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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: POE, Matches Found: 320 Attipoe, Lebene K. 2 poems available by this author ELEMENTALS First Line: Pebbles falling from wind shells Last Line: Are gods that bring smiles and fortunes %yet unwinds sinful souls leaving seasons %of salt on their SYMPHONY First Line: A symphony exploding miseries Last Line: Where the night breeds secrets. A %voice settles dust, sleep after %windquakes and make memories Barton, Bernard Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet 107 poems available by this author A DREAM Poem Text First Line: Thou art not one of the living now Last Line: And love, in some such dream as this! Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares A POSTSCRIPT Poem Text First Line: Thy latest leaf is shed Last Line: Death seems to make thee dearer! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ADDRESS TO SUBSCRIBERS .. FUND FOR CLOTHING CHILDREN CHARITY SCHOOL Poem Text First Line: Friends of the helpless! Let a nameless bard Last Line: "since, ""what is given the poor is lent the lord!" Subject(s): Charity; Philanthropy ALL IS VANITY' Poem Text First Line: Oh! What can be more frail AN EVENING PRAYER Poem Text First Line: Before I close my eyes in sleep Last Line: Thou hearest my childish prayer. Subject(s): Prayer AT HOME Poem Text First Line: Where burns the fireside brightest Last Line: At home -- sweet home. Subject(s): Home AUTUMN; WRITTEN IN THE GROUNDS OF MARTIN COLE, ESQ. Poem Text First Line: When is the aspect which nature wears Last Line: Give birth to sensations superiour to joy. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall BATTLE OF GIBEON First Line: From gilgal's camp went foth, at BRITISH OAK First Line: Let india boast its spicy trees BRUCE AND THE SPIDER Poem Text First Line: For scotland's and for freedom's right Last Line: And patience wins the race. Subject(s): History; Robert I. King Of Scotland (1274-1329); War; Historians; Bruce, Robert; The Bruce CARACTACUS Poem Text First Line: Before proud rome's imperial throne Last Line: He bade the slave be free again. Subject(s): Rome, Italy; War CAST THY BREAD UPON THE WATERS First Line: Oh, be not faithless! With the morn CHILDREN OF LIGHT Poem Text First Line: Walk in the light! So shalt thou know Last Line: And god himself is light. Subject(s): God CONCLUDING VERSES, AFTER RETURNING HOME FROM AN AUTUMNAL MORNING WALK Poem Text First Line: It is the very carnival of nature Last Line: "with borrow'd light from thee, for they are thine!" Subject(s): Homecoming; Nature; Autumn; Thanksgiving; Mortality; Fall DRAB BONNETS Poem Text First Line: They may cant of costumes, and of brilliant head-dresses Last Line: And the bonnet of drab is still beauteous to me! Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Hats; Quakers FANCY AND IMAGINATION Poem Text First Line: There is a pleasure, now and then, in giving Last Line: Woo your sublime delights, and bless you on my waking. Subject(s): Dreams; Imagination; Nightmares; Fancy FAREWELL Poem Text First Line: Nay, shrink not from the word 'farewell' Last Line: May meet -- to part no more. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting HUSH! 'TIS A HOLY HOUR! THE QUIET ROOM HYMN, COMPOSED FOR THE CHILDREN OF A SUNDAY SCHOOL Poem Text First Line: O thou! To whom the grateful song Last Line: And endless life with thee! Subject(s): Religious Education; Children; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools; Childhood INTRODUCTORY VERSES TO MARIA HACK Poem Text First Line: Nay! Do not half reproachfully exclaim Last Line: "^1^thomas day, the author of ""sandford and merton." Subject(s): Hack, Maria Barton (1777-1844); Sisters; Poetry & Poets LAND WHICH NO MORTAL MAY KNOW First Line: Though earth has full many a beautiful spot LEISTON ABBEY Poem Text First Line: Beautiful fabric! Even in decay Last Line: Shall recompense me well, and for the task atone. Subject(s): Leiston Abbey, England; Ruins LINES TO HANNAH AND PHOEBE Poem Text First Line: I have known you so long, and have lov'd you so well Last Line: By dividing our sorrows it lessens them too. Subject(s): Friendship MEDITATIONS IN GREAT BEALINGS CHURCH-YARD Poem Text First Line: It is not only while we look upon Last Line: One more look ere I part! 'tis given, and now, farewell! Subject(s): Churchyards; Farewell; Gosfield Park, Essex, England; Parting NOT OURS THE VOWS Poem Text First Line: Not ours the vows of such as plight Last Line: By faith and hope immortal. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives NOW IN THY YOUTH, BESEECH OF HIM Poem Text PLAYFORD; A DESCRIPTIVE FRAGMENT Poem Text First Line: Hast thou a heart to prove the power Last Line: * * * * * * Subject(s): Landscape; Playford (city), England RECOLLECTIONS Poem Text First Line: All round was still and calm; the noon of night Last Line: Myself, for having thus in song recorded them! Subject(s): Memory SEASIDE THOUGHTS Poem Text First Line: Beautiful, sublime, and glorious Last Line: What must thy creator be? Variant Title(s): The Sea Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SLEEP Poem Text First Line: What is it that stills the sigh of sorrow Last Line: Is his through a blissful eternity! Subject(s): Sleep SONNET TO A FRIEND Poem Text First Line: In thy profession thou hast many peers Last Line: To make me half forget that I was ill. Subject(s): Friendship SONNET TO A FRIEND, ON HIS SECOND MARRIAGE Poem Text First Line: To hymen's shrine, where once thy vows were paid Last Line: On which love prompted you again to build. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SONNET TO CHARLOTTE M-- Poem Text First Line: Thou art but in life's morning, and as yet Last Line: And thou wilt find the world no vale of tears. Subject(s): Life SONNET TO THE DEBEN Poem Text First Line: Thou windest not through scenery which enchants Last Line: By the bright promise of a cloudless morn. Subject(s): Deben (river), England SONNET TO W-- P-- Poem Text First Line: If genuine love of freedom, testified Last Line: Honour'd, rever'd, and lov'd; but utter'd not by me. Subject(s): Friendship SPIRITUAL WORSHIP Poem Text First Line: Though glorious, o god! Must thy temple have been Last Line: Where the fire burns unquench'd on the altar! Variant Title(s): Silent Worship Subject(s): Worship SPRING First Line: The bleak winds of winter are past SQUIRREL First Line: The squirrel is happy, the squirrel is gay Subject(s): Squirrels STANZAS ADDRESSED TO PERCY BYSSHE SHELLY Poem Text First Line: Forests, and lakes, the majesty of mountains Last Line: Whom faith in god has given a world beyond the grave! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) STANZAS ADDRESSED TO SOME FRIEND GOING TO THE SEA-SIDE Poem Text First Line: Since summer invites you to visit once more Last Line: Those joys which on you in reality wait. Subject(s): Seashore; Vacation; Beach; Coast; Shore STANZAS COMPOSED IN REV. J. MITFORD'S LIBRARY First Line: O! Methinks could dwell content Last Line: Whose taste and talent gave it birth, %and well can estimate its worth Subject(s): Books STANZAS OCCASIONED BY THE DEATH OF H-- A-- Poem Text First Line: Would I deck truth in fiction's graceful dress Last Line: Where thy pure spirit now beholds its god! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The STANZAS ON THE CONVERSION OF THE JEWS Poem Text First Line: On this labour of love may a blessing attend Last Line: Nor turn ye from him who now speaketh from heaven! Subject(s): Conversion; Jews; Judaism STANZAS ON THE DEATH OF A CHILD Poem Text First Line: Though parental affection lament thee Last Line: Through the god of the spirits of all! Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies STANZAS ON THE DEATH OF A FRIEND Poem Text First Line: We knew that the moment was drawing nigh Last Line: And bid her look upwards with holy love. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The STANZAS ON THE DEATH OF SIR SAMUEL ROMILLY Poem Text First Line: Overwhelming indeed is the anguish we feel Last Line: Best of patriots and statesmen! We bid thee adieu! Subject(s): Romilly, Sir Samuel (1757-1818) STANZAS ON THE DEATH OF THE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE Poem Text First Line: Farewell to the hopes which the nation has cherish'd Last Line: Which retires from the throne, to repose on the tomb! Subject(s): Charlotte Augusta, Princess (d. 1817); Death; Dead, The STANZAS SELECTED FROM THE PAINS OR MEMORY; A FRAGMENT Poem Text First Line: Memory! Mysterious principle, whose power Last Line: Shines with unwelcome ray, and tells of mischief done! Subject(s): Memory STANZAS TO A FRIEND Poem Text First Line: Thou dost not need that verse of mine Last Line: For soothing thoughts, a theme in thee! Subject(s): Friendship STANZAS TO AN AFFECTIONATE AND PIOUS PARENT, ON THE DEATH OF HER CHILD Poem Text First Line: When good old jacob mourn'd his child Last Line: Its hopes and fears, and fly to god. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mourning; Parents; Death - Babies; Bereavement; Parenthood STANZAS TO HELEN M-- M-- Poem Text First Line: Believe not that absence can banish Last Line: And tenderly whisper of thee. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation STANZAS TO M.P. Poem Text First Line: Mary! I wake not now for thee Last Line: In unison with thine! Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Dead, The STANZAS TO WILLIAM ROSCOE, ESQ. Poem Text First Line: When first, like a child building houses with cards Last Line: By the father once own'd, and bequeath'd to the son. Subject(s): Friendship STANZAS, COMPOSED WHILE WALKING ON WARREN HILL, EARLY SUMMER'S MORNING Poem Text First Line: Lonely and low is thy dwelling-place now Last Line: And a beautiful twilight enchants us. Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones STANZAS, OCCASIONED BY THE DEATH OF A RELATIVE ABROAD Poem Text First Line: Thou sleep'st far from the land of thy birth Last Line: Peace be with its memory here! Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones STANZAS, ON THE DEATH OF LIEUT. P. Poem Text First Line: There is a sacred tribute claim'd Last Line: And child. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE ADIEU, TO A FRIEND LEAVING SUFFOLK Poem Text First Line: Farewell! And oh! If aught of grief Last Line: And we may meet more dear than ever. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting THE AUTHOR'S PARTING ADDRESS TO THE MUSE Poem Text First Line: Our task is ended now, and we may part Last Line: And freedom, peace, and love, with thee forever reign! Subject(s): Farewell; Poetry & Poets; Parting THE HEAVEN WAS CLOUDLESS, THE OCEAN WAS CALM Poem Text THE IVY; ADDRESSED TO A YOUNG FRIEND Poem Text First Line: Dost thou not love, in the season of spring Last Line: Greenness, and beauty, and strength to thee! Subject(s): Ivy THE MOTHER'S LAMENT Poem Text First Line: Pale and cold is the cheek that my kisses oft press'd Last Line: And only to wake when ascended to heaven! Subject(s): Death - Children; Lament; Mothers; Death - Babies THE QUAKER POET; VERSES ON SEEING MYSELF SO DESIGNATED Poem Text First Line: The quaker poet!' -- is such name Last Line: Of him, who is its donor! Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Poetry & Poets; Self; Quakers THE SEA Poem Text First Line: I remember a time when existence was young Last Line: May a ray from hope's star shed its light on my grave! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE SOLITARY TOMB Poem Text First Line: Not a leaf of the tree which stood near me was stirr'd Last Line: Though at distance, in fancy dwells near it. Subject(s): Graves; Graves; Tombs; Tombstones; Tombs; Tombstones THE SPRINGS OF LIFE ARE FAILING ONE BY ONE Poem Text Subject(s): Aging THE VALLEY OF FERN: PART 1 Poem Text First Line: There is a lone valley, few charms can it number Last Line: It may fall unreprov'd in the valley of fern. Subject(s): Valleys; Landscape; Beauty THE VALLEY OF FERN: PART 2 Poem Text First Line: Thou art chang'd. Lovely spot! And no more thou displayest Last Line: And eternity hallows some visions of time! Subject(s): Valleys; Change THE VOWS OF SUNNY WEATHER Poem Text First Line: Not ours the vows of such as plight Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THERE BE THOSE THOU ART GONE TO THE LAND OF THE LEAL, AND THE BELL Poem Text Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TO -- -- Poem Text First Line: Our friendship, arthur, was not form'd Last Line: Will do, as we have done, without them. Subject(s): Friendship TO A CHILD OF THREE YEARS OLD Poem Text First Line: Thou art a thing made up of all Last Line: Is cause of sober gratitude! Subject(s): Children; Childhood TO A FATHER, ON THE DEATH OF HIS ONLY CHILD Poem Text First Line: The hand of the highest, who woundeth, can heal Last Line: That thou may'st go to him, though he cannot return. Subject(s): Death - Children; Fathers; Death - Babies TO A FRIEND ON HER BIRTH-DAY Poem Text First Line: Once more, my gentle friend! Has time's swift flight Last Line: Which speaks them born above, though spent on earth below. Subject(s): Birthdays TO A PROFILE Poem Text First Line: I knew thee not! Then wherefore gaze Last Line: To bless thee, whom I never knew! Subject(s): Silhouettes TO JOANNA, ON SENDING ME THE LEAF OF A FLOWER ... WORDSWORTH'S GARDEN Poem Text First Line: Joanna! Though I well can guess Last Line: I in one page will place you! Subject(s): Leaves; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) TO LYDIA Poem Text First Line: Midnight has stol'n upon me! Sound is none Last Line: The hours of stillness and of solitude! Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness TO MARY Poem Text First Line: It is not alone while we live in the light Last Line: I shall look back at times, as I now have done. Subject(s): Friendship TO MARY; OCCASIONED BY HER HAVING ENGRAVED ON A SEAL 'FORGET ME NOT' Poem Text First Line: Forget thee, mary -- no, not yet Last Line: And all who know must love thee. Subject(s): Memory TO MY WIFE First Line: The butterfly, which sports on gaudy wing Last Line: And of the active worth thy modest merit hides TO THE EVENING PRIMROSE Poem Text First Line: Fair flower, that shun'st the glare of day Subject(s): Evening Primroses TO THE GALLIC EAGLE Poem Text First Line: Fame's favourite minion Last Line: Thy proud spirit never! Subject(s): Birds; Eagles TO THE MEMORY OF H-- M-- Poem Text First Line: Farewell! But o think not thy memory shall perish Last Line: Sink to sleep as inviting, as tranquil as thine! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TO THE MEMORY OF SAMUEL WHITBREAD Poem Text First Line: While the tempest-tost mariner can btu discern Last Line: In glory immortal, which dreads no decay! Subject(s): Suicide; Whitbread Ii, Samuel (1758-1815) TO THE MOON Poem Text First Line: All hail to thee! Radiant ruler of night Last Line: Bringing hope from on high, forming rainbows in tears. Subject(s): Moon TO THE SKYLARK Poem Text First Line: Bird of the free and fearless wing! Last Line: And bring down music from the sky! Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks TO THE WINDS Poem Text First Line: Ye viewless minstrels of the sky Last Line: It seems the voice of god. Subject(s): Wind TO WILLIAM WORDSWORTH; ON THE PUBLICATION OF HIS POEM, 'PETER BELL' Poem Text First Line: Beautiful poet! As thou art Last Line: And live in history's latest page. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) TRANSLATION OF ENOCH First Line: Though proudly through the vaulted sky VERSES ON SEEING IN AN ALBUM A SKETCH OF AN OLD GATEWAY Poem Text First Line: Relique of hoar antiquity Last Line: "we feel ""they were, and they are not!" Subject(s): Antiques VERSES SUPPOSED TO BE WRITTEN IN A BURIAL-GROUND .. SOCIETY OF FRIENDS Poem Text First Line: What though no sculptur'd monuments around Last Line: Calmly to share thy couch, which needs no graven stone. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Friends, Religious Society Of; Graveyards; Quakers VERSES TO -- --, ON THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THEIR MARRIAGE Poem Text First Line: Sweet is the early dream of love Last Line: Be heaven's eternal jubilee. Subject(s): Anniversaries VERSES TO A FRIEND Poem Text First Line: I promis'd thee, that, soon or late Last Line: But graver—lead to heaven! Subject(s): Churchyards VERSES TO A YOUNG FRIEND Poem Text First Line: If, long ere this, no lay of mine Last Line: And on a fool 'tis wasted! Subject(s): Youth; Praise VERSES TO AN INFANT Poem Text First Line: Blessings rest on thee, happy one Last Line: In mercy be fulfill'd. Subject(s): Babies; Infants VERSES TO HER WHO IS JUSTLY ENTITLED TO THEM Poem Text First Line: In childhood thy kindness has often caress'd me Last Line: Will preserve thy remembrance when sunset is past. Subject(s): Gratitude VERSES TO SOME FRIENDS RETURNING FROM THE SEA-SIDE Poem Text First Line: Forget not the moments Last Line: Yours on the morn. Subject(s): Friendship; Memory; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore VERSES TO THE MEMORY OF MARY FLETCHER Poem Text First Line: Enthusiast, fanatic and fool Last Line: Thy heritage among the saints! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The VERSES TO THE MEMORY OF P. BURGESS; A CHILD OF SUPERIOR ENDOWMENTS Poem Text First Line: It is not length of years which lends Last Line: Partake with joy its light forever! Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies VERSES TO THE MEMORY OF SARAH CANDLER Poem Text First Line: O doubt not thy memory liveth Last Line: Everlastingly echoes in heaven! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The VERSES WRITTEN IN A BLANK LEAF OF TIGHE'S 'PSYCHE' Poem Text First Line: Fond dreamer! Meditate thine idle song Last Line: And still shall chaunt his praise when time shall be no more. Subject(s): Songs VERSES, OCCASIONED BY AN AFFECTING INSTANCE OF SUDDEN DEATH Poem Text First Line: Thou didst not sink by slow decay Last Line: And gratefully adore him! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The VERSES, RESPECTFULLY & AFFECTIONALLY INSCRIBED TO PROFESSIONAL FRIEND Poem Text First Line: Thou art not one of those, who, by retreating Last Line: A wreath more deathless far than I have woven thee? Subject(s): Advice; Professions VERSES, SUGGESTED BY THE FUNERAL OF AN EPITAPH IN BURY CHURCH-YARD Poem Text First Line: When siloam's tower in fragments strew'd the ground Last Line: The boon of immortality was given! Subject(s): Death - Children; Funerals; Death - Babies; Burials WINTER Poem Text First Line: Thou hast thy beauties: sterner ones I own Last Line: Like pale, but lovely ones, seen when we dream. Subject(s): Winter WORD OF GOD First Line: Word of the ever-lasting god Subject(s): Prayer WRITTEN IN AN ALBUM Poem Text First Line: Like one who, fruitlessly perchance Last Line: And I shall proudly own it mine. Subject(s): Immortality Close, John Alternate Author Name(s): Poet Close 3 poems available by this author A VISION OF THE GODS: HALOES, NOT HATS Poem Text First Line: Around the gods, each seated on a throne Last Line: And sparkled in their grand majestic heads. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Poetry & Poets; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens IN RESPECTFUL MEMORY OF MR. YARKER: MENTEM MORTALIA TANGUNT Poem Text First Line: And have we lost another friend? Last Line: Hark to the tolling bell! Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Memory; Dead, The THE BEELAH VIADUCT Poem Text First Line: O wondrous age! A wondrous age we live in Last Line: When we have bid farewell to earthly things. Subject(s): Angels; Earth; Faith; Religion; World; Belief; Creed; Theology Davies (1565-1618), John Alternate Author Name(s): Welsh Poet; Davies Of Hereford, John 9 poems available by this author ALTHOUGH WE DO NOT ALL THE GOOD WE LOVE Poem Text First Line: Although we do not all the good we love, Last Line: Is love that burns, but burns like painted fire. BUTTERED PIPPIN-PIES Poem Text First Line: If there were, oh! An hellespont of cream Last Line: Which having found, if they tobacco kept, %the smoke should dry me well before I slept Variant Title(s): The Author Loving These Homely Meats Specially, Viz.: Cream, Pancakes Subject(s): Food And Eating GULLING SONNETS: AS WHEN THE BRIGHT CERULIAN FIRMAMENT Last Line: One scurvy thought infecteth all the rest ORCHESTRA OR A POEM OF DANCING (EXCERPT) First Line: Where lives the man that never yet did hear Last Line: Your better parts must dance with them forever REMEMBRANCE OF MY FRIEND MR. THOMAS MORLEY First Line: Death hath deprived me of my dearest friend Last Line: That nature wrought must unto dust be brought SOME BLAZE THE PRECIOUS BEAUTIES OF THEIR LOVES Poem Text First Line: Some blaze the precious beauties of their loves Last Line: So say, she is, and wond'ring owe the rest. TO MY BROWNE, YET BRIGHTEST SWAIN / THAT WOONS, OR ... PLAIN Poem Text First Line: Pipe on, sweet swain, till joy, in bliss, sleep waking Last Line: Dum carmen gratulatorium. Subject(s): Browne, William (1591-1645) TO OUR ENGLISH TERENCE, MR. WILL. SHAKESPEARE First Line: Some say, good will, (which I in sport sing) Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) WIT'S PILGRIMAGE, SELS. Philemon Alternate Author Name(s): Philemon (athenian Comic Poet B.c. 330 5 poems available by this author HAPPY CREATURE IS YOUR SNAIL INDEED Last Line: With house on back he moves off to another HAPPY THE ANIMALS! THEY DO NOT BOTHER THEIR HEADS Last Line: Yet some excuse for worry always finding OFT WE ENHANCE OUR ILLS BY DISCONTENT Poem Text Last Line: And leaving reason's remedy behind Subject(s): Grief RECIPES FROM THE DEIPNOSOPHISTS OF ATHENAEUS First Line: Now if you want an onion, just consider Subject(s): Mnemonics WHO IS FREE? Poem Text First Line: I serve my master: you and countless others Last Line: By nature's law made subject to the greater. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty Poe, Christine W. 1 poems available by this author ENOUGH First Line: Metal and mattresses, %potatoes and paper Last Line: Room to think in the full room %of enough Poe, Edgar Allan Poet's Biography 99 poems available by this author A DREAM Poem Text First Line: In visions of the dark night Last Line: In truth's day-star? [1927-1845] Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM Poem Text First Line: Take this kiss upon the brow! Last Line: But a dream within a dream? Variant Title(s): To - Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM, OR IMITATION Poem Text First Line: A dark unfathom'd tide Last Line: With a thought I then did cherish. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares A PAEAN Poem Text First Line: How shall the burial rite be read? Last Line: With a paean of old days. Variant Title(s): Lenore (2) A VALENTINE TO -- Poem Text First Line: For her these lines are penned, whose luminous eyes Last Line: And now I leave these riddles to their seer. Subject(s): Holidays; Riddles; Valentine's Day AL AARAAF Poem Text First Line: O! Nothing earthly save the ray Last Line: Who hear not for the beating of their hearts. ALONE Poem Text First Line: From childhood's hour I have not been Last Line: Of a demon in my view -- Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness AN ACROSTIC Poem Text First Line: Elizabeth it is in vain you say Last Line: His folly -- pride -- and passion -- for he died. AN ENIGMA Poem Text First Line: Seldom we find,' says solomaon don dunce Last Line: Of the dear names that lie concealed within't. ANNABEL LEE Poem Text Recitation First Line: It was many and many a year ago, / in the kingdom of the sea Last Line: In her tomb by the side of the sea. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness BELLS - A SONG First Line: The bells! - hear the bells! Last Line: Of the bells, bells, bells - %of the bells Subject(s): Bells BELOVED PHYSICIAN (FRAGMENTS) First Line: The pulse beats ten and intermits Last Line: The faithful heart yields no repose Subject(s): Physicians BRIDAL BALLAD Poem Text First Line: The ring is on my hand Last Line: May not be happy now. Subject(s): Marriage; Regret; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CATHOLIC HYMN Poem Text First Line: At morn - at noon - at twilight dim Last Line: With sweet hopes of thee and thine! Subject(s): Catholics; Roman Catholics; Catholicism DEEP IN EARTH Poem Text First Line: Deep in earth my love is lying Last Line: And I must weep alone. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement DREAMLAND Poem Text First Line: By a route obscure and lonely Last Line: From this ultimate dim thule. Variant Title(s): Dream-land DREAMS Poem Text First Line: Oh! That my young life were a lasting dream! Last Line: Than young hope in his sunniest hour hath known. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares ELDORADO Poem Text Recitation First Line: Gaily bedight / a gallant knight Last Line: If you seek for eldorado!' Subject(s): Heaven; Labor & Laborers; Old Age; Paradise; Work; Workers ELIZABETH Poem Text First Line: Elizabeth - it surely is most fit Last Line: "always write first things uppermost in the heart." ENIGMA Poem Text First Line: The noblest name in allegory's page Last Line: Which gathers all their glories in its own. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) EPIGRAM FOR WALL STREET Poem Text First Line: I'll tell you a plan for gaining wealth Last Line: Tis as plab as the light of the day that you double it! Subject(s): Money EULALIE; A SONG Poem Text Recitation First Line: I dwelt alone / in a world of moan Last Line: While ever to her young eulalie upturns her violet eye. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love EVENING STAR Poem Text First Line: Twas noontide of summer Last Line: Than that colder, lowly light. Subject(s): Evening Star FAIRYLAND (1) Poem Text First Line: Dim vales - and shadowy floods Last Line: Upon their quivering wings. Variant Title(s): Fairyland Subject(s): Fairies; Elves FAIRYLAND (2) Poem Text First Line: Sit down beside me, isabel Last Line: Alas! Over the sea! FANNY Poem Text First Line: The dying swan by northern lakes Last Line: By witching eyes which looked disdain. Subject(s): Birds; Swans FOR ANNIE Poem Text First Line: Thank heaven! The crisis - / the danger is past Last Line: Of the eyes of my annie. Variant Title(s): Convalescence Subject(s): Death; Love; Dead, The I HAVE A YOUNG SISTER Last Line: She longs not in her mind IMPROMPTU. TO KATE CAROL Poem Text First Line: When from your gems of thought I turn Last Line: The bright I-dea, or bright dear-eye. Subject(s): Puns INTRODUCTION Poem Text First Line: Romance, who loves to nod and sing Last Line: Connivingly my dreaming-book. IRENE Poem Text First Line: Tis now (so sings the soaring moon) Last Line: Of her old family funerals. ISRAFEL Poem Text First Line: In heaven a spirit doth dwell Last Line: From my lyre within the sky. LENORE (1) Poem Text First Line: Ah, broken is the golden bowl! The spirit flown forever! Last Line: "but waft the angel on her flight with a paean of old days!" LENORE (3) Poem Text First Line: Ah, broken is the golden bowl! - the spirit flown forever! Last Line: "but waft the angel on her flight with a paean of old days!" LINES AFTER ELIZABETH BARRETT Poem Text First Line: Hear the far generations -- how they crash Last Line: In the visionary hills! Subject(s): Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861) LINES ON ALE Poem Text First Line: Fill with mingled cream and amber Last Line: I am drinking ale today. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine LINES ON JOE LOCKE Poem Text First Line: As for locke, he is all in my eye Last Line: "but the latter's well known ""to report." Subject(s): Locke, Joseph Lorenzo (1808-1864); Soldiers MAY QUEEN ODE; FRAGMENT Poem Text First Line: Fairies guard the queen of may Last Line: All beneath a smiling sky. Subject(s): May (month) MYSTERIOUS STAR! (A NEW INTRODUCTIOIN TO 'AL AARAAF') Poem Text First Line: Mysterious star! Last Line: Sorrow is not melancholy OH, TEMPORA! OH, MORES! Poem Text First Line: Oh times! Oh manners! It is my opinion Last Line: I close the portrait with the name of pitts. PECULIAR ACROSTIC - A VALENTINE Poem Text First Line: For her this rhyme is penned, whose luminous eyes Last Line: You will not read the riddle, though you do the best you can do. Variant Title(s): A Valentine Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day POLITAN; A TRAGEDY First Line: Oh! Is that you benito (hiccup) are they gone? Last Line: Farewell castiglione and farewell %my hope in heaven! ROMANCE Poem Text First Line: Romance, who loves to nod and sing Last Line: Unless it trembled with the strings. Subject(s): Nature SERENADE Poem Text First Line: So sweet the hour - so calm the time Last Line: In every deed shall mingle, love. SHADOW-A PARABLE First Line: Ye who read are still among the living; but I who write shall have Last Line: Familiar accents of many thousand departed friends SHEATH AND KNIFE First Line: One king's daughter said to anither Last Line: And we'll neer gae down to the brume nae mair SONNET TO MY MOTHER First Line: Because the angels in the heavens above Last Line: Was dearer to my soul than its soul-life Subject(s): Mothers-in-law SONNET: SILENCE Poem Text First Line: There are some qualities - some incorporate things Last Line: No foot of man,) commend thyself to god! SPIRITS OF THE DEAD Poem Text First Line: Thy soul shall find itself alone Last Line: A mystery of mysteries! -- Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards SPIRITUAL SONG Poem Text First Line: Hark, echo! - hark, echo! Last Line: Of archangels, in happiness wrapt. STANZAS Poem Text 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 F.S.O.) Poem Text First Line: Lady! I would that verse of mine Last Line: Bright with all hopes that heaven can give. Subject(s): Osgood, Frances Sargent (1811-1850) TAMERLANE (1) First Line: I have sent for thee, holy friar Last Line: A kingdom for a broken-heart Subject(s): Love; Tamerlane (1336-1404) TAMERLANE (2) Subject(s): Tamerlane (1336-1404) TAMERLANE (3) First Line: Kind solace in a dying hour! Last Line: Why in the battle did not I? Subject(s): Tamerlane (1336-1404) TAMERLANE (4) Poem Text First Line: Kind solace in a dying hour! Last Line: In the tangles of love's very hair? Subject(s): Tamerlane (1336-1404); Timure (1336-144); Tamberlaine (1336-144) THE BELLS Poem Text Recitation First Line: Hear the sledges with the bells Last Line: To the moaning and the groaning of the bells. Subject(s): Bells; Music & Musicians THE CITY IN THE SEA Poem Text First Line: Lo! Death has reared himself a throne Last Line: Shall do it reverence. Subject(s): Cities; Death; Sea; Urban Life; Dead, The; Ocean THE COLISEUM Poem Text Recitation First Line: Type of the antique rome! Rich reliquary Last Line: "clothing us in a robe of more than glory." Subject(s): Coliseum, Rome THE CONQUEROR WORM Poem Text First Line: Lo! 'tis a gala night Last Line: And its hero, the conqueror worm. THE DIVINE RIGHT OF KINGS Poem Text First Line: The only king by right divine Last Line: The king -- my king -- can do no wrong. Subject(s): Puns THE DOOMED CITY Poem Text First Line: Lo! Death hath rear'd himself a throne Last Line: Shall give his undivided time. Subject(s): Cities; Death; Sea; Urban Life; Dead, The; Ocean THE HAPPIEST DAY, THE HAPPIEST HOUR THE HAUNTED PALACE Poem Text Recitation First Line: In the greenest of our valleys / by good angels tenanted Last Line: And laugh -- but smile no more. Subject(s): Castles; Ghosts; Grief; Haunted Houses; Insanity; Mysticism; Supernatural; Sorrow; Sadness; Madness; Mental Illness THE LAKE (VERSION 1) Poem Text 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) Poem Text 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 RAVEN Poem Text Recitation First Line: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary Last Line: Shall be lifted -- nevermore! Subject(s): Birds; Death; Love - Loss Of; Mothers; Mysticism; Omens; Ravens; Supernatural; Dead, The THE SLEEPER Poem Text Recitation First Line: At midnight, in the month of june Last Line: It was the dead who groaned within! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE VALLEY OF UNREST (1) Poem Text First Line: Far away - far away Last Line: "over the hills and far away." Variant Title(s): The Valley Nis Subject(s): Imagination; Landscape; Fancy THE VALLEY OF UNREST (2) Poem Text First Line: Once it smiled a silent dell Last Line: Perennial tears descend in gems. Subject(s): Imagination; Landscape; Fancy TO - (1) Poem Text First Line: Not long ago, the writer of these lines Last Line: To where the prospect terminates -- thee only. Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day TO - (2) Poem Text 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 - (3) Poem Text First Line: I saw thee on thy bridal day Last Line: The world all love before thee. Variant Title(s): Song Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO - (4) Poem Text First Line: I heed not that my earthly lot Last Line: Who am a passer by. TO - (5) Poem Text First Line: The bowers whereat, in dreams, I see Last Line: Of the baubles that it may. Variant Title(s): To -- Subject(s): Love - Materialism TO - (6) Poem Text First Line: Sleep on, sleep on, another hour Last Line: Must wake to weep. TO - (7) Poem Text First Line: I would not lord it o'er thy heart Last Line: And friendship to be second best. Subject(s): Friendship TO ELIZABETH First Line: Would'st thou be loved? Then let thy heart Last Line: And love - a duty TO F - (MRS. FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD) Poem Text First Line: Beloved! Amid the earnest woes Last Line: Just o'er that one bright island smile. Subject(s): Osgood, Frances Sargent (1811-1850); Poetry & Poets TO F---S S. O---D Poem Text First Line: Thou wouldst be loved? - then let thy heart Last Line: And love -- a simple duty. Variant Title(s): A Simple Duty Subject(s): Osgood, Frances Sargent (1811-1850) TO HELEN (1) Poem Text Recitation First Line: Helen, thy beauty is to me Last Line: Are holy land! Variant Title(s): To Helen Subject(s): Admiration; Beauty; Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical TO HELEN (2) Poem Text First Line: I saw thee once -- once only -- years ago Last Line: Venuses, unextinguished by the sun! Subject(s): Love; Whitman, Sara Helen (1803-1878) TO HELEN (3) First Line: Like those nicaean barks of yore Subject(s): Love TO ISAAC LEA Poem Text First Line: It was my choice or chance to curse Last Line: And soul and body worship it. TO M - Poem Text First Line: O! I care not that my earthly lot Last Line: I cannot be, lady, alone. Subject(s): Love TO M.L.S. Poem Text First Line: Of all who hail thy presence as the morning Last Line: His spirit is communing with an angel's. Subject(s): Kindness; Shew, Marie Louise TO MARGARET Poem Text First Line: Who hath seduced thee to this foul revolt Last Line: To write is human -- not to write divine. Subject(s): Writing & Writers TO MARIE LOUISE First Line: Not long ago, the writer of these lines Last Line: To where the prospect terminates - thee only Subject(s): Holidays; Shew, Marie Louise; Valentine's Day TO MISS LOUISE OLIVIA HUNTER Poem Text First Line: Though I turn, I fly not Last Line: And he sinks -- like me. TO MY MOTHER Poem Text First Line: Because I feel that, in the heavens above Last Line: Was dearer to my soul than its soul-life. Subject(s): Mothers-in-law TO OCTAVIA First Line: When wit, and wine, and friends have met Last Line: Will make it break for thee! TO ONE IN PARADISE Poem Text First Line: Thou wast all that to me, love Last Line: By what eternal streams. Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of TO SCIENCE, SELS. First Line: Vulture, whose wings are dull realities TO SCIENCE; SONNET Poem Text First Line: Science! True daughter of old time thou art! Last Line: The summer dream beneath the tamarind tree? Variant Title(s): Sonnet - To Science;to Science Subject(s): Hate; Mythology; Social Protest TO THE RIVER Poem Text Recitation First Line: Fair river! In thy bright, clear flow Last Line: Of her soul-searching eyes. Subject(s): Po River, Italy TO ZANTE Poem Text First Line: Fair isle, that from the fairest of all flowers Last Line: "isola d'oro! Fior di levante!" Variant Title(s): Sonnet To Zante Subject(s): Zacynthus; Zante ULALUME Poem Text Recitation First Line: The skies they were ashen and sober Last Line: This ghoul-haunted woodland of weir Variant Title(s): Ulalume - A Ballad;ulalume - A Ballad (2) Subject(s): Auber, Daniel Francois (1782-1871); Death; Halloween; Landscape; Love - Loss Of; Mysticism; October; Soul; Supernatural; Weir, Robert Walter (1803-1889); Dead, The VALLEY NIS (B) First Line: Now each visiter shall confess Last Line: Eternal dews come down in gems! VISIT OF THE DEAD Poem Text First Line: Thy soul shall find itself alone Last Line: Secrecy in thee. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards Poe, Kathryn 1 poems available by this author NOW IS THE TIME FOR FLOWERS Poe, Marion Hooker 1 poems available by this author SONG OF PEACE Poem Text First Line: Thou art beautiful, o peace! Last Line: Let us love,—love on. Subject(s): Peace Poe, Pat 1 poems available by this author I BUILD THREE FIRES Poem Text First Line: Build me a fire, lover Last Line: And leave me alone. Subject(s): Fire Poenaru, Vasile 2 poems available by this author FEAST WINE First Line: How shall you stop this falling of stars Last Line: So much falling of stars MARKET First Line: Take a walk through the market at midnight Poesini, Silvino 4 poems available by this author DEAREST THRUSHES First Line: Dearest thrushes on your way back to your country Last Line: With the camparinis and the hangman of toricella %who will have caught you, need I add, in crossfire FLOWER OF NO SMELL IS SPEAKING First Line: I do not feel ungraced in any way Last Line: When the christmas holidays are over %the manger is in the houses still FROM THE EARTH: JOYS AND SORROWS First Line: Break forth into joy little field Last Line: Don't get mad, pray to god %the sun is back, its warmth chases the hex away' I CALL THEM THE GIANTS First Line: These are the four village greats Last Line: And if maria is back he finds peace again right away %he does not think of the four greats because h Poethen, Johannes 4 poems available by this author BACK THEN I OWNED AN OCEAN FACE IN THE WATER First Line: When I was little ON A BRIGHT AFTERNOON OCCASIONALLY First Line: Very small is the fear SELF MADE OF WORDS Poetic Edda 71 poems available by this author ALL-WISE'S SAYINGS First Line: To spread the benches the bride is coming with me Last Line: Now sun shines into the hall BALDR'S DREAMS First Line: All together the aesir came in council Last Line: And the doom of the gods, tearing all asunder %approaches BALDR'S DREAMS: BALDRS DRAUMAR First Line: To the thing forthwith fared all aesir Last Line: And the day will come of the doom of the gods' BRYNHILD'S RIDE TO HEL: HELREIO BRYNHIDAR First Line: Thy wain halt there! Thy way lies not through Last Line: Our lives we should not have lived apart, %sigurth and I- sink now, thurs-bride!' BRYNHILD'S RIDE TO HELL First Line: You shall not journey through Last Line: Sigurd and I will be together -- now, ogress, sink CATALOGUE OF DWARFS: (DVERGATAL) First Line: Then gathered together the gods for counsel, %the holy hosts, and held converse Last Line: Will ever be known, while earth doth last, %the line of dwarfs to lofar down FIRST LAY OF GUDRUN First Line: It was long ago that gudrun intended to die Last Line: When she looked at the wound upon sigurd FIRST LAY OF GUTHRUN: GUORUNARKVIOA First Line: Erst gjuki's daughter unto death was nigh Last Line: When the wounds she saw on sigurth's body FIRST LAY OF HELGI THE HUNDING-SLAYER: HELGAKVIOA HUNDINGSBANA: 1 First Line: Twas in olden times, as eagles scramed Last Line: Victory and wealth: is the war ended' FIRST POEM OF HELGI HUNDINGSBANI First Line: It was a long time ago that the eagles shrieked Last Line: Lands and victory now the battle is over FLYTING OF LOKI: LOKASENNA First Line: Say thou, eldir, not before set thou Last Line: May flames set on fire %and burn on thy back!' FRAGMENT OF A POEM ABOUT SIGURD First Line: What harm can sigurd have done Last Line: And the inner ones patterned with acid-marks FRAGMENT OF A SIGURTH LAY: BROT AF SIGURPARKVIOU First Line: What hateful harm hath he done thee Last Line: In hot fire wholly was hardened gram, %its blade blazoned with bitter poison' GREAT LACUNA First Line: The flickering flames upflared to the skies Last Line: At his sides so that his sark did rive, %of iron woven, on the atheling GREENLANDIC POEM OF ATLI First Line: People have heard of the enmity which happened long ago Last Line: Their defiance lives on wherever people hear of it GREENLANDISH LAY OF ATLI: ATLAMAL HIN GROENLENZKU First Line: Heard have full many how that men had gathered Last Line: Where'er men hear of it, their hardy bearing GRIMNIR'S SAYINGS First Line: Hot you are, fire, and rather too fierce Last Line: Ofnir and svafnir, all of which I think stem %from me alone GRIPIR'S PROPHECY First Line: Who lives here in these dwellings Last Line: More pleasant, if you'd been able GUTHRUN'S LAMENT: GUORUNARHVOT First Line: Wickedest words, most woe-bringing Last Line: To have hearkened to the harrowing tale %(of guthrun's sorrows, gjuki's daughter)' HARBARD'S SONG First Line: Who is that pipsquak who stands on that side of the inlet Last Line: Go where the fiends'll get you HELGI LAYS: THE LAY OF HELGI HJORVARTHSSON First Line: Hast seen sigrlinn, svafnir's daughter Last Line: Of helgi and svava it is said they were born again HYMIR'S POEM First Line: Once, the victory gods ate their catch from hunting Last Line: Ale at aegir's every winter LAY OF ALVIS: ALVISSMAL First Line: To put bolster on bench shall my bride now with me Last Line: Above ground finds thee, dwarf, the day; %now the sun is seen in thy hall' LAY OF ATLI First Line: Atli sent a messenger to gunnar Last Line: That bright woman, before she died LAY OF ATLI: ATLAKVIOA First Line: Of yore sent atli on errand to gunnar Last Line: To death she did dear folk-lords three, %the swan-white lady, ere herself she died LAY OF FAFNIR First Line: A boy! Just a boy! Of whom were you born, boy? Last Line: By a princely youth, except by the norns' decree LAY OF FAFNIR: FAFNISMAL First Line: Thou fellow bold, what thy father's kin? Last Line: That know thou, skjoldung, but by norns' stern doom' LAY OF GRIMNIR: GRIMNISMAL First Line: Hot art thou, blaze, and too high, withal! Last Line: Ofnir and svafnir, they all have become %one with me, I ween LAY OF GROTTI: GROTTASONGR First Line: Now then are come to the king's high hall Last Line: We have toiled enough at turning the mill' LAY OF HAMDIR First Line: There sprang up on the threshold grievous actions Last Line: And hamdir sank behind the house LAY OF HAMTHIR: HAMOISMAL (HIN FORNU) First Line: (sorrowful deeds the dayspring saw Last Line: There fell sorli, slain at the gable, %at the hall's hindwall stooped hamthir then LAY OF HARBARTH: HARBARZLJOO First Line: Who is the fellow there by the ferry who stands?' Last Line: Get thee gone now where all trolls may take thee!' LAY OF HYMIR: HYMISKVIOA First Line: Much game had gathered the gods, of yore Last Line: Drink their ale at aegir's beer hall LAY OF HYNDLA: HYNDLULJOO First Line: Awake, good maiden, awake, my friend Last Line: May all gods then lend ottar help!' LAY OF REGIN First Line: What is that fish which courses through the water Last Line: Who reddened the earth and gave joy to the raven LAY OF REGIN: REGINSMAL First Line: What fish is this in the flood that swims Last Line: Dyed red the earth and the ravens gladdened' LAY OF RIG: RIGSPULA First Line: In old times, say they, on earth-paths green Last Line: In trying swords and slaying heroes' LAY OF SIGRDRIFA First Line: What bit into my corslet? Why was my sleep disturbed Last Line: Powerful quarrels have spring up LAY OF SIGRDRIFA: SIGRDRIFUMAL First Line: What slit my byrnie? How was broken my sleep? Last Line: Have fateful feuds arisen' LAY OF SKIRNIR: SKIRNISMAL First Line: Arise now, skirnir, and ready make thee %to summon my son Last Line: Shorter to me a month oft seemed, %than part of this night of pining LAY OF SVIPDAG: THE LAY OF FJOLSVITH: FJOLSVINNSMAL First Line: From far without up he saw rise %the high-timbered hall of the etins Last Line: Our life and lot together' LAY OF SVIPDAG: THE SPELL OF GROA: GROGALDR First Line: Awake, groa, good woman, awake! Last Line: Luck everlasting in life shalt have, %the while my words thou heedest!' LAY OF THRYM: DRYMSKVIOA First Line: Wroth was vingthor when awaking he Last Line: Thus hlorrithi his hammer got him LAY OF VAFTHRUTHNIR: VAFPRUONISMAL First Line: Give rede now, frigg, as to fare me listeth Last Line: With othin now my insight I matched: %of all beings thou art born wisest' LAY OF VOLUND First Line: The maidens flew from the south across mirkwood Last Line: I was not able to strive against him LAY OF VOLUND: VOLUNDARKVIOA First Line: Three maidens flew through myrkvith from southland Last Line: Naught availed it 'gainst volund to strive' LIST OF RIG First Line: Long ago they say that along the green roads Last Line: To assess a sword blade, to make red wounds LOKI'S QUARREL First Line: Tell me, eldir, before you step Last Line: And may your back be burnt ODDRUN'S LAMENT First Line: I heard said in ancient tales Last Line: Now the weeping of oddrun is over PLAINT OF ODDRUN: ODDRUNARGARTR First Line: I have heard it told in tales of yore Last Line: Sad oddrun's plaint is ended now' POEM OF HELGI HIORVARDSSON First Line: Have you seen sigrlinn, daughter of svafnir Last Line: He was best of princes under the sun PROPHECY OF GRIPIR: GRIPISSPA First Line: This high-built castle what king houseth Last Line: Neath sun in heaven than, sigurth, thou!' PROPHECY OF THE SEERESS: VOLUSPA First Line: Hear me, all ye hallowed beings Last Line: He bears in his pinions as the plains he o'erflies, %naked corpses: now he will sink SAYING OF HAR: HAVAMAL First Line: Have thy eyes about thee when thou enterest Last Line: Gain they who grasp them, %happy they who heed them! SAYINGS OF THE HIGH ONE First Line: All the entrances, before you walk forward Last Line: Luck to those who listened SECOND (OR OLD) LAY OF GUTHRUN: GUORUNARKVIOA II (HIN FORNA) First Line: Me, fairest of maids, my mother reared Last Line: Meseemed I lay, nor to sleep listed, %upon my bed- I will bear it in mind' SECOND LAY OF GUDRUN First Line: Radiant I was, the loveliest of girls Last Line: Obstinate in the bed of pain; that I remember well SECOND LAY OF HELGI THE HUNDING-SLAYER: HELGAKVIOA HUNDINGSBANA: 2 First Line: Say to heming that helgi recalleth Last Line: As daylight darkens to dimness of night' SECOND POEM OF HELGI HUNDINGSBANI First Line: Tell haeming that helgi remembers Last Line: The dead creatures, than when day dawns SEERESS'S PROPHECY First Line: Attention I ask from all the sacred people Last Line: He carries corpses; now she must sink down SHORT LAY OF SIGURTH: SIGURPARKVIOA HIN SKAMMA First Line: In times long gone came to gjuki's hall Last Line: But truth I told thee- my time is come' SHORT POEM ABOUT SIGURD First Line: Long ago it was that sigurd visited giuki Last Line: I said what was true and now I must depart SHORT SEERESS' PROPHECY: VOLUSPA HIN SKAMMA First Line: Eleven only the aesir were %when down had drooped in death baldr Last Line: Than othin fighting the fenris-wolf SKIRNIR'S JOURNEY First Line: Get up now, skirnir, and go and ask to speak Last Line: Than half one of these pre-marital nights SONG OF GROTTI First Line: Now there have come to the king's dwellings Last Line: Now the ladies have had a full stint of milling SONG OF HYNDLA First Line: Wake up, girl of girls, wake up, my friend Last Line: I pray that ottar may thrive in all good things THIRD LAY OF GUDRUN First Line: What's the matter, atli? Always, son of budli Last Line: Gudrun thus avenged her wrong THIRD LAY OF GUTHRUN: GUORUNARKVIOA III First Line: What is it, atli, that aileth thee? Last Line: Thus was guthrun all guiltless seen THRYM'S POEM First Line: Thor was angry when he awoke Last Line: And a blow of the hammer instead of many rings VAFTHRUDNIR'S SAYINGS First Line: Advise me now, frigg, I intend to journey Last Line: You'll always be the wisest of beings WHETTING OF GUDRUN First Line: Then I heard quarrelling of the most violent sort Last Line: Now this chain of griefs has been recounted Poetker, Audrey 1 poems available by this author WHEN THE EYE IS SHUT First Line: Oh, you have plenty to say Last Line: My mind remembers you. I love you %like that, just like that Subject(s): Love; Memory Poetri 1 poems available by this author DON'T HATE ME! First Line: Don't hate me cause my skin is smooth like fine lustrous fiber forming a tuft Last Line: Don't hate me cause %I'm beautiful Poey, Delia 1 poems available by this author PINK DOLPHINS First Line: When the dolphins follow the boats, they dress in pink Last Line: And sell them as amulets to catch wives Schonaich-carolath, Emil Von Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Prince Emil Rudolf Osman Of Schoenaich-carolath-shields; The Poet Prince From The Haseldorfer Marsch 1 poems available by this author OH GERMANY! Poem Text First Line: A german town with gables Last Line: To-day and evermore. Subject(s): Germany Spoerl, Stephen 1 poems available by this author WINTER TREES First Line: Brown and silver limbs %against the sky Last Line: My lips move effortlessly Thom, William Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Inverary Poet, The 5 poems available by this author DREAMINGS OF THE BEREAVED First Line: The morning breaks bonnie o'er mountain an' stream, Last Line: But, oh, for the night we' its ghost revelrie SONG OF THE FORSAKEN First Line: My cheek is faded sair, love THE BLIND BOY'S PRANKS Poem Text First Line: Men grew sae cauld, maids sae unkind Last Line: An' herds o' common men! Subject(s): Blindness; Visually Handicapped THE MITHERLESS BAIRN Poem Text First Line: When a'ither bairnies are hushed to their hame Last Line: That god deals the blow, for the mitherless bairn! Subject(s): Babies; Children; Orphans; Infants; Childhood; Foundlings WHISPERINGS FOR THE UNWASHED Poem Text First Line: Rubadub, rubadubm row-dow-dow! Last Line: Oh! Hasten it heaven! 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