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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: moore, sturge Matches Found: 284 Moore, Thomas Sturge Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge 284 poems available by this author A DUET Poem Text First Line: Flowers nodding gaily, scent in air Last Line: Thus sang a king and queen in babylon. A MIDNIGHT ECSTASY Poem Text First Line: From everywhere seen Last Line: Nor soul not to all others free. A TORRENT: 2 Poem Text First Line: Ah, might each instant be a kiss Last Line: How even life at poise were boon! ABSALOM First Line: Absalom is discovered in a wood, pulling down Subject(s): Absalom ADAPTATION BY T. GRAY RE-ADAPTED First Line: Thyrsis, when we parted, swore Subject(s): Gray, Thomas (1716-1771) ADAPTED FROM A MON AMI GEORGES CATTAUI First Line: O rare arabian tree ADAPTED FROM BEAUMONT & FLETCHER First Line: Come, sleep, be kind now and relieve me ADAPTED FROM BEN JONSON First Line: Come, my celia, let us prove Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry And Poets ADAPTED FROM CAMPION First Line: Whether men do laugh or weep ADAPTED FROM DU BELLAY First Line: If our life count for less than one brief day ADAPTED FROM RONSARD First Line: When aged, you, by night with candles, well ADAPTED FROM RONSARD First Line: Darling, come; perhaps the rose AFORETIME First Line: Dear exile from the hurrying crowd AGATHON TO LYSIS First Line: A beautiful bird on a beautiful dame AGED BEAUTY'S PRAYER First Line: Marvellous venus, listen, please ALCESTIS IS SPOKEN OF Poem Text First Line: She then became a shade that he might live Last Line: But knows no measure, neither death nor birth. ALCESTIS SPEAKS Poem Text First Line: O glad devotion flushing up the sky Last Line: "like them blow kisses to the birds that sing." ALL IN A NAME First Line: Love lies bleeding ALONE First Line: Why was I tempted today ALPINE HOLIDAYS First Line: It is not uselss to climb hills AN OLD SNATCH DREAMED OVER Poem Text First Line: There dwelt a man in babylon Last Line: Lady, poor lady! AND THEN First Line: Can evil be life's shadow? Or but mine ANSWERED PRAYER First Line: Soon, soon APHRODITE AGAINST ARTEMIS First Line: Ho! Not a man sleeps in this house tonight APULEIUS MEDITATES First Line: An old tale tells how gorgo's gaze distilled AWAITED VOICE First Line: Look, she is twenty-one BACCHANAL IN THE PRADO AT MADRID First Line: She naked lies asleep beside the wine BEAUTIFUL MEALS Poem Text First Line: How nice it is to eat! Last Line: I know 'twas they. Subject(s): Food & Eating BEAUTY Poem Text First Line: With naught the world contains or small or great Last Line: And yet, o beauty, touch us with thy might! Subject(s): Beauty BEE (ADAPTED FROM PAUL VALERY) First Line: However deadly and minute BEFORE REREADING SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS Poem Text First Line: Whether his loves were many or but two Last Line: Once, forest leaves, they murmured round his soul. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) BETHULIA'S GATE, FR. JUDITH Poem Text First Line: What have you in your apron wrapped? Last Line: Hold holofernes' head. Subject(s): Judith (bible); Women In The Bible BEYOND THE WALLS First Line: As an unowned and famished dog dies slowly BLACK AND TAN REPRAISALS Poem Text First Line: The honour of england now hides in the grave BLIND THAMYRIS, SELS. First Line: Untouched white cloud CAGE First Line: Ah, tedious is the ocean's face, where ever CENTAUR'S BOOTY Poem Text First Line: On one that stands out above a waste of boulders CHILD MUSES First Line: Joy steals through me if I sleek CHORUS OF DORIDES First Line: Dead, dead, hale youth is dead CHORUS OF GREEK GIRLS Poem Text First Line: We maidens are older than most sheep Last Line: "each call ""me." Subject(s): Girls; Greece; Greeks CHORUS OF MAIDENS ON GILEAD First Line: Thou hast brought me very low CIRCE ASPIRES First Line: These brutes, adorable sir CONVENT THRESHOLD First Line: Veil thee, too vison-fed to answer love COUNTERSIGNS Poem Text First Line: Who has left the world alone Last Line: To good transmuting evil done. DAIMONASSA. A TRAGEDY First Line: Pipe, you have stopped. Pipe on! I hear them shout DANAE Poem Text First Line: Still, brilliant with bright brass, the tower derides Last Line: Above a million moving waves, appeared Subject(s): Danae; Mythology - Classical DAUGHTER OF ADMETUS First Line: Apollo kept my father's sheep DAVID AND GOLIATH Poem Text First Line: With half his arm in running water Last Line: Hath trustier armour on. Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Goliath DAVID AND JONATHAN First Line: It was not easier to be brave DAVID'S DREAD FOR ABSALOM First Line: Deep in me lies DAYS AND NIGHTS Poem Text First Line: Like a king from a sunrise-land Last Line: Out there, where is no wrong. DEATH IN THE HOME Poem Text First Line: When those we love die Last Line: Good with long talks. Subject(s): Death; Regret; Dead, The DEATH IN THE WORLD First Line: As a child's breath DEED: 1 First Line: O thou who art the lesson that I learn DEED: 4 First Line: Mine is that body with which man might soar DEED: 5 First Line: Sweet bird of heaven, he rests as swallows do DEED: 6 First Line: Am I once substance with the past DEED: 7 (IN PART SUGGESTED BY...HUGO VON HOFMANNSTHAL) First Line: He who acts is the only splendid man DESIRE MUSES First Line: To braid a crown of daisies DESIRE SINGS First Line: If only I were the sky DIALOGUE BETWEEN ECHOES First Line: O naked body all one bliss DOUBTFUL DAWN First Line: Wake, love; I am early woken DREAM First Line: The body, when a man is dead EAST OF THE CITY First Line: Jesus had not commanded angel-troops ECHOES FROM CIRCE'S HALL. HARPIES EXULT First Line: Pale sky, soft and blue EDITH COOPER - DIED DECEMBER 13 1933 First Line: Rumour of fame ELECTION First Line: Come, worship all who pay the world its price ENDYMION'S PRAYER First Line: Coming, the moon paled the sky's brink EPISTLE: 1. TO A MAN UNNAMED First Line: I write to thee, o wanderer from my heart EVENT First Line: Shaped and vacated EYES First Line: What pretty words he ought to know FALCON-DAUGHTERS OF APOLLO, FR. BLIND THAMYRIS FATHER HAVING LOST A SON SIX YEARS OLD First Line: My thoughts aver, thou canst not stir FAUN First Line: A householder is goathooves FOOTFALLS (VARIATIONS ON PAUL VALERY) First Line: T'ward my couch with tread demure FOR DARK DAYS Poem Text First Line: Ah, when a fair day finds me cold to it Last Line: Glad to see other eyes forget life's ills. FOUNT TO PAUL VALERY First Line: Ha! Night feels cooler in this porch FRAIL INTELLIGENCE First Line: Pity poor thought that never knows FURTHER PRAYER Poem Text First Line: O giant universe of star and sun Last Line: And dearest. GOLDEN THIGH First Line: Listen! Our semele HANDS Poem Text First Line: Sing, for with hands Last Line: For jangling toys and shining things? Subject(s): Hands HE WILL NOT COME ... TO BE OVERHEARD FROM BEHIND A CURTAIN First Line: Why ever HOME OF HELEN First Line: Lacedaemon, hast thou seen it? HOME RULE Poem Text First Line: Oh, to be glad as a bird! Last Line: At home, not foreign parts. Subject(s): Birds; Serenity HOPE Poem Text First Line: Hope is a dream dreamed by the mummied past Last Line: Blind love and left unfound the path he missed. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism HOUSE WE BUILT First Line: List! Winding ways lead through our wood HUMANITY'S VICTIM First Line: Our powers at their happiest expansion I LIKE THE MOON AM, FR.JUDAS Poem Text First Line: So judas prayed Last Line: Is all my words meant. Subject(s): Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.) IDLENESS Poem Text First Line: O idleness, too fond of me. / begone, I know and hate thee! Last Line: From idleness deliver! Variant Title(s): To Idleness Subject(s): Idleness; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence IN A TIME OF WAR: 1. COUNTER OR CAMP. AUGUST 1914 Poem Text First Line: Counter or camp, which of the two rules worst? Last Line: And still explores the universe with awe. Subject(s): World War I; First World War IN A TIME OF WAR: 2. THE WOUNDED Poem Text First Line: Cancelled the fair-planned life Last Line: Who grasp the incalculable, being dead. Subject(s): World War I; First World War IN A TIME OF WAR: 3. THE DESECRATED DREAM Poem Text First Line: With every mighty nation now at war Last Line: Still seeks worse ways to slay and to be slain. Subject(s): World War I; First World War IN A TIME OF WAR: 4. AFTER THE ARMISTICE (NOVEMBER 1918) Poem Text First Line: Psyche has fouled both hands in blood and clay Last Line: Then turned to cleaner work, shall she rejoice. Subject(s): World War I; First World War IN DELIGHT AT A BOX OF ROSES SENT FROM LEICESTER TO LONDON, JULY 1918 Poem Text First Line: Tender dawns peep from under night's gray cowl Last Line: Her heart grew light enough to think of me. Subject(s): Flowers; Gifts & Giving; Roses IN SUMMER First Line: In somer when the shawes be sheyne Last Line: In a mornynge of may IN THESSALY THE HILLS ARE HIGH, FR. ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE Poem Text First Line: O orpheus, why this silence? Dost thou dream Last Line: And all those pious customs fail. Subject(s): Thessalia; Thessaly IO Poem Text First Line: Beautiful nymph all white with fear Last Line: "are kissed and red!" Subject(s): Mythology - Classical IS IT WELL First Line: Alas! The strong good man too often lies JOSEPH First Line: To the chamber where he slept JOY First Line: Like hoar-frost on a tree at dawn JUDITH First Line: Stop! Consider KARNA AND KUNTI (ADAPTED FR. RABINDRANATH TAGORE) First Line: Pandava queen-mother, before her marriage had KINDNESS Poem Text First Line: Of the beauty of kindness I speak Last Line: Luxuriant and warm. Subject(s): Kindness LAMENT FOR ORPHEUS First Line: This is his head, o women; see these lips LAMENT RE-ECHOED First Line: That noble stag, the leader of the herd LAST MAGNIFICENCE First Line: Pompous, gaunt, irresolute LAST MESSAGE First Line: What shall I say to him LEADEN ECHO AND THE GOLDEN ECHO First Line: How to keep - is there any any, is there none such, nowhere Last Line: Yonder, yes yonder, yonder, %yonder Subject(s): Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928); Poetry And Poets LEAF-LAND First Line: High, high, high LEAP, IBEX, LEAP: THE DROP, FR. BLIND THAMYRIS LEGLESS First Line: Thou perfect mock, thou beauty LET NOW SUFFICE First Line: The lily yearns to leave her stem LET THOSE ... THIS WORLD'S HARD SCHOOL, FR. IN TIME OF WAR LETTER TO SICILIAN VINEDRESSER SENT FROM EGYPT WITH ... ROBE OF TISSUE Poem Text First Line: Put out to sea, if wine thou wouldest make Last Line: Like a stripped child fain in the sea to dip. Subject(s): Greece; Greeks LICE-FINDERS (ADAPTED FROM RIMBAUD) First Line: When, forehead full of torments hot and red LIFE Poem Text First Line: My life feels like a mouse Last Line: Thrill more than flight, song, stream or wood! Subject(s): Life LIGHT HEART First Line: Ears lack no food, for loaded time LOST OPPORTUNITIES First Line: Opposer of my will, embody! Appear LOVE'S FAINTENESS ACCPETED First Line: Ah, love, love is not what LOVE'S FAINTNESS DEFIED Poem Text First Line: Kiss me! Last Line: Those only died who, loved, made faint return! Subject(s): Love LOVE'S FIRST COMMUNION First Line: Hear me! Answer! Thou, so sweet LOVE'S LOSS LAMENTED Poem Text First Line: O swift, o proud, o brave, o beautiful Last Line: What was is not. Subject(s): Consolation; Love - Unrequited LOVE-CHILD First Line: The young, proud, careless, coarse, are gulls LUBBER BREEZE Poem Text First Line: The four sails of the mill Last Line: Laughs in his sleeve. Subject(s): Mills And Millers; Wind LULLABY (1) Poem Text First Line: Laugh, laugh / laugh gently though Last Line: And they visit the gardens of fabulous kings. LULLABY (2) First Line: Stripped thee when thou hast and girt LURE OF MEDUSA First Line: Thought cannot easily place a bourne MARIAMNE First Line: He has been near his death a thousand times MARUADERS First Line: Glossy and black with yellow beak MASTERS IN VAIN First Line: Up ruffle learning, finance, power MEDEA First Line: Much am I wronged, and colchis far away MEDEA (2) First Line: Grief dwells with life Last Line: As immortal beauty recovers from pain Subject(s): Grief MEN AND ANGELS, SELS. MERRY WIND First Line: The sun makes dust on the highway METAMORPHOSIS IN ART Poem Text First Line: No I won't,' said the stone Last Line: "is content to lie still!" Subject(s): Sculpture & Sculptors METAMORPHOSIS. AS A PREPOSSESSION First Line: The gold fish turns and is sufused again METAMORPHOSIS. DAPHNE First Line: Not avaricious was that chastity METAMORPHOSIS. NOON VISION First Line: O light, discoverer, thou has been seen METAMORPHOSIS. THE TEDIOUS INMATE First Line: The brain was worn and had slept MOUSE IN THE BEECHES First Line: A little brown wood-mouse MUCH VIRTUE IN IF Poem Text First Line: If I were king of this broad land Last Line: With you crowned at my side. Subject(s): England; English MY FRIEND First Line: I have a friend, and he is gay NATURE First Line: O lady! We receive but what we give NEED AND NO-NEED First Line: He feels no need of friend or roof NEVER WRITTEN BOOK First Line: O chatterton, he turned leaves in some book Subject(s): Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770) NEW BORN First Line: All need and no power NEW CLOTHES First Line: O all ye meadows fair NIETZSCHE REVENANT First Line: Under a limitless vivid dome NIOBE First Line: Behold me what I am, behold NIOBE First Line: I touch the pipes of the noon air NOSTALGIA Poem Text First Line: Alas, o hellas lorn and whist Last Line: Smiles when we ask her what she said! Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Nostalgia NOWHERE AND ONWARD Poem Text First Line: There is no reason we should write Last Line: Old kings would prize at a great war's cost. NURSERY ENACTMENTS First Line: Before their nursery fire one day O WONDER OF THE SEA, FR. OMPHALE AND HERAKLES Poem Text First Line: His heart were lightened I believe, to see us Last Line: "that, that, has dreamed my soul!" Subject(s): Homesickness ODYSSEUS EXULTS First Line: Not was nor will be but what is OMPHALE AND HERAKLES; IN SEVEN SCENES First Line: Five talents and a half for just a man Last Line: Thou shalt be happy yet ON DEATH First Line: Why question what my thoughts of death may be ON FOUR POPLARS VIEWED ... TO ROBERT AND ELIZABETH TREVELYAN First Line: There stand before mine eyes four trees ON HARTING DOWN Poem Text First Line: Once, when their hearts were wild with joy Last Line: Musings retired or neared. ONE WHO GARDENS TO ONE WHO WRITES First Line: Straighten your back, let not a day escape ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE First Line: My heart so bleeds, words cannot staunch the wound Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus OUR OBJECTIVE AND OUR BEHAVIOUR First Line: We fight for freedom, yet in tyrant-wise PAN'S PROPHECY, SELECTION Poem Text First Line: I am old and wise and strong Last Line: Complain they that their age grows cold? Subject(s): Old Age PANTHER First Line: Consider now the panther: such the beast PATIENCE First Line: What hungry silence in a lover waits PHANTOM SEA-BIRDS First Line: Sirs, though ocean's gapless bound PICTURE FOLK First Line: Little rogues in pictures PLANS FOR A MIDNIGHT PICNIC First Line: Into the schoolroom rushed tim, where margaret, mary and bob POWERS OF THE AIR: 1 First Line: A man who journey's west of north and toils POWERS OF THE AIR: 2 First Line: An end is reached: the soul still yearns to peep POWERS OF THE AIR: 3 First Line: My father sailed the sea, saw egypt's tombs POWERS OF THE AIR: 5 First Line: The spring and the child were tender and gay PRAYER First Line: To semele's bed by midnight came PRAYER First Line: Ah, happy semele! She was PRAYER First Line: Hide me for ever, hide me now PSYCHE IN HADES First Line: Be kind, and picture what we cannot show REASON ENOUGH First Line: Who knows what a man may think REGRETS First Line: Some things that we shall never know RENASCENCE Poem Text First Line: O happy soul, forget thy self! Last Line: That wrong is wholly doomed, is doomed and bound to cease. Variant Title(s): Renaissance RENOVATION Poem Text First Line: Would that I were naked adam Last Line: For sea, forest or glen? RESPONSE TO RIMBAUD'S LATER MANNER First Line: The cow eats green grass Subject(s): Rimbaud, Arthur (1854-1891) RODERIGO OF BIVAR First Line: Say, frojas, who thou thinkest should have najarra SEA IS KIND (THE GOATHERD AND SHEPHERD) Poem Text First Line: He saw but would avoid me! Eucritos, hoy SEA IS KIND (THE NYMPHS) Poem Text First Line: Yes, I will stop and talk SECOND LAMENT FOR LOVE'S LOSS First Line: Birds sing but never speak SECOND PRAYER First Line: Come nearer yet SECRET ODE (ADAPTED FROM PAUL VALERY) First Line: Superb prostration, relished end SELWYN IMAGE - DIED AUGUST 20 MCMXXX (1930) First Line: He lived a harmony that tuned us all SEMELE LAY IN BLISS ALL NIGHT SEPTEMBER TWILIGHT Poem Text First Line: A large pool, and tall trees, and lo! Undressed Last Line: But inwardly content it onward speeds. Subject(s): Swimming & Swimmers SHE Poem Text First Line: As from heaven alighting, she early Last Line: Where the throng was, she passed unseen. SHELLS Poem Text First Line: Nature nothing shows more rare Last Line: Are formed art, virtue, truth. Subject(s): Shells; Conchology SHEPHERD AND PRINCE, SELS. SHOES AND STOCKINGS OFF Poem Text First Line: Bare feet, bare feet Last Line: And you shall still fare sweet. Subject(s): Feet SIBYL First Line: My heart no more within me dwells SICILIAN IDYLL, SELS. First Line: I thank thee no SILENCE Poem Text First Line: No word, no lie, can cross a carven lip Last Line: He thenceforth will disdain the uttered word. Subject(s): Silence SILENCE SINGS Poem Text First Line: So faint, no ear is sure it hears Last Line: That joy abound. Subject(s): Silence SIR WILLIAM ROBERTSON First Line: Oh! Not the vain who thought 'we won the war SNOW First Line: The inexhaustibly sky SONG OF CLEANESS First Line: Sing gladly when you wash, and start SONG WITHOUT RHYMES First Line: I must free my lips SPANISH PICTURE First Line: Thy life is over now, don juan SPEECH First Line: I said, 'mean aims, as fiends possess a witch' SQUIRREL First Line: O squirrel, would I were as you STILL VOICE First Line: As on thy youth's top-hour STRICKEN EROS First Line: Have you seen flitter-mouse swoop and enter SUGGESTED BY ... EROS SEEKING TO CATCH A HARE IN A SCARF First Line: Whirr! And the dread wings flap SUMMER LIGHTNING Poem Text First Line: I would rather ruffle leaves Last Line: No girl had loved unless she chose! Subject(s): Love - Nature Of SUPERMAN TO PANJANDRUM First Line: Exterminator of the weak, I never SWAN (VARIATION ON MALLARME) First Line: Blithe-fronted, lofty, young too, wilt thou, day TALE OF AN ASS First Line: John, son of thunder, went TEMPIO DI VENERE Poem Text First Line: A marble ruin nigh forgotten Last Line: So sturdy, arch, and gay! Subject(s): Marble; Naples, Italy; Ruins THAT LAND Poem Text First Line: Would that I might live for ever Last Line: The one way to win happiness! Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise THE DEED: 2 Poem Text First Line: No sight earth yields our eyes is lovelier than Last Line: That all he is approves what he doth do. Subject(s): Beauty; Mankind; Human Race THE DEED: 3 Poem Text First Line: But might the beauty of the soul be viewed Last Line: Not as lame duty tries, but with success. THE DEEPER DESIRE Poem Text First Line: From noon and afternoon rich blue has bled Last Line: Ocean and solitude had lured them there. Subject(s): Solitude; Swimming & Swimmers; Loneliness; Swimmers THE DYING SWAN Poem Text First Line: O silver-throated swan Last Line: The god of love, let him learn how! Subject(s): Birds; Swans THE FORERUNNER Poem Text First Line: Virgin, afar, those snowfields tower! Last Line: Have let all go without a sigh. THE GAZELLES Poem Text First Line: When the sheen on tall summer grass is pale Last Line: Ineffectual herds of vanished delights. Subject(s): Gazelles THE PHANTOM OF A ROSE Poem Text First Line: Ah,' thought she, 'if there Last Line: Fused into the heart of light. Subject(s): Ballet; Dancing & Dancers THE POWERS OF THE AIR: 4 Poem Text First Line: Over latmos slowed the moon Last Line: Loiters full many a night upon that hill. THE ROUT OF THE AMAZONS; AT LAOMEDON'S UPPER FOLD Poem Text First Line: Ahi, ahi, ahi, laomedon! Last Line: So let us get to bed and pray for him. Subject(s): Amazons THE ROWERS' CHANT Poem Text First Line: Row till the land dip 'neath Last Line: For which you sought. Subject(s): Rowing; Sea; Ocean THE SEA IS KIND: 1 Poem Text First Line: They give but never promise.' Last Line: He or she deserted was. THE SEA IS KIND: 2 Poem Text First Line: There is no kindlier cradle for your mood Last Line: "but all on deck: and was not the sea kind?" Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE SERPENT Poem Text First Line: Hail pytho! Thou lithe length of gleaming plates Last Line: That charm efficiency must needs exert. THE SONG OF CHIRON Poem Text First Line: Under the mountain lawn Last Line: When their beauty exerts her might. THE YOUNG CORN IN CHORUS Poem Text First Line: All we, the young corn, stalwart stand Last Line: Cloy those he would please. Subject(s): Corn THESEUS Poem Text First Line: What am I? O thou sea, with all thy noise Last Line: "ask for king aegeus, and bring with thee these." Subject(s): Theseus THIRD VOICE First Line: Two voices were there, now there shall be three THOU MOON AND O YE STARS, FR. JUDITH Poem Text First Line: Thou moon and o ye stars, ye hosts of light! Last Line: [she returns into the tent and draws the curtain.] Subject(s): Judith (bible); Women In The Bible THREE THINGS First Line: Three thing are there made for fun TO A CHILD LISTENING TO A REPEATER First Line: How long, mad child, thou rosy whirlgig TO AN EARLY SPRING DAY Poem Text First Line: O day, thou found'st me sleeping; let me sleep! Last Line: Exalting her with this thy strenuous might. Subject(s): Spring TO APHRODITE First Line: O candid smile dimple the sea TO COOK First Line: Like mown hay tossed in a high wind TO E.L. GRANT WATSON First Line: O wherefore tempt me with quaint images TO GIACOMO LEOPARDI Poem Text First Line: Cold was thy thought, o stricken son Last Line: Grand as the presence of night's queen. Subject(s): Leopardi, Giacomo (1798-1837); Poetry & Poets TO IDLENESS First Line: Enough, thou witch, too fond of me TO LEDA (IN MEMORY OF OSWALD SICKERT) First Line: Wiseliest confirmed of river bathers, thou TO LOKI First Line: Cease, thou art terrible! Cease, thou tireless god TO MEMORY Poem Text First Line: O deeper than the noontide seems when blue Last Line: Till phantom sobs catch in a shrivelled throat. Subject(s): Memory TO NOVICE LOVE First Line: O gay, adventurous, unsealed eyes TO RABINDRANATH TAGORE First Line: I cannot mock thy 'yesy' with 'no' TO SILENCE Poem Text First Line: O deep and clear as is the sky Last Line: Still be to my fond hope a friend. Subject(s): Silence TO SLOW MUSIC Poem Text First Line: Like shovels white of porcelain Last Line: Of daisy naught, nor daffodilly. Subject(s): Nymphs; Shells; Conchology TOCSIN TO THE MEN AT ARMS First Line: Blind with pride and deaf with rage TONGUES First Line: Tongues there are that naught can say TORRENT: 1 First Line: O polished volume of live force, now pure TRAGIC FATES: 1 (VIRGIN) First Line: Prepared by gentle living, gifted body TRAGIC FATES: 2 (ESPOUSED) First Line: Should tedious nights of avid pain succeed TWILIGHT REVERIE Poem Text First Line: Remembered in the evening Last Line: Gaze at my face, as it were a pink cloud. TWO POEMS FUSED (FROM JOHN CLARE AND MARY COLERIDGE) First Line: Egypt's might is tumbled down TYRFING First Line: Our journey's done URGENT First Line: Learn of my glance greeting VALUE AND EXTENT Poem Text First Line: The more they peer through lenses at the night Last Line: There thrill and shape small genuine glories here. VARIATION ON BAUDELAIRE. TO AZRAEL First Line: Thou, death, alone art kind, helpest men give Subject(s): Baudelaire, Charles (1821-1867); French Poetry - Symbolism; Poetry And Poets VARIATION ON BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Time, at his kindest, hath wild wings to fly with Last Line: Ages and aeons of delight. Subject(s): Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616); Dramatists; Love; Plays & Playwrights; Time VARIATION ON BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER Poem Text First Line: Cynthia, as to thy power and thee Last Line: Virgin, spouses are befriended. Subject(s): Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616); Dramatists; Fletcher, John (1579-1625); Plays & Playwrights VARIATION ON BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER: ASPATIA'S SONG Poem Text First Line: Lay a garland on my grave Last Line: Lightly, gentle earth! Subject(s): Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616); Dramatists; Fletcher, John (1579-1625); Graves; Plays & Playwrights; Tombs; Tombstones VARIATION ON BEN JONSON Poem Text First Line: Beauty! And oh 'twas I who saw Last Line: All beauty, and all in one spot. Subject(s): Beauty; Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry & Poets VARIATION ON FLETCHER First Line: Orpheus I am, come from the deeps below Last Line: These win the love they died without or burn Subject(s): Fletcher, John (1579-1625) VARIATION ON HENRY KILLIGREW First Line: I thy goodangel, from thy side Last Line: Knows not when we pass by! VARIATION ON RIMBAUD'S PROSE-POEM. CHILDHOOD First Line: This idol with black eyes and yellow hair Subject(s): Rimbaud, Arthur (1854-1891) VARIATION ON RONSARD: 1 Poem Text First Line: The grace of the moon is Last Line: More embraceth than space. Subject(s): Ronsard, Pierre De (1524-1585) VARIATION ON RONSARD: 2 Poem Text First Line: Time flits away, time flits away, lady Last Line: Be thou the love, love sees. Subject(s): Ronsard, Pierre De (1524-1585) VARIATION ON VERLAINE First Line: The body slumbers, humble as the dead Subject(s): Verlaine, Paul (1844-1896) VIGIL First Line: How long, dear sleeper, must I wait WAR AND PEACE First Line: The blind and clumsy god of war prefers WATER Poem Text First Line: Tell me what hath water done?' Last Line: "when tear-washed hearts recapture bliss." Subject(s): Water WEST OF THE CITY First Line: Those eyes, from caverns in that fine shock head WHERE LOVE DROWSES (ADAPTED FR. FLAUBERT'S SALAMMBO) First Line: Doves, from the palm-tres near them, gently cooed WILD CHERRY First Line: Though one white bunch would crown the tree Subject(s): Cherries; Fruit WIND'S WORK Poem Text First Line: Kate rose up early as fresh as a lark Last Line: But the wind knows! Subject(s): Wind WINGS First Line: That man who wishes not for wings WINNOWER TO THE WINDS (ADAPTED FROM DU BELLAY First Line: O light and gay WITHIN THE WALLS First Line: Look thou to that WOODSTOCK MAZE First Line: A crown in her lap; all proud of her bower WORDS FOR A PEAL OF CHRISTMAS BELLS Poem Text First Line: What is there in this child Last Line: Safe, tranquil, clear! Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The WORDS FOR THE WIND First Line: With the waves for hounds WORKDAY YOUTH First Line: Night is for rest YET THERE IS ROOM Poem Text First Line: What boundless contrast in these clear night-skies! Last Line: In naked bliss, cleave the pure wells of thought. YOUNG MAN'S FONDEST FOE First Line: Mothers enslave their sons, from honour hide |
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