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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