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First Line: Ichot a burde in boure bryght
Last Line: "blou northernw wynd! Blou, blou, blou!"
Subject(s): North Wind


& YOU DO YOU LOOK UP, by DENNIS COOLEY    Poem Source                    
Last Line: On its way to loneliness
Subject(s): Solitude; Wind


10-AUG, by JR. RALPH JOSEPH MILLS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wind moves at %the porch door
Subject(s): Sun; Wind


A BALLAD OF APPEAL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Song wakes with every wakening year
Last Line: Sweet water from the well of song.
Subject(s): Spring; Wind


A CARELESS HEART, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind has blown my heart away
Last Line: The wind did blow my heart away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Love; Wind


A CAVEAT TO THE WIND, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sing high, sing low, thou moody wind
Last Line: Meet co-mate for a shrew like thee!
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac
Subject(s): Wind


A COLD BELL RINGING IN THE EAST, by BRENDAN JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It woke me to this full moon
Subject(s): Wind


A COLD NOT THE OPPOSITE OF LIFE, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nothing but pine boards between her and wind that would not
Last Line: Nothing but pine boards between her and wind that would not
Subject(s): Nothing But Pine Boards Between Her And Wind That Would No


A DANCING SONG TO THE MISTRAL WIND, by FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wildly rushing, clouds outleaping
Last Line: Till it reach the farthest star.
Subject(s): Wind


A DEAD CALM AND MIST (TOWARDS EVENING), by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The slow heave of the sleeping sea
Last Line: Save just a dream of amethyst.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Dreams; Evening; Sea; Wind; Nightmares; Sunset; Twilight; Ocean


A DOUBLE BALLAD OF AUGUST, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All afric, winged with death and fire
Last Line: Life yearns for solace toward the sea.
Subject(s): August; Sea; Wind; Ocean


A DREAM OF INSPIRATION, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To loll back, in a misty hammock, swung
Last Line: Save fancy's hinted chime of unknown seas.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Creative Ability; Dreams; Hammocks; Wind; Inspiration; Creativity; Nightmares


A FINCH SITTING OUT A WINDSTORM, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Solemnly irritated by the turn
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): Finches; Wind


A FRAGMENT, by STEPHANE MALLARME    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: On battlemented morningside
Last Line: The grasses and the leaves are still.
Subject(s): Wind; Winter


A GENTLE WIND, by FU HSUAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A gentle wind fans the calm night
Last Line: To me they seem no more than weeds or chaff.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hsiu-i; Fu Xuan
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Wind


A GREEN WAVE, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Between the salt sea-send before
Last Line: With plumes from the grey clouds that fly.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Sea; Sky; Wind; Ocean


A LAMENT FOR THE SUMMER, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Moan, o ye autumn winds!
Last Line: And leave us desolate and earth forlorn!
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Death; Lament; Seasons; Summer; Wind; Dead, The


A LANDSCAPE BY COURBET, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Low lies the mere beneath the moorside, still
Last Line: Low lies the mere.
Subject(s): Roundels; Summer; Wind


A MOUNTAIN WIND, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The cold limbs of the air
Last Line: Brother to grass and stones.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Mountains; Wind; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


A NIGHT-PIECE BY MILLET, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wind and sea and cloud and cloud-forsaking
Last Line: Wind and sea.
Subject(s): Roundels; Sea; Storms; Wind; Ocean


A PRAYER TO THE WIND, by THOMAS CAREW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Go, thou gentle whispering wind
Last Line: Or else quite extinguish mine.
Variant Title(s): Love's Errand
Subject(s): Desire; Wind


A PRINT BY HOKUSAI, by FLORENCE KILPATRICK MIXTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Of what avail
Last Line: And fill the night with death!
Subject(s): Wind


A SEA CHARM, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Winds that waft the fisher-fleet
Last Line: My mermaiden!
Subject(s): Mermaids & Mermen; New York City; Sea; Wind; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Ocean


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 SLEEPING BEAUTY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An alien wind that blew and blew
Last Line: As he turned to go -- yet, pausing, gazed?
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Fairy Tales; Insects; Nature; Wind; Bugs


A STAVE OF ROVING TIM, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind is east, the wind is west
Last Line: Is in and out of haven.
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wind


A STORM, by MOTHER GOOSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Arthur o'bower has broken his band
Last Line: Cannot turn arthur of the bower.
Variant Title(s): Riddle: The Wind
Subject(s): Riddles; Wind


A STORM IN SUMMER, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nature that day a woman was in weakness
Last Line: Burst into tears.
Subject(s): Nature; Storms; Wind


A THEORY OF WIND, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is how the page must feel: it doesn't
Subject(s): Wind


A WIND-CALL, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dust thou art, and unto dust
Last Line: Playfellow, return thou must.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Wind


A WINDFLOWER, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind stooped down and wrote a sweet, small word
Last Line: The wind's word in the grass.
Subject(s): Wind


A WINDY DAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dawn was a dawn of splendor
Last Line: In a spatter of spiteful rain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dawn; Prayer; Trees; Wind; Sunrise


A WINTER HEDGEROW, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wintry wolds are white; the wind
Last Line: The shrewmice sleep 'mid nested leaves.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Wind; Winter


A WINTER HYMN, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O weary winds! O winds that wail!
Last Line: On some fair spring-dawn fresh from god!
Subject(s): Wind


A WINTER'S NIGHT, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind has reverenced the splendor of the night
Last Line: I would to-night the storms were all awake!
Subject(s): Night; Storms; Wind; Winter; Bedtime


A WORD WITH THE WIND, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lord of days and nights that hear thy word of wintry warming
Last Line: Far as foam that laughs and leaps along the sea.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nature; Night; Sea; Wind; Nightmares; Bedtime; Ocean


A YEAR'S CAROLS: FEBRUARY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wan february with weeping cheer
Last Line: But lit with hopes that light the year's.
Subject(s): February; Seasons; Wind


A YEAR'S CAROLS: MARCH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hail, happy march, whose foot on earth
Last Line: Of tempest and the towering morn.
Subject(s): March (month); Seasons; Wind


ABSENCE IN SPRING, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What boots it me to see this verdure fair
Last Line: Her who doth hold my life and death in hers.
Subject(s): Absence; Death; Life; Spring; Wind; Winter; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The


AFTER, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And in the after silences
Last Line: By monstrous rocks, a lonely soul.
Subject(s): Silence; Soul; Wind


AFTER A JUNE NIGHT'S STORM, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910)    Poem Text                    
First Line: O what a day of lovely light
Last Line: By a draught of her gladdening wine.
Subject(s): Nature; Storms; Wind


AFTER SUNSET, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Straight from the sun's grave in the deep clear west
Last Line: That love's last mortal word was not his last.
Subject(s): Death; Night; Sun; Wind; Dead, The; Bedtime


AFTER THE CHINESE, by TESS GALLAGHER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By daybreak a north wind has shaken
Last Line: Prefers a north wind
Subject(s): Wind


AFTERNOON OF SAND, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like retarded water
Subject(s): Seashore; Wind; Beach; Coast; Shore


AGAIN CONSIDER THE WIND, by BROOKS HAXTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The wind continuing to turn and turn back
Last Line: With three strokes so that the steel rang, I was there, %andthe wind carried the music across the po
Subject(s): Wind


AGAIN THE WIND, by JAMES J. DALY    Poem Text                    
First Line: You praise the wind, but I
Last Line: Had the intolerable wind blown.
Subject(s): Wind


AIR, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Element that utters doves, angels and cleft flames
Last Line: Like silence into music, opening a way through time.
Subject(s): Air; Wind


ALL FOR ME, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The world grows green on a thousand hills
Last Line: You and your court came north together.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Flowers; Kisses; Summer; Wind


AN ANTHEM IN HEAT, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Now praise the lord, both moon and sun
Last Line: And bids us live at evenfall.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Country Life; Evening; God; Nature; Praise; Summer; Wind; Sunset; Twilight


AN END TO THE WIND, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The month-long wind had ceased. Trees that / were weary
Last Line: And lift her cheek to springlike suns and dews.
Subject(s): Wind


AN ENGLISH BREEZE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up with the sun, the breeze arose
Last Line: She gallops by the fields along.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Morning; Wind


AN OPEN BOAT, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O what is that whimpering there in the darkness?
Last Line: To fret the bare seas at the breaking of day.
Subject(s): Boats; Death; Faces; Sea; Voices; Wind; Dead, The; Ocean


AND THE RUSTLING BOUGH AS AN ALPHABET, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like anything else, the air in motion
Subject(s): Wind


ANDANTE FOR AUTUMN, by HERMAN SALINGER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Evening was brown and misty / the window
Last Line: Marched untriumphant past.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Wind; Fall


AS IF: (A) WIND, by MOLLY LOU FREEMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: (that breeze was so touching.)
Last Line: She left the window open, %said, come in
Subject(s): Wind


AT MIDNIGHT'S HOUR I RAISED MY HEAD, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The word was whispered through the ranks,
Subject(s): Night; Wind


AT NIGHT; SONNET, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind is singing through the trees tonight
Last Line: The freedom of the onward sweeping wind.
Subject(s): Wind


AT PLAY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: There's a rogue at play in my sunlit room
Last Line: For west wind is his name
Subject(s): Wind


AT THE WIND'S WILL, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So far, so far have I come
Last Line: Blow on, strong wind! I will know.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Wind


AUTUMN, by JESSE SILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: In token of his bounteous grace
Last Line: Youth will not come to thy beck and call.
Subject(s): Autumn; Decay; Leaves; Seasons; Wind; Fall; Rot; Decadence


AUTUMN, by WILL H. SKALING    Poem Text                    
First Line: On distant hills, maples glow
Last Line: Wild geese flying by.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Weather; Wind; Fall


AUTUMN LEAVES, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The autumn leaves are turning fast
Last Line: The spirit doth reveal.
Subject(s): Autumn; Cold; Leaves; Seasons; Wind; Fall


AUTUMN SONG, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A keen west wind from the hills away
Last Line: Hopes and dreamings and dead desires.
Subject(s): Autumn; Desire; Hope; Memory; Seasons; Singing & Singers; Wind; Fall; Optimism; Songs


AUTUMN TIME, by HERMAN J. D. CARTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tarnished leaves scurry across the plains
Last Line: That he is not changing to moldy sod.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Wind; Fall


AUTUMN WIND, by ALFRED D. BUTTS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Break, o wind! / break against the trees
Last Line: Kick up your heels and run away!
Subject(s): Autumn; Dust; Seasons; Weather; Wind; Fall


AUTUMN WIND, by GEORGE H. DILLON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now speaks the naked wind alone
Last Line: It is the only endless song.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Wind; Fall


AUTUMN WIND, by LIU CH'E    Poem Source                    
First Line: Autumn wind rises
Last Line: Helpless before old age!
Subject(s): Wind


AUTUMN WIND, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It sings, and every flower and weed
Last Line: Is all I have to give.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Wind


AUTUMN WIND, by WU-TI (157 B.C.- 87 B.C.)    Poem Source                    
First Line: The autumn wind rises
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Wind


AUTUMN WINDS, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The autumn gales are blowing
Last Line: I'd breathe my life away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Autumn; Life; Nature; Seasons; Wind; Fall


AUTUMN WINDS, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O autumn winds, with voices far away
Last Line: And stand forth free to struggle and endure!
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Trees; Wind; Fall


AUTUMNAL, by MARK IRWIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The saffron-colored leaves are cresting into their moment. It's
Last Line: It is to be here. And because we are not gone, still we are early
Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Nature; Seasons; Wind


AUTUMNAL, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To-night the tumult of the autumn wind
Last Line: A little while, o leaves, and we shall know!
Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Earth; Seasons; Wind; Fall; Dead, The; World


AUTUMNAL VESPERS, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The clarion wind, that blew so loud at morn
Last Line: My strength, o god! In thine
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Autumn; Life; Love; Memory; Seasons; Wind; Fall


BALLAD OF THE SONG OF THE SEA-WIND, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the song the sea-wind sings
Last Line: Her central fires make one vast flame!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Sea; Wind; Ocean


BEAUTIFUL SNOW, by MAJOR SIGOURNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beautiful snow! Beautiful snow!
Last Line: Pity the homeless exposed to the cold, icy snow.
Subject(s): Beauty; Cold; Grief; Happiness; Homeless; Poverty; Snow; Wind; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


BECALMED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Would that the winds might
Last Line: Ah! That the winds might rise and blow!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Mythology; Wind


BECAUSE WORDS HAVE NO EFFECT UPON THE WIND, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is to stay alive
Subject(s): Language; Wind; Trees; Survival


BEWARE OF THE WIND, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beware of the wind when it talks to your heart
Last Line: And says such things as none should say.
Subject(s): Life; Prudence; Wind; Caution


BIG WIND, by THEODORE ROETHKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where were the greenhouses going
Subject(s): Wind


BIG WIND, by THEODORE ROETHKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where were the greenhouses going
Last Line: She sailed until the calm morning %carrying her full cargo of roses
Subject(s): Wind


BIRTHDAY THOUGHTS, by MABEL CELIA SAUNDERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: It is sad today / and the winds blow wild
Last Line: I'll always be young.
Subject(s): Wind; Youth


BITTER CHOICE, by ELLEN MAGRATH CARROLL    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have leant upon a sword
Last Line: Blow wild!
Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Children; Swords; Wind; Weapons; Ammunition; Childhood


BITTER-SWEET, by J. ROY ZEISS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Like the rustle of old silk thru barren halls
Last Line: In fantastic transient moods.
Subject(s): Solitude; Trees; Wind; Loneliness


BLIND ALLEY, by F. B. CAPERIL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, on the four wings of the wind
Last Line: Stopped in the pastures, walled and windy.
Subject(s): Wind


BLOW WIND, BLOW! / AND GO, MILL, GO! (1), by MOTHER GOOSE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And into rolls make it, %and send us some hot in the morn
Subject(s): Bread; Wind


BLOW, WIND, by NORMA FARBER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I watched the waving milkweed tips
Last Line: Purse up into a whistle
Subject(s): Wind


BLOW, WIND, BLOW! / AND GO, MILL, GO, by MOTHER GOOSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And send us some hot in the morn
Subject(s): Wind


BONES, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It takes a long time to hear what the sands seem to bee saying
Last Line: They extend farther than a man can see
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Sailors And Sailing; Sea Gulls; Shipwrecks; Storms; Wind


BOUND AND FREE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come to me, love! Come on the wings of the wind!
Last Line: That you must be bound, love, and I must be free.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Fate; Freedom; Life; Love; Wind; Youth; Destiny; Liberty


BREATH OF THE BRIAR, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O briar-scents, on yon wet wing
Last Line: My thirst to bite where she had bit.
Subject(s): Brier; Love; Wind; Briar


BY FAUGHAN, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For hills and woods and streams unsung
Last Line: Between the silence and the wind.
Subject(s): Flowers; Purple (color); Sea; Sheep; Violets; Wind; Ocean


BY MARCH WIND LED, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wild beleaguering march wind storms my door
Last Line: Your evil power -- my soul ye shall not daunt.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Wind


CANDLE LIGHT, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hush, true love, as we sit and think
Last Line: And we kiss by candle light!
Subject(s): Candles; Love; Night; Sea; Soul; Wind; Winter; Bedtime; Ocean


CAPE DREAD, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For those who come after, that is how we named it
Last Line: But delectable, at least at that season
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Disasters; Sailors And Sailing; Shipwrecks; Storms; Weather; Wind


CAPRICE, by ELLEN G. HILLEBOE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The roguish wind, when bored with play
Last Line: The roguish wind.
Subject(s): Wind


CHANSON D'AUTOMNE, by PAUL VERLAINE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The autumn wind wails thin, / like a sobbing violin
Last Line: When the winter gusts begin to and fro
Subject(s): Wind; Grief; Winter


CHINOISERIE, by BABETTE DEUTSCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: A cloud of shivering silver
Last Line: The sky is a glowing poppy, all unfurled.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yarmolinsky, Avrahm, Mrs.
Subject(s): Clouds; Weather; Wind


CHORISTERS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O wind and waters, ye alone
Last Line: The echoes dies away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Wind


CHRIST AND THE WINDS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From bethlehem to calvary
Last Line: We, wanderers, remain alone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Wind


CINQUAIN: NIGHT WINDS, by ADELAIDE CRAPSEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The old / old winds that blew
Last Line: Should weep?
Subject(s): Wind


CINQUAIN: WIND, by KENNETH CHING    Poem Text                    
First Line: He shoots
Last Line: A prisoner.
Subject(s): Wind


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 41. 'NORTH WIND', by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Chilly is the north wind
Last Line: We must leave now!
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Wind


CLEAR AWAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Clear away, clear away
Last Line: Where the little cloud hid away
Subject(s): Wind; Clouds


CLEORA BECOMES A DAKOTAN, by HARRIET SEYMOUR POPOWSKI    Poem Text                    
First Line: Cleora rose and shivered, looking out
Last Line: "you don't hear the wind after while . . . Or mind it . . . Much"" . . ."
Subject(s): Wind


CLIMATIC, by JEAN COOPER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The soft breeze caresses the epidermis
Last Line: Until the breeze is no more!
Subject(s): Weather; Wind


COLD BELL RINGING IN THE EAST, by BRENDAN JAMES GALVIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It woke me to this full moon
Last Line: In scrub, then dusk itself, %with its air of invisible mending
Subject(s): Wind


COMBINATIONS, by CATHERINE CATE COBLENTZ    Poem Text                    
First Line: Heartache and a crimson rose
Last Line: But sorrow twists the mouth.
Subject(s): Flowers; Grief; Roses; Wind; Wisdom; Sorrow; Sadness


COMPOSITION, by ADAM DICKINSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Collecting strewn branches after high winds
Last Line: And find a way to release the genius %of a hill
Subject(s): Collectors And Collecting; Trees; Wind


CONTRADICTION, by ELIZABETH E. FOULKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Today the wind toys with the trees
Last Line: Are you the wind, shall I believe?
Subject(s): Wind


CONTRASTS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind is roaring down the lake
Last Line: Will never bloom again!
Subject(s): Evil; Mountains; Soul; Wind; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


CONVERSATION WITH A KITE, by BOBBI KATZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Come back, come back, my runaway kite!
Last Line: That I give to a child of the land
Subject(s): Wind


COOK COUNTY, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The northeast wind was the wind off the lake
Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald
Variant Title(s): Weather
Subject(s): Nature; Weather; Wind


COOK COUNTY, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The northeast wind was the wind off the lake
Last Line: And snow on the sand where in summer the water was...
Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald
Variant Title(s): Weathe
Subject(s): Nature; Weather; Wind


CORNISH WIND, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a wind in cornwall that I know
Last Line: A wind in england like my cornish wind.
Subject(s): Cornwall, England; Wind


CRICK! CRACK!, by EVE MERRIAM    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Crick! Crack! %wind at my back
Last Line: One mitten to lose
Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva
Subject(s): Wind


DANGER, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With what a childish and short sighted sense
Last Line: Lies hid the pebble for the fatal sling.
Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt
Subject(s): Advice; Death; Wind; Dead, The


DAWN WINDS, by VERA NICOLSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The valley lies in shadow - all silver grey with dew
Last Line: For they hear the glad reveille that the dawn winds blow.
Subject(s): Dawn; Wind; Sunrise


DAYS THAT THE WIND TAKES OVER, by KARLA KUSKIN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Later the wind came back %alone
Subject(s): Wind


DEAD CENTER, by MICHAEL CAREY    Poem Source                    
First Line: He didn't know why he did it, he just did. There were seven tornadoes
Last Line: Grass and a fading terror and the rush of blood in the urge to be lifted
Subject(s): Disasters; Hurricanes; Weather; Wind


DEDICATION TO POEMS AND BALLADS, 1ST SERIES, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sea gives her shells to the shingle
Last Line: Night sinks on the sea.
Variant Title(s): Dedication: 1865
Subject(s): Earth; Nature; Sea; Seasons; Wind; World; Ocean


DEIRDRE IS DEAD, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The grey wind weeps, the grey wind weeps, the grey wind weeps
Last Line: Dust on her breast, dust on her eyes, the grey wind weeps!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Brigid Of Ireland, Saint (453-523); Death; Deirdre; Drowning; Grief; Wind; Bridget, Saint; Brigit Of Kildare, Saint; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


DIRGE IN WOODS, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A wind sways the pines
Last Line: Even so.
Subject(s): Forests; Pine Trees; Wind; Woods


DO YOU FEAR THE WIND?, by HAMLIN GARLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Do you fear the force of the wind
Last Line: But you'll walk like a man!
Subject(s): Wilderness; Wind


DOWN TIME'S QUAINT STREAM, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Or schedule of the tide
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Tides; Wind


DRUMS OF THE WIND, by VIRGINIA HAW    Poem Text                    
First Line: The drums of the wind with gusty beat
Last Line: Mark time for rain.
Subject(s): Rain; Wind


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


DUST SPOUT, by MARY BEALE CARR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Behold, I am a spinner
Last Line: When dust returns to dust.
Subject(s): Wind


DWARF JUNIPER, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nothing can more harshly interpret
Last Line: Swept into stiffened spirals by gale winds
Subject(s): Cyclones; Storms; Wind


EAST WIND, by CHARLES BUXTON GOING    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gray-cowled wind of the east!
Subject(s): East Wind


EDDY-GRAMS: 4. STORM AND TRAVAIL, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Trees may crash beneath a cyclone
Last Line: When he shall unlock the door.
Subject(s): Cyclones; Lightning; Storms; Tragedy; Wind; Lightning Rods


ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: WIND, by GARY SOTO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A dry wind over the valley
Last Line: And I take on another life
Subject(s): Farm Life; San Joaquin Valley, California; Wind


ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: WIND (2), by GARY SOTO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When you got up this morning the sun
Last Line: Was moving under your skin and already far %from the small hives of your lungs
Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California; Wind


EMERGENCY COMMISSION, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Self-tossed out of heart
Last Line: Carry the crush and shock?
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Storms; Wind


EMPIRE (PERSEPOLIS), by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The yellow waste of yellow sands
Last Line: The memory of persepolis?
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Temples; Wind; Mosques


EPIGRAM: 5, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He is not dead that sometime hath a fall
Last Line: Doeth ryse again and greater wode doeth bind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 60. From The City
Subject(s): Death; Fortune; Sun; Wind; Dead, The


EPITHALAMIUM, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For the first time the wind
Last Line: My faith in it is passing.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Wind


ERIE WATERS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A dash of yellow sand
Last Line: With flying clouds and tossing gulls that weave and interlace.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Waves; Wind; Seamen; Sails; Ocean


ERINNERUNG, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At the door of my thatched hut
Last Line: Sounds like the rustle of brocaded silk
Subject(s): China; Gingko Trees; Wind


ERINNERUNG, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At the door of my thatched hut
Last Line: Sounds like the rustle of brocaded silk
Subject(s): China; Gingko Trees; Wind


EUROCLYDON, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Scarce loosed from crete
Last Line: And undergird the ship.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Wind


EVENING AFTER STORM, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Around these city towers there churns
Last Line: Passing over, glances in.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs.
Subject(s): Storms; Wind


EXPLAINING THE BITTERNESS OF THE WIND, by RICHARD RAY KIRK    Poem Text                    
First Line: The wind has no home but the wide world
Last Line: And the wind is bitter at times, and I think no wonder!
Subject(s): Wind


FAIR, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Blow, blow, etesian gale!
Last Line: Lucilla's cap is straight.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Wind


FALL WIND, by MARGARET HILLERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: I scarcely felt a breath of air
Last Line: Like drops of colored rain
Subject(s): Wind


FIRST WIND OF AUTUMN, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a wind blowing
Subject(s): Wind; Autumn; Fall


FLAME ON THE WIND, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O wind without that moans and cries, o dark
Last Line: Mid dirges of white shapes that plunge and sway.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Desire; Fire; Hearts; Pain; Soul; Wind; Suffering; Misery


FLAUBERT AT CROISSET, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind would veer, and over the sound
Last Line: Often. Listening to them I died: %I died for every word
Subject(s): Death; Wind


FLIGHT OF THE WESTWIND, by NELLIE M. SHEVLIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Smooth as the course of an arrow
Last Line: Melting into sunset's glow.
Subject(s): Wind


FOOL-YOUNGENS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Me an' bert' an' minnie-belle
Last Line: An' ist choke a-laughin'.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Laughter; Trees; Wind


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 ROSALINE'S ALBUM, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Do you hear the low winds singing
Last Line: None must come save you and she.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Bells; Brooks; Mothers; Wind; Streams; Creeks


FOR THE NIGHT TO WEAR, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: For the twilight, the wet snow
Last Line: The polar wind.
Subject(s): Snow; Wind; Winter


FOUR WINDS, by MOTHER GOOSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The south wind brings wet weather
Last Line: Old rhyme.
Variant Title(s): Proverbial Weather Rhymes;the Winds
Subject(s): Weather; Wind


FOUR WINDS , by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Four winds blowing thro' the sky
Last Line: Then will love be kind to thee
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Wind


FRAGMENTS (6), by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From labours through the night, outworn
Last Line: We mount to her, to her belong.
Subject(s): Night; Wind; Bedtime


FREE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lost poems drift
Last Line: Flying verse is free
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Wind


FROM THE BOOK OF BALETTES, by THOMAS WILLARD CLARK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Blow, northern wind, come back centuries late
Last Line: He'd dance to gladly if he but knew the tune
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Tom
Subject(s): North Wind


FUGITIVES, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tonight, far inland from the sea
Last Line: The shaken reed, the scattered spray.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Wind


GO WIND, by LILIAN MOORE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Go wind, blow
Last Line: Not me- %not me
Subject(s): Wind


GOD OF THE WINDS, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am a god of winds that are!
Last Line: —s. D. State fair, second prize. 1932
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Wind


GOSHEN GAP, by KATHERINE SONIAT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oaks make an altogether deadly rattle
Last Line: That crippled pause in the moonlight
Subject(s): Trees; Wind


GRACE DARLING; OR THE WRECK OF THE 'FORFARSHIRE', by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As the night was beginning to close in one rough september day
Last Line: And for her equal in true heroism we cannot find another.
Subject(s): Disasters; Heroism; Pain; Sea; Shipwrecks; Steamboats; Storms; Survival; Wind; Heroes; Heroines; Suffering; Misery; Ocean


GRAVES, by FRANCIS SALTUS SALTUS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The sad night wind, sighing o'er sea and strand
Last Line: And lull the long grass over baudelaire.
Subject(s): Graves; Grief; Night; Wind; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime


HAD I WIST, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Had I wist, when life was like a warm wind playing
Last Line: Had I wist.'
Subject(s): Flowers; Life; Roses; Roundels; Wind


HAPPY, by B. J. BUHROW    Poem Source                    
First Line: The house was perfectly silent
Last Line: And called it anything else: %daughter, cool wind, open window, silence
Subject(s): Happiness; Mothers And Daughters; Silence; Wind


HAPPY WIND, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, happy wind, how sweet
Last Line: To be alive this day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Wind


HEALED, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The winds like a pack of hounds
Last Line: And its face was the face of a mother, and its voice was the voice of a child.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Dust; Healing; Storms; Wind; Cures


HENDECASYLLABICS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the month of the long decline of roses
Last Line: "iron blossom of frost is bound for ever."
Subject(s): Flowers; Seasons; Summer; Wind


HESPERUS, by JAQUELINE NEWTON DELAMATER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wind of the summer
Last Line: Hesperus, bearer of memories!
Subject(s): Wind


HIGH WIND AT THE BATTERY, by RALPH POMEROY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The corner bank has lost a great window
Last Line: That the city is getting a needed dusting - %means that we're that much nearer to slow-coming spring
Subject(s): New York City; Wind


HISTORY, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All night the wind
Last Line: Creek remembers; and rages
Subject(s): History; Morning; Night; Rain; Wind; Historians; Bedtime


HORSEBACK ON THE LLANO ESTACANDO, by ANDY WILKINSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The wind is the oldest river, rhythmic
Last Line: Until the wind is a river no more
Subject(s): Ranch Life; Wind


HOW RUTHLESS ARE THE GENTLE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To qualify the wind
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1439; Poem: 146
Subject(s): Wind


HURRICANE, by JOSE MARIA DE+(1) HEREDIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lord of the winds! I feel thee nigh
Last Line: Alone with the terrible hurricane
Subject(s): Hurricanes; Sailors And Sailing; Wind


HUSH-A-BYE BABY, by SUNDAIRA MORNINGHOUSE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: In a sun-sweet forest %of loving arms
Subject(s): Wind


HYMN TO THE WINDS, by JOACHIM DU BELLAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To you, troop so fleet
Last Line: In the sun's heat.
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Bellay, Joachim
Subject(s): Wind


I BET WITH EVERY WIND THAT BLEW, TILL NATURE IN CHAGRIN, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And scuttle my balloon
Subject(s): Wind


I LIKE THE WIND, by ROBERT WRIGLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We are at or near that approximate line
Subject(s): Wind


I MUST GROPE AS I PICK, by OSHIKOCHI NO MITSUNE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Though it howls as it goes, %can never be seen
Subject(s): Wind


I SAW THE WIND WITHIN HER, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I asked humility
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1502; Poem: 153
Subject(s): Wind


I SEE YOU, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I see you, stranger, reaching out to touch
Last Line: Where cold winds blow
Subject(s): Cold; Strangers; Wind


I SOWED TO THE WIND MY SIGH, by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I sowed to the wind my sigh
Last Line: Rolled in the dust and blood - -
Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman
Subject(s): Wind


I THINK THAT THE ROOT OF THE WIND IS WATER, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: In the atmosphere
Subject(s): Wind; Water


I-BRASIL, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's sorrow on the wind, my grief, theres' sorrow on the wind
Last Line: Far away, far away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Grief; Old Age; Peace; Singing & Singers; Wind; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sorrow; Sadness


IN DEAR VENDOME, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My des autels, whose true
Last Line: Your friend, ronsard.
Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; Justice; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Wind; World; Paradise


IN JULY (SOUTH OF ROME), by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pale-rose the dust lying thick upon the road
Last Line: Faint through the golden glimmer of the heat.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): July; Rome, Italy; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Wind


IN NEW YORK: 4. IN THE NIGHT, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Drifting, groping / for delight
Last Line: Not there?
Subject(s): Love; Night; Sleep; Wind; Bedtime


IN THE HAMMOCK, by ROSE TERRY COOKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How the stars shine out at sea!
Last Line: And my eyes shine -- I've been swinging.
Subject(s): Hammocks; Wind


IN THE NIGHT, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O wind, why break in idle pain
Last Line: This thing that hath no grave.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Hearts; Immortality; Pain; Waves; Wind; Suffering; Misery


INDIGNATION, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Blurred in a whirlwind, a mighty cloud of dust
Last Line: I blotted out your light
Subject(s): Anger; Wind


INSIDE OUT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Look at leaves turning inside out
Last Line: Leaves turning. Stay. Move on. Stay. Move on.
Subject(s): Aging; Seasons; Wind


INTELLECTUAL LIMITATIONS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Parunts knows lots more than us
Last Line: "well, what is it, honey?"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Parents; Wind; Wisdom; Parenthood


INVOCATION, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who will waken the wind for me?
Last Line: Who will waken the wind?
Subject(s): Earth; Leprosy; Night; Pain; Wind; World; Lepers; Bedtime; Suffering; Misery


INVOCATION; WRITTEN IN THE GULF OF LYONS DURING A STORM, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Play me a lulling tune, o flute-player of sleep
Last Line: Beyond the last, low, long, oblivious sigh.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Comfort; Lyons, France; Prayer; Sea; Sleep; Storms; Wind; Ocean


INVOCATION; WRITTEN ON A VERY HOT DAY IN AUGUST, by HANNAH COWLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Cooling zephyrs haste away
Last Line: But dart, with vigour, to my arms!
Alternate Author Name(s): Matilda, Anna; Parkhouse, Hannah
Subject(s): Heat; Travel; Wind; Journeys; Trips


IT'S A LONG WAY, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's a long way the sea-winds blow
Last Line: My dreams forevermore.
Subject(s): Wind


JUNE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O queenly month of indolent repose!
Last Line: All hail the peerless goddess of the year!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): June; Wind


L.T.N., by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah! Happy winds whose wings caress
Last Line: For thine and love's sake, sweet.
Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love; Love - Loss Of; Wind; Sorrow; Sadness


LA VELIA (THE SEA GULL: PONTINE MARSHES), by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here where the marsh
Last Line: And the tumult of waters.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Sea; Sea Gulls; Wind; Ocean


LANDSCAPE, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: See the trees lean to the wind's way of leaning
Subject(s): Trees; Wind


LE MISTRAL, by MAIMIE A. RICHARDSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: O sea! That holds upon thy thumbling breast
Subject(s): Wind


LE VENT DE L'ESPIRIT, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind that sighs before the dawn
Last Line: Draw warmth and light and life.
Subject(s): Wind


LEAF LITTER ON ROCK FACE, by HEATHER MCHUGH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Things are not / unmoving (or else what
Subject(s): Wind


LEAVES AND THE WIND, by GEORGE COOPER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come little leaves,' said the wind one day
Last Line: The snow laid a coverlid over their heads
Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Seasons; Wind


LEAVING THE HARBOR, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At last the great, red sun sank low
Last Line: Lay on the shore of heaven.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Harbors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Wind; Ocean


LIKE RAIN IT SOUNDED TILL IT CURVED, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Then like elijah rode away %upon a wheel of cloud
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1235; Poem: 124
Subject(s): Rivers; Wind


LINES COMPOSED IN A WOOD ON A WINDY DAY, by ANNE BRONTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring
Last Line: And hear the wild roar of their thunder today!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Acton
Subject(s): Nature; Wind


LITTLE CHILDREN OF THE WIND, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I hear the little children of the wind
Last Line: The little tremulous leaves of the wind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Children; Leaves; Solitude; Tears; Wind; Childhood; Loneliness


LITTLE SIDE STREET, by HALA JEAN HAMMOND    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sobs ghost-wind on a little side street
Last Line: Peopled with dust-motes.
Subject(s): Wind


LOCH CORUISK (SKYE), by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The bleak and barren mountains keep
Last Line: The eagle's scream or wild swan's cry.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Sound; Storms; Wind


LOESS, by JARED LEISING    Poem Source                    
First Line: The wind started it. Lifting heavy handfuls of china's jet
Last Line: Her, treading the sour emerald water
Subject(s): Wind


LONDON WIND, by LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind blows, the wind blows
Last Line: And the clouds are atoss in the sky!
Subject(s): London; Wind


LONGFELLOW, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The winds have talked with him confidingly
Last Line: Of nature's voice he sings -- and will alway.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882); Nature; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Wind; Songs


LONGING, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O would I were the cool wind that's blowing from the sea
Last Line: The grey silence, the grey waves, the grey wastes of the sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Longing; Love; Sea; Solitude; Wind; Ocean; Loneliness


LOOK HE SAYS LOOK AT THIS, by DENNIS COOLEY    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Look he says look
Subject(s): Death; Storms; Wind


LOVE AT SEA, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: We are in love's land today
Last Line: Imitated from theophile gautier.
Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon
Subject(s): Love; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Wind; Seamen; Sails; Ocean


LOVE FOR A BEAUTIFUL LADY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Blow, northerne wind [wynd]
Last Line: More pen eny mon
Subject(s): Love; North Wind


LOVE IS STRONG, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A viewless thing is the wind
Last Line: For she conquers shame and death.
Subject(s): Death; Love; Samson; Shame; Wind; Dead, The


LOVE'S CONQUERING, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If 't please you see how love's might overcame
Last Line: To choose a child for lord; for guide, the blind.
Subject(s): Hearts; Hope; Love; Wind; Youth; Optimism


LUBBER BREEZE, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The four sails of the mill
Last Line: Laughs in his sleeve.
Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge
Subject(s): Mills And Millers; Wind


LYRIC AND EPIC, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A little lyric the sunset gleamed
Last Line: An elemental clash and cry.
Subject(s): Life; Love; Wind; Memorial Day


LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 63, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The trees in the autumn wind rustle
Last Line: "thy foolish reverie?"
Subject(s): Autumn; Night; Seasons; Trees; Wind; Fall; Bedtime


MARCH, by INDIA HUNT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Alone upon the hilltop
Last Line: To the comrade heart of me!
Subject(s): Solitude; Weather; Wind; Loneliness


MARCH, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The march wind rises through the skies
Last Line: The sunshine to the daffodil.
Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs.
Subject(s): March (month); Wind


MARCH FIELDS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now shrink not from me for shamefacedness
Last Line: O sober fields of march, your mood is deep, divine!
Subject(s): March (month); Spring; Wind


MARCH WIND, by FRANCIS MCMILLEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, this march wind, coming so soon before its time
Last Line: A wind well-fit to please the infant spring.
Subject(s): March (month); Wind


MARCH WIND, by HAZEL PARTRIDGE THORNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here I come shrieking across the plain
Last Line: Naught but a playground made for me.
Subject(s): March (month); Wind


MARINER'S CAROL, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So still the night swinging
Last Line: We keep the long watches. %o star, shine before us!
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Sailors And Sailing; Storms; Wind


MAY WIND, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I said, 'I have shut my heart
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Wind; Love


MAY WIND IS BUSY, by KAZUE MIZUMURA    Poem Source                    
Last Line: That summer is near
Subject(s): Wind


MELODY, by NORMA SMITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is no song that I have missed
Last Line: Intruder to my thought.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Wind


MERMILL RD., MILTON CENTER, by MARK DALEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: We're watered down, this morning light diffuse
Last Line: Wearing down like weather does a rock
Subject(s): Floods; Rain; Storms; Weather; Wind


METAPHYSIC, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Dearie I! When I up and follows
Last Line: And many a turnip-load!
Subject(s): Dreams; Roads; Wind; Nightmares; Paths; Trails


METEOROLOGY, by ALPAY ULKU    Poem Source                    
First Line: A storm front wanders down from the mountains, gray and white
Last Line: The other riders wrapped in themselves like explorers lost in a blizzard %then they're gone, too, an
Subject(s): Rain; Storms; Weathervanes; Wind


MINUTE FINGERS OF A TINY WIND', by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Walk back the way we came
Subject(s): Relationships; Wind


MISGIVING, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All crying 'we will go with you, o wind!'
Last Line: It may not seem better to me to rest.
Subject(s): Wind; Freedom


MISSGIVING, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All crying, ‘we will go with you, o wind!’
Last Line: It may not seem better to me to rest
Subject(s): Wind


MISTRAL, by BARBARA HOWES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Percussive, furious, this wind
Last Line: Bent low, deafened, I plunge %on, blind in the face of the storm
Subject(s): Wind


MISTRAL, by STEPHEN SARTARELLI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An occasional madness, airborne
Subject(s): Wind


MOAN, YE WILD WINDS!, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Moan, ye wild winds! Around the pane
Last Line: Or ere ye cease, if shed for me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Heaven; Rain; Wind; Paradise


MOONRISE FROM IONA, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, where in dim forgotten days
Last Line: The bat flies and the owl doth brood.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Moon; Sea; Wind; Ocean


MOTHER-LIKE, by ESTHER REINECKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Breathless
Last Line: And pray.
Subject(s): Wind


MOUNTAIN WIND, by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Watchful, in a canyon resting
Last Line: Hurtling to the sea.
Subject(s): Sea Monsters; Storms; Wind; Sea Serpents


MURMURS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why wilt thou make bright music
Last Line: That bids the world rejoice.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Earth; Peace; Religion; Wind; World; Theology


MY BEAST, by SANDOR CSOORI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A little beast is visiting me
Last Line: The scratching of black sedges
Subject(s): Anacreon (582-485 B.c.); Poetry And Poets; Storms; Wind


MY DWELLING, by FRANCES HALLEY BROCKETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: I'll build my cabin in the pass
Last Line: To watch the clouds sail by.
Subject(s): Clouds; Weather; Wind


MY FRIEND THE WIND, by KING D. KUKA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I will call you
Last Line: And we will fly to a very happy land
Subject(s): Wind


MY LITTLE MARCH GIRL, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come to the pane, draw the curtain apart
Last Line: But bring her to me, wind, -- my little march girl.
Subject(s): Wind


MYSTERY, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mine ears have caught some melody of winds
Last Line: And sense a hidden music in the world.
Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers
Subject(s): Dawn; Music & Musicians; Nature; Wind; Sunrise


NAMESAKES, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: But where's the brown drifter that went out alone?
Last Line: Ah, fare you well, my sailor.
Subject(s): Hearts; Sailing & Sailors; Wind


NEW YEAR'S EVE, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I sit here glad, glad of my comfort and so somber
Last Line: With the helplessness of the newborn.
Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Solitude; Wind; Loneliness


NEWS, by JANE BARLOW    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the low west falls suddenly shining
Last Line: Is contented in faery land.
Subject(s): Discontent; News; Rain; Storms; Wind; Dissatisfaction


NIGHT, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As some dusk mother shields from all alarms
Last Line: How beautiful the holy hours of night!
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Mothers; Night; Truth; Wind; Bedtime


NIGHT AND MORNING SONGS: EBB TIDE, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's salt on your ashen lips, lady
Subject(s): Wind; Rain


NIGHT AND WIND, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The night is light and chill
Last Line: And the wind is the voice of my heart.
Subject(s): Sleep; Wind


NIGHT WIND, by F. G. HAGER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The darkness hides a hound upon a track
Last Line: And all night long the hound runs close behind.
Subject(s): Night; Wind; Bedtime


NIGHT WIND, by ROSE CAROLYN KATTERHENRY    Poem Text                    
First Line: So soft you sigh as you pass by
Last Line: And steal a good-night kiss from me.
Subject(s): Wind


NIGHT WIND, by MABEL WILES SIMPSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh wind who kisses the trees to sleep
Last Line: Who has taught you to ride the sea?
Subject(s): Wind


NIGHT-WIND, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Along the lifted line of sombre green
Last Line: The carven botch of an idolater.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Wind


NIGHT-WIND OF AUGUST, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That it is only the night-wind
Subject(s): Wind


NOON-SILENCE (AUSTRALIAN FOREST), by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A lyre-bird sings a low melodious song
Last Line: And silence wakes and knows her dream is day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Variant Title(s): The Bell-birds
Subject(s): Australia; Birds; Silence; Singing & Singers; Wind


NOONDAY WOODS - NIPIGON, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Between thin fingers of the pine
Last Line: No more shall know his joyous tread.
Subject(s): Forests; Trees; Wind; Woods


NORTH WIND, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Loud wind! Strong wind! Sweeping o'er the mountains
Last Line: That I hear not thee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria
Subject(s): Wind


NORTH WIND AT NIGHT, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Good it is when northern winds come blowing / from the ice and bear
Last Line: Care and pain depart like swallows lifting to a friendly land.
Subject(s): Wind


NORTH WIND IN OCTOBER, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the golden glade the chestnuts are fallen all
Last Line: He passeth, and all again for a while is bright.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2)
Subject(s): October; Wind


NORTH WIND, SOUTH WIND, by MARY BISHOP BULLARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: The north wind comes romping and racing
Last Line: And make them angry or sad!
Subject(s): Wind


NORTHMAN, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The gale that wrecked you on the sand
Last Line: And drives me where I go.
Subject(s): Wind


NOTE, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Straw, feathers, dust
Last Line: That's the way the wind goes
Subject(s): Wind


NOTHING NEW, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From the dawn of spring till the year grows hoary
Last Line: "murmurs -- ""rest."
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Earth; Sea; Wind; World; Ocean


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


NOVEMBER, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Each sapless leaf that lingers here
Last Line: These make amends!
Subject(s): Death; Graves; Mourning; November; Wind; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement


O WIND OF THE MOUNTAIN, by THOMAS WESTWOOD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O wind of the mountain, wind of the mountain, hear
Last Line: O wind of the mountain, wind of the mountain, hear!
Subject(s): Wind


O WINDS!, by JEAN ANDERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: O winds of the compass points
Last Line: A lonely heart!
Subject(s): Solitude; Wind; Loneliness


OCTOBER, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Stay, gentle sunshine, stay
Last Line: Shall pay you with a kiss.
Subject(s): October; Sun; Wind


OCTOBER, by HELEN PRICE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fill my lungs with october wind
Last Line: In a heart too full for singing!
Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; October; Seasons; Wind; Fall


OH IT'S PRETTY WINDY OUTSIDE, by LARRY EIGNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: As the clouds move
Subject(s): Wind


OLD LOVE SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Blow, northern wind, send
Subject(s): North Wind


ON A MARCH DAY, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here in the teeth of this triumphant wind
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Wind


ON A MARCH DAY, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here in the teeth of this triumphant wind
Last Line: The last complete reunion with the earth
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Wind


ON THE DARK, STILL, DRY, WARM WEATHER ... IN WINTER MONTHS, by GILBERT WHITE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The imprisoned winds slumber within their caves
Last Line: And float the deluged paths and miry fields.
Subject(s): Air; Snow; Weather; Wind; Winter


ONE THING WE GOT PLENTY OF, by GLEN DOWNIE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Heavy equipment %squats for sale out front
Last Line: Yep wind is one thing %we got plenty of up here
Subject(s): Aging; Sickness; Wind


ONLY THE SOFT WIND, by FAITH EVELYN PACKARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Life gazes long at me
Last Line: Through the swinging treetops.
Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations; Life; Wind


ONLY THE WIND, by HAROLD VINAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Put all by save the wind, it will remain
Last Line: Only the bullet-beaten bones of man.
Subject(s): Wind


OONA OF THE DARK EYES AND THE CRYING OF WIND, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have fared far in the dim woods
Last Line: And the old tears.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Lament; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology - Celtic; Wind; Male-female Relations


OPEN AND CLOSED ROOMS, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A man touches the world with his trade for a glove
Last Line: Stand still. %no, fly on
Subject(s): Gloves; Human Rights; Sky; Wind


ORAN-BHROIN (A CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS), by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When all the west is blowing wild
Last Line: Is blowing wild.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Children; Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Tears; Wind; Childhood; Bereavement


ORGAN SONGS: REJOICE, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rejoice,' said the sun; 'I will make thee gay
Last Line: "and man said, ""I rejoice."
Subject(s): God; Happiness; Humanity; Night; Sun; Wind; Joy; Delight; Bedtime


PERPETUALLY ATTEMPTING TO SOAR, by MARY RUEFLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A boy from brooklyn used to cruise on summer nights.
Subject(s): Likes & Dislikes; Wind; Breasts; Aging


PHOSPHORESCENT SEA, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sea scarce heaves in its calm sleep
Last Line: Dim sea's on fire around our barque.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Dreams; Sea; Sleep; Wind; Nightmares; Ocean


PINE CAMP, by GORDON BAINE CLARK    Poem Text                    
First Line: There were the three of us and we were young
Last Line: We hear winds in whisper with far-distant pines.
Subject(s): Autumn; Camping; Seasons; Wind; Fall; Camps; Summer Camps


PIRATE WIND, by MARY JANE CARR    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The autumn wind's a pirate
Last Line: And laugh to see you run!
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Wind


POEMS ON THE DEATH OF PRINCE HENRY: VPON THE UNSEASONABLE TIMES, by JOSEPH HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fond vulgar, canst thou thinke it strange to finde
Last Line: Men's sighes and teares are slight, and quickly done.
Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Mourning; Tears; Wind; Winter; Dead, The; Bereavement


POETIC EPIGRAMS: 12. AT NIGHT, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind seems like a prayer
Last Line: Unanswered everywhere.
Subject(s): Night; Wind; Bedtime


POETIC EPIGRAMS: 19. BY THE SEA, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: White on each mounded wave
Last Line: As on a nameless grave.
Subject(s): Graves; Sea; Wind; Tombs; Tombstones; Ocean


POETIC EPIGRAMS: 25. PREMONITION, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind of a falling star
Last Line: Coming from very far.
Subject(s): Wind


POINT LOMA BREEZES, by YETTA KAY STODDARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Our south breeze is an actress, who skips with
Last Line: Jazzing shamelessly.
Subject(s): Point Loma, California; Wind


POOR [OR, COCK] ROBIN, by MOTHER GOOSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The north wind doth blow / and we shall have snow
Last Line: Poor thing.
Variant Title(s): What Will Robin Do;the First Snow
Subject(s): Nature; Robins; Wind


POPLAR: 1, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The blinding sky's unkind
Last Line: But the poplar hath her fill.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Poplar Trees; Wind


PRACTICING FOR THE RAPTURE, by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the grainy frames of an early film, a man straps on
Last Line: To rise, and enter a realm of creatures %lighter than air
Subject(s): Storms; Water; Wind


PRAIRIE WIND, by GRACE DICKINSON SPERLING    Poem Text                    
First Line: I love to hear the prairie wind
Last Line: Blow through the edge of town.
Subject(s): Prairies; Wind; Plains


PRAIRIE WINDS, by WILLIAM EARL HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: O savage spirits of the air's unrest
Last Line: We trust all shall be well—where winds are still!
Subject(s): Prairies; Wind; Plains


PRAYERS [FOR WIND]., by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let the winds come
Last Line: The deep unquenchable answer of the wind.
Subject(s): Wind


PRECIOSA AND THE WIND, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Jangling her parchment moon
Last Line: The wind camped out on the roof %tears at the tiles in rage
Subject(s): Survival; Wind


PREFERENCE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I don't mind a journey through arctic wind
Last Line: But I'd rather leave that man behind
Subject(s): Arctic; Travel; Wind


PRYING WIND, by ALICE MACKENZIE SWAIM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Some prying wind keeps whispering innuendoes
Last Line: Though we bank fires and plan out careful days, %this wind will fan piled ashes to full blaze
Subject(s): Wind


PUT OUT THE LIGHT, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Put out the light; - and then
Last Line: To earth or sea or sky.
Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Light; Pain; Wind; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery


RACERS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The winds from many a cloudy mane
Last Line: The frenzy of the flight.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Wind


RAIN IS LIKE A WOMAN, by MAY WILLIS SHELBURNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Rain, in silver, wanders
Last Line: She will follow him.
Subject(s): Wind


RED POPPIES (IN THE SABINE VALLEYS NEAR ROME), by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through the seeding grass
Last Line: And the tall corn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Variant Title(s): Red Poppies In The Sabine Valleys Near Rome
Subject(s): Italy; Poppies; Rome, Italy; Wind; Italians


REGATTA, by IVAN SWIFT    Poem Text                    
First Line: We have heard the roll of the signal - gun!
Last Line: We've heard our signal-gun!
Subject(s): Competition; Surfing; Track Athletics; Waves; Wind; Running Races; Pole Vaulting; Discus Throwing; Shot Putting; Running Hurdles


REMORSE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I wrote my remorse on a forest-leaf
Last Line: I shall never know!
Subject(s): Egypt; Grief; Remorse; Sea; Sphinx; Wind; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean


REPOSE OF THE SOUL IN THE WOOD OF L'HAUTIL: THE GOD OF SUNNY DAYS, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Proud yearning of the wind above the forest deeps, of a wind that
Last Line: Pair of horns from out my forehead grow.
Subject(s): Forests; Trees; Wind; Woods


REQUIEM, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where, oh where, should love be laid?
Last Line: Human hearts are made.
Subject(s): Eyes; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Night; Sea; Wind; Bedtime; Ocean


RESIDENTIAL AREA, by JOSEPHINE MILES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Prevailing winds in this area below
Subject(s): Wind


RESIGNATION, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Struggle no more: let it go
Last Line: It is dead.
Subject(s): Death; Love; Water; Wind; Dead, The


REVERY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dim grows the wood; the amber evening tints
Last Line: Now tell me, is this heaven, or is it dawn?
Subject(s): Bells; Day; Evening; Forests; Stars; Wind; Sunset; Twilight; Woods


ROBBER RAIN/MISCHIEF WIND, by J. PATRICK LEWIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Water gossips %on the roof
Last Line: Who blustered in %and shoveled out the sky
Subject(s): Wind


SAILS TO THE BREEZE, by VELMA SPRIGG GEIGER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I pray that there will be no heavy gale
Last Line: Their light, when it grows dark.
Subject(s): Wind


SANCTUARY, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweep over me, o lovely winds
Last Line: Face down, and calls on you.
Subject(s): Hearts; Pain; Rain; Sanctuaries; Wind; Suffering; Misery


SAND & SPRAY: SEA-SYMPHONY. 2. VARIATIONS: 3. THE SANDS, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shalllow pools of water
Last Line: Oozing upwards slowly in the dark wind-wrinkled sand.
Subject(s): Sea; Seashore; Wind; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore


SAND & SPRAY: SEA-SYMPHONY. 3. VARIATIONS: 3. NIGHT WIND, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wind of the night, wind of the long cool shadows
Last Line: The night is cool and quiet and the wind has crept to the sea.
Subject(s): Sea; Wind; Ocean


SAND DUNES, by EVA WARNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The winds of chance that picked us up
Last Line: Conformant to a chance wind's will.
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Wind


SATURN, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is the place! / no moon, no mist, no sound
Last Line: Oh love --
Subject(s): Death; Devil; Hope; Life; Moon; Planets; Sleep; Wind; Dead, The; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Optimism


SEMIOTICS OF WIND, by PATTY SEYBURN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am concerned we are reading the winds wrong
Last Line: And though we are wed by staccato and susurrus, %o uncontrollable, I can't go
Subject(s): Vision; Wind


SHELTERED FROM HARM, by JOSE FONTINHAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: With what word should I begin, with what disorder? The
Last Line: The boy, accomplice to the wind, moves on, sheltered from harm
Subject(s): Danger; Houses; Storms; Wind


SHORE-SPELL, by RICHARD CALLAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: A spell is woven
Last Line: Only the rugged pine trees know.
Subject(s): Seashore; Wind; Beach; Coast; Shore


SIGN ON THE NEW BRIDGE, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: (one place at least) %to heal
Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Ruins; Storms; Wind


SILENCE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My dear, that crying in the heart
Last Line: They call the music of the spheres!
Subject(s): Hearts; Music & Musicians; Silence; Summer; Tears; Wind


SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 18, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O wind, why do you never rest
Last Line: From the dim north bringing snow?
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Wind


SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 26, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O wind, where have you been?
Last Line: Make the turf so sweet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Variant Title(s): Violets In Spring
Subject(s): Wind


SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 74, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind has such a rainy sound
Last Line: In the windy sea?
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Variant Title(s): The Wind;the Sound Of The Wind
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; Wind


SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 90, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who has seen the wind?
Last Line: The wind is passing by.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Variant Title(s): Who Has Seen The Wind;the Wind
Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Wind; Theology


SINGING PINES, by GRACE CAROLINE SISON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The autumn winds are calling me to leave my cares today
Last Line: A harmony of minor mode, a melody divine?
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Wind; Fall


SITTING IN A FIELD ON A WINDY DAY, by EAMON GRENNAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Surge of leaves; the grass leanng all one way
Subject(s): Fields; Wind; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


SLIGHTEST OF WINDS, by LUCIO MARIANI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Women die in autumn, in a hush
Last Line: Of grief. The slightest of winds is enough
Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Seasons; Wind; Women


SMALL SONG, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The reeds give
Last Line: The wind away
Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R.
Subject(s): Reeds; Wind


SOME SONGS AFTER MASTER-SINGERS: 4. WIND OF THE SEA, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wind of the sea, come fill my sail
Last Line: And bear me away! -- away!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Wind; Ocean; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron


SONG, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The winds are scented with woods after rain
Last Line: And the raindrop shed from the daisy's eye.
Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Rain; Smells; Wind; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances


SONG, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nothing but sweet music wakes
Last Line: My own beloved!
Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Rain; Smells; Wind; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances


SONG, by JOHN TODHUNTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bring from the craggy haunts of birch and pine
Last Line: From long ago.
Variant Title(s): O Mighty, Melancholy Wind
Subject(s): Wind


SONG FOR THE ROYAL PALMS OF MIAMI, by VIRGIL SUAREZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Everywhere they stand, slightly bent
Subject(s): Change; Memory; Trees; Wind


SONG OF THE DESERTS, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wide, open, free, unbounded, vast
Last Line: That bondage never yet hath known.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Singing & Singers; Wind


SONG OF THE EVENING, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: How does it reach me, the forest wind that lulls the palms at night?
Last Line: What, to me, is the forest wind, in sum, that so many tears I shed?
Subject(s): Evening; Forests; Singing & Singers; Wind; Sunset; Twilight; Woods; Songs


SONG OF THE SEA-PLANE, by MINNA IRVING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Daughter of venus and of mars am I
Last Line: The conqueror of space.
Alternate Author Name(s): Michener, Harry, Mrs.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Sea; Singing & Singers; Wind; Ocean; Songs


SONG OF THE TREES, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The wind
Last Line: I am afraid of
Subject(s): Trees; Wind


SONG-IN-MY-HEART, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Song-in-my-heart, my heart's sorrow, my delight
Last Line: In this noise of shaking storm in my heart and this blast sweeping my mind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Longing; Love; Sea; Singing & Singers; Wind; Ocean


SONG: 55, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like as the wind with raging blast
Last Line: Of evil sown seed such is the fruit.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Variant Title(s): Of Love
Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Grief; Life; Wind; Sorrow; Sadness


SONG; IN IMITATION OF SHAKESPEARE'S 'BLOW, BLOW, THOU WINTER WIND', by JAMES BEATTIE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Blow, blow, thou vernal gale!
Last Line: Nor mitigate her pride.
Subject(s): Dramatists; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Wind


SONGS FOR A WINTER FIRE: 2. JUST WHY, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Just why the wind more sadly blows
Last Line: Believe what I will of naked trees.
Subject(s): Trees; Wind; Winter


SONGS FOR A WINTER FIRE: 3. COUNTRY NIGHTFALL, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There are no paths when the snow comes
Last Line: For a man come home again.
Subject(s): Home; Night; Snow; Wind; Bedtime


SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 14, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The rain-wind from the east
Last Line: There, there, sweetheart!
Subject(s): Rain; Wind


SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 53, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I think the sun when he turns at night
Last Line: That they can sleep so still.
Subject(s): Wind; Sun


SONGS TO A.H.R.: 3. WHEN THE WIND IS LOW, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the wind is low, and the sea is soft
Last Line: But you are eternity.
Subject(s): Life; Love; Sea; Wind; Ocean


SONNET: 3. THE WIND'S SONG, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dull-thoughted, walking among the nunneries
Last Line: Awakened by the west wind was made free
Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward
Subject(s): Wind


SONNET: NIGHT-WINDS IN WINTER, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Winds! Are they winds? - or myriad ghosts, that shriek?
Last Line: While perseus droops, touched by transfiguring shade!
Subject(s): Wind


SOOTHSAYERS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The winds that, gypsy-wise, foretold
Last Line: No vestiges remain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Wind


SOUNDINGS, by ROBERT WRIGLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The birdhouse made from a gourd is wired
Subject(s): Wind Chimes


SOUTH WIND, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where have you been, south wind, this may-day morning
Last Line: When you stole to me shyly with scent of hawthorn.
Subject(s): Environment; Soldiers' Writings; Trees; Wind; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


SOUTH WIND HAS A PATHOS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And for the foreignhood
Variant Title(s): Poem: 719; Poem: 88
Subject(s): Wind


SOUTH WINDS JOSTLE THEM, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Present them here!
Subject(s): Bees; Butterflies; Wind


SOUTH-EAST WIND, by LOLA RIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is remembered terror in your touch
Last Line: And bitter healing of the roots of seas.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawson, David, Mrs.
Subject(s): Wind


SOUTH-WEST WIND IN THE WOODLAND, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The silence of preluded song
Last Line: The union is eternal.
Subject(s): Forests; Nature; Wind; Woods


SPERANZA, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: England puts on her purple, and pale, pale
Last Line: And every soul of man be satisfied.'
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Hope; Life; Sleep; Wind; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; English; Optimism


SPRING FEVER, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A soft wind / blows from the evening star
Last Line: Abelard, your god was too weak for it!
Subject(s): Spring; Voices; Wind


SPRING WIND, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O full-voiced herald of immaculate spring
Last Line: And heard june's leaf-like murmur of sweet words?
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Birds; Spring; Wind


SPRING WIND IN LONDON, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I blow across the stagnant world
Last Line: It will not come again
Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen
Subject(s): London; Wind


SPRY ARMS OF THE WIND, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To light, and then return
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1103; Poem: 80
Subject(s): Wind


STABBED, by JR. JOHN NIXON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like daggers now is noonlight
Last Line: The wind whittles the sunlight %into jagged splinters
Subject(s): Wind


STANZAS WRITTEN ON BATTERSEA BRIDGE DURING A SOUTHWESTERLY GALE, by HILAIRE BELLOC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The woods and downs have caught the mid-december
Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene
Subject(s): Sea; Wind; England; Patriotism; Ocean; English


STILL DAYS AND STORMY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yesterday the wind blew
Last Line: Is she yet mine?
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Marigolds; Wind


STORM POEM, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind is eating
Last Line: For you %let the windteeth break
Subject(s): Storms; Weather; Wind


STRONG WIND, by AUSTIN CLARKE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All day a strong wind blew
Last Line: The wind was telegraphing, hundreds %of miles. All ireland raced
Subject(s): Wind


SUMMER WINDS, by GEORGE DARLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up the dale and down the bourne
Last Line: Till we're at our play again.
Variant Title(s): Song Of The Summer Winds
Subject(s): Summer; Wind


SUNSET, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the clear dusk upon the fields below
Last Line: I hear the creek laugh out from pebbly ways.
Subject(s): Evening; Wind; Sunset; Twilight


TANGLED SUNRAYS, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Aslant from yonder sunlit hill
Last Line: Mid the damp grass their race is run.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Grass; Wind


TARDY SPRING, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now the north wind ceases
Last Line: And earth's green banner shakes.
Subject(s): Nature; Spring; Wind


TEMPEST NIGHT, by JOEL T. ROGERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wind in the void, where the white stars shake
Last Line: And the night hangs heavily years and years?
Subject(s): Sea; Sea Voyages; Storms; Weather; Wind; Ocean


THALASSIUS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon the flowery forefront of the year
Last Line: And in thy soul the sense of all the sea.
Subject(s): Life; Music & Musicians; Sea; Singing & Singers; Wandering & Wanderers; Wind; Ocean


THAT FEVERED APRIL BREEZE MOVING THROUGH, by CAMILLE DUNGY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Today I felt the streets were mine
Last Line: I had stripped myself too soon. I was slipping softly off %today. I felt the streets were mine
Subject(s): April; Wind


THE 'DISASTER', by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Without rudder, without sail
Last Line: Lost -- exultant, desolate!
Subject(s): Disasters; Night; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Soul; Storms; Wind; Bedtime; Ocean


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 AUTUMN WIND, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The autumn wind is wild and free
Last Line: And screamed at every house in town
Subject(s): Wind; Autumn


THE AVENUE OF THE ALLIES (1917), by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the song of the wind as it came
Last Line: Rides the proud night-wind and tyrannies die.
Subject(s): Flags; Freedom; God; Singing & Singers; Wind; Liberty


THE BOOK, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I moved from the sun-warmed garden-seat
Last Line: Had made me a monk for evermore!
Subject(s): Bells; Books; Love; Past; Voices; Wind; Reading


THE BREEZE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through thee the ocean knows
Last Line: Of life that cannot die.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Wind


THE BREEZE FROM SHORE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Joy is upon the lonely seas
Last Line: That make us truth's and heaven's again!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Nature; Pleasure; Wind


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 BRIDE'S TRAGEDY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind wears roun', the day wears doun
Last Line: Blaws the wind and whirls the whin.
Subject(s): Brides; Tragedy; Wind


THE CHARMING OF THE EAST WIND, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Late in the month a rough east wind had sway
Last Line: And down he sank, a captive to the spring!
Subject(s): East Wind; Landscape


THE CITY DWELLER, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: These things I cannot forget: far snow in the night
Last Line: The motion of men resounds like the thundering sea!
Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs.
Subject(s): Cities; Thunder; Wind; Urban Life


THE CLIFFSIDE PATH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Seaward goes the sun, and homeward by the down
Last Line: Wind is lord and change is sovereign of the strand.
Subject(s): Sea; Sun; Wind; Ocean


THE COLD WIND, by NORA (CHESSON) HOPPER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: A cold wind entered the lamp-lit room
Last Line: Will death's white rose match herself with this?
Subject(s): Wind


THE DANDELION, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A thousand poets have sung the rose
Last Line: The dandelion!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Poetry & Poets; Seasons; Weeds; Wind


THE DAY THE WINDS, by JOSEPHINE MILES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The day the wnds went underground I gasped for breath
Subject(s): Breath; Wind; City & Town Life; Pollution


THE DEAD LEAF, by ANTOINE VINCENT ARNAULT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Waif in the wind, o where
Last Line: "where rose and laurel go."
Subject(s): Leaves; Wind


THE DEATHLESS WIND, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou canst not die; for who can slay
Last Line: To know thou canst not die?
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Wind


THE DIFFICULT LIFE OF A YOKOHAMA LEAF, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Each train that passes
Last Line: By the delightful discovery drugstore.
Subject(s): Leaves; Mountains; Trees; Wind; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE DREAM-WIND, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When, like a sleeping child
Last Line: Breathes low in the gardens of sleep in the west.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Earth; Sleep; Wind; World


THE DUTIES OF THE WIND ARE FEW, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: However, know not I
Subject(s): Wind


THE EDGE OF THE WIND, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye stars in ye skies seem twinkling
Last Line: And ye crickets cease to sing.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Light; Stars; Wind


THE ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: WIND, by GARY SOTO    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: A dry wind over the valley
Subject(s): Farm Life; San Joaquin Valley, California; Wind; Agriculture; Farmers


THE ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: WIND (2), by GARY SOTO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When you got up this morning the sun
Subject(s): San Joaquin Valley, California; Wind


THE EMPTY SONG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What have we but an empty song
Last Line: But his soul is thirsty now.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Soul; Thirst; Wind


THE EVENING WIND, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Spirit that breathest through my lattice, thou
Last Line: He hears the rustling leaf and running stream.
Variant Title(s): To The Evening Wind
Subject(s): Evening; Nature; Wind; Sunset; Twilight


THE EVENING WIND, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The eastern mail comes lumbering in
Last Line: From hence to athabasca lake.
Subject(s): Evening; Wind; Sunset; Twilight


THE FALL WIND, by JOHN STUART THOMSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The wind has stalked adown the garden path
Last Line: Wing south or somewhere; mute, discouraged band.
Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Seasons; Storms; Wind; Fall


THE FIRST BUD O' THE YEAR, by CHARLES GRANGER BLANDEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There whispered in my ear
Last Line: That shall the old loss mend.
Subject(s): Graves; Grief; Wind; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness


THE FOUR WINDS, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The four winds blow across the sky
Last Line: (love and life and death together!)
Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers
Subject(s): Rain; Sun; Wind


THE FOUR WINDS, by CHARLES HENRY LUDERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wind of the north
Last Line: The low mound where she lies.
Subject(s): Wind


THE FOUR WINDS (A SENECA LULLABY), by LUDWIG VON STOLZ MAYER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Little gahana, hush!
Last Line: Neoga, the fawn, is near.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Seneca Indians; Wind; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE GAP OF THE WINDS, by ROBERT NOTVEST    Poem Text                    
First Line: Rustling leaves, dancing with the breeze
Last Line: And always the thorn protects the rose.
Subject(s): Wind; Winter


THE GODS AND THE WINDS, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The still gods, though they move apart
Last Line: "we won our godship far too young."
Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Railroads; Wind; Railways; Trains


THE GREAT GOD PAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O pan is the goodliest god, I wist,
Last Line: To his rollicking wraith below.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Fantasy; Love; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Wind


THE HARVEST MOON, by MARTHA ST. JOHN DOWNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The harvest moon rides in to-night
Last Line: And silver hollyhock.
Subject(s): Harvest; Moon; Orchards; Stars; Wind


THE HOMEWARD-BOUND PASSENGER SHIP: DISASTER AT SEA, by EDWARD EDWIN FOOT    Poem Text                    
First Line: The captain scans the ruffled zone
Last Line: ^1^ a figurative expression, intended by the author to signify the horizon.
Subject(s): Disasters; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Wind; Ocean


THE KING OF THE WIND, by ELIZA COOK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He burst through the ice-pillared gates of the north
Last Line: "a despot so great as the king of the wind!"
Subject(s): Wind


THE LANE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No one can take away from me
Last Line: And the sound of the everlasting sea!
Subject(s): Life; Rain; Sea; Wind; Ocean


THE LEPER, by ANATOLE LE BRAZ    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Monna keryvel looks toward the west
Last Line: "lo, thy bridegroom waits -- monna, it is death!"
Subject(s): Death; Leprosy; Life; Tears; Wind; Dead, The; Lepers


THE LIGHT OF LOVE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The clouds have deepened o'er the
Last Line: With love and laughter here?
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Despair; Light; Love; Night; Wind; Bedtime


THE LITTLE CLOUD COMES DOWN, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The little spot of earth below
Last Line: But the earth was as glad as the curly cloud!
Subject(s): April; Clouds; Weather; Wind


THE LITTLE LEAF, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: And so, the little leaf flew far – o far
Last Line: And find where the little brook found the sea.
Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Nature; October; Seasons; Wind; Fall


THE LOST LAND, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What wind is it that stirs
Last Line: Whence none returns, none goes.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Flowers; Loss; Roses; Wind; Youth


THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 37, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is it just the wind
Last Line: But I only become more restless
Subject(s): Wind; Anxiety


THE LURE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw night leave her halos down
Last Line: When south-east winds are blowing low.
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Wind; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE MAN-WIND AND THE WOMAN-WIND, by SUNG YU    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hsiang, king of ch'u, was feasting in the orchid-tower palace
Last Line: "such is the woman-wind of the common people."
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Wind


THE MARCH WIND COMES, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The march wind comes with a mighty sound
Last Line: And soon the bold wind will ride past
Subject(s): March (month); Wind


THE MINUTE-GUNS, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I stood within the little cove
Last Line: I only heard the minute-guns.
Subject(s): Hope; Life; Sea; Wind; Optimism; Ocean


THE MOCKING WIND, by GLADYS CROMWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O wind, you will not break my house
Last Line: Built me my house, -- my house of dreams.
Subject(s): Home; Nature; Wind


THE PASSING OF A ZEPHYR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up from, and out of, and over the
Last Line: Of amiable calm.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Forests; Spring; Wind; Woods


THE PIPER ON THE HILLS; A CHILD'S SONG, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There sits a piper on the hill
Last Line: May blow her home again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Variant Title(s): The Piper On The Hill
Subject(s): Pipers; Wind


THE POET, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lo! He traffics with the sun
Last Line: And uncaring give us death.
Subject(s): Death; Earth; Fate; Love; Poetry & Poets; Sea; Sun; Wind; Dead, The; World; Destiny; Ocean


THE PRAIRIE WIND, by JESSIE KENNEDY SNELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The prairie wind is ever constant, yet
Last Line: The night-wind with its crooning slumber-song.
Subject(s): Prairies; Wind; Plains


THE RAINY MORNING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dawn of the day was dreary
Last Line: Melted in mists of light.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Light; Morning; Rain; Wind


THE ROARING FROST, by ALICE MEYNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A flock of winds [or, wings] came winging [or, flying] from the north
Last Line: And fold, and fall?
Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina
Subject(s): Nature; Wind


THE ROSE AND THE WIND, by PHILIP BOURKE MARSTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When, think you, comes the wind
Last Line: Roses must live and love, and winds must blow.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Wind


THE RUNE OF THE FOUR WINDS, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By the voice in the corries
Last Line: On shore and shallow and sea!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Life; Nature - Religious Aspects; Voices; Wind


THE SEA'S WITHHOLDING, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The ladye's bower faced the sea
Last Line: "can it be dawn and love away?"
Subject(s): Disasters; Love - Loss Of; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Gulls; Shipwrecks; Storms; Wind


THE SHADOW, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Do you hear the calling, mary, down by the sea?
Last Line: Out in the darkness rose the calling of the sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Death; Sea; Shadows; Voices; Wind; Dead, The; Ocean


THE SHORE, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Again from the woods to the shore
Last Line: And the bitter backward wash, is all, is all.
Subject(s): Seashore; Wind


THE SINGER, by DENISE BARRETTE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Over the ecru summer grass
Last Line: A prairie jenny lind.
Subject(s): Lind, Jenny (1820-1887); Prairies; Wind; Plains


THE SNOW-STORM, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Announced by all the trumpets 0f the sky, / arrives the snow
Last Line: The frolic architecture of the snow.
Variant Title(s): The Snowstorm
Subject(s): Nature; Snow; Storms; Wind


THE SONG MY PADDLE SINGS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: West wind, blow from your prairie nest
Last Line: Swelling the song that my paddle sings.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Birds; Canoes & Canoeing; Crows; Rivers; Wind


THE SONG OF HIAWATHA: THE FOUR WINDS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Honor be to mudjekeewis!'
Last Line: Kept the mighty mudjekeewis.
Subject(s): Wind


THE SONG OF THE SEA WIND, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How it sings, sings, sings
Last Line: How it wails!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Sea; Wind; Ocean


THE SONG OF THE SEA-WIND, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: King of the winds, o wind of the sea
Last Line: Lord of all winds, o wind of the sea!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Sea; Wind; Ocean


THE SOU'WESTER (BLOWING OVER THE OVERTON HILLS, CHESHIRE), by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Blustering, boisterous wind, that bloweth over the / bracken
Last Line: I am the breath of a spirit that wandereth ever free!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Forests; Weather; Wind; Woods


THE SOUTH WIND, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O the kiss of love and the soul of song
Last Line: When he quiets the earth by the south wind!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Nature - Religious Aspects; Wind


THE SOUTH WIND AND THE SUN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O the south wind and the sun!
Last Line: They laugh and sail away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Fantasy; Love; Nature; Sun; Wind


THE SOUTH WIND; A FISHERMAN'S BLESSINGS, by CHARLES KINGSLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh blessed drums of aldershot!
Last Line: To bring such fishes back!
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Wind; Anglers


THE SOUTH-WEST WIND, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We stood by the idle weir
Last Line: Now all is still as death.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Grief; Wind; Sorrow; Sadness


THE SPRING CALL, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What was it made me drop the spade and lift me head to look again?
Last Line: "ah, clap a primrose in your cap and throw the spade away."
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Spring; Wind


THE SPRING FEVER, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: There's a witchery to the winds that shiver so
Last Line: Underneath the sleepy-headed summer trees.
Subject(s): Nature; Spring; Wind


THE STORM, by DOROTHY W. JANS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Mad swirling wind
Last Line: As the storm wind dies.
Subject(s): Rain; Storms; Thunder; Wind


THE STORM, by EDWARD BLISS REED    Poem Text                    
First Line: The sun sank in a sheer abyss of cloud
Last Line: Upon the fallen tree, shout as they play.
Subject(s): Lightning; Sea Voyages; Storms; Weather; Wind; Lightning Rods


THE SUMMER WIND, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The bugling of the summer wind
Last Line: And rideth on a cloud!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Summer; Wind


THE TERRIFIC CYCLONE OF 1893, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas in the year of 1893, and on the 17th and 18th of november
Last Line: And both these storms will be remembered for a very long time.
Subject(s): Cyclones; Death; Disasters; Dundee, Scotland; Wind; Dead, The


THE THAW-WIND, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thro' the deep drifts the south wind breathed its way
Last Line: That glitter'd, dripping down upon the sod.
Subject(s): Wind


THE THINGUMBOB SAT AT EVENTIDE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Subject(s): Nonsense;sea;wind; Ocean


THE THREE CHILDREN, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Else had blown away on the east wind. Richard went away
Last Line: Goodbye else, richard, hilary, goodbye, goodbye. Goodbye
Subject(s): Children; Farewell; Wind; Childhood; Parting


THE THREE WINDS, by LAURIE LEE            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The hard blue wind of march
Subject(s): Seasons; Wind


THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In a long sad row the old gods come
Last Line: Lie scattered in the sand!
Subject(s): Babylon; Death; Goddesses & Gods; Grief; Mythology; Wind; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


THE UNKNOWN COLOR, by COUNTEE CULLEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I've often heard my mother say
Subject(s): Wind


THE UNKNOWN WIND, by DOROTHY BURGESS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wind from beyond the worlds, wind without sound
Last Line: I would be swift upon a way you know.
Subject(s): Wind


THE UNKNOWN WIND, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the day darkens
Last Line: When the dew is falling?
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Dusk; Knowledge; Silence; Wind


THE VILLAIN, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While joy gave clouds the light of stars
Last Line: Into a dark and lonely wood.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Wind


THE VOICE AMONG THE DUNES, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have heard the sea-wind sighing
Last Line: Breathes drownëd sighs.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Dunes; Sea; Voices; Wind; Dead, The; Ocean


THE VOICE OF THE WIND, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Many a voice is thine, thou wind!
Last Line: From whose deep urn the tones are poured through all earth's harmonies.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Wind


THE VOICE OF THE WIND, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let us throw more logs on the fire!
Last Line: Hark to the voice of the wind!
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Wind


THE WANDERING WIND, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind, the wandering wind
Last Line: To the wind, the wandering wind!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Wind


THE WAY OF THE WIND, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind's way in the deep sky's hollow
Last Line: The wind's way.
Subject(s): Life; Roundels; Wind


THE WAY TO WAKONDA; THE GREAT SPIRIT OF THE OMAHA INDIANS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wakonda's way is the way of the wind
Last Line: And the land where the loved ones are.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Native Americans; Wind; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE WEST WIND, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath the forest's skirts I rest
Last Line: Thou lov'st to sigh and murmur still.
Subject(s): Wind


THE WEST WIND, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: When but a boy with eager ears
Last Line: When the balmy west winds blow.
Subject(s): Nature; Wind


THE WEST WIND, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I come from out the west
Last Line: Wild tempests to each shore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Spring; Storms; Wind; Winter


THE WHISP'RING WIND, by GROVER THOMAS SOMERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: You ask me why there's no return
Last Line: The e'er recurrent whisp'ring wind!
Subject(s): Wind


THE WILLOW-SEEDS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Look! The seeds of a willow-tree
Last Line: Of more than mortal mysteries.
Subject(s): Fate; Grass; Life; Omens; Wandering & Wanderers; Willow Trees; Wind; Destiny


THE WIND, by HENRY BELLAMANN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Only the wind is ageless
Last Line: Is ageless.
Subject(s): Wind


THE WIND, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Across the barren moors the wild, wild wind
Last Line: Fell on my burning eyes and burning brain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Wind


THE WIND, by LOUISE MOREY BOWMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind is a black-winged beast tonight
Subject(s): Wind


THE WIND, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Sometimes he roars among the leafy trees
Last Line: And all who saw and heard him were amazed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Wind


THE WIND, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Blow, blow, blow
Last Line: Thou hast strewn with wrecks the sea!
Subject(s): Disasters; Nature; Sea; Shipwrecks; Tragedy; Wind; Ocean


THE WIND, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind it rushes in and out
Last Line: "in whispers, ""there it goes!"
Subject(s): Children; Wind; Childhood


THE WIND, by GEORGE LUNT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind has voices, that defy
Last Line: A sad, sweet language, all its own.
Subject(s): Wind


THE WIND, by LOUIS MERCIER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All last night and all day long
Last Line: He moves off. They can hear him in the leaves.
Subject(s): Homeless; Storms; Weather; Wind


THE WIND, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind went forth o'er land and sea
Last Line: In tenderness or wrath, on land or sea!
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Death; Sea; Wind; Dead, The; Ocean


THE WIND, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Is it some shade from paradise
Last Line: What answer to thy passion?
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Grief; Wind; Sorrow; Sadness


THE WIND, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind stood up, and gave a shout
Last Line: And so he will! And so he will!
Subject(s): Wind


THE WIND, by RUTH TABER WHITTLESEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: From whence I come no man may know
Last Line: I am the wind.
Subject(s): Wind


THE WIND (1), by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now, in his joy
Last Line: A blind, demented giant.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Wind


THE WIND (1), by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A wind is blowing over my soul
Last Line: Even with you.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Wind


THE WIND (2), by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of all the sounds despatched abroad
Last Line: In seamless company.
Subject(s): Wind


THE WIND (2), by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A tall tree talking with the wind
Last Line: Free as the wind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Wind


THE WIND AND IT WAS WINDY WEATHER, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now the winds are riding by
Last Line: All the freedom of the sky!
Variant Title(s): And It Was Windy Weather
Subject(s): Flight; Wind; Flying


THE WIND AND THE MOON, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Said the wind to the moon, 'I will blow you out
Last Line: She had never heard the great wind blare.
Subject(s): Conceit; Wind


THE WIND AT FIDENAE, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fresh from the sabines
Last Line: Bloweth the wind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Heaven; Rome, Italy; Wind; Paradise


THE WIND AT NIGHT, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O sudden blast, that through this silence black
Last Line: Shall first know living.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria
Subject(s): Wind


THE WIND CALLS, by EDWIN M. CASE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wind-riding clouds, now flying out of sight
Last Line: Where spirit breaking close confines will go.
Subject(s): Wind


THE WIND FROM THE WEST, by ELLA YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Blow high, blow low
Last Line: I loved long ago.
Subject(s): Wind


THE WIND IN A FROLIC, by WILLIAM HOWITT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind one morning sprang up from sleep
Last Line: How little of mischief it had done!
Subject(s): Children; Weather; Wind; Childhood


THE WIND IN THE BOUGHS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I hear the bugler wind amid the boughs
Last Line: Of what these tongues shall threaten? -- who can say?
Subject(s): Prophecy & Prophets; Wind


THE WIND IN THE CORN, by EDWARD FORRESTER SUTTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Summer silence dreaming downward with the cawing of the crow
Last Line: Cries the wind in the corn!
Alternate Author Name(s): Sutton, E.
Subject(s): Corn; Wind


THE WIND OF MARCH, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up from the sea the wild north wind is blowing
Last Line: The healing of the spring.
Subject(s): March (month); Wind


THE WIND OF ONSET, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With potent north winds rushing swiftly down
Last Line: O'er the scourged lands and turbulent oceans blown.
Subject(s): Wind


THE WIND ON THE HILLS, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Go not to the hills of erinn
Last Line: And the sun is in the west.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Omens; Wind


THE WIND OUR ENEMY, by ANNE MARRIOTT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wind / flattening its gaunt furious self against
Last Line: Wind.
Subject(s): Wind


THE WIND SHIFTS, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is how the wind shifts
Subject(s): Wind


THE WIND STRODE WILDLY, by ALFRED HENSCHKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wildly up from the river-bank strode the wind
Last Line: Cloudy, broken, lightning-riven like the skies.
Alternate Author Name(s): Klabund
Subject(s): Wind


THE WIND'S MESSAGE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There came a whisper down the bland between the dawn and dark
Last Line: And strike once more the bridle-track that leads along the bland.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Cities; Life; Trees; Voices; Wind; Urban Life


THE WIND'S PROPHECY, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I travel on by barren farms
Last Line: Thy love is one thou'st not yet known.'
Subject(s): Wind


THE WIND'S QUEST, by FORD MADOX FORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, where shall I find rest?
Last Line: Anarchist journal, the torch, in 1891.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox
Subject(s): Rest; Wind


THE WIND'S VISIT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind tapped like a tired man
Last Line: And I became alone.
Subject(s): Wind


THE WIND'S WHIMS, by GRACE MILDRED OLSEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Look how a delicate poplar bends to the gale
Last Line: Youth bends, but it is faithless age that breaks.
Subject(s): Wind; Youth


THE WINDS, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye winds, ye unseen currents of the air
Last Line: Crowd back to narrow bounds the ancient night
Subject(s): Wind


THE WINDS, by SAMUEL EGERTON BRYDGES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sublime the pleasure, meditating song
Last Line: And warn the wretch, who rolls in guilt, to heed.
Subject(s): Wind


THE WINDS, by WILLIAM KIRKPATRICK MAGEE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who are the winds? Who are the winds?'
Last Line: And ships are wreck'd, and shores are strewn.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Eglinton, John
Subject(s): Wind


THE WINDS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O weary fa' the east wind
Last Line: And let my ae love be.
Subject(s): Marines - Great Britain; Nature; Wind


THE WINDS DREW OFF, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Beware an austrian
Subject(s): Wind; Nature


THE WINDS OF GOD, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The winds of god are blowing
Last Line: His tides are surging in.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): God; Wind


THE WINDS OF GOD, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Across the azure spaces
Last Line: The winds of god go by?
Subject(s): God; Peace; War; Wind


THE WINDS OF GOD, by MARGUERITE AVIS WHITCOMB    Poem Text                    
First Line: Blow, winds of god / the bugle's call
Last Line: Shall whisper god's unchanging plan.
Subject(s): Wind


THE WINDS OF MARCH, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The winds of march are wild and strong
Last Line: But april-time was made for them!
Subject(s): March (month); Wind


THE WINDY DAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The wind was very bad that day
Last Line: And never came again that day.
Subject(s): March (month); Storms; Wind


THE WINTER SHORE, by THOMAS WADE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A mighty change it is, and ominous
Last Line: Reigneth omnipotent.
Subject(s): Seashore; Seasons; Water; Wind; Winter; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE WORD OF THE WIND, by LOUISE DRISCOLL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wind that carries the sound of bells
Last Line: And one white word for peace!
Subject(s): Freedom; Grief; Peace; War; Wind; Liberty; Sorrow; Sadness


THE YOUTH AND THE NORTH WIND; A TALE OF NORWAY, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once on a time - 'twas long ago
Last Line: And money for his friends.
Subject(s): North Wind; Norway


THERE IS A WAIL IN THE WIND TONIGHT, by JOSEPH NOEL PATON    Poem Source     Poem Explanation                
Subject(s): Wind


THERE'S A SALT WIND ROAMING, by GWENDOLYN WESCOTT    Poem Text                    
First Line: There's a salt wind roaming the prairie grass
Last Line: Who live in me again.
Subject(s): Sea; Wind; Ocean


THEY WILL COME BACK, by EDWIN H. ROLFSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Blow, winds, blow
Last Line: O they will come back, wind.
Subject(s): Wind


THINKING IN THE SPACE CAROL TALKS ABOUT, by DEBORAH BYRNE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Seeds tossed into the wind
Last Line: I call you persephone, and cut the earth open
Subject(s): Reason; Seeds; Wind


THIS-THAT, by ELISABETH RYNELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: It scratches on the door
Last Line: Rocked in the wind's cradle
Subject(s): Emptiness; Grief; Rain; Storms; Water; Wind


THO' LOVE HAS FLOWN, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let the wind wail on, my dear
Last Line: He will come back.
Subject(s): Hope; Love - Loss Of; Tears; Wind; Optimism


THREE WINDS, by LAURIE LEE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The hard blue wind of march
Last Line: My thirst's delirium
Subject(s): Seasons; Wind


THREE WOOD SONGS: 3. CHORALE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The branches of the sky bend grandly in the night wind
Last Line: And splendor endures, and the glory of stars is forever.
Subject(s): Night; Stars; Wind; Bedtime


TO JAMES NEWTON MATTHEWS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oho! Ye sunny, sonnet-singin'
Last Line: I lay them.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Wind


TO JANE, by JOHN COULTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Against a sloping wood it stands
Last Line: Is this the house our dead love built?
Subject(s): Forests; Houses; Wind; Woods


TO MESDAMES ZASSETSKY AND GARSCHINE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind may blaw the lee-lang way
Last Line: This happy lee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Rain; Sea; Wind; Ocean


TO NATURE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once more I rise to offer with pure joy
Last Line: On all the stars that shine and winds that blow.
Subject(s): Happiness; Nature; Sea; Wind; Joy; Delight; Ocean


TO T.H.L., by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I lament how all my days are fair
Last Line: And ask no heaven, having found a friend.
Subject(s): Life; Prayer; Sea; Stars; Terror; Wind; Ocean


TO THE HAWTHORN-TREE, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hawthorn fair, whose burgeoning
Last Line: E'er avail to lay thee low.
Subject(s): Hawthorn; Love; Trees; Wind


TO THE MARCH WIND, by EARL F. HUGHES    Poem Text                    
First Line: You search the mighty forest through
Last Line: And leaves a cheerful home.
Subject(s): March (month); Wind


TO THE MARCH WINDS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Blow, ye march winds,--blow fiendish-like, blow
Last Line: I'll come, yes, I 'll come and be free.
Subject(s): March (month); Wind


TO THE MOUNTAIN WINDS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mountain winds! Oh, whither do ye call me?
Last Line: Darkly still may grow -- but never free!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Wind


TO THE NORTH WIND, by FRANK WILMOT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There will be no more rest
Last Line: Pull fragrant logs along the valley rails.
Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley
Subject(s): Wind


TO THE PUPPET, WIND, by GORDON JOWERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Blow, blow, I defy you, wind
Last Line: From going where my fancy wishes.
Subject(s): Bodies; Freedom; Puppets; Wind; Liberty; Marionettes


TO THE ROARING WIND, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What syllable are you seeking,
Subject(s): Wind


TO THE SOUTH WIND, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O sweet south wind!
Last Line: Which the bad world sends forth, and all its wo!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller
Subject(s): Wind


TO THE SUMMER WIND, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Art thou the selfsame wind that blew
Last Line: Still wandering the world with thee?
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Wind


TO THE THAWING WIND, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come with rain, o loud southwester!
Last Line: Turn the poet out of door.
Subject(s): Wind


TO THE WEST WIND, by ARTHUR PETERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O wind of the west, thou art the one I need!
Last Line: And sense of boundless power in every vein!
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Wind; Southwest; Pacific States


TO THE WESTERN WIND, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet western wind, whose luck it is
Last Line: And all beset with flowers.
Subject(s): Wind


TO THE WIND, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Steer hither, rough old mariner
Last Line: Your nature, willful wind!
Subject(s): Wind


TO THE WINDS, by BERNARD BARTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye viewless minstrels of the sky
Last Line: It seems the voice of god.
Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet
Subject(s): Wind


TO THE WINDS, by ANN RADCLIFFE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Viewless, though heaven's vast vault your course ye steer
Last Line: I ask the still, sweet tear, that listening fancy weeps!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ward, Ann
Subject(s): Wind


TO THE WINDS, by CHARLOTTE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye vagrant winds! Yon clouds that bear
Last Line: Madness or death.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Wind


TO THE WINDS; A SONG, by PHILIP AYRES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye winds, that in your hasty flight
Last Line: Speak with thy eyes, I'll speak with mine.
Subject(s): Wind


TORNADO, by ADRIEN STOUTENBURG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wind went by with people falling out of it
Last Line: His legs reaching skyward, %and growing longer
Subject(s): Tornadoes; Wind


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. THE WIND CHANTS WELL TO-DAY, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind chants well over the world to-day
Last Line: And am as invisible as you.
Subject(s): Weather; Wind


TRANSLATION: 2. WIND, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like the blast %that knocked down
Last Line: One lemon %almost ripe
Variant Title(s): Win
Subject(s): Arabs; Death; Ghosts; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Spiritual Life; Supernatural; Wind


TREES AND THE WIND, by HARRIET P. JORDAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The fir trees bowed with cold disdain
Last Line: Into the wind's embrace!
Subject(s): Trees; Wind


TWILIGHT ON SIXTH AVENUE AT NINTH STREET, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Over the tops of the houses
Last Line: Washes a lonely wood.
Subject(s): Evening; Streets; Wind; Sunset; Twilight; Avenues


TWO EXTEMPORE POEMS SENT TO XIUWEI: 1, by YANG WAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The east wind is lovable but also hateful
Last Line: Has gone with the wind - to fall on whose house?
Subject(s): Wind


TWO EXTEMPORE POEMS SENT TO XIUWEI: 2, by YANG WAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The east wind equally shields all within the curved fence
Last Line: Don't let them be strewn wildly east of the songs' house
Subject(s): Wind


TZU TEG SONG: 3, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I will carry my coat and not put on my belt
Last Line: "my tiresome petticoat keeps on flapping about; / if it opens a little, I shall blame the spring win
Subject(s): Wind


UNINTERPRETED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Supinely we lie in the grove's
Last Line: Born of a rose or a patter of rain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Nature; Trees; Wind


UNKNOWN COLOR, by COUNTEE CULLEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I've often heard my mother say
Last Line: Poor little pigs, they see the wind'
Subject(s): Wind


VARIATIONS: 12, by CONRAD AIKEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wind, wind, wind in the old trees
Last Line: None shall have mercy, but all shall have death.
Subject(s): Death; Wind; Dead, The


VERIS ET FAVONI, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sing, zephyr, sing
Last Line: Most kind to me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Wind


VERITAS, by BERNICE BROWN BETTMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: By wind and flame
Last Line: Of the wind.
Subject(s): Wind


VETERAN, by FANNY HOWE    Poem Text                 Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: I don’t believe in ashes; some of the others do
Last Line: The one that moves around each form
Subject(s): Wind; Beliefs


VIGIL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why should it irk me, the night
Last Line: Dearest, be mine with daybreak!
Subject(s): Night; Sleep; Soul; Stars; Wind; Bedtime


VIGIL, by CLAIRE AVEN THOMSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wind is a fool tonight - fierce - unfed
Last Line: No telling what a fool will do!
Subject(s): Wind


VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 3: SATIRE: 5, by JOSEPH HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fie on all courtesie, and vnrulie windes
Last Line: But waxen crowns well gree with borowed haires.
Variant Title(s): The Coxcomb
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Wind; Fall


VOICES OF THE AIR, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But then there comes that moment rare
Last Line: The shrill quick sound that the insect makes.
Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen
Subject(s): Air; Sea; Voices; Wind; Ocean


VOICES ON THE WIND, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wind and the whirling of white mists
Last Line: Shoreward, yet holds my soul and keeps it from gaining sleep.
Subject(s): Wind


VOICES ON THE WIND, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Far out at sea I hear the wind complain
Last Line: Till there is no more sea, and winds are dumb?
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Wind


WAYFARERS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind is very cold!
Last Line: "follow the wind!"
Subject(s): Cities; Dreams; Memory; Sea; Soul; Wind; Urban Life; Nightmares; Ocean


WEATHER WISDOM, by VIVIAN HEYERDAHL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The day has a secret it warily keeps
Last Line: Winking obscenly, finger to mouth.
Subject(s): Wind


WEST WIND IN WINTER, by ALICE MEYNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Another day awakes. And who
Last Line: He finds me 'twixt his wings.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina
Subject(s): Wind


WEST WIND'S SECRET, by MARY JANE CARR    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Do you see that willow standing
Last Line: For the west wind told me
Subject(s): Wind


WESTERN WIND (1), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "western wind, when will thou blow"
Last Line: And I in my bed again
Subject(s): Wind


WESTERN WIND (1), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "o western wind, when wilt thou blow, / the small rain down can rain?"
Last Line: "christ, if my love were in my arms / and I in my bed again!"
Variant Title(s): The Lover In Winter Plaineth For The Spring;seventeenth-century Poem
Subject(s): Absence;longing;love;love - Loss Of;wind; Separation;isolation


WESTERN WIND (2), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "western wind, when wilt thou blow"
Last Line: For I of my life am weary
Subject(s): Wind


WHAT IS IT THE WIND HAS LOST, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Under each leaf?
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Nature; Wind


WHAT THE WIND SAID, by RUSSELL HOBAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Far away is where I've come from,' said the wind
Last Line: That's mine,' the wind said. 'find your own.' and left
Subject(s): Wind


WHAT THE WIND SAID, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I muse to-day, in a listless way
Last Line: The winter storm-king sigh.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Life; Mankind; Nature; Wind; Human Race


WHAT THE WINDS BRING, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Which is the wind that brings the cold?
Last Line: When the west begins to blow.
Subject(s): Wind


WHEN THE GREENNESS IS COME AGAIN, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The west wind lifts the plumes of the fir
Last Line: The good green world.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): March (month); Spring; Wind


WHEN ZEPHRYS BLOW, by SAMUEL TRAVERS CLOVER    Poem Text                    
First Line: When zephyrs blow and softly bring
Last Line: When zephyrs blow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clover, Sam T.
Subject(s): Love; Wandering & Wanderers; Wind; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


WHERE WOULD YOU BE?, by KARLA KUSKIN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Out in the night with me?
Subject(s): Wind


WHERE YOUR FEET GO, by JOSEPH AUSLANDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where your feet go no wind stirs
Last Line: On my lids the gradual seal.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nature; Sleep; Wind; Nightmares


WHIRLWINDS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The deepest dregs of direst woe
Last Line: All whirlwinds.
Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Wind; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress


WHISPER, by JOHN TRAVERS MOORE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I do not believe in fairies'
Last Line: And the whisper in the willows... %'oh-h-h-h!'
Subject(s): Wind


WHISPERING WIND, by II HENRY P. HOSEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Whispering wind that blows across this lake
Last Line: Whispering wind my love has gone away
Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Love - Loss Of; Wind


WILD CHERRY, by MILDRED J. ORR    Poem Text                    
First Line: The wild cherry is in bloom
Last Line: Wild cherry. I give my heart to you.
Subject(s): Cherries; Fruit; Moon; Noon; Wind


WIND, by JOANNA BAILLIE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pow'r uncontrollable, who hold'st thy sway
Last Line: And on the ocean far it slowly dies away.
Subject(s): Weather; Wind


WIND, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The morning after the night before
Last Line: Till I opened a window and kicked it out
Subject(s): Wind


WIND, by MICHAEL COFFEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Not kites, the wind didn't loft us
Last Line: That the day could see and the crows
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Kites; Wind


WIND, by DAFYDD AP GWILYM    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Free-coursing wind from the sky
Last Line: Return safe, you're a good wind
Alternate Author Name(s): Dafydd Ab Gwilym; Dafyod Ap Gwilym; David Ap Gwilim
Subject(s): Wind


WIND, by JOHN GALSWORTHY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wind, wind - heather gipsy
Last Line: Whistling in my tree!
Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John
Subject(s): Wind


WIND, by FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS GIFFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind bows down the poplar trees
Last Line: Under his hand of memory.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Fannie Stearns
Subject(s): Wind


WIND, by LINDA LEE HARPER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Summer, humid as an old aunt's apartment when she boils the fat out of
Last Line: Horizon, pink and black as a mottled pig rooting for corn
Subject(s): Nature; Seasons; Wind


WIND, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This house has been far out at sea all night
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Wind


WIND, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This house has been far out at sea all night
Last Line: Seeing the window tremble to come in %hearing the stones cr y out under the horizons
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Wind


WIND, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind has a language, I would I could learn
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Wind


WIND, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He shouts in the sails of the ships at sea
Last Line: Each is the wind I like the best.
Subject(s): Wind


WIND, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind is a tall, bare-headed beggar
Last Line: Before his beggar will
Subject(s): Wind


WIND, by BETTY MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who but the wind
Last Line: The wind
Subject(s): Wind


WIND, by EDNA E. SMITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wind, weary wind, born without home
Last Line: Wind, weary wind, nowhere to rest.
Subject(s): Wind


WIND, by KAYE STARBIRD    Poem Source                    
First Line: In spring, the wind's a sneaky wind
Last Line: And lean against the wind
Subject(s): Wind


WIND, by VENO TAUFER    Poem Source                    
First Line: From the south you bring rain
Last Line: Plague breaaths flower seeds %blow blow
Subject(s): Rain; Sailors And Sailing; Storms; Weather; Wind


WIND, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If god has any voice it is the wind
Last Line: "wheerrre, and begging,
Subject(s): Wind


WIND, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If god has any voice it is the wind
Last Line: In his mouth my body tastes like stale milk
Subject(s): Wind


WIND, by HAROLD VINAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sway over the trees, wind, if you will, start them burning
Last Line: Hush your breath, the child is asleep in the womb.
Subject(s): Wind


WIND, by BENNETT WEAVER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The sea, the hurtling sea is at the shore
Last Line: Through the eternal spaces of my soul!
Subject(s): Nature; Wind


WIND (1), by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's like the light,-- %a fashionless delight
Last Line: Best when it's done,-- %the everlasting clocks %chime noon
Variant Title(s): Poem: 297; Poem: 30
Subject(s): Noon; Wind


WIND AND SEA, by THOMAS KEOHLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: O fierce and rushing sea! O clamorous wind!
Last Line: For me, for me alone is death's glad peace.
Subject(s): Sea; Wind; Ocean


WIND AND SEA, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sea is a jovial comrade
Last Line: Are singing the selfsame strain!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Sea; Wind; Ocean


WIND AND WATER, by MIAO YIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A steady wind scours the autumn moon
Last Line: Why, then, does karma yet coil and bind?
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Wind; Zen Buddhism


WIND AND WOMEN, by MAY WILLIAMS WARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Adam and eve in the garden
Last Line: "a ...Cross..."
Subject(s): Wind; Women


WIND BLOWS PAPER, by HANNAH LYONS JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Wild kites without strings
Subject(s): Wind


WIND CHILL, by MARK VINZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: The voice on the radio is urgent. When you go outside, it says, exposed
Last Line: #name?
Subject(s): Cold; Radio; Weather; Wind


WIND CHIMES, by JORDAN MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Baser metals can't transmute to gold
Last Line: While humans agonize our lives away.
Subject(s): Music And Musicians; Wind


WIND FEAR, by EDA LOU WALTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Someday,' you said
Last Line: That was your hair.
Subject(s): Decay; Wind; Rot; Decadence


WIND FROM THE SEA, by JOSE-MARIA DE HEREDIA (1842-1905)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Garden and wold by winter's hand are gript
Last Line: The bud that in america was blown.
Subject(s): Atlantic Ocean; Sea; Wind; Ocean


WIND FROM THE SEA, by STEPHANE MALLARME    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Weary is the flesh, alas! With many books the eyes are dim
Last Line: But hearken, o my heart, the singing mariners that hoist the sails!
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Wind; Ocean


WIND IDYL, by LORI PETRI    Poem Text                    
First Line: I lay, when wind was blowing
Last Line: Breathe, each to each.
Subject(s): Wind


WIND IN THE BEECHWOOD, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The glorying forest shakes and swings with glancing
Last Line: Moves with the chant and whisper of the glade.
Subject(s): Forests; Soldiers' Writings; Wind; Woods


WIND IN THE CHIMNEY, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Without crushing the ashes
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Chimney Sweepers And Chimneys; Nature; Wind


WIND IN THE CYPRESS, by MARY BEALE CARR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wind in the cypress, - sing to me!
Last Line: Like broken chords from a harp unstrung.
Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Wind


WIND IN THE DUSK, by HAROLD MONRO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind feels hard enough tonight
Last Line: On me the everlasting skies!
Subject(s): Nature; Wind


WIND IN THE WILLOWS, by VERNE TAYLOR BENEDICT    Poem Text                    
First Line: All through the night came the sound of the wind in the willows
Last Line: The rain drummed the windows and ran in a silver cascade.
Subject(s): Wind


WIND INVITES WIND, by TADA CHIMAKO    Poem Source                    
Last Line: To devour the wolf
Subject(s): Wind


WIND MUSIC, by AILEEN FISHER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The west wind plays a merry tune
Last Line: Can play on spider webs?
Subject(s): Wind


WIND OF SPRING, by MYRA COHN LIVINGSTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The wind has picked me up
Last Line: Blow me out from april %into may
Subject(s): Wind


WIND OF SUMMER, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O wind, thou hast thy kingdom in the trees
Last Line: Lavish, large, soothing, refluent summerwind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper)
Subject(s): Summer; Wind


WIND OF THE MOOR, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wind of the moor, breath of the vast free reaches
Last Line: And would fain forget -- forget, oh, wind of the moor!
Subject(s): Wind


WIND OF THE SOUTH, by JENNIE MCBRIDE BUTLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tender you were and shy, wind of the south
Last Line: My love is dead, beneath the southern stars.
Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Wind; Dead, The


WIND ON THE CORN, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Full often as I rove by path or stile
Last Line: Faintly in that full wind that rocks the outstanding firs.
Subject(s): Wind


WIND ON THE HILL, by ALAN ALEXANDER MILNE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No one can tell me
Last Line: But where the wind comes from %nobody knows
Alternate Author Name(s): Milne, A. A.
Subject(s): Wind


WIND ON THE SEA, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The loneliness of the sea is in my heart
Last Line: That may not wander as the wind or return as the sea.
Subject(s): Sea; Wind; Ocean


WIND PRARIE FANTASIO, by BENJAMIN ROSENBAUM    Poem Text                    
First Line: The wind swept the prairies with a cry of joy; the
Last Line: Thirty years' absence; as a man, apprehensively, looking among the tomb stones.
Variant Title(s): Wild Fantasio
Subject(s): Wind


WIND SONG, by LUCIA PEARL BOORNAZIAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Cast my heart up on your barren shores
Last Line: Dash the tingling spray over me.
Subject(s): Sea; Singing & Singers; Spring; Wind; Ocean; Songs


WIND SONG, by MARGARET HARVEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wind of the night, sing high, sing low
Last Line: A lullaby song for my laddie-o!
Subject(s): Wind


WIND SONG, by LILIAN MOORE    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the wind blows
Last Line: The quiet things %are quiet again
Subject(s): Wind


WIND SONG; OKLAHOMA ANNIVERSARY, APRIL 22, by ZOE AGNES STRATTON TILGHMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wind of the prairie, sweeping adown from the hills
Last Line: "but these are they who have conquer'd and kept, the people of eighty-nine."
Subject(s): Native Americans; Oklahoma; Pioneers; West (u.s.); Wind; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Southwest; Pacific States


WIND THAT ROSE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Restored in artic confidence %to the invisible
Variant Title(s): Poem: 125
Subject(s): Wind


WIND TOOK UP THE NORTHERN THINGS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The transport of the bird
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1134; Poem: 115
Subject(s): Wind


WIND WEAVING, by FRANCES HALLEY BROCKETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: A singing shuttle in the tree
Last Line: That thought the pine, the bird, and me.
Subject(s): Wind


WIND WHIMSEY, by EDNA FREDERIKSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The wind is in the dry leaves
Last Line: Friendly -- but aloof.
Subject(s): Wind


WIND WILL COME FROM THE SOUTH, by CIRCE MAIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: A wind will come from the south with unleashed rain
Last Line: Down the stairs, from the balconies, %calling to each other
Subject(s): Cleanliness; Human Rights; Rain; Storms; Wind


WIND'S RELIQUARY, by ERIC PANKEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind, everywhere and nowhere
Last Line: That is how gods were named. One at a tme, like newborns
Subject(s): Wind


WIND'S WORK, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Kate rose up early as fresh as a lark
Last Line: But the wind knows!
Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge
Subject(s): Wind


WIND, ANT, HISTORY, by OZDEMIR INCE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The wind had hanged itself on the plane tree
Last Line: This wind didn't commit suicide, they hanged him
Subject(s): Wind


WINDCHIME, by TONY HOAGLAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She goes out to hang the windchime
Subject(s): Marriage; Wind; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


WINDCHIME, by TONY HOAGLAND    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She goes out to hang the windchime
Last Line: The problem scrunched into her forehead; %the little kissable mouth %with the nail in it
Subject(s): Marriage; Wind


WINDFLOWER LEAF, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This flower is repeated
Last Line: The wind young and strong lets these last longer than stones.
Subject(s): Flowers; Wind


WINDS, by WILHELMINA STAVERS LEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Spring winds / are singing strings
Last Line: Her throat.
Subject(s): Nature; Seasons; Wind


WINDS A-BLOWING, by MAY JUSTUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The north wind is a beggar
Last Line: The spring wind is a gay lad %who blows a silver whistle
Subject(s): Wind


WINDS ARE THE WATCHMEN, by IVA PURDUM BRUTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Winds are the watchmen of the broad sky - way
Last Line: They are wise watchmen.
Subject(s): Clouds; Sky; Wind


WINDS AT BETHLEHEM, by WINIFRED MARY LETTS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When jesus lay on mary's knee
Last Line: The four great winds stood hand in hand %and worshipped there with wings outspread
Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Wind


WINDS OF LIFE, by MARJORIE DUGDALE ASHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ever the wind beats on my fastened door
Last Line: Silence and darkness and a shrouded calm.
Subject(s): Life; Wind


WINDY AFTERNOON, by BARBARA GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through the wood
Subject(s): Wind


WINDY DAY, by HARRIET MILLS MCKAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The wind blew in from the sea all day
Last Line: I found them gallant company.
Subject(s): Wind


WINDY DAY AT KABEKONA, by THOMAS R. SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Only a picture window stands between us and the full force of gusts
Last Line: Torn from its place
Subject(s): Storms; Wind


WINDY EVENING, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This old world needs propping up
Subject(s): Wind


WINDY MORNING (CATALINE ISLAND, 1913), by ODELL SHEPARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dawn with a jubilant shout
Last Line: High up against the sun.
Subject(s): Catalina Island, California; Wind


WINDY NIGHTS, by RODNEY BENNETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Rumbling in the chimneys
Last Line: The great gray seas
Subject(s): Wind


WINDY NIGHTS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whenever the moon and stars are set
Last Line: By he comes back at the gallop again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Variant Title(s): A Child's Garden Of Verses: 9
Subject(s): Weather; Wind


WINTER, by MARY BALDWIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The wind blows high, the wind blows low
Last Line: All silent, white.
Subject(s): Frost; Hunger; Snow; Wind; Winter


WINTER FANCIES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Winter without / and warmth within
Last Line: In the heart of a nut!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Nature; Wind; Winter


WINTER NIGHT, by MARY FRANCES MARSHALL BUTTS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Blow, wind, blow!
Subject(s): Wind


WINTER WINDS, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At twelve o'clock tonight
Last Line: Not to be oft aroused.
Subject(s): Wind


WINTER-FEAR, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The rain has come
Last Line: The sun, then, god! What agony these days of rain!
Subject(s): Fear; Rain; Wind; Winter


WINTRY WINDS, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wintry wind blows down the village
Last Line: Lounged along the open road, they played and dreamed throughout a busy land.
Subject(s): Wind; Winter


WOMAN OF AIR, WOMAN OF WATER, by GLORIA DIEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: I know that a seaweed wind
Last Line: Will be a woman of earth %a woman of fire
Subject(s): Earth; Fire; Human Rights; Water; Wind


WORD ON WIND, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cows go around saying moo
Last Line: Right after you have said it somewhere where somebody is making fertilizer or glue
Subject(s): Wind


WOULDN'T YOU?, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I / could go
Last Line: I'd go!
Subject(s): Imagination; Wind; Farewell; Fancy


WOULDN'T YOU?, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I %could go
Last Line: I'd go!
Subject(s): Imagination; Wind


WRECK OF THE SCHOONER 'SAMUEL CRAWFORD.', by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas in the year of 1886, and on the 29th of november
Last Line: And to take the last look of their schooner in a blaze.
Subject(s): Cold; Disasters; Hunger; Hurricanes; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Snow; Survival; Wind


WRITTEN DURING A STORM OF WIND, by SUSAN EVANCE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Cease your desolating sound
Last Line: —winds, in pity blow no more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hooper, Susan Evance
Subject(s): Storms; Wind


YOUTH AND AGE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O wanton youth, this wind was not
Last Line: "the heart of youth is wise."
Subject(s): Aging; Gardens & Gardening; Hearts; Memory; Wind; Wisdom; Youth