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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: ROBINSON, EDWIN ARLINGTON Matches Found: 269 Robinson, Edwin Arlington Poet's Biography 269 poems available by this author A CHRISTMAS SONNET; FOR ONE IN DOUBT Poem Text First Line: While you that in your sorrow disavow Subject(s): Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology A MAN IN OUR TOWN Poem Text First Line: We pitied him as one too much at ease Subject(s): Memory; Men; Neighbors A POEM FOR MAX NORDAU Poem Text First Line: Dun shades quiver down the lone long fallow Last Line: Dun shades quiver down the lone long fallow. Subject(s): Nordau, Max Simon (1849-1923) A SONG AT SHANNON'S Poem Text First Line: Two men came out of shannon's, having known Last Line: Not knowing what the other may have heard. AARON STARK Poem Text First Line: Withal a meagre man was aaron stark Last Line: And then (and only then) did aaron laugh. AFTERTHOUGHTS Poem Text First Line: We parted where the old gas-lamp still burned Last Line: Not knowing it would be for the last time. ALMA MATER Poem Text First Line: He knocked, and I beheld him at the door Last Line: Had they arrived--these rags of memory? AMARYLLIS Poem Text First Line: Once, when I wandered in the woods alone Last Line: To think that amaryllis had grown old. AN EVANGELIST'S WIFE Poem Text First Line: Why am I not myself these many days Last Line: "jealous of god? Well, if you like it so." Subject(s): Poetry & Poets AN ISLAND (SAINT HELENA, 1821) Poem Text First Line: Take it away, and swallow it yourself Last Line: God, what a way to die! Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821) AN OLD STORY Poem Text First Line: Strange that I did not know him then Last Line: Until he died. ANNANDALE AGAIN First Line: Almost as if my thought of him Last Line: And damaris, who knows everything, %may still be asking what it meant ANOTHER DARK LADY Poem Text First Line: Think not, because I wonder where you fled Last Line: That yours are cloven as no beech's are. Subject(s): Death; Hate; Truth; Dead, The ARCHIBALD'S EXAMPLE Poem Text First Line: Old archibald, in his eternal chair Last Line: That he remembered when the trees were there. AS A WORLD WOULD HAVE IT Poem Text First Line: Shall I never make him look at me again? Last Line: "and was it very strange?" AS IT LOOKED THEN Poem Text First Line: In a sick shade of spruce, moss-webbed, rock-fed Last Line: Arching a world where nothing had occurred. ATHERTON'S GAMBIT Poem Text First Line: The master played the bishop's pawn Last Line: To sing the end of atherton. AUNT IMOGEN Poem Text First Line: Aunt imogen was coming, and therefore Last Line: Close to herself, and crushed him till he laughed. AVENEL GRAY Poem Text First Line: Avenel gray at fifty had gray hair Last Line: With all on board, and far from tilbury town. AVON'S HARVEST Poem Text First Line: Fear, like a living fire that only death Last Line: "and surely it was not another man." BALLADE BY THE FIRE Poem Text First Line: Slowly I smoke and hug my knee Last Line: As one by one the phantoms go. BALLADE OF A SHIP Poem Text First Line: Down by the flash of the restless water Subject(s): Shipwrecks; Death; Drinks & Drinking; Dead, The; Wine BALLADE OF BROKEN FLUTES Poem Text First Line: In dreams I crossed a barren land Last Line: The broken flutes of arcady. Subject(s): Flutes BALLADE OF DEAD FRIENDS Poem Text First Line: As we the withered ferns Last Line: For friends that come and go. Subject(s): Friendship BATTLE AFTER WAR Poem Text First Line: Out of a darkness, into a slow light Subject(s): Blindness; War; Visually Handicapped BATTLE AFTER WAR First Line: Out of a darkness, into a slow light Last Line: He said. And we see two now in his place, %where there was room for only one before Subject(s): Blindness; War BEN JONSON ENTERTAINS A MAN FROM STRATFORD Poem Text First Line: You are a friend then, as I make it out, Last Line: Perhaps he does.... O lord, that house in stratford! Subject(s): Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) BEN TROVATO Poem Text First Line: The deacon thought. 'I know them,' he began Last Line: "he smiled--as he had never smiled at her." BEWICK FINZER Poem Text First Line: Time was when his half million drew Last Line: And futile as regret. BOKARDO Poem Text First Line: Well, bokardo, here we are Last Line: The stars look strange BON VOYAGE Poem Text First Line: Child of a line accurst / and old as troy Last Line: Before we knew. BOSTON Poem Text First Line: My northern pines are good enough for me Last Line: In letters by warm hands I cannot reach. Subject(s): Boston BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GOD Poem Text First Line: There is a question that I ask Last Line: But it beams yet. CALVARY Poem Text First Line: Friendless and faint, with martyred steps and slow Last Line: Are we to keep christ writhing on the cross! Subject(s): Calvary; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion CALVERLY'S Poem Text First Line: We go no more to calverly's Last Line: Or we be lost among the stars. CAPTAIN CRAIG Poem Text First Line: I doubt if ten men in all tilbury town Last Line: Blared indiscreetly the dead march in saul. CAPUT MORTUUM Poem Text First Line: Not even if with a wizard force I might Last Line: Whether he play to win or toil to lose. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets CASSANDRA Poem Text First Line: I heard one who said: verily Last Line: Moved on. None heeded, and few heard. Subject(s): Cassandra (mythology); Freedom; Social Protest; Liberty CAVENDER'S HOUSE Poem Text First Line: Into that house where no man went, he went Subject(s): Death; Memory; Dead, The CAVENDER'S HOUSE First Line: Into that house where no man went, he went Last Line: Or as if laramie had answered him Subject(s): Death; Memory CHARLES CARVILLE'S EYES Poem Text First Line: A melancholy face charles carville had Last Line: Might speak them. Then we heard them, every word. Subject(s): Eyes CHRISTMAS SONNET; FOR ONE IN DOUBT First Line: While you that in your sorrow disavow Last Line: And strangely has not yet been crucified Subject(s): Christmas; Religion CLAVERING Poem Text First Line: I say no more for clavering Last Line: I say no more for clavering. CLIFF KLINGENHAGEN Poem Text First Line: Cliff klingenhagen had me in to dine Last Line: As happy as cliff klingenhagen is. CORTEGE Poem Text First Line: Four o'clock this afternoon Last Line: Fifteen hundred miles away. Subject(s): Funerals; Burials CREDO Poem Text First Line: I cannot find my way: there is no star Last Line: I feel the coming glory of the light. Subject(s): Faith; Belief; Creed DEAR FRIENDS Poem Text First Line: Dear friends, reproach me not for what I do Last Line: The gold I miss for dreaming is all yours. DEMOS Poem Text First Line: All you that are enamored of my name Last Line: Still to be wrangling in a noisy grave. Subject(s): Democracy DEMOS AND DIONYSUS First Line: Good morning, demos Last Line: Good morning, dionysus. Wait and see Subject(s): Goddesses And Gods; Mythology DIONYSUS IN DOUBT First Line: From earth as far away Last Line: And there was no god there Subject(s): Goddesses And Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Greek DISCOVERY Poem Text First Line: We told of him as one who should have soared Last Line: For wisdom, or for more than we may know. DOCTOR OF BILLIARDS Poem Text First Line: Of all among the fallen from on high Last Line: We seem to think there may be something else. Subject(s): Billiards EN PASSANT Poem Text First Line: I should have glanced and passed him, naturally Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Memory; Supernatural; Dead, The EN PASSANT First Line: I should have glanced and passed him, naturally Last Line: With deference always due to souls accurst, %came out of his own grave - and none too soon Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Memory; Supernatural ERASMUS Poem Text First Line: When he protested, not too solemnly Last Line: And they shook best who knew that he was right. Subject(s): Erasmus, Desiderius (1466-1536) EROS TURANNOS Poem Text Recitation First Line: She fears him, and will always ask Last Line: Where down the blind are driven. Subject(s): Fate; Fear; Love - Complaints; Love - Marital; Marriage; Destiny; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives EXIT Poem Text First Line: For what we owe to other days Last Line: May we now venture to be kind. FIRELIGHT Poem Text First Line: Ten years together without yet a cloud Last Line: Apart, and would be hers if he had known. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love FLAMMONDE Poem Text First Line: The man flammonde, from god knows where Last Line: Horizons for the man flammonde. Subject(s): City & Town Life; Mystery FLEMING HELPHENSTINE Poem Text First Line: At first I thought there was a superfine Last Line: He dodged, -- and I have never seen him since. Subject(s): Strangers FOR A BOOK BY THOMAS HARDY Poem Text First Line: With searching feet, through dark circuitous ways Subject(s): Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928) FOR A DEAD LADY Poem Text First Line: No more with overflowing light Last Line: Makes time so vicious in his reaping. Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Time; Dead, The; Bereavement FOR ARVIA; ON HIS FIFTH BIRTHDAY Poem Text First Line: You eyes, you large and all-inquiring eyes Last Line: Your gold of unrevealed awakenings. FOR SOME POEMS BY MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text First Line: Sweeping the chords of hellas with firm hand Subject(s): Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888) FRAGMENT Poem Text First Line: Faint white pillars that seem to fade Last Line: Over the stones where the fountain broke. GARDEN OF THE NATIONS First Line: When we that are the bitten flower and fruit Last Line: Or by approved short sight, more numerous weeds, %and weevils be the next inheritance! Subject(s): Peace GENEVIEVE AND ALEXANDRA (1) First Line: Why look at me so much as if today Last Line: And don't say that again Subject(s): Relationships; Sisters GENEVIEVE AND ALEXANDRA (2) Poem Text First Line: Don't look at me so much as if to-day Last Line: Oh, stop that! Subject(s): Jealousy; Love; Relationships; Sisters GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text First Line: Give him the darkest inch your shelf allows Last Line: To consecrate the flicker, not the flame. Subject(s): Crabbe, George (1754-1832) GLASS HOUSES Poem Text First Line: Learn if you must, but do not come to me Last Line: That we may not be here a thousand years. Subject(s): Neighbors HAUNTED HOUSE Poem Text First Line: Here was a place where none would ever come Subject(s): Haunted Houses HAUNTED HOUSE First Line: Here was a place where none would ever come Last Line: Between us and the chimney, long before %our time. So townsmen said who found her there Subject(s): Haunted Houses HECTOR KANE First Line: If hector kane at eighty-five Last Line: To make as much as we could read %of all that he had learned HER EYES Poem Text First Line: Up from the street and the crowds that went Last Line: The plainer it all comes back to him. Subject(s): Eyes; Paintings And Painters HILLCREST Poem Text First Line: No sound of any storm that shakes Last Line: No louder now than falling leaves. HORACE TO LEUCONOE Poem Text First Line: I pray you not, leuconoe, to pore Last Line: And let the morrow come for what it will. Subject(s): Carpe Diem HOW ANNANDALE WENT OUT Poem Text First Line: They called it annandale - and I was there' Last Line: "like this ... You wouldn't hang me? I thought not." IF THE LORD WOULD MAKE WINDOWS IN HEAVEN' Poem Text First Line: She who had eyes but had not wherewithal Last Line: Might one day not be seen from anywhere Subject(s): Angels; God; Heaven; Religion; Saints; Paradise; Theology IF THE LORD WOULD MAKE WINDOWS IN HEAVEN' Poem Text First Line: She who had eyes but had not wherewithal IF THE LORD WOULD MAKE WINDOWS IN HEAVEN' First Line: She who had eyes but had not wherewithal Last Line: Might one day not be seen from anywhere Subject(s): Angels; God; Heaven; Religion; Saints INFERENTIAL Poem Text First Line: Although I saw before me there the face Last Line: "the rest of us were not so far ahead." Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ISAAC AND ARCHIBALD Poem Text First Line: Isaac and archibald were two old men Last Line: And I may laugh at them because I knew them. Subject(s): Aging JOB THE REJECTED Poem Text First Line: They met, and overwhelming her distrust Last Line: The confirmation of her soul's desire. JOHN BROWN Poem Text First Line: Though for your sake I would not have you now Last Line: I shall have more to say when I am dead. Subject(s): Abolitionists; Brown, John (1800-1859); Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs JOHN EVERELDOWN Poem Text First Line: Where are you going tonight, tonight Last Line: "and that's why I'm going to tilbury town." JOHN GORHAM Poem Text First Line: Tell me what you're doing over here, john Last Line: "as on two that have no longer much of anything to tell." KARMA Poem Text First Line: Christmas was in the air and all was well Last Line: A dime for jesus who had died for men. Subject(s): Charity; Christmas; Salvation Army; Philanthropy; Nativity, The KOSMOS Poem Text Subject(s): Life; Death; God; Truth; Dead, The L'ENVOI Poem Text First Line: Now in a thought, now in a shadowed word, Subject(s): Life LANCELOT Poem Text First Line: Gawaine, aware again of lancelot Last Line: Alone; and in the darkness came the light. Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Arthur, King LATE SUMMER (ALCAICS) Poem Text First Line: Confused, he found her lavishing feminine Last Line: Fell, she was there, and alone, still gazing. LAZARUS Poem Text First Line: No, mary, there was nothing - not a word Last Line: "long into mine--long, long, as if he knew." LEFFINGWELL Poem Text First Line: No, no - forget your cricket and your ant Last Line: Did we not hear him when he told us so? LEONORA Poem Text First Line: They have made for leonora this low dwelling in the ground Last Line: Darker nights for leonora than to-night shall ever be. LINGARD AND THE STARS Poem Text First Line: The table hurled itself, to our surprise Last Line: And so he went away with clavering. LISETTE AND EILEEN Poem Text First Line: When he was here alive, eileen Last Line: "he liked your hair and eyes, eileen." LLEWELLYN AND THE TREE Poem Text First Line: Could he have made priscilla share Last Line: May be as far off as a moral. LONDON BRIDGE Poem Text First Line: Do I hear them? Yes, I hear the children singing - and what of it? Last Line: "oh, you children! Oh, you children! ... God, will they never stop!" LOST ANCHORS Poem Text First Line: Like a dry fish flung inland far from shore Last Line: With him, whose mother should have had no sons. LUKE HAVERGAL Poem Text Recitation First Line: Go to the western gate, luke havergal Last Line: Luke havergal. Variant Title(s): Luke Subject(s): Death; Fidelity; Longing; Dead, The; Faithfulness; Constancy MAN IN OUR TOWN First Line: We pitied him as one too much at ease Last Line: And though he be forgotten, it was good %for more than one of you that he was there Subject(s): Memory; Men; Neighbors MAN WHO DIED TWICE First Line: If I had not walked aimlessly up town Last Line: And while I sank his ashes in the sea Subject(s): Death; Immortality MANY ARE CALLED Poem Text First Line: The lord apollo, who has never died Last Line: Fall golden on the patience of the dead. MAYA Poem Text First Line: Through an ascending emptiness of night Last Line: "you may still be the bellows and the spark." MERLIN Poem Text First Line: Gawaine, gawaine, what look ye for to see Last Line: And there was darkness over camelot. Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Arthur, King MINIVER CHEEVY Poem Text Recitation First Line: Miniver cheevy, child of scorn / grew lean while he assailed the seasons Last Line: And kept on drinking. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Dreams; Drinks & Drinking; Men; Nostalgia; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Nightmares; Wine MODERNITIES Poem Text First Line: Small knowledge have we that by knowledge met Last Line: And there shall be another tale to tell. MOMUS Poem Text First Line: Where's the need of singing now? Last Line: Momus, there'll be you. MONADNOCK THROUGH THE TREES Poem Text First Line: Before there was in egypt any sound Last Line: Assyrians went howling south to war. MR. FLOOD'S PARTY Poem Text First Line: Old eben flood, climbing alone one night Last Line: That many friends had opened long ago. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Alienation (social Psychology); Drinks & Drinking; Old Age; Solitude; Toasts; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Estrangement; Outcasts; Wine; Loneliness NEIGHBORS Poem Text First Line: As often as we thought of her Last Line: More than one heart could hold. Subject(s): Neighbors NEW ENGLAND Poem Text First Line: Here where the wind is always north-north-east Subject(s): New England NEW ENGLAND First Line: Here where the wind is always north-north-east Last Line: Cheerful as when she tortured into fits %the first cat that was ever killed by care Subject(s): New England NEXT TO OF COURSE GOD AMERICA I Last Line: He spoke. And drank rapidly a glass of water Subject(s): Men NIMMO Poem Text First Line: Since you remember nimmo, and arrive Last Line: Than I, the painter; and you say the truth. Variant Title(s): Nimmo's Eyes NOT ALWAYS: 1 Poem Text First Line: In surety and obscurity twice mailed Subject(s): Neighbors; Solitude; Loneliness NOT ALWAYS: 1 First Line: In surety and obscurity twice mailed Last Line: A song somewhat as of the morning stars Subject(s): Neighbors; Solitude NOT ALWAYS: 2 Poem Text First Line: There were long days when there was nothing said Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners; Silence; Solitude; Loneliness NOT ALWAYS: 2 First Line: There were long days when there was nothing said Last Line: And shine for them through many sorts of weather Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Silence; Solitude OCATVES: 9 Poem Text OCTAVES: 1 Poem Text First Line: To get at the eternal strength of things, Last Line: Is always and unfailingly at hand. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets OCTAVES: 10 Poem Text Last Line: With weeping, and be glad that he is gone. Subject(s): Loneliness OCTAVES: 11 Poem Text First Line: Still through the dusk of dead, blank-legended Last Line: To dream of untriangulated stars. OCTAVES: 12 Poem Text First Line: With conscious eyes not yet sincere enough Last Line: Like mine have any message for the dead. OCTAVES: 13 Poem Text First Line: I grant you friendship is a royal thing Last Line: Of its own wealth and wisdom the old scorn. OCTAVES: 14 Poem Text First Line: With conscious eyes not yet sincere enoug Last Line: That flouts deformity and laughs at years. Subject(s): Wisdom OCTAVES: 15 Poem Text First Line: I grant you friendship is a royal thing Last Line: Befriends us with a wizard's enmity. Subject(s): Friendship OCTAVES: 16 Poem Text First Line: Something as one with eyes that look below Last Line: By the still crash of salvatory steel. OCTAVES: 17 Poem Text First Line: To you that sit with sorrow like chained slaves Last Line: In this life or in any life -- repose. OCTAVES: 18 Poem Text First Line: Something as one with eyes that look below Last Line: Nor wavers; but the world shakes and we shriek. Subject(s): War OCTAVES: 19 Poem Text First Line: We lack the courage to be where we are Last Line: On anvils, in the gleaming of god's forge. Subject(s): Religion; Theology OCTAVES: 2 Poem Text First Line: Tumultuously void of a clean scheme Last Line: To brainless carnage by drunk trumpeters. OCTAVES: 20 Poem Text First Line: The prophet of dead words defeats himself Last Line: Good fortitude, clean wisdom, and strong skill. OCTAVES: 21 Poem Text First Line: To curse the chilled insistence of the dawn Last Line: The fundamental blunders of mankind. OCTAVES: 22 Poem Text First Line: The prophet of dead words defeats himself: Last Line: Of anguish to the liberated man. Subject(s): Writing & Writers OCTAVES: 23 Poem Text First Line: To curse the chilled insistence of the dawn Last Line: Forever from the crumbled wharves of time. Subject(s): Greed; Avarice; Cupidity OCTAVES: 24 Poem Text First Line: Forbodings are the fiends of recreance OCTAVES: 25 Poem Text First Line: Here by the windy docks I stand alone OCTAVES: 3 Poem Text First Line: To me the groaning of world-worshippers Last Line: The profit and the pride of his defeat. OCTAVES: 4 Poem Text First Line: While we are drilled in error, we are lost Last Line: Of god, to know enough to be alive. OCTAVES: 5 Poem Text First Line: To me the groaning of world-worshippers Last Line: That shines on thought's impenetrable mail. OCTAVES: 6 Poem Text First Line: While we are drilled in error, we are lost Last Line: In everlasting runes the truth of him. OCTAVES: 7 Poem Text First Line: The guerdon of new childhood is repose Last Line: And makes a whirlwind of the universe. OCTAVES: 8 Poem Text First Line: There is no loneliness: - no matter where Last Line: Like scattered lamps in unfrequented streets. OCTAVES: 9 Poem Text First Line: When one that you and I had all but sworn Last Line: The wisdom that is in that wonderment. OLD KING COLE Poem Text First Line: In tilbury town did old king cole Last Line: "that's good. The sun will soon be rising." Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness OLD TRAILS Poem Text First Line: I met him, as one meets a ghost or two Last Line: I wish the bells in boris would be quiet. Subject(s): Washington Square, New York City ON THE NIGHT OF A FRIEND'S WEDDING Poem Text First Line: If ever I am old, and all alone Last Line: A little while, and then breaks utterly. ON THE WAY (PHILADELPHIA, 1794) Poem Text First Line: Hamilton, if he rides you down, remember Last Line: Quite so. Farewell. Subject(s): Burr, Aaron (1756-1836); Hamilton, Alexander (1755-1804) PARTNERSHIP Poem Text First Line: Yes, you have it; I can see Last Line: That will be the best. PASA THALASSA THALASSA Poem Text First Line: Gone - faded out of the story, the sea-faring friend I remember? Last Line: Down where he lies to-night, silent, and under the storms. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean PEACE ON EARTH Poem Text First Line: He took a frayed hat from his head Last Line: Should have at least another hat. Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The PRODIGAL SON First Line: You are not merry, brother. Why not laugh Last Line: And I, the ghost of one you could not save, %may find you planting lentils on my grave Subject(s): Consolation RAHEL TO VARNHAGEN Poem Text First Line: Now you have read them all; or if not all Last Line: As that about me? ... Well, I believe you do. Subject(s): Levin, Rahel Robert; Marriage; Varnhagen Von Ense, Karl (1785-1858); Varhagen Von Ense, Mrs. Karl; Weddings; Husbands; Wives RECALLED Poem Text First Line: Long after there were none of them alive Last Line: "we die."" and there was no more to be said." REMBRANDT TO REMBRANDT Poem Text First Line: And there you are again, now as you are Last Line: No longer the cold wash of holland scorn. Subject(s): Rembrandt Harmensz Van Riij (1606-1669) REUBEN BRIGHT Poem Text First Line: Because he was a butcher and thereby Last Line: In with them, and tore down the slaughter-house. Subject(s): Butchers; Death; Love - Marital; Marriage; Dead, The; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives REUNION Poem Text First Line: By some derision of wild circumstance Subject(s): Reunions REUNION First Line: By some derision of wild circumstance Last Line: The same old stars will soon be overhead, %but not so friendly and not quite so near Subject(s): Reunions RICHARD CORY Poem Text Recitation First Line: Whenever richard cory went down town Last Line: Went home and put a bullet through his head. Subject(s): Despair; Suicide; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes ROMAN BARTHOLOW First Line: Where now the morning light of a new spring Last Line: A river that should flow for him no more Subject(s): Mythology - Classical ROMANCE: 1. BOYS Poem Text First Line: We were all boys, and three of us were friends; Subject(s): Boys ROMANCE: 2. JAMES WETHERELL Poem Text First Line: We never half believed the stuff SAINTE-NITOUCHE Poem Text First Line: Though not for common praise of him Last Line: Had ever smiled as he did--quite. SHADRACH O'LEARY Poem Text First Line: O'leary was a poet - for a while Last Line: A failure spared, a shadrach of the gleam. SHEAVES First Line: Where long the shadows of the wind had rolled Last Line: As if a thousand girls with golden hair %might rise from where they slept and go away Subject(s): Wheat SIEGE PERILOUS Poem Text First Line: Long warned of many terrors more severe Last Line: No fury thundered no flame fell from heaven. SILVER STREET Poem Text First Line: Here, if you will, your fancy may destroy Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones SILVER STREET First Line: Here, if you will, your fancy may destroy Last Line: One has to walk up wood street from cheapside Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves SONNET Poem Text First Line: When we can all so excellently give Last Line: The glory of eternal partnership. Subject(s): Slavery; Serfs SOUVENIR Poem Text First Line: A vanished house that for an hour I knew Last Line: Of one whose occupation was to die. SPIRIT SPEAKING First Line: As you are still pursuing it Last Line: A grief and a malevolence %the letter will remain Subject(s): Christmas STAFFORD'S CABIN Poem Text First Line: Once there was a cabin here, and once there was a man Last Line: And overgrown with golden-rod as if there were no ghost. SUPREMACY Poem Text First Line: There is a drear and lonely tract of hell Last Line: I heard the dead men singing in the sun. TACT Poem Text First Line: Observant of the way she told Last Line: Alone below the stars. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Tact TASKER NORCROSS Poem Text First Line: Whether all towns and all who live in them Last Line: But none of them had heard of tasker norcross. THE ALTAR Poem Text First Line: Alone, remote, nor witting where I went Last Line: That burns, and must burn somehow for the best. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE BOOK OF ANNANDALE Poem Text First Line: Partly to think, more to be left alone Last Line: Or as a world is born--so suddenly. THE BURNING BOOK, OR THE CONTENTED METAPHYSICIAN Poem Text First Line: To the lore of no manner of men Last Line: Of a dream that is ended. THE CHANGING VINE Poem Text First Line: Be calm? And was I frantic? Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT Poem Text First Line: For those that never know the light Last Line: And tell the ages what we are! Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE CHORUS OF OLD MEN IN 'AEGEUS' Poem Text First Line: Ye gods that have a home beyond the world Last Line: Into the mist of death. THE CHORUS OF OLD MEN IN 'ĘGEUS ' Poem Text First Line: Ye gods that have a home beyond the world, THE CLERKS Poem Text First Line: I did not think that I should find them there Last Line: Clipping the same sad alnage of the years. Subject(s): Office Employees; Clerks THE CLINGING VINE Poem Text First Line: Be calm? And was I frantic? Last Line: "and you and I are cold." THE COMPANION Poem Text First Line: Let him answer as he will Last Line: Doubt will have a dwelling there. THE CORRIDOR Poem Text First Line: It may have been the pride in me for aught Last Line: That year, to stop that hunger for a friend. THE DARK HILLS Poem Text First Line: Dark hills at evening in the west Last Line: Were fading, and all wars were done. Subject(s): War THE DARK HOUSE Poem Text First Line: Where a faint light shines alone Last Line: Will be living, having died. Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Life; Dead, The THE DEAD VILLAGE Poem Text First Line: Here there is death. But even here, they say Last Line: God frowned, and shut the village from his sight. THE FALSE GODS Poem Text First Line: We are false and evanescent, and aware of our deceit Last Line: "may the true gods attend you and forget us when we go." THE FIELD OF GLORY Poem Text First Line: War shook the land where levi dwelt Last Line: Reborn may be as great as any. THE FLYING DUTCHMAN Poem Text First Line: Unyielding in the pride of his defiance Last Line: One fog-walled island more. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE GARDEN Poem Text First Line: There is a fenceless garden overgrown Last Line: Love-rooted in god's garden of the mind. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening THE GARDEN OF THE NATIONS Poem Text First Line: When we that are the bitten flower and fruit Subject(s): Peace THE GIFT OF GOD Poem Text First Line: Blessed with a joy that only she Last Line: Of roses thrown on marble stairs. THE GROWTH OF LORRAINE Poem Text First Line: While I stood listening, discreetly dumb Last Line: "this worn-out, cast-out flesh of mine to sleep." THE HOUSE ON THE HILL Poem Text Recitation First Line: They are all gone away Last Line: There is nothing more to say. Subject(s): Decay; Desolation; Rot; Decadence THE KLONDIKE Poem Text First Line: Never mind the day we left, or the way the women clung to us Last Line: Looking each his own way to find the golden river. Subject(s): Gold; Klondike; Patriotism THE LAGGARDS Poem Text First Line: Scorners of earth, you that have one foot shod Last Line: On earth to raise the golden dust of heaven. THE LONG RACE Poem Text First Line: Up the old hill to the old house again Last Line: It seemed as if the little horse had won. THE MAN AGAINST THE SKY Poem Text First Line: Between me and the sunset, like a dome Last Line: Where all who know may drown. THE MAN WHO DIED TWICE Poem Text First Line: If I had not walked aimlessly up town Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Dead, The THE MASTER Poem Text First Line: A flying word from here and there Last Line: And have one titan at a time. Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Patriotism; Presidents, United States THE MILL Poem Text First Line: The miller's wife had waited long Last Line: The same as ever to the sight. Variant Title(s): The Miller's Wife Subject(s): Mills & Millers; Suicide THE MIRACLE Poem Text First Line: Dear brother, dearest friend, when I am dead, Subject(s): Death; Forgiveness; Dead, The; Clemency THE NEW TENANTS Poem Text First Line: The day was here when it was his to know Last Line: What ultimate insolence would soon be theirs THE NIGHT BEFORE Poem Text First Line: Look you, dominie; look you, and listen Subject(s): Passion; Adultery; Cuckolds; Anger; Hate; Forgiveness; Murder; Clemency THE OLD KING'S NEW JESTER Poem Text First Line: You that in vain would front the coming order Last Line: The last of your content. THE PILOT Poem Text First Line: From the past and unavailing Last Line: You are gone, but yet we sail. THE PITY OF THE LEAVES Poem Text First Line: Vengeful across the cold november moors Last Line: They fluttered off like withered souls of men. Subject(s): Leaves THE POOR RELATION Poem Text First Line: No longer torn by what she knows Last Line: From which there will be no more flying. THE PRODIGAL SON Poem Text First Line: You are not merry, brother. Why not laugh Last Line: May find you planting lentils on my grave Subject(s): Consolation THE RAT Poem Text First Line: As often as he let himself be seen Last Line: Say less of rats and rather more of men. Subject(s): Rats THE RETURN OF MORGAN AND FINGAL Poem Text First Line: And there we were together again Last Line: They were there for the night with me. THE REVEALER Poem Text First Line: The palms of mammon have ordained Last Line: Just where the boundary begins. Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919) THE SAGE Poem Text First Line: Foreguarded and unfevered and serene Last Line: "and all may come--but not without the key." THE SHEAVES Poem Text First Line: Where long the shadows of the wind had rolled Subject(s): Wheat THE SPIRIT SPEAKING Poem Text First Line: As you are still pursuing it Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The THE STORY OF THE ASHES AND THE FLAME Poem Text First Line: No matter why, nor whence, nor when she came Last Line: Her kisses were the keys to paradise. Subject(s): Love THE SUNKEN CROWN Poem Text First Line: Nothing will hold him longer - let him go Last Line: His arrogance, and he may sleep again. THE TAVERN Poem Text First Line: Whenever I go by there nowadays Last Line: That skirt-crazed reprobate, john evereldown. THE THREE TAVERNS Poem Text First Line: Herodion, apelles, amplias Last Line: But none may say what he shall find in rome. THE TORRENT Poem Text First Line: I found a torrent falling in a glen Last Line: Were steps to the great place where trees and torrents go. THE TOWN BY THE RIVER Poem Text First Line: Said the watcher by the way Subject(s): City & Town Life THE TOWN DOWN THE RIVER Poem Text First Line: Said the watcher by the way Last Line: Said the watcher by the way. THE TREE IN PAMELA'S GARDEN Poem Text First Line: Pamela was too gentle to deceive Last Line: Could they have seen that she had overheard. THE UNFORGIVEN Poem Text First Line: When he, who is the unforgiven Last Line: There still would seem to be a way. THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW Poem Text First Line: There were faces to remember in the valley of the shadow Last Line: Maimed. Subject(s): Death; Life; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE VOICE OF AGE Poem Text First Line: She'd look upon us, if she could Last Line: And grown-up children used their eyes. THE WANDERING JEW Poem Text First Line: I saw by looking in his eyes / that they remembered everything Last Line: And flinch - and look the other way. Subject(s): Wandering Jew THE WHIP Poem Text First Line: The doubt you fought so long Last Line: Still, shall I call you blind? THE WHITE LIGHTS Poem Text First Line: When in from delos came the gold Last Line: That there was triumph in the air. Subject(s): Broadway, New York City THE WILDERNESS Poem Text First Line: Come away! Come away! There's a frost along Last Line: And the long fall wind on the lake. THE WISE BROTHERS Poem Text First Line: So long adrift, so fast aground Last Line: We, and all others? THE WOMAN AND THE WIFE Poem Text First Line: You thought we knew,' she said, 'but we were wrong Last Line: "do you ask me to take moonlight for the sun?" THE WORLD Poem Text First Line: Some are the brothers of all humankind, Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THEOPHILUS Poem Text First Line: By what serene malevolence of names Last Line: Or cain,--but surely not theophilus. THERE IS ONE CREED, AND ONLY ONE Poem Text THERE IS ONE CREED, AND ONLY ONE Subject(s): Religion THOMAS HOOD Poem Text First Line: The man who cloaked his bitterness within Last Line: Or sailed away with ines to the west. Subject(s): Hood, Thomas (1799-1845); Poetry & Poets THREE QUATRAINS First Line: Yes, there is yet one way to where she is Last Line: No matter what we are, or what we sing, %time finds a withered leaf in every laurel THREE QUATRAINS: 1 Poem Text First Line: As long as fame's imperious music rings Last Line: As long as glory weighs itself in dust. THREE QUATRAINS: 2 Poem Text First Line: Drink to the splendor of the unfulfilled Last Line: The strings that nero fingered are all gone. THREE QUATRAINS: 3 Poem Text First Line: We cannot crown ourselves with everything Last Line: Time finds a withered leaf in every laurel. TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE Poem Text First Line: Am I alone - or is it you, my friend? Last Line: You are still there. And I know who is here. Subject(s): Toussaint L'ouverture (1743-1803) TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE First Line: Am I alone - or is it you, my friend? Last Line: You are still there. And I know who is here Subject(s): Toussaint L'ouverture (1743-1803) TRISTRAM Poem Text First Line: Isolt of the white hands, in brittany Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Tristram And Isolde TRISTRAM First Line: Isolt of the white hands, in brittany Last Line: And the white sunlight flashing on the sea Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Tristram And Isolde TWILIGHT SONG Poem Text First Line: Through the shine, through the rain Last Line: Through the shine, through the rain. Subject(s): Dusk TWO GARDENS IN LINNDALE Poem Text First Line: Two brothers, oakes and oliver Last Line: Of asphodels and artichokes. TWO MEN Poem Text First Line: There be two men of all mankind Last Line: Melchizedek, ucalegon. TWO OCTAVES: 1 Poem Text First Line: Not by the grief that stuns and overwhelms Subject(s): Life TWO OCTAVES: 2 Poem Text First Line: When through hot fog the fulgid sun looks down Subject(s): God TWO OCTAVES: 2. PARAPHRASE Poem Text First Line: We shriek to live, but no man ever lives Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TWO OCTAVESL 1. UNITY Poem Text First Line: As eons of incalculable strife Subject(s): Thought; Thinking TWO QUATRAINS: 1 Poem Text First Line: As eons of incalculable strife Last Line: Divinely shadowed on the walls of thought. TWO QUATRAINS: 2 Poem Text First Line: We shriek to live, but no man ever lives Last Line: Till he has quit the road that runs to death. TWO SONNETS: 1 Poem Text First Line: Just as I wonder at the twofold screen Last Line: The scattered features of dead friends again. Subject(s): Religion; Theology TWO SONNETS: 2 Poem Text First Line: Never until our souls are strong enough Last Line: The mead of thought's prophetic endlessness. Subject(s): Religion; Theology UNCLE ANANIAS Poem Text First Line: His words were magic and his heart was true Last Line: Did love him faithfully. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement VAIN GRATUITIES Poem Text First Line: Never was there a man much uglier Last Line: Where there are none to listen or to care. VERLAINE Poem Text First Line: Why do you dig like long-clawed scavengers Last Line: Can blot the star that shines on paris now. Subject(s): Verlaine, Paul (1844-1896) VETERAN SIRENS Poem Text First Line: The ghost of ninon would be sorry now Last Line: So far from ninon and so near the grave. Subject(s): Aging; Courtesans; Lenclos, Anne De (1620-1705); Ninon De Lenclos VICKERY'S MOUNTAIN Poem Text First Line: Blue in the west the mountain stands Last Line: And vickery not to know. VILLANELLE OF CHANGE Poem Text First Line: Since persia fell at marathon Last Line: Long centuries have come and gone. Subject(s): Change; Greece; Greeks WALT WHITMAN Poem Text First Line: The master-songs are ended, and the man Last Line: We write them there forever. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) WHY HE WAS THERE Poem Text First Line: Much as he left it when he went from us Last Line: "and I shall not be here when you are gone." ZOLA Poem Text First Line: Because he puts the compromising chart Last Line: Throbbing, the pulse, the divine heart of man. Subject(s): Zola, Emile (1840-1902) |
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