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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 young—I 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 open—where'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 david—but 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 to—success 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: Peace—yes, 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 play—white-clad—on 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: June—july—nineteen.
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: But—god—where 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 love—what 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 us—the 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 them—and 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 sign—a 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 god—of 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-one—a 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 sit—perhaps 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 next—gone!
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