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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: macleish Matches Found: 370 Macleish, Archibald Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald 368 poems available by this author & FORTY-SECOND STREET First Line: Be proud new york of your prize domes 1892-19- First Line: There will be little enough to forget A POET SPEAKS FROM THE VISITOR'S GALLERY Poem Text First Line: Have gentlemen perhaps forgotten this? Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ACKNOWLEDGEMENT First Line: Prince of the church whose lofty mind ACROSS THE RIVER AND UNDER THE TREES First Line: How time goes racing now when there's no need to ACTFIVE First Line: Whereat - the king unthroned, the god AETERNA POETAE MEMORIA First Line: The concierge at the front gate where relatives Last Line: Men remember you, dead boy-the lover of verses! AGAINST ILLUMINATIONS First Line: Avoid, you strollers in the dark street Last Line: Monsters. The truth examined by a flare %grows true, grows palpable, grows everywhere AIR RAID First Line: They follow each other like footsteps Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators ALIEN First Line: Here in this inland garden Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening AMERICA WAS PROMISES Poem Text First Line: Who is the voyager in these leaves Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty AMERICA WAS PROMISES First Line: Who is the voyager in these leaves Subject(s): Freedom AMERICAN LETTER First Line: The wind is east but the hot weather continues AN ETERNITY Poem Text First Line: There is no dusk to be Last Line: Death never was. ANCESTRAL Poem Text Subject(s): Mothers; Children; Childhood ANCESTRAL First Line: The star dissolved in evening - the one star ANNIVERSARY First Line: And that was by the door there APRIL IN NOVEMBER First Line: Even in spring, even in first ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE First Line: The train slows down ARS POETICA Poem Text First Line: A poem should be palpable and mute / as a globed fruit Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ARS POETICA First Line: A poem should be palpable and mute %as a globed fruit Last Line: A poem should not mean %but be Subject(s): Poetry And Poets AT THE DARK'S EDGE First Line: Sister tree, %deaf and dumb and blind, and we Last Line: What we can't... %light Subject(s): Environment AT THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL Poem Text First Line: Slow potomac, tarnished water Last Line: To scour the hate clean and the rusted blood Subject(s): Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.c. AT THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL First Line: Slow potomac, tarnished water Subject(s): Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.c. AUTOBIOGRAPHY First Line: There was a landscape in my childhood AUTUMN First Line: Sun smudge on the smoky water Last Line: Sun smudge on the smoky water AVANT GARDE First Line: The caravan of the aforesaid sages BACCALAUREATE Poem Text First Line: A year or two, and grey euripides Last Line: Bright through the crumbling gold of a great name. Subject(s): Universities & Colleges BAHAMAS Poem Text First Line: Down there in those islands Subject(s): Bahamas; Islands BAHAMAS First Line: Down there in those islands Subject(s): Bahamas; Islands BALLAD OF THE CORN-COB AND THE LIE First Line: Will faulkner, will faulkner BED First Line: My bed grows narrower as I grow old BEFORE MARCH First Line: The gull's image and the gull BIG BANG AND THE EVENING STAR First Line: There were signs in the sky when we were children BIRTH OF EVENTUAL VENUS Poem Text First Line: Cast up by the sea Subject(s): Venus (goddess) BIRTH OF EVENTUALLY VENUS First Line: Cast up by the sea BLACK DAY First Line: God help that country where informers thrive BLACK HUMOR First Line: The jangle of the jeering cows BOATMEN OF SANTORIN First Line: The boatmen on the bay of santorin Last Line: We float here %feathering death at our oar-blades Subject(s): Santorini Island, Greece BOY IN THE ROMAN ZOO First Line: Ravished arms BRAVE NEW WORLD Poem Text First Line: But you, thomas jefferson Subject(s): Holidays BRAVE NEW WORLD First Line: But you, thomas jefferson Last Line: The old stale bitter world plays new - %and the new world old Subject(s): Holidays BROKEN PROMISE First Line: That was by the door BROOKS ATKINSON BURIAL First Line: Life relinquishing, by life relinquished BURYING GROUND BY THE TIES Poem Text First Line: Ayee! Ai! This is heavy earth on our shoulders: Subject(s): Railroads; Labor & Laborers; Railways; Trains; Work; Workers CALYPSO'S ISLAND Poem Text First Line: I know very well, goddess, she is not beautiful Subject(s): Calypso (mythology); Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus CALYPSO'S ISLAND First Line: I know very well, goddess, she is not beautiful Last Line: Where that one wears the sunlight for a while Subject(s): Calypso (mythology); Mythology - Classical; Ulysses CAPTIVITY OF THE FLY First Line: The fly against the window pane CAPTURED Poem Text First Line: Under an elm tree where the river reaches Last Line: And she was here, her hand shut in his hand. CARRION CROW First Line: Claw at his eyes, o carrion crow CAT IN THE WOOD CATHEDRAL First Line: Perpendiculars %stemmed upward, blossoming CHAMBERS OF IMAGERY First Line: Sometimes, within the brain's old ghostly house CHARTRES First Line: I do not wonder, stones CINEMA OF A MAN Poem Text First Line: The earth is bright though the boughs of the moon like a dead planet Subject(s): Self; Travel; Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961); Journeys; Trips CINEMA OF A MAN First Line: The earth is bright through the boughs of the moon like a dead planet Last Line: A wave has broken in the sea beyond the coast of spain COLLOQUY FOR THE STATES First Line: There's talk, says illinois COMMUNICATION TO LEON-PAUL FARGUE Poem Text First Line: I do not know what we say. I know that your poems Subject(s): Fargue, Leon-paul (1876-1947)' Poetry & Poets COMPANIONS First Line: The flowers with the ragged names CONQUISTADOR First Line: And the way goes on the worn earth CONQUISTADOR: PROLOGUE Poem Text First Line: And the way goes on in the worn earth Subject(s): Death; Time; Dead, The CONTEMPORARY PORTRAIT First Line: This woman mask that wears her to the bone CONVERSATION IN BELFRY First Line: Centennial bell that will not ring CONWAY BURYING GROUND First Line: They set up stones to show where time has ended COOK COUNTY Poem Text First Line: The northeast wind was the wind off the lake Variant Title(s): Weather Subject(s): Nature; Weather; Wind COOK COUNTY First Line: The northeast wind was the wind off the lake Last Line: And snow on the sand where in summer the water was... Variant Title(s): Weathe Subject(s): Nature; Weather; Wind CORPORATE ENTITY Poem Text First Line: The oklahoma ligno and lithograph co. Last Line: Weeps at a nude by michelangelo. Subject(s): Corporate Life CREATOR First Line: The world was made by someone else CRITICAL OBSERVATIONS First Line: Let us await the great american novel CRITICS ON THE LAWN First Line: Look! In the lilac bush CROSSING First Line: At five precisely in the afternoon CUMMINGS First Line: True %poet who could live and die DANGER IN THE AIR First Line: On a day of dry wind DE VOTRE BONHEUR IL NE RESTE QUE VOS PHOTOS First Line: Since %and the rain since DEFINITION OF THE FRONTIERS Poem Text First Line: First there is the wind but not like the familiar wind but long and without lapses Subject(s): Nature; War; Boundaries; Borders DEFINITION OF THE FRONTIERS First Line: First there is the wind but not like the familiar wind but long DEFINITIONS OF OLD AGE First Line: Your eyes change DISCOVERY OF THIS TIME Poem Text First Line: Nobody borrowed a couple of dogs and a gun and Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War DISCOVERY OF THIS TIME First Line: Nobody borrowed a couple of dogs and a gun and Last Line: There were all of us - all together - and we came Subject(s): World War Ii DOVER BEACH' - A NOTE TO THAT POEM Poem Text First Line: The wave withdrawing Subject(s): Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888); Middle Age; Poetry & Poets; Waves DOVER BEACH' - A NOTE TO THAT POEM Poem Text First Line: The wave withdrawing Subject(s): Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888); Middle Age; Poetry & Poets; Waves DOVER BEACH' - A NOTE TO THAT POEM First Line: The wave withdrawing Last Line: Let them go over us all I say with the thunder of %what's to be next in the world. It's we will be u Subject(s): Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888); Middle Age; Poetry And Poets; Waves DOZING ON THE LAWN First Line: I fall asleep these days too easily DR. SIGMUND FREUD DISCOVERS THE SEA SHELL Poem Text First Line: Science, that simple saint, cannot be bothered Subject(s): Social Protest DR. SIGMUND FREUD DISCOVERS THE SEA SHELL First Line: Science, that simple saint, cannot be bothered Last Line: What surge is this whose question never ceases? Subject(s): Social Protest DYING IN THE NEW YORK TIMES Poem Text First Line: On the same page of the new york times Subject(s): New York Times (newspaper); Obituaries DYING IN THE NEW YORK TIMES First Line: On the same page of the new york times Subject(s): New York Times (newspaper); Obituaries EDWIN MUIR First Line: The memory of edwin muir is green EINSTEIN Poem Text First Line: And I have come upon this place Subject(s): Consolation; Einstein, Albert (1879-1955) EINSTEIN First Line: And I have come upon this place Last Line: Which seems to keep %something inviolate. A living something Subject(s): Consolation; Einstein, Albert (1879-1955) ELEVEN Poem Text First Line: And summer mornings the mute child, rebellious Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening ELEVEN First Line: And summer mornings the mute child, rebellious Last Line: Like a root growing Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening ELPENOR First Line: It is I, odysseus - elpenor Variant Title(s): 193 END OF THE WORLD First Line: Quite unexpectedly as vasserot Last Line: There in the sudden blackness the black pall %of nothing, nothing, nothing-nothing at all Subject(s): Circus; Judgment Day EPIGRAPH First Line: This old man is no one I know EPISTLE TO BE LEFT IN THE EARTH Poem Text First Line: It is colder now Subject(s): Death; Dead, The EPISTLE TO BE LEFT IN THE EARTH First Line: It is colder now Last Line: Voices are crying an unknown name in the sky Subject(s): Death EPISTLE TO LEON-PAUL FARGUE First Line: I do not know what we say. I know that your poems EPISTLE TO THE RAPALLOAN Poem Text First Line: Ezra, whom not with eye nor ear have I ever Subject(s): Pound, Ezra (1885-1972) EPITAPH FOR JOHN MCCUTCHEON First Line: This is my island. Thirty years ago EVER SINCE First Line: What do you remember thinking back EXCAVATION OF TROY First Line: Girl do you think Subject(s): Troy EZRY Poem Text First Line: Maybe you ranted in the grove Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972) EZRY First Line: Maybe you ranted in the grove Last Line: Giddy with grandeur where you stood Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972) FALL OF THE CITY First Line: Ladies and gentlemen: %this broadcast comes to you from the city FAMILY GROUP Poem Text First Line: That's my younger brother with his navy wings Subject(s): Brothers; World War Ii; Family Life; Half-brothers; Second World War; Relatives FAMILY GROUP First Line: That's my younger brother with his navy wings FARM First Line: Why do you listen, trees FIRST I WILL TELL YOU SOMETHING OF THESE TWO FOR THE ANNIVERSARY OF MY MOTHER'S DEATH First Line: You think a life can end? FRESCOES FOR MR. ROCKEFELLER'S CITY: 1. LANDSCAPE AS A NUDE Poem Text First Line: She lies on her left side her flank golden Variant Title(s): Landscape As A Nude Subject(s): Nudity; Nakedness FRESCOES FOR MR. ROCKEFELLER'S CITY: 1. LANDSCAPE AS A NUDE First Line: She lies on her left side her flank golden Last Line: She has brown breasts and the mouth of no other country Variant Title(s): Landscape As A Nud Subject(s): Nudity FRESCOES FOR MR. ROCKEFELLER'S CITY: 2. WILDWEST First Line: There were none of my blood in this battle Last Line: And how it went out from you wide and clean in the sunlight Variant Title(s): Wildwes FRESCOES FOR MR. ROCKEFELLER'S CITY: 3. BURYING GROUND Poem Text First Line: Ayee! Ai! This is heavy earth on our shoulders Last Line: And the trains going over us here in the hollows Variant Title(s): Burying Ground By The Ties Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Railroads; Work; Workers; Railways; Trains FRESCOES FOR MR. ROCKEFELLER'S CITY: 3. BURYING GROUND First Line: Ayee! Ai! This is heavy earth on our shoulders Variant Title(s): Burying Ground By The Tie Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Railroads FRESCOES FOR MR. ROCKEFELLER'S CITY: 4. OIL PAINTING First Line: The plump mr. Pl'f is washing his hands of america Last Line: Than under the whole damn range (he finds) of the big horns Variant Title(s): Oil Painting Of The Artist As The Artis FRESCOES FOR MR. ROCKEFELLER'S CITY: 5. EMPIRE BUILDERS Poem Text First Line: This is the making of america in five panels Last Line: When the land lay waiting for her westward people Variant Title(s): Empire Builders Subject(s): Capitalism; United States; America FRESCOES FOR MR. ROCKEFELLER'S CITY: 5. EMPIRE BUILDERS First Line: This is the making of america in five panels Last Line: The yellowstone moved on the gravel and the grass grew %whenthe land lay waiting for her westward pe Variant Title(s): Empire Builder Subject(s): Capitalism; United States FRESCOES FOR MR. ROCKEFELLER'S CITY: 6. BACKGROUND First Line: And the corn singing millennium Variant Title(s): Background With Revolutionarie FRESCOES FOR MR. ROCKEFELLER'S CITY: BACKGROUND WITH REVOLUTIONARIES Poem Text First Line: And the corn singing millennium! Subject(s): Communism FRESCOES FOR MR. ROCKEFELLER'S CITY: BACKGROUND WITH REVOLUTIONARIES Poem Text First Line: When they're shunting the cars on the katy a mile off Last Line: There is too much sun on the lids of my eyes to be listening Subject(s): United States; Challenges; Strength FRESCOES FOR MR. ROCKEFELLER'S CITY: BACKGROUND WITH REVOLUTIONARIES Poem Text First Line: When they're shunting the cars on the katy a mile off Last Line: There is too much sun on the lids of my eyes to be listening Variant Title(s): Poem Subject(s): United States; Challenges; Strength FRESCOES FOR MR. ROCKEFELLER'S CITY: BURY GROUND BY THE TIES Poem Text First Line: Ayee! Ai! This is heavy earth on our shoulders: Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Social Classes; Work; Workers; Caste FROM THESE NIGHT FIELDS..., FR. THE HAMLET OF A. MACLEISH GALAN First Line: They killed him on the gallows tree GENIUS First Line: Waked by the pale pink Last Line: Cock has seen the sun! He first! He first! GEOGRAPHY OF THIS TIME Poem Text First Line: What is required of us is the recognition of the frontiers between Subject(s): Frontier & Pioneer Life GEOGRAPHY OF THIS TIME First Line: What is required of us is the recognition of the frontiers between Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life GERMAN GIRLS! THE GERMAN GIRLS First Line: They recall the promises in the books and the GHOST OF THE CLERK First Line: I am a clerk. I read the papers GOOD MAN IN A BAD TIME First Line: Rinsing our mouths GRAZING LOCOMOTIVES Poem Text First Line: Huge upon the hazy plain Variant Title(s): Pastoral Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips GRAZING LOCOMOTIVES First Line: Huge upon the hazy plain Variant Title(s): Pastora Subject(s): Railroads; Travel GREAT CONTEMPORARY DISCOVERIES First Line: The writers: we die HAMLET OF A. MACLEISH First Line: Night after night I lie like this listening HANDS First Line: We hit like a hoof HEARTS' AND FLOWERS' First Line: The delicate lepidopteran tongue HEBRIDES First Line: Old men live in a life HEMINGWAY Poem Text First Line: Oh, not inexplicable. Death explains Subject(s): Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961) HEMINGWAY First Line: Oh, not inexplicable. Death explains Subject(s): Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961) HOTEL BREAKFAST First Line: On a stale morning HOW THE RIVER NINFA RUNS THROUGH THE RUINED TOWN First Line: Italy breaking her bones for bread HURRICANE First Line: Sleep at noon. Window blind HYPOCRITE AUTEUR Poem Text First Line: Our epoch takes a voluptuous satisfaction Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The HYPOCRITE AUTHOR First Line: Our epoch takes a voluptuous satisfaction Last Line: Turn round into the actual air: %invent the age! Invent the metaphor! IMMORTAL AUTUMN Poem Text First Line: I speak this poem now with grave and level voice Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall IMMORTAL AUTUMN First Line: I speak this poem now with grave and level voice Last Line: I cry to you beyond this bitter air Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons IMMORTAL HELIX First Line: Hereunder jacob schmidt who, man and bones IMPULSE First Line: Would you jig, o lusty loin IN AND COME IN Poem Text First Line: Stupid? Of course that older lot were stupid Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) IN AND COME IN First Line: Stupid? Of course that older lot were stupid Last Line: And yet there's something does know in that poem Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) INTERROGATE THE STONES First Line: Do you think INVOCATION TO THE SOCIAL MUSE Poem Text First Line: Se??Ora, it is true the greeks are dead Subject(s): United States; Social Classes; Poetry & Poets; America; Caste INVOCATION TO THE SOCIAL MUSE Poem Text First Line: Senora, it is true the greeks are dead Subject(s): Poetry & Poets INVOCATION TO THE SOCIAL MUSE First Line: Senora, it is true the greeks are dead Last Line: Is it just to demand of us also to bear arms? Subject(s): Poetry And Poets JOURNEY HOME First Line: I have wasted my time in my time in many places KINDS OF FIRE First Line: Flame, that flower with no root that rises L'AN TRENTIESME DE MON EAGE First Line: And I have come upon this place Last Line: The unknown constellations sway - %and by what way shall I go back? LA FOCE First Line: Close the shutters. Let the ceiling fly LAND'S END First Line: The peninsulas are held by an ancient people LATE ABED First Line: Ah, but a good wife LE SECRET HUMAIN First Line: It was not god that told us. We knew LE SEUL MALHEUR EST QUE JE NE SAIS PAS LIRE First Line: In the doorway of the bar LEARNED MEN First Line: Whose minds like horse or ox LET US DESTROY THE FORESTS ALL Poem Text LET US DESTROY THE FORESTS ALL Poem Text Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening LET US DESTROY THE FORESTS ALL Subject(s): Troy LIBERTY Poem Text First Line: When liberty is headlong girl Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty LIBERTY First Line: When liberty is headlong girl LINDEN BRANCH First Line: Strophe of green leaves LINDEN TREES First Line: Tree wanderer! Wheat rider! Wind LINES FOR A PROLOGUE Poem Text First Line: These alternate nights and days, these seasons Subject(s): Time LINES FOR A PROLOGUE First Line: These alternate nights and days, these seasons LINES FOR AN INTERMENT Poem Text First Line: Now it is fifteen years you have lain in the meadow Subject(s): Death; Social Protest; War; Dead, The LINES FOR AN INTERMENT First Line: Now it is fifteen years you have lain in the meadow Last Line: Now you are dead Subject(s): Death; Social Protest; War LITTLE BOY IN THE LOCKED HOUSE First Line: Call and shout LIVE IN THE WORLD LONG HOT SUMMER First Line: Never again LOST SPEAKERS First Line: Never do sea birds sing LOVER APOSTROPHIZES THE POETS First Line: You, you within whose minds the moon MAN First Line: Free %to the world MAN'S WORK First Line: An apple-tree, a cedar and an oak MARCH First Line: Let us think of these MARK VAN DOREN AND THE BOOK First Line: The brook beneath the water mill MARK'S SHEEP MEMORIAL RAIN Poem Text First Line: Ambassador puser the ambassador Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War MEMORIAL RAIN First Line: Ambassador puser the ambassador Last Line: He rests, he is quiet, he sleeps in a strange land Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day; World War I MEMORY GREEN Poem Text First Line: Yes and when the warm unseasonable weather Subject(s): Memory MEMORY GREEN First Line: Yes and when the warm unseasonable weather Last Line: You will close your eyes: with whom, you will say, %ah where? Subject(s): Memory MEN First Line: Our history is grave noble and tragic MEN OF MY CENTURY LOVED MOZART First Line: Changed by this last enchantment of our kind MIDSUMMER DAWN First Line: Listen! The sky! Vast conflagration MISTRAL OVER THE GRAVES First Line: Be still - listen to the wind! MOTHER GOOSE'S GARLAND First Line: Around, around the sun we go Last Line: We die of vertigo MUSIC AND DRUM First Line: When men turn mob MY NAKED AUNT First Line: Who puts off shift NAT BACON'S BONES Poem Text Subject(s): Bacon, Nathaniel (1647-1676); Social Protest NAT BACON'S BONES NATIONAL SECURITY First Line: There are three names NEW ENGLAND WEATHER First Line: Hay-time when the boston forecast NICHOLAS NABOKOV HEARD LENIN SPEAK First Line: Fourteen I was - a boy in a good school NIGHT DREAM First Line: Neither her voice, her name NIGHT WATCH IN THE CITY OF BOSTON First Line: Old colleague NO LAMP HAS EVER SHOWN US WHERE TO LOOK NOCTURNE First Line: The earth, still heavy and warm with afternoon Last Line: What is it we cannot recall? NOT MARBLE NOR THE GILDED MONUMENTS' Poem Text First Line: The praisers of women in their proud and beautiful poems Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Women; Dramatists NOT MARBLE NOR THE GILDED MONUMENTS' First Line: The praisers of women in their proud and beautiful poems Last Line: Look! It is there! Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Women NOVEMBER First Line: A drop on the window, once, twice NURSERY RHYME First Line: Don't cry, my lad OBSERVATIONS OF P. OVIDUS NASO ON THE INCIDENCE OF SEX First Line: What have they done to you, all-conquering love OLD AGE - TO LIVE IN YOUR LIFE OLD GRAY COUPLE First Line: They have only to look at each other to laugh Last Line: Their deaths they think of in the nights alone OLD MAN TO THE LIZARD First Line: Lizard, lover of heat, of high OLD MAN'S JOURNEY First Line: The deep-sea salmon far at sea OLD MEN IN THE LEAF SMOKE First Line: The old men rake the yards for winter Last Line: Anyone left, that is, who lives OLD PHOTOGRAPH First Line: There she is. At antibes I'd guess OUT OF SLEEP AWAKENED First Line: Long before dawn has silvered the last star OVERSTAYING First Line: We used to walk here in the woods, we two PABLO CASALS First Line: So old, so delicate, so small PEEPERS IN OUR MEADOWS First Line: The way at night these piping peepers PHILOSOPHICAL ALOOFNESS First Line: I do not demand for myself a window PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM First Line: I used to see my life in front of me PITY'S SAKE First Line: For pity's sake POEM Poem Text First Line: Who of us all has seen Subject(s): Nudity; Desire; Nakedness POEM First Line: Who of us all have seen POEM First Line: On the beaches of the moon POEM DEDICATED TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF AVIATION Poem Text First Line: But that's all different now. They've got it fixed Subject(s): Writing & Writers; Critics & Criticism POEM DEDICATED TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF AVIATION First Line: But that's all different now. They've got it fixed POEM FOR THE TIME OF CHANGE First Line: There were over me three hawks POEM IN PROSE Poem Text First Line: This poem is for my wife Subject(s): Love POEM IN PROSE First Line: This poem is for my wife Last Line: If giver could Subject(s): Love POET First Line: Moments when we see right through POET SPEAKS FROM THE VISITOR'S GALLERY First Line: Have gentlemen perhaps forgotten this? Last Line: Whose songs are marble %and who whose marble sings Subject(s): Poetry And Poets POET'S LAUGHTER First Line: Why do I live among green mountains' POETICAL REMAINS First Line: What will our reputations be POLE STAR FOR THIS YEAR First Line: Where the wheel of light is turned PONY ROCK First Line: One who has loved the hills and died, a man POPULATION EXPLOSION First Line: The fine old house with the georgian door POT OF EARTH, SELS. PROJECT FOR AN AESTHETIC SUB-TITLE: MOONLIGHT OF A MAN Poem Text First Line: Mr. And mrs. Longfellow little who Subject(s): Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973); Paintings & Painters; Taste (esthetics) PROJECT FOR AN AESTHETIC SUB-TITLE: MOONLIGHT OF A MAN First Line: Mr. And mrs. Longfellow little who PSYCHE WITH THE CANDLE First Line: Love which is the most difficult mystery RAINBOW AT EVENING First Line: Rainbow over evening, my RAPE OF THE SWAN First Line: To love love and not its meaning REASONS FOR MUSIC First Line: Why do we labor at the poem RECONCILIATION First Line: Time like the repetitions of a child's piano REEF FISHER First Line: Plunge beneath the ledge of coral RENOVATED TEMPLE First Line: Ma'am, you should see your house REPLY TO MR. WORDSWORTH First Line: The flower that on the pear-tree settles REPORT First Line: Until finally %after aching, laming stages they came at last REPROACH TO DEAD POETS Poem Text First Line: You who have spoken words in the earth Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary REPROACH TO DEAD POETS First Line: You who have spoken words in the earth RETURN First Line: When shall I behold again the cold limbed bare breasted Last Line: Or it may be I have forgotten now how the sea was RETURN TO THE ISLAND First Line: Years ago in the night REVENANT First Line: O too dull brain, o unperceiving nerves REVOLUTION OF THE CHILDREN First Line: Leafless dodder, rabbit's silk RUE CARPENTER First Line: Some for their looks RUMOR AND SIGH OF UNIMAGINED SEAS SALUTE First Line: O sun! Instigator of cocks Variant Title(s): Poe Subject(s): Sun SEAFARER Poem Text First Line: And learn o voyager to walk Subject(s): Advice; Earth; World SEAFARER First Line: And learn o voyager to walk Last Line: Of sound the rushing planet makes: %and learn to sleep against this ground Subject(s): Advice; Earth SEEING First Line: What did you see, cromarty, by the house SEEING First Line: A lurking man in that half light SELENE AFTERWARDS First Line: The moon is dead, you lovers SENTIMENTS FOR A DEDICATION First Line: Not to you %unborn generations Last Line: O living men remember me receive me among you SHEEP IN THE RUINS First Line: You, my friends, and you strangers, all of you SHIP IN THE TOMB First Line: Cheops, to sail eternity SHIP OF FOOLS First Line: Shoaled on this shingle SHIP'S LOG First Line: What islands known, what passages discovered SIGNAL First Line: Why do they ring that bell SIGNATURE FOR TEMPO Poem Text First Line: Think that this world against the wind of time Subject(s): Religion; Theology SIGNATURE FOR TEMPO First Line: Think that this world against the wind of time Last Line: Out of the deep time have shelved this shallow ledge %where the waves break Subject(s): Religion SKETCH FOR A PORTRAIT OF MME. G-M- First Line: Her room,' you'd say - and wonder why you'd called it SNOW FALL First Line: Quietness clings to the air SNOWFLAKE WHICH IS NOW AND HENCE FOREVER First Line: Will it last? He says Last Line: They also live %who swerve and vanish in the river Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674) SOME ASPECTS OF IMMORTALITY Poem Text First Line: The alley between the elm trees ends Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SOME ASPECTS OF IMMORTALITY First Line: The alley between the elm trees ends SONGS FOR EVE, SELS. SPANISH LIE First Line: This will be answered Last Line: There is time. %they can wait Variant Title(s): The Spanish Dea Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) SPEECH OF THE FIRST SENTRY First Line: Now all things melt and shift in the moon's light SPEECH TO A CROWD Poem Text First Line: Tell me, my patient friends, awaiters of messages. Subject(s): Messages & Messengers SPEECH TO A CROWD First Line: Tell me, my patient friends, awaiters of messages SPEECH TO THE DETRACTORS First Line: What should a man do but love excellence Last Line: Not the unwitting dead %but we who leave their praise unsaid are plundered SPEECH TO THOSE WHO SAY COMRADE Poem Text First Line: The brotherhood is not by the blood certainly Subject(s): Brotherhood SPEECH TO THOSE WHO SAY COMRADE First Line: The brotherhood is not by the blood certainly Subject(s): Brotherhood SPRING HAPPENS IN ONE LAND ONLY SPRING IN THESE HILLS First Line: Slow may ST. PHILIP'S CHURCH IN ANTIGUA First Line: I think these empty pews are not deserted STANDING BETWEEN THE SUN AND MOON PRESERVES, FR. EINSTEIN STARVED LOVERS First Line: Chrysanthemums last too long for these ravenous ladies STATE FUNERAL: MARCH 31, 1969 First Line: Ten men, nine alive STEAMBOAT WHISTLE First Line: Woman riding the two mares of her thighs SUMMER OF THE YEAR First Line: All day long it has prepared to rain SUNSET PIECE First Line: Christ but this earth goes over to the squall of time SURVIVOR First Line: On an oak in autumn THE BOATMEN OF SANTORIN Poem Text First Line: The boatmen on the bay of santorin Subject(s): Santorini Island, Greece THE COLUMNIST Poem Text First Line: I'd rather stand important in a swallow Last Line: For what? For nothing but to see the god. THE END OF THE WORLD Poem Text First Line: Quite unexpectedly as vasserot Subject(s): Circus; Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE INFINITE REASON Poem Text First Line: Rilke thought it was the human part Subject(s): Reason; Truth; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE ROCK IN THE SEA Poem Text First Line: Think of our blindness where the water burned Subject(s): Sea; Birds; Ocean THE SHEEP IN THE RUINS Poem Text First Line: You, my friends, and you strangers, all of you, Subject(s): Mankind; Sheep; Human Race THE SNOWFLAKE WHICH IS NOW AND HENCE FOREVER Poem Text First Line: Will it last? He says Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674) THE SPANISH LIE Poem Text First Line: This will be answered Variant Title(s): The Spanish Dead Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) THE TOO-LATE BORN Poem Text First Line: We too, we too, descending once again Variant Title(s): Toward A Romantic Revival;the Silent Slain Subject(s): Roland; War THE WILD OLD WICKED MAN Poem Text First Line: Too old for love and still to love! Subject(s): Old Age THE YOUNG DEAD SOLDIERS Poem Text First Line: The young dead soldiers do not speak Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; World War Ii; Dead, The; Second World War THEORY OF POETRY Poem Text First Line: Know the world by heart Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THEORY OF POETRY First Line: Know the world by heart Last Line: Till they know the world by heart. %take heart then, poet! THEY COME NO MORE, THOSE WORDS, THOSE FINCHES First Line: Oh when you're young THRUSH IN THE GAELIC ISLANDS First Line: By the sea loch the island cattle THUNDERHEAD First Line: Do not lie there in the darkness silent TO BE UNWOUND TOO-LATE BORN First Line: We too, we too, descending once again Last Line: The dead against the dead and on the silent ground %the silent slain Variant Title(s): Toward A Romantic Revival; The Silent Slai Subject(s): Roland; War TOURIST DEATH First Line: I promise you these days and an understanding TREASON CRIME First Line: Those that by bloody force TRICKED BY ETERNITY THE HEART First Line: Corruptible if all things are TRIUMPH OF THE SHELL First Line: Someone has gathered a shell TWO POEMS FROM THE WAR: 1 Poem Text First Line: Oh, not the loss of the accomplished thing! Last Line: All-possible irradiance of dawn. Subject(s): World War I; First World War TWO POEMS FROM THE WAR: 2 Poem Text First Line: Like moon-dark, like brown water you escape Last Line: All beauty has become your dwelling place. Subject(s): World War I; First World War TWO PRIESTS First Line: Man in the west TWO TREES First Line: Oh the maple TWO WOMEN TALKING First Line: Jill: naked he found her TYRANT OF SYRACUSE First Line: This stranger in my blood, my skin UNANSWERED LETTER TO A LADY NOVELIST Poem Text First Line: Neither her voice, her name Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Nightmares UNFINISHED HISTORY Poem Text First Line: We have loved each other in this time twenty years Subject(s): Love UNFINISHED HISTORY First Line: We have loved each other in this time twenty years Last Line: Thin in the throat and the time not come for death? Subject(s): Love VERNISSAGE Poem Text First Line: On the opening day of the automobile show Subject(s): Automobiles; France; Cars VERNISSAGE First Line: On the opening day of the automobile show well VERSES FOR A CENTENNIAL First Line: The birthplace of mr. William shakespeare author VICISSITUDES OF THE CREATOR First Line: Fish has laid her succulent eggs VOICE OF THE ANNOUNCER First Line: We are here on the central plaza VOYAGE First Line: Heap we these coppered hulls VOYAGE EN PROVENCE Poem Text First Line: The birds in the gardens of avignon Subject(s): Provence, France VOYAGE EN PROVENCE First Line: The birds in the gardens of avignon Subject(s): Provence, France VOYAGE TO THE MOON First Line: Presence among us, %wanderer in our skies VOYAGE WEST First Line: There was a time for discoveries Last Line: Steep from an ocean where no landfall can be WAKING First Line: The sadness we bring back from sleep WAY-STATION Poem Text First Line: The incoherent rushing of the train Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains WAY-STATION First Line: The incoherent rushing of the train WHAT ANY LOVER LEARNS First Line: Water is heavy silver over stone WHAT MUST First Line: We lay beneath the alder tree WHAT RIDDLE ASKED THE SPHINX First Line: In my stone eyes I see WHAT THE OLD WOMEN SAY Poem Text First Line: Out there in the fighting Last Line: Laughing, come home Subject(s): War WHAT THE OLD WOMEN SAY First Line: Out there in the fighting Last Line: Off in the evening, somewhere, %laughing, come home Subject(s): War WHERE A POET'S FROM First Line: Where he's born WHERE THE HAYFIELDS WERE First Line: Coming down the mountain in the twilight WHISTLER IN THE DARK First Line: George barker, british poet WHITE-HAIRED GIRL First Line: Le conte de beaumont carrying my daughter WHY THE FACE OF THE CLOCK IS NOT TRULY A CIRCLE First Line: Time is not gone WILD OLD WICKED MAN First Line: Too old for love and still to love WILDWEST Poem Text First Line: There were none of my blood in this battle Subject(s): Native Americans - Wars; Crazy Horse (oglala Sioux Chief) WILLIAM ADAMS DELANO First Line: The supple haft, the helve WINTER IS ANOTHER COUNTRY First Line: If the autumn would WITH AGE WISDOM Poem Text First Line: At twenty, stooping round about, Subject(s): Old Age WITH AGE WISDOM First Line: At twenty, stooping round about WOMAN ON THE STAIR First Line: With haste, with the haggard color WOOD DOVE AT SANDY SPRING First Line: Dove that lets the silence answer WORDS IN TIME First Line: Bewildered with the broken tongue Last Line: The poet with a beat of words %flings into time for time to keep WORDS TO BE SPOKEN First Line: O shallow ground YACHT FOR SALE Poem Text First Line: My youth is Last Line: You can see now Subject(s): Sports YACHT FOR SALE First Line: My youth is Subject(s): Sports YEARS AGO First Line: Why should I think of spring in france YEARS OF THE DOG First Line: Before, though, paris was wonderful. Wanderers YOU ALSO, GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS First Line: Fat-kneed god! Feeder of mangy leopards! YOU, ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text First Line: And here face down beneath the sun Subject(s): Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); Night; Poetry & Poets; Time; Bedtime YOU, ANDREW MARVELL First Line: And here face down beneath the sun Last Line: To feel how swift, how secretly, %the shadow of the night comes on Subject(s): Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); Night; Poetry And Poets; Time YOUNG DEAD SOLDIERS First Line: The young dead soldiers do not speak Last Line: We were young, they say. We have died. Remember us Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; World War Ii Macleish, Fleming 2 poems available by this author EXPLORATION BY AIR Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators SUMMER SHOWER First Line: Seated at breakfast, in the indigent country |
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