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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: MARTIN, CHARLES Matches Found: 60 Martin, Charles Poet's Biography 52 poems available by this author AFTER Poem Text First Line: Nothing happened after. For three days Subject(s): Danger; Escapes; Fugitives CALVUS IN RUINS Poem Text First Line: Venus loves noting more than juicy gossip Subject(s): Roman Empire; Calvus, Licinius Macer (82-47 B.c.) DIALOGUE OF STONE AND STREAM First Line: I am the figure to your ground Last Line: A subject to reflect upon DIDO AND AENEAS Poem Text First Line: Flamboyant at the end Subject(s): Dido; Love; Suicide E.S.L. (ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE) Poem Text First Line: My frowning students carve Subject(s): English As A Second Language; Literary Form E.S.L. (ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE) First Line: My frowning students carve Last Line: As all the rest of my class is %bound to discover Subject(s): English As A Second Language; Literary Form EAST SIXTY-FIFTH Poem Text First Line: Erotic cannibals, we eat up Subject(s): City & Town Life EASTER SUNDAY, 1985 Poem Text First Line: In the palace of the president this morning, Subject(s): Literary Form EASTER SUNDAY, 1985 First Line: In the palace of the president this morning, Last Line: With his arms safely wired up behind him. Subject(s): Literary Form END OF THE WORLD First Line: We've practiced it too often in our age Last Line: And that is the way the end of the world ends. EROGENOUS ZONES Poem Text First Line: The bridge of the nose Subject(s): Sex; Body, Human EVEN AS WE SLEEP First Line: Avoidance has found someone else to blame Last Line: Of whose existence he is much in doubt FOUR FOR THEODORE ROETHKE: 1. THE CIRCLE Poem Text First Line: Out of the matrix of all metaphor FOUR FOR THEODORE ROETHKE: 2. THE GARDEN Poem Text First Line: In the ruined kingdom of his father's house Subject(s): Fathers; Gardens & Gardening FOUR FOR THEODORE ROETHKE: 3. THE DANCE Poem Text First Line: All history was troubled by a dream Subject(s): Death; Dancing & Dancers; Dead, The FOUR FOR THEODORE ROETHKE: 4. THE BURDEN Poem Text First Line: The burden, flowering, at heavy cost Subject(s): Conduct Of Life FOUR POEMS: 1. SO THERE First Line: So he was there and she was there as well Last Line: So there you were, and there I was as well FOUR POEMS: 2. WHERE WE ARE NOW First Line: Back in that time when we were very new Last Line: Might be a portent, he could only hope FOUR POEMS: 3. YET HERE WE ARE First Line: When one says taking pleasure, what both mean Last Line: When one says, take FOUR POEMS: 4. NOW WE ARE WHERE First Line: Outside your window, rage's child, despair Last Line: A day it proved impossible to waste HAPPY ENDING FOR THE LOST CHILDREN Poem Text First Line: One of their picture books would no doubt show Subject(s): Children - Lost HEROIC ATTITUDES Poem Text First Line: He has always feared the awakening dead Subject(s): Death; Dead, The LEAVING BUFFALO Poem Text First Line: Others, many others, must have known Subject(s): Buffalo (city), New York; Farewell; Weather; Parting LINES FREELY TAKEN FROM CALLIMACHUS Poem Text First Line: Some enemies of mine (and of the muse) Subject(s): Critics & Criticism LOVE IN THE CITY OF LIGHT BENT BACK Poem Text First Line: Being deceives, they believe: their existence Subject(s): City & Town Life; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature METAPHOR OF GRASS IN CALIFORNIA Poem Text First Line: The seeds of certain grasses that once grew Last Line: As such men fall, these fell, but silently Subject(s): Literary Form; California; Grass METAPHOR OF GRASS IN CALIFORNIA First Line: The seeds of certain grasses that once grew Last Line: As such men fall, these fell, but silently Subject(s): Literary Form NEITHER HERE NOR THERE First Line: Late afternoon: in studios Last Line: And struggles to ascend on air %will soon be neither here nor there ON THE INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS First Line: The dream desires to be understood Last Line: In our vision of the beautiful and good ON YIELDING TO WHIM First Line: Someone imagines that he sees a cat ORGY WITH TOADS Poem Text First Line: Flora and I know hardly anything Subject(s): Toads OUT OF THE LOST AND FOUND First Line: The neighbors' cats or children must have played Last Line: It really seems to care (though how can it say?) %whether it's pocketed or thrown away PERSISTENCE OF ANCESTORS Poem Text First Line: The nineteenth century is not over yet Subject(s): Red Jacket. Seneca Chief (1756-1830); Buffalo (city), New York; Time PHILOSOPHER'S BALLOON First Line: Whether the laws that govern us were fashioned Last Line: Becomes apparent only when we break them. POISON First Line: A few drops in a hollow ring Last Line: The slowly evanescing traces %of one dark thought PROPOSAL FOR A MONUMENT OF PEARS Poem Text First Line: Four pears in all, and all of them gigantic Subject(s): Pears REFLECTIONS AFTER A DRY SPELL First Line: And the one that took this literally Last Line: The unzapped verse or two he left behind %on the confusion between world and mind Subject(s): Nature REMEMBERING THE BOX Poem Text First Line: Remembering the box in which I knelt Subject(s): Confessions SATYR, CUNNILINGUENT: TO HERMAN MELVILLE First Line: Twining her fingers through Last Line: Of things that matter SEVEN POEMS FROM THE LATIN OF JOHN OWEN First Line: Now when the lion, sated, leaves the feast Last Line: Learn how to swim then,' his pontia responds SHARKS AT THE NEW YORK AQUARIUM Poem Text First Line: Suddenly drawn through the thick glass plate Subject(s): Sharks; Aquariums SHARKS AT THE NEW YORK AQUARIUM First Line: Suddenly drawn in through the thick glass plate Last Line: Children almost never tap the glass SONNET Poem Text First Line: My paradise, my urban pastoral SPEECH AGAINST STONE First Line: I watch a man in the schoolyard Last Line: The cliffs of obdurate silence STANZAS AFTER ENDGAME First Line: Hurrying toward a tiny off-off-off Last Line: One vegetarian, two undecided TAKEN UP Poem Text First Line: Tired of earth, they dwindled on their hill, Subject(s): Aliens; Extraterrestrials TERMINAL COLLOQUY Poem Text First Line: O where will you go when the blinding flash Last Line: Nothing, after the blinding flash. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Nuclear War; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb TO THE BLACKBOARD First Line: Unyielding surface of pre-conscious mind Last Line: The momentary lightning and the thunder VICTORIA'S SECRET Poem Text First Line: Victorian mothers instructed their daughters, ahem Subject(s): Literary Form VICTORIA'S SECRET First Line: Victorian mothers instructed their daughters, ahem Last Line: Even the hats that wait in the dark to be chosen Subject(s): Literary Form WHAT THE DARK PROPOSES First Line: --but no, it isn't over for them yet Last Line: Gives answers to the questions that she poses, %another hungry feeder on the prowl Subject(s): Nature WORK IN PROGRESS Poem Text First Line: Doctor, I dream that I am lost, and mocked Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners; Convicts Martin, Charles Casey 2 poems available by this author FOUNDRYBLACK First Line: The river of charon, to the romans, was styx Last Line: Walk don't walk not, on archer's shores, a lightly taken choice Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers SATELLITES First Line: Long before the trend circulated Martin, Charles P. 6 poems available by this author BROOD QUEEN (A VISION OF MOTHS) First Line: They are my dresden, my amritsar GOOD-BYE CALIFORNIA First Line: Tomorrow I will take the train ICE First Line: I am ice if I am anything LAMENT First Line: There is no MOTH LIGHT First Line: Perhaps it is wrong to dream of you NORTHWEST PASSAGE First Line: They lie at anchor in an ice-locked bay |
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