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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ORPHANS Matches Found: 54 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LAMENT ON HIS FATHER'S DEATH, by LIU HENG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I look up, the curtains are there as of yore Last Line: Oh, where were the gods when that great hero died! Subject(s): Fathers; Orphans; Foundlings AN EPICED ON MR. FISHBOURNE, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As some, too far inquisitive, would fain Last Line: You live, and need nor epitaph nor tomb. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Charity; Fishbourne, Richard (d. 1625); Orphans; Philanthropy; Foundlings AN ORPHAN, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Everything has sisters, brothers Last Line: Like an orphan in the sky. Subject(s): April; Children; Orphans; Childhood; Foundlings ANNIE MARSHALL THE FOUNDLING, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Annie marshall was a foundling, and lived in downderry Last Line: But, alas! The rest of the crew were buried in the sea, save him. Subject(s): Orphans; Foundlings APOCRYPHA, by JANOS PILINSZKY Poem Source First Line: Everything will be forsaken then Last Line: Trickling, the empty ditch trickles down Subject(s): Absence; Emptiness; Exiles; Farewell; Human Rights; Love - Loss Of; Orphans; Prisons And Prisoners; Solitude BIDDING FAREWELL TO MY STEPSON, by SAM HAMILL Poem Source First Line: Your monastic days %at kage-an are over Last Line: It will not last forever Subject(s): Orphans; Stepfathers COMMUNITY, by MARIE HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Almost no one in town calls this place a commune anymore, except Last Line: Older, manny plays catch with him almost every day. Then ben grows up, too Subject(s): Adoption; Boys; Friendship; Orphans; Stepmothers CORINTHIAN SUNS: A LETTER TO OLGA BROUMAS, by SAM HAMILL Poem Source First Line: Above me, the sun Last Line: I'm strolling down pandrosou, %drinking corinthian suns Subject(s): Orphans EPITREPONTES (THE ARBITRATION): TWO SLAVES AND A FOUNDLING, by MENANDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Look, onesimus. %what do you say to this? The thought has just Last Line: By jove, she has initiative, that girl! Subject(s): Freedom; Orphans; Parents FOUNDLING OF SHOREDITCH AND IXWORTH DOCTOR; COCKNEY BALLAD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come all ye christian people, and listen to my tail Last Line: And do not take unkindly this little word of me, %heaven be merciful to us all, sinners as we be Subject(s): Orphans HISTORY LESSONS, by MARIE HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Our bedroom becomes his new room. And it becomes him, this boy Last Line: Cause and effect medication. Can the pharmacist help us with the %dosage? Are there any contraindica Subject(s): Abandonment; Absence; Child Psychology; Children; Experience; Orphans; Psychoanalysis HYMN FOR AN ORPHAN HOME, by CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: O father of the fatherless Alternate Author Name(s): Humprheys, Cecil Frances; Alexander, C. F., Mrs. Subject(s): Orphans; Foundlings LADY ANNE, FR. THE LEGEND OF MONTROSE, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: November's hail-cloud drifts away Last Line: And pearls, for drops of frozen hail, %are glistening in her hair Variant Title(s): The Orphan Mai Subject(s): Orphans LAUDANUM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Where somnus' temple rises from a ground Last Line: "and lest, great sirs, to you it should extend, / command your sleepy poet to descend" Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse;orphans;poetry & Poets; Foundlings LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 8. THE EVICTION, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In early morning twilight, raw and chill Last Line: And firesides buried under fallen thatch. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Grief; Labor Unions; Landlords & Tenants; Orphans; Police; Poverty; Strikes; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Foundlings; Labor Disputes; Lockouts LIFE, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A baby played with the surplice sleeve Last Line: That laughed so sweet and low. Subject(s): Orphans; Foundlings LOOKING FORWARD, by LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If no one ever marries me Last Line: And bring her up as mine. Variant Title(s): Little Girls Subject(s): Orphans; Single People; Foundlings; Bachelors; Unmarried People MISADVENTURES AT MARGATE; A LEGEND OF JARVIS'S JETTY, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in margate last july I walk'd upon the pier Last Line: Give my respects to mrs. Jones, and say I'm pretty well! Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Variant Title(s): Misadventures At Margate;the Little Vulgar Boy Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Orphans; Foundlings MOURNING A FOAL, by LASZLO NAGY Poem Source First Line: Your mother was white and you're black Last Line: You with your velvet hide Subject(s): Babies; Death; Mourning; Orphans MY FATHER, by VICENTE ALEIXANDRE Poem Source First Line: You are far away, my father, there in your realm of shadows Last Line: Cast down upon immense arms that horribly mimic you Subject(s): Absence; Fathers And Sons; Hearts; Orphans NOBODY'S CHILD, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only a newsboy, under the light Last Line: "if one of these ""little ones"" be lost!" Subject(s): Orphans; Kindness ORPHAN BORN, by ROBERT JONES BURDETTE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am a lone, unfathered chick Last Line: My incubator. Subject(s): Birds; Birth; Orphans; Child Birth; Midwifery; Foundlings ORPHANS, by CAROLINE AINSLIE Poem Text First Line: The orphans sleep in a big bare room Last Line: When the trodden earth is hard. Subject(s): Orphans; Foundlings ORPHANS OF SHANGHI, by GRACE FRENCH SMITH Poem Text First Line: Mere rags of children prowl about the street Last Line: Divine must be the love to melt the steel! Subject(s): Orphans; Shanghai, China; Foundlings OUR JEWISH ORPHANS' HOME, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Back from the street, within a wreath of bowers Last Line: Our sacred trust,—our jewish orphans' home! Subject(s): Charity; Children; Jews; Orphans; Philanthropy; Childhood; Judaism; Foundlings PEACEFUL EYES MY ONLY WEALTH, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Orphans; Foundlings PHOTO, by OTTO ORBAN Poem Source First Line: Somebody takes me by the hand. She's a large-eyed, black Last Line: My mouth and hair throw off sparks. There will be no %forgiveness Subject(s): Orphans PROLOGUE TO THE ORPHAN, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What! Would my humble comrades have me say Last Line: But leave our orphan squalling at your door. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; France; Friendship; Orphans; Plays & Playwrights; Foundlings REMINISCENCES OF HAMMONIA, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Orphan children, two and two Last Line: Many million orphan children. Subject(s): Hamburg, Germany; Orphans; Foundlings RHYTHM CITY, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: Winter salt stains white on the sidewalk Last Line: It is this, he admits, looking down %can't dance Subject(s): Abandonment; Absence; Cities; New York City; Orphans; Poetry And Poets; Winter SCHOOL, by MARIE HARRIS Poem Source First Line: I can't handle another student! Last Line: Are there. The gym sparkles with flashbulbs. Red robed, manny %accepts his certificate with aplomb Subject(s): Children; Commencement; Orphans; Schools; Teaching And Teachers SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 75, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three little children Last Line: With guardian angels. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Orphans; Foundlings SLEEP, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou drowsy god, whose blurred Last Line: Swallows and licks its wet lips over me. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Despair; Night; Orphans; Sleep; Bedtime; Foundlings TAKE YOUR CHOICE: AS EDGAR LEE MASTERS WOULD HANDLE IT. HILDA HYDE, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The town thought me a model woman Last Line: What a horrid thing I was when I got started. Subject(s): Insanity; Masters, Edgar Lee (1869-1950); Murder; Orphans; Madness; Mental Illness; Foundlings THE CHILDREN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dumb child and the blind child Last Line: From their head to their feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Blindness; Children; Comfort; Deafness; God; Orphans; Visually Handicapped; Childhood; Foundlings THE DELPHIAN CHILD, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High over castaly, on delphi's steep Last Line: "this delphian child hath brought me nearest god.'" Subject(s): Delphi; Orphans; Castri; Foundlings THE FOUNDLING, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What time the wandering mother night Last Line: Went vanishing away. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Night; Orphans; Bedtime; Foundlings THE HEIR, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An orphan, through the world Last Line: "the daughter of the king!" Subject(s): Orphans; God THE LAMENT OF LAMB'S CONDUIT, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Farewell, little groundlings! Last Line: That grow on red hill. Subject(s): Children; Farewell; Orphans; Childhood; Parting; Foundlings THE MITHERLESS BAIRN, by WILLIAM THOM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: When a'ither bairnies are hushed to their hame Last Line: That god deals the blow, for the mitherless bairn! Alternate Author Name(s): Inverary Poet, The Subject(s): Babies; Children; Orphans; Infants; Childhood; Foundlings THE NEW BOY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He never knew before how heavenly the places Last Line: He strangles with his sobs till the grey day. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Boys; Children; Grief; Loss; Orphans; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Foundlings THE ORPHAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: To be an orphan Last Line: Living with my brother and sister-in-law Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.);orphans; Foundlings THE ORPHAN, by JANE TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My father and mother are dead Last Line: And been my best father and friend. Subject(s): God; Orphans; Foundlings THE ORPHAN BOY'S TALE, by AMELIA OPIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stay, lady, stay, for mercy's sake Last Line: Your happy, happy orphan boy. Alternate Author Name(s): Alderson, Amelia Subject(s): Adversity; Orphans; Foundlings THE ORPHAN CHILD, by GRACE WAGNER WILLIAMS Poem Text First Line: Just lend me an ear and I'll tell you Last Line: "we reap just what we sow." Subject(s): Orphans; Foundlings THE ORPHAN GIRL (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "'no home, no home!' cried a little girl" Last Line: Where there's room for bread for the poor Subject(s): Frontier & Pioneer Life;orphans;poverty; Foundlings THE ORPHAN'S TRUST, by H. C. HUNT Poem Text First Line: Not care to know your future, blue-eyed maiden? Last Line: The voice of god and fate, speaks through my mystic art! Subject(s): Orphans; Foundlings THE ORPHANAGE LANDING, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We her countrypeople are deep asleep Subject(s): Orphans; Foundlings THE ORPHANS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: My chaise the village inn did gain Last Line: "your steps to guide, your hearts to cheer" Subject(s): Adversity;orphans; Foundlings THE ORPHANS, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At five o'clock one april morn Last Line: "and broken up the home." Subject(s): Orphans; Foundlings THE SCHOOLMISTRESS, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: If she, their nurse, be faint with famine Last Line: Bid birds and angels bring her bread. Subject(s): Babies; Orphans; Infants; Foundlings THE SICK ORPHAN, OR THE COUCH IN THE OPEN AIR, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas at the close of a warm summer's day Last Line: And o'er her dying love-notes wept and smiled! Subject(s): Orphans; Foundlings TO A MOTHERLESS CHILD, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, child, thou art but half thy darling mother's Last Line: But one's alone! Subject(s): Orphans; Foundlings WEDNESDAY'S CHILD, by MARIE HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Bill is visiting on spring break. As we talk on the drive home form the Last Line: Get home in time to watch ourselves on the six o'clock news Subject(s): Abandonment; Adoption; Boys; Child Custody; Children - Illegitimate; Orphans; Stepfathers; Stepmothers |
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