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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: HILL, GEOFFREY Matches Found: 400 Hill, Geoffrey Poet's Biography 400 poems available by this author A PRE-RAPHAELITE NOTEBOOK Poem Text First Line: Primroses; salutations; the miry skull Subject(s): Prehistoric Antiquities; Time A SONG OF DEGREES Poem Text First Line: It is said adonai your hidden word Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History AFTER CUMAE First Line: The sun again unearthed, colours come up fresh Last Line: Fingered, themselves the curios of voyage ALGABAL Poem Text First Line: Rhine-rentier Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History ALGABAL First Line: Rhine-rentier Last Line: Of the ageless champion Subject(s): Great Britain - History ANNUNCIATIONS First Line: The word has been abroad, is back, with a tanned look Last Line: To recognize the damned among your friends.' APOLOGY FOR THE REVIVAL OF CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE IN ENGLAND: 1 First Line: And, after all, it is to them we return Last Line: It is the rood blazing upon the green APOLOGY FOR THE REVIVAL OF CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE IN ENGLAND: 10 First Line: Remember how, at seven years, the decrees Last Line: All night the cisterns whisper in the roof APOLOGY FOR THE REVIVAL OF CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE IN ENGLAND: 11 First Line: The pigeon purrs in the wood; the wood has gone Last Line: Warheads of mushrooms round the filter-pond APOLOGY FOR THE REVIVAL OF CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE IN ENGLAND: 12 First Line: Stroke the small silk with your whispering hands Last Line: And the lost delicate suitors who could sing Variant Title(s): The Eve Of St. Mar APOLOGY FOR THE REVIVAL OF CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE IN ENGLAND: 13 First Line: So to celebrate that kingdom: it grows Last Line: How the rose-window blossoms with the sun! APOLOGY FOR THE REVIVAL OF CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE IN ENGLAND: 3 First Line: High voices in domestic chapels; praise Last Line: The spider looms against another storm APOLOGY FOR THE REVIVAL OF CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE IN ENGLAND: 4 First Line: Make miniatures of the once-monstrous theme Last Line: Sated upon the stillness of the bride APOLOGY FOR THE REVIVAL OF CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE IN ENGLAND: 5 First Line: Suppose they sweltered here three thousand years Last Line: Among the ruins and on endless roads APOLOGY FOR THE REVIVAL OF CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE IN ENGLAND: 6 First Line: Malcolm and frere, colebrooke and elphinstone Last Line: Heavenly buddhas smiling in their sleep.' APOLOGY FOR THE REVIVAL OF CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE IN ENGLAND: 7 First Line: Pitched high above the shallows of the sea Last Line: Even the phantoms of untold mistakes APOLOGY FOR THE REVIVAL OF CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE IN ENGLAND: 8 First Line: While friends defected, you stayed and were sure Last Line: Of snowberries, clear-calling as they fade APOLOGY FOR THE REVIVAL OF CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE IN ENGLAND: 9 First Line: Autumn resumes the land, ruffles the woods Last Line: In cabinets of amethyst and frost Variant Title(s): The Laurel Ax ASMODEUS First Line: They, after the slow building of the house Last Line: Closing the doors of the house and the head also Variant Title(s): Asmoda ASSISI FRAGMENTS First Line: Lion and lioness, the mild %inflammable beasts Last Line: Eat, my brother; and to the fire I am clean BIBLIOGRAPHERS First Line: Lucifer blazing in superb effigies Last Line: (the shadow-god envisaged in no cloud Subject(s): Christianity; Religion BIDDEN GUEST First Line: The starched unbending candles stir Last Line: A server has put out its eyes CANAAN Poem Text First Line: They march at god's Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History CANAAN First Line: They march at god's Last Line: Or a leg like flails Subject(s): Great Britain - History CANTICLE FOR GOOD FRIDAY Poem Text First Line: The cross staggered him. At the cliff-top Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Religion; Theology CANTICLE FOR GOOD FRIDAY First Line: The cross staggered him. At the cliff-top Last Line: Creation's issue congealing (and one woman's Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Religion CHRISTMAS TREES' Poem Text First Line: Bonhoeffer in his skylit cell Subject(s): Bonhoeffer, Dietrich (1906-1945); Christianity; Christmas; Christmas Trees; Nativity, The CHRISTMAS TREES' First Line: Bonhoeffer in his skylit cell Last Line: We hear too late or not too late Subject(s): Bonhoeffer, Dietrich (1906-1945); Christianity; Christmas; Christmas Trees CHURCHILL'S FUNERAL Poem Text First Line: Endless london / mourns for that knowledge Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History CHURCHILL'S FUNERAL First Line: Endless london %mourns for that knowledge Last Line: Redemption and last %salvo of poppies? Subject(s): Great Britain - History CONCERNING INHERITANCE Poem Text First Line: It is with civic matters as with some questions Last Line: Its aegis anciently a divine shield / over the city Subject(s): Great Britain – History; Inheritance & Succession; English History CONCERNING INHERITANCE First Line: It is with civic matters as with some questions Last Line: Its aegis anciently a divine shield %over the city Subject(s): Great Britain - History COWAN BRIDGE First Line: A lost storm in this temperate place Last Line: The modesty of her rage CYCLE Poem Text First Line: Natural strange beatitudes Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History CYCLE First Line: Natural strange beatitudes Last Line: Do you mean %beatitudes Subject(s): Great Britain - History DARK-LAND (1) Poem Text First Line: Are these last things reduced Last Line: Sheol if not shiloh Subject(s): Great Britain – History; Anglican Church; Jews; English History DARK-LAND (1) First Line: Are these last things reduced Last Line: Sheol if not shiloh Subject(s): Great Britain - History DARK-LAND (2) Poem Text First Line: Wherein wesley stood Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History DARK-LAND (2) First Line: Wherein wesley stood Last Line: Of entailed riches Subject(s): Great Britain - History DARK-LAND (3) Poem Text First Line: Aspiring grantham Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History DARK-LAND (3) First Line: Aspiring grantham Last Line: To flagrant mercies Subject(s): Great Britain - History DE ANIMA Poem Text First Line: Salutation: it is as though Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History DE ANIMA First Line: Salutation: it is as though Last Line: Ourselves and masters of all %humility Subject(s): Great Britain - History DE JURE BELLI AC PACIS Poem Text First Line: The people moves as one spirit unfettered Last Line: To consecrate the liberties of maastricht? Subject(s): Europe DE JURE BELLI AC PACIS First Line: The people moves as one spirit unfettered Last Line: The archangel, unseeing, unbowed, %chimes with each stroke Subject(s): Great Britain - History DISCOURSE: FOR STANLEY ROSEN First Line: As to whether there persists-enlighten me Last Line: Its earthen genius auditing the spheres DISTANT FURY OF BATTLE First Line: Grass resurrects to mask, to strange Last Line: Some, dug out of hot-beds, are brought bare, %not past conceiving but past care DOCTOR FAUSTUS: 1. THE EMPEROR'S CLOTHES First Line: A way of many ways: a god Last Line: Voice (though innocently loud DOCTOR FAUSTUS: 2. THE HARPIES First Line: Having stood hungrily apart Last Line: By the torn waters DOCTOR FAUSTUS: 3. ANOTHER PART OF THE FABLE First Line: The innocents have not flown Last Line: A blinded god believe %that he is not blind ELEGIAC STANZAS First Line: Mountains, monuments, all forms Last Line: O sentiment upon the rocks! EPIPHANY AT SAINT MARY THE VIRGIN First Line: The wise men, vulnerable in ageing plaster Last Line: The night air sings of colder spells to come EZEKIEL'S WHEEL Poem Text First Line: Consider now the valley Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History EZEKIEL'S WHEEL First Line: Consider now the valley Last Line: The bane of judah Subject(s): Great Britain - History FANTASIA ON 'HORBURY' First Line: Dry walls, and nettles battered by the dust Last Line: These heads of nettles lopped into the dust FLORENTINES First Line: Horses, black-lidded mouths peeled back Last Line: The stricken faces damnable and serene FOUR POEMS REGARDING THE ENDURANCE OF POETS: 'DOMAINE PUBLIC' First Line: For reading I can recommend Last Line: Resurrect and the judges come FOUR POEMS REGARDING THE ENDURANCE OF POETS: A PRAYER TO THE SUN First Line: Darkness %above all things Last Line: Bless us %so that %we sleep FOUR POEMS REGARDING THE ENDURANCE OF POETS: MEN ARE A MOCKERY OF First Line: Some days a shadow through Last Line: I would compose my voice FOUR POEMS REGARDING THE ENDURANCE OF POETS: TRISTIA: 1891-1938 First Line: Difficult friend, I would have preferred Last Line: Feasting on this, reaching its own end FUNERAL MUSIC First Line: Processionals in the exemplary cave Last Line: Crying to the end 'I have not finished.' FUNERAL MUSIC: I First Line: Processionals in the exemplary cave, Last Line: Habitation, no man's dwelling-place. FUNERAL MUSIC: II First Line: For whom do we scrape our tribute of pain- Last Line: Flurrying, darkness over the human mire. FUNERAL MUSIC: III First Line: They bespoke doomsday and they meant it by Last Line: Tup in their marriage-blood, gasping jesus. FUNERAL MUSIC: IV First Line: Let mind be more precious than soul; it will not Last Line: With perpetual silence as with torches. FUNERAL MUSIC: V First Line: As with torches we go, at wild christmas, Last Line: Tenderness of the damned for their own flesh: FUNERAL MUSIC: VI First Line: My little son, when you could command marvels Last Line: Abandonment, since it is what I have. FUNERAL MUSIC: VII First Line: Prowess, vanity, mutual regard, Last Line: Strutted upon the armour of the dead. FUNERAL MUSIC: VIII First Line: Not as we are but as we must appear, Last Line: Crying to the end I have not finished. GENESIS Poem Text First Line: Against the burly air I strode Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology GENESIS First Line: Against the burly air I strode Last Line: Though earth has rolled beneath her weight %the bones that cannot bear the light Subject(s): Bible; Religion GIDEON AT THE WALL First Line: Nudging and thrusting to the light GOD'S LITTLE MOUNTAIN First Line: Below, the river scrambled like a goat Last Line: And who will prove the surgeon to this stone? GUARDIANS First Line: The young, having risen early, had gone Last Line: Gather the dead as the first dead scrape home HISTORY AS POETRY First Line: Poetry as salutation; taste Last Line: Unanswerable the knack of tongues HOLY THURSDAY Poem Text First Line: Naked, he climbed to the wolf's lair Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology HOLY THURSDAY First Line: Naked, he climbed to the wolf's lair Last Line: Who was my constant myth and terror Subject(s): Christianity; Religion HUMANIST First Line: The venice portrait: he Last Line: Dryly against the robes Subject(s): Christianity; Religion HYMNS TO OUR LADY OF CHARTRES HYMNS TO OUR LADY OF CHARTRES First Line: Eia, with handbells, jews' harps, risible Last Line: Your varied mercies, variously adored I HAD HOPE WHEN VIOLENCE WAS CEAS'T First Line: Dawnlight freezes against the east-wire Last Line: That which is taken from me in not mine IMAGINATIVE LIFE First Line: Evasive souls, of whom the wise lose track Last Line: As though the dead had finis on the brows IN MEMORY OF JANE FRASER; AN ATTEMPTED REPARATION Poem Text First Line: When snow like sheep lay in the fold Subject(s): Christianity; Death; Religion; Dead, The; Theology IN MEMORY OF JANE FRASER; AN ATTEMPTED REPARATION First Line: When snow like sheep lay in the fold Last Line: Dead comes upon the alder shook Subject(s): Christianity; Death; Religion IN PIAM MEMORIAM First Line: Created purely from glass the saint stands Last Line: Like a revealed mineral, a new earth LACHRIMAE: 1. LACHRIMAE VERAE First Line: Crucified lord, you swim upon your cross Last Line: Surrendering the joys that they condemn LACHRIMAE: 2. THE MASQUE OF BLACKNESS First Line: Splendour of life so splendidly contained Last Line: Vanishes in the chaos of the dark LACHRIMAE: 3. MARTYRIUM First Line: The jesus-faced man walking crowned with flies Last Line: In rising vernicles of summer air LACHRIMAE: 4. LACHRIMAE COACTAE First Line: Crucified lord, however much I burn Last Line: Its void embrace, the semblance of your quiet LACHRIMAE: 5. PAVANA DOLOROSA First Line: Loves I allow and passions I approve Last Line: I stay amid the things that will not stay LACHRIMAE: 6. LACHRIMAE ANTIQUAE NOVAE First Line: Crucified lord, so naked to the world Last Line: Dominion is swallowed with your blood LITTLE APOCALYPSE First Line: Abrupt tempter; close enough to survive Last Line: The god cast, perfected, among fire LOCUST SONGS: GOOD HUSBANDRY First Line: Out of the foliage of sensual pride Last Line: Gluttons for wrath, we stomach our reward LOCUST SONGS: SHILOH CHURCH, 1862: TWENTY-THREE THOUSAND Poem Text First Line: O stamping-ground of the shod word! So hard Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology LOCUST SONGS: SHILOH CHURCH, 1862: TWENTY-THREE THOUSAND First Line: O stamping-ground of the shod word! So hard Last Line: But with what blood, and to what end, shiloh? Subject(s): Christianity; Religion LOCUST SONGS: THE EMBLEM First Line: So with sweet oaths converting the salt earth Last Line: Stung by the innocent venoms of the earth MERCIAN HYMNS: 1 Poem Text First Line: King of the perennial holly-groves, the riven sandstone: overlord of Subject(s): England; Offa (d. 796), King Of Mercia; English MERCIAN HYMNS: 1 First Line: King of the perennial holly-groves, the riven sandstone: overlord of Last Line: I liked that,' said offa, 'sing it again.' Subject(s): England; Offa (d. 796), King Of Mercia MERCIAN HYMNS: 10 Poem Text First Line: He adored the desk, its brown-oak inlaid with ebony Subject(s): England; Offa (d. 796), King Of Mercia; English MERCIAN HYMNS: 10 First Line: He adored the desk, its brown-oak inlaid with ebony Last Line: He wept, %attempting to master ancilla and servus Subject(s): England; Offa (d. 796), King Of Mercia MERCIAN HYMNS: 11 First Line: Coins handsome as nero's; of good substance and Last Line: Furrowed black mould, his snout intimate with worms and leaves MERCIAN HYMNS: 12 First Line: Their spades grafted through the variably-resistant Last Line: Sunk solids of gravity. I have raked up a golden and stinking blaze MERCIAN HYMNS: 13 First Line: Trim the lamp; polish the lens; draw, one by one, rare Last Line: Portrays the self-possession of his possession, %cushioned on a legend MERCIAN HYMNS: 14 First Line: Dimissing reports and men, he put pressure on the wax Last Line: He did this whenever it suited him, which was not often MERCIAN HYMNS: 15 First Line: Tutting, he wrenched at a snarled root of dead crab Last Line: Head, the corpse of cernunnos pitching dayward %its feral horns MERCIAN HYMNS: 16 Poem Text First Line: Clash of salutation. As keels thrust into shingle Subject(s): England; Offa (d. 796), King Of Mercia; English MERCIAN HYMNS: 16 First Line: Clash of salutation. As keels thrust into shingle Last Line: Hissing. Wine, urine and sashes Subject(s): England; Offa (d. 796), King Of Mercia MERCIAN HYMNS: 17 First Line: He drove at evening through the hushed vosges. The Last Line: The high valleys its halleine MERCIAN HYMNS: 18 First Line: At pavia, a visitation of some sorrow. Boethius' Last Line: His journey. To watch the tiber foaming out much blood MERCIAN HYMNS: 19 First Line: Behind the thorn-trees thin smoke, scutch-grass or Last Line: With soft shields of fungus, and launch it upon the flames MERCIAN HYMNS: 2 First Line: A pet-name, a common name. Best-selling brand Last Line: The starting-cry of a race. A name to conjure with MERCIAN HYMNS: 20 First Line: Primeval heathland spattered with the boones of mice Last Line: Gwern'. Steel against yew and privet. Fresh %dynasties of smiths MERCIAN HYMNS: 21 First Line: Cohorts of charabancs fanfared offa's province and Last Line: The nuggets of fool's gold MERCIAN HYMNS: 22 First Line: We ran across the meadow with cow-dung, past the crab-apple Last Line: Airships and warriors who took wing immortal as phantoms MERCIAN HYMNS: 23 First Line: In tapestries, in dreams, they gathered, as it was en Last Line: Cold bacon. The lamps grew plump with oily reliable light MERCIAN HYMNS: 24 First Line: Itinerant through numerous domains, o his lord's Last Line: ('et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum' dust in the %eyes, on clawing wings, and lips MERCIAN HYMNS: 25 First Line: Brooding on the eightieth letter of fors clavigera, I speak this in memory Last Line: Whose childhood and prime womanhood were spent in the nailers' drag MERCIAN HYMNS: 26 First Line: Fortified in their front parlours, at yuletide men Last Line: Who have scattered peppermint and confetti, your %hundreds-and-thousands MERCIAN HYMNS: 27 Poem Text First Line: Now when king offa was alive and dead, they were Subject(s): Offa (d. 796), King Of Mercia MERCIAN HYMNS: 27 First Line: Now when king offa was alive and dead, they were Last Line: Dripped red in the arena of its uprooting Subject(s): Offa (d. 796), King Of Mercia MERCIAN HYMNS: 28 Poem Text First Line: Processes of generation; deeds of settlement. The Subject(s): England; Offa (d. 796), King Of Mercia; English MERCIAN HYMNS: 28 First Line: Processes of generation; deeds of settlement. The Last Line: Of legendary holly; silverdark the ridged gleam Subject(s): England; Offa (d. 796), King Of Mercia MERCIAN HYMNS: 29 First Line: Not strangeness, but strange likeness. Obstinate, outclassed forefathers Last Line: He entered into the last dream of offa the king MERCIAN HYMNS: 3 First Line: On the morning of the crowning we chorused our remission from school Last Line: A king in his new-risen hat, sealing his brisk largesse with 'any mustard?' MERCIAN HYMNS: 30 Poem Text First Line: And it seemed, while we waited, he began to walk to Subject(s): England; Offa (d. 796), King Of Mercia; English MERCIAN HYMNS: 30 First Line: And it seemed, while we waited, he began to walk to Last Line: He left behind coins, for his lodging, and traces of red mud Subject(s): England; Offa (d. 796), King Of Mercia MERCIAN HYMNS: 4 First Line: I was invested in mother-earth, the crypt of roots Last Line: Long-unlooked-for mansions of our tribe MERCIAN HYMNS: 5 First Line: So much for the elves' wergild, the true governance Last Line: I who was take to be a king of %some kind, a prodigy, a maimed one MERCIAN HYMNS: 6 Poem Text First Line: The princes of mercia were badger and raven. Thrall to their freedom Subject(s): England; Offa (d. 796), King Of Mercia; English MERCIAN HYMNS: 6 First Line: The princes of mercia were badger and raven. Thrall to their freedom Last Line: Dried snot; wrists and knees garnished with impetigo Subject(s): England; Offa (d. 796), King Of Mercia MERCIAN HYMNS: 7 Poem Text First Line: Gasholders, russet among fields. Milldams, marlpools that lay unstirring Subject(s): England; Offa (d. 796), King Of Mercia; English MERCIAN HYMNS: 7 First Line: Gasholders, russet among fields. Milldams, marlpools that lay unstirring Last Line: In his private derelict sandlorry named albion Subject(s): England; Offa (d. 796), King Of Mercia MERCIAN HYMNS: 8 Poem Text First Line: The mad are predators. Too often lately they harbour Subject(s): England; Offa (d. 796), King Of Mercia; English MERCIAN HYMNS: 8 First Line: The mad are predators. Too often lately they harbour Last Line: Law. I dedicate my awakening to this matter Subject(s): England; Offa (d. 796), King Of Mercia MERCIAN HYMNS: 9 First Line: The strange church smelled a bit 'high', of censers Last Line: Lived long enough to see things 'nicely settled' MERLIN First Line: I will consider the outnumbering dead Last Line: And over their city stands the pinnacled corn METAMORPHOSES: 1. THE FEAR First Line: No manner of address will do Last Line: The summit and the ground METAMORPHOSES: 2 First Line: Through scant pride to be so put out! Last Line: With admirable restraint and fervour METAMORPHOSES: 3. THE RE-BIRTH OF VENUS Poem Text First Line: And now the sea-scoured temptress, having failed Subject(s): Chicago; Haymarket Square Riot; Newspapers; Social Protest; Journalism; Journalists METAMORPHOSES: 3. THE RE-BIRTH OF VENUS First Line: And now the sea-scoured temptress, having failed Last Line: Stayers, and searchers of the fanged pool Subject(s): Chicago; Haymarket Square Riot; Newspapers; Social Protest METAMORPHOSES: 4. DRAKE'S DRUM First Line: Those varied dead. The undiscerning sea Last Line: Sink to their melted ears and melted hearts METAMORPHOSES: 5 First Line: Doubtless he saw some path clear, having found Last Line: That to be bleached or burned the sea casts out MYSTERY OF THE CHARITY OF CHARLES PEGUY First Line: Crack of a starting-pistol, jean jaures Last Line: In memory of those things these words were born.' MYSTERY OF THE CHARITY OF CHARLES PEGUY: 5 First Line: Among the beetroots, where we are constrained Last Line: With love, honour, suchlike bitter fruit? MYSTICISM AND DEMOCRACY (1) Poem Text First Line: You see the terrain he has won back from but not won Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History MYSTICISM AND DEMOCRACY (1) First Line: You see the terrain he has won back from but not won Last Line: Transformation-scene-and-curtain, apocalypse-hippodrome! Subject(s): Great Britain - History MYSTICISM AND DEMOCRACY (2) Poem Text First Line: Do not stand witness; observe only Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History MYSTICISM AND DEMOCRACY (2) First Line: Do not stand witness; observe only Last Line: At the mercy of door-chimes? Subject(s): Great Britain - History MYSTICISM AND DEMOCRACY (3) Poem Text First Line: To the evangelicals: a moving image Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History MYSTICISM AND DEMOCRACY (3) First Line: To the evangelicals: a moving image Last Line: But shelve it under mercies Subject(s): Great Britain - History MYSTICISM AND DEMOCRACY (4) Poem Text First Line: Ill-conceived, ill ordained, heart's rhetoric Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History MYSTICISM AND DEMOCRACY (4) First Line: Ill-conceived, ill ordained, heart's rhetoric Last Line: Not to be taken down Subject(s): Great Britain - History MYSTICISM AND DEMOCRACY (5) Poem Text First Line: Great gifts foreclosed on; loss and waste offset Last Line: This is also admitted: introit turba Subject(s): Great Britain – History; Religion; English History MYSTICISM AND DEMOCRACY (5) First Line: Great gifts foreclosed on; loss and waste offset Last Line: This also is admitted: introit turba Subject(s): Great Britain - History OF COMING-INTO-BEING AND PASSING-AWAY Poem Text First Line: Rosa sericea: its red spurs / blooded with amber Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History OF COMING-INTO-BEING AND PASSING-AWAY First Line: Rosa sericea: its red spurs %blooded with amber Last Line: The unsustaining %wondrously sustained Subject(s): Great Britain - History OF COMMERCE AND SOCIETY: 1. THE APOSTLES: VERSAILLES, 1919 First Line: They sat. They stood about Last Line: The sea creaked with worked vessels OF COMMERCE AND SOCIETY: 2. THE LOWLANDS OF HOLLAND First Line: Europe, the much-scarred, much-scoured terrain Last Line: The sea decent again behind walls OF COMMERCE AND SOCIETY: 3. THE DEATH OF SHELLEY First Line: Slime; the residues of refined tears Last Line: Strain into life with their notorious cries OF COMMERCE AND SOCIETY: 4 First Line: Statesmen have known visions. And, not alone Last Line: At times it seems not common to explain OF COMMERCE AND SOCIETY: 5. ODE ON THE LOSS OF THE 'TITANIC' First Line: Thriving against facades the ignorant sea Last Line: By all means let us appease the terse gods OF COMMERCE AND SOCIETY: 6. THE MARTYRDOM OF SAINT SEBASTIAN First Line: Naked, as if for swimming, the martyr Last Line: Resonant with tribute and with commerce OF CONSTANCY AND MEASURE Poem Text First Line: One sees again how it goes Last Line: With so much else believed to be fire and air Subject(s): Gurney, Ivor (1890-1937); World War I OF CONSTANCY AND MEASURE First Line: One sees again how it goes Last Line: With so much else believed to be fire and air Subject(s): Great Britain - History ORDER OF SERVICE First Line: He was the surveyor of his own ice-world Last Line: Dazzled by renunciation's glare ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE Poem Text First Line: Though there are wild dogs Last Line: The newly-stung Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE First Line: Though there are wild dogs Last Line: Serene even to a fault Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus OVID IN THE THIRD REICH Poem Text First Line: I love my work and my children. God Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism OVID IN THE THIRD REICH First Line: I love my work and my children. God Last Line: Love. I, in mine, celebrate the love-choir Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PARENTALIA (1) Poem Text First Line: The here-and-now finds vigil transfiguring Last Line: In the faint rasp of autumnal flowers Subject(s): Beauty PARENTALIA (1) First Line: The here-and-now finds vigil transfiguring Last Line: In the faint rasp of dry autumnal flowers Subject(s): Great Britain - History PARENTALIA (2) Poem Text First Line: Go your ways, as if in thanksgiving Last Line: "harvest festival to armistice day Subject(s): Daniel (bible) PARENTALIA (2) First Line: Go your ways, as if in thanksgiving Last Line: The other harvest Subject(s): Great Britain - History PASTORAL First Line: Mobile, immaculate and austere Last Line: Evidently-veiled griefs; impervious tombs PICTURE OF A NATIVITY Poem Text First Line: Sea-preserved, heaped with sea-spoils Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology PICTURE OF A NATIVITY First Line: Sea-preserved, heaped with sea-spoils Last Line: Freeze into an attitude %recalling the dead Subject(s): Christianity; Religion PISGAH Poem Text First Line: I am ashamed and grieve, having seen you then Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History PISGAH First Line: I am ashamed and grieve, having seen you then Last Line: Perhaps I too am a shade Subject(s): Great Britain - History POSTLUDE Poem Text First Line: Rose-douched ammoniac Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History POSTLUDE First Line: Rose-douched ammoniac Last Line: Swallow their parturitions Subject(s): Great Britain - History PSALMS OF ASSIZE Poem Text First Line: Why should I strike you with my name Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History PSALMS OF ASSIZE First Line: Why should I strike you with my name Last Line: With the elect justified %to his right hand Subject(s): Great Britain - History REQUIEM FOR THE PLANTAGENET KINGS Poem Text First Line: For whom the possessed sea littered, on both shores Subject(s): Great Britain - Rulers REQUIEM FOR THE PLANTAGENET KINGS First Line: For whom the possessed sea littered, on both shores Last Line: Across daubed rock evacuates its dead Subject(s): Great Britain - Rulers RESPUBLICA Poem Text First Line: The srident high Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History RESPUBLICA First Line: The srident high Last Line: Back from the dead Subject(s): Great Britain - History RITORNELLI Poem Text First Line: Angel of tones Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History RITORNELLI First Line: Angel of tones Last Line: With sounds of joy Subject(s): Great Britain - History SCENES WITH HARLEQUINS Poem Text First Line: Distance is on edge Last Line: "it is parched mars, Subject(s): Religion SCENES WITH HARLEQUINS First Line: Distance is on edge Last Line: Foreknowledge-I forget- %in 'retribution' Subject(s): Great Britain - History SEPTEMBER SONG Poem Text First Line: Undesirable you may have been, untouchable Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; War; Shoah; Judaism SEPTEMBER SONG First Line: Undesirable you may have been, untouchable Last Line: This is plenty. This is more than enough Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; War SOBIESKI'S SHIELD Poem Text First Line: The blackberry, white Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History SOBIESKI'S SHIELD First Line: The blackberry, white Last Line: And what they have about them dark to dark Subject(s): Great Britain - History SOLILOQUIES: OLD POET WITH DISTANT ADMIRERS First Line: What I lost was not a part of this Last Line: Of propertius (although he died young SOLILOQUIES: THE STONE MAN First Line: Recall, now, the omens of childhood Last Line: The sun bellows over its parched swarms SOLOMON'S MINES First Line: Anything to have done! Last Line: Out of that strong land SONG OF DEGREES First Line: It is said adonai your hidden word Last Line: To his blind faith Subject(s): Great Britain - History SONG CONTEST First Line: By order of hunger the starving stood in line Last Line: In lieu of words the one word fire %blazed from its heart SONGBOOK OF SEBASTIAN ARRURRUZ First Line: Ten years without you. For so it happens Last Line: The long-lost words of choice and valediction SONGBOOK OF SEBASTIAN ARRURRUZ: 3 First Line: What other men do with other women Last Line: The dream where you are always to be found SONGBOOK OF SEBASTIAN ARRURRUZ: 4 First Line: A workable fancy. Old petulant Last Line: At he end, into the light of appraisal SONGBOOK OF SEBASTIAN ARRURRUZ: 5 First Line: Love, oh my love, it will come Last Line: Are fed into my blank hunger for you SONGBOOK OF SEBASTIAN ARRURRUZ: A LETTER FROM ARMENIA First Line: So, remotely, in your part of the world Last Line: Circumstantial disasters. I gaze at the authentic dead SONGBOOK OF SEBASTIAN ARRURRUZ: COPLAS First Line: One cannot lose what one has not possessed.' Last Line: By the unfamiliar passion between them? SONGBOOK OF SEBASTIAN ARRURRUZ: FROM THE LATIN First Line: There would have been things to say, quietness Last Line: Desirable features of conversation SONGBOOK OF SEBASTIAN ARRURRUZ: POSTURES First Line: I imagine, as I imagine us Last Line: Pursues its own abstinence SONGBOOK OF SEBASTIAN ARRURRUZ: TO HIS WIFE First Line: You ventured occasionally - %as though this were another's house Last Line: Of now-almost-meaningless despair SORREL Poem Text First Line: Very common and widely distributed...It is called sorrow Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History SORREL First Line: Very common and widely distributed...It is called sorrow Last Line: Salvation's troth-plight, plumed, of the elect Subject(s): Great Britain - History TENEBRAE First Line: Requite this angel whose %flushed and thirsting face Last Line: Silver on silver thrills itself to ice TERRIBILIS EST LOCUS ISTE First Line: Briefly they are amazed. The marigold-fields Last Line: Self-portrait with a seraph and a storm THAT MAN AS A RATIONAL ANIMAL Poem Text First Line: Abiding provenance I would have said Last Line: Innocence of first inscription Subject(s): Christianity THAT MAN AS A RATIONAL ANIMAL First Line: Abiding provenance I would have said Last Line: Innocence of first inscription Subject(s): Great Britain - History THE BIBLIOGRAPHERS Poem Text First Line: Lucifer blazing in superb effigies Last Line: The shadow-god envisioned is no cloud Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology THE HUMANIST Poem Text First Line: The venice portrait: he Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology THREE BAROQUE MEDITATIONS: 1 First Line: Do words make up the majesty Last Line: Paradigm sleep-and-kill THREE BAROQUE MEDITATIONS: 2 First Line: Anguish bloated by the replete scream Last Line: Furies promenade and bask their claws THREE BAROQUE MEDITATIONS: 3. THE DEAD BRIDE Poem Text First Line: So white I was, he would have me cry Subject(s): Hate THREE BAROQUE MEDITATIONS: 3. THE DEAD BRIDE First Line: So white I was, he would have me cry Last Line: Love. I hated him. He weeps, solemnizing his loss Subject(s): Hate TO JOHN CONSTABLE: IN ABSENTIA Poem Text First Line: Anxious griefs, grievous anxieties, are not to be Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History TO JOHN CONSTABLE: IN ABSENTIA First Line: Anxious griefs, grievous anxieties, are not to be Last Line: The abrupt rainbow's errant visitation Subject(s): Great Britain - History TO LUCIEN RICHARD: ON SUFFERING First Line: The undulant road makes the way-out tide Last Line: Pity about the tackle. I could have wept TO THE (SUPPOSED) PATRON First Line: Prodigal of loves and barbecues Last Line: Where fish at dawn ignite the powdery lake TO THE HIGH COURT OF PARLIAMENT (1) Poem Text First Line: Where's probity in this Last Line: Into the lens of oblivion Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History TO THE HIGH COURT OF PARLIAMENT (1) First Line: Where's probity in this Last Line: Into the lens of oblivion Subject(s): Great Britain - History TO THE HIGH COURT OF PARLIAMENT (2) Poem Text First Line: Keep what in repair? Last Line: The voice of amos / past its own enduring Subject(s): Great Britain – History; Amos (bible); English History TO THE HIGH COURT OF PARLIAMENT (2) First Line: Keep what in repair? Last Line: Past its own enduring Subject(s): Great Britain - History TO THE HIGH COURT OF PARLIAMENT (3) Poem Text First Line: Who could outbalance poised Last Line: Densely reflective, long-drawn, procession of waters? Subject(s): Great Britain – History; Religion; Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); English History TO THE HIGH COURT OF PARLIAMENT (3) First Line: Who could outbalance poised Last Line: Densely reflective, long-drawn, procession of waters? Subject(s): Great Britain - History TO THE NIEUPORT SCOUT Poem Text First Line: How swiftly they cease to be Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History TO THE NIEUPORT SCOUT First Line: How swiftly they cease to be Last Line: Quenched in a cloud Subject(s): Great Britain - History TO THE TELLER OF FORTUNES First Line: Spread sand not straw. Salt useless here although Last Line: Thirteen syllables I shall survive TO WILLIAM COBBETT: IN ABSENTIA Poem Text First Line: I say it is not faithless Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History TO WILLIAM COBBETT: IN ABSENTIA First Line: I say it is not faithless Last Line: Awed by its own predation Subject(s): Great Britain - History TO WILLIAM LAW: IN ABSENTIA Poem Text First Line: To fall asleep in the flesh Last Line: Light to the unmoved miraculous / pool of siloam Subject(s): Great Britain – History; Religion; Law, William (1686-1761); English History TO WILLIAM LAW: IN ABSENTIA First Line: To fall asleep in the flesh Last Line: Pool of siloam Subject(s): Great Britain - History TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 1 First Line: Sun-blazed, over romsley, a livid rain-scarp TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 10 First Line: Last things first; the slow haul to forgive them Last Line: Epanalepsis, the same word first and last TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 100 First Line: Blitzkrieg crazes the map-face. Europa wakes Last Line: Black-out for six years and find her again %irreparably repaired TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 101 First Line: Though already too late we must Last Line: Full of wild garlic TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 102 First Line: You are right, of course; I neither stand Last Line: A gnostic sign among the corinthians TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 103 First Line: Parades of strength are not, in the long view Last Line: Judge of our art, self-pleasured ironia TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 104 First Line: Self-pleasured, as retching on a voided Last Line: Dead. No joke, though, self-defenestration TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 105 First Line: Mea culpa, mea culpa, geffe juvat Last Line: For definitely the right era, read: dead in the right ear TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 106 First Line: You: with your regular morning and evening Last Line: The church of wesley, newman, and george bell TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 107 First Line: Flos campi - time among the small Last Line: Wayfaring theme for unaccompanied viola TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 108 First Line: #name? Last Line: Hear you you are in dumb-show TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 109 First Line: Ocuclos tuos ad nos converte: convert Last Line: Desperately, yet not with despair, not even in desperation TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 11 First Line: Above dunkirk, the sheared anvil Last Line: Madness - in lepzig, out of the sevenfold fiery furnace TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 110 First Line: This glowering carnival, kermesse of wrath Last Line: Inattentive, absorbing of king james' english TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 111 First Line: But is such anger genuine or factitious Last Line: Keep up a fiction, even for twenty lines TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 112 First Line: The glowering carnival, kermesse of wrath Last Line: Of jewish alchemy, rathenau %cold in his furs TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 113 First Line: Boerenverdriet? You eat it - it's dutch liverwurst TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 114 First Line: From the angels of irrational Last Line: Intervention and final custody TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 115 First Line: Overburdened with levity, the spirit found Last Line: To haemony, plant of exilic virtue TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 116 First Line: What a fool! And what folly! I should have stuck Last Line: Vicarious rounds of bare-knuckle TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 117 First Line: A noble vernacular? We could screw him Last Line: Have some great instauration occurring %by default, can we TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 118 First Line: By default, as it so happens, here we have Last Line: Somewhere - between laus deo and defiance TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 119 First Line: And yes - bugger you, macsikker et al., - I do Last Line: Of what is owed the dead TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 12 First Line: Even the things that stood Last Line: Hard up against the unlovely %body of aesthetics TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 120 First Line: As with the gospels, which it is allowed to resemble Last Line: Own redemption; the general temper %a caustic equity TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 121 First Line: So what is faith if it is not Last Line: Am an old man, a child, the horizon %is traherne's country TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 122 First Line: Sitting up, I drift Last Line: Memoria, the loan-shark TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 123 First Line: The secular masque, advanced Last Line: Altars of the sacrificed engineers TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 124 First Line: The glowering carnival, kermesse of wrath Last Line: He wasn't there, as croker pointed out TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 125 First Line: I have been working towards this for some time Last Line: Things are eternally present in time and nature TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 126 First Line: To the short-sighted citizen Last Line: Untouched, unhearing, angel of forgiveness TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 127 First Line: In loco parentis - devoured Last Line: By mad dad. Hideous - hideous - and many like it TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 128 First Line: The rough-edged, increasingly concave Last Line: In its conjurations of triumphs TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 129 First Line: One or two illustrations might help us Last Line: Ta-rah - ta-rah - ta-rarara - rah TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 13 First Line: Whose lives are hidden in god? Whose Last Line: Like glassblowers, inventions %of supreme order TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 130 First Line: Milton - the political pamphlets. Blake Last Line: Ta-rah - ta-rah - ta-rarara - rah TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 131 First Line: Mourning registers as celebration. Haydn Last Line: Ta-rah - ta-rah - ta-rarara - rah TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 132 First Line: I would have liked to know - I may yet know Last Line: Ta-rah - ta-rah - ta-rarara - rah TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 133 First Line: The nerve required to keep standing, pedaling Last Line: Ta-rah - ta-rah - ta-rarara -rah TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 134 First Line: It surprises me not at all that your Last Line: Wingbeats held by a blink TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 135 First Line: So what about the dark wood, eh Last Line: And are there still, in a manner of speaking TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 136 First Line: But only in a manner of speaking Last Line: England at once too weepy and too cold TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 137 First Line: The glowering carnival: nightly solar-flare Last Line: Iron garth; old stanchions wet with field-dew TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 138 First Line: Confound you, croker - you and your righteous Last Line: I've asked that before TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 139 First Line: Concerning the elective will, arbitrium Last Line: My dead body, says slow TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 14 First Line: As to bad faith, malebranche might argue Last Line: Unacknowledged. Unnamed is not nameless TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 140 First Line: A se stesso: of self, the lost cause to end all Last Line: Gorging on road-kill. A se stesso TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 141 First Line: From the terrible angel of procreation Last Line: Angel standing in for hope and despair TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 142 First Line: To the angel of the approved estimates Last Line: Estimated times of arrival and departure TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 143 First Line: Power and sycophancy, sycophancy in power Last Line: Of appeasement's brain-stench TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 144 First Line: Now, for the law, the prophets, must we take Last Line: Lauda? Lauda? Lauda sion? Lauda TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 145 First Line: Incantation or incontinence - the lyric cry Last Line: Told you the half of it. (all who are able may stand TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 146 First Line: The whole-keeping of augustine's city of god Last Line: Up, from a stone-wedged hedge-root, the lost amazing crown TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 147 First Line: To go so far with the elaborately Last Line: Cry pax, but to be healed. But to be healed, and die TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 148 First Line: Obnoxious means, far back within itself Last Line: Beautiful. Once more? A sad and angry consolation TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 149 First Line: Obstinate old man - senex %sapiens, it is not. Is he still Last Line: To forgive myself. We are immortal. Where was I? TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 15 First Line: Britannia's own narrow %miracle of survival Last Line: Polish luminary of our time is the obscure %aleksander wat TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 150 First Line: Sun-blazed, over romsley, the livid rain-scarp TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 16 First Line: Turing played well in defense Last Line: Positions. Admit defeat TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 17 First Line: If the gospel is heard, all else follows Last Line: We shall rise again, clutching our wounds TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 18 First Line: It is not (possibly a lacuna - ed Last Line: March or a death march? It is a dead march TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 19 First Line: If you so wish to construe this, I shall say Last Line: Move to the next section TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 2 First Line: Guilts were incurred in that place, now I am convinced Last Line: Self-molestation of the child-soul, would that be it TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 20 First Line: From the book of daniel, am I correct Last Line: He stretches his wings of flame %upon instruction TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 21 First Line: What did I miss? - as the man said Last Line: See my own future in prediction TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 22 First Line: What flagitia ought to have meant Last Line: Caesar alone were their agent of resurrection TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 23 First Line: What remains? You may well ask. Construction Last Line: Covenant with abraham which you scarcely recall TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 24 First Line: Summon the leaders, the leaping captions Last Line: Fire-breathers, artists of inept escape TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 25 First Line: The hierarchies are here to be questioned. Lead on Last Line: On the nature of destiny and calculation TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 26 First Line: Grief - now, after sixty years - exacerbated Last Line: Beside komensky and toma'0/00 masaryk TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 27 First Line: One could hardly foresee the vintage hearse Last Line: As to my lord protector: nothing %but name and number TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 28 First Line: As I have at times imagned: melancholy Last Line: Hoyda! - heel-kicking their nags TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 29 First Line: What is this strange tree that bears so well Last Line: Iron-bound storm-tree turbulently at rest TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 3 First Line: Oetronius arbiter, take us in charge Last Line: Angelus silesius, guard us while we are there TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 30 First Line: Bring out behemoth - so; a sullen beast Last Line: Your ignominy by nameless attribution TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 31 First Line: Scab-picking old scab: why should we be salted Last Line: With the scurf of his sores TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 32 First Line: Well-set imperial fixture - victory's Last Line: Hoisting the dead-beat with galvanic %blatter of trumpets TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 33 First Line: Trumpets? Come off it - that was cavalry Last Line: Waverng bugles took the chums and pals TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 34 First Line: Boom-boom! Obnoxious chthonic old far Last Line: Exposing himself to borrioboola-gha TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 35 First Line: Even now, I tell myself, there is a language Last Line: It is met also in the form of silence TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 36 First Line: You can say you are deaf in severl languages Last Line: Lass es in ruhe, mon vieux, hic scriptum est TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 37 First Line: Shameless old man, bent on committing Last Line: Put up by the defense to be %his own accuser TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 38 First Line: Widely established yet with particular Last Line: In the crypt at lastingham on the threshold of a millennium TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 39 First Line: Rancorous, narcissistic old sod - what Last Line: Much more does he have of injury time? TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 4 First Line: Ever more protracted foreplay Last Line: Aorta pelting out blood TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 40 First Line: For wordly, read worldly; for in equity, inequity Last Line: Is that right, missis, or is that right? I don't care what I say, do I? TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 41 First Line: For iconic priesthood, read wordly pique and ambition Last Line: For hardness of heart read costly dislike of cant TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 42 First Line: Excuse me - excuse me - I did not Last Line: The lifting. No - please - forget it TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 43 First Line: This is quite dreadful - he's become obsessed Last Line: There you go, there you go - narrow it down to obsession! TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 44 First Line: Cry pax, not that anything is forgiven Last Line: Let us continue to abuse one another %with the kiss of peace TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 45 First Line: It is believed - argued - they offered him Last Line: Courage but courage is not lost TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 46 First Line: Not always. Not even. Hand me that latin Last Line: With ruining and/or ruined force TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 47 First Line: Movie-vocals cracked, her patter still Last Line: Aspidistra, last off the beaches TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 48 First Line: Sir, your 'arts/life' column claims that gracie Last Line: What a 'prang'! - ed TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 49 First Line: A clear half-face of the moon Last Line: Ante portas. Why that TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 5 First Line: Obstinate old man - senex Last Line: Where was I? Prick him TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 50 First Line: Trimalchio, bouncing up from a brief seventh Last Line: Trimalchio readjusts his mask of laughter TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 51 First Line: Whatever may be meant by moral landscape Last Line: Are traceable across the faults TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 52 First Line: Admittedly at times this moral landscape Last Line: Gather and old horses shake their sides TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 53 First Line: But leave it now, leave it; as you left Last Line: Of drizzle at its own thorn-tip stands as revelation TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 54 First Line: Entertainment overkill: that amplifier Last Line: Of sacral baseness, like kings at stool TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 55 First Line: Vergine bella - it is here that I require Last Line: To a final understanding of it in that light TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 56 First Line: Less cryptic but still with a touch Last Line: If this is kenosis, I want out TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 57 First Line: My dear and awkward love, we may not need Last Line: Ultimate ruin of the final prize TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 58 First Line: Portrait of mourning's autodidact: proud Last Line: Beauty of the potato vine in its places %of lowly flowering TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 59 First Line: By unearned grandiloquence is to be undestood Last Line: Widdershins with a dagger of lath TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 6 First Line: Between bay window and hedge the impenetrable holly Last Line: By the strength of this reflection TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 60 First Line: Return of angelus novus. How that Last Line: Aside and are riven TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 61 First Line: A se stesso. %not unworded. Enworded Last Line: Of coherence. You will be taken up. A se stesso TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 62 First Line: A happy investment, lord trimalchio Last Line: Tyrant-entertainment, master of the crowds TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 63 First Line: Those obscenities which - as you say - you fancy Last Line: What else can I now sell myself, filched from lenten hebrews TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 64 First Line: Delete: sell myself; filched from. Inert Last Line: Tell myself; fetched from. For inert read insect TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 65 First Line: Who posed as britannia - one of royalty's Last Line: Sacred monsters bellowing at the pyre TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 66 First Line: Christ has risen yet again to their Last Line: Proclaim him risen indeed TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 67 First Line: Instruct me further in your travail Last Line: Alleluias forte, followed by indifferent %coffee and fellowship TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 68 First Line: Remove my heart of stone. Replace Last Line: Aggressor; the stoner of providence TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 69 First Line: What choice do you have? These are false questions Last Line: For you alone, the skeletal maple, a loose wire tapping the wind TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 7 First Line: Romsley, of all places! - spraddled ridge Last Line: Cloud-base of her now legendary dust TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 70 First Line: Active virtue: that which shall contain Last Line: There, by some, to be pondered TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 71 First Line: If slab faces can be wolfish this appears Last Line: Round-the-clock idle talk-down to impact TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 72 First Line: Ethics at the far edge: give the old Last Line: Bugger a shove/gentleman a shout TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 73 First Line: I may be gone some time. Hallelujah Last Line: Confession and recantation in fridge TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 74 First Line: For cinna the poet, see under errata TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 75 First Line: Corner to corner, the careful Last Line: Lacrimarum valle. But, to continue TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 76 First Line: At seven, even, I knew the much-vaunted Last Line: With so many memorials but no memory TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 77 First Line: By what right did keyes, or my cousin's Last Line: Sub rosa, the unmentionable graffiti TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 78 First Line: You say how you are struck by the unnatural Last Line: Who are you to say I sound funny TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 79 First Line: Time for a quick one, petronius. Charged Last Line: Enjoy. Open another vein TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 8 First Line: But how could there not be a difficult Last Line: The de causa dei of thomas brandwardine TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 80 First Line: Hopelessly-lost storyteller found Last Line: Everything must go. Daniel %a closed book TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 81 First Line: Everyone on heat; n - and m - stinking Last Line: Discretion, petronius arbiter TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 82 First Line: Go back to romsley, pick up the pieces, becomes Last Line: Childself. I gather I was a real swine TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 83 First Line: To have lost dignity is not the same Last Line: Our blessing, impacted as hebrew TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 84 First Line: When you lift up your eyes and behold Last Line: Stippled with silver, shaking off the light %garlands of sweat TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 85 First Line: A centrally-placed small round window, closed Last Line: Until I came to stills of the burning ghetto TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 86 First Line: Well over half-way now; still no response Last Line: Guilt and redemption in the trauerspiel TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 87 First Line: Forgive me, vergine bella, if I return Last Line: Worthless n - and m - now swedish millionaires TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 88 First Line: Let him alone, let him Last Line: Born again, but stillborn TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 89 First Line: Stunned words of victory less memorable Last Line: Down to us from the dead language of canaan TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 9 First Line: On chance occasions Last Line: To take corporeal shape TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 90 First Line: Ur? Yes? Pardon? Miss a throe: go to gaol TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 91 First Line: Celebrate yet again the mind's eye's Last Line: To synchronise watches. Last rum and fireworks TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 92 First Line: No way, jane grey, uncrowned bright Last Line: Is memory in this tranche of frozen sunlight TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 93 First Line: One thing then another, eh, sour Last Line: Chance right of reply, the people TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 94 First Line: Suddenly they are upon us, the long Last Line: Courage that is now in question TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 95 First Line: This is not duino. I have found no sign Last Line: Stay with this, perhaps to carry some meaning of our imperfection TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 96 First Line: Ignorant, assured, there comes to us a voice Last Line: The hatred that is in the nature of love TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 97 First Line: Devouring our names they possess and destroy Last Line: Choked in a cess-pit of leaking sheol TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 98 First Line: You will have seen how a big humming-top Last Line: I think. 'for ashkenazic read sephardic TRIUMPH OF LOVE: 99 First Line: So be that jaw-and rib-stove Last Line: Witness meant witness, all could be martyrs TROUBLESOME REIGN First Line: So much he had from fashion and no more Last Line: Subdued among famines and difficult wars TURTLE DOVE First Line: Love that drained her drained him she'd loved, though each Last Line: As his lithe, fathoming heart absorbed and buried TWO CHORALE-PRELUDES: 1. AVE REGINA COELORUM First Line: There is a land called lost Last Line: Dead stars in your sky TWO CHORALE-PRELUDES: 2. TE LUCIS ANTE TERMINUM First Line: Centaury with your staunch bloom Last Line: As lichen glimmers on the wood TWO FORMAL ELEGIES First Line: Knowing the dead, and how some are disposed Last Line: (as whose door does the sacrifice stand or start? VENI CORONABERIS Poem Text First Line: The crocus armies from the dead Subject(s): Waddell, Helen (1889-1965) VENI CORONABERIS First Line: The crocus armies from the dead Last Line: Towers and steeples rise away %into the towering gulfs of air Subject(s): Waddell, Helen (1889-1965) WHETHER MORAL VIRTUE COMES BY HABITUATION Poem Text First Line: It is said that sometimes even fear Last Line: The professionals of seared array Subject(s): Morality; Poetry & Poets WHETHER MORAL VIRTUE COMES BY HABITUATION First Line: It is said that sometimes even fear Last Line: The processionals of seared array Subject(s): Great Britain - History WHETHER THE VIRTUES ARE EMOTIONS Poem Text First Line: Overnight-overnight Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History WHETHER THE VIRTUES ARE EMOTIONS First Line: Overnight-overnight Last Line: The tree of heaven Subject(s): Great Britain - History WHITE SHIP First Line: Where the living with effort go Last Line: Without enrichment or decay WREATHS First Line: Each day the tide withdraws; chills us; pastes Last Line: What hurts appeased by the sea's handsomeness! |
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