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Author: ZUKOFSKY, LOUIS Matches Found: 81 Zukofsky, Louis Poet's Biography 81 poems available by this author (RYOKAN'S SCROLL) First Line: Dripping %words Last Line: Tree's %petals 1892-1941 Poem Text First Line: To be moved comes of want, though want be complete Subject(s): Capitol, Washington, D.c.; Statues 29 Poem Text First Line: At heaven's gate' the larks: have Subject(s): Songs; January A -- 1 First Line: Round of fiddles playing bach Last Line: Open, o fierce flaming pit A -- 10 First Line: Paris %paris %of your beautiful phrases Last Line: Grant us the people's peace A -- 11 First Line: River that must turn full after I stop dying Last Line: Her love in all her honor A -- 12 First Line: Out of deep need Last Line: Unhurt and %happy A -- 13 PARTITA: 1 First Line: What do you want to know Last Line: As if it is not done A -- 13 PARTITA: 2 First Line: Why hop ye so, ye little, little hills Last Line: The churl will not down ere the day dawn A -- 13 PARTITA: 3 First Line: The human son fathered by man and the sun sleeps Last Line: Your eyes look at hands %lips seem to %touch A -- 13 PARTITA: 4 First Line: Too heavy Last Line: Only the image of a voice %love you A -- 14 First Line: Beginning an Last Line: One %three %sun %eye A -- 15 First Line: An %hinny Last Line: White pods of honesty %satinflower A -- 16 First Line: An %equality Last Line: Wind flower A -- 17 A CORONAL First Line: But we ran ahead of it all Last Line: Luminous -- a night %'catullus li' A -- 18 First Line: An unearthing Last Line: Inept wit with her A -- 19 First Line: An other Last Line: Raz'd nine %so soon twenty A -- 2 First Line: Clear music Last Line: The song out of the voices A -- 20 First Line: Respond for p.Z.'s tone row Last Line: What is it, I wonder that makes thee %so loved A -- 21 RUDENS First Line: An 'twere any nightingale Last Line: Sweet turn on your side A -- 22 AN ERA ANYTIME OF YEAR First Line: Others letters a sum owed Last Line: She's hid an arm embraces A -- 23 First Line: An unforeseen delight a round Last Line: Z-sited path are but us A -- 24 MASQUE First Line: Blest / infinite things Last Line: I wonder that makes thee so loved A -- 3 First Line: At eventide, cool hour Last Line: Pansy over the heart, dicky-bird A -- 4 First Line: Giant sparkler Last Line: Never a memory remain A -- 5 First Line: An animate still-life -- night Last Line: Words ranging forms A -- 6 First Line: Environs, the sea of Last Line: With all this material %to what distinction A -- 7 First Line: Horses: who will do it? Out of manes? Words Last Line: Spoke: words, words, we are words, horses, manes %words A -- 8 First Line: And of labor Last Line: Labor light lights in earth, in air, on earth A -- 9 First Line: An impulse to action sings of a semblance Last Line: How else is love's distance approximated A -12, SELS First Line: In the eighth month %in the second year of darius %I saw by night Last Line: The fire roared, quieted to light A : 12 First Line: In peace %200-year spruce at least Last Line: Actions things; themselves; doing A' - 14 Poem Text First Line: An / orange A' - 17: A CORONAL Poem Text First Line: But we ran ahead of it all A' - 18 Poem Text First Line: An unearthing / my valentine Subject(s): Death; Absence; Conduct Of Life; Dead, The; Separation; Isolation A' - 19 Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Another song - you A' - 9 Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: An impulse to action sings of a semblance Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Poetry & Poets; Work; Workers A' - SECOND MOVEMENT Poem Text First Line: The clear music Subject(s): Music & Musicians ALL OF DECEMBER TOWARD NEW YEAR'S First Line: Not the branches Last Line: The young son: %'if it's turned %from us, we %are the shades.' AS TO HOW MUCH First Line: Of the right way Last Line: Some music long ago ATQUE IN PERPETUUM A.W. Poem Text First Line: Alias to a wand the height lowered Subject(s): Death; Dead, The AUBADE: 1925 First Line: Kick the blanket away, %the man of darkness has sweated enough! Last Line: Nor out of eternity of flat island sand a little lowly to the %aspect of eternal morning BECAUSE TARZAN TRIUMPHS Last Line: But an heroic %which excretes and laughs CAN A MOTE OF SUNLIGHT DEFEAT ITS PURPOSE Last Line: See sun, and think shadow COCKTAILS Last Line: Signaling-lights below CONSTELLAITON First Line: Immemorial, %and after us %immemorial, %o white Last Line: And we in turn %share now your fate %whose process is continual EXPOUNDING THE TORAH First Line: Rabbi pinhas: %from true prayers Last Line: What we say %here is heard there FERRY First Line: How many %times around %deck, ladies? Last Line: The statue %of liberty's %drunk? %french!' FERRY First Line: Gleams a green lamp Last Line: Plash. Night. Plash. Sky FINALLY A VALENTINE Poem Text First Line: There is / a heart Last Line: A / part Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963) FINALLY A VALENTINE First Line: There is %a heart Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963) FROM THE HEAD First Line: In hebrew 'in the beginning' %means literally from the head Last Line: To get over even its chaos early I SENT THEE LATE First Line: Vast, tremulous; %grave on grave of water-grave Last Line: Of emptied returning sound IT'S HARD TO SEE BUT THINK OF A SEA Last Line: I turn to last %perhaps JAUNT Poem Text First Line: Verona, ohio / right 3 miles Subject(s): Landscape; Travel; Journeys; Trips LINES OF THIS NEW SONG ARE NOTHING Last Line: The tune's image holding in the line LITTLE WRISTS First Line: Little wrists, %is your content Last Line: A lover exists MADISON, WIS., REMEMBERING THE BLOOM OF MONTICELLO First Line: No wmpty bed blues-- %between these walls Last Line: Empty bed %blues--keep the %thorn constantly %wed MANTIS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Mantis! Praying mantis! Since your wings' leaves Subject(s): Mantis; Leaves MANTIS First Line: Mantis! Praying mantis! Since your wings' leaves Last Line: And build the new world in your eyes, save it! NON TI FIDAR First Line: The hand a shade of moonlight on the pillow Last Line: A song that lovers' heads %ear to, and on ear foretell NOT MUCH MORE THAN BEING Last Line: The summer river- %under: the dragon OF DYING BEAUTY Poem Text First Line: Spare us of dyhing beauty,' cries out youth Subject(s): Youth POEM First Line: And looking to where shone orion Last Line: Or from their green of stars, %something like a cucumber? POEM BEGINNING THE First Line: 1 the %2 voice of jesus I. Rush singing Last Line: 330 myriad upon myriad shall be POEM BEGINNING THE : FIFTH MOVEMENT: AUTOBIOGRAPHY First Line: Speaking about epics, mother Last Line: Keine kadish wird man sagen POEM: TRIAN SIGNAL First Line: With stars past troughs to sound %--through thick twilight Last Line: With a hair: and the cheek kissed %with the shredded space READING AND TALKING First Line: Cauliflower-eared spartan Last Line: That year's %poem %will be %better %if tears %show him %to the %letter SHANG CUP First Line: From a libation cup %of bronze Last Line: Come sip %I drink SONG FOR THE YEAR'S END First Line: Daughter of music Last Line: Who's been sitting in my chair? SONGS OF DEGREES, SELS. First Line: William %carlos %williams Last Line: A kill Subject(s): Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963) THE GUESTS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: In the mountains / the finches Subject(s): Landscape THE IYYOB TRANSLATION FROM 'A-15' Poem Text First Line: An / hinny / by / stallion Last Line: White pods of honesty / satinflower Subject(s): Jews; Mysticism - Judaism; Judaism THE JUDGE AND THE BIRD Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The house was dutch Subject(s): Houses; Canaries THE OLD POET MOVES TO A NEW APARTMENT 14 TIMES Poem Text First Line: The old radical' .Or surd TIBOR SERLY First Line: Red varnish %warm flitch Last Line: Before every kindness TO MY WASH-STAND Last Line: An age in a wash-stand %and in their own heads VERSE AND VERSION First Line: In that this happening Last Line: Before every kindness VOICE OUT OF THE TABERNACLE First Line: Sabbath, the pious carry no money Last Line: For the ark %shittim wood - the acacia WHEN THE CRICKETS Last Line: We are going %to sleep to sleep XENOPHANES First Line: Water, cold, and sweet, and pure Last Line: Men making merry should first hymn |
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