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Author: MILES, JOSEPHINE Matches Found: 475 Miles, Josephine Poet's Biography 475 poems available by this author $7,500 First Line: I cannot tell you what a bargain this is Last Line: So like a snowdrop sprung, white, delilcate, and new, %with mountain view A FOREIGN COUNTRY Poem Text First Line: Consider that instant of anger when to the blow Subject(s): Anger; Russia; Communism; Politics & Government; Soviet Union; Russians ABSOLUTE MAN First Line: The best to say for a hard-bitten man Last Line: And one ear mossy ever ACT V First Line: Pit, balcony, plush black Last Line: Wing-born, in all the blackness hard to bear %upon the midnight of a different day AD Poem Text First Line: Harper's and many magazines contain Subject(s): Magazines; War; Soldiers; Corpses; Pictures; Cadavers ADDICTS PROGESS FROM SATURATION Last Line: Seek me to free you and myself from this %addiction to a pure hypothesis AFTER NOON I LIE DOWN Last Line: Someone awake enough to take, use, %share its garish inequities? AFTER THIS, SEA First Line: This is as far as the land goes, after this it is sea Last Line: Whatever we make here, whatever find, %we cannot leave behind AFTERNOON WALK First Line: There is this old man, wistful, peaked Last Line: Yes, I am going to mail your letters AGGRESSOR First Line: Restless animosity can sharpen its saber Last Line: Passerby is done to death. I fear him AIM First Line: Every year when I come to hate Last Line: To all that hateful strife %that gives to love its aim ALBUM First Line: This is a hard life you are living Last Line: The hard life of the young ALL HALLOW First Line: The lady in the unbecoming bonnet Last Line: Whose cat is that? AND AFTER First Line: My life is astray in the mind Last Line: Yet live there before them and after, %before them and after ANOTHER PLANET First Line: Down from another planet they have settled to mend Last Line: They are standing at ease, they are lifting the fans %of unburdenable wings APART FROM BRANCHES IN COURTYARDS AND SMALL STONES Last Line: Then rochester to el sobrante is a distance %no longer than my name APARTMENT First Line: Apartment hearts within their hearts so lie Last Line: And draws his walls within, and sues for peace APPOINTMENT IN DOCTOR'S OFFICE First Line: The lady put off her fur, it was so warm in the outer office Last Line: The lady was sick unto death APPROACH First Line: The hosiery salesman walking up the hill Last Line: When the sober spanish doors and the cool voices %reject all small familiars but their own? ART GALLERY CLOSING TIME First Line: Steps never went away so far as when they carried Last Line: Away from the morning marshes and flamingoes in the palace of the legion of art AT THE COUNTER First Line: Give me a half sack of buttered popcorn, sweetie Last Line: I'll bet you'd like to know! AUTUMNAL First Line: We have lost so many leaves Last Line: With no palaver between AWAY First Line: Never going off, always here, o Last Line: And they take it away BARGE First Line: Everywhere the lights of the settlements Last Line: Moving like conscience toward the longest distance BARRICADE First Line: Work hard and fail Last Line: Of a thousand of roads %all open, all asking traverse BEACH PARTY GIVEN BY T. SHAUGHNESSY FOR THE SISTERS Poem Text First Line: Seven nuns went wading in the sea Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Nuns; Work; Workers BEACH PARTY GIVEN BY T. SHAUGHNESSY FOR THE SISTERS First Line: Seven nuns went wading in the sea Last Line: They were like to the devout sea, and to the shore %they sisters were Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Nuns BEFORE First Line: Earlier, what I remember: a small %flame of arthritis Last Line: Go tell aunt rhodie the old gray goose is dead BEING RIGHT First Line: I am trying to think what it means to be right Last Line: Why are you not here? BELIEF Poem Text First Line: Mother said to call her if the h-bomb exploded Subject(s): Brothers; Faith; Crime & Criminal; Mothers; Half-brothers; Belief; Creed BELIEF First Line: Mother said to call her if the h-bomb exploded Last Line: Murmuring, in her sleep as it seemed, the ancient slogan %noblesse oblige BELL First Line: Only the halting and waiting bell of the train Last Line: By the bell in its split to a shout and it shames us BERG Poem Text First Line: Channels of happening as theyrun deep and deeper Subject(s): Conduct Of Life BIBLIOGRAPHER First Line: Bad quartos were my first love Last Line: What they have probably meant BLOCKS First Line: Earlier, many chloroformed hall went through Last Line: Went with mme. Montessori home again BLOOM First Line: The steamfitter comes home in a pink cloud plainly Last Line: But bush will not bend or petal blow, it's so early BODILY KINDNESS IS COMMON; THOUGH SOME Last Line: Paradise is the moving body of self BOMBAY First Line: If I woke in bombay it would be possible Last Line: Your look as indian as dense with life BOTANY First Line: Farthest from town's the rock shore Last Line: When the terrible case of disease is of life, %to cure it oflife? BOTANY First Line: Grievances: the warm fogs of summer Last Line: I would not be their horticulturer BOUNTY First Line: Purcell in many victories of his BREAKFAST First Line: Robert keeps in his parlor Last Line: Any comment on the orchid bouquet BRIM First Line: Less of time than the world allows Last Line: A simple crowded passage across the brim BROOKLYN, IOWA, AND WEST First Line: I never lived behind a brick wall Last Line: Shells, mixed debris, mixed decisions %of the ambiguous ocean? BUCKING AND ROLLING, THE SHIP BENT Last Line: Its aromatic line BUREAU Poem Text First Line: Is this the university? Last Line: I am calling about bureaus; their hearts and minds Variant Title(s): Bureau Subject(s): Bureaucracy; Universities & Colleges BUREAU First Line: Is this the university? Last Line: I am calling about bureaus, their hearts and minds BUREAU 2 First Line: Skunks fight under the house and keep us Last Line: Mr. Simms is animal health officer of this whole county %andhis chief interest is wolves Variant Title(s): Burea Subject(s): Bureaucracy CAGE Poem Text First Line: Through the branches of the japanese cherry Subject(s): Nature; Relationships CAGE First Line: Through the branches of the japanese cherry Last Line: Come out into the night CALCULATION First Line: We have within our sky an orbit taken %by greenwich time Last Line: The way that it has come CAMPAIGN First Line: My packard bell was set up in the vacant lot near the stump Last Line: On record to the moon's blanched countenance. %who are you for? Subject(s): Americans; Politics; United States CANYON PEOPLE First Line: Living with the hills over us, and seeing CAPITOL First Line: Status jonquils, to green to red lights, at successive circles Last Line: Receding and ceding, in the magnificent spheres %of influence? CARE First Line: Most that I know but one Last Line: Crying out, help me! %help me Subject(s): Hate CAT Poem Text First Line: Lady in the leopard skin / has a fear of plunging in Last Line: Yellow-eyed, the lady springs. Subject(s): Traffic; Women CENTER Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: How did you come Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Popular Culture; Art & Artists CENTER First Line: How did you come Last Line: But what in the risk and moment of our day %we may become CENTER First Line: What they had at their window was earth's own shadow Last Line: They had eyes closed tight in a central standard night CHAMBER OF COMMERCE First Line: Flourish your golden shores and indolent Last Line: And those who keep warm under the fleece will learn to speak%double, to no avail CHARACTER First Line: A movie light, I don't know what they call it, but it's white Last Line: Have patience, few but camera read him so, and camera's hounded by the show CHILDE Poem Text First Line: That brood upon a point, what fixes it CIRCUS First Line: It seems to me that a world of hurt Last Line: With flexible, ardent, unsharable pain CITY First Line: What is my home, what is my city and home Last Line: I am the town that to your highway turns %and goes along with it a little while CIVIC PRIDE First Line: Between two warehouses the inner city Last Line: And trod back the scurvy civic pavement whence we had come CIVILIAN Poem Text First Line: The largest stock of armaments allows me Subject(s): Rifles CIVILIAN First Line: The largest stock of armaments allows me Last Line: At anybody; he is sick in spirit %as I am not CLOUD Poem Text First Line: Strontium 90 is slowly falling out Last Line: Clouds of the mire ahead of us as we go. Subject(s): Radiation & Radiation Sickness COMING HOME First Line: After I come home from the meeting with friends Last Line: Toward the east, where a waking heart is more than mine COMMITTE REPORT ON SMOKE ABATEMENT IN RESIDENTIAL AREA First Line: Prevailing winds in this area below Last Line: Bread of the brothers grimm COMMITTEE DECISION ON PECANS FOR ASYLUM First Line: Orphans are to have, instead of walnuts Last Line: Pecans from home CONCEPTION First Line: Death did not come to my mother %like an old friend Last Line: He can go among strangers %to save lives CONDUCT First Line: How conduct in its pride %maintains a place and sits Last Line: To conduct in its garb %to do the anecdotal smiling, yes CONFIDENCE First Line: Thank you for your kind attention Last Line: Told to the friend CONJURE Poem Text First Line: I was sitting what that afternoon I thought to be Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness CONJURE First Line: I was sitting in what that afternoon I thought to be %the vacuum of my life Last Line: Far from the cause summons its consequence CONSERVANCIES First Line: Plums on the ground Last Line: Gives everybody on his plate of melathion %a rich spoonful of air CONTAINED First Line: The beautiful intense light of intense morning Last Line: The notion of again CONVERSATION First Line: Some people talk nothing for four or a hundred Last Line: Sometimes he will translate it to you COUNTRYSIDE Poem Text First Line: Apart from branches in courtyards and small stones Subject(s): Country Life CURRICULUM First Line: Knowledge of you, knowledge of all the world Last Line: Your hundred courses CURTAIN First Line: A picture window opening to the west Last Line: As if the furnished action had no fear %to act again DANCER First Line: The foot and knee of the dancer Last Line: On every fleeting platform, %and what platform his DAVID First Line: Goliath stood up clear in the assumption of status Last Line: So he shot, and shouted! DAY First Line: I never saw a sky like this since twenty-three Last Line: It is a day of a nature to remember about DAY THE WINDS First Line: The day the winds went underground I gasped for breath Last Line: Toward the risks of the wind DEAR FRANK, HERE IS A POEM Last Line: Jo: I am having the six-dollar dinner DEC. 7, 1941 First Line: On the war day, mainly the soldiers got going Last Line: Fights, and freest of origin DEED Poem Text First Line: As george washington hacked at his cherry tree, Subject(s): Washington, George (1732-1799); Christianity DEED First Line: As george washington hacked at his cherry tree Last Line: Bumper crop for mary %of natural corn DEFINITION First Line: Stars are food for the fed DELAY First Line: Well, ladies and gentlemen, the tinned voice of the pilot said Last Line: Jolted itself into landing, and the pilot %came on again, to regret the inconvenience DEMEANOR First Line: Here an establishment, its sunny rooms Last Line: Put back together in my asking frame %a fortune of demeanor shapely and true DENIAL First Line: Events like the weeping of the girl in the classroom Last Line: In the chair in the sun %in the passion of denial DESERT Poem Text First Line: When with the skin you do acknowledge drought, Subject(s): Deserts; Water DESERT First Line: When with the skin you do acknowledge drought DESPAIRER Poem Text First Line: In such despair did owen loren lie Subject(s): Despair DEWEY AND DANCER Poem Text First Line: Cambises king, the mexican bandit Subject(s): Mexico; Dancing & Dancers; Storms DIALECTIC First Line: Well, yes, you are as angry as we feared Last Line: It does transcend a duller habit %and synthesizes from defeat, defeat DIALOGUE Poem Text First Line: Silence comes down the street to us in the shape Subject(s): Girls; Silence DIALOGUE First Line: You're like a still pool in the rocks, he told her Last Line: See this red pebble? - I love red ones, she said DINNER BELL First Line: We have got one word like a dinner bell without any clapper Last Line: And douse the little bell and holler out %soup's on the stove, supper itself a-ringing DIRECTORS First Line: See the roofs bend down at behest of moving picture Last Line: Plot into morrow DISASTER IN 1906 First Line: What do you think caused the disater here %in 1906? Earthquake or fire Last Line: He would not fight them, he went to draw them %free from the waves DISTURBED First Line: They drummed salvation in the darker districts Last Line: Jubilee for the unsaved and the unsober DOCTOR AT BEDSIDE OF RAT First Line: The doctor who sits at the bedside of a rat Last Line: So rat and doctor may converse together DOLL First Line: Though the willows bent down to shelter us where we played Last Line: Able to see in the dark DOLOR First Line: When swimming and croquet are in full sway, dolor Last Line: Maintain on one sun porch, in one mild %summer, one dismay unreconciled DOWN FROM ANOTHER PLANET THEY HAVE SETTLED TO MEND Poem Text Recitation by Author Subject(s): Hampton Institute DREAM Poem Text First Line: I see you displaced, condensed, within my dream Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares DREAM First Line: I see you displaced, condensed, within my dream Last Line: That any else or more become a dream, %displaced, condensed,as by my dreamed regard DRIVER SAYING Poem Text First Line: Lady, hold your horses, sit down in your seat Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Distraction DRIVER SAYING First Line: Lady hold your horses, sit down in your seat Last Line: Lady, even in second I can hear your heart EASTER First Line: Cars drove in at angles Last Line: Everything there, in fact, rose from its tomb %and went along the road to emmaus EDGE Poem Text First Line: Still early in the morning, the wind's edge Subject(s): Morning EDUCATION First Line: I would sit in the window's ledge Last Line: A thousand windows in %a universe of schools? EFFORT FOR DISTRACTION Poem Text First Line: Effort for distraction grew Subject(s): Distraction EFFORT FOR DISTRACTION; FOR HENRY ADAMS First Line: Effort for distraction grew %ferocious, grew Last Line: Unknind to strength that gave it strength to grow ENCHANT First Line: When I went to a friend's funeral Last Line: But of a friend ENLIGHTENMENT Poem Text First Line: I wish we could take a statistic with more grace, beloved Subject(s): Knowledge ENLIGHTENMENT First Line: I wish we could take a statistic with more grace, beloved Last Line: And a less arc-lighted kingdom to inherit ENTREPRENEUR CHICKEN SHED HIS TAIL FEATHERS SURPLUS ENTREPRENEUR CHICKEN SHED HIS TAIL FEATHERS, SURPLUS Last Line: And why he crossed the road ENTRY First Line: Come, shall we come out of the listening season into the city Last Line: To city where the small matter is put down already %to depreciation EVANGEL Poem Text First Line: What happens when the evangelist of truth Subject(s): Truth; Evangelists EVANGEL First Line: What happens when the evangelists of truth Last Line: What west is true EVENING NEWS First Line: You know how the newsboy bikes through the stubblefield Last Line: Why do the galaxies shift in the opposite direction? EXTENSION First Line: The longer diameters %lying in the plane of the milky way Last Line: We are come to prove EXTERIOR First Line: I never learned, did I, who you were Last Line: Your good outward and intent construction EYESIGHT First Line: My adequate eye, to print, package, curb Last Line: But not your delicate grist %and adequate grain FACES First Line: Withheld, cruel even, and even besotted Last Line: The portable treasure of dream? FAITH First Line: Sir, take this faith, it will do you no harm Last Line: It will insist by no sign or pressure %and will have measure FAMILY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: When you swim in the surf off seal rocks, and your family Subject(s): Drowning FAMILY First Line: When you swim in the surf off seal rocks, and your family Last Line: This is what is called the brotherhood of man Subject(s): Drowning FANATIC First Line: Conference rolls on, chairs are hard Last Line: Pure as fine linen FIELDS OF LEARNING Poem Text First Line: When we go out into the fields of learning Subject(s): Coming Of Age; Learning FIELDS OF LEARNING First Line: When we go out into the fields of learning Last Line: In every sage leaf is contained a toad %infinitely small FIGURE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: A poem I keep forgetting to write Subject(s): Poetry & Poems; Stars FIGURE First Line: A poem I keep forgetting to write Last Line: As a star, yet present in its light. %I forget to write FIND First Line: Diligent in the burnt fields above the sea Last Line: But small enough FISH First Line: A radioactive fish si one charged Last Line: One fish, one loaf, one life is bountiful FIT Poem Text First Line: It was time to come to life, this could be understood Last Line: In shape and flower Subject(s): Flowers FIT First Line: It was time to come to life, this could be understood Last Line: In shape and flower FOR FUTURES Poem Text First Line: When the lights come on at five o'clock on street corners Subject(s): Future FOR FUTURES First Line: When the lights come on at five o'clock on street corners Last Line: The ornamental standards, the glazed globes softly %perceivefar off how probable is night FOR MAGISTRATES, SELS. First Line: Mirrors for magistrates, for them a time Last Line: Snd justice learns again its portraiture FORECAST Poem Text First Line: All our stones like as much sun as possible. Subject(s): Sun FORECAST First Line: All our stones like as much sun as possible Last Line: Not a streak that low of any sun or longed surprise FOREIGN COUNTTRY (1950) First Line: Outside this room - from where you sit on the floor you can see it Last Line: And make it in english an impossible answer %yet true. Yet true FORTUNES First Line: Chills were hopping in my skin Last Line: Of these fortunes %at a time FOUR SONGS: 1 First Line: My body is my night that sleeping lives Last Line: Wakes and awakens but cannot transform FOUR SONGS: 2 First Line: Unreasonable happiness troubles me Last Line: Than it can understand FOUR SONGS: 3 First Line: In plato's bed I lie Last Line: Not plato's shady third FOUR SONGS: 4 First Line: In friendship feeling quiet Last Line: And so I put this down for %doubt. For doubt FREEDOMS Poem Text First Line: Ten new freedoms Subject(s): Freedom; Old Age; Liberty FRIEND Poem Text First Line: As I was going past capstan's well Subject(s): Friendship FRIEND First Line: As I was going past capstan's well Last Line: A classical character often. %and often beloved FRIENDS IN OUR QUESTIONS, WE LOOKED TOGETHER Last Line: Bring sureness to us all in our devotion, %but though, but still FROM HINDI: 1 First Line: A star quivered in a corner of the sky Last Line: What can an image do but shine or scatter, %what will it offer? FROM HINDI: 2 First Line: But the accursed twilight came Last Line: My life inextricably set in the accursed twilight FROM HINDI: 3 First Line: My father Last Line: Water consumed into vapor FRONTIER Poem Text First Line: Daniel boone stepped up to a window Last Line: But just one pot, pure, indiividual shot Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963) FRONTIER First Line: Daniel boone stepped up to a window Last Line: To win again us back to wilderness, %but just one pot, pure,individual, shot Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963) FUND RAISING Poem Text First Line: When genet came with the panthers Last Line: Nobody there Subject(s): Fund Raising FUND RAISING First Line: When genet came with the panthers Last Line: Down the stpes of the porch, into cars, %nobody there Subject(s): Fund Raising FUNERAL First Line: They may go to the beach straight from the funeral Last Line: And attend in the end the longer limp laming and lingering funeral GARDENERS Poem Text First Line: Our bower is in a book Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening GENERATION First Line: I saw a work so good Last Line: We are joseph's sons GENERATION First Line: We have the generation which carries something new not far enough Last Line: Phylogeny through all its harrowed wills GERMANY Poem Text First Line: Little things make germany a lovely place Subject(s): Germany; Germans GERMANY First Line: Little things make germany a lovely place Subject(s): Germany GOODBYE First Line: Did I make you angry? Said jim the professor Last Line: Out of sight. Goodbye, said daphne GOVERNMENT INJUNCTION RESTRAINING HARLEM COSMETICS CO. First Line: They say la jac brite pink skin bleach avails not Last Line: The plucking of hope from the hand, honor from the complexion, %sprite from the spell GRAHAM-PAIGE First Line: Graham-paige, a car I once rode in Last Line: And at every turn you save me. %you slow and save GRANDFATHER First Line: When I transact divorces of the mind Last Line: Yet now we argue barest daylight, in the expanse of green GRAVITY First Line: We were losing altitude all the time Last Line: With the brakes on, touching the curbm breathlessly saying %all outs in free GRIEVANCES: THE WARM FOGS OF SUMMER Last Line: And by the end of summer crack the pavement GYPSY Poem Text First Line: The entire country is overrun with private property, the gypsy king said Subject(s): Gypsies; Gipsies GYPSY First Line: The entire country is overrun with private property, the gypsy king said Last Line: Aegyptian vision on the jersey shore. %property's private asever, ever Subject(s): Gypsies HALT First Line: The halt looks into the eyes of the halt and looks away Last Line: The blind, blundering in his black, black, black need HAVE I OUTGROWN YOU? Last Line: Am I going away to your nearest distance? HEAD IN HANDS First Line: When a man's hands take his hair close at the skull Last Line: A science to the brow HEADLESS First Line: The man with no ears Last Line: Wishes the hearing %headless of itself HEAVEN First Line: The serpent was a risky incarnation Last Line: The preconceptions of its deity HEIGHT First Line: Shoulder to head is the height of my life to me Last Line: More patient though less possible than his HEIR Poem Text First Line: This gray board fence turns blue in the evening light Subject(s): Nature; Colors; Evening; Sunset; Twilight HEIR First Line: This gray board fence turns blue in the evening light Last Line: The sunset to your thought, to tell it is %parent apparent to your rich apparel HELDENLEBEN First Line: Busy sickness, pay me attention, said a hero Last Line: And expired finally, but it was enough HERALD Poem Text First Line: Delivers papers to the doors of sleep Last Line: Wakes; wakes coin, day, greeting, herald, sir. Subject(s): Newspapers; Journalism; Journalists HERO First Line: I liked the small pale man who leaned, I liked the twenty Last Line: For a self-portrait in the face of state HIGHROAD First Line: The coast highway at our grade occasioned Last Line: We'd as well %live on a level HIGHWAY Poem Text First Line: The coast highway at our grade occasioned Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails HOLIDAY First Line: Returning from the north, I saw the sun returning Last Line: Necessities of a colder danger, with the chance %of a warmer festival HOME MOVIES First Line: Quick, into the house, bring out the baby Last Line: The mack sennett motion, chase of the comic? %to live, and to live HORIZON First Line: Often I think what does youjr goodness matter Last Line: Even dreamed of, even denied, is that immortal %future we verge upon HOUSEWIFE Poem Text First Line: Occasional mornings when an earyl fog Subject(s): Housewives; Suburbs HOUSEWIFE First Line: Occasional mornings when an earyl fog Last Line: A lifeline, how it chooses to run obscurely %in her hand, before her Subject(s): Housewives; Suburbs HOW GOES A CROWD WHERE IT GOES? Last Line: Destination? The ramblers %have to disclose it HOW I CAUGHT UP IN MY READING First Line: After the season was summer Last Line: And read one poem %again %again I FEAR TO TAKE A STEP; ALONG THE EDGE Last Line: Of those who take the fingers under their heels IDEA OF JOY First Line: The idea of joy, abruptly %like the idea of day Last Line: So bright as the fire, %but the idea of joy IDENTITY First Line: When the third son went out Last Line: Any answer they may get %is premature IF CONFERENCE KEEPS YOU Poem Text First Line: If conference keeps you completely, when will you get home for dinner, or Subject(s): Public Meetings IF YOU WILL First Line: Shall I pull the curtains against the coming night? Last Line: It is your life that stands beyond the glass ILLUMINATION First Line: The light burns in the foliage, but the bushes %will not burn Last Line: Will not be consumed IMPERATIVE Poem Text First Line: Undisturbed, and stubbornly repeating Subject(s): West (u.s.); Iowa; Farm Life; Southwest; Pacific States; Agriculture; Farmers IMPERATIVE First Line: Undisturbed, and stubbornly repeating IMPERATIVE First Line: Of yourself, and of that only Last Line: Unanswerable voice %will make a peace more warm than silence is IN A MORNING OF CLARITY AND DISTINCTION Last Line: Keep this day's simple fact it grants to me IN AIR First Line: What's in the air is won, the air over Last Line: The hope and care won in our very air IN IDENTITY Poem Text First Line: As difference blends into identity Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963) IN IDENTITY First Line: As difference blends into identity Last Line: From ourselves, for ourselves? Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963) IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF MY CHILDHOOD, A HUNDRED LUNGERS Last Line: Of absence, %a relentless letting be IN THE TOWN WHERE EVERY MAN IS KING Poem Text IN THE TOWN WHERE EVERY MAN IS KING Last Line: Of reinforced concrete, become before him %mirrors. He licks the glass Subject(s): Independence; Self-reliance INCREMENT Poem Text First Line: So populous the region Subject(s): City & Town Life INCREMENT First Line: So populous the region Last Line: Like an assertion in a time of assent %or an increase to astonishment INSTITUTIONS First Line: At term end the institution slackens Last Line: Begin a new demand INTENSIVES First Line: Loving intensives of intensive care Last Line: Where you belong INTERIOR First Line: Mornings keep coming over the roof INTERLUDE First Line: Chorus remarks woe Last Line: Chorus cannot ignore it IONS First Line: There comes this day Last Line: Now I will realize %which go, which stay IOWA AND WEST Poem Text First Line: Someone watched the corn in the field, I thought it was ISLAND First Line: On the island each figure %moves to become its island Last Line: Wades fully into the waters of his island, saying %I am land ITALIAN Poem Text First Line: What is italian? It is the language spoken Subject(s): Italian Language JOSHUA First Line: Forty miles from arquilla, and that town Last Line: He would stop and grow in that place for that necessary number of instants KIND Poem Text First Line: When I think of my kindness which is tentative and quiet Subject(s): Kindness; Relationships KIND First Line: When I think of my kindness which is tentative and quiet Last Line: This is the natural and supernatural %of humankind of which I grow aware KING Poem Text First Line: I walked along the river path, the river Subject(s): Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965); Eliot, T. S. KITCHEN First Line: What will allow %the sun and moon Last Line: A bounteous prophet's sky %with a recipe LAND GRANT Poem Text First Line: To stand up to the ocean, and to say Subject(s): Property; Possessions LAND GRANT First Line: To stand up to the ocean and to say LARK First Line: Lark hit us in the face with his rising sound Last Line: And pondered every line %of hill and sign LEAF IS GROWING Last Line: Buzzing off like a motor scooter LIFE OF GALILEO AS IT IS RESET Last Line: Moving inquisitions %move the inquisitive spheres LIGHT YEAR First Line: If you had one more swirl you would have a good haircut Last Line: This is a light year, this is a light year, %prosper LIGHTING OF A SMALL FIRE IN THE GRATE First Line: When oak is burning, that is warming Last Line: Of persons in the news %to serve and blaze LIGHTING OF THE STREETLIGHTS First Line: Corinthian is the light they see by Last Line: The light they see by, the corinthian LOCATION Poem Text First Line: I set my heart in the noontime sun Subject(s): Hearts LOCATION First Line: I set my heart out in the noontime sun Last Line: There is a warm space in the world and about, said my heart,%even as here LONE First Line: Braking down a stretch of coast highway Last Line: They stand by the pump, the bottles in their hands LOOKING OVER TOWARD TAMALPAIS Last Line: Sundays of the kind they used to be LOSER First Line: A gracious number of dark-witted thieves Last Line: As I expected them to until this day LOVE AT A DISTANCE Poem Text First Line: Love at a distance cab mean Subject(s): Love LOVE AT A DISTANCE CAN MEAN Last Line: From plenty, from perfection, marking there %measureless distances LUCIFER ALONE Poem Text First Line: One rat across the floor and quick to floor's a breeze LUCIFER ALONE First Line: One rat across the floor and quick to floor's a breeze Last Line: And there knowledge therefore, and therefore creed LUNCHEON First Line: Jack lyman came down from st. Helena for luncheon Last Line: From sails and mirage and other poems, %by george sterling LUNCHEON 2 First Line: We met for luncheon to exchange views, %soviet authors and ours Last Line: Why did you drop the bomb in hiroshima? LYRIC First Line: Oil is what I have for you Last Line: Oil-rich luxury flowing from the triangle of the state of texas %for you MADE SHINE Poem Text First Line: This face had no use for light, took none of it, Subject(s): Faces MADE SHINE First Line: This face had no use for light, took none of it Last Line: Leaped and made shine the dark face in its sleep MAILMAN IS COMING FROM THE NEXT BLOCK DOWN Last Line: Across orchards to the bay to say to his readers, softer, softer MAKERS First Line: I would tell a tally of poets Last Line: To let the new terms be negotiable, %the makers measure change MAN OF COURAGE First Line: Bartlett in his place lived fifty summers of anguish Last Line: He was an invigorating gentleman MAN OF LETTERS First Line: He had a reading eye which used to find Last Line: Sprouts in the sentence, royals in the voice MANIFOLD First Line: In the cabinet of analysis Last Line: Geometries of change MARK First Line: Irritated by the favoritism of jehovah Last Line: To which the vulnerable parent %nodded and smiled MARKER REPORT ON COTTON GRAY GOODS First Line: Cotton gray goods quiet and firmer Last Line: Their own substantial nature weaved and undersaid %and quited MARKET First Line: Three minutes after the fuehrer spoke Last Line: The swept grainy rustle of decline MATTER OF FACT First Line: In the midmost and sensible real of the years of my life Last Line: And I love you as a fiction of theirs MAXIM Poem Text First Line: It is said that certain orientational concepts of an ontological sort Subject(s): Romeo & Juliet MAXIM First Line: It is said that certain orientational concepts of an ontological sort Last Line: Receiving her certain richness from experience Subject(s): Romeo And Juliet MEANING MOTION First Line: Alarm smites upon the covers, clenches the hands Last Line: They have taken on the day MEASUREMENT Poem Text First Line: Campus measure looms and lifts MEETING First Line: Once there lived on the east side of the city Last Line: Volition moving in the paths of chance MEMORIAL DAY Poem Text First Line: After noon, in the plaza, cries, shrill yells, running and breaking Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY First Line: After noon, in the plaza, cries, shrill yells, running and breaking Last Line: All these camellias overgrown and wasting? Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day MEN FRIDAY First Line: This water is for ships, that they cleave it Last Line: It would start and wonder at the sea bearing %keel prints, at the heel prints in the sand MERCHANT MARINE Poem Text First Line: Where is the world? Not about Subject(s): Merchant Marine MERCHANT MARINE First Line: Where is the world? Not about Last Line: A rendable tissue of sea-lanes, there is the heart MERCHANTS Poem Text First Line: As I came by the town, the townsmen Subject(s): Merchants; Red Cross MERCURY First Line: Then have mercy on me Last Line: To make my life myself METAMORPHOSIS First Line: At johns manville a miscalculation %sent more asbestos fibers Last Line: You to their learning, making you put on %their knowledge with their power MIDWEEK Poem Text First Line: Plentiful people went to the cadillac drawing Subject(s): Lotteries; Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema MIDWEEK First Line: Plentiful people went to the cadillac drawing Last Line: Me not so pale. I wished the second feature %dark and dreadful MINES, EXPLOSIONS, AND COLLISIONS. Last Line: Who were their friends? What is success? MODERN DANCE PROGRAM: AMERICAN DOCUMENT First Line: God how we gallop, the youth of the land Last Line: But definitely youth muscle and what you may call it, and definitely tech- %nic MONKEY First Line: God, a man at yale, adopted a monkey Last Line: His yale, my yale MORNING IN BRANCHES First Line: Year upon year of sunlight lying here Last Line: This branch and I will be a morning older - %year upon year of sunlight older than you know MOTIVE First Line: A window in the shadowed room where I lay Last Line: Oho! There is somehthing to life! MOVING IN First Line: The telephone installer was interested %in the students helping me Last Line: Don't let this last piece of cake go begging, begged the upstairs apartment Subject(s): Moving And Movers MY FEAR IN THE CROWD First Line: The thousand people stand in the sunlight Last Line: In his own mind the place where he stood NADIRS First Line: There were the clerks of the zenith and the figures Last Line: And the moon to arise over the western figures %moving from plane to plane NAME First Line: Father, father, says the sea's edge Last Line: Father, father, remembers the sea %quietly under my window NAME OF POWER First Line: Who called brought to my mind the name of power Last Line: Puts in its hands its one life's simple portion NATURAL WORLD First Line: From our view there is evil in the natural world Last Line: The storm still blows from the left hand, and thunder from the heaven NEW TRACT First Line: Streets under trees Last Line: Droop of the dark sides, haggard of morning, %show that it was NONE First Line: A nothing out of which to create a new Last Line: Toppled in that void tossed there, and woke NOON First Line: Noon students slid onto the unfolded chairs Last Line: Two o'clock class: what do I believe? %I believe otherwise NOW THAT APRIL'S HERE First Line: Coming up to the boulevard stop on the slant Last Line: There through the shiny shallows remember that one dimension NUMEROLOGY First Line: Plurality, my element by which I feed Last Line: Toward an immensity %they must afford ODE Poem Text First Line: Jake's store past pindaric mountain Subject(s): Poetry & Poets OFFICERS First Line: Mr. Hansen, the cop at the campus gate Last Line: Since then, I have not met an officer %that I can call by name ON INHABITING AN ORANGE Poem Text First Line: All our roads go nowhere. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips ON INHABITING AN ORANGE First Line: All our roads go nowhere Last Line: Making down the roads of earth %endless detour OPAL First Line: The steamfitter had no notion of buying an opal Last Line: His wife didn't want the jewel but he bought it %and took that burden on, which fate forebore ORDERLY First Line: Hysteric sparks of self in the ward of night Last Line: Blown almost away, he brings again %to its burning brand OUTSIDE Poem Text First Line: Ever saw sidewalk uninterpreted? Subject(s): Sidewalks OUTSIDE First Line: Ever saw sidewalk uninterpreted? Last Line: It extends for the night-flight survivors %to alight, not awake, but walk over PAINT First Line: When the old man died, the folks got the old lady Last Line: But her daughter said, mama cheer up, it will certainly fadesome. %so she did PARENT First Line: Letting down the isinglass curtains Last Line: I said to him? He said to me PASSION First Line: Hobbes spoke among the ball cries, telling what %was passion Last Line: Moving together from eyes, ears, and other %organs to the heart PATHS Poem Text First Line: Going out into the fields of learning Last Line: The spider's silk hypotheses unfold / tenancious, tenable Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Youth; Work; Workers PATHS First Line: Going out into the fields of learning Last Line: The spider's silk hypotheses unfold %tenacious, tenacious, tenable Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Youth PEAK ACTIVITY IN BOADWALK HAM CONCESSION Poem Text First Line: What was that they heard past the peal Subject(s): Amusement Parks PEAK ACTIVITY IN BOARDWALK HAM CONCESSION First Line: What was that they heard past the peal Last Line: The driven voice to the rise %and fall of ocean PEARL First Line: Inside the plane we went straight Last Line: Of galatea, floating %a few words of pidgin into pearl PELLEAS AND MELISANDE First Line: George, I am convinced I know what I want Last Line: We're through with the blues PERSONAL APPEARANCE First Line: Out of an english mystery which a detective Last Line: Pass and repass the characters I love PERSONIFICATION First Line: She will define for you in the sunny morning Last Line: To cars and stores and stares and the sun in the morning %the self-possessed PHOTOGRAPHER First Line: The man to be photographed was a student of mankind Last Line: And set against the side of the portrayed studying forehead %a car-load sun PHYSICS First Line: The mean life of a free neutron, does it exist Last Line: Trembling, though beyond sight, %initially at rest PHYSIOLOGUS Poem Text First Line: When the mind is dark with the multiple shadows of facts Subject(s): Knowledge PHYSIOLOGUS First Line: When the mind is dark with the multiple shadows of facts Last Line: And will belong to the body wholly PLASTIC GLASS First Line: A saint I heard of saw the world Last Line: Goldens from everyman, his singular credit %in the beatitude of place PLAYERS Poem Text First Line: Into the spacious bay the sun of afternoon Subject(s): Card Games; Playing Cards PLAYERS First Line: Into the spacious bay the sun of afternoon %shone Last Line: While the spadebeard took easily a trick %already a century won POETRY, BERKELEY Poem Text First Line: When seamas heaney was staying a year in berkeley Subject(s): Heaney, Seamus (b. 1939); Andrews, Lyman (1938-2009) POISE First Line: Hsi dad holds his hand; his suspenders Last Line: A humanist would recognize the kind POLO MATCH. SUNDAY, 2 P.M. First Line: Polo is that gravy-look game Last Line: The breadwinners winning it all up deep to saturation PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST First Line: Being a paper blown into the street POWER Poem Text First Line: Who called brought to my mind the name of power PREDICTION First Line: Ah face that has my heart in it Last Line: All I ever knew, down to the last straw evem %looking at me PRELIMINARY TO CLASSROOM LECTURE First Line: My quiet kin, must I affront you %with a telling tongue? Last Line: And would you then begin %querying too, querying, my qiuet kin? PREMIERE First Line: The searchlights ask the stars nothing Last Line: Gathering, shining, what the lights are searching for PRIDE Poem Text First Line: My pride should effect your escape Subject(s): Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect PRIDE First Line: My pride should effect your escape Last Line: And can dispense freedom from its cell Subject(s): Pride PRINCIPLES First Line: So you are thinking of princiles to go on Last Line: Seeks your agility, and makes you smile PROGRAM First Line: Martin on every block Last Line: Does one single one ever hear all these musics? %maybe, maybe so PROMISE First Line: He said: I do not lie; the institution Last Line: In words even on paper in the means of life PROPERTY First Line: How reach, how climb, how cover this mountainous poplar? PROPHECY Poem Text First Line: These mountains long to show their worth Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) PURCHASE OF A BLUE, GREEN, OR ORANGE ODE Poem Text First Line: Jake's store past pindaric mountain Subject(s): Poetry & Poets PURCHASE OF A BLUE, GREEN, OR ORANGE ODE First Line: Jake's store past pindaric mountain Last Line: Sugared, colored, out of a jar, an ode Subject(s): Poetry And Poets PURCHASE OF HAT TO WEAR IN THE SUN First Line: Sombrero is comfort because it keeps thought under foot Last Line: To survive under blessing without blinking PURCHASE OF LODGING FOR THE NIGHT First Line: Evil hemmed the curtains and swung in with them slightly Last Line: But lay still in the linoleum and hem of curtain %when he went down to breakfast QUARTOS Poem Text First Line: Bad quartos were my first love Subject(s): Books; Reading QUESTION First Line: One watched the face listening and thinking of questions Last Line: And one was wearied with following after, %and glad of reply achieved so hardly RAIN First Line: When I came to the porch Last Line: Of the louder and the louder rain READERS (1) First Line: Jeff thinks %this is an angry text Last Line: Protecting the text, protecting, then does he know %jeff's anger and mine? READERS (2) First Line: Jim thinks %this is an angry text Last Line: Protecting the text, protecting, then does he know %jim's anger and mine? REASON First Line: Said, pull her up a bit will you, mac, I want to unload there Last Line: Reason, reason is my middle name RECEPTION First Line: When fate from its plane stepped down Last Line: Which of your hundred faces calls us home? RECOGNITION First Line: Known before, painfully learned before Last Line: As if for the first time, the first word %first said REDEMPTION Poem Text First Line: The extra well movie ups and outs Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema REDEMPTION First Line: The extra-well-made movie ups and outs Last Line: Affairs now fostered are not fostered by %any resolving sky REHEARSAL Poem Text First Line: A woman with a basket was walking Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights; Dramatists REPORT First Line: For covering earth's skeleton the night is useless RESIDENTIAL AREA Poem Text First Line: Prevailing winds in this area below Subject(s): Wind RESISTANCE First Line: A young stranger came into town looking for trouble Last Line: We were not, and would never be, immune RETROSPECTIVE First Line: Once I didn't think that much about making the bomb Last Line: To work again the slow used-over clay RIDDLE First Line: You are a riddle I would not unravel Last Line: Impossible, it is the marvel %nobody, as I am nobody, blieve s RIDE First Line: It's not my world, I grant, but I made it Last Line: But now it's down the road, and we're in it RIOT First Line: What strength give to riot that it can subside? Last Line: Cries mother, cries uncle, to the rioting man? ROMANTIC LETTER First Line: Dear jo, margaret has been taken %to tehachapi prison in green june Last Line: There is margaret instead, and the front of criminal %syndicalism. - beth, with love ROOTER First Line: Played ball yourself once, mister? Last Line: The curb where he stood as cold as stone %in the dark, when he is gone ROW First Line: Some of the roofs are of hopi indian decision Last Line: Sparkle their cups of milk and all accompany %with aerial music that evening sun go down SALE Poem Text First Line: Went into a shoestore to buy a pair of shoes Subject(s): Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers SALE First Line: Went into a shoestore to buy a pair of shoes Last Line: To send, from whatever preoccupation, feet %implacably shod into the perfect street SALESMAN First Line: Man came into the grill selling business papers Last Line: That big look, put his hat on it, %took it away SAME First Line: Mercedes was the lady's name and she had in her voice Last Line: Under royal keys what mercedes thought of it SAVAGES First Line: As we rowed from our ships and set foot on the shore Last Line: We cannibals must help these christians SCHOLARLY PROCEDURE Poem Text First Line: Moves like an indian in the underbrush Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America SCHOOL First Line: After the yellow school bus with the waving windows Last Line: And came back to walk fretfully over the fields, asking %what do you do at home? SEA-WIND First Line: Yours is a wind even the beanfields bend before Last Line: Leaf by leaf, silver and small, yours is a wind %the beanfields bend before Variant Title(s): Se SEER First Line: The psychic metaphysician sat tight in the white Last Line: It was like living in a world of sight %the sign so took the light SEMINAR Poem Text First Line: Here we have a straining of effort that men can come to SHEEP First Line: Led by johns hopkins on a trip through the heart Last Line: That you do not look up into the camera %to tell on what youfeed? SHIFT First Line: Many of the bodies arose at a graveyard shift Last Line: Mortality has not ascertained SIEGE First Line: The courtyards of the inner heart go round Last Line: Out of the universal siege SISYPHUS Poem Text First Line: When sisyphus was pushing the stone up the mountain Last Line: The heavy stone Subject(s): Sisyphus SISYPHUS First Line: When sisyphus was pushing the stone up the mountain Last Line: This belief damned him, and damned, what's harder, %the heavy stone Subject(s): Sisyphus SKIN First Line: I've been going around everywhere without any skin Last Line: Not by country by climate, this personal flaying Variant Title(s): Without Ski SLACK First Line: As slack mouth spills information Last Line: Though it's the slack says I'm welcome SLEEP First Line: What sleep obliterates, it manufactures Last Line: How meaningful is life, but how halfway %it will wake you up SLEEVE First Line: This was a dark year for spiro agnew Last Line: In the dark, in the hidden dust, %to moth and rust SMOKER Poem Text First Line: The superfine intelligence Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes SO GRAVEN Poem Text First Line: Simplicity so graven hurts the sense. Subject(s): Simplicity SO GRAVEN First Line: Simplicity so graven hurts the sense Last Line: And there's the trick simplicity has to win SOLO First Line: The structure of music as an art behind that morning glory Last Line: And will set up in the vines, along the wind, sound that is I, %founded and recognized SOMEONE, AN ENGINEER, TOLD A CONFAB OF WIRES Last Line: Go ahead, remind her, for auld lang syne SON First Line: Men have their alien sons and love them Last Line: Hate all but him, dear father, and dear son SORROW First Line: A tall stature of %grave sorrow Last Line: More than man can SPEAKER Poem Text First Line: My talking heart talked less of what I knew Subject(s): Hearts SPEAKER First Line: My talking heart talked less of what it knew Last Line: To say, I wish and want %and say, I know? SPEED First Line: A light year is a cell year Last Line: Gardens of time happen, come into bloom, fade, happen again? SPEED LIMIT First Line: There is a heap of sky out tonight, brother Last Line: Tight to the small ground moving steadily %in so much sky! SPRING '44 First Line: Nothing is so quick as a clocked robin Last Line: Let's be off to the wars, says my sister to me STATUTE First Line: The way I would look at the world, the houses Last Line: That the great legal skies of human vision %observe their human shore STEPS First Line: Every day when came to the steps that led Last Line: Where had the unsounded hour gone? %it was ready and she was ready STILL EARLY IN THE MORNING Last Line: As the sharp morning seeks delineation STOPPING FOR BREAD First Line: Along the street where we used to stop for bread Last Line: To my wild dwarf on his drug? I will have him greet you STREET First Line: In the house you live in Last Line: As well as the next STROKE First Line: I should like to hurry to get back into the world Last Line: Strike me back into the world STUDENT Poem Text First Line: Who is that student pale and importunate Last Line: More than I could learn until tonight? Subject(s): Schools; Students STUDENT First Line: Who is that student pale and importunate Last Line: Who, early in the alphabet, recited %more than I could learn until tonight? Subject(s): Schools STUDY First Line: At midnight dropping the bautiful %white net dress Last Line: Of greek and geology. Learning the tools SUBDIVISION First Line: Tiled fences run a mile along the freeway Last Line: What games? SUBDIVISION First Line: Three dogs bark at the street end, hear, this Last Line: The hoary quarries and the scrub of hills SUBJECT First Line: Tell me about happiness Last Line: Every letter and space in your hand %to your absolving hand SUMMER First Line: When I came to show you my summer cottage Last Line: So they did, vanishing away off and shouting SUN IS A REAGENT, THE SUN IS AN ACCOMPLICE SUNDAY Poem Text First Line: We have moving over us, over head and spire Subject(s): Sabbath; Sunday SUNDAYS Poem Text First Line: Looking over toward tamalpais Subject(s): Sabbath; Sunday SYMPATHIZERS First Line: To this man, to his boned shoulders Last Line: The reason nor the man nor whether %to share, or to beware Subject(s): Pain TALLY Poem Text First Line: After her pills the girl slept and counted Subject(s): Sleep TALLY First Line: After her pills the girl slept and counted Last Line: To take the shapes of life, %coming and being counted TEACHER First Line: How did you come to be a teacher? Last Line: To ebgineer arguments, try shakespeare, evaluate %albers mills for dun and bradstreet. %so that's ho TEHACHAPI SOUTH First Line: Tehachapi south down with dust in the mouth Last Line: Water, water, for men's throats. And the breath %of the town is in the teeth Variant Title(s): Ridge Rout TEN DREAMERS IN A MOTEL First Line: Some people said the cabin Last Line: Into the thunder and silence of the unfolding %durable journey THE CAMPAIGN Poem Text First Line: My packard bell was set up in the vacant lot near the stump Subject(s): Americans; Politics & Government; United States; America THE DAY THE WINDS Poem Text First Line: The day the wnds went underground I gasped for breath Subject(s): Breath; Wind; City & Town Life; Pollution THE DOCTOR WHO SITS AT THE BEDSIDE OF A RAT Poem Text Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors THE HAMPTON INSTITUTE ALBUM Poem Text First Line: Down from another planet they have settled to mend Subject(s): Hampton Institute THE NATIONAL PARKS Poem Text First Line: Does the world look like a park to you? Yes, almost suddenly Subject(s): National Parks THE SYMPATHIZERS Poem Text First Line: To this man, to his boned shoulders Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery THE SYMPATIZERS Poem Text First Line: To this man, to his boned shoulders Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery THOROUGHGOING First Line: He killed and kept Last Line: Saved for him THREAD First Line: Take an emotion, how can it be? Last Line: On simple pattern, not your prying %arabesques of what? Flesh? Watercolor? THREE POEMS FOR NEW YORK Poem Text First Line: Into oiur brick acropolis returns Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THREE STAGES Poem Text First Line: When a city undergoes diaster, it moves as a mass Subject(s): City & Town Life; Disasters THREE STAGES First Line: When a city undergoes diaster, it moves as a mass Last Line: It was not proper that she lay there pinned under debris THROWING HIS LIFE AWAY Poem Text Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THROWING HIS LIFE AWAY Last Line: The ligaments of his hand TIDE First Line: From the flood of tide to the shore edge how withdraws Last Line: But in ebb %drains down to loss the fiction of belief TO A METAPHYSICAL AMAZON First Line: If you had world more durable to walk on Last Line: Tempering the sound of heels that can %create a stronger earth? TO MAKE A SUMMER First Line: Barney says his high-school daughter %keeps exclaiming joy, joy Last Line: In the easy early berkeley air %what we incommunicably share TO TIME Poem Text First Line: Space keeps us, time forgives us Subject(s): Time TO TOWN Poem Text First Line: He never laughed or saw the need for laughter Subject(s): City & Town Life TO TOWN First Line: He never laughed or saw the need for laughter TOURISTS First Line: Genealogists, geologists, and experts in falconry Last Line: Eyes to the host eyes, and pressed past them %to the height where the hood eb lifted for work TOWARD I First Line: When you turned your away your attention Last Line: But the attention %of your presence is diffused TOWARD II First Line: Go out a little from yourself as you sit here Last Line: The grain of time you recognize as yours TRACT Poem Text First Line: Old tract, the houses of wood siding Last Line: More callas, more houses Subject(s): Americans; United States; America TRACT First Line: Old tract, the houses of wood siding Last Line: For some, beyond the outskirts of the houses, %more callas, more houses Subject(s): Americans; United States TRADE CENTER First Line: When leopold senghor came to america Last Line: Full over the hills into the blackest of summer skies, ascended %their own moon TRAVELLERS First Line: The little girl was travelling unattached, as they say Last Line: How about a game of three-way parcheesi? Variant Title(s): Traveler TRIP First Line: We started from a station in the city Last Line: Drove our baggage into the springs, in oasis, %but we had gone farther away TURN Poem Text First Line: After I come home from the meeting with friends Subject(s): Sleep TWO KINDS OF TROUBLE; FOR MICHELANGELO First Line: Ruin of david directly offers Last Line: Big enough for ruin %should he choose UPON TWELVE First Line: Now has been contrived in the increasing noonday Last Line: In the fine short space before the roof eastward %darkens again VACUUM First Line: We are already on the moon Last Line: As moon on man the gold foil of his brain VERDICT First Line: It suffers by the jurist Last Line: With the unconvictable, we %being the jury? VIEW Poem Text First Line: When the last pullman of the day pulls into the grand canyon station Subject(s): Railroads; Grand Canyon, Arizona; Railways; Trains VIEWS FROM GETTYSBURG, SELS. First Line: Students all, we sit on the ridge, in a pontiac gto Last Line: Where the fair fight? VIEWS TO SEE CLAYTON FROM First Line: His brother's wife can't stand clayton Last Line: And I said, yes I do. But I did not get into the argument VIGILS Poem Text First Line: We are talking about metaphor Subject(s): Language; Metaphor; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary; Similes VIOLETS First Line: Flat markets in the flat rain Last Line: Sources beyond price, beyond hestitation VISIT First Line: Cricket complained quite a bit how lights wept falling Last Line: You take care now, bear said. %bye, bye son, said cricket VISITING HOUR First Line: He sat in an easy chair by the open window Last Line: Beating it with his fists VOTE First Line: Be sure, said my mother, holding my hand Last Line: Register faithfully, do they not, their care %for no more war? VOTER First Line: How much is an old man %a citizen? Last Line: Suspects of patience, age, policy %and sun VOYAGE First Line: From his small city columbus Last Line: Such a tiered city %high and dry? WAR TIME Poem Text First Line: When the sun doesn't rise one day Subject(s): War - Home Front; Morning WARDEN First Line: Send me a voice from the store Last Line: The great neighborhood bloom close as a clam WARNING First Line: I have a sea to lie on, deep as breathing Last Line: Breath deep under the grass tops you would find me %unquestionably drowned WEED First Line: As weed swells to its joint Last Line: Momentous as a time %to chew the remnant stem WEST FROM ITHACA First Line: When we went out to a country inn for dinner Last Line: Your west, he said WHAT FOLLOWED Poem Text First Line: In all happiness and peace of mind Subject(s): Evil WHAT FOLLOWED First Line: In all happiness and peace of mind Last Line: He found he held its leash, it wwas his seeing eye %purchased and instructed WHEN I TELEPHONED A FRIEND, HER HUSBAND TOLD ME First Line: When I telephoned a friend, her husband told me Last Line: That there be %shore and sea WHEN I WAS EIGHT, I PUT IN THE LEFT-HAND DRAWER Last Line: A plausible parable of computer analysis. %o small and flowering orchard of free friends! WHEN SANDERS BRINGS FEED TO HIS CHICKENS, SOME SPARROWS Last Line: The comings and goings %of sanders to the chickens WHEN THE SUN CAME, THE ROOSTER EXPANDED TO MEET IT Last Line: He will call us his chickens. %but that was already their name WHO SHALL WE RAISE UP, WHO GLORIFY - OUR WOUNDED Last Line: The power of professional righteousness WHY WE ARE LATE First Line: A red light is stuck Last Line: A late green light later %may let us get home WINTER Poem Text First Line: Here's a gray aftertoon, blank as to freeze Subject(s): Winter; Sickness; Illness WITNESS First Line: Gassed going between classes Last Line: But how to tell without dying %is not told by the dying trees WOMAN WITH A BASKET WAS WALKING Last Line: Conveying what to whom on what aisle? WORLD First Line: Coming up against the end of the world Last Line: To piece together a pattern for the world? WORLD A PARK First Line: Does the world look a park to you? Yes, almost suddenly Last Line: Of nefertiti and osiris, %and carry them off to the park's museums WRECK First Line: In the train wreck my pieces of life Last Line: But crosswise stalled in the grave my greatest passion %was surprise, surprise YARD Poem Text First Line: Persons among the flapping clothes Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Laundry & Laundering YESTERDAY EVENING AS THE SUN SET LATE Last Line: A trawler crossed between us and the sun |
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