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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: REXROTH, KENNETH Matches Found: 822 Rexroth, Kenneth Poet's Biography 822 poems available by this author 140 SYLLABLES Poem Text First Line: All my life I have wondered Last Line: Out of all the dirty squares Subject(s): Expressionism - Poets; Poetry & Poets; Social Protest 140 SYLLABLES First Line: All my life I have wondered Last Line: Out of all the dirty squares Subject(s): Expressionism - Poets; Poetry And Poets; Social Protest 22-AUG-39 First Line: What is it all for, this poetry Last Line: Writers and readers of the liberal weeklies? Subject(s): Poetry And Poets 22-AUG-39 First Line: When you want to distract your mother from the Last Line: Writers and readers of the liberal weeklies? Subject(s): Injustice; Sacco-vanzetti Case (1921); Speculation A BESTIARY Poem Text First Line: The man who found the aardvark Last Line: Had sneaked off to africa Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals A BREAD AND BUTTER LETTER Poem Text First Line: Although it was not my home Last Line: The window smelled just the same Subject(s): Plums; Smells; Plum Trees; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances A CHRISTMAS NOTE FOR GERALDINE UDELL Poem Text First Line: Do the prairie flowers, the huge autumn Subject(s): Christmas; War; Nativity, The A COTTAGE IN THE MIDST' Poem Text Last Line: The flight of cawing crows Subject(s): Calm; Forests; Landscape; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Woods A COTTAGE IN THE MIDST' Poem Text A DAWN IN A TREE OF BIRDS' Poem Text Last Line: And then another Subject(s): Birds; Dawn; Trees; Sunrise A DAWN IN A TREE OF BIRDS' Poem Text A FLUTE OVERHEARD Poem Text First Line: Grey summer / low tide the sea in the air Subject(s): Flutes; Love; Socrates (470-399 B.c.) A LESSON IN GEOGRAPHY Poem Text First Line: The stars of the great bear drift apart Subject(s): Geography A LETTER TO WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text First Line: Dear bill / when I search the past for you Subject(s): Letters; Poetry & Poets; Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963) A LETTER TO YVOR WINTERS Poem Text First Line: Again tonight I read 'before disaster' Subject(s): Winters, Yvor (1900-1968) A LIVING PEARL Poem Text First Line: At sixteen I came west, riding Subject(s): West (u.s.); Youth; Southwest; Pacific States A LONG LIFETIME' A NEOCLASSICIST Poem Text First Line: I know your moral sources, prig Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Man-woman Relationships; Old Age; Dead, The; Nightmares; Male-female Relations A PROLEGOMENON TO A THEODICY Poem Text First Line: This the mortared stone Subject(s): Evil; Justice A SINGING VOICE Poem Text First Line: Once, camping on a high bluff Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Voices A SONG AT THE WINEPRESSES Poem Text First Line: It is the end of the grape Subject(s): Nature; Santa Barbara, California A VERY EARLY MORNING EXERCISE Poem Text First Line: Chan yuen is on the threshold of a remarkable career Subject(s): Introspection; Men; Nanking, China ABSORBENT GLIMMER OF THE NIGHT' Last Line: Great hills slide silently into the sea Subject(s): Night; Passion ADONIS IN SUMMER Poem Text First Line: The lotophagi with their silly hands Subject(s): Adonis; Mythology - Classical; Mythology - Greek ADONIS IN SUMMER First Line: The lotophagi with their silly hands Last Line: A mad old man, plucking at my sleeve Subject(s): Adonis; Mythology - Classical; Mythology - Greek ADONIS IN WINTER Poem Text First Line: Persephone awaits him in the dim boudoir Subject(s): Adonis; Aphrodite; Mythology - Classical; Mythology - Greek; Persephone; Proserpine; Proserpina ADONIS IN WINTER First Line: Persephone awaits him in the dim boudoir Last Line: Their mortal lechery in dispassionate hell Subject(s): Adonis; Aphrodite; Mythology - Classical; Mythology - Greek; Persephone ADVANTAGES OF LEARNING First Line: I am a man with no ambitions Last Line: Nymphomaniacs of my imagination Subject(s): Learning; Self-criticism ADVENT Poem Text First Line: The year draws down. In the meadows Subject(s): Antoninus, Saint (1389-1459); God; Religion; Theology ADVENT First Line: The year draws down. In the meadows Last Line: God goes again to birth Subject(s): Antoninus, Saint (1389-1459); God; Religion ADVISING AN ADULT Poem Text First Line: No wish to leave unseen Subject(s): Advice; Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Life; Poetry & Poets ADVISING AN ADULT First Line: No wish to leave unseen Last Line: Ice black on the green shoots %the taut chain Subject(s): Advice; Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Life; Poetry And Poets AFTER AKIKO-- YORU NO CHO NI First Line: In your frost white kimono Last Line: Your wind blown hair and you cry, %'the first snow!' Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Snow AFTER AKIKO--'YORU NO CHO NI' First Line: In your frost white kimono AFTER SA'ADI Poem Text First Line: I said, 'I do not fear the Last Line: Strength failed me Subject(s): Affliction; Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Strength; Parting AFTER SA'ADI First Line: I said, 'I do not fear the Last Line: Strength failed me Subject(s): Affliction; Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Strength AFTER SAPPHO Poem Text First Line: I loved you, leslie, long ago Last Line: When I was just an ungainly boy Subject(s): Love; Past; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Youth AFTER SAPPHO First Line: I loved you, leslie, long ago Last Line: When I was just an ungainly boy Subject(s): Love; Past; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Youth AFTER THE ANTHOLOGY Poem Text First Line: Artemis, more passionate Last Line: To sleep exhausted until you return Subject(s): Artemis; China; Mythology - Classical; Passion AFTER THE ANTHOLOGY First Line: Artemis, more passionate Last Line: To sleep axhausted till you return Subject(s): Artemis; China; Mythology - Classical; Passion AGAIN AT WALDHEIM Poem Text First Line: How heavy the heart is now, and every heart Subject(s): Death; Social Protest; Dead, The AGAIN AT WALDHEIM First Line: How heavy the heart is now, and every heart Last Line: Coalition of the blood of men Subject(s): Death; Social Protest AIR AND ANGELS: 1. THE NIGHT ONLY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Moonlight now on malibu Subject(s): Loves; Kissies; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations AIR AND ANGELS: 2. AT LEAST THAT ABANDON Poem Text First Line: As I watch at the long window AIR AND ANGELS: 3. AN EASY SONG Poem Text First Line: It's rained every day since you AIR AND ANGELS: 4. COMING Poem Text First Line: You are driving to the airport ALL IS GONE NOW' ALL IS GONE NOW' Last Line: They break silently %into many pieces Subject(s): Grief; Solitude AMERICAN CENTURY First Line: Blackbirds whistle over the young Last Line: In the century of horror Subject(s): Children; Daughters; Love; Parents; United States AMONG THE CYPRESSES AT THE END OF THE WAY OF THE CROSS Poem Text First Line: Will you eat watermelon Last Line: And the stars speak Subject(s): Love AMONG THE CYPRESSES AT THE END OF THE WAY OF THE CROSS First Line: Will you eat watermelon Last Line: And the stars speak Subject(s): Love AN EQUATION FOR MARIE Poem Text First Line: This dream prorogued / is not a cause Subject(s): Dreams; Reality; Nightmares ANDREE REXROTH Poem Text First Line: Purple and green, blue and white Subject(s): Love; Past; Solitude; Youth; Loneliness ANDREE REXROTH First Line: Purple and green, blue and white Last Line: Flesh is utterly consumed Subject(s): Love; Past; Solitude; Youth ANDREE REXROTH (DIED OCTOBER, 1940) Poem Text First Line: Now once more gray mottled buckeye branches Subject(s): Death; Love; Dead, The ANDREE REXROTH (DIED OCTOBER, 1940) First Line: Now once more gray mottled buckeye branches Last Line: Moving seaward on this stream Subject(s): Death; Love ANDREE REXROTH: KING RIVER CANYON Poem Text First Line: My sorrow is so wide Subject(s): Canyons; Death; Grief; Love; Solitude; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness ANDREE REXROTH: KING RIVER CANYON First Line: My sorrow is so wide Last Line: Over the cobbles, in a lost spring Subject(s): Canyons; Death; Grief; Love; Solitude ANDREE REXROTH: MT. TAMALPAIS Poem Text First Line: The years have gone. It is spring Subject(s): Death; Graves; Love; Mountains; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Hills; Downs (great Britain) ANDREE REXROTH: MT. TAMALPAIS First Line: The years have gone. It is spring Last Line: Of your death Subject(s): Death; Graves; Love; Mountains ANDROMEDA CHAINED TO HER ROCK THE GREAT NEBULA IN HER HEART Poem Text First Line: The ache / the heart is never well Subject(s): Andromeda (constellation); Andromeda (mythology) ANDROMEDA CHAINED TO HER ROCK THE GREAT NEBULA IN HER HEART First Line: The ache %the heart is never well Last Line: Where the blood runs cold Subject(s): Andromeda (constellation); Andromeda (mythology) ANOTHER EARLY MORNING EXERCISE Poem Text First Line: One hundred feet overhead the fog from the pacific Subject(s): China; Morning ANOTHER EARLY MORNING EXERCISE First Line: One hundred feet overhead the fog from the pacific Last Line: Talking little, %rifles in their hands Subject(s): China; Morning ANOTHER ONE Poem Text First Line: Septimius, the forms you know so well Last Line: But not with me Subject(s): Relationships; Women ANOTHER ONE First Line: Septimius, the forms you know so well Last Line: From certitude to tock; %but not with me Subject(s): Relationships; Women ANOTHER SPRING Poem Text First Line: The seasons revolve and the years change Subject(s): Nature; Spring ANOTHER SPRING First Line: The seasons revolve and the years change Last Line: Slide unconsciously by us like water Subject(s): Nature; Spring ANOTHER TWILIGHT Poem Text First Line: Far out across the great valley Subject(s): Evening; Nature; Sunset; Twilight ANOTHER TWILIGHT First Line: Far out across the great valley Last Line: Peek out from the manzanita Subject(s): Evening; Nature APPLE GARTHS OF AVALON First Line: Here the face turns Last Line: While the sculptor makes faces and %busts Subject(s): Writing And Writers AS THE YEARS PASS' AS THE YEARS PASS' Last Line: To thousands of generations of men Subject(s): Animals; Mankind; Time ASAGUMORI Poem Text First Line: On the forest path Last Line: My sleeves wet with memory. Subject(s): Forests; Memory; Woods ASCENSION NIGHT Poem Text First Line: I take a bath enveloped Subject(s): Ascension Day; Italy; Italians ASCENSION NIGHT First Line: I take a bath enveloped Last Line: Moonlight over the alps %in a stormy sky Subject(s): Ascension Day; Italy ASPEN MEADOWS Poem Text First Line: Look. Listen. They are lighting Subject(s): Love; Relationships ASPEN MEADOWS First Line: Look. Listen. They are lighting Last Line: And the warm wet moonlight Subject(s): Love; Relationships AT LAKE DESOLATION Poem Text First Line: The sun is about to come up and the regiments lie Subject(s): Death; Injustice; Dead, The AT LAKE DESOLATION First Line: The sun is about to come up and the regiments lie Last Line: Full of dead strangers Subject(s): Death; Injustice AT LEAST THAT ABANDON Poem Text First Line: As I watch at the long window Subject(s): Air Travel AT LEAST THAT ABANDON First Line: As I watch at the long window Last Line: Of the end of a weekend Subject(s): Flight; Love; Travel AUGUST 22, 1939 Poem Text First Line: What is it all for, this poetry Subject(s): Poetry & Poets AUSONIUS, EPISTLE VII Poem Text First Line: A letter from a flier Last Line: I bribe the spring with wine Subject(s): Ausonius, Decimus Magnus (310-394); History; Historians AUSONIUS, EPISTLE VII First Line: A letter from a flier Last Line: I bribe the spring with wine' Subject(s): Ausonius, Decimus Magnus (310-394); History AUTUMN Poem Text First Line: The children have colds and snore Last Line: From the plane trees through the dark Subject(s): Autumn; Provence, France AUTUMN First Line: The children have colds and snore Last Line: From the plane trees through the dark Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons AUTUMN COVERS ALL THE WORLD Last Line: They are more thrifty than I am Subject(s): Autumn; China; Seasons AUTUMN IN CALIFORNIA Poem Text First Line: Autumn in california is a mild Subject(s): California; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) AUTUMN IN CALIFORNIA First Line: Autumn in california is a mild Last Line: Loud, wiry, and tremulous Subject(s): California; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) AUTUMN OF MANY YEARS First Line: In a ruddy light, in a craggy Last Line: Summerhouse above the hazy river Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons AUTUMN RAIN Poem Text First Line: Two days ago the sky was Last Line: Steep rocks through the soaking ferns Subject(s): Autumn; Rain; Seasons; Sky; Fall AUTUMN RAIN First Line: Two days ago the sky was Last Line: Steep rocks through the soaking ferns Subject(s): Autumn; Rain; Seasons; Sky BAD OLD DAYS First Line: The summer of nineteen eighteen Last Line: And the misery, and the %anger, and the vow are the same Subject(s): Chicago; Evil; Past; Poverty BECAUSE I CAN'T STOP Last Line: Now goes around me three times Subject(s): Clothing And Dress; Desire; Japan; Slenderness; Thought BECAUSE I DREAM Last Line: Are only dreams Subject(s): Dreams; Solitude BEI WANNSEE First Line: Evening twirling %in a thousand thanks Last Line: A thousand thanks %a waving light Subject(s): Evening; Sailors And Sailing BESTIARY First Line: The man who found the aardvark Last Line: Or a thief's colors at ascot Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals BESTIARY, SELS. BETWEEN MYSELF AND DEATH Poem Text First Line: A fervor parches you sometimes Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women; Male-female Relations BETWEEN MYSELF AND DEATH First Line: A fervor parches you sometimes Last Line: Dreams instead of myself Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women BETWEEN TWO WARS Poem Text First Line: Remember that breakfast one november Subject(s): Lament; Parties; Past BETWEEN TWO WARS First Line: Remember that breakfast one november Last Line: Over their own fragmented flesh Subject(s): Lament; Parties; Past BLOOD AND SAND Poem Text First Line: If there ever was a spoiled darling Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); Spanish Literature BLOOD AND SAND First Line: If there ever was a spoiled darling Last Line: Noticed you again, federico Subject(s): Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); Spanish Literature BLUE SUNDAY Poem Text First Line: Chestnut flowers are falling Subject(s): Cities; Houses, Deserted; Solitude; Urban Life; Loneliness BLUE SUNDAY First Line: Chestnut flowers are falling Last Line: And papers blow down the street Subject(s): Cities; Houses, Deserted; Solitude BLUES Poem Text First Line: The tops of the higher peaks Subject(s): Blue (color); Flowers; Sierra Nevada Mountains BLUES First Line: The tops of the higher peaks Last Line: This flower to its hidden senses Subject(s): Blue (color); Flowers; Sierra Nevada Mountains BONAPARTISME Poem Text First Line: Napoleon on st. Helena Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821); Writing & Writers BONAPARTISME First Line: Napoleon on st. Helena Last Line: If they are mine or another's Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821); Writing And Writers BREAD AND BUTTER LETTER First Line: Although it was not my home Last Line: The window smelled just the same Subject(s): Plums; Smells BRIDE AND GROOM Last Line: Above the typhoon Subject(s): Marriage BRIGHT IN THE EAST Last Line: By tens and thousands the stars go out Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of CAMARGUE Poem Text First Line: Green moon blaze Last Line: On the lonf surge of sleep Subject(s): Love; Sleep CAMARGUE First Line: Green moon blaze Last Line: On the long surge of sleep Subject(s): Love; Sleep CAN I COME TO YOU Last Line: Wide as the river heaven Subject(s): Heaven; Relationships CHICAGO CABARET Poem Text First Line: That was a strange game of chess Subject(s): Chicago; Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels CHICAGO CABARET First Line: That was a strange game of chess Last Line: Pure indian that kid %and some jazz' Subject(s): Chicago; Prostitution CHRISTMAS Poem Text First Line: The biggest tree in provence Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The CHRISTMAS First Line: The biggest tree in provence Last Line: In the sky at the road's end Subject(s): Christmas CHRISTMAS NOTE FOR GERALDINE UDELL First Line: Do the prairie flowers, the huge autumn Last Line: Of the flowing ocean Subject(s): Christmas; War CINQUE TERRE Poem Text First Line: A voice sobs on colored sand Last Line: Silver olive trees Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of CINQUE TERRE First Line: A voice sobs on colored sand Last Line: Silver olive trees Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of CITY OF THE MOON First Line: The sun sets as the moon Last Line: Always read those of heaven Subject(s): Moon CITY OF THE MOON, SELS First Line: Buddha took some autumn leaves Last Line: Than can ever be numbered CLEAR AUTUMN Poem Text First Line: This small flat clearing is not Last Line: Brilliant under a gauze of light Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall CLEAR AUTUMN First Line: This small flat clearing is not Last Line: Brilliant under a gauze of light Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons CLIMBING MILESTONE MOUNTAIN, AUGUST 22, 1937 Poem Text First Line: For a month now, wandering over the sierras Subject(s): Sacco-vanzetti Case (1921) CLIMBING MILESTONE MOUNTAIN, AUGUST 22, 1937. Poem Text First Line: For a month now, wandering over the sierras Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Sacco-vanzetti Case (1921); Sierra Nevada Mountains CLIMBING MILESTONE MOUNTAIN, AUGUST 22, 1937. First Line: For a month now, wandering over the sierras Last Line: Many men, along time, comrade Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Sacco-vanzetti Case (1921); Sierra Nevada Mountains CODICIL Poem Text First Line: Most of the world's poetry Subject(s): Expressionism - Poets; Poetry & Poets; Self CODICIL First Line: Most of the world's poetry Last Line: The use of the pronoun, 'I' Subject(s): Expressionism - Poets; Poetry And Poets; Self COLD BEFORE DAWN' Poem Text Last Line: As if in pain Subject(s): Birds; Cold; Dawn; Night; Peacocks; Sunrise; Bedtime COLD BEFORE DAWN' Poem Text COLD BEFORE DAWN' Last Line: The peacocks cry to each other, %as if in pain Subject(s): Birds; Cold; Dawn; Night; Peacocks COMING First Line: You are driving to the airport Last Line: To your curving lips and your %ivory thighs Subject(s): Abandonment; Longing; Love; Reunions CONFUSION OF THE SENSES Poem Text First Line: Moonlight fills the senses Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Romance; Male-female Relations CONFUSION OF THE SENSES First Line: Moonlight fills the senses Last Line: Do you hear? We are breathing. We are alive Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Romance CONFUSION; FOR NANCY SHORES Poem Text First Line: I pass your home in a slow vermilion dawn Subject(s): Home; Love; Relationships CONFUSION; FOR NANCY SHORES First Line: I pass your home in a slow vermilion dawn Last Line: Until a fallen [or, till a wet] vermilion petal quivers before me [or, on my hand] Subject(s): Home; Love; Relationships CONSULAR DIVIDES AND THE BUTTES GLOW Poem Text CONSULAR DIVIDES AND THE BUTTES GLOW Last Line: Masts at the end of the streets Subject(s): Nature COTTAGE IN THE MIDST' Last Line: The flight of cawing crows Subject(s): Calm; Forests CRISIS First Line: Earth upon earth %between the confines of the day Last Line: The head in the hands, %the urn upon the knee Subject(s): Earth; Nature; Sky; Stars DATIVE HARUSPICES Poem Text First Line: Film and filament, no Subject(s): Life DATIVE HARUSPICES First Line: Film and filament, no Last Line: Guarded by an arrow %in what hour Subject(s): Life DAWN IN A TREE OF BIRDS' Last Line: And then another Subject(s): Birds; Dawn; Trees DE FERA DORMITA First Line: Annos tres vesperi, passer venit, sub tecto Last Line: Capite velato, dormiens in tenebra glauca Subject(s): Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963) DEATH, JUDGMENT, HEAVEN, HELL Poem Text First Line: The functioning total then Last Line: The tangent creeping ultre herculis columnas Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH, JUDGMENT, HEAVEN, HELL First Line: The functioning total then Last Line: The tangent creeping ultra herculis columnas Subject(s): Death DELIA REXROTH Poem Text First Line: California rolls into Subject(s): Mothers DELIA REXROTH First Line: California rolls into Last Line: Of your torn and distraught life Subject(s): Mothers DELIA REXROTH (DIED JUNE, 1916) Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Under your illkempt yellow roses Subject(s): Love; Mothers DELIA REXROTH (DIED JUNE, 1916) First Line: Under your illkempt yellow roses Last Line: And knowledge past your agony wand waste Subject(s): Love; Mothers DIALOGUE OF WATCHING First Line: Let me celebrate you. I Last Line: One more beautiful than you Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Marriage; Women DID A CUCKOO CRY? Poem Text Subject(s): Cuckoos DID A CUCKOO CRY? Last Line: Perishing! Perishing! Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Moon; Night DIMANCHE BLEU Poem Text First Line: Chestnut flowers are falling Subject(s): City & Town Life; Abandonment; Desertion DISCRIMINATION Poem Text First Line: I don't mind the human race Subject(s): Mankind; Race Awareness; Racism; Human Race; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry DISCRIMINATION First Line: I don't mind the human race Last Line: And you must admit, they smell Subject(s): Mankind; Race Awareness; Racism DISORDER OF MY HAIR Last Line: My hollow eyes and gaunt cheeks %are your fault Subject(s): Grief; Weariness DOUBLE HELLAS First Line: Before the ice the convulsions of Last Line: To walk the seastrand of sculpt and colored stones and shells Subject(s): Life DOUBLED MIRRORS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: It is the dark of the moon Subject(s): Insects; Nature; Raccoons; Spiders; Bugs DOUBLED MIRRORS First Line: It is the dark of the moon Last Line: Across immeasurable distance Subject(s): Insects; Nature; Raccoons; Spiders DRAGON AND THE UNICORN (COMPLETE) First Line: And what is love?' said pilate DRAGON AND THE UNICORN: 2 First Line: The art of worldly wisdom Last Line: Man, eagle, bull, and lion Subject(s): Dragons; France; Unicorns DRAGON AND THE UNICORN: 2, SELS. First Line: Discursive knowledge, knowledge by DRAGON AND THE UNICORN: 3 First Line: Zoroaster long ago %said poetry presents us Last Line: Ever saw growing on the trees Subject(s): Dragons; Italy; Unicorns DRAGON AND THE UNICORN: 3, SELS. First Line: Boswell: 'sir, what is the chief.' DRAGON AND THE UNICORN: 4 First Line: Over switzerland broods the Last Line: Love who moves the sun and other stars Subject(s): Dragons; Religion; Unicorns DRAGON AND THE UNICORN: 4, SELS. First Line: I come back to the cottage in Last Line: Long rollers wrinkling the dark bay Variant Title(s): Only Year Subject(s): Love; Time DRAGON AND THE UNICORN: 5 First Line: New york a grey haze with flights of Last Line: Across immeasurable distance Subject(s): Cities; Dragons; Unicorns DRAGON OF THE UNICORN: 1 First Line: And what is love?' said pilate Last Line: The dragon and the unicorn Subject(s): Dragons; Love; Unicorns DRAMATIC LIGHT, GOLD AND ROSE' Last Line: I miss the skies of venice, the most noble in the world DRY AUTUMN Poem Text First Line: In the evening, just before Last Line: Mountains to eat your tender heart Subject(s): Animal Rights; Autumn; Innocence; Seasons; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Fall DRY AUTUMN First Line: In the evening, just before Last Line: Mountains to eat your tender heart Subject(s): Animal Rights; Autumn; Innocence; Seasons EASY LESSONS IN GEOPHAGY Poem Text First Line: The leonids having fallen Subject(s): Thought; Thinking EASY LESSONS IN GEOPHAGY First Line: The leonids having fallen Last Line: It loses energy as it gets older, traveling %through space Subject(s): Thought EASY SONG First Line: It's rained every day since you Last Line: In the perfume of your flesh. %moi aussi, je suis content Subject(s): Contentment; French Language; Love; Man-woman Relationships EDUCATION Poem Text First Line: Now to the dry hillside Subject(s): Education; Knowledge; Nature; Teaching & Teachers EDUCATION First Line: Now to the dry hillside Last Line: Your speaking lips and moving hand Subject(s): Education; Knowledge; Nature; Teaching And Teachers EIGHT FOR ORNETTE'S MUSIC Poem Text First Line: If the pain is greater Subject(s): Love; Music & Musicians; Trust; Coleman, Orenette (1930-2012 EIGHT FOR ORNETTE'S MUSIC First Line: If the pain is greater Last Line: It will never be any different Subject(s): Love; Music And Musicians; Trust ELEGY ON ENCOUNTERING THE TROUBLE OF THE WORLD Poem Text First Line: Young, in spring, I gathered Subject(s): Children; Nature; Parents; Sargent, Dudley Allen (1849-1924); Childhood; Parenthood ELEGY ON ENCOUNTERING THE TROUBLE OF THE WORLD First Line: Young, in spring, I gathered Last Line: Legs twinkle in the deep %meadow amongst flowers Subject(s): Children; Nature; Parents; Sargent, Dudley Allen (1849-1924) EMITTING A FLOOD OF LIGHT Last Line: Forces which came from without Subject(s): Love - Loss Of EMPTY MIRROR Poem Text First Line: As long as we are lost Subject(s): Self EMPTY MIRROR First Line: As long as we are lost Last Line: Snake skin and an uncut stone Subject(s): Self ENTRANCE Poem Text First Line: Whether or not, it is no question now Subject(s): Lament; Life; Relationships ENTRANCE First Line: Whether or not, it is no question now Last Line: Of the pattern of our lives Subject(s): Lament; Life; Relationships EQUATION FOR MARIE First Line: This dream prorogued %is not a cause Last Line: For it is being %and no seeming Subject(s): Dreams; Reality ERINNERUNG Poem Text First Line: At the door of my thatched hut Last Line: Sounds like the rustle of brocaded silk Subject(s): China; Gingko Trees; Wind ERINNERUNG First Line: At the door of my thatched hut Last Line: Sounds like the rustle of brocaded silk Subject(s): China; Gingko Trees; Wind ET POUR EUX SEULS, LES PARADIS CHANTENT ENCORE' First Line: There is a mist that moves off acheron ET POUR EUX SEULS, LES PARADIS CHANTENT ENCORE' First Line: There is a mist that moves off acheron Last Line: Measure of my eternities Subject(s): Nature; Self FACT Poem Text First Line: Chirotherium tracks occur Subject(s): Encyclopedia; Mammals; Reproductive System; Women; Sex Organs; Genitalia FACT First Line: In the encyclopedia %are facts on which you can't improve Last Line: The female hyena, it is %very large' Subject(s): Encyclopedia; Mammals; Reproductive System; Women FACT First Line: Chirotherium tracks occur Last Line: Mainly in the middle bunter Subject(s): Knowledge FALL OF CH'OU First Line: Jade pendants chime before the dawn audience Last Line: Tow hearts singing like chiming jade Subject(s): China; Nature FALLING LEAVES AND EARLY SNOW Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: In the years to come they will say Last Line: The moon has a sheen like a glacier Subject(s): Leaves; Nature; Snow FALLING LEAVES AND EARLY SNOW First Line: In the years to come they will say Last Line: The moon has a sheen a glacier Subject(s): Leaves; Nature; Snow FAMILY First Line: Late night %coming back to melbourne Last Line: And two in the bottomless water Subject(s): Stars; Universe FEBRUARY 1944 [OR, THE GIANT WEAPON] Poem Text First Line: Today the giant weapon came Subject(s): Anniversaries; Arms & Armor; Books; Marriage; Winters, Yvor (1900-1968); Reading; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FEBRUARY 1944 [OR, THE GIANT WEAPON] First Line: Today the giant weapon came Last Line: Found, in doubled vision no cost %of time or death shall blind Subject(s): Anniversaries; Arms And Armor; Books; Marriage; Winters, Yvor (1900-1968) FIFTY Poem Text First Line: Rainy skies, misty mountains Subject(s): Middle Age FIFTY First Line: Rainy skies, misty mountains Last Line: My fiftieth year has come Subject(s): Middle Age FIRE Poem Text First Line: The air is dizzy with swallows Subject(s): Italy; Sex; Italians FIRE First Line: The air is dizzy with swallows Last Line: As though it were filled with doves Subject(s): Italy; Sex FISH PEDDLER AND COBBLER Poem Text First Line: Always for thirty years now Last Line: Savage eyed whores paraded the streets Subject(s): Change; Past; Progress; Social Protest; United States; America FISH PEDDLER AND COBBLER First Line: Always for thirty years now Last Line: Savage eyed whores paraded the street Subject(s): Change; Past; Progress; Social Protest; United States FLOATING Poem Text First Line: Our canoe idles in the idling current Subject(s): Love FLOATING First Line: Our canoe idles in the idling current Last Line: On [or, in] our mortal, timeless flesh Subject(s): Love FLOWER SUTRA First Line: Deep drowsy shade under the broad leaves Last Line: Flutter about, watching me and crying, %'kegonkyo' Subject(s): Flowers FLOWERS SLEEP BY THE WINDOW Last Line: Destiny counts the clock ticks in decimals Subject(s): Fate; Silence FLUTE OVERHEARD First Line: Grey summer %low tide the sea in the air Last Line: Reading socrates on death Subject(s): Flutes; Love; Socrates (470-399 B.c.) FOR A MASSEUSE AND PROSTITUTE Poem Text First Line: Nobody knows what love is anymore Subject(s): Prostitution; Touch (sense); Women; Harlots; Whores; Brothels FOR A MASSEUSE AND PROSTITUTE First Line: Nobody knows what love is anymore Last Line: Every hour there is less of that touch in the world Subject(s): Prostitution; Touch (sense); Women FOR ELI JACOBSON Poem Text First Line: There are few of us now, soon Subject(s): Brotherhood; Men FOR ELI JACOBSON First Line: There are few of us now, soon Last Line: Happiest men alive in our day Subject(s): Brotherhood; Men FOR THE CHINESE ACTRESS, GARDENIA CHANG Poem Text First Line: When tu fu was a small boy Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Love; Tu Fu (712-770); Du Fu FOR THE CHINESE ACTRESS, GARDENIA CHANG First Line: When tu fu was a small boy Last Line: The deep heart of a jewel Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Love; Tu Fu (712-770) FRAGRANCE OF THE TEAPOT' Last Line: And I no longer fear %that it may strike Subject(s): Teapots FRIGHTENING A CHILD First Line: It's not wise to go walking in the ruin Last Line: Or weaving violets in an endless chain Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Children; Poetry And Poets; Ruins FROM THE PARIS COMMUNE TO THE KRONSTADT REBELLION Poem Text First Line: Remember now there were others before this Subject(s): Death; Paris, France; Revolutions; Social Protest; Dead, The FROM THE PARIS COMMUNE TO THE KRONSTADT REBELLION First Line: Remember now there were others before this Last Line: And people remembering in the future Subject(s): Death; Paris, France; Revolutions; Social Protest FROM THE PERSIAN (1) Poem Text First Line: Naked out of the dark we came Subject(s): Love; Nudity; Nakedness FROM THE PERSIAN (1) First Line: Naked out of the dark we came Last Line: Come to my arms, naked in the dark Subject(s): Love; Nudity FROM THE PERSIAN (2) Poem Text First Line: You are like the moon except Subject(s): Beauty; Bodies; Love; Nature; Nudity; Women; Nakedness FROM THE PERSIAN (2) First Line: You are like the moon except Last Line: Most splendid naked, at night Subject(s): Beauty; Bodies; Love; Nature; Nudity; Women FULL MOON OF SPRING Last Line: On pale velvet, set with gems Subject(s): Astronomy And Astronomers; Moon; Spring; Stars FULL MOON SHINES ON Last Line: Attend you with gifts of joy Subject(s): China; Holidays; New Year; Time FUNDAMENTAL DISAGREEMENT WITH TWO CONTEMPORARIES First Line: From any event intervals radiate in Last Line: Their jaws were broken, they died %and lay unburied Subject(s): Mathematics; Thought FURTHER ADVANTAGES OF LEARNING Poem Text First Line: One day in the library Subject(s): Buddhism; Learning; Libraries & Librarians; Buddha; Buddhists FURTHER ADVANTAGES OF LEARNING First Line: One day in the library Last Line: Busy place of a better world Subject(s): Buddhism; Learning; Librarians And Libraries GAMBLING Poem Text First Line: Thoughts of you spatter my thought Last Line: That smell of marzipan Subject(s): Card Games; Gambling; Loss; Relationships; Playing Cards; Wagering; Betting GAMBLING First Line: Thoughts of you spatter my thought Last Line: That smell of marzipan Subject(s): Card Games; Gambling; Loss; Relationships GAS OR NOVOCAIN Poem Text First Line: Here I sit, reading the stoic Last Line: The senses, and the right / to homosexuality Subject(s): Books; Latin; Reading GAS OR NOVOCAIN First Line: Here I sit, reading the stoic Last Line: The senses, and the right %to homosexuality Subject(s): Books; Latin GENTLEMEN, I ADDRESS YOU PUBLICLY Poem Text First Line: They said no one would ever care Subject(s): Thought; Time; Waiting; Thinking GENTLEMEN, I ADDRESS YOU PUBLICLY First Line: They said no one would ever care Last Line: Some one screaming sees it from a boat Subject(s): Thought; Time; Waiting GIC TO HAR Poem Text First Line: It is late at night, cold and damp Last Line: Ten years in an unfriendly city Subject(s): Encyclopedia; Introspection; Solitude; Loneliness GIC TO HAR First Line: It is late at night, cold and damp Last Line: Ten years in an unfriendly city Subject(s): Encyclopedia; Introspection; Solitude GOLDEN SECTION Poem Text First Line: Paestum of the twice blooming Subject(s): Love GOLDEN SECTION First Line: Paestum of the twice blooming Last Line: Deep bosomed angels, wet with sweat Subject(s): Love GRADUALISM Poem Text First Line: We slept naked / on top of the covers and woke Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Sex; Male-female Relations GRADUALISM First Line: We slept naked %on top of the covers and woke Last Line: Even in mexico even for us' Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Sex GROWING First Line: Who are you? Who am I? Haunted Last Line: Our selves for the [or, each] other Subject(s): Death; Love HABEAS CORPUS First Line: You have the body, blood and bone Last Line: Blood biding the worm and his time Subject(s): Bodies HANGED MAN First Line: Storm lifts from wales Last Line: It is all just like the poet said Subject(s): England; Love - Unrequited; Poetry And Poets HAPAX Poem Text First Line: Holy week. Once more the full moon Last Line: What does it mean. This is not a question, but an exclamation Subject(s): Nature; Space And Space Travel; Speculation; Universe HAPAX First Line: Holy week. Once more the full moon Last Line: This is not a question, but %an exclamation Subject(s): Nature; Space And Space Travel; Speculation; Universe HARMODIUS AND ARISTOGETITON First Line: Last night, reading the anthology Last Line: Your act is vocal still. Men grow deaf Subject(s): Books; Epitaphs HEART UNBROKEN AND THE COURAGE FREE First Line: It is late autumn, the end of indian summer Last Line: I look at them, they are the color of snow Subject(s): Autumn; Eyes; Nature; Seasons HEART'S GARDEN, THE GARDEN'S HEART (COMPLETE) First Line: Young rice plants are just being Last Line: Dissipate in the clear sky Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Hearts; Love HIGH PROVENCE Poem Text First Line: Every evening at seven o'clock Last Line: Swimming overf the mediterranian Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Nature; Romance; Provence, France; Male-female Relations HIGH PROVENCE First Line: Every evening at seven o'clock Last Line: Swimming over the mediterranean Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Nature; Romance HIKING ON THE COAST RANGE Poem Text First Line: The skirl of the kingfisher was never Subject(s): Labor Unions; Murder; San Francisco; Strikes; Labor Disputes; Lockouts HIKING ON THE COAST RANGE First Line: The skirl of the kingfisher was never Last Line: There is no %other source than this Subject(s): Labor Unions; Murder; San Francisco; Strikes HOJOKI Poem Text First Line: Venus in the pale green sky Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Spring; Summer; Winter; Fall HOJOKI First Line: Venus in the pale green sky Last Line: Busy all night long tonight Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Spring; Summer; Winter HOMER IN BASIC Poem Text First Line: Glitter of nausicaa's / embroideries, flashing arms Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey HOMER IN BASIC First Line: Glitter of nausicaa's %embroideries, flashing arms Last Line: Ever fell or odysseus %ever sailed from home Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry And Poets HOMESTEAD CALLED DAMASCUS First Line: Heaven is full of definite stars Last Line: Full of dead strangers Subject(s): Damascus, Syria HOMESTEAD CALLED DAMASCUS (COMPLETE) First Line: Heaven is full of definite stars HOMESTEAD CALLED DAMASCUS: 2. AUTUMN MANY YEARS, SELS. First Line: How short a time for a life to last HOMESTEAD CALLED DAMASCUS: 3. THE DOUBLE HELLAS, SELS. First Line: The world is composed of a pair of HOMESTEAD CALLED DAMASCUS: 4. STIGMATA OF FACT, SELS. First Line: Morphololgy, repeats ontology HORNY DILEMMA Poem Text First Line: I have long desired to shine Last Line: To martial's brief excursions Subject(s): Sex HORNY DILEMMA First Line: I have long desired to shine Last Line: To martial's brief excursions Subject(s): Sex HUMAN, AVIAN, VEGETABLE, BLOOD Poem Text First Line: Today, three days before christmas Subject(s): Fruit; Nature; Robins HUMAN, AVIAN, VEGETABLE, BLOOD First Line: Today, three days before christmas Last Line: The barren mexican mountains Subject(s): Fruit; Nature; Robins I AM FIFTY-TWO YEARS OLD' Poem Text Last Line: ?Took me cruising on his yacht Subject(s): Middle Age; Self-criticism; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes I AM FIFTY-TWO YEARS OLD' I AM FIFTY-TWO YEARS OLD' Last Line: Is better not to be rich Subject(s): Middle Age; Self-criticism; Wealth I CANNOT ESCAPE FROM YOU Poem Text Subject(s): Love I CANNOT ESCAPE FROM YOU Last Line: Of which nothing can be said Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of I DO NOT REMEMBER THE NUMBER' I DO NOT REMEMBER THE NUMBER' Last Line: Upon your trembling eyelids Subject(s): Kisses; Memory; Relationships I DREAM OF LESLIE Poem Text First Line: You entered my sleep Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares I DREAM OF LESLIE First Line: You entered my sleep Last Line: That I was old and you a shade Subject(s): Dreams I LIKE TO THINK OF YOU NAKED Last Line: Its cloud of intimate odor %dreams instead of myself I LOOK AROUND Last Line: In the autumn evening Subject(s): Autumn; Evening; Seasons I WAITED ALL NIGHT Last Line: Birds tormented me Subject(s): Dreams; Longing I WONDER IF YOU CAN KNOW Last Line: How utterly banished I am Subject(s): Grief ICE SHALL COVER NINEVEH Poem Text First Line: Distant on the meridian verges Last Line: And for this wheat what winnowing floor what flail Subject(s): Glaciers; Ice; Legends ICE SHALL COVER NINEVEH First Line: Distant on the meridian verges Last Line: And for this wheat what winnowing floor what flail Subject(s): Glaciers; Ice; Legends ILLUSION First Line: When we were young, because we Last Line: We thought we were middle-aged Subject(s): Fictional Characters; Youth IN THAT HOUR I HAVE SEEN' Poem Text Last Line: To the moon Subject(s): Affliction; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness IN THAT HOUR I HAVE SEEN' IN THAT HOUR I HAVE SEEN' Last Line: In a mirror of %ice Subject(s): Affliction; Grief IN THE DARK FOREST THE WHISPER' IN THE DARK FOREST THE WHISPER' Last Line: Of a million waves Subject(s): Forests; Leaves; Waves IN THE MEMORY OF ANDREE REXROTH Poem Text First Line: Is a question of mutual being Last Line: It is held by a very old very endurable / meaning Subject(s): Death; Memory; Dead, The IN THE MEMORY OF ANDREE REXROTH First Line: Is a question of mutual being Last Line: Is held by a very old very endurable %meaning Subject(s): Death; Memory IN THE MONTH OF GREAT HEAT Last Line: It is time to leave' Subject(s): Crickets; Heat IN THE OPEN SEA Poem Text Subject(s): Sea; Ocean IN THE SUMMER, BY THE RIVER Poem Text Subject(s): Fireflies; Glowworms INCARNATION Poem Text First Line: Climbing alone all day long Subject(s): Love INCARNATION First Line: Climbing alone all day long Last Line: Real beyond flower or stone Subject(s): Love INCENSE Poem Text First Line: Her boudoir is ornamented with Last Line: Only by their singular frequency Subject(s): Property; Rooms; Women; Possessions INCENSE First Line: Her boudoir is ornamented with Last Line: Only by their singular frequency Subject(s): Property; Rooms; Women INTO THE SHANDY WESTERNESS Poem Text First Line: Do you understand the managing Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.); Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963); Southwest; Pacific States INTO THE SHANDY WESTERNESS First Line: Do you understand the managing Last Line: Down under the peonies. As it gets darker they disappear Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.); Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963) INVERSELY, AS THE SQUARE OF THEIR DISTANCES APART Poem Text First Line: It is impossible to see anything Subject(s): Love; Solitude; Loneliness INVERSELY, AS THE SQUARE OF THEIR DISTANCES APART First Line: It is impossible to see anything Last Line: Distance of loneliness Subject(s): Love; Solitude IS IT JUST THE WIND Last Line: But I only become more restless Subject(s): Longing; Waiting IT IS A GERMAN HONEYMOON First Line: They are stalking humming birds Last Line: Found, you could not see it in %an electron microscope Subject(s): Germany; Marriage IT ROLLS ON Poem Text First Line: Irresolute, pausing on a doubtful journey Last Line: Here, in this place, each year Subject(s): Autumn; Past; Seasons; Fall IT ROLLS ON First Line: Irresolute, pausing on a doubtful journey Last Line: Here, in this place, each year Subject(s): Autumn; Past; Seasons IT TURNS OVER First Line: The lightning does not go out Last Line: Of midsummer midnight Subject(s): Night; Sky JANUARY NIGHT Poem Text First Line: In front of me on my desk Last Line: And climb towards the sun Subject(s): January; Night; Seashore; Storms; Winter; Bedtime; Beach; Coast; Shore JANUARY NIGHT First Line: In front of me on my desk Last Line: And climb towards the sun Subject(s): January; Night; Seashore; Storms; Winter LA VIE EN ROSE Poem Text First Line: Fog fills the little square Last Line: Around and around Subject(s): France; Waiting LA VIE EN ROSE First Line: Fog fills the little square Last Line: Around and around Subject(s): France; Waiting LAST PAGE OF A MANUSCRIPT Poem Text First Line: Light / light LAST PAGE OF A MANUSCRIPT First Line: Light %light %the silver in the firmament Last Line: Tris agies %the sapphire snow %hryca hryca nazaza LAST VISIT TO THE SWIMMING POOL SOVIETS Poem Text First Line: Lives in the woods Last Line: Keep off my bandwagon you sow! Subject(s): Parties; Superficiality; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes LAST VISIT TO THE SWIMMING POOL SOVIETS First Line: Lives in the woods Last Line: Keep off my bandwagon you sow! Subject(s): Parties; Superficiality; Wealth LATE HALF MOON First Line: Late half moon %high over head Last Line: In the moonfilled dawn Subject(s): Birds; Moon; Owls; Space And Space Travel LATE NIGHT, UNDER THE Last Line: Honey of summer Subject(s): Seasons LATE SPRING Poem Text First Line: Before he goes, the uguisu Subject(s): Spring LATE SPRING Last Line: No man can ever learn Subject(s): Mankind; Spring LEAVING L'ATELIER - AIX-EN-PROVENCE Poem Text First Line: Bare trees / smoky lavender twigs Last Line: Under the morning moon Subject(s): Aix, France; Farewell LEAVING L'ATELIER - AIX-EN-PROVENCE First Line: Bare trees %smoky lavender twigs Last Line: Under the morning moon Subject(s): Nature LEDA HIDDEN Poem Text First Line: Christmas eve, unseasonable cold Subject(s): Christmas; Parks; Snow; Nativity, The LEDA HIDDEN First Line: Christmas eve, unseasonable cold Last Line: And the snow and the odor %of the frosty water Subject(s): Christmas; Parks; Snow LESSON IN GEOGRAPHY First Line: The stars of the great bear drift apart Last Line: That speaks and hears as though it were myself Subject(s): Geography LETTER TO WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS First Line: Dear bill %when I search the past for you Last Line: With love and admiration, %kenneth rexroth Subject(s): Letters; Poetry And Poets; Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963) LETTER TO YVOR WINTERS First Line: Again tonight I read 'before disaster' Last Line: Swords that shall not strike? Subject(s): Winters, Yvor (1900-1968) LIGHT ON THE PEWTER DISH First Line: Driving across the huge bridge Last Line: During the thirty years' war Subject(s): Navy - United States; War LIGHTS IN THE SKY ARE STARS: A MAZE OF SPARKS OF GOLD First Line: Spring -- the rain goes by, the stars Last Line: Under the bright wasting stars Subject(s): Love; Stars LIGHTS IN THE SKY ARE STARS: A SWORD IN A CLOUD OF LIGHT First Line: Your hand in mine, we walk out %to watch the christmas eve crowds Last Line: Abstractions of the rascals %hwo live by killing you and me Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Love; Stars LIGHTS IN THE SKY ARE STARS: BLOOD ON A DEAD WORLD First Line: A blowing night in late fall Last Line: She asks. I do not answer Subject(s): Eclipses; Love LIGHTS IN THE SKY ARE STARS: HALLEY'S COMET First Line: When in your middle years Last Line: River that flows now in your veins Subject(s): Halley's Comet; Love LIGHTS IN THE SKY ARE STARS: PROTOPLASM OF LIGHT First Line: How long ago Last Line: During an eclipse. I saw it %long ago Subject(s): Love; Planets LIGHTS IN THE SKY ARE STARS: THE GREAT NEBULA OF ANDROMEDA First Line: We get into camp after Last Line: To murder you while you sleep Subject(s): Andromeda (constellation); Camping; Love LIGHTS IN THE SKY ARE STARS: THE HEART OF HERAKLES First Line: Lying under the stars Last Line: Have an eye that sees itself Subject(s): Love; Stars LIKE QUEEN CHRISTINA Poem Text First Line: Orange and blue and then grey Subject(s): Love; Women LIKE QUEEN CHRISTINA First Line: Orange and blue and then grey Last Line: Laughing like a splendid jewel Subject(s): Love; Women LIVING PEARL First Line: At sixteen I came west, riding Last Line: She will be one year old Subject(s): West (u.s.); Youth LONELINESS First Line: To think of you surcharged with Last Line: The word freedom. The word peace Subject(s): Love; Solitude LONG LIFETIME' Last Line: Infinitely small - %infinitely large Subject(s): Life; Mankind; Time LONG PAST MIDNIGHT, I WALK OUT Last Line: An owl marking time for the silence Subject(s): Nature; Night LOST ETC. Poem Text First Line: The expatriates of the Last Line: Than the eighteenth amendment Subject(s): History; Poetry & Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972); Revolutions; U.s. - Constitution; U.s. - History; Historians LOST ETC. First Line: The expatriates of the Last Line: Than the eighteenth amendment Subject(s): History; Poetry And Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972); Revolutions; U.s. - Constitution; U.s. - History LOST LOVE Poem Text First Line: Geese fly from north to south Last Line: Wind never blows Subject(s): China; Love - Loss Of LOST LOVE First Line: Geese fly from north to south Last Line: Wind never blows Subject(s): China; Love - Loss Of LOVE ME. AT THIS MOMENT WE Last Line: People in the world Subject(s): Happiness; Love LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO (COMPLETE) First Line: I sit at my desk Last Line: Like the pale moon in the dawn Subject(s): Love; Poetry And Poets LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 1 First Line: I sit at my desk Last Line: And will not stop Subject(s): Longing; Love LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 10 First Line: Frost covers the reeds of the marsh Last Line: My full heart throbs with bliss Subject(s): Happiness; Nature LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 11 First Line: Uguisu sing in the blossoming trees Last Line: To the ports of love Subject(s): Love; Sailors And Sailing LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 12 First Line: Come to me, as you come Last Line: Glowing through the night-bound forest Subject(s): Desire; Romance LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 13 First Line: Lying in the meadow, open to you Last Line: Hazy smoke half hides %my rose petals Subject(s): Nature; Relationships LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 14 First Line: On the bridges Last Line: Nothing of mine is burning LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 16 First Line: Scorched with love, the cicada Last Line: My flesh is consumed with love Subject(s): Love; Nature LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 17 First Line: Let us sleep together here tonight Last Line: Our heads on the rocks Subject(s): Sleep; Togetherness LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 18 First Line: Fires Last Line: No one knows Subject(s): Desire; Hearts LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 19 First Line: I pass the day tense, day Last Line: The evening bells ring from temple to temple Subject(s): Day; Happiness; Night; Relationships LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 2 First Line: If I thought I could get away Last Line: And a mile is longer than a million miles Subject(s): Relationships; Travel LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 20 First Line: Who is there? Me Last Line: And we are us Subject(s): Identity; Relationships; Self LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 23 First Line: I wish I could be Last Line: To embrace you forever Subject(s): Kisses; Romance LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 24 First Line: I scream as you bite Last Line: Had been cut in two Subject(s): Erotic Love; Pleasure; Sex LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 25 First Line: Your tongue thrums and moves Last Line: Of a vast expanding pearl Subject(s): Erotic Love LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 26 First Line: It is the time when Last Line: Brant write the character of 'heart' Subject(s): Hearts; Language; Nature LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 27 First Line: As I came from Last Line: Buttocks shivered against you Subject(s): Baths And Bathing; Erotic Love; Nudity LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 28 First Line: Spring is early this year Last Line: Moon, night smells like your body Subject(s): Bodies; Nature; Spring LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 3 First Line: Oh the anguish of these secret meetings Last Line: Words with no connection Subject(s): Family Life; Fear; Man-woman Relationships; Secrets LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 31 First Line: Some day in six inches of Last Line: By our love, its orgin %and passing away Subject(s): Death; Love LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 32 First Line: I hold your head tight between Last Line: Boat on the river of heaven Subject(s): Erotic Love; Sex LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 33 First Line: I cannot forget %the perfumed dusk inside the Last Line: After a long night of love Subject(s): Memory; Sex LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 34 First Line: Every morning, I %wake alone, dreaming my Last Line: Arm is your sweet flesh %pressing my lips Subject(s): Desire; Kisses; Longing LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 35 First Line: The uguisu sleeps in the bamboo grove Last Line: Now she sleeps in a bamboo cage Subject(s): Bamboo LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 36 First Line: I am sad this morning Last Line: As you passed my shoji Subject(s): Grief; Relationships LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 4 First Line: You ask me what I thought about Last Line: I didn't have anything to think about Subject(s): Love; Speculation; Thought LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 40 First Line: As the wheel follows the hoof Last Line: As you leave me in the dawn Subject(s): Grief; Relationships LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 42 First Line: How many lives ago Last Line: Yet I know I will enter again and again Subject(s): Love LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 43 First Line: Two flowers in a letter Last Line: Wild geese cry overhead. %nothing else Subject(s): Nature; Night LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 47 First Line: How long, long ago Last Line: We swept through clouds of fireflies Subject(s): Nature; Sailors And Sailing LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 48 First Line: Now the fireflies of our youth Last Line: Of our middle age Subject(s): Middle Age LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 50 First Line: In the park a crow awakes Last Line: For the years that are gone Subject(s): Grief; Past LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 51 First Line: Did you take me because you loved me? Last Line: To experiment on my heart? Subject(s): Love - Complaints LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 52 First Line: Once I shone afar like a Last Line: Alone, like the unicorn Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Solitude LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 53 First Line: Without me you can only Last Line: I am your wisdom Subject(s): Relationships; Wisdom LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 54 First Line: I hate this shadow of a ghost Last Line: And wonder, have I grown so thin? Subject(s): Aging LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 55 First Line: The night is too long to the sleepless Last Line: On the twisted paths of love? Subject(s): Love - Complaints LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 56 First Line: This flesh you have loved Last Line: In uji river, the current and the mist %are taking me Subject(s): Life LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 57 First Line: Night without end. Loneliness Last Line: Did it matter? They were only for me Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Solitude LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 58 First Line: Half in a dream Last Line: Grows fainter and fades away Subject(s): Autumn; Grief; Seasons; Time LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 6 First Line: Just us %in our little house Last Line: Listen. Hear the wind in the trees.' Subject(s): Calm; Togetherness LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 60 First Line: Chilled through, I wake up Last Line: Like the pale moon in the dawn LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 7 First Line: Making love with you Last Line: But to drink the entire sea Subject(s): Love; Sex LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 9 First Line: You wake me Last Line: Of the first morning of the world Subject(s): Morning; Sex LUCRETIUS, III, 1053-1076 Poem Text First Line: Baudelaire knew what it was like Last Line: Cannot be called very helpful Subject(s): Lucretius (99-55 B.c.) LUCRETIUS, III, 1053-1076 First Line: Baudelaire knew what it was like Last Line: Cannot be called very helpful Subject(s): Lucretius (99-55 B.c.) LUTE MUSIC Poem Text First Line: The earth will be going on a long time Subject(s): Love; Lutes LUTE MUSIC First Line: The earth will be going on a long time Last Line: Into untraveled spaces of the stars Subject(s): Love; Lutes LYELL'S HYPOTHESIS AGAIN Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The mountain road ends here Subject(s): Geology; Love; Nature LYELL'S HYPOTHESIS AGAIN First Line: The mountain road ends here Last Line: Printed on the immortal %hydrocarbons of flesh and stone Subject(s): Geology; Love; Nature MARICHI First Line: An hour before sunrise Last Line: Risen sun - star and crescent gone into light Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Nature; Nudity MAROON BELLS Poem Text First Line: How can I love you more than Last Line: The light love you and love you Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of; Metaphor; Similes MAROON BELLS First Line: How can I love you more than Last Line: The light love you and love you Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of; Metaphor MARRIED BLUES Poem Text First Line: I didn't want it, you wanted it Subject(s): Marriage; Reality; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MARTIAL - XII, LII Poem Text First Line: This is your own lover, kenneth, marie Subject(s): Death; Love; Lust; Man-woman Relationships; Dead, The; Male-female Relations MARTIAL - XII, LII First Line: This is your own lover, kenneth, marie Last Line: Dead bones at my still glowing ashes Subject(s): Death; Love; Lust; Man-woman Relationships MARY AND THE SEASONS, SELS. MAXIMIAN, ELEGY 5 Poem Text First Line: The sky is perfectly clear Subject(s): Chaos; Grief; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Social Protest; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations MAXIMIAN, ELEGY 5 First Line: The sky is perfectly clear Last Line: Ever lived, had stepped across my grave Subject(s): Chaos; Grief; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Social Protest ME Poem Text First Line: The bleeding hearts in the garden Subject(s): Grief; Self-pity; Sorrow; Sadness ME First Line: The bleeding hearts in the garden Last Line: I float in the plunging year Subject(s): Grief; Self-pity ME AGAIN Poem Text First Line: They say I do not realize Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Morality; War; Anti-war Protests; Ethics ME AGAIN First Line: They say I do not realize Last Line: Sitting at my typewriter Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Morality; War MEMORANDUM Poem Text First Line: If distraught shall be the word or not Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness MEMORANDUM First Line: If distraught shall be the word or not Last Line: Distraught or not, the iron at the throat Subject(s): Grief METEMPSYCHOSIS Poem Text First Line: Two months old, already Last Line: Pass faces long past and dead Subject(s): Babies; Death; Faces; Infants; Dead, The METEMPSYCHOSIS First Line: Two months old, already Last Line: Pass faces long past and dead Subject(s): Babies; Death; Faces MIDNIGHT, THE WANING MOON Last Line: The first flowers of autumn Subject(s): Night; Seasons MINUTE FINGERS OF A TINY WIND' Last Line: Walk back the way we came Subject(s): Relationships; Wind MIRROR Poem Text First Line: The afternoon ends with red MIRROR First Line: The afternoon ends with red Last Line: With white feet, and swaying hips, %and fragrant sex Subject(s): Canyons; Nature; Nudity MIRROR IN THE WOODS First Line: A mirror hung on the broken Last Line: The wood rats and moss work unseen Subject(s): Ballet; Dancing And Dancers; Daughters; Houses, Deserted; Mirrors; Parents MISSISSIPPI RIVER First Line: Autumn morning %these are the ghosts of tears Last Line: And strangle the harpers %of the waterfall Subject(s): Mississippi River; Rivers MOCKING BIRDS Poem Text First Line: In mid-march in the heart of Subject(s): Love; Mockingbirds MOCKING BIRDS First Line: In mid-march in the heart of Last Line: With the songs of mocking birds Subject(s): Love; Mockingbirds MONADS Poem Text First Line: As the sun comes in the window Subject(s): Aquariums MONADS First Line: As the sun comes in the window Last Line: In the stratosphere Subject(s): Aquariums MOONLESS NIGHT' MOONLESS NIGHT' Last Line: Melancholy fills the heart Subject(s): Melancholy; Night MOTHER GOOSE First Line: Do not pick my rosemary Last Line: Girl, I think we're through' Subject(s): Affliction; Grief MOTHER GOOSE (1) Poem Text First Line: A gold and silver bird Last Line: Come home! Come home! Subject(s): Birds; Homecoming MOTHER GOOSE (2) Poem Text First Line: Hidden in the briar bush Last Line: With a billion ladies' pee MOTHER GOOSE (3) Poem Text First Line: Last night I saw in the moon Last Line: I'll drink mine Subject(s): Moon; Rabbits; Wine MOTHER GOOSE (4) Poem Text First Line: Do not pick my rosemary Last Line: And throw them after me Subject(s): Affliction; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness MOTTO ON THE SUNDIAL First Line: It is september and the wry corn rattles Last Line: Once it has spoken it shall never be silenced Subject(s): Sundials MY HEART'S AS GAY AS A YOUNG SUNFLOWER Poem Text First Line: Oh, who will shoe your pretty little foot Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Parting; Male-female Relations MY HEART'S AS GAY AS A YOUNG SUNFLOWER First Line: Oh, who will shoe your pretty little foot Last Line: It'll stay right there till the day I die, %for all men to behold Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Man-woman Relationships NEATNESS IS ALL Poem Text First Line: Out of ptolemy's principle Last Line: Immortal cosmophages Subject(s): Ptolemy I, King Of Egypt NEATNESS IS ALL First Line: Out of ptolemy's principle Last Line: Immortal cosmophages Subject(s): Ptolemy I, King Of Egypt NEOCLASSICIST First Line: I know your moral sources, prig Last Line: Old women, waited, patiently Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Man-woman Relationships; Old Age NERVES GRIND QUIETLY IN THE TWILIGHT Last Line: The eyes gaze quiet at the fading embers Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; October; Seasons NEW MOON HAS REACHED Last Line: Month ago we were strangers Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships NEW OBJECTIVES, NEW CADRES First Line: Before the inevitable act Last Line: We already understand it Subject(s): History NEW YEAR First Line: I walk on the cold mountain above the city Last Line: In the branches of the chestnuts that are gone Subject(s): Holidays; Nature; New Year NIGHT BELOW ZERO Poem Text First Line: 3 am, the night is absolutely still Subject(s): Night; Skiing; Speculation; Bedtime NIGHT BELOW ZERO First Line: 3 am, the night is absolutely still Last Line: Locked between the mountains Subject(s): Night; Skiing; Speculation NO WORD Poem Text First Line: The trees hang silent Last Line: Has ever rung Subject(s): Silence; Talk NO WORD First Line: The trees hang silent Last Line: Like bells no one %has ever rung Subject(s): Silence; Talk NO! Poem Text First Line: I have closed my ears, I refuse Subject(s): Grief; Past; Sorrow; Sadness NO! First Line: I have closed my ears, I refuse Last Line: The past you want. You are wrong Subject(s): Grief; Past NORETORP-NORETSYH Poem Text First Line: Rainy, smoky fall, clouds tower Subject(s): Evil; Social Protest NORETORP-NORETSYH First Line: Rainy, smoky fall, clouds tower Last Line: Of the world covets your living flesh Subject(s): Evil; Social Protest NORTH PALISADE, THE END OF SEPTEMBER, 1939 Poem Text First Line: The sun drops daily down the sky Subject(s): Winter NORTH PALISADE, THE END OF SEPTEMBER, 1939 First Line: The sun drops daily down the sky Last Line: Ours is the peace to find Subject(s): Winter NORTHAMPTON, 1922 - SAN FRANCISCO, 1939 Poem Text First Line: All night rain falls through fog Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Past; Male-female Relations NORTHAMPTON, 1922 - SAN FRANCISCO, 1939 First Line: All night rain falls through fog Last Line: With children on the verge of youth Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Past NOTHING IN THE WORLD IS WORTH Poem Text Last Line: Fills us with glory Subject(s): Love NOTHING IN THE WORLD IS WORTH Last Line: Fills us with glory Subject(s): Love NOVEMBER HAS HUNG THE LOCUST' NOVEMBER HAS HUNG THE LOCUST' Last Line: That claw my %window Subject(s): Locusts; November NOW THE STARLIT MOONLESS SPRING Poem Text NOW THE STARLIT MOONLESS SPRING Last Line: After they have had their coffee Subject(s): California; Love; Paris, France; Spring OAXACA 1925 Poem Text First Line: You were a beautiful child Subject(s): Love; Love Affairs; Man-woman Relationships; Past; Male-female Relations OAXACA 1925 First Line: You were a beautiful child Last Line: And black shadows in the moonlight %a lifetime ago Subject(s): Love; Love Affairs; Man-woman Relationships; Past OBSERVATIONS IN A CORNISH TEASHOP Poem Text First Line: How can they write or paint Last Line: Fed intravenously? Subject(s): Cornwall, England; Social Protest; Speculation OBSERVATIONS IN A CORNISH TEASHOP First Line: How can they write or paint Last Line: Would it be nicer to be %fed intravenously? Subject(s): Cornwall, England; Social Protest; Speculation OKEANOS AND THE GOLDEN SICKLE First Line: Where is the toothed estuary the toothed Last Line: Softer than the old elementalisms Subject(s): Music And Musicians; Women OLD SONG AND DANCE First Line: You, because you love me, hold Last Line: The children laugh in the air Subject(s): Love - Marital OLD STREET First Line: I think these houses are the ghosts Last Line: Close in upon my heels Subject(s): Houses; Imagination ON A BEAUTIFUL BAR BUTTERFLY IN THE BLACK CAT First Line: Vinea submittit car(e)as non semper edulis Last Line: She-goats bred in vineyards are not always edible Subject(s): Goats; Latin; Nonsense ON A FLYLEAF OF RIME - GASPARA STAMPA First Line: While the light of canaletto Last Line: Are the two halves of my heart Subject(s): Love; Venice, Italy ON A MILITARY GRAVEYARD Poem Text First Line: Stranger, when you come to washington Subject(s): Arlington National Cemetery; Death; Graves; Military; Soldiers; Washington, D.c.; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones ON A MILITARY GRAVEYARD First Line: Stranger, when you come to washington Last Line: Obedient to their orders Subject(s): Arlington National Cemetery; Death; Graves; Military; Soldiers; Washington, D.c. ON FLOWER WREATH HILL First Line: An aging pilgrim on a Last Line: Circle of dancing gopis Subject(s): Forests; Introspection; Nature; Self; Thought ON FLOWER WREATH HILL: 1 Poem Text First Line: An aging pilgrim on a Last Line: In the streets of thhazy city Subject(s): Forests; Introspection; Nature; Self; Thought; Woods; Thinking ON FLOWER WREATH HILL: 1 First Line: An aging pilgrim on a Last Line: In the streets of the hazy city ON FLOWER WREATH HILL: 2 First Line: Who was this princess under Last Line: Two thousand year old cypress ON FLOWER WREATH HILL: 3 First Line: The full moon rises over Last Line: Lights of the city remain ON FLOWER WREATH HILL: 4 Poem Text First Line: No leaf stirs. I am alone Last Line: Rustles softly like fine silk Subject(s): Forests; Introspection; Nature; Self; Thought ON FLOWER WREATH HILL: 4 First Line: No leaf stirs. I am alone Last Line: Rustles softly like fine silk ON FLOWER WREATH HILL: 5 Poem Text First Line: This world of ours, before we Last Line: Sands of the shores of all the world Subject(s): Forests; Introspection; Nature; Self; Thought ON FLOWER WREATH HILL: 5 First Line: This world of ours, before we Last Line: Sands of the shores of all the world ON FLOWER WREATH HILL: 6 First Line: Clustered in the forest around Last Line: As they were two months ago ON FLOWER WREATH HILL: 7 First Line: Night shuts down the misty mountains Last Line: And man but a little while ON FLOWER WREATH HILL: 8 First Line: Oborozuki, %drowned moon Last Line: Circle of dancing gopis ON THE EVE OF THE PLEBISCITE First Line: The mistral blows, the plane leaves Last Line: By whose indifferent consent they rule Subject(s): Government; Upper Classes ON THE MOUNTAIN Last Line: Cries out, seeking her mate Subject(s): Pheasants ON THE POST OFFICE Poem Text First Line: Have you ever forgotten Last Line: That noble sentence of / herodous? Subject(s): Herodotus (484-420 B.c.); New York State ON THE POST OFFICE First Line: Have you ever forgotten Last Line: That noble sentence of %herodotus? Subject(s): Herodotus (484-420 B.c.); New York State ON WHAT PLANET Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Uniformly over the whole countryside Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Planets ON WHAT PLANET First Line: Uniformly over the whole countryside Last Line: On saturn, with the rings and all the moons' Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Planets ONCE AGAIN I HEAR Last Line: I am overwhelmed by the past Subject(s): Past ONLY THE SEA MIST Last Line: Full moon %void only Subject(s): Moon; Nature; Nothingness; Sea ONLY YEARS Poem Text First Line: I come back to the cottage in Last Line: Long rollers wrinkling the dark bay Variant Title(s): Only Years Subject(s): Love; Time OPEN THE BLIND Poem Text First Line: Nests in the eaves stir in the dawn Last Line: Ten billion years before we ever met Subject(s): Love OPEN THE BLIND First Line: Nests in the eaves stir in the dawn Last Line: Ten billion years before we ever met Subject(s): Love ORANGE AND SILVER Last Line: The wind from siberia Subject(s): Evening; Siberia; Stars ORGANIZATION MEN IN AFFLUENT SOCIETY Poem Text First Line: It is deep twilight, my wife Subject(s): Antony, Marc (83-30 B.c.); Books; Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); History; Love; Marcus Antonius; Anthony, Mark; Reading; Historians ORGANIZATION MEN IN AFFLUENT SOCIETY First Line: It is deep twilight, my wife Last Line: Armpits, the bed full of bugs Subject(s): Antony, Marc (83-30 B.c.); Books; Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); History; Love ORGANON First Line: Intact as concave %for cause as varnished Last Line: To speak it was there %a single old Subject(s): Life ORPHIC SOUL First Line: As I walk slowly along Last Line: Kept secret even from myself Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Self; Soul OTTFFSSENTE Poem Text First Line: Twelve / a dozen / a docent Last Line: All sang / do Subject(s): Africa OTTFFSSENTE First Line: Twelve %a dozen %a docent Last Line: And the tiger %all sang %do Subject(s): Africa OUR HOME IS IN THE ROCKS First Line: Breasted, beginning his lectures Last Line: So still in your hand, breathless, with %dulling eyes Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Egypt PACIFIC BEACH Poem Text First Line: This is the sea called peaceful Subject(s): Love; Pacific Ocean PACIFIC BEACH First Line: This is the sea called peaceful Last Line: Fleet gleam like a golden town %in another country Subject(s): Love; Pacific Ocean PARITY Poem Text First Line: My uncle believed he had Subject(s): Character; Identity; Self PARITY First Line: My uncle believed he had Last Line: And go about his business Subject(s): Character; Identity; Self PARK IN THE PUBLIC'S OR IN THE PUBLIC, PARKS Poem Text First Line: Cessible / inack / cessibleinack Last Line: Ny. Inack kyack Subject(s): New York State; Parks PARK IN THE PUBLIC'S OR IN THE PUBLIC, PARKS First Line: Cessible %inack %cessibleinack Last Line: N.Y. Inack kyack Subject(s): New York State; Parks PAST AND FUTURE FALL AWAY' Poem Text PAST AND FUTURE FALL AWAY' Last Line: Sea surface. %no place. %no time Subject(s): Future; Past PAST AND FUTURE TURN ABOUT Poem Text First Line: Autumn has returned and we return Subject(s): Future; Past PAST AND FUTURE TURN ABOUT First Line: Autumn has returned and we return Last Line: A windrow of the terribly %red dogwood leaves Subject(s): Future; Past PAST MIDNIGHT' Poem Text Last Line: Creep through the duckweed Subject(s): Ice; Night; Bedtime PAST MIDNIGHT' PAST MIDNIGHT' Last Line: Creep through the duckweed Subject(s): Ice; Night PHAEDO Poem Text First Line: After midnight mass Last Line: Sleeping at the foot of the cross Subject(s): Christmas; Stars; Nativity, The PHAEDO First Line: After midnight mass Last Line: Sleeping at the foot of the cross Subject(s): Christmas; Stars PHOENIX AND THE TORTOISE First Line: Webs of misery spread in the brain Last Line: Of ten thousand thousand years Subject(s): Phoenix (mythical Bird); Turtles PHOENIX AND THE TORTOISE (COMPLETE) First Line: Webs of misery spread in the brain PHOENIX AND THE TORTOISE: 2, SELS. First Line: I am cold in my folded blanket PHOENIX AND THE TORTOISE: 4, SELS. First Line: Dark within dark I cling to sleep PHONESIS First Line: And now old mammal, gall Last Line: No we didn't find it Subject(s): Nature PLACE First Line: Unique planets break Last Line: The plume of mimosa %brushing the roof Subject(s): Thought PLINY - IX,XXXVI - LAMPRIDIUS - XXIX First Line: When I remember that letter of pliny's Last Line: Return from high school Subject(s): Poverty; Writing And Writers PLOVERS CRY IN THE Last Line: Calling deep into the land Subject(s): Plovers POEM Poem Text First Line: As the full moon rises Subject(s): Farewell; Parting PORTRAIT OF A LADY First Line: She was a symphony of silent smokes Last Line: To be desired of all life's offerings Subject(s): Desire; Women PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR AS A YOUNG ANARCHIST Poem Text First Line: While things were going on in europe Subject(s): Anarchism And Anarchists; Poverty; Social Classes; Social Protest; Wealth; Youth; Caste; Riches; Fortunes PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR AS A YOUNG ANARCHIST First Line: While things were going on in europe Last Line: Stole out and shat in the golf holes Subject(s): Anarchism And Anarchists; Poverty; Social Classes; Social Protest; Wealth; Youth PRECESSION OF THE EQUINOXES First Line: Time was, I walked in the february rain Last Line: And the reassurances of my own pulse Subject(s): Love; Self; Time; Writing And Writers PRIVACY First Line: Dense fog shuts down Last Line: A man and a woman cry out with love Subject(s): Forests; Privacy; Sex PROLEGOMENON TO A THEODICY First Line: This the mortared stone Last Line: The sapphire snow %hryca hryca nazaza Subject(s): Evil; Justice PROUST'S MADELEINE Poem Text First Line: Somebody has given my Subject(s): Card Games; Death; Fathers & Daughters; Fathers & Sons; Proust, Marcel (1871-1922); Playing Cards; Dead, The PROUST'S MADELEINE First Line: Somebody has given my Last Line: Slow horses and fast women Subject(s): Card Games; Death; Fathers And Daughters; Fathers And Sons; Proust, Marcel (1871-1922) PRUFROCK IN WONDERLAND First Line: These sky-rocket etchings are my life Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares PRUFROCK IN WONDERLAND First Line: These sky-rocket etchings are my life Last Line: Lead to an overwhelming... %white rabbit Subject(s): Dreams QUIETLY First Line: Lying here quietly beside you Last Line: In your thigh caressing my cheek. Quiet Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love RAIN FALLS ON HER GLYPTIC EYELIDS Poem Text Subject(s): Rain RAIN FALLS ON HER GLYPTIC EYELIDS Last Line: The breaking bones of your wrist and knee Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Mathematics RED MAPLE LEAVES Poem Text First Line: The maple leaves are brilliant Last Line: And then I drive west into the smoky sunset Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Maple Trees; Past RED MAPLE LEAVES First Line: The maple leaves are brilliant Last Line: And then I drive west into the smoky sunset Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Maple Trees; Past REFLECTING TREES OF BEING AND NOT BEING First Line: In my childhood when I first Last Line: Golden fires and lamps of years Subject(s): Introspection; Love; Ontology; Self REQUIEM First Line: A thousand leaves slant down across the rain Last Line: Then lends itself singly to the loam Subject(s): Comfort; Home; Leaves REQUIEM FOR THE SPANISH DEAD [OR, THE DEAD IN SPAIN] Poem Text First Line: The great geometrical winter constellations Subject(s): Death; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); Dead, The REQUIEM FOR THE SPANISH DEAD [OR, THE DEAD IN SPAIN] First Line: The great geometrical winter constellations Last Line: The great nebula glimmering in his loins Subject(s): Death; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) REVOLT Poem Text First Line: Outside of the movies Last Line: London anachist group Subject(s): Eyeglasses; Spectacles REVOLT First Line: Outside of the movies Last Line: London anarchist group Subject(s): Eyeglasses ROGATION DAYS Poem Text First Line: Under the orchards, under Subject(s): Farm Life; Italy; Agriculture; Farmers; Italians ROGATION DAYS First Line: Under the orchards, under Last Line: To go nowhere at all Subject(s): Farm Life; Italy ROSA MUNDI Poem Text First Line: Bright petals of evening Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations ROSA MUNDI First Line: Bright petals of evening Last Line: As though it were filled with doves Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Love; Man-woman Relationships ROSE COLORED GLASSES Poem Text First Line: Ten years, and it's still on the Last Line: The next number is ciao, ciao, bambina Subject(s): Radio; Singing & Singers; Venice, Italy ROSE COLORED GLASSES First Line: Ten years, and it's still on the Last Line: The next number is 'ciao, ciao, bambina' Subject(s): Radio; Singing And Singers; Venice, Italy RUNAWAY Poem Text First Line: There are sparkles of rain on the bright Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations RUNAWAY First Line: There are sparkles of rain on the bright Last Line: Was a magnet to draw you always home Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships SAINT JOHN First Line: He loved you and you lay upon his breast Last Line: Kept thee for very love on calvary Subject(s): Calvary; Catholics; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ; John The Apostle, Saint (1st Century); Martyrs SCHATTEN KUSSE, SCHATTEN LIEBE First Line: Shadow kisses, shadow love Last Line: Lamps once blazing with kisses Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Solitude SENSE OF PROPORTION Poem Text First Line: The old lion hunter and I Last Line: Will never come around again Subject(s): Aging; Death; Future; Hunting; Time; Dead, The; Hunters SENSE OF PROPORTION First Line: The old lion hunter and I Last Line: Will never come round again Subject(s): Aging; Death; Future; Hunting; Time SEVEN POEMS FOR MARTHE, MY WIFE: 2, MARTHE AWAY Poem Text First Line: All night I lay awake beside you Subject(s): Marriage SEVEN POEMS FOR MARTHE, MY WIFE: 3, MARTHE LONELY Poem Text First Line: To think of you surcharged with SEVEN POEMS FOR MARTHE, MY WIFE: 4. QUIETLY Poem Text First Line: Lying here quietly beside you Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Love SEVEN POEMS FOR MARTHE, MY WIFE: 6. MARTHE GROWING Poem Text First Line: Who are you? Who am I? Haunted Subject(s): Marriage SEVEN POEMS FOR MARTHE, MY WIFE: 7. THE OLD SONG AND DANCE Poem Text First Line: You, because you love me, hold Subject(s): Lov SEVEN POEMS FOR MATHILDE, MY WIFE: 5. A DIALOGOE WATCHING Poem Text First Line: Let me celebrate you. I Subject(s): Marhriage SEVEN SONGS FOR MARTHE, MY WIFE: 1. Poem Text First Line: In my childhood when I first Last Line: Golden fires and lamps of years Subject(s): Knowledge; Self; Relationships SHARP IN MY HEART Poem Text First Line: Come, o my love, and lay you down Subject(s): Lament; Love; Love - Complaints SHARP IN MY HEART First Line: Come, o my love, and lay you down Last Line: I wish I never had seen Subject(s): Lament; Love; Love - Complaints SHE IS AWAY First Line: All night I lay awake beside you Last Line: Through all my flesh the blood of truth Variant Title(s): Marthe Away (she Is Away Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Night SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS First Line: My head and shoulders, and my book Last Line: Of pale cold light that was alive Subject(s): Nature; Self SILVER SWANS: 14. HOTOTOGISU - HOROBIRETE First Line: The cuckoo's call, though Last Line: Against the spring Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos SILVER SWANS: 19 First Line: The drowned moon plunges Last Line: Their winter nests, in the moments of dark Subject(s): Nature; Winter SILVER SWANS: 4 First Line: Under the half moon Last Line: Still, behind the gas heater Subject(s): Crickets SINGING VOICE First Line: Once, camping on a high bluff Last Line: Common song like an %angelic memory Subject(s): Love; Singing And Singers; Voices SINGLE RAY IN THE DAWN Last Line: With love which light up all the world Subject(s): Happiness; Light; Love SLOWLY THE MOON RISES' Poem Text Last Line: Forms in my mind Subject(s): Faces; Love; Moon SLOWLY THE MOON RISES' Poem Text SLOWLY THE MOON RISES' Last Line: Forms in my mind Subject(s): Faces; Love; Moon SNOW Poem Text First Line: Low clouds hand on the mountain Last Line: Purple and citron and leaves Subject(s): Snow SNOW First Line: Low clouds hand on the mountain Last Line: Purple and citron oak leaves Subject(s): Snow SOMETIMES. A SORT OF ERASURE Poem Text SOMETIMES. A SORT OF ERASURE Last Line: Through pursued by the magna mater Subject(s): Thought SONG AT THE WINEPRESSES First Line: It is the end of the grape Last Line: The archangel, and tobit %and the faithful dog Subject(s): Nature; Santa Barbara, California SONG FOR A DANCER Poem Text First Line: I dream my love goes riding out Last Line: U[pn my lips they laid Subject(s): Beauty; Women SONG FOR A DANCER First Line: I dream my love goes riding out Last Line: Upon my lips they laid' Subject(s): Beauty; Women SONGS FOR MARIE'S LUTEBOOK Poem Text First Line: The blue-eyed grass is opening now Subject(s): Nature; Time SONGS FOR MARIE'S LUTEBOOK First Line: The blue-eyed grass is opening now Last Line: And when it is too late for haste, %remember this Subject(s): Nature; Time SOTTOPORTICO SAN ZACCARIA Poem Text First Line: It rains on the roofs Last Line: In the female smell of venice Subject(s): Love Affairs; Venice, Italy SOTTOPORTICO SAN ZACCARIA First Line: It rains on the roofs Last Line: In the female smell of venice Subject(s): Love Affairs; Venice, Italy SPARK IN THE TINDER OF KNOWING First Line: Profound stillness in the greystone Last Line: Of my person in time Subject(s): Life; Love SPEAK NOT, LET NO WORD BREAK' Poem Text SPEAK NOT, LET NO WORD BREAK' Last Line: With the silence I have placed on them Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Loss; Relationships; Silence; Weariness SPRING First Line: I sit under the old oak Last Line: In the hollow trunk will be %busy all night long tonight SPRING First Line: There are no images here Last Line: Beginning of another spring Subject(s): Nature; Spring SPRING First Line: In the morning all the almond trees Last Line: The movement of leaves and stones Subject(s): Nature; Provence, France; Spring SPRING First Line: Wind in almond blossoms Last Line: Soldiers shoot at paper men Subject(s): Spring SPRING (1) Poem Text First Line: In the morning all the almond trees Last Line: The movement of leaves and stones Subject(s): Spring SPRING (2) Poem Text First Line: Wind in almond blossoms Last Line: Soldiers shoot at paper men Subject(s): Spring SPRING PUDDLES GIVE WAY' Poem Text Last Line: Change to singing birds Subject(s): Change; Nature; Rain; Spring SPRING PUDDLES GIVE WAY' Poem Text SPRING PUDDLES GIVE WAY' Last Line: Change to singing birds Subject(s): Change; Nature; Rain; Spring SPRING RAIN Poem Text First Line: The smoke of our campfire lowers Last Line: The throb and hiss of the rain SPRING RAIN First Line: The smoke of our campfire lowers Last Line: The throb and hiss of the rain Subject(s): Camping; Forests; Rain; Spring STAR AND CRESCENT Poem Text First Line: The air has the late summer Subject(s): Evening; Summer; Sunset; Twilight STAR AND CRESCENT First Line: The air has the late summer Last Line: A voice speaks in the silence Subject(s): Evening; Summer STATE AND 32ND, COLD MORNING BLUES Poem Text First Line: A girl in a torn chemise Subject(s): City & Town Life; Morning STIGMATA OF FACT First Line: This calcined idiocy, the fool Last Line: Tiny, closing doors of silence Subject(s): Damascus, Syria STILL ON THE WATER Poem Text First Line: Solitude closes down around us Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Solitude; Loneliness STILL ON WATER Poem Text First Line: Solitude closes down around us Subject(s): Calm; Love; Nature; Nudity; Swimming & Swimmers; Water; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Nakedness; Swimmers STILL ON WATER First Line: Solitude closes down around us Last Line: Of your nude jubilation Subject(s): Calm; Love; Nature; Nudity; Swimming; Water STONE AND FLOWER Poem Text First Line: Here in america, / by the other ocean Subject(s): England; Poetry & Poets; United States; War; English; America STONE AND FLOWER First Line: Here in america, %by the other ocean Last Line: Sky to the black water %and turns it all to ice Subject(s): England; Poetry And Poets; United States; War STRENGTH THROUGH JOY Poem Text First Line: Coming back over the col between Subject(s): Death; Introspection; Mountains; Self; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain) STRENGTH THROUGH JOY First Line: Coming back over the col between Last Line: Standing sentry for the avalanche Subject(s): Death; Introspection; Mountains; Self SUCH WAS OUR GARDEN' First Line: That is all, merely / a matter of poised SUCH WAS OUR GARDEN' First Line: That is all, merely %a matter of poised Last Line: Crimson daggers- %fleshy, %and phallic Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Relationships SUCHNESS Poem Text First Line: In the theosophy of light Subject(s): Universe SUCHNESS First Line: In the theosophy of light Last Line: Is camphor, whose flames leave no ashes Subject(s): Universe SUFFICIENT First Line: Ancre ridgedge et poissoble gongpoint Last Line: Invariant as grace, as the answer %plenum Subject(s): Social Protest; Thought SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST Poem Text First Line: I realize as I / cast out over the lake Last Line: Made from your blonde pubic hair Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Love; Marriage; Past; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST First Line: I realize as I %cast out over the lake Last Line: Made from your blonde pubic hair Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Love; Marriage; Past THE ABSORBENT GLIMMER OF THE NIGHT' THE ADVANTAGES OF LEARNING Poem Text First Line: I am a man with no ambitions Subject(s): Learning; Self-criticism THE AMERICAN CENTURY Poem Text First Line: Blackbirds whistle over the young Subject(s): Children; Daughters; Love; Parents; United States; Childhood; Parenthood; America THE APPLE GARTHS OF AVALON Poem Text First Line: Here the face turns Last Line: A single old Subject(s): Writing & Writers THE AUTUMN OF MANY YEARS Poem Text First Line: In a ruddy light, in a craggy Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall THE BAD OLD DAYS Poem Text First Line: The summer of nineteen eighteen Subject(s): Chicago; Evil; Past; Poverty THE CRISIS Poem Text First Line: Earth upon earth / between the confines of the day Last Line: Felt that he wished to sit and sharpen an arrow Subject(s): Earth; Nature; Sky; Stars; World THE DOUBLE HELLAS Poem Text First Line: Before the ice the convulsions of Last Line: To walk the sea strand of sculpt and colored stones and shells Subject(s): Life THE DRAGON AND THE UNICORN: 3, SELECTION Poem Text First Line: Zoroaster long ago / said poetry presents us Subject(s): Dragons; Italy; Unicorns; Italians THE DRAGON AND THE UNICORN: 4 Poem Text First Line: Over switzerland broods the Subject(s): Dragons; Religion; Unicorns; Theology THE DRAGON AND THE UNICORN: 5 Poem Text First Line: New york a grey haze with flights of Subject(s): Cities; Dragons; Unicorns; Urban Life THE DRAGON OF THE UNICORN: 1 Poem Text First Line: And what is love?' said pilate Subject(s): Dragons; Love; Unicorns THE FALL OF CH'OU Poem Text First Line: Jade pendants chime before the dawn audience Last Line: Two hearts singing like chiming jade Subject(s): China; Nature; Jade THE FLOWER SUTRA Poem Text First Line: Deep drowsy shade under the broad leaves Subject(s): Flowers THE FRAGRANCE OF THE TEAPOT' THE FULL MOON SHINES ON Poem Text Subject(s): Moon THE HANGED MAN Poem Text First Line: Storm lifts from wales Last Line: It is all just like the poet said Subject(s): England; Love - Unrequited; Poetry & Poets; English THE HEART UNBROKEN AND THE COURAGE FREE Poem Text First Line: It is late autumn, the end of indian summer Last Line: I look at them, they are the color of snow Subject(s): Autumn; Eyes; Nature; Seasons; Fall THE HEART'S GARDEN, THE GARDEN'S HEART (COMPLETE) Poem Text First Line: Young rice plants are just being Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Hearts; Love THE HOMESTEAD CALLED DAMASCUS Poem Text First Line: Heaven is full of definite stars Subject(s): Damascus, Syria THE LIGHTS IN THE SKY ARE STARS: A MAZE OF SPARKS OF GOLD Poem Text First Line: Spring -- the rain goes by, the stars Last Line: Under the bright wasting stars Subject(s): Love; Stars THE LIGHTS IN THE SKY ARE STARS: A SWORD IN A CLOUD OF LIGHT Poem Text First Line: Your hand in mine, we walk out / to watch the christmas eve crowds Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Love; Stars THE LIGHTS IN THE SKY ARE STARS: BLOOD ON A DEAD WORLD Poem Text First Line: A blowing night in late fall Last Line: She asks. I do not answer Subject(s): Eclipses; Love THE LIGHTS IN THE SKY ARE STARS: HALLEY'S COMET Poem Text First Line: When in your middle years Last Line: River that flows now in youjr veins Subject(s): Halley's Comet; Love THE LIGHTS IN THE SKY ARE STARS: PROTOPLASM OF LIGHT Poem Text First Line: How long ago Subject(s): Love; Planets THE LIGHTS IN THE SKY ARE STARS: THE GREAT NEBULA OF ANDROMEDA Poem Text First Line: We get into camp after Last Line: To murder you while you sleep Subject(s): Andromeda (constellation); Camping; Love; Camps; Summer Camps THE LIGHTS IN THE SKY ARE STARS: THE HEART OF HERAKLES First Line: Lying under the stars Last Line: Have an eye that sees itself Subject(s): Love; Stars THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 1 Poem Text First Line: I sit at my desk Subject(s): Longing; Love THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 10 Poem Text First Line: Frost covers the reeds of the marsh Last Line: My full heart throbs with bliss Subject(s): Happiness; Nature; Joy; Delight THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 11 First Line: Uguisu sing in the blossoming trees Subject(s): Love; Sailing & Sailors THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 12 Poem Text First Line: Come to me, as you come Last Line: Glowing through the night-bound forest Subject(s): Desire; Romance THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 13 Poem Text First Line: Lying in the meadow, open to you Last Line: My rose petals Subject(s): Nature; Relationships THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 15 Poem Text First Line: Because I dream Last Line: Are only dreams Subject(s): Dreams; Reality THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 16 Poem Text First Line: Scorched with love, the cicada Last Line: My flesh is consumed with love Subject(s): Love; Nature THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 17 Poem Text First Line: Let us sleep together here tonight Last Line: Our hearts are on the rocks Subject(s): Sleep; Togetherness THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 18 Poem Text First Line: Fires / burn in my heart Last Line: No one knows Subject(s): Desire; Hearts THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 19 Poem Text First Line: I pass the day tense, day Last Line: The evening bells ring from temple to temple Subject(s): Day; Happiness; Night; Relationships; Joy; Delight; Bedtime THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 2 Poem Text First Line: If I thought I could get away Last Line: And a mile is longer than a million miles Subject(s): Relationships; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 20 Poem Text First Line: Who is there? Me Last Line: And we are us Subject(s): Identity; Relationships; Self THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 21 Poem Text First Line: The full moon of spring Last Line: On pale velvet, set with gems Subject(s): Moon THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 23 Poem Text First Line: I wish I could be Last Line: Dainichi to hold you / forever Subject(s): Kisses; Romance THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 24 Poem Text First Line: I scream as you bite Last Line: Had been cut in two Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Pleasure; Sex THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 25 Poem Text First Line: Your tongue thrums and moves Subject(s): Love - Erotic THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 26 Poem Text First Line: It is the time when Last Line: Brant write the character “heart” Subject(s): Hearts; Language; Nature; Words; Vocabulary THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 27 Poem Text First Line: As I came from Last Line: Buttock shivered against you Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Love - Erotic; Nudity; Nakedness THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 28 Poem Text First Line: Spring is early this year Subject(s): Bodies; Nature; Spring THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 29 Poem Text First Line: Love me. At this moment we Subject(s): Love THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 3 Poem Text First Line: Oh the anguish of these secret meetings Last Line: Words with not connection Subject(s): Family Life; Fear; Man-woman Relationships; Secrets; Relatives; Male-female Relations THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 31 Poem Text First Line: Some day in six inches of Subject(s): Death; Love; Dead, The THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 32 Poem Text First Line: I hold your head tight between Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Sex THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 33 Poem Text First Line: I cannot forget / the perfumed dusk inside the Subject(s): Memory; Sex THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 34 Poem Text First Line: Every morning, I / wake alone, dreaming my Last Line: Pressing my lips Subject(s): Desire; Kisses; Longing THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 35 First Line: The uguisu sleeps in the bamboo grove Subject(s): Bamboo THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 36 Poem Text First Line: I am sad this morning Last Line: As you passed my shoji Subject(s): Grief; Relationships; Sorrow; Sadness THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 37 Poem Text First Line: Is it just the wind Last Line: But I only become more restless Subject(s): Wind; Anxiety THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 38 Poem Text First Line: I waited all night Subject(s): Waiting THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 4 Poem Text First Line: You ask me what I thought about Subject(s): Love; Speculation; Thought; Thinking THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 40 Poem Text First Line: As the wheel follows the hoof Last Line: As you leave me in thr dawn Subject(s): Grief; Relationships; Sorrow; Sadness THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 42 Poem Text First Line: How many lives ago Last Line: Yet I know I will enter again and again Subject(s): Love THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 43 Poem Text First Line: Two flowers in a letter Last Line: Nothing else Subject(s): Nature; Night; Bedtime THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 44 Poem Text First Line: The disorder of my hair Subject(s): Love THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 45 Poem Text First Line: When in the noh theater Last Line: Will ever happen to me Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights; Contentment THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 47 Poem Text First Line: How long, long ago Last Line: We swept through clouds of fireflies Subject(s): Nature; Sailing & Sailors THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 48 Poem Text First Line: Now the fireflies of our youth Last Line: Of our middle age Subject(s): Middle Age THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 49 Poem Text First Line: Once again I hear Subject(s): Love THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 50 Poem Text First Line: In the park a crow awakes Last Line: For the years that are gone Subject(s): Grief; Past; Sorrow; Sadness THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 51 Poem Text First Line: Did you take me because you loved me? Last Line: To experiment on my heart Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 52 Poem Text First Line: Once I shone afar like a Last Line: Alone like the unicorn Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Loneliness THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 53 Poem Text First Line: Without me you can only Last Line: I am your wisdom Subject(s): Relationships; Wisdom THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 54 Poem Text First Line: I hate this shadow of a ghost Last Line: And wonder,, have I grown so thin? Subject(s): Aging THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 55 Poem Text First Line: The night is too long to the sleepless Last Line: On the twisted paths of love? Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 56 Poem Text First Line: This flesh you have loved Last Line: Are takng me Subject(s): Life THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 57 Poem Text First Line: Night without end. Loneliness Last Line: Did it matter? They were only for me Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Loneliness THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 58 Poem Text First Line: Half in a dream Last Line: Grows fainter and fades away Subject(s): Autumn; Grief; Seasons; Time; Fall; Sorrow; Sadness THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 59 Poem Text First Line: I hate this shadow of a ghost Subject(s): Aging THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 6 Poem Text First Line: Just us / in our little house Last Line: Listen. Hear the wind in the trees Subject(s): Calm; Togetherness; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 60 Poem Text First Line: Chilled through, I wake up Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 7 Poem Text First Line: Making love with you Subject(s): Love; Sex THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 8 Poem Text First Line: A single ray in the dawn Last Line: With love which lights up all the world Subject(s): Love THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 9 Poem Text First Line: You wake me Last Line: Of the first morning of the world Subject(s): Morning; Sex THE MINUTE FINGERS OF A TINY WIND' THE MIRROR IN THE WOODS Poem Text First Line: A mirror hung on the broken Last Line: The wood rats and moss work unseen Subject(s): Ballet; Dancing & Dancers; Daughters; Houses, Deserted; Mirrors; Parents; Parenthood THE MOTTO ON THE SUNDIAL Poem Text First Line: It is september and the wry corn rattles Last Line: Once it has been spoken it shall never be silenced Subject(s): Sundials THE NEW MOON HAS REACHED Poem Text Last Line: Month ago we were strangers Subject(s): Moon THE NEW YEAR Poem Text First Line: I walk on the cold mountain above the city Subject(s): Holidays; Nature; New Year THE ORPHIC SOUL Poem Text First Line: As I walk slowly along Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Self; Soul; Bugs THE PHOENIX AND THE TORTOISE Poem Text First Line: Webs of misery spread in the brain Subject(s): Phoenix (mythical Bird); Turtles; Tortoises THE PLACE Poem Text First Line: Unique planets break Subject(s): Thought; Thinking THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS Poem Text First Line: My head and shoulders, and my book Subject(s): Nature; Self THE SILVER SWAN: MARICHI Poem Text First Line: An hour before sunrise Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Nature; Nudity; Male-female Relations; Nakedness THE SILVER SWANS: 14. HOTOTOGISU - HOROBIRETE Poem Text First Line: The cuckoo's call, though Last Line: Against the spring Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos THE SILVER SWANS: 19 Poem Text First Line: The drowned moon plunges Subject(s): Nature; Winter THE SPARK IN THE TINDER OF KNOWING Poem Text First Line: Profound stillness in the greystone Subject(s): Life; Love THE STIGMATA OF FACT Poem Text First Line: This calcined idiocy, the fool Subject(s): Damascus, Syria THE SUFFICIENT Poem Text First Line: Ancre ridgedge et poissoble gongpoint Subject(s): Social Protest; Thought; Thinking THE THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 1 Poem Text First Line: Later when the gloated water Subject(s): Memory; Pride; Time; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 10 Poem Text First Line: Out of the westborne snow shall come a memory Subject(s): Bodies; Man-woman Relationships; Memory; Sex; Male-female Relations THE THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 11 Poem Text First Line: Someone has cast an unwary match Subject(s): Absence; Longing; Separation; Isolation THE THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 12 Poem Text First Line: After a hundred years have slept above us Subject(s): Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts; Catskill Mountains, New York State; Death; Memory; Dead, The THE THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 13 Poem Text First Line: This shall be sufficient Subject(s): Day THE THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 14 Poem Text First Line: You alone, / a white robe over your naked body Subject(s): Bodies; Desire; Dreams; Past; Nightmares THE THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 2 Poem Text First Line: Six months as timeless as dream Subject(s): Relationships; Time THE THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 3 Poem Text First Line: Indigenes of furnished rooms Subject(s): Parks THE THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 4 Poem Text First Line: Chill and abandoned, the pavillion Subject(s): Night; Parks; Bedtime THE THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 5 Poem Text First Line: The absorbent, glimmering night Subject(s): Night; Parks; Bedtime THE THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 6 Poem Text First Line: The minute fingers of the imperceptible air Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds THE THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 7 Poem Text First Line: I think these squalid houses are the ghosts Subject(s): Extinct Animals; Houses THE THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 8 Poem Text First Line: Whether or not, it is no question now Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Speculation; Male-female Relations THE THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 9 Poem Text First Line: After an hour the mild Subject(s): Footprints; Snow; Solitude; Loneliness THE UNPEOPLED, CONVENTIONAL ROSE-GARDEN' First Line: There are cannas now on the guarded lawns Last Line: The brittle privet leaves, the day sleeps Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Lament; Love - Loss Of THE UNPEOPLED, CONVENTIONAL ROSE-GARDEN' Poem Text First Line: There are cannas now on the guarded lawns THE WHEEL REVOLVES Poem Text First Line: You were a girl of satin and gauze Last Line: All this will never be again Subject(s): Daughters; Love THEORY OF NUMBERS Poem Text First Line: Think, as we lie in this sweet bed Last Line: And honey where the bees sleep Subject(s): Sky THEORY OF NUMBERS First Line: Think, as we lie in this sweet bed Last Line: And honey where the bees sleep Subject(s): Sky THERE SHALL COME FAINT LIGHT' THERE SHALL COME FAINT LIGHT' Last Line: Of a meditative white crane Subject(s): Self; Thought THEY SAY THIS ISN'T A POEM Poem Text First Line: All that is is a harmony Subject(s): Humanity THEY SAY THIS ISN'T A POEM First Line: All that is is a harmony Last Line: To grow old in his own home Subject(s): Humanity THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE, 1922-1926 First Line: Later when the gloated water THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 1 First Line: Later when the gloated water Last Line: Hugely, in vertigo and awe Subject(s): Memory; Pride; Time THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 10 First Line: Out of the westborne snow shall come a memory Last Line: Spring's flesh in my hands Subject(s): Bodies; Man-woman Relationships; Memory; Sex THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 11 First Line: Someone has cast an unwary match Last Line: Since I have heard your voice Subject(s): Absence; Longing THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 12 First Line: After a hundred years have slept above us Last Line: The berkshires, %have good memories Subject(s): Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts; Catskill Mountains, New York State; Death; Memory THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 13 First Line: This shall be sufficient Last Line: Electric, coming day Subject(s): Day THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 14 First Line: You alone, %a white robe over your naked body Last Line: Through the dreams of twenty years Subject(s): Bodies; Desire; Dreams; Past THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 2 First Line: Six months as timeless as dream Last Line: Circumvent its dial? Subject(s): Relationships; Time THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 3 First Line: Indigenes of furnished rooms Last Line: Infinitely memorable things Subject(s): Parks THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 4 First Line: Chill and abandoned, the pavillion Last Line: And revealed the moon, rushing dead white %over the city Subject(s): Night; Parks THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 5 First Line: The absorbent, glimmering night Last Line: Mountains slide silently into the sea Subject(s): Night; Parks THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 6 First Line: The minute fingers of the imperceptible air Last Line: And hand in vibrating hand walk back the way we came Subject(s): Lakes THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 7 First Line: I think these squalid houses are the ghosts Last Line: Close in upon our heels Subject(s): Extinct Animals; Houses THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 8 First Line: Whether or not, it is no question now Last Line: A cynical, levantine prayer Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Speculation THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 9 First Line: After an hour the mild Last Line: Line of footprints Subject(s): Footprints; Snow; Solitude THIS NIGHT ONLY (ERIC SATIE: GYMNOPEDIE #1) Poem Text First Line: Moonlight now on malibu Variant Title(s): This Night Only Subject(s): Love; Night; Bedtime THIS NIGHT ONLY (ERIC SATIE: GYMNOPEDIE #1) First Line: Moonlight now on malibu Last Line: Never %end Variant Title(s): This Night Onl Subject(s): Love; Night THIS SPRING, MERCURY Last Line: Illimitable ocean Subject(s): Planets THOU SHALT NOT KILL Poem Text First Line: They are murdering all the young men Subject(s): Death; Murder; Thomas, Dylan (1914-1953); Dead, The THOU SHALT NOT KILL First Line: They are murdering all the young men Last Line: In your god damned brooks brothers suit, %you son of a bitch' Subject(s): Death; Murder; Thomas, Dylan (1914-1953) TIME IS AN INCLUSION SERIES SAID MCTAGGART Poem Text First Line: In just a minute we will say goodbye Subject(s): Time TIME IS AN INCLUSION SERIES SAID MCTAGGART First Line: In just a minute we will say goodbye Last Line: By the driftwood fires %singing forever forever Subject(s): Time TIME IS THE MERCY OF ETERNITY Poem Text First Line: Time is divided into Subject(s): Future Life; Time; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TIME IS THE MERCY OF ETERNITY First Line: Time is divided into Last Line: Say about them, nothing at all Subject(s): Future Life; Time TIME SPIRALS Poem Text First Line: Under the second moon the Subject(s): Introspection; Salmon; Time TIME SPIRALS First Line: Under the second moon the Last Line: Cycle from the sky to the sea Subject(s): Introspection; Salmon; Time TO ANOTHER First Line: Let us sit now in the broad window Last Line: That li po saw in the drowned rushes Subject(s): Books; China; Legends; Li Po (701-762); Relationships TOOK Poem Text First Line: Take it bright day first hour Subject(s): Animals TOOK First Line: Take it bright day first hour Last Line: Anybody get there and not one of the angels will ever come %back %as %took Subject(s): Animals TOWARD AN ORGANIC PHILOSOPHY Poem Text First Line: The glow of my campfire is dark red and flameless Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons; Sierra Nevada Mountains; Spring; Fall TOWARD AN ORGANIC PHILOSOPHY First Line: The glow of my campfire is dark red and flameless Last Line: And links the roll of a planet alike with the interests %of marmots and men' Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons; Sierra Nevada Mountains; Spring TOWARD AN ORGANIC PHILOSOPHY: FALL, SIERRA NEVADA First Line: This morning the hermit thrush was absent at breakfast TOWARD AN ORGANIC PHILOSOPHY: SPRING, COAST RANGE First Line: The glow of my campfire is dark red and flameless Last Line: They are silent and immaculate TOWARD AN ORGANIC PHILOSOPHY: SPRING, SIERRA NEVADA First Line: Once more golden scorpio glows over the col TRAVELERS IN EREWHON Poem Text First Line: You open your Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Love; Sex TRAVELERS IN EREWHON First Line: You open your Last Line: In the country of eyes Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love; Sex TWILIT SNOW Poem Text Subject(s): Snow TWILIT SNOW Last Line: Twilit snow Subject(s): Death; Snow; Suicide UN BEL DI VEDREMO Poem Text First Line: Hello nbc, this is london speaking' Subject(s): Italy; War; World War I; World War Ii; Italians; First World War; Second World War UN BEL DI VEDREMO First Line: Hello nbc, this is london speaking' Last Line: The second as evil farce' Subject(s): Italy; War; World War I; World War Ii UNDER SORACTE Poem Text First Line: Another day, deep in the stacks Subject(s): Books; Libraries & Librarians; Sex; Reading UNDER SORACTE First Line: Another day, deep in the stacks Last Line: Made love in the most remote %corner of knowledge Subject(s): Books; Librarians And Libraries; Sex UNPEOPLED, CONVENTIONAL ROSE-GARDEN' First Line: There are cannas now on the guarded lawns Last Line: Between tremulous, tired fingers Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Lament; Love - Loss Of VALUE IN MOUNTAINS Poem Text First Line: There are those to whom value is a weapon Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) VALUE IN MOUNTAINS First Line: There are those to whom value is a weapon Last Line: And the unique %note %of the stricken Subject(s): Mountains VALUE IN MOUNTAINS: 10 Poem Text First Line: You return breathless havingb startled Last Line: The past curled like wire Subject(s): The Past Curled Like Wire Parting; Sorrow; Sadness; Fatigue VALUE IN MOUNTAINS: 11 Poem Text First Line: And now surprised by lunar mountain avatars Last Line: And green over them the nova grows above the grass Subject(s): Mountains; Woods VALUE NEUTER First Line: Traders, parsons, and stoolpigeons Last Line: The best income tax attorneys Subject(s): Philosophy And Philosophers; Speculation; Thought VALUTA First Line: Have you ever noticed how, the Last Line: Illimitable bounties of %deathlessness Subject(s): Fairies; Fantasy; Immortality; Mortality VENICE: MAY DAY Poem Text First Line: Once more it is early summer Subject(s): Daughters; Holidays; May (month); Parents; Venice, Italy; Parenthood VENICE: MAY DAY First Line: Once more it is early summer Last Line: Know that it has passed them by Subject(s): Daughters; Holidays; May (month); Parents; Venice, Italy VENICE: ROSE COLORED GLASSES Poem Text First Line: Ten years, and it's still on the Subject(s): Venice, Italy; Music & Musicians; Radio VERY EARLY MORNING EXERCISE First Line: Chan yuen is on the threshold of a remarkable career Last Line: The first dawn glows at the end of the streets Subject(s): Introspection; Men; Nanking, China VITAMINS AND ROUGHAGE Poem Text First Line: Strong ankled, sun burned, almost naked Subject(s): Humanity; Nature VITAMINS AND ROUGHAGE First Line: Strong ankled, sun burned, almost naked Last Line: Vanish in the gymnopaedia Subject(s): Humanity; Nature VOID ONLY Poem Text First Line: Time like glass / space like glass Last Line: "of the coiling mind Subject(s): Emptiness VOID ONLY First Line: Time like glass %space like glass Last Line: Of the coiling mind %only Subject(s): Emptiness WE COME BACK Poem Text First Line: Now, on this day of the first hundred flowers Last Line: In the pause of fate, the threading of the year Subject(s): Fate; Destiny WE COME BACK First Line: Now, on this day of the first hundred flowers Last Line: In the pause of fate, the threading of the year Subject(s): Fate WE FEED THE BLUE JAYS Last Line: The opportunity to do so narrows Subject(s): Life; Nature WEDNESDAY OF HOLY WEEK, 1940 Poem Text First Line: Out of the east window a storm Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology WEDNESDAY OF HOLY WEEK, 1940 First Line: Out of the east window a storm Last Line: And a gale with it Subject(s): Bible; Religion WHEEL REVOLVES First Line: You were a girl of satin and gauze Last Line: All this will never be again Subject(s): Daughters; Love WHEN IN THE NOH THEATER Last Line: Will ever happen to me Subject(s): Theater And Theaters; Tragedy WHEN WE WITH SAPPHO Poem Text First Line: We lie here in the bee filled, ruinous Last Line: Evening sky of summer Subject(s): Love; Sappho (610-580 B.c.) WHEN WE WITH SAPPHO First Line: We lie here in the bee filled, ruinous Last Line: Evening sky of summer Subject(s): Love; Sappho (610-580 B.c.) WHEN YOU ASKED FOR IT Poem Text First Line: Dear friend, / the day the seal came up the beach and mother fed him Subject(s): Farewell; Loss; Parting WHEN YOU ASKED FOR IT First Line: Dear friend, %the day the seal came up the beach and mother fed him Last Line: Dont worry about it dont think I mean everything I say it will %be all right Subject(s): Farewell; Loss WORKING DAY First Line: The hands of the clock go'round Last Line: Broken moon plunges through blowing fog Subject(s): Day; Labor And Laborers; Professions WRITTEN TO MUSIC, SELS. XMAS COMING Poem Text First Line: November night. Waning moon Last Line: The jolly secrets she can't tell Subject(s): Christmas; November; Nativity, The XMAS COMING First Line: November night. Waning moon Last Line: The jolly secrets she can't ell Subject(s): Christmas; November YIN AND YANG Poem Text First Line: It is spring once more in the coast range Last Line: Between the fish called yes and no Subject(s): Life; Nature YIN AND YANG First Line: It is spring once more in the coast range Last Line: Between the fish called yes and no Subject(s): Life; Nature YOU DID NOT KNOW SHE WAS ETERNAL? THERE' YOU DID NOT KNOW SHE WAS ETERNAL? THERE' Last Line: Her faint heart flowers, an anemone Subject(s): Future Life; Women YOU FAIL AN APPOINTMENT First Line: Nervously my fingernails Last Line: The uncut pages %of my book Subject(s): Fear YOUR BIRTHDAY IN THE CALIFORNIA MOUNTAINS Poem Text First Line: A broken moon on the cold water Subject(s): Birthdays; California; Death; Memory; Mountains; Past; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain) YOUR BIRTHDAY IN THE CALIFORNIA MOUNTAINS First Line: A broken moon on the cold water Last Line: But you have been dead for thirty years Subject(s): Birthdays; California; Death; Memory; Mountains; Past YUGAO Poem Text First Line: Tonight is clearer and colder Last Line: Watched over by yur love for me Subject(s): Love; Night; Bedtime YUGAO First Line: Tonight is clearer and colder Last Line: Watched over by your love for me Subject(s): Love; Night |
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