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Author: SMITH, WILLIAM JAY Matches Found: 379 Smith, William Jay Poet's Biography 379 poems available by this author 1 THE EAGLE WARRIOR: AN INVOCATION First Line: This life-size ceramic man costumed as an eagle Last Line: Tense-taloned, %be their emblem, be their witness, be their scribe Variant Title(s): The Eagle Warrior: An Invocatio Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Trail Of Tears (1838-39) 2 THE CHEROKEE LOTTERY First Line: When the cherokees refused to leave Last Line: The thunder rolled away, %and no rain fell Variant Title(s): The Cherokee Lotter Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Trail Of Tears (1838-39) 3 OF 25 Poem Text First Line: Downing his drink to toasts of cut-rate jokes Last Line: When camera clicks, with quick, conclusive fact Variant Title(s): 3 For 25 Subject(s): War 3 OF 25 First Line: Downing his drink to toasts of cut-rate jokes Last Line: Is right only if he remains in black and white %when camera clicks with quick, conclusive fact Variant Title(s): 3 For 2 Subject(s): War 3 THE TRAIL First Line: Past corn Last Line: Tear %trail Variant Title(s): The Trai Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Trail Of Tears (1838-39) 4 THE PUMPKIN FIELD First Line: What a grand lot they were Last Line: And glowing still when I awoke-- %as they do now, and as they always will Variant Title(s): The Pumpkin Fiel Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Politics; Trail Of Tears (1838-39) 5 THE BONE-PICKER First Line: In the old days, when a choctaw died Last Line: And in my heart I feel his claw, %and on the wind I hear his wail Variant Title(s): The Buzzard Ma Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Trail Of Tears (1838-39) 6 THE PLAYERS First Line: A curtain of green divides--and there they are Last Line: There will be no surrender, general. There will be no peace; %only the murderer who waits, only the Variant Title(s): The Player Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Trail Of Tears (1838-39) 7 SITTING BULL IN SERBIA First Line: A hundred years ago, they say, buffalo bill Last Line: Plunge down the western sky %headlong into the night Variant Title(s): Sitting Bull In Serbi Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Trail Of Tears (1838-39) A GREEN PLACE Poem Text First Line: I know a place all fennel-green and fine Subject(s): Landscape A PARABLE Poem Text First Line: Thougjh well acquainted, mind and heart Subject(s): Hearts; Mind, The A PAVANE FOR THE NURSERY Recitation First Line: Now touch the air softly Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love A PLAQUE FOR FOREST PARK Poem Text First Line: The terrapin at times must surely tire Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature A TUNE FOR THE TELETYPE Poem Text First Line: O teletype, tell us of time-clocks and trouble Subject(s): Machinery & Machinists; Office Work; Life, Modern ABRUPTLY ALL THE PALM TREES First Line: Abruptly all the palm trees rose like parasols Last Line: And all the world went wading toward the wave Variant Title(s): Abruptly All The Palm Trees Rose Like Parasol ABRUPTLY ALL THE PALM TREES ROSE LIKE PARASOLS Poem Text Subject(s): Palm Trees; Time ACADEMIC PROCESSION Poem Text First Line: Conversant with a day no longer ours Subject(s): Graduations & Graduates; Academia ACADEMIC PROCESSION First Line: Conversant with a day no longer ours Last Line: This days' for earth's own guardians who but lack %the central corpse AFRICAN SEQUENCE Poem Text First Line: Down from the woodlands and over the whispering dunes Subject(s): Africa AFTER THE HURRICANE First Line: After the hurricane on the island of st. Croix Last Line: And felt the foam uncurl along a coral reef %as over a necklace of skulls ALL EARFTH'S DEVIDED Poem Text First Line: All earth's divided in two parts Subject(s): Activity; Thought; Exercise; Thinking ALL EARTH'S DIVIDED First Line: All earth's divided in two parts Last Line: And the mobs march on with mr. Hobbes %to the hymns of mrs. Eddy AMERICAN PRIMITIVE Poem Text First Line: Look at him there in his stovepipe hat Subject(s): Men; Social Protest AMERICAN PRIMITIVE First Line: Look at him there in his stovepipe hat Last Line: And I love my daddy like he loves his dollar Subject(s): Men; Social Protest ANDREW JACKSON Last Line: Except perhaps whether he like his coffee black, and with, or without, chicory ANGRY MAN First Line: Reason slumbers; and in the terrible isolation of my anger I observe Last Line: And the whip, having answered unreasoning reason, rests limp %at my side--a tassel, a tail, a reed ANTIMACASSAR AND THE OTTOMAN First Line: I am leaving this house as soon as I can' Last Line: And neither had flown to turkistan - %the antimacassar nor the ottoman APRIL First Line: April has come, and all the hills Last Line: A song of welcome...It is spring! ARROW First Line: If body is a bow, and soul the string Last Line: And being conquered, conquer - and so sing! ARTIST AND HIS PENCIL: A SEARCH FOR THE PUREBLOODS First Line: Sixty-three indian tribes were represented in oklahoma - all Last Line: Each one, each untouched tribe, recorded in a never-ending moment, %distinct and clear Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Trail Of Tears (1838-39) AT DELPHI First Line: This morning on the edge of parnassus we watched the old woman Last Line: The night drifts fully in, thread over fine, thin fingers at the %center of the earth AT THE MOMENT THE DOCTOR APPEARED Last Line: Have hidden their cheese in my beard AT THE TERMINAL Poem Text First Line: Time is perched on the wrist in fond farewell Subject(s): Farewell; Parting AT THE TERMINAL First Line: Time's perched upon the wrist in fond farewell Last Line: Green's the signal, love, where now you go %as there the peacock moves upon the snow AT THE THEATER: THE DEATH OF OSCEOLA First Line: The theater was packed, and just before the curtain rose Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Native Americans - Removal AT THE THEATER: THE DEATH OF OSCEOLA First Line: The theater was packed, and just before the curtain rose Last Line: Osceola's head, along with the others in the doctor's cabinet, %went up in flames Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Trail Of Tears (1838-39) AT THE TOMBS OF THE HOUSE OF SAVOY Poem Text First Line: Turin beneath, on the green banks of the po Subject(s): Graves; Italy; Tombs; Tombstones; Italians AT THE TOMBS OF THE HOUSE OF SAVOY First Line: Turin beneath, on the green banks of the po Last Line: As fishbone-fine his steps through vaults resound AU TOMBEAU DE MARECHAL PET-DE-NAIN First Line: Travelers, pause - and lift you caps Last Line: If your ears are good, you can hear perhaps %taps at carcass onne AU TOMBEAU DU MARECHAL PET-DE-NAIN Poem Text First Line: Travelers, pause - and lift your caps Subject(s): Graves; Petain, Phillipe (1859-1951); Tombs; Tombstones AUTUMN Poem Text First Line: The color of stone when leaves are yellow Subject(s): Autumn, Time; Squirrels AUTUMN First Line: The color of stone when leaves are yellow Last Line: While azure mists invade the hollow, %and turkey-red and leaves come down BACHELOR'S-BUTTONS First Line: Bachelor's-buttons are fine to see Last Line: And the blue thread breaks, and earth is cold BALLAD FROM BEDLAM First Line: The firefly corresponds in urgent letters Last Line: Our ornament derives from the bowels of our betters BALLAD OF THE LADY QUID PRO QUO Poem Text First Line: On the coasts of consternation Subject(s): Horseback Riding; Likes & Dislikes; Conduct Of Life BANJO TUNE First Line: Plunk-a-plunk! Plunk-a-plunk BARBER First Line: The barber who arrives to cut my hair Last Line: The barber's hands move over me like vines %in a dream as long as hair can ever grow BARBER, WARTIME First Line: Seaman first class, name of cartocelli Last Line: Night falls; men die - to him details are silly, %and trim, the dormant intellects BATTLE OF TABU TABU First Line: The battle wagon steamed into the bay Last Line: Lie goldfish eaten by the flying cats BAY-BREASTED BARGE BIRD First Line: The bay-breasted barge bird delights in depressions Last Line: As it slowly circles the dumps BUFFALO HUNTER First Line: Nothing moved in this great emptiness Last Line: To join him for his european tour Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Trail Of Tears (1838-39) BURNING OF MALMAISON First Line: On a brisk cool evening when the wind Last Line: All that was left: this small blue stain Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Politics; Trail Of Tears (1838-39) BUTTERFLY Poem Text First Line: Of living creatures most I prize Last Line: When mother leans to say good night Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs BUTTERFLY First Line: Of living creatures most I prize Last Line: When mother leans to say good night Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects CAT Poem Text First Line: Cats are not at all like people Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT First Line: Cats are not at all like people Last Line: People, of course, will always be people, %but cats are cats Subject(s): Animals; Cats CHOCTAW STICK-BALL GAME First Line: During a period of several sunsets, by the cleansing Last Line: That ball game that the tribe had called %'little brother to war' Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Trail Of Tears (1838-39) CHRISTMAS TREE First Line: They brought the tree in from the snowbound wood Last Line: To welcome all of us on christmas eve CHRYSANTHEMUMS First Line: I had, here in the room before you came Last Line: In darkness now, and overpowered die %of love, of love CLERIHEW First Line: Jacques barzun Last Line: Became the provost of columbia university CLERIHEW First Line: Was william butler yeats %fond of dates? CLOSING OF THE RODEO First Line: The lariat snaps, the cowboy rolls Last Line: Good-bye, say the barber poles. %dark drum the vanishing horses' hooves Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Rodeos; Sports COATI-MUNDI First Line: As I went walking one fine sunday Subject(s): Friendship COLUMBIS CIRCLE SWING Poem Text First Line: Old mr. Christopher sailed an egg Subject(s): Modern Life COLUMBUS CIRCLE SWING First Line: Old mr. Christopher sailed an egg Last Line: Will the day be as bright when it dawns at calais %as it was after dark at dover? CONTEMPLATION OF A CONSPIRACY Poem Text First Line: Where the table-leg projects into the yellow autumn sunlight Subject(s): Conspiracy CONVOY First Line: The ships are fitted, and the convoy sails Last Line: Ask the man struck dead by the lifeboat somewhere aft Subject(s): War CROCODILE CROSSING First Line: That winter the southern land had all the contours Last Line: Into the throat of the beast Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Trail Of Tears (1838-39) CUPIDON First Line: To love is to give,' said the crooked old man Last Line: And the wind crept up his accordion stair, %and under his iron door CYCLIST First Line: Wheels turning slowly, circles humming, radiating silver Last Line: And, at the cliff's edge, roses tumbled over gray stone, %and the sea, far off, unwound, a thin blue DACHSHUNDS First Line: The dachshund leads a quiet life Last Line: See planets wheeling overhead, %mysterious and slow %while morning buckles on his red, %and on the d DARK VALENTINE Poem Text First Line: This daylit doll, this dim divinity Variant Title(s): Neo-classical Poem Subject(s): War DARK VALENTINE First Line: This daylit doll, this dim divinity Last Line: And we advance. Is love disguised? %he is. As you imagined him Variant Title(s): Neo-classical Poe Subject(s): War DARK, DARK, DARK First Line: Time after time after time comes el tiempo Last Line: The wind removes the leaves, the burning leaves DAY IN JUNE First Line: In a soft blue sky white clouds appear Last Line: And build cloud castles in our dreams DEAD SNAKE First Line: A gray financier in a thin black auto Last Line: Decisive indeed the defeat of evil; %and inconclusive the triumph of good DEATH OF A JAZZ MUSICIAN First Line: I dreamed that when I died a jukebox played Last Line: And forward still the boatman moved, and made no sound DESCENT OF ORPHEUS First Line: A cockatoo with nervous, quick cockade Last Line: Sun is mirror to the fire, %and earth, reflected, crumbles at our touch DIVER First Line: Down the dark-skinned diver dived Last Line: The raging water fills my eyes DIVING BELL First Line: Like one endangered in a diving bell Last Line: On ocean bed I break from broken bell DOG Poem Text First Line: Dogs are quite a bit like people Subject(s): Dogs DOG First Line: Dogs are quite a bit like people Last Line: People you've seen somewhere? Bowwow! DON GIOVANNI IN CAMPAGNA First Line: Giovanni was a lumberjack Last Line: Earth divided: john could see %(too late) the pit of hell DREAM First Line: One day in a dream as I lay at the edge of a cliff Last Line: And when I awoke I lay at the edge of a cliff DRESSMAKER'S WORKROOM First Line: The dressmaker's dummy Last Line: The garment is sews, %a shroud that encloses %bird-feather, bone EARTH IT ROUNDS Last Line: In a sunlit room EDWARDIAN LADY First Line: Alone in her mansion utterly bored Last Line: And the echo of her strange ennui, %the echo of her strange ennui ELEGY Poem Text First Line: Look to the heavens, heliotrope Subject(s): Heliotropes ELEGY First Line: I stood between two mirrors when you died Last Line: I say, dear friend, good morning and good night ELEGY First Line: Love to the heavens, heliotrope Last Line: The streets are numbered, shelled and soft: %eleventh, olive, chestnust, pine ELEGY FOR A YOUNG ACTOR First Line: In a gray new england college town Last Line: I kneel to place, %in memory, one single-petaled, pink, wild rose %in that young actor's mouth EPIGRAM: 'POET' Poem Text First Line: After,each,word,he,places,a,comma Subject(s): Poetry & Poets EPIGRAM: CRITIC Poem Text First Line: A short-order cook is the mealymouthed critic, Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Cookery EPIGRAM: LADY BIOGRAPHER Poem Text First Line: She devotes her life to the lives of others, Subject(s): Biography; Women - Writers; Biographers EPIGRAMS First Line: Critic Last Line: Or if they all had married her EPIGRAMS: POET First Line: After,each,work,he,places,a,comma Last Line: It,gives,you,hiccoughs,when,you,read EPIGRAMS: CRITIC First Line: A short-order cook is the mealymouthed critic Last Line: Attacks an egg with a little egg beater %and serves it shirred, or blurred, or scrambled EPIGRAMS: LADY BIOGRAPHER First Line: She devotes her life to the lives of others Last Line: And now they'd have been if they'd had nice mothers, %or if they all had married her EPITAPHS First Line: A lawyer Last Line: Invites complete approval east and west EPITAPHS: A GREENSKEEPER Poem Text First Line: With patient care and sublety Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening EPITAPHS: A GREENSKEEPER First Line: With patient care and subtlety Last Line: Gaze now on his green legacy EPITAPHS: A LAWYER Poem Text First Line: In life each man is tried Subject(s): Biddle, Francis (1886-1968); Law & Lawyers EPITAPHS: A LAWYER First Line: In life each man is tried Last Line: All just men will agree-- %how brilliant his defense Subject(s): Biddle, Francis (1886-1968); Law And Lawyers EPITAPHS: A SMALL DOG First Line: Here fearless lies: with asian pride Last Line: Now hear his bark in the rising tide Subject(s): Animals; Dogs EPITAPHS: A STRIPPER Poem Text First Line: Here lies the stripper stripped, disrobed for good Variant Title(s): Epitaph Of A Stripper Subject(s): Striptease Dancers EPITAPHS: A STRIPPER First Line: Here lies the stripper stripped, disrobed for good Last Line: The house lights dim: each pointed, star-tipped breast %invites complete approval east and west Variant Title(s): Epitaph Of A Strippe Subject(s): Striptease Dancers EPITHALAMIUM Poem Text First Line: O orange were her underclothes Subject(s): Wedding Song; Death; Epithalamium; Dead, The EPITHALAMIUM IN OLIVE DRAB First Line: O orange were her underclothes Last Line: They did not fly to ho - no - lu - lu %in the cabin of a clipper EVENING AT GRANDPONT Poem Text First Line: Who under a stone bridge in the dark Variant Title(s): Evening At Grandpoint Subject(s): Swans; Bridges EVENING AT GRANDPONT First Line: Who under a stone bridge in the dark Last Line: Like china's universities before the gate Variant Title(s): Evening At Grandpoin EVERY MORNING, NOON, AND NIGHT Last Line: Then rest when I turn out the light FARM First Line: Old macdonald has a farm Last Line: Wind and rain and snow %never do the slighest harm-- %with an ee - I ee - I - o FEW MINUTES BEFORE SUNSET First Line: Heir apparent, prince of purest majesty Last Line: And a mother who must mourn a dear, dead son, %summer and the swan, the cold, white plumes FIRST GREEN First Line: Nature's first green is gold, Last Line: Pink buds are opening, %for it is spring FISHER KING First Line: The tall fijian spears a giant turtle Last Line: His image, from the dark unconscious drawn, %come shimmering and powerful to light FISHING FOR ALBACORE Poem Text First Line: Past oil derricks, gray docks. Intracite layout of oil pipes Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Tuna Fish; Anglers FISHING FOR ALBACORE First Line: Past oil derricks, gray docks, intricate layout of oil pipes, searchlights Last Line: As on some permanent atoll, I see my son, smiling, holding his %fish, reflected, blue and silver, in FLIGHT OF THE ONE-EYED BAT First Line: The night has a thousand eyes Last Line: Night opens a thousand eyes, %the bat closes one FLOOR AND THE CEILING First Line: Winter and summer, whatever the weather Last Line: And what is a ceiling when the ceiling has flown? FOOD FOR THOUGHT First Line: Lemon or sugar, sour or sweet Last Line: In a nutshell, then, in an epigram, %as I am, I eat; as I eat, I am FOR A DEAF ANGORA CAT Poem Text First Line: The jungle lies about you, and the ground Subject(s): Cats; Deafness FOR A DEAF ANGORA CAT First Line: The jungle lies about you, and the ground Last Line: With omens, thunder peals; and still you turn %to all, my sweet, your exquisite deaf ear FROM: NONSENSE NOTES ON GENTLEMEN IN VARIOUS PLACES First Line: A gentleman, feeling the heat one day in ghana Last Line: Lickety-split down the street like a bob-tailed cur FULL CIRCLE: THE CONNECTICUT CASINO First Line: O / o / o the first full moon of the year 2000 Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Native Americans - Removal FULL CIRCLE: THE CONNECTICUT CASINO First Line: O %o %o the first full moon of the year 2000 Last Line: And where all races live together %in lasting peace and perfect harmony Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Trail Of Tears (1838-39) FUNERAL First Line: Now he is gone where worms can feed Last Line: The body's blood-fed beasts in all %their fury, while the lifted spade %lets earth fall GALILEO GALILEI First Line: Comes to knock and knock again Last Line: Galileo galilei %comes to knock and knock again %at a small secluded doorway %in the ordinary brain GARDENS First Line: Now that is what I call a garden!' the reluctant texan tourist Last Line: Is among the most natural and rewarding-- %and yet most mysterious - of human activities GIRAFFE Poem Text First Line: When I invite the giraffe to dine Last Line: A meal of bananas, figs, and dates Subject(s): Friendship GIRAFFE First Line: When I invite the giraffe to dine Subject(s): Friendship GIRL IN GLASS First Line: You've stood there long enough,' I said Last Line: You've stood there long enough.' GIRL IN THE BLACK RAINCOAT First Line: Thinking of you this evening Last Line: Into the unknown, knowing, %walks with me GREEN PLACE First Line: I know a place all fennel-green and fine Last Line: And thin-ribbed earth pokes out against the snow? HAPPINESS First Line: Sorrow is human, what of happiness Last Line: While roosters toss gold coins into the night HATS Poem Text First Line: Round or square Subject(s): Hats HE WILL NOT HEAR Poem Text First Line: He will not see the leaf-green sky Last Line: By their transparent number Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology) HE WILL NOT HEAR First Line: He will not see the leaf-green sky Last Line: Through the seasons, torn %by their transparent thunder HIPPOPOTAMUS Poem Text First Line: The hippopotamus -- hippo for short Last Line: Then sinks back under, and disappears Subject(s): Animals HIPPOPOTAMUS First Line: The hippopotamus -- hippo for short Last Line: Then sinks back under, and disappears Subject(s): Animals HORN-RIMMED HEN First Line: The horn-rimmed hen Last Line: Like chicken feed HOTEL CONTINENTAL Poem Text First Line: O I feel like the kinks in the paws of the sphinx! Last Line: On goes the phone with a tone all its own / p - lease! P – lease! P – lease! Subject(s): War HOTEL CONTINENTAL First Line: O I feel like the kinks in the paws of the sphinx! Last Line: On goes the phone with a tone all its own: %p--lease! P--lease! P--lease! Subject(s): War HOW LIKE THE GALLERY YOU ARE Poem Text Subject(s): Love HUCK First Line: Huckster, your sickening soft-sell Last Line: And write, by god, the way I please HUCKSTER First Line: Come join us, huck, upon the raft Last Line: And bring home dollars in duffel-bags HULL BAY, ST. THOMAS First Line: We come, with a busload of children, nervous from the heat, down Last Line: The prow of the boat dividing nothing but the oncoming night HUNT First Line: Each vowel black and white with silver sound Last Line: How in each poem life is justified IDIOT BELOW THE EL First Line: From summer's tree the leopard leaves are torn Last Line: An iron hoop goes clanking down the street IMAGINARY DIALOGUES First Line: Said marcia brown to carlos baker IN MEMORIAM WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text First Line: One summer day a blackbird sang Subject(s): Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955) IN MEMORIAM WALLACE STEVENS First Line: One summer day a blackbird sang Last Line: Are things which must be nature fail, %but, being beautiful, are true INDEPENDENCE DAY First Line: Life is inadequate, but there are many real Last Line: The wind, an indian paintbrush, sweeps the sky INHABITANTS OF ATLANTIS First Line: In an aquarium above the bar, the fish Last Line: While in the dim blue distance clangs a bell %which echoes through the flooded room, %and underwater INTERIOR Poem Text First Line: He took the universe in his room Subject(s): Thought; Thinking INTERIOR First Line: He took the universe into his room Last Line: Gates opening before him quietly %upon a rose-banked carriage waiting in the rain INVITATION TO GROUND ZERO Poem Text First Line: Into the smouldering ruin now go down: Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 IRONIES OF AGE First Line: The naked mirror man is old and gray Last Line: He'll pray the lord his simple soul to keep %when white above is dark below ITALIAN SONG First Line: Bigger than belladonna makes the eyes Last Line: Bigger than belladonna makes the eyes IV THE TALKING LEAVES: SEQUOYAH'S ALPHABET First Line: Alone for hours on end, he meditated on his mission Last Line: Yet climbs the mountainside to touch the stars Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Trail Of Tears (1838-39) IX CHRISTMAS IN WASHINGTON WITH THE CHOCTAW CHIEF First Line: Pushmataha, the great choctaw chief, arrived in washington Last Line: Of the modern boundary between arkansas and oklahoma Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Trail Of Tears (1838-39) JOURNEY TO THE DEAD SEA First Line: On the outskirts of tel aviv a dromedary is chained in a vacant lot Last Line: On that healing place this side of death that can be reached only %through knowledge and pain JOURNEY TO THE INTERIOR Poem Text First Line: He has gone into the forest Subject(s): Forests; Woods JOURNEY TO THE INTERIOR First Line: He has gone into the forest Last Line: And every road leads on within %and none leads out Subject(s): Aids (disease); Cherokee Indians; Sickness; Trail Of Tears (1838-39) LACHRYMAE CHRISTI First Line: Let the redbird come to feast Last Line: And through the trees the redbirds fly, %while the rain falls from the cold sky LADY IN ORANGE COUNTY First Line: Beautiful lady, loops of country road Last Line: And hear the galloping horsemen come %out of the hollow over the hill LAND OF HO-HO-HUM First Line: When you want to go wherever you please Last Line: Then sit down and fly home again LAUGHING TIME Poem Text Recitation First Line: It was laughing time, and the tall giraffe Subject(s): Noises; Sound LAUGHING TIME First Line: It was laughing time, and the tall giraffe Last Line: Hee! Hee! Hee! Hee! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Subject(s): Noises; Sound LES FOLIES BERGERES: THE TWENTIES First Line: Patty-cake patty-cake %mademoiselle josephine Last Line: Bunch of bananas was %all that she wore LETTER Poem Text First Line: Because a stamp will beat the damp Subject(s): Letters; Suicide LETTER First Line: Because a stamp will bear the damp Last Line: Words written by the wind on stone LIGHT First Line: By television day and night Last Line: They set the dial, they work the knobs, %while elephantine shadows fall %and faces leap from the par LILY IN AUTUMN First Line: Lily, the golden Last Line: Sits lily, the golden %siamese LIMERICK First Line: A matron well known in montclair LIMERICK First Line: A lady whose name was miss hartley LIMERICK First Line: A captain, retired from the naval LIMERICK First Line: There was a young man on a plain LIMERICK First Line: There was an old person who said LINES WRITTEN IN ANSWER TO A QUESTION First Line: O moon, when I saw thee careening past LION First Line: The lion, ruler over all the beasts Last Line: A royal coat of brushed and beaten gold LITANY FOR A RAINY NIGHT First Line: The distant highway hums: you lie alone Last Line: The distant highway hums: you lie alone, %bone-cold your narrow bed and black the air LOCKET FOR EMILY DICKINSON First Line: She walked into the church in early spring Last Line: Read it with love: the lover bears no name; %her lineage lies golden on her throat LONDON Poem Text First Line: Temptation, oh, temptation, sang the singers Subject(s): London LONDON First Line: Temptation, oh, temptation, sang the singers Last Line: And london bridge is falling, falling, falling, %scaled, and crossed Subject(s): London LOOK ME STRAIGHT IN THE EYE Last Line: And I am no one %no one at all LOOKING IN THE MIRROR, PAUL VALERY Last Line: Mon dieu! C'est moi! LOVE BIRDS Poem Text First Line: Above finespun, unruffled sheets Subject(s): Birds LOVEBIRDS First Line: Above finespun, unruffled sheets Last Line: And the pure sunlight is all from heaven LOVERS First Line: Above, through lunar woods a goddess flees Last Line: They stare, a sheet loose-folded round their knees, %off into space, as from etruscan tombs LUNCH AT THE CRIPPLE CRAB SEAFOOD & STEAKHOUSE First Line: Hardeeville, south carolina--that's where you are, honey Last Line: Through the heart of the low country MADISON AVENUE OVERTURE Poem Text First Line: Come join us, huck, upon the raft Subject(s): Advertising; Madison Avenue, New York MARCEL PROUST First Line: His childhood he gave to a public which had none Subject(s): Proust, Marcel (1871-1922) MARCEL PROUST First Line: His childhood he gave to a public which had none Last Line: Of some well-weathered ruin where the sun %picks out the childlike letters on a tomb Subject(s): Proust, Marcel (1871-1922) MARINE Poem Text First Line: A boat is cutting into the sea Subject(s): Sea; Ocean MARINE First Line: A boat is cutting into the sea Last Line: The children dream of the sea, the sea, %a blue cut-flower MARTHA'S VINEYARD First Line: The valleys of this earth patrol the sky Last Line: Love creates itself, or, dying small, %accepts life's wound MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS First Line: Because I believe in the community of little children Last Line: That I may tell them, pointing down the sky, %how beautiful it might have been to live MEMORIAL DAY MORNING SONG First Line: The bands are playing; flags are out Last Line: And warren harding, from the grave, %will speak for the glorious dead! MISERERE First Line: The lights have gone out in the school for the blind Last Line: A sister of mercy, sweeps over the sun MOON Poem Text First Line: I have a white cat whose name is moon Subject(s): Animals; Authors And Authorship; Cats; Poetry & Poets MOON First Line: I have a white cat whose name is moon Last Line: And in moon's eyes I see the moon Subject(s): Animals; Authors And Authorship; Cats; Poetry And Poets MORELS Poem Text First Line: A wet gray day - rain falling slowly, mist over the Subject(s): Mushrooms; Morels MORELS First Line: A wet gray day - rain falling slowly, mist over the Last Line: Tasting of the sweet damp woods and of the rain one inch %avove the meadow: %it was like feasting up Subject(s): Mushrooms MORNING AT ARNHEIM First Line: From the cassowary's beak come streaks of light Last Line: Of the great black lion of heaven, %the terrible, beautiful south MOVIES FOR THE TROOPS Poem Text First Line: In hollywood the pale white stars Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Soldiers; War; Movies; Cinema MOVIES FOR THE TROOPS First Line: In hollywood the pale white stars Last Line: Accept these images that fuse, %and clap their hands, and thank their stars MR. SMITH Poem Text First Line: How rewarding to know mr. Smith, Subject(s): Writing & Writers MR. SMITH First Line: How rewarding to know mr. Smith Last Line: Until mourned by the tall prairie grasses, %how rewarding to know mr. Smith! MRS. CARIBOU First Line: Old mrs. Caribou lives by a lake Last Line: Shoo, mrs. Caribou! %shoo! %shoo! %shoo! MY BODY Poem Text First Line: Wherever I go, it also goes, Subject(s): Body, Human; Self MY SUMMER GOLD BY AUTUMN THINNED Last Line: I disappear into the wind NATURAL HISTORY Poem Text First Line: I wish I knew the reason for Subject(s): Dinosaurs NEW YEAR'S DAY First Line: The sun is up, the sky is clear Last Line: A bright new day, a bright new year NEW YEAR'S EVE First Line: The stars are out, the sky is clear Last Line: Happy new year! %happy new year! NIGHT MUSIC Poem Text First Line: Alone for hours on end, he meditated on his mission Last Line: Will break with even fury from our breasts Subject(s): Night NIGHT MUSIC First Line: The dark air rushes by us like a cry Last Line: Will break with equal fury from our breasts NIGHTWOOD Poem Text First Line: Speaking in squalor mean, elusive youth Subject(s): Women; Bad Behavior NIGHTWOOD First Line: Seeking in squalor lean, elusive youth Last Line: While clothed in soft, white light, the dark wolf digs NORTHERN LIGHTS Poem Text First Line: I stepped out here on the mountainside, and saw the northern Subject(s): Aurora Borealis; Northern Lights NORTHERN LIGHTS First Line: I stepped out here on the mountainside, and saw the Last Line: And I brushed the blowing skeins of light from my face, stepped %back and shut the door and went ins NOTE ON THE VANITY DRESSER First Line: The yes-man in the mirror now says no Last Line: These are your eyes, the cinders of your city NUKUHIVA First Line: It was in time of war, and yet no war Last Line: And all the wailing places of the dead O LOVE, O LOVE, THESE OCEANS VAST Poem Text First Line: He who has felt on his dark bed Subject(s): Life O LOVE, O LOVE, THESE OCEANS VAST First Line: He who has felt on his dark bed Last Line: And he who wakes finds light, his land; %darkness, fleeing, fled OBSERVATION First Line: Now every day here at the height of summer Last Line: Gray seasons, asking, in its permanence and rare %felicity, what are years? OF ISLANDS Poem Text First Line: Of all the islands sailing down the west Subject(s): Islands OF ISLANDS First Line: Of all the islands sailing down the west Last Line: This is the island which our lives defend %where life must end, and death put forth its green OLD CHEROKEE WOMAN'S SONG Poem Text First Line: They have taken my land Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Native Americans - Removal OLD CHEROKEE WOMAN'S SONG First Line: They have taken my land Last Line: Beyond the red water Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Trail Of Tears (1838-39) OLD MEN ON THE BENCH First Line: How faultless fall their shadows on the faulted rocks Last Line: Old men should be deprived of calendars and clocks, %of keys and locks; of rulers, and of rules ON PARTING Poem Text First Line: Time that is recorded is not now Subject(s): Farewell; Time; Parting ON PARTING First Line: Time thatis recorded is not now Last Line: Love also dies; the dead have loved you best: %look for them there in the dark where the rails run ON THE DEATH OF A POET'S INFANT SON MICHAEL JASPER GIOIA First Line: Malherbe's daughter lived as roses do Last Line: But michael was a bud brought fresh to light %which death broke off and took into the night ON THE EDGE First Line: On autumn days when the sky behind Last Line: And a few stars rose in a clear line %to guide a young man lost ON THE ISLANDS WHICH ARE SOLOMON'S First Line: On the islands which are solomon's I sometimes see Last Line: Hop to my hand, dark beauty, stripped of song ON THE REEF Poem Text First Line: Today I have touched the earth and the earth's three quarters Subject(s): War ON THE REEF First Line: Today I have touched the earth and the earth's three quarters Last Line: I was this day digested by his love. %the world was his word, the realm of his radiant mouth Subject(s): War ORPHEUS Poem Text First Line: Orpheus with music charms the birds Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus ORPHEUS First Line: Orpheus with music charms the birds Last Line: Earth awaking from her tragic sleep, %the cool, ecstatic earth. O hear, o hear Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus OSTRICH Poem Text First Line: Grandmother ostrich goes to bed Last Line: Then pokes her head in an ostrich hole Subject(s): Ostriches OWL Poem Text First Line: The owl that lives in the old oak tree Last Line: And flies and flies Subject(s): Owls PANTHER First Line: The panther from its dark and hidden lair Last Line: The panther slinks back to the steaming brain PARABLE First Line: Though well acquainted, mind and heart Last Line: And mind is mind, and heart is heart PARK IN MILAN First Line: The animals we have seen, all marvelous creatures Last Line: Music fades; the streets are black with flies PAVANE FOR THE NURSERY First Line: Now touch the air softly Last Line: And I'll love you as long %as the furrow the plow, %as however is ever, %and ever is now Subject(s): Love - Marital PEACOCK OF JAVA First Line: I thought of the mariners of solomon Last Line: For home, the peacock's tail %committed to the legends of the sea Subject(s): Birds; Peacocks PENATES IN PERIL Poem Text First Line: Caught within this cavernous disaster Subject(s): Horses PENGUIN Poem Text First Line: I think it must ve v ery nice Subject(s): Penguins PERSIAN MINIATURE First Line: Ah, all the sands of the earth lead unto heaven Last Line: And green as a grasshopper's leg is the evening sky PETITS CHEVAUX: THE TWENTIES, I First Line: Harry crosby one day launched the bedroom stakes Last Line: And death left the players' goblets brimming with blood-red wine PETITS CHEVAUX: THE TWENTIES, II First Line: Scott fitzgerald organized the crack-up stakes-- Last Line: And zelda danced on madly till the asylum burned PIAZZA First Line: When all the world was out-of-doors Last Line: Moments, flowers, fountains fade %with all of light in darkness lost PICTURE OF HER BONES First Line: I saw her pelvic bones one april day Last Line: As once they did that other april day %before her fall PIDGIN PINCH First Line: Joe, you big shot! You big man! Last Line: I give you trouble? Gimme a dime! PLAIN TALK Poem Text Subject(s): Truth; Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity PLAIN TALK First Line: There are people so dumb,' my father said Last Line: That's how he felt - that's how I feel POEM NEAR PEARL HARBOR Poem Text First Line: Angelica, the princess pomponelli Subject(s): Hawaii POEM NEAR PEARL HARBOR First Line: The ladies who gather beneath the hau tree Last Line: Over the beakers of diamond head %with the shrouded beaks of mynah birds %salutes the dying and the POLAR BEAR Poem Text First Line: The polar bear never makes his bed Subject(s): Bears POLYNESIAN IN KHAKI Poem Text First Line: Polynesian in khaki leaning on the jukebox Subject(s): Polynesia POLYNESIAN IN KHAKI First Line: Polynesian in khaki leaning on the jukebox Last Line: Lands that pay for paradise acquire %as well as appropriately pictured hell PORTRAIT FOR A LAPIDARY Poem Text First Line: Perfection is the sense of being whole Subject(s): Art & Artists PRAIRIE CHICKEN Poem Text First Line: Look at him there in that prairie dirt Last Line: He looks for another prairie chicken Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Native Americans - Removal PROCESSIONAL First Line: The professor strolls at dusk in the college garden Last Line: When beauty will be destroyed by more than weather, %by more than the idiot wind that rakes the pits PROPER BOSTONIANS QUAIL IN AUTUMN Poem Text First Line: Autumn has turned the dark trees toward the hill Subject(s): Autumn; Poetry & Poets; Quails; Seasons; Fall QUAIL IN AUTUMN First Line: Autumn has turned the dark trees toward the hill Last Line: A voice, a step, a swift sun-thrust of feather %and earth and air come properly together Subject(s): Autumn; Poetry And Poets; Quails; Seasons RANDOM GENERATION OF ENGLISH SENTENCES OR, THE REVENGE OF THE POETS Poem Text First Line: What does she put four whistles beside heated rugs for? Subject(s): Computers; Poetry & Poets RANDOM GENERATION OF ENGLISH SENTENCES OR, THE REVENGE OF THE POETS First Line: What does she put four whistles beside heated rugs for? Last Line: Where are all your hot-rugged brothers and sisters headed. %madam, good-bye! Subject(s): Computers; Poetry And Poets REAR VISION Poem Text First Line: The cars in the mirror come swiftly forward Subject(s): Automobiles; Time; Cars REAR VISION First Line: The cars in the mirror come swiftly forward Last Line: The furies gather in a pack, &while all the sky above burns black, %unwinding still the darkening th Subject(s): Automobiles; Time REFLECTION First Line: As from a rainbow, the canoe Last Line: Rides my eye, as evermore %the canoe its element Variant Title(s): Reflection RHINOCEROS Poem Text First Line: You may hang your hat on the nose of a rhino Subject(s): Rhinoceroses RIDDLE Poem Text First Line: It leads you a chase through a tangle of words Subject(s): Riddles RIDDLES: 1 First Line: Within a frame in narrow tinkling strands Last Line: Approach it now, and part it with your breath RIDDLES: 2 First Line: In glass contained, and gnawed as if by doubt Last Line: It broods upon a page of baudelaire! RIDDLES: 3 First Line: It dogs your footsteps through the sunny day Last Line: Becomes your body and assumes your soul RIDDLES: 4 First Line: Earth it rounds with heaven's bloom Last Line: A round of earth in a sunlit room RIDDLES: 5 First Line: It leads you a chase through a tangle of words Last Line: Ang gives but the bones whey you look for the birds ROBERT FROST: THE ROAD TAKEN First Line: The poet stopped on the edge of night Last Line: The blind walls move: his words awaken %here on the page; and the road taken %winds on ROLLING OVER IN HIS GRAVE, GOUNOD Last Line: Up my opera faust? ROOM IN THE VILLA First Line: What is the mirror saying with its o? Last Line: While, patient in the eaves, the shadows wait SAGE GROUSE Poem Text First Line: When he starts to rant Last Line: Out of the house Subject(s): Grouse SANDPAPERED HORNBILL First Line: The sandpapered hornbill knows several hymns Last Line: But just goes on flying around and around SCULPTOR, WELDING First Line: Life meanders, jumps backwards and forwards... Last Line: In lucid air, in blue and lasting peace %out of life's formlessness, now form SEAL Poem Text First Line: See how he dives Subject(s): Animals SEAL First Line: See how he dives Last Line: With a mouthful of fish Subject(s): Animals SEPTEMBER First Line: A time of magic to remember Last Line: And purple, like the setting sun SHIPWRECK First Line: Old age is a shipwreck: these thin days Last Line: Caught, out of time, and then recalled forever SITTING BULL IN SERBIA Poem Text First Line: A hundred years ago, they say, buffalo bill Last Line: Headlong into the night Subject(s): "cody, William ""buffalo Bill"" (1846-1917); Sitting Bull (hunkpapa Sioux Chief); SLAVE BRACELETS First Line: You wore six bracelets - all of silver - and they moved on your Last Line: Each serpent clasped as if forever, its bright fangs reaching %resolutely upward, uniting heaven and SNOW First Line: Late in the day the soft snow comes Last Line: The flames, reflected on the wall, %loom wild and dark. And the soft snow falls SONG FOR A COUNTRY WEDDING Poem Text First Line: We have come in the winter SONG OF THE DISPOSSESSED First Line: You came across the water, %like gods you walked ashore Last Line: That robbed us of our country %and carried off our dreams Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Trail Of Tears (1838-39) STILL LIFE First Line: Where no one else at all was sitting Last Line: Where no one else at all is going, %mabel's gone STRUCTURE OF SONG First Line: Its syllables should come Last Line: That none could ever know %what torment gave it birth SUMMERTIME First Line: Spotted leopards stroll the avenue Last Line: Spotted leopards stroll the avenue SWEEPS IN AT EVERY WINDOW Last Line: And yet is there no more SWEET SINGER OF HARTFORD First Line: Higgledy-piggledy %breastplated lydia Last Line: Said once at bunker hill: %'monument, rise!' TALL POETS First Line: While the sky above manhattan flaps with a thousand jasper johns Last Line: Into the locked and heavily guarded harbors of the anthologies %on this bright bicentennial morning TEMPEST First Line: Imagine that july morning: cape henry and virginia Last Line: They might chart out that voyage to a shore %on which the nation they had planted would in time aris Subject(s): Pioneers TEN First Line: Mme bonnet is one of the best-dressed ten Last Line: Throws back her head and laughs as from a cage: % mme bonnet is one, you say?...And then? THE BONE-PICKER Poem Text First Line: In the old days, when a choctaw died Subject(s): Native Americans THE BURNING OF MALMAISON Poem Text First Line: On a brisk cool evening when the wind Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Politics & Government; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Native Americans - Removal THE CHEROKEE LOTTERY Poem Text First Line: When the cherokees refused to leave Subject(s): Native Americans THE CLOSING OF THE RODEO First Line: The lariat snaps, the cowboy rolls Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Rodeos; Sports; Work; Workers THE CROSSING Poem Text First Line: That winter the southern land had all the contours Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Native Americans - Removal THE DESCENT OF ORPHEUS Poem Text First Line: A cockatoo with nervous, quick cockade Last Line: What shall I do without lher? / che faro? Subject(s): Orpheus; Love – Loss Of THE DRESSMAKER'S WORKROOM Poem Text First Line: The dressmakers' dummy Subject(s): Clothing & Dress THE EAGLE WARRIOR: AN INVOCATION Poem Text First Line: This life-size ceramic man costumed as an eagle Subject(s): Native Americans THE FARM Poem Text First Line: Old macdonald had a farm Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE FLOOR AND THE CEILING Poem Text First Line: Winter and summer, whatever the weather, Subject(s): Houses; Loss THE GIRL IN THE GLASS Poem Text First Line: You've stood there long enough.' I said Subject(s): Time; Hair THE INHABITANTS OF ATLANTIS Poem Text First Line: In an aquarium under the bar, the fish Subject(s): Aquariums; Fish & Fishing; Anglers THE KING OF SPAIN Poem Text Subject(s): Books; Reading THE LADY IN ORANGE COUNTY Poem Text First Line: Beautiful lady, loops of country road Subject(s): Seashore; Beauty; Beach; Coast; Shore THE MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS Poem Text First Line: Because I believe in the community of little children Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies THE PEACOCK OF JAVA Poem Text First Line: I thought of the mariners of solomon Subject(s): Birds; Peacocks THE PIAZZA Poem Text First Line: When all the world was out-of-doors Subject(s): Crowds; Landscape THE PLAYERS Poem Text First Line: A curtain of green divides--and there they are Subject(s): Seminole Indians; Acting & Actors THE STRUCTURE OF SONG Poem Text First Line: Its syllables should come Last Line: What torment gave it birth Subject(s): Songs THE TEMPEST Poem Text First Line: Imagine that july morning: cape henry and virginia Subject(s): Pioneers THE TIN CAN Poem Text First Line: I have gone into the tin can; not in late spring, fleeing a stewing Subject(s): Writing & Writers THE TOASTER Poem Text First Line: A silver-scaled dragon with jaws flaming red Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Cookery THE TOUNG LOVERS Poem Text First Line: These two went with cautious smile Last Line: And find their bird at the end of the day Subject(s): Birds THE VISION Poem Text First Line: He stood above you, and the mountain flamed Subject(s): Native Americans - Pre-columbian THE WAVES WHICH CAME DOWN FROM THE EDGE OF SKY Poem Text Subject(s): Waves THE WORLD BELOW THE WINDOW Poem Text First Line: The geraniums I left last night on the windowsill Subject(s): Sight THER PANTHER FROM ITS DARK AND HIDDEN LAIR Poem Text Subject(s): Panthers THERE EXISTS A YOUNG GIRL WHOSE NAME TESS IS Last Line: In stiff white organdy dresses THERE WAS AN OLD MAN FROM BENGHAZI Last Line: He was home in his bed in benghazi THIS LIFE, THIS DEATH First Line: I take the narrow roadway to the bend Last Line: To praise what all too quickly rots away THREE First Line: We've gone as far as I think we three can go,' Last Line: Turns and turns ... Or was there only one %who bent his head and touched his hat and laughed? THREE SONGS: 1. WORDS BY THE WATER First Line: Beneath the dimming gardens of the sky Last Line: Sleep in my arms, my love. O sleep, my love THREE SONGS: 2. SONG FOR A COUNTRY WEDDING First Line: We have come in the winter Last Line: To protect their small clearing, %and their love be enduring Subject(s): Wedding Song THREE SONGS: 3. MOURNING SONG First Line: Comb the haunted, howling seas Last Line: The dead have haddocks' eyes TIN CAN First Line: I have gone into the tin can; not in late spring, fleeing a stewing Last Line: And the words clean-spun and spiraling orbit that swift-seeing, %unseen immensity that will never be TOASTER First Line: A silver-scaled dragon with jaws flaming red Last Line: He hands them back when he sees they are done TODAY I HAVE TOUCHED THE EARTH Poem Text Subject(s): God TORTOISE Poem Text First Line: The tortoise, when it makes its rounds Last Line: Sets out again. And on it creeps Subject(s): Turtles TRAGEDY AND COMEDY First Line: Two life-sized marble busts of bearded men Last Line: Below the balcony, the cold parterre, %across the dark they both salute the dead TRAVELER'S TREE First Line: On a day like this so clear that your eye Last Line: You will be welcome. I will be waiting. I will be there TRIP ACROSS AMERICA First Line: Riding the powerful polished rails Last Line: So every evening comes to dark, %and all our journeys end in love TULIP Poem Text First Line: A slender goblet wreathed in flame Subject(s): Tulips TULIP First Line: A slender goblet wreathed in flame Last Line: In cup of ceremonial fire, %magnificence within a frame TUNE FOR THE TELETYPE First Line: O teletype, tell us of time clocks and trouble Last Line: End of the poem...Space...Space...Space...Space... TWO AND ONE First Line: Your country is your own, but I inhabit it Last Line: The absolute negation of the dead, %and brings to nothingness our common dreams TYPEWRITER BIRD First Line: The typewriter bird with the pitchfork beak Last Line: But thrown out the window, it sings no more, %the typewriter bird! UNICORN First Line: The unicorn with the long white horn Last Line: As gently as a child VENICE IN THE FOG First Line: Fog in mid-december has descended on venice; and the city wraps Last Line: And all that could not be seen is seen, all that was imagined, is, all %that was lost, found VILLANELLE First Line: You rise to walk yet when you fly you sit Last Line: People with hair are always combing it VINCENT VAN GOGH Poem Text First Line: Walking at night in a hat fitted with twelve candles Subject(s): Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) VINCENT VAN GOGH First Line: Walking at night in a hat fitted with twelve candles Last Line: And in the foreground, nervously applied, %an intricate maze of thin-sown poppyheads Subject(s): Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) VISION First Line: He stood above you, and the mountain flamed Last Line: O mourn for the world as I must this morning %in a cloak which is made of job's-tears Subject(s): Native Americans - Pre-columbian VISION AT TWILIGHT Poem Text First Line: The lamps are lit: I gaze into the dark Subject(s): Night; Dreams; Bedtime; Nightmares W IS FOR WELL Poem Text Subject(s): Alphabets; Wit & Humor WAVES First Line: The waves that come down from the edge of the sky Last Line: Our lord the peacock walks on high, %the heavens in his wake WEDDING SONG First Line: I would have instruments that could express Last Line: To wish you well upon your wedding day WHAT A PITY THAT JACQUES BARZUN Last Line: On louis quatorze WHAT TRAIN WILL COME? First Line: Snowdrifts melt in the streets, pockmarked at the curb Last Line: What train will come %to bear me back %across so wide a town? WHEN ALL THE WILD VALLEY RECOVERS THE LEAF Poem Text Subject(s): Beauty WHEN CANDY WAS CHOCOLAATE First Line: When candy was chocolate and bread was white Last Line: And the yellow pencil began to write WHERE THE RIVERS MEET First Line: Here where the winding rivers meet Last Line: Here where the rivers meet WHY Poem Text First Line: Why do apricots look like eggs? WILD COUNTRY First Line: In cobwebbed caves lie poisoned arrowheads Last Line: The great white clouds move on as if forever, %and draw a shade against the morning sky WINTER MORNING Poem Text First Line: All night the wind swept over the house Subject(s): Winter; Nature; Landscape WINTER MORNING First Line: All night the wind swept over the house Last Line: As if through time, %light that shone %on a landscape of ivory, %a harbor of bone WOMAN ON THE PORCH First Line: A woman in my dream sits on a cool front porch Last Line: And the sky, for a brief moment, is the color of currant and quince WOOING LADY First Line: Once upon the earth at the midnight hour Last Line: And over all the world the birds awaken %as he awakens, beautifully deceived WORLD BELOW THE WINDOW First Line: The geraniums I left last night on the window sill Last Line: In life life-giving, and in death undying WORLD CHAMPIONS First Line: A cardinal is perched upon a bad Subject(s): Sports X IS FOR X Poem Text First Line: And x marks the spot Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Poetry & Poets X IS FOR X First Line: And x marks the spot Last Line: X is for x Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Poetry And Poets Y IS FOR YARN Poem Text First Line: The wool that's unwound Subject(s): Alphabets; Wit & Humor YAK Poem Text First Line: The long-haired yak has long black hair Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Poetry & Poets YAK First Line: The long-haired yak has long black hair Last Line: Would look when perched in a barber chair! Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Poetry And Poets YOUNG LOVERS First Line: These two went with cautious smile Last Line: Pursue a darting sky-blue bird %and find their bird at the end of day YOUR EYES, MY HARLEQUINS Poem Text First Line: Your eyes, my harlequins of dark and light Subject(s): Love |
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