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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: lawrence, david Matches Found: 960 Lawrence, David 7 poems available by this author CIRCUS First Line: The clown murdered the paper flowers Last Line: I wear my grief like a child's plastic necklace KID TOWN First Line: In a party of cartoon faces Last Line: I remember %when I'd see an elephant fly LOVE.COM First Line: There is stigmata on my forehead while I am watching Last Line: And the movie projector is stuck on rewind MISSING BUILDINGS First Line: Someone stole the world trade towers Last Line: But I might as well have been in kabul MORE TIME First Line: In prison they take gambling debts seriously. The dirty cop said, 'I Last Line: Should have given the badge more time for making t.J. Mad NIGHTY First Line: I turn off all the lights and play black out Last Line: That spins away from its own wheel NOTHING BUT ASHES First Line: You point a gun at my radio Last Line: Tomorrow casts a lugubrious current %on today's slipping twigs Lawrence, David Herbert Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. 953 poems available by this author 13 PICTURES First Line: O my thirteen pictures are in prison Last Line: Sensibilities hate everything that's well 13,000 PEOPLE First Line: Thirteen thousand people came to see Last Line: With my fellow-countrymen; or else I don't belong A BABY ASLEEP AFTER PAIN Poem Text First Line: As a drenched, drowned bee Last Line: Are a heaviness, and a weariness. Subject(s): Babies; Infants A LOVE SONG Poem Text First Line: Reject me not if I should say to you Last Line: [or, the sleep no dream nor doubt can undermine.] Subject(s): Love A PASSING BELL Poem Text First Line: Mournfully to and fro, to and fro the trees are waving Last Line: No, look at the wet starling. A SPIRITUAL WOMAN Poem Text First Line: Close your eyes, my love, let me make you blind Last Line: I hate you. A WINTER'S TALE Poem Text First Line: Yesterday the fields were only grey with scattered snow Last Line: Why does she come, when she knows what I have to tell? ABSOLUTE REVERENCE First Line: I feel absolute reverence to nobody and to nothing human Last Line: I feel absolute reverence. Say no more ABYSMAL IMMORTALITY First Line: It is not easy to fall out of the hands of the living god Last Line: Of those that have fallen from god AFTER ALL SAINTS' DAY First Line: Wrapped in the dark-red mantle of warm memories Last Line: Of marginal existence AFTER ALL THE TRAGEDIES ARE OVER First Line: After all the tragedies are over and worn out Last Line: The beaches can do nothing about it AFTER DARK First Line: Can you, after dark, become a darkie Last Line: And catch flesh like the night in one's arms AFTER MANY DAYS Poem Text First Line: I wonder if with you, as it is with me Last Line: Your pleasure now. AFTER THE OPERA First Line: Down the stone stairs Last Line: The reddened, aching eyes of the bar-man with thin arms, %I am glad to go back to where I came from AH, MURIEL First Line: I have many prayers to say Last Line: When I stand in the doorway, shamefully ALL I ASK First Line: All I ask of a woman is that she shall feel gently towards me Last Line: On being loved, when there is no love in them ALL OF ROSES Poem Text First Line: By the isar, in the twilight Last Line: "here in this simmering marsh." Variant Title(s): River Roses Subject(s): Fear; Flowers; Roses ALL SORTS OF GODS First Line: There's all sorts of gods, all sorts and every sort Last Line: You may see glimpses of the gods in them ALL SOULS First Line: They are chanting now the service of all the dead Last Line: I am a naked candle burning on your grave Subject(s): Graves ALL SOULS' DAY First Line: Be careful, then, and be gentle about death Last Line: Like departing mariners, lovingly ALL THAT WE HAVE IS LIFE First Line: All that we have, while we live, is life Last Line: For if a man has no life in his work, he is mostly a heap of dung ALL-KNOWING First Line: All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed waste-paper Last Line: Unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing ALMOND BLOSSOM First Line: Even iron can put forth Last Line: Sore-hearted-looking st my eyes ALTERCATION First Line: Now look here Last Line: Right ch'are, boss! An' what abaht it? ALWAYS THIS PAYING First Line: Nothing is really any fun, today Last Line: Why don't we do something about the money system? AMERICAN EAGLE First Line: The dove of liberty sat on an egg Last Line: The addled golden egg AMO SACRUM VULGUS First Line: Oh I am of the people Last Line: The middle-class money-power ANAXAGORAS First Line: When anaxagoras says: even snow is black Last Line: But never the ghost of a glimpse of anaxagoras' funeral black AND OH -- THAT THE MAN I AM MIGHT CEASE TO BE -- First Line: No, now I wish the sunshine would stop Last Line: Inside me, and out, heavily dark %utterly ANDRAITX: POMEGRANATE FLOWERS First Line: It is june, it is june / the pomegranates are in flower Subject(s): Mallorca; Pomegranates; Majorca ANDRAITX: POMEGRANATE FLOWERS First Line: It is june, it is june %the pomegranates are in flower Last Line: Red flamelets here and there reveal %a man, a woman there Subject(s): Mallorca; Pomegranates ANIMALS First Line: Yes, and if oxen or lions had hands, and could paint Last Line: Swine wash in mire, and barnyard fowls in dust.' APOSTROPHE TO A BUDDHIST MONK First Line: Oh my bald head Last Line: As a vendor of fried fish, once more yellow APPEAL First Line: You, helen, who see the stars Last Line: How can you from my bowl of kisses shrink ARE YOU PINING First Line: Are you pining to be superior Last Line: Oh you mangy hound, go to hell ARGONAUTS First Line: They are not dead, they are not dead! Last Line: Have not yet passed the islands, I must watch them still Subject(s): Argo (ship) ARISTOCRACY OF THE SUN First Line: To be an aristocrat of the sun Last Line: We need have no dead people, money-slaves, and social worms AS FOR ME, I'M A PATRIOT First Line: Whatever else they say of me Last Line: Nor put me under a ban AS THYSELF First Line: Supposing I say: dogs are my neighbours Last Line: Which I shrink from ASS First Line: The long-drawn bray of the ass Last Line: Not sure-ure-ure %quite which! %which ASTRONOMICAL CHANGES First Line: Dawn is no longer in the house of the fish Last Line: While the pole star lies aside, like an old axle taken from the wheel AT A LOOSE END Poem Text First Line: Many years have I still to burn, detained Last Line: A night where she dreams my dreams for me, ever the same. Variant Title(s): Dissolute AT LAST First Line: When things get very bad, they pass beyond tragedy Last Line: Howling their nowhereness AT THE BANK IN SPAIN First Line: Even the old priest, in his long black robe and silvery hair Last Line: Shook hands with him AT THE FRONT Poem Text First Line: Far-off the lily-statues stand white-ranked in the garden Last Line: With me, both in one hurt. Variant Title(s): Heimweh Subject(s): Home AT THE WINDOW Poem Text First Line: The pine-trees bend to listen to the autumn wind as it mutters Last Line: That watch for ever earnestly from behind the window glass. ATTACK First Line: When we came out of the wood Last Line: Of the luminous ghost ATTILA First Line: I would call attila on his little horse Last Line: A man of peace AUGUST HOLIDAYS First Line: Along the lake, like seals, like seals Last Line: Bad and the good %all except AUTO-DA-FE First Line: Help! Help! They want to burn my pictures Last Line: Look out, my lad, you've got 'em on your track AUTUMN AT TAOS First Line: Over the rounded sides of the rockies, the aspens of autumn Last Line: Are nerveless just now %so be easy Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons AUTUMN RAIN First Line: The plane leaves Last Line: Finely divisible %falling as rain AUTUMN SUNSHINE Poem Text First Line: The sun sets out the autumn crocuses Last Line: Break out of this foul has-been. AWARE First Line: Slowly the moon is rising out of the ruddy haze Last Line: I follow her down the night, begging her not to depart BABY RUNNING BAREFOOT Poem Text First Line: When the white feet of the baby beat across the grass Last Line: Or firm and silken as young peony flowers. Subject(s): Babies; Children; Mothers; Infants; Childhood BABY TORTOISE Poem Text First Line: You know what it is to be born alone Last Line: Invincible fore-runner. Subject(s): Turtles; Tortoises BAD BEGINNING First Line: The yellow sun steps over the mountain-top Last Line: Am I. Which way are you coming BALLAD OF A WILFUL WOMAN First Line: Upon her plodding palfrey Last Line: She is brewing hope from despair BALLAD OF ANOTHER ORPHELIA Poem Text First Line: O the green glimmer of apples in the orchard Last Line: Did you see the wicked sun that winked! BARE ALMOND TREES Poem Text First Line: Wet almond-trees, in the rain Subject(s): Environment; Travel; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Journeys; Trips BARE ALMOND TREES First Line: Wet almond-trees, in the rain Last Line: Of uneatable soft green Subject(s): Environment; Travel; Trees BARE FIG-TREES First Line: Fig-trees, weird fig-trees Last Line: Wicked fig-tree, equality puzzle, with your self-conscious %secret fruits BASTA! First Line: When a man can love not more Last Line: In my very being BAT Poem Text First Line: At evening, sitting on this terrace Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Florence, Italy; Travel; Journeys; Trips BAT First Line: At evening, sitting on this terrace Last Line: In china the bat is symbol of happiness. %not for me! Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Florence, Italy; Travel BAT First Line: Dark air-life looping Last Line: Like a glove, a black glove thrown up at the light, %and falling back Subject(s): Animals BATHING RESORT First Line: Health is everything, health is all Last Line: They'll melt miraculously back into slime BATTLE OF LIFE First Line: Is life strife, is it the long combat Last Line: I am only involved BAVARIAN GENTIANS Poem Text First Line: Not every man has gentians in his house Last Line: Among the splendour of torches of darkness, shedding darkness on the lost bride and her groom. Subject(s): Autumn; Consolation; Flowers; Gentians; Seasons; Fall; Fringed Gentians BAVARIAN GENTIANS (1932 MS. 'A') First Line: Not every man has gentians in his house Last Line: At the marriage of the living dark Subject(s): Consolation; Flowers; Gentians BE A DEMON First Line: Oh be a demon Last Line: And hark to his holloa BE IT SO First Line: O, if a flame is in you, be it so Last Line: You are for that moment one of the gods, jesus or fafnir or priapus %or siva BE STILL! First Line: The only thing to be done, now Last Line: And even the sea of seas will have to give up its dead BEAUTIFUL OLD AGE First Line: It ought to be lovely to be old Last Line: My father has faced all weathers, but it's been a life BEHAVIOUR First Line: It is well to be disciplined in all the social usages Last Line: And naked embrace an anti-climax, humiliating and ridiculous BEI HENNEF First Line: The little river twittering in the twilight Last Line: Strange, how we suffer in spite of this BEING ALIVE First Line: The only reason for living is being fully alive Last Line: Or we must see men die, and then die ourselves BELIEF First Line: Forever nameless Last Line: Yet forever felt in the soul BELLS First Line: The mohammedans say that the sound of bells Last Line: There are other ways of summons, crying: listen! Listen! Co me near BEST OF SCHOOL First Line: The blinds are drawn because of the sun Last Line: Is hidden in theirs, their thrills are mine BEWARE THE UNHAPPY DEAD First Line: Beware the unhappy dead thrust out of life Last Line: Unknown within your breast and your deadened loins BEWARE, O MY DEAR YOUNG MEN Last Line: Goggling obscenities! If that's you and your fate, why then,dree it BEYOND THE ROCKIES First Line: There are people there, beyond the rockies Last Line: And more space than in life BIBBLES First Line: Bibbles %little black dog in new mexico Last Line: And I'll protect you BIRDCAGE WALK Poem Text First Line: When the wind blows her veil Last Line: I cease, I turn pale. BIRDS First Line: Birds are the life of the skies, and when they fly, Last Line: Birds have their voices, each means a different thing BIRTH NIGHT First Line: This fireglow is a red womb Last Line: Of the man in me BITS: 1. THE LAST MINUTE First Line: When in the morning I rose to depart, my love came to say farewell Last Line: Do not ask me, almighty god, to part from her again BITS: 10. THE CHILD AND THE SOLDIER First Line: Oh brother, put me in your pouch Last Line: And gives me everything BITS: 11. PIETA First Line: Thou our maiden, thou who dwellest in heaven Last Line: Be near us. And god's will be done BITS: 12. THE GREY NURSE First Line: The grey nurse entered a rose garden Last Line: And roses wondered at her prayer BITS: 13. LITANY OF GREY NURSES First Line: Sister, oh holy sister Last Line: Here by thy tomb BITS: 14. MESSAGE TO A PERFIDIOUS SOLDIER First Line: If you meet my young man Last Line: Tell him prayer is stronger than iron, faith %makes no demands BITS: 15. DUST IN THE EAST First Line: Rain, pour down, pour down Last Line: No more would I let him eat BITS: 16. THE GIRL IN CAIRO First Line: Oh colonel, you from embaba Last Line: Oh, how this night has happened perfectly BITS: 17. THE JEWESS AND THE V.C. First Line: Ah, young man! Last Line: Lover you make, such a hero in front of the foe BITS: 18. ZEPPELIN NIGHTS First Line: Now, will you play all night Last Line: On sunday afternoon Variant Title(s): Zeppeli Subject(s): Airships BITS: 19. MUNITIONS First Line: For god's sake, let us stop, oh you who stand behind us Last Line: The blood from our hearts, oh you who stand behind us BITS: 2. VICAR'S SON First Line: Child dear to my eye, god's blessing is on thy service Last Line: Me too at last ere thou goest, child dear to my eye BITS: 20. LAND-WORKER First Line: As she goes about the homestead Last Line: Her kerchief flutters red BITS: 21. MOURNING First Line: Why do you go about looking for me, mother Last Line: Why are you so anxious? Leave me peaceful with my dead BITS: 22. MESOPOTAMIA First Line: The sun is gone from mid-heaven, the soldiers are gone from hence Last Line: Me now if I've lost my mess-mates, lost them forever BITS: 23. TALES First Line: The gazelle-calf, oh my children Last Line: Wearing no boot, my children BITS: 24. FOREIGN SUNSET First Line: Oh master, let it be loose-all, it is enough Last Line: For the word. Now let us go through the gate BITS: 25. PRISONER AT WORK IN A TURKISH GARDEN First Line: Appeal from the garden: %over the fountains and the orange-trees Last Line: Each evening, bitter again BITS: 26. RESPONSE FROM THE HAREM: First Line: Sisters, I am sorry for this foreign man Last Line: Sisters, the guns are speaking; let all %sing soothingly BITS: 27. SWING SONG OF A GIRL AND A SOLDIER First Line: Brother, the scent of your clothing Last Line: Brother, let me die down again BITS: 28. PRISONERS AT WORK IN THE RAIN First Line: Oh, the moist, full water-jar Last Line: To make an end of the malice of this overseer BITS: 29. THE WELL IN AFRICA First Line: Thou well of kilossa, thy well-chords are of silver Last Line: Heal me, for body and soul I am not well BITS: 3. DRILL IN THE HEAT First Line: Go forward, sun, do not torment us Last Line: The greed of this infamous fellow for our sweat BITS: 30. NEITHER MOTH NOR RUST First Line: God, only god is eternally Last Line: They are dead, so god was between you, you see BITS: 4. MOTHER'S SON IN SALONIKA First Line: The midnight shadow sinking down has slung Last Line: Do you lift your lips to kiss me good night, my love BITS: 5. CASUALTY First Line: As I went down the street in my rose-red pelerine Last Line: One of you kindle a fire to consume them withal BITS: 6. MAIDEN'S PRAYER First Line: I have come to the house of god Last Line: And lord -- but hark at the pigeons, what are they chattering for BITS: 7. MAN HAULING A WAGON First Line: Hast thou determined to strangle me, o god Last Line: Let this old cart %blister -- ! BITS: 8. SIGHS First Line: Ah, my love, my dear Last Line: Or leave me alone BITS: 9. DAUGHTER OF THE GREAT MAN First Line: The daughter of the great man rolls her khaki wool Last Line: Of danger I find her, even worse than the fields where we die BITTERNESS OF DEATH Poem Text First Line: Ah, stern, cold man Last Line: Is this what's become of you? Variant Title(s): A Woman And Her Dead Husband;a Man Who Died Subject(s): Death; Dead, The BLANK First Line: At present I am a blank, and I admit it Last Line: And makes me know I am not blank any longer BLUE Poem Text First Line: The earth again like a ship steams out of the dark sea over Last Line: The darkness into play. BLUE JAY First Line: The blue jay with a crest on his head Last Line: You copper-sulphate blue bird Subject(s): Animals BLUENESS Poem Text First Line: Out of the darkness, fretted sometimes in its sleeping Last Line: Of midnight shake it to fire, so the secret of death we see. Variant Title(s): The Mystic Blue BODILESS GOD First Line: Everything that has beauty has a body, and is a body Last Line: And he is supposed to be mighty and glorious BODY OF GOD First Line: God is the great urge that has not yet found a body Last Line: The rest, the undiscoverable, is the demi-urge Subject(s): Bible; Religion BOMBARDMENT First Line: The town has opened to the sun Last Line: Flower: the day has begun BOREDOM, ENNUI, DEPRESSION First Line: And boredom, ennui, depression Last Line: And cannot be localised BOTH SIDES OF THE MEDAL First Line: And because you love me Last Line: A disarray of falling stars coming to nought BOUNDARY STONE First Line: So, salt is the boundary mark between fire that burns, and the wet Last Line: Are marked out with the boundary of salt, between fire and the wet BOURGEOIS AND BOLSCHEVIST First Line: The bourgeois produces the bolshevist, inevitably Last Line: In the opposite half-truth BOWLS First Line: Take away all this crystal and silver Last Line: To put to my lips BREAD UPON THE WATERS First Line: So you are lost to me Last Line: For you are lost to me BREATH OF LIFE (1) First Line: The breath of life and the sharp winds of change are the same thing Last Line: And the breath of life never comes to nourish them BREATH OF LIFE (2) First Line: The breath of life is in the sharp winds of change Last Line: Screens us purely, and we can slip through BRITANNIA'S BABY First Line: Oh britannia's got a baby, a baby, a baby Last Line: For oh, the british public is a lucky little man BRITISH SINCERITY First Line: They tell me that these british moral birds Last Line: Or what is it that my nation is suffering from BRITISH WORKMAN AND THE GOVERNMENT First Line: Hold my hand, auntie, auntie Last Line: And you don't seem to understand BROADCASTING TO THE G.B.P. First Line: Hushaby baby, on a tree top Last Line: There are no mice in our royal palaces. Omit it! BROODING GRIEF Poem Text First Line: A yellow leaf from the darkness Last Line: Of leaves and lamps and traffic mingled before me. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness BROTHER AND SISTER Poem Text First Line: The shorn moon trembling indistinct on her path Last Line: Let us rise and leave her now, she will never know. Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters BUT I SAY UNTO YOU: LOVE ONE ANOTHER First Line: Oh I have loved my fellow-men Last Line: And one trapped one's fingers in their brassy, polished works BUTTERFLY Poem Text First Line: Butterfly, the wind blows sea-ward, strong beyond the garden wall Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs BUTTERFLY First Line: Butterfly, the wind blows sea-ward, strong beyond the garden wall Last Line: It is enough! I saw you vanish into air Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects CABBAGE-ROSES First Line: You may smell the breath of the gods in the common roses Last Line: Will at last send you insane CALL INTO DEATH Poem Text First Line: Since I lost you, my darling, the sky has come near Last Line: Where you are lost, what rest, my love, what rest! Variant Title(s): Elegy Subject(s): Death; Dead, The CAN'T BE BORNE First Line: Any woman who says to me Last Line: Earns my undying detestation CANVASSING FOR THE ELECTION First Line: Excuse me, but are you a superior person Last Line: Splendidly -- and it is a comfort, isn't it? CENSORS First Line: The trouble about those that set up to be moral judges Last Line: Nor a dose of capsicum essence, giving an orgasm CENSORS First Line: Censors are dead men Last Line: Breathing of the dead men, %the censors, breathing with relief Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Censorship; Human Rights CEREBRAL EMOTIONS First Line: I am sick of people's cerebral emotions Last Line: You don't have to assert that you feel it CHANGE First Line: Do you think it is easy to change Last Line: It means passing through the waters of oblivion CHANGE OF GOVERNMENT First Line: We've got a change of government Last Line: Oh, aunt louie's the one I dread CHANGE OF LIFE: 1. THE WOMAN WEEPS HER CHANGE OF LIFE First Line: Languidly month by month Last Line: Don't take the blood of my body CHANGE OF LIFE: 2. SHE WEEPS, AND CANNOT BE COMFORTED First Line: Even remembrance seeps out Last Line: Death! Death! Take me with you, to spare me this last CHANGE OF LIFE: 3. YET THROUGH THE TEARS STEALS A SENSE First Line: Ah be still, be still! After all Last Line: Of his throat below his song CHANGE OF LIFE: 4. SHE REJOICES IN HER NEW NAKEDNESS First Line: Blessed in all things Last Line: Towards the silent doors of the west CHANGE OF LIFE: 5. SHE SEES MEN WALKING TOWARDS HER, First Line: Tall virgins of the afterwards Last Line: Sauntering down the long slope from the east CHANGE OF LIFE: 6. AND ON THE TREES HANG THE APPLES OF GOLD First Line: At last, at last, after all Last Line: That are virgins at last from the furnace, with vergin %women the same CHANGE OF LIFE: 7. AND THE SERPENTS WANDER THEIR OWN WAYS First Line: The men come in by the furnace-gate of the west Last Line: Saying nothing, no more to be said CHASTITY First Line: Chastity, beloved chastity Last Line: In this mind-mischievous age Subject(s): Chastity CHERRY ROBBERS First Line: Under the long dark boughs, like jewels red Last Line: If she has any tears CHILDREN SINGING IN SCHOOL First Line: Class-children are singing in school Last Line: Which are meant to be the old folk-song: strawberry fair CHIMAERA First Line: Most people, today, are chimaera Last Line: And sphinxes of self-consciousness CHOICE First Line: I would rather sit still in a state of peace Last Line: And feel the peacelessness of the multimillionaire poisoning me CHOICE OF EVILS First Line: If I have to choose between the bourgeois and the bolchevist Last Line: As a half-lie causes the immediate contradiction of the other half-lie CHURCH First Line: If I was a member of the church of rome Last Line: To inculcate the new conception of the risen man CITY-LIFE First Line: When I see the great cities Last Line: Of the factory world CLASSES First Line: There are two classes of men Last Line: The robots, those who deny the gleam CLIMB DOWN, O LORDLY MIND Last Line: I am, I do not think I am CLIMBING DOWN First Line: They are afraid of climbin down from this idiotic tin-pot heaven Last Line: Resurrected from the death of mechanical motion and emotion CLIMBING UP First Line: When you climb up to the middle classes Last Line: No! No matter how you may shove CLYDESIDER First Line: If maudie doesn't love us Last Line: We can run our own show COLD BLOOD First Line: In cold blood, I cannot feel goddesses in the summer evening Last Line: I feel goddesses trafficking mysteriously through the air COLDNESS IN LOVE First Line: And you remember, in the afternoon Last Line: That my love can dawn in warmth again, unafraid COLLIER'S WIFE First Line: Somebody's knockin' at th' door Last Line: What a traipse it is, if a man gets hurt! %I sh'd think 'e'll get right again COMBATIVE SPIRIT First Line: As a matter of fact, we are better than we know Last Line: The system allows us to be COME SPRING, COME SORROW Poem Text First Line: Round clouds roll in the arms of the wind Last Line: With this year's newness! -- and is that evil? Variant Title(s): Mating COMING AWAKE Poem Text First Line: When I woke, the lake-lights were quivering on the wall Last Line: Of the impending bee -- they were fair enough sights. COMMANDMENTS First Line: When jesus commanded us to love our neighbour Last Line: And faked love has rotted our marrow COMPARI First Line: I would like a few men to be at peace with Last Line: But men to be at peace with CONCEIT First Line: It is conceit that kills us Last Line: Now let me be myself, in the being, one of the gods CONSCIENCE First Line: Conscience %is sun-awareness Last Line: Not to go against the sun CONUNDRUMS First Line: Tell me a word Last Line: Yet the name is taboo COROT First Line: The trees rise taller and taller, lifted Last Line: Breathe largely the luminous breeze CORRESPONDENCE IN AFTER YEARS First Line: A man wrote to me: we missed it, you and I Last Line: A miss is as good as a mile %mister COURAGE First Line: What makes people unsatisfied Last Line: Is sour, bitter fruits, cankered by lies COWARDICE AND IMPUDENCE First Line: Bourgeois cowardice produces bolshevist impudence Last Line: The world will be torn in two COWARDS First Line: In all creation, only man cowers and is afraid of life Last Line: As man is likely to do CRAVING FOR SPRING First Line: I wish it were spring in the world Last Line: Worse, let me not deceive myself CREATURES First Line: But fishes are very fiery, and take to the water to cool themselves.' Last Line: The sun lives in his shining, and is not like fires, that die CROSS First Line: Behold your cross, christians Last Line: Between you and the robot-hordes, misnamed your fellowmen CRY OF THE MASSES First Line: Give us back, oh give us back Last Line: Give us back our bodies for one day CUPS First Line: Cups, let them be dark Last Line: I want to drink out of dark cups that drip down on %their feet CYPRESSES First Line: Tuscan cypresses %what is it? Last Line: And mechanical america montezuma still Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Etruscan Civilization; Florence, Italy DADDY-DO-NOTHING First Line: Mr gladstone was a very good man Last Line: Called him: old daddy-do-nothing DARK SATANIC MILLS First Line: The dark, satanic mills of blake Last Line: What are they then DEAD PEOPLE First Line: When people are dead and peaceless Last Line: Hovering to peck out the eyes of the still-living creature DEADLY VICTORIANS First Line: We hate the victorians so much Last Line: And we are the gelded third and fourth generation DEATH First Line: Death is no escape, ah no! Only a doorway to the inevitable Last Line: All they are softened back to life-stuff again, against which they %hardened themselves DEATH IS NOT EVIL, EVIL IS MECHANICAL First Line: Only the human being, absolved from kissing and strife Last Line: A centre of the evil world-soul DEBACLE Poem Text First Line: The trees in trouble because of autumn Last Line: And suffer unheeding, only forbidden to expire. Variant Title(s): Reality Of Peace, 1916 Subject(s): Peace DECEMBER NIGHT First Line: Take off your cloak and your hat Last Line: Until they glow DEEPER THAN LOVE First Line: There is love, and it is a deep thing Last Line: All this is deeper than love %deeper than love DEEPEST SENSUALITY First Line: The profoundest of all our sensualities Last Line: Is the sense of justice DELIGHT OF BEING ALONE First Line: I know no greater delight than the sheer delight of being alone Last Line: Alone on a hillside in the north, humming in the wind Subject(s): Environment; Trees DEMIURGE First Line: They say that reality exists only in the spirit Last Line: With a body and with needs, and a lovely spirit DEMOCRACY First Line: I am a democrat in so far as I love the free sun in men Last Line: They shouldn't exist DEMOCRACY IS SERVICE First Line: Democracy is service, but not the service of demos Last Line: And the few look into the eyes of the gods, and serve the sheer gods DEMON JUSTICE First Line: If you want justice Last Line: Not quite to ignore %the jolly little member DEPARTURE First Line: Now some men must get up and depart Last Line: We must make an isle impregnable %against evil DESIRE First Line: Ah, in the past, towards rare individuals Last Line: Except to be left, in the last resort, alone, quite alone DESIRE GOES DOWN INTO THE SEA First Line: I have no desire any more Last Line: Only mid-ocean DESIRE IS DEAD First Line: Desire may be dead Last Line: As in a wintry tree DESTINY First Line: O destiny, destiny Last Line: I wish you'd show your hand DIES ILLA First Line: Dies irae, dies illa Last Line: And the house comes down, with a subsiding crash DIES IRAE First Line: Even the old emotions are finished Last Line: In this world of mechanical self-assertion DIFFERENCE First Line: People are like leaves, fluttering and gay on the bush of the globe Last Line: They glisten and shake DIFFICULT DEATH First Line: It is not easy to die, o it is not easy Last Line: After the bitter passage of oblivion DISAGREEABLE ADVICE Poem Text First Line: Always, sweetheart Last Line: Of mirth; then the dripping of tears on your glove. Variant Title(s): Irony Subject(s): Irony DISCIPLINE Poem Text First Line: It is stormy, and raindrops cling like silver bees to the panes Last Line: Is complete for the moment, yet wait, and you'll see that my flower will live. Subject(s): Discipline; Youth DISCORD IN CHILDHOOD Poem Text First Line: Outside the house an ash-tree hung its terrible whips Last Line: The other voice in a silence of blood, 'neath the noise of the ash. DOE AT EVENING First Line: As I went through the marshes Last Line: Has she not fled on the same wind with me? %does not my fear cover her fear? Subject(s): Deer DOG-TIRED First Line: If she would come to me here Last Line: This ache was shed DOLOUR OF AUTUMN Poem Text First Line: The acrid scents of autumn Last Line: For the stars to probe. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall DOMINANT WOMAN First Line: Dominant women are as a rule so subtly and fiendishly domineering Last Line: From the dragon of the modern female DON JUAN First Line: It is isis the mystery Last Line: Must be in love with me Subject(s): Don Juan DON'T LOOK AT ME First Line: My dears, don't look at me, I am merely terrified of you Last Line: So perhaps you'll do it DON'TS First Line: Fight your little fight, my boy Last Line: That the risen christ should be risen DOORS First Line: But evil is a third thing Last Line: But evil, evil is another thing! In another place DRAINED CUP First Line: T' snow is witherin' off'n th' gress Last Line: Ay, it's a rum un! DRAWING-ROOM First Line: You sit talking in all earnestness to a woman Last Line: Yet you go on talking, in all earnestness DREAM-CONFUSED First Line: Is that the moon Last Line: We misunderstood! DREAMS OLD AND NASCENT: NASCENT Poem Text First Line: My world is a painted memory, where coloured shapes Last Line: Then to fall back exhausted into the unconscious, molten life! Subject(s): Religion; Theology DREAMS OLD AND NASCENT: OLD Poem Text First Line: I have opened the window to warm my hands on the sill Last Line: The mists of vanishing tears and the echo of laughter. DRUNK Poem Text First Line: Too far away, o love, I know Last Line: Keep with you the troth I trowed. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness EA, THE SEA First Line: The sea dissolves so much Last Line: Into salty nothingness EAGLE IN NEW MEXICO (1) First Line: Towards the sun, towards the south-west Last Line: Can be put out of office as sacrifice bringer Subject(s): Birds; Eagles EAGLE IN NEW MEXICO (2) First Line: On a low cedar-bush Last Line: Oh eagle of kings and emperors %what next Subject(s): Birds; Eagles EDITORIAL OFFICE First Line: Applicant for post as literary critic: here are my Last Line: Have the welfare of the british public at heart EFFORT OF LOVE First Line: I am worn out Last Line: So long as it didn't all fizzle out in talk EGO-BOUND First Line: As a plant becomes pot-bound Last Line: And get his roots in earth again %raw earth EGO-BOUND WOMEN First Line: Ego-bound women are often lesbian Last Line: Individuals must go mad EGOISTS First Line: The only question to ask today, about man or woman Last Line: Yet I can't be alone, I want somebody to keep me warm ELDERLY DISCONTENTED WOMEN First Line: Elderly discontented women ask for intimate companionship Last Line: As they try to screw everybody else down with their will ELEGY First Line: The sun immense and rosy Last Line: Through the film I can almost touch you ELEMENTAL First Line: Why don't people leave off being lovable Last Line: I am sick of lovable people, %somehow they are a lie Subject(s): Human Behavior ELEMENTS First Line: We don't know how lovely the elements are Last Line: Oh lovely women ELEPHANT First Line: You go down shaade to the river, where naked men sit Last Line: Crook the knee and be glad ELEPHANT IS SLOW TO MATE First Line: The elephant, the huge old beast Last Line: Moves as the moon-tides, near, more near, %till they touch in flood Subject(s): Elephants ELEPHANTS IN THE CIRCUS Last Line: And show vast bellies to the children ELEPHANTS PLODDING First Line: Plod! Plod! Last Line: The worn arches of their spines support Subject(s): Animals ELOI, ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHANI? First Line: How I hate myself, this body which is me Last Line: Cleansed and in concord from the bed of death ELYSIUM First Line: I have found a place of loneliness Last Line: Of time from out of which I come Subject(s): Solitude EMASCULATION First Line: When mercury and love and death Last Line: Come blow up your horn EMBANKMENT AT NIGHT, BEFORE THE WAR: CHARITY Poem Text First Line: By the river / in the black wet night as the furtive rain slinks down Last Line: The touch was on the quick. I want to forget. EMBANKMENT AT NIGHT, BEFORE THE WAR: OUTCASTS Poem Text First Line: The night rain, dripping unseen Last Line: Above intertwined plasm. EMOTIONAL FRIEND First Line: He said to me: you don't trust me Last Line: Since there was no circumstance requiring trust between us EMOTIONAL LIES First Line: You hear a woman say: I love my husband dearly Last Line: Even it is a trick: but she is not ashamed EN MASSE First Line: Today, society has sanctified Last Line: Word of our civilisation END OF ANOTHER HOME HOLIDAY First Line: When shall I see the half-moon sink again Last Line: Asking something more of me %yet more of me END, THE BEGINNING First Line: If there were not an utter and absolute dark Last Line: The soul has peace, inward and lovely peace ENDLESS ANXIETY Poem Text First Line: The hoar-frost crumbles in the sun Last Line: She has no rest. ENERGETIC WOMEN First Line: Why are women so energetic Last Line: Women felt it was no longer any use being a linger-longer-lucy ENGLAND IN 1929 First Line: England was always a country of men Last Line: And like to become incurably diseased inside ENGLISH ARE SO NICE Last Line: But nice enough, just nice enough %to let them feel they're not quite as nice as they might be Subject(s): England; Men ERINNYES First Line: There has been so much noise Last Line: Sure of our dead in the proud halls of death ESCAPE First Line: When we get out of the glass bottles of our own ego Last Line: We shall laugh, and institutions will curl up like burnt paper Subject(s): Modern Man EVANGELISTIC BEASTS First Line: Oh put them back, put them back in the four corners Last Line: And the bull, nor wakes from the light-eyed eagle sleep EVENING LAND First Line: Oh, america %the sun sets in you Last Line: These states! As whitman said %whatever he meant EVENING LAND First Line: O america EVERLASTING FLOWERS FOR A DEAD MOTHER Poem Text First Line: Who do you think stands watching Last Line: In glad surprise. Subject(s): Mothers EVIL IS HOMELESS First Line: Evil has no home Last Line: And has no home, no home anywhere EVIL WORLD-SOUL First Line: Oh, there is evil, there is an evil world-soul Last Line: And the symbol of the robot is the wheel revolving EXCURSION TRAIN Poem Text First Line: I wonder, can the night go by, Last Line: That would leap to you from my heart? FACTORY CITIES First Line: Oh, over the factory cities there seems to hover a doom Last Line: Boiling black death FALLEN LEAVES First Line: There is the organic connection, like leaves that belong to a tree Last Line: Grinding them small to humus, on earth's nether mill-stone FALSE DEMOCRACY AND REAL First Line: If man only looks to man, and no-one sees beyond Last Line: And the stream is towards the gods, not backwards, towards man FATALITY First Line: No one, not even god, an put back a leaf on to a tree Last Line: Into the circulating sap, once more, of the tree of life FATE AND THE YOUNGER GENERATION First Line: It is strange to think of the annas, the vronskys ... All the tolstoyan lot Last Line: Well, it won't matter so very much either FATIGUE First Line: My soul has had a long, hard day Last Line: Where the angels used to alight FEAR OF SOCIETY IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL First Line: Today, the social consciousness is mutilated Last Line: A fearful thing is the mutilated social consciousness FELLOW-MEN First Line: A few are my fellow-men Last Line: Let them serve FEMALE COERCION First Line: If men only fought outwards into the world Last Line: The modern circe-dom! FIDELITY First Line: Fidelity and love are two different things Last Line: The gem of mutual peace emerging from the wild chaos of love Subject(s): Fidelity; Love FIGHT! O MY YOUNG MEN First Line: Fight! Don't you feel you're fading Last Line: That have ground you so small FIGS First Line: The proper way to eat a fig, in society, Last Line: And bursten figs won't keep FILM PASSION First Line: If all those females who so passionately loved Last Line: Worse than the evil eye FINDING YOUR LEVEL First Line: Down, down, down! Last Line: Who are very superior people %oh very FIRE First Line: Wave them 5flap white wings and yellow pinions Last Line: Only cold, instead of quick FIRE First Line: Fire is dearer to us than love or food Last Line: And singes us, and burns the house down FIREFLIES IN THE CORN First Line: Look at the little darlings in the corn Last Line: My poor, my perished soul with the sight of you Subject(s): Fireflies FIRST MORNING First Line: The night was a failure Last Line: Everything starts from us %we are the source FISH First Line: Fish, oh fish Last Line: Jesus was called the fish %and in the end FLAPPER Poem Text First Line: Love has crept out of her sealed heart Last Line: That she says, and her words rejoice. FLAPPER VOTE First Line: We voted 'em in, and we'll vote 'em out Last Line: We'll back you up, uncle! We're young, and we're juicy! FLAT SUBURBS, S.W., IN THE MORNING First Line: The new red houses spring like plants Last Line: That has stripped their sprigs FLOWERS First Line: And long ago, the almond was the symbol of resurrection Last Line: Far-off kings, painted their faces vermilion, and were almost gods FLOWERS AND MEN First Line: Flowers achieve their own floweriness and it is a miracle Last Line: Pouring out his breath FOOD OF THE NORTH First Line: The food of the north tastes too much of the fat Last Line: Not with the fat of the pig FOR A MOMENT First Line: For a moment, at evening, tired, as he stepped off the tram-car Last Line: In whom I can trust FOR ALL THAT First Line: For all that, life will only be good again when there is a generous Last Line: To abolish the tyranny of money FOR THE HEROES ARE DIPPED IN SCARLET First Line: Before plato told the great lie of ideals Last Line: How glistening red they are FORECAST Poem Text First Line: Patience, little heart Last Line: In after years, in memory, to you. Variant Title(s): Epilogue Subject(s): Breasts; Desire FORGET First Line: To be able to forget is to be able to yield Last Line: For when we know in full, we have left off knowing FORSAKEN AND FORLORN First Line: The house is silent, it is late at night, I am alone Last Line: Ends this darkness that annihilates me FORTE DEI MARMI First Line: The evening sulks along the shore, the reddening sun Last Line: Into rubber-like deadness, dunlop inflated unconcern FOUR First Line: To our senses, the elements are four Last Line: Or rather, they have us with them FREE WILL First Line: The human will is free, ultimately, to choose one of two things Last Line: Tread of every passer-by FRESH WATER First Line: They say it is very difficults2950 page 495 Last Line: Old truth, old teaching of any sort FROHNLEICHNAM First Line: You have come your way, I have come my way Last Line: Is heaven of our own, sheer with repudiation FROM A COLLEGE WINDOW Poem Text First Line: The glimmer of the limes, sun-heavy, sleeping Last Line: Beyond a world I never want to join. FROST FLOWERS First Line: It is not long since, here among all these folk Last Line: For what kind of ice-rotten, hot-aching heart must they need%to root in FRUITS First Line: For fruits are all of them female, in them lies the seed Last Line: Without a servant's help, so he be not stricken in years FULL LIFE First Line: A man can't fully live unless he dies and ceases to care Last Line: Ceases to care FURNITURE First Line: Some women live for the idiotic furniture of their houses Last Line: Usually in 'suites' FUTURE RELATIONSHIPS First Line: The world is moving, moving still, towards further democracy Last Line: But a democracy of men, a democracy of touch FUTURE RELIGION First Line: The future of religion lies in the mystery of touch Last Line: Then the resurrection into touch FUTURE STATES First Line: Once men touch one another, then the modern industrial Last Line: And all the differences given expression FUTURE WAR First Line: After our industrial civilisation has broken, and the civilisation Last Line: Oneness makes war, and the obsession of oneness GAZELLE CALF First Line: The gazelle calf, o my children Last Line: Requiring no shoes, o my children! Subject(s): Gazelles GENTLEMAN First Line: When is a man not a man Last Line: It seems to come out of some hollow rind of a man GHOSTS First Line: And as the dog with its nostrils tracking out the fragments Last Line: Never make up for some mistakes GIORNO DEI MORTI First Line: Along the avenue of cypresses Last Line: The candle-flames beside the surplices Variant Title(s): Service Of All The Dea GIPSY Poem Text First Line: I, the man with the red scarf Last Line: Thou shalt shut doors on me. Subject(s): Gypsies; Gipsies GIVE ME A SPONGE First Line: Give me a sponge and some clear, clean water Last Line: Them now from all this touch of tainted death Subject(s): Sponges GIVE US GODS First Line: Give us gods, oh give them us Last Line: The geese that saved rome, and will lose london GIVE US THE THEBAID First Line: Modern society is a mill Last Line: Till they grow hot, and burst, as even stone can explode GLADNESS OF DEATH First Line: Oh death Last Line: The winds of the afterwards kiss us into blossom of manhood GLIMPSES First Line: What's the good of a man Last Line: Unless she's a glimpse of a goddess of some sort GLOIRE DE DIJON Poem Text First Line: When she rises in the morning Last Line: Mellow as the glory roses. Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Love - Erotic; Love; Showers & Showering GLORY First Line: Glory is of the sun, too, and the sun of suns Last Line: Yet all of these drink blood GOD First Line: Where sanity is Last Line: So they can still recognise god GOD AND THE HOLY GHOST First Line: There is no sinning against tod, what does god care about sin Last Line: Nonentity is our portion GOD IS BORN First Line: The history of the cosmos Last Line: There is no end to the birth of god GODS First Line: There will always be a father of all things, in some shape, in our Last Line: The next day is the day of the goose, the wild swan's day GODS! THE GODS! First Line: People were bathing and posturing themselves on the beach Last Line: And like water-lilies GOETHE AND POSE First Line: When goethe becomes an apollo, he becomes a plaster cast Last Line: Made of cement poured into a mould, around iron sticks GOING BACK First Line: The night turns slowly round Last Line: No has-been, no hereafter; only the perfected %presence of men GOOD HUSBANDS MAKE UNHAPPY WIVES Last Line: Than the unhappiness of a wife with a bad husband GRAPES First Line: So many fruits come from roses Last Line: Down the tendrilled avenues of wine and the otherworld GRASSHOPPER IS A BURDEN First Line: Desire has failed, desire has failed Last Line: And stripped it bare GREAT NEWSPAPER EDITOR TO HIS SUBORDINATE First Line: Mr. Smith, mr smith Last Line: Is summed up in a nice, narrow-gutted old maid GREEKS ARE COMING First Line: Little islands out at sea, on the horizon Last Line: Like a bad smell GREEN First Line: The dawn was apple-green Last Line: For the first time, now for the first time seen one GREY EVENING Poem Text First Line: When you went, how was it you carried with you Last Line: Nay, take this weary book of hours away. GRIEF Poem Text First Line: The darkness steals the forms of all the queens Last Line: Another torn red sunset come to pass. Variant Title(s): Firelight And Nightfall Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness GROSS, COARSE, HIDEOUS First Line: Lately I saw a sight most quaint Last Line: The nudity of a lawrence nude GRUDGE OF THE OLD First Line: The old ones want to be young, and they aren't young Last Line: And so it goes on GUARDS First Line: A review in hyde park, 1910: the crowd watches Last Line: Fire horizontal declining and ebbing, the twilit ebb of retreat GULF First Line: Now again and now for ever breaks the great illusion Last Line: In their faces, and motion never mechanical in their limbs HALF-BLIND First Line: The bourgeois and the bolshevist are both quite blind Last Line: Give way all the time before the mechanical rushing of the ugly stone-blind ones HANDS OF GOD First Line: It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living god Last Line: Let me never know myself apart from the living god! Subject(s): Bible; Religion HARD-BOILED CONSERVATIVES First Line: O you hard-boiled conservatives, and you soft-boiled liberals Last Line: Don't you see how you make bolshevism inevitable HARK IN THE DUSK Last Line: And the flood strikes the belly, and we are gone HAVE DONE WITH IT First Line: Once and for all, have done with it Last Line: I don't care myself a whale HE-GOAT First Line: See his black nose snubbed back, pressed over like a whale's Last Line: But bah, how can he, poor domesticated beast HEALING First Line: I am not a mechanism, an assembly of various sections Last Line: Which mankind at large has chosen to sanctify Subject(s): Men HEART OF MAN First Line: There is the other universe, of the heart of man Last Line: Flow the heart's rivers of fulness, desire and distress HENRIETTE First Line: O henriette %I remember yet Last Line: Tonight, and refrain %from being mary HIBISCUS AND SALVIA FLOWERS First Line: Hark! Hark! %the dogs do bark Last Line: That they take hibiscus and the salvia flower HILLS First Line: I lift up mine eyes unto the hills Last Line: And ceasing to see %strength comes Subject(s): Bible; Religion HIM WITH HIS TAIL IN HIS MOUTH First Line: When the cuckoo, the cow, and the coffee-plant chipped Last Line: Fourth dimension, not in yards and miles, like the eternal serpent HISTORY First Line: The listless beauty of the hour Last Line: Till at length they mate Subject(s): Men HOLD BACK First Line: Oh men, living men, vivid men, ocean and fire Last Line: From the grinning and insatiable robots HOSTILE SUN First Line: Sometimes the sun turns hostile to men Last Line: Sweeping the curve of space and mowing the silence %we have peace HOUSELESS DEAD First Line: Oh pity the dead that are dead, but cannot take Last Line: Of non-existence to far oblivion HOW BEASTLY THE BOURGEOIS IS Poem Text HOW BEASTLY THE BOURGEOIS IS Last Line: Like sickening toadstools, and left to melt back, swiftly %into the soil of england Subject(s): Bourgeoisie; Hate; Men HUMAN FACE First Line: Hardly ever, now, has a human face Last Line: With eyes like the interiors of stuffy rooms, furnished HUMANITY NEEDS PRUNING Last Line: Or the whole tree may fall rotten HUMILIATION First Line: I have been so innerly proud, and so long alone Last Line: Do not leave me HUMILITY First Line: Nowadays, to talk of humility is a sin against the holy ghost Last Line: Of our own consciousness HUMILITY MONGERS First Line: When I hear a man spouting about humility, today Last Line: Or a hyaena, eating corpses HUMMINGBIRD Poem Text First Line: I can imagine, in some otherworld Variant Title(s): Humming-bird Subject(s): Birds; Hummingbirds; Time HUMMINGBIRD First Line: I can imagine, in some otherworld Last Line: We look at him through the wrong end of the long telescope of time, %luckily for us Variant Title(s): Humming-bir Subject(s): Birds; Hummingbirds; Time HYDE PARK AT NIGHT, BEFORE THE WAR: CLERKS Poem Text First Line: We have shut the doors behind us, and the velvet flowers of night Last Line: On our stream. Subject(s): Hyde Park, London HYMN TO NOTHINGNESS First Line: The angels have somewhere fought and lost Last Line: Hail and be damned to thee, winning the game HYMN TO PRIAPUS Poem Text First Line: My love lies underground Last Line: As we have to be. Subject(s): Passion; Priapus I AM IN A NOVEL First Line: I read a novel by a friend of mine Last Line: Such a funny pup in me Subject(s): Books I AM LIKE A ROSE First Line: I am myself at last; now I achieve Last Line: In stark-clear roses, than I to myself am brought I DARE DO ALL First Line: I dare do all that may become a man.' Last Line: That I may know what is unbecoming to me I HEARD HER SAY First Line: I heard her say to her brilliant young husband Last Line: Seven is still a safe-ish age I WISH I KNEW A WOMAN Last Line: Without having to take a chill, talking to her IF YOU ARE A MAN First Line: If you are a man, and believe in the destiny of mankind Last Line: A man, as never yet a man was knowable, yet still shall be IGNOBLE PROCESSION First Line: When I see the ignoble procession Last Line: Their haste %is so %humiliating IMAGE-MAKING LOVE First Line: And now %the best of all Last Line: From the gibe of image-making love IMMORAL MAN First Line: Man is immoral because he has got a mind Last Line: And ruins our complex harmony IMMORALITY First Line: The real immorality, as far as I can see it Last Line: Against all your deeper instincts and your intuition IMMORALITY First Line: It is only immoral Last Line: And busy putting out the sun %in other people IMPULSE First Line: You can count on anything, but you can't count on Last Line: And even the lovliest flowers, you must graft them on a %newstock IN A BOAT Poem Text First Line: See the stars, love, Last Line: And swoon, love, swoon? IN A SPANISH TRAM-CAR First Line: She fanned herself with a violet fan Last Line: Sin doesn't interest me IN CHURCH Poem Text First Line: In the choir the boys are singing the hymn Last Line: Of our sabbath, suffusing our sacred day. Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals IN THE CITIES Last Line: Heavily, stepping weary on our hearts IN THE DARK First Line: A blotch of pallor stirs beneath the high Last Line: Save you, and me, and sleep; all the rest will keep IN TROUBLE AND SHAME Poem Text First Line: I look at the swaling sunset Last Line: I would laugh with joy. INITIATION DEGREES First Line: No man, unless he has died, and learned to be alone Last Line: Will ever come into touch INNOCENT ENGLAND First Line: Oh what a pity, oh! Don't you agree Last Line: So my pictures are in prison, instead of in the zoo Subject(s): England INTIMATES First Line: Don't you care for my love? She said bitterly Last Line: And that held her spellbound for two seconds %while I fled INVOCATION TO THE MOON First Line: You beauty, o you beauty Last Line: And watched for your glistening feet down the garden path IT'S EITHER YOU FIGHT OR YOU DIE Last Line: You've got no option IT'S NO GOOD First Line: It's no good, the women are in eruption Last Line: But the women are my favourite vessels of wrath JEALOUSY First Line: The jealousy of an ego-bound woman Last Line: The ego revealed in all its monstrous inhumanity JEUNE FILLE First Line: Oh the innocent girl Last Line: And just fills you with hell KANGAROO Poem Text First Line: In the northern hemisphere Subject(s): Kangaroos; Travel; Journeys; Trips KANGAROO First Line: In the northern hemisphere Last Line: Leap then, and come down on the line that draws to the earth's %deep, heavy centre Subject(s): Kangaroos; Travel KEEP IT UP First Line: People go on singing when they have no song in them Last Line: Never having seen a mulberry bush in our lives KILL MONEY First Line: Kill money, put money out of existence Last Line: Free like a bird KISSES IN THE TRAIN First Line: I saw the midlands Last Line: Like a magnet's keeper %closing the round KISSING AND HORRID STRIFE First Line: I have been defeated and dragged down by pain Last Line: Nor yet the striving and the horrid strife KNOW DEEPLY, KNOW THYSELF MORE DEEPLY, SELS. First Line: Go deeper than love, for the soul has greater depths Last Line: She is a made-up lie, a dyed immortelle %of infinite staleness Subject(s): Love - Marital KNOW THYSELF First Line: The great command will never be obsolete Last Line: For the analyst is tangled in an especially tangled bunch, inside himself KNOW THYSELF, AND THAT THOU ART MORTAL First Line: If you want to know yourself Last Line: Over their mutilated cyclopean eye KNOW-ALL First Line: Man knows nothing Last Line: Even from myself, and am consummated LA MANIERE DE D. H. LAWRENCE First Line: They have green tram in florence now Last Line: Oh dear! What's happening to tuscans LABOUR BATTALION First Line: The town grows fiercer with heat Last Line: To disown the night LADY WIFE First Line: Ah yes, I know you well, a sojourner Last Line: Of your last solution LAST HOURS First Line: The cool of an oak's unchequered shade Last Line: Dragging the links of my shortening chain %southwards, alas! LAST LESSON OF THE AFTERNOON First Line: When will the bell ring, and end this weariness? Last Line: Of each other? I shall sit and wait for the bell LAST WORDS TO MIRIAM Poem Text First Line: Yours is the sullen [or, shame and] sorrow Last Line: You through the flame. LATE AT NIGHT Poem Text First Line: Rigid sleeps the house in darkness, I alone Last Line: Black and phantasmal? Variant Title(s): Phantasmagoria LATE WAR First Line: The war was not strife Last Line: Each side trying to murder the other side evilly LATENT DESIRE First Line: The latent desire in all decent men today Last Line: Devil take the hindmost LATTER-DAY SINNERS First Line: The worst of the younger generation, these latter-day Last Line: You mustn't expect it also to wait for your convenience LAUGHTER First Line: Listen to people laughing Last Line: And you will hear what liars they are %or cowards LEAVE SEX ALONE First Line: Leave sex alone, leave sex alone, let it die right away Last Line: And then perhaps we shall know true sex, in ourselves LEAVES OF GRASS, FLOWERS OF GRASS First Line: Leaves of grass, what about leaves of grass Last Line: Leaves of grass, what are leaves of grass, when at its best grass blossoms LEDA First Line: Come not with kisses Last Line: Into the marsh-soft belly LET THE DEAD BURY THEIR DEAD First Line: Let the dead go bury their dead Last Line: Don't sympathise, or you taint the unborn babies LET THERE BE LIGHT First Line: If ever there was a beginning Last Line: And becoming light Subject(s): Bible; Religion LET US BE MEN First Line: For god's sake, let us be men Last Line: Monkeys with a bland grin on our faces Variant Title(s): Letter To Charles Wilso LET US TALK, LET US LAUGH First Line: Let us talk, let us laugh, let us tell Last Line: And the ruin of any decent relation %between us LETTER FROM TOWN: ON A GREY MORNING IN MARCH Poem Text First Line: The clouds are pushing in grey reluctance slowly northward to you Last Line: To hear on its mocking triumphance unwitting the after-echo of fear. LETTER FROM TOWN: THE ALMOND TREE Poem Text First Line: You promised to send me some violets. Did you forget? Last Line: You with loose hands of abandonment hanging down. LETTER TO LADY CYNTHIA ASQUITH First Line: Now like a crocus in the autumn time Last Line: The leaves are smouldering in a funeral wind LIAISON Poem Text First Line: A big bud of moon hangs out of the twilight Last Line: The core of delight. LIBERTY'S OLD OLD STORY First Line: Men fight for liberty, and win it with hard knocks Last Line: And their grandchildren are once more slaves LIES First Line: Lies are not a question of false fact Last Line: But of false feeling and perverted justice LIES ABOUT LOVE First Line: We are all liars, because Last Line: Instead of a flower that dies, and opens a different bud LIFE AND THE HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS First Line: I love life, I love life so dearly, I could almost die Last Line: And repeat themselves like the flushing of a w.C LIGHTNING Poem Text First Line: I felt the lurch and halt of her heart Last Line: Home, come home, the lightning has made it too plain! Subject(s): Lightning; Love; Lightning Rods LILIES IN THE FIRE First Line: Ah, you stack of white lilies, all white and gold Last Line: Upon the floor, that erst stood up so fresh LISTEN TO THE BAND First Line: There is a band playing in the early night Last Line: Gnawing in a wooden trap, trapped in LISTENING Poem Text First Line: I listen to the stillness of you Last Line: The stars are buoys. LITTLE FISH Poem Text First Line: The tiny fish enjoy themselves Subject(s): Animals; Fish & Fishing; Anglers LITTLE FISH First Line: The tiny fish enjoy themselves Last Line: Their little lives are fun to them %in the sea Subject(s): Animals; Fishing And Fishermen LITTLE TOWN AT EVENING First Line: The chime of the bells, and the church clock striking eight Last Line: Me so distinctly from sleeping the sleep I'd love best LITTLE WOWSER First Line: There is a little wowser Last Line: I've chucked him, I've repented LITTLE-BOY BRILLIANT First Line: Another type that england has produced Last Line: And wonders if a parrot hasn't more to it LIVING First Line: A man should never earn his living Last Line: And we, we get it all from them for nothing LIZARD First Line: A lizard ran out on a rock and looked up, listening Last Line: If men were as much men as lizards are lizards %they'd be worth looking at Subject(s): Lizards LOGGERHEADS First Line: Please yourself how you have it Last Line: Let us make for the weeping willow %I don't care LONDON MERCURY First Line: Oh when mercury came to london Last Line: Because, you see, he is 'neither, my dear' LONELINESS First Line: I never know what people mean when they complain of Last Line: With the centre of all things LONELY, LONESOME, LONEY -- O! First Line: When I hear somebody complain of being lonely Last Line: At the stillness of the air LORD TENNYSON AND LORD MELCHETT First Line: Dost tha hear my horse's feet, as he canters qway? Last Line: I lick the cream off property! That's what it seems to say LORD'S PRAYER First Line: For thine is the kingdom Last Line: My kingdom, my power, and my glory LOTUS AND FROST First Line: How many times, like lotus lilies risen Last Line: Kind on the weight of suffering smiles again LOVE First Line: One thing is certain, we've got to take hands off love Last Line: Amounting almost to love LOVE AS AN ESCAPE First Line: It is time men took their thoughts off women Last Line: Then they'd be able to love. Despair can't love, it can only violate LOVE ON THE FARM Poem Text First Line: What large, dark hands are those at the window Last Line: Against him, die, and find death good. Variant Title(s): Cruelty And Love LOVE STORM Poem Text First Line: Many roses in the wind Last Line: Down the bright-grey ruin of things! LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR First Line: I love my neighbor %but Last Line: All I can say then is nay! Nay! Nay! Nay! Nay! Subject(s): Bible; Religion LUCIFER First Line: Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell Last Line: With his own annunciation, towards us LUCKY LITTLE BRITISHER First Line: Oh you'd think the british public Last Line: To see the way they treat it LUI ET ELLE First Line: She is large and matronly Last Line: While she pulls herself free, and rows her dull mound along MAGNIFICENT DEMOCRACY First Line: Oh, when the grass flowers, the grass Last Line: A blooming aristocrat all round MALADE Poem Text First Line: The sick grapes on the chair by the bed lie prone Last Line: Ah, but I am ill, and it is still raining, coldly raining! Subject(s): Sickness; Illness MAN First Line: All I care about in a man Last Line: A money-slave MAN AND BAT First Line: When I went into my room, at mid-morning Last Line: But I am greater that he - %I escaped him Subject(s): Animals; Bats MAN AND MACHINE First Line: Man invented the machine Last Line: So now the machine has invented man MAN IN THE STREET First Line: I met him in the street Last Line: And they ran me in, to teach me why MAN IS MORE THAN HOMO SAPIENS First Line: Man is not quite a man Last Line: With the dark and gleaming beauty of the messageless gods MAN OF TYRE First Line: The man of tyre went down to the sea Last Line: Godly and lovely comes aphrodite out of the sea %towards me MAN REACHES A POINT First Line: I cannot help but be alone Last Line: Other flesh to my own MAN'S IMAGE First Line: What a pity, when a man looks at himself in a glass Last Line: And so interesting MANA OF THE SEA First Line: Do you see the ea, breaking itself to bits against the islands Last Line: I am the sea, I am the sea MANIFESTO First Line: A woman has given me strength and affluence Last Line: We, the mystic now MANY MANSIONS First Line: When a bird flips his tail in getting his balance on a tree Last Line: Why can't people be gay like that MARTYR A LA MODE First Line: Ah god, life, law, so many names you keep Last Line: Of sudden anguish, sudden over and spent MASSES AND CLASSES First Line: There are masses, and there are classes Last Line: The hands of life MAYBE First Line: Ah well! Ah well! Maybe Last Line: Is played at their expense MEDITERRANEAN IN JANUARY First Line: The blue anemone with a dark core Last Line: Persuades me to stay, since stay I may MEDLARS AND SORB-APPLES First Line: I love you, rotten Last Line: Intoxication of final loneliness MEETING AMONG THE MOUNTAINS First Line: The little pansies by the road have turned Last Line: And know the dead christ weighing on my bone MEN AND WOMEN First Line: All this talk about equality between the sexes is merely Last Line: And to leave one another alone MEN ARE NOT BAD First Line: Men are not bad, when they are free Last Line: And men would work gaily MEN IN NEW MEXICO First Line: Mountains blanket-wrapped Last Line: They can't get up, they are under the blanket Subject(s): Sleep MEN LIKE GODS First Line: When men think they are like gods Last Line: Being conceited fools MEN LIKE GODS First Line: Men wanted to be like gods Last Line: And now even they're not satisfied MESS OF LOVE First Line: We've made a great mess of love Last Line: Perverted, ego-perverted love MICHAEL ANGELO First Line: Who shook thy roundness in his finger's cup Last Line: Then leaves thee, and thou canst not but complain MIDDLE CLASSES Last Line: Than paper money when the bank is broke MIDDLE OF THE WORLD Poem Text First Line: This sea will never die, neither will it ever grow old Subject(s): Mediterranean Sea MIDDLE OF THE WORLD First Line: This sea will never die, neither will it ever grow old Last Line: And dionysos, young, and a stranger %leans listening on the gate, in all respect Subject(s): Mediterranean Sea MIDDLE-CLASS CHILDREN First Line: Another curious thing about the english middle classes Last Line: They may even, one day, discover simple affection as a great discovery MILLS OF GOD First Line: Why seek to alter people, why not leave them alone Last Line: Rolls round and round, grinding exceeding small MINORITIES IN DANGER First Line: Now above all is the time for the minorities of men Last Line: And pander to them MISERY First Line: Out of this oubliette between the mountains Last Line: What are so many straight trees to me MODERN PRAYER First Line: Almighty mammon, make me rich Last Line: Who hinder me, mammon, great son of a bitch MODERN PROBLEMS First Line: The worst of it is Last Line: Specimens to be anatomised MONEY First Line: Money is the vast stinking beast Last Line: And feed on it MONEY-MADNESS First Line: Money is our madness, our vast collective madness Last Line: It's one thing or the other MONOLOGUE OF A MOTHER Poem Text First Line: This is the last of all, this is the last Last Line: And my heart rebels with anguish as night draws nigher. Subject(s): Mothers MOON MEMORY First Line: When the moon falls on a man's blood Last Line: That has left scum on the sea, even in the night MOONRISE First Line: And who has seen the moon, who has not seen Last Line: Sooner than our full consummation here %in this odd life will tarnish or pass away Subject(s): Consolation; Moon MORAL CLOTHING First Line: When I am clothed I am a moral man Last Line: Let there be no accommodation at this issue MORALITY First Line: Man alone is immoral Last Line: Then turned away and forgot MORNING WORK First Line: A gang of labourers on the piled wet timber Last Line: And laughing with labour, living their work like a game MOSQUITO First Line: When did you start your tricks Last Line: Queer, what a dim dark smudge you have disappeared into! Subject(s): Mosquitoes MOSQUITO KNOWS First Line: The mosquito knows full well, small as he is Last Line: He doesn't put my blood in the bank Subject(s): Mosquitoes MOUNTAIN LION Poem Text First Line: Climbing through the january snow, into the lobo canyon Subject(s): Animals; Lions; Travel; Journeys; Trips MOUNTAIN LION First Line: Climbing through the january snow, into the lobo canyon Last Line: Of that slim yellow mountain lion Subject(s): Animals; Lions; Travel MOURNFUL YOUNG MAN First Line: Mournful young man in your twenties Last Line: Or except you change MULTITUDES First Line: The multitudes are like droppings of birds, like dung of sea-fowl Last Line: To fertilise the roots of unknown men who are still to come %in fresh fields MURDER First Line: Killing is not evil Last Line: Without cognisance or communion MURDEROUS WEAPONS First Line: So guns and strong explosives Last Line: Refinements of evil MUTILATION First Line: A tick mist-sheet lies over the broken wheat Last Line: Oh gods of the living darkness, powers of night MY ENEMY First Line: If it is a question of him or me Last Line: He is no longer my concern, he ceases to be %my enemy MY LITTLE CRITICS First Line: My little critics must all have been brought up by their aunties Last Line: My little critics, dear, safe little pets MY NAUGHTY BOOK First Line: They say I wrote a naughty book Last Line: So do forgive me! I sprinkle my hair %with grey, repentant ash MYSTERY Poem Text First Line: Now I am all Last Line: The mystery. MYSTIC First Line: They call all experience of the senses mystic, when the experience Last Line: Hogging it down like a pig I call the feeding of corpses NAME THE GODS First Line: I refuse to name the gods, because they have no name Last Line: The pale-gold flesh of priapus dropping asleep NARCISSUS Poem Text First Line: Where the minnows trace Last Line: Your human self immortal; take the watery track. NATURAL COMPLEXION First Line: But, you see, said the handsome young man with the Last Line: I swear I'll pull off my knickers, right in the rue de la paix NEMESIS First Line: The nemesis that awaits our civilisation Last Line: Will be bright red with blood NEW BROOMS First Line: New brooms sweep clean Last Line: That they choke the sweeper NEW HEAVEN AND EARTH Poem Text First Line: And so I cross into another world Last Line: And kindles it further at the core of utter mystery. NEW HOUSES, NEW CLOTHES First Line: New houses, new furniture, new streets, new clothes Last Line: The more we have NEW MOON First Line: The new moon, of no importance Last Line: Brings a fresh fragrance of heaven to our senses NEW WORD First Line: Shall I tell you again the new word Last Line: Which is god in the atom NEW YEAR'S EVE First Line: There are only two things now Last Line: From your feet to your lips NEW YEAR'S NIGHT First Line: Now you are mine, to-night at last I say it Last Line: I have won my renown Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEXT MORNING Poem Text First Line: How have I wandered here to this vaulted room Last Line: What is there gone against me, why am I in hell? NIGHT First Line: Now that the night is here Last Line: In shut-eyed touch NO JOY IN LIFE First Line: Never, my young men Last Line: Then you will settle the hash of business finally NO NEWS First Line: Ah heaven, send Last Line: Even no pain of heart %to afford her NO! MR LAWRENCE! First Line: No, mr. Lawrence, it's not like that Last Line: It's really rather dull NOBLE First Line: I know I am noble with the nobility of the sun Last Line: I would say the same if I were a chaffinch or tree NOBLE ENGLISHMAN First Line: I know a noble englishman Last Line: No don't talk to me about the love of englishmen NOISE OF BATTLE Poem Text First Line: And all hours long, the town Last Line: Roll hollow in the interim. Variant Title(s): Apprehension Subject(s): War NOLI ME TANGERE First Line: Noli me tangere, touch me not Last Line: Untouched. %noli me tangere NON-EXISTENCE First Line: We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch Last Line: With that which can be touched but not known NONENTITY First Line: The stars that open and shut Last Line: I am weary of myself NOSTALGIA First Line: The waning moon looks upward; this grey night Last Line: I wish with my breast I here could annihilate it all NOSTALGIA First Line: The place is palpable me, for here I was born NOTHING TO SAVE First Line: There is nothing to save, now all is lost Last Line: Like the eye of a violet NOTTINGHAM'S NEW UNIVERSITY First Line: In nottingham, that dismal town Last Line: Is a last offshoot of boots NOVEMBER BY THE SEA First Line: Now in november nearer comes the sun Last Line: My sun, and the great gold sun NOW IT'S HAPPENED First Line: One cannot now help thinking Last Line: Like machines -- and you can't wonder much Subject(s): Tolstoy, Leo (1828-1910) NULLUS First Line: I know I am nothing Last Line: Pause, brethren, pause O! AMERICANS First Line: Americans! %the word stands for something Last Line: America, that is in you O! START A REVOLUTION! First Line: O! Start a revolution, somebody! Last Line: But to abolish the working classes for ever %and leave a world of men OBSCENITY First Line: The body of itself is clean, but the caged mind Last Line: Of maquillage and pose and malice to shame the brutes OBSEQUIAL ODE First Line: Surely you've trodden straight Last Line: In your pitiless legions OH WONDERFUL MALCHINE First Line: Oh wonderful machine, so self-sufficient, so sufficient unto Last Line: And you can't possibly do with out them OLD ARCHANGELS First Line: And so the official archangels Last Line: The morning star OLD IDEA OF SACRIFICE Last Line: Of bigger lives, with due reverence and acknowledgement OLD MEN First Line: Whom the gods love, die young Last Line: Which turns on and on, the same, and is hell on earth OLD ORCHARD First Line: Mow shut your eyes Last Line: For the rest, don't bother OLD PEOPLE First Line: Nowadays everybody wants to be young Last Line: And if it's my fault that the old girl is seventy-seven OLD SONG First Line: The day is ending, the night descending Last Line: To other things that are left unsaid ON THAT DAY ON THE BALCONY First Line: In front of the sombre mountains, a faint, lost ribbon Last Line: And disappear -- what have we but each other %the boat has gone Subject(s): Love ON THE BEST MATTERS First Line: Only the best matters, in man especially Last Line: In so far as it goes to the bringing forth of the best ON THE DRUM First Line: The huge old female on the drum Last Line: And smiles; the vastness of her elephant antiquity %is amused ON THE MARCH First Line: We are out on the open road Last Line: Of this land whereon the wrong road goes ONE WOMAN TO ALL WOMEN First Line: I don't care whether I am beautiful to you Last Line: Encompassed, and many reduced to none %you other women ONLY MAN First Line: Only man can fall from god Last Line: Knowing itself, knowing itself apart from god, falling OPTIMIST First Line: The optimist builds himself safe inside a cell Last Line: And says he's in heaven OUR DAY IS OVER First Line: Our day is over, night comes up Last Line: Night comes up OUR MORAL AGE First Line: Of course, if you make naughtiness nasty Last Line: What would be the use --? OXFORD VOICE First Line: When you hear it languishing Last Line: You admit we are %superior PAINTER'S WIFE First Line: She was tangled up in her own self-conceit, a woman Last Line: And he thought so too %nobody else did Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage PALTRY-LOOKING PEOPLE First Line: And think how the nightingale, who is so shy Last Line: Or sitting stuck like automata in automobiles PANG OF REMINISCENCE First Line: High and smaller goes the moon, she is small and very far from me Last Line: A tear which I had hoped that even hell held not again in store PARADISE RE-ENTERED First Line: Through the strait gate of passion Last Line: On our primal loam Subject(s): Bible; Religion PARLIAMENT HILL IN THE EVENING Poem Text First Line: The houses fade in a melt of mist Last Line: Their ghastly glow. PASSING VISIT TO HELEN Poem Text First Line: Returning, I find her just the same Last Line: Break in by making any reply! Variant Title(s): Intime PATIENCE Poem Text First Line: The wind comes from the north Last Line: To the lode of her agony. Variant Title(s): Suspicion Subject(s): Patience PAX First Line: All that matters is to be at one with the living god Last Line: In the house of life Subject(s): Religion PEACE AND WAR First Line: People always make war when they say they love peace Last Line: Then we shan't have war, and we needn't talk about peace PEACH First Line: Would you like to throw a stone at me Last Line: Here, you can have my peach stone PEACOCK First Line: Think how a peacock in a forest of high trees Last Line: And women even cut their shimmery hair! Subject(s): Birds; Peacocks PEOPLE Poem Text First Line: The great gold apples of light Last Line: They ever should be. PEOPLE First Line: I like people quite well Last Line: I can still have the illusion that there is room enough in the world PEOPLE First Line: Ah the people, the people Last Line: Of the factory world PEOPLE WHO CARE First Line: People who care, who care, who care Last Line: Probably are nothing at all PHOENIX First Line: Are you willing to be sponged out, erased, cancelled Last Line: Shows that she is renewing her youth like the eagle, %immortal bird PIANO Poem Text First Line: Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me Last Line: Down in the flood of remembrance, I weep like a child for the past. Subject(s): Children; Memory; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Nostalgia; Pianos; Singing & Singers; Time; Childhood; Songs PIANO First Line: Somewhere beneath that piano's superb sleek black Last Line: And the PICCADILLY CIRCUS AT NIGHT: STREETWALKERS Poem Text First Line: When into the night the yellow light is roused like dust Last Line: Sea. Subject(s): Piccadilly, London; Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels PLAYED-OUT GAME First Line: Success is a played-out game, success, success Last Line: Instead of getting on and not being able to get off again PLUMED SERPENT: 1. THE COMING OF QUETZALCOATL First Line: In the place of the west Last Line: Saying to herself: quetzalcoatl Subject(s): Aztecs; Mexico PLUMED SERPENT: 10 First Line: I am the son of the morning star, and child of the deeps Last Line: I am lord of the two ways Subject(s): Aztecs; Mexico PLUMED SERPENT: 11 First Line: I am the living quetzalcoatl Last Line: I am quetzalcoatl, of the two ways Subject(s): Aztecs; Birds; Mexico PLUMED SERPENT: 12. WELCOME TO QUETZALCOATL First Line: We are not wasted. We are not left out Last Line: Put star-oil over me %call me a man Subject(s): Aztecs; Mexico PLUMED SERPENT: 13. THE MID-DAY VERSE First Line: The sun has climbed the hill, the day is on the downward slope Last Line: And the top of the morning Subject(s): Aztecs; Mexico PLUMED SERPENT: 14. THE DAWN VERSE First Line: The dark is dividing, the sun is coming past the wall Last Line: Man in the twilight Subject(s): Aztecs; Mexico PLUMED SERPENT: 15. THE SUNSET VERSE First Line: Leave off! Leave off! Leave off! Last Line: You belong to the night Subject(s): Aztecs; Mexico PLUMED SERPENT: 16 First Line: Metal for resistance Last Line: The heart ceases not Subject(s): Aztecs; Mexico PLUMED SERPENT: 17. FIRST SONG OF HUITZILOPOCHTLI First Line: I am huitzilopochtli Last Line: Of fire bent back again Subject(s): Aztecs; Mexico PLUMED SERPENT: 18. SECOND SONG OF HUITZILOPOCHTLI First Line: He is huitzilopochtli Last Line: Fire of the passion of men Subject(s): Aztecs; Mexico PLUMED SERPENT: 19. THIRD SONG OF HUITZILOPOCHTLI First Line: Man that is man is more than a man Last Line: Maybe they kennel the grey dog Subject(s): Aztecs; Mexico PLUMED SERPENT: 2 First Line: The lord of the morning star Last Line: That washes the lords of life Subject(s): Aztecs; Mexico PLUMED SERPENT: 20. THE SONG OF THE GREY DOG First Line: When you sleep and know it not Last Line: Where dogs creep unclean Subject(s): Aztecs; Mexico PLUMED SERPENT: 21 First Line: The lords of life are the masters of death Last Line: The lords of life are the masters of death Subject(s): Aztecs; Mexico PLUMED SERPENT: 22 First Line: Huitzilopochtli gives the black blade of death Last Line: Who pardons once, and no more Subject(s): Aztecs; Mexico PLUMED SERPENT: 23. HUITZILOPOCHTLI'S WATCH First Line: Red huitzilopochtli Last Line: Is malintzi's blade of grass Subject(s): Aztecs; Mexico PLUMED SERPENT: 24. SONG OF THE DEAD First Line: The dead are on their journey, the way is dark Last Line: Within the noiseless Subject(s): Aztecs; Mexico PLUMED SERPENT: 25 First Line: Like the green candles of malintzi Last Line: In the morning star Subject(s): Aztecs; Mexico PLUMED SERPENT: 26 First Line: My way is not thy way, and thine is not mine Last Line: For all we are worth Subject(s): Aztecs; Mexico PLUMED SERPENT: 3 First Line: Someone will enter between the gates Last Line: Shall you? Shall I? Subject(s): Aztecs; Mexico PLUMED SERPENT: 4 First Line: My name is jesus, I am mary's son Last Line: Let me come home Subject(s): Aztecs; Mexico PLUMED SERPENT: 5. QUETZALCOATL LOOKS DOWN ON MEXICO First Line: Jesus had gone far up the dark slope, when he looked back Last Line: Or else prepare for the other things Subject(s): Aztecs; Mexico PLUMED SERPENT: 6. WHAT QUETZALCOATL SAW IN MEXICO First Line: Who are these strange faces in mexico Last Line: Wait! Only wait! Little by little it all shall come upon you Subject(s): Aztecs; Mexico PLUMED SERPENT: 7. SONG TO THE TUNE OF LA CUCARACHA First Line: Don ramon don't drink, don't smoke Last Line: That he's stolen from the mother of god Subject(s): Aztecs; Mexico PLUMED SERPENT: 8. JESUS' FAREWELL First Line: Farewell, farewell, despedida Last Line: Say adios! My children Subject(s): Aztecs; Mexico PLUMED SERPENT: 9 First Line: What is god, we shall never know Last Line: Peeping, they will lose their sight, and lingering, they will fall very lame Subject(s): Aztecs; Mexico First Line: You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket Subject(s): Language POISON First Line: What has killed mankind -- for the bulk of mankind is dead Last Line: The nasty lying pretence of seeming to feel what we don't feel POLICE SPIES First Line: Start a system of official spying Last Line: And you've introduced anarchy into your country POMEGRANATE First Line: You tell me I am wrong Last Line: It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack POOR BIT OF A WENCH First Line: Will no one say hush! To thee Last Line: And would you peck out his eyes if he did POOR YOUNG THINGS First Line: The young today are born prisoners Last Line: And prisoners' flat, ineffectual pastime PORTRAITS First Line: Portraits are now supremely uninteresting Last Line: As all drawing-rooms are, arranged POVERTY First Line: The only people I ever heard talk about my lady poverty Last Line: And plume forth, and be splendid PRAYER First Line: Give me the moon at my feet Last Line: His face is like the red lion PRESTIGE First Line: I never met a single Last Line: My god, let me get away PRIMAL PASSIONS First Line: If you will go down into yourself, under your surface Last Line: In the sheer coition of the life-flow, stark and unlying PROPER PRIDE First Line: Everything that lives has its own proper pride Last Line: They are humble, with creeping humility, being parasites or carrion creatures PROPERTY AND NO-PROPERTY First Line: The bourgeois asserts that he owns his property by divine right Last Line: We shall all be cut to bits PROPERTY QUESTION First Line: In settling the property question between them Last Line: Than there was in the lions PROPHET Poem Text First Line: Ah, my darling, when over the purple horizon shall loom Last Line: Wounding themselves against her, denying her fecund embraces. PROTESTANT CHURCHES First Line: The protestant churches have had their day Last Line: And which we have lost PURPLE ANEMONES First Line: Who gave us flowers Last Line: They are always sold %it is spring PUSS-PUSS! First Line: Oh, auntie, isn't he a beauty! And is he a gentleman or a lady? Last Line: It saves him from so many undesirable associations Subject(s): Animals; Cats QUESTION First Line: Was your's a daddy Last Line: Or a daddy-do-nothing QUITE FORSAKEN First Line: What pain, to wake and miss you Last Line: For which I wanted the night to retreat RABBIT SNARED IN THE NIGHT First Line: Why do you spurt and sprottle Last Line: Since already I am implicated with you %in your strange lust RACE AND BATTLE First Line: The race is not to the swift Last Line: To save the streaked pansy of the heart from being trampled to mud Subject(s): Bible; Religion RAINBOW First Line: One thing that is bow-legged Last Line: And make a rainbow RAINBOW First Line: Even the rainbow has a body Last Line: And still, this is the god hermes, sitting by my hearth RALLYING-POINT First Line: If we rally at all, today, instead of keeping Last Line: To keep a sane core to life REACH OVER First Line: Reach over, then, reach over Last Line: Reach out, reach out in this dark READING A LETTER Poem Text First Line: She sits on the recreation ground Last Line: Hurt at the chalk-coloured tulips, and the evening-green. REAL DEMOCRACY First Line: If the robot can recognise the clean flame of life Last Line: Of life undimmed delights him, so even he is lit up REBUKED First Line: How big and white the night is Last Line: Dodging behind in disgrace RED GERANIUM AND GODLY MIGNONETTE Poem Text First Line: Imagine that any mind ever thought a red geranium! Subject(s): Flowers; Geraniums; Mignonettes RED GERANIUM AND GODLY MIGNONETTE First Line: Imagine that any mind ever thought a red geranium! Last Line: Oh, for some other beauty, some other beauty %that blossomed at last, red geranium, and mignonette Subject(s): Flowers; Geraniums; Mignonettes RED MOON-RISE First Line: The train, in running across the weald, has fallen into a steadier Last Line: Into the womb, to kindle an unknown fire RED WOLF First Line: Over the heart of the west, the taos desert Last Line: All right, the red-dawn-wolf I am RED-HERRING First Line: My father was a working man Last Line: We should start an' kick their --ses for 'em %an' tell 'em to -- REFUSED FRIENDSHIP First Line: He said to me: your life will be so much the poorer Last Line: I like him. What else is there RELATIVITY First Line: I like relativity and quantum theories Last Line: Always changing its mind Subject(s): Relativity RELEASE Poem Text First Line: Helen, had I known yesterday Last Line: Are the earth I hover over. Subject(s): Love REMINDER First Line: Do you remember Last Line: Your head, through being lonely RENASCENCE First Line: We have bit no forbidden apple Last Line: Moves on to the sea REPROACH First Line: Had I but known yesterday Last Line: But you %are the earth I hover over Subject(s): Love REPTILES First Line: Homer was wrong in saying, 'would that strife might pass Last Line: And is the foundation of the world REPULSED First Line: The last silk-floating thought has gone from the dandelion stem Last Line: The female whose venom can more than kill, can numb and then nullify RESTLESSNESS Poem Text First Line: At the open door of the room I stand and look at the night Last Line: Till at length they induce me to sleep, and to forget. RESURRECTION First Line: Now all the hosts are marching to the grave Last Line: Unborn and unproduced, yet to be born RESURRECTION OF THE FLESH First Line: Oh then be nameless and be never seen Last Line: Of just one touch! Even so, do I ask too much RETORT TO JESUS First Line: And whoever forces himself to love anybody Last Line: Begats a murderer in his own body RETORT TO WHITMAN First Line: And whoever walks a mile full of false sympathy Last Line: Walks to the funeral of the whole human race Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) RETURN First Line: Now I am come again, to you who have so desired Last Line: But barbed aloofness when I would draw near RETURN OF RETURNS First Line: Come in a week Last Line: The ancient river week, the old one %come then REVOLUTIONARY First Line: Look at them standing there in authority Last Line: See if I am not lord of the dark and moving hosts %before I die Subject(s): Florence, Italy REVOLUTIONS AS SUCH First Line: Curiously enough, actual revolutions are made by robots Last Line: They can't, life means too much to them RICHES First Line: When I wish I was rich, then I know I am ill Last Line: I say to myself: hello! I'm not well. My vitality is low RISE IN THE WORLD First Line: I rose up in the world, ooray Last Line: Up there -- but not any men RISEN LORD First Line: The risen lord, the risen lord Last Line: Can denial deny them again ROBOT FEELINGS First Line: It is curious, too, that though the modern man in the street Last Line: They move in a great grind of hate, slowly but inevitable ROBOT-DEMOCRACY First Line: In a robot-democracy, nobody is willing to serve Last Line: Then the mill-stones burst with the internal heat of their own friction RONDEAU OF A CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR First Line: The hours have tumbled their leaden, monotonous sands Last Line: Tomorrow will pour them all back, the dull hours I detest ROOT OF OUR EVIL First Line: The root of our present evil is that we buy and sell Last Line: But on a religion of life ROSE AND CABBAGE First Line: And still I look for the men who will dare to be Last Line: And rose-briars to strangle the machine ROSE IS NOT A CABBAGE First Line: And still, in spite of all they do, I love the rose of england Last Line: No matter of what sort the cabbage be Subject(s): Cabbage; Flowers; Roses ROSE OF ALL THE WORLD First Line: I am here myself; as though this heave of effort Last Line: For me it is more than enough if the flower unclose ROSE OF ENGLAND First Line: Oh the rose of england is a single rose Last Line: And needs to be raised from seed ROSES First Line: Nature respnds so beautifully Last Line: Out of sheer desire to be splendid, and more splendid ROSES ON THE BREAKFAST TABLE First Line: Just a few of the roses we gathered from the isar Last Line: How lovely is the self this day discloses RUINATION First Line: The sun is bleeding its fires upon the mist Last Line: Of darkness advancing steadily over us all SADDEST DAY First Line: We climbed the steep ascent to heaven Last Line: You'd better get down again SALT First Line: Salt is scorched water that the sun has scorched Last Line: Between the two great ones, fire, and the wet SALVATION First Line: The only salvation is to realise that we know nothing about it Last Line: The one thing easiest to lose is savings SANE AND INSANE First Line: The puritan is insane Last Line: Which threaten to tear the world in two, between them SANE REVOLUTION First Line: If you make a revolution, make it for fun Last Line: Let's have it so! Let's make a revolution for fun SANE UNIVERSE First Line: One might talk of the sanity of the atom Last Line: The only oneness is the oneness of sanity SATISFACTION First Line: The profound sensual experience of truth: yea, this is Last Line: Alone satisfies us, in the end SCENT OF IRISES Poem Text First Line: A faint, sickening scent of irises Last Line: Forget each other and the bruise of our bodies' clash.] Subject(s): Iris (flower); Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances SCHOOL ON THE OUTSKIRTS Poem Text First Line: How different, in the midst of snows, the great school rises red Last Line: Blind. Subject(s): Schools; Students SCIENTIFIC DOCTOR First Line: When I went to the scientific doctor Last Line: So I said: good-morning! And left him SEA First Line: You, you are all unloving, loveless, you Last Line: Sea, you shadow of all things, now mock us to death with %your shadowing Subject(s): Sea SEA-BATHERS First Line: Oh the handsome bluey-brown bodies, they might just as well be Last Line: Where then is life SEA-WEED Poem Text First Line: Sea-weed sways and sways and swirls Subject(s): Seaweed SEA-WEED First Line: Sea-weed sways and sways and swirls Last Line: It slips over it as shadows do, without hurting itself Subject(s): Seaweed SEARCH FOR LOVE First Line: Those that go searching for love Last Line: And they never have to seek for it SEARCH FOR TRUTH First Line: Search for nothing any more, nothing Last Line: How great a liar am I SECRET WATERS First Line: What was lost is found Last Line: Is death to us all, in the marshes of peace SEEKERS First Line: Oh seekers, when you leave off seeking Last Line: When you went forth so vigorously in search SELF-CONSCIOUS PEOPLE First Line: O are you tangled up in yourself Last Line: They will tear you terribly, and give you blood-posoning SELF-PITY First Line: I never saw a wild thing Last Line: Without ever having felt sorry for itself Subject(s): Self-pity SELF-PROTECTION First Line: When science starts to be interpretive Last Line: I expect the dodo looked like a clod, %a drab and dingy bird SELF-SACRIFICE First Line: Self-sacrifice is perhaps the vilest deed a man can do Last Line: Swifter and higher and brighter, for the yielding and the adding together SELF-SACRIFICE First Line: Self-sacrifice, after all, is a wrong and mistaken idea Last Line: Sacrifice that to the bright gods, and satisfy the destructive instinct SENSE OF TRUTH First Line: You must fuse mind and wit with all the senses Last Line: Satisfactory sensual experience SERVICE First Line: Ah yes, men must learn to serve Last Line: When he looks beyond humanity SEVEN SEALS Poem Text First Line: Since this is the last night I keep you home Last Line: Upon you, wrapped in indomitable me. SEX AND TRUST First Line: If you want to have sex, you've got to trust Last Line: Mere evacuation-lust SEX ISN'T SIN First Line: Sex isn't sin, ah no! Sex isn't sin Last Line: Of the itching mind and the mental self, with its pruriency %always agape SEX WON'T WORK First Line: Sex won't work in captivity Last Line: They are in the cage SHADES First Line: Shall I tell you, then, how it is Last Line: For I have told you plainly how it is SHADOW OF DEATH First Line: The earth again like a ship steams out of the dark sea over Last Line: Of darkness whereon she sleeps on her perfect bed SHADOWS First Line: And if tonight my soul may find her peace Last Line: He is breaking me down to his own oblivion %to send me forth on a new morning, a new man SHE LOOKS BACK First Line: The pale bubbles Last Line: And oh, I wish it was better SHE SAID AS WELL TO ME First Line: She said as well to me: why are you ashamed Last Line: And why should you overlook them in me SHE-GOAT First Line: Goats go pst the back of the house like dry leaves in the Last Line: While his slitted eyes squint back to the roots of his ears SHEDDING OF BLOOD First Line: Without shedding of blood there is no remission of sin' Last Line: And let mankind make new blood, fresh and bright SHIP OF DEATH First Line: Now it is autumn and the falling fruit Last Line: For the voyage of oblivion awaits you Subject(s): Death; Graves; Ships And Shipping SHIPS IN BOTTLES First Line: O ship in a bottle Last Line: The storm is words, the bottles never break SHOWS First Line: Today, if a man does something pretentious and deliberate Last Line: Are deflowered by being looked at by so many unclean eyes SICILIAN CYCLAMENS First Line: When he pushed his bush of black hair off his brow Last Line: Among squat toad-leaves sprinkling the unborn %erechtheion marbles SICK First Line: I am sick, because I have given myself away Last Line: Never, not the tiniest shred SICKNESS Poem Text First Line: Waving slowly before me, pushed into the dark Last Line: The meaning out of them. SIDE-STEP, O SONS OF MEN First Line: Sons of men, from the wombs of wistful women Last Line: It is their heaven and their doom SIGH NO MORE Poem Text First Line: The cuckoo and the coo-dove's ceaseless calling Last Line: A decent short regret for that which once was very good. SIGHT OF GOD First Line: Men are not alike in the sight of god Last Line: The living substantial gods SIGNS OF THE TIMES First Line: If you want to get a glimpse of future possibilities Last Line: A waiting for the proper touch, not for any word or deed SILENCE Poem Text First Line: Since I lost you, I am silence-haunted Last Line: Down the noise of men. Subject(s): Silence SINNERS First Line: The big mountains sit still in the afternoon light Last Line: Swarms of mankind in the world, and we were less lonely SLEEP First Line: Sleep is the shadow of death, but not only that Last Line: And healed from all this ache of being SLEEP AND WAKING First Line: In sleep I am not, I am gone Last Line: The world is created afresh SLOPES OF ETNA First Line: Peace is written on the doorstep Last Line: Grey-black rock. %call it peace? Variant Title(s): Peac Subject(s): Peace; Volcanoes SLOWLY THE SALT OF THE EARTH BECOMES SALT OF THE SEA First Line: Slowly the salt of the earth becomes salt of the sea Last Line: Slowly the salt of the earth becomes salt of the sea SNAKE Poem Text First Line: A snake came to my water-trough Last Line: A pettiness. Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers SNOWY DAY IN SCHOOL First Line: All the long school-hours, round the irregular hum of the class Last Line: Only I and the class must wrangle; this work is a bitter rood SO LET ME LIVE First Line: So let me live that I may die Last Line: To the breath, that is, of new beauty unfolding in death SO THERE First Line: It's no good my dear Last Line: Probably, as she grew older, she ate her rivals SOFTLY, THEN, SOFTLY First Line: Do they block the way Last Line: Down with them SONG OF A MAN WHO HAS COME THROUGH Poem Text First Line: Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me! Last Line: Admit them, admit them. SONG OF A MAN WHO IS LOVED First Line: Between her breasts is my home, between her breasts Last Line: And my still hands full of her breasts SONG OF DEATH First Line: Sing the song of death, o sing it! Last Line: Sing the song of death, o sing it Subject(s): Death SONG-DAY IN AUTUMN First Line: When the autumn roses Last Line: Your heart of dismay SONGS I LEARNT AT SCHOOL: I. NEPTUNE'S LITTLE AFFAIR WITH First Line: Father neptune one day to freedom did say Last Line: A right little, tight little I -- sland! SONGS I LEARNT AT SCHOOL: II. MY NATIVE LAND First Line: Of every land or east or west Last Line: You're a rank outsider of the fifth remove SONGS I LEARNT AT SCHOOL: III. THE BRITISH BOY First Line: Oh I'm a british bo -- oy, sir Last Line: Pleasing britannia is no light work SORROW Poem Text First Line: Why does the thin grey strand Last Line: I watched them float up the dark chimney. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SOULS TO SAVE First Line: You tell me every man has a soul to save Last Line: So it can't have one to save SOUTHERN NIGHT First Line: Come up, thou red thing Last Line: Maculate %the red macula SPACE First Line: Space, of course, is alive Last Line: From the wild heart of space, that I call the sun of suns SPANISH PRIVILEGE First Line: The inward cocky assertiveness of the spaniard seems to say: Last Line: And nobody but themselves is interested SPANISH WIFE First Line: When saw her straying a little dazed through her untidy house Last Line: This foreign woman of the wealthy north SPHINX First Line: But why do I fells o strangely about you Last Line: Because I could not answer the riddle of her own self-importance SPILLING THE SALT First Line: Don't spill the salt, for it is the landmark Last Line: But also the sunderers, the angels with black, sharp wing-tips SPIRAL FLAME First Line: There have been so many gods Last Line: The upholstered dead that sit in deep arm-chairs SPIRITS SUMMONED WEST First Line: England seems full of graves to me Last Line: But in virginity jealousy does not enter SPRAY First Line: It is a wonder foam is so beautiful Last Line: With frustration how beautiful SPRING MORNING Poem Text First Line: Ah, through the open door Last Line: Outside the door! Subject(s): Spring ST GEORGE AND THE DRAGON First Line: The more you tackle the property dragon Last Line: But they let themselves be overwhelmed by those that are ST JOHN First Line: John, oh john Last Line: Ash flutters flocculent, like down on a blue, wan fledgeling ST LUKE First Line: A wall, a bastion Last Line: The bull of the proletariat has got his head down ST MARK First Line: There was a lion in judah Last Line: Going blind at last ST MATTHEW First Line: They are not all beasts Last Line: Am a traveller back and forth %so be it STAND UP! First Line: Stand up, but not for jesus! Last Line: Bust in, and hold the ground! STOIC First Line: Groan then, groan Last Line: Is this illusion of the death of the undying STOP IT First Line: The one thing the old will never understand Last Line: And the young are flowing in the throes of a great alterati on STORM IN THE BLACK FOREST First Line: Now it is almost night, from the bronzey soft sky Last Line: Chained, subjugated to his use %supposed to STREET LAMPS First Line: Gold, with an innermost speck Last Line: Still, and the darknesses steep %out all the sin STRIFE First Line: When strife is a thing of two Last Line: Then strife is evil, because it is not strife STUDY Poem Text First Line: Somewhere the long mellow note of the blackbird Last Line: All head.) SUBMERGENCE Poem Text First Line: When along the pavement Last Line: I forget my bereavement. SUBURBS ON A HAZY DAY Poem Text First Line: O stiffly shapen houses that change not Last Line: To leave but only the merest possible taint! SUN-MEN First Line: Men should group hemselves into a new order Last Line: With bright legs and uncringing buttocks SUN-WOMEN First Line: How strange it would be if some women came Last Line: And thrill with glittering rays SUNDAY AFTERNOON IN ITALY First Line: The man and the maid go side by side Last Line: Wreathe and enlap and anoint them %behind separate doors SUNSET First Line: There is a band of dull gold in the west, and say what you like Last Line: And shares being with me, silkily %all of twilight SWAN First Line: Far-off %at the core of space Last Line: And stamps his black marsh-feet on their white and marshy flesh Subject(s): Birds; Swans TABERNACLE First Line: Come, let us build a temple to oblivion Last Line: And all description is a blasphemy TALE TOLD BY AN IDIOT First Line: Modern life is a tale told by an idiot Last Line: And repeats himself like the flushing of a w.C TALK First Line: I wish people when you sit near them Last Line: And giving you a cold in your inside TALK OF FAITH First Line: And people who talk about faith Last Line: As if there was safety in numbers, even for faith TALK OF LOYALTY First Line: I have noticed that people who talk a lot about loyalty Last Line: And they fear the come-back TARANTELLA Poem Text First Line: Sad as he sits on the white sea-stone Last Line: Of fiery coldness, to be gone in a lost soul's bliss. TARTS First Line: I suppose tarts are called tarts because they're tart Last Line: The father eats the pear, and the son's teeth are set on edge Subject(s): Food And Eating TEASE Poem Text First Line: I will give you all my keys Last Line: Suppliant on your curious knees. TEMPLES First Line: Oh, what we want on earth Last Line: In the sweet wholeness of oblivion TENDER REVERENCE First Line: To be humble before other men is degrading, I am humble before Last Line: I want to show always the human tender reverence TERRA INCOGNITA First Line: There are vast realms of consciousness still undreamed of Last Line: And slow mounting marvel of a little tree THE BRIDE Poem Text First Line: My love looks like a girl to-night Last Line: By its shape, like the thrushes in clear evenings. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE ELEPHANT IS SLOW TO MATE Poem Text First Line: The elephant, the huge old beast Subject(s): Elephants THE END Poem Text First Line: If I could have put you in my heart Last Line: I own that some of me is dead to-night. THE ENGLISH ARE SO NICE Poem Text THE ENKINDLED SPRING Poem Text First Line: This spring as it comes bursts up in bonfires green Last Line: Less that the wind that runs to the flamy call! Subject(s): Spring THE HANDS OF THE BETROTHED Poem Text First Line: Her tawny eyes are onyx of thoughtlessness Last Line: Of her womanly virtue and of my good name. Subject(s): Love THE INHERITANCE Poem Text First Line: Since you did depart Last Line: As they move. THE MOSQUITO KNOWS Poem Text First Line: The mosquito knows full well, small as he is Subject(s): Mosquitoes THE NORTH COUNTRY Poem Text First Line: In another country, black poplars shake themselves over a pond Last Line: With violent achings heaving to burst the sleep that is now not long. Subject(s): England; English THE PUNISHER Poem Text First Line: I have fetched the tears up out of the little wells Last Line: My strength is shed. THE SHIP OF DEATH Poem Text First Line: Now it is autumn and the falling fruit Subject(s): Death; Graves; Ships & Shipping; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE SNAPDRAGON Poem Text First Line: She bade me follow to her garden where Last Line: And death, I know, is better than not-to-be. THE VIRGIN MOTHER Poem Text First Line: My little love, my darling Last Line: Beside your bed. Subject(s): Mothers THE WHITE HORSE Poem Text First Line: The youth walks up to the white horse, to put its halter on Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Silence THE WILD COMMON Poem Text First Line: The quick sparks on the gorse-bushes are leaping Last Line: Owning my supple body a rare glad thing, supremely good. THERE ARE NO GODS First Line: There are no gods, and you can please yourself Last Line: Like a pool into which we plunge, or do not plunge THERE ARE TOO MANY PEOPLE First Line: There are too many people on earth Last Line: They nibble the face of the earth to a desert THERE IS NO WAY OUT First Line: There is no way out, we are all caged monkeys Last Line: Therefore be prepared to tackle the cage THERE IS RAIN IN ME Last Line: Of eternal salt rage; angry is old ocean within a man THERE WAS A GAY BIRD NAMED CHRISTINE Last Line: But the rest were obscure or obscene THESE CLEVER WOMEN First Line: Close your eyes, my love, let me make you blind Last Line: Between your thighs, far, far from your peering sight THEY SAY THE SEA IS LOVELESS First Line: They say the sea is loveless, that in the sea Last Line: In the bouncing of these small and happy whales Subject(s): Sea THIEF IN THE NIGHT Poem Text First Line: Last night a thief came to me Last Line: For I've lost my peace. THINGS MADE BY IRON First Line: Things made by iron and handled by steel Last Line: They begin to be soothed and soothing: then we throw them away THINGS MEN HAVE MADE First Line: Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft Last Line: Warm still with the life of forgotten men who made them THINK -- ! First Line: Imagine what it must have been to have existence Last Line: Clear and flowery blue THIRD THING First Line: Water is hwo, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one Last Line: But it is a third thing present which makes it an atom Subject(s): Rivers THOUGHT First Line: Thought, I love thought Last Line: Thought is a man in his wholeness wholly attending TO A CERTAIN FRIEND First Line: You are so interested in yourself Last Line: Your interesting self TO BE SUPERIOR First Line: How nice it is to be superior Last Line: I should like to TO CLARINDA First Line: Thank you, dear clarinda Last Line: To the depths, to the depths %of london town TO LET GO OR TO HOLD ON First Line: Shall we let go Last Line: Or is it even possible we must do both TO PINO First Line: O pino %what a bean-o Last Line: Along with the others! What luck TO WOMEN, AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED Poem Text First Line: The feelings I don't have, I don't have Subject(s): Men TO WOMEN, AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED First Line: The feelings I don't have, I don't have Last Line: You'd better abandon all idea of feelings altogether Subject(s): Men TODAY First Line: Today, life is a choice of insanities Last Line: Why not stay out, and learn to contain oneself TOLERANCE First Line: One can be tolerant with a bore Last Line: One can't stand peaceless people any more TOMMIES IN THE TRAIN First Line: The the sun shines, %the coltsfoot flowers along the railway banks Last Line: Endlessly, in one motion depart %from each other Subject(s): World War I TORTOISE FAMILY CONNECTIONS First Line: On he goes, the little one Last Line: And biting the frail grass arrogantly %decidedly arrogantly st my eyes Subject(s): Turtles TORTOISE GALLANTRY Poem Text First Line: Making his advances Last Line: We will go on to the end. Subject(s): Turtles; Tortoises TORTOISE SHELL Poem Text First Line: The cross, the cross goes deeper in than we know Last Line: This slow one. Subject(s): Turtles; Tortoises TORTOISE SHOUT First Line: I thought he was dumb Last Line: That which in part, finding its whole again throughout the universe Subject(s): Turtles TOUCH First Line: Since we have become so cerebral Last Line: We become vicious TOUCH COMES First Line: Touch comes when the white mind sleeps Last Line: Will be passing away, we shall cease to fuss TOURISTS First Line: There is nothing to look at any more Last Line: Everything has been seen to death TOWN IN 1917 First Line: London %used to wear her lights splendidly Last Line: Has broken her spell TRAGEDY First Line: Tragedy seems to me a loud noise Last Line: Nor anybody else TRAITORS First Line: Traitors, oh liars, you judas lot Last Line: Which the superior classes are making money out of TRANSFORMATIONS First Line: Oh you stiff shapes, swift transformation seethes Last Line: And rot like a bean-pod; what are you, oh multiform TRAVEL IS OVER First Line: I have travelled, and looked at the world, and loved it Last Line: And undeniable new gods share their life with us, when we %cease to see TREES First Line: It is said, a disease has attached the cypress trees of italy Last Line: Fruits are excretions of the water and fire in plants TREES IN THE GARDEN Poem Text First Line: Ah in the thunder air / how still the trees are! Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Trees TREES IN THE GARDEN First Line: Ah in the thunder air %how still the trees are! Last Line: As the green grass glows upwards, strangers in the garden Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Trees TRIUMPH First Line: It seems to me that for five thousand years at least Last Line: We are sick of it TRIUMPH OF THE MACHINE First Line: They talk of the triumph of the machine TROPIC First Line: Sun, dark sun Last Line: Compared to the flood of black heat that rolls up- %wards past my eyes TROTH WITH THE DEAD Poem Text First Line: The moon is broken in twain, and half a moon Last Line: Am lit beneath my heart with a half-moon, weird and blue. TRUE DEMOCRACY First Line: I wish I was a gentleman Last Line: We are all kings and queens TRUE LOVE AT LAST First Line: The handsome and self-absorbed young man Last Line: In self-absorption and self-interest they were equally matched TRUST First Line: Oh we've got to trust Last Line: Are more glorious %and more sunny TURKEY-COCK First Line: You ruffled black blossom Last Line: Slag-wattled turkey-cock %dross-jabot TURNED DOWN Poem Text First Line: Hollow rang the house when I knocked at the door Last Line: It shut behind her, leaving the street aghast. Variant Title(s): Perfidy Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TWENTY YEARS AGO Poem Text First Line: Round the house were lilacs and strawberries Last Line: God forfend! TWILIGHT Poem Text First Line: Darkness comes out of the earth Last Line: Is gone from sight. TWILIGHT Poem Text First Line: Darkness comes out of the earth Last Line: Is gone from sight. TWILIGHT First Line: Twilight %thick underdusk Last Line: And splashes warm between the buttocks TWO PERFORMING ELEPHANTS First Line: He stands with his forefeet on the drum Last Line: Is too much for them Subject(s): Elephants TWO WAYS OF LIVING AND DYING First Line: While people live the life Last Line: And who now draws slowly away, cold, the wistful goddess receding TWO WIVES Poem Text First Line: Into the shadow-white chamber silts the white Last Line: "back, you understand!" Subject(s): Marriage; Widows & Widowers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TWOFOLD Poem Text First Line: How gorgeous that shock of red lilies, and larkspur cleaving Last Line: And passion unbearable seethes in the darkness, like must in a vat. ULTIMATE REALITY First Line: A young man said to me: Last Line: In the big mirror, at his own fascinating shadow UNDER THE OAK Poem Text First Line: You, if you were sensible Last Line: What place have you in my histories? Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation UNDERNEATH First Line: Below what we think we are Last Line: Out of the soul's middle to the middle-most sun, way-off %orin every atom UNHAPPY SOULS First Line: The unhappy souls are those that can't die and become silent Last Line: But must ever struggle on to assert themselves UNIVERSE FLOWS First Line: The universe flows in infinite wild streams, Last Line: And us from the dreary inheritance of roman stupidity UP HE GOES First Line: Up I rose, my lads, an' I heard yer Last Line: The babes just beginning to teethe UPROOTED First Line: People who complain of loneliness must have lost Last Line: Into the unknown, and take root by oneself VALENTINE'S NIGHT First Line: You shadow and flame Last Line: In one blossom blowing VENGEANCE IS MINE First Line: Vengeance is mine, saith the lord, I will repay Last Line: For the defection of the self-centred ones VIBRATION OF JUSTICE First Line: The profound and thrilling vibration of justice, sense of Last Line: Makes the heart suddenly quiver with love VIOLETS First Line: Sister, tha knows while we was on th' planks Last Line: Gladder nor of thy lilies, if tha maun be told VIRGIN YOUTH (1) Poem Text First Line: Now and again Last Line: Tired and unsatisfied. Subject(s): Virginity; Youth; Vestals VIRGIN YOUTH (2) Poem Text First Line: Now and again Last Line: On nothingness. Pardon me! Subject(s): Virginity; Youth; Vestals VITALITY First Line: Alas, my poor young men Last Line: You'll not get vitality any other way VOLCANIC VENUS First Line: What has happened in the world Last Line: And never knowing when you'll provoke an earthquake WAGES First Line: The wages of work is cash Last Line: This is called universal freedom WALK WARILY First Line: Walk warily, walk warily, be careful what you say Last Line: And the angels are standing back WANDERING COSMOS First Line: Oh, do not tell me the heavens as well are a wheel Last Line: It stays on its hub WAR-BABY First Line: The child like mustard seed Last Line: Will flourish its branchyes in heaven when we %slumber beneath WAY OUT First Line: The only way to settle the property question Last Line: That the property problem solves itself by the way WE ARE TRANSMITTERS - First Line: As we live, we are transmitters of life Last Line: Even if it's only in the whiteness of a washed pocket-handkerchief WE CAN'T BE TOO CAREFUL Last Line: And soon even god won't be big enough to handle that infant WE DIE TOGETHER First Line: Oh, when I think of the industrial millions, Last Line: Death of my fellow men WE HAVE GONE TOO FAR First Line: We have gone too far, oh very much too far Last Line: Let us go back, the only way is love WEALTH First Line: Peace I have from the core of the atom, from the core of space Last Line: And my leaves are green with the breath of human experience WEDDING MORN First Line: The morning breaks like a pomegranate Last Line: For joy or for misery Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage WEDLOCK First Line: Come, my little one, closer up against me Last Line: Having you near me WEEKNIGHT SERVICE Poem Text First Line: The five old bells Last Line: In its cenotaph. WELCOME DEATH First Line: How welcome death would be Last Line: On our castrated society WELLSIAN FUTURES First Line: When men are made in bottles Last Line: And be prepared to kill you if you say they've got none WHALES WEEP NOT Poem Text First Line: They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains Subject(s): Animals WHALES WEEP NOT First Line: All the whales in the wider deeps, hot are they as they urge Last Line: There they blow, there they blow, hot wild white breath out %of the sea Subject(s): Animals WHALES WEEP NOT First Line: They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains Last Line: And dense with happy blood, dark rainbow bliss in the sea Subject(s): Sea; Whales WHAT AILS THEE First Line: What ails thee then, woman, what ails thee Last Line: Than to shelter anybody from the cau-auld blst WHAT ARE THE GODS? First Line: What are the gods, then, what are the gods Last Line: I suddenly saw deep into the eyes of god: %it is enough WHAT ARE THE WILD WAVES SAYING Last Line: What are the wild waves saying WHAT DO I CARE First Line: And what do I care Last Line: Which else were a silent grasp that held the skies WHAT DOES SHE WANT First Line: What does she want, volcanic venus, as she goes fuming Last Line: She bites him in the neck and passes on WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO YOU? (1) First Line: What have they done to you, men of the masses Last Line: In place of your own life WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO YOU? (2) First Line: What have they done to you, men of the masses, creeping Last Line: The masses! Oh, what has been done to them? WHAT IS A MAN TO DO? First Line: Oh, when the world is hopeless Last Line: To its fearful fate WHAT IS HE First Line: What is he %a man of course Last Line: All right! You always did quibble WHAT IS MAN WITHOUT AN INCOME? Last Line: Down which the nations's resources roll away WHAT MATTERS First Line: As one of our brightese young intellectuals said to me Last Line: With finger-nails of septic criticising WHAT THEN IS EVIL First Line: Oh, in the world of the flesh of man Last Line: And in his machines WHAT WOULD YOU FIGHT FOR First Line: I am not sure I would always fight for my life Last Line: And I must say, I am often worsted WHAT'S TO BE DONE First Line: The ony thing for a man to do now, or a woman Last Line: In a cog-wheel clatter of violation WHAT'S WRONG First Line: Perhaps what's wrong is simply lack of vitality Last Line: Of those that can use it, smite with it WHATEVER MAN MAKES First Line: Whatever man makes and makes it live Last Line: It leaves its trail WHEN I READ SHAKESPEARE Poem Text First Line: When I read shakespeare I am struck with wonder Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists WHEN I READ SHAKESPEARE First Line: When I read shakespeare I am struck with wonder Last Line: Yet the language so lovely! Like the dyes from gas-tar Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) WHEN I WENT TO THE CIRCUS First Line: When I went to the circus that had pitched on the waste lot Last Line: In the bright wild circus flesh Subject(s): Circus WHEN I WENT TO THE FILM First Line: When I went to the film, and saw all the black-and-white Last Line: In flat ecstasy, supremely unfelt %and heavenly WHEN MOST MEN DIE Last Line: And can't be mended WHEN SATAN FELL First Line: When satan fell, he only fell Last Line: Which swing against each other WHEN THE RIPE FRUIT FALLS Last Line: Silky with oil of distilled experience WHEN WILT THOU TEACH THE PEOPLE First Line: When wilt thou teach the people Last Line: God of justice, when wilt thou teach them to save themselves WHETHER OR NOT First Line: Dunna thee tell me it's his'n, mother Last Line: So good-bye, an' let's let be WHITE BLOSSOM First Line: A tiny moon as small and white as a single jasmine flower Last Line: She shines, the first white love of my youth, passionless and in vain WHITE HORSE First Line: The youth walks up to the white horse, to put its halter on Last Line: They are so silent, they are in another world Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Silence WHY First Line: Why have money Last Line: Why should we be belittled any longer WHY DOES SHE WEEP First Line: Hush then %why do you cry? Last Line: Hidden, he won't come forth WILD THINGS IN CAPTIVITY Last Line: Break the cage thn, start in and try WILLY WET-LEG Poem Text First Line: I can't stand willy wet-leg Subject(s): Hate WILLY WET-LEG First Line: I can't stand willy wet-leg Last Line: He lets you hit him twice Subject(s): Hate WIND, THE RASCAL First Line: The wind, the rascal, knocked at my door, and I said: Last Line: Are drearisome %and wearisome WINTER DAWN First Line: Green star sirius Last Line: Of all feeling bereft WINTER IN THE BOULEVARD Poem Text First Line: The frost has settled down upon the trees Last Line: Awaiting the sentence out from the welkin brought. WINTER-LULL First Line: Because of the silent snow, we are all hushed Last Line: To assist us; disastrously silence-bound WOE First Line: Woe, woe to the world Last Line: And every self-assertion clashes on every other WOMEN WANT FIGHTERS FOR THEIR LOVERS First Line: Women don't want wistful Last Line: Let it crow then, like one o'clock! WON'T IT BE STRANGE First Line: Won't it be strange, when the nurse brings the new-born infant Last Line: And leave him forever listening for the answer WONDERFUL SPIRITUAL WOMEN First Line: The wonderful thoughtful women who make such good Last Line: And trampled all the listeners to a smush WORK First Line: There is no point in work Last Line: He will cancel the machines we have got Subject(s): Labor And Laborers WORK OF CREATION First Line: The mystery of creation is the divine urge of creatgion Last Line: Let me think about it! Let me form an idea! WORKING MAN First Line: If auntie doesn't love me Last Line: And enjoy myself fine WORM EITHER WAY First Line: If you live along with all the other people Last Line: Quite! Says the other. Cuckoo WORSHIP First Line: All men are worshippers Last Line: Even the denial that there is any gleam YEW-TREE ON THE DOWNS First Line: A gibbous moon hangs out of the twilight Last Line: The last dark delight YOU First Line: You, you don't know me Last Line: Like fire-tongs a live coal %for a minute YOUNG AND THEIR MORAL GUARDIANS First Line: O the stale old dogs who pretend to guard Last Line: A good kick at his dirty old hole YOUNG ARE NOT GREEDY First Line: Say what we like, our civilisation has learnt a great lesson Last Line: But on what they find distasteful, repulsive, or attractive YOUNG ARE NOT MEAN IN MATERIAL THINGS First Line: The good thing about the younger generations Last Line: Lies latent in the souls of the young, a latent desire YOUNG FATHERS First Line: Young men, having no real joy in life and no hope in the future Last Line: Is put by its parents into its coffin YOUNG SOLDIER WITH BLOODY SPURS First Line: The sergeant says that eight and twenty wagons Last Line: And away went the last of the wagons YOUNG WANT TO BE JUST First Line: It is odd, again, about the young Last Line: Of grandpa and of grandma, even of daddy and mum YOUNG WIFE First Line: The pain of loving you Last Line: Is almost more than I can bear YOUTH MOWING First Line: There are four men mowing down by the isar Last Line: Yea, though I'm sorry for thee Subject(s): Mowing And Mowers; Pregnancy [BAWDY CAN BE SANE] First Line: Bawdy can be sane and wholesome Last Line: So you've got to choose [FLAT-FOOT'S SONG] First Line: Because flat-foot is the favourite of the white leghorn cock, Last Line: The roast veal; I am shaking it for you [MR SQUIRE] First Line: Dearly-beloved mr squire Last Line: And leave the critical piggy-wiggies [THE GODS] First Line: The gods are all things, and so are we Last Line: Moments of pure manifestation [THOMAS EARP] First Line: I heard a little chicken chirp Last Line: And my name is thomas, thomas earp |
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