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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: JARRELL, RANDALL Matches Found: 363 Jarrell, Randall Poet's Biography 363 poems available by this author 17889-1939 First Line: A man sick with whirling 1938: TALES FROM THE VIENNA WOODS First Line: The reflections in the forest of the dying child 1938: THE SPRING DANCES First Line: These loves are the helpless or wanted bliss 1945: THE DEATH OF THE GODS First Line: In peace tomorrow, when your slack hands weigh 90 NORTH Poem Text First Line: At home, in my flannel gown, like a bear to its floe, Last Line: And we call it wisdom. It is pain Subject(s): Mythology - Norse; North Pole; Pain; Suffering; Misery 90 NORTH First Line: At home, in my flannel gown, like a bear to its floe Last Line: And we call it wisdom. It is pain Subject(s): North Pole; Pain A CAMP IN THE PRUSSIAN FOREST Poem Text First Line: I walk beside the prisoners to the road Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; World War Ii; Shoah; Judaism; Second World War A CONVERSATION WITH THE DEVIL Poem Text First Line: Indulgent, or candid, or uncommon reader Last Line: He was right. And now, to have no choice! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Devil; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub A COUNTRY LIFE Poem Text First Line: A bird that I don't know, Last Line: Sees, in the moonlight, graves Subject(s): Birds; Country Life A FIELD HOSPITAL Poem Text First Line: He stirs, beginning to awake Subject(s): Hospitals; World War Ii; Second World War A FRONT Poem Text First Line: Fog over the base: the beams ranging Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War Ii; Second World War A GIRL IN A LIBRARY Poem Text First Line: An object among dreams, you sit here with your shoes off Subject(s): Librarians & Libraries; Pushkin, Alexander (1799-1837); Schools; Sleep; Library; Librarians; Students A LULLABY Poem Text First Line: For wars his life and half a world away Last Line: Thre lying ambers of the histories Subject(s): War; Soldiers A MAN MEETS A WOMAN IN THE STREET Poem Text First Line: Under the separated leaves of shade Subject(s): Garbo, Greta (1905-1990); Lorenz, Konrad (1903-1989); Proust, Marcel (1871-1922); Schumann-heink, Ernestine (1861-1936); Strauss, Richard (1864-1949) A PILOT FROM THE CARRIER Poem Text First Line: Strapped at the center of the blazing wheel Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War Ii; Second World War A POEM FOR SOMEONE KILLED IN SPAIN Poem Text First Line: Though oars are breaking the breathless gaze Last Line: Are man's responsibilities Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) A SICK CHILD Poem Text Recitation First Line: Postman comes when I am still in bed, the Last Line: All that I've never thought of - think of me! Subject(s): Sickness; Imagination; Children; Illness; Fancy; Childhood A SOUL Poem Text First Line: It is evening. One bat dances Subject(s): Soul A UTOPIAN JOURNEY Poem Text First Line: In a minute the doctor will find out what is wrong Variant Title(s): The Long Vacation Subject(s): Sickness; Illness A WAR Poem Text First Line: There set out, slowly, for a different world Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War ABOVE THE WATERS IN THEIR TOIL ABSENT WITH OFFICIAL LEAVE Poem Text First Line: The lights are beginning to go out in the barracks Last Line: With whom he labors, sleeps, and dies Subject(s): Soldiers ABSENT WITH OFFICIAL LEAVE First Line: The lights are beginning to go out in the barracks AESTHETIC THEORIES ART Poem Text First Line: Poems, like lives, are doing what we can AFTERWARDS Poem Text First Line: Sleep: here's your bed ... You'll not come, any more, to ours Last Line: Run away, little comet's-hair-comber! Subject(s): Death; Sleep; Dreams; Dead, The; Nightmares AFTERWARDS First Line: Sleep: here's your bed ... You'll not come, any more, to ours AGING Poem Text First Line: I wake, but before I know it it is done Subject(s): Aging AGING First Line: I wake, but before I know it it is done Subject(s): Aging ALL OR NONE First Line: Each year, just as the blossoms AN ENGLISH GARDEN IN AUSTRIA (SEEN AFTER DER ROSENKAVALIER) Poem Text First Line: It is as one imagined it: an english garden Last Line: It is an one imagined it: an english garden Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening AN OFFICERS' PRISON CAMP SEEN FROM A TROOP-TRAIN Poem Text First Line: It is some school, brick, green, a sleepy hill Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners; World War Ii; Convicts; Second World War AND DID SHE DWELL IN INNOCENCE AND JOY ANGELS OF HAMBURG First Line: In caves emptied of their workers, turning ARCHANGELS' SONG First Line: Raphael: the sun sings out, as of old AUGSBURG ADORATION First Line: Mozart, goethe, and the duke of wellington Last Line: The green forum's sparrows are the sparrows of home Subject(s): Augsburg, Germany AUTHOR TO THE READER First Line: I've read that luther said AUTOMATON First Line: In the emplacements of the wood BAD MUSIC First Line: I sit, sit listening; my lashes droop BAMBERG First Line: You'd be surprised how much BATS First Line: A bat is born %naked and blind and pale Last Line: All the bright day, as the mother sleeps %she folds her wings about her sleeping child BIRD OF NIGHT First Line: A shadow is floating through the moonlight Subject(s): Animals BIRTH OF VENUS First Line: The thunderbolt strikes the ocean BLACK SWAN First Line: When the swans turned my sister into a swan Last Line: And stroked all night, with a black wing, my wings Subject(s): Birds; Swans BLIND SHEEP First Line: The sheep is blind; a passing owl Last Line: I am a sheep, and not an ass Subject(s): Blindness; Sheep BLOOD FOR A STRANGER, SELS. First Line: The cow wandering in the bare field Last Line: Cry out in pride and blessedness: I children! BOYG, PEER GYNT, THE ONE ONLY ONE First Line: Well, I have had a happy life, said hazlitt BREATH OF NIGHT First Line: The moon rises. The red cubs rolling Last Line: The beings of this world are swept %by the strife that moves the stars BRONZE DAVID OF DONATELLO First Line: A sword in his right hand, a stone in his left hand BURNING THE LETTERS First Line: Here in my head, the home that is left for you Last Line: Make yours the memory of that accepting %and accepted life whose fragments I cast here CAMP IN THE PRUSSIAN FOREST First Line: I walk beside the prisoners to the road Last Line: The star laughs from its rotting shroud %of flesh. O star o f men! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; World War Ii CARNEGIE LIBRARY, JUVENILE DIVISION First Line: The soot drifted from the engines to the marble CHARLES DODGSON'S SONG Poem Text First Line: The band played ideomeneo Last Line: A hippopotamus asleep Subject(s): Carroll, Lewis (1832-1898); Philosophy & Philosophers; Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge CHARLES DODGSON'S SONG First Line: The band played idomeneo CHE FARO SENZA EURIDICE First Line: Had I my will, the shrill wind sang CHILDREN SELECTING BOOKS IN A LIBRARY Poem Text First Line: With beasts and gods, above, the wall is bright. Last Line: Change, dear to all things not to themselves endeared Subject(s): Children; Books & Reading; Childhood CHILDREN SELECTING BOOKS IN A LIBRARY First Line: With beasts and gods, above, the wall is bright CHILDREN'S ARMS First Line: On my way home I pass a cameraman CHIPMUNK'S DAY First Line: In and out the bushes, up the ivy Last Line: Dives to his rest Subject(s): Animals; Chipmunks CHIPMUNK'S DAY CHRISTMAS ROSES First Line: The nurse is at the tree, and if I'm thirsty no one minds CINDERELLA Poem Text First Line: Her imaginary playmate was a grown-up Subject(s): Fairy Tales CINDERELLA First Line: Her imaginary playmate was a grown-up Last Line: But come, come in till then! Com in till then! Subject(s): Fairy Tales CITY, CITY First Line: Turn out the light, turn over, shut your eyes CLOCK IN THE TOWER OF THE CHURCH First Line: How patient man is in his time Last Line: Gesture, withdraw into damnation Subject(s): Middle Ages; Millenium; Second Advent COME TO THE STONE First Line: The child saw the bombers skate like stones across the fields COME TO THE STONE ... Poem Text First Line: The child saw the bombers skate like stones across the field Last Line: Come to the stone and tell me why I died Subject(s): Air Warfare; Children; Death; Childhood; Dead, The CONVERSATION WITH THE DEVIL First Line: Indulgent, or candid, or uncommon reader COUNTRY LIFE First Line: A bird that I don't know Last Line: The angel kneeling with the wreath %sees, in the moonlight, graves COUNTRY WAS First Line: All hills and all interesting - in one field DEAD First Line: The maze under the loess DEAD IN MELANESIA First Line: Beside the crater and the tattered palm Last Line: And the isles confuse him with their own black dead DEAD WINGMAN First Line: Seen on the sea, no sign; no sign, no sign Last Line: The lives' long war, lost war - the pilot sleeps Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War Ii DEATH OF THE BALL TURRET GUNNER First Line: From my mother's sleep I fell into the state Last Line: When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose Subject(s): Air Warfare; Aviation And Aviators; Death; World War Ii DESCRIPTION OF SOME CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS First Line: The torn hillside with its crooked hands DEUTSCH DURCH FREUD Poem Text First Line: I believe - / I do believe, I do believe Last Line: For certain; I don't know enough german Subject(s): German Language; Writing & Writers DEUTSCH DURCH FREUD First Line: I believe my favorite country's german DIALOGUE BETWEEN SOUL AND BODY First Line: You're the can and I'm the salmon DIFFICULT RESOLUTION First Line: Night after night the dead moon lit DREAM First Line: What dreams you must have had last night DREAM OF WAKING First Line: In the bottom of a boat, badly wounded, crying and stroking the face DREAMS First Line: It is already late, my sister DUMMIES First Line: O the dummies in the windows EIGHTH AIR FORCE Poem Text First Line: If, in an odd angle of the hutment Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War Ii; Second World War EIGHTH AIR FORCE First Line: If, in an odd angle of the hutment Last Line: Men wash their hands, in blood, as best they can: %I find no fault in this just man Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War Ii EINE KLEINE NACHTMUSIK First Line: In my gay room, bare as a barn ELEMENTARY SCENE First Line: Looking back in my mind I can see Last Line: I, I, the future that mends everything EMANCIPATORS First Line: When you ground the lenses and the moons swam free Subject(s): War END OF THE RAINBOW First Line: Far from the clams and fogs and bogs ENGLISH GARDEN IN AUSTRIA First Line: It is as one imagined it: an english garden ENORMOUS LOVE, IT'S NO GOOD ASKING ESSAY ON THE HUMAN WILL First Line: The innocents tug blindly at the yielding ESTHETIC THEORIES ART First Line: Poems, like lives, are doing what we can Subject(s): Art And Artists; Esthetics FACE First Line: Not good any more, not beautiful FAIRY SONG First Line: Warmed over pine-cones FALLING IN LOVE IS NEVER AS SIMPLE FAREWELL SYMPHONY First Line: A few miles ago, a year, a year FEAR First Line: The running peoples on their bloody way FIELD AND FOREST Poem Text First Line: When you look down from the airplane you see lines Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas FIELD AND FOREST First Line: When you look down from the airplane you see lines Last Line: The trees can't tell the two of them apart Subject(s): Environment; Fields FIELD HOSPITAL First Line: He stirs, beginning to awake Last Line: He neither knows, remembers - but instead %sleeps, comforted Subject(s): Hospitals; World War Ii FIRE AT THE WAXWORKS First Line: In the basement of the waxworks the old guard puts on his glasses FOR THE MADRID ROAD Poem Text First Line: Stranger, the wages that we earned Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) FOR THE MADRID ROAD First Line: Stranger, the wages that we earned Last Line: Are man's responsibilities Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) FRONT First Line: Fog over the base: the beams ranging Last Line: All the air quivers, and the east sky glows Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War Ii GAME AT SALZBURG First Line: A little ragged girl, our ball-boy Last Line: The world whispers: hier bin I GERMANS ARE LUNATICS First Line: Of course, of course! Who else would die GHOST STORY First Line: The fox lifts his head from the feathers Last Line: Trails over the lonely valley, %the leaves stir absently GHOST, A REAL GHOST First Line: I think of that old woman in the song GIRL DREAMS THAT SHE IS GISELLE First Line: Beards of the grain, gray-green: the lances GIRL IN A LIBRARY First Line: An object among dreams, you sit here with your shoes off Last Line: The corn king beckoning to his spring queen Subject(s): Librarians And Libraries; Pushkin, Alexander (1799-1837); Schools; Sleep GLEANING First Line: When I was a girl in los angeles we'd go gleaning GOOD-BYE, WENDOVER; GOOD-BYE, MOUNTAIN HOME Poem Text First Line: Wives on day-coaches traveling with a baby Subject(s): Absence; Army Life; World War Ii; Separation; Isolation; Drills & Minor Tactics; Second World War GOOD-BYE, WENDOVER; GOOD-BYE, MOUNTAIN HOME First Line: Wives on day-coaches traveling with a baby Last Line: And you might as well get used to it, your ord's Subject(s): Absence; Army Life; World War Ii GUNNER Poem Text First Line: Did they send me away from my cat and my wife Subject(s): Holidays GUNNER First Line: Did they send me away from my cat and my wife Subject(s): Holidays HANGED MAN ON THE GALLOWS First Line: Warmed by fire and fed with dew HAPPY CAT First Line: The cat's asleep; I whisper kitten Last Line: Men aren't happy; why are you? Subject(s): Animals; Cats HE First Line: I sit all day outside a bank HEAD OF WISDOM First Line: The little will comes naked to its world HOHENSALZBURG Poem Text First Line: I should always have known; those who sang from the river Last Line: A dweller of the earth, invisible Subject(s): Germany; Relationships HOHENSALZBURG: FANTASTIC VARIATIONS ON A THEME OF ROMANTIC First Line: I should always have known; those who sang from the river HOPE Poem Text First Line: The spirit killeth, but the letter giveth life Last Line: A step is on the stairs Subject(s): Hope; Optimism HOPE First Line: To prefer the nest in the linden HOPE First Line: The week is dealt out like a hand HOUSE IN THE WOOD First Line: At the back of the houses there is the wood Last Line: In the house in the wood, the witch and her child sleep HUGO VAN DER GOES 'PORTINARI ALTARPIECE' First Line: After a while the masters show the crucifixion Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters; Van Der Goes, Hugo HUGO VAN DER GOES 'PORTINARI ALTARPIECE' First Line: After a while the masters show the crucifixion Last Line: Is the small radioactive planet men call earth Subject(s): Art And Artists; Paintings And Painters; Van Der Goes, Hugo HUNT IN THE BLACK FOREST First Line: After the door shuts and the footsteps die Last Line: Are blurred into one face: a child's set face ICEBERG First Line: The pressure as it crushes gags the moan IN A HOSPITAL GARDEN First Line: Through a hospital window IN GALLERIES Poem Text First Line: The guard has a right to despair. He stands by god Subject(s): Museums; Sculpture & Sculptors; Art Gallerys IN GALLERIES First Line: The guard has a right to despair. He stands by god Last Line: A quarter's worth of nickel and aluminum Subject(s): Museums; Sculpture And Sculptors IN MONTECITO First Line: In a fashionable suburb of santa barbara Subject(s): California IN MONTECITO First Line: In a fashionable suburb of santa barbara Last Line: And greenie has gone into the greater monecito %that surrounds montecito like the echo of a scream Subject(s): California IN NATURE THERE IS NEITHER RIGHT NOR LEFT NOR WRONG First Line: Men are what they do, women are what they are IN THE CAMP THERE WAS ONE ALIVE Poem Text First Line: Flakes pour to the black dead Last Line: The footsteps die was he dies Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Concentration Camps; Shoah; Judaism IN THE CAMP THERE WAS ONE ALIVE First Line: Flakes pour to the black dead Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews IN THE WARD: THE SACRED WOOD First Line: The trees rise from the darkness of the world IN THOSE DAYS First Line: In those days - they were long ago - INDIAN First Line: Among the shades and cries of the night INDIAN MARKET IN MEXICO First Line: The bees are eating the candy ISLAND First Line: While sun and sea - and I, and I - ISLANDS First Line: Man, if I said once, I know JACK First Line: The sky darkened watching you JAN-38 First Line: Ski-rails run down the sugar-loaf JEROME Poem Text First Line: Each day brings its toad, each night its dragon Subject(s): Jerome, Saint (347-419) JEROME First Line: Each day brings its toad, each night its dragon Subject(s): Jerome, Saint (347-419) JEWS AT HAIFA First Line: The freighter, gay with rust JONAH Poem Text First Line: As I lie here in the sun Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology JONAH First Line: As I lie here in the sun Last Line: And also much cattle?' Subject(s): Bible; Religion KIRILOV ON A SKYSCRAPER, BLOOD FOR A STRANGER First Line: Something gnaws inside my head KNIGHT, DEATH, AND THE DEVIL First Line: Cowhorn-crowned, shockheaded, cornshuck-bearded Last Line: And the body underneath it says: I am Subject(s): Art And Artists; Durer, Albrecht (1471-1528) LA BELLE AU BOIS DORMANT First Line: She lies, her head beneath her knees LABORATORY First Line: In the technician's thicket LADY BATES First Line: The lightning of a summer %storm wakes, in her clay cave Last Line: You're fast asleep, you're fast asleep LAMENT OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL IN ROME First Line: Very bitter were the sorrows LE POETE CONTUMACE First Line: On the coast of armorica LEARNERS First Line: When the planes come in all night, and the lights reach LEAVE Poem Text First Line: One winds through firs - their weeds are ferns Last Line: The mote dances in a nature full of squirrels Subject(s): Loss; World War Ii; Second World War LEAVE First Line: One winds through firs - their weeds are ferns LINES First Line: After the centers' naked files, the basic line Last Line: The longest of their lives, the men are free Subject(s): World War Ii LITTLE POEM First Line: All night in the womb I heard the stories LONDON First Line: The wind wore me north, london I left a year LONELY MAN First Line: A cat sits on the pavement by the house Last Line: To be a man; will find, soon, some especial %opening in a good firm for a former cat LOSS First Line: Bird of the spray, the tree of bones LOSSES Poem Text First Line: It was not dying: everybody died Subject(s): Death; World War Ii; Dead, The; Second World War LOSSES First Line: It was not dying: everybody died Last Line: We are satisfied, if you are; but why did I die?' Subject(s): Death; World War Ii LOST CHILDREN First Line: Two little girls, one fair, one dark Last Line: But the child keeps on playing, so I play LOST LOVE First Line: When I woke up this morning LOT IS VACANT STILL LOVE FOR ONE ORANGE First Line: Prokofiev's sick prince can't laugh LOVE, IN ITS SEPARATE BEING First Line: Gropes for the stranger, the handling swarm LULLABY First Line: For wars his life and half a world away Last Line: And his dull torment mottles like a fly's %the lying amber of the histories MACHINE-GUN First Line: The broken blood, the hunting flame MAIL CALL Poem Text First Line: The letters always just evade the hand Subject(s): Army Life; Postal Service; World War Ii; Drills & Minor Tactics; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen; Second World War MAIL CALL First Line: The letters always just evade the hand Last Line: The soldier simply wishes for his name Subject(s): Army Life; Postal Service; World War Ii MAN First Line: The cranes along the scaffoling are gorged MAN IN MAJESTY First Line: He looks. Looks. Looks in rapture MAN MEETS A WOMAN IN THE STREET First Line: Under the separated leaves of shade Last Line: Be the same day, the day of my life Subject(s): Garbo, Greta (1905-1990); Lorenz, Konrad (1903-1989); Proust, Marcel (1871-1922); Schumann-heink, Ernestine (1861-1936); Strauss, Richard (1864-1949) MARCHEN (GRIMM'S TALES) First Line: Listening, listening; it is never still Last Line: But of our own hears, the realm of death -- %neither to rule nor die? To change, to change! Subject(s): Fairy Tales MEMO FROM THE DESK OF X First Line: Re: the question of poems Last Line: The extinction of poems MEMOIRS OF GLUCKEL OF HAMELN First Line: We are all children to the past METAMORPHOSES First Line: Where I spat in the harbor the oranges were bobbing Last Line: The sky is all black where the carrier's burning, %and the blood of the transports is red on the tid Subject(s): War METEORITE Poem Text First Line: Star, that looked so long among the stones Last Line: Breathe on me still, star, sister Subject(s): Stars METEORITE First Line: Star, that looked so long among the stones MILLER First Line: On bank and brake the moonshine quakes MOCKINGBIRD First Line: Look one way and the sun is going down Last Line: So well that, for a minute in the moonlight, %which one's the mockingbird? Which one's the world? Subject(s): Birds; Mockingbirds MONEY First Line: I sit here eating mile-toast in my lap-robe MOTHER, SAID THE CHILD First Line: Mother, said the child, the boughs all talk MOVING First Line: Some of the sky is grey and some of it is white Last Line: She hears her own heart and her cat's heart beating. %she holds the cat so close to her he pants NESTUS GURLEY First Line: Sometimes waking, sometimes sleeping NEW GEORGIA First Line: Sometimes as I woke, the branches beside the stars NEWS First Line: Children, come to my knee NEXT DAY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Moving from cheer to joy, from joy to all Subject(s): Aging; Housewives; Middle Age; Wisdom NEXT DAY First Line: Moving from cheer to joy, from joy to all Last Line: Confused with my life, that is commonplace and solitary Subject(s): Aging; Housewives; Middle Age; Wisdom NIGHT BEFORE THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS First Line: In the arden apartments NIGHT WITH LIONS First Line: When I was twelve we'd visit my aunt's friend NOLLEKENS First Line: Old nollekens? No, little nollekens NORTHERN SNOWS First Line: I miss my volley; walking back to serve NOVEMBER GHOSTS First Line: The rain slants from the clouded light NURSERY RHYME First Line: Here we are: bowl, the thousands O MY NAME IT IS SAM HALL First Line: Three prisoners - the biggest black - %and their one guard stand O WEARY MARINERS, HERE SHADED, FED OFFICERS' PRISON CAMP SEEN FROM A TROOP-TRAIN First Line: It is some school, brick, green, a sleepy hill Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; World War Ii OLD AND THE NEW MASTERS First Line: About suffering, about adoration, the old masters OLD ORCHARD IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FOREST OLD POEMS First Line: I knew you once so well I know you still OLD SONG First Line: A shoe that I forgot to tie ON THE RAILWAY PLATFORM Poem Text First Line: The rewarded porters opening their smiles Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains ON THE RAILWAY PLATFORM First Line: The rewarded porters opening their smiles Last Line: And take from strangers their unmeant kisses Subject(s): Railroads ONE WHO WAS DIFFERENT First Line: Twice you have been around the world ORIENT EXPRESS First Line: One looks from the train Last Line: Behind everything there is always %the unknown unwanted life Subject(s): Railroads OVER THE FLORID CAPITALS First Line: Up midnight's staring sky OVERTURE: THE HOSTAGES First Line: The teacher, the preacher, my mother, a mouse OWL'S BEDTIME STORY First Line: There was once upon a time a little owl Subject(s): Friendship PERFECT LOVE CASTETH OUT EVERYTHING First Line: We lie like the gods PERFECTLY FREE ASSOCIATION First Line: The torn-up newspaper PILOT FROM THE CARRIER First Line: Strapped at the center of the blazing wheel Last Line: Shining as the fragile sun-marked plane %that grows to him, rubbed silver tipped with flame Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War Ii PILOTS, MAN YOUR PLANES Poem Text First Line: Dawn; and the jew's-harp's sawing seesaw song Subject(s): Air Warfare PILOTS, MAN YOUR PLANES First Line: Dawn; and the jew's-harp's sawing seesaw song Subject(s): Air Warfare PLAYER PIANO First Line: I ate pancakes one night in a pancake house Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Nostalgia; Pianos POEM First Line: There I was, here I am: a foot in the air POEM FOR SOMEONE KILLED IN SPAIN First Line: Though oars are breaking the breathless gaze Last Line: With the songs of the world where no one dies Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) PORT OF EMBARKATION Poem Text First Line: Freedom, farewell! Or so the soldiers say Last Line: The slow lives sank from being like a dream? Subject(s): Soldiers; Freedom; World War Ii; Liberty; Second World War PORT OF EMBARKATION First Line: Freedom, farewell! Or so the soldiers say Last Line: The slow lives sank from being like a dream? PRAYER AT MORNING First Line: Cold, slow, silent, but returning, after so many hours PRINCESS WAKES IN THE WOOD First Line: It darkened; I was cold PRISONERS Poem Text First Line: Within the wires of the post, unloading the cans of garbage Subject(s): War PRISONERS First Line: Within the wires of the post, unloading the cans of garbage Subject(s): War PROLOGUE TO WILEY ON NOVEMBER 17, 1941 First Line: Welcome, deep wiley! From the sylvan dells PROTOCOLS (BIRKENAU, ODESSA; THE CHILDREN SPEAK ALTERNATELY) Poem Text First Line: We went there on the train. They had big barges that towed Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Odessa, Ukraine; Shoah; Judaism PROTOCOLS (BIRKENAU, ODESSA; THE CHILDREN SPEAK ALTERNATELY) First Line: We went there on the train. They had big barges that towed Last Line: And that is how you die. And that is how you die Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Odessa, Ukraine QUILT-PATTERN First Line: The blocked-out tree RABBIT HURRIES TO THE BRIM OF ITS WOOD RANDALL JARRELL, OFFICE HOURS 10-11 Poem Text First Line: Come back and you will find me just the same Subject(s): Jarrell, Randall (1914-1965) RANDALL JARRELL, OFFICE HOURS 10-11 First Line: Come back and you will find me just the same Subject(s): Jarrell, Randall (1914-1965) RANGE IN THE DESERT First Line: Where the lizard ran to its little prey Last Line: The lizard's tongue licks angrily %the shattered membranes of the fly Subject(s): World War Ii REFUGEES First Line: In the shabby train no seat is vacant Subject(s): Refugees RHAPSODY ON IRISH THEMES First Line: At six in the morning you scratched at my porthole RISING SUN First Line: The card-house over the fault ROMANCE OF SCIENCE First Line: The man remembers from the tales the rocket SAY GOODBYE TO BIG DADDY Poem Text First Line: Big daddy lipscomb, who used to help them up Subject(s): Football; Lipscomb, Eugene ('big Daddy'); Sports SAY GOODBYE TO BIG DADDY First Line: Big daddy lipscomb, who used to help them up Last Line: The world won't be the same without big daddy %or else it will be Subject(s): Football; Lipscomb, Eugene ("big Daddy"); Sports SCHERZO First Line: To sit on a chair, to eat from a table SCHOOL OF SUMMER First Line: Out somewhere in the middle of the crickets SEARS ROEBUCK First Line: A passing cyclist winks; well, let her, let her SECOND AIR FORCE Poem Text First Line: Far off, above the plain the summer dries Subject(s): Air Warfare; Army Life; Death; World War Ii; Drills & Minor Tactics; Dead, The; Second World War SECOND AIR FORCE First Line: Far off, above the plain the summer dries Last Line: But for them the bombers answer everything Subject(s): Air Warfare; Army Life; Death; World War Ii SEDUCTIVE PIECE OF BUSINESS First Line: When at the end of don pasquale SEE-ER OF CITIES First Line: When the train whistles, it wants to say SEELE IN RAUM Poem Text First Line: It sat between my husband and my children Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness SEELE IN RAUM First Line: It sat between my husband and my children Last Line: Rich with a kind of longing satisfaction: %'to own an eland ! That's what I call life!' Subject(s): Insanity SICK CHILD First Line: The postman comes when I am still in bed Last Line: All that I've never thought of - think of me! SICK NOUGHT First Line: Do the wife and baby travelling to see SIEGFRIED First Line: In the turret's great glass dome, the apparition, death Last Line: Your world at last: you have tasted your own blood SIGN First Line: Having eaten their mackerel, drunk their milk SKATERS First Line: I stood among my sheep SLEEPING BEAUTY: VARIATION OF THE PRINCE First Line: After the thorns I came to the first page Subject(s): Fairy Tales SNOW-LEOPARD First Line: His pads furring the scarp's rime Last Line: At all that he is: the heart of heartlessness Subject(s): Leopards SOLDIER (T.P.) Poem Text First Line: When the runner's whistle lights the last miles of darkness Subject(s): Army Life; War; Drills & Minor Tactics SOLDIER (T.P.) First Line: When the runner's whistle lights the last miles of darkness Last Line: As the leaf chars or is kindled; as the bough burns Subject(s): Army Life; War SOLDIER WALKS UNDER THE TREES OF THE UNIVERSITY First Line: The walls have been shaded for so many years Subject(s): War SONG: NOT THERE First Line: I went to the cupboard, I opened the door SOUL First Line: It is evening. One bat dances Last Line: Many times I had thought thee lost, %my poor soul, forever Subject(s): Soul SPHINX'S RIDDLE TO OEDIPUS First Line: Not to have guessed is better: what is, ends STALAG LUFT First Line: In the yard, by the house of boxes STATE First Line: When they killed my mother it made me nervous Last Line: Now there's nothing. I'm dead, and I want to die STORY First Line: Even from the train the hill looked empty STREET HAS CHANGED First Line: In the city that ruled me STREET OFF SUNSET First Line: Sometimes as I drive by the factory SUBWAY FROM NEW BRITAIN TO THE BRONX First Line: Under the orchid, blooming as it bloomed SUMMER NIGHT First Line: In the room, our old room, barred with moolight SURVIVOR AMONG GRAVES First Line: There are fields beyond. The world there obeys TERMS Poem Text First Line: One-armed, one-legged, and one-headed Last Line: But he says softly: “I am a man” Subject(s): World War Ii - Casualties TERMS First Line: One-armed, one-legged, and one-headed THE ANGELS AT HAMBURG Poem Text First Line: In caves emptied of their workers, turning Last Line: Rides over his city like a star Subject(s): Hamburg, Germany; Bombs; World War Ii - Germany THE AUGSBURG ADORATION Poem Text First Line: Mozart, goethe, and the duke of wellington Subject(s): Augsburg, Germany THE BIRD OF NIGHT Poem Text First Line: A shadow is floating through the moonlight Subject(s): Animals THE BLACK SWAN Poem Text First Line: When the swans turned my sister into a swan Subject(s): Birds; Swans THE BLIND MAN'S SONG Poem Text First Line: I am blind, you out there. That is a curse Last Line: And that tempts one to show mercy Subject(s): Blindness; Visually Handicapped THE BLIND SHEEP Poem Text First Line: The sheep is blind; a passing owl Subject(s): Blindness; Sheep; Visually Handicapped THE BREATH OF NIGHT Poem Text First Line: The moon rises. The red cubs rolling Last Line: That we were unwilling to trade for this? Subject(s): Night; Bedtime THE CHIPMUNK'S DAY Poem Text First Line: In and out the bushes, up the ivy Subject(s): Animals; Chipmunks THE CLOCK IN THE TOWER OF THE CHURCH Poem Text First Line: How patient man is in his time Subject(s): Middle Ages; Millenium; Second Advent; Medieval History; Medieval Civilization; Medieval Literature; Second Coming Of Christ THE DEAD WINGMAN Poem Text First Line: Seen on the sea, no sign; no sign, no sign Subject(s): Air Warfare; World War Ii; Second World War THE DEATH OF THE BALL TURRET GUNNER Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: From my mother's sleep I fell into the state Subject(s): Air Warfare; Aviation & Aviators; Death; World War Ii; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Dead, The; Second World War THE DREAM OF WAKING Poem Text First Line: Something is there. And teacher here at home Last Line: His life and their death: oh morning, morning Subject(s): War; Death; Dreams; Dead, The; Nightmares THE EMANCIPATORS Poem Text First Line: When you ground the lenses and the moons swam free Subject(s): War THE FACE Poem Text First Line: Not good any more, not beautiful Last Line: It is terrible to be alive Subject(s): Aging; Memory; Self THE HAPPY CAT Poem Text First Line: The cat's asleep; I whisper kitten Last Line: Men aren't happy. Why are you? Subject(s): Animals; Cats THE KING'S HUNT Poem Text First Line: After the door shuts, and the footsteps die Last Line: And blurred into one face: a child's set face Subject(s): Hunting THE KNIGHT, DEATH, AND THE DEVIL Poem Text First Line: Cowhorn-crowned, shockheaded, cornshuck-bearded Subject(s): Art & Artists; Durer, Albrecht (1471-1528) THE LEARNERS Poem Text First Line: When the planes come in all night, and the lights reach, wavering Last Line: This is your world now, ghosts, have you learned anything? Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Airplanes; Air Pilots THE LINES Poem Text First Line: After the centers' naked files, the basic line Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War THE LONELY MAN Poem Text First Line: Cat sits on the pavement by the house, a Last Line: Opening in a good firm for a former cat Subject(s): Cats; Solitude THE LOST CHILDREN Poem Text First Line: Two little girls, one fair, one dark Last Line: But the child keeps on playing, so I play Subject(s): Death - Children; Girls; Death - Babies THE LOST WORLD Poem Text First Line: On my way home I pass a cameraman Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Children; Movies; Cinema; Childhood THE MARCHEN (GRIMM'S TALES) Poem Text First Line: Listening, listening; it is never still Subject(s): Fairy Tales THE METAMORPHOSES Poem Text First Line: Where I spat in the harbor the oranges were bobbing Subject(s): War THE MOCKINGBIRD Poem Text First Line: Look one way and the sun is going down Subject(s): Birds; Mockingbirds THE OLD AND THE NEW MASTERS Poem Text First Line: About suffering, about adoration, the old masters Last Line: Is the small radioactive planet men called earth Subject(s): Art & Artists; Nativity THE OLIVE GARDEN Poem Text First Line: He went up under the gray leaves Last Line: And shut from their own mothers' hearts Subject(s): Doubt; Skepticism THE ONE WHO WAS DIFFERENT Poem Text First Line: Twice you have been around the world Last Line: Woman, that is Subject(s): Human Behavior; Travel; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Journeys; Trips THE ORIENT EXPRESS Poem Text First Line: One looks from the train Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains THE OWL'S BEDTIME STORY Poem Text First Line: There was once upon a time a little owl Last Line: A friend to play with,if, now, you will fly Subject(s): Friendship; Owls THE PLAYER PIANO Poem Text First Line: I ate pancakes one night in a pancake house Last Line: Plays itself out a half-inch from my fingers Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Nostalgia; Pianos THE PRINCESS WAKES IN THE WOOD Poem Text First Line: It darkened; I was cold Last Line: In thee all these – all these, and I, are one Subject(s): Forests; Woods THE RANGE IN THE DESERT Poem Text First Line: Where the lizard ran to its little prey Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War THE REFUGEES Poem Text First Line: In the shabby train no seat is vacant Subject(s): Refugees THE SICK NOUGHT Poem Text First Line: Do the wife and baby travelling to see Last Line: This was our peace, this was our war Subject(s): World War Ii - Casualties THE SLEEPING BEAUTY: VARIATION OF THE PRINCE Poem Text First Line: After the thorns I came to the first page Subject(s): Fairy Tales THE SNOW-LEOPARD Poem Text First Line: His pads furring the scarp's rime Subject(s): Leopards THE SOLDIER WALKS UNDER THE TREES OF THE UNIVERSITY First Line: The walls have been shaded for so many years Last Line: And the blood is black upon the unturned leaves Subject(s): War THE SURVIVOR AMONG GRAVES Poem Text First Line: There are fields beyond. The world there obeys Last Line: That we are waiting; that we are waiting Subject(s): Survival; War; Graves; Tombs; Tombstones THE TRAVELLER Poem Text First Line: As she rides to the station Last Line: She gives no answer Subject(s): Railroad Stations; Money; Terrorism THE WAYS AND THE PEOPLES Poem Text First Line: What does the storm say? What the trees wish Last Line: Who is dying and glass on her marvelous bier Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE WOMAN AT THE WASHINGTON ZOO Poem Text First Line: The saris go by me from the embassies Subject(s): Identity; Zoos THERE WAS GLASS AND THERE ARE STARS First Line: Whether one walks around the hill, or over THINKING OF THE LOST WORLD Poem Text First Line: This spoonful of chocolate tapioca Last Line: Nothing: nothing for which there's no reward Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Los Angeles, California THINKING OF THE LOST WORLD First Line: This spoonful of chocolate tapioca Last Line: Nothing: the nothing for which there's no reward THREE BILLS First Line: Once at the plaza, looking out into the park TIME AND THE THING-IN-ITSELF IN A TEXTBOOK Poem Text First Line: I read it quickly: all the old clich??S Last Line: As though – as though the fish, at least, were rotten Subject(s): Academia TIME AND THE THING-IN-ITSELF IN A TEXTBOOK First Line: I read it quickly: all the old cliches TIMES WORSEN First Line: If sixteen shadows flapping on the line TO BE DEAD First Line: Woman, men say of him, and women TO THE NEW WORLD First Line: In that bad year and city of your birth TO THE NEW WORLD First Line: The leaves are struck and dance, the bird is shown TOURIST FROM SYRACUSE First Line: You would not recognize me Last Line: You must not hope to arrive TOWER First Line: He runs his eyes out idly, sliding TRANSIENT BARRACKS Poem Text First Line: Summer. Sunset. Someone is playing Last Line: And the thing about it is, it's real Subject(s): Army Life; Homecoming; World War Ii; Drills & Minor Tactics; Second World War TRANSIENT BARRACKS First Line: Summer. Sunset. Someone is playing Last Line: And the thing about it is, it's real Subject(s): Army Life; Homecoming; World War Ii TRAVELER First Line: As she rides to the station TREE First Line: When I looked at the tree the bough was still shaking TREES IN SPRING First Line: We looked at the hawthorn with the helpless joy TRUTH First Line: When I was four my father went to scotland UP IN THE SKY THE STAR IS WAITING First Line: On a range in the night of the sea UTOPIAN JOURNEY First Line: In a minute the doctor will find out what is wrong Variant Title(s): The Long Vacatio Subject(s): Sickness VARIATIONS First Line: I lived with mr. Punch, they said my name was judy Last Line: Man is the judgment of the world VENETIAN BLIND First Line: It is the first day of the world WAR First Line: There set out, slowly, for a different world Last Line: You can't break eggs without making an omelette %that's what they tell the eggs Subject(s): World War Ii WARD IN THE STATES First Line: The ward is barred with moonlight WASHING First Line: On days like these WAYS AND THE PEOPLES First Line: What does the storm say? What the trees wish WELL WATER Poem Text First Line: What a girl called 'the dailiness of life' Subject(s): Rivers; Wells WELL WATER First Line: What a girl called 'the dailiness of life' Last Line: And gulp from them the dailiness of life Subject(s): Rivers; Wells WELL-TO-DO INVALID First Line: When you first introduced me to your nurse WHAN I WAS HOME LAST CHRISTMAS WHAT'S THE RIDDLE First Line: What's the riddle that they ask you WHAT'S THE RIDDLE THEY ASK YOU? Poem Text Recitation Last Line: I don't know Subject(s): Riddles WHEN ACHILLES FOUGHT AND FELL WHEN I WAS HOME LAST CHRISTMAS WHEN YOU AND I WERE ALL First Line: Time held his trembling hand WIDE PROSPECT First Line: Who could have figured, when the harness improved WILD BIRDS First Line: In the clear atmosphere WINDOWS Poem Text First Line: Quarried from snow, the dark walks lead to doors Last Line: It moves so slowly that it does not move Subject(s): Winter; Solitude WINDOWS First Line: Quarried from snow, the dark walks lead to doors WINTER'S TALE First Line: The storm rehearses through the bewildered fields WOMAN First Line: All things become thee, being thine, I think sometimes Last Line: At morning bring me, grayer for its mirroring, %the heavens' sun perfected in your eyes WOMAN AT THE WASHINGTON ZOO First Line: The saris go by me from the embassies Last Line: You see what I am: change me, change me! Subject(s): Identity; Zoos WOMEN ON A BUS First Line: These sacks of flesh piled in a pile X-RAY WAITING ROOM IN THE HOSPITAL First Line: I am dressed in my big shoes and wrinkled socks YARD First Line: I want...I want a ship from some near star Last Line: To land in the yard Subject(s): Language ZENO First Line: The swallows' twisting southward-turning flock |
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