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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: FUTURE Matches Found: 567 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CALL, FR, THE POET'S VOCATION, by THOMAS HOLLEY CHIVERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the music of the morns Last Line: "crying: ""come to me! Come to me!" Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life A CHILD'S FUTURE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What will it please you, my darling, hereafter to be? Last Line: Fear not at all; for a slave, if he fears not, is free. Subject(s): Death; Future; Dead, The A DEAD PAST, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spare her at least: look you have taken Last Line: Even dearer still, -- since I have nothing more. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Future; Pain; Past; Soul; Tears; Suffering; Misery A DIEU! AND AU REVOIR!, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: As you love me, let there be Last Line: "his father!" Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Future Life; Religion; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Theology A DREAM OF FIFTY, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among all the losses, this was immense Last Line: Wind pressing leaves against a grid of fence. Subject(s): Aging; Birthdays; Dreams; Future; Life; Loss; Nightmares A FAREWELL, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, o dream of mine! Last Line: Farewell forever! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Dreams; Farewell; Future; Nightmares; Parting A HUNDRED YEARS TO COME, by HIRAM LADD SPENCER Poem Text First Line: O where will be the birds that sing Last Line: A hundred years to come! Subject(s): Future A LEAF FALLS, by LOU MALLORY LUKE Poem Text First Line: The lyric rustle of a leaf Last Line: Shall claim eternity! Subject(s): Future Life; Leaves; Retribution; Eternity; After Life A LOVER'S DIARY: SONNET. ENVOY, by HORATIO GILBERT PARKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you and I have play'd the little hour Last Line: Of joy, and then our infinite alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Parker, Gilbert Variant Title(s): Reunited Subject(s): Diaries; Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life A MAN CAME TUESDAY, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: What are you prepared to believe? Subject(s): Future; Debt A MONODY, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hour after hour Last Line: Eternity! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life A NEW BIRTH, by EDMUND JOHN ARMSTRONG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My fate, my portion in the strife Last Line: Submissive to thy will! Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life 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 NEW THEME, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I fain would leave the tender songs Last Line: Kindle the magic flame. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Future; Loss A NEW YEAR'S THOUGHT, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: What does the new year hold in store for me Last Line: And take what comes, conformable to plan. Subject(s): Future; Holidays; Life Change Events; New Year; Time A POET'S FANCIES: 9. SINGERS TO COME, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No new delights to our desire Last Line: Have found a more mysterious lyre. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Future; Poetry & Poets A PRAYER FOR THE FUTURE, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: That thou wilt faithful be, and full of love and sweetness Subject(s): Prayer; Future; Fidelity; Faithfulness; Constancy A PROPOSAL, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Beloved, I love thee! With such words / wouldst thou Last Line: In life, in love, in soul, unto eternity! Subject(s): Future Life; Love - Beginnings; Passion; Retribution; Eternity; After Life A SOLACE, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Think not of all the loved ones you have lost Last Line: And thank god for his goodness and his grace. Subject(s): Future Life; God; Gratitude; Retribution; Eternity; After Life A SONG OF ETERNITY IN TIME, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once, at night, in the manor wood Last Line: Macon, georgia, 1867. Revised in 1879. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life A STAR-GAZER GOES HIGHER, by MAZIE V. CARUTHERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He read the vaulted heavens for his book Last Line: What fadeless stars, what never-setting sun? Subject(s): Future Life; Heaven; Stars; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise A THOUGHT OF THE FUTURE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dreamer! And wouldst thou know Last Line: In mercy shall be thrown! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Future A THOUGHT ON ETERNITY, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: E'er the foundations of the world were laid Last Line: Ten thousand thousand rolling years are nought. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life A THOUSAND YEARS FROM NOW, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sat within my tranquil room Last Line: A thousand years from now! Subject(s): Future A VINDICATION, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: I claim the eternal right to love, without conditions Last Line: Till he restored thee, smiling, unto me. Subject(s): Future Life; Hearts; Love; Passion; Retribution; Eternity; After Life A VOICE TO THE DYING, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Unknown and uncounted the years thou hadst / lain in my bosom Last Line: But never to be parted from her that bids thee come! Subject(s): Comfort; Death; Future Life; Mothers; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ABOVE A SNOW (BETWEEN A SUN AND ETERNITY), by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: Not even her slenderness of perfect weight, lying here Last Line: The imagined tunnel; and she also saw the red sun rise above the snow Subject(s): Future Life; Love; Memory ABYSS, by PIERRE REVERDY Poem Source First Line: I was expecting anything t hat can happen Last Line: The world ready for sleep was turning over Subject(s): Earth; Future AD ASTRA: 101, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: What of the suppliant hosts that time hath seen Last Line: Makes us despair of all beyond our seeing! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Future AD ASTRA: 102, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Our minds are finite-can we measure his? Last Line: Worlds yet undreamt of may go wheeling by! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life AD ASTRA: 3, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O gentle love! Sooth whisperer to mankind Last Line: Cradling the great deeps of eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Future Life; Love - Nature Of; Nature; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ADIEU, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Adieu! Adieu! / bright eye of blue Last Line: To know the future god may give. Subject(s): Future; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness AFTER DEATH, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I do not know just what may hap, when I go Last Line: Is just that simple little creed, to climb the golden stairs. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life AFTER WORK, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Lord, when thou seest that my work is done Last Line: Will I come. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Future Life; Religion; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Theology AFTER-LIFE, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O boon and curse in one - this ceaseless need Last Line: Born but to bloom a summer time and die. Subject(s): Future Life; Grief; Life; Soul; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sorrow; Sadness AFTERLIFE, by J. V. BRUMMELS Poem Source First Line: For you, eternity begins well Last Line: And the insistent rumor %of a better place on the far side Subject(s): Future Life AFTERLIFE, by JOEL R. SOLONCHE Poem Source First Line: It ought to be a long nap out of doors Last Line: Parallel, together, an equal sign Subject(s): Future Life AFTERLIFE IN ELYSIUM, by PINDAR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For them the sun shines at full strength - while we here walk in night Last Line: Vomit forth a boundless gloom Subject(s): Future Life AFTERLIFE: LETTER TO STEPHEN DOBYNS 3, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stephen, the pleasures of the afterlife Last Line: Agree with him. Without dobut they were Subject(s): Future Life AFTERMATH, by LOUISE WILSON DUNWELL Poem Text First Line: Love came and walked beside me yesterday Last Line: His smile will brighten all my future years. Subject(s): Future; Love; Smiles; Walking AKHENATEN, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: I went there Last Line: As you disappeared from this life forever Subject(s): Death; Future Life ALBANY WINTER, by MICHAEL J. HENRY Poem Source First Line: In the foyer closet by the staircase Last Line: But the strange skulls and wings of death %still clear, still indelible Subject(s): Future; Home; Time; Winter ALCESTIS: ADMETUS TO THE DYING ALCESTIS, by EURIPIDES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No more for me the revelry and feasts Last Line: There I may live with you forever Subject(s): Future Life ALWAYS; TO MADAME FAURE-FAVIER, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poet's Biography First Line: Always / we'll go further without ever advancing Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life AN ARGUMENT FOR DAVID'S BELIEF OF A FUTURE STATE, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If david knew not of a future life Last Line: Now give as plain an answer thereupon. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; David (d. 962 B.c.); Future Life; Salvation; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Retribution; Eternity; After Life AN EARLY AFTER LIFE, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life AN INVITE TO ETERNITY, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say, wilt thou go with me sweet maid Last Line: We are wed to one eternity. Subject(s): Consolation; Courtship; Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life AN OPEN DOOR, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That longed-for door stood open, and he passed Last Line: "I still am I,"" his eyes say, ""thou art thou!" Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ANCESTRESS, by MARGUERITE JANVRIN ADAMS Poem Text First Line: When I become as history, - long - past history Last Line: When our great-grandson bends above my hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Adams, M.j. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Future; History; Heritage; Heredity; Historians AND AFTER--WHAT?, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Twas omar said--and it was strangely true-- Last Line: The shrouding blackness does not finish all? Variant Title(s): And After-what? Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Heaven; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise AND IT CAME TO PASS, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This june 3rd Last Line: And I want to hear it Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Change; Future; Poetry And Poets AND THERE THE ANGELS OF GOD WERE ASCENDING, by ERIC CHARLES LEMAY Poem Source First Line: In heaven, the children are harming one another Last Line: As afterimage, starlight, the air above [or, about] a shortened grave Subject(s): Angels; Earth; Future Life; Heaven ANOTHER YEAR, by VIOLET DARLINGTON WAY Poem Text First Line: Another year, I'll have some poppies there Last Line: Another year! Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ANTICIPATION, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some day in highest heaven, made fair and white Last Line: As I shall be that day. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ANXIETY FOR THE FUTURE, by CHRISTIAN MORGENSTERN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Korf, whom worry easily attacks Last Line: Drawing up a vast design %for the protection of sunshine Subject(s): Anxiety; Future ASPIRATIONS TO THE INFINITE; ADDRESSED TO A FRIEND, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have you ne'er felt a feeling deep arise Last Line: Star-throned in your heart such utterance to inspire! Subject(s): Future Life; Poetry & Poets; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ASSURANCE, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yea, there are as many stars under the earth as Last Line: And the future sure before me. Subject(s): Future; Stars AT 63, by PETER DESY Poem Source First Line: After a nap, say Last Line: There's no time for that, %not anymore Subject(s): Death; Future Life AT CHIDEOCK: SEPT 2, 1914, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In skies washed over with bright amethyst Last Line: For england, and for man, and for the world! Subject(s): Anniversaries; France; Future; Nostalgia AT ONE WEEK OLD, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He will be straight and strong and fair Last Line: Like that behind his daddy's ear! Subject(s): Babies; Future; Mothers; Sons; Speculation; Infants AT THE LAST, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She cometh no more Last Line: For evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Sea; Time; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Ocean AT THE SHRINE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Mary, humanity's woman, immaculate mother Last Line: Is it thou, thou alone, that art pure, and never another? Subject(s): Future Life; Humanity; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women In The Bible; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Virgin Mary AUGURY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before the dawn, 'tis light Last Line: What now the present knows. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Future AVE MARIA, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hollow spaces, large and deep Last Line: That would be the heart of the mother of god! Subject(s): Beds; Earth; Future Life; God; Mary And Martha (bible); Moon; Night; Sleep; Women In The Bible; World; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Bedtime AXIOMATIC, by PETER READING Poem Source First Line: We take off our shoes Last Line: He struggles to shake it off %but is unable Subject(s): Future BACCHUS, by JACK MERTEN Poem Text First Line: The blood of full grapes swells my wooden goblet Last Line: Before the barred door of eternity. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Future Life; Grapes; Wine; Retribution; Eternity; After Life BE-ALL, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The insect clings Last Line: Will become belong. Subject(s): Future Life; Heaven; Longing; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise BEAUTY, by JESSAMINE S. FISHBACK Poem Text First Line: Blue haze of autumn etching scrolls against the skies Last Line: Though all that dies, I know, shall live again. Subject(s): Beauty; Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life BELLS IN THE ENDTIME OF GYURMEY TSULTRIM, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bowl made from a tobacco-yellow skull Last Line: Something has begun... Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Chaplin, Charlie (1889-1977); Future Life; Lightning; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Lightning Rods BENEATH A PICTURE, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Fearfully gazing spirit! Wherefore lies Last Line: Shrouding the brightness of thine angel form. Subject(s): Angels; Devil; Future Life; Sin; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Retribution; Eternity; After Life BEYOND OUR BREATHING, by CAROL RULOFSON Poem Text First Line: Across the threshold of our garden path Last Line: That peace which is the earnest of god's will. Subject(s): Faith; Future Life; Belief; Creed; Retribution; Eternity; After Life BEYOND THE STARS I SEE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: I gaze into thy heavens, lord Last Line: The christ of calvary. Subject(s): Cavalry; Future Life; Stars; Retribution; Eternity; After Life BODY, REASSEMBLED, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Traffic and people return to the marketplace Last Line: To wander the afterlife, slick in their tendons and skin Subject(s): Bodies; Bones; Future Life BOOK OF VISIONS: ETERNITY, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: One does not need to credit death. The human heart to rest is fain Last Line: One does not need to credit death. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Hearts; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life BUT NEVER LIFE -, by LILLIAN R. WAGNER Poem Text First Line: There shall be many mornings after Last Line: Ceaseless . . . . Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life CAELICA: 88, by FULKE GREVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man, dream no more of curious mysteries Last Line: Knowes what was first, and what shall be the end. Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, 1st Baron; Brooke, Lord Variant Title(s): Mysteries;mysteries Subject(s): Future CAN I CATCH UP WITH THE FUTURE?, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's out there ahead of me Last Line: Running to catch the future Subject(s): Future CHAITIVEL; OR, THE LAY OF LOVE'S UNFORTUNATE, by MARIE DE FRANCE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ladies and lovers, may ye dwell Last Line: And so they two fight on till doom. Alternate Author Name(s): Shaftesbury, Marie, Abbess Of Subject(s): Beauty; Future Life; Love; Women; Retribution; Eternity; After Life CHILDREN OF LIR, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: We woke from our sleep in the bosom where Last Line: Our spirits through love and through longing made one in the infinite lir. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Children; Death; Future Life; Happiness; Mythology - Celtic; Childhood; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Joy; Delight CITY OF THE LIGHT (1), by FELIX ADLER Poem Source First Line: Hail the glorious golden city %pictured by the seers of old! Last Line: It will merge into the splendors %of the city of thr light Variant Title(s): The City Of Our Hop Subject(s): Cities; Future Life; Justice; Religion CITY OF THE LIGHT (2), by FELIX ADLER Poem Source First Line: Have you heard the golden city %mentioned in the legends old? Last Line: It will merge into the splendors %of the city of the light Subject(s): Cities; Future Life; Justice; Religion CLOCK, by ZBIGNIEW HERBERT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: In appearance it is the peaceful face of a miller, full, shiny Last Line: And this is supposed to lead us to eternity Subject(s): Clocks; Future Life; Time COME CLOSE MY EYES, by PETER PORTER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our evil days grow shorter and the span Last Line: May be the true porphyrogenitus Subject(s): Death; Future Life COMFORT YE!, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: In that sweet after-life Last Line: "and bid us ""welcome home!" Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life COMMUNION: 1. FIDES, by ARVIA MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High on a peak of limitless ascent Last Line: Radiant upon the starless precipice of birth. Subject(s): Beauty; Faith; Future Life; Trust; Belief; Creed; Retribution; Eternity; After Life COR CORDIUM, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet heart, true heart, strong heart, star of my life, oh, never Last Line: And for thee the lowered banner, o sweet heart never! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Future Life; Hearts; Loss; Loyalty; Man-woman Relationships; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Male-female Relations CORYBANTIAST, by MARY BRENNAN CLAPP Poem Text First Line: Who, thinking on death, decides Last Line: Too long the idle night! Subject(s): Death; Festivals; Future Life; Rites & Ceremonies; Dead, The; Fairs; Pageants; Retribution; Eternity; After Life CRUCIFERI, by EUPHEMIA MACLEOD Poem Text First Line: A silent train, they pass along Last Line: Triumphant, scale the heights of god! Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life CRYSTAL BALL, by ELIS JULIANA Poem Source First Line: In that crystal ball of mine Last Line: And pass the shame onto the lord Subject(s): Future CURSE THE THORNS OF FATE, by RUHI Poem Source First Line: Curse the thorns of fate, and damn as well its roses and its garden Last Line: Remain with allah -- think not of life, nor pray for the delights hereafter Subject(s): Fate; Future Life DAILY DYING, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not in a moment drops the rose Last Line: Wide they will open for you and me! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Nature; Summer; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life DAWN IN SPRING, by JEAN DREW FREEMAN Poem Text First Line: In the depth of silence Last Line: Where life will be retold. Subject(s): Future Life; Gardens & Gardening; Heaven; Spring; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise DE OLE SEXTON, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brudder amos is de sexton Last Line: It am nebber gwine ter fail. Subject(s): African Americans; Future Life; Sin; Negroes; American Blacks; Retribution; Eternity; After Life DEATH, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mourn not, my friends, that we are growing old Last Line: The mother of our youth!—she maketh speed. Subject(s): Christianity; Death; Future Life; God; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life DELIVERANCE, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deliverance? You mean this empty cup Last Line: The irresistible current of my past? Subject(s): Future; Life; Past; Time DESCRIPTIONS OF HEAVEN AND HELL, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The wave breaks Last Line: Don’t know what to say Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life DEZIR, by FERRANT SANCHEZ CALAVERA Poem Source First Line: For love of god, let's put aside the veil Last Line: To life eternal where he never dies! Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Heaven; Mourning; Poetry And Poets DIAL-HANDS, by SAINT-PAUL ROUX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Index and thumb come from the invisible arm thrust from a shoulder Last Line: Die. Alternate Author Name(s): Roux, Paul Pierr Subject(s): Future Life; Hands; Thumbs; Retribution; Eternity; After Life DISSOLUTION, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: Again I am carried back over the indifferent liquid sea Last Line: Might have been my home, nor that well-loved face Subject(s): Death; Future Life DON WILSON TOPPS CARD #217 1973, by FRANK VAN ZANT Poem Source First Line: He had only one year left before Last Line: Did they place a better face above you? %one early pose for each unopened eye? Subject(s): Future Life; Idols; Suicide DON'T BE DOWN-HEARTED (A PHILOSOPHIC POME), by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the world is extremely unpleasant Last Line: Then it will take a turn for the worse! Subject(s): Future; Hope; Luck; Optimism DOWN IN WALHALLALAH, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I put flowers on leeda's grave Last Line: Down in walhallalah. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life DREAM CALLED LIFE, by PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A dream it was in which I found myself Last Line: When dreaming, with the night, shall pass %away Subject(s): Future Life DREAM FANTASY, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a land of dream Last Line: Lie hush'd the valleys of dream? Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Future Life; Moon; Religion; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Theology DREAM MEADOWS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Girt with great garths of shadow Last Line: Beneath those silent skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Future Life; Pain; Spiritual Life; Dead, The; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Suffering; Misery DREAMS?, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My spirit slips away at night Last Line: Will waken daily with a smile. Subject(s): Dreams; Future Life; Soul; Truth; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life DURATION, by DOUGLAS MACKINTOSH Poem Text First Line: I look into the ages of the past Last Line: The gate through which I'll find eternity. Subject(s): Future; Past EARTH LEADS TO HEAVEN, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is a weary and a wretched life Last Line: And we can but remember and regret. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Future Life; Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life EARTH-LOVE, by IRENE NILES Poem Text First Line: I shall not mind when time comes to me here Last Line: And watch you where you go, old lovely earth! Subject(s): Earth; Future Life; World; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ECCLESIASTES CHAPTER XII, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He hath a few more days to live, and we Last Line: Of whom we know not, and who gave it birth. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Heaven; Mourning; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise; Bereavement END AND BEGINNING, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: The world of the elder gods is aflame. The smoke of its burning Last Line: Baldur the beautiful, rise! Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life 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 EPITAHPHIUM CAECILLIAE BOULSTRED, by EDWARD HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Methinks death like one laughing lies Last Line: And did not die, but left her body dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ETERNAL SUPPER, by NICOLE PEKARSKE Poem Source First Line: Midnight cinches in around her praying Last Line: For coffee, liquor that parches my tongue Subject(s): Dinners And Dining; Future ETERNITIE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O yeares! And age! Farewell Last Line: Drown'd in one endlesse day. Variant Title(s): Eternity Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ETERNITY, by GRACE GRISWOLD BISBY Poem Text First Line: Enough for me to realize Last Line: Through deathless time's eternal range. Subject(s): Future Life; Immortality; Reincarnation; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Transmigration; Pretas ETERNITY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On this wondrous sea Last Line: Ashore at last! Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ETERNITY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eternity is a wind-blown husk Last Line: And give me her little hand! Subject(s): Beauty; Fools; Future Life; Life; Love; Sleep; Idiots; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ETERNITY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O what a weary while it is to stand Last Line: Or any crumb of gloom to feed upon? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Angels; Future Life; God; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ETERNITY, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You can almost taste it Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ETERNITY, by IRA SADOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You can almost taste it Last Line: In the shape of a butte, air surrounding it, whistling in the sockets Subject(s): Future Life ETERNITY, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE Poem Text First Line: As time's sure pendulum swings to and fro Last Line: "eternity,"" in muffled song or cry." Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ETERNITY, by A. WALTER SOLOMON Poem Text First Line: At the edge of the sea lay a skull Last Line: Eternity. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ETERNITY MISSED, by JOHN E. HOPKINS Poem Source First Line: I stepped on the done Last Line: The beauty that is %while I look away Subject(s): Future Life EVOCATION, by AMADO NERVO Poem Source First Line: From the deep mystery of the past I called her Last Line: Thus I made answer. And she kissed my lips Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Graves FAITH, by GRACE EVELYN BROWN Poem Text First Line: I do not know when I shall go on - on Last Line: Reveals a paradise that gave it birth? Subject(s): Future Life; Nature; Retribution; Eternity; After Life FARTHER ON, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do not think of them all as dead Last Line: Think of them only as farther on. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life FATE, by BERTHA Y. KRAMER Poem Text First Line: On such a little thing our future hinges! Last Line: A spoken word, a careless note dispatched. Subject(s): Fate; Future; Soul; Destiny FIVE-FINGER EXERCISE, by RACHEL WETZSTEON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When things get hot and heavy this weekend or one august Subject(s): Future; Love FOR EVER, by HENRI CAZALIS Poem Text First Line: Withhold thy love, though life betrays Last Line: O heart fulfil thy fond desire! Alternate Author Name(s): Lahor, Jean Subject(s): Future Life; Love; Retribution; Eternity; After Life FOR EVER AND EVERMORE, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: The woods are no less rich for all the flowers within them Last Line: For ever and evermore! Subject(s): Flowers; Future Life; Hearts; Love; Passion; Roses; Retribution; Eternity; After Life FOR FUTURES, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the lights come on at five o'clock on street corners Subject(s): Future FOR THE CHILDREN, by GARY SYNDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rising hills, the slopes Subject(s): Buddhism; Future; Peace; Buddha; Buddhists FOR THE FUTURE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder did you ever count Last Line: Sake. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Fate; Future; Life; Love; Destiny FOREBODING, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Why do these tragic fancies throng Last Line: The way is pity, margaret. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Cities; Future Life; God; Urban Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life FORESEEABLE FUTURES, by DANIEL HALPERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We would have found powell in paris Subject(s): Future FORESEEABLE FUTURES, by DANIEL HALPERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We would have found powell in paris Last Line: We could have found our way to the music Subject(s): Future FORETASTE, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How do I know that after this Last Line: And sun me in thine immortality. Subject(s): Future Life; Immortality; Retribution; Eternity; After Life FOREVER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Forever and ever the reddening leaves Last Line: Forever the rain rains on Subject(s): Future Life;memory;rain; Retribution;eternity;after Life FOREVER, by BERTHA MILLER COLLINS Poem Text First Line: Away and away in the far blue distance, life Last Line: Which is carried away forever, ever . . . Aye! Subject(s): Future Life; Life; Singing & Singers; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Songs FORTUNE, by CHARLOTTE GORDON Poem Source First Line: When I was eight, all of st louis would come Last Line: Then, even my mother cheered %for the fortune any prophet brings Subject(s): Children; Fortune; Future; St. Louis, Missouri FORWARD THROUGH THE AGES, by FREDERICK LUCIAN HOSMER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Move we on together %to the shining goal! Subject(s): Future Life FOUNT THAT FREELY FLOWS, by JOHN OF THE CROSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How well I know the fount that freely flows Last Line: Is in the bread of life, which now I see %although 'tis night Alternate Author Name(s): Juan De La Cruz, San; Juan De Yepes Subject(s): Future Life FOURTH NIGHT, by HARRY WILLIAM NELSON Poem Text First Line: Escape the towers of the night Last Line: I know of what heat brings. Subject(s): Future Life; Night; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Bedtime FROM A BALLOON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! We are loose. Hear how they shout Last Line: That stares into eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Balloons; Earth; Future Life; Life; World; Retribution; Eternity; After Life FUTURE, by WESLEY MCNAIR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the afternoon talk shows of america Last Line: On the stove, right now will ever need Subject(s): Future; Television FUTURE, by WESLEY MCNAIR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Because, married so young, with three Last Line: Wisps of gray, and just like that were gone Subject(s): Future; Old Age; Writing And Writers FUTURE DAYS, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With eager eyes I fondly gaze Last Line: What now is and what has been. Subject(s): Friendship; Future FUTURE IS TOMORROW MORNING, by MAY SWENSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's time to write about the things that can't Last Line: Repetitions, escaping old bodies, it skips into new Subject(s): Future; Past; Writing And Writers FUTURES, by BEULA CHAMBERLAIN Poem Text First Line: One counts the future that is his Last Line: Lest rain or wind should mar its loveliness. Subject(s): Aging; Future FUTURES, by MARIE HARRIS Poem Source First Line: He wouldn't take off his coat or hat, his aunt charity says, but he Last Line: Nothing %to change or predict Subject(s): Caregivers; Future; Love; Maturity FUTURITY, by LUCY AIKEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rise, spectres, rise! Some pitying ghost, appear Last Line: And spring to clasp her in the world unknown. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Lucy Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life FUTURITY, by WILLIAM HERBERT (1778-1847) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Say, when the spirit fleets away Last Line: The unconscious form and lifeless clay. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life GERANIUM, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: How can you stand it -- looking at things? Last Line: Marry it? Are you so sure %of your position in the world? Subject(s): Flowers; Future; Geraniums; Vision GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 26, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cheeks of the goddess glow'd all-red Last Line: "methinks it by far the best place is." Subject(s): Future; Grief; Hamburg, Germany; Kisses; Love; Sorrow; Sadness GIFT OF, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: While nostrodamus fascinates with future doom Last Line: And lights a candle in the narrow room. Subject(s): Future; Ignorance; Nostradamus, Michel De (1503-1566) GOLDEN DRAGON, by BRUCE BOND Poem Source First Line: The fish by the fortune cookies Last Line: To the sweet remains Subject(s): Dragons; Future Life GRANDAD, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heaven's mighty sweet, I guess Last Line: But dang it! God, don't speed me Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Heaven; Life; Old Age GRANITE AND CYPRESS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White-maned, wide-throated, the heavy-shouldered children of Last Line: And people are so shaken Subject(s): Future; Cypress Trees GUALTERUS DANISTONUS AD AMICOS, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Studious the busy moments to deceive Last Line: Be now cut off, betwixt the grave and thee. Subject(s): Death; Future; Graves; Happiness; Life; Memory; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Joy; Delight HALCYON DAYS, by MCMYNN ELIZABETH P. Poem Text First Line: A mystic calm broods over all the land Last Line: Your death is but the prelude to rebirth. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life HALF BILLION - MORE OR LESS, by MARC J. STRAUS Poem Source First Line: I asked an agricultural economist how Last Line: At a population of twenty billion, more %or less Subject(s): Future; Life; Medicine; Physicians; Survival HEART O' THE NORTH, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And when I come to the dim trail-end Last Line: Eternity passing over. Subject(s): Canada; Future Life; North, The; Canadians; Retribution; Eternity; After Life HEAVEN, by KATHARINE HAVILAND TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: I am too little for a grand eternity Last Line: Too short yesterday! Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life HEAVEN, by ISAAC WATTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a land of pure delight Last Line: Should fright us from the shore. Variant Title(s): The Heavenly Canaan;the Heavenly Land;a Prospect Of Heaven Makes Death Easy Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Heaven; Religion; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise; Theology HELL, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's probably like the excitement of your first cigarette Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Hell; Religion; Spirituality; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Theology HELL, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's probably like the excitement of your first cigarette Last Line: The least weird guy you know Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Hell; Religion; Spirituality HIS OWNE EPITAPH, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Eternal rest on him bestowe Last Line: Eternal rest on him bestowe. Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Prayer; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life HOMAGE TO LESTER FLATT, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Five seasons without traveling to a festival, without walking Last Line: Rattling the bank echoes the tenor of our lives. Subject(s): Fame; Festivals; Flatt, Lester; Future Life; Music, Rock; Homage & Respect; Reputation; Fairs; Pageants; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Rock & Roll HON. JESSE HOLDOM OF CHICAGO, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far from the great lake's pride Last Line: And the waning sun sink low. Subject(s): Babies; Fate; Fear; Future; Past; Infants; Destiny HUMAN OUTLOOK, by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These things shall be! A loftier race Last Line: For man shall be at one with god %in bonds of firm necessity Variant Title(s): The Coming Day; A Loftier Rac Subject(s): Freedom; Future; Life Change Events; Religion HYMN TO THE SUN, by JOSE DE ESPRONCEDA Poem Source First Line: Hail to thee sun! Oh, list and stay thy course Last Line: Shouded for ever by the pall of night %no vestige left of thy refulgent light Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Heaven I AM GERMAN: SOMETHING DIFFERENT, by GARY DUEHR Poem Source First Line: Still, still gray keeps waiting for the future Last Line: Years, maybe, times three-six-five looks at the river Subject(s): Change; Future I HAVE USED UP MORE THAN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: What the next would bring Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Future; Hope; Nature; Time I HOPE THERE'S TIME, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And not just this Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Future; Nature; Time I PULLED ON THE REINS, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source Last Line: Lifting their arms to the moon Subject(s): Future Life I-BRASIL, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's sorrow on the wind, my grief, theres' sorrow on the wind Last Line: Far away, far away. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Grief; Old Age; Peace; Singing & Singers; Wind; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sorrow; Sadness IF IT'S THE LAST THING I DO, by PAT D'AMICO Poem Source First Line: When I go to my final reward Last Line: Is sure to be organized neatly Subject(s): Death; Future Life IF THE FUTURE SPOKE, by ELIZA GRISWOLD ALLEN Poem Source First Line: I'd hiss -- listen, remember locusts Last Line: That black -- line of never having been Subject(s): Future IF WE BUT ONLY KNEW, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: I wrote a verse and sent it forth Last Line: Through all eternity. Subject(s): Future Life; Knowledge; Poetry & Poets; Retribution; Eternity; After Life III. (MAYBE ONE DAY), by PAUL ANTSCHEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe one day, when the rehabilitation of solstices becomes official, as dic- Last Line: It's up to you. Believe me Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul Subject(s): Future IKON: THE HARROWING OF HELL, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down through the tomb's inward arch Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ILIAD, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: False dreams, all false Last Line: When love's over, endures. Subject(s): Future Life; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Iliad; Odyssey ILLUSION, by ETHELYN HARDESTY CLEAVER Poem Text First Line: We are but travelers treading o'er a path Last Line: And makes life more worth living! Subject(s): Future; Hallucinations & Illusions; Life IMMORTALITY, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: From your life's blood to coin a trenchant word Last Line: That sounds within the changing hearts of men. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life IMPATIENCE, by MELANIE LILLIAN VAN DER TOORN Poem Text First Line: Now that you are gone Last Line: Then I'll march on. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life IN A COUNTRY, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My love and I are inventing a country, which we Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life IN A HUNDRED YEARS, by ELIZABETH DOTEN Poem Text First Line: It will be all the same in a hundred years Last Line: For 'tis not the same in a hundred years! Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie Subject(s): Future; Religion; Theology IN AFTER YEARS, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: In after years, when age has taught Last Line: In after years. Subject(s): Aging; Future IN ANOTHER ROOM, by LULA BEHM Poem Text First Line: I shall not think of her at all Last Line: To wait me in another room. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life IN DAYS TO COME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In days to come - whatever ache Last Line: In days to come. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Aging; Future; Hearts IN FUTURO, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: E'en now, from mountain or from plain Last Line: My heart shall mingle with the clod. Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon Subject(s): Coffins; Death; Future; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones IN GREY DAYS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Measures of oil for others Last Line: Death, will be mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Heaven; Pain; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise; Suffering; Misery IN LOVE'S ETERNITY, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My body was part of the sun and the dew Last Line: As my love; and together we wept. Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. Subject(s): Future Life; Heaven; Love; Reunions; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise IN MEMORIAM: F.O.S., by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You go a long and lovely journey Last Line: Far past the birthplace of the sun? Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Future Life IN MEMORY OF DONALD BARTHELME, by JURGEN BECKER Poem Source First Line: Summer rain. Black evening. Scribbled Last Line: And one reads that the cities are complicated Subject(s): Future IN SALUTATION TO THE ETERNAL PEACE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Men say the world is full of fear and hate Last Line: O intimate essence of eternity! Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Peace; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life IN THE NEXT GALAXY, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Things will be different Last Line: Blue skies and drinking water. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life INFINITE, by GIACOMO LEOPARDI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I've always liked this lonely hill Last Line: It is to shipwreck in that sea Subject(s): Disasters; Future Life; Shipwrecks INFINITY, by MORRIS HURLEY Poem Text First Line: From time without beginning Last Line: In god's all-seeing care. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life INSCRIPTION FOR A TABLET AT SILBURY-HILL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This mound in some remote and dateless day Last Line: Lives in the eternal register of heaven. Subject(s): Advice; Future Life; God; Graves; Morality; Strangers; Travel; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Tombs; Tombstones; Ethics; Journeys; Trips INSCRIPTION FOR THE BANKS OF THE HAMPSHIRE AVON, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little while, o traveller! Linger here Last Line: Flow to the ocean of eternity. Subject(s): Avon (river), England; Future Life; Life; Rivers; Travel; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Journeys; Trips INTROIT: AN ECHO, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I look and see the world is fair Last Line: Seeks us again, finds us again. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Future Life; God; Love; Nature; Retribution; Eternity; After Life INVOCATION AND INTERRUPTION [IN MEMORIAM TED HUGHES], by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gigantic iron hawk Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Life; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life INVOCATION AND INTERRUPTION [IN MEMORIAM TED HUGHES], by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gigantic iron hawk Last Line: I had the last word first remember %I'm going to keep things like this Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Life; Poetry And Poets ISIDORA (SEE MATURIN'S 'MELMOTH'), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love, whom I have loved too well Last Line: Paradise, will he be there? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Heaven; Life; Love; Soul; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise ISOLA COMACINA, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There sleeps beneath italian skies Last Line: May all the gods be good to thee! Subject(s): Future; Islands; Italy; Past; Italians KARMA, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Phantom of mystery, older than history Last Line: Deathless associates, -- shadow and soul! Subject(s): Future Life; Love; Past; Sin; Soul; Retribution; Eternity; After Life KINCHINJUNGA, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O white priest of eternity, around Last Line: On any shrine is left to tell life's sting. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Future Life; Life; Mountains; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Hills; Downs (great Britain) KING EDWIN'S FEAST, by JOHN WHITE CHADWICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was feasting in the hall Last Line: "would to god that we might know!" Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life KNOWLEDGE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wild swan over the marshes knows Last Line: Across the glaciers of eternity! Subject(s): Birds; Future Life; Happiness; Hawks; Hope; Knowledge; Owls; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Joy; Delight; Optimism 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 LIGHT, by VIVIAN SHIPLEY Poem Source First Line: Pack up your gear, head for the quinney quencher Last Line: You, that in that darkness below, your dream is waiting Variant Title(s): Last Nigh Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Future; Light LEEK STREET, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In bruges, was a cul-de-sac so narrow Last Line: Float out over the canals. Subject(s): Bruges, Belgium; Children; Future Life; Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews; Love; Muskrats; Pain; Redemption; Salvation; Tongues; Torture; Violence; Youth; Childhood; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Judaism; Suffering; Misery LETTER FROM YOUR FUTURE, by DAVID CONFORD Poem Source First Line: Dear fool: you might as well Last Line: Like it or not, you will be Subject(s): Future; Letters LIFE, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: A child is born Last Line: On the stone of the door-sill Subject(s): Death, Return From; Future Life; Soldiers LIFE AFTER DEATH, by MARY BAINE CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: The pharaoh was buried with a hundred Last Line: Later, on their way to the baths Subject(s): Future Life LIFE AFTER DEATH, by PINDAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For them the sun shines ever in full might Last Line: Burned for the glory of heaven continually. Subject(s): Future Life; Heaven; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise LIFE AND DEATH: 2, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Or endless sleep 'twill be, - and that is rest Last Line: Into the unknown, air on golden wing. Subject(s): Death; Freedom; Future Life; Dead, The; Liberty; Retribution; Eternity; After Life LIFE AND DEATH: 4, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If at one door stands life to cheat our trust Last Line: Of thunder falls. There is no life beyond? Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life LIFE AND DEATH: 6, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So, heralded by reason, faith may tread Last Line: And all the oracles are dumb and blind. Subject(s): Faith; Future Life; Soul; Belief; Creed; Retribution; Eternity; After Life LIFE AND YOU, by CHARLOTTE LOUISE BERTLESEN Poem Text First Line: Ask much of life Last Line: Her golden key. Subject(s): Birth; Future Life; Child Birth; Midwifery; Retribution; Eternity; After Life LIFE'S BOUNDARY, by HENRIETTA CORDELIA RAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life is a glass wherein we dimly see Last Line: That bounds the dim perspective of our days. Alternate Author Name(s): Ray, Cordelia Subject(s): Future Life; Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life LIFE'S TWO INTERPRETERS: 2, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: As those who rest from toil we end our years Last Line: "light breaks, god lives! Love reigns eternally." Subject(s): Future Life; God; Love; Retribution; Eternity; After Life LIGHT INFANTRY, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The little ones will gather round Last Line: And put their trust in god. Subject(s): Children; Future; God; Childhood LINES, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let us make a leap, my dear Last Line: And keep a birthday when we meet. Subject(s): Future LINGER, O GENTLE TIME, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: All that I hold from thee and call my own? Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Future; Hearts; Secrets; Time LIVING FLAME OF LOVE, by JOHN OF THE CROSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O living flame of love %that, burning, dost assail Last Line: How delicate the love thou mak'st me bear Alternate Author Name(s): Juan De La Cruz, San; Juan De Yepes Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Passion LIVING WILL, by JOHN REINHARD Poem Source First Line: He wants to say Last Line: Offer her peaches. Fresh peaches Subject(s): Future Life LOOK TO THE FUTURE, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To you born into violence Subject(s): War; Future; Conduct Of Life LOUVAIN, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bleeding and torn, ravished with sword and flame Last Line: Shrived by the sacred sorrow of louvain. Subject(s): Betrayal; Faith; France; Future Life; God; Martyrs; Belief; Creed; Retribution; Eternity; After Life LOVE AND DEATH, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: While I was pondering lazily Last Line: "I struck your love this morning dead." Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Love; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life LOVE CONSTANT BEYOND DEATH, by FRANCISCO GOMEZ DE QUEVEDO Y VILLEGAS Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Last of the shadows may close my eyes Last Line: But being ash will feel %dust be dust in love Alternate Author Name(s): Quevedo, Francisco Gomez De; Quevedo, Francisco De Subject(s): Future Life; Love - Nature Of MADRIGAL: ANOTHER LIFE, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: I like very much the notion that I will Last Line: Which will take the place of nouns Subject(s): Future Life; Incarnation; Poetry And Poets MATER CONSOLATRIX, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heart's-joy must fade - though it borrow Last Line: And where the stars are led. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Future Life; Grief; Happiness; Hearts; Immortality; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight MEMORY AND HOPE, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Memory has a sister fair Last Line: Hopeful future,—lovely past. Subject(s): Future; Hope; Memory; Past; Optimism MIDDLE AGE, by JULIA WARD HOWE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Left alone with the cows to-day Last Line: All this is the burthen of middle age. Subject(s): Freedom; Future; Middle Age; Past; Liberty MOMENTS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A crow caws, / on the pine tops Last Line: Eternity seems to end. Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Future Life; Pine Trees; Trees; Retribution; Eternity; After Life MORNING AND AFTERNOON, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair girl, the light of whose morning keeps Last Line: If she made a peaceful end! Subject(s): Future; Past MORNING-GLORY, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: To argue from the design in the morning-glory Last Line: God. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life MUMMY'S HAND, by BRYAN D. DIETRICH Poem Source First Line: The poorest were cleared out simply, gutted Last Line: For your wrist. Feared, devout, simple. You, now, gutted Subject(s): Future Life; Graves; Mummies MUSA MARINA, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Dancing waves! Still the moan Last Line: Tossing this side of eternity's shore? Subject(s): Earth; Future Life; Grief; Love; Nature; World; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sorrow; Sadness MY DESIRE, by LUCY H. KING SMITH Poem Text First Line: When earth's door shall close for me Last Line: And -- deathlessly. Subject(s): Future Life; Immortality; Retribution; Eternity; After Life MY HEAVEN, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I had a dream, sweetheart, last night Last Line: The heaven in your love. Subject(s): Dreams; Future Life; Heaven; Love; Love - Nature Of; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise MY WINDOW GARDEN, by IVA H. DREW Poem Text First Line: I have a little garden box Last Line: And always birds to sing. Subject(s): Flowers; Future; Gardens & Gardening; Windows NAGASAKI JOURNAL: AUGUST 9, 1945, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: The light coughed; %cleared its throat of matter Last Line: For another fifty years Subject(s): Buddhism; Future Life; Life; Nagasaki, Japan NATURE'S LAW, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let other heroes boast their scars Last Line: To endless generations! Subject(s): Nature; Future; Fathers NEVER RETURN!, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a meeting, such as on this earth Last Line: Call on the fire-flies dancing through the vines. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Future; Past; Reunions NEW BODY, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a sort of eternity Last Line: Love scratched out of sky, o my visitor. Subject(s): Future Life; Hope; Love - Beginnings; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Optimism NEW SPRING: 8, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: I wonder %how old I really am Last Line: Even a blade of grass %and me Subject(s): Aging; Future Life NEW YEAR RESOLVE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the dead year is clasped by a dead december Last Line: The wan, worn face of the bruised old world. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Courage; Future; Holidays; New Year; Valor; Bravery NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 6. THE INFIDEL RECLAIMED (1), by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She (for I know not yet her name in heav'n) Last Line: Stronger than death, and smiling at the tomb. Subject(s): Death; Faith; Future Life; Immortality; Life; Love; Night; Wealth; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Bedtime; Riches; Fortunes NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 8. VIRTUE'S APOLOGY, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And has all nature, then, espoused my part? Last Line: Satan, thy master, I dare call a dunce. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Imagination; Immortality; Machiavelli, Niccolo (1469-1527); Night; Pleasure; Soul; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Fancy; Bedtime NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE CONSOLATION: 9, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As when a traveller, a long day past Last Line: And midnight, universal midnight! Reigns. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; God; Graves; Life; Mankind; Night; Time; Travel; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Tombs; Tombstones; Human Race; Bedtime; Journeys; Trips NO DEATH, by MARY BAGGOTT Poem Text First Line: How do I know there is no death?' Last Line: "there is no death." Subject(s): Future Life; Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life NO TIME IN ETERNITIE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By houres we all live here, in heaven is known Last Line: No spring of time, or times succession. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life NOT BY HANDS CREATED, by PIOTR ORESHIN Poem Text First Line: Fall on your face Last Line: Hosannah in the highest! Subject(s): Forests; Future Life; Russia; Woods; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Soviet Union; Russians NOT TO-MORROW!, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O terrible to-morrow! That will come Last Line: While not to-morrow is as never more? Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Future O LIFE IS LIFE FOR EVERMORE, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Last Line: The west wind blows – the shadow goes Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Future Life OH FUTURE! THOU SECRETED PEACE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Advancing to thy den Variant Title(s): Poem: 1631; Poem: 165 Subject(s): Future Life OLD CAUSES, by DONALD REVELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the cool future, one will put off her dress by a window Last Line: Of the apartment she died in %crowned with the future's coro nal of lamplight Subject(s): Future ON ETERNITY, by ZHAO ZHENKAI Poem Source First Line: Beneath a radiance rented from the stars Last Line: Love the defeated %those eyes gazing into time Subject(s): Future Life ON ROSANIA'S APOSTASY, AND LUCASIA'S FRIENDSHIP, by KATHERINE PHILIPS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great soul of friendship, whither art thou fled? Last Line: Since 'twas at first from thy orinda sent. Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda Subject(s): Friendship; Future Life; Soul; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ON THE DEATH OF A FAVOURITE OLD SPANIEL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And they have drowned thee then at last! Poor phillis Last Line: Of their own charity, may envy thee! Subject(s): Aging; Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Drowning; Future Life; Grief; Loss; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sorrow; Sadness ON THE DEATH OF AN AGED FRIEND, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You are not dead -- life has but set you free Last Line: You merely smiled to greet another friend! Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Future Life; Religion; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Theology ON THE DEATH OF MR. GARRICK, by JANE BOWDLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The last sad rites were done - the sacred ground Last Line: "and know—whoe'er thou art—the prize is thine." Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Garrick, David (1717-1779); Graves; Mourning; Silence; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement ON THE DUNES, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If there there is any life when death is over Subject(s): Seashore; Future Life; Beach; Coast; Shore; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ON THE DUNES, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If there is any life when death is over Last Line: Stand on the sun-swept dunes and call my name. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ON THE STRAND, by GREGOIRE LE ROY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lie on the sand and thro' thy fingers drain Last Line: To fall and mingle on the eternal strand. Subject(s): Future Life; Life; Seashore; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Beach; Coast; Shore ONCE & EVER, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Sure love is nothing less than love Last Line: Learn what thy love to love must be. Subject(s): Future Life; Immortality; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ONE TOKEN, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: The power was given at birth to me Last Line: Another life on the other side. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ONLY CONNECT...', by CHARLES W. PRATT Poem Source First Line: Deeply, dimly Last Line: Tomorrow. Tomorrow Subject(s): Future OPPORTUNITY, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He who binds to himself a joy Last Line: You can never wipe off the tears of woe. Variant Title(s): Eternity;several Questions Answered;epigram Subject(s): Bible; Future Life; Mythology; Opportunity; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ORGAN SONGS: A PRAYER FOR THE PAST, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All sights and sounds of day and year Last Line: What home is too may know? Subject(s): Aging; Children; Christianity; Death; Future Life; God; Life; Prayer; Childhood; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ORGAN SONGS: BLESSED ARE THE MEEK, FOR THEY SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A quiet heart, submissive, meek Last Line: Than if broad lands were mine. Subject(s): Earth; Future Life; Humility; Nature; World; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ORGAN SONGS: HYMN FOR A SICK GIRL, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father, in the dark I lay Last Line: Rise and live in thine. Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Future Life; Girls; God; Sickness; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Illness ORGAN SONGS: REST, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When round the earth the father's hands Last Line: My deep, still, resting sea. Subject(s): Future Life; God; Rest; Sleep; Retribution; Eternity; After Life OUR GOD, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Our god is the god of the infinite Last Line: The god of eternity. Subject(s): Future Life; God; Holy Ghost; Religion; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Holy Spirit; Theology OUR LIVES AS ANGELS, by SCOTT BEAL Poem Source First Line: We expected at least halos and we scrutinized Last Line: On the murmur below in which gradually we fancied we heard voices knotted pleas for help Subject(s): Angels; Future Life OUTLINE AND ETERNITY, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Death link. Pisces with cancer Last Line: Honey. And not one drop flows away Subject(s): Future Life; Love PAGE ONE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: When the anger at grammar had subsided Last Line: The wondrous opening sentence on page one Subject(s): Books; Future; Language; Learning PARADOX, by HERBERT ANDERSON Poem Text First Line: I have met the unforgotten past Last Line: Are part of my tomorrow. Subject(s): Future; Past PARTCH STATIONS: 12. HE VIEWETH THE GOURD TREE, by JANET HOLMES Poem Source First Line: Literally in a trashpile Last Line: An ancient, come back, %would recognize Subject(s): Future; Music And Musicians PAST AND FUTURE FALL AWAY', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Sea surface. %no place. %no time Subject(s): Future; Past PAST AND FUTURE TURN ABOUT, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Autumn has returned and we return Subject(s): Future; Past PAST AND FUTURE TURN ABOUT, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Autumn has returned and we return Last Line: A windrow of the terribly %red dogwood leaves Subject(s): Future; Past PATIO, by JORGE LUIS BORGES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With evening / the two or three colors of the patio grew weary Subject(s): Future Life; Old Age; Weariness; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Fatigue PATIO, by JORGE LUIS BORGES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With evening %the two or three colors of the patio grew weary Last Line: It is lovely to live in the dark friendliness %of covered entrance way, arbor, and wellhead Subject(s): Future Life; Old Age; Weariness PEOPLE OF AMERICA, by DOROTHY QUICK Poem Text First Line: This age is epochal Last Line: Half of your seeds. Alternate Author Name(s): Mayer, John Adams, Mrs. Subject(s): Future; Hands; Nations; Seeds; United States; America PHANTOM OF LIFE, by VIOLET MCKAY BALL Poem Text First Line: Uncertain, subtle, shrouded close in clouds of mystery Last Line: Until the vision, mirrored clear, beholds eternity! Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life PHANTOMS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Back, ye phantoms of the past Last Line: Call upon me still! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Future; Ghosts; Grief; Hearts; Past; Supernatural; Sorrow; Sadness PICTURE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Calmly, she looks over her shoulder again Last Line: Towards the bombed-out town. Subject(s): Future; Religion PLANNING THE FUTURE, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I never dreamed my daughter would be 16 Last Line: The job of waking into each morning, trusting. Subject(s): Future; Love; Mothers & Daughters PLANTING BULBS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Setting my bulbs arow Last Line: No more weeping, but laughter. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Gardens & Gardening; Spring; Winter; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life POEM OF THE FUTURE, by JOEL R. SOLONCHE Poem Source First Line: The poem of the future will be smaller Last Line: And 'buy ibm,' and 'will you be my friend?' Subject(s): Future; Poetry And Poets POEM, ADDRESSED TO COLLECTOR MITCHELL, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friend of the poet, tried and leal Last Line: For ance and aye! Subject(s): Friendship; Future; Poetry & Poets POORTITH CAULD, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O poortith cauld, and restless love Last Line: O why, &c. Subject(s): Lovw; Life; Future POSTHUMAN, by MAURA STANTON Poem Source First Line: I used to peer inside Last Line: Standing inside one another, %debating the size of nothing Subject(s): Future Life PRAYER, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Baudelaire's grave %not too far Last Line: That is eternity wearing %the green leaves of time Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Baudelaire, Charles (1821-1867); French Poetry - Symbolism; Future Life; Poetry And Poets PRAYER TO YEARS, by HELEN ODERKIRK O'ROURKE Poem Text First Line: O my years! Be merciful! Be buoyant! Last Line: Seeds that beyond oblivion grow. Subject(s): Future; Prayer; Seeds PREMONITION, by CHRISTINA V. PACOSZ Poem Source First Line: Give me flat land Last Line: What's coming, take notes %on what just left Subject(s): Future; Thought PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 90, by EDWARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eternal life! What life is this, I pray? Last Line: Thy sweetest tunes shall ring eternall joy. Subject(s): Future Life; Puritans In Literature; Retribution; Eternity; After Life PRESCIENCE, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: A precious place is paradise and none may know its worth Last Line: And vision earth and heaven, with a rustic bridge between. Subject(s): Future Life; Heaven; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise PRESCIENCE, by MARIE AUSTIN MAJOR Poem Text First Line: The trees that were in summer decked Last Line: Imploring, saddened arms of eld. Subject(s): Autumn; Future Life; Mortality; Seasons; Fall; Retribution; Eternity; After Life PRESENT AND FUTURE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is life that we should love it Last Line: Ever glowing more and more. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Future; Grief; Happiness; Life; Sun; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight PRISON-HOUSE OF FLESH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "our body is our doom, a place of death" Last Line: The soul escapes to god and reaches heaven Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution;eternity;after Life PROMISES TO KEEP, by HELEN MINTUS Poem Source First Line: When I see my baby grandson Last Line: Will have a world to inherit.. %will not be betrayed Subject(s): Future; Grandchildren PROPHECY, by FRANCIS ALEXANDER DEWSON Poem Text First Line: There is coming, my friend, as surely as water drops Last Line: So will they change the world. Alternate Author Name(s): Dewson, F. A. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Change; Future; God; Love; Peace; War Q IS FOR QUESTION, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: The man who tells me he has seen a ghost Last Line: "what lies beyond this life I lead to-day!""'" Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life QUATORZAINS: 11. A CLOCK STRIKING AT MIDNIGHT, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark to the echo of time's footsteps; gone Last Line: While the glad spirit seeks a brighter birth. Subject(s): Clocks; Death; Future Life; Time; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life 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 RECYCLE, by EDWARD KLEINSCHMIDT Poem Source First Line: Every day I say that the last day coming Last Line: Ill be there, high on the list, or low-down, %somersaulting,pedaling like mad, looking forward Subject(s): Future; Time REMEMBRANCE (1), by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pale memory sits alone, brooding o'er the past Last Line: Has absolute dominion. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Future; Memory REMINISCENCE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: There are tales to be told of the land and the sea Last Line: The soul's eternity. Subject(s): Future Life; Sea Voyages; Retribution; Eternity; After Life REPLY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: If you ask me what will endure Last Line: The black, shaggy art of caricature. Subject(s): Caricature And Caricaturists; Future REQUIEM, by MASTER WOLMYONG Poem Source First Line: On the hard road of life and death Last Line: Until we meet in the pure land Subject(s): Future Life RESURRECTION, by HARRIET ANNA WRATTEN Poem Text First Line: O, I have learned how beauty, lingering, sings Last Line: Upon the earth. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life RETRIBUTION, by FRIEDRICH VON LOGAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though the mills of god grind slowly Last Line: Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all. Alternate Author Name(s): Golaw, Salomon Von; Logau, Frederick Von Subject(s): Future Life; Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life RETRIBUTION, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The mills of the gods grind late, but they grind fine Subject(s): Future Life 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 ROBIN, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a lad was born in kyle Last Line: Rantin', rovin', robin! Variant Title(s): Rantin, Rovin Robin;there Was A Lad Subject(s): Future ROSA MYSTICA, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: This rose so exquisite Last Line: There is the rose. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Flowers; Future Life; Gardens & Gardening; God; Praise; Roses; Retribution; Eternity; After Life SAFEGUARD, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He slipped the future in her mouth Last Line: What has yet to happen. Subject(s): Future; Sex SAN BORONDON, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Saint brandan, a scotch abbot, long ago Last Line: Whose boundless deep we name eternity. Subject(s): Brendan, Saint (484-578); Death; Future Life; Religion; Soul; Brendan Of Clonfert; Brandan, Saint; Brandon, Saint; Brennainn, Saint; Brendan The Voyager; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Theology SEA, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: Now I'll go %to the sea Last Line: Or the pure land Subject(s): Future Life; Prisons And Prisoners; Sea SENSE OF PROPORTION, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old lion hunter and I Last Line: Will never come around again Subject(s): Aging; Death; Future; Hunting; Time; Dead, The; Hunters SENSE OF PROPORTION, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old lion hunter and I Last Line: Will never come round again Subject(s): Aging; Death; Future; Hunting; Time SEPARATION (1), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Till death do us part Last Line: Until death us do wed. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life SEVEN AGES, by JEWELL BOTHWELL TULL Poem Text First Line: Over the dim hill in the twilight Last Line: For I know it is the beginning. Subject(s): Disappointment; Dreams; Future Life; Hope; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Optimism SEVEN WAYS OF DIVINATION: 7. HEPATOMANCY-LIVER GAZING, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: There is a long history of it: foretelling Last Line: Waiting to unfold, %some hidden wisdom Subject(s): Future; Predestination; Prophets And Prophecy SHADOW OF LIFE, DEATH, AND ETERNITY, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A shadow moving by one's side Last Line: That rolls in majesty for ever %such is eternity Variant Title(s): Life, Death, And Eternit Subject(s): Faith; Future Life SHE ASKS FOR NEW EARTH, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, when I find at last thy paradise Last Line: For thy new heaven, lord, give me new earth! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Caregivers; Future Life; God; Heaven; Houses; Prayer; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise SHE IS NOT FASHIONED, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She is not fashioned to command Last Line: Ordained to bless this world below. Subject(s): Beauty; Future Life; Saints; Retribution; Eternity; After Life SHULE, SHULE, SHULE, AGRAH!, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His face was glad as dawn to me Last Line: Shule, shule, shule, agrah! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Variant Title(s): The Songs Of Ethlenn Stuart Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Heaven; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise; Male-female Relations SKY-HIGH HOUSES, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: The sky-high houses wonder if they are gods Last Line: Shall we give them the sun, %or blow out the stars? Subject(s): Future Life; Sky; Stars SONG OF THE FUTURE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis strange that in a land so strong Last Line: Shall sing, indeed, a wondrous song. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Freedom; Future; God; Sea; Singing & Singers; Liberty; Ocean SONG OF THE NEW YEAR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the bells at midnight Last Line: "will in peace be ushered in." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Bells; Future; Holidays; New Year SONG OF TO-MORROW, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sound, o harp of being, set Last Line: Thou shalt never moan again. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Future; Pain; Past; Suffering; Misery SONNET, by THOMAS RUSSELL (1762-1788) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Could then the babes from yon unshelter'd cot Last Line: Shall gild their passage to eternal rest. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life SOON, by JOE BOLTON Poem Source First Line: Soon, these great stadiums will be empty Last Line: Near the end of what looked like forever Subject(s): Future; Time SOUND OF THE FUTURE, by F. JOHN HERBERT Poem Source First Line: Oh this word is the sound of the future Last Line: It is broken and what is inside. %it is broken. That is a subtle in the universe. %that is Subject(s): Future SPEECH FOR MYSELF AS A GHOST, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whoever I was, whatever I may have done, speaks to me Subject(s): Future Life; Ghosts; Supernatural; Retribution; Eternity; After Life SPEECH FOR MYSELF AS A GHOST, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whoever I was, whatever I may have done, speaks to me Last Line: Coolly transparent through migrant shadows Subject(s): Future Life; Ghosts; Supernatural SPHINX, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We who are nothing but self, and have no manner of being Last Line: Is it eternal death, or is it infinite life? Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Sleep; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life SSSH--, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: Sssh the sea says Last Line: This is our earth, %our eternity Variant Title(s): Sss Subject(s): Future Life ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S DAY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night is come, no fears disturb Last Line: And ye had joy in heaven. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Despair; France; Freedom; Future Life; Guilt; Saints; Dead, The; Liberty; Retribution; Eternity; After Life STANDING ON TIPTOE, by GEORGE FREDERICK CAMERON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Standing on tiptoe ever since my youth Last Line: Dwells with the stars. Subject(s): Future; Truth STANZAS TO M.P., by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mary! I wake not now for thee Last Line: In unison with thine! Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Dead, The STARRY HEAVENS WITHOUT, by PTOLEMAEUS OF ALEXANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mortal though I be, yea ephemeral, if but a moment Last Line: And my lively spirit drinketh immortality. Alternate Author Name(s): Ptolemy Variant Title(s): Immortality Subject(s): Future Life; Immortality; Retribution; Eternity; After Life STILL PANDORA, by STAN PROPER Poem Source First Line: I woke suddenly %and saw moonlight Last Line: This vision because %I had seen the future Subject(s): Dreams; Future STOP TO THINK, by UNKNOWN+12 Poem Source First Line: Stop to think-the earth Last Line: The earth has not been %till then Subject(s): Absence; Earth; Future Life; Planets; Universe SUGGESTIONS OF ETERNITY, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: False time, so fleet, so fugitive! Last Line: Where time's all ends. Subject(s): Future Life; Love; Time; Vision; Retribution; Eternity; After Life SUMMER IS WANING, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Summer is waning, the roses are dead Last Line: Sweet memories, never to fail! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Future; Life Change Events; Summer; Time; Youth SUPPOSED TO BE WRITTEN .. (CONTINUED), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bliss of heaven, maria, shall be thine! Last Line: For ever feeling pain or missing bliss below. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life SUPPOSED TO BE WRITTEN .. FORCED CONVICTION OF FUTURE STATE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O'erladen with sad musings, till the tear Last Line: That such as thou were never born to die!' Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life SUSPIRIUM, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Life of my soule, bright lord of love Last Line: To thee ye easier shall I swimm. Subject(s): Future Life; Grief; Love; Soul; Vision; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sorrow; Sadness SWEET TRIOLETS: THE YAWNING BRIDEGROOM, by THOMAS M. DISCH Poem Source First Line: Tis morn; - my pretty one, arise! Last Line: Now dawns the age of triolets Subject(s): Future SWIMMERS, by SANDRA KOHLER Poem Source First Line: So;emce fpr days. The day for which we are silent is the Last Line: Anywhere but in the future, the only place she is sure she is going Subject(s): Future; Swimming SYNOPSIS, by MARGARET MELLISH Poem Text First Line: A planet revolving around the sun Last Line: Tomorrow is eternity. Subject(s): Earth; Future Life; Mankind; Politics & Government; World; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Human Race TEMPERAMENT, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where love and hate, honor and infamy Last Line: Back to that mystery when we go there. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Future Life; Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life 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 THE ADVANTAGE OF FOREKNOWLEDGE, by JOHN SUCKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If man might know / the ill he must undergo Last Line: He must undergo it. Variant Title(s): A Translation Subject(s): Future THE AFTERLIFE: LETTER TO STEPHEN DOBYNS 3, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stephen, the pleasures of the afterlife Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE AFTERLIFE: LETTER TO STEPHEN DOBYNS: 1, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You live in a sinking nation, stephen, in a stinking Last Line: Of all the beauty and comradeship I've lost. Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; Dobyns, Stephen; Future Life; Letters; Social Protest; United States; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; America THE AFTERLIFE: LETTER TO STEPHEN DOBYNS: 2, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The most painful image I have now, here, is Last Line: Is always, always, accompanied by pain. Subject(s): Dobyns, Stephen; Future Life; Letters; Pain; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Suffering; Misery THE ASPIRATION, by JOHN NORRIS Poem Text First Line: How long, great god, how long must I Last Line: But fly, and love on all the way. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE BAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strange dreams of what I used Last Line: Who either pity or despise. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Future; Memory; Dead, The; Nightmares THE BARGAIN OF FAUST, by HAZEL NICHOLSON Poem Text First Line: Shall a man, then, not own his own soul? Why Last Line: She hers in heaven, but you yours in hell. Subject(s): Faust; Future Life; Love; Sin; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE BETTER LIFE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From silken cords of earth's delight Last Line: The winds of heaven blow. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Future Life; Prayer Meetings; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE BLUNDER IS TO ESTIMATE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: As this eternity Subject(s): Future Life THE BOOK LINE; RIVINGTON STREET BRANCH, NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, ye that despair of the land Last Line: Yet shall rear to the skies! Subject(s): Future; Legends; Librarians & Libraries; Nations; New York City; Library; Librarians; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE BUGLES OF DREAMLAND, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Swiftly the dews of the gloaming are falling Last Line: And the bugles of dreamland about us are calling. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Bugles; Death; Dreams; Future Life; Mysticism; Dead, The; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE CALL OF ETERNITY, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Beloved, thou shalt be with me to-night Last Line: Shalt be learning thy spirit's grandest consummation. Subject(s): Future Life; Immortality; Soul; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE CHARIOT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because I could not stop for death, / he kindly stopped for me Last Line: Were toward eternity-- Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Holidays; Immortality; Mortality; Mourning; New Year; Religion; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Bereavement; Theology THE CHILDREN'S BOATS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O little loop of water, with the green Last Line: In that far spring men call eternity? Subject(s): Boats; Children; Future Life; Games; Spring; Childhood; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE CLIMAX, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear friend, by favoring fortune richly led Last Line: Superbly win all profits at a bound! Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE CRIMSON MOON, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behind the legions of the sun, the star battalions of the night Last Line: When the hidden people shall march out beneath the crimson moon. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Future Life; Humanity; Moon; Mortality; Redemption; Salvation; Spiritual Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE DEATH OF YE LIFE OF LOVE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: O mighty love, well may thy glorious throne Last Line: Trust not my selfe, but hang on thy sweet care. Subject(s): Funerals; Future Life; Love; Prayer; Burials; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE DREAM CALLED LIFE, by PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A dream it was in which I found myself Last Line: When dreaming, with the night, shall pass away. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE DRUNKEN SONG, by FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O man, what seem Last Line: "would have deep, deep eternity!" Subject(s): Future Life; Grief; Happiness; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight THE DUELL, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Sad fruit of misapplyed valour! Here Last Line: Yf thou in courage faylst, thy name of spirit? Subject(s): Fights; Future Life; God; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE ENCHANTED VALLEYS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the gate of sleep we enter the enchanted valleys Last Line: It is past: there is no dawn: no to-morrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Future Life; Time; Dead, The; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE END, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is to come we know not. But we know Last Line: What is to come. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE ETERNAL, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Earth is his garment and also heaven Last Line: Answer with mercy and law and love! Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Creation; Future Life; Heaven; Soul; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise THE FAILURE, by MERLE KULOW SHERRILL Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: Although I ever did my best Last Line: "you did the best you could." Subject(s): Future Life; Perseverance; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE FIRE WITHIN, by ROBERT BRENDON Poem Text First Line: A snow - covered garden in pain Last Line: Fades, -- but the I can never die. Subject(s): Future Life; Soul; Winter; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE FUTURE, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A wanderer is a man from his birth Last Line: Murmurs and scents of the infinite sea. Subject(s): Future; Conduct Of Life THE FUTURE, by GEORGE FREDERICK CAMERON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O poet of the future! I Last Line: Ye write such words—as these of those who were!; Subject(s): Future; Poetry & Poets THE FUTURE, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many big events to shake the earth Last Line: Lie packed in silence waiting for their birth. Subject(s): Future THE FUTURE, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After ten thousand centuries have gone Last Line: And, if akin to him, akin in vain. Subject(s): Future; Mountains; Time; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE FUTURE, by LYN HEJINIAN Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Future THE FUTURE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ask me not, love, what can be in my heart Last Line: Thank heaven, the future is at least unknown! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Future THE FUTURE, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh future, deep and vast! Last Line: And shadows fall thy waves, without reply! Subject(s): Future; Past THE FUTURE LIFE, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How shall I know thee in the sphere which keeps Last Line: Thy fit companion in that land of bliss? Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Heaven; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise THE FUTURE NEVER SPOKE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Fate's — telegram — to him Subject(s): Future THE FUTURE OF THE CLASSICS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "no longer, o scholars, shall plautus" Subject(s): Future;literature;poetry & Poets;writing & Writers THE FUTURE SPEAKS, by LOUIS KAUFMAN ANSPACHER Poem Text First Line: Hang not the full weight of your hope on me Last Line: Seed and source. Your now contains us both. Subject(s): Future THE GLORIFIED, by GERARD LABRUNIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: What doth our loves befall? Last Line: Flame on in paradise! Alternate Author Name(s): Nerval, Gerard De Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE GOD-MAKER, MAN, by DONALD ROBERT PERRY MARQUIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nevermore / shall the shepherds of arcady follow Last Line: Humble, but open eyed. Alternate Author Name(s): Marquis, Don Subject(s): Future Life; God; Immortality; Mythology; Religion; Truth; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Theology THE GOLDEN GATE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dim shadows gather thickly round Last Line: And then with beating heart await the opening of the golden gate. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Future Life; Heaven; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise THE GREAT BEYOND, by OLIVE SCOTT STAINSBY Poem Text First Line: Seductive and mysterious it seems Last Line: Yet I believe there is life after death. Subject(s): Bible; Catholics; Future Life; Religious Education; Sermons; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools THE GREAT QUESTION, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The waves, they are wildly heaving Last Line: And never be sick any more. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE HAPPY TOWNLAND, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's many a strong farmer Last Line: That is the world's bane.' Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Variant Title(s): The Rider From The North Subject(s): Future; Towns THE HAWTHORN BUD AND THE STAR, by EDOUARD SCHURE Poem Text First Line: The hawthorn bud said to the star Last Line: "-- to love and die within an hour!" Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Love; Stars; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE HOROSCOPE, by FRANCOIS COPPEE Poem Text First Line: Two sisters there, whose arms were interlaced Last Line: "yes."" ""that is bliss enough for me to know." Subject(s): Fortune Tellers; Future; Love - Unrequited; Palmistry THE IMMORTAL GODS, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gods can't die, poor fellows Last Line: When we are gone to sleep. Subject(s): Future Life; Immortality; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE JET LAG OF THE NEWLY DEAD, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One definition of jet lag is the process of the soul Last Line: About me than anyone, but you're quickly forgetting Variant Title(s): The Therapist's Funera Subject(s): Future Life; Jet Lag; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE JOURNEY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our journey had advanced Last Line: And god at every gate. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life 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 KEY, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: The cross of calvary Last Line: Of life reborn of death. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Future Life; Jesus Christ; Religion; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Theology THE KEY FOUND, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a strange wild wail around, a wail of wild unrest Last Line: And life becomes the prelude of the everlasting song! Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE LAND OF BEYOND, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have ever you heard of the land of beyond Last Line: Behold it, our land of beyond! Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE LAST MAN: MEDITATION, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bitter past Last Line: Even as I taste it. Subject(s): Future; Past; Poisons & Poisoning THE LAST PORTAGE, by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Age shall never come near my soul Last Line: The lord of life commanding. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE LEADERS, by LOUISE E. V. BOYD Poem Text First Line: The maiden read the spring time's idyl through Last Line: Death but the entrance to eternity. Subject(s): Future Life; Hope; Memory; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Optimism THE LIFE TO COME, by EDWARD SHILLITO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a city where god's happy children Last Line: Then I should ask of god no more. Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Future Life; Music & Musicians; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE LOVE OF GOD, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: The love of god is limitless Last Line: Eternal life to man. Subject(s): Future Life; God; Love; Religion; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Theology THE LULL OF ETERNITY, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Many a voice has echoed the cry for a lull in life Last Line: "soon shall a ""better thing"" be thine, the lull of eternity." Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE MARCHING MORROWS, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now gird thee well for courage Last Line: To lead them round the sun. Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Freedom; Future THE MATERIALIST, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My soul has left its tent of clay Last Line: "when death said, ""you may die." Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Soul; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE METEMPSYCHOSIS, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above the petty passions of the crowd Last Line: The catacombs and fragments of old worlds. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE MISER'S MANSION, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou mouldering mansion, whose embattled side Last Line: And angels hymn'd the rich man's soul to heaven. Subject(s): Future Life; Generosity; Hospitality; Misers; Wealth; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Riches; Fortunes THE MOTHER LOVE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This master-stroke that deals with the divine Last Line: Back to the mother-lap, the mother-love. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Future; Jesus Christ; Love; Mothers; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion THE NEW BUDDHA, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moonbeams, like intangible flowers Last Line: Night, the only buddha that attains to it. Subject(s): Buddhism; Future Life; Buddha; Buddhists; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE NEW MOSES, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look at those poor cattails Last Line: Of ancient new york Subject(s): Future THE NEXT FIFTY YEARS, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Turn, tremble at honk Last Line: To where road starts again Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Cities; Future Life; Labor & Laborers; Urban Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Work; Workers THE OLD CAUSES, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the cool future, one will put off her dress by a window Last Line: Crowned with the future's coronal of lamplight Subject(s): Future THE OLD GRAY CLOCK, by HARRIET GRACE MCINTOSH Poem Text First Line: Old gray clock upon the wall Last Line: Tick, tick, tock:—old gray clock. Subject(s): Clocks; Future; Time THE OLD YEAR, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Good night, old year, good night! Last Line: And wait god's will with patience till the end. Subject(s): Farewell; Future; Holidays; New Year; Past; Parting THE OLD YEAR AND THE NEW, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As one in sorrow looks upon Last Line: As happy as the old! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Bells; Future; God; Holidays; Laughter; New Year THE OLD YEAR'S BLESSING, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am fading from you Last Line: While he crowns my past. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Disease; Future; Happiness; Holidays; New Year; Past; Temptation; Joy; Delight THE OTHER ARMY, by BARTHOLOMEW GRIFFIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O'er ruined road past draggled field Last Line: And fast it grows at every hedge! Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Marching & Marches; Satire (as Poetic Genre); Soldiers; Travel; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Journeys; Trips THE PAST, by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thick darkness broodeth o'er the world Last Line: Forever near, yet oh how far! Subject(s): Beauty; Future; Life; Night; Past; Bedtime 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 POET OF THE FUTURE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O the poet of the future! He will come to us as comes Last Line: His face to heaven, and the dew of duty on his brow. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Future; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers THE POET'S JOURNAL: IN WINTER, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The valley stream is frozen Last Line: Wait in the womb of the snow! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Future; Love; Past; Winter THE PREDICTION, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That night the moon drifted over the pond, Subject(s): Future THE PROPHET, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the east lightens with strange hints of morn Last Line: Seeing thee crowned, do know that day is near. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Future THE RAINBOW OVER THE ROAD, by FRANCES JACKSON DELANO Poem Text First Line: A high road, a hard road; it ofttimes plungeth down Last Line: A new road, an old road, on, through eternity. Subject(s): Future Life; Wellesley College; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY, by ERIC PANKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do all who lie down expect to awake? Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE ROAD TO EVERYWHERE, by ELEANOR DOWNING Poem Text First Line: The road I traveled yesterday Last Line: At the end of the road to everywhere! Subject(s): Future; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE RUNE OF AGE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou that on the hills and wastes of night art shepherd Last Line: Give me now thy darkness and thy silence! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Aging; Comfort; Future Life; Gifts & Giving; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE SANCTUARY: 2. THE ILLUSION OF LOVE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beloved, you may be as all men say Last Line: The very vision of god's dwelling-place. Subject(s): Fate; Future Life; Hearts; Love; Destiny; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE SOUL REVISITING THE BODY, by LAURIE SHECK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why do youj return? Subject(s): Soul; Body, Human; Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE SOUL'S ARMAGEDDON, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know not where I go Last Line: With immeasurable fear. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Knowledge; Messengers; Soul; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE STIMULUS BEYOND THE GRAVE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Afforded day by day Subject(s): Future Life THE SUICIDE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Vast was the wealth I carried in life's pack Last Line: Toil on to where selfhood in godhood dies. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Future Life; Pain; Suicide; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Suffering; Misery THE SURGEON'S WARNING, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The doctor whisper'd to the nurse Last Line: Was never to mortal known. Subject(s): Funerals; Future Life; Guilt; Physicians; Soul; Surgery; Burials; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Doctors THE TEACHER, by BILLY COLLINS Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography Subject(s): Death; Maps; Future Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE TERRORS OF DEATH; WRITTEN ON THE WALLS OF A CARTHUSIAN MONASTERY, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Thou who dost pace this cloistered hall Last Line: Of him whose life hath been too sweet! Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE THOUGHT ETERNAL, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whether day my spirit's yearning Last Line: He is ever fair and great. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE TOMB OF ETERNAL LIFE, by KATHRYN WHITE RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From a port-hole his boy-face gazed back Last Line: Crowds heave eternal life on him. Subject(s): Future Life; Graves; Soldiers; War; Youth; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Tombs; Tombstones THE TRAIL OF NO RETURN, by JESSIE JANE HUSSEY CASKEY Poem Text First Line: Along the trail my way I wend Last Line: Away, from world sojourn. Subject(s): Future Life; Roads; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paths; Trails THE TRIUMPH OF TIME, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tender, delicate flowers Last Line: "and conquers all!" Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Future; Love; Time; Dead, The THE TRUE GROUNDS OF ETERNAL AND IMMUTABLE RECTITUDE, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Th' eternal mind, ev'n heathens understood Last Line: Is one divine, immutable good-will. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE TRUE KNOWLEDGE, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou knowest all: -- I seek in vain Last Line: In some divine eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE UNFOLDING WILL, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I spake; lo, my voice was heard in cathay Last Line: To man's dominating will. Subject(s): Future; Hope; Optimism THE VALLEY OF SILENCE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the secret valley of silence Last Line: Eddies of prayer. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Prayer; Silence; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE VALLEY OF WHITE POPPIES, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Between the grey pastures and the dark wood Last Line: I am alone now among the silent grasses. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Poppies; Salvation; Silence; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE VEILED FUTURE, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We know not what a day shall bring, what Last Line: Let us sing, and throw our hats on high. Subject(s): Future THE VIGIL OF AIDEN, SELECTION, by THOMAS HOLLEY CHIVERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the rosy bowers of aiden Last Line: There to rest forevermore. Subject(s): Angels; Death; Future Life; God; Heaven; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise THE VISION, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes when I sit musing all alone Last Line: The vision of eternity is strange. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE VISION OF LOUKIANOS, THE ARMENIAN, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: When unto heaven the souls elect take flight Last Line: So I may breathe the perfumes of that land. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Death; Future Life; God; Heaven; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise THE VOICE OF THE UNBORN, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: From the unseen I come to you tonight Last Line: From the unseen I come to you to-night. . . . Subject(s): Future THE WAYSIDE CROSS, by FREDERICK GEORGE SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A wayside cross at set of day Last Line: For such sweet thoughts in the twilight grey. Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, F. G. Subject(s): Crosses; Death; Future Life; God; Heaven; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise THE WEST, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The west! The wild, the distant west! Last Line: On thee the work must rest! Subject(s): Future; Poetry & Poets; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE WIND IS WITHOUT THERE AND HOWLS IN THE TREES, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I shall never lament for the man Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Past; Memory; Contentment; Future THE WORLD (1), by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw eternity the other night Last Line: But for his bride. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Variant Title(s): A Vision Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Earth; Freedom; Future Life; Mankind; Religion; World; Liberty; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Human Race; Theology THE YESTERDAYS AND TOMORROWS, by BERTHA HEATH Poem Text First Line: The yesterdays are gone, do not look back Last Line: Then you'll live without any sorrow. Subject(s): Future THEOLOGY, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a heaven, for ever, day by day Last Line: If there were not, where would my neighbours go? Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Future Life; Religion; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Theology THERE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There shall be no more partings there for ever Last Line: They will come home to her, come home to stay. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Comfort; Future Life; Heaven; Home; Childhood; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise THINGS THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN, by JORGE LUIS BORGES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think about things that might have been and never were Last Line: The fabled irish bird that alights in two places at once. %the child I never had Subject(s): Change; Future; Life; Past THINK ON EMPIRES, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Many's the man who's fitted to lead Last Line: The future shall make! Subject(s): Future; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THINKING OF HELEN IN HAVANA, by JULIAN H. SCOTT Poem Text First Line: Oft in the darkness there shines a light Last Line: Where, and what, are the snows of tomorrow? Subject(s): Future Life; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Light; Silence; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THIS, AND THE NEXT WORLD, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God hath this world for many made; 'tis true Last Line: But he hath made the world to come for few. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THOUGHT OF THE FUTURE, by JAYANTA MAHAPATRA Poem Source First Line: Cross-legged, sunk in a rope-cot throughout the day Last Line: His eyes dry and stiffened as the toes of a toad Subject(s): Future THREE EVENINGS IN A LIFE: 1, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, it looked dark and dreary Last Line: Down on his golden hair. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Art & Artists; Future; Grief; Heaven; Life; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise THREE FATES: 1, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O dreamer, follow fast the star Last Line: The couch is flowered for you. Subject(s): Dreams; Fate; Future Life; Rest; Nightmares; Destiny; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THREEFOLD, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mother of grace and mercy Last Line: I leave, my queen! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Future; Love; Pain; Past; Sin; Suffering; Misery TIME, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you wish me, then, away? Last Line: Eternity and I are one. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Future Life; Time; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TIME AND ETERNITY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Far flung by the omnipotent Last Line: Of god's eternity. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TIME IS THE MERCY OF ETERNITY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time is divided into Subject(s): Future Life; Time; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TIME IS THE MERCY OF ETERNITY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time is divided into Last Line: Say about them, nothing at all Subject(s): Future Life; Time TIME TABLE, by FANNY DE GROOT HASTINGS Poem Text First Line: Leave, arrive - leave, arrive Last Line: The rest belong to eternity. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TIME'S TRAIN, by WYATT PRUNTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: So in this tale he gets to come back Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TO A FRIEND INQUIRING IF WOULD LIVE OVER MY YOUTH AGAIN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do I regret the past? Last Line: Again to wake in light. Subject(s): Future Life; God; Past; Regret; Youth; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TO A LITTLE NIECE, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So full of mirth, so full of play Last Line: Then, little dove, remember me! Subject(s): Future Life; Life; Love; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TO A POET OF HIS MARRIAGE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ever and ever, on and on Last Line: That led to where she waited you. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Future; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO A YOUNG LADY, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You, madam, may with safety go Last Line: It must proceed from you alone. Variant Title(s): The Fortune-teller Subject(s): Future; Happiness; Prophecy & Prophets; Secrets; Joy; Delight TO BARON DE STONNE.....TO FIND HIMSELF BETWEEN, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In twice five winters more and one Last Line: A sigh, a farewell, and a tear. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers; Mercury (planet); Future TO FORGIVE HER, by HILDRED CRILL Poem Source First Line: She was born on your doorstep Last Line: Look before you. She wears %the siple face of one day Subject(s): Children; Forgiveness; Future TO FORTUNE, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I am old, all things I will endure Last Line: The grey friend sweet. Subject(s): Fortune; Future Life; Hearts; Love; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TO JOHN KEATS, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Severn, I feel the flowers o'er me grow,' Last Line: Greening above you in eternal spring. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Flowers; Funerals; Future Life; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Nightmares; Burials; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TO MARCUS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You have been far, and I Last Line: We shall succeed. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Christianity; Friendship; Future; Winter TO MY DEAR AND LOVING HUSBAND, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If ever two were one, then surely we Last Line: That when we live no more, we may live ever. Subject(s): Children; Future Life; Home; Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness TO ONE UNBORN, by ELAINE M. LIVINGSTON Poem Text First Line: With eyes that use not earthly light or color Last Line: My child's grandchild, yet to be born on earth. Subject(s): Future Life; Imaginary Conversations; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TO ONE WHO SPOKE OF ETERNAL THINGS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hush! For the shadow of a flower Last Line: More than eternity. Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Future Life; Trees; Worship; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TO THE BURNIE BEE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blithe son of summer, furl thy filmy wing Last Line: Fit for the spring that waits beyond the tomb. Subject(s): Future Life; Insects; Ladybirds; Nature - Religious Aspects; Spring; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Bugs; Ladybugs TO THE CONDOUR, by EDNA WORTHLEY UNDERWOOD Poem Text First Line: Poised there against the cliffs no one can say Last Line: Unloved lone watcher of eternity. Subject(s): Birds; Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TO THE DEAD (A PARAPHRASE), by WILLIAM BELL SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gone art thou, gone, and is the light Last Line: I shall be with thee; we again may smile. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TO THE FUTURE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O land of promise! From what pisgah's height Last Line: With words of unshorn truth, with love that never wearies. Subject(s): Future TO THE LADY ELIZABETH HARLEY, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When future ages shall with wonder view Last Line: A fairer column to the father's praise. Subject(s): England; Future; Praise; English TO-MORROW, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER Poem Text First Line: In thought I wandered where time lays his dead Last Line: Eternity, secure, to me is left. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TO-MORROW, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old fraud, I know you in that gay disguise Last Line: All the dull yesterdays that I have known. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Future; Past; Time TO-MORROW, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To-morrow! O the glorious to-morrow!' Last Line: And we be satisfied! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Future; Waiting TOAST TO A FUTURE DAY, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: I have climbed to the highest point of the mountain Last Line: Ringed with the seven-colored rainbow Subject(s): Future; Mountains; Toasts; Water TOMORROW, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: The sun shall shine in ages yet to be Last Line: Revisions of the ruby and the rose. Subject(s): Future; Nature TOMORROW, by DENNIS O'DRISCOLL Poem Source First Line: Tomorrow I will start to be happy Last Line: Your last chance to salvage something of its style Subject(s): Change; Future; Past TOMORROW, by WILBUR DANIEL SPENCER Poem Text First Line: There is a day which never comes Last Line: To-morrow. Subject(s): Future TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. A LONG JOURNEY, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The long insatiable yearning of the mortal creature Last Line: Way. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TRAIL'S END, by BEULAH MAY Poem Text First Line: Is this the end of all adventuring Last Line: What is death's meaning but life just begun? Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TRANSLATIONS FOR THE AFTERLIFE, by B. G. THURSTON Poem Source First Line: Today I walk inside my frozen footprints Last Line: My true name is written on the water %and the sun remembers me Subject(s): Future Life TREADMILL, by HARRY ELMORE HURD Poem Text First Line: The treadmill turns - the fruiting season swings Last Line: And death the prelude to life just begun. Subject(s): Future Life; Treadmills; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TRYST, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: I thought to have made her my bride Last Line: We leave to love. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Love; Marriage; Reunions; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TWO SONNETS, IN 1972: 1. FEBRUARY, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We make predictions. For a laugh. And scatter the future Subject(s): Future UFA NIGHTMARE, by WILLIAM EMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gramophony, telephony, photophony Last Line: Pedals, parched with the fear of solitude Subject(s): Future; Motion Pictures; Progress ULTIMA SPES MORTUORUM, by HENRI MURGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bells will ring to-morrow for the day Last Line: And, by the living spurned, deludes the dead! Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ULTIMATE HARVEST, by LUCY WHEELER KEGLEY Poem Text First Line: How shall man apprehend eternity? Last Line: Was sown all beauty and desire. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life UNABLE TO FIND, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The right way to get out of bed Last Line: Make plans for summer -- winter even. Subject(s): Activity; Fate; Future Life; Longing; Morning; Exercise; Destiny; Retribution; Eternity; After Life UNDERTONES, by GRACE HOLBROOK BLOOD Poem Text First Line: When this today Last Line: To find eternity. Subject(s): Future Life; Memory; Retribution; Eternity; After Life UNHOLY SONNET, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ray's body lies below a slab that states Last Line: To end the thing that he'd begun to say Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 7 Subject(s): Future Life; Coffins; Retribution; Eternity; After Life UNINITIATED, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Who hath not walked beside the sea Last Line: Where god's bright beacon fires burn. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE, 1970 A.D., by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The war is over; waterloo is won: Last Line: That was all. Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Subject(s): Future; Oxford University UNTITLED, by GEOFFREY+(1) O'BRIEN Poem Source First Line: The snow was the future perfect of snow Last Line: As I will have been, seized from voice like ice Subject(s): Future; Perfection; Snow; Winter UP AWAY FROM AROUND HERE, by ANDREA HOAG Poem Source First Line: Prefabricated fuchsia nails Last Line: Impersonality %for the %21st century Subject(s): Future; Life; Numbers UP FROM THE EARTH, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Up from the earth the voices came Last Line: Into eternity? Subject(s): Future Life; Ghosts; Graves; Supernatural UPON OUR VAIN FLATTERY OF OURSELVES...SUCCEEDING TIMES WILL BE BETTER, by ROBERT GOMERSALL Poem Text First Line: Never was there morning yet Last Line: Die unhappy and deceived. Alternate Author Name(s): Gomersal, Robert Subject(s): Future; Past VALENTINE, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Warm behind curtains drawn to shut on february's cold Last Line: How %can all that here and now of then not be for ever? Subject(s): Future Life VALLEY OF THE HEAVENS, by LUIS DE LEON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Resplendent precinct of the skies Last Line: Leadst them through Alternate Author Name(s): Fray Luis Subject(s): Future Life; Heaven; Peace; Soul VERSES ON TEXTS: 1 TIM. 6, 12, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A life is before thee which cannot decay Last Line: Safe and blest for aye. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life VIOLIN SONGS: A DREAM SONG, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed of a song - I heard it sung Subject(s): Dreams; Future Life; God; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life VIOLIN SONGS: HOPE DEFERRED, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summer is come again. The sun is bright Last Line: And summer winds were out! Subject(s): Death; Despair; Future Life; God; Hope; Seasons; Summer; Winter; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Optimism VISIONS IN VERSE: 9. DEATH. VISION THE LAST, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis thought my visions are too grave Last Line: And triumph'd in the thoughts of death! Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life WAIT, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go not far in the land of light! Last Line: Wait, my darling, wait. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life WALKING TO OAK-HEAD POND, AND THINKING OF THE PONDS I WILL VISIT IN THE NEXT DAYS AND WEEKS, by MARY OLIVER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is so utterly invisible Subject(s): Ponds; Future WATCH THE LIGHTS FADE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Gray steel, cloud-shadow-stained Last Line: Sea-wind salts your head white Subject(s): Future; United States; America WAY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Down the steps and down the steps Last Line: To where the future in a sea %of screaming children flows Subject(s): Fear; Future; Hell WE ARE THOSE PEOPLE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have abhorred the wars and despised the liars, laughed at the frightened Last Line: Our women uncover themselves to the grinning victors for bits of chocolate Subject(s): War; Future; Defeat WE DEAD, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When from the brooding home Last Line: Named, glorying: allah, jehovah, god. Subject(s): Birth; Death; Farewell; Future Life; Immortality; Soul; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The; Parting; Retribution; Eternity; After Life WE FACE THE FUTURE, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hour is big with sooth and sign, with errant men at war Last Line: Shod with a faith that springtime keeps, and all the stars opine. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Future; World War I; First World War WE MAY NOT KNOW, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A fragile figure robed in costly gown Last Line: Weighs human motives, thoughts, and deeds aright. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life WE UNCOMMISERATE PASS INTO THE NIGHT, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And the new age forgets us and goes on Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Future; Time WHAT COMES AFTER THIS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Water earth fire air Last Line: After this -- whether it is air %or it is nothing Subject(s): Air; Earth; Fire; Future; Introspection; Water WHAT IS IT JESUS SAITH UNTO THE SOUL?, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Who tells thee what to-morrow keeps in store? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Future; Worship WHAT NEXT?, by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: Call it music if you will, Last Line: Something new and something done. Subject(s): Future; Noises WHAT'S THAT YOU SAID?, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Logos. Eat %through flesh, gnaw Last Line: The word is a house well founded. %the table is laid. Subject(s): Death; Future Life WHEN I SHALL RISE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: When I shall rise, and full of many fears Last Line: As once they stood! Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life WHEN I THINK MORE OF MY OWN FUTURE THAN OF MYSELF, by RON PADGETT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Coming out of the bathroom Last Line: Between love and death Subject(s): Future WHEN I WANDER WITH DEATH, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This life is a fleeting breath Last Line: Let me find love's long-lost day. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Future Life; Mortality; Retribution; Eternity; After Life WHERE WILL I GO?, by NEZAHUALCOYOTL Poem Source Last Line: Where are our friends?' %rejoice! Subject(s): Future Life WHITE-HAIRED, I WALK IN ON MY PARENTS, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: With the past in our future Subject(s): Parents; Time; Past; Future WHY SHOULD I WAIT?, by LILITH LORRAINE Poem Text First Line: If, as the oriental mystics say Last Line: Why should I wait till death to be reborn? Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Mary M. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Jesus Christ; Rebirth; Resurrection, The; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life WHY WE DON'T REMEMBER THE FUTURE, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: January and no shadows so the ghosts come out Last Line: Where we aren't. Send me a postcard, I say. %something short and jazzy Subject(s): Change; Future; Memory WILDE AND PASOLINI IN HEAVEN FOR DAVID ST. JOHN, by DIANN BLAKELY Poem Source First Line: At first they'll eye each other warily: Last Line: As years pass: each man kills the thing he loves % basta - that sweet punk made tire-ruts on my gr Variant Title(s): Wilde And Pasolini In Heave Subject(s): Future Life WILTED, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little blossom, thou and I Last Line: Haply, more eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Flowers; Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life WITH ETERNITY STANDING BY, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How shall I bid you good-bye Last Line: With eternity standing by. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Future Life; Love; Memory; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Retribution; Eternity; After Life WITH OMAR, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sat with omar by the tavern door Last Line: Would ask and answer -- trust and doubt and pray. Subject(s): Death; Drinks & Drinking; Future Life; Soul; Dead, The; Wine; Retribution; Eternity; After Life WITH THE CARAVAN, by INA DONNA COOLBRITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Closer the curtain. Still the sun is flame Last Line: Are the gates wide, hasán? Subject(s): Future Life; Mortality; Retribution; Eternity; After Life WITHIN AND WITHOUT, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go thou into thy closet; shut thy door Last Line: The poet awakes from his dream. Variant Title(s): A Sonnet Sequence Subject(s): Abandonment; Children; Christianity; Clergy; Death; Escapes; Exiles; Family Life; Future Life; God; Humility; Marriage; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets; Poverty; Redemption; Regret; Revenge; Salvation; Unfaithfulness; Desertion; Childhood; Priests; Rab WORLD DOESN'T END, SELS., by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was stolen by the gypsies. My parents stole me right back. Then the Last Line: Dish, the even more absurd vanity mirror, and the faintly sounding sil %ver bell Subject(s): Future Life WRITING IN THE AFTERLIFE, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I imagined the atmosphere would be clear Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Writing & Writers; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life WRITTEN DURING DEPRESSION: HOW TO BE HAPPY, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To be happy / a man must love death Last Line: And why, my dear, I love you. Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Future; Happiness; Love; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Joy; Delight YEAR TO COME, by ELLEN DORE WATSON Poem Source First Line: Prairie dog, totem pole, cluster Last Line: His warm, unexpected weight-that kind of gift Subject(s): Future YELLOWJACKETS, by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How many years past was it I burned out their nest Last Line: Their buried nest & one who could not live with them Subject(s): Bees; Death; Future Life; Insects; Memory YES HOLY BE THY RESTING PLACE, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life YOU DID NOT KNOW SHE WAS ETERNAL? THERE', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Her faint heart flowers, an anemone Subject(s): Future Life; Women ZION, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Suddenly copper roses glow on the deadwood. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life |
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