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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: CARRUTH, HAYDEN Matches Found: 305 Carruth, Hayden Poet's Biography 305 poems available by this author A CANON FOR TWO VOICES Poem Text First Line: Waves knit over fish A POST-IMPRESSIONIST SUSURRATION FOR THE FIRST OF NOVEMBER Poem Text First Line: Does anything get more tangled and higgledy-piggledy than the days as they drop Subject(s): Writing & Writers A SUMMER WITH TU FU: WHAT DOES IT MEAN? Poem Text First Line: What does it mean Last Line: Two smiling old men standing on the end of a pier. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets A WINDOW Poem Text First Line: Last night I woke in the darkness Last Line: They were. But I remember Subject(s): Sleep; Windows ABANDONED RANCH, BIG BEND Poem Text First Line: Three people come where no people belong anymore Last Line: The steady cool mercy of their unreproachful eyes Subject(s): Ranch Life ABSOLUTENESS First Line: Sometimes I think you are absolutely right. Your ADMONITION RESPECTION REALITY First Line: In the speedboat with chris and beth I rode Last Line: As lake and shore, created by an exact number %of spun water drops on the light-loom of the sun ADOLF EICHMANN Poem Text First Line: I want no tricks in speaking of this man Last Line: Lord, forgive me, I can't keep down my hate Subject(s): Eichmann, Adolf (1906-1962); Hate; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Nazis; Shoah; Judaism; National Socialism AFTERLIFE: LETTER TO STEPHEN DOBYNS 3 First Line: Stephen, the pleasures of the afterlife Last Line: Agree with him. Without dobut they were Subject(s): Future Life AGENDA AT 74 Poem Text First Line: Tap barometer, burn trash Last Line: Tap the fucking barometer... Subject(s): Activity; Life; Old Age; Exercise ALMANACH DU PRINTEMPS VIVAROIS Poem Text First Line: Am I obsessed by stone? Life has worn thin here Subject(s): France ALTERATION Poem Text First Line: You thought growing older Last Line: Of last night, even in sleep. Subject(s): Aging; Change; Life; Life Change Events AMONG THAT COMPANY First Line: It was my adversity, not yours Last Line: Of love. Inevitably it will be %this, in spite of us and so-in our %secret knowing-for us, too AN EXPATIATION ON THE COMBINING OF WEATHERS AT THIRTY .... Poem Text First Line: Oh, ammons rolled the octaves slow Last Line: In only person, which was the blues Subject(s): Indiana ANOTHER Poem Text First Line: Let me say this finally Last Line: My dear. Subject(s): Justice; Poetry & Poets ARTS AND CRAFTS ELECTRIC First Line: No, this little piece has to go over there Last Line: A great conversation piece. I always say, if you %can imagine it, you can make it with your hands ASSIGNMENT Poem Text First Line: Then write,' she said. 'by all means, if that's Subject(s): Schools; Students AT HIS LAST GIG First Line: At his last gig in horrid amsterdam Last Line: A brute, a drunk, a sob-sister. Yet song %was his in paradox his whole life long AT SEVENTY-FIVE: REREADING AN OLD BOOK Poem Text First Line: My prayers have been answered, if they were prayers. I live Last Line: Some of the words I said, which are these poems. Subject(s): Old Age; Poetry & Poets; Prayer AUBURN POEM Poem Text First Line: A book I was reading this morning Last Line: Glance. This, so late, the crisis of our lives. Subject(s): Children; Divorce; Grief; Life; Marriage; Parents; Sickness; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Parenthood; Illness AUGUST FIRST Poem Text First Line: Late night on the porch, thinking Last Line: The brook talks. The night listens Subject(s): August BALANCE First Line: When I get depressed you get pissed off. Hey you BEARS AT RASPBERRY TIME Poem Text First Line: Fear. Three bears Last Line: Except poems about bears? Subject(s): Life BECAUSE I AM; IN MEM. SIDNEY BECHET, 1897-1959 Poem Text First Line: Because I am a memorious old man Last Line: Out of the reaches of the impermeable night. Subject(s): Bechet, Sidney Joseph (1897-1959); Jazz; Music & Musicians BEDROCK Poem Text First Line: When I at youth's expiry BETRAYAL First Line: When I was a kid of sixty-two BIG JIM Poem Text First Line: The only man I ever knew who put Last Line: Under the sagging springs, just in case. Subject(s): Biography; Men; Biographers BIRTHDAY CAKE Poem Text First Line: For breakfast I have eaten the last of your birthday cake that you Last Line: Will be full of flowers and birds. Subject(s): Birthdays; Cakes; Love - Age Differences; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations BURIAL RITES Poem Text First Line: Did anyone ever believe that the dead woman Last Line: Without expectation. They did them in despair. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Death; Despair; Graves; Tradition; Heritage; Heredity; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones BURNING DAWN Poem Text First Line: This day lies under glass Last Line: Who was here and has gone Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise BY FINITUDE IN ITS SEVERAL MANIFESTATIONS First Line: The wind in the chimney makes a song, finitude, finitude BYSANTINE ELECTRIC First Line: Are you erady, old soul? Last Line: Ready? Here you go. %sailing to byzantium CALIFORNIA; FOR ADRIENNE RICH Poem Text First Line: To come again into the place of revolutionary Last Line: Which were themselves. Subject(s): California; Change; Poetry & Poets CAPPER KAPLINSKI AT THE NORTH SIDE CUE CLUB Poem Text First Line: What's it like? You take it from me Last Line: We're playing or ain't we? Subject(s): Billiards; Life; Sports CATALOGUE First Line: In the upper atmosphere the ozone layer is partly destroyed CAVE PAINTING Poem Text First Line: Might he (cro-magnon) have drawn bison ...' Last Line: Is this knowledge of loss Subject(s): Extinct Animals; Poetry & Poets CIRCUMSTANCES OF MEDITATION THIS MORNING First Line: But the circumstances CLEARING First Line: The white birch saplings choiring in a praise COLD COFFEE Poem Text First Line: Cold coffee. In the wintertime he would've Last Line: Between her knees. And the thunder rolls. Subject(s): Coffee; Summer COMING DOWN TO THE DESERT AT LORDBURG, N.M. Poem Text First Line: Stand there on the rock Last Line: Hand in hand Subject(s): New Mexico COMPLAINT AND PETITION Poem Text First Line: Mr. President: on a clear cold Last Line: And love will quit the world Subject(s): Politics & Government; War COMPLAINT AND PETITION First Line: Mr. President: on a clear cold Last Line: And love will quit the world Subject(s): Politics; War CONCERNING NECESSITY Poem Text First Line: It's quite true we live Last Line: Right here where I live Subject(s): Potatoes CONTRA MORTEM: THE BEING Poem Text First Line: Wherever shadow falls wherever the drowning Last Line: Where the world falls in forever there there Subject(s): Ontology; Being CONTRA MORTEM: THE BEING AS MEMORY Poem Text First Line: A carpet raveling on the loom a girl Last Line: And died a carpet raveling on the loom Subject(s): Memory CONTRA MORTEM: THE BEING AS MOMENT Poem Text First Line: Between a sea and a sea where the combers meet Last Line: Between a sea and a sea in the faint starglow? Subject(s): Time CONTRA MORTEM: THE BEING AS VISION Poem Text First Line: The mindseye is flitting like a moth among summer firs Last Line: Burns burns for a dazzling instant and then turns blank Subject(s): Time CONTRA MORTEM: THE CHILD Poem Text First Line: Otherwise considered being is a force Last Line: Lowest of low quickest unlife the immense lordling Subject(s): Children; Youth; Childhood CONTRA MORTEM: THE CHILD'S BEING Poem Text First Line: Extended and always uncentered which is why it scares Last Line: A being freeborn and intricate like the day Subject(s): Children; Youth; Childhood CONTRA MORTEM: THE COMING OF SNOW Poem Text First Line: Along the denuded aisles a shadow walks Last Line: The rubble graces brightening in the snow Subject(s): Snow CONTRA MORTEM: THE ECSTASY Poem Text First Line: Dawn will be the time and the forest will be the place Last Line: Will stay upon the stone a long long while Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight CONTRA MORTEM: THE FALL Poem Text First Line: Still after the clapper cracked the bell Last Line: In the histories of anguish quietly told Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall CONTRA MORTEM: THE GREAT DEATH Poem Text First Line: Oh if a thousand old folk looked askance Last Line: That was what they called their questing was their lack Subject(s): Death; Dead, The CONTRA MORTEM: THE LEAVES Poem Text First Line: If the sky were green instead of blue its green Last Line: The actual world in the heyday of the leaves Subject(s): Leaves CONTRA MORTEM: THE MOON Poem Text First Line: Reflected light reflected again on snow Last Line: Or only a star in the in tre unhorizoned sky Subject(s): Moon CONTRA MORTEM: THE MOUNTAIN FASTNESS Poem Text First Line: Beyond and farther and yet from every vantage Last Line: The ever and never known the pivot the horizon Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) CONTRA MORTEM: THE NOTHING I Poem Text First Line: Look in the flower deep in the tulip cup Last Line: Look at the cigarette smoke rising look look Subject(s): Nothingness; Nihilism; Voids CONTRA MORTEM: THE NOTHING II Poem Text First Line: Where the child's eyes glaze with memory where the man's glaze Last Line: Nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing Subject(s): Nothingness; Nihilism; Voids CONTRA MORTEM: THE STONE Poem Text First Line: Difficult to think of a stone's gratitude Last Line: The primal act with this. So all things waken Subject(s): Stones; Granite; Rocks CONTRA MORTEM: THE SUMMER Poem Text First Line: Cicadas blur the ear as the blue heat haze Last Line: Uniting all this knowledge with the earth Subject(s): Summer CONTRA MORTEM: THE SUN Poem Text First Line: Such a reasonable irrational fellow goodhumored Last Line: He dwells alone burning with as million fires Subject(s): Sun CONTRA MORTEM: THE THAW Poem Text First Line: Rigidity nonlife the meaning neither of life Last Line: The water by drop by drop begins to fall Subject(s): Spring CONTRA MORTEM: THE TREES Poem Text First Line: Birches birches birches true and white Last Line: This being swells the night of the living woods Subject(s): Birch Trees CONTRA MORTEM: THE VILLAGE Poem Text First Line: Twilight drivels down the mountain. There below Last Line: In the hostel its eyes too dead for pity Subject(s): Animals; Extinct Animals CONTRA MORTEM: THE WATER Poem Text First Line: The brook had been frozen almost everywhere. Mounds Last Line: And singing singing so pleasantly in their flight Subject(s): Water CONTRA MORTEM: THE WHEEL OF BEING I Poem Text First Line: Changing figures. The dionysian child Last Line: It is contrived it is actual it is a man Subject(s): Ontology; Being CONTRA MORTEM: THE WHEEL OF BEING II Poem Text First Line: Such figures if they succeed are beautiful Last Line: As the gift of being are the lovers against death Subject(s): Ontology; Being CONTRA MORTEM: THE WOMAN Poem Text First Line: Among birches moving their white halfnakedness Last Line: Given and perfect and beyond and inconsolable Subject(s): Beauty; Grace; Women CONTRA MORTEM: THE WOMAN'S GENITALS Poem Text First Line: Oh this world and oh this dear worldbody Last Line: And how it is here and it was always here Subject(s): Reproductive System; Sex; Sex Organs; Genitalia COUNTRYMAN'S REPLY First Line: The great ugly Last Line: Can you remember? I have been going %back & forth, down & up out here %a long long time COWSHED BLUES First Line: Intent in the Last Line: Poised on its long %flow far out, far in %or on this page fallen %notations of remembered song CRUCIFIXION Poem Text First Line: You understand the colors on the hillside have faded Last Line: On the hillside, and after a while I nodded back to him Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion DANCING AS VESTIGIA AND OTHER CONSIDERATIONS First Line: Cindy won't dance for me, and god knows DEAD DOG ELECTRIC First Line: Look at it, baby! Ain't it a beaut? Them Last Line: Urine and feces. I ask you, what more %useful to civilization than a dead go, eh? DEAREST M - Poem Text First Line: In november when the days are short and dim Last Line: Is hazy as he looks out at the apple tree Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Winter; Dead, The; Bereavement DEDICATION IN THESE DAY Poem Text First Line: What words can make Last Line: For now for you / again Subject(s): Pleasure DEPRESSION Poem Text First Line: He eyes november when the hills of umber DEPRESSION First Line: The cells of one's body renew themselves every DIFFERENCE First Line: Aphrodite rose dripping with the sheen of sexual Last Line: In all their natural splendor, opening wordless DIRECTIVE Poem Text First Line: Let ni imponderable lie DIRGE FOR HOMECOMING Poem Text First Line: A road that had wound us 20,000 miles Subject(s): Homecoming DORNOSCHEN Subject(s): Fairy Tales DYING DAUGHTER First Line: Why does the wretchedness of the world rest so heavily Last Line: The usual fly buzzes against the window ECSTASY Poem Text First Line: For years it was in sex and I thought Last Line: Of the most shining and singular sensual gratification. Subject(s): Pain; Peace; Pleasure; Sex; Suffering; Misery ECTOPLIMANIESSENCE First Line: For two years and several months now, since Last Line: An aged invalid in his narrow cot ELABORATION First Line: The movement of a willow bough over the water Last Line: What cannot be, makes the dance of ink on paper, %neither idea nor dream EMERGENCY HAYING Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Coming home with the last load I ride standing Last Line: To the fields where they can only die Subject(s): Farm Life; Hay & Haymaking; Agriculture; Farmers END OF WINTER Poem Text First Line: Winter ending in the last days of march. How many times Last Line: Moved by hunger. Subject(s): Nature; Winter ENDNOTE Poem Text First Line: The great poems of / our elders in many Last Line: Asleep and alive. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ENDS Poem Text First Line: Should these lines confess a folly? EPITHALMION Poem Text First Line: Subway-rushed, we squat and run at once Subject(s): Wedding Song; Epithalamium ESSAY Poem Text First Line: So many poems about the deaths of animals Last Line: But clearly they do not bother to say good-bye Subject(s): Animal Rights; Biology & Biologists; Extinct Animals; Animal Abuse; Vivisection ESSAY ON STONE Poem Text First Line: April abomination, that's what I call Subject(s): April; North Sea ETERNITY BLUES Poem Text First Line: I just had the old dodge in the shop Last Line: To reach me. I drove on. Then I bust out crying Subject(s): Blues (mood); Country Life; Music & Musicians ETHICS OF ALTRUISM IN ALTOONA First Line: That difficult squarehead heidegger wrote Last Line: Is phenomenon. Willing is not the same ETUDES DE PLUSIERS PAYSAGES DE L' AME: 1 Poem Text First Line: The storm came monday night. On wednesday we Last Line: Just to be sure Subject(s): Whales EXASPERATION First Line: Of all bureaucracies the medical %is worst. There! - that's a statement Last Line: Was impatient, and, I must say, quite stupid FEBRUARY MORNING Poem Text First Line: The old man takes a nap Last Line: The snow falls all day long. Subject(s): Books; February; Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Morning; Old Age; Poetry & Poets; Winter; Reading FIGMENT First Line: For not often in our loves the moment of transubstantiation FIRST DATE First Line: What do I like to do on a first date? Well, I show Last Line: Between my legs, this date realizes. This is how it is FIVE-THIRTY AM Poem Text First Line: Out the eastern window at Last Line: The sleeping pills, and go to bed? Subject(s): Morning; Nature FLYING INTO ST. LOUIS Poem Text First Line: It is socked in. Can't see a thing. Nor have I ever Last Line: And boarded the plane to san francisco. Subject(s): Family Life; Grandparents; Parents; St. Louis, Missouri; Relatives; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Parenthood FORTY-FIVE Poem Text First Line: When I was forty-five I lay for hours Last Line: And for a while was mine. Subject(s): Salamanders; Sex FRAGMENTS Poem Text First Line: Darkness shaped from the moonlight FREEDOM AND DISCIPLINE Poem Text First Line: Saint harmony, many / years I have stript Subject(s): Discipline; Freedom; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Liberty FRENCH HILL Poem Text First Line: Tell, acquaint me Last Line: That house known / for love? Subject(s): Memory GRAVES Poem Text First Line: Both of us had been close Last Line: All the time. ... Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; God; Graves; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Religion; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Theology GREEN MOUNTAIN IDYL Poem Text First Line: Honey I'd split your kindling Last Line: & my dove Subject(s): Farm Life; Mountains; Agriculture; Farmers; Hills; Downs (great Britain) HER SONG Poem Text First Line: She sings the blues in a voice that is partly Last Line: For in her song no one can be redeemed. Subject(s): Ireland; Pain; Redemption; Singing & Singers; Irish; Suffering; Misery; Songs HOMECOMING Poem Text First Line: A road that had wound us 20,000 miles Last Line: After all the bell in the garden is silent Subject(s): Fruit; Nuts & Nutting HOUSES First Line: At first you had a small clapboard colonial in new hartford I COULD TAKE Poem Text First Line: I could take Last Line: Imperfections that match Subject(s): Leaves I KNOW, I REMEMBER, BUT HOW CAN I HELP YOU Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The northern lights. I wouldn't have noticed them Subject(s): Aurora Borealis; Hay & Haymaking; Northern Lights I'VE NEVER SEEN SUCH A REAL HARD TIME BEFORE' Poem Text First Line: Having planted our little northern spy at the wrong season Last Line: This song is a wave forever rolling among the stars Subject(s): Atoms I, I, I Poem Text First Line: First, the self. Then, the observing self Last Line: It had no mirrors. I no longer needed mirrors. Subject(s): Independence; Self; Self-reliance IF IT WERE NOT FOR YOU Poem Text First Line: Liebe, meine, liebe. I had not hoped Last Line: How gravely and sweetly the poor touch in the dark Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain) IMMOBILITY Poem Text First Line: For a few years I roamed the country, pennsylvania, alabama, oregon Last Line: To the white throats, the thrushes, the cardinals singing in the miniature forest on the hill? Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips IMMOBILITY First Line: For a few years I roamed the country, pennsylvania, alabama, oregon Last Line: To the white-throats, the thrushes, the cardinals singing in the %miniature forest on the hill? Subject(s): Travel IN A YEAR OF INCREASING ADVERSITIES First Line: Hear me, liebe, in autumn rain, hear me Last Line: What have we left but song? %liebe, we will be the light of a darkening time IN GEORGETOWN; HOLIDAY INN, WASHINGTON, D.C. Poem Text First Line: This is not where the rich and famous pursue their lifestyles Last Line: "melodiously at the door: ""are you all right, sir? Are you all right in there?" Subject(s): Americans; Corruption In Politics & Government; Hotels; Politics; Social Protest; United States; Washington, D.c.; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Politicians; Political Poetry; America IN MEMORIAM Poem Text First Line: This warmish night of the thaw Last Line: And vanish into the mist Subject(s): Death; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The IN PHARAOH'S TOMB Poem Text First Line: In pharaoh's tomb the darkness reigns Last Line: "vision's not what you wanted." Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Crime & Criminals; Egypt; Graves; Pyramids; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Tombs; Tombstones IN THE END First Line: The brutality of history is more Last Line: What have we done? Say now, what have we done? INHERITANCE Poem Text First Line: Lovers are changelings, never knowing whose lost blood INSERT X First Line: When I was hospitalized for my INSTRUCTIONS First Line: After you croak what's to be done with what's left' INVOCATION First Line: Guide me, hestia for so Last Line: Guard my women, these talkative and %given to love %and my son and my newborn grandson ITS STRONGHOLD IN EARTH First Line: To soar-maybe I might Last Line: Stronghold in earth? And rt. 100's %swift curve into the light %as if it had been there before? JOHNNY SPAIN'S WHITE HEIFER Poem Text First Line: The first time ever I saw johnny spain was Last Line: Of course somewhat more than a mite wild Subject(s): Cows; Junk & Junkyards JOURNEY TO A KNOWN PLACE Poem Text First Line: Tundra, the distant marches. And wind veering, clatter of steely grasses Subject(s): Nature; Snow KERAUNOGRAPH First Line: Night-piercing, whitely illuminant Last Line: The rites uninterrupted by our arrival %or departure LANA Poem Text First Line: Last night I dropped in at the concord Subject(s): Crime & Criminals LANGUAGE AS INEVITABLE METAPHOR. IDEA AS ... FIGMENT First Line: I mind once on a forenoon in earlt summer LATE SONNET First Line: For that the sonnet no doubt was my own true Last Line: Nor is it essential to be young. LETTER TO DENISE Poem Text First Line: Remember when you put on that wig Last Line: Love the stone, and, yes, I know its soul. Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Male-female Relations LETTER TO MAXINE SULLIVAN Poem Text First Line: Just when I imagined I had conquered nostalgia so odious Subject(s): Letters; Singing & Singers; Nostalgia LILAC TIME Poem Text First Line: The winter was fierce, my dear Last Line: Will make me form-I-dable. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs; Old Age; Seasons; Winter LITERARY NOTE Poem Text First Line: I remember a time in our moderate clime Last Line: Used it until you could scream. Subject(s): Rhyme LITTLE CITIZEN, LITTLE SURVIVOR Poem Text First Line: A brown rat has taken up residence with me Last Line: Lend me your presence, and I will lend you mine. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Rats; Estrangement; Outcasts LOSS Poem Text First Line: Lost sweetheart, how our memories Subject(s): Loss LOST Poem Text First Line: Many paths in the woods have chosen Last Line: As now I understand Subject(s): Life MARGE Poem Text First Line: Look, friend, you got troubles? Like it's Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Old Age; Dead, The MARSHALL WASHER Poem Text First Line: They are cowshit farmers, these new englanders Last Line: "and flagged aisles saturated with a century’s Subject(s): Cows; Farm Life; New England; Agriculture; Farmers MEMORY Poem Text First Line: A woman I used to know well died Last Line: How could you have let this happen to you? Subject(s): Death; Divorce; Marriage; Memory; Past; Time; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MEN LEANING FORWARD Poem Text First Line: Before luther birds MENDING THE ADOBE Poem Text First Line: Sun dazzle and black shadow / crow caw and magpie rattle Last Line: I remember my mother Subject(s): Houses; Poetry & Poets MENDING THE ADOBE First Line: Sun dazzle and black shadow %crow caw and magpie rattle Last Line: Young no more. Well, but mostly %I fix it, I feel better %when I fix it - you know? %I remember my m Subject(s): Houses; Poetry And Poets MIDSUMMER LETTER Poem Text First Line: Dearest: today was warm MISSING THE BO IN THE HENHOUSE Poem Text First Line: In here, caught by the storm. How the rain beats Last Line: Commend me to the storm. Good night, good night Subject(s): Chickens; Hens MIST HOUR First Line: What is it comes and Last Line: What is it comes and %cuts the mind in two? MOTHER (MARGERY CARRUTH, 1896-1981) Poem Text First Line: Mother, now at last I must speak to you. The hour, so late but even so has come Variant Title(s): The Event Subject(s): Death; Memory; Mothers; Dead, The MY DOG JOCK First Line: When I was a boy, perhaps %eight or nine, I read Last Line: The earth has looked at me %with doglike hurt eyes %accusingly MY FATHER'S FACE Poem Text First Line: Old he was but not yet wax Last Line: This man not Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827); Fathers MY HUT; AFTER TRAN QUANG KHAI Poem Text First Line: Built long ago, old Last Line: And on these shoulders / and hands Subject(s): Houses MY MEADOW Poem Text First Line: Well, it's still the loveliest meadow in all vermont Last Line: Maybe I have lived too long with the world Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Nature; Plants; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Planting; Planters NAMING FOR LOVE Poem Text First Line: These are the proper names Last Line: May all who read this live long Subject(s): Stones; Granite; Rocks NECESSARY IMPRESARIO, MR. SEPTIC TANCK First Line: Wally was so damn near right that his failure NEW PARAGRAPH Poem Text First Line: One hoped the brilliant sunset of july Last Line: Not ever. This is the unending end. Subject(s): July; Night; Bedtime NO MATTER WHAT, AFTER ALL, AND THAT BEAUTIFUL WORD SO Poem Text First Line: This was the time of their heaviest migration Last Line: "just to listen. ""what is it about that sound?" Subject(s): Birds NONE Poem Text First Line: You died. And because you were greek they gave you Last Line: " Subject(s): Life NORTH WINTER Poem Text First Line: Coming of winter Last Line: North is / nothing Subject(s): Arctic; Winter NOT TRANSHISTORICAL DEATH, OR AT LEAST NOT QUITE Poem Text First Line: Jim wright, who was a good poet and my friend, died two or three years ago Subject(s): Wright, James (1927-1980); Poetry & Poets NOTES ON POVERTY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Was I so poor / in those damned days Last Line: Stone? I was. Subject(s): Poverty OF DISTRESS BEING HUMILIATED BY THE CLASSICAL CHINESE POETS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Masters, the mock orange is blooming in syracuse without Subject(s): Translating & Interpreting; Chinese Poets OLD MAN SUCCUMBING TO RETROSPECTION Poem Text First Line: How his mind was always filled with music how Last Line: Even so something more or something a little less. Subject(s): Life; Old Age; Poetry & Poets OLD POEM FOUND ON A SCRAP OF PAPER: PENULTIMATE SUPPLICATION First Line: For that I have loved always women, by god Last Line: Women, let the radical old man be approved OLD SONG FOR THE BO Poem Text First Line: Hip hop to the auto shop Last Line: Gonna be the king of the automobiles. Subject(s): Automobiles; Cars ON BEING ASKED TO WRITE A POEM AGAINST THE WAR IN VIETNAM Poem Text First Line: Well I have and in fact Last Line: To make sure I was noticing Variant Title(s): A Poem Of Difficult Hope Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ON THE TRUISTICAL AND FASHIONABLE EYES OF ALBERT CAMUS First Line: Both cicero and ruskin noted behind their intelligence is a muted quality ONCE MORE Poem Text First Line: Once more by the brook the alder leaves Last Line: Snorting and bounding heavily before me Subject(s): Deer; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) OUR NORTHERN KIND First Line: No flowering dogwood grows here Last Line: Strangest of all, I've made %this song, this gift, and this theory %when the bough is bare %in the d OVID, OLD BUDDY, I WOULD DISCOURSE WITH YOU A WHILE Poem Text First Line: Upon mutability - if it were possible. But you don't Last Line: Tremble as if a wind even from olympus were meandering through the room Subject(s): Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.) PA MCCABE Poem Text First Line: You tell these young spratasses around here Last Line: I had a small one once, borrowed / off marshal Subject(s): Life PARAGRAPH First Line: I see you, brothers and sisters, randall, john Last Line: In this valley, we are your brothers and sisters %only a minute away, a second, a song PARAGRAPHS: 15 Poem Text First Line: I am a fanatic lover of liberty, considering it Last Line: An idea which leads inevitably to the reduction Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty PARAGRAPHS: 16 Poem Text First Line: Of the rights of each to zero. No. I mean the only Last Line: Thus, living light cast back from a burnt-out star Subject(s): Freedom; Numbers; Liberty PARAGRAPHS: 9 Poem Text First Line: It was the custom of my tribe to be silent Last Line: Indivisible, unvoiced Subject(s): Native Americans; Snow; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America PESSIMISM First Line: Once yennyson, alfred lord, bless his suave PHYLOGENETIC MEDITATION Poem Text First Line: Excursive sentiments directed me PICKING UP THE BEER CANS First Line: Twelve years the obscene Last Line: Now I cannot gather %the cans buried under leaves, %bottles broken by the snowplow. %o my people PITTSBURGH Poem Text First Line: And my beautiful daughter Last Line: Pain, in the love of daughter and father. Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Children; Grief; Love; Parents; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Parenthood PLATO, ESQ. First Line: Dear sir: I am but one of many Last Line: I' the crambo-clink o' robin burns, %an' sae god bless ye PLEYNT First Line: In somer when the shawes be sheyne Last Line: Broken, forbroken %mistaken %englonde %all thy pretty tunes POEM CATCHING UP WITH AND IDEA First Line: Freedom is not to be proved but is rather a postulate POETICAL ABSTRACTS: 2. METAPHYSICAL Poem Text First Line: Fascination / o' jack-o'-lanterns Subject(s): Halloween; Pumpkins POINT First Line: In a broken Last Line: Not in that way %not like a chance %but holding your own %like time like stone %like leaping flame POPPLE First Line: No good for nothing-hah, you reckon Last Line: I still can hear him. The quaking aspen. %yes sir, I kind oflike that name PREPARE Poem Text First Line: Why don't you write me a poem that will prepare me for your death?' you said Last Line: Reading now. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The PRIVATION First Line: The longing to %make love is a relentlessness Last Line: Kind of prayer, or %groveling or %weeping in the spring, summer, fall, %and winter of %humiliation PROTESTANT ELECTRIC First Line: Let the lord's lost child Last Line: Quickly, father, and go his way %in peace. Thy will be done PURITY First Line: Your voice on the phone for the how many thousandth QUALITY OF WINE Poem Text First Line: This wine is really awful Last Line: Let the dying be long. Subject(s): Death; Drinks & Drinking; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Sickness; Dead, The; Wine; Male-female Relations; Illness QUESTIONS Poem Text First Line: Your voice comes to me, george, on the winter night Last Line: What in god’s name must I do to get you back? Subject(s): Camus, Albert (1913-1960) RAY Poem Text First Line: How many guys are sitting at their kitchen tables Last Line: Ate that goddamn pie, and it tasted good to me Subject(s): Carver, Raymond (1939-1988) REFLECTIONS First Line: This deathwatch, this gazing over REFLEXIVE Poem Text First Line: Of all disquiets sorrow is most serene Last Line: The self this gentle sorrow still recovers Subject(s): Friendship REGARDING CHAINSAWS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The first chainsaw I owned was years ago Last Line: Butter mold. But I’m damned if I know why Subject(s): Tools RENUNCIATION Poem Text First Line: Those who possess us in a thousand ways RUMMAGE Poem Text First Line: Growing old in shabby clothes Last Line: Blowing in the wind Subject(s): Life SATURDAY AT THE BORDER Poem Text First Line: Here I am writing my first villanelle Last Line: Is what he's found in his first villanelle. Subject(s): Old Age; Poetry & Poets SCRAMBLED EGGS AND WHISKEY Poem Text Recitation by Author Last Line: In that old club tonight Subject(s): Music & Musicians SEX Poem Text First Line: On the first few nights of the new year, a week Last Line: In the night. The cat rubs against the man's legs Subject(s): Sex; Aging; Impotence SHE SAID IT First Line: The day you burned your sleeve Last Line: And still later, after a soak, we kissed it again SILENCE Poem Text First Line: Sometimes we don't say anything. Sometimes Last Line: It’s the way love is in a late stage of the world Subject(s): Silence SNOW STORM Poem Text First Line: Everywhere men speak in whispers Last Line: Force, and the night comes on. Subject(s): Army Life; Old Age; Snow; Soldiers; War; Drills & Minor Tactics SOME KIND OF A WHISPERED THREE-BEAT LARGO First Line: Let's say something good %about emphysema. No? Last Line: At your next departmental meeting Subject(s): Sickness SOMETHING FOR RICHARD EBERHART First Line: Mahogony sun in october, a continuum SOMETHING FOR THE TRADE First Line: Please note well, all you writers, editors, directors Last Line: For the simple truth that should sustain us all Subject(s): Writing & Writers SOMETHING FOR THE TRADE First Line: Please note well, all you writers, editors, directors Last Line: For the simple truth that should sustain us all SONG OF TWO CROWS Poem Text First Line: I sing of morrisville Last Line: Where all the ends are wrong Subject(s): Poverty SONG: NOW THAT SHE IS HERE; FOR JOE-ANNE Poem Text First Line: An old man now, who's learned at last Last Line: Who used to think I knew. But now I know. Subject(s): Love; Old Age; Wisdom SONG: SO OFTEN, SO LONG I HAVE THOUGHT Poem Text First Line: So often, so long I have thought of death Last Line: The october raindrops thickened and turned to snow Subject(s): Autumn; Japan; Seasons; Fall; Japanese SONG:SO WHY DOES THIS DEAD CARNATION Poem Text First Line: So why does this dead carnation hold Last Line: From the useless past a kind of present power Subject(s): Carnations; Mummies SONNET: 10 Poem Text First Line: You rose from our embrace and the small light spread Subject(s): Love SONNET: 17 First Line: Avaunt, ye epigonoi! Avast, ue cruds and florians! Last Line: Poetry. Cindy and I have gone to bed, %where I intend to remain until I'm dead! SONNET: 2 Poem Text First Line: How is it, tell me, that this new self can be Last Line: The I of love that you in love bestow? Variant Title(s): "how Is It, Tell Me, That This New Self Can Be-""; Subject(s): Women SONNET: 29 Poem Text First Line: I want to do a complaint now. Which is to say Subject(s): Body, Human; Men SONNET: 30 First Line: Today's word: autoclasticism. First my heart Last Line: But still if it's all the same I think I'd rather %not come apart just when I've come together SONNET: 37 First Line: At first when hearing began to fail I thought Last Line: Tomorrow I'll think that I am hearing geese. %for a little while the world will be at peace SONNET: 46 Poem Text First Line: To rebel. So I have saved my life, not once SONNET: 53 Poem Text First Line: Thy sting sufficeth, death. If heidegger first Subject(s): Heidegger, Martin (1889-1976) SONNET: 55 Poem Text First Line: If you see a child that shivers when it hears Subject(s): Children; Parents SONNET: 58 Poem Text First Line: I think continually of the differences SONNET: 6 Poem Text First Line: Dearest, I never knew such loving. There Last Line: But still augmented, more than we've ever been Subject(s): Aliens; Extraterrestrials SONNET: 63 Poem Text First Line: But still, still... / in stillness mystery calls SONNET: 9 Poem Text First Line: To see a woman long oppressed by fear SPANISH CIVIL WAR First Line: Thirty years ago tonight Last Line: Of the love of the world Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) SPARROWS Poem Text First Line: Spring comes and autumn goes Last Line: Finality in sparrowdom Subject(s): Birds; Sparrows SPRING BREAK-UP First Line: To have spoken, to have Last Line: In the very mouth of the falls, %battered and deafened, unmoved %in essential silence SPRING NOTES FROM ROBIN HILL Poem Text First Line: 200,000 rhododendron blossoms I estimate Last Line: On the bottom Subject(s): Flowers; Spring STANZAS FROM THE READING HOUR Poem Text First Line: You rose from our embrace and the small light spread SURE, SAID BENNY GOODMAN Poem Text First Line: We rode out the depression on technique.' how gratifying, how rare Subject(s): Goodman, Benny (1909-1986) SWEPT Poem Text First Line: When we say I Last Line: Swept away to / gone Subject(s): Grief; Longing; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness TABULA RASA Poem Text First Line: There, an evening star, there again. Above Last Line: The slate is clean. Here therefore is my kiss Subject(s): Simplicity TESTAMENT Poem Text First Line: So often it has been displayed to us, the hourglass Last Line: On the mountain of my love below. Subject(s): Hourglasses; Legacies; Love; Time TEXAS ELECTRIC First Line: Why hell, boy, don't you worry none Last Line: You won't jerk so much afterwards. %you don't wanna jerk, boy, do you? THE AFTERLIFE: LETTER TO SAM HAMILL: 1 Poem Text First Line: You may think it strange, sam, that I'm writing Last Line: Don't go way. I'll be right back Subject(s): Hamill, Sam; Letters; Writing & Writers THE AFTERLIFE: LETTER TO STEPHEN DOBYNS 3 Poem Text First Line: Stephen, the pleasures of the afterlife Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE AFTERLIFE: LETTER TO STEPHEN DOBYNS: 1 Poem Text First Line: You live in a sinking nation, stephen, in a stinking Last Line: Of all the beauty and comradeship I've lost. Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; Dobyns, Stephen; Future Life; Letters; Social Protest; United States; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; America THE AFTERLIFE: LETTER TO STEPHEN DOBYNS: 2 Poem Text First Line: The most painful image I have now, here, is Last Line: Is always, always, accompanied by pain. Subject(s): Dobyns, Stephen; Future Life; Letters; Pain; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Suffering; Misery THE ASYLUM Poem Text First Line: I came to this place one november day Last Line: We lie nailed and living, love's pure gain Subject(s): Bryan, William Jennings (1860-1925); November; Poetry & Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972) THE BALER Poem Text First Line: You tourist composed upon that fence Last Line: And half-feathered sparrows, whipped by a bleeding snake Subject(s): Farm Life; Hay & Haymaking; Agriculture; Farmers THE BEARER Poem Text First Line: Like all his people he felt at home in the forest Last Line: Began to kill him with clubs and heavy stones Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE BEAT Poem Text First Line: Well, I'm too much of a musician Last Line: Of lilacs in the springtime. Subject(s): Music & Musicians THE BEST, THE MOST Poem Text First Line: Yet one young woman lives with me Last Line: And failing, falling, ruined, rich. Subject(s): Life; Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE BIRDS OF VIETNAM Poem Text First Line: O bright, o swift and bright Last Line: Help it, I have so loved / this world Subject(s): Asia; Birds; Vietnam; Far East; East Asia; Orient THE BIRTH OF VENUS Poem Text First Line: Surely we knew our darkling shore Last Line: Your powers, one will be carruth Subject(s): Birth; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess); Child Birth; Midwifery THE BLOOMINGDALE PAPERS, SELECTION Poem Text First Line: The diagnosis is / anxiety psychoneurosis Subject(s): Boredom; Prisons & Prisoners; Ennui; Convicts THE BLOOMINGDALE PAPERS, SELECTION Poem Text First Line: The diagnosis is / anxiety psychoneurosis Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals; Illness; Ennui; Convicts THE BROOK Poem Text First Line: Murmuring of the brook in late Last Line: And I meant nothing, and I liked that too. Subject(s): Brooks; Nature; Rivers; Streams; Creeks THE CAMPS; FOR MARILYN HACKER Poem Text First Line: When the young brown-haired Last Line: Rest on the unmoving forms. Subject(s): Cruelty; Death; Despair; Love; Poetry & Poets; Violence; Writing & Writers; Dead, The THE CHEAT Poem Text First Line: Who rise again, and again, and always fall THE COWS AT NIGHT Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The moon was like a full cup tonight Last Line: Very gently it began to rain Subject(s): Cows; Moon; Night; Bedtime THE CURTAIN Poem Text First Line: Just over the horizon a great machine of death is roaring and rearing Last Line: Cheers, baby. Here’s to us. See how the curtain of snow wavers and then falls back Subject(s): Snow THE EXISTING POOL Poem Text First Line: Begin with a pool. The deepening Last Line: Gather together Subject(s): Water THE FANTASTIC NAMES OF JAZZ Poem Text First Line: Zoot sims, joshua redman Last Line: And of course jelly roll morton. Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Names THE FAT LADY Poem Text First Line: A lovely house it was. We all thought so Last Line: The one world I know how to love had died Subject(s): Obesity; Women THE HALF-ACRE OF MILLET Poem Text First Line: So green the leaves in late september sun Last Line: Now I'm told they don't plant millet around here. Subject(s): Nature; Old Age THE HERON Poem Text First Line: Let me tell you, my dear, about the heron I saw Last Line: And why, over and over again, must I write this poem? Subject(s): Animals; Herons; Humanity THE HYACINTH GARDEN IN BROOKLYN Poem Text First Line: A year ago friends Last Line: In paradise. Subject(s): Brooklyn, New York; Gardens & Gardening; Hyacinths THE IMPOSSIBLE INDISPENSIBILITY OF THE ARS POETICA Poem Text First Line: But of course the poem is not an assertion. Do you see? When I wrote Last Line: And gives it all to you Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE INCORRIGIBLE DIRIGIBLE Poem Text First Line: Never in any circumstances think you can tell the men from the boys. (or the Last Line: I am sure it will be revived Subject(s): Airships THE LAST POEM IN THE WORLD Poem Text First Line: Would I write it if I could? Last Line: Bet your glitzy ass I would. Subject(s): Finality; Poetry & Poets THE LITTLE FIRE IN THE WOODS Poem Text First Line: Even these stones I placed crudely once Last Line: Good night / good night Subject(s): Fire; Forests; Woods THE LOON ON FORRESTER'S POND Poem Text First Line: Summer wilderness, a blue light Last Line: The real and only sanity to me Subject(s): Birds; Loons; Mountain Life - Vermont; Summer THE MOUNTAIN Poem Text First Line: Black summer, black vermont. Who sees Last Line: Really there? Subject(s): Mountain Life - Vermont; Vermont THE POET Poem Text First Line: All night his window Last Line: Of the poet's light Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE RAVINE Poem Text First Line: Stones, brown tufted grass, but no water Last Line: Day after day, I wonder what they mean Subject(s): Water THE SAVING WAY Poem Text First Line: When the little girl was told that the sun someday Last Line: To invent our lives from these rich hours of woe? Subject(s): Dramatists; Girls; Jews; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Judaism; Dramatists THE SMALLISH SON Poem Text First Line: A small voice is fretting my house in the night Last Line: And if you do not find them, turn away Subject(s): Books; Sons; Reading THE SOCIOLOGY OF TOYOTAS AND JADE CHRYSANTHEMUMS Poem Text First Line: Listen here, sistren and brethren, I am goddamn tired Last Line: Four-wheeled jade chrysan- / themums around here Subject(s): Dilthey, Wilhelm (1833-1911); Modern Life THE SOUND Poem Text First Line: When I was a boy at this time of year Last Line: I said, if only I could hear them. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Nature; Sound; Beekeeping; Bugs THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR Poem Text First Line: Thirty years ago tonight Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) THE STREET Poem Text First Line: Invariable dawn seeps stinging in quiet eyes THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO Poem Text First Line: The dripping of formaldehyde Subject(s): Chicago, University Of THE WAY OF THE CONVENTICLE OF THE TREES Poem Text First Line: Just yesterday afternoon I heard a man Last Line: For a long, long time when I'm gone Subject(s): Trees THE WOODCUT ON THE COVER OF ROBERT FROST'S COMPLETE POEMS Poem Text First Line: A man plowing starts at the side of the field Last Line: Then walking home with the horses at end of day. Subject(s): Farm Life; Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Plowing & Plowmen; Poetry & Poets; Agriculture; Farmers THE WOODS Poem Text First Line: Finally the woods / are stripped down Last Line: Glades for the deer. Subject(s): Change; Forests; Nature; Simplicity; Woods THE WORLD AS WILL AND REPRESENTATION' Poem Text First Line: When I consider the children of the middle class Last Line: These relentless present children of the middle class Subject(s): Life THE WRECK OF THE CIRCUS TRAIN Poem Text First Line: Couplings buckled, cracked, collapsed Last Line: Turned and swung off toward the hills Subject(s): Circus; Disasters; Railroad Wrecks; Train Wrecks THEY ACCUSE ME OF NOT TALKING Poem Text First Line: North people known for silence. Long Last Line: And the relentless futility of the real? Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Inuit; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THIS SONG Poem Text First Line: In an afternoon bright with Last Line: Murmurs from high in the old pine trees Subject(s): Hair; Women THOSE OLD GENTLEMEN First Line: I've been reading the ancient chinese masters Last Line: On the hill behind me as the wilight darkens Subject(s): Aging; Men THREE SONNETS ON THE NECESSITY OF NARROWLY ESCAPING DEATH Poem Text First Line: Collapsible, selfwilled and jealousjelled Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TIME, PLACE, AND PARENTHOOD Poem Text First Line: Here we are, my son, aliens in this place Last Line: Accept these words that can never say enough. Subject(s): Children; Parents; Past; Time; Childhood; Parenthood TO KNOW IN REVERIE THE ONLY PHENOMENOLOGY OF THE ABSOLUTE Poem Text First Line: Why was it bavaria? The house in the forest Last Line: In bavaria Subject(s): Bavaria TOMB OF HAYDEN CARRUTH First Line: Here grow lady's tresses, little Last Line: The pleasantest entrance to hell TOO TENUOUS Poem Text First Line: Thirty yards apart, they face Last Line: Love will not keep in such a dwindled order too tenuous to know Subject(s): Nevada TWILIGHT COMES Poem Text First Line: Twilight comes to the little farm Last Line: I am not an old man. Not yet Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight UNDER THE LONG WIND Poem Text First Line: Intent on love, I gave VERMONT Poem Text First Line: It's french, of course - our name. And I must think Subject(s): Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Poetry & Poets; Vermont; Warren, Josiah (1798-1874) WATERLOO Poem Text First Line: Overlooking the battlefield, on that grassy Last Line: At him. Perhaps he wasn't there. But he was. Subject(s): Sadism; Social Protest; War; Waterloo; Battle Of Waterloo WHAT GOES First Line: People like my poems of old age, and I'm Last Line: As the grains of sand slip down WHAT TO DO Poem Text First Line: Tell your mind and its Last Line: For a little while. Subject(s): Introspection; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals WHEN I WROTE A LITTLE Poem Text First Line: Poem in the ancient mode for you Last Line: The dark sure sea of our existence Subject(s): Language; Love; Words; Vocabulary WHILE READING BASHO Poem Text First Line: Basho, you made / a living writing haiku? Last Line: The goldfish are still. Subject(s): Books; Writing & Writers; Reading WIFE POEM Poem Text First Line: And it's clear at last, she dropped Last Line: And hot clouds of the old days of summer. Subject(s): Admiration; Beauty; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WINDOW First Line: Last night I woke in the darkness Last Line: They were. But I remember Subject(s): Sleep; Windows WINDOW BLIND Poem Text First Line: You keep the blind of our north window drawn Last Line: From clarity there, unseen, unfaltering, and true. Subject(s): Light; Man-woman Relationships; Windows; Male-female Relations WINNOWER TO THE WINDS First Line: To you, jocose company Last Line: Cool this threshing place %for as long as my laboring %and the wheat's winnowing %these late summer WOODSMOKE AT 68 First Line: How it is never the same Last Line: Across the frozen lawn, %then rising in a wild %swirl and it's gone WOODSMOKE AT 70 Poem Text First Line: How it is never the same Last Line: Swirl and it's gone... Subject(s): Old Age; Smoke WORDS IN A CERTAIN APPROPRIATE MODE Poem Text First Line: It is not music, though one has tried music Last Line: It is not death, though one has often died Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Roses; Dead, The WORDS TO A YOUNG REVOLUTIONIST First Line: Yes, it is exhilarating, I remember of course Last Line: Spoken by the living and the dead, %they will never cease, they will never be able %to cease. %yes WORKING First Line: My dear, what we know most |
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