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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: WHITE (COLOR) Matches Found: 40 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SNOW MOUNTAIN, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can I make white enough my thought for thee Last Line: Our only greatness is that we aspire. Subject(s): Life; Mountains; Snow; White (color); Hills; Downs (great Britain) ABSTRACTION, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What rabbit leaps from that trick top-hat Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Rabbits; White (color); Hares AN AIR CLOUD, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: I watched a little cloud one day Last Line: But I was lying there. Subject(s): Clouds; Sky; White (color) BLACK AND WHITE, by GRACE SCHULMAN Poem Source First Line: White stones, frost, doves, icelight, icewind Last Line: Mocking the raucous clash of black-and-white Subject(s): Black (color); White (color) FEBRUARY: THE BOY BREUGHEL, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The birches stand in their beggar's row Last Line: A sunrise. The snow. Subject(s): Animals; Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Foxes; Rabbits; Red (color); Violence; White (color); Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter; Hares FULL MOON, by LUCILE ENLOW Poem Text First Line: I / am the still, white moon Last Line: Soon you will reach it—soon! Subject(s): Death; Moon; Night; White (color); Dead, The; Bedtime HEART O' BEAUTY, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O where are thy white hands, heart o' beauty? Last Line: Heart o' beauty! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Beauty; Hands; Hearts; Waves; White (color) INCANTATION, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A white well Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): White (color); Black (color) LANDING, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a pure white cloud that hung there Last Line: Direction to their endless drift. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Clouds; Mankind; Mirages; Sky; White (color); Human Race MORPHINE, by TAMA BALDWIN Poem Source First Line: Body in the isolette Last Line: They are always %occupied Subject(s): Bodies; Clouds; White (color) MY CRYSTAL BRIDE, by WILLIAM EDWARD ADAMS Poem Text First Line: Out of the vision of night she has come Last Line: Shines in my holiest room. Subject(s): Brides; Marriage; White (color); Weddings; Husbands; Wives NAILSWORTH HILL, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: The moon, that peeped as she came up Last Line: Where no such trees have ever been? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Light; Moon; White (color) NUIT BLANCHE, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want no horns to rouse me up to-night Subject(s): Night; Music & Musicians; Ghosts; White (color); Bedtime PURPLE VEINS, by MILDRED FOWLER FIELD Poem Text First Line: He dreamed - just once - of touching a white woman Last Line: Reeling trees and rippled purple silence! Subject(s): African Americans; Colors; Racism; White (color); Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry SIMONE, by REMY DE GOURMONT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Simone, white as your neck is the snow I see Last Line: Your brow is sad beneath your auburn hair. Subject(s): Cold; Grief; Snow; White (color); Sorrow; Sadness SNOW, by TZU LAN Poem Source First Line: Dense, swirling, falling through azure emptiness Last Line: Vagrant flakes drift in and stain his inkstone black Subject(s): Ice; Snow; White (color); Winter; Zen Buddhism SNOW CHANGE, by MAY LEWIS Poem Text First Line: I saw a white house, in the snow Last Line: The sweep of the hill. Alternate Author Name(s): Goldstone, Mrs. Lafayette Anthony Subject(s): Seasons; Snow; White (color); Winter SNOW REST, by CARMELITA A. LECLAIR Poem Text First Line: The down of angels wafted slowly to the earth Last Line: Obscured as the floss in a blanket heaven-made. Subject(s): Angels; Snow; White (color); Winter SNOW-WHITE WALL, by LIANG XIAOBIN Poem Source First Line: Mother, %I saw a snow-white wall Last Line: Mother, %I saw a snow-white wall Subject(s): Colors; Human Rights; Walls; White (color) THE BROWN BEAUTY, by EDWARD HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While the two contraries of black and white Last Line: You more than any may be dignifi'd. Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord Subject(s): Beauty; Black (color); Brown (color); White (color) THE MOON, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not long ago the moon was dark Last Line: And walk in brightness. Subject(s): Light; Moon; White (color) THE PALE WOMAN, by SARA BARD FIELD Poem Text First Line: Woman, why so pale and thin? Last Line: Would strive in such a little place? Alternate Author Name(s): Wood, Charles Erskine Scoot, Mrs. Subject(s): White (color); Women THE TWO FLAMES, by ELOISE BRITON Poem Text First Line: Behind my mask of life there lies a shrine Last Line: My leaping flames, the red one and the white. Subject(s): Fire; Friendship; Life; Love; Passion; Red (color); White (color) THEY SHALL BE AS WHITE AS SNOW, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whiteness most white Last Line: Whiteness most white. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Virtue; White (color) THOUGHT IN WHITE WINTER, by MARGUERITE E. ROSEBERY Poem Text First Line: The mountains high are white with snow Last Line: For human pity's sake. Subject(s): Cold; Rocky Mountain Range; Snow; White (color); Winter TO MARILYN MONROE WHOSE FAVORITE COLOR WAS WHITE, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you wriggled onto the silver screen, marilyn- Last Line: White sleep history promised. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Chastity; Monroe, Marilyn (1926-1962); White (color) WEDDING CAKE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once on a plane Last Line: Was funnier than the whole arm. Subject(s): Babies; Brides; Clothing & Dress; Marriage; White (color); Infants; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WHITE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To move into it again, as it was Last Line: To look again at the reflection of her huge eye in water. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Cows; Water; White (color) WHITE, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the bright spectrum of years Subject(s): White (color); Likes & Dislikes WHITE, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of poverty Subject(s): White (color); Conduct Of Life WHITE CHAPTER, by JACK ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: In this part of the story you wake up and find that everything is white Last Line: Firing squad will have the white handkerchief painted indelibly upon his eyes Subject(s): White (color) WHITE CONCLUSION, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What's left of the day Subject(s): White (color) WHITE HUNGER, by KATHRYN WORTH Poem Text First Line: Softly the silly flocks of snow Last Line: Leaving no golden crumbs behind. Subject(s): Birds; Hunger; White (color) WHITE LOVER, by JOY HAUSMANN Poem Text First Line: She was afraid of things too gleaming white Last Line: At peace beneath a pall like april blossoms. Subject(s): Fear; Funerals; White (color); Burials WHITE MALES, by ROBERT MCALMON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White stallions dashed by Subject(s): White (color) WHITE UPON WHITE - A POEM WRITTEN IN JEST, by ZHANG YINYUAN Poem Source First Line: A crane struts on the clean jasper terrace Last Line: A gentle moon plucks a pear blossom Subject(s): White (color) WHITE-HANDS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O where in the north, or where in the south Last Line: O, come to me, honey-mouth! Bend to me, honey-mouth! Give me thy kiss! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Hands; Kisses; Love; Mouths; White (color) WHITENESS, by MARION PELTON GUILD Poem Text First Line: Long, long years my heart has worshipped whiteness Last Line: Lead me to thy citadels of whiteness! Subject(s): Wellesley College; White (color) WHY BIRCH TREES ARE WHITE, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: I've seen thousands, millions by now, and still they amaze me Last Line: All things, the peace so profound it passes all understanding Subject(s): Birch Trees; White (color) WINTER'S SNOW, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Soft clinging robe of purest white Last Line: Beneath the sun of day. Subject(s): Seasons; Silence; Snow; White (color); Winter |
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