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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: DAY Matches Found: 1102 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "INDEPENDENCE BELL - JULY 4, 1776", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There was a tumult in the city Last Line: "which, please god, shall never die!" Subject(s): American Revolution;fourth Of July;liberty Bell;patriotism; Independence Day 14-FEB-89, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: North's lawyers say he'll claim a cover-up Last Line: The roses you brought have opened Subject(s): Holidays; Love; Social Protest; Valentine's Day 1X1 (ONE TIMES ONE): 20, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What if a much of a which of a wind Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Judgment Day; War; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man 1X1 (ONE TIMES ONE): 20, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What if a much of a which of a wind Last Line: The most who die, the more we live Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Judgment Day; War A BACHELOR'S VALENTINE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: If I were younger, mary jane Last Line: And she will love me dearly! Subject(s): Courtship; Holidays; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Single People; Valentine's Day; Youth; Male-female Relations; Bachelors; Unmarried People A BALLAD OF HEROES, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because you passed, and now are not Last Line: The deeds you wrought are not in vain. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Heroism; Holidays; Memorial Day; Heroes; Heroines; Declaration Day A BLUE VALENTINE; FOR ALINE, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Monsignore / right reverend bishop valentinus Last Line: "for wearing a blue gown." Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Subject(s): Holidays; Kilmer, Aline (1888-1941); Love - Marital; Valentine's Day; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love A CHILD'S DAY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a little child Last Line: And dead leaves on a grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Day; Memory; Spring; Childhood A CREED, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, let me not in service lag Last Line: The starry flag which flies above. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Flags - United States; Fourth Of July; American Flag; Independence Day A DAY OF DAYS, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Each rose before the sun, and saw the moon Last Line: King love had all the stars for diadem. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Day; Hearts; Love A DAY-DREAMER, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since coming from the land of dreams is lonely Last Line: Wherein who loveth dreams shall have his fill. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Day; Dreams; Nightmares A FIDDLER'S VALENTINE, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pretty player, from thy strings Last Line: Kiss, and say good-bye to me! Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Fiddles; Holidays; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Valentine's Day A GEORGIA VOLUNTEER, by MARY ASHLEY TOWNSEND Poem Text First Line: Far up the lonely mountain-side Last Line: A georgia volunteer. Alternate Author Name(s): Xariffa Subject(s): American Civil War; Georgia (state); Holidays; Memorial Day; U.s. - History; Declaration Day A KNOCK ON THE DOOR, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: They ask me if I've ever thought Subject(s): Earth; Judgment Day; World; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man A LOVELY DAY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: A cloudless path from east to west Last Line: And die, as he has died. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Day A LYKE-WAKE DIRGE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "this ae nighte [night], this ae nighte [night]" Last Line: And christ receive thy saule [soul] Variant Title(s): The Cleveland Lyke Wake Dirge Subject(s): Death;judgment Day;wakes; "dead, The;end Of The World;doomsday;fall Of Man; A MASQUE OF THE TIMES O' DAY, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the dawn, beloved by those that watch Last Line: These too shall pass away. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Day; Plays & Playwrights ; Time; Dramatists A MEDITATION IN SEVEN DAYS, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If your mother is a jew, you are a jew Subject(s): Day; Jews - Women; Meditation A MEMORIAL DAY POEM FOR THE CONFEDERACY, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wearing the gray, wearing the gray Last Line: The old rebel jacket our dead boy had on! Subject(s): Confederate States Of America; Holidays; Memorial Day; Soldiers; Confederacy; Declaration Day A MERRY HEART: A SONG FOR APRIL FIRST, by THELMA LUCILE LULL Poem Text First Line: With imagined hoofs I spurn the earth Last Line: For spring is in my spine, o! Subject(s): April Fool's Day; Comedy; Mermaids & Mermen; Spring; All Fools' Day A MONUMENT FOR THE SOLDIERS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day A MORNING HYMN, by CHARLES WESLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Christ, whose glory fills the skies Last Line: Shining to the perfect day. Subject(s): Day; Hymns (as Literary Form); Light; Morning; Sun A MOTHER'S DAY PRAYER, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: On mother's day this is our prayer Last Line: God bless all mothers everywhere. Subject(s): Mother's Day; Prayer A NEW DAY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As if already pulsed in every part Last Line: For childhood's joy, for dreams and hopes and fears. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Day; Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life A RECIPE FOR A DAY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take a little dash of water cold Last Line: Complete the well-made day. Subject(s): Day A ROUTE FOR THE PROCESSION, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where shall the veterans march to-day Last Line: "soon we too shall be lying here." Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Parades; Declaration Day A SECOND REVIEW OF THE GRAND ARMY [MAY 24, 1865], by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I read last night of the grand review Last Line: Awakened me from my slumber. Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; Peace; Soldiers; United States - History; Declaration Day A SOLDIER POET, by ROSSITER JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where swell the songs thou shouldst have sung Last Line: That silence here is music there. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Soldiers; Declaration Day A SONG FOR INDEPENDENCE DAY, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: Arise and shout, ye native sons! Last Line: Shall roll from sea to sea! Subject(s): Flags - United States; Fourth Of July; Patriotism; American Flag; Independence Day A SONG FOR LEXINGTON, by ROBERT KELLEY WEEKS Poem Text First Line: The spring came earlier on Last Line: Our first immortal name! Subject(s): American Revolution; Fourth Of July; Lexington, Battle Of (1775); Independence Day; Concord, Battle Of A SONG OF VICTORY, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But now above the thunder of the drums Subject(s): Holidays; Patriotism; Veterans Day A STORY OF DOOM: BOOK 1, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Niloiya said to noah, what aileth thee Last Line: Shall have no let of me, to do its will.' Subject(s): Arks; Floods; God; Judgment Day; Noah (bible); End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man A THANKSGIVING, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear lord, we thank thee for the crops Last Line: We thank thee, blessed lord! Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day A THANKSGIVING FABLE, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was a hungry pussy cat, upon thanksgiving morning Last Line: But the little mouse had overheard and declined (with thanks) to stay. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Holidays; Thanksgiving Day A THANKSGIVING FEAST, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We two are the last my daughter! Last Line: Will be here thanksgiving day. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Feasts; Food & Eating; Gratitude; Holidays; Thanksgiving Day; Turkey A THANKSGIVING POEM, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun hath shed its kindly light Last Line: We could not thank thee for them all. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day A THOUGHT FOR MOTHER'S DAY, by MAMIE COLLINS BARRY Poem Text First Line: From the pages of earth's history gleam the fairest of the fair Last Line: Mother love still guides our footsteps through the long and busy day. Subject(s): Mother's Day; Mothers A TINKLE OF BELLS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The light of the moon on the white Last Line: Sheer into the judgment day! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Bells; Judgment Day; Moon; Snow; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man A TRIBUTE TO MOTHER, by INNICE M. DRAPER Poem Text First Line: Today we wear the white carnation Last Line: Like you in all the world, my loving mother. Subject(s): Mother's Day; Mothers A VALENTINE, by WARREN K. BILLINGS Poem Text First Line: Life's joys and sorrows rise and ever wane Last Line: Just that, and nothing more. Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Holidays; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Life; Love; Valentine's Day; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight A VALENTINE, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye are twa laddies uncogleg Last Line: Dear jim and johnnie! Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day A VALENTINE, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: There was a time, when we were young together Last Line: The rose of health. Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Holidays; Life; Love; Valentine's Day; Youth A VALENTINE, by CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And cannot pleasures, while they last Last Line: Of wasting sorrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Carroll, Lewis Subject(s): Friendship; Holidays; Letters; Valentine's Day A VALENTINE, by DORA GREENWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I said to one I loved, 'why art thou sad?' Last Line: Nor will I ever seek to find it words again!' Alternate Author Name(s): Dorothy, Greenwell Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day A VALENTINE, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Cruel heart! Ere these posthumous papers Last Line: That one last word -- that fare -- fare -- fare thee well. Subject(s): Holidays; Love - Loss Of; Valentine's Day A VALENTINE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To her whose glamor moves and stirs Last Line: This valentine -- to new york city! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Holidays; Love; Praise; Valentine's Day A VALENTINE, by LAURA ELIZABETH HOWE RICHARDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O little loveliest lady mine Last Line: Here is my heart for your valentine! Alternate Author Name(s): Richards, Laura E. Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day A VALENTINE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Time was, sweet dame (when broidered coats were smart Last Line: That you will be, indeed, my valentine? Subject(s): Cupid; Holidays; Love - Complaints; Valentine's Day; Eros A VALENTINE, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Willow soon, and vine Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day A VALENTINE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I that was silent long, at last Last Line: A loyal woman friend! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Holidays; Love; Loyalty; Valentine's Day A VALENTINE, by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the depths of a heart of love Last Line: To set my pulse leaping. Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day A VALENTINE, by JOSEPH TWYMAN Poem Text First Line: I hold no viol or ancient lute Last Line: With garlanded incense? Subject(s): Holidays; Love; Valentine's Day; Worship A VALENTINE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: White paper, white paper Last Line: And ask for a kiss! Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day A VALENTINE BALLADE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Fair, bashful maid without a beau Last Line: I 'll gladly be your valentine. Subject(s): Courtship; Holidays; Man-woman Relationships; Valentine's Day; Male-female Relations A VALENTINE FOR ERNEST MANN, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You can't order a poem like you order a taco Subject(s): Valentine's Day; Gifts & Giving; Poetry & Poets A VALENTINE FOR MY TEACHER, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My teacher's very special Last Line: Before this afternoon Subject(s): Teachers; Valentine's Day A VALENTINE GAME (FOR TWO PLEAYERS), by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have a game, thus played Last Line: In kissing, and in being kissed. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day A VALENTINE TO --, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For her these lines are penned, whose luminous eyes Last Line: And now I leave these riddles to their seer. Subject(s): Holidays; Riddles; Valentine's Day A VALENTINE TO J. T. TROWBRIDGE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This, with the love of the boys Last Line: Sends you this valentine. Subject(s): Holidays; Trowbridge, John Townsend (1827-1916); Valentine's Day A VALENTINE TO SHERWOOD ANDERSON, by GERTRUDE STEIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I knew too that through them I knew too that he was through, I knew Last Line: Been blessed let us bless it. Subject(s): Anderson, Sherwood (1876-1941); Holidays; Valentine's Day; Writing & Writers A VALENTINE'S SONG, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Motley I count the only wear Last Line: The king's highway of choice. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Holidays; Love; Singing & Singers; Valentine's Day A VALENTINE: 1852, by GEORGE K. DENNY Poem Text First Line: Would I might kiss that crimson lip Last Line: And be thy valentine. Subject(s): Holidays; Love; Valentine's Day A VALENTINE: 1922, by GEORGE K. DENNY Poem Text First Line: I dare not kiss that crimson lip Last Line: And be thy valentine. Subject(s): Holidays; Love; Valentine's Day A VALLEY RIDE IN WINTER, by MARY DUNCAN UPHAM Poem Text First Line: The sunshine struck a glory on the day Last Line: Of state, the pageant vanishes,—the day is fled. Subject(s): Day; Nature; Winter A WEDDED VALENTINE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear, may I be your valentine? Last Line: Dear, may I be your valentine? Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Holidays; Life; Love; Time; Valentine's Day ACROSS THE WAY, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Across the way dim shadows play Last Line: Across the way? Subject(s): Day; May (month) ACROSTICAL VALENTINE, by FRANK DEMPSTER SHERMAN Poem Source First Line: Fast in your heart, o rondeau rare Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day ACTIVITIES IN PEACE, by THOMAS WOODROW WILSON Poem Source First Line: Peace does not mean inaction. There may be Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day AD ASTRA: 131, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O baleful lure, to lead our feet astray! Last Line: Strong in whose strength man may think scorn of fate! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Death; Judgment Day; Religion; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology ADDRESS OF MAJOR GENERAL FOX CONNOR, by FOX CONNOR Poem Source First Line: Those scouts who have advanced far enough in Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day ADIEU (2), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell!' the parting day Last Line: "what fate befell." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Day ADVICE TO A PROPHET, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When you come, as you soon must, to the streets of our city Last Line: When the bronze annals of the oak-tree close. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Christianity; Environment; Judgment Day; Messiah; Nuclear War; Religion; Sea Monsters; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb; Theology; S AFTER, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES Poem Source First Line: After the darkness, dawning Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day AFTER BATTLE, by DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the first larks began to soar Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, D. C. Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day AFTER HARVEST, by HENRY ALFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, ye thankful people, come Last Line: Raise the glorious harvest-home! Variant Title(s): Harvest Home;thanksgiving Day Subject(s): Harvest; Holidays; Thanksgiving Day AFTERMATH, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Have you forgotten yet? Last Line: Never forget. Subject(s): Veterans Day; World War I; First World War AGAINST SENTIMENTALITY, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No, don't do that! No, don't say that! Last Line: Size pianos), whether the emotion %is earned or isn't, bawl Subject(s): Art And Artists; Holidays; Love; Valentine's Day ALL SAINTS, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: The year although / a long & tedious thing till now Last Line: Whose honour first from lowlines did rise! Subject(s): All Saints' Day; Allhallowmas; Allhallows ALL SAINTS' DAY, by JOHN HART Poem Source First Line: And the tall god caught on the marble Last Line: The dismal falcon down to rock and nail Subject(s): All Saints' Day; Religion ALL SAINTS' DAY (1867), by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blessed are they whose baby souls are bright Last Line: Blessed are they! Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): All Saints' Day; Allhallowmas; Allhallows ALL SAINTS' DAY (1868), by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Never to weary more, nor suffer silence Last Line: "for both the happy life that is ""at peace." Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): All Saints' Day; Allhallowmas; Allhallows ALL SOUL'S DAY, by JACK COULEHAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On all soul's day when I call his name Last Line: Silently chewing, almost swallowing, %the sharp black notes of his clarinet Subject(s): All Souls' Day ALL SOUL'S DAY, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within the church on all soul's day Last Line: For us who live -- for us who live! Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): All Saints' Day; All Souls' Day; All Souls' Night; Allhallowmas; Allhallows; All Hallows Night ALL SOUL'S DAY, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Quiet with amber light Last Line: Doth courage and assurance bring. Subject(s): All Souls' Day; Death; Soul; Tears; Dead, The ALL SOULS DAY, by ALFRED LESLIE ROWSE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Justorum anumae in manu dei sunt Last Line: The candles shed their flame, and it is written: %the souls of the just are in the hand of god Subject(s): All Souls' Day ALL SOULS' DAY, by PAUL ANTSCHEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What have I Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul Subject(s): All Souls' Day ALL SOULS' DAY, by CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY Poem Source First Line: From dooryards, mothers are calling their children Subject(s): All Souls' Day ALL SOULS' DAY, by OTTO FREUND Poem Source First Line: The patient dead have slept, year after year, %upon this qui Last Line: The harvest of november rains will be %december snows Subject(s): All Souls' Day ALL SOULS' DAY, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gina has lighted a large candle for her dead Subject(s): All Souls' Day ALL SOULS' DAY, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gina's lit candle for her dead. She lit it Last Line: Include some of the living too, half-alive, %waiting for theferry- a passel of nobodies %who never p Subject(s): All Souls' Day ALL SOULS' DAY, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Close-wrapped in living thought I stand Subject(s): All Souls' Day ALL SOULS' DAY, by LINARDS (ARNOLDS BERZS) TAUNS Poem Source Subject(s): All Souls' Day ALL SOULS' DAY, by ROSAMUND MARRIOTT WATSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Today is theirs - the unforgotten dead Last Line: They, the poor dead whom none remembered. Alternate Author Name(s): Tomson, Graham R. Subject(s): All Souls' Day ALL SOULS' NIGHT, by GERTRUDE HUNTINGTON MCGIFFERT Poem Text First Line: As it was promised so I beheld Last Line: A gibbering, furtive beast, by nature damned. Subject(s): All Souls' Day; Moon; Stars; Sun; Trees ALL-HALLOWS EVE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dreadful hour is sighing for a moon Last Line: And two will linger at the tryst alway. Subject(s): All Saints' Day; All Souls' Day; All Souls' Night; Love; Magic; Rites & Ceremonies; Allhallowmas; Allhallows; All Hallows Night ALL-SAINTS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One feast, of holy days the crest Last Line: And sweetness of the farther shore. Subject(s): All Saints' Day; Allhallowmas; Allhallows ALLOQUY; TO THE FIRST GREAT WAR DEAD, by AMABEL KING Poem Source First Line: Sleep, soldiers, sleep Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day ALONE, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What shall I do when I stand in my place Last Line: And I stand at god's judgment alone! Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man AMERICA, by SAMUEL FRANCIS SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My country, 'tis of thee Last Line: Great god our king. Variant Title(s): National Hymn Subject(s): Americans; Fourth Of July; Freedom; Patriotism; United States; Independence Day; Liberty; America AMERICA (1), by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O mother of a mighty race Last Line: Upon their lips the taunt shall die. Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Freedom; Patriotism; United States; Independence Day; Liberty; America AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O beautiful for spacious skies Last Line: From sea to shining sea! Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Patriotism; Prairies; United States; Independence Day; Plains; America AMERICA'S ANSWER, by R. W. LILLARD Poem Text First Line: Rest ye in peace, ye flanders dead! Last Line: In flanders fields. Variant Title(s): America's Reply Subject(s): Holidays; Patriotism; Veterans Day AN ARBOR DAY TREE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Dear little tree that we plant today Last Line: A tale of the children who planted me Subject(s): Arbor Day;holidays;trees AN EPITHALAMION, OR MARRIAGE SONG .. LADY ELIZABETH AND COUNT PALATINE, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Haile bishop valentine, whose day this is Last Line: Till which houre, wee thy day enlarge, o valentine. Variant Title(s): An Epithalamion, Or Marriage Song On Lady Elizabeth Subject(s): Holidays; Love - Marital; Valentine's Day; Wedding Song; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Epithalamium AN HONEST VALENTINE; RETURNED FROM THE DEAD-LETTER OFFICE, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thank you for your kindness Last Line: Dearest valentine. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day AN ODE FOR THE FOURTH OF JULY, 1876, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Entranced I saw a vision in the cloud Last Line: Shall not be unbeloved of thee. Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Independence Day AN ODE IN TIME OF HESITATION, by WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before the living bronze saint gaudens made Last Line: Blindness we may forgive, but baseness we will smite. Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Holidays; Memorial Day; Saint-gaudens, Augustus (1848-1907); Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers; Spanish-american War (1898); United States; War; Declaration Day; America AN ODE ON THE UNVEILING OF THE SHAW MEMORIA BOSTON COMMON, MAY 31, 1897, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not with slow, funereal sound Last Line: To him, to him, the dead that shall not die! Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Holidays; Memorial Day; Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers; Declaration Day AND THERE WAS A GREAT CALM', by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There had been years of passion -- scorching, cold Last Line: And again the spirit of pity whispered, 'why?' Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War ANGRY VALENTINE, by MYRA COHN LIVINGSTON Poem Source First Line: If you won't be my valentine Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day ANNIVERSARY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Boom! 'what's that?' Last Line: Ten years -- come sunday Subject(s): Bombs;veterans;veterans Day;war;world War I; First World War ANOTHER DAY, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Morning still pitch-dark at seven, then light starts Last Line: The threads holding us together, everything in question Subject(s): Day; Life ANOTHER DAY, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Another day, and with it that brute joy Last Line: At any rate, it is another day! Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Day ANTIQUITY OF FREEDOM, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here are old trees, tall oaks and gnarled pines Last Line: Beheld thy glorious childhood, and rejoiced. Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Freedom; Trees; Independence Day; Liberty APOCALYPSE, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all sixty of us I am the only one who went Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man APRIL FOOL, by ELEANOR PALMER HAMMOND Poem Source First Line: Small april sobbed Last Line: And smiled a rainbow %overhead! Subject(s): April Fool's Day APRIL FOOL'S DAY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The first of april, some do say Last Line: But on this day are people sent %on purpose for pure merriment Variant Title(s): All Fool's Da Subject(s): April Fool's Day APRIL FOOLS, by KATE MASTERSON Poem Source First Line: Dear jack, your letter came today Subject(s): April Fool's Day ARBOR DAY, by MICHELLE BOISSEAU Poem Source First Line: Above the house, the topmost branches reel Last Line: Around the one that has fallen Subject(s): Arbor Day; Trees ARBOR DAY, by NICHOLAS FAREBOW Poem Source First Line: It is not long since some of our treeless western Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees ARBOR DAY, by B. PICKMAN MANN Poem Source First Line: The project of connecting the planting Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees ARBOR DAY, by B. G. NORTHRUP Poem Source First Line: Observance of arbor days has already Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees ARBOR DAY, by SEYMOUR S. SHORT Poem Source First Line: Again we come this day to greet Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees ARBOR DAY, by THOMAS E. STOCKWELL Poem Source First Line: The rapid approach of spring Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees ARBOR DAY, by TERESE SVOBODA Poem Source First Line: You planted trees three times Subject(s): Arbor Day; Trees ARBOR DAY, by DOROTHY BROWN THOMPSON Poem Source First Line: To plant a tree! How small the twig Last Line: I did not know that it would be %so vast a thing to plant a tree Subject(s): Arbor Day; Spring; Trees ARBOR DAY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Plant in the springtime the beautiful trees Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees ARBOR DAY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Now a strong, fair shoot Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees ARBOR DAY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Our modern institution Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees ARBOR DAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: On arbor day / we think of birds and greening trees Last Line: On arbor day. Subject(s): Arbor Day; May (month); Nature; Trees ARBOR DAY ALPHABET, by ADA SIMPSON SHERWOOD Poem Source First Line: A is for apple tree, sweet with bloom Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees ARBOR DAY ASPIRATION, by JOHN RUSKIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We will try to make some small piece of ground Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees ARBOR DAY EXERCISE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: To him who in the love of nature Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees ARBOR DAY IN SCHOOLS, by B. G. NORTHRUP Poem Source First Line: J. Sterling morton, once secretary of the Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees ARBOR DAY INVOCATION, by EMMA S. THOMAS Poem Source First Line: Like the glad birds of springtime Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees ARBOR DAY MARCH, by ELLEN BEAUCHAMP Poem Source First Line: Celebrate the arbor day Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees ARBOR DAY OBSERVENCE, by A. S. DRAPER Poem Source First Line: The primary purpose of the legislature Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees ARBOR DAY ODE, by PARR HARLOW Poem Source First Line: Raise a song of gladness on this festal day Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees ARBOR DAY POEM, by LILLIAN E. KNAPP Poem Source First Line: Listen! The grand old forests Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees ARBOR DAY POEM, by ANNA R. PRIDE Poem Source First Line: Come thou, my oftimes sadly labored muse Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees ARBOR DAY SONG, by MARY A. HEERMANS Poem Text First Line: Of nature broad and free Last Line: And then above. Variant Title(s): Tribute To Nature Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees ARBOR DAY SONG, by ALICE S. WEBBER Poem Source First Line: We've left our books and tasks today to plant our favorite tree Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees ARBOR DAY TRIBUTE, by JARED BARHITE Poem Source First Line: Wish lavish hand our god hath spread Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees ARCHITECTS OF DREAM, by LUCIA TRENT Poem Source First Line: We cannot rest, whose hearts are like the breakers Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Mrs. Ralph; Glass, Mrs. Ernest Subject(s): Holidays; Peace; Veterans Day ARMISTICE, by CHARLES BUXTON GOING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How close the white-ranked crosses stand Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day ARMISTICE, by EUNICE MITCHELL LEHMER Poem Text First Line: We face the nations with one hand outstretched Last Line: In open comradeship to all the world? Subject(s): Change; Soldiers; Veterans Day; War ARMISTICE, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wintry war is over, and he stands Last Line: Leafless in may. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Change; Trees; Veterans; Veterans Day; War ARMISTICE (FULL TEXT AS SIGNED ON NOVEMBER 11, 1918), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: One - cessation of operations by land and in Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day ARMISTICE DAY, by ZELMA DUNNING BOWEN Poem Text First Line: I saw your son march by today Last Line: That the world his peace might know. Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day ARMISTICE DAY, by CHARLES STANLEY CAUSLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I stood with three comrades in parliament square Last Line: A cold bugle calls, and the city moves on Alternate Author Name(s): Causley, Charles Subject(s): Holidays; London; Veterans Day ARMISTICE DAY, by HENRIETTE CLARKE Poem Text First Line: The old town clock has struck eleven Last Line: Murmur the name of you. Subject(s): Holidays; Memory; Prayer; Veterans Day ARMISTICE DAY, by EDMUND VANCE COOKE Poem Text First Line: Armistice day! When a new sun rose Last Line: And the wars are ended—for those who died! Subject(s): Death; Peace; Soldiers; Veterans Day; War; Dead, The ARMISTICE DAY, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Drums, drums, and marching feet! Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day ARMISTICE DAY, by HELEN HUTCHCRAFT Poem Text First Line: I can hear a sound Last Line: As the drums go by. Subject(s): Holidays; Parades; Peace; Veterans Day ARMISTICE DAY, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think I hear them stirring there, today Last Line: The young dead weeping! Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War ARMISTICE DAY, by ANGELO PATRI Poem Source First Line: Twas like this, my children Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day ARMISTICE DAY, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The crash of shells among the falling trees Last Line: Aye—a year of proudest glory—and of musing o'er our dead! Subject(s): Holidays; Praise; Soldiers; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War ARMISTICE DAY, 1918-1928, by NANCY BYRD TURNER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That day the guns fell silent at a word Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day ARMISTICE DAY, 1926, by LUCIA TRENT Poem Source First Line: Let us evoke no phantom throng Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Mrs. Ralph; Glass, Mrs. Ernest Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day ARMISTICE DAY, 1928, by ERNEST HARTSOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, let us wave a flag and jump and yell Last Line: The terrible cry of brothers, crucified!) Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War ARMISTICE DAY: LEST WE FORGET, by ALMA LUNDMAN Poem Source First Line: November eleventh may well be remembered Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day ARMISTICE DAY; A PHANTASY, by JOHN J. WILLOUGHBY Poem Text First Line: The half-light of a raw november day Last Line: Shall echo, with a mighty voice ... Dismiss! Subject(s): Death; Military; Soldiers; Veterans Day; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War ARMISTICE, 1928, by KENNETH GROESBECK Poem Text First Line: There are not even mounds, any more, where they lie Last Line: And ours the retribution, deserved of our defeat. Subject(s): Honor; Military; Soldiers; Veterans; Veterans Day ARMY CORRESPONDENT'S LAST RIDE; FIVE FORKS, APRIL 1, 1865, by GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! Pony. Down the lonely road Last Line: And took the first despatch! Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; War; Declaration Day AS SLEEP IS, by EDNA BUTLER TRICKEY Poem Text First Line: As sleep is to a day Last Line: A tune—and then, to smile. Subject(s): Day; Life; Love; Love - Nature Of; Sleep ASCENSION, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The body lay on the bier of death Last Line: "but say, from vienna or munich instead." Subject(s): Ascension Day; Death; Life; Religion; Soul; Dead, The; Theology ASCENSION, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stretching himself as if again Subject(s): Ascension Day; Religion; Theology ASCENSION, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stretching himself as if again Last Line: Mothering his birth: %torture and bliss Subject(s): Ascension Day; Religion ASCENSION, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the gray dawn they left jerusalem Last Line: He was uplifted from us, and was gone %into the darkness of another dawn Subject(s): Ascension Day ASCENSION, by LUIS G. URBINA Poem Source First Line: All things climb a starry stair Last Line: Will tomorrow be a wing! Subject(s): Ascension Day ASCENSION (1), by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: The time is come / for times great lord to think Last Line: And their ascension thus supply. Subject(s): Ascension Day; Happiness; Heaven; Home; Jesus Christ - Legends; Joy; Delight; Paradise ASCENSION DAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When christ went up to heaven Last Line: Is that his cloud?' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Ascension Day ASCENSION DAY, 1964, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From leaf to leaf in silence Last Line: Impelled to giggle %at any crucifixion Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Ascension Day ASCENSION EVE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O lord almighty who hast formed us weak Last Line: We may pursue thy steps, lord jesus christ. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Ascension Day ASCENSION LILIES, by HELEN WALL STALLWORTH Poem Text First Line: The hours that come between the colored drift Last Line: To glorify their lord on easter morn. Subject(s): Ascension Day; Flowers; Lilies ASCENSION NIGHT, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I take a bath enveloped Subject(s): Ascension Day; Italy; Italians ASCENSION NIGHT, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I take a bath enveloped Last Line: Moonlight over the alps %in a stormy sky Subject(s): Ascension Day; Italy ASCENSION OF CHRIST, by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bright portals of the sky Last Line: From top of olivet such notes did rise, %when man's redeemer did transcend the skies Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William Variant Title(s): An Hymn Of The Ascension; Song Of The Ascensio Subject(s): Ascension Day ASCENSION SONG, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Golden harps are sounding Last Line: Glory to our king! Subject(s): Ascension Day AT CLOSE OF DAY, by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK Poem Source First Line: Between clouds of fire and clouds of blood Last Line: To the ends of space, to beyond the flood? Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman Subject(s): Day AT GALLIPOLI, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ship after ship, crammed with soldiers, moved Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day AT HALF-MAST, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: Fly the flag at half-mast Last Line: Till the day breaks again. Subject(s): Death; Flags - United States; Military; Social Protest; Veterans Day; War; Dead, The; American Flag AT THE ASCENSION, by LUIS DE LEON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And wouldst thou, holy shepherd, leave Last Line: How beggared wilt thou leave us, how %obscure! Alternate Author Name(s): Fray Luis Subject(s): Ascension Day; Grief AULD REIKIE, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Auld reikie, wale o' ilka toun Last Line: But gallop'd to edina's shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Courtesans; Day; Night; Summer; Bedtime AWAKENING, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lights shone down the street Last Line: He had won for himself that day. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Day; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness BALDUR THE BEAUTIFUL: THE DEATH OF BALDUR, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long aeons past, ere yet was count of time Last Line: The Æsir's shout still thundered down the dark. Subject(s): Death; Goddesses & Gods; Heaven; Judgment Day; Mythology; Odin (norse God); Dead, The; Paradise; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man BALLAD OF THE THANKSGIVING PILGRIM, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The purple hills of kirkland Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day BAPTISM ON ARMISTICE DAY, by CHAD WALSH Poem Source First Line: Remembering now the reckless race to ... Marne Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day BASIC PROBLEM, by AMANDA PECOR Poem Source First Line: I doubt that there's a final judgment Last Line: Or at least to the farthest possible extenuation of time Subject(s): Judgment Day; Life BASIS OF PEACE, by THOMAS WOODROW WILSON Poem Source First Line: Peace can be rebuilt only upon the ancient and Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day BEAT! BEAT! DRUMS!, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Beat! Beat! Drums! - blow! Bugles! Blow / through the windows - through doors Last Line: So strong you thump o terrible drums -- so loud you bugles blow. Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day BEAUTIFUL ORIGINAL POEM; TO EDGAR ALLAN POE, by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, thou grim and ancient raven Last Line: Shall our lofty eyrie share! Subject(s): Holidays; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Valentine's Day BEFORE AND AFTER THE END OF THE WORLD, by JOHN REINHARD Poem Source First Line: When the fields finally thaw for good, the blunt Last Line: I'll take him Subject(s): Judgment Day BEFORE MARCHING, AND AFTER (IN MEMORIAM F.W.G.), by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Orion swung southward aslant Last Line: A brightness therefrom not to fade on the morrow. Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day; World War I - Casualties BEFORE THE CENOTAPH, by DOROTHY MARGARET STUART Poem Source First Line: Not with dark pomp of death we keep Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day BENEATH THE FLAG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: On the sunny hillside sleeping Last Line: Side by side march blue and gray! Subject(s): Flags - United States;holidays;memorial Day; American Flag;declaration Day BENVENUTO'S VALENTINE, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not for the child that wanders home Last Line: As softly as a silver ring's. Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day BILLY AND HIS DRUM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! It's come, kids, come! Last Line: Ef you don't hear little billy an' his big bass drum! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Drums; Judgment Day; Musical Instruments; Noises; Childhood; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man BIVOUAC ON A MOUNTAIN SIDE, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see before me now a travelling army halting Last Line: Studded, breaking out, the eternal stars. Subject(s): American Civil War; Army Life; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Drills & Minor Tactics; Declaration Day BOTHWELL: PART 5, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ascension morn! I hear the bells Last Line: The sword that darnley wore. Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Ascension Day; Bothwell, Scotland; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Prisons & Prisoners; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Convicts BREAK OF DAY, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis true, 'tis day; what though it be? Last Line: Such wrong, as when a maryed man doth wooe. Subject(s): Day; Love BREAKING THE DAY IN TWO, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When from dawn till noon seems one long day Last Line: We've broken the day in two. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Babies; Day; Mothers; Sleep; Infants BREST LEFT BEHIND, by JOHN CHIPMAN FARRAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun strikes gold the dirty street Last Line: "I don't see very many tears,"" he says." Subject(s): Holidays; Homecoming; Peace; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War BRITISH LEFTISH POETRY, 1930-40, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Auden, macneice, day lewis, I have read them all Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Communism; Day Lewis, Cecil (1904-1972); Macneice, Louis (1907-1963); Poetry & Poets BRITISH LEFTISH POETRY, 1930-40, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Auden, macneice, day lewis, I have read them all Last Line: You cannot light a match on a crumbling wall Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Communism; Day Lewis, Cecil (1904-1972); Macneice, Louis (1907-1963); Poetry And Poets BUGLE SONG OF PEACE; A PROPHECY FOR MEMORIAL DAY, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: Blow, bugle, blow! Last Line: The day has dawned at last. Subject(s): Bugles; Holidays; Memorial Day; Peace; Veterans Day; War; Declaration Day BY DAY HE IS GOOD, by LISA MAY GILES Poem Source First Line: Rippling through fish Last Line: While. Like gin in the corrosive dark Subject(s): Day; Drinks And Drinking; Fishing And Fishermen; Mankind; Night BY NIGHT AND DAY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I find you in the amber evening glow Last Line: But home-returning to your smile, -- your smile. Subject(s): Day; Grief; Night; Poetry & Poets; Secrets; Smiles; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime CALENDARS, by VIRA K. HUMPHREYS Poem Text First Line: She hangs a calendar upon the wall Last Line: As desert day becomes a joy apart? Subject(s): Calendars; Day CALL, by OSCAR W. FIRKINS Poem Source First Line: I was second lieutenant of a hastily recruited Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day CANTICLE DE PROFUNDIS, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Glory to thee, father of all the immortal Last Line: Glory to thee! Variant Title(s): A Canticle In War Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day CAPTAIN GUYNEMER, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES Poem Text First Line: What high adventure, in what world afar Last Line: And in man's grateful heart shall live immortally! Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Holidays; Veterans Day; World War I; Airplanes; Air Pilots; First World War CAPTAIN MORROW'S THANKSGIVING, by LILLIE E. BARR Poem Text First Line: Over the waves the petrel sped Last Line: Well led by captain morrow. Subject(s): Holidays; Marblehead, Massachusetts; Sailing & Sailors; Thanksgiving Day; Seamen; Sails CARENTAN O CARENTAN, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Trees in the old days used to stand / and shape a shady land Subject(s): D Day (june 6, 1944); World War Ii; Normandy (france), Invasion Of; Second World War CARENTAN O CARENTAN, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trees in the old days used to stand %and shape a shady land Last Line: We never yet had lost a man %or known what death could do Subject(s): D Day (june 6, 1944); World War Ii CAVALRY CROSSING A FORD, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A line in long array where they wind betwixt green islands Last Line: The guidon flags flutter gayly in the wind. Subject(s): American Civil War; Army Life; Cavalry; Holidays; Memorial Day; Soldiers; United States - History; War; Drills & Minor Tactics; Declaration Day CELEBRATION ARBOR DAY, by WALTER E. RANGER Poem Source First Line: By an excursion into the woods pupils may learn Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees CELEBRATION OF ARBOR DAY, by MONCURE DANIEL CONWAY Poem Source First Line: It is a great pleasure to think of the young Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION, by JULIA A. MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the year eighteen seventy-six Last Line: In our centennial celebration. Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Independence Day CENTENNIAL HYMN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our fathers' god! From out whose hand Last Line: Let the new cycle shame the old! Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Patriotism; Peace; United States - Centennial Celebrations; Independence Day CHALLENGE, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: Oh that some spirit might in us renew Last Line: "our god is working with us, now and here!" Subject(s): Holidays; Religion; Veterans Day; Theology CHALLENGE, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Source First Line: This is no time for fear, for doubts of good Subject(s): Holidays; Religion; Veterans Day CHICKAMAUGA: 1863, by GEORGE TITUS FERRIS Poem Source First Line: From shuddering trees and painted leaves Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day CHICKAMAUGA: 1898, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: They are camped on chickamauga Last Line: In the freedom-war of life Subject(s): "american Civil War;chickamauga, Battle Of (1863);holidays;memorial Day;u.s. - History;" Declaration Day CHICKAMAUGA: 1898, by GEORGE TITUS FERRIS Poem Source First Line: From laughing leas the bugles sing Subject(s): American Civil War; Chickamauga, Battle Of (1863); Holidays; Memorial Day; U.s. - History CHILDREN'S ARBOR DAY MARCH, by E. A. HOLBROOK Poem Source First Line: We are marching for the arbor Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees CHLOE'S VALENTINE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: With growing sense of diffidence Last Line: When chloe's years are riper! Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Holidays; Love; Valentine's Day; Youth CHOICE OF EXIT, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O some day Last Line: And I shall not return. Subject(s): Day CHRIST OF THE ANDES, by ANNA P. HANNUM Poem Source First Line: Far far away to the south of these united Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day CHRIST OF THE ANDES, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After volcanoes husht with snows Subject(s): Holidays; Jesus Christ; Veterans Day CHRIST'S COMING, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: The peoples long have waited Last Line: Exalt his holy name! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Judgment Day; Justice; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man CHRIST'S RESURRECTION AND ASCENSION, by PHILIP DODDRIDGE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ye humble souls that seek the lord Last Line: To realms of endless day Subject(s): Ascension Day CLASSIC MELODIES, SELS., by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day CLEAN HANDS, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Make this thing plain to us, o lord Last Line: Make this thing plain! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Holidays; Peace; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War COLUMBIA, by TIMOTHY DWIGHT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Columbia, columbia, to glory arise Last Line: "skies!" Variant Title(s): Star Of Columbia Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Patriotism; United States - Declaration Of Independence; Independence Day COME UP FROM THE FIELDS FATHER, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Come up from the fields father, here's a letter from our pete Last Line: To follow, to seek, to be with her dear dead son. Variant Title(s): A Letter From Camp Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; United States; War; Declaration Day; America COME, VALENTINE, COME, by JOSE D. LAGMAY Poem Source First Line: Come to me with songs of your youth Last Line: And answer love's sublime call Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day COMPANY, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I thought, 'how terrible, if I were seen Last Line: "I thought, ""why should I, if the rest are so?" Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): God; Judgment Day; Sin; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man COMRADES IN A COMMON CAUSE, by BISHOP BRENT Poem Source First Line: We comrades in the common cause have come Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day CONCLUSION, by LESLIE NELSON JENNINGS Poem Text First Line: There is an ending, even to these things Last Line: More graciously before our hearts were broken? Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man CONCORD HYMN; SUNG AT COMPLETION OF CONCORD MONUMENT, 1836, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the rude bridge that arched the flood Last Line: The shaft we raise to them and thee. Variant Title(s): The Concord Fight;hymn: Sung At The Completion Of The Concord Mounument Subject(s): American Revolution; Americans; Concord, Massachusetts; Fourth Of July; Freedom; Massachusetts; Monuments; Mourning; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Patriotism; Soldiers; United States; War; Independence Day; Liberty; Bereavement; America CONGEALED DAYDREAM, by JAMES P. SCOFIELD Poem Source First Line: Spring, thrower of the summer spear, watches Last Line: A space where nothing will change, except the place Subject(s): Day; Dreams; Spring CONSECRATED GROUND; READ AT THE NEW YORK CITY HALL, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let there be prayer and praise Last Line: There where the deathless climb the deathless skies. Subject(s): Fourth Of July; New York City; Independence Day; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple CONTRACT OF CORPORAL TWING, by SOLON K. STEWART Poem Source First Line: Two men sat on a sandstone ledge, looking out Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day CONVERSATION HEARTS, by VALERIE WORTH Poem Source First Line: Such meek Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day CONVIVIAL SONG, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come fill each brimming glass, boys Last Line: At our next fed'ral meeting. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Fourth Of July; New England; Patriotism; Independence Day CORDIAL, by JOSHUA KRYAH Poem Source First Line: In your weak mouth the lozenge dissolves Last Line: The comb drained of its honey Subject(s): Hearts; Holidays; Love; Valentine's Day COULD THEY BUT KNOW (NOVEMBER, 1918), by WILL CHAMBERLAIN Poem Text First Line: Could they but know -- the countless heroes dead Last Line: And vision give our holy dead to-day. Subject(s): Death; Heroism; Honor; Military; Soldiers; Veterans Day; World War I; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines; First World War COURT ORDER, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My good fool' he %who was a king Last Line: That friday, it being april, %was all fools' day Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): April Fool's Day COVER THEM OVER WITH BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day COVERING OF THE BODY, by ANDREA MOORHEAD Poem Source First Line: Following the slow curve of the day, the sinuous folds of air Last Line: Lowing the curve of the day, the sudden ellipsis that trips us as we %bend back our hearts Subject(s): Bodies; Day CROSSING THE BRIDGE: 1, by HUGH HENNEDY Poem Source First Line: After experiencing much of Last Line: Backroads to work that pleasant %morning of all saints Subject(s): All Saints' Day; Ice; Quarrels CROWNING OF PEACE, by NORA ARCHIBALD SMITH Poem Source First Line: Goddess of liberty - traditional costume Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day D-DAWN - JUNE 6, 1944, by MARGARET MCGARVEY Poem Source First Line: Father, sitting on the side of your startled bed Subject(s): D Day (june 6, 1944) D-DAY + ALL THE YEARS, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What daddy did on opening day? Yes, well Subject(s): D Day (june 6, 1944) D-DAY ODE FOR DEAN, by SYDNEY LEA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At first, up on the scaffold Last Line: He meant to join them there %and never fall to harm Subject(s): D Day (june 6, 1944) DAISY'S VALENTINES, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night through daisy's sleep, it seems Last Line: Will spare to spoil or mend her. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day DAWN, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: A house roof and the star Last Line: Where it was chipped long ago Subject(s): Dawn; Day; Presence; Time DAWN, by FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A sigh sweeps the tall lush grasses Last Line: Fulfilling the dawn. Subject(s): Dawn; Day; Night; Sunrise; Bedtime DAWN AT KINLOCH, by LOUIS BRANDEIS WEHLE Poem Text First Line: In poise on the unfathomable deep Last Line: Unto itself the miracle of day. Subject(s): Dawn; Day; Sunrise DAY, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: The sun's new vow / the colour of his kiss Last Line: Illumined lies. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Day DAY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In day from some titanic past it seems Last Line: Its rays in splendour pass. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Day DAY AND NIGHT, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Day is a snow-white dove of heaven Last Line: Wrapped to the eyes in his black wings. Subject(s): Day; Night; Bedtime DAY AND NIGHT, by VICTOR JAMES DALEY Poem Source First Line: Day goeth bold in cloth of gold Subject(s): Day DAY AND NIGHT, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From grey of dusk, the veils unfold Last Line: Thus is the restful night re-won. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Day; Night; Bedtime DAY AND NIGHT, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When day goes down to meet the night Last Line: He drives her trooping stars away. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Day; Night; Bedtime DAY AND NIGHT, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How long is the night, brother Last Line: But love is all in all. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Day; Night; Bedtime DAY BEFORE, by NANCY WHITE CARLSTROM Poem Source First Line: All kinds of turkeys %are strutting in the halls Last Line: So let's give thanks for this! Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day DAY OF DELIGHT, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tarry no longer, maid most sweet Last Line: The sanguine heart of holiday. Subject(s): Day; Love; Nature DAY OF DOOM, SELS., by MICHAEL WIGGLESWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: - Subject(s): Judgment Day DAY OF GLORY, by DOROTHEA FRANCES (CANFIELD) FISHER Poem Source First Line: If the armistice is signed, a salvo of cannon Alternate Author Name(s): Canfield, Dorothy Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day DAY OF JUDGEMENT?, by ROBERT R. HENTZ Poem Source First Line: To the self-appointed %surrogates of god Last Line: With the toxins you have spread Subject(s): Judgment Day DAY OF THE INDIAN SUMMER, by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A day of golden beauty! Subject(s): Holidays; Indian Summer; Thanksgiving Day DAY-BREAK, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: With the little infant day / wake, and play! Last Line: Let him watch the things you do. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Day; Youth DAY-DREAMS, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, sweet are the dreams that darkness brings Last Line: The dreams of our waking hours. Subject(s): Day; Dreams; Love; Waking; Nightmares DAYBREAK, by HAZEL MAY OYLER Poem Text First Line: All was dark, the city slumbered Last Line: Spring is on her way. Subject(s): Dawn; Day; Spring; Sunrise DAYS, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daughters of time, the hypocritic days Last Line: Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn. Subject(s): Day; Time DAYS, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What are days for? Subject(s): Day; Time DAYS, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What are days for? Last Line: Brings the priest and the doctor %in their long coats %running over the fields Subject(s): Day; Time DAYS, by ELIOT KAYS STONE Poem Text First Line: How can I tell which days have yielded fruit? Last Line: Shall on the last day bring me blame or praise? Subject(s): Day; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature DAYS IN THE MONTH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Thirty days hath september Last Line: And twenty-nine in each leap year Subject(s): Day DAYS OF THE MONTH, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thirty days hath september Last Line: February's days are twenty-nine. Variant Title(s): The Months Of The Year;the Calendar Subject(s): Day DE PROFUNDIS, by BRENT DOW ALLINSON Poem Source First Line: Cometh the dawn; ye men who know Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day DEAD COMRADE, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Come, soldiers, arouse ye! Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day DEAD SOLDIERS' AUTUMN, by KAJETAN KOVIC Poem Source First Line: The leaves are falling now Last Line: The day when we could die for it is done Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Holidays; Memorial Day; Patriotism; Rest; Soldiers DEAR DAY, DEAR NIGHT, by ELIZABETH BARNET TOLDRIDGE Poem Text First Line: The silver dawn has been / dappled with golden dye Last Line: And after that, dear night! Subject(s): Day; Night; Sleep; Bedtime DEATH, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Death! Is it thou whom bravest souls do fear Last Line: Reviving, creeping to calamity. Subject(s): Creation; Death; Holidays; Memorial Day; Rest; Tragedy; Dead, The; Declaration Day DEATH THE PEACEMAKER, by ELLEN H. FLAGG Poem Source First Line: A waste of land, a sodden plain Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; U.s. - History DECORATION DAY, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She saw the bayonets flashing in the sun Variant Title(s): Memorial Da Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day DECORATION DAY, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep comrades, sleep and rest Last Line: The memory shall be ours. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day DECORATION DAY, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: There are graves on many hill-sides Last Line: Their censers swing in air. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Holidays; Honor; Memorial Day; Prayer; Spanish-american War (1898); Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Declaration Day DECORATION DAY ON THE PLACE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's lonesome - sorto' lonesome, - it's Last Line: On ev'ry soldier's grave I'd love to lay a lily thare. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Flowers; Fourth Of July; Graves; Patriotism; Roses; Soldiers; Independence Day; Tombs; Tombstones DECORATION DAY PRAYER, by ARTHUR ROSZELLE BEMIS JR. Poem Text First Line: Lord of our fathers, hear our prayer Last Line: Them from the awful fray. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day DEDICATORY EXERCISES [FOR ARBOR DAY] (1), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: What do we plant when we plant a tree? Subject(s): Arbor Day; Trees DEDICATORY EXERCISES [FOR ARBOR DAY] (2), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Joy to the thought of own, own tree Subject(s): Arbor Day; Trees DESIGN FOR PEACE, by JANET NORRIS BANGS Poem Source First Line: How shall the bayonet and bomb Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day DIES IRAE, by ABRAHAM COLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Day of wrath, that day of burning Last Line: Spare, lord, in that hour of terror! Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man DIES IRAE, by THOMAS OF CELANO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Day of vengeance, without morrow! Last Line: Save him, god! From condemnation! Variant Title(s): The Day Of Judgment Subject(s): Consolation; Judgment Day; Religion; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology DIES IRAE DIES ILLA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "hears't thou, my soul, what serious things" Last Line: "my hope, my fear! My judge, my friend! / take charge of me, and of my end" Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World;doomsday;fall Of Man DIFFERENCE, by ELEANORE MERLE IRELAND Poem Text First Line: Each day Last Line: To dreams. Subject(s): Day; Night; Bedtime DIRGE FOR TWO VETERANS, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last sunbeam / lightly falls from the finish'd sabbath Last Line: My heart gives you love. Variant Title(s): Two Veterans Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Veterans; Declaration Day DOOMES-DAY, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let not that day gods friends and servants scare Last Line: The bench is then their place; and not the barre. Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man DOOMSDAY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I can raise one ghost, why I will raise Last Line: . . . . . . . Subject(s): Death; Desolation; Judgment Day; Longing; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man DOOMSDAY, by HANS MAGNUS ENZENSBERGER Poem Source First Line: Conceivable, after all %if not plausible Subject(s): Judgment Day; Nuclear War DOOMSDAY, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The end of everything approaches Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man DOOMSDAY, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The end of everything approaches Last Line: Loud as the ultimate loud clarion %or the first murther Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Judgment Day DOST THOU DENY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Dost thou deny the virgin birth? Last Line: When thou shalt face christ's judgment seat. Subject(s): Devil; Judgment Day; Religion; Sin; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology DOVE'S WEATHER, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The day is a dove: she is preening an ashgrey feather Last Line: Under her wings and her eyes, the colour of doves. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Day; Doves DRAW THE SWORD, O REPUBLIC, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the blue sky of a clear vision Last Line: Draw the sword! Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day DRAWN FOR VALENTINE BY THE L.D.S, by THOMAS STANLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though 'gainst me love and destiny conspire Last Line: Fortune relieves the cruelties of fate. Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day DREAMERS CRY THEIR DREAM, by LUCIA TRENT Poem Source First Line: The dreamers upon the hilltops Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Mrs. Ralph; Glass, Mrs. Ernest Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day DRIVING HOME THE COWS, by KATE PUTNAM OSGOOD Poem Text First Line: Out of the clover and blue-eyed grass Last Line: Together they followed the cattle home. Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; Peace; United States - History; Declaration Day EACH DAY A LIFE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I count each day a little life Last Line: I sleep to wake again Subject(s): Day; Life EAGLE YOUTH, by KARLE WILSON BAKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They have taken his horse and plume Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Charlotte Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; Holidays; Veterans Day EARLY RISER, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full 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 EARTH SONG, by DAVID MCKEE WRIGHT Poem Source First Line: Mother and maker of us all Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day ELEGY FOR THE REST OF THE WORLD, by DENNIS SAMPSON Poem Source First Line: Take that man back again to the landscape Last Line: Who has given him every wish that she were there Subject(s): Judgment Day EMANCIPATION FROM BRITISH DEPENDENCE, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deliver us, o lord / not only from british dependence, but also Last Line: And britain go on -- to be damn'd if she will. Variant Title(s): Libera Nos, Domine Subject(s): Fourth Of July; United States - Declaration Of Independence; Independence Day END OF THE WORD, by SHAWN STURGEON Poem Source First Line: Birds, of course, were singing, disregarding Last Line: That bends now to their every whim. And see: %cracks, furrows, the lost carthaginians! Subject(s): Judgment Day END OF THE WORLD, by JOAO CABRAL DE MELO NETO Poem Source First Line: At the end of the melancholy world Last Line: Instead of the last judgment, what worries me %is the final dream Subject(s): Judgment Day END OF THE WORLD, by GEORGE ELLISTON Poem Text First Line: Once I knew that the end of the world Last Line: Who measure time by years. Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man END OF THE WORLD, by JAKOV VAN HODDIS Poem Source First Line: From off his pointed head flies herr schmidt's hat Last Line: And from the bridges dangle trains and trams Subject(s): Judgment Day END OF THE WORLD, by ELSE LASKER-SCHULER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a weeping in the world Last Line: Whereby we too must die. Subject(s): Bible; Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man END OF THE WORLD, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Quite unexpectedly as vasserot Last Line: There in the sudden blackness the black pall %of nothing, nothing, nothing-nothing at all Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Circus; Judgment Day ENGLAND'S ALFRED ABROAD, by OWEN SEAMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wrong? Are they wrong? Of course they are Last Line: And the 'bus to cimiez. Subject(s): Austin, Alfred (1835-1913); Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man ENLISTED, by ELIZA CALVERT HALL Poem Source First Line: I fought under lee and stonewall Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day EPIGRAM ON THE FIRST OF APRIL, by JOHN WINSTANLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nature is rising from the dead Last Line: Ah! Chloe, when, my charming fair? Subject(s): April Fool's Day; All Fools' Day EPILOGUE, by MAXWELL ANDERSON Poem Text First Line: Children of dust, astray among the suns Last Line: To mix our dust with dust of slaves and kings. Subject(s): Death; Dust; Judgment Day; Life; Time; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man EPISTLE TO DR. YOUNG UPON HIS POEM ON THE LAST DAY, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now let the atheist tremble, thou alone Last Line: And practise o'er the angel in the man. Subject(s): Advice; Atheism; Future Life; God; Judgment Day; Poetry & Poets; Regret; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man EPITAPH, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You who died fighting Last Line: The rose is your joy. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Holidays; Memorial Day; Soldiers; Unknown Soldier; War; Westminster Abbey; Graveyards; Dead, The; Declaration Day EPITAPH ENDING IN AND, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the last storm, when hawks Last Line: Doves did not know where to fly, and Subject(s): Judgment Day; Millenium EVENSONG, by JOSEPHINE NORFOLK CARR Poem Text First Line: Tis evensong, and in the tree-tops high Last Line: We wait, to sing the evensong above. Subject(s): Day; Light EVERYONE KNOWS THE WORLD IS ENDING, by ALICE FULTON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Last Line: The coherent starlight Subject(s): Earth; Memory; Mothers; Judgment Day EVERYONE KNOWS THE WORLD IS ENDING, by ALICE FULTON Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Judgment Day EVERYONE SANG, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everyone suddenly burst out singing Last Line: Was a bird; and the song was wordless; the singing will never be done. Subject(s): Holidays; Life Change Events; Veterans Day; War; World War I; First World War FAITH, HOPE AND CHARITY, by JUAN GONZALO ROSE Poem Source First Line: Look, my king, they're everywhere Last Line: And cruel cajamarcas Subject(s): Judgment Day; Native Americans; Peru FALL IN!, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who shall march with the veteran band Last Line: Fall in, and march with the soldiers! Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day FALLEN, by DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Those we have loved the dearest Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, D. C. Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day FALLING DAY, by CHRISTY MACKAYE Poem Text First Line: If there's silence in summer Last Line: That you hear. Subject(s): Day; Summer; Sun FAREWELL, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tie the strings to my life, my lord, / then I am ready to go! Last Line: Now I am ready to go! Subject(s): Christianity; Judgment Day; Prayer; Reformation; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man FARMER JOHN'S THANKSGIVING, by ISAAC F. EATON Poem Source First Line: Thanksgiving day came chill and bare Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day FATHER, by PAUL CARROLL Poem Source First Line: How sick I get %of your ghost Last Line: This underpass is endless Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Fathers; Ireland; St. Patrick's Day FATHER'S VALENTINE, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Father's got the queerest valentine! Last Line: "that was mother, thirty years ago!" Subject(s): Children; Hearts; Holidays; Love; Mothers; Parents; Valentine's Day; Childhood; Parenthood FEAR VIA PLACE, by JAMES CERVANTES Poem Source First Line: South by southeast, I suppose, where thickets grow Last Line: And knew the sun was burning everything outside Subject(s): Day; Fear FEAST OF HARVEST, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fair earth smiled and turned herself and Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day FEBRUARY, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cold now is the breezes' breath Last Line: We love so well and dear. Subject(s): February; Holidays; Valentine's Day FESTE'S SONG (1), FR. TWELFTH NIGHT, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O mistress mine, where are you roaming? Last Line: Youth's stuff will not endure. Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Holidays; Love; Valentine's Day; Youth FIFTY YEARS AGO; FOR THE FOURTH OF JULY, 1826, by CHARLES SPRAGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fifty years have rolled away Last Line: Fifty years ago! Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Time; Independence Day FIRE AND ICE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some say the world will end in fire, / some say in ice Last Line: And would suffice. Subject(s): Death; Desire; Fire; Hate; Ice; Judgment Day; Men; Time; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man FIRE DREAMS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember here by the fire Last Line: "god." Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day FIRST OF APRIL, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This morn the god of wit and joke Last Line: The god has made us april fools Subject(s): April Fool's Day FIRST OF MAY IN NEW YORK (CHATHAM GARDEN, 1825), by ROBERT STEVENSON COFFIN Poem Text First Line: First of may, clear the way! Last Line: Devil take the first of may. Subject(s): May Day; Moving & Movers; New York City - 19th Century FIRST THANKSGIVING, by NANCY WHITE CARLSTROM Poem Source First Line: So many pumpkins %and so many beans Last Line: We all must depend Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day FIRST THANKSGIVING, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When she comes back, from college, I will see Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Homecoming; Thanksgiving Day FIRST THANKSGIVING DAY, by ALICE WILLIAMS BROTHERTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In puritan new england a year had passed away Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day FIRST THANKSGIVING: BOSTON, 1631, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The curse of cain was on th earth Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day FIVE SOULS, by WILLIAM NORMAN EWER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was a peasant of the polish plain Last Line: For those who bade me fight had told me so. Alternate Author Name(s): Ewer, W. N. Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War FIXED DESIRE OF THE HUMAN HEART, by THOMAS WOODROW WILSON Poem Source First Line: I consider the agitation for international arbitration Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day FLANDERS POPPIES, by IAN DUNCAN COLVIN Poem Source First Line: Poppies, ye flaming blushes of july Subject(s): Flanders, Belgium; Holidays; Veterans Day FLASHFORWARD: GLOBAL WARMING, by MICHAEL JOSEPH BUGEJA Poem Source First Line: The warnings have ended,t he landfills full Last Line: A scrap book whose final chapter is ending %without us Subject(s): Judgment Day; Pollution FOR ARBOR DAY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: What do we do when we plant a tree? Subject(s): Arbor Day; Trees FOR DECORATION DAY: 1861-1865, by RUPERT HUGHES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But do we truly mourn our soldier dead Last Line: The peaceful barracks where their bodies sleep. Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day FOR DECORATION DAY: 1898-1899, by RUPERT HUGHES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And now the long, long lines of the nation's graves Last Line: In grand review swing past the throne of god. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Spanish-american War (1898); Declaration Day FOR OUR DEAD. SEE MEMORIAL DAY, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day FOR REMEMBRANCE, by BASIL EBERS Poem Text First Line: What is it, o dear country of our pride Last Line: But the fixed goal of our humanity. Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day FOR THEE THEY DIED, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For thee their pilgrim swords were tried Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day FOR YOU, by KARLA KUSKIN Poem Source First Line: Here is a building Last Line: I'll sit near by Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Holidays; Poetry And Poets; Valentine's Day FORGET-ME-NOT DAY, by NAN TERRELL REED Poem Text First Line: Shall we forget, when nations meet Last Line: And need a world that's kind. Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day FORMULA, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: I saw the flesh that made the lover burn Last Line: X equals a—and so, he is destroyed. Subject(s): Heaven; Judgment Day; Paradise; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man FORTY DAYS: THE SECOND ASCENSION OF CHRIST, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Forty days %and forty nights, which were as days Last Line: Go tell the roman synagogue. %tell rome! Subject(s): Ascension Day FOUR VALENTINES, by CHARLES KELLOGG FIELD Poem Text First Line: Tomorrow is the day for valentines Last Line: The old-maid sister of my major prof. Subject(s): Holidays; Schools; Universities & Colleges; Valentine's Day; Students FOURTH OF JULY IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When july fourth was getting near Last Line: And tell the rest another year. Subject(s): Brooks; Country Life; Fourth Of July; Freedom; Vermont; Streams; Creeks; Independence Day; Liberty FOURTH OF JULY NIGHT, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The little boat at anchor Subject(s): Fireworks; Fourth Of July; Independence Day FOURTH OF JULY ODE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our fathers fought for liberty Last Line: But ourselves must set us free. Subject(s): American Revolution; Fourth Of July; Independence Day FREDERICKSBURG, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The increasing moonlight drifts across my bed Last Line: Hark! -- the black squadrons wheeling down to death! Subject(s): American Civil War; Fredericksburg, Battle Of (1862); Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day FREE TURKEY-RALPHS SUPERMARKET, NOVEMBER 16, by HOLLY PRADO Poem Source First Line: Is this american, or what? Last Line: Holidays. Twelve pounds of meat and bone: my just reward Subject(s): Americans; Grocers; Holidays; Markets; Thanksgiving Day; Turkeys FREEDOM, OUR QUEEN, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Land where the banners wave last in the sun Last Line: She shall reign over us, world without end! Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Freedom; Independence Day; Liberty FRIENDSHIP BREEDS PEACE, by THOMAS WOODROW WILSON Poem Source First Line: America is at peace because she entertains a Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day FROM ASHBOURNE, DERBYSHIRE; A CHARM FOR ST. VALENTINE'S EVE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I sow hempseed, hempseed I sow Last Line: He that loves me best, %come and after me mow Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day FROM BEYOND, by LUCIA TRENT Poem Text First Line: Pity us not Last Line: Oh, god, the shame that they should be so blind! Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Mrs. Ralph; Glass, Mrs. Ernest Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; War; Declaration Day FRUITS OF VICTORY, by WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT Poem Source First Line: The great war is ended. It will change the Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day GARDEN OF GOLD, by KAJETAN KOVIC Poem Source First Line: The chill and the damp under the pines Last Line: And as above them, blue as death, %ripens the isbella Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Holidays; Memorial Day; Soldiers; War GARLANDS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What are the garlands we lay on the graves? Last Line: We know what garlands will please you the best! Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day GEMS OF TODAY, by FLORENCE O. LUKER Poem Text First Line: When the dew still sparkles Last Line: Are gems that to you are brought. Subject(s): Day GIVE THANKS FOR WHAT?, by W. F. CROFFUT Poem Source First Line: Let earth give thanks,' the deacon said Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day GLAMOUR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Was it in the misty twilight, or Last Line: My fancy, slowly slipping earthly anchor, sailed away? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Day; Dreams; Evening; Love; Nightmares; Sunset; Twilight GOING STEADY, by IAN SERRAILLIER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Valentine, o valentine Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day GOLDEN DAY, by ARTHUR WALLACE PEACH Poem Source First Line: The guns of war are silent Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day GONE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sunshine seeks thee, and the day Last Line: And, following to find thee, die. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Day GOOD-NIGHT, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You linger when you say good-night Last Line: Or only on the day of days?' Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Fear; Judgment Day; Dead, The; Parting; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man GOODBYE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sounds of the seas grow fainter Last Line: As night shuts out the day. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Day; Nature; Night; Seasons; Bedtime GOODNIGHT PRAYER, by NANCY WHITE CARLSTROM Poem Source First Line: Thank you, god, for everyone Last Line: Thanks for you and thanks for me Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day GORD ONLY KNOWS, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw an old beggar dis mawnin,' lucindy Last Line: Gord only knows. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day GRACES, by NANCY WHITE CARLSTROM Poem Source First Line: Thanks for food that crunches Last Line: And tastes good going down Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day GRANDFATHER WATTS'S PRIVATE FOURTH, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grandfather watts used to tell us boys Last Line: And marched off home, nor'-west by nor'. Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Independence Day GRANDFATHERS HANDS, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: Grandfathers hands in the sausge tub Last Line: Clicking on and off all the way home Subject(s): Grandchildren; Grandparents; Holidays; Memorial Day; Veterans GRANDMOTHER'S VALENTINE, by MINNA IRVING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The branches creaked on the garret roof Last Line: Grandmother's valentine told me so. Alternate Author Name(s): Michener, Harry, Mrs. Subject(s): Cupid; Grandparents; Holidays; Love; Valentine's Day; Eros; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers GRANNY'S STORY, by EMILY HUNTINGTON MILLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, lads, I'm a poor old body Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day GRANNY'S THANKSGIVING, by NANCY WHITE CARLSTROM Poem Source First Line: Granny, tell us how it was when you were a girl Last Line: As we all thawed out Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day GRAVES OF THE PATRIOTS, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here rest the great and good. Here they repose Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day GREAT ARMISTICE, by ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the uproar and stench Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day GREAT POWERS CONFERENCE, by EDITH LOVEJOY PIERCE Poem Source First Line: The blind men add the figures, draw the maps Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day GREEN BEER, by JAMES J. MCAULEY Poem Source First Line: On saint paddy's day, the jukebox plays Last Line: The raven tearing at his eye Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Beer; Drinks And Drinking; Holidays; Parties; St. Patrick's Day GREEN HILL FAR AWAY', by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Was it indeed only last march, or in another Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day GUSTATORY ACHIEVEMENT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last thanksgiving'-dinner we Last Line: Lawzy! I kin taste 'em yet! %yes, an' custard-pie, an' mince! %an'-I-ain't-et-no-pie-since! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Food And Eating; Holidays; Pies; Thanksgiving Day HAD THERE BEEN FALSEHOOD IN MY BREAST, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Night; Day; Perception; Bedtime HAIL, ARBOR DAY, by LIZZIE D. ROOSA Poem Source First Line: Now fair arbor day is here Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees HAMPSHIRE APRIL 1ST RHYME (USED AFTER 12 NOON), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: April fool's gone past Last Line: When april fool comes again %you'll be the biggest fool again Subject(s): April Fool's Day HARVARD COMMEMORATION ODE, SELS., by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whither leads the path Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day HARVARD PHI BETA KAPPA POEM, by ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When all our troubled errantries are done Alternate Author Name(s): Knish, Anne Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day HARVEST HYMN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once more the liberal year laughs out Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day HE SENT HIS LOVE A VALENTINE, by DAVID MCCORD Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day HE'LL SEE IT WHEN HE WAKES', by FRANK LEE Poem Source First Line: Amid the clouds of battle-smoke Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day HEARTS WERE MADE TO GIVE AWAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Full Text Last Line: On valentine's dear day Subject(s): Valentine's Day HEIRLOOM LACE, by LOLA GREENFIELD LAWRENCE Poem Text First Line: The dusky handwork of the night Last Line: To fold the lovely night away! Subject(s): Dawn; Day; Light; Sunrise HER VALENTINE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somebody's sent a funny little Last Line: Can not breathe the lightest whisper of his burning love for me. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Cupid; Flowers; Holidays; Love; Roses; Valentine's Day; Eros HEREDITY (1), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The children of the night Last Line: His doom to weep. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Day; Night; Bedtime HEROES OF THE SOUTH, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Four deadly years we fought Subject(s): Confederate States Of America; Holidays; Memorial Day HIS NEW SUIT, by SAMUEL ELLSWORTH KISER Poem Source First Line: I remember well the way Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day HIS VALENTINE, by BLANCHE DEGOOD LOFTON Poem Text First Line: A cupid, on a fat, red-paper heart Last Line: "from jack, age nine -- I love you, mother dear." Subject(s): Holidays; Mothers & Sons; Valentine's Day HOLY SONNET: 7, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: At the round earth's imagined corners, blow Last Line: As if thou hadst sealed my pardon, with thy blood. Variant Title(s): "blow Your Trumpets, Angels;'teach Me How To Repent';holy Sonnet: 165;holy Sonnets: 4;""at The Round Earth's Imagined Corners, Blow""; Subject(s): Angels; Bible; Christianity; Death; Immortality; Judgment Day; Religion; Repentance; Salvation; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology; Penitence HOLY THURSDAY, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is this a holy thing to see Last Line: Nor poverty the mind appall. Subject(s): Ascension Day; Bible; Holidays; Mythology; Poverty HOLY THURSDAY, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on a holy thursday, their innocent faces clean Last Line: Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door Subject(s): Ascension Day; Bible; Holidays; Mythology; Poverty HOME FOR THANKSGIVING, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gathering family Subject(s): Thanksgiving Day HOW AMERICA FINISHED, by GREGORY MASON Poem Source First Line: The legend, 'heaven, hell, or hoboken by Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day HOW ARE YOU, SANITARY?', by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down the picket-guarded lane Last Line: "pass in, sanitary!" Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; Patriotism; United States - History; Declaration Day HUSH OF TWILIGHT, by G. KENYON ASHENDEN Poem Text First Line: After the sun goes down Last Line: All destiny is cast. Subject(s): Day; Evening; Light; Night; Sunset; Twilight; Bedtime HYMN CONCERNING THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT, by THOMASIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As a thief, who falls at midnight on his unsuspecting prey Last Line: When the master comes, to meet him, bearing with you lamps that burn. Alternate Author Name(s): Thomasius, Christia Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man HYMN FOR ALL SAINTS DAY IN THE MORNING, by HENRY ALFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stand up before your god Last Line: But many in the tomb. Subject(s): All Saints' Day; Allhallowmas; Allhallows HYMN FOR ARBOR DAY, by HENRY HANBY HAY Poem Source First Line: God save this tree we plant! Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees HYMN FOR MEMORIAL DAY, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: Lift your eyes to yonder city Last Line: Over every land and sea. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day HYMN FOR [OR, TO] THE VICTORIOUS DEAD, by HERMANN HAGEDORN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: God, by the sea, by the resounding sea Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day HYMN OF HATE, by JOSEPH DANA MILLER Poem Source First Line: And this I hate - not men, for flag, for race Subject(s): Holidays; Peace; Veterans Day HYMN TO LIGHT, by EDWARD JOSEPH HARRINGTON O'BRIEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wind-loving daughter of eternal day Last Line: The flowers of april blow Subject(s): April; Day HYMN: 14. THE ASCENSION OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And other wond'rous works were done Last Line: To reign with god for evermore Subject(s): Ascension Day HYMN: ASCENSION DAY AND SUNDAY AFTER, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sit thou on my right hand, my son!' saith the lord Last Line: "and the work which thy worthiness hath done!" Subject(s): Ascension Day I SOW HEMPSEED, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day I'LL WEAR A SHAMROCK, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: St. Patrick's day is with us Last Line: And I am irish, too! Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie Subject(s): St. Patrick's Day I'M IRISH ON THE ONE SIDE, SCOTTISH ON THE OTHER, by GERALD LOCKLIN Poem Source Last Line: Wrap up the rotgut' Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Ireland; St. Patrick's Day I, LORD, THY FOOLISH SINNER LOW AND SMALL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Follow thou me Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Sin; Judgment Day IDEALS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Could day demand a gift of night Last Line: A lengthened hour with her. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Day; Night; Bedtime IF NIGHT AND DAY BEHAVED LIKE DOORS, by REBECCA GIVENS Poem Source First Line: At the first sign of slowing Last Line: Desperately, blindingly flings clear Subject(s): Day; Nature; Night ILICET, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is an end of joy and sorrow Last Line: The poppied sleep, the end of all Subject(s): Death; Grief; Judgment Day; Sleep; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man IMAGE, by EDWARD H. SOTHERN Poem Source First Line: It is mankind that is crucified,' said my mate Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day IMITATION, by LOUISE A. JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: Some flowers from my boy away Last Line: The likeness may be true, though dim. Subject(s): Flowers; Mother's Day; Paintings & Painters IMPROMPTU LINES ON JULY FOURTH, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behold from the brow of the mountain advancing Last Line: Here's to the fourth and our country forever. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Freedom; Independence; Independence Day; Liberty IN ACTION, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When the blue-black waves are tipped with white Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day IN DAYS LIKE THESE, by THOMAS H. STACY Poem Source First Line: O god of hosts, whose mighty hand Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day IN HONOR OF THANKSGIVING, by LIZZIE M. HADLEY Poem Source First Line: When november's gusty breezes Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day IN NOVEMBER, by SUSAN KELLY PHILLIPS Poem Source First Line: Soft, sweet, and sad in its pathetic glory Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day IN THE PRESENT TIME, WHICH IS THE END OF THE WORLD: FIRST FLOOR, by ERIC CHARLES LEMAY Poem Source First Line: Gothic light. A bedroom with the same architectural structure as those of ... Last Line: Through the window, the red-blue flashing of ememergency lights. The hands raise a few %fingers. All Subject(s): Judgment Day; Play IN THE PRESENT TIME, WHICH IS THE END OF THE WORLD: SECOND FLOOR, by ERIC CHARLES LEMAY Poem Source First Line: Darkness. Unrhythmic slapping sound from above. Indigo light rises on a bedroom Last Line: Turns to the bed, removes the picture and the revolver, brushes off the plaster, arranges %the comfo Subject(s): Judgment Day; Play IN THE PRESENT TIME, WHICH IS THE END OF THE WORLD: THIRD FLOOR, by ERIC CHARLES LEMAY Poem Source First Line: Bright light. A bedroom with the same architectural structure as that of ... Last Line: Silence. Lights continue flashing. No one comes Subject(s): Judgment Day; Play INDEPENDENCE DAY, 1956, A FAIRY TALE, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think this house's mouth is full of dirt Last Line: I know because someone, or his assistant, suffered here Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Independence Day INDEPENDENT, SELS., by UNKNOWN Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day INDIAN SUMMER, by JOHN HOWARD BRYANT Poem Source First Line: That soft autumnal time Subject(s): Holidays; Indian Summer; Thanksgiving Day INDIAN SUMMER, by EUDORA S. BUMSTEAD Poem Source First Line: The grain is gathered in Subject(s): Holidays; Indian Summer; Thanksgiving Day INITIATION, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind has fallen asleep; the bough that tost Last Line: Most true to earth when I seem most untrue? Subject(s): Day; Nature; Night; Bedtime INSCRIPTIONS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The epitaph of night Last Line: Above each grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Day; Graves; Night; Tombs; Tombstones; Bedtime INVENTORY, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thanksgiving today. Soaked with sleet Last Line: Here: in america. In america. Subject(s): Belgium; Confessions; Daughters; Gardens & Gardening; Gratitude; Holidays; Honor; Larch Trees; Loss; Memory; Moving & Movers; Numbers; Omens; Refugees; Sons; Thanksgiving Day; Time; United States - Immigration & Emigtration ISAIAH 55: 6-12. QUOTATIONS FOR PEACE DAY, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day ISN'T IT TO ESCAPE FROM THIS DAMNED EASY LIFE, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I must await the judgment day Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Judgment Day JAPANESE LULLABIES, by JOHN HARSEN RHOADES Poem Text First Line: Stars begin heaping / the moon creeps high Last Line: The star winds blow. Subject(s): Day JOHN JONES: 2. BY THE CLIFF, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it daytime (guess Last Line: Shut the book. Subject(s): Day; Soul JOHN REMEMBERS, by PAUL SMITH Poem Text First Line: Then I saw the ascension Last Line: Peacefully green, and eternal. Subject(s): Ascension Day; Peter, Saint (c. 64 A.d.) JUDGEMENT, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Almighty judge, how shall poor wretches brook Last Line: There thou shalt finde my faults are thine. Subject(s): Judges; Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man JUDGEMENT, by STEVEN REESE Poem Source First Line: It will come straight out of kafka Last Line: You, of all people, with sons of your own' %as I feel the floor give way Subject(s): Judgment Day JUDGEMENT, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, my day, yet ere thou art quite departed Last Line: Thou who art christ, christ who is more than thou. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man JUDGMENT, by FERNAND MAZADE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night the true god lists your every crime Last Line: And the true god—I see it all—will pardon you. Subject(s): God; Judgment Day; Religion; Sin; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology JUDGMENT DAY, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Every day is judgment day Last Line: Sorrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Judgment Day; Religion; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology JUDGMENT DAY, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When through our bodies our two spirits / burn Last Line: Irked by long shadows, mocked by those bright far tones. Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man JUDGMENT DAY, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the day, this is the day! Last Line: When music no charm possesses, %nor hats, nor mittens, nor dressses Subject(s): Judgment Day JULY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: July's for independence day Last Line: July comes for flags and play. Subject(s): Flags - United States; Fourth Of July; Holidays; Summer; American Flag; Independence Day JULY FOURTH; 1867, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Awake, anew, columbia's anthems! Last Line: Let distant ages swell the strain. Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Freedom; Nations; Independence Day; Liberty KANGAROO'S COURTSHIP, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: Oh will you be my wallaby' Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day KEARNY AT SEVEN PINES [MAY 31, 1862], by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So that soldierly legend is still on its journey Last Line: Line. Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Kearny, Philip (1814-1862); Memorial Day; Patriotism; Seven Pines, Battle Of (1862); United States - History; Declaration Day; Fair Oaks, Battle Of (1862) KEENAN'S CHARGE, by GEORGE PARSONS LATHROP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun had set Last Line: That saved the army at chancellorsville. Subject(s): American Civil War; Cavalry; Chancellorsville, Battle Of (1863); Holidays; Keenan, Peter (1834-1863); Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day KIST (I.M. 14TH FEBRUARY 1975), by DENNIS O'DRISCOLL Poem Source First Line: On that lovers' morning, our hearts chimed Last Line: Took on the wrinkled grain %of coffin wood Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Holidays; Love - Loss Of; Old Age; Valentine's Day KNOCK ON THE DOOR, by JAMES TATE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They ask me if I've ever thought Last Line: And they see nothing without end Subject(s): Earth; Judgment Day LA VITA NUOVA: SONNET OF BEATRICE DE PORTINARI, ON ALL SAINTS' DAY, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last all saints' holy-day, even now gone by Last Line: Blessed are they who meet her on the earth. Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): All Saints' Day; Beatrice Portinari (1266-1290); Allhallowmas; Allhallows LAST JUDGMENT, by GIUSEPPE GIOCCHINO BELLI Poem Source First Line: At the round earth's imagined corners let Last Line: And so to bed %owwwwww %bona sera Subject(s): Judgment Day LAST JUDGMENT, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: The chorister crippled all summer Last Line: All the villages are in heaven %gathered around the steeple Subject(s): Future Life; Judgment Day LAST VALENTINE'S DAY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "last valentine's day, when bright phoebus shone clear" Last Line: "taleo, taleo, taleo, taleo, taleo, taleo, taleo" Subject(s): Hearts;holidays;love;valentine's Day LAVENDER'S BLUE (1), by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lavender's blue, dilly, dilly, lavender's green Last Line: Whilst you and I, dilly dilly, keep ourselves warm. Subject(s): Holidays; Lavender; Valentine's Day LEE TO THE REAR [MAY 12, 1864], by JOHN REUBEN THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn of a pleasant morning in may Last Line: The gray-bearded man in the black slouched hat. Alternate Author Name(s): Thompson, John Randolph Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Lee, Robert Edward (1807-1870); Memorial Day; Patriotism; United States - History; Wilderness Campaign (1864); Declaration Day LEGENDA, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This song stays Last Line: Delight of air and light and breath. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Day; Legends; Memory; Night; Singing & Singers; Bedtime; Songs LESSONS, by HELEN WEBER Poem Source First Line: Strange lesson taught by war Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day LEST WE FORGET - 1926, by CURTIS WHEELER Poem Text First Line: Lest we forget! / the months swing into years Last Line: Lest we forget! Subject(s): Holidays; Soldiers' Writings; Veterans Day LEST WE FORGET; ARMISTICE NIGHT, 1920, by CURTIS WHEELER Poem Text First Line: The cold rain falls on dun-sur-meuse tonight Last Line: "when taps blew so much more than just ""goodnight." Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day LET DREAMERS WAKE, by LILITH LORRAINE Poem Source First Line: Now, if ever, lets poets sing Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Mary M. Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day LET US DECLARE!, SELS., by ANGELA MORGAN Poem Source First Line: Come, workers! Poets, artists, dreamers, more and more Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day LETTER BY AN AMERICAN OFFICER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I am writing you a few lines to say that I am Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day LETTERS AND DIARY, SELS., by ALAN SEEGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Another participant in the attack upon belloy-en-santerre Subject(s): Diaries; Holidays; Soldiers' Writings; Veterans Day LIBERTY FOR ALL, by WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They tell me, liberty! That in thy name Last Line: And, by a mighty hand, the oppressed he yet shall save! Subject(s): Brotherhood; Fourth Of July; Slavery; Social Protest; Independence Day; Serfs LIFE, by ALEXANDER R. SCHOOLER Poem Text First Line: Life has three parts to its day Last Line: Our time is out, our race is run. Subject(s): Day; Time LIFE'S MORNING, NOON, AND EVENING, by AUDRA POWELL COTTRILLE Poem Text First Line: Dawn breaks, soft breezes blow, 'tis morning time of life Last Line: Submerged in faith, then sink to rest in twilight's holy calm. Subject(s): Day; Life; Spring LIFE'S RAMAH, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Day after day Last Line: Will not again be comforted. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Day LIGHT IN DARKNESS (1), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The day - of sorrow pitiless Last Line: The dawn-extinguished star. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Day; Night; Bedtime LILY'S THANKSGIVING, by MRS. DAWSON M. PHELPS Poem Source First Line: It was always the time for a laugh, when the name Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day LINES SUGGESTED BY THE FOURTEENTH OF FEBRUARY (2), by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Darkness succeeds to twilight Last Line: To think on hers sincerely. Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day LITANY FOR D-DAY: 1944, by HENRY MORTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Epaulettes of farragut, / powder-horn of boone Last Line: Not to be safe, but free. Variant Title(s): Litany For A New A.e.f. Subject(s): D Day (june 6, 1944); Normandy (france), Invasion Of LITANY FOR PEACE, by LESLIE SAVAGE CLARK Poem Source First Line: No longer homes are flame against Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day LITTLE NAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The wide gates swung open Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day LMFBR, by GARY SNYDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death himself, / (liquid metal fast breeder reactor) Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man LMFBR, by GARY SNYDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death himself, %(liquid metal fast breeder reactor) Last Line: Of the kali-yuga %end of days Subject(s): Judgment Day LOCKSLEY HALL, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Comrades, leave me here a little, while as yet 'tis early morn Last Line: For the mighty wind arises, roaring seaward, and I go. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Disappointment; Freedom; Grief; Holidays; Love; Religion; Veterans Day; War; Liberty; Sorrow; Sadness; Theology LOOK IN THEIR EYES, by ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Youthful and buoyant and blithe they went into Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day LORD, WHAT HAVE I TO OFFER? SICKENING FEAR, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Only sift out my sin Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): God; Judgment Day; Sin; Prayer LOVE AT SEA, by J. PATRICK LEWIS Poem Source First Line: Up through the fog came the frisky dog Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day LOVE HONOR ONLY BETTER THAN PEACE, by THOMAS WOODROW WILSON Poem Source First Line: There are all sorts of people in the united Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 19, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I pass the day tense, day Last Line: The evening bells ring from temple to temple Subject(s): Day; Happiness; Night; Relationships LOVE, GIVE ME THE FEEL OF TO-MORROW, by EDWARD RALPH CHEYNEY Poem Text First Line: Come, love, help me move all the mirrors out of my workshop Last Line: Broadcasting a forever-and-ever armistice day. Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Ralph Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day LYRIC AND EPIC, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little lyric the sunset gleamed Last Line: An elemental clash and cry. Subject(s): Life; Love; Wind; Memorial Day MAKE WAY!, by FLORENCE CROCKER COMFORT Poem Source First Line: The crashing sky has swept old paths aside Subject(s): Holidays; Peace; Veterans Day MAN ON THE RAFT, by JONATHAN GALASSI Poem Source First Line: The man on the raft Last Line: Nothing left for him to do %but try again tomorrow Subject(s): Day; Evening; Life; Summer; Sun MAN'S PILGRIMAGE, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh for the morning gleam of youth, the half-unfolded flower Last Line: For day must pass, and night must come, before another morn. Subject(s): Day; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims MANASSAS [JULY 21, 1861], by CATHERINE ANNE WARFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They have met at last - as storm-clouds Last Line: At manassas. Alternate Author Name(s): Warfield, Catherine M. Subject(s): American Civil War; Bull Run, Battles Of; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Manassas, Batlle Of; Declaration Day MANIFEST OF A BOAT LEAVING ON THE EVE OF THE 3RD MILLENNIUM, by ALBINO CARRILLO Poem Source First Line: In one satchel you'll be carrying newsprint, comics dark Last Line: Before climbing up the twisted manila rope ladder, home Subject(s): Judgment Day; Millenium; Survival MANY, by AGUSTI BARTRA Poem Source First Line: Many %of those many who rose up Last Line: Many of those many who rose up Subject(s): Death; Graves; Holidays; Memorial Day; Soldiers; War Injuries MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA, by HENRY CLAY WORK Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Bring the good old bugle boys, we'll sing another song Last Line: While we were marching through georgia. Subject(s): American Civil War; Georgia (state); Holidays; Memorial Day; Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891); United States - History; Declaration Day MARGIE'S THANKSGIVING, by EUDORA S. BUMSTEAD Poem Source First Line: With salt and potatoes and meal for bread Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day MARSHAL FOCH'S ARMISTICE DAY MESSAGE TO AMERICA, 1926, by STEPHANE LAUZANNE Poem Source First Line: It is a great wave of idealism and fraternity ...' Subject(s): Foch, Ferdinand (1851-1929); Holidays; Veterans Day MARY MOPPET'S DAYCARE CENTER, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I call the police to report the bruises, on my way to work buy a few boxes of cookie Last Line: Meg leaves mary moppet's when she gets enough gigs. Angela goes to mexico. She's getting married, wa Subject(s): Day Care MAY 30, 1893, by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It seemed to be but chance, yet who shall say Last Line: It was to die unknown and rest forgot? Alternate Author Name(s): Hotair, Dopeton Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Unknown Soldier; Declaration Day MAY NIGHT, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Blue are the twilight heavens above the hill Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day MAYFLOWER, by NANCY WHITE CARLSTROM Poem Source First Line: Over the water and over the waves Last Line: Said the people who came to america Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day MCFEETERS' FOURTH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was needless to say 'twas a glorious day Last Line: Of this most patriotic republic on earth? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Freedom; Nations; Patriotism; Independence Day; Liberty MEDITATION IN SEVEN DAYS, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If your mother is a jew, you are a jew Last Line: I am the woman, and about to enter Subject(s): Day; Jews - Women; Meditation MEMORIAL DAY, by MICHAEL ANANIA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is easily forgotten, year to Last Line: And walking, our own sway and balance, fails us Subject(s): Memorial Day; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY, by EDWARD BARTOK-BARATTA Poem Source First Line: Fireworks are exploding over the hotel northampton Last Line: This star-spangled weekend that crawls toward the divorce? Subject(s): Divorce; Holidays; Memorial Day MEMORIAL DAY, by WILLIAM E. BROOKS Poem Text First Line: I heard a cry in the night from a far-flung host Last Line: In the name of our dead will we hear? Will we grant them sleep? Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Peace; Veterans Day; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY, by WALLACE BRUCE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I come with chaplet woven new Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day MEMORIAL DAY, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well,' they were saying, 'the war's over' Last Line: There are pictures and parades for all the rest, %but you have to dream the buzzard Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day MEMORIAL DAY, by FLORIA DORIA Poem Text First Line: The dead immortal! They are the ones whom we honor today Last Line: To the ashes of our mourned and lost immortal youths! Subject(s): Death; Holidays; Memorial Day; Soldiers; Dead, The; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Why deck with flow'rs these humble mounds? Last Line: A dearer destiny than dirgeful death. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY, by EMERETTE H. DUNNING Poem Text First Line: To all the heart-wounds touched afresh this day Last Line: This eventide. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The finest tribute we can pay Last Line: And free men wear no tyrant's chain. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O day of roses and regret Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day MEMORIAL DAY, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each year my parents flowered their dead: the dark-veined Last Line: Of hands, the carnal gift of bloom, %the beauty entrusted to graves a sensual payment of debt Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Sympathy; Veterans MEMORIAL DAY, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bugle echoes shrill and sweet Last Line: The prince of peace . . . Who brought a sword. Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY, by EMMA A. LENT Poem Text First Line: A day of tender memory Last Line: Upon each resting-bed. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After noon, in the plaza, cries, shrill yells, running and breaking Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After noon, in the plaza, cries, shrill yells, running and breaking Last Line: All these camellias overgrown and wasting? Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day MEMORIAL DAY, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After our march from the hudson to the top Last Line: Ticks on its chain. Subject(s): Holidays; Honor; Memorial Day; Veterans; War; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Again it is memorial day Last Line: On decoration day. Subject(s): Death; Heroism; Holidays; Memorial Day; Soldiers; Veterans; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Noblest of martyrs in a glorious fight! Last Line: That they who fell with jackson rise with lee! Subject(s): Heroism; Holidays; Memorial Day; War; Heroes; Heroines; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flowers for our dead! Last Line: Love for our dead! Variant Title(s): For Our Dead Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They are not dead! They are not dead! Last Line: On thids memorial day. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY, by SAMUEL FRANCIS SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strew the fair garlands where slumber the dead Last Line: Grateful the living and honored the dead. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY, by FRANCES FREEMAN TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: The blue and the gray and the olive-drab Last Line: The olive-drab, the blue and the gray. Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; U.s. - History; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY, by CY WARMAN Poem Text First Line: Gather the garlands rare today Last Line: And water the garlands with their tears. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The day of memories! -- remembering what? Last Line: Upon our sacred day of memories. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Is it enough to think to-day Last Line: And be ourselves, in turn, the brave! Subject(s): Courage; Holidays; May (month); Memorial Day; Valor; Bravery; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY 1889, by SAMUEL ELLSWORTH KISER Poem Text First Line: Twine laurels to lay o'er the blue and the gray Last Line: Entwine. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY FOR THE WAR DEAD, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Memorial day for the war dead. Add now Last Line: Behind all this some great happiness is hiding Subject(s): Grief; Memorial Day; Sorrow; Sadness; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY, POST-WAR, by MARGUERITE MOOERS MARSHALL Poem Text First Line: For golden lads, a-faring Last Line: A memory—of rue! Subject(s): Hate; Holidays; Memorial Day; Social Protest; War; Declaration Day MEMORIAL RAIN, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ambassador puser the ambassador Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War MEMORIAL RAIN, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ambassador puser the ambassador Last Line: He rests, he is quiet, he sleeps in a strange land Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day; World War I MEMORIALS, by JOHN WATKINS MOSELEY JR. Poem Text First Line: Memorial days crowd the past into the present Last Line: If they would be wafted into the realm of greatness. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day MEN OF THE NORTH, by JOHN NEAL Poem Text First Line: Men of the north, look up! Last Line: Upon our haughty foe! Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; U.s. - History; Declaration Day MESSAGE OF MARSHAL FERDINAND FOCH TO THE AMERICAN LEGION, by FERDINAND FOCH Poem Source First Line: It is out of sacrifice and suffering that the Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day MESSAGE OF PEACE, by JULIA WARD HOWE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bid the din of battle cease! Subject(s): Holidays; Patriotism; Veterans Day MIDDAY SILENCE IS DIFFERENT, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I can't tell you how Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Day; Nature; Night; Silence MILKWEED, by ROBERT CLAPS Poem Source First Line: Dry october, the roadside asters gone to seed Last Line: For october's quick dark Subject(s): Day; Night; October MISER DAY, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: Friday was simon's miser day Last Line: He was worse than an old corn separator Subject(s): Day; Misers MONDAY'S CHILD, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Monday's child is fair of face Last Line: Is bonny and blithe, and good and gay. Variant Title(s): A Week Of Birthdays;days Of Birth Subject(s): Birthdays; Children; Day; Mothers; Childhood MONUMENT FOR THE SOLDIERS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day MOON RABBIT, by SUSAN TERRIS Poem Source First Line: A daytime moon hovers, and moon rabbit Last Line: Will be the same and the lop-earred moon rabbit %who, day or night, sees everything Subject(s): Day; Moon MORNING VOW, by JANE DUNNING ROUNDS Poem Text First Line: Dawn came suddenly on wings! Last Line: Then for tomorrow, come what may . . . Subject(s): Day MORNING, NOON AND NIGHT, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When morning shows her first faint flush Last Line: And dark — so dark becomes the night. Subject(s): Day; Life; Love MOTHER'S DAY, by EDWIN BECKER Poem Source First Line: Acclaim the dawn of mother's day Subject(s): Mother's Day MOTHER'S DAY, by SANDIE CASTLE Poem Source First Line: Mother's day special Subject(s): Mother's Day MOTHER'S DAY, by WALTER GRIFFIN Poem Source First Line: Before the dark takes your eyes Last Line: Rusted wheels rolling toward the waiting dark Subject(s): Mother's Day MOTHER'S DAY, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gentle hands that never weary toiling in love's Last Line: All the patient service of her, you've been %worthy of it all? Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Mother's Day MOTHER'S DAY, by EDNA TUCKER MUTH Poem Source First Line: My soul is reverence now prays Subject(s): Mother's Day MOTHER'S DAY, by ELIZABETH REVERE Poem Source First Line: She brings me a rose Subject(s): Mother's Day MOTHER'S DAY, by LAVELLE ROBERTS Poem Source Last Line: All over the world wide Subject(s): Mother's Day MOTHER'S DAY, by JEROME SALA Poem Source First Line: My mother punches my father today Subject(s): Mother's Day MOTHER'S DAY, by STEPHEN SANDY Poem Source First Line: From sleep I turn to day and fetch Last Line: Strange; after drear dark the strange, sweet %business of the birds overhead once more Subject(s): Mother's Day MOTHER'S DAY, by AMY JO SCHOONOVER Poem Source First Line: A box turtle strolls unconcernedly Last Line: More brutal, more lovely than poetry Subject(s): Mother's Day MOTHER'S DAY, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peg said, 'this one,' and we bought it Last Line: She will never be mad at us again Subject(s): Mother's Day MOTHER'S DAY, by BERYL V. THOMPSON Poem Text First Line: With hosiery, gloves, and bright bouquet Last Line: Them drop in once a month for tea. Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Hypocrisy; Mother's Day MOTHER'S DAY, by JULIA VINOGRAD Poem Source First Line: Everything on t.V. And in the shop windows Last Line: But it doesn't help; %she's still dead, %combing her long dark hair under the dark earth Subject(s): Mother's Day MOTHER'S DAY POEM, by III WILLIAM CANNON Poem Source First Line: The parking lot is sparkling, rain Last Line: She is sure I know nothing about love Subject(s): Mother's Day; Poetry And Poets; Rain MUSIC; AND THE SAVAGE BREAST, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'd read the kaiser's note Last Line: .... I thank you, band of germans. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Bands; German Americans; Holidays; Memorial Day; Music & Musicians; Patriotism; Orchestras; Declaration Day MUTATION, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Till comes the crescent moon Last Line: Forgets the sovereignty of day. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Day; Night; Bedtime MY LOVE IS LIKE A CABBAGE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day MY MOTHER, by ALFRED JENNINGS FUNNELL Poem Text First Line: There was a time in days a-gone Last Line: And love be enthroned forevermore. Subject(s): Mother's Day; Mothers MY VALENTINE, by ERNEST CAMP JR. Poem Text First Line: My valentine's a tulip, peeping from the garden shade Last Line: That her laughing lips lend cadence to the music of her voice! Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day MY VALENTINE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: But once a year the fates, my dear Last Line: To-day and all the days to come! Subject(s): Courtship; Holidays; Valentine's Day NEAR THE DAWN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When life's troubles gather darkly Last Line: Just before the break of dawn Subject(s): Dawn;day; Sunrise NEW NATIONAL HYMN, by FRANCIS MARION CRAWFORD Poem Text First Line: Hail, freedom! Thy bright crest Last Line: Take thou, at last, our souls to thine eternal peace. Variant Title(s): National Hymn Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Independence Day NEW SONG, by ARTHUR GORDON FIELD Poem Source First Line: Poet, take up thy lyre Subject(s): Holidays; Patriotism; Veterans Day NEW YEAR, GOOD-MORNING!, by ALEXANDER MACLEAN Poem Text First Line: New year, good - morning! Come and bring Last Line: New year, good-morning! Subject(s): Day; Happiness; Holidays; Morning; New Year; Winter; Joy; Delight NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE EDITORIAL SECTION, SELS., by UNKNOWN Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day NIGHT, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heart-hidden from the outer things I rose Last Line: The planets may divide. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Day; Night; Time; Bedtime NIGHT AND DAY, by MARY ELIZABETH MAPES DODGE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I run about all day Subject(s): Day NIGHT'S FAIRYLAND, by ELMA SCHEEL Poem Text First Line: When day has wrapped her golden robe Last Line: "day breathes her ""thank you"" prayer." Subject(s): Day; Fairies; Night; Elves; Bedtime NIGHTINGALES OF FLANDERS, by GRACE HAZARD CONKLING Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day 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 NON-DENOMINATIONAL PRAYER FOR ARMISTICE DAY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O god, who art full of compassion, who dwell- Subject(s): Compassion; Holidays; Veterans Day NOON IS THE HINGE OF DAY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Till all the world is ajar Variant Title(s): Poem: 931; Poem: 106 Subject(s): Day NORMANDY BEACH, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The waves on the normandy coast jump heavily toward us Last Line: Lonely companion, %there's something I have to tell you but I don't know what Subject(s): D Day (june 6, 1944); Normandy, France; World War Ii NORTH TO THE SOUTH, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Land of the south, whose stricken heart and brow Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day NOT THANKFUL, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: I think the only person that Last Line: And really he's not much to blame. Subject(s): Holidays; November; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Thanksgiving Day; Turkey NOVEMBER, by SOPHIE TUNNELL Poem Text First Line: The nuts are dropping in the wood Last Line: In november. Subject(s): Death; Holidays; November; Soldiers; Veterans Day; War; Dead, The NOVEMBER, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: No matter how hard you try Last Line: And so, cold old month, you're not so bad! Subject(s): Holidays; November; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Thanksgiving Day; Turkey NOVEMBER 11TH, by FRANK E. CAMPBELL Poem Text First Line: This day three years ago Last Line: "this great ""unknown"" acclaim ..." Subject(s): Death; Holidays; Peace; Soldiers; Unknown Soldier; Veterans Day; War; Dead, The NOVEMBER POPPIES, by HILARY CORKE Poem Source First Line: I walked with you this eleventh in the coppice Last Line: Every november the thin red legions are mustered %and they flower like clockwork in her bitterest ho Subject(s): Holidays; Poppies; Veterans Day NPM '98, by MICHAEL ROTHENBERG Poem Source First Line: The first day of national poetry month is all fools' day Last Line: Hopeless procrastination, blameless debauchery %and poetry Subject(s): April; April Fool's Day; Poetry And Poets O LORD, WHEN THOU DIDST CALL ME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Yea, I knew Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Judgment Day OATH OF FREEDOM, by JAMES BARRON HOPE Poem Source First Line: Born free, thus we resolve to live Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day ODE FOR DECORATION DAY, by THEODORE P. COOK Poem Source First Line: They sleep so calm and stately Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day ODE FOR DECORATION DAY, by HENRY PETERSON Poem Source First Line: Bring flowers, to strew again Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; U.s. - History ODE FOR MEMORIAL DAY, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Done are the toils and the wearisome marches Last Line: Which their unfaltering valor has won! Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day ODE FOR THE FOURTH OF JULY, by CHARLES SPRAGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To the sages who spoke, to the heroes who bled Last Line: And the beacon-fire raised that gave light to the world. Subject(s): Adams, John (1735-1826); Fourth Of July; Presidents, United States; Independence Day ODE SUNG IN THE TOWN HALL, CONCORD, JULY 4, 1857, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O tenderly the haughty day Last Line: Ere freedom out of man. Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Freedom; Patriotism; Independence Day; Liberty ODE WRITTEN IN [THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR] 1746, by WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How sleep the brave, who sink to rest Last Line: To dwell a weeping hermit there! Variant Title(s): The Sleep Of The Brave;how Sleep The Brave Subject(s): England; Freedom; Heroism; Holidays; Memorial Day; Peace; Soldiers; English; Liberty; Heroes; Heroines; Declaration Day OFRENDA FOR LOBO, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, fierce guardian angel Last Line: You, entangle me. Come. Visit, if only for this night Subject(s): Chicanos; Aunts; Ancestors & Ancestry; All Souls' Day; Mexican Americans OH WHAT DEW, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: One long breath Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Day; Dew; Nature OLD MAY DAY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "in london, thirty years ago" Last Line: "for milkmaids, and their dance, are banish'd" Subject(s): London - 19th Century;may Day OLD VALENTINES, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tiny maids with sunlit hair Last Line: In one golden memory. Subject(s): Holidays; Memory; Past; Valentine's Day; Women ON ARMISTICE DAY; NOVEMBER 11, 1921, by ERNEST E. DAVIES Poem Text First Line: The multitude has watched, with silent prayer Last Line: The men who put his treaty to the sword. Subject(s): Holidays; Soldiers; Veterans; Veterans Day; War ON ETHNIC DEFINITIONS, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the jewish cemetery in prague Last Line: With a sigh, they'll at last lie down. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Ghosts; Judgment Day; Supernatural; Graveyards; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man ON INDEPENDENCE, by JONATHAN MITCHELL SEWALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come all you brave soldiers, both valiant and free Last Line: And from all who'd deprive us of our liberty. Subject(s): American Revolution; Fourth Of July; Independence Day ON MEMORIAL DAY, by EMMA BERGSTROM Poem Text First Line: I have no graves to decorate on this day Last Line: Beneath the waves—the graves where I can place no flower. Subject(s): Funerals - At Sea; Graves; Holidays; Memorial Day; Waves; Burials At Sea; Tombs; Tombstones; Declaration Day ON READING THE WAR DIARY OF A DEFUNCT AMBASSADOR, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So that's your diary - that's your private mind Last Line: That once kept europe safe for perpetuity. Subject(s): Diaries; Diplomacy And Diplomats; Freedom; Peace; Veterans Day; Liberty ON ST. VALENTINE'S DAY, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On st. Valentine's day / I went to seek my love Last Line: Knowing that I am not mistaken Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day ON ST. VALENTINE'S DAY, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On st. Valentine's day %I went to seek my love Last Line: Knowing that I am not mistaken Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day ON THANKSGIVING DAY, by NANCY WHITE CARLSTROM Poem Source First Line: This is the way the sky looks Last Line: Is winter %coming %to dinner? Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day ON THE SLAIN AT CHICKAMAUGA, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Happy are they and charmed in life Last Line: Make this memorial due. Subject(s): American Civil War; Chickamauga, Battle Of (1863); Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day ON THOSE THAT DESERVE IT, by FRANCIS QUARLES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O when our clergy, at the dreadful day Last Line: Durst ye not stoop to play the fools for him? Subject(s): Clergy; Judgment Day; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man ONCE BY THE PACIFIC, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shattered water made a misty din Last Line: "before god's last ""put out the light"" was spoken." Subject(s): Judgment Day; Pacific Ocean; Seashore; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Beach; Coast; Shore ONE BENEATH OLD GLORY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Don't you hear the tramp of soldiers? Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day ONE DAY IS THERE OF THE SERIES, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Twere thanksgiving day Subject(s): Thanksgiving Day ONLY A SOLDIER'S GRAVE, by SAMUEL ALROY JONAS Poem Source Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day OUR COUNTRY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We give thy natal day to hope Last Line: And at thy need shall die for thee! Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Independence Day OUR DEAD HEROES, by ROSE TERRY COOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rest on, o heroes! In your silent slumber! Last Line: And heaven, still just, bestow the martyr's palm. Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day OUR HONORED DEAD, by HENRY WARD BEECHER Poem Source First Line: Oh, tell me not that they are dead- that gen- Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day PACIFISTS, by MARK ANTHONY DE WOLFE HOWE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You are a pacifist? So am I Subject(s): Holidays; Pacifism; Veterans Day PARIS AGAIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Big blue overcoat and breeches red as red Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day PARIS BY DAY, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Text First Line: See the great circle of copper shine above Last Line: Our special sustenance is our flask of gall. Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Day; Heat; Paris, France; Poetry & Poets - French; Sun PATH TO PEACE, by SIDNEY S. ROBINS Poem Source First Line: It may be there is a hope of getting the nations Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day PATRIOTIC SON, by LYMAN ABBOTT Poem Source First Line: A nation is made great, not by its fruitful Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day PATRIOTIC SONG, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come all ye federal heroes Last Line: That we'll defend, that we'll defend, defend america. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Patriotism; Stark, John (1728-1822); Warner, Seth (1743-1784); Independence Day PATRIOTISM AND A PENSION, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ole fo'th ob july Last Line: An' one jes' fo' comin' out alive. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): African Americans; Army - United States; Fourth Of July; Patriotism; Negroes; American Blacks; Independence Day PEACE, by HAROLD TROWBRIDGE PULSIFER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cannon's voice is dumb Last Line: To arms! For peace is here! Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War PEACE, by GEORGE WASHINGTON Poem Source First Line: My first wish is to see the whole world at peace Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day PEACE, by THOMAS WOODROW WILSON Poem Source First Line: I call you to witness, my fellow-countrymen Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day PEACE (NOVEMBER 11, 1918), by GRETCHEN OSGOOD WARREN Poem Text First Line: Peace, battle-worn and starved, and gaunt and pale Last Line: Yea, peace, while worlds endure, will sing their requiem. Subject(s): Holidays; Peace; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War PEACE AT MORNING, by DANA BURNET Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I wake at the touch of morning: and the city is Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day PEACE AT TOO GREAT A PRICE, by THOMAS WOODROW WILSON Poem Source First Line: There is a price which is too great to pay for Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day PEACE CALL, by EDGAR LLOYD HAMPTON Poem Source First Line: I am the voice of the uplands ringing from hill to hill Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day PEACE TRIUMPHANT, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Earth, mother earth, do you feel light flowing Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day PEACE UNIVERSAL, by ANNA H. THORNE Poem Source First Line: Gift of the living god to mortal man Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day PEARL HARBOR DAY 1970, by RICHARD LOURIE Poem Source First Line: Just this morning I signed the contract Subject(s): Arbor Day; Trees; Vermont PECULIAR ACROSTIC - A VALENTINE, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For her this rhyme is penned, whose luminous eyes Last Line: You will not read the riddle, though you do the best you can do. Variant Title(s): A Valentine Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day PENNY VALENTINE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Silly, stupid, gawky elf Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day PERHAPS THE WORLD ENDS HERE, by JOY HARJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world begins at a kitchen table. No matter waht, we must eat %to live Last Line: Perphas the world will end at the kitchen table, while we are laugh- %ing and crying, eating of the Subject(s): Food And Eating; Judgment Day PERSPECTIVE: ANNIVERSARY, D-DAY, by MARY KARR Poem Source First Line: I hauled the army footlocker thunking Subject(s): D Day (june 6, 1944) PHILADELPHIA PUBLIC LEDGER, SELS., by UNKNOWN Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day PHILLIS INAMOROTA, by LANCELOT ANDREWES Poem Text First Line: Come, be my valentine Last Line: Come, be my valentine! Subject(s): Courtship; Holidays; Valentine's Day PHYLLIS INAMORATA, by FRANCIS ANDREWES Poem Source First Line: Come, be my valentine! Last Line: And that shall be thy stock - %come, be my valentine! Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day PICKING SKULLS AT VERDUN, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A respectable, exceedingly proper paper reports Last Line: Who always see the folly when it is too late! Subject(s): Cruelty; Death; Skulls; Soldiers; Veterans Day; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War PLEA, by A. M. JUSTER Poem Source First Line: This is the time Last Line: Embrace this chance %with wonderment Subject(s): Judgment Day PLENTY OF LOVE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day PLUS ULTRA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far beyond the sunrise and the sunset rises Last Line: Far beyond. Subject(s): Day; Heaven; Night; Roundels; Soul; Paradise; Bedtime POEM FOR ARBOR DAY, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Children are planting their shoots Last Line: And puts it down there in rooms / and leaves, alone Subject(s): Arbor Day; Trees POEM FOR ARBOR DAY, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Children are planting their shoots Last Line: And leaves, alone Subject(s): Arbor Day; Trees POEM FOR ARBOR DAY: WHAT TREES SPEAK?, by CHARLOTTE BREWSTER JORDAN Poem Source First Line: My bark is rough, my wood is strong Subject(s): Arbor Day; Trees POEMS OF THE WEEK, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lie still and rest in that serene repose Last Line: How sweet the sense of peace! Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Day; Hearts; Life; Morning; Night; Time; Bedtime POSTCARDS, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear barney Last Line: Alice Subject(s): Holidays; Letters; Love; Postal Service; Valentine's Day; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen PRAYER FOR OTHERS, by NANCY WHITE CARLSTROM Poem Source First Line: God, help grandma to get better Last Line: And help all lost dogs and children %to be found Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day PRAYER FOR THE MEDINA, by JACOB I. COHEN Poem Source First Line: When we call on thee, o righteous god, answer us Last Line: And may the redeemer come to zion, and let us say, amen Subject(s): Holidays; Prayer; Thanksgiving Day; United States PRAYER FOR THE SPIRITUAL UNION OF MANKIND, by HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK Poem Source First Line: Grant unto us such clear vision of the sin of Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day PRAYER TO THE GIVER, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, I am glad for the great gift of living Last Line: Lord, I give thanks to thee, giver of all! Variant Title(s): A Thanksgiving Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day PREPARE, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O human hearts Last Line: But from yourselves! Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Holidays; Peace; Veterans Day; War PRESIDENT WILSON'S WAR PROCLAMATION, SELS., by WILSON WOODROW Poem Source First Line: The power against which we are arrayed has Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day PRESIDENT'S WAR MESSAGE, by WILSON WOODROW Poem Source First Line: Gentlemen of the congress Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day PROGRAM REVIEW, by J. MACEKURA Poem Source First Line: Time is a figment: %bits of anxiety Last Line: Just twenty-four %more hours Subject(s): Day; Time PROMISES OF A VALENTINE'S DAY, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: My love: %I wanted to thank you for the gifts you sent me for Last Line: And I will make you happy. %you will be like a king for me. %and shall be your queen. %I promise you Subject(s): Angels; Cupid; Hearts; Holidays; Love; Music And Musicians; Valentine's Day PSALM 45, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Text First Line: My heart indites an argument of worth Last Line: The world shall make no end of thanks to thee. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day PSALM 45, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: My heart is mov'd to utter some good thinge Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day PSALM 86, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Text First Line: Thy gracious ear, o lord, incline Last Line: Dost help and comfort me. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day PSALM 86, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Text First Line: Lord bend to me thyne care Last Line: By thee, by thee my comfort wrought. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day PSALM 86, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: O give thanks unto the lord for his mercy Last Line: For his mercy endureth forever Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day QUIET MOMENT, by NANCY WHITE CARLSTROM Poem Source First Line: When the table is cleared %and we've had enough Last Line: The quiet moment Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day RAINY DAY, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It has been raining all morning Last Line: As we all go bobbing out to the open sea Subject(s): Day; Rain RAVEN, DON'T STAY AWAY FROM MY DOOR - CHANT FOR APRIL FIRST, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What pleasanter task for all fools' day than going over all the things Last Line: At daring even to contemplate such a devastatingly delightful impossibility Subject(s): April Fool's Day RE-ARMAMENT, by MARK ANTHONY DE WOLFE HOWE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not all the armor forged by man, not all the Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day RE-ENLISTED, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O did you see him in the street, dressed up in army-blue Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day READING THE LIST, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Is there any news of the war?,' she said Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day REBUS VALENTINE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: You may not carrot all for me Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day RECOMPENSE, by JESSE M. BALL ALLEN Poem Text First Line: When sound shall cease, there being none to hear Last Line: Not failure, not defeat, but consummation! Subject(s): Future Life; God; Judgment Day; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man REGARDING THE ONE MINUTE OF SILENCE ON ARMISTICE DAY, by HENRY STEPHENS SALT Poem Text First Line: Small help from that famed silence can we win Last Line: Brief spell of silence? Nay! Long spell of thought! Subject(s): Holidays; Silence; Social Protest; Veterans Day; War REIGN OF PEACE, by ELIZA THORNTON Poem Source First Line: Beautiful vision! How bright it rose Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day RELINQUISHING, by THEDA KENYON Poem Source First Line: Sure, 'twas like the angels' footsteps when your Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day REMEMBER AGAIN, by R. W. S. Poem Text First Line: Rain in the blackness. Stabs of flame in the blackness Last Line: Remember again. Subject(s): Army - United States; Army Life; Memory; Pain; Social Protest; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; Veterans Day; War; Drills & Minor Tactics; Suffering; Misery REMEMBERING DAY, by MARY WIGHT SAUNDERS Poem Text First Line: All the soldiers marching along Last Line: For this is our remembering day. Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day REMEMBRANCE, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN Poem Text First Line: I keep no days for fast and mourning-lay Last Line: Deep hid within the tear-sealed casket of my heart. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Holidays; Love - Loss Of; Memorial Day; Mourning; Dead, The; Declaration Day; Bereavement REMEMBRANCE DAY, by JOHN F. DEANE Poem Source First Line: Behind the statue of st. Teresa of the flowers Last Line: Were apple orchards blossoming Variant Title(s): Fal Subject(s): D Day (june 6, 1944); Memory; Soldiers; War REQUIEM, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Source First Line: The fires of war are quenched Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day RESURGAM, by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND Poem Text First Line: It happened on an april day Last Line: Christ rose upon an april day! Subject(s): Ascension Day RETROSPECTION, by ROBERT CLAY Poem Text First Line: I stand with time upon the planet's brink Last Line: Sang adonais through the kilbourne meadows! Subject(s): Adonis; April Fool's Day; Mythology - Classical; Youth; All Fools' Day REUNITED, by FRANK LEBBY STANTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I've been thinkin' of it over, an' it 'pears to me today Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day REVEILLE, by MICHAEL O'CONNOR (1837-1862) Poem Text First Line: The morning is cheery my boys, arouse! Last Line: Fall in! Fall in! Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day REVELATIONS, by ANN TWEEDY Poem Source First Line: The welfare-induced famines, the earthquakes Last Line: By the dispossessed ghetto children who can spawn %a belief in it Subject(s): Future; Judgment Day REVERY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dim grows the wood; the amber evening tints Last Line: Now tell me, is this heaven, or is it dawn? Subject(s): Bells; Day; Evening; Forests; Stars; Wind; Sunset; Twilight; Woods RHEIMS CATHEDRAL - 1914, by GRACE HAZARD CONKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A winged death has smitten dumb thy bells Last Line: Thy bells live on, and heaven is in their tone! Subject(s): Holidays; Rheims, France; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War RHYME TIME THANKS, by NANCY WHITE CARLSTROM Poem Source First Line: Thanks for roses %and noses and good smells Last Line: More aunts %and lots and lots of cousins Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day ROGATIONTIDE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who scatters tares shall reap no wheat Last Line: Tho' man weary himself to find the door. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Ascension Day; Rogation Days ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 3. RESURRECTION, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The trumpet's wild echo fills the skies Last Line: And hell for the goats is selected. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Jesus Christ; Judgment Day; Resurrection, The; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man RONDEAU REDOUBLE, by JOHN PAYNE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My day and night are in my lady's hand Subject(s): Day ROSES ARE RED, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: But yours is a %scream Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day ROSY APPLE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "rosy apple, lemon, or pear" Last Line: Mother's runaway daughter Variant Title(s): A Wedding Subject(s): Brides;holidays;valentine's Day SACRED EPIGRAM: ON THE CLOUD WHICH CARRIED OFF THE MASTER, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O this blak [cloud]! Why indeed does it show its shining breast to me? Last Line: If it does not bring night, behold it steals away the day Subject(s): Ascension Day SACRED EPIGRAM: ON THE DAY OF ALL SAINTS, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nowhere let the harsh wind vent its roars; nowhere Last Line: It is enough that each good brow had been marked by its own tears Subject(s): All Saints' Day SACRED EPIGRAM: ON THE DAY OF THE MASTER'S PASSION, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still, o christ, do we hold you, our loves? Last Line: We are powerless because you do not ascend to it, %heaven itself indeed descends for you, christ Subject(s): Ascension Day SACRED EPIGRAM: ON THE HEAVENLY COMPANY OF ALL THE SAINTS, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Happy souls! Whom virtue, owed to heaven Last Line: You see the eyes of the sweet lamb: you - but what do I do? Subject(s): All Saints' Day SACRED EPIGRAM: ON THE MASTER'S ASCENSION, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! He goes through the open gates of his heaven Last Line: How else would you celebrate a triumph, who else would was sufficient? Subject(s): Ascension Day SACRED EPIGRAM: RAISE OUR EYES, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lift our eyes, o lift our eyes with you, your stars Last Line: These would be blinded by their own tears without their sun Subject(s): Ascension Day SACRED EPIGRAM: THE DISCIPLES LAMENT CHRIST'S DEPARTURE, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He has gone away. Now o you evils, whichever ones remain to us Last Line: Already have perished at the departure of their lord Subject(s): Ascension Day SAECLA FERARUM, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas when at last the million flags were stacked Last Line: Familiar invitations in their cries. Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day SAILORS' AND SOLDIERS' MEMORIAL DAY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When flow-ry summer is at hand Last Line: While the sweetest flowers we are bringing, %wreath'd in garlands of red, white and blue Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Navy - United States SAINT PATRICK, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wandered from the antrim hills Last Line: With the druid groves of oak. Subject(s): St. Patrick's Day SAINT VALENTINE'S DAY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When blushes dyed the cheek of morn Last Line: I'm come to be thy valentine.' Subject(s): Hearts;holidays;love;valentine's Day SAN DIEGO, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: In the college san fernando, in the state of mejico Last Line: ^1^ the yucca, or spanish bayonet. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Missions & Missionaries; Sailing & Sailors; San Diego, California; Soldiers; Declaration Day SEA SORROW, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: We lay along the steamer's deck Last Line: Twill be memorial day. Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Grief; Holidays; Memorial Day; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Declaration Day SEDENTARY, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: I live in a corner of the highest story Last Line: Offered for my enjoyment and my recreation Subject(s): Day; Life SELF-SACRIFICE, by WILSON WOODROW Poem Source First Line: Our life is but a little span. One generation Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day SEND HER A VALENTINE, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Send her a valentine to say Last Line: To find that you're her sweetheart still. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day SEPTEMBER DAY, by MARTHA LINSLEY SPENCER Poem Text First Line: There is a sweeping sadness in the day Last Line: She weaves of golden beauty and despair. Subject(s): Day; September SEQUENCES, by FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Break of day; clouds of gray Last Line: Sunburst—morning! Subject(s): Day; Nature SHALL NOT THE JUDGE OF ALL THE EARTH DO RIGHT?, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Remember, lord, and do Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Judgment Day SHAMROCK, by MAURICE DE GUERIN Poem Source First Line: When april rains make flowers bloom Subject(s): St. Patrick's Day SHE FILLS THE DAY WITH A THOUSAND TINY THINGS, by MOLLY TENENBAUM Poem Source First Line: And if one is too big Last Line: Corners and intricate %seams are sealed Subject(s): Day; Life SHERIDAN'S RIDE [DECEMBER 19, 1864], by THOMAS BUCHANAN READ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up from the south, at break of day Last Line: "from winchester, -- twenty miles away!" Subject(s): American Civil War; Animals; Cedar Creek, Battle Of (1864); Courage; Holidays; Memorial Day; Patriotism; Sheridan, Philip Henry (1831-1888); United States - History; War; Valor; Bravery; Declaration Day SHERMAN, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Glory and honor and fame and everlasting laudation Last Line: Was the thought of duty done and the love of his fellow-men. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891); Declaration Day SIGNS OF THE TIMES, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Air a-gittin' cool an' coolah Last Line: Do' you know thanksgibbin 's hyeah? Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day SILEX SCINTIALLANS: THEY ARE ALL GONE, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are all gone into the world of light! Last Line: Where I shall need no glass. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Variant Title(s): Ascension Hymn;beyond The Veil;departed Friends;beauteous Death;the World Of Light;friends Gone Subject(s): Ascension Day; Christianity; Consolation; Death; Heaven; Immortality; Mourning; Religion; Dead, The; Paradise; Bereavement; Theology SIMMER DIM, by JR. WILLIAM HENRY GREENWAY Poem Source First Line: On the longest day of the year Last Line: A day so long it never goes Subject(s): Day; Sun SINCE JUDGMENT IS ALSO A STORM, by CHRISTIAN HAWKEY Poem Source First Line: Everywhere there's water: light rain spun into wind-sheets Last Line: What's left? Wet bark, a dark architecture against %the moving prop of clouds Subject(s): Judgment Day; Nature SMALLEST OF THE DRUMS, by JAMES BUCKHAM Poem Source First Line: When the opulence of summer unto wood and meadow comes Alternate Author Name(s): Pastnor, Paul Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day SOLDIERS OF FREEDOM, by THOMAS WOODROW WILSON Poem Source First Line: To the soldiers of the national army Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day SOLILOQUY; NOVEMBER 11, 1928, by N. R. A. BECKER Poem Text First Line: Ten years! Can that be all Last Line: "ten years? Can that be all?" Subject(s): Peace; Veterans Day; War; World War I; First World War SOME FOLKLORE OF THE 1990'S, by MIRIAM A. COHEN Poem Source First Line: Politicians have been %saving half-cents Last Line: At the dinning room table %taking a seat %it's true Subject(s): Holidays; Politics; Veterans Day SOME QUESTIONS FOR SAINT VALENTINE'S DAY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why, sir cupid, do you choose Last Line: "were the longest of the year!" Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day SOMETHING TO BE THANKFUL FOR, by CLARA J. DENTON Poem Text First Line: I'm glad that I am not today Last Line: I'll thankful be for that. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day SONG, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shout for those whose course is done Last Line: O'er columbia Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Patriotism; Independence Day SONG, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Purer than the day new-born Last Line: Come soon! Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Day; Nature; Night; Bedtime SONG, by YORK SAMPSON Poem Text First Line: I saw the day come softly by Last Line: I think it sighed as it looked back. Subject(s): Day SONG DIALOGUE, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it so, my dear Last Line: "now that day's begun." Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Day; Night; Bedtime SONG FOR DECORATION DAY, by HELEN C. BACON Poem Text First Line: Bring forth the flowers Last Line: Bright garlands strew o'er their graves everywhere. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day SONG FOR TOMORROW, by LUCIA TRENT Poem Source First Line: O children of men, o sons and daughters of sorrow Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Mrs. Ralph; Glass, Mrs. Ernest Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day SONG OF VICTORY, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But now above the thunder of the drums Subject(s): Holidays; Patriotism; Veterans Day SONG ON THE END OF THE WORLD, by CZESLAW MILOSZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the day the world ends Last Line: There will be no other end of the world Subject(s): Judgment Day; World War Ii SONGS OF THE DAYS AND NIGHTS: SONGS OF THE AUTUMN DAYS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We bore him through the golden land Last Line: Are dreaming of the spring. Subject(s): Autumn; Corn; Day; Death; Farm Life; Grief; Harvest; Hope; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism SONGS OF THE DAYS AND NIGHTS: SONGS OF THE SPRING DAYS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A gentle wind, of western birth Last Line: That we desire no more? Subject(s): Day; God; Happiness; Heaven; Hope; Nature; Spring; Waking; Joy; Delight; Paradise; Optimism SONGS OF THE DAYS AND NIGHTS: SONGS OF THE SUMMER DAYS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A glory on the chamber wall! Last Line: Leads back to golden morn. Subject(s): Calm; Day; Dreams; Life; Nature; Summer; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Nightmares SONGS OF THE DAYS AND NIGHTS: SONGS OF THE WINTER DAYS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sky has turned its heart away Last Line: Green lies the summer grass. Subject(s): Cold; Day; Happiness; Laughter; Winter; Joy; Delight SONNET FOR THE FOURTEENTH OF FEBRUARY, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No popular respect will I omit Last Line: Love, thou art every day my valentine. Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day SONNET: 2, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Think, valentine, as speeding on thy way Last Line: Who loathes the lingering road, yet has no home of rest! Subject(s): Grief; Holidays; Life; Love; Memory; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Travel; Valentine's Day; Sorrow; Sadness; Journeys; Trips SONNETS ON ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS: 13. JOHN DAY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Day was a full-blown flower in heaven, alive Last Line: Lit fluttering on the light swift hand of day. Subject(s): Day SOULERS' SONG FROM CHESHIRE (1), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: You gentlemen of england, I would have you to draw near Last Line: For we'll come no more a-souling until another year Subject(s): All Souls' Day SOULERS' SONG FROM CHESHIRE (2), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Soul day, soul day, saul Last Line: Up with your kettle, and down with your pan, %give us an answer, and let us be gone Subject(s): All Souls' Day SPENDING THE DAY ON A SLEEPING PORCH, by REBECCA WOLFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the enclosure my family Last Line: At every opportunity Subject(s): Day; Family Life; Sleep; Relatives SPENDING THE DAY ON A SLEEPING PORCH, by REBECCA WOLFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the enclosure my family Last Line: Endlessly, or they will kill themselves %at every opportunity Subject(s): Day; Family Life; Sleep SPIRIT OF AMERICA IS PEACE, by THOMAS WOODROW WILSON Poem Source First Line: In my efforts for peace I have been conscious of Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day SPIRIT OF ARBOR DAY, by FRANK A. HILL Poem Source First Line: The spirit of arbor day is that of a deep love for Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees SPRING AT THE CAPITAL, by ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poplar drops beside the way Alternate Author Name(s): Percy, Florence; Chase, Elizabeth Anne Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day SPRING SONG IN FALL, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: In my dark age, I know better Last Line: Or flowers opening for the bee's blast, %ever to be april's fool is my desire Subject(s): April Fool's Day; Children; Flowers; Spring ST. PATRICK'S DAY, by S. W. GILLIAN Poem Text First Line: Oh, glory for the imrald isle Last Line: St. Pathrick's day! Subject(s): St. Patrick's Day ST. PATRICK'S DAY, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mavourneen, swate isle Last Line: "I'm praisin' st. Patrick an' ""wearin' the green." Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): St. Patrick's Day ST. PATRICK'S DAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: It seems to me st. Patrick's day Last Line: And blossoms sleep beneath the snow. Subject(s): Green (color); Ireland; March (month); St. Patrick's Day; Irish ST. VALENINTE, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Permitted me to assist you, let me see Last Line: Might verse not best confuse itself with fate? Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day ST. VALENTINE'S DAY, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let loose the sails of love and let them fill Last Line: She has your love, but needs its outward sign. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day ST. VALENTINE'S DAY, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now that each feather'd chorister doth sing Last Line: Nor search the grave for my lost valentine. Subject(s): Holidays; Love - Loss Of; Valentine's Day ST. VALENTINE'S DAY, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The south is a dream of flowers Last Line: Warm-lit for my love and me. Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day ST. VALENTINE'S EVE, by EUGENE WATSON BURLINGAME Poem Text First Line: I will write little ethel some verse Last Line: In the newly made curls of her hair. Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day STACKING THE NEEDLES, by THEDA KENYON Poem Source First Line: Lo, in a thousand citadels Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day STATE OF THE UNION: 14. THE PATRIARCHS AT THE RETURN TO CIVI, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They are at it again, the old soldiers Last Line: It out with baronial vehemence Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Variant Title(s): The Patriarchs At The Return To Civilian Rul Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Soldiers; Victory; War STOPPING AT THE CEMETERY ON VALENTINE'S DAY, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: The lambs and doves were still Last Line: He was smiling as if to say, have fun %and luck will be your friend Subject(s): Cemeteries; Holidays; Valentine's Day STRANGLED BLOSSOMS, by LEON VASILYADIS Poem Source First Line: The terrible cost is upon us now Last Line: Absorbed by the spreading monster! Subject(s): Judgment Day SUGGESTED ADDRESS FOR USE BY LEGION SPEAKER ON ARMISTICE DAY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: As the world pauses to turn back the pages of Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day SUGGESTIONS FOR ARBOR DAY OBSENANCE, by ALFRED SONTE Poem Source First Line: Arbor day had its origin with a view to creating Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees SURE SIGN, by NANCY BYRD TURNER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here's the mail, sort it quick Last Line: Someone's sent a valentine! Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day TALES OF A WAYSIDE INN: THE FIRST DAY: PAUL REVERE'S RIDE [APRIL 1775], by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Listen, my children, and you shall hear Last Line: And the midnight message of paul revere. Variant Title(s): The Landlord's Tale Subject(s): American Revolution; Americans; Fourth Of July; Freedom; Massachusetts; Revere, Paul (1735-1818); United States; Independence Day; Liberty; America TAPS, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, now that the charge is won Last Line: Sleep. Subject(s): Holidays; Sleep; Veterans Day TEN YEARS AFTER, by JOSEPH AUSLANDER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In flanders and in france the poppies bloom Last Line: Ten years ago we could not give enough. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; Veterans Day; World War I; Dead, The; First World War TEN YEARS AFTER, by LUCIA TRENT Poem Text First Line: Reverberating boom of shuffling, stamping feet! Last Line: Make the will of the world your trumpet, the heart of the world your drum! Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Mrs. Ralph; Glass, Mrs. Ernest Subject(s): Peace; Veterans Day; War; World War I; First World War TEN YEARS HAVE PASSED; ON VIEWING WAR GRAVES AT VERDUN, 1928, by DON MAITLAND BUSHBY Poem Text First Line: Ten years; but what are years to the dead Last Line: But glory and bemedaled scars! Subject(s): Death; Graves; Honor; Soldiers; Veterans Day; War; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones TENTH ANNIVERSARY, by RALPH SNEEDEN Poem Source First Line: A wave would rise, thin to translucence Last Line: Of gulls vicious, crazy with hope above the rising net Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day; Waves TESTIMONY OF HANDS, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is every day the judgment day? Last Line: The hand that plies eternity! Subject(s): Future Life; Judgment Day; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THANK YOU GOD FOR BUGS, by NANCY WHITE CARLSTROM Poem Source First Line: Thank you god for %marching ants Last Line: And all things small %that crawl Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THANK YOU SINGING GAME, by NANCY WHITE CARLSTROM Poem Source First Line: Thank you for the sunshine Last Line: We all together sing %thank you Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THANKSGIBBIN' IN OLE VIRGINNY, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ter-day's thanksgibbin' Last Line: De short straw done draw de little guinea hen. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Holidays; Hunger; Poverty; Thanksgiving Day THANKSGIVIN' PUMPKIN PIES, by MARGARET ELIZABETH SANGSTER (1894-1981) Poem Source First Line: So you bid me to thanksgivin'! Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THANKSGIVING, by HARRIET ELLEN (GRANNIS) AREY Poem Source First Line: Come forth, come forth, to the festal board Alternate Author Name(s): Garey, Hannah E. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THANKSGIVING, by AMELIA EDITH HUDDLESTON BARR Poem Source First Line: Have you cut the wheat in the blowing fields Variant Title(s): Poetic Response Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THANKSGIVING, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To give god thanks when brief, oblivious nights Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THANKSGIVING, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No one ever knew Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THANKSGIVING, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Turkey, blue head on the ground Last Line: Noisy, breaking the glass sky %grey %they are grey %and their wings are weightless Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THANKSGIVING, by EMILY READ JONES Poem Source First Line: I thank thee that I learn Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THANKSGIVING, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What's sweeter than at the end of a summer's day Subject(s): Native Americans; Thanksgiving Day; New York City; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THANKSGIVING, by MRS. LITTLE Poem Text First Line: It is thanksgiving morn - 't is cold and clear Last Line: Sheds gleams of purest joy o'er man's dark destiny. Alternate Author Name(s): Rowena Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THANKSGIVING, by JEANIE ROGERS SHERMAN Poem Source First Line: Dear lord, on this way thy day of days Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THANKSGIVING (1), by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gettin' together to smile an' rejoice Last Line: An' I'll put soul in my thanksgivin' prayers. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THANKSGIVING (1), by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We choose the shadow, but the sun Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THANKSGIVING - 1937, by JOSIE CRAIG BERRY Poem Text First Line: I'm thankful that the fall did not include Last Line: Was grounded by the fall of frail mankind. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THANKSGIVING ACROSTIC, by SUSIE MONTGOMERY BEST Poem Source First Line: Tis for turkey the biggest in town Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THANKSGIVING CHARADES, by NANCY WHITE CARLSTROM Poem Source First Line: Sounds like wobble gobble Last Line: It's time to eat! Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THANKSGIVING DAY, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the old church tower Last Line: And all is well! Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THANKSGIVING DAY, by LYDIA MARIA CHILD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the river, and through the wood Last Line: Hurrah for the pumpkin pie! Variant Title(s): A Boy's Thanksgiving;the New-england Boy's Song About Thanksgiving Day Subject(s): Americans; Holidays; Thanksgiving; Thanksgiving Day; United States; America THANKSGIVING DAY, by JAMES J. MONTAGUE Poem Text First Line: With steadfast and unwavering faith, with hard and patient toil Last Line: Forget the reverent spirit of that first thanksgiving day. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THANKSGIVING DAY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The year decays, november's blast Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THANKSGIVING EXERCISE, by LIZZIE M. HADLEY Poem Source First Line: Oh, time keeps steadily on and on Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THANKSGIVING FOR THANKSGIVING, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I thank thee, father, once again Last Line: I thank thee for the gift of thanks. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving; Thanksgiving Day THANKSGIVING HYMN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O thou, whose eye of love Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THANKSGIVING IN THE PAST AND PRESENT, by MARION S. BLAIDSELL Poem Source First Line: All hail the day we celebrate! Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THANKSGIVING MAGIC, by ROWENA BASTIN BENNETT Poem Source First Line: Thanksgiving day I like to see Last Line: And some like fairy spells and charms %but I like magic made by cooks! Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THANKSGIVING NIGHT, by WILBUR DICK NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I got to thinking, when I couldn't go to sleep Last Line: That told me they were with me, and were very, very near. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THANKSGIVING PARADE, by NANCY WHITE CARLSTROM Poem Source First Line: Beat the drum Last Line: Make music in the thanksgiving parade Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THANKSGIVING PHILOSOPHY, by CHARLOTTE W. THURSTON Poem Source First Line: Hiss! Hiss!' said the goose, 'they've taken us three Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THANKSGIVING TIME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When all the leaves are off the boughs Last Line: Thanksgiving day is very near, %and we must make thanksgiving pies! Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THANKSGIVING VERSE ACROSTIC, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: T. - the little folks will now appear Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THANKSLIVING, by CHAUNCEY ROSCOE PIETY Poem Text First Line: Were thanks with every gift expressed Last Line: Each life would be thanksliving. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THAT VALENTINE, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once,I remember, years ago Last Line: I sent a tender valentine. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Holidays; Valentine's Day THE ACCUSING HANDS; A 1918 MEMORIAL DAY THOUGHT, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I had a vision of the nearer past Last Line: The clay that wore the khaki and the blue! Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Sacrifices; Soldiers; World War I; Declaration Day; First World War THE ASCENSION, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the gray dawn they left jerusalem Subject(s): Ascension Day THE BATTLE OF CHARLESTON HARBOR, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two hours, or more, beyond the prime of a blithe april day Last Line: And thou in clear-eyed faith hast seen god's angels near the guns! Subject(s): American Civil War; Charleston, South Carolina; Fort Sumter, South Carolina; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day THE BEACON; A MUSICAL DRAMA, by JOANNA BAILLIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up! Quit thy bower! Late wears the hour Last Line: May bring good fortune ere the night. Subject(s): Day; Fortune THE BIVOUAC OF THE DEAD, by THEODORE O'HARA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The muffled drum's sad roll has beat Last Line: That gilds your deathless tomb. Subject(s): Buena Vista, Battle Of (1847); Holidays; Memorial Day; Patriotism; Peace; United States - Mexican War (1846-1848); Declaration Day THE BLUE AND THE GRAY, by FRANCIS MILES FINCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the flow of the inland river Last Line: Tears and love for the gray. Variant Title(s): Decoration Day;memorial Day Subject(s): American Civil War; Graves; Holidays; Memorial Day; Patriotism; Peace; Soldiers; United States - History; Tombs; Tombstones; Declaration Day THE BLUE AND THE GRAY (2), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Each thin hand resting on a grave Last Line: Why harry wore the gray Subject(s): American Civil War;holidays;memorial Day;u.s. - History; Declaration Day THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: HE APPROACHETH THE HALL OF JUDGMENT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o my heart, my mother, my heart, my mother" Last Line: "yea, millions-of-years, o my mother, my heart!" Subject(s): Judgment Day;mythology - Egyptian; End Of The World;doomsday;fall Of Man THE BUILDING OF THE SHIP, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Build me straight, o worthy master! Last Line: Are all with thee,--are all with thee! Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Freedom; Sea; United States; Independence Day; Liberty; Ocean; America THE CHOPPER'S CHILD; A STORY FOR THANKSGIVING DAY, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The smoke of the indian summer Last Line: As the chopper's little child. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THE CHRIST OF THE ANDES, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After volcanoes husht with snows Subject(s): Holidays; Jesus Christ; Veterans Day THE COUNTERSIGN (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Alas! The weary hours pass slow Last Line: "whether in pleasure or in pain, / I still may have the countersign" Subject(s): Holidays;memorial Day;war; Declaration Day THE COWBOY'S VALENTINE, by CHARLES FLETCHER LUMMIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, moll, now don't you 'llow to quite Last Line: The [valentine symbol] m-I-n-e. Subject(s): Cowboys; Holidays; Ranch Life; Valentine's Day; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE CRY OF JOB, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, thou lovest the heart that's pure Last Line: Come with thy judgment day to me! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Bible; God; Job (bible); Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE DANCE OF THE HOURS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are the hours of dawn; ah, featly, featly Last Line: Do we complete the measure of the hours! Subject(s): Day; Time THE DAY, by MARGARET ESTELLA BIGHAM Poem Text First Line: I love the early morning Last Line: The air is fresh alway. Subject(s): Day THE DAY FULL SPENT, by JEAN HOLMES MINTY Poem Text First Line: I do not count the day full spent Last Line: Wherein was cause to love and smile. Subject(s): Day; Happiness; Hope; Life; Joy; Delight; Optimism THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: With a whirl of thought oppressed Last Line: I damn such fools! -- go, go, you're bit.' Variant Title(s): On The Day Of Judgement Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Judgment Day; Religion; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O day of life, of light, of love Last Line: Make all things new! And without end! Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT; AN ODE ATTEMPTED IN ENGLISH SAPPHIC, by ISAAC WATTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the fierce north-wind with his airy forces Last Line: Shout the redeemer. Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE DAY OF JUDGMENT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Asunder shall the clouds be rolled Last Line: With vanished light like dead men's eyes Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World;doomsday;fall Of Man THE DAY OF THE DEAD SOLDIERS; MARY 30, 1869, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, thou gray and fragrant sabbath-day Last Line: So rich a page of thrilling histories. Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day THE DAY; NOVEMBER 11, 1918, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not as they planned it or will plan again Last Line: Who still are blind awhile, facing the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Freedom; Justice; Navy - United States; Veterans Day; War; Liberty; American Navy THE DAYS WHEN NOTHING HAPPENS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For the days when nothing happens Last Line: Praises this thanksgiving day. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Gratitude; Holidays; Thanksgiving Day; Turkey THE DAYSPRING, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What hand with spear of light Last Line: "in bonds of beauty, one." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Day THE DEATH OF GRANT, by AMBROSE BIERCE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Father! Whose hard and cruel law / is part of thy compassion's plan Last Line: Thy servant's soul in paradise. Subject(s): American Civil War; Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day THE DEATH OF SLAVERY, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou great wrong, that, through the slow-paced years Last Line: Dwell thou, a warning to the coming times. Subject(s): American Civil War; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty; Declaration Day THE DEEDS OF KING AND MEANEST HEDGER, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Stand side by side in heaven's ledger Subject(s): Judgment Day THE DIAL, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A dreamer in the dark, I grow Last Line: "behold, thy kingdom too must fall." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Day; Night; Bedtime THE DIRGE OF 'CLAN SIUBHAIL' (THE WANDERING FOLK), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sorrow upon me on the grass and on the wandering road Last Line: Sorrow upon me on the grass and on the wandering road. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Day; Grief; Night; Wandering & Wanderers; Weariness; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime; Fatigue THE DISCIPLES AFTER THE ASCENSION, by ARTHUR PENRHYN STANLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He is gone! Beyond the skies Last Line: Thitherward let us ascend. Subject(s): Apostles; Ascension Day; Bible; Religion; Disciples, Twelve; Theology THE DOOM OF YS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you hear the bell? 'tis a silver chime Last Line: It rings o'er the town that the deep sea hides!' Subject(s): Judgment Day; Sin; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE DUTCH PATROL, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When christmas-eve is ended Last Line: Proclaim 'tis christmas day. Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; Memorial Day; Netherlands; New York City - Dutch Period; U.s. - Dutch Settlements; Nativity, The; Declaration Day; Holland; Dutch People THE END OF THE WORLD, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Comrades! The end of the world's at hand! Last Line: For the end of the world is here. Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE END OF THE WORLD, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The snow had fallen many nights and days Last Line: "he can stay with me while I do not lift them." Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE END OF THE WORLD, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Quite unexpectedly as vasserot Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Circus; Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE END OF THE WORLD, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The end of the world: it was given to me to see it Last Line: Postpones the end of the world: in which we live forever Subject(s): God; Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE ENDED DAY, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Now be the trespass of the day forgiven, - / the dust, the rain! Last Line: His ghost allow. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Day THE EPITAPH ENDING IN AND, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the last storm, when hawks Subject(s): Judgment Day; Millenium; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE ETERNAL JUSTICE, by ANNE REEVE ALDRICH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thank god that god shall judge my soul, not man! Last Line: All's well with thee if thou art in just hands. Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE FALLEN, by JOHN VANCE CHENEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Toll the bell slowly Last Line: "where is no death nor shadow of the grave." Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Rest; Declaration Day THE FIFTEEN DAYS OF JUDGEMENT, by SEBASTIAN EVANS Poem Text First Line: Then there shall be signs in heaven Last Line: Mark yon shadow on the dial! Subject(s): God; Heaven; Judgment Day; Ruins; Storms; Paradise; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE FINAL CONFLAGRATION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "verily, verily that day shall come" Last Line: "this done, who shattered all, shall all restore" Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World;doomsday;fall Of Man THE FIRST BOOK OF URIZEN, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of the primeval priest's assum'd power Last Line: 9. And the salt ocean rolled englob'd Variant Title(s): The Book Of Urizen Subject(s): Bible; Creation; Judgment Day; Mythology; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE FIRST OF MAY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "the fair maid who, the first of may" Last Line: Will ever after handsome be Variant Title(s): May Day Subject(s): May Day THE FIRST THANKSGIVING DAY [1621], by MARGARET JUNKIN PRESTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And now,' said the governor, gazing abroad Last Line: "he muttered, ""the good great spirit loves his white children best!" Subject(s): Bradford, William (1590-1657); Brewster, William (1560-1644); Holidays; Massasoit (d. 1661); Standish, Miles (1584-1656); Thanksgiving Day THE FIRST THANKSGIVING [FEBRUARY 22, 1631], by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was captain pierce of the lion Last Line: That mounted morn and noon and eve on that first thanksgiving day! Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THE FIRST VALENTINE, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'd like to write a valentine Last Line: I like her best of anyone! Subject(s): Children; Holidays; Valentine's Day; Childhood THE FOURTH OF JULY, by JOHN PIERPONT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Day of glory! Welcome day! Last Line: Till there's war no more! Subject(s): Fourth Of July; United States - Declaration Of Independence; Independence Day THE FUNDAMENTAL PROJECT OF TECHNOLOGY, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under glass: glass dishes which changed Last Line: To look back and say, a flash, a white flash sparkled. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Atomic Bomb - Victims; Judgment Day; Nuclear War; Nuclear Freeze; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb THE GOAL AND THE WAY, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: The future lies / with those whose eyes Last Line: Who falters now shames god, and dies. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Holidays; Patriotism; Religion; Veterans Day; Theology THE GOLD OF THE GODS, by FRANCES IMOGEN WILSON Poem Text First Line: Up, up, out of my bed! Last Line: To live and to love and to dare and to be! Subject(s): Day; Life THE GOLDEN AGE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: When the morning breaks above us Last Line: Nourished by eternal truth. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Day; Earth; Youth; World THE GOURD AND THE PALM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: How old art thou?' said the garrulous gourd Last Line: Yet here I stand -- but where are they? Subject(s): Arbor Day;trees THE GREAT GREY KING, 1800-1900, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: The great grey king, the lastest and best of his line, spake thus Last Line: In the silent fields with his peers; and another reigned in his stead. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Judgment Day; Spiritual Life; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE GREEN LITTLE SHAMROCK OF IRELAND, by ANDREW CHERRY Poem Text First Line: There's a dear little plant that grows in our isle Last Line: The sweet little, green little shamrock of ireland. Subject(s): St. Patrick's Day THE HIGH TIDE AT GETTYSBURG [JULY 3, 1863], by WILL HENRY THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A cloud possessed the hollow field Last Line: Lamenting all her fallen sons! Subject(s): American Civil War; Freedom; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); Holidays; Memorial Day; Patriotism; United States - History; War; Liberty; Gettysburg, Battle Of; Declaration Day THE HOUR OF THOUGHT, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The orb of day is sinking Last Line: Grave oblivious, thou shalt hear! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Solitude; Thought; Declaration Day; Loneliness; Thinking THE HYMNARY: 305. ASCENSION, by HARTMANN Poem Text First Line: Lord of all power and might Last Line: To us eternal peace. Alternate Author Name(s): Monk Of St. Gall Subject(s): Ascension Day THE HYMNARY: 317. ASCENSION, by JEAN BAPTISTE SANTEUIL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For aye shall mortals bless the day Last Line: And holy spirit, three in one. Subject(s): Ascension Day THE HYPOCRITES REWARD, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When came his final judgment Last Line: He wore them in god's name. Subject(s): Hypocrisy; Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE INEVITABLE. SURAT: 59, by KORAN Poem Text First Line: When the day of wrath and mercy cometh, none shall doubt it come Last Line: "oh, ""companions of the right hand!"" oh! Ye others who were wise!" Alternate Author Name(s): Quran Subject(s): Heaven; Islam; Judgment Day; Paradise; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE JUDGE-MENT DAY, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God hides from man the reck'ning day, that he Last Line: Expect the coming of it ev'ry day. Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE JUDGEMENT, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! The judgment trump has blown Last Line: In one flood of viewless flame. Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE JUDGEMENT DAY, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In doing justice, god shall then be known Last Line: Who shewing mercy here, few priz'd, or none. Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE JUST MADE PERFECT, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A stately music rises on my ear Last Line: And domes continuous span the lengthening way. Subject(s): Day; Death; Future Life; Hearts; Knights & Knighthood; Time; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE KNOWN SOLDIER; FOR THE DAY OF PRESIDENT WILSON'S BURIAL, by MARK ANTHONY DE WOLFE HOWE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now through the stifling air, thick with the murk Last Line: While safe he sleeps among the deathless dead. Subject(s): Funerals; Holidays; Veterans Day; Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924); Burials THE LANDING OF THE PILGRIM FATHERS IN NEW ENGLAND [NOVEMBER 19, 1620], by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The breaking waves dashed high / on a stern and rock-bound coast Last Line: Freedom to worship god. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Variant Title(s): The Landing Of The Pilgrim Fathers;the Pilgrim Fathers Subject(s): Freedom; Holidays; Patriotism; Pilgrim Fathers; Plymouth, Massachusetts; Thanksgiving Day; United States; Women; Liberty; America THE LAST FIGHT, by LEWIS FRANK TOOKER Poem Text First Line: That night I think that no one slept Last Line: My past rose up and mocked at death. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day THE LAWYER'S VALENTINE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm notified, fair neighbor mine Last Line: With no remainder over! Subject(s): Holidays; Law & Lawyers; Valentine's Day THE LENGTHENING LINES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In heaven too, each blossoming may Last Line: To that review beyond the skies. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day THE LOST OCCASION, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, fair day and fading light! Last Line: The hero in the coming day! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Day; Evening; Sleep; Sunset; Twilight THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 19, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I pass the day tense, day Last Line: The evening bells ring from temple to temple Subject(s): Day; Happiness; Night; Relationships; Joy; Delight; Bedtime THE LOVE SONNETS OF PROTEUS: 55. ST. VALENTINE'S DAY, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To-day, all day, I rode upon the down, Last Line: My horse a thing of wings, myself a god. Subject(s): Holidays; Love; Valentine's Day THE MAN OF THE MARNE, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gray battalions were driving down Last Line: Remember the marne and ferdinand foch. Subject(s): Foch, Ferdinand (1851-1929); Holidays; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rintrah roars and shakes his fires in the burdened air Last Line: For every thing that lives is holy Subject(s): Bible; Imagination; Judgment Day; Mythology; Vision; Fancy; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE MILLENNIUM, by IDA TEEPLE WITTENBERGER Poem Text First Line: The armaments and power of kings Last Line: In chains in deepest hell! Subject(s): Judgment Day; Peace; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE NATION'S BIRTHDAY, by MARY E. VANDYNE Poem Text First Line: Ring out the joy bells! Once again Last Line: The story of our glorious fourth. Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Independence Day THE NATION'S DEAD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Four hundred thousand men Last Line: "made this our ransomed soil their grave, / for me and you! / good friend, for me and you!" Subject(s): American Revolution;holidays;memorial Day; Declaration Day THE NEW CITY, by MARGUERITE WILKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have we seen her, the new city, o my brothers, where she stands Last Line: Happier, if our human travail builds their avenues to god! Subject(s): Holidays; Patriotism; Veterans Day THE NEW MEMORIAL DAY, by ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the roses we plucked for the blue Last Line: Slumber our heroes to-day. Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; U.s. - History; Declaration Day THE NEW SERMON ON THE MOUNT, by RALPH B. URMY Poem Text First Line: Gentle jesus, meek and mild Last Line: Amen. Subject(s): Hypocrisy; Prayer; Soldiers; Veterans Day; War THE NEW VICTORY, by MARGARET WIDDEMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Victory comes Last Line: The stable world itself is her great monument! Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H. Subject(s): Holidays; Peace; Veterans Day THE NINETEENTH OF APRIL, 1861, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This year, till late in april, the snow fell thick and light Last Line: Our blood may seal the victory, but god will shield the right! Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day THE OLD MEETING HOUSE, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Its quiet graves were made for peace till gabriel blows his horn Last Line: While the old cracked bell to southward shook the ancient meeting house. Subject(s): Bells; Gabriel; Graves; Judgment Day; Names; Peace; Public Meetings; Tombs; Tombstones; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE OLD SOLDIER, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lest the young soldiers be strange in heaven Last Line: Waiting to welcome them by the strange door. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Holidays; Veterans Day; World War I - Casualties; Dead, The; Paradise THE PERFECT DAY, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The blast has swept the clouds away Last Line: As yester-evening's mist and rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Beauty; Calm; Day; Death; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Dead, The THE PILGRIM FATHERS, by JOHN PIERPONT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The pilgrim fathers, - where are they? Last Line: Shall foam and freeze no more. Subject(s): Holidays; Pilgrim Fathers; Plymouth, Massachusetts; Thanksgiving Day THE PLUCKY PRINCE, by MAY BRYANT Poem Text First Line: There was a young scion Last Line: They hastened home to tell. Subject(s): Arbor Day; Trees THE PUMPKIN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Greenly and fair in the lands of the sun Last Line: Golden-tinted and fair as thy own pumpkin-pie! Subject(s): Holidays; Plants; Pumpkins; Thanksgiving Day; Planting; Planters THE SACHEM OF THE CLOUDS (A THANKSGIVING LEGEND), by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the sedge upon the meadows crosses, falls and interweaves Last Line: Hears a shrieking answer speeded from the winter's snowy mouth. Subject(s): Clouds; Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THE SECOND COMING, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Turning and turning in the widening gyre Last Line: Slouches towards bethlehem to be born? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Chaos; Easter; History; Holidays; Imagination; Judgment Day; Men; Millenium; Religion; Vision; War; The Resurrection; Historians; Fancy; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology THE SEMANTICS OF FLOWERS ON MEMORIAL DAY, by BOB HICOK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Historians will tell you my uncle / wouldn't have called it world war ii Subject(s): Flowers; Holidays; Memorial Day THE SHAMROCK, by MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When april rains make flowers bloom Last Line: I feel its tears upon my hand. Subject(s): St. Patrick's Day THE SOLDIER'S DIRGE, by ELIZABETH HARMAN Poem Text First Line: Dead in the battle,-dead on the field Last Line: To his memory, honor; to him, good-night. Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER, by FRANCIS SCOTT KEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O say, can you see, by the dawn's early light Last Line: Brave. Variant Title(s): Final Curtain;defence Of Fort Mchenry Subject(s): Flags - United States; Fort Mchenry, Battle Of (1814); Fourth Of July; Freedom; Napoleon I (1769-1821); National Song - United States; Patriotism; United States; War Of 1812; American Flag; Independence Day; Liberty; American National Anthem; America THE SUMME, AND THE THE SATISFACTION, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I drew up mine account Last Line: By law, the bond once cancelled. Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE SUN OF DAY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: With morning's sun ascending Last Line: As day yields to the night. Subject(s): Day; Light; Lightning; Sun; Weather; Lightning Rods THE SUNLIGHT, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sunlight, the sunlight, / it cometh apace! Last Line: Of heavenly light. Subject(s): Day; Light; Sun; Waking THE THANKSGIVING IN BOSTON HARBOR [JUNE 12, 1630], by HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Praise ye the lord!' the psalm today Last Line: But psalms from boston bay. Subject(s): Boston; Holidays; Thanksgiving Day; Winthrop, John (1588-1649) THE THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 13, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This shall be sufficient Subject(s): Day THE THINNING RANKS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: The bugles sound, the rolling drums Last Line: To honor noble dead. Subject(s): Death; Holidays; Honor; Memorial Day; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Declaration Day THE TOY SOLDIER'S VALENTINE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: It was valentine day and the toy folk were gay Last Line: Ran away with each other. I'm glad, are n't you? Subject(s): Holidays; Soldiers; Toys; Valentine's Day THE TROPHY GUNS, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the fourth of july, a. D. 1874, an impromptu Last Line: "banner." Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Guns; Nations; Independence Day THE TRUMPET CALL (1), by DMITRY SERGEYEVICH MEREZHKOVSKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over earth awakes a whirring Last Line: "glad or grieving, thou shalt rise." Alternate Author Name(s): Merezhovski, Dmitri Subject(s): Christianity; Judgment Day; Trumpets; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE TWO STARS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Day has her star, as well as night Last Line: That earth receives its dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Day; Night; Stars; Bedtime THE UNKNOWN, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here, under sacred ground Last Line: His unknown name! Subject(s): Holidays; Unknown Soldier; Veterans Day THE VALENTINE, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Against this thorny present shows Last Line: I miss you but the more. Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day THE VALLEY OF DECISION, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: The world is in the valley of decision Last Line: Or sink despairing into its own hell? Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day; War THE VISION, by WILLIAM TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: We met, a hundred of us met Last Line: Flew up and kicked the beam. Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Facades; Judgment Day; Religion; Vision; Appearances; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology THE VOLUNTEER, by ELBRIDGE JEFFERSON CUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At dawn,' he said, 'I bid them all farewell ...' Last Line: "I follow, though I die!" Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Soldiers; Declaration Day THE WAR AT HOME, by WILLARD WATTLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God of our fathers, with bowed heads we come Last Line: Which makes humanity the nations' nation. Subject(s): Humanity; Military Service, Compulsory; Prayer; Veterans Day; War; War - Home Front; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service THE WAY OF IT, by FLORENCE VAN FLEET LYMAN Poem Text First Line: The day is born at sunrise time Last Line: As old hearts fail, grow still. Subject(s): Dawn; Day; Life; Sunrise THE WEARIN' O' THE GREEN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o paddy dear, an' did ye hear the news that's goin' round?" Last Line: "and where, please god, I'll stick to wearin' o' the green" Subject(s): Freedom;ireland;patriotism;st. Patrick's Day; Liberty;irish THE WEARING OF THE GREEN, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, patrick dear, and did you hear Last Line: And wear the living green. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Ireland; St. Patrick's Day; Irish THE WHEAT AND THE TARES, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Satan hath with devil's cunning Last Line: Tares are tares, and wheat is wheat. Subject(s): Judgment Day; Judgments; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE YOUNG DEAD, by EDITH WHARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, how I pity the young dead who gave Last Line: And the lark singing for them overhead! Subject(s): Death; Holidays; Veterans Day; Dead, The THEM YANKEE BLANKITS, by SAMUEL W. SMALL Poem Source First Line: Yes, john, I was down thar at memphis Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day THESE TEN YEARS SINCE WE WENT TO WAR, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: It is not altogether easy to recapture the mood Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day THEY JUST WON'T TALK, by MARY KATHARINE REELY Poem Source First Line: Mable. Yes? ... Oh, yes, miss spangler Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 13, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This shall be sufficient Last Line: Electric, coming day Subject(s): Day THOMAS MERTON AND THE WINTER MARSH, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I went out of the house to smoke. A thousand Last Line: And mother of christ. Subject(s): Ascension Day; Cold; Insects; Merton, Thomas (1915-1968); Spiders; Bugs THOUGH VALENTINE BRINGS LOVE, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And very much more gaily Subject(s): Valentine's Day; Spring; Inspiration THOUGH VALENTINE BRINGS LOVE, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And very much more gaily Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day THREE THANKSGIVINGS AT MY STEP-GRANDMOTHER'S (1958), by DEBRA JANE KAUFMAN Poem Source First Line: From under naomi's laden table Last Line: Of milk she poured me %warm from the cows I helped name Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THREE THANKSGIVINGS AT MY STEP-GRANDMOTHER'S (1971), by DEBRA JANE KAUFMAN Poem Source First Line: I brought the war home Last Line: Like a scarf whatever light %that dream meant to cast Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THREE THANKSGIVINGS AT MY STEP-GRANDMOTHER'S (1988), by DEBRA JANE KAUFMAN Poem Source First Line: Wind rattles the catalpa pods Last Line: More than death's own rasping breath %insisting on pushing me home Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THREE VALENTINES TO THE WIDE WORLD, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The child disturbs our view. Tow-head bent, she Last Line: Love and art, which are compassionate Subject(s): Valentine's Day TO - (1), by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not long ago, the writer of these lines Last Line: To where the prospect terminates -- thee only. Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day TO ---, ON HER OBSERVING THAT ST. VALENTINE'S DAY WAS HER BIRTHDAY, by JOHN CHALK CLARIS Poem Text First Line: If I remember, shepherds say Last Line: And feel and worship him in thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, Arthur Subject(s): Holidays; Love; Valentine's Day TO A VIOLET FOUND ON ALL SAINTS' DAY, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Belated wanderer of the ways of spring Last Line: Life grows, through death, as beautiful as you. Subject(s): All Saints' Day; Flowers; Violets; Allhallowmas; Allhallows TO AN ETHICAL PREACHER, by BRENT DOW ALLINSON Poem Text First Line: Four square against the genial tides of peace Last Line: Could never be but for your priceless words! Subject(s): Preaching & Preachers; Veterans Day; War TO BE SUNG ON THE FOURTH OF JULY, by WYATT PRUNTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We come to this country Subject(s): Fourth Of July; United States; Songs; Independence Day; America TO HAYDN, by THOMAS HOLCROFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who is the mighty master that can trace / the eternal lineaments of nature's fac Last Line: And consonance sublime amid confusion hears. Subject(s): Fights; Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809); Judgment Day; Thunder; War; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man TO HIS MISTRESS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Choose me your valentine Last Line: None then will wooe you. Subject(s): Holidays; Unfaithfulness; Valentine's Day; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy TO HIS VALENTINE, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Muse, bid the morne awake Last Line: Else muse, awake her not. Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day TO HIS VALENTINE, ON S. VALENTINES DAY, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oft have I heard both youths and virgins say Last Line: When I shall couple with my valentine. Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day TO JOAN OF ARC ON D-DAY, by MARY THERESE Poem Source First Line: Joan, be swift at the parapet Subject(s): D Day (june 6, 1944); Joan Of Arc (1412-1431) TO LIGHT THE CANDLES, by MARGARETTE BALL DICKSON Poem Text First Line: (to those who wear the white carnation on mother's day) Last Line: For her own. Subject(s): Carnations; Love; Mother's Day TO MARIE LOUISE, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not long ago, the writer of these lines Last Line: To where the prospect terminates - thee only Subject(s): Holidays; Shew, Marie Louise; Valentine's Day TO MEN UNBORN, by DAVID OSBORNE HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When spring comes on with freshness of new leaves Last Line: Peace seen afar through grief and hate and strife! Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day TO MY COUNTRY, by MARGUERITE WILKINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Beams from your forest built my little home Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day TO MY DAUGHTER ON VALENTINE'S DAY, FIFTH GRADE, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: You were straight and solid and golden Last Line: From her gold-dusted depths, piquant, bruisable Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Holidays; Love; Valentine's Day TO MY FATHER, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: I kneel, my father, here beside thy grave Last Line: Where thou my father with the angels art. Subject(s): Angels; Death; Fathers; Graves; Heaven; Veterans Day; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise TO MY MOTHER, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: I prize this life, dear mother Last Line: Accept it as my gift this mother's day. Subject(s): Faith; Gratitude; Mother's Day; Prayer; Belief; Creed TO MY VALENTINE, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: More than a catbird hates a cat Last Line: That's how you're loved by me Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day TO MY VALENTINE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: If apples were pears Last Line: I'd love you just the same Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day TO NOVEMBER, by G. W. ADAMS Poem Source First Line: Hence, tern, grim, puritanic days Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day TO PEACE, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cup, the ruby cup Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day TO PEACE, WITH VICTORY, by CORINNE ROOSEVELT ROBINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I could not welcome you, oh! Longed-for peace Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day TO THE CANADIAN MOTHERS, by DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Why mourn thy dead, that are the world's Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, D. C. Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day TO THE CRUCIFIX, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Day after day the spear of morning bright Last Line: And where for love the light eternal died. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Day TO THE DEAD DOUGHBOYS, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Be nothing in this book constured Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day TO THE PREACHERS ON ARMISTICE DAY, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O ye who preach about god's love to man Last Line: This armistice day? Subject(s): God; Preaching & Preachers; Religion; Veterans Day; War; Theology TO THE UNKNOWN EROS: BOOK 1: 1. SAINT VALENTINE'S DAY, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well dost thou, love, thy solemn feast to hold Last Line: Or e'er the snowdrop die! Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day TO YOU, by KARLA KUSKIN Poem Source First Line: I think I could walk Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day TOIL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He had toiled away for a weary Last Line: "but toil is sweeter than all things else." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Day; Labor & Laborers; Love; Night; Soul; Work; Workers; Bedtime TOMMYBOB'S THANKSGIVING VISION, by ANNA MARIA PRATT Poem Text First Line: It was thanksgiving evening, and tommybob slept Last Line: Than living to eat, as he did on thanksgiving. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day TOMORROW, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "the setting sun, with dying beams" Last Line: "for shall we ever meet or no, / tomorrow?" Subject(s): Day;morning TOURNAMENT OF MAN, by ERNEST HOWARD CROSBY Poem Source First Line: Clear the field for the grand tournament of the nations! Subject(s): Holidays; Peace; Veterans Day TRAIL, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Uncouth, unconquered, unafraid Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day TRAMP, TRAMP, TRAMP, by GEORGE FREDERICK ROOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the prison cell I sit Last Line: Of freedom in our own beloved home. Subject(s): Adversity; Freedom; Holidays; Memorial Day; Prisons & Prisoners; War; Liberty; Declaration Day; Convicts TROOP-SHIP SAILS, by ROBERT WILLIAM CHAMBERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Is it goodbye %my lad? Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day TRUE FREEDOM, by CHARLES MACKAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tis not in blood that liberty inscribes her civil laws Subject(s): Holidays; Patriotism; Veterans Day TUESDAY, by ALMA DENNY Poem Source First Line: I like tuesday Subject(s): Day TWILIGHT OF THANKSGIVING, by WILLIAM D. KELLY Poem Source First Line: The day has lengthened into eve Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day TWO FESTIVALS, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thanksgiving stirs her ruddy fire Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day TWO SILENCES, by ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sirens wailed and moaned Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day TWO VIEWS OF IAMONIA LAKE, by ROBERT N. PERRY JR. Poem Text First Line: By day, - / a ruffled expanse of transparent coolness Last Line: Consumed by an irresistible passion. Subject(s): Day; Lakes; Night; Pools; Ponds; Bedtime UNDER THE STARS, by WALLACE RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me what sail the seas Last Line: Under the stars. Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De Subject(s): Flags - United States; Holidays; Memorial Day; American Flag; Declaration Day UNITED STATES OF EUROPE: AN INTERVIEW WITH DR. NICHOLAS, by EDWARD MARSHALL Poem Source First Line: The united states of europe Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day UNIVERSAL PEACE MOVEMENT, by THOMAS WOODROW WILSON Poem Source First Line: A great deal of the (universal) peace movement Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day UNKNOWN, by BRUCE BARTON Poem Source First Line: My mother wept when I failed to return,' he Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day UNKNOWN DEAD, by HENRY TIMROD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rain is plashing on my sill Last Line: To which she owes her april grace, %laughs gayly o'er their burial-place Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day UNKNOWN SOLDIER HONORED BY ENGLAND, by PHILIP GIBBS Poem Source First Line: No military potentate of high rank or great Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day UNSEEN HOST, by PERCIVAL WILDE Poem Source First Line: At an improvised american hospital in paris. A Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day UNTIL THE DAY BREATHES AND THE SHADOWS FLEE, by KATHLEEN HALME Poem Source First Line: Miniature stone mansions line a sighing town Last Line: Forgivable half-souls swallowed whole Subject(s): Cities; Day V.A.D, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There's an angel in our ward as keeps a-flittin' Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day VALE-ATQUE SALVE, by MARK ANTHONY DE WOLFE HOWE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A broken figure disappears alone Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day VALENTINE, by WENDY COPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My heart has made its mind up Last Line: And I'm afraid it's yours Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day VALENTINE, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If all the whole world's taxicabs Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day VALENTINE, by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great antony, I drink to thee Last Line: Before my valentine! Subject(s): Antony, Marc (83-30 B.c.); Holidays; Love; Valentine's Day; Marcus Antonius; Anthony, Mark VALENTINE, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Willow soon, and vine Last Line: Her pierrot -- amen! Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day VALENTINE, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If thou canst make the frost be gone Last Line: Thou dost not so! Subject(s): Holidays; Nature; Valentine's Day VALENTINE BIRTHDAY, by BARBARA JUSTER ESBENSEN Poem Source First Line: Again today Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day VALENTINE CHOCOLATES, by VALERIE WORTH Poem Source First Line: Ordinary candy Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day VALENTINE THOUGHTS FOR MARI, by EMANUEL DI PASQUALE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'd like to bunch your lips Last Line: It's silvery play Alternate Author Name(s): Pasquale, Emanuel Di Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day VALENTINE THOUGHTS FOR MARI, by EMANUEL DI PASQUALE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'd like to bunch your lips Alternate Author Name(s): Pasquale, Emanuel Di Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day VALENTINE TO A LITTLE GIRL, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little maiden, dost thou pine Last Line: Whom to serve, and whom to love. Subject(s): Girls; Holidays; Valentine's Day VALENTINE TO THE HON. MARY C. STANHOPE, by THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, day of music, day of love Last Line: All good attend my valentine! Alternate Author Name(s): Macaulay, 1st Baron Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day VALENTINE WITH HYPHENS, by JAMES SEAY Poem Source First Line: Without your warmth or laugh or hyphened-name Last Line: If not for halfness, which I offer whole Subject(s): Friendship; Holidays; Names; Valentine's Day VALENTINE'S DAY, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Surely the mornin' cupid was born in Last Line: Fluttered and flurried on valentine's day. Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day VALENTINE'S DAY, by CHARLES KINGSLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! I wish I were a tiny brown bird Last Line: With my tiny life and tiny song just ended at their best. Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day VALENTINE: TO --., by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We never met, yet to my soul Last Line: Thine eyes are turned away from me. Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Holidays; Love - Unrequited; Valentine's Day VALENTINE: TO A POET, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tender and pale the young moon shone Last Line: Thou risen star of poesy! Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Holidays; Poetry & Poets; Valentine's Day VALENTINE: TO A POETESS, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A nameless power lives in thy verse Last Line: Thy flight of glory winging. Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Holidays; Poetry & Poets; Valentine's Day VALENTINE: TO A REFORMER, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Enthusiast,' 'dreamer,' - such the names Last Line: Like the sacred pool of yore. Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Holidays; Reform & Reformers; Valentine's Day VALENTINE: TO BAYARD TAYLOR, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I send thee here no valentine Last Line: I prithee, taylor, mend it! Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Holidays; Taylor, Bayard (1825-1878); Valentine's Day VALENTINE: TO COUNT --., by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We need not to be told thou art Last Line: And the glory of her power. Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day VALENTINE: TO FITZ-GREENE HALLECK, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Must silence rest upon thy lyre Last Line: Within thy country's heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Halleck, Fitz-greene (1790-1867); Holidays; Valentine's Day VALENTINE: TO G. H. C., by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As linnaeus wrote his name in flowers Last Line: On beauty's heaven, in starry eyes! Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day VALENTINE: TO G. P. MORRIS, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Apollo once had leave to travel Last Line: "there's the thief that stole my lyre!" Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Holidays; Morris, George Pope (1802-1864); Valentine's Day VALENTINE: TO HELEN IRVING, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again thou comest like a star of brightness Last Line: Ere brushed the gold-dust from its fairy wings. Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day VALENTINE: TO MISS A. C. L., by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy life is like a fountain clear, upspringing Last Line: While earth's fair lilies float upon its breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day VALENTINE: TO MISS C. M. SEDGWICK, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O glory-wedded! To thy brow Last Line: Are 'mid thy laurels blushing! Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day VALENTINE: TO MR. GILES, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A classic heaven of old thy soul Last Line: Or converse with the muses. Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day VALENTINE: TO MR. INMAN, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Moore tells us, in his dulcet lays Last Line: For fancy, intellect, and heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day VALENTINE: TO ONE WHO KNOWS, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They told me, when I knew thee first Last Line: And I am still for-giving! Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Holidays; Love - Unrequited; Valentine's Day VALENTINE: TO THE HON. D. P. KING, WITH AN AUTOGRAPH, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A child of the republic Last Line: And prays, god save thee, king! Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day VALENTINE: TO THE WIFE OF A POET, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O faithful friend! O gentle wife! Last Line: Genius and infancy and love! Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Holidays; Poetry & Poets; Valentine's Day VALENTINE: TO THE WIFE OF AN ARTIST, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How like soft skies that bend at even Last Line: His italy in thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Art & Artists; Holidays; Love - Marital; Valentine's Day; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love VALENTINES, by HENRY DUMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forgive me if I have not sent you Last Line: I give that to you too Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day VALENTINES, by HENRY DUMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forgive me if I have not sent you Last Line: Heart goes %I give that to you too Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day VALENTINES, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: These chain- %links of consonants Last Line: Heart's syntac- %tic curve Subject(s): Hearts; Holidays; Love; Passion; Valentine's Day VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1876, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fairer than younger beauties, more beloved Last Line: Last valentine. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Holidays; Kisses; Life; Time; Valentine's Day VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1877, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Own mother dear Last Line: Because the same. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Holidays; Love; Mothers; Valentine's Day VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1878, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blessed dear and heart's delight Last Line: Bless your valentine. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Holidays; Love; Mothers; Valentine's Day VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1880, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: More shower than shine Last Line: Thro' summer's flush, thro' autumn's fading hour. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Holidays; Mothers; Valentine's Day VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1881, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Too cold almost for hope of spring Last Line: Is all in all? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Holidays; Love; Mothers; Valentine's Day VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1882, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My blessed mother dozing in her chair Last Line: A lifelong love to this dear saint of mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Holidays; Mothers; Singing & Singers; Soul; Valentine's Day; Songs VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1883, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A world of change and loss, a world of death Last Line: Your valentine rejoices having you. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Holidays; Life; Love; Mothers; Valentine's Day; Dead, The VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1884, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Another year of joy and grief Last Line: You guide, & I your valentine. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Holidays; Life; Love; Mothers; Valentine's Day VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1885, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the robin redbreasts Last Line: And I'm your valentine. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Birds; Holidays; Mothers; Valentine's Day VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1886, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Winter's latest snowflake is the snowdrop flower Last Line: My pleasure and my treasure o blessed mother mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Holidays; Life; Mothers; Valentine's Day VANQUISHED; ON THE DEATH OF GENERAL GRANT, by FRANCIS FISHER BROWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not by the ball or brand Last Line: Vanquished but by death. Subject(s): Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day VETERAN, by ANDREW MOTION Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Across the field, the wood Subject(s): D Day (june 6, 1944); Veterans; World War Ii; Normandy (france), Invasion Of; Second World War VETERAN'S DAY, 1981, by CAROLE SIMMONS OLES Poem Source First Line: In last week's new york times I read Last Line: Think of the world as a white page where, once, %someone with an arm, an hand, could have written st Subject(s): Holidays; New York Times (newspaper); Veterans Day VICKSBURG, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For sixty days and upwards Last Line: To the music in their hearts. Variant Title(s): The Bombardment Of Vicksburg Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Vicksburg Campaign (1862-63); Declaration Day VICTORY BELLS, by GRACE HAZARD CONKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the bells across the trees Last Line: And home-coming for weary men. Subject(s): Bells; Holidays; Patriotism; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War VICTORY PARADE, by GEORGE EDWARD HOFFMAN Poem Source First Line: Cruisers, destroyers, carriers align Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 4: SATIRE: 7, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Vvho say's these romish pageants bene too hy Last Line: When his new rage would aske no narrower rooms? Subject(s): Holidays; Honor; Laughter; Valentine's Day VIRTUE [OR, VERTUE], by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright Last Line: Then chiefly lives. Variant Title(s): Memento Mori;sweet Day;virtue [immortal];sweet Life Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Judgment Day; Mortality; Soul; Transience; Virtue; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Impermanence VOLUNTEER, by FRANK LEBBY STANTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The band was playing dixie when he marched, marched away Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day WAGONER OF THE ALLEGHANIES, SELS., by THOMAS BUCHANAN READ Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): American Revolution; Holidays; Memorial Day; Patriotism WAKENING, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Looking up at the last from the first sleep Last Line: Than this light or than any remembered heaven Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Day; Dreams; Light; Waking 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 WALPOLE ODE, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Favorite land of freedom, hail! Last Line: And echoing angels quit the skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Walpole, New Hampshire; Independence Day WAR, by SAM WALTER FOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am war. The upturned eyeballs of piled dead men greet my eye Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day WAR NOTES: 4. DECORATION DAY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The uses of adversity are sweet Last Line: The rose, the lily, and the violet. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; War; Declaration Day WAR THUS COMES TO AN END, by THOMAS WOODROW WILSON Poem Source Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day WARREN'S ADDRESS [TO THE AMERICANS] [AT BUNKER HILL] [JUNE 17, 1775], by JOHN PIERPONT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stand! The ground's your own, my braves! Last Line: Of his deeds to tell? Variant Title(s): Warren's Address To The American Soldiers Subject(s): American Revolution; Bunker Hill, Battle Of; Fourth Of July; Freedom; History; Patriotism; United States - History; War; Warren, Joseph (1741-1775); Independence Day; Liberty; Historians WARSHIP DIXIE, by FRANK LEBBY STANTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They've named a cruiser dixie - that's whut the papers say Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day WASTE OF WAR, by WILLIAM LEROY STIDGER Poem Source First Line: This the law of all war through all ages Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day WAY IT IS AT OUR HOUSE, by NANCY WHITE CARLSTROM Poem Source First Line: Do uncle ernie's socks match? Last Line: That's the way it is at our house %on thanksgiving day Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day WAY WEST, by MICHAEL HERRERNAN Poem Source First Line: I hitched a ride to cork from cappoquin Last Line: Toward patrick street, the thirtieth of may Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Friendship; Hitchhikers; St. Patrick's Day; Travel WE KEEP MEMORIAL DAY, by KATE BROWNLEE SHERWOOD Poem Text First Line: When the may has culled her flowers for the summer waiting long Last Line: We keep memorial day. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day WE THANK THEE, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: Not for our lands, our wide-flung prairie wealth Last Line: Inspire our hearts and bless our native land. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day WE THANK THEE, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For flowers that bloom about our feet Last Line: Father in heaven, we thank thee. Variant Title(s): Spring Prayer;thanksgiving Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day WE THANK THEE, by MATTIE M. RENWICK Poem Text First Line: For flowers so beautiful and sweet Last Line: To thank thee this thanksgiving day. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day WE THANK THEE (2), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: For gainful hours of pain and loss Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day WE WHO BUILD VISIONS, by STANTON ARTHUR COBLENTZ Poem Source First Line: Stalled on the sidelines we must hope and wait Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day WE'LL PASS WITHOUT THE PARTING, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Those that died Variant Title(s): Poem: 996; Poem: 50 Subject(s): Ascension Day WEIGH ALL MY FAULTS AND FOLLIES RIGHTEOUSLY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: My guilt, my folly, even my heart of stone Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Judgment Day WELCOME TO THE NATIONS, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bright on the banners of lily and rose Last Line: Thrones of the continents! Isles of the sea! Subject(s): Fourth Of July; United States - Centennial Celebrations; Independence Day WENDELL PHILLIPS, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw him stand, upon the judgment day Last Line: If but one soul be lost, how is man saved?' Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man WESTMINSTER ODE; FOR THE 4TH OF JULY, 1799, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Join to hail this festive morn Last Line: Peace and independence. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Westminster, Vermont; Independence Day WHALE, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rain, with a silver flail Last Line: "and there was whale!" Subject(s): Creation; God; Judgment Day; Whales; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man WHAN FRESSHE PHEBUS DAY OF SEYNT VALENTYN, by CHARLES D'ORLEANS Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Whereas discomfort sole y here me dresse %upon my bed so hard of noyous thought Alternate Author Name(s): D'orleans, Duc; Orleans, Charles Of Subject(s): Birds; Holidays; Valentine's Day WHAT AMERICANS BELIEVE IN, by CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT Poem Source First Line: Americans believe in individual liberty so far Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day WHAT IS PATRIOTISM, by AGNES REPPLIER Poem Source First Line: Not dilating with pleasurable emotions when Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day WHAT MARCHES?, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What marches when the veterans march Last Line: But lift the hat, and pray? Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day WHAT THE BULLET SANG, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O joy of creation / to be! Last Line: Lieth there so cold? Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): Bullets; Death; Holidays; Memorial Day; Dead, The; Declaration Day WHAT WE ARE, by PEARLE MOORE STEVENS Poem Text First Line: I may not scale the mountain top Last Line: For what we really are. Subject(s): Good; Judgment Day; Truth; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man WHEN I AWOKE, by RAYMOND RICHARD PATTERSON Poem Source First Line: When I awoke, she said Last Line: What good %will it do? %I have to see, %I said Alternate Author Name(s): Patterson, Ray Subject(s): Judgment Day WHEN POPPIES BLOOM AGAIN, by HENRY ALBERT PHILLIPS Poem Source First Line: I did not know my england Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day WHICH SWORD?, by JASON NOBLE PIERCE Poem Source First Line: A sword, a sword, and a sword Subject(s): Holidays; Peace; Veterans Day WHITE BRIGADE, by JOHN ALBERT MACY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Between the cliffs of brick and stone Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day WILD WEATHER, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A great wind sweeps Last Line: His quiet hand will lead the sunshine in. Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day; Victory; War WINDSOR ODE, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The blushing east displays the dawn Last Line: Shout! Shout columbia's &c. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Bennington, Battle Of (1777); Fourth Of July; Truxtun, Thomas (1755-1822); Windsor, Vermont; Independence Day; Truxton, Thomas WITHOUT REGRET, by LILITH LORRAINE Poem Source First Line: This is the day the prophets have foretold Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Mary M. Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day WORKING DAY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hands of the clock go'round Last Line: Broken moon plunges through blowing fog Subject(s): Day; Labor And Laborers; Professions WORLD'S END, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: At the world's end Last Line: Time goes so fast %in this empty country Subject(s): Earth; Emptiness; Judgment Day WRITTEN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY, 1864, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once more, despite the noise of war Last Line: For only such can save us now. Subject(s): American Civil War; Fourth Of July; United States - History; Independence Day YESTERDAY, by FREDERIC LAWRENCE KNOWLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art to me like all the days Last Line: Thou still art childhood's long ago! Alternate Author Name(s): Paget, R. L. Subject(s): Day YOUR ACCOUNTING, by EMME MAAK Poem Text First Line: If you've walked with wisdom - known the way Last Line: You've done god's work -- you'll get god's pay! Subject(s): God; Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man |
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