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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: flecker, james elroy Matches Found: 97 Flecker, James Elroy Poet's Biography 97 poems available by this author A FRAGMENT Poem Text First Line: O pouring westering streams Last Line: All to embrace his mother throned in her shell. A MIRACLE OF BETHLEHEM Poem Text First Line: I pray you, tell me where you go Last Line: O sorrow, he is dead! Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine A NEW YEAR'S CAROL Poem Text First Line: Awake, awake! The world is young Last Line: The silent pools of light and truth. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year A SACRED DIALOGUE (CHRISTMAS 1912) Poem Text First Line: The silver bishop of bethlehem Last Line: The christmas day of the hosts! Subject(s): Balkan Wars (1912, 1913); Christmas; Nativity, The A SHIP, AN ISLE, A SICKLE MOON Poem Text A SHIP, AN ISLE, A SICKLE MOON A WESTERN VOYAGE Poem Text First Line: My friend the sun - like all my friends Last Line: My brother and good friend, the sun. Subject(s): Sun ARIEYA Poem Text First Line: This place was formed divine for love and us to dwell Last Line: This worst and best of songs, one who loves it, and you. BALLAD OF CAMDEN TOWN Poem Text First Line: I walked with maisie long years back Last Line: So much, I can't forget. Subject(s): Camden Town, London BALLAD OF THE LONDONER Poem Text First Line: Evening falls on the smoky walls Last Line: Where flowers are pale and few. Subject(s): London; Love BALLADE First Line: Up through the amethystine air Subject(s): Science BRUMANA Poem Text First Line: Oh shall I never never be home again? Last Line: And dream and dream that I am home again! Subject(s): Homesickness BRYAN OF BRITTANY Poem Text First Line: Roses are golden or white or red Last Line: "must over the hill with me." Subject(s): Brittany, France DESTROYER OF SHIPS, MEN, CITIES Poem Text First Line: Helen of troy has sprung from hell Last Line: And live dissatisfied. Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical DIRGE Poem Text First Line: If there be any grief Last Line: Lie here, till morning come. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness DON JUAN DECLAIMS Poem Text First Line: I am don juan, curst from age to age Last Line: And took my hand, and I was led away. Subject(s): Don Juan DONDE ESTAN? (A FRAGMENT) Poem Text First Line: We are they who dream no dreams Last Line: Of proud vienna. DULCE LUMEN, TRISTE NUMEN, SUAVE LUMEN LUMINUM Poem Text First Line: The town whose quiet veins are dark green sea Last Line: Bravely, like men who see beyond the skies. ENVOY Poem Text First Line: The young men leap, and toss their golden hair Last Line: The doubtful shadow of a demon flame. EPITHALAMION Poem Text First Line: Smile then, children, hand in hand Last Line: And the movement of the morning. Subject(s): Wedding Song; Epithalamium FELO-DE-SE Poem Text First Line: The song of a man who was dead Last Line: And sing a celestial tune. Subject(s): Suicide FOUNTAINS Poem Text First Line: Soft is the collied night, and cool Last Line: Wave and float the nenuphars. Subject(s): Fountains FRAGMENTS OF AN ODE TO SHELLEY Poem Text First Line: Since men have always crowned the tomb Last Line: And bathed his forehead in the pool of night. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) FROM GRENOBLE Poem Text First Line: Now have I seen, in graisivaudan's vale Last Line: And the rose-garden of my gracious home. Subject(s): Grenoble, France; Travel; Journeys; Trips GATES OF DAMASCUS Poem Text First Line: Four great gates has the city of damascus Last Line: Who walks thy garden eve on eve, and bows his head, and calls thee friend. Subject(s): Damascus, Syria GLION - EVENING Poem Text First Line: From glion when the sun declines Last Line: Graved by the poet gautier Subject(s): Evening; Glion, Switzerland; Sunset; Twilight GLION - NOON Poem Text First Line: From glion on an august noon Last Line: Standing immutably alone. Subject(s): Glion, Switzerland; Noon GOD SAVE THE KING Poem Text First Line: God save our gracious king Last Line: God save the king! Subject(s): Patriotism GOLDEN ROAD First Line: We are the pilgrims, master; we shall go GRAVIS SULCIS IMMUTABILIS Poem Text First Line: Come, let me kiss your wistful face Last Line: In summer on forsaken shores. Subject(s): Love; Time HASSAN, SELS. Subject(s): Flowers HEXAMETERS Poem Text First Line: O happy dome so lightly swimming through storm-riven aether Last Line: Break the ebon soldiers, restore his realm to the dreamer! HYALI Poem Text First Line: Island in blue of summer floating on Last Line: And like thy rocks shall down through time endure. Subject(s): Aegean Sea; Greece; Islands; Greeks I ROSE FROM DREAMLESS HOURS AND SOUGHT THE MORNING IDEAL Poem Text First Line: When all my gentle friends had gone Last Line: "and where atlantis, where theleme?" Subject(s): Friendship IN HOSPITAL Poem Text First Line: Would I might lie like this, without the pain Last Line: And all that lake a dewdrop on a rose. Subject(s): Hospitals; Science; Scientists IN MEMORIAM Poem Text First Line: I never shall forget that night Last Line: Combing out your hair. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The IN PHAEACIA Poem Text First Line: Had I that haze of streaming blue Last Line: And in her eyes the forest pool. INSCRIPTION FOR ARTHUR RACKHAM'S RIP VAN WINKLE Poem Text First Line: Since youth is wise, and cannot comprehend Last Line: Sane men have worshipped stranger gods than these. Subject(s): Rackham, Arthur (1867-1939) INVITATION Poem Text First Line: In those good days when we were young and wise Last Line: We should not know the tales you have to tell? Subject(s): Archeology; Writing & Writers JOSEPH AND MARY Poem Text First Line: Mary, art thou the little maid Last Line: Nor see his shining eyes. Subject(s): Joseph, Saint (1st Century B.c.-a.d.); Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary LAST LOVE (ADAPTION OF NOVALILS' LAST WORDS) Poem Text First Line: Now for a last glad look upon life: my journey is ending Last Line: Now she has made me free -- free to rejoice evermore. Subject(s): Hardenberg, Friedrich L. (1772-1801); Love LORD ARNALDOS Poem Text First Line: The strangest of adventures Last Line: "who sail away with me." Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails LUCRETIA Poem Text First Line: As one who in the cold abyss of night Last Line: -- hell is opening, opening horribly. MARY MAGDALEN Poem Text First Line: O eyes that strip the souls of men Last Line: "for love of him, for love of him." Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene MY FRIEND Poem Text First Line: I had a friend who battled for the truth Last Line: And rest his rebel heart, and close his eyes. Subject(s): Friendship; Love - Complaints NARCISSUS (1) Poem Text First Line: O thou with whom I dallied Last Line: And women honey-sweet. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology) NARCISSUS (2) Poem Text First Line: O pool in which we dallied Last Line: Like earth is honey-sweet! Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology) NO COWARD'S SONG Poem Text First Line: I am afraid to think about my death Last Line: A living mouse than dead as a man dies. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The NOVEMBER EVES Poem Text First Line: November evenings! Damp and still Last Line: Or the dead men -- november eves? Subject(s): November OAK AND OLIVE Poem Text First Line: Though I was born a londoner Last Line: One of the englishmen! Subject(s): Greece; Travel; Greeks; Journeys; Trips ODE TO THE GLORY OF GREECE (A FRAGMENT) Poem Text First Line: Hellas victorious Subject(s): Greece; Greeks ON TURNER'S POLYPHEMUS Poem Text First Line: Painter of day, let my dark spirit fly Last Line: Of hyacinthine mist, and shining gold. Subject(s): Turner, Joseph Mallord W. (1775-1851) OXFORD CANAL Poem Text First Line: When you have wearied of the valiant spires of this county town Last Line: Forgotten they live, and forgotten die. Subject(s): Canals; Oxford, England PAVLOVA IN LONDON Poem Text First Line: I listened to the hunger-hearted clown Last Line: And dancers, all the world of them, must fail. Subject(s): Ballet; Dancing & Dancers; Pavlova, Anna (1885-1931) PILLAGE Poem Text First Line: They will trample our gardens to mire, they will bury our city in fire Last Line: Some image with beautiful hands, and know what we want him to know. PRAYER Poem Text First Line: Let me not know how sins and sorrows glide Last Line: How faint, how loud the bravest hearts have cried. Subject(s): Prayer RESURRECTION (BY PIERO DEGLI FRANCESCHI, AT BORGO) Poem Text First Line: Sleep holds you, sons of war: you may not see Last Line: Awake! This god will hunt you from the sun! Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Piero Della Francesca (1420-1492) RIOUPEROUX Poem Text First Line: High and solemn mountains guard riouperoux Last Line: And walk with you, and talk with you, like any other boy. Subject(s): France; Travel; Journeys; Trips SAADABAD Poem Text First Line: Let us deal kindly with a heart of old by sorrow torn Last Line: Or remember how his poet took a girl to saadabad? Subject(s): Turkey SANTORIN (A LEGEND OF THE AEGEAN) Poem Text First Line: Who are you, sea lady Last Line: And the sea was only sea. Subject(s): Legends, Greek; Santorini Island, Greece SIRMIO Poem Text First Line: Little gem of all-but-islands and of islands, sirmio Last Line: Gaily through the house resounding let the peals of laughter go. STILLNESS Poem Text First Line: When the words rustle no more Last Line: And only know I should drown if you laid not your hand on me. TAOPING Poem Text First Line: Across the vast blue-shadow-sweeping plain Last Line: Their cannon-bowelled fortress of taoping? Subject(s): China; Soldiers TENEBRIS INTERLUCENTEM (1) First Line: Once a poor song-bird that had lost her way TENEBRIS INTERLUCENTEM (2) First Line: A linnet who had lost her way THE BALLAD OF HAMPSTEAD HEATH Poem Text First Line: From heaven's gate to hampstead heath Last Line: And fell asleep again. Subject(s): Hampstead Heath, London THE BALLAD OF ISKANDER Poem Text First Line: Sultan iskander sat him down Last Line: The silver ship sailed on and on. Subject(s): Alexander The Great (356-323 B.c.); Aristotle (384-322 B.c.); Plato (428-348 B.c.) THE BALLAD OF THE STUDENT IN THE SOUTH Poem Text First Line: It was no sooner than this morn Last Line: And love the whole night through. Subject(s): Youth THE BALLAD OF ZACHO (A GREEK LEGEND) Poem Text First Line: Zacho the king rode out of old Last Line: "the cords, their golden hair." Subject(s): Legends, Greek THE BLUE NOON Poem Text First Line: When the whole sky is vestured silken blue Last Line: Show their gold underside. Subject(s): Noon THE BRIDGE OF FIRE Poem Text First Line: High on the bridge of heaven whose eastern bars Last Line: Whiten in habitations monumental cold. Subject(s): Bridges THE BURIAL IN ENGLAND Poem Text First Line: These then we honour: these in fragrant earth Last Line: Shall gather at the gate of paradise. Subject(s): Funerals; Patriotism; Burials THE DYING PATRIOT Poem Text First Line: Day breaks on england down the kentish hills Last Line: Where the fleet of stars is anchored and the young star-captains glow. Subject(s): England; Patriotism; English THE FIRST SONNET OF BATHROLAIRE Poem Text First Line: Over the moonless land of bathrolaire Last Line: Lead on the pale fanatics of the muse. THE GOLDEN JOURNEY TO SAMARKAND: EPILOGUE Poem Text First Line: Away, for we are ready to a man! Last Line: We make the golden journey to samarkand. THE GOLDEN JOURNEY TO SAMARKAND: PROLOGUE Poem Text First Line: We who with songs beguile your pilgrimage Last Line: And earth is but a star, that once had shone. THE HAMMAM NAME (FROM A POEM BY A TURKISH LADY) Poem Text First Line: Winsome torment rose from slumber, rubbed his eyes, and went his way Last Line: The water froze. Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Gays & Lesbians; Turkey; Showers & Showering; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE LOVER OF JALALU'DDIN Poem Text First Line: My darling wandered through the house Last Line: "with soul and spirit moving at my side." Subject(s): Love; Rumi (jalal Ad-din Ar-rumi) (1207-1273) THE MASQUE OF THE MAGI Poem Text First Line: Three kings have come to bethlehem Last Line: His wondering mother sings. Subject(s): Magi THE OLD SHIPS Poem Text First Line: I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep Last Line: And the whole deck put on its leaves again. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ulysses; Ocean; Odysseus THE OLD WARSHIP ABLAZE Poem Text First Line: Founder, old battleship; thy fight is done Last Line: Dips out ironical that ship new moon. Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain; Ships & Shipping; English Navy THE PAINTER'S MISTRESS Poem Text First Line: And still you paint, and still I stand Last Line: And in dark hollow tresses, gold. Subject(s): Models; Paintings & Painters THE PARROT Poem Text First Line: The old professor of zoology Last Line: "but that was long ago! " Subject(s): Birds; Parrots THE PENSIVE PRISONER Poem Text First Line: My thoughts came drifting down the prison where I lay Last Line: Will you not brood in god's star-tree and leave red heart tormentless! THE PIPER Poem Text First Line: A lad went piping through the earth Last Line: And no one played for you and me. Subject(s): Pipers THE QUEEN'S SONG Poem Text First Line: Had I the power / to midas given of old Last Line: How sweet you were. THE SECOND SONNET OF BATHROLAIRE Poem Text First Line: Now the sweet dawn on brighter fields afar Last Line: Dive to the depths of those eternal domes. THE SENTIMENTALIST Poem Text First Line: There lies a photograph of you Last Line: Before us, which this poem ends. Subject(s): Time THE TOWN WITHOUT A MARKET Poem Text First Line: There lies afar behind a western hill Last Line: Dark with no dream is hateful: let me live! THE TRANSLATOR AND THE CHILDREN Poem Text First Line: While I translated baudelaire Last Line: When all the ghosts go round and round. Subject(s): Children; Translating & Interpreting; Childhood THE TRUE PARADISE Poem Text First Line: Lord, is the poet to destruction vowed Last Line: Through both the pale-blue windows of quick mind; THE WAR SONG OF THE SARACENS Poem Text First Line: We are they who come faster than fate: we are they who ride early or late Last Line: And the dead to the desert we gave, and the glory to god in our song. Subject(s): Moors (people) THE WELSH SEA Poem Text First Line: Far out across carnarvon bay Last Line: And call across the years. Subject(s): Sea; Wales; Ocean; Welshmen; Welshwomen TO A POET A THOUSAND YEARS HENCE Poem Text First Line: I who am dead a thousand years Last Line: To greet you. You will understand. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets WE THAT WERE FRIENDS Poem Text First Line: We that were friends to-night have found Last Line: Who have no children at their knees. Subject(s): Friendship; Love YASMIN; A GHAZEL Poem Text First Line: How splendid in the morning glows the lily: and with grace he throws Last Line: Will come the gardener in white, and gathered flowers are dead, yasmin. Variant Title(s): Song, Fr. Hassan Subject(s): Love |
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