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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: KEES, WELDON Matches Found: 69 Kees, Weldon Poet's Biography 69 poems available by this author 1926 First Line: The porchlight coming on again Last Line: The porchlight coming on again A LATE HISTORY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Black, under the candlesticks, moving in harness Last Line: Do I wake or sleep? It is late tonight as it will ever be Subject(s): History; Poetry & Poets; Books & Reading; Social Commentary; Nature; Eton College; Historians A MUSICIAN'S WIFE Poem Text First Line: Between the visits to the shock ward Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress ASPECTS OF ROBINSON Poem Text First Line: Robinson at cards at the algonquin Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature ASPECTS OF ROBINSON First Line: Robinson at cards at the algonquin Last Line: Case, covert topcoat, clothes for spring, all covering %his sad and usual heart, dry as a winter lea Subject(s): Human Behavior BACK First Line: Much cry and little wool CATS First Line: What the cats do %to amuse themselves COLLOQUY First Line: In the broken light, in owl weather Last Line: Give me the dish,' it said. %I had his answer, wise as yours COMING OF THE PLAGUE First Line: September was when it began Last Line: And hear the sound of rushing wind Subject(s): Bible; Religion CONTOURS OF FIXATION First Line: The stoned dogs crawl back through the blood COVERING TWO YEARS Poem Text First Line: This nothingness that feeds upon itself Last Line: Shaken by knowledge of recurrence and return Subject(s): Writer's Block CRIME CLUB Poem Text First Line: No butler, no second maid, no blood upon the stair Subject(s): Murder CRIME CLUB First Line: No butler, no second maid, no blood upon the stair Subject(s): Murder DOG Poem Text First Line: This night is monstrous winter winter when the rats Last Line: And where my name must be Subject(s): Dogs; City & Town Life EARLY WINTER First Line: Memory of summer is winter's consciousness EIGHT VARIATIONS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Prurient tapirs gamboled on our lawns Last Line: At a small window, green with rain Subject(s): Male-female Relationships; Ghosts; Disappointment; Desire EQUINOX Poem Text First Line: Under black lace the bald skull shines and nods Last Line: The last survivor of the human race FOR H. V. (1901-1927) Poem Text First Line: I remember the clumsy surgery: the face Last Line: Selected by the family, and none of them his friends Subject(s): Surgery FOR MY DAUGHTER Poem Text First Line: Looking into my daughter's eyes I read Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters FOR MY DAUGHTER First Line: Looking into my daughter's eyes I read Last Line: These speculations sour in the sun. %I have no daughters. I desire none Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters FOUR POEMS OF FOURTEEN LINES, SELS. First Line: The eye no longer single: where the bowl FRENCH WRITER NAMED SARTRE First Line: There was a french writer named sartre HENRY JAMES AT NEWPORT Poem Text First Line: And shores and strands and naked piers Last Line: The stone-walled fields are featureless Subject(s): James, Henry (1843-1916) HOMAGE TO ARTHUR WALEY First Line: Seattle weather: it has rained for weeks in this town INTERREGNUM Poem Text First Line: Butcher the evil millionaire, peasant Last Line: Away from everything that moves with blood Subject(s): War; Social Commentary; Modern Life JANUARY Poem Text First Line: Morning: blue, cold and still Last Line: Sleep is too short a death Subject(s): Winter; Nothingness; Nihilism; Voids JANUARY First Line: Morning: blue, cold, and still Last Line: Sleep is too short a death JUN-40 First Line: It is summer, and treachery blurs with the sounds of midnight Last Line: An idiot wind is blowing; the conscience dies Subject(s): World War Ii LAND'S END Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: A day all blue and white, and we Last Line: Two gulls are circling where the woods begin Subject(s): Sea; Time; Nature; Ocean MITZI First Line: There was a young lady named mitzi MUSICIAN'S WIFE First Line: Between the visits to the shock ward Last Line: And it is dawn before I sleep again Subject(s): Depression, Mental OBITUARY Poem Text First Line: Boris is dead. The fatalist parrot Last Line: And a black wreath decorates the door Subject(s): Parrots; Death - Animals ON A PAINTING BY ROUSSEAU Poem Text First Line: The clouds seem nearer than the trees Last Line: Watches the horse he does not trust Subject(s): Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) PATIENT IS RALLYING First Line: Difficult to recall an emotion that is dead PRAISE TO THE MIND Poem Text Last Line: And finds its place Subject(s): Mind PROBLEMS OF A JOURNALIST Poem Text First Line: I want to get away somewhere and re-read proust Last Line: The evening paper, in an irving place cafe Subject(s): Magazines; Journalists PROBLEMS OF A JOURNALIST First Line: I want to get away somewhere and re-read proust RELATING TO ROBINSON Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Somewhere in chelsea, early summer Last Line: The boats moved silently and the low whistles blew Subject(s): Ghosts; City & Town Life RELATING TO ROBINSON First Line: Somewhere in chelsea, early summer REPORT OF THE MEETING Poem Text First Line: The scientists removed their coats and hats Last Line: And did not venture on the streets for days Subject(s): Science; Immortaliy; Scientists RETURN OF THE GHOST Poem Text First Line: No sudden leavetaking, by your grace Last Line: The past, our ruinous nostalgias? Subject(s): Ghosts ROBINSON Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The dog stops barking after robinson has gone Last Line: Where trees are actual and take no holiday Subject(s): Family Life; Relationships; Relatives ROBINSON First Line: The dog stops barking after robinson has gone Last Line: Outside, the birds circle continuously %where trees are actual and take no holiday ROBINSON AT HOME Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Curtains drawn back, the door ajar Last Line: And the long curtains blow into the room Subject(s): Family Life; Relationships; Disappointment; Relatives ROBINSON AT HOME First Line: Curtains drawn back, the door ajar Last Line: Silence. It drones like wires far beyond the roofs, %and the long curtains blow into the room ROUND Poem Text First Line: Wondrous life!' cried marvell at appleton house Subject(s): Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); Poetry & Poets ROUND First Line: Wondrous life!' cried marvell at appleton house Last Line: Wondrous life!' cried marvell at appleton house Subject(s): Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); Poetry And Poets SARATOGA ENDING Poem Text First Line: Iron, sulphur, steam: the wastes / of all resorts like this Subject(s): Resorts SARATOGA ENDING First Line: Iron, sulphur, steam: the wastes %of all resorts like this Subject(s): Resorts SESTINA: TRAVEL NOTES Poem Text First Line: Directed by the eyes of others Last Line: Theirs, no voyage is, no tunnel, door, nor way Subject(s): Travel; Farewell; Journeys; Trips; Parting SMALL PRAYER Poem Text First Line: Change, move, dead clock, that this fresh day Last Line: After the healing ends Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SMILES OF THE BATHERS FADE AS THEY LEAVE THE WATER Last Line: Waits only for those that are dead. No death for you. You are involved STATEMENT WITH RHYMES Poem Text First Line: Plurality is all. I walk among the restaurants Last Line: Before I push the elevator bell and quickly leave Subject(s): Social Commentary THAT WINTER Poem Text First Line: Cold ground and colder stone Last Line: And snow is raging, raging, in a darker world Subject(s): Winter THE BEACH IN AUGUST Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The day the fat woman Last Line: Condition. The tide goes in and goes out Subject(s): Seashore; Transience; Aging; Body, Human; Beach; Coast; Shore; Impermanence THE BELL FROM EUROPE Poem Text First Line: The tower bell in the tenth street church Last Line: As the sound of a dead europe hangs in the streets Subject(s): Bells; Nostalgia; Europe THE COMING OF THE PLAGUE Poem Text First Line: September was when it began. Last Line: And heard the sound of rushing wind Subject(s): Locusts; Bible; Religion; Theology THE COMING OF THE PLAGUE Poem Text Recitation First Line: September was when it began Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE INQUIRY Poem Text First Line: Do you wear a web over your wasted worth? Last Line: You'll walk them – not just now, but soon Subject(s): War; Memory; Love THE LOCUSTS, THE PLAZA, THE ROOM Poem Text First Line: The wings fold fanwise and then snap like knives Last Line: And now I live like this THE SPEAKERS Poem Text First Line: “a equals x,” says mister one Last Line: That no one knows, and you’ll be dead Subject(s): Time THE UMBRELLA Poem Text First Line: Because, in hot countries Last Line: Into the heart of the storm Subject(s): Umbrellas THE UPSTAIRS ROOM Poem Text First Line: It must have been in march the rug wore through Last Line: And, for my life, imperishable Subject(s): Home; Death - Fathers TRAVELS IN NORTH AMERICA First Line: Here is san luis obispo. Here Last Line: And where the oceans cover us WET THURSDAY Poem Text First Line: A stiff wind off the channel Last Line: And the days, months, years, are endless Subject(s): Rain WET THURSDAY First Line: A stiff wind off the channel Last Line: The cat sleeps like an old campaigner %during this season of the long rains Subject(s): Rain WHITE COLLAR BALLAD Poem Text First Line: There are lots of places to go Last Line: But there won't be any love, there won't be any love Subject(s): Love WHITE COLLAR BALLAD First Line: There are lots of places to go XANTHA STREET Poem Text First Line: I close my eyes and all I see is rain Last Line: We blink in darkened rooms towards exits that are gone Subject(s): Loss |
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