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Author: SCHUYLER, JAMES Matches Found: 305 Schuyler, James Poet's Biography 305 poems available by this author 3/23/1966 First Line: It's funny early spring weather, mild and washy Last Line: And fled up the chimney 30-JUN-74 First Line: Let me tell you Last Line: Think I'll make more toast 5-OCT-81 First Line: A chance of a few morning sprinkles' Last Line: And love, leaves turning, that %scintillating sky 8/12/1970 First Line: In early august among the spruce Last Line: Fingertap, a gathering, a climax A HEAD Poem Text First Line: A dead boy living among men as a man Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men A MAN IN BLUE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Under the french horns of a november afternoon Subject(s): Music & Musicians A POEM Poem Text First Line: Tags of songs, like salvaged buttons Subject(s): Women A VIEW Recitation by Author First Line: How come a thickish tree Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians A WHITE CITY Poem Text First Line: My thoughts turn south Subject(s): Relationships ADVENT First Line: Open my eyes on the welcome Last Line: Looks warmer than it is AFTER JOE WAS AT THE ISLAND First Line: A good while after, on the upstairs east sleeping porch Last Line: Shingles; or, shakes AFTERWARD First Line: Is much as before. Night Last Line: This room needs flowers AFTERWARD First Line: Then it snowed. I Last Line: By alders and firs AJACCIO VIOLETS First Line: Ahowered, shaved, splashed Last Line: And those eyes %those eyes ALICE FAYE AT RUBY FOO'S First Line: 1 from 9 is 8 Last Line: O taxi cabs. O ruby foo ALMANAC First Line: Shops take down their awnings Last Line: Storm windows are stacked on the beams of the garage ALONG OVERGROWN PATHS First Line: The road crowds houses almost into the lake Last Line: If they'd a mind to put out their hands AMY LOWELL'S THOUGHTS First Line: The sea opened its lips Variant Title(s): Amy Lowell Thoughts Subject(s): Lowell, Amy (1874-1925) AMY LOWELL'S THOUGHTS First Line: The sea opened its lips Last Line: She strolls %in fog shoes Variant Title(s): Amy Lowell Thought Subject(s): Lowell, Amy (1874-1925) ANDREW LORD POEMS First Line: The flattened shape Last Line: Tries %to come through APRIL Poem Text First Line: The morning sky is clouding up Subject(s): May (month) APRIL AND ITS FORSYTHIA First Line: It's snowing on the unpedimented lions. On ventilator hoods Last Line: Where branches of sunshine were in bloom on monday Subject(s): Americans; United States AT DARRAGH'S I First Line: Lie in bed and watch the night Last Line: World of roses AT THE BEACH First Line: On the fourth of july at the beach Last Line: Rose, then went in ourselves AUGUST FIRST, 1974 First Line: Was yesterday. I went out in the yard Last Line: More today. You see, I'm waiting AUGUST NIGHT First Line: This week we Last Line: August, 1972 %missing you AUTUMN LEAVES First Line: Mountains and mountains and mountains Last Line: All turning, turning, turning AWAIT First Line: The scars upon the day Last Line: Late yellow grapes AWOKE First Line: Awoke to rain Last Line: And then, you %said, he vanished BEADED BALUSTRADE First Line: The balustrade along my balcony Last Line: Got a beaded balustrade BEAUTIFUL FUNERALS First Line: Who lives in the biggest, whitest house in town? Last Line: Dignity %in dark glasses BELATED BIRTHDAY POEM First Line: You are walking in the grounds Last Line: Your moon last night was gibbous BERNINI Poem Text First Line: Not one of the first, the inventors, the wonder-workers, Subject(s): Bernini, Gian Lorenzo (1598-1680) BIRDS First Line: Start up in gray Last Line: Three grays %sky, road, path BLEEDING GUMS First Line: Have another helping of blue snow Last Line: Happiness! Isn't that all that matters? BLOSSOMING OAKWOOD First Line: Dead-ends at 19th one Last Line: Death begins, and life BLUE First Line: Beautiful new %york sky harder Last Line: Two glazed %clay clouds BLUE TOWEL First Line: Went with us to the beach Last Line: On sand beside the sea BLUET First Line: And is it stamina Last Line: Late, late in dour october BUILDINGS First Line: Buildings embankment parkway grass and river Last Line: All those millions of windows BURIED AT SPRINGS Poem Text First Line: There is a hornet in the room Subject(s): O'hara, Frank (1926-1966) BURIED AT SPRINGS First Line: There is a hornet in the room Last Line: The harsh russet of dried blood BUTTERED GREENS First Line: Sunshine %makes shade Last Line: Bone it is %much the %same CAN I TEMPT YOU TO A POND WALK? Poem Text First Line: Tender fingers ran up my ankle Subject(s): Walking; Time CARDINAL IN THE BRANCHES Last Line: In his springtime yard Variant Title(s): A Cardina CENOTAPH: 1. MONESES UNIFLORA First Line: Rain falls on the trash burning in an old oil drum and does not put it out Last Line: It is the smell left by a hot day CENOTAPH: 2. WE SEE SEALS. BOATS GO BY First Line: We see seals Last Line: A herculanean task CHAPEL First Line: Small, just %a room Last Line: He imposes %the ashes CLOSED GENTIAN DISTANCES First Line: A nothing day full of Last Line: By, a river in water COMING NIGHT Poem Text First Line: It darkens brother Subject(s): Time CORNFLOWERS First Line: After the stormy night Last Line: Tattered tales of my life CROCUS NIGHT First Line: The heavy umbrellas %aren't worth their weight Last Line: Then the moon goes crocus CRYSTAL LITHIUM First Line: The smell of snow, stinging in nostrils as the wind lifts it from a beach Last Line: Look,' the ocean said (it was tumbled, like our sheets), 'look %in my eyes' DAY First Line: The day is gray Last Line: Frantic with life DAY First Line: Because of a coolness in the air Last Line: While I dig the moonstruck bay %o bay DAYLIGHT First Line: And when I thought Last Line: Went right on shining DEAR JOE First Line: I can easily believe that I Last Line: I love you since long DEC. 28, 1974 First Line: The plants against the light Last Line: Beyond the dunes, an ocean on fire DEC. 28. 1974 Poem Text First Line: The plants against the light Subject(s): Poetry & Poets DECEMBER First Line: The giant norway spruce from podunk, its lower branches bound Last Line: Grow warm next to your own in hushed dark familial december DEEP WINTER Poem Text First Line: A starling drops Subject(s): Winter DEEP WINTER First Line: A starling drops Last Line: Yet still alike %in waiting weather DESTITUTE PERU Poem Text First Line: We pullmaned to peoria. Was Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains DINING OUT WITH DOUG AND FRANK (FOR FRANK POLACH) First Line: Not quite yet. First Last Line: Doug is the tall one DISTRACTION: AN ODE Poem Text First Line: Http://sienese-shredder.Com/2/james_schuyler-poems.Html Subject(s): Leopardi, Giacomo (1798-1837) DOG WANTS HIS DINNER First Line: The sky is pitiless. I beg Last Line: Asleep too, o magic root DORA'BELLA'S NAPLES WATERCOLOR First Line: Lamped in a postered arch, her settecento name Last Line: Black grapes on naples DREAMS First Line: You can't remember, giving a day Last Line: If not laughing, smiling EARTH'S HOLOCAUST First Line: It's time again Last Line: Have no sense of time, at all EAST WINDOW ON ELIZABETH STREET First Line: Among the silvery, the dulled sparkling mica lights of tar roofs Last Line: Plainly is a child running EDGE IN THE MORNING First Line: Walking to the edge with a cup of coffee ELIZABETHANS CALLED IT DYING' First Line: Beyond nagel's funeral parlor Last Line: I can't remember what it was like %it must've been lousy EMPATHY AND NEW YEAR First Line: Whitman took the cars Last Line: In ropes like roots EMPATHY AND THE NEW YEAR Poem Text Recitation First Line: Whitman took the cars EN ROUTE TO SOUTHAMPTON First Line: In a corner of a parlor-car Last Line: Eternal promise %of a new moon EVENING First Line: The black marble mantelpiece Last Line: Like missing someone, and a long goodbye EVENING WIND First Line: October hangs in grape Last Line: Cool as water, through it EVENINGS IN VERMONT First Line: After two rainy days, a sunny one Last Line: Lies in the west, over the ridge EYES First Line: Seta cangiante %eyes that change Last Line: Di seta cangiante %mi segue EYES AT THE WINDOW First Line: The eyes at the window are norma shearer's Last Line: Though is walter scott's FABERGE First Line: I keep my diamond necklace in a pond of sparkling water Last Line: Fuzz -- blue -- is not a tear. I have nothing to cry atout now I have you FAURE BALLADE First Line: Pyramids, arches, obelisks, were but the irregularity of vainglory Last Line: L'azur est plus profond FAURE'S SECOND PIANO QUARTET First Line: On a day like this the rain comes Last Line: More slowly still, fat rain falls FEBRUARY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: A chimney, breathing a little smoke Subject(s): Winter; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple FEBRUARY First Line: A chimney, breathing a little smoke Last Line: It's a day like any other FEELING NO PAIN Poem Text First Line: Bless the ear doc Subject(s): Illness; Ears; Medicine; Drugs, Prescription FEW DAYS First Line: Are all we have. So count them as they pass. They pass too quickly Last Line: The weary journey done FIREPROOF FLOORS OF WITLEY COURT, SELS. FLASHES First Line: Dark day %hard, swarming Last Line: In puddles %on a tar roof FOOTNOTE First Line: The bluet is a small flower, creamy-throated, that grows in patches in Last Line: With beauty. Though I need reject none. Bluet. 'bloo-ay' FOR BOB DASH First Line: The first three roses Last Line: Harmony in all you make and do FOREIGN PARTS Poem Text First Line: Meat-eater, salt-licker, piped spring FOUR POEMS First Line: It's 4:30 in cambridge Last Line: Over cambridge, over the charles %green bank, goodbye FREELY ESPOUSING Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: A commingling sky Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States; Social Commentaries; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple FREELY ESPOUSING First Line: A commingling sky %a semi-tropic night Last Line: When they fold each other up %well, thrill. That's their story FROM THE NEXT First Line: From the next room Last Line: The buzz of dying GOING First Line: In the month when the kamchatka bugbane Last Line: October would look no different than it looks GOOD MORNING First Line: Morning, or heartache. In Last Line: How shall I polish you GRAND DUO First Line: The seine %'transcend, be real' Last Line: Schubert %franz schubert GRAVE First Line: While we who wished to help stood helplessly by Last Line: In what the screw of our ship set in motion GRAY DAY First Line: There is a cloud' Last Line: And a window %full of leaves GRAY THOUGHT First Line: In the sky a gray thought GRAY, INTERMITTENTLY BLUE, EYED HERO First Line: Woolly-cheeked wink flasher Last Line: And fly blueward through blue GREEN DOOR First Line: We could try it Last Line: Only the plane, only the hammer GREENWICH AVENUE First Line: In the evening of a brightly Last Line: Nods and speaks of a further bleeding GREETINGS FROM THE CHATEAU First Line: Why did massenet compose thais Last Line: Delighting another dusk, and the canal to the sky GROWING DARK Poem Text First Line: The grass shakes Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians GROWING DARK First Line: The grass shakes Last Line: I got my sleep Subject(s): Homosexuality GULLS First Line: Gulls %loudly insist on indefensible rights Last Line: Bunchberries %trotting about HAVING MY SAY SO Poem Text First Line: What a sweet dear good boy he is, I said aloud to the empty room. Subject(s): Gays 7 Lesbians; Poetry & Poets HAZE Poem Text First Line: Hangs heavy / down into trees: dawn Subject(s): Fog; Haze HAZE First Line: Hangs heavy %down into trees: dawn Last Line: We may grow to love Subject(s): Fog HAZE HANGS HEAVY HEAD First Line: A dead boy living among men as a man Last Line: For his beauty. So what %if it fades and dies? Subject(s): Homosexuality HELD BREATH First Line: Dense dark day, two sun chairs Last Line: To fill the air with falling HORSE-CHESTNUT TREES AND ROSES First Line: Twenty-some years ago, I read graham stuart thomas's Last Line: It's the horse-chestnut trees I mind HUDSON FERRY First Line: April what an ice-cold promise Last Line: Gleams like silver like the magnolias in the moonlight HYMN TO LIFE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The wind rests its cheek upon the ground and feels the cool damp Subject(s): Conduct Of Life HYMN TO LIFE First Line: The wind rests its cheek upon the ground and feels the cool damp Last Line: Ask questions? Or, what are the questions you wish to ask? I AM KEENLY DISAPPOINTED. I EAGERLY AWAIT Poem Text First Line: Zug. / zumph. These words Subject(s): Farm Life; Comic Strips; Agriculture; Farmers I SIT DOWN TO TYPE First Line: And arise whatever for Last Line: A catholic, secure in his %all-forgiving love I THINK Poem Text First Line: I will write you a letter Subject(s): Spring I THINK First Line: I will write you a letter Last Line: Stick around %a while Subject(s): Spring ILFORD ROSE BOOK First Line: Thank you for your letter Last Line: Back in the watch fob days IN EARLIEST MORNING First Line: An orange devours Last Line: Behind a morning %times of cloud IN JANUARY First Line: The yard has sopped into its green-grizzled self its new year Last Line: Steps pecking at their shadows IN THE ROUND First Line: Bed the inter %loping grass Last Line: Good %morning %what's- %your-name IN WHITE CITY Poem Text First Line: My thoughts turn south Variant Title(s): A White City Subject(s): Dreams; Snow; Nightmares IN WHITE CITY First Line: My thoughts turn south Last Line: And find it has snowed Variant Title(s): A White Cit Subject(s): Dreams; Snow IN WIRY WINTER Poem Text First Line: The shadow of a bird Subject(s): Winter; Birds IN WIRY WINTER First Line: The shadow of a bird Last Line: Goodnight granny %so truly good INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY First Line: Early may (a late spring) a field Last Line: The negative expression of a wish JANIS JOPLIN'S DEAD: LONG LIVE PEARL First Line: You call: %guarded voices. O Last Line: Body %next to %mine JELLY JELLY First Line: Summer apples, showy and sugary, mealy and touchy Last Line: Under the lid of an elderberry pie JOINT First Line: Veal and mushrooms, wine, a too pungent salad Last Line: That coats the cup if good and strong JULY SIXTH Poem Text First Line: The window looks over an arbor. The grape leaves, bluish-green on one Subject(s): Nature JUST BEFORE FALL First Line: In the quiet spaces between equinoctial gales Last Line: Running down, winding up, going on KOREAN MUMS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Beside me in this garden Subject(s): Chrysanthemums KOREAN MUMS First Line: Beside me in this garden Last Line: In stillness, even %the words, korean mums LABOR DAY First Line: Not what I think Last Line: I think of death LET'S ALL HEAR IT FOR MILDRED BAILEY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The men's can at cafe society uptown Last Line: In a world gone wrong. Subject(s): Bailey, Mildred [rinker] (1907-1951); Jazz; Music & Musicians LETTER POEM #2 First Line: Riding along in the beautiful day (there go two Last Line: That rises, stiffening these trees LETTER POEM #3 First Line: The night is quiet Last Line: Other self, my bet %ter half, my one LETTER TO A FRIEND: WHO IS NANCY DAUM? Recitation by Author First Line: All things are real Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men LETTER TO A FRIEND: WHO IS NANCY DAUM? First Line: All things are real Last Line: Who is nancy daum? Subject(s): Homosexuality LIGHT BLUE ABOVE Last Line: Upon a dust speck %in bubble air LIGHT FROM CANADA First Line: A wonderful freshness, sir Last Line: On fish that swim up to do same LIGHT NIGHT Poem Text First Line: A tree, enamel needles, Subject(s): Night; Bedtime LIGHT WITHIN First Line: And the light without: the shade Last Line: The luminous dark within LIKE LORRAINE ELLISON First Line: Zephyrine drouhin %lines out her Last Line: To %a rose %give LILACS First Line: Helena brought me Last Line: There is, for instance %helena LOOKING FORWARD TO SEE JANE REAL SOON First Line: May drew in its breath and smelled june's roses Last Line: In which wind moves. And it was all for her LOVE'S PHOTOGRAPH (OR FATHER AND SON) Poem Text First Line: Detected little things: a peach-pit Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Photography & Photographs MAN IN BLUE First Line: Under the french horns of a november afternoon Last Line: On a sideboard where the sun falls MARCH HERE First Line: Wet %the tide out Last Line: Exhales a soft wet smell %of march MARK First Line: My father was ribald Last Line: Enrapt, an arrow in my heart MASTER OF THE GOLDEN GLOW First Line: An irregular rattle (shutters) and Last Line: More litter, less clutter MAY 24TH OR SO First Line: Among white lilac trusses, green-gold spaces of sunlit grass Last Line: Dashed off, like the easiest thing MAY, 1972 Poem Text First Line: Soft may mists are here again Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MAY, 1972 First Line: Soft may mists are here again Last Line: Must end. It goes on MIKE First Line: Carly simon Last Line: Great -- hey %tree %right -- %guy MILK First Line: Milk used to come in tall glass, heavy and uncrystalline as frozen melted snow Last Line: Trembling, milk is coming into its own MONEY MUSK First Line: Hamlin garland rose up from the oaklahoma powwow and declared with spirit Last Line: Small purpose and with less effect MOOD INDIGO First Line: And the curtain rose in that theatre so long ago Last Line: We will meet again %in harlem MOON First Line: Last night there was Last Line: And now the sun shines %down in silent brightness, %on me and my possessions, %which I have named, % MORNING First Line: Breaks in splendor on Last Line: Is well begun. So %be it, morning MORNING OF THE POEM First Line: July 8 or july 9, the eight surely, certainly Last Line: Tomorrow: new york: in blue, in green, in white, east aurora goodbye NAME DAY First Line: You know da vinci's painting of Last Line: You a new brunswick lobster NEW YORKER First Line: The way eyes turn Last Line: The larger types of private room accommodations NIGHT IS FILLED WITH INDECISIONS Last Line: We do we %love each %other so Variant Title(s): The Nigh NOON OFFICE First Line: A snowy curtain Last Line: Erect dead trees NOVEMBER First Line: Is a nice month to be Last Line: Birthday, many and %many and many NOW AND THEN Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Up from the valley Subject(s): Surgery, Plastic; Social Commentaries; Human Behavior; Social Classes; Cosmetic Sugery; Face Lifts; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Caste NOW AND THEN First Line: Up from the valley Last Line: Clear and beautiful %remain at home O SLEEPLESS NIGHT First Line: I lie down and spread my legs and arms Last Line: Give me the knife OCTOBER First Line: Books litter the bed Last Line: Of fall litter the bed ON THE DRESSER First Line: That had a swivel Last Line: Wrote %'in childbirth' ORIANE First Line: My name is oriane Last Line: Its name is %oriane OUR FATHER First Line: This mountain view OVER THE HILLS First Line: The jersey hills Last Line: Some enchanted evening OVERCAST, HOT First Line: It's a hot day Last Line: It sure is hot, muggy %july PAYNE WHITNEY POEMS: ARCHES First Line: Of buildings, this building Last Line: A gray in which some smoke stands PAYNE WHITNEY POEMS: BACK First Line: From the frick. The weather Last Line: Why? That was only thirty years ago PAYNE WHITNEY POEMS: BLIZZARD First Line: Tearing and tearing Last Line: Through driving snow PAYNE WHITNEY POEMS: FEBRUARY 13, 1975 First Line: Tomorrow is st. Valentine's Last Line: Snowflakes in a book like flowers PAYNE WHITNEY POEMS: HEATHER AND CALENDULAS First Line: A violet hush: and sunbursts Last Line: Die, and you die alone PAYNE WHITNEY POEMS: LINEN First Line: Is this the moment? Last Line: I'm glad I have %fresh linen PAYNE WHITNEY POEMS: PASTIME First Line: I pick up a loaded pen and twiddle it Last Line: A desert kind of life PAYNE WHITNEY POEMS: SLEEP First Line: The friends who come to see you Last Line: Give my love to, oh, anybody Subject(s): Homosexuality PAYNE WHITNEY POEMS: TRIP First Line: Wigging in, wigging out Last Line: Deeply, that I think %is a miracle PAYNE WHITNEY POEMS: WE WALK First Line: In the garden. Sun Last Line: The wind whistles %curious PAYNE WHITNEY POEMS: WHAT First Line: What's in those pills? Last Line: And the wolf of gubbio PENOBSCOT First Line: Open water facing bradbury snags fog in its spruce Last Line: Where the breakers roll stones to cannon balls PEOPLE WHO SEE BUBBLES RISE First Line: May be swimming, not drowning Last Line: Who, open-eyed, sees bubbles rise PERHAPS First Line: Perhaps there's time to write a poem Last Line: Now I think I'll wash my hair. G'bye PHOTOGRAPH First Line: Shows you in a london Last Line: Wears his nose awry PICNIC CANTATA First Line: I feel funny today Last Line: Good-bye, toodle-oo, so long, good-bye POEM Poem Text First Line: Your enchantment Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians POEM First Line: Your enchantment Last Line: Sink down beside you Subject(s): Homosexuality POEM First Line: I do not always understand what you say Last Line: What is, is by its nature, on display POEM First Line: How about an oak leaf Last Line: Damp and wooly. You lack charm POEM First Line: This beauty that I see Last Line: It goes, it goes POEM First Line: I got my hair cut Last Line: And it rains POEM First Line: The wind tears up the sun Last Line: And its flakes, not less %though shorter lived PRINCESS DI First Line: Intricacies of a devious mind Last Line: And I thought, beautiful %princess, farewell QUICK, HENRY, THE FLIT First Line: The rain is raining all around Last Line: Slap. Drat the mosquitoes RACHMANINOFF'S THIRD First Line: A mement and %over and with Last Line: Before they build that dam RAIN First Line: Quilts the pond and Last Line: Accepts the world's shampoo RED BRICK AND BROWN STONE First Line: He arises. Oriane Last Line: Passes in black chiffon RESERVED SACRAMENT First Line: Mid-morning %the light, what light Last Line: And purple %and gold Variant Title(s): This Soft Octobe REUNION First Line: You will like their upstairs Last Line: You may get to like them ROOF GARDEN First Line: Tubs of %memory Last Line: Adorable, sticky flower ROSE OF MARION First Line: Is pink and many-petalled Last Line: Perhaps one day I will ROXY First Line: You are ever %in my thoughts Last Line: Inside, outside %the nut house gate ROYALS First Line: Called dog men Last Line: Or wherever we pass them, or a roof RUNNING FOOTSTEPS Poem Text First Line: A thin brown stain Subject(s): Rain; Fear RUNNING FOOTSTEPS First Line: A thin brown stain Last Line: Rain-chilled %to be alive SALUTE Poem Text Recitation First Line: Past is past, and if one Subject(s): Past SALUTE First Line: Past is past, and if one SATURDAY NIGHT First Line: A little drunk Last Line: He needs and wants SCARLATTI Poem Text First Line: Last night / locked in Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Scarlatti, Domenico (1685-1757) SCARLET TANAGER First Line: In the big maple %behind the willow' Last Line: Happy children's song %drums -- drums SEEKING Poem Text First Line: For old new england Subject(s): New England SEEKING First Line: For old new england Last Line: Like the wonderful fish and terrible food %at glad's lunch SELF-PITY IS A KIND OF LYING, TOO First Line: It's %snowing defective Last Line: Just have snow %to wear too SEPTEMBER First Line: Swimming in the memorial %park pond smells of a dog Last Line: Two of its legs are like -- you %know. Arms SHADOWY ROOM First Line: Tall buildings swayed ...' Last Line: The hands of god SHAKER First Line: There was simply Last Line: At sabbathday lake SHIMMER First Line: The pear tree that last year Last Line: Here at my right hand SIMONE SIGNORET First Line: Look, mitterrand baby, your telegram Last Line: And I truly miss you %simone signoret SIX SOMETHING First Line: On june 5th, '90 Last Line: In bell-like blue SKY EATS UP THE TREES First Line: The newspaper comes. It Last Line: Lines I read at night SLEEP First Line: With its burden of dreams Last Line: With its burden of dreams SLEEP-GUMMED EYES First Line: With sleep-crowned eyes I Last Line: Freezing. So be it SNOW First Line: That fell and iced Last Line: Only for the ice and snow SNOWDROP First Line: The sheath pierces the turf Last Line: A pale green testicle Subject(s): Snowdrops (plants) SO GOOD Poem Text First Line: Sing to me Subject(s): Weather; Birds; Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers SO GOOD First Line: Sing to me SOMETIMES Poem Text First Line: I remember the synagogue at amsterdam Last Line: Came into the world Subject(s): Amsterdam, Netherlands; Synagogues SOMETIMES First Line: I remember the synagogue at amsterdam Last Line: Came into the world Subject(s): Amsterdam, Netherlands; Synagogues SONG First Line: The light lies layered in the leaves Last Line: In light no longer layered SONG First Line: I'm about to go shopping Last Line: Remember the ivory snow SONNET First Line: August, tasting of ripe grapes and afternoon sleep Last Line: Bathing its light in water, find its white coolness SORTING, WRAPPING, PACKING, STUFFING First Line: Dirty socks in dirty sneakers Last Line: They never began and great hunks of the world will fit SPARKS First Line: A light rain stands Last Line: But, unlike sparks, fly back SPRING First Line: Snow thick and wet, porous Last Line: The east %glows %rose. No %willow STANDING AND WATCHING Last Line: Drained, not quite of color there STEAMING TIES, CUTTING RUE Last Line: Out silk ties, they bind Variant Title(s): Steaming Tie STONE KNIFE First Line: Dear kenward %what a pearl Last Line: Center still in stone STUN First Line: If you've ever been in a car Last Line: In prickle-green, speed-lashed %massachusetts SUDDENLY First Line: It's night and tom Last Line: Raindrop fragments SUN CAB First Line: Goes by below Last Line: Unheard unseen %a fluent presence SUNDAY Poem Text First Line: The mint bed is in SUNDAY First Line: Pears hang on the tree by stems Last Line: On braking down the incline SUNDAY First Line: The mint bed is in Last Line: I scribble your name Subject(s): Love SUNSET First Line: The sun just Last Line: Ledge to ledge SWEET ROUMANIAN TONGUE Poem Text First Line: Drew down the curse of heaven on her umbrella Subject(s): Rain; Wasps; Yellow Jackets TABLE OF GREEN FIELDS First Line: On which to shoot pool Last Line: I do not know, abloom, again TEARS, OILY TEARS ... Poem Text First Line: Crying is a habit with me. Subject(s): Crying THE CRYSTAL LITHIUM Poem Text Recitation First Line: The smell of snow, stinging in nostrils as the wind lifts it from a beach Subject(s): Chemical Elements; Snow THE EDGE IN THE MORNING Poem Text First Line: Walking to the edge with a cup of coffee Subject(s): Morning THE PAYNE WHITNEY POEMS: SLEEP Poem Text First Line: The friends who come to see you Last Line: Give my love to, oh, anybody Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians THE VILLAGE Poem Text First Line: Hate greenwich village like vachel lindsay said Subject(s): Greenwich Village, New York City; Ginsberg, Allen (1926-1997) THINGS TO DO First Line: Balance checkbook Last Line: And lead 'a full and active life' THINNESS First Line: (like, her cardboard lover) Last Line: And other nascent what-have-yous THIS DARK APARTMENT First Line: Coming from the deli Last Line: You were. You said so THIS NOTEBOOK First Line: Is small and stamped Last Line: Who gave me you THREE GARDENS: 4404 STANFORD First Line: On the steep slope by the drive he Last Line: A garden of rocks, but not %kyoto style THREE GARDENS: CHELSEA First Line: Petunias, this year Last Line: Of morning glory THREE GARDENS: ERTA CANINA First Line: Any place else it Last Line: At last %the nightingale THURSDAY First Line: A summer dawn breaks over the city Last Line: To keep it that way. Yes, my secret TO FRANK O'HARA First Line: And now the splendor of your work is here Last Line: But it was my dream TODAY First Line: The bay today breaks Last Line: And the sun smites TOM First Line: A key. The door. Open Subject(s): Desire; Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men TOM First Line: A key. The door. Open Last Line: Is only and always beautiful Subject(s): Desire; Homosexuality TOM'S ATTEMPT TO SEDUCE BIG BROTHER STEVE First Line: I went' Last Line: Said %let's %wrestle TOM'S DREAM First Line: Tom dreamed he was visiting Last Line: Alka-seltzer plus cold remedy TOMORROW First Line: Is helena's birthday Last Line: Bodhisattva of tomorrow TRASH BOOK First Line: Then I do not know what Last Line: And sipped her miller's TWO First Line: Men in arab robes Last Line: And all run together TWO MEDITATIONS First Line: Gladioli slant in the border as though stuck not growing there and Last Line: Of shot grouse curving into a november wet match stick field. Burrs, %unfinished houses UNDER THE HANGER First Line: Wood lark whistles. Hogs carry straw Last Line: Men wash their sheep UNLIKE JOUBERT First Line: Lying on the bed in the afternoon Last Line: Sinks down in the presence of an absence UNNUMBERED WARD Poem Text First Line: And accustomed ungentle hands of two blue-uniformed attendants Subject(s): Hospitals UP First Line: It's a sunday kind Last Line: I can't wait. Til %thursday, love USED HANDKERCHIEFS 5 CENTS' First Line: Clean used ones, of course. Also a dresser scarf, woven with a pattern Last Line: Hand towel of today, embroidered forty some maybe years ago VELVET ROSES First Line: Katie is making Last Line: Sleeping again %dreaming again VERGE First Line: A man cuts brush VERMONT DIARY First Line: Slowly %the dried up pond Last Line: A big birthday party (mine) Subject(s): Diaries VIEW First Line: How come a thickish tree Last Line: Cat on a green hummock Subject(s): Homosexuality VIRGINIA WOOLF First Line: I wish I had been at rodmell Last Line: Like clouded yellows over the downs VOYAGE AUTOUR DE MES CARTES POSTALES First Line: A man of words and not of deeds Last Line: To whom shall I scribble you WALK First Line: Out of shape %my legs ache Last Line: Bound away %deer at horseplay WALTER SCOTT First Line: Assured by many Last Line: Speaking of the incessant rain WAS IT First Line: Was it a quarrel that barred Last Line: Smile down on me WATCHING YOU First Line: Watching you sleep Last Line: And more, my days WE ARE LEAVES First Line: There are leaves Last Line: Here among leaves WHITE First Line: I came back from cape cod Last Line: In my snowdrop-colored bathroom WHITE BOAT, BLUE BOAT First Line: Two boats parked Last Line: And endless mystery WITH FRANK AND GEORGE AT LEXINGTON First Line: Polly red top thermos is with us Last Line: It feels good here WONDERFUL WORLD First Line: I,' I mused, 'yes, I,' and turned to the fenestrations of the night Last Line: The empire state building rears its pearly height WYSTAN AUDEN First Line: I went to his fortieth birthday Last Line: Wystan, kind man and great poet %goodbye YELLOW FLOWERS Recitation by Author First Line: Pie-wedge petals Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening YELLOW FLOWERS First Line: Pie-wedge petals Last Line: It begins with a 'c' %yes: coreopsis Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening YOU'RE First Line: On vacation. 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