Poetry Explorer

Search Classic and Contemporary Poetry

Search Results

Back to search

Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!


Searching...
Subject: TEEN AGERS
Matches Found: 26

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A YOUNG BOY; THE DECISION, by JESSICA NELSON NORTH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let him alone, and when he is one year older
Last Line: We will send him away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macdonald, Reed I., Mrs.
Subject(s): Adolescence; Teen Agers


ADOLESCENCE, by MAVIS CLARE BARNETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: She'd thought about his eyes but had not known
Last Line: Troubled by this sensation she called hate.
Subject(s): Adolescence; Teen Agers


ADOLESCENCE, by BYRON CHEW    Poem Text                    
First Line: You ask me
Last Line: And subdue the shore!
Subject(s): Adolescence; Teen Agers


ADOLESCENCE, by JEAN STEPHEN JOHNSTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Once he was mine, but now I find a door
Last Line: They may be more enduring than it seems.
Subject(s): Adolescence; Teen Agers


ADOLESCENCE, by LEROY OLIVER MCLEOD    Poem Text                    
First Line: White morning, like a frosted window-pane
Last Line: Was dark with secrets as the depths below.
Subject(s): Adolescence; Growth; Maturity; Time; Youth; Teen Agers


ADOLESCENCE, by MABEL WARD MCQUAID    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wistful, cruel, tender, gruff
Last Line: Such a puzzling thing is life!
Subject(s): Adolescence; Teen Agers


ADOLESCENCE, by MAY WILLIAMS WARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I don't know what I want, but I want something
Last Line: I'll try a good big beefsteak, chicken-fried!
Subject(s): Adolescence; Teen Agers


ADOLESCENCE: 3, by RITA DOVE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With dad gone, mom and I worked
Subject(s): Adolescence; Baby Boom Generation; Women; Teen Agers


ADOLESCENT, by VIOLET ALLEYN STOREY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Half-man, half child, his whole limp body nods
Last Line: The gods themselves as adam leapt to eve!
Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Adolescence; Bible; Puberty; Teen Agers


APRIL, by BERNICE SWANSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Adolescent april
Last Line: Once I shared your tears.
Subject(s): Adolescence; Teen Agers


BROTHER AND SISTER, by MARY ANN EVANS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I cannot choose but think upon the time
Last Line: I would be born a little sister there.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary
Variant Title(s): "i Cannot Choose But Think Upon The Time"";
Subject(s): Adolescence; Brothers & Sisters; Evans, Isaac; Family Life; Maturity; Memory; Teen Agers; Relatives


CHERRYLOG ROAD, by JAMES DICKEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Off highway 106
Subject(s): Adolescence; Junk & Junkyards; Love; Teen Agers


EHEU FUGACES, by P. M. G.    Poem Text                    
First Line: When I was five-and-twenty
Last Line: To the sweet of seventeen!
Subject(s): Adolescence; Teen Agers


MONOLOGUE OF TWO MOONS, NUDES WITH CRESTS: 1938, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once, lily and I fell from a ladder
Last Line: Twigs, leaves, and an infinite black string.
Subject(s): Accidents; Adolescence; Desire; Gays & Lesbians; Teen Agers; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men


MY EYES ARE YOUNG, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Soft spake I to age at his dusk of day
Last Line: When my youth with years had flown.
Subject(s): Adolescence; Eyes; Teen Agers


NEW WAVE, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He listens to a punk rock group
Last Line: Due to the effects of listening to agent orange.
Subject(s): Adolescence; Music & Musicians; Parents; Teen Agers; Parenthood


PORTRAIT OF A GIRL WITH COMIC BOOK, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thirteen's no age at all. Thirteen's nothing
Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs.
Subject(s): Adolescence; Teen Agers


PRAYER FOR AN ADOLESCENT, by MONA MOORE    Poem Text                    
First Line: God - he is at crisis!
Last Line: The pulse of the universe is taking form.
Subject(s): Adolescence; Teen Agers


STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: We're deep into the seventh hour, the car
Subject(s): Adolescence; Automobile Accidents; Death; Heaven; Travel; Women; Teen Agers; Dead, The; Paradise; Journeys; Trips


SWEET SIXTEEN, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Have you seen a winsome girlie with eyes of limpid blue
Last Line: Is graven everywhere.
Subject(s): Adolescence; Girls; Teenagers; Teen Agers


THE BABYSITTER, by SHARON OLDS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The baby was about six months old
Subject(s): Adolescence; Babies; Teen Agers; Infants


THE BALLAD OF THE FOUR YOUTHS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A youth to the hilltop glanced and said
Last Line: With nothing but love to gain.
Subject(s): Adolescence; Youth; Teen Agers


THE ONE GIRL AT THE BOYS PARTY, by SHARON OLDS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I take my girl to the swimming party
Subject(s): Adolescence; Teen Agers


THE WINDOW, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On allgood road two miles off georgia 41, you round a curve
Last Line: Waiting in that room, patient and promiscuous.
Subject(s): Adolescence; Georgia (state); Promiscuity; Teen Agers


WARBLER AT HOWELL'S DRIVE-IN, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You might come here now
Last Line: Or gone into briars, pine needles, air?
Subject(s): Adolescence; Aging; Decay; Motion Pictures; Teen Agers; Rot; Decadence; Movies; Cinema


YOUTH: A SONG OF ADOLESCENCE, by MARY ABIGAIL WHITE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Why do I want to run away
Last Line: Of wind swept hills and desert trails?
Subject(s): Adolescence; Teen Agers