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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: DUNCAN, ROBERT Matches Found: 255 Duncan, Robert Poet's Biography 255 poems available by this author A LITTLE LANGUAGE Poem Text First Line: I know a little language of my cat, tho dante says Last Line: As if crouching, springs / to life Variant Title(s): A Little Language Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Language; Words; Vocabulary A MORNING LETTER Poem Text First Line: The various members of the hierarchy move A NEW POEM (FOR JACK SPICER) Poem Text First Line: You are right. What we call poetry is the boat Last Line: A bird I cannot name crows Subject(s): Poetry & Poets A PAIR OF URANIAN GARTERS FOR AURORA BLIGH Poem Text First Line: Death's legs in black net stockings A POEM BEGINNING WITH A LINE BY PINDAR Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The light foot hears you and the brightness begins A RIDE TO THE SEA Poem Text First Line: The bland electricity, light blue wash A SET OF ROMANTIC HYMNS Recitation by Author A SONG OF THE OLD ORDER Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Sing fair the lady and her knight A SPRING MEMORANDUM Poem Text First Line: The year has run thin through the turning room of my wind A STORM OF WHITE Poem Text First Line: Neither/sky nor earth, without horizon, it's ACHILLES' SONG Poem Text First Line: I do not know more than the sea tells me Subject(s): Achilles ACHILLES' SONG First Line: I do not know more than the sea tells me Last Line: And soon you too -- will be alone ADAM'S SONG First Line: When this garden %is no longer home to us Last Line: Here, where war is, the certain %end, the paradise ADORATION OF THE VIRGIN First Line: The speechless statue of the virgin stands Last Line: As if that touch were stolen from their hearts AFRICA REVISITED Recitation by Author Subject(s): Africa AFRICAN ELEGY First Line: In the groaves of africa fromtheir natural wonder AFTER A LONG ILLNESS First Line: No faculty not ill at ease Last Line: That knows nor sleep nor waking, nor dream %-- an eternal arrest AFTER A PASSAGE IN BAUDELAIRE Poem Text First Line: Ship, leaving or arriving, of my lover Last Line: Complique, mais eurythmique Subject(s): Baudelaire, Charles (1821-1867); French Poetry - Symbolism; Poetry & Poets AFTER A PASSAGE IN BAUDELAIRE First Line: Ship, leaving or arriving, of my lover Last Line: Complique, mais surythmique Subject(s): Baudelaire, Charles (1821-1867); French Poetry - Symbolism; Poetry And Poets AFTER READING H.D.'S HERMETIC DEFINITIONS First Line: What time of day is it? Last Line: But their song in the sun AFTERTHOUGHT Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: My first mother in whom I took my first nature Subject(s): Mothers ALBIGENSES First Line: We move as dragons in the lethargy Last Line: O let me die, but if you love me, let me die AMONG MY FRIENDS LOVE IS A GREAT SORROW Poem Text Last Line: That one might have for an honest living Subject(s): Love – Nature Of AMONG MY FRIENDS LOVE IS A GREAT SORROW Last Line: That one might have for an honest living Subject(s): Friendship AN AFRICAN ELEGY Poem Text First Line: In the groves of africa from their natural wonder Subject(s): Death; Dead, The AN ARK FOR LAWRENCE DURRELL Poem Text First Line: If we are to cross the barriers of snow Last Line: The snake has hiw own way among us Subject(s): Fathers; Men; Prayer AN IMAGINARY WOMAN Recitation by Author AN INTERLUDE * OF RARE BEAUTY Poem Text First Line: The seal in the depraved wave Last Line: No more than our affection / for naming. Subject(s): Beauty; Montague, John (b. 1929) AN OWL IS AN ONLY BIRD OF POETRY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: A cross leaves marks the tree we fancy Subject(s): Owls AND IF HE HAD BEEN WRONG FOR ME Poem Text First Line: Yet he was there, and all my thirst Last Line: Kept silent come to speak Subject(s): Men AND IF HE HAD BEEN WRONG FOR ME First Line: Yet he was there, and all my thirst Last Line: Kept silent come to speak Subject(s): Men APPREHENSIONS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: To open night's eye that sleeps in what know as day APPREHENSIONS First Line: To open night's eye that sleeps in what we know by day Last Line: To which our grief refers ARCHITECTURE PASSAGES 9 First Line: ... It must have recesses. There is a great charm in a room broken up Last Line: ... 'which belong to the inner and individual part of the family life.' ARK FOR LAWRENCE DURRELL First Line: If we are to cross the barriers of snow Last Line: The snake has his own way among us Subject(s): Fathers; Men; Prayer AT THE POETRY CONFERENCE: BERKELEY AFTER THE NEW YORK STYLE Poem Text First Line: Beginning with sonnets for ted berrigan Last Line: To hear what we need and is lovely. Subject(s): Authors - Conferences And Workshops; Berrigan, Ted (1934-1983); Poetry & Poets; Poetry Readings; Writer's Conferences And Workshops; Berrigan, Edmund Joseph AUGUST SUN Poem Text First Line: God of the idle heat, in this glaring road BALLAD OF MRS. NOAH First Line: Mrs. Noah in the ark %wove a great nightgown out of the dark Last Line: Ah! The rainbow's awake %and we will not fail! BALLAD OF THE ENAMORD MAGE First Line: How the earth turns round under the sun I know Last Line: For by your side I move BANNERS First Line: The swan is the signet, heraldic joy Last Line: The scarlet lake of some significance BEFORE THE JUDGMENT PASSAGES 35 First Line: Discontent with that first draft. Where one's own Last Line: Against the works of unworthy men, unfeeling judgments, and cruel %(deeds BEGINNING OF WRITING First Line: A composition Last Line: Over the measures of disorderd sleep. %disorderd speech BEING IMITATIONS, DERIVATIONS, AND VARIATIONS UPON CERTAIN CONCEITS AND FINDINGS MADE AMONG HARD LIN Recitation by Author Subject(s): Poetry & Poets BENDING THE BOW Poem Text Subject(s): Friendship BENDING THE BOW First Line: We've our business to attend day's duties Last Line: From which it sprang BENEFICE PASSAGES 23 Poem Text First Line: Thru the shinto gate BONE DANCE Poem Text First Line: The skull of the old man wears BOOK OF RESEMBLANCES First Line: There could be a book without nations in its chapters Last Line: Over neck to lick, lick, lick like a dripping faucet the groin BRING IT UP FROM THE DARK First Line: Bring up from the dark water Last Line: Dream disclosed to me, I too am ishmael BROUGHT TO LOVE Poem Text First Line: Like a woman Subject(s): Love CHILDHOOD'S RETREAT Poem Text Recitation by Author Subject(s): Self CHILDHOOD'S RETREAT First Line: It's in the perilous boughs of the tree CIRCULATIONS OF THE SONG First Line: If I do not now where he is Last Line: Now in the constant exchange %rendered true Subject(s): Homosexuality CLOSE First Line: At the brim, - at the lip Last Line: This: the gleam of the bowl in its not holding %feb. 19, 1982 COME LET ME FREE MYSELF Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Come, let me be free from all that I love CONCERT PASSAGES 31 First Line: Out of the sun and the dispersing stars Last Line: To release -- full -- my man's share of the stars' %majesty CORRESPONDENCES First Line: It is from the ideas of you that you emerge Last Line: The simple pleasures of this world cause areas of torment in%the unreal like stones in an open field DANCE First Line: From its dancers circulates among the other Last Line: And see the dew shining DANTE ÉTUDES: BOOK ONE: WE WILL ENDEAVOR Poem Text Recitation by Author DANTE ÉTUDES: BOOK THREE: IN MY YOUTH NOT UNSTAIND Poem Text Recitation by Author Subject(s): Youth DANTE ETUDES, SELS. DANTE: BOOK ONE, 3 (1) First Line: I know a little language of my cat, tho dante says Last Line: As if crouching, springs %to life Variant Title(s): A Little Languag Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Language DESCRIPTIONS OF IMAGINARY POETRIES First Line: Where giant wordlings interrupt the stuttering machine-gun wit Last Line: Statement of a tea pot, a %sculptural head, a cat asleep DESPAIR IN BEING TEDIOUS Recitation by Author DOVES First Line: Mother of mouthings Last Line: Making but words of what I loved DREAM DATA First Line: The young japanese son was in love with a servant boy DREAMERS First Line: The genius mixt too strong a cup Last Line: Would nudge each other.' DRINKING FOUNTAIN First Line: Garcia lorca tasted Last Line: This is the drinking fountain Subject(s): Death; Fountains; Garcia Lorca, Federico (1898-1936) FESTIVALS First Line: Was it a dream, or was it memory? Last Line: Awakens the fearful poet to her dream FIRST INVENTION ON THE THEME OF THE ADAM First Line: The streets. Of the mind. Whose gangs Last Line: Knows in the too many of her. %what to do FIVE PIECES Recitation by Author FOOD FOR FIRE, FOOD FOR THOUGHT Poem Text First Line: Good wood FOOD FOR FIRE, FOOD FOR THOUGHT First Line: Good wood %that all fiery youth burst forth from winter FOR A MUSE MEANT First Line: In %spired/the aspirate %the aspirant Last Line: A morning lang %wage -- ai ai a-wailing %the failing FOR A SONG OF THE LANGUAGERS First Line: What are the signs of life? The breath, the pulse Last Line: His appetite is not experimental FOUR SONGS THE NIGHT NURSE SANG: 1 First Line: How lovely all that glitters Last Line: Into the light places FOUR SONGS THE NIGHT NURSE SANG: 2 First Line: It must be that hard to believe, for belief Last Line: Most dear! %your searching eyes FOUR SONGS THE NIGHT NURSE SANG: 3 First Line: Madrone tree that was my mother Last Line: My father's a shadow, the wind is my god FOUR SONGS THE NIGHT NURSE SANG: 4 First Line: Let sleep take her, let sleep take her, let sleep Last Line: From a grave or a bed, from a grave or a bed FROM DANTE ETUDES: EVERYTHING SPEAKS TO ME First Line: Everything speaks to me! In faith Last Line: Listening to the sea FROM THE MABINOGION First Line: To throw a window open Last Line: For I think we've been in %this joint before HELMET OF GOLIATH First Line: What if the poet in a moment of terror Last Line: Each poet's face is curious HERO SONG Recitation by Author HERO SONG First Line: There was no repose Last Line: Love, he said, %will eat away the empire %until chaos remains HOMAGE AND LAMENT FOR EZRA POUND IN CAPTIVITY, MAY 12, 1944 Poem Text First Line: Apprehension this spring ... The leaves, the leaves Last Line: Still, as still as everness returning Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972) HOMAGE AND LAMENT FOR EZRA POUND IN CAPTIVITY, MAY 12, 1944 First Line: Apprehension this spring ... The leaves, the leaves Last Line: Still, as still as everness returning Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972) HORNS OF ARTEMIS First Line: There where great artemis rides Last Line: Cold light shed on all things HOUSEHOLD First Line: The household -- to provide shelter Last Line: Gains in brilliancy HUMAN COMMUNION. TRACES First Line: The dead %are the departed therefrom. Whose Last Line: Below: %the boundless waters HUON OF BORDEAUX Recitation by Author HUON OF BORDEAUX First Line: The torches in the windy corridors Last Line: Floats upon the lethal sea I AM A MOST FLESHLY MAN First Line: I am a most fleshly man, and see Last Line: We hang like smoky music in the air ILLUSTRATIVE LINES First Line: This pen is where the writing flows in sight Last Line: Pass into the transports of a lingering %scent %illustrious IMAGINING IN WRITING First Line: Not in believing, but in pretending. Not in knowing, but in pretending Last Line: Vomited the remains of all claimd pleasures IN BLOOD'S DOMAIN (PASSAGES) Poem Text First Line: The angel syphilis in the circle of signators -- looses its hosts -- to swarm Last Line: My own counterpart of baudelaire's terrible ennuie? Subject(s): Hope; Optimism IN BLOOD'S DOMAIN (PASSAGES) First Line: The angel syphilis in the circle of signators -- looses its hosts -- to swarm Last Line: My own counterpart of baudelaire's terrible ennuie Subject(s): Hope IN THE PLACE OF A PASSAGE 22 Poem Text First Line: That freedom and the law are identical Subject(s): Liberty IN WAKING First Line: The life there was is Last Line: The guardian of the lion? INGMAR BERGMAN'S 'SEVENTH SEAL' First Line: This is the way it is. We see Last Line: There where the pestilence roars, %where the empty riders of the horror go INGMAR BERGMAN'S SEVENTH SEAL Recitation by Author Subject(s): Bergman, Ingmar (1918-2007) INTERLUDE First Line: My heart beats to the feet of the first faithful Last Line: The dancers come forward to present unclaimed things INTERRUPTED FORMS First Line: Long slumbering, often coming forward Last Line: That seeks to come in close to your heart %for warmth IT'S SPRING. LOVE'S SPRING First Line: The april stirring %not to be denied. Inert Last Line: The cost %that sustains us KING HAYDEN OF MIAMI BEACH First Line: In the rustling shelter of japanese peach KINGDOM OF JERUSALEM First Line: The hosts of the glittering fay return Last Line: Upon a field we had forgotten, -- amaze %and perish LIGHT SONG First Line: ;husbands the hand the keys a free imp- Last Line: As we observe it LOVER First Line: I have been seeing his face everywhere, the face of a former lover Last Line: Now I am mistaken, often, %seeing his wraith in faces passing Subject(s): Homosexuality MAIDEN First Line: We consider %precedent to that shekinah, -- she Last Line: Unlikely hardihood may be retained METAMORPHOSIS Poem Text First Line: There is no noise as the stars turn. Lustrous signs MIRROR First Line: Two women stroll among the orange-trees Last Line: With blood the sieves of lust and cry MY MOTHER WOULD BE A FALCONRESS Poem Text Recitation by Author MY MOTHER WOULD BE A FALCONRESS Last Line: Talking to myself, and would draw blood Subject(s): Homosexuality NEL MEZZO DEL CAMMIN DI NOSTRA VITA First Line: At 42, simon rodilla, tile-setter Last Line: To do something big for america' %rodia NEW POEM (FOR JACK SPICER) First Line: You are right. What we call poetry is the boat Last Line: From what we call poetry %a bird I cannot name crows Subject(s): Poetry And Poets OF EMPIRE First Line: Of empire: 'a unique princedom Last Line: Be brought under the orders of the living OFTEN I AM PERMITTED TO RETURN TO A MEADOW Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: As if it were a scene made-up by the mind, OFTEN I AM PERMITTED TO RETURN TO A MEADOW First Line: As if it were a scene made-up by the mind Last Line: Everlasting omen of what is OSIRIS AND SET Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Members of one life boat are OSIRIS AND SET First Line: Members of one life boat are Last Line: In our dreams we are drawn towards day once more OVER THERE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Over there where thou art OWL IS AN ONLY BIRD OF POETRY; A VALE FOR JAMES BROUGHTON First Line: A cross leaves marks the tree we fancy Last Line: Who gives his hoot for joy as he flies. %alights PASSAGE OVER WATER Poem Text First Line: We have gone out in boats upon the sea at night, Subject(s): Loss PASSAGE OVER WATER First Line: We have gone out in boats upon the sea at night Last Line: And within the indestructible night I am alone PASSAGES 14 Recitation by Author PASSAGES 18. THE TORSO Poem Text First Line: Most beautiful! -- the red-flowering eucalyptus PASSAGES 21. THE MULTIVERSITY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Not men but head of the hydra PASSAGES 24. ORDERS Poem Text First Line: For the good PASSAGES 25. UP RISING Poem Text First Line: Now johnson would go up to join the great simulacra of men, Subject(s): War; Johnson, Lyndon Baines (1908-1973) PASSAGES 27. TRANSGRESSING THE REAL Poem Text First Line: In the way they made a celestial cave PASSAGES 28. THE LIGHT Poem Text First Line: Now down-falling doom's darling PASSAGES 29. EYE OF GOD Poem Text First Line: Cao-dai -/gold and crystal of the sky's reaches PASSAGES 31. THE CONCERT Poem Text First Line: Out of the sun and the dispersing stars PASSAGES 32 Poem Text First Line: John adams, marginalia to court de gebelin's monde primitif Subject(s): United States; America PASSAGES 36 Recitation by Author First Line: Let it go. Let it go. PASSAGES 57. THE DIGNITIES Poem Text Recitation by Author PASSAGES. AFTER PASSAGE Recitation by Author PASSAGES. ENTHRALLD Poem Text Recitation by Author PASSAGES. IN BLOOD'S DOMAIN Recitation by Author PASSAGES. QUAND LE GRAND FOYER DESCEND DANS LES EAUX Recitation by Author Subject(s): Baudelaire, Charles (1821-1867) PASSAGES. STIMMUNG Recitation by Author PASSAGES: 1. TRIBAL MEMORIES First Line: And to her-without bounds I send Last Line: To sleep or wake PASSAGES: 10. THESE PAST YEARS First Line: Willingly I'd say there's been a sweet marriage Last Line: In which he has not at times been our forerunner PASSAGES: 13. THE FIRE First Line: Jump - stone - hand - leaf - shadow - sun Last Line: Now - new - old - first - day - jump PASSAGES: 18. THE TORSO First Line: Most beautiful! -- the red-flowering eucalyptus Last Line: The king upon whose bosom let me lie Subject(s): Homosexuality PASSAGES: 2. AT THE LOOM First Line: A cat's purr Last Line: In his shield PASSAGES: 24, SELS. First Line: The blood %streams from the bodies of his sons PASSAGES: 25. UPRISING First Line: Now johnson would go up to join the simulacra of men Last Line: In the swollen head of the nation PASSAGES: 27. TRANSGRESSING THE REAL First Line: In the war they made a celestial cave Last Line: Its shores grow distant and unreal PASSAGES: 3. WHAT I SAW First Line: The white peacok roosting Last Line: Vertical to the horizon PASSAGES: 34. THE FEAST First Line: The butcher had prepared the leg of lamb Last Line: Ready in our need for it PASSAGES: 5. THE MOON First Line: So pleasing a light Last Line: Mount shasta in snowy reverie %floats PASSAGES: 8. AS IN THE OLD DAYS First Line: The ones of the old days Last Line: And evrything else PERSEPHONE First Line: Memory: farfields of morning Last Line: Only we wait, our wounds barely herald %for the counterattack before sunrise POEM BEGINNING WITH A LINE BY PINDAR First Line: The light foot hears you and the brightness begins Last Line: Clockwise and counter-clockwise turning POEM IN STRETCHING First Line: Prophesying. Reading water or words, signs are cards in their multiple Last Line: As flat as that POEM SLOW BEGINNING First Line: Remembering powers of love %and of poetry Last Line: Inadequate boundaries %of the heart you hold to POETRY DISARRANGED First Line: Not a derangement of the senses but yes there is an occult other Last Line: Poetry pictures his listening POETRY, A NATURAL THING Poem Text First Line: Neither our vices nor our virtues Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Poetry & Poets POETRY, A NATURAL THING Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Neither our vices nor our virtues Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POETRY, A NATURAL THING First Line: Neither our vices nor our virtues Last Line: His only beauty to be %all moose Subject(s): Poetry And Poets PREFACE TO THE SUITE First Line: Childhood, boyhood, young manhood RE- Poem Text First Line: = RE- First Line: #name? Last Line: The fresh shoots of war REAPER First Line: Created by the poets to sing my song Last Line: The source of the song will die away RETURNING TO ROOTS OF FIRST FEELING Poem Text First Line: Feld, groes or goers, hus, doeg, dung RISK Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: That there might, may, be RITES OF PARTICIPATION, SELECTION Poem Text First Line: The drama of our time is the coming of all men into one fate Last Line: Either by the inner senses of the imaginative faculty or by the outer senses Subject(s): Reality; Imagination RITES OF PARTICIPATION, SELS. First Line: The drama of our time is the coming of all men into one fate Last Line: The vagabond must return to be admitted in the creation of what we consider we are Subject(s): Reality RITES OF PASSAGE, SELS. First Line: Something is taking place RITES OF PASSAGE: II Poem Text First Line: Something is taking place. ROOTS AND BRANCHES Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Sail, monarchs, rising and falling Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs ROOTS AND BRANCHES First Line: Sail, monarchs, rising and falling Last Line: Awakening transports of an inner view of things Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects SALVAGES: AN EVENING PIECE First Line: A plate in light upon a table is not a plate of hunger. Coins on the table Last Line: And it is the beauty of where we have been living that is the poetry of the hour SEAMS Recitation by Author SENTINELS First Line: Earth owls in ancient burrows clumpt Last Line: I remember ever mute and alive, hidden in all things SEVENTEENTH CENTURY SUITE (4 AND 5) First Line: As I in hoarie winters night stoode shivering in the snow Last Line: Can compensate. I think I could bear it. %I cannot think I could bear it SHADOWS First Line: The grail broken SHELLEY'S ARETHUSA SET TO NEW MEASURES Poem Text First Line: Now arethusa from her snow couch rises Last Line: Seeking their way to love once more. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) SHELLEY'S ARETHUSA SET TO NEW MEASURES First Line: Now arethusa from her snow couch rises Last Line: Seeking their way to love once more Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) SLEEP IS A DEEP AND MANY VOICED FLOOD Poem Text First Line: Our little death from which we daily Last Line: Even while I spoke to you of love Subject(s): Sleep SLEEP IS A DEEP AND MANY VOICED FLOOD First Line: Our little death from which we daily Last Line: Even while I spoke to you of love Subject(s): Sleep SMALL POEM FOR JACK First Line: You showed me your ocean in a fish-bowl Last Line: If suspiciously warmer. %but cold of the real sea SONG FROM THE STRUCTURES OF RIME RINGING ... First Line: Something has wrecht the world I am in SONG OF THE BORDERGUARD First Line: The man with his lion under the shed of wars Last Line: The borderlines of sense in the morning light %are naked as a line of poetry in a war SONGS OF AN OTHER First Line: If there were another Last Line: In every room I come to SONNET: 1 Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Now there is a love of which dante does not speak unkindly Last Line: For a joining that is not easy Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 1 First Line: Now there is a love of which dante does not speak unkindly Last Line: For a joining that is not easy Subject(s): Homosexuality SONNET: 2 Recitation by Author SONNET: 3 Recitation by Author SONNET: 4 Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: He's given me his thee to keep SOURCE First Line: Or: I work at the language as a spring of water works at the rock, to Last Line: Pen a foreign element that I may crave -- as for kingdom or salvation or freedom -- but never know SPARK FROM THIS FLINT BY VON HEARTSTRUCK Recitation by Author Subject(s): Poetry & Poets STAGE DIRECTIONS PASSAGES 30 First Line: Slowly the toiling images will rise Last Line: New springs are loosed on helicon STRAINS OF SIGHT First Line: He brought a light so she could see Last Line: What the question is, %where the heart reflects STRUCTURE OF RIME I First Line: I ask the unyielding sentence that shows itself forth in the language Last Line: Vomiting images into the place of the law! STRUCTURE OF RIME II First Line: What of the structure of rime? I said Last Line: The music of the spheres STRUCTURE OF RIME IV First Line: O outrider! %when you come to the threshold of the stars Last Line: All that simple elements were %guardians are STRUCTURE OF RIME VI First Line: The old women came from their caves to close the too many doors Last Line: Thus, the grass must give up new keys to rescue the living STRUCTURE OF RIME XI First Line: There are memories everywhere then. Remembered, we go out, as in Last Line: Sets out without boatmen into twenty years of snow returning STRUCTURE OF RIME XIII First Line: Best of ways. That there be a law the earth gives and the mountain Last Line: Defining the valley, the old sea, we say this %is the place STRUCTURE OF RIME XVI First Line: Back to the figure %of the man in the drill dancing Last Line: O my soul, %now man's desolation %into his beginnings return STRUCTURE OF RIME XVII First Line: This potion is love's portion. This herb Last Line: Wreathes her spell. Of thistles made. This herb %her bliss STRUCTURE OF RIME XVIII First Line: This potion is love's portion. This herb her bliss Last Line: Wreathes her spell. Of thistles made. This herb her bliss STRUCTURE OF RIME XX First Line: The master of rime told me, you must learn to lose heart. I have Last Line: He went. His head bowd, looking down, seeking his way away from me STRUCTURE OF RIME XXVIII; IN MEMORIAM WALLACE STEVENS First Line: Erecting beyond the boundaries of all government his grand station Last Line: The domain of colouring invading %the responsible Subject(s): Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955) STYX Poem Text First Line: And a tenth part of okeanos is given to dark night Subject(s): Styx (mythological River) STYX First Line: And a tenth part of okeanos is given to dark night Last Line: We thirst for in dreams we dread SUCH IS THE SICKNESS OF MANY A GOOD THING Poem Text First Line: Was he then adam of the burning way? Subject(s): Love - Unrequited SUCH IS THE SICKNESS OF MANY A GOOD THING First Line: Was he then adam of the burning way? TEMPLE OF THE ANIMALS First Line: The temple of the animals has fallen into disrepair Last Line: Ah, bitterly I recall %the animals of last year THE ALBIGENSES Recitation by Author THE CONTINENT Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Under-/earth currents, gaia, hannahanna THE DREAMERS Recitation by Author THE DRINKING FOUNTAIN Poem Text First Line: Garcia lorca tasted Last Line: This is the drinking-fountain Subject(s): Death; Fountains; Garcia Lorca, Federico (1898-1936); Dead, The THE FIRE Poem Text First Line: Fire stone hand leaf shadow sun THE HELMET OF GOLIATH Recitation by Author Subject(s): Goliath THE KINGDOM OF JERUSALEM Recitation by Author Subject(s): Jerusalem THE LOVER Poem Text First Line: I have been seeing his face everywhere, the face of a former lover Last Line: Seeing his wrath in faces passing Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE MIRROR Recitation by Author THE QUESTION Recitation by Author THE REAPER Recitation by Author THE STRUCTURE OF RIME XVIII Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Kundry was wagner's creation THE STRUCTURE OF RIME I Poem Text First Line: I ask the unyielding sentence THE STRUCTURE OF RIME II Poem Text First Line: What of the structure of rime? I said THE STRUCTURE OF RIME IX Recitation by Author THE STRUCTURE OF RIME V Poem Text First Line: Among the bleeding branches I hear sentences THE STRUCTURE OF RIME VI Poem Text First Line: The old women came from their caves to close the too many THE STRUCTURE OF RIME VIII Poem Text First Line: From a nexus in the impossible, a tear flows THE STRUCTURE OF RIME X Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Thi* of tha first things.For tha sea is th* THE STRUCTURE OF RIME XI Recitation by Author THE STRUCTURE OF RIME XVI Poem Text First Line: Back to the figure THE STRUCTURE OF RIME XVI Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Back to the figure THE STRUCTURE OF RIME XVII Poem Text First Line: Helen among the wraiths Subject(s): Love THE STRUCTURE OF RIME XXII Poem Text First Line: Sounding the triangle he reaches notes THE STRUCTURE OF RIME XXVIII; IN MEMORIAM WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Erecting beyond the boundaries of all government his grand station Last Line: Who-he-is-in-reality, the domain of colouring invading the responsible. Subject(s): Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955) THE TEMPLE OF THE ANIMALS Poem Text First Line: The temple of the animals has fallen into disrepair THERE'S TOO MUCH SEA ON THE BIG SUR Poem Text First Line: The woman on the mountain kept her fictive ocean THIS PLACE RUMORD TO HAVE BEEN SODOM Poem Text First Line: Might have been. / certainly these ashes might have been pleasures Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THIS PLACE RUMORD TO HAVE BEEN SODOM First Line: Might have been. %certainly these ashes might have been pleasures Last Line: In the lord's eyes Subject(s): Homosexuality TO VOW Poem Text First Line: It is in the fear of the lord TRUE TO LIFE First Line: 6/20 went %up to the denials of poetry: those dames Last Line: Revealing inconsequent things, %the immediate empire TWO DICTA OF WILLIAM BLAKE First Line: The authors are in eternity TWO DICTA OF WILLIAM BLAKE: VARIATIONS Poem Text First Line: The authors are in eternity Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827) TWO PRESENTATIONS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: We send youj word of the mother Subject(s): Mothers UNDER GROUND Poem Text First Line: First/mor-than-fire, then liquid stone, then stone UNKINGD BY AFFECTION Poem Text Recitation by Author Subject(s): Pleasure UPON TAKING HOLD First Line: The world as we reach stretches Last Line: The joys of the household are fates that command us WHAT DO I KNOW OF THE OLD LAW? Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: What do I know of the left and the right Subject(s): Kaballah WHAT DO I KNOW OF THE OLD LORE? First Line: A young editor wants me to write ... WHAT I SAW Poem Text First Line: The white peacock roosting Subject(s): Transience; Birds; Impermanence WHAT TIME OF DAY IS IT? Recitation by Author WITCH'S SONG Recitation by Author WORDS OPEN OUT UPON GRIEF Poem Text First Line: Like windows in that house high Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness WRITING AS WRITING First Line: The word in the hand is the sound in the eye is the sight in the Last Line: A literal transcription of letters is a conceit that pleases YEARS AS CATCHES First Line: This century, an iron bell of joy, has scarcely rung Last Line: Break open and set free %his world, my ecstasy |
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