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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: ROSENBERG, ISAAC Matches Found: 100 Rosenberg, Isaac Poet's Biography 100 poems available by this author 8/14/2013 First Line: What in our lives is burnt A BALLAD OF WHITECHAPEL Poem Text First Line: God's mercy shines Last Line: Into strange sunlit bliss. Subject(s): London; Sickness; Death; Love A CARELESS HEART Poem Text First Line: A little breath can make a prayer Last Line: Then why keep ever near it? Subject(s): Prayer A GIRL'S THOUGHTS Poem Text First Line: Dim apprehension of a trust Last Line: Life shrinks and instinct dreads surprise. Subject(s): Fear; Silence A MOOD Poem Text First Line: You are so light and gay Last Line: It knows where it would go. Subject(s): Beauty A QUESTION Poem Text First Line: What if you shut your eyes and look Last Line: Even what the soul has pictured there? Subject(s): Imaginaion A WORM FED ON THE HEART OF CORINTH Poem Text Last Line: More amorous than solomon Subject(s): British Empire; World War I; Prophecy & Prophets; Helen Of Troy ASPIRATION Poem Text First Line: The roots of a dead universe are shrunken in my brain Last Line: And enaureole a glory round an unawaken'd theme. Subject(s): Desire; Dreams; Nightmares AT NIGHT Poem Text First Line: Crazed shadows, from no golden body Last Line: What smiles may stray. Subject(s): Lilith AUGUST 1914 Poem Text First Line: What in our lives is burnt Last Line: A fair mouth’s broken tooth. Subject(s): World War I AUGUST 1914 Poem Text First Line: What in our lives is burnt Last Line: A fair mouth's broken tooth. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War BEAUTY Poem Text First Line: As a sword in the sun Last Line: Ah, but its stay is its flight! Subject(s): Beauty BREAK IN BY SUBTLER NEARER WAYS Poem Text Last Line: Perfect new chime Subject(s): Time BREAK OF DAY IN THE TRENCHES Poem Text Recitation First Line: The darkness crumbles away Last Line: Just a little white with the dust. Subject(s): Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War CHAGRIN Poem Text First Line: Caught still as absalom Last Line: And hang from implacable boughs. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Dismay CREATION Poem Text First Line: As the pregnant womb of night Last Line: Creating and devouring suns. Subject(s): Creation DAUGHTERS OF WAR Poem Text First Line: Space beats the ruddy freedom of their limbs Last Line: "years." Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Women & War; World War I; First World War DAWN Poem Text First Line: O tender first cold flush of rose Last Line: To fade like passing ships. Subject(s): Dawn; Dream;s Transience DAWN BEHIND NIGHT Poem Text First Line: Lips! Bold, frenzied utterance, shape to the thoughts that prompted by hate Last Line: That will find us and free us and take us where its portals are opened wide. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; War; Dead, The DEAD MAN'S DUMP Poem Text Recitation First Line: The plunging limbers over the shattered track Last Line: And our wheels grazed his dead face. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War DON JUAN'S SONG Poem Text First Line: The moon is in an ecstasy Last Line: God made them frail to break. Subject(s): Don Juan; Soldiers' Writings EVEN NOW YOUR EYES ARE MIXED IN MINE Poem Text Last Line: Color, not heat, is caught Subject(s): Love EXPRESSION Poem Text First Line: Call - call - and bruise the air Last Line: And smouldering wrong. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings FAR AWAY Poem Text First Line: By what pale light or moon-pale shore Last Line: Far below in earthly skies. Subject(s): Soul FIRST FRUIT Poem Text First Line: I did not pluck at all Last Line: O, shut hands, be empty another year. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Winter FROM FRANCE Poem Text First Line: The spirit drank the cafe lights Last Line: And this is life in france. Subject(s): World War I - France GARDEN OF JOY First Line: In honey essenced bliss of sleep's deceit Last Line: Trims herself by their smiles, their happy mould GIRL TO SOLDIER ON LEAVE Poem Text First Line: I love you, titan lover Last Line: I let you -- I repine. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Women & War; World War I; First World War GOD Poem Text Recitation First Line: In his malodorous brain what slugs and mire Last Line: Ah, this miasma of a rotting god! Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; God GOD LOOKED CLEAR AT ME THROUGH HER EYES Poem Text Last Line: And warm with a divine caress Subject(s): Love HAVE WE SAILED AND HAVE WE WANDERED Poem Text Last Line: There where our far childhood grew Subject(s): Change; Sea HEART'S FIRST WORD (1) Poem Text First Line: To sweeten a swift minute so Last Line: Lie 'twixt love's silence and love's speech? HEART'S FIRST WORD (2) Poem Text First Line: And all her soft dark hair Last Line: Of kisses to be kist. Subject(s): Love; Soldiers' Writings HOME THOUGHTS FROM FRANCE Poem Text First Line: Wan, fragile faces of joy Last Line: My heart with futile bounds. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War I AM THE BLOOD Poem Text Last Line: She is my cenotaph Subject(s): Death IF YOU ARE FIRE AND I AM FIRE Poem Text Last Line: As if it had not been? Subject(s): Fire IN PICCADILLY Poem Text First Line: Lamp-lit faces, to you Last Line: Lights your passionless dust. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings IN THE TRENCHES Poem Text First Line: I snatched two poppies Last Line: Strewn. Smashed you lie. Subject(s): World War I; First World War IN THE UNDERWORLD Poem Text First Line: I have lived in the underworld so long Last Line: Grazed the dark waves and shivering further flew. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings IN WAR Poem Text First Line: Fret the nonchalant noon Last Line: My brother, our hearts and years. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War KILLED IN ACTION Poem Text First Line: Your 'youth' has fallen from its shelf Last Line: In inadvertence let you die. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings LADY, YOU ARE MY GOD Poem Text Last Line: What more can I for heaven? Subject(s): Love LOUSE HUNTING Poem Text First Line: Nudes - stark and glistening Last Line: Blown from sleep's trumpet. Subject(s): Army Life; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Drills & Minor Tactics; First World War LOVE AND LUST Poem Text First Line: No dream of mortal joy Last Line: Finding love waqs lust Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings LOVE AND LUST First Line: No dream of mortal joy Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings LUSITANIA Poem Text First Line: Chaos! That coincides with this militant purpose Last Line: Germany's gift — all earth they would give thee, chaos. Subject(s): Lusitania (ship) MARCHING (AS SEEN FROM THE LEFT FILE) Poem Text First Line: My eyes catch ruddy necks Last Line: On strong eyes. Subject(s): Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War MIDSUMMER FROST (1) Poem Text First Line: A july ghost, aghast at the strange winter Last Line: Stabbed by life's jealous eyes. Subject(s): Absence; Love; Soldiers' Writings; Separation; Isolation MIDSUMMER FROST (2) Poem Text First Line: A july ghost, aghast at the strange winter Last Line: Unvexed by july's warm eyes. Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Soldiers' Writings; Separation; Isolation MIRROR First Line: It glimmers like a wakeful lake in the dusk narrowing room Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings MOSES: A PLAY Poem Text First Line: Pharaoh's desires Last Line: They take it thus — or die Subject(s): Jews; Moses MOSES: A PLAY First Line: Pharaoh's desires Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings MY DAYS Poem Text First Line: My days are but the tombs of buried hours Last Line: For in their works their life returns again. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings MY SOUL IS ROBBED BY YOUR MOST TREACHEROUS EYES Poem Text Last Line: "and takes unto itself the strangest of Subject(s): Love; Soul MY SOUL IS ROBBED BY YOUR MOST TREACHEROUS EYES Last Line: And takes unto itself the strangest of strange lands Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings NIGHT AND DAY: 1. IN THE WORKSHOP Poem Text First Line: Dim watery lights gleaming on gibbering faces Last Line: Grazed the dark waves and shivering further flew. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings NIGHT AND DAY: 2 Poem Text First Line: I saw the face of god today Last Line: The ardent gaze of god on mine. Subject(s): God NIGHT AND DAY: 3 Poem Text First Line: Then spake I to the tree Last Line: "desire will sing to you." Subject(s): Trees; Desire NIGHT AND DAY: 4 Poem Text First Line: I wander - I wander - o will she wander here Last Line: Near. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings NOW THE SPIRIT'S SONG HAS WITHERED Poem Text Last Line: Hid in hill or hollow? Subject(s): Songs O, IN A WORLD OF MEN AND WOMEN Poem Text Last Line: In my world sorrow is their name Subject(s): Grief OF ANY OLD MAN Poem Text First Line: Wreck not the ageing heart of quietness Last Line: Your christ's youth was not ended when he died. Subject(s): Absense ON A LADY SINGING Poem Text First Line: She bade us listen to the singing lark Last Line: To music less than she. Subject(s): Old Age ON RECEIVING [THE FIRST] NEWS OF THE WAR Poem Text First Line: Snow is a strange white word Last Line: Its pristine bloom. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War PEACE Poem Text First Line: Where the dreamy mountains brood Last Line: Silent to the passing sky. Subject(s): Peace RETURNING, WE HEAR THE LARKS Poem Text First Line: Sombre the night is Last Line: Or her kisses where a serpent hides. Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Skylarks; First World War SAUL First Line: Why quails my heart? God riding with / a mortal would absorb him Subject(s): Saul (11th Century B.c.); Soldiers' Writings SAUL First Line: Why quails my heart? God riding with %a mortal would absorb him Last Line: Transport me instantly %for my soul yearns and fears Subject(s): Saul (11th Century B.c.); Soldiers' Writings SLEEP Poem Text First Line: Godhead's lip hangs Last Line: And shut your sinister essences Subject(s): Sleep SOLDIER: TWENTIETH CENTURY Poem Text First Line: I love you, great new titan! Last Line: Or a word in the brain's ways. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War SONG Poem Text First Line: A silver rose to show Last Line: Small pools their prisons are. Subject(s): Stars SPIRITUAL ISOLATION: A FRAGMENT Poem Text First Line: My maker shunneth me Last Line: Even in the rose-time when all else is well. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings SPRING Poem Text First Line: I walk and I wonder Last Line: The ways of the spring. Subject(s): Spring SPRING, 1916 Poem Text First Line: Slow, rigid, is this masquerade Last Line: Spring! God pity your mood! Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War SUMMER'S LIPS ARE AGLOW, AFRESH Poem Text Last Line: I have put my dreams away Subject(s): Dreams TESS Poem Text First Line: The free fair life that has never been mine Last Line: "love must burst her heart?" Subject(s): Love – Complaints THE BLIND GOD Poem Text First Line: Streaked with immortal blasphemies Last Line: You have streaked with blasphemy? Subject(s): God THE BURNING OF THE TEMPLE Poem Text First Line: Fierce wrath of solomon Last Line: Gone as his mouth's last sighs. Subject(s): Jerusalem; Soldiers' Writings THE CLOISTER Poem Text First Line: Our eyes no longer sail the tidal streets Last Line: These he has gardened, for they please his eyes. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Women And War THE DEAD HEROES Poem Text First Line: Flame out, you glorious skies Last Line: And claim god's kiss. Subject(s): Consolation; Soldiers' Writings THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM BY THE BABYLONIAN HORDES Poem Text First Line: They left their babylon bare / or all its tall men Last Line: To a gird of babylon's mirth. Subject(s): Jerusalem; Soldiers' Writings THE DYING SOLDIER Poem Text First Line: Here are houses, he moaned Last Line: He moaned and swooned to death. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE FEMALE GOD Poem Text First Line: We curl into your eyes Last Line: Your world. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THE IMMORTALS Poem Text First Line: I killed them, but they would not die Last Line: But now I call him dirty louse. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE JEW Poem Text First Line: Moses, from whose loins I sprung Last Line: Then why do they sneer at me? Subject(s): Bible; Freedom; Jews; Religion; Soldiers' Writings; Liberty; Judaism; Theology THE MIRROR Poem Text First Line: It glimmers like a wakeful lake in the dusk narrowing room Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THE NUN Poem Text First Line: So thy soul's meekness shrinks Last Line: In one god-linked sun. Subject(s): Nuns THE ONE LOST Poem Text First Line: I mingle with your bones Last Line: Freed by your thrall. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings THE POET (2) Poem Text First Line: He takes the glory from the gold Last Line: Illumined from the hill. Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The THE TOWER OF SKULLS Poem Text First Line: He knows his dust is fire and seed Last Line: He knows his dust is fire and seed. Subject(s): World War I – Casualties THE TROOP SHIP Poem Text First Line: Grotesque and queerly huddled Last Line: Ale on your face. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE WORLD RUMBLES BY ME - CAN I HEED? Last Line: If I stretch my hand, I may clasp a star Subject(s): Transience; Conduct Of Life THE WORLD RUMBLES BY ME - CAN I HEED? Poem Text THE WORLD RUMBLES BY ME - CAN I HEED? 3 THROUGH THESE PALE COLD DAYS Poem Text Subject(s): Death; Dead, The WEDDED (1) Poem Text First Line: They leave their love-lorn haunts Last Line: Dead, strayed, to love-strange lover. Subject(s): Love; Soldiers' Writings WEDDED (2) Poem Text First Line: The knotted moment that untwists Last Line: Kindness like death's have caught. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love YOUNG HEBREW SPEAKS Poem Text First Line: Yesterday as I lay nigh dead with toil Subject(s): Jews YOUNG HEBREW SPEAKS First Line: Yesterday as I lay nigh dead with toil Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings ZION Poem Text First Line: She stood - a hill-ensceptred queen Last Line: And only left her story. Subject(s): Jews |
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