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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: JACOBSEN, JOSEPHINE Matches Found: 271 Jacobsen, Josephine Poet's Biography 271 poems available by this author 49TH & 5TH, DECEMBER 13 First Line: I passed between the bell and the glass Last Line: Alive unique love from her wax and his steel A DREAM OF GAMES Poem Text First Line: His fingers hesitate over Last Line: The loser connected with his law Subject(s): Scrabble (game); Card Games; Dreams; Playing Cards; Nightmares A MOTEL IN TROY, NEW YORK Poem Text First Line: A shadow falls Subject(s): Troy ABSENCE OF SLAVES First Line: The greek guide Last Line: Who in absence reared the great frieze ALLHALLOWS PARTY First Line: Down the wet-leaves steps comes the tiger-head Last Line: And courage. Though watched by witches they shall have their due ANIMAL INSIDE THE ANIMAL Last Line: Over the rooted bloom ANIMALS First Line: At night, the animals came and shone Last Line: Flying with green in her beak; the dove also had come APPRENTICE First Line: When she was five Last Line: And inadvertently, she learned words' brute magic Subject(s): Apprentices APRIL ASYLUM First Line: The mad old women, bolted from april's weather Last Line: Alone alone where fall without remorse %the deadly notes ARRIVAL Poem Text First Line: Up the path, past the iced bird-bath and the black roses Last Line: Or is there a van, huge in the invisible street? Subject(s): Visits And Visitors ARRIVAL First Line: Up the path, past the iced birdbath and the black roses Last Line: Or is there a van, huge in the invisible street ARRIVAL OF RAIN First Line: At midnight Last Line: Rain is the metaphor ARRIVALS First Line: My dead are shining like washed gold Last Line: Cleared from the clock's confusion that held them %distant, aghast ARTIST'S SUSTENANCE Poem Text First Line: The artist's hope, through the clear glass Last Line: Again betrayed by husk and dregs Subject(s): Art & Artists ASCETIC'S SOLILOQUY Poem Text First Line: How carnal the whole thing seems to the finer grain Last Line: The marrow cry “soon, soon” to the cooling bones Subject(s): Self-denial AT NIGHT First Line: The eye closes Last Line: The small dry tick of hell AUGURY First Line: The day is blond with sun and hot as summer AUTOPSY First Line: At three o'clock their fingers gripped. The sun shot Last Line: Hers had not taught her what she wished to know BALLAD OF HENRY, BRIDEGROOM First Line: Henry of england could pray or roister Last Line: Christ have mercy when we are sped BALLAD OF THE FOUR SAINTS First Line: Paul, that friend and heir to christ Last Line: Pray for us in charity BIRDS First Line: Corrigan knew that loneliness is the one human passion Last Line: Love me! Love me forever, for I must live! Corrigan said BIRDSONG OF THE LESSER POET First Line: Exuding someone's scotch in a moving mist Last Line: Unearned, the brief visa into some state of grace BIRTHDAY PARTY First Line: The sounds are the sea, breaking out of sight Last Line: Of the children's light high clear cries BLESSING First Line: I rejoice in the poems not written Last Line: Which fuels surely the green slick stalk BLUE-EYED EXTERMINATOR First Line: The exterminator has arrived. He has not intruded. He was summoned Last Line: In air. He has called, and what has been called has come BORDER Poem Text First Line: That country has never been her enemy Last Line: The king comes over to sleep with her Subject(s): Male-female Relationships BRIEFING FOR FINISTERRE First Line: Do not be concerned with the black hole BROTHER PETER CONSIDERS MULROY DRUNK UNDER THE ROSEBUSH First Line: Let us give praise where praise is due Last Line: Of the mighty? Strange fierce love BUSH First Line: It is the sound of lions lapping Last Line: The bones will represent time CALLING COLLECT First Line: I have made the incantatory Last Line: I speak to you CARNEY ELEGY First Line: The indestructible girl spun on a wheel Last Line: Say that, to the indestructible girl CHANTERELLES First Line: Near the eighth tee, sixty yards off into the woods from the green links Last Line: Of different mushrooms, near the links, in the mock-up wood CHILD AND GOLDFISH First Line: Orange the sun, upon the side Subject(s): Goldfish CHILD AND GOLDFISH First Line: Orange the sun, upon the side Last Line: An orange fish goes glancing by Subject(s): Goldfish CHOSEN First Line: The sick are coming the sick are coming Last Line: Wait in their chairs for those not chosen CLASS First Line: The small black blobs on the beach are the heads Last Line: And in glazed brightness the sun says, live CLOCK First Line: My clock jumped on cement Last Line: And death's notch %time's face COLLOQUY First Line: Why? Tell me why? He said in dismay to corrigan Last Line: Saying to loneliness, tonight they will sleep together COMING First Line: All day the children await the coming Last Line: Breathes, outside the thin door CONTENTS OF A MINUTE Poem Text First Line: The woman across the hall Last Line: Blows in from left field Subject(s): Death; Dead, The CONTENTS OF A MINUTE First Line: The woman across the hall Last Line: Elsewhere, the wind %blows in from left field Subject(s): Death COUNTRY BATH First Line: He was naked in water Last Line: What had only been known; all alone, and at night %how light%burns COUNTRY DRIVE-IN First Line: Sudden around the curve a high-up and huge Last Line: Into the dark below my matchstick ribs CUL DE SAC First Line: In the grassplot's center was a bed of red roses Last Line: Not so the human who succored and shot him DAUGHTER TO ARCHEOLOGIST First Line: Dear father %you were a doctor. Perhaps your avocation Last Line: Down you went to search them out %be remembered DEAF-MUTES AT THE BALLGAME First Line: In the hot sun and dazzle of grass Last Line: Each, his deaf-mute, fingerless DEATH AND THE TURTLE First Line: The turtles in the big green bowl are reduced by one Last Line: We move, little and strange, at the heart of a present stillness DESTINATIONS Poem Text First Line: Home is mysterious: a place to die, a place to breed Last Line: Short wind says “snow” Subject(s): Home; Travel; Journeys; Trips DISHWASHER AS ABSOLUTION First Line: Red-eyed as rikki-tikki glows Last Line: But it is not easy, and nothing tells her, now DISTANCE First Line: Now loneliness enters the marrow Last Line: All secrets with its light DISTINCTIONS First Line: It is hard to love the pessimist Last Line: Triumphed in foresight- %innocently astonished DOGS First Line: It is obvious that the three brown dogs, on the beach Last Line: Stays undefined; but the dogs arrive DREAM HABITUES First Line: Odd we've never met there Last Line: Or, so far, I have DREAM OF GAMES: 1. A GAME OF SCRABBLE First Line: His fingers hesitate over Last Line: To leave, shatter and meld and clatter %into the box DREAM OF GAMES: 2. A BRIDGE OF KNAVES First Line: Knave says the book: slippery Last Line: In the end, he says, depend on me DREAM OF GAMES: 3. A DREAM OF GAMES First Line: The game is dreamed for the rules Last Line: The loser connected with his law EDGE First Line: The edge? The edge is Last Line: Breathe so, breathe so Subject(s): Love ELECTIVE AFFINITIES First Line: What a curious rendezvous: through mean sleet Last Line: That will alter ourselves, before tomorrow's slackk EMPEROR'S COOK First Line: Laguipiere, the emperor's cook Last Line: For some terrible table ENEMY OF THE HERDS, THE LION First Line: At ur %the lady shub-ad's small Last Line: Mastery older than ur ESCAPE IN ICE First Line: We have forgotten weather, by virtue of the protecting mass Last Line: Stare through blind windows and laugh, and come together EXPLORER First Line: He traveled, traveled in the human climate Last Line: Love's moonlight-laden apple-boughs at rest EYES OF CHILDREN AT THE BRINK OF THE SEA'S GRASP First Line: The eyes of children at the brink of the sea's Last Line: Innocent and voluptuous FEBRUARY MIDNIGHT First Line: No sheltered ear can miss Last Line: Its intercourse with god FIDDLER CRAB First Line: The fiddle crab fiddles, glides and dithers Last Line: It is our god FIGURE First Line: Out of the bone landscape Last Line: Upon him till he left it there FIRE WILL NOT CHANGE First Line: Fire wakes with a burst in the tower of leaf Last Line: Fire unchanged. Always its host is there FIRST WOMAN First Line: Do animals expect spring? Last Line: I wake, first woman, %with what belief? FISH TANK ROOM First Line: It is the fish tank room -- the small room Last Line: And more beautiful FITTEST First Line: When the great dust Last Line: Sprang from its green stem FLORIDA FRIDAY Poem Text First Line: Florida with flora, brighter than a prize Last Line: Florida flashes on the best of fridays Subject(s): Florida; Churches; Cathedrals FOOD First Line: A woman of the more primitive tribes Last Line: By her breath, flesh, her hands, no %reputation will be made, no %saga descend. It is only the %next FOR A DANCER First Line: Pain bites deep FOR ANY MEMBER OF THE SECURITY POLICE First Line: Let us ask you a few questions, without rancor Last Line: A small, unnatural eternity %shaped otherwise, and fashioned for you only? FOR MURASAKI First Line: Chrysanthemums %come in spring too, now Last Line: Send, forth and back, %in dumb color and scent, odette to genji %the chrysanthemumn word FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NOT EATEN THE APPLE First Line: The unclosing flowers are inflexible and have yielded nothing Last Line: Calling not for admiration but certainly for envy FOR WILFRED OWEN Poem Text First Line: This day. This night, should be familiar to you Last Line: Go scatheless from your terrible compassion Subject(s): Owen, Wilfred (1893-1918) FOR WILFRED OWEN First Line: This day, this night, should be familiar to you Last Line: Go scatheless from your terrible compassion FOREIGN LANDS First Line: I saw a mongoose this morning ripple down the scarp Last Line: Swing like stars, I watch; and wish to, may not inherit Subject(s): Mongooses GATHERING First Line: Last night, first frost of sudden fall Last Line: If a grain of sand, if a leaf fall, it does not fall into time %but falls before your face, from and GENTLE READER Poem Text First Line: Late in the night when I should be asleep Last Line: Saying like molly, yes, yes, yes o yes Subject(s): Books & Reading; Poetry & Poets GENTLE READER First Line: Late in the night when I should be asleep Last Line: Saying like molly, yes, yes, yes o yes GESTURE First Line: In winter the house, which sits on rock Last Line: Gesture. It belongs without end to its lover GHOSTS AT KE SON Poem Text First Line: Under the bullets Last Line: The faces, the faces of the strangers are the same Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America GOOD FORTUNE OF PIGEONS First Line: There is a dead pigeon hung Last Line: Never mind %never %mind GREEK WIND First Line: This wind blows still in stone; blows Last Line: It plows the stone like fluid wheat %in its passage GUIDE FOR SURVIVORS First Line: First comes the flight, of course. Hope gleams in steel Last Line: To friendship sudden as love HOLIDAY Poem Text First Line: He lived with sorrow, protected by his will Last Line: A mounting tread Subject(s): Fear HOMAGE TO HENRI CHRISTOPHE Poem Text First Line: Tonight the silent vibrations of silent snow Last Line: Dark land in the blue sea, be free in him Subject(s): Christophe, Henry (1767-1820); Haiti - Revolution (1804); Homage & Respect HOOVES First Line: The serpents of summer Last Line: Of the night's mare HOURGLASS Poem Text First Line: Flawless' is the word, no doubt, for this third of may Subject(s): Time HOURGLASS First Line: Flawless' is the word, no doubt, for this third of may Last Line: And leans on the air that is hers and here Subject(s): Time HOW WE LEARN First Line: Plurality in death Last Line: And he still was IMMORTAL ELEMENT Poem Text First Line: The watching inner eye which peers and sees Last Line: From this impersonal sight, released at last Subject(s): Sight IN ISOLATION First Line: When at a desperate plight Last Line: The insulated hope IN THE CREVICE OF TIME Poem Text First Line: The bison, or tiger, or whatever beast Last Line: For all, a celebration and a burial Subject(s): Hunting And Bunters; Graves; Tombs; Tombstones IN THE CREVICE OF TIME First Line: The bison, or tiger, or whatever beast Last Line: For all, a celebration and a burial INNOCENTS First Line: The faces of children turn like sunflowers to death Last Line: The striped rage of the monstrous yellowjacket INSOMNIAC'S BIRD First Line: The first clear faint unlocated call Last Line: Now is the act of sleep quick, true and easy INSTANCES OF COMMUNICATION First Line: Almost nothing concerns me but communication Last Line: God's blood and body charged with its speech INTERROGATION First Line: All day %and sometimes in the hollow evening Last Line: I have told them nothing. Nothing INTERRUPTED First Line: Of the goddess there is only the marble shoulder and one Last Line: With hope. These are the interrupted IT IS THE SEASON Poem Text First Line: When we learn Subject(s): Love IT IS THE SEASON First Line: When we learn Last Line: Say nothing yet. %prepare Subject(s): Love IT'S A COLD NIGHT' SAID CONEY TO CONEY Last Line: It's a cold night' said boy to boy LANDSCAPE FINALLY WITH HUMAN FIGURE First Line: The sky stainless, flawed by one gull Last Line: The beloved is here LANGUAGE AS AN ESCAPE FROM THE DISCRETE First Line: I came upon two wasps Last Line: It is the silence that built the tower of babel LANGUAGE OF MOSS First Line: Secretly, the verb is changed and covered Last Line: Moss tells us, he has passed away LAURENTIDES: 1. VIRGIN IN GLASS First Line: The little virgin, fitted out in white Last Line: Not wholly free LAURENTIDES: 2. BY THE ROCK First Line: Search in the quiet of this motionless spot Last Line: Its silent aqueous life. Remark this place LAURENTIDES: 3. THIS HOUSE First Line: This house is a room -- divided, but still a room Last Line: On the pattern of life, lifting spare and unalterable lines LAWN BOWLERS First Line: The clothes and the inscrutable small jack are white Last Line: The suavest idiom for someone loses LEAF WITH BERRY First Line: At the last rock of the last ledge of the last climb Last Line: That he was to take heart LEOPARD-NURSER First Line: Since children hear what they will hear, I heard Subject(s): Animals LET EACH MAN REMEMBER First Line: There is a terrible hour in the early morning Last Line: Will smile in its face, when he is at peace in the night LIMBO DANCER First Line: No limbo this week. Or next. Now it turns out Last Line: The guests say, see, alas, he does not move. %but gravity lies beneath the dust of his feet Subject(s): Literary Form LINES TO A POET First Line: Be careful what you say to us now Last Line: Or 'here is water' or 'look behind you' LINKWOOD ROAD First Line: The old lady walking wears gloves. It is a shady Last Line: And the jacket is comprehensible to the threatening mirror, and to all matadors LION UNDER MAPLES First Line: The lion, awake, is out there Last Line: The great head lift LIONS UNDER MAPLES Poem Text First Line: The lion, awake, is out there Last Line: The great head lift Subject(s): Lions LOSS OF SOUNDS First Line: Now lost, things a child heard Last Line: In the ear's memory, sounds. Hoc %est corpus meum LOVERS First Line: The lovers lie in the shelter of night, the lovers Last Line: They are discovered, found with all the lost MAN AND THE LION First Line: The yellow lion shakes the ground Last Line: The moon -- as he crosses on his path %the lit heaven MARGINS OF CHOICE First Line: The doomed gunman, surrounded Last Line: My instants' %shadowy heap MATADORS First Line: The dirty money and the sleazy hearts Last Line: Calling softly, hoarsely %toro, toro! Venga! MEXICAN PEACOCK First Line: He presses the eight o'clock dew with short sharp paces Last Line: In communion with our joy transfixed you MIDNIGHT EDEN Poem Text First Line: The crusted tree of stars soars quite Last Line: Not understood Subject(s): Trees MIDNIGHT EDEN First Line: The crusted tree of stars soars quite MINOR POET First Line: The minor poet sits at meat Last Line: And miles to go before he sleeps MISSISSIPPI ANATOMY Poem Text First Line: This land is red, its body is colored of blood Subject(s): Mississippi MISSISSIPPI ANATOMY First Line: This land is red, its body is colored of blood Last Line: The inscrutable heart Subject(s): Mississippi MOLLESSE First Line: Softly the car goes with the music in it MONOSYLLABLE First Line: One day %she fell Last Line: Some say %rise MOON WILL RESTORE THE VIRGINITY OF MY SISTER First Line: Over my paws Last Line: With catquick licks she paints my forty fingers MOTEL IN TROY, NEW YORK First Line: A shadow falls Last Line: Across the water Subject(s): Troy MOTION First Line: The geranium in my studio window Last Line: You are saying goodbye to someone you think %you'll see nextweek. And don't. Ever MOTION IN ONE PRIVATE ROOM OF THE GERIATRIC WING First Line: Her blue eyes see ceiling, floor and the usual number of walls Last Line: Testing time's law and its proof, the keyless door, the doorless wall MOURNER BETRAYED First Line: He trusted death when it said I am the end! Last Line: And the fierce dandelions do not answer MR. MAHONEY First Line: Illicitly, mr. Mahoney roams Last Line: He is gone by noon. He did not have time to find it MR. TANTRIPP'S DAY First Line: The appalled heart at goosegray dawn Last Line: Rode out the night among the jagged stars MY SMALL AUNT First Line: Died in a dust of lions; her africa Last Line: Violent and sunny lords who never had %pity or fear MY UNCLE A CHILD First Line: My uncle, a child in the terrible second coming Last Line: My total uncle answered NEXT SUMMER First Line: Catalogues of seeds flood him Last Line: Invisible, busy -- calling their trampling bees NIGHT CITY First Line: The city from here is beautiful by night NIGHT PATROL First Line: The wolf's cousin Last Line: Cold wolf and wolf meet NIGHT WATCHMAN First Line: A small light, furtive, peers Last Line: Turns over its bones NON SUM DIGNUS Poem Text First Line: His sabbath, as all others, finds Last Line: The gate again in seven days Subject(s): Sabbath; Sunday NON SUM DIGNUS First Line: This sabbath, as all others, finds Last Line: The gate again in seven days NOON First Line: Peace, the day says, and peace Last Line: Sails high in its fiery air NOTES FROM A LENTEN BAR First Line: I know that my redeemer liveth because Last Line: There is nothing between the 12th and the 14th floor NOTES TOWARD TIME: 1 First Line: The mad have nightmares. When Last Line: Tense. But no present or past NOTES TOWARD TIME: 2 First Line: He cannot bear the dust's word Last Line: What is alive, by its dying NOTES TOWARD TIME: 3 First Line: At a high inn in Last Line: Balling %the jack NOTES TOWARD TIME: 4 First Line: A limited number of moons emerge Last Line: Bird and moon NOTES TOWARD TIME: 5 First Line: Help! While we slept debris has been emptied upon us Last Line: Unscratched, silent as a leaf NOTES TOWARD TIME: 6 First Line: In erice stone is cold Last Line: The stone sings, silent as a leaf OBIT First Line: The lovely lady posted in red Last Line: Into the house, to the target OF PAIRS First Line: The mockingbirds, that pair, arrive Last Line: The shadow of wings, the wing's shadow OLD MR. FORRESTER First Line: Old mr. Forrester-light, light as a leaf Last Line: Might make him now a sullen and suspicious %prospect for this belated amity ON MY ISLAND First Line: They kill mongooses. Always, before they club Last Line: Thought to say, good morning %child ONLY ALICE First Line: Entered that brilliant intimate Subject(s): Literary Form ONLY ALICE First Line: Entered that brilliant intimate Last Line: That what you may not enter, you can shatter Subject(s): Literary Form OVER TIMBERLINE First Line: It was never the air Last Line: And shines and darkens PAINTER AT XYOCHTL First Line: He had a devil's look; and no rain Last Line: And flowers sprang like speech, to sight PITCH LAKE First Line: Erishkigal, ishtar's fresh sister, sky Last Line: Fatally knowing, we step, light %ly to fixed earth PLANET First Line: From the center of the sea of tranquility Last Line: Shining and shining POEMS FOR MY COUSIN First Line: I took my cousin to prettyboy dam Last Line: In the green city of the dead POEMS FOR MY COUSIN: 1 Poem Text First Line: I took my cousin to prettyboy dam Last Line: "nor the other ""come. . ." Subject(s): Cousins POET AT MUTE First Line: Meteor flying and the planets' chime Last Line: Silent our brother in the terrible silence of speech POETRY REVIEW First Line: I call on roethke's rocks Last Line: Christopher smart, and your cat %geoffrey PONDICHERRY BLUES First Line: Mrs. Pondicherry was %fat and mean Last Line: In the lonesome slum of death %that dark trashy street of death POWER FAILURE First Line: The hard changes: concrete cracks and sprouts Last Line: Wind in its fronds; spice and recognize its strong %shape under the gathered stars PRESENCES: 1. THE CREATURES First Line: Here they are common as pebbles Last Line: On pink stucco; in the crotch of green PRESENCES: 2. THE CLOUDS First Line: What must be said of clouds is: they are silent Last Line: Grateful is roughly sufficient PRESENCES: 3. NOW First Line: The light in the garden has changed since death Last Line: It is now. And you have seen its particulars PRIMER First Line: I said in my youth Last Line: My blue boy sleeps under the stack's huge shadow Subject(s): Children PROGRAM First Line: The glass in her hand flares Last Line: And someone is talking weather Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Mourning PROVIDER First Line: The night the flowers were butchered Last Line: I know quite well the night, cold; %the knife, honed RAINY NIGHT AT THE WRITERS' COLONY First Line: Dead poets stalk the air Last Line: With what we make of need READING ALOUD AT DUSK First Line: The small blind cripple's face was ready Last Line: To cleanse the shadow from the empty sticks READING ON THE BEACH Poem Text First Line: What time is it? Raphael, says vasari Subject(s): Raphael (1483-1520); Vasari, Giorgio (1511-1574) READING ON THE BEACH First Line: What time is it? Raphael, says vasari Last Line: On vasari's foxed page my hand is warm Subject(s): Raphael (1483-1520); Vasari, Giorgio (1511-1574) REINDEER AND ENGINE Poem Text First Line: The reindeer / fastened to the great round eye Subject(s): Reindeer REINDEER AND ENGINE First Line: The reindeer %fastened to the great round eye Last Line: From, into, the cold %wheels' %night Subject(s): Reindeer RESPITE - 1942 Poem Text First Line: Indeed, where shall you hide from claws Last Line: And rest here – for a little while Subject(s): Sanctuaries RETURN FROM DELHI Poem Text First Line: Coming from delhi in the rain we met a country funeral Last Line: Our dark, silent athens is there Subject(s): Funerals; Burials ROCK-PLANT WIFE First Line: The rock-plant wife is dead Last Line: Spring is too far SEA FOG First Line: It was sudden Last Line: Of being relative to nothing; isolated; %responsible? Subject(s): Fog SHADE-SELLER First Line: Sombra?' %he asked us from his little booth. And shade Last Line: Answer my one with three SHIBBOLETH First Line: Tonight I saw the marred and frosted moon Last Line: And love, to the gileadites crying 'shibboleth' SHORT SHORT STORY First Line: Agnes lived with geraniums on the window-sills SHORT VIEWS IN AFRICA: 1 First Line: The elephant Last Line: They are somewhere else SHORT VIEWS IN AFRICA: 2 First Line: The best surprise is death Last Line: In the early sun SHORT VIEWS IN AFRICA: 3 First Line: The long, warped triangle Last Line: The visitor watches the lions SHORT VIEWS IN AFRICA: 4 First Line: In olduvai are the bones Last Line: Xenophon lies here %I was hannah SHORT VIEWS IN AFRICA: 5 First Line: Well. Bless the giraffe Last Line: Tell your secret bones: wait SHRIVERS First Line: At dark three o' clock Last Line: The hills of discard SIMON First Line: I do what simon says Last Line: Distinguish, simon says SISTERS First Line: Everyone notices they are inseparable Last Line: Before bed, a looked at herself in the mirror, using b's eyes SOFTLY First Line: Wherever we walk, we walk Last Line: Over its numbers, see how few move SPREAD OF MRS. MOBEY'S LAWN First Line: On mrs. Mobey's lawn Last Line: Move iron towards us SPRING, SAYS THE CHILD First Line: There are words too ancient to be said by the lips of a child Last Line: This is all things soft, young, ignorant; this is even %mortality STARFISH First Line: The great starfish was hauled up by a point Last Line: Death, where is your star STEPS First Line: Over sunny earth, meadow Last Line: Crossed the skull's place SUITE FOR ALL CLOWNS' DAY First Line: Ladies! And likewise gentlemen Last Line: Has nothing to say %sang auguste the clown SURVIVOR'S BALLAD First Line: She's not sure if it's song or sermon Last Line: Two with beauty, and three with brio SWIMMER'S TIDE First Line: Cautiously they go into the sea, their goal TANGO First Line: The pulse of %violin Last Line: No loss, no fraction's loss TEARS First Line: Tears leave no mark on the soil Last Line: Into an animal, dry-eyed TERRESTRIAL First Line: This day was made of dust Last Line: This was our dust alone, o ours, o precious TERRIBLE NAIVE First Line: Sleepwalk, feed %birdseed to kittens Last Line: The dark flood %is your %blood THE ANIMAL INSIDE THE ANIMAL Poem Text First Line: The short shadow Last Line: Over the rooted bloom Subject(s): Soul; Shadows THE ANIMALS Poem Text First Line: At night, alone, the animals came and shone. Last Line: Flying with green in her beak; the dove also had come Subject(s): Relationships; Animals THE ARRIVALS Poem Text First Line: My dead are shining like washed gold Last Line: Distant, aghast Subject(s): Death THE BATHERS Poem Text First Line: The leaves flashed darkly though there was not much wind Last Line: Free of knowledge; he had been rid of pity, cleansed of love Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Showers & Showering THE BIRTHDAY PARTY Poem Text First Line: The sounds are the sea, breaking out of sight, Last Line: Of the children’s light high clear cries Subject(s): Birthdays THE EDGE Poem Text Recitation First Line: The edge? The edge is Last Line: Breathe so, breathe so Subject(s): Love; Yoga THE FOREIGN LANDS Poem Text First Line: I saw a mongoose this morning ripple down the scarp Last Line: Swing like stars, I watch and wish to. May not, inherit Subject(s): Mongooses THE LEOPARD-NURSER Poem Text First Line: Since children hear what they will hear, I heard Last Line: By which a child nurses a dangerous beast to strength Subject(s): Leopards; Women THE LIMBO DANCER Poem Text First Line: No limbo this week. Or next. Now it turns out Subject(s): Literary Form THE MONOSYLLABLE Poem Text First Line: One day / she fell Last Line: Some say, / rise THE NIGHTWATCHMAN Poem Text First Line: A small light, fugitive, peers Last Line: Shreds minute from minute? Subject(s): Watchmen; Night; Bedtime THE PASSIONATE PLACE Poem Text First Line: We know it is there, though withdrawn from our eyes Last Line: Who return unabashed and with spoils to the passionate place? THE PLANET Poem Text First Line: From the center of the sea of tranquility Last Line: Shining and shining Subject(s): Planets THE PRESENCES Poem Text First Line: Here they are as common as pebbles Last Line: Grateful is roughly sufficient? Subject(s): Animals; Clouds THE PRIMER Poem Text First Line: I said in my youth Subject(s): Children; Childhood THE REVOLUTIONARY Poem Text First Line: He knew her face well enough; had studied this Last Line: For the face he had trusted under the confident stars Subject(s): Male-female Relationships; Reality THE SEA FOG Poem Text First Line: It was sudden Subject(s): Fog; Haze THE SECRET FLAME: CAPRICE Poem Text First Line: The grainy earth is black and cool Last Line: On her bright breasts Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Showers & Showering THE SECRET FLAME: LOVE SONG Poem Text First Line: The skies are falling and poised in their fall Last Line: Body to body and face to face Subject(s): Love THE SECRET FLAME: THE FAITHFUL Poem Text First Line: Men acquiesce in what is not their choice Last Line: Lifting their hopeful eyes in srearch of god? Subject(s): Faith; Belief; Creed THE SECRET FLAME: WHO SHALL ESCAPE THE LORD? Poem Text First Line: If he be agile and alert Last Line: The ineradicable flame Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE THREE CHILDREN Poem Text First Line: Else had blown away on the east wind. Richard went away Last Line: Goodbye else, richard, hilary, goodbye, goodbye. Goodbye Subject(s): Children; Farewell; Wind; Childhood; Parting THE UGLY OLD LADY Poem Text First Line: Her hair in metal rows Last Line: On her brittle shell Subject(s): Ugliness THE WIND IN THE SUNPORCH Poem Text First Line: The chinese windchimes Subject(s): Love THERE IS GOOD NEWS First Line: A law %removing from use the monosyllable love Last Line: Roots and %heavenly bodies THEY NEVER WERE FOUND First Line: The odd, the inward turned, the isolated Last Line: One in the dangerous company of his cats THIEF First Line: She stole my pencil-case, red leather Last Line: To the mean gray wretch, the hag %the pencil thief THING ABOUT CROWS First Line: Is, they are hoarse Last Line: At the vulnerable spring THINGS First Line: My mother's gold serpent bit its tail Last Line: In the rosy smoke for joan THIS MY HEART KNOWS First Line: Here where my heart, at ease, allows Last Line: I breathed again. This my heart knows THREE CHILDREN First Line: Else has blown away on the east wind, richard went away with the wind Last Line: Goodbye else, richard, hilary, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye TIGER First Line: Diamonds or broken saucepans interchangeable Last Line: And lets the outside fill with snow and his eyes close TIME EXPOSURE First Line: Never can spring be known so well Last Line: Shows what no year will ever give %spring's absolute TRAVELERS First Line: Up from the city street, as in any green wood Last Line: With certainty; not even their own physicians TREATY First Line: See us, strangers from the land of embarrassed death Last Line: A private love, the english language, and a bed TREE ANGEL First Line: Sang the angel in the tree Last Line: To your height it has added a cubit TRIAL RUN First Line: They saw it take the water -- the finished ark Last Line: Some future fortune for a carpenter UGLY OLD LADY First Line: Her hair in metal rows Last Line: Stern aphrodite %on her brittle shell UNINVITED First Line: Like dew the children beckon to the dry Last Line: And we have nailed our dead in wooden boxes VARIATIONS ON A THEME First Line: Harlequin speaks by the moon's light Last Line: For god's love, open your door VARIATIONS ON VARIETY: 1. COMIC First Line: Conservative heart, outdone by all upheaval Last Line: Supports the implacable rule of gravity VARIATIONS ON VARIETY: 2. TIGHT-ROPE WALKER First Line: The bright-check suited Last Line: We have conquered again VARIATIONS ON VARIETY: 3. SISTER ACT First Line: Red, blue and green, the murphy sisters sing, and interstellar space Last Line: The device spread over thin space, the tissue-paper between the foot and the plunge VIRGIN IN GLASS Poem Text First Line: The little virgin, fitted out in white Last Line: Not wholly free Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals VOYAGE First Line: Off sand at the edge of bush the ribs Last Line: A tendril has touched the keel WAKING First Line: They do not swim alone Last Line: As though they would always, wake WE PRAY MOST EARNESTLY First Line: We pray most earnestly: our breath Last Line: Sitting in satisfaction, shoulder to shoulder WEATHER REPORT FROM THE STATE ASYLUM Poem Text First Line: The mad old women, bolted from april's weather Last Line: Gray secret face raised quietly, between Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums WHEN THE FIVE PROMINENT POETS First Line: Gathered in inter-admiration Last Line: And the muse went on and up; and not a sound %came from the savage carpet WILD PARROTS OF BLOODY BAY First Line: Up from bloody bay are the hills Last Line: Come the faint wild harsh screams WIND IN THE SUNPORCH First Line: The chinese windchimes Last Line: Together with that huge light breath Subject(s): Love WINTER CASTLE Poem Text First Line: Knowing your body and lines of it Last Line: Lends us this secret solitary grace? Variant Title(s): Winter Castle: Iii. Knowing Your Body Subject(s): Lust; Love WINTER CASTLE First Line: Knowing your body and the lines of it Last Line: I shall stand steadfastly, and make no sound Variant Title(s): Winter Castle: Iii. Knowing Your Bod WINTER CASTLE: I. THIS THEN SHALL BE OUR APRIL First Line: This then shall be our april -- this black heap Last Line: Within this sorrowful and savage night WINTER CASTLE: II. LET BE; ENOUGH First Line: Let be; enough; I am not yours tonight Last Line: With wolves that run upon the hungry hill WINTER FORECAST Poem Text First Line: Let it be a consolation to you that nothing Last Line: The hiders, the motionless, the terrible meek Subject(s): Winter WINTER'S TALE First Line: Well, why did he do it then? I can say Last Line: Like a curious retrospective hope WOODS First Line: In this summer month, two separate men were lost Last Line: Who are, are usually found; found in time YELLOW First Line: Yellow became alive Last Line: Outside the madhouse hung the yellow sun YOU CAN TAKE IT WITH YOU First Line: 2 little girls who live next door Last Line: In gasps. They are there, they fly up |
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