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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: BOGAN, LOUISE Matches Found: 132 Bogan, Louise Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. 132 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 AFTER THE PERSIAN: 1 First Line: I do not wish to know Last Line: And the day stains with what seems to be more than the sun %what may be more than my flesh AFTER THE PERSIAN: 2 First Line: I have wept with the spring storm Last Line: Which is eight-sided, like my heart AFTER THE PERSIAN: 3 First Line: All has been translated into treasure Last Line: And the wild bird's wing AFTER THE PERSIAN: 4 First Line: Ignorant, I took up my burden in the wilderness Last Line: Wise with great wisdom, I shall lay it down upon flowers AFTER THE PERSIAN: 5 First Line: Goodbye, goodbye! Last Line: When you drink your wine, in autumn 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 ANIMAL, VEGETABLE AND MINERAL First Line: On gypsum slabs of preternatural whiteness Subject(s): Animals BAROQUE COMMENT First Line: From loud sound and still chance Last Line: The turned eyes and the opened mouth of love 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 BETROTHED 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 BREAK, BREAK, BREAK Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892) CARTOGRAPHY First Line: As you lay in sleep Last Line: Beyond our fate %and distant from our eyes CASSANDRA Poem Text First Line: To me, one silly task is like another Subject(s): Cassandra (mythology); Women CASSANDRA First Line: To me, one silly task is like another Last Line: The shrieking heaven lifted lover men, %not the dumb earth, wherein they set their graves Subject(s): Cassandra; Women CHANSON UN PEU NAIVE Poem Text First Line: What body can be ploughed COME, SLEEP ...' First Line: The bee's fixed hexagon CROSSED APPLE First Line: I've come to give you fruit from out my orchard Last Line: You take the rest Subject(s): Apples; Fruit DAEMON First Line: Must I tell again Last Line: It said 'why not?' %it said 'once more' DARK SUMMER First Line: Under the thunder-dark, the cicadas resound Last Line: The kisses not for our mouths,-light the dark summer DECORATION First Line: A macaw preens upon a branch outspread Last Line: The sky behind him splits like gorgeous fruit %and claw-likeleaves clutch light till it has bled DIDACTIC PIECE Poem Text First Line: The eye unacquainted with whatever it holds in allegiance DIDACTIC PIECE First Line: The eye unacquitted by whatever it holds in allegiance DRAGONFLY First Line: You are made of almost nothing Last Line: With the other husks of summer DREAM First Line: O god, in the dream the terrible horse began Last Line: The terrible beast, that no one may understand, %came to my side, and put down his head in love Subject(s): Dreams 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 EVENING IN THE SANITARIUM First Line: The free evening fades, outside windows fastened with decorative iron grilles Last Line: Miss r. Looks at the mantel-piece, which must mean something Subject(s): Insanity EVENING-STAR First Line: Light from the planet venus, soon to set, %be with us Last Line: Wanting and breeding sighs only EXHORTATION First Line: Give over seeking bastard joy Last Line: And be belied, and be betrayed FIEND'S WEATHER First Line: O embittered joy, %you fiend of fair weather Last Line: Will glitter for your eyes FIFTEENTH FAREWELL: I First Line: You may have all things from me, save my breath, Last Line: Though in my body beat its blade, and its fang. FIFTEENTH FAREWELL: II First Line: I erred, when I thought loneliness the wide Last Line: Or a late cock-crow from the darkening farms. FOR A MARRIAGE Poem Text First Line: She gives most dangerous sight Last Line: In its own solitude Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FOR A MARRIAGE First Line: She gives most dangerous sight Last Line: That once shed its own blood %in its own solitude Subject(s): Marriage FOR AN OLD DANCE First Line: What can be said %when we depart? Last Line: Come away now FRIGHTENED MAN First Line: In fear of the rich mouth Last Line: Through a hazardous maze %by shafted water GIRL'S SONG First Line: Winter, that is a fireless room HEARD BY A GIRL First Line: Something said: you have nothing to fear Last Line: The secret and the delicate mask HENCEFORTH, FROM THE MIND Last Line: Will echo sea and earth HOMUNCULUS First Line: Oh, see what I have made! Last Line: Some dust of dead content %will make it breathe forever 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 HYPOCRITE SWIFT First Line: Hypocrite swift now takes an eldest daughter Last Line: Hypocrite swift sent stella a green apron %and dead desire Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Women's Rights I SAW ETERNITY First Line: O beautiful forever! %o grandiose everlasting! Last Line: Here's a crumb of forever! %here's a crumb of forever! JUAN'S SONG Poem Text First Line: When beauty breaks and falls asunder Subject(s): Love JUAN'S SONG First Line: When beauty breaks and falls asunder Last Line: Who is it, then, that love deceives? 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 JULY DAWN First Line: It was a waning crescent Last Line: Swift to that cluster of evenings %when curved toward the full it sharpens Subject(s): Native Americans - Pre-columbian KEPT First Line: Time for the wood, the clay Last Line: Get broken, as they should KNOWLEDGE Poem Text First Line: Now that I know Subject(s): Passion KNOWLEDGE First Line: Now that I know %how passion warms little Last Line: Trees make a long shadow %and a light sound LATE First Line: The cormorant still screams Last Line: You look upon the air 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 M., SINGING First Line: Now, innocent, within the deep Last Line: And move to space beneath our sky MAN ALONE First Line: It is yourself you seek Last Line: Strangers lie in your arms, %as I lie low MARCH TWILIGHT First Line: This light is loss backward; delight by hurt and by bias gained MARK First Line: Where should he seek, to go away Last Line: Though momently time wears them thin %and all at length are gathered in MASKED WOMAN'S SONG First Line: Before I saw the tall man Last Line: But not for that worn face, %and not in those roped arms 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 MEETING First Line: For years I thought I knew, at the bottom of the dream Last Line: Bitter compliance! Like a faithless brother %you take and drop my hand MEMORY Poem Text First Line: Do not guard this as rich stuff without mark Last Line: That any spade may strike. Subject(s): Memory MEN LOVED WHOLLY BEYOND WISDOM Last Line: Shake its terrible, dissembling %music in the granite hill MORNING Poem Text First Line: The robins' green-blue eggs Subject(s): Morning MORNING: 1 First Line: The robins' green-blue eggs Last Line: That calls back these birds, to cherish and to guard? MORNING: 2 First Line: The clever and as though instructed Last Line: All but the smaller thorns MUSICIAN First Line: Where have these hands been Subject(s): Musical Instruments MUSICIAN First Line: Where have these hands been Last Line: And, under the palm, the string %sings as it wished to sing Subject(s): Musical Instruments MY VOICE NOT BEING PROUD Last Line: I remember, while there is time NIGHT Poem Text First Line: The cold remote islands Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NIGHT First Line: The cold remote islands Last Line: That more things move %than blood in the heart Subject(s): Night OLD COUNTRYSIDE First Line: Beyond the hour we counted rain that fell Last Line: Red to the thorns, and, sharp as sight can bear, %the thin hound's body arched against the snow PORTRAIT Poem Text First Line: She has no need to fear the fall Subject(s): Aging PORTRAIT First Line: She has no need to fear the fall Last Line: She is possessed by time, who once %was loved by men %habit of rising early 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 PUTTING TO SEA 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 PYROTECHNICS First Line: Mix prudence with my ashes 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 QUESTION IN A FIELD First Line: Pasture, stone wall, and steeple Last Line: Tge heart-rending homely people, %or the horrible beautiful kind? Subject(s): Environment; Fields 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 ROMAN FOUNTAIN First Line: Up from the bronze, I saw Last Line: Strike on the fountain bowl %after the air of summer Subject(s): Fountains; Poetry And Poets SEVERAL VOICES OUT OF A CLOUD Poem Text First Line: Come, drunks and drug-takers; come, perverts unnerved! Subject(s): Laurels SEVERAL VOICES OUT OF A CLOUD First Line: Come, drunks and drug-takers; come, perverts unnerved! Last Line: Get the hell out of the way of the laurel. It is deathless. And it %isn't for you Subject(s): Laurels SHORT SUMMARY First Line: Listen but once to the words written out by my hand Last Line: It was our land; %it was an evening air SIMPLE AUTUMNAL First Line: The measured blood beats out the year's delay Last Line: Full seasons come, yet filled trees keep the sky, %and never scent the ground where they must lie 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) SINGLE SONNET 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) SLEEPING FURY (ROME, MUSEO DELLA TERME) First Line: You are here now Last Line: Alone and strong in my peace, I look upon you in yours Subject(s): Women 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 SOLITARY OBSERVATION BROUGHT BACK FROM SHORT SOJOURN IN HELL First Line: At midnight tears Last Line: Run into your ears Subject(s): Poetry And Poets SONG First Line: Love me because I am lost Last Line: Love me, - I tell you that it is a ravaged %terrible place SONG First Line: It is not now I learn Last Line: Steer narrowed to the wind SONG FOR A LYRE Poem Text First Line: The landscape where I lie Subject(s): Night; Love; Bedtime SONG FOR A SLIGHT VOICE First Line: If ever I render back your heart SONG FOR THE LAST ACT Poem Text First Line: Now that I have your face by heart, I look Subject(s): Love SONG FOR THE LAST ACT First Line: Now that I have your face by heart, I look Last Line: Now that I have your heart by heart, I see Subject(s): Love SONNET First Line: Dark, underground, is furnished with the bone; Last Line: That you left life, to come down to the grave. SPIRIT'S SONG First Line: How well you served me above ground Last Line: For whom I lagged with what a crew %o far too long, and I poisoned through! 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 STATUE AND BIRDS First Line: Here, in the withered arbor, like the arrested wind Last Line: Fails on her breast Subject(s): Birds; Statues SUB CONTRA First Line: Notes on the tuned frame of strings Last Line: Beat upon it till it break TALE First Line: This youth too long has heard the break Last Line: Where something dredful and another %look quietly upon each other 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 AN ARTIST, TO TAKE HEART First Line: Slipping in blood, by his own hand, through pride Last Line: Upon his bed, however, shakespeare died, %having endured them all Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) TO BE SUNG ON THE WATER First Line: Beautiful, my delight, %pass, as we pass the wave Last Line: Less than the sound of its blade %dipping the stream once more 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 TO MY BROTHER; KILLED: CHAUMONT WOOD, OCTOBER, 1918 First Line: O you so long dead Last Line: I can tell you, and not lie - %save of peace alone Subject(s): World War I TRAIN TUNE Poem Text First Line: Back through clouds Last Line: Back through midnight Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains TRAIN TUNE First Line: Back through clouds Last Line: Back through midnight Subject(s): Railroads 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 VARIATION ON A SENTENCE First Line: Of white and tawny, black as ink Subject(s): Animals WINTER SWAN Poem Text First Line: It is a hollow garden, under the cloud Subject(s): Birds WINTER SWAN First Line: It is a hollow garden, under the cloud Last Line: Bird, the long throat bent back, and the eyes in hiding 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 WORDS FOR DEPARTURE First Line: Nothing was remembered, nothing forgotten ZONE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: We have struck the regions wherein we are keel or reef ZONE First Line: We have struck the regions wherein we are keel or reef Last Line: Equally with so much %we have learned how to bear |
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