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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ADOLESCENCE Matches Found: 64 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A YOUNG BOY; THE DECISION, by JESSICA NELSON NORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let him alone, and when he is one year older Last Line: We will send him away. Alternate Author Name(s): Macdonald, Reed I., Mrs. Subject(s): Adolescence; Teen Agers ADOLESCENCE, by MAVIS CLARE BARNETT Poem Text First Line: She'd thought about his eyes but had not known Last Line: Troubled by this sensation she called hate. Subject(s): Adolescence; Teen Agers ADOLESCENCE, by BYRON CHEW Poem Text First Line: You ask me Last Line: And subdue the shore! Subject(s): Adolescence; Teen Agers ADOLESCENCE, by JEAN STEPHEN JOHNSTON Poem Text First Line: Once he was mine, but now I find a door Last Line: They may be more enduring than it seems. Subject(s): Adolescence; Teen Agers 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 ADOLESCENCE, by MABEL WARD MCQUAID Poem Text First Line: Wistful, cruel, tender, gruff Last Line: Such a puzzling thing is life! Subject(s): Adolescence; Teen Agers ADOLESCENCE, by MAY WILLIAMS WARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I don't know what I want, but I want something Last Line: I'll try a good big beefsteak, chicken-fried! Subject(s): Adolescence; Teen Agers ADOLESCENCE: 3, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With dad gone, mom and I worked Subject(s): Adolescence; Baby Boom Generation; Women; Teen Agers ADOLESCENT, by VIOLET ALLEYN STOREY Poem Text First Line: Half-man, half child, his whole limp body nods Last Line: The gods themselves as adam leapt to eve! Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Adolescence; Bible; Puberty; Teen Agers APRIL, by BERNICE SWANSON Poem Text First Line: Adolescent april Last Line: Once I shared your tears. Subject(s): Adolescence; Teen Agers BABYSITTER, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The baby was about six months old Last Line: Upside-down, just under the ceiling of the world Subject(s): Adolescence; Babies BECOMING ONE OF THE GUYS, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: When he said my thigh was nothing like his girlfriend's Last Line: Dave, wake up, your best head on back to the hut' Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Adolescence; Boys; Mothers And Sons; New Mexico BREAKING AND ENTERING, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: She kept a stash of forbidden matches Last Line: That strikes on love, that can get past all human walls Subject(s): Adolescence; Love Affairs; Mothers And Daughters; Relationships; Women BROTHER AND SISTER, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot choose but think upon the time Last Line: I would be born a little sister there. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Variant Title(s): "i Cannot Choose But Think Upon The Time""; Subject(s): Adolescence; Brothers & Sisters; Evans, Isaac; Family Life; Maturity; Memory; Teen Agers; Relatives CERTAIN AGE, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All of a sudden bicycles are toys Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Adolescence CHERRYLOG ROAD, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Off highway 106 Subject(s): Adolescence; Junk & Junkyards; Love; Teen Agers CHERRYLOG ROAD, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Off highway 106 Last Line: Wringing the handlebar for speed, %wild to be wreckage forever Subject(s): Adolescence; Junk And Junkyards; Love 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 COVERT LOVER OR HOW MY NA'ASHSHOOD DAYS ENDED, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: He was leading me behind the abandoned school buildings Last Line: Somewhere in the mountains the wind was singing Subject(s): Adolescence; Hearts; Love; Native Americans - Women CRUISING WITH THE BEACH BOYS, by DANA GIOIA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So strange to hear that song again tonight Last Line: Bringing on tears shed only for myself Variant Title(s): Cruising With The Beachboy Subject(s): Adolescence; Music, Rock DANCING BOOTS, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: The screen door slams against the concrete wall of the house as I run out the Last Line: To the sideline, my brother and I Subject(s): Adolescence; Dancing And Dancers; Family Life; Teenagers DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A ROOSTER AND A WHORE, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Those adolescent jokes blown from mouth Last Line: Though I held him in my arms Subject(s): Adolescence; Boys EHEU FUGACES, by P. M. G. Poem Text First Line: When I was five-and-twenty Last Line: To the sweet of seventeen! Subject(s): Adolescence; Teen Agers 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 INDICTMENT, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: All I want to know is whatever happened to experimenting with drugs sex Last Line: Ourselves let's stop this and start over let's go out let's keep going Subject(s): Adolescence; Life JUNIOR LIFESAVING, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was a high school math teacher, during the winter Last Line: Geometry and algebra, 4th period, he was mr. Bliss Subject(s): Adolescence; Lifeguards MAGIC DIVAN, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: In my bohemian days, when I was in the circus, I would hang out with the decap- Last Line: Exploited there in the circus Subject(s): Adolescence; Memory ME & RIVER PHOENIX, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: When me & river %go down to the mall Last Line: Then I rise up in his name %& keep rolling on Subject(s): Adolescence; Relationships MENNEN SKIN BRACER, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: Having a boyfriend meant holding hands at the movies Last Line: Of my first dance at the indian school gym Subject(s): Adolescence; Hearts; Love - Beginnings; Man-woman Relationships; Native Americans - Women MONOLOGUE OF TWO MOONS, NUDES WITH CRESTS: 1938, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Once, lily and I fell from a ladder Last Line: Twigs, leaves, and an infinite black string. Subject(s): Accidents; Adolescence; Desire; Gays & Lesbians; Teen Agers; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men MY EYES ARE YOUNG, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Soft spake I to age at his dusk of day Last Line: When my youth with years had flown. Subject(s): Adolescence; Eyes; Teen Agers NEW WAVE, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He listens to a punk rock group Last Line: Due to the effects of listening to agent orange. Subject(s): Adolescence; Music & Musicians; Parents; Teen Agers; Parenthood NOT KNOWING, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: By then, by the time my brother Last Line: Every live and dead tree Subject(s): Adolescence; Family Life OCEAN ALGAE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: When adolescents %slough off %love Subject(s): Adolescence; Love; Sea Voyages ONE GIRL AT THE BOYS PARTY, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I take my girl to the swimming party Last Line: Sparkle and fall to the power of a thousand from her body Subject(s): Adolescence ONE NIGHT MARLYCE JACOBSEN EXPRESSED HERSELF, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: Was the eve of her enlistment in the u.S. Army %out at the holy rosary church Last Line: Glow from the golden moon above it in the west Subject(s): Adolescence; Boys; Country Life; Prairies; Women POEM OUT OF CHILDHOOD, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Breathe in experience, breathe out poetry Last Line: Ricochetting from thought to thought among %the childhood, the gestures, the rigid travellers Subject(s): Adolescence; Children; World War I PORTRAIT OF A GIRL WITH COMIC BOOK, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thirteen's no age at all. Thirteen's nothing Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Adolescence; Teen Agers PORTRAIT OF A GIRL WITH COMIC BOOK, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thirteen's no age at all. Thirteen's nothing Last Line: Nor, quitted once, can it be quite recalled - %not even with pity Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Adolescence PRAYER FOR AN ADOLESCENT, by MONA MOORE Poem Text First Line: God - he is at crisis! Last Line: The pulse of the universe is taking form. Subject(s): Adolescence; Teen Agers PURPOSE OF ALTAR BOYS, by ALBERTO ALVARO RIOS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tonio told me at catechism Last Line: With authority down %the tops of white dresses Subject(s): Adolescence; Altar Boys; Towns RESCUE, by MARIE HARRIS Poem Source First Line: It's almost september. Manny's still eating at soup kitchens Last Line: Smoking a cigarette. His sadness is such that he can hardly speak on the drive home Subject(s): Adolescence; Schools RIDE, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: Slow slow quick quick slow-ride Last Line: The dead man never knows he's dead Subject(s): Adolescence; Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Bars And Bartenders; Life RITE OF PASSAGE, by MARIE HARRIS Poem Source First Line: I can't go home anymore Last Line: There's this place, marie. A church, you just go there and they give you %dinner (and your parents p Subject(s): Adolescence ROMANTIC AGE, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This one is entering her teens Last Line: Remind her how that one turned out Subject(s): Adolescence SACRED, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After the teacher asked if anyone had Last Line: And putting it in, and going Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Adolescence; Education; Schools SEVENTEEN YEARS, by JAN HARDY Poem Source First Line: I never thought I'd find a soul-mate, partner, spouse Last Line: Of waves crashing and breaking against the shore Subject(s): Adolescence; Teenagers SOMETIMES THOSE PUEBLO MEN CAN SURE BE COYOTES, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source Last Line: That was the time a pueblo coyote %chauffeured us in the 'g-car' Subject(s): Adolescence; Native Americans; Native Americans - Children; Navajo Indians SOPHIE'S BREASTS, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: Were important to us seventh grade boys Last Line: Perhaps, then, I'd believe and be satisfied Subject(s): Adolescence; Boys; Country Life; Dreams; Women SOUTHERN ADOLESCENCE RECOGNIZED, by GEORDIE BUXTON Poem Source First Line: In this pale crescent moon, I see the angels cross over Last Line: Momentarily over an incoming flood tide Subject(s): Adolescence; Charleston, South Carolina; Home SPORTS, by MARIE HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Manny loves the gear. The cleats and shin pads, the balls and bats, clubs Last Line: Rink music, weaving through the fabric of slower couples like a tailor's %needle. There's a pretty g Subject(s): Activity; Adolescence; Boys; Skiing; Sports STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: We're deep into the seventh hour, the car Subject(s): Adolescence; Automobile Accidents; Death; Heaven; Travel; Women; Teen Agers; Dead, The; Paradise; Journeys; Trips STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We're deep into the seventh hour, the car Last Line: The siskiyou mountains divide up ahead, %waiting to swallow us whole Subject(s): Adolescence; Automobile Accidents; Death; Heaven; Travel; Women SWEET SIXTEEN, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have you seen a winsome girlie with eyes of limpid blue Last Line: Is graven everywhere. Subject(s): Adolescence; Girls; Teenagers; Teen Agers TARKINGTON, THOU SHOULD'ST BE LIVING IN THIS HOUR, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O adolescence, o adolescence Last Line: Still, I'd like to be present, I must confess, %when thine own adolescents adolesce Subject(s): Adolescence; Tarkington, Booth (1869-1946) THE BABYSITTER, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The baby was about six months old Subject(s): Adolescence; Babies; Teen Agers; Infants 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 ONE GIRL AT THE BOYS PARTY, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I take my girl to the swimming party Subject(s): Adolescence; Teen Agers THE WINDOW, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: On allgood road two miles off georgia 41, you round a curve Last Line: Waiting in that room, patient and promiscuous. Subject(s): Adolescence; Georgia (state); Promiscuity; Teen Agers THIRTEEN, by SUSAN GRIMM Poem Source First Line: No fireflies. It's not dusk Last Line: Cup and a place at the table Subject(s): Adolescence VISITING CABBAGE EARS, A LETTER FROM THE INDIAN SCHOOL 3, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: Mae jean showed me how to fake being sick. After the buses leave, you tell Last Line: Rest and an envelope full of little white pills which we threw away as soon as %we got back Subject(s): Adolescence; Native Americans - Women; Schools; Sickness WARBLER AT HOWELL'S DRIVE-IN, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: You might come here now Last Line: Or gone into briars, pine needles, air? Subject(s): Adolescence; Aging; Decay; Motion Pictures; Teen Agers; Rot; Decadence; Movies; Cinema 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: A SONG OF ADOLESCENCE, by MARY ABIGAIL WHITE Poem Text First Line: Why do I want to run away Last Line: Of wind swept hills and desert trails? Subject(s): Adolescence; Teen Agers |
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