Transience

Theme/Concept — appears in 236 work(s).

Works

• As I Was Saying (Chesterton)
• ephemeral (Chesterton)
• gold-leaves (Chesterton)
• towers-of-time (Chesterton)
• For a War Memorial (Chesterton)
• A HINT TO PREMIERS AND FIRST CONSULS (Coleridge)
• A SUNSET (Coleridge)
• AD LYRAM. (Coleridge)
• CONSTANCY TO AN IDEAL OBJECT (Coleridge)
• DUTY SURVIVING SELF-LOVE THE ONLY SURE FRIEND OF DECLINING LIFE (Coleridge)
• FROM ZAPOLYA (Coleridge)
• IMITATED FROM OSSIAN (Coleridge)
• IMITATIONS AD LYRAM (Coleridge)
• INSCRIPTION FOR A TIME-PIECE (Coleridge)
• LETTER TO SIR HENRY GOODYERE (Coleridge)
• LOVE’S BURIAL-PLACE (Coleridge)
• ON BALA HILL (Coleridge)
• ON OBSERVING A BLOSSOM ON THE FIRST OF FEBRUARY 1796 (Coleridge)
• PAIN (Coleridge)
• SNOW DROP. (Coleridge)
• THE FADED FLOWER (Coleridge)
• THE GENTLE LOOK (Coleridge)
• THE IMPROVISATORE OR, JOHN ANDERSON, MY JO, JOHN (Coleridge)
• THE KEEPSAKE (Coleridge)
• THE KNIGHT’S TOMB (Coleridge)
• THE SNOW-DROP (Coleridge)
• TO A PRIMROSE (Coleridge)
• VER PERPETUUM (Coleridge)
• WHAT IS LIFE (Coleridge)
• YOUTH AND AGE (Coleridge)
• 1024. So large my Will (Dickinson)
• 1038. Her little Parasol to lift (Dickinson)
• 1051. I cannot meet the Spring unmoved — (Dickinson)
• 1068. Further in Summer than the Birds (Dickinson)
• 107. ‘Twas such a little — little boat (Dickinson)
• 1080. When they come back — if Blossoms do — (Dickinson)
• 1084. At Half past Three, a single Bird (Dickinson)
• 1086. What Twigs We held by — (Dickinson)
• 1088. Ended, ere it begun — (Dickinson)
• 11. I never told the buried gold (Dickinson)
• 1101. Between the form of Life and Life (Dickinson)
• 1106. We do not know the time we lose — (Dickinson)
• 1114. The largest Fire ever known (Dickinson)
• 1115. The murmuring of Bees, has ceased (Dickinson)
• 1118. Exhilaration is the Breeze (Dickinson)
• 1119. Paradise is that old mansion (Dickinson)
• 1125. Oh Sumptuous moment (Dickinson)
• 1133. The Snow that never drifts — (Dickinson)
• 1140. The Day grew small, surrounded tight (Dickinson)
• 1147. After a hundred years (Dickinson)
• 1154. A full fed Rose on meals of Tint (Dickinson)
• 1165. Contained in this short Life (Dickinson)
• 1184. The Days that we can spare (Dickinson)
• 1191. The pungent atom in the Air (Dickinson)
• 1196. To make Routine a Stimulus (Dickinson)
• 12. The morns are meeker than they were — (Dickinson)
• 120. If this is fading (Dickinson)
• 1209. To disappear enhances — (Dickinson)
• 1211. A Sparrow took a Slice of Twig (Dickinson)
• 1236. Like Time’s insidious wrinkle (Dickinson)
• 1253. Had this one Day not been. (Dickinson)
• 1257. Dominion lasts until obtained — (Dickinson)
• 1265. The most triumphant Bird I ever knew or met (Dickinson)
• 1267. I saw that the Flake was on it (Dickinson)
• 1271. September’s Baccalaureate (Dickinson)
• 1276. ‘Twas later when the summer went (Dickinson)
• 1280. The harm of Years is on him — (Dickinson)
• 1281. A stagnant pleasure like a Pool (Dickinson)
• 1298. The Mushroom is the Elf of Plants — (Dickinson)
• 130. These are the days when Birds come back — (Dickinson)
• 131. Besides the Autumn poets sing (Dickinson)
• 1310. The Notice that is called the Spring (Dickinson)
• 136. Have you got a Brook in your little heart, (Dickinson)
• 1384. Praise it — ‘tis dead — (Dickinson)
• 1390. These held their Wick above the West — (Dickinson)
• 1407. A Field of Stubble, lying sere (Dickinson)
• 1416. Crisis is sweet and yet the Heart (Dickinson)
• 1422. Summer has two Beginnings — (Dickinson)
• 1434. Go not too near a House of Rose — (Dickinson)
• 1437. A Dew sufficed itself — (Dickinson)
• 1444. A little Snow was here and there (Dickinson)
• 1452. Your thoughts don’t have words every day (Dickinson)
• 1463. A Route of Evanescence (Dickinson)
• 1464. One thing of it we borrow (Dickinson)
• 1468. A winged spark doth soar about — (Dickinson)
• 1475. Fame is the one that does not stay — (Dickinson)
• 1490. The Face in evanescence lain (Dickinson)
• 15. The Guest is gold and crimson — (Dickinson)
• 1506. Summer is shorter than any one — (Dickinson)
• 1515. The Things that never can come back, are several — (Dickinson)
• 1524. A faded Boy — in sallow Clothes (Dickinson)
• 1540. As imperceptibly as Grief (Dickinson)
• 163. Tho’ my destiny be Fustian — (Dickinson)
• 1659. Fame is a fickle food (Dickinson)
• 169. In Ebon Box, when years have flown (Dickinson)
• 173. A fuzzy fellow, without feet, (Dickinson)
• 1741. That it will never come again (Dickinson)
• 1744. The joy that has no stem no core, (Dickinson)
• 1752. This docile one inter (Dickinson)
• 1756. ‘Twas here my summer paused (Dickinson)
• 1762. Were natural mortal lady (Dickinson)
• 1773. The Summer that we did not prize, (Dickinson)
• 187. How many times these low feet staggered — (Dickinson)
• 216. Safe in their alabaster chambers (Dickinson)
• 228. Blazing in Gold and quenching in Purple (Dickinson)
• 282. How noteless Men, and Pleiads, stand, (Dickinson)
• 287. A Clock stopped — (Dickinson)
• 290. Of Bronze — and Blaze — (Dickinson)
• 301. I reason, Earth is short — (Dickinson)
• 302. Like Some Old fashioned Miracle (Dickinson)
• 311. It sifts from Leaden Sieves — (Dickinson)
• 32. When Roses cease to bloom, Sir, (Dickinson)
• 332. There are two Ripenings — one — of sight — (Dickinson)
• 337. I know a place where Summer strives (Dickinson)
• 345. Funny — to be a Century — (Dickinson)
• 35. Nobody knows this little Rose — (Dickinson)
• 354. From Cocoon forth a Butterfly (Dickinson)
• 375. The Angle of a Landscape — (Dickinson)
• 393. Did Our Best Moment last — (Dickinson)
• 397. When Diamonds are a Legend, (Dickinson)
• 404. How many Flowers fail in Wood — (Dickinson)
• 406. Some — Work for Immortality — (Dickinson)
• 423. The Months have ends — the Years — a knot — (Dickinson)
• 517. He parts Himself — like Leaves — (Dickinson)
• 533. Two butterflies went out at Noon — (Dickinson)
• 534. We see — Comparatively — (Dickinson)
• 541. Some such Butterfly be seen (Dickinson)
• 563. I could not prove the Years had feet — (Dickinson)
• 574. My first well Day — since many ill — (Dickinson)
• 579. I had been hungry, all the Years — (Dickinson)
• 586. We talked as Girls do — (Dickinson)
• 592. What care the Dead, for Chanticleer — (Dickinson)
• 6. Frequently the woods are pink (Dickinson)
• 602. Of Brussels — it was not — (Dickinson)
• 605. The Spider holds a Silver Ball (Dickinson)
• 606. The Trees like Tassels — hit — and swung — (Dickinson)
• 624. Forever — is composed of Nows — (Dickinson)
• 628. They called me to the Window, for (Dickinson)
• 631. Ourselves were wed one summer — dear — (Dickinson)
• 654. A long — long Sleep — A famous — Sleep — (Dickinson)
• 656. The name — of it — is Autumn — (Dickinson)
• 658. Whole Gulfs — of Red, and Fleets — of Red — (Dickinson)
• 660. ‘Tis good — the looking back on Grief — (Dickinson)
• 665. Dropped into the Ether Acre — (Dickinson)
• 667. Bloom upon the Mountain — stated — (Dickinson)
• 675. Essential Oils — are wrung — (Dickinson)
• 682. ‘Twould ease — a Butterfly — (Dickinson)
• 692. The Sun kept setting — setting — still (Dickinson)
• 700. You’ve seen Balloons set — Haven’t You (Dickinson)
• 712. Because I could not stop for Death — (Dickinson)
• 715. The World — feels Dusty (Dickinson)
• 724. It’s easy to invent a Life — (Dickinson)
• 735. Upon Concluded Lives (Dickinson)
• 749. All but Death, can be Adjusted — (Dickinson)
• 752. So the Eyes accost — and sunder (Dickinson)
• 764. Presentiment — is that long Shadow — on the Lawn — (Dickinson)
• 778. This that would greet — an hour ago — (Dickinson)
• 795. Her final Summer was it — (Dickinson)
• 811. The Veins of other Flowers (Dickinson)
• 812. A Light exists in Spring (Dickinson)
• 813. This quiet Dust was Gentleman and Ladies (Dickinson)
• 853. When One has given up One’s life (Dickinson)
• 89. Some things that fly there be — (Dickinson)
• 962. Midsummer, was it, when They died — (Dickinson)
• 978. It bloomed and dropt, a Single Noon — (Dickinson)
• 981. As Sleigh Bells seem in summer (Dickinson)
• 99. New feet within my garden go — (Dickinson)
• 991. She sped as Petals of a Rose (Dickinson)
• 997. Crumbling is not an instant’s Act (Dickinson)
• A Lyric ‘If Time and Space, as Sages say’ (Eliot)
• APPENDIX POEMS WRITTEN IN EARLY YOUTH (Eliot)
• ASH-WEDNESDAY 1930 (Eliot)
• Before Morning (Eliot)
• East Coker 1940 (Eliot)
• I Because I do not hope to turn again (Eliot)
• Song ‘If space and time, as sages say’ (Eliot)
• Song ‘When we came home across the hill’ (Eliot)
• Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art (Keats)
• Faery Songs (Keats)
• FANCY (Keats)
• ODE ON A GRECIAN URN (Keats)
• ODE ON MELANCHOLY (Keats)
• ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE (Keats)
• On Death (Keats)
• On Seeing the Elgin Marbles (Keats)
• Sonnet - The Human Seasons (Keats)
• Sonnet on Visiting the Tomb of Burns (Keats)
• Sonnet Written in Disgust of Vulgar Superstition (Keats)
• Sonnet After dark vapours have oppress’d our plains (Keats)
• Sonnet When I have fears that I may cease to be (Keats)
• Stanzas (Keats)
• The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone! (Keats)
• TO AUTUMN (Keats)
• TO ONE WHO HAS BEEN LONG IN CITY PENT (Keats)
• To — (Keats)
• An Enigma (Poe)
• Dreams (Poe)
• Imitation (Poe)
• Mellonta Tauta (Poe)
• The Bells (Poe)
• The Coliseum (Poe)
• The Happiest Day (Poe)
• The Island of the Fay (Poe)
• The Valley of Unrest (Poe)
• To — (Poe)
• To Zante (Poe)
• Sonnet 1 (Shakespeare)
• Sonnet 104 (Shakespeare)
• Sonnet 115 (Shakespeare)
• Sonnet 12 (Shakespeare)
• Sonnet 123 (Shakespeare)
• Sonnet 125 (Shakespeare)
• Sonnet 15 (Shakespeare)
• Sonnet 18 (Shakespeare)
• Sonnet 2 (Shakespeare)
• Sonnet 3 (Shakespeare)
• Sonnet 4 (Shakespeare)
• Sonnet 5 (Shakespeare)
• Sonnet 60 (Shakespeare)
• Sonnet 63 (Shakespeare)
• Sonnet 64 (Shakespeare)
• Sonnet 7 (Shakespeare)
• THE TEMPEST (Shakespeare)
• VARIOUS POEMS (Shakespeare)
• VENUS AND ADONIS (Shakespeare)
• Lingering Last Drops (Whitman)
• O Hymen! O Hymenee! (Whitman)
• Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd (Whitman)
• Quicksand Years (Whitman)
• The Calming Thought of All (Whitman)
• The Dismantled Ship (Whitman)
• Thoughts (Whitman) (3)
• Year of Meteors 1859-60 (Whitman)
• Yonnondio (Whitman)
• Youth, Day, Old Age and Night (Whitman)
• The Picture of Dorian Gray (Wilde)
• The Sphinx (Wilde)
• First and Last (Belloc)
• Introduction to ‘The Romance of Madame Tussaud’s’ (Belloc)
• On Everything (Belloc)
• Sonnets and Verse (Belloc)
• The Four Men (Belloc)

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