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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: TIME Matches Found: 1900 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` & TIME TROTS BY, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sad glad hairy drives Last Line: Elitist for sure Subject(s): Art & Artists; Time 14-FEB, by RONALD W. WALLACE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How time expands %to map the lost occasion Last Line: On the face of a torn envelope, %a message never sent Alternate Author Name(s): Wallace, Ron Subject(s): Time 1950, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: 1950 was the perfect year to be born Subject(s): Time; Life; Ancestors & Ancestry; Heritage; Heredity 1967, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In five-score summers! All new eyes Last Line: That thy worm should be my worm, love! Subject(s): Death; Time; Dead, The 1998, by TONY SANDERS Poem Source First Line: The halo of gadflies permeated the noontime Last Line: While in the rearview mirrors, history blazed Subject(s): Change; Time 4 A.M., by KENNETH FEARING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is early evening, still, in honolulu, and in london now, it must be well past dawn Subject(s): Time 4TH STREET, 2 O'CLOCK, by JENNIFER SNYDER Poem Source First Line: When the sluggish, hot wind arrives I think of the day Last Line: What am I if not space filled with biting? Subject(s): Life; Time A BAD YEAR, by DANIEL HALPERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We call it a bad year, / diseases of the blood Subject(s): Time A BALLAD OF ANTIQUARIES, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The days decay as flowers of grass Last Line: We are the gleaners after time. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Time A BIRTHDAY, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Again I come / with my handful of song Last Line: You who have soothed me with passion and roused me with passionate peace. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Aging; Birthdays; Happiness; Singing & Singers; Time; Joy; Delight A BLACK-LETTER STORY-BOOK, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: In dingy binding dark with time Last Line: In brimming flagons! Subject(s): Books; Time; Reading A BLURRY PHOTOGRAPH, by MARTHA RONK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tree azalea overwhelms the evening with its scent Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Time; Smells; Memory; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 38, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is a day, what is a year Last Line: Our souls are in heaven placed. Subject(s): Time A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 4, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow! Last Line: The sun still proud, the shadow still disdained. Variant Title(s): Follow Subject(s): Love; Shadows; Sun; Time A BRIDGE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the church there stands a bridge Last Line: "and the green weed's lazy beside his stone." Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Bridges; Time A CANTICLE OF TIME, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hours of grieving, / hours of thought Last Line: Saith the soul. Subject(s): Life; Time A CERTAIN KIND OF EDEN, by KAY RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It seems like you could, but Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Time; Hope; Optimism A COMPARISON, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lapse of time and rivers is the same Last Line: Neglected, leaves a dreary waste behind. Subject(s): Time A CONTRAST, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Can you open that ebony casket? Last Line: Who is living in me to-day. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Life; Memory; Tears; Time A DAY IS VAST, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Last Line: But you can lose it Subject(s): Time A DAY TO COME, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your own fair youth, you care so little for it Last Line: Walk there awhile among my memories. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Time A DENIAL, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have met late - it is too late to meet Last Line: Look in my face and see.' Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Time A DIM DOORWAY, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forty years rolled back the curtain Last Line: Laughter I had lost so long. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Time A DREAM OF LIFE, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our time-career is yon dark cloud Last Line: God grant! Shall mock their glance. Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Life; Tears; Time; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness A DREAM OF PERFECTION, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: I found it in a vision fair Last Line: A perfect soul, and form, and face. Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Perfection; Soul; Time; Nightmares A FANCY FROM FONTENELLE, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rose in the garden slipped her bud Last Line: For the rose is beauty; the gardener, time. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Variant Title(s): The Rose And The Gardener Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Time A FRAGMENT, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Should fickle hands in far-off days Last Line: Would make thee young again. Subject(s): Love; Time A FUNERAL CHANT FOR THE OLD YEAT, by E. JUSTINE BAYARD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is the death night of the solemn old year Alternate Author Name(s): Cutting, E. Justine Subject(s): Time; Transience; Impermanence A GOLDEN WEDDING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your golden wedding! - fifty Last Line: But take it -- I have more of it. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Time; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A GREAT SQUARE HAS NO CORNERS, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: "writes with a mop, ""a great square has no corners." Subject(s): Time; Language; Words; Vocabulary A GREETING, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But once or twice we met, touched hands Last Line: But once or twice! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Time A HOP AT SARATOGA, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hall is ample; gilded arches shine Last Line: That cheerful and majestic measure. Subject(s): Beauty; Soul; Time A LAMENTATION, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who hath known the ways of time Last Line: Beyond the gods and fate. Subject(s): Lament; Life; Pain; Time; Suffering; Misery A LETTER IN OCTOBER, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn comes later and later now Subject(s): Autumn; Time; Fall A LIFETIME, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sit in the early twilight Last Line: The trees with a heavy sigh. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Time A LITTLE GIRL IN SCHOOL, by FRANCES VIOLA HOLDEN Poem Text First Line: A little girl in school Last Line: How merry were the days! Subject(s): Girls; Happiness; Life; Praise; Time; Joy; Delight A LITTLE OVERFLOWING WORD, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: As eloquent appears Subject(s): Language; Time A LITTLE SCRAPING, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: True, the time, to one who does not love farce Last Line: And gathers multitude like game to be hunted when the season comes Subject(s): Time; Destruction A LOOK-OUT FOR THIRTY YEARS, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Deaf to science and her faithful words! Last Line: Shall set my thin face heavenward, it may hap. Subject(s): Meteors; Time A MANTEL CLOCK, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER Poem Text First Line: A tireless servant of old time it stands Last Line: To us it would be more than ornament. Subject(s): Clocks; Old Age; Time A MASQUE OF THE TIMES O' DAY, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the dawn, beloved by those that watch Last Line: These too shall pass away. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Day; Plays & Playwrights ; Time; Dramatists A MEMORY, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why did it flash at the window there Last Line: Twould matter naught were it wind or rain! Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Memory; Thought; Time; Thinking A MEMORY OF HER LODGED IN WET AIR AND SKIN, by MARTHA RONK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If the slightly wet air in the skin is the hillside Subject(s): Swimming & Swimmers; Time A MENDER OF CLOCKS, by MARGARET E. BRUNER Poem Text First Line: I think that in his youth he must have known Last Line: Age vanishes -- his spirit soars with time. Subject(s): Clocks; Time A MISSIVE MISSILE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone once in ancient mas d’ azil Last Line: From company means coming to our senses Subject(s): Time A MOTHER'S CHRONOLOGY, by EVELYN MABEL WATSON Poem Text First Line: You measure life by months and days Last Line: With which I grieving deck his grave. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Mothers & Sons; Soldiers; Time; Dead, The A NEW MADRIGAL TO AN OLD MELODY, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As along a dark pine-bough, in slender white mystery Last Line: For marian, our clear may, so long laid in earth. Subject(s): Earth; Fools; Grief; Hope; Moon; Seasons; Time; World; Idiots; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism A NEW YEAR'S THOUGHT, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: What does the new year hold in store for me Last Line: And take what comes, conformable to plan. Subject(s): Future; Holidays; Life Change Events; New Year; Time A NOTE OF HUMILITY, by ARNA BONTEMPS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When all our hopes are sown on stony ground Last Line: An hour or two, but it will not be soon Subject(s): African Americans; Liberty; Time; Negroes; American Blacks A PALIMPSEST, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rest / of our life must be a palimpsest Last Line: As 'mid moonbeams shifted through a cloud. Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper) Subject(s): Time A PARTHIAN GLANCE, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, my crony, let's think upon far-away days Last Line: And I'm seeking to hide it -- by writing for bays! Subject(s): Time A PETITION TO TIME, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Touch us gently, time! Last Line: Touch us gently, gentle time! Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller Subject(s): Home; Time A PLACE IN MAINE, by SHEROD SANTOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Disappointment; Time; Family Life; Absence; Relatives; Separation; Isolation A PLAIN SONG FOR COMADRE, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though the unseen may vanish, though insight fails Subject(s): Time A PRE-RAPHAELITE NOTEBOOK, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Primroses; salutations; the miry skull Subject(s): Prehistoric Antiquities; Time A PRELUDE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know only the bare rocks of today Last Line: "sisters,"" I say to them." Subject(s): Time A PROPER SONNET, HOW TIME CONSUMETH ALL EARTHLY THINGS, by THOMAS PROCTOR Poem Text First Line: Ay me, ay me, I sigh to see the scythe afield Last Line: For all is thine, be it good or bad, that grows. Subject(s): Time A QUESTION OF TIME, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ask a friend. She informs me it is ten years Subject(s): Time A RAMBLER'S REVERIE, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: We wander up a golden lane Last Line: For back none ever strays. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Thought; Time; Fall; Thinking A RECOLLECTION, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I knew that I should be his bride Last Line: Which blesses every hour. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Love - Marital; Time; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love A RECOMMENDATION, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When work is harassing Last Line: "oneatatime." Subject(s): Time A ROSE WILL FADE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You were always a dreamer, rose - red rose Last Line: A rose will fade in a day. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Time A SEA-MARK, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rains have left the sea-blanks ill to climb Last Line: Stands a sea-mark in the tides of time. Subject(s): Rain; Sea; Time; Ocean A SHAPE FOR IT, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes when time goes by Subject(s): Time A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 2, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Last Line: To see the cherry hung with snow. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Variant Title(s): Cherry Trees;loveliest Of Trees Subject(s): Aging; Carpe Diem; Cherries; Cherry Trees; Easter; Environment; Fruit; Holidays; Spring; Time; Trees; The Resurrection; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 31, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On wenlock edge the wood's in trouble Last Line: Are ashes under uricon. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Variant Title(s): On Wenlock Edge;wenlock Edge Subject(s): England; Shropshire, England; Time; Wind; English A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 40, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into my heart an air that kills Last Line: And cannot come again. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Variant Title(s): Yon Far Country Subject(s): Loss; Mourning; Time; Bereavement A SMILE AND A SIGH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A smile because the nights are short Last Line: We live who would be dying. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Time A SONG (3), by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The year's a little older grown Last Line: Yet who can bring the may again? Subject(s): Time A SONG FOR ROSALYS, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Roses lean from their slender stalks Last Line: In the summer weather! Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Time A SONG OF EXPECTANCY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Time will tell us: only wait Last Line: Ripens day by day. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Time A SPEED OF HISTORY, by MARGARET AVISON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: One brilliantly cold alberta day Subject(s): New Year; Time; Canada; Canadians A STORY AT DUSK, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An evening all aglow with summer light Last Line: And wept away his passion by himself. Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Friendship; Time; Change; Dogs; Death A STUDENT, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over an ancient scroll I bent Last Line: The fluttering of an angel's wings! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Past; Schools; Time; Nightmares; Students A TORCHBEARER, by EDITH WHARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great cities rise and have their fall; the brass Last Line: Where else were darkness and a glutted shore. Subject(s): Time A TRYST WITH DEATH, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am footsore and very weary Last Line: And he only can give me rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Night; Time; Travel; Dead, The; Nightmares; Bedtime; Journeys; Trips A WATCHER'S REGRET; J.E.'S STORY, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I slept across the front of the clock Last Line: Of the hour in which she went. Subject(s): Time A WEDDED VALENTINE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear, may I be your valentine? Last Line: Dear, may I be your valentine? Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Holidays; Life; Love; Time; Valentine's Day A WHEEN AUL' MEMORIES: 1. COATBRIDGE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wi' my haun on my haffit I sit by the fire Last Line: I mourn for the days an' the folk that's awa. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Memory; Past; Time A WHEEN AUL' MEMORIES: 2. DRUMPELLIER, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye kenna, my cummers, ye never can ken Last Line: But bonny drumpellier they've left evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Memory; Past; Time A WITHERED NOSEGAY, by LOUIS FRECHETTE Poem Text First Line: Here's a posy of poor faded flowers, that I keep Last Line: Shall touch you caressingly even in death. Subject(s): Flowers; Lament; Past; Time A WOMAN'S DREAM, by MARCELINE DESBORDES-VALMORE Poem Text First Line: Wilt thou begin thy life once more Last Line: "nay! Pitying saviour! Let me die." Subject(s): Aging; Time; Youth A WORD FROM THE PSALMIST, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take heed, ye unwise among the people Last Line: O ye fools, when will ye understand? Subject(s): Religion; Time; Theology A YEAR, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Paint me a portrait of the year.' Last Line: "we have for memoriesand to spare." Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Past; Time A YEAR OR A LIFETIME, by ALICE CRAIG REDHEAD Poem Text First Line: Swift-winged and white-silenced, each day is a bird Last Line: Tomorrow you, also, may learn you can fly. Subject(s): Time ABEYANCE, by DAN LEIDIG Poem Source First Line: It stopped snowing days ago Last Line: The lingering weather out, %absent of pretension Subject(s): Time 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 ABOUT TIME, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What we have been doing Subject(s): Time ABOUT TIME, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What we have been doing Last Line: Not yet %soon Subject(s): Time ABRUPTLY ALL THE PALM TREES ROSE LIKE PARASOLS, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Palm Trees; Time ABSENCE, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Absence, hear thou my protestation Last Line: And so enjoy her and none miss her. Variant Title(s): That Time And Absence Proves Rather Helps Than Hurts To Love Subject(s): Absence; Love; Time; Separation; Isolation ACCUMULATION, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Busbound out of new york Subject(s): Time ACCUMULATION, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Busbound out of new york Last Line: Who grew up where I did, %ages ago Subject(s): Time ACHIEVEMENT, by THEODOCIA PEARCE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Better to climb the steep hill of existence Last Line: Mine is a growing soul! Subject(s): Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Soul; Time ACHIEVEMENT, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If we had sought adventurously, the stars Last Line: one day in spring. All other days are lost. Subject(s): Death; Time; Dead, The ACHRONOS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The trunks of trees which I knew glorious green Last Line: With the egyptian's first-born shares coeval death. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Time ACROSS THE BRIDGE, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Away across the bridge they go Last Line: They hurry backI wonder why! Subject(s): Night; October; Time; Bedtime ACROSS THE YEARS, by MAUDE HAYNES Poem Text First Line: Through endless years I can't forget! Last Line: That you have not forgotten me! Alternate Author Name(s): Hollowell, William Paul, Mrs. Subject(s): Time ACROSS THE YEARS, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across the years, I hear your laughter sweet Last Line: You on the terrace there above the street! Subject(s): Time ACTS OF RECOVERY, by DAN LEIDIG Poem Source First Line: We were spared the bad news Last Line: A mama's magic prescription %for pockets for depression Subject(s): Time ADDRESS FROM THE SPIRIT OF COCKERMOUTH CASTLE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou look'st upon me, and dost fondly think ...' Last Line: "still round my shattered brow in beauty wave." Subject(s): Time; Transience ADLESTROP, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, I remember adlestrop Last Line: Of oxfordshire and gloucestershire. Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Adlestrop, England; England; June; Time; English ADMIRATIONS AND CONTEMPTS OF TIME, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Toward the god of him Variant Title(s): Poem: 906; Poem: 83 Subject(s): Time 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 ADVANCES, by KEITH WALDROP Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seventy wingbeats Subject(s): Weather; Time; Nature; Mind, The ADVERTISEMENT OF A LOST DAY, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lost! Lost! Lost! / a gem of countless price Last Line: What shall it answer there? Subject(s): Time AEROMANCY: 6, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the incantation of the bells Last Line: From life's loud pageant and mute pilgrimage Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Bells; Time AFFINITY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You and I have found the secret way Last Line: Is a living music in us yet. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Time; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AFFRONTENBURG, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Time fleeteth, yet that castle old Last Line: With bonds accurst, and pining sadly. Subject(s): Envy; Fear; Ships & Shipping; Tears; Time AFTER, by WILLIAM AIKEN Poem Source First Line: In 50 years no one will be thinking of you Last Line: And we find that the stream of caring %has not mattered Subject(s): Change; Time AFTER A LITTLE WHILE, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After a little while Last Line: After a little while. Subject(s): Time AFTER A THOUSAND YEARS, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: That night the loud voice of the sea was roaring Last Line: The muffled onset of embattled shades. Subject(s): Sea; Time; Ocean AFTER FORTY YEARS, by MAMIE A. MELOY Poem Text First Line: The shining, friendly cottonwoods Last Line: Beneath their changeless prairie sky. Subject(s): Canadian River; Cottonwood Trees; Graves; Pioneers; Time; Tombs; Tombstones AFTER IKKYU: 19, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time gets foreshortened late at night Last Line: In my room. One blink, red mountain's still there. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Time AFTER IKKYU: 21, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just like today eternity is accomplished Last Line: Time passed in sitting begs mercy from the clock. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Time AFTER LONG YEARS, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They told me then that time would heal my heart Last Line: They do not know! Subject(s): Grief; Time; Sorrow; Sadness AFTER SUNSET, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The vast and solemn company of clouds Last Line: Drops in the shadowy gulf of bygone things. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Evening; Memory; Past; Silence; Time; Sunset; Twilight AFTER TWENTY YEARS, by JENNIFER MACKENZIE Poem Source First Line: When odysseus built his bridal bed Last Line: The shuttle weaves the cloth Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Time; Ulysses AFTERGLOW, by CHARLES GRANGER BLANDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I pray that time full many years may bring Last Line: And I the long decembers count by half. Subject(s): Aging; Singing & Singers; Spring; Time; Youth; Songs AFTERNOONS, by MICHAEL ANANIA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Quick passage into Last Line: The wide world circling Subject(s): Mdemory; Time AFTERWARDS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the present has latched its postern behind my tremulous stay Last Line: "he hears it not now, but used to notice such things""?" Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events; Memory; Time; Dead, The AGAINST THE LAWS, by FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Starting now the hours of the clock Last Line: With the ticking of the law and its measure Subject(s): Time AGE, by K. H. BARRON Poem Source First Line: There is a remembering Last Line: And they sang %to us Subject(s): Change; Time AGE AND SONG (TO BARRY CORNWALL), by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In vain men tell us time can alter Last Line: That lives in light above men's lives. Variant Title(s): New Year's Eve Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Procter, Bryan Waller (1787-1874); Time; Cornwall, Barry [pseud.] AGED CARLE, FR. THE ANTIQUARY, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why sit'st thou by that ruin'd hall Last Line: When time and thou shall part for ever! Variant Title(s): Time; The Omnipoten Subject(s): Courage; Time AGING: ON THE VANITY OF EARTHLY GREATNESS, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tusks that clashed in mighty brawls Subject(s): Time; Transience; Vanity; Impermanence AGING: ON THE VANITY OF EARTHLY GREATNESS, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The tusks that clashed in mighty brawls Last Line: And I don't feel so well myself Subject(s): Time; Transience; Vanity AIRY NOTHINGS. FR. THE TEMPEST, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our revels are now ended. These our actors Last Line: Is rounded with sleep. Variant Title(s): Such Stuff As Dreams;the Pageant;finale;human Life;end Of All Earthly Glory;life's Pageant;after Seeing A Masque [the Grand Style];prospero's Farewell To His Magic Subject(s): Fairies; Life Change Events; Time; Elves ALARM CLOCKS, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When dawn strides out to wake a dewy farm Last Line: In many a high and dreary sleeping place. Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Subject(s): Clocks; Dawn; Time; Sunrise ALBANY WINTER, by MICHAEL J. HENRY Poem Source First Line: In the foyer closet by the staircase Last Line: But the strange skulls and wings of death %still clear, still indelible Subject(s): Future; Home; Time; Winter ALL SOULS, by SHEROD SANTOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forgive me, mother, it's october again Subject(s): Autumn; Time; Fa,ily Life; Life, Modern; Fall ALL THE CLOCKS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the house have stopped running Last Line: Will historians write about %the revolution of the clocks Subject(s): Clocks; Time ALL THE DIFFICULT HOURS AND MINUTES, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Last Line: First the jar holds the umeboshi, then the rice does Subject(s): Time ALL THOSE YEARS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Nickel-and-dime Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Aging; Nature; Time AMORETTI: 86, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since I did leave the presence of my love Last Line: But joyous houres doo fly away too fast. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Time AN ANNIVERSARY, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two decades and a minute Last Line: Two decades and a minute. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Anniversaries; Time AN AUTOGRAPH (1), by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I write my name as one Last Line: "may god forgive him wholly!" Subject(s): Autographs; Memory; Mortality; Time AN EMBLEM OF THE SHORTNESS OF HUMAN PLEASURE; TO THE GRASSHOPPER, by SAMUEL SAY Poem Text First Line: Little insect! That on high Last Line: But the winter long remains. Subject(s): Grasshoppers; Life; Time AN EMPTY GLOVE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An empty glove - long withering Last Line: The poor husk of the hand I loved -- and love. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Gloves; Love; Time; Mittens; Muffs AN EPISTLE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When crowding folks with strange ill faces Last Line: That one mouse eats, while t'other's starved. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Paris, France; Portraits; Time; English AN EVENING REVERY, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The summer day is closed - the sun is set Last Line: Shall journey onward in perpetual peace. Subject(s): Evening; Time; Sunset; Twilight AN EXPLANATION, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To the young lady toad said her mother Last Line: "why, mamma,"" she replied, ""'tis leap year!" Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Time AN HOUR, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You only promised me a single hour Last Line: Where all the forms of time are like a dream. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Time; Nightmares AN OLD SONG, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I set my reed against my lips and blow Last Line: And you grow young, and I alive once more. Subject(s): Time AN OLD TOMB OPENED, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ivory and gold and jewels fashioned fine Last Line: "behold, bright news of our long yesterday!" Subject(s): Beauty; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Graves; Time; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones AN OUT-WORN SAPPHO, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How tired I am! I sink down all alone Last Line: Say simply: she was tired. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Aging; Time; Wandering & Wanderers; Weariness; Fatigue AN UNPRAISED PICTURE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a picture once by angelo Last Line: Yet trembles forth a word of prayer and praise. Subject(s): Portraits; Praise; Tears; Time; Youth AN UNTIMELY THOUGHT, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder what day of the week Last Line: I wonder what month of the year. Subject(s): Time; Death; Dead, The ANAESTHETICS, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: I dreamt I saw a healer stand Last Line: "upsteals the saintly moon!" Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Soul; Time; Youth; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness ANCIENT, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sky is cold as pearl Last Line: To a whiteness older than time. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Time; Winter AND DEATH SHALL HAVE NO DOMINION, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Break in the sun till the sun breaks down %and death shall have no dominion Subject(s): Bible; Death; Life Change Events; Religion; Time ANGELA ASKS FOR MORE STORIES, by CLAUDIA MONPERE MCISAAC Poem Source First Line: It was the year of the babysitter. Mother had slid Last Line: She is a child, his voice a vine rustle as he holds her hand in his, %strokes the wet wool Subject(s): Change; Family Life; Time ANNE RUTLEDGE, by HESTER BARBOUR NEWEY Poem Text First Line: Long years ago my sweetheart said goodbye Last Line: "if memories of anne live in your fame." Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Memory; Time ANNIVERSARIES, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forty-odd years ago Last Line: This whispering wrist sustains the dream of nations Subject(s): Anniversaries; History; Time; Historians ANOTHER DAY, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fleeting high that lifts you Last Line: Ball of twine, fractal of lost feathers Subject(s): Time; Conduct Of Life ANOTHER RIDE FROM GHENT TO AIX, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We sprang for the side-holts - my gripsack and I Last Line: Was no more than its due. 'twas the lecture they meant. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Railroads; Time; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips ANOTHER YEAR, by WILLIAM VIRGIL DAVIS Poem Source First Line: The years turn Last Line: They are heading %home Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Time ANSWER, by MARY ELIZABETH COLMAN Poem Text First Line: Hungry unnumbered since the birth of time Last Line: Is whipped, stripped, done and dead. Subject(s): Time ANSWER JULY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Here - said the year Variant Title(s): Poem: 386; Poem: 66 Subject(s): Seasons; Time ANSWER TO VERSES ADDRESSED TO ME BY PETER CLAY, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Backward down the stream of time Last Line: Of my early girlhood days. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Time ANYONE LIVED IN A PRETTY HOW TOWN, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Sun moon stars rain Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Variant Title(s): 50 Poems: 2 Subject(s): Life; Seasons; Time APPARENTLY WITH NO SURPRISE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To breakfast — to return — Subject(s): Time APPEARANCE/ REALITY, by DAN LEIDIG Poem Source First Line: A slash of shadow %across the sward Last Line: In a touch %of hands: %both/and Subject(s): Time APPENDIX TO 'LAZARUS': 3, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How slowly time is crawling on Last Line: To place on record in the morning. Subject(s): Death; Hope; Poetry & Poets; Time; Dead, The; Optimism APPREHENSION, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: With what reserve of helpless fear Last Line: Or dawn of his be heralding. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Fear; Time APRIL RISE, by LAURIE LEE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: If ever I saw blessing in the air Subject(s): Time APRIL RISE, by LAURIE LEE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If ever I saw blessing in the air Last Line: Now, as my low blood scales its second chance %if ever worl d were blessed, now it is Subject(s): Time ARABIAN DAY'S ENTERTAINMENT, by LEONARD GASPARINI Poem Source First Line: In a private, palm-shaded courtyard in the desert, a tourist, travelling alone Last Line: The other. In the desert, time is measured by the ripening of a date Subject(s): Arabia; Deserts; Food And Eating; Time ARBASTO: DORALICIA'S SONG, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In time we see the silver drops Last Line: In both content and pleas'd. Variant Title(s): Time Subject(s): Love; Time ARE YOU SO POOR?, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Are you so poor? But in the past Last Line: To find, is left. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Happiness; Past; Time; Joy; Delight ARMISTICE DAY, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Birds stayed not their singing Last Line: A deeper breath than passion knew. Subject(s): Death; Life; Time; Dead, The AS BEING IS ETERNAL, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She is sitting alone in the bright room Last Line: So vast an event, so much becoming Subject(s): Greece; Time; Greeks AS REAL AS LIFE, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say to the mild melancholy of regret Subject(s): Time; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness AS SUMMER INTO AUTUMN SLIPS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of life's declivity Variant Title(s): Poem: 1346; Poem: 134 Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Summer; Time AS THE YEARS PASS', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To thousands of generations of men Subject(s): Animals; Mankind; Time AS THY DAYS SO SHALL THY STRENGTH BE, by GEORGIANA KLINGLE HOLMES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God broke our years to hours and days Last Line: We only bear the burden by the hour. Alternate Author Name(s): Klingle, George Variant Title(s): Hour By Hour Subject(s): Religion; Time; Worship; Theology AS TIME GOES ON, by EMILIO ADOLFO VON WESTPHALEN Poem Source Subject(s): Time AS YOU CAME FROM THE HOLY LAND, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of western new york state Subject(s): Emptiness; Experience; Time ASCENDING ORDER, by JAMES CERVANTES Poem Source First Line: You have a choice, and so arrange dates Last Line: Little difference in flight or fall Subject(s): Night; Time ASOLANDO: PROLOGUE, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poet's age is sad: for why? Last Line: "god is it who transcends." Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Time AT 3 PM, by DAVID CHORLTON Poem Source First Line: The clock in a narrow tavern Last Line: Toward it, each one afraid %to mention a name Subject(s): Clocks; Time AT CASTLE BOTEREL, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I drive to the junction of lane and highway Last Line: Never again. Subject(s): Love; Time AT EAGLE POND, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In april the ice rots. Over the pocked glaze Subject(s): Daughters; Illness; Time AT HALF-PAST THREE A SINGLE BIRD, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Not so, said cunning jacob! Subject(s): Birds; Time; Creative Ability AT HALF-PAST THREE A SINGLE BIRD, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Circumference between Subject(s): Time AT LAST TO BE IDENTIFIED!, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Between our feet, and day! Subject(s): Time; Life AT MY AGE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Time to move faster? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Aging; Nature; Time AT O'HARE, by JOHN CIARDI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You!' we chanted together. 'how long has it been' Subject(s): O'hare Airport (chicago); Time AT O'HARE, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You!' we chanted together. 'how long has it been' Last Line: Longer now. This time forever Subject(s): O'hare Airport (chicago); Time AT PENSION TIME; TO A.R.F., by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: At pension time when, worn and grey Last Line: When we may restand pouch our payat pension time! Subject(s): Aging; Friendship; Old Age; Pensions; Time AT SUCH A TIME, IN SUCH A SPOT, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Time AT THE LAST, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She cometh no more Last Line: For evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Sea; Time; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Ocean ATTIC LIGHT, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The light moved with a kind of languor Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Attics; Time AUCTION, by ANN LAUTERBACH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is a day? Subject(s): Days; Time AUTOBIOGRAPHY 2 (HELLOGOODBY), by PALMER. MICHAEL Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The book of company which Subject(s): Life; Relationships; Time AUTUMN, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The color of stone when leaves are yellow Subject(s): Autumn, Time; Squirrels AUTUMN SKY, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my great grandmother's time Subject(s): Sky; Stars; Time AVE ATQUE VALE, by ROSAMUND MARRIOTT WATSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, my youth! For now we needs Last Line: Dream you remember yet. Alternate Author Name(s): Tomson, Graham R. Subject(s): Aging; Time BACCHANALIA; OR, THE NEW AGE, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The evening comes, the fields are still Last Line: Whatever thought, might think it too. Subject(s): Time BAD YEAR, by DANIEL HALPERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We call it a bad year, %diseases of the blood Last Line: Of our bones?-is just a stone's throw away Subject(s): Time BALD HEAD WITH THE FRINGE, by JANE BEESON Poem Source Last Line: Domed candles under a cathedral sky Subject(s): Clocks; Dandelions; Flowers; Riddles; Time; Weeds BALLADE OF MAYE AND VIRTUE, by CLEMENT MAROT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Full gladlye in this month of maye Last Line: "my love doth laste throughout alle weather." Subject(s): Love; May (month); Time BC-AD, by URSULA ASKHAM FANTHORPE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: This was the moment when before Alternate Author Name(s): Fanthrope, U. A. Subject(s): Christmas; Time; Nativity, The BC-AD, by URSULA ASKHAM FANTHORPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This was the moment when before Last Line: Into the kingdom of heaven Alternate Author Name(s): Fanthrope, U. A. Subject(s): Christmas; Time BED-TIME, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last year my bed-time was at eight Last Line: "and it's time you went to bed!" Subject(s): Children; Sleep; Time; Childhood BEFORE AND AFTER, by OLIVER MADOX BROWN Poem Text First Line: Ah! Long ago since I or thou Last Line: Too dead to dread the eternities whose heaven its shame destroyed. Subject(s): Time BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE, by RAD SMITH Poem Source First Line: Build the perfect house, then burn it down Last Line: Any of it. Not be frightened by it Subject(s): Time BEFORE THE ICE IS IN THE POOLS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Answer me to wear? Subject(s): Time BEGINNING WITH 1914, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since it always begins Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): World War I; Ancestors & Ancestry; Fathers; Time; First World War; Heritage; Heredity BEGINNING WITH A PHRASE FROM SIMONE WEIL, by PETER GIZZI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: There is no better time than the present when wehave lost everything. It doesn't mean rain falling Subject(s): Weil, Simone (1909-1943); Time; Loss BEHIND BLENDING, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source Last Line: Repair %of the moon Subject(s): Memory; Time BEHOLD THESE FLOWERS, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And sculptured facade the visible sky Subject(s): Time BEYOND THE HOUR, by MONROE HEATH Poem Text First Line: These hills have stood too long Last Line: Than linger, broken and diminished. Subject(s): Beauty; Past; Time BIG MOMENTS, by ETHEL VEVA KING Poem Text First Line: We live in little things through all our days Last Line: When big intensive moments come whereby we measure life. Subject(s): Life; Surprise; Time BIRD MUST SING TO EARN THE CRUMB, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But once a century, the rose %superfluous becomes Variant Title(s): Poem: 880; Poem: 92 Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Time BIRD OF ENDLESS TIME, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your fingers touch me like a bird's wing Last Line: I want so many lives to feel your touch Subject(s): Time BIRD'S SONG AT MORNING, by WILLIAM JAMES DAWSON Poem Text First Line: O thou that cleavest heaven Last Line: Thou only hast the now. Subject(s): Birds; Morning; Time BIRDS OF PASSAGE, by DOROTHY FERN SEIBEL Poem Text First Line: Wild birds they were; and how we envied them Last Line: White clouds and spindrift, wind, and white gulls flying. Subject(s): Birds; Time BIRTH OF THE BLUES, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: John keats never read dylan thomas or yeats Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Time BIRTHDAY POEM FOR RACHEL, by JAMES SIMMONS Poem Source First Line: For every year of life we light Last Line: Out with your own breath Subject(s): Time BLACKBERRY-PICKING; FOR PHILIP HOBSBAUM, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Late august, given heavy rain and sun Subject(s): Blackberries; Time BLACKBERRY-PICKING; FOR PHILIP HOBSBAUM, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Late august, given heavy rain and sun Last Line: Each year I hoped they'd keep, knew they would not Subject(s): Blackberries; Time BLIND LEADING THE BLIND AFTER BREUGHEL, by RON DE MARIS Poem Source First Line: Here they are dressed in the panoply Last Line: Changed even today except for flickering %televisions and a smokeless sky Subject(s): Change; Paintings And Painters; Time BLUE SUNDAY, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Today I'm confused Last Line: Baby cedars at our %place in pollock pines Subject(s): Change; Time BODY GROWS OLD, HEART STAYS YOUNG', by FREDERICK GUY BUTLER Poem Source First Line: Before we troubled Last Line: Again be the sequence %of all song Subject(s): Time BORROWED THOUGHTS: 3. FROM 'ALICE', by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, dear, our love is slain Last Line: Between us evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Pain; Time; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery BORROWED TREASURE, by LOUISE HEJDA Poem Text First Line: This moment, dropped into my hand just now Last Line: "you must not hold it longer than today." Subject(s): Time BOUQUET OF YEARS, by ELLA LOUISE LUICK Poem Text First Line: The years are trickling through my fingers Last Line: Alternately in smiles and bitter tears. Subject(s): Time BRAVURA LAMENT, by DANIEL HALPERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He would tell you the grass this spring was a pale Subject(s): Change; Lament; Nature; Time BRAVURA LAMENT, by DANIEL HALPERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He would tell you the grass this spring was a pale Last Line: Drowning while showered by the fluid blow of keen insight Subject(s): Change; Lament; Nature; Time BREAK IN BY SUBTLER NEARER WAYS, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Perfect new chime Subject(s): Time BRIEF MOMENT, by FAITH EVELYN PACKARD Poem Text First Line: You ask me what I saw? / it would be hard to Last Line: I startled you just then. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Time BRIEF WORDS FOR OCTOBER, by ELMO RUSS Poem Text First Line: Crying like a dervish born of dark Last Line: To sing a hush-hush sound. Subject(s): Autumn; Night; October; Seasons; Time; Fall; Bedtime BROCADE ZITHER, by LI SHANG-YIN Poem Source First Line: This brocade zither, for no apparent reason, has fifty strings. Last Line: But is at this instant already dispossessed Subject(s): Time; Zithers (musical Instruments) BROKEN CLOCK, by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: How odd to watch the time tick off Last Line: The others rigid as they lie. Subject(s): Time BROKEN EGG SUNSET, by MELISSA LAMBERTON Poem Source First Line: I've never seen the sky this color Last Line: Dying day, minus the red %chili pepper sun Subject(s): Evening; Time; Weather BROKEN OFF, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: In the spring-time of youth didst thou bless me Last Line: I leave thee for death. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Pride; Time; Youth; Dead, The; Self-esteem; Self-respect BROTHER BENEDICT, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brother benedict rose and left his cell Last Line: Benedicite? Subject(s): Time; God BUCH DER LIEDER, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be these the selfsame verses Last Line: Upon my wintry way. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Time BURGLAR TIME, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Time's a burglar. On his toes Last Line: You, my daughter and my wife! Subject(s): Time BY-AND-BY, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By-and-by, the maiden sighed -- by-and-by Last Line: Keep the promiscd by-and-by -- by-and-by? Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Hope; Mothers; Soldiers; Time; War; Youth; Optimism CAELIA: SONNETS: 10, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To get a love and beauty so divine Last Line: Fortune my mistress, or you not so fair. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Time CALENDAR, by ERIKA MAILMAN Poem Source First Line: In the cellar she fingers the jars of honey Last Line: One urges forget me I was never here %and the speaker forgets who spoke Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Seasons; Time CALENDAR, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The blank days Subject(s): Time CALENDARS, by ANNIE FINCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the winding Subject(s): Time CALMLY WE WALK THROUGH THIS APRIL'S DAY, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Time; Transience; City & Town Life; Memory; Impermanence CAN I TEMPT YOU TO A POND WALK?, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tender fingers ran up my ankle Subject(s): Walking; Time CARDIOLOGICAL, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ten heartbeats back our lips were touching. Ten? Subject(s): Hearts; Time CARPE DIEM, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: Today what is there in the air Last Line: And my whole soul shall bloom and bear to-day. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Love; Soul; Spring; Time CASSANDRA'S PROPHECY, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Time's frost shall touch thy temples in the morn Last Line: With lightning from the right struck blind mine eyes. Subject(s): Cassandra; Eyes; Hope; Prophecy & Prophets; Time; Optimism CENTURIES, by SARAH ARVIO Poem Source First Line: The centuries are gone. There are no more Last Line: Death is not sad but the end of life is. %for without your life can we have our death?' Subject(s): Death; Life; Time CHALLENGE TO TIME, by FLORENCE RALSTON WERUM Poem Text First Line: I dream alone, in contemplation here Last Line: He wastes his breath who stars his path by time. Subject(s): Time CHAMBER MUSIC: 2, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The twilight turns from amethyst Last Line: With lights of amethyst. Subject(s): Time CHAMBER MUSIC: 33, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, o now, in this brown land Last Line: The year, the year is gathering. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Time CHANGES, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whom first we love, you know, we seldom wed Last Line: These thoughts and me. In heaven we shall know all! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Change; Life; Time; Women CHANGING EVER, by CHARLES B. NOBLE Poem Text First Line: We're happy, time, so stop with us Last Line: And we be changed tomorrow. Subject(s): Happiness; Time; Joy; Delight CHICKEN TIME, by SEAN WHALEN Poem Source First Line: The rock %prairie %postville Last Line: You're laughing too hard %to hear me Subject(s): Memory; Time CHIGWELL REVISITED, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deputed by the tuneful nine Last Line: And wormwood at the bottom. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Life; Time; Dead, The; Destiny CHILD AT THE WINDOW, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remember this, when childhood's far away Last Line: When your own child looks down and makes your sad heart sing Subject(s): Time CHILDHOOD, by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I used to think that grown-up people chose Subject(s): Old Age; Time CHILDHOOD, by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I used to think that grown-up people chose Last Line: And I knew that she was helplessly old, %as I was helplessly young Subject(s): Old Age; Time CHILDREN'S HOUR, by DAN LEIDIG Poem Source First Line: The death we brought to flowers %was not our death: Last Line: Iridescent with mystery, %maculate with dust Subject(s): Time CHILDREN'S SONG, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We live in our own world Last Line: That mock the faded blue %of your remoter heaven Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Children; Time CHIMNEY-SWEEP, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fallen leaves skitter fleet Last Line: And ever clean the house of woe! Subject(s): Chimney Sweepers And Chimneys; Life; Love; Moon; Time CHRISTMAS EVE, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friend, old friend in the manse by the fireside sitting Last Line: Give ye good-night, but first thank god in your prayers! Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Books; Christmas; Past; Time; Reading; Nativity, The CHRYSILLA, by HENRI FRANCOIS JOSEPH DE REGNIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spare me from seeing, goddess, by my bed Last Line: Close unto everlasting night mine eyes. Subject(s): Life; Love; Time; Youth CLADE SONG. THIS TOO SHALL PASS, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You think of the time Last Line: It's more than over Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Time; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men CLOCK, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Impassive god with baneful threatening hand Subject(s): Love; Time CLOCK, by JORGE CARRERA ANDRADE Poem Source First Line: Clock %time's stone-mason Last Line: Silence walks in its muffled slippers Subject(s): Clocks; Time CLOCK, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A clock stopped - not the mantel's Last Line: The dial life and him. Subject(s): Clocks; Time CLOCK, by ZBIGNIEW HERBERT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: In appearance it is the peaceful face of a miller, full, shiny Last Line: And this is supposed to lead us to eternity Subject(s): Clocks; Future Life; Time CLOCK, by HAROLD MONRO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When first you learn to read a clock Subject(s): Time CLOCK AND DIAL, by ALLAN RAMSAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ae day a clock wad brag a dial Subject(s): Clocks; Time CLOCK IN THE OLD JEWISH GHETTO, by VITEZSLAV NEZVAL Poem Source First Line: While time is running away on prikopy street Last Line: If death surprised me I would die a six-year-old boy Subject(s): Jews; Time CLOCK STOP, by EVELYN HUDSON ROWLEY Poem Text First Line: I am but an hour in your heart Last Line: There's something real in this we've found. Subject(s): Clocks; Time CLOCK STOPPED AT 5:30 FOR THREE MONTHS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Have a drink, cook dinner Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Evening; Nature; Time CLOCK STRIKES ONE THAT JUST STRUCK TWO, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A vagabond for genesis %has wrecked the pendulum Variant Title(s): Poem: 1569; Poem: 159 Subject(s): Clocks; Time CLOCK SYMPHONY, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time that brings children from the wizard den Subject(s): Time CLOCK WAS STRIKING TWELVE, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: You find your boat moored on another shore' Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Old Age; Time CLOCK WITHOUT HANDS, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hands are plated; they'll be brass Subject(s): Time CLOCKMAKER WITH BAD EYES, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I close the shop at six. Welcome wind Last Line: Love whatevr flows. Cooking smoke, woman's blood, %tears. Do you hear what I'm telling you? Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Clocks; Labor And Laborers; Life; Time CLOCKS, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The clock I go to bed by is so very wee and small Last Line: It has the biggest minutes of 'most any clock I know. Subject(s): Children; Clocks; Time; Childhood CLOCKS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is a face that says half-past seven the same way Last Line: Eager to go to france... Subject(s): Clocks; Time CLOCKS, by TESSA SWEAZY WEBB Poem Text First Line: Like fashioned rock Last Line: To keep my life and death apart. Subject(s): Time COACH OF TIME, by ALEKSANDR SERGEYEVICH PUSHKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Often with heavy burdens freighted Alternate Author Name(s): Pushkin, Alexander; Poushkin, Aleksander Sergyevich Subject(s): Time COCK-CROWING, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upon my bed at early dawn Last Line: And through the fields had sprinkled perfumed dew. Subject(s): Dawn; Time; Sunrise COLOR OF TIME, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: From here the apple of Last Line: Time is tall and yellow, the child %of the sun, the sun itself Subject(s): Time COMEDY, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They parted, with clasps of hands Last Line: And once he had known her tears! Subject(s): Time; Change COMING NIGHT, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It darkens brother Subject(s): Time COMING SOON, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I placed one toe Last Line: It said it did not need me. Subject(s): Cold; December; Restaurants; Time; Waiters & Waitresses; Cafes; Diners COMMUNION: 3. TO A MOMENT, by ARVIA MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O take me, break me Last Line: One moment is infinity. Subject(s): God; Time COMMUNION: 4. A CATHEDRAL, by ARVIA MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O sinewed shrine of man's desire Last Line: To face thee, and endure. Subject(s): Desire; Time; Universe; Wisdom COMPLAINS OF THE SHORTNESS OF LIFE; AN IDYLLIUM, by BION Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tho' I had writ such poems, that my name Last Line: And the short time fate has for us decreed. Subject(s): Mortality; Time COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE, SEPTEMBER 3, 1802, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Earth has not anything to show more fair Last Line: And all that mighty heart is lying still! Variant Title(s): Sonnet;sonnet Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, London, 1802;calm;morning In London;upon Westminster Bridge;westminster Bridge Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Cities; England; London; Morning; Nature; Rivers; Time; Urban Life; English CONQUISTADOR: PROLOGUE, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the way goes on in the worn earth Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Death; Time; Dead, The CONSTANT CHANGE FIGURES, by LYN HEJINIAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Passing on its effect / is experience Subject(s): Time; Change CONSULTING SUMMER'S CLOCK, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I muffle with a jest Variant Title(s): Poem: 1715; Poem: 175 Subject(s): Time CONTRA MORTEM: THE BEING AS MOMENT, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between a sea and a sea where the combers meet Last Line: Between a sea and a sea in the faint starglow? Subject(s): Time CONTRA MORTEM: THE BEING AS VISION, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mindseye is flitting like a moth among summer firs Last Line: Burns burns for a dazzling instant and then turns blank Subject(s): Time COORDINATING CONJUNCTION, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: And ... So it goes Last Line: And and, and and, and Subject(s): Time CORINNA IN VENDOME, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Darling, each morning a blooded rose Last Line: And shatter your virginity Subject(s): Time COULEUR DE ROSE, by JOSEPH ASHBY-STERRY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her soft sables, you must know Subject(s): Time; Courtship COUNTING, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: You remind me always it's thirteen years Subject(s): Time CRAGS, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a good and reverend man Last Line: In his by nature's sacred right. Subject(s): Time; Life; Nature CRISIS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Has life no seer, who, with enthralled throat Last Line: Shall never again darken us with its woe. Subject(s): Dreams; Fear; Life; Time; U.s. - History; World War Ii; Nightmares; Second World War CROSSING PATHS, by PAIGE TAYLOR Poem Source First Line: Somewhere in space, although we can't sight'm Last Line: Meet et al., etc., and ad infinitum Subject(s): Space And Space Travel; Time CROSSING THE DAYS, by JAMES SCRUTON Poem Source First Line: My son's been learning time: big hand Last Line: No day yet a cross to bear Subject(s): Calendars; Children; Time CROSSROADS IN THE PAST, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That night the wind stirred in the forsythia bushes Subject(s): Time CROSSWORD PUZZLE, by SABRINA MARK Poem Source First Line: To deaf the story to drive to montauk to safe the kiss I counted twice Last Line: I stood for something call me impossible bully me into it say I'm not %ready for dinner shut up Subject(s): Time DANS LA BOHEME, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The leafless branches snap with cold Last Line: We've but half way to go. Variant Title(s): Epilogue Subject(s): Time DARK CLOUD, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On a white horse she goes Last Line: Making a horror of time. Subject(s): Children; Horseback Riding; Time; Childhood DARK HOUSE, by GENE BOARDMAN HOOVER Poem Text First Line: Oh, the silence of a house when youth has fled Last Line: I shall quietly go out -- and turn the key. Subject(s): Loss; Time DARKNESS, SELS., by PAAVO HAAVIKKO Poem Source First Line: Days become years. Years Last Line: Deep down below %or up high Subject(s): Time DAWN, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: A house roof and the star Last Line: Where it was chipped long ago Subject(s): Dawn; Day; Presence; Time DAWN, by VLADIMIR HOLAN Poem Source First Line: It is the hour when the priest goes to mass Last Line: Where you must say it differently, quite differently Subject(s): Dawn; Time DAWN SONG, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Like tears of lead Last Line: The tiny bells of dawn %are tinkling through Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Dawn; Grief; Tears; Time DAY IN AUTUMN, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It will not always be like this Last Line: Against the heart in the long cold Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Time DAYS, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daughters of time, the hypocritic days Last Line: Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn. Subject(s): Day; Time DAYS, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What are days for? Subject(s): Day; Time DAYS, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What are days for? Last Line: Brings the priest and the doctor %in their long coats %running over the fields Subject(s): Day; Time DAYS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Every sort of day together Last Line: In sunny or in windy weather. Subject(s): Calendars; January; Seasons; Time; Weather DECEMBER 18: FOR M, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the waning of the century Subject(s): Time DEDICATION, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The years are many, the changes more Last Line: Bear home her signal across the sea. Subject(s): Death; England; Sea; Time; Dead, The; English; Ocean DEEP IN OUR REFRIGERATOR, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Food & Eating; Time DEER CROSSING, by DAN LEIDIG Poem Source First Line: The young deer %with oblivious grace Last Line: The innocent, to behold %or long embrace Subject(s): Time DELAY, by ELIZABETH JENNINGS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis First Line: The radiance of that star leans on me Last Line: And love arrived may find us somewhere else Subject(s): Love; Patience; Stars; Time DELIVERANCE, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deliverance? You mean this empty cup Last Line: The irresistible current of my past? Subject(s): Future; Life; Past; Time DERELICT, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cloudy peril of the seas Last Line: Shall time entomb. Subject(s): Graves; Ignorance; Sex; Time; Tombs; Tombstones; Dullness; Stupdity DESERT, by PATRICK JOHN MCALISTER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Hereabouts is desert, it's a bad county Last Line: Adding and subtracting itself for ever and ever. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Time DIEM PERDIDE, by ELIZABETH J. EAMES Poem Text First Line: O greatly wise! Thou of the crown and rod Last Line: Such triflers with the solemn trust of time! Subject(s): Time DIFFERENT HOURS, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As the small place descended through Last Line: In a different hour he'll put it back Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Change; Time DIRE: 10. A COUNSEL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O strong republic of the nobler years Subject(s): Napoleon Iii (1808-1873); Nations; Time DISARMED, by JEAN RASEY Poem Text First Line: Though time cut back so sharply Last Line: With which time harassed me. Subject(s): Time DISCORD, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unreconciled by life's fleet years, that fled Last Line: Unreconciled. Subject(s): Faith; Roundels; Time; Belief; Creed DISTANCES, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just where that star above Last Line: Beyond that star, beyond! Subject(s): Space & Space Travel; Soul; Time; Outer Space; Fourth Dimension DISTRESSED HAIKU, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In a week or ten days Subject(s): Death; Time; Dead, The DIVIDED, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a word that you may never speak Last Line: But oh, the years, the long years we must live! Subject(s): Death; Time; Dead, The DIVINE POEMS: ON AN HOUR-GLASS, by JOHN HALL (1627-1656) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My life is measur'd by this glass, this glass Last Line: How art thou nothing, when th' art most of all! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall Of Durham, John Subject(s): Hourglasses; Love; Religion; Time; Theology DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Rage, rage against the dying of the light Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Hate; Mourning; Old Age; Social Protest; Time DOING MY HOMEWORK, by JOHN CORBEN Poem Source First Line: Doing my homework last night Last Line: As soon as I'd finished Subject(s): Time DOOR OPENS, by JILL DALIBARD Poem Source First Line: The way back Last Line: When a slight wind blows %and you enter Subject(s): Memory; Time DOVECOTT MILL: 6. THE SCHOOL, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Swiftly the seasons sped away Last Line: Dust to dust, till the judgment day! Subject(s): Schools; Time; Students DOVER BEACH, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea is calm to-night Last Line: Where ignorant armies clash by night. Subject(s): Desire; Doubt; Dover, England; England; Faith; Love; Love - Marital; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Sea; Seashore; Social Protest; Time; War; Skepticism; English; Belief; Creed; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Theology; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore DOWN HERE, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down here the lilies wither away Last Line: Always. Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme Subject(s): Dreams; Thought; Time; Nightmares; Thinking DRAGON AND THE UNICORN: 4, SELS., by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I come back to the cottage in Last Line: Long rollers wrinkling the dark bay Variant Title(s): Only Year Subject(s): Love; Time DREAM OF TIME, by JESSICA BELL Poem Text First Line: Today in june, rose-burdened june Last Line: As china's wall or sheba's gold. Subject(s): Time DRINKING WINE: 3, by T'AO CH'IEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The way's been lost for a thousand years Last Line: With your hundred years slipping slipping away, %what do you hope to do with a thing like that? Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Time DRIVING TIME, by JEANNETTE LYNES Poem Source First Line: I'm driving an old clock Last Line: Myself at odd intervals %'laugh, damn you.' Subject(s): Clocks; Time DRIZZLE, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Baudelaire: 'the dead, the poor dead, have their bad hours' Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Smoking; Time; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes DURING WIND AND RAIN, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They sing their dearest songs Last Line: Down their carved names the rain-drop ploughs. Subject(s): Death; Holidays; Mourning; New Year; Rain; Time; Wind; Dead, The; Bereavement EACH CLOCK TICK FALLS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: As if it were nothing Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Clocks; Nature; Time EAR IN THE CLOCK: 1, by DURS GRUNBEIN Poem Source First Line: Strange how sounds change. In the century of violins Last Line: Of grasses inaudibly growing and limestone boulders %ground into dust Subject(s): Music And Musicians; Time EAR IN THE CLOCK: 2, by DURS GRUNBEIN Poem Source First Line: All of a sudden the fish had to have mouth-to-mouth Last Line: A sound in dreams is dead. Didn't you know? Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Time; Water EARLY ASPIRATIONS, by WILLIAM BELL SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How many a throb of the young poet-heart Last Line: For a sad season: then, to active life he springs. Subject(s): Time EARLY AUTUMN PROVOKES NOSTALGIC FEELINGS, by YE WANWAN Poem Source First Line: This autumn I recall our parting at the river shore Last Line: Never ask why fleeting time proceeds in such a manner Subject(s): Nostalgia; Time EARLY RISER, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The face of the clock at 4 a.M. Last Line: Any mail herself. Subject(s): Clocks; Dawn; Day; Sleep; Time; Sunrise EARTHEN URN, by KATHRYN WHITE RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O when I hear a hill-far drum I'll know Last Line: Into the earth, into the cradling mud. Subject(s): Death; Time; Dead, The EASTER, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stars wailed when the reed was born Last Line: Time bowed before eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Easter; Good Friday; Grief; Holidays; Holy Week; Immortality; Nature; Time; The Resurrection; Sorrow; Sadness EASTER; APRIL 1, 1888, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lent gathers up her cloak of sombre shading Last Line: Against the far blue sky. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): April; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Easter; Holidays; Lent; Time; The Resurrection ECCLESIASTES 3: 1-8, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE First Line: To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose Subject(s): Time ECCLESIASTES 3: 1-8, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose Last Line: A time to love, and a time to hate: a time of warre, and a time of peace Subject(s): Time ECHOES: 11, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thick is the darkness Last Line: Rest is before us. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Time ECHOES: 22, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The west a glimmering lake of light Last Line: Love, we would remember. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Time ECLOGUES, by PETER GIZZI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: This clock, entitled simply, my life speaks at irregular intervals Subject(s): Time EDUCATION, by DAN LEIDIG Poem Source First Line: At recess little billy byrd %took a sharp stick Last Line: Connection between the comings %and goings of small things Subject(s): Time EGYPT, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Because nobody knew whether it was monday or tuesday Subject(s): Egypt; Time EIGHT O'CLOCK, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Supper comes at five o'clock, Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Time; Longing ELEGANCE, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: All that is uncared for. Subject(s): Time; Beauty ELEGY VI, by ERNIE HILBERT Poem Source First Line: To pass the time we played backgammon with Last Line: Sifting the ripples, feeling for a source Subject(s): Children; Games; Time ELEVATED, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fifty years the butcher shop Subject(s): City & Town Life; Time ELEVEN EYES: FINAL SECTION, by LYN HEJINIAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The spoons have clattered Last Line: None of this is true Subject(s): Time ELUSIVE TIME, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In love it may be dangerous to reckon on Subject(s): Time ELUSIVE TIME, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In love it may be dangerous to reckon on Last Line: Days on which we counted for happiness Subject(s): Time EMBERS, by LILLIAN ARNETT LEADMAN Poem Text First Line: The hours like leaves burn Last Line: A radiant glow overhead. Subject(s): Time EMIGRANTS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Went up a year this evening Last Line: Is all the rest I knew! Subject(s): Time ENGINE, by DAN LEIDIG Poem Source First Line: Once a day a quintessential other Last Line: Of forbidden switchyard sin Subject(s): Time ENGIRDED WITH OINTMENT YOU MOVE FORWARD, by IRENE SPEISER Poem Source Last Line: Further and further %air drifitng %to you Subject(s): Time EPIGRAM, by SAMUEL BISHOP Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A veteran gambler, in a tempest caught Subject(s): Gambling; Time; Wagering; Betting EPIGRAM, by SAMUEL BISHOP Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: No plate had john and joan to hoard Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Time; Wine EPIGRAM, by SAMUEL BISHOP Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: See! Stretch'd on nature's couch of grass Subject(s): Smoking; Time; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes EPIGRAM, by SAMUEL BISHOP Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas not so in my time,' surly grumio exclaims Subject(s): Time EPIGRAM, by SAMUEL BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Need from excess - excess from folly growing Last Line: Profusion's last sad dying speech'gone! Gone!' Subject(s): Time EPILOGUE, by MAXWELL ANDERSON Poem Text First Line: Children of dust, astray among the suns Last Line: To mix our dust with dust of slaves and kings. Subject(s): Death; Dust; Judgment Day; Life; Time; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man EPILOGUE FOR A MASQUE, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little time they lived again, and lo! Last Line: Shall shape our pilgrimage into a rhyme. Subject(s): Death; Masks; Time; Dead, The EPITAPH IN LYDFORD CHURCHYARD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Here lies in a horizontal position the outside case of Last Line: Going in the world to come, when time shall be no more Subject(s): Time EPITAPH: THOMAS PEIRCE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When his own watch was done on the last day Last Line: Until he rise again no more to die Subject(s): Clocks;epitaphs;time ETERNITY, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The year has run Last Line: And he who does inhabit thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Time ETERNITY, by EUNICE MITCHELL LEHMER Poem Text First Line: How should I, still a child, face timelessness? Last Line: On timelessness. Subject(s): Time ETERNITY, by JASON SHINDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A poem written three thousand years ago Subject(s): Poetry & Poems; Imagination; Time; Fancy ETON: AN ODE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Four hundred summers and fifty have shone Last Line: Haply here shall eton's record be what england finds it yet. Subject(s): England; Eton College; Time; English EVEN THEN (FOR A TANAGRA FIGURINE), by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: A wearied earth prescribes the stale despair Last Line: "the sin of ""charming time""""do come again""?" Subject(s): Time; Weariness; Fatigue EVERY DAY'S A LITTLE YEAR, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Full Text Last Line: Full of cheer and shining new Subject(s): Time EVERYTHING, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lately the wind burns Subject(s): Time EVICTED, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Time shut the door and turned the key Last Line: With the immortal past. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Life; Time EX ABRUPTO, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A space of years divides us Subject(s): Time EXCEPT THE SMALLER SIZE, NO LIVES ARE ROUND, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Are long Subject(s): Size & Shape; Time; Summer EXCHANGE, by DAN LEIDIG Poem Source First Line: At zero noon of winter Last Line: Old man, in mere exchange %for stale semantic bread Subject(s): Time EXTEMPORE LINES IN ANSWER TO A CARD, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The king's most humble servant, I Last Line: Or else the deil's be in it. Subject(s): Time FABLES: 2ND SER. 13. PLUTUS, CUPID AND TIME, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the burthens man must bear Last Line: Is the most precious earthly good. Subject(s): Time FACT OR FANCY?, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In town I hear, scarce wakened yet Last Line: Unbodied, like the cuckoo's song. Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Time FAIRE FAIRE, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It comes from eternity Subject(s): Absence; Time; Separation; Isolation FAIREST HOUR, by FRANCIS VIELE-GRIFFIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fairest hour, we must part Last Line: And I did nottruthfullyknow you were here. Subject(s): Dreams; Time; Waiting; Nightmares FAR FLIGHT, by JESSIE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: My hand upon the wheel, I rode Last Line: My hand still on the wheel! When comes the dawn? Subject(s): Earth; Evening; Memory; Time; World; Sunset; Twilight FAREWELL TO ARMS, by GEORGE PEELE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His golden locks time hath to silver turned Last Line: To be your beadsman now that was your knight. Variant Title(s): The Aged-man At Arms;the Old Knight;an Old Soldier;youth's Waning;polyhmnia: Sonnet;farewell To Arms (to Queen Elizabeth) Subject(s): Aging; Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Lee, Sir Henry (1532-1611); Loyalty; Old Age; Retirement; Time FAREWELL TO IDAHO, by H. F. JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: Come all ye heroes of the land Last Line: And see the country through. Subject(s): Idaho; Pioneers; Time FAREWELL TO THE OLD YEAR, 1863, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, old year 'the bourne' is near Last Line: To give new year good morrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Civil War; Grief; Holidays; New Year; Peace; Time; United States; War; Sorrow; Sadness; America FEATHERS, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There falls with every wedding-chime Last Line: Upon the hearse there nods the last. Subject(s): Feathers; Time FEATHERS ON THE GRASS, by LAURA FRANCES ALEXANDER Poem Text First Line: Gray feathers now lie scattered on the grass Last Line: And though I sense a plan, I am confused. Alternate Author Name(s): Alexander, Frances Subject(s): Feathers; Time FEBRUARY SUITE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Song, / angry bush Last Line: A long year has gone. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Memory; Seasons; Time; Winter FELICITY, QUICK OF FLIGHT, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every time seemes short to be Last Line: With griefe; seemes longer then a yeare. Subject(s): Time FEMININE, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She might have known it in the earlier spring Last Line: "my neck and cried, ""love, we have lost a year!" Variant Title(s): A Woman's Way Subject(s): Wit & Humor; Time; Women FERN HILL, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs Subject(s): Children; Farm Life; Innocence; Nature; Time; Wales; Youth; Childhood; Agriculture; Farmers; Welshmen; Welshwomen FERN HILL, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs Last Line: Time held me green and dying %though I sang in my chains like the sea Subject(s): Children; Farm Life; Innocence; Nature; Time; Wales; Youth FIFTY APRIL YEARS, by KHALED MATTAWA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A soldier waved our bus Subject(s): Time; Politics & Government FIFTY YEARS AGO; FOR THE FOURTH OF JULY, 1826, by CHARLES SPRAGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fifty years have rolled away Last Line: Fifty years ago! Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Time; Independence Day FIFTY YEARS SPENT, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: I passed a girl when my heart cried loud! Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Time; Regret FIRE AND ICE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some say the world will end in fire, / some say in ice Last Line: And would suffice. Subject(s): Death; Desire; Fire; Hate; Ice; Judgment Day; Men; Time; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man FIRST BOOK OF ODES: 9., by BASIL BUNTING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear be still! Time's start of us lengthens slowly Last Line: Lusts explode slambang at the first touch like bombs Subject(s): Time FIRST BOOK OF ODES: 9., by BASIL BUNTING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear be still! Time's start of us lengthens slowly Last Line: Lightnings. Leave it to me. Only a savage's %lusts explode slapbang at the first touch like bombs Subject(s): Time FIRST THREE MINUTES, by GILLIAN CONOLEY Poem Source First Line: Deathless galaxies Last Line: And where was the mop against the door Subject(s): Time FLEEING TIME, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The winds grow keener every day, as from Last Line: Fast! Subject(s): Old Age; Time FLOOR KEEPS TURNING, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: She looks at her watch Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Memory; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Time FLORENCE; APRIL FIRST, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, let us be the willing fools Last Line: Trust we the larger sea. Subject(s): April; Time FLOWER FADETH, by ROBERT C. JONES Poem Source First Line: Seasons come Last Line: The words of god remain Subject(s): Evolution; God; Religion; Time FOOLISH WING, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is done now with bright thinness of upper air. Weight Last Line: It is time's journalism only: we are reporting merely Subject(s): Time Magazine FOOLS OF DREAM, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You will find them in lone hidings Last Line: To the deathless fools of dream! Subject(s): Dreams; Fools; Laughter; Time; Wind; Nightmares; Idiots FOR A DEAD LADY, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No more with overflowing light Last Line: Makes time so vicious in his reaping. Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Time; Dead, The; Bereavement FOR A THIRD ANNIVERSARY, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You brought me wildflowers once, not the real ones Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Flowers; Time FOR AN HOUR, by WINFRED ERNEST GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I may not keep the heights I gain Last Line: I gained the heights I could not keep. Subject(s): Religion; Time; Theology FOR KATRINA'S SUN-DIAL; IN HER GARDEN OF YADOO, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hours fly Last Line: Time is not. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Epitaphs; Sundials; Time FOR MARY STUART, IN CAPTIVITY, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though by wide seas and time we sundered are Last Line: To free from slavery a queen so fair! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; France; Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587); Slavery; Time; Mary Stuart; Serfs FOR RICHMOND'S GARDEN WALL, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When thomas set this tablet here Last Line: Time's chuckled laughter in the lane. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Life; Time FOR THE NEW CENTURY: 1, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nineteen long centuries to-day Last Line: New heavens and new earth! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Time FOR THE NEW CENTURY: 2, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The new age comes, I hear its hidden wings Last Line: Ascend, soar upward in the new-born light. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Time FOR THE NEW CENTURY: 3. AN ODE, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sound trumpets! Sound a peal for the new year Last Line: Sound trumpets! Sound a peal for this the glad new year! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Time FOR YOU, FRIEND, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This valentine's day, I intend to stand Subject(s): Time FORCE THAT THROUGH THE GREEN FUSE DRIVES THE FLOWER, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And I am dumb to tell the lover's tomb %how at my sheet goes the same crooked worm Subject(s): Death; Life; Time FOREVER, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forever! 'tis a single word! Last Line: Are you? Subject(s): Time FOREVER -- IS COMPOSED OF NOWS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: From anno domini's Variant Title(s): Poem: 624; Poem: 69 Subject(s): Time FOUR QUARTETS: BURNT NORTON, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time present and time past Last Line: Stretching before and after. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Time FOUR QUARTETS: LITTLE GIDDING (1-5 COMPLETE), by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Midwinter spring is its own season Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Variant Title(s): Little Gidding Subject(s): Flowers; History; Perseverance; Roses; Self; Time; Winter; Historians FOUR QUARTETS: LITTLE GIDDING (1-5 COMPLETE), by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Midwinter spring is its own season Last Line: Into the crowded knot of fire %and the fire and the rose are one Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Variant Title(s): Little Giddin Subject(s): Flowers; History; Perseverance; Roses; Self; Time; Winter FOUR THEMES ON A VARIATION: TIME, by G. E. MURRAY Poem Source First Line: Leaning out from this wayside planet Last Line: By continuity; some guiding light %phasing on and off like an unoriginal religion Subject(s): Time FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: MAN'S GUARD AGAINST DEATH, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Luckless man Last Line: As a sunbeam with motes. Subject(s): Death; Humanity; Mortality; Time; Dead, The FRANCES REFUSES TO SET BACK HER CLOCK, by HELEN WALLACE Poem Source First Line: She knows it's time. Time to wind the hands Last Line: Breeze, that drops the swollen hours, %plump, urgent with seed Subject(s): Clocks; Spring; Time FRANKLY, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No one has time for the dying Subject(s): Time FREIGHT, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Call awe, then, what you will, long long ago Subject(s): Railroads; Time; Railways; Trains FREIGHT, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Call awe, then, what you will, long long ago Last Line: Far from the misty fens of yesterday Subject(s): Railroads; Time FRENCH CLOCK, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: Time is a heavy legend to be told Last Line: And hot throats roaring that the king is dead! Subject(s): Clocks; Time FRENCH CLOCKS, 1876, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Electric clocks in paris now on trial Last Line: Compel them all in unison to strike. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Clocks; France; Time FROM A CHILDHOOD, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The darkening was like riches in the room Last Line: As it were heavily in snowdrifts going, %over the white keys went Subject(s): Children; Time FROM DAWN TO EVE, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The swift dawn groweth Last Line: This is the sum of man's story from birth unto death. Subject(s): Time FROM THIS HEIGHT, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cold wind comes out of the white hills Last Line: Not to enjoy Subject(s): Social Commentary; Time FULFILLMENT, by JAMES LARKIN PEARSON Poem Text First Line: I sought the doubtful comfort of my grief Last Line: The green creeps back along the wintered hedges. Subject(s): Grief; Time; Sorrow; Sadness FULL MOON SHINES ON, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Attend you with gifts of joy Subject(s): China; Holidays; New Year; Time FUNERAL IN AUTUMN IN MEMORY OF DICK WATHEN, by EDWARD LOCKE Poem Source First Line: One half of spring curls up in autumn's doubt Last Line: One half of spring curls up in autumn's doubt %each wintry death must let the summer out Variant Title(s): Funeral In Autum Subject(s): Death; Seasons; Time FUNNY - TO BE A CENTURY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: So dainty of publicity Variant Title(s): Poem: 345; Poem: 67 Subject(s): Time GAME AT CHESS: THE CHESS CLOCK, by DAVID SOLWAY Poem Source First Line: When, having placed my piece Last Line: The game we never knew we lived Subject(s): Chess; Clocks; Time GATHER ROSE-BUDS, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While this green month is fleeting Last Line: All joys expire. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Hair; Life; Roses; Time; Dead, The GENERATION GAP, by P. N. W. DONNELLY Poem Source First Line: Their names come back Last Line: Points its unsteady %finger %asking %who are you Subject(s): Names; Time GENERATIONS, by DAN LEIDIG Poem Source First Line: The new generations do not always succeed Last Line: Both derives and departs %from the old grounds below Subject(s): Time GENTLEMEN, I ADDRESS YOU PUBLICLY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They said no one would ever care Subject(s): Thought; Time; Waiting; Thinking GENTLEMEN, I ADDRESS YOU PUBLICLY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They said no one would ever care Last Line: Some one screaming sees it from a boat Subject(s): Thought; Time; Waiting GEOGRAPHY OF TIME, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We think of time past Last Line: Not even the clothes to wear Subject(s): Geography; Time GERMANY, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let me sing germania' s glory! Last Line: Ever flourish germany! Subject(s): Germany; Love; Singing & Singers; Time; Germans; Songs GHAZAL (6), by AGHA SHAHID ALI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'll do what I must if I'm bold in real time Last Line: Read slowly: the plot will unfold in real time Subject(s): Time GHAZALS: 25, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O happy day! Said overpowered, had by it all and transfixed Last Line: Crying out for ice, release from time, for a cool spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Change; Dreams; Time; Nightmares GHOST, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a jaggle of masonry here, on a small hill Last Line: "with the trees that I planted."" ""there has to be room for people,"" he answers. ""my god,"" he sa Subject(s): Time GHOSTS ON THE NORTHERN LAND OF UR; CIRCA 2100 C.E., by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: With bits of pale colored chalk Last Line: That is still being slaughtered in our childhood... Subject(s): Buddhism; Echoes; Sickness; Time; War; Buddha; Buddhists; Illness GIOVANNI DE'DONDI, MASTER JOHN OF THE CLOCK: 1. PADUA, 1364, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For 16 years I found time for nothing Last Line: Precisely this one life Subject(s): Time GIOVANNI DE'DONDI, MASTER JOHN OF THE CLOCK: 2. CLEVE. OHIO, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I recall my first watch, a gift Last Line: This fatal spinning dance of the hands Subject(s): Time GIOVANNI DE'DONDI, MASTER JOHN OF THE CLOCK: 3. CLEVE. 1964, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Time will pass. Will you? The sign Last Line: To get me back again Subject(s): Time GIOVANNI DE'DONDI, MASTER JOHN OF THE CLOCK: 4. MARION, OHIO, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Gently, an insistent whisper Last Line: Wake up. Please. It's time Subject(s): Time GLENDEN'S DREAM, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, watcher, is it winter? Last Line: Unavenged the avengers fall! Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Dreams; Time; Nightmares GLORY OF EXPANDED MOON, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Time GNOMIC VERSES, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down the road up the hill into the house Subject(s): Time; Nature GNOMONS, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In april, thirteen centuries ago, Subject(s): Time; Bede, Saint. The Venerable (673-735); Christianity GOD'S WEATHER: JANUARY, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: Up the whitening blue, as the day-star grows dimmer Last Line: Whip out a mad peal to just weathergod's weather. Subject(s): Months; Snow; Time; Weather; Winter GOING AND STAYING, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moving sun-shapes on the spray Last Line: Alike dissolving. Subject(s): Time GOING BACK, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How long, stone, did it take Last Line: Sink again, you might cover bones. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Aging; Change; Time GOING NORTH, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the soft south where, leaping like a / leopard Last Line: Death nears with tongue and gestures imbecile. Subject(s): Aging; Death; Love; Seasons; Time; Dead, The GOLD, by GRACE ROREM ROBBINS Poem Text First Line: As brilliant as a nugget on the floor Last Line: Lest gold-flecked dreams become but ashen grey. Subject(s): Gold; Time GONDOLIED, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Kiss the red lips of thy mistress to-day Last Line: Age soon with snow will extinguish its fires! Subject(s): Gondolas & Gondoliers; Love; Time GRADUALLY, IT OCCURS TO US, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Time is memory. We have the time Subject(s): Time; Love; Absence GRANDFATHER'S CLOCK, by HENRY CLAY WORK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My grandfather's clock was too large for the shelf Last Line: When the old man died. Subject(s): Clocks; Time GRAVIS SULCIS IMMUTABILIS, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, let me kiss your wistful face Last Line: In summer on forsaken shores. Subject(s): Love; Time GROWING UP, by TANIKAWA SHUNTARO Poem Source First Line: Three, and %there is no past for me Last Line: Eighteen, and %I know no more of time Subject(s): Time H, by PALMER. MICHAEL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yet the after is still a storm Subject(s): Time; Poetry & Poets HAD THIS ONE DAY NOT BEEN, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: It cherishes before Subject(s): Time HALF-PAST TWO, by URSULA ASKHAM FANTHORPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a schooltime Last Line: Where time hides tick-less waiting to be born Alternate Author Name(s): Fanthrope, U. A. Subject(s): Time HARM OF YEARS IS ON HIM, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Is a minuter pageant %then least vitality Variant Title(s): Poem: 1280; Poem: 121 Subject(s): Time HASBEEN HILL, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: On the slope of hasbeen hill Last Line: On the slope of hasbeen hill! Subject(s): Mountains; Time; Hills; Downs (great Britain) HE POINTS OUT THE BREVITY OF LIFE, by FRANCISCO GOMEZ DE QUEVEDO Y VILLEGAS Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: My yesterday was dream, tomorrow earth Last Line: Digs out a monument from my brief day Alternate Author Name(s): Quevedo, Francisco Gomez De; Quevedo, Francisco De Subject(s): Mortality; Time; Transience HE TOOK TIME TO DIE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old fellow who never had time Last Line: He found time to die. Subject(s): Death; Time; Dead, The HEAD OF A GIRL, AT THE MET, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Vermeer's girl in your turban and pearl: Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Museums; Time; Art Gallerys HEART BEAT, by JAMES CERVANTES Poem Source First Line: Yesterday, when I had more heartbeats left Last Line: Will find the heart that wants to go along Subject(s): Aging; Hearts; Life; Time HELEN GREY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because one loves you, helen grey Last Line: When you yourself are nipped and grey. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Time HER IMMORTALITY, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My lady, had I but the heaven-sent grace Last Line: And outsoar death itself on wings of rhyme! Subject(s): Death; Fame; France; Immortality; Time; Dead, The; Reputation HER YEARS, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Years come and go, each bringing in his train Last Line: And makes her new years old, ere yet begun. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Time HERE AND NOW, by CATHERINE CATER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If here and now be but a timely span Last Line: The future as we see the now and here. Subject(s): Time HERE LIES ARCHEANASSA, by ASCLEPIADES OF SAMOS Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Though what a flame you passed! Alternate Author Name(s): Asklepiades Of Samos Subject(s): Time HEREDITY, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our dead forefathers, mighty though they be Last Line: The board for thee is clean: write what thou wilt! Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Life; Time HERO, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: A one - legged pigeon fighting a crust of bread Last Line: A glimpse is a vision in time's womb Subject(s): Dreams; Time HERTHA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am that which began Last Line: Man, equal and one with me, man that is made of me, man that is I. Subject(s): God; Mankind; Soul; Time; Human Race HIATUS, by MARGARET AVISON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The weedy light through the uncurtained glass Subject(s): Home; Time; Moving & Movers HIEROGLYPHIC, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bent over his time-polished pitchfork Subject(s): Sycamore Trees; Time HIGH NOON AT MIDSUMMER ON THE CAMPAGNA, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High noon Last Line: Of noon. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Graves; Night; Rome, Italy; Time; Tombs; Tombstones; Bedtime HIGHGATE EASTER, by F. D. REEVE Poem Source First Line: Snowdrops in the corner of the garden Last Line: Bursts in each garden with a mummers' show %of grace as green leaves overtake the woods Subject(s): Death; Holidays; Seasons; Time HISTORY, by HANIEL (CLARK) LONG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The massif of the dahlias lay between Last Line: Under the coming storm. Subject(s): History; Storms; Time; Historians HISTORY, by ROBERTA TEALE SWARTZ Poem Text First Line: If, by the number of pebbles in the hand Last Line: Even your hand is my bewilderment. Alternate Author Name(s): Chalmers, Gordon Keith, Mrs. Subject(s): History; Time; Historians HOLY ISLAND, by ANDREW MOTION Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am behind you on the mainland, leaning Subject(s): Time HOME FIRES, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't know how big I'll be tomorrow, you Last Line: I %care to %visit Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R. Subject(s): Growth; Home; Time HOMEWORK, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lest the fair cheeks begin their shrivelling Last Line: I cupboarded these pickled peaches in time's despite Subject(s): Literary Form; Peaches; Time HONORING THE SAND; IN MEMORY OF JOSEPH CAMPBELL, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: December's foolishness, embers fall, tempters Last Line: Forget the flower; learn to know the sand. Subject(s): Campbell, Joseph (1904-1987); Learning; Legacies; Soul; Time HOPE, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Hope that is blindfold is not blind Last Line: The veiling of the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Hope; Time; Optimism HOPE AND TIME, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the great city rear'd, my fancy rude Last Line: And knows not whether he is first or last. Subject(s): Fables; Hope; Poetry & Poets; Time; Youth; Allegories; Optimism HOUR GLASS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm angry with time because Last Line: Her - is she impatient too? Subject(s): Time HOUR IS A SEA, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: With them would harbor be Variant Title(s): Poem: 825; Poem: 89 Subject(s): Time HOURGLASS, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flawless' is the word, no doubt, for this third of may Subject(s): Time HOURGLASS, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flawless' is the word, no doubt, for this third of may Last Line: And leans on the air that is hers and here Subject(s): Time HOURS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the bright stars came out last night Last Line: And passed into the skies Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Fear; Grief; Hearts; Life; Time; Sorrow; Sadness HOURS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: We spend six hours Last Line: More truly ours Subject(s): Time HOURS CONTINUING LONG, SORE AND HEAVY-HEARTED, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Does he see himself reflected in me? In these hours, does he see the face of his hours reflected? Subject(s): Friendship; Relationships; Time HOW LONG, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If on my grave the summer grass were growing Last Line: So long, dear love, so long! Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Farewell; Time; Parting HOW LONG, by ANDREA ZANZOTTO Poem Source First Line: How long between the grain and the wind Last Line: That still weigh down the borders Subject(s): Time HOW LONG THIS NIGHT IS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Mirie it, while sumer ilast Last Line: Soregh and murne and fast Subject(s): Grief; Time HUMMINGBIRD, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can imagine, in some otherworld Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Variant Title(s): Humming-bird Subject(s): Birds; Hummingbirds; Time HUMMINGBIRD, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can imagine, in some otherworld Last Line: We look at him through the wrong end of the long telescope of time, %luckily for us Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Variant Title(s): Humming-bir Subject(s): Birds; Hummingbirds; Time HYMN TO THE SUN, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Light of the world, and ruler of the year Last Line: And touch thy lyre, and shoot thy beams no more. Subject(s): Heroism; Holidays; Light; New Year; Sun; Time; War; Heroes; Heroines HYMN TO THE SUN AND MYSELF, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well! Well! %the day's at the morn Last Line: Oh let every day for a long time not be my last Subject(s): Time HYMNS OF A HERMIT: 3, by JOHN STERLING (1806-1844) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Time more than earthly o'er this hour prevail Last Line: And he who dooms the flesh, redeems the soul. Subject(s): Hermits; Time I AM ..., by ROSIE MARTORANA Poem Source First Line: I am all the things of my past Last Line: And everyone crying Subject(s): Self; Time I BLINK AND HALF MY LIFE IS OVER, by PETE WINSLOW Poem Source Last Line: Then surprised I look around at the smiling faces Subject(s): Time I COULD GIVE ALL TO TIME, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To time it never seems that he is brave Last Line: And what I would not part with I have kept Subject(s): Time I COULD GIVE ALL TO TIME, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To time it never seems that he is brave Last Line: And what I would not part with I have kept Subject(s): Time I COULD NOT PROVE THE YEARS HAD FEET, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Proves that - outgrown - I see Variant Title(s): Poem: 563; Poem: 67 Subject(s): Time I HAVE USED UP MORE THAN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: What the next would bring Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Future; Hope; Nature; Time I HEAR LONGING STRINGS, by CAROLYN STOLOFF Poem Source First Line: The laundry I hauled home this morning over dirty ice Last Line: One's barber will make the decision Subject(s): Time I HOPE THERE'S TIME, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And not just this Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Future; Nature; Time I KNOW THIS VICIOUS MINUTE'S HOUR, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But I go or die Subject(s): Time; Reality I PAY THE PRICE, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Memory slipping more and more Last Line: I pay the price Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Time I PRETEND TO WAIT FOR YOU TO ENLARGE THE MINUTES, by PATRIZIA CAVALLI Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Time; Waiting I SAID IN MY HEART, by PATRICIA PEART Poem Text First Line: I said in my heart, I am one with running water Last Line: Things as untamed as these, derisive of time and space? Subject(s): Hearts; Rain; Time I SAW THEE CHILD ONE SUMMER'S DAY, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Children; Time; Fear; Childhood I SHOULD NOT DARE TO LEAVE MY FRIEND, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Where midnight frosts – had lain! Subject(s): Death; Time I STILL HAVE EVERYTHING YOU GAVE ME, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is dusty on the edges Last Line: I would not trade. Subject(s): Memory; Time I THINK THE LONGEST HOUR OF ALL, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And further north remove Variant Title(s): Poem: 607; Poem: 63 Subject(s): Time I USED TO HAVE TIME BY THE ASS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And it's going away Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Time IDEA: 17. TO TIME, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stay, speedy time, behold, before thou pass Last Line: That she is gone, her like again to see. Subject(s): Time IF I COULD TELL YOU, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time will say nothing but I told you so Last Line: If I could tell you I would let you know Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Variant Title(s): But I Can' Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Time IF I EVER HAVE TIME FOR THINGS THAT MATTER, by VILDA SAUVAGE OWENS Poem Source Subject(s): Castles; Time IF WE HAD THE TIME, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I had the time to find a place Last Line: If we had the time! Subject(s): God; Life; Soul; Tears; Time II PETER II 22, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark, the new year succeeds the dead Last Line: The heights which crowned a deadlier year. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Time; World War I; First World War ILIAD IN ANOTHER TIME AND PLACE, by STEVEN RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: Agamemnon insists on retaining the company he acquired Last Line: The wall street journal pushing him for president Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry And Poets; Time ILL-READ, by ESTHER MAZAKIAN Poem Source First Line: Years lapse like nothing and she thought it was two Last Line: People, words, %that made her ill Subject(s): Change; Time IMMORTAL SAILS, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, in a breath, we'll burst those gates of gold Last Line: While eyes meet eyes, and look their last farewell. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Life; Love; Time; Dead, The; Paradise IMMORTALITY, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In sleeping beauty's castle Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Sleeping Beauty; Time; Flies IMMORTALITY, by PAUL ARMAND SILVESTRE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where goes the starry quire? Last Line: The day that hath no night. Alternate Author Name(s): Silvestre, Armand Subject(s): Immortality; Time IMPATIENCE, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Will the mocking daylight never be done Last Line: You have grown so slow in setting! Subject(s): Time IN 1947 A SINGLE GOLD NUGGET WAS FOUND, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In between life has passed Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Explorers; Gold; Nature; Time IN A COLUMBARIUM, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The autumn sun still bravely streams Last Line: Love soars immortal to the skies. Subject(s): Autumn; Love; Past; Roman Empire; Seasons; Time; Fall IN A DARK STONE, by JENNIFER JOSEPH Poem Source First Line: About 7000 years ago Last Line: And once I saw...But that's another story.' Alternate Author Name(s): Coles, Tony, Mrs.; Joseph, Jenny Subject(s): Time IN A DISUSED GRAVEYARD, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The living come with grassy tread Last Line: I think they would believe the lie Subject(s): Mourning; Time; Bereavement IN A DISUSED GRAVEYARD, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The living come with grassy tread Last Line: I think they would believe the lie Subject(s): Mourning; Time IN CALM CONTENT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A little smoke lazed slowly up from my big cigar Last Line: And back I leant in calm content that things are as they are Subject(s): Contentment;labor & Laborers;memory;time IN DAYS GONE BY, by LILLA CABOT PERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In days gone by when you were here Last Line: In days gone by! Subject(s): Hunger; Memory; Past; Time IN HALF DARKNESS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your face is still so beautiful Subject(s): Love; Time IN HALF DARKNESS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your face is still so beautiful Last Line: As the end of our time together Subject(s): Love; Time IN HIS SIGHT, by ANNA R. BAKER Poem Text First Line: God counts time not by minutes nor by days Last Line: But marks the silence of god's timeless clock. Subject(s): God; Time IN LOVE WITH TIME, by LAURA BENET Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw time in a dream and he was young Subject(s): Time IN MY EIGHTEENTH YEAR, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Having measured the years today by the calendar Last Line: Shine from the perverse beauty of the dead Subject(s): Time; Teenagers IN REPLY TO QUESTIONS, by T'AI-SHANG Poem Source First Line: I happened to come to the foot of a pine tree Last Line: There are no calendars here in the mountain; %the cold passes but I don't know what year it is Subject(s): Time IN THE END, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: With all thy gold, thou canst not make Last Line: Should call thy name. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Mortality; Time IN THE EVENING, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The heads of roses begin to droop Last Line: Nothing but an only child with two different masks Subject(s): Time IN THE FADING YEAR, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: The goldenrod is nodding to the asters by the road Last Line: Making lives leaf out in kindness as the fruitful days proceed. Subject(s): Nature; Time IN THE FORTY-FIFTH YEAR OF MARRIAGE IT GOES ON, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would never say I feel like a million dollars, but I whistle Subject(s): Marriage; Time; Conduct Of Life; Weddings; Husbands; Wives IN THE GARDEN OF TIME AND DESTINY, by NABI Poem Source First Line: In the garden of time and destiny, we have seen both Last Line: Who have exchanged a cup full of their desires for a beggar's bowl Subject(s): Fate; Time IN THE GREEN MORNING, NOW, ONCE MORE, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In the green morning, before Subject(s): Time; Renewal IN THE GUTTER, by ANDREW FELD Poem Source First Line: Having outstayed her month, miss november Last Line: Another mouth, another way of speaking. It's not Subject(s): Time; Winter IN THE HALF-WAY HOUSE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At twenty we fancied the blest middle ages Last Line: And still climb the dream-tree for ashes and dust! Subject(s): Time IN THE NEW GARDEN, IN ALL THE PARTS, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: You, born years, centuries after me, I seek Subject(s): Modern Life; Time IN THE NIGHT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When it's night, and no light Last Line: "go to sleep, my dear""?" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Clocks; Night; Sleep; Time; Bedtime IN THE PROCESSION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "spring comes: and baseball, robust flower, in every meadow's seen" Last Line: As often sighs is the man who was -- and now is not -- a boy Subject(s): Aging;old Age;seasons;time IN THE SAME PLACE, WHEN NATURE WORE, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Time IN THE WOOD, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: I found at the root of a tree. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Fairies; Forests; Time; Elves; Woods IN THREE DAYS, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So, I shall see her in three days Last Line: Then just two hours, and that is morn. Subject(s): Time IN VINCULIS; SONNETS WRITTEN IN AN IRISH PRISON: A DREAM OF GOOD, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To do some little good before I die Last Line: Scorned by the proud but with the poor at peace. Subject(s): Hope; Prisons & Prisoners; Time; Optimism; Convicts INDIVIDUAL TIME, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm calling out from pictures to your vision creating it Subject(s): Time INDUSTRIAL POEMS, by ALOYSIUS MICHAEL SULLIVAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Sullivan, A. M. Subject(s): Time INFANT SORROW, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother groaned, my father wept Last Line: To sulk upon my mother's breast. Subject(s): Bible; Birth; Mythology; Time; Child Birth; Midwifery INISHMAAN, by RENNIE MCQUILKIN Poem Source First Line: Considering millennia of tooth and bone and carapace Last Line: Nobbled things will translate well, bloom white as brides Subject(s): Change; Sea; Time INITIATION, by DAN LEIDIG Poem Source First Line: Clinging like a koala Last Line: Collapse forever %into soft, accepting snow Subject(s): Time INSCRIPTION FOR A LIBRARY, by GEORGE SEIBEL Poem Text First Line: Put on the cowl, take up thy staff! Last Line: Across the ancient aisles of time. Subject(s): Books; Libraries & Librarians; Poetry & Poets; Time; Reading INSCRIPTION FOR MY DAUGHTERS' HOUR-GLASS, by JOHN LUCKEY MCCREERY Poem Source First Line: Mark the golden grains that pass Last Line: Improv'd bid every moment pass - %see how the sand rolls down your glass Subject(s): Time INSCRIPTIONS FOR A HOUSE, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cornerstone in truth is laid Last Line: I shall live. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Variant Title(s): For The Friends At Hurstmont Subject(s): Faith; Houses; Time; Truth; Belief; Creed INTERMEDIARY WILL, by FERENC RAKOCZY Poem Source First Line: Every day I look for the unknown country, knowing all the while Last Line: Only throw light on the hand held out above the muddy holes Subject(s): Time; Wills INVENTORY, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thanksgiving today. Soaked with sleet Last Line: Here: in america. In america. Subject(s): Belgium; Confessions; Daughters; Gardens & Gardening; Gratitude; Holidays; Honor; Larch Trees; Loss; Memory; Moving & Movers; Numbers; Omens; Refugees; Sons; Thanksgiving Day; Time; United States - Immigration & Emigtration INVOCATION TO THE CUCKOO, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, pursuivant and herald of the spring! Last Line: I laugh at fortune, and defy old time. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Fortune; Muses; Time IRON PANTS, by DEBORAH WARREN Poem Source First Line: New they were black now top-frizzed like charcoal Last Line: A winter warmth that underneath the hoar %frost's rime-skin wears like iron warms blood Subject(s): Fathers; Time IS IT ROBIN O'CLOCK?, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Do we still have to wait? Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Time IT WAS LONG AGO, by ELEANOR FARJEON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'll tell you, shall I, something I remember? Last Line: Then I grew up, you see Subject(s): Time IT WAS NIGHT, AND ON THE MOUNTAINS, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Time; Grief; Death - Animals; Sorrow; Sadness IV, by LUIS DE GONGORA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The whistling arrow flies less eagerly Last Line: Those brilliant hours that wore away our days, %our days that ate into eternity Alternate Author Name(s): Argote Y Gongora, Luis De Subject(s): Time IVY SONG; ON RECEIVING IVY LEAVES .. CASTLE OF RHEINFELS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! How could fancy crown with thee Last Line: And all is thine at length! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Castles; Germany; Ivy; Ruins; Time; Germans JAY A-PASS'D, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When leaves, in evenen winds, do vlee Last Line: When did my jaÿ all pass me by? Subject(s): Children; Home; Jays; Mortality; Time; Childhood JERUSALEM THE GOLDEN: 41. SUBURB, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If a naturalist came to this hillside Subject(s): Time JOHN JONES: 1. AT THE PIANO, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love me and leave me; what love bids retrieve me? Can june's first grasp may? Last Line: Love me and save me, take me or waive me; death takes one so soon! Subject(s): Death; Love; Time; Dead, The JOHN JONES: 5. OFF THE PIER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One last glance at these sands and stones! Last Line: You would hardly salute me by choice, john jones? Subject(s): Time; Wharves; Youth; Piers JOHNNY HODGES DEATHBED BLUES, by GERALD MAJER Poem Source First Line: It must be the woman there %threading across his hands Last Line: The in-between of knowing who was there %and pull of the look, over at her - %sheer interval Subject(s): Beds; Death; Time JOURNAL, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: November 2nd monday evening-took my place Last Line: Myself-yours most obliged Subject(s): Diaries; Life Change Events; Memory; Time JUDGEMENT FLOOD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The great storm will come when monday's a day Last Line: A red cross on each right shoulder lain Subject(s): Time JUDICIUM PARIDIS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I said, when young, 'beauty's the supreme joy' Last Line: Renders me back a saint unto myself! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Beauty; Youth; Aging; Wisdom; Courtship; Time; Likes & Dislikes JUST AS OF OLD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just as of old! The world rolls on Last Line: Just as of old. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Earth; Life; Rivers; Time; World KEVORKIAN ON THE BIRTH OF A SON, by BILL COLEMAN Poem Source First Line: I'd let him die if he weren't so healthy Last Line: And killing of time, I'd let him die %just to even the score Subject(s): Death; Time KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 9. OF THE TIME OF THE DAY, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: How high the sun Last Line: The frame around the body Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Time; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KIARTAN THE ICELANDER: EPILOGUE, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Glitter of seas, green meadows, sun and rain Last Line: Than bid you die by mine.' Subject(s): Goddesses And Gods; Love; Mythology; Sea; Time KILLING TIME, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Killing time pick up Last Line: Not discriminate & %is beyond influence Subject(s): Time KILLINGS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He spent his time killing time Last Line: Until time killed him. What's his name? Subject(s): Time L'AMITIE EST L'AMOUR SANS AILES, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why should my anxious breast repine Last Line: Friendship is love without his wings!' Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Time; Conduct Of Life LAMP AND THE BELL, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: Of this sense of expectation through all the universe Last Line: I shall not face it with less decision for all that Subject(s): Bells; Lamps; Night; Time LAND OF STEADY HABITS, by DARA WIER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Goats with baby goats chewed on shirts Subject(s): Time; Nature; Chicago LAND'S END, by WELDON KEES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A day all blue and white, and we Last Line: Two gulls are circling where the woods begin Subject(s): Sea; Time; Nature; Ocean LASSITUDE, by NEAL BOWERS Poem Source Last Line: A ruined garden where we %sometimes linger Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Time LAST AUGUST HOURS BEFORE THE YEAR 2000, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spun silk of mercy, Subject(s): Time LAST NIGHT, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Was it last summer, just last year Last Line: And the new year, love, the new year! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Homecoming; Memory; Past; Peace; Time; War LATE HOME, by BRIAN LEE Poem Source First Line: I looked up - the sun had gone down Last Line: Will it all be over as soon? Subject(s): Time LATE SINGERS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: The spring was late in coming, so Last Line: We'll sing our number through. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Time; Songs LATER IN LIFE, by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Summer heat, the first early morning Subject(s): Seasons; Time; Communication LAUGHTER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within the coziest corner of my Last Line: His hair a raveled nimbus of gray gold. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Laughter; Time; Nightmares LAUS MARIAE, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across the brook of time man leaping goes Last Line: Baltimore, 1874 - 5. Subject(s): Time LAVE THY LIMBS IN THE STREAM OF MY SONG!, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Before these eyes are dry this soul a desert Subject(s): Time LAZARUS (1ST DRAFT), by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inside the rock on which we live, another rock Last Line: Nothing else goes on. While a blurred and breathless hour Subject(s): Time; Life LEAVES A-VALLEN, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There the ash-tree leaves do vall Last Line: Voremost they that dropp'd behind. Subject(s): Autumn; Children; Death; Mortality; Seasons; Time; Fall; Childhood; Dead, The LEISURE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is this life if, full of care Last Line: We have no time to stand and stare. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Beauty; Leisure; Time LEOPOLD OF BELGIUM, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Khalifs and khans have we beheld, who trod Last Line: Trumpet his name, and flood his deeds with day. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Death; Earth; Time; Dead, The; World LET EVENING COME, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let the light of late afternoon Last Line: Comfortless, so let evening come Subject(s): Evening; Time; Sunset; Twilight LET NO SMALL SINNER ...., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If time should find a wayward stone therein Last Line: Let no small sinner enter the mosaic. Subject(s): Sin; Time LET PATIENCE HAVE HER PERFECT WORK', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a bird alone Last Line: Answer: yea, come, lord jesus, come Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Solitude; Eternity; Time; Patience LETTER, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To sit on the veranda of a hotel in jerusalem Last Line: What does he remember? Subject(s): Time; Love LETTER, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To sit on the veranda of a hotel in jerusalem Last Line: What does he remember? Subject(s): Time LICIA: SONNET 28, by THE ELDER GILES FLETCHER Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: In time the strong and stately turrets fall Last Line: Except thy beautie, vertues, and thy friend Variant Title(s): Tim Subject(s): Time LIFE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "a busy dream, forgotten ere it fades" Last Line: So we in iron selfishness stand strong Subject(s): Dreams;life;old Age;time; Nightmares LIFE, by ALEXANDER R. SCHOOLER Poem Text First Line: Life has three parts to its day Last Line: Our time is out, our race is run. Subject(s): Day; Time LIFE-PHILOSOPHY, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Calmly to wait whatever chance may give Last Line: And the skies fall. Subject(s): Fate; Life; Philosophy & Philosophers; Soul; Time; Destiny LIKE A SENTENCE, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How little we know Subject(s): Life' Time LIKE TIME'S INSIDIOUS WRINKLE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That none can punish him Variant Title(s): Poem: 1236; Poem: 126 Subject(s): Time LIMITATION, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Breathe above me or below Last Line: Life in time's captivity. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Life; Time LINE OF VERSE, by KIM YANKSHIK Poem Source First Line: Soundless, %time alloted to us flows Last Line: Flashes %and - Subject(s): Time LINES, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just fifty years ago to-night Last Line: And time will ever prove us so. Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Love; Time LINES ADDED TO WYCHERLEY'S POEMS: 3. OF WEIGHTS OF A CLOCK, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So clocks to lead their nimble motions owe Last Line: Actuates, maintains, and rules the moving frame. Subject(s): Clocks; Time LINES FOR A PROLOGUE, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These alternate nights and days, these seasons Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Time LINES ON MR. HATTON'S CLOCKS, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From hour to hour melodiously they chime Last Line: With silver sounds, and sweetly tune out time. Subject(s): Clocks; Time LINES ON MY THIRTY-NINTH BIRTHDAY, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah me!-the moments will not stay! Last Line: At twice the count of thirty-nine! Subject(s): Aging; Birthdays; Time; Youth LINES TO A DESERTED STUDY, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hush! Feel ye not around us teem Last Line: Tread gently, we were flowers. Subject(s): Aging; Life; Time; Youth LINES UNDER A SUN-DIAL IN THE CHURCH-YARD AT THORNEY, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mark well my shade, and seriously attend Last Line: And know, each fleeting hour may be thy last. Subject(s): Death; Life; Time; Dead, The LINES WRITTEN IN LADY'S ALBUM OF DIFFERENT-COLOURED PAPER, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life's chequered scenes these varied leaves display Last Line: When cold the heart that pens this feeble line! Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Time LINES WRITTEN ON THE BACK OF LETTER FROM HENRY LAWES, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fix here ye overdated spheres Last Line: That wing the restless foot of time. Subject(s): Time LINES WRITTEN ON THE BIRTH OF THE YEAR 1853, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hail! Infant year, fresh from the womb of time Last Line: This gift be yours, to crown the new-born year. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Europe; Holidays; New Year; Time LINGER, O GENTLE TIME, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: All that I hold from thee and call my own? Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Future; Hearts; Secrets; Time LITTLE DICK AND THE CLOCK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When dicky was sick Last Line: "ty -- slippaty -- sleepaty!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Clocks; Night; Sickness; Time; Bedtime; Illness LIVING, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fire in leaf and grass Subject(s): Time LIVING, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fire in leaf and grass Last Line: Each minute the last minute Subject(s): Time LOCAL WOMAN'S DEATH UNDISCOVERED FOR TWO MONTHS, by MICHAEL BARNHILL Poem Source First Line: When the body rests this long Last Line: And they haven't found me yet Subject(s): Death; Time LOCK UP YOUR CLOCKS, by PHILIP GROSS Poem Source First Line: The grandfather clock in the hall Last Line: Far off, another answers, slightly %out of time Subject(s): Time LONDON, by JOANNA BAILLIE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is a goodly sight through the clear air Last Line: And time fast wending to eternity Subject(s): London; Time LONG, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's about to be too late. Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Time LONG AGO AND FAR AWAY, by CULVER VAN SLYCKE Poem Text First Line: Lovely the cheer of long ago Last Line: Long ago and far away! Subject(s): Memory; Time LONG DELAYED, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oft have I search'd the weary world in vain Last Line: With multitudes of leaflets green and soft. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Pain; Solitude; Time; Waiting; Suffering; Misery; Loneliness LONG LIFETIME', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Infinitely small - %infinitely large Subject(s): Life; Mankind; Time LONG NIGHT OF THE INCOMPLETE, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the brief light of the stolstice Last Line: Dying in the throat like the year Subject(s): Night; Mortality; Time LONG SIGHT IN AGE, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say eyes clear with age Subject(s): Time LONG SIGHT IN AGE, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say eyes clear with age Last Line: Wrinkling away the gold %wind-ridden waves - all these, %they say, come back to focus %as we grow ol Subject(s): Time LONG TIME AGO, by MICHAEL ROSEN Poem Source Last Line: But couldn't make sure he would be Subject(s): Time LONG-GONE SUN: YEARS LATER, AFTER THE WAR, MY GRANDMOTHER, by CLAIRE MALROUX Poem Source Last Line: An impotent witness and, as always, %present against her will Alternate Author Name(s): Roux, Claire Sara Subject(s): Grandparents; Time LOOKING FORWARD, by SUE COWLING Poem Source First Line: The days are getting longer Last Line: My days are getting shorter Subject(s): Time LOST TIME, by LEN BLANCHARD Poem Source First Line: Desire doesn't conquer all, but, then, neither does Last Line: Had stopped, making clocks unnecessary Subject(s): Time LOVE AND LIFE. A SONG, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All my past life is mine no more Last Line: Tis all that heaven allows. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Variant Title(s): The Present Moment Subject(s): Fidelity; Time; Faithfulness; Constancy LOVE AND TIME, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On stella's brow as lately envious time Last Line: Nor time should quell the might of that immortal boy. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Love; Time LOVE AND TIME, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The longest night of the year, they say Last Line: Time was nothing and darkness best! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Night; Time; Bedtime LOVE AND TIME, by WALTER RALEIGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nature, that washed her hands in milk Last Line: Shuts up the story of our days. Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter Subject(s): Time LOVE AND TIME, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I said, love laughs at time Last Line: We will have lived -- long years that seemed as one! Subject(s): Love; Time LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 58, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Half in a dream Last Line: Grows fainter and fades away Subject(s): Autumn; Grief; Seasons; Time LOVE SONNET, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why shall I chide the hand of wilful time Last Line: Nor can reclaim, though all the rest be flown. Subject(s): Time; Love; Love LOVE'S ADVENT, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Passing the world's loud workshop, lo, within Last Line: "the world from woe!"" -- alas, how vain the dream!" Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Love; Time; Dead, The; Nightmares LOVE'S AUTUMN, by JOHN PAYNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, love, the spring shall come again Last Line: That now lie cold and sere. Subject(s): Love; Spring; Time LOVE'S CALENDAR, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The summer comes and the summer goes Last Line: We only know winter is come -- by the snow. Subject(s): Time LOVE'S HOUR-GLASS, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eros! Wherefore do I see thee, with the glass Last Line: That is for the days of dalliance, and it melts with golden speed.' Subject(s): Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von (1749-1832); Love; Time LOVE'S MASQUERADES: LOVE, THE MINSTREL, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: In the deep shadows round the fountain-space Last Line: And instant day shook out the violet stars. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Love; Soul; Time LUCASIA, ROSANIA, AND ORINDA PARTING AT A FOUNTAIN, by KATHERINE PHILIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, here are our enjoyments done Last Line: The fears and sorrows of this day. Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda Subject(s): Grief; Gays & Lesbians; Love; Time; Sorrow; Sadness; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men LUCIFER: PART SIX, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But not unscathed did those gay revellers pass Last Line: In pride yet haughtier, marched the milky way. Subject(s): Devil; Fate; Fools; Revolutions; Stars; Time; War; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Destiny; Idiots LULLABY FOR THE SECOND MILLENNIUM, by J. ALLYN ROSSER Poem Text First Line: From the point of view of all time Last Line: And the rock will boil Subject(s): Time LYRIC, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Low laughter of light Last Line: That spans the sky. Subject(s): Memory; Sea; Time; Ocean MADRIGAL: 51, by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, alas, that I am betrayed Last Line: Since there is no harm equal to lost time Alternate Author Name(s): Michel Angelo Subject(s): Time MADRIGAL: 52, by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wo is me woe's me when I think Last Line: And I am ready to fall infirm & outworn. Alternate Author Name(s): Michel Angelo Subject(s): Time MAN, by JAMES GORDON BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: His heart beat joyously in spring Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Time; Hope; Optimism MAN IN HIS LIFE, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man in his life has no time to have Last Line: To the place where there is time for everything Subject(s): Time MARCH: AN ODE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ere frost-flower and snow-blossom faded and fell, and the splendor of winter ha Last Line: Of the winds of march. Subject(s): March (month); Nature; Seasons; Time MASKS OF DEATH, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then the lark, his singing on a sudden done Last Line: The clods roll their brown heads, all golgotha in wrath. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Time MASQUERADE, by FRED D'AGUIAR Poem Source First Line: His passage of time is a series of dustclouds Subject(s): Time MASTER OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 232, by HAN-SHAN Poem Source First Line: Man's life in this dust-clouded world Last Line: And then, in an instant, he's old Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Time MATER DOLOROSA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is this that sits by the way, by the wild wayside Last Line: And the soul of man and her soul and the world's be one. Subject(s): Dawn; Holidays; New Year; Soul; Time; Sunrise MEASURE OF TIME, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: O you who made possible pure joy Last Line: Only your snow is the crystal, the wall Subject(s): Love; Time MEASURING, by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: This is the measure of time: Last Line: Or you and I asleep. Subject(s): Time MEDIEVAL MOTIF, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath our spell-binding play of faces there waits Subject(s): Games; Poetry & Poets; Time; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements MEDIEVAL MOTIF, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath our spell-binding play of faces there waits Last Line: In the rainbow's silence Subject(s): Games; Poetry And Poets; Time MELBOURNE AND MEMORY: PAST AND PRESENT, by FRANK WILMOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Change is a sweet and lovely sprite who brushes with a velvet pall Last Line: Beauty of decay. Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley Subject(s): Change; Melbourne, Australia; Time MELHILL FEAST, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aye there, at the feast, by melhill's brow Last Line: Moon upon moon, an' year by year. Subject(s): Country Life; Feasts; Festivals; Hope; Love; Marriage; Time; Fairs; Pageants; Optimism; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MEMENTO, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Scattered through the ragtaggle underbrush starting to show green shoots Subject(s): Time MEMORABILIA, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A million years ago and men were not Last Line: As on the night I walked alone by the sea's edge. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Night; Sea; Time; Dead, The; Bedtime; Ocean MEMORIES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As his yarn a seaman spins Last Line: O'er time's sea of songs and sins. Subject(s): Eyes; Life; Memory; Past; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Time; Seamen; Sails; Ocean MEMORIES, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ships...They go,' said murphy, 'like a spent pay-roll Last Line: "an' the times a man remembers . . . They're the best times of all!" Subject(s): Friendship; Memory; Ships & Shipping; Time MEMORY, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A woman I used to know well died Last Line: How could you have let this happen to you? Subject(s): Death; Divorce; Marriage; Memory; Past; Time; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MEMORY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: When often I think and dream of thee Last Line: As I live those days with thee once more. Subject(s): Love; Memory; Past; Thought; Time; Thinking MEMORY, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: There are who deem that virtue's prize Last Line: What can ye do but weep? Subject(s): Death; Memory; Sea; Time; Dead, The; Ocean MEMORY AND HOPE, by ALPHONSE MARIE LOUIS DE PRAT LAMARTINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I rebehold you, o beloved death Last Line: About the hearth-stone of eternity? Subject(s): Death; Memory; Time; Dead, The MEMORY'S RIVER, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In nature's bright blossoms not always repose Last Line: The music is over, and vanished the wrecks. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Memory; Time MESSAGE, by THEODORE DEPPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They've raised the speed limit I didn't want them to Last Line: Maybe a million miles between each note Subject(s): Change; Time MESSAGE, by KIM YON'GYUN Poem Source First Line: Time passes %we pass kneeling down on the road Last Line: Remember me. Remember me Subject(s): Time METRO: 10. THE LITTLE TIME MACHINE, by GEORGE SZIRTES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Burnt offerings: a little bonfire shivers Last Line: Of the frame, spreads out into the city Subject(s): Time Machines MICAH 4: 1-14. NEITHER SHALL THEY LEARN WAR ANY MORE, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: But in the last days it shall come to pass Last Line: For the mouth of the lord of hosts hath spoken it Variant Title(s): The Last Day Subject(s): Religion; Time; War MICHAEL F.M. ROSSETTI (APRIL 22, 1881 - JANUARY 24, 1883), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A holy innocent gone home Last Line: On heavenly banks. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death - Children; Heaven; Spring; Time; Death - Babies; Paradise MICHELANGELO, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stern and grim-visaged, gaunt, and dark of gaze Last Line: Into unfurrowed fields of light. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Decay; Genius; History; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Paintings & Painters; Sculpture & Sculptors; Sistine Chapel; Time; Rot; Decadence; Historians MIDNIGHT THOUGHT (ON THE DEATH OF MRS. E.H. & HER DAUGHTER), by ELIZABETH THOMAS Poem Text First Line: Oh sacred time! How soon thou'rt gone! Last Line: Tis want of sense makes superfluity. Subject(s): Death; Love; Soul; Time; Dead, The MIDNIGHT: EARLY SUMMER, by JOSEPH CORSON MILLER Poem Text First Line: Time softens to silk now Last Line: Is wrapped in prayer. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, J. Corson Subject(s): Birds; Silence; Sleep; Summer; Time MIDSUMMER, TOBAGO, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Broad sun-stoned beaches Subject(s): Time MIDSUMMER, TOBAGO, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Broad sun-stoned beaches Last Line: Days that outgrow, like daughters, %my harbouring arms Subject(s): Time MILADY'S CLOCK, by RUTH TURNER WEAVER Poem Text First Line: Nature's clock is all awry Last Line: It's half-past springtime -- by my hat! Subject(s): Nature; Time MILLRACE, by GEORGE BRADLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Each april's different: this one saw a spate Last Line: But mud and some erosion in the race Subject(s): April; Evolution; Time MIMOSA, by MARY RUEFLE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pink dandruff of some tree Subject(s): Time MINUTES, by JERRY BROOKS Poem Text First Line: Swiftly - how swiftly they pass! Last Line: Tis gone, on silvery wing! Subject(s): Dreams; Time; Nightmares MISSING DATES, by WILLIAM EMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills Subject(s): Time MISSING DATES, by WILLIAM EMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills Last Line: The waste remains, the waste remains and kills Subject(s): Time MISSION BEACH, by WINIFRED DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Of old it lay without a name - unplaced Last Line: To dedicate today joy's high event. Subject(s): Seashore; Time; Beach; Coast; Shore MISSISSIPPI RIVER EMPTIES INTO THE GULF, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the gulf enters the sea and so forth Last Line: Only here. Only now Subject(s): Mississippi River; Past; Rivers; Seashore; Time MOMENT, by JULIA GRACE WALES Poem Text First Line: There is no point upon the sphere of time Last Line: Within the radiance of her sun. Subject(s): Time MOMENT IN A CAFE, by RUY CINATTI Poem Source First Line: The lovely hands I've seen leave me enraptured Last Line: And an air of enchantment, a quavering %heard from afar, as if in secret Subject(s): Restaurants; Time MOMENT OF JOY, by CARROLL BLAIR Poem Source First Line: An old man sits in the shade Last Line: Moment) both sun and son %will not find him Subject(s): Family Life; Happiness; Time MOMENTOS, by CHARLOTTE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Arranging long-locked drawers and shelves Last Line: In some more cheerful room. Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Currer Subject(s): Memory; Time; Grief; Marriage; Death; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dead, The MOMENTS AGO, by BARBARA A. ROUILLARD Poem Source First Line: I don't care Last Line: Were so slow %to fall Subject(s): Faith; Time MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 10, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time flies, hope flags, life plies a wearied wing Last Line: Loss and decay and death, and all is love. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets; Time; Women - Heroes MONTH AFTER MONTH, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Month after month, year after year Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Time MONTHS, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: September ss Last Line: May p Subject(s): Calendars; Months; Time MONTHS, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Contorted by wind Last Line: Turns towards %the solstice Subject(s): Nature; Seasons; Time MONTHS HAVE ENDS - THE YEARS - A KNOT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: They cannot put away Variant Title(s): Poem: 416; Poem: 42 Subject(s): Time MOPSA THE FAIRY: WINDING-UP TIME, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wake, baillie, wake! The crafts are out Last Line: Tick, tick, tick!' Variant Title(s): Sleep And Time Subject(s): Sleep; Time MORAL COSMETICS, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye who would save your features florid Last Line: Time, fortune, fate. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Life; Time; Youth MORAL RUINS, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Asia's rock-hollowed fanes, first-born of time Last Line: One father -- worshipped with one voice -- above! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Art & Artists; Death; Ruins; Soul; Time; Dead, The MORNING, by DIONNE BRAND Poem Source First Line: Day came in %on an old brown bus Last Line: But day had come Subject(s): Time MORNING, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Will there really be a morning Last Line: Where the place called morning lies. Subject(s): Imagination; Morning; Night; Time; Fancy; Bedtime MORNING SONG, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love set you going like a fat gold watch Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Morning; Mothers; Time; Women MORNING SONG, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love set you going like a fat gold watch Last Line: The clear vowels rise like balloons Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Morning; Mothers; Time; Women MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 18, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis hard that the full summer of our round Last Line: And we know then that some time since youth went. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Time MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 19, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life on the wane: yes, sudden that news breaks Last Line: Love will have new glad secrets yet to teach. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Time MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 20, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's one I miss. A little questioning maid Last Line: The eager baby voice outside my door. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Time MOTLEY, by DAN LEIDIG Poem Source First Line: A rasp of distant crow %jars the morning hush Last Line: They ravelled through %to weave october's shroud Subject(s): Time MOTTO ON THE KING'S CLOCK, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slow comes the hour; its passing speed how great! Last Line: Waiting to seize it--vigilantly wait! Subject(s): Clocks; Time MOUNTAIN FIRE, by DAN LEIDIG Poem Source First Line: Above the black %of the unfound earth Last Line: With a blue match %on a cold stove Subject(s): Time MOUTHFUL OF BOAT, by LAURIE ANN BLAUNER Poem Source First Line: True believers take time on its own terms Last Line: Trees waving like all the little gods Subject(s): Sea; Time MOVING IN WITH TIME, by BONNIE JO JONES Poem Source First Line: Unhesitating but not quite unwary Last Line: I'm ready to befriend two-footed time Subject(s): Time MOVING RIGHT ALONG (1), by RUTH STONE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Advanced systems Last Line: The sludge of hypothesis, %the word become flesh Subject(s): Time MUSINGS ON THE OLD YEAR, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Another year has rolled away Last Line: And from memory's page blot out them all. Subject(s): Memory; Past; Time MY ALARM CLOCK, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a little dumpy sergeant that calls me to the fray Last Line: Ah, heed the little sergeant while he is at the door! Subject(s): Clocks; Morning; Time MY FATHER MAPS THE WORLD, by DAN LEIDIG Poem Source First Line: My untraveled father loved geography Last Line: She ought to have been: watering the flowers %on her summer porch Subject(s): Time MY FATHER'S WATCH, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Consolation; Time MY HEAVEN, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love the fresh, sweet charm of vernal skies in may Last Line: -- more frightful unto me than the midnight of the tomb. Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme Subject(s): Death; Heaven; May (month); Nature; Seasons; Time; Dead, The; Paradise MY JOURNAL, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is a dreary evening Last Line: And my eyes are dim to-night. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Books; Life; Tears; Time; Reading MY LADY AND I, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For a year and a day I must tarry away Last Line: A year and a day! Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Time; Unfaithfulness; Parting; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy MY LADY OF THE ROSES, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At venice, while the twilight hour Last Line: Venice, june 1891 Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Love - Beginnings; Time MY OLD FRIEND, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You've a manner all so mellow, Last Line: My old friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Friendship; Memory; Time; Youth MY STOPPED CLOCK IS ALWAYS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: With every day as long as I wish it to be Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Clocks; Nature; Time MY TIMEPIECE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hour has struck its advent and farewell Last Line: One, two, three, four', - trips daintily away. Subject(s): Clocks; Time MYCERINUS, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not by the justice that my father spurned Last Line: Mix'd with the murmur of the moving nile. Subject(s): Pleasure; Time; Menkaure, Pharaoh Of Egypt NAMELESS, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, lovely spirit, in the first fond dusk-light / gleaming Last Line: And still death's old, shallow mock. Subject(s): Death; Time; Dead, The NAMES, by WENDY COPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She was eliza for a few weeks Last Line: She was eliza once again Subject(s): Time NATALITIUM: MARTIJ 13, 1643, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: What rash & hasty things are yeares, wch run Last Line: Can swell so high, as is thy heavn, & thee. Subject(s): Aging; Mortality; Prayer; Time NATIVISM, by EDWARD SANDERS Poem Source First Line: Congress voted a quota bill Last Line: Time machine! Time machine! Subject(s): Time Machines; U.s. - History NATURE'S RETICENCE, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Silence golden is, I say Last Line: Will heaven tell all past divining? Subject(s): Heaven; Life; Nature; Silence; Time; Paradise NAY, BUT I FANCY SOMEHOW, YEAR BY YEAR, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And the lit windows beckon o'er the lea Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Love – Marital; Time; Hope NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 34TH PRECEPT, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spare in thy youth, lest age should find thee poor Last Line: As age and want, when both do meet together. Subject(s): Time NEVER TOO LATE TO MEND; EPIGRAM, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here, wife,' said will, 'I pray you devote Last Line: "but 't is 'never too late to mend'!" Subject(s): Repairing; Time; Mending NEVERNESS, OR THE ONE SHIP BEACHED ON ONE FAR DISTANT SHORE, by MARGARET AVISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old adam, with his fist-full of plump earth Last Line: And none be left to witness the blank mist? Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; History; Humanity; Time; Eve; Historians NEW ENGLAND, by SUSAN N. PULSIFER Poem Text First Line: Houses of generous, ample line Last Line: Tell of past springs the heart remembers. Subject(s): Landscape; Life; New England; Time NEW SPRING: PROLOGUE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes when o'er pictures turning Last Line: In time's mighty fight to fight. Subject(s): Love; Spring; Time NEW THINGS ARE BEST, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What shall I tell you, child, in this new sonnet? Last Line: Child, be we comforted! New things are best. Subject(s): Time NEW YEAR, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Another flood is finished to a fall Last Line: Will long bear us aberrants on the beach Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Floods; Holidays; New Year; Rain; Seashore; Time; Water NEW YEAR, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: The stream of time glides ever swiftly by Last Line: This glad refrain; a happy, bright new year! Subject(s): Calendar; Holidays; New Year; Time NEW YEAR (2), by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over our heads the words hung down Last Line: Wonderful dies. Subject(s): Calendars; Holidays; New Year; Time NEW YEAR'S DAY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: New year, be good to england. Bid her name Last Line: 01/01/89 Subject(s): England; Holidays; New Year; Time; English NIGHT, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heart-hidden from the outer things I rose Last Line: The planets may divide. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Day; Night; Time; Bedtime NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 2. TIME, DEATH AND FRIENDSHIP, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the cock crew he wept, -- smote by that eye Last Line: With incommunicable lustre bright. Subject(s): Conscience; Death; Friendship; Life; Nature; Night; Time; Dead, The; Bedtime NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE CONSOLATION: 9, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As when a traveller, a long day past Last Line: And midnight, universal midnight! Reigns. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; God; Graves; Life; Mankind; Night; Time; Travel; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Tombs; Tombstones; Human Race; Bedtime; Journeys; Trips NIGHT WILL NEVER STAY, by ELEANOR FARJEON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The night will slip away %like a sorrow or a tune Subject(s): Imagination; Night; Time NIGHTWATCHES, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While the slow clock, as they were miser's gold Last Line: Half of that world I ever cared to please! Subject(s): Time NINE O'CLOCK, by LYDIA SHARPE Poem Text First Line: From the great clock on the landing Last Line: But enchantment. Subject(s): Clocks; Day; Hearts; Time; Women NO COUNTRIES BUT THE DISTANCE OF THE WORLD [AND THE SMOKE OF THE], by NICHOLAS SAMARAS Poem Source First Line: My life has always been too large for me deep in the heart of the darkest Last Line: Was the hand and that was the prayer and there is always a kind of %response Subject(s): Earth; Time NO PLACE OR TIME, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: This curly childhood of the year Last Line: That knows no place or time. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Time NO WORDS CAN DESCRIBE IT, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How those fires burned that are no longer, how the weather worsened Subject(s): Languagel Time NOISE THAT TIME MAKES, by MERRILL MOORE Poem Source Subject(s): Physicians; Time NORTH WIND TO DUTIFUL BEAST MIDWAY BETWEEN DIAL & FOOT OF GARDEN CLOCK, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why clamber up the pedestal? Last Line: Your conscientious feet sha'n't fall. Subject(s): Time NOT MINE THE YEARS TIME TOOK AWAY, by ANDREAS GRYPHIUS Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The maker of years and eternity is mine Subject(s): Time NOT ONLY, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not only ruins their lichen have Last Line: Denied its passing hour. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Time NOT YET ENOUGH, by DAN LEIDIG Poem Source First Line: In this expanse of brown %a single ragged dandelion Last Line: A silent aorist, %simply there %and out of time Subject(s): Time NOTHING REMAINS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing remains of unrecorded ages Last Line: This, this remains. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Angels; Death; Time; Dead, The NOVEMBER, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lonely season in lonely lands, when fled Last Line: Of how her end shall be. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Autumn; November; Seasons; Time; Wind; Fall NOW, by WARREN HOLDEN Poem Text First Line: The past is dead. Let lethe's waters close Last Line: The life that lives is one eternal now. Subject(s): Time NOW, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rise! For the day is passing Last Line: You may wake to find it past! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Activity; Courage; Time; Exercise; Valor; Bravery NOW, by LIAM RECTOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now I see it: a few years Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Time NOW, by LUCY YAKEY WOOLEDGE Poem Text First Line: Our yesterdays are gone Last Line: Ere it, uncertain, flies awayaway. Subject(s): Memory; Time NOW AND THEN, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sing me a song, my nightingale Last Line: "he said, ""the morning is not ours!" Subject(s): Love; Time NOW THAT TIME SEEMS ALL MINE, by PATRIZIA CAVALLI Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Time; Nostalgia NOW'S THE TIME, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If a poem you would write Last Line: While there's time! Subject(s): Time NUBIA, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A land of dreams and sleep, a poppied land! Last Line: But she hath built an altar to repose. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Time; Nightmares NURSE'S SONG, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When voices of children are heard on the green Last Line: And your winter and night in disguise. Subject(s): Bible; Children; Holidays; Mythology; New Year; Play; Time; Childhood NURSE'S SONG, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the voices of children are heard on the green / and laughing is heard Last Line: And all the hills ecchoed Variant Title(s): Play Time Subject(s): Bible; Children; Evening; Innocence; Mythology; Play; Time; Childhood; Sunset; Twilight O SAY NOT PURE AFFECTIONS CHANGE!, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: With tenfold force return! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Time O WINDS! YE ARE TOO ROUGH, TOO ROUGH, by ALICE CARY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Love; Time O YE HOURS!, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O ye hours! Ye sunny hours! Last Line: "question not the hours!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Time O'CLOCK, by FANNY HOWE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: You float inside your water Subject(s): Time; Leaves; Water OBLIVION, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While I was under Last Line: The same room you left Subject(s): Time OBLIVION'S GATE, by FRANK MADISON LARNED Poem Text First Line: I met the old year in the night Last Line: I saw oblivion's gate ajar. Subject(s): Time OBSERVE THE ROSE-BUD ERE IT BLOWS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Let time possess it when it dies Subject(s): Beauty;flowers;roses;time ODE, by ANACREON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Golden hues of youth are fled Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Time; Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE TO THE SPECTRAL THIEF, ALPHA, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The way grapes will cast a green rail Last Line: And there was a greater acceptance of mirrors, and rhyme. Subject(s): Nature; Story-telling; Time ODE UPON THE SHORTNESS OF MAN'S LIFE, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Marke that swifte arrow how it cuts the ayre Last Line: T' out-live nestor in a day. Variant Title(s): On The Shortness Of Life Subject(s): Mortality; Time ODES 2, 14. EHEU FUGACES, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, what can stay the flying years? Last Line: "I'll drink a health,"" says he." Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Farewell; Memory; Time; Parting ODES II, 14, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You can't grip years, postume Last Line: Wine puddle our table, %fit wine for a pope Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Time ODES II, 14, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Friend, the posting years how fast they fly? Last Line: Shall flow, and make the drunken pavement shine Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Time ODES II, 14. HIS AGE, DEDICATED TO HIS PECULIAR FRIEND, JOHN WICKES, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah posthumus! Our yeares hence flye Last Line: Farre more then night bewearied. Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Variant Title(s): His Age, Dedicated To His Peculiar Friend, M. John Wickes Subject(s): Mourning; Time; Bereavement ODES II, 14. TO POSTHUMUS, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! My posyhumus, the years Last Line: Follow its short-liv'd lord, and shade his lonely tomb! Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Time ODES II, 3. LIFE IS SHORT, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When life is hard, your soul possess Last Line: Of exile's barge without recall Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Life; Time ODES IV, 7. DIFFUGERE, REDEUNT IAM GRAMINA CAMPIS, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The snow relents Last Line: Nor can theseus break %his dead friend's chains Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Time; Transience ODES IV, 7. TO TORQUATUS. DIFFUGERE NIVES, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The snows are fled away, leaves on the shaws Last Line: The love of comrades cannot take away. Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Seasons; Time OEDIPUS AT COLONUS: TIME, by SOPHOCLES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fair aigeus' son, only to the gods in heaven Last Line: One wind blow true for ever? Subject(s): Time OF ASPHODEL: CODA, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inseparable from the fire Subject(s): Time; Love; Imagination; Fancy OF TIME, by RICHARD FANSHAWE Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Let us use it whilst we may Last Line: Love may return, but never lover. Variant Title(s): Of Beauty Subject(s): Beauty; Time; Transience; Impermanence OF YEARS, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of a few years Subject(s): Time OF YEARS, by WHILHELMINA T. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: It does not matter who you are Last Line: But their strength. Subject(s): Old Age; Time; Youth OFF TO OUTER SPACE TOMORROW MORNING, by NORMAN NICHOLSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You can start the count down, you can take a last look Last Line: For I'm off to outer space tomorrow morning Subject(s): Time OH KNELL OF A PASSING TIME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Numbered to pass away Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Time; Transience OH, GIVE US BACK THE DAYS OF OLD, by JOHN MASON NEALE Poem Source First Line: Oh, give us back the days of old! Oh! Give me back an hour! Last Line: By all thy woes, by all thy joys, lord jesus grant them peace Subject(s): Time OLD ADAM, by MARGARET AVISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The simple horizontal Last Line: In a circumference. Subject(s): Life; Time OLD AND NEW; THE CENTURY ASSOCIATION, 1847-1897, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is that oft uttered adage true Last Line: "no loss but only of the ship!" Subject(s): Past; Time OLD HYMN-TUNES, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear, old-time tunes of prayer and praise Last Line: Till silence settles over all! Subject(s): Earth; Life; Time; World OLD KITCHEN CLOCK, by ANN HAWKSHAW Poem Source First Line: Listen to the kitchen clock! Alternate Author Name(s): Aunt Effie; Hawkshawe, Ann; Jackson, Ann Subject(s): Clocks; Time OLD LOVES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old loves, once so alive, but now long dead! Last Line: Give them remembrance for a coronal. Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Memory; Time; Dead, The OLD MAN, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look at him there on the wet road Last Line: On the brow's anvil as the sun does now Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Time OLD MAN KNOW-ALL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Old man know-all, he comes around Last Line: But he knew too much to cross that way Subject(s): Time OLD SCHOOLHOUSE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There broods the pathos of a time long past Last Line: That lit the players in the long-ago. Subject(s): Faces; Life; Love; Past; Schools; Time; Students OLD WOMAN, by IAIN CRICHTON SMITH Poem Source First Line: Today she is sitting by a window Last Line: Time is crouching on the window Subject(s): Old Age; Time; Women OMEGA, by DAN LEIDIG Poem Source First Line: An inchworm %on my sleeve %stands like a stick Last Line: He writes over & over %the last word Subject(s): Time ON A CLOCK IN A MARKET-PLACE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What now thou dost or art about to do Last Line: The moment, that secures thee heaven or hell. Subject(s): Time ON A CLOCK; SHREWSBURY, 1745, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O labour here with all my might Last Line: Therefore example take by me, %and serve thy gdo as I serve thee Subject(s): Clocks; Time ON A FLY DRINKING FROM HIS CUP, by WILLIAM OLDYS Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Busy, curious, thirsty fly! Last Line: Will appear as short as one! Variant Title(s): The Fly. Occasioned By A Fly Drinking Out Of The Author's Cup;the Fly Subject(s): Flies; Time ON A LINE FROM SOPHOCLES, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see you cruel, you find me less than fair Last Line: Time, time, my friend, makes havoc everywhere. Subject(s): Enemies; Sophocles (496-406 B.c.); Time; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism ON AN AUTUMN MORNING, by KIM YANKSHIK Poem Source First Line: My eyes chance to rest on my husband's hair Last Line: I see there the coming years come as fast %as they have passed Subject(s): Time ON AN EMPTY HOUSE, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A stately house I passed to-day Last Line: "this noble mansion to be sold." Subject(s): Houses; Time ON ARRIVING ANYWHERE IN TIME FOR ANYTHING, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How good the universe can be!-what now? Last Line: In this appointment kept, this fulfilled choice? Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Time ON BATTELL'S CHIMES, by O. H. COOPER JR. Poem Text First Line: The steady march of academic years Last Line: Battell, from age to age thy chimes intone. Subject(s): Bells; Time; Yale University ON BEING TOLD THAT' TIME CURES SORROW, by RUTH SHEPARD PHELPS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My grief has vanquished me Last Line: "ah, that was years ago." Subject(s): Grief; Time; Sorrow; Sadness ON FINDING AN OLD PHOTOGRAPH, by WENDY COPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Yalding, 1912. My father Last Line: There he is, happy, and I am unborn Subject(s): Time ON MR. HALL'S ESSAYS, by THOMAS STANLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wits that matur'd by time have courted praise Last Line: As many years as thou hast snatch'd from time. Subject(s): Essays; Hall, John (1627-1656); Time ON PARTING, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time that is recorded is not now Subject(s): Farewell; Time; Parting ON REVISITING HARROW, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here once engaged the stranger's view Last Line: And blotted out the line for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Friendship; Harrow, England; Pride; Time; Self-esteem; Self-respect ON SEEING A PICTURE OF THE VIRGIN MARY; A FRAGMENT, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Roll back, thou tide of time, and tell Last Line: Love's last, love's sweetest sacrifice. -- Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Paintings & Painters; Time; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary ON SHOULDERS WHIRLED IN SOME ECCENTRIC ORBIT, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Where time doth plume his wings Subject(s): Time ON THAT SIDE, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: April and may. There, very near Last Line: A memory — so vivid, I close my eyes Subject(s): Time; Memory ON THE CLOCK IN STRASBURG CATHEDRAL, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Due praise be his whose skill to strasburg gave Last Line: To ponder on eternity how few! Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Clocks; Public Worship; Strasbourg, France; Time; Church Attendance ON THE CLOCK-TOWER AT EMBERTON, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Time's on the wing, how swiftly he speeds his way Last Line: Live then in christ - in christ eternal gain, %no christ - no hope but everlasting pain! Subject(s): Time ON THE DEATH AND WORKS OF MASTER GREENHAM, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some skilfull caruer helpe me to endorse Last Line: But emulate thy works eternitie. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Graves; Time; Trees; Writing & Writers; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones ON THE DOOR OF A LONG-CASE CLOCK BY THOMAS LISTER, C. 1730, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Lo! Here I stand by you, upright Last Line: Each day and night be on thy guard, %and thou shall have a just reward Subject(s): Clocks; Time ON THE EDGE OF TIME FUTURE, by BEN OKRI Poem Source First Line: I remember the history well Last Line: And frame time with our resolve Subject(s): Freedom; Time ON THE HURRY OF THIS TIME, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With slower pen men used to write Last Line: With slower pen. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Time; Writing & Writers ON THE SOUTH COAST, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hills and valleys where april rallies his Last Line: Free by birth of a sacred earth, and regent ever of all the sea. Subject(s): Dreams; Nature; Sea; Spring; Time; Nightmares; Ocean ON TIME, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fly, envious time, till thou run out thy race Last Line: Triumphing over death, and chance, and thee o time. Subject(s): Religion; Time; Theology ONCE THAT NEVER WAS, by AVERY L. GILES Poem Source First Line: The once that never was may be Last Line: What is that roaring in the wood? Subject(s): Time ONE DAY, by DAN LEIDIG Poem Source First Line: In the timeless scumble of summer Last Line: The fragile history %of our ephemeracy Subject(s): Time ONE DAY'S HISTORY, by FERN WEEMS Poem Text First Line: I watched as day's near evidence Last Line: And strolled beside the streams. Subject(s): History; Memory; Time; Historians ONE HOUR IS MINE, by GRACE MINER LIPPINCOTT Poem Text First Line: The hour when dark enfolds the night is mine Last Line: And listeners are silent and aware. Subject(s): Time ONE HUNDRED LOVE SONNETS: 91, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Age covers us like drizzle Last Line: On the dust, eager to erase even absence Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Time ONE MOMENT, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One moment, to strictly run out by the sands Last Line: But the nest waits, my darling, ah! Say, will you go? Subject(s): Time ONE MOMENT AND THE NEXT IN THE PINE BARRENS, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One moment a crow Last Line: The next the world just seems %like a pile of sticks Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Time ONLY A MATTER OF TIME, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down-slipping time, sweet, swift, and shallow stream Last Line: Trembles and burns an instant, and is gone. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Time ONLY YEARS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I come back to the cottage in Last Line: Long rollers wrinkling the dark bay Variant Title(s): Only Years Subject(s): Love; Time OPEN, TIME, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Open, time, and let him pass Last Line: Into country grass. Subject(s): Death; Time; Youth; Dead, The OR ELSE: 19. THERE'S A GRANDFATHER'S CLOCK IN THE HALL, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a grandfather's clock in the hall, watch it closely. The minute hand Last Line: A mink's prick, time thrusts through the time of no-time Subject(s): Time ORIGAMI OF TIME, by ELAINE EQUI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O how I love clocks, %their roundness Last Line: Does leap %from its high places Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Time OUR FIFTY-FIFTH; 1843-1897, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our fifty-fifth! Since first, in '43 Last Line: This bond of friendship shall survive them all! Subject(s): Friendship; Old Age; Time OUR NEW CHURCH CLOCK, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Henceforward shall our time be plainly read Last Line: With summer flies and voices from the fields! Subject(s): Clocks; Time OUR THRONES DECAY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I said my pleasure shall not move Last Line: It turns to dust beneath the years. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Pleasure; Time OVERNIGHT, A ROSE, by CAROLINE GILTINAN Poem Text First Line: That overnight a rose could come Last Line: It took my life to grow. Alternate Author Name(s): Harlow, Leo P., Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Time; Worship OVERSIGHT, by AVERY L. GILES Poem Text First Line: Years past, I trysted' neath the moon Last Line: My arteries would harden. Subject(s): Aging; Moon; Time OZYMANDIAS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I met a traveler from an antique land Last Line: The lone and level sands stretch far away. Variant Title(s): Ozymandias Of Egypt Subject(s): Death; Decay; Deserts; Egypt; Fame; Food & Eating; Pride; Rameses Ii, King Of Egypt; Ruins; Statues; Time; Transience; Vanity; Dead, The; Rot; Decadence; Reputation; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Impermanence PACIFIC TIME, by CATHY SMITH Poem Source First Line: It is not my brother's dying Last Line: Dark around it. How it shimmered %for a moment and was gone Subject(s): Death; Time; West (u.s.) PALINODE, by OLIVER ST. JOHN GOGARTY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Twenty years are gone Subject(s): Physicians; Time PALM, by PAUL VALERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An angel sets at my place Last Line: To grow with what it gives! Subject(s): Time PARADISE LIGHTNING DAZZLE: 7. TO SAY, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To say `now' and yet again Last Line: With its redolent folds. Subject(s): Flowers; Heaven; Roses; Time; Paradise PARADOX OF TIME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Time goes, you say? Ah no! Subject(s): Time PARINGS, by DAN LEIDIG Poem Source First Line: The teller held the orange and scored its globe Last Line: And more to tell than story Subject(s): Time PARTING IN WARTIME, by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How long ago hector took off his plume Last Line: And now we three in euston waiting-room Subject(s): Time; War PASS IT ON, III, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lilacs look neon in fading light. Subject(s): Nature; Time PASSING, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To spring, to bloom, to fade Last Line: New sorrows, alien hopes, strange pleasures, other fears. Subject(s): Change; Time PASSING AWAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Passing away, saith the world, passing away Last Line: Then I answered: yea. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Change; Time; Transience; Impermanence PASSING HOURS, by HELENA A. BOOTH Poem Text First Line: A wisp of wind has drifted petals near Last Line: Time weaves new hours upon her loom of gold. Subject(s): Time PASSING THE TIME DURING CHEMOTHERAPY, by JANE M. MCCLELLAN Poem Source First Line: We could almost be taken Last Line: And then, unplugged, we turn %toward home Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Conversation; Sickness; Time; Women PAST, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The corpses wait under my bed Last Line: Even when I wake it doesn't go away Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Memory; Past; Time PAST - PRESENT - FUTURE, by DELL HARTELL Poem Text First Line: Yesterday I said to love Last Line: "is just a glimpse of you." Subject(s): Love; Time PAST AND PRESENT, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On four-horse coach, whose luggage pierced the sky Last Line: Shot like a pellet from his own pop-gun. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Past; Progress; Schools; Time; Travel; Vacation; Students; Journeys; Trips PAST AND PRESENT, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember, I remember, / the house where I was born Last Line: Than when I was a boy. Variant Title(s): The Old House At Home;i Remember;stanzas Subject(s): Aging; Children; Memory; Religion; Time; Childhood; Theology PAST AND PRESENT, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I hear the breath of the mother Last Line: And the night falls heavy and sweet. Subject(s): Time PAST AND PRESENT, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Linger,' I cried, 'o radiant time!' Last Line: I prize the past much, but the present more. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Grief; Love; Past; Time; Sorrow; Sadness PAST, FUTURE, AND PRESENT; AN ALLEGORY, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once on a time -- we need not care Last Line: "the present still is king of all!" Subject(s): Time PATCHES OF GOLD FLARING UP UNEXPECTEDLY, by INGRID FICHTNER Poem Source First Line: Patches of gold flaring up unexpectedly Last Line: Silently very fast %tout autre part Subject(s): Beauty; Sun; Time; Water PER OMNIA SAECULA SAECULORUM, by HAROLD KEOGH Poem Text First Line: Unwillingly the willow yields to fall Last Line: And never know what fed the springing seed. Subject(s): Time PERCHE QUELLE STRANE GOCCE DI SANGUE SUL CORPO DI JENNIFER?, by KEVIN KILLIAN Poem Source First Line: December 15, dodie, scornful, 'is he your %new boyfriend?' Last Line: What are these strange drops of blood %on the body of %jennifer? Subject(s): Death; Relationships; Time PERFECT TIMING, by CY RICHIN Poem Source First Line: A train and rushing car connected Last Line: Note the train arrived on schedule Subject(s): Railroads; Time PERMANENT GLORIA, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have wrought my work - more durable than steel Last Line: And bind his brows with laurel ever green. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Heaven; Muses; Time; Dead, The; Destiny; Paradise PERSISTENCE OF ANCESTORS, by CHARLES MARTIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The nineteenth century is not over yet Subject(s): Red Jacket. Seneca Chief (1756-1830); Buffalo (city), New York; Time PETRIFIED FERN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In a valley, centuries ago Subject(s): Ferns; Time PHILENA TO MENANDER, by SARAH WENTWORTH MORTON Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Blest poet! Whose eolian lyre Last Line: And be the palm of genius thine! Alternate Author Name(s): Philenia Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Muses; Paine, Robert Treat (1773-1811); Poetry & Poets; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Time; Iliad; Odyssey PHOEBE, OR MY GRANDMOTHER WEST, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, phoebe! How slily, love's arrow to barb Last Line: A counterfeit true of her grandmamma west. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Girls; Grandparents; Love; Time; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers PIANO, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me Last Line: Down in the flood of remembrance, I weep like a child for the past. Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Children; Memory; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Nostalgia; Pianos; Singing & Singers; Time; Childhood; Songs PISA: THE DUOMO, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, this is like a song writ long ago Last Line: Won from the boundaries of day and night. Subject(s): Italy; Life; Pisa, Italy; Time; Italians PITY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: I'm always saying, 'where's the time gone?' Last Line: Why can't a watch have pity %on a man? Subject(s): Pity; Time PLANTING THE POPLAR, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because thou'rt not an oak Last Line: Poplar, by the stream. Subject(s): Love; Poplar Trees; Soul; Time PLEDGE, by SYDNEY KING RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: There is a part of you that I shall keep Last Line: My heart shall proudly keep, even from death. Subject(s): Time POEM, by ALICE MOSER Poem Text First Line: The memory of a flamelike shadow Last Line: Recalling a forgotten vow. Subject(s): Life; Time POEM FOR A CLASS RE-UNION, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whether we like it, or don't Last Line: Shall rally together to dine. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Aging; Classmates; Past; Reunions; Time; Schoolmates POEM FOR ADLAI STEVENSON AND YELLOW JACKETS, by DAVID YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's summer, 1956, in maine, a camp resort Subject(s): Summer; Time; Fish & Fishing; Wasps; Anglers; Yellow Jackets POEM FOR THE END OF THE CENTURY, by JOHN HAINES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I am the dreamer who remains Subject(s): Time; Optimism POEM IN JUNE, by MILTON ACORN Poem Source First Line: A breeze wipes creases off my forehead Last Line: My trees lean into summer Subject(s): Time POEM: 22, by YUNUS EMRE Poem Source First Line: Good health to the soul of that lover who has union with the beloved. His Last Line: Time will not touch love; love has no months and years Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Time POEM: 3, by KEITH ALTHAUS Poem Source First Line: I am crossing years tonight Last Line: The taste of wine %from an uprooted vineyard Subject(s): Time POEMS OF THE WEEK, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lie still and rest in that serene repose Last Line: How sweet the sense of peace! Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Day; Hearts; Life; Morning; Night; Time; Bedtime POETS SPEAK OUT ON THE MONTHS OF THE YEAR, by VICKI STRINGER Poem Source First Line: Beware the ides of march.' this fools us Last Line: And kids have been saying it ever since Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Time POINT LOMA SONNETS: 5. GRAY, by WINIFRED DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Our days of gray on loma by the sea Last Line: A rock of time's chiaroscure mists have mossed. Subject(s): Point Loma, California; Time POINT LOMA SONNETS: 9. OLD TRAILS, by WINIFRED DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Up from the lonely days that dawned remote Last Line: Across to mountain, sea, sky, city . . . Leap. Subject(s): Point Loma, California; Time POPHAM OF THE NEW SONG: 1, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Neither all nor any angels arrive in the mind where Last Line: Out in the first mud and forsythia. Far outside. Subject(s): Angels; Children; Memory; Reason; Time; Childhood; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals POTATO CLOCK, by ROGER MCGOUGH Poem Source First Line: A potato clock, a potato clock Last Line: Oh where can I find up at eight o'clock? Subject(s): Time POURRITURE NOBLE, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never prophesy. Subject(s): Wine; Aging; Time PRAETERITA EX INSTANTIBUS, by WILLIAM DOUW LIGHTHALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How strange it is that, in the after age Last Line: "and men will say, ""thus did the men of yore." Alternate Author Name(s): Schuyler-lighthall, William Douw Subject(s): Time PRE-TEXT, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Archaic, his gestures / hieratic, just like caesar or sappho Subject(s): Babies; Ancestors & Ancestry; Time; Infants; Heritage; Heredity PRECEPTS OF CHIRON: LENGTH OF LIFE, by HESIOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nine times the span of an old old man Last Line: The nymphs of the shining hair. Subject(s): Life; Time PRECESSION OF THE EQUINOXES, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time was, I walked in the february rain Last Line: And the reassurances of my own pulse Subject(s): Love; Self; Time; Writing And Writers PREFACE TO THE PAST, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time all of a sudden tightens the tether Last Line: Thank you, kids, I wouldn't have missed it Subject(s): Time PREHISTORIC CAMP, by ANDREW YOUNG (1885-1971) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was the time of year Last Line: Its race of men long flown Subject(s): Time PRELUDE, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: My song is born of rivalry. Cross time Last Line: Save where I lift, and purify, and bless! Subject(s): Art & Artists; Nature; Singing & Singers; Time PREMONITION, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As when at mary's voice elizabeth Last Line: That sing the present in futurity. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Omens; Time PRESERVES, by ANITA GRAY CHANDLER Poem Text First Line: This summer I shall try preserving Last Line: Into spring. Subject(s): Fruit; Memory; Seasons; Summer; Time PRIZE ADDRESS; SPOKEN AT THE OPENING OF THE SALEM THEATRE, by CHARLES SPRAGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To call past ages from the sleep of time Last Line: Above all hatred, and above all fear. Subject(s): Theater & Theaters; Time PROBLEM OF ANXIETY, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fifty years have passed Last Line: From the bronze mantel, and will never be appeased Subject(s): Anxiety; Time PROGRAM REVIEW, by J. MACEKURA Poem Source First Line: Time is a figment: %bits of anxiety Last Line: Just twenty-four %more hours Subject(s): Day; Time PROPER SONNET, HOW TIME CONSUMETH ALL EARTHLY THINGS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ay me, ay me, I sigh to see the scythe afield Subject(s): Time PROPERATE TEMPUS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Which time is the real time Last Line: Her as quickly as you can Subject(s): Time PROPOSITION AND QUESTION, by JAMES CERVANTES Poem Source First Line: If you shrink the universe to fifteen floors Last Line: He watches her dive into the pool? Subject(s): Past; Time PSALM 39, VERSE 5, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Text First Line: Thou, by a span measur'st these days of mine Last Line: His best estate is altogether vain. Subject(s): Time PYTHIAN ODES: 10. THE HYPERBOREANS, by PINDAR Poet's Biography First Line: Yet in their midst the muses too are found Subject(s): Time PYTHIAN ODES: 10. THE HYPERBOREANS, by PINDAR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Among them too are the muses Last Line: Time means anything; %long, long ago Subject(s): Time QUATORZAINS: 11. A CLOCK STRIKING AT MIDNIGHT, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark to the echo of time's footsteps; gone Last Line: While the glad spirit seeks a brighter birth. Subject(s): Clocks; Death; Future Life; Time; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life QUATRAIN, by TU FU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Birds are still whiter against river's sapphire Last Line: And when will be the time that I turn home? Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Time QUATRAIN: THE PARCAE, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In their dark house of cloud Last Line: One waits to cut the thread. Subject(s): Time QUESTION OF TIME, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ask a friend. She informs me it is ten years Last Line: And barefoot, at that time, %and how you let me rest %a half a minute in your suntanned arms Subject(s): Time QUID HIC AGIS?, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I weekly knew Last Line: What doest thou here?' Subject(s): Time QUIET, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come not the earliest petal here, but only Last Line: With their bloom, passes. Subject(s): Nature; Quiet Life; Solitude; Time; Loneliness QUIETER THAN SNOW, by BERLIE DOHERTY Poem Source First Line: I went to school a day too soon Last Line: Quieter than snow Subject(s): Time RATE THE HOURS. ONE AND 5 A.M., by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The fool always feels safe at noon Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Time REAR VISION, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cars in the mirror come swiftly forward Subject(s): Automobiles; Time; Cars REAR VISION, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cars in the mirror come swiftly forward Last Line: The furies gather in a pack, &while all the sky above burns black, %unwinding still the darkening th Subject(s): Automobiles; Time RECKONING WITH TIME, by GEORGE COLMAN THE YOUNGER Poem Source First Line: Come on, old time, - nay, that is stuff Last Line: Then, dying, said, - daw's occupation's gone Subject(s): Time RECOLLECTION, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A wave-worn boulder, with green sea-moss wrapping Last Line: This sweet world, filled with the peace of god! Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Time RECYCLE, by EDWARD KLEINSCHMIDT Poem Source First Line: Every day I say that the last day coming Last Line: Ill be there, high on the list, or low-down, %somersaulting,pedaling like mad, looking forward Subject(s): Future; Time REFERENCE BACK, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That was a pretty one, I heard you call Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Time REGRET, by YUAN CHI Poem Text First Line: When I was young I learnt fencing Last Line: That makes this fury tear my heart. Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Fencing; Time RELIC, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I found this jawbone at the sea's edge Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Bones; Time RELIC, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I found this jawbone at the sea's edge Last Line: In the sea. This curved jawbone did not laugh %but gripped, gripped and is now a cenotaph Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Bones; Time REMEMBRANCE, by ALFRED DE MUSSET Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O sacred ground, in wandering back to thee Last Line: "while life and thought remain." Subject(s): Forests; France; Graves; Sand, George (1804-1876); Time; Woods; Tombs; Tombstones; Dupin, Amanda. Baronne Dudevant REPLY TO A LETTER, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the bottom drawer I find a letter which arrived for the first time twenty- six years ago Subject(s): Letters; Time RESCUE, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man sits in a timelessness Last Line: They are running to arrive Subject(s): Time REST, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spread, spread thy silver wings, o dove! Last Line: Flutter again to thy quiet nest! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Life; Rest; Time; Dead, The RESTORATIVES, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Whisper with bated breath Last Line: Joy lives anew. Subject(s): Death; Love; Nature; Time; Dead, The RETROSPECT, by ESTHER L. SCHEDIN Poem Text First Line: It seems but yesterday the buds were swelling on bare boughs Last Line: "and say, ""it seems but yesterday that we were there." Subject(s): Time RETURNED - 'MISSING', by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, I was sad and anxious Last Line: Might be brought back at last. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Earth; Life; Time; World REVELATION 6: 1-8. THE FOUR HORSEMEN, by NEW TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: And I saw when the lamb opened one of the seals Last Line: And with death %and with the beasts of the earth Variant Title(s): Revelation: Subject(s): Time; War REVERIE OVER MEMORIES, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I did not dream. And yet if I had dreamed Last Line: And the imagination of delight. Subject(s): Memory; Nostalgia; Past; Time RHYME, THE CONSOLER, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The injuries of time Last Line: Rhyme brings with honeyed tones an anodyne to pain. Subject(s): Consolation; Old Age; Poetry & Poets; Time RHYMES FOR THE TIMES: 2, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ae day short syne, when gaun afiel Last Line: This mission's yoursobey the call. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Rhyme; Time RIDDLE: 7, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: What is it that stands Last Line: Has no feet at all? Subject(s): Clocks;riddles;time RITUALS, by DAN LEIDIG Poem Source First Line: The morning I left for the army Last Line: And reached out his hand instead Subject(s): Time ROCK ME TO SLEEP, by ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Backward, turn backward, o time, in your flight Last Line: Rock me to sleep, mother, -- rock me to sleep! Alternate Author Name(s): Percy, Florence; Chase, Elizabeth Anne Subject(s): Home; Mothers & Daughters; Time; Women; Youth ROCOCO, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Take hand and part with laughter Last Line: And ten that you forget. Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Memory; Time; Nightmares ROLL ON TIME, ROLL ON, by JULIA A. MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Roll on time, roll on, as it always has done Last Line: And I found it was the truth when I married. Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan Subject(s): Time ROMAN POEM, by JOHN FORBES Poem Source First Line: The rhythms of the italian language %& the belgian figure skating team Last Line: I do not love australia.' Subject(s): Time ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: THE MOORISH KING, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To the alpuxarres' exile Last Line: In the land of andalusia. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Grief; Moors (people); Tears; Time; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Sorrow; Sadness ROMANCIN', by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'b'en a-kindo' musin', as the feller says Last Line: "I kin wake and say ""dog-gone-it!"" jest as soft as any prayer!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Birds; Music & Musicians; Nature; Time ROME, by JOACHIM DU BELLAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou newcomer who seek'st rome in rome Last Line: And that which fleeteth doth outrun swift time. Alternate Author Name(s): Du Bellay, Joachim Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Time RONDEAU, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jenny kissed me when we met Last Line: Jenny kissed me! Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Subject(s): Friendship; Holidays; Innocence; Kisses; Love; New Year; Time; Women RONDEL, by GEORGE AUGUSTUS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lilacs are in bloom Last Line: The lilacs are in bloom. Subject(s): Decay; Flowers; Grief; Roses; Summer; Time; Rot; Decadence; Sorrow; Sadness RONSARD'S TOMB, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O caves, and you, o springs Last Line: Of whoso hears. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Flowers; Graves; Heaven; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Time; Dead, The; Destiny; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 44, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Why, if the soul can fling the dust aside Last Line: So long in this clay suburb to abide Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 55, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, plagued no more with human or divine Last Line: The cypress-slender minister of wine Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 57, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You know, my friends, how bravely in my house Last Line: And took my daughter of the vine to spouse Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Time RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 74, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Impotent pieces of the game he plays Last Line: And one by one back in the closet lays Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time RUINS OF TIME, by LUIS DE GONGORA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This chapel that you gaze at, these stern tombs Last Line: Through the blue sky, and scale the golden stars Alternate Author Name(s): Argote Y Gongora, Luis De Subject(s): Time RUSSIAN LETTER, by JOHN YAU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is said, the past Subject(s): Time RUT, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Wind the clock and feed the cat Last Line: Time goes on Subject(s): Time SABBATH, 1985, VIII, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I go from the woods into the cleared field Last Line: Beginning now, in our few troubled days Subject(s): Time SACRAMENTO O NO, by LIZ WALDNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Time; Nature SAD TALE O MR. MEARS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There was a man who had a clock Subject(s): Clocks; Time SALT AIRS, by TONY SANDERS Poem Source First Line: Time not being an issue, he'd probably write Last Line: At the tide of unfinished correspondence. Maybe he %would write Subject(s): Relationships; Time; Writing And Writers SAND OF THE DESERT IN AN HOUR-GLASS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A handful of red sand, from the hot clime Last Line: The half-hour's sand is run! Subject(s): Time SATIE: TROIS MELODIES, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The frog on the tumbler-game in the park Subject(s): Trees; Statues; Time SAVE THAT TIGER, by J. C. ELLEFSON Poem Source First Line: July fourth. Summer lake. Fish jumping. Fireworks. Four Last Line: Quartet can hold a distinguished harmony forever Subject(s): Clocks; Death; Friendship; Time SAVING WORDS, by DAN LEIDIG Poem Source First Line: Across the night waves cascade Last Line: Old depths beneath the brickle air Subject(s): Time SCHISM, by ANDREW SHIELDS Poem Source First Line: Every fifteen minutes Last Line: Later, from the other Subject(s): Churches; Music And Musicians; Time SCRAMBLE, by DAN LEIDIG Poem Source First Line: Sometimes I retreat to a field kitchen Last Line: Then time and appetite ignite, %and the white corona blurs Subject(s): Time SCRATCH MUSIC, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How many threads have I broken with my teeth. How any times Last Line: Full, weary, and thankful to be spending the evening with no one Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Time SEASONS AND TIMES, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Awhile in the dead of the winter Last Line: When footsteps are few on the ground? Subject(s): Seasons; Time SEASONS HAVE TO PASS, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The frail, warm dream lay shattered like a glass Last Line: (time is not stagnant; seasons have to pass) Subject(s): Time SECOND CHANCES, by WENDY BISHOP Poem Source First Line: A dark morning. The year creaks round its axis Last Line: And hear: her breating. Surely, %the year moves on Subject(s): Change; Time SECOND SHADOW, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cast on the field from that full height Subject(s): Time SECRET HISTORY, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of the light in my room: Subject(s): Time SECRETS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life has dark secrets; and the hearts are few Last Line: Avenging, and betraying. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Secrets; Time SELF-INTERROGATION, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The evening passes fast away Last Line: "and break in glorious morn! " Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Time SENSE OF PROPORTION, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old lion hunter and I Last Line: Will never come around again Subject(s): Aging; Death; Future; Hunting; Time; Dead, The; Hunters SENSE OF PROPORTION, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old lion hunter and I Last Line: Will never come round again Subject(s): Aging; Death; Future; Hunting; Time SENT TO MY FOURTH SON, SHAO-WU, by LIANG TE-SHENG Poem Source First Line: You are far away, blocked by passages and mountains Last Line: Amidst the sound of firecrackers, another year is gone Subject(s): Absence; Longing; Time SENTIMENTAL HISTORY, by MARJORIE MEEKER Poem Text First Line: Resistless time, they said, would break Last Line: This burning blade with perilous edges. Subject(s): Time SEPTEMBER, by JOHN MOLE Poem Source First Line: Come back from summer Last Line: Remember who you are Subject(s): Time SEPTEMBER, 1819 (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Departing summer hath assumed Last Line: Can haughty time be just! Variant Title(s): The Poet Growing Old Subject(s): Summer; Time SERVING TIME, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Another dreary day in time's invisible Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners; Time; Convicts SETTING SAIL, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Exultation is the going Last Line: Of the first league out from land? Subject(s): Life; Time SEVENTH YEAR, by SANDRA MEEK-HENSON Poem Source First Line: No one knows if cicada dream the earth Last Line: Deeper its skeleton, its own letting go Subject(s): Time SEVENTY YEARS ARE FEW, by LU CHIH Poem Source First Line: I think a man's seventy years are few! Last Line: What's better than %to be happy and at ease? Subject(s): Life; Time SHAPES AND SHADOWS, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: We are but shapes and shadows Last Line: But the screen remains unchanged! Subject(s): Death; Earth; Life; Shadows; Time; Dead, The; World SHED AND DREAM, by HICOK. BOB Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rest with me under the linden tree. Last Line: O pie in the sky Subject(s): Trees; Time SHINING STARS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shine, ye stars of heaven Last Line: Bids the end arise! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Stars; Time; Nightmares SHOREHAM: TWILIGHT TIME, by SAMUEL PALMER Poem Text First Line: And now the trembling light Last Line: And mark'st when sparrows fall. Subject(s): Creation; Earth; Evening; God; Time; World; Sunset; Twilight SHORT IS TIME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Short is time, and only time is bleak Last Line: Short is time. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Time SIDNEY'S ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: CANTO QUINTO. CONTENT, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A day, a night, an hour of sweet content Last Line: But hast thou bliss in youth? O sweet estate! Subject(s): Aging; Grief; Time; Sorrow; Sadness SIGNATURE, by DAN LEIDIG Poem Source First Line: My refrigerator door is papered with art Last Line: My mark, they say, my name upon the world Subject(s): Time SILENCE, by ELENI FLORATOU-PAIDOUSSI Poem Source First Line: The snail tracks of centuries Last Line: In your tender palm %and let it be light! Subject(s): Silence; Time SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 37, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The days are clear Last Line: And june! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): June; Time SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 41, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A pocket-handkerchief to hem Last Line: And after work is play! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Stitching Subject(s): Sewing; Time SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 45, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many seconds in a minute? Last Line: No one knows the rhyme. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): How Many Seconds? Subject(s): Time SISTER MARY APPASSIONATE LECTURES BIORHYTHM CLASS: DOCTRINES OF TIME, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Stand a woman or man before the sun. The way Last Line: Our only inheritance, night and day, the grave Subject(s): Time SITTING WITH THE AIR, by MARK SENKUS Poem Source First Line: There is a moment Last Line: That you didn't know %was closed Subject(s): Air; Time SIX YEARS LATER, by JOSEPH BRODSKY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So long had life together been that now Subject(s): Time SIX YEARS LATER, by JOSEPH BRODSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So long had life together been that now Last Line: Through them into the future, into night Subject(s): Time SKIRMISH, by DAN LEIDIG Poem Source First Line: The old veteran postpones valediction Last Line: Depleted. Their talk turns to turf: %fescue, mulch, reseeding Subject(s): Time SLOW DRAIN OF TIME, by JAMES CERVANTES Poem Source First Line: It's the third time she has found him Last Line: While you look at nothing at all Subject(s): Sickness; Time SLOW MOVEMENT, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Waking, he found himself in a train, andante Last Line: And, so doing, open ours Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): Time SLOW SPRING, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O year, grow slowly, exquisite, holy Last Line: Like a lamb or a child. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Time SLOWLY: I FREQUENTLY SLOWLY WISH, by LYN HEJINIAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I frequently slowly wish for more of the sudden experience Last Line: We get music which is time moving loudly Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Time SMALL DAWN SONG, by PHILIP GROSS Poem Source First Line: This is just to say thank you Last Line: This is just to say thank you Subject(s): Time SMALL STONES, by DAN LEIDIG Poem Source First Line: They are so smooth %and palpable Last Line: To the unspoken gifts %of inexorable weathers Subject(s): Time SNAKESKIN, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is only the old yellow shell Subject(s): Snakes; Time; Serpents; Vipers SNAPSHOTLAND, by SYLVIA KANTARIS Poem Source First Line: In snapshotland everyone is happy all the time Last Line: And the buckets full of pebbles on the same sea-shore Subject(s): Time SNOWY MOUNTAINS, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Higher and still more high Last Line: The mists that dance and drive before the sun. Subject(s): Mountains; Time; Hills; Downs (great Britain) SO IT'S TODAY, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And in the chokecherry this year Last Line: For a few more days of summer. Subject(s): Autumn; Change; Gifts & Giving; Leaves; Longevity; Seasons; Summer; Time; Fall SOCIAL BLUNDER, by LINDA BACK MCKAY Poem Source First Line: Time was Last Line: Eats astronauts for breakfast Subject(s): Moon; Time SOFTENED BY TIME'S CONSUMMATE PLUSH, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: So easy to repair Subject(s): Children; Despair; Time; Healing SOLILOQUY, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: August and laurelled have been content to speak for an age Last Line: That sheds pleasure and pain like hailstones Subject(s): Time SOLILOQUY, by ANN YEARSLEY Poem Text First Line: How patiently toils on this little watch Last Line: With us, the life of man is but a day. Alternate Author Name(s): Cromartie, Ann Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Time SOLITUDE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Laugh and the world laughs with you Last Line: Through the narrow aisles of pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Variant Title(s): The World As It Is;laughter;companionship;the Way Of The World;life's Magnet Subject(s): Advice; Aging; Pain; Solitude; Time; Suffering; Misery; Loneliness SOLSTICE, by ANN LAUINGER Poem Source First Line: Yes the year bursts fruitily out on this Last Line: The scrape of bone under pin-brick stars Subject(s): Time SOME - WORK FOR IMMORTALITY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Ones' - money - one's the mine Variant Title(s): Poem: 406; Poem: 53 Subject(s): Fame; Immortality; Time SOME INFORMATION ABOUT TWENTY-THREE YEARS OF EXISTENCE, by JEFF CLARK Poem Source First Line: In the shrift, she says, 'it is always moving, even in slumber Last Line: Terror now in the hangar: the little door slides back Subject(s): Aging; Birth; Birthdays; Family Life; Ontology; Time SOME NIGHTS ARE THREE NIGHTS LONG, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Back to work, the heart dredging sludge Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Time SOMETHING THAT SHROUDS ITSELF, by ANN S. GOLDSMITH Poem Source First Line: Twelve months ago, on new year's eve Last Line: To all of manhattan coming ashore in the dark Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Time SOMETIMES, by LOUISA F. STORY Poem Text First Line: Sometimes - not often - when the days are long Last Line: Sometimes? Subject(s): Time SONG, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I walked out one evening Last Line: The clocks had ceased their chiming %and the deep river ran on Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Time; Transience; War SONG, by JOANNA BAILLIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All white hang the bushes o'er elaw's sweet stream Subject(s): Love; Time; Love SONG, by MARIA GOWEN BROOKS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, moon of flowers! Sweet moon of flowers Last Line: And wish my heart could change like thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Del Occidente, Maria; Brooks, Maria A. Subject(s): Moon; Time SONG, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To love in my heart, I exclaimed, t'other morning Last Line: Beauty, look not so killingly sweetly. Subject(s): Love – Age Differences; Time; Fall SONG, by WILLIAM CORKINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet cupid, ripen her desire Last Line: Then will no more such sport be found. Subject(s): Courtship; Time SONG, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Years have flown since I knew thee first Last Line: And thou art strange to me, love, tonight. Subject(s): Time SONG, by JOHN MCGRATH Poem Source First Line: And when our streets are green again Last Line: Will laugh and grow to love again Subject(s): Time SONG, by JAMES ROBINSON PLANCHE Poem Text First Line: Three score and ten by common calculation Last Line: You've reached four-score, but haven't lived a day! Subject(s): Life; Singing & Singers; Time SONG (10), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I am dead, my dearest, / sing no sad songs for me Last Line: And haply may forget. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Requiem Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; Life Change Events; Love - Loss Of; Melancholy; Mourning; Time; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness; Dejection; Bereavement SONG (6), by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me not of morrows, sweet Last Line: Else to-day were incomplete. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Time SONG AND SINGER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw him once, the while he sat and played Last Line: Keep an immortal youth. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Singing & Singers; Time; Youth; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs SONG OF ACKWORTH CLOCK, by BASIL BUNTING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clock beneath the cupola Last Line: Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock, slow Subject(s): Clocks; Schools; Time SONG OF OLD TIME, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wear not the purple of earth-born kings Last Line: And time, old time, will be king after all. Subject(s): Time SONG OF THE EARTHLINGS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the earth we came Last Line: Old time has laid them low. Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Life; Singing & Singers; Time; Trees; Nightmares; World; Songs SONG OF THE MORNING STARS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the abysses of the sky Last Line: Like us the over-lords of time. Subject(s): Time SONG: 105, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now all of change / must be my song Last Line: To quit the craft that me beguiled. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Faith; Grief; Pain; Singing & Singers; Time; Belief; Creed; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery SONG: 109, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Disdain not, madam, on him to look Last Line: To keep the best and leave the bad. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Love; Time SONG: 83, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, cruel heart, where is thy faith? Last Line: Farewell my love and all my woe. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Cruelty; Faith; Hearts; Love; Tears; Time; Belief; Creed SONGS FOR A WINTER FIRE: 9. OF SUCH STRANGE STUFF, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Slowly my window darkens: each bare limb Last Line: Of neither night nor morrow will be afraid. Subject(s): Time; Trees; Youth SONGS FOR MARIE'S LUTEBOOK, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The blue-eyed grass is opening now Subject(s): Nature; Time SONGS FOR MARIE'S LUTEBOOK, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The blue-eyed grass is opening now Last Line: And when it is too late for haste, %remember this Subject(s): Nature; Time SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 108, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Another day comes up Last Line: And lift the latch of your door. Subject(s): Time; Waiting SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 58, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poppy, you shall live forever Last Line: In a rhyme like this. Subject(s): Time SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 73, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more the woods grow crimson Last Line: Your hand-touch -- and be sure. Subject(s): Time; Desire SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 75, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world is swimming in the light Last Line: Deep as the cold heart of the norns. Subject(s): Nature; Time SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 8, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the greening willow Last Line: That shall be by and by. Subject(s): Time; Hope SONGS TO A.H.R.: 8. HOROLOGUE, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have a clock within me Last Line: That heal the hurts of time. Subject(s): Clocks; Hearts; Love; Time SONNET, by MARIE LUHRS Poem Text First Line: Time, of all artists, draws most clear, most true; Last Line: Quivered and cried -- there is no other way. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Time SONNET, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How change our days! Not oftener doth its hue Last Line: Another generation earth prefers! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Time SONNET, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I gathered blushing roses kissed by june Last Line: The pure child fragrance in thy soul complete. Subject(s): Flowers; Memory; Roses; Time SONNET (4), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The foot of time so soundless never pass'd Last Line: And soothe the stranger from another sphere! Subject(s): Time SONNET TO MANON: HE DARES NOT DIE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Four hours by the clock! How strange it is! Four hours Subject(s): Life; Time SONNET: 12, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When I do count the clock that tells the time Last Line: Save breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence. Variant Title(s): The Approach Of Age Subject(s): Aging; Holidays; New Year; Time SONNET: 18, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though I myself be bridled of my mind Last Line: Whereby his absence turneth him to sorrow.' Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 27 Subject(s): Grief; Honor; Love; Time; Truth; Sorrow; Sadness SONNET: 19. ON HIS BLINDNESS, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When I consider how my light is spent Last Line: "they also serve who only stand and wait." Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 16;sonnet On His Blindness;sonnet: 17 Subject(s): Bible; Blindness; Milton, John (1608-1674); Religion; Time; Visually Handicapped; Theology SONNET: 2. FEBRUARY AFTERNOON, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men heard this roar of parleying starlings, saw Last Line: That we have wrought him, stone-deaf and stone-blind. Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Variant Title(s): February Afternoon Subject(s): Birds; Time; World War I; First World War SONNET: 21, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, my beloved, have you thought of this Last Line: Upon our anguish for each other's sake! Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Time SONNET: 32, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was never file half so well filed Last Line: And the reward little trust forever. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 16 Subject(s): Time; Youth SONNET: 5. TIME'S PRISONER, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time was, beloved, when from this far-off place Last Line: That for thy sake all heaven I would forego. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Time SONNET: 6. TO A BROOK NEAR THE VILLAGE OF CORSTON, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As thus I bend me o'er thy babbling stream Last Line: As thy soft sounds half heard, borne on the inconstant breeze. Subject(s): Aging; Brooks; Memory; Nature - Religious Aspects; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Time; Streams; Creeks SONNET: 60, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore Last Line: Praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand. Variant Title(s): "revolutions;""like As The Waves Make Towards The Pebbled Shore""; Subject(s): Aging; Gays & Lesbians; Time; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 65, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea Last Line: That in black ink my love may still shine bright. Variant Title(s): "time And Love (2);""since Brass, Nor Stone, Nor Earth, Nor Boundless Sea""; Subject(s): Beauty; Language; Men; Time; Words; Vocabulary SONNET: SIBYLLINE BOOKS, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When first, a boy, at your fair knees I kneeled Subject(s): Books; Time; Reading SONNET: STARLIGHT. 1, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night works like time: hushed is the busy street Last Line: And feel eternity, where was but time. Subject(s): Time SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 42, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My future will not copy fair my past.' / I wrote that once Last Line: New angel mine, unhoped for in the world! Variant Title(s): Past And Future Subject(s): Time; Love SONNETS ON ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS: 19. THE MANY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Greene, garlanded with february's few flowers Last Line: Live likewise ye: time takes not you for slaves. Subject(s): Seasons; Time SONNETS: 4. VICTOR HUGO, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That hour the titan corsican first dared Last Line: Hope fired all plains and pinnacles of time. Subject(s): Fate; Hope; Hugo, Victor (1802-1885); Time; Destiny; Optimism SOON, by JOE BOLTON Poem Source First Line: Soon, these great stadiums will be empty Last Line: Near the end of what looked like forever Subject(s): Future; Time SOONEST MENDED, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Barely tolerated, living on the margin Subject(s): Language; Time; Words; Vocabulary SORGENDO DA LUNA, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No sound / save the hush'd breath Last Line: And falleth. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Life; Rome, Italy; Time; Dead, The SOROLLA, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am fleet,' said the joy of the sun Last Line: And sorrow the sigh of a day. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Time SOUL BEAUTY, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Grace incarnate, glory's heir Last Line: Ripened for supernal glory. Subject(s): Beauty; Nature; Soul; Time; Youth SOUND DOCTRINE, by DAN LEIDIG Poem Source First Line: On sundays, we were wayfaring strangers Last Line: We waited passage on a midnight train Subject(s): Time SOUVENIR, by ALFRED DE MUSSET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I weep, but with no bitterness I weep Last Line: My soul to god shall bear. Subject(s): Death; Gethsemane; Grief; Nature; Souvenirs; Tears; Time; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness SPECIAL PLEADING, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time, hurry my love to me Last Line: Baltimore, 1875 - Subject(s): Time SPELL OF CREATION, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within the flower there lies a seed Last Line: Lie like the seeds within the flower Subject(s): Time SPENT AND MISSPENT, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stay yet a little longer in the sky Last Line: Spare me the day a little longer yet! Subject(s): Time SPIRIT FLOWERS, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN Poem Text First Line: I hear a voice, so close it makes me start Last Line: In blasts of time. Subject(s): Courtship; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Past; Time; Male-female Relations SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: CONRAD SIEVER, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not in that wasted garden Subject(s): Apple Trees; Time SPRING, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing is so beautiful as spring Last Line: Most, o maid's child, thy choice and worthy the winning. Subject(s): Eden; Jesus Christ; Religion; Spring; Time; Theology SPRING FORWARD, FALL BACK, by TROY JOLLIMORE Poem Source First Line: In november the hours are slower Last Line: Before the river freezes altogether Subject(s): Change; Time SPRING IN NEW ENGLAND, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The long years come and go Last Line: Telling us spring has come again! Subject(s): New England; Spring; Time SPRING SPARKLE AND THE COCK-BIRD SHRIEK, by JAMES P. SCOFIELD Poem Source First Line: Yesterday the winter web, the winter woven, wind and wind Last Line: May this movement spare me a final humiliation Subject(s): Birds; Blackbirds; Seasons; Singing And Singers; Time; Winter SPRING WALK, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My father and I go for a walk Last Line: Rotting in the green spring sun. Subject(s): Fathers; Mortality; Time SPRING'S ADVENT, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The spirit of spring is in the air Last Line: Mocking, she dares the circling shadow of time. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Earth; Flowers; Spring; Time; World ST. JAMES PARK, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas june, and many a gossip wench Last Line: "may be a little altered too." Subject(s): London; Nature; Parks; Pride; Time; Self-esteem; Self-respect STANZAS, by CHARLOTTE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Often rebuked, yet always back returning Last Line: Can centre both the worlds of heaven and hell. Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Currer Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Time; Travel; Books; Journeys; Trips; Reading STANZAS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Could love forever / run like a river Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Love; Time STANZAS TO THE MARQUISE, by PIERRE CORNEILLE Poem Text First Line: Marquise, if on my face you spy Last Line: Whose printed word may bless or blight you. Subject(s): Aging; Beauty; Time STATUETTE: LATE MINOAN, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Girl of the musing mouth Last Line: As I, unblest Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Statues; Girls; Time STEPPING STONES, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Oh years sunk mutely in the abyss Last Line: "no costlier good than love can pay." Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Love; Time STEREOSCOPE, by PAUL GERALDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I don't want to see them. Take the negatives Last Line: Don't make it an historian. Subject(s): Memory; Time; Travel; Journeys; Trips STOLEN YEARS: WALL CALENDAR, by DAN PAGIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: December. An arctic wind, new Last Line: All my stolen years drift by %like sweet water Subject(s): Time STRANGE FILAMENT, by LILLIAN M. (PETTES) AINSWORTH Poem Text First Line: This transient moment which we call our own Last Line: Upon the endless treadmill of the years. Subject(s): Life; Time STRIKING, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was a railway passenger / and he lept out jauntilie Last Line: "for indeed -- the clocks have struck." Subject(s): Time STUDIES, by CARLOS PELLICER Poem Source First Line: Clocks out of order, %willful paths Last Line: These are the tropics, %prodigious and sad. %nobody knows what time it is Subject(s): Clocks; Time SUDDENLY MY CLOCKS AGREE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: They have this tender moment Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Clocks; Nature; Time SUGGESTIONS OF ETERNITY, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: False time, so fleet, so fugitive! Last Line: Where time's all ends. Subject(s): Future Life; Love; Time; Vision; Retribution; Eternity; After Life SUMMER HOLIDAY, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the sun shouts and people abound Last Line: In the rubbish dumps, a concrete dam far off in the mountain... Subject(s): Time SUMMER IS WANING, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Summer is waning, the roses are dead Last Line: Sweet memories, never to fail! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Future; Life Change Events; Summer; Time; Youth SUN MAY SPEED OR LOITER ON HIS WAY, by SARA COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Where nothing whispers that the past is flown Subject(s): Sun; Time SUNDAY STILL LIFE - WITH TABLE, WITH KNIFE, by SANDOR CSOORI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After six days, when the seventh %marches into my home Last Line: And music keeping time to the marching of earth ants Subject(s): Time SUNDIAL, by GABRIEL ZAID Poem Source First Line: Weird hour. It's not Last Line: On the verge of falling Subject(s): Time SUNDOWN, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: As the rose of the day lies dying Last Line: On the stream of the vanished years. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Nature; Past; Time SUNSET, by JUNE CREBBIN Poem Source First Line: The sun %is having its last fling Last Line: Beyond the sea of darkening fields Subject(s): Time SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 11. A NEEDLE'S EYE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the stream that's roaring by Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Time SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Naught but the fittest lives,' I hear Last Line: May weave into its nest of song. Subject(s): Life; Nature; Survival; Time SUSAN LOU, by LOUISE REDFIELD PEATTIE Poem Text First Line: When the young twilight gently drew her scarf Last Line: Here in my hands, as thin as evening haze. Subject(s): Time SWEET HOURS HAVE PERISHED HERE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Now fallow in the tomb Subject(s): Time SWEETNESS OF REST WHEN THOU SHEDDEST REST, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Waiting to come to the birth Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): End Time; Patience SWIFT DAYS, THAT UP TILL NOW, by SHELDON CHRISTIAN Poem Text First Line: Swift days, that up till now have flown Last Line: We alone stand, eternal man and wife. Subject(s): Life; Time SWIFTLY THE DAYS FLY PAST, by GIUSEPPE PARINI Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Unto our parting day Subject(s): Friendship; Time; Transcience; Aging SWIFTS, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How at once should I know Last Line: Them to know them gone Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Time T IS FOR TIME, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: You false church clock, whose long-drawn chimes Last Line: And stretch beyond his frantic face. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Time TAKE TIME WHILE TIME DOTH LAST, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Friends fail and love grow cold Variant Title(s): Madrigal Set By John Farmer Subject(s): Time TALKING TIME-TRAVEL BLUES, by ADRIAN RUMBLE Poem Source First Line: Strap me in your time machine Last Line: I'm earth bound -- just in time Subject(s): Time; Time Machines TEACH ME TO NUMBER MY DAYS', by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: And courage and worship and love Subject(s): Time; Transience; Conduct Of Life TELL ME A STORY, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long ago, in kentucky, I, a boy, stood Subject(s): Geese; Time TEMPOCIDE, by BENJAMIN DOWNING Poem Source First Line: I tried to kill time but it would not die Last Line: I wished I'd let time be and wondered why %we try to kill what passes anyway Subject(s): Time TEN SUNS RISE IN THE EAST, by JUAN CHI Poem Source Last Line: When desire for profit or knowledge come to an end, %so will the sadness of man Subject(s): Time TEN YEARS AGO, by FREDERICK TENNYSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ten years are swiftly fled since yesterday Last Line: Since ye are not, o laughter-hearted years Subject(s): Time TEN YEARS SINCE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis ten years since / I saw her on the stairs Last Line: Those ten years since! Subject(s): Time TENDRIL, by DAN LEIDIG Poem Source First Line: Indifferent to seed or source Last Line: On the still and brittle air? Subject(s): Time TESTAMENT, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So often it has been displayed to us, the hourglass Last Line: On the mountain of my love below. Subject(s): Hourglasses; Legacies; Love; Time TESTAMENT, by W. J. KEITH Poem Source First Line: Books burn, crumble, decay Last Line: By a hard fate. %it is also true Subject(s): Decay; Time THE ABSENCE OF LITTLE WESLEY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sence little wesley went, the place Last Line: With our last prayers, and our last tears, sence little wesley's dead! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Absence; Clocks; Death; Moon; Prayer; Time; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The THE AFTER-ECHO (2), by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How long the echoes love to play Last Line: And touches all the soul to tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Echoes; Memory; Time THE AFTERMATH, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Swift away the century flies Last Line: Where the kind dove would never brood. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Time THE AFTERNOTE OF THE HOUR, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hour had struck, but still the air was fill'd Last Line: And turn'd it heavenwards, to its proper bourne. Subject(s): Time THE AGES, by JOHN STERLING (1806-1844) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How swiftly pass a thousand years Last Line: Its course is fix'd, its end sublime. Subject(s): Time THE AGING ACTRESS SEES HERSELF A STARLET ON THE LATE SHOW, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: For centuries only painters, poets, and sculptors Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Motion Pictures; Time; Immortality; Actresses; Movies; Cinema THE ALARM, by HILDEBRAND JACOB Poem Text First Line: What is't, good prying friend, you say? Last Line: Tis time to be in haste, to live! Subject(s): Barbers; Clocks; Hair; Old Age; Time THE ALBUM, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I take your book -- of autographs Last Line: Our love can ne'er decay. Subject(s): Love; Memory; Time THE ALMANAC OF TIME, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The almanac of time hangs in the brain Subject(s): Time THE ANCIENT FAMILY CLOCK, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So, here thou art, old friend Last Line: And make thy peace with him, who rules above the storm. Subject(s): Clocks; Time THE ANGEL-THIEF, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time is a thief who leaves his tools behind Last Line: We lose our jewels, but we break our chains. Subject(s): Time THE ASCENT OF MAN, by ROSSITER WORTHINGTON RAYMOND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He stood upon the earth, and turned Last Line: Lord of two worlds, and child of god! Subject(s): Mankind; Time; Human Race THE AUTHOR'S EPITAPH, MADE BY HIMSELF, by WALTER RALEIGH Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Even such is time, that takes in trust Last Line: My god shall raise me up, I trust. Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter Variant Title(s): Verses Found In His Bible .. At Westminster;the Conclusion;lines Written The Night Before His Execution;to-day A Man, To-morrow None;last Line;his Epitaph;lines Found In His Bible In The Gate-house;even Such Is Time;verses Made The Night Before His Beheading;verses Made The Night Before He Died;lines Said To Have Been Written On The Eve Of His Execution;epitaph;verses Written In His Bible Subject(s): Ambition; Death; Easter; Faith; Great Britain - History; Heaven; Holidays; New Year; Religion; Time; Transience; Dead, The; The Resurrection; Belief; Creed; English History; Paradise; Theology; Impermanence THE AUTUMN WIND, by WU-TI (157 B.C.- 87 B.C.) Poem Text First Line: Autumn wind rises: white clouds fly Last Line: Youth's years how few! Age how sure! Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Time; Wind THE BALLAD OF CHRISTOPHER STREET, by FLOYD DELL Poem Text First Line: Is it still there, I wonder, down in christopher street Last Line: Eleven christopher street. Subject(s): Change; Christopher Street, New York City; Greenwich Village, New York City; Time; Youth THE BALLAD OF DEAD LADIES, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me now in what hidden way is Last Line: But where are the snows of yester-year? Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Subject(s): Time; Women THE BELLS OF SAN BLAS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What say the bells of san blas Last Line: It is daybreak everywhere. Subject(s): Time THE BIRD OF ENDLESS TIME, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your fingers touch me like a bird's wing Subject(s): Time THE BITER BIT, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jack dobson, honest son of tillage Last Line: "must expect rubbers!" Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Time; Wine THE BLUE HOUSE, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is night with glaring sunshine. I stand in the woods and look towards my hous Subject(s): Houses; Time THE BLUES; A LITERARY ECLOGUE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You're too late Last Line: With my marriage! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Time THE BOYS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where are they? - the friends Last Line: Of faces asleep where the bumblebees drone! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Friendship; Time; Youth; Childhood THE BREEZE'S INVITATION, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come let's roam the breezy pastures Last Line: Such sweet music as he'll hear. Subject(s): Time; Wandering & Wanderers; Wind THE BRIDEGROOM TO HIS BRIDE, by MARY ANN BROWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Four years ago, dear love, / and we were strangers; in a distant land Last Line: With souls, not bound, but blended evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Gray, James, Mrs.; Gray, Mary Anne Browne Subject(s): Friendship; Love; Time; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE BRIDGE OF LIFE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Across the rapid stream of seventy years Last Line: To where all glories of our being tend Subject(s): Death;old Age;time; "dead, The; THE BUILDER, by MAUD MORRISON HUEY Poem Text First Line: Across the tinsel of my dreams Last Line: Out of the memory of a dream? Subject(s): Dreams; Time; Nightmares THE BUTTERFLY, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I watched to-day a butterfly Last Line: Have raised my thoughts from earth to god. Subject(s): Butterflies; Death; Earth; Insects; Life; Time; Dead, The; World; Bugs THE BUTTERFLY'S MADRIGAL, by FRANK GELETT BURGESS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love-for-a-day, come let's be gay! Last Line: But love for ayeah, never! Alternate Author Name(s): Burgess, Gelett Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Time THE CALENDAR, by RUPERT HUGHES Poem Text First Line: In those delicious days we spent together Last Line: It clings a month to every daily page. Subject(s): Absence; Time; Separation; Isolation THE CANTAB, by VINCENT BOURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With two spurs, or one; and no greater manner which Last Line: The faster you ride, you're the longer about it. Subject(s): Time; Horseback Riding THE CASTLE OF TIME; A VISION, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up rose the full moon in a heaven of blue Last Line: And heaven's o'erarching dome, eternal and sublime! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Castles; Memory; Past; Time THE CHILD PLAYING WITH A WATCH, by FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Art thou playing with time in thy sweet baby-glee? Last Line: May time and my ellen be playmates together. Alternate Author Name(s): Vane, Violet Subject(s): Babies; Innocence; Life; Time; Infants THE CITY AT THE END OF THINGS, by ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the pounding cataracts Last Line: Is deathless and eternal there. Subject(s): Cities; Night; Soul; Time; Urban Life; Bedtime THE CITY-BOUND IN A PARK, by MARY C. SLEVIN Poem Text First Line: This! This is earth! Beneath my heel Last Line: Riding with fierce abandon past his shining face! Subject(s): Earth; Parks; Time; World THE CLOCK, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Every tick and every tock Last Line: "has molly dropped down dead?" Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Clocks; Time THE CLOCK, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: Didactic in its safe stone tower Last Line: The hour it does not tell. Subject(s): Clocks; Time THE CLOCK, by HANIEL (CLARK) LONG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The clock is in a garden wide Last Line: And strikes eternity. Subject(s): Clocks; Time THE CLOCK, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why do you go to that grand hotel Last Line: "and london, with their chimes." Subject(s): Clocks; Guilt; Household Employees; Love; Time; Servants; Domestics; Maids THE CLOCK, by ANDERSON M. SCRUGGS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within the dim-lit hall the old clock stands Last Line: Down dark and silent passages of time. Subject(s): Time THE CLOCK'S SONG, by ROSE HAWTHORNE LATHROP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eileen of four / eileen of smiles Last Line: Eileen! Eileen! ... Alternate Author Name(s): Alphonsa, Mother Mary Subject(s): Clocks; Time THE CLOCKS OF THE DEAD, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: One night I went to keep the clock company Subject(s): Clocks; Time; Silence THE CLOISTER OF YEARS, by VERA BROWN MOOK Poem Text First Line: I shall walk quietly Last Line: Lost in the question of a night bird's call. Subject(s): Time THE CLOSED ROOM, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the marvelous house of life Last Line: Is turned by the keeper -- time! Subject(s): Time THE COCK, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: In the black hour the friendly cock did cry Last Line: A frozen sun to gild the frozen bough. Subject(s): Roosters; Time; Cocks THE COCK, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before a clock was in the tower Last Line: The oldest chronicler of time. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Roosters; Time; Cocks THE COMMON LOT, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When youth and summer-time are gone Last Line: The sailing of the caravan. Subject(s): Time; Youth THE COMPUTATION, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For the first twenty years, since yesterday Last Line: Am, by being dead, immortal. Can ghosts die? Subject(s): Immortality; Time THE CONTINENTS, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had a vision in that solemn hour Last Line: "claim empire for the free!" Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Africa; Past; Prophecy & Prophets; Time THE CONTRAST; THE STORMY SIDE, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now years have passed away, all years of toil Last Line: Divorce a vinculo with alimony. Subject(s): Life; Love; Pain; Time; Suffering; Misery THE CREATION (A NEGRO SERMON), by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And god stepped out on space Last Line: Amen. Amen. Subject(s): African Americans; Religion; Time; Negroes; American Blacks; Theology THE CUCKOO, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forth I wandered, years ago Last Line: Cuckoo-clock. Subject(s): Clocks; Time THE CUCKOO-CLOCK, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wouldst thou be taught, when sleep has taken flight Last Line: And those that seek his help, and for his mercy sigh. Subject(s): Clocks; Time THE DANCE OF THE HOURS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are the hours of dawn; ah, featly, featly Last Line: Do we complete the measure of the hours! Subject(s): Day; Time THE DEAD LOVER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time is so long when a man is Last Line: That wants to fly back to you. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Time; Dead, The THE DEATH OF THE OLD YEAR, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Full knee-deep lies the winter snow Last Line: A new face at the door. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Time THE DELTA PARADE, by SUSAN STEWART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everything stops. A fat man on his way to baltimore Subject(s): Time THE DEMOTION, by RICHARD HOWARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of course there has to be a reason, doctor Last Line: We must begin all over … Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph Subject(s): Time THE DESIGN, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When first eternity stoop'd down to nought Last Line: Even in that way that is the best. Variant Title(s): The Choice Subject(s): Time; Truth THE DESPERANTO OF WILLYNULLY, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her father's early portrait shows Subject(s): Time; Portraits; Fathers & Daughters THE DIRGE OF THE FOUR CITIES, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Finias and falias, / where are they gone? Last Line: The city of murias. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Cities; History; Lament; Nostalgia; Time; Urban Life; Historians THE DIRGE [FOR FIDELE], FR. CYMBELINE, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fear no more the heat o' the sun Last Line: And renowned be thy grave! Variant Title(s): Dirge Of Imogen Subject(s): Death; Mortality; Mourning; Time; Transience; Dead, The; Bereavement; Impermanence THE DREADFUL HAS ALREADY HAPPENED, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The relatives are leaning over, staring expectantly Subject(s): Babies; Time; Ancestors & Ancestry; Infants; Heritage; Heredity THE DUOMO, by MARIA LUISA SPAZIANI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I lived in milan the duomo was thirty years younger Subject(s): Milan, Italy; Time THE EIGHT-DAY CLOCK, by ALFRED COCHRANE Poem Text First Line: The days of bute and grafton's fame Last Line: Sedately to and fro. Subject(s): Clocks; Time THE ELOPEMENT, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A woman never agreed to it!' said my knowing friend to me Last Line: And now she is rich and respectable, and time has buried the past. Subject(s): Time; Women THE ENCHANTED VALLEYS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the gate of sleep we enter the enchanted valleys Last Line: It is past: there is no dawn: no to-morrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Future Life; Time; Dead, The; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE END OF AODH-OF-THE-SONGS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The swift years slip and slide adown the steep Last Line: Pain that alone survives, gaunt hound of the shadowy years. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Aging; Grief; Time; Sorrow; Sadness THE END OF TIME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou who art dreary Last Line: And soon must end the night, and soon must dawn the day. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Fear; Hope; Time; Youth; Dead, The; Optimism THE ETERNAL FEMININE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For ever shall she beckon. Men may prate Last Line: Yet ancient as the moaning of the sea! Subject(s): Dreams; Light; Sea; Time; Nightmares; Ocean THE EVENING OF THE YEAR, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wan mists enwrap the still-born day Last Line: It is the evening of the year. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Time THE FALLEN LEAVES, by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We stand among the fallen leaves Last Line: The present fills our hearts! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline Subject(s): Leaves; Time THE FAMILY TIME-PIECE, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Friend of my heart, thou monitor of youth Last Line: And tell how fast time flits with feathered tread. Subject(s): Time THE FAT MAN YEARNS, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Though I've had my share of the pleasure Last Line: Saturday market day! Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Longing; Obesity; Time THE FATALIST: COME OCTOBER, by LYN HEJINIAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come october, it’s the lake not the border Last Line: But it never rained. At the end of the month, halloween should be clear Subject(s): Time THE FATALIST: HOME, by LYN HEJINIAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Home whose names are produced by motion Last Line: But motion to the composition Subject(s): Disappointment; Time; Nature THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED, by LYN HEJINIAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time is filled with beginners. You are right. Now Last Line: Full of ruptures could be one from which all kinds of things are flying Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Time THE FIGURE IN THE FACE, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Six-twenty seven, and I'm at my best Last Line: I know my grasp of things exceeds my reach Subject(s): Time; Conduct Of Life THE FIRST SORROW, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Arise! This day shall shine Last Line: Thy soul to-day! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): God; Grief; Soul; Time; Sorrow; Sadness THE FISHER'S SON, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know the world where land and water meet Last Line: The staunchest bark that floats is high and dry. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Life; Sea; Time; Ocean THE FLAME-BRIDE, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O'er the red hearth of time Last Line: Still slumbering till he wake her! Subject(s): Marriage; Time; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE FLIGHT OF TIME, by J. K. BLAKE Poem Text First Line: Tempus fugit,' said the romans Last Line: "all I say is, ""let her fuge!" Subject(s): Time THE FLIGHT OF YOUTH, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No, though all the winds that lie Last Line: Can have no other end but death. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Aging; Time; Youth THE FLOOD OF YEARS, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A mighty hand, from an exhaustless urn Last Line: With everlasting concord hand in hand. Subject(s): Time THE FOOLISH WING, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is done now with bright thinness of upper air. Weight Last Line: It is time's journalism only; we are reporting merely Subject(s): Time Magazine THE FULLNESS OF TIME, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On a rusty iron throne Last Line: One who had been crucified! Subject(s): Devil; Jesus Christ; Peace; Time; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub THE FUNERAL, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a pang that spurns all soothing cares Last Line: Forever more adored his holy name! Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Memory; Time; Dead, The; Burials THE FUTURE, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After ten thousand centuries have gone Last Line: And, if akin to him, akin in vain. Subject(s): Future; Mountains; Time; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE GIFT OF TIME, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gift of time, god's freest boon to men Last Line: Just to be wholly his, and his alone! Subject(s): Time THE GIRL IN THE GLASS, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You've stood there long enough.' I said Subject(s): Time; Hair THE GLAD NEW YEAR, by WILLIAM SHATTUCK Poem Text First Line: There's coming a year all mirth and joy Last Line: Are you that happy, glad new year? Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Time THE GOAL, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silent and very swift on spiry round Last Line: Would'st check his tale to tell him speed and speed. Subject(s): Time THE GOLDEN HOUR, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For every blade of grass Last Line: A sweeter life shall give. Subject(s): Memory; Time THE GREY EROS, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are desert leagues apart Last Line: Do not lay thy rapture down. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Aging; Time; Youth THE HAPPY LITTLE CLOCK, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: In my garret room, I'm never quite / alone Last Line: With my little china clock upon the shelf. Subject(s): Children; Clocks; Friendship; January; Time; Childhood THE HARVEST OF TIME, by HAROLD TROWBRIDGE PULSIFER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Time winnows beauty with a fiery wind Last Line: O, speed the blown chaff down the smoking sky! Subject(s): Time THE HISTORY OF AN HOUR, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Vain is the wish to try rhyming it, writing it! Last Line: So catch that hour! Subject(s): Time THE HOUR, by PAUL BLACKBURN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Noon-and-a-half Subject(s): Time THE HOUR, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why weepest thou, o twilight gray Last Line: And ne'er shall find a morrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Time THE HOUR-GLASS, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do but consider this small dust, here running in the glass Last Line: Even ashes of lovers find no rest. Variant Title(s): On A Lover's Dust, Made Sand For An Hour-glass Subject(s): Hourglasses; Love; Time THE HOUREGLASSE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Once as I in my study sate & saw Last Line: Triumphs o'r time by sure eternitie. Subject(s): Fate; Time; Destiny THE HOURS, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those hours are best when suddenly Last Line: To the lucidity of song. Subject(s): Hourglasses; Time THE HUMAN FLOWER: 1, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the old void of unrecorded time Last Line: The world's consummate, peerless human flower. Subject(s): Flowers; Time THE ICONOCLAST, by ROSE TERRY COOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A thousand years shall come and go Last Line: The soul that knows its god was dust. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Soul; Time; Tragedy; Youth; Dramatists THE IMMORTAL, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You're shivering my memory Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers; Memory; Time; Memory; Educators; Professors THE IMP OF SPRING-TIME, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the eaves where the sunbeams fall Last Line: Let him deceive me! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Love; Spring; Time THE ISLE OF LOST DREAMS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is an isle beyond our ken Last Line: Drift through the isle beyond our ken. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Tears; Time; Nightmares THE JUST MADE PERFECT, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A stately music rises on my ear Last Line: And domes continuous span the lengthening way. Subject(s): Day; Death; Future Life; Hearts; Knights & Knighthood; Time; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE KITCHEN CLOCK, by JOHN VANCE CHENEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Knitting is the maid o' the kitchen, milly Last Line: Goes the kitchen clock. Subject(s): Clocks; Love; Time THE LABORER, by RICHARD DEHMEL Poem Text First Line: We have a bed, and a baby too Last Line: Only time! Subject(s): Family Life; Fields; Harvest; Labor & Laborers; Time; Relatives; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Work; Workers THE LADY AND THE DAME, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So thou hast the art, good dame, thou swearest Last Line: If thou wilt restore all these, good dame. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Past; Time THE LAKE, by ALPHONSE MARIE LOUIS DE PRAT LAMARTINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thus ever drawn toward far shores uncharted Last Line: "hereby they once did love!" Subject(s): Lakes; Time; Pools; Ponds THE LAKE, by ALPHONSE MARIE LOUIS DE PRAT LAMARTINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Must we for ever to some distant clime Last Line: "here, two fond lovers strayed." Subject(s): Lakes; Time; Pools; Ponds THE LAST LOVER, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is so late! Down all our days are set Last Line: A rose, but at the last! Subject(s): Time THE LAST MAN: INSIGNIFICANCE OF THE WORLD, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why what's the world and time? A fleeting thought Last Line: A brief parenthesis in chaos. Subject(s): Earth; Time; Transience; World; Impermanence THE LATER LOVE, by MARY NARBY COTTREL Poem Text First Line: Oh, the later love is the greater love Last Line: In quiet pools of rest. Subject(s): Love; Time THE LESSON OF TIME, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lead thou me, spirit of the world, and I Last Line: Stretch forth thy hand, I grasp it, silently. Subject(s): Time THE LIGHTS IN TOWN, by JOHN WIENERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not as bad as you are Subject(s): Time; Poetry & Poets THE LITTLE MOTHERS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strange mockery of motherhood! Last Line: Give them a fate more frolicsome. Subject(s): Home; Loss; Mothers; Tears; Time; Women THE LONG AFTERNOON, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behind the glass door Last Line: Dear brother, I do! Subject(s): Dolls; Time; Play THE LONG AGO, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: Oh! A wonderful stream is the river of time Last Line: May that greenwood of soul be in sight! Subject(s): Grief; Time; Sorrow; Sadness THE LOOM OF YEARS, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the light of the silent stars that shine on the struggling sea Last Line: We come from the loom of the weaver that weaves the web of years. Variant Title(s): The Song Of Re-birth Subject(s): Religion; Time; Theology THE LORCA VARIATIONS (3) A BOOK OF HOURS, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The green man, more a man Subject(s): Time THE LOST CROWN, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You ask me why I sometimes drop Last Line: And I again am serf with you. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Soul; Time THE LOST HERITAGE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty gone, and beauty gone Last Line: And loveliness its toy. Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Beauty; History; Knowledge; Love; Time; Historians THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 58, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Half in a dream Last Line: Grows fainter and fades away Subject(s): Autumn; Grief; Seasons; Time; Fall; Sorrow; Sadness THE LOVER AND HIS WATCH, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As one who eyes his watch, ere day is born Last Line: And show'd the morn was near for her and him. Subject(s): Time THE LOVER'S CLOCK - THE SIEGE, by JOHN SUCKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That none beguiled be by time's quick flowing Last Line: And what you best like. Subject(s): Time THE LUST OF THE WORLD, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since man first lifted up his eyes to hers Last Line: And twixt the two maintain an equal course. Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Lust; Mankind; Time; Human Race THE MAD THING, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O sirs, I have not seen him Last Line: O sirs, a hundred years I've wept. Subject(s): Sleep; Time THE MAGIC OF NUMBERS, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: How strange it was to hear the furniture moved around in the apartment upstairs Subject(s): Relationships; Ooetry And Poets; Love - Erotic; Time; Numbers; Conduct Of Life THE MAGICAL VIEW OF NATURE, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So. The old clock's broken Subject(s): Time; Einstein, Alfred (1879-1955) THE MAID-MARTYR, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only you'd have me speak Last Line: Truly my soul is silent unto god. Subject(s): Death; God; Life; Love; Martyrs; Soul; Time; Dead, The THE MAKING OF MAN, by JOHN WHITE CHADWICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As the insect from the rock Last Line: Friendlier than the smiling days. Subject(s): Mankind; Time; Human Race THE MAN AND THE CENTAUR; THE CENTAUR, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I would not change -- did not the waters Last Line: Thou hast a goal! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Centaurs; Life; Time THE MAN IN WHITE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soldier, knowest thou the land Last Line: "and we shall be at home." Subject(s): Kisses; Sleep; Soldiers; Strangers; Time THE MASSY WAYS, CARRIED ACROSS THESE HEIGHTS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of those pure minds that reverence the muse Subject(s): Ruins; Time; Roads; History & Historians THE MEASURE, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot/move backward Subject(s): Time THE MEASURE OF TIME, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A breath, like the wind's breath, may carry Last Line: And truth has its birth. Subject(s): Time THE MEISTERSINGER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The magic moment of the eve has come Last Line: So long as men have ears and time a tongue. Subject(s): Forests; Singing & Singers; Time; Woods; Songs THE MIGHTY MUST, by WILLIAM SCHWENCK GILBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come mighty must! Last Line: Shall be! Alternate Author Name(s): Gilbert, W. S. Subject(s): Time; Trust THE MILLENNIUM, by ROBERT POLLOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The animals, as once in eden, lived Last Line: And earth kept jubilee a thousand years. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollok, Robert Subject(s): Religion; Time; Theology THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER EMPTIES INTO THE GULF, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the gulf enters the sea and so forth Subject(s): Mississippi River; Past; Rivers; Seashore; Time; Beach; Coast; Shore THE MONODY OF ISLA THE SINGER, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it time to let the hour rise and go forth as Last Line: And hear her voice like mournful bells crying on the wind. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Aging; Dreams; Mourning; Time; Youth; Nightmares; Bereavement THE MONTHS, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Contorted by wind Subject(s): Nature; Seasons; Time THE MOODS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time drops in decay Last Line: Has fallen away? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Time; Transcience THE MOON IN TIME LAPSE, by DAVID RIVARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon in time lapse sliding over skyline Subject(s): Moon; Time THE MORE THE YEARS, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The more the years the more we all remember Last Line: The more the years. Subject(s): Time THE MOUNT, by LEONIE ADAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now I have tempered haste Alternate Author Name(s): Troy, William, Mrs. Subject(s): Time; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE MYSTERY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Can you not hear the sobbing in the night Last Line: And passes, as though it had not heard. Subject(s): Hate; Night; Sea; Silence; Time; Bedtime; Ocean THE MYSTERY, by GEORGE FRANCIS SAVAGE-ARMSTRONG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Year after year Last Line: When I'm dust in the tomb? Subject(s): Time THE MYSTERY, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art not dead; thou art not gone to dust Last Line: The light of mine, and give me death with thee? Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Kisses; Time; Dead, The THE NATURE OF A MIRROR, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The sky has murder in the eye, and I Subject(s): Time THE NEGATIVE, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man hauling coal in the street is stilled forever. Last Line: Lovers in the summer palace park. Subject(s): Time; Social Commentaries THE NEGRO SPEAKS OF RIVERS, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've known rivers Last Line: My soul has grown deep like the rivers. Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans - History; Holidays; New Year; Racism; Rivers; Time; Black Heritage; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry THE NEW YEAR, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stood on a tower in the wet Last Line: And new year blowing and roaring. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): "1865-1866;""i Stood On A Tower In The Wet""; Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Time THE NEXT FLOOR, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Hours become young days Subject(s): Time THE NYMPH'S REPLY TO THE SHEPHERD, by WALTER RALEIGH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: If all the world and love were young Last Line: To live with thee and be thy love. Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter Variant Title(s): "reply To Marlow's ""the Passionate Shepherd"";answer To Marlowe;the Shepherdess Replies;the Milk-maid's Mother's Answer; Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Courtship; Love; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Time; Transience; Impermanence THE OLD BRASS CLOCK, by MARY CROMER Poem Text First Line: Within the cracked and scarred mahogany frame Last Line: Clangs through the house. Subject(s): Clocks; Time THE OLD CLOCK, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Clock of the household, the sound of thy bell Last Line: When I, the forgotten one, sleep in the tomb! Subject(s): Clocks; Home; Time THE OLD CLOCK, by JOHN CHARLES MCNEILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day low clouds and slanting rain Last Line: Nic-noc, nic-noc, nic-noc! Subject(s): Clocks; Time THE OLD CLOCK OF PRAGUE, by JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a curious clock in the city of prague Last Line: Who would live with a whole pair of eyes in his face. Subject(s): Clocks; Prague, Czech Republic; Time THE OLD CLOCK ON THE STAIRS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhat back from the village street Last Line: "never -- forever!" Subject(s): Clocks; Pittsfield, Massachusetts; Time THE OLD GRAY CLOCK, by HARRIET GRACE MCINTOSH Poem Text First Line: Old gray clock upon the wall Last Line: Tick, tick, tock:old gray clock. Subject(s): Clocks; Future; Time THE OLD MAN'S PAEAN, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Vainly, ye libellers! Your page Last Line: "young septuagenary!" Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Life; Time; Truth; Youth THE OLD MEN ADMIRING THEMSELVES IN THE WATER, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the old, old men say Last Line: Like the waters.' Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Imagination; Time; Vision; Fancy THE OLD SCHOOLHOUSE (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "I sat an hour today, john" Last Line: The faces that were gone Subject(s): Classmates;schools;time; Schoolmates;students THE OLD TIMES WERE THE BEST, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friends, my heart is half aweary Last Line: That the old times were the best. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Happiness; Nostalgia; Time; Joy; Delight THE OLD YEAR, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon was going down; the empty trees shook, sighing Last Line: Remaining. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Time THE OLD YEAR, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O good old year! This night's your last Last Line: I see your cab is waiting. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Time THE OLD YEAR, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a corner of a cornfield Last Line: For pulseless and still is the stricken old year. Subject(s): Time THE OLD YEAR, by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Infirm and aged, doth he sit Last Line: And through it comes the glad new year. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Time THE OLD YEAR AND THE NEW, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How swift they go Last Line: And the stranger's face makes the friend's forgot. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Time THE OLD YEAR AND THE NEW, by WILLIAM CLEAVER WILKINSON Poem Text First Line: Last night at twelve, amid the knee-deep snows Last Line: O blithe young year, but keep thy promise true! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Time THE OLD YEAR'S BLESSING, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like simeon of old Last Line: In peace depart. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Time THE PARADOX OF TIME, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Last Line: Alas, time stays, -- we go! Subject(s): Time THE PARK, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a park where oaks of atlas girth Last Line: Lest on time's pitiless road I fall and faint! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Parks; Time; Trees; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE PASSING YEAR, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No breath of wind stirs in the painted leaves Last Line: While winter winds howl a wild dirge above her. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Time THE PAST IS THE PRESENT (2), by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Revived bitterness / is unnecessary unless / one is ignorant Last Line: A brass nailed echo. Subject(s): Time THE PATTERN-PARALLEL MAP OR GRAPH, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: An illuminated scroll unrolled on the counter Subject(s): Time THE PETRIFIED FERN, by MARY LYDIA BOLLES BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a valley, centuries ago Last Line: Sweetly to surprise us, the last day. Subject(s): Ferns; Time THE PICTURE OF ST. JOHN: BOOK 4. THE PICTURE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As when a traveller, whose journey lies Last Line: And love with bliss, and life with wiser youth! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Life; Portraits; Time; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips THE PLAYMATE, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: For thee thine own self grows to be Last Line: A stranger of the child. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Friendship; Time THE POACHER'S TIME-PIECE, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: In the viewless belfry-top reared by the shades of night the round Last Line: In the birds he finds the hour. Subject(s): Poaching; Time; Watches THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 193, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How many falls have I spent on cold mountain Last Line: Smoothing the mind-ground leaning against rocks Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Idleness; Time; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 1, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since I came to tientai temple Last Line: All I see are youngsters Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Temples; Time; Youth; Buddha; Buddhists; Mosques THE POET'S GIFT, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That century to century may tell Last Line: Of earth, so long as pens and books endure. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Gifts & Giving; Love; Poetry & Poets; Time; Dead, The THE POET'S JOURNAL: A SYMBOL, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heavy, and hot, and gray Last Line: Thou dust punish us with blessing! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Life; Time; Dead, The; Nightmares THE POET'S JOURNAL: THE FATHER, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fateful hour, when death stood by Last Line: And lead me with thy helpless hands! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Life; Love; Time; Dead, The THE POSTS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: A year's a post, on which Last Line: Alas! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Time THE POWER OF INTERVAL, by JOHN BYRNE LEICESTER WARREN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A fair girl tripping out to meet her love Last Line: Her burning eyes on her forgetful hands. Alternate Author Name(s): Lancaster, William P.; Preston, George F.; De Tabley, 3d Baron; De Tabley, Lord Subject(s): Time THE PROBLEM OF ANXIETY, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fifty years have passed Last Line: From the bronze mantel, and will never be appeased Subject(s): Anxiety; Time THE PROCESSION, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now let our womankind tend hearth and house Last Line: Make deposition as to woman's worth. Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Time; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE QUEEN OF CLOUDS, by KIANG KANG-HU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The queen of clouds riding down from her jade city Last Line: O queen of clouds! Alternate Author Name(s): Jiang Kangh Subject(s): Clouds; Courts & Courtiers; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Time; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE RESCUE, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The man sits in a timelessness Subject(s): Time THE RETURN, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see myself sometimes, an old man Subject(s): Old Age; Time; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE REVISITATION, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I lay awake at night-time Last Line: Love is lame at fifty years. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Time THE RISING OF THE SESSION, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To a' men living be it kend Last Line: Wi blythsome glee. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Farm Life; Time; Writing & Writers; Agriculture; Farmers THE RIVER OF LIFE, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The more we live, more brief appear Last Line: Proportion'd to their sweetness. Variant Title(s): A Thought Suggested By The New Year Subject(s): Time THE ROAD NOT TAKEN, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Two roads diverged in a yellow wood Last Line: And that has made all the difference. Subject(s): Fate; Freedom; Life; Life Change Events; Roads; Time; Destiny; Liberty; Paths; Trails THE ROCK, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: By a flat rock on the shore of the sea Last Line: And a sprig of the rosemary Subject(s): Time THE ROSE-BUSH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A child sleeps under a rose-bush fair Last Line: And silently cover a new-made mound. / and the years glide by Subject(s): Life;time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 1, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wake! For the sun who scattered into flight Last Line: The sultan's turret with a shaft of light. Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 10, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well, let it take them. What have we to do Last Line: Or hatim call to supper -- heed not you. Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 100, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yon rising moon that looks for us again Last Line: Through this same garden -- and for one in vain! Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 101, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And when like her, oh saki, you shall pass Last Line: Where I made one -- turn down an empty glass! Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 11, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With me along the strip of herbage strewn Last Line: And peace to mahmud on his golden throne! Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 12, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A book of verses underneath the bough Last Line: Oh, wilderness were paradise enow! Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Love; Time; Women THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 13, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some of the glories of this world; and some Last Line: Nor heed the rumble of a distant drum! Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 14, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look to the blowing rose about us - 'lo, / laughing,' she says Last Line: "tear, and its treasure on the garden throw." Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 15, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And those who husbanded the golden grain Last Line: As, buried once, men want dug up again. Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Freedom; Time; Liberty THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 16, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The worldly hope men set their hearts upon Last Line: Lighting a little hour or two -- is gone. Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Freedom; Religion; Time; Liberty; Theology THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 17, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Think, in this battered caravanserai Last Line: Abode his destined hour, and went his way. Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Freedom; Time; Liberty THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 18, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They say the lion and the lizard keep Last Line: Stamps o'er his head, but cannot break his sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Freedom; Time; Liberty THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 19, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sometimes think what never blows so red Last Line: Dropt in her lap from some once lovely head. Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 2, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before the phantom of false morning died Last Line: "why nods the drowsy worshiper outside?" Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 20, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And this reviving herb whose tender green Last Line: From what once lovely lip it springs unseen! Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 21, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, my beloved, fill the cup that clears Last Line: Myself with yesterday's seven thousand years. Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Life Change Events; Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 22, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For some we loved, the loveliest and the best Last Line: And one by one crept silently to rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Life Change Events; Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 23, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And we, that now make merry in the room Last Line: Descend -- ourselves to make a couch -- for whom? Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Life Change Events; Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 24, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend Last Line: Sans wine, sans song, sans singer, and -- sans end! Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Life Change Events; Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 25, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alike for those who for today prepare Last Line: "fools! Your reward is neither here nor there." Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 26, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why, all the saints and sages who discussed Last Line: Are scattered, and their mouths are stopt with dust. Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 27, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Myself when young did eagerly frequent Last Line: Came out by the same door wherein I went. Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Variant Title(s): Alas That Spring Should Vanish;wordly Wisdom Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 28, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With them the seed of wisdom did I sow Last Line: "I came like water, and like wind I go." Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 29, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Into this universe, and why not knowing Last Line: I know not whither, willy-nilly blowing. Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 3, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And, as the cock crew, those who stood before Last Line: "and once departed, may return no more." Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 30, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What, without asking, hither hurried whence? Last Line: Must drown the memory of that insolence! Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 31, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up from earth's center through the seventh gate Last Line: But not the master-knot of human fate. Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 32, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was the door to which I found no key Last Line: There was--and then no more of thee and me. Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 33, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Earth could not answer; nor the seas that mourn Last Line: And hidden by the sleeve of night and morn. Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 34, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Then of the thee in me who works behind Last Line: "as from without -- ""the me within time blind!" Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 35, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Then to the lip of this poor earthern urn Last Line: "drink! -- for once dead, you never shall return." Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 36, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think the vessel, that with fugitive Last Line: How many kisses might it take -- and give! Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 37, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For I remember stopping by the way Last Line: "it murmured-- ""gently, brother, gently, pray!" Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 38, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And has not such a story from of old Last Line: Cast by the maker into human mould? Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 39, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And not a drop that from our cups we throw Last Line: Eye there hidden -- far beneath, and long ago. Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 4, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the new year reviving old desires Last Line: Puts out, and jesus from the ground suspires. Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 40, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As then the tulip for her morning sup Last Line: To earth invert you -- like an empty cup. Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 41, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Perplext no more with human or divine Last Line: The cypress-slender minister of wine. Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 42, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And if the wine you drink, the lip you press Last Line: You were -- to-morrow you shall not be less. Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 43, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So when that angel of the darker drink Last Line: Forth to your lips to quaff -- you shall not shrink. Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 45, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis but a tent where his one-day's rest Last Line: Strikes and prepares it for another guest. Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 46, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And fear not lest existence closing your Last Line: Millions of bubbles like us, and will pour. Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 47, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you and I behind the veil are past Last Line: As the sea's self should heed a pebble-east. Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 48, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A moment's halt - a momentary taste Last Line: The nothing it set out from -- oh, make haste! Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Freedom; Time; Liberty THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 49, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Would you that spangle of existence spend Last Line: And upon what, prithee, may life depend? Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Freedom; Time; Liberty THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 5, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Iram indeed is gone with all his roses Last Line: And many a garden by the water blows. Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 50, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A hair perhaps divides the false and true Last Line: And peradventure to the master too; Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Freedom; Time; Liberty THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 51, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whose secret presence, through creation's veins Last Line: They change and perish all--but he remains: Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Freedom; Time; Liberty THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 52, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A moment guessed - then back behind the fold Last Line: He doth himself contrive, enact, behold. Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Freedom; Time; Liberty THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 53, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But if in vain, down on the stubborn floor Last Line: To-morrow, when you shall be you no more? Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 54, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Waste not your hour, nor in the vain pursuit Last Line: Than sadden after none, or bitter, fruit. Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 56, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For 'is' and 'is-not' though with rule and line Last Line: I was never deep in anything but -- wine. Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 57, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poet's Biography First Line: You know, my friends, how bravely in my house Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Time; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 58, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And lately, by the tarvern door agape Last Line: E bid me taste of it; and 't was -- the grape! Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 59, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The grape that can with logic absolute Last Line: Life's leaden metal into gold transmute; Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 6, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And david's lips are lockt; but in divine Last Line: That sallow cheek of hers t' incarnadine. Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 60, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mighty mahmud, allah-breathing lord Last Line: Scatters before him with his whirlwind sword. Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 61, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why, be this juice the growth of god, who dare Last Line: And if a curse -- why, then, who set it there? Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 62, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I must abjure the balm of life, I must Last Line: To fill the cup -- when crumbled into dust! Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 63, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O threats of hell and hopes of paradise! Last Line: The flower that once has blown forever dies. Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 64, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strange, is it not? That of the myriads who Last Line: Which to discover we must travel too. Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 65, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The revelations of devout and learned Last Line: They told their comrades, and to sleep returned. Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 66, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sent my soul through the invisible Last Line: "and answered, ""I myself am heaven and hell:" Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 67, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heaven but the vision of fulfilled desire Last Line: So late emerged from, shall so soon expire. Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 68, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are no other than a moving row Last Line: In midnight by the master of the show; Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Variant Title(s): Fatalism Subject(s): Religion; Time; Theology THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 69, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But helpless pieces of the game he plays Last Line: And one by one back in the closet lays. Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 7, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, fill the cup, and in the fire of spring Last Line: To flutter -- and the bird is on the wing. Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 70, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ball no question makes of ayes and noes Last Line: He knows about it all -- he knows -- he knows! Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 71, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moving finger writes; and, having writ Last Line: Nor all your tears wash out a word of it. Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 72, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And that inverted bowl they call the sky Last Line: As impotently moves as you or I. Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 73, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With earth's first clay they did the last man knead Last Line: What the last dawn of reckoning shall read. Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 75, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I tell you this - when, started from the goal Last Line: In my predestined plot of dust and soul Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 76, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The vine had struck a fiber; which about Last Line: That shall unlock the door he howls without. Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 77, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And this I know: whether the one true light Last Line: Better than in the temple lost outright. Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 78, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What! Out of senseless nothing to provoke Last Line: Of everlasting penalties, if broke, Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 79, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What! From his helpless creature be repaid Last Line: And cannot answer -- oh the sorry trade! Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 8, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whether at naishapur or babylon Last Line: The leaves of life keep falling one by one. Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 80, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh thou, who didst with pitfall and with gin Last Line: Enmesh and then impute my fall to sin! Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 81, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh thou, who man of baser earth did make Last Line: Is blackened -- man's forgiveness give-- and take! Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 82, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As under cover of departing day Last Line: I stood, surrounded by the shapes of clay. Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 83, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shapes of all sorts and sizes, great and small Last Line: Listened, perhaps, but never talked at all. Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 84, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said one among them - 'surely not in vain' Last Line: "or trampled back to shapeless earth again." Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 85, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Then said a second - 'ne'er a peevish boy' Last Line: "will surely not in after wrath destroy." Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 86, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After a momentary silence spake Last Line: "what! Did the hand then of the potter shake?" Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 87, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whereat some one of the loquacious lot Last Line: "who is the potter, pray, and who the pot?" Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 88, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why,' said another, 'some there are who tell' Last Line: "he's a good fellow, and 't will all be well." Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 89, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well,' murmured one, 'let whoso make or buy' Last Line: "methinks I might recover by-and-by." Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 9, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Each moon a thousand roses brings, you say Last Line: Shall take jamshyd and kaikobad away. Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 90, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So while the vessels one by one were speaking Last Line: "now for the porter's shoulder-knot a-creaking!" Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 91, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, with the grape my fading life provide Last Line: By some not unfrequented garden-side. Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 92, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That ev'n my buried ashes such a snare Last Line: But shall be overtaken unaware. Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 93, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Indeed the idols I have loved so long Last Line: And sold my reputation for a song. Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 94, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Indeed, indeed, repentance oft before Last Line: My threadbare penitence apieces tore. Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 95, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And much as wine has played the infidel Last Line: One half so precious as the stuff they sell. Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 96, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yet ah, that spring should vanish with the rose! Last Line: Ah whence, and whither flown again, who knows! Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 97, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Would but the desert of the fountain yield Last Line: As springs the trampled herbage of the field! Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 98, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Would but some winged angel ere too late Last Line: Enregister, or quite obliterate! Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 99, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah love! Could you and I with him conspire Last Line: Remould it nearer to the heart's desire! Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Time THE SAME CLAY, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You have it in oregon Last Line: Gigantic , immoveable Subject(s): Time THE SCRUB-WOMAN, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time has placed his careful insult Subject(s): Time;washerwomen THE SEASONS, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spring's first flowerets, fair and white Last Line: He lingers through life's dull decay! Subject(s): Aging; Seasons; Time THE SEASONS, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: W'en de leaves begin to fall Last Line: Mek it hard to tell which time o' year am bes'. Subject(s): Seasons; Time; Weather THE SENTIMENTALIST, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There lies a photograph of you Last Line: Before us, which this poem ends. Subject(s): Time THE SIGNET, by ELIZABETH STANTON HARDY Poem Text First Line: Within four walls that hold Last Line: Once upon a time. Subject(s): Rooms; Time THE SKY ABOVE THE ROOFING LIES, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: With thy lost years? Subject(s): Time; Mortality; God; Sky THE SONG I NEVER SING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As when in dreams we sometimes Last Line: Join in the song I never sing. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Sound; Time; Voices THE SONG OF LIFE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: A sneeze from time gives life its little breath Last Line: Without a single thought, o lord, of thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Life; Time THE SOUL TO THE BODY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old mate, who long hast friended me Last Line: I may behold thee face to face! Subject(s): Bodies; Friendship; Peace; Singing & Singers; Soul; Tears; Time; Songs THE SPEAKERS, by WELDON KEES Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: “a equals x,” says mister one Last Line: That no one knows, and you’ll be dead Subject(s): Time THE SPELL, by EDNA FREDERIKSON Poem Text First Line: Set in strong inevitable flight Last Line: For a golden moment time is still. Subject(s): Seasons; Time THE SPIRE, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the bavarian steeple, on the hour, Subject(s): Clocks; Time; Country Life; Nature THE STARLINGS, by CHARLES KINGSLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Early in spring time, on raw and windy mornings Last Line: "sad, sad, to think that the year is all but done." Subject(s): Starlings; Time THE STILLNESS OF THE FROST, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the frost-white wood comes winnowing through Last Line: The grace of thine austerity sublime! Subject(s): Frost; Life; Love; Time 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 STREETS OF TIME, by CHARLES A. TUPPER Poem Text First Line: I wandered down the streets of time Last Line: Shone clear and still, glowed warm and still! Subject(s): History; Time; Historians THE STWONEN STEPS, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thease stwonen steps a-zet so true Last Line: O' veet trod vu'st the steäirs? Subject(s): Family Life; History; Mortality; Stairs; Time; Relatives; Historians THE SUMMER SUN SHONE ROUND ME, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The winter comes apace Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Seasons; Time THE SUN-DIAL AT MORVEN; FOR BAYARD AND HELEN STOCKTON, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two hundred years of blessing I record Last Line: To mark for morven many sunlit hours. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Sundials; Time THE SUN-DIAL AT WELLS COLLEGE, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shadow by my finger cast Last Line: The now on which the shadow stands. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Epitaphs; Sundials; Time THE SUNDIAL, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One summer day, / I stood beside a sundial; - tombs around Last Line: They merge with it and lose their heaven-wings! Subject(s): Life; Sundials; Time THE SUNDIAL, CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sundial said to the daylight-saving clock Last Line: Sticks to the truth in a world of lies. Subject(s): Time THE SUPREME CONSUMATIN, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, but the world is old, nigh old as hell Last Line: Pass to my endless home with spirit clean! Subject(s): Death; Life; Time; Dead, The THE SYLVAN YEAR, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold the bards are sighing Last Line: Reappear. Subject(s): Nature; Time THE THAW, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the civil sun drying earth's tears Last Line: So shall my silence with their music chime. Subject(s): Earth; Sun; Time; World THE THEFT, by AMORY HARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had forgotten what it was to wake Last Line: And spend this hour as though it were a coin! Alternate Author Name(s): Hutchinson, Amory Hare Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Time THE THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 1, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Later when the gloated water Subject(s): Memory; Pride; Time; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 2, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Six months as timeless as dream Subject(s): Relationships; Time THE TIME, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They walk in and fall into Subject(s): Time THE TIME, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summer is the time to write. I tell myself this Last Line: Maybe it is a title and this life is the poem. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Summer; Time; Writing & Writers THE TIME WILL COME, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Through endless time Subject(s): Time THE TIME-BROOD, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder how the mother-hour Last Line: In age and size and gender. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Time THE TIMEPIECE, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long has it uttered its warning cry Last Line: Still let them rest in their lowly bed! Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Time; Dead, The; Parting THE TIMES ARE NEVER RIGHT, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Warm days hanging Subject(s): Time THE TIMES ARE TIDY, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unlucky the hero born Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Time; Heroism; Heroes; Heroines THE TRANCE OF TIME, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In childhood, when with eager eyes Last Line: Heaven's age of fearless rest. Subject(s): Time THE TRITON OF THE MINNOWS, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why don't you strike out something new? Last Line: "the triton of the minnows." Subject(s): Fame; Goddesses & Gods; Hope; Mythology; Time; Writing & Writers; Reputation; Optimism THE TRIUMPH OF TIME, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tender, delicate flowers Last Line: "and conquers all!" Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Future; Love; Time; Dead, The THE TRIUMPH OF TIME, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before our lives divide for ever Last Line: If I cry to you then, will you hear or know? Subject(s): Aging; Death; Life; Nature; Time; Dead, The THE TUNNEL, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Time THE TURN OF THE ROAD, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where this narrow lane slips by Last Line: At the turn of the road.' Subject(s): Footprints; Roads; Solitude; Time; Travel; Paths; Trails; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips THE TUTELARY SPIRIT, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mind is strange Last Line: May the power use. Subject(s): Love; Reason; Time; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE TWO VISIONS, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through days of toil, through nightly fears Last Line: And darkness over all the world. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Love; Time; Vision THE UNEQUAL FETTERS, by ANNE FINCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Could we stop the time that's flying Last Line: At the full length of their chain. Alternate Author Name(s): Kingsmill, Anne; Winchilsea, Countess Of Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Time; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE VANISHED YEARS, by JEANNETTE AUGUSTUS MARKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I climb them step by step Last Line: I do not know. Subject(s): Time THE WANDERING JEW, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stars are failing, and the sky Last Line: That I have any need of rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): God; Night; Time; Wandering Jew; Bedtime THE WATCHERS, by ERNEST FAVENC Poem Text First Line: All things were old in that grim grey land Last Line: Three dead men lay on the ground. Subject(s): Death; Deserts; Food & Eating; Pain; Time; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery THE WAY THROUGH THE WOODS, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They shut the road through the woods Last Line: But there is no road through the woods. Subject(s): Environment; Forests; Roads; Time; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Woods; Paths; Trails THE WAYS OF TIME, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As butterflies are but winged flowers Last Line: On the old things I love. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Time THE WHEEL, by WENDELL BERRY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the first strokes of the fiddle bow Subject(s): Christianity; Dancing & Dancers; Religion; Time; Wheels; Theology THE WHITE MOON, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: It is the exquisite hour Subject(s): Moon; Time; Dreams THE WILD BOAT, TIME, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shall a man never rest Last Line: I will drink this water in the valley. Subject(s): Life; Pigs; Time; Vision; Boars; Hogs THE WORKINGMAN, by RICHARD DEHMEL Poem Text First Line: We have a bed, we have a child Last Line: Just time! Subject(s): Time THE WORLDS IN THIS WORLD, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Doors were left open in heaven again Last Line: That's the curse, that's the miracle -- Subject(s): Change; Experience; Faith; Fate; Heaven; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Life; Mortality; Permanence; Rilke, Rainer Maria (1875-1926); Time; Transience; Belief; Creed; Destiny; Paradise; Shoah; Judaism; Impermanence THE WORTH OF HOURS, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Believe not that your inner eye Last Line: Far better than a barren joy. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Time THE WOUNDED VULTURE, by ANNE CHARLOTTE LYNCH BOTTA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A kingly vulture sat alone Last Line: Lost in the infinite. Subject(s): Fate; Grief; Time; Vultures; Destiny; Sorrow; Sadness THE WOUNDED VULTURE, by ANNE CHARLOTTE LYNCH BOTTA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A kingly vulture sat alone Last Line: Lost in the infinite. Subject(s): Fate; Grief; Time; Vultures; Destiny; Sorrow; Sadness THE WRECK OF THE 'STELLA', by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Easter comes like the gleam of a dawn that delivers the slave Last Line: For great is the empire of earth, more great the command of the soul. Subject(s): Earth; Easter; Holidays; Love; Tears; Time; World; The Resurrection THE YEAR, by NEVIN GREEN Poem Text First Line: A year gone. Done. And waiting memory's hands Last Line: And birth to fuller phantoms for the morrow. Subject(s): Time THE YEAR TWENTY-SIX, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis gone with its toys and its troubles Last Line: And make me -- like thee -- twenty-six. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights; Time THE YEARS, by CHARLES KELLOGG FIELD Poem Text First Line: Each life is like a changing flower Last Line: And leave rich seeds of memory! Subject(s): Flowers; Life; Memory; Time THE YEARS HAD WORN THEIR SEASONS' BELT, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Until the heart is warm. Subject(s): Love; Time THEN AND NOW, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rain / is speaking it pelts Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Rain; Time THEN AND NOW, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rain %is speaking it pelts Last Line: Aside and go back to sleep Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Rain; Time THEN SPEND AN AGE IN WHETTING THY DESIRE, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Thou needs't not hasten if thou dost stand fast Subject(s): Time; Desire THERE CAME A DAY AT SUMMER'S FULL, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Justified — through calvaries of love Subject(s): Summer; Time; Heaven THERE CAME A TIME, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There came a time when men no longer / died Last Line: They seemed to hover on the edge of age. ... Subject(s): Death; Life; Time; Dead, The THERE COMES A WARNING LIKE A SPY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And summers are away Variant Title(s): Poem: 1536; Poem: 156 Subject(s): Time THERE IS A WORD, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: "is a soul ""forgot""!" Subject(s): Time; Language THERE ISN'T TIME, by ELEANOR FARJEON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There isn't time, there isn't time Last Line: About the rest I want to do Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Time THERE'S A GRANDFATHER'S CLOCK IN THE HALL, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a grandfather's clock in the hall, watch it closely. The minute hand Subject(s): Time THESE DAYS, by NANCE VAN WINCKEL Poem Text First Line: In the mausoleum lies the corpse of a man who rode Subject(s): Change; Death; Russia; Time; Dead, The; Soviet Union; Russians THESE TIMELESS PEAKS, by ELEANOR ADAMS MATTHEWS Poem Text First Line: Sleeper awake! Here is eternity Last Line: These timeless peaks are not akin to man. Subject(s): Time THEY SAY THAT 'TIME ASSUAGES', by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: There was no malady Subject(s): Pain; Time THIEF AND GIVER, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Time's a thief; he steals away Last Line: Only what you want him to! Subject(s): Time THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 1, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Later when the gloated water Last Line: Hugely, in vertigo and awe Subject(s): Memory; Pride; Time THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 2, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Six months as timeless as dream Last Line: Circumvent its dial? Subject(s): Relationships; Time THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 16, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If thou longest so much to learn, sweet boy, what 'tis to love Last Line: They would make thee straight return. Subject(s): Youth; Time; Love THIS HOUR, by MIRIAM VEDDER Poem Text First Line: Make not this hour less lovely with the fear Last Line: And this brief hour enfold eternity. Subject(s): Time; Wellesley College THIS IS HERE, IT IS NOW, by JOHN ISLES Poem Source First Line: Always the glittering mineral mountain Last Line: Here, an egret would launch into a shell of sky Subject(s): Family Life; Time THIS IS THE DAY, by JUNE CREBBIN Poem Source First Line: This is the sort of day Last Line: This is my birthday Subject(s): Time THIS SLOW DAY MOVED ALONG, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And it was out of sight Variant Title(s): Poem: 1120; Poem: 119 Subject(s): Time THIS TIME, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That was his picnic table and those were his two Subject(s): Change; Time THIS TIME, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That was his picnic table and those were his two Last Line: And three or four poor staccatos, hard time this time Subject(s): Change; Time THOSE WHO TRESPASS, by DAN LEIDIG Poem Source First Line: High on a trestle of the abandoned railway Last Line: Forever indifferent to intruders puffing by in the sky Subject(s): Time THOUGHTS ON T'IEN-CHIN BRIDGE, by SHAO YUNG Poem Source First Line: The countless great lords and statesmen of past regimes Last Line: Goes on year after year, making the same sound Subject(s): Time THREE DAYS, by JAMES ROBERT GILMORE Poem Text First Line: So much to do: so little done! Last Line: Will end in that great, glad to-morrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Kirke, Edmund Subject(s): Hope; Time; Optimism THREE OR SO, by BERLIE DOHERTY Poem Source First Line: Is that child in the snapshot me? Last Line: As if they had never been Subject(s): Time THREE VOICES, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Upon the rack of love despised I lay Last Line: God's seals still molten on the scrolls of time. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Time THROUGH MANY A YEAR AND MANY A VAIN ASSAY, by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Great nature's doomsday, or my love's delight Alternate Author Name(s): Michel Angelo Subject(s): Time THROUGH TEARS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An artist toiled over his pictures Last Line: Of a world that looks on through its tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Grief; Poetry & Poets; Tears; Time; Sorrow; Sadness THUMBPRINT, by CELESTE TURNER WRIGHT Poem Source First Line: Almost reluctant, we approach the block Last Line: Can all our aspirations and our dreams %leave but filamentous line or two? Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Sequoia Trees; Time TICK-TOCK TALK, by DAVID MCCORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Big clocks go tick Last Line: The sour way that clocks go bong! Subject(s): Time TIME, by HENRY GLASSFORD BELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I strive against the strength of time Subject(s): Time TIME, by BHARTRIHARI Poem Text First Line: Time is the root of all this earth Last Line: Bow each in turn,why tears for birth or death? Alternate Author Name(s): Bhartrhari Subject(s): Life; Time TIME, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is time, o glorious giver Last Line: Sabbaths and new moons of love. Subject(s): Change; Time TIME, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES Poem Text First Line: What thought can measure time? Last Line: Losing themselves in one, unbourned eternity! Subject(s): Time TIME, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The clock struck one! We take no thought of time Last Line: Of hours to come, when misery must prevail. Subject(s): Time TIME, by C. DONALD CROSNO Poem Text First Line: In some quaint cave of crude dissymmetry Last Line: Of rhythm and light; and time shall be no more. Subject(s): Time TIME, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look back on time with kindly eyes Last Line: In human nature's west! Variant Title(s): Poem: 1478;poem: 1251 Subject(s): Time TIME, by ALICE MARY DOWD Poem Text First Line: An empty cup is placed within our hands Last Line: Beyond the sunset lies the fount of youth. Subject(s): Cups; Soul; Time TIME, by ESTHER VALCK GEORGNS Poem Text First Line: I am the giver of all gifts, and I Last Line: Though it may wound, I am the anodyne. Subject(s): Time TIME, by PAUL GERALDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You trickle between our fingers. We scatter you with our eyes Last Line: The moment drops like a pearl to the end of the thread. Subject(s): Memory; Time TIME, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The vague sea thuds against the marble cliffs Last Line: Humouring age with filial flowers, %childhood with pebbles? Subject(s): Time TIME, by CAROLINE HAZARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We measure life with our short span of years Last Line: Growth till we wake, and shall be satisfied. Subject(s): Time; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College TIME, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Meeting with time, slack thing, said I Last Line: He doth not crave lesse time, but more. Subject(s): Time TIME, by RALPH HODGSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spiralwise it spins Last Line: Groans like a ship aground; %shadow makes more noise Subject(s): Time TIME, by LILLIE EDSON HOLLAND Poem Text First Line: In the black sky tonight, down by the dune Last Line: To go my way as leaf and grass, and shed no tear. Subject(s): Aging; Mothers; Time TIME, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you wish me, then, away? Last Line: Eternity and I are one. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Future Life; Time; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TIME, by SALLY BRUCE KINSOLVING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They talked of palm beach lots Last Line: We fell to talking trivial commonplaces. Subject(s): Life; Time TIME, by LEONIDAS OF TARENTUM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Measureless time or ever thy years, o man, were reckon'd Last Line: A flash, a point -- or less, if a lesser thing can be found. Variant Title(s): On The Brevity Of Time Subject(s): Time TIME, by BERTHA OSLER MALCOLM Poem Text First Line: As I glided down the valley of time Last Line: Can rob me of the joy and peace of the golden present, now. Subject(s): Time TIME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ticking-ticking-ticking of Last Line: As hoarsely sad at throat as sobs. . . . Pray on! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Grief; Morning; Prayer; Time; Sorrow; Sadness TIME, by ANNA CORA OGDEN MOWATT RITCHIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nay rail not at time, though a tyrant he be Last Line: For he'll rob me in vain, if he leave me but you! Subject(s): Time TIME, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Threefold the stride of time, from first to last Last Line: And motionless forever stands the past. Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von Subject(s): Time TIME, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Time is as feather footed as the snow Last Line: Marking the swift iambics of his feet. Subject(s): Clocks; Time TIME, by FREDERICK GEORGE SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw time in his workshop carving faces Last Line: Itself all changed, scarred, careworn, white with years. Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, F. G. Subject(s): Time TIME, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a happy spirit Last Line: Time smote me on the brow. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Life; Spiritual Life; Time; Dead, The TIME, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unfathomable sea! Whose waves are years Last Line: Unfathomable sea? Subject(s): Sea; Time; Ocean TIME, by DABNEY STUART Poem Source First Line: I wander the snow gardens Last Line: Which grounds us, tempers us, gives Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Time TIME, by JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time is the meagre measure set by man Subject(s): Time TIME, by MARY SCOTT WILLOUR Poem Text First Line: Dear one, it seems a year since yesterday Last Line: I spend the years between just marking time. Subject(s): Time TIME (2), by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Moment to / moment Subject(s): Time TIME (2), by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moment to %moment Last Line: Gets done, alone Subject(s): Time TIME AFTER TIME, by ELIZABETH S. ADCOCK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Time: it does things Last Line: And that old distortion: joy Alternate Author Name(s): Adcock, Betty Subject(s): Time TIME AND CHANCE HAPPENTH TO ALL, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Reader, if fond of wonder and surprise Last Line: Their virtues shall exalt them to the sky. Subject(s): Luck; Time TIME AND DEATH, by WILLIAM HENRY WHITWORTH Poem Text First Line: I saw old time, destroyer of mankind Last Line: And vanquish'd the great conquerors, time and death. Subject(s): Death; Time; Dead, The TIME AND LIFE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time, thy name is sorrow, says the stricken Last Line: Nay, but rest. Subject(s): Grief; Life; Roundels; Time; Sorrow; Sadness TIME AND LOVE, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Time hobbles, but love flies Last Line: To heaven without you. Subject(s): Love; Time TIME AND LOVE, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An artist painted time and love Last Line: "and, after marriage, cupid." Subject(s): Art & Artists; Cupid; Love; Time; Eros TIME AND LOVE; AN ALLEGORY, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old time and young love, on a morning in may Last Line: While he tugs at his oar and keeps steadily on! Subject(s): Love; Time TIME AND SENTIMENT, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see a fair young couple in a wood Last Line: Even such, and by this token, is their youth. Subject(s): Aging; Time; Youth TIME AND THE LADY, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Haste, maiden, haste! The spray has come to budding Last Line: "a moment, time, a moment, till I sleep." Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Time TIME AND TWILIGHT, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the dark twilight of an autumn morn Last Line: To rush by night into the arms of time?' Subject(s): Time TIME AS MEMORY AS STORY, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Time; Native Americans; Family Life; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Relatives TIME DOES GO ON, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: They don't believe it now Variant Title(s): Poem: 1121; Poem: 133 Subject(s): Time TIME EATING, by KEITH CASTELLAINE DOUGLAS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ravenous time has flowers for his food Last Line: You can make no more of me, only destroy. Subject(s): Time TIME EXPOSURES, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the exposed spirit, busy in daytime Subject(s): Time TIME FEELS SO VAST THAT WERE IT NOT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of his diameters Variant Title(s): Poem: 802; Poem: 85 Subject(s): Time TIME FLEW IN AND OUT OF THE WINDOW, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Until she dropped dead in the kitchen Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Time TIME FLIES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The moments fly, a minute's gone Subject(s): Time TIME HAS THREE PALACES, by RACHEL LUMPKIN WYLY Poem Text First Line: Time has three palaces that she will loan Last Line: Are mingling as they near eternity. Subject(s): Time TIME IS A PRIEST, by ERIS GOFF Poem Text First Line: Old father time must don his april gown Last Line: And I behold all beauty in his eyes. Subject(s): Time TIME IS A SPACE, by BERENICE VAN SLYKE Poem Text First Line: Time is a space between two miseries Last Line: While it escapes between the ticks and tocks. Alternate Author Name(s): Heaton, Maurice C., Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Life; Time; Dead, The TIME IS AN INCLUSION SERIES SAID MCTAGGART, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In just a minute we will say goodbye Subject(s): Time TIME IS AN INCLUSION SERIES SAID MCTAGGART, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In just a minute we will say goodbye Last Line: By the driftwood fires %singing forever forever Subject(s): Time TIME IS MOST UNQUIET, by TOONI GORDI Poem Text First Line: There we were sitting, like too-thin ghosts Last Line: We were like ghosts awaiting some still doom. Subject(s): Fear; Ghosts; Supernatural; Time TIME IS NO THIEF, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Only the minutes, not the years, are ours Last Line: Time is no thief! Subject(s): Time TIME IS THE LATE TRAIN INTO ALBANY, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To get down to cases Subject(s): Sex; Railroads; Time; Opportunity TIME IS THE LATE TRAIN INTO ALBANY, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To get down to cases Subject(s): Railroads; Time TIME IS THE MERCY OF ETERNITY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time is divided into Subject(s): Future Life; Time; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TIME IS THE MERCY OF ETERNITY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time is divided into Last Line: Say about them, nothing at all Subject(s): Future Life; Time TIME LENGTHENING, IN THE LENGTHENING SEEMETH LONG, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Eternity still here and still to come Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Time; Eternity TIME MACHINE, by DICK ALLEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ugly contraption into which I'm strapped Last Line: And constantly repeated through all time Subject(s): Time Machines TIME MACHINE, by KENNETH GANGEMI Poem Source First Line: As a boy I remember kicking through Last Line: Nights with crickets and stars, the sight %of small children sleeping in their beds Subject(s): Time Machines TIME MACHINE! ROB FELT AN ITCH, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Back when there wasn't any rob Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Time Machines TIME MAKES US SUPPLICANT WHORES, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The bottle's iron mouth suckles the brain dry Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Carver, Raymond (1939-1988); Nature; Time TIME MARCHES ON, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You ask me, brothers, why I flinch Last Line: The seconds spattering on the roof! Subject(s): Time TIME MENDS, by HAROLD VINAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Time mends a ruined wall as well Last Line: Are singing vernal orisions. Subject(s): Healing; Nature; Repairing; Time; Cures; Mending TIME NOT TO BE RECALLED, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Mark that swift arrow, how it cuts the air Subject(s): Mortality; Time TIME OF SHADOW, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the hour marais told us about Last Line: And singing again out of the dark trees Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Shadows; Time TIME OF THE ATOM, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: In the time of the atom Last Line: Fall against a graceful body Subject(s): Atoms; Time TIME OPTICS, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where the ditch vaults the river Last Line: I'll be alright gone Subject(s): Rivers; Time TIME OUT, by DAN LEIDIG Poem Source First Line: Maybe it was the running-go Last Line: Toward dusk, sure we would never die Subject(s): Time TIME PASSES, by RICHARD PERCIVAL LISTER Poem Source First Line: Once I was a boy and I sat in a meadow with flowers in it Last Line: While the hands of the rude, insatiate clock %go tick, tock,tick, tock Subject(s): Time TIME PASSETH AWAY WITH ITS PLEASURE AND PAIN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Time passeth away Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Time; Eternity TIME PASSING, BELOVED, by DONALD DAVIE Poet's Biography First Line: Time passing, and the memories of love Subject(s): Time TIME PASSING, BELOVED, by DONALD DAVIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Time passing, and the memories of love Last Line: This siege of a shore that no misgivings have steeled, %no doubts defend? Subject(s): Time TIME RECOVER'D, by GIROLAMO CASONE Poem Text First Line: Come (my dear) whilst youth conspires Last Line: Use in time, from time thou tak'st. Subject(s): Time TIME REMAINING, by RENEE WEISS Poem Source First Line: Suddenly you who had, it seemed Last Line: Accomodations, finally fitting %to a t Subject(s): Life; Time TIME RUNNING BACKWARDS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That afternoon in a hidden room Last Line: A beloved voice counsels them from the past. %time running backwards Subject(s): Time TIME SEEMS NOT SHORT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And for a song? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Time TIME SLIPS AWAY, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's weeks, no months, perhaps a year Last Line: Time slips away before you know. Subject(s): Time TIME SPACE, by ISABEL FISKE CONANT Poem Text First Line: Into the universe I crawl Last Line: And time a dream. . . . Subject(s): God; Metaphysics; Space & Space Travel; Time; Universe; Outer Space; Fourth Dimension TIME SPIRALS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the second moon the Subject(s): Introspection; Salmon; Time TIME SPIRALS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the second moon the Last Line: Cycle from the sky to the sea Subject(s): Introspection; Salmon; Time TIME STEALER, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She bites off chunks of time Last Line: So many big chunks of my time Subject(s): Time TIME SUITE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just seven weeks ago in paris Last Line: Amen. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Change; Time TIME TALKED, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: Time used to talk to me with bells and whistles. The Last Line: Used to be here. Even now, my dinner bell rings when I %am hungry Subject(s): Language; Time TIME THE CHANGER, by PLATO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life brings our all: long time leaves nought abiding Last Line: Name, form, or nature, good or evil tiding. Subject(s): Time TIME TO KILL, by CARL RAKOSI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man and his dog Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): Time; Old Age TIME TO ME, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Time to me this truth hath taught Last Line: Than from want of feeling Subject(s): Time TIME ZONES, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Downstairs in montana the phone rings and it's my sister Last Line: In the grass that never lies down, that wraps itself around the world Variant Title(s): Time Zones: Sister To Siste Subject(s): Relationships; Time; Travel TIME'S ALTERCATION, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When this old cap was new Subject(s): Nostalgia; Time TIME'S BETRAYAL, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone, whose morals need mending Last Line: "keats, stabbed by the muses, his garland's a splendor!" Subject(s): Maple Trees; Time TIME'S CHAMPION, by JOSEPH TWADELL SHIPLEY Poem Text First Line: The things that last forever are no more Last Line: Carving the moment for eternity. Subject(s): Time TIME'S DICTUM, by DOUGLAS MACKINTOSH Poem Text First Line: Ye fires that blaze with the oil of the infinite bowl Last Line: Yea, the ultimate tomb of all things god created of dust. Subject(s): Time TIME'S HAND IS KIND, by MARGARET E. BRUNER Poem Text First Line: For those who place their blooms on new-made graves Last Line: And, in its stead, will come a strange new peace. Subject(s): Time TIME'S LEGACY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night so long to grief Last Line: To each, unaltered, be! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Time TIME'S LONG AGO!, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And wins the heart that hope can lure no more Subject(s): Time TIME'S MEZZOTINT, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis in the shadows that we trace Last Line: That life's immortal deeds remain. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Time TIME'S PICTURE BOOK, by EDNA VALENTINE TRAPNELL Poem Text First Line: Out on the edge of the worlds Last Line: In his picture-book of the earth. Subject(s): Picture Books; Time TIME'S REMOTEST HOUR, by PAULINE COURTNEY Poem Text First Line: Time annihilates most grief and tears Last Line: When death will rob us of each other's power! Subject(s): Time TIME'S REVENGE, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once on a time he would have said Last Line: No king at all, and scarce a man! Subject(s): Time TIME'S REVENGES, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've a friend, over the sea Last Line: Meantime, there is our earth here -- well! Subject(s): Time TIME'S REVERSALS; A DAUGHTER'S PARADOX, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To his devoted heart Last Line: Leaning a fading brow on your unfaded hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784); Love - Age Differences; Time TIME'S SHADOW, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy life, o man, in this brief moment lies Last Line: The shadow lying only where we are. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Time TIME'S SONG, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O'er the level plains, where mountains greet me as I go Last Line: Where will rest my weary wings?science turns away! Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Time TIME'S WILY CHARGERS WILL NOT WAIT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: They will not stir for blows Variant Title(s): Poem: 1458; Poem: 149 Subject(s): Time TIME, HOPE, AND MEMORY, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard a gentle maiden, in the spring Last Line: "thou hast loved hope, but memory loved thee." Subject(s): Hope; Memory; Time; Optimism TIME, PLACE, AND PARENTHOOD, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here we are, my son, aliens in this place Last Line: Accept these words that can never say enough. Subject(s): Children; Parents; Past; Time; Childhood; Parenthood TIME, REAL AND IMAGINARY; AN ALLEGORY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the wide level of a mountain's head Last Line: And knows not whether he be first or last. Subject(s): Fables; Time; Allegories TIME: AN ODE, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see the chariot, where Last Line: Live, when imperial time and death himself shall die! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Time TIME; AN ENIGMA, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ever eating, never cloying Last Line: Till I eat the world at last. Variant Title(s): On Time; Riddle Subject(s): Time TIMEPIECE (MICHIGAN), OR A MOEBIUS TRIP, by CAROL PEPPIS BERGE Poem Source First Line: On monday, she arrived at the aiport, expecting to be met there by a Last Line: Clock had stopped at noon Subject(s): Death; Depression, Mental; Time TIMES AIN'T WHAT THEY WAS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When pa an' ma was married in the days long gone and dead Last Line: An' boys an' girls grow bigger - an' I'm glad to see the day Subject(s): Family Life;modern Man;time;west (u.s.); Relatives;southwest;pacific States TIMING, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Used to think when I Last Line: Are patient & don't %waste as many strokes Subject(s): Aging; Sex; Time TIS HE WHOSE YESTER-EVENING'S HIGH DISDAIN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Who meet most feelingly the calls of sadness Subject(s): Mortality; Time TO A BUTTERFLY (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've watched you now a full half-hour Last Line: As twenty days are now. Variant Title(s): To A Butterfly Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Time; Bugs TO A CHILD, by FRANK PUTNAM Poem Text First Line: The years stretch far above thee Last Line: His work will not forget. Subject(s): Children; Fathers; Hope; Time; Youth; Childhood; Optimism TO A FRIEND WHO THREW AWAY HAIR DYES, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Surely history's seen a happy ruler! Subject(s): Time TO A GREEK GEM, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was it the signet of an antonine Last Line: Have whelmed us in the sands we build upon. Subject(s): Beauty; Greece; Jewelry & Jewelers; Time; Greeks TO A PHOTOGRAPHER, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have known joy and woe and toil and fight Last Line: They are my scars of battle put them back! Subject(s): Aging; Disdain; Photography & Photographers; Time; Scorn TO A PRESSED ROSE, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: Lovely faded rose Last Line: A lovely faded rose. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Time TO A TRIUMPHER, by JOSE-MARIA DE HEREDIA (1842-1905) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Chisel upon thine arch, great king, a knot Last Line: And mar his blade upon thy glory humbled. Subject(s): Honor; Time TO A YOUNG MOTHER, by HELEN DARBY BERNING Poem Text First Line: Little mother, hold her tightly! Last Line: I know! I know! Subject(s): Time TO ALISON, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All ghouls and ghosts shall science lay? Not ours! Last Line: Their ghosts turn flowers; like angels they array them. Subject(s): Flowers; Ghosts; Hearts; Supernatural; Time TO AN ELECTRIC CLOCK, by WALTER G. RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: Formal as your fathers, tranquil as night Last Line: Why do you not speak if you wish to boast? Subject(s): Clocks; Time 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 OLD CLOCK, by DONALD J. PAQUETTE Poem Text First Line: Why do you always stand there Last Line: Or a man go -- unhanged? Subject(s): Clocks; Time TO BILL, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I drew a line between the past and the present Last Line: A long, slow walk away from you Subject(s): Time TO DELIA: 21 (2), by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time, cruel time, come and subdue that brow Last Line: She may become more kind to thee or me. Subject(s): Time TO DELIA: 37, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Delia, these eyes that so admireth thine Last Line: Doth her unto eternity assummon. Subject(s): Love; Time TO EACH HIS DREAM, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With each his little, secret dream Last Line: Throws back a wonder on each face! Subject(s): Dreams; Lies; Life; Love; Soul; Tears; Time; Nightmares TO GUY MURCHIE, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No flower I bring you Last Line: The heart will speak without the pomp of rhyme. Subject(s): Time; Poetry & Poets TO HIMSELF, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So you've come to me now without knowing why Subject(s): Writing & Writers; Time TO HIS COY MISTRESS, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Had we but world enough, and time / this coyness, lady, were no crime Last Line: Stand still, yet we will make him run. Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Desire; Holidays; Love; New Year; Time TO J. B., by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within an old world, classic vase Last Line: That triumphs over time. Subject(s): Flowers; Time TO JUDITH ASLEEP, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dear, darkened in sleep, turned from the moon Last Line: Time still must tick this, I am, we are are Subject(s): Sleep; Time; Togetherness TO JULIA ON HER BIRTHDAY, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When time was entwining the garland of years Last Line: And pity shall nurse it with dew! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Birthdays; Time TO LUCREZIA, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pause we within the sunset, love Last Line: This barrier -- thy loveliness! Subject(s): Eyes; Love; Time; Youth TO MIRIMOND (HER BIRTHDAY, IN DECEMBER), by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dost think that time, to whom stars vainly sue Last Line: If thou, when all is gone, wouldst still have all. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Beauty; Time TO MISS F. B. ON ASKING FOR MRS. BARBAULD'S LOVE AND TIME, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of love and time say what would fanny know Last Line: With gay sixteen they both are in their prime. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Time; Love - Erotic TO MR. J.L., UPON HIS TREASTISE OF DIALLING, by GEORGE UBA Poem Text First Line: Old time, but for thy art, alone would pass Last Line: Nothing a real science you create. Subject(s): Time TO MY BROTHER; KILLED: CHAUMONT WOOD, OCTOBER, 1918, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O you so long dead Last Line: The language as long as the language survives Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): World War I; Brothers; Death; Time; First World War TO MY CALENDAR, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How often have I reached my hand Last Line: Who daily tears a day from me! Subject(s): Aging; Time TO MY MISTRESS, by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Countess, I see the flying year Last Line: Or spurn a poet such as I. Alternate Author Name(s): Locker, Frederick Subject(s): Time TO MY OLD FRIEND, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You, who through every change remain Last Line: The days of eighteen-ninety-five! Subject(s): Change; Competition; Nostalgia; Poetry & Poets; Time; Writing & Writers TO MY OLD FRIEND, WILLIAM LEACHMAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fer forty year and better you have been a friend to me Last Line: Fer the name of william leachman and true manhood's jest the same! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Friendship; Love; Memory; Time TO MY OLD WATCH, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O wondrous work of mind's invention Last Line: So near to thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Aging; Clocks; Time; Weariness; Youth; Fatigue TO OLIVER WENDELL HOMES, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A fountain in our green new england hills Last Line: That guard the soul whose fire of youth still burns. Subject(s): Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809-1894); Time TO SIR RICHARD F. BURTON, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Westward the sun sinks, grave and glad; but far Last Line: Whence laughing love dissolves her frosts and snows. Subject(s): Evening; Time; Sunset; Twilight TO THE BUILDERS OF MY HOUSE, by DAN LEIDIG Poem Source First Line: Before you uncurl your euclidean plans Last Line: A signing house, acquainted with wrens Subject(s): Time TO THE CLOCK, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail requiem of departed time Last Line: The shuttles quiver as the loom's beams are shaken Subject(s): Clocks; Time TO THE KING OF THULE, by HENRI ALLORGE Poem Text First Line: O thou, whose name is as a sigh exhaled Last Line: O king of thule, it is thine. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Tears; Thule (island); Time; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TO THE MOMENT LAST PAST, by WILLIAM HABINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O whither dost thou flye? Cannot my vow Last Line: Ten of his fellow moments fled away. Subject(s): Time TO THE PORTRAIT OF NAPOLEON, AS FIRST CONSUL, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brilliant as lucifer, son of the morning Last Line: Beautiful gem of the larian shore. Subject(s): History; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Portraits; Stars; Time; Historians TO THE ROCK THAT WILL BE A CORNERSTONE OF THE HOUSE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old garden of grayish and ochre lichen Last Line: How dear you will be to me when I too grow old, old comrade. Subject(s): Houses; Time TO THE SETTING SUN, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stay, o sweet day, nor fleet so fast away Last Line: Keeping sweet daylight, in each other's eyes. Subject(s): Time TO THE SPHINX, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O sleepless sphinx! Last Line: Eternal sphinx! Subject(s): Earth; Egypt; Patience; Sphinx; Time; World TO THE SUN-DIAL, by JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thou silent herald of time's silent flight! Last Line: Aspiring still, with energy sublime, %by virtuous deeds to give eternity to time Subject(s): Sundials; Time TO THE URANIAN APHRODITE, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My days pass wreathed in dreams while time's dim room Last Line: Hope's rainbow gleamed through foam of troubled seas. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Fate; Flowers; Love; Mythology - Classical; Time; Destiny TO THE VIRGINS, TO MAKE MUCH OF TIME, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gather ye rosebuds while ye may Last Line: You may forever tarry. Variant Title(s): Counsel To Girls;counsel To Virgins Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Flowers; Holidays; Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; New Year; Roses; Time; Youth; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO THINK OF TIME, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To think of time - of all that retrospection Last Line: And life and materials are altogether for it! Subject(s): Time TO THINK OF TIME (DIFFERENT VERSION), by WALT WHITMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To think of time - to think through the retrospection Last Line: And all preparation is for it - and identity is for it - and life and death are for it Subject(s): Time TO TIME, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time! On whose arbitrary wing Last Line: Must fall upon -- a nameless stone. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Time TO TIME, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Day by day the threads of white Last Line: Break not your arrow in my breast! Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Time TO TIME, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Space keeps us, time forgives us Subject(s): Time TO TIME, by MARY JULIA YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Rouse thee, old time, thy folded pinions shake Last Line: Secure beneath thy plumy umbrage rest. Subject(s): Time TO TIME, THE TYRANT, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time, in whose kingship is song Last Line: Time! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Time TO-DAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: To-morrow, what does it matter? Last Line: And gratefully live each to-day! Subject(s): January; Time TO-MORROW, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old fraud, I know you in that gay disguise Last Line: All the dull yesterdays that I have known. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Future; Past; Time TO-MORROW, by MACEDONIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To-morrow? Then your one word left is always now the same Last Line: Since time began with women, but old age and wrinkled skin? Alternate Author Name(s): Macedonius Of Thessalonica; Macedonius Consul Subject(s): Time TO-MORROW TO FRESH WOODS AND PASTURES NEW', by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As for a moment he stands, in hardy masculine beauty Last Line: Eagerly scanning the future which is so soon to possess me. Subject(s): Time TODAY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: And if tomorrow shall be sad Last Line: At least today Subject(s): Life;soldiers;time TODAY, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is so nice to have today Last Line: All peeking out and peeking in! Subject(s): Children; Play; Time; Childhood TODAY'S MUSIC, by ROBERT MCALMON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His being started with music Subject(s): Time; Music & Musicians TOM VAN ARDEN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tom van arden, my old friend Last Line: . . . Tom van arden, my old friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Friendship; Memory; Past; Time TOMORROW, by JAMES BUCKHAM Poem Text First Line: King hassan, well beloved, was wont to say Last Line: Forget it, thenhere lies the victor's way. Alternate Author Name(s): Pastnor, Paul Subject(s): Proverbs; Time; Maxims; Adages TOMORROW, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A hundred thousand years old, I would still have the strength Last Line: Which will prove that at last we are living in the present Subject(s): Surrealism; Time; Patience TOMORROW, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where art thou, beloved tomorrow? Last Line: We find the thing we fled -- to-day. Subject(s): Time TOMORROW, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon thy face alone no trace Last Line: That floods thy soul, sweet morrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Time TOMORROW THE PAST COMES, by ION CARAION Poem Source First Line: No longer for me is there anything late. All is late Last Line: In the fog much becomes clear Subject(s): Time TOMORROW WONDERS, by RUSSELL HOBAN Poem Source First Line: What will they bring me, I wonder?' Last Line: Bong bong bong, 'don't,' the clock says, %'count on it.' Subject(s): Time TOMORROW, YESTERDAY, by MARK SMITH-SOTO Poem Source First Line: Back when the future was firmly in its place Last Line: The figs, the long sweet breath of tomorrow Subject(s): Time TONIGHT, by MAURICE DU PLESSYS Poem Text First Line: Tonight, while man and nature one accord encloses Last Line: Flames of marble, as they dance under torches in the gloom. Alternate Author Name(s): Flandre-noblesse, Sylvan Francois Maurice Subject(s): Night; Time; Bedtime TOO HAPPY TIME DISSOLVES ITSELF, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Or too much weight to fly Variant Title(s): Poem: 1774; Poem: 118 Subject(s): Time TOO LATE, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blessings, alas! Unmerited Last Line: We have no refuge, but our trust. Subject(s): Time; Worship TOO LATE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Delayed till she had ceased to know Last Line: Doubtful if it be crowned! Subject(s): Time TOO LATE, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Too late I bring my heart, too late 'tis yours Last Line: Too late! Too long! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Time TOO LATE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sighed a poet when his fame Last Line: For I've lived just thirty years beyond the time! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Fame; Poetry & Poets; Time; Reputation TOO LATE FOR A HUSBAND, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Where were you in the marriage season? Last Line: Go home now, we're all sold out Subject(s): Single People; Time TOUCH ME, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summer is late, my heart Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Marriage; Time; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TOUCH ME, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summer is late, my heart Last Line: Remind me who I am Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Marriage; Time TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. WIDENING CIRCLES, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no hap nor any flaw Last Line: Our widening circles inevitably meet and interfuse some time. Subject(s): Relationships; Time; Universe TRAGEDY OF TIME, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is that when we Last Line: Can take comfort Subject(s): Mortality; Time TRAIN RIDE, by JOHN MICHAEL CARROLL Poem Source First Line: The train sped past the station Subject(s): Time TRANSFIGURED, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: I watch a ball by rampant feet Last Line: Shall chime eternal praise. Subject(s): Evil; Heaven; Praise; Time; Paradise TRAVEL ALARM, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because everything still bears Last Line: Of green. Subject(s): Clocks; Family Life; Time; Travel; Relatives; Journeys; Trips TRAVELLING, by PIERRE REVERDY Poem Source First Line: Morning %when the pendulum moves more quickly Last Line: A few yours more of not being any more Subject(s): Time; Travel TRIAD, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the silence of time, time's silence borrow Last Line: The builders of joy are the children of sorrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Silence; Time; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight TRILCE: 2, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time time Subject(s): Time TRINKET, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love watching the water Last Line: Small enough to contain it. Subject(s): Plants; Self; Time; Water; Planting; Planters TRIOLETS IN THE ARGOLID, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The taste is strong as ever, Subject(s): Time; Silence; Cell Phones; Taste (sense); Love; Worry TROPE, by DAN LEIDIG Poem Source First Line: When I retreat to my backyard farm Last Line: We are bound forever to her plight Subject(s): Time TRYPTYCH, by PAUL RANDOLPH VIOLI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Morning: %6:30 (2) sunrise Last Line: Stops. Jolting %finale avoided Subject(s): History; Poetry And Poets; Time TWAS COMFORT IN HER DYING ROOM, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And this of ours must die Subject(s): Death; Time TWAS LATER WHEN THE SUMMER WENT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Keeps esoteric time Subject(s): Crickets; Time; Seasons TWELVE MONTHS IN A ROW, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text Last Line: Take them, love them, let them go Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Time TWELVE O'CLOCK AT NOON, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sound of noon floats o'er the village-pool Last Line: Which tells us boldly how we pass away! Subject(s): Time TWELVE OF THE CLOCK, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twelve of the clock - lost hour when lovers' ghosts Last Line: Then twelve of the clock - the hour for lovers' ghosts Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Time TWENTY GOLDEN YEARS AGO, by JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O, the rain, the weary, dreary rain Last Line: Twenty golden years ago! Subject(s): Disappointment; Holidays; New Year; Past; Time TWENTY YEARS, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down on the ancient wharf, the sand, I sit, with a new-comer chatting Last Line: Of the future?) Subject(s): Time TWENTY-FOUR LOGICS IN MEMORY OF LEE HICKMAN, by PALMER. MICHAEL Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The bend in the river followed us for days Subject(s): Time; Life; Poetry & Poets TWILIGHT MUSINGS, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, at this hour, when silently Last Line: To the life-key of thy soul! Subject(s): Memory; Silence; Thought; Time; Thinking TWO FIGURES, by NAVARRE SCOTT MOMADAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These figures moving in my rhyme Last Line: Who are they? Death and death's dog, time Alternate Author Name(s): Momaday, N. Scott Subject(s): Death; Time TWO LENGTHS HAS EVERY DAY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Remain thou as thou art Subject(s): Time TWO RAMAGES FOR OLD MASTERS, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silent in the moonlight, no beginning or end Last Line: By the torah and the bible inside the naked seed. Subject(s): Immortality; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Teaching & Teachers; Time; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Male-female Relations; Theology; Educators; Professors TWO RAMAGES FOR OLD MASTERS, by ROBERT BLY Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Silent in the moonlight Last Line: By the torah and the bible inside the naked seed. Subject(s): Immortality; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Teaching & Teachers; Time; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Male-female Relations; Theology; Educators; Professors TWO TWILIGHTS COME TO MAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: The twinned twilight Subject(s): Evening;night;time; Sunset;twilight;bedtime TWO VOICES, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The life that was is dead and lost Last Line: My fate is mine, and scorns the lie of time. Subject(s): Mortality; Time TWO YEARS LATER, by JOHN WIENERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hollow eyes of shock remain Subject(s): Time UNCERTAIN, by MARY M. WOOLEY Poem Text First Line: Can I be sure that love is still for me? Last Line: A muted melody, complete? Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Time UNCLE TIME, by DENNIS SCOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Uncle time is an ole, ole man Last Line: Inside; an' when 'im touch yu', weep Subject(s): Time UNEXPRESSED, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dwells within the soul of every artist Last Line: And waves of an unfathomable sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Love; Poetry & Poets; Soul; Time UNFULFILLMENT, by FRANCES LOUISA BUSHNELL Poem Text First Line: Ah, june is here, but where is may? Last Line: Lieth, nor yet is found. Subject(s): Time UNKNOWN QUANTITY, by LEONARD BACON (1887-1954) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man must ponder Last Line: To me unknown. Subject(s): Beauty; Orion (constellation); Thought; Time; Thinking UNTIL AT LENGTH THE NORTH WINDS BLOW, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Leaving behind the cold, cold year Subject(s): Winter; Geese; Time UNTITLED, by ERIC BROGNIET Poem Source First Line: The almost unbearable blue Last Line: The frock of tides, time unravelling Subject(s): Sea; Time UNTITLED, by MORRIE WARSHAWSKI Poem Source First Line: So here's the thing Last Line: Of a dark night and its dreams Subject(s): Change; Past; Time UNTURNED STONE, by DAN LEIDIG Poem Source First Line: Its basaltic black speaks of henry moore Last Line: And discover that is weight has grown Subject(s): Time UP-HILL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Last Line: Yea, beds for all who come. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Uphill Subject(s): Death; Faith; Heaven; Hotels; Life; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Religion; Time; Travel; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Paradise; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Theology; Journeys; Trips UPON THE DEATH OF LORD HASTINGS, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go, intercept some fountain in the vein Last Line: And art indeed is long, but life is short. Subject(s): Death; Time; Dead, The UPON THE HILL, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A hundred miles of landscape spread before me like a fan Last Line: How many thousand times shall I look on them ere this fire in me is dead? Subject(s): Mountains; Time; Hills; Downs (great Britain) UPON TIME, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time was upon / the wing, to flie away Last Line: And so away he flew. Subject(s): Time USES, by EDITH WHARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, from the niggard tree of time Last Line: With june's forgotten scent. Subject(s): Time VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1876, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fairer than younger beauties, more beloved Last Line: Last valentine. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Holidays; Kisses; Life; Time; Valentine's Day VANISHED!, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: I saw her first as when one sees Last Line: The due of lordly death. Subject(s): Death; Seasons; Soul; Time; Dead, The VARIATION ON BEAUMONT, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Time, at his kindest, hath wild wings to fly with Last Line: Ages and aeons of delight. Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616); Dramatists; Love; Plays & Playwrights; Time VEILED MEMORIES, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Of love that was, of friendship in the days Last Line: Is woven through the soul's strange warp and woof. Subject(s): Life; Love; Memory; Time VERSES READ AT THE TRIENNIAL DINNER OF THE CLASS OF 1886, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can it be three years are gone Last Line: And an even vaster choir %shall make music in her praise Subject(s): Time VERY STRONG FEBRUARY, by BERNADETTE MAYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man and a woman pretend to be white ice Subject(s): Time; Winter VESTIGES, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the isle of time we trace Last Line: No memory of man is found. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Time VI. (THE MOMENT FINALLY ARRIVED), by PAUL ANTSCHEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It did arrive, finally, the moment in front of the mirrors that cover the exter Last Line: Around you, and your dreamy mouth utters your name Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul Subject(s): Time VICISSITUDE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All things around us preach of death; yet mirth Last Line: Earth is our pilgrimage, our home is heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Change; Death; Time; Dead, The VILLAGE, by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stones are time Last Line: There is no water here for all the lustre of its eyes Subject(s): Time VILLANELLE: EXCEPTION TO THE RULE - 1, by DAVID YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Baboons were preening, and the sun was setting. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Time VIOLIN SONGS: A PRAYER, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou who mad'st the mighty clock Last Line: Make my willing true. Subject(s): God; Planets; Prayer; Time VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 3: SATIRE: 1, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Time was, and that was term'd the time of gold Last Line: Thriuing in ill, as it in age decayes. Variant Title(s): The Golden Age Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Life; Pride; Sea; Time; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Ocean VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 4: SATIRE: 4, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Can I not touch some vpstart carpet-shield Last Line: And now he would, and now he cannot wed. Subject(s): Time; Virginity; Vestals VISIBLE LIE, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: Time is a visible lie Last Line: She'll swallow an egg whole, %common as a moan Subject(s): Lies; Time; Women VISION, by WAYLAND A. DUNHAM Poem Text First Line: Against time's feet / I erect a pedestal Last Line: Upon which to dream. Subject(s): Time VISIONS: 1, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting one day beside the banks of mole Last Line: As need another joseph to expound. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Mole, River, England' Time; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness VISIONS: 2, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A dream both strange and sad to see Last Line: Headlong I fell, and -- woke from sleep. Subject(s): Birds; Dreams; Flowers; Hearts; Time; Nightmares VIVISECTION, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wild nature not by kindness won, because Last Line: Nor shall it die within me till I die. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Earth; Faith; Life; Time; World; Belief; Creed VOICE OF THE CONDEMNED, by ESTHER M. LEIBRAND Poem Text First Line: Have you anything to say before you're scrapped Last Line: For a few last words while their old bones bleach. Subject(s): Decay; Time; Rot; Decadence W.H.; AD. 1778-1830, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between the wet trees and the sorry steeple Last Line: Titian and wordsworth live; the people marches. Subject(s): Beauty; Hazlitt, William (1778-1830); Love; Time; Truth WAITING, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each afternoon now (the concierge foretold it) Subject(s): Time WAITING - BOTH, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A star looks down at me Last Line: "so mean I." Subject(s): Stars; Time; Transience; Impermanence WAKING, SLEEPING, DREAMING, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Wake, the day is breaking Last Line: Turn the clocks around. Subject(s): Clocks; Day; Dreams; Time; Nightmares WALL CALENDAR, by DAN PAGIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: December. A polar wind, sharp-edged, new Last Line: Before my eyes all my stolen years stream past %like a sweet river Subject(s): Time WARNING, by JENNIFER JOSEPH Poem Full Text First Line: When I am an old woman I shall wear purple Alternate Author Name(s): Coles, Tony, Mrs.; Joseph, Jenny Subject(s): Aging; Time; Women WARNING, by JENNIFER JOSEPH Poem Source First Line: When I am an old woman I shall wear purple Last Line: So people who know me are too shocked and surprised %when suddenly I am old and start to wear purple Alternate Author Name(s): Coles, Tony, Mrs.; Joseph, Jenny Subject(s): Aging; Time; Women WAS IT TIME?, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Was it time I spent with thee? Last Line: In a narrow moment room? Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Love; Time WASTED HOURS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many buds in this warm light Last Line: The nightingale and moon. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales; Time WATCH ON RHYME, by MAURICE DEAN BLEHERT Poem Source First Line: The sun, boiling up each morning right on time Last Line: Who would settle for casio? Subject(s): Rhyme; Time WAVES, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day the waves assailed the rock Last Line: And breaks the glass of time. Subject(s): Time; Waves WE - GROWN OLD, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I who yesterday was young Last Line: We, grown old. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Old Age; Time WE DO NOT KNOW THE TIME WE LOSE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Whose substances are sand Variant Title(s): Poem: 1106; Poem: 113 Subject(s): Time WE DON'T NEED TO LEAVE YET, DO WE? OR, YES WE DO, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One kind of person when catching a train always wants to allow an hour Last Line: Which wouldn't make any difference, except that each other is what they always marry Subject(s): Time WE UNCOMMISERATE PASS INTO THE NIGHT, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And the new age forgets us and goes on Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Future; Time WEARINESS, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where are now the dreams divine Last Line: From the tired child at thy feet. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Time; Weariness; Fatigue WELT, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Would I mend the fabric of my youth Last Line: Ere time has brushed cold fingers through my hair. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Time WHAT ARE CITIES FOR?, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The earth has covered sicilian syracuse, there asphodel grows Subject(s): Cities; Time; Urban Life WHAT ARE CITIES FOR?, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The earth has covered sicilian syracuse, there asphodel grows Last Line: Be the poorer by many beautiful agonies Subject(s): Cities; Time WHAT ARE YEARS?, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is our innocence Subject(s): Time WHAT ARE YEARS?, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is our innocence Last Line: This is mortality, %this is eternity Subject(s): Time WHAT SAPPHO WOULD HAVE SAID .. LEAP CURED INSTEAD OF KILLING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love, love, that having found a heart Last Line: Fill me and make me wholly thine. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Hate; Hearts; Love; Time WHAT TIME HAS DONE, by MILDRED HART Poem Text First Line: What time has done to others Last Line: What now is sweetly ours. Subject(s): Time WHAT WE HAVE LOVED, by DARLENE FERN MATHIS-EDDY Poem Source First Line: Near the steep banks by the flowing river Last Line: School is out %teacher has gone home Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Teaching And Teachers; Time WHAT WINTER FLOODS, WHAT SHOWERS OF SPRING, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Memory; Time WHAT'S BROKEN, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The slate black sky. The middle step Subject(s): Time; Life WHEEL, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the first strokes of the fiddle bow Last Line: And turn with them in the dance %in the sweet enclosure %of the song, and timeless %is the wheel tha Subject(s): Christianity; Dancing And Dancers; Religion; Time; Wheels WHEEL OF TIME, by SUSAN LUZZARO Poem Source First Line: If memories were genetic, the kumeyaay would be missing chula vista, which was Last Line: That looks like the ghost of a beautiful bird on which we all might ride Subject(s): Memory; Time WHEN I LOOK AT THE DATES OF ARTISTS, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When I look at the dates of artists who died before my age Last Line: I was the homebody, tethered to my spiral notebook, alarmed by experience Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Time WHEN NIGHT IS ALMOST DONE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That frightened — but an hour Subject(s): Night; Time WHEN SUNSET OVERTAKES ME, by MARY ELIZABETH JONES Poem Text Last Line: And button it with clover. Subject(s): Time WHEN THE SPEED COMES, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the speed comes a-creeping overhead Last Line: Upon the soul, still sore from yesterday. Subject(s): Time WHEN TIME HAS TAKEN WINGS, by BERT MOREHOUSE Poem Text First Line: I do not envy any man his wealth Last Line: In love his friends when time has taken wings. Subject(s): Time WHEN TIME PASSES, by PARK IN-HWAN Poem Source First Line: I have forgotten her name Last Line: Remain lodged in my heart, %in my chilled heart Subject(s): Time WHEN TIME PICKS APPLES, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: It eats them with the yellow teeth %of bees Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Time WHEN TIME STANDS STILL, by NANCY LAURENCE Poem Text First Line: When time's swift flight Last Line: Upon a world of summer skies! Subject(s): Time WHEN TIME WAS YOUNG, by SARITA HOLT BROWNLEE Poem Text First Line: When time was young, man had his birth Last Line: His spirit dwelling with his god. Subject(s): Birth; Mankind; Soul; Time; Child Birth; Midwifery; Human Race WHERE MOTH AND RUST, by DAN LEIDIG Poem Source First Line: A small brown moth flutters %against the summer screen Last Line: And bring the new calf tongue for this unspeakable plow Subject(s): Time WHERE THEY LIVED, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dishevelled leaves creep down Last Line: Time calls, 'pass below!' Subject(s): Time WHICH WAY WILL THE CREEK, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: This wine bottle is empty Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Time WHITE-HAIRED, I WALK IN ON MY PARENTS, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: With the past in our future Subject(s): Parents; Time; Past; Future WHO LEARNS MY LESSON COMPLETE?, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And that they balance themselves with the sun and stars is equally wonderfu Subject(s): Time; Knowledge WHO LOVE AND PART, by HAMLEN HUNT Poem Text First Line: Who love and part, know parting for a knife Last Line: Atlantis' doom repeated in the heart. Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Time; Parting WHO?, by CHARLES STANLEY CAUSLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who is that child I see wandering, wandering Last Line: Why does he say that his name is my own? Alternate Author Name(s): Causley, Charles Subject(s): Time WHY COUNT THE YEARS?, by FLORENCE JENKINSON WHITE Poem Text First Line: Why count the years? The worth of life Last Line: Who sees life as a whole. Subject(s): Life; Soul; Time WHY DOES IT TAKE SO GODDAMN LONG-THE BURNED-UP YEARS, THE LANDSCAPE, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Barred from both and you miss them terribly Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Time; Waiting WILD GEESE, by RUTH CURTIS DOUGLAS Poem Text First Line: The flying wedges of the wild, gray geese Last Line: Through night, through storm -- god knows what lies in wait. Subject(s): Flight; Geese; Time; Travel; Flying; Journeys; Trips WILD OATS, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: About twenty years ago Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Disappointment; Time; Male-female Relations WINDING THE CLOCK, by GRACE ATHERTON DENNEN Poem Text First Line: The silence that had fallen stark between us Last Line: Turned, turned -- and felt the willing wheels respond. Subject(s): Clocks; Quarrels; Time; Arguments; Disagreements WINNING, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is having by having Last Line: Containing the other carefully Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Time WITH A DIAMOND, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While time a grim old lion gnawing lay Last Line: Signing the will that leaves it to an heir. Subject(s): Diamonds; Inheritance & Succession; Tears; Time; Heirs WITH FLOWERS, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I send to you a nosegay that but now Last Line: Then love me, while thou'rt fair, ere youth is gone! Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Love; Time; Youth; Dead, The WORDS, WORDS, WORDS, by MARGARET WADE CAMPBELL DELAND Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: I loved a maid (oh, she was fair of face!) Last Line: I learned the maiden some one else had married! Subject(s): Courtship; Language; Loss; Love - Loss Of; Time; Words; Vocabulary WORDSWORTH AT GRASMERE, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These hills and waters fostered you Last Line: Its kingdom in the thought of man. Subject(s): Eyes; Mountains; Time; Water; Hills; Downs (great Britain) WRAPPED SONGS, by LYNNE KNIGHT Poem Text First Line: The wind sings in a smaller Subject(s): Old Age; Time; Women WRITTEN ON A BLANK LEAF OF HIS POEMS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once fondly lov'd, and still remember'd dear Last Line: Or haply lies beneath th' atlantic roar. Subject(s): Love; Time XAIPE: 65, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thank you god for most this amazing Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving; Time; War XAIPE: 65, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thank you god for most this amazing Last Line: Now the eyes of my eyes are opened Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving; Time; War YE VERNAL HOURS, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye vernal hours, glad days that once have been! Last Line: And youth, once past, for aye hath past away! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Time; Youth YE WHO ARE TO SING, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O silence of all silences, where wait Last Line: If graves may listen then, I then shall listening be! Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Death; Time; Dead, The YEAR'S INTERLUDE, by PEARL COUNCIL HIATT Poem Text First Line: The nights grow cool and longer, and the days Last Line: The quiet, deep-toned peace of past septembers. Subject(s): Time YEARS, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Years, many parti-colour'd years Last Line: I see it not, nor hear adieu. Subject(s): Time YEARS, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have wished you dead and myself dead Subject(s): Relationships; Time YEARS, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have wished you dead and myself dead Last Line: And leaned over the railing at the top- %strong and warm, that summer wind Subject(s): Relationships; Time YEARS AFTER, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: The years upon you lightly lie Last Line: And that, of course, is why I save them! Subject(s): Aging; Longing; Man-woman Relationships; Past; Time; Male-female Relations YEARS FROM NOW, by KIM SO-WOL Poem Source First Line: Should you come to me Last Line: But years from now, %I shall say: 'I have forgotten' Subject(s): Time YELLOW LEAVES, by BENJAMIN ROBBINS CURTIS LOW Poem Text First Line: Songs, once heard, are heard again Last Line: There is no tomorrow. Subject(s): Leaves; Time YESTERDAY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My friend, he spoke of a woman's face Last Line: That yesterday is the long ago. Subject(s): Faces; Flowers; Past; Time YESTERDAY AND TOMORROW, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday I held your hand Last Line: Look where gleams the morrow. Subject(s): Absence; Time; Separation; Isolation YESTERDAYS, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sixty-two, sixty-three, I most remember Subject(s): Memory; Poetry & Poets; Time; Friendship YIJIAN MEI: SEEING OFF SPRING, by XU CAN Poem Source First Line: Three months of spring radiance have all abandoned one Last Line: Tomorrow will be late Subject(s): Time YOU AND I, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What would you say / if you were I Last Line: Ah, not again! Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Time YOU CONSTITUTED TIME, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: My slow idolatry Variant Title(s): Poem: 488; Poem: 76 Subject(s): Time YOU KNOW ALL THIS, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first, violent year Subject(s): Time; Love YOU STEP IN THE SAME RIVER ONCE ONLY, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The bruised fingers of what might have been Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Chance; Life; Nature; Time YOU TALK OF GOING BUT DON'T EVEN HAVE A SUITCASE, by JOHN WIENERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will be an old man sometime Subject(s): Old Age; Time; Memory YOU WHO LOOK ON PASSED AGES AS A GLASS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: It shall be nothing to the end of time Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Past; Time YOU, ANDREW MARVELL, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And here face down beneath the sun Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); Night; Poetry & Poets; Time; Bedtime YOU, ANDREW MARVELL, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And here face down beneath the sun Last Line: To feel how swift, how secretly, %the shadow of the night comes on Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); Night; Poetry And Poets; Time YOUTH. A SONNET SEQUENCE: PREMONITION, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The colorless thin voices of the dark Last Line: In years to come, more desolate than these. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Time |
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