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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 328 SIXTEENTH AVENUE, by ROBERT GIBB    Poem Source                    
First Line: April 1948, backyard and alley, the buckled brickweave
Last Line: Or why, in each, my eyes are so pale and wary and wide
Subject(s): Houses


6825, by PHIL WEIDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A young black man came
Last Line: Like last time he %did a good job
Subject(s): Houses; Numbers


87 CASA GRANDE, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: On the gila's sun-burnt plain
Last Line: On la casa grande's brow.
Subject(s): Houses, Deserted; Legends


A CABIN IN THE CLEARING, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I don't believe the sleepers in this house
Last Line: The kindred spirit of an inner haze
Subject(s): Houses; Pilgrim Fathers


A DESERTED HOUSE, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The road, that singing gypsy
Last Line: Whisper at the door!
Subject(s): Houses, Deserted


A DULL SPIRIT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: I see the houses, but I swear
Last Line: And houses, look the same.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Houses


A FALLEN HOUSE, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The end has come, which never seems the end
Last Line: On ruin of what was they may not build.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Houses


A FENCE, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now the stone house on the lake front is finished
Last Line: Except death and the rain and to-morrow.
Subject(s): Fences; Houses


A FRAGMENT, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a sandy level wherein stood
Last Line: As morning falls from heaven -- so bright! So bright.
Subject(s): Houses; Love


A GREAT MAN'S HOUSE, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was written in marble in golden letters:
Subject(s): Houses


A HEART-HAUNTED HOME, by JANE BARLOW    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At lisnamaine, since thither he comes no more
Last Line: Let so his eyes be dark, his heart be cold.
Subject(s): Absence; Haunted Houses; Mothers & Sons; Shadows; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness


A HOUSE, by JOHN COLLINGS SQUIRE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now very quietly, and rather mournfully
Last Line: May hide and wait for it in time and space.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eagle, Solomon; Squire, J. C.
Subject(s): Houses


A HOUSE THAT'S A HOME, by IRMA JEFFERS NELSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: A house that's a home has a soul
Last Line: With experience of bygone days.
Subject(s): Home; Houses


A HUNDRED COLLARS, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The doctor slid a little down the pillow.
Subject(s): Hotels; Relationships; Fear; Money; Collars; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


A MOUNTAIN LODGE, by DOROTHY A. KROGMANN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Nestling amid the verdant steep
Last Line: You know protection's care.
Subject(s): Houses; Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


A PARABLE, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: High-brow house was furnished well
Last Line: And there you'll find it still.
Subject(s): Grail; Housekeeping; Houses; Story-telling; Holy Grail; Graal


A POEM FROM BOULDER RIDGE, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The skeleton of a teepee stood on boulder ridge
Subject(s): Houses; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


A SERIOUS CASE, by MONA VAN DUYN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If we happen to choke ujp on history, none too soon
Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums


A SIMPLE SERMON FOR COUNTRY COTTAGERS, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A workman worth your weight in gold
Last Line: Who works for him his wage is sure!
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Country Life; Houses


A STORY, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Everyone loves a story. Let's begin with a house
Subject(s): Houses; Story-telling


A SUGGESTION, by MARGARET SACKVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Let us go and live in a perfectly new / house
Last Line: Where we may live and love—with nothing more to learn!
Subject(s): Hearts; Houses; Love; Romance


A TRUE STORY, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One afternoon in my room
Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


ABANDONED FARMHOUSE, by TED KOOSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: He was a big man, says the size of his shoes
Subject(s): Houses, Deserted


ABANDONED HOTHOUSE, by JIRINA FUCHSOVA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Rows of roses
Last Line: Death tired %hands
Subject(s): Flowers; Houses, Deserted; Roses


ABANDONED HOUSE IN LATE LIGHT, by CHASE TWICHELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A sparrow lights
Subject(s): Houses, Deserted; Animals


ABSENCE OF A HOUSE, by ELISABETH RYNELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I see wild-grown grass on a color photograph
Last Line: And in the absence %of a house
Subject(s): Absence; Houses, Deserted; Solitude


ACCEPTANCE, by ETHEL ARNOLD TILDEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: This house is ugly - but it is the house I live in
Last Line: I'll sit long in the purple dark -- nor light the candles.
Subject(s): Houses; Ugliness


AD INTERIM, by HELEN C. LAIRD    Poem Text                    
First Line: I think when I look across the street
Last Line: And I fail to see it grieve.
Subject(s): Absence; Houses; Separation; Isolation


ADD THIS TO THE HOUSE, by PETER GIZZI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not a still life into which artifice may enter
Subject(s): Houses; Truth


ADULTERY, by JAMES DICKEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We have all been in rooms
Subject(s): Hotels; Love - Marital; Marriage; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


AFTER READING IN A LETTER PROPOSALS FOR BUILDING A COTTAGE, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beside a runnel build my shed
Last Line: And then I'll thank ye for the gift, %as something worth the giving
Variant Title(s): Proposals For Building A Cottag
Subject(s): Houses


AFTER THE PAPAGO, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I've done it now
Last Line: On the homeward road
Subject(s): Desire; Fish & Fishing; Houses; Trout; Anglers


AMORIS EXSUL: 13. THE VILLA EMILIA, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gates that I never entered, under the shadow of the trees
Last Line: The shadowy love that I lay at your portals, villa of dreams!
Subject(s): Houses


AN EMPTY PLACE, by TED KOOSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is nothing for death
Subject(s): Houses, Deserted


AN OLD HOUSE, by MARTHA E. CUNNINGHAM    Poem Text                    
First Line: An old house broods beneath the trees
Last Line: With her, among the flowers.
Subject(s): Houses


AN OLD HOUSE BURNS, by ALYS TOWNES    Poem Text                    
First Line: He said once, 'I will build a viking ship
Last Line: And like a blackened mast fall, shattered, down.
Subject(s): Fire; Houses


AN OLD HOUSE IN LONDON, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: In fancy I can see thee stand
Last Line: Birds sing, and saw the sweet wild flowers.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Houses


AN OLD INN BY THE SEA, by ODELL SHEPARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All night long we had heard the voice of the sea
Last Line: He sent this last dark cohort crashing in?
Subject(s): Hotels; Sea; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Ocean


ANALOGY AT A DESERTED HOUSE, by BYRON HERBERT REECE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Beautiful at nightfall about the empty house
Subject(s): Houses, Deserted


APERTURE IN THE HOUSE, by SANDRA STONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tell them this who talk among themselves
Last Line: As the aperture in the house opens its eye
Subject(s): Houses


ARCH OF GOLD IN THE FOREST, by PAUL CLAUDEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I left yeddo the great sun was flaming
Last Line: Mingling with their ceaseless whisper
Subject(s): Forests; Houses; Japan


ARCHITECT, by LOUISE TOWNSEND NICHOLL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Houses I dreamed and drew alive come now,' he said,
Subject(s): Houses


ARCHITECTURAL MASKS, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a house with ivied walls
Last Line: You vulgar people there.'
Subject(s): Houses


AS A REAL HOUSE, by PALMER. MICHAEL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I said darkling and you said sparkling
Subject(s): Houses; Imagination; Fancy


ASYLUM, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A house ringed round with trees and in the / trees
Last Line: Asylum from the thought and fear of death.
Subject(s): Comfort; Death; Houses; Dead, The


AT A HOTEL IN ANOTHER STAR, by JEAN VALENTINE            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: At a hotel in another star. The rooms were cold and
Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


AT CRAIG-Y-PISTYLL, by JOHN BARNIE    Poem Source                    
First Line: At craig-y-pistyll there's a deserted house
Last Line: He took himself again to be the person that he was
Subject(s): Houses, Deserted


AT MRS. APPLEBY'S, by ELIZABETH UPHAM MCWEBB    Poem Source                    
First Line: When frost is shining on the trees
Last Line: It's spring at mrs. Appleby's
Subject(s): Houses


AT THE DAYS END MOTEL, by JAMES TATE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I turned on the waterworks and said
Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


AT THE ROADHOUSE: IN MEMORY OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: You hearken, fellows? Turned aside
Last Line: The velvet jacket at the door.
Subject(s): Hotels; Poetry & Poets; Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894); Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


ATMOSPHERE, by LOUISE A. JOHNSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The house stood out-lined harsh against the sky
Last Line: A loveliness we scarce suspect is there.
Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Desolation; Houses, Deserted; Love


BALLADE, by JOHN WOLCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Couldst thou look into mine heart
Last Line: Banish spectre forms away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pindar, Peter; Wolcot, John
Subject(s): Haunted Houses; Imagination; Fancy


BANKSIDE; HOME OF EDMUND QUINCY, DEDHAM, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I christened you in happier days, before
Last Line: Nor public office a tramps' boosing-ken.
Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Houses; Quincy, Edmund (1808-1877); Dead, The


BEAUTIFUL ABERFOYLE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mountains and glens of aberfoyle are beautiful to sight
Last Line: When the face of nature's green in the spring of the year.
Subject(s): Guests; Hotels; Mountains; Sight; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips


BEAUTIFUL NAIRN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All ye tourists who wish to be away
Last Line: Therefore I would recommend nairn for balmy pure air.
Subject(s): Hotels; Tourists; Towns; Travel; Vacation; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Journeys; Trips


BENDING TIME, by JULIA VAN GORDER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Near your old homestead, grandfather
Last Line: And watch you harvest oil
Subject(s): Grandparents; Houses; Memory


BERKLEY COMMON, by NATHALIA CRANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Summer broods o'er berkley common, o'er the fields of everlasting
Last Line: For the empty houses fill them with a feeling like to fear.
Subject(s): Ghost Towns; Houses, Deserted


BESIDE MILL RIVER, by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When my key sticks in the neighbor's
Last Line: High-rise of sleep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Subject(s): Houses; Identity; Neighbors


BETWEEN THE GARAGE AND THE HOUSE, by LINDA LEE HARPER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have barely enough room
Last Line: Of your face returning %as blank and unfamiliar
Subject(s): Houses; Walking


BEYOND THE HUNTING WOODS, by DONALD JUSTICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I speak of that great house
Last Line: Ever, ever come?
Subject(s): Houses, Deserted; Memory; Houses


BEYOND THE HUNTING WOODS, by DONALD JUSTICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I speak of that great house
Last Line: Nor home from the hunting woods %ever, ever come?
Subject(s): Houses


BIG, SPOOKY HOUSE, by DONNA WASHINGTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Once there was a man
Last Line: He was a gone man!
Subject(s): Ghosts; Haunted Houses; Supernatural


BLACK BULL OF ALDGATE, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Black bull of aldgate, may thy horns rot from the sockets
Last Line: Than ever hasty clement's did with bloated harry!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Hate; Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


BLACK MARE, by LYNDA HULL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It snakes behind me, this invisible chain gang
Last Line: Terminal hotel, the world shuddering with trains
Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs.
Subject(s): Hotels; Love - Complaints; Disappointmenr; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


BLUE FARM HOUSE, CA. 1846, by ANN TOWNSEND    Poem Source                    
First Line: At least six cats called; dogs barked by every tree
Last Line: Now he smells his own rude smell
Subject(s): Farm Life; Houses; Relationships


BLUE SUNDAY, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Chestnut flowers are falling
Subject(s): Cities; Houses, Deserted; Solitude; Urban Life; Loneliness


BLUE SUNDAY, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Chestnut flowers are falling
Last Line: And papers blow down the street
Subject(s): Cities; Houses, Deserted; Solitude


BOARDING HOUSE, by TED KOOSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The blind man draws his curtains for the night
Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


BORROWED HOUSE, by PAMELA GEMIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: This isn't our table, that wasn't our bed
Last Line: And be heard from: peaches, pears, and apricots %vendettas, charms, and prayers
Subject(s): Home; Houses, Deserted; Prairies; Rooms


BOX ELDER BUG, by LAURENCE W. THOMAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In this house where even in the cupboards you find a flat green jade
Last Line: Looking out the living room window, ceramic south american bells %on the back of the stove
Subject(s): Houses; Museums


BRANCH: 2. DWELLING, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This winter air could crack, this winter night is like a black shell
Last Line: Passing a kiln. Not its kiln, maybe. But, still: a kiln, %a family dwelling
Subject(s): Houses


CALIFORNIA CITY LANDSCAPE, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On a mountain-side the real estate agents
Last Line: How long it might last, how young it might be.
Subject(s): California; Houses


CAPRICCIOS, by JAIME SABINES GUTIERREZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: The girl plays the piano
Last Line: Not to have a home
Subject(s): Houses, Deserted; Solitude


CAUTION AND ECONOMY, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The plan reduced from small to less to make his house compacter
Last Line: The builder, his own architect, became his own contractor.
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Buildings & Builders; Houses


CEILING, by THEODORE ROETHKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Suppose the ceiling went outside
Subject(s): Houses


CHANEL NO. 5, by CHASE TWICHELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Life had become a sort of gorgeous elegy
Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


CHATEAU PAPINEAU, by SUSAN FRANCES HARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The red-tiled towers of the old chateau
Last Line: The shaded walks -- the shadowy hall.
Alternate Author Name(s): Seranus; Frances, Susan
Subject(s): Houses; Middle Ages; Medieval History; Medieval Civilization; Medieval Literature


CHILDREN OF THE WORKING CLASS, by JOHN WIENERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gaunt, ugly deformed
Subject(s): Children; Labor & Laborers; Psychiatric Hospitals; Childhood; Work; Workers; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums


CHINESE SPACE, by MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Family Life; Houses; Beijing. China; Ancestors & Ancestry; Relatives; Heritage; Heredity


CHOOSING A DWELLING PLACE IN LUO-YANG, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Back from three years in charge of a province
Last Line: I'm not watching out for myself alone - %my rocks and crane must have a haven
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Houses


CITY ELEGIES: 3. HOUSE HOUR, by ROBERT PINSKY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now the pale honey of a kitchen light
Subject(s): City & Town Life; Houses


COLD DAY IN MAY, by KIMBALL MACKAY-BROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's one of those spring days winter
Last Line: And when I hung up, the last %crow lifted off, clean as a sun
Subject(s): Cold; Houses; May (month)


COMEDY, by JEUNE COUNTRYMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Look, little house, I am laughing at you
Last Line: At the comical trick you played on me.)
Subject(s): Houses


COUNTRY HOUSES, by ANN S. GOLDSMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Country houses crack their knuckles, click their teeth
Last Line: The first shot ricochets off the closet door
Subject(s): Country Life; Houses


CRAYON HOUSE, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two or three lines across; the black ones, down
Last Line: And the beginning was real. The drawing of a child
Subject(s): Crayons; Houses


CREDO, by CORAL MORGAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I know my people. Looking from afar
Last Line: And I shall bid my kinsmen enter in.
Subject(s): Houses; Religion; Theology


DAFFY WILL, by LADD FRISBY MORSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Little he was / little an' bent
Last Line: Like he's poorin' a cat.
Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Faces; Houses


DANCING AT THE CHELSEA, by DIONISIO D. MARTINEZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is no longer a question of balance and yet
Last Line: Made in the aisle of an abandoned pullman.
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Hotels; New York City; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


DARK HOUSE, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is a dark house, very big.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Houses


DARK HOUSES, by JOHN B. LEE    Poem Source                    
First Line: One winter afternoon
Last Line: With a stone in her hand
Subject(s): Houses


DAWN ON THE HILLS (FROM A HOTEL WINDOW), by LILLIAN ATCHERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: My home is a suite on the third floor up
Last Line: May I walk with my fellowmen.
Subject(s): Dawn; Hotels; Sunrise; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


DEATH OF A YOUNG LADY; AT THE RETREAT FOR THE INSANE, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Youth glows upon her blossom'd cheek
Last Line: Weep not as others weep.
Subject(s): Death; Psychiatric Hospitals; Sleep; Youth; Dead, The; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums


DESERTED HOUSE, by JOHANNES BOBROWSKI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The avenue %defined %by the footsteps of the dead. How the echo
Last Line: Earth of beauty fatherland
Subject(s): Houses, Deserted


DESERTED HOUSE, by PHOEBE SMITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Old, neglected cedar trees press close
Last Line: Where only memory lingers, only echo calls.
Subject(s): Houses, Deserted; Memory


DESERTED HOUSE, COUNTY GALWAY, by JOHN DREXEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: These, that have fallen into wildness
Subject(s): Galway, Ireland; Houses, Deserted


DESIRE, by DAVID ST. JOHN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a small wrought-iron balcony
Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


DIRECTIVE, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Back out of all this now too much for us
Last Line: Drink and be whole again beyond confusion
Subject(s): Country Life; Houses; Memory


DIRECTIVE, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Back out of all this now too much for us
Last Line: Drink and be whole again beyond confusion
Subject(s): Country Life; Houses; Memory


DOLL HOUSE, by FRANCESCA ABBATE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I thought growing up meant I could live there
Last Line: Static. Little waves of leaf-echo, moth
Subject(s): Dollhouses; Houses; Memory; Toys


DOWN ON WRIGGLE CRICK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mostly, folks is law-abidin'
Last Line: Down on wriggle crick!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Brooks; Crime & Criminals; Hotels; Streams; Creeks; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


DR. DELANY'S VILLA, by THOMAS SHERIDAN (1687-1738)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Would you that delville I describe?
Last Line: There's nothing but yourself that's great.
Variant Title(s): A Description Of Doctor Delany's Villa
Subject(s): Delany, Patrick (1685-1768); Houses


DRAB HABITATION OF WHOM?, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Or some elf's catacomb?
Subject(s): Houses


EARLY SHOW, by KEVIN YOUNG    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here even the darkness
Subject(s): Flop-houses; Sex


EBENEZER-GRAMS: 2. UNKEL EB IS SPEEDIN', by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Unkel eb is now a speedin'
Last Line: Wher weery peeple pass.
Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Hotels; Travel; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Journeys; Trips


EMERALD ICE, by DIANE WAKOSKI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I were a jeweler
Subject(s): Beauty; Emeralds; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums


EMINENT DOMAIN, by ROY MARTIN SCHEELE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The house torn down now, a hole in the earth, with a snow fence thrown
Last Line: The day. It was like a glimpse of a face at a window
Subject(s): Houses; Roads; Travel


EMPTY HOUSE, by RUSSELL HOBAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where the lone wind on the hilltop
Last Line: In the dark of the moon %when the clock sings no-time night
Subject(s): Ghosts; Haunted Houses; Supernatural


EMPTY HOUSE, by STEPHEN SPENDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Then, when the child was gone
Last Line: And everything he'd touched, an exposed nerve
Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir
Subject(s): Houses


ENEMIES OF A HOUSE, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dry rot intruding where the wood is wet
Last Line: Carpenter ants; adultery; drink; death
Subject(s): Houses


ENEMIES OF A HOUSE, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dry rot intruding where the wood is wet
Last Line: Carpenter ants; adultery; drink; death
Subject(s): Houses


ENTER THIS DESERTED HOUSE, by SHELBY SILVERSTEIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: But please walk softly as you do
Last Line: And my child, I thought you knew %I dwell here...And so do you
Alternate Author Name(s): Silverstein, Shel
Subject(s): Houses, Deserted


EPITAPH FOR REBECCA ROGERS, FOLKSTONE, 1688, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A house she hath, it's made of such good fashion
Last Line: From chimney money, too, this cell is free; %to such an house who would not tenant be?
Subject(s): Houses


ESCAPE, by BARBARA GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After so many hours spent in the room,
Subject(s): Houses; Escapes; Fugitives


FANNY: 137, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He woke, in strength, like samson from his slumber
Last Line: Gave, in the slang phrase, pearl street the go-by, %and cut,for several months, st. Tammany
Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker
Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Houses; Mortgages; Theater And Theaters


FANNY: 138, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bond, mortgage, title-deed, and all completed
Last Line: Then filled his rooms with servants, and whatever %is necessary for a 'genteel liver'
Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker
Subject(s): Business; Debt; Houses; Mortgages


FARM TABLEAU, by BETSY WINTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Upon a farm, with soil of rust-red clay
Last Line: Then turns and plods, with patient steps, toward home.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Houses; Labor & Laborers; Women; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers


FARMHOUSE IN THE LANDSCAPE, by KATE NORTHROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Seems like all rooms return to the kitchen,
Last Line: I have to listen for my life %very carefully.
Subject(s): Houses; Noises; Winter


FINALE, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They have torn the house
Subject(s): Houses; Demolition


FLOPHOUSE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: You haven't lived
Last Line: And cold / out / here
Subject(s): Flop-houses


FLOPHOUSE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You haven't lived
Last Line: It's dark %and cold %out %here
Subject(s): Flop-houses


FOR SALE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Four hundred years this little house has stood
Last Line: Four hundred years in sixty feet of earth!
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Houses, Deserted


FOR THE REBUILDING OF A HOUSE, by WENDELL BERRY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To know the inhabiting reasons
Last Line: That the dark may come clean
Subject(s): Houses


FOR THE REBUILDING OF A HOUSE, by WENDELL BERRY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To know the inhabiting reasons
Last Line: I build the place of my dream. %I build the place of my leaving %that the dark may come clean
Subject(s): Houses


FOR THE SAKE OF AMELIA, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tending a cliff-hanging grand hotel
Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


FOUR FOUR SQUARE HOUSES: 1730 SPRING STREET, by MICHAEL MARTONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is aporch across the full front of the house. The door is in the cen-
Last Line: A linoleum floor I watch my parents install, square by square, the same %summer I learn to read ther
Subject(s): Growth; Houses


FOUR FOUR SQUARE HOUSES: 1815 ALABAMA AVENUE, by MICHAEL MARTONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is a proch across the full front of the house. The door is to the right
Last Line: Pers drying, frozen in the winter, sheets of white chocolate
Subject(s): Family Life; Houses


FOUR FOUR SQUARE HOUSES: 348 FELLOWS, by MICHAEL MARTONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is a porch across the full front of the house. The door is to the right
Last Line: Room, another bedroom where I fall asleep counting all the rooms in which %I have fallen asleep
Subject(s): Houses; Sleep


FOUR FOUR SQUARE HOUSES: 519 NORTHWESTERN, by MICHAEL MARTONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is a porch across the full front of the house. The door is to the left
Last Line: From the ceiling above when the upstairs neighbors make love
Subject(s): Houses; Neighbors


FOUR-ROOM SHACK ASPIRING HIGH, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Hope you’re satisfied to last
Subject(s): Houses


FROM AN ARTIST'S HOUSE, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A bundle of twigs
Last Line: On twenty sheets of paper.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Houses; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism


FRONT PORCH WITH SCREENS, by JR. SIDNEY HALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: There was a cozy grove of young pine trees
Last Line: And watch you don't knock over that good dish
Subject(s): Houses; Life


FUIT ILIUM, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One by one they died
Last Line: Down the old house goes!
Subject(s): Houses


FURTHER WORK, by KEN WALDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Think of the brain
Last Line: To the living room, %kitchen, bedroom, bath
Subject(s): Bodies; Houses; Reason


GALLANT CHATEAU, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is it bad to have come here
Subject(s): Houses; Solitude; Loneliness


GAYHEART, A STORY OF DEFEAT, by DANA BURNET    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gayheart came in june, I saw his heels
Last Line: But I behold him in the city's eyes.
Subject(s): Boarding Houses; Poetry & Poets; Success; City & Town Life


GHOST HOUSE, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I dwell in a lonely house I know
Last Line: As sweet companions as might be had.
Subject(s): Haunted Houses; Supernatural


GHOST HOUSE [OR, SUDANESE GHOST HOUSE], by TERESE SVOBODA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The ghost house holds up
Last Line: That rises [or, we see rising] over us
Subject(s): Haunted Houses


GHOST-HOUSE, by EMILY RANDLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Shadows of coolness haunt this hilltop home
Last Line: How shall this silentness be comforted?
Subject(s): Haunted Houses


GHOSTS OF A LUNATIC ASYLUM, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, where men's eyes were empty and as bright
Last Line: The silence of the eight men who were god!
Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums


GLACIER PARK, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: At last we've reached the famous place
Last Line: When the tenderfeet intrude.
Subject(s): Animals; Hotels; Parks; Tourists; Travel; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Journeys; Trips


GLENWOOD SPRINGS, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Under doc holliday's / weary eyes
Last Line: As mountains
Subject(s): Hotels; Travel; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Journeys; Trips


GODMERSHAM, THE TEMPLE OF DELIGHT, by HENRY THOMAS AUSTEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Gentle pilgrim, rest thy feet
Last Line: Make the temple of delight
Subject(s): Houses


GOLDEN LOTUSES, by OCTAVIO PAZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Disheveled gardens
Subject(s): Houses


GRANDMA'S BYWORDS, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Grandma rocks on the porch
Last Line: And we have bucket music
Subject(s): Grandparents; Houses; Language


GREAT HOUSE, by EDWIN MUIR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: However it came, this great house has gone down
Subject(s): Houses


HANGING HOUSE, by PAUL CLAUDEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: By a subterranean stairway I descend
Last Line: Monkeys perched below me on the furthest branches
Subject(s): Houses


HARD EVIDENCE, by TIMOTHY LIU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A room walled-in by books where the hours withdraw
Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


HAUNTED, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY    Poem Text                    
First Line: My little child, how can you stand
Last Line: And held these fingers all night long.
Subject(s): Children; Ghosts; Haunted Houses; Supernatural; Childhood


HAUNTED CHAMBERS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the old and ruined mansion
Last Line: Are forever more at rest
Subject(s): Haunted Houses;memory


HAUNTED HOUSE, by GLENN WARD DRESBACH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Deserted, it stands in a cup
Last Line: By some lost loveliness?
Subject(s): Haunted Houses


HAUNTED HOUSE, by EDYTHE HOPE GENEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I don't know why I came; it haunts me so!
Last Line: The things about this place that haunt me so!
Subject(s): Haunted Houses; Mystery


HAUNTED HOUSE, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here was a place where none would ever come
Subject(s): Haunted Houses


HAUNTED HOUSE, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here was a place where none would ever come
Last Line: Between us and the chimney, long before %our time. So townsmen said who found her there
Subject(s): Haunted Houses


HAUNTED HOUSE, by VALERIE TAYLOR    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's a ghost at my door
Last Line: Before the ghosts tear me apart %with their hungry teeth
Subject(s): Haunted Houses


HAUNTED HOUSE, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The rail fence is falling down
Last Line: Honey runs down the side of the house
Subject(s): Haunted Houses


HAUNTED HOUSE, by VALERIE WORTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Its echoes
Subject(s): Haunted Houses; Supernatural


HAUNTED VILLAGE, by SARAH NORCLIFFE CLEGHORN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Little wistful shades, when dusk was nearing
Last Line: Sunk in dreams, and smiling in their sleep.
Subject(s): Haunted Houses


HE HAS LIVED IN MANY HOUSES, by THOMAS LUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Furnished room, flats, a hayloft
Last Line: Toward his sanctuary, harborage, saltbox, / home
Subject(s): Houses; Boats


HER DREAM HOUSE, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Birds cannot fly over it
Subject(s): Houses


HER HOUSE, by FRANK ERNEST HILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She looks below on paved earth - hears the stir
Last Line: It will be long before her house is done.
Subject(s): Houses


HERE STOOD A HOUSE, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here stood a house; we now can only guess
Last Line: Enlightening death, to me.
Subject(s): Houses, Deserted


HIDE-AWAY HOUSE, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Simon threatens with a wagon whip
Last Line: In the right latitude for love
Subject(s): Houses


HISTORY OF VANBRUGH'S HOUSE, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When mother clud had rose from play
Last Line: A mousetrap-man chief engineer
Subject(s): Houses; Vanbrugh, Sir John (1664-1726)


HOTEL, by GAYLE GIBLIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: A thousand rooms in a beautiful home
Last Line: This home is a grotesque fantasy.
Subject(s): Home; Hotels; Rooms; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


HOTEL, by SHERARD VINES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The great bestial bulk of it looms into the night
Last Line: Till one night lady death fingers the cups ere dawn?
Subject(s): Hotels; Oxford University; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


HOTEL INSOMNIA, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I liked my little hole
Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


HOTEL LENOX, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And she loved loving
Last Line: And the lemon light flew over the river
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


HOTEL NIGHTS WITH MY MOTHER, by LINDA MCCARRISTON    Poem Text                 Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: The hometown flophouse
Subject(s): Education; Flop-houses; Schools; Students


HOTEL NIGHTS WITH MY MOTHER, by LINDA MCCARRISTON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The hometown flophouse
Last Line: I made of myself each day a chink %a few might pass through unscathed
Subject(s): Education; Flop-houses; Schools


HOTEL SIERRA, by DAVID ST. JOHN            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The november air
Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


HOTEL ST. LOUIS, NEW YORK CITY, FALL 1969, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I went inside, the manager said, `you don't want to live
Last Line: Sunday mornings, a bright orange football helmet that glowed like the sun.
Subject(s): Hotels; New York City; Survival; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


HOTEL WINDOW, by EDWARD HIRSCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Aura of absence, vertigo of non-being
Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


HOUSE, by BILLY COLLINS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I lie in a bedroom of a house
Subject(s): Houses


HOUSE, by ISABEL FISKE CONANT    Poem Text                    
First Line: He who loves an old house
Last Line: Can it sing old songs.
Subject(s): Houses; Wellesley College


HOUSE, by JOSE FONTINHAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bit by bit, I take leave of september, that song. Behold the
Last Line: Breathing by the side of the road
Subject(s): Home; Houses


HOUSE, by BEATRICE HAWLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is a house
Last Line: Their bread is stone %their meat is dust
Subject(s): Houses


HOUSE, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My house has grown smaller
Subject(s): Houses


HOUSE AND HOME, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I own my house, but have no home,' said
Last Line: "start."
Subject(s): Home; Houses


HOUSE AND MAN, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One hour: as dim he and his house now look
Last Line: A magpie like a weathercock in doubt
Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward
Subject(s): Houses


HOUSE BETWEEN WATER, by DZVINIA ORLOWSKY    Poem Source                    
First Line: For someone else, this thirst
Last Line: And pinwheels, %birdhouses and gods
Subject(s): Houses; Water


HOUSE BY THE SEA, by EUGENIO MONTALE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The journey ends here
Last Line: Already, perhaps, weighs anchor for the eternal
Subject(s): Houses; Sea; Travel


HOUSE DIVIDED, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was mama's house
Last Line: Mama was against al smith %because we're presbyterians
Subject(s): Houses


HOUSE FIRE, by B. J. BUHROW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Parents talked
Last Line: The bright cloth %crawled out of my hands
Subject(s): Fire; Houses


HOUSE HOLDING, by PETER DAVISON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They came to american to seek their 'fortune'
Last Line: Why then, returning home at night, do we %find women cursing and our children weeping?
Subject(s): Houses


HOUSE IN WINTER, by ERIC ORMSBY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Winter sweetens my house with its fragrance
Last Line: Treasure your moment in this winter-gentled house!
Subject(s): Houses; Smells; Winter


HOUSE OF HOPE, by GEORGIA MACSENTRE STAMPER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Still keep my eyes fast-blinded to the end
Last Line: And I shall live in love and sweet content.
Subject(s): Hope; Houses; Optimism


HOUSE ON 15TH S.W., by RICHARD HUGO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cruelty and rain could be expected
Subject(s): Abandonment; Decay; Houses


HOUSE ON 19TH STREET, by MARK SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: On summer nights, before sleep, the sweet smell
Last Line: And the night dissolved, like a boyhood, into morning
Subject(s): Children; Houses; Memory; Summer


HOUSE ON THE CORNER, by JR. JOEL B. PECKHAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Of 21st and b needs more
Last Line: Moving, always moving away
Subject(s): Houses


HOUSE ON THE MOUNTAIN, by JULIO HERRERA Y REISSIG    Poem Source                    
First Line: In strident yellows laughs the vale; the sky laughs, free
Last Line: And laughs in such a fashion you would think it was a %maiden!
Subject(s): Houses, Deserted


HOUSE SONG TO THE EAST, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Far in the east, far below
Last Line: All, may it be delightful
Subject(s): Houses


HOUSE VERSUS HOME, by LAURA LEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: A house and a home are different, you see
Last Line: For you are just as welcome as the flowers in may.
Subject(s): Home; Houses


HOUSE WILL TURN ITSELF, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: On a bedpost
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Houses; Moon; Nature


HOUSE WITH THE MARBLE STEPS, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He built the house to show his neighbors
Last Line: Above a flight of marble steps where grass is growing.
Subject(s): Death; Houses; Dead, The


HOUSE-FREE, by EDITH LOMBARD SQUIRES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now the days shorten, the autumn is gone
Last Line: I will go house-free and countrywide!
Subject(s): Houses; Winter


HOUSEFIRE, by MIRANDA FIELD    Poem Source                    
First Line: The spark struck in secret, beneath the stairs in the dust
Last Line: With its somoke, our sleeping faces. To take us dreaming
Subject(s): Fire; Houses


HOUSEPAINTER BEFORE ME, by CAROL POTTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: A month painting the house and the cat getting thinner as we painted
Last Line: Of the ladder we should never have climbed in the first place; %nothing we did that day was safe
Subject(s): Houses; Paintings And Painters


HOUSES, by DONALD JUSTICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Time and the weather wear away
Subject(s): Houses


HOUSES, by DONALD JUSTICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Time and the weather wear away
Last Line: And what miraculous escapes!
Subject(s): Houses


HOUSES, by EALSA L. ROWE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Houses are interesting!
Last Line: Houses are interesting!
Subject(s): Home; Hospitality; Houses


HOUSES LIKE ANGELS, by JORGE LUIS BORGES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where san juan and chacabuco intersect
Last Line: And the present joy will grow quiet in that passed
Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Houses; Women


HOUSES, PAST AND PRESENT, by ELI BACHAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: To my parents I am %a thick layer of innovation
Last Line: She fixes seven meat balls %I eat two %and am full from th e five
Subject(s): Houses


HOUSING STARTS, by PETER DAVISON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Most animals have no houses, only holes
Subject(s): Houses


HUMBLE HOUSE, by DAVID BAKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Even the lawn is cramped with hydrangeas
Last Line: Worm and mole, creeper and clod, humus, loam
Subject(s): Houses


HUMBLE HOUSE, by DAVID BAKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Even the lawn is cramped with hydrangeas
Last Line: Worm and mole, creeper and clod, humus, loam
Subject(s): Houses


I BUILT MYSELF A HOUSE OF GLASS, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Or palace of glass, alone
Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward
Subject(s): Glass And Glassblowers; Houses


I COULDN'T GET THE REPAIRMAN, by LILACE MELLIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Out of my basement. At first I felt rude
Last Line: It was my house. I chose to burn it down
Subject(s): Guests; Houses


I REMEMBER THE HOUSE THAT WAS DOWN FROM PORTLAND ROAD, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Was at the party in the house that was
Subject(s): Houses


IMPORTANT VOICE, by JESSIE M. DOWLIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Quiet held the house, and all
Last Line: Until the important cock had spoken?
Subject(s): Animals; Houses; Silence; Sleep; Voices


IMPROMPTU ON AN INNKEEPER NAMED BACON, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At brownhill we always get dainty good cheer
Last Line: But why always bacon-come, tell me a reason?
Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


IN A GARRET, by ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This realm is sacred to the silent past
Last Line: And close again the long unopened door.
Alternate Author Name(s): Percy, Florence; Chase, Elizabeth Anne
Subject(s): Home; Houses, Deserted


IN A HOTEL WRITING-ROOM, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We artists have strange nerves!
Last Line: We had met before this scene.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Faces; Friendship; Hate; Hotels; Summer; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


IN A LODGING HOUSE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Get to thy room, a voice told me
Last Line: And less thy hope than older men.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


IN A RENTED ROOM, by DENIS JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is a good dream, even if the falling is
Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


IN A ROOMING HOUSE, by NELL H. ROYSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: She was kneeling by her bedside
Last Line: May the good lord strike me dead.
Subject(s): Houses


IN AN EMPTY HOUSE, by IVAN ALEKSEYEVITCH (ALEXEYVICH) BUNIN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From the walls the paper's blue is vanished
Last Line: Leaving their yet unforgotten trace.
Subject(s): Emptiness; Houses, Deserted; Memory


IN AN OLD HOUSE, by SPENCER BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In any old house with many fireplaces
Last Line: Who cerpt between the scrubbing and the mending %and had a story left out of our lives
Subject(s): Houses


IN GEORGETOWN; HOLIDAY INN, WASHINGTON, D.C., by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is not where the rich and famous pursue their lifestyles
Last Line: "melodiously at the door: ""are you all right, sir? Are you all right in there?"
Subject(s): Americans; Corruption In Politics & Government; Hotels; Politics; Social Protest; United States; Washington, D.c.; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Politicians; Political Poetry; America


IN MY HOUSE THERE IS A CAVE, by HAN SHAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: I have the dharmakaya for my very own
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Houses; Zen Buddhism


IN THE CARLYLE HOUSE, CHELSEA, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Up the steep stair they clatter to each room
Last Line: Place for her golden bulbs within the ground.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Chelsea, Massachusetts; Haunted Houses; Houses


IN THE HOTEL, by JORIE GRAHAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whir. The invisible sponsored again by white
Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


IN THE LITTLE HOUSE AT SUNSET, by JOSEPH BRUCHAC    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thinner than a human hair
Last Line: To the edge of the sky, %I will dance the road of their songs
Subject(s): Evening; Houses


IN THE OLD HOUSE, by JOAN (DELANO) AIKEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: House silent grandchildren put to bed
Subject(s): Haunted Houses; Supernatural


IN THE WILDERNESS MOTEL, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Red star hovering
Last Line: The comfort, the company of ruin.
Subject(s): Abandonment; Decay; Hotels; Nature; Desertion; Rot; Decadence; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


IN THIS DARK HOUSE, by EDWARD DAVISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I shall come back to die
Last Line: To this dark house to die.
Subject(s): Houses


INSCRIPTION FOR A COTTAGE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Give me, heaven, whatever my lot
Last Line: To all her frowns resigned.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Houses


INSCRIPTION FOR AN ICE-HOUSE, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stranger, approach! Within this iron door
Last Line: To rush in whirlwinds forth, and rule the year.
Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia
Subject(s): Ice Houses


INSCRIPTIONS FOR A HOUSE, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The cornerstone in truth is laid
Last Line: I shall live.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Variant Title(s): For The Friends At Hurstmont
Subject(s): Faith; Houses; Time; Truth; Belief; Creed


INSIDE, by HEATHER MCHUGH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the field is a house
Subject(s): Houses


INSIDE THAT RUINED HOUSE, by JOHN JOSEPH MCKERNAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Twin slices
Last Line: Whispering -- it was only death -- my friends
Subject(s): Aging; Houses


INTRUSION, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I built myself a pleasant house
Last Line: Leaving no house at all, just you.
Subject(s): Home; Houses; Love


JACKSON HOTEL, by LYNDA HULL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes after hours of wine I can almost see
Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs.
Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


JANUARY FIRE: THIRD AVENUE FLOPHOUSE, by CORRINNE CLEGG HALES    Poem Source                    
First Line: We are neighbors, so we tell them
Subject(s): Fire; Flop-houses


JERONIMO'S HOUSE, by ELIZABETH BISHOP    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My house, my fairy / palace, is
Last Line: Glued with spit
Subject(s): Houses


JERONIMO'S HOUSE, by ELIZABETH BISHOP    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My house, my fairy %palace, is
Last Line: My shelter from %the hurricane
Subject(s): Houses


JUST BEFORE DAWN THE THIN SILENCE, by FIAMA HASSE PAIS BRANDAO    Poem Source                    
Last Line: In my poem - its great wings beating onwards toward the east
Subject(s): Houses; Morning


KEEP OFF THE GRASS, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The thoughtless fellows blithely pass, and
Last Line: And it will take him nineteen hours to tell just how he views such dubs.
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Houses; Lawns; Towns


KEY, by EMILY BLANCHE MANN GROBY    Poem Text                    
First Line: They who have old houses should save the keys
Last Line: Going in and out; -- as it was long before.
Subject(s): Family Life; Houses; Keys; Relatives


KITCHEN CHIMNEY, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Builder, in building the little house
Last Line: A chimney that only would serve to remind me %of castles I used to build in air
Subject(s): Houses


KONUR, by DANIELLE PAPAGEORGIOU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lay near the house
Last Line: Near the shelter from the frost, %my house
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Houses


LANDOWNERS, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From my rented attic with no earth
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Houses


LANDSCAPE WITH HOUSE AT THE EDGE OF A FIELD, by KATE NORTHROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: What was it that you wanted to say?
Last Line: Of the house. I will go in.
Subject(s): Houses; Solitude


LATE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your street was named for berries
Last Line: Today I would answer for all those other things.
Subject(s): Aunts; Childlessness; Family Life; Houses; Memory; Regret; Relatives


LAURIE'S HOUSE, by JAMEY DUNHAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sea otter strokes its beard and flies in through
Last Line: The seven years that followed were the happiest of her life
Subject(s): Animals; Houses; Sea


LETTER FROM AN INSTITUTION, by MICHAEL RYAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The ward beds float like ghost ships
Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals; Dreams; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums; Nightmares


LIGHTHOUSE, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The house / in north platte, nebraska
Last Line: They're not expecting him back / anytime soon
Subject(s): "cody, William ""buffalo Bill"" (1846-1917); Houses; Absence;


LIKE A SCARF, by JAMES TATE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The directions to the lunatic asylum were confusing,
Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums


LINES (ON VIEWING, ONE SUMMER EVENING THE HOUSE OF MY BIRTH), by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The crescent moon with pallid light
Last Line: And draw the tear-drop from my eye.
Subject(s): Home; Houses, Deserted


LIVING IN THE EARTHQUAKE ZONE, by ANTONY CHRISTIE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The house is stone and mortar
Last Line: Your face blurred and bloody %through the ice window
Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Houses; Winter


LIVING WHERE WE DO, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I like to think of the man under the house
Last Line: Its root lodged deep in the ground.
Subject(s): Houses; Moving & Movers; Secrets


LONE LITTLE HOUSE ON THE DESERT, by BLANCHE POWELL MILLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh lone little house on the desert
Last Line: Tell us your secret so sad.
Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Houses; Solitude; Loneliness


LOOKING FOR THE GULF MOTEL, by RICHARD BLANCO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There should be nothing here I don't remember
Last Line: And pretend for a moment, nothing lost is lost
Subject(s): Travel; Hotels; Marco Island, Florida; Journeys; Trips; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


LOST, by MARGE PIERCY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Women of dark houses
Last Line: Dim fiery pain
Subject(s): Women; Houses; Grief


LOVE IN A LIFE, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Room after room / I hunt the house through
Last Line: Such closets to search, such alcoves to importune!
Subject(s): Houses; Mirrors; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


LOVE IN THE ASYLUM, by DYLAN THOMAS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A stranger has come
Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals; Love; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums


LOVE'S EMPTY HOUSE, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O thou long-silent, solitary house
Last Line: And fill thy halls with music as before.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Houses; Love


LOVE'S HOUSE, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I know not how these men or those may take
Last Line: Leans down to me and tells me everything.
Subject(s): Houses; Love - Nature Of


LUCK IS A THAWED AFTERNOON, by MARK TAKSA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The renter smiles at my eviction notice
Last Line: Your worry will be a fold in the blanket %of your new friend's voice
Subject(s): Houses


MAKING FODDER, by LINDA BROCKMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Near the house at the top of the hill I stopped
Last Line: To mark the place I'm going this time, if I'm right
Subject(s): Farm Life; Houses; Travel


MANSION, by RANA M. JALEEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The horse had died and your grandfather, too. One body
Last Line: Bore forever the walls. This house will outlive you
Subject(s): Death; Houses; Life


MARMION: CANTO 3. THE HOSTEL, OR INN, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The livelong day lord marmion rode
Last Line: The first notes of the morning lark.
Subject(s): Flodden Field, England; Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


MARRY AT A HOTEL, ANNUL ?ÇÖEM, by HARRYETTE MULLEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Language; Hotels; Words; Vocabulary; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


MARY, THE MAID OF THE INN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who is yonder poor maniac, whose wildly fixed eyes
Last Line: Of poor mary the maid of the inn.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hotels; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Male-female Relations


MAXIMS FOR THE OLD HOUSE: THE BEST ROOM, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All they that spent their days in grace
Last Line: Lest ye offend these placid walls.
Subject(s): Houses


MAXIMS FOR THE OLD HOUSE: THE CHAMBER, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How intimate and yet how strange!
Last Line: It shall not seem more sad to die.
Subject(s): Death; Houses; Dead, The


MAXIMS FOR THE OLD HOUSE: THE DUST, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Amid the clinging world I guess
Last Line: Ancestral eyes peer forth at me.
Subject(s): Dust; Houses


MAXIMS FOR THE OLD HOUSE: THE EAVES, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If underneath the quiet eaves
Last Line: How sweet the forests were in spring.
Subject(s): Houses


MAXIMS FOR THE OLD HOUSE: THE HALL, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh thou, the youngest of this race
Last Line: For such as this thy line beseems.
Subject(s): Houses


MAXIMS FOR THE OLD HOUSE: THE HEARTH, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: God rest you all that linger here
Last Line: Reflect, and give your souls to cheer.
Subject(s): Houses


MAXIMS FOR THE OLD HOUSE: THE KEEPING-ROOM, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The thorn that by the wayside grows
Last Line: "a hundred years have I been dead."
Subject(s): Houses


MAXIMS FOR THE OLD HOUSE: THE PLASTER ON THE CHIMNEY, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: These words in time shall pass away
Last Line: May know the blessedness of wings.
Subject(s): Houses


MAXIMS FOR THE OLD HOUSE: THE PORCH, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I reach abroad my wistful palms
Last Line: That these old rooms may better be.
Subject(s): Houses


MAXIMS FOR THE OLD HOUSE: THE STAIR, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She was so young, so light, so fair!
Last Line: Like thou -- like thou -- must pass from me.
Subject(s): Houses


MAXIMS FOR THE OLD HOUSE: THE THRESHOLD, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye who have come to such an age
Last Line: In those new mansions of the blest.
Subject(s): Houses


MELANCHOLY'S DESCRIPTION OF HER DWELLING, by MARGARET LUCAS CAVENDISH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I dwell in groves that gilt are with the sun
Last Line: Maintain your credit and your dignity.
Alternate Author Name(s): Newcastle, Duchess Of; Lucas, Margaret
Subject(s): Houses; Melancholy; Dejection


MENDING THE ADOBE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sun dazzle and black shadow / crow caw and magpie rattle
Last Line: I remember my mother
Subject(s): Houses; Poetry & Poets


MENDING THE ADOBE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sun dazzle and black shadow %crow caw and magpie rattle
Last Line: Young no more. Well, but mostly %I fix it, I feel better %when I fix it - you know? %I remember my m
Subject(s): Houses; Poetry And Poets


MIDSUMMER: 3, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At the queen's park hotel, with its white, high-ceilinged rooms
Last Line: A breeze strolls down to the docks, and the sea begins
Subject(s): Hotels; Summer; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


MIDSUMMER: 36, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The oak inns creak in their joints as light declines
Subject(s): Environment; Hotels; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


MIRROR IN THE WOODS, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A mirror hung on the broken
Last Line: The wood rats and moss work unseen
Subject(s): Ballet; Dancing And Dancers; Daughters; Houses, Deserted; Mirrors; Parents


MOTEL SEEDY, by THOMAS LUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The artisans of this room, who designed the lamp base
Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


MOTHER AND CHILD, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She feared the baby would fall
Last Line: Hands resting upon her
Subject(s): Mothers; Death – Children; Death - Babies; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums


MOVING IN, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: May roses bloom beside the bloomberg windows
Subject(s): Houses; Furniture


MY DREAM HOUSE, by M. PEARL GILLESPIE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The little cottage %I see in my dream
Subject(s): Houses


MY DREAM HOUSE, by HELEN G. STEPHENSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Last night I built a dream house
Last Line: By the light the moonbeams made.
Subject(s): Houses; Solitude; Loneliness


MY FATHER'S HOUSE, 1908-1970, by CALVIN FORBES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I live quietly and go nowhere
Last Line: Its secret life as if a fortune were yours
Subject(s): Fathers; Houses


MY HOUSE, by JEANETTE MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: This house %where some day bones will rest without remorse
Last Line: Where monsters have developed and reached fullness, %from where I will not move but for death
Subject(s): Houses


MY HOUSE NOT MADE WITH HANDS, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is so old, the date is dim
Last Line: To my next house not made with hands
Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt
Subject(s): Houses


MY HUT; AFTER TRAN QUANG KHAI, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Built long ago, old
Last Line: And on these shoulders / and hands
Subject(s): Houses


MY LITTLE HOUSE, by MAY (MARY) CLARISSA GILLINGTON BYRON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My house is little, but warm enough
Last Line: And sing, and keep house together.
Subject(s): Contentment; Houses


MY NEIGHBOR COMPARES HER HOUSE WITH MINE, by MARY SINTON LEITCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My house is kempt and tidy
Last Line: Only a passing hour!
Subject(s): Envy; Houses; Jealousy


MY NEIGHBOR'S TREASURE, by ANNA O. SMITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: My neighbor has a precious thing
Last Line: Deep envy to his house I bring.
Subject(s): Envy; Houses; Neighbors


NARROW HOUSES OF AMSTERDAM, by MEGAN SEXTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: To get to them, think in circles
Last Line: Look through each window, each wind's eye
Subject(s): Amsterdam, Netherlands; Houses


NEW HOUSE, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now first, as I shut the door
Last Line: After these things should be
Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward
Subject(s): Houses


NEW TENANTS, by BARRY SILESKY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The coffee cup's broken handle lies
Last Line: Of making it; the new tenants taking over
Subject(s): Houses; Landlords And Tenants


NEW THATCHED HALL, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Below incense burner peak I built a new mountain dwelling
Last Line: Next spring I'll thatch the side room to the east, %fit it with paper panels and reed blinds for my
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): Houses


NO WONDER OUR FATHERS DIED, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Does anybody mind if I don't live in a house that's quaint?
Last Line: But I still feel that their decadent descendants build more comfortable houses
Subject(s): Houses


NOBLEMAN'S HOUSE, by ELEANOR MAY SARTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: After the palaces
Last Line: Before he will give out %information
Subject(s): Houses


NORTH OF ALLIANCE, by TED KOOSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is an empty house; not a stick
Subject(s): Houses, Deserted


NOTE SLIPPED UNDER A DOOR, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw a high window struck blind
Subject(s): Houses


NOVEMBER, by JOZE UDOVIC    Poem Source                    
First Line: The house shrank into itself
Last Line: Turned up to the rotten ceiling
Subject(s): Ghosts; Houses, Deserted; Shadows; Supernatural


O BIRDS OF THE AIR, by HERBERT TRENCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: We build no house but the grave!
Subject(s): Houses; Birds; Graves


OLD BRUCKER PLACE, by SHERYL LYNNE NELMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Softly %like an archaelogist
Last Line: Across an orange %sun %down
Variant Title(s): The Old Finney Far
Subject(s): Houses


OLD HOUSE, by MARGARET PERKINS BRIGGS    Poem Text                    
First Line: It listens, huddled in a clump of trees
Last Line: That prowl the rooms and silence-drifted stairs. . . .
Subject(s): Houses, Deserted


OLD HOUSE BLUES, by WILLIAM KULIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Everyone's here, and because I love old things, I've rented a grand victorian
Last Line: Just the old odors - floor polish, cedar, sachet - and a single rose
Subject(s): Aging; Houses


OLD HOUSES, by HOMER D'LETTUSO    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is comfort in old houses
Last Line: An old house knew my mother's lovely face.)
Subject(s): Houses


OLD HOUSES, by LOUIS GINSBERG    Poem Text                    
First Line: The gray old houses are hooded women peering
Last Line: Voices of the vanished in the years gone by!
Subject(s): Houses


OLD HOUSES, by ZULA LEACH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Somehow old houses have a heart-appeal
Last Line: May tender memories linger around them still.
Subject(s): Houses


OLD HOUSES, by JENNIE ROMANO    Poem Text                    
First Line: I like old houses, with steps that sag
Last Line: Knowing so many things they never have told.
Subject(s): Houses


OLD LOG HOUSE, by JAMES STERLING TIPPETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: On a little green knoll
Last Line: Live in a house %at the edge of a wood
Subject(s): Houses


OLD MANSION (AFTER HENRY JAMES), by JOHN CROWE RANSOM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As an intruded I trudged with careful innocence
Last Line: To dip, alas, into some unseemlier world
Variant Title(s): Southern Mansion
Subject(s): Houses


OLD MANSION (AFTER HENRY JAMES), by JOHN CROWE RANSOM    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As an intruded I trudged with careful innocence
Last Line: To dip, alas, into some unseemlier world
Variant Title(s): Southern Mansio
Subject(s): Houses


OLD STREET, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I think these houses are the ghosts
Last Line: Close in upon my heels
Subject(s): Houses; Imagination


OLD TENANTS, by LYDIA KINGSWAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, you must live a long time with a house
Last Line: Lest lightly you obtrude upon some grief.
Subject(s): Houses


ON AN EMPTY HOUSE, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A stately house I passed to-day
Last Line: "this noble mansion to be sold."
Subject(s): Houses; Time


ON NAMING A HOUSE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I a householder became
Last Line: The house where brown eyes are.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Houses; Names


ON THE MAD-HOUSE AT VENICE, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Honour aright the philosophic thought
Last Line: Frees her sad-centred thoughts, and gives them pleasant range.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals; Venice, Italy; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums


OUR HOUSE, by MARCO MARTOS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In galleons, on war-horses, with their lances
Last Line: Starving beggars, all claim us as their own
Subject(s): Fights; Houses; Revolutions; War


OUR HOUSE (1), by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I like to see a lovely lawn
Last Line: Oh, little girl, oh, healthy boy, %be mine the house which you enjoy!
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): Houses


OUT OF SEASON, by LOUIS SIMPSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once I stayed at the grand hotel
Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


OUT OF THE OLD HOUSE, NANCY, by WILLIAM MCKENDREE CARLETON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of the old house, nancy - moved up into the new
Last Line: Not made with hands.
Alternate Author Name(s): Carleton, Will
Subject(s): Home; Houses


OUTSIDE IT IS BLOWING AND RAINING, by ALEXEY (ALEKSEY) KONSTANTINOVICH TOLSTOY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: While it blows and rains in the night
Alternate Author Name(s): Prutkov, Koz'ma Petrovich
Subject(s): Storms; Houses, Deserted; Death; Transience


OUTSIDE ROOM SIX, by LYNN EMANUEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Down on my knees again, on the linoleum outside room six
Last Line: Black square, white square goes the linoleum
Subject(s): Hotels; Popular Culture - United States; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


OZARK ODES: RENT HOUSE, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O the hours I lay on the bed
Last Line: Where we slept together
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D.
Subject(s): Houses; Past; Relationships


PARADISE MOTEL, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Millions were dead; everybody was innocent
Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


PEN-Y-GWYRDD; TO TOM HUGHES, ESQ., by CHARLES KINGSLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is no inn in snowdon which is not awful dear
Last Line: And so, goes to my children's school and 'umbly makes my bow.
Subject(s): Hotels; Wales; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Welshmen; Welshwomen


PERMANENT HOME, by MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I seek a permanent home, but this structure has an appearance of indifferent
Subject(s): Houses


PICTURES OF THE SOUTHWEST: DESERTED, by ELIZABETH KING COWGILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Nothing so forlorn
Last Line: Sockets of a bleaching skull.
Subject(s): Houses; Ruins; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


PROTECTOR OF THE HOUSE, by FRIEDERIKE MAYROCKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: There are simply other rules now, he said, and you are
Last Line: Prow behind his back
Subject(s): Houses


PROUD SHANTIES, by WINIFRED WELLES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Shanties, silvering themselves along the beaches
Last Line: It's plain that they feel capable of pearl.
Alternate Author Name(s): Shearer, Harold H., Mrs.
Subject(s): Houses; Simplicity


PROVIDER, by PETER JOHNSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let's say he's at the company christmas party
Last Line: No place to call home
Subject(s): Fathers; Houses; Men; Paranoia; Professions; Worry


Q: WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF?, by GRACE BUTCHER    Poem Source                    
First Line: A: my house. Oh, not always
Last Line: Ominous, muttered into the dark or dawn, %and not addressed to me
Subject(s): Houses


QUIET HOUSE, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis very quiet in the house
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Houses


QUILCA HOUSE TO THE DEAN, by HENRY BROOKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I plainly see, good mr. Dean
Last Line: What yours cannot -- eternity.
Subject(s): Houses; Sheridan, Thomas (1687-1738); Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)


R.S.V.P., by ESTHER BERGMAN NAREY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I wish I had a house and a bit of ground
Last Line: So you could visit me?
Subject(s): Houses


RAINS THAT NEVER FALL FELL IN MY HOUSE, by NEIL ROLLINSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I turned on the tap, the drain belches
Last Line: The whole of africa's rainfell fell in my house tonight
Subject(s): Houses; Rain; Water


READING LATE IN THE COTTAGE, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There aren't that many pages left
Last Line: Insect trapped in the lightbulb.
Subject(s): Books; Houses; Reading


REAL ESTATE, by DANIEL HALPERN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No stream ran through the twenty-seven acres
Last Line: From the life that's my estate to a rotting house of spare remains
Subject(s): Houses


REAL ESTATE, by BARTON SUTTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The orchard's gorgeous
Last Line: This metal crown of thorns
Subject(s): Houses; Property


REAL WONDER, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the stunned little interval
Last Line: Preceding real wonder .
Subject(s): Fences; Houses; Spring; Winter


RED COTTAGE, by RICHARD TILLINGHAST    Poem Source                    
First Line: What we've called the red cottage
Last Line: Dead on the river that pours and pours downstream
Subject(s): Houses; Memory


REETIKA ARRANGES MY CLOSET, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her apartment is a lesson in schematics
Subject(s): Girls; Houses; Rooms; Women


REETIKA ARRANGES MY CLOSET, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her apartment is a lesson in schematics
Last Line: I'm going to give her everything I own
Subject(s): Girls; Houses; Rooms; Women


REMEMBERING, by ANNA PRIESTLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I remember a little inn
Last Line: Only beauty's ghost?
Subject(s): Hotels; Memory; Moon; Spring; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


REMEMBRANCE HAS A REAR AND FRONT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Ourselves be not pursued
Subject(s): Houses; Memor


REMOVED AT THE MOMENT OF PERFECTION, by TIMOTHY LIU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The earth has moved forward, in a sense, or does it merely turn
Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


RENTED HOUSE IN THE COUNTRY, by JAMES REISS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nail a bushel basket without a bottom
Last Line: To the boy who lives there. Say that boy is you
Subject(s): Family Life; Houses


RESIDENCIES, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So many others have lived in me
Last Line: The moonlight and jasmine
Subject(s): Houses


RETURNED, by ROSE MOSS SCOTT    Poem Text                    
First Line: This is the path I traveled when a child
Last Line: Shorn of old love, unburdened of my hope.
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Houses


ROOF, by RICHARD FROST    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You go up there with your wife, with flashing cement and old reliable
Last Line: Time, next time, in the good clean sun, you will get the whole thing right
Subject(s): Houses; Roofing And Roofers


ROOMING HOUSES ARE OLD WOMEN, by AUDRE LORDE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rooming houses are old women
Last Line: "unknown and desired /
Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba
Subject(s): Rooming & Boarding Houses


ROOMS, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Patio 2b
Last Line: Kitchen p
Subject(s): Houses; Rooms


ROOMS, by MARGARET SACKVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I know the heaviness of official rooms
Last Line: (outside an organ's singing in the road!)
Subject(s): Clergy; Death; Houses, Deserted; Memory; Rooms; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The


ROSES, by LENNART SJOGREN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The phones ring in the empty house, both upstairs and down
Last Line: And the roses are left without a recipient
Subject(s): Houses, Deserted; Nothingness


ROYALTY, by FREDERIC LAWRENCE KNOWLES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In purple and fine linen
Last Line: Frederic lawrence knowles.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paget, R. L.
Subject(s): Flowers; Houses; Lilacs; Linen


RUBBING THE FACES OF ANGELS, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the balcony of the golden eagle motor inn
Last Line: Me the reclining skeleton of thomas pool.
Subject(s): Charleston, South Carolina; Death; Hotels; Southern States; Dead, The; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; South (u.s.)


RUINS UNDER THE STARS, by GALWAY KINNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All day under acrobat
Last Line: And up there the old stars rustling and whispering
Subject(s): Houses, Deserted


RURAL ROUTES, by ALLEN BRADEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We ride the roads our fathers rode
Last Line: Along the houses that huddle before us
Subject(s): Houses; Roads


SAFEHOUSE, by MARY ELLEN CSAMER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I come downstairs
Last Line: You leave, my love, no evidence to follow
Subject(s): Houses


SAINTS AND LODGERS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Ye saints, that sing in rooms above
Last Line: Some pensions take -- such are our lodgers.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


SEEING THE ELEPHANT, by JACKIE BARTLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Imagine loving an elephant
Last Line: Beyond the margins of proof
Subject(s): Elephants; Houses; Summer


SELLING MAGRITTE'S HOUSE, by BOB HICOK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The train in the fireplace
Last Line: The owner? A very regular man
Subject(s): Allen, Ethan (1738-1789); Houses; Investments; Landlords & Tenants; Soldiers; Stocks; Bonds


SELLING MAGRITTE'S HOUSE, by BOB HICOK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The train in the fireplace
Last Line: Granite wings %a joke played on the air
Subject(s): Allen, Ethan (1738-1789); Houses; Investments; Landlords And Tenants; Soldiers


SEVEN TWILIGHTS: 3, by CONRAD AIKEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the tree bares, the music of it changes
Last Line: "your lights and music. It will be good to talk."
Variant Title(s): The House
Subject(s): Houses; Music & Musicians; Old Age


SHE ASKS FOR A HOUSE, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Joseph, send me a house
Last Line: Who gave me a house from the cold.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Houses; Jesus Christ; Joseph, Saint (1st Century B.c.-a.d.); Prayer


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


SHELTERED FROM HARM, by JOSE FONTINHAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: With what word should I begin, with what disorder? The
Last Line: The boy, accomplice to the wind, moves on, sheltered from harm
Subject(s): Danger; Houses; Storms; Wind


SIGNATURE OF LOVE, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In missoula, someone has punched
Last Line: Beneath the signature of love on the ceiling.
Subject(s): Hotels; Love; Sex; Vandalism; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


SIR WILLIAM PEPPERRELL'S WELL; ISLE OF SHOALS, 1790-1892, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Little maid margaret and I,
Last Line: Sir william pepperrell's well.
Subject(s): Houses, Deserted; Man-woman Relationships; Wells; Male-female Relations


SISTERS, SELS., by ANDREW STEINMETZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sisters lived outside town in a house
Last Line: She is looking out the window
Subject(s): Houses; Sisters


SLOW TO COME, QUICK A-GONE, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah! There's a house that I do know
Last Line: Wi' aïr-birds to ha' vled.
Subject(s): Houses; Memory


SOMEWHERE IN A HOUSE WHERE YOU ARE NOT, by DEBRA MARQUART    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is sunlight coming through windows
Last Line: Revolve slowly around and around %without you
Subject(s): Guests; Houses; Old Age


SONG AGAINST STREET NUMBERS, by GLADYS MCKEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: We live in a house
Last Line: "they're wrong and I'm right."
Alternate Author Name(s): Iker, Eugene E., Mrs.
Subject(s): Houses


SONG FOR A LITTLE HOUSE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm glad our house is a little house
Last Line: Are paying duty calls.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Houses


SONG OF THE HOUSE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Rising sun! When you shall shine
Last Line: Make this house happy
Subject(s): Houses


SONNET: HIGHLAND HUT, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: See what gay wild flowers deck this earth-built cot
Last Line: Belike less happy. -- stand no more aloof!
Subject(s): Houses


SONNET: PALAZZO PAGANI, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the house where, twenty years ago
Subject(s): Memory; Love; Houses, Deserted


SONNETS ATTEMPTED IN THE MANNER OF CONTEMPORARY WRITERS: 3, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And this reft house is that, the which he built
Last Line: Peeps in fair fragments forth the full-orb'd harvest-moon!
Variant Title(s): On A Refund House In A Romantic Country;sonnet: 3. On A Ruined House In A Romantic Country;the House That Jack Built
Subject(s): Houses


SONNETS IN A LODGING HOUSE: 1, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Each morn she crackles upward, tread by tread
Last Line: Please leave the tub as you would wish to find it!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


SONNETS IN A LODGING HOUSE: 2, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Men lodgers are the best, the mrs. Said
Last Line: Take my advice and let your rooms to gents!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


SOUTHERN GOTHIC, by DONALD JUSTICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Something of how the homing bee at dusk
Last Line: Red roses within roses within roses
Subject(s): Transience; Houses, Deserted; Impermanence


SOUTHERN MANSION, by ARNA BONTEMPS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Poplars are standing there still as death
Subject(s): African Americans; Haunted Houses; Southern States; Supernatural; Negroes; American Blacks; South (u.s.)


SOUTHERN MANSION, by ARNA BONTEMPS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Poplars are standing there still as death
Last Line: They have broken roses down %and poplars stand there still as death
Subject(s): African Americans; Haunted Houses; Southern States; Supernatural


SPATTER'S RAMBLES: COFFEE-HOUSES, by HUGH KELLY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Last night at the coffee-house happening to sit
Last Line: "take the word of your humble—jack spatter."
Alternate Author Name(s): Spatter, Jack
Subject(s): Coffee Houses


SPEECH NEVER GIVEN ON THE 11 A.M. HOUSE TOUR, by SHERRY FAIRCHOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'll grant you, we need their five-dollar bills
Last Line: Like a moth, until someone came
Subject(s): Houses; Tourists


STATELY HOMES OF ENGLAND, by NOEL COWARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lord elderley, lord borrowmere, lord sickert and lord camp
Last Line: In a hand-embroidered shroud, %we're proud of the stately homes of england
Subject(s): England; Hemans, Felicia (1793-1835); Houses; Social Classes


STILL-HILDRETH SANATORIUM, 1936, by DAVID BAKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When she wasn't on rounds she was counting
Last Line: Lift like a good child my face to be kissed
Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums


SUBURBS, by ENID DERHAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Miles and miles of quiet houses
Subject(s): Houses


SUMMER DAY AT THE DESERTED HOUSE, by BERTYE YOUNG WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rose petals fall
Last Line: Before the night comes on!)
Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, B. Y.
Subject(s): Houses, Deserted


SURFACE AND STRUCTURE: BONAVENTURE HOTEL, LOS ANGELES, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Four black glass silos
Last Line: Broken from a necklace.
Subject(s): Decay; Hotels; Los Angeles; Rot; Decadence; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


SWEET SAFE HOUSES, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Interrupt to die
Variant Title(s): Poem: 457; Poem: 68
Subject(s): Houses


TARANTELLA, by HILAIRE BELLOC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Do you remember an inn, / miranda?
Last Line: Of the far waterfall like doom.
Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


TEARING DOWN THE HOTEL, by MILLER WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They are tearing down the oldest hotel
Subject(s): Demolition; Past; Hotels; Nostalgia; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


TENANTRY, by GEORGE ADDISON SCARBROUGH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tonight in the black house / I am counting houses
Subject(s): Houses


TH INN BY THE WOOD, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The rank raw mist clung close like a hood
Last Line: And I supped like a king at the inn by the wood.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Forests; Hotels; Woods; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


THAT BOY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Is the house turned topsy-turvy?
Last Line: But I know you've got -- that boy
Subject(s): Houses


THE AGEING HOUSE, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the walls were red
Last Line: While fiercely girds the wind at the long-limbed sycamore tree!
Subject(s): Houses


THE ANCESTRAL DWELLINGS, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear to my heart are the ancestral dwellings of america
Last Line: The glory and strength of america come from her ancestral dwellings.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Houses; United States; America


THE ARTEMUS OF MICHIGAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Grand haven is in michigan
Last Line: Potts!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Hotels; Michigan; Towns; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


THE ASYLUM, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I love my asylum
Last Line: We're afraid of going -- sane!
Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums


THE BALLAD OF A LOST HOUSE, by LEONORA SPEYER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hungry heart, hungry heart, where have you been?
Last Line: Over a clear and quickening sea.
Subject(s): Hearts; Houses; Hunger; Passion


THE BLUE HOUSE, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is night with glaring sunshine. I stand in the woods and look towards my hous
Subject(s): Houses; Time


THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND EYES: THE LOST PINES INN, by LYN HEJINIAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lost pines inn would be a good name for a motel, or no sheep in the meadow
Last Line: P.T. Cruiser that got me home by bedtime
Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


THE BOROUGH: LETTER 11. INNS, by GEORGE CRABBE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All the comforts of life in a tavern are known
Last Line: Took the green-man, and is a master now.
Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


THE BOROUGH: LETTER 18. THE POOR AND THEIR DWELLINGS, by GEORGE CRABBE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes! We've our borough-vices, and I know
Last Line: Doubling each look of care, each token of distress.
Subject(s): Houses; Poverty


THE CEILING, by THEODORE ROETHKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Suppose the ceiling went outside
Subject(s): Houses


THE CHOP-HOUSE IN THE ALLEY, by HENRY M. HYDE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Talk about old roman banquets
Last Line: When the paper's gone to press.
Subject(s): Houses; Memory


THE CLOSED ROOM, by MARY PEASLEE ROOT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here, time that was dim years away
Last Line: Nor closed the rusty door.
Subject(s): Houses, Deserted


THE COLLAPSE OF THE TWO-RIVERS HOTEL, by SAADI YOUSSEF    Poem Text                    
First Line: The desert is not far from it
Alternate Author Name(s): Youssef, Saddi; Yusuf, Sa'di
Subject(s): Hotels; Nostalgia; Ruins; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


THE CROWN INN, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Round all its nooks and corners goes
Last Line: While empires shudder into night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Hotels; Landscape; English; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


THE CRY OF THE OLD HOUSE, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come back!
Last Line: And fall upon my heart!
Subject(s): Homecoming; Houses


THE CUSTOM HOUSE, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The custom house in billingsgate
Last Line: For half-an-hour of hot july.
Subject(s): Houses


THE DESERTED HOUSE, by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's no smoke in the chimney
Last Line: Nor any bird of the air.
Alternate Author Name(s): Anodos
Subject(s): Houses, Deserted


THE DESERTED HOUSE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gloom is upon thy lonely hearth
Last Line: And reach my father's house on high!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Heaven; Houses, Deserted; Mourning; Paradise; Bereavement


THE DESERTED HOUSE, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The old house stands deserted, gray
Last Line: About the old house clings its peace.
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Houses, Deserted; Peace


THE DESERTED HOUSE, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Life and thought have gone away
Last Line: Would they could have stayed with us!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Houses, Deserted


THE DESERTED HOUSE, by OLIVE WATKINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Shadows interlaced the walk
Last Line: Stand aloof?
Subject(s): Houses, Deserted


THE DESERTED MANSION, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Damp and drear the lonely halls
Last Line: On the teachings of the day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Houses, Deserted; Mansions; Murder; Past


THE DESOLATE HOUSE, by ANNETTE ELISABETH VON DROSTE-HULSHOFF    Poem Text                    
First Line: Deep in a dell a woodsman's house
Last Line: And echoes of the dead man's flute.
Alternate Author Name(s): Droste-hulshoff, Annette Von
Subject(s): Houses, Deserted


THE EMPRESS HOTEL POEMS, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Just get up / and sit down again. Then
Last Line: In the other poem.
Subject(s): Hotels; Housekeeping; Language; Rooms; Tourists; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Words; Vocabulary


THE EMPTY HOUSE, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The old house stands in a pasture lot
Last Line: An empty house? Well, empty of what?
Subject(s): Children; Houses, Deserted; Childhood


THE ENORMOUS AQUARIUM, by SHEROD SANTOS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All morning long from inside the lobby
Subject(s): Aquariums; Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


THE FAIR MAID OF PERTH'S HOUSE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All ye good people, afar and near
Last Line: And well versed in history, be it understood.
Subject(s): Guests; Houses; Visiting


THE FINISHED HOUSE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The finished house. The realized dream of those
Last Line: O god of hosts! Amen.
Subject(s): Blessings; Dreams; Houses; Prayer; Nightmares


THE FLOOR AND THE CEILING, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Winter and summer, whatever the weather,
Subject(s): Houses; Loss


THE GLASS HOUSE, by JANE MILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I enter at dusk
Last Line: Not that, she says, anything but that.
Subject(s): Family Life; Houses; Modern Man; Relatives


THE GREAT HOUSE, by EDWIN MUIR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: However it came, this great house has gone down
Last Line: Who built in chaos our bastion and our home
Subject(s): Houses


THE GREEK QUARTER, by JOHN MYERS O'HARA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The cryptic letters of the golden tongue
Last Line: The blue Ægean sparkling in the day.
Subject(s): Coffee Houses; Greek Language; Immigrants; New York City; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


THE GROTTO; WRITTEN UNDER THE NAME OF PETER DRAKE, A FISHERMAN, by MATTHEW GREEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Adieu awhile, forsaken flood
Last Line: A woman wise men canonize.
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Courts & Courtiers; Houses; Richmond Park, England; William Iii, King Of England (1650-1702); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens


THE HAUNTED HOUSE, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon a little rise it stands alone
Last Line: A fragrance as of roses fills the air.
Subject(s): Haunted Houses


THE HAUNTED HOUSE, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The shadows sit and stand about its door
Last Line: O'er the haunted house.
Subject(s): Haunted Houses


THE HAUNTED HOUSE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: See'st thou yon gray, gleaming hall
Last Line: Haunted still her place must be!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Haunted Houses


THE HAUNTED HOUSE, by RUBIN KANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twas many years ago, but still
Last Line: The mighty lord -- his name is dear.
Subject(s): Haunted Houses


THE HAUNTED HOUSE, by RON PADGETT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Put a coin on the doorstep. Gears begin
Last Line: Fades back into the house.
Subject(s): Haunted Houses


THE HAUNTED HOUSE; A ROMANCE, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams
Last Line: The place is haunted!
Subject(s): Haunted Houses


THE HAUNTED PALACE, by EDGAR ALLAN POE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the greenest of our valleys / by good angels tenanted
Last Line: And laugh -- but smile no more.
Subject(s): Castles; Ghosts; Grief; Haunted Houses; Insanity; Mysticism; Supernatural; Sorrow; Sadness; Madness; Mental Illness


THE HAUNTED RUIN, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The place, untouched by vice or crime
Last Line: And joins the phantoms there.
Subject(s): Desolation; Haunted Houses


THE HOMES OF ENGLAND, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The stately homes of england
Last Line: Its country and its god.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): England; Home; Houses; Women; English


THE HOTEL DU NORD, by CHASE TWICHELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the lawn of the old hotel at twilight
Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


THE HOUSE, by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mud put/upon mud
Subject(s): Houses


THE HOUSE, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is no architect
Last Line: Outlive the newest stars.
Subject(s): Houses


THE HOUSE, by CHARLES OLSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The land outside, and the night is gthe enemy's
Last Line: The black of water and of night
Subject(s): Houses; Night


THE HOUSE, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes, on waking, she would close her eyes
Subject(s): Houses; Dreams; Love - Loss Of; Nightmares


THE HOUSE AT EVENING, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Across the school-ground it would start
Last Line: Dim worlds aflame.
Subject(s): Family Life; Houses; Relatives


THE HOUSE BESIDE THE STREAM, by LAUREL LAUER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Reserved, it stands beside the quiet stream
Last Line: As though to linger...Loath to go away.
Subject(s): Houses; Sonnet (as Literary Form)


THE HOUSE IN THE MEADOW, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It stands in a sunny meadow
Last Line: In the father's house in the skies.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Houses


THE HOUSE OF LIFE, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The life of the body's a cage
Last Line: That she be not alone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Death; Houses; Life; Solitude; Soul; Dead, The; Loneliness


THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I would choose to be a door-keeper
Last Line: In the house of the lord!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Caregivers; God; Houses; Humility


THE HOUSE OF THE SILENT YEARS, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The silent house it standeth wide
Last Line: A thousand years one day.
Subject(s): Houses


THE HOUSE OF YESTERDAY, by BLANCHE CHALFANT TUCKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: There's an old vacant house on the great highway
Last Line: I stop just a moment, to show that I care.
Subject(s): Houses, Deserted; Memory; Ruins


THE HOUSE WITH NOBODY IN IT, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whenever I walk to suffern along the erie track
Last Line: With a broken heart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce
Subject(s): Grief; Houses; Sorrow; Sadness


THE HOUSE'S SETTING, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here is no hedge of yewe to hold in griefe
Last Line: And three tall pines for sorrowe.
Subject(s): Houses


THE ICE HOUSE, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The house was really a cellar deep beneath the tower of the old
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): Ice Houses


THE ICEHOUSE, POINTE AU BARIL, ONTARIO, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Each vast block in its batter
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): Ice Houses


THE INN AT LOCH RANZA, by WILLIAM MCQUEEN (1841-)    Poem Text                    
First Line: There's a neat little inn cuddled close by the hills
Last Line: Not far from the inn at loch ranza.
Subject(s): Hospitality; Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


THE INN OF THE FIVE CHIMNEYS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It had five chimneys, had that inn
Last Line: And rumor said it was soiled with sin!
Subject(s): Hotels; Sin; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


THE INN THAT MISSED ITS CHANCE (THE LANDLORD SPEAKS, AD. 28), by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What could be done? The inn was full of folks!
Last Line: The birthplace of messiah, -- had I known!
Subject(s): Christmas; Hotels; Nativity, The; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


THE INN: AN OLD EPITAPH, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Post-haste we ride the road of men
Last Line: Who soonest goes hath least to pay.
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Hotels; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


THE INVERSNAID INN, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The season is ended, the cold days begin
Last Line: We are left in the storm, like the inversnaid inn!
Subject(s): Hotels; Scotland; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


THE JADE HOUSE, by EDWIN W. TOMLINSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: This old house views the world with faded eye
Last Line: Can hear a furtive tapping on a pane.
Subject(s): Houses


THE JUDGE AND THE BIRD, by LOUIS ZUKOFSKY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The house was dutch
Subject(s): Houses; Canaries


THE KEEPER OF THE DEAD HOTEL, by AGHA SHAHID ALI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In one room upstairs
Last Line: The moon splashed everywhdre
Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


THE KEY, by RICHARD JONES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is my key to happiness
Last Line: My sugar and my cream.
Subject(s): Algeria; Hotels; Keys; Travel; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Journeys; Trips


THE KEY, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I hold a key in my hand
Last Line: Guiltless turn to that mouth
Subject(s): Keys; Houses


THE KITCHEN CHIMNEY, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Builder, in building the little house
Last Line: Of castles I used to build in air
Subject(s): Houses


THE LANDLADY IN BANGKOK, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Because, separated from us by a language
Last Line: From samsara to nirvana.
Subject(s): Hotels; Landlords & Tenants; Thailand; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


THE LATEST HOTEL GUEST WALKS OVER PARTICLES THAT REVOLVE, by RUTH STONE            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is an old established hotel
Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


THE LINCOLN CABIN, by KALFUS KURTZ GUSLING    Poem Text                    
First Line: Behold! The timbers rough, the lintel low
Last Line: He, from this dark beginning, found the way.
Subject(s): Houses; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


THE LION HOUSE, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Always the heavy air
Last Line: For the delight of whom?
Subject(s): Animals; Houses; Lions


THE LITTLE HOUSE, by EDITH DALEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I want a humble little house
Last Line: "a friend of mine lives here!"
Subject(s): Houses


THE LITTLE HOUSE, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I will have a little house
Last Line: For the children lost.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Children; Comfort; Houses; Loss; Mothers; Old Age; Childhood


THE LODGING HOUSE FIRE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: My birthday - yesterday
Last Line: Poison the score.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Fire; Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


THE MAN ON THE HOTEL ROOM BED, by GALWAY KINNELL            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He shifts on the bed carefully, so as
Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


THE MARSH-HOUSE, by JAMES E. RICHARDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Far out upon the great green sedge it stands
Last Line: Instance of things full merciful as these.
Subject(s): Houses; Swamps; Bogs; Fens; Marshes


THE MIRROR IN THE WOODS, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A mirror hung on the broken
Last Line: The wood rats and moss work unseen
Subject(s): Ballet; Dancing & Dancers; Daughters; Houses, Deserted; Mirrors; Parents; Parenthood


THE NARROW HOUSE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "a narrow home, but very still it seemeth"
Last Line: Trust him who calls unto his rest our dead
Subject(s): Houses;jesus Christ


THE NEW HOUSE, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I will buy or build a brand-new house,' / she said
Last Line: Save the fantastic worm's perpetual boring.
Subject(s): Houses; Property; Possessions


THE NEW HOUSE, by FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS GIFFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My little house is very young
Last Line: And not be dark, some day!
Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Fannie Stearns
Subject(s): Houses


THE NEW HOUSE, by ERICH S. KLOSSNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This house is new
Last Line: I am a stranger here.
Subject(s): Houses


THE NEW HOUSE, by LUCIA CLARK MARKHAM    Poem Text                    
First Line: No ancient sorrows haunt these shining walls
Last Line: "and smile and say: ""how blest she must have been!"
Subject(s): Houses


THE NEW HOUSE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is the house not homely yet?
Last Line: Legendwise inscribed above.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Friendship; Houses


THE NEW HOUSE, by CAROLINE SALOME WOODRUFF    Poem Text                    
First Line: The house was new
Last Line: Strange paradox of life!
Subject(s): Houses


THE OLD CASA, by TORREY CONNOR    Poem Text                    
First Line: The moon and I a-tiptoe peer within
Last Line: And I am here to see the last rose fall!
Subject(s): Houses


THE OLD CASTLE ON THE HILL, by BORGHILD BREKKE ZANINI    Poem Text                    
First Line: Surrounded by poplars, it stands there still
Last Line: The night is gone, not a ghost remains.
Subject(s): Castles; Ghosts; Haunted Houses; Supernatural


THE OLD HOUSE, by LAURENCE BINYON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of the old house, only a few crumbled
Last Line: Older than many a generation of men.
Subject(s): Houses, Deserted


THE OLD HOUSE, by GRACE DUFFIE BOYLAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Cold and cheerless, bare and bleak
Last Line: For us and all the children.
Subject(s): Children; Houses; Muses; Poverty; Childhood


THE OLD HOUSE, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O kindly house, where time my soul endows
Last Line: Now falls the evening light. God give thee peace!
Subject(s): Houses; Memory


THE OLD MANOR HOUSE, by ADA CAMBRIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An old house, crumbling half away, all barnacled and lichen grown
Last Line: The thin hands folded on her breast, in peace at last, and perfect rest!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs.
Subject(s): Houses; Mortgages


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 181, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A pitiful hundred-year house
Last Line: To rebuild would never work
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Decay; Houses; Rot; Decadence


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 247, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In this village is a house
Last Line: A pearl concealed in rags
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Decay; Houses; Rot; Decadence


THE POET'S ESTATE, by ANNIE C. BURTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The poet roams at will where heartsease grows
Last Line: On them has been bestowed apollo's kiss.
Subject(s): Houses; Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form)


THE PROPS ASSIST THE HOUSE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Affirming it a soul
Subject(s): Houses; Building & Builders; Soul


THE QUAKER MEETING-HOUSE, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beyond the corn-rows from our barracks stood
Last Line: With windows burning like the fires of home.
Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Houses; Religion; War; World War I; Quakers; Theology; First World War


THE QUIET LODGER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The man that rooms next door to
Last Line: This man that rooms next door to me!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Faces; Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


THE REBUILDING, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My house is builded, lord: build it anew!
Last Line: A better house erect.
Subject(s): Houses; Worship


THE SECOND CONCESSION OF DEER, by WILLIAM WYE SMITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: John tompkins lived in a house of logs
Last Line: Of his own domain in deer.
Subject(s): Change; Family Life; Houses; Old Age; Relatives


THE SILENCE, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We walk through a yellow-ocher adobe house
Last Line: Water is, taking the shape of the container.
Subject(s): Decay; Houses; Silence; Rot; Decadence


THE THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 7, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I think these squalid houses are the ghosts
Subject(s): Extinct Animals; Houses


THE TOKEN, by MURIEL NEWTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I passed along a tragic street
Last Line: Whispering that beauty does endure.
Subject(s): Houses, Deserted


THE TOWER OF ERCILDOUNE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a stillness on the night
Last Line: Except to lead us nearer heaven.
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Desolation; Haunted Houses; Scotland; Walls


THE TREES WILL UNDERSTAND, by MATTIE RICHARDS TYLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: How still a house can be on such a night!
Last Line: For they and I have lost our all, my dear!
Subject(s): Autumn; Grief; Houses; Seasons; Soul; Trees; Fall; Sorrow; Sadness


THE WAYSIDE INN; SUDBURY, MASSACHUSETTS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Set by the meadows, with great oaks to guard
Last Line: Songs that will echo sweet the ages down!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Guests; Hotels; Massachusetts; Visiting; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


THE WITCH, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Her hair was gold and warm it lay
Last Line: Between the twilight and the sea.
Subject(s): Evil; Haunted Houses; Spells; Witchcraft & Witches


THEIR HOUSES THERE WITHOUT THEIR BODIES, by MARTHA COLLINS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No one is there but someone will be there
Last Line: And breathing without their bodies they are home
Subject(s): Home; Houses, Deserted


THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 7, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I think these squalid houses are the ghosts
Last Line: Close in upon our heels
Subject(s): Extinct Animals; Houses


THREE HOUSES, by BEATRICE HAWLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The three houses in my dream
Last Line: Too narrow, I dive down and hear %the musical clocks, the cat's purr
Subject(s): Houses


THREE HOUSES, by JOHN VOIKLIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: My friend, I too possess a house by the sea
Last Line: Dear house, your folded safe inside my pocket.'
Subject(s): Houses; Sea


THREE MEN, by WITTER BYNNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a house born of the brown earth
Last Line: And wondered where it was calling.
Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel
Variant Title(s): An Adobe House
Subject(s): Earth; Houses; Men; Poetry & Poets; World


TO A COUNTRY HOTEL TOWEL, by ELMER CLEVELAND ADAMS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I'll touch you not, you much abus-ed rag
Last Line: Trying to don you for an undershirt.
Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


TO A WATCH LEFT IN A HOTEL ROOM, by DEBORA GREGER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Not long ago the sun was shining
Subject(s): Hotels; Loss; Watches; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


TO JANE, by JOHN COULTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Against a sloping wood it stands
Last Line: Is this the house our dead love built?
Subject(s): Forests; Houses; Wind; Woods


TO MAKE A HOUSE, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: They cut a piece of the world outside
Last Line: And spread the ground with floors.
Subject(s): Houses; November


TO MR. GAY, WHO WROTE HIM A CONGRATULATORY LETTER ON FINISHING HOUSE, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, friend! 'tis true - this truth you lovers know
Last Line: Bleeds drop by drop, and pants his life away.
Subject(s): Gay, John (1685-1732); Houses; Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley (1689-1762)


TO MY DEAR SISTER, MRS. S.: THE CHAMBER, by WILLIAM HAMMOND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Entering your door, I started back; sure this
Last Line: That all things mask their better qualities?
Subject(s): Houses; Mourning; Bereavement


TO MY LADY ROGERS, THE AUTHORS WIVES MOTHER ... HER HOUSE IN BATH, by JOHN HARRINGTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I newly had your little house erected
Last Line: For euery roome is either there, or here
Alternate Author Name(s): Harington, John
Subject(s): Houses


TO MY OLD ADDRESSES, by KENNETH KOCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Help! Get out of here! Go walking!
Subject(s): Home; Houses


TO MY OLD ADDRESSES, by KENNETH KOCH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Help! Get out of here! Go walking!
Last Line: Forty-eight, neneteen, twenty-three, o worlds in which I was alive!
Subject(s): Home; Houses


TO PENSHURST, by BEN JONSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou art not, penshurst, built to envious show
Last Line: May say their lords have built, but thy lord dwells.
Subject(s): Animals; Buildings & Builders; Houses; Penshurst, England; Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586)


TO QUILCA; A COUNTRY HOUSE IN NO GOOD REPAIR, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let me thy properties explain
Last Line: Sloth, dirt, and theft, around her wait.
Subject(s): Houses; Sheridan, Thomas (1687-1738)


TO SAXHAM, by THOMAS CAREW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Though frost, and snow, lock'd from mine eyes
Last Line: They cannot steal, thou giv'st so much.
Subject(s): Houses; Saxham, England


TO THE GENIUS OF HIS HOUSE, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Command the roofe great genius, and from thence
Last Line: Grow old with time, but yet keep weather-proofe.
Subject(s): Houses


TO THE NEW OWNER, by LUCILE HARGROVE REYNOLDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here is the house, in readiness for you
Last Line: Hoping to find a mislaid dream somewhere!
Subject(s): Houses


TO THE ROCK THAT WILL BE A CORNERSTONE OF THE HOUSE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old garden of grayish and ochre lichen
Last Line: How dear you will be to me when I too grow old, old comrade.
Subject(s): Houses; Time


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. I SAW A FAIR HOUSE, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw a fair house standing in a garden, but no one moved about it
Last Line: Others a sound of weeping.
Subject(s): Grief; Houses; Selfishness; Solitude; Women - Secluding; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


TREE HOUSE, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Last spring a neighbor boy / nailed up a house in a tree
Subject(s): Houses; Play; Trees; Youth


TROUBLE, FLEET AND LIGHT OF WING, by KIMBERLY JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Because I've hung moth-nets, the patio
Last Line: Contagious in passion, star. The star is wormwood
Subject(s): Houses; Moths


TRUTH, by MONICA OCHTRUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: There were two ways to get to my grandmother's house. One was to cross
Last Line: The diffusion of countless spores %flying thick in the air like fine dust swelling your nostrils. Br
Subject(s): Grandparents; Houses; Roads


TWO BEGINNINGS, by PATRICIA FAREWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: With this hammer build your house
Last Line: When you swim there, shorebirds follow
Subject(s): Buildings And Builders; Creation; Houses; Sea


TWO HOUSES, by CHARLES MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twill overtask a thousand men
Last Line: Shut up the door till doom!
Subject(s): Holidays; Houses; New Year


TWO HOUSES, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Between a sunny bank and the sun
Last Line: And out they creep and back again for ever
Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward
Subject(s): Houses


TWO LIVES. PART 2: 10, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I've seen the poets' houses: sirmio
Last Line: Were none more fit than that white house of ours --
Subject(s): Houses


TWO-RIVER LEDGER, by KHALED MATTAWA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Joke used to be: / if you don't like it
Subject(s): Rivers; Pollution; Houses; Family Life; Relatives


UNION OF WOMEN, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At a literary gathering in santa monica
Last Line: So here's to solidarity, cinquains, brave bearded ladies -- hooray!
Subject(s): Beards; Hotels; Labor Unions; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Feminism


UNTITLED, by CLAIRE MALROUX    Poem Source                    
First Line: Huge purple flowers spring from black corollas
Last Line: That I'd have buried you
Alternate Author Name(s): Roux, Claire Sara
Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Houses; Parents


UP-HILL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Does the road wind up-hill all the way?
Last Line: Yea, beds for all who come.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Variant Title(s): Uphill
Subject(s): Death; Faith; Heaven; Hotels; Life; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Religion; Time; Travel; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Paradise; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Theology; Journeys; Trips


VAGABOND HOUSE, by DON BLANDING    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I have a house -- as I sometime may --
Last Line: Well -- it's just a dream house, anyway
Subject(s): Houses


VANBRUGH'S HOUSE; BUILT FROM THE RUINS OF WHITEHALL, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In times of old, when time was young
Last Line: They from its ruins build their own.'
Subject(s): Houses; Vanbrugh, Sir John (1664-1726)


VENGEANCE OF THE DAMNED, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The snoring in the flophouse was very loud, as usual
Last Line: It was muscated
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Flop-houses; Wine


VENGEANCE OF THE DAMNED, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The snoring in the flophouse was very loud, as usual
Last Line: Tom passed the bottle. Max took the hit, passed it back %'thanks' %tom slipped the bottle under his
Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Flop-houses


VISITATION, by AUDREY NAFFZIGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: A deserted house is often appealing. No
Subject(s): Houses, Deserted


VISITING MY OWN HOUSE IN IOWA CITY, by GERALD STERN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The three large dogs in my house
Subject(s): Houses; Iowa


VISITING MY OWN HOUSE IN IOWA CITY, by GERALD STERN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The three large dogs in my house
Last Line: I came to transform and to love
Subject(s): Houses; Iowa


WAIKIKI HOUSE, by J. F. HARRIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: It's very small, my little house
Last Line: By three hawaiian boys.
Subject(s): Houses; Waikiki, Hawaii


WALKING IN A NEWLY BUILT HOUSE, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The window, a wide pane in the bare
Last Line: Lack of even potential meanings
Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom
Subject(s): Houses


WARM DAYS IN JANUARY, by DONALD REVELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It has never been so easy to cry
Subject(s): City & Town Life; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Ancestors & Ancestry; Hotels; Male-female Relations; Heritage; Heredity; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


WE LIVE IN A RICKETY HOUSE, by ALEXANDER MCLACHLAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And thieves and drunkards meet
Subject(s): Houses


WEATHER REPORT FROM THE STATE ASYLUM, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The mad old women, bolted from april's weather
Last Line: Gray secret face raised quietly, between
Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums


WHAT HOUSE TO LIKE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Some love the glow of outward show
Last Line: If I but like the people in it
Subject(s): Beauty;houses


WHAT THE MAGDALENE SAW, by TIMOTHY LIU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This fat cum pig more than eager to drop
Subject(s): Hotels; Sex; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


WHAT THEY KNOW ABOUT LOVE: 2., by STEVEN SHERRILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've lived in a red house
Last Line: The round earth and all its bones %beneath
Subject(s): Houses; Life


WHEN BUILDINGS LOSE THEIR PURPOSE, by JOHN B. LEE    Poem Source                    
First Line: My grandfather's house
Last Line: Behind the weather at the windows %with no one looking out
Subject(s): Grandparents; Houses


WHEN LIGHT COMES UP, by JULIE ILES O'LEARY    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's a moment each morning
Last Line: Against a blue-morning sky
Subject(s): Houses; Memory; Neighbors


WHITE CONDUIT HOUSE, by WILLIAM WOTY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wished sunday's come: mirth brightens every face
Last Line: So long, white conduit house, shall be thy fame.'
Subject(s): Collective Behavior; Food & Eating; Houses; Restaurants; Waiters And Waitresses; Mobs; Crowds; Cafes; Diners


WHO'S IN?, by ELIZABETH+(1) FLEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: The door is shut fast %and everyone's out
Last Line: Why, everyone's in!
Subject(s): Houses


WILLOW-WATTLED HOUSE, by CHARLES ERSKINE SCOTT WOOD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am tired on lonesome sagebrush
Subject(s): Houses


WIND AND MIST, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They met inside the gateway that gives the view
Last Line: As I should like to try being young again
Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward
Subject(s): Houses


WINTER MORNING, by FLORENCE E. VON WIEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The morning's in a frivolous mood!
Last Line: The morning's in a frivolous mood!
Subject(s): Death; Haunted Houses; Skeletons; Dead, The


WITHOUT A SIMILAR CONDITION INCLUDING THIS CONDITION, by DARA WIER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The father away from the center of power
Last Line: Never more than a few feet away %from its friend
Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Houses


WOMEN'S WARD, by GENOA MORRIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In ordered groups they sit
Last Line: "lost!"
Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals; Women; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums


WORLDLINESS, by CHASE TWICHELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I close my eyes
Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


WRITTEN AT AN INN, by GEORGE HORNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: From much-loved friends whene'er I part
Last Line: "arise, my soul, and let us go."
Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


WRITTEN AT AN INN AT HENLEY, by WILLIAM SHENSTONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To thee, fair freedom! I retire / from flattery, cards, and dice, and din
Last Line: The warmest welcome at an inn.
Subject(s): Freedom; Hotels; Liberty; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses