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Author: JOYCE, JAMES Matches Found: 86 James, Joyce 5 poems available by this author AUTUMN MOON First Line: This is pretty and fitting for you Last Line: A day and night almost equal, almost the same CONVICTION First Line: Why did I let them burn the evidence Last Line: Never reaching, as it seemed to be with us NEVER DREAMING HE'D HAVE TWO DAUGHTERS DIE BEFORE HIM First Line: My father in his rough denim jacket Last Line: So I imagined the eyes, alive in sunshine %and the hooves moving up the shingles THERE ARE THE LILACS First Line: Elsewhere the streets bend formally WHAT THE BELL TOLD First Line: Even in our best wedding picture Joyce, James Poet's Biography 81 poems available by this author A BLURB FOR 'ANNA LIVIA PLURABELLE' Poem Text Recitation First Line: Buy a book in brown paper Subject(s): Books; Reading A BLURB FOR 'HAVETH CHILDERS EVERYWHERE' Poem Text First Line: Humptydump dublin squeaks through his norse Subject(s): Books; Reading A FLOWER GIVEN TO MY DAUGHTER Poem Text First Line: Frail the white rose and frail are Subject(s): Daughters; Fathers; Men; Prayer A MEMORY OF THE PLAYERS IN A MIRROR AT MIDNIGHT Poem Text First Line: They mouth love's language. Gnash Last Line: Pluck and devour! A PRAYER Poem Text First Line: Again! / come, give, yield all your strength to me! Last Line: Take me, save me, soothe me, o spare me! Subject(s): Prayer ALONE Poem Text First Line: The moon's soft golden meshes make Last Line: A swoon of shame Subject(s): Solitude; Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation ALONE First Line: The moon's greygolden meshes make ANNA LIVIA PLURABELLE First Line: She was just a young thin pale soft shy slim slip of a thing Last Line: Beside the rivering waters of, hitherandthithering waters of. Night! AT THAT HOUR Poem Text First Line: At that hour when all things have repose, Last Line: And in the earth below Subject(s): Love BAHNHOFSTRASSE Poem Text First Line: The eyes that mock me sign the way Last Line: The signs that mock me as I go Subject(s): Aging BALLAD OF JOKING JESUS First Line: - I'm the queerest young fellow that you ever heard Last Line: And olivet's breezy... Goodbye, now, goodbye Subject(s): Bible; Religion BLURB FOR 'ANNA LIVIA PLURABELLE' First Line: Buy a book in brown paper Last Line: Seashell ebb music wayriver she flows Subject(s): Books BLURB FOR 'HAVETH CHILDERS EVERYWHERE' First Line: Humptydump dublin squeaks through his norse Last Line: Humptydump dublin's grandada of rogues Subject(s): Books BROOK First Line: I come from haunts of coot and hern Last Line: But I go on forever CHAMBER MUSIC: 1 Poem Text First Line: Strings in the earth and air Last Line: Upon an instrument. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Rivers CHAMBER MUSIC: 10 Poem Text First Line: Bright cap and streamers Last Line: Sweetheart, I come. Subject(s): Love CHAMBER MUSIC: 11 Poem Text First Line: Bid adieu, adieu, adieu Last Line: That is the sign of maidenhood. Variant Title(s): Bid Adieu To Maidenhood;bid Adieu To Girlish Ways Subject(s): Love CHAMBER MUSIC: 12 Poem Text First Line: What counsel has the hooded moon Last Line: For thee, sweet sentimentalist. Subject(s): Sentimental; Love CHAMBER MUSIC: 13 Poem Text First Line: Go seek her out all courteously Last Line: Soon, o soon. Subject(s): Love CHAMBER MUSIC: 14 Poem Text Recitation First Line: My dove, my beautiful one Last Line: Arise, arise! Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology CHAMBER MUSIC: 15 Poem Text First Line: From dewy dreams, my soul, arise Last Line: Begin (innumerous!) to be heard. Subject(s): Morning CHAMBER MUSIC: 16 Poem Text Recitation First Line: O cool is the valley now Last Line: And there, love, will we stay. Subject(s): Love CHAMBER MUSIC: 17 Poem Text Recitation First Line: Because your voice was at my side Last Line: Who was my friend. Subject(s): Friendship; Transience; Impermanence CHAMBER MUSIC: 18 Poem Text First Line: O sweetheart, hear you Last Line: Shall have rest. Subject(s): Friendship; Disappointment; Consolation; Desire CHAMBER MUSIC: 19 Poem Text Recitation First Line: Be not sad because all men Last Line: As they deny, deny. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness CHAMBER MUSIC: 2 Poem Text First Line: The twilight turns from amethyst Last Line: With lights of amethyst. Subject(s): Time CHAMBER MUSIC: 20 Poem Text Recitation First Line: In the dark pine-wood Last Line: Sweet love, away. Subject(s): Forests; Love; Woods CHAMBER MUSIC: 21 Poem Text Recitation First Line: He who hath glory lost, nor hath Last Line: His love is his companion. Subject(s): Love CHAMBER MUSIC: 22 Poem Text First Line: Of that so sweet imprisonment Last Line: Where soul with soul lies prisoned. Subject(s): Sleep; Love CHAMBER MUSIC: 23 Poem Text First Line: This heart that flutters near my heart Last Line: Though love live but a day? Subject(s): Love CHAMBER MUSIC: 24 Poem Text Recitation First Line: Silently she's combing Last Line: And many a negligence. Subject(s): Love; Hair CHAMBER MUSIC: 25 Poem Text Recitation First Line: Lightly come or lightly go Last Line: When the heart is heaviest. CHAMBER MUSIC: 26 Poem Text First Line: Thou leanest to the shell of night Last Line: In purchas or in holinshed. CHAMBER MUSIC: 27 Poem Text First Line: Though I thy mithridates were Last Line: Ever so little falsity. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of CHAMBER MUSIC: 28 Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Gentle lady, do not sing Last Line: Love is aweary now. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Love - Nature Of; Singing & Singers; Songs CHAMBER MUSIC: 29 Poem Text First Line: Dear heart, why will you use me so? Last Line: Alas! Why will you use me so? CHAMBER MUSIC: 3 Poem Text First Line: At that hour when all things have repose Last Line: And in the earth below. Subject(s): Love; Sleep CHAMBER MUSIC: 30 Poem Text First Line: Love came to us in time gone by Last Line: The ways that we shall go upon. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of CHAMBER MUSIC: 31 Poem Text First Line: O, it was out by donnycarney Last Line: Was the kiss she gave to me. Subject(s): Kisses CHAMBER MUSIC: 32 Poem Text Recitation First Line: Rain has fallen all the day Last Line: Speak to your heart. Subject(s): Rain; Love CHAMBER MUSIC: 33 Poem Text First Line: Now, o now, in this brown land Last Line: The year, the year is gathering. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Time CHAMBER MUSIC: 34 Poem Text First Line: Sleep now, o sleep now Last Line: O you unquiet heart! Subject(s): Sleep; Winter; Kisses; Love; Peace CHAMBER MUSIC: 35 Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: All day I hear the noise of waters Last Line: To and fro. Variant Title(s): The Noise Of Waters Subject(s): Sound CHAMBER MUSIC: 36 Poem Text First Line: I hear an army charging upon the land Last Line: My love, my love, my love, why have you left me alone? Variant Title(s): Thirty Six Subject(s): War CHAMBER MUSIC: 4 Poem Text First Line: When the shy star goes forth in heaven Last Line: Tis I that am your visitant. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs CHAMBER MUSIC: 5 Poem Text First Line: Lean out of the window Last Line: Goldenhair. Variant Title(s): Goldenhair Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs CHAMBER MUSIC: 6 Poem Text First Line: I would in that sweet bosom be Last Line: So I were ever in that heart. Subject(s): Love CHAMBER MUSIC: 7 Poem Text First Line: My love is in a light attire Last Line: Her dress with dainty hand Subject(s): Love CHAMBER MUSIC: 8 Poem Text Recitation First Line: Who goes amid the green wood Last Line: That is so young and fair. Variant Title(s): Song Subject(s): Love CHAMBER MUSIC: 9 Poem Text First Line: Winds of may, that dance on the sea Last Line: Love is unhappy when love is away! Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation ECCE PUER Poem Text Recitation First Line: Of the dark past Subject(s): Birth; Death; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The ECCE PUER First Line: Of the dark past FINNEGAN'S WAKE, SELS. First Line: Hear, o hear, iseult la belle! Tristan, sad hero, hear! Last Line: So, to john for a john, johnajeams, led it be! FINNEGANS WAKE: PART 1, SELS. First Line: Well, you know or don't you kennet or haven't I told you every FINNEGANS WAKE: PART 4, SELS. First Line: Soft morning, city! Lsp! I am leafy speafing. Lpf! Last Line: A way a lone a last a loved a long the FLOOD Poem Text First Line: Gold-brown upon the sated flood Last Line: Lambent and vast and ruthless as is thine / incertitude Subject(s): Floods FLOWER GIVEN TO MY DAUGHTER First Line: Frail the white rose and frail are Last Line: My blueveined child Subject(s): Daughters; Fathers; Men; Prayer GAS FROM A BURNER Poem Text First Line: Ladies and gents, you are here assembled Subject(s): Hate GAS FROM A BURNER First Line: Ladies and gents, you are here assembled Last Line: And sign crisscross with reverent thumb %memento homo upon my bum Subject(s): Hate NIGHT PIECE Poem Text First Line: Gaunt in gloom Last Line: Waste of souls Subject(s): Night; Bedtime O SWEETHEART, HEAR THOU ON THE BEACH AT FONTANA Poem Text First Line: Wind whines and whines the shingle Last Line: Ache of love Subject(s): Fathers; Love; Men; Prayer; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore ON THE BEACH AT FONTANA First Line: Wind whines and whines the shingle Last Line: And in my heart how deep unending %ache of love! Subject(s): Fathers; Love; Men; Prayer; Seashore POMES PENYEACH: BAHNHOFSTRASSE First Line: The eyes that mock me sign the way Last Line: The signs that mock me as I go POST ULIXEM SCRIPTUM Poem Text First Line: Man dear, did you never hear of buxom molly bloom at all Subject(s): Books; Reading POST ULIXEM SCRIPTUM First Line: Man dear, did you never hear of buxom molly bloom at all Last Line: But if I cling like a child ot the clouds that are your petticoats, %o molly, handsome molly, sure y Subject(s): Books PRAYER First Line: Again! %come, give, yield all your strength to me SHE WEEPS OVER RAHOON Poem Text Recitation First Line: Rain on rahoon falls softly, softly falling Last Line: And muttering rain. Subject(s): Love; Rain SIMPLES Poem Text First Line: Of cool sweet dew and radiance mild Last Line: Who gathers simples of the moon Subject(s): Love; Moon SIMPLES First Line: Of cool sweet dew and radiance mild THE BALLAD OF JOKING JESUS Poem Text Recitation First Line: - I'm the queerest young fellow that you ever heard Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE BALLAD OF PERSSE O'REILLY Poem Text Recitation First Line: Have you heard of one humpty dumpty Last Line: That's able to raise a cain THE HOLY OFFICE Poem Text First Line: Myself unto myself will give Last Line: My soul shall spurn them evermore. TILLY Poem Text First Line: He travels after a winter sun Last Line: I dream by the black stream for my toren bough Subject(s): Cowboys TILLY First Line: He travels after a winter sun Last Line: I bleed by the black stream %for my torn bough! TUTTO E SCIOLTO Poem Text First Line: A birdless heaven, sea-dusk and a star Last Line: Was never thine? Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TUTTO E SCIOLTO First Line: A birdless heaven, seadusk, one lone star ULYSSES, SELECTION Poem Text First Line: Bronze by gold heard the hoofirons, steelyringing Subject(s): Sirens (mythology) ULYSSES, SELS. First Line: Bronze by gold heard the hoofirons, steelyringing Last Line: Done. %begin Subject(s): Sirens (mythology) ULYSSES: MOLLY BLOOM'S CLOSING SOLILOQUY Poem Text First Line: ...And gibraltar as a girl where I was a flower of the mountain Last Line: I said yes I will yes Subject(s): Love - Erotic WATCHING THE NEEDLEBOATS AT SAN SABBA Poem Text First Line: I heard their young hearts crying Last Line: Return, no more return Subject(s): Boats; Farewell; Parting |
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