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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: lowell, amy Matches Found: 308 Lowell, Amy Poet's Biography 308 poems available by this author A BATHER Poem Text First Line: Thick dappled by circles of sunshine and fluttering Last Line: And the scent of the woods is sweet on this hot summer morning. Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Nudity; Showers & Showering; Nakedness A BLOCKHEAD Poem Text First Line: Before me lies a mass of shapeless days Subject(s): Life Change Events A COLOURED PRINT BY SHOKEI Poem Text First Line: It winds along the face of a cliff Last Line: This little path by a waterfall spanned. A DECADE Poem Text First Line: When you came, you were like red wine and honey Last Line: But I am completely nourished. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men A FAIRY TALE Poem Text First Line: On winter nights beside the nursery fire Last Line: Force me forever through the passing days. A FIXED IDEA; SONNET Poem Text First Line: What torture lurks within a single thought Last Line: In mercy lift your drooping wings and go. A GIFT Poem Text First Line: See! I give myself to you, beloved Subject(s): Love A GRAVE SONG Poem Text First Line: I've a pocketful of emptiness Last Line: Will you walk with me, will you follow the dead? Subject(s): Love - Loss Of A JAPANESE WOOD-CARVING Poem Text First Line: High up above the open, welcoming door Last Line: And seabirds scream in wanton happiness. A LADY Poem Text First Line: You are beautiful and faded Last Line: That its sparkle may amuse you. Subject(s): Beauty; Women A LITTLE GARDEN Poem Text First Line: A little garden on a bleak hillside Last Line: A little garden, loved with a great love! Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening A LITTLE SONG Poem Text First Line: When you, my dear, are away, away Last Line: Watch over a century of nights. Subject(s): Moon A LONDON THOROUGHFARE, 2 A.M. Poem Text First Line: They have watered the street Subject(s): London; Moon A LOVER Poem Text First Line: If I could catch the green lantern of the firefly I could see to write you a letter Subject(s): Letters; Fireflies; Glowworms A RHYME OUT OF MOTLEY Poem Text First Line: I grasped a thread of silver; it cut me to the bone Subject(s): Ambition A RHYME OUT OF THE MOTLEY Poem Text First Line: I grasped a thread of silver: it cut me to the bone Last Line: And leave him there. A SOUTH CAROLINA FOREST Poem Text First Line: Hush, hush, these woods are thick with shapes and voices Subject(s): Forests; South Carolina; Woods A SPRIG OF ROSEMARY Poem Text First Line: I cannot see your face Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men A WINTER RIDE Poem Text First Line: Who shall declare the joy of the running! Last Line: Joy! With the vigorous earth I am one. Subject(s): Winter A YEAR PASSES Poem Text First Line: Beyond the porcelain fence of the pleasure garden Subject(s): Moon AFTER HEARING A WALTZ BY BARTOK Poem Text First Line: But why did I kill him? Why? Why? Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers AFTER HEARING A WALTZ BY BARTOK First Line: But why did I kill him? Why? Why? Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers AFTERGLOW First Line: Peonies %the strange pink color AFTERMATH; SONNET Poem Text First Line: I learnt to write to you in happier days Last Line: And whisper words of love which no one hears. ALIENS Poem Text First Line: The chatter of little people Subject(s): Social Commentaries AND SO, I THINK DIOGENES Poem Text First Line: I told them to look at an apple-tree Last Line: "they do but wander home,"" I said." Subject(s): Diogenes ANTICIPATION Poem Text First Line: I have been temperate always Subject(s): Waiting; Desire ANTICIPATION First Line: I have been temperate always APOLOGY Poem Text First Line: Be not angry with me that I bear Last Line: To go unguessed. Subject(s): Relationships APOLOGY Poem Text First Line: Be not angry with me that I bear Last Line: To go unguessed. APOTHEOSIS First Line: The mountains were both far and high APPLES OF HESPERIDES Poem Text First Line: Glinting golden through the trees Last Line: Apples of hesperides! Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Hesperides (mythology) APPULDURCOMBE PARK Poem Text First Line: I am a woman, sick for passion Subject(s): Passion; Desire; Love - Unrequited; Marriage; Disappointment; Death; Man-woman Relationships; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dead, The; Male-female Relations AQUATINT FRAMED IN GOLD Poem Text First Line: Six flights up in an out-of-date apartment house Last Line: Ironically recording an hour of no importance. Subject(s): Old Age; Portraits ASTIGMATISM Poem Text First Line: The poet took his walking-stick Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972); Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism ASTIGMATISM First Line: The poet took his walking-stick Last Line: Peace be with you, brother. You have chosen your part Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972); Women's Rights AT NIGHT; SONNET Poem Text First Line: The wind is singing through the trees tonight Last Line: The freedom of the onward sweeping wind. Subject(s): Wind AUBADE Poem Text First Line: As I would free the white almond from the green husk Last Line: I should see that in my hands glittered a gem beyond counting. Subject(s): Almond Trees; Hands; Love; Trees AUTUMN Poem Text First Line: They brought me a quilled, yellow dahlia Last Line: All I once possessed? Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men AUTUMN (2) Poem Text First Line: All day I have watched the purple vine leaves Subject(s): Autumn; Fall AUTUMN AND DEATH Poem Text First Line: They are coy, these sisters, autumn and death Subject(s): Autumn; Religion; Seasons; Fall; Theology AUTUMN AND DEATH First Line: They are coy, these sisters, autumn and death Subject(s): Autumn; Religion; Seasons AZURE AND GOLD Poem Text First Line: April had covered the hills Last Line: The sapphire shaft, which is truth. BALLS Poem Text First Line: Throw the blue balls above the twigs of the tree-tops Subject(s): Balls; Conduct Of Life BATTLEDORE AND SHUTTLECOCK Poem Text First Line: The shuttlecock soars upward Last Line: With a weight at the end. Subject(s): Badminton; Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements BEFORE DAWN; SONNET Poem Text First Line: Life! Austere arbiter of each man's fate Last Line: Bringing about results none could have guessed. Subject(s): Life BEFORE THE ALTAR Poem Text First Line: Before the altar, bowed, he stands Last Line: The smoke rose straight in the quiet night. BEHIND A WALL Poem Text First Line: I own a solace shut within my heart Last Line: Of a waking fish. BOOK OF HOURS OF SISTER CLOTILDE First Line: The bell in the convent tower swung BRIGHT SUNLIGHT First Line: The wind has blown a corner of your shawl Last Line: As they sail over the ilex-trees CAPTURED GODDESS First Line: Over the housetops, %above the rotating chimney-pots Last Line: And the grey wind hissed behind me, %along the narrow streets CARREFOUR Poem Text First Line: O you, / who came upone me once Last Line: Of the forest bees? Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men CHINOISERIES First Line: When I looked into your eyes Variant Title(s): Reflection CLIMBING Poem Text First Line: High up in the apple tree climbing I go Last Line: With the sky close above me, the earth far below. Subject(s): Climbing COMMUNICATION First Line: You deceived me handsomely CONVALESCENCE Poem Text First Line: From out the dragging vastness of the sea Last Line: And in the sky there blooms the sun of may. Subject(s): Women & War; World War I - Casualties CONVERSION OF A SAINT First Line: Why, sallie williams ...' CREPUSCULE DU MATIN; SONNET Poem Text First Line: All night I wrestled with a memory Last Line: My arms held nothing but the empty dawn. Subject(s): Memory CRITICAL FABLE, SELS. Subject(s): Poetry And Poets CROWNED Poem Text First Line: You came to me bearing bright roses Last Line: A diadem woven with rue. Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of DECADE Poem Text First Line: When you came, you were like red wine and honey, Subject(s): Food & Eating; Relationships DESOLATION Poem Text First Line: Under the plum-blossoms are nightingales Subject(s): Nightingales DISILLUSION Poem Text First Line: A scholar / weary of erecting the fragile towers of words Subject(s): Language; Suicide; Words; Vocabulary DISSONANCE First Line: From my window I can see the moonlight stroking the Last Line: Of an incongruous century DIYA (DELTA-IOTA-PSI-ALPHA) Poem Text First Line: Look, dear, how bright the moonlight is tonight! Last Line: Beloved, is it true? DOCUMENT Poem Text First Line: The great painter, hokusai Subject(s): Hokusai Katsushika (1760-1849); Old Age DOLPHINS IN BLUE WATER Poem Text First Line: Hey! Crackerjack - jump! Subject(s): Dolphins; Porpoises DOLPHINS IN BLUE WATER First Line: Hey! Crackerjack - jump! Subject(s): Dolphins DREAMS IN WAR TIME Poem Text First Line: I wandered through a house of many rooms. Subject(s): Dreams; Youth; Transience; Nightmares; Impermanence DREAMS IN WAR TIME, SELS. First Line: I dug a grave under an oak-tree Last Line: On the dried leaves, %my own face lay like a white pebble, %waiting DREAMS; SONNET Poem Text First Line: I do not care to talk to you although Last Line: Reverse their leaves and shimmer through the woods. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares DUSTY HOUR-GLASS First Line: It had been a trim garden EASEL PICTURE: DECORATION DAY First Line: She is a washer-woman most of the time ELEANORA DUSE Poem Text First Line: The talk is hushed Subject(s): Duse, Eleanora (1858-1924) EMPEROR'S GARDEN Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening ENCHANTED CASTLE First Line: Old crumbling stones set long ago upon EPHEMERA Poem Text First Line: Silver-green lanterns tossing among windy branches Subject(s): Old Age; Memory EPITAPH IN A CHURCH-YARD IN CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA Poem Text First Line: He died of 'stranger's fever' when his youth Last Line: Ached with fatigue at never seeing home. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation EPITAPH ON A YOUNG POET WHO DIED BEFORE ... ACHIEVED SUCCESS Poem Text First Line: Beneath this sod lie the remains Subject(s): Poetry & Poets EPITAPH ON A YOUNG POET WHO DIED BEFORE ... ACHIEVED SUCCESS First Line: Beneath this sod lie the remains Last Line: Of one who died of growing pains Subject(s): Poetry And Poets EVELYN RAY Poem Text First Line: No decent man will cross a field Subject(s): Duels EVELYN RAY First Line: No decent man will cross a field Last Line: And to your lovers, if so it may, %for earth made stone and earth made clay EXERCISE IN LOGIC First Line: I gave you a picture once FALLING SNOW First Line: The snow whispers about me FATIGUE Poem Text First Line: Stupefy my heart to every day's monotony, seal up my eyes, I would not look ... Last Line: The law exacts obedience. Instruct, I will conform. FENWAY PARK Poem Text First Line: Through the spring-thickened branches Subject(s): Colors FISHERMAN'S WIFE First Line: When I am alone Last Line: Is like the shuffling of waves %upon the wooden sides of a boat FLUTE-PRIEST SONG FOR RAIN; CEREMONIAL AT THE SUN SPRING Poem Text First Line: Whistle under the water Last Line: With tumult of rain. Subject(s): Music & Musicians FOUR SIDES TO A HOUSE First Line: Peter, peter, along the ground Last Line: And death is long, and the well is deep. %can you sleep, sleep, peter? FRAGMENT Poem Text First Line: What is poetry? It is a mosaic Last Line: With storied meaning for religion's sake. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Religion; Theology FRANCIS II, KING OF NAPLES; SONNET Poem Text First Line: Poor foolish monarch, vacillating, vain Last Line: Beneath the stars, and through a tranquil sea. Subject(s): Francis Ii, King Of The Two Sicilies FRANKINCENSE AMD MYRRH Poem Text First Line: My heart is tuned to sorrow, and the strings Last Line: And life ablaze with beauty, I am dumb. FREE FANTASIA ON JAPANESE THEMES Poem Text First Line: All the afternoon there has been a chirping of birds Last Line: And inside, only my books. FREE FANTASIA ON JAPANESE THEMES Poem Text First Line: All the afternoon there has been a chirping of birds Last Line: And inside, only my books. FREE FANTASIA ON JAPANESE THEMES First Line: I would sit in a covered boat FRIMAIRE Poem Text First Line: Dearest, we are like two flowers Last Line: For us both. Ah, dear, I love you! Subject(s): Flowers; Love FRINGED GENTIANS Poem Text First Line: Near where I live there is a lake Last Line: They'd die of homesickness that day. Subject(s): Flowers; Gentians; Fringed Gentians FROM CHINA Poem Text First Line: I thought: / the moon Subject(s): China FROM ONE WHO STAYS Poem Text First Line: How empty seems the town now you are gone! Last Line: Are still-born, and the world stopped, lacking you. FUNERAL SONG FOR THE INDIAN CHIEF BLACKBIRD First Line: He is dead GAVOTTE IN D MINOR Poem Text First Line: She wore purple, and when other people slept Last Line: And the ruffling of her train against the stones. GIFT First Line: See! I give myself to you, beloved! GIVER OF STARS First Line: Hold your soul open for my welcoming Subject(s): Love GOOD GRACIOUS Poem Text First Line: They say there is a fairy in every streak'd tulip Subject(s): Tulips GRANADILLA Poem Text First Line: I cut myself upon the thought of you Subject(s): Desire GRANADILLA First Line: I cut myself upon the thought of you GRAVESTONE First Line: That was a funny thing GROTESQUE Poem Text First Line: Why do the lilies goggle their tongues at me Last Line: While you dance? Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies GUNS AS KEYS: AND THE GREAT GATE SWINGS Poem Text First Line: Due east, far west. Distant as the nests of the Last Line: Through a wide gateway. Occident -- orient -- after fifty years. Subject(s): Asia; Travel; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Journeys; Trips HERO-WORSHIP; SONNET Poem Text First Line: A face seen passing in a crowded street Last Line: Burns on, and it is much to have believed. Subject(s): Hero-worship HOAR-FROST First Line: In the cloud-gray mornings HORA STELLATRIX Poem Text First Line: The stars hang thick in the apple tree Last Line: Starfire sparkles, your coronal. HOUSE WITH THE MARBLE STEPS Poem Text First Line: He built the house to show his neighbors Last Line: Above a flight of marble steps where grass is growing. Subject(s): Death; Houses; Dead, The ILLUSION Poem Text First Line: Walking beside the tree-peonies Subject(s): Beetles IN A POWDER CLOSET First Line: My very excellent young person IN DARKNESS Poem Text First Line: Must all of worth be travailled for, and those Last Line: And hour follows hour, nerveless, slack. IN EXCELSIS Poem Text First Line: You - you / your shadow is sunlit on a plate of silver Last Line: Are rubies mortised in a gate of stone. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men IN THE STADIUM First Line: A little old man Last Line: To the blowing winds INTERLUDE Poem Text First Line: When I have baked white cakes Last Line: Outside. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men J--K. HUYSMANS Poem Text First Line: A flickering glimmer through a window-pane Last Line: And shut his eyes in fear lest it should fade. Subject(s): Huysmans, Joris-karl (1848-1907); Novels & Novelists JULY MIDNIGHT First Line: Fireflies flicker in the top of trees KATYDIDS First Line: Katydids scraped in the dim trees Last Line: Rasping a bitter death-dirge through the august night LA RONDE DU DIABLE Poem Text First Line: Here we go round the ivy-bush Last Line: Does it matter at all that we don't know why? Subject(s): Adversity; Greed; Avarice; Cupidity LEAD SOLDIERS Poem Text First Line: The nursery fire burns brightly Subject(s): Toys; Soldiers LEISURE; SONNET Poem Text First Line: Leisure, thou goddess of a bygone age Last Line: The dreaming lapse of slow, unmeasured time. Subject(s): Leisure LILACS Poem Text First Line: Lilacs / false blue Last Line: Since certainly it is mine. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs; New England LISTENING Poem Text First Line: Tis you that are the music, not your song Last Line: One music with a thousand cadences. Subject(s): Music & Musicians LITTLE IVORY FIGURES PULLED WITH STRING Poem Text First Line: Is it the tinkling of mandolins which disturbs Last Line: The murmur of it is loud—loud. LONDON THOROUGHFARE TWO A.M First Line: They have watered the street LONELY WIFE First Line: The mist is thick. On the wide river, the water-plants float smoothly Last Line: Seizing the white clouds, crumpling them up, destroying them LOON POINT Poem Text First Line: Softly the water ripples Last Line: And the manifold whisper of leaves. MADONNA OF THE EVENING FLOWERS Poem Text First Line: All day long I have been working Last Line: Canterbury bells. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men MAGNOLIA GARDENS Poem Text First Line: It was a disappointment Subject(s): Charleston, South Carolina; Gardens & Gardening MALMAISON Poem Text First Line: How the slates of the roof sparkle in the sun Last Line: Of the marley aqueduct. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses MARCH EVENING Poem Text First Line: Blue through the window burns the twilight Last Line: Travails to birth in the womb of the storm. MARKET DAY; SONNET Poem Text First Line: White, glittering sunlight fills the market square Last Line: Quenching the square in vibrant harmony. MAY EVENING IN CENTRAL PARK Poem Text First Line: Lines of lamp light Subject(s): Central Park, New York City; Youth MEDITATION Poem Text First Line: A wise man Subject(s): Fireflies; Stars; Glowworms MEETING-HOUSE HILL First Line: I must be mad, or very tired Last Line: With dull, sea-spent eyes MEMORANDUM CONFIDED BY A YUCCA TO A PASSION VINE, SELS. First Line: Form miss lowell's book 'legends,' and you will notice that MERCHANDISE First Line: I made a song one morning MERELY STATEMENT Poem Text First Line: You sent me a sprig of mignonette Last Line: Her dress a stare of purple between pillars of stone. Subject(s): Mignonettes MESDAMES ATROPOS AND CLOI ENGAGE IN A GAME OF SLAPSTICK First Line: Come swing, come smirk MINIATURE Poem Text First Line: Because the little gentleman made nautical instruments Last Line: Who consider such things important. MIRAGE; SONNET Poem Text First Line: How is it that, being gone, you fill my days Last Line: It may be vain illusion. I'm content. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation MISERCORDIA Poem Text First Line: He earned his bread by making wooden soldiers Subject(s): World War I; First World War MISERCORDIA First Line: He earned his bread by making wooden soldiers Subject(s): World War I MONADNOCK IN EARLY SPRING Poem Text First Line: Cloud-topped and splendid, dominating all Last Line: Thou pledge of greater majesty unseen. Subject(s): Monadnock (mountain), New Hampshire MUSIC Poem Text First Line: The neighbor sits in his window and plays the flute Subject(s): Flutes; Music & Musicians MUSIC First Line: The neighbour sits in his window and plays the flute NAPLES Poem Text First Line: Red tiles, yellow stucco, layer on layer of windows Subject(s): Naples, Italy NAPLES First Line: Red tiles, yellow stucco, layer on layer of windows Subject(s): Naples, Italy NEW HEAVENS FOR OLD First Line: I am useless Last Line: The spot which will be my grave NEW YORK AT NIGHT Poem Text First Line: A near horizon whose sharp jags Last Line: Instead the glaring, man-filled city groans below! Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple NIGHT CLOUDS Poem Text First Line: The white mares of the moon rush along the sky Subject(s): Clouds NIGHT CLOUDS First Line: The white mares of the moon rush along the sky Subject(s): Clouds NUIT BLANCHE Poem Text First Line: I want no horns to rouse me up to-night Subject(s): Night; Music & Musicians; Ghosts; White (color); Bedtime NUIT BLANCHE First Line: I want no horns to rouse me up tonight OBLIGATION First Line: Hold your apron wide OLD SNOW First Line: The earth is iron ON A CERTAIN CRITIC Poem Text First Line: Well, john keats Last Line: In the bodies of innumerable worms. Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Moon; Poetry & Poets ON CARPACCIO'S PICTURE: THE DREAM OF ST. URSALA; SONNET Poem Text First Line: Swept, clean, and still, across the polished floor Last Line: A lark is singing as he flies away. Subject(s): Carpaccio, Victore (1460-1525); Paintings & Painters ON LOOKING AT A COPY FO ALICE MEYNELL'S POEMS Poem Text First Line: Upon this greying page you wrote Last Line: The living have so much to do Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Meynell, Alice (1847-1922); Books; Life ON LOOKING AT A COPY FO ALICE MEYNELL'S POEMS First Line: Upon this greying page you wrote Subject(s): Poetry And Poets ONCE JERICHO First Line: Walking in the woods one day ONE OF THE HUNDRED VIEWS OF FUJI, BY HOKUSAI Poem Text First Line: Being thirsty, / I filled a cup with water Subject(s): Hokusai Katsushika (1760-1849); Fuji, Mount; Thirst OPAL Poem Text First Line: You are ice and fire Last Line: Gleaming with agitated torches. Subject(s): Love OPERA HOUSE First Line: Within the gold square of the proscenium arch ORANGE OF MIDSUMMER Poem Text First Line: You came to me in the pale starting of spring Subject(s): World War I; First World War ORANGE OF MIDSUMMER First Line: You came to me in the pale starting of spring Last Line: Does it? %but drink it, my beloved' Subject(s): World War I ORIENTATION First Line: When the young ladies of the boarding-school PAINTER OF SILK First Line: There was a man %who made his living PAPER FISHES Poem Text First Line: The paper carp Subject(s): Fish; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature PAPER WINDMILL First Line: The little boy pressed his face against the windowpane Subject(s): Children PASTIME First Line: I am immoderately fond of this place PATTERNS Poem Text First Line: I walk down the garden paths Last Line: Christ! What are patterns for? Subject(s): Absence; Clothing & Dress; Fashion; Freedom; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Love - Loss Of; World War I; Separation; Isolation; Liberty; First World War PENUMBRA First Line: As I sit here in the quiet summer night Last Line: And the quick, necessary touch of my hand PETALS Poem Text First Line: Life is a stream Last Line: The flower fared forth, though its fragrance still stays. Subject(s): Life PETALS Poem Text First Line: Life is a stream Last Line: The flower fared forth, though its fragrance still stays. PIKE First Line: In the brown water %thick and silver-sheened in the sunshine Last Line: And the blurred reflections of the willows on the opposite bank %received it PLANNING THE GARDEN Poem Text First Line: Bring pencils, fine pointed Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening PLANNING THE GARDEN First Line: Bring pencils, fine pointed Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening POEM First Line: It is only a little twig PRECINCT - ROCHESTER First Line: The tall yellow hollyhocks stand PRIME Poem Text First Line: Your voice is like bells over roofs at dawn Last Line: And run with them to my heart. Subject(s): Love PROPORTION First Line: In the sky there is a moon and stars Last Line: And in my garden there are yellow moths %fluttering aobut a white azalea bush PURPLE GRACKLES Poem Text First Line: The grackles have come Subject(s): Grackles PURPLE GRACKLES First Line: The grackles have come Subject(s): Grackles PYROTECHNICS Poem Text First Line: Our meeting was like the upward swish of a rocket Subject(s): Fireworks RED SLIPPERS Poem Text First Line: Red slippers in a shop-window; and outside in the street, flaws of gray, windy sleet! Subject(s): Shoes; Shopping; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers RED SLIPPERS First Line: Red slippers in a shop-window; and outside in the street, flaws of Last Line: There are only red slippers REVENGE Poem Text First Line: All night I read a little book Last Line: Go softly then, and go wellsped. ROADS Poem Text First Line: I know a country laced with roads Last Line: To the opaline gates of the castles of dream. Subject(s): Autumn; Roads; Seasons; Fall; Paths; Trails ROME First Line: The blue sky of italy; the blue sky of rome ROXBURY GARDEN First Line: The tall clock is striking twelve SEPTEMBER, 1918 Poem Text First Line: This afternoon was the colour of water falling through sunlight Last Line: Upon a broken world. Subject(s): World War I; First World War SHORE GRASS Poem Text First Line: The moon is cold over the sand-dunes Last Line: But the windy beating of the sea. Subject(s): Silence SIBYL First Line: She was an aggressively SISTERS First Line: Taking us by and large, we're a queer lot Last Line: Well, never mind that now. Good night! Good night! Subject(s): Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861); Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) SOLITAIRE Poem Text First Line: When night drifts along the streets of the city Subject(s): Night; City & Town Life; Imagination; Bedtime; Fancy SOLITAIRE First Line: When night drifts along the streets of the city SONG Poem Text First Line: Oh! To be a flower Last Line: Make a sea of purpose mightier than we dream to-day? SONG FOR A VIOLA D'AMORE Poem Text First Line: The lady of my choice is bright Last Line: And what is lovelier than that is. Subject(s): Flowers SPRIG OF ROSEMARY First Line: I cannot see your face Last Line: And the soft brightness which is your soul Subject(s): Homosexuality SPRING DAY: BATH Poem Text First Line: The day is fresh-washed and fair, and there is a smell of tulips and narcissus in the air. Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Spring; Showers & Showering SPRING DAY: MIDDAY AND AFTERNOON Poem Text First Line: Swirl of crowded streets. Shock and recoil of traffic. Subject(s): Spring; City & Town Life SPRING DAY: NIGHT AND SLEEP Poem Text First Line: The day takes her ease in slippered yellow. Electric signs gleam out Last Line: . . . I smell them in the air. Subject(s): Cities; Night; Sleep; Spring; Urban Life; Bedtime SPRING DAY: WALK Poem Text First Line: Over the street the white clouds meet, and sheer away without touching Subject(s): Spring; Walking SPRING LONGING First Line: The south wind blows open the folds of my dress Last Line: In which you are to return SPRNG DAY: BREAKFAST TABLE Poem Text First Line: In the fresh-washed sunlight, the breakfast table is decked and white Subject(s): Spring; Food & Eating; Morning ST. LOUIS First Line: Flat, %flat, %long as sight Last Line: With the heraldic, story-telling hills STRAIN Poem Text First Line: It is late Subject(s): Insomnia; Absence; Sleeplessness; Separation; Isolation STREETS Poem Text First Line: As I wandered through the eight hundred and eight streets of the city Subject(s): Women; Beauty; City & Town Life SUGGESTED BY THE COVER OF A VOLUME OF KEATS'S POEMS Poem Text First Line: Wild little bird, who chose thee for a sign Last Line: To bear this untamed, passionate burst of song. Subject(s): Books; Reading SUMMER Poem Text First Line: Some men there are who find in nature all Last Line: The pulse and throb of life which makes us men! Subject(s): Love SUMMER NIGHT PIECE Poem Text First Line: The garden is steeped in moonlight Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening SUMMER NIGHT PIECE First Line: The garden is steeped in moonlight Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening SUMMER RAIN Poem Text First Line: All night our room was outer-walled with rain Subject(s): Rain SUMMER RAIN First Line: All night our room was outer-walled with rain Last Line: Torches against the wall of cool, silver rain Subject(s): Rain SUNSHINE Poem Text First Line: The pool is edged with blade-like leaves of irises Subject(s): Pools; Poetry & Poets SUNSHINE Poem Text First Line: The pool is edged with the blade-like leaves of irises Subject(s): Poetry & Poets SUNSHINE First Line: The pool is edged with the blade-like leaves of irises Subject(s): Poetry And Poets SUPERSTITION Poem Text First Line: I have painted a picture of a ghost Subject(s): Superstition TEATRO BAMBINO. DUBLIN, N.H. Poem Text First Line: How still it is! Sunshine itself here falls Last Line: Cradling the future in a glorious past. TEXAS Poem Text First Line: I went a-riding, a-riding Last Line: Beyond, beyond, my bridle-rein. Subject(s): Horseback Riding; Texas THE ARTIST Poem Text First Line: Why do you subdue yourself in golds and purples? Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Love THE BLUE SCARF Poem Text First Line: Pale, with the blue of high zeniths, shimmered over with silver, brocaded Last Line: How loud clocks can tick when a room is empty, and one is alone! Subject(s): Infatuation; Love - Unrequited; Scarves; Clothing & Dress; Flowers; Kisses; Women THE BLUE SCARF Poem Text First Line: Pale, with the blue of high zeniths, shimmered over with silver, brocaded Last Line: How loud clocks can tick when a room is empty, and one is alone! Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Flowers; Kisses; Women THE BOMBARDMENT Poem Text First Line: Slowly, without force, the rain drops into the city Last Line: Roars and mutters. Boom! Subject(s): Bombs; Rain; Storms THE BOOK OF STONES AND LILIES Poem Text First Line: I read a book Last Line: Across the dew and the gold of a young day. Subject(s): Books; Reading THE BOOKSHOP Poem Text First Line: Pierrot has grown old Subject(s): Books; Reading THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM Poem Text First Line: Thou dear and well-loved haunt of happy hours Last Line: And man's blind foolishness so quickly mar. Subject(s): Boston; Boston Anthenaeum THE BROKEN FOUNTAIN Poem Text First Line: Oblong, its jutted ends rounding into circles, Subject(s): Fountains THE BUNGLER Poem Text First Line: You glow in my heart Subject(s): Clumsiness THE CAMELLIA TREE OF MATSUE Poem Text First Line: At matsue / there was a camellia tree of great beauty Subject(s): Camellias THE COAL PICKER Poem Text First Line: He perches in the slime, inert Subject(s): Coal Pickers THE CORNUCOPIA OF RED AND GREEN COMFITS Poem Text First Line: Currants and honey! Last Line: In new ribbons sent from potsdam. Subject(s): Hunger; World War I; First World War THE CRESCENT MOON Poem Text First Line: Slipping softly through the sky Last Line: To please a little boy. Subject(s): Moon THE CYCLISTS Poem Text First Line: Spread on the roadway, Subject(s): Bicycles; England; Decay; Cycling; English; Rot; Decadence THE DAY THAT WAS THAT DAY Poem Text First Line: The wind rose, and the wind fell Subject(s): Women; Despair; Loveless; Poisons & Poisoning; Family Life; Relatives THE DINNER-PARTY Poem Text First Line: So ...' they said, / with their wine-glasses delicately poised Last Line: For only living flesh can suffer. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Parties THE EMPEROR'S GARDEN Poem Text First Line: Once, in the sultry heat of midsummer Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening THE END; SONNET Poem Text First Line: Throughout the echoing chambers of my brain Last Line: And with my trembling lips I touch the rim. THE FLUTE Poem Text First Line: Stop! What are you doing?' Last Line: "yes, a little. And it has lovely silver mountings." Subject(s): Flutes THE FOOL ERRANT Poem Text First Line: The fool errant sat by the highway of life Last Line: For at last he knew he was only a fool. THE FOREIGNER Poem Text First Line: Have at you, you devils Subject(s): Strangers; Duels THE FORSAKEN Poem Text First Line: Holy mother of god, merciful mary, hear me Subject(s): Premarital Sex; Sin; Pregnancy; Death; Dead, The THE FRUIT GARDEN PATH Poem Text First Line: The path runs straight between the flowering rows Last Line: You are my home, do you not understand? Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening THE FRUIT SHOP Poem Text First Line: Cross-ribboned shoes; a muslin gown Last Line: "tiens, mademoiselle, c'est le general bonaparte, partant pour la guerre!" Subject(s): Fruit THE GARDEN BY MOONLIGHT Poem Text First Line: A black cat among roses Last Line: When I am gone. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE GIVER OF STARS Poem Text First Line: Hold your soul open for my welcoming Subject(s): Love THE GREEN BOWL Poem Text First Line: This little bowl is like a mossy pool Last Line: And see the sun smiling between the leaves. THE GREEN PARRAKEET Poem Text First Line: Three doors up from the end of the street Subject(s): Parrakeets THE IMMORTALS Poem Text First Line: I have read you, and read you, my betters, Last Line: Well, the mist has sunny flashes. Subject(s): Immortality THE LAMP OF LIFE Poem Text First Line: Always we are following a light Last Line: Upon our way unknowing, in a dream. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE LANDLADY OF THE WHINTON INN TELLS A STORY Poem Text First Line: Yes, indeed, sir Subject(s): Diamonds; Crime & Criminals; Guilt; Innocence; Misfortune THE LETTER Poem Text First Line: Little cramped words scrawling all over the paper Last Line: Of the great moon. Subject(s): Desire; Letters THE MADONNA OF CARTHAGENA Poem Text First Line: Where a chain of sandy beaches Subject(s): Carthagena, Colombia THE MATRIX Poem Text First Line: Goaded and harassed in the factory Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Transience; Impermanence THE MATRIX; SONNET Poem Text First Line: Goaded and harassed in the factory Last Line: Reach out my hand and pluck a nectarine. THE MIDDLETON PLACE Poem Text First Line: What would francis jammes, lover of dear dead Last Line: Telling one another contentedly of the deaths they have lived to see. Subject(s): Charleston, South Carolina THE PAINTED CEILING Poem Text First Line: My grandpapa lives in a wonderful house Last Line: It is only because you are short. THE PAINTER ON SILK Poem Text First Line: There was a man Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Roses THE PIKE Poem Text First Line: In the brown water, Subject(s): Pike (fish) THE PLEIADES Poem Text First Line: By day you cannot see the sky Last Line: To feel that they had stars for toys! Subject(s): Pleiades (constellation) THE POET; SONNET Poem Text First Line: What instinct forces men to journey on Last Line: Life's loneliness of dreaming ecstasy. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POND Poem Text First Line: Cold, wet leaves Subject(s): Ponds THE PROMISE OF THE MORNING STAR Poem Text First Line: Thou father of the children of my brain Last Line: New music ringing through my fading youth. THE RED LACQUER MUSIC-STAND Poem Text First Line: A music-stand of crimson lacquer, long since brought Last Line: The boy began to dress, for it was getting late. THE RING AND THE CASTLE Poem Text First Line: Benjamin bailey, benjamin bailey, why do you wake Last Line: "trees let me lie." Subject(s): Love; Repentance; Sin; Unfaithfulness; Penitence; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE ROAD TO AVIGNON Poem Text First Line: A minstrel stands on a marble stair Last Line: One morning in the spring. Subject(s): Avignon, France THE SEA SHELL Poem Text First Line: Sea shell, sea shell Last Line: Sing of the things you know so well. Subject(s): Shells; Conchology THE SISTERS Poem Text First Line: Taking us by and large, we're a queer lot Subject(s): Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861); Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) THE STARLING; SONNET Poem Text First Line: Forever the impenetrable wall Last Line: To be some other person for a day. Subject(s): Self THE SWANS Poem Text First Line: The swans float and float Last Line: And the swans which float. Subject(s): Birds; Swans THE TAXI Poem Text First Line: When I go away from you Last Line: To wound myself upon the sharp edges of the night? Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love; Taxis; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE TROUT Poem Text First Line: Naughty little speckled trout Last Line: Naughty little speckled trout! Subject(s): Trout THE VOW Poem Text First Line: Tread softly, softly Last Line: Since lives are lived with living men. Subject(s): Charleston, South Carolina; War THE WAY Poem Text First Line: At first a mere thread of a footpath half blotted out by the grasses Last Line: The beautiful city whose spires still glow with the fires of sunset! THE WEATHER-COCK POINTS SOUTH Poem Text First Line: I put your leaves aside Last Line: Thrust upon by a softly-swinging wind. Subject(s): Flowers THOMPSON'S LUNCH ROOM: GRAND CENTRAL STATION: STUDY IN WHITES Poem Text First Line: Wax white - / floor, ceiling, walls Subject(s): Americans; United States; America THOMPSON'S LUNCH ROOM: GRAND CENTRAL STATION: STUDY IN WHITES First Line: Wax white - %floor, ceiling, walls Last Line: Sharp, invisible zigzags %of silver Subject(s): Americans; United States THORN PIECE Poem Text First Line: Cliffs, / cliffs, / and a twisted sea Last Line: Like leaves falling Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Russell, Ada Dwyer (1863-1952); Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THORN PIECE First Line: Cliffs, %cliffs Last Line: But the years - years - %like leaves falling Subject(s): Homosexuality TO A FRIEND; SONNET Poem Text First Line: I ask but one thing of you, only one Last Line: O stay your hand, and leave my heart its songs! TO A HUSBAND Poem Text First Line: Brighter than fireflies upon the uji river Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love TO AN EARLY DAFFODIL; SONNET Poem Text First Line: Thou yellow trumpeter of laggard spring! Last Line: To fill the lonely wit caught his gold. Subject(s): Daffodils TO ELIZABETH WARD PERKINS Poem Text First Line: Dear bessie, would my tired rhyme Last Line: And thaw its music in your hand. TO JOHN KEATS; SONNET Poem Text First Line: Great master! Boyish, sympathetic man! Last Line: Faint throbbings of thy music overhear. Variant Title(s): To John Keats Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets TO TWO UNKNOWN LADIES Poem Text First Line: Ladies, I do not know you, and I think Last Line: I only write to exorcise a ghost. Subject(s): Boredom; Contentment; Ennui TO WINKY Poem Text First Line: Cat, cat / what are you Subject(s): Animals; Cats TO WINKY First Line: Cat, cat %what are you Last Line: Really, I do not know Subject(s): Animals; Cats TO-MORROW TO FRESH WOODS AND PASTURES NEW' Poem Text First Line: As for a moment he stands, in hardy masculine beauty Last Line: Eagerly scanning the future which is so soon to possess me. Subject(s): Time TULIP GARDEN First Line: Guarded within the old red wall's embrace TWENTY-FOUR HOKKU ON A MODERN THEME Poem Text Last Line: That day was happy. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of TWENTY-FOUR HOKKU ON A MODERN THEME Poem Text First Line: Again the larkspur Last Line: That day was happy. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of VENETIAN GLASS Poem Text First Line: As one who sails upon a wide, blue sea Last Line: "so nobly just, so worthy to be loved!" Subject(s): Love VENICE First Line: Venice anadyomene! City of reflections! VENUS TRANSIENS Poem Text First Line: Tell me / was venus more beautiful Last Line: The sands at my feet. Subject(s): Botticelli, Sandro (1444-1510); Gays & Lesbians; Mythology - Classical; Paintings & Painters; Venus (goddess); Filipepi, Alesandro Di Mariano; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men VERNAL EQUINOX Poem Text First Line: The scent of hyacinths, like a pale mist, lies Subject(s): Spring VERNAL EQUINOX First Line: The scent of hyacinths, like a pale mist, lies between me and my book Last Line: Why are you not here to overpower me with our tense and urgent love? VESPERS Poem Text First Line: Last night, at sunset Last Line: I should have understood their burning. Subject(s): Candles VIOLIN SONATA BY VINCENT D'INDY First Line: A little brown room in a sea of fields WAKEFULNESS Poem Text First Line: Jolt of market-carts Last Line: Will the day come before you have opened to me? Subject(s): Sleep WHITE CURRANTS Poem Text First Line: Shall I give you white currants? Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters WIND Poem Text First Line: He shouts in the sails of the ships at sea Last Line: Each is the wind I like the best. Subject(s): Wind WIND AND SILVER First Line: Greatly shining, %the autumn moon floats in the sky Last Line: As she passes over them WINTER'S TURNING First Line: Snow is still on the ground |
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