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Author: JEFFERS, ROBINSON Matches Found: 355 Jeffers, Robinson Poet's Biography 355 poems available by this author A CALIFORNIA GARDEN Poem Text First Line: There was fragrance too, that quietly crept Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening A LITTLE SCRAPING Poem Text First Line: True, the time, to one who does not love farce Last Line: And gathers multitude like game to be hunted when the season comes Subject(s): Time; Destruction A REDEEMER Poem Text First Line: The road had steepened and the sun sharpened on the high Last Line: Have been married before: deep is my peace Subject(s): Redemption ADJUSTMENT First Line: Were I always to be witness and not part ADVICE TO PILGRIMS First Line: That our senses lie and our minds trick us is true, but in general Last Line: Wise are the wings of the gull, pleasant her song AGE IN PROSPECT Poem Text First Line: Praise youth's hot blood if you will, I think that Subject(s): Old Age AGE IN PROSPECT First Line: Praise youth's hot blood if you will, I think that Subject(s): Old Age ALL THE LITTLE HOOFPRINTS Poem Text First Line: Farther up the gorge the sea's voice fainted and ceased. Last Line: Drift up the canyon with the mist on their shoulders. Look in the dust at your feet, all the little Subject(s): Horses ALL THE LITTLE HOOFPRINTS First Line: Farther up the gorge the sea's voice fainted and ceased Last Line: Look in the dust at your feet, all the little hoofprints AN ARTIST Poem Text First Line: That sculptor we knew, the passionate-eyed son of a quarry-man Subject(s): Sculpture & Sculptors AN IRISH HEADLAND Poem Text First Line: Fair head in antrim, long dark waves of Subject(s): Ireland; Irish ANIMALS Poem Text First Line: At dawn a knot of sea-lions lies off the shore Subject(s): Animals ANIMALS First Line: At dawn a knot of sea-lions lies off the shore Last Line: Besides the slow oxidation of carbohydrates and amino-acids Subject(s): Animals ANSWER First Line: Then what is the answer? - not to be deluded by dreams Last Line: Apart from that, or else you will share man's pitiful confusions, or drown in despair when his days ANTE MORTEM Poem Text First Line: It is likely enough that lions and scorpions Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ANTE MORTEM First Line: It is likely enough that lions and scorpions Last Line: And could lift stones, and comprehend in the praises the cruelties of life Subject(s): Death ANTRIM Poem Text First Line: No spot of earth where men have so fiercely for ages of time Subject(s): Antrim, Ireland; Ireland; Irish ANTRIM First Line: No spot of earth where men have so fiercely for ages of time Last Line: I lie here and plot the agony of resurrection Subject(s): Antrim, Ireland; Ireland APOLOGY FOR BAD DREAMS Poem Text First Line: In the purple light, heavy with redwood, the slopes drop seaward Last Line: Foreland, the ever-returning roses of dawn Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares APOLOGY FOR BAD DREAMS First Line: In the purple light, heavy with redwood, the slopes drop seaward Last Line: The fountains of the boiling stars, the flowers of the forelnd, %he ever-returning roses of dawn ARTIST First Line: That sculptor we knew, the passionate-eyed son of a quarry-man Last Line: May stumble on that ravine of titans after their maker has died. While he lives, let him alone Subject(s): Sculpture And Sculptors ASCENT TO THE SIERRAS Poem Text First Line: Beyond the great valley an odd instinctive rising Last Line: Against the wolf in men's hearts? Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains ASCENT TO THE SIERRAS First Line: Beyond the great valley an odd instinctive rising Last Line: To make you bitter music; how else will you take bonds of the %future, against the wolf in men's hea Subject(s): Sierra Nevada Mountains AT THE BIRTH OF AN AGE First Line: When the north and the east crawled with armed tribes toward mindless wars Last Line: Shining writhes like a fire, %the stars return AT THE FALL OF AN AGE Poem Text First Line: The gods get hungry like you and me, so it has to die Subject(s): Vengeance AT THE FALL OF AN AGE First Line: The gods get hungry like you and me, so it has to die Last Line: The flame is blown from the torches by the violent wind Subject(s): Vengeance AUTUMN EVENING First Line: Though the little clouds ran southward still, the quiet autumnal Last Line: What happens to men ... The world's well made though AVE CAESAR Poem Text First Line: No bitterness: our ancestors did it Last Line: Full of sentiment, clever at mechanics, and we love our luxuries Subject(s): Americans AVE CAESAR First Line: No bitterness: our ancestors did it Last Line: Full of sentiment, clever at mechanics, and we love our luxuries Subject(s): Americans BE ANGRY AT THE SUN Poem Text First Line: That public men publish falsehoods Last Line: Yours is not theirs Subject(s): Anger; Social Commentary BEACH First Line: Moon-white dunes and the water like violets BEAKS OF EAGLES First Line: An eagle's nest on the head of an old redwood on one of the Last Line: Ten thousand years than the beaks of eagles Subject(s): Birds; Eagles BEAUTY OF THINGS First Line: To feel and speak the astonishing beauty of things - earth, stone and water Last Line: The love, lust, longing: reasons, but not the reason BED BY THE WINDOW First Line: I chose the bed down-stairs by the sea-window for a good death-bed Last Line: Thumps with his staff, and calls thrice: 'come, jeffers' Subject(s): Death BIRD WITH THE DARK PLUMES IN MY BLOOD Last Line: To want hatred as to want love; and harder to win BIRDS First Line: The fierce musical cries of a couple of sparrow hawks hunting on the headland Subject(s): Birds; Hawks BIRDS First Line: The fierce musical cries of a couple of sparrow hawks hunting on the headland Last Line: From the sharp %rock-shores of the world and the secret waters Subject(s): Birds; Hawks BIRDS AND FISHES Poem Text First Line: Every october millions of little fish come along the shore Subject(s): Birds; Fish & Fishing; Anglers BIRDS AND FISHES First Line: Every october millions of little fish come along the shore Last Line: That is their quality: not mercy, not mind, not goodness, but the beauty of god Subject(s): Birds; Fishing And Fishermen BIRTH-DUES Poem Text First Line: Joy is a trick in the air; pleasure is merely Last Line: Have paid my birth-dues; am quits with the people Subject(s): God; Doubt; Skepticism BIRTH-DUES First Line: Joy is a trick in the air; pleasure is merely contemptible, the dangled Last Line: Have paid my birth-dues; am quits with the people BIRTHDAY (AUTOBIOGRAPHY) Poem Text First Line: Seventy years ago my mother labored to bear me, Last Line: Swim in my blood and distort my thought but the old man's welcome Subject(s): Birthdays; Self; Parents; Parenthood BIXBY'S LANDING Poem Text First Line: They burned lime on the hill and dropped it down Last Line: Are even more precious than your first presence Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Quarries; Work; Workers BIXBY'S LANDING First Line: They burned lime on the hill and dropped it down here in an iron car Last Line: Returnings %are even more precious than your first presence BLACK-OUT Poem Text First Line: The war that we have carefully for years provoked Subject(s): War BLACK-OUT First Line: The war that we have carefully for years provoked Last Line: Darkness and silence, the two eyes that see god. Great staring eyes Subject(s): War BLIND HORSES Poem Text First Line: The proletariat for your messiah, the poor and many are to seize power Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era BLIND HORSES First Line: The proletariat for your messiah, the poor and many are to seize power Last Line: The ages like blind horses turning a mill tread their own hoof-marks. Whose corn's ground in that mi Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era BLOODY SIRE First Line: It is not bad. Let them play Last Line: Never weep, let them play, %old violence is not too old to beget new values BOATS IN A FOG Poem Text First Line: Sports and gallantries, the stage, the arts, the antics of dancers Last Line: Earnest elements of nature. Subject(s): Fog; Boats; Art & Artists; Boats; Fog; Sea; Haze; Haze; Ocean BOATS IN A FOG Poem Text First Line: Sports and gallantries, the stage, the arts, the antics of dancers, Last Line: Earnest elements of nature. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Boats; Fog; Sea; Haze; Ocean BROADSTONE; NEAR FINVOY, COUNTY ANTRIM First Line: We climbed by the old quarries to the wide highland of heath Last Line: Here they are all perfectly resolved Subject(s): Antrim, Ireland BROKEN BALANCE First Line: The people buying and selling, consuming pleasures, talking in the archways Last Line: The arteries and walk in triumph on the faces BY DAY AND NIGHT DREAM ABOUT HAPPY DEATH First Line: By day and night dream about happy death Last Line: As if sweet death were a whore? You are too proud CAGED EAGLE'S DEATH DREAM First Line: At the one shot Last Line: Peace like a white fawn in a dell of fire Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators CALIFORNIA GARDEN First Line: There was fragrance too, that quietly crept Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening CALM AND FULL THE OCEAN Poem Text Subject(s): War CALM AND FULL THE OCEAN Subject(s): War CARMEL POINT Poem Text First Line: The extraordinary patience of things! Last Line: As the rock and ocean that we were made from Subject(s): Carmel, California; Nature; Patience CARMEL POINT First Line: The extraordinary patience of things! Last Line: As the rock and ocean that we were made from Subject(s): Carmel, California; Nature; Patience CASSANDRA Poem Text First Line: The mad girl with the staring eyes and long white fingers Last Line: And gods disgusting—you and I, cassandra Subject(s): Cassandra (mythology); War CASSANDRA First Line: The mad girl with the staring eyes and long white fingers Last Line: No: you'll still mumble in a corner a crust of truth, to men %and gods disgusting. - you and I, cass Subject(s): Cassandra; War CLOUDS OF EVENING First Line: Enormous cloud-mountains that form COAST-ROAD First Line: A horseman high alone as an eagle on the spur Last Line: Not the least hurt by this ribbon pf road carved on their sea-foot COMPENSATION First Line: Solitude that unmakes me one of men CONTEMPLATION OF THE SWORD Poem Text First Line: Reason will not decide at last; the sword will decide. Last Line: Reason will not decide at last: the sword will decide Subject(s): Swords; Strength; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals CONTINENT'S END Poem Text First Line: At the equinox when the earth was veiled in a late rain, Last Line: The older fountain. Subject(s): Sea; Children; Migration; Mothers; Ocean; Childhood CONTINENT'S END Poem Text First Line: At the equinox when the earth was veiled in a late rain Last Line: The older fountain. Subject(s): Children; Migration; Mothers; Childhood CONTRAST Poem Text First Line: The world has many seas, mediterranean, atlantic, but Last Line: Mind to stand with the trees, one life with / the mountains Subject(s): Human Behavior; Nature; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature CREDO Poem Text First Line: My friend form asia has powers and magic Subject(s): Faith; Belief; Creed CREDO First Line: My friend form asia has powers and magic Subject(s): Faith CREMATION First Line: It nearly cancels my fear of death, my dearest said Last Line: We had great joy of my body. Scatter the ashes CRUEL FALCON First Line: Contemplation would make a good life, keep it strict, only Last Line: To bruise himself on CRUMBS OR THE LOAF First Line: If one should tell them what's clearly seen Last Line: For it seems compassion sticks longer than the other colors, in this bleaching cloth CYCLE First Line: The clapping blackness of the wings of pointed cormorants Last Line: One temper with the granite, bulking about here? DE RERUM VIRTUTE Poem Text First Line: Here is the skull of a man: a mans thoughts and emotions Last Line: Whatever the sick microbe does. But he too is part of it Subject(s): Creation DEAD TO CLEMENCEAU: NOVEMBER, 1929 First Line: Come (we say) clemenceau Last Line: Hardly required the clear corrections of death Subject(s): Clemenceau, Georges (1841-1929) DECAYING LAMBSKINS Poem Text First Line: After all, we also stand on a height. Our blood and our culture Last Line: But only deep-wounded drag on for centuries Subject(s): Civilization; Destruction; Progress DECAYING LAMBSKINS First Line: After all, we also stand on a height. Our blood and our culture have passed Last Line: But only deep-wounded drag on for centuries DEER LAY DOWN THEIR BONES First Line: I followed the narrow cliffside trail half way up the mountain Last Line: Down their bones: I must wear mine DELUSION OF SAINTS Poem Text First Line: The old pagan burials, uninscribed rock Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards DELUSION OF SAINTS First Line: The old pagan burials, uninscribed rock Last Line: One old horse neighing across the stone hedges %in the flooded fields Subject(s): Cemeteries DISTANT RAINFALL Poem Text First Line: Like mourning women veiled to the feet Last Line: Bearing her tender magnificent sorrow at her heart, the lost battle’s beauty Subject(s): Rain; Mourning; Bereavement DISTANT RAINFALL First Line: Like mourning women veiled to the feet Last Line: Bearing her tender magnificent sorrow at her heart, the lost battle's beauty DIVINELY SUPERFLUOUS BEAUTY Poem Text First Line: The storm-dances of gulls, the barking game of seals, Last Line: Weave like a web in the air / divinely superfluous beauty Subject(s): Beauty; Desire DIVINELY SUPERFLUOUS BEAUTY First Line: The storm-dances of gulls, the barking game of seals Last Line: Weave like a web in the air %of divinely superfluous beauty EAGLE VALOR, CHICKEN MIND Poem Text First Line: Unhappy country, what wings you have! Even here, Subject(s): War EAGLE VALOR, CHICKEN MIND First Line: Unhappy country, what wings you have! Even here, Last Line: Pathos of the result Subject(s): War END OF THE WORLD Poem Text First Line: When I was young in school in switzerland, about the time of the boer Last Line: And the earth flourish long after mankind is out Subject(s): Doomsday; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature EVENING EBB Poem Text First Line: The ocean has not been so quiet for a long while, five night-herons Subject(s): Sea; Ocean EVENING EBB First Line: The ocean has not been so quiet for a long while, five night-herons Last Line: The screen of the world for another audience Subject(s): Sea EXCESSES OF GOD First Line: Is it not by his superflousness we know Subject(s): Religion EYE First Line: The atlantic is a stormy moat, and the mediterranean Last Line: Eye of the earth, and what it watches is not our wars Subject(s): Pacific Ocean; World War Ii FANTASY First Line: Finally in white innocence Last Line: And new men plot a new war FAWN'S FOSTER-MOTHER Poem Text First Line: The old woman sits on a bench before the door and quarrels Last Line: The stir of the world, the music of the mountain Subject(s): Deer; Old Age FAWN'S FOSTER-MOTHER First Line: The old woman sits on a bench before the door and quarrels Last Line: I see that once in her spring she lived in the streaming arteries, %the stir of the world, the music FINLAND IS DOWN Poem Text First Line: Five planets and a brilliant young moon Last Line: And bitter things will have happened; not worse things Subject(s): Finnish-russian War (1939-1940) FIRE ON THE HILLS Poem Text First Line: The deer were bounding like blown leaves Subject(s): Fire; Men FIRE ON THE HILLS First Line: The deer were bounding like blown leaves Last Line: The destruction that brings an eagle from heaven is better than mercy Subject(s): Fire; Men FLIGHT OF SWANS Poem Text First Line: One who sees giant orion, the torches of winter midnight Last Line: But life and death not in vain; and the world is like a flight of swans Subject(s): Swans FLIGHT OF SWANS First Line: One who sees giant orion, the torches of winter midnight Last Line: But life and death not in vain; and the world is like a flight of swans FOG Poem Text First Line: Invisible gulls with human voices cry in the sea-cloud Subject(s): Fog; Haze FOG First Line: Invisible gulls with human voices cry in the sea-cloud Last Line: The lover's, the hunger of the sea-beaks, slaves of the last peace, %worshippers of oneness Subject(s): Fog FOR UNA Poem Text First Line: I built her a tower when I was young Last Line: And when they vanish we’ll have spent the night well Subject(s): Transience; Mortality; Social Commentary; Decay; Love - Erotic; Impermanence; Rot; Decadence FOR UNA First Line: I built her a tower when I was young Last Line: And when they vanish we'll have spent the night well FOURTH ACT Poem Text First Line: Because you are simple people, kindly and romantic, and set your Subject(s): War FOURTH ACT First Line: Because you are simple people, kindly and romantic, and set your Subject(s): War GHOST Poem Text First Line: There is a jaggle of masonry here, on a small hill Last Line: "with the trees that I planted."" ""there has to be room for people,"" he answers. ""my god,"" he sa Subject(s): Time GHOSTS IN ENGLAND Poem Text First Line: At east lulworth the dead were friendly and pitiful, I saw them peek Subject(s): England; Ghosts; Supernatural; English GHOSTS IN ENGLAND First Line: At east lulworth the dead were friendly and pitiful, I saw them peek Last Line: No pity for the great pillar of empire settling to a fall, the pride and the power slowly dissolving Subject(s): England; Ghosts; Supernatural GIANT'S RING: BALLYLESSON, NEAR BELFAST First Line: Whoever is able will pursue the plainly Last Line: Too cheap a bargain: the name, the work or the soul: glass beads are the trade for savages Subject(s): Death; Ireland GIVE YOUR HEART TO THE HAWKS First Line: The apples hung until a wind at the equinox Last Line: Then climbed up, rock to rock, bush to bush GIVE YOUR WISH LIGHT Poem Text First Line: By day and night dream about happy death, Last Line: As if sweet death were a whore? You are too proud Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Dead, The; Nightmares GOING TO HORSE FLATS First Line: Amazingly active a toothless man Last Line: Then man will have come of age; he will still suffer and still die, but like a god, not a tortured a GOING TO THE HORSE FLATS Poem Text First Line: Amazingly active a toothless old man Last Line: But like a god, not a tortured animal Subject(s): God; Faith; Belief; Creed GRANDDAUGHTER Poem Text First Line: And here's a portrait of my granddaughter una Subject(s): Love GRANDDAUGHTER First Line: And here's a portrait of my granddaughter una Last Line: Powerful protection and a man like a hawk to cover her Subject(s): Love GRANITE AND CYPRESS Poem Text First Line: White-maned, wide-throated, the heavy-shouldered children of Last Line: And people are so shaken Subject(s): Future; Cypress Trees GRANITE AND CYPRESS First Line: White-maned, wide-throated, the heavy-shouldered children Last Line: And people are so shaken GRASS ON THE CLIFF Recitation First Line: Under the house, between the road the sea-cliff GRAY WEATHER Poem Text First Line: It is true that, older than man and ages to outlast him, the pacific surf Last Line: To the bone, the careless white bone, the excellence Subject(s): Disappointment; Aging; Weather GRAY WEATHER First Line: It is true that, older than man and ages to outlast him, the pacific surf Last Line: To the bone, the careless white bone, the excellence GREAT MEN Poem Text First Line: Consider greatness Last Line: While far down the long slope gleams the pale sea Subject(s): Greatness; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945); Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945) GREAT SUNSET First Line: A flight of six heavy-motored bombing-planes Last Line: Detested by all the dreaming factions, is my errand here GREATER GRANDEUR Poem Text First Line: Half a year after war's end, roosevelt and hitler dead, stalin tired Last Line: And not appropriate for events on this scale watched from this level; admiration is all Subject(s): World War Ii; Death; Statesmen; Second World War; Dead, The HANDS Poem Text First Line: Inside a cave in a narrow canyon near tassajara Last Line: And be supplanted; for you also are human Subject(s): Hands HANDS First Line: Inside a cave in a narrow canynon near Last Line: And be supplanted; for you also are human HAUNTED COUNTRY First Line: Here the human past is dim and feeble and alien to us Last Line: That knows its fate beforehand, the flow of the womb, banked back %by the older flood of the ocean, HELLENISTICS Poem Text First Line: I look at the greek-derived design that nourished my infancy Last Line: Am a priest,' to kill them with spears? Subject(s): Greek Civilization HELLENISTICS First Line: I look at the greek-derived design that nourished my infancy Last Line: When the witch-doctors begin dancing, or if any man says 'I am a priest,' to kill them with spears? HOME First Line: She'd thrust the canyon out of her mind; she never thought HOODED NIGHT Poem Text First Line: At night, toward dawn, all the lights of the shore have died Last Line: Amusements are quiet: the dark glory Subject(s): Night; Landscape; Bedtime HOODED NIGHT First Line: At night, toward dawn, all the lights of the shore have died Last Line: Amusements are quiet: the dark glory HOPE IS NOT FOR THE WISE Poem Text First Line: Hope is not for the wise, fear is for fools; Last Line: Had perished utterly, oh perfect loveliness of earth and heaven Subject(s): Hope; Wisdom; Beauty; Optimism HOPE IS NOT FOR THE WISE First Line: Hope is not for the wise, fear is for fools Last Line: Had perished utterly, oh perfect loveliness of earth and heaven HUNGERFIELD Poem Text First Line: If time is only another dimension, then all that dies Last Line: Float on the dawn. - I shall be with you presently Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Mourning; Bereavement HURT HAWKS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The broken pillar of the wing jags from the clotted shoulder Last Line: Before it was quite unsheathed from reality Subject(s): Birds; Death - Animals; Euthanasia; Hawks HURT HAWKS First Line: The broken pillar of the wing jags from the clotted shoulder Last Line: Fear at its rising %before it was quite unsheathed from reality Subject(s): Birds; Death - Animals; Euthanasia; Hawks I HAVE BEEN WARNED. IT IS MORE THAN THIRTY YEARS SINCE I WROTE Poem Text I HAVE BEEN WARNED. IT IS MORE THAN THIRTY YEARS SINCE I WROTE Last Line: But time sucks out the juice, %a man grows old and indolent Subject(s): Aging I SHALL LAUGH PURELY Poem Text First Line: Turn from that girl Last Line: All will be worse confounded soon Subject(s): War I SHALL LAUGH PURELY First Line: Turn from that girl Last Line: Thin snow falls on historical rocks Subject(s): War IN THE HILL AT NEW GRANGE; BURIAL GROUND ON RIVER BOYNE Poem Text First Line: Who is it beside me, who is here beside me, in the hollow hill? Last Line: Blessed is the night that has no glowworm Subject(s): Boyne (river), Ireland; Cemeteries; Graveyards IN THE HILL AT NEW GRANGE; BURIAL GROUND ON RIVER BOYNE First Line: Who is it beside me, who is here beside me, in the hollow hill? Last Line: For probably all the same things will be born and be beautiful again, but blessed is the night that Subject(s): Boyne (river), Ireland; Cemeteries INSCRIPTION FOR A GRAVESTONE Poem Text First Line: I am not dead, I have only become inhuman Subject(s): Death; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones INSCRIPTION FOR A GRAVESTONE First Line: I am not dead, I have only become inhuman Last Line: I left the light precipitate of ashes to earth %for a love-token Subject(s): Death; Graves INTELLECTUALS Poem Text First Line: Is it so hard for men to stand by themselves Last Line: They are tired and cover their eyes; they flock into fold Subject(s): Conformity INTELLECTUALS First Line: It is so hard for men to stand by themselves Last Line: They are tired and cover their eyes; they flock into the fold IONA: THE GRAVES OF THE KINGS Poem Text First Line: I wish not to lie here Subject(s): Graves; Iona, Scotland; Tombs; Tombstones IONA: THE GRAVES OF THE KINGS First Line: I wish not to lie here Last Line: This earth has absorbed Subject(s): Graves; Iona, Scotland IRISH HEADLAND First Line: Fair head in antrim, long dark waves of Subject(s): Ireland JOY Poem Text First Line: Though joy is better than sorrow Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight JOY First Line: Though joy is better than sorrow Last Line: Will cover those wistful eyes Subject(s): Happiness JULY FOURTH BY THE OCEAN Poem Text First Line: The continent's a tamed ox, with all its mountains, Last Line: How it would have feared us Subject(s): Sea; United States; Ocean; America LET THEM ALONE Poem Text First Line: If god has been good enough to give you a poet Last Line: Before it was quite unsheathed from reality Subject(s): Fame; Writing & Writers; Reputation LET US GO HOME TO PARADISE Poem Text LET US GO HOME TO PARADISE LIFE FROM THE LIFELESS Poem Text First Line: Spirits and illusions have died Last Line: Keeping stones, the flowing sky Subject(s): Beauty LIFE FROM THE LIFELESS First Line: Spirits and illusions have died Last Line: Keeping stones, the flowing sky LITTLE SCRAPING First Line: True, the time, to one who does not love farce Last Line: And gathers multitude like game to be hunted when the season comes LOVE THE WILD SWAN Poem Text First Line: I hate my verses, every line, every word Last Line: Hear the music, the thunder of the wings. Love the wild swan Subject(s): Relationships; Swans; Poetry & Poets; Freedom; Hate; Liberty LOVE THE WILD SWAN First Line: I hate my verses, every line, every word. Last Line: Hear the music, the thunder of the wings. Love the wild swan. Subject(s): Freedom; Hate LOVE-CHILDREN First Line: The trail's high up on the ridge, no one goes down LOVING SHEPERDESS First Line: The little one-room schoolhouse among the redwoods Last Line: The sheep about her and perceived that none came LOW SKY First Line: No vulture is here, hardly a hawk Last Line: The flesh drops into the ground MACHINE First Line: The little biplane that has the river-meadow MAID'S THOUGHT First Line: Why listen, even the water is sobbing for something Last Line: To make that burning flower MARGRAVE Poem Text First Line: On the small marble-paved platform Last Line: Like a passionate thought. It is very well ordered Subject(s): Murder; Capital Punishment; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty MARGRAVE First Line: On the small marble-paved platform Last Line: Like a passionate thought. It is very well ordered MAY-JUNE, 1940 Poem Text First Line: Foreseen for so many years: these evils, this monstrous violence Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War MAY-JUNE, 1940 First Line: Foreseen for so many years: these evils, this monstrous violence Last Line: It will not be in our time, alas, my dear, %it will not be in our time Subject(s): World War Ii MEDITATION ON SAVIORS Poem Text First Line: When I considered it too closely, when I wore it like an element and smelt it like water, Last Line: Shine the sun black; the trap in which it is better to catch the / inhuman god than the hunter's own Subject(s): Oedipus; Jesus Christ; Buddhism; Prophecy & Prophets; Buddha; Buddhists MEDITATION ON SAVIORS First Line: When I considered it too closely, when I wore it like an element Last Line: Shine the sun black; the trap in which it is better to catch the inhuman god than the hunter's own I NATURAL MUSIC Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The old voice of the ocean, the bird-chatter of little rivers Subject(s): Sound NATURAL MUSIC First Line: The old voice of the ocean, the bird-chatter of little rivers Last Line: By the ocean-shore, dreaming of lovers Subject(s): Sound NEW MEXICAN MOUNTAIN Poem Text First Line: I watch the indians dancing to help the young corn at taos pueblo Subject(s): Mountains; Native Americans; New Mexico; Tourists; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America NEW MEXICAN MOUNTAIN First Line: I watch the indians dancing to help the young corn at taos pueblo Last Line: Tribal drum, and the rockhead of taos mountain, remember that civilization is a transient sickness Subject(s): Mountains; Native Americans; New Mexico; Tourists NEW YEAR'S EVE Poem Text First Line: Staggering homeward between the stream and the trees the unhappy drunkard Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S EVE First Line: Staggering homeward between the stream and the trees the unhappy drunkard Last Line: Nobody knows my love the falcon Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NIGHT Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The ebb slips from the rock, the sunken Last Line: And death is no evil. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NIGHT WITHOUT SLEEP Poem Text Recitation First Line: The world’s as the world is; the nations rearm and prepare to change; the age of tyrants returns Last Line: This is more beautiful....At night.... Subject(s): War; Social Commentary; Patriotism; Night; Bedtime NIGHT WITHOUT SLEEP First Line: The world's as the world is; the nations rearm and prepare to change Last Line: This is more beautiful - at night NO RESURRECTION Poem Text First Line: Friendship, when a friend meant a helping sword Last Line: And grass again to make modern flesh Subject(s): Friendship; Death; Dead, The NO RESURRECTION First Line: Friendship, when a friend meant a helping sword Last Line: And grass again to make modern flesh NOON Poem Text First Line: The pure air trembles, o pitiless god Last Line: Full of the god, having drunk fire. Subject(s): God NOT OUR GOOD LUCK Poem Text First Line: Not our good luck nor the instant peak and fulfillment of time gives us to see Last Line: Of the far stars, remember we also have known beauty. Subject(s): Beauty NOVA Poem Text First Line: That nova was a moderate star like our good sun Subject(s): Stars NOVA First Line: That nova was a moderate star like our good sun Last Line: Is the face of god, to live gladly in its presence, and die without grief or fear knowing it survive Subject(s): Stars NOVEMBER SURF Poem Text First Line: Some lucky day each november great waves awake and are drawn Subject(s): Waves NOVEMBER SURF First Line: Some lucky day each november great waves awake and are drawn Last Line: The dignity of room, the volume of rareness Subject(s): Waves NOW RETURNED HOME Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Beyond the narrows of the inner hebrides Last Line: The screaming haste of new york Subject(s): Homecoming NOW RETURNED HOME First Line: Beyond the narrows of the inner hebrides Last Line: Most clearly; and have rather forgotten the dragging whirlpools of london, the screaming haste of ne Subject(s): Homecoming OCEAN Poem Text First Line: Gray whales are going south: I see their fountains Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Sea Serpents OCEAN First Line: Gray whales are going south: I see their fountains Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters OCEAN First Line: It dreams in the deepest sleep, it remembers the storm last month Last Line: The muttering prophets, %it is needful to have night in one's body OCTOBER EVENING First Line: Male-throated under the shallow sea-fog OH LOVELY ROCK Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: We stayed the night in the pathless gorge of ventana creek, up the east fork. Last Line: Felt its intense reality with love and wonder, this lonely rock Subject(s): Camping; Nature; Camps; Summer Camps OH, LOVELY ROCK First Line: We stayed the night in the pathless gorge of ventana creek, up the east fork Last Line: Felt its intense reality with love and wonder, this lonely rock OLD MAN'S DREAM AFTER HE DIED First Line: Gently with delicate mindless fingers Last Line: In the passionate terms of human experience are not resolved, nor worth it ON BUILDING WITH STONE Poem Text First Line: To be an ape in little of the mountain-making mother Last Line: Beggar) were not bitter in the teeth? Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Writing & Writers; Work; Workers ORCA Poem Text First Line: Sea-lions loafed in the swinging tide in the inlet, long fluent creatures Last Line: Experiment, that has run wild, and ought to be stopped Subject(s): Cruelty; War; Sea; Ocean ORIGINAL SIN Poem Text First Line: The man-brained and man-handed ground-ape, physically Subject(s): Mankind; Human Race ORIGINAL SIN First Line: The man-brained and man-handed ground-ape, physically Last Line: And fear not death; it is the only way to be cleansed Subject(s): Mankind OSSIAN'S GRAVE; PREHISTORIC MONUMENT NEAR CUSHENDALL Poem Text First Line: Steep up in lubitavish townland stands Subject(s): Antrim, Ireland; Graves; Ossian (3d Century Gaelic Poet); Tombs; Tombstones OSSIAN'S GRAVE; PREHISTORIC MONUMENT NEAR CUSHENDALL First Line: Steep up in lubitavish townland stands Last Line: A life as inhuman and cold as those Subject(s): Antrim, Ireland; Graves; Ossian (3d Century Gaelic Poet) PEARL HARBOR Poem Text First Line: Here are the fireworks. The men who conspired and labored Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War PEARL HARBOR First Line: Here are the fireworks. The men who conspired and labored Last Line: Darkness and silence, the two eyes that see god; great staring eyes Subject(s): World War Ii PELICANS Poem Text First Line: Four pelicans went over the house Last Line: Pelicans. Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Pelicans PEOPLE AND A HERON Poem Text First Line: A desert of weed and water-darkened stone under my western windows Last Line: Reflected on the world for a mirror Subject(s): Herons PEOPLE AND A HERON First Line: A desert of weed and water-darkened stone under my western windows Last Line: Reflected on the world for a mirror PHENOMENA Poem Text First Line: Great-enough both accepts and subdues; the great frame takes all creatures Subject(s): Airships PHENOMENA First Line: Great-enough both accepts and subdues; the great frame takes all creatures Last Line: It slides into a cloud over point lobos Subject(s): Airships PLACE FOR NO STORY First Line: The coast hills at sovranes creek Last Line: But dilute the lonely self-watchful passion POINT JOE First Line: Point joe has teeth and has torn ships; it has fierce and solitary beauty Last Line: A trick of nature's, one must forgive nature a thousand graceful subtleties POST MORTEM Poem Text First Line: Happy people die whole, they are all dissolved in a moment Subject(s): Death; Dead, The POST MORTEM First Line: Happy people die whole, they are all dissolved in a moment Last Line: The flesh, a spirit for the stone Subject(s): Death PRACTICAL PEOPLE First Line: Practical people, I have been told PRAISE LIFE Poem Text First Line: This country least, but every inhabited country Last Line: Rattled in a dry gourd Subject(s): Life PRAISE LIFE First Line: This country least, but every inhabited country Last Line: Rattled in a dry gourd PRESCRIPTION OF PAINFUL ENDS First Line: Lucretius felt the change of the world in his time, the great Last Line: Uncleanness, from the acid-bottles PROMISE OF PEACE Poem Text First Line: The heads of strong old age are beautiful Last Line: How shall the dead taste the deep treasure they have? Subject(s): Peace PROMISE OF PEACE First Line: The heads of strong old age are beautiful Last Line: Thinking through that's entire and sweet in the grave %how shall the dead taste the deep treasure th Subject(s): Peace PURSE-SEINE First Line: Our sardine fishermen work at night in the dark of the moon; daylight ... Last Line: There is no reason for amazement: surely one always knew that cultures decay, and life's end is deat Subject(s): Environment; Fishing And Fishermen QUIA ABSURDUM Poem Text First Line: Guard yourself from the terrible empty light of space, the bottomless Last Line: Or the communist rat-fight: faith will cover your head from the man-devouring stars Subject(s): Faith; Belief; Creed REAL AND HALF REAL Poem Text First Line: It was a time to find a new world: who was sent forth? Columbus, that is Last Line: What's done in earnest is done is done outside it Subject(s): War; Reality REARMAMENT Poem Text First Line: These grand and fatal movements toward death: the grandeur of the mass Last Line: Dream-led masses down the dark mountain Subject(s): Beauty; Pacifism; Peace Movements REARMAMENT First Line: These grand and fatal movements toward death: the grandeur of the mass Last Line: Dream-led masses down the dark mountain REDEEMER First Line: The road had steepened and the sun sharpened on the high ridges Last Line: Troubles: my own daughter's: I'm older than my husband. I have been married before: deep is my peace RETURN Poem Text First Line: A little too abstract, a little too wise, Last Line: Pico blanco, steep sea-wave of marble Subject(s): Ecology And Ecologists RETURN First Line: A little too abstract, a little too wise Last Line: Things are the hawk's food and noble is the mountain, oh noble %pico blanco, steep sea-wave of marbl ROAN STALLION Poem Text First Line: The dog barked; then the woman stood in the doorway, and hearing Last Line: Who has killed god. The night-wind veering, the smell of the spilt wine drifted down hill from the h Subject(s): Horses ROAN STALLION First Line: The dog barked; then the woman stood in the doorway, and hearing iron Last Line: Who has killed god. The night-wind veering, the smell of the spilt wine drifted down hill from the h ROCK AND HAWK Poem Text First Line: Here is a symbol in which Last Line: Nor success make proud Subject(s): Hawks; Pride; Stones; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Granite; Rocks ROCK AND HAWK First Line: Here is a symbol in which Last Line: Which failure cannot cast down %nor success make proud SALMON-FISHING Poem Text First Line: The days shorten, the south blows wide for showers now Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers SALMON-FISHING First Line: The days shorten, the south blows wide for showers now Last Line: The wild pacific pasture nor wanton and spawning %race up into fresh water Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen SCIENCE Poem Text First Line: Man, introverted man, having crossed Subject(s): Science; Scientists SCIENCE First Line: Man, introverted man, having crossed Last Line: A drop from the oceans: who would have dreamed this infinitely too much? Subject(s): Science SECOND-BEST Poem Text First Line: A celtic spearman forcing the cromlech-builder's brown daughter Last Line: In this charged world: - write and be quiet Subject(s): Writing & Writers; Life Modern SECOND-BEST First Line: A celtic spearman forcing the cromlech-builder's brown daughter Last Line: In the changed world: - write and be quiet SELF-CRITICISM IN FEBRUARY Poem Text First Line: The bay is not blue but sombre yellow Last Line: Justice will prevail. I can tell lies in prose Subject(s): Self-defeat; Self-knowledge; Disappointment SELF-CRITICISM IN FEBRUARY First Line: The bay is not blue but sombre yellow Last Line: Justice will soon prevail. I can tell lies in prose SHAKESPEARE'S GRAVE Poem Text First Line: Doggerel,' he thought, 'will do for churchwardens Subject(s): Consolation; Dramatists; Graves; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Tombs; Tombstones; Dramatists SHAKESPEARE'S GRAVE First Line: Doggerel,' he thought, 'will do for churchwardens Last Line: Will hardly leach,' he thought, 'this dust of that fire' Subject(s): Consolation; Dramatists; Graves; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) SHANE O'NEILL'S CAIRN First Line: When you and I on the palos verdes cliff Last Line: How beautiful are both these nothings SHANE ONEILLS CAIRN Poem Text First Line: When you and I on the palos verdes cliff Last Line: How beautiful are both these nothings Subject(s): Life; Death; Beauty; Dead, The SHINE, PERISHING REPUBLIC Poem Text First Line: While this america settles in the mould of its vulgarity Last Line: God, when he walked on earth Subject(s): United States; Social Commentary; Religion; United States; America; Theology; America SHINE, PERISHING REPUBLIC First Line: While this america settles in the mould of its vulgarity Last Line: There is the trap that catches noblest spirits, that caught - %they say - god, when he walked on ear Subject(s): Religion; United States SHINE, REPUBLIC Poem Text First Line: The quality of these trees, green height; of the sky, shining; of water, a clear flow Last Line: The states of the next age will no doubt remember you, and edge their love of freedom with contempt Subject(s): War; Social Commentary; Patriotism SHINE, REPUBLIC First Line: The quality of these trees, green height; of the sky, shining, of water Last Line: The states of the next age will no doubt remember you, and edge their love of freedom with contempt SHIVA Poem Text First Line: There is a hawk that is picking the birds out of our sky, Last Line: Hang new heavens with new birds, all be renewed Subject(s): Shiva (hindu God) SHIVA First Line: There is a hawk that is picking the birds out of our sky Last Line: Hang new heavens with new birds, all renewed SHOOTING SEASON; IN THE NORTH OF SCOTLAND Poem Text First Line: The whole countryside deployed on the hills of heather, an army with banners Subject(s): Hunting; Scotland; Hunters SHOOTING SEASON; IN THE NORTH OF SCOTLAND First Line: The whole countryside deployed on the hills of heather, an army with banners Last Line: Old sports and delights. It is better to be dust Subject(s): Hunting; Scotland SIGN-POST Poem Text First Line: Civilized, crying: how to be human again; this will tell you how. Last Line: But born of the rock and the air, not of a woman Subject(s): Civilization SIGNPOST First Line: Civilized, crying how to be human again: this will tell you how Last Line: But born of the rock and the air, not of a woman SINVERGUENZA Poem Text First Line: They snarl over spain like cur-dogs over a bone, then look at each other and Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) SINVERGUENZA First Line: They snarl over spain like cur-dogs over a bone, then look at each other and Last Line: The first drops of a forming rain-storm Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) SO MANY BLOOD-LAKES Poem Text First Line: We have now won two world-wars, neither of which concerned us, we were Last Line: So many blood-lakes: and we always fall in Subject(s): Patriotism; War; Blood SOLILOQUY Poem Text First Line: August and laurelled have been content to speak for an age Last Line: That sheds pleasure and pain like hailstones Subject(s): Time SOLILOQUY First Line: August and laurelled have been content to speak for an age Last Line: That sheds pleasure and pain like hailstones SONGS OF THE DEAD MEN TO THREE DANCERS: 1. TO DESIRE First Line: Who is she that is fragrant and desirable Last Line: That you quickened the dead, that you lifted the flesh of the fleshless, ah goddess, ah! Dancing, us SONGS OF THE DEAD MEN TO THREE DANCERS: 2. TO DEATH First Line: Was it lovely to lie among violets ablossom in the valleys of love Last Line: That are warmest and best ... And an end ... SONGS OF THE DEAD MEN TO THREE DANCERS: 3. TO VICTORY First Line: Use us again, you in the world only of goddesses worshipful now or adored Last Line: Use us again, though but an hour: surely the prayer is as humble as the gift would be great, %helmet STARS GO OVER THE LONELY OCEAN First Line: Unhappy about some far off things Last Line: Said the gamey black-maned wild boar %tusking the turf on mal paso mountain Subject(s): War STEELHEAD First Line: The sky was cold december blue with great Last Line: Pain and disease, misery, old age, god knows what worse? STILL THE MIND SMILES Poem Text First Line: The mind smiles at its own rebellions Last Line: Antistrophe of desolation to the strophe multitude Subject(s): Civilization STILL THE MIND SMILES AT ITS OWN REBELLIONS Last Line: Antistrophe of desolation to the strophe multitude STONE AXE First Line: Iron rusts, and bronzehas its green sickness SUBJECTED EARTH Poem Text First Line: Walking in the flat oxfordshire fields Last Line: And all its music to make, beats on the grave-mound Subject(s): Earth; Graves; England; World; Tombs; Tombstones; English SUBJECTED EARTH First Line: Walking in the flat oxfordshire fields Last Line: And all its music to make, beats on the grave-mound SUICIDE'S STONE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Peace is the heir of dead desire Last Line: Before I denounced the covenant of courage Subject(s): Suicide SUICIDE'S STONE First Line: Peace is the heir of dead desire Last Line: Before I denounced the covenant of change Subject(s): Suicide SUMMER HOLIDAY Poem Text First Line: When the sun shouts and people abound Last Line: In the rubbish dumps, a concrete dam far off in the mountain... Subject(s): Time SUMMER HOLIDAY First Line: When the sun shouts and people abound Last Line: In the rubbish dumps, a concrete dam far off in the mountain SUMMIT REDWOOD First Line: Only stand high a long enough time your lightning will come Last Line: Exalted over the earth and the ocean, a theft like a star, secret %against the supreme sky TAMAR Poem Text First Line: A night the half-moon was like a dancing-girl Subject(s): Nature TAMAR First Line: A night the half-moon was like a dancing-girl Last Line: The old trees, some of them scarred with fire, endure the sea wind Subject(s): Nature THE ANSWER Poem Text First Line: Then what is the answer?- not to be deluded by dreams. Last Line: Or drown in despair when his days darken Subject(s): Integrity; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE BEAKS OF EAGLES Poem Text First Line: An eagle's nest on the head of an old redwood on one of the Subject(s): Birds; Eagles THE BEAUTY OF THINGS Poem Text First Line: To feel and speak the astonishing beauty of things – earth, stone and water Last Line: The love, lust, longing: reasons, but not the reason Subject(s): Nature; Landscape; Beauty THE BED BY THE WINDOW Poem Text First Line: I chose the bed down-stairs by the sea-window for a good death-bed Last Line: "thumps with his staff, and calls thrice: ""come, jeffers." Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE BIRD WITH THE DARK PLUMES Poem Text First Line: The bird with the dark plumes in my blood, Last Line: To want hatred as to want love; and harder to win Subject(s): Hate THE BLOODY SIRE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: It is not bad. Let them play. Subject(s): Violence; Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE BROADSTONE; NEAR FINVOY, COUNTY ANTRIM Poem Text First Line: We climbed by the old quarries to the wide highland of heath Subject(s): Antrim, Ireland THE BROKEN BALANCE Poem Text First Line: The people buying and selling, consuming pleasures, talking in the archways, Last Line: The arteries and walk in triumph on the faces Subject(s): Earth; Human Behavior; Progress; World; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE CAGED EAGLE'S DEATH DREAM Poem Text First Line: At the one shot Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Airplanes; Air Pilots THE COAST-ROAD Poem Text First Line: A horseman high alone as an eagle on the spur of the mountain Last Line: Not the least hurt by this ribbon of road carved on their sea-foot Subject(s): Pacific Ocean; Death; Dead, The THE CRUEL FALCON Poem Text First Line: Contemplation would make a good life, keep it strict, only Last Line: To bruise himself on Subject(s): Soul THE CYCLE Poem Text First Line: The clapping blackness of the wings of pointed cormorants Last Line: One temper with the granite, bulking about here? Subject(s): Progress; Nature THE DAY IS A POEM (SEPTEMBER 19, 1939) Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: This morning hitler spoke in danzig, we hear his voice Last Line: Painful to excess, inhuman as a hawk's cry Subject(s): Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Poetry & Poets THE DEAD TO CLEMENCEAU: NOVEMBER, 1929 Poem Text First Line: Come (we say) clemenceau Subject(s): Clemenceau, Georges (1841-1929) THE DEER LAY DOWN THEIR BONES Poem Text First Line: I followed the narrow cliffside trail half way up the mountain Last Line: New discovery may lie. The deer in that beautiful place lay down their bones: I must wear mine Subject(s): Deer; Old Age; Death; Dead, The THE EPIC STARS Poem Text First Line: The heroic stars spending themselves Last Line: Oh happy homer, taking the stars and the gods for granted Subject(s): Stars; Heroism; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Heroes; Heroines; Iliad; Odyssey THE EXCESSES OF GOD Poem Text First Line: Is it not by his superflousness we know Last Line: If power and desire were perch-mates Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE EYE Poem Text First Line: The atlantic is a stormy moat, and the mediterranean Subject(s): Pacific Ocean; World War Ii; Second World War THE GIANT'S RING: BALLYLESSON, NEAR BELFAST Poem Text First Line: Whoever is able will pursue the plainly Subject(s): Death; Ireland; Dead, The; Irish THE GREAT EXPLOSION Poem Text First Line: The universe expands and contracts like a great heart Last Line: Of faceless violence, the root of all things Subject(s): Universe; Astronomy & Astronomers THE LOVING SHEPHERDESS Poem Text First Line: The little one-room schoolhousc among the redwoods Last Line: Of the solemn Subject(s): Pregnancy; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; California; Death; Dead, The THE MACHINE Poem Text First Line: The little biplane that has the river-meadow for landing-field Last Line: In the grave arrangement of the evening Subject(s): Airships THE MAID'S THOUGHT Poem Text First Line: Why listen, even the water is sobbing for something Last Line: To make that burning flower Subject(s): Longing THE PLACE FOR NO STORY Poem Text Recitation First Line: The coast hills at sovranes creek Last Line: But dilute the lonely self-watchful passion Subject(s): Desolation; Nature; Landscape THE PURSE-SEINE Poem Text First Line: Our sardine fishermen work at night in the dark of the moon; daylight ... Last Line: That cultures decay, and life's end is death Subject(s): Environment; Fish & Fishing; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Anglers THE SILENT SHEPHERDS Poem Text First Line: What's the best life for a man? Last Line: If any mind for a moment touch truth Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Truth; God THE STARS GO OVER THE LONELY OCEAN Poem Text First Line: Unhappy about some far off things Last Line: Tusking the turf on mal paso mountain Subject(s): War THE STONE AXE Poem Text First Line: Iron rusts, and bronze has its green sickness; while flint, the hard stones, flint and chalcedony Last Line: Look, dear, there comes the sun. My baby be born as quiet as that Subject(s): War; Social Commentary THE SUMMIT REDWOOD Poem Text First Line: Only stand high a long enough time your lightning Last Line: Star, secret against the supreme sky Subject(s): Sequoia Trees; Redwoods THE TREASURE Poem Text First Line: Mountains, a moment's earth-waves rising and hollowing Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE WOMEN ON CYTHAERON Poem Text First Line: Not like a beast borne on the flood of passion, boat without oars, but mindful of all his dignity Last Line: With my hands, a lion Subject(s): Women THE WORLD'S WONDERS Poem Text First Line: Being now three or four years more than sixty Last Line: Crawls in; and a tortured jew became god Subject(s): Modern Life; Experience THEBAID Poem Text First Line: How many turn back towards dreams and magic, how many children Subject(s): Faith; Belief; Creed THEBAID First Line: How many turn back towards dreams and magic, how many children Last Line: Delirious with fevers of faith Subject(s): Faith THEIR BEAUTY HAS MORE MEANING Poem Text First Line: Yesterday morning enormous the moon hung low on the ocean Last Line: Than the whole human race and the race of birds Subject(s): Beauty; Nature THEORY OF TRUTH Poem Text First Line: I stand near soberanes creek, on the knoll over the sea, west of the road Subject(s): Truth THEORY OF TRUTH First Line: I stand near soberanes creek, on the knoll over the sea, west of the road Last Line: Until the mind has turned its love from itself and man, from parts to the whole Subject(s): Truth THURSO'S LANDING First Line: The coast-road was being straightened and repaired again Last Line: And worst of four: and at last the unhappiest: but that's nothing TIME OF DISTURBANCE Poem Text First Line: The best is, in war or faction or ordinary vindictive Last Line: To strike dead than strike often. It is better not to strike Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature TO A YOUNG ARTIST Poem Text First Line: It is good for strength not to be merciful Last Line: And shards in the temple porches, turn home Subject(s): Art & Artists; Youth TO A YOUNG ARTIST First Line: It is good for strength not to be merciful TO DEATH Poem Text First Line: I think of you as a great king, cold and austere Last Line: We are intelligent too; we shall turn and bow down our heads Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TO HIS FATHER Poem Text First Line: Christ was your lord and captain all your life Subject(s): Fathers TO HIS FATHER First Line: Christ was your lord and captain all your life Last Line: Of life, the snow-wreathed honor of extreme age Subject(s): Fathers TO THE ROCK THAT WILL BE A CORNERSTONE OF THE HOUSE Poem Text First Line: Old garden of grayish and ochre lichen Last Line: How dear you will be to me when I too grow old, old comrade. Subject(s): Houses; Time TO THE STONE CUTTERS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you foredefeated Last Line: The honey of peace in old poems Variant Title(s): To The Stone-cutters Subject(s): Stones; Transience; Granite; Rocks; Impermanence TO THE STONE CUTTERS First Line: Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you foredefeated Last Line: The honey of peace in old poems Variant Title(s): To The Stone-cutter Subject(s): Stones; Transience TO THIS HOUSE Poem Text First Line: I am heaping the bones of the old mother Last Line: The sea and the secret earth gave bonds to affirm you Subject(s): Home TOR HOUSE Poem Text First Line: If you should look for this place after a handful Last Line: With the mad wings and the day moon Subject(s): Carmel, California TOR HOUSE First Line: If you should look for this place after a handful of lifetimes Last Line: With the mad wings and the day moon TOWER BEYOND TRAGEDY First Line: You'd never have thought the queen was helen's sister Last Line: To him who had climbed the tower beyond time, consciously, and cast humanity, entered an the earlier TRAP First Line: I am not well civilized, really alien here: trust me not Last Line: The intolerable nobler alternative TREASURE First Line: Mountains, a moment's earth-waves rising and hollowing Last Line: Before the man spoke it was there, and after he has spoken he gathers it, inexhaustible treasure Subject(s): Religion TRIAD First Line: Science, that makes wheels turn, cities grow Last Line: Who is very beautiful, but hardly a friend of humanity TRUCE AND THE PEACE (NOVEMBER, 1918) Poem Text First Line: Peace now for every fury has her day Last Line: We never knew till then that he was there Subject(s): Peace; World War I TRUMPET, SELS. TWO CHRISTMAS CARDS: 1 Poem Text First Line: The seas netted with ambushes Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War TWO CHRISTMAS CARDS: 1 First Line: The seas netted with ambushes Last Line: Of the veils under veils of the vanished englands Subject(s): World War Ii TWO CHRISTMAS CARDS: 2 Poem Text First Line: For an hour on christmas eve Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War TWO CHRISTMAS CARDS: 2 First Line: For an hour on christmas eve Last Line: And the ox knelt down at midnight Subject(s): World War Ii UNNATURAL POWERS First Line: For fifty thousand years man has been dreaming of powers Last Line: Like a poisonous insect, and no god pities him VULTURE Poem Text First Line: I had walked since dawn and lay down to rest on a bare hillside Last Line: What a sublime end of one's body, what and enskyment; what a life after death Subject(s): Vultures VULTURE First Line: I had walked since dawn and lay down to rest on a bare hillside Last Line: What a sublime end of one's body, what an enskyment; what a life after death Subject(s): Vultures WATCH THE LIGHTS FADE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Gray steel, cloud-shadow-stained Last Line: Sea-wind salts your head white Subject(s): Future; United States; America WATCH THE LIGHTS FADE First Line: Gray steel, cloud-shadow-stained Last Line: Sea-wind salts your head white WE ARE THOSE PEOPLE Poem Text First Line: I have abhorred the wars and despised the liars, laughed at the frightened Last Line: Our women uncover themselves to the grinning victors for bits of chocolate Subject(s): War; Future; Defeat WHAT ARE CITIES FOR? Poem Text First Line: The earth has covered sicilian syracuse, there asphodel grows Subject(s): Cities; Time; Urban Life WHAT ARE CITIES FOR? First Line: The earth has covered sicilian syracuse, there asphodel grows Last Line: Be the poorer by many beautiful agonies Subject(s): Cities; Time WHERE I? First Line: This woman cannot live more than one year Last Line: Or is it better to live at ease, dully and long? WIND-STRUCK MUSIC First Line: Ed stiles and old tom birnam went up to their cattle on the bare hills Last Line: Men's lives, and beyond comparison more beautiful; the wind-struck music man's bones were moulded to WINGED ROCK First Line: The flesh of the house is heavy sea-orphaned stone, imagination of the house Last Line: The sudden attentive passages of hawks WISE MEN IN THEIR BAD HOURS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Wise men in their bad hours have envied Last Line: And a few dead men's thoughts have the same temper Subject(s): Mortality; Wisdom WISE MEN IN THEIR BAD HOURS HAVE ENVIED Last Line: And a few dead men's thoughts have the same temper WOMAN ON CYTHAERON First Line: Not like a beast borne on the flood of passion, but without WOMEN AT POINT SUR: 12 First Line: Here were new idols again to praise him Last Line: These here have gone mad: but stammer the tragedy you crackled vessels WOODROW WILSON (FEBRUARY, 1924) Poem Text First Line: It said 'come home, here in an end' Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924) WOODROW WILSON (FEBRUARY, 1924) First Line: It said 'come home, here in an end' Last Line: Worse pain, the bitter enlightment that buys peace Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924) |
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