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| Searching... Author: PLATH, SYLVIA Matches Found: 248 Plath, Sylvia Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. 248 poems available by this author A BETTER RESURRECTION Poem Text First Line: I have no wit, I have no words, no tears Subject(s): Loneliness A BIRTHDAY PRESENT Poem Text First Line: What is this, behind this veil, is it ugly, is it beautiful? Subject(s): Death; Birthdays; Dead, The A LESSON IN VENGEANCE Poem Text First Line: In the dour ages Subject(s): Evil A LIFE Poem Text First Line: Touch it: it won't shrink like an eyeball, Subject(s): Life; Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness A SORCERER BIDS FAREWELL TO SEEM Poem Text First Line: I'm through with this grand looking-glass hotel Subject(s): Metaphor; Similes A WINTER SHIP Poem Text First Line: At this wharf there are no grand landings to speak of Subject(s): Ships & Shipping ABOVE THE OXBOW Poem Text First Line: Here in this valley of discreet academies Subject(s): Nature ADMONITION Poem Text First Line: If you dissect a bird AFTERMATH Poem Text First Line: Compelled by calamity's magnet Subject(s): Fire ALICANTE LULLABY Poem Text First Line: In alicante they bowl the barrels Subject(s): Spain ALL THE DEAD DEARS Poem Text First Line: Rigged poker-stiff on her back Subject(s): Women AMNESIAC Poem Text First Line: No use, no use, now, begging recognize! Subject(s): Amnesia AMONG THE NARCISSI Poem Text First Line: Spry, wry, and grey as these march sticks Subject(s): Convalescence AN APPEARANCE Poem Text First Line: The smile of iceboxes annihilates me Subject(s): Conduct Of Life APPREHENSIONS Poem Text First Line: There is this white wall, above which the sky creates itself Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress APRIL 18 Poem Text First Line: The slime of all my yesterdays Subject(s): Death; Dead, The APRIL AUBADE Poem Text First Line: Worship this world of watercolor mood Subject(s): Spring AQUATIC NOCTURNE Poem Text First Line: Deep in liquid / turquoise slivers Subject(s): Sea; Ocean ARIEL Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Stasis in darkness Subject(s): Animals; Horses BALOONS Poem Text First Line: Since christmas they have lived with us, Subject(s): Baloons BARREN WOMAN Poem Text First Line: Empty, I echo to the least footfall, Subject(s): Childlessness; Miscarriage BERCK - PLAGE Poem Text First Line: This is the sea, then, this great abeyance. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The BITTER STRAWBERRIES Poem Text First Line: All morning in the strawberry field Subject(s): Strawberries BLACK PINE TREE IN AN ORANGE LIGHT Poem Text First Line: Tell me what you see in it : Subject(s): Pine Trees; Orange (Color); Black (Color) BLACK ROOK IN RAINY WEATHER Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: On the stiff twig up there Subject(s): Rooks BLACKBERRYING Poem Text First Line: Nobody in the lane, and nothing, nothing but blackberries Subject(s): Blackberries BLUE MOLES Poem Text First Line: They're out of the dark's ragbag, these two / moles dead in the pebbled rut Subject(s): Animals; Moles BLUEBEARD Poem Text First Line: I am sending back the key Subject(s): Pirates; Piracy; Buccaneers BRASILIA Poem Text First Line: Will they occur, Subject(s): Children; Childhood BUCOLICS Poem Text First Line: Mayday : two came to field in such wise : Subject(s): Loss BURNNG THE LETTERS Poem Text First Line: I made a fire; being tired Subject(s): Letters; Fire BY CANDELIGHT Poem Text First Line: This is winter, this is night, small love --- Subject(s): Babies; Candles; Night; Infants; Bedtime CANDLES Poem Text First Line: They are the last romantics, these candles Subject(s): Candles CHANNEL CROSSING Poem Text First Line: On storm-struck deck, wind sirens caterwaul Subject(s): English Channel CHILD Poem Text First Line: Your clear eye is the one absolutely beautiful thing Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Women CHILD'S PARK STONES Poem Text First Line: In sunless air, under pines Subject(s): Stones; Granite; Rocks CHILDLESS WOMAN Poem Text Subject(s): Childlessness CINDERELLA Poem Text First Line: The prince leans to the girl in scarlet heels Subject(s): Fairy Tales CONTUSION Poem Text First Line: Color floods to the spot, dull purple Subject(s): Injuries CONVERSATION AMONG THE RUINS Poem Text First Line: Through portico of my elegant house you stalk Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary CROSSING THE WATER Poem Text First Line: The womb / rattles its pod, the moon CRYSTAL GAZER Poem Text First Line: Gerd sits spindle-shaped in her dark tent, Subject(s): Fortune Tellers; Palmistry CUT Poem Text First Line: What a thrill - / my thumb instead of an onion Subject(s): Accidents DADDY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: You do not do, you do not do Subject(s): Fathers; Fathers & Daughters; Hate; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Nazis; Shoah; Judaism; National Socialism DARK HOUSE Poem Text First Line: This is a dark house, very big. Subject(s): Houses DARK WOOD, DARK WATER Poem Text First Line: This wood burns a dark Subject(s): Nature DEATH & CO. Poem Text First Line: Two, of course there are two. Subject(s): Death; Babies; Dead, The; Infants DENOUEMENT Poem Text First Line: The telegram says you have gone away Subject(s): Circus; Loss DEPARTURE Poem Text First Line: The figs on the fig tree in the yard are green; Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness DIALOGUE BETWEEN GHOST AND PRIEST Poem Text First Line: In the rectory garden on his evening walk Subject(s): Ghosts; Justice DIRGE FOR A JOKER Poem Text First Line: Always in the middle of a kiss Subject(s): Comedy; Death; Dead, The DOOM OF EXILES Poem Text First Line: Now we, returning from the vaulted domes Subject(s): Exile DOOMSDAY Poem Text First Line: The idiot bird leaps out and drunken leans Subject(s): Disasters DREAM WITH CLAM-DIGGERS Poem Text First Line: This dream budded bright with leaves round the edges Subject(s): Dreams; Innocence; Nightmares EAVESDROPPER Poem Text First Line: Your brother will trim my hedges! Subject(s): Privacy EDGE Poem Text First Line: The woman is perfected Subject(s): Suicide ELECTRA ON AZALEA PATH Poem Text First Line: The day you died I went into the dirt Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Fathers & Daughters; Graveyards; Dead, The ELLEN MASON AND HER ELEVEN CATS Poem Text First Line: Old ella mason keeps cats, eleven at last count Subject(s): Cats; Spinsters; Old Maids ELM; FOR RUTH FAINLIGHT Poem Text First Line: I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root Variant Title(s): The Elm Speaks Subject(s): Elm Trees; Fear EPITAPH FOR FIRE AND POWER Poem Text First Line: You might as well haul up Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives EVENT Poem Text First Line: How the elements solidify! --- Subject(s): Babies; Despair; Infants FACE LIFT Poem Text First Line: You bring me good news from the clinic Subject(s): Hospitals FAMILY REUNION Poem Text First Line: Outside in the street I hear Subject(s): Reunions; Family Life; Relatives FEMALE AUTHOR Poem Text First Line: All day she plays at chess with the bones of the world: Subject(s): Women - Writers FEVER 103 DEGREES Recitation by Author First Line: Pure? What does it mean? Subject(s): Fever; Sickness; Illness FIESTA MELONS Poem Text First Line: In benidorm there are melons Subject(s): Melons FINISTERRE Poem Text First Line: This was the land's end: the last fingers, knuckled and rheumatic, Subject(s): Cliffs; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore FIRESONG Poem Text First Line: Born green we were Subject(s): Fire FLUTE NOTES FROM A REEDY POND Poem Text First Line: Now coldness comes sifting down, layer after layer Subject(s): Ponds FOR A FATHERLESS SON Poem Text First Line: You will be aware of an absence, presently, Subject(s): Sons; Fathers FROG AUTUMN Poem Text First Line: Summer grows old, cold-blooded mother Subject(s): Swamps; Bogs; Fens; Marshes FULL FATHOM FIVE Poem Text First Line: Old man, you surface seldom Subject(s): Sea; Ocean GETTING THERE Poem Text First Line: How far is it? Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains GIGOLO Poem Text First Line: Pocket watch, I tick well. Subject(s): Lust GOATSUCKER Poem Text First Line: Old goatherds swear how all night long they hear Subject(s): Goats; Birds GOLD MOUTHS CRY Poem Text First Line: Gold mouths cry with the green young Subject(s): Autumn; Fall GREEN ROCK, WINTHROP BAY Poem Text First Line: No lame excuses can gloss over Subject(s): Nature GULLIVER Poem Text First Line: Over your body the clouds go Subject(s): Babies; Infants HARDCASTLE CRAGS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Flintlike, her feet struck Variant Title(s): Night Walk Subject(s): Forests; Woods HEAVY WOMEN Poem Text First Line: Irrefutable, beautifully smug Subject(s): Pregnancy I AM VERTICAL Poem Text First Line: But I would rather be horizontal Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress I THOUGHT I COULD NOT BE HURT Poem Text I WANT, I WANT Poem Text First Line: Open-mouthed, the baby god IN PLASTER Poem Text First Line: I shall never get out of this! There are two of me now Subject(s): Hospitals; Plaster Casts INCOMMUNICADO Poem Text First Line: The groundhog on the mountain did not run Subject(s): Groundhogs; Language; Woodchucks; Words; Vocabulary INSOMNIAC Poem Text First Line: The night is only a sort of carbon paper Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleeplessness JILTED Poem Text First Line: My thoughts are crabbed and sallow Subject(s): Rejection KINDNESS Poem Text First Line: Kindness glides about my house. Subject(s): Kindness; Family Life; Relatives LADY LAZARUS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: I have done it again Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Women; Shoah; Judaism LAMENT Poem Text First Line: The sting of bees took away my father Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Dead, The LANDOWNERS Poem Text First Line: From my rented attic with no earth Subject(s): Houses LAST WORDS Poem Text First Line: I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus Subject(s): Death; Dead, The LEAVING EARLY Poem Text First Line: Lady, your room is lousy with flowers. Subject(s): Flowers LESBOS Poem Text First Line: Viciousness in the kitchen! Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Suicide; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men LETTER IN NOVEMBER Poem Text First Line: Love, the world Subject(s): Walking; Autumn; Fall LETTER TO A PURIST Poem Text First Line: That grandiose colossus who Subject(s): Imagination; Idealism; Fancy LITTLE FUGUE Poem Text First Line: The yew's black fingers wag Subject(s): Music & Musicians LORELEI Poem Text First Line: It is no night to drown in Subject(s): Sirens LOVE LETTER Poem Text First Line: Not easy to state the change you made Subject(s): Letters; Habits; Change LYONNESSE Poem Text First Line: No use whistling for lyonnesse ! Subject(s): Cornwall, England MAD GIRL'S LOVE SONG Poem Text First Line: I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead MAENAD Poem Text First Line: Once I was ordinary: MAGI Poem Text First Line: The abstracts hover like dull angels: Subject(s): Magi MAGNOLIA SHOALS Poem Text First Line: Up here among the gull cries Subject(s): Winter MAN IN BLACK Poem Text First Line: Where the three magenta Subject(s): Sea; Ocean MARY'S SONG Poem Text First Line: The sunday lamb cracks in its fat Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology MAULDLIN Poem Text First Line: Mud-mattressed under the sign of the hag Subject(s): Moon MEDALLION Poem Text First Line: By the gate with star and moon Subject(s): Snakes; Serpents; Vipers MEDUSA Poem Text Recitation First Line: Off that landspit of stony mouth-plugs Subject(s): Medusa; Mythology - Classical METAMORPHOSIS Poem Text First Line: Haunched like a faun, he hooed METAPHORS Poem Text Recitation First Line: I'm a riddle in nine syllables Subject(s): Pregnancy MIRROR Poem Text First Line: I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions Subject(s): Aging; Self MISS DRAKE PROCEEDS TG SUPPER Poem Text First Line: No novice / in those elaborate rituals Subject(s): Insanity; Hospitals; Madness; Mental Illness MONOLOGUE AT 3 AM Poem Text First Line: Better that every fiber crack Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation MOONRISE Poem Text First Line: Grub-white mulberries redden among leaves Subject(s): Mulberry Trees; Night; Bedtime MORNING SONG Poem Text First Line: Love set you going like a fat gold watch Subject(s): Morning; Mothers; Time; Women MUSHROOMS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Overnight, very whitely, discreetly Subject(s): Mushrooms; Morels MUSSEL HUNTER AT ROCK HARBOR Poem Text First Line: I came before the water- / colorists came to get the Subject(s): Mussels MYSTIC Poem Text First Line: The air is a mill of hooks---- Subject(s): Life NATURAL HISTORY Poem Text First Line: That lofty monarch, monarch mind, Subject(s): Thought; Thinking NEVER TRY TO TRICK ME WITH A KISS Poem Text Subject(s): Kisses NEW YEAR ON DARTMOOR Poem Text First Line: This is newness : every little tawdry Subject(s): New Year; Babies; Infants NICK AND THE CANDLESTICK Poem Text Recitation First Line: I am a miner. The light burns blue Subject(s): Children; Childhood NIGHT SHIFT Poem Text First Line: It was not a heart, beating. Subject(s): Noises; Factories NOTES TO A NEOPHYTE Poem Text First Line: Take the general mumble Subject(s): Writing & Writers NOVEMBER GRAVEYARD Poem Text First Line: The scene stands stubborn: skinflint trees Subject(s): Imagination;graves; Fancy; Tombs; Tombstones ODE FOR TED Poem Text First Line: From under the crunch of my man's boot Subject(s): Hughes, Ted (1930-1998); Hughes, Edward James OLD LADIES' HOME Poem Text First Line: Sharded in black, like beetles Subject(s): Women - Old Age; Nursing Homes; Old Age Homes; Assisted Living ON DECK Poem Text First Line: Midnight in the mid-atlantic. On deck. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping ON LOOKING INTO THE EYES OF A DEMON LOVE Poem Text First Line: Here are two pupils Subject(s): Eyes ON THE DECLINE OF ORACLES Poem Text First Line: My father kept a vaulted conch Subject(s): Fathers ON THE DIFFICULTY OF CONJURING UP A DRYAD Poem Text Subject(s): Imagination; Writing & Writers; Dryads; Fancy OUIJA Poem Text First Line: It is a chilly god, a god of shades, Subject(s): Ouija Boards; Past OWL Poem Text First Line: Clocks belled twelve. Main street showed otherwise Subject(s): Birds PARALYTIC Poem Text First Line: It happens. Will it go on? Subject(s): Alienation (Social Psychology); Pain; Estrangement; Outcasts; Suffering; Misery PARLIAMENT HILL FIELDS Poem Text First Line: On this bald hill the new year hones its edge. Subject(s): Absence; Mothers; Separation; Isolation PERSEUS Poem Text First Line: Head alone shows you in the prodigious act Subject(s): Perseus PHEASANT Poem Text First Line: You said you would kill it this morning Subject(s): Pheasants POEMS, POTATOES Poem Text First Line: The word, defining, muzzles; the drawn line Subject(s): Potatoes; Poetry & Poets POINT SHIRLEY Poem Text First Line: From water-tower hill to the brick prison Subject(s): Boston; Sea; Ocean POLLY'S TREE Poem Text First Line: A dream tree, polly's tree Subject(s): Trees POPPIES IN JULY Poem Text Recitation First Line: Little poppies, little hell flames Subject(s): Poppies POPPIES IN OCTOBER Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Even the sun-clouds this morning cannot manage such skirts Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening PRIVATE GROUND Poem Text First Line: First frost, and I walk among the rose-fruit, the marble toes Subject(s): Lakes; Winter; Pools; Ponds PROLOGUE TO SPRING Poem Text First Line: The winter landscape hangs in balance now Subject(s): Spring PROSPECT Poem Text First Line: Among orange-tile rooftops Subject(s): Fog; Rooks; Haze PURDAH Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Jade / stone of the side Subject(s): Women - Secluding PURSUIT Poem Text First Line: There is a panther stalks me down: Subject(s): Fear RECANTATION Poem Text First Line: Tea leaves I've given up, Subject(s): Lchemy & Alchemists RESOLVE Poem Text First Line: Day of mist: day of tarnish Subject(s): Colleges & Universities RHYME Poem Text First Line: I've got a stubborn goose whose gut's Subject(s): Geese SCULPTOR Poem Text First Line: To his house the bodiless Subject(s): Baskin, Leonard (1922-2000) SHEEP IN FOG Poem Text Recitation First Line: The hills step off into whiteness Subject(s): Fog; Horseback Riding; Sheep; Haze SLEEP IN THE MOJAVE DESERT Poem Text First Line: Out here there are no hearthstones Subject(s): Mohave Desert; Mojave Desert SNAKECHARMER Poem Text First Line: As the gods began one world, and man another, Subject(s): Eden; Snakes; Music & Musicians; Serpents; Vipers SOLILOQUY OF THE SOLIPSIST Poem Text First Line: I walk alone; Subject(s): Solipsism SONG FOR A SUMMER'S DAY Poem Text First Line: Through fen and farmland walking Subject(s): Country Life; Walking SONNET TO SATAN Poem Text First Line: In darkroom of your eye the moonly mind Subject(s): Devil; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub SONNET: TO EVA Poem Text First Line: All right, let's say you could take a skull and break it Subject(s): Despair SOUTHERN SURPRISE Poem Text First Line: Color of lemon, mango, peach, Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise SOW Poem Text First Line: God knows how our neighbor managed to breed Subject(s): Pigs; Boars; Hogs SPIDER Poem Text First Line: Anansi, black busybody of the folktales Subject(s): Africa; Fables; Insects; Spiders; Allegories; Bugs SPINSTER Poem Text First Line: Now this particular girl Subject(s): Spinsters; Old Maids STARS OVER THE DORDOGNE Poem Text First Line: Stars are dropping thick as stones into the twiggy Subject(s): Stars STILLBORN Poem Text First Line: These poems do not live: it's a sad diagnosis. Subject(s): Writing & Writers STINGS Poem Text Recitation First Line: Bare-handed, I hand the combs Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs STREET SONG Poem Text First Line: By a mad miracle I go intact Subject(s): Music & Musicians STRUMPET SONG Poem Text First Line: With white frost gone Subject(s): Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels SUICIDE OFF EGG ROCK Poem Text First Line: Behind him the hotdogs split and drizzled Subject(s): Suicide TALE OF A TUB Poem Text First Line: The photographic chamber of the eye Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Imagination; Showers & Showering; Fancy TERMINAL Poem Text First Line: Riding home from credulous blue domes, Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THALIDOMIDE Poem Text First Line: O half moon--- Subject(s): Moon THE APPLICANT Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: First, are you our sort of a person? Subject(s): Salespersons; Selling THE ARRIVAL OF THE BEE BOX Poem Text First Line: I ordered this, this clean wood box Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs THE BABYSITTERS Poem Text First Line: It is ten years, now, since we rowed to children's island Subject(s): Child Care; Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963); Baby Sitters; Governesses THE BEAST Poem Text First Line: He was the bullman earlierm THE BED BOOK, SELECTION Poem Text First Line: Most beds are beds Subject(s): Beds THE BEE MEETING Poem Text Recitation First Line: Who are these people at the bridge to meet me? They are the Subject(s): Bees; Fear; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs THE BEEKEEPER'S DAUGHTER Poem Text First Line: A garden of mouthings. Purple, scarlet-speckled, black Subject(s): Bees; Fathers & Daughters; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs THE BULL OF BENDYLAW Poem Text First Line: The black bull bellowed before the sea Subject(s): Bulls THE BURNT-OUT SPA Poem Text First Line: An old beast ended in this place: Subject(s): Decay; Rot; Decadence THE COLOSSUS Poem Text Recitation First Line: I shall never get you put together entirely Subject(s): Fathers THE COMPANIONABLE ILLS Poem Text First Line: The nose-end that twitches, the old imperfections--- Subject(s): Tolerance THE COURIERS Poem Text First Line: The word of a snail on the plate of a leaf? Subject(s): Seasons THE DEAD Poem Text First Line: Revolving in oval loops of solar speed, Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE DEATH OF MYTH-MAKING Poem Text First Line: Two virtues ride, by stallion, by nag Subject(s): Mythology; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE DISPOSSESSED Poem Text First Line: The enormous mortgage must be paid somehow Subject(s): Mortgages THE DISQUIETING MUSES Poem Text First Line: Mother, mother, what illbred aunt Subject(s): Women THE EVERLASTING MONDAY Poem Text First Line: Thou shalt have an everlasting Subject(s): Moon THE EYE-MOTE Poem Text First Line: Blameless as daylight I stood looking Subject(s): Nostalgia; Eyes THE FEARFUL Poem Text First Line: This man makes a pseudonym THE GHOST'S LEAVETAKING Poem Text First Line: Enter the chilly no-man's land of about Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE GLUTTON Poem Text First Line: He, hunger-struck, hard to slake Subject(s): Gluttony THE GORING Poem Text First Line: Arena dust rusted by four bulls' blood to a dull redness Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE GREAT CARBUNCLE Poem Text First Line: We came over the moor-top Subject(s): Light THE HANGING MAN Poem Text First Line: By the roots of my hair some god got hold of me Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Torture; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THE HERMIT AT OUTERMOST HOUSE Poem Text First Line: Sky and sea, horizon-hinged Subject(s): Hermits THE MANOR GARDEN Poem Text First Line: The fountains are dry and the roses over Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening THE MOON AND THE YEW TREE Poem Text Recitation First Line: This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary Subject(s): Moon; Yew Trees THE MUNICH MANNEQUINS Poem Text First Line: Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children. Subject(s): Silence; Language; Munich, Germany; Words; Vocabulary THE NIGHT DANCES Poem Text First Line: A smile fell in the grass. Subject(s): Babies; Infants THE OTHER Poem Text First Line: You come in late, wiping your lips Subject(s): Adultery THE OTHER TWO Poem Text First Line: All summer we moved in a villa brimful of echos, Subject(s): Self-deceit THE QUEEN'S COMPLAINT Poem Text First Line: In ruck and quibble of courtfolk Subject(s): Giants THE RAVAGED FACE Poem Text First Line: Outlandish as a circus, the ravaged face Subject(s): Self; Despair THE RIVAL Poem Text First Line: If the moon smiled, she would resemble you. Subject(s): Absence; Moon; Separation; Isolation THE SHRIKE Poem Text First Line: When night comes black Subject(s): Revenge; Jealousy THE SLEEPERS Poem Text First Line: No map traces the street Subject(s): Sleep; Dreams; Nightmares THE SNOWMAN ON THE MOOR Poem Text First Line: Stalemated their armies stood, with tottering banners Subject(s): Quarrels' THE STONES Poem Text First Line: This is the city where men are mended. Subject(s): Illness; Hospitals THE SURGEON AT 2 A.M. Poem Text First Line: The white light is artificial, and hygienic as heaven. Subject(s): Surgery; Hospitals THE SWARM Poem Text First Line: Somebody is shooting at something in our town Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Beekeeping; Bugs THE THIN PEOP;E Poem Text First Line: They are always with us, the thin people Subject(s): Slenderness; Thinness THE TIMES ARE TIDY Poem Text First Line: Unlucky the hero born Subject(s): Time; Heroism; Heroes; Heroines THE TRIAL OF MAN Poem Text First Line: The ordinary milkman brought that dawn Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THREE WOMEN Poem Text First Line: I am slow as the world. I am very patient, Subject(s): Women TO A JILTED LOVER Poem Text First Line: Cold on my narrow Subject(s): Rejection TO EVA DESCENDING THE STAIR Poem Text First Line: Clocks cry: stillness is a lie, my dear; TOTEM Poem Text First Line: The engine is killing the track the track is silver, TOUCH-AND-GO Poem Text First Line: Sing praise for statuary: Subject(s): Statues TULIPS Poem Text First Line: The tulips are too excitable, it is winter here Subject(s): Tulips TWO CAMPERS IN CLOUD COUNTRY Poem Text First Line: In this country there is neither measure nor balance Subject(s): Canada; Nature; Canadians TWO LOVERS AND A BEACHCMBER BY THE RED SEA Poem Text First Line: Cold and final, the imagination Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore TWO SISTERS OF PERSEPHONE Poem Text First Line: Two girls there are: within the house Subject(s): Women TWO VIEWS OF A CADAVER ROOM: 1 Poem Text First Line: The day she visited the dissecting room Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Corpses; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter; Cadavers TWO VIEWS OF A CADAVER ROOM: 2 Poem Text First Line: In brueghel's panorama of smoke and slaughter Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Corpses; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter; Cadavers VANITY FAIR Poem Text First Line: Through frost-thick weather Subject(s): Witchcraft & Witches VERBAL CALISTHENICS Poem Text First Line: My love for you is more Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary VIRGIN IN A TREE Poem Text First Line: How this tart fable instructs Last Line: Till irony's bough break Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation WAKNG IN WINTER Poem Text First Line: I can taste the tin of the sky --- the real tin thing. Subject(s): Winter WATERCOLOR OF GRANTCHESTER MEADOWS Poem Text First Line: There, spring lambs jam the sheepfold. In air Subject(s): Cambridge, England; Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas WHITENESS I REMEMBER Poem Text First Line: Whiteness being what I remember Subject(s): Horseback Riding WHITSUN Poem Text First Line: This is not what I meant: Subject(s): Picnics; Seashore; Barbecues; Beach; Coast; Shore WHO Poem Text First Line: The month of flowering's finished. The fruit's in, WIDOW' Poem Text First Line: Widow. The word consumes itself Subject(s): Widows & Widowers WINTER LANDSCAPE, WITH ROOKS Poem Text First Line: Water in the millrace, through a sluice of stone Subject(s): Despair WINTER TREES Poem Text First Line: The wet dawn inks are doing their blue dissolve Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation WINTERING Poem Text First Line: This is the easy time, there is nothing doing Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs WITCH BURNING Poem Text First Line: In the marketplace they are piling the dry sticks. Subject(s): Witchcraft & Witches; Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness WORDS Poem Text First Line: Axes / after whose stroke the wood rings Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary WORDS HEARD, BY ACCIDENT, OVER THE PHONE Poem Text First Line: O mud, mud, how fluid! --- Subject(s): Telephones WREATH FOR A BRIDAL Poem Text First Line: What though green leaves only witness Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love WUTHERIN HEIGHTS Poem Text First Line: The horizons ring me like faggots, Subject(s): Bronte, Emily (1818-1848); Solitude; Nature; Loneliness YADDO: THE GRAND MANOR Poem Text First Line: Woodsmoke and a distant loudspeaker Subject(s): Parties YADWIGHA, ON A RED COUCH, AMONG LILLIES Poem Text First Line: Yadwigha, the literalists once wondered how you Subject(s): Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) YEARS Poem Text First Line: They enter as animals from the outer Subject(s): Motion YOU'RE Poem Text First Line: Clownlike, happiest on your hands, Subject(s): Babies; Infants ZOO-KEEPER'S WIFE Poem Text First Line: I can stay awake all night, if need be --- Subject(s): Marriage; Animals; Weddings; Husbands; Wives |
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