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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: MOORE, MARIANNE Matches Found: 249 Moore, Marianne Poet's Biography 249 poems available by this author A CARRIAGE FROM SWEDEN Poem Text First Line: They say there is a sweeter air / where it was made, than we have here Subject(s): Denmark; Sweden; Danes A FOOL, A FOUL THING, A DISTRESSFUL LUNATIC Poem Text First Line: With webs of cool Last Line: In folly's catalogue, distressful lunatic? Subject(s): Nature A GRAVE Poem Text Recitation First Line: Man looking into the sea Last Line: In which if they turn and twist, it is neither with volition nor consciousness. Variant Title(s): A Graveyard Subject(s): Death; Graves; Sea; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Ocean A JELLYFISH Poem Text First Line: Visible, invisible Last Line: From you. Variant Title(s): A Jelly-fish Subject(s): Animals; Jellyfish A RED FLOWER Poem Text First Line: Emotion, / cast upon the pot Last Line: The leaves again. A TALISMAN Poem Text First Line: Under a splintered mast Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Seagulls AN ARDENT PLATONIST Poem Text First Line: Prone to observe the self-evident fact: one cannot sweep the Last Line: Longer privileged, to say what one thinks in order to be understood. AN EGYPTIAN PULLED GLASS BOTTLE IN THE SHAPE OF A FISH Poem Text First Line: Here we have thirst Last Line: Whose scales turn aside the sun's sword by their polish. Subject(s): Bottles; Fish & Fishing; Anglers AN OCTOPUS Poem Text First Line: Of ice. Deceptively reserved and flat Last Line: "in a curtain of powdered snow launched like a waterfall." Subject(s): Mount Rainier; Octopuses ANIMALS SICK OF THE PLAGUE (FABLES, LA FONTAINE, BOOK 7, 1) First Line: A malady smote the earth one year Last Line: The court says white is black or that black crimes are white APPARITION OF SPLENDOR First Line: Partaking of the miraculous %since never known literally Last Line: Shallow oppressor, intruder, %insister, you have here a resister APPELLATE JURISDICTION Poem Text First Line: Fragments of sin are a part of me Last Line: Shall he? Shall he? Subject(s): Sin ARMOR'S UNDERMINING MODESTY First Line: At first I thought a pest Last Line: There is the tarnish; and there, the imperishable wish ARTHUR MITCHELL First Line: Slim dragonfly ARTIC OX First Line: To wear the artic ox Last Line: I think that we deserve to freeze Subject(s): Animal Rights; Musk Oxen AVEC ARDEUR First Line: I've been thinking - mean, cogitating Last Line: Nothing mundane is divine; %nothing divine is mundane BASEBALL AND WRITING Poem Text First Line: Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting Subject(s): Sports BASEBALL AND WRITING First Line: Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting Last Line: Your stars are muscled like the lion Subject(s): Sports BEAR AND THE GARDEN-LOVER (FABLES OF LA FONTAINE, BOOK 8,10) First Line: A bear with fur that appeared to have been licked backward Last Line: Choose wisdom, even in an enemy BIRD-WITTED Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: With innocent wide penguin eyes Subject(s): Mockingbirds BIRD-WITTED Poem Text First Line: With innocent wide penguin eyes Last Line: With bayonet beak and cruel wings, the %intellectual cautiously creeping cat Subject(s): Mockingbirds BLACK EARTH Poem Text First Line: Openly, yes, / with the naturalness Last Line: Beautiful element of unreason under it? Variant Title(s): Melancthon Subject(s): Elephants BLAKE Poem Text First Line: I wonder if you feel as you look at us Last Line: Reflections of the sun—shining pale-ly. Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827) BLESSED IS THE MAN First Line: Who does not sit in the seat of the scoffer Last Line: Whose illumined eye has seen the shaft that gilds the sultan's %tower BLUE BUG First Line: In this camera shot Last Line: China's very most ingenious man BOWLS Poem Text First Line: On the green / with lignum vitae balls and ivory markers Last Line: In nothing so much as in a letter. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary BUFFALO First Line: Black in blazonry means Last Line: Indeed with any %of ox ancestry BY DISPOSITION OF ANGELS First Line: Messengers much like ourselves? Explain it Last Line: Too like her %too like him, and a-quiver forever CAMELLIA SABINA First Line: And the bordeaux plum Last Line: For sabina born under glass. O generous bolzano CAMPERDOWN ELM First Line: I think, in connection with this weeping elm Last Line: Still there. Mortal though. We must save it. It is %our crowning curio CARRIAGE FROM SWEDEN First Line: They say there is a sweeter air %where it was made, than we have here Last Line: Skill, and a surface that says %made in sweden: carts are my trade Subject(s): Denmark; Sweden CHARITY OVERCOMING ENVY Poem Text First Line: Have you time for a story Subject(s): Art & Artists; Charity; Tapestries; Philanthropy CHARITY OVERCOMING ENVY First Line: Have you time for a story Last Line: The gordian knot need not be cut Subject(s): Art And Artists; Charity; Tapestries COMBAT CULTURAL First Line: One likes to see a laggard rook's high Last Line: Objective symbolic of sagesse COUNSEIL TO A BACHELER Poem Text First Line: If thou bee younge, then marie not yett Last Line: And olde mens' wyves bee good for naught. Variant Title(s): Councell To A Bachelor Subject(s): Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People CRITICS AND CONNOISSEURS Poem Text First Line: There is a great amount of poetry in unconscious Last Line: Of carrying a stick? Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Poetry & Poets DILIGENCE IS TO MAGIC AS PROGRESS IS TO FLIGHT Poem Text First Line: With an elephant to ride upon-'with rings on her Last Line: Which dubs them prosaic necessities—not curios. Subject(s): Elephants DIOGENES Poem Text First Line: Day's calumnies, / midnight's translucencies Last Line: Be thanked for it? Subject(s): Diogenes DOCK RATS Poem Text First Line: There are human beings who seem to regard Last Line: Most interesting thing in the world. Subject(s): Rats DREAM Poem Text First Line: The committee - now a permanent body Subject(s): Art & Artists; Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Composers; Dreams; Music & Musicians; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Nightmares DREAM First Line: The committee - now a permanent body Last Line: Enough. J. Sebastian - born at eisenach: %its coat-of-arms in my dreams: bach plays bach! Subject(s): Art And Artists; Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Composers; Dreams; Music And Musicians; Universities & Colleges - Faculty EFFORTS OF AFFECTION First Line: Genesis tells us of jubal and jabal Last Line: Attain integration to tough for infraction ELEPHANTS Poem Text First Line: Uplifted and waved till immobilized Subject(s): Elephants ELEPHANTS First Line: Uplifted and waved till immobilized Last Line: Asleep on an elephant, that is repose Subject(s): Elephants ENGLAND Poem Text First Line: With its baby rivers and little towns, each with its abbey or its cathedral Last Line: That it is not there? It has never been confined to one locality. Subject(s): England; English ENNUI Poem Text First Line: He often expressed / a curious wish Last Line: In the sea. Subject(s): Boredom; Ennui ENOUGH First Line: Am I a fanatic? The opposite Last Line: Stand for truth, it's enough EXPEDIENT -- LEONARDO DA VINCI'S -- AND A QUERY First Line: It was patience Last Line: At all has been done? FACE First Line: I am not treacherous, callous, jealous, superstitious Last Line: Must remain a delight FEED ME, ALSO, RIVER GOD Poem Text First Line: Lest by diminished vitality and abated Last Line: "as gifts in return for your own gifts—disregard the request." FISH First Line: No heart was planted in my body Last Line: Has vouchsafed me courtesy FOR FEBRUARY 14TH First Line: Saint valentine Last Line: But that the ark did not sink FOUR QUARTZ CRYSTAL CLOCKS First Line: There are four vibrators, the world's exactest clocks Last Line: Newborn progeny that punctuality %is not a crime FOX AND THE GRAPES (FABLES OF LA FONTAINE, BOOK 3, 11) First Line: A fox of gascon, though some say of norman descent Last Line: Better, I think, than an embittered whine FRIGATE PELICAN First Line: Rapidly cruising or lying on the air there is a bird Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; Birds; Pelicans GEORGE MOORE Poem Text First Line: In speaking of 'aspiration' Last Line: Which to fix your admiration. Subject(s): Moore, George Augustus (1852-1933) GLORY Poem Text First Line: It spreads, the campaign - carried on Variant Title(s): Carnegie Hall: Rescued Subject(s): Carnegie Hall, New York City; Landmark Preservation; Music & Musicians; Stern, Isaac (1920-2001) GLORY First Line: It spreads, the campaign - carried on Last Line: For rushing to the rescue %as if you'd heard yourself performing Variant Title(s): Carnegie Hall: Rescue Subject(s): Carnegie Hall, New York City; Landmark Preservation; Music And Musicians; Stern, Isaac (1920-2001) GRANITE AND STEEL Poem Text First Line: Enfranchising cable, silvered by the sea Subject(s): Bridges; Brooklyn Bridge GRANITE AND STEEL First Line: Enfranchising cable, silvered by the sea Last Line: German's tenacity's also; %composite span - an actuality Subject(s): Bridges; Brooklyn Bridge HALF DEITY HE 'DIGESTETH HARDE YRON' Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Although the aepyornis Subject(s): Birds HE 'DIGESTETH HARDE YRON' First Line: Although the aepyornis Last Line: Is the sparrow-camel Subject(s): Birds HE MADE THIS SCREEN Poem Text First Line: Not of silver nor of coral Subject(s): Creation; Screens HE MADE THIS SCREEN First Line: Not of silver nor of coral Last Line: Designating here, a bower; %there, a pointed passion-flower Subject(s): Creation; Screens HE SAID First Line: To me, %'it makes no difference to balbus whether he Last Line: Drinks wine or water.' wine is nothing HE WROTE THE HISTORY BOOK,' IT SAID Poem Text First Line: There! You shed a ray Last Line: Your father's autograph. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; History; Historians HERO First Line: Where there is personal liking we go Last Line: Covets nothing that it has let go. This then you may know %as the hero Subject(s): Heroism HIS SHIELD Poem Text First Line: The pin-swim or spine-swine Subject(s): Hedgehogs HIS SHIELD First Line: The pin-swim or spine-swine Last Line: Don't be envied or %armed with a measuring-rod Subject(s): Hedgehogs HOLES BORED IN A WORKBAG BY THE SCISSORS Poem Text First Line: A neat, round hole in the bank of the creek Last Line: Voids. Subject(s): Rats HOMETOWN PIECE FOR MESSRS. ALSTON AND REESE Poem Text First Line: Millennium,' yes; 'pandemonium!' / roy campanella leaps high. Dodgerdom Subject(s): Baseball; Brooklyn Dodgers (baseball Team); Sports HOMETOWN PIECE FOR MESSRS. ALSTON AND REESE First Line: Millennium,' yes; 'pandemonium!' %roy campanella leaps high. Dodgerdom Last Line: Watching everything you do. You won last year. Come on Subject(s): Baseball; Brooklyn Dodgers (baseball Team); Sports I MAY, I MIGHT, I MUST Poem Text First Line: If you will tell me why the fen Last Line: Can get across it, if I try. Variant Title(s): Progress ICHABOD First Line: Conditions continually change. What is good Last Line: Attached to his outmoded rod, %resists resistance ICOSASPHERE First Line: In buckinghamshire hedgerows Last Line: We should like to know how that was done IN 'DESIGNING A CLOAK TO CLOAK HIS DESIGNS' YOU WRESTED FROM OBLIVION Poem Text First Line: Cowed by his uningenious will Last Line: To serve two masters. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Immortality IN DISTRUST OF MERITS Poem Text First Line: Strengthened to live, strengthened to die for Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; World War Ii; Anti-war Protests; Second World War IN DISTRUST OF MERITS First Line: Strengthened to live, strengthened to die for Last Line: Beauty is everlasting %and dust is for a time Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; World War Ii IN LIEU OF THE LYRE First Line: One debarred from enrollment at harvard Last Line: These reflections, mr. Davis %in lieu of the lyre IN THE DAYS OF PRISMATIC COLOR Poem Text First Line: Not in the days of adam and eve, but when adam Last Line: "I shall be there when the wave has gone by." Subject(s): Truth IN THE PUBLIC GARDEN First Line: Boston has a festival Last Line: Happy that art, admired in general, %is always actually personal IN THIS AGE OF HARD TRYING, NONCHALANCE IS GOOD AND Poem Text First Line: Really, it is not the Last Line: Of manner, best bespeak that weapon, self protectiveness. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons (turgenev) INHERITANCE First Line: Erect as she, %like deity Last Line: Flashed woe at them, %to be IS YOUR TOWN NINEVEH? Poem Text First Line: Why so desolate? Last Line: At the statue of liberty. Subject(s): Jehoshaphat (bible) ISAIAH, JEREMIAH, EXEKIEL, DANIEL Poem Text First Line: What is war Last Line: Fail of a hearing! Subject(s): War IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE TO BALBUS WHETHER HE DRINKS WINE OR WATER First Line: Mixed metaphors are not necessarily Last Line: In the morning.' in either case, %the inference is plain JERBOA First Line: A roman hired an %artist, a freedman Last Line: Between leaps to its burrow Subject(s): Rodents KAY NIELSON IN CINDERELLA First Line: The eye, the slipper, %but particularly the eye Last Line: Where passion is %capacities are slaves KAY NIELSON'S LITTLE GREEN PATCH IN THE MIDST OF THE FOREST First Line: If there is a heaven upon earth, it Last Line: That's known as fact KEEPING THEIR WORLD LARGE Poem Text First Line: I should like to see that country's tiled bedrooms Subject(s): Men; War KEEPING THEIR WORLD LARGE First Line: I should like to see that country's tiled bedrooms Last Line: Shine, o shine %unfalsifying sun, on this sick scene Subject(s): Men; War LADY WITH PEARLS, TO A BLOOD RED ROOK FROM TURKEY, WHO HAS ... First Line: To hang one's ivory fingers like a string Last Line: And worthless to be heard? LEAVES OF A MAGAZINE Poem Text First Line: They open of their own will to the place Last Line: Of buccaneering in the olden time. Subject(s): Kidd, William (captain) (1645-1701) LEONARDO DA VINCI'S Poem Text First Line: Saint jerome and his lion Subject(s): Animals; Jerome, Saint (347-419); Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519); Lions; Paintings & Painters LEONARDO DA VINCI'S First Line: Saint jerome and his lion Last Line: Lions as symbols of sovereignty Subject(s): Animals; Jerome, Saint (347-419); Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519); Lions; Paintings And Painters LIGHT IS SPEECH First Line: One can say more of sunlight Last Line: Animate whoever thinks of her LIGHT THROUGH A KEYHOLE First Line: As if an eye should wink Last Line: His fund of canine here LIKE A BULRUSH Poem Text First Line: Or the spike Last Line: Realize that he was amphibious. Subject(s): Bulrush LIKE A BULWARK First Line: Affirmed. Pent by power that holds it fast Last Line: As though flying old glory full mast LIKE BERTRAM DOBELL, YOU ACHIEVE DISTINCTION BY DISCLAIMING IT First Line: You are the most modest man I know Last Line: The barrier of the lips is the best defense LION IN LOVE (FABLES OF LA FONTAINE, BOOK 4, 1) First Line: Madamoiselle -- goddess instead Last Line: One can but say 'farewell, good sense' Subject(s): Animals LOGIC AND 'THE MAGIC FLUTE' (IMPRESSIONS OF A PREMIERE) First Line: Up winding stair, / here, where, in what theatre lost? Subject(s): Flutes; Reason; Theater & Theaters; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Stage Life LOVE IN AMERICA Poem Text First Line: Whatever it is, it's a passion Subject(s): Americans; Modern Life; United States; America LOVE IN AMERICA First Line: Whatever it is, it's a passion Last Line: Whatever it is, let it be without %affectation %yes, yes, yes, yes Subject(s): Americans; Life, Modern; United States MAGICIAN'S RETREAT First Line: Of moderate height Last Line: Was above all discreet MARRIAGE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: This institution, / perhaps one should say enterprise Last Line: "the hand in the breast-pocket." Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MASKS Poem Text First Line: Loon'....'goose'....And 'vulture' Last Line: Laugh in superb contempt at folly's catalogue! Subject(s): Birds MELCHIOR VULPIUS First Line: A contrapuntalist Last Line: Love's signature cementing faith MERCIFULLY First Line: I am hard to disgust Last Line: Let it be that MIND IS AN ENCHANTING THING First Line: Is an enchanted thing Last Line: Not a herod's oath that cannot change Variant Title(s): The Mind Is An Enchanting Thin Subject(s): Gieseking, Walter Wilhelm (1895-1956); Reason; Scarlatti, Domenico (1685-1757) MIND, INTRACTABLE THING First Line: Even with its own axe to grind, sometimes Last Line: Craft with which I don't know how to deal MONKEY PUZZLE First Line: A kind of monkey or pine-lemur Last Line: But we prove, we do not explain our birth MOUSE METAMORPHOSED INTO A MAID (FABLES/LAFONTAINE,BOOK 9,7) First Line: A mouse fell from a screech-owl's beak -- a thing that I can not %pretend Last Line: None can diverge from the ends which heaven foreordained MY APISH COUSINS Poem Text First Line: Winked too much and were afraid of snakes Subject(s): Cousins MY LANTERN Poem Text First Line: The banners unfurled by the warden Last Line: So noisy, familiar, and safe by day. MY SENSES DO NOT DECEIVE ME Poem Text First Line: Like the light of a candle Last Line: Compared with the name. Subject(s): Hallucinations & Illusions NEVERTHELESS Poem Text First Line: You've seen a strawberry Variant Title(s): It Is Late, I Can Wait Subject(s): Fortitude; Fruit NEVERTHELESS First Line: You've seen a strawberry Last Line: Went through that little thread %to make the cherry red! Variant Title(s): It Is Late, I Can Wai Subject(s): Fortitude; Fruit NEW YORK Poem Text First Line: The savage's romance, / accreted where we need the space for commerce Last Line: "it is the ""accessibility to experience." Subject(s): New York State NINE NECTARINES First Line: Arranged by two's as peaches are Last Line: Who imagined this masterpiece NINE NECTARINES AND OTHER PORCELAIN Poem Text First Line: Arranged by twos as peaches are Subject(s): Nectarines NO BETTER THAN A WITHERED DAFFODIL First Line: Ben jonson said he was? O I could still Last Line: An insouciant rester by a tree %no daffodil NO SWAN SO FINE Poem Text First Line: No water so still as the / dead fountains of versailles' Subject(s): Sculpture & Sculptors NO SWAN SO FINE First Line: No water so still as the %dead fountains of versailles' Last Line: Flowers - at ease and tall. The king is dead Subject(s): Sculpture And Sculptors NORTH WIND TO DUTIFUL BEAST MIDWAY BETWEEN DIAL & FOOT OF GARDEN CLOCK Poem Text First Line: Why clamber up the pedestal? Last Line: Your conscientious feet sha'n't fall. Subject(s): Time NOTHING WILL CURE THE SICK LION BUT TO EAT AN APE' Poem Text First Line: Perceiving that in the masked ball Last Line: To smother us with fresh air. Subject(s): Healing; Cures NOVICES Poem Text First Line: Anatomize their work Last Line: "crashing itself out in one long hiss of spray." Subject(s): Writing & Writers O TO BE A DRAGON Poem Text First Line: If I, like solomon Subject(s): Wishes; Dragons; Bible; Dragons; Religion; Theology O TO BE A DRAGON First Line: If I, like solomon Subject(s): Bible; Dragons; Religion; Theology O TO BE A DRAGON First Line: If I, like solomon Last Line: A symbol of the power of heaven-of silkworm %size or immense; at times invisible. %felicitous phenom Subject(s): Bible; Dragons; Religion OLD AMUSEMENT PARK (BEFORE IT BECAME LA GUARDIA AIRPORT) First Line: Hurry, worry, unwary / visitor, never vary Subject(s): Americans; Amusement Parks; United States; America OLD AMUSEMENT PARK (BEFORE IT BECAME LA GUARDIA AIRPORT) First Line: Hurry, worry, unwary %visitor, never vary Last Line: When the triumph is reflective %and confusion, retroactive Subject(s): Americans; Amusement Parks; United States PANGOLIN First Line: Another armored animal -- scale Last Line: That comes into and steadies my soul PAPER NAUTILUS First Line: For authorities whose hopes Last Line: Strong enough to trust to Variant Title(s): A Glass-ribbed Nes Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen PEDANTIC LITERALIST Poem Text First Line: Prince rupert's drop, paper muslin ghost Last Line: Immutable production. PEOPLE'S SURROUNDINGS Poem Text First Line: They answer one's questions Last Line: Castles, palaces, dining-halls, theatres and imperial audience-chambers. Subject(s): Facades; Appearances PETER Poem Text First Line: Strong and slippery, built for the midnight grass-party Last Line: Tion—this is life; to do less would be nothing but dishonesty. Subject(s): Animals; Cats PICKING AND CHOOSING Poem Text First Line: Literature is a phase of life: if Last Line: Skin between the ears, are all we ask. Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Literature PIGEONS Poem Text First Line: Older than the ancient greeks, than Subject(s): Pigeons PLUMET BASILISK First Line: In costa rica %in blazing driftwood Last Line: Which is the shattering sudden splash that marks his temporary %loss POETRY Poem Text First Line: I, too dislike it: there are things that are important far beyond all .. Fiddle Last Line: Genuine, you are interested in poetry. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POETRY (FURTHER REVISED) Recitation First Line: I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POETRY (FURTHER REVISED) First Line: I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle Last Line: That which is on the other hand %genuine, you are interested in poetry Subject(s): Poetry And Poets POETRY (REVISED VERSION) Recitation First Line: I, too, dislike it Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POETRY (REVISED VERSION) First Line: I, too, dislike it Last Line: Covers in %it, after all, a place for the genuine Subject(s): Poetry And Poets PREVALENT AT ONE TIME First Line: I've always wanted a gig Last Line: I'm no hypochondriac PROPRIETY Poem Text First Line: Is some such word Subject(s): Music & Musicians PROPRIETY First Line: Is some such word Last Line: Uncursed by self-inspection; blackened %because born that way Subject(s): Music And Musicians QUI S'EXCUSE S'ACCUSE Poem Text First Line: Art is exact perception Last Line: Need apologize for art. Subject(s): Art & Artists RADICAL Poem Text First Line: Tapering / to a point, conserving everything Last Line: To hinder. Subject(s): Carrots; Slavery; Serfs REINFORCEMENTS Poem Text First Line: The vestibule to experience is not to Last Line: The future of time is determined by the power of volition. Subject(s): World War I - United States REMINISCENT OF A WAVE AT THE CURL First Line: On a kind of christmas day Last Line: Rather hard on the fur RESCUE WITH YUL BRYNNER First Line: Recital? Concert is the word Last Line: Of fairy tales that can come true: yul brynner RIGORISTS Poem Text First Line: We saw reindeer Subject(s): Language; Men; Reindeer; Words; Vocabulary RIGORISTS First Line: We saw reindeer Last Line: Whose reprieve he read in the reindeer's face Subject(s): Language; Men; Reindeer ROSEMARY First Line: Beauty and beauty's son and rosemary Last Line: A kind of christmas-tree ROSES ONLY Poem Text First Line: You do not seem to realise that beauty is a liability rather than Last Line: Your thorns are the best part of you. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Roses SAINT NICHOLAS Poem Text First Line: Might I, if you can find it, be given Subject(s): Christmas; Santa Claus; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint SAINT NICHOLAS First Line: Might I, if you can find it, be given Last Line: Would it not be the most %prized gift that ever was! Subject(s): Christmas; Santa Claus SEA UNICORNS AND LAND UNICORNS Poem Text First Line: With their respective lions Last Line: "its ""mild wild head doth lie." Subject(s): Unicorns SHE WANDERED AFTER STRANGE GODS... First Line: O have you seen my fairy steed? Last Line: To mount upon its back and ride? SILENCE Poem Text Recitation First Line: My father used to say Last Line: Inns are not residences. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Fathers; Guests; Home; Silence; Visiting SMOOTH GNARLED CRAPE MYRTLE First Line: A brass-green bird with grass Last Line: By wisdom peace.' alas! SNAKES, MONGOOSES, SNAKE-CHARMERS, AND THE LIKE Poem Text First Line: I have a friend who would give a price for those long fingers all Last Line: Distaste which takes no credit to itself is best. Subject(s): Animals SOJOURN IN THE WHALE Poem Text First Line: Trying to open locked doors with a sword, threading Last Line: The path—rise automatically. Subject(s): Jonah (bible) SPENSER'S IRELAND Poem Text First Line: Spenser's ireland has not altered / a place as kind as it is green Subject(s): Ireland; Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599); Irish SPENSER'S IRELAND First Line: Spenser's ireland has not altered %a place as kind as it is green Last Line: I am troubled, I'm dissatisfied, I'm irish Subject(s): Ireland; Poetry And Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599) ST. VALENINTE First Line: Permitted me to assist you, let me see Last Line: Might verse not best confuse itself with fate? Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day STAFF OF AESCULAPIUS First Line: A symbol from the first, of mastery Last Line: The symbol of medicine STATE FOR STATE, WITH ALL ATTENDANTS, WHO WOULD CHANGE? NOT Poem Text First Line: Some in the godspeed, the susan c. Variant Title(s): Enough Subject(s): Jamestown, Virginia; Native Americans; Pocahontas (1595-1617); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America STATE FOR STATE, WITH ALL ATTENDANTS, WHO WOULD CHANGE? NOT First Line: Some in the godspeed, the susan c. Last Line: It was enough; it is enough %if present faith mend partial proof Variant Title(s): Enoug Subject(s): Jamestown, Virginia; Native Americans; Pocahontas (1595-1617) STEEPLE-JACK First Line: Durer would have seen a reason for living Last Line: Pointed star, which on a steeple %stands for hope Subject(s): Spires; Towns STEEPLE-JACK (REVISED VERSION) First Line: Durer would have seen a reason for living Last Line: Pointed star, which on a steeple %stands for hope Subject(s): Spires; Towns STORM First Line: On the high-road Last Line: As each bullet strikes a leaf STUDENT First Line: In america' began Last Line: Has no feeling but because he has so much STYLE First Line: Revives in escuder's constant of the plumbline Last Line: Rosario escudero, etchebaster SUN Poem Text First Line: No man may him hyde Last Line: Multiplied flames, o sun! Variant Title(s): Fear Is Hope Subject(s): Fear; Hope; Optimism SYCAMORE First Line: Against a gun-metal sky Last Line: Like a field-mouse at versailles TALISMAN First Line: Under a splintered mast Last Line: Parting its beak to greet %men long dead Subject(s): Birds; Gulls TELL ME, TELL ME First Line: Where might there be a refuge for me Last Line: Ot rescued a leader %from being mad by a scold THAT HARP YOU PLAY SO WELL Poem Text First Line: O david, if I had / your power, I should be glad Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres THAT HARP YOU PLAY SO WELL First Line: O david, if I had %your power, I should be glad Last Line: Grief's lustiness %must cure the harp's distress Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Harps; Musical Instruments THE ARTIC OX Poem Text First Line: To wear the artic ox Subject(s): Animal Rights; Musk Oxen; Animal Abuse; Vivisection THE BEAST OF BURDEN Poem Text First Line: I think the scourge was made for men Last Line: We forfeit, he attains the goal. Subject(s): Mortality THE BRICKS ARE FALLEN DOWN, WE WILL BUILD WITH HEWN STONES... First Line: In what sense shall we be able to THE FISH Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Wade / through black jade Last Line: Its youth. The sea grows old in it. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE FOX AND THE GRAPES Poem Text First Line: A fox of gascon, though some say of norman descent Subject(s): Foxes; Grapes THE FRIGATE PELICAN Poem Text First Line: Rapidly cruising or lying on the air there is a bird Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Birds; Pelicans; Airplanes; Air Pilots THE HERO Poem Text First Line: Where there is personal liking we go Subject(s): Heroism; Heroes; Heroines THE JERBOA Poem Text First Line: A roman hired an / artist, a freedman Subject(s): Rodents THE JUST MAN AND Poem Text First Line: His pie. 'I would be Last Line: And found in it nothing for himself. THE LABORS OF HERCULES Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: To popularize the mule, its neat exterior Last Line: "that the german is not a hun." Subject(s): Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry THE LION IN LOVE (FABLES OF LA FONTAINE, BOOK 4, 1) Poem Text First Line: Madamoiselle -- goddess instead Subject(s): Animals THE MIND IS AN ENCHANTING THING Poem Text Recitation First Line: Is an enchanted thing Variant Title(s): "the Mind Is An Enchanting Thing""; Subject(s): Gieseking, Walter Wilhelm (1895-1956); Reason; Scarlatti, Domenico (1685-1757); Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE MONKEYS Poem Text First Line: Winked too much and were afraid of snakes. The zebras, supreme in Last Line: "rye, flax, horses, platinum, timber, and fur." Variant Title(s): My Apish Cousins Subject(s): Animals THE PAPER NAUTILUS Poem Text First Line: For authorities whose hopes Variant Title(s): A Glass-ribbed Nest Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers THE PAST IS THE PRESENT Poem Text First Line: If external action is effete Last Line: "the occasion and expediency determines the form'." Variant Title(s): So Far As The Future Is Concerned Subject(s): Hebrew Literature THE PAST IS THE PRESENT (2) Poem Text First Line: Revived bitterness / is unnecessary unless / one is ignorant Last Line: A brass nailed echo. Subject(s): Time THE SENTIMENTALIST Poem Text First Line: Sometimes in a rough beam sea Last Line: "I'd drink the ship's hold dry." THE STEEPLE-JACK Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Durer would have seen a reason for living Subject(s): Spires; Towns; Steeples THE STUDENT Poem Text First Line: In america everybody must have a degree,' the french man Subject(s): Schools; Education; France; United States; Students; America THE WIZARD IN WORDS Poem Text First Line: When I am dead' Last Line: "merlin." Variant Title(s): Reticence And Volubility Subject(s): Merlin THE WOOD-WEASEL Poem Text First Line: Emerges daintily, the skunk Subject(s): Weasels THEN THE ERMINE Poem Text First Line: Rather dead than spotted; and believe it Subject(s): Fashion THEN THE ERMINE First Line: Rather dead than spotted; and believe it Last Line: Like violets by durer %even darker THINGS ARE WHAT THEY SEEM Poem Text First Line: The cloud between Last Line: Prevention. Subject(s): Reality THIS IS TBE WAY TOADS TALK Poem Text First Line: The spot upon my back that none would see there Subject(s): Toads THOSE VARIOUS SCALPELS Poem Text First Line: Those / various sounds consistently indistinct, like intermingled echoes Last Line: Are more highly specialized than the tissues of destiny itself? Subject(s): Surgery TIPPOO'S TIGER First Line: The tiger was his prototype Last Line: Can't make the owner's loss less hard TO A BUFFALO Poem Text First Line: Black in blazonry means Subject(s): Buffaloes TO A CHAMELEON Poem Text First Line: Hid by the august foliage and fruit Last Line: Could not snap the spectrum up for food as you have done. Variant Title(s): You Are Like The Realistic Product Of An Idealistic Search For Gold ... Subject(s): Chameleons TO A FRIEND IN THE MAKING Poem Text First Line: You wild, uncooked young fellow! Last Line: Your candor compensates me for my old bouquet. Subject(s): Authors & Authorship TO A GIRAFFE Poem Text First Line: If it is unpermissible, in fact fatal Subject(s): Giraffes TO A GIRAFFE First Line: If it is unpermissible, in fact fatal Last Line: Is flawed; transcendence, conditional; %'the journey from sin to redemption, perpetual' Subject(s): Giraffes TO A MAN WORKING HIS WAY THROUGH THE CROWD Poem Text First Line: To gordon craig: your lynx's eye Last Line: There is a space, a fit gynmasium for action. Subject(s): Craig, Edward Gordon (1872-1966) TO A PRIZE BIRD Poem Text First Line: You suit me well, for you can make me laugh Last Line: Your brazen claws are staunch against defeat. Variant Title(s): To Bernard Shaw: A Prize Bird Subject(s): Birds; Shaw, George Bernard (1856-1950) TO A SCREEN-MAKER Poem Text First Line: Not of silver nor of coral Last Line: Hanging high. Subject(s): Screens TO A SNAIL Poem Text First Line: If 'compression is the first grace of style' Last Line: In the curious phenomenon of your occipital horn. Subject(s): Snails TO A STEAM ROLLER Poem Text First Line: The illustration Last Line: The congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Steamrollers; Bugs TO AN INTRA-MURAL RAT Poem Text First Line: You make me think of many men Last Line: Too brisk to be inspected. TO BE LIKED BY YOU WOULD BE A CALAMITY Poem Text First Line: Attack is more piquant than concord,' but when Last Line: Are a shout. Subject(s): Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928); Poetry & Poets TO BROWNING Poem Text First Line: If yellow betokens infidelity Last Line: Effrontery. Variant Title(s): Injudicious Gardening Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Gardens & Gardening; Poetry & Poets TO COME AFTER A SONNET Poem Text First Line: A very awkward sketch, 'tis true Last Line: I like it here and there;—do you? TO DISRAELI ON CONSERVATISM Poem Text First Line: You brilliant jew, / you bright particular chameleon, you Last Line: Sound sense is contraband. Variant Title(s): To A Strategist Subject(s): Disraeli, Benjamin (1804-1881) TO MILITARY PROGRESS Poem Text First Line: You use your mind Last Line: Red. Variant Title(s): To The Soul Of 'progress' Subject(s): World War I; First World War TO MY CUP-BEARER Poem Text First Line: A lady or a tiger-lily Last Line: Slave, come tell me which? TO PIERROT RETURNING TO HIS ORCHID Poem Text First Line: Spider, with the freckles of a clown Subject(s): Spiders; Orchids TO STATECRAFT EMBALMED Poem Text First Line: There is nothing to be said for you. Guard Last Line: Foe. Subject(s): Thoth (egyptian God); World War I; First World War TO THE PEACOCK OF FRANCE Poem Text First Line: In 'taking charge of your possessions when you saw them' Last Line: Tail was unfurled. Variant Title(s): French Peacock Subject(s): Moliere (jean Poquelin) (1622-1673) TO THE SOUL OF 'PROGRESS' Poem Text First Line: You've made your mind Subject(s): Progress TO VICTOR HUGO OF MY CROW PLUTO First Line: Of %my crow %pluto Last Line: Verecondo %plato, addio TO WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS ON TAGORE Poem Text First Line: It is made clear by the phrase Last Line: Outshines ordinary jewels, is your praise. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Tagore, Rabindranath, Sir (1861-1941); Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) TOM FOOL AT JAMAICA Poem Text First Line: Look at jonah embarking from joppa, deterred by Subject(s): Horse Racing TOM FOOL AT JAMAICA First Line: Look at jonah embarking from joppa, deterred by Last Line: And you may have seen a monkey on a greyhound. 'but tom fool...' Subject(s): Horse Racing TUNICA PALLIO PROPRIOR Poem Text First Line: My coat is nearer than my cloak Last Line: My coat is an integument of pride. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress UNDER A PATCHED SAIL Poem Text First Line: Oh, we'll drink once more Last Line: Come lad—to the days that are! Subject(s): Carpe Diem VALUES IN USE First Line: I attended school and I liked the place Last Line: Certainly the means must not defeat the end VIRGINIA BRITANNIA First Line: Pale sand edges england's old Last Line: Are to a child an intimation of what glory is VORACITIES AND VERITIES SOMETIMES ARE INTERACTING First Line: I don't like diamonds Last Line: One may be pardoned, yes I know %one may, for love undying W.S. LANDOR First Line: There %is someone I can bear Last Line: Talk about them when I understand them WALKING-STICKS AND PAPERWEIGHTS AND WATERMARKS Poem Text First Line: Walking among sceptre-headed Subject(s): Walking; Canes WEB ONE WEAVES OF ITALY First Line: Grows till it is not what but which Last Line: Because the heart is in it all is well WHAT ARE YEARS? Poem Text First Line: What is our innocence Subject(s): Time WHAT ARE YEARS? First Line: What is our innocence Last Line: This is mortality, %this is eternity Subject(s): Time WHEN I BUY PICTURES Poem Text First Line: Or what is closer to the truth Last Line: It must acknowledge the spiritual forces which have made it. Subject(s): Art & Artists WOOD-WEASEL First Line: Emerges daintily, the skunk Last Line: Only %wood-weasels shall associate with me Subject(s): Weasels YOU ARE FIRE EATERS Poem Text First Line: Not a mere blowing flame Last Line: Surrender, may be conquest. Subject(s): Jehoshaphat (bible) YOU SAY YOU SAID Poem Text First Line: Few words are best' Last Line: "me against subterfuge." Subject(s): World War I - United States |
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