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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A PARIS BLACKBIRD, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Along the seine's left bank, near the pont-neuf, on the mansard roof
Last Line: The scruffy blackbird -- and listen for the cry caught in her bronze throat.
Subject(s): Bird-watching; Blackbirds; Creative Ability; Knowledge; Louvre, Paris; Museums; Paris, France; Seine (river), France; Inspiration; Creativity; Art Gallerys


A POEM FOR MUSEUM GOERS, by JOHN WIENERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I walk down a long / passageway
Last Line: Shriek in their ears
Subject(s): Museums; Art Gallerys


A VERY WOEFUL BALLADE OF THE ART CRITIC (TO E.A. ABBEY), by ANDREW LANG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A spirit came to my sad bed
Last Line: "take up the pen, my friend, and write!"
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Museums; Portraits; Writing & Writers; Art Gallerys


ABOUT TIME, by PETER DAVISON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thousands who pass behind the great clock's dial
Last Line: A century ago: the blaze of day %lives in the timeless lilies of monet
Subject(s): Musee D'orsay, Paris; Museums; Time


AFTER THE CAR MUSEUM, by DARA WIER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Really right after the eerie buzz of abstract %thinking
Last Line: The cold, very cold air-conditioned atmosphere
Subject(s): Automobiles; Museums


AFTERNOON, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The ladies who are interested in assyrian art
Last Line: Towards the unconscous, the ineffable, the absolute
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S.
Subject(s): British Museum, London; Museums


ANGE DE MORTE, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO    Poem Source                    
First Line: These two %tiny figures, suspended
Last Line: Sky, into your own %waiting arms
Subject(s): Angels; Death; Museums


ANNE HATHAWAY'S COURTING BENCH, by SUSAN J. ALLSPAW    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's not for lack of waiting that the wood's worn
Last Line: Take turns sinking into old varnish, %rub luck out of its corners
Subject(s): Museums; Wood


ANNUALS, by DIANE JARVENPA    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the blaze of the backyard
Last Line: Yes, this is how it can be
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Mothers; Museums


ANOTHER WAS APPARENT, by F. JOHN HERBERT    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Nixon was more than an american since the iron curtain. %three million people saw liver
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Museums


ANTWERP: MUSEE DES BEAUX-ARTS, by ALAN ROSS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Rubens, se vos, memling - room after room
Last Line: At sunset, reach open sea - a spiritual south
Subject(s): Museums


ARTIST'S STATEMENT, by THERESA BOYAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: She was an artist with an exhibition
Last Line: In a square room where everyone lacked interest
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Museums; Paintings And Painters


AT NORTON SIMON MUSEUM, by PHIL WEIDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Etchings by goya
Last Line: Filled wonders %to look at
Subject(s): Museums


AT THE ASIAN ART MUSEUM, by THOMAS CENTOLELLA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Turtles on pond rock
Last Line: Just one cherry tree
Subject(s): Asia; Buddhism; Museums


AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM, by RICHARD ALDINGTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I turn the page and read
Last Line: About the cleft battlements of can grande's castle....
Subject(s): British Museum, London; Museums; Art Gallerys


AT THE CHINESE MUSEUM, LOCKE, CALIFORNIA, by CAMILLE NORTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: A dead woman's trousseau. A baby's linen shoe
Last Line: They'll have nothing to do with you
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Museums


AT THE MUSEE RODIN IN PARIS, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In front of a window
Last Line: A shadow to the ground.
Subject(s): Air; Museums; Paris, France; Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917); Sculpture & Sculptors; Secrets; Art Gallerys


AT THE MUSEUM, by AGHA SHAHID ALI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: But in 2500 b.C. Harrappa
Last Line: Came to harappa
Subject(s): Museums; Art Gallerys


AT THE MUSEUM, by JOHN MALCOLM BRINNIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Collectors are abroad, the nets are spread
Subject(s): Architecture And Architects; Museums


AT THE MUSEUM, 1938, by RUTH STONE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the native bird exhibit, the whip-poor-will, stuffed with sawdust
Last Line: Canopies; the continuous singing of birds among their breathing branches
Subject(s): Birds; Museums


AT THE TRAIN MUSEUM, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Topeka ... Junction city
Subject(s): Museums; Railroads; Art Gallerys; Railways; Trains


AT THE TRAIN MUSEUM, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Topeka ... Junction city
Last Line: And only half awake
Subject(s): Museums; Railroads


ATHENA, PAINTED ON AN AMPHORA BY PSIAX (BRESCIA), by CEES NOOTEBOOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: The unwise owl on your shield resembles a dove
Last Line: And no one to measure how slowly the colors fade
Subject(s): Goddesses And Gods; Museums; Mythology; Paintings And Painters


BILL REID AT THE ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM 1948, by TONY COSIER    Poem Source                    
First Line: A tall pole towers in the stairwell
Last Line: A wolf of the raven side
Subject(s): Canada; Museums


BIRDS, by RUTH STONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In peabody museum where phoebe lagged and marcia hid
Last Line: Trying to answer, here, here, I am here
Subject(s): Bird-watching; Museums


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


BRITISH MUSEUM READING ROOM, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the hive-like dome the stooping haunted readers
Last Line: The guttural sorrow of the refugees
Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis
Subject(s): British Museum, London; Museums; War


CARAVAGGIO: THE SUPPER AT EMMAUS, by JOHN DUFFRESNE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Some days our very sustenance is desire
Last Line: The brief afflatus of our wonder, %and a crown of shade, as all things here
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Caravaggio, Polidora Da (1500-1543); Museums; Paintings And Painters


CELT IN ME, by KEITH WILSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: In a museum here I saw a celtic swordblade
Last Line: Their arms outstretched for me
Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; History; Ireland; Museums


CLAIRVOYANT'S READING, by CAROLYNE WRIGHT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Unlock the sphinx, she tells me, there's
Last Line: Is forgiven. Now go, unlock the sphinx
Subject(s): Egypt; Extrasensory Perception; Museums; Pyramids; Sphinx


CLEOPATRA'S MUMMY; BRITISH MUSEUM, CASE NO. 6807, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A heap of crumbling bones
Last Line: More fair than she.
Subject(s): British Museum, London; Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); Mummies; Museums; Art Gallerys


CLOUD SHADOW, by MICHAEL T. YOUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: If it comes over me without my noticing
Last Line: And the last visitors are turned away
Subject(s): Death; Museums; Paintings And Painters; Shadows


COAL MINE MUSEUM, by FRANCIS BLESSINGTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Before each snapshot, we stare briefly
Last Line: The one moving thing a bat %our guide enrages with a shaft of light
Subject(s): Museums


DOLLS MUSEUM IN DUBLIN, by EAVAN BOLAND    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wounds are terrible. The paint is old
Last Line: With a terrible stare. But not feel it. And not know it
Subject(s): Dolls; Dublin, Ireland; Museums; Toys


EXHIBITION, by KATHRYN BUDD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Solemn smiles in gilded frames
Last Line: Battered-beaten-bold beauty isn't for sale
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Beauty; Exhibitions; Museums; Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)


FEMALE FIGURE IN GLASS WITH COPPER WIRE (6 X 6 ), by DEENA LINETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Girdled by copper filament stopped
Last Line: Gaze lifted to an absent sun, she satisfies
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Museums; Saint Kilda (scotland); Statues


FLORIDIAN MUSEUM OF ART, by REED WHITTEMORE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a stone deer in that garden, plus two or three nude
Subject(s): Architecture And Architects; Museums


GHOST SHIRT, by LUCIA MARIA PERILLO    Poem Source                    
First Line: The blue whale swam through blue air in the basement
Last Line: From people lighting candles in front of the public library
Subject(s): History; Museums; New York City


GIACOMETTI IN EDINBURGH, by DEENA LINETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: To come here you walk along the water of leith
Last Line: Even you, fixed by light, unable to breathe
Subject(s): Edinburgh, Scotland; Museums; Saint Kilda (scotland)


GREAT FETISHES, by FREDERIC SAUSER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A hardwood sheathing
Last Line: And the gaze shining like a bugle
Alternate Author Name(s): Cendrars, Blaise
Subject(s): British Museum, London; Museums


HALL OF ARCHITECTURE, by ROBERT GIBB    Poem Source                    
First Line: Touring the past's attic we stopped before
Last Line: Something silent and shelfed and permanent
Subject(s): Architecture And Architects; Museums; Past


HARRIET BEECHER STOWE: SCRIBBLER, by ANN STRUTHERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: New yorkers were amazed at this portrait
Last Line: Maybe that's why the corners of her mouth %turn up so slightly
Subject(s): Literature; Museums; Portraits; Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896); Theater And Theaters


HAZARDS OF IMAGERY: AT THE TOMB OF.. IMPROPERLY TRAINED BOMBADIERS, by PAUL RANDOLPH VIOLI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the saddest work I have ever seen
Last Line: To simply go around them
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Graves; Guests; Museums; Poetry And Poets; Tourists


HAZARDS OF IMAGERY: IN THE LOUNGE AT THE PHYSICIAN'S GUILD, by PAUL RANDOLPH VIOLI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The standing nudes and odalisques
Last Line: Until a noteworthy physician arrived %and a paler otis was fully revived
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Drawing; Museums; Statues


HEAD OF A GIRL, AT THE MET, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Vermeer's girl in your turban and pearl:
Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Museums; Time; Art Gallerys


HISTORICAL MUSEUM, MANITOULIN ISLAND, by LISEL MUELLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After a while it dawns on us
Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel
Subject(s): Museums; Art Gallerys


HISTORY LESSONS: MUSEUM PIECES, by SIDNEY WADE    Poem Source                    
First Line: A complex arrangement of arifacts
Last Line: Intransitive, textured and abstract
Subject(s): Museums


HISTORY OF THE SEVEN FAMILIES OF THE LAKE PIPPLE-POPPLE, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In former days-that is to say, once upon a time, there lived in the land
Last Line: Building; for if you do not, you certainly will not see them
Subject(s): Animals; Geography; History; Museums; Nature


HOMAGE TO P. MELLON, I.M. PEI, THEIR GALLERY AND WASHINGTON, by WILLIAM MEREDITH            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Granite and marble
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris
Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Art & Artists; Museums; Homage & Respect; Art Gallerys


HOMAGE TO P. MELLON, I.M. PEI, THEIR GALLERY AND WASHINGTON, by WILLIAM MEREDITH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Granite and marble
Last Line: Laying down stone like our own sweet lives
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris
Subject(s): Architecture And Architects; Art And Artists; Museums


IMAGINE A GALLERY, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Opened and closed their wings!
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Museums; Nature


IMPLEMENTS FROM THE 'TOMB OF THE POET'; PIRAEUS ARCHEOLOGICAL MUSEUM, by ALICE E. STALLINGS    Poem Text                    
First Line: On the journey to the mundane afterlife
Alternate Author Name(s): Stallings, A. E.
Subject(s): Graves; Museums; Tombs; Tombstones; Art Gallerys


IN A MUSEUM, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: This is a curious place
Last Line: Of golden dreams!
Subject(s): Museums; Tourists; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Art Gallerys; Journeys; Trips


IN FIELDS AND IN MUSEUMS, by J. S. VENIT    Poem Source                    
First Line: There are certain moments when a great calm
Last Line: Stories budding like a hill with wheat
Subject(s): Calm; Fields; Museums


IN GALLERIES, by RANDALL JARRELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The guard has a right to despair. He stands by god
Subject(s): Museums; Sculpture & Sculptors; Art Gallerys


IN GALLERIES, by RANDALL JARRELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The guard has a right to despair. He stands by god
Last Line: A quarter's worth of nickel and aluminum
Subject(s): Museums; Sculpture And Sculptors


IN THE ART MUSEUM, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To the guard I'm probably only another oaf from the sticks, one of
Last Line: The dust that rises from them turns to gold in the air
Subject(s): Museums


IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What do you see in that time-touched stone
Last Line: The voice of paul.'
Subject(s): British Museum, London; Museums; Paul, Saint (1st Century); Art Gallerys; Saul Of Tarsus


IN THE EGYPTIAN MUSEUM, by JANET LEWIS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the lucent glass, %closed from the living air
Last Line: Pierces me with 'alas %that the beloved must die!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Winters, Janet Lewis; Winters, Yvor, Mrs.
Subject(s): Death; Museums


IN THE MUSEUM AT TEHERAN, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A sentimental curator has placed
Last Line: I'm happy now I'm happy oh don't %move don't go away
Subject(s): Museums; Statues; Teheran, Iran


IN THE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, by SIV CEDERING    Poem Source                    
First Line: My getting locked in the museum of natural history was no accident
Last Line: Write
Subject(s): Central Park, New York City; Dinosaurs; History; Museums


IN THE MUSEUM OF REGRETS, by LOIS MARIE HARROD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your face begins to fall apart. Your eyes turn to soft stones
Last Line: The museum closes in half an hour and you must stay
Subject(s): Museums


IN THE READING-ROOM OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Praised be the moon of books! That doth above
Last Line: While in this liberal house thy face is bright.
Subject(s): British Museum, London; Librarians & Libraries; Museums; Library; Librarians; Art Gallerys


IN THE ROYAL ACADEMY, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They have not come! And ten is past
Last Line: Portraits are hung by the committee?
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Museums; Art Gallerys


INDIAN MUSEUM, by GREVILLE ROWLAND    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here's not the pulsing of a fearsome life
Last Line: Whisper of sad subjection in their tears.
Subject(s): Museums; Art Gallerys


JOE BRAINARD'S PAINTING 'BINGO', by RON PADGETT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I suffer when I sit next to joe brainard's painting bingo
Last Line: She had misunderstood what I had said
Subject(s): Brainard, Joe (b. 1942); Museums; Paintings And Painters; Art Gallerys


KYLIX FOR THE BOSTON MUSEUM, by DANIEL RAY CAMPION    Poem Source                    
First Line: For drinking wine I like a simple glass
Last Line: Fat clusters of blue somke strung out behind
Subject(s): Museums


LINES ON A PORTRAIT OF SIR WALTER SCOTT, BY C.R. LESLIE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pride of my country! I delight
Last Line: Till ends his reign, a third like thee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Leslie, Charles Robert (1794-1859); Museums; Paintings And Painters; Picture Books; Portraits; Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832); Leslie, C. R.; Art Gallerys


LITTLE DISSERTATION OF THE SUBJECT/OBJECT: 1. AFTER THE OPENING, by GAIL WRONSKY    Poem Source                    
First Line: There was a last, too-brief interlude in
Last Line: Painting, nora? How has it been?
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Museums; Nudity; Paintings And Painters; Pornography; Portraits; Sin; Women


LOVE IN THE MUSEUM, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now will you stand for me, in this cool light
Last Line: Lest one imperfect gesture make demands %as troubling as the touch of human hands
Subject(s): Love; Museums


LUSTMORD (RETROSPECTIVE: NEW YORK SCHOOL), by DEENA LINETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: All the tiny bones %lie in rows on the table
Last Line: And she'd seem happy, as perhaps she is
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Exhibitions; Museums; New York City; Saint Kilda (scotland); Tourists


MAN WITH THE GOLDEN EYE, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I remember the nun who studied in the jagiellonian
Last Line: While I spoke to a tourist, %while I kept looking at you
Subject(s): Museums; Tourists; Travel


MUNICIPAL GALLEY REVISITED, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Around me the images of thirty years
Last Line: Think where man's glory most begins and ends, %and say my glory was I had such friends
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Museums


MUSEE DES AUGUSTINS: TOULOUSE, by PAUL BLACKBURN            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Museums; Art Gallerys


MUSEE DES BEAUX ARTS, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: About suffering they were never wrong
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Subject(s): Apathy; Art & Artists; Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Human Rights; Icarus; Men; Museums; Mythology - Classical; Pain; Paintings & Painters; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter; Art Gallerys; Suffering; Misery


MUSEE DES BEAUX ARTS, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: About suffering they were never wrong
Last Line: Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky %had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Subject(s): Apathy; Art And Artists; Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Human Rights; Icarus; Men; Museums; Mythology - Classical; Pain; Paintings And Painters


MUSEE DES BEAUX ARTS, by RUSH RANKIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In this portrait, the strain
Subject(s): Museums; Paintings And Painters


MUSEE DES BOOZE ARTS, by ALBA NORA MARTINEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: They've wandered through a jackson pollock retrospective
Last Line: Some nut'd still say, 'hey, how about that for stained glass
Subject(s): Museums


MUSEUM, by GEORGI BELEV    Poem Source                    
First Line: From the frames' gilded bushed
Last Line: Are but a scream piercing the centuries, %footsteps of children fleeing %someone's cruel shadow
Subject(s): Museums


MUSEUM, by JOHN ISLES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Something's in the smell of their coats
Last Line: I am a good worker until he exits the service gate
Subject(s): Museums


MUSEUM, by JOE WENDEROTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The pattern is only ever of animal success
Last Line: As certain cries cannot be tolerated, missing
Subject(s): Museums


MUSEUM BOUND, by GERALD VIZENOR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Summer clownwinds
Last Line: We are museum bound
Subject(s): Museums; Native Americans


MUSEUM OF COSMONAUTICS, by JOHN F. DEANE    Poem Source                    
First Line: They took the church of the sacred martyrs
Last Line: There is nothing on the far side of the moon
Subject(s): Museums


MUSEUM OF HUMAN RESPONSE, by CAROL J. PIERMAN                       
First Line: At the carter museum
Last Line: Jimmy scolds us back to peace
Subject(s): Carter, Jimmy (b. 1924); Museums


MUSEUM OF THINGS YOU CAN'T FIX, by KAREN CRAIGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: True, it's not your typical museum
Last Line: Who got the jobs you wanted
Subject(s): Museums


NATIONAL GALLERY, OCTOBER 1945, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The kings who slept in the caves are awake and out
Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis
Subject(s): Museums; Paintings And Painters


NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, LONDON, by BARRY NATHAN GOLDENSOHN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Among the stuffed royals, great minds
Last Line: The faces the public owns, the private life
Subject(s): London; Museums; Portraits


NATURAL HISTORY [OR, THE SOLAR SYSTEM], by DAVID KELLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: High up in a corner hung two sand-colored spider eggs
Last Line: How things work toward order, even happiness
Variant Title(s): Natural Histor
Subject(s): History; Museums; Nature


NOTES FROM THE SYNAGOGUE MUSEUM, by LAURENCE LIEBERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Through the airtight %glass face, I peer at a homemade compact tool kit
Last Line: That makes pure %the fount of seed & progeny
Variant Title(s): Notes From The Synagogue Museum (1
Subject(s): Museums; Synagogues


OLD SADIE, by EDITH CHERRINGTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Old sadie, mop in hand, plods up a flight
Last Line: How base the model clay has come to be.
Subject(s): Museums; Old Age; Art Gallerys


PAGANI'S, by EZRA POUND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Suddenly discovering in the eyes of the very beautify normande cocotte
Subject(s): Museums; Art Gallerys


PAINTINGS IN THE MUSEUMS OF MUNICH AND VENICE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cranach's lot and his daughter
Last Line: Seen in this beautiful picture
Subject(s): Cranach, Lucas (1472-1553); Geerten Tot Sint Jans (1465-1495); Munich, Germany; Museums; Paintings And Painters; Venice, Italy


PARADYS, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of paradys ne can not I speken propurly
Last Line: If ever we desire to enter. %chiang mai thailand
Subject(s): Museums; Thailand; Tourists; Travel


PERMANENT COLLECTION, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a rich provincial city there is a museum as imposing and quite as
Last Line: With their faces shining?
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Cities; History; Museums; Tourists; Travel


PHAR LAP IN THE MELBOURNE MUSEUM, by PETER PORTER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A masterpiece of the taxidermist's art
Subject(s): Animals; Museums; Phar Lap (race Horse); Taxidermy And Taxidermists


PICTURE GALLERY, by FRANCIS AUGUSTUS DRAKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Quiet courtyard, neat and classic
Last Line: For this fresh desire to think!
Subject(s): Museums; Art Gallerys


POEM FOR MUSEUM GOERS, by JOHN WIENERS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I walk down a long %passageway
Last Line: And streaming in %flames
Subject(s): Museums


RAILWAY SIGNALS, FR. BEWARE FALLING TORTOISES, by SHEENAGH PUGH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is a good place for those things to wait
Last Line: Watching the litter left in the tide's track
Subject(s): Museums; Railroads


ROMARE BEARDEN RETROSPECTIVE AT THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM, by CORNELIUS ROBERT EADY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Opera! All that cardboard
Last Line: The headlines of a world %that threatens to rip open
Subject(s): Brooklyn, New York; Cities; Museums


RONDEAUX OF THE GALLERIES, by ANDREW LANG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In camelot how grey and green
Last Line: Philistia!
Subject(s): Museums; Art Gallerys


RUNE, by ALPAY ULKU    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is the song of your tires on the pavement %the car sliding over
Last Line: It is three frames from a movie %it is the 'less than' sign repeated three times
Subject(s): Driving And Drivers; Museums; Travel


SAN MARCO MUSEUM, FLORENCE, by SISTER MARIS STELLA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: San marco was as quiet on that day
Last Line: Were lit but for the spirit's eye and ear.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Alice Gustava
Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Museums; Art Gallerys


SECOND MUSEUM OPENING, by ROSE ROSBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: (mr. Frick collected art which would convey peace
Last Line: How the rebels revel in frogs, %flowers eluding any labels
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Museums


SEVENTY-FIVE KIMONOS, by LYNN PATTISON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Altogether my mother had seventy-five kimonos-different weaves
Last Line: The crumpling and cinching was important. I never touch them
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Artifacts; Museums


SPARROW SHELTERING UNDER A COLUMN OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Conceived first by whom? By the greeks perfected
Last Line: And that, though perhaps cold, he is at home there
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): British Museum, London; Museums; Scholarship And Scholars; Statues


SPHINX IN THE MUSEUM AT DELPHI, by CEES NOOTEBOOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: My eyes are blank [or, vacant]
Last Line: The taut, broken, obdurate, %skull of a doll
Subject(s): Egypt; Museums; Sphinx; Travel


SUNDAY MORNING, by JACK GRAPES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sunday morning. Spring 1991
Last Line: So the child reaches out a hand and touches my own
Subject(s): Children; Memory; Museums


THE BRITISH GALLERIES, by ANDREW MOTION    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Take the great bed of ware
Subject(s): Beds; Museums; Art Gallerys


THE BRITISH MUSEUM READING ROOM, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the hive-like dome the stooping haunted readers
Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis
Subject(s): British Museum, London; Museums; War; Art Gallerys


THE CURATOR, by MILLER WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We thought it would come, we thought the germans would come,
Subject(s): Leningrad, Siege Of (1941); Paintings & Painters; Imagination; Museums; Blindness; Fancy; Art Gallerys; Visually Handicapped


THE CURATOR EXPLAINS, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: This is my kingdom, this my small domain
Last Line: That leave my heart aglow with joy and praise
Subject(s): Books; History; Museums; Reading; Historians; Art Gallerys


THE DIORAMA PAINTER AT THE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: His enormous hands / with fingers long and white
Last Line: As violently foreshortened as a life.
Subject(s): Museums; Nature; Paintings And Painters; Art Gallerys


THE DOLLS MUSEUM IN DUBLIN, by EAVAN BOLAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wounds are terrible. The paint is old
Last Line: With a terrible stare. But not feel it. And not know it
Subject(s): Dolls; Dublin, Ireland; Museums; Toys; Art Gallerys


THE HEAD ON THE TABLE, by JOHN HAINES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The enormous head of a bison
Last Line: Of swamp water and peat.
Subject(s): Explorers; Museums; Stones; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Art Gallerys; Granite; Rocks


THE LOS ALAMOS MUSEUM, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In this museum is a replica of little boy and fat man. In
Last Line: Speed of light, but you can see it here in slow motion.
Subject(s): Hiroshima, Japan; Museums; Nagasaki, Japan; Nuclear War; Art Gallerys; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb


THE MUNICIPAL GALLEY REVISITED, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Around me the images of thirty years
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Museums; Art Gallerys


THE STATUES IN THE MUSEUM, by FLORENCE WILKINSON EVANS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Statues of fauns and wrestlers
Last Line: Who do not know.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkinson, Florence
Subject(s): Museums; Statues; Wellesley College; Art Gallerys


THE VIRTUOSO; IN IMITATION OF SPENCER'S STYLE AND STANZA, by MARK AKENSIDE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whilom by silver thame's gentle stream
Last Line: And eagerly pursues imaginary joys.
Subject(s): Art Patronage; Museums; Paintings & Painters; Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599); Patrons Of The Arts; Art Gallerys


THREE FLOORS: ART, by BOB HICOK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Brushes alienate touch, the relation
Last Line: You perceive in my work isn't art %but a pulse
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Museums; Paintings And Painters; Portraits


TO A WEALTHY MAN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You gave, but will not give again
Last Line: But the right twigs for an eagle's nest!
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Museums; Wealth; Art Gallerys; Riches; Fortunes


TO AN UNKNOWN BUST IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who were you once? Could we but guess
Last Line: Forgotten more profoundly!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): British Museum, London; Museums; Statues; Art Gallerys


TO LALLIE (OUTSIDE THE BRITISH MUSEUM), by AMY LEVY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up those museum steps you came
Last Line: What does it matter ?
Subject(s): British Museum, London; Love; Museums; Art Gallerys


TO PALEOLITHIC MAN (RESTORED IN A MUSEUM), by FANNY HODGES NEWMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: My father! Lo, thy hundred thousand years
Last Line: To leave thee standing naked, nameless, here?
Subject(s): Museums; Paleontology; Prehistoric Peoples; Art Gallerys


TO THE CARYATID (IN THE ELGIN ROOM, BRITISH MUSEUM), by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So long ago, and day by day
Last Line: They are as sweet as long ago.
Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs.
Subject(s): British Museum, London; Caryatids; Museums; Women; Art Gallerys


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. INSCRIBED ON A MUMMY CASE, BRITISH MUSEUM, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Artemidorus, farewell
Last Line: "remains but this—""farewell."
Subject(s): Coffins; Farewell; Goddesses & Gods; Mummies; Museums; Mythology; Travel; Parting; Art Gallerys; Journeys; Trips


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM LIBRARY, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How lovely
Last Line: Be still, o soul, and know that thou art god.
Subject(s): British Museum, London; Museums; Art Gallerys


TRUMMERFRAUEN (THE RUBBLE-WOMEN), by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the old paintings, the ones with silken oils
Last Line: Never stop: tap tap, tap tap, tap tap.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Altars; Architecture & Architects; Museums; Paintings And Painters; Pyramids; Art Gallerys


TULIPS AND ADDRESSES, by EDWARD FIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The museum of modern art on west fifty-third street
Last Line: When they see the bright, red, beautiful flowers in my window.
Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce
Subject(s): Museums; Poetry & Poets; Tulips; Art Gallerys


TULIPS AND ADDRESSES, by EDWARD FIELD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The museum of modern art on west fifty-third street
Last Line: When they see the bright red beautiful flowers in my window
Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce
Subject(s): Museums; Poetry And Poets; Tulips


UNTITLED MERIDIANS, by ALPAY ULKU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Half in the matter universe, and half outside, where things are ideas
Last Line: Random wants. We don't have to kill each other for the peace of a %thousand years. In this world I c
Subject(s): Airships; Exhibitions; Museums; Peace


VISIT TO THE ART GALLERY, SELS., by CARLOS BAKER                       
Subject(s): Hero And Leander; Museums; Paintings And Painters


VISIT, GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART, by DEENA LINETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The library reaches up like a stave church
Last Line: And waves a broad salute before he wanders off
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Museums; Paintings And Painters; Saint Kilda (scotland)