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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: BENET, STEPHEN VINCENT Matches Found: 92 Benet, Stephen Vincent Poet's Biography 92 poems available by this author 1935 First Line: All night they marched, the infantrymen under pack A MINOR POET Poem Text First Line: I am a shell. From me you shall not hear Last Line: A tremulous murmur from great days long dead. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets A SONG OF BREATH Poem Text First Line: I heard the song of breath Last Line: I wondered that I still breathed Subject(s): Breath ADAM First Line: Adam was my grandfather ALEXANDER VI DINES WITH THE CARDINAL OF CAPUA Poem Text First Line: Next, then, the peacock, gilt Last Line: Mhm! Kiss your poor old father, little rose! Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Alexander Vi, Pope (1431-1503) ALL NIGHT LONG Poem Text First Line: We were in bed by nine, but she did not hear the clock Last Line: I took her into arms. We sas the morning rise Subject(s): Desire; Love ALL NIGHT LONG First Line: We were in bed by nine, but she did not hear the clock Last Line: I took her into my arms. We saw the morning arise! Subject(s): Desire; Love AMERICA First Line: You are the buffalo-ghost, the broncho-ghost AMERICAN NAMES Poem Text First Line: I have fallen in love with american names Last Line: Bury my heart at wounded knee. Subject(s): Names; United States; America ANDREW JACKSON First Line: The east and the south have ruled us long Subject(s): Jackson, Andrew (1767-1845) APOLOGY First Line: Pardon, after poets, if I have written ARCHIMEDES LAST FORAY Poem Text First Line: And...Having sought for a lever wherewith to move the world...He was slain... Last Line: To be careful with the dust. Subject(s): Archimedes (287-212 B.c.) ARRON BURR First Line: O, arron burr, what have you done BOOK OF AMERICANS, SELS. First Line: Thomas jefferson %what do you say CAMPUS SONNET: BEFORE AN EXAMINATION Poem Text First Line: The little letters dance across the page Last Line: Ring icy-clear from the far deeps of night. Subject(s): Examinations; Universities & Colleges CAMPUS SONNET: MAY MORNING Poem Text First Line: I lie stretched out upon the window-seat Last Line: Filled with the divine languor of late spring. Subject(s): Universities & Colleges CAMPUS SONNET: RETURN - 1917 Poem Text First Line: I was just aiming at the jagged hole Last Line: "I dreamed I . . . Am I . . . Wounded? ""you are dead." Subject(s): Universities & Colleges; World War I; First World War CAMPUS SONNET: TALK Poem Text First Line: Tobacco smoke drifts up the dim ceiling Last Line: Of all our youth this hour is pure gold. Subject(s): Universities & Colleges CAROL: NEW STYLE Poem Text First Line: If jesus christ should come again Last Line: On christmas day in the morning. Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Carols; Crucifixion; Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion COLORS Poem Text First Line: The little man with the vague beard and guise Last Line: "we're selling that lot there out cheap!"" said he." Subject(s): Colors COTTON MATHER First Line: Grim cotton mather %was always seeing witches Last Line: When he walked in the streets %men looked the other way DANIEL BOONE Poem Text First Line: When daniel boone goes by, at night Subject(s): Boone. Daniel (1734-1820) DANIEL BOONE First Line: When daniel boone goes by, at night Last Line: Is burning in their eyes DEATH OF STONEWALL JACKSON First Line: Slow time wore. They had to tell him at last Subject(s): Death DEATH-CHANT OF THE CENTAURS, SELS. First Line: Close his eyes with the coins; bind his chin with the shroud DEVOURER OF NATIONS Poem Text First Line: Strength shall be thrust to the eater Last Line: That grey, round rat! Subject(s): Nations DIFFERENCE Poem Text DINNER IN A QUICK LUNCH ROOM Poem Text First Line: Soup should be heralded with a mellow horn Last Line: And gorge the sticky mess these fools call food! Subject(s): Food & Eating; Restaurants; Cafes; Diners ELEGY FOR AN ENEMY Poem Text First Line: Say, does that stupid earth Last Line: She and her scorn have found! Subject(s): Love - Unrequited FLOOD TIDE First Line: Life went whistling a catch, between the plum and the FOR CITY SPRING Poem Text First Line: Now grimy april comes again Last Line: Yet, still we praise that crocus head, / april! Subject(s): April FOR CITY SPRING First Line: Now grimy april comes again Subject(s): Beds GHOSTS OF A LUNATIC ASYLUM Poem Text First Line: Here, where men's eyes were empty and as bright Last Line: The silence of the eight men who were god! Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums GIRL CHILD First Line: Like a flower, like a tulip Last Line: The hound running, %the flying fire GOING BACK TO SCHOOL Poem Text First Line: The boat ploughed on. Now alcatraz was past Last Line: "why it's miss nancy! Come along, you rat!" Subject(s): Homecoming HYMN IN COLUMBUS CIRCLE First Line: Man in his secret shrine Last Line: And every glazer applauds %the tremendous rubber tire IF THIS SHOULD CHANGE JOHN BROWN'S BODY Poem Text First Line: They came on to fish-hook gettysburg in this way, after this fashion Last Line: And the strange south moved against you, lean members lost in the corn Subject(s): Abolitionists; American Civil War; Brown, John (1800-1859); Gettysburg Campaign (1863); Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Slavery; United States - History; Anti-slavery; Gettysburg, Battle Of; Serfs JOHN BROWN'S BODY First Line: They came on to fish-hook gettysburg in this way, after this fashion Subject(s): Abolitionists; American Civil War; Brown, John (1800-1859); Gettysburg Campaign (1863); Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Slavery; U.s. - History JOHN BROWN'S BODY LIES A-MOULDERING IN THE GRAVE JOHN BROWN'S BODY: THE DEATH OF STONEWALL JACKSON Poem Text First Line: Slow time wore. They had to tell him at last Last Line: “let us cross the river,” he said, “and rest under the shade of the trees” Subject(s): Death; Jackson, Thomas (stonewall) (1824-1863); Dead, The JOHN JAMES AUDUBON Poem Text First Line: Some men live for warlike deeds Subject(s): Audobon, John James (1785-1851) KING DAVID Poem Text First Line: David sang to his hooknosed harp Last Line: (and the lord is king above all gods!) Subject(s): Bells; David (d. 962 B.c.); Sin LITANY FOR DICTATORSHIPS Poem Text First Line: For all those beaten, for the borken heads Last Line: Our children know and suffer the armed men Subject(s): Freedom; Tyranny & Tyrants; Liberty; Dictators LITANY FOR DICTATORSHIPS First Line: For all those beaten, for the borken heads Last Line: Our children know and suffer the armed men Subject(s): Freedom; Tyranny And Tyrants LONELY BURIAL Poem Text First Line: There were not many at that lonely place Last Line: The terrible bareness of the soul's last house. Subject(s): Funerals; Burials LOVE IN TWILIGHT Poem Text First Line: There is a darkness behind the light - and the pale light drips Last Line: Or the flame-bright wings of the miraculous dove! Subject(s): Love - Erotic LUNCH AT A CLUB Poem Text First Line: The member with the face like a pale ham Last Line: The eldest member drops his coffee spoon. Subject(s): Lunch METROPOLITAN NIGHTMARE Poem Text First Line: It rained quite a lot, that spring. You woke in the morning Last Line: He pried fom the insect's jaws the bright crumb of steel Subject(s): New York City; Termites; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple METROPOLITAN NIGHTMARE First Line: It rained quite a lot, that spring. You woke in the morning Last Line: He pried from the insect jaws in the bright crumb of steel Subject(s): New York City; Termites MINOR LITANY Poem Text First Line: This being a time confused and with few clear stars, Subject(s): Sickness; Illness MORTUARY PARLORS Poem Text First Line: The smooth, unobtrusive walls say 'hush!' in a voice of honey and meal Last Line: And death, the obsequious gentleman, comes rubbing black gloves and talking Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Dead, The MORTUARY PARLORS First Line: The smooth, unobtrusive walls say 'hush!' in a voice of honey and meal Subject(s): Death MUSIC Poem Text First Line: My friend went to the piano; spun the stool Last Line: "how pretty!"" we said; and went on with our talk again." Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos NIGHTMARE FOR FUTURE REFERENCE First Line: That was the second year NIGHTMARE NUMBER THREE Poem Text First Line: We had expected everything but revolt Last Line: The madison avenue busses leading the charge Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers NIGHTMARE NUMBER THREE First Line: We had expected everything but revolt Subject(s): Labor And Laborers NONSENSE SONG First Line: Rosemary, rosemary, let down your hair! Last Line: Rosemary, rosemary, let down your bright hair! NOS IMMORTALES Poem Text First Line: Perhaps we go with the wind and cloud and sun Last Line: Spilling its star-dust back to dust again. Subject(s): Nature NOW THAT I AM CLEAN AGAIN ODE TO WALT WHITMAN Poem Text First Line: Now comes fourth month and the early buds on the trees Last Line: Always forever, mississippi, the god Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) ODE TO WALT WHITMAN First Line: Now comes fourth month and the early buds on the trees Last Line: Always, forever, mississippi, the god Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) PICKETT'S CHARGE First Line: The cannonade fell still. All along the fishhook like POOR DEVIL! Poem Text First Line: Well, I was tired of life; the silly folk Last Line: No further doors to break or bars to burst! Subject(s): Suicide PORTRAIT OF A BABY Poem Text First Line: He lay within a warm, soft world Last Line: He entered on man's heritage! Subject(s): Babies; Infants PORTRAIT OF A BOY Poem Text First Line: After the whipping, he crawled into bed Last Line: "doubloons!"" they said. The words crashed gold. ""doubloons!" Subject(s): Boys RAIN AFTER A VAUDEVILLE SHOW Poem Text First Line: The last pose flickered, failed. The screen's dead Last Line: I stamped the ground in the strong joy of life! Subject(s): Vaudeville ROAD AND HILLS Poem Text First Line: I shall go away Last Line: Here, in this light, there is no end. . . . Subject(s): Mountains; Wanders And Wandering; Hills; Downs (great Britain) SAD SONG First Line: Rosemary, rosemary %there's a pig in your garden Last Line: She did till she died SONG OF BREATH First Line: I heard the song of breath Last Line: My voice was numb in my ears, %I wondered that I still breathed Subject(s): Breath THE BALLAD OF WILLIAM SYCAMORE (1790-1880) Poem Text First Line: My father, he was a mountaineer Last Line: And my buffalo have found me. Subject(s): Pioneers THE BREAKING POINT Poem Text First Line: It was not when temptation came Last Line: Tell where you found me yesterday! THE CITY REVISITED Poem Text First Line: The grey gulls drift across the bay Last Line: We have our heaven on earth -- sometimes! Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THE DRUG-SHOP, OR, ENDYMION IN EDMONSTOUN Poem Text First Line: Night falls; the great jars glow against the dark Last Line: She will be fully risen. -- there's his step! Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Keats, John (1795-1821); Anglers THE FIDDLING WOOD Poem Text First Line: Gods, what a black, fierce day! The clouds were iron Last Line: Black, dragon branches whipped below a moon! Subject(s): Forests; Music & Musicians; Woods THE GENERAL PUBLIC Poem Text First Line: Shelley? Oh, yes, I saw him often then Last Line: "thrice in the face. He made good sport that night." Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) THE GOLDEN CORPSE Poem Text First Line: Stripped country, shrunken as a beggar's heart Last Line: And the ice harden like a god's disdain on it. Subject(s): Youth THE HEMP (A VIRGINIA LEGEND) Poem Text First Line: Captain hawk scourged clean the seas Last Line: And blind fate gathers back her seeds. Subject(s): Hemp THE INNOVATOR Poem Text First Line: I said, 'why should a pyramid Last Line: But -- lord, how usual! Subject(s): Architecture & Architects THE LOVER IN HELL Poem Text First Line: Eternally the choking steam goes up Last Line: But what a sense of humor god must have! Subject(s): Hell THE MOUNTAIN WHIPPOORWILL (A GEORGIA ROMANCE) Poem Text First Line: Up in the mountains, it's lonesome all the time Last Line: An' then the noise of the crowd began. Subject(s): Birds; Whipporwills THE QUALITY OF COURAGE Poem Text First Line: Black trees against an orange sky Last Line: Somewhere . . . In heaven . . . She walks . . . That . . . Road. . . . Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery THE WHITE PEACOCK Poem Text First Line: Go away! Last Line: And spreads to a pool on the floor. Subject(s): Birds; France; Peacocks TO ROSEMARY Poem Text First Line: If you were gone afar Last Line: Out of its cloud! Subject(s): Love TO ROSEMARY First Line: If you were gone afar Last Line: The fire that cried on pure crystal %out of its cloud Subject(s): Love TO W.R.B.: DEDICATION Poem Text First Line: And so, to you, who always were Subject(s): Benet, William Rose (1886-1950) U.S.A., SELS First Line: So we march into the present Last Line: Will be rather ancient history in 2033 Subject(s): United States UNFAMILIAR QUARTET First Line: The concert-hall creaked lik a full-dress shirt WESTERN WAGONS Poem Text First Line: They went with axe and rifle, when the trail was still to blaze Last Line: But we're going west, tomorrow, with our fortune in our hands Subject(s): Pioneers; United States; West (u.s.); America; Southwest; Pacific States WESTERN WAGONS First Line: They went with axe and rifle, when the trail was still to blaze Last Line: But we're going west tomorrow, with our fortune in our hands Subject(s): Pioneers; United States; West (u.s.) WINGED MAN Poem Text First Line: The moon, a sweeping scimitar, dipped in the stormy straits Last Line: Mounting, mounting still, triumphant, on his torn and broken wings! Subject(s): Icarus; Mythology - Classical YOUNG BLOOD Poem Text First Line: He woke with a sick taste in his mouth Last Line: And bitter loathing crept up all his limbs. Subject(s): Youth |
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