|
|
|
|
Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: WINTERS, YVOR Matches Found: 175 Lewis, Janet Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Winters, Janet Lewis; Winters, Yvor, Mrs. 93 poems available by this author A LULLABY Poem Text First Line: Lullee, lullay / I could not love thee more Subject(s): Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology ANCIENT ONES: BETATAKIN First Line: Time stays, they said. We go Last Line: In time's unchanging room Subject(s): Native Americans ANISHINABEG IN THE CRANBERRY SWAMP First Line: Autumn bows %the headed grass Last Line: Frost from hip to shoulder %like morning mist Subject(s): Native Americans APRIL HILL First Line: She did not climb the april hill' Subject(s): Religion BABY GOAT First Line: New-born, gilded with blood Last Line: Into the spring's content, %into the spring's chill silvery content BUILDING THE CABIN, EVERENS POINT First Line: Building had barely begun Last Line: Wide enough to welcome bob barth CALENDAR First Line: The quince bush in march Last Line: And the birds of the air, indeed, %inhabit there CANDLE FLAME First Line: I feel myself like the flame Last Line: Were it not for the certain, ever-recurring calm %of the unknown sheltering palm CARMEL HIGHLANDS Poem Text First Line: Below the gardens and the darkening pines Last Line: An ancient speech, hushed in tremendous ease. Subject(s): Carmel, California CAUTIONARY NOTE First Line: We have long known Last Line: His eye is also on the crocodile CHILD IN A GARDEN (III) First Line: It is the motion of the heart Last Line: All too soon these lips will be %with heroes in eternity CHORD First Line: In a moment of grief, a word Last Line: Two notes that clung like lovers %and left me trembling CLOCK First Line: Whose is the clock that strikes the hours Last Line: Across still fields, whose silver shock %floats the warm air? COUNTRY BURIAL First Line: After the words of the magnificence and doom Last Line: Brings numbness to the untranslatable heart Subject(s): Religion CRADLE SONG First Line: Sleep, my baby, my own! Last Line: So sleep, my little, my dear DAYS First Line: Swift and subtle %the flying shuttle Last Line: Of choice or change %no room, no room DEAR PAST First Line: For the sake of the dear past Last Line: Who could have this foreknown? DIOS NO SE MUDA First Line: Doves call in the orchard where Last Line: What presence embraces me now %in the still sunshine? Subject(s): Teresa, Saint (1515-1582) DURING ILLNESS First Line: Ah, landor, if thy page lay clear Last Line: Even alcestis' quiet gaze Subject(s): Landor, Walter Savage (1775-1864) EARLY MORNING First Line: The path %the spider makes through the air Last Line: Invisible, %until it finds the spider's web EARTH-BOUND First Line: Still grove and hill and shadowy grot Last Line: And sleep at last in heaven that is a grove ELEGY FOR TWO FRIENDS First Line: Their curtains survive %the hands that made Last Line: Where, for a time, %there was only one Variant Title(s): For Nancy Bray And Gladys Mear FAREWELL First Line: Here is no part %of that we loved Last Line: And go, dear ashes, go Subject(s): Mothers FOR CARL RIPPIN First Line: Between midnight and morning %the hand relaxed Last Line: The hand relaxed and so, %young man, farewell FOR CLARA ATKINS ON HER 91ST BIRTHDAY First Line: Now to the young in heart I bring Last Line: You keep your rendez-vous with spring FOR ELIZABETH MADOX ROBERTS; WHO DIED MARCH 13, 1941 First Line: From the confusion of estranging years Last Line: Tears, and my earliest love, elizabeth, and changeless art Subject(s): Roberts, Elizabeth Madox (1886-1941) FOR JOHN MUIR, A CENTURY AND MORE AFTER HIS TIME First Line: I have seen those indians in their birch canoes Last Line: Lifting a fragile head %to greet the sun Subject(s): Muir, John (1838-1914) FOR LOUISE CHENERY First Line: Why did you wait so long Last Line: So did you wait, so fearful, %and so longing, hunted of god? FOR LUCY First Line: The small cat nuzzles her head beneath my chin Last Line: Comfort given, comfort received, we fall asleep FOR MARGARET HAMILTON First Line: The imagination, powerful to paint Last Line: Yet signed mortality, sweet friend Subject(s): Friendship FOR THE FATHER OF SANDRO GULOTTA First Line: When I called the children from play Last Line: In their long, immortal day? FOR THE POTTER First Line: Remembered in the pouring of milk Last Line: In our remembrance, stay, %and in the serving of nourishment, share %each living day Subject(s): Pottery And Potters; Sills, Esther (d. 1987) FORSAN ET HAEC First Line: Forsan et haec olim-' how does it go, that line? Last Line: Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit Subject(s): Stanford, Don (1913-1998) FOSSIL, 1919 Poem Text First Line: I found a little ancient fern Last Line: In a a round apricot velvet case. Subject(s): Fossils FOSSIL, 1975 First Line: Changed and not changed. Three million years Last Line: Changed and not changed. The spirit hears %in drifting fern the morning air Subject(s): Fossils; Religion FROM THE INDIANS IN THE WOODS: EXODUS AT EVENING First Line: Light came sideways %into the hole Last Line: To bushes in the valley, %treading silky yarrow FROM THE INDIANS IN THE WOODS: ONE SITS IN THE WOODS First Line: Gradual, continual approach Last Line: Where the great ants climb GARDEN NOTE I, LOS ALTOS First Line: A spring storm shakes the old peach tree Last Line: Holds fast her white clusters GARDEN NOTE II, MARCH First Line: Nothing more hesitant Last Line: Under this same tree GARDEN NOTE: LOS ALTOS, NOVEMBER First Line: The dusty loquat smells of cinnamon Last Line: Loved presences, fair memories, and fair fame GIRL HELP Poem Text Recitation First Line: Mild and slow and young Last Line: Scented with days to come. Subject(s): Girls GRANDMOTHER REMEMBERS First Line: Ah, the cold, cold days %when we lived Last Line: Their shadows passed %our tent HARD EARTH First Line: Here the houses HE GOES AWAY AGAIN First Line: In thorny juniper %the wind is cold Last Line: The spider, %making tight her web HELEN GROWN OLD First Line: We have forgotten paris, and his fate Last Line: The fading sound %is blent of falling embers, weeping kings HYMNS BY FIRELIGHT First Line: Now the sweet cloudy voices rise and fall Last Line: And the white ash gathers, heavy upon the coals IN A CONVALESCENT HOSPITAL First Line: I say, lord, let her go Last Line: And pray it bless %both her, and me IN THE EGYPTIAN MUSEUM First Line: Under the lucent glass, %closed from the living air Last Line: Pierces me with 'alas %that the beloved must die!' Subject(s): Death; Museums INDIANS IN THE WOODS First Line: Ah, the woods, the woods Last Line: Needle and leaf and vine Subject(s): Native Americans KAYENTA, ARIZONA, MAY 1977 First Line: I fall asleep to the sound of rain Last Line: Turn, turn in the wind LENORE'S BEAR First Line: A bear of crystal! %the surface encloses Last Line: Within that prison, freedom, %and peace for the heart at last LIKE SUMMER HAY First Line: Like summer hay it falls Last Line: Laid two by two, brown %against the snow LINES TO A KITTEN First Line: Morsel of suavity %perched on my knee Last Line: Pure quality of your great treacherous race LINES WITH A GIFT OF HERBS First Line: The summer's residue %in aromatic leaf Last Line: Have all their might conserved %in treasure, finally Subject(s): Herbs; Marcus Aurelius (121-180) LOCKET First Line: My father had a locket, smooth gold Last Line: Closed, the line of the hinges barely showed LOST GARDEN First Line: Children asleep in deep meadows Last Line: Your garden is running away! Subject(s): Cadotte, Pauline (polly) (1900-1955) "; Gardens And Gardening LOVE POEM First Line: Instinctively, unwittingly, %I came unto your hand Last Line: The vintner, and his heavy head %in vineyards overgrown LULLABY First Line: Lullee, lullay %I could not love thee more Last Line: But loved him just the same. %lullee, lullee, lullay Subject(s): Christmas; Religion LULLABY, SUNMOUNT First Line: Creep into your narrow bed Last Line: Gently sleep and wake to find %the certain day MANGER First Line: What is the sweet savor? Last Line: Laid over the floor! MANIBUSH AND THE GRANDMOTHER First Line: With keen ankles %dividing weed and weed Last Line: I watch the flashing %in the grass Subject(s): Native Americans MAY IN THE DESERT First Line: The dove of jesus turns Last Line: To stony earth, %where the faint voices float MEADOW TURF First Line: Goldenrod, strawberry leaf, small %bristling aster, all Last Line: Oh, heart, here is your healing, here among %the fragrant living and dead MELISSA'S BOUQUET First Line: Rose, and rose-of-sharon Last Line: Should yield such treasure, %thanks be to god, at noon, at dawn MORNING DEVOTION First Line: In the fear of death I ask me Last Line: Feel all's complete at day's as at life's ending MUSIC AT A CONCERT First Line: This is the many-mansioned, built in air Last Line: Whereby my loss is, for a time, denied NIGHTFALL AMONG POPLARS First Line: As light grew horizontal Last Line: The quick dry spider %ran across my hand NON OMNIS MORIAR First Line: Non omnis moriar. In narrow pathways Last Line: Image of gentleness and peace, so be not lost OCTOBER MORNING First Line: The pump froze, the trees Last Line: Were dozens of honey bees OJIBWAY VILLAGE First Line: Among gray cones %odor of sweet grass %and warm bodies Last Line: These bodies, so still %in the deluge %of fine air Subject(s): Native Americans; Ojibwa Indians OLD LOVE First Line: Love that is rooted deep, %quiet as friendship seeming Last Line: How at late day returning %those meet who need not part OUT OF A DARK WOOD First Line: Out of a dark wood we stumble, spirit-led Last Line: So sorrow, bless us before we go away READER First Line: Sun creeps under the eaves Last Line: Heaving damp heavy wings REMEMBERED MORNING First Line: The axe rings in the wood Last Line: Catches her into its way RIVALS First Line: Two women in an empty room Last Line: But both of them still hear it blow RIVER First Line: Remember for me the river Last Line: Who will not be able to remember. %remember the river Subject(s): St. Mary's River (north America) ROCKY ISLANDS First Line: There are wolves %cracking dry bones Last Line: Over the light %still flakes of rock ROSE First Line: It has become a simile, its meaning Last Line: Rose, for whom I have no proper words, %in charity accept these ROSEMARY, BAY AND REDWOOD SPRAY Last Line: So love stays green with stars between %while his star burneth evenly Subject(s): Michigan SNAIL GARDEN First Line: This is the twilight hour of the morning Last Line: That necessary angel, that other SUNDAY MORNING AT THE ARTIST'S HOUSE First Line: Small cat with the white lines of make-up TENNIS PLAYERS First Line: Their flying feet are swift Last Line: Dreaming I watch them yet %across a continent THE HANGAR AT SUNNYVALE: 1937 Poem Text First Line: Above the marsh, a hollow monument Last Line: Until the inordinate dream again return. Subject(s): Airships THRESHING WIND First Line: Cold and clear weather, %and the wind harries us Last Line: Drawing the sharp green leaves %against his shoulder Subject(s): Native Americans TIME AND MUSIC First Line: Time, that gives to music life Last Line: Both snare and breath and motion is Subject(s): Literary Form TO A YOUNG HUSBAND First Line: When she shall grow like the clear daffodil Last Line: And thank her as the witness she may be TO THE POET, CLAYTON STAFFORD, FOR HIS VERSE First Line: O measured line and sure Last Line: Through thine ennobling grace Subject(s): Stafford, Clayton (1903-1981) TRAVEL NOTE First Line: A steeple like a lightning rod Last Line: To the last edge of grief TROPHY, W.W.I First Line: A cross, %I had it from a friend, a russian woman Last Line: In itself it says: %verdun %and the death of a man Subject(s): World War I ULYSSES IN THE LAND OF THE PHAEACIANS First Line: Not ithaca, but here Last Line: Sea-blue, but firmest earth, %and vanishing no more WHITE OAK First Line: I grow forever in one place, yet stir Subject(s): Oak Trees WIFE OF MANIBOZHO SINGS First Line: He comes and goes; %there is no rest Last Line: Lie still %under the sun Subject(s): Native Americans - Religion WINTER GARDEN First Line: Child, dream of a pomegranate tree Last Line: That not a leaf in your garden perish Winters, Yvor Poet's Biography 82 poems available by this author A SONG IN PASSING Poem Text First Line: Where am I now? And what Last Line: Is the almight face Subject(s): Religion; Theology AN ELEGY Poem Text First Line: The noon is beautiful: the perfect wheel Subject(s): Airships APOLLO AND DAPHNE First Line: Deep in the leafy fierceness of the wood Last Line: The god withdrew into eternity APRIL Poem Text First Line: The little goat Last Line: He walks away Subject(s): Animals APRIL First Line: The little goat Last Line: He walks away Subject(s): Animals AT THE SAN FRANCISCO AIRPORT Poem Text First Line: This is the terminal: the light Last Line: In light, and nothing else, awake. Subject(s): Air Travel; Language; Words; Vocabulary AT THE SAN FRANCISCO AIRPORT First Line: This is the terminal: the light Last Line: In light, and nothing else, awake Subject(s): Air Travel; Language BARNYARD First Line: The wind appears %and disappears Last Line: The clotting cold %with short fierce cries BEFORE DISASTER; WINTER, 1932-33 Poem Text First Line: Evening traffic homeward burns Last Line: We must live or dry by steel Subject(s): Traffic BEFORE DISASTER; WINTER, 1932-33 First Line: Evening traffic homeward burns Last Line: Treading change with savage heel, %we must love or die by steel Subject(s): Traffic BY THE ROAD TO THE SUNNYVALE AIR-BASE First Line: The calloused grass lies hard Last Line: I hear my neighbor's bees COLD First Line: Frigidity the hesitant %uncurls its tentacles Last Line: Smoky breath, no %breath at all DEATH GOES BEFORE ME First Line: Death goes before me on his hands and knees DIGUE DONDAINE, DIGUE DONDON First Line: Sun on the sidewalk ELEGY First Line: The noon is beautiful: the perfect wheel Last Line: Through the last stone age, for the pastoral kings Subject(s): Airships ELEGY ON A YOUNG AIREDALE BITCH LOST TWO YEARS SINCE IN THE SALT-MARSH Poem Text First Line: Low to the water's edge Last Line: And cast ashore to dry Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ELEGY ON A YOUNG AIREDALE BITCH LOST TWO YEARS SINCE IN THE SALT-MARSH First Line: Low to the water's edge Last Line: And cast ashore to dry Subject(s): Animals; Dogs FABLE First Line: Beyond the steady rock the steady sea Last Line: Lending a sheen to nothing, whispering FALL OF LEAVES First Line: The green has suddenly %divided to pure flame Last Line: Into the burning ground FOR MY FATHER'S GRAVE First Line: Here lies one sweet of heart. Last Line: These ashes speak no more FOR THE OPENING OF THE WILLIAM DINSMORE BRIGGS ROOM Poem Text First Line: Because our being grows in mind Last Line: Which hell itself cannot unlock Subject(s): Religion; Theology FOR THE OPENING OF THE WILLIAM DINSMORE BRIGGS ROOM First Line: Because our being grows in mind Subject(s): Religion GRAVE First Line: Great eucalypti, black amid the flame Last Line: Of him at peace to contemplate it not HERACLES; FOR DON STANFORD First Line: Eurystheus, trembling, called me to the throne Last Line: And deianira, an imperfect shade, %retreats in silence as my arc descends HYMN TO DISPEL HATRED AT MIDNIGHT First Line: Here where I watch the dew Last Line: Grief will not turn again Subject(s): Hate IN PRAISE OF CALIFORNIA WINES Poem Text First Line: Amid these clear and windy hills Last Line: In sunlight vanish quite away Subject(s): California; Wine IN PRAISE OF CALIFORNIA WINES First Line: Amid these clear and windy hills Last Line: In sunlight vanish quite away Subject(s): Americans; United States INSCRIPTION FOR A GRAVEYARD First Line: When men are laid away Subject(s): Religion JOHN SUTTER Poem Text First Line: I was the patriarch of the shining land Subject(s): California - Gold Discoveries; Sutter, John (1803-1880); Failure; Gold Rush; Forty-niners JOHN SUTTER First Line: I was the patriarch of the shining land Last Line: The final drouth of penitential tears? JOURNEY; SNAKE RIVER COUNTRY First Line: I now remembered slowly how I came Last Line: In naked sunlight, on a naked world LITTLE DIETY ALONE IN THE DESERT First Line: My life is here MAGPIE'S SHADOW: 1. IN WINTER First Line: Pale mornings, and %I rise Last Line: I, bent. Thin nights receding MAGPIE'S SHADOW: 2. IN SPRING First Line: I walk out the world's door Last Line: Why should I stop %for spring? MAGPIE'S SHADOW: 3. IN SUMMER AND AUTUMN First Line: Pale bees! Oh, whither now? Last Line: The well of autumn-dry MARRIAGE First Line: Incarnate for our marriage you appeared Last Line: May our heirs seal us in a single urn, %a single spirit never to return Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Marriage NIGHT OF BATTLE Poem Text First Line: Impersonal the aim Last Line: The dark blood of the folk. Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War NIGHT OF BATTLE First Line: Impersonal the aim Last Line: The dark blood of the folk Subject(s): World War Ii NOCTURNE First Line: Moonlight on stubbleshining hills Last Line: Goes screaming %off toward darker hills OCTOBER First Line: The houses %are more bare Last Line: In one thing: %that it hides nothing ON A VIEW OF PASADENA FROM THE HILLS First Line: From the high terrace porch I watch the dawn Last Line: Rank with the sea, which crumbles evermore ON TEACHING THE YOUNG First Line: The young are quick of speech Last Line: Is in cold certitude- %laurel, archaic, rude ORPHEUS; IN MEMORY OF HART CRANE First Line: Climbing from the lethal dead Last Line: Sang unmeaning down the stream PRAYER BESIDE A LAMP First Line: I pace beside my books and hear the PRAYER FOR MY SON First Line: Eternal spirit, you %whose will maintains the world Last Line: Pity this small and new %bright soul on hands and knees PRINCE First Line: Prince or statesman who would rise to power QUOD TEGIT OMNIA First Line: Earth darkens and is beaded Last Line: Embedded in this crystalline %precipitate of time REALIZATION First Line: Death. Nothing is simpler. One is dead Last Line: Blurring a definition. Quick! You are old ROWS OF COLD TREES First Line: To be my own messiah to the Last Line: Among the blessed who have latin names SILENT DAYS First Line: Here men go SIR GAWAINE AND THE GREEN KNIGHT Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Reptilian green the wrinkled throat Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood SIR GAWAINE AND THE GREEN KNIGHT First Line: Reptilian green the wrinkled throat Last Line: I found a road that men had made %and rested on a drying hill Subject(s): Knights And Knighthood SLOW PACIFIC SWELL First Line: Far out of sight, forever stands the sea Last Line: Or gathers seaward, ebbing out of mind Subject(s): Sea SOLITUDE OF GLASS First Line: Ne ferns, but SOLITUDE OF GLASS First Line: No ferns, but %fringed rock Last Line: Gathered to %the adamant SONG IN PASSING First Line: Where am I now? And what Subject(s): Religion SONG OF A SMALL BOY WHO HERDS GOATS First Line: Sweeter than rough hair STREETS First Line: The algebra of miracles, that SUMMER COMMENTARY First Line: When I was young, with sharper sense Last Line: Smears brandy on the trampling boot %and sends it sweeter on its way SUMMER NOON: 1941 First Line: With visionary care Last Line: Will repossess this ground TESTAMENT First Line: We will and move: the gain THE MARRIAGE Poem Text First Line: Incarnate for our marriage you appeared Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE SLOW PACIFIC SWELL Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Far out of sight, forever stands the sea Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THESEUS: A TRILOGY; FOR HENRY RAMSEY First Line: On the wet sand the queen emerged from forest Last Line: So cast him from the rock to solitude, %to the cold perfection of unending peace TIME AND THE GARDEN First Line: The spring has darkened with activity Last Line: The mind's immortal, but the man is dead TO A MILITARY RIFLE, 1942 Poem Text First Line: The times come round again Last Line: True shape of death and power Subject(s): War TO A MILITARY RIFLE, 1942 First Line: The times come round again Subject(s): War TO A YOUNG WRITER Poem Text First Line: Here for a few short years Subject(s): Writing & Writers TO A YOUNG WRITER First Line: Here for a few short years Last Line: What moves you overmuch TO EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text First Line: Dear emily, my tears would burn your page, Last Line: In that hard argument which led to god Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) TO EMILY DICKINSON First Line: Dear emily, my tears would burn your page, Last Line: In that hard argument which led to god. Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) TO MY INFANT DAUGHTER: 1 First Line: Ah, cold you now with thinking tongue Last Line: A token only and a name? TO MY INFANT DAUGHTER: 2 Poem Text First Line: Alas, that I should be Last Line: Of what has had an end Variant Title(s): To My Infant Daughter (2) Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters TO MY INFANT DAUGHTER: 2 First Line: Alas, that I should be Last Line: Of what has had an end Variant Title(s): To My Infant Daughter (2 Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters TO THE HOLY SPIRIT; FROM A DESERTED GRAVEYARD IN SALINAS First Line: Immeasurable haze: %the desert valley spreads Last Line: Quiet beyond recall, %into irrelevance TO THE MOON First Line: Goddess of poetry, %maiden of icy stone Last Line: What is your pleasure now? TWO SONGS OF ADVENT: 1 First Line: On the desert, between pale mountains, our cities Last Line: Far whispers creeping through an ancient shell TWO SONGS OF ADVENT: 2 First Line: Coyote, on delicate mocking feet Last Line: Listen! Listen! For I enter now your thought VACANT LOT First Line: Tough hair like dead Last Line: Turns back and nips %the bitter grass VISION First Line: Years had elapsed; the long room was the same Last Line: Wide open, and the tremor of that scream %shattered my beinglike an empty dream WILD SUNFLOWER First Line: Sunflower! Gross of leaf and porous Last Line: Not be beaten %down nor turn away WINTER EVENING First Line: The earth for miles is massed with wet |
|