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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: bottomley, gordon Matches Found: 124 Bottomley, Gordon Poet's Biography 124 poems available by this author A CAROL FOR CHRISTMAS DAY BEFORE DAWN Poem Text First Line: O, bethlem town to-night is cold Last Line: A world more sorrowful than theirs. Subject(s): Christmas Carols; Religion; Theology A DEAD MOTHER Poem Text First Line: White-faced mother, what fragrant things Last Line: "to watch till my child appears." Subject(s): Abortion; Mothers A HYMN OF FORM Poem Text First Line: The holy virtue of living, the soul's delight Last Line: As if, after all, god is and is about to speak. Subject(s): Form A HYMN OF IMAGINATION Poem Text First Line: Imagination's towers appear Last Line: To be resumed in god we ripen here? Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy A HYMN OF TOUCH Poem Text First Line: These magnificent senses Last Line: Of all senses magnificent. Subject(s): Touch (sense) A LADY OF PARIS BORDONE Poem Text First Line: Saidst genoa? Ah well, it may be true Last Line: Her bosom whose limpid veil droops wide apart. Subject(s): Genoa, Italy A PASSING OF FAITH Poem Text First Line: Nilus's gods, lost wanderers Last Line: And, ere they know it, no more exist. Subject(s): Faith; Belief; Creed A SISTER OF SORROW: 1. UP THE ROAD Poem Text First Line: Mother, he walks by the windy gate Last Line: "daughter, I tell you the dead are dead." Subject(s): Death; Dead, The A SISTER OF SORROW: 2. WEEPING CROSS Poem Text First Line: Now when you come to weeping cross Last Line: "who kissed as judas kissed." Subject(s): Crosses A SISTER OF SORROW: 3. WEDDING-EVE Poem Text First Line: Gown and veil and bride-bed linen Last Line: "your tomb or his, 'tis one to me." Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A SONG OF APPLE-BLOOM Poem Text First Line: Have you not waked in the grey of the day-dawn Last Line: "come, lasses, come, ere our rose-world falls grey." Subject(s): Apples; Fruit A SONG OF APPLE-GATHERING Poem Text First Line: Harvest is over in mist and moist moon-light Last Line: Joy-worn and grave to its sleep-time at last. Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Harvest ABISHAG Poem Text First Line: My lord, your servants sought me and I came Last Line: Is this way slowly easier? It is well. Subject(s): Abishag (bible); Women In The Bible AN EPILOGUE TO THE STEALING OF DIONYSOS: IACHOS SPEAKING Poem Text First Line: I hate the sea, whose bladder-grapes Last Line: I could not help touching earth again. ATLANTIS Poem Text First Line: What poets sang in atlantis? Who can tell Last Line: Poetry's immortality will pass. Subject(s): Atlantis; Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets AVELINGLAS Poem Text First Line: Now whether land or water win Last Line: Who built his palace here? BABEL: THE GATE OF GOD Poem Text First Line: Lost towers impend, copeless primeval props Last Line: Cankerous charring, crevices' fronds of flame. Subject(s): Babylon BABYLONIAN LYRIC Poem Text First Line: Nimroud was a hunter, striding Last Line: Tressed with life, with deep death shod. Subject(s): Babylon BIARTEY'S SPINNING SONG, FR. THE RIDING TO LITHEND Poem Text First Line: They go by three Last Line: The core slips out. Subject(s): Spinning BLANDID'S SONG, FR. THE CRIER BY NIGHT Poem Text First Line: The bird in my heart is calling through a farfled, tear-grey sea Last Line: Who have known the forgetting of dying to a life one lonely pain. BRITAIN'S DAUGHTER Poem Text First Line: The rat is a sociable fellow Last Line: Curtain CALVARY-TALK Poem Text First Line: Three black crosses against the sky Last Line: Who thought their god was dead. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion CRIER BY NIGHT,' SELS. First Line: The bird in my heart's a-calling through a ... DAPHNE; FOR GRAHAM ROBERTSON Poem Text First Line: That white and wondrous city near the sea Last Line: "that love has sacrificed thee to despair." Subject(s): Daphne (mythology) DEDICATION A VISION OF GIORGIONE: TO MY WIFE, AN OLD GIFT AND A NEW Poem Text First Line: Where all is yours DEDICATION TO BRITAIN'S DAUGHTER; TO EDMUND GOSSE Poem Text First Line: By babbicombe and oddicombe DEDICATION TO CHAMBERS OF IMAGERY. SECOND SERIES: TO MY PARENTS Poem Text First Line: Too many books of voiceless verse DEDICATION TO CHAMBERS OF IMAGERY: TO SARAH GORDON Poem Text First Line: Too many years have touched you now DEDICATION TO KING LEAR'S WIFE: TO T. STURGE MOORE Poem Text First Line: The years come on, the years go by DEDICATION TO LAODICE AND DANAE: TO B.J. FLETCHER Poem Text First Line: O rare ben fletcher, oft I bless Subject(s): Friendship DEDICATION TO MIDSUMMER EVE: TO CLINTON BALMER Poem Text First Line: In the lost valley all is still Subject(s): Hay, James Hamilton (1874-1916); Friendship DEDICATION TO RIDING TO LITHEND: TO EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text First Line: Here in the north we speak of you DEDICATIONS AND INSCRIPTIONS: 11. TO EDWARD THOMAS, WITH A PLAY Poem Text First Line: Within your roman house Last Line: Let them to yours be bidden. Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) DEDICATIONS AND INSCRIPTIONS: 12. TO YONE NOGUCHI Poem Text First Line: I have seen bending ladies in a mist Last Line: A night-song half a gleam and half a sigh. Subject(s): Noguchi, Yone (1875-1947) DEDICATIONS AND INSCRIPTIONS: 17. TO G.H. LUCE, WITH A BOOK OF PLAYS First Line: When in some heavy airless eastern night DEDICATIONS AND INSCRIPTIONS: 2. EPILOGUE: 5TH OCTOBER 1896 Poem Text First Line: Autumn falls quickly on us hereabout Last Line: The evening lowing of tense-uddered kine. DEDICATIONS AND INSCRIPTIONS: 6. GRUACH Poem Text First Line: Now, when my life is more than half consumed Last Line: The duty that I offer, I too your friend. Subject(s): Writing & Writers DEDICATIONS AND INSCRIPTIONS: 7. FAREWELL TO WHITE-NIGHTS Poem Text First Line: White-nights, white-nights, ah, name that stirs hushed singing Last Line: And their grey tears drop softly in my heart. DEDICATIONS AND INSCRIPTIONS: 8. BEAM-VERSES AT WELL KNOWE Poem Text First Line: This land was once the northmen's rest Last Line: Shall help the outworn world to change. EAGER SPRING Poem Text First Line: Whirl, snow, on the blackbird's chatter Last Line: To save for us one more spring. Subject(s): Spring EARLY VENEZIAN DETAIL Poem Text First Line: Little cat of an angel Last Line: For her skirts to spill. Subject(s): Animals; Cats FIRST MUSICIAN'S SONG, FR. LAODICE AND DANAE Poem Text First Line: I will sing of the women who have borne rule Last Line: She has shewn men the power of their source again. Subject(s): Women GONERIL'S LULLABY, FR. KING LEAR'S WIFE Poem Text First Line: The owlets in roof-holes Last Line: Twixt me and my arm. GORMFLAITH'S SONG, FR. KING LEAR'S WIFE Poem Text First Line: If you have a mind to kiss me Last Line: I'll shut mine. Come, have you spied me? Subject(s): Kisses GRUACH Poem Text First Line: The meat is killed: the veal is blooded: the trout are caught Last Line: Curtain. Subject(s): Scotland HADRIAN IN EGYPT Poem Text First Line: Rare hadrian had wondered in all lands Last Line: The trouble of beauty in a brooding poet. Subject(s): Egypt; Hadrian, Roman Emperor (76-138) HAYMAKERS' SONG, FR. KING RENE'S HONEYMOON Poem Text First Line: The hay-wain turns heavily down the dark lane Last Line: Until in full pails of frothed milk they are humming. Subject(s): Hay & Haymaking HOMUNCULUS IN PENUMBRA Poem Text First Line: When I look down my limbs and moving breast Last Line: "until dissemination is complete." Subject(s): Death; Dead, The HUSBANDMAN'S SONG, FR. KING RENE'S HONEYMOON Poem Text First Line: In the last heavy days ere the mowing-grass seeded Last Line: And the corn-crake creaked ever and over and o'er. Subject(s): Mills & Millers IN CHURCH Poem Text First Line: The priest, in thoughtless daily use Last Line: That proud tired yielding to the sun's. Subject(s): Public Worship; Church Attendance IN JANUARY Poem Text First Line: O, shepherd out upon the snow Last Line: Still creeping agelessly. Subject(s): January; Shepherds & Shepherdesses IN MEMORIAM A.M.W.; SEPTEMBER, 1910 (FOR A SOLEMN MUSIC) Poem Text First Line: Out of a silence Last Line: Into a silence. Subject(s): Music & Musicians JULIET TO ROSALINE Poem Text First Line: Sweet coz, I thank you for your prudish vow Subject(s): Virginity; Vestals KASSANDRA PROPHESIES Poem Text First Line: And yester-morn the vision burned again Last Line: Take you and sell you to mene...Men...Menelaos.... Subject(s): Cassandra (mythology); Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical; Prophecy & Prophets KING LEAR'S WIFE First Line: Many, many must die who long to live L'APPARITION' OF GUSTAVE MOREAU Poem Text First Line: These jewel-coloured walls, gemmed salome L'OISEAU BLEU (AFTER CHARLES CONDER) Poem Text First Line: A parting golden haze Last Line: The bird drops home. Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds LES BARICADES MISTERIEUSES (AFTER FRANCOIS COUPERIN) Poem Text First Line: In this unsought and lonely glade Last Line: In night that closes everything. LITTLEHOLME; FOR J.S. AND A.W.S. Poem Text First Line: In entering the town, where the bright river Last Line: About an earth that has not been misused. Subject(s): Towns MAUDLIN'S SONG: 1, FR. MIDSUMMER EVE Poem Text First Line: Fetch the porridge-pot hither to me Last Line: Warily down and shake it. Now! MAUDLIN'S SONG: 2 Poem Text First Line: The maids went down to dip in the pool Last Line: Though the night was cool. Subject(s): Swimming & Swimmers MIDNIGHT FIRES Poem Text First Line: The narrow wings of sunset spread and sank Last Line: Our lights burn low; and so send out their light. Subject(s): Great Britain; Patriotism MY MOON NAN'S SONG, FR. MIDSUMMER EVE Poem Text First Line: Hou, hou' went the neatherd moaning Last Line: "hou, hou"" neared the neatherd's calling." NETTED STRAWBERRIES Poem Text First Line: I am a willow-wren Last Line: The web would tangle and cling. Subject(s): Fruit; Strawberries NEW YEAR'S EVE, 1913 Poem Text First Line: O, cartmel bells ring soft to-night Last Line: The cartmel bells no more. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NIGHT AND MORNING SONGS (1) Poem Text First Line: Out of the high skies birds are falling Subject(s): Birds; Trees NIGHT AND MORNING SONGS (2) Poem Text First Line: I am tired of the wind NIGHT AND MORNING SONGS (3) Poem Text First Line: Only the darkening heights Subject(s): Remorse NIGHT AND MORNING SONGS (4) Poem Text First Line: Where is that tomb of antony's ? NIGHT AND MORNING SONGS: (5) Poem Text First Line: Between april and may NIGHT AND MORNING SONGS: 14. RING-DOVE SONG Poem Text First Line: Softly I sing you, sweet Last Line: Sweet. Subject(s): Doves NIGHT AND MORNING SONGS: 9. A MAD MAID'S SONG Poem Text First Line: The day had a sunless dawning Last Line: Find sweetness in death's peace. NIGHT AND MORNING SONGS: AFTER MOONSET Poem Text First Line: Lilies burned white in the dark Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NIGHT AND MORNING SONGS: DAWN Poem Text First Line: A thrush is tapping a stone Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise NIGHT AND MORNING SONGS: EBB TIDE Poem Text First Line: There's salt on your ashen lips, lady Subject(s): Wind; Rain NIGHT AND MORNING SONGS: ELEGIAC MOOD Poem Text First Line: From song and dream for ever gone NIGHT AND MORNING SONGS: MY MOON Poem Text First Line: My moon was lit in an hour of lilies Subject(s): Moon NIGHT AND MORNING SONGS: SANCTUARIES Poem Text First Line: There is a chamber in the dawn Subject(s): Dawn; Night; Sunrise; Bedtime NIGHT AND MORNING SONGS: THE FIELDS AT EVENING Poem Text First Line: The dew-light lingers yet Subject(s): Fields; Evening; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Sunset; Twilight OF HORSES Poem Text First Line: Hold power between thy knees; yea, string Last Line: Loose tender mouth would make thee dumbly man's. Subject(s): Animals; Horses ON LANDOR'S POEMS FOUND IN A CEDARWOOD DESK Poem Text First Line: Comatas, prisoned in a cedarn chest OUR LADY OF CONSOLATION Poem Text First Line: We seek you in the garden to and fro Last Line: And all our hearts are with you now as then. Subject(s): Consolation PHILLIS Poem Text First Line: When kings ruled lands of villages PROLOGUE FOR THE SILVERDALE VILLAGE PLAYERS: EASTER 1922 Poem Text First Line: Neighbours and friends, we come to-night Last Line: Before you all another year. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Actresses PROLOGUE FOR THE SILVERDALE VILLAGE PLAYERS: EASTER 1924 Poem Text First Line: Neighbours, to-night we come once more Last Line: As of that iceland where they befell. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Actresses PROLOGUE TO TOWIE CASTLE, SELS. First Line: Towie castle, towie castle ROGER'S SONG, FR. MIDSUMMER EVE Poem Text First Line: I get no sleep in lambing nights Last Line: While I do handle the sheep. Subject(s): Sheep ROMEO TO ROSALINE Poem Text First Line: Since, in the ashen nunnery of your heart Subject(s): Love - Unrequited ROSAMUND GRIEF Poem Text First Line: I fasted, prayed and scourged myself Last Line: An angel in god's sight. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SAILORS: 2 Poem Text First Line: Why does the land cease here? Determinedly SHEARERS'SONG, FR. KING RENE'S ROMANCE Poem Text First Line: What do the maids at shearing-time? Last Line: A maid can clip as well as a man. Subject(s): Sheep; Women's Rights; Feminism SINAI Poem Text First Line: I am the moses: I the mouth of god Last Line: I strike the steel to unavoidable things. Subject(s): Moses SISTER TO SISTER Poem Text First Line: Scarce can I see your golden head Last Line: His arms about you, sister. Subject(s): Sisters SOLOMON'S PARENTS Poem Text First Line: Do I turn to poison? Am I corrupt? Last Line: How they grew. Subject(s): Bathsheba (bible); David (d. 962 B.c.); Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Women In The Bible SONG, FR. A VISION OF GIOGIONE: GEMMA'S SONG ON THE WATER Poem Text First Line: Pale ilaria, beauty's daughter Last Line: Lean down to meet that gleaming. SONG, FR. A VISION OF GIORGIONE: FELICE'S SONG Poem Text First Line: You know, and none in the world beside Last Line: Swiftly the golden leaf. SONG, FR. A VISION OF GIORGIONE: GEMMA'S SONG ON THE WAY Poem Text First Line: Helen dwelt in old troy city Last Line: Liefer than to hers. Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical SONG, FR. A VISION OF GIORGIONE: GEMMA'S SPRING SONG Poem Text First Line: Ladies, dawn creeps down the valley Last Line: From their shadowy hearts again? Subject(s): Spring THE DAIRYMAIDS TO PAN Poem Text First Line: Goatfoot, we know you Last Line: To herd us our beasts. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology) THE ELDER WOMAN'S SONG: 1, FR. KING LEAR'S WIFE Poem Text First Line: A louse crept out of my lady's shift Last Line: Her pocket turned out for me. Subject(s): Lice THE ELDER WOMAN'S SONG: 2, FR. KING LEAR'S WIFE Poem Text First Line: Mother, it is my wedding-morn Last Line: For I watched the night away. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE ELDER WOMAN'S SONG: 3, FR. KING LEAR'S WIFE Poem Text First Line: The queen has gone to bed Last Line: And nobody knows why. Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleeplessness THE ELDER WOMAN'S SONG: 4, FR. KING LEAR'S WIFE Poem Text First Line: O, merry, merry will my heart be Last Line: And go like a lady, warmly drest. Subject(s): Old Age; Women THE END OF THE WORLD Poem Text First Line: The snow had fallen many nights and days Last Line: "he can stay with me while I do not lift them." Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE GOLDEN STILL NOVEMBER DAYS Poem Text THE LAST NIGHT Poem Text First Line: The queen's dark laugh is dreadful as the night Last Line: And desolate memphian silences remain. Subject(s): Silence THE LAST OF HELEN Poem Text First Line: Spring. A hid land of sodden sickly sleep Last Line: Her heart that is both present and forgotten. Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical THE MAID OF ARC; FOR M. S. M. Poem Text First Line: In domremy a maid Last Line: Who sleep in fields of france. Subject(s): Joan Of Arc (1412-1431) THE ORCHARD FEAST Poem Text First Line: Nay, leave the ladders hidden up the boughs Last Line: And lift our loads between us and go home. Subject(s): Country Life; Food & Eating THE PASSING BELL Poem Text First Line: The pull-wheel whirled in the bell-tower Last Line: "and a light-swift path thereto." Subject(s): Bells THE PLOUGHMAN Poem Text First Line: Under the long fell's stony eaves Last Line: The corn will spring again for me. Subject(s): Corn; Plowing & Plowmen THE PRIDE OF WESTMORELAND Poem Text First Line: I met a man of ninety-three Last Line: Like harry the eighth before me. Subject(s): Marriage; Old Age; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE SLAVE MARKET Poem Text First Line: In bronze (true flesh of thought) stern shifting contours Last Line: Pass thou and gaze, she is more greatly thine. Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical THE SOWER Poem Text First Line: When robert put the seed in, seed in, seed in Last Line: A star like burning snow. Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters THE VIADUCT Poem Text First Line: And when I found the narrowing estuary Last Line: Stacked waggons, slow unthinking slaves between. Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains THE WHITE WATCH (OPUS 27: NO. 2) Poem Text First Line: O lifeless garden of the moon Last Line: A little over the garden below. Subject(s): Moon; Sleep; Women THE WHITE WATCH (OPUS 28: NO. 3) Poem Text First Line: Apple boughs lie in the eaves Last Line: And a bride girl peered at her from the floor. Subject(s): Brides; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WHITE WATCH (OPUS JUVENIS) Poem Text First Line: I do not know how I came here Last Line: And love in the dark, my love and I. TO IRON-FOUNDERS AND OTHERS Poem Text First Line: When you destroy a blade of grass Last Line: Chisels men's hands to magnify. Subject(s): Environment; Industrial Revolution; Labor & Laborers; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Work; Workers TO OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text First Line: Omar, the roses blossom by your grave Subject(s): Omar Khayyam (1048-1122) TO ROBERT CALVERLEY TREVELYAN & ELIZABETH TREVELYAN Poem Text First Line: When one in java and cathay Last Line: Had I not journeyed at your side. Subject(s): Friendship; Travel; Journeys; Trips TO W.G.C., WITH A BOOK OF PLAYS Poem Text First Line: Sir, you have known great men, and your own mind Subject(s): Admiration WITH A BOOK OF VERSES Poem Text First Line: Some winter's eve, when every beam |
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