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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CHILDHOOD MEMORIES Matches Found: 263 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 1957, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Was the place to be. Every room had view Last Line: Little and laughing; came out twelve years later: %coat-and-tied, ready for work Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Childhood Memories 6, by GARY SYNDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In that year, 1914, we lived on the farm Subject(s): Farm Lifel Childhood Memories A BOY GOES INTO THE WORLD, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My brother rode off on his bike Last Line: I at last can claim them as my own Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Family Life; Childhood Memories; Relatives A CHILD'S CHRISTMAS IN GEORGIA. 1953, by WYATT PRUNTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Marching through georgia to bed, he stopped, listened, Subject(s): Georgia (state); Christmas; Family Life; Childhood Memories; Nativity, The; Relatives A CHILD'S THOUGHTS, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: When I'm grown up and children talk a little Last Line: And wonders to see them hatched so soon. Subject(s): Childhood Memories A CLASSIC MOMENT, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could accept the frayed basement parish Subject(s): Schools; Childhood Memories; Students A CUBAN DREAM IN THREE PARTS, by VIRGIL SAUREZ Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am dreaming again Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Cuba; Fathers A FLOWER PASSAGE, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even if you were above the ground this year Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Diving & Divers; Death; Childhood Memories; Dead, The A HYACINTH FOR EDITH, by ARTHUR JAMES MARSHALL SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Now that the ashen rain of gummy april Last Line: Of our lost innocence, our ghostly childhood. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, A. J. M. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Children; Hyacinths; Past; Childhood A LIFETIME, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sit in the early twilight Last Line: The trees with a heavy sigh. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Time A POEM FOR MY FATHER (96 YEARS OLD ON FEB. 29, 2000), by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With exact wings Subject(s): Fathers; Childhood Memories ADOLESCENCIA, by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father's work friends, all men Last Line: Sweeping all ominous thoiughts away Subject(s): Havana, Cuba; Childhood Memories AFTER SCHOOL, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's strange to think how much may come from just / a little thing Last Line: "and grandma says, ""oh, go to bed,—I've dropped another stitch!" Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Children; Classmates; Courtship; Grandparents; Love - Beginnings; Past; Childhood; Schoolmates; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers AGAIN OUR YESTERDAY, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And fast and labor, sow and sing and weep! Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Labor And Laborers AIDED BY THE LANGUAGE OF MORNING, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN Poem Source First Line: The gruff, throaty complaints of blue jays Last Line: And my mind which seeks to recover my history, %my splintered past Subject(s): Americans In Europe; Childhood Memories; Immigrants; Language AM, by LINDA PASTAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The child gets up Last Line: Over the side of the bed Subject(s): Waking; Morning; Cold; Childhood Memories AMONG BLACKBERRIES, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Her lips blue from tasting, her eyes so blue Last Line: The blackberries sweating in their bucket Subject(s): Childhood Memories AN IMPRINT OF THE ROARING TWENTIES, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a weakness for grubbing at the salvation army's discard tables Last Line: And the cardtable-sized embroidered tablecloths Subject(s): Divorce; Childhood Memories; Tablecloths; Alcohol & Alcoholics; Women AN OFFERING FOR MR. BLUEHART, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That was a place, when I was young Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Orchards; Childhood Memories; Regret AN OLD TORONTO BOY, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take care, old man!' 'I thank you, sir' Last Line: Of an old toronto boy. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Home; Toronto, Canada ANOTHER TROY, by ALICE FULTON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the green island bridge, a scowling trigonometry Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Troy ANY NIGHT, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look, the eucalyptus, the atlas pine, Subject(s): Childhood Memories APOLOGY, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: I demand an apology Last Line: Marked by the scars of memory %fragile and alone Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Exiles; Human Rights - Argentina; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration AT REHEARSAL, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O cousin kit macdonald Last Line: Of the part you are playing now. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Play; Disappointment AT THE AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was / nearly six my Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Childhood Memories AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL, by ABRAHAM MOSES KLEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the ghetto streets where a jewboy Last Line: Delighting in the sobbed oriental note. Alternate Author Name(s): Klein, A. M. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Family Life; Jews; Relatives; Judaism AUTUMN, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A child's hand is dissolving Last Line: And black leaves %in the gale winds Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Autumn; Childhood Memories; Seasons AWAKENING, by ALEJANDRA PIZARNIK Poem Source First Line: Lord %the cage has become a bird Last Line: What will I do with my fear Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Innocence; Old Age BALANCING ACT, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere between miss porter (seventh grade) Subject(s): Childhood Memories BEAVERHOUSE DOWNRIVER, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: In the old forever-never days Last Line: And all the grown-ups died Subject(s): Animals; Beavers; Childhood Memories BEDTIME STORIES, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long years ago, when I was a small, not Last Line: The sunlit seas to bring them dolls and christmas trees. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Night; Sleep; Bedtime BEDTIME STORY, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was twelve, a horse appeared Subject(s): Animals; Childhood Memories; Horses; Imagination; Fancy BEDTIME STORY, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was twelve, a horse appeared Last Line: Could her the clash of armor when I closed my eyes Subject(s): Animals; Childhood Memories; Horses; Imagination BEFORE THE BLIGHT, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The elms stretched themselves in indolent joy Last Line: Rocked in the sinewy arms of summer. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Happiness; Joy; Delight BEGGAR WOMAN, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was four years old my mother led me to the park. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Begging & Beggars BELOVED VALE!' I SAID, 'WHEN I SHALL CON', by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The weight of sadness was in wonder lost Subject(s): Valleys; Childhood Memories BIRDS, by LUIS G. URBINA Poem Source First Line: Childhood, how deep the memories you stir! Last Line: As you bore hence the white birds and the blue! Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Youth BIRTHDAY, by HENRI COLE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a boy, we called it punishment Subject(s): Childhood Memories BLUE APARTMENTS, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: In the dry season he will come down from the mountain Last Line: I will ask him to stay %the night Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Hearts; Love BLUR, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Storms of perfume lift from honeysuckle, Last Line: And more than understanding I longed for joy Subject(s): Childhood Memories BOOK COVER, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: I hadn't expected to find that fourth-grade book Last Line: And yet were born Subject(s): Books; Childhood Memories; Poetry And Poets BOYHOOD, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alone in the basement Subject(s): Childhood Memories CALLAVERIA RUSTICANA, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the fireflies in the world Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Opera; Summer CANTE HONDO, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I was meditating, absorbed, winding Last Line: The dust sweeps away and the ash expels Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Death; Grief; Meditation; Memory; Solitude CAPTIVE, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Oh, kirkwood is a fine town, snugly nestled by the / hills Last Line: Holds me captive to the music of the multitude's great heart. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; City & Town Life CHANGES, by SHERRY ASBURY Poem Source First Line: To find the shack, just follow along Last Line: But I'm weeping all the same Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Children; Life Change Events CHILDHOOD, by JENS IMMANUEL BAGGESEN Poem Text First Line: There was a time when I was very small Last Line: (h. W. Longfellow) Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Old Age CHILDHOOD MEMORY, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A drab and chilling afternoon Last Line: Of rain along the window glass Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Childhood Memories CHRONOPHOBIA, by ALPAY ULKU Poem Source First Line: Light falls from our eyes and the honeybees start dying Last Line: I wish I were an airplane crossing the ocean by night Variant Title(s): Fal Subject(s): Childhood Memories CLAIR ON MY SHOULDERS, by JOHN REINHARD Poem Source First Line: At four, she is fearless Last Line: Sturdy and tall and beautiful Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Love; Man-woman Relationships CLOTHESLINES, by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day my mother stood in the kitchen Last Line: Kicked upo into my own eyes Subject(s): Family Life; Childhood Memories; Cuba COUNTDOWN, by VICTOR CONTOSKI Poem Source First Line: The countdown begins Last Line: A bag of poisoned candy Subject(s): Birthdays; Childhood Memories CREATION, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: That march we were thirteen Last Line: The loud love-making petals %every plant humming for release Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Childhood Memories; Girls CURTAINS, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grandpa took me along to the hospital Subject(s): Grandparents; Hospitals; Window Treatments; Childhood Memories; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Venetian Blinds; Curtains; Shades; Drapes DAMARIS, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You know th' forks of th' road Last Line: The brief delusion can delude no more. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Beauty DARK ROOM, by ENRIQUE LIHN Poem Source First Line: The air's heaviness in the dark room, as if a vague bloodlike Last Line: Once and for all Subject(s): Childhood Memories DEBATE: QUESTION, QUARRY, DREAM, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Asking what, asking what? - all a boy's afternoon Subject(s): Youth; Childhood Memories; Sons; Hunting; Hunters DERWENT; AN ODE: MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD, by JOHN CARR Poem Text First Line: Loved stream, that meanders along Last Line: Not a lake in the land like the sneep. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Childhood DIRGE, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I reached the middle of the mount Last Line: The silent organ loudest chants %the master's requiem' Subject(s): Brothers; Childhood Memories; Death; Love - Loss Of DON, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Black as a crow, with a satin sheen Last Line: The master you carried at gettysburg. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Old Age DRAWING FROM THE PAST, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only mama and I were at home Last Line: To that, too Subject(s): Childhood Memories DREAM SONGS: 292, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The irish sky is raining, the irish winds are high Last Line: & the last voice in drawled; 'henry? A brick' Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Immigrants; Nationalism - Ireland DRIVING HOME, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: The tapestry of autumn flashes by Last Line: From mending fences Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Home EFFECT OVER DISTANCE, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The six-foot indigo plumes of the 'sacred necropolis bird Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Public Worship; Jews; Church Attendance; Judaism EIN URALTER SPRUCH, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Most prayers of my childhood days Last Line: Boree peri hagofen. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Jews; Prayer; Judaism ELEVENS, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun flatlining the horizon, the wind Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Travel; Journeys; Trips ELEVENS, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun flatlining the horizon, the wind Last Line: A bird took all the heart out of the air Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Travel EVENING SUN, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why does this light force me back Last Line: But does not consume / my heart Subject(s): Childhood Memories EVOCATION OF RECIFE, by MANUEL CARNEIRO BANDEIRA FILHO Poem Source First Line: Recife %not the american venice Last Line: Recife, now dead, bighearted recife, recife brazilian as my %grandfather's home Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Brazil; Childhood Memories; Grandparents FACES, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Whose are these faces I keep seeing Last Line: So much with us though free of time and space Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Bodies; Childhood Memories; Faces FIRST FISH, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: Water lapped blue tongues Last Line: In cool blue water Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Fathers; Fishing And Fishermen FLASHBACK, 1973, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: When the car breaks down Last Line: Seat of that hurt %all the way downtown Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Childhood Memories; Love; Retrospection; Teenagers 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 MY FATHER, DEAD AT FIFTY-SIX, ON MY FIFTY-SIXTH BIRTHDAY, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I watched you humble a man in a fight once Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Death; Childhood Memories; Dead, The FORBIDDEN FRUIT, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: The first person Last Line: Just bitten into Subject(s): African Americans; Childhood Memories FOREST CREATURES, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: I wanted to walk with you in the woods Last Line: Waiting for me Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Childhood Memories; Parents FOREST OF CHILDHOOD, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Barefoot from tussock to tussock I ran Last Line: Like a crane in spring Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Country Life FOX, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After we peeled and dipped and sucked Last Line: However naked and heart-rending, however %impotent and wild Subject(s): Animals; Childhood Memories; Foxes FUNCTIONS OF SLEEP: 5, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: To die,' the child told me, 'is to sit still before a single Last Line: Blood. And I knew: the ship was going to set sail Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Dreams GIRLISH REMINISCENCES, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cradled in a nest of flowers Last Line: Where death nor sorrows come. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Friendship; Girls; Past GOGGLES AND HELMET, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In her living toom Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Mothers; Hospitals GOOSEFEATHERS, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When I was twelve I sat by myself in the steamliner Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers GRANDFATHER, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: Grandfather urinates Last Line: Because accroding to my grandfather %you need only cross %the door's threshold %to arrive in cuba Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Grandparents GRANDMA, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: Grandma used to sit Last Line: Bright and brief as an adolescent's dress %on a dark porch Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Grandchildren; Grandparents; Past GUITA BRUNER, by PABLO GUEVARA Poem Source First Line: Above a rock %her troglodyte room Last Line: Foam and our love exploding Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Relationships; Tragedy; War HEART-SICK, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: O, tears, I know not what you mean Last Line: Ye bitter, scalding, tear-wrung tears. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Death; Love - Complaints; Mothers; Dead, The HELP ME TO SALT, HELP ME TO SORROW, by JUDY JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the moon-fade and the sun’s puppy breath Last Line: Give them to me Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Family Life; Relatives HERE IN THE FIELDS OF MY HOMELAND, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The virgin bodies will wash up on the old shore Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Fields; Home; Spain HIDE AND SEEK, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I sit and watch at the window-pane Last Line: As I waited them below. Subject(s): Mortality; Childhood Memories; Farm Life; Play HISTORY OF MY HEART, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One christmastime fats waller in a fur coat Subject(s): Family Life; Childhood Memories; Mothers; Accidents; Sex; Coming Of Age; Relatives HOLES, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: Your father's fighting world war ii %and you're in a brown foxhole you dug Last Line: And wail at the whole damn sky Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Children; Fathers; Play; Soldiers; World War Ii HORATIANS: 15, by VICENT ANDRES ESTELLES Poem Source First Line: If it's permitted Last Line: Some dog kept barking in a farmhouse Subject(s): Childhood Memories I DREAM AWAKE, by JOSE MARTI Poem Source Poem Explanation First Line: I dream with open eyes Last Line: Calling to me! Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Dreams I SLEPT, AND BACK TO MY EARLY DAYS, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Should revive what time destroys Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Dreams; Sleep; Youth IDLE FEARS, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my lost childhood old folks said to me Last Line: The image of her prime may not displace. Subject(s): Fear; Childhood Memories IN MY CHILDHOOD , by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my childhood I awoke to my mother's voice Last Line: I am fighting panic that everything / does exist in itself alone Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Family Life; Silence; Fear IN OUR CHILD HOUSE, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Father .. Sorrow Subject(s): Family Life; Childhood Memories INFIDELITY, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The two-toned olds swinging sideways out of Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Parents; Quarrels; Parenthood; Arguments; Disagreements INKWELL DAYBREAK, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Childhood Memories INNOCENCE AND EXPERIENCE, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I laid myself down as a woman Subject(s): War; Childhood Memories; Death; Dead, The ISAIAH'S COAL, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Always, he woke in those days Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Christmas; Love; Nativity, The KATE'S MOTHER, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Perch'd on the upland wheatfields beyond the village end Last Line: The first visit of compliment that ever I paid. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Mothers LETTER FOR THOSE WHO GREW UP TOGETHER, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who remembers now the backyards of our innocence Subject(s): Childhood Memories LIKE SOME OLD-FASHIONED MIRACLE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And ear — and heaven — numb Subject(s): Summer; Childhood Memories LIVING, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had my quiet time early in the morning Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Family Life; Country Life; Relatives LONG AGO, by CLARA EXLINE BOCKOVEN Poem Text First Line: Now that deep snow Last Line: Long ago! Subject(s): Childhood Memories LONG GONE MARCH, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long columns of rain Subject(s): Childhood Memories LONGINGS (BURNS MODEL LODGING-HOUSE), by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is clatter on the pavement, there is hurry / in the street Last Line: My father's homely cottage in kilcar. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Death; Fire; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise MAKING A FIST, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: For the first time, on the road north of tampico Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Death; Dead, The MALENE, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I looked on thee in former days Last Line: No, not as long ago. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Romance; Male-female Relations MARKETS, ALLEYS & HOUNDS OF HELL, by LUIS J. RODRIGUEZ Poem Source First Line: My brother, whom we called rano Last Line: Inflamed with laughter Subject(s): Brothers; Childhood Memories; Jokes; Laughter MEIN KIND, WIR WAREN KINDER, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My child, we were two children Last Line: The belief, and the love, and the truth. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Youth MEMORIES, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes, when the grind of the city beats on my heart Last Line: To a garden and a tree in a place of light. Subject(s): Childhood Memories MEMORY, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ask me to tell how it feels Last Line: She smiles, ask me %how it feels Subject(s): African Americans; Childhood Memories; Memory; Mothers And Daughters; Prejudice MEMORY OF CHILDHOOD DAYS, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A pain become pleasure Last Line: That their mother-mine outlive. Subject(s): Childhood Memories MEMORY OF MY PRIVATE CHILDHOOD, by EUNICE ODIO Poem Source First Line: Those doors through my soul knock about Last Line: In the afternoon Subject(s): Childhood Memories MEMPHIS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was raised %on the shore Last Line: So many questions %northern born Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Memphis, Tennessee MILD THE MIST UPON THE HILL, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Childhood Memories MONTERREY SUN, by ALFONSO REYES Poem Source First Line: No doubt: the sun %dogged me when a child Last Line: No shadow in my childhood %but was red with sun Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Monterey, Mexico MORNING REPORT FROM YOUR ROOM IN BUDAPEST, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN Poem Source First Line: The warning flutes of owls wake you Last Line: You left with a thirst Subject(s): Budapest, Hungary; Childhood Memories; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration MRS. SHAW'S CADILLAC, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When cindy shaw told me Last Line: Sometimes as big as car fins Subject(s): Women; Middle Age; Childhood Memories MY COUNTRY, by JAIME TORRES BODET Poem Source First Line: This profound piety is my own country Last Line: Life, until the end, made of childhood! Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Patriotism MY MOUNTAIN HOME, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The trees have grown so stout and tall Last Line: And watch, and wait, and weep. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Home; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) MY SECRET LIFE, by NATASHA SAJE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That gent in victoria's england who screwed Last Line: The thought of drowning is a century away Subject(s): Biography; Books; Childhood Memories NEARLY DROWNING AT SIX, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The blue of bill's pet shop fish tank was all Last Line: Sweet jesus. Her feet, I must kiss her feet Subject(s): Drowning; Childhood Memories NINETY-FIVE, A HUNDRED, by FORREST HAMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Let's say the self is a story Last Line: For somebody's next surprise Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Christmas; Gifts And Giving; Santa Claus NURSERY REMINISCENCES, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I remember, I remember Last Line: Must be whipp'd and sent to bed!' Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Family Life; Childhood Memories; Punishment; Relatives OBSERVATION, by LARS LUNDKVIST Poem Source First Line: The shadows of the trees Last Line: Primeval, unfathomable Subject(s): Aging; Childhood Memories; Shadows OCTOBER, by MAY SWENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A smudge for the horizon Subject(s): Family Life; Autumn; Childhood Memories; Nature; Relatives; Fall ODE TO NIAGARA, by JOSE MARIA DE+(1) HEREDIA Poem Source First Line: My lyre! Give me my lyre! My bosom Last Line: To listen to the echoes of my fame Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Niagara Falls; Water; Waterfalls OH, TEDDY BEAR, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, teddy bear, dear teddy, Subject(s): Childhood Memories ON NANA, by MENGMENG HUANG Poem Source First Line: For christmas, %she gave me a children's illustrated bible Last Line: And ensuing sting of lime extract, %I have lost my faith Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Faith ONE THING AND ANOTHER, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The crows are tagged to see how far they'll take Last Line: Before waking her to a face she made long ago %out of something irreparable as love Subject(s): Childhood Memories ORDER, by PATRICIA WILSON Poem Source First Line: I never knew how much you suffered, but at your funeral I read from Last Line: Told me, 'just like that chair over there.' Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Order ORPHEUS PLAYS THE BRONX, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was ten (no longer Subject(s): Mothers; Substance Abuse; Childhood Memories OUR TONGUES SLAPPED INTO SILENCE, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: In first grade I was five years old, the youngest and smallest in my class Last Line: Made sure our tongues were drowned in the murky waters of assimilation Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Culture Conflict; Language; Native Americans; Native Americans - Education; Navajo Indians; Punishment; U.s. - Race Relations OVER A CUP OF COFFEE OR SITTING ON A PARK BENCH, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Uncharted lands. Subject(s): Childhood Memories OVER THE BITTER LAND, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: That wander around. Far Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Old Age PAST TIME, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: We swarm the stadium Last Line: In the smallest most elegant ways Subject(s): Childhood Memories PENGUINS IN TROUBLE WORLDWIDE, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sorrowful and joyful mysteries, they were Last Line: Farewell, my teachers, fierce sisters of mercy Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Sisters; Teaching And Teachers; Widows And Widowers PHOTO OF MYSELF AT THREE, by DICK JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: That kid's not tough. Too gentle, hoping Last Line: Fire,stone, oceans cannot starve or stay them Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Parents PHOTOGRAPH, by TIBOR GYURKOVICS Poem Source First Line: We lost the picture Last Line: Even childhood is curable Subject(s): Bombs; Childhood Memories; Photography And Photographers; Pictures; War PHOTOGRAPHY, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My aunt yetta sleeps, her mouth hanging open, her eyes Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Aunts; Photography & Photographers POEM 3, by ABELARDO SANCHEZ LEON Poem Source First Line: You thought that I could help you out? Last Line: The tranquil night, the warm sound of a bell? Subject(s): Childhood Memories PORTRAIT OF A FAMILY, by CARLOS DRUMMOND DE ANDRADE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This family portrait Last Line: The long road of the flesh Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Family Life; Pictures POSTCARDS ON MY WINDOW LEDGE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He's there, yes with hardy, larkin heaney Last Line: My face, tiny, watching him Subject(s): Great Britain; Soccer; Writing & Writers; Fathers; Poetry & Poets; Childhood Memories POT ROAST, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I gaze upon a roast Subject(s): Food & Eating; Solitude; Childhood Memories; Loneliness PRINCESS SUMMER FALL WINTER SPRING, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Or was it princess fall winter spring summer? Last Line: Who once loved your heart and face? Subject(s): Puppets; Childhood Memories PRIVATE JOURNAL, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We started from places that saw no gay carracks wrecked Last Line: Freedom from, not of, thought Subject(s): Schools; Childhood Memories PULLING THE CHAIN, by SIMON RAE Poem Source First Line: When I were just a little lad, right small Last Line: Fact was, you see, I couldn't reach the chain Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Harrison, Tony (b. 1937) QUIET EARTH, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: Snow fills the leaves that haven't blown Last Line: The earth's so hard, there's nothing to give back Subject(s): Childhood Memories REMEMBRANCE OF A FALL WALK, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once we were tangled in the branches Subject(s): Walking; Childhood Memories; Home RETURN, by ROSARIO CASTELLANOS Poem Source First Line: I walk the land of anahuac which is Last Line: Are so needy Subject(s): Childhood Memories; History; Mankind REVISITING, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If one clear road you cannot find Last Line: The rising turmoil in your breast. Subject(s): Change; Childhood Memories; Past RICHARD BROUGHT HIS FLUTE, by NANCY MOREJON Poem Source First Line: The day the two old women were dissecting two birds Last Line: And all silence was reduced to listening Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Grandparents; Women RICHFIELD, by RANDY BLASING Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The smouldering odor Subject(s): Childhood Memories RIVER, by MARTHA COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the plane flew in I followed Last Line: Somewhere and now I am saying goodbye Subject(s): Rivers; Childhood Memories ROMANTIC SONNET, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Family Life; Childhood Memories; Relatives SHADES OF ORIGIN, by SEBASTIAN SALAZAR BONDY Poem Source First Line: I was born in a flimsy nest Last Line: Oppressed my childhood dreams with terror Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Ethnic Groups - United States; Peru SHEET OF FOIL, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: First day of spring on the hill of anemones, masses of scarlet Last Line: Not to disturb her fingers at my back, steadying the wings Subject(s): Arabs; Childhood Memories; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine SHOFAR ECHOES, by ANNETTE KOHN Poem Text First Line: I'm but a child, and childish toys Last Line: "in ""jacob's goodly tents"" shall dwell." Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Jews; Judaism SLEEPING, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They are sleeping in the valley and on the / glistening hills Last Line: "when the master holds his dear hands out, and says: ""come unto me." Subject(s): Childhood Memories SNOWFLAKES, MY MOTHER CALLED THEM, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Stood, made of skill and absence Subject(s): Mothers; Grandparents; Snow; Childhood Memories SOME CALL IT CHILDHOOD: 1. TWICE ALIVE: DETROIT; THE SECRET..., by PETER COOLEY Poem Source First Line: Not yet the blue, uncertain, stumbling buzz Last Line: The windows failing-oh the wonder!-of her dying Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Sisters; Survival SOMETHING HAS FALLEN, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something has fallen wordlessly Subject(s): Childhood Memories SOMETIMES, WHEN THE LIGHT, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes, when the light strikes at odd angles Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Childhood Memories SOUL FOOD, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: Yesterday's chit'lin's in the frigidaire congeal miraculously into our Last Line: Chit'lin' dinner that naturally fills the soul of man Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Faith; Food And Eating SPEEDING YEARS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How swift the years roll on, my friend, how Last Line: Homeward on a dray; how swift the years roll on! Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Old Age; Weariness; Fatigue SPRING SNOW, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here comes the powdered milk I drank Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Transience; Death; Impermanence; Dead, The ST. VINCENT'S, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: A smell in the air Last Line: Doors wide open to the air Subject(s): Birth; Childhood Memories; Memory STILL LOCATED AT THE GINGERBREAD HOUSE, 1981, by ZONA TETI Poem Source First Line: The dead mocked me because I didn't fit in Last Line: That, in hunger, wipe clean the trail leading out of the woods Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Death STOIC, by JAMES HATCH Poem Source First Line: The sight of bread's split crust on the oven sill Last Line: And say those simple prayers that children know' Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Parents; Stoicism STRAWBERRY TIME, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the strawberry, ripening, blushes Last Line: From fields where the berries are thick. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Fruit; Harvest; Labor & Laborers; Strawberries; Work; Workers STUDY IN BLACK & WHITE, by PAUL MARIANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seven days a week, six till ten, Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Fathers & Sons; Childhood Memories; Friendship; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops SUMMER AT BLUE CREEK, NORTH CAROLINA, by JACK GILBERT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was no water at my grandfather's Subject(s): Summer; Childhood Memories SUMMER HILL, by HENRY SPLAWN TAYLOR Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seems like to me it ought to be winter hill Last Line: The blade bite wood. Sound can't keep up with light Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Neighbors; Country Life SUNNY MORNING, by LUIS G. URBINA Poem Source First Line: The sails that quiver in the morning breeze Last Line: They scatter in the stillness of the day? Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Mothers; Seashore SURPRISING NIGHTS, by JAY MEEK Poem Source First Line: There's no doubt that my life surprises me Last Line: Under the big sky, under its small glitter Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Motorcycles And Motorcycling; Night; Planets; Stars SWEET EARLSBURN, BLYTHE EARLSBURN, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Their lustre ever dimmed Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Rivers; Childhood Memories; Home TENNIS TROPHY, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back in boyhood, game was all Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Tennis THE ANCHORAGE, by MARK WUNDERLICH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think you would like this seaside town-it makes me dream of whales. Last Line: That move through them. Just motion, and union, and light Subject(s): Seashore; Childhood Memories; Christianity THE ASH TREE, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My grandmother led me out Subject(s): Grandparents; Gardens & Gardening; Childhood Memories; Ash Trees; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers THE BAREFOOT BOY', by PHOEBE CARY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! 'barefoot boy!' you have led me back Subject(s): Childhood Memories THE BLUE-GRASS PLOT, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the blue-grass plot, the blue-grass plot Last Line: The grass-plot over the river. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Family Life; Relatives THE CITY, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not mine with infancy's film'd eyes Last Line: Thy singer here reborn. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Home; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE CITY OF MY YOUTH, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: The town I knew is sunk from sight Last Line: Thy happiness my tears. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Cities; Youth; Urban Life THE COCK'S CLEAR VOICE INTO THE CLEARER AIR, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And new days begin Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Scotland THE DAY DR. KNOX DID IT, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heat-blaze, white dazzle: and white is the dust Last Line: It us night. In the next room she weeps Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Suicide; Southern States; Death THE DESTRUCTION OF LONG BRANCH, N.J., by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When they came out with artifical turf Subject(s): Homecoming; Childhood Memories; Long Branch, New Jersey THE DISAPPOINTMENTS OF CHILDHOOD, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Imagine now, an affection the same size Subject(s): Childhood Memories THE DOGWOOD THE ANSWER, by ROBERT KELLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dogwood is no answer Last Line: All this island music Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Neighbors THE FEAST OF FREEDOM, by PHILIP MAX RASKIN Poem Text First Line: I remember in my childhood Last Line: "of a spring of long ago. ..." Alternate Author Name(s): Raskin, P. M. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Feasts; Freedom; Jews; Passover; Liberty; Judaism THE FIRST MOVIE, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walked with jessamine, the tall black lady Last Line: Sayng hush, hush, but I 'd hushed myself already Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Childhood Memories THE FLYING EAGLES OF TROOP 62, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ralph neal was the scoutmaster Last Line: The country is enough to drive you crazy Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Men; Boy Scouts; Childhood Memories THE FOUR CORNERS, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the empty lot, we are betting Subject(s): Childhood Memories THE GAMECOCKS, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I think of pine needles Subject(s): Childhood Memories THE HEART'S RETURN, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When darkened hours come crowding fast Last Line: Folding his happy sheep and knowing all his tasks are done. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Shepherds & Shepherdesses THE HOMELAND, by DANA BURNET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My land was the west land; my home was on the hill Last Line: But I am at my mother's knee, a little lad again. Subject(s): Home; Childhood Memories THE HOUSE DOWN THE STREET, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is empty, the yellow house that used to be Subject(s): Childhood Memories THE IMAGINED COPPERHEAD, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Without intending to hide, Last Line: And his priesthood. Subject(s): Snakes; Childhood Memories; Imagination; Serpents; Vipers; Fancy THE LISTENERS, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walked down the street Last Line: In the distance going away Subject(s): Home; Childhood Memories; Nostalgia THE LITTLE HOUSE ON THE HILL, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O memory, be sweet to me Last Line: In the little house on the hill! Subject(s): Childhood Memories THE MYTH, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My childhood all a myth Last Line: The faithful watchers stood Subject(s): Life; Childhood Memories THE OLD HOUSE, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My little birds, with backs as brown Last Line: In that new house not made with hands! Subject(s): Childhood Memories THE OLD LURE (FLEET STREET), by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the gaunt night covers the city Last Line: And the pals of long ago. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Friendship; Old Age THE PATCHWORK QUIZ, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In sheen of silken splendor Last Line: When mother dear was there. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Clothing & Dress; Family Life; Fashion; Mothers; Quilts; Relatives THE POET AT SEVEN, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And on the porch, across the upturned chair Last Line: And whip him down the street, but gently, home Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Childhood THE POOL, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind through the summer woods blows cool Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Childhood Memories THE RAINBOW, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I chased a rainbow in my youth Last Line: Now I am growing old. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Old Age; Weariness; Fatigue THE READER, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: She is going back, these days, to the great stories Subject(s): Books; Childhood Memories; Reading THE RIVER, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far up on the mountain the river begins Last Line: And bless thee in shadow and sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Old Age; Rivers; Sailing & Sailors THE RUINED INN, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the highway stands a ruined inn Last Line: That time of sunrise and of boyish dreams. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Country Life THE SCHOLAR, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: When I was ignorant and small Last Line: I keep my eyes tight on my book. Subject(s): Books; Childhood Memories; Education; January; Scholarship & Scholars; Reading THE SHRINE, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Alone, with hardened eyes which shed no tears Last Line: And lo! My lips burst forth in praise to god. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Solitude; Loneliness THE SHRINE, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At noon the veiled woman sat and wailed on the curb Last Line: Intentions and goals Subject(s): Women; Cities; Grief; Childhood Memories 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 STREETS, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Marlboro' and waterloo and trafalgar Last Line: Caught by sharp roofs in a narrow net of sky. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Children; War; Childhood THE SUBJECT MATTER, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How elusive - what we want Subject(s): Family Life; Childhood Memories; Relatives THE SWING, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was like floating in a blessed dream to roam Last Line: So wide a sky, so great a tree. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Family Life; Fields; Home; Trees; Relatives; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE TABLE, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Walking back to the farm from the depot Subject(s): Farm Life; Grandparents; Childhood Memories; Agriculture; Farmers; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers THE TRANSCENDENTALIST, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember that day in brewster, mass. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Nature THE UNDYING, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In thin clear light unshadowed shapes go by Last Line: Ripe berries on neglected boughs that wasted. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Death; Grief; World War I; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; First World War THE WATCH BELOW, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: His childhood's longings are come true Last Line: Let the wet sea boy lie! Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages THE WIND BLOWS SOFT, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind blows soft, and cool, and sweet Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Conduct Of Life THE WOODEN TOY, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The brightly-painted horse Subject(s): Toys; Childhood Memories THEN AND NOW, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I can remember, in the long ago Last Line: Sweet is the mem'ry of the tale that's told! Subject(s): Childhood Memories THERE IS AN OLD CITY, by KARL BULCKE Poem Text First Line: An old town lies afar Last Line: Shut in my boyhood's years. ... Subject(s): Childhood Memories THESE BLUE DAYS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And this sun of childhood Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Children THESE DAYS, by LEON STOKESBURY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: These days I live on top of a piney ridge Last Line: Of an engine grinding down. That takes my breath away Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Fields; Geography; Georgia (state); Travel THINGS WE THINK WE CANNOT SEE: 1. DANDELIONS, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: Around the corolla of dandelions Last Line: That complete moment of surrender Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Dandelions; Flowers; Parents; Weeds THINGS WE THINK WE CANNOT SEE: 2. GOOSEBERRIES, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: Gooseberry bushes snarl up the backlot Last Line: Onto a world that keeps changing before us Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Parents THINKING OF THE LOST WORLD, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This spoonful of chocolate tapioca Last Line: Nothing: nothing for which there's no reward Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Los Angeles, California THIS HEAT, THESE HUMAN FORMS, by MARK WUNDERLICH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two years ago, while crossing the street, a group of boys came Last Line: It is difficult enough without your body in the world Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Suicide; Human Behavior; Childhood Memories; Horses THOSE TIMES, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At six / I lived in a graveyard full of dolls Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Dolls THREE GREEN WINDOWS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Half awake in my sunday nap Last Line: It is a time of water, a time of trees Subject(s): Childhood Memories TO A DEAD CHILDHOOD, by RUDOLFO HINOSTROZA Poem Source First Line: My father's loud call like a crest of feathers Last Line: Waiting for my father's next brilliant move Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Family Life TO A LITTLE GIRL, ONE YEAR OLD, IN A RUINED FORTRESS: 5. COLDER FIRE, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It rained toward day. The morning came sad & white Last Line: But defines, for the fortunate, that joy in which all joys shall rejoice Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Childhood Memories TO A PICTURE OF MY MOTHER AS A GIRL, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Did ever a youth pass by the spot Last Line: Without that heart of gold! Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Girls; Portraits; Youth TO CIPRIANO, IN THE WIND, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where did your words go Subject(s): Dry Cleaning & Dry Cleaners; Childhood Memories TO MY HOME, by DALIA SABBAGH Poem Source First Line: To my dear home Last Line: Its time to let you go Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Family Life; Home TOUCHING THE LEAF MOLD, by MARK DEFOE Poem Source First Line: He did this as a boy, probing the detritus of fall Last Line: Listening, listening hard in the muted dusk Subject(s): Appalachia; Childhood Memories; Labor And Laborers; Mowing And Mowers TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. CHILD OF THE LONELY HEART, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Child of the lonely heart Last Line: Through the great mother-heart eternally ascending! Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Hearts; Solitude; Loneliness UNCLE'S FIRST RABBIT, by LORNA DEE CERVANTES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was a good boy Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Hunting; Rabbits; Hares UNDER GRANDMOTHER'S HOUSE, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: Beneath the house of my father's childhood Last Line: Dried and crumbled, grain by grain, in the night breezes Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Family Life; Grandparents UNITED JEWISH APPEAL, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My grandmother was eighty-nine and blind Subject(s): Old Age; Grandparents; Childhood Memories; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers WASHING THE ELEPHANT, by BARBARA RAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Circus; Confession; Religion; Family Life; Elephants; Theology; Relatives WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even the bad bews came slowly and was afraid Last Line: For the ice truck, buried the dead, called it home Subject(s): Washington Heights, New York City; Childhood Memories WEAVE, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say he's a runner, his borzoi torso wiffles Subject(s): Human Body; Childhood Memories WEEHAWKEN, 1820, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weehawken!-in thy mountain scenery yet Last Line: Nor feel the prouder of his native land. Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Nature; Weehawken, New Jersey WELLS II, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last sinhala word I lost Subject(s): Language; Childhood Memories; Farewell; Loss; Water; Words; Vocabulary; Parting WHAT WE HAVE, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the mountain / the neighbor's dog, put out in the cold Last Line: That I think, when looking back, was happiness. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Family Life; Happiness; Poverty; Retrospection; Relatives; Joy; Delight 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 WHEN I AM WITH YOU, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I am with you, two notes of the sarod Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Mortality WHEN I WAS A COWBOY, by ARTHUR A. FLAKOLL Poem Text First Line: When I was a cowboy I rode a horse that was wild as a storm Last Line: —arthur a. Flakoll, aberdeen Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Cowboys; South Dakota WHERE I ONCE LIVED AS SHOWN TO A FRIEND, by TOM FRAZIER Poem Source First Line: My 'home-seat' is down there Last Line: As either an adult toy store or a pancake house Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Family Life; Home WHILE ASLEEP, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: Were it not for the teddy bear forgotten on the lawn, the Last Line: Shepherd, it is much too soon to die, first I must learn to throw a good hard stone Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Poetry And Poets; Railroad Stations; Sleep; Travel WHITE BREAD, by RANDY BLASING Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: One morning I woke to apricot light Subject(s): Childhood Memories WIND, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: Not kites, the wind didn't loft us Last Line: That the day could see and the crows Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Kites; Wind WITH EACH CLOUDED PEAK, by FRIEDERIKE MAYROCKER Poem Source First Line: What a conflict, he said Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Farm Life; Landscape Y'CALL SOMEPLACE PARADISE, KISS IT GOODBYE, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this faded fifteenth-century expulsion, everything Subject(s): Childhood Memories YOU GO BACK, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: You go back to where people know Last Line: Two women in the mist, disembodied %-girlish voices Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Dreams; Fantasy; Saint Kilda (scotland) YOUNG, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A thousand doors ago Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Family Life; Relatives YOUR RICHES TAUGHT ME POVERTY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: While just a girl at school Subject(s): Nostalgia; Childhood Memories; School |
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