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Author: BOGAN, LOUISE Matches Found: 51 Bogan, Louise Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. 51 poems available by this author A TALE Poem Text Recitation First Line: This youth too long has heard the break Subject(s): Youth; Life AFTER THE PERSIAN Poem Text First Line: I have wept with the spring storm ANIMAL, VEGETABLE AND MINERAL Poem Text First Line: On gypsum slabs of preternatural whiteness Last Line: Impatiens roylei walpers acts the same Subject(s): Flowers; Bees; Pollination; Cambridge, Massachusetts BETROTHED Poem Text First Line: You have put your two hands upon me, and your mouth Last Line: Now and again dipping their long oval leaves in the water Subject(s): Love CASSANDRA Poem Text First Line: To me, one silly task is like another Subject(s): Cassandra (Mythology); Women DIDACTIC PIECE Poem Text First Line: The eye unacquainted with whatever it holds in allegiance ELDERS Poem Text First Line: At night the moon shakes the bright dice of water Subject(s): Moon EPITAPH FOR A ROMANTIC WOMAN Poem Text First Line: She has attained the permanence Subject(s): Romance EVENING IN THE SANITARIUM Poem Text First Line: The free evening fades, outside windows fastened with decorative iron grilles Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness FOR A MARRIAGE Poem Text First Line: She gives most dangerous sight Last Line: In its own solitude Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives HYPOCRITE SWIFT Poem Text First Line: Hypocrite swift now takes an eldest daughter Last Line: The parquet shines; outside the snow falls deep Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism JUAN'S SONG Poem Text First Line: When beauty breaks and falls asunder Subject(s): Love JULY DAWN Poem Text First Line: It was a waning crescent Last Line: When curved toward the full it sharpens Subject(s): Native Americans - Pre-columbian KNOWLEDGE Poem Text First Line: Now that I know Subject(s): Passion LEAVE-TAKING Poem Text First Line: I do not know where either of us can turn Subject(s): Parting M., SINGING Poem Text First Line: Now, innocent, within the deep MEDUSA Poem Text First Line: I had come to the house, in a cave of trees Last Line: And does not drift away. Subject(s): Medusa; Mythology - Classical MEMORY Poem Text First Line: Do not guard this as rich stuff without mark Last Line: That any spade may strike. Subject(s): Memory MORNING Poem Text First Line: The robins' green-blue eggs Subject(s): Morning MUSICIAN First Line: Where have these hands been Subject(s): Musical Instruments NIGHT Poem Text First Line: The cold remote islands Subject(s): Night; Bedtime PORTRAIT Poem Text First Line: She has no need to fear the fall Subject(s): Aging PUTTING TO SEA Poem Text First Line: Who, in the dark, has cast the harbor-chain? Last Line: And learn, with joy, the gulf, the vast, the deep Subject(s): Sea; Ocean QUESTION IN A FIELD Poem Text First Line: Pasture, stone wall, and steeple Last Line: Or the horrible beautiful kind? Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas RESOLVE Poem Text First Line: So that I will no longer tarnish with my fingers ROMAN FOUNTAIN Poem Text First Line: Up from the bronze, I saw Subject(s): Fountains; Poetry & Poets SEVERAL VOICES OUT OF A CLOUD Poem Text First Line: Come, drunks and drug-takers; come, perverts unnerved! Subject(s): Laurels SINGLE SONNET Poem Text First Line: Now, you get great stanza, you heroic mould Last Line: To prove how stronger you are than my strength Subject(s): Sonnet (As Literary Form) SOLITARY OBSERVATION BROUGHT BACK FROM SHORT SOJOURN IN HELL Poem Text First Line: At midnight tears Last Line: Run in your ears Subject(s): Poetry & Poets SONG FOR A LYRE Poem Text First Line: The landscape where I lie Subject(s): Night; Love; Bedtime SONG FOR THE LAST ACT Poem Text First Line: Now that I have your face by heart, I look Subject(s): Love STATUE AND BIRDS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Here, in the withered arbor, like the arrested wind Last Line: Fails on her breast Subject(s): Birds; Statues TEARS IN SLEEP Poem Text First Line: All night the cocks crew, under a moon like day Last Line: From the night giving off flames, and the dark renewing. Subject(s): Sleep; Dreams; Nightmares TEARS IN SLEEP Poem Text First Line: All night the cocks crew, under a moon like day Last Line: From the night giving off flames, and the dark renewing. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE ALCHEMIST Poem Text First Line: I burned my life, that I might find / a passion wholly of the mind Last Line: Passionate beyond the will. Subject(s): Love THE CHANGED WOMAN Poem Text First Line: The light flower leaves its little core Last Line: That never thought to be forgiven. Subject(s): Change THE CROSSED APPLE Poem Text First Line: I've come to give you fruit from out my orchard Last Line: You take the rest Subject(s): Apples; Fruit THE CROWS Poem Text First Line: The woman who has grown old Last Line: The literary review, Subject(s): Old Age; Women THE DRAGONFLY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: You are made of almost nothing Subject(s): Dragonflies THE DREAM Poem Text First Line: O god, in the dream the terrible horse began Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE MARK Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Where should he seek, to go away Subject(s): Apple Trees THE ROMANTIC Poem Text First Line: Admit the ruse to fix and name her chaste Last Line: Another man will tell you what she was. THE SLEEPING FURY (ROME, MUSEO DELLA TERME) Poem Text First Line: You are here now Last Line: Patience and half-sorrow, beneath which a coward's hope trembled Subject(s): Women TO A DEAD LOVER Poem Text First Line: The dark is thrown Last Line: To leave what is over. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The TO AN ARTIST, TO TAKE HEART Poem Text First Line: Slipping in blood, by his own hand, through pride Last Line: Having endured them all Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists TO MY BROTHER; KILLED: CHAUMONT WOOD, OCTOBER, 1918 Poem Text First Line: O you so long dead Last Line: The language as long as the language survives Subject(s): World War I; Brothers; Death; Time; First World War TRAIN TUNE Poem Text First Line: Back through clouds Last Line: Back through midnight Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains VARIATION ON A SENTENCE Poem Text First Line: Of white and tawny, black as ink Last Line: Earth's bluish animals are few Subject(s): Animals; Colors WINTER SWAN Poem Text First Line: It is a hollow garden, under the cloud Subject(s): Birds WOMEN Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Women have no wilderness in them Last Line: They should let it go by. Subject(s): Women ZONE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: We have struck the regions wherein we are keel or reef |
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