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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: FATHERS & SONS Matches Found: 162 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD IN BLANK VERSE, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His father's house looked out across a firth Last Line: Women to love are waiting everywhere.' Subject(s): Aphrodite; Atheism; Christianity; Death; Family Life; Fathers & Sons; Mythology - Classical; Paganism & Pagans; Parents; Pride; Dead, The; Relatives; Parenthood; Self-esteem; Self-respect A BALLAD OF LANCELOT, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By coasts where scalding deserts reek Last Line: The look, the soul of guinevere. Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Death; Despair; Fathers & Sons; Grail; Lancelot Du Lac; Love; Loyalty; Arthur, King; Dead, The; Holy Grail; Graal A FAMILY RECORD, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not to myself this breath of vesper song Last Line: Take my last offering ere I cross to thee! Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Fathers & Sons; Heritage; Heredity A FATHER'S DILEMMA, by E. PEARL DANCEY Poem Text First Line: He did not know that I was in the woodshed Last Line: You shouldn't disillusion little folks . . . About their dad! Subject(s): Fathers & Sons A FATHER'S PRAYER, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God, you have given me a son Last Line: A fit example for a son. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons A MAN WITH SONS, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You come back with a heaped-shopping basket Subject(s): Fathers & Sons A POEM FOR BENN'S GRADUATION FROM HIGH SCHOOL, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever I have an appointment to see the assistant Last Line: To be terrified by that thought and its possibilites Subject(s): Fathers & Sons A PRAYER FOR BILL, by M. REES Poem Text First Line: When me and bill wuz ridin Last Line: Wouldn't do to foller me. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Growth; Pine Trees; Trees A PRESENTATION OF TWO BIRDS TO MY SON, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chicken. How shall I tell you what it is Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Birds A SON'S LETTER TO HIS DEAD FATHER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I am writing this to you Last Line: "up there somewhere in the silence, hear me, dad, and believe me / sincerely" Subject(s): Fathers & Sons A SYMPATHY, A WELCOME, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Feel for your bad fall how could I fail Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons A VARIATION, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My son who is stranger Subject(s): Fathers & Sons A WEEK IN A BOY'S LIFE, by JACQUES BOE Poem Text First Line: Chill was our sky: the swallows all had fled Last Line: Beside his darling's grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Jasmin, Jacques Subject(s): Abel; Boys; Death; Fathers & Sons; God; Prayer; Dead, The A WOMAN OF PARIS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Retreating towards the marne, his regiment Last Line: While women such as she are at its portal! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Sons; France; Marriage; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ADAM AND HIS FATHER, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Adam's father, always a good provider Last Line: "perhaps what I have always wanted is to want." Subject(s): Desire; Fathers & Sons; Thailand; Travel; Journeys; Trips AJAX: CHORUS, by SOPHOCLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair salamis, the billow's roar Last Line: The deepest, bitterest curse thine ancient house hath borne! Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Mythology - Classical AN AFTERWORD TO MY FATHER, by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still the wood I knocked on Subject(s): Fathers & Sons ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lucy doolin, first day on the job, stroked his goatee Subject(s): Refuse & Refuse Disposal; Rats; Murder; Fathers & Sons; Conduct Of Life; Memory; Youth; Relationships BALDWIN, by E. ETHELBERT MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You lie in bed listening Subject(s): Fathers & Sons BEDTIME, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Usually I stay up late, my time Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Sleep BEST WAY TO READ A BOOK, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Best way to read a book I know Last Line: For him who reads them to his boy. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Books; Fathers & Sons; Reading BOY, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is in his room sulked shut. The small Last Line: May sons forgive the fathers they obey Subject(s): Fathers & Sons BOY AND FATHER, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The boy alexander understands his father to be a famous lawyer. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; God; Mothers BOY AT THE WINDOW, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Seeing the snowman standing all alone Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Snowmen CAIN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So this is what it means Last Line: My brother is. Subject(s): Cain; Fathers & Sons CAIN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The land of nod Last Line: Don't rise up Subject(s): Cain; Fathers & Sons CERTAIN PEOPLE, by RICHARD JONES Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: My father lives by the ocean Last Line: I'd known him all my life. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Old Age; Strangers COCK, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A month before his dinner with the visiting spanish lawyer, Subject(s): Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Religion; Fathers & Sons; Lesbians; Theology COUNTRY FELLOWS AND THE ASS; ABSURDITY OF ATTEMPTING TO PLEASE ALL MEN, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A country fellow and his son, they tell Last Line: To think of pleasing all is but a jest. Variant Title(s): The Countrymen And The Ass Subject(s): Fables; Fathers & Sons; Men; Allegories COUSIN ALEX, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My cousin alex, tall and sinewy Last Line: At alex's absence Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Cousins ECONOMISIN', by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dad was tickled when I went Last Line: At my 'conomisin' so. Subject(s): Children; Economics; Fathers & Sons; Gifts & Giving; Childhood ELEUTHERIA, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was named eleutheria Subject(s): Child Molesting; Fathers & Sons; Freedom; Marriage; Relationships; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Child Abuse; Liberty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism ENDING WITH A LINE FROM LEAR, by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will try to remember. It was light Last Line: Never. Never. Never. Never. Never. Subject(s): Children; Dramatists; Fathers & Sons; Funerals; Graves; Grief; Lear, King; Parents; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Childhood; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness; Parenthood; Dramatists EPIGRAM: 21. THE POET'S FATHER, by CALLIMACHUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whoever you are who wander near Last Line: They will not cast their friends away. Alternate Author Name(s): Kallimachos Subject(s): Fathers & Sons FALL RIVER, by DAVID RIVARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Basketball; Family Life; Anger; Relatives FAMILIAR EPISTLE TO A LITTLE BOY, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I must own, my dear sonny, 'tis likely but few Last Line: look me up in the year nineteen-hundred-and-one. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Angels; Death; Fathers & Sons; Heaven; Memory; Dead, The; Paradise FATHER AND SON, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: While we enjoy this meat, my son Last Line: A tongue that told no lie?' Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Trust FATHER AND SON, by IRVING FELDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Set against each other, ready to butt Subject(s): Fathers & Sons FATHER AND SON, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now in the suburbs and the falling light Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Reunions; World War Ii; Second World War FATHER AND SON, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On these occasions, the feelings surprise, Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Death; Coming Of Age; Conduct Of Life; Dead, The FATHER'S GOOD SON, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: The wheat hangs heavy to the further hill Last Line: Runs around the spit where turns the fatted calf. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Relationships FATHERS AND SONS, by LIZ ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His boys are so embarrassed they can hardly stand it Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Basketball FOR HIS FATHER, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was young I looked high and low for a father Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Fathers & Sons FOR MY FATHER, DEAD AT FIFTY-SIX, ON MY FIFTY-SIXTH BIRTHDAY, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I watched you humble a man in a fight once Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Death; Childhood Memories; Dead, The FOR MY SON JOHN, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jonnel, this is for you -- my river-saint-named Last Line: The first life and the first and still the first Subject(s): Fathers & Sons FOUR POEMS FOR A CHILD SON / DECEMBER 18, 1972: IT WAS THE THIRD DAY, JULY 12 , 1971, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hitchhiking on the way to colorado Last Line: Look, the stones with voices Subject(s): Native Americans; Hitchhikers; Fathers & Sons FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: TO JOHN MOUNSON, SON AND HEIR TO SIR THOMAS, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On you th' affections of your fathers friends Last Line: On each side placing you as near my heart! Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Friendship FREEDOM, by LUCILE ENLOW Poem Text First Line: Observe the son stampede Last Line: Until he dies. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Revolutions FUNDAMENTALISM, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because the eye has a short shadow or Last Line: He would not follow his father into war Subject(s): Fathers & Sons GATHERING THE BONES TOGETHER; FOR PETER ORR, by GREGORY ORR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When all the rooms of the house Last Line: That arches toward the other shore. Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Family Life; Fathers & Sons; Fratricide; Hunting; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Relatives; Hunters GOD AND MY COUNTRY, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He had the bluest eyes I ever saw Last Line: "to get some cigarettes and some shaving blades." Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Soldiers; World War I; First World War GOD LOVES YOU, AND SO DO I, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because it is what he says always, to anyone Subject(s): Fathers & Sons HE WROTE THE HISTORY BOOK,' IT SAID, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There! You shed a ray Last Line: Your father's autograph. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; History; Historians HIS EXAMPLE, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are little eyes upon you, and they're watching Last Line: For the little boy who's waiting to grow up to be like you. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Fathers & Sons HUSH, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The way a tired chippewa woman Subject(s): Fathers & Sons I WILL GO WITH MY FATHER A-PLOUGHING, by JOSEPH CAMPBELL Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Ultach; Maccathmhaoil, Seosamh Subject(s): Plowing & Plowen; Fathers & Sons IF THERE'S A GOD..., by GREGORY ORR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If there's a god of amphetamine, he's also the god of wrecked Last Line: "laughing at all who stumble. Put out your tongue and receive it." Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Sons; God; Medicine; Unfaithfulness; Dead, The; Drugs, Prescription; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy IN DEDICATION OF 'THE CERTAIN HOUR', by JAMES BRANCH CABELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sad hours and glad hours, and all hours, pass over Last Line: Love for his son. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons IN DREAM TIME, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear tomasito Last Line: Just had a last fall Subject(s): Fathers & Sons IN MEMORIAM: PRIVATE D. SUTHERLAND, by ALAN MACKINTOSH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So you were david's father Last Line: But I was your officer. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackintosh, Ewart Alan Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Fathers & Sons; Leadership; Military; Soldiers; Sons; War; Dead, The IN THE HIGH COUNTRY, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some days I am happy to be no one Subject(s): Fathers & Sons IN THE MORNING, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Reggalerly every day, / when my papa's gotten up Last Line: Puttin' prickers in my chin. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Shaving IN THIS AGE OF HARD TRYING, NONCHALANCE IS GOOD AND, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Really, it is not the Last Line: Of manner, best bespeak that weapon, self protectiveness. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons (turgenev) IPHIGENIA AT AULIS, by EURIPIDES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Had I the voice of orpheus, o my sire Last Line: Life is more precious than the noblest death! Subject(s): Euripides (484-406 B.c.); Fathers & Sons; Murder JOSEPH'S LAMENT, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My boy, my boy, and art thou dead? Last Line: My murdered boy! ... Woe, woe is me! Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Sons; Murder; Trees; Dead, The LITTLE POPEET: THE LOST CHILD, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Near by the silent waters of the mediterranean Last Line: And lived happy with his father for many a day. Subject(s): Disappeared Persons; Fathers & Sons; Missing Persons LORD ROBERTS, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: He came, he saw, he conquered; though his heart Last Line: The idol of his country and his queen. Subject(s): England; Fathers & Sons; Roberts, Frederick Sleigh (1832-1914); Soldiers; English LOST CHILDHOOD, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How was it possible, I a father Last Line: My own lost childhood Subject(s): Fathers & Sons LOVE'S PHOTOGRAPH (OR FATHER AND SON), by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Detected little things: a peach-pit Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Photography & Photographs MEN WITHOUT, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father is a coward, and I have grown Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Cowardice; Fathers & Sons; Love; Estrangement; Outcasts MINUS ONE, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of seven sparrows on a country wire Last Line: Hawk in this now? Unchosen? Come to choose? Subject(s): Sparrows; Hawks; Fathers & Sons MOVING AGAIN, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At night the mountains look like huge Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Divorce MY FATHER AND I, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My father prayed as he drew a bead on the graycoats Last Line: What is the matter? Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; God; Murder; Prayer; War MY FATHER'S CORPSE, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He lay stone still, pretended to be dead Last Line: To have the resurrected bastard back Subject(s): Fathers & Sons MY FATHER'S FINGERNAILS, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the hardware store a young clerk Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature NO MAP, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How close the clouds press this october first Last Line: Showing the dark places and how to escape them? Subject(s): Surgery; Fathers & Sons; Birthdays ODYSSEUS TO TELEMACHUS, by JOSEPH BRODSKY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: My dear telemachus, Subject(s): Fathers & Sons OIL & STEEL, by HENRI COLE Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Fathers & Sons PASSAGES, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They come in in tiny boats Last Line: We must not look back Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Stones; Granite; Rocks PATERNITY, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not only women dream the future's child Last Line: And all my being yearned: my son! My son! Subject(s): Fathers & Sons PENCIL STUB JOURNALS: PARENTHOOD, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My son was insolent to me Last Line: I hit him: libery is to defend Subject(s): Discipline; Fathers & Sons PETITION OF A SCHOOLBOY TO HIS FATHER, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most honour'd sir, I must confess Last Line: And your petitioner shall pray. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Money; Schools; Poetry & Poets; Students PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the front yard, my father and his son Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Baseball PLEASING DAD, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was but a little lad, not more than two or three Last Line: That he may claim the old-time joy of being proud of me. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Fathers & Sons POEM, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hear a heavy knocking Last Line: Is coming home Subject(s): Children; Fathers & Sons; Love; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood POEM FOR MY FATHER, by QUINCY TROUPE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Father, it was an honor to be there, in the dugout Last Line: Father, a harbinger, of shock waves, soon come Subject(s): African Americans; Baseball; Fathers & Sons; Sports; Negroes; American Blacks PROUST'S MADELEINE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somebody has given my Subject(s): Card Games; Death; Fathers & Daughters; Fathers & Sons; Proust, Marcel (1871-1922); Playing Cards; Dead, The RABBI BEN HISSAR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Rabbi ben hissar rode one day Last Line: "'I thank thee, lord,' was all he said" Subject(s): Clergy;death;fathers & Sons;jews; "priests;rabbis;ministers;bishops;dead, The;judaism; READING A STORY TO MY CHILD, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is a small boy Last Line: In a ragged coat. Subject(s): Children; Fathers & Sons; Parents; Slavery; Childhood; Parenthood; Serfs RIVERLIGHT, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father and I lie down together. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Death; Dead, The SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And when we were eight, or nine, Last Line: Down into the belly of the world Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Conduct Of Life; Disappointment SEVEN LAMENTS FOR THE WAR-DEAD: 1, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mr. Beringer, whose son / fell at the canal that strangers dug Last Line: That drift away Subject(s): Middle East – Conflicts; Fathers & Sons; Death; Arab-israeli Conflict SHADOW-CASTING, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This boy's father dies. / fine. / it always happens. / the boy knows Last Line: This boy, it always happens, doesn’t know what to do anymore Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Sons; Fish & Fishing; Life; Sports; Dead, The; Anglers SHORE LINE, by CARL RAKOSI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We speak of mankind. Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): Waves; Boats & Boating; Fathers & Sons SHOULDERS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man crosses the street in rain Last Line: The rain will never stop falling. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Fathers & Sons; Peace; Nuclear Freeze SNOW, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once with my scarf knotted over my mouth Last Line: The son! Before the weather changes. Subject(s): Cold; Fathers & Sons; Relationships; Snow; Weather SONG TO MY SON, by RICHARD DEHMEL Poem Text First Line: About my father's house, - the gale Last Line: Beats Subject(s): Fathers & Sons STOW-ON-THE-WOLD, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I met an old man at stow-on-the-wold Last Line: "and each was a tall and a lively lad." Subject(s): Death - Children; Fathers & Sons; Soldiers; Sons; War; Death - Babies STUDY IN BLACK & WHITE, by PAUL MARIANI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seven days a week, six till ten, Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Fathers & Sons; Childhood Memories; Friendship; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops SWIMMING POOL, by RALPH BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We dropped rubber bricks to the bottom Last Line: To his scalp but finned at top Subject(s): Swimming & Swimmers; Fathers & Sons TAKE IT FROM FATHER, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Son, I haven't much to tell you; I have Last Line: Don't you ever try to argue with a cop! Subject(s): Fathers & Sons THE ALIEN BOY, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on a mountain, near the western main Last Line: By the wide world forgotten! Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Solitude; Loneliness THE ANNIVERSARY, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the night I come to my room Last Line: The flesh of his forehead, and old scar. Subject(s): Anniversaries; Fathers & Sons; Memory; Scars; World War Ii; Second World War THE BEAR AND THE MAN, by ROBERT BLY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suppose there were a bear and a man. The bear Last Line: Coming from far up there, near the north pole. Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Fathers & Sons; Knowledge THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: HE COMETH FORTH INTO THE DAY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "I am here, I have traversed the tomb, I behold thee" Last Line: "in the beautiful world by the bright lake of horus, / riseth the day" Subject(s): Death;fathers & Sons;heaven; "dead, The;paradise; THE BOY SOLDIER, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each evening on my lap there climbs Last Line: Just as he captured me. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE CHRISTMAS RIFLE, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the spine of the ridge Last Line: The weight of his hand comes down on my shoulder. Subject(s): Christmas Gifts; Fathers & Sons; Hunting; Rifles; Hunters THE DEATH OF MATTAHIAS, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sons of my age, attend Last Line: Hope lifts my soul to thee. Subject(s): Christianity; Clergy; Death; Fathers & Sons; Legacies; Mysticism; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The THE DESK, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the fire escape, crouched, one knee in cinders Last Line: To own my father's name. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Fathers & Sons; Schools; Students THE DISCIPLE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The times are changed, and gone the day Last Line: In that fear doubteth thee. Subject(s): Christianity; Doubt; Education; Faith; Fathers & Sons; God; Humility; Skepticism; Belief; Creed THE DOOR CLICKS. HE RETURNS TO ME', by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Is it measureless pain? Subject(s): Veterans; Homecoming; Marriage; Fathers & Sons THE DREAM SONGS: 145, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Also I love him: me he's done no wrong Last Line: Trying to make yourself forgive someone for something so unforgiveable Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Suicide THE ESSENTIAL STORY, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We each wanted our own story, my father and I Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Stories THE EXHAUSTED BUG; FOR MY FATHER, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is a tiny., hard-shelled thing. He is the length of a child's tooth, and Last Line: Father stretched out in his coffin. Subject(s): Beetles; Curiosities & Wonders; Death; Fathers & Sons; Insects; Enigmas; Oddities; Dead, The; Bugs THE FATHER, by CARL RAKOSI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I find among my notes Last Line: Where to, mistress quickly? Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): Fathers & Sons THE FATHER OF THE MAN, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can't help thinkin' o' the lad! Last Line: My boy has made a man o' me. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Fathers & Sons THE FATHER, SON AND HOLY GHOSTS, by ESSEX HEMPHILL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are not always Last Line: We both use it. / precisely. Often. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons THE FATHERS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snug at the club two fathers sat Last Line: These impotent old friends of mine. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE FINEST FELLOWSHIP, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There may be finer pleasures than just tramping with your boy Last Line: I spend it in the open with that little lad o' mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Fathers & Sons THE FIRST BREAK, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The first break in our happy household hearth Last Line: Close by his rest, they thunder day by day. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Accidents; Death - Children; Fathers & Sons; Railroads; Death - Babies; Railways; Trains THE HILLS OF RUEL, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the hills and far away Last Line: Honey-sweet folk of the hills of ruel. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Fairies; Fathers & Sons; Fear; Ireland; Lutes; Story-telling; Dead, The; Elves; Irish THE KEEPER'S SON, by ANDRE THEURIET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Black is the night and as though in fight Last Line: The son of the keeper had breathed his last! Subject(s): Death - Children; Family Life; Fathers & Sons; Poaching; Death - Babies; Relatives THE LAST THING I SAY, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To a thirteen-year-old sleeping Last Line: A small part of himself and sweet dreams. Subject(s): Children; Fathers & Sons; Love; Parents; Sleep; Childhood; Parenthood THE LOST SON, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At woodlawn I heard the dead cry Subject(s): Fathers & Sons THE MOTHS: 1. CIRCA 1952, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Indians stood on a hill in bath and watched Last Line: Into tomorrow. Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Sons; Knowledge; Moths; Native Americans; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Women; Dead, The; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE OLD BARK HUT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In an old bark hut on the mountainside Last Line: And broken a woman's heart Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;death;family Life;fathers & Sons;hunting;waiting; "dead, The;relatives;hunters; THE OLD MAN DREW THE LINE, by CARL RAKOSI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): Old Age; Fathers & Sons THE ORPHAN, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It has been along time Last Line: -- no one with whom he could cry Subject(s): Fathers & Sons THE PERUVIAN'S DIRGE OVER THE BODY OF HIS FATHER, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rest in peace, my father, rest Last Line: Where the strangers never shall come! Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Funerals; Future Life; Lament; Peru; Prayer; Burials; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 108, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mister shih had two sons Last Line: Like buckteeth that never meet Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Fathers & Sons; Success THE PRODIGAL SON, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went back for redress Last Line: In setting him adrift Subject(s): Fathers & Sons THE QUEST, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the beginning, I was the termite on the tree Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Fathers & Sons; Knowledge THE REMAINS, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Walking out of the new cemetery, my father Last Line: My eighty-year-old father nodding off into sleep Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Ancestry & Ancestors; Cemeteries THE TALK; FOR MY FATHER, by GREGORY ORR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many years we've circled round this date Last Line: And talk at last, though all our talk's too late. Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Fathers & Sons; Fear; Procrastination; Talk THE TIME COMES WHEN YOU ARE FACING HIM, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And it is like the moment before going into battle Subject(s): Fathers & Sons THE WHIP-POOR-WILL, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you remember, father Last Line: "a passing thrill, -- ""whippoorwill!" Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Birds; Fathers & Sons; Whipporwills THE WISH, by BOB HICOK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a tuesday I learned I'd never sit Last Line: This man was Subject(s): Fathers & Sons THE WITCH, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father! Here, father! I have found a horse-shoe Last Line: She may recover; so drive t'other nail in! Subject(s): Christianity; Curses; Fathers & Sons; Horseshoes; Witchcraft & Witches TO AN ADOLESCENT WEEPING WILLOW, by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't know what you think you're doing Last Line: It means you are a boy. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Grief; Willow Trees; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness TO HIS SON, by WALTER RALEIGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three things there be that prosper up apace Last Line: It frets the halter, and it chokes the child Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter Variant Title(s): The Wood, The Wool, The Wag;the Wood, The Weed, The Wag;sir Walter Ralegh To His Son Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Sons; Dead, The TO M. LE VAYER ON THE DEATH OF HIS SON, by MOLIERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weep on le vayer, make thine eyes an urn Last Line: And for these things we must for ever weep. Alternate Author Name(s): Poquelin, Jean Baptiste Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Sons; Loss; Dead, The TO MY FATHER, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take of the first fruits, father, of thy care Last Line: Revealed man's glory, god's great human heart. Subject(s): Children; Christianity; Fathers & Sons; God; Poetry & Poets; Childhood TO MY FATHER'S BUSINESS, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leo bends over his desk Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Careers TO MY SON, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou happy, happy elf! Last Line: I cannot write unless he's sent above.) Variant Title(s): To My Infant Son;a Parental Ode To My Son, Aged Three Years And Five Months;to My Son, Aged Three Years And Five Months;parental Ode To My [infant] Son Subject(s): Fathers & Sons TO THE BOY, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have no wish, my little lad Last Line: Twas all worth while to be your dad. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Fathers & Sons TO TONY - AGED THREE (IN MEMORY T.P.C.W.), by MARJORIE WILSON Poem Text First Line: Gemmed with white daisies was the great green world Last Line: To win that heritage of peace you have. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Wilson, T.p. Cameron (1889-1918); Women And War; World War I - Casualties TO WILLIAM CRAIG, ON THE DEATH OF AN ONLY SON IN A RAILWAY ACCIDENT, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas drear november; by the turbid tide Last Line: "to meet, and dwell with him in ""heaven our home." Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Fathers & Sons; God; Heaven; Mourning; Sons; Tragedy; Dead, The; Paradise; Bereavement TORRISMOND; AN UNFINISHED DRAMA, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who has seen torrismond, my son, to-night? Last Line: Torris. Then here's an end of life. Subject(s): Abandonment; Betrayal; Courts & Courtiers; Fathers & Sons; Longing; Love; Loyalty; Pleasure; Politics & Government; Desertion; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TREETOPS, by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father moves through the south hunting duck Last Line: Probable volume of dreams, think so. Subject(s): Death; Ducks; Fathers & Sons; Hunting; Dead, The; Mallards; Drakes; Hunters WAREHOUSE WORK, by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I turned fourteen, my father said Last Line: Work means will carry me through, us, them Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Labor & Laborers WAX FATHER, by NICK FLYNN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each day / the son came for more, scraping comb Last Line: His entire body hung there Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Sickness; Waxworks; Illness WHAT BRINGS US OUT, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something about pumpkins caused Last Line: How fast you had to turn to make it move. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Fear; Pumpkins WHAT EFFECT HAS YOUR NEW SON HAD ON YOUR WRITING LIFE?, by RICHARD JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While andrew sleeps Last Line: Andrew wants his bottle. Subject(s): Children; Fathers & Sons; Parents; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Childhood; Parenthood WHAT MY FATHER BELIEVED, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man of his age, he believed in the things Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Teaching & Teachers; Patriotism; Educators; Professors WHEN FATHER PLAYED BASEBALL, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The smell of arnica is strong Last Line: The day he played baseball. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Baseball; Fathers & Sons; Sports WHEN SONS AND FATHERS PART, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You're going, son, the world to face Last Line: And, oh, remember us! Subject(s): Fathers & Sons WILL, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your face, my boy, when six months old Last Line: And more than father, will! Subject(s): Fathers & Sons WINTER NIGHT ON THE YENTNA RIVER, by ARLITIA JONES Poem Text First Line: If the lives we live depend on the stories we tell Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Winter WINTER STARS, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Aging; Courage; Stars; Sickness; Valor; Bravery; Illness WORKING LATE, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A light is on in my father's study Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Law & Lawyers YOU TAUGHT ME, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All those years, alone Last Line: I didn't even know my name! Subject(s): Children; Fathers; Fathers & Sons; Love; Parents; Sons; Childhood; Parenthood YOU WOULD KNOW, by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That you, father, are 'in my mind' Last Line: What I was, happy, maybe am, you would know. Subject(s): Escapes; Fathers & Sons; Happiness; Past; Fugitives; Joy; Delight |
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