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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: RECTOR, LIAM Matches Found: 89 Rector, Liam Poet's Biography 89 poems available by this author ABOUT THE MONEY Poem Text First Line: By the turn of the century Subject(s): Money AGE MOVES Poem Text First Line: Age moves in the hound Subject(s): Boys; Dogs AGE MOVES First Line: Age moves in the hound Last Line: With his pen-knife only APARTMENT First Line: I walk into apartment. The rooms Last Line: What I came for-%the animate detail of price AS WITH ONE HAND First Line: As two blind men wave goodbye to each other Last Line: The small boat which brought us out here %crashes against wharf, our small boat ASSOCIATION First Line: Odd looking fuckers, thousands of us gather Last Line: On all this: life of the mind; off summers AT THE EATING First Line: I was waiting for them Last Line: And passed quickly to those villages %where they were waiting, a spoon for each, and eating BACK TO COUNTRY WITH PULITZER Poem Text First Line: I left here at eight Subject(s): Aging; Illness; Conduct Of Life; Success; Failure; Retirement; Love - Loss Of; Literary Prizes BACK TO COUNTRY WITH PULITZER First Line: I left here at eight Last Line: Especially, america is wrong BEST FRIEND Poem Text First Line: You sailed down Subject(s): Friendship; Sailors & Sailing; Boredom; Ennui BOY IN BASEBALL First Line: While you were considering the two hundred families with all Last Line: You won't let the thing go about the boy in baseball. %I won't turn the wipers on, to rid the windsh CARPENTER First Line: Dwelling Last Line: This much was said between us, %rocking CITY First Line: This apartment with no furniture Last Line: Plays an unbelievable organ. %how afternoon goes like the movies DAVID'S RUMOR First Line: I am busy doing drawings Last Line: This riot, that hall, that vacancy and pressure %wherein we draw towards goodbye Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Loss; Marginality, Social; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration DEVOID OF ORNAMENT OR RHETORIC OF ANY KIND First Line: I put in my hours here every day Last Line: As if that mattered DISGUST Poem Text First Line: I was well towards the end Subject(s): Middle Age; Language; Words; Vocabulary DRAMA PRODIGAL First Line: Peace? So you want Last Line: Damned sure I'll hold %you to that DRIVING NOVEMBER First Line: We are driving november we turned Last Line: I roll down this window you see %I vote you this blue hello EDVARD MUNCH First Line: Eddie, you said you forgot about insanity and death Last Line: And started that staring portrait %with cigarette ELIZABETH BISHOP First Line: I hated you in my twenties. I thought you Subject(s): Bishop, Elizabeth (1911-1979) ELIZABETH BISHOP First Line: I hated you in my twenties. I thought you Last Line: Our hopes and must we %live them too? Subject(s): Bishop, Elizabeth (1911-1979) EVENTUAL MUSIC First Line: Eventually someone knocks at your door eventually Last Line: & you lie down, with someone, in your opened door %& you hear all that music that was not there befo FAT SOUTHERN MEN IN SUMMER SUITS Poem Text First Line: Fat southern men in their summer suit Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Summer; Southern States; South (u.s.) FIRST GRADE First Line: Allen newport, famous in the first...Allen, forever Last Line: The ones who come up to you when you first get somewhere FIRST MARRIAGE Poem Text First Line: I made it cross country Subject(s): Marriage; Divorce; Cancer (disease); Reconciliation; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FOUR OLD MEN First Line: Four old men, childhood time Last Line: The first part was lonely. I hadn't yet met mary' GETTING OVER COOKIE: A MADE-FOR-TV-MOVIE First Line: In the ninth grade I met a fantastic number of times Last Line: With too much, finally, to ever get over HANS READING, HANS SMOKING Poem Text First Line: My mother, poised around behavior, would say Subject(s): Reading; Smoking; Human Behavior; Family Life; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Relatives HANS READING, HANS SMOKING First Line: My mother, poised around behavior, would say HIM, HIS PLACE First Line: My grandfather died one morning in dampness IN SNOW First Line: With the window sitting with you Last Line: We give back our time its longing %over field and snow and leaving IT'S PERFECT First Line: I don't think they should have separated Last Line: Certainly %is the way it looks together JACK WARDEN Poem Text First Line: In a woody allen film Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Warden, Jack (1920-2006); Movies; Cinema LAURENCE HARVEY First Line: We seem to be in some sort of british car Subject(s): Harvey, Laurence (1928-1973) LAURENCE HARVEY First Line: We seem to be in some sort of british car Last Line: You let yourself go and you go,' my stout father once told me %and you can't Subject(s): Harvey, Laurence (1928-1973) MENTAL MOMMY Poem Text First Line: Home from school at six years old, first grade, Subject(s): Mothers; Coming Of Age; Prisons & Prisoners; Insanity; Hospitals; Convicts; Madness; Mental Illness MORPHINE First Line: I see eliot banking his way towards work Last Line: Half-moons %on the doors of its motels by the bay MY BUSINESS PARTNER First Line: You who have eaten so often Last Line: Are now having their summers before they go %about the business of somehow finding their work MY DRINK IS INTERRUPTED First Line: They are crossing the border and I witness Last Line: I return to the long drink I am taking, %the bird crossing MY GRANDFATHER ALWAYS PROMISED US First Line: The streets outside have ice on them Last Line: While the fields of his century move far, %and then farther away MY PONY First Line: Coming back to you, my pony, whom I had to leave Last Line: We've come to together, thrown through the pressed world %where I went off to earn being hers and yo MY PONY First Line: Comng back to you, my pony, whom I had to leave Last Line: Gathering towards the glory of our having passed at all, %mypony NIGHT THE LIGHTNING BUGS LIT LAST IN THE FIELD THEN WENT THEIR WAY First Line: We went out into the field to get away from the others, to make Last Line: There were some great depth I would not be having the time to go into NOW Poem Text First Line: Now I see it: a few years Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Time OFF TO THE COUNTRY OF CANCER Poem Text First Line: It comes on. Subject(s): Cancer (disease) OLD COAT Poem Text First Line: Dressed in an old coat I lumber Subject(s): Clothing & Dress OLD COAT First Line: Dressed in an old coat I lumber Last Line: I look so dangerous in this coat ONE FOR THE GUYS First Line: I was the young psychopath travis bickle Last Line: Did it the hard way, american guy guy ORIGIN OF A-R-T First Line: Winsome bob meets katherine and drops nancy Last Line: How much inordinate sorrow %it actually involved OUR LAST PERIOD TOGETHER First Line: Lying in bed we feel soon Last Line: As your period comes, two weeks later, %I go away OUR OWN ONES First Line: I will be coming up the hill from school in an hour Last Line: Something of the nineteenth century town to the american city PASSING CARDS First Line: This traveler steadies her sweaty existential palms Last Line: How much farther, she thinks as she loses many hands. %how much farther, mother, the money in our ha PROPERTY First Line: From place to place with no one place Last Line: Based only on my ability to take and defend it? REMARKABLE OBJECTIVITY OF YOUR OLD FRIENDS First Line: We did right by your death and went out Last Line: Time ago and we'd have to face that %if we had any hope of getting it right Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders RONALD BEAVER'S LIFE IN ENGLAND Poem Text First Line: Life in england for ronald beaver. Subject(s): England; English SAXOPHONE First Line: Not by money SAXOPHONE First Line: When younger, money for pleasure Last Line: Saxophone %splitting the night, our air, blowing money SHOWING First Line: They showed up for a while and they died Last Line: All their wake up and lie down, died. I knock %twice on yourdoor, old boy SO WE'LL GO NO MORE Poem Text First Line: So it's fare thee well, my own true love; Subject(s): Illness; Abandonment; Love - Loss Of; Desertion SOON THE CITY Poem Text First Line: Soon the summer Subject(s): City & Town Llife; Summer SORROW OF ARCHITECTURE, SELS. First Line: Out of the building, out of the buildings the great sorrow Last Line: The city slides back into the invisible, %impossible, and there is sorrow on the line STAYING UP FOR ENGLAND First Line: Once I lived in the visionary city Subject(s): England; English STAYING UP FOR ENGLAND First Line: Once I lived in the visionary city Last Line: The doubt says, 'lie down and I will cover you' Subject(s): England SUMMER BY THE WATER First Line: You left, took our daughter Last Line: We've come to doubt of each other? THE OLD MAN AND THE MOTORCYCLE Poem Text First Line: The old man had inoperable cancer. Subject(s): Old Age; Motorcycles THE REMARKABLE OBJECTIVITY OF YOUR OLD FRIENDS Poem Text First Line: We did right by your death and went out Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons THIS CITY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: This apartment with no furniture, Subject(s): City & Town Life THIS SUMMER Poem Text First Line: Sitting in the chair that is somewhere Subject(s): Cancer (disease) THOSE WHO GO First Line: She stands staring into the new traffic Last Line: The talk quickly turns to the voyage and the burden %of each; how easily desire has carried them all THREE PORTRAITS OF BOY First Line: When I was a boy a boy when I was a boy Last Line: Until he made his way back to where he came from TOAST First Line: To memory, that enormous bowl of water Last Line: As though we were water to each other TONIGHT WE BOW First Line: Not to worry about writing too much Last Line: Like that other emotion, worry over money TWENTY-THREE Poem Text First Line: When he was 23 and beautiful Subject(s): Youth; Human Bedhavior; Conduct Of Life UNCLE SNORT First Line: My aunt was upset by lesbians Last Line: And they were hell to pay come election-time UNTIL HERE IS SOMETHING First Line: I had money and I didn't care Last Line: Through the long grass of memory where I go now %to meet her WE COLORED YOUR LEAVING THIS WAY Last Line: Calling you %the dupe of friendship, the fool of love WE SHOULD NOT LET MUNICH SLIP AWAY First Line: There was rain which soon turned Last Line: And it played me until I was away WEATHER GALLERY: 1 First Line: Modigliani's paintings are being shipped by train Last Line: Off to the gallery, & I will eat as soon as we stop. %it is cold here. We are all on the same train WEATHER GALLERY: 2 First Line: I am at the gallery, having just been fed. The paint- Last Line: The temperature %has changed. I am warm WEATHER GALLERY: 3 First Line: The guard at the gallery joins our procession. He Last Line: What's wrong with hats %on a wall?' he says. We let the thing rest WEATHER GALLERY: 4 First Line: My business is finished in the city. I hop the train Last Line: In the next city we will stop for %cows WHAT WE'LL DO First Line: We were talking about the weather, how it changes us. Talking Last Line: We know that the %weather is with us, and that this is what we will do WHEN DOWN BY LONG BOY'S LANE First Line: A visionary bowler Last Line: The bowler drinks the morning %with vision, and in rain WHEN THE PARENTS WENT First Line: When my parents, %who separated %when I was four Last Line: Was left over to make %whatever could be made of that folly WHERE YOU GET OFF First Line: And where do you get off, calling me the hyacinth girl? Your Last Line: When born, you inherit what's burning. In this case, the banal %apartment-the building you did with WIDOWS First Line: Here are the hotels and the widows Last Line: To start a family or to make another widow WORKING WRONG IN THE LATE REPUBLICAN EIGHTIES First Line: We are working wrong, and we know it Last Line: To give some repair as we go, we go hurling through it YOU ARE ARRIVING First Line: You are passing through customs Last Line: The open spaces, my umbrella, so much %for the inner life' YOUR LIVID EARLY DAYS First Line: We used to visit each other often back when Last Line: Desire under things, for which we acted as vassal |
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