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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: SMITH, FLORENCE Matches Found: 226 Smith, Florence 5 poems available by this author DISTANT ALPS First Line: But I must leave thee, italy! Today Subject(s): Alps; Mountains RAINBOW SONGS, SELS. SONG Poem Text First Line: How pleasant it is that always Last Line: Heaven is older than you! THE DISTANT ALPS Poem Text First Line: But I must leave thee, italy! Today Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) UNREQUITING First Line: I cannot love thee, but I hold thee dear Smith, Florence Margaret Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie 221 poems available by this author ABOMINABLE LAKE First Line: Deep in the still mysterious waters of the lake a world lies drowned Last Line: A freedom unthought, manumission unhoped, undesired ADMIRE CRANMER! First Line: Admire the old man, admire him, admire him Last Line: That wrote the prayer book, %(admire him!) %and made the flames burn crueller. Admire cranmer! Subject(s): Cranmer, Thomas, Archbishop Canterbury ADVICE TO YOUNG CHILDREN First Line: Children who paddle where the ocean bed shelves steeply Last Line: Let it in at one ear and out at the other AFTER-THOUGHT First Line: Rapunzel rapunzel let down your hair Last Line: That's odd. I can hear you quite distinctly AIRY CHRIST First Line: Who is this that comes in splendour, coming from the blazing Last Line: Because he died; he only wishes they would hear him sing Subject(s): Jesus Christ ALL THINGS PASS Last Line: Love and mankind is grass ALONE IN THE WOODS First Line: Alone in the woods I felt Last Line: More and more %in the wrong direction Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Trees AMBASSADOR First Line: Underneath the broad hat is the face of the ambassador Last Line: Sometimes he rises into the air and flies silently ANGEL BOLEY First Line: There was a wicked woman called malady festing Last Line: She did evil that good might come'. May god be merciful ANIMULA, VAGULA, BLANDULA First Line: Little soul so sleek and smiling Last Line: Growing paler now and languid %and not joking as you used to? ARCHIE AND TINA Last Line: I remember %such pleasure, so much pleasure AUTUMN First Line: He told his life story to mrs courtly Last Line: But we can have some conversation before it is too late AWAY, MELANCHOLY First Line: Away, melancholy, %away with it, let it go Last Line: Away with it, let it go BAG-SNATCHING IN DUBLIN First Line: Sisley %walked so nicely Last Line: Murderer her for 6/6 Subject(s): Murder; Villains In Literature BEREAVED SWAN First Line: Wan %swan Last Line: The swan saith Subject(s): Birds; Swans BLACK MARCH First Line: I have a friend Last Line: A breath of fresh air, %a change for you BLACK MARCH First Line: I have a friend %at the end Last Line: A breath of fresh air, %a change for you BLUE FROM HEAVEN First Line: King arthur rode in another world Last Line: He has gone to ride in the blue light %of the peculiar towering cornflowers BOG-FACE First Line: Dear little bog-face Last Line: And mother, I shall be glad when it is over, %I am bog-face BOTTLE OF ASPIRINS First Line: I look at the bottle, when mournful I feel Last Line: D' ou il etait),-'two hundred and I am freed,' %he said, 'from anxiety BROKEN HEART First Line: He told me he loved me Last Line: Twelve crimson roses %as red as my blood BUT MURDEROUS First Line: A mother slew her unborn babe Last Line: (as, item, that the arrogance of a half-baked mind %breeds murder; makes us all unkind BYE BABY BOTHER Last Line: Oh would the day that died first when you were born Subject(s): Hate CAT ASKS MOUSE OUT First Line: Mrs mouse Last Line: Bring the little mice too %and we can run to and fro CELTS First Line: I think of the celts as rather a whining lady Last Line: All the same she is not so beautiful as she was Subject(s): Celts CELTS First Line: I think of the celts as rather a whining lady Last Line: All the same she is not so beautiful as she was CHILDE ROLANDINE First Line: Dark was the day for childe rolandine the artist Last Line: Childe rolandine bowed her head and in the evening %drew the picture of the spirit from heaven CHRISTMAS First Line: A child is born, they cry, a child Last Line: And he is born to make men wild Subject(s): Christmas COCK-A-DOO First Line: I love to hear the cock crow in Last Line: Coming this hot day with a butcher's edge %it would spell death Subject(s): Birds COME, DEATH (2) First Line: I feel ill. What can the matter be? Last Line: Come death. Do not be slow COMMUTED SENTENCE First Line: Shut not me alive away Last Line: Here is all straight and narrow as a tomb %oh shut me not within a little room COMPANY First Line: Rise from your bed of languor Last Line: Sweet death it is only you I can %constrain for company CONVENTIONALIST First Line: Fourteen-year-old, why must you giggle and dote Last Line: I giggle and dote in season Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Teenagers CONVICTION (1) First Line: Christ died for god and me Last Line: For god an explanation %for me salvation CONVICTION (2) First Line: I walked abroad in easter park Last Line: I knew my lord was risen again, - %wild dog, wild dog, you bark in vain CONVICTION (3) First Line: The shadow was so black Last Line: Illusion is a freak %of mind; %the cat's to seek CONVICTION (4) First Line: I like to get off with people Last Line: I tell you, in all the world %there is no bliss like this Subject(s): Love CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN MR. HARRISON IN NEWCASTLE First Line: Sholto peach harrison you are no son of mine DEAR FEMALE HEART First Line: Dear female heart, I am sorry for you Last Line: You may also look most absurd with a miserable face Subject(s): Women DEAR KARL First Line: Dear karl, I send you walt whitman in a sixpenny book Last Line: Between lunchtime and dinner. Bon voyage, karl, bonvoyage DEAR MUSE First Line: Dear muse, the happy hours we have spent together Last Line: Meanwhile I am your most obliging confidante DEATH BEREAVES OUR COMMON MOTHER NATURE GRIEVES ... First Line: Lamb dead, dead lamb Last Line: Can I see lamb dead as mutton %and not care a solitary button? DEATH SENTENCE First Line: Cold as no plea Last Line: The law allows it %and the court awards Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crime And Criminals; Human Rights; Law And Lawyers; Prisons And Prisoners DEEPLY MORBID First Line: Deeply morbid deeply morbid was the girl who typed the Last Line: And as I bless sweet turner's name %I wish that I could do the same DESERTER First Line: The world is come upon me, I used to keep it a long way off Last Line: I shall quite simply never speak to the fellow again DIRGE First Line: From a friend's friend I taste friendship Last Line: I do not fear the night above, %as I fear the friends below Subject(s): Friendship DISTRACTIONS AND THE HUMAN CROWD First Line: Ormerod was deeply troubled Last Line: Distractions and the human crowd DO NOT! First Line: Do not despair of man, and do not scold him Last Line: If judge you must, but with compassion see life, %or else, of yourself despairing, flee strife DO TAKE MURIEL OUT Last Line: She will not complain %when you dance her over the blasted heath DREAM OF COMPARISON First Line: Two ladies walked on the soft green grass Last Line: And they talked until nightfall, %but the difference between them was radical DRUGS MADE PAULINE VAGUE Last Line: What a handsome couple they made EDMONTON, THY CEMETERY Last Line: Ah me, the countless dead, ah me %the countless countless dead EGOCENTRIC First Line: What care I if good god be Last Line: What care I if good god be %if he be not good to me? EMILY WRITES SUCH A GOOD LETTER First Line: Mabel was married last week Last Line: They must be a great comfort to you %phoebe and rose ENG. First Line: What has happened to the young men of eng.? Last Line: They would not mind having babies: %it is unkind %of nature to lag behind ENGINE DRAIN First Line: It was the mighty engine drain, the engine drain, the engine Last Line: And droppt'em in the cruel salt sea, %the cruel salt sea ENGLISH First Line: Many of the english Last Line: It is not noticeable, but be careful, %they are infective EXEAT First Line: I remember the roman emperor, one of the cruellest of them Last Line: Then he may commit suicide, then %he may go FACE First Line: There is a face I know too well Last Line: You well may say that better far %this face had not been born FAFNIR AND THE KNIGHTS First Line: In the quiet waters Subject(s): Knights And Knighthood FAIRY STORY First Line: I went into the wood one day Last Line: But now I am home again there is nobody I know FAREWELL First Line: Farewell dear friends %I loved you so much Last Line: Farewell all fair universes %in far places Subject(s): Life Change Events FORGIVE ME, FORGIVE ME First Line: Forgive me forgive me my heart is my own Last Line: There is no friend beside me no lover at hand %no footstep but mine in my desert of sand FORGOT! First Line: There is a fearful solitude Last Line: Some charge that he might be about, %but oh he felt that he was quite forgot FREDDY First Line: Nobody knows what I feel about freddy Last Line: There's all tom tiddler's time pocket %for his love and mine FRIENDS OF THE RIVER TRENT First Line: A dwindling body of ageing fish Last Line: And may we do the same, my boys, %and carry us to a natural death FROG PRINCE First Line: I am a frog Last Line: But I cannot be heavenly, %only disenchanted people %can be heavenly Subject(s): Fairy Tales; Love FROM THE GREEK First Line: To many men strange fates are given Last Line: But the worst fate of all(tra la) %'s to have no fate at all(tra la) GALLOPING CAT First Line: Oh I am a cat that likes to Last Line: To pity a cat like me that %gallops about doing good GOD AND MAN First Line: Man is my darling, my love and my pain Last Line: Do not come till I call, though thou weariest first GOD SPEAKS First Line: I made man with too many faults. Yet I love him Last Line: But he cannot come by wishing. Only by being already at %home here GOD THE EATER First Line: There is a god in whom I do not believe Last Line: And crunch and feed upon it and grow fat %eating my life all up as it is his GOODNIGHT First Line: Miriam and horlick spend a great deal of time putting off going to bed Last Line: With sorrow. Very well then. Goodnight GOVERNESS First Line: The milky love of this bland child Last Line: And now they spend the hours talking, %sometimes winding wool and sometimes walking GRANGE First Line: Oh there hasn't been much change %at the grange Last Line: But few goes that way somehow, %not now GREAT UNAFFECTED VAMPIRES AND THE MOON First Line: It was a graveyard scene. The crescent moon HAPPINESS First Line: Happiness is silent, or speaks equivocally for friends Last Line: Grief like guilt rushes in and talks apace HAROLD'S LEAP First Line: Harold, are you asleep HEAVENLY CITY First Line: I sigh for the heavenly country Last Line: And silver her streams Subject(s): Heaven HOUSE OF MERCY First Line: It was a house of female habitation Last Line: It is a being of warmth I think; at heart %a house of mercy HOW CRUEL IS THE STORY OF EVE Last Line: Oh dread nature, for your purpose, %to have made them love so Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible HOW DO YOU SEE? First Line: How do you see the holy spirit of god? Last Line: It will be too much for us, we shall kill everybody HUMAN AFFECTION First Line: Mother, I love you so Last Line: And the love between them kept them warm Subject(s): Children; Labor And Laborers; Mothers HYMN TO THE SEAL First Line: Creature of god, thy coat Last Line: Climb in full coat upon a rock %to breathe and to recline I AM First Line: Far from normal far from normal far from normal I am Last Line: Then he put his gun to his head and shot %crying absurdly, I am not I COULD LET TOM GO - BUT WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN?' First Line: Since what you want, not what you ought Last Line: I advise you, amelia, to persevere %with duty for your guide I DO NOT SPEAK First Line: I do not ask for mercy for understanding for peace Last Line: As in a coat of magic mail and borrow %from time today and care not for tomorrow I HAD A DREAM First Line: I had a dream I was helen of troy Last Line: But people are ghosts. When the pause finishes %I shall wake I LIKE TO PLAY WITH HIM Last Line: Lost wounded and betrayed %oh that should have been only the beginning I LOVE THE ENGLISH COUNTRY SCENE Last Line: Especially in august, when the flowers that might have lent a %lightness, don't; being gamboge or ma Subject(s): Nature I REMEMBER Poem Text First Line: It was my bridal night I remember Subject(s): Love - Age Differences; Marriage; World War Ii; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Second World War I REMEMBER First Line: It was my bridal night I remember Last Line: Oh my bride, my bride Subject(s): Love - Age Differences; Marriage; World War Ii IF I LIE DOWN First Line: If I lie down upon my bed I must be here Last Line: But if I lie down in my grave I may be elsewhere IN MY DREAMS First Line: In my dreams I am always saying goodbye and riding away Last Line: I am glad, I am glad, that my friends don't know what I think IN PROTOCREATION Last Line: No oppression by informed mind %no knowledge and no human kind IN THE NIGHT First Line: I longed for companionship rather Last Line: I think only of the people I should like to bite INFANT First Line: It was a cynical babe Last Line: It was a cynical babe. Reader before you condemn, pause, %itwas a cynical babe. Not without cause INFELICE First Line: Walking swiftly with a dreadful duchess Last Line: I love you so much, my heart is singing JUMBO First Line: Jumbo, jumbo, jumbo darling, jumbo come to mother Last Line: It was quite wonderful how 'mother' loved the ugly thing JUNGLE HUSBAND First Line: Dearest evelyn, I often think of you Last Line: I'll say. So no more now, from your loving husband, wilfred LADS OF THE VILLAGE First Line: The lads of the village, we read in the lay Last Line: Or upon any field of experience where pain makes patterns %the poet slanders Subject(s): Housman, Alfred Edward (1859-1936); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights LADY 'ROGUE' SINGLETON First Line: Come, wed me, lady singleton Last Line: What I feel for the elephants and the miasmas %and the general view LE SINGE QUI SWING First Line: Outside the house Last Line: Oh ho the swinging ape, %I love to see him gambol LIGHTY BOUND First Line: You beastly child, I wish you had miscarried Last Line: Do you suppose I shall say when I can go so easily? Subject(s): Despair; Women LITTLE BOY LOST First Line: The wood was rather old and dark Last Line: Till hunger and darkness make an end Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology) LITTLE BOY SICK First Line: I am not god's little lamb Last Line: Thy countenance is full of light %and mine is dreary LITTLE DAUGHTERS OF AMERICA First Line: Admirals curse-you and no-more Last Line: I am sorry that all the little daughters of america %should be involved in a thing like this; upon m LOIN DE L'ETRE First Line: You don't look at all well, quite loin de l'etre in fact Last Line: And echo taking the form of a handsome young man %cried, loin de l'etre and took her away with him LONGING FOR DEATH BECAUSE OF FEEBLENESS First Line: Oh would that I were a reliable spirit careering around Last Line: Possibly travelling far and acquiring merit LORD BARRENSTOCK Poem Text First Line: Lord barrenstock and epicene Subject(s): Con Artists; Villains In Literature LORD BARRENSTOCK First Line: Lord barrenstock and epicene Last Line: Be good, my lord, since you can not be pretty Subject(s): Con Artists; Villains In Literature LORD SAY-AND-SEAL First Line: Lord say-and-seal, lord say-and-seal Last Line: All the dark thoughts your words go over %to make a pretty bog-hole cover LOT'S WIFE First Line: I long for the desolate valleys Last Line: That no tree may shift to my sighing, %or breezes convey my moan Subject(s): Sodom LOVE ME First Line: Love me, love me, I cried to the rocks and the trees Last Line: That the rocks will harp on for ever, and my love me never be %heard MAGNA EST VERITAS First Line: With my looks I am bound to look simple or fast I would rather look simple Last Line: Agreeing with that latin writer, great is truth and will prevail in a bit MAJOR MACROO First Line: Major hawkaby cole macroo Last Line: To cherish them and be neglected and not think it inhuman MARRIAGE I THINK Last Line: To trouble her dreams by night and her dreams by day Subject(s): Love MOTHER First Line: I have a happy nature Last Line: I enjoy every moment of my life,- %mother has been had MOTHER LOVE First Line: Mother love is a mighty benefaction Last Line: No money would bring the women to it Subject(s): Mothers MOTHER'S HEARSE First Line: The love of a mother for her child Last Line: And all for a mother's love it was, %I say it were better a mother's hearse MOTHER, AMONG THE DUSTBINS First Line: Mother, among the dustbins and the manure Last Line: Can you question the folly of man in the creation of god? %who are you Subject(s): God MR. OVER First Line: Mr. Over is dead Last Line: Happy the dead Subject(s): Death MRS ARBUTHNOT First Line: Mrs arbuthnot was a poet Last Line: Nobody writes or wishes to %who is one with their desire MRS. SIMPKINS First Line: Mrs. Simpkins never had very much to do Last Line: And now she has to polish the floors of westminster county hall for all her daily bread MURDERER First Line: My true love breathed her latest breath Last Line: She was not like other girls - rather diffident, %and that is how we had an accident MY CAT MAJOR First Line: Major is a fine cat Last Line: Oh major is a fine cat %he walks cleverly %and what is he at, my fine cat? %no one can see MY CATS First Line: I like to toss him up and down Last Line: Hey brown and fry and hyde my cats %that sit on tombstone for your mats MY HAT First Line: Mother said if I wore this hat Last Line: So in this early morning land I always wear my hat %go home,you see, well I wouldn't run a risk like Subject(s): Hats MY HAT First Line: Mother said if I wore this hat Last Line: Go home, you see, well I wouldn't run a risk like that MY MUSE First Line: My muse sits forlorn Last Line: When I am happy I live and despise writing %for my muse this cannot but be dispiriting MY SOUL First Line: In the flame of the flickering fire Last Line: To the cat his kind from the womb born blind, %and to the lord my soul NATURE AND FREE ANIMALS First Line: I will forgive you everything Last Line: What with nature and free animals on the one side %and you on the other, %I hardly know I'm alive NEVER AGAIN First Line: Never again will I weep Last Line: And I will say to him: %father, I have had enough NEW AGE First Line: Shall I tell you the signs of a new age coming? Last Line: Oh heavens how these crying people spoil the beautiful %geological scene NO CATEGORIES! First Line: I cry I cry Last Line: Oh no categories I pray! NODDING First Line: Tizdal my beautiful cat Last Line: Simply by coming to this- %cat, night, fire-and a girl nodding NOT WAVING BUT DROWNING Poem Text First Line: Nobody heard him, the dead man Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Dead, The NOT WAVING BUT DROWNING First Line: Nobody heard him, the dead man Last Line: I was much too far out all my life %and not waving but drowning Subject(s): Death; Drowning NOT WE OF HER TO HIM First Line: He said no word of her to us Last Line: Which makes us feel helpful, until %the silence comes again NOURISH ME ON AN EGG First Line: Nourish me on an egg, nanny Last Line: Bring me a glass of stout %and close my eyes in sleep NOW PINE-NEEDLES NUMBERS First Line: A thousand and fifty-one waves Last Line: One skylight looks on the sky %in that skylight's sky is one seagull O PUG! First Line: O pug, some people do not like you Last Line: How one's heart goes out to you! OH CHRISTIANITY, CHRISTIANITY Last Line: Oh what do you mean, what do yhou mean? %you never answer our questions OH GRATEFUL COLOURS, BRIGHT LOOKS! First Line: The grass is green Last Line: The landscape of the dead %is colourless ON THE DEATH OF A GERMAN PHILOSOPHER First Line: He wrote the I and the it Last Line: He died at marienbad %and now we are all at sea Subject(s): Marienbad, Czech Republic ORPHAN REFORMED First Line: The orphan is looking for parents Last Line: Now the people do not mind, now they %say she is a mild tease OUR BOG IS DOOD First Line: Our bog is dood, our bog is dood Last Line: The sea that soon should drown them all, %that never yet drowned me OUR OFFICE CAT First Line: Our office cat is a happy cat Last Line: And every one has been adopted into happy homes %by our cat-loving britons OUT OF TIME First Line: It is a formal and deserted garden Last Line: I have spent here the time of three men's lives %and am not dead Subject(s): Nature PAD, PAD First Line: I always remember your beautiful flowers Last Line: The years have taken from me. Softly I go now, pad pad PAPA LOVE BABY First Line: My mother was a romantic girl Last Line: I could not grieve %but I think I was somewhat to blame Subject(s): Child Molesting PARROT First Line: The old sick green parrot Last Line: Waiting for death to come. %pray heaven it wont be long PAST First Line: People who are always praising the past Last Line: Ought to go and live in the middle ages %and be burnt at the stake as witches and sages PERSIAN' First Line: The gas fire Last Line: You and your friends POETS ARE SILENT First Line: There's no new spirit abroad Last Line: And I say that it is to the poets' merit %to be silent about the war POOR SOUL, POOR GIRL! First Line: I cannot imagine anything nicer Last Line: Nobody cares whether I am alive or dead PRETTY Poem Text Recitation First Line: Why is the word pretty so underrated? Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary PRETTY First Line: Why is the word pretty so underrated? Last Line: And so be delivered entirely from humanity %this is prettiest of all, it is very pretty Subject(s): Language PRETTY First Line: Why is the word pretty so underrated? Last Line: This is prettiest of all, it is very pretty PROGRESSION First Line: I fell in love with major spruce Last Line: He died. Didn't I tell you? %he was the last of the spruces,%and about time too REASON First Line: My life is vile Last Line: It is because I can't make up my mind %if god is good, impotent or unkind RECOGNITION NOT ENOUGH First Line: Sin recognized-but that-may keep us humble Last Line: But oh, it keeps us nasty REVERSIONARY First Line: The lion dishonoured bids death come Last Line: The lion dead, his pride no less, %the world inherits wormliness RIVER GOD First Line: I may be smelly and I may be old Last Line: If she wishes to go I will not forgive her Subject(s): Nature; Rivers SATIN-CLAD First Line: Satin-clad, with many a pearl Last Line: Does she weep? Her tears are crystal, %and she counts them as they fall SCORPION First Line: This night shall thy soul be required of thee Last Line: Scorpion so wishes to be gone SEA-WIDOW First Line: How fares it with you, mrs cooper my bride? Last Line: What is his name? Tell me! How does he dare? %he comes uninvited. His name is despair SHE SAID First Line: She said as she tumbled the baby in Last Line: Do you expect me always to be responsible for you? SILENCE AND TEARS First Line: The tears of the widow of the military man Last Line: Best not put it to the test. Silence and tears are convenient SINGING CAT First Line: It was a little captive cat Last Line: In the love his beauty bringeth Subject(s): Animals; Cats SOLDIER DEAR TO US First Line: It was the war Last Line: For a memorial of the soldier dear to us he was SOME ARE BORN First Line: Some are born to peace and joy Last Line: But only for a day as we %shall not be here tomorrow SONGE D'ATHALIE First Line: It was a dream and shouldn't I bother about a dream? Last Line: Nothing but the mangled flesh and the breaking bones %of a body that the dogs tearing quarrelled ove SOUVENIR DE MONSIEUR POOP First Line: I am the self-appointed guardian of english literature Last Line: And I do not deem it advisable, in the interests of the editor %to whom I am spatially contracted, % Subject(s): Literature SOUVENIR DE MONSIEUR POOP First Line: I am the self-appointed guardian of english literature Last Line: And I do not deem it advisable, in the interests of the editor to whom I am %spatially contracted, % SPANISH SCHOOL First Line: The painters of spain Last Line: To give a more %genial atmosphere %and a little jam %for thepill- %but still STUDY TO DESERVE DEATH First Line: Study to deserve death, they only may Last Line: I say endure, but that such end denied %makes welcomer yet the death that's to be died SUBURBAN CLASSES First Line: There is far too much of the suburban classes Last Line: Tell them it's smart to be dead and won't hurt %and they'll gobble up drug as they gobble up dirt SUNT LEONES First Line: The lions who ate the christians on the sands of the arena Last Line: And so our debt to lionhood must never be forgotten TENDER ONLY TO ONE Last Line: From the icy shroud %his name, his name is death TENUOUS AND PRECARIOUS First Line: Tenusous and precarious %were my guardians Last Line: My name is finis, %finis, finis, %I am finis, %six, five,four, three, two, %one roman, %finis THE CELTS Poem Text First Line: I think of the celts as rather a whining lady Subject(s): Celts THE FROG PRINCE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: I am a frog Subject(s): Fairy Tales; Love THE RIVER GOD Poem Text First Line: I may be smelly and I may be old Subject(s): Nature; Rivers THIS ENGLISHWOMAN First Line: This englishwoman is so refined Last Line: She has no bosom and no behind Subject(s): Women THIS IS DISGRACEFUL AND ABOMINABLE First Line: Of all the disgraceful and abominable things Last Line: Weep the disgraces. Forbid the abominations THOUGHT IS SUPERIOR First Line: Thought is superior to dress and circumstance Last Line: And what is the greatest thought since the world begun? %galileo's discovery that the earth goes rou THOUGHTS ABOUT THE CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE OF ETERNAL HELL First Line: Is it not interesting to see Last Line: Oh oh have none of it, %blow it away, have done with it Subject(s): Social Protest THOUGHTS ABOUT THE PERSON FROM PORLOCK Poem Text First Line: Coleridge received the person from porlock Subject(s): Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Poetry & Poets THOUGHTS ABOUT THE PERSON FROM PORLOCK First Line: Coleridge received the person from porlock Last Line: Then you will be practically unconscious without positively %having to go Subject(s): Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Poetry And Poets TO AN AMERICAN PUBLISHER First Line: You say I must write another book? But I've just written this Last Line: You liked it so much that's the reason? Read it again then TO CARRY THE CHILD First Line: To carry the child into adult life Last Line: But peer outside of his prison room %with the eye of an anarchist? Subject(s): Children TO DEAN INGE LECTURING ON ORIGEN First Line: Listen, all of you, listen, all of you Last Line: Oh, if that wise man's word was not blurred, %not dimmed TO SCHOOL! First Line: Let all the little poets be gathered together in classes Last Line: Why look already how far off she has flown, she is no fool TO THE TUNE OF THE COVENTRY CAROL Poem Text First Line: The nearly right Subject(s): Love - Nature Of TO THE TUNE OF THE COVENTRY CAROL First Line: The nearly right Last Line: Forget him and forget her Subject(s): Love - Nature Of TORQUEMADA First Line: Uncle torquemada Last Line: Does beppo know about jesus? TRUE TYRANT OR THE SPIRIT OF DUTY REBUKED First Line: Oh my darling goosey-gander Last Line: Through the grass-enchained door, %the grassy door UNPOPULAR, LONELY AND LOVING Last Line: For if she were not so loving, %she would not be so miserable UP AND DOWN First Line: Up and down the streets they go Last Line: Of all the noise that doth offend %my soul. Still night, doncloak, descend VALUABLE (AFTER READING TWO PARAGRAPHS IN A NEWSPAPER) First Line: All these illegitimate babies Last Line: If everybody says he is valuable %it will be comforting for him VILLAINS First Line: Profit and batten Last Line: Sing batten and profit %if you've got a hat, doff it VOICE FROM THE TOMB (1) First Line: Here lies a poet who would not write Last Line: There's no pen, paper, notion, %and no time VOICE FROM THE TOMB (2) First Line: I trod a foreign path, dears Last Line: And feelings beyond cause, %and tears without a reason %and so was lost VOICE FROM THE TOMB (3) First Line: Such evidence I have of indifference Last Line: But this heart is not cold, it never has been cold, %it never, never, never has been cold VOICE FROM THE TOMB (4) First Line: I died for lack of company Last Line: Oh why would they not speak to me %yet said they loved me so? VOICE FROM THE TOMB (5) First Line: You never heard of me, I dare Last Line: Say. Well, I'm here VOICES AGAINST ENGLAND IN THE NIGHT First Line: England, you had better go Last Line: Put off her governing garment and be better dressed %in a shroud, a shroud? O history turn thy pages WANDERER First Line: Twas the voice of the wanderer, I heard her exclaim Last Line: You have weaned me too soon, you must nurse me again Subject(s): Watts, Isaac (1674-1748) WAS HE MARRIED? First Line: Was he married, did he try Last Line: A larger one will be when men %love love and hate hate but doe not deify them? %it will be a larger WAS IT NOT CURIOUS? First Line: Was it not curious of augustin Last Line: As it was wicked of them WEAK MONK First Line: The monk sat in his den Last Line: For this the monk is to blame WHITE THOUGHT First Line: I shall be glad to be silent, mother, and hear you speak Last Line: They will shine as a white worm shines under a green boulder WHY ARE THE CLERGY ... ? First Line: Why are the clergy of the church of england Last Line: Then I cry, and not for the first time to that smooth face %charity, have pity WHY DO I Last Line: Sweet death, kind death, %of all the gods you are best Subject(s): Life Change Events WILD DOG First Line: The city dog goes to the drinking trough Last Line: And at night he sleeps in the dark wood WORD First Line: My heart leaps up with streams of joy Last Line: This fear has turned my joy into a frown WRETCHED WOMAN First Line: Wretched woman that thou art Last Line: With thy misery and graft %and thy lack of household craft YES, I KNOW First Line: That pale face stretches across the centuries Last Line: Yes, I know. I knew her brother cesare %once. But only for a short time ZOO First Line: The lion sits within his cage Last Line: And that is why his eyes are red %considering his talents are misused |
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