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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: UNTERMEYER, LOUIS Matches Found: 240 Moore, Virginia Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Untermeyer, Louis, Mrs. 20 poems available by this author AN INVITATION Poem Text First Line: The sun has neatly varnished Last Line: I can't offend the sun! Subject(s): Sun COTTON CHORUS COURAGE First Line: Because I coveted courage FORERUNNER TO RAIN First Line: At five o'clock the fear began Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening GOSSAMER First Line: Because he is more my own I AM UNDONE First Line: I could bear grief, if it were only thorough IN ME THE NATIONS First Line: In me the nations disagree %with that cold fury of the mind Last Line: And heaven and the things that last %what they were fighting for JOAN OF ARC, 1926 First Line: I have no solid horse to share with joan LAST INSTRUCTIONS First Line: When I am dead, and ashes in your hand MUMBLIN' MOTT Poem Text First Line: Delightedly devoid of useless brain Last Line: Who had the sense to be an idiot! Subject(s): Fools; Speech Disorders; Idiots; Stuttering; Muteness PLOVERS Poem Text First Line: Presently I shall go with the plovers Last Line: And stoop to a fallen feather. Subject(s): Plovers RUST First Line: Red rust is on the blade SCROUGE First Line: Love is not velvet of a courteous shade SECRET SUN First Line: Before I saw the fall SLEEP Poem Text First Line: There is quick-sand in sleep, and quick-silver Last Line: In a coffin of temporal sand. . . . Subject(s): Death; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Sleep; Dead, The STATEMENT IN NOVEMBER First Line: Pale yellow leaves of the oak THE DEATH OF A BEAUTIFUL GIRL Poem Text First Line: She was a double gardenia Last Line: A dark brown odor. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Dead, The THREE WINDS First Line: Rise up, three winds. Now you must blow hard TO THE WOMAN I WILL BE FIFTY YEARS HENCE First Line: When I am old and passionless UNCONCERN First Line: Thistles there are, and thwarted thyme Untermeyer, Louis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael 220 poems available by this author A BIRTHDAY Poem Text First Line: Again I come / with my handful of song Last Line: You who have soothed me with passion and roused me with passionate peace. Subject(s): Aging; Birthdays; Happiness; Singing & Singers; Time; Joy; Delight A GLEE FOR FEBRUARY Poem Text First Line: Oh, sing out a song when the nights are long Subject(s): February A HAUNTED GARDEN Poem Text First Line: Between the moss and stone / the lonely lilies rise Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening A MAN Poem Text First Line: I listened to them talking, talking, Subject(s): Fathers A SIDE STREET Poem Text First Line: On the warm sunday afternoons Subject(s): City & Town Life A VOICE FROM THE SWEAT-SHOPS (A HYMN WITH RESPONSES) Poem Text First Line: Praise god from whom all blessings / flow Last Line: When will he make it plain? Subject(s): Revivals; Social Protest; Speech; Voices; Religious Revivals; Oratory; Orators ADVENTURE First Line: The moon said: 'I will show you gardens more lavish than the sun's; Last Line: Trying to perch on the foaming blossoms %of moonlit waves AFFIRMATION Poem Text First Line: As long as vigorous discontent Last Line: Is forging something violent—and great! Subject(s): Faith; Belief; Creed AGAINST TIME First Line: The event stands clear of history ANY CITY Poem Text First Line: Into the staring street / she goes on her nightly round Last Line: The night with its pitiless stars. Subject(s): Cities; Social Problems; Urban Life APOCRYPHAL SOLILOQUIES Poem Text First Line: See the dazzled stripling stand Last Line: Come, old goliath, come and play Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Goliath APOCRYPHAL SOLILOQUIES First Line: See the dazzled stripling stand Last Line: Come, old goliath, come and play! Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Goliath ARCTIC AGRARIAN (SCENE: THE ADIRONDACKS) First Line: Here in these hills the spring comes slow Subject(s): Arctic ARCTIC AGRARIAN (SCENE: THE ADIRONDACKS) First Line: Here in these hills the spring comes slow Last Line: The spring comes slow Subject(s): Arctic ARMISTICE Poem Text First Line: The wintry war is over, and he stands Last Line: Leafless in may. Subject(s): Change; Trees; Veterans; Veterans Day; War ASH WEDNESDAY Poem Text First Line: Shut out the light or let it filter through Subject(s): Ash Wednesday ASH WEDNESDAY First Line: Shut out the light or let it filter through AT KENNEBUNKPORT Poem Text First Line: We sat together at the ocean's edge Last Line: The balm of silence and the strength of love. Subject(s): Memory; Silence AT THE BOTTOM OF THE WELL First Line: Something befell %young adam hope Last Line: Was it truth, or illusion %or adam hope? AUCTION: ANDERSON GALLERIES Poem Text First Line: Lot 65: john keats to fanny brawne Last Line: "sold to this party for nine sixty five." Subject(s): Auctions AUSTIN DOBSON [RECITES A BALLADE BY WAY OF RETORT] First Line: Anna'! Insipid and weak as gruel AUTUMN DIALOGUE Poem Text First Line: No, no', she cries, 'I will not warm my fingers' Last Line: And earth continues to fondle its acre of dust. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall BATTLE HYMN OF THE RUSSIAN REPUBLIC Poem Text First Line: God, give us strength these days Last Line: Trample it with our love! Subject(s): Russia; World War I; Soviet Union; Russians; First World War BATTLE-CRIES Poem Text First Line: Yes, jim hez gone-ye didn't know? Last Line: Sick of his bloody spree. Subject(s): Blood; Fights; Social Problems BEAUTY Poem Text First Line: Beauty shall not lead me Subject(s): Beauty; Love BOOK REVIEW First Line: Finished and flawless BOYS AND TADPOLES First Line: He brought them from the muddy creek BREAD Poem Text First Line: Why has our poetry eschewed Subject(s): Poetry & Poets BURLESQUE RONDO First Line: Cum tu, lydia ... You know the rest BUSINESS OF RAVENS Poem Text First Line: What are these ravens doing in our trees Subject(s): Ravens CAIN First Line: O man that would CALIBAN IN THE COAL MINES Poem Text First Line: God, we don't like to complain Last Line: Fling us a handful of stars! Subject(s): Mines & Miners; Religion; Social Protest; Theology CATALINE, CATO / PERICLES AND PLATO CHALLENGE Poem Text First Line: The quiet and courageous night Last Line: The cold complacency of earth. Subject(s): Religion; Theology CHILD AND HER STATUE Poem Text First Line: Your living glass is this unpolished stone Last Line: Imprisoned in the stone, will still be free. Subject(s): Statues COMPLACENT RONDEAU REDOUBLE First Line: Let others quail and, trembling, force the CONQUEST Poem Text First Line: You have not conquered me, it is the surge Subject(s): Love - Nature Of COUNTRY SCHOOLROOM, ADIRONDACK MOUNTAINS Poem Text First Line: Turn to page ten in your arithmetics' Last Line: As numberless and nameless as their calls. Subject(s): Schools; Students DARK CHAMBER First Line: The brain forgets but the blood will remember Last Line: The music, the silence - these will remain Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of DAUGHTERS OF JEPHTHA Poem Text First Line: Dance! / dance the crumbling world's expanse Last Line: Dance! Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Daughters DAYBREAK Poem Text First Line: Three years of night and nightmare, years of black Last Line: And darkness but a wide and welcome bed. Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise DESIGN FOR A PERFECT WORLD First Line: I said the sun had never burned for you DICK SAID: * (CONCERNING HEAVEN) Poem Text First Line: Well, heaven's hard to understand Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise DICK SAID: * (CONCERNING HEAVEN) First Line: Well, heaven's hard to understand Subject(s): Heaven DISENCHANTMENT First Line: Here is the german DO NOT FEAR, MY LOVE; NO DANGER DOG AT NIGHT First Line: At first he stirs uneasily in sleep DOROTHY DANCES Poem Text First Line: This is no child that dances. This is flame Last Line: It is enough that flesh has danced with flame. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers DOWN-HILL ON A BICYCLE Poem Text First Line: The rolling earth stops Last Line: God, that were life! Subject(s): Climbing; Earth; Life; World DREAM AND THE BLOOD First Line: Go back, dark blood, to the springs from which you came DUE TO BEING OPPOSITE Poem Text First Line: What seemed a litter was a family Subject(s): Death; Cemeteries; Birth; Life; Dead, The; Graveyards; Child Birth; Midwifery EDGAR A. GUEST First Line: It takes a heap o' children to make a home that's true Last Line: That ninety million think the same - including %edgar guest EINSTEIN AMONG THE COFFEE-CUPS First Line: Deflective rhythm under seas EMBARRASSED AMORIST First Line: I cannot choose between them now END OF THE COMEDY Poem Text Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights; Dramatists ENVY Poem Text First Line: The willow and the river / ripple with silver speech Last Line: They murmur each to each. Subject(s): Envy EVE SPEAKS Poem Text First Line: Pause, god, and ponder, ere thou judgest me Last Line: Pause, god, and ponder ere thou judgest me. Subject(s): God; Judgments FAITH Poem Text Subject(s): Faith; Belief; Creed FANTASY Poem Text First Line: A bird ran up the onyx steps of night Last Line: The moon, her white laugh rippling from the stream. Subject(s): Fantasy; Moon FATHER SPEAKS First Line: Our son and heir grows like a tree FEUERZAUBER' First Line: I never knew the earth had so much gold FEURERZAUBER Poem Text Subject(s): Love; Spring; Nature FIFTH AVENUE-SPRING AFTERNOON Poem Text First Line: The world's running over with color Last Line: Rises your face! Subject(s): Fields; Fifth Avenue, New York City; Flowers; Primroses; Spring; Pastures; Meadows; Leas FIVE TREES Poem Text First Line: Five pine trees held up on the nape of a broken hill Last Line: Which are you today? Subject(s): Pine Trees; Trees FOLK-SONG Poem Text First Line: Back she came through the trembling / dusk Last Line: "I loved him so!" Subject(s): Suicide FOOD AND DRINK First Line: Why has our poetry eschewed Subject(s): Food And Eating FOOD FOR THOUGHT, SELS. FREE First Line: And suddenly the touch of flesh FRUSTRATE First Line: I turned to the parlor in panic FUNERAL HYMN Poem Text First Line: When life's gay courage fails at last Last Line: And the great, blue folds of sky! Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Dead, The; Burials GARLAND FOR DEBS First Line: Here, in our easy chairs, we sit GLEE FOR FEBRUARY First Line: Oh, sing out a song when the nights are long Subject(s): February GOD'S YOUTH Poem Text First Line: I often wish that I had been alive Last Line: When god was young and blithe and whimsical. Subject(s): Youth HANDS Poem Text First Line: Strange, how this smooth and supple joint can be Last Line: Curved in a smile. . . . The mystery remains. Subject(s): Hands HAUNTED GARDEN First Line: Between the moss and stone HE GOADS HIMSELF Poem Text First Line: And was it I that hoped to rattle Last Line: Storm -- not escape. Subject(s): Death; Martyrs; Dead, The HEALED Poem Text First Line: The winds like a pack of hounds Last Line: And its face was the face of a mother, and its voice was the voice of a child. Subject(s): Dust; Healing; Storms; Wind; Cures HIGHMOUNT First Line: Hills, you have answered the craving HOME Poem Text First Line: Is it a tribute or betrayal when Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Beauty HOW MUCH OF GODHOOD Poem Text First Line: How much godhood did it take Last Line: Pillow the little weary head. IMPERIAL AIRWAYS First Line: Back above the world Subject(s): Science IN A CAB Poem Text First Line: Rain-and the lights of the city Last Line: The desolate rain. Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Taxis; Travel; Journeys; Trips IN A STRANGE CITY Poem Text First Line: Dusk-and a hunger for your face Last Line: And I am lonelier than ever. Subject(s): Cities; Solitude; Urban Life; Loneliness IN THE BERKSHIRE HILLS Poem Text First Line: How can the village dead remain so / still Last Line: And dance in triumph on my crumbling shroud. Subject(s): Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts; Mountains; Villages; Hills; Downs (great Britain) IN THE STREETS Poem Text First Line: Boy, my boy, it is lonely in the city Last Line: Oh boy—god help her! Subject(s): Grief; Streets; Sorrow; Sadness; Avenues IN THE SUBWAY Poem Text First Line: Chaos is tamed and ordered as we ride Last Line: Reading their papers calmly, leisurely. Subject(s): Chaos; Insanity; Social Protest; Madness; Mental Illness INFIDELITY Poem Text Subject(s): Love - Nature Of INHIBITED Poem Text First Line: I could not pity your pain but I pitied the branches Subject(s): Grief; Pity; Mind, The; Sorrow; Sadness INTERCESSION First Line: Night %take down the moon's keen sickle INVOCATION Poem Text First Line: Listen, my lute, I would turn from your / militant measures Last Line: Stabbing and healing. Subject(s): Military; War IRONY Poem Text First Line: Why are the things that have no death Subject(s): Mortality ISADORA DUNCAN DANCING 'IPHIGENIA IN AULIS' Poem Text First Line: Fling the stones and let them all Last Line: And the dance is ended. Variant Title(s): Isadora Duncan Dancing Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Duncan, Isadora (1878-1927) ISADORA DUNCAN DANCING (CHOPIN) Poem Text First Line: Faint preludings on a flute Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers ISADORA DUNCAN DANCING (CHOPIN) First Line: Faint preludings on a flute Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers ISADORA DUNCAN DANCING (IPHIGENIA IN AULIS): 2 First Line: Rises now the sound of ancient chants Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers ISADORA DUNCAN DANCING (IPHIGENIA IN AULIS): 3 First Line: Cease, oh cease the murmured singing Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers ISADORA DUNCAN DANCING (IPHIGENIA IN AULIS): 4 First Line: Now the tune grows frantic Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers ISHMAEL Poem Text First Line: Again the wanderer starts out Last Line: To save a home he never had. Subject(s): Ishmael (bible) JEWISH LULLABY Poem Text First Line: Husha, o husha Last Line: Will envy my son. Subject(s): Jewish Families; Mothers & Sons JOE-PYEWEED First Line: And the name brings back those kindly hills KOHELETH Poem Text First Line: I waited and worked Subject(s): Religion; Theology LANDSCAPES (FOR CLEMENT R. WOOD) Poem Text First Line: The rain was over, and the brilliant air Last Line: Good god, and what is all this beauty for? Variant Title(s): Landscapes Subject(s): Beauty; God; Nature - Religious Aspects; Vision; Willow Trees LEAVING THE HARBOR Poem Text First Line: At last the great, red sun sank low Last Line: Lay on the shore of heaven. Subject(s): Harbors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Wind; Ocean LONG FEUD Poem Text First Line: Where, without bloodshed, can there be Subject(s): Grass LONG FEUD First Line: Where, without bloodshed, can there be Subject(s): Grass LUGUBRIOUS VILLANELLE OF PLATITUDES First Line: Ah, postumus, my postumus, the years MAGIC Poem Text First Line: We passed old farmer boothby in the field Subject(s): Maine (state); Farm Life; Boats; Landscape; Agriculture; Farmers MAN First Line: I listened to them talking, talking MARRIAGE First Line: I tell you it is over and I mean it MATTER Poem Text First Line: When I was a live man Last Line: Than it is to me. Subject(s): Death; Despair; Dead, The MIDNIGHT-BY THE OPEN WINDOW Poem Text First Line: How rapt the sleeping stillness of the / night Last Line: Roused from the sleepy comfort of his seat. Subject(s): Night; Silence; Sleep; Bedtime MODERN MURSERY First Line: Earth does not lack MONOLOGUE FROM A MATTRESS Poem Text First Line: Can that be you, la mouche? Wait till I lift Last Line: Mouche -- mathilde! . . . Subject(s): Death; Love; Regret; Religion; Revolutions; Sickness; Poetry & Poets; German Literature; Heine, Heinrich (1797-1856); Dead, The; Theology; Illness MORNING BIRD First Line: This is the way of a bird Subject(s): Birds MUMBO JUMBO / CHRISTOPHER COLUMBO NEW ADAM First Line: Her body is that glorious gate NIGHTMARE BY DAY First Line: There was no track NOCTURNE First Line: I cannot read, I cannot rest NUMINY, PIMINY / FRANCESCA DE RIMINI ON THE BIRTH OF A CHILD Poem Text First Line: Lo - to the battle-ground of life Last Line: And into its tumult and pain you go. Subject(s): Birth; Children; Child Birth; Midwifery; Childhood ON THE FIELD OF HONOR' First Line: You always were for sides, your hand ON THE PALISADES First Line: And still we climbed ONLY OF THEE AND ME Poem Text First Line: Only of thee and me the night wind speaks Last Line: Only of thee and me. Subject(s): Love ORIOLE First Line: Suddenly earth grew whole OWEN SEAMAN; ESTABLISHES ENTENE CORDIALE IN MANNER GUY WETMORE CARRYL Poem Text First Line: Of all the mismated pairs ever created Last Line: Is apt to be sauce for the propaganda. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Carryl, Guy Wetmore (1873-1904); Life; Quarrels; Seaman, Owen, Sir (1861-1936); Arguments; Disagreements PASSIONATE AETHETE TO HIS LOVE First Line: Curly-locks, curly-locks, brighten and beam PEACE Poem Text First Line: At peace'? The world has never been at peace Last Line: And peace no slothful, placid mockery. Subject(s): Social Protest; War PILGRIMAGE First Line: Drooping and down at heal, I see them pass Subject(s): Religion PLAZA SQUARE First Line: Now earth and sky melt into one POET BETRAYED First Line: Immortal eyes, why do they never die? POETRY Poem Text First Line: God made the world with rhythm and rime Last Line: The world god made with rhythm and rime. Subject(s): Jews; Poetry & Poets; Judaism PORTRAIT OF A CHILD First Line: Unconscious of amused and tolerant eyes PORTRAIT OF A MACHINE Poem Text First Line: What nudity is beautiful as this Last Line: Become the slave of what his slaves create. Subject(s): Machinery And Machinists; Perfection PORTRAIT OF AN OLD CATHEDRAL Poem Text First Line: What vigor raised those spires; what joyful hand Subject(s): Religion; Theology PORTRAIT OF AN OLD CATHEDRAL First Line: What vigor raised those spires; what joyful hand Subject(s): Religion PRAYER Poem Text Recitation First Line: God, though this life is but a wraith Last Line: God, keep me still unsatisfied. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty PRAYER FOR COURAGE Poem Text First Line: Why should I long for what I know Last Line: The bright conviction of the stars. Subject(s): Faith; Prayer; Belief; Creed PRAYER FOR THIS HOUSE Poem Text First Line: May nothing evil cross this door Last Line: And hold love in. Subject(s): Religion; Theology PRAYER IN CORNWALL Poem Text First Line: Lord, when the mind that is agile Subject(s): Prayer PROTESTS (AFTER A PAINTING BY HUGO BALLIN) Poem Text First Line: Something impelled her from the / hearth Last Line: And all the sudden singing skies! Subject(s): Social Protest PUFF-BALLS First Line: This patch,' they cried, will yield QUESTIONS AT NIGHT First Line: Why %is the sky? Last Line: And why %is the sky? RAPUNZEL Poem Text First Line: Let down your hair Subject(s): Fairy Tales RAPUNZEL First Line: Let down your hair Subject(s): Fairy Tales REBELS Poem Text First Line: Stiff in midsummer green, the stolid hillsides Last Line: "swiftly we live and splendidly we die." Subject(s): Trees REPENTANCE First Line: Now that poor, wayward jane is big with child ...' RETURN TO THE BIRDS Poem Text First Line: When cities prod me with demands Last Line: Gratefully I return to birds Subject(s): Birds; Language RETURN TO THE BIRDS First Line: When cities prod me with demands Subject(s): Birds REVEILLE Poem Text First Line: What sudden bugle calls us in the night Last Line: And answer it -- and go. Subject(s): Patriotism REVELATION Poem Text First Line: September-and an afternoon Last Line: And the heavens, a jubilant chorus, are flushed with the fires of song! Subject(s): Calm; Peace; Silence; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility RHETORIC Poem Text First Line: This is man's noblest edifice. All else Last Line: Beats futile hands on vague, invisible walls. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary RICH RETURN First Line: To give up hope, and find RIKKI-TIKKI-TAVY / SOLOMON AND DAVIE ROAD First Line: Down the long road we went Subject(s): Love ROAST LEVIATHAN Poem Text First Line: Old jews!' well, david, aren't we? Last Line: Jeered at? Well, let them laugh. Subject(s): Angels; Feasts; Fights; God; Jews; Monsters; Judaism ROBERT FROST RELATES THE DEATH OF THE TIRED MAN Poem Text First Line: There were two of us left in the berry patch Last Line: "he never knew 'em. He was just tired,"" he said." Subject(s): Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Poetry & Poets ROMANCE Poem Text First Line: Romance with firm and eager tread Subject(s): Love; Longing ROMANCE First Line: Romance with firm and eager tread ROUND First Line: Worlds, you must tell me SEA-GULL First Line: Strong-winged bird, the one thing free and certain SHIN-LEAF First Line: What drew me first to them was the surprise SIDE STREET First Line: On the warm sunday afternoons SOLDIERS Poem Text First Line: Gay flags flying down the street Last Line: And the screaming fife exults! Subject(s): Protest, Social; Soldiers; War SONG AND FLAME First Line: O god, to be a poet again SONG TOURNAMENT: NEW STYLE Poem Text First Line: Rain, said the first, as it falls in venice Last Line: At the shrine of the poetry contest in kansas. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Tournaments SONGS AND THE POET (FOR SARA TEASDALE) Poem Text First Line: Sing of the rose or of the mire; sing strife Last Line: Grows sweet with peace. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Teasdale, Sara (1884-1933) SPRATT VS. SPRATT First Line: Of all of the gruesome attempts at a twosome SPRING First Line: A yellow raft sails up the bluest stream SPRING ON BROADWAY Poem Text First Line: Make way for spring- / spring that's a stranger in the city Last Line: Make way! Subject(s): Flowers; Seasons; Spring SPRING RING-JINGLE First Line: Fol-de-rol and riddle-ma-ree STEEL MILL Poem Text First Line: The core of him is hate Last Line: War! War! Subject(s): Hate; Mills & Millers; Steel STRIKERS Poem Text First Line: In the mud and scum of things Last Line: Nothing shall keep us dumb! Subject(s): Insanity; Labor Unions; Social Protest; Strikes; Madness; Mental Illness; Labor Disputes; Lockouts SUMMER NIGHT-BROADWAY Poem Text First Line: Night is the city's disease Last Line: Looking for children to sing to. Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Cities; Injustice; Urban Life SUMMONS Poem Text First Line: The eager night and the impetuous winds Last Line: Seeking the lost cause and the brave defeat. Subject(s): Aging; Messengers; Nature - Religious Aspects; Spring; Voices SUNDAY Poem Text First Line: It was sunday-/ eleven in the morning; people were at / church Last Line: It was sunday! Subject(s): Insanity; Marching & Marches; Sabbath; Social Protest; Madness; Mental Illness; Sunday SUNDAY NIGHT Poem Text First Line: Tossing throughout this tense and / nervous night Last Line: Groping, with restless anger, for a prayer. Subject(s): Insomnia; Night; Sleeplessness; Bedtime SWIMMERS Poem Text First Line: I took the crazy short-cut to the bay Last Line: And death, a long and vivid holiday. Subject(s): Death; Swimming & Swimmers; Dead, The; Swimmers TANGENTIAL Poem Text First Line: The eyes of more than tilbury town Last Line: In which another star had risen. Subject(s): Hermits TEN YEARS OLD Poem Text First Line: A city child, rooms are to him no mere Last Line: "richard! Get through! And put your stockings on." Subject(s): Children; Cities; Childhood; Urban Life THANKS Poem Text First Line: Thank god for this bright frailty of life Last Line: Before the winds of joy that speed the suns Subject(s): Thanksgiving THE BELOVED Poem Text First Line: You are my holy city, my beloved Subject(s): Love THE DARK CHAMBER Poem Text First Line: The brain forgets but the blood will remember Last Line: The music, the silence. . . . These will remain Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of THE DYING DECADENT Poem Text First Line: And when the evening came he fell asleep Last Line: Calling on things that he had long forgot. Subject(s): Dreams; Immortality; Sleep; Nightmares THE FLAMING CIRCLE Poem Text First Line: Though for fifteen years you have chaffed me across the table Last Line: This pain of possession that frees and encircles us both? Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE GREAT CAROUSAL Poem Text First Line: Oh, do not think me dead when I Last Line: The rich eternity of death. Subject(s): Happiness; Immortality; Laughter; Soul; Joy; Delight THE HERETIC: 1. BLASPHEMY Poem Text First Line: I do not envy god Last Line: Alone—through all eternity—alone. Subject(s): Heresy; Heretics THE HERETIC: 2. IRONY Poem Text First Line: Why are the things that have no death Last Line: And so he dies. Subject(s): Irony; Mankind; Human Race THE HERETIC: 3. MOCKERY Poem Text First Line: God, I return to you on april days Last Line: For this, o god, my silence -- and my doubt. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THE HERETIC: 4. HUMILITY Poem Text First Line: Oh god, if I have ever been / so filled with ignorance and sin Last Line: A faith that flaunts its very disbelief. Subject(s): Humility THE LAUGHERS Poem Text First Line: Spring! / and her hidden bugles up the street Last Line: Hailing the spring! Subject(s): Spring THE ROAD Poem Text First Line: Down the long road we went Subject(s): Love THE SHELL TO THE PEARL Poem Text First Line: Grow not so fast, glow not so warm Last Line: Cling close, my child. Subject(s): Child Care; Youth; Baby Sitters; Governesses THE STIRRUP-CUP Poem Text First Line: Your eyes - and a thousand stars Last Line: And where is the thing to defeat me! Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery THE VICTORY OF THE BEET-FIELDS Poem Text First Line: Green miles of leafy peace are spread Subject(s): Beets; Rain THE WAVE Poem Text First Line: There was the sea again! The laughing sea Last Line: Sweeping me out of languor back to life. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE WINE OF NIGHT Poem Text First Line: Come,drink the mystic wine of night Last Line: With faith and fire! Subject(s): Despair; Drinks & Drinking; War; Wine THE WISE WOMAN Poem Text First Line: His eyes grow hot, his words grow wild Last Line: Who understands him. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE YOUNG MYSTIC Poem Text First Line: We sat together close and warm Last Line: "I saw him strike a match!" Subject(s): Lightning; Storms; Youth; Lightning Rods TO A GENTLEMAN REFORMER Poem Text First Line: Keep it - your torn and rotting decency Last Line: Of life: so frankly carnal -- and so clean. TO A POMERANIAN PUPPY Poem Text First Line: Often as I strain and stew Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TO A POMERANIAN PUPPY First Line: Often as I strain and stew Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TO A TELEGRAPH POLE First Line: You should be done with blossoming by now TO A WAR POET Poem Text First Line: You sang the battle Subject(s): World War I; First World War TO A WAR POET First Line: You sang the battle Last Line: Why should you stay here to gurgle and stammer %of war? Subject(s): World War I TO ARMS Poem Text First Line: Who can be dull or wrapped in unconcern Last Line: Out of this arrogant and blundering age. Subject(s): Social Problems TRANSFIGURED SWAN First Line: A start Subject(s): Birds; Swans TRIBUTE Poem Text First Line: Never will you let me / tire of leaping passion Last Line: Rough-shod over the world! Subject(s): Love TRIOLET AND BALLADE FROM 'THE HEAVEN ABOVE STORYSENDE' First Line: Then up spoke the last and youngest leader TWO FUNERALS: 1. Poem Text First Line: Upon a field of shrieking red Last Line: Began to grin. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Dead, The; Burials TWO FUNERALS: 2. Poem Text First Line: Facing a cold and sneering sky Last Line: Are laughing still. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Death; Funerals; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Dead, The; Burials UNREASONING HEART First Line: Here in a world whose heaven is powder-white VOICES Poem Text First Line: All day with anxious heart and wondering ear Last Line: The speech and music of immortal things. Subject(s): Country Life WATERS OF BABYLON Poem Text First Line: What presses about us here in the evening Last Line: Let the night be. Close the window, beloved. . . . Come here. Subject(s): Love; Religion; Theology WINDOW First Line: He knew that he was dying WOODPECKER First Line: In the world there were but two Subject(s): Birds; Woodpeckers WORDS FOR A JIG First Line: Thus I pay the visit YET NOTHING LESS First Line: This is the top. Here we can only go YOU Poem Text First Line: Is this your body that my fingers touch? Last Line: And my white dream of peace. Subject(s): Beauty; Love YOU SAID Poem Text First Line: You said, 'I will put a glowing armor about you' Last Line: Keep your answer awhile . . . Yet awhile . . . I am coming to you. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of YOUR LETTER DOES NOT MOVE ME |
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