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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: FROST, CAROL Matches Found: 255 Frost, Carol Poet's Biography 255 poems available by this author ABSTRACTION First Line: In the heart a paper copy of a daguerreotype is fading and the body Last Line: And how it is, already no longer really linked to me ACORNS First Line: Last night some acorns fell Last Line: Revolving like a door %between two worlds %we have to leave to enter ADULTERY First Line: Had she repented? Given over? No. She let others talk and pretended Last Line: Unadulteration of her own notes, darkened perhaps with losses, sorrows, but still luring AFTER BYZANTIUM First Line: They have it all. In congestion Last Line: Sprung to life again, whirring and ticking %through the trees like goldsmiths' birds ALL SUMMER LONG Poem Text First Line: The dogs eat hoof slivers and lie under the porch. Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives ALL SUMMER LONG First Line: The dogs eat hoof slivers and lie under the porch Last Line: Of cicadas and the manes of horses ALONE First Line: Lightly handled by spring Last Line: Away from those who'd weaken from it, hers alone ALTO First Line: The day of chorus when she was sent out Last Line: Was filled only with the stale essence of their breath AMERICAN PRIMITIVES First Line: Painted by artist who did not especially like children Last Line: And the accidental power of the itinerant %artists to catch you off-guard APIARY 40 Poem Text First Line: The humble sense of being alive Subject(s): Bees; Beekeeping APIARY IX Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Two anthills and a late summer hive Subject(s): Bees; Beekeeping APIARY VII First Line: Generous I may have been, amnesiac Last Line: And hated them. Then there were none APIARY VIII (FOR THE ONES Poem Text First Line: Who line the corridors and sit APOLOGY Poem Text First Line: Already the land is starting to forget gardens Variant Title(s): Autumn Apology Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall APOLOGY First Line: Already the land is starting to forget gardens Last Line: And is no longer availing and can neither take nor give away Variant Title(s): Autumn Apolog Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons APPLE RIND Poem Text First Line: Someone else was afraid and spoke to me Last Line: To come back to this beautiful, stupid world? Subject(s): Apples APPLE RIND First Line: Someone else was afraid and spoke to me Last Line: To come back to this beautiful, stupid world ARDORS Poem Text First Line: The tortoise walks on tiptoe in june, ARDORS First Line: The tortoise walks on tiptoe in june Last Line: Lie hidden like the stars ARGONAUT'S VOW Poem Text First Line: Pushed prow southerly into the golden wind ARGUMENT First Line: Here is the cold, strict cell of the terrorist Last Line: Not when he's finished and turned off the lamp ART First Line: Why when she gave her memory a mother whose cruelty was godly Last Line: As if it trusted or could go on without? AUTUMN TUNE First Line: There, now you know losses Last Line: Light didn't you sway a little? AWAY First Line: Their breasts and abdomens filled with air Last Line: For there's no one anyplace who isn't secretly %going away BAG LADY First Line: Here is another parable in the mouth of a stranger Last Line: Or pleasure, nothing: the nothing for which there is no preparation and no relief BALANCE First Line: Is how you carry it, how it is; for example, the turkeys which seemed Last Line: Land's steepness and accord, growing used to them, their difference BEAUTIFUL ISLANDS First Line: In the tropics the houses sweat Last Line: And shoreline waters shift sands over %the toes of the tourists BEING First Line: Being a deer means grazing, suddenly lifting the head Last Line: Having sensed you, over the scent of grasses, who were invisible Subject(s): Nature BLISS First Line: Hermes, so young, arrives to tell of spring Last Line: Like all creation, hyacinths, or another's face, up to lips, nostrils, eyes BLUE CRAB Poem Text First Line: A rearing up: the pincers waved in the air: by god you better let me be Subject(s): Crabs BLUE CRAB First Line: A rearing up: the pincers waved air: by god you better Last Line: Or from medea's grave mind:: a taste of salt air:: I take up %the crab in tongs BOAT Poem Text First Line: Miscalculation the day's first high Subject(s): Boats BOOKS First Line: There was a mongrel and dick and jane Last Line: The once and ever after - the the end BRAVE First Line: That time, deaf to the entreaties of his parents Last Line: No use -- taking away what they came for BRIDE First Line: On a day snow flicks and swirls Last Line: And then a huge body, a blackness, has hold of him BURDOCK First Line: In the april sun that doesn't yet smell, brown and red birds Last Line: And consequences. I am compact of laws, emerging continually from the inner world BUTTERFLY AND A DAY First Line: Butterfly, as you hang on the knife Last Line: So the day %toward horizons, in beauty %and chaos sails C.O. First Line: For my son I tried to distinguish Last Line: And where the beavers submerge, hidden CAROUSEL First Line: A chestnut gelding and a rider balancing Last Line: Of such harmony that is the passing world CHILD FRIGHTENED BY A MONKEY First Line: Here, with palms raised and hooting, a monkey Last Line: Forms and the way of bending nature %to dreams by looking, with eyes closed, in a mirror CHILDHOOD MEMORY First Line: A smoky autumn afternoon Last Line: The children have knives in their hands, %giggling, looking away from the man CHIMERA Poem Text First Line: By the verge of the sea a man finds a gelatinous creature, Subject(s): Sea; Ocean CHIMERA First Line: By the verge of the sea a man finds a gelatinous creature Last Line: Of a lost estate, the dawn-time of the world's first season COMFORT First Line: Because a sorrow was conquered, or a sin, can they relax Last Line: Pounding of their blood becomes comforting - like being held again in someone's arms COMPANION OF First Line: October was what it had already become when I entered the walled Last Line: Rancid song - or %in the night owl's scream COMPATIBILITY First Line: Never after was life so filled with meeting Last Line: Their sinuous tongues used the word, over and over, without speaking CONCERT FOR DEAD COMPOSERS First Line: Some of the birth houses of the masters Last Line: Is behind the acoustic shell, but in failing to last %there is joy more fulfilling. The crowd thinks CONSCIENCE First Line: The crow settles on a fir bough and disappears Last Line: Something is moving near as if it wanted to tear us from our molds -- as a conscience is torn CONSENT Poem Text First Line: Arrows striking all sides of the body and st. Sebastian smiling Last Line: A little of what already exists and the towering sense of kindnesses no world can offer? Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts CONSENT First Line: Arrows striking all sides of the body and st. Sebastian smiling Last Line: A little of what already exists and the towering sense of kindness no %world can offer? Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social CONSTANCY First Line: Age-old breath in the woods Last Line: How it shapes itself to land and air and to the hand cupping the ear COUNTRY First Line: Tables, chairs, a used refrigerator in a thicket Last Line: And the mutt at leash end crashing left and right COUNTRY MARRIAGE Poem Text First Line: They married out of school Subject(s): Marriage; Family Life; Poverty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Relatives COUNTRY MARRIAGE First Line: They married out of school Last Line: A sour doll. They had come far CRAVING (DON GIOVANNI) First Line: When the man in his dissolution enters the house and assaults a women Last Line: Still craving the women he never possessed and only pretended to make love to CROWS First Line: Not disputing what those nearest her would think Last Line: Reposed all along in the part of her that isn't and is beast CRYING WOLF First Line: Not howling, but from within the deep wildness of all things Last Line: The hair on the back of the neck of the world froze CUSTOM Poem Text First Line: As if it had forgotten everything - hatred, vindictiveness, the Last Line: The assembly roared – by his actions they knew they knew better who they are Subject(s): Sports CUSTOM First Line: As if it had forgotten everything - hatred, vindictiveness, the Last Line: The assembly roared - by his actions they knew they knew better who they were Subject(s): Sports DAY OF THE BODY: 1. First Line: If a model is posed by a sunny window Last Line: A day - sparrow caught in the sheaves DAY OF THE BODY: 2. First Line: Wanting to suggest a wild and luxuriant soul Last Line: Which means of someone she has seen DAY OF THE BODY: 3. First Line: The man and the woman Last Line: Eyes surprised by each other in a room DAY OF THE BODY: 4. First Line: They aren't violent, so when he leaves Last Line: Or that death is thinking of her DAY OF THE BODY: 5. First Line: The looser his skin gets Last Line: In a field, and the bird a vapor DECOY GARDEN First Line: How the hum of the garden thins when I come near Last Line: The belly swelling and the open mouth DENIAL First Line: Through smoked glass, as if he could shut out all worries Last Line: As though somewhere above a god, or pharoah, with a face of absolute refusal, were turning away DESIRE First Line: To be swayed by everything Last Line: At every effort, every try,I remember, coasts slid into yesterday. %hell was certain DRIFTWOOD First Line: Have I lied to myself about art? Last Line: Bird, with your premise of wings DYNASTY, 1989 First Line: Like a tent of tapestries Last Line: Or with pats they invite one another for food, %for the way home and to work for common good EATING THE WHOLE First Line: Mouse, first the cat sits off to one side Last Line: Exciting minors, drowsing, not a mouse- %hair on the lawn, nor a guilty murmur ECSTASY First Line: Her ecstasy rises like a rider on a leaping horse Last Line: She is within herself again, exhilarated, and strangely proud EDDY Poem Text First Line: Against wind's silk direction the tide is flowing, Subject(s): Boats EGON SCHIELE'S WIFE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: More since her illness he tried to think of her not purely as a wife Subject(s): Schiele, Egon (1891-1918); Marriage; Models; Weddings; Husbands; Wives EGON SCHIELE'S WIFE First Line: More since her illness he tried to think of her not purely as wife - Last Line: Like halos in an unexpected gust of wind surrounding a tree's last %leaves ENDLESSNESS First Line: What's endless is full of death and joy Last Line: Need for water for thirsty lips. Nor vinegar-gall ENVY First Line: Look: the cat lifts its head, switching its tail, and to the other cat says Last Line: In a burst of envy to lick and lick her own fur FAILURE First Line: I have come to fear Last Line: That darkly comes into the adult house and seems to want to nail closed the windows and doors FAREWELL TO TWO MUSES Poem Text First Line: Ah, muse, I know you too well, your harp-song gets airy Last Line: And say if he asks who my lover is now; that I sleep alone. I have no other Subject(s): Muses FAREWELL TO TWO MUSES First Line: Ah, muse, I know you too well, your harp-song gets airy Last Line: And say if he asks who my lover is now, that I sleep alone; I have no other Subject(s): Muses FATE First Line: Imagine: in the twilight of a river, trout rising to the hairs Last Line: Prickling the black water FATHERHOOD First Line: Shut up, the father thought amiably, moving past the children Last Line: He heard it again like a weather warning, louder. Shut up, shut up FEARFUL CHILD First Line: As a child I parleyed with animals, stuffed and real Last Line: In the greatness of such space I said, this is me FENCE WIRE First Line: ...Garroting apple and oak, broken off, no longer keeping Last Line: Bramble wild, strung out, dowdy in rich or sere evening %air FIELD FULL OF BLACK CATS First Line: Cats in fields sit %still as idols Last Line: Having ended %in their hot mouths FLICKER Poem Text First Line: Chisel-billed, eye cerulean, with a crimson nuchal patch Last Line: I do. It's mine. I do Subject(s): Home FLICKER First Line: Chisel-billed, eye cerulean, with a crimson nuchal patch Last Line: Who has a home in this good world and doesn't yearn? %I do. It's mine. I do Subject(s): Home FOLIO First Line: I imagine the leaves dried butterflies Last Line: The dawn a weak burning %above the canted walls? FORMER BEAUS First Line: This morning when I woke for the third or fourth time Last Line: Chins tucked down and turning their heads, that fly by FOUR SERIOUS SONGS, OP. 121 First Line: Beautifully and elliptically the sunlight plays Last Line: On water, sunshine having honeycombed the end of day FOXES First Line: Only in forgetting map and compass Last Line: At dusk, lost, they would see the foxes FRIGHT First Line: Dusk bled. For the frightened fledgling silence's sake Last Line: Small fires in water, and companionable motions of a mind, only %just human Variant Title(s): Fea FURY First Line: And the whole night she had told herself to be pleasant Last Line: Then, hardly allowing him to fully awaken, she said her first %sarcasm. Then another GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS First Line: He cannot be happy Last Line: An animated and malevolent blaze across the top, %a broader sense of quiet welling from the bottom GARDENER EATS A ROSE First Line: The rose in the vase without ebb GENESIS, RODIN'S First Line: Stayed, serpentine in mud Last Line: In their kingdom, and the unsettled visions, %like portals hung too high, of a god GIRL ON A SCAFFOLD First Line: Her neck in a noose, the girl stands Last Line: Has come to watch her fall GOOD NIGHT'S SLEEP First Line: Reassured that we return as before, we enter Last Line: Who counted for so little when liberated in sleep, where you last stood GRADUATION First Line: Trees in the schoolyard stand for five children GULL First Line: Every wing, every instant burgeoning with wind Last Line: Now pink, now yellow in fallen sunlight HAIRCUT First Line: When the boy's head is heavy with his own secret Last Line: His forehead full of blond mysteries? HARM First Line: She had only begun to get used to her body's exposures Last Line: Harm's way, backward, for just a moment HARRIET STREET Poem Text First Line: The fadedness of stone Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness HARRIET STREET First Line: The fadedness of stone %markers shows the wear Last Line: Most sweet, most stolen, where %near to the living, graves are HEART First Line: Once we were inflamed as you, insatiate one Last Line: Take heart. Take heart. Bring her to you HELP First Line: Vexing the water with its shadow, the heron told her where to fish Last Line: The sky neither questioned nor replied; its hard beauty lodged deep inside her HER BEAUTY First Line: By now her beauty no longer catches glances like small animals in a gentle way Last Line: In weather, an animal's fur bristling, a moleskin HEROIN First Line: Damien saw robert come back from the toilet Last Line: Both of them whacked out on music HERON First Line: A woman and her children are on a lake Last Line: Day we know no more of than going HOMO SAPIENS First Line: In this lonely, varying light of dawn with the residue of desire Last Line: A beast's face. And something, something else HORROR First Line: When horror, that with pretty masks Last Line: Wholly tempted, without a clue. How little has art driven off HOUNDING THE MYTH First Line: And can the yeti in springtime HOW TO HUNT First Line: The deer vanish into the forest, %patches of red oaks Last Line: Into the clearing must find its own way to outlast you HUNT First Line: I stand at my window and see HYPOCRISY First Line: Out of the same paints and objects that make up the bazaar Last Line: To peruse trinkets, pampering themselves with a drink and cake, liking the %religious painting ICARUS IN WINTER Poem Text First Line: If brueghel was wrong, and icarus fell in the dead of the year Last Line: Stunted roots so far below sense that they don't show Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Icarus; Mythology - Classical; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter ICARUS IN WINTER First Line: If brueghel was wrong, and icarus fell in the dead of the year Last Line: Stunted roots so far below sense that they don't show Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Icarus; Mythology - Classical IMAGINATION First Line: Imagine that there are several paths. But none takes her Last Line: Walk unfettered into the wild north fields? IN COMMON PLACES First Line: Wish I had been alone, your tread was a heavy cord Last Line: But when we quiver, we quiver deep and harder IN SCARECROW'S GARDEN First Line: Loosely bound and buttoned on a pole, clothed in the Last Line: The violence and sorrow, and the green leaves flowering at %your feet INLET First Line: As you enter, groping, the channel Last Line: A raccoon is standing, his small hands empty JOY First Line: Ah, that noah's joy lasted only for a time presses itself on the heart Last Line: A consummation that makes the sweat grow cold JUDGMENT First Line: The angel that rebellion raised was never able, right up to the end Last Line: That no longer hurt him, and so he gave it names KAYAKING IN THE GULF AFTER DUSK First Line: All the way back to the harbor Last Line: The unforgetting seeds look %the harbor burns KING'S FIRST SOLILOQUY First Line: This is the carving where deity withdrew Last Line: Like a sickness of the inner ear, a king alone %in a throne room talking to his own despair KOMODO Poem Text First Line: The flight of a white cockatoo from tamarind to tamarind Last Line: Thde blazing cockatoo, the pink, lightless, inner tissues of the baron Subject(s): Komodo Dragons; Lizards LANDSCAPES First Line: Watch them. The landscapes. That urge, glory Last Line: Man's sorrow, the mountains, sea, hawk, leaf mold, %rotting bark. And no trace of anecdote LATE Poem Text First Line: Those perishing gentians splashed by moonlight and wind Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers LATE First Line: Those perishing gentians splashed by moonlight and wind Last Line: In my too-sullen and meager heart I was above LATE SIGH First Line: As desultory sunlight LAWS First Line: She knows of doom only what all women know Last Line: Been more blinding or more lawful LIAR'S DICE First Line: Used to mark a corner, a claim Last Line: Even if shown, love, they don't know LIES First Line: Isn't there a race of people made of glass, who when spilling Last Line: Until one of their great sorrows falls from their lips. And then apology LILIES! First Line: So total was summer's abnegation Last Line: Tests once again the potency of the ever-more senescing king LOVE First Line: That beauty by your side, surely no opiate Last Line: To your inmost nature, %where in the first place the poppies and temptation stirred MALLARD First Line: I raked up a mallard in the garden Last Line: Or the sweet howling of the dog %that buried it MAN OF WAR Poem Text First Line: After there were no women, men, and children, MATINS Poem Text Recitation by Author Subject(s): Disappointment; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations MATINS: 1. First Line: I've felt undeserving. I've made myself ill with the glory Last Line: Petals falling singly, the yellow snake disgorging lies MATINS: 2. First Line: I've grieved and walked in catacombs Last Line: Things I bring with me from far away MATINS: 3. First Line: I've made myself ill with the power and glory Last Line: I've made myself ill with the power and glory MIND First Line: As he went on - no one else in the yard, late, well past dinner - Last Line: That turning, saw absence and its presentiments step down, as if free MOON First Line: Grief again, the turntable left on Last Line: In the tree with its three notes, and hear him MORPHINE Poem Text First Line: Their single purpose was to ease her dying Last Line: Her face lost all its definition. No one moved Subject(s): Death; Painkillers; Dead, The MORPHINE First Line: Their single purpose was to ease her dying Last Line: Her face lost all its definition. No one moved Subject(s): Death; Painkillers MOZART First Line: The books say genius, prodigy Last Line: No one has known, flying yellow archangels %though all else falls MUSIC First Line: You are right. At death I might well desire both day and rest Last Line: Of great composers, written before the last bread and wine are gone Variant Title(s): Music For Deat MUSIC 2 First Line: Yesterday two blackbirds splashed, like cymbals, into the lilac bush Last Line: Hear the can-bear-it-no-longer moment assume them NATURE HAS First Line: Nature has a sexual sense of humor. A bee swigs nectar, the tail Last Line: Your senses and little white lies and rampant heart NATURE MORTE First Line: Two rigid bodies Last Line: For the error and virulence %when two cravings %meet head on NEW DOG: VARIATIONS ON A TEXT BY JULES LAFORGUE First Line: The new dog's sugary breath warms my neck Last Line: You cover up his final stare Subject(s): Animals; Dogs NO ELEGY First Line: The ruffled water lilies, tea-colored water, ophelias Last Line: Elegy overcomes desire? Ask me to stand apart from myself %and disavow:--I cannot NOTES TO THE COLD First Line: The skies crumble like marl, and winter Last Line: Of daylight blossom and fade, %and then the bird is gone NOTHING First Line: She turned away. And her child slid toward Last Line: With him, she will not harken or give them the pleasure of her %scream OBEDIENCE (THE NUNS) First Line: Mostly they say normal things Last Line: Are left, as if they scattered the moment. We resolve so little OBLIVION First Line: How many choruses will this man breathe Last Line: Like a drunk man with his horn, a grail Subject(s): Singing And Singers; Southern States OBSESSION First Line: Never was life more nervous, sweeter, denser than nutmeat Last Line: As if from a far-off world ODE TO THE HORSESHOE CRAB First Line: Dullest of all creatures, the horseshoe crab Last Line: Of marine life. In 350 million years the sun %has failed to break their sleep, their sleep before be OLD First Line: There is a landscape in his face just as cezanne knew Last Line: This elsewhere that like nature reconciles %and cannot be approached directly?-it issues from his gr OLD FLAIL First Line: Here is the wheat-colored light astride in the fields, turning Last Line: Else, but else, as may coil in two brown snakes before they join PAPILIO Poem Text First Line: Collecting is a basic human trait. The great collectors Last Line: Speed of autumn Subject(s): Nature PAPILIO First Line: Collecting is a basic human trait. The great collectors Last Line: From sex. They are also territorial. Think of the rate of speed of %autumn Subject(s): Nature PARADISE First Line: The porpoise arced through yellow glaze, a scimitar Last Line: Perhaps, and the island a painting by winslow homer PARADISE, REENTERING First Line: Delirium of the hot and sleepless nights Last Line: Of tobacco, sweat, the brine of sex PAST First Line: Was it in stepping into dusk? Did a glance release this turbulence Last Line: To seem to fit themselves around the ankles, refusing separation PATIENCE Poem Text First Line: The man raises his eyes from the table and gazes at the murals of women Last Line: How patient and unchanged the onlookers Subject(s): Restaurants; Cafes; Diners PATIENCE First Line: The man raises his eyes from the table and gazes at the murals of women Last Line: How patient and unchanged the onlookers Subject(s): Restaurants PEAR TREE Poem Text First Line: As at the bottom of a mirror Last Line: And go on Subject(s): Pear Trees; Trees; Pears PEAR TREE First Line: As at the bottom of a mirror Last Line: Empty, I will feel my niggardly heart %and go on Subject(s): Pear Trees; Trees PELICAN Poem Text First Line: Readings grunts after so much quiet: look Subject(s): Pelicans PINEAPPLE First Line: Green-shadowed venders sit, without a book or dominoes Last Line: Those who cut the pineapple %return to their stillness like bowls Subject(s): Pineapples PITY First Line: When the woman falls in the garden and hurts her hand, all the blows Last Line: And the heart learns a pity for itself, easy, coarse, common as the grave POET'S BLACK DRUM First Line: Come in the silent acting in a dream now wayfarer Last Line: Tasting of waters you taste and you say light dyed POT-AU-FEU First Line: Then it was winter, icy, steaming POTATO EATERS First Line: They do not emerge %from the clumsy room Last Line: Of what fright we cause in them. %they offer us potatoes PROCESSION First Line: Of sunset the glazier winter PRODIGAL First Line: They move now brimming with their own separate ways Last Line: And murmurs and ceases to remember PUPPET MASTER First Line: After the exact imitation of a living bird Last Line: Rise in the sawdusty air, to touch %for a moment the little known of wonder PURE First Line: He saw that the white-tailed deer he shot was his son Last Line: Not, not for another moment RECOMPENSE First Line: That time, long practiced in pinning the alligator's jaw between his chin Last Line: Which were tinged with respect, though some eyes wept and some %looked at the darkening bayou RED DEER First Line: The red deer in summer sunlight Last Line: Of sun on stones. I kissed %its head. I couldn't help myself REDBIRDS First Line: The redbirds gathered %in the pines railing the hill Last Line: Cold as fence wire, and no harp? REDFISH Poem Text First Line: Loaves and fishes; coelaenth: bishop's jewfish Subject(s): Fish REFUSAL Poem Text First Line: Because the acres were not smoothed with topsoil, she wrenches Last Line: Refusal to be much moved? Subject(s): Nature REFUSAL First Line: Because the acres were not smoothed with topsoil, she wrenches Last Line: Refusal to be much moved Subject(s): Nature RESISTANCE First Line: Once as a child she eavesdropped and learning the unbearable Last Line: Running ahead of wave and wind -- and to hold her peace ROADSIDE SHRINE, SAN CRISTOBAL, VENEZUELA First Line: Out of the tropical light and into faith, a stone is found in a Last Line: As with plenty, excess; beauty, dismemberment; love and %life, absence ROBINSON CRUSOE'S HAIR Poem Text First Line: The lime tree, the eternal bars and bolts of the sea Last Line: His own father's face, fed him cakes and chafed his arms and legs, he cried again Subject(s): Robinson Crusoe ROBINSON CRUSOE'S HAIR First Line: The lime tree, the eternal bars and bolts of the sea Last Line: His own father's face, fed him cakes and chafed his arms and legs, he cried again Subject(s): Robinson Crusoe ROOT First Line: How can anyone refuse to answer the torturer's questions Last Line: Without regard to season, death's blossom resurrects and %resurrects RURAL WEATHER First Line: The sun shaking open the pink and yellow sky - Last Line: Brimming after rain %in apple petals? SALT LESSON First Line: Looking inside the bony plate, perceive Last Line: A salt piece of itself, of what it endures SCORN Poem Text First Line: She thought of no wilder delicacy than the starling eggs she fed him Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SCORN First Line: She thought of no wilder delicacy than the starling eggs she fed him Last Line: Each other, and they ate from each other's hands Subject(s): Marriage SEAGULLS AND CHILDREN First Line: I do not know how it is possible to walk through the Last Line: And swimming for hours, the rush of waves filling our %eyes and ears SECRECY First Line: It lay and dried in the sun, puffing, then losing its coherence Last Line: And could not be kept a secret. A branch lightened into place. %everywhere things decayed SELF First Line: They left her alone; it was what she wanted Last Line: What soared: the fierce rush: the birds crying fear: and herself the cause SELF PORTRAIT First Line: All I can draw is the outside Last Line: That govern yet belies design, %this I %have found no shape for SEX First Line: If, as with a flock of sexless sheep, gently and without craving, Last Line: When she surges through the one, the other is dragged there -- was, and will not go away SEXUAL JEALOUSY Poem Text First Line: Think of the queen mole who is unequivocal Last Line: They hope this and are ruthless in their waiting Subject(s): Nature; Sex SEXUAL JEALOUSY First Line: Think of the queen mole who is unequivocal Last Line: Together, their snouts full of soil, they hope this and are ruthless in %their waiting Subject(s): Nature SHAME First Line: Like one in reverie, so she stood, holding the clay pot on the table to her Last Line: And all of her sex, together as a bow's stroke does. %o shameless song SIN First Line: The tree bore the efflorescence of october apples Last Line: It held onto one unclarified passion and grew and regretted nothing SKINNY DIPPING First Line: The afternoon, ending, makes no sign Last Line: Less prone to hurts, then rise, wearing our towels %over our shoulders nowhere near like wings SMALL Poem Text First Line: Boa, once when you were small, you ate small things. Last Line: Never the pinkness and honey of the human Subject(s): Food & Eating; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers SMALL First Line: Boa, once when you were small, you ate small things Last Line: Never the pinkness and honey of the human SNAKE SKINS First Line: The intrigue of this house Last Line: I suspect there are others SONGS FOR TWO SEASONS: 1. AFTER GRAVE ILLNESS Poem Text First Line: The body has two seasons Last Line: Things simply are Subject(s): Sickness; Illness SONGS FOR TWO SEASONS: 2. RED POND Poem Text First Line: How cool it lies. It only speaks Last Line: And traces of red mud Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds SONGS FOR TWO SEASONS: 2. RED POND First Line: How cool it lies. It only speaks Last Line: Stars because of the beautiful surface %and traces of red mud Subject(s): Lakes SONGS FOR TWO SEASONS: 3. First Line: When the god came with his lute and knife Last Line: Knitted chain, gold. And the scorning flute Variant Title(s): Marsyas's Ar Subject(s): Singing And Singers SONGS FOR TWO SEASONS: 3. MARSYA'S ART Poem Text First Line: When the god came with his lute and knife Last Line: Knitted chain, gold. And the scorning flute Variant Title(s): Marsyas's Art Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs SONGS FOR TWO SEASONS: 4. First Line: The flesh comes free and the nodes Last Line: Complicity: the male nurse %nods and turns from me Variant Title(s): Procedur SONNET FOR AUGUST First Line: Arias, not only of voice, but as when tan grasses blow Last Line: Break and break and break and break and break SPINNERS First Line: Five women card, spin, and wind the raw wool Last Line: From the belly--turning the meanest material into a passion of the verities SUMMER CANON First Line: When you leave me behind, leave me here Last Line: Say of me what you will, we are made such by love SUNFISH First Line: Vertebrate, kin to the fully armed form Last Line: Lying on the surface of the water %robbed of moral SUNRISE First Line: Tuesday's parchment with a gold seal Last Line: Design, less beauty, less breakneck speed TABLE GARDEN (1) First Line: Where the window's wind sought over it TABLE GARDEN (2) First Line: Because it was made of fire spun to incredible thinness Last Line: Whatever the heart in pieces can recollect %after the healing ends THAW First Line: Clouds brown in a puddle %like the skies job learned Last Line: That I may have to leave this place %sooner than I want? THE FEARFUL CHILD Poem Text First Line: As a child I parleyed with animals, stuffed and real. Subject(s): Children; Pets; Family Life; Fear; Childhood; Relatives THE GROSS CLINIC Poem Text First Line: I have a sister who takes care of animals, whose artistry is flesh Subject(s): Gross, Samuel D. (1805-1884); Surgery; Family Life; Relatives THE PART OF THE BEE'S BODY EMBEDDED IN THE FLESH Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The bee-boy, merops apiaster, on sultry thundery days Subject(s): Bees; Beauty; Beekeeping THE POET'S BLACK DRUM Poem Text First Line: Come in the silent acting ina dream now wayfarer THE ST. LOUIS ZOO Poem Text First Line: High, yellow, coiled and weighted the branch like an odd piece of fruit Last Line: It knew it. Leaf, lichen, the least refinements, and the perfection Subject(s): Zoos THIS EARLY First Line: This morning's wind-sleeves Last Line: As things die or move with new life %departing or coming through THRILL First Line: To say fabricated things, where freedom is forced on young girls Last Line: Discussing the tree of knowledge, your favorite scene TIDAL First Line: The tide won't rise. All day %the water fails to bridge Last Line: Comes, and dusk, and the shape of things TIME First Line: From his photographed face and squared shoulders, as though he'd Last Line: Know answers and reasons and won't say TO FISHERMEN Poem Text First Line: No more savage art: filleting: a deft pressure along the backbone Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers TO KILL A DEER Poem Text First Line: Into the changes of autumn brush / the doe walked, and the hide, head and ears Last Line: Heard riot in the emptied head Subject(s): Hunting; Sports; Hunters TO KILL A DEER Poem Text First Line: Into the changes of autumn brush Subject(s): Hunting; Deer; Hunting; Sports; Hunters TO KILL A DEER First Line: Into the changes of autumn brush %the doe walked, and the hide, head and ears Last Line: The night wind blowing through her fur, %bread riot in the emptied head Subject(s): Hunting; Sports TORTURER'S HORSE First Line: Though he painted the saint's body with reserve - Last Line: Lost in a mob? How marvelously sad. And incomplete TRUTH First Line: Those who can neither cast out of their hearts false feelings Last Line: Like revolutionaries swept along the surface of an %immense current TUMORED ANGEL First Line: The wings whir more slowly Last Line: Upon his shoulders not wings, but the weight of the wind TWINS First Line: Two lone poppies, papery UNDRESSING First Line: They took off their clothes 1000 nights Last Line: And crawled out, pitifully soft and small, %not yet souls UNTITLED First Line: Remember the days of our arguing Last Line: Afterward %or before VENUS AND DON JUAN First Line: She laid her forehead damp with salty water deep in the warmth of his wet chest Last Line: Of unheard ghosts who, with their own hearts in turmoil, have not wanted even %this much told VOID First Line: And they came to him: forget all Last Line: And why john waited - as if the remains could be changed into some thing imperishable WAKING Poem Text First Line: It was dusk, the light hesitating Subject(s): Hunting; Deer WAKING First Line: It was dusk, the light hesitating Last Line: Like a rent in the covenant, it hurts WATER LYRICS First Line: High tide at last, water spread Last Line: Love and hate come on this way WEB-MAKING First Line: A spider sways along that wondrous slur Last Line: Something time takes to finish, or to break %or to become the way things look in WHAT THE DOVE SINGS Poem Text First Line: The mourning dove Subject(s): Doves WHERE First Line: No one stands still there, even if there are no paths -- ferns and Last Line: Soon the hills will be familiar -- tied to you with unbreakable string WHISPERING GEESE First Line: Because we know it's only a matter of time WILD PARTRIDGE First Line: The same bird over and over again Last Line: How each moment soars, in truth, %in mortal surprise, away from us always? WINDOWS First Line: Without meaning to we stand at windows Last Line: Irreversible curve-and is completely light WINTER POEM First Line: Far past the broken wall, slashed stumps Last Line: On the vacancy in which we have no place WINTER WITHOUT SNOW First Line: The man carried bucket after bucket of plaster dust Last Line: As was my wish for a white field %like a fresh beginning WITH MUSE First Line: There are moments, after the bath Last Line: Like redbirds in heather a september morning WOMAN LIKE YOURSELF First Line: You walk toward a woman like yourself, %but older Last Line: But as if nothing at all %happened YOUTHFUL VENUS First Line: The sea foams and the ivory body Last Line: Before the gleam of desire, overwhelming joy |
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