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Author: THOMAS, DYLAN Matches Found: 263 Thomas, Dylan Poet's Biography 263 poems available by this author A PROCESS IN THE WEATHER OF THE HEART Poem Text A REFUSAL TO MOURN THE DEATH, BY FIRE, OF A CHILD IN LONDON Poem Text Recitation First Line: Never until the mankind making Subject(s): Air Warfare; Death - Children; Fire; Innocence; Mourning; World War Ii; Death - Babies; Bereavement; Second World War A WINTER'S TALE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: It is winter's tale Subject(s): Faith; Belief; Creed ADMIT THE SUN First Line: Admit the sun into your high nest Last Line: Out of the air it strikes AIR YOU BREATHE First Line: The air you breathe encroaches Last Line: Your sweet inducive thighs %and raven hair ALL ALL AND ALL THE DRY WORLDS LEVER Last Line: Flower, flower, all all and all ALL THAT I OWE THE FELLOWS OF THE GRAVE Last Line: All night my fortune slumbers in its sheet ALMANAC OF TIME First Line: The almanac of time hangs in the brain Last Line: Time shall belong to man ALTARWISE BY OWL-LIGHT Poem Text Recitation First Line: Altarwise by owl-light in the halfway house Subject(s): Christianity ALTARWISE BY OWL-LIGHT First Line: Altarwise by owl-light in the halfway house Last Line: My nest of mercies be rude, red tree Subject(s): Christianity ALTHOUGH THROUGH MY BEWILDERED WAY Last Line: Into the void again of this bewilderment and that insanity AMONG THOSE KILLED IN THE DAWN RAID WAS A MAN AGED A HUNDRED Poem Text First Line: When the morning was waking over the war Subject(s): War; Old Age; Death; Dead, The AMONG THOSE KILLED IN THE DAWN RAID WAS A MAN AGED A HUNDRED First Line: When the morning was waking over the war Last Line: And a hundred storks perch on the sun's right hand AND DEATH SHALL HAVE NO DOMINION Poem Text Recitation AND DEATH SHALL HAVE NO DOMINION Last Line: Break in the sun till the sun breaks down %and death shall have no dominion Subject(s): Bible; Death; Life Change Events; Religion; Time AUTHOR'S PROLOGUE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: This day winding down now Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology AUTHOR'S PROLOGUE First Line: This day winding down now Last Line: And the flood flowers now Subject(s): Bible; Religion BALLAD OF THE LONG-LEGGED BAIT Poem Text Recitation First Line: The bows glided down, and the coast Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Sin; Anglers BALLAD OF THE LONG-LEGGED BAIT First Line: The bows glided down, and the coast Last Line: He stands alone at the door of his home, %with his long-legged heart in his hand Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Sin BECAUSE THE PLEASURE-BIRD WHISTLES First Line: Because the pleasure-bird whistles after the hot wires Last Line: Over the past table I repeat this present grace BEFORE I KNOCKED Poem Text First Line: Before I knocked and flesh let enter Subject(s): Conduct Of Life BEFORE I KNOCKED AND FLESH LET ME ENTER Last Line: Who took my flesh and bone for armour %and doublecrossed my mother's womb Subject(s): Birth BEFORE THE GAS FADES First Line: Before the gas fades with a harsh last bubble Last Line: Not black or white or left or right BEFORE WE MOTHERNAKED FALL Poem Text Subject(s): Oil Fields; Gold BEFORE WE MOTHERNAKED FALL Last Line: And veins are spilled and doom is turned, %your solid land BEING BUT MEN Poem Text First Line: Being but men, we walked into the trees Subject(s): Men; Conduct Of Life BEING BUT MEN First Line: Being but men, we walked into the trees CABARET First Line: I, poor romantic, held her heel Last Line: And which the real CEREMONY AFTER A FIRE RAID Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Myselves / the grievers Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Funerals; Mourning; World War Ii; Burials; Bereavement; Second World War CEREMONY AFTER A FIRE RAID First Line: Myselves %the grievers Last Line: The sundering ultimate kingdom of genesis' thunder Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Funerals; Mourning; World War Ii CHILD'S CHRISTMAS IN WALES Poem Text First Line: One christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner Subject(s): Christmas; Children; Wales; Nativity, The; Childhood; Welshmen; Welshwomen CHILDREN OF DARKNESS GOT NO WINGS First Line: Children of darkness got no wings Last Line: Waiting all vainly this we know CLOUD IN THE MOON First Line: My tears are like the quiet drift Last Line: So tremulously like a dream CLOWN IN THE MOON Poem Text First Line: My tears are like the quiet drift Subject(s): Moon CONCEIVE THESE IMAGES IN AIR Last Line: By love-tip or my hand's red heat CONVERSATION ABOUT CHRISTMAS THE USEFUL PRESENTS First Line: There were the useful presents: engulfing mufflers of the old coach days Subject(s): Christmas CONVERSATION ABOUT CHRISTMAS THE USELESS PRESENTS First Line: Of course there were sweets. It was the marsh Subject(s): Christmas CONVERSATION OF PRAYER First Line: The conversation of prayers about to be said Last Line: Dragging him up the stairs to one who lies ahead Subject(s): Prayer COOL, OH NO COOL Poem Text Last Line: From which you may not fly Subject(s): Love – Nature Of COOL, OH NO COOL Last Line: From which you may not fly COUNTRYMAN'S RETURN First Line: Embracin' low-falutin' %london Last Line: One rich stredet with hunger in it Subject(s): London DEATH AND ENTRANCES Poem Text First Line: On almost the incendiary eve Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATHS AND ENTRANCES First Line: On almost the incendiary eve DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT Poem Text Recitation by Author DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT Last Line: Rage, rage against the dying of the light Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Hate; Mourning; Old Age; Social Protest; Time DO YOU NOT FATHER ME First Line: Do you not father me, nor the erected arm Last Line: Lie all unknowing of the grave sin-eater EARS IN THE TURRETS HEAR Poem Text Recitation Last Line: Hold you poison or grapes? EARS IN THE TURRETS HEAR Last Line: Hold you poison or grapes? Subject(s): Life ELEGY First Line: Too proud to die, broken and blind he died Last Line: Until I die he will not leave my side ELM First Line: Tghey are all goddesses Last Line: Leaf driftwood that has blown ESPECIALLY WHEN THE OCTOBER WIND Poem Text Recitation by Author ESPECIALLY WHEN THE OCTOBER WIND Last Line: By the sea's side hear the dark-vowelled birds Subject(s): October FERN HILL Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs Subject(s): Children; Farm Life; Innocence; Nature; Time; Wales; Youth; Childhood; Agriculture; Farmers; Welshmen; Welshwomen FERN HILL First Line: Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs Last Line: Time held me green and dying %though I sang in my chains like the sea Subject(s): Children; Farm Life; Innocence; Nature; Time; Wales; Youth FIND MEAT ON BONES' First Line: Find meat on bones that soon have none Last Line: Before death takes you, o take back this FORCE THAT THROUGH THE GREEN FUSE DRIVES THE FLOWER Last Line: And I am dumb to tell the lover's tomb %how at my sheet goes the same crooked worm Subject(s): Death; Life; Time FOREST PICTURE First Line: Calm and strange is this evening hour in the forest Last Line: Down these fantastic avenues pass like shadows FOSTER THE LIGHT First Line: Foster the light nor veil the manshaped moon Last Line: A merry manshape of your walking circle FROM LOVE'S FIRST FEVER TO HER PLAGUE First Line: From love's first fever to her plague, from the soft second Last Line: One sun, one manna, warmed and fed GHOST STORY First Line: Bring out the tall tales now that we are told Subject(s): Christmas GOSSIPERS First Line: The gossipers have lowered their voices Last Line: Press the old lies and the old ghosts GREEK PLAY IN A GARDEN First Line: A woman wails her dead among the trees Last Line: A pigeon calls and women talk of death GRIEF AGO First Line: A grief ago %she who was who I hold, the fats and flower Last Line: And close her fist GRIEF THIEF OF TIME First Line: Grief thief of time crawls off Last Line: Shape with my fathers' thieves HAND THAT SIGNED THE PAPER First Line: The hand that signed the paper felled a city Last Line: Hands have no tears to flow HAND THAT SIGNED THE PAPER FELLED A CITY Last Line: A hand rules pity as a hand rules heaven; %hands have no tears to flow Subject(s): War HERE IN THIS SPRING First Line: Here in this spring, stars float along the void Last Line: Says the world wears away HERE LIES THE BEASTS First Line: Here lie the beasts of man and here I feast Last Line: Here slips the ghost who made of my pale bed %the heaven's house HIGH ON A HILL Last Line: Is fallen down %to the ground HOLD HARD, THESE ANCIENT MINUTES IN THE CUCKOO'S MONTH Last Line: Your sport is summer as the spring runs angrily HOLY SPRING Poem Text First Line: Out of a bed of love Subject(s): War HOLY SPRING First Line: Out of a bed of love Last Line: If only for a last time Subject(s): War HOW SHALL MY ANIMAL Last Line: And dug your grave in my breast HOW SOON THE SERVANT SUN Last Line: Blasts back the trumpet voice HUNCHBACK IN THE PARK Last Line: Had followed the hunchback %to his kennel in the dark Subject(s): Hunchbacks; Physical Disabilities; Wanderers And Wandering I DREAMED MY GENESIS First Line: I dreamed my genesis in sweat of sleep, breaking Last Line: Of new man strength, I seek the sun I FELLOWED SLEEP First Line: I fellowed sleep who kissed me in the brain Last Line: My fathers' ghost is climbing in the rain I HAVE COME TO CATCH YOUR VOICE Last Line: Nor the petals of any flower drop I HAVE LONGED TO MOVE AWAY Last Line: Half convention and half lie I KNOW THIS VICIOUS MINUTE'S HOUR Poem Text Last Line: But I go or die Subject(s): Time; Reality I KNOW THIS VICIOUS MINUTE'S HOUR Last Line: Stop has no minutes, %but I go or die I SEE THE BOYS OF SUMMER Poem Text First Line: I see the boys of summer in their ruin Subject(s): Summer I SEE THE BOYS OF SUMMER First Line: I see the boys of summer in their ruin Last Line: O see the poles are kissing as they cross I SEE THE BOYS OF SUMMER IN THEIR RUIN Last Line: We are the sons of flint and pitch. %o see the poles are kissing as they cross I, IN MY INTRICATE IMAGE First Line: I, in my intricate image, stride on two levels Last Line: And my images roared and rose on heaven's hill I, THE FIRST NAMED First Line: I, the first named, am the ghost of this sir and christian friend Last Line: Of a lack-a-head ghost I fear to the anonymous end IDYLL OF UNFORGETFULNESS First Line: To have seen countries which were glorious Last Line: Green-shadowed -- panoply -- enveloping -- all -- its -- strangeness -- and softness of stealth IF I WERE TICKLED BY THE RUB OF LOVE Poem Text Recitation by Author Last Line: Man be my metaphor Subject(s): Sex; Innocence; Reality IF I WERE TICKLED BY THE RUB OF LOVE Last Line: Man be my metaphor Subject(s): Love IF MY HEAD HURT A HAIR'S FOOT Last Line: And the endless beginning of prodigies suffers open IN A SHUTTERED ROOM I ROAST Subject(s): Travel IN COUNTRY HEAVEN First Line: Always when he, in country heaven Last Line: For the fifth element is pity, %(pity for death IN COUNTRY SLEEP First Line: Never and never, my girl riding far and near Last Line: Your faith as deathless as the outcry of the ruled sun IN DREAMS First Line: And in her garden grow the fleur de lys Last Line: The moons are white flames, like the moons in dreams IN MEMORY OF ANN JONES Poem Text Recitation First Line: After the funeral, mule praises, brays Variant Title(s): After The Funeral Subject(s): Aunts; Funerals; Burials IN MEMORY OF ANN JONES First Line: After the funeral, mule praises, brays Last Line: And the strutting fern lay seeds on the black sill Variant Title(s): After The Funera Subject(s): Aunts; Funerals IN MY CRAFT OR SULLEN ART Poem Text IN MY CRAFT OR SULLEN ART Last Line: Who pay no praise or wages %nor heed my craft or art Subject(s): Language; Men; Poetry And Poets IN THE BEGINNING Poem Text First Line: In the beginning was the three-pointed star Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology IN THE BEGINNING First Line: In the beginning was the three-pointed star Last Line: The ribbed original of love Subject(s): Bible; Religion IN THE WHITE GIANT'S THIGH First Line: Through throats where many rivers meet, the curlews cry Last Line: And the daughters of darkness flame like fawkes fires still INCARNATE DEVIL First Line: Incarnate devil in a talking snake Last Line: A serpent fiddled in the shaping-time INTO HER LYING DOWN HEAD Last Line: Forgotten dark, rest their pulse and bury their dead in her faithless sleep IT IS THE SINNERS' DUST-TONGUED BELL First Line: It is the sinners' dust-tongued bell claps me to churches Last Line: Who have brought forth the urchin grief IT IS THE SINNERS' DUST-TONGUED BELL CLAPS ME TO CHURCHES Last Line: Who have brought forth the urchin grief IT'S LIGHT THAT MAKES THE INTERVALS Last Line: Your rock of sound IT'S NOT IN MISERY BUT IN OBLIVION Last Line: Oblivion is so loverless LAMENT First Line: When I was a windy boy and a bit LAST NIGHT I DIVED MY BEGGAR ARM Poem Text Subject(s): Love - Complaints LAST NIGHT I DIVED MY BEGGAR ARM Last Line: Of the death in a bed in another country LET FOR ONE MOMENT A FAITH STATEMENT Last Line: God shall be gods and many deaths be death LET IT BE KNOWN First Line: Let it be known that little live but lies Last Line: Declare their souls, let children know, live after LET ME ESCAPE Last Line: Pale and decayed, an ugly growth LETTER TO MY AUNT DISCUSSING THE CORRECT APPROACH TO First Line: To you, my aunt, who would explore Last Line: How well your poems light the fire LIE STILL, SLEEP BECALMED Poem Text First Line: Lie still, sleep becalmed, sufferer with the wound Subject(s): Sea; Death; Conduct Of Life; Ocean; Dead, The LIE STILL, SLEEP BECALMED First Line: Lie still, becalmed, sufferer with the wound Last Line: Or we shall obey, and ride with you through the drowned LIFT UP YOUR FACE First Line: Lift up your face, light Last Line: If only with sunlight LIGHT BREAKS WHERE NO SUN SHINES Poem Text Recitation by Author LIGHT BREAKS WHERE NO SUN SHINES Last Line: And blood jumps in the sun; %above the waste allotments the dawn halts Subject(s): Light LIGHT, I KNOW, TREADS THE TEN MILLION STARS Last Line: I must learn night's light or go mad LITTLE PROBLEM First Line: Foot, head, or traces Last Line: As you, original, derive LOVE IN THE ASYLUM Poem Text First Line: A stranger has come Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals; Love; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums LOVE IN THE ASYLUM First Line: A stranger has come Last Line: Suffer the first vision that set fire to the stars MIDNIGHT ROAD First Line: The midnight road, though young men tread unknowing Last Line: The living sky, the faces of the stars MISSING First Line: Seek him, thou sun, in the dread wilderness Last Line: No weeping through that deep repose can break MOLLS First Line: I found them lying on the floor Last Line: Peacockstain's poems on my bed MORNING, SPACE FOR LEDA Last Line: Is blind with tears too frail to taste MY HERO BARES HIS NERVES Poem Text First Line: My hero bares his nerves along my wrist Subject(s): Ghosts MY HERO BARES HIS NERVES First Line: My hero bares his nerves alaong my wrist Last Line: He pulls the chain, the cistern moves MY RIVER First Line: My river, even though it lifts Last Line: And your side is steep MY WORLD IS PYRAMID First Line: Half of the fellow father as he doubles Last Line: Dry in the half-tracked thigh NATURAL DAY AND NIGHT Last Line: Do, down a derry NEARLY SUMMER First Line: Nearly summer, and the devil Last Line: Leaves it among the cigarette ends and the glasses NEOPHYTE, BAPTIZED IN SMILES Last Line: Touched, by a finger's nail, to dust NEVER TO REACH THE OBLIVIOUS DARK Last Line: The jonquil and the trumpet NEW QUAY First Line: Dear tommy, please, from far, sciatic kingsley Last Line: Puts in his penny, generous at last NO MAN BELIEVES First Line: No man believes who, when a star falls shot Last Line: Who does not break and make his final faith NO THOUGHT CAN TROUBLE MY UNWHOLESOME POSE Last Line: Into my exotic composure NO, PIGEON, I'M TOO WISE Last Line: He flies too high NOT FOEVER SHALL THE LORD OF THE RED HAIL Last Line: How soon, how soon, o lord of the red hail NOT FROM THIS ANGER First Line: Not from this anger, anticlimax after Last Line: That burns along my eyes NOW First Line: Now %say nay, %man dry man Last Line: The two-a-vein, the foreskin, and the cloud NOW THE THIRST PARCHES LIP AND TONGUE Last Line: And drown all sorrows in the gross catastrophe O CHATTERTON First Line: O chatterton and others in the attic Last Line: And your home in a centaur's stable O MAKE ME A MASK First Line: O make me a mask and a wall to shut from your spies Last Line: By the curve of the nude mouth or the laugh up the sleeve OAK First Line: Fierce colours fled about the branches Last Line: Beneath the deep bark calls and makes quiet music OF ANY FLOWER First Line: Hourly I sigh Last Line: And shroud-like ON A WEDDING ANNIVERSARY Poem Text First Line: The sky is torn across Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ON A WEDDING ANNIVERSARY First Line: The sky is torn across Last Line: And the doors burn in their brain Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage ON THE MARRIAGE OF A VIRGIN Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Walking alone in a multitude of loves when morning's light Variant Title(s): The Marriage Of A Virgin Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Virginity; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Vestals ON THE MARRIAGE OF A VIRGIN First Line: Walking alone in a multitude of loves when morning's light Last Line: That other sun, the jealous coursing of the unrivalled blood Variant Title(s): The Marriage Of A Virgi Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Virginity ON THE WORDS IN POETRY Poem Text First Line: You want to know why and how I just began to write poetry Last Line: Ephemeral lives dangerous, great, and bearable Subject(s): Language; Men; Words; Vocabulary ON THE WORDS IN POETRY First Line: You want to know why and how I just began to write poetry Last Line: Dangerous, great, and bearable Subject(s): Language; Men ONCE BELOW A TIME Last Line: As quiet as a bone ONCE IT WAS THE COLOUR OF SAYING Last Line: And every stone I wind off like a reel OUR EUNUCH DREAMS Poem Text First Line: Our eunuch dreams, all seedless in the light, Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares OUR EUNUCH DREAMS First Line: Our enuch dreams, all seedless in the light Last Line: Praise to our faring hearts OUR EUNUCH DREAMS First Line: Our eunuch dreams, all seedless in the light Last Line: Praise to our faring hearts OUT OF A WAR OF WITS Poem Text First Line: Out of a war of wits, when folly of words Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary OUT OF THE PIT First Line: Within his head revolved a little world Last Line: From you or me or wind or rat %or this or that OUT OF THE SIGHS First Line: Out of the sighs, a little comes Last Line: Crumbs, barn, and halter OVER SIR JOHN'S HILL Last Line: Stone for the sake of the souls of the slain birds sailing PAPER AND STICKS First Line: Pape and sticks and shovel and match Last Line: You never did and he never did PARACHUTIST First Line: I shall never forget his blue eye Last Line: Still trembling from his fallen angel's flight %down the sky weeping death Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; Spender, Stephen (1909-1995) PILLAR BREAKS First Line: Pillar breaks, and mast is cleft Last Line: Boat's broken, too, and magpie's still; %build, build again PINE First Line: Virgate and sprung of the dusk Last Line: And the motley winds from the seas PLOUGHMAN'S GONE First Line: The ploughman's gone, the hansom driver Last Line: It is the engine under the unaltered sun POEM Poem Text First Line: Your breath was shed Subject(s): Sleep; Breath POEM First Line: Your breath was shed Last Line: And mask the grave POEM First Line: There was a saviour %rarer than radium POEM First Line: On no work of words now for three lean months in the bloody Last Line: If I take to burn or return this world which is each man's work Variant Title(s): On No Work Of Word POEM FOR CAITLIN First Line: I make this in a warring absence when Last Line: Yet this I make in a forgiving presence POEM IN OCTOBER Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: It was my thirtieth year to heaven Subject(s): Birthdays; Youth POEM IN OCTOBER First Line: It was my thirtieth year to heaven Last Line: On this high hill in a year's turning Subject(s): Birthdays; Youth POEM ON HIS BIRTHDAY First Line: In the mustardseed sun Last Line: As I sail out to die POET: 1935 First Line: See, on gravel paths under the harpstrung trees Last Line: The snail tells of coming rain PRAISE TO THE ARCHITECTS Last Line: Lion or louse? Take your own advice; %praise to the architects PROCESS IN THE WEATHER OF THE HEART Last Line: And the heart gives up its dead PROSPECT OF THE SEA, SELS. First Line: Her mouth was an inch from his. Her long fore-fingers Last Line: They're calling me in for tea,' he said. %she lifted her frock to her waist RAIN CUTS THE PLACE WE TREAD, Last Line: And breath on breath of indigo REFUSAL TO MOURN THE DEATH, BY FIRE, OF A CHILD IN LONDON First Line: Never until the mankind making Last Line: After the first death, there is no other Subject(s): Air Warfare; Death - Children; Fire; Innocence; Mourning; World War Ii REQUEST TO LEDA Poem Text First Line: Not your winged lust but his must now change suit Subject(s): Courtship; Love REQUEST TO LEDA First Line: Not your winged lust but his must now change suit Last Line: The worm is (pin-point) rational in the fruit Subject(s): Courtship; Love ROD CAN LIFT ITS TWINING HEAD Last Line: My aptitude for sin SAINT ABOUT TO FALL Last Line: A thundering bullring of your silent and girl-circled island SEE, SAYS THE LIME First Line: See, says the lime, my wicked milks Last Line: Death's death's under SEED-AT-ZERO First Line: The seed-at-zero shall not storm Last Line: Range from the grave-groping place SHALL GODS BE SAID TO THUMP THE CLOUDS Last Line: With tongues that talk all tongues SHILOH'S SEED Poem Text First Line: Shiloh's seed shall not be sewn Subject(s): Birth; Lambs; God; Child Birth; Midwifery SHOULD LANTERNS SHINE First Line: Should lanterns shine, the holy face Last Line: Has not yet reached the ground SHUT, TOO, IN A TOWER OF WORDS, I MARK Last Line: Some let me make you of the water's speeches Subject(s): Environment; Trees SINCE, ON A QUIET NIGHT First Line: Since, on a quiet night, I heard them talk Last Line: Who have no talk but that of death SOMETIMES THE SKY'S TOO BRIGHT Last Line: But do not ache SONG First Line: Love me, not as the dreaming nurses Last Line: Love me and lift your mask SONG OF THE MISCHIEVOUS DOG First Line: There are many who say that a dog has his day Last Line: And if I indulge in a bite at a bulge, %let's hope you won't think me too vicious Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SPIRE CRANES First Line: The spire cranes. Its statue is an aviary Last Line: But do not travel down dumb wind like prodigals SUN BURNS THE MORNING First Line: The sun burns the morning, a bush in the brain Last Line: Once for the virgin's child, once for her own TAKE THE NEEDLES AND THE KNIVES Last Line: Answer: when the green leaves prize her THE ALMANAC OF TIME Poem Text First Line: The almanac of time hangs in the brain Subject(s): Time THE CONVERSATION OF PRAYER Poem Text First Line: The conversation of prayers about to be said Subject(s): Prayer THE FORCE THAT THROUGH THE GREEN FUSE DRIVES THE FLOWER Poem Text Recitation by Author THE HAND THAT SIGNED THE PAPER FELLED A CITY Poem Text Recitation THE HUNCHBACK IN THE PARK Poem Text Recitation THE SONG OF THE MISCHIEVOUS DOG Poem Text First Line: There are many who say that a dog has his day Last Line: And that bees never work in their hives Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Cats; Lobsters; Bees THE SPIRE CRANES Poem Text First Line: The spire cranes. Its statuary is an aviary Last Line: But do not travel down dumb wind like prodigals Subject(s): Spires; Bells; Statutes; Cranes THE TOMBSTONE TOLD WHEN SHE DIED Poem Text Recitation by Author Last Line: And the dear floods of his hair Subject(s): Death THEIR FACES SHONE UNDER SOME RADIANCE Last Line: The suicides parade again, now ripe for dying THEN WAS MY NEOPHYTE Last Line: I saw time murder me THERE WAS A SAVIOUR Poem Text Recitation by Author Last Line: Unclenched, armless, silk and rough love that breaks all rocks Subject(s): God THERE WAS A SAVIOUR Last Line: Unclenched, armless, silk and rough love that breaks all rocks Subject(s): Bible; Religion THERE'S PLENTY IN THE WORLD First Line: There's plenty in the world that doth not die Last Line: And on our lips the dry mouth of the rain THEY ARE ONLY DEAD WHO DO NOT LOVE Poem Text First Line: Embracin' low-falutin' / london Last Line: Touch our only love with badinage Subject(s): Loveless THEY ARE THE ONLY DEAD WHO DID NOT LOVE Last Line: Touching our separate love with badinage THIS BREAD I BREAK WAS ONCE THE OAT Poem Text Last Line: My wine you drink, my bread you snap Subject(s): Life THIS BREAD I BREAK WAS ONCE THE OAT Last Line: My wine you drink, my bread you snap Subject(s): Bible; Religion THIS IS REMEMBERED Poem Text First Line: This is remembered when the hairs fall out Subject(s): Memory; Conduct Of Life THIS SIDE OF THE TRUTH Last Line: Die in unjudging love THROUGH THESE LASHED RINGS First Line: Through these lashed rings set deep inside their hollows Last Line: His awkward heart into some symmetry TIME ENOUGH TO ROT Last Line: For you've a sea to lie TO A SLENDER WIND First Line: Chrysolith thy step Last Line: And is more beautiful than the drift of leaves TO BE ENCOMPASSED BY THE BRILLIANT EARTH Last Line: I touch and break TO FOLLOW THE FOX First Line: To follow the fox at the hounds' tails Last Line: Where more than snails are friends TO OTHERS THAN YOU First Line: Friend by enemy I call you out Last Line: With their heads in a cunning cloud TO THE SPRING-SPIRIT First Line: And when it was spring I said Last Line: We strangely sang among the feathery flowers TODAY, THIS INSECT First Line: Today, this insect, and the world I breathe Last Line: My cross of tales behind the fabulous curtain TOMBSTONE TOLD WHEN SHE DIED Last Line: A blazing red harsh head tear up %and the dear floods of his hair Subject(s): Consolation TOO LONG, SKELETON First Line: Too long, skeleton, death's risen Last Line: Of the moment and the dead hour TRILOET First Line: The bees are glad the livelong day Last Line: For lilacs in their beauty blow TWELVE First Line: That the sum sanity might add to naught Last Line: And the death in a starving image TWENTY-FOUR YEARS REMIND THE TEARS OF MY EYES Poem Text Recitation TWENTY-FOUR YEARS REMIND THE TEARS OF MY EYES Last Line: In the final direction of the elementary town %I advance for as long as forever is Subject(s): Poetry And Poets UNDER MILK WOOD, SELS. UNLUCKILY FOR A DEATH Last Line: And the living earth your sons UPON YOUR HELD-OUT HAND Last Line: I've said my piece VISION AND PRAYER First Line: Who %are you %who is born Last Line: One. The sun roars at the prayer's end VISION AND PRAYER First Line: Who %are you Last Line: One. The sun roars at my prayer's end WALKING IN THE GARDENS First Line: Walking in the gardens by the sides Last Line: To brush upon the waters of the pond WAS THERE A TIME First Line: Was there a time when dancers with their fiddles Last Line: Alone's unhurt, so the blind man sees best WE HAVE THE FAIRY TALES BY HEART Last Line: Fear death as little as the thunder's shot, %the holy hat WE LYING BY SEASAND Poem Text First Line: We lying by seasand, watching yellow Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore WE LYING BY SEASAND First Line: We lying by seasand, watching yellow Last Line: Breaks, o my heart's blood, like a heart and hill Subject(s): Seashore WE SEE RISE THE SECRET WIND First Line: We see rise the secret wind behind the brain Last Line: The cities have not robbed our eyes WE WHO ARE YOUNG ARE OLD' First Line: We who are young are old. It is the oldest cry Last Line: Believe, believe and be saved, we cry, who have no faith WE WILL BE CONSCIOUS OF OUR SANCTITY Last Line: We will be conscious of a great divinity %and a wide sanity WHEN ALL MY FIVE AND COUNTRY SENSES SEE Poem Text Subject(s): Sight; Touch (sense); Taste (sense); Hearing; Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances WHEN ALL MY FIVE AND COUNTRY SENSES SEE Last Line: The heart is sensual, though five eyes break WHEN ALL MY FIVE AND COUNTRY SENSES SEE Last Line: And when blind sleep drops on the spying senses, %the heart is sensual, though five eyes break WHEN I WOKE First Line: When I woke, the town spoke Last Line: And the coins on my eyelids sang like shells WHEN ONCE THE TWILIGHT LOCKS NO LONGER Last Line: And worlds hang on the trees WHEN YOU HAVE GROUND SUCH BEAUTY DOWN TO DUST Last Line: When folly stirred, warm in the foolish heart WHEN YOUR FURIOUS MOTION First Line: When your furious motion is steadied Last Line: Or throw it, stone by stone, %into the sky WHEN, LIKE A RUNNING GRAVE First Line: When, like a running grave, time tracks you down Last Line: Happy cadaver's hunger as your take %the kissproof world WHERE ONCE THE WATERS OF YOUR FACE Last Line: Till all our sea-faiths die WHY EAST WIND CHILLS First Line: Why east wind chills and south wind cools Last Line: And ghostly comets over the raised fists WINTER'S TALE First Line: It is winter's tale Last Line: And she rose with him flowering in her melting snow Subject(s): Faith WITH WINDMILLS TURNING WRONG DIRECTIONS Last Line: Of neophytes take altered roads WOMAN ON TAPESTRY First Line: Her woven hands beckoned me Last Line: And the gestures of unageing love WOMAN SPEAKS First Line: The woman speaks: no food suffices but the food of death Last Line: Tell me of him who feeds the raging birds WRITTEN FOR A PERSONAL EPITAPH Poem Text First Line: Feeding the worm Subject(s): Mothers WRITTEN FOR A PERSONAL EPITAPH First Line: Feeding the worm Last Line: His aim and destination YOU ARE THE RULER OF THIS REALM OF FLESH Last Line: And their rivers of blood turned to ice YOUR PAIN SHALL BE A MUSIC First Line: Your pain shall be a music in your string Last Line: Flesh blood and bone %surrounding me YOUTH CALLS TO AGE First Line: You too have seen the sun a bird of fire Last Line: What you have sought |
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