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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: FEARING, KENNETH Matches Found: 91 Fearing, Kenneth Poet's Biography 91 poems available by this author $2.50 Poem Text First Line: But that dashing, dauntless, delphic, diehard, diabolic cracker likes his fiction turned Subject(s): Books & Reading; Popular Culture; Class Struggle $2.50 First Line: But that dashing, dauntless, delphic, diehard, diabolic Last Line: Clublady, survives the cracker's evening fantasy of %honor, and profit, and grace 1933 First Line: You heard the gentleman, with automatic precision, speak the Last Line: You did, this is your record, %you 4 A.M. Poem Text First Line: It is early evening, still, in honolulu, and in london now, it must be well past dawn Subject(s): Time 4 A.M. First Line: It is early evening, still, in honolulu, and in london, now it Last Line: Where last year's homicide occurred, are empty now, and %still 5 A.M. Poem Text First Line: Street by the street the lights go out, and the night turns grey A DOLLAR'S WORTH OF BLOOD, PLEASE Poem Text First Line: With the last memo checked AD Poem Text First Line: Wanted: men: / millions of men are wanted at once in a big new field; Last Line: Take a job in the coming profession: / wages: death Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism AD First Line: Wanted: men: %millions of men are wanted at once in a big new field; Last Line: No skill needed; %no ambition required; no brains wanted and no character allowed; Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AFTERNOON OF A PAWNBROKER Poem Text First Line: Still they bring me diamonds, diamonds, always diamonds Last Line: And here comes mrs. Case, to redeem her diamond ring Subject(s): Diamonds; Pawnshops; Pawnbrokers AFTERNOON OF A PAWNBROKER First Line: Still they bring me diamonds, diamonds, always diamonds Last Line: And here comes mrs. Case to redeem her diamond rings Subject(s): Diamonds; Pawnshops AMERICAN RHAPSODY (4) Poem Text First Line: Tomorrow, yes, tomorrow, AMERICAN RHAPSODY (4) First Line: First you bite your fingernails. And then you comb your hair Last Line: Is this, baby, what you were born to feel, and do, and be? ANGEL ARMS Poem Text Recitation First Line: She is the little pink mouse, his far away sta ANY MAN'S ADVICE TO HIS SON Poem Text First Line: If you have lost the radio beam, then guide yourself by the sun or the stars Last Line: And because there is no other person, anywhere on earth, who remembers these things as clearly as I Subject(s): Advice; Sons ANY MAN'S ADVICE TO HIS SON First Line: If you have lost the radio beam, then guide yourself by the sun or the stars Last Line: And because there is no other person, anywhere on earth, who remembers these things as clearly as I Subject(s): Advice; Sons APHRODITE METROPOLIS (1) Poem Text First Line: Myrtle loves harry' - it is sometimes hard Last Line: They live somewhere Subject(s): Graffiti APHRODITE METROPOLIS (1) First Line: Myrtle loves harry' - it is sometimes hard Subject(s): Graffiti APHRODITE METROPOLIS (2) Poem Text Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations ART REVIEW First Line: Recently displayed at the times square station, a new Last Line: Gone, but will return, and all is well BALLAD OF THE SALVATION ARMY Poem Text First Line: On fourteenth street the bugles blow, Subject(s): Salvation Army BEWARE First Line: Someone, somewhere, is always starting trouble Last Line: Someone is always, always stepping out of line BRYCE & TOMILINS First Line: Every need analyzed, each personal problem weighted Last Line: All of this, plus 5 %of this, until the end of time CARICATURE OF FELICE RICARRO Poem Text First Line: Etch me in black and white CONFESSION OVERHEARD IN THE SUBWAY Poem Text First Line: You will ask how I came to be eavesdropping, in the first place Last Line: I have done my duty, as a public spirited citizen, in any case Subject(s): War CONFESSION OVERHEARD IN THE SUBWAY First Line: You will ask how I came to be eavesdropping, in the first place Last Line: I have done my duty, as a public spirited citizen, in any case Subject(s): War CONTINUOUS PERFORMANCE First Line: The place seems strange, more strange ... CULTURAL NOTES Poem Text First Line: Professor burke's symphony, colorado vistas Last Line: The question is, what about karl marx? Subject(s): Communism CULTURAL NOTES First Line: Professor burke's symphony, colorado vistas Last Line: Shut your trap, you. The question is, what about karl marx? Subject(s): Communism DEAR BEATRICE FAIRFAX First Line: Foolproof baby with that memorized smile Last Line: Your doublecrossing, doublecrossing, doublecross friend DENOUEMENT First Line: Sky, be blue, and more than blue; wind, be flesh and blood Last Line: No warmth, no light but the lamp that shines on a %trooper's drawn and ready bayonet DIRGE Poem Text Recitation First Line: 1-2-3 was the number he played but today the number came 3-2-1; Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Death; Death; Depressions, Economic; Gambling; Modern Man; Dead, The; Dead, The; Recessions; Wagering; Betting DIRGE First Line: 1-2-3 was the number he played but today the number came 3-2-1 Last Line: Dipper; bop, summer rain; %bong. Mr., bong, mr., bong, mr., bong Subject(s): Death; Depressions, Economic; Gambling; Modern Man DISCUSSION AFTER THE FIFTH OR SIXTH Poem Text First Line: Now, about the other one, the sober one Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine DIVIDENDS Poem Text First Line: This advantage to be seized; and here, an escape prepared ELEGY IN A THEATRICAL WAREHOUSE First Line: They have laid the penthouse scenes away, after a truly phenomenal run Subject(s): Theater & Theaters; Stage Life ELEGY IN A THEATRICAL WAREHOUSE First Line: They have laid the penthouse scenes away, after a truly phenomenal run Last Line: Almost everything is gone, %everything that never held a single thing at all Subject(s): Theater And Theaters ESCAPE First Line: Acid for the whorls of the fingertips; for the face, a surgeon's Last Line: No name, any name, nowhere, nothing, no one, none EVENING SONG First Line: Go to sleep mckade Last Line: Sleep, mckade. %yawn. Go to sleep GREEN LIGHT First Line: Bought at the drug store, very cheap; and later pawned Last Line: Broken or sold. Or given away HOLD THE WIRE Poem Text First Line: If the doorbell rings and we think we were followed Subject(s): Identity HOW DO I FEEL? First Line: Get this straight, joe, and don't get me wrong Last Line: O.K., steve. All I got to say is, when do I get the dough? JACK KNUCKLES FALTER Poem Text First Line: But reads own statement at his execution Subject(s): Trials JOHN STANDISH, ARTIST First Line: If I am to live, or be in the studios KING JUKE Poem Text First Line: The juke box has a big square face Subject(s): Juke Boxes LITERARY Poem Text First Line: I sing of simple people and the hardier virtues, by associated stuffed shirts & Subject(s): Books & Reading LITERARY First Line: I sing of simple people and the hardier virtues, by associated Last Line: Fill in the coupon. How do you know? Maybe you can be a %writer, too LONGSHOT BLUES Poem Text First Line: What is all the money is bet on the odd Subject(s): Gambling; Wagering; Betting LONGSHOT BLUES First Line: What if all the money is bet on the odd--maybe the Last Line: Every single inch of the evening yours alone and %all of it always, always %altogether new LOVE 20 CENTS THE FIRST QUARTER MILE Poem Text First Line: All right. I may have lied to you and about you, and Subject(s): Desire; Forgiveness; Love; Clemency LOVE 20 CENTS THE FIRST QUARTER MILE First Line: All right. I may have lied to you and about you, and Last Line: And ask a few reporters, if anything should break Subject(s): Desire; Forgiveness; Love LULLABY First Line: Wide as this night, old as this night is old and young as it is young Last Line: Gray upon the hands at the bars of moabit, cold as the bars of the tombs LUNCH WITH THE SOLE SURVIVOR Poem Text First Line: Meaning what it seems to when the day's receipts are MEMO Poem Text First Line: Is there still any shadow there, on the rainwet window of the coffee pot MEMO First Line: Is there any shadow there, on the rainwet window of the coffee pot Last Line: The windows blurred by the same warm, slow, still rain? MINNIE AND MRS. HOYNE First Line: She could die laughing NEWSPAPERMAN Poem Text First Line: This charge was laid upon me long ago; do not forget Subject(s): Truth NO CREDIT First Line: Whether dinner was pleasant, with the windows lit by gunfire, and no Last Line: Whose welded breast will never be slashed by bullets, whose armature soul can hold no fear OBITUARY First Line: Take him away, he's as dead as they die Subject(s): Automobile Accidents OBITUARY First Line: Take him away, he's as dead as they die Last Line: They lived with him, in the same old world. And they're good men, too Subject(s): Automobile Accidents OLD MEN Poem Text First Line: They are raw, monotonus skies Subject(s): Old Age OPERATIVE NO. 174 RESIGNS First Line: The subject was put to bed at midnight, and I picked him up again at 8 a.M. Last Line: Herewith, therefore, to take effect at once, I resign PACT First Line: It is wtitten in the skyline of the city Last Line: And on that day, and in that place, we will try again, and this time we shall win PAY-OFF Poem Text First Line: Do you, now, as the news become known PAY-OFF First Line: Do you, now, as the news becomes known Last Line: Will the sound of the clock ever fade, or the voice of the vendor sometime stop? PEOPLE VS. THE PEOPLE First Line: I have never seen him PORTRAIT: 2 First Line: The clear brown eyes, kindly and alert, with 12-20 vision Last Line: Lippmann, and sustained by haig & haig PROGRAM First Line: Act one, madrid-barcelona Last Line: Try the new golgotha for cocktails after the show Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) PUBLIC LIFE First Line: Then enter again, through a strange door Q & A Poem Text First Line: Where analgesia may be found to ease the infinite, minute scars of the day Subject(s): Fate; Destiny RADIO BLUES Poem Text First Line: Try 5 on the dial, try 10, 15; Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States; Radio RAIN Poem Text First Line: Dragons love the world in rain Subject(s): Rain RECEPTION GOOD First Line: Now, at a particular spot on the radio dial, '-in this corner Last Line: How many angels, actually, can dance on the point of a pin? REQUIEM Poem Text First Line: Will they stop Last Line: And everywhere, on all of it, the brightness of the sun Subject(s): Consolation REQUIEM First Line: Will they stop Last Line: And everywhere, on all of it, the brightness of the sun Subject(s): Consolation RESURRECTION First Line: You will remember the kisses, real or imagined Last Line: With fatigue and desire, %as you work, sleep, and talk, and laugh, and die SCHEHEREZADE First Line: Not the saga of your soul at grips with fate SOS Poem Text First Line: It is posted in the clubrooms Subject(s): Beauty ST. AGNES' EVE Poem Text Recitation First Line: The settings include a flyspeckled monday ... Last Line: Picture of the fly-specked monday evening and fade out slow Subject(s): Agnes, Saint (d. 304 A.d.); Saints ST. AGNES' EVE First Line: The settings include a flyspeckled monday ... Subject(s): Agnes, Saint (d. 304 A.d.); Saints STATISTICS Poem Text First Line: Sixty souls, this day, will arrange for travel to brighter THE CITY TAKES A WOMAN Poem Text First Line: Twilights that are deathless THE FACE IN THE BAR ROOM MIRROR Poem Text First Line: Fifteen gentlemen in fifteen overcoats and fifteen hats Subject(s): Mirrors THE JUKE-BOX SPOKE AND THE JUKE-BOX SAID Poem Text First Line: A few of them, sometimes, choose record number 9 Subject(s): Juke Boxes THE PROGRAM Poem Text First Line: Act one, madrid-barcelona Last Line: Try the new golgotha for cocktails after the show Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) THESE ARE THE LIVE THEY LIKED IT First Line: They watched the lights go on when night fell TO A DAFFODIL, OR PERHAPS A LITTLE GOSSIP ABOUT FLAUBERT Poem Text First Line: I sing of simple people and the hardier virtues, by associated stuffed shirts & Subject(s): Books & Reading TOMORROW First Line: Now that the others are gone, all of them, forever Last Line: Speak to the family on the illuminated billboard, forever friendly, or to the wind, or to the sign t TWENTIETH-CENTURY BLUES First Line: What do you call it, bobsled champion, and you, too, olympic rollercoaster ace Subject(s): Modern Life TWENTIETH-CENTURY BLUES First Line: What do you call it, bobsled champion, and you, too, olympic rollercoaster ace Last Line: That third-rail, million-volt exclamation mark, that ditto, ditto, ditto, %that stop, stop, go Subject(s): Life, Modern |
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