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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: STEWART, SUSAN Matches Found: 103 Stewart, Susan Poet's Biography 103 poems available by this author 1937. THE ARBOR First Line: A thousand bees were tensing on the blue-black grapes A LANGUAGE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: I had heard the story before Subject(s): Language; Teaching & Teachers; Miscarriage; Words; Vocabulary; Educators; Professors ANDRE DERAIN, WOMAN IN CHEMISE First Line: In the dream of constantly changing APPLE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: If I could come back from the dead, I would come back Subject(s): Apples APPLE First Line: If I could come back from the dead, I would come back Last Line: What you thought it would be AT SIX Poem Text First Line: Like a distant singing, like a finger sizzling Subject(s): Night; Bedtime AT THE FONT OF ARETUSA First Line: Some things cannot follow AWAKEN First Line: Now in the minute, in the half-life when the rose Last Line: I awakened to the world as it was given BEES Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: That the bees were born in the corpse of the injured animal Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs BEES First Line: That the bees were born in the corpse of the injured animal Last Line: Into sweetness, and the dark into the sun, and the bees %thus born Subject(s): Bees; Insects BLUE WILLOW First Line: A woman grows up BRAID Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Shoulders knobbed against Subject(s): Hair; Women BRAID First Line: Shoulders knobbed against Last Line: And the tether cannot %be undone Subject(s): Hair; Women BUDAPEST, MARCH 1928: THE GENIUS OF FRIENDSHIP Poem Text First Line: There was not so much terror then Subject(s): Budapest, Hungary; Photography & Photographers; City & Town Life BUDAPEST, MARCH 1928: THE GENIUS OF FRIENDSHIP First Line: There was not so much terror then CARDINAL First Line: It was on a day like this one CHOPIN. MAY 1988 First Line: The lay-offs and ransacked apartments, the Last Line: It turns out, the occasion had ended, the %lights are turnedout, the %gates opened, the rain COMMUTER'S WIFE First Line: He touched his collar CONSECRATION Poem Text First Line: The man in the yellow hard hat, Subject(s): Cranes (machines); Home; Commuters; Nostalgia CONSECRATION First Line: The man in the yellow hard hat DARK THE STAR' Poem Text Recitation by Author DARK THE STAR' Last Line: There is no technique in the rose Subject(s): Stars DEATH TO THE WOLF First Line: What can you recall DESERT (1990-1993) First Line: In the sense that the world is happened upon Last Line: As the past increases, the future is diminished %and fear assumes the features of love EIGHT TABLEAUS OF A RUMOR OF WAR First Line: The raven fell from a shadow on the sun ELLIPSE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Night after night the astronomer Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers ELLIPSE First Line: Night after night the astronomer Last Line: Of leaning: you chose to stop and fall Subject(s): Astronomy And Astronomers EVENING OF MONTALE'S DEATH First Line: A green light trailed through the park at dusk FACTORY GIRLS GET UP TO READ SHAKESPEARE First Line: At dawn a piece of ice snaps from the roof FIRE CEREMONY Poem Text First Line: A girl called out to her horse Subject(s): Fire; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers FIRE CEREMONY First Line: A girl called out to her horse FLIGHT First Line: Snatched away, the paper lands flat at first Last Line: It is neither evil nor good, as things are neither here nor there when %they fly FLOWN FROM THE GENERATION OF WATER First Line: A breath flew across the water, a breath, a thread, of living fire Last Line: Thread of living fire that never ends FOREST First Line: You should lie down now and remember the forest Last Line: Singular, too, %but the truth is, it is, lost to us now FOUR LACK SONGS Poem Text First Line: Hammer to a copper bowl, Subject(s): Loss; Love FOUR QUESTIONS REGARDING THE DREAMS OF ANIMALS Poem Text First Line: It is true, for the spaces of night surround them with shape and purpose, Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Nightmares FOUR QUESTIONS REGARDING THE DREAMS OF ANIMALS: 1 First Line: It is true, for the spaces of night surround them with shape and Last Line: The cage and the forest are as helpless in the night as a pair of %open hands holding rain FOUR QUESTIONS REGARDING THE DREAMS OF ANIMALS: 2 First Line: Think of the way a woman who wanders the roads could step into Last Line: White rope slowly through the sand FOUR QUESTIONS REGARDING THE DREAMS OF ANIMALS: 3 First Line: The prairie lies open like a gentle eye, blind to everything but the Last Line: Sleepers. They do not dream of us FOUR QUESTIONS REGARDING THE DREAMS OF ANIMALS: 4 Last Line: This is all we will ever know GARLAND First Line: Here are the four GAVILLE First Line: At evening the laundry GYPSY First Line: A late afternoon in july, too early to begin Last Line: They can speak, they can speak IN QUESTA REGGIA. MAY 1989 First Line: What could we see aside from the man Last Line: Heart. Meanness all around, %nothing in sight but tanks IN THE NOVEL Poem Text First Line: He described her mouth as full of ashes. Subject(s): Kisses IN THE NOVEL First Line: He described her mouth as full of ashes KING OF THE HILL Poem Text First Line: What looked like a statue held a shove LAST PRINCE OF URBINO First Line: Before the skull closes, month by month LESSONS FROM TELEVISION (SELECTION) Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: You must laugh at yourself, laugh and laugh. Subject(s): Television; Social Commentaries; Tv LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY MARVELOUS GOD Poem Text Subject(s): God; Nature LETTER FROM TURIN First Line: Tonight the moon is falling like a piece of silver LIFE ON OTHER PLANETS First Line: Nothing so heretical as dusk LIGHTNING First Line: Was it the gold of mercy or the god of light Last Line: And it won't be a god who will tell me LINTEL First Line: I stood before the lintel %the door swung open then Last Line: Another and none of them %turning back to us LISTEN First Line: In a golden field alone %lone Last Line: Forbear %be air LITTLE NIGHT SONGS First Line: Oleander, pennywort %a fillip in the wind Last Line: Come drink now, drink it in MAN DANCING WITH A BABY Poem Text First Line: Before balance, before counting, before Subject(s): Babies; Infants MAN DANCING WITH A BABY First Line: Before balance, before counting, before MAP OF THE WORLD CONFUSED WITH ITS TERRITORY First Line: In a drawer I found a map of the world MEADOW First Line: When he returned from the meadow he said Last Line: He hadn't seen them and he wonderd what %kind of meadow I could be thinking of MEMORY CABINET OF MRS. K. - 1960 First Line: Top right drawer Last Line: A blue kimono; diploma; certificate of perfect attendance MEMORY OF HAPPINESS IN A TIME OF MISERY First Line: Like starlings in winter the wind beating against their beating wings Last Line: So it might breathe freely again MINERS OF DELTA First Line: In the anonymous night I see them Last Line: Stand naked as diamonds or stars Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers MOON AT MORNING Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Ghostly chalk rounded low in bluest Subject(s): Moon; Mornng; Love MOUTH OF THE WOLF First Line: In my photograph of the sphinx Last Line: And the other rain, too, which disappears %from the picture PEAR Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Believing each simple thing passes from a perception that is less clear Subject(s): Nature; Simplicity PEAR First Line: Believing each simple thing passes from a perception that is less clear Last Line: And burn back to the ground Subject(s): Nature; Simplicity PROVERBS OF THE SLEEPING BEAUTY First Line: When the animal eye of the moon hangs above us REWIND Poem Text First Line: Strange how he had written, when he was thinking about music Subject(s): Change REWIND First Line: Strange how he had written, when he was thinking about music Last Line: So for god's sake don't jump Subject(s): Change ROADS Poem Text First Line: Roads are the infinity of things cut out of paper Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails ROSE First Line: Not so long ago, or was it?-the bud was tightly wound and the edge Last Line: But then the rose came to save me SCARECROW Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Now, when I picture him, I realize his secret Subject(s): Scarecrows SCARECROW First Line: Now, when I picture him, I realize his secret Last Line: In our absence, find some part of ourselves %that does not grow Subject(s): Scarecrows SECRET CEREMONY: THE SAILBOAT First Line: There were thirty-six streets between us SEVEN BRIDGES Poem Text First Line: Sometimes before I wake I see Subject(s): Bridges SEVEN BRIDGES First Line: Sometimes before I wake I see SHADOW First Line: You came upon me like a shadow Last Line: And we cannot recognize %the forms of light SLAUGHTER: ON THE PROPERTIES GENERALLY REQUIRED... E First Line: Remembering the shot that seemed to burst with no Last Line: There would be no more instruction, %no more, in the end, hand guiding the hand SPELL First Line: Stubble in the burnt field Last Line: Its errant phantom, %the minister of our forgetting SUMMER BEFORE THE MOON First Line: Began its pull, the wire fence scrawled SUNG FROM THE GENERATIONS OF AIR First Line: Or vacancy, what memory can sing and a pod Last Line: Yet air is the element most bearable to every mortal thing SURVIVAL OF ICARUS First Line: My father saw the feathers on the waves and grieved Last Line: Or if it sings from its strings or its spaces THE DELTA PARADE Poem Text First Line: Everything stops. A fat man on his way to baltimore Subject(s): Time THE FOREST Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: You should lie down now and remember the forest, Subject(s): Forests; Deforestation; Loss; Woods THE LOST COLONY Poem Text First Line: They never learned to tell Subject(s): Sects THE MAP OF THE WORLD CONFUSED WITH ITS TERRITORY Poem Text First Line: In a drawer I found a map of the world Subject(s): Maps; Earth; World THE MINERS OF DELTA Poem Text First Line: In the anonymous night I see them Subject(s): Industry; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers THE OAKEN BOAT Poem Text First Line: Wide of the mark, I dreamed again of the oaken boat Subject(s): Boats THESE TREES IN PARTICULAR First Line: Three pine masts lodged in the clay of the pining sailors Last Line: When you recognize the trees, you must be home WE NEEDED FIRE TO MAKE Last Line: How the cinder bears the seed WEATHER Poem Text First Line: Sounds travel far and wide Subject(s): Weather WEATHER First Line: Sounds travel far and wide Last Line: With a passing thought for us Subject(s): Weather WHAT YOU SAID ABOUT THE MOON First Line: All the little lies follow the big lie Last Line: Whisper 'I saw you before you saw me' WHEN I'M CRYING, I'M NOT SPEAKING Poem Text First Line: Barred back from the glare Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness WHEN I'M CRYING, I'M NOT SPEAKING First Line: Barred back from the glare Last Line: The words' grip %ground to a halt WHEN I'M SPEAKING, I'M NOT CRYING First Line: The personal is artificially political just as Last Line: When I'm thinking, I'm not speaking WHISPER First Line: A whisper within an ordinary parting Last Line: But something, something meant- %what was it? WINGS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: If you could have wings would you want them Subject(s): Wings WINGS First Line: If you could have wings would you want them Last Line: That I might fly away where the ships of pine wood pass between %the dark cliffs Subject(s): Wings WROUGHT FROM THE GENERATION OF EARTH First Line: One boot planted, firm as a trunk, the other shoved down on the shovel Last Line: Not the earth itself, but tenderness YELLOW STARS AND ICE Poem Text First Line: I am as far as the deepest sky between clouds Subject(s): Relationships; Space & Space Travel; Outer Space; Fourth Dimension ZERO First Line: Mark a circle and start digging here Last Line: In the shape of your shadow falling |
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