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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: fletcher, john gould Matches Found: 261 Fletcher, John Gould Poet's Biography 261 poems available by this author 1921 First Line: One hundred years ago, the last of the caesars, he who sat upon A REBEL Poem Text First Line: Tie a bandage over his eyes Last Line: We would have no more power left to look on that dead face. Subject(s): Death; Revolutions; Dead, The ADVENT Subject(s): Religion AGAINST IMMORTALITY First Line: One hell is enough. Surely this world is sufficient ALPINE VIOLETS; IMITATED FROM DE BELLAY Poem Text First Line: You tiny flames of blue Last Line: I would not pass! Subject(s): Flowers; Violets AMERICA First Line: From the sea-coast, from the bleak ravines of the hills that lift AN AUTUMN PICTURE Poem Text First Line: Two lovers sit in a shadowy park Last Line: Amid the sodden, rotten leaves. Subject(s): London; Love AN ORAN AND HER KAMUSO Poem Text First Line: Gilded hummingbirds are whizzing Last Line: Of the emperor's jewel-trees. Subject(s): Prints, Japanese ARIZONA POEMS: 1. THE WELL IN THE DESERT Poem Text First Line: By the well in the desert I sat for long Last Line: "in galilee." ARIZONA POEMS: 2. MEXICAN QUARTER Poem Text First Line: By an alley lined with tumble-down shacks Last Line: "are mud walls in a waste of sand." Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican Americans ARIZONA POEMS: 3. CLIFF-DWELLING Poem Text First Line: The canyon is choked with stones and undergrowth Last Line: A clock that ticks the centuries off to silence. ARIZONA POEMS: 4. THE WINDMILLS Poem Text First Line: The windmills, like great sunflowers of steel Last Line: And the choking gurgle of tepid water. Subject(s): Clouds; Windmills ARIZONA POEMS: 5. THE FUEL VENDOR Poem Text First Line: Up and down and up and down Last Line: Beyond a grave which no one heeds. ARIZONA POEMS: 6. RAIN IN THE DESERT Poem Text First Line: The huge red-buttressed mesa over yonder Last Line: Whirling, extinguishing the last red wisp of light. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Native Americans; Rain; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America AT SUNRISE First Line: A wave hung over the city like an enormous cloud AT THE MEETING OF THE DAYS Poem Text First Line: Veiled in night's cloak a silent moment came Last Line: For sleep had left them blind and deaf and dumb. Subject(s): London ATTITUDE OF YOUTH First Line: We were told that wars are made by the makers of munitions Last Line: And we sacrifice life in vain, for the one chance that we missed Subject(s): World War Ii AUGUST, 1940 First Line: We in this summer have lived to see our final refuge broken AUTOBIOGRAPHY First Line: Iron cities swim upon the sea Last Line: Far, far beyond your loneliness and pain %grey memories ripening under heavy rain AUTUMN SUNSET Poem Text First Line: Evening and the clear sun Last Line: Fair and foolish dreams. Subject(s): Evening; London; Sunset; Twilight AUTUMNAL CLOUDS BACK STREETS Poem Text First Line: You that have gazed long on the city's splendour Last Line: And the earth is as if it ne'er had been. Subject(s): Greed; London; Avarice; Cupidity BEFORE OLYMPUS First Line: Across the sky run streaks of white light BIRTH OF CHRIST First Line: Christ's white laughter runs across the world. He has mingled BLAKE First Line: Blake saw Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827) BLESSING OF THE WORMS First Line: In the quiet, chill blue night BLUE WATER Poem Text First Line: Sea-violins are playing on the sands Last Line: "sea-violins that play along the sands." Variant Title(s): Sea-violins Subject(s): Pain; Sea; Suffering; Misery; Ocean BRAHMA First Line: Brahma sleeps. %on his broad palm, the world Last Line: All things to nothing %are swept away Subject(s): Brahma BRANCHES OF ADAM: BOOK 1, SELS. First Line: Fourfold is made the divine nature of man Last Line: And he fled blindly before it, far, far away to the south BRANCHES OF ADAM: BOOK 2, SELS. First Line: Cain and abel in the meantime had grown Last Line: No animal came near it for the space of another day BRANCHES OF ADAM: BOOK 3, SELS. First Line: Then the archangels all together abandoned the black menacing sky Last Line: When cain and all his cities were sunken in brutish sleep BRANCHES OF ADAM: BOOK 4, SELS. First Line: Now it was noonday, fortieth of the flood Last Line: Mingling the ice with the fire upon the mountains of day BRANCHES OF ADAM: EPILOGUE First Line: By the glare of the guttering torch Last Line: Rending red flesh from red flesh %lest any morsel escape BROADWAY'S CANYON First Line: This is like the nave of an unfinished cathedral Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Cities BUDDHA AND CHRIST First Line: Mid himalayan snow BUILDING OF THE HUDSON RIVER BRIDGE First Line: Theorem made of steel BURNING MOUNTAIN First Line: The wagons went on west; the people fared CHANNEL SUNSET Poem Text First Line: Over the shallow, angry english channel Last Line: The struggle of burning spears in the cold twilight. Subject(s): World War I; First World War CHINESE POET AMONG BARBARIANS Poem Text First Line: The rain drives, drives endlessly Last Line: Or share with me a single human thought. Subject(s): Longing; Rain CHORUS FOR THE TRAGEDY OF MAN, 2000 A.D. Poem Text First Line: There is no earth left now Last Line: And is, forever and forevermore! CITY LIGHTS Poem Text First Line: The city gleams with lights this evening Last Line: Like loud and yawning laughter from red lips. CLIPPER-SHIPS First Line: Beautiful as a tiered cloud, skysails set and shrouds twanging CLOWN'S SONG Poem Text First Line: Who can speak the crimes of rhyming' Last Line: Then they scatter, left and right! Subject(s): Clowns COAL Poem Text First Line: A valley, narrow as the pit Last Line: Coal. Subject(s): Coal Mines & Miners; Labor & Laborers; London; Work; Workers COURT LADY STANDING UNDER CHERRY TREE Poem Text First Line: She is an iris Last Line: And of the iris stalk that is broken in the fountain. Subject(s): Iris (flower); Japan; Japanese CRUCIFIXION First Line: I charge you, heap the stones heavily on me when I am dead. I CRUCIFIXION OF THE SKYSCRAPER First Line: Men took the skyscraper DAWN Poem Text First Line: The sun rends the long veils of smoke, and the fogs Last Line: Along the track of ancient unreality. Subject(s): Dawn; London; Sunrise DAWN IN ITALY AND IN LONDON Poem Text First Line: Beneath the sombre cypresses Last Line: And the slum of grim despair. Subject(s): Despair; Italy; London; Italians DAY THAT AUTUMN CAME DISCONTENT Poem Text First Line: I grumble over life Last Line: And then they grumble, too! Subject(s): Discontent; Dissatisfaction DOGWOOD First Line: Like a girl holding, spread DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI: 1. EMBARKATION Poem Text First Line: Dull masses of dense green Last Line: Above the pink explosion of the calyx of the dawn. Subject(s): Mississippi River; Rivers DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI: 2. HEAT Poem Text First Line: As if the sun had trodden down the sky Last Line: Whereon the sun hangs motionless, a brassy disc of flame. Subject(s): Mississippi River; Rivers DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI: 3. FULL MOON Poem Text First Line: Flinging its arc of silver bubbles, quickly shifts the moon Last Line: Over white lakes of cotton, like moonfields on every side. Subject(s): Mississippi River; Rivers DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI: 4. THE MOON'S ORCHESTRA Poem Text First Line: When the moon lights up Last Line: Which show, through gaps and tatters, red stains half hidden away. Subject(s): Mississippi River; Rivers DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI: 5. THE STEVEDORES Poem Text First Line: Frieze of warm bronze that glides with catlike movements Last Line: Far southward where a single chimney stands out aloof in the sky. Subject(s): Mississippi River; Rivers DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI: 6. NIGHT LANDING Poem Text First Line: After the whistle's roar has bellowed and shuddered Last Line: A blue-black negro with gleaming teeth waits for his chance to leap. Subject(s): Mississippi River; Rivers DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI: 7. THE SILENCE Poem Text First Line: There is a silence I carry about with me always Last Line: I will curl up in it at last and sleep an endless sleep. Subject(s): Mississippi River; Rivers EARTH Poem Text First Line: Earth, let me speak to you Last Line: Finds the faint evening star. Subject(s): Earth; World ELEGY IN A CIVIL WAR CEMETERY First Line: At early daybreak ELEGY ON A NORDIC WHITE PROTESTANT Poem Text First Line: Lazy petals of magnolia-bloom float down the sluggish river Last Line: Rising, forever, rising! Subject(s): African Americans; Stock Exchange; Negroes; American Blacks ELEGY ON AN EMPTY SKYSCRAPER First Line: Against the wall of this sky ELEGY ON LONDON First Line: Out of a chaos of red chimney-pots ELEGY ON TINTERN ABBEY First Line: That 'something far more deeply interfused END OF JOB First Line: After job had given back all his possessions, he began to ENGLAND AGAIN Poem Text First Line: Sacred england, stagnant pool Last Line: Moral england, fat and sweet. Subject(s): England; English EROS Poem Text First Line: Through all the roar and strife of sun-smit day Last Line: And god, fixed ever in the thought of death. Subject(s): London; Pleasure EVENING SKY First Line: The sky spreads out its poor array EXIT First Line: Thus would I have it Last Line: Like a pround burst of music, %to fortunate islands FACTORY CHIMNEYS Poem Text First Line: Motionless blood-hued styluses that scrawl on the infinite Last Line: In hieroglyphs rolling and tumbling, red, black, purple and gold. Subject(s): Factories; Industrial Revolution; London; Smoke FLOOD SYMPHONY First Line: Again %the rivers of the south rise high and crest their green FRAGMENTS OF ETERNITY First Line: Art is transubstantiation: the bread and wine of life turned into FROM PORTOFINO POINT First Line: Music of violins and of guitars FROM THE CHINESE Poem Text First Line: The lanterns dangle at the end of long wires Last Line: Rattle them together, rending their crimson sides! FROM THE JAPANESE Poem Text First Line: I only live in the light Last Line: -- the mist silently lifted and showed me -- an open tomb. FROM THE NIGHT TO THE DAWN Poem Text First Line: In every night some haggard hours there are Last Line: Of dawn and fill with light the hollow sky. Subject(s): Dawn; Night; Sunrise; Bedtime GRAND CANYON OF THE COLORADO First Line: I have seen that which is mysterious Subject(s): Grand Canyon, Arizona GRANDFATHER'S GRAVE First Line: By the great oak logs that yet burn GREEN SYMPHONY Poem Text First Line: The glittering leaves of the rhododendrons Last Line: Sun-kindled for me. Subject(s): Forests; Woods GREY SYMPHONY Poem Text First Line: Up on the hillside a long row of larches Last Line: Endlessly. GULF STREAM First Line: I was born on the banks of the green gulf stream Subject(s): Gulf Stream HARD SAYINGS First Line: All men are born free and unequal: they are made slaves by HOMECOMING First Line: Some day I shall go home at last HOOPSKIRT First Line: In the night when all are sleeping HOUSE TO THE MAN First Line: Here is no easy fate, nor may you find I HAD SCARCELY FALLEN ASLEEP Last Line: Acre on acre of pale unscented flowers, %the same eternity IMPROMPTU Poem Text First Line: My mind is a puddle in the street reflecting green sirius Last Line: And a wine-cup reflecting sirius in the water held in my hands. Subject(s): Mortality; Plants; Planting; Planters IN THE CITY AT NIGHT Poem Text First Line: Towards the end of night Last Line: Suck in our helpless lives, destroy this dreadful spot! Subject(s): London; Night; Bedtime IN THE GARDEN OF DREAMS Poem Text First Line: I wandered in the garden of my dreams Last Line: To watch, till the swallows fly. IN THE NIGHT Poem Text First Line: In the night, the beautiful, bitter night Last Line: Never to sprout in the wilderness of earth. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime INVOCATION TO EVENING Poem Text First Line: O evening, steal into the silent city Last Line: And slowly bow your dark hair over him. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight IRRADIATIONS, SELS. First Line: All you stars up yonder IRRADIATIONS: 1 Poem Text First Line: The spattering of the rain upon pale terraces Last Line: Towards the sunset beyond the broken doors of to-day. Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Rain; Roses; Nightmares IRRADIATIONS: 10 Poem Text First Line: The trees, like great jade elephants Last Line: Would I were tossed on the wrinkled backs of those trees. IRRADIATIONS: 10 First Line: Today you shall have but little song from me IRRADIATIONS: 15 Poem Text First Line: O seeded grass, you army of little men Last Line: The long thin lazy fingers of the heat. Variant Title(s): Irradations: 2;irradations: 9 IRRADIATIONS: 16 First Line: An ant crawling up a grass-blade IRRADIATIONS: 2 First Line: The irridescent vibrations of midsummer light IRRADIATIONS: 21 First Line: Not noisily, but solemnly and pale IRRADIATIONS: 22 Poem Text First Line: The morning is clean and blue and the wind blows up the clouds Last Line: And a cause worth losing and a good song to sing. IRRADIATIONS: 24 First Line: It is evening, and the earth IRRADIATIONS: 25 Poem Text First Line: As I wandered over the city through the night Last Line: When all the rest were but puppets of the night. IRRADIATIONS: 28 First Line: Blue, brown, blue: sky, sand, sea IRRADIATIONS: 31 Poem Text First Line: My stiff-spread arms Last Line: A golden butterfly glancing against an unflecked wall. IRRADIATIONS: 4 First Line: The balancing of gaudy broad pavillions IRRADIATIONS: 5 Poem Text First Line: Over the roof-tops race the shadows of clouds Last Line: Like horses the shadows of clouds charge down the street. Variant Title(s): Irradations: 3 IRRADIATIONS: 6 First Line: The fountain blows its breathless spray IRRADIATIONS: 7 Poem Text First Line: Flickering of incessant rain Last Line: Dripping from the eaves. IRRADIATIONS: 8 First Line: Brown bed of earth, still fresh and warm with love IRRADIATIONS: 9 Poem Text First Line: The houses of the city no longer hum and play Last Line: Sees, in the shadow below, the unpeopled hush of a street. ISLE IRANIM First Line: O mighty are the lights that shine above isle iranim JADE ELEGY First Line: Golden blossoms on the banks JASON AT CORINTH First Line: Cracked, yellow, blistering JOURNEY DAY First Line: Out of this sea of time, a hidden shape now rises JOY Poem Text First Line: By a street-organ stands a minstrel bawling Last Line: And the dirt of life, and the flies, and the women squabbling. Subject(s): London; Poverty KINGDOMS First Line: At the crossing of a street LAKE SHORE AT NIGHT Poem Text First Line: At the edge of a beautiful gulf of gloom and stillness Last Line: Through dry blades of grass on the dunes. LAST FRONTIER First Line: Having passed over the world Last Line: To the palaces of night and the peaks ringed with fire, %without hope Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life LAST JUDGMENT First Line: There fell red rain of spears athwart the sky Last Line: Against the unconceived, unfathomed past:- %'now ended is god's high and pitiless joke LAST JUDGMENT First Line: Body of a sick world hung on a lofty cross of too much LAZARUS, SELS. First Line: Lazarus wakened, like a drowning man LEVITE AND THE SAMARITAN First Line: After the levite had seen the robbed man lying on the ground LIFE Poem Text First Line: Palaces and far pavilions Last Line: (my soul resumes the thread of her ancient dream.) LINCOLN Poem Text First Line: Like a gaunt, scraggly pine Last Line: Bitter for remembrance of the healing which has passed. Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Patriotism; Presidents, United States LINES WRITTEN AT TAORMINA, SICILY Poem Text First Line: Here on the dark rocks Last Line: Nods a drowsy head. Subject(s): Sicily LONDON AT NIGHT Poem Text First Line: Along the river squats and towers Last Line: Its splendour, terrible, august. Subject(s): London; Night; Bedtime LONDON EVENING Poem Text First Line: The city is like a vague dream-tapestry Last Line: Watching my sorrow find in night relief. Subject(s): Evening; London; Sunset; Twilight LOVE AND SUSPICION Poem Text First Line: You squeeze me in your arms the while your eyes Last Line: Leaves but love's perfect lustre on your brow! MAGNOLIA First Line: Dusky and strong MAN BENEATH THE MOUNTAIN First Line: You will not find the fire that fell from heaven MARRIAGE Poem Text First Line: He was a soaring pine-tree Last Line: The creeper choked the pine. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MEMORIAL FOR 1940 First Line: If we could but silence the gongs MEMORY: THE WALK ON THE BEACH Poem Text First Line: The evening, blue, voluptuous, of june Last Line: But I have never forgotten and I shall never forget. Subject(s): Love; Memory MIDSUMMER DAWN AT SEA Poem Text First Line: The ship glides steadily on Last Line: Open, to close no more. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean MIDWINTER MOON OVER THE CITY Poem Text First Line: The tarnished moon spins upward like a piece Last Line: Which, to this land of tears, the gods have sent. Subject(s): London; Moon MIDWINTER SUNSET Poem Text First Line: The clouds blown together, like ragged whorls of smoke Last Line: A frightened squirrel scurries off in dismay. Subject(s): Evening; Winter; Sunset; Twilight MUTABILITY First Line: The wind shakes the mists MY FATHER'S WATCH Subject(s): Consolation; Time NEAR YARMOUTH; TO EDWARD J. O'BRIEN Poem Text First Line: The river holds no more the fishing boats Last Line: The river sleeps, the boats are gone again. Subject(s): Boats; Fish & Fishing; Marine Animals; Sea; Anglers; Ocean NEW BEAUTITUDES First Line: And seeing the multitudes, he came down from the mountain NEW HEAVEN First Line: We have our hopes and fears that flout us Subject(s): World War I NIGHT SONG Poem Text First Line: Ask me no more but love Last Line: Sure as the stars to-night! Subject(s): Love NOON First Line: The moon in her pallid last quarter falls west NOVEMBER DAYS Poem Text First Line: Still days of late november Last Line: Over the plain, an unmarked drift of white. Subject(s): November OLD SOUTH First Line: High streaks of cottony-white cloud fill the sky. The sun slips out ON MESA VERDE First Line: Is there a spot on earth ON MY FATHER'S HUNDREDTH BIRTHDAY First Line: On the day the magi came ON THE BANKS OF THE SUMIDA Poem Text First Line: Windy evening of autumn Last Line: Is dulled beneath the grey unquiet sky. Subject(s): Japan; Japanese ON THE BEACH Poem Text First Line: We lay together on the beach Last Line: And on my lips are the salt lips of the sea. Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore ON THE VERANDAH Poem Text First Line: Larkspur: windy july Last Line: That I slept every night with no false dreams to mar my sleep. PAINTED WOMEN First Line: These are our sisters of sin and charity PASSING OF THE SOUTH First Line: On a catafalque, draped in black, under bronze cannon, forlorn PLEASURE'S AWAKENING Poem Text First Line: All day men walk the city up and down Last Line: To grasp the city in her long, curved claws. Subject(s): London POPPIES OF THE RED YEAR; A SYMPHONY IN SCARLET Poem Text First Line: The words that I have written Last Line: "which we hold aloof in silence." Subject(s): Poppies; Red (color) PORTRAIT First Line: Through his eye searching far Last Line: And a space uttered outwardly of that dark %and changeless silence where life broods alone PRAYER OF ANTICHRIST First Line: Our father, who art neither in heaven, nor on earth, but only in PRAYERS [FOR WIND]. Poem Text First Line: Let the winds come Last Line: The deep unquenchable answer of the wind. Subject(s): Wind PRELUDE First Line: Before the beginnings of things, for there was neither time nor PRELUDE AND ODE First Line: East wind, west wind PROCESSION First Line: Endless generations of mankind swarmed together, at a sharp RENEWAL TIME First Line: The forests that were fired by men, return REQUIEM FOR A TWENTIETH-CENTURY OUTLAW First Line: He learned the ways of life on some dull street REUNION Poem Text First Line: Beyond the end of the world Last Line: But after I shall turn, and hide my face. ROAD First Line: As one who walks in sleep, up a familiar lane ROOMS Poem Text First Line: There is nothing on earth more lonely than a room Last Line: And knows that room is life, will pass unmoved through death. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Solitude; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Loneliness RUSSIA INVADES POLAND First Line: O you, whom many hailed as standing for SAND & SPRAY: SEA-SYMPHONY. 1. THE GALE Poem Text First Line: Pale green-white, in a gallop across the sky Last Line: His transient tragic destiny. Subject(s): Sea; Storms; Ocean SAND & SPRAY: SEA-SYMPHONY. 2. VARIATIONS: 1. SAILBOATS Poem Text First Line: Light as thin-winged swallows pirouetting and gyrating Last Line: Heeling and tossing about in the estuary. Subject(s): Boats; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Seamen; Sails; Ocean SAND & SPRAY: SEA-SYMPHONY. 2. VARIATIONS: 2. THE TIDE Poem Text First Line: The tide makes music Last Line: With rustle of scales. Subject(s): Sea; Tides; Ocean SAND & SPRAY: SEA-SYMPHONY. 2. VARIATIONS: 3. THE SANDS Poem Text First Line: Shalllow pools of water Last Line: Oozing upwards slowly in the dark wind-wrinkled sand. Subject(s): Sea; Seashore; Wind; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore SAND & SPRAY: SEA-SYMPHONY. 2. VARIATIONS: 4. THE GULLS Poem Text First Line: White stars scattering Last Line: In a noiseless flight, far out across the sky. Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Seagulls SAND & SPRAY: SEA-SYMPHONY. 2. VARIATIONS: 5. STEAMERS Poem Text First Line: Like black plunging dolphins with red bellies Last Line: Up purple and chrome horizons. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping SAND & SPRAY: SEA-SYMPHONY. 2. VARIATIONS: 6. NIGHT OF STARS Poem Text First Line: The sky immense, bejewelled with rain of stars Last Line: Crashes down the sky. Subject(s): Stars SAND & SPRAY: SEA-SYMPHONY. 3. VARIATIONS: 1. GROUNDSWELL Poem Text First Line: With heavy doleful clamour, hour on hour, and day on day Last Line: The muddy groundswell lifts and breaks and falls and slides away. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SAND & SPRAY: SEA-SYMPHONY. 3. VARIATIONS: 2. SNOW AT SEA Poem Text First Line: Silently fell / the snow on the waters Last Line: In the winter evening. Subject(s): Sea; Snow; Ocean SAND & SPRAY: SEA-SYMPHONY. 3. VARIATIONS: 3. NIGHT WIND Poem Text First Line: Wind of the night, wind of the long cool shadows Last Line: The night is cool and quiet and the wind has crept to the sea. Subject(s): Sea; Wind; Ocean SAND & SPRAY: SEA-SYMPHONY. 3. VARIATIONS: 4. THE WRECK Poem Text First Line: Its huge red prow Last Line: Alone with its forgotten tragedy. Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks SAND & SPRAY: SEA-SYMPHONY. 3. VARIATIONS: 5. TIDE OF STORMS Poem Text First Line: Crooked, crawling tide with long wet fingers Last Line: Night-winds shall brokenly whisper our bitter, tragic story. Subject(s): Sea; Storms; Ocean SAND & SPRAY: SEA-SYMPHONY. 4. THE CALM Poem Text First Line: In the morning I saw three great ships Last Line: Becalmed on an infinite horizon. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SATURDAY NIGHT IN FLEET STREET Poem Text First Line: Here, where for six long days the traffic whirled Last Line: The hair of sorrow falls, in long, dark streams. Subject(s): City Traffic; Fleet Street, London; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SATURDAY NIGHT: HORSES GOING TO PASTURE Poem Text First Line: Hark! Through the city, quiet, cool, and starred Last Line: To green-clad silent pastures in the sun. Subject(s): London SATYR'S SONG First Line: Here be berries for a queen SCENE FROM A DRAMA Poem Text First Line: The daimyo and the courtesan Last Line: Nervously fingering his sword. Subject(s): Japan; Theater & Theaters; Japanese; Stage Life SCYTHE First Line: Within the well-house through whose lattice fell SEA-SOUNDING BELLS Poem Text First Line: Leaping forth from their steep battlemented nest on the hillside Last Line: Their sonorous tympani vanish beneath the wind's shrill violins. Subject(s): Bells SECOND WALK IN THE GARDEN First Line: When we entered into the eastern gate SHARAKU DREAMS Poem Text First Line: I will scrawl on the walls of the night Last Line: Starting. Subject(s): Prints, Japanese SKATERS First Line: Black swallows swooping or gliding Subject(s): Sports SNOWY MOUNTAINS Poem Text First Line: Higher and still more high Last Line: The mists that dance and drive before the sun. Subject(s): Mountains; Time; Hills; Downs (great Britain) SONG OF A NIGHT Poem Text First Line: Last night I lay disgusted, sick at heart Last Line: My soul and hers are as the same to god. Subject(s): London; Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels SONG OF NATCHEZ UNDER THE HILL First Line: Rifles are rammed full SONG OF THE MODERNS First Line: We more than others have the perfect right Last Line: Till none dare look on the mountains ranked afar, %and think 'these are the cast-off leavings of som SONG OF THE OLD MAN First Line: I met a man late yesternight Last Line: But all that answered to that cry %was the stark silence of the sky SORROW Poem Text First Line: What shape can I build of rhythm or melody Last Line: As the night, eternal and changeless, folds it about forever. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SPRING Poem Text First Line: At the first hour, it was as if one said, 'arise' Last Line: Shot forth, and was followed by a whole host of flowers. Subject(s): Spring ST. PAUL'S CHAPEL, NEW YORK First Line: Faintly jarring the windows STAR First Line: There was a star which watched upon my birth STONE PLACE First Line: I come and I return to a place of stone SUNSET First Line: The sea uprose SWAN First Line: Under a wall of bronze SYMPHONY OF SNOW First Line: Slow %over the sombre prairie, on the darkening below THE AGE OF STEEL Poem Text First Line: It was the age of iron Last Line: Welcome, the age of steel! Subject(s): Industrial Revolution; Steel THE ANARCHIST'S DREAM Poem Text First Line: I knelt amid the martyr-saints redeemed Last Line: Amid the eternal silence of the snow. Subject(s): Anarchism & Anarchists THE ASTER FLOWER Poem Text First Line: Pale on its stalk, the aster flower Last Line: We rest together till dawn has come. Subject(s): Asters; Flowers THE BANNERS Poem Text First Line: Like ruddy or tawny masses of torn flame Last Line: Veils of the dawn, where red stars flicker grim! Subject(s): London THE BLACK ROCK Poem Text First Line: Off the long headland, threshed about by round-backed Last Line: That bloom in the granite, year after year. THE BLUE SYMPHONY Poem Text First Line: The darkness rolls upward Last Line: I shall creep out into darkness. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness THE CITY LIES AT EASE UPON THE NIGHT THE CLOUDS Poem Text First Line: I watch the clouds that float along the sky Last Line: I watch the clouds that float along the sky. Subject(s): Clouds; London THE DAHLIAS Poem Text First Line: Scarlet and green, the dahlias Last Line: That laughs at your pain. Subject(s): Dahlias THE DEATH OF THE CITY Poem Text First Line: Year on year, and day on day Last Line: None cursed her, none for her did pray. Subject(s): London THE DESERTED FACTORY Poem Text First Line: It stands apart, forlorn, grotesque, immense Last Line: Amid the dust once stirred by workmen's feet. Subject(s): Factories; London THE DOMINANT CITY Poem Text First Line: It is the city of night, of drunkenness, and of dream Last Line: That has crushed and is devouring its mad dream. Subject(s): London THE EMPTY DAYS Poem Text First Line: Along the street Last Line: Slide, one white tear, into the night. THE ENDURING Poem Text First Line: If the autumn ended Last Line: Over the hill. Subject(s): Autumn; Hope; Life; Seasons; Fall; Optimism THE EVENING CLOUDS Poem Text First Line: Like long terraces the evening clouds Last Line: Crouch the colossal gods of night. Subject(s): Clouds THE FATHER'S THOUGHT OF HIS DAUGHTER Poem Text First Line: She will jilt a lover Last Line: When I am dead. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters THE FORCES AT WORK IN THE CITY Poem Text First Line: Like crystal torrents perfect in desire Last Line: In new invincible violence of desire! Subject(s): London THE FORGING OF THE SUN Poem Text First Line: Undying sun of the years, pour forth thy blood Last Line: To be our song, our glory, and our fate. Subject(s): Sun THE FUTURE Poem Text First Line: After ten thousand centuries have gone Last Line: And, if akin to him, akin in vain. Subject(s): Future; Mountains; Time; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE GHOSTS OF AN OLD HOUSE: BEDROOM Poem Text First Line: The clump of jessamine Last Line: Rocks its golden flowers. THE GHOSTS OF AN OLD HOUSE: OLD NURSERY Poem Text First Line: In the tired face of the mirror Last Line: It is stiff and frozen. THE GHOSTS OF AN OLD HOUSE: THE BACK STAIRS Poem Text First Line: In the afternoon Last Line: But there is no one in the shadows. THE GHOSTS OF AN OLD HOUSE: THE CALENDAR IN THE ATTIC Poem Text First Line: I wonder how long it has been Last Line: But I am afraid, as a little child, to touch it. THE GHOSTS OF AN OLD HOUSE: THE WELL Poem Text First Line: The well is not used now Last Line: From which he hauled forth buckets of bricks and dirt. Subject(s): Wells THE GHOSTS OF AN OLD HOUSE: VISION Poem Text First Line: You who flutter and quiver Last Line: Just beyond my apprehension. THE GOLDEN DEMON Poem Text First Line: The golden demon stept into my room Last Line: "remember, without me thou couldst not write!" THE GREAT MOON Poem Text First Line: I see aloft the white full-moon upswaying Last Line: As suffering links the souls of all the living. Subject(s): Moon THE HOARDINGS Poem Text First Line: When into the town I go Last Line: Fresh from out the teeming earth! Subject(s): Greed; London; Avarice; Cupidity THE HOUR OF PEACE Poem Text First Line: It is the hour when all is dark and still Last Line: Filling the hour of peace with foolish dreaming. THE LAST RALLY Poem Text First Line: In the midnight, in the rain Last Line: And another laughs with flashing eyes, sitting bolt upright. Subject(s): Military Service, Compulsory; World War I; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service; First World War THE LITANIES OF THE CITY Poem Text First Line: Blessed be thou, my city, for thy day Last Line: Be blessed, -- be accurst -- for evermore! Subject(s): London THE MAGICIANS Poem Text First Line: Along the wet, gleaming footway, over wide and deep-echoing squares Last Line: To fashion toys from them, for man's desire undying. Subject(s): City Planning; London THE NIGHT OF PLEASURE Poem Text First Line: With pleasure-seeking folk Last Line: Or at least give them sleep! Subject(s): London; Night; Pleasure; Bedtime THE PRAYER Poem Text First Line: The sky to-day's an infinite temple-dome Last Line: Before thy great winds and grey seas of death. THE ROCK Poem Text First Line: This rock, too, was a word Last Line: Your thoughts are your, too; naked let them stand. Subject(s): Stars; Stones; Granite; Rocks THE SOWER Poem Text First Line: Ridge on ridge the great fields lie Last Line: And the prayers of broken hearts. Subject(s): England; Harvest; Labor & Laborers; English; Work; Workers THE STARS Poem Text First Line: There is a goddess who walks shrouded by day Last Line: Men only see her naked glory through the little holes in the veil. Subject(s): Prints, Japanese THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER Poem Text First Line: Life goes on Last Line: But I would not. Subject(s): Life THE VOWELS; FOR LEON BAKST Poem Text First Line: A light and shade, e green, I blue, u purple and yellow, o red Last Line: O red, u purple and yellow, I blue, e green, a black and white. Subject(s): Vowels THUNDERSTORM IN THE OZARKS First Line: In the morning his mood failed, for gray buffalo-clouds were going TO A SURVIVOR OF THE FLOOD First Line: Set high your head above the nameless flood TO ALMIGHTY GOD First Line: With you outlaws, o god, let me stand up at the judgment TO COLUMBUS First Line: These were the seas that you knew TO HELEN KELLER Poem Text First Line: Breaking over your silence Last Line: To bear all and be still. Subject(s): Faces; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Smiles TO THE FRENCH POETS OF TO-DAY Poem Text First Line: Death-agonies, dances, resurrections hurled Last Line: Hanging each instant on a single breath. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets - French TOWARDS THE NORTH STAR First Line: On many and many a soft, still summer's night TOWER First Line: I have builded to my longing a great tower TRAGIC NIGHT Poem Text First Line: Rain, and a glare of lamps set in the rain Last Line: But living holds hell's infinite distress. Subject(s): Despair; London; Night; Bedtime TRIUMPHANT NIGHT Poem Text First Line: As once I wandered lonely in the night Last Line: And sweep away the swarm of stars above us. Subject(s): Despair; London; Night; Bedtime TWILIGHT Poem Text First Line: Light is horror and darkness beauty - only in the vague hours where they mingle Last Line: Contemplating in its perfect constancy their own unconsciousness. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime TWO AUTUMN DAWNS: 1 Poem Text First Line: The dawn creeps laggard now into the wood Last Line: Each morning, as she comes into the wood. Subject(s): Autumn; Dawn; Seasons; Fall; Sunrise TWO AUTUMN DAWNS: 2 Poem Text First Line: The city is astir ere dawn has come Last Line: The city is astir, ere dawn has come. Subject(s): Autumn; Dawn; London; Seasons; Fall; Sunrise UNFAMILIAR HOUSE First Line: To an unfamiliar house once more these feet have wandered UPON THE HILL Poem Text First Line: A hundred miles of landscape spread before me like a fan Last Line: How many thousand times shall I look on them ere this fire in me is dead? Subject(s): Mountains; Time; Hills; Downs (great Britain) VOICES ON THE WIND Poem Text First Line: Wind and the whirling of white mists Last Line: Shoreward, yet holds my soul and keeps it from gaining sleep. Subject(s): Wind WHIRLPOOLS OF PURPLE WHITE SYMPHONY Poem Text First Line: Forlorn and white Last Line: And the naked red lightning thrust at the smouldering earth! WHITMAN First Line: One does not quarry this mountain WOMEN'S LONGING Poem Text First Line: Tell me what is that only thing Last Line: For they know not how to use it. Subject(s): Women |
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