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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: OAK TREES Matches Found: 65 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CHARM SAID UNDER AN OAK, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oak, with thy straightness Last Line: Deus robur meus. Subject(s): Charms (magic); Oak Trees; Trees A CHRISTMAS SONG, by HATTIE SANFORD RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: The oak is a strong and stalwart tree Last Line: By the beautiful christmas tree. Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Trees; Oak Trees; Nativity, The A FOREST THOUGHT, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fine old oak hath pass'd away, its noble stem hath shrunk Last Line: And cling to me like green moss to the old gray tree. Subject(s): Oak Trees A LEAF, by JOHN MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: From out the topmost bulb - a budding sentry Last Line: A withered leaf was hearsed upon the breeze. Subject(s): Leaves; Oak Trees AMORETTI: 6, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be nought dismayed that her unmoved mind Last Line: To knit the knot that ever shall remaine. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Patience; Oak Trees BEARDED OAKS, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The oaks, how subtle and marine Last Line: That we may spare this hour's term %to practice for eternity Subject(s): Oak Trees BLACK OAKS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The leaves of the black oak linger the winter through Last Line: I forget the plains, I behold new england's face. Subject(s): New England; Oak Trees BYRON'S OAK AT NEWSTEAD ABBEY, by TIMOTHY THOMAS FORTUNE Poem Text First Line: The little twig that byron planted here Last Line: While byron's fame through endless time will reign! Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Newstead Abbey, England; Oak Trees; Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron CHOOSING A TREE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A song to the oak, the brave old oak Subject(s): Oak Trees COAST LIVE OAK, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: The oak is old Last Line: I love this tree Subject(s): Oak Trees DREAM OF THE ROOD, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Standing at the edge of the grove Last Line: Put your ear to the trunk of any tree, and listen Subject(s): Oak Trees DRUNKEN WINTER, by JOSEPH CERAVOLO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oak oak! Like like Subject(s): Oak Trees DRUNKEN WINTER, by JOSEPH CERAVOLO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oak oak! Like like Last Line: Of again %oak sky Subject(s): Oak Trees ELEGY FOR A LITTLE GIRL BURNED BENEATH OAK TREES, by RAYMOND JOSEPH KRESENSKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If slender feet would care to go Last Line: Nor keep her feet still. Subject(s): Death; Girls; Oak Trees; Dead, The ELIOT'S OAK; SONNET, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou ancient oak! Whose myriad leaves are loud Last Line: And is forgotten, save by thee alone. Subject(s): Natick, Massachusetts; Oak Trees FALL, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The black oaks Subject(s): Oak Trees; Autumn; Fall FATE OF THE OAK, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The owl to her mate is calling Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller Subject(s): Holidays; Oak Trees HART'S HORN TREE, NEAR PENRITH, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here stood an oak, that long had borne affixed Last Line: Verse that would guard thy memory, hart's-horn tree! Subject(s): Oak Trees; Scotland IMITATION OF A SONG, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oak, that stately and alone Last Line: Thrice woe to him who lives too long! Subject(s): Oak Trees INSCRIPTION: UNDER AN OAK, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, traveller! Pause awhile. This ancient oak Last Line: Of all that softens or ennobles man. Subject(s): Birds; Hearts; Nature; Oak Trees; Rest; Travel; Journeys; Trips JUSTICE, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All around the house huge elms and oaks Subject(s): Cicadas; Elm Trees; Justice; Oak Trees NIGHT OAK TREE, by AGNES NEMES NAGY Poem Source First Line: It happened at night that a passerby Last Line: The deserted hole was waiting for the oak %to knit back into it Subject(s): Night; Oak Trees OAK TREE IN THE ROAD, by KEITH VAN VLIET Poem Source First Line: It was as a young man I first saw the tree Last Line: And the miracle of all existence Subject(s): Aging; Life; Oak Trees OAK-TREE, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The girt woak tree that's in the dell! Subject(s): Oak Trees OAKS, by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No flaming hue is here Last Line: In russet and bronze and gold. Subject(s): Oak Trees ROUND OAK, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The apple top't in the old narrow lane Last Line: I loved thy shade once -- now I love but thy name Subject(s): Oak Trees SEEING OAKS: 1., by FRANCES PRESLEY Poem Source First Line: Her love of her mother. Her mother's gift of language. We were Last Line: Some twigs. They could clear this away Subject(s): Mothers; Oak Trees SEEING OAKS: 2., by FRANCES PRESLEY Poem Source First Line: Pine needles Last Line: And that is true of any oak tree Subject(s): Oak Trees SHEA-OAK TREES ON A STORMY DAY, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O'er sandy tracts the shea-oak trees Last Line: A death song o'er the mournful plain. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Australia; Death; Oak Trees; Dead, The SO MUCH FOR SENTIMENT, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is gone, the old oak, which, for centuries past Last Line: "and the tree was maturely ripe." Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Oak Trees; Trees STUMP, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today they cut down the oak. Subject(s): Oak Trees SUCCESSION OF THE OAK, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: A naked oak in a northern sky Last Line: All trees touch Subject(s): Nature; Oak Trees; Prairies THE ACORN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In small green cup an acorn grew Last Line: Of a mighty forest oak Subject(s): Oak Trees THE ACORN, by ELIZABETH OAKES PRINCE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An acorn fell from an old oak tree Last Line: Preserved for its destiny. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Seba (e. Oakes), Mrs.; Oakes-smith, Elizabeth Subject(s): Oak Trees THE BRAVE OLD OAK, by HENRY FOTHERGILL CHORLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A song to the oak, the brave old oak Last Line: When a hundred years are gone! Subject(s): Oak Trees; Trees THE DOOMED OAK; IN IMITATION OF ANATOLE FRANCE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the warm wood bedipped with rosy day Last Line: And brings the bisson mildews hurrying on. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): France, Anatole (1844-1924); Oak Trees THE GOOD OLD OAK, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In early spring it was we moved up here Last Line: I found beside me then a good old oak. Subject(s): Oak Trees THE HAUNTED OAK, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Pray why are you so bare, so bare Last Line: On the trunk of a haunted tree. Subject(s): Lynching; Oak Trees THE OAK, by GEORGE HILL Poem Text First Line: A glorious tree is the old gray oak Last Line: The heads of his foes in fight. Subject(s): Holidays; Oak Trees; Trees THE OAK, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What gnarled stretch, what depth of shade, is his! Last Line: Among my boughs disdain to perch and sing. Subject(s): Oak Trees THE OAK, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Live thy life / young and old Last Line: Naked strength. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Human Behavior; Oak Trees; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE OAK AND THE HILL, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the storm fell'd our oak, and thou, fair wold Last Line: Beyond each fallen tree some fair blue hill. Subject(s): Oak Trees THE OAK AND THE MAN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The oak said to the forest trees Last Line: Said: in my woods the wind stirreth. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Ignorance; Life; Mankind; Oak Trees; Pride; Dullness; Stupdity; Human Race; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE OAK OF OUR FATHERS, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas for the oak of our fathers, that stood Last Line: In its beauty, the glory and pride of the wood! Subject(s): Death; Ivy; Lament; Oak Trees; Parasites; Dead, The THE OAK TORCH, by JULIA BOYNTON GREEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now sober autumn walks the mountain ways Last Line: Where a lone oak thrusts forth her great flambeau! Subject(s): Oak Trees THE OAK; A FRAGMENT, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the last survivor of a race Last Line: This oak has no companion!... Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Oak Trees THE OLD OAK TREE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: I sit beneath your leaves, old oak Last Line: The stars turn over leaves of light. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Environment; Oak Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation THE RESPECTABLE FOLKS, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The respectable folks,- / where dwell they? Last Line: For all are their debtors and all their friends. Subject(s): Immortality; Nature; Oak Trees THE SONG OF THE OLD LEAVES, by HILMA PARSONS Poem Text First Line: The autumn wind in a gust of joy Last Line: "the lady of death is queen of the world!" Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Oak Trees; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The THE SOWER AND HIS SEED, by WILLIAM EDWARD HARTPOLE LECKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He planted an oak in his father's park Last Line: And will never be heard again. Subject(s): Farm Life; Oak Trees; Thought; Agriculture; Farmers; Thinking THE TALKING OAK, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once more the gate behind me falls Last Line: And humm'd a surly hymn. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Nature; Oak Trees THE THREE TREES, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The oak is a brave tree that groweth in the wood Last Line: By such as ye the cruel cross was made. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Aspen Trees; Crosses; Crucifixion; Oak Trees; Pine Trees; Trees; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion THE WOOD FIRE, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O giant oak, majestic, dark, and old Last Line: To cheer some spirit in its winter night. Subject(s): Life; Oak Trees THINGS WE THINK WE CANNOT SEE: 5. RED OAK, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: Her roots cracked and swirling mid-air Last Line: Coming to set you sail Subject(s): Forests; Nature; Oak Trees THREE NATURE POEMS: VICTORY, by EVA HINTON ROBINSON Poem Text First Line: Draw you your tangled drapes about your twisted form Last Line: Of those who greet the spreading dawn. Subject(s): Oak Trees THREE TREES, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poplar is a french tree Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Nature; Oak Trees; Poplar Trees TO AN OAK AT NEWSTEAD, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Young oak! When I planted thee deep Last Line: Are lost in the hours of eternity's day. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Newstead Abbey, England; Oak Trees; Time TO AN OAK TREE, FR. WAVERLEY, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Emblem of england's ancient faith Last Line: Rome bound with oak her patriots' brows, %as albyn shadows wogan's tomb Subject(s): Courage; Oak Trees TO THE OAKS OF GLENCREE, by JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My arms are round you, and I lean Last Line: With worms eternally. Alternate Author Name(s): Synge, J. M. Subject(s): Oak Trees TREES AGAINST THE SKY, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pines against the sky Last Line: Trees and the infinite sky Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Oak Trees; Olive Trees And Olives; Palm Trees; Pine Trees; Trees WAR HERO, by GLYN MAXWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where recollections end, Subject(s): Grandparents; Storms; Oak Trees; Children; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Childhood WHITE OAK, by JANET LEWIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I grow forever in one place, yet stir Alternate Author Name(s): Winters, Janet Lewis; Winters, Yvor, Mrs. Subject(s): Oak Trees WILD FLOWERS, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: Cold shoots through the soles of our shoes Last Line: Trusting the world to help catch us when we fall Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Oak Trees WINTER OAKS, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Oh, winter oaks, you give me courage Last Line: Spring's miracle so well? Subject(s): Oak Trees; Snow; Winter YARDLEY OAK, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Survivor sole, and hardly such, of all Last Line: Eventful, should supply her with a theme. Subject(s): Environment; Oak Trees; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation |
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