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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, dear—some time—now 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 play—white-clad—on 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 maw—why, 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