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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: BOYS Matches Found: 251 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD OF THE CHAMPIONS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Dear little willie takes the ball Last Line: The boys are laying bogie low! Subject(s): Boys;games; Recreation;pastimes;amusements A BIRD-EYE'S VIEW, by MENELLA BUTE SMEDLEY Poem Text First Line: Quoth the boy 'I'll climb that tree' Last Line: Boys were ever made at all.' Subject(s): Boys A BOY, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the noise of tired people working, Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Boys; Beauty; War; God A BOY AT CHRISTMAS, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I could have my wish to-night it would not be for wealth or fame Last Line: Than that of him who is a boy, a little boy on christmas day. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Boys; Christmas; Nativity, The A BOY'S LIKES & DISLIKES, by ELSIE DAY CRUTHIRDS Poem Text First Line: These are the things a boy likes best Subject(s): Boys A BOY'S REMONSTRANCE, by CHARLES PERRY (19TH CENTURY-) Poem Text First Line: I am feeling very badly; everything is going to crash Last Line: And request that in the future these rights be let alone. Subject(s): Boys A BOY'S SONG, by JAMES HOGG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where the pools are bright and deep Last Line: That 's the way for billy and me. Alternate Author Name(s): The Ettrick Shepherd; The Bard Of Ettrick Variant Title(s): Over The Lea;the Way For Billy And Me Subject(s): Boys; Friendship A BOY'S SUPERIORITY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The waves flow in, the waves flow out Last Line: It's beaten by a boy! Subject(s): Boys A BOY'S TENT, by MALLEVILLE HALLER Poem Text First Line: Slowly and steadily, yellow, red, brown Last Line: Given safe summer shelter to a little bronzed lad? Subject(s): Boys; Tents A BOY'S TRIBUTE, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Prettiest girl I've ever seen Last Line: Is ma. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Boys; Mothers A CATCH, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Along comes love / in the semblance of a boy Last Line: And grief turned joy! Subject(s): Beauty; Bells; Boys; Heaven; Love; Singing & Singers; Paradise; Songs A COWBOY'S SON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "whar y'u from, little stranger, little boy?" Subject(s): Boys;cowboys;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States A FABLE, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said a little boy to a honey bee Last Line: Said the honey bee to the little boy. Subject(s): Bees; Boys; Fables; Insects; Play; Beekeeping; Allegories; Bugs A LITTLE LAME BOY'S VIEWS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On 'scursion-days - an' shows - an' Last Line: They ain't no bad folks anywheres! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Boys; Carnivals; Country Life; Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples A MAN'S HEART: THE EARL AND THE GIRL, by CHARLES MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Westwood, sitting sadly by himself Last Line: And issued bulletins from day to day. Subject(s): Betrayal; Boys; Youth A PROBLEM IN PHYSIOLOGY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So very tall is that young rascal, ned Last Line: As if the lad were anything but tall! Subject(s): Boys; Size And Shape A PROTEST, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think it's queer that boys should be Last Line: "yes, dearsome timenow run to bed!" Subject(s): Boys; Children; Contrariness; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood A REAL BOY, by WILBUR DICK NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a joy that is a joy Last Line: In a boy that is a boy! Subject(s): Boys; Children; Games; Happiness; Play; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Joy; Delight A VERY TALL BOY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some credulous chroniclers tell us Last Line: "he'll have to be trained up a trellis." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Boys; Size And Shape A WEEK IN A BOY'S LIFE, by JACQUES BOE Poem Text First Line: Chill was our sky: the swallows all had fled Last Line: Beside his darling's grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Jasmin, Jacques Subject(s): Abel; Boys; Death; Fathers & Sons; God; Prayer; Dead, The AGE MOVES, by LIAM RECTOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Age moves in the hound Subject(s): Boys; Dogs ALONG WITH WHATEVER HAS NOT YET BEEN NAMED, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take if you will this improbable boy Subject(s): Boys ALTAR BOY, by MARY IMMACULATA Poem Source First Line: The line of aaron has not yet been run Subject(s): Altar Boys AMERICAN BOYHOOD, by JONATHAN HOLDEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There was little important %to do but chew gum, or count Last Line: Flipping our kinives in the dust, %waiting to find out just how %in this world we were going %to be Subject(s): Boys; Poetry And Poets AMERICAN MANHOOD, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the dull ache that is midnight for a boy Subject(s): Teenagers; Boys; Night; Coming Of Age; Bedtime ANOTHER PLUM CAKE, by ANN TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! I've got a plum cake, and a feast let us make Last Line: That a good boy will make a good man. Subject(s): Boys; Sharing AS A BOY WHEN DESPERATE I'D PRAY WITH BARE KNEES, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But from the window I look like an old man Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Boys; Men; Nature; Old Age; Prayer; Youth AS SOON AS FRED GETS OUT OF BED, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Boys AT 7, by W. B. THOMPSON Poem Source First Line: The boy making an angel Last Line: The snow smears across the grass. %the redbird sings tyoo! Tyoo! Subject(s): Birds; Boys; Snow BABY'S PANTOUM, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lie in my crib midday this is Last Line: Mamma's sweeping or else boiling water for tea. Subject(s): Babies; Boys; Literary Form; Milk; Mothers; Infants; Milkmen; Milkmaids 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 BOY IN A TREE, by EDWARD MCCRORIE Poem Source First Line: Leopard cub on his tee-shirt. Hyenas Last Line: The northwest wind. It won't be a long %wait for a good scare Subject(s): Boys; Imagination BOY LEADING A HORSE, by MARTIN MOONEY Poem Source First Line: I am fourteen years old, not a hair Last Line: His side, his thighs, his chest. %feed him apples Subject(s): Animals; Boys; Horses BOY RUNNING, by SARAH LITSEY Poem Text First Line: You cleave the frail, immediate air Last Line: You fling your body free -- and run! Subject(s): Boys BOY TRAVELLER IN SNOW, by KATHLEEN NICASTRO Poem Source First Line: A long path under the rose sky Last Line: The sifting snows of reason Subject(s): Boys; Snow; Travel; Winter BOY WE WANT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A boy that is truthful and honest Subject(s): Boys BOY WITH LACROSSE STICK, by DEBORAH WARREN Poem Source First Line: He's tall for twelve he leans his right arm bent Last Line: That the old verse I well could understand %that says the child is father to the man Subject(s): Bible; Boys; Lacrosse; Shepherds And Shepherdesses BOY'S A DOUBLE-JOINTED ALPHABET, by SANDRA STONE Poem Source First Line: Every time I see a boy trudging with his dog Last Line: To the mother of a man-grown boy Subject(s): Boys BOY'S RIGHTS, by CARRIE L. MAY Poem Text First Line: I wonder now if any one Last Line: Wrongs will be righted then. Subject(s): Boys; Children; Equality; Prejudice; Childhood; Bias; Intolerance BOY'S SLEEP, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day a boy plunges his hands into his pockets Last Line: While I'm not paying attention. Subject(s): Boys; Rest; Sleep BOY'S SONG, by ZAHID DAR Poem Source First Line: We set out looking for light Last Line: O girls, you tell us that! Subject(s): Boys; Muslims BOYISH, by RALPH BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I knocked three teeth down Last Line: My plunder, though I never %was there, or anywhere Subject(s): Boys BOYS, by VIRGIL CHABRE Poem Source First Line: We were the boys of the summer of '67 Subject(s): Boys BOYS, by KEVIN MCCAUGHEY Poem Source First Line: They are playing in the sourgrass lot Last Line: Shrivels into asphalt, and some stranger %wearing a cap comes out of nowhere %and shoots them down Subject(s): Boys BOYS, by STAN PROPER Poem Source First Line: Seven year olds enter Subject(s): Boys BOYS, by KEVIN PRUFER Poem Source First Line: Two mottle-shouldered old ladies in cutoffs, legs dangling Last Line: The beautiful boys who drift, one after the other, past Subject(s): Boys BOYS, by TIM ROBBINS Poem Source First Line: You wanna see my books? Subject(s): Boys BOYS, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The proper study of mankind is man' Last Line: No longer poet, hero, now, nor sage! Subject(s): Boys BOYS AND GIRLS, by FLORENCE WILKINSON EVANS Poem Text First Line: I'm awful glad I'm not a girl Last Line: "to be a girl." Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkinson, Florence Subject(s): Boys; Children; Girls; Quarrels; Childhood; Arguments; Disagreements BOYS BATHING, by F. H. KENDON Poem Text First Line: They laugh! They leap! The clear Last Line: Of naked bathing boys! Subject(s): Boys; Swimming & Swimmers BOYS BUILDING MODEL BOATS, by RICHARD MORRIS DEY Poem Source First Line: The shavings fall away like leaves Last Line: All fathers and sons in the family tree Subject(s): Boats; Boys; Fathers BOYS WILL BE BOYS, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Boys will be boys,' and boys have had their day Last Line: In love and truth. Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Boys; Women's Rights; Feminism BOYS, THE BROOM HANDLE, AND THE RETARDED GIRL, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who was asking for it - Last Line: That flag they've hung there, though we'd all avoid %touching the girl Subject(s): Boys; Fights; Girls BUILDIN' FIRES, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To build a fire is better fun Last Line: Do all the pokin' there's to do. Subject(s): Boys; Fire BULKHEAD BOYS, by BERNICE FRIESEN Poem Source First Line: Yvonne Last Line: Are marking the walls %with icing Subject(s): Boys CHILDREN: THE BOY-CHILD, by MARY AINGE DE VERE Poem Text First Line: Show him the bird in its daring flight Last Line: Oh, pray for the boy-child mother, pray! Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Madeline Subject(s): Boys; Children; Mothers; Teaching & Teachers; Childhood; Educators; Professors CHOOSING A PROFESSION, by MARY LAMB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A creole boy from the west indies brought Last Line: Were dancing in the street the first of may. Subject(s): Boys; Careers; West Indies; Caribbean Islands COMMUNITY, by MARIE HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Almost no one in town calls this place a commune anymore, except Last Line: Older, manny plays catch with him almost every day. Then ben grows up, too Subject(s): Adoption; Boys; Friendship; Orphans; Stepmothers CONSOLING BILLY, by EVA STEEL Poem Text First Line: There now, billy, stop your crying Last Line: You'll forget him after a while. Subject(s): Boys; Children; Consolation; Grief; Pain; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery CONTRAST, by WILDA LEE CUMMINGS Poem Text First Line: He was a man of greatness and glory Last Line: That was washington, too. Subject(s): Boys; Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799) COUGHS, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They say little boys Last Line: Where it's safer to let it go off. Subject(s): Boys; Children; Worry; Childhood COZY APOLOGIA; FOR FRED, by RITA DOVE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could pick anything and think of you- Last Line: I fill this stolen time with you Subject(s): Boys; Hearts; Love - Beginnings; Youth CRY OF A LONELY HEART, by E. PEARL DANCEY Poem Text First Line: I want a boy, a small boy Last Line: I want a boy . . . Who needs me as I need him. Subject(s): Boys DARK DANNY, by IVY ETHEL OLIVE EASTWICK Poem Source First Line: Dark danny has eyes Last Line: Dark danny knows all %these lovely things Subject(s): Boys; Forests DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY: TRIPTYCH, by DICK ALLEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The lake beyond the two boys playing basketball Last Line: November day, then night.... Two boys playing ball Subject(s): Basketball; Boys; Memory; Sports DEFICIT, by DENNIS SCHMITZ Poem Source First Line: The boy's pencil corners the eight-point buck Last Line: First the pencil, then his pawprints %blackening the page Subject(s): Boys; Children; Parents DICKEY, by MRS. WILBUR BELL Poem Text First Line: I hear the sound of pattering feet Last Line: Without this boy across the street. Subject(s): Boys; Neighbors 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 DIRTY JIM, by JANE TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was one little jim Last Line: Although they are ever so poor. Subject(s): Boys; Cleanliness DISPROVED, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: People tell me I must do Last Line: Keeps on growing through his hair. Subject(s): Baldness; Boys; Fathers; Growth DOMINGO LIMON, by ALBERTO ALVARO RIOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In high school I had a friend Last Line: I still see it, mingo. Subject(s): Boys; Friendship; Heroism; Heroes; Heroines DRIFTING, by LUCIEN STRYK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Riding by raspberry groves Last Line: Their games with children's eyes Subject(s): Boys ELMER BROWN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Awf'lest boy in this-here town Last Line: "here's the way you look!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Boys; Family Life; Towns; Relatives ENVY, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are lizards in the pool Last Line: Cause they're not a little boy. Subject(s): Boys; Envy EPILOGUE; IN MEMORIAM, CHARLES TOPPIN, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Four decades back, obedient to the best Last Line: In love, as added lustre to your fair renown. Subject(s): Boys; Gratitude; Youth EXTREMES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little boy once played so loud Last Line: "she's the stillest child I ever heard." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Boys; Girls FALL IN, by LINCOLN KIRSTEIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My mother's brother hauled me to the big boy's club Subject(s): Boys Societies And Clubs FALSEHOOD 'CORRECTED', by ELIZABETH TURNER (1755-1846) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When jacky drown'd our poor cat tib Last Line: Such naughty things to do. Subject(s): Boys; Lies FIERCE ADVENTURES, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Between the bookcase and the wall Last Line: I fear ye have not lived at all! Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Boys; Children; November; Childhood FOR A BOY IN A BUS DEPOT, by EDUARDO C. CORRAL Poem Source First Line: Moonlight topples %from the star-cabled night Last Line: Wings rimmed with the color of the apple Subject(s): Apples; Boys; Childhood Memories; Fathers; Fruit FOR JOHN, WHO DID NOT CHOOSE BASEBALL, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: Because I loved the bone-white hardness of the ball Last Line: I smile and open my hands to you Subject(s): Baseball; Boys; Sports; Sports - Arenas And Stadia; Teenagers FOREGROUND, by BARBARA CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: A voice speaks, repeating numbers in sequence Last Line: The boy's face sweet apple of light Subject(s): Boys; Light; Nature FROM A CAR WINDOW, by JOSIE FRAZEE CAPPLEMAN Poem Text First Line: A glimpse and a glance and a fathomless gaze Last Line: Shall arise from the ranks of the overalls. Subject(s): Boys; Country Life FUNCTIONS OF SLEEP: 6, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: I saw the sun's reflection, dreary and arrogant, in the river Last Line: Wind up wetting the bed!' Subject(s): Boys; Dreams GAUNTLET, by KENT REYNOLDS DIXON Poem Source First Line: Normally a single boy was made Last Line: Every other boy, brothers in a world of hurt Subject(s): Boys; Punishment GETTIN' WASHED, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At breakfast, when I'm kinder late an' hurry to my / place Last Line: But you just bet I'll let alone that place behin' my ears! Subject(s): Boys; Children; Cleanliness; Childhood GETTING TO THE BOTTOM OF THINGS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know a little laddie of a very prying mind Last Line: To get to the bottom of them he turns them upside down! Subject(s): Boys GETTING UP, by TOM HANSEN Poem Source First Line: The boy who fell from the tallest tree in the woods Last Line: All spring on the ground of begining %he rises and falls Subject(s): Boys; Winter GOIN' BAREFOOT, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's more fun goin' barefoot than anythin' I know Last Line: Er else I wisht I was so poor I hadn't none t' lose! Subject(s): Boys; Children; Feet; Play; Childhood GOING INTO BREECHES, by MARY LAMB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Joy to philip! - he this day Last Line: Now the breeches are put on. Subject(s): Boys; Clothing & Dress GOOD OLD BOYS, THE FORTIFICATIONS., by NANCE VAN WINCKEL Poem Source First Line: Little play parlor under a v Last Line: But a bigger one's on the way Subject(s): Boys; Imagination; Play GRACE, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear lord, bless my bread and meat Last Line: For guarding little boys. Amen. Subject(s): Boys; Children; Prayer; Religion; Childhood; Theology GREEDY RICHARD, by JANE TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think I want some pies this morning Last Line: "to give to those who want it more. " Subject(s): Boys; Greed; Avarice; Cupidity HERE IS MUSIC: FOR VINCENT KEYTE, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: A devon field. The glad, sweet scent of grass Last Line: Of generous youth at playwhite-cladon english green. Subject(s): Boys; Youth HIS AWKWARD WAY, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He was rather awkward, he Last Line: In his awkward way. Subject(s): Boys HONEY BOY, by BILLIE MARIE CRABB Poem Text First Line: Like mountain honey, richly red Last Line: And thus his debt to life repays. Subject(s): Boys I WANT TO GO BACK, by GREGORY ORR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Isn't that a wound? Subject(s): Boys; Children; Farm Life; Nature; Seasons; Swamps IN HAITI: 2. AT THE SPRING, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am the boy perched in the high Last Line: Thigh-deep in a limestone cliff. Variant Title(s): Haitian Suite Subject(s): Boys; Girls; Haiti; Spring; Youth INTRODUCTION TO A LADY'S ALBUM, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wanton boy that sports in may Last Line: That smile at morn, and fade at night. Subject(s): Flowers; Boys IT'S JUST AN ORDINARY DAY, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: In my life and I'm strolling along Last Line: And wait twenty minutes. Then you can go on %with your life Subject(s): Boys; Life JACOB UNRECOGNIZED, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One day when I was lyin' in the grass Last Line: But my mawwhy, you jes' can't int'rest her! Subject(s): Boys; Children; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood JIM, by JOHN RUSSELL MCCARTHY Poem Text First Line: Our jim, like every tousled lad Last Line: A bit of song for him to sing. Subject(s): Boys JOHNNY-BOY, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ive sixteen sisters more or less Last Line: "but a ""johnny-boy""he counts a heap." Subject(s): Boys; Brothers; Family Life; Youth; Half-brothers; Relatives JOSEPH, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something about this boy Last Line: Jesus jesus jesus Subject(s): Boys; Jesus Christ JOSEPH, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something about this boy Last Line: My mouth cries only %jesus jesus jesus Subject(s): Boys; Jesus Christ JUVENILE ALMANAC, by DOROTHY BUERGER Poem Text First Line: We have no need of calendars Last Line: Store b.B. Guns and reel! Subject(s): Boys; Seasons KEEP THE FLAG WAVING, JACK!, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Only a boy, but never you mind! Last Line: God bless our boys! Subject(s): Boys; Sea Battles; World War I; Naval Warfare; First World War KITE TREE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The kite tree is a fearful and astonishing vegetable when all the kites Last Line: But would be frequented by small boys if they knew where it grew Subject(s): Boys; Kites LADS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Lads, apples for the horses.' Last Line: Call me homer.' Subject(s): Boys LEAR AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY SCHOOLS, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I tried with 51-little boys: -& 19 of us were admitted. And now I Last Line: Good little boy Subject(s): Boys; Classmates; Schools LEX TALIONIS, by FRANCIS MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The boy crept out of the old box log Last Line: "and his hate kept hot, as it ought to have done." Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Boys; Family Life; Murder; Revenge; Relatives LIFE WAS ALL ABOUT HIM, by MAUDE ARNEY FARNSWORTH Poem Text First Line: I heard a boy, a high - school boy Last Line: Both death and birth. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Boys; Towns; Estrangement; Outcasts LITTLE BOY REALM, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little boy realm is far afield Last Line: How then may I come and go? Subject(s): Boys; Children; Childhood LITTLE CHILD'S WREATH, 30, by ELIZABETH RACHEL CHAPMAN Poem Source First Line: Kind little lad, with dark, disordered hair Last Line: Made sudden twilight of the summer world Subject(s): Boys LITTLE FELLER, by PHIL PERKINS Poem Text First Line: Little feller - sure you knew him Last Line: Don't you pity grown-up men? Subject(s): Aging; Boys; Youth LORD'S DAY, by CHON PONGGON Poem Source First Line: A brood of fledgling swallows Last Line: They would make a light in heaven Subject(s): Altar Boys LOWLANDS LOW, by KENNETH LESLIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What can be better than to let the screen of years Last Line: Remembering. Subject(s): Boys; Death - Children; Past; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Death - Babies; Seamen; Sails; Ocean LULLABY, by S. BERT COOKSLEY Poem Text First Line: Hush, my little sleepyhead, the stars ... Trees Last Line: My little sleepyhead, come back to me! Subject(s): Boys MARBLE BOY, by DEBORAH WARREN Poem Source First Line: He was a boy who had a way with games Last Line: This quiet boy [or, so soft-spoken a boy] in death's hard carapace Subject(s): Boys; Death; Memory MARTIAL'S FAVOURITES, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ploytinus? Chases girls to find a mate Last Line: The golden dowry that a bride is worth Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Boys; Homosexuality MATERNAL DESPOTISM; OR, THE RIGHTS OF INFANTS, by RICHARD GRAVES Poem Text First Line: Unhand me nurse! Thou saucy quean! Last Line: Enjoy complete equality. Subject(s): Boys; Children's Rights; Equality; Godwin, Mary Wollenstonecraft (1759-79); Paine, Thomas (1737-1809); Wollenstone, Mary (1759-79) MITCHING, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The leaf scuttles across the schoolyard Last Line: A dot com millionaire. Subject(s): Ambition; Boys; Greed MOON MONEY, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: One huge arc Last Line: Circling his %hushed tongue Subject(s): Boys; Children; Fathers; Psychiatry; Psychology MORNING SONG, by GREGORY ORR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sun on his face wakes him Last Line: Pierce a magician's box. Subject(s): Boys; Deer; Farm Life; Morning; Agriculture; Farmers MOTHER'S GRIEF, by HILDEGARD OTT RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: Dry-eyed she sat up waiting through the night Last Line: A poignant pain is dumb and gnaws the bone. Subject(s): Boys; Grief; Loss; Tragedy; Sorrow; Sadness MY BOYHOOD, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah me! Those joyous days are gone! Last Line: And hides his face in flowers! Subject(s): Boys MY BOYS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My boys beauty is Last Line: Questioning over and over - %what is the meaning of this? Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Boys MY COUSIN AGUEDA, by RAMON LOPEZ VELARDE Poem Source First Line: My godmother invited my cousin Last Line: Apples and grapes %in the ebony of an ancient cupboard Subject(s): Boys; Children; Family Life; Godparents MY GRANDSON AT GREEN LAKE, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Shane gabriel diamond, just two Last Line: And demeter, bringing bread and light Subject(s): Boys; Grandchildren; Lakes NAMING OUR BOY, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The jokes come first Last Line: For us, %touched my arm, and whispered, your shot, son. Subject(s): Babies; Boys; Fathers And Sons; Names; Poetry And Poets NEGRO BOY'S TALE, by AMELIA OPIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Haste! Hoist the sails! Fair blows the wind! Last Line: The negro's chains asunder rend! Alternate Author Name(s): Alderson, Amelia Subject(s): Blacks; Boys; Slavery NEWSBOY, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bearing his way through the traffic, under his arm Subject(s): Newspapers; Boys; Journalism; Journalists NO BOY KNOWS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are many things that boys may know Last Line: A sweet white cot - and a cricket's %cheep.-- %but no boy knows when he goes to sleep Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Boys; Night NURSES, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There isn't anythin' that's worse Last Line: They're awful ignerunt of boys! Subject(s): Boys; Child Care; Children; Nurses; Baby Sitters; Governesses; Childhood OLD FAIRINGDOWN, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soft as a treader on mosses Last Line: There is that in the village that never will sleep! Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Boys; Dwarfs; Farewell; Insomnia; Knowledge; Pain; Sleep; Villages; Parting; Sleeplessness; Suffering; Misery OLYMPIAN ODE FOR LACHON OF CEOS (BOYS' FOOT RACE) (1), by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source First Line: Brilliant daughter of time and night Last Line: Pierced through chaerolas' barrowing tomb Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Boys; Games - Greece; Racing OLYMPIAN ODE FOR LACHON OF CEOS (BOYS' FOOT RACE) (2), by BACCHYLIDES Poem Source First Line: Lauds to lachon %from zeus great lord Last Line: That feeds the fame of ceos Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Boys; Games - Greece; Racing ON A BOY'S FIRST READING OF THE PLAY OF 'KING HENRY THE FIFTH', by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When youth was lord of my unchallenged fate Last Line: "with ""ho! For harry and red agincourt!" Subject(s): Boys; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare - King Henry V; Dramatists ON A CHILD SLEEPING IN CYNTHIA'S LAP, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, happy boy, there sleep, and take thy rest Last Line: Yet all this while, it is no dream, but true. Subject(s): Boys; Sleep ON SEEING A BEAUTIFUL BOY AT PLAY, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down the green slope he bounded. Raven curls Last Line: I sigh to look upon thy face, young boy! Subject(s): Beauty; Boys ONE BOY TOLD ME, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Music lives inside my legs Last Line: Isn't that happiness? Subject(s): Boys; Mankind; Youth; Human Race ONE 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 OPEN THROAT, by JOHN DUFFRESNE Poem Source First Line: In a child's game called dead man's float Last Line: At what it is that sleeps there, our bodies %pounding for admittance, swallowing air Subject(s): Boys; Children OUR GANG, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We've got a gang, and I belong Last Line: Or all the rest, or me! Subject(s): Boys; Brotherhood; Children; Friendship; Play; Childhood OZARK ODES: JUDGE, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Had a boyhood. Had his own rooster. Name of andy Last Line: Made him bald. This really vexed judge's old daddy Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Boys; Children; Pets; Roosters PASTORAL, by NEVILLE PEACE Poem Text First Line: Remember the naked boys you saw from the train window? Last Line: You probably saw us from the train window. Subject(s): Boys; Swimming & Swimmers PLAYING IN THE BARN, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The barn's the nicest place to play Last Line: That flies as high as anything! Subject(s): Barns; Boys; Play POLITENESS, by ELIZABETH TURNER (1755-1846) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good little boys should never say Last Line: "and, ""yes, ma'am,"" to a lady." Subject(s): Boys; Etiquette; Manners; Courtesy PORTRAIT OF A BOY, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the whipping, he crawled into bed Last Line: "doubloons!"" they said. The words crashed gold. ""doubloons!" Subject(s): Boys POST OFFICE ETCHINGS: 1. PADDINGTON STATION, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: A boy (scarce seventeen Last Line: Burnt offering of a fool's impetuosity. Subject(s): Boys; Children; Etching; Childhood POST OFFICE ETCHINGS: 2. VICTIM, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Out of a blowsy, bare, back room Last Line: Through leicester town, along the london road. Subject(s): Boys; Etching POSTHUMOUS TALES: TALE 19. MASTER WILLIAM; OR, LAD'S LOVE, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have remembrance of a boy, whose mind Last Line: By what they cure in boys, and what they kill. Subject(s): Boys PRAYER FOR A LITTLE BOY, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But while I live I want to be from quick and angry / passions free Last Line: Things.amen. Subject(s): Boys; Good; Prayer PROMISE OF STEUBEN, by SUSAN WHEELER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wish I had a packard every time you stopped Last Line: The boy swats the light. He's sparking. He's right Alternate Author Name(s): Wheeler, Sue Subject(s): Boys PURGATORY, by WILLIAM+(1) BURNS Poem Source First Line: Altar boy, given to self Subject(s): Altar Boys; Purgatory 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 RAY AT 14, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bless this boy, born with the strong face Subject(s): Blessings; Boys; Brothers; Death; Heaven; Women; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Paradise RAY AT 14, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bless this boy, born with the strong face Last Line: He says, feel my muscle, and I do Subject(s): Blessings; Boys; Brothers; Death; Heaven; Women REJECTED, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a nawful pretty teacher at our school, an' Last Line: If I do what I've been plannin', an' I die in her front yard. Subject(s): Admiration; Boys; Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors REVELATION 20:11-15, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He was a farmboy who had drowned that wednesday Last Line: We were amazed. Subject(s): Boys; Death; Drowning; Farm Life; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers RICHARD'S REFORMATION, by ELIZABETH TURNER (1755-1846) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Miss lucy was a charming child Last Line: And since has better grown. Subject(s): Boys; Punishment RICKSHA BOY, by IDA HOYT CHAMBERLAIN Poem Text First Line: Running trotting in the shafts Last Line: Wanchee one good ricksha boy? Subject(s): Animals; Boys; Horses; Laughter RITES OF PASSAGE, by SHARON OLDS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the guests arrive at my son's party Subject(s): Boys; Birthdays ROMANCE: 1. BOYS, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were all boys, and three of us were friends; Subject(s): Boys RUDENESS, by ELIZABETH TURNER (1755-1846) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: James went to the door of the kitchen and said Last Line: Were learn'd to be us'd in the parlour alone! Subject(s): Boys; Rudeness; Bad Manners RUNNING BOY, by JOHN REINHARD Poem Source First Line: I'm envious of the way Last Line: Still pours Subject(s): Boys SAD PERVERSITY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When but a little boy, it seemed Last Line: I am a little boy. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Boys; Dreams; Nightmares SENSIBILITY, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once, when a boy, I killed a cat Last Line: O fellow-sinner, be the same. Subject(s): Animals; Boys; Cats; Death; Murder SEVENTH CIRCLE, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And after the fight the moment of awakening Subject(s): Boys; Fightng; War; Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) SKIN-THE-CAT, by DAVID LANIER Poem Source First Line: I recognize that boy laughing Last Line: He's just begun to recognize as his Subject(s): Boys; Fathers; Memory SNAKE EYES, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the corner wall, boys huddle and squat, playing Subject(s): Boys; Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements SNAKE EYES, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the corner wall, boys huddle and squat, playing Last Line: Past the policeman on his beat. Unsmiling, refuse to bend her head Subject(s): Boys; Games 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 SPIRIT OF THE EVERLASTING BOY, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The british bard who looked on eton's walls Last Line: God bless old lawrenceville! Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Boys; Lawrenceville School (new Jersey) 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 SPRING FEVER, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: My right shoulder aches when snow melts, %air softens, and baseballs Last Line: Citizen, old ballplayer that I am, I walk %my aching shoulder home Subject(s): Balls; Baseball; Boys; Sports; Youth STILL AT TIME I'M A DUMB LITTLE BOY, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Wanting to give the family a fish dinner Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Boys; Ignorance; Innocence; Maturity; Nature STOLEN BASES, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: I run the northern-prairie, small-town blocks Last Line: The half hour after I run, coming down, coming down Subject(s): Balls; Baseball; Boys; Sports STORY WITH FOREST, GIRL & BOY, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: In the black forest a girl, of course, and a boy are kneeling at a crossroads. Last Line: Growing hot, trees gleaming in their eyes. Subject(s): Boys; Forests; Girls SUNBURNT BOYS, by JOHN CHARLES MCNEILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down on the lumbee river Last Line: Sunburnt boys! Subject(s): Boys; Swimming & Swimmers TAKIN' A CHANCE, by WAYNE B. WALTERS Poem Text First Line: The boys were all excited Last Line: In a game they call polo. Subject(s): Boys; Games; Victory; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE BEAR STORY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: W'y, wunst they wuz a little boy Last Line: -- an' that's all. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Variant Title(s): Boy's Bear Story Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Boys; Forests; Woods THE BOY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Go, little boy Last Line: True joy doth lie. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Boys THE BOY DECIDES, by RICKMAN MARK Poem Text First Line: I'd like to be a p'liceman Last Line: And blow my whistle hard. Subject(s): Boys; Careers THE BOY WHO DIMMED LIGHT BULBS, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For phil that's the way it started. Last Line: Cleared his throat Subject(s): Boys THE BOYS OF THE OLD GLEE CLUB, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You-folks rickollect, I know Last Line: "god! -- god! -- thank god, they're singing yet!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Boys Societies And Clubs; Memory; Singing & Singers THE BOYS, THE BROOM HANDLE, AND THE RETARDED GIRL, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who was asking for it - Last Line: Touching the girl Subject(s): Boys; Fights; Girls THE CARELESS LAD, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The careless lad went through the wood Last Line: Who never looked behind. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Boys; Caregivers; Man-woman Relationships; Sickness; Youth; Male-female Relations; Illness THE CHERUB, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If that's a cherub, I don't see why Last Line: Then all outdoors could have stomach ache. Subject(s): Boys THE CRUEL BOY, by ELIZABETH TURNER (1755-1846) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Richard is a cruel boy Last Line: By feeling his own whip. Subject(s): Boys; Cruelty THE DELIGHTS OF POSSUM HUNTING, by F. O'B. Poem Text First Line: A lovely night, and the mon brightly shining Last Line: "it was an old ants' nest, built round a dead stick!" Subject(s): Boys; Fools; Hunting; Opossums; Idiots; Hunters; Possums THE DOG'S TURN, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They're at me all the day Last Line: I guess what's good for baby boys is good for doggies too. Subject(s): Animals; Baths & Bathing; Boys; Cleanliness; Dogs; Showers & Showering THE DRUMMER BOY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "captain gray, the men were sayin'" Last Line: Unbroken by the night's tattoo Subject(s): Boys;drums;musical Instruments;soldiers THE EXPLORER, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little billy wilson ran Last Line: Said little billy wilson. Subject(s): Boys; Children; Explorers; Childhood; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers THE FIRST HAIR CUT, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jimmy's had a hair cut! Last Line: Just to smell his head. Subject(s): Barbers; Boys; Hair THE FLIRT, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: Beautiful boy, lend me your youth to play with Last Line: Than what I am! Subject(s): Aging; Boys; Desire; Flirtation; Youth THE GREEDY BOY, by ELIZABETH TURNER (1755-1846) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sammy smith would drink and eat Last Line: Was often greedy sam. Subject(s): Boys; Greed; Avarice; Cupidity THE HANGMAN'S BOY, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: Drawn from the silt of the ages Last Line: Into a hangman's boy. Subject(s): Boys THE HEART OF A BOY; IN MEMORIAM, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Ice on sabrina's plain Last Line: Or wandered, unawares, emmäus-ward with christ. Subject(s): Boys; Children; Childhood THE HOYDEN, by ELIZABETH TURNER (1755-1846) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Miss agnes had two or three dolls, and a box Last Line: That she never will play with rude boys any more Subject(s): Boys; Girls; Play THE LESSON, by ELIZABETH TURNER (1755-1846) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One afternoon, as joseph west Last Line: Beat headstrong till he'd have no more. Subject(s): Boys; Fights THE LITTLE BOY NEXT DOOR, by HELEN MALLORY SCHRADER Poem Text First Line: Suppose the little boy next door Last Line: In view of our publicity. Subject(s): Boys THE LITTLE FISHERMAN, by ANN TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a little fellow once Last Line: "I will not fish again." Subject(s): Boys; Fish & Fishing THE MODELS, by ELIZABETH TURNER (1755-1846) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As dick and bryan were at play Last Line: Will act like dick and bryan. Subject(s): Boys; Honesty THE NAUGHTY DARKEY BOY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There was a cruel darkey boy Subject(s): Blacks;boys;children;cruelty;fish & Fishing; Childhood THE NEW BOY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He never knew before how heavenly the places Last Line: He strangles with his sobs till the grey day. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Boys; Children; Grief; Loss; Orphans; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Foundlings THE NEW BOYS, by MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: He says problems in israel will be solved by extraterrestrials Subject(s): Boys THE ODE OF CHILDHOOD: 1. BOYHOOD, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair budding age Last Line: As brief and fair as you. Subject(s): Boys THE ORGAN-BOY, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great brown eyes Last Line: Yes, my child, that I will. Subject(s): Boys; Organ-grinders; Hurdy-gurdy Men THE PLUM-CAKE, by ANN TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! I've got a plum-cake, and a fine feast I'll make Last Line: "do not be such a glutton again." Subject(s): Boys; Gluttony THE RESULT OF CRUELTY, by ELIZABETH TURNER (1755-1846) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jack parker was a cruel boy Last Line: Whilst bellowing at a furious bull. Subject(s): Boys; Cruelty THE RUINED COTTAGE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, charles! I knew that this would fix thine eye Last Line: I trust in god they will not pass away. Subject(s): Boys; Children; Home; Life Change Events; Memory; Men; Nostalgia; Widows & Widowers; Childhood THE SCAPEGOAT, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm the only one she caught Last Line: It ain't only me that's caught. Subject(s): Boys; Innocence THE SLEEPER, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was the sissy of the block who nobody wanted on their / team Last Line: If only he could find the special role Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Football; Boys THE SOPHOMORE, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When, catching his own glance, he analysed Last Line: Condemned himself as well, and owns defeat. Subject(s): Boys; Classmates; Scholarship & Scholars; Schoolmates THE STORY OF THE BAREFOOT BOY, by JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On haverhill's pleasant hills there played Last Line: Waft him a crown of glory. Subject(s): Boys; Childhood Memories THE SUPERIOR BOYS, by ELIZABETH TURNER (1755-1846) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tom and charles once took a walk Last Line: To talking put a stop Subject(s): Boys THE TOY SOLDIERS, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep on, little boy, and sleep secure Last Line: Sleep, then, for we all keep guard. Subject(s): Boys; Children; Play; Toys; Childhood THE TRUANT BOYS, by ANN TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The month was august and the morning cool Last Line: Of this poor truant lad. Subject(s): Boys; Schools; Truancy; Students THE TWO GARDENS, by ANN TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When harry and dick had been striving to please Last Line: The fruit of his patience and care. Subject(s): Boys; Gardens & Gardening THE WANDERINGS OF CAIN, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Encinctured with a twine of leaves Last Line: Has he no friend, no loving mother near? Variant Title(s): The Child In The Wilderness;the Fruit Plucker Subject(s): Boys THE WHITE BOY, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like a man overboard Subject(s): Boys THERE WAS A BOY (VERSION 1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a boy, ye knew him well, ye cliffs Last Line: Mute -- looking at the grave in which he lies! Variant Title(s): The Boy Poet;the Boy And The Owls Subject(s): Boys; Death - Children; Death - Babies THERE WAS A BOY (VERSION 2), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a boy, ye knew him well, ye cliffs Last Line: Mute - for he died when he was ten years old. Subject(s): Boys; Death - Children; Death - Babies THINKING OF MY LITTLE BOY, by TU FU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pony boy -- though it's spring we're still apart Last Line: Toasting my back -- I lean on the sunny rail Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu Subject(s): Boys THIS LITTLE BOY GOES TO MARKET, by HELEN W. FOWLER Poem Text First Line: Patriot mothers, come and bear Last Line: Fill the future's bloody stew. Subject(s): Boys; Butchers; Mothers THOSE BOYS THAT RAN TOGETHER, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Don't it make you want to cry Subject(s): African Americans – Children; Boys; Conduct Of Life TO AN AMIABLE LITTLE BOY, by MILDRED HOWELLS Poem Text First Line: I may forget the dates of wars Last Line: That I shall not forget. Subject(s): Boys TO BE, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: Last night, a man knew Last Line: When the unguarded lion got greedy %and stood perfectly still Subject(s): Boys; Fate; Mankind TO THE BOY, by ELIZABETH CLEMENTINE DODGE KINNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou happiest thing alive Last Line: By earth's discordant things. Alternate Author Name(s): Stedman, Edmund Burke, Mrs. Subject(s): Boys TO THE BUST OF MY SON CHARLES, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair image of our sainted boy Last Line: Farewell!dear boy, farewell! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Boys; Children - Lost; Death; Family Life; Farewell; Heaven; Dead, The; Relatives; Parting; Paradise TOTO MERUMENI, by GUIDO GOZZANO Poem Source First Line: With its untended garden, its spacious rooms, and its fine Last Line: He's living still. One day he's born. One day he dies Subject(s): Boys; Children; Love TUMBLED DOWN, AND HURT HIS ARM, AGAINST A BIT OF WOOD, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: We think we're all heard quite enough of this your sad disaster! Subject(s): Boys; Pain; Tears TURN ON, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The blind boy is looking for his sight Last Line: And turn on the light Subject(s): Blindness; Boys; Explorers TWO BOYS, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These were two of the funniest boys Last Line: Where these two brothers lay. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Boys; Brothers; Death; Friendship; Half-brothers; Dead, The TWO BOYS PLAYING CATCH, by JAY MEEK Poem Source First Line: What the blood knows about sickness and reslience Last Line: The seams, and chucks it home, true, true once more Subject(s): Boys; Play UNDOMESTICATED ANIMALS, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They cost a lot, they're a heap of bother Last Line: We're glad we've got them, because, you see Subject(s): Boys; Social Problems UNFULFILMENT, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see an upland pasture, clover-blown Last Line: That I am not the figure of the dreams. Subject(s): Boys; Children; Dreams; Childhood; Nightmares VERSES: THE FIRST BOY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Milton pursued in numbers more sublime Last Line: "milton alone attempted with success." Subject(s): Boys; Youth VISIBLE MAN, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: For christmas, he got me the microscope Last Line: Paving the shortest way %to his shining soul Subject(s): Boys; Men WALL, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The wall splitting the boys' and girls' schools Last Line: The wall, still standing, was a cause of laughter Subject(s): Boys; Girls; Schools WEDNESDAY'S CHILD, by MARIE HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Bill is visiting on spring break. As we talk on the drive home form the Last Line: Get home in time to watch ourselves on the six o'clock news Subject(s): Abandonment; Adoption; Boys; Child Custody; Children - Illegitimate; Orphans; Stepfathers; Stepmothers WERE I THE SUN, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'd always shine on holidays Last Line: Were I the sun! Subject(s): Boys WHAT ARE LITTLE BOYS MADE OF?, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: And that's what little girls are made of Subject(s): Boys;girls WHEN A BOY PLAYS IN THE YARD, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text Last Line: For fear some folks are reading Subject(s): Boys; Play; Home Life; Manners WHEN AS A LAD, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When, as a lad, at break of day Last Line: For any save the soul's swift feet! Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Boys; Childhood Memories; Explorers; Sea Voyages; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers WHITE BOY, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like a man overboard Last Line: Where oh where is the %saving thing Subject(s): Boys WHO TOLD?, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our teacher says there aren't fairies now Last Line: "a little fairy whispered it,"" she said." Subject(s): Boys; Children; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Childhood; Students WIDESPREAD IMPLICATIONS, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How sweetly now like a boy I dawdle by ditches Last Line: Away, a dear morsel that meant to winter Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R. Subject(s): Boys YANKEE DOODLE UP TO DATE, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Old spain took cuba by the hair Last Line: "those islands will come handy." Subject(s): Boys; Camping; Children; Camps; Summer Camps; Childhood YOUNG TRAMPS, by LAVINIA MARSHALL Poem Text First Line: When hungry boys have knuckled hard my door Last Line: I swear I don't condemn you when you rob! Subject(s): Boys; Poverty |
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