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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: RAKOSI, CARL Matches Found: 117 Rakosi, Carl Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann 117 poems available by this author A JOURNEY AWAY Poem Text First Line: I dreamed last night Subject(s): Jews; Judaism A MOUSTACE DRAWN ON CAPTAIN PATTERSON Poem Text First Line: There ain't nothin special about me. Subject(s): Antiwar Movement; Vietan; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 A POEM TO MY FIRST BORN Poem Text First Line: I felt / the foetus stir Last Line: Let us get to know / each other Subject(s): Children ACTORS First Line: Maxwell, a corporation head Last Line: A comedy of errors AMERICA First Line: I come from a long line Last Line: Passport to america AMERICANA First Line: Never play Last Line: Never sleep %with a woman %whose troubles %are worse %than yours AMERICANA 3 First Line: On washington's birthday yancey the haberdasher Last Line: We're satisfied,' they conceded. 'you're a beauty!' AMERICANA IX First Line: Your correspondent must be kidding when he says AMULET Poem Text First Line: But you are ideal Subject(s): Charms (magic) AMULET First Line: You are ideal, %o figurette Last Line: At a buffet lunch ANNOTATIONS First Line: And the hand is the measure Last Line: Left alone with father soul, voiceless, %eyeless, theme-less ASSOCIATIONS WITH A VIEW FROM THE HOUSE Poem Text First Line: What can be compared to Subject(s): Eyes; Vision AUBADE First Line: It is the springtime %of the year Last Line: That bedeviled them. %the song of years AVOCADO PIT First Line: A complete earth %hard as stone %the size of a plum Last Line: As if the earth %had cracked with age %or we were looking %at the rivers %from a satelite AVOCADO PIT First Line: A complete earth %hard as stone Last Line: At the rivers %from a satellite BALLAD OF THE DIMINISHED I First Line: Tell me, where does fancy breed? %in the springtime, a merry time Last Line: The nature of man? %pending BEASTS First Line: Fresh mollusk morning puts a foot %out from its bivalve Last Line: Then a white horse in the park. %cigars and politics. %the city wrapped in cellophane BEFORE YOU Poem Text First Line: Before is corinth CARTOON SKETCHES: THE PRESIDENT First Line: I'm in vermont %the green mountain state Last Line: That if cornered %he would not hesitate %to retreat CHINA POLICY First Line: Of all the old times %I'll take chinese poetry Last Line: Of exquisite modesty %by simply looking at a heron crossing a stream CLASSICS First Line: The girls %wear ear rings %on the water Last Line: Knocked off, %commemorating %the signing %of the peace COUNTRY EPITAPHS First Line: Axel hendrix, railroad conductor Last Line: Well, the good lord must have had a reason DISCOVERIES, TRADE NAMES, GENITALS, AND ANCIENT INSTRUMENTS First Line: If there is no connection between the wild %hemp of kashmir Last Line: And call ourselves hi-john the conqueror root DOWN TO EARTH SUITE First Line: Museum of historical objects %new acquisition Last Line: God sat %on his throne %and shat! DRIVING INTO ABILENE, TEXAS, APRIL 17, 1947 First Line: The sun rose here at 6:07 a.M. Last Line: These guys have been %watching the moon too long DRUNKARD'S ALLEY First Line: What's the time? Last Line: Between %naught %and %sphinx ENNUI First Line: After the bath she touched her hair %with orange leaf and smiled Last Line: Chocolate boxes, women, %a laundry bag, %the lipstick on the dresser EPITAPH ON THE SHORT FORM First Line: Here lies the augustan temper Last Line: Pounds of cantos were unable %to quicken them EYE TO EYE First Line: You, %with the missionary eye Last Line: With the invective I: %drop dead! FIELD NOTES First Line: The sun, known by its metaphor %as a heavenly body Last Line: And departs as soundless %as it came, incommunicado FIGURES IN AN ANCIENT INK First Line: In the dense scopes Last Line: More durable than the actual hrothgar! FLUTEPLAYERS FROM FINMARKEN Poem Text First Line: How keen the nights were Subject(s): Music & Musicians GINGER Poem Text First Line: Am I the only one Subject(s): Goats GRAVEDIGGERS First Line: Dimitry: look at this headstone Last Line: Another one will be coming along %soon HANDEL Poem Text First Line: The piccolo of heaven Subject(s): Music & Musicians HELLO First Line: Early man %faces Last Line: The divine %scientist HUMORESQUE First Line: For -- he whose Last Line: Poet, -- oblivious Subject(s): Morticians IN THE FIRST CIRCLE OF LIMBO First Line: Liberate me, %muse Last Line: And compassion %into this pen! IN THE POET'S EYE First Line: The tree %and Last Line: Infinity %from %an ass INCIDENT IN HELL Poem Text First Line: Our ancestors were happy Subject(s): Hell INCIDENT IN HELL First Line: Our ancestors were happy Last Line: The western hemisphere %alas, old chief! Subject(s): Hell INSTRUCTIONS TO THE PLAYER Poem Text First Line: Cellist, / easy on that bow Subject(s): Music & Musicians INSTRUCTIONS TO THE PLAYER First Line: Cellist, %easy on that bow Last Line: That is the sweetest %and has the nature of infinity Subject(s): Music And Musicians INTIMATE STUDIES: 3 First Line: We climbed the stairs, %the white dress flowing Last Line: The creek between the rockshelves %nancy with a bunch of wet grapes IRISH BOY First Line: I don't know what's got into that rooster Last Line: Otherwise, let the sleepers hold their peace ISRAEL Poem Text First Line: I hear the voice / of david and bathsheba Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology ISRAEL First Line: I hear the voice %of david and bathsheba Last Line: At the voice %of my people Subject(s): Bible; Religion JANUARY OF A GNAT First Line: Snow panels, ice pipes, house the afternoon Last Line: To their ssh of vapors and their vowel ooo JOURNEY AWAY First Line: I dreamed last night Last Line: Something also from the laurel, %a tiny arsis Subject(s): Jews LAMENTATION; AFTER SOLOMON IBN GABIROL First Line: Awake %your youth is passing like smoke Last Line: You, wretched man %are already on your way into the earth LITTLE PEOPLE SAILING ON WORDS First Line: Absolute, a little fellow Last Line: And no little people, %alas!...In the ultimate LOBSTER First Line: Eastern sea, 100 fathoms, %green sand, pebbles Last Line: Saltflush lobster %bull-encrusted swims %backwars from the rock LOBSTER First Line: Eastern sea, 100 fathoms, %green sand, pebbles Last Line: Backwards from the rock LYING IN BED ON A SUMMER MORNING First Line: How pleasant are the green Last Line: And feel as if I %could live forever LYING IN BED ON A SUNDAY MORNING Poem Text First Line: How pleasant are the green and Subject(s): Contentment; Immortality MAN First Line: Is the measure of all things Last Line: Is voiceless %eye-less %theme-less MEDITATION First Line: The widower %lies under Last Line: Alas, %metaphysician MEDITATION First Line: What is the nature %of quintessence? Last Line: This spirit you can trust MEDITATION First Line: Lord, what is man? Last Line: Waiting for it to happen %and caught in the act MEDITATION First Line: Psychologist, %my mental spider Last Line: You'll have to %find yourself an old dog MEDITATION: MELANCHOLY First Line: Bachelor of music Last Line: Provided for the saints in heaven MEDITATION; AFTER JEHUDAH HALEVI First Line: How long will you remain a boy? Last Line: Till the breath becomes natural MEDITATION; AFTER MOSES IBN EZRA First Line: Men are children of this world Last Line: But my thirst remains unquenched MEDITATION; AFTER SOLOMON IBN GABIROL First Line: Three things remind me of you Last Line: And the musing of my heart %when I look within MEMOIRS First Line: A cutter risen from the mollusks, it is a god Last Line: Michigan freshwater walnut trees. %the memoirs-- %canvas, cable, chair, tar, paint MENAGE First Line: Up stand %six %yellow %jonquils Last Line: In bed, with the great %eye of man, rolling MINIMAL VILLAGE First Line: A wine shop Last Line: Loves to laugh %at commentary MUSEUM First Line: The de stijl room %in a roped-off alcove Last Line: A universal man %evolving MUSEUM OF HISTORICAL OBJECTS First Line: An honest word Last Line: We're quarantined %we can't land NARRATIVE OF THE IMAGE First Line: It appeared to me Last Line: Literary and nobody could %figure out his point NEEDLEWORK First Line: Over the fan-tan table and the tea and noodles Last Line: Now with his own slave and a clock %he stands under one wall, looking home NEW WORLD First Line: I am uchida Last Line: I try to %be clear NIGHT THOUGHTS Poem Text First Line: After the jostling on canal streets Subject(s): Thought; Thinking OBSERVATION First Line: There's an old cajun saying Last Line: You don't hear that anymore. %found out those were real rats ODE ON ARRIVAL First Line: Here I am Last Line: Sphinx, open up, %speak! ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE First Line: Such claims for %this little bugger Last Line: Big ass, walks by. %some nightingale! Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales ODE TO THE COMMONPLACE First Line: The day comes in %on its rock-bed Last Line: To the health of the commonplace, %the mountain of the lord OLD COUNTRY First Line: The other day Last Line: An ambiguous tristesse OLD MAN'S HORNPIPE First Line: This puppy jumping up Last Line: This whippoorwill at the tail end of winter %ah, atlantis! ORPHEAN LOST Poem Text First Line: The oakboughs of the cottagers PARAGUAY Poem Text First Line: In the early hours of the lovebirds Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips POEM Poem Text First Line: The ants came Subject(s): Conduct Of Life REALISTS First Line: Let us be honest Last Line: Like the upper classes %but implacable %in their self-interest SANDALWOOD COMES TO MY MIND Poem Text SANDALWOOD COMES TO MY MIND Last Line: And the song shall go on Subject(s): Bible; Religion SERVICES Poem Text First Line: There was a man in the land of ur Last Line: For those who felt deeply Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology SERVICES First Line: There was a man in the land of ur Last Line: For those who feel deeply Subject(s): Bible; Religion SHIPS PASSING IN THE NIGHT First Line: Hello out there! Last Line: Can't tell. %too busy.' SHORE LINE Poem Text First Line: We speak of mankind. Subject(s): Waves; Boats & Boating; Fathers & Sons SONG Poem Text First Line: Turning as from an instrument SONG First Line: There never was Last Line: Who spits %in the glass %eye of moloch? %nobody, nobody SONG; AFTER JEHUDAH HALEVI First Line: On the wind Last Line: Of love by an apple-tree TESTING STEEL AND GLASS Poem Text Subject(s): Science; Scientists THE BEASTS Poem Text First Line: Fresh mollusk morning puts a foot Subject(s): City & Town Life; Capitalism; Social Commentaries; Social Classes; Immigrants; Caste; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration THE CITY (1925) Poem Text First Line: Under this luxemburg of heaven Subject(s): New York City; Conduct Of Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE COUNTRY SINGER Poem Text First Line: There ain't nothin special about me. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Middle Age; Songs THE DEAD FATHER Poem Text First Line: Let me be an old dog in a corner Last Line: And have you care for me forever Subject(s): Death – Fathers THE EXPERIMENT WITH A RAT Poem Text First Line: Every time I nudge that spring Last Line: Into my power? Subject(s): Rats THE FATHER Poem Text First Line: I find among my notes Last Line: Where to, mistress quickly? Subject(s): Fathers & Sons THE LOBSTER Poem Text First Line: Eastern sea, 100 fathoms, Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Lobsters; Anglers THE MEMOIRS Poem Text First Line: A cutter risen from the mollusks, it is a god Subject(s): Ships & Shipping THE MENAGE Poem Text First Line: Up stand / six / yellow / jonquils Subject(s): Flowers THE OLD CODGERS' LAMENT Poem Text First Line: Who can say now Subject(s): Old Age THE OLD MAN DREW THE LINE Poem Text Subject(s): Old Age; Fathers & Sons THEME First Line: How delightful Last Line: How reassuring %that you are still here %to protect us %against the theorists THEOLOGIAN First Line: What has %the shape Last Line: Be my finch TIME TO KILL Poem Text First Line: A man and his dog Subject(s): Time; Old Age TO A COLLIE PUP Poem Text First Line: Nobody had to show you Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TO A COLLIE PUP First Line: Nobody had to show you Last Line: And the degree %of master of arts Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TO AN ANTI-SEMITE First Line: So you fought for the jews Last Line: With the kitchen maids TO THE MAN INSIDE First Line: Get up, you old dog Last Line: At the inn, sweet ladies TWO VARIATIONS ON A THEME: 1 First Line: What's his offense? Last Line: As to a blubber washed up %on the beach TWO VARIATIONS ON A THEME: 2 First Line: What's his offense? Last Line: He will not look VOW First Line: Matter, with this look %I wed thee %and become Last Line: To thy nature, %for I love thee %more than durer %loved a seaweed WHO First Line: The cock crows Last Line: The ant rushes WRITTEN ON A WHITE CHALICE First Line: Ptah %who brought all things Last Line: And your eyes %beholding happiness YOUNG GIRL First Line: On her way to the beach Last Line: In a moment turn men into pierrots |
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