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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: STONES Matches Found: 172 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DESCRIPTIVE POEM, ADDRESSED TO TWO LADIES, SELECTION, by JOHN DALTON Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: Agape the sooty collier stands Last Line: Creative commerce, these are thine! Subject(s): Caves; Coal Mines & Miners; Earth; Rivers; Stones; Caverns; World; Granite; Rocks A GRACE, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: For all the beryl, pearl and chrysoprase Last Line: Gloria tibi domine! Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Stones; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Granite; Rocks A ROLLING STONE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's sunshine in the heart of me Last Line: Praise him who made it all! Subject(s): Stones; Granite; Rocks A VERMONT GRINSTONE, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our old big grinstone used to stand Last Line: And leaves him only one to turn. Subject(s): Railroads; Stones; Vermont; Wagons; Wheels; Railways; Trains; Granite; Rocks AGADIR, SELS., by ARTUR LUNDKVIST Poem Source First Line: I was reading of the hunter gracchus, whose coming was Last Line: Never more %forever %agadir Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Monuments; Statues; Stones AMETHYST, by JOHN F. DEANE Poem Source First Line: A young priest, eager, with white hair, and a boy Last Line: Shadowing him. The stone, kept, for its silences Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Stones ANTIPODAL, by JOSEPH AUSLANDER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dusk that brings the whippoorwill Last Line: Here and now? Subject(s): Birds; Stones; Trees; Whipporwills; Granite; Rocks ANTWERP, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Towers - eternal towers against the sky Last Line: And from their towers of tyranny hurled down. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Antwerp, Belgium; Architecture & Architects; Buildings & Builders; Stones; World War I; Granite; Rocks; First World War ANY NUMBER, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hole in a sock Last Line: How many years it takes to make a stone. Subject(s): Stones; Granite; Rocks ANY OLD STONE, by PAUL LAWSON Poem Source First Line: Don't knock a stone: don't say things like Last Line: Put you down, cover you up, forget you Subject(s): Stones APOLOGIA PRO VITA SUA, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I started picking up the stones Last Line: A foreign thing desertless in origin Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R. Subject(s): Stones ARCHES, by STEPHEN LEFEBURE Poem Source First Line: When you come here, if you can Last Line: Gestures you can never part from Subject(s): Nature; Stones AS PEBBLES IN THE SEA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Who shall judge man from his manner Last Line: But as pebbles in the sea Subject(s): Sea;seashore;stones; Ocean;beach;coast;shore;granite;rocks BLARNEY STONE, by FRANCIS SYLVESTER MAHONY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is a stone there Alternate Author Name(s): Prout, Father Subject(s): Blarney Castle, Ireland; Stones BY THE GREY STONE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is quiet here: the wet hill-wind's sigh Last Line: Is it love's lordly vow or mine own bitter shame? Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Birds; Love; Sighs; Silence; Stones; Waiting; Granite; Rocks CANTO: ROCKS: WHICH HOLD THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD THUS FAR, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look! It's a rock depicting the solid Last Line: Forward & back Subject(s): History; Nature; Stones; Historians; Granite; Rocks CARYATID, by ELENI Z. AUERBACH Poem Source First Line: In spaces strewn, the masks Last Line: Hair picked by wind %she leaps Subject(s): Caryatids; Statues; Stones CASTLES IN THE AIR, by WILLIAM J. LAMPTON Poem Text First Line: I builded a castle in the air Last Line: And the whole darn thing fell down. Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Castles; Crowns; Stones; Temples; Granite; Rocks; Mosques CHILD'S PARK STONES, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In sunless air, under pines Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Stones; Granite; Rocks CODA, OVERTURE, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She stepped out of the framing circle of the dark Last Line: Of hoofs trampling the wind. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): History; Medusa; Mythology - Classical; Paintings And Painters; Statues; Stones; Historians; Granite; Rocks CONTRA MORTEM: THE STONE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Difficult to think of a stone's gratitude Last Line: The primal act with this. So all things waken Subject(s): Stones; Granite; Rocks CRAG, by JOAQUIN ARCADIO PAGAZA Poem Source First Line: On the mountain's blind and rugged ridge Last Line: The flashing thunder and the desolate %screaming of the savage towering eagle Subject(s): Stones CRYSTALS LIKE BLOOD, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember how, long ago, I found Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh Subject(s): Memory; Stones; Granite; Rocks CRYSTALS LIKE BLOOD, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember how, long ago, I found Last Line: The bright torrents of felicity, naturalness, and faith %my treadmill memory draws from you yet Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh Subject(s): Memory; Stones DEITY, by AMADO NERVO Poem Source First Line: As in the pebble sleeps the fiery spark Last Line: Thou yet shalt see, o soul, thou yet shall see! Subject(s): Art And Artists; Sculpture And Sculptors; Stones DIGESTIVE FALLACY, by JEFFREY HARRISON Poem Source First Line: He wanted to eat san marco, stone Last Line: Not to become an artist Subject(s): Colors; Drawing; Paintings And Painters; Stones DIGNITY, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rocks jut out of the sea Last Line: They lacked before. Subject(s): Sea; Stones; Ocean; Granite; Rocks DILAPIDATED FOUNDATION IN CLINTON COUNTY, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: Just all low broken stones Last Line: That dilapidate spills from stone Subject(s): Nature; Stones ECHO TO A ROCK, by EDWARD HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou heaven-threat'ning rock, gentler than she! Last Line: Echo. Well. Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord Subject(s): Echo (mythology); Stones; Granite; Rocks ELEPHANT ROCK, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The huge weight / and granite shape of it Last Line: Ever known as the features of god Subject(s): Statues; Stones; Granite; Rocks FLINT, by GAO FALIN Poem Source First Line: I am flint Last Line: Silent star %hardened flower Subject(s): Geology; Human Rights; Steel; Stones GARDENS, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: It is half-past three: white mourning Last Line: A theme of reverie and enigma Subject(s): China; Gardens And Gardening; Landscape; Stones GEMS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I decked with gems my person fat, they glittered Last Line: Luck planet. Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Sapphires; Stones; Granite; Rocks GEODE, by MICHAEL R. BURCH Poem Source First Line: Take this geode Last Line: Fractured light, %the heart ice breaking Subject(s): Stones GLAMOUR, by JIM KACIAN Poem Source First Line: It is enough to be stone Last Line: Mine is to be lodestone, to know true north Subject(s): Stones GRANITE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: New england doesn't kid around Last Line: When I'm blinder than stone Subject(s): Graves; New England; Stones GRAVEL PIT, by ANNE SOUTHERNE TARDY Poem Text First Line: This conclave of innumerable stones Last Line: In battlements that tower toward the sun. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form); Stones; Granite; Rocks HEIGHTS OF MACCHU PICCHU: 10, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stone upon stone, and man, where was he? Last Line: Of your bitter gut, like an eagle, hunger? Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): History; Hunger; Mountain Climbing; South America; Stones HEIGHTS OF MACCHU PICCHU: 6, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then up the ladder of the earth I climbed Last Line: Cleansing the lonely precinct of the stone Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Cities; Mountain Climbing; Stones HERMIONE ON SIMULACRA, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For comfort I became a stone Last Line: Whose visage so resembles me Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Statues; Stones I STAND IN THE WARMTH OF A MAN'S HAND, by EVA STROM Poem Source First Line: Snow white: %I stand in the warmth of a man's hand Last Line: And feel the hard pelvis through my soft hip Subject(s): Sculpture And Sculptors; Statues; Stones I STUDY ROCKS, by JEANNETTE C. ARMSTRONG Poem Source Last Line: Opening to the east %on this mountaintop Subject(s): Stones I'VE GOT A HOME IN THAT ROCK, by RAYMOND RICHARD PATTERSON Poem Source First Line: I had an uncle once who kept a rock in his pocket Last Line: Enough to make him homesick, what home was really like Alternate Author Name(s): Patterson, Ray Subject(s): African Americans; Stones IDYLL 11, by BION Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When drop on drop, they say, doth ever follow Last Line: Twill wear the stone at last into a hollow. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Stones; Granite; Rocks IMAGINARY INSCRIPTION (ON A ROCK RESEMBLING COLOSSAL HUMAN FEATURES), by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The seafowl build in wrinkles of my face Last Line: In showers of bright white thunder, breaks the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Stones; Granite; Rocks IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD, by CARLOS DRUMMOND DE ANDRADE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the middle of the road was a stone Last Line: In the middle of the road was a stone Subject(s): Stones IN THE MONTH OF ATHYR, by CONSTANTINE P. CAVAFY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With difficulty I read what's on this ancient stone Last Line: In the month of athyr lefkios fell asleep Alternate Author Name(s): Kavafis, Konstantinos; Cavafy, C. P. Subject(s): Stones; Translating And Interpreting INKSTONE, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's a green river stone, Subject(s): Stones; Granite; Rocks INVOCATION, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dirt and stone, if I may know you as you know yourselves Last Line: As if already they were partners of the stones and dirt Subject(s): Creation; Death; Dirt; Stones ISAIAH OF SOUILLAC, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why the prophet is dancing the sculptor knew. If Last Line: Upon them, dance, dance, and still to the same song Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Sculpture And Sculptors; Statues; Stones LABYRINTH, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You've lost the clue -- somewhere Last Line: The long climb down. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Animals; Monsters; Stones; Granite; Rocks LAMENT OF GRANITE, by DAVID ROSS Poem Text First Line: Rather had we been ground Last Line: Than granite remembered of man. Subject(s): Lament; Mills And Millers; Progress; Stones; Granite; Rocks LAYING STONE WALL, by FRED LAPE Poem Text First Line: I'll go and lay that corner of stonewall Last Line: One can be glad to be remembered by. Subject(s): Stones; Walls; Granite; Rocks LEARNING TO LIVE WITHS TONE, by KELLY CHERRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A shore of washed stones Last Line: A step to climb. %carve Subject(s): Learning; Stones LOVE IN THE WATER, LOVE IN THE STONE, by JAY WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Faithful bean lady of the plantain, Subject(s): Love; Water; Stones; Granite; Rocks MARK THE CONCENTRED HAZELS THAT ENCLOSE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To mimic time's forlorn humanities. Subject(s): Nature; Stones MONOGRAPH ON STONES, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: They hold within themselves the history of a place Last Line: Directions. I believe in the mysticism of stone Subject(s): History; Stones; Temples MONUMENTAL, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I have ceased to rant and rave, and Last Line: Silent sea, a three-foot slab of slippery elm is plenty good enough for me. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Corpses; Death; Monuments; Stones; Graveyards; Cadavers; Dead, The; Granite; Rocks MY LADY'S GLEAMING GEMS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: My lady's decked with gleaming stones Last Line: To me, beside my lady's worth. Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Stones; Women; Granite; Rocks MY ROCKERY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Here in my garden I have lovely stones Last Line: Might well forget, and stay to worship stones! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Monuments; Stones; Granite; Rocks NAMING FOR LOVE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These are the proper names Last Line: May all who read this live long Subject(s): Stones; Granite; Rocks NASKEAG, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once a day the rocks, with little warning Last Line: Retrace the steps that brought it there Subject(s): Stones NATURE SCULPTURE IN THE ANDES, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The seething random rain, the scraping ice Last Line: By the smooth giant ankle Subject(s): Sculpture And Sculptors; Statues; Stones NIOBE, by LARS LUNDKVIST Poem Source First Line: Niobe %was changed into stone Last Line: The way the devil reads the bible, said the devil Subject(s): Archeology; Niobe; Statues; Stones NOTHING BUT STONES, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think I never passed so sad an hour Last Line: In blaze of gorgeous light. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Churches; Grief; Stones; Tears; Cathedrals; Sorrow; Sadness; Granite; Rocks OCTOBER IN APPALACHIO, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: The last katydid knocks its tambourine Last Line: The stars press our bones into what black seam? Subject(s): Appalachia; Mountains; Stones OF THE STONES OF THE PLACE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I farm a pasture where the boulders lie Last Line: It came from where he came from anyway Subject(s): Stones; Granite; Rocks OF THE STONES OF THE PLACE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I farm a pasture where the boulders lie Last Line: It came from where he came from anyway Subject(s): Stones ON MICHAEL ANGELO'S STATUE OF NIGHT: LINES BY GIOVANNI STROZZI, by GIOVANNI BATTISTA STROZZI Poem Text First Line: Thou seest the sleeping night in grace reclining Last Line: Speak low, I pray thee, wake me not to pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Strozzi, Giovanni Battista ,the Elde Subject(s): Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Statues; Stones; Granite; Rocks ON THE ROCKS BY ABERDEEN, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: For thou'lt never see me mair, %man johnnie! Subject(s): Stones OUT OF ANY DEARTH, by LOUIS GINSBERG Poem Text First Line: Transmuting rocks to flowers Last Line: I will sieve my songs. Subject(s): Earth; Flowers; Stones; World; Granite; Rocks OWNING STONE: 2. VOICES, by JIM PETERSON Poem Source First Line: Last night I named the stone Last Line: And the eye just laughed and rolled aimlessly %in my father's head Subject(s): Stones OWNING STONE: 3. MIRTH, by JIM PETERSON Poem Source First Line: I want to speak to the stone Last Line: And creeps under leaves Subject(s): Stones PARADISO, by THOMAS CENTOLELLA Poem Source First Line: A day as hot as my uncle's three hearths Last Line: To be torn open, to be greedily eaten Subject(s): Churches; Stones PASSAGES, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They come in in tiny boats Last Line: We must not look back Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Stones; Granite; Rocks PATH AMONG THE STONES, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the path winding Last Line: In all the windows %of stone Subject(s): Stones PHOTOGRAPH OF YOU AT THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD IN ASCONA, by THOM TAMMARO Poem Source First Line: Far from our village on the other side of the hill, we found the Last Line: The house of the dead - so full of life and love Subject(s): Altars; Churches; Death; Photography And Photographers; Pilgrims And Pilgrimages; Prayer; Stones; Travel PICKING STONE, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: The earth pushing up its stone Last Line: Not this year. Plant around it Subject(s): Boats; Fields; Labor And Laborers; Stones PIETA IN LOS ANGELES: 2. PIETA AT HOLY CROSS CEMETERY, by PHILOMENE LONG Poem Source First Line: The marble corpus dangles Last Line: Time and agony %in stone Subject(s): Art And Artists; Sculpture And Sculptors; Stones POETICS OF STONES, by GREGOR LASCHEN Poem Source First Line: The stone listens to the fire, always Last Line: Starry laughter between the teeth Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Stones POINT OF ROCKS, TEXAS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stones in my heart Last Line: Looks like a simple stripe. Subject(s): Clouds; Mountains; Prairies; Stones; Texas; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Plains; Granite; Rocks PORTRAIT OF JOSE CEMI [FROM THE NOVEL PARADISO], by JOSE LEZAMA LIMA Poem Source First Line: No combat did he unleash, as panting Last Line: Between a column of air and the sacrificial stone Subject(s): Portraits; Statues; Stones PSYCHOMETRIST, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I listened to a man, and he Last Line: Stones shall sing in ecstasy! Subject(s): Linnets; Stones; Granite; Rocks PULVIS ET UMBRA, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: When thou art lying under ground Last Line: The shadow of oblivion. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Love - Loss Of; Stones; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Granite; Rocks QUATRAIN: PLUTONIC ROCKS, by RUTH CLAY PRICE Poem Text First Line: We are each a surface stone Last Line: Rocks unite. Subject(s): Stones; Granite; Rocks READING ABOUT ROCKS, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This book, solid and heavy as rock Last Line: Surfaces of both solids-your hand and the rock Subject(s): Books; Earth; Geology; Stones REGRET, by BOB BROOKS Poem Source First Line: It's like skipping a stone Last Line: Another stone, %sinking Subject(s): Regret; Stones ROADS, by HILDA WORTHINGTON SMITH Poem Text First Line: Where are the songs that will bind us as Last Line: New roads of peace for the oncoming race. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Roads; Stones; Work; Workers; Paths; Trails; Granite; Rocks ROCK AND A HARD PLACE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A tough day on the mesa Last Line: Since a beginning, and we survive %doubts of an ending Subject(s): Earth; Stones; Tourists; Travel ROCK AND HAWK, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is a symbol in which Last Line: Nor success make proud Subject(s): Hawks; Pride; Stones; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Granite; Rocks ROCKFACE, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: I have been here for just an hour Last Line: I know the same pride, %the same fall Subject(s): Absence; Disappeared Persons; Stones ROCKPLANT, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: Wherever you see me Last Line: I bear life, %and I am Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Solitude; Stones ROCKS, by NATALIE M. HANCOCK Poem Text First Line: Rocks - hoary with age - bearded with barnacles - crouching low Last Line: Is it the music of god, turning life's pages? Subject(s): Sea; Stones; Tides; Ocean; Granite; Rocks SAINT FRANCIS IN WINTER, by RUTH KNOWLES Poem Text First Line: It is a sorry slight to leave out there Last Line: If so he yet can speak, he knows not death. Subject(s): Ice; Snow; Stones; Winter; Granite; Rocks SAPPHIRE, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After a dream in which your love's fullness Last Line: As the world's love before the world was Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Jewelry And Jewelers; Sapphires; Stones SCRATCHWORD, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The word is scratched on a small stone Last Line: In the shadow of a rock: %epic Subject(s): Etching; Language; Stones SERENITY IN STONES, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am holding this turquoise Last Line: In my hands, in my eyes, and in myself Subject(s): Stones SIMPLICITY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How happy is the little stone Last Line: In casual simplicity. Subject(s): Simplicity; Stones; Granite; Rocks SPIDER-CRAB, by DAVID GEORGE Poem Source First Line: A spindly spider-crab with spokes for legs Last Line: But empty now, where once a spider stood Subject(s): History; Insects; Spiders; Stones STATION, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two boards with a token roof, backed Last Line: At first light would get up and go on Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Hiking; Statues; Stones; Travel STICKS AND STONES: 2. STONES, by ANN S. GOLDSMITH Poem Source First Line: You are gone off up the trail Last Line: At once, a pair of peeled twigs Subject(s): Stones STONE, by PAUL BLACKBURN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stone found me in bright sunlight Last Line: He had been shaped like a drunken pyramid, irregularly triangular. %I liked him Subject(s): New York City; Stones STONE, by COLIN HAMILTON Poem Source First Line: Bound to a feathered shaft of wood the stone %shot through the air Last Line: The lines on my face are the rings its falling wakes Subject(s): Stones STONE, by LARS LUNDKVIST Poem Source First Line: Put your head here and rest for a while Last Line: Does she love you Subject(s): Art And Artists; Love; Paintings And Painters; Stones STONE, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Go inside a stone Subject(s): Stones; Granite; Rocks STONE, by MARK VAN DOREN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I drove by a pasture, under the sun, Last Line: But when could she have learned that she was stone? Subject(s): Stones; Granite; Rocks STONE DUST, by FRANK ERNEST HILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gods have not yet learned to fear the lover Last Line: From a crumbling wall. Subject(s): Dust; Love - Nature Of; Stones; Supernatural; Granite; Rocks STONE FLIGHT, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A piece of broken stone, granular granite, a constellation Last Line: In the dust at a verge of meadowgrass and wild carrot Subject(s): Erotic Love; Stones STONE INTO ROSE, by FRANK ERNEST HILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the paved street dig a place for roots Last Line: Back to the earth in rain to feed a rose. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Stones; Granite; Rocks STONE MEETS IRON AT THE SPANISH MONASTERY, NORTH MIAMI BEACH, by NATHANIEL B. SMITH Poem Source First Line: Stone and iron are earth made apparent; all we ever saw of earth Last Line: Crates, earth riding the waves, how it grew anew, how it lives and %flowers, how we flower in its ho Subject(s): Iron And Steel Industry; Monasteries; Stones STONE NOTES, by PATTY SEYBURN Poem Source First Line: The tour guide said, consider the nature of age Last Line: Saying, thank you, thank you, you poor dead gods Subject(s): Stones; Tourists STONE QUARRY: LATE CAPITALISM COMES TO THE REMOTE WEST COAST OF, by LINDA MCCARRISTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From here the stones were drawn Last Line: To take it and eat it %digesting even its name? Subject(s): History; Ireland; Stones STONE STEPS, by TONY COSIER Poem Source First Line: They start from the base of the steps, squatting to squint Last Line: And tightly chiselled sharp as the face of a cliff Subject(s): Buildings And Builders; Stones STONE WALL BUILDERS, by EDITH HASKELL TAPPAN Poem Text First Line: Sturdy and staunch were those new england men Last Line: In this the land we love! Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; New England; Stones; Walls; Work; Workers; Granite; Rocks STONE WORSHIP, by MARCIA SOUTHWICK Poem Source First Line: I could have spent an entire lifetime laughing in despair Last Line: Able to pick up signals from anywhere in the universe but here Subject(s): Religion; Stones; Worship STONE'S SECRET, by MARGARET AVISON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Otter-smooth boulder Subject(s): Stones; Granite; Rocks STONES, by CRAIG CHALLENDER Poem Source First Line: If I were a red man Last Line: Them in hand, try to touch them awake, wait, %wait to feel them breathe Subject(s): Stones STONES, by MABEL MUNNS CHARLES Poem Text First Line: Stones there be in fences and in the tall gray towers Last Line: A lonely heart! Subject(s): Stones; Granite; Rocks STONES, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They don't change, or change so slowlhy Subject(s): Stones; Death; Granite; Rocks; Dead, The STONES TURN THEIR BACKS TO US, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Our lives are light as flyspecks Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Life; Nature; Stones STONES WILL PAY ME HEED, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What has brought me to you, stone Last Line: Are here and they pay me heed Subject(s): Stones TEACHING A STONE, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: From the beach near st. Michael's I pocketed a stone Last Line: Thoughts skipping like stones on the sea Subject(s): Islands; Solitude; Stones TERGVINDER'S STONE, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One time my friend tergvinder Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Stones THE BARMAID AND THE ALEXANDRITE, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Route 66, a rut of scenery and cigarettes Last Line: From telluride, to taos, to galisteo. Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Stones; Travel; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Granite; Rocks; Journeys; Trips THE BASS ROCK, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas summer's depth; a more enlivening sun Last Line: Oft make the hush of midnight more profound. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Guests; Scotland; Stones; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Visiting; Granite; Rocks; Journeys; Trips THE BLARNEY STONE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In blarney castle, on a crumbling tower Last Line: Has kissed, -- not calvary, -- but the blarney stone! Subject(s): Blarney Castle, Ireland; Stones; Granite; Rocks THE BURNS STATUE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This statue, I must confess, is magnificent to see Last Line: In fear of not getting such a beautiful statue after they die. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Dundee, Scotland; Monuments; Statues; Stones; Granite; Rocks THE DORCHESTER GIANT, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a giant in time of old Last Line: And pay for the punch beside. Subject(s): Boston; Stones; Granite; Rocks THE EYE IN THE ROCK, by JOHN HAINES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A high rock face above flathead lake Last Line: Painted this eye that the rock might see. Subject(s): Admiration; Mines & Miners; Mountains; Stones; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Granite; Rocks THE FEAST OF THE GODS, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From a high tower I gazed at night Last Line: One psalter. ... Will we never know these gods are dead, and cannot live? Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Imagism; Mythology; Stones; Granite; Rocks THE HEAD ON THE TABLE, by JOHN HAINES Poem Full 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 MAD SCULPTOR, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far up in the quarry / I hewed a stone for pure delight Last Line: And reaches me his hands! Subject(s): Art & Artists; Sculpture & Sculptors; Statues; Stones; Granite; Rocks THE MASTER-WOOER, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: I saw thy heart to-day Last Line: The rock shall yield herself to him for aye. Subject(s): Hearts; Man-woman Relationships; Perseverance; Stones; Male-female Relations; Granite; Rocks THE MOSQUE AT EPHESUS, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A gray shell with a ruined tower Last Line: White on the mouldering tower. Subject(s): Decay; Ruins; Stones; Rot; Decadence; Granite; Rocks THE MUSEUM OF STONES, by CAROLYN FORCHE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: These are your stones, assembled in matchbox and tin, Alternate Author Name(s): Sidlosky, Carolyn Subject(s): Stones; Granite; Rocks THE PATH AMONG THE STONES, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the path winding Subject(s): Stones; Granite; Rocks THE RAGGED STONE, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I was walking with my dear, my dear come back at last Last Line: I'll not be walking with my dear next year, nor yet alone. Subject(s): Death; Fear; Legends; Love; Stones; War; World War I; Dead, The; Granite; Rocks; First World War THE ROCK, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This rock, too, was a word Last Line: Your thoughts are your, too; naked let them stand. Subject(s): Stars; Stones; Granite; Rocks THE ROCK, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Slow sloping to its point pyramidal Last Line: And drank the sunrise glory of the sea. Subject(s): Beauty; Stones; Women; Granite; Rocks THE SERENITY IN STONES, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am holding this turquoise Subject(s): Stones; Granite; Rocks THE SPRIG OF MOSS, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There lived in munich a poor, weakly youth Last Line: And be your only comforter in all your lonely hours. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Explorers; Moss; Stones; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Granite; Rocks THE STONE, by PAUL BLACKBURN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stone found me in bright sunlight Last Line: I liked him Subject(s): New York City; Stones; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Granite; Rocks THE STONE, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day I carry the stone Last Line: Weep when it won't nurse. Subject(s): Babies; Death - Mothers; Stones; Infants; Dead, The; Granite; Rocks THE STONE LANTERN, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: Old, dilapidated, grey; no longer a light-giver Last Line: To bring light and perfume. Subject(s): Old Age; Stones; Granite; Rocks THE STONE OF HEAVEN, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, where the rivers dredge up Last Line: And seeing, begin to assemble the plain stones of earth. Subject(s): Colors; Stones; Granite; Rocks THE STONES, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One night in my room Last Line: Among the excellent vegetables. Subject(s): Environment; Happiness; Nature; Self; Stones; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Joy; Delight; Granite; Rocks THE STONES, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This morning, I went Last Line: Of the stones Subject(s): Stones THE STONES OF STANTON DREW, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bland was the morn, no fault or flaw Last Line: The stones of stanton drew. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Stones; Time; Granite; Rocks THE TIDE ROCK, by CHARLES KINGSLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How sleeps yon rock, whose half-day's bath is done Last Line: A gallant front to this world's gaudy glare. Subject(s): Stones; Granite; Rocks THINGS, SELECTION, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hard, but you can polish it Subject(s): Religion; Stones; Theology; Granite; Rocks THINGS, SELS., by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hard, but you can polish it Subject(s): Religion; Stones THIS IS MY ROCK, by DAVID MCCORD Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: I meet the evening face to face Subject(s): Stones THIS IS THE STONE, by ALISON CROGGON Poem Source First Line: It's when you want to shrug it all off Last Line: This is the stone you work on Subject(s): Human Behavior; Human Rights; Stones THYME FLOWERING AMONG ROCKS, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This, if japanese, / would represent grey boulders Last Line: Truer than it seems Subject(s): Stones; Thyme; Granite; Rocks THYME FLOWERING AMONG ROCKS, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This, if japanese, %would represent grey boulders Last Line: A falsehood, but because it's %truer than it seems Subject(s): Stones; Thyme TILLAGE MARKS, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Farm Life; Stones; Agriculture; Farmers; Granite; Rocks TO A STONE BY THE WAYSIDE, by ENRIQUE GONZALEZ MARTINEZ Poem Source First Line: O mossy stone, thou pillow small and hard Last Line: I give thee thanks for giving me a dream! Subject(s): Death; Graves; Heaven; Stones TO THE STONE CUTTERS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you foredefeated Last Line: The honey of peace in old poems Variant Title(s): To The Stone-cutters Subject(s): Stones; Transience; Granite; Rocks; Impermanence TO THE STONE CUTTERS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you foredefeated Last Line: The honey of peace in old poems Variant Title(s): To The Stone-cutter Subject(s): Stones; Transience TO THE WIFE OF THE CORREGIDOR, by MANUEL GUTIERREZ NAJERA Poem Source First Line: For primates old, pale incense eddying round Last Line: Awake thy comrades! 'tis the hour. March on!' Subject(s): Death; Heroism; Honor; Monuments; Stones TOWER, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now I have come again Last Line: O king live forever.' Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Buildings And Builders; Mountains; Stones TOWN AND THE OCEAN, by RICHARD KELL Poem Source First Line: To feel the wind up there Last Line: Filled all my veins with light Subject(s): Buildings And Builders; Stones TRANSLATING RILKE ELECTRONICALLY, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: We did not know its undreamt of head Last Line: Which does not see you. You must otherwise your life Subject(s): Stones TWO VOICES IN A MEADOW, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Anonymous as cherubs Subject(s): Religion; Stones; Theology; Granite; Rocks TWO VOICES IN A MEADOW, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Anonymous as cherubs Last Line: Did such as I aspire Subject(s): Religion; Stones ULYSSES BUILDS HIS BED, by JEAN DE BOSSCHERE Poem Text First Line: Glorious ulysses, returned from the war Last Line: And the enraptured mothers smile. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Statues; Stones; Ulysses; Walls; Granite; Rocks; Odysseus UNDER A GARDEN STONE, by CLARA HYDE Poem Text First Line: Blue light and rancid slate is this strange soil Last Line: That nothing but a garden stone can hold. Subject(s): Stones; Granite; Rocks VOLCANOES, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO Poem Source First Line: Each volcano lifts its profile Last Line: Like tumbled baskets, spilling flowers Subject(s): Fire; Stones; Travel; Volcanoes WALL, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: It is a purplish stone Last Line: On the fleeing horizons Subject(s): Solitude; Stones; Walls WHITE ROCK RAPIDS, by P'EI TI Poem Source First Line: Standing on the rocks, gazing at the water below Last Line: Women wash gauze under a bright moon Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Nature; Stones; Zen Buddhism WHO FANCIED WHAT A PRETTY SIGHT, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Where life is wise and innocent Subject(s): Stones WOOD AND STONES, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The silent trees above my head Last Line: May well give speech to stones and wood! Subject(s): Fate; Nature; Stones; Trees; Wood; Destiny; Granite; Rocks |
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