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Author: WILBUR, RICHARD Matches Found: 537 Wilbur, Richard Poet's Biography 537 poems available by this author 5-APR-74 First Line: The air was soft, the ground still cold Last Line: Flowers, I said, will come of it A BAROQUE WALL-FOUNTAIN IN THE VILLA SCIARRA Poem Text First Line: Under the bronze crown / too big for the head of the stone cherub whose feet Subject(s): Art & Artists; Fountains; Rome, Italy A BARRED OWL Poem Text Recitation First Line: The warping night air having brought the boom Subject(s): Owls; Fear A BLACK NOVEMBER TURKEY Poem Text First Line: Nine white chickens come Last Line: Acclaim the sun Subject(s): Birds A CHRISTMAS HYMN Poem Text First Line: A stable-lamp is lighted Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Holidays; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology A CHRONIC CONDITION Poem Text First Line: Berkeley did not foresee such misty weather Subject(s): Fear; Landscape; Weather A COURTYARD THAW Poem Text First Line: The sun was strong enough today Subject(s): Winter; Weather A DUBIOUS NIGHT Poem Text First Line: A bell diphthonging in an atmosphere Last Line: I weary of the confidence of god Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology A FABLE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Securely sunning in a forest glade Subject(s): Social Commentaries A FEW DIFFERENCES: 3 Poem Text First Line: You don't confuse a cake of soap Last Line: Caused by a stomach full of bubbles Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms A FEW DIFFERENCES: 5 Poem Text First Line: In what way do your two lips differ? Last Line: When there's a need to sulk and pout Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms A FEW DIFFERENCES: 6 Poem Text First Line: The kindly barber trims your nape Last Line: And shake you, and be pretty rough Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms A FEW DIFFERENCES: 7 First Line: A jester differs from a dunce Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms A LATE AUBADE Poem Text First Line: You could be sitting now in a carrel Last Line: Ruddy-skinned pears Subject(s): Sex A MEASURING WORM Poem Text First Line: This yellow striped green Subject(s): Caterpillars A MILTONIC SONNET FOR MR. JOHNSON .. REFUSAL OF PETER HURD'S Poem Text First Line: Heir to the office of a man not dead Last Line: Who talk of vision but are weak of sight Subject(s): Hate A PASTURE POEM Poem Text First Line: This upstart thistle Subject(s): Landscape A PLAIN SONG FOR COMADRE Poem Text First Line: Though the unseen may vanish, though insight fails Subject(s): Time A SIMPLIFICATION Poem Text First Line: Those great rough ranters, branns Last Line: Maggot off a dead beetle Subject(s): Bryan, William Jennings (1860-1925); Religion; Speech; Theology; Oratory; Orators A STORM IN APRIL Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Some winters, taking leave Last Line: And through chill air the puffs of milkweed hover Subject(s): Storms A WALL IN THE WOODS: CUMMINGTON Poem Text First Line: What is it for, now that dividing neither Subject(s): Nature A WEDDING TOAST Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: St. John tells how, at cana's wedding-feast Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Religion; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology A WORLD WITHOUT OBJECTS IS A SENSIBLE EMPTINESS Poem Text First Line: The tall camels of the spirit Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology ADVICE FROM THE MUSE Poem Text First Line: How credible, the room which you evoke ADVICE TO A PROPHET Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: When you come, as you soon must, to the streets of our city Last Line: When the bronze annals of the oak-tree close. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Christianity; Environment; Judgment Day; Messiah; Nuclear War; Religion; Sea Monsters; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb; Theology; S AFTER THE LAST BULLETINS Poem Text First Line: After the last bulletins the windows darken Subject(s): Newspapers; Journalism; Journalists AFTER THE LAST BULLETINS First Line: After the last bulletins the windows darken Last Line: With confident morning sound %the songbirds in the public boughs Subject(s): Newspapers AGENT First Line: Behind his back, the first wave passes over Last Line: He shrinks against a trunk and waits to see ALATUS Poem Text First Line: Their supply lines cut Last Line: Toward the hid pulse of things, its / winged skeleton Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Autumn; Theology ALATUS First Line: Their supply lines cut Last Line: Toward the hid pulse of things, its %winged skeleton Subject(s): Christianity; Religion ALL THESE BIRDS Poem Text First Line: Agreed that all these birds Subject(s): Birds ALL THESE BIRDS First Line: Agreed that all these birds Last Line: Come, stranger, sister, dove: %put on the reins of love Subject(s): Birds ALTITUDES Poem Text First Line: Look up into the dome: / it is a great salon, a brilliant place Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) ALTITUDES First Line: Look up into the dome: %it is a great salon, a brilliant place Last Line: To pace abut his garden, lost in thought Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) ANOTHER VOICE Poem Text First Line: The sword bites for peace Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology ANOTHER VOICE First Line: The sword bites for peace Subject(s): Christianity; Religion APOLOGY Poem Text First Line: A word sticks in the wind's throat Last Line: Wind's word, apple-heart, haven of grasses Subject(s): Poetry & Poets APOLOGY First Line: A word sticks in the wind's throat Last Line: Softly, forgive me love if also I call you %wind's word, ap ple-heart, haven of grasses Subject(s): Poetry And Poets APRIL 5, 1974 Poem Text First Line: The air was soft, the ground still cold. Subject(s): Winter; Spring ASPEN AND THE STREAM First Line: Beholding element, in whose pure eye Last Line: Even if that blind groping but achieves %a darker head, a few more aspen leaves Subject(s): Aspen Trees; Brooks; Trees AT BREAKFAST TIME, THE USEFUL LETTER T Last Line: Preserves us all from eating shredded whea Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Alphabets AT MOORDITCH First Line: Now,' said the voice of lock and window-bar Last Line: Till the heart's crayon spangle and fulfill it ATTENTION MAKES INFINITY First Line: The kingdom of air, of lightly looming air BALLADE FOR THE DUKE OF ORLEANS Poem Text First Line: Flailed from the heart of water in a bow Last Line: I die of thirst, here at the fountain-side Subject(s): Poetry & Poets BALLADE FOR THE DUKE OF ORLEANS First Line: Flailed from the heart of water in a bow Last Line: We die of thirst, here at the fountain-side Subject(s): Poetry And Poets BAROQUE WALL-FOUNTAIN IN THE VILLA SCIARRA First Line: Under the bronze crown %too big for the head of the stone cherub whose feet Last Line: Toward which all hungers leap, all pleasures pass Subject(s): Art And Artists; Fountains; Rome, Italy BEACON First Line: Founded on rock and facing the night-fouled sea Subject(s): Christianity; Religion BEASTS Poem Text First Line: Beasts in their major freedom Subject(s): Animals BEASTS First Line: Beasts in their major freedom Last Line: Navies fed to the fish in the dark %unbridled waters Subject(s): Animals BEAUTIFUL CHANGES First Line: One wading a fall meadow finds on all sides Last Line: For a moment all that it touches back to wonder BECAUSE THEY'RE ALWAYS BUZZING, HONEY BEES Last Line: Would I give up such things as sleep and honey Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Alphabets BELL SPEECH First Line: The selfsame toothless voice for death or bridal Last Line: Still gather to a language without flaw %our loves, and all the hours of our death BEOWULF Poem Text First Line: The land was overmuch like scenery Subject(s): Beowulf BEOWULF First Line: The land was overmuch like scenery Last Line: Singing of him what they could not understand Subject(s): Beowulf BIRTH OF A VERSE FORM: FOR LEWIS TURCO First Line: Dear lew %all hail to you Last Line: Might manage to. %adieu BLACK BIRCH IN WINTER First Line: You might not know this old tree by its bark BLACK NOVEMBER TURKEY First Line: Nine white chickens come Last Line: Dawn after mortal dawn, with vulgar joy %acclaim the sun Subject(s): Birds BLACKBERRIES FOR AMELIA Poem Text First Line: Fringing the woods, the stone walls, and the lanes, Subject(s): Blackberries; Grandchildren; Grandsons; Granddaughters BLACKBERRIES FOR AMELIA First Line: Fringing the woods, the stone walls, and the lanes Last Line: And a grandchild to talk with while we pick BOY AT THE WINDOW Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Seeing the snowman standing all alone Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Snowmen BOY AT THE WINDOW First Line: Seeing the snowman standing all alone Last Line: Such warmth, such light, such love, and so much fear Subject(s): Fathers; Men; Prayer C MINOR First Line: Beethoven during breakfast? The human soul CASERTA GARDEN First Line: Their garden has a silent tall stone wall Last Line: There is no resting where it rots and thrives CASTLES AND DISTANCES Poem Text First Line: From blackhearted water colder Subject(s): Walruses; Hunting; Courts & Courtiers; Hunters; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens CASTLES AND DISTANCES First Line: From blackhearted water colder CATCH First Line: From the dress-box's plashing tissue CEREMONY Poem Text First Line: A striped blouse in a clearing by bazille Subject(s): Bazille, Jean Frederic (1841-1870); Paintings & Painters; Women CEREMONY First Line: A striped blouse in a clearing by bazille Last Line: I think there are most tigers in the wood Subject(s): Bazille, Jean Frederic (1841-1870); Paintings And Painters; Women CHILDREN OF DARKNESS First Line: If groves are choirs and sanctuaried fanes CHRISTMAS HYMN First Line: A stable-lamp is lighted Last Line: By whose descent among us %the worlds are reconciled Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Holidays; Religion CHRONIC CONDITION First Line: Berkeley did not foresee such misty weather CIGALES First Line: You know those windless summer evenings, swollen to stasis Last Line: Cigales cannot hear Variant Title(s): Cicada CLEARNESS First Line: There is a poignancy in all things clear COMPLAINT First Line: Why is it that whenever I talk with the duchess CONJURATION First Line: Backtrack of sea, the baywater goes; flats COTTAGE STREET, 1953 Poem Text First Line: Framed in her phoenix fire-screen, edna ward Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963) COTTAGE STREET, 1953 First Line: Framed in her phoenix fire-screen, edna ward Last Line: To state at last her brilliant negative %in poems free and helpless and unjust Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963) COURTYARD THAW First Line: The sun was strong enough today DEATH OF A TOAD First Line: A toad the power mower caught Last Line: To watch, across the castrate lawn, %the haggard daylight steer Subject(s): Toads DIGGING FOR CHINA Poem Text First Line: Far enough down is china,' somebody said. Subject(s): China DIGGING FOR CHINA First Line: Far enough down is china, somebody said Last Line: All that I saw was china, china, china DIGRESSION First Line: Having confided to the heavy-lipped Last Line: To ponder what the world's confusion meant %when he regardd it without intent DRIFTWOOD Poem Text First Line: In greenwoods once these relics must have known Last Line: Ingenerate grain Subject(s): Driftwood DRIFTWOOD First Line: In greenwoods once these relics must have known Subject(s): Driftwood DUBIOUS NIGHT First Line: A bell diphthonging in an atmosphere Subject(s): Christianity; Religion DUTCH COURTYARD First Line: What wholly blameless fun ECCLESIASTES 11:1 Poem Text First Line: We must cast our bread EIGHT RIDDLES FROM SYMPHOSIUS First Line: Hung from a foot, I walk upon my head EIGHTIETH-BIRTHDAY BALLADE FOR ANTHONY HECHT First Line: Who is the man whose poems dare Last Line: The incomparable tony hecht ELSEWHERE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The delectable names of harsh places Subject(s): Names; Space & Space Travel; Outer Space; Fourth Dimension EPISTEMOLOGY Poem Text First Line: Kick at the rock, sam johnson, break your bones Subject(s): Religion; Theology EPISTEMOLOGY First Line: Kick at the rock, sam johnson, break your bones Last Line: We whisper in her ear, 'you are not true' Subject(s): Religion EVENT First Line: As if a cast of grain leapt back to the hand EXEUNT Poem Text First Line: Piecemeal the summer dies; / at the field's edge a daisy lives alone Last Line: Crawls from the dry grass Subject(s): Poetry & Poets EXEUNT First Line: Piecemeal the summer dies; %at the field's edge a daisy lives alone Last Line: The field has droned the summer's final mass; %a cricket like a dwindled hearse %crawls from the dry Subject(s): Poetry And Poets EYE EYE (PART II) First Line: One morning in st. Thomas, when I tried Subject(s): Physical Disabilities FALL IN CORRALES First Line: Winter will be feasts and fires in the shut houses Last Line: Stand in the wind and, bowing to this time, %practise the candor of our bones FERN-BEDS IN HAMPSHIRE COUNTY First Line: Although from them steep stands of beech and sugar-maple stem FEW DIFFERENCES: 3 First Line: You don't confuse a cake of soap Last Line: With angel food or gingerbread Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms FEW DIFFERENCES: 5 First Line: In what way do your two lips differ? Last Line: When there's a need to sulk and pout Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms FEW DIFFERENCES: 6 First Line: The kindly barber trims your nape Last Line: And shake you, and be pretty rough Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms FEW DIFFERENCES: 7 First Line: A jester differs from a dunce Last Line: But one of them is bright, perhaps Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms FINISHED MAN First Line: Of the four louts who threw him off the dock Last Line: If money talks, he may be perfect yet FIRE-TRUCK First Line: Right down the shocked street with a siren-blast Last Line: Your phoenix-red simplicity, enshrined %in that not extinguished fire FIRST SNOW IN ALSACE Poem Text First Line: The snow came down last night like moths Subject(s): Alsace, France; World War Ii; Second World War FIRST SNOW IN ALSACE First Line: The snow came down last night like moths Last Line: He was the first to see the snow Subject(s): Alsace, France; World War Ii FIVE WOMEN BATHING IN MOONLIGHT Poem Text First Line: When night believes itself alone Last Line: The soft compulsions of their dance Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Women FIVE WOMEN BATHING IN MOONLIGHT First Line: When night believes itself alone Last Line: The soft compulsions of their dance Subject(s): Baths And Bathing; Women FLIPPANCIES First Line: While you're a white-hot youth, emit the rays Variant Title(s): The Star Syste FLUMEN TENEBRARUM First Line: This night's colossal quiet, in heaven crowned Last Line: And with their lover swept away, and tossed %in scintillant embrace FLYING Poem Text First Line: Treetops are not so high Subject(s): Flying FOLK TUNE First Line: When bunyan swung his whopping axe Last Line: I hear him driving all night long %to beat the leisured snarling drill FOR C. Poem Text First Line: After the clash of elevator gates Last Line: Like a rose window or the firmament Subject(s): Love FOR C. First Line: After the clash of elevator gates Last Line: Like a rose window or the firmament Subject(s): Love FOR DUDLEY First Line: Even when death has taken FOR ELLEN First Line: On eyes embarked for sleep the only light FOR K.R. ON HER SIXTIETH BIRTHDAY Poem Text First Line: Blow out the candles of your cake Last Line: Blow out the candles of your cake Subject(s): Birthdays FOR K.R. ON HER SIXTIETH BIRTHDAY First Line: Blow out the candles of your cake Last Line: You whet your wings till dawn shall break: %blow out the candles of your cake Subject(s): Birthdays FOR THE NEW RAILWAY STATION IN ROME First Line: Those who said god is praised FOR THE STUDENT STRIKERS First Line: Go talk with those who are rumored to be unlike you Last Line: Even for the gray wife of your nightmare sheriff %and the guardsman's son FOURTH OF JULY First Line: Liddell, the oxford lexicographer Subject(s): Liddell, Henry George (1811-1898) FROM THE LOOKOUT ROCK First Line: Oh wind I hear you faltering GAMBLER First Line: Full of a cold excitement, he betrays Last Line: Doting, divine, and cold to all but him Subject(s): Gambling GAME TWO First Line: From barren coldness birds GAMES ONE First Line: The asterisk says look below, as a star GEMINI Poem Text First Line: Because poor puer's both unsure and vain Subject(s): Friends; Enemies; Faith; Belief; Creed GEMINI First Line: Because poor puer's both unsure and vain GIACOMETTI First Line: Rock insults us, hard and so boldly browed GIAOUR AND THE PACHA First Line: The pacha sank at last upon his knee GIFTS First Line: If you speak to me, some night GLANCE FROM THE BRIDGE First Line: Letting the eye descend from seeking stack GLITTER AND BE GAY Poem Text Subject(s): Jewelry; Happiness; Shame; Joy; Delight GNOMONS Poem Text First Line: In april, thirteen centuries ago, Subject(s): Time; Bede, Saint. The Venerable (673-735); Christianity GNOMONS First Line: In april, thirteen centuries ago GOOD SERVANT First Line: Its piers less black for sunny smiles above GRACE First Line: So active they seem passive, little sheep GRASSE: THE OLIVE TREES First Line: Here luxury's the common lot. The light Last Line: And whose great thirst, exceeding all excess, %teaches the south it is not paradise GRASSHOPPER First Line: But for a brief %moment, a poised minute Last Line: Peaceful now that its peace %lay busily hid H CAN BE TOO SCARED TO SPEAK, ALMOST Last Line: Or hallelujah! Or hip, hip, hurray! Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Alphabets HAIKU First Line: Nice guy is a man Last Line: Without abandon HAIL, LETTER F! IF IT WERE NOT FOR YOU Last Line: That it would help to keep the water out Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Alphabets HAMLEN BROOK Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: At the alder-darkened brink Subject(s): Streams; Fish & Fishing; Anglers HAMLEN BROOK First Line: At the alder-darkened brink Last Line: Nothing can satisfy HE WAS Poem Text First Line: A brown old man with a green thumb Last Line: Rose in the sparrow air Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers HE WAS First Line: A brown old man with a green thumb Subject(s): Labor And Laborers HOLE IN THE FLOOR; FOR RENE MAGRITTE First Line: The carpenter's made a hole Last Line: Inflaming the damask love-seat %and the whole dangerous room HOW STRANGE THAT THE BANANA'S SLIPPERY PEEL Last Line: Profound enough to think about a lot Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Alphabets ICONS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: They are one answer to the human need Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Famous People IF D DID NOT EXIST, SOME CREATURES MIGHT Last Line: Would rather be extinct than be an uck Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Alphabets IF G DID NOT EXIST, THE COLOR GREEN Last Line: We would turn green at such a sight, I think Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Alphabets IF THERE WERE NO SUCH THING AS C Last Line: See hipmunks gathering winter food Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Alphabets IF, ALL AT ONCE, THERE WERE NO LETTER J Last Line: I think that I would miss them, wouldn't you? Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Alphabets IN A BIRD SANCTUARY Poem Text First Line: Because they could not give it too much ground Last Line: What's all about Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation IN A BIRD SANCTUARY First Line: Because they could not give it too much ground Last Line: On routine visions; we must figure out %what all's about Subject(s): Environment IN A CHURCHYARD Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: That flower unseen, that gem of purest ray Last Line: These unseen gravestones, and the darker dead Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology IN A CHURCHYARD First Line: That flower unseen, that gem of purest ray Subject(s): Christianity; Religion IN LIMBO First Line: What rattles in the dark? The blinds at brewster? IN THE ELEGY SEASON First Line: Haze, char, and the weather of all souls' Last Line: Of green leaves building into the light %and azure water hoisting out of wells IN THE FIELD First Line: This field-grass brushed our legs Last Line: And is ourselves, and is the one %unbounded thing we know IN THE SMOKING-CAR Poem Text First Line: The eyelids meet. He'll catch a little nap Last Line: Failure, the longed-for valley, takes him in Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains IN THE SMOKING-CAR First Line: The eyelids meet. He'll catch a little nap Last Line: Failure, the longed-for valley, takes him in Subject(s): Railroads IN THE WORD DUMB, THE LETTER B IS MUTE Last Line: There'd be no big or little leagues at all Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Alphabets IN TRACKLESS WOODS Poem Text First Line: In trackless woods, it puzzled me to find Subject(s): Maple Trees IN TRACKLESS WOODS First Line: In trackless woods, it puzzled me to find Last Line: Not subject to our stiff geometries IS K UNNECESSARY? 'HEAVENS, NO! Last Line: The kayak, would be scuttled fore and aft.' Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Alphabets IT WOULD BE BITTER, IF THERE WERE NO L Last Line: If lollilpops no longer could be had Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Alphabets JOHN CHAPMAN First Line: Beside the brokenstraw or licking creek JOHN CHRYSOSTOM First Line: He who had gone a beast JUGGLER Poem Text Recitation First Line: A ball will bounce, but less and less Subject(s): Christianity; Jugglers; Religion; Theology JUGGLER First Line: A ball will bounce, but less and less Last Line: For him we batter our hands %who has won for once over the world's weight Subject(s): Christianity; Jugglers; Religion JUNE LIGHT Poem Text First Line: Your voice, with clear location of june days Subject(s): Love JUNE LIGHT First Line: Your voice, with clear location of june days JUNK Poem Text First Line: An axe angles from my neighbor's ashcan Subject(s): Decay; Junk & Junkyards; Labor & Laborers; Rot; Decadence; Work; Workers JUNK First Line: An axe angles from my neighbor's ashcan Last Line: And wayland's work is worn away Subject(s): Decay; Junk And Junkyards; Labor And Laborers L'ETOILE First Line: A rushing music, seizing on her dance LA ROSE DES VENTS First Line: The hardest headlands Last Line: And tend the true, the mortal flower LACKING THE LETTER Y, I GUESS Last Line: Fudge cake, and everything that's nice? Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Alphabets LAMARCK ELABORATED Poem Text First Line: The greeks were wrong who said our eyes have rays Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation LAMARCK ELABORATED First Line: The greeks were wrong who said our eyes have rays LAMENT First Line: Nashe's old queens who bartered young and fair LATE AUBADE First Line: You could be sitting now in a carrel Last Line: And some blue cheese, and crackers, and some fine %ruddy-skinned pears Subject(s): Sex LEAVING Poem Text First Line: As we left the garden-party Subject(s): Parties LETTER X WILL NEVER DISAPPEAR Last Line: Of puzzled pirates digging everywhere Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Alphabets LIGHTNESS First Line: A birdnest built on the palm of the high LILACS First Line: Those laden lilacs at the lawn's end LOOKING INTO HISTORY Poem Text Subject(s): History; Wars; Historians LOOKING INTO HISTORY First Line: Five soldiers fixed by mathew brady's eye Last Line: Its live formality LORDLY ELEPHANT IS ONE WHOM WE Last Line: That that's a thing he never would forget Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Alphabets LOVE CALLS US TO THE THINGS OF THIS WORLD Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The eyes open to a cry of pulleys Subject(s): Christianity; Laundry & Laundering; Love; Mourning; Religion; Soul; Bereavement; Theology LOVE CALLS US TO THE THINGS OF THIS WORLD First Line: The eyes open to a cry of pulleys Last Line: Of dark habits, %keeping their difficult balance Subject(s): Christianity; Laundry And Laundering; Love; Mourning; Religion; Soul LOVES OF THE PUPPETS Poem Text First Line: Meeting when all the world was in the bud Last Line: Anc made the birds explode for miles around Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology LOVES OF THE PUPPETS First Line: Meeting when all the world was in the bud Subject(s): Christianity; Religion LYING Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: To claim, at a dead party, to have spotted a grackle LYING First Line: To claim, at a dead party, to have spotted a grackle Last Line: Was faithful unto death, and shamed the devil M IS A LETTER, BUT IT ALTERNATES Last Line: Mince pie, marshmallows, and a thousand years Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Alphabets MARCH First Line: Beech leaves which might have clung MARCHE AUX OISEAUX Poem Text First Line: Hundreds of birds are singing in the square Last Line: And we’ll provide the water and the seed Subject(s): Birds MARCHE AUX OISEAUX First Line: Hundreds of birds are singing in the square Last Line: And we'll provide the water and the seed Subject(s): Birds MARGINALIA Poem Text First Line: Things concentrate at the edges; the pond-surface MARGINALIA First Line: Things concentrate at the edges; the pond-surface Last Line: Plying our trades, in hopes of a good drowning MATTHEW VIII, 28 FF Poem Text First Line: Rabbi, we gadarenes Last Line: We had rather you shoved off Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology MATTHEW VIII, 28 FF First Line: Rabbi, we gadarenes Last Line: We had rather you shoved off Subject(s): Christianity; Religion MAYFLIES Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: In sombre forest, when the sun was low Subject(s): Flies; Nature MAYFLIES First Line: In sombre forest, when the sun was low Last Line: How fair the fiats of the caller are Subject(s): Flies; Nature MECHANIST First Line: Advancing with a self-denying gaze MELONGENE First Line: Our uncrowned kings have no such regal rind MERLIN ENTHRALLED Poem Text First Line: In a while they rose and went out aimlessly riding Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Merlin; Arthur, King MERLIN ENTHRALLED First Line: In a while they rose and went out aimlessly riding Last Line: Their mail grew quainter as they clogged along. %the sky became a still and woven blue Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Merlin MILL First Line: The spoiling daylight inched along the bar-top Last Line: All that I can be sure of is the mill-wheel %it turns and turns in my mind, over and over Subject(s): Memory; Poetry And Poets MILTONIC SONNET FOR MR. JOHNSON .. REFUSAL OF PETER HURD'S First Line: Heir to the office of a man not dead Last Line: Wait, sir, and see how time will render you, %who talk of vision but are weak of sight Subject(s): Hate MIND Poem Text First Line: Mind in its purest play is like some bat Subject(s): Animals; Bats MIND First Line: Mind in its purest play is like some bat Last Line: A graceful error may correct the cave Subject(s): Animals; Bats MIND-READER First Line: Some things are truly lost. Think of a sun-hat Last Line: One more, perhaps - %a mezzo-litro. Grazie, professore Subject(s): Religion MINED COUNTRY Poem Text First Line: They have gone into the gray hills quilled with birches Last Line: Sure the whole world's wild Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War MINED COUNTRY First Line: They have gone into the gray hills quilled with birches Last Line: Love in some manner restored; to be %sure the whole world's wild Subject(s): World War Ii MORE OPPOSITES: 1 Poem Text First Line: The opposite of duck is drake Last Line: Of duck, of course, is getting hit Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 1 First Line: The opposite of duck is drake Last Line: Of duck, of course, is getting hit Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 10 Poem Text First Line: The opposite of 'gee!' is some Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 10 First Line: The opposite of 'gee!' is some Last Line: Don't interrupt me, please. Gee whiz! Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 11 Poem Text First Line: The opposite of kite, I'd say Last Line: (if you can work the blasted thing) Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 11 First Line: The opposite of kite, I'd say Last Line: (if you can work the blasted thing Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 12 Poem Text First Line: When ships send out an s.O.S. Last Line: It means that things could not be finer Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 12 First Line: When ships send out an s.O.S. Last Line: It means that things could not be finer Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 13 Poem Text First Line: When some poor thirsty nomad sees Last Line: A sandy islet in the sea Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 13 First Line: When some poor thirsty nomad sees Last Line: A sandy islet in the sea Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 14 Poem Text First Line: The opposite of robber? Come Last Line: Posite of robber is a cop Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 14 First Line: The opposite of robber? Come Last Line: Posite of robber is a cop Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 15 Poem Text First Line: The opposite of less is more Last Line: Try to be temperate, more or less Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 15 First Line: The opposite of less is more Last Line: Try to be temperate, more or less Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 16 Poem Text First Line: An echo's opposite is the cry Last Line: It won't until; it hears from you Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 16 First Line: An echo's opposite is the cry Last Line: It won't until it hears from you Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 17 First Line: What is the opposite of root? Last Line: (such happenings are very rare Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 18 First Line: A dragon is a winged snake Last Line: A golden egg (or so they say Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 19 First Line: The opposite of stunt? You're right! Last Line: Or merely lying on the grass Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 2 First Line: The opposite of doctor? Well Last Line: It's anyone who makes you sick Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 20 Poem Text First Line: The opposite of so-and-so Last Line: You so-and-so! I want that back! Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 20 First Line: The opposite of so-and-so Last Line: You so-and-so! I want that back!' Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 21 Poem Text First Line: The opposite of punch, I think Last Line: I'm getting punchy. That will do Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 21 First Line: The opposite of punch, I think Last Line: I'm getting punchy. That will do Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 22 Poem Text First Line: A spell is something you are under Last Line: And things are only fairly creepy Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 22 First Line: A spell is something you are under Last Line: And other horribel mistaiks Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 23 Poem Text First Line: The opposite of hot, we know Last Line: Since all those things are not so hot Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 23 First Line: The opposite of hot, we know Last Line: Since all those things are not so hot Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 24 First Line: The opposite of moth? It's moth! Last Line: As well as dresses, coats, and hats Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 25 First Line: The opposite of top, in case Last Line: Since none of those is fun to spin Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 26 First Line: When you are playing on a harp Last Line: A soda should be full of fizz Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 27 Poem Text First Line: Gray is the opposite of blue Last Line: And so its opposite is cheerful Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 27 First Line: Gray is the opposite of blue Last Line: And so its opposite is cheerful Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 28 First Line: What is the opposite of chew? Last Line: If you were seen to have a cud Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 29 First Line: What is the opposite of a u? Last Line: May have no opposite at all Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 3 Poem Text First Line: What is the opposite of baby? Last Line: The answer is grown-up. Maybe Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 3 First Line: What is the opposite of baby? Last Line: The answer is a grown-up, maybe Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 30 First Line: I wonder if you've ever seen a Last Line: A wild beast laughing uncontrollably! Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 31 First Line: The opposite of pluck, my dear Last Line: Of adding feathers to a bird Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 32 Poem Text First Line: The opposite of sound? Well, that's Last Line: Or banging powder puffs together Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 32 First Line: The opposite of sound? Well, that's Last Line: Or banging powder puffs together Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 33 Poem Text First Line: What is the opposite of missouri? Last Line: In massachusetts, anyway Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms; United States MORE OPPOSITES: 33 First Line: What is the opposite of missouri? Last Line: In massachusetts, anyway Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 34 First Line: The opposite of stop is go Last Line: I'll stop. And go. Farewell, my friend Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 4 Poem Text Recitation First Line: What is the opposite of pillow? Last Line: Or else we'll have a pillow fight Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 4 First Line: What is the opposite of pillow? Last Line: Or else we'll have a pillow fight Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 5 Poem Text First Line: The opposite of tar is rat Last Line: And bring the vessel into port Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 5 First Line: The opposite of tar is rat Last Line: And bring the vessel into port Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 6 First Line: The opposite of sheep, I think Last Line: To let you know it knows you're there Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 7 First Line: How often travelers who mean Last Line: Or you may draw a curious crowd Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 8 Poem Text First Line: An omen is a sign of some Last Line: And the cat looks a little fatter Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 8 First Line: An omen is a sign of some Last Line: And the cat looks a little fatter Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 9 Poem Text First Line: What is the opposite of road? Last Line: Because you are already there Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms; Roads MORE OPPOSITES: 9 First Line: What is the opposite of road? Last Line: Because you are already there Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MUSEUM PIECE Poem Text Recitation First Line: The good gray guardians of art Subject(s): Paintings & Painters MUSEUM PIECE First Line: The good gray guardians of art Last Line: To hang his pants on while he slept Subject(s): Paintings And Painters MY FATHER PAINTS THE SUMMER First Line: A smoky rain riddles the ocean plains Last Line: Riding the palest days %its perfect blaze NEXT DOOR First Line: The home for the aged opens its windows in may NO N? IN SUCH A STATE OF THINGS Last Line: For us to keep the letter n Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Alphabets O First Line: The idle dayseye, the laborious wheel Last Line: I should go whirling a thin euclidean reel, %no hawk or hickory to true my run OBJECTS First Line: Meridians are a net Last Line: I see afloat among the leaves, all calm and curled, %the cheshire smile which sets me fearfully free OCTOBER MAPLES, PORTLAND Poem Text First Line: The leaves, though little time they have to live Last Line: They could not choose but to return in blue Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology OCTOBER MAPLES, PORTLAND First Line: The leaves, though little time they have to live Last Line: They could not choose but to return in blue Subject(s): Christianity; Religion ODE TO PLEASURE First Line: Pleasure, whom had we lacked from earliest hour ON FREEDOM'S GROUND, SELS. ON HAVING MIS-IDENTIFIED A WILD FLOWER First Line: A thrush, because I'd been wrong ON HAVING MISIDENTIFIED A WILD FLOWER Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: A thrush, because I'd been wrong Subject(s): Birds; Flowers ON THE EYES OF AN SS OFFICER First Line: I think of amundsen, enormously bit ON THE MARGINAL WAY First Line: Another cove of shale Last Line: May that vast motive wash and wash our own ONCE First Line: The old rock-climber cries out in his sleep Last Line: That once, made safe by rashness, he could leap OPPOSITES: 1 Poem Text First Line: What is the opposite of nuts Last Line: You’re nuts if you think otherwise Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 1 First Line: What is the opposite of nuts Last Line: You're nuts if you think otherwise Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 10 Poem Text First Line: What is the opposite of fox? Last Line: Perhaps a greenish ox would do Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 10 First Line: What is the opposite of fox? Last Line: Perhaps a greenish ox would do Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 11 Poem Text First Line: The opposite of making faces Last Line: Fixed expression can be scary Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 11 First Line: The opposite of making faces Last Line: Fixed expression can be scary Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 12 Poem Text First Line: What is the opposite two? Last Line: A lonely me, a lonely me Subject(s): English Language; Hair; Synonyms & Antonyms; Togetherness; Solitude OPPOSITES: 12 Poem Text First Line: What is the opposite of two? Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 12 First Line: What is the opposite of two? Last Line: A lonely me, a lonely you Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 13 Poem Text First Line: What is the opposite of doe Last Line: The current slang for dough is bread Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 13 First Line: What is the opposite of doe Last Line: The current slang for dough is bread Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 14 Poem Text First Line: What is the opposite of penny? Last Line: Of someone who is penniless Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 14 First Line: What is the opposite of penny? Last Line: Which is it, heads or tails? You lose OPPOSITES: 14 First Line: What is the opposite of penny? Last Line: Which is it, heads or tails? You lose Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 15 Poem Text First Line: The opposite of squash? Offhand Last Line: The opposite of squash is bean Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 15 First Line: The opposite of squash? Offhand Last Line: The opposite of squash is bean Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 16 Poem Text First Line: What is the opposite of actor? Last Line: I'm romeo. Who might you be? Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 16 First Line: What is the opposite of actor? Last Line: I'm romeo. Who might you be OPPOSITES: 16 First Line: What is the opposite of actor? Last Line: I'm romeo. Who might you be? Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 17 Poem Text First Line: There's more than one way to be right Last Line: The opposite of white is yolk! Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 17 First Line: There's more than one way to be right Last Line: The opposite of white is yolk! OPPOSITES: 17 First Line: There's more than one way to be right Last Line: The opposite of white is yolk!' Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 18 Poem Text First Line: The opposite of doughnut? Wait Last Line: A cookie with a hole around it Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 18 First Line: The opposite of doughnut? Wait Last Line: A cookie with a hole around it Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 19 Poem Text First Line: Because what's present doesn't last Last Line: Something with which you like to play Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 19 First Line: Because what's present doesn't last Last Line: Something with which you like to play Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 2 Poem Text First Line: What is the opposite of flying? Last Line: Would be to take a train or bus Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 2 First Line: What is the opposite of flying? Last Line: Would be to take a train or bus Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 20 Poem Text First Line: What is the opposite of hat? Last Line: And run the risk of looking silly Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 20 First Line: What is the opposite of hat? Last Line: And run the risk of looking silly Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 21 Poem Text First Line: The opposites of earth are two Last Line: To choose. All right, we’ll keep them both Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 21 First Line: The opposites of earth are two Last Line: To choose. All right, we'll keep them both OPPOSITES: 21 First Line: The opposites of earth are two Last Line: To choose. All right. We'll keep them both Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 22 Poem Text First Line: The opposite of a cloud could be Last Line: Caused by a cloud's not being there Subject(s): Clouds; English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 22 First Line: The opposite of a cloud could be Last Line: Caused by a cloud's not being there Subject(s): Clouds; English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 23 Poem Text First Line: Not to have any hair is called Last Line: And must be patted on their pores Subject(s): English Language; Hair; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 23 First Line: Not to have any hair is called Last Line: And must be patted on their pores Subject(s): English Language; Hair; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 24 Poem Text First Line: What is the opposite of cupid? Last Line: “I hate you,” “ouch,” and “c uty it out” Subject(s): English Language; Supernatural; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 24 First Line: What is the opposite of cupid Last Line: I hate you,' 'ouch,' and 'cut it out.' OPPOSITES: 24 First Line: What is the opposite of cupid? Last Line: I hate you,' 'ouch,' and 'cut it out.' Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 25 First Line: What is the opposite of a shoe Last Line: The question's foolish, is it not OPPOSITES: 25 First Line: What is the opposite of a shoe? Last Line: The question's foolish, is it not? Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 26 Poem Text First Line: What is the opposite of fleet Last Line: Engage the first fleet in a battle Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 26 First Line: What is the opposite of fleet Last Line: Engage the first fleet in a battle Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 27 Poem Text First Line: What is the opposite of july? Last Line: The opposite of july’s july Subject(s): English Language; July; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 27 First Line: What is the opposite of july? Last Line: The opposite of july's july Subject(s): English Language; July; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 28 Poem Text First Line: What is the opposite of bat Last Line: Another answer might be ball Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 28 First Line: What is the opposite of bat Last Line: Another answer might be ball Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 29 First Line: The opposite of well is sick Last Line: Without a lot of 'well...Well...Well...' Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 3 Poem Text First Line: The opposite of foot is what? Last Line: The opposite of foot was horse Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 3 First Line: The opposite of foot is what? Last Line: The opposite of foot was horse Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 30 First Line: The opposite of tiller? Well, Last Line: Since none of these can steer a boat Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 31 Poem Text First Line: The opposite of fast is loose Last Line: The opposite of fast is feast Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 31 First Line: The opposite of fast is loose Last Line: The opposite of fast is feast Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 32 Poem Text First Line: What is the opposite of a prince? Last Line: And sitting on a lily pad Subject(s): English Language; Supernatural; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 32 First Line: What is the opposite of a prince? Last Line: And sitting on a lily pad Subject(s): English Language; Supernatural; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 33 First Line: The opposite of a king, I'm sure Last Line: If she is quarrelsome and mean Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 34 Poem Text First Line: The opposite of spit, I'd say Last Line: And decent instincts of mankind! Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 34 First Line: The opposite of spit, I'd say Last Line: And decent instincts of mankind! Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 35 Poem Text First Line: What is the opposite of ball? Last Line: And merely make a dreadful hole Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 35 First Line: What is the opposite of ball? Last Line: And merely make a dreadful hole Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 36 Poem Text First Line: The opposite of trunk could be Last Line: The answer tail is rather clever Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 36 First Line: The opposite of trunk could be Last Line: Of anything in which to pack Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 37 First Line: The opposite of post, were you Subject(s): English Language; Postal Service; Synonyms & Antonyms; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen OPPOSITES: 37 First Line: The opposite of post, were you Last Line: To put your letters in the mail Subject(s): English Language; Postal Service; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 38 Poem Text First Line: What is the opposite of mirror Last Line: While looking at a swarm of flies Subject(s): English Language; Mirrors; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 38 First Line: What is the opposite of mirror Last Line: While looking at a swarm of flies Subject(s): English Language; Mirrors; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 39 Poem Text First Line: The opposite of opposite? Last Line: That's much too difficult. I quit Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 39 First Line: The opposite of opposite? Last Line: That's much too difficult. I quit OPPOSITES: 39 First Line: The opposite of opposite? Last Line: That's much too difficult, I quit Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 4 First Line: What is the opposite of cheese? Last Line: I'm certainly not opposed to it Subject(s): Cheese; English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 5 Poem Text First Line: The opposite ofjunk is stuff Last Line: That isn’t in the least chinese Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 5 First Line: The opposite ofjunk is stuff Last Line: That isn't in the least chinese Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 6 Poem Text First Line: What is the opposite of string? Last Line: It’s gnirts, which doesn’t mean a thing Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 6 First Line: What is the opposite of string? Last Line: It's gnirts, which doesn't mean a thing Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 7 Poem Text First Line: The opposite of standing still Last Line: Or any other mode of travel Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 7 First Line: The opposite of standing still Last Line: Or any other mode of travel Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 8 Poem Text First Line: What is the opposite of riot? Last Line: It's lots of people keeping quiet Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 8 First Line: What is the opposite of riot? Last Line: It's lots of people keep quiet OPPOSITES: 8 First Line: What is the opposite of riot? Last Line: It's lots of people keeping quiet Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 9 Poem Text First Line: The opposite of a hole's a heap Last Line: If it will give you any pleasure Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 9 First Line: The opposite of a hole's a heap Last Line: If it will give you any pleasure Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms ORCHARD TREES, JANUARY First Line: It's not the case, though some might wish it so PANGLOSS'S SONG: A COMIC-OPERA LYRIC Poem Text First Line: Dear boy, you will not hear me speak Subject(s): Love PANGLOSS'S SONG: A COMIC-OPERA LYRIC First Line: Dear boy, you will not hear me speak Last Line: And gained in service of our fair %and universal queen Subject(s): Love PARABLE Poem Text First Line: I read how quixote in his random ride Subject(s): Life Choices; Don Quixote PARABLE First Line: I read how quixote in his random ride Last Line: Were heavy, and he headed for the barn PARDON First Line: My dog lay dead five days without a grave Last Line: But whether this was false or honest dreaming %I beg death's pardon now. And mourn the dead Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Mourning PART OF A LETTER Poem Text First Line: Easy as cove-water rustles its pebbles and shells Subject(s): Nature PART OF A LETTER First Line: Easy as cove-water rustles its pebbles and shells Last Line: A girl had gold on her tongue, and gave this answer: %ca, c'est l'acacia PEACE OF CITIES First Line: Terrible streets, the manichee hell of twilight PERSONAE First Line: The poet, mindful of the daring lives Last Line: Rise rank on rank on rank of noble brows PETER First Line: There at the story's close PIAZZA DI SPAGNA, EARLY MORNING Poem Text First Line: I can't forget Subject(s): Rome, Italy PIAZZA DI SPAGNA, EARLY MORNING First Line: I can't forget Last Line: Perfectly beautiful, perfectly ignorant of it Subject(s): Rome, Italy PICCOLA COMMEDIA First Line: He is no one I really know PIG IN THE SPIGOT First Line: Because he swings so neatly through the trees Last Line: But don't say that! I'll hate it if you do Subject(s): Language PITY First Line: The following day was overcast, each street PLACE PIGALLE First Line: Now homing tradesmen scatter through the streets Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War PLACE PIGALLE First Line: Now homing tradesmen scatter through the streets Last Line: Desperate soldier's hands which kill all things Subject(s): World War Ii PLAIN SONG FOR COMADRE First Line: Though the unseen may vanish, though insight fails Last Line: Of grimy rainbows, and the stained suds flash %like angel-feathers PLAYBOY Poem Text First Line: High on his stockroom ladder like a dunce Subject(s): Nudity; Nakedness PLAYBOY First Line: High on his stockroom ladder like a dunce Last Line: Grown sweetly faint, and swept beyond control, %consents to his inexorable will Subject(s): Nudity POPLAR, SYCAMORE First Line: Poplar, absolute danseuse POTATO Poem Text First Line: An underground grower, blind and a common brown Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes POTATO First Line: An underground grower, blind and a common brown Last Line: Awkward and milky and beautiful only to hunger Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes PRAISE IN SUMMER Poem Text First Line: Obscurely yet most surely called to praise Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Summer; Theology PRAISE IN SUMMER First Line: Obscurely yet most surely called to praise Last Line: That trees grow green, and moles can course in clay, %and sparrows sweep the ceiling of our day? Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Summer PRESIDENT'S SONG TO THE BARON First Line: Ah, baron... %think how the world would run Last Line: A standardized laboring man with replacement parts! PRISONER OF ZENDA First Line: At the end a %'the prisoner of zenda' Last Line: Far from being a stranger, %is also stewart granger Subject(s): Granger, Stewart (1913-1993); Motion Pictures PROBLEM FROM MILTON First Line: In eden palm and open-handed pine PROOF First Line: Shall I love god for causing me to be Last Line: Crossed out delete and wrote his patient stet Subject(s): Christianity; Religion PURITANS First Line: Sidling upon the river, the white boat RAGPICKER'S SONG First Line: There was a time when the ragpicker's life was akin to Last Line: Ladies that men could adore! %not any more! REGATTA First Line: A rowdy wind pushed out the sky RIDDLE First Line: Where far in forest I am laid RIDE First Line: The horse beneath me seemed RILLONS, RILLETTES Poem Text First Line: Rillons, rillettes, they taste the same Last Line: Of the doctrine of the trinity Subject(s): Food & Eating RILLONS, RILLETTES First Line: Rillons, rillettes, they taste the same Last Line: Like non-non-a, infinity, %or the doctrine of trinity Subject(s): Food And Eating RUNNING Poem Text First Line: What were we playing? Was it prisoner's base Last Line: Thinking of happiness, I think of that Subject(s): Running & Runners RUNNING First Line: What were we playing? Was it prisoner's base Subject(s): Sports RUNNING: 1. 1933 First Line: What were we playing? Was it prisoner's base? Last Line: Thinking of happiness, I think of that RUNNING: 2. PATRIOT'S DAY Poem Text First Line: Restless that noble day, appeased by soft Last Line: Rocked in his will, at rest within his run Subject(s): Running & Runners RUNNING: 2. PATRIOT'S DAY First Line: Restless that noble day, appeased by soft Last Line: Rocked in his will, at rest within his run Subject(s): Sports RUNNING: 3. DODWELLS HILL ROAD Poem Text First Line: I jog up out of the woods Last Line: Flying full tilt already Subject(s): Running & Runners RUNNING: 3. DODWELLS HILL ROAD First Line: I jog up out of the woods Last Line: Flying full tilt already Subject(s): Sports SEED LEAVES; HOMAGE TO R. F. Poem Text First Line: Here something stubborn comes Last Line: And starts to ramify Subject(s): Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Poetry & Poets; Seeds; Spring SEED LEAVES; HOMAGE TO R. F. First Line: Here something stubborn comes Last Line: Takes aim at all the sky %and starts to ramify Subject(s): Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Poetry And Poets; Seeds; Spring SHAD-TIME Poem Text First Line: Though between sullen hills Subject(s): Nature SHAD-TIME First Line: Though between sullen hills SHALLOT First Line: The full cloves SHAME Poem Text First Line: It is a cramped little state with no foreign policy Last Line: And bring about the collapse of the whole empire Subject(s): Shame SHAME First Line: It is a cramped little state with no foreign policy Last Line: And bring about the collapse of the whole empire Subject(s): Shame SIGNATURES Poem Text Recitation by Author Subject(s): Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Plants; Planting; Planters SIMILE FOR HER SMILE First Line: Your smiling, or the hope, the thought of it Last Line: The ringing of clear bells, the dip %and slow cascading of the paddle wheel SIMPLIFICATION First Line: Those great rough ranters, branns Last Line: Voiced people lack eloquence to blow a sick %maggot off a dead beetle Subject(s): Bryan, William Jennings (1860-1925); Religion; Speech SIRENS First Line: I never knew the road SKETCH First Line: Into the lower right %square of the window frame SLEEPLESS AT CROWN POINT First Line: All night, this headland SLEEPWALKER First Line: Like an axe-head sunk in a stump Last Line: Beset, and in need of ransom SOME DIFFERENCES: DAWN AND DAYBREAK Poem Text First Line: Dawn is a thing that poets write Last Line: My opulent bric-a-brac earth to damn his eyes Variant Title(s): A Few Differences: 1 Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms SOME DIFFERENCES: DAWN AND DAYBREAK First Line: Dawn is a thing that poets write Last Line: And drink it, and go off to work Variant Title(s): A Few Differences: Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms SOME DIFFERENCES: OWL AND CAT First Line: An owl is like a cat because Last Line: Until some fireman brings a ladder Variant Title(s): A Few Differences: Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms SOME DIFFERENCES: ROOM AND MOOR Poem Text First Line: How is a room unlike a moor? Last Line: You wouldn't have one in the house Variant Title(s): A Few Differences: 4 Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms; Moors (land); Rooms SOME DIFFERENCES: ROOM AND MOOR First Line: How is a room unlike a moor? Last Line: You wouldn't have one in the house Variant Title(s): A Few Differences: Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms SOME WODS INSIDE OF WORDS Poem Text First Line: If you've washed your clothes, and they are still wringing wet Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary SOMEONE TALKING TO HIMSELF First Line: Even when first her face SONG First Line: As at the bottom of a seething well SONNET First Line: The winter deepening, the hay all in SPEECH FOR THE REPEAL OF THE MCCARRAN ACT First Line: As wulfstan said on another occasion Last Line: Web, the self-true mind, the trusty reflex STATUES Poem Text First Line: These children playing at statues fill Last Line: Stares at the image of his kingdom come Subject(s): Statues STATUES First Line: These children playing at statues fill Last Line: Into an adamantine shapelessness, %stares at the image of his kingdom come Subject(s): Statues STILL, CITIZEN SPARROW Poem Text First Line: Still, citizen sparrow, this vulture which you call Subject(s): Birds; Noah (bible) STILL, CITIZEN SPARROW First Line: Still, citizen sparrow, this vulture which you call Last Line: Gladly with all you knew; he rode that tide %to ararat; all men are noah's sons Subject(s): Birds; Noah (bible) STOP First Line: In grimy winter dusk %we slowed for a concrete platform Last Line: Or queen persephone's gaze %in the numb fields of the dark STOP First Line: In grimy winter dusk STORM IN APRIL First Line: Some winters, taking leave Last Line: And through chill air the puffs of milkweed hover Subject(s): Storms SUMMER MORNING First Line: Her young employers, having got in late SUN AND AIR First Line: The air staggers under the sun, and heat-morasses SUNLIGHT IS IMAGINATION First Line: Each shift you make in the sunlight somewhere SUPERIORITIES Poem Text First Line: Malachy stamped the diving decks Subject(s): Ships & Shipping SUPERIORITIES First Line: Malachy stamped the diving decks TERESA Poem Text First Line: After the sun's eclipse Last Line: The tempered consonants of discipline Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Teresa, Saint (1515-1582); Theology; Teresa Of Jesus, Saint; Teresa Of Avila, Saint; Theresa, Saint TERESA First Line: After the sun's eclipse Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Teresa, Saint (1515-1582) TERRACE First Line: We ate with steeps of sky about our shoulders Last Line: And we were the only part of the night that we %couldn't believe THE ASPEN AND THE STREAM Poem Text First Line: Beholding element, in whose pure eye Last Line: A darker head, a few more aspen-leaves Subject(s): Aspen Trees; Brooks; Trees; Streams; Creeks THE BEACON Poem Text First Line: Founded on rock and facing the night-fouled sea Last Line: Assembles all the sea Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology THE BEAUTIFUL CHANGES Poem Text First Line: One wading a fall meadow finds on all sides Subject(s): Nature; Change THE CATCH Poem Text First Line: From the dress-box's plashing tis- Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE DEATH OF A TOAD Poem Text First Line: A toad the power mower caught Subject(s): Toads THE DISAPPEARING ALPHABET Poem Text First Line: If the alphabet began to disappear, Last Line: Anything happen to the alphabet Subject(s): Alphabets THE EYE Poem Text First Line: One morning in st. Thomas, when I tried Last Line: But giver of due regard Subject(s): Eyes THE FOURTH OF JULY Poem Text First Line: Liddell, the oxford lexicographer Last Line: To mean what once we said upon this day Subject(s): Liddell, Henry George (1811-1898) THE GIAOUR AND THE PACHA Poem Text First Line: The pacha sank at last upon his knee Last Line: That I may end the chase, and not ask why Subject(s): Delacroix, Eugene (1798-1863); Duels THE HOUSE Poem Text First Line: Sometimes, on waking, she would close her eyes Subject(s): Houses; Dreams; Love - Loss Of; Nightmares THE MILL Poem Text First Line: The spoiling daylight inched along the bar-top Last Line: It turns and turns in my mind, over and over Subject(s): Memory; Poetry & Poets THE MIND-READER Poem Text First Line: Some things are truly lost. Think of a sun-hat Subject(s): Religion; Mind, The; Theology THE PARDON Poem Text First Line: My dog lay dead five days without a grave Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Mourning; Bereavement THE PEACE OF CITIES Poem Text First Line: Terrible streets, the manichee hell of twilight Last Line: An blew the bolt from everybody's door Subject(s): Cities; Air Raids THE PIG IN THE SPIGOT Poem Text First Line: Because he swings so neatly through the trees Last Line: An ape feels natural in the word trapeze Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary THE PRISONER OF ZENDA Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: At the end a / 'the prisoner of zenda' Last Line: Is also stewart granger Subject(s): Granger, Stewart (1913-1993); Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema THE PROOF Poem Text First Line: Shall I love god for causing me to be Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology THE READER Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: She is going back, these days, to the great stories Subject(s): Books; Childhood Memories; Reading THE RIDE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The horse beneath me seemed Subject(s): Dreams; Horseback Riding; Storms; Nightmares THE UNDEAD Poem Text First Line: Even as children they were late sleepers Subject(s): Vampires THE WRITER Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: In her room at the prow of the house Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers & Daughters; Relatives THEN Poem Text First Line: Then when the ample season Last Line: "till the unreturning leaves Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement THEN First Line: Then when the ample season Last Line: Till the unreturning leaves %imperishably fell Subject(s): Mourning THIS PLEASING ANXIOUS BEING First Line: In no time you are back where safety was Last Line: The world will swim and flicker and be gone THREE RIDDLES FROM SYMPHONIUS, SELS. THREE RIDDLES FROM SYMPHOSIUS Poem Text First Line: My death is life; when born, I am unmade Subject(s): Phoenix (mythical Bird); Riddles; Mythology THREE SONNETS Poem Text First Line: Where I live distance is the primal fact Last Line: Only philosophies of suffering Subject(s): Philosophy & Philosophers; Prophecy & Prophets THYME FLOWERING AMONG ROCKS Poem Text First Line: This, if japanese, / would represent grey boulders Last Line: Truer than it seems Subject(s): Stones; Thyme; Granite; Rocks THYME FLOWERING AMONG ROCKS First Line: This, if japanese, %would represent grey boulders Last Line: A falsehood, but because it's %truer than it seems Subject(s): Stones; Thyme TO AN AMERICAN POET JUST DEAD Poem Text First Line: In the boston sunday herald just three lines Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Suburbs TO AN AMERICAN POET JUST DEAD First Line: In the boston sunday herald just three lines Last Line: It's just as well that now you save your breath Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Suburbs TO HIS SKELETON Poem Text First Line: Why will you vex me with Last Line: And do not colonize Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology TO HIS SKELETON First Line: Why will you vex me with Last Line: And do not colonize Subject(s): Christianity; Religion TO ISHTAR Poem Text First Line: Is it less than your brilliance, ishtar Subject(s): Ishtar (babylonian Goddess) TO ISHTAR First Line: Is it less than your brilliance, ishtar TO THE ETRUSCAN POETS First Line: Dream fluently, still brothers, who when young TRANSIT Poem Text Recitation First Line: A woman I have never seen before Subject(s): Beauty TROLLING FOR BLUES Poem Text First Line: As with the dapper terns, or that sole cloud Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers TWO QUATRAINS FOR FIRST FROST First Line: Hot summer has exhausted her intent TWO RIDDLES FROM ALDHELM Poem Text First Line: Once I was water, full of scaly fish Last Line: What's my name? Subject(s): Religion; Riddles; Theology TWO RIDDLES FROM ALDHELM First Line: Once I was water, full of scaly fish Last Line: What's my name? Subject(s): Religion; Riddles TWO SONGS IN A STANZA OF BEDDOES First Line: That lavished sunlight TWO VOICES IN A MEADOW Poem Text First Line: Anonymous as cherubs Subject(s): Religion; Stones; Theology; Granite; Rocks TWO VOICES IN A MEADOW First Line: Anonymous as cherubs Last Line: Did such as I aspire Subject(s): Religion; Stones TYWATER Poem Text First Line: Death of sir nihil, book the nth Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Violence; World War Ii; Theology; Second World War TYWATER First Line: Death of sir nihil, book the nth Last Line: And what to say of him, god knows %such violence. And such repose Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Violence; World War Ii UNDEAD First Line: Even as children they were late sleepers Last Line: As rock-hollows, tide after tide, %glassily strand the sea Subject(s): Vampires UNDER A TREE Poem Text First Line: We know those tales of gods in hot pursuit Subject(s): Mythology; Love UNDER CYGNUS First Line: Who says I shall not straighten till I bend UP, JACK First Line: Prince harry turns from percy's pouring sides VIOLET AND JASPER First Line: Outside, the heirs of purity pick by VOICE FROM UNDER THE TABLE First Line: How shall the wine be drunk, or the woman known Last Line: O sweet frustrations, I shall be back for more WALGH-VOGEL First Line: More pleasurable to look than feed upon WALKING TO SLEEP Poem Text First Line: As a queen sits down, knowing that a chair will be there Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares WALKING TO SLEEP First Line: As a queen sits down, knowing that a chair will be there Last Line: Lay clear, unfathomed, taken as they came Subject(s): Dreams WALL IN THE WOODS: CUMMINGTON First Line: What is it for, now that dividing neither Last Line: With one life through all changes, %and of how we are enlarged %by what estranges Subject(s): Nature WATER WALKER First Line: There was an infidel who walked past all churches crying WATERS First Line: From powdery palmyre, the tireless wind WE Poem Text First Line: We ought to drop the bomb at once before Subject(s): Cold War; United States; Social Classes; Social Commentaries; America; Caste WEATHER BIRD Poem Text First Line: It's hard to decide whether the weather-swallow Subject(s): Swallows; Weather WEDDING TOAST First Line: St. John tells how, at cana's wedding-feast Last Line: And may that water smack of cana's wine Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Religion WELLFLEET: THE HOUSE Poem Text First Line: Roof overwoven by a soft tussle of leaves Last Line: Can time have any foreignness or fears Subject(s): Americans; United States; America WELLFLEET: THE HOUSE First Line: Roof overwoven by a soft tussle of leaves Last Line: Can time have any foreignness or fears Subject(s): Americans; United States WERE THERE NO V, WOULD GEESE STILL FLY Last Line: Or nuts to you. You never know Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Alphabets WHALE First Line: Whale is the greatest beast in all the ocean waste Subject(s): Religion WHAT IF THE LETTER Q SHOULD BE DESTROYED? Last Line: Except, of course, in places like iraq Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Alphabets WHAT IF THE LETTER S WERE MISSING? Last Line: The name of erpent or of nake Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Alphabets WHAT IF THERE WERE NO LETTER A? Last Line: And cows are happy not to try it Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Alphabets WHAT IF THERE WERE NO LETTER O Last Line: The letter o to orient you? Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Alphabets WHAT IF THERE WERE NO LETTER W? Last Line: Different shape in cassiopeia Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Alphabets WHAT IF THERE WERE NO R? YOUR BOAT, I FEAR Last Line: On rocks, or run aground upon a reef Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Alphabets WHAT'S GOOD FOR THE SOUL IS GOOD FOR SALES First Line: If fictive music fails your lyre, confess WINTER SPRING First Line: A script of trees before the hill WITHOUT THE LETTER I, THERE'D BE Last Line: We need to keep the letter I Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Alphabets WITHOUT THE LETTER U, YOU COULDN'T SAY Last Line: New paltz, or scranton, or some place like that Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Alphabets WOOD First Line: Some would distinguish nothing here but oaks WORDS First Line: For alexander there was no far east WORLD WITHOUT OBJECTS IS A SENSIBLE EMPTINESS First Line: The tall camels of the spirit Last Line: Lampshine blurred in the steam of beasts, the spirit's right oasis, light incarnate Subject(s): Christianity; Religion WORLDS Poem Text First Line: For alexander there was no far east Subject(s): Alexander The Great (356-323 B.c.); Earth; Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727); World WRITER First Line: In her room at the prow of the house Last Line: I wish %what I wished you before, but harder Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers And Daughters WRITER First Line: In her room at the prow of the house Last Line: What I wished you before, but harder Subject(s): Love WYETH'S MILK CANS First Line: Beyond them, hill and field YEAR'S-END Poem Text Recitation First Line: Now winter downs the dying of the year Variant Title(s): At Year's End;at Yearsend;year's End Subject(s): History; Holidays; New Year; Historians YEAR'S-END First Line: Now winter downs the dying of the year Last Line: The new-year bells are wrangling with the snow Variant Title(s): At Year's End; At Yearsend; Year's En Subject(s): History; Holidays; New Year ZEA Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Once their fruit is picked, Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers ZEA First Line: Once their fruit is picked Last Line: The sole thing breathing |
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