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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: MUIR, EDWIN Matches Found: 148 Muir, Edwin Poet's Biography 148 poems available by this author A TROJAN SLAVE Poem Text First Line: I've often wandered in the fields of troy Subject(s): Troy; Trojan War; Slavery; Serfs ABRAHAM Poem Text First Line: The rivulet-loving wanderer abraham Subject(s): Religion; Theology ABRAHAM First Line: The rivulet-loving wanderer abraham Last Line: The promise had not come, and left his bones, %far from his father's house, in alien canaan Subject(s): Religion ABSENT First Line: They are not here. And we, we are the others ADAM'S DREAM Poem Text First Line: They say the first dream adam our father had Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Eve ADAM'S DREAM First Line: They say the first dream adam our father had Last Line: Cried out and was at peace, and turned again %in love and grief in eve's encircling arms Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible AFTER A HYPOTHETICAL WAR Poem Text First Line: No rule nor ruler; only water and clay Subject(s): War AFTER A HYPOTHETICAL WAR First Line: No rule nor ruler: only water and day AFTER THE FALL First Line: What shape had I before the fall? ANIMALS First Line: They do not live in the world Last Line: On the sixth day we came Subject(s): Bible; Memory; Religion ANNUNCIATION First Line: The angel and the girl are met Last Line: As if their grace would never break Subject(s): Annunciation, The; Bible; Religion BALLAD OF HECTOR IN HADES Poem Text First Line: Yes, this is where I stood that day Last Line: A corpse with streaming hair. Subject(s): Trojan War; War BIRTHDAY First Line: I never felt so much Last Line: And stand where they first stood BROTHERS First Line: Last night I watched my brothers play Last Line: And in a vision I have seen %my brothers playing on the green Subject(s): Brothers CASTLE First Line: All through that summer at ease we lay Last Line: And we had no arms to fight it with CHILD DYING First Line: Unfriendly friendly universe, %I pack your stars into my purse Last Line: I did not know death was so strange Subject(s): Death - Children; Mourning; World War Ii CHILDHOOD Poem Text First Line: Long time he lay upon the sunny hill Last Line: And from his house his mother called his name. Subject(s): Children; Childhood CITY First Line: Day after day we kept the dusty road Last Line: And centuries of fear and power and awe, %and all our children in the deadly wood Subject(s): Cities CLOUD First Line: One late spring evening in bohemia Subject(s): Travel COMBAT First Line: It was not meant for human eyes Last Line: You'd almost think it was despair COMMEMORATION First Line: I wish I could proclaim Last Line: That strong and subtle chain Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Marriage CONFIRMATION First Line: Yes, yours, my love, is the right human face Last Line: But like yourself, as they were meant to be Subject(s): Life Change Events; Love DOUBLE ABSENCE Poem Text First Line: The rust-red moon above the rose-red cloud Subject(s): Sun; Moon DOUBLE VISION First Line: I do not know this place %though here for long I have run Last Line: And what my lips say %to drown the voice of fear. %the earthly day waits ESCAPE First Line: Escaping form the emeny's hand Subject(s): War FACE First Line: See me with all the terrors on my roads Last Line: That sleeps while underneath from bound to bound %the sujn- and star-shaped killers gorge and play FATHERS First Line: Our fathers all were poor Last Line: Until the topple and fall, %and fallen let in the day FOR ANN SCOTT-MONCRIEF (1914-1943) Poem Text First Line: Dear ann, wherever you are Last Line: Last summer in princes street Subject(s): Scott-moncrief, Ann (1914-1943) FOR ANN SCOTT-MONCRIEF (1914-1943) First Line: Dear ann, wherever you are Last Line: While the sun shone in your face %last summer in princes street Subject(s): Scott-moncrief, Ann (1914-1943) GATE First Line: We sat, two children, warm against the wall Last Line: In a sullen dream. We were outside, alone. %and then behind us the huge gate swung open GOOD MAN IN HELL First Line: If a good man were ever housed in hell Last Line: And love and hate and life and death begin Subject(s): Hate GOOD TOWN First Line: Look at it well. This was the good town once Last Line: These thoughts we have, walking among our ruins GREAT HOUSE First Line: However it came, this great house has gone down Subject(s): Houses GROVE First Line: There was no road at all to that high place Last Line: There was no road except the smothering grove Subject(s): Animals HOLDERLIN'S JOURNEY Poem Text First Line: When holderlin started from bordeaux Last Line: And giving thanks to god and men Subject(s): Consolation; Holderlin, Friedrich (1770-1843) HOLDERLIN'S JOURNEY First Line: When holderlin started from bordeaux Subject(s): Consolation; Holderlin, Friedrich (1770-1843) HORSES Poem Text First Line: Those lumbering horses in the steady plough Subject(s): Animals; Horses HORSES First Line: Those lumbering horses in the steady plough Last Line: Were bright and fearful presences to me Subject(s): Animals; Horses HORSES First Line: Barely a twelvemonth after Last Line: But that free servitude still can pierce our hearts %our life is changed; their coming our beginning Subject(s): Animals; Horses; War HUMAN FOLD First Line: Here penned within the human fold Last Line: I gather my bones from the bottomless clay %to lay my head in the light's lap I SEE THE IMAGE First Line: I see the image of a naked man Last Line: As if against the wall of an iron tower IBSEN Poem Text First Line: Sollness climbs the dwindling tower Last Line: Naked to every passer-by Subject(s): Ibsen, Henrik (1828-1906) IN LOVE FOR LONG Poem Text First Line: I've been in love for long Subject(s): Love IN LOVE FOR LONG First Line: I've been in love for long Last Line: Between the tiger's paws %and vinicates its cause INDUSTRIAL SCENE First Line: The women talk, tea-drinking by the fire' Last Line: Venus weeps overhead. Poised on the ridge %the unemployed regard the promised land Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland; Labor And Laborers INTERRIGNUM First Line: After the fever this long convalescence INTERROGATION First Line: We could have crossed the road but hesitated Last Line: Endurance almost done %and still the interrogation is going on Subject(s): World War Ii JUDAS Poem Text First Line: Judas iscariot drearily Last Line: Judas iscariot by the tree Subject(s): Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.) KILLING First Line: That was the day they killed the son of god LABYRINTH First Line: Since I emerged that day from the labyrinth Last Line: And woke far on. I did not know the place LETTERS First Line: Forgiveness now, about to be LITTLE GENERAL First Line: Early in spring the littel general came Last Line: Fast in the little general's fragile hand LOVE'S REMORSE First Line: I feel remorse for all that time has done Last Line: Eternity alone our wrong can right, %that makes all young again in time's despair MARY STUART Poem Text First Line: My brother jamie lost me all Subject(s): Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587); Stuart, James, Earl Of Mar & Moray; Mary Stuart MARY STUART First Line: My brother jamie lost me all Last Line: Then hack, and hack, and hack it down, %until that ruin was his own Subject(s): Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587); Stuart, James, Earl Of Mar & Moray MERLIN Poem Text First Line: O merlin in your crystal cave Subject(s): Merlin MERLIN First Line: O merlin in your crystal cave Last Line: The day wreathed in its mound of snow %and time locked in his tower? Subject(s): Merlin MILTON First Line: Milton, his face set fair for paradise Last Line: Saw far and near the fields of paradise. MYTH First Line: My childhood all a myth Last Line: The risen watchers stand. Subject(s): Life MYTHICAL JOURNEY First Line: First in the north. The black sea-tangle beaches Last Line: He builds in faith and doubt his shaking house Variant Title(s): The Journe OEDIPUS Poem Text First Line: I, oedipus, the club-foot, made to stumble Subject(s): Oedipus OEDIPUS First Line: I, oedipus, the club-foot, made to stumble Last Line: Our natural steps and the earth and skies from harm Subject(s): Oedipus OLD GODS First Line: Old gods and goddesses who have lived so long Last Line: As yours beneath the ever-breaking bough, %and vast compassion curving like the skies ONE FOOT IN EDEN First Line: One foot in eden still, I stand Last Line: Strange blessings never in paradise %fall from these beclouded skies Subject(s): Eden ORPHEUS' DREAM First Line: And she was there. The little boat Last Line: Alone in hades' empty hall PENELOPE IN DOUBT Poem Text First Line: Forgotten brooch and shrivelled scar Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PENELOPE IN DOUBT First Line: Forgotten brooch and shrivelled scar Last Line: Yet now she trembled at his touch Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage READING IN WAR TIME Poem Text First Line: Boswell by my bed Subject(s): Books; Boswell, James (1740-1795); War; Reading READING IN WAR TIME First Line: Boswell by my bed Subject(s): Books; Boswell, James (1740-1795); War RECURRENCE First Line: All things return, niewtzche said Last Line: Would loll at ease, miming pain, %and counterfeit mortality REFUGEES First Line: A crack ran through our hearthstone long ago Last Line: We must shape here a new philosophy Subject(s): Refugees; World War Ii REMEMBRANCE First Line: O places I have seen upon the earth RETURN First Line: The doors flapped open in ulysses' house Last Line: And winding road of the world was on his way Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses RETURN OF THE GREEKS First Line: The veteran greeks came home Last Line: Hesitant, sure and slow: %she, alone in her tower Subject(s): Greece; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Penelope (mythology); Poetry And Poets; Trojan War REVERIE Poem Text First Line: The dark road journeys to the darkening sky Last Line: All, all at last must take their sorrow home. Subject(s): Love; Travel; Journeys; Trips RIDER VICTORY Poem Text First Line: The rider victory reins his horse Last Line: Uprear their motionless statuary. Subject(s): Horseback Riding; War ROAD First Line: There is a road that turning aways Last Line: For small is great and great is small, %and a blind seed all Subject(s): Roads; Transience ROBERT THE BRUCE (TO DOUGLAS IN DYING) Poem Text Subject(s): Robert I. King Of Scotland (1274-1329); Death; Bruce, Robert; The Bruce; Dead, The ROBERT THE BRUCE (TO DOUGLAS IN DYING) First Line: My life is done, yet all remains Last Line: Having outfaced three english kings %and kept a people's faith SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS Poem Text First Line: They walked black bible streets and piously tilled Last Line: Sit in the beautiful houses, mobbed by cars Subject(s): Salem, Massachusetts; Travel; Journeys; Trips SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS First Line: They walked black bible streets and piously tilled Subject(s): Salem, Massachusetts; Travel SCOTLAND 1941 Poem Text First Line: We were a tribe, a family, a people Subject(s): Scotland SCOTLAND'S WINTER Poem Text First Line: Now the ice lays its smooth claws on the sill, Subject(s): Scotland; Wiinter SCOTLAND'S WINTER First Line: Now the ice lays its smooth claws on the sill Last Line: And are content %with their poor frozen life and shallow banishment SCOTLAND, 1941 First Line: We were a tribe, a family, a people Last Line: And melt to pity the annalist's iron tongue Subject(s): Scotland SONG Poem Text First Line: Why should your face so please me Subject(s): Love SONG First Line: Why should your face so please me Last Line: Of love and peace, not heartless love %the lancer Subject(s): Love SUBURBAN DREAM First Line: Walking the suburbs in the afternoon Last Line: Fanfare of motor horns %and the masters come THE ANIMALS Poem Text First Line: They do not live in the world Subject(s): Bible; Memory; Religion; Theology THE ANNUNCIATION Poem Text First Line: The angel and the girl are met Subject(s): Annunciation, The; Bible; Religion; Theology THE BROTHERS Poem Text First Line: Last night I watched my brothers play Subject(s): Brothers; Half-brothers THE CASTLE Poem Text First Line: All through that summer at ease we lay Subject(s): War; Bribery; Treason THE CHILD DYING Poem Text First Line: Unfriendly friendly universe, / I pack your stars into my purse Subject(s): Death - Children; Mourning; World War Ii; Death - Babies; Bereavement; Second World War THE CLOUD Poem Text First Line: One late spring evening in bohemia Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE COMBAT Poem Text First Line: It was not meant for human eyes Subject(s): Animals THE CONFIRMATION Poem Text First Line: Yes, yours, my love, is the right human face Subject(s): Life Change Events; Love THE DAYS Poem Text First Line: Issuing from the word Subject(s): Creation THE DIFFICULT LAND Poem Text First Line: This is a difficult land. Here things miscarry Subject(s): Farm Life; Endurance; Survival; Agriculture; Farmers THE FINDER FOUND Poem Text First Line: Will you, sometime, who have sought so look, and seek Subject(s): Seeking THE GATE Poem Text First Line: We sat, two children, warm against the wall Subject(s): Children; Coming Of Age; Innocence; Childhood THE GOOD MAN IN HELL Poem Text First Line: If a good man were ever housed in hell Subject(s): Hate THE GOOD TOWN Poem Text First Line: Look at it well. This was the good town once Subject(s): City & Town Life THE GREAT HOUSE Poem Text First Line: However it came, this great house has gone down Last Line: Who built in chaos our bastion and our home Subject(s): Houses THE GROVE Poem Text First Line: There was no road at all to that high place Subject(s): Animals THE HORSES Poem Text First Line: Barely a twelvemonth after Subject(s): Animals; Horses; War THE INCARNATE ONE Poem Text First Line: The windless northern surge, the sea-gull's scream Subject(s): Christianity THE INTERROGATION Poem Text First Line: We could have crossed the road but hesitated Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War THE KILLING Poem Text First Line: That was the day they killed the son of god Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion THE LABYRINTH Poem Text First Line: Since I emerged that day from the labyrinth Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE MYTH Poem Text First Line: My childhood all a myth Last Line: The faithful watchers stood Subject(s): Life; Childhood Memories THE RECURRENCE Poem Text First Line: All things return, nietzsche said Subject(s): Life THE REFUGEES First Line: A crack ran through our hearthstone long ago Subject(s): Refugees; World War Ii; Second World War THE RETURN Poem Text First Line: I see myself sometimes, an old man Subject(s): Old Age; Time; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE RETURN OF ODYSSEUS Poem Text First Line: The doors flapped open in ulysses' house THE RETURN OF THE GREEKS Poem Text First Line: The veteran greeks came home Subject(s): Greece; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Penelope (mythology); Poetry & Poets; Trojan War; Greeks; Iliad; Odyssey THE RIVER Poem Text First Line: The silent stream flows on and in its glass Subject(s): War; Rivers THE ROAD Poem Text First Line: There is a road that turning aways Subject(s): Roads; Transience; Paths; Trails; Impermanence THE SONG Poem Text First Line: I was haunted all that day by memories knocking THE SUFFICIENT PLACE Poem Text First Line: See, all the silver roads wind in, lead in THE TRANCE Poem Text First Line: Lulled by la belle dame sans merci he lies Variant Title(s): The Enchanted Knight Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood THE TRANSFIGURATION Poem Text First Line: So from the ground we felt that virtue branch Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE TROPHY Poem Text First Line: The wise king crowned with blessings on his throne Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War THE WAYSIDE STATION Poem Text First Line: Here at the wayside station, as many a morning Subject(s): Morning THE WEST Poem Text First Line: We followed them into the west Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE WHEEL Poem Text First Line: How can I turn this wheel that turns my life Subject(s): Wheels THE YOUNG PRINCES Poem Text First Line: There was a time: we were young princelings then Subject(s): Youth; Aging THEN First Line: There were no men and women then at all Last Line: As if that fury of death itself were dying THEN ... Poem Text First Line: There were no men or women then at all Subject(s): Prehistoric People THEY COULD NOT TELL ME WHO SHOULD BE MY LORD Poem Text Subject(s): God THREE MIRRORS First Line: I looked in the first glass Last Line: Our life is changed: their coming our beginning TO THE OLD GODS Poem Text First Line: Old gods and goddesses who have lived so long Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods TOWN BETRAYED First Line: Our homes are eaten out by time Last Line: Have sworn to bring us low TOY HORSE First Line: See him, the gentle bible beast TRANCE First Line: Lulled by la belle dame sans merci he lies Last Line: Now he tries to lift %the insulting weight that stays and breaks his heart Variant Title(s): The Enchanted Knigh Subject(s): Knights And Knighthood TRANSFIGURATION First Line: So from the ground we felt that virtue branch Last Line: Be quite undone and never more be done TRANSMUTATION First Line: That all should change to ghost and glance and gleam TRISTRAM'S JOURNEY Poem Text First Line: He strode across the room and flung Last Line: And he was in his place Subject(s): Tristram & Isolde; Travel TROPHY First Line: The wise king crowned with blessings on his throne Last Line: Or father and son, co-princes of one mind, %irreconcilables,their treaty signed Subject(s): World War Ii TROY Poem Text First Line: He all that time among the sewers of troy Last Line: Asking: “where is the treasure?” till he died Subject(s): Trojan War; Troy TROY First Line: He all that time among the sewers of troy Last Line: Asking: 'where is the treasure?' till he died Subject(s): Trojan War; Troy USURPERS First Line: There is no answer. We do here what we will Last Line: These are imaginations. We are free VARIATIONS ON A TIME THEME, SELS. VOYAGE First Line: That sea was greater than we knew Last Line: The dream and a truth we clutched as ours, %and gladly, blindly stepped on earth WAY First Line: Friend, I have lost the way Last Line: And what will come at last? %the road leads on WAYSIDE STATION First Line: Here at the wayside station, as many a morning Last Line: Through the day and time and war and history WEST First Line: We followed them into the west Last Line: Say 'now' and 'here,' and are in our own house WHEEL First Line: How can I turn this wheel that turns my life Subject(s): Wheels WINDOW First Line: Within the great wall's perfect round Last Line: Across the towering window fled %disasters, victories, festivals |
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