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Author: WYLIE, ELINOR Matches Found: 243 Wylie, Elinor Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. 243 poems available by this author A CROWDED TROLLEY CAR Poem Text Subject(s): Trolley Cars; City & Town Llife A RED CARPET FOR SHELLEY Poem Text First Line: But this is nothing; an eccentric joke Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) ABSENT THEE FROM FELICITY AWHILE First Line: Spirits that walk beside me in the air Last Line: That, upon earth, you found this subtle thing %caught in the common net, %beside you, wing to wing ADDRESS TO MY SOUL Poem Text First Line: My soul, be not disturbed / by planetary war Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty ADDRESS TO MY SOUL First Line: My soul, be not disturbed %by planetary war Last Line: Accept the stricter mould %that makes you singular Subject(s): Freedom ALL SOULS First Line: It is god's honour on my head Last Line: To spur them down the common street; %this is the thing I always knew AMERICAN IN ENGLAND First Line: I love every stock and stone Last Line: Break the sword: the iron strike %to plough-shares, share and share alike! Subject(s): Americans In England; Travel AN AMERICAN IN ENGLAND Poem Text First Line: I love every stock and stone Subject(s): Americans In England; Travel; Journeys; Trips AS I WENT DOWN BY HAVRE DE GRACE... Last Line: Had I been born in any place %where this small flower never blooms ATAVISM Poem Text First Line: I always was afraid of somes's pond Subject(s): Fantasy ATAVISM First Line: I always was afraid of somes's pond Last Line: A sliding shape has stirred them like a breath; %tall plumes surmount a painted mask of death Subject(s): Fantasy AUGUST Poem Text First Line: Why should this negro insolently stride Last Line: Scarce warms the surface of the deepest pool? Subject(s): African Americans; Flowers; Pain; Negroes; American Blacks; Suffering; Misery AUTUMN FROSTS WILL LIE UPON THE GRASS First Line: The autumn frosts will lie upon the grass Last Line: Dwindled and harsh, dead-white and cloudy-clear. BEAUTY Poem Text First Line: Say not of beauty she is good Last Line: The hard heart of a child. Subject(s): Beauty BELLS IN THE RAIN Poem Text First Line: Sleep falls, with limpid drops of rain Subject(s): Bells BELLS IN THE RAIN First Line: Sleep falls, with limpid drops of rain Last Line: Upon a live man's bloody head %it falls most tenderly, I think Subject(s): Bells BENVENUTO'S VALENTINE Poem Text First Line: Not for the child that wanders home Last Line: As softly as a silver ring's. Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day BEWARE! First Line: Baba flourishes and dips Last Line: Baba, only dip your hands %in the surface of the sound BIRD First Line: O clear and musical Last Line: Hear the rain sing %and the dark rejoice! %shine like a spark again, %o clearest voice! BIRTHDAY SONNET Poem Text First Line: Take home thy prodigal child, o lord of hosts! Subject(s): Consolation BIRTHDAY SONNET First Line: Take home thy prodigal child, o lord of hosts! Last Line: So that no drop of the pure spirit fall %into the dust: defend thy prodigal Subject(s): Consolation BLOOD FEUD First Line: Once, when my husband was a child, there came Last Line: Which, as he died, lay bright beneath his head, %a silver shield that slowly turned to red BREAD ALONE First Line: Let not the heart's intention Last Line: My love, be never wrathful %with this imperfect thing BROKEN MAN First Line: Dear love, when I was seven and a half Last Line: The broken man, who broke my heart in half %in this strange prologue to your epitaph BRONZE TRUMPETS AND SEA WATER; ON TURNING LATIN VERSE INTO ENGLISH Poem Text First Line: Alembics turn to stranger things Last Line: Who smooths the ripples out of it. Subject(s): Change; English Language; Latin Language; Translating & Interpreting CASTILIAN Poem Text First Line: Velasquez took a pliant knife Last Line: Miraculously shaped. Subject(s): Velazquez, Diego (1599-1660) CHIMAERA SLEEPING First Line: Ah, lovely thing, I saw you lie Last Line: And, as I followed on, I wept %to leave the thicket where you slept COAST GUARD'S COTTAGE First Line: Poor creature, come! Last Line: Now blow the candle out; %come to my bed; %I shall not be afraid COLD SUMMER First Line: Twilight is blue for seven weeks Last Line: Of tame attendant pigeons, bribed %by corn as yellow as her hair COLD-BLOODED CREATURES Poem Text First Line: Man, the egregious egoist Subject(s): Animals; Mankind; Snakes; Human Race; Serpents; Vipers COLD-BLOODED CREATURES First Line: Man, the egregious egoist Last Line: Where lidless fishes, broad awake, %swim staring at a night-mare doom Subject(s): Animals; Mankind; Snakes CONFESSION OF FAITH First Line: I lack the braver mind Last Line: But, in default of faith, %in futile breath, %I dream no ill of death COUNTRY SONG First Line: Over by peppard Last Line: And it looked to the drover %like a burning glass. %but only the lover %knew what it was COURTESY First Line: Having conceived that this delight alone Last Line: As I was thankful for the cheer I had %to hear their chattering when I was sad CROOKED STICK First Line: First traveller: what's that lying in the dust? Last Line: Second traveller: but it's all grown over with moss! CROWDED TROLLEY CAR First Line: The rain's cold grains are silver-gray Last Line: One man stands as free men stand, %as if his soul might be %brave, unbroken; see his hand %nailed to DARK MIRROR First Line: The earth is untroubled Last Line: Or turn them sunward %to dazzle them blind, %but never look downward %through a wicked mind DEDICATION First Line: When I was seven years old I had a primer Last Line: And I have nothing to return in kind %save the dull mortal homage of the mind DEMON LOVERS Poem Text First Line: The peacock and the mocking-bird Last Line: Evades them both, and is not missed. DEVIL IN SEVEN SHIRES First Line: Come all ye sorrowful people Last Line: Look in the bower below you, look! %lean into this, and love DOOMSDAY Poem Text First Line: The end of everything approaches Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man DOOMSDAY First Line: The end of everything approaches Last Line: Loud as the ultimate loud clarion %or the first murther Subject(s): Judgment Day DOSOLATION IS A DELICATE THING' First Line: Sorrow lay upon my breast more heavily than Last Line: It was not my heart; it was this poor sorrow %alone which broke DROWNED WOMAN Poem Text First Line: He shall be my jailer Last Line: In the weeds of my hair. Subject(s): Women EJACULATION Poem Text First Line: In this short interval to tear Subject(s): Language; Feathers; Words; Vocabulary EJACULATION First Line: In this short interval to tear Last Line: Divide the forest, -make my words %like feathers torn from living birds! ENCHANTER'S HANDMAIDEN First Line: Sir, it was not commanding me to climb Last Line: (o, but it was making me suckle an imp after %promising he was a christian! ENCOMIUM First Line: There is a place where beauty, peace and silence EPITAPH Poem Text First Line: For this she starred her eyes with salt Last Line: A better grave than this. Subject(s): Epitaphs ESCAPE Poem Text First Line: When foxes eat the last gold grape Last Line: The silver wasp-nests hang like fruit. Subject(s): Escapes; Fairies; Fugitives; Elves FABLE First Line: A knight lay dead in senlac Last Line: She drank the virtuous air. %a knight lay dead: his gutted brows %gaped hollow under his hair FABULOUS BALLAD First Line: A gypsy, who had lost a chain of beads Last Line: And leave this beggar-woman and myself %to love these stars' incomparable virtue FAIR ANNET'S SONG First Line: One thing comes and another thing goes Last Line: The last of the cherry and the first of the may; %and neither one will stay FAIRY GOLDSMITH First Line: Here's a wonderful thing Last Line: In your monstrous day %they will crumble away %into quicksilver dust FALCON First Line: Why should my sleepy heart be taught Last Line: And a little hood of scarlet wool, %and let her perch upon your wrist, %and tell her she is beautifu FALSE PROPHET First Line: When I wws forty, and two feathers sprung Last Line: And while my fainting heart perceived the truth, %my tongue spoke thus: 'he cannot hurt me now.' FAREWELL, SWEET DUST First Line: Now I have lost you, I must scatter Last Line: Now you are gone, I am none the wiser %but the leaves of the willow are bright as wine FELO DE SE Poem Text First Line: My heart's delight, I must for love forget you Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of FELO DE SE First Line: My heart's delight, I must for love forget you Last Line: In all my pulses, and dissolves the marriage %of soul and soul, and at he heart's core kills you Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of FIRE AND SLEET AND CANDLELIGHT Poem Text First Line: For this you've striven Subject(s): Failure FIRE AND SLEET AND CANDLELIGHT First Line: For this you've striven Last Line: Straight as an arrow %you fall to a sleep %not too narrow %and not too deep FOR A GOOD BOY First Line: If I ransacked the moon for you, my lord Last Line: To laugh, and you will always laugh at fear %because he wears so ludricrous a face FOR A GOOD GIRL First Line: Two tasks confront king honour's daughter Last Line: Or how shall you survive to rescue %the little wicked from their sin? FRANCIE'S FINGERS First Line: Oh, francie, sell me your fingers Last Line: Your voice is all I fancy!' %'no, no!' replied the singer. %'oh, no, no!' cried francie FULL MOON Poem Text First Line: My bands of silk and miniver Last Line: The clean bones crying in the flesh. Subject(s): Moon GIFTS AT MEETING First Line: Violets, sparsely Last Line: A pirate's earring %and a painted book, %I bring you, fearing %your blackhorn crook GOLDEN BOUGH First Line: These lovely groves of fountain-trees that shake Last Line: Save where their lion-colour in the wood %roars to miraculous heat and turbulence GRACE BEFORE MEAT First Line: No man should be tempted Last Line: That your lives may be seasoned %with honey and saffron GREEK CHORUS IN VENETIAN GLASS First Line: I awake from a cold dream Last Line: But now they are singing, and the sad thing is %unheard GREEN HAIR First Line: I know you wonder why I wear Last Line: When mine of hazel look at you %turned to incredible turquoise blue HEART UPON THE SLEEVE First Line: Dear heart, behold you bound HEART'S DESIRE First Line: Anger that is not anger, but bubbles and stars of colour Last Line: The towers which house the golden head and the dead %heart and the tongues of inextinguishable fire HEROICS Poem Text First Line: Though here and there a man is left Last Line: And insult dubious to bear. Subject(s): Heroism; Heroes; Heroines HIGH WIND Poem Text First Line: Boeotius laughed upon the windy corner's Last Line: While slave-ships foundered under samothrace. Subject(s): England; English HOSPES COMESQUE CORPORIS First Line: And if the heart may split the skin Last Line: Must leave a heart-shape in the dust %before it is inspired and lost %in god: I hope it must HUGHIE AT THE INN OR, ADVICE FROM A TAPSTER Poem Text First Line: Is it not fine to fling against loaded dice Subject(s): Gambling; Wagering; Betting HUGHIE AT THE INN OR, ADVICE FROM A TAPSTER First Line: Is it not fine to fling against loaded dice Last Line: Be provident, and pray for cowardice %and the loaded pair of dice Subject(s): Gambling HYMN TO EARTH Poem Text First Line: Farewell, incomparable element Subject(s): Earth; World HYMN TO EARTH First Line: Farewell, incomparable element Last Line: The traveller dust, although the dust be vile, %sleeps as thy lover for a little while Subject(s): Earth INCANTATION Poem Text First Line: A white well Subject(s): White (color); Black (color) INCANTATION First Line: A white well Last Line: A bright spark %where black ashes are; %in the smothering dark %one white star INDENTURED First Line: I will not enter any cloud Last Line: When this my servitude is done, %and I have found the dark, and slammed %its door against the sun INNOCENT LANDSCAPE Poem Text First Line: Here is no peace, although the air has fainted Subject(s): Faith; Belief; Creed INNOCENT LANDSCAPE First Line: Here is no peace, although the air has fainted Last Line: Faith is the blossom, but the fruit is cursed; %go hence, for it is useless to pretend Subject(s): Faith KING HONOUR'S ELDEST SON First Line: His father's steel, piercing the wholesome fruit Last Line: Convinced his poor progenitors of sin %in having made a something more than man KING'S RANSOM Poem Text First Line: About the emperor's thumb revolving Last Line: This little moon's enormous value! LAMENT First Line: The apple boughs bend down with fruit Last Line: My fathers led a dolorous life; %never ask the end LAMENT FOR GLASGERION Poem Text First Line: The lovely body of the dead Subject(s): Death; Soul; Solitude; Aging; Dead, The; Loneliness LAMENT FOR GLASGERION First Line: The lovely body of the dead Last Line: The vanishing dust of my heart is proud %to watch me wither and grow old LAST SUPPER Poem Text First Line: Now that the shutter of the dusk Subject(s): Beauty; Nature LAST SUPPER First Line: Now that the shutter of the dusk Last Line: In this last minute and no more %my eyes alone shall eat of them LAVISH KINDNESS First Line: Indulgent giants burned to crisp Last Line: Such deeds are not performed in haste %and none has fathomed their intent LET NO CHARITABLE HOPE Poem Text First Line: Now let no charitable hope Last Line: And none has quite escaped my smile. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Self; Women; Work; Workers LETTER TO V First Line: No, v-, you never will persuade me Last Line: Yea, and eloquent and just; %and scratch in earth: integer vitae; %and: dolce mors upon the dust LIE First Line: A fortnight past you looked at me and lied Last Line: From the iron line of strict veracity, %and, by my faith, from such a liar as I? LILLIPUTIAN First Line: She hoards green cheeses Last Line: Where I lie bound by subtle %spider-web and hair, %and the small feet scuttle, %and the gold eyes st LION AND THE LAMB First Line: I saw a tiger's golden flank Last Line: The lion's voice thundering %shook his vaulted breast, %'I am love. By this spring, %brother, let us LITTLE ECLOGUE First Line: Poor loneliness and lovely solitude Last Line: And whether by a lover or a foe, %let men inquire, and gods obscurely know LITTLE ELEGY Poem Text First Line: Withouten you Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Dead, The LITTLE ELEGY First Line: Withouten you Last Line: Or power to sing; %or anything %be kind, or fair, %and you nowhere Subject(s): Death; Friendship LITTLE JOKE Poem Text First Line: Stripping an almond tree in flower Last Line: Pure as a drop of metheglin. Subject(s): Trees LITTLE SONNET First Line: Let your loving bondwoman Last Line: In pity whereof her heart was split; %love her now; forget the rest; %she has herself forgotten it LODGING FOR THE NIGHT First Line: If I had lightly given at the first Last Line: And ravished the poor soul you never wanted. LOVE SONG First Line: I was a sea-gull flying north Last Line: But since the business was dreamed %I can't untwist it LOVE SONG First Line: Had I concealed my love Last Line: The depths of heaven above you; %and I shall lose you, keeping %his word, and no more weeping LOVER First Line: May sleep so lie upon your breast Last Line: Perhaps the silver on your hair %may speak of this when you are old LOVING CUP First Line: The instrument of your reason being tuned Last Line: Moons in solution; flavours of the sun's: %the cup is loving, having kissed you once LUCIFER SINGS IN SECRET Poem Text First Line: I am the broken arrow Subject(s): Arrows; Bible LUCIFER SINGS IN SECRET First Line: I am the broken arrow Last Line: Small and bloody %as a fallen sparrow %my own dead body %shall receive his arrow MADMAN'S SONG First Line: Better to see your cheek grown hollow Last Line: Than to forget to hallo, hallo, %after the milk-white hounds of the moon MADWOMAN'S MIRCLE First Line: Dig up, dig up your daughter's bones Last Line: The woman crouched beside the ditch %with her children in her arms MALEDICTION UPON MYSELF First Line: Now if the dull and thankless heart declare Last Line: On which the step of that I have denied %descends in silver to his proper bride MARY AT THE FAIR OR, ADVICE FROM A GYPSY First Line: The ring's no more than parcel-gilt Last Line: When the first hour of april opens- %look, my lass, I'll lay you tuppence- %you shall find a lover MINOTAUR First Line: Go study to disdain Last Line: Let innocence enchant %the flesh to fiercer grain %more fitted to retain %this burning visitant MIRANDA'S SUPPER (VIRGINIA, 1866) Poem Text First Line: Between the solemn portico's Last Line: Nothing is lost! Nothing is lost! Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History MOUNTAINEER'S BALLAD First Line: It is not every gentleman Last Line: And he with nothing to defend him %but a rawhide lash MY CANDLE Poem Text First Line: My candle burns ate both ends Subject(s): Candles; Sleep; Peace NAMELESS SONG First Line: My heart is cold and weather-worn Last Line: It is alive with a singing sound: %whose voice is that? It is not mine NANCY First Line: You are a rose, but set with sharpest spine Last Line: Mingled, to mix, and make you what you are, %magic between the sugar and the spice NEBUCHADNEZZAR Poem Text First Line: My body is weary to death of my mischievous brain Subject(s): Bible; Insanity; Religion; Madness; Mental Illness; Theology NEBUCHADNEZZAR First Line: My body is weary to death of my mischievous brain Last Line: And the dandelion is gall in a thin green pipe, %but the clover is honey and sun and the smell of sl Subject(s): Bible; Insanity; Religion NON DISPUTANDUM First Line: I'd rather be myself, to wear my knees Last Line: Than thrust red lucifer, lost and overthrown, %hell-deeper by the fraction of an inch! NONCHALANCE First Line: This cool and laughing mind, renewed Last Line: Into itself, forgetting them; %and warmth in trickles, slow and sweet %comforts a fainting lily-stem NONSENSE RHYME First Line: Whatever's good or bad or both Last Line: But, o, beware the nothing-much %and welcome madness and themost! NOW THAT YOUR EYES ARE SHUT Last Line: The tissues of my lip %will bruise your eyelids, while I am a woman NOW THAT YOUR EYES ARE SHUT O VIRTUOUS LIGHT First Line: A private madness has prevailed Last Line: Prevail against this radiance %which is engendered of its own OCTOBER Poem Text First Line: Beauty has a tarnished dress Last Line: Rough gold and red. Subject(s): October ON A SINGING GIRL First Line: Musa of the sea-blue eyes Last Line: Is voiceless in a sudden night: %on your light limbs, o loveliest. %may the dust be light! ONE PERSON: 1 First Line: Now shall the long homesickness have an end Last Line: Who are ourselves, a little earlier bound %to one another's bosom in the ground ONE PERSON: 10 Poem Text First Line: When I perceive the sable of your hair Subject(s): Desire; Love ONE PERSON: 10 First Line: When I perceive the sable of your hair Last Line: So soft, precise, and scrupulous a word %you shall not take it for another sword? Subject(s): Desire; Love ONE PERSON: 11 First Line: Before I die, let me be happy here.' Last Line: Since, at your voice, my body's core and pith %dissolves in air, and is destroyed forthwith ONE PERSON: 12 Poem Text First Line: In our content, before the autumn came Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 12 Subject(s): Childlessness ONE PERSON: 12 First Line: In our content, before the autumn came Last Line: Born of your bitter and excessive pain: %I shall not dream you are my child again Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 1 Subject(s): Childlessness ONE PERSON: 13 First Line: O mine is psyche's heavy doom reversed Last Line: And I believe I have my just deserts %lacking the shadow of peace upon our hearts ONE PERSON: 14 First Line: My fairer body and perfected spirit Last Line: Its liberal periods are not too wide %to educate me fitly for your bride ONE PERSON: 15 First Line: My honoured lord, forgive the unruly tongue Last Line: And so rise up, and in the starlight cold %frighten the foxes from your loneliest fold ONE PERSON: 16 Poem Text First Line: I hereby swear that to uphold your house Last Line: I bear a little more than I can bear. Subject(s): Love; Worship ONE PERSON: 17 First Line: Upon your heart, which is the heart of all Last Line: This map of paradise, this scrap of earth %whereon you burn like flame upon a hearth ONE PERSON: 18 First Line: Let us leave talking of angelic hosts Last Line: And wake, and touch each other's hands, and turn %upon a bed of juniper and fern ONE PERSON: 2 First Line: What other name had half expressed the whole Last Line: Because the barbarous force of agonies %broke it, and mended it, and made it clear ONE PERSON: 3 First Line: Children and dogs are subject to my power,' Last Line: Who now regards you with a lover's eyes %and knows that you are merciful and wise ONE PERSON: 4 First Line: Now am I orson to your valentine Last Line: Be suffered by our love, and so I must %deny the intrinsic difference in our dust ONE PERSON: 5 First Line: The little beauty that I was allowed Last Line: And I enjoin you, ere it is too late, %to stamp your superscription on my heart ONE PERSON: 6 First Line: I have believed that I prefer to live Last Line: Save as a power remote and exquisite, %not seen or known, but fervently adored ONE PERSON: 7 First Line: Would I might make subliminal my flesh Last Line: Whose letter cries, 'my hands are cold as ice,' %the while I kiss the colder air in vain ONE PERSON: 8 First Line: O love, how utterly am I bereaved Last Line: Wherin we flourish, and forget to know %we must lie murdered by predestined snow ONE PERSON: 9 First Line: A subtle spirit has my path attended Last Line: If we, who are but perishable things, %should hang another weight between his wings ONE PERSON: INTRODUCTORY SONNET First Line: Although these words are false, none shall prevail Last Line: These words are true, although at intervals %the unfaithful clay contrive to make them false PARTING GIFT First Line: I cannot give you the metropolitan tower Last Line: Made out of wildcat hide: %put it into your left-hand pocket%and never look inside PEREGRINE First Line: Liar and bragger, %he had no friend Last Line: I've played the traitor %over and over; %I'm a good hater, %but a bad lover PEREGRINE'S SUNDAY SONG First Line: When I have grown foolish Last Line: I've leave to squander %what I never can keep, %however I wander %or walk in my sleep PERSIAN KITTEN First Line: Lie still, my love, and do not speak, because Last Line: And with their pulses in a mute accord %lies down between these lovers like a sword PETER AND JOHN First Line: Twelve good friends / walked under the leaves Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Legends; Peter, Saint (c. 64 A.d.) PETER AND JOHN First Line: Twelve good friends %walked under the leaves Last Line: In your dream? Said john. %'no,' said the other, %that I was not. %I was our brother %iscariot Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Legends; Peter, Saint (c. 64 A.d.) PITY ME First Line: Pity the wolves who prowl unsleeping Last Line: Pity the midnight when it lightens; %pity me, my dear PORTRAIT IN BLACK PAINT; WITH VERY SPARING USE OF WHITEWASH First Line: She gives herself;' there's a poetic thought Last Line: But whether this has truly been her story %she'll never know, this side of purgatory PRAYERS FROM THE GREEK First Line: This is your image, brightest of huntresses Last Line: Where you go afoot, over hills tossing with trees, %hurrying, with terrible and eager hounds PREFERENCE First Line: These to me are beautiful people Last Line: They wear small bones in wrists and ankles PRETTY WORDS Poem Text First Line: Poets make pets of pretty, docile words Last Line: Gilded and sticky, with a little sting. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary PRIEST. 20TH DYNASTY First Line: Dive through thin black dust, and swim Last Line: Stifled in an eyelid's closure, %sealed in lips without a sound PRINKIN' LEDDIE First Line: The hielan' lassies are a' for spinnin Last Line: A-linkin' it ower the leas, my laddie, %in a raggedy kilt a n' a belted plaidie! PRISONER'S SONG First Line: Now sunlight stained by rain Last Line: Who never yet was caught in a net %spread by a mortal hand PROPHECY Poem Text First Line: I shall lie hidden in a hut Subject(s): Women PROPHECY First Line: I shall lie hidden in a hut Last Line: Behind the panes, with wind about %to set his mouth against a crack %and blow the candle out Subject(s): Women PROUD LADY First Line: Hate in the world's hand Last Line: What has it done, this world, %with hard finger-tips, %but sweetly chiselled and curled %your inscru QUARREL First Line: Let us quarrel for these reasons RED CARPET FOR SHELLEY First Line: But this is nothing; an eccentric joke Last Line: So presently you will be come and gone; %here's a strange road for you to walk on Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) ROBIN HOOD'S HEART First Line: The whole of him except his heart Last Line: Get up; get up, for heaven's sake, %and climb to the top of the hill ROMANCE First Line: The years' dark valleys Last Line: Proud love lies dead! And above, eros %cries with bowed head SANCTUARY Poem Text First Line: This is the bricklayer; hear the thud Subject(s): Sanctuaries SANCTUARY First Line: This is the bricklayer; hear the thud Last Line: Stop, old man! You must leave a chink; %how can I breathe? You can't, you fool! Subject(s): Sanctuaries SEA LULLABY Poem Text First Line: The old moon is tarnished Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA LULLABY First Line: The old moon is tarnished Last Line: Now in silence she lingers %beside him all night %to wash her long fingers %in silvery light Subject(s): Sea SELF-PORTRAIT First Line: A lens of crystal whose transparence calms Last Line: By trivial breath, over the whole world's length SEQUENCE: 1 First Line: This is the end of all, and yet I strive Last Line: I shall advise me to prepare my couch; %here it is dark; for more I may not vouch SEQUENCE: 2 First Line: One of these men will find my skeleton Last Line: And go his way, in agony and sweat, %because he could not pity nor forget SEQUENCE: 3 First Line: For various questions which I shall not ask Last Line: And though I warmed my fingers at the one, %the other is my father and my son SHEPHERD'S HOLIDAY First Line: Too honest for a gypsy, too lazy for a farmer Last Line: I'll pluck a feather pillow that shall sing you to sleep %upamong the rocks where the blueberries gr SILVER FILIGREE Poem Text First Line: The icicles wreathing Last Line: In the blue cave of night. Subject(s): Ice; Winter SIMON GERTY First Line: By what appalling dim upheaval Last Line: Our hatreds fall; so mine for you. %of course I think you were mistaken; %but still, I see your poin SLEEPING BEAUTY First Line: Imprisoned in the marble block Subject(s): Fairy Tales SLEEPING BEAUTY First Line: Imprisoned in the marble block Last Line: She parts the leaves, a pearly smoke, %she cleaves the earth-a silver brook Subject(s): Fairy Tales SONG First Line: It is my thoughts that colour Last Line: Watering dark places %without sparkle or sound: %kissing dumb faces %and the dusty ground SONNET First Line: You are the faintest freckles on the hide Last Line: Shaped like a ghost, and imminent with speed SONNET First Line: When, in the dear beginning of the fever Last Line: The silver still cries out above the bronze. SONNETS: PASTICHE First Line: Is not the woman moulded by your wish Subject(s): Women SONNETS: PASTICHE First Line: Is not the woman moulded by your wish Last Line: Is there not lacking from your synthesis %someone you may occasionally miss? Subject(s): Women SONNETS: SONNET First Line: How many faults you might accuse me of Last Line: This strict ascetic habit of control %that industry has woven for my soul SONNETS: TO LLEWELYN, WHO INQUIRED CONCERNING WYVERNS First Line: Alas, in london, wyverns never dwell Last Line: For when myself has freed me from this chain %they'll kiss my wounds, and comfort me again SOUTH First Line: Spotted by sun, and visible Last Line: To drink the apple's sap and scent %while thirsting for the mountain-top SOUTH OF THE POTOMAC Poem Text First Line: Wild honey in the honey-comb Last Line: Imperial as tyre. Subject(s): Antiquities SPEED THE PARTING First Line: I shall not sprinkle with dust Last Line: You will die, I suppose, before long. %oh, worser sooner than later! SPEED THE PARTING - Poem Text First Line: I shall not sprinkle with dust Subject(s): Transcience; Death; Grief; Conduct Of Life; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness SPRING PASTORAL Poem Text First Line: Liza, go steep your long white hands Subject(s): Streams SPRING PASTORAL First Line: Liza, go steep your long white hands Last Line: And I shall sleep, and I shall dream %of silver-pointed willow boughs %dipping their fingers in a st STRANGE STORY First Line: When I died in berners street Last Line: When I died in bloomsbury %in the bend of your arm, %at the end I died merry %and comforted and warm SUNSET ON THE SPIRE First Line: All that I dream Last Line: Here is my lover, %here is my friend. %all that I %could ever ask %wears that sky %like a thin gold TEAR FOR CRESSID First Line: All virtuous persons who hear this song Last Line: And let all true lovers who ever were false %shed but one tear for cressid THE CHILD ON THE CURBSTONE Poem Text First Line: The headlights raced; the moon, death-faced Last Line: Dipping his foot in danger. Subject(s): Children; Childhood THE CHURCH-BELL Poem Text First Line: As I was lying in my bed Last Line: Out by the very root. Subject(s): Bells THE EAGLE AND THE MOLE Poem Text First Line: Avoid the reeking herd Last Line: And disembodied bones. Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Eagles; Misanthropy; Moles THE GOOD BIRDS Poem Text First Line: Threading the evil hand and look Last Line: Between my lovely ground and god. Subject(s): Birds THE HEART UPON THE SLEEVE Poem Text First Line: Dear heart, behold you bound Subject(s): Hearts; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE INNOCENTS Poem Text First Line: When the cock in the dish Last Line: "to quiet his crying." Subject(s): Herod The Great (73-4 B.c.); Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth THE PEBBLE Poem Text First Line: If any have a stone to shy Last Line: It is not I, ever or now. THE PERSIAN KITTEN Poem Text First Line: Lie still, my love, and do not speak, because Subject(s): Cats THE POOR OLD CANNON Poem Text First Line: Upbroke the sun Last Line: "though I split my throat." THE PURITAN'S BALLAD Poem Text First Line: My love came up from barnegat Last Line: To tell me terrible lies? Subject(s): Puritans THE TORTOISE IN ETERNITY Poem Text First Line: Within my house of patterned horn Last Line: Square on my scornful back. Subject(s): Turtles; Tortoises THIS CORRUPTIBLE First Line: The body, long oppressed Last Line: O grain of god in power, %endure another hour! %it is but for an hour, said the spirit THIS HAND First Line: This hand you have observed Last Line: Elixirs might escape; %but now, compact as stone, %my hand preserves a shape %too utterly its own THREE WISHES First Line: Sink out of being, and go down, go down Last Line: And one-the last wild chance before you sink- %a flock of dancing clouds about the sun THUNDER STORM First Line: O for all soundless time's Last Line: Loud caves of thunder! %o for the burning bush, %and graves thereunder! TO A BLACKBIRD SINGING First Line: Where the poisonous mistletoe Last Line: The wine-god loves your song: the fruit %will cool your lovely throat with wine TO A BOOK First Line: By some peculiar force centrifugal Last Line: Your lunar quietude, my crescent: %remember that your birth was mortal TO A COUGH IN THE STREET AT MIDNIGHT First Line: God rest you if you're dead Last Line: Whether it be but a cold in the head %or the more bitter cold which binds the dead TO A LADY'S COUNTENANCE First Line: This unphilosophic sight Subject(s): Grief; Women; Sorrow; Sadness TO A LADY'S COUNTENANCE First Line: This unphilosophic sight Last Line: In lines of noble heritage; %and so, you do not show your age Subject(s): Grief; Women TO APHRODITE, WITH A TALISMAN First Line: This graven charm, that leads a girl unkissed Last Line: How it is bound with violet-coloured wool, %gift of a sorceress from thessaly TO CLAUDIA HOMONOEA First Line: My words were delicately breathed Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TO CLAUDIA HOMONOEA First Line: My words were delicately breathed Last Line: Having loved her even as a child: %I leave him nothing but his tears Subject(s): Death TO THE SHEPHERD-GOD First Line: Daphnis, the country pipe-player Last Line: Whose fur the faintest pattern dapples: %his little scrip that smells of apples TRAGIC DIALOGUE First Line: Does not the progressive wheel of years Last Line: A clover field, a river, %a hawthorn hedge, a pane of glass %had parted us forever TRUE VINE First Line: There is a serpent in perfection tarnished Last Line: Whose leaves have drunk the skies, and stooped to nourish %the earth again with honey sweet and salt TWELFTH NIGHT Poem Text First Line: It has always been king herod that I feared Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The TWELFTH NIGHT First Line: It has always been king herod that I feared Last Line: Now let this iron bar be importuned; %I say you shall not speak to him of war Subject(s): Christmas UNFINISHED BALLAD First Line: You stared at me and you never spoke Last Line: For you have slept in my stony crib %and the strings of your heart are tightened UNFINISHED PORTRAIT First Line: My love, you know that I have never used Subject(s): Love UNFINISHED PORTRAIT First Line: My love, you know that I have never used Last Line: To leave you an uncaptured element; %water, or light, or air that's stained by both Subject(s): Love UNWILLING ADMISSION First Line: Here is the deep admission, whose profound Last Line: Save to affirm, 'the brave have never died,' %though you and I must die at every stroke VALENTINE Poem Text First Line: Too high, too high to pluck Subject(s): Love; Disappointment; Food & Eating VALENTINE First Line: Too high, too high to pluck Last Line: O honey cool and chaste %as clover's breath! %sweet heaven I shall taste %before my death VELVET SHOES Poem Text First Line: Let us walk in the white snow Last Line: We shall walk in the snow. Subject(s): Shoes; Silence; Snow; Walking; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers VIENNESE WALTZ First Line: We are so tired, and perhaps tomorrow Last Line: Come, let us dream the little death that hovers %pensive as heaven in a cloudy veil VILLAGE MYSTERY Poem Text First Line: The woman in the pointed hood Subject(s): Ghosts VILLAGE MYSTERY First Line: The woman in the pointed hood Last Line: And cower in the weeping air- %but, oh, she was no kin of mine, %and so I did not care! WHEN I PERCEIVE THE SABLE OF YOUR HAIR WHERE, O, WHERE? First Line: I need not die to go Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of WHERE, O, WHERE? First Line: I need not die to go Last Line: You shall see me no more %though each night I hide %in your bed, at your side Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of WILD PEACHES Poem Text First Line: When the world turns completely upside down Last Line: And sleepy winter, like the sleep of death. Variant Title(s): "when The World Turns Completely Upside Down""; Subject(s): Fruit; Nature; Peaches; Seasons WINTER SLEEP Poem Text First Line: When against earth a wooden heel Last Line: Soft, soft, soft, and deep, deep, deep! Subject(s): Sleep; Winter |
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