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| Searching... Author: CIARDI, JOHN Matches Found: 266 Ciardi, John Poet's Biography 266 poems available by this author 11:02 A.M. THE BIRD DISAPPEARED First Line: A humming bird darning the trumpet vine Last Line: And somewhere an examiner shakes his head Subject(s): Hummingbirds A BOX COMES HOME Poem Text First Line: I remember the united states of america Last Line: By the rain and oak leaves on the domino Subject(s): Coffins; Homecoming; World War Ii; Second World War A CONVERSATION WITH LEONARDO Poem Text First Line: It was a stew of a night. The power failed Last Line: You make me grateful I died in in god's formed day Subject(s): Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519); Paintings & Painters A CRATE OF STERLING SILVER LOVING CUPS Poem Text First Line: I had gone to the freightyard auction of steel crates Subject(s): Auctions A LOVE POEM Poem Text First Line: I have labored to for her love Last Line: I can no longer beat time Subject(s): Love – Unrequited A MAN CAME TUESDAY Poem Text Last Line: What are you prepared to believe? Subject(s): Future; Debt A MEMORY OF THE SAD CHAIR Poem Text First Line: All in a dream of the time it was Last Line: We had shared that sadness, but what's the use? Subject(s): Chairs A POEM FOR BENN'S GRADUATION FROM HIGH SCHOOL Poem Text First Line: Whenever I have an appointment to see the assistant Last Line: To be terrified by that thought and its possibilites Subject(s): Fathers & Sons A SUCCESFUL SPECIES Poem Text First Line: Horeshoe crabs, which are not crabs at all Last Line: But the one success of species is to endure Subject(s): Survival A THANKS TO A BOTANIST Poem Text First Line: Setting his camera to blink a frame Last Line: Would be a / visible symphony Subject(s): Photography & Photographers A THOUSANDTH POEM FOR DYLAN THOMAS Poem Text First Line: Waking outside his babylonian binge Last Line: The chlorophyllous dough of the vast ravens of the future Subject(s): Thomas, Dylan (1914-1953) A TRENTA-SEI OF THE PLEASURE WE TAKE .. EARLY DEATH OF KEATS Poem Text First Line: It is old school custom to pretent to be sad Last Line: The saddest music keeps the sweetest time Subject(s): Customs, Social; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets ABOUT THE TEETH OF SHARKS Poem Text First Line: The thing about a shark is - teeth Last Line: I’ll never know now! Well, goodbye Subject(s): Sharks; Teeth; Toothaches ABUNDANCE Poem Text First Line: Once I had 1000 roses Subject(s): Flowers; Disappointment ADDIO Poem Text First Line: The corpse my mother made Last Line: Oh, daughter, if I could call Subject(s): Death – Mothers; Corpses AFTER SUNDAY WE UNCLES SNOOZE Poem Text First Line: Banana-stuffed, the ape behind the brain Last Line: What shall the sleeps of heaven dream but time? Subject(s): Apes; Uncles; Food ^ Eating; Sleep ALEC Poem Text First Line: At niney-seven my uncle found god heavy Last Line: And gilded an unfinished god for its vault Subject(s): Old Age; Uncles AN ALPHABESTIARY: B Poem Text First Line: B is for bombers, our national pride Last Line: And for billy and buck, who are studying braille Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; B (Letter Of Alphabet) AN ALPHABESTIARY: G Poem Text First Line: G, also inevitably, is for the gnu Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Gnus AN APARTMENT WITH A VIEW Poem Text First Line: I am in rome, vatican bells tolling Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Christianity AN APOLOGY FOR NOT INVOKING THE MUSE Poem Text First Line: Erato popped in. What a talent for suspicion! Last Line: By those who haven't had your advantages Subject(s): Muses; Poetry & Poets AN ASPECT OF THE AIR Poem Text First Line: Through my hemlocks and the spruce beyond Last Line: The sourceless light. An aspect of the air Subject(s): Light AN EMERITUS ADDRESSES THE SCHOOL Poem Text First Line: No one can wish nothing Subject(s): Life AN INSCRIPTION FOR RICHARD EBERHART First Line: I do not intend the people I know to believe me Subject(s): Eberhart, Richard AN OLD MAN CONFESSES Poem Text First Line: I have no cause, and god has not confessed Last Line: Inside the fact had drained. And then he died Subject(s): Old Age; Boredom APPREHENDEE THEN EXITED VEE-HICLE Poem Text First Line: Sorry, said the cop who had shot me Subject(s): Identity; Police; Wit & Humor AT O'HARE First Line: You!' we chanted together. 'how long has it been' Subject(s): O'hare Airport (Chicago); Time AUBADE Poem Text First Line: Now from the trumpeted and towering morning AUDIT AT KEY WEST Poem Text First Line: You could put silver dollars on my eyes Last Line: Thumbing my clogged skull at the sons of bitches Subject(s): Key West, Florida AUNT MARY Poem Text First Line: Aunt mary died of eating twelve red peppers Last Line: I pray the tear she taught me of us all Subject(s): Death; Aunts; Gluttony; Dead, The €ŚNOTHING IS REALLY HARD BUT TO BE REAL€”€? Poem Text Subject(s): Religion; Poetry & Poets; Theology BACK HOME IN POMPEII Poem Text Last Line: A curiosity / on holiday Subject(s): Pompeii, Ital BALANCING ACT Poem Text First Line: Somewhere between miss porter (seventh grade) Subject(s): Childhood Memories BALLAD OF HOW ADAM SAW IT Poem Text First Line: Proverbially, old adam Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Eve BASHING THE BABIES; EASTER, 1968 First Line: Sometimes you have hardly been born Last Line: Any suggestions? Well, have a good day Subject(s): Babies; Infants BEDLAM REVISITED Poem Text First Line: Nobody told me anythng much. I was born Last Line: Later they changed the number and we moved away Subject(s): Family Life BEES AND MORNING GLORY Poem Text First Line: Morning glories, pale as a mist drying Subject(s): Bees; Morning Glories; Transience; Beekeeping; Impermanence BETTY BOOPER First Line: This is little betty booper Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating; Gluttony; Popcorn BETWEEN First Line: I threw a stick. The dog Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BICENTENNIAL First Line: This official bicentennial arts person programming Subject(s): American Revolution Bicentennial (1976); Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963) BIOGRAPHY Poem Text First Line: He will not answer now Last Line: But will not answer now and not answer Subject(s): Science BIRD WATCHING Poem Text First Line: Every time we put crumbs out and sunflower Last Line: Be bread and seed in time: all else will follow Subject(s): Bird-watching BIRTHDAY First Line: A fat sicty-year-old man woke me. 'hello Subject(s): Aging BLUE MOVIE Poem Text First Line: There is no cause for love in such a script Last Line: The disassembled gestures of the dead Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Pornography; Movies; Cinema BOY Poem Text First Line: He is in his room sulked shut. The small Last Line: May sons forgive the fathers they obey Subject(s): Fathers & Sons BOY OR GIRL Poem Text First Line: White rows of suburbs alternate with trees Last Line: Turn off your light and take the nighttime in Subject(s): Youth; Suburbs; Night BRIDAL PHOTO, 1906 Poem Text First Line: A ceremonial rose in the lapel Last Line: Her hand at total rest under his hand Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood CAMPTOWN Poem Text First Line: The streets that slept all afternoon in sun Last Line: And we're late and lost unless we run Subject(s): War CATHEDRAL Poem Text First Line: One by one the bells have broken their music Last Line: And sun beats down beyond the broken door Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals CENSORSHIP Poem Text First Line: Damn that celibate farm, that cracker-box house Last Line: We're watching you! Subject(s): Hate; Parents; Sex; Parenthood CHANG MCTANG MCQUARTER CAT Poem Text Subject(s): Cats; Mathematics CHRISTMAS EVE Poem Text First Line: Salvation's angel in a tree Last Line: I leave it on and go to bed Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The COME MORNING Poem Text First Line: A young cock in his plebe strut Last Line: For it, and makes it official. It's / morning Subject(s): Morning CREDIBILITY Poem Text First Line: Who could believe an ant in theory? DAEMONS Poem Text First Line: I pass enough savages on the street Last Line: In you, living what you live by Subject(s): Mothers DAWN OF THE SPACE AGE Poem Text First Line: First a monkey, then a man Last Line: Just the way the world began Subject(s): Space & Space Travel; Outer Space; Fourth Dimension DEATH'S THE CLASSIC LOOK Poem Text First Line: Death's the classic look, it goes Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DIARY ENTRY Poem Text First Line: I was in a mood for disaster Last Line: Trying to do business on his scale Subject(s): Diaries DIFFERENCES Poem Text First Line: Choose your own difference between surgery Last Line: And what difference will it make? Subject(s): Surgery DIVORCED HUSBAND DEMOLISHES HOUSE; NEWS ITEM Poem Text First Line: It is time to break a house Last Line: Done with. Let it come down Subject(s): Divorce DOMESTICITY Poem Text First Line: Because the cat is hungry I must not nap Subject(s): Cats DONNE CH'AVETE INTELLETTO D'AMORE; AN ELEGY FOR AMERICAN SCHOOL SYSTEM First Line: Mary and I were having an emotion Last Line: O intellect of love, may I prove worthy? Subject(s): Education DRAGONS Poem Text First Line: Dragons are not the only beasts Last Line: May be very much to your advantage Subject(s): Dragons EAST SIXTY-SEVENTH STREET Poem Text First Line: Any man -- god, if he had the money Last Line: Because we are what we are and that hurts Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Poetry & Poets; Gays &y Lesbians; O'hara, Frank (1926-1966) ELAINE Poem Text First Line: Elaine, the counter-girl from the hat department Last Line: Nor the toes of the silver slippers worn Subject(s): Girls; Salespersons; Selling ELEGY Poem Text First Line: My father was born with a spade in his hand and traded it Last Line: Hymned out my blood to glory, for one good reason Subject(s): Fathers ELEGY Poem Text First Line: I dram awake in the uptown morning Last Line: I dram awake in the uptown morning Subject(s): Death ELEGY FOR A CAVE FULL OF BONES Poem Text First Line: Tibia, tarsal, skull, and shin Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War ELEGY FOR A SEAMAN Poem Text First Line: They say there is no motion undersea Subject(s): Seamen ELEGY FOR G.B. SHAW Poem Text First Line: Administrators of minutes into hours Last Line: The race we are not in the race we are Subject(s): Shaw, George Bernard (1856-1950) ELEGY FOR JOG Poem Text First Line: Stiff-dog death, all froth on a bloody chin Last Line: He had to bite the tire. Fools have no luck Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ELEGY FOR SANDRO Poem Text First Line: Read down into the dead and close ELEGY FOR THE FACE AT YOUR ELBOW Poem Text First Line: You know and I know what breeds in the dark Last Line: And nothing you do or dare to drink will break it out of your mind Subject(s): "cody, William ""buffalo Bill"" (1846-1917); ELEGY JUST IN CASE Poem Text First Line: Here lie ciardi's pearly bones Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War ELEGY. CAVALCANTE Poem Text First Line: It was cavalcante,' my mother said, 'killed you father' Last Line: I stood in the wreck of the dead that had been my blood Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Fathers ELEGY: FOR YOU, FATHER Poem Text First Line: Father, under the stone, accept your ruin Last Line: The end of heaven and the need of earth Subject(s): Death – Fathers ELEGY; FOR KURT PORJESCZ, MISSING IN ACTION, 1 APRIL 1945 Poem Text First Line: Some gone like boys to school wearing their badges Last Line: Discuss our futures, and have not concurred Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War EVERYWHERE THAT UNIVERSE Poem Text First Line: Even wisteria, carefully looked at FAST AS YOU CAN COUNT TO TEN Poem Text Subject(s): Forgiveness; Clemency FIRST SNOW ON AN AIRFIELD Poem Text First Line: A window's length beyond the pleiades Subject(s): Airports FLOWERING QUINCE Poem Text First Line: This devils me: uneasy ease at my window Subject(s): Trees FOR INSTANCE Poem Text First Line: A boy came up the street and there was a girl FOR MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Text First Line: Though miller lives in arkansas Last Line: The chicken-shit of death Subject(s): Williams, Miller FOR MY SON JOHN Poem Text First Line: Jonnel, this is for you -- my river-saint-named Last Line: The first life and the first and still the first Subject(s): Fathers & Sons FOR MYRA OUT OF THE ALBUM Poem Text First Line: I changed the baby,fed it, dithered Last Line: I have been here, and some of it was love Subject(s): Babies; Infants FOR MYRA, JOHN L., AND BENN Poem Text First Line: If poets are evidence, let's begin with the fact Last Line: I hope I was never too much in your way Subject(s): Children; Parents; Childhood FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY POEM Poem Text First Line: It was. I explained to judith Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations FRAGMENT Poem Text First Line: To the laboratory then I went. What little Last Line: I saw an ogre's eye leap from his face FRAGMENTS FROM ITALY: 1 Poem Text First Line: Nona domenica garnaro sits in the sun Last Line: Both of her thumbs, and she look down at it Subject(s): Italy; Italians FRIENDS Poem Text First Line: A man from a house not far who rode the train Last Line: To all the people there we think we know Subject(s): Friendship GEORGE WASHINGTON BRIDGE Poem Text First Line: The buttresses of morning lift the sun Last Line: The eye's adagio and the blood's excitement Subject(s): George Washington Bridge GIRLS GOING TO CHURCH Poem Text First Line: Morning is easter on the lawns Subject(s): Public Worship; Girls; Church Attendance GOOD MORNING WITH LIGHT; TO TOM AND HELEN FERRIL Poem Text First Line: Civilian for a pause of hours Last Line: The starting spectrum of the dawn Subject(s): War GULLS LAND AND CEASE TO BE Poem Text First Line: Spread back across the air, wings wide Last Line: And are aground Subject(s): Death – Animals; Gulls HABITAT Poem Text First Line: The satellite telephone building has no lights HIGH TENSION LINES ACROSS A LANDSCAPE Poem Text First Line: There are diagrams on stilts all wired together HOME REVISITED: MIDNIGHT Poem Text First Line: I am the shadow in the shadow of the wicker Last Line: At the center of the center where the shadows throng Subject(s): Homecoming HOMECOMING - MASSACHUSETTS Poem Text First Line: After the satyr's twilight in the park Last Line: Nothing in our beginnings know our ends Subject(s): Homecoming HOMETOWN Poem Text First Line: The three pronged armory tower, the civic statue Subject(s): Home; City & Town Life HOMETOWN AFTER A WAR Poem Text First Line: The river blackens in a frame of snow Last Line: Before the war war was ended we were gone from there Subject(s): Homecoming; Veterans I PICKED A DREAM OUT OF MY HEAD Poem Text Last Line: To find in just one head Subject(s): Dreams IN PITY AS WE KISS AND LIE Poem Text First Line: Softly wrong, we lie and kiss Last Line: In pity as we kiss and lie Subject(s): Pity; Love - Erotic IN THE RICH FARMER'S FIELD Poem Text First Line: A black stallion and a white mare Last Line: Too obvious to invent or not to know Subject(s): Animals; Horses IT TOOK FOUR FLOWERBOATS TO CONVEY MY FATHER'S BLACK Poem Text Last Line: Old salt of new, between black and triumph Subject(s): Funerals JOURNAL Poem Text First Line: Mounts on the living energy of grace KNOWING BITCHES First Line: I was spading a flower bed while the old dog Last Line: The thing about bitches is knowing who you are Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LAUNCELOT IN HELL Poem Text First Line: That noon we banged like tubs in a blast from hell's mouth Last Line: Because no other iron dared me whole Subject(s): Arthurian Legend LETTER FOR THOSE WHO GREW UP TOGETHER Poem Text First Line: Who remembers now the backyards of our innocence Subject(s): Childhood Memories LETTER FROM A PANDER Poem Text First Line: Nothing, the cross-haired sky tells lenses Last Line: And loved you as god should Subject(s): Poetry & Poets LETTER TO MOTHER Poem Text First Line: It was good. You found your america. It was worth all Last Line: But there will be no america discovered by analogy Subject(s): Letters; Mothers; United States; America LETTER TO VIRGINIA JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: Our times, virginia, of which you are a doctor Subject(s): Johnson, Virginia Eshelman (B. 1925) LINES Poem Text First Line: I did not have exactly a way of life LOVE MAKES NO MUSIC Poem Text Subject(s): Love LOVE POEM Poem Text First Line: It is spring, darling, and the five feathers Subject(s): Love MACHINE Poem Text First Line: It goes, all inside. It keeps touching MASSACHUSETTS BAY Poem Text First Line: Go south from marblehead and weep for heroes Subject(s): Massachusetts MEASUREMENTS Poem Text First Line: I've zeroed a barometer on the floor MEN MARRY WHAT THEY NEED Poem Text First Line: Men marry what they need. I marry you Last Line: Men marry what they need. I marry you Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives METROPOLITAN ICE CO. Poem Text First Line: Metropolitan on watery calendars MIDNIGHT Poem Text First Line: He runs in hnis sleep, snaps, leaps up, without Last Line: Who know? His next kioll may be his to keep Subject(s): Rabbits MINUS ONE Poem Text First Line: Of seven sparrows on a country wire Last Line: Hawk in this now? Unchosen? Come to choose? Subject(s): Sparrows; Hawks; Fathers & Sons MISSION Poem Text First Line: On shadowy chairs. Now let one sudden spark MONDAY MORNING REVEILLE Poem Text First Line: Birdless, the blood red dawn the engines roar Subject(s): Army Life; Drills & Minor Tactics MORNING: I KNOW PERFECTLY HOW IN A MINUTE YOU WILL STRETCH AND SMILE Poem Text First Line: As pilots pay attention to the air Last Line: Spills our precisions in us as we nod Subject(s): Morning MOST LIKE AN ARCH THIS MARRIAGE Poem Text First Line: Most like an arch - an entrance which upholds Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MUTTERINGS Poem Text First Line: I have nothing more to say to my left arm MY CAT, MRS. LICK-A-CHIN Poem Text First Line: Some of the cats I know about Last Line: No one knows it less than my cat Subject(s): Animals; Cats MY FATHER'S WATCH Poem Text First Line: One night I dreamed I was locked in my father's watch Last Line: I saw my father's face frown through the glass Subject(s): Dreams; Fathers; Watches; Nightmares NEW YEAR'S EVE Poem Text First Line: Snow came with dusk, building itself on windows Last Line: Steel guitars played auld lang syne on oaho Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NIGHT CELESTIAL Poem Text First Line: You know the towns by neon. The plants and camps Subject(s): City & Town Life NIGHT FREIGHT, MICHIGAN Poem Text First Line: Punctual to the midnight - lurch, ruck and chime Last Line: From kalamazoo to the junction Subject(s): Michigan; Railroads; Railways; Trains NIGHT MAIL Poem Text First Line: By blast and sputter and black oil on the grass NIGHT PIECE FOR MY TWENTY-SEVENTH BIRTHDAY Poem Text First Line: Punctually now, by all we learned at school Last Line: Law is the last law to be understood Subject(s): Army Life; Birthdays; Drills & Minor Tactics NO WHITE BIRD SINGS Poem Text First Line: Can white birds sing? An ornithologist Subject(s): Birds NOON: ROMAGNA Poem Text First Line: You would never believe to watch this man Last Line: The kingdoms and their kings are told about Subject(s): Italy; Italians OBSOLESCENCE Poem Text First Line: My wife, because she day-dreams catalogues Subject(s): Watches; Gifts & Giving ODE FOR SCHOOL CONVOCATION Poem Text First Line: Mechanically, the academic file Last Line: Suggests the frosted cakes, and prefers lemon Subject(s): Universities & Colleges ODE FOR THE BURIAL OF A CITIZEN Poem Text First Line: Recorder, tax collector, landlord, friends OEDIPUS TYRANNUS Poem Text First Line: Catharsis builds across the dreadful air Last Line: Is turned – exclusive spotlight – on the high tragedian Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers OF FISH AND FISHERMEN Poem Text First Line: Fish are subtle. Fishermen Last Line: It needn't be? That's what you think Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers ON A PHOTO OF SGT. CIARDI A YEAR LATER Poem Text First Line: The sgt. Stands so fluently in leather Last Line: The camera photographs the photographer; Subject(s): World War Ii; Photography & Photographers; Soldiers; Second World War ON A PHOTOGRAPH OF A GERMAN SOLDIER DEAD IN POLAND Poem Text First Line: Grant him at the end his common humanity Subject(s): World War Ii - Casualties ON FLUNKING A NICE BOY OUT OF SCHOOL Poem Text First Line: I wish I could teach you how ugly Last Line: These sheepfaces to tuesday Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers; Timidity; Educators; Professors ON LOOKING EAST TO THE SEA WITH A SUNSET BEHIND ME Poem Text First Line: In a detachment cool as the glint of light ON PASSION AS A LITERARY TRADITION First Line: Asked by a reporter out of questions Last Line: And go home to nick yourself on poetry Subject(s): Art & Artists; Passion ON SENDING HOME MY CIVILIAN CLOTHES Poem Text First Line: -good duds, goodbye before I shut Last Line: The postage to a lost address Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Veterans ON THE ORTHODOXY AND CREED OF MY POWER MOWER Poem Text First Line: All summer in power, outroaring the bull fiend Subject(s): Mowing & Mowers; Lawn Mowers ON THE PATIO Poem Text First Line: The rose at the end of my tax structure ONE BETTY – FIVE SKULLS Poem Text First Line: The search lights caught your enemy and mine Last Line: Turned down a wheel of dials, and fell, and burned Subject(s): World War Ii; Saipan (Island) ONE DAY Poem Text First Line: I lay in the grass and looked at the sky ONE EASTER Poem Text First Line: The stores wore christmas perfectly Last Line: And bit by bit the page begins to fill Subject(s): Writing & Writers; Easter; Dogs ONE JAY AT A TIME Poem Text First Line: I have never seen a Last Line: I am! And here I go! Subject(s): Bluejays ORDERS Poem Text First Line: Gulls in wyoming, utah, follow the plows Last Line: Put wings to a stomach and all the world is reached Subject(s): Birds; Migration P-151 Poem Text First Line: It fills the sky like wind made visible Last Line: Her birth above the hill like a crowd's cheer Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Airplanes; Air Pilots PENCIL STUB JOURNALS: CHOICES Poem Text First Line: George says he chooses poverty. That's rash Last Line: I've an experienced aversion to it Subject(s): Poverty; Life Choices PENCIL STUB JOURNALS: FOR CLAVIA ON A REJECTION SLIP Poem Text First Line: Your soul is full of yearning? So is this prose Last Line: You set to tick and rhyme under my nose Subject(s): Poetry & Poets PENCIL STUB JOURNALS: ON AN EXALTED NONENTITY Poem Text First Line: A summer's pastoral looks on barn and bib Last Line: The eagle's ticks are airborne but no flyers Subject(s): Flight; Ambition PENCIL STUB JOURNALS: ON EVOLUTION Poem Text First Line: Pithecanthropus erectus Last Line: Could he see us, would reject us Subject(s): Evolution PENCIL STUB JOURNALS: PARENTHOOD Poem Text First Line: My son was insolent to me Last Line: I hit him: libery is to defend Subject(s): Discipline; Fathers & Sons POEM FOR A SOLDIER'S GIRL Poem Text First Line: Whatever your mirrors tell you, morning and evening Subject(s): War - Home Front POEM FOR MY THIRTIETH BIRTHDAY Poem Text First Line: The clock that splits Subject(s): Birthdays POEM FOR MY TWENTY-NINTH BIRTHDAY Poem Text First Line: Once more the predawn throbs on engine sound Last Line: The last compassionate necessity Subject(s): Birthdays POEM FROM A HIRED ROOM Poem Text First Line: You press a switch - too sudden for a word PORT OF AERIAL EMBARKATION Poem Text First Line: There is no widening distance at the shore Last Line: Corrects his role, his gesture, and his walk Subject(s): Air Warfare QUIRKS: 1. BREAKFAST ON THE PATIO Poem Text First Line: Not much but something; before the morning glories Last Line: The phone rang. And the day trekked on and out Subject(s): Breakfast QUIRKS: 2. THAT AFTERNOON I REMEMBERED Poem Text First Line: There is a photo of walt whitman posed Last Line: Back through drowsy nowhere to nothing much Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) REALITY AND WILLIE YEATS Poem Text First Line: Reality and yeats were two Last Line: Signals from some reality Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Reality; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) RECORD CROWD AT BEACHES Poem Text First Line: Delicatessen and carnival, the beach Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore REFLECTIONS WHILE OILING A MACHINE GUN Poem Text First Line: I think of plato in a schoolroom dusk Subject(s): Army Life; Memory; Drills & Minor Tactics REPLY TO S.K. Poem Text First Line: Yes, barcelona in three thousand miles Last Line: Crossed wide with danger where the armed men run Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) RETURN Poem Text First Line: Once more the searchlights beckon from the night Last Line: Reel after reel of how a city burned Subject(s): World War Ii; Saipan (Island); Second World War REVEILLE FOR MY TWENTY-EIGHTH BIRTHDAY Poem Text First Line: Now on the bluster and roil of the wind Subject(s): Birthdays REVERIE DURING BRIEFING Poem Text First Line: The simplest memory is books by ferny windows Subject(s): Army Life; Memory; Drills & Minor Tactics RITUAL FOR SINGING BAT Poem Text First Line: Must we believe that what ascends aspires? Last Line: Into a misty forest of a cloud Subject(s): Soldiers; Native Americans; World War Ii; Death ROMAN DIARY: 1951 First Line: A rag woman, half a child Last Line: “if I go broke,” I said, “I'll rent a baby” Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Begging & Beggars S.P.Q.R.€”A LETTER FROM ROME Poem Text First Line: It does for the time of man to walk here SATURDAY – MARCH 6 Poem Text First Line: One morning you step out, still in pajamas Last Line: It's on the table and that's what day it is Subject(s): Conduct Of Life SEA BURIAL Poem Text First Line: Through the sea's crust of prisms looking up Last Line: And ran on grass as if it could not die Subject(s): Funerals - At Sea; World War Ii; Burials At Sea; Second World War SEA MARSHES Poem Text First Line: Marsh hummocks that were were a sabbath hill Last Line: Worlds as worlds will be seen - in what light there is Subject(s): Light SERENADE IN A DRUGSTORE Poem Text First Line: I am my verified and proper self Last Line: And home is where the cap comes off the bottle Subject(s): Homecoming; Pharmacy & Pharmacists; Veterans; Drug Store; Apothecary SERENADE IN A DRUGSTORE Poem Text First Line: I am my verified and proper self Subject(s): Homecoming; Pharmacy & Pharmacists; Veterans; Drug Store; Apothecary SERMON NOTES Poem Text First Line: It's easy to walk out of hell. But there Last Line: The anti-hell is not heaven but the void Subject(s): Hell SHORE PIECE Poem Text First Line: It is someone's deserted private beach Last Line: I am my own wind to erase myself Subject(s): Seashore SMALL Poem Text First Line: Swatted by a custardy small thing Subject(s): Size & Shape SNOWY HERON Poem Text First Line: What lifts the heron leaning on the air Last Line: Its heron back. All doubt all else. But praise Subject(s): Herons SOME FIGURES FOR WHO I AM Poem Text First Line: Forget understanding. There will be none SONG Poem Text First Line: The bells of sunday rang us down Last Line: And all seas were running late Subject(s): War SPRING IN THE STATUE SQUARE Poem Text First Line: Spring is open windows and molly picardo Last Line: That later you remember was your own Subject(s): Spring SPRING SONG (1) Poem Text First Line: Wake early to the early robin Last Line: It is spring Subject(s): Spring SPRING SONG (2) Poem Text First Line: Do you remember by morning when the sun Last Line: Thunder's artillery m\named the name of this spring Subject(s): Spring STATIONS First Line: An organization of clear purposes Last Line: Country keep to the station Subject(s): Rattlesnakes SUBURBAN Poem Text First Line: Yesterday mrs. Friar phoned. 'mr ciardi Last Line: When even these suburbs will give up their dead Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Suburbs SUMMER EVENING Poem Text First Line: The torches of the twilight blur Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight SUNDAY MORNING Poem Text First Line: I light a cigarette, my dead mouth steaming TAKE-OFF OVER KANSAS Poem Text First Line: At first the fences are racing under. Horses and men Last Line: That later you remember was your own Subject(s): Air Travel TEMPTATION Poem Text First Line: St. Anthony, my father's holy man Subject(s): Temptation; Devil; Temptation; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub THE BIRD IN WHATEVER NAME Poem Text First Line: A bird with a name it does not itself Last Line: Told of itself, whatever name is given Subject(s): Names THE BIRD IN WHATEVER NAME Poem Text First Line: A bird with a name it does not itself Subject(s): Birds; Names THE CARTOGRAPHER OF THE MEADOWS Poem Text Last Line: As he moves to amber from his resinoujs drowning Subject(s): Fields; Maps THE CAT HEARD THE CAT-BIRD Poem Text First Line: One day, a fine day, a high-flying-sky day Last Line: I don't see any cat-bird here Subject(s): Animals; Cats THE CATALPA Poem Text Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening THE CLOCK IN THE MIRROR Poem Text First Line: This is the blur of dimension, the past arriving Last Line: In a cubic mirror. Which of ourselves shall we be? Subject(s): Relativity; Mirrors THE COW Poem Text First Line: A greensweet breathing Last Line: In a foreground of the hills Subject(s): Cows THE DAY OF THE PEONIES Poem Text First Line: This is the day of the peonies. My dfaughter Last Line: Of feasted day, half holy and half daft Subject(s): Peonies THE DEATHS ABOUT YOU WHEN YOU STIR IN SLEEP Poem Text Last Line: Our best will be to dream of what we were Subject(s): Love; Death; Fear; Sleep THE DOLLAR DOG Poem Text First Line: I had a dollar dog named spot Last Line: But a lot of kinds to get for a dollar Subject(s): Dogs THE DOLLS Poem Text First Line: Night after night forever the dolls lay stiff Last Line: Their eyes wide open forever. While all the children slept Subject(s): Dolls; Toys THE DOLLS Poem Text First Line: Night after night forever the dolls lay stiff Subject(s): Dolls; Dolls; Toys THE EVIL EYE Poem Text First Line: Nona poured oil on the water and saw the eye Last Line: Though I had one already and the other came Subject(s): Italy; Superstition; Italians THE FOOLISH WING Poem Text First Line: Is done now with bright thinness of upper air. Weight Last Line: It is time's journalism only; we are reporting merely Subject(s): Time Magazine THE GIFT Poem Text First Line: In 1945, when the keepers cried kaput Last Line: Is the gift beyond history and hurt and heaven Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism THE HEALTH OF CAPTAINS Poem Text First Line: The health of captains is the sex of war Last Line: Sleep through the mornings where the captains rise Subject(s): War; Sex Role THE JOURNEY Poem Text First Line: I went through the forest without a tree Subject(s): Forests; Woods THE LAMB Poem Text First Line: A month before easter Last Line: Its flesh was easter Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Lambs; The Resurrection THE LIMITS OF FRIENDSHIP; FOR JOE, THE SULLEN BASTARD First Line: Dinner was duckling with tangerine sauce Subject(s): Friendship - Selectivity THE LUNG FISH Poem Text First Line: In africa, when river beds Last Line: On what we are while we learn it Subject(s): Lung Fish THE LUNGFISH Poem Text First Line: In africa, when river beds Subject(s): African Lungfish THE MYSTERY Poem Text First Line: There was this young fellow named chet THE ONE DULL THING YOU DID WAS TO DIE, FLETCHER Poem Text First Line: To you, fletcher, from my dark house asleep Last Line: To you, fletcher, from my dark house asleep Subject(s): Death THE PILOT IN THE JUNGLE Poem Text First Line: Machine stitched rivets ravel on a tree Last Line: To bedrocks out of time, with time to kill Subject(s): Air Warfare; Jungles THE PILOT IN THE JUNGLE Poem Text First Line: Machine stitched rivets ravel on a tree Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Air Warfare; Jungles; Air Crashes; Aeronautics - Accidents; Airplane Collisions THE POET'S WORDS Poem Text First Line: Language ends in the tongue's clay pit Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Language THE PROJECT Poem Text First Line: Three or four percent of all the ants THE REASON FOR THE PELICAN Poem Text Last Line: To quite a splendid size Subject(s): Pelicans THE SEA SHINES Poem Text First Line: The sea shines. Wind-raked, the waters run tight Last Line: Of what abundance, on what hammered shore Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE SHARK Poem Text First Line: My dear, let me tall you about the shark Last Line: Be careful where you swim, my sweet Subject(s): Sharks THE SORROW OF OBEDIENCE First Line: The lieutenant ordered me to ask abdhul Last Line: I was once more left to grieve for my imperfections Subject(s): Obedience; Army Life; Dogs THE STILLS AND RAPIDS OF YOUR NAKEDNESS Poem Text Last Line: I start from wood to praise you and grow green Subject(s): Love; Desire THE STRANGER IN THE PUMPKIN Poem Text Subject(s): Pumpkins THOUGHTS ON LOOKING INTO A THICKET Poem Text First Line: The name of a fact: at home in that leafy world THREE A.M. AND THEN FIVE Poem Text First Line: Do you like your life? Last Line: Yawningly, “yes”. “yes” Subject(s): Life; Likes & Dislikes THREE EGGS UP Poem Text First Line: Three sunset eggs on a white plate Subject(s): Eggs; War THREE VIEWS OF MOTHER: 1 Poem Text First Line: Good soul, my mother holds my daughter Last Line: Leaving the trail of its going wet on the world Subject(s): Mothers THREE VIEWS OF MOTHER: 2 Poem Text First Line: I see her in the garden, loam-knuckled in spring Last Line: But she can be sure there is time for one more garden? Subject(s): Mothers THREE VIEWS OF MOTHER: 3 Poem Text First Line: Three rainy days and the fourth one sunny Last Line: But oh, if you could have seen it in that tree! Subject(s): Mothers THURSDAY ALSO HAPPENS Poem Text First Line: Yesterday when the leaves blew off the elm TIME IS THE LATE TRAIN INTO ALBANY Poem Text Last Line: To get down to cases Subject(s): Sex; Railroads; Time; Opportunity TO A REVIEWER WHO ADMIRED MY BOOK First Line: Few men in any age have second sight Last Line: But never doubt your gift. You are right! You are right! Subject(s): Critics & Criticism TO A YOUNG AMERICAN THE DAY AFTER THE FALL OF BARCELONA Poem Text First Line: Boy with honor in your heart Last Line: And leave your world to be undone Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); Innocence; Evil TO JUDITH Poem Text First Line: Now by a ritual of legality Subject(s): Marriage; Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO JUDITH ASLEEP Poem Text First Line: My dear, darkened in sleep, turned from the moon Last Line: Time still must tick this, I am, we are are Subject(s): Sleep; Time; Togetherness TO JUDITH ASLEEP Poem Text First Line: My dear, darkened in sleep, turned from the moon Subject(s): Sleep TO LUCASTA, ABOUT THAT WAR Poem Text First Line: A long winter from home the gulls blew Last Line: Which is called (as noted) war. And it stinks Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War TO LUCASTA, ABOUT THAT WAR Poem Text First Line: A long winter from home the gulls blew Subject(s): War; World War Ii; Second World War TO MY STUDENTS; LAST CLASS, LAST WORDS Poem Text First Line: They are dancing the rain dance in bali Last Line: Go out and make a dollar, and god will love you Subject(s): Schools; Advice; Students TO ONE 'INVESTIGATED' BY THE LAST SENATE COMMITTEE, OR THE NEXT Poem Text First Line: And though the walls have ears Last Line: To make a craven safety / count for honor's part Subject(s): Mccarthyism; United States - Congress - Senate TO WESTWARD Poem Text First Line: Westward I had expected reminders: somewhere in the dakota's carpet Last Line: Men going nowhere, hands pocketed, heels kicking the wall Subject(s): Middle West; Travel; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States; Journeys; Trips TOMMY'S POND Poem Text First Line: Frogs' eggs in globular clusters Last Line: Unsaid as galaxies. In any pond Subject(s): Ponds TREE TRIMMING Poem Text First Line: There's this to a good day's sweat Last Line: A whole wood and touch no memory Subject(s): Trees TRUE OR FALSE Poem Text First Line: The bard as the olympian quelque chose TRYING TO FEEL SOMETHING Poem Text First Line: Someone is always trying to feel something Last Line: Although I drink it anyway for something to do? Subject(s): Judges; Youth; Conduct Of Life; Judgments TWO EGRETS Poem Text First Line: On easter morning two egrets Last Line: And the idea of prayer Subject(s): Egrets; Prayer TWO FOR GERTRUDE KASLE: 1. THE ABSTRACT CALORIE First Line: A doughnut is no sculpture Last Line: Ten ton concrete doughnuts Subject(s): Doughnuts; Donuts TWO FOR GERTRUDE KASLE: 2. THE TITLE OF THE LAST POEM WAS WRONG AGAIN First Line: To trap a chipmunk put a bait of nuts Last Line: Difference, but hopeless not to Subject(s): Poetry & Poets UGLINESS Poem Text First Line: The windows I see into Last Line: What tear shall I ever / be some of a man to? Subject(s): Cousins; Youth; Juvenile Delinquency V-J DAY Poem Text First Line: On the tallest day in time the dead came back Last Line: Wheels jammed and flaming on a metal sea Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War VAGARY OF THE SIMPLE HEART Poem Text First Line: The technicolor virgin sang VISIBILITY ZERO Poem Text First Line: All day with mist against the hurdling wind Last Line: We need not waken what we need not see Subject(s): Army Life; World War Ii; Drills & Minor Tactics; Second World War WAFFLEBUTT Poem Text First Line: Reveille rung on the telephone awakes Last Line: Where day and day destroys us after all Subject(s): Army Life; Drills & Minor Tactics WARD THREE: FAITH Poem Text First Line: I only had a tack hammer, an ice pick, faith Subject(s): Faith; Belief; Creed WAS A MAN Poem Text First Line: Ted roethke was a tearing man Last Line: From the town's biggest crooks Subject(s): Roethke, Theodore (1908-1963) WASHING YOU FEET Poem Text First Line: Washing you feet is hard when you get fat Last Line: It is sad to be fat and have dirty feet Subject(s): Cleanliness; Feet; Obesity WHAT JOHNNY TOLD ME Poem Text First Line: I went to play with billy. He Last Line: A true good friend is a lot of fun! Subject(s): Friendship WHY NOBODY PETS THE LION AT THE ZOO Poem Text First Line: The morning that the world began Subject(s): Lions WINTER MUSIC Poem Text First Line: November and trees blown bare and leaves stippling Last Line: For wisdom, there is the sunlight falling unbent across such fury Subject(s): Winter WOULDN'T YOU? Poem Text First Line: If I / could go Last Line: I'd go! Subject(s): Imagination; Wind; Farewell; Fancy |
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