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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: MEREDITH, WILLIAM Matches Found: 237 Meredith, William Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris 236 poems available by this author 14-FEB First Line: What you have given me Last Line: (husks and canvas being little abandoned houses) %and going away A BOTANICAL TROPE Poem Text First Line: Elliptical regrets figure the nights Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Death - Children; Death - Babies A FIGURE FROM POLITICS Poem Text First Line: The gigantic sweet conspiracy of lovers Subject(s): Relationships A WASTELAND SONNET Poem Text First Line: I am saved by love the way a fisherman Subject(s): Love ABOUT OPERA First Line: It's not the tunes, although as I get older Last Line: In the heart's duresses, on the heart's behalf ABOUT POETRY: 1. THE POET AS TROUBLEMAKER First Line: She likes to split an apple down the middle Last Line: But he says, both hands! Both hands, you sly old bitch! ABOUT POETRY: 2. IAMBIC FEET CONSIDERED AS HONORABLE SCARS First Line: You see these little scars? That's where my wife Last Line: Only a woman would think he could be shot ACCIDENTS OF BIRTH Poem Text First Line: Spared by a car or airplane crash or Subject(s): Birth; Conduct Of Life; Child Birth; Midwifery ACCIDENTS OF BIRTH First Line: Spared by a car or airplane crash Last Line: It with you, and to offer somebody %uncomprehending, impudent thanks ACCOUNT OF A VISIT TO HAWAII First Line: Snow through the fronds, fire flowing into the sea Last Line: Menaced only by surf and flowers and palms AGAINST EXCESS OF SEA OR SUN OR REASON Poem Text First Line: The sea that comes to the beach now softly Subject(s): Reason; Sea; Sun; Errors; Moderation; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Ocean; Mistakes; Fallacies AIRMAN'S VIRTUE Poem Text First Line: High plane for whom the winds incline Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War AIRMAN'S VIRTUE First Line: High plane for whom the winds incline Last Line: And fixing on a farther pole %will sheerly rise Subject(s): World War Ii AMERICAN LIVING ROOM: A TRACT First Line: Ideally, you should be in your own Last Line: Than to be added to the dear clutter here AMONG OURSELVES First Line: Among ourselves like this, we are elaborate Last Line: What about them? Our sweet, deliberate lives AN ACCOUNT OF A VISIT TO HAWAII Poem Text First Line: Snow through the fronds, fire flows into the sea Subject(s): Hawaii AN OLD FIELD MOWED FOR APPEARANCES' SAKE Poem Text First Line: My loud machine for making hay Subject(s): Mowing & Mowers; Lawn Mowers ASSENT TO WILDFLOWERS First Line: Plucked from their sockets like eyes that gave offense Last Line: There's flowering, there's dark question answered yes AT THE CONFLUENCE OF THE COLORADO AND THE LITTLE COLORADO First Line: Where the two rivers come together -- one cold Last Line: Whenever the conversation of live things lags AT THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM First Line: Past a swim-by of deep-sea fish Last Line: Perhaps nothing dies but husks AT THE PRADO First Line: Carrying the guidebook you marked Last Line: Ambiguous welkin you call my attention to BACHELOR Poem Text First Line: A mystic in the morning, half asleep Subject(s): Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People BACHELOR First Line: A mystic in the morning, half asleep BALLET First Line: In a cage of light, the splendid creatures Last Line: That it cannot reproduce its kind BATTLE PROBLEM First Line: A company of vessels on the sea Last Line: Older men conn the darkened ships at sea %in not the usual sense of company Subject(s): Ships And Shipping BATTLEWAGON Poem Text First Line: I see you standing out from the mind's roadstead Subject(s): Warships BATTLEWAGON First Line: I see you standing out from the mind's roadstead Last Line: As like as not for yesterday, and I wave BIRTHDAY EXERCISE First Line: Suppose I were to take you blindfolded Last Line: That it lies behind BOON First Line: What I will ask, if one free wish comes down BOTANICAL TROPE First Line: Regret, a bright meander on the nights Last Line: Soughing together in divine remorse CARRIER Poem Text First Line: She troubles the waters, and they part and close Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War CARRIER First Line: She troubles the waters, and they part and close Last Line: Heart gone, sea-bound, committed all to air Subject(s): World War Ii CHEER First Line: Reader my friend, is in the words here, somewhere Last Line: Even when it seems quite impossible to do CHINESE BANYAN First Line: There is no end to the Last Line: On your page, in your house, for your dear CONSEQUENCES Poem Text First Line: Despair is big with friends I love Subject(s): Friendship; Love; Conduct Of Life; Relationships CONSEQUENCES: 1. OF CHOICE First Line: Despair is big with friends I love Last Line: It is only the smell of consequence CONSEQUENCES: II. OF LOVE First Line: People love each other and the light Last Line: Is the one it meant to be CONSEQUENCES: III. MY ACTS First Line: The acts of my life swarm down the street like puerto rican kids Last Line: By our code it is fair. We play fair. The world is fair COUNTRY STARS Poem Text First Line: The nearsighted child has taken off her glasses Subject(s): Pollution COUNTRY STARS First Line: The nearsighted child has taken off her glasses Last Line: The bright watchers are still there Subject(s): Pollution COUPLE OF TREES First Line: The two oaks lean apart for light COUPLE OVERHEAD First Line: They don't get anywhere Last Line: And the punishment they've chosen, %after a while it dies Subject(s): Hate; Neighbors CROSSING OVER Poem Text Recitation First Line: That's what love is like. The whole river Subject(s): Love CROSSING OVER First Line: That's what love is like. The whole river Last Line: The thing we have to learn is how to walk light Subject(s): Love DALHOUSIE FARM First Line: Will you live long enough to sit in the shade Last Line: To be of our own nature is what it means to be kind DO NOT EMBRACE YOUR MIND'S NEW NEGRO FRIEND Poem Text DO NOT EMBRACE YOUR MIND'S NEW NEGRO FRIEND Last Line: But island by island we must go across Subject(s): War DREAMS OF SUICIDE First Line: I reach for the awkward shotgun not to disarm Last Line: My own father might say walk, boy DYING AWAY First Line: Toward the person who has died EARTH WALK First Line: He drives onto the grassy shoulder and unfastens Last Line: Who will take away my earth rocks and debrief me EFFORT AT SPEECH First Line: Climbing the stairway grey with urban midnight Last Line: Hatred and guilt have left us without language %who might have held discourse ENVOI First Line: Go, little book. If anybody asks Last Line: The smell intolerable and thick with loss ENVOIE Poem Text First Line: Go, little book. If anybody asks Subject(s): Poetry & Poets EXAMPLES OF CREATED SYSTEMS: 1. THE STARS First Line: We look out at them on clear nights, thrilled Last Line: Suggesting that random is beautiful EXAMPLES OF CREATED SYSTEMS: 2. ARCHPELAGOES First Line: Or again, the islands that the old Last Line: Torso of the sea-mother, herself %casually composed EXAMPLES OF CREATED SYSTEMS: 3. WORK CAMPS AND PRISONS First Line: The homeless %solzhenitsyn, looking at russia Last Line: Conveived and made by men like ourselves EXAMPLES OF CREATED SYSTEMS: 4. THOSE WE LOVE First Line: Incorrigibly (it is our nature) Last Line: Gesture of sowing -- random, lovely FABLES ABOUT ERROR: 1. A RITUAL MOUSE First Line: The mouse in the cupboard repeats himself Last Line: He did not pay attention FABLES ABOUT ERROR: 2. A FABLE OF GRACKLES First Line: Like a rift of acrid smoke Last Line: And no one yield in love FABLES ABOUT ERROR: 3. THE TALE OF HOUSE SWALLOW ON CAPE ANN First Line: A fluttering bird in the first soft heat of june Last Line: But the flesh is no more than an instance for the mind to consider (alluding to the symposium of pla FABLES ABOUT ERROR: 4. MORAL First Line: What is as wrong as the uninstructed heart Last Line: Can study a little the things that it dreams of FEAR OF BEASTS First Line: Pity the nightly tiger: fierce and wise Last Line: A beast in a human dream must go in dread %of the chance awakening on which he dies FIRESCREEN AT MOUNT VERNON First Line: When the face is struck Last Line: And fired to tears FISHVENDOR First Line: Where he stood in boots in water to his calves Subject(s): Labor And Laborers FIVE ACCOUNTS OF A MONOGAMOUS MAN Poem Text First Line: If you or I should die Subject(s): Snakes; Desire; Passion; Adultery; Children; Love; Middle Age; Absence; Relationships; Serpents; Vipers; Childhood; Separation; Isolation FIVE ACCOUNTS OF A MONOGAMOUS MAN: 1. HE THINKS OF THE CHINESE SNAKE First Line: If you or I should die Last Line: To sucking his tail again %in that absence FIVE ACCOUNTS OF A MONOGAMOUS MAN: 2. HE MARVELS PERSISTENCE PASSION First Line: Like black duennas the hours sit Last Line: Hands off you where you lie asleep FIVE ACCOUNTS OF A MONOGAMOUS MAN: 3. SOMETIMES CONTEMPLATES ADULTERY First Line: I had no insanity to excuse this Last Line: Contractual as a dog -- by my scurrilous head FIVE ACCOUNTS OF A MONOGAMOUS MAN: 4. HIS HANDS, ON TRIP TO WISCONSIN First Line: It is night. I am a thousand miles from home Last Line: Or folded cold, or feeling your hands folded cold FIVE ACCOUNTS OF A MONOGAMOUS MAN: V. LINES FROM HIS GUEST-B First Line: Shelley's houses and walks were always a clutter of women Last Line: Yet it is with no light welcome we welcome the friends of the house FLEDGLINGS First Line: As I talk to these children hovering on the verge Last Line: Is there any plummet or flight as sheer as the fledgling's FOR AIR HEROES First Line: I sing them spiraling in flame Last Line: They speak for most %articulate at last FOR GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE First Line: The day is colorless like swiss characters in a novel Last Line: If it were not for them FOR HIS FATHER Poem Text First Line: When I was young I looked high and low for a father Subject(s): Fathers & Sons FOR HIS FATHER First Line: When I was young I looked high and low for a father Last Line: Deliberately beneath my life and art FOR TWO LOVERS IN THE YEAR 2075 IN THE CANADIAN WOODS First Line: If you have lips and forests Last Line: Here is the sound of ours FREEZING First Line: When the shadow of the sparrowhawk passes over Last Line: Is all that can justify our sly survivals GHOSTS OF THE HOUSE First Line: Enabling love, roof of this drafty hutch Last Line: Before my bone-house clatters into lime Subject(s): Love GIVE AND TAKE First Line: What are these presents - look how many Last Line: Astonishment - mine - is it really for me GODCHILDREN First Line: Childen of mine, not mine but lent Last Line: And then redeemed by this bright loan GRACE Poem Text First Line: Growing older, I have tottered into the lists Subject(s): Religion; Aging; Theology GRACE: 1. SURGERY First Line: When they needed a foreign part Last Line: For sixty-three years in america Variant Title(s): Partial Accounts: 1. Surger GRACE: 2. CONVALESCENCE First Line: Once a week on thursday there's a souk Last Line: Painlessly forever, as our bodies urge Variant Title(s): Partial Accounts: 2. Convalescenc GRACE: 3. GRACE First Line: Growing older, I have tottered into the lists Last Line: But christian, starting everything up again GRIEVANCES First Line: Now and perpetually, over Last Line: Or, this one says the words HAZARD FACES A SUNDAY IN THE DECLINE Poem Text First Line: We need the ceremony of one another, Subject(s): Aging; Family Life; Cats; Dogs; Food & Eating; Relatives HAZARD FACES A SUNDAY IN THE DECLINE First Line: We need the ceremony of one another Last Line: We rise to that expectation HAZARD'S OPTIMISM Poem Text First Line: Harnessed and zipped on a bright Subject(s): Sports HAZARD'S OPTIMISM First Line: Harnessed and zipped on a bright Subject(s): Sports HERE AND THERE First Line: Here in the north, a cold gray morning Last Line: Above her bed, between two ideas, a gulf and an ocean HIS PLANS FOR OLD AGE First Line: He disagrees with simone de beauvoir Last Line: That takes its rise in love. If only his energy lasts HIS STUDENTS First Line: In the warm classroom, they give off heat Last Line: Between youth and its opposite, age HOMAGE TO A RAKE-HELL First Line: When time had got his hair and made him well Last Line: Honor of a sort, and not all old men do HOMAGE TO P. MELLON, I.M. PEI, THEIR GALLERY AND WASHINGTON First Line: Granite and marble Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Art & Artists; Museums; Homage & Respect; Art Gallerys HOMAGE TO P. MELLON, I.M. PEI, THEIR GALLERY AND WASHINGTON First Line: Granite and marble Last Line: Laying down stone like our own sweet lives Subject(s): Architecture And Architects; Art And Artists; Museums HOUSED (A REPORT ON A VISITING DOG) First Line: Your great horse of a dog has been sick Last Line: Now I see a small welt has arisen, this poem HYDRAULICS First Line: A sears roebuck pump, it would snuffle Last Line: As sovereign and repetitious as rain IAMBIC FEET CONSIDERED AS HONORABLE SCARS Poem Text First Line: You see these little scars? That's where my wife Subject(s): Bears; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives IDEOGRAM First Line: I am trying to describe to you a river at first light Last Line: Someone deft with a brush, in china ILLITERATE First Line: Touching your goodness, I am like a man Last Line: That keep him rich and orphaned and beloved? Subject(s): Language IN A COPY OF YEATS' POEMS Poem Text First Line: Accurate knowledge was prerequisite Subject(s): Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) IN A COPY OF YEATS' POEMS First Line: Accurate knowledge was prerequisite Last Line: His figures and the figures' meaning stream IN LOVING MEMORY OF THE LATE AUTHOR OF DREAM SONGS Poem Text First Line: Friends making off ahead of time Subject(s): Berryman, John (1914-1972) IN LOVING MEMORY OF THE LATE AUTHOR OF DREAM SONGS First Line: Friends making off ahead of time Last Line: Wave from the fat book again, make us wave back IN MEMORIAM STRATTON CHRISTENSEN First Line: Laughing young man and fiercest against sham Last Line: Reckless out on the thin important floe IN MEMORY OF DONALD A. STAUFFER First Line: Armed with an indiscriminate delight Last Line: There on the sweet and obvious side of right IN MEMORY OF ROBERT FROST First Line: Everyone had to know something, and what they said Last Line: Whatever it was, true, something I knew IN STRANGE EVENTS Poem Text First Line: If the moon set, and all the stars, and still no meaning came, or Subject(s): Human Behavior; Enemies; Hate; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature IN THE MIDDLE OF THE LONG FRIENDSHIP Last Line: Until parting at the shore, even the grief was sweet IN THE PROTESTANT CEMETERY First Line: How did their lives go out from those deaths Last Line: We need these two old men here under the cypresses IN THE RIF MOUNTAINS First Line: Geology set this story down so long ago JOHN AND ANNE First Line: Are you grown up now, john, now that it's over Last Line: Dying at belsen, she helped you to grow up JOURNAL ENTRY (APRIL 1969, VILLA SERBELLONI) First Line: The celluloid boats scoot across the lake because (I think) Last Line: Where there are no prties or quarrels, there is seldom occasion %to watch the sunrise JOURNAL ENTRY (WITH THE UDALLS, JUNE 1968): IN THE CANYON First Line: Under the massive cliffs which the moon Last Line: My gut and whet my appetite JUNE: DUTCH HARBOR First Line: In june, which is still june here, but once removed Last Line: It is hard to keep your mind on war, with all that green KODIAK POEM First Line: Precipitous is the shape and stance of the spruce Last Line: The raven, rich in allusion, rides alone KOREAN WOMAN SEATED BY A WALL First Line: Suffering has settled like a sly disguise LAST THINGS Poem Text First Line: In the tunnel of woods, as the road Subject(s): Past LAST THINGS First Line: In the tunnel of woods, as the road LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT ME! First Line: Erica is eight, a factory of will Last Line: And all four of his grandparents are dead LOVE LETTER FROM AN IMPOSSIBLE LAND Poem Text First Line: Combed by the cold seas, bering and pacific Subject(s): War; Sailors & Sailing; Absence; Love; Travel; Letters; War; Separation; Isolation; Journeys; Trips LOVE LETTER FROM AN IMPOSSIBLE LAND First Line: Combed by the cold seas, bering and pacific Subject(s): War MAJOR WORK First Line: Poems are hard to read Last Line: At last mind eye and ear %and the great sloth heart will move MEMOIRS First Line: Even when he was a child, the emperor Last Line: Maps? We were much too poor in corsica to have rugs METAPHYSICAL SONNET First Line: More concert than the quick have, have the dead Last Line: Still will the quick move out and the dead move down MILD-SPOKEN CITIZEN FINALLY WRITES TO THE WHITE HOUSE First Line: Please read this letter when you are alone Last Line: #name? MINIATURE First Line: One of the gentlest, as it looks from here Last Line: To do what must be done in violence MUSIC First Line: The neighbors have a teenaged girl. Below the hill Last Line: And not to be able to afford a live maid MY MOTHER'S LIFE Poem Text First Line: A woman neither young or old, she moves Subject(s): Mothers MY MOTHER'S LIFE First Line: A woman neither young nor old, she moves Last Line: The light dims, bluing, then purpling the retina MYSELF, ROUSSEAU, A FEW OTHERS First Line: From the boy's identification Last Line: Until the last choice passes NAUSEA First Line: In the courtyard of the brera Last Line: Trying to escape his friend NAVY FIELD Poem Text First Line: Limped out of the hot sky a hurt plane, Subject(s): Navy - United States; Aviation & Aviators; Air Warfare; American Navy; Airplanes; Air Pilots NAVY FIELD First Line: Limped out of the hot sky a hurt plane Last Line: Those few electric jewels against the moth and whining sky NIXON'S THE ONE First Line: November 8, a cold rain. Hazard discovered Last Line: That his nation has bitterly misspoken itself NOT BOTH First Line: The club-footed woman was mangled by the train Last Line: One of those two appalling things is true too NOTES FOR AN ELEGY Poem Text First Line: The alternative to flying is cowardice, Subject(s): Aviator & Aviators; War; Death; Heroism; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines NOTES FOR AN ELEGY First Line: The alternative to flying is cowardice Last Line: Our losses part of an old secret, somehow no loss NOTRE DAME DE CHARTRES First Line: After god's house burned down, they found the shirt Last Line: And spoke to the stone that slept in the groin of france OF KINDNESS First Line: Where people live on earth there is a kind Last Line: This is most of what is known about kindness %among our dry king OF POSSESSIONS, IN WINTER First Line: Scurvy with things, human brothers, human sisters Last Line: It will be by gifts and by divestment OLD FIELD MOWED FOR APPEARANCES' SAKE First Line: My loud machine for making hay Last Line: Would find us puny enemies, %second growth and second growth Subject(s): Mowing And Mowers OLD PHOTOGRAPH OF STRANGERS First Line: On the big staircase in this picture ON FALLING ASLEEP BY FIRELIGHT Poem Text First Line: Around the fireplace, pointing at the fire Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology ON FALLING ASLEEP BY FIRELIGHT First Line: Around the fireplace, pointing at the fire Last Line: Turns softly on the hearth into that dust %isaiah said would be the serpent's meat Subject(s): Bible; Religion ON FALLING ASLEEP TO BIRDSONG First Line: In a tree at the edge of a clearing Last Line: Yet all of a piece and clever %and at some level, true ON JENKINS' HILL First Line: The weather came over this low knoll, west to east Last Line: Who stands on this hill and scoffs OPEN SEA First Line: We say the sea is lonely; better say Last Line: For each creature lost since the start at sea %and give thanks it was not I, nor yet one close to me Subject(s): Sea ORIGINAL AVERSIONS First Line: In all respects unready for a fall Last Line: Nobody likes to fall or be surprised ORPHEUS First Line: The lute and my skill with it came unasked from apollo Last Line: Lend me euridice, I sing and sing PARENTS Poem Text First Line: What it must be like to be an angel Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood PARENTS First Line: What it must be like to be an angel Last Line: To our uncomprehending children and grandchildren away PASTORAL Poem Text First Line: The girl lies down on the hill Subject(s): Love; Desire PASTORAL First Line: The girl lies down on the hill Last Line: On the hill where she wills the dusk PERHAPS THE BEST TIME First Line: This would be spring, if seasons could be found PICTURE OF A CASTLE Poem Text First Line: Now I am tired of being japanese Subject(s): Japan; Japanese POEM Poem Text First Line: The swans on the river, a great Subject(s): Love POEM First Line: The swans on the river, a great Last Line: I am always the fifty-ninth Subject(s): Love POEM ABOUT MORNING Poem Text First Line: Whether it's sunny or not, it's sure Subject(s): Morning POEM ABOUT MORNING First Line: Whether it's sunny or not, it's sure Last Line: But there is a great deal about it you don't understand Subject(s): Morning POEM TO ME First Line: Old marvel of will, me, famished for vanity Last Line: Over and over, so as not to forget, man. I am man POLITICS Poem Text Subject(s): Politics & Government; Marriage; Lust; Family Life; Mcgovern, George (1922-2012); Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Relatives POLITICS First Line: Tonight hazard's father and stepmother are having Last Line: To unattended shrubbery and america and hazard PREPONDERANCE First Line: Headless fountains %running loose Last Line: And save despair %for when I'm dead QUARREL First Line: They went outside then, in the mild night Last Line: Swaddled him like a shroud QUARTET IN F MAJOR Poem Text First Line: Great beethoven, you trouble me this watchful night Subject(s): War; Music & Musicians; Freedom; Liberty QUARTET IN F MAJOR First Line: Great beethoven, you trouble me this watchful night Last Line: Instructs the four strings, haunts my night-strange post RAINY SEASON First Line: As boring as the fact of a marvelous friend READING MY POEMS FROM WORLD WAR II Poem Text First Line: The ships in these verses course through a blue meadow Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; World War Ii; Navy - United States; Aviation & Aviators; Sailors & Sailing; Second World War; American Navy; Airplanes; Air Pilots RECOLLECTION OF BELLAGIO First Line: On the dark lake below, the fishermen's bells Last Line: My shade, and long ago, and still going on REDUCTIO AD ABSURDUM BLUES Poem Text First Line: Oh, the soldier he wants to be somewhere he once was Subject(s): Sailors & Sailing; Soldiers; War; Dreams; Nightmares REM SLEEP First Line: What are the two poor children thinking there Last Line: What an unlucky dream I dreamt last night. If I %believed in dreams REMEMBERING ROBERT LOWELL First Line: The message you brought back again and again Last Line: This you gave. It dawns on each of us separately now %what this entails REVENANT First Line: I am a spirit now. After that death Last Line: He was not elevated by that existence RHODE ISLAND Poem Text First Line: Here at the seashore they use the clouds over & over Subject(s): Rhode Island; Seashore; Summer; Beach; Coast; Shore RHODE ISLAND First Line: Here at the seashore they use the clouds over & over Last Line: Until after labor day. He just lays there Subject(s): Rhode Island; Seashore; Summer ROOTS Poem Text First Line: Mrs. Leamington stood on a cloud Subject(s): Trees ROOTS First Line: Mrs. Leamington stood on a cloud Last Line: By then perhaps we'll both have earned a drink RUS IN URBE First Line: In a city garden an espaliered tree Last Line: Saved somehow in the evening by the green SEASONS' DIFFERENCE First Line: Here on the warm strand, where a turquoise light Last Line: Grey and stubborn as a snow-man SIMILE First Line: As when a heavy bomber in the cloud Last Line: All this life, fuel low, instruments all tumbled, %and unscrewed SONNET ON RARE ANIMALS First Line: Like deer (rat-tat) before we reach the clearing Last Line: Is off before you have it anywhere SQUIRE HAZARD WALKS First Line: Near the big spruce, on the path that goes Last Line: Ready to move off whenever the hunt resumes STAGES Poem Text First Line: A child's contempt for his juniors Subject(s): Children; Childhood STARLIGHT Poem Text First Line: Going abruptly into a starry night Subject(s): Sky STARLIGHT First Line: Going abruptly into a starry night STRING QUARTET Poem Text First Line: How learn our way through these mazy strings Subject(s): Music & Musicians SUNRISE WITH CROWS First Line: Seeing the sun rise will not mend this day Last Line: Shattered to fragments no bigger than a man TALKING BACK (TO W. H. AUDEN) First Line: What it makes happen is small things Last Line: Across this debt, we tell you so TEN DAY LEAVE Poem Text First Line: House that holds me, household that I hold dear Subject(s): Homecoming TEN-DAY LEAVE First Line: House that holds me, household that I hold dear Last Line: But here is what calls me, here what I call home THE COUPLE OVERHEAD Poem Text First Line: They don't get anywhere Subject(s): Hate; Neighbors THE DECIDUOUS TREES Poem Text First Line: A tree is no more leaves than a person days Subject(s): Trees THE FISHVENDOR Poem Text First Line: Where he stood in boots in water to his calves Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers THE GHOSTS OF THE HOUSE Poem Text First Line: Enabling love, roof of this drafty hutch Subject(s): Love THE ILLITERATE Poem Text First Line: Touching your goodness, I am like a man Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary THE IMPRESSMENT Poem Text First Line: Days like today we are the clouds' men Subject(s): Clouds THE JAIN BIRD HOSPITAL IN DELHI Poem Text First Line: Outside the hotel window, unenlightened pigeons Last Line: What clever stuff this transplant business is! THE OPEN SEA Poem Text First Line: We say the sea is lonely; better say Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE REVENANT Poem Text First Line: I am a spirit now. After that death Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Death; Dead, The THE WRECK OF THE THRESHER Poem Text First Line: I stand on the ledge where rock runs into the river Subject(s): Submarines; Death; Shipwrecks; Submarine Warfare; U-boats; Dead, The THOUGHTS ON ONE'S HEAD Poem Text First Line: A person is very self-conscious about his head. Subject(s): Heads THOUGHTS ON ONE'S HEAD (IN PLASTER, WITH A BRONZE WASH) First Line: A person is very self-conscious about his head Last Line: One dislikes it of course: it is the seat of me THREE SORTS OF VIOLENCE: I. NATURAL First Line: It is the test of us. It plumbs us Last Line: No one ever promised us more THREE SORTS OF VIOLENCE: II. MAN-MADE First Line: Will I remember my own nature? Instinct Last Line: More and more the plants and animals %keep to themselves THREE SORTS OF VIOLENCE: III. MAN-TO-MAN First Line: Here we lack models, and this is the violence Last Line: But perhaps we are too civilized for that TO START WITH First Line: The meagerest american house Last Line: To start with, feel fortunate TO THE THOUGHTFUL READER First Line: Empodecles came coughing through the smoke TRANSPORT Poem Text First Line: Now seven days from land the gulls still wheel Subject(s): War TRANSPORT First Line: Now seven days from land the gulls still wheel Last Line: Catastrophe. But we shall prosper yet Subject(s): War TRAVELING BOY First Line: Hurtled under the lover-sundering river Last Line: He waits for the new commitments to be made TREE MARRIAGE Poem Text First Line: In chota nagpur and bengal Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men TREE MARRIAGE First Line: In chota nagpur and bengal Last Line: Our threads invisible but holding Subject(s): Homosexuality TRELAWNY AT SOMPTING, 1879 First Line: Sometimes I dream about those two cauldrons Last Line: Zela, arabian bird, and restless shelley TRELAWNY'S DREAM First Line: The dark illumination of a storm Last Line: I can feel this channel widen as I swim TWO JAPANESE MAPLES First Line: How can the snow Last Line: As the u.S.A? Subject(s): Environment; Trees TWO JAPANESE POEMS Poem Text First Line: Now I am tired of being japanese Last Line: Anymore, that she is a puppet anyway Subject(s): Japan; Women; Japanese TWO JAPANESE POEMS First Line: Now I am tired of being japanese Last Line: Anymore, that she is a puppet anyway Subject(s): Japan TWO MASKS UNEARTHED IN BULGARIA Poem Text First Line: When god was learning to draw the human face Subject(s): Bulgaria; Sculpture & Sculptors TWO MASKS UNEARTHED IN BULGARIA First Line: When god was learning to draw the human face Subject(s): Bulgaria; Sculpture And Sculptors VIEW OF THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE First Line: The growing need to be moving around it to see it Last Line: And put his chisel down for marvelling on that stone VISION OF GOOD SECRETS First Line: If the kept secrets of our finished lives Last Line: This is my faithful secret, him I will keep WAKING DREAM ABOUT A LOST CHILD First Line: Misty and cool. Morning. Who are you, with one hand Last Line: Mist is everywhere. It is damp in this bedroom WALTER JENKS' BATH First Line: These are my legs. I don't have to tell them, legs Last Line: This is me knowing, this is what I know WEATHER First Line: The elm is turned to crystal Last Line: Ours that only natures %that you cannot give back Subject(s): Birch Trees WHAT I REMEMBER THE WRITERS TELLING ME WHEN I WAS YOUNG First Line: Look hard at the world, they said WHEN DO WE INHERIT THEM ?Ǫ Poem Text WHERE HE'S STAYING NOW First Line: I look out of these two holes, or I run Last Line: It has come to the wrong man WHOLESOME First Line: Hazard's friend elliott is homosexual. Prodigious Last Line: (coleridge). But it doesn't bear dwelling on WHORLS First Line: From the western shore of oceans on the world Last Line: Hardened the sweet air, he would leave a conch WINTER ON THE RIVER First Line: A long orange knife slits the darkness Last Line: And silence which the creatures are expecting WINTER SONG First Line: Of course across the winter wood Last Line: And stiffens like a poison WINTER VERSE FOR MY SISTER First Line: Moonlight washes the west side of the house Last Line: On the gavel web underneath the field, %and the field tilting always toward day WINTER: HE SHAPES UP First Line: Now autumn has finished scolding Last Line: Hazard is back at work WORDS AFTER MIDNIGHT, FORBIDDING REMORSE Poem Text First Line: Do not say to the gay game nay now lover WRECK OF THE THRESHER (LOST AT SEA, APRIL 10, 1963) First Line: I stand on the ledge where rock runs into the river Last Line: The ocean was salt before we crawled to tears Meredith, William Tuckey 1 poems available by this author FARRAGUT Poem Text First Line: Farragut, farragut Last Line: Thunderbolt stroke! Subject(s): American Civil War; Farragut, David Glascow (1801-1870); Mobile Bay, Battle Of (1864); Patriotism; United States - History |
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