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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: very, Matches Found: 229 Avery, Belle 1 poems available by this author CITY SPECTRUM First Line: Red %yellow Avery, Brian C. 5 poems available by this author COUNTING COYOTES TO STAY AWAKE First Line: My porch, my chair, my rifle make a rough heaven Last Line: But she knows them all by name EVE AT THE BEACH First Line: When he lies back against the cliffs IN BED WITH THE WATCHMAKER'S WIDOW First Line: All these hands and tiny gears Last Line: Are the ones I taught her KNOCKING ON DOORS, TAKING CENSUS First Line: You're a guest; you can sleep on the floor Last Line: Sleeping's been hard for me. At night I can hear the tree %cracking bones, trying to suck the marrow TO THOSE WHO READ BY THE LIGHT OF THE PAGE First Line: Five matches are left, one for each finger Last Line: And there's a chance %it may lose its way Avery, Burniece 1 poems available by this author REAL FATHER First Line: Some plant a seed and walk away Last Line: We'll face this world together, %whatever the years my bring Subject(s): African Americans; Fathers Avery, Claribel Weeks 7 poems available by this author DEATH AND A ROSE First Line: What does she see - the girl in the arena? DOOR IS NOW SHUT First Line: The news has gone about FULFILLMENT Poem Text First Line: My children have the things I wanted - college Last Line: God lets me give the things I never had. Subject(s): Parents; Universities & Colleges; Parenthood ROSE OF REMEMBRANCE First Line: We have a rose. Though spring was cold & late THE RIGHT MARY Poem Text First Line: All the little mary maids Last Line: She named it child o' god. Subject(s): God; Heaven; Jesus Christ; Paradise THE VIKING Poem Text First Line: O sister, flokar's ship is in! Last Line: Until he feels her arms again. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Vikings; Seamen; Sails; Ocean VESPERS First Line: Lord of the tender twilight sky Subject(s): Prayer Avery, Don 54 poems available by this author 1969 First Line: The sixties and mystic squalor Last Line: Who taught us proper employment? %who was eighteen? 1977 First Line: We do our obscene dance steps to disco music Last Line: Upto numbness: numb to the sound, %pound, %of love still %wecan dance ACCIDENTS First Line: Not a phone call, nothing practical Last Line: I took home the veal, and the meat was bad. Somehow %you'll always feel cheated. Then you look on th ADVENTURE IN THE MIDWEST First Line: A foreboding electrical wire Last Line: Under the twilight running like spilt ink, %over ohio, indiana, illnois, iowa AESOP'S PRIMER First Line: I've been staring into fleecy dull faces Last Line: Sly and furry, I jump up at the grapes. %it's no secret, I don't know the moral of anything APARTMENT DWELLING First Line: My sofa is so stiff as a corpse Last Line: Longing becomes coporeal, %digging up your arms and eyes BARNYARD First Line: America frames %a quadrilateral of corn plants Last Line: Its many hands will slap you off the pedestal, %its agents will mar the way you wish to appear CHARLOTTE, 1974 First Line: Charlotte in a dress with liolent blue stripes Last Line: And then pressing close to the edge %where the landscape ends abruptly CLOSE FRIEND First Line: Keith says he empties the glass Last Line: Even with my half-shut face, %even wrapped in my own tongue CORAL LIME HOTEL First Line: Repititious waves wash the beach of our habitual resort Last Line: On the beach, a vacationer, %stripped to my bathing suit and in disguise CORN First Line: I'm a doll. The huge full moon Last Line: While seeds carry their map of life %in a crux of small far ms littering nowhere Subject(s): Corn DANCES OF 1977 First Line: Paul moves his hips to disco fever Last Line: Smallness is the distorted fun-house mirror. %paul looks, then draws a numb face like a blinder DECEMBER First Line: Frost on the windo Last Line: Leaving it snow-blind, %like kisses under the mistletoe DREAM HOUSE First Line: The noise of the forks scraping across china Last Line: The world is chewing its own tail, %but we'll have a lawn, aporch, and a front door DREAMBOAT First Line: I keep a copper penny under my tongue Last Line: But not real flowers, because %the artificial lasts longer. Lasts a lifetime DREAMLAND First Line: Know, note %the detail, the ice-cube cracking Last Line: The room unravels into meaningless, %then the telephone rings DREAMLAND II First Line: Under the hair dryer, thumbing through 'better homes,' Last Line: On reflections of clouds. No top, no bottom, %only and endless streaming of water and sky ENOUGH First Line: The first crocus in your throat Last Line: The flags on this ship. The ice has %melted on this ocean. It's long voyage FLOTSAM First Line: Days, buoyant days bobbing, rolling Last Line: Distressed with the telephone near hand. %bogged with salt water while days moor months FLOUNDER First Line: The radio steams air again Last Line: Multiples minus you. And a round, %where love rows, rows, rows the boat FOR MARY-ANN First Line: Once atlantis sinks in your blood Last Line: But it falls, a shadow on the pavement, %under the most opportune step GREAT LAKES First Line: Tracy, cross-legged Last Line: Even here the wind bends back the corn. %a weather vane whirls wildly IDENTITY IN THE MIDWEST First Line: My voice is kansas Last Line: While honeybees probe clover, %and the pink plastic flamingo fades each summer IN THE SEVENTIES First Line: Patrick would trip drunk Last Line: Beasts of the minotaur's maze. %paul said it's this or nothing INSOMNIA IN THE MIDWEST First Line: The hour is indigo Last Line: A layer of stars flickers over the cornfields. %and the cornstalks lower into autumn, into harvest LEEWARD First Line: Buffaloes faced it. A gun from the railroad window Last Line: Down. Wrapping with any reason it likes, turning %leeward LETTER TO ROBERT First Line: In our backyard pond Last Line: Were we wrong? Is there any reason %not to believe we are? LOVE First Line: Yearning, %the louse mother Last Line: Is up in the air, contriving %the love thing made of clouds LUGGAGE First Line: I hate packing suitcases Last Line: One more track, one more track; %the rattling cars redefine silence MEANINGLESSNESS First Line: Swimming back to ceaseless streaming. My Last Line: Throats. No, not throats, no word partitions us off %here, and every right of wrong gesture melts aw MEMO FROM CENTRAL PARK First Line: Band music in a scallop shell. Tin's filigree Last Line: Dips into the water, and light wraps it with gold %ribbons.It's the tiny pieces which buttonhole hap MIDWESTERN GOTHIC FOR THE SIXTIES First Line: There is a ghost in our dormer Last Line: All the heirlooms discarded in the wake of new land, %and later, four students shot at kent state MODERN ROMANCE First Line: Leaning on waxed moustaches Last Line: The next stab occur, but my throat strums: my lovers eyes are MORNING First Line: Night-lines are snuffed in other buildings Last Line: Poetry is the subway clicking, %rattling, %while passengers face each other emptily MOTEL First Line: A cartoon sleepwalker Last Line: Even as shutting our bungalow doors %has made us obscure and identical MURDER MYSTERY First Line: Shortly the wisteria was bent Last Line: Over the snow shovelling his driveway. %he grabbed his heart and fell MUSE First Line: It drinks bad luck Last Line: I feel the tug of new violets. %streets are buttered with sun MY COUSIN First Line: Clouds arrayed in childhood's shimmer Last Line: Our broad smile falls from the top of a tree, %as everything falls NEW MORNINGS First Line: An alarm-clock era leaves us Last Line: To harden on my chin, %round and red as eve's apple NIGHTS First Line: My skull %is a crystal ball Last Line: Ached-for things %that grpple and hold NO POLITICAL STATEMENT First Line: Politics is the definition of being unhappy Last Line: Like babies sung asleep, like the dead %thumbed shut by a prayer OLD SCRIPTS First Line: I round the grapefruit rightly in its breakfast bowl Last Line: I wore baggy suit and tucked a press pass in my fedora. %I was sniffing the tracks of the big story OUR TRIBE First Line: Myself and on and on, glaring up Last Line: Up through a dead sea, all shell and bone, %the crustaceans of friendly phrases PIECE OF A ZOO First Line: A man in a mint-green shirt Last Line: Nothing recognizable, with %colorful feathers at odds with the bars POSTCARD First Line: You might see the bullet abolishing the throb in your head Last Line: From there it addresses its letter, %ofr sennds a postcard of its city RAIN First Line: Rain recalls other ruins Last Line: His ghost, smoking still. %you click your tongue to the patter on the window SCIENCE First Line: I float by wanting your hand Last Line: I see you again, I lose dimension, %I float by SELF-DISCOVERY First Line: You meet the culprit Last Line: Twin portraits %of the love you test SELF-PORTRAIT First Line: A train travels its alliteration of tracks Last Line: Movement, and I accelerate to this point: %a train stopping,almost vanishing in its own steam THIS First Line: In the telephone wire Last Line: Drugged smells, words throttle softly, %then there's no more noise TRANSCENDENTAL AMERICANA First Line: Phil said it was a gift Last Line: Toward each other, %trimmed to simple products and smiles TWENTY-THIRD STREET PIANO First Line: Ambulances are rattling %in off-key arias Last Line: Nocturned in a chair, %while night laces to its source WALKING IN SNOW First Line: Cold word-balloons %seep from chapped skin Last Line: And flowers in the folds of my sleeves %with my hands tucked in their burrows WARM WEATHER First Line: The crocuses breed again Last Line: Carpeting the bare grounds %as if it will never move Avery, Helen P. 1 poems available by this author VENUS OF RHODES First Line: Waves for centuries Last Line: Than of love's embrace Avery, Henry 1 poems available by this author OH! COME ALONG WID ME Avery, John W. 1 poems available by this author TWO WORKERS First Line: Two workers in one field! Avery, Keith 2 poems available by this author BRONE STOMPERS SAGE WISDOM First Line: When evesdropping dudes %I oft' hear it said Last Line: But no one will tell you %they don't use their head Subject(s): Cowboys KING OF THE WORLD First Line: The discussion proceeds %on just where one stands Last Line: While you're king of the cowboys %I'm king of the world Subject(s): Cowboys Avery, Laurence G. 4 poems available by this author CELEBRATION First Line: Weeks of sickrooms, then fresh air again Last Line: Like candles in holy places brightening the shade MULBERRIES First Line: Mother goose notwithstanding, the mulberries Last Line: At the graceful execution of a well imagined action POINT OF VIEW First Line: I remember the road down the valley, on one hand Last Line: On the crest some trees in the shape of a woman running by SWIMMING First Line: Triathlete physiques are fine-clothes Last Line: There is the feeling of being alive Avery, Patricia 3 poems available by this author ORIGINS First Line: I have given birth to children Last Line: Each day they eat hot stones %and kiss the ground they walk on POLAND First Line: Twenty grandmothers %turquoise as the virgin Last Line: If we do not move %we will live forever Subject(s): Poland WERE HENRY THOREAU TO LOVE EMILY BRONTE First Line: Emily, leave Avery, Reba Maxwell 2 poems available by this author ALL THIS Poem Text First Line: There was a feather of a wind Last Line: Has kept my faith safely in place. ONCE WITH DEATH NEAR Poem Text First Line: Once, with death near, I thought: what will it mean Last Line: Will live beyond the sleep that men call death. Subject(s): Death; Love; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Dead, The Avery, Sarah 2 poems available by this author METAMORPHIC First Line: No blood, and very little screaming Last Line: You might as well get them pure from the source SWEATER, DAUGHTER First Line: When I clacked it off the needles, finished Last Line: So that her stories would never outshrink her Avery, Selina B. 1 poems available by this author MIRAGE First Line: Soft moonlight sheeding mystery from above Burns, Avery 1 poems available by this author AETHERS, SELS First Line: Blue %vocable %tenting %mouth Last Line: A bold faced like %fricative %raptures Church, Avery Grenfell 15 poems available by this author AROUND THE CIRCLE First Line: Men and women toiling over seventy hours Last Line: The signs are already here CENTRIFUGAL WHEEL First Line: Around and around, faster and faster Last Line: Opportunities for personal growth %and collective transformation COMPLETING THE CIRCLE First Line: Writings by thomas malthus, david Last Line: Special interests, big money, concealed %voting records and empty words CONTRAS First Line: President reagan called them freedom FROM LOSS OF SELF First Line: Driven by desires for status and wealth FROM USSHER TOWARDS THE NEW VENUS First Line: Bishop ussher and 4004 b.C. HOW COULD HE HAVE KNOWN? First Line: Wind rustled leaves, %molded his face Last Line: He felt himself moving %towards a compelling light I SEARCHED FOR WINDOWS First Line: Melting wax, %the solitary flame grew dimmer Last Line: Singing with birds, %touching the soul of the universe IN THE DEPTHS First Line: Dawn in the mind Last Line: From the fragments %of our self structures IN THE LAND OF IZALCO First Line: With dazzling eyes, thunderous bursts IN TIMES OF PROXIMITY First Line: Thin, worried, with a child Last Line: Of her from time to time, %especially in times of proximity LIKE A BLACK HOLE First Line: Widening gaps depleted of ozone Last Line: Their consumer mania was like a black hole %from which they could not escape?' MUSIC OF ETRNITY First Line: In my childhood %I listened to your whispers Last Line: The rfuse of transitoriness %and the mustic of eterntiy ONLY PARTLY REVERSIBLE First Line: Living within spatial and temporal Last Line: For the transformation %is only partly reversible RELIGIONS First Line: From shadows of history, acted on by Last Line: But ever brighter and more uplifting, %inner lights Crawford, Pauline Avery 3 poems available by this author SHUT DOORS ALONG THE HALL LIKE SLEEPING EYES THERE IS NO SOUND SAVE THROUGH THE SWELTRY STREET TO ME WIDE-EYED THROUGHOUT THE ALIEN NIGHT Every, Gary 2 poems available by this author DOG GOD First Line: It has been raining steadily all summer Last Line: My relationship with god has been different ever since YORK THE MANDAN DANCER First Line: The white, white snow twirls and falls Last Line: A bear spirit, %and the high priest of the mandan buffalo dancers Faunce, Sarah Avery 1 poems available by this author THE TREE THAT INFLUENCED ME MOST Poem Text First Line: Let others sing in praise of men Last Line: Was mother's little birch. Subject(s): Trees Fierst, Max Avery 1 poems available by this author WIND AND THE RAIN First Line: The sprays of fir needles Last Line: Disagreeing with the pines Giles, Avery L. 5 poems available by this author ON LUST FOR GOLD Poem Text First Line: Steam shovel, crane your neck and stuff your craw! Last Line: Then back they run for more, scorning rebirth. Subject(s): Gold; Lust; Sonnet (as Literary Form) ONCE THAT NEVER WAS First Line: The once that never was may be Last Line: What is that roaring in the wood? Subject(s): Time OVERSIGHT Poem Text First Line: Years past, I trysted' neath the moon Last Line: My arteries would harden. Subject(s): Aging; Moon; Time PORTRAIT Poem Text First Line: Your sunny smile, so bright and gay Last Line: Reposing on your empty head! Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Portraits THE PASSING OF THE EMPEROR Poem Text First Line: The children romped in the village street Last Line: On the road to waterloo. Subject(s): Children; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Waterloo; Childhood; Battle Of Waterloo Landram, Devery C. 2 poems available by this author BEAUTIFUL THE BLACK First Line: I've known from all the folklore I've learned Last Line: Shared pieces of you %- black the beautiful Subject(s): African Americans USED First Line: I swear this town has been used Last Line: The town faintly swore %'I swear this town's been used' Subject(s): Towns Lomax, John Avery Poet's Biography 3 poems available by this author COWBOY'S LIFE First Line: The bawl of a steer Last Line: Is a royal life, %his saddle his kingly throne Variant Title(s): The Cowbo THE OLD MACKENZIE TRAIL Poem Text First Line: See, stretching yonder o'er that low divide Last Line: Went rangeing o'er the old mackenzie trail. Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life; Roads; West (u.s.); Paths; Trails; Southwest; Pacific States THEY HELD THE WOOD First Line: Here - in a garden overgrown Parrish, Howard Avery 1 poems available by this author FIDELITY Poem Text First Line: Oh, I have softer songs to sing Last Line: To all the gods but laughter. Rotherburger, Leila Avery 1 poems available by this author THREE CROSSES STOOD ON CALVARY Last Line: Who laughs at pain and want? %can it be you - or I? Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice Savery, Pancho 11 poems available by this author 1969 First Line: The still %uncut pocket Last Line: Of my hong kong suit ANYTHING First Line: Anything can be an occasion Last Line: That grow best %on the speaker %their roots %soaked %in ming us GOING TO THE HOOP IN CHINATOWN First Line: Around the corner HOSPITAL First Line: Look at all %thist t.V.'s Last Line: Hanging %from the ceiling JOYS OF FATHERHOOD (VII) First Line: You hoave %a glass of wine Last Line: Cayse you feel like %you've been up %all day NEW ENGLAND First Line: White %shuttered faces Last Line: And a stubble %of beard RACISM IN BOSTON First Line: It's the small thing RECONSTRUCTING HARVARD SQUARE First Line: You want it %to be Last Line: Like everything %as it %once was %tomorrow SHADOW First Line: Steps %on the stairs Last Line: Will they knock THELONIOUS First Line: Going %back %earlier Last Line: To a place %after %it was WOMAN AND DEATH #23 (1910) First Line: Hollow-eyed %broken-toothed Severianin, Igor Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Severyanin, Igor 13 poems available by this author A RUSSIAN SONG (1) Poem Text First Line: Lace and roses in the forest morning shine Last Line: Stir the morning in her, hear its pulses start. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians AND IT PASSED BY THE SEA-SHORE; POEZA MIGNONETTE Poem Text First Line: And it passed by the sea-shore, where the foam-laces flower Last Line: Where sonatas are singing and where foam frets the wave. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Literature; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians EPILOGUE First Line: I, the genius severyanin Last Line: Snake, fan the eagle in reply IN THE PARK A LITTLE GIRL WAS CRYING: LOOK PAPA LILAC ICE CREAM First Line: Lilac ice cream! Lilac ice cream! Last Line: You'll love it, young friend, just you try MINOR ELEGY First Line: She rose upon her toes Last Line: Like everything that happens outside dreams PROLOGUE First Line: Mirra lokhvitskaia's ashes are now entombed Last Line: And decaying novelty RUSSIAN SONG (2) First Line: On the forest laces morning's pink is shed RUSSIAN WOMAN First Line: The forests grow pink and lacy in the dawn Last Line: And stir her into life some way SAME OLD WAY First Line: Everything's the same old way, she said tenderly Last Line: The same old way SPRING APPLE TREE First Line: An apple tree can grieve my spirit so SPRING APPLE TREE; AQUARELLE Poem Text First Line: An apple-tree in spring shakes me,-to see it grow Last Line: And I lift up my lips to kiss her flowering face. Subject(s): Apple Trees; Flowers; Fruit; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Spring; Trees SPRING DAY First Line: This day of spring is hot and gold Last Line: On such a blessed day Severy, Bruce 5 poems available by this author DESERTED FARM POEMS First Line: Alone hunting %on the hill behind FIRST AND LAST First Line: As the first congress OPENING DAY First Line: I hear ghosts of grouse POEMS First Line: My poems %are the sounds STRUGGLE FOR THE ROADS First Line: Prairie grass: %new sprouts Van Every, Margaret 1 poems available by this author BRIDGE First Line: When I offered to throw %myself off the bridge Last Line: You didn't know I could fly Very, Jones Poet's Biography 73 poems available by this author ARK First Line: There is no change of time and place with thee AUTUMN FLOWERS Poem Text First Line: Still blooming on, when summer flowers all fade Last Line: And to its close life's pilgrimage beguile. Subject(s): Flowers AUTUMN LEAVES Poem Text First Line: The leaves though thick are falling; one by one Last Line: The unseen hues of immortality. Subject(s): Leaves BARBERRY BUSH First Line: The bush that has most berries and bitter fruit BRANCH First Line: Thou bid'st me change with every changing hour Subject(s): Consolation CALL First Line: Why art thou not awake, my son? CLOUDED MORNING First Line: The morning comes, and thickening clouds prevail Last Line: As when we grope amid the gloom of night COLUMBINE First Line: Still, still my eye will gaze long fixed on thee Last Line: My weary eyes shall close like folding flowers in sleep DAY First Line: Day! I lament that none can hymn thy praise DAY OF DENIAL First Line: Are there not twelve whole hours in every day Last Line: How dark his darkness, who till latest eve %still slumbers on, nor then his couch will leave! ENOCH Poem Text First Line: I looked to find a man who walked with god Last Line: The only temple he delights to fill. FAIR MORNING First Line: The clear bright morning, with its scented air Last Line: Making the woods reecho with his song FIRST ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH First Line: With outward signs, as well as inward life Last Line: His providential purpose to fulfill Subject(s): Americans; United States HATH THE RAIN A FATHER? First Line: We say, 'it rains.' an unbelieving age! Last Line: And sendeth showers upon the springing grain Subject(s): Bible; Religion HEALTH OF BODY DEPENDENT ON SOUL First Line: Not from the earth or skies Subject(s): Religion HOME AND HEAVEN First Line: With the same letter heaven and home begin HYMN First Line: O god! Who dost the nations lead Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States I WAS SICK AND IN PRISON First Line: Thou hast not left the rough-barked tree to grow Last Line: And one by one new-born shall join the strain, %till earth restores her sons to heaven again IN HIM WE LIVE, & MOVE, & HAVE OUR BEING' First Line: Father! I bless thy name that I do live INDIAN'S RETORT, SELS. First Line: The white man's soul, it thirsts for gain Last Line: The white man steals, his is the name! Subject(s): Native Americans; Social Protest JOHN First Line: What went ye out to see? A shaken reed? Last Line: Repent! And see, while yet its light is given Subject(s): Bible; Religion LABOR AND REST First Line: Thou need'st not rest: the shining spheres are thine LIFE Poem Text First Line: It is not life upon thy gifts to live Last Line: The more to us doth of his bounty send. Subject(s): Religion; Worship; Theology LIGHT FROM WITHIN First Line: I saw on earth another light Subject(s): Religion MORNING First Line: The light will never open sightless eyes Last Line: To those who find on earth their place to stay MY MOTHER'S VOICE MY PEOPLE ARE DESTROYED FOR LACK OF KNOWLEDGE First Line: For lack of knowledge do my people die! Last Line: War wastes our fields and doth the people slay! Subject(s): Bible; Religion NATURE Poem Text First Line: The bubbling brook doth leap when I come by Last Line: Hear from his father's lips that all is good. Subject(s): Nature OCTOBER First Line: The frost is out, and in the open fields Last Line: Has sent before this herald of decay %to bid me heed before the approach of winter's sterner day Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons PRESENCE First Line: I sit within my room, and joy to find Last Line: Whene'er I turn, art ever with me there Subject(s): Transcendentalism ROBIN First Line: Thou need'st not flutter from thy half-built nest Last Line: And the light wings of heart-ascending prayer %had learned that heaven is pleased thy simple joys to Subject(s): Robins SABBATIA First Line: The sweet-briar rose has not a form more fair SILENT First Line: There is a sighing in the wood Subject(s): Transcendentalism SOLDIER First Line: He was not armed like those of eastern clime SON First Line: Father, I wait thy word. The sun doth stand Subject(s): Transcendentalism SPIRIT First Line: I would not breathe, when blows thy mighty wind SUMACH LEAVES First Line: Some autumn leaves a painter took Last Line: Where, waving over hill and vale, %they gave its splendor to our fall THE COMING OF THE LORD Poem Text First Line: Come suddenly, o lord, or slowly come Last Line: Thou wilt to us thy word of promise keep. Variant Title(s): Take Ye Heed, Watch And Pray Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology THE COTTAGE Poem Text First Line: The house my earthly parent left Last Line: And called their friend, my father, god. THE CREATED Poem Text First Line: There is nought for thee by thy haste to gain Last Line: He saw thee lord of all his creatures stand. THE CUP Poem Text First Line: The bitterness of death is on me now Last Line: Lead on to joy eternal in the heaven. THE DEAD Poem Text First Line: I see them, crowd on crowd they walk the earth Last Line: Than those that to the earth with many tears they give. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE EARTH Poem Text First Line: I would lie low, the ground on which men tread Last Line: And from my bosom find a surer rest. THE EYE AND EAR Poem Text First Line: Thou readest, but each lettered word can give Last Line: Itself by all things seen and owned as his. THE GARDEN Poem Text First Line: I saw the spot where our first parents dwelt Last Line: No more for sin's dark stain the debt of death to pay. THE GIFTS OF GOD Poem Text First Line: The light that fills thy house at morn Last Line: What none can ever buy for gold. THE GRAVE-YARD Poem Text First Line: My heart grows sick before the wide-spread death Last Line: For in the body's health the soul's forgot. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards THE HAND AND FOOT Poem Text First Line: The hand and foot that stir not, they shall find Last Line: Bids spheres and atoms in just order move. THE IDLER Poem Text First Line: I idle stand, that I may find employ Last Line: Hang idly down still waiting thy commands. Subject(s): Idleness; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence THE LAMENT OF THE FLOWERS Poem Text First Line: I looked to find spring's early flowers Last Line: "to glad the heart, and save from harm." Subject(s): Flowers THE LATTER RAIN Poem Text First Line: The latter rain, it falls in anxious haste Last Line: Declare to man it was not sent in vain. Subject(s): Nature; Rain THE LOST Poem Text First Line: The fairest day that ever yet has shone Last Line: That now to them dost all thy substance give. THE MORNING WATCH Poem Text First Line: Tis near the morning watch, the dim lamp burns Last Line: Till he the day's bright gates forever on them close! THE NEW BIRTH Poem Text First Line: Tis a new life; - thoughts move not as they did Last Line: Start from death's slumbers to eternity. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection THE NEW MAN Poem Text First Line: The hands must touch and handle many things Last Line: And bid them seek the morn the hills and fields once more. THE NEW WORLD Poem Text First Line: The night that has no star lit up by god Last Line: Their strong foundations laid by god's right hand. THE OLD ROAD Poem Text First Line: The road is left that once was trod Last Line: "but he shall walk with me, his god." THE ORIGIN OF MAN, I Poem Text First Line: Man has forgot his origin; in vain Last Line: The wondrous truths, which now they but conceal. THE PRAYER Poem Text First Line: Wilt thou not visit me? Last Line: My spirit loves with thine in peace to dwell. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE SONG Poem Text First Line: When I would sing of crooked streams and fields Last Line: By hill and grove, by field and stream delayed. Subject(s): Country Life THE SPIRIT LAND Poem Text First Line: Father! Thy wonders do not singly stand Last Line: That ne'er returns us to the fields of light Variant Title(s): The Present Heaven Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise THE STRANGERS Poem Text First Line: Each care-worn face is but a look Last Line: Who in each act that act have done. THE TREE Poem Text First Line: I love thee when thy swelling buds appear Last Line: On stars that brighter beam, when most we need their love. Subject(s): Nature; Spring; Trees THE WILD ROSE OF PLYMOUTH Poem Text First Line: Upon the plymouth shore the wild rose blooms Last Line: Of love and beauty ever to remain. Subject(s): Flowers; Plymouth, Massachusetts; Roses THY BROTHER'S BLOOD Poem Text First Line: I have no brother. They who meet me now Last Line: Shall not be seen upon thy hand again. TO THE HUMMING-BIRD First Line: I cannot heal thy green gold breast TO THE PAINTED COLUMBINE First Line: Bright image of the early years Subject(s): Columbines; Plants TREES OF LIFE First Line: For those who worship thee there is no death Last Line: And as more high and wide their branches grow %they look more fair within the depths below VIOLET First Line: Thou tellest truths unspoken yet by man Subject(s): Transcendentalism WAR First Line: I saw a war, yet none the trumpets blew WINDFLOWER First Line: Thou lookest up with meek, confiding eye Last Line: O'erjoyed that in thy early leaves I find %a lesson taught by him who loved all humanity Subject(s): Flowers WORLD First Line: Tis all a great show YOURSELF Poem Text First Line: Tis to yourself I speak; you cannot know Last Line: Must both remain as strangers still to you. Ward, Lydia Avery Coonley 6 poems available by this author BABY CORN First Line: A happy mother stalk of corn CHRISTMAS SONG Poem Text First Line: Why do bells for christmas ring? Last Line: So the little children sing. Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Carols; Nativity, The FLAG SONG Poem Text First Line: Out on the breeze Last Line: Hearts will forever be singing. Variant Title(s): A Song For Flag Day Subject(s): Flags - United States; American Flag HEREDITY First Line: Why bowest thou, o soul of mine Subject(s): Faith OUR FLAG First Line: There are many flags in many lands TODAY First Line: Why fear to-morrow, timid heart? Subject(s): Religion |
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