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| Searching... Author: SHAPIRO, KARL Matches Found: 100 Shapiro, Karl Poet's Biography 100 poems available by this author A CUT FLOWER Poem Text First Line: I stand on slenderness all fresh and fair Subject(s): Nature A GARDEN IN CHICAGO Poem Text First Line: In the mid-city, under an oiled sky Subject(s): Chicago; Gardens & Gardening A MODEST FUNERAL Poem Text First Line: Death passed by on fervid rubber wheels Subject(s): Funerals; Burials A ROBBERY Poem Text First Line: By day I had dispraised their life Subject(s): Crime & Criminals A ROOM IN ROME Poem Text First Line: The water-poet lay down with flowers Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Keats, John (1795-1821) AMERICANS ARE AFRAID OF LIZARDS Poem Text First Line: My american host in madras in his moist air-conditioned apartment Subject(s): Lizards AN ANNIVERSARY FOR F. O. MATTHIESSEN Poem Text First Line: To learn the meaning of his leap to death Subject(s): Matthiessen, F. O. (1902-1950); Suicide ASIDE Poem Text First Line: Mail-day, and over the world in a thousand drag-nets Subject(s): War; Letters ATTENTION OF HYMEN Poem Text First Line: The atheist bride is dressed in blue Subject(s): Marriage; Jews; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Judaism AUTO WRECK Poem Text First Line: Its quick soft silver bell beating, beating Subject(s): Automobile Accidents BALLADE OF THE SECOND-BEST BED Poem Text First Line: In the name of the almighty god, amen Variant Title(s): The Second-best Bed Subject(s): Wills; Beds; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) BOY-MAN Poem Text First Line: England's lads are miniature men Subject(s): England; English BUICK Poem Text First Line: As a sloop with a sweep of immaculate wing on her delicate spine Subject(s): Automobiles; Love - Erotic; Cars CALLING THE CHILD Poem Text First Line: From the third floor I beckon to the child Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters CHRISTMAS EVE: AUSTRALIA Poem Text First Line: The wind blows hot. English and foreign birds Subject(s): Australia; Christmas; Nativity, The CHRISTMAS TREE Poem Text First Line: Because the tree is joyous and as a child Subject(s): Christmas Trees CONSCRIPTION CAMP Poem Text First Line: Your landscape sickens with a dry disease Subject(s): Virginia (State) D.C. Poem Text First Line: The bad breed of the natives with their hates Subject(s): Confederate States Of America; Georgia (State); Lee, Robert Edward (1807-1870); Confederacy DRUG STORE Poem Text First Line: It baffles the foreigner like an idiom Subject(s): Pharmacy & Pharmacists; Drug Store; Apothecary EDEN RETOLD: 1. THE SICKNESS OF ADAM Poem Text First Line: In the beginning, at every step, he turned Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Longing; Anger; God; Eve EDEN RETOLD: 2. THE RECOGNITION OF EVE Poem Text First Line: Whatever it was she had so fiercely fought EDEN RETOLD: 3. THE KISS Poem Text First Line: The first kiss was with stumbling fingertips Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Kisses; Eve EDEN RETOLD: 4. THE TREE OF GUILT Poem Text First Line: Why, on her way to the oracle of love Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Trees; Guilt; Eve EDEN RETOLD: 5. THE CONFESSION Poem Text First Line: As on the first day her first word was thou Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Sin; Trees; Food & Eating; Eve EDEN RETOLD: 6. SHAME Poem Text First Line: The hard blood falls back in the manly fount Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Shame; Eve EDEN RETOLD: 7. EXILE Poem Text First Line: The one who gave the warning with his wings Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Exiles; Eve ELEGY FOR A DEAD SOLDIER Poem Text First Line: A white sheet on the tail-gate of a truck Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; World War Ii; Dead, The; Second World War ELEGY FOR TWO BANJOS Poem Text First Line: Haul up the flag, you mourners Subject(s): War EMILY DICKINSON AND KATHERINE ANNE PORTER Poem Text First Line: Emily dickson's father yanked on the baptist bell Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Baptists; Porter, Katherine Anne (1890-1980) GOING TO WAR Poem Text First Line: Tell me not, evelyn, I fail Subject(s): War HAIRCUT Poem Text First Line: O wonderful nonsense of lotions of lucky tiger Subject(s): Barbers; Hair HOMECOMING Poem Text First Line: Lost in the vastness of the void pacific Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War HOSPITAL Poem Text First Line: Inside or out, the key is pain. It holds Subject(s): Hospitals; Pain; Suffering; Misery HUMAN NATURE Poem Text First Line: For months and years in a forgotten war Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War I AM AN ATHEIST WHO SAYS HIS PRAYERS Poem Text Subject(s): Atheism; Social Commentaries ISRAEL Poem Text First Line: When I think of the liberation of palestine Subject(s): Israel (State) ISRAFEL Poem Text First Line: Picture the grave in his diabolical dream Subject(s): Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Poetry & Poets JEFFERSON Poem Text First Line: If vision can dilate, my noble lord Subject(s): Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826) JEW Poem Text First Line: The name is immortal but only the name, for the rest Subject(s): Jews; Judaism LOVE FOR A HAND Poem Text First Line: Two hands lie still, the hairy and the white, Subject(s): Marriage; Hands; Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives LOVE POEM Poem Text First Line: Attempted suicide was your tour de force Subject(s): Suicide; Conduct Of Life MANHOLE COVERS Poem Text Recitation First Line: The beauty of manhole covers - what of that? Subject(s): Streets; Avenues MIDNIGHT SHOW Poem Text First Line: The year is done, the last act of the vaudeville Subject(s): New Year MONGOLIAN IDIOT Poem Text First Line: A dog that spoke, a monster born of sheep Subject(s): Disability MOVIE ACTRESS Poem Text First Line: I shal sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Actors & Actresses; Movies; Cinema; Actresses MOVING IN Poem Text First Line: May roses bloom beside the bloomberg windows Subject(s): Houses; Furniture MY GRANDMOTHER Poem Text First Line: My grandmother moves to my mind in context of sorrow Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers NECROPOLIS Poem Text First Line: Even in death they prosper; even in the death Subject(s): Wealth; Poverty; Death; Social Commentaries; Riches; Fortunes; Dead, The NEWSBOY Poem Text First Line: Bearing his way through the traffic, under his arm Subject(s): Newspapers; Boys; Journalism; Journalists NIGGER Poem Text First Line: And did ever a man go black with sun n a belgian swamp Subject(s): Blacks NOSTALGIA Poem Text First Line: My soul stands at the window of my room Subject(s): Memory; Nostalgia ON BEING YANKED FROM A FAVORITE ANTHOLOGY Poem Text First Line: Fame gave me a wrench and I cried ouch Subject(s): Fame; Poetry & Poets; Reputation ON READING KEATS IN WAR TIME First Line: As one long lost in no-man's-land of war Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets PARIS Poem Text First Line: City of man Subject(s): Paris, France PHARMACY Poem Text First Line: It baffles the foreigner like an idiom Subject(s): Pharmacy & Pharmacists; Drug Store; Apothecary PHILOMELA. PROCNE. TEREUS Poem Text First Line: Procne said, it happened at my wedding Subject(s): Mythology; Marriage; Rape; Sisters; Revenge; Weddings; Husbands; Wives POET Poem Text First Line: Left leg flung out, head cocked to the right Subject(s): Poetry & Poets RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text First Line: Randall, I like your poetry terribly, yet I'm afraid to say so. Not that my Subject(s): Jarrell, Randall (1914-1965) RECAPITULATIONS Poem Text First Line: I was born downtown on a wintry day Subject(s): Birth; Family Life; Jews; World War Ii; Coming Of Age; Youth; Blacks; Divorce; Christianity; Conduct Of Life; Child Birth; Midwifery; Relatives; Judaism; Second World War RED INDIAN Poem Text First Line: Purest of breed of all the tribes Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America RETIREMENT Poem Text First Line: Something tells him he is off-limits Subject(s): Retirement SCYROS Poem Text First Line: The doctor punched my vein Subject(s): War SHYLOCK Poem Text First Line: Home from the court he locked the door and sat Subject(s): Hate; Despair; Conduct Of Life SNOB Poem Text First Line: At what time in its little history Subject(s): Snobs & Snobbery SUNDAY: NEW GUINEA Poem Text First Line: The bugle sounds the measured call to prayers Subject(s): New Guinea; Sabbath; Soldiers; Sunday SURROUNDED Poem Text First Line: Suddenly my suburb is surrounded by churches Subject(s): Suburbs; Christianity; Churches; Cathedrals TEASING THE NUNS Poem Text First Line: Up in the elevator went the nuns Subject(s): Nuns TENNYSON First Line: Like many of us he was rather disgusting Subject(s): Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron TERMINAL Poem Text First Line: Over us stands the broad electric dace Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips THE ALPHABET Poem Text First Line: The letters of the jews as strict as flames Subject(s): Jews; Judaism THE CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR Poem Text First Line: The gates clanged and they walked you into jail Subject(s): Conscientious Objectors THE CONTRABAND Poem Text First Line: I dreamed I held a poem and knew Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE CROSS-TREE Poem Text First Line: Doctor, doctor, a little of your love Subject(s): Soldiers; War; Army Life; Suicide; Drills & Minor Tactics THE CRUCIFIX IN THE FILING CABINET Poem Text First Line: Out of the filing cabinet of true steel Subject(s): Cross, The; Jews; Judaism THE DIRTY WORD Poem Text First Line: The dirty word hops into the cage of the mind Subject(s): Jews; Birds; Survival; Judaism THE DOME OF SUNDAY Poem Text First Line: With focus sharp as flemish-painted face Subject(s): Bourgeoisie; War; Middle Class THE FIGUREHEAD Poem Text First Line: Watching my paralytic friend Last Line: With rosy clouds of sediment Subject(s): Healing; Cures THE FIRST TIME Poem Text First Line: Behind shut doors, in shadowy quarantine Subject(s): Sex THE FLY Poem Text Recitation First Line: O hideous little bat, the size of snot Subject(s): Flies; Hate THE INTELLECTUAL Poem Text First Line: The man behind the book may not be man Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE INTERLUDE Poem Text First Line: Much of transfiguration that we hear Subject(s): Insects; Death; Religion; Transfiguration; Bugs; Dead, The; Theology THE LEG Poem Text First Line: Among the iodoform, in twilight-sleep Subject(s): Amputees; Healing; War; Cures THE OLD HORSEFLY Poem Text First Line: Unseasonable weather, says the commentator Last Line: Did I get it? I feel a pang – of what? THE OLIVE TREE Poem Text First Line: Save for a lusterless honing-stone of moon Subject(s): Jews; Olive Trees & Olives; Judaism THE POETS OF HELL Poem Text First Line: Poe, a very sick man in baltimore Subject(s): Baudelaire, Charles (1821-1867); French Poetry - Symbolism; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Poetry & Poets; Rimbaud, Arthur (1854-1891) THE POTOMAC First Line: The thin potomac scarcely moves Subject(s): Potomac River; Rivers; Washington, D.c. THE PROGRESS OF FAUST Poem Text First Line: He was born in deutschland, as you would suspect Subject(s): Faust THE PURITAN Poem Text First Line: In tender may when the sweet laugh of christ Subject(s): Puritans THE RECOGNITION OF EVE Poem Text First Line: Whatever it was she had so fiercely fought Last Line: She was already turning beautiful Subject(s): Adam & Eve THE SICKNESS OF ADAM Poem Text First Line: He entered with the authority of politeness Last Line: On earth. Sadly the angel watched them go Subject(s): Adam & Eve THE TWINS Poem Text First Line: Likeness mas made them animal and shy Subject(s): Twins TORNADO WARNING First Line: It is a beauteous morning but the air turns sick Subject(s): Tornadoes TRAVELOGUE FOR EXILES Poem Text First Line: Look and remember. Look upon this sky Subject(s): Exiles TROOP TRAIN Poem Text First Line: It stops the town we come through. Workers raise Subject(s): Army Life; World War Ii; Drills & Minor Tactics; Second World War UNIVERSITY Poem Text First Line: To hurt the negro and avoid the jew Subject(s): Universities & Colleges V-LETTER Poem Text First Line: I love you first because your face is fair Variant Title(s): Love Letter (By V-mail From Australia) Subject(s): Love; War WAITING FOR THE POPE Poem Text First Line: We have stood for hours in front of the yellow palace Subject(s): Pius Xii, Pope (1876-1958) WAITRESS Poem Text First Line: Whoever with the compasses of his eyes Subject(s): Restaurants; Waiters & Waitresses; Women; Cafes; Diners WASHINGTON CATHEDRAL Poem Text First Line: From summer and the wheel-shaped city Last Line: He's only a good alien, nominally happy Subject(s): Washington National Cathedral, Washington, D.c WHITMAN Poem Text First Line: Like queen victoria, he used the regal we Last Line: Messiah!, muse of the modern, mother! Subject(s): Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) |
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