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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: AIKEN, CONRAD Matches Found: 236 Aiken, Conrad Poet's Biography 236 poems available by this author 1915: THE TRENCHES Poem Text First Line: All night long, it has seemed for many years Last Line: Will the word come to-day? Subject(s): World War I; First World War ACCOMPLICES First Line: A love I love whose lips I love Last Line: And we could be together false %if she would but stay on AERIAL DODDS Poem Text First Line: Ingratitude--the damned ingratitude! Last Line: Curl round those knees, and see the young mouth tremble Subject(s): Absense; Desire ALL LOVELY THINGS WILL HAVE AN ENDING AMOROSA AND COMPANY Poem Text First Line: Well, there was still a sure hand, anyway, Last Line: And stared at red mirrored eyes. She was getting old Subject(s): Aging; Jealousy AND IN THE HANGING GARDENS First Line: And in the hanging gardens there is rain Last Line: And pauses on the midmost step, to taste %one drop of wine, wherewith wild rain has mixed ANIMULA VAGULA BLANDULA First Line: Animula vagula blandula, %is it true that your origin's glandular? Last Line: An umbilical chord %like all other impropandula? ANNIHILATION First Line: While the blue noon above us arches Last Line: All that we know in love is bitter. %and it is not much ANOTHER LYCIDAS First Line: Yet once more in the empty room review Last Line: The span of such a man ARGUMENT First Line: Do not believe this mighty grief ASPHALT Poem Text First Line: Light your cigarette, then, in this shadow Last Line: We toss our tortured hands, to no escape. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationship AT A CONCERT OF MUSIC Poem Text First Line: Be still, while the music rises about us; the deep enchantment Subject(s): Music & Musicians AT A CONCERT OF MUSIC First Line: Be still, while the music rises about us; the deep enchantment Subject(s): Music And Musicians ATLANTIS Poem Text First Line: There was an island in the sea Last Line: Crabs on the pale mosaic creep Subject(s): Atlantis; Mythology - Classical ATLANTIS First Line: There was an island in the sea Subject(s): Atlantis; Mythology - Classical BAIN'S CATS AND RATS Poem Text First Line: Quiet, and almost bashful, and seldom looking Last Line: And then he'd glance, half-scared, into the wings Subject(s): Circus; Death; Dead, The BEND AS THE BOW BENDS, AND LET FLY THE SHAFT Last Line: Thus, and thus only, will our tempest come %by continents of snow to find a home Subject(s): Snow BLIND DATE First Line: No more the swanboat on the artifical lake Last Line: And we shall keep it with the keeper of the golden gates BLUES FOR RUBY MATRIX First Line: Where's ruby, where has she gone this evening Last Line: So that the world might know how worlds will end BOARDMAN AND COFFIN Poem Text First Line: I told him straight, if he touched me, just once more Last Line: And a wind rushed after them. And that was all Subject(s): Circus; Murder; Suicide CALYX OF THE OBOE BREAKS Last Line: Then the musicians cease to play,, %and the world is waved away Subject(s): Oboes CASSOWARY First Line: Behold the scraggly cassowary Last Line: Or eat the cassowary's egg Subject(s): Animals CHANGING MIND First Line: The room filled with the sound of voices CHIAROSCURO: ROSE First Line: Fill your bowl with roses: the bowl, too, have COMING FORTH OF OSIRIS JONES: CHARACTERISTIC COMMENTS First Line: The nursery clock %tick tock %the face %mmmmm mmmmm Last Line: I also serve who only lie in wait %the heart %I will COMING FORTH OF OSIRIS JONES: FOUR SPEACHES BY OBELISK First Line: Northward, the nothing that we give a name Last Line: Of kings now useless who have gone to rest COMING FORTH OF OSIRIS JONES: INSCRIPTIONS IN PLACES First Line: On a billboard %smoke sweet caporals Last Line: Over a door in a hospital %staff only COMING FORTH OF OSIRIS JONES: LANDSCAPE WITH FIGURES First Line: The birches %tell the tale silverly Last Line: Where and when? Who and why? %the grass %shhhhhhhhhh shhhhhh COMING FORTH OF OSIRIS JONES: MR JONES ADDRESSES GLASS First Line: Mr jones %so this is you Last Line: But as for me I'd rather be %unconscious, except when I see COMING FORTH OF OSIRIS JONES: REMARKS ON MR. JONES First Line: The trained nurse %it's a fine boy, not a blemish, god bless him Last Line: And with it shed your life %the sun %rejoice %the rain %weep COMING FORTH OF OSIRIS JONES: REPORT BY MEDICAL STUDENT First Line: Facies %sallow and somewhat haggard; thin and pallid Last Line: Then brown and black; scaled off; and disappeared Subject(s): Medical Students COMING FORTH OF OSIRIS JONES: SPEECHES BY BOOKS, ETC First Line: The books %everyman I will go with thee and be thy guide Last Line: In god's name, and god's image, let him die %the clock %tock COMING FORTH OF OSIRIS JONES: STAGE DIRECTIONS First Line: It is a shabby backdrop of bright stars Last Line: The lack of number wears a cloak of stars COMING FORTH OF OSIRIS JONES: THE COSTUMES First Line: Bought from an old clothes man who rang a bell Last Line: Item: sundry felt hats %item: a coffin COMING FORTH OF OSIRIS JONES: THE FACE First Line: The blue shawl first, a canopy of blue Last Line: And only rests, at last, when that too comes to rest COMING FORTH OF OSIRIS JONES: THE THINGS First Line: The house in broad street, red brick, with nine rooms Last Line: Into that house whose tenants do not love COMING FORTH OF OSIRIS JONES: UNOFFICIAL REPORT DIVERS First Line: A lamp-post %he stood here. It was the hour of the dog Last Line: I knew him well COMING FORTH OF OSIRIS JONES: VARIOUS ROOMS First Line: High on the southern wall the clock Last Line: Lie still and close our eyes COUNTERPOINT: TWO ROOMS Poem Text First Line: He, in the room above, grown old and tired Last Line: The slow grey clouds go slowly gainst the sky Subject(s): Seasons; Death; Man-women Relationships; Despair; Happiness CRYSTAL First Line: What time is it now, brother pythagoras, by the pale stone Last Line: This night %we all set sail for the west DANCING ADAIRS Poem Text First Line: Behold me, in my chiffon, gauze, and tinsel, Last Line: Now I sink into you, for love of sleep Subject(s): Fireflies; Love; Glowworms DANCING ADAIRS First Line: Behold me, in my chiffron, gauze and tinsel DEAD LEAF IN MAY First Line: One skeleton-leaf, white-ribbed, a last year's leaf Last Line: Thirst in the there, that you may drink the here DEAR UNCLE STRANGER First Line: All my shortcomings, in this year of grace Last Line: Good men and women gone too soon to bed DILEMMA Poem Text First Line: Not for the sordid do we seek Last Line: A still shape came to look at stars. . . DISCORD Poem Text First Line: The hurdy-gurdy sings in the morning Last Line: And cherry blossoms crowding to hide the dead. Subject(s): Death; Love; Dead, The DISCORDANTS: 1 Poem Text First Line: Music I heard with you was more than music Last Line: They knew you once, o beautiful and wise. Variant Title(s): Bread And Music Subject(s): Life Change Events; Love; Love - Loss Of; Love - Nature Of DISCORDANTS: 2 Poem Text First Line: My heart has become as hard as a city street Last Line: Or were you only a dream? Subject(s): Absense DISCORDANTS: 2 First Line: My heart has become as hard as a city street Last Line: And tunes from a hurdy-gurdy that coldly rejoices %shoot arrows into my heart DISCORDANTS: 3 Poem Text First Line: Dead cleopatra lies in a crystal casket Last Line: Sending up grass and blossoms to the sky Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.) DISCORDANTS: 3 First Line: Dead cleopatra lies in a crystal casket Last Line: Sending up grass and blossoms to the sky Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.) DISCORDANTS: 4 Poem Text First Line: Dead cleopatra lies in a crystal casket, Last Line: Sending up grass and blossoms to the sky Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.) DISCORDANTS: 4 First Line: In the noisy street Last Line: You on the farther shore, and I in this street DISCORDANTS: 5 Poem Text First Line: In the noisy street Last Line: You on the farther shore, and I in this street Subject(s): Absense DOCTORS' ROW First Line: Snow falls on the cars in doctors' row and hoods the headlights Last Line: The sky's blue streets swept clean of silent birds %for an audience of gods, and superwords DUVAL'S BIRDS Poem Text First Line: The parrot, screeching, flew out into the darkness, Last Line: The little white ones winked round yellow eyes Subject(s): Parrots EARTH TEDIUM Poem Text First Line: If part of earth, I am a sullen part Last Line: And in all fruitfulness there lurks a pain. Subject(s): Earth; Life; World EARTH TRIUMPHANT Poem Text First Line: The warm sun covers earth again Last Line: This may, as last may, brought him mirth. ELECTRA First Line: The little princess, on her eleventh birthday Last Line: The blood unmoving, and the moonlight vain EPISODE Poem Text First Line: So, to begin with, dust blows down the street Last Line: Saying no word, since there's no word to say. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion EPISODE IN GREY Poem Text First Line: So, to begin with, dust blows down the street Last Line: Saying no word, since there's no word to say Subject(s): Togetherness EVENSONG Poem Text First Line: This song is of no importance Last Line: The perfect quiet that comes after rain. Subject(s): Cities; Singing & Singers; Urban Life; Songs EXILE First Line: These hills are sandy. Trees are dwarfed here. Last Line: Morning and evening I shall drink the dew FADE, THEN First Line: Fade, then, - die, depart, and come no more Last Line: And leave not in a single crevice %a single leaf FAREWELL VOYAGING WORLD! First Line: It was the departure, the sun was risen Last Line: We shall never be older or wiser or dead FIVE SONNETS FOUR APPEARANCES First Line: It is the sunlight only, the pure shape GABRIEL DE FORD Poem Text First Line: He slips in through the stage-door, always singing; Last Line: He cried like a baby: what do you think of that Subject(s): Ventriloquists & Ventriloquist Dummies GOD'S ACRE First Line: In memory of. In fondest recollection GOING FORTH First Line: It is not in being careful, as mothers are GRASSHOPPER First Line: Grasshopper %grasshopper Last Line: To fall in grass again %and sing Subject(s): Animals HABEAS CORPUS BLUES First Line: In the cathedral the acolytes are praying Last Line: While, in his attic, the poet is still playing, %the poet is playing the habeas corpus blues Subject(s): Firefighters; Poetry And Poets HALLOWE'EN First Line: All saints', all hallows' Last Line: Whose source is unending forever HATTERAS CALLING First Line: Southeast, and storm, and every weathervane Last Line: Child of that hour when rock and ocean meet HAUNTED CHAMBERS Poem Text First Line: The lamp-lit page is turned, the dream forgotten Last Line: Let us return, hear music, and forget Subject(s): Family Life HERMAN MELVILLE First Line: My towers at last!' Subject(s): Melville, Herman (1819-1891) HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text First Line: My towers at last!' Subject(s): Melville, Herman (1819-1891) ILLICIT Poem Text First Line: Of what she said to me that night - no matter Last Line: She played this tune? - or what, then, was intended? Subject(s): Music Y& Musicians; Forgetfulness; Memory INNOCENCE (1) Poem Text First Line: Let me be always one with earth Last Line: Earth, bid your lovers rise from me! Subject(s): Innocence INNOCENCE (2) Poem Text First Line: By the old stone bridge he met a van Last Line: That blew away so peacefully? Subject(s): Children; Innocence; Peace; Youth; Childhood KEEP IN THE HEART OF THE JOURNAL NATURE KEEPS Last Line: After this interval of faith and question, %to nature's heart, in pain, as I began KID. WILLIAM BLACKSTONE (DIED 1675) First Line: Where now he roves, by wood or swamp whatever Last Line: And the locked heart of man his only doubt KID: 1. THE WITNESS First Line: Who saw the kid when he rose from the east Last Line: The everlasting of the golden gate KID: 2. THE LAND First Line: The sun-cymbal strikes: and a land of voices Last Line: Fog-step, dew-step: the silverleaf tattles KID: 3. THE FIRST VISION First Line: Here, to be first, is not to find Last Line: Westward, southward, the ghost moves on KID: 4. SECOND VISION: THE AMBIGUITY First Line: In secret wood, where once he stood Last Line: Inward, outward, the ghost moves on KID: 5. THE MARTYRDOM First Line: He turned on his tracks: to the puritans came Last Line: Chapter eight, in the gospel according to john KID: 6. THE KID First Line: He turned to the land: forgot his name Last Line: The fiddles are broken, but the ghost moves on KID: 7. THE AWAKENING First Line: Dark was the forest, dark was the mind Last Line: And I open my eyes: and the world looks in KID: 8. THE LAST VISION First Line: Said railway willy, o carry me back Last Line: Where lies the intrinsic, unknown, and alone KING BORBORIGMI Poem Text First Line: You say you heard king borborigmi laugh? Last Line: But has bad dreams. I fear he has bad dreams Subject(s): Dreams KING BORBORIGMI First Line: You say you heard king borborigmi laugh? Last Line: King of infinite space in a walnut shell- %but has bad dreams; I fear he has bad dreams LANDSCAPE WEST OF EDEN First Line: It was of a deck, the prow of a ship, uplifted Last Line: And built its splendid ramparts against eden LAUGHTER Poem Text First Line: You, whom these eyes, no longer mine Last Line: Youthful and cruel, wild, divine! Subject(s): Youth; Old Age; Self LAUGHTER (YOUTH SPEAKS TO HIS OWN OLD AGE) Poem Text First Line: You, whom these eyes, no longer mine Last Line: Youthful and cruel, wild, divine! Subject(s): Old Age; Youth LETTER FROM LI PO First Line: Fanfare of northwest wind, a bluejay wind Last Line: The leaves of love that fill the book of change LIMBERICK First Line: It's time to make love. Douse the glim LOVE'S GRAMMARIANS Poem Text First Line: Periwinkle - bluet - quaker lady Last Line: These shall be time and place Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Love – Nature Of LOVERS First Line: In this glass palace are flowers in golden baskets Last Line: And start on a pullman journey to a certain gate, %punctually, at a certain hour, on a certain date Subject(s): Funerals MANDRILL First Line: In the mandrill Last Line: I fear poor mandrill %has %no %hope Subject(s): Animals MANY EVENINGS: PRELUDE Poem Text First Line: As evening falls Last Line: Through half-lit halls which treach no end Subject(s): Night MAYFLOWER First Line: Listen: the ancient voices hail us from the farther shore Last Line: This holy land, our faith itself, to share again %with our godfathers, will and ben MEDITATION ON A JUNE EVENING Poem Text First Line: As evening comes, my thoughts turn back to you Last Line: And a certain place. Subject(s): Love; Meditation; Memory MEETING First Line: Why do I look at you? Why do I touch you? MELODY IN A RESTAURANT Poem Text Last Line: My errand is not so simple as it seems Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Restaurants MEMORY First Line: There is nothing moving there, in that desert of silence Last Line: Perhaps once more, for a moment, it remembers spring MIRACLES Poem Text First Line: Twilight is spacious, near things in it seem far Last Line: Into the darkness. . . . It is exquisite. Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Jesus Christ; Miracles; Resurrection, The; Disciples, Twelve MIRAGE First Line: And already the minutes, the hours, the days Last Line: And know you still the best Subject(s): Love MULTITUDES TURN IN DARKNESS Poem Text First Line: The half-shut doors through which we heard that music Last Line: And enter our dreams again Subject(s): Dreams NIGHTMARE Poem Text First Line: All night long, / we have heard the sound of guns Last Line: Will the word come to-day?' Subject(s): Memory; Old Age; Sleep NO, I SHALL NOT SAY First Line: No, I shall not say why it is that I love you Last Line: And clover, heavy with rain, in cold green grass NOCTURNE IN A MINOR KEY Poem Text First Line: I will say: I walked alone in whistling darkness Last Line: The lover, ridiculous; the loved, sublime. Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Shadows; Sleep; Nightmares; Bedtime NOCTURNE OF REMEMBERED SPRING Poem Text First Line: Moonlight silvers the tops of trees Last Line: And then we laugh, with shadows in our eyes. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Old Age; Spring; Dead, The NUIT BLANCHE: NORTH END First Line: Red and green neon lights, the jazz hysteria OBITAURY IN BITCHEREL First Line: In eighteen hundred and eighty nine Last Line: And this be it known is all that we know OLD MAN SEES HIMSELF First Line: Solitary, before daybreak, in a garden ONE STAR FELL AND ANOTHER AS WE WALKED PALIMPSEST: THE DECEITFUL PORTRAIT Poem Text First Line: Well, as you say, we live for small horizons Subject(s): Deception PALIMPSEST: THE DECEITFUL PORTRAIT First Line: Well, as you say, we live for small horizons Last Line: And I have spread two snares for you, of lies Subject(s): Deception PARASITICS: TO CERTAIN POETS Poem Text First Line: Who are you, now, that thus presume Last Line: There will be music in his breath! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets PILGRIMAGE OF FESTUS, SELS. POMECITRON TREE First Line: Here the skeleton leaf, between Last Line: She claps her hands, and laughs, instead PORTRAIT OF ONE DEAD Poem Text First Line: This is her house. On one side there is darkness Last Line: We'll never know, you say, for she is dead. Subject(s): Death; Home; Dead, The POVERTY GRASS First Line: First, blow the trumpets! Call the people hither! PRELUDE (1) First Line: Not with the noting of a private hate Last Line: Make a rich note of this. And start again PRELUDE (2) First Line: Woman, woman, let us say these things to each other Last Line: Sleep in peacefulness PRELUDE (3) First Line: Who said the blandishment of the moon, who said Last Line: Deliberately, for deliberation is poison. %leave all to the sovereign blandishment of dream PRELUDE (4) First Line: As if you were a child again; you smooth Last Line: And thus, you know the world. %thus, with a phrase, exclude the absolute PRELUDES FOR MEMNON [OR, TO ATTITUDE], SELS. PRIAPUS AND THE POOL, SELECTION First Line: First the white crocus, and then the purple; then the rain Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening PRIAPUS AND THE POOL, SELS. First Line: First the white crocus, and then the purple; then the rain Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening PRIAPUS AND THE POOL: 3 First Line: When trout swim down great ormond street Last Line: I never loved you so PRIAPUS AND THE POOL: 4 Poem Text First Line: This is the shape of the leaf, and this of the flower Last Line: This is what you are to me. Variant Title(s): Portrait Of A Girl PSYCHOMACHIA First Line: Tent-caterpillars, as you see (he said Last Line: With all her nerves and voices - she is yours QUARREL First Line: Suddenly, after the quarrel, while we waited Last Line: And I touched your hand, and we kissed, without a word Subject(s): Love ROAD First Line: Three then came forward out of darkness Last Line: I knew my face would not be young again ROMANCE Poem Text First Line: The last farewells were said, friends hurried ashore Last Line: Ere it goes down to darkness, whence it came! . . . Subject(s): Betrayal; Boats; Death; Happiness; Lies; Love; New York City; Youth; Dead, The; Joy; Delight; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple ROOM First Line: Through that window - all else being extinct Last Line: I will be watching then as I watch now. %I will praise darkness now, but then the leaf Subject(s): Creation ROSE AND MURRAY Poem Text First Line: After the movie, when the lights come up Last Line: "drew a heart and wrote, ""I'd die for you." Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Love - Loss Of SAMADHI First Line: Take then the music; plunge in the thickest of it Last Line: Of sunlight, and a shadow that may grow Variant Title(s): Concert Pitc SEA HOLLY Poem Text First Line: Begotten by the meeting of rock with rock Last Line: The rock loved and laboured; and all is lost. Subject(s): Loss SEAL First Line: How must it feel Last Line: The %fun Subject(s): Imagination SECOND HOUR OF THE NIGHT First Line: On such a night Last Line: This is the end of the second hour of the night SEE, AS THE CARVER CARVES A ROSE SENLIN: A BIOGRAPHY: 1. HIS DARK ORIGINS First Line: Senlin sits before us, and we see him Last Line: Our shadows descend before us, long and blue SENLIN: A BIOGRAPHY: 2. HIS FUTILE PREOCCUPATIONS First Line: I am a house, says senlin, locked and darkened Last Line: In the silence of sleep SENLIN: A BIOGRAPHY: 3. HIS CLOUDY DESTINY First Line: Senlin sat before us and we heard him Last Line: Hoping to find, somewhere, that dream again SEVEN TWILIGHTS: 1 Poem Text First Line: The ragged pilgrim, on the road to nowhere Last Line: "a lantern, which he does not know is out." Subject(s): Night; Trees; Bedtime SEVEN TWILIGHTS: 2 Poem Text First Line: Now by the wall of the ancient town I lean Last Line: And something that may be leaves or may be sea. Variant Title(s): Twilight: Rye, Sussex Subject(s): Night; Rye, England; Sea; Bedtime; Ocean SEVEN TWILIGHTS: 3 Poem Text First Line: When the tree bares, the music of it changes Last Line: "your lights and music. It will be good to talk." Variant Title(s): The House Subject(s): Houses; Music & Musicians; Old Age SEVEN TWILIGHTS: 4 Poem Text First Line: This is the hour,' she said, 'of transmutation' Last Line: "gathers the stars together and goes out." Subject(s): Moon; Night; Bedtime SEVEN TWILIGHTS: 5 Poem Text First Line: Now the great wheel of darkness and low clouds Last Line: Cleaves the long darkness with a sword of light. Subject(s): Rain; Wisdom SEVEN TWILIGHTS: 6 Poem Text First Line: Heaven, you say, will be a field in april Last Line: Flower in the heart with the fragrance we call grief. Subject(s): Dusk; Heaven; Paradise SEVEN TWILIGHTS: 7 Poem Text First Line: In the long silence of the sea, the seaman Last Line: That dreamed-of harbor lies which we would find. Subject(s): Dreams; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Sea; Nightmares; Ocean SIGHED A DEAR LITTLE SHIPBOARD DIVINITY Last Line: And undid my belief in the trinity SILENT TORRENTS Poem Text First Line: How is it that I am now so softly awakened Last Line: Give me your hands, darling! We float downward Subject(s): Lover - Nature Of SNOWFLAKE ON ASPHODEL, CLEAR ICE ON ROSE Last Line: Snow's death on dying flower, yet both immortal - %love, these are you and I - enter this portal Subject(s): Love; Snow SONATA IN PATHOS Poem Text First Line: Well, I am tired; tired of all these years Last Line: I shall remember till I die. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Shadows; Dead, The SONNET First Line: Sun-born and moon-born, sun-birth SONNET First Line: How then the winged splendours round us tower SONNET First Line: Green, green, and green again, and greener SONNET First Line: Shape has no shape, nor will your thinking SONNET First Line: How many clouds must wraithlike rise ... Ocean SONNET: 1. THE BRIGHT MOON Poem Text First Line: Broad on the sunburnt hill the bright moon comes Last Line: This god of myriad stars whom I thought lost. Subject(s): Light; Moon; Night; Bedtime SONNET: 2 First Line: What music's devious voice can say, beguiling Last Line: No rival - none. There is no thelp for us. %be it confessed: I am idolatrous SONNET: 3 First Line: Think, when a starry night of bitter frost Last Line: Will he not praise, with his whole heart, the sun? %then think at last I too am such an one SONNET: 4 First Line: My love, I have betrayed you seventy times Last Line: Can I absolve, from this all-staining sin, %the angelic love who sits, ashamed, within? SONNET: 5 First Line: Imprimis: I forgot all day your face Last Line: Yet, when I home once more from breach of faith, %love there awaits me with a joy like death SONNET: 6 First Line: What lunacy is this, that night-long tries Last Line: From the begin-all-end-all phrase, 'I love' SONNET: 7 First Line: My love, my love, take back that word, unsay Last Line: Nobly of this and him; but I am weak SONNET: 8 First Line: Here's nature: it's a spider in a flower Last Line: Nor sleep, and smile in sleep, till we be dead SONNET: 9 First Line: Here's daffodil - here's tulip - here's the leaf Last Line: And since I hate him, I must hate you too Subject(s): Hate SOPHISTICATION Poem Text First Line: This man, I thought, had come too far Last Line: And then, had no more love for earth. Subject(s): Earth; World SOUND OF BREAKING First Line: Why do you cry out, why do I like to hear you Last Line: The sound of disaster and misery, the sound %of passionate heartbreak at the centre of the world SOUNDING First Line: Blue sky, blue noon, and the secret line is flung Last Line: A kingdom overthrown - %man kills his children. But the birds endure SOUTH END Poem Text First Line: The benches are broken, the grassplots brown and bare Last Line: These are the city's earliest and tenderest loves Subject(s): Parks SOUTH END First Line: The benches are broken, the grassplots brown and bare Last Line: These are the city's earliest and tenderest loves Subject(s): Parks SPANISH EASTER: 1926 Poem Text First Line: Chickweed, gorse, pink cistus, and white, with furry leaves Last Line: Blameless as soulless, and wholesome as a handful of thyme Subject(s): Easter; The Resurrection SUMMER First Line: Absolute zero: the locust sings SURSUM CORDA First Line: Speak to us only with the killer's tongue Last Line: We are thyself, thy heart of light, and see TETELESTAI Poem Text First Line: How shall we praise the magnificence of the dead Last Line: A fanfare of glory. . . . And which of us dares to deny him! Subject(s): Mortality THE APOLLO TRIO Poem Text First Line: From acting profile parts in the legit, Last Line: Of the girl he loved, or the one time he was star Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs THE COMING FORTH OF OSIRIS JONES: REPORT BY MEDICAL STUDENT First Line: Facies / sallow and somewhat haggard; thin and pallid Subject(s): Medical Students THE CORNET Poem Text First Line: When she came out, that white little russian dancer, Last Line: And the tired fingers on the stops of his cornet Subject(s): Desire; Dancing & Dancers THE CYCLADS Poem Text First Line: They have been longer than usual in coming to this place Last Line: O purblind, blind, panhandler of the siltage in time's stream Subject(s): Trees THE EGO Poem Text First Line: Ego! Ego! Burning blind Last Line: A me! Subject(s): Ego THE GRASSHOPPER Poem Text First Line: Grasshopper / grasshopper Last Line: To fall in grass again / and sing Subject(s): Animals THE HABEAS CORPUS BLUES Poem Text First Line: In the cathedral the acolytes are praying Last Line: Imprisonment or indefinite time in prison without a trial Subject(s): Firefighters; Poetry & Poets THE HOUSE OF DUST: 1 Poem Text First Line: The sun goes down in a cold pale flare of light Last Line: And hew rock out of the earth, and build them again. Subject(s): Dreams; Evening; Faces; Rain; Nightmares; Sunset; Twilight THE LOVERS Poem Text First Line: In this glass palace are flowers in golden baskets Last Line: Punctually, at a certain hour, on a certain date Subject(s): Funerals; Burials THE MANDRILL Poem Text First Line: In the mandrill Last Line: And full of guile Subject(s): Animals THE QUARREL Poem Text First Line: Suddenly, after the quarrel, while we waited Last Line: And I touched your hand, and we kissed, without a word Subject(s): Love THE REJECTION Poem Text First Line: Sitting in a caf??, and watching her reflection Last Line: And when he kissed her, hated him, but kissed him, passionately Subject(s): Love - Unrequited THE ROOM Poem Text First Line: Through that window—all else being extinct Last Line: I will praise darkness now, but then the leaf Subject(s): War; Trees; Creation THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER Poem Text First Line: In the new city of marble andd bright stone Last Line: Who is unknown to himself Subject(s): War THE VAMPIRE Poem Text First Line: She rose among us where we lay Last Line: All night long he ploughed. Subject(s): Peace; Vampires THE WARS, AND THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER First Line: Dry leaves, soldier, dry leaves, dead leaves Subject(s): War THE WEDDING Poem Text First Line: At noon, tithonus, withered by his singing Last Line: Woke from the nap, forgetting him; and ate him. Subject(s): Insects; Love - Nature Of; Mythology - Classical; Spiders; Bugs THE WIND OF A DREAM Poem Text First Line: I would like to touch this snow with the wind of a dream Last Line: And hear you singing again by a starlit wall Subject(s): Snow THERE WAS ONCE A WICKED YOUNG MINISTER Last Line: Except for one squeamish old spinster TIME IN THE ROCK [PRELUDES TO DEFINITION], SELS. TO MY WIFE Poem Text First Line: Whatever loveliness is in this music Last Line: All these stars are yours; you gave them to me, skies! Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love TWO MCNEILS Poem Text First Line: He skips out lithe and tense into the light, Last Line: I'll meet you thursday night at half-past ten Subject(s): Jealousy; Hatred; Weight Lifting; Bodybuilding UNKNOWN SOLDIER First Line: In the new city of marble andd bright stone Subject(s): War VARIATIONS: 1 Poem Text First Line: The moon distills a soft blue light Last Line: Always in darkness walks with me? Subject(s): Ghosts VARIATIONS: 10 Poem Text First Line: Queen cleopatra, now grown old Last Line: And the laugh that will not die. Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.) VARIATIONS: 11 Poem Text First Line: This night I dreamed that you shone before me Last Line: And now I have lost you. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares VARIATIONS: 12 Poem Text 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 VARIATIONS: 13 Poem Text First Line: Blue waves are driven by wind Last Line: The querulous praise will soon be mute. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Death; Love - Complaints; Dead, The VARIATIONS: 14 Poem Text First Line: Beautiful body made of ivory Last Line: Quietly you possess me. Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Nightmares VARIATIONS: 15 Poem Text First Line: The sea falls all night on the yellow sand Last Line: Immortally slaying, immortally dying. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean VARIATIONS: 16 Poem Text First Line: Against an orange twilight sky Last Line: The streetlamp gleams like an evil eye. Subject(s): Nature VARIATIONS: 17 Poem Text First Line: Tear the pink rose petal by petal Last Line: Will light again the same. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses VARIATIONS: 18 Poem Text First Line: The sun distills a golden light, Last Line: For the sky is everywhere. Subject(s): Dreams; Solitude; Nightmares VARIATIONS: 2 Poem Text First Line: Green light, from the moon, Last Line: Before the coming of snow. Subject(s): Light VARIATIONS: 3 Poem Text First Line: Wind in the sunlit trees, and the red leaves fall Last Line: Making the trees more scarlet, the sky more blue. Subject(s): Memory; Love VARIATIONS: 4 Poem Text First Line: Here, alone, unknown, in the darkness Last Line: Passionate dancer. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers VARIATIONS: 5 Poem Text First Line: From the cold fountain's sunlit lip Last Line: The vanishing jewels with his wings. Subject(s): Fountains VARIATIONS: 6 Poem Text First Line: You are as beautiful as white clouds Last Line: All hastening to the sun. Subject(s): Beauty VARIATIONS: 7 Poem Text First Line: Red leaf, red leaf, falling to float Last Line: Rose darkly before us. Subject(s): Moon VARIATIONS: 8 Poem Text First Line: In the mazes of loitering people, the watchful and furtive Last Line: To divide us forever. Variant Title(s): Chance Meetings Subject(s): Love VARIATIONS: 9 Poem Text First Line: Moonlight, and shadows of leaves Last Line: Fleeing. Subject(s): Love VIOLET MOORE AND BERT MOORE Poem Text First Line: He thinks her little feet should pass Last Line: A sweeter shadow upon a screen? Subject(s): Male-female Relationships WALK First Line: Profound, profound and brief WALK IN THE GARDEN First Line: Noting in slow sequence by waterclock of rain Last Line: Not to the song %but to morphology, the shape that cannot die WARS, AND THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER First Line: Dry leaves, soldier, dry leaves, dead leaves Subject(s): War WHITE NOCTURNE Poem Text First Line: The first soft snowflakes hovering down the night Last Line: Wait far off in the undisturbing night. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Ghosts; Love; Memory; Supernatural; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The WHO SHAPES A BALUSTRADE? First Line: Who shapes a balustrade, who but the sun? Subject(s): Architecture And Architects WHY IS IT First Line: Why is it, as I enter at last the panelled room Last Line: But the infinite heavens, and one white bough in bloom, %anda bird to sing on the bough WILL YOU STEP INTO MY GRAVE, SIR? SAID THE DIGGER Poem Text First Line: Will you step into my grave, sir? Said the digger / to the dead WIND OF A DREAM First Line: I would like to touch this snow with the wind of a dream Subject(s): Love WINDOW First Line: She looks out in the blue morning Last Line: And looks out in the morning %and sees a whole world YOUTH Poem Text First Line: O earth, o mother dust, green star of heaven Last Line: Smiling the same smile, dancing, dawn to dawn. Subject(s): Youth YOUTH IMPERTURBABLE Poem Text First Line: Let me not shrink at sight of death Last Line: O I have much to laugh at yet! Subject(s): Youth YOUTH PENETRANT Poem Text First Line: I shall grow calm in a little while Last Line: I show life up to you . . . And smile! Subject(s): Youth ZUDORA Poem Text First Line: Here on the pale beach, in the darkness; Last Line: She's carnal, but cold as ice Subject(s): Male-female Relationships |
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