Source First Line: Did you think you'd always be 23, red of cheek, firm of limb Last Line: Leave you behind, enshrine you in my mind, if I retained you at all Subject(s): Aging; Youth YOUNG MEN, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: O people, the sky Last Line: Turned over, like amen Subject(s): Youth YOUNG POET, by MYRON O'HIGGINS Poem Text First Line: Somebody Last Line: And healing. Subject(s): Poetry & Porets; Youth YOUNG SPAIN, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: ...A time of lies, of infamy, they dressed Last Line: Like the bright diamond, like the diamond pure Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Youth YOUNG WOMAN, A TREE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The life spills over, some days Last Line: Cold slime, %as deep as that Subject(s): Trees; Women; Youth YOUNGLINGS, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: High heels in a struggle with a long skirt Last Line: That our souls forever hold their eager qualms. Subject(s): Youth YOUR WAY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: We grow ruder by the day Last Line: Dark and blond survive. To hell with grey Subject(s): Cruelty; Youth YOUTH, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O earth, o mother dust, green star of heaven Last Line: Smiling the same smile, dancing, dawn to dawn. Subject(s): Youth YOUTH, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come then, as ever, like the wind at morning! Last Line: When shall men hope for spring? Variant Title(s): Invocation To Youth Subject(s): Youth YOUTH, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: Thou, in that golden time whose other name Last Line: Thyself the man the world needs most to see! Subject(s): Youth YOUTH, by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A young apollo, golden-haired Last Line: For the long littleness of life. Subject(s): Brooke, Rupert (1887-1915); Poetry & Poets; Soldiers' Writings; Youth YOUTH, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He hears the hour's low hint and springs Last Line: Sole immortality! Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Youth YOUTH, by JULIA HADLEY DILL Poem Text First Line: Youth is a fragile sweet blossom Last Line: Shall bloom on eternity's shore. Subject(s): Youth YOUTH, by GEORGE ELLISTON Poem Source First Line: Always you will be young Subject(s): Youth YOUTH, by IDA M. FORREST Poem Text First Line: Youth is not a time of life Last Line: At the joy such living brings. Subject(s): Aging; Youth YOUTH, by SALLIE GAFFNEY Poem Text First Line: Youth is like a child in a swing Last Line: To the lower regions of despair. Subject(s): Metaphor; Youth; Similes YOUTH, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, youth! When all seems bright and fair Last Line: To wound us on the morrow! Subject(s): Aging; Children; Youth; Childhood YOUTH, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Halcyon youth, delightful hours Last Line: These and more attend on youth. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Youth YOUTH, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why linger round the sunken wrecks Last Line: Than earth to save and heaven to win? Subject(s): Youth YOUTH, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The dew is on the grasses, dear Last Line: But nevermore the may! Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Youth YOUTH, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: I shall remember then Last Line: Old dreams, old roses ... And old friends. Subject(s): Memory; Youth YOUTH, by LUCY KENT Poem Text First Line: The suddenness of life was mine Last Line: Was like a shoulder in the breeze. Subject(s): Life; March (month); Rain; Windows; Youth YOUTH, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The days of our youth are not over while sadness Last Line: Believe me, the days of our youth are not over. Subject(s): Youth YOUTH, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet empty sky of june without a stain Last Line: Nor dreams of fairer fields or loftier skies. Subject(s): Youth YOUTH, by SAMUEL DUFF MCCOY Poem Text First Line: You say new york is lovelier than ever? Last Line: But, oh, how gay it was! What prophecies! Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Food & Eating; New York City; Restaurants; Youth; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Cafes; Diners YOUTH, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: Not theirs to question or to hesitate Last Line: Gird thou our sinews and our souls to go! Subject(s): Churches; God; Religion; Youth; Cathedrals; Theology YOUTH, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the spacious east of life Last Line: And showering storms of glory o'er the beaten way. Subject(s): Innocence; Memory; Youth YOUTH, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A perfume like an acid sword Last Line: Like an oil lamp dropped in the rain Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Adolescence; Youth YOUTH, by EDWIN GARNET RILEY Poem Text First Line: I'll not grow old in spite of years Last Line: Shall love and laugh and still be gay. Subject(s): Youth YOUTH, by R. G. RUSTE Poem Text First Line: High on the hills in the morning Last Line: Bow to the mandates of youth. Subject(s): Life; Youth YOUTH, by WILBERT SNOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The old men talked of barney's place Last Line: Flash glints like shepherd's isle. Alternate Author Name(s): Snow, Charles Wilber Subject(s): Youth YOUTH, by LOUISE SUTHERLAND Poem Text First Line: O, let me sail the seven seas Last Line: If you've not gone romancing, too! Subject(s): Explorers; Love; Romance; Sea Voyages; Youth; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers YOUTH, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Child with the butterfly Last Line: On meadows of spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Children; Spring; Youth; Childhood YOUTH AND AGE, by GEORGE ARNOLD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Youth hath many charms Last Line: This twain that gives me happiness! Subject(s): Aging; Youth YOUTH AND AGE, by CAROLINE CLIVE Poem Text First Line: Beneath a tree's green leafy shade Last Line: That e'en on earth he had been bless'd. Alternate Author Name(s): V; Meysey-wigley, Caroline Subject(s): Old Age; Youth YOUTH AND AGE, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dance on, dance on, we see, we see Last Line: Dance on, dance on, 'tis joy to see. Subject(s): Youth YOUTH AND AGE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Verse, a breeze mid blossoms straying Last Line: And tells the jest without the smile. Subject(s): Friendship; Old Age; Youth YOUTH AND AGE, by HENRY HOWARD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Laid in my quiet bed, in study as I were Last Line: If, to their time, they reason had, to know the truth of this.' Alternate Author Name(s): Surrey, Earl Of Variant Title(s): The Age Of Children Happiest;from Boy To Man;how The Age Of Children Is The Happiest;no Age Content With His Own Estate;how No Age Is Content With His Own Estate Subject(s): Aging; Discontent; Youth; Dissatisfaction YOUTH AND AGE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O wanton youth, this wind was not Last Line: "the heart of youth is wise." Subject(s): Aging; Gardens & Gardening; Hearts; Memory; Wind; Wisdom; Youth YOUTH AND AGE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When in our blithest youth we Last Line: In the old eyes -- too glad to weep. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Aging; Youth YOUTH AND AGE, by WILLIAM BELL SCOTT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Our night repast was ended Last Line: Their day is coming, and their sun shall shine! Subject(s): Youth YOUTH AND AGE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With cheerful step the traveller Last Line: The fears of wary age! Subject(s): Life; Mist; Old Age; Pain; Pleasure; Travel; Youth; Suffering; Misery; Journeys; Trips YOUTH AND AGE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will gain a fortune, the young man cried Last Line: "to bind the reef that breasts the storm!" Subject(s): Aging; Life; Wealth; Youth; Riches; Fortunes YOUTH AND AGE ON BEAULIEU RIVER, HANTS, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Early sun on beaulieu water Subject(s): Youth YOUTH AND AGE ON BEAULIEU RIVER, HANTS, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Early sun on beaulieu water Last Line: With the shining fields of mud Subject(s): Youth YOUTH AND BEAUTY, by AURELIAN TOWNSEND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art so fair, and young withal Last Line: For fear my cradle prove my urn. Alternate Author Name(s): Townshend, Aurelian Subject(s): Youth YOUTH AND CALM, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis death! And peace, indeed, is here Last Line: But 'tis not what our youth desires. Subject(s): Youth YOUTH AND DEATH, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Death is but life's escape: a rung Last Line: And god remains alive by death. Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill Subject(s): Death; God; Youth; Dead, The YOUTH AND KNOWLEDGE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What price, child, shall I pay for your bright eyes Last Line: The wit to teach youth's zeal to use its wings. Subject(s): Knowledge; Youth YOUTH AND LOVE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Young, loving, and beloved - these are brief words Last Line: Still it is much to think that it has been. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Love; Youth YOUTH AND LOVE, by AMY LEVY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What does youth know of love? Last Line: It is not youth who knows. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Youth YOUTH AND NIGHT, by WILBUR UNDERWOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the shining stars Last Line: Of this strange shadowed world. Subject(s): Beauty; Bodies; Night; Peace; Youth; Bedtime YOUTH AND THE MUSE, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No poet of golden name do I remember Last Line: Come peace, come war, his songs will out in spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Youth YOUTH ASKS, by ELIZABETH DAVIS RICHARDS Poem Text First Line: Gilliflower, gilliflower Last Line: Although love is dead? Subject(s): Youth YOUTH IMPERTURBABLE, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me not shrink at sight of death Last Line: O I have much to laugh at yet! Subject(s): Youth YOUTH IN AGE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I was part of the music I heard Last Line: As it will for sheer love till the last long sigh. Subject(s): Aging; Birds; Death; Youth; Dead, The YOUTH IN ARMS, by HAROLD MONRO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Happy boy, happy boy Last Line: David of a thousand slings. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; War; Youth; Dead, The YOUTH IN ARMS, by ERON O. ROWLAND Poem Text First Line: O youth who erstwhile stood before thy elders Last Line: Armed cap a pie? Subject(s): World War I; Youth; First World War YOUTH IS SWEET AND WELL, by LORENZO DE' MEDICI Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: But doth speed away Alternate Author Name(s): Lorenzo The Magnificent Subject(s): Youth; Transcience YOUTH PENETRANT, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I shall grow calm in a little while Last Line: I show life up to you . . . And smile! Subject(s): Youth YOUTH RENEWED, by JAMES MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring-flowers, spring-birds, spring-breezes Last Line: A richer, purer, mellower draught. Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot Subject(s): Spring; Youth YOUTH REPRESSED, by MARY N. S. WHITELEY Poem Text First Line: They have brought the bird to earth Last Line: How high a bird may go. Subject(s): Birds; Wings; Youth YOUTH SPEAKS, by MABEL M. BURTON Poem Text First Line: I am just turned sixteen Last Line: And my hair is red gold. Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Youth YOUTH THAT NEVER DIES, by FAY LEWIS NOBLE Poem Text First Line: O fleeting youth that never dies Last Line: O fleeting youth that never dies? Subject(s): Youth YOUTH TO PALLAS, by MAURICE DU PLESSYS Poem Text First Line: Pallas, whose chill breast bears a shield above Last Line: And I will shrine your worship in my age. Alternate Author Name(s): Flandre-noblesse, Sylvan Francois Maurice Subject(s): Youth YOUTH WEEPS NOT LONG, by LOIS WELLS Poem Text First Line: (dreams were not meant to stand the light of day Last Line: Brush not the star dust from her wings of light! Subject(s): Youth YOUTH'S AMBITION, by ANNA GRACE BOYLES Poem Text First Line: At five he wants to be a fireman Last Line: Quite indispensable. Subject(s): Youth YOUTH'S END, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have held my life too high Last Line: But I held my death too dear. Subject(s): Youth YOUTH'S FAIR RESOLVE, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear friend, I would that our free life should be Last Line: To these a sigh! Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Youth YOUTH'S PROGENY, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh the sad little dreams of the dim yesteryear Last Line: Just to bid them good-night at the close of the day. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Memory; Youth YOUTH'S PROGRESS, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was born, my mother taped my ears Last Line: At twenty-one, I was elected zeus Subject(s): Growth; Youth YOUTH'S PROGRESS, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was born, my mother taped my ears Last Line: At twenty-one, I was elected zeus Subject(s): Growth; Youth YOUTH'S SECOND - SIGHT, by GEORGE DOUGLAS HOWARD COLE Poem Text First Line: They tell me I am over young to know Last Line: Nor faint nor weary till the day is won. Alternate Author Name(s): Cole, G. D. H. Subject(s): Oxford University; Youth YOUTH'S SONGS, by MAXWELL ANDERSON Poem Text First Line: They lift upon the first rush of bright wings Last Line: As gray leaves fallen to the wild white sea. Subject(s): Youth YOUTH'S TEMPLE, by REBECCA COPENHAVER Poem Source First Line: The blonde, four year old head Last Line: Recognize no god, %and remember none of the miracles Subject(s): Youth YOUTH, DAY, OLD AGE AND NIGHT, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Youth, large, lusty, loving -- youth full of grace, force, fascination, Last Line: And restoring darkness. Subject(s): Youth YOUTH: I. SUNDAY, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All calculations set to one side Last Line: That forms and ferments in the masses Subject(s): Youth YSOLTE, by GEORGE FREDERICK CAMERON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well, I am young and the world is wide Last Line: It is well! Subject(s): Desire; Love; Single People; Youth; Bachelors; Unmarried People ZULEIKA, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Zuleika is fled away Last Line: And the flower that blooms by night. Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. Subject(s): Love; Minstrels; Youth |
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