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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: HOWARD, RICHARD Matches Found: 118 Howard, Richard Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph 118 poems available by this author 1801: AMONG THE PAPERS OF THE ENVOY TO CONSTANTINOPLE Poem Text First Line: May it please lord elgin, earl of kincardine, Last Line: Yours, &c. / philippe-jacques de loutherbourg Subject(s): Paintings & Painters 1851: A MESSAGE TO DENMARK HILL Poem Text First Line: My dearest father, it is the year's first day Last Line: Gone now as all must go. Your loving son, / john Subject(s): Ruskin, John (1819-1900); Italy; Loss; Italians 209 CANAL Poem Text First Line: Not hell but a street, not Last Line: Like a mouth to open wider after hours Subject(s): Card Games; Playing Cards A LOST ART Poem Text First Line: There is no ceremony to stand on Last Line: Looting of the zacharoff residence … Subject(s): Suleiman The Magnificent (1495-1566); Taxidermy & Taxidermists A PHENOMENON OF NATURE: 1898 Poem Text First Line: How long, o capriped? How long, sophie Last Line: Slowly now, my dear: we shall be safe Subject(s): Man-female Relationships AFTER 65 Poem Text First Line: The tragedy, colette said, is that one Variant Title(s): At 65 Subject(s): Aging AFTER HORACE: ODES IV, 1 First Line: So it's war again, venus Last Line: Chase you endlessly across %the field of mars, into the swirling tiber? AFTER-DINNER SPEECH First Line: Signori, you have my gratitude for %the signal honor Last Line: Much that is missing. Signori, adieu! AGAIN FOR HEPHAISTOS, THE LAST TIME First Line: What do we share with the past? Subject(s): Homosexuality AGREEMENT WITH SIR CHARLES SEDLEY Poem Text First Line: Accommodating love with something still Last Line: And timbre – somewhat louder – of a man Subject(s): Sedley, Sir Charles (1639-1701) ALWAYS WITH YOU First Line: Canicule, and the first word you have had AMONG THE MISSING Poem Text First Line: Know me? I am the ghost of gansevoort pier Subject(s): Cities; New York City; Urban Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple AMONG THE MISSING First Line: Know me? I am the ghost of gansevoort pier Last Line: Disclosures of the kind I do so well, %I with the other ghosts am laid at last Subject(s): Cities; New York City AND TELL SAD STORIES First Line: Many of us, inexorably Last Line: The text impersonates the author. Your absence %remains a mode of creating life ANOTHER TRANSLATOR Poem Text First Line: The first one just happened to be there, a little like Last Line: Ma cherie, is pronounced “hap-pi-ness” Subject(s): De Gaulle, Yvonne (1900-1979); Language; Translating & Interpreting; Words; Vocabulary ANOTHER TRANSLATOR First Line: The first one just happened to be there, a little like Last Line: Ma cherie, is pronounced 'hap-pi-ness' APOTROPAIST First Line: On corfu, a digest of touristic scenery Last Line: Of refusing, this life that is not the picture %but the depicting AT THE MONUMENT TO PIERRE LOUYS First Line: Sage nor saint nor soldier - these were not Last Line: I read you, mon semblable, mon pierre! AUBADE: DONNA ANNA TO JUAN, STILL ASLEEP Poem Text First Line: The window pales, and by its paltry light Last Line: The unspeakable god Subject(s): Love AUTHOR OF CHRISTINE First Line: Often waking %before the sun decreed the kind of day Last Line: That would be christine, his novel, and %christine be him AVARICE, 1849: A DISTRACTION First Line: My dear balzac, you must remain quite still Last Line: I must have myself. Nadar, the going rate? BEATIFICATION First Line: Bagan with 'a moral tale though gay,' as bold Last Line: Lonliness. The yound duke's dressing table, %a map of eden BONNARD: A NOVEL Poem Text First Line: The tea party at le cannet. Just as we arrived it began Subject(s): Bonnard, Pierre (1867-1947) BONNARD: A NOVEL First Line: The tea party at le cannet. Just as we arrived it began Last Line: Once home, we shall have a little supper party of lucie's fresh-picked morels Subject(s): Bonnard, Pierre (1867-1947) CHARLES GARNIER Poem Text First Line: If no one had heard of you, it was hardly Last Line: Of a very brave ram, cornered but not cowed Subject(s): Garnier, Charles (1825-1898); Architecture & Architects COLORED STONES First Line: Marble,' said the guide, 'a marble mount' COMPULSIVE QUALIFICATIONS Poem Text First Line: Richard, may I ask a question? What is an episteme? Last Line: A god being crucified Subject(s): Writing & Writers; Language; Words; Vocabulary CONCERNING K First Line: Not one breath. Even the flags had ... Flagged CREPUSCULAR Poem Text First Line: Late in the afternoon the light Last Line: Max and I know this too: it will be night Subject(s): Writing & Writers CREPUSCULAR First Line: Late in the afternoon the light Last Line: Max and I know this too: it will be night DISCLAIMERS First Line: The text of bach's st. John passion, performed tonight unabridged Last Line: Which has already outlawed tobacco and may soon prohibit meat DOROTHEA TANNING'S COUSINS Poem Text First Line: She came to him in dreams, as he to her Subject(s): Absence; Death; Love; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The DOROTHEA TANNING'S COUSINS First Line: She came to him in dreams, as he to her Last Line: What lovers need friends? Subject(s): Absence; Death; Love EUGENE DELACROIX: MOORISH CONVERSATION, 1832 First Line: Don't look now (I said don't look! Last Line: Mustapha might as well be blind! EVEN IN PARIS First Line: Dear roderick FAMED DANCER DIES OF PHOSPHORUS POISONING Poem Text First Line: Dear professor - no, my dear madame Last Line: L. Fuller, or as they call me here, la loie Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers FAMED DANCER DIES OF PHOSPHORUS POISONING First Line: Dear professor - no, my dear madame FAMILY VALUES: 1 First Line: He was an early riser, four o'clock Last Line: Before his works doing him no honor FAMILY VALUES: 2 First Line: ...While yet a little sight remained, when late Last Line: I shall have given willingly my eyes %their long holiday FAMILY VALUES: 3 First Line: I leave the garden, as a woman must Last Line: Yields to his certain steps. The path is clear. %father, duty's done FAMILY VALUES: 4 First Line: So there it is. And there we are. Good lord Last Line: Art-works listed among the library's %permanent holdings FAMILY VALUES: 5 First Line: Dear professor nicolson, would you be Last Line: Again, for this experience. Good bye, %mr. Levy. Down! FAR CRY AFTER A CLOSE CALL First Line: Nuns, his neices, bring the priest in the next Last Line: Man is mad as the body %is sick, by nature FOR JAMES BOATWRIGHT First Line: Behold the depths to which we are undone! FOR MATTHEW WARD, 1951-90 First Line: Out of the doorway, on a soho street Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Illness FOR MATTHEW WARD, 1951-90 First Line: Out of the doorway, on a soho street Last Line: That is all I have of you and all %a love deserves Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness FOR MONA VAN DUYN, GOING ON First Line: Blacking out, we say: but it was more like Last Line: Until the next time FOR ROBERT PHELPS, DEAD AT 66 First Line: The times reports six years in elyria FOREIGNER REMEMBERED BY A LOCAL MAN First Line: Fuseli! I fancied the floor would tumble doen FRESHWATER: AN IDYLL Poem Text First Line: A storm is coming, but the clouds are still Last Line: Surrenders to the storm at fishwater Subject(s): Poetry & Poets FURTHER ECHOES OF THE LATE LORD LEIGHTON First Line: Ach, the women! Worse, the wives. And widows worst of all Last Line: Official. The queen had signed FURTHER TRIANGULATIONS First Line: I've almost finished papering the whole Last Line: (and probably unstick your letters too) GERMAN ROMANTICS I First Line: Higgledy-piggledy %friedrich von hardenberg Last Line: Blue mignonette and a %mariage blanc GERMAN ROMANTICS II First Line: Higgledy-piggledy %joseph von eichendorff Last Line: Must have convinced him that %life is a dream GERMAN ROMANTICS III First Line: Higgledy-piggledy %hugo von hofmannsthal Last Line: Hapsburgerfsschicksalslied -- %calls me and died GIOVANNI DA FIESOLE ON THE SUBLIME, OR FRA ANGELICO'S 'LAST JUDGMENT' Poem Text First Line: How to behold what cannot be held? Subject(s): Angelico, Fra (1400-1455); Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters; Guido Di Pietro GIOVANNI DA FIESOLE ON THE SUBLIME, OR FRA ANGELICO'S 'LAST JUDGMENT' First Line: How to behold what cannot be held? Last Line: Witness, we judge ourselves, raise your hands Subject(s): Angelico, Fra (1400-1455); Art And Artists; Paintings And Painters HENRI FANTIN-LATOUR: UN COIN DE TABLE, 1873 First Line: All those men have gone. Over a year Last Line: Of rhododendron...This life...This art HOMAGE TO ANTONIO CANALETTO First Line: The operas for which he made designs Last Line: Under his eye, proudly informs us: 'done %without spectacles. %a. Canaletto' HOWARD'S WAY First Line: Mon cher maitre, could even you have mastered IN LOCO PARENTIS, 1963 First Line: Not now, charles. Just leave the wine Last Line: Begin today? Charles, cancel the souffle INFIRMITIES First Line: No use having an executor, horace traubel Last Line: Nothing to do with me... %good-night, horace. Leave a lamp JOB INTERVIEW First Line: The question, monsieur gracq advised, had best Last Line: Criticism will be love, or will not be KNOWING WHEN TO STOP First Line: ...Destroy the dogs, highness? Last Line: And hate in object relations' to kiss %my master farewell L'INVITATION AU VOYAGE Poem Text First Line: Wandering with you the shore Subject(s): Love L'INVITATION AU VOYAGE First Line: Wandering with you the shore Last Line: You answer in a trance, 'I never dream.' Subject(s): Love LANDED: A VALENTINE Poem Text First Line: See how the brown kelp withers in air Subject(s): Kelp; Language; Words; Vocabulary LEE KRASNER: PORCELAIN, A COLLAGE First Line: Take it down tear it up turn it over make Last Line: Allowed. You decided once again to paint LES TRAVAUX D'ALEXANDRE First Line: My dear magritte, I'm glad to be in touch Last Line: And wonders had to cease. Wherefore these tears LIKE MOST REVELATIONS; AFTER MORRIS LOUIS Poem Text First Line: It is the movement that incites the form Subject(s): Louis, Morris (1912-1962); Paintings & Painters LIKE MOST REVELATIONS; AFTER MORRIS LOUIS First Line: It is the movement that incites the form Last Line: It is the movement that creates the form Subject(s): Louis, Morris (1912-1962); Paintings And Painters LOST ART; VIENNA, 1805 First Line: There is no ceremony to stand on Last Line: And later vanished in the deplorable %looting of the zacharo ff residence LOVE WHICH ALTERS First Line: During the summer months of 1912 LOVER SHOWETH WHEREFORE HE IS ABANDONED OF THE BELOVED HE SOMETIME First Line: Tonight (the moonless kind Last Line: We shall never go Subject(s): Love MAN WHO BEAT UP HOMOSEXUALS REPORTED TO HAVE AIDS VIRUS Poem Text First Line: To the new york times: your health editor Subject(s): Aids (disease); New York Times (newspaper); Sickness; Illness MAN WHO BEAT UP HOMOSEXUALS REPORTED TO HAVE AIDS VIRUS First Line: To the new york times: your health editor Last Line: The nurse has just come in with another %delicious concoction. The social-worker %awaits... (name wi Subject(s): Aids (disease); New York Times (newspaper); Sickness MANATEE First Line: She never took much credit for 'the moose' Last Line: Proud to share the comedy with today MAY 26 1969: THE GRIEVANCE Poem Text First Line: No one dies. That is all we can say for certain Last Line: Which lies beyond our tears. We are not reduced Subject(s): Death; Dead, The MRS. EDEN IN TOWN FOR THE DAY First Line: Sorry I'm late. I had to drive way out of my Last Line: Moose dikdik gazelle caribou hartebeest gnu MY LAST HUSTLER Poem Text First Line: When 'brad' is lying naked, or rather naked is lying Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men MY LAST HUSTLER First Line: When 'brad' is lying naked, or rather naked is lying Last Line: Is the sudden absolute knowledge brad would rather be dead Subject(s): Homosexuality NADAR Poem Text First Line: You will be obscured by a cloud of postures Last Line: Future classics, leaving us to enlarge on what cannot be divided, individuals Subject(s): Art & Artists; Nadar [gaspar Tournachon] (1820-1910); Portraits NADAR First Line: You will be obscured by a cloud of postures Last Line: What cannot be divided, individuals Subject(s): Art And Artists; Nadar [gaspar Tournachon] (1820-1910); Portraits NIKOLAUS MARDRUZ TO HIS MASTER FERDINAND, COUNT OF TYROL Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: My lord recalls ferrara? How walls Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Ferrara, Italy; Poetry & Poets NIKOLAUS MARDRUZ TO HIS MASTER FERDINAND, COUNT OF TYROL First Line: My lord recalls ferrara? How walls Last Line: To ferrara as to the world Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Ferrara, Italy; Poetry And Poets ORACLES First Line: Not here. I must be out of the wind OUR SPRING TRIP First Line: Dear mrs. Masters, hi from the fifth-grade class Last Line: Chicken-size dinosaurs in the great hall, and %where they really are OYSTERING Poem Text First Line: Secret they are, sealed, annealed, and brainless Subject(s): Oysters OYSTERING First Line: Secret they are, sealed, annealed, and brainless Subject(s): Oysters PASTORAL REMAINS (HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED) FROM THE RECTORY First Line: Last night I looked out before Last Line: Between what has been and what %has never been? None that I can tell POEM BEGINNING WITH A LINE BY ISADORA DUNCAN First Line: The third time I resisted d'annunzio PORTRAIT IN PASTEL OF THE VOLUNTEER FRIEDRICH-AUGUST KLAATSCH, 1813 First Line: Little is known about this volunteer Last Line: Unsmiling acquiescence which is the whole %seduction of mars Subject(s): Army - Germany; Soldiers RICHARD, WHAT'S THAT NOISE? Poem Text First Line: No daydream: my invitation to the voyage Last Line: Grudge the midnight's easy gift Subject(s): Travel; Italy; Journeys; Trips; Italians SECULAR GAMES Poem Text First Line: Levin, on his way to kitty's love Last Line: But unlike god in heaven, come and go Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners; Convicts SIBYL OF 1979 First Line: The river lay white that afternoon, the highway too Last Line: Music from as late as the tenth century?...My offering SILENCES [OR, MEASURE FOR MEASURE] First Line: Dear helen, dear karl, %I have your letter Last Line: Best words rather than mine, to his (and your) %taciturn anna SORCERER'S APPRENTICE First Line: And in your absence, maestro, came to pass STITCHING IN TIME: DOROTHY RUDDICK First Line: Remember that day on the beach, remember TABLE OF GREEN FIELDS: RICHARD UPTON'S CORTONA LANDSCAPES First Line: My intention to forget was neither Last Line: To forget?) half my life: resurrection %of the earth in me THE DEMOTION Poem Text First Line: Of course there has to be a reason, doctor Last Line: We must begin all over … Subject(s): Time THE DIFFERENCE Poem Text First Line: Looking at you Last Line: My body a foreign house, yours home Subject(s): Perception; Relationships TO A FRIEND CONTEMPLATING HER BIOGRAPHY OF HAWTHORNE First Line: We were not, it is true, so well acquainted Last Line: Matters more important than literature TO A LIBRETTIST AT LIBERTY Poem Text First Line: Frequently an oracle will speak Subject(s): Errors; Mistakes; Fallacies TO A LIBRETTIST AT LIBERTY First Line: Frequently an oracle will speak Last Line: Blind faith is the only kind, %you'll see: emilia goes to the wall TO THE TENTH MUSE: A RECOMMENDATION First Line: Individual Last Line: Now that she is past changing here, with us, ma'am, %I leave it to you TRIANGULATIONS Poem Text First Line: Months of mute resentment, and now you mail Last Line: You'll see: emilia goes to the wall … Subject(s): Divorce TRIANGULATIONS First Line: Months of mute resentment, and now you mail TWAIN MEETING: ANXIETIES First Line: The sound of the kanji character for death Last Line: Yasuko walk away? Was mrs uemura %flustered or amused? TWAIN MEETING: EXHIBITION First Line: New and enormous, tokyo city hall Last Line: Wondering who had been humbled: banzai! TWAIN MEETING: THE INTIMATE ART OF THE LITTLE PAPER COSTUME First Line: Read the instructions first. Then Last Line: And principles of japanese design TWAIN MEETING: TOKYO, 1992 First Line: A priest leads us into the inner court Last Line: Starts an argument with his new boyfriend VENETIAN INTERIOR, 1889 Poem Text First Line: Stand to one side. No, over here with me: Last Line: But only that we yield. And we yield Subject(s): Browning, Pen (1849-1912); Paintings & Painters; Jews; Judaism VENETIAN INTERIOR, 1889 First Line: Stand to one side. No, over here with me Last Line: But only that we yield. And we yield VICTOR VANQUISHED First Line: At the going rate, your body gave you Last Line: Life in general is, or ought to be, %as crusoe said, one universal act %of solitude. You made it dea VISITATIONS First Line: You are my last hope, doctor Last Line: I hope you will take it as no mere %formality if I say wiede rseh'n as well...? WHAT WORD DID THE GREEKS HAVE FOR IT? First Line: Tendered by professor ames, tidings from Last Line: With a sigh, the unconsenting spirits %flee to the welcoming shades Subject(s): Homosexuality WILDFLOWERS Poem Text First Line: Is it raining, mary, can you see? Subject(s): Oysters WILDFLOWERS First Line: Is it raining, mary, can you see? Subject(s): Oysters |
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