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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CLOCKS Matches Found: 80 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A MANTEL CLOCK, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER Poem Text First Line: A tireless servant of old time it stands Last Line: To us it would be more than ornament. Subject(s): Clocks; Old Age; Time A MENDER OF CLOCKS, by MARGARET E. BRUNER Poem Text First Line: I think that in his youth he must have known Last Line: Age vanishes -- his spirit soars with time. Subject(s): Clocks; Time ALARM CLOCKS, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When dawn strides out to wake a dewy farm Last Line: In many a high and dreary sleeping place. Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Subject(s): Clocks; Dawn; Time; Sunrise ALL THE CLOCKS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the house have stopped running Last Line: Will historians write about %the revolution of the clocks Subject(s): Clocks; Time AT 3 PM, by DAVID CHORLTON Poem Source First Line: The clock in a narrow tavern Last Line: Toward it, each one afraid %to mention a name Subject(s): Clocks; Time BALD HEAD WITH THE FRINGE, by JANE BEESON Poem Source Last Line: Domed candles under a cathedral sky Subject(s): Clocks; Dandelions; Flowers; Riddles; Time; Weeds CLEPSYDRA, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why, let it run! Who bids it stay? Last Line: Against a cannon-bullet. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Water Clocks; Wine CLOCK, by JORGE CARRERA ANDRADE Poem Source First Line: Clock %time's stone-mason Last Line: Silence walks in its muffled slippers Subject(s): Clocks; Time CLOCK, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A clock stopped - not the mantel's Last Line: The dial life and him. Subject(s): Clocks; Time CLOCK, by ZBIGNIEW HERBERT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: In appearance it is the peaceful face of a miller, full, shiny Last Line: And this is supposed to lead us to eternity Subject(s): Clocks; Future Life; Time CLOCK, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Clocks; Transience; Impermanence CLOCK AND DIAL, by ALLAN RAMSAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ae day a clock wad brag a dial Subject(s): Clocks; Time CLOCK STOP, by EVELYN HUDSON ROWLEY Poem Text First Line: I am but an hour in your heart Last Line: There's something real in this we've found. Subject(s): Clocks; Time CLOCK STRIKES ONE THAT JUST STRUCK TWO, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A vagabond for genesis %has wrecked the pendulum Variant Title(s): Poem: 1569; Poem: 159 Subject(s): Clocks; Time CLOCKMAKER WITH BAD EYES, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I close the shop at six. Welcome wind Last Line: Love whatevr flows. Cooking smoke, woman's blood, %tears. Do you hear what I'm telling you? Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Clocks; Labor And Laborers; Life; Time CLOCKS, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The clock I go to bed by is so very wee and small Last Line: It has the biggest minutes of 'most any clock I know. Subject(s): Children; Clocks; Time; Childhood CLOCKS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is a face that says half-past seven the same way Last Line: Eager to go to france... Subject(s): Clocks; Time DRIVING TIME, by JEANNETTE LYNES Poem Source First Line: I'm driving an old clock Last Line: Myself at odd intervals %'laugh, damn you.' Subject(s): Clocks; Time EACH CLOCK TICK FALLS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: As if it were nothing Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Clocks; Nature; Time EARLY RISER, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The face of the clock at 4 a.M. Last Line: Any mail herself. Subject(s): Clocks; Dawn; Day; Sleep; Time; Sunrise EPITAPH: THOMAS PEIRCE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When his own watch was done on the last day Last Line: Until he rise again no more to die Subject(s): Clocks;epitaphs;time FRANCES REFUSES TO SET BACK HER CLOCK, by HELEN WALLACE Poem Source First Line: She knows it's time. Time to wind the hands Last Line: Breeze, that drops the swollen hours, %plump, urgent with seed Subject(s): Clocks; Spring; Time FRENCH CLOCK, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: Time is a heavy legend to be told Last Line: And hot throats roaring that the king is dead! Subject(s): Clocks; Time FRENCH CLOCKS, 1876, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Electric clocks in paris now on trial Last Line: Compel them all in unison to strike. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Clocks; France; Time GAME AT CHESS: THE CHESS CLOCK, by DAVID SOLWAY Poem Source First Line: When, having placed my piece Last Line: The game we never knew we lived Subject(s): Chess; Clocks; Time GRANDFATHER'S CLOCK, by HENRY CLAY WORK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My grandfather's clock was too large for the shelf Last Line: When the old man died. Subject(s): Clocks; Time HICKORY, DICKORY, DOCK / THE MOUSE RAN UP THE CLOCK, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Hickory, dickory, dock. Subject(s): Mice; Clocks IN THE NIGHT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When it's night, and no light Last Line: "go to sleep, my dear""?" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Clocks; Night; Sleep; Time; Bedtime IN TIME, by GERALD STERN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Clocks LINES ADDED TO WYCHERLEY'S POEMS: 3. OF WEIGHTS OF A CLOCK, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So clocks to lead their nimble motions owe Last Line: Actuates, maintains, and rules the moving frame. Subject(s): Clocks; Time LINES ON MR. HATTON'S CLOCKS, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From hour to hour melodiously they chime Last Line: With silver sounds, and sweetly tune out time. Subject(s): Clocks; Time LITTLE DICK AND THE CLOCK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When dicky was sick Last Line: "ty -- slippaty -- sleepaty!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Clocks; Night; Sickness; Time; Bedtime; Illness MOTTO ON THE KING'S CLOCK, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slow comes the hour; its passing speed how great! Last Line: Waiting to seize it--vigilantly wait! Subject(s): Clocks; Time MY ALARM CLOCK, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a little dumpy sergeant that calls me to the fray Last Line: Ah, heed the little sergeant while he is at the door! Subject(s): Clocks; Morning; Time MY STOPPED CLOCK IS ALWAYS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: With every day as long as I wish it to be Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Clocks; Nature; Time MY TIMEPIECE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hour has struck its advent and farewell Last Line: One, two, three, four', - trips daintily away. Subject(s): Clocks; Time NINE O'CLOCK, by LYDIA SHARPE Poem Text First Line: From the great clock on the landing Last Line: But enchantment. Subject(s): Clocks; Day; Hearts; Time; Women OLD KITCHEN CLOCK, by ANN HAWKSHAW Poem Source First Line: Listen to the kitchen clock! Alternate Author Name(s): Aunt Effie; Hawkshawe, Ann; Jackson, Ann Subject(s): Clocks; Time ON A CLOCK; SHREWSBURY, 1745, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O labour here with all my might Last Line: Therefore example take by me, %and serve thy gdo as I serve thee Subject(s): Clocks; Time ON THE CLOCK IN STRASBURG CATHEDRAL, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Due praise be his whose skill to strasburg gave Last Line: To ponder on eternity how few! Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Clocks; Public Worship; Strasbourg, France; Time; Church Attendance ON THE DOOR OF A LONG-CASE CLOCK BY THOMAS LISTER, C. 1730, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Lo! Here I stand by you, upright Last Line: Each day and night be on thy guard, %and thou shall have a just reward Subject(s): Clocks; Time OUR NEW CHURCH CLOCK, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Henceforward shall our time be plainly read Last Line: With summer flies and voices from the fields! Subject(s): Clocks; Time PATTY MORGAN THE MILKMAID'S STORY: 'LOOK AT THE CLOCK!', by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look at the clock!' quoth winifred pryce Last Line: Look at the clock!!!' Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Marriage; Clocks; Weddings; Husbands; Wives QUATORZAINS: 11. A CLOCK STRIKING AT MIDNIGHT, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark to the echo of time's footsteps; gone Last Line: While the glad spirit seeks a brighter birth. Subject(s): Clocks; Death; Future Life; Time; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life RIDDLE: 7, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: What is it that stands Last Line: Has no feet at all? Subject(s): Clocks;riddles;time SAD TALE O MR. MEARS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There was a man who had a clock Subject(s): Clocks; Time SAVE THAT TIGER, by J. C. ELLEFSON Poem Source First Line: July fourth. Summer lake. Fish jumping. Fireworks. Four Last Line: Quartet can hold a distinguished harmony forever Subject(s): Clocks; Death; Friendship; Time SONG OF ACKWORTH CLOCK, by BASIL BUNTING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clock beneath the cupola Last Line: Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock, slow Subject(s): Clocks; Schools; Time SONGS TO A.H.R.: 8. HOROLOGUE, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have a clock within me Last Line: That heal the hurts of time. Subject(s): Clocks; Hearts; Love; Time STUDIES, by CARLOS PELLICER Poem Source First Line: Clocks out of order, %willful paths Last Line: These are the tropics, %prodigious and sad. %nobody knows what time it is Subject(s): Clocks; Time SUDDENLY MY CLOCKS AGREE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: They have this tender moment Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Clocks; Nature; Time THE ABSENCE OF LITTLE WESLEY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sence little wesley went, the place Last Line: With our last prayers, and our last tears, sence little wesley's dead! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Absence; Clocks; Death; Moon; Prayer; Time; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The THE ALARM, by HILDEBRAND JACOB Poem Text First Line: What is't, good prying friend, you say? Last Line: Tis time to be in haste, to live! Subject(s): Barbers; Clocks; Hair; Old Age; Time THE ANCIENT FAMILY CLOCK, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So, here thou art, old friend Last Line: And make thy peace with him, who rules above the storm. Subject(s): Clocks; Time THE CLOCK, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Every tick and every tock Last Line: "has molly dropped down dead?" Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Clocks; Time THE CLOCK, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: Didactic in its safe stone tower Last Line: The hour it does not tell. Subject(s): Clocks; Time THE CLOCK, by HANIEL (CLARK) LONG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The clock is in a garden wide Last Line: And strikes eternity. Subject(s): Clocks; Time THE CLOCK, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why do you go to that grand hotel Last Line: "and london, with their chimes." Subject(s): Clocks; Guilt; Household Employees; Love; Time; Servants; Domestics; Maids THE CLOCK'S SONG, by ROSE HAWTHORNE LATHROP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eileen of four / eileen of smiles Last Line: Eileen! Eileen! ... Alternate Author Name(s): Alphonsa, Mother Mary Subject(s): Clocks; Time THE CLOCKS OF THE DEAD, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: One night I went to keep the clock company Subject(s): Clocks; Time; Silence THE CUCKOO, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forth I wandered, years ago Last Line: Cuckoo-clock. Subject(s): Clocks; Time THE CUCKOO-CLOCK, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wouldst thou be taught, when sleep has taken flight Last Line: And those that seek his help, and for his mercy sigh. Subject(s): Clocks; Time THE EIGHT-DAY CLOCK, by ALFRED COCHRANE Poem Text First Line: The days of bute and grafton's fame Last Line: Sedately to and fro. Subject(s): Clocks; Time THE HAPPY LITTLE CLOCK, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: In my garret room, I'm never quite / alone Last Line: With my little china clock upon the shelf. Subject(s): Children; Clocks; Friendship; January; Time; Childhood THE KITCHEN CLOCK, by JOHN VANCE CHENEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Knitting is the maid o' the kitchen, milly Last Line: Goes the kitchen clock. Subject(s): Clocks; Love; Time THE OLD BRASS CLOCK, by MARY CROMER Poem Text First Line: Within the cracked and scarred mahogany frame Last Line: Clangs through the house. Subject(s): Clocks; Time THE OLD CLOCK, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Clock of the household, the sound of thy bell Last Line: When I, the forgotten one, sleep in the tomb! Subject(s): Clocks; Home; Time THE OLD CLOCK, by JOHN CHARLES MCNEILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day low clouds and slanting rain Last Line: Nic-noc, nic-noc, nic-noc! Subject(s): Clocks; Time THE OLD CLOCK OF PRAGUE, by JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a curious clock in the city of prague Last Line: Who would live with a whole pair of eyes in his face. Subject(s): Clocks; Prague, Czech Republic; Time THE OLD CLOCK ON THE STAIRS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhat back from the village street Last Line: "never -- forever!" Subject(s): Clocks; Pittsfield, Massachusetts; Time THE OLD GRAY CLOCK, by HARRIET GRACE MCINTOSH Poem Text First Line: Old gray clock upon the wall Last Line: Tick, tick, tock:old gray clock. Subject(s): Clocks; Future; Time THE SPIRE, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the bavarian steeple, on the hour, Subject(s): Clocks; Time; Country Life; Nature TIME, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Time is as feather footed as the snow Last Line: Marking the swift iambics of his feet. Subject(s): Clocks; Time TO AN ELECTRIC CLOCK, by WALTER G. RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: Formal as your fathers, tranquil as night Last Line: Why do you not speak if you wish to boast? Subject(s): Clocks; Time TO AN OLD CLOCK, by DONALD J. PAQUETTE Poem Text First Line: Why do you always stand there Last Line: Or a man go -- unhanged? Subject(s): Clocks; Time TO MY OLD WATCH, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O wondrous work of mind's invention Last Line: So near to thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Aging; Clocks; Time; Weariness; Youth; Fatigue TO THE CLOCK, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail requiem of departed time Last Line: The shuttles quiver as the loom's beams are shaken Subject(s): Clocks; Time TRAVEL ALARM, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because everything still bears Last Line: Of green. Subject(s): Clocks; Family Life; Time; Travel; Relatives; Journeys; Trips WAKING, SLEEPING, DREAMING, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Wake, the day is breaking Last Line: Turn the clocks around. Subject(s): Clocks; Day; Dreams; Time; Nightmares WINDING THE CLOCK, by GRACE ATHERTON DENNEN Poem Text First Line: The silence that had fallen stark between us Last Line: Turned, turned -- and felt the willing wheels respond. Subject(s): Clocks; Quarrels; Time; Arguments; Disagreements |
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