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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: REVELL, DONALD Matches Found: 212 Revell, Donald Poet's Biography 212 poems available by this author 1848 First Line: Uneven sounds whiten the pavements Last Line: To turn the tide of rebellion against freedom, %to press hands to faces until they touch bone 1919 First Line: All that year, the fronts of houses Last Line: They played upon each other as upon keyboard instruments 31.XII.99 First Line: Satisfaction glories aloft and my ground Last Line: Earth to be worthy a grown man's living there A SETTING Poem Text First Line: There is nothing orphic, nothing foreign Last Line: Became the best of you Subject(s): Summer; Suburbs; Contentment ABOVE First Line: Brutally represented Last Line: Not helpless hunting ADVENT First Line: The wind that shows a city Last Line: We named for flowers also AGAINST PLURALISM Poem Text First Line: Who will you point to? In the needle's eye, Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers; Disappointment; Relationships; Divorce; Half-siblings; Relatives ALSACE Poem Text First Line: There are two skies but one hawk only Last Line: Mother sang to her hat same color as the car Subject(s): Sleep; Contentment AN EPISODE OF THE GREAT AWAKENING IN NEW ENGLAND Poem Text First Line: As night pushes its red forerunners Subject(s): Revivals; Religion; New England; Religious Revivals; Theology ANAXAGORAS First Line: Of all our lives Last Line: Wherever %you start from Subject(s): Life ANAXIMANDER First Line: Once a very short time Last Line: There is a different life AND NOTHING BUT First Line: It is a white train Last Line: Sky empties at the last when the air is flawless. I am in the wires ANIMAUX Poem Text First Line: Alone in an infected place Subject(s): Night; Bedtime ANNIVERSARY OF MANY CITIES First Line: Darkness undrew the air where it was naked Last Line: What does not die deserves to live ANOTHER DAY First Line: A wine glass Last Line: Aviates over the railways, over the electric ropes and %europe killing not america %the camps %parch APART FROM SOLITUDE First Line: The age of consent comes early to protect ARCADY (1) First Line: All summer long Last Line: Benjamin is crying %what's wrong ARCADY (10) First Line: In the 24 seasons' Last Line: To the earth of small shares %work makes a way ARCADY (11) First Line: Ecliptic ins %tantan %eous Last Line: Over the moon %I'll catch you ARCADY (2) First Line: For whom %all of them Last Line: Without disease %without raindrops ARCADY (3) First Line: More than a bud but pale Last Line: Every day more and more freedom %more atoms ARCADY (4) First Line: The critchicrotches are going to seed Last Line: Key to the music of ives is confluence ARCADY (5) First Line: Light lily lily light light lily light Last Line: Imagi %cally %lightli %ly ARCADY (6) First Line: In buenos aires as large as small apples hail Last Line: Summer uses it tunes also ARCADY (7) First Line: With vines or even with nothing Last Line: Leaves it beautiful %care before a calm ARCADY (8) First Line: Heart I agree Last Line: Shake the stars in orion ARCADY (9) First Line: Broad old cesspools Last Line: Careful as mountain ranges %nothing wasted ARCADY AGAIN First Line: Beside the house a path %green leaves as low Last Line: Surprised to find deer and turtles %living so near his house ARCADY IVES First Line: What if you do this Last Line: We'll see how far I get ARCADY TOMBEAU Poem Text First Line: Enter chain / a loop an Subject(s): Virtue ARCADY TOMBEAU First Line: Enter chain %a loop an Last Line: What do you say %to virtue %pal Subject(s): Virtue ARTISTS AIRLIFTED, LENINGRAD 1941 First Line: The shadier bassoon deforms the hearts Last Line: The survivors never feel so lost nor see %bad nights when even one star is too many ARTS OF PEACE First Line: Engraving of a bull's head Last Line: Are true because of rain AT THE EXHIBITION OF PARABLES First Line: I have the address exactly. I know her name AYRE First Line: The robin combines two hymns %at the cross Last Line: Letters of the law %go with mary BACKYARD IN AUGUST First Line: This drone and heat are the afterlife of one BELOVED AUTHOR AND THE NEW STATE First Line: The parked barrows of the infirm at lourdes BIRDS SMALL ENOUGH Poem Text First Line: Birds small enough to nest in our young cypress Subject(s): Birds; Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery BIRTHPLACE First Line: Looking for one hand waiving out of the shadowbox BORODIN Poem Text First Line: When the world was loveliness I was Subject(s): Borodin, Alexander (1833-1887); Composers; Heaven; Religion; Paradise; Theology BRANCH OF THE DISCIPLINE First Line: The red forest is %eager to be seen Last Line: They cracked silently %one last thing CAR RADIO Poem Text First Line: An in-joke and the long days of faltering Subject(s): Automobiles; Radios; Travel; Cars; Journeys; Trips CAR RADIO First Line: An in-joke and the long days faltering CENTRAL PARK SOUTH First Line: The way the buildings curve (as if a thought Last Line: Then. Now it is a street beside the park CEZANNE Poem Text First Line: What else is there to know but the primed surface Last Line: Sense of things preparing to return Subject(s): Cezanne, Paul (1839-1906); Paintings And Painters CEZANNE First Line: What else is there to know but the primed surface Subject(s): Cezanne, Paul (1839-1906); Paintings And Painters CHARLESTON First Line: It begins in a freak storm and then CHILDREN'S UNDERCROFT First Line: In rooms beneath the church, we stood up singing CLASP First Line: Below the shapeliness Last Line: Unshaped in the disguise of angels CLOISTERED First Line: Woman on a bench Last Line: In a loose vein of broken petals %to be a strange now COLD SEPTEMBER First Line: Means wither. Then Last Line: His lights are %what he sees CONNECTICUT First Line: You were welcomed. Whoever smiled at you CONSENTING First Line: In your best dream, everything responds COUNSEL First Line: Redress my soul %as in a mirror %I can see myself Last Line: As happiness %is unforgettable %every single time DAY OF CRISIS NO A QUIET DAY First Line: Cloud shapes of infants Last Line: Each remains alive DEATH Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Death calls my dog by the wrong name. Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Language; Dead, The; Words; Vocabulary DESCRIPTIVE QUALITY First Line: Spite the wind. Call it the air that falls DRUM Poem Text First Line: The war ends. The lines of women push Subject(s): War; Man-woman Relationships; Freedom; Male-female Relations; Liberty DRUM First Line: The war ends. The lines of women push Last Line: In stateless autumn, in the smoke of no cameras, %freedom reddens into pity and dies on trees ELECTION YEAR Poem Text First Line: A jet of mere phantom Subject(s): Elections; Voting; Voters; Suffrage ELEGY First Line: Myself the other Last Line: A coal black one %winter even more ELEGY (A LITTLE) First Line: Linoleum and half a dozen eggs %in 1960 Last Line: I saw a broken lifetime further %on as now I see my happy sister ELEGY A LITTLE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Linoleum and half a dozen eggs Subject(s): Family Life; Sisters; Relatives EMILY DICKINSON'S MIRROR, AMHERST Poem Text First Line: Its flecked surface a map of disappearing islands Last Line: Share wholly. The purist's god. Pride's mirror and island Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) EMILY DICKINSON'S MIRROR, AMHERST First Line: Its flecked surface a map of disappearing islands Last Line: Share wholly. The purist's god. Pride's mirror and island Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) EPIGONE First Line: The idol of the moment is for all time Last Line: Everything irreparable deserve worship, %least gesture of the wind, music EPISODE OF THE GREAT AWAKENING IN NEW ENGLAND First Line: As night pushed its red forerunners Last Line: Raises temples over the silenced car %in april's messianic slow flowering EUMENIDES First Line: So many accidents of detail are a vengeance EXTINCTION First Line: Usually unheard Last Line: Loving a few more days EXTRACTS: FOR CELINE First Line: In one dream, I have only to throw a twig ...' FAUVISTE First Line: Five minutes with his paintings and I remember Last Line: Out of them that is my life on the boats FEWER THAN MUSIC First Line: Beloved has found Last Line: Stupefied with agreement %it rivals the sun FOR ANDREW MARVELL First Line: Tiger of luster of swordplay is just a stick %on a sandpile Last Line: Magic I've taken from his hand and pressed like sharp sharp sand %into mine FOR BORGES First Line: I will die or think of other words than freedom FOR THOMAS TRAHERNE First Line: The ground is tender with cold rain %far and equally Last Line: Candling underground as rain FROM CRUISEAUX First Line: I've been trying to answer you. I've wanted FROM THE OUTSIDE First Line: Someone lives a much better life FUTURIST First Line: Thank you for my happy childhood GAZA First Line: Its weight is a flawless shadow of lilacs GAZA OF WINTER First Line: The frail smoke and virtues of the season blind GIHON Poem Text First Line: They all wore little hats Subject(s): Rivers; Vermont GLEAMS IN THE SNOW LANE Poem Text GLEAMS IN THE SNOW LANE Last Line: Around the mountain over there %also the radio reports ice Subject(s): Automobiles; Ice; Roads; Winter GOVERNMENT OF HEAVEN First Line: One and soon %another hummingbird %alights very near Last Line: Where my rough feet shall thy smooth praises sing HEART'S INSTRUMENTS First Line: I choose the beautiful defeat of one city HEAT LIGHTNING First Line: The wind lets no leaf touch the ground Last Line: Without interruption as we blend %to one color the color of windows HOMAGE TO JOHN FREDERICK PETO Poem Text First Line: Fitfully in pictures disappearing now, Subject(s): Frie Ndship HOMAGE TO MRS. JANE LEAD First Line: Elsewhere, my animal Last Line: In the seedbed of a calculus %none can see HOME MADE SAINT First Line: The new year's sound of birds is my beginning HOTEL SANDER First Line: After the storm at sunset Last Line: The aquarium upstairs, the storm %murders the truth also. %iwas sounding an alarm HOW PASSION COMES TO MATTER First Line: When I was a boy, my father drove us once Last Line: In a boy's sleep. Father drove us very fast. %in left-wing cities, we take pleasure frantically HYPETHRAL First Line: Flowering skullcap here Last Line: That would be a sunny day IN CHRISTMAS 2000 First Line: They were miserable comforters %cardinals the only birds remaining Last Line: Until your friends are alone with their famine %every day because of today INQUIRE First Line: The god is how many Last Line: He breaks the tree, %and it waits to fall JEREMIAH First Line: He does not shout. His voice is a perfume Last Line: Poverty is the last taste of sunlight %from 1900 where we shall meet again JUST LEAVING First Line: At sunrise the high branches of the trees Last Line: Old equally, his killing done, his limbs loose KINGDOM First Line: An early day moved me %to blue river %a good place now Last Line: Kingdoms move inside men LANDSCAPE WITH THE SPIRIT OF KENNETH KOCH PRESIDING First Line: Canary yellow metal window awning bulges with snow Last Line: Brick red in my dream, dripping with snow-melt in the %new york sunshine LAST Poem Text First Line: The unsigned architecture of loneliness Subject(s): Cold War; History; Relationships; Sons; Historians LAST: 1991 First Line: The unsigned architecture of loneliness Last Line: From cold light fixtures. The cold war is ending. %buildingsare taller and have no names LAST: 1991: 1. First Line: The romance of every ideology Last Line: And berlin, divided fromberlin, %began to love its children past all reason LAST: 1991: 2. First Line: A daughter carries a flag inside her voice Last Line: In the dead zone of irony before dawn, %only the cats cry, like martyrs in the flame LAST: 1991: 3. First Line: Gates evrywhere. The brandenburg. The great Last Line: Our buildings are tall and have no names. %the parks grow grassy hands instead of flowers LAST: 1991: 4. First Line: Afterwards, the calm is piteous Last Line: Breaks ground at the unwired heart of a city %that marks the capital of nothing now LAST: 1991: 5. First Line: A scratchy, recorded call to prayer crosses Last Line: Burn to a black transparency in my heart? %no fire is terrible enough to be my daughter LESSON OF THE CLASSICS First Line: The remaining oracles were obscene Last Line: The nude, last sibyl of many victories MAESTRO First Line: The final curiosity of one MAGUS Poem Text First Line: The few, the lucky, make their way Last Line: There is nothing it does not know about the stars. Subject(s): Christmas; Puppets; Nativity, The; Marionettes MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS First Line: The law moves quickly in the rain Last Line: There is no future if the past is helpless. %let it find engines equal to these bones MATINS First Line: Like magnets %morning purposes %are plain Last Line: In the hedgerow %thinking of animals %used in war MEADOWORK First Line: American flowers pallid in a cloud %showed pink until the shadow moved Last Line: And still not put out the roses MELVILLE SCHOLAR First Line: The flowers I sent outlived you by three days MEMORY OF NEW ENGLAND First Line: Scare american pamphlet Last Line: The cattle and even everybody seemed changed MEPHISTO First Line: Underneath with in- %sane exactitude, vein Last Line: Sleep and exaggeration, %and they can die MORE LUSTROUS First Line: So many things arrive as themselves and need MOTEL VIEW Poem Text First Line: It is conceivable in fact that waves Subject(s): Sea; Weather; Cape Ann, Massachusetts; Ocean MY ERRAND First Line: Is for weeds starry %where those shapes Last Line: Strive being, crown virtue. Change. %lay hands on that key MY FATHER First Line: As I remember Last Line: Sum red ones MY MOJAVE Poem Text First Line: Sha- / dow, / as of Subject(s): Storms; Jealousy MY TRIP; FOR ROBERT CREELEY Poem Text First Line: I am looking at a smallpox vaccination scar Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips NATURE A CORNER FOR ME Poem Text First Line: Nature a corner for me Subject(s): Nature NATURE A CORNER FOR ME First Line: Nature a corner for me Last Line: The most beautiful star %is crossing me Subject(s): Nature NEW ABELARD First Line: God watch %I am in the basement of fog Last Line: And we are snow %on porcelain ground %making a new sound NEW DARK AGES First Line: The loose stonework and an outdated sense of freedom NEW OCTOBER First Line: Energies long and poor Last Line: Under a hawk's bough NEXT MARRIAGE First Line: Will it reach down, an open mouth of sparrows NEXT WAR First Line: We have rehearsed our enemies Last Line: Their bodies will be young, transparent %inexhaustible choreography %when there is no music, locked NIGHT ORCHARD First Line: They have given me a room near the power station NO DIFFERENCE I KNOW THEY ARE First Line: More of a red heart %the powder man wants Last Line: This day %is a godsend to the wasps NO VALEDICTION First Line: I want to uncurve from the bedpost's polished NORTHEAST CORRIDOR First Line: The bar in the commuter station steams ODYSSEUS HEARS OF THE DEATH OF KALYPSO Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: All their songs are of one hour Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Death; Dead, The OF AFRICA First Line: The cape was unpeopled by wind a year ago Last Line: The cape was unpeopled by wind a year ago %where the sea still calms then craters with each blow OLD CAUSES First Line: In the cool future, one will put off her dress by a window Last Line: Of the apartment she died in %crowned with the future's coro nal of lamplight Subject(s): Future ON THE CARDS First Line: Upstairs is warmer but is not the future Last Line: Orphancy of the confessional %acquits black earth and cradle, what I was waiting for ONCE DIVIDED First Line: In prayer, the open hand Last Line: In like efforts and lake %effects and dies there OPEN CITY First Line: There is one civics for the dark ORISON First Line: On such a night, the stars could not consent to constellations Last Line: Long as there was light %until it was gone OTHER THE WINGS First Line: Vivid out of nowhere Last Line: Famished gratitude. Before it died, the moth was not a flower. %it had flown across mountains OUTBREAK First Line: Given to sweet motion Last Line: Taken from a bush of wild red roses OVERTHROW First Line: On such a night, the stars could not consent to constellations Last Line: The night following %into white designs PANDERMONIUM First Line: Some natural tears they dropped Last Line: Taking their leave, the parents join hands in a picture taken PARTS First Line: I felt a tremor where Last Line: Disappear. At the last %they appear to tremble PERSPECTIVE First Line: The view from the air belongs to no one PILLARS First Line: The rose hour is hanged Last Line: Its death vertigo %escapes to a kitchen with doors beautifully painted PRAGUE First Line: Only in the balkans are there instruments Subject(s): Prague, Czech Republic PRIVACY: 1 First Line: In the beloved's eye or less reliable Last Line: Without betraying it all, without %destroying the illusion that makes it lovely? PRIVACY: 2 First Line: Only begin the stories, deny Last Line: Private in the midst of giants %pointing to heaven as toys point to a child PRIVACY: 3 First Line: Only begin the stories, shared with many Last Line: Privacy without end and many faces, %nothing to know, no size, much company PRIVACY: 4 First Line: Thime to forget all lions but the mild lion Last Line: Beyond which everything is only inhuman %behind which everything is commerce PRIVACY: 5 First Line: I saw the ocean because I was pushed there Last Line: When winter ans spring were the same season %and the killing lion saw the ocean unbroken PRODUCTION NUMBER First Line: All are frantic, like water-flowers PROLEGOMENA First Line: Always the last figurine, %almost an afterthought Last Line: Now in this now in that animal PROSPECT OF YOUTH First Line: Cutting the losses, taking myself back PSALMIST Poem Text First Line: The first thing out of the harp is sky Subject(s): Harps; Charity; Lyres; Philanthropy PSALMIST First Line: The first thing out of the harp is sky RAFT OF THE MEDUSA First Line: Some things are even more important RODEO AESTHETIQUE Poem Text First Line: A generative loathing overcame SAIL First Line: Children love monstrosity Last Line: I approach death likewise %out of words in no direction SCHERZO First Line: Snowfall narrows the streets and sky Last Line: Only pain and delightedness [or, only pain and delightedness to make their silence sound] SEASON TO SCALE First Line: A day too large for the summer, standing up SERMON First Line: 20,000 feet above them %I remember them really Last Line: The way that logs love fires SETTING First Line: There is nothing orphic, nothing foreign Last Line: The lawns, the orientalia SIEGE OF THE CITY OF GORKY First Line: I have no trouble staying inside the lines SIRIUS First Line: A vineleaf at the window Last Line: No one to say otherwise SOCIETIES CAN BE IMPROVED. SOCIETIES CANNOT BE GOOD First Line: An eye open %if and when Last Line: Blake you should be alive at this hour SOME MOTIONLESS CONFLICT IN THE SKY Poem Text Subject(s): Colors; Angels; Sky ST. LUCY'S DAY Poem Text First Line: All I can put my hands on, even ST. LUCY'S DAY First Line: All I can put my hands on, even STARS THEIR PERFECTION First Line: The stars their perfection Last Line: I think it moves around %and no mistake Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleep; Stars STOIC Poem Text First Line: My soul is a mind and a meander, a mrs. Luxe Last Line: There’s an animal up my sleeve, and it’s killing me Subject(s): Soul SURVEY First Line: I am so lonely for the twentieth century Last Line: That knows everyone and is as delicate %as peach blossom. But the poor years come too late SWAN AUTUMN First Line: All soul's day unobscures the city parks TABARD AND TERRACE First Line: In a small town with a bad museum THALES First Line: As evidence taking Last Line: Because it moves iron %has a soul THANKSGIVING FOR A SON First Line: Sudden fever stills Last Line: A child's presage THE CHILDREN Poem Text First Line: In three directions Subject(s): Social Commentaries THE NIGHT ORCHARD Poem Text First Line: They have given me a room near the power station Subject(s): United States; America THE NORTHEAST CORRIDOR Poem Text First Line: The bar in the commuter station steams Subject(s): Railroad Stations; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE OLD CAUSES Poem Text First Line: In the cool future, one will put off her dress by a window Last Line: Crowned with the future's coronal of lamplight Subject(s): Future THE READY FLOWER Poem Text First Line: The ready flower / and feathers jig THE STARS THEIR PERFECTION Poem Text First Line: The stars their perfection Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleep; Stars; Sleeplessness THERE ARE THREE First Line: The moment advances Last Line: This is a tune THERIOT COVE Poem Text First Line: In the lights of the boathouse that lead you Subject(s): Boats; Parties THIRTIES First Line: Everything is becoming beautifully slim TIMOR MORTIS CONTURBAT ME First Line: Tropical licorice %inside me %two places Last Line: Sweet %rotted bougainvillea %good outside TO PENELOPE Poem Text First Line: Nothing impossible as this one time Subject(s): Absence; Longing; Homecoming; Separation; Isolation TO PENELOPE First Line: Nothing impossible as this one solitude TO THE DESTROYERS OF BALLOTS First Line: For his cancer %my dog drinks Last Line: Over no prey %man and dog TO THE LORD PROTECTOR First Line: It is incredible Last Line: My author sang and was deep in her showing TOMB First Line: A/c not yet standard %the windows were opened Last Line: Every day he lived %his windows opened onto palm trees TRYING TO LIVE First Line: Something on fire at the base of everything UNREAL PRECISION OF THE HOUSES AT FIRST LIGHT Poem Text Subject(s): Memory; Women; Fathers; War UPON DIAGNOSIS First Line: Being so fast, the things Last Line: To literally everything %elemental so everlasting UPON THE DEATH OF ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Text First Line: In the capital Subject(s): Ginsberg, Allen (1926-1997) VIETNAM EPIC TREATMENT Poem Text First Line: It doesn't matter Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 VIRGIL WATCHED THEM Poem Text Subject(s): Fathers; Children; Childhood VORACITY First Line: He raised the expectations. They delayed Last Line: I delayed, and now I must haul away %the side of the house, where it is withered WARM DAYS IN JANUARY Poem Text First Line: It has never been so easy to cry Subject(s): City & Town Life; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Ancestors & Ancestry; Hotels; Male-female Relations; Heritage; Heredity; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses WARM DAYS IN JANUARY First Line: It has never been so easy to cry Last Line: To explicit laws no young woman adores %or young man follows with darling hunger WARNINGS First Line: Still early %trapped in the eddy, bottles will not rise Last Line: Like a breastband of pines. %yellowbird, make me wings WATERS OF 1989 First Line: It is the right time for hallucinations Last Line: Below them, newborns swim and deserts flower %that should have no children of their own WAYS THERE ARE First Line: As you drive up to the sign that reads 'el dorado' WEEDS First Line: Fire is the other face %and the young Last Line: And not apostles %the problem is new again WHAT CAN STOP THIS Poem Text First Line: What can stop this Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets WHAT CAN STOP THIS First Line: What can stop this Last Line: But it makes no difference anymore trombone Subject(s): Music And Musicians; Poetry And Poets WHY AND WHY NOW First Line: There is no through Last Line: By illness, unconscious in his daughter's bed, cannot answer WHY HISTORY IMITATES GOD First Line: The near past and the near future are poor WORLD First Line: Where is india or even one body Last Line: Signalling with bright lights frantically. %they said it was the end of the world and to go faster WORLD'S FAIR CITIES First Line: To many people on both sides of a window XENOPHANES First Line: Let things %be believed Last Line: What men call rainbow that too is a cloud ZION Poem Text First Line: Suddenly copper roses glow on the deadwood. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life |
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