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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: o'hara, frank Matches Found: 523 O'hara (1926-1966), Frank Poet's Biography 522 poems available by this author 18TH CENTURY LETTER First Line: To you who's friend to my angels (all quarelling) Last Line: To the men who made us, hollering like stuck pigs 1951 First Line: Alone at night %in the wet city Last Line: Verdure, the hard way %is this street 2 POEMS FROM THE OHARA MONOGATARI First Line: My love is coming in a glass Last Line: Where dwell the amusing skulls 3 POEMS ABOUT KENNETH KOCH First Line: Que viva mexico1 %may I tell you how much I love your poems Last Line: My black back. And now the telephone. 'hello. Kenneth?' Subject(s): Koch, Kenneth (1925-2002) 3 REQUIEMS FOR A YOUNG UNCLE First Line: Brilliant uncle incarnadine Last Line: Dance in a vest allocated to the servants of the %harrowing 34 MILE WIND First Line: The sunlight steams through the cold Last Line: The feeling is foregone and so beautiful 3RD AVENUE EL First Line: Cold, dark, wet, the lanterns Last Line: And beyond, the open mountains A STEP AWAY FROM THEM Poem Text First Line: It's my lunch hour, so I go Subject(s): Lunch; Reverdy, Pierre (1889-1960); Streets; Avenues A TRUE ACCOUNT OF TALKING TO THE SUN AT FIRE ISLAND Poem Text First Line: The sun woke me this morning loud Subject(s): Fire Island; Sun ABORTION First Line: Do not bathe her in blood Last Line: Autumn in our terrible breath ABOUT COURBET First Line: The angriness of the captive is felt Last Line: Like one child vomiting upon its father's future ADIEU TO NORMAN, BON JOUR TO JOAN AND JEAN-PAUL First Line: It is 12:10 in new york and I am wondering Last Line: I love reverdy for saying yes, though I don't believe it ADVENTURES IN LIVING First Line: How can you start hating me when I'm so comfortable in your raincoat Last Line: They weren't apples they were plums AFTER WYATT First Line: The night paints inhaling smoke and semen Last Line: Roaring up, throttles whom he fed for years AFTERNOON First Line: In sensuality I find a harvest dawn Last Line: Like a beautiful horse grazing at my running feet AGAIN, JOHN KEATS, OR THE POST OF BASIL First Line: Just when I was getting completely through Last Line: Between a window and a wall again AGGRESSION First Line: I think of cairo and all tossing date palms and a girl Last Line: Come intimate, and deaths appear, and they are the right dea AIRPLANE WHISTLE (AFTER HEINE) First Line: The rose, the lily and the dove got withered Last Line: A particular sound, fine, light and slightly hoarse AIX-EN-PROVENCE First Line: Dreamy city where I will doubtless never go Last Line: Sauguet and, above all! Spectacle de ballets and you Subject(s): Provence, France ALL THAT GAS First Line: Tradewinds where are you blowing Last Line: As the air-puddles drops to our knees in storms ALMA First Line: The sun, perhaps three of them, one black one red, you know, and her dancing Last Line: There are some who say she isn't really dead AMERICAN First Line: Had you really been wholly mine at night Last Line: That we sent you to school to be harmed ANACROSTIC First Line: Elf, forbidden word, heart within me Last Line: Gone, like each succeeding breath of air, in my breast ANIMALS First Line: Have you forgotten what we were like then Last Line: Were the best of all my days ANN ARBOR VARIATIONS First Line: Wet heat drifts through the afternoon Last Line: Moonrise! We die upon the sun ANSWER TO VOZNESENSKY & EVTUSHENKO First Line: We are tired of your tiresome imitations of mayakovsky Last Line: In a whisper %mayakovsky's hat worn by a horse ANTHOLOGY OF LONELY DAYS First Line: The ubiquitous mallarme Last Line: And when you come you will be welcome, as you know ANXIETY First Line: I'm having a real day of it Last Line: That's it: to clean something. A window APPOGGIATURAS First Line: Hey, you! Raining, from your dilapidated pier, the overseas highway and Last Line: In mattituck inlet the trees are very japanese APRICOT SEASON First Line: There comes a moment in anxiety Last Line: While his tears burnt its roots and weakened him ARBORETUM First Line: This tree is black with dry feathers Last Line: Go back when you're rich, behung with lice ARGONAUTS First Line: The apple green chasuble, so Last Line: Into adventure our furious host AS PLANNED First Line: After the first glass of vodka Last Line: What you know because what else is there ASHES ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON First Line: The banal machines are exposing themselves Last Line: Must save me from the void's external noise AT JOAN'S First Line: It is almost three Last Line: If it won't happen to me %what shall I do AT KAMIN'S DANCE BOOKSHOP First Line: Shade of fanny elssler! I dreamt that you passed over me last night in sleep Last Line: Where are you fanny elssler come back AT THE BOTTOM OF THE DUMP THERE'S OME SORT OF BUGLE First Line: No matter where I send you remember Last Line: But the sunset is still beautiful over the grand canyon AT THE OLD PLACE First Line: Joe is restless and so am I, so restless Last Line: How ashamed they are of us! We hope AUBADE First Line: A million stars are dreaming out Last Line: To be wrought in the frothing waves AUS EINEM APRIL First Line: We dust the walls Last Line: In from the sea; and out there everything is turbulent and g AUTOBIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA Poem Text First Line: When I was a child Subject(s): Children; Education; Poetry & Poets; Schools; Childhood; Students AUTOBIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA First Line: When I was a child Last Line: Writing these poems! %imagine! Subject(s): Children; Education; Poetry And Poets; Schools AVE MARIA Poem Text Recitation First Line: Mothers of america Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Mothers; Motion Pictures; Work; Workers; Movies; Cinema AVE MARIA First Line: Mothers of america Last Line: Movies you wouldn't let them see when they were young Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Mothers; Motion Pictures AVENUE A First Line: We hardly ever see the moon any more Last Line: To my equally naked heart BAARELD First Line: It ambleth. And recaptured, that first flight Last Line: The chutes. Slowly and more slowly now, the cold war BALLAD First Line: Yes it is sickening that we come Last Line: And we loved each other so %and it was unusual BALLADE NUMBER 4 First Line: A man in a beige suit walks Last Line: Or do you hate everything red %and alive BARBIZON First Line: The forest sprang up around me Last Line: Your breath in another part of the country BATHERS First Line: After the immersion and the stance Last Line: An eye at last, that crater and that sun BATHROOM First Line: So that the pliant %and persuadable map Last Line: Of asparagus nasturtium %chewing gum and ire BEACH PARTY First Line: Later the pewter listeners disappeared Last Line: So golden leeches, leaping and scarlet into the sea BEER FOR BREAKFAST First Line: It's the month of may in my heart as the song Last Line: And I go off to meet mario and marc at the flore BERDIE First Line: It has suddenly rained Last Line: Into the unwilling sea BILL'S BURNOOSE First Line: Bathed burnt skin gin tonic Last Line: As a hunk of dry ice BILL'S SCHOOL OF NEW YORK First Line: He allows as how some have copped out Last Line: He is most at home at the sidney janis gallery BIOGRAPHIA LETTERARIA First Line: Gertrude stein %she hated herself because she wrote prose Last Line: Archibald macleish %I heard a creep swimming by me in the li BIOTHERM (FOR BILL BERKSON) First Line: The best thing in the world -- but I better be quick about it Last Line: On the infinite waves of skin smelly and crushed and light a BIRD CAGE THEATRE First Line: What did she give you for your birthday Last Line: You can't have much of a %revolution on three dollars BIRDIE First Line: It is after four in my life and the salmon have ceased leaping, though I Last Line: Elegance of a hermaphrodite who has not yet been put through BLOCKS First Line: Yippee! She is shooting in the harbor! He is jumping Last Line: And thus they grew like giggling fir trees BLUE TERRITORY First Line: Big bags of sand -- until they came Last Line: There are no green eyelids advancing into the sea BORES First Line: Detraction is their game Last Line: They entertain each other BOSTON First Line: These heavy wings lurch in a gummy sky Last Line: And sea. Yet now on land, find close consort BROTHERS First Line: The pursefishers have flaunted their last Last Line: When to the silent generosities I stumble home CAMBRIDGE First Line: It is still raining and the yellow-green cotton fruit Last Line: Abandoned to the rain. Secretly,I shall go to work on it CAMERA First Line: The going into winter and the never coming out Last Line: In those surrealist paintings where an object wails of %unin CANTATA First Line: How could I be so foolish as to not believe Last Line: Hopelessly loyal tawny and apt and whom I hopelessly love CAPTAIN BADA First Line: Yes, a long cool vindt is pacing over the plains and beside it captain Last Line: Wrinkles with zebraic openness and energy as he thinks, p f CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS First Line: He fell off a barn on his head %and he played with rag dolls for 30 years' Last Line: So that the end will not justify a benevolent need, so tall CAUSERIE DE A.F. First Line: Cracked up on the green Last Line: Then we drank ourselves into a happy state %face to face at CHARDIN IN NEED OF CLEANING First Line: What I once wanted is you %and it is gone Last Line: That's what sherman really said CHEYENNE First Line: I'll skin you alive for this Last Line: What's that chef doing gong down that manhole CHEZ JANE First Line: The white chocolate jar full of petals Last Line: In the air to aggravate the truly menacing CHICAGO First Line: Death is the dashiell hammett idea of idiocy Last Line: I'll be just a package CHINESE LEGEND First Line: Hahahahaha! He laughs briefly Last Line: Grins handstands, holidays! CHOSES PASSAGERES First Line: J'ecorche l'anguille par la queque, peut-etre un noeud Last Line: Qui dit zut a l'autre CHRISTMAS CARD TO GRACE HARTIGAN First Line: There's no holly, but there is Last Line: Burn down than our flames go out CITY WINTER First Line: I understand the boredom of the clerks Last Line: Swan. There's no art to free me, blinded so CLOUDS GO SOFT Last Line: And it is the same eye CLOWN First Line: As a child, fleeing, trying his body Last Line: They sighed, 'you were not like us.' CLYTEMNESTRA First Line: Oh thou inspiring scepter of my spoon Last Line: Something is fading blooming -- is it a fart or a departure Subject(s): Clytemnestra (mythology) COHASSET First Line: I see you standing %there on a rock Last Line: Is a rug slipping %out from under us COLLOQUE SENTIMENTAL First Line: It's too wrestling at the beach the sand Last Line: It's wet and your neck is knotted with mine COMMERCIAL VARIATIONS First Line: When you're ready to sell your diamonds Last Line: I'm turning in today for a little freedom to travel CONCERT CHAMPETRE First Line: The cow belched and invited me Last Line: Read you my story I said. %it will kill you CORNKIND Poem Text First Line: So the rain falls / it drops all over the place Subject(s): Fertility; Gays & Lesbians; Morris, William (1834-1896); Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men CORNKIND First Line: So the rain falls %it drops all over the place Last Line: Hard and moist and moaning Subject(s): Fertility; Homosexuality; Morris, William (1834-1896) CRITIC First Line: I cannot possibly think of you Last Line: Have to! I must live forever CROW HILL First Line: I put down firecrackers Last Line: Through a surging willessness like the air above crow hill DANCES BEFORE THE WALL First Line: My love is like a strong white foot Last Line: We go to edwin denby's and quietly talk all night DAY AND NIGHT IN 1952 First Line: Be not obedient of the excellent, do not prize the silly with an exceptionally Last Line: The madame who cares and knows not what of DEAR JAP First Line: Dear jap %(my eyes clouded with my cold Last Line: My brother has been bothering me a lot lately DEATH First Line: If half of me is skewered Last Line: I am trying something new and shall succeed, as in the past DERANGE SUR UN PONT DE L'ADOUR First Line: Where is john with the baggage checks anyway Last Line: Northern lights are falling into the hotel farnie DIALOGUES First Line: You find me tentative and frivolous, don't you Last Line: Ultimate place, an instant of this world's bloody love DIDO First Line: Suppose you really do, toward the end, fall away into a sunset which is your Last Line: Lately. Somebody's got to ruin the queen, my ship's just go DIGRESSION ON NUMBER L, 1948 First Line: I am ill today but I am not Last Line: Which is not so dark. I see DOLCE COLLOQUIO First Line: O sentiments sitting beside my bed Last Line: Which is not going to open up and look out any more DREAM OF BERLIN First Line: Night (blue) %along the long way (out) Last Line: It is her hand (on) %feathers (burning) DRIFTS OF A THING THAT BILL BERKSON NOTICED First Line: April's over is may too june Last Line: Why not give up the streets I wonder DRINKING First Line: This is the feared moment -- light Last Line: No neighbor to kill its rising fever DRUMMER First Line: Baraban! Baraban! This is a quick Last Line: On all sides yelping baraban! For you DUCAL DAYS First Line: A rending. Red whispers. The sailboat dives Last Line: Which in a better world held down your heart EARLY MONDRIAN First Line: The flower, the corpse in silhouette Last Line: In the fresh sun. Clean and silent EARLY ON SUNDAY First Line: It's eight in the morning Last Line: Pots and pans crash to the floor %everyone's happy again EAST RIVER First Line: Homes of aviators suddenly mounting Last Line: That the war is dead and has flagged us EASTER First Line: The razzle dazzle maggots are summary Last Line: To be pelted by the shit of the stars at last in flood %like EDWIN'S HAND First Line: Easy to love, but Last Line: Yellow and white I was lifted into the air ELEGY (ECSTATIC AND IN ANGUISH OVER LOST DAYS) First Line: Ecstatic and in anguish over lost days Last Line: Now lay for you upon sidereal simplicities ELEGY (SALT WATER. AND FACES DYING) First Line: Salt water. And faces dying Last Line: Still, these waves, gnaw down our helm EMBARASSING BILL First Line: Bill is sounding so funny there in the bathtub like a walrus Last Line: Now, bill, use your own towel ENEMY PLANES APPROACHING First Line: Ha ha it's fun to run around the deck and see Last Line: The twentieth century like jonathan swift gas ESSAY ON STYLE First Line: Someone else's leica sitting on the table Last Line: I am going to eat alone for the rest of my life F. (MISSIVE & WALK) I. #53 First Line: I'm getting tired of not wearing underwear Last Line: Avenue and the ambulance and the drunk F.M.I. 6/25/61 First Line: Park avenue at i0:i0 Last Line: Who's for real? %wow! (westminster abbey!) F.O.I. First Line: Yet -- while -- eat -- possible -- exact -- slap Last Line: Vaniverisax -- vanitoutlemonde -- vanivisceral -- vanistartt F.Y.I. (PRIX DE BEAUTE) First Line: Lightly swaying as if clear and torn Last Line: Death -- brilliant -- final -- out F.Y.I. (THE BRASSERIE GOES TO THE LAKE) First Line: Up at borton-smergens, the little town by the sea, you went Last Line: Reading silently to each other FAILURES OF SPRING First Line: I'm getting rather lorcaesque lately Last Line: Its observation satellite FANTASIA (ON RUSSIAN VERSES) FOR ALFRED LESLIE First Line: Harder nails %a companion of the facts Last Line: To be culpable %the river returns FANTASY First Line: How do you like the music of adolph deutsch? I like Last Line: Free. Just free, that's all, never argue with the movies FAR FROM THE PORTE DES LILAS AND THE RUE PERGOLESE First Line: Ah joan! -- there %you are Last Line: Staring into light %we think FAVORITE PAINTING IN THE METROPOLITAN First Line: These are the stairs %from funny face' Last Line: In any dream of your knowledge FEBRUARY First Line: The scene is the same Last Line: Worst of all possible vistas, %my lone dark land FEMALE TORSO First Line: Each night plows instead of no head Last Line: She shall have her arms again FIRST DANCES First Line: From behind he takes her waist Last Line: A white hall inside a church. Nerves me FIVE POEMS First Line: Well now, hold on Last Line: I seem to be defying fate, or am I avoiding it FLAG DAY First Line: I've advised maxine what to get you Last Line: If we ever truly anger each other FOND SONORE First Line: In placing this particular thought Last Line: And it is christmas and the children are growing up FOR A DOLPHIN First Line: When at the open door Last Line: And I must go too FOR BOB RAUSCHENBERG First Line: Yes, it's necessary,I'll do Last Line: Nobody will know how I got it FOR DAVID SCHUBERT First Line: I am gabriel (dressed in corduroy) am Last Line: Saturday I saw the knights of the round table FOR GRACE, AFTER A PARTY First Line: You do not always know what I am feeling Last Line: Just plain scrambled eggs and the warm weather is holding FOR JAMES DEAN First Line: Welcome me, if you will Last Line: Flowers from growing, your flowers FOR JANICE AND KENNETH TO VOYAGE First Line: Love, love, love, %honeymoon isn't used much in poetry these days Last Line: Like a french word, the one for nursery, the one for brine FOR POULENC First Line: My first day in paris I walked Last Line: The streets of our pecular hearts FOR THE CHINESE NEW YEAR & FOR BILL BERKSON First Line: Behind new york there's a face Last Line: You will not die not knowing this is true this year Subject(s): Homosexuality FOUR LITTLE ELEGIES 1. WRITTEN IN THE SAND AT WATER ISLAND First Line: James dean %actor %made in usa Last Line: Not to be executed FOUR LITTLE ELEGIES 2. LITTLE ELEGY First Line: Let's cry a little while Last Line: The sand under stones FOUR LITTLE ELEGIES 3. ORBIT DEAN, SEPTEMBER 30, 1955 First Line: Miss lombard, this is a young Last Line: Survived by all of us, and so are you FOUR LITTLE ELEGIES 4. A CEREMONY FOR ONE OF MY DEAD First Line: Lying on the river bank the cool sun is ruffling the waters Last Line: I shall not see %another night, %low, like this FUNNIES First Line: Deep to alley oop Last Line: Now. They're not young GALANTA First Line: A strange den or music room Last Line: Blinking on %and off for footlights GAMIN First Line: All the roofs are wet Last Line: Nose at her and laugh GETTING UP AHEAD OF SOMEONE (SUN) First Line: I cough a lot (sinus?) so I Last Line: Each day's light has more significance these days GLAZUNOVIANA, OR MEMORIAL DAY First Line: I see a life of civil happiness Last Line: As sylvia with the public gardens in her arms GLI AMANTI First Line: Of course the room is blue' she Last Line: The pearls dropped loudly to the floor GOOD FRIDAY NOON First Line: It's as good a day as any Last Line: Jackets and kundry-type belts GOODBYE TO GREAT SPRUCE HEAD ISLAND First Line: Behind the firs, black in the white and air Last Line: Lost, its freckled night, the covered by the cold GRAND CENTRAL First Line: The wheels are inside me thundering Last Line: My blood, I think, that dominates the trains GREEN HORNET First Line: I couldn't kill a man when he was drunk Last Line: A man was the cause of it all. An unarmed man with a weapon GREGORY CORSO: GASOLINE First Line: I see you standing in the clear light Last Line: And the poet takes up the knives of his wounds to catch the HATRED First Line: I have a terrible age and I part Last Line: So easily conquered by the black torrent of this knife HAVING A COKE WITH YOU Poem Text Recitation by Author HAVING A COKE WITH YOU Last Line: Which is not going to go wasted on me which is why I'm %telling you about it Subject(s): Homosexuality; Love HERE IN NEW YORK WE ARE HAVING A LOT OF TROUBLE WITH THE First Line: A million guys in this %town, and you have to shoot Last Line: We pay a lot for our entertainment. All right, roll over HEREMAPHRODITE First Line: How he, reclining on the limp edge of Last Line: Against a thin sky, so still infuriated. 'ah!' HEROIC SCULPTURE First Line: We join the animals HIERONYMUS BOSCH First Line: So he has a funnel instead of a penis Last Line: Blowing his nose for the lovers; forswunken, forswot HILL First Line: Yes, it's disgusting %when you lose Last Line: But you, through %all, I see HISTORICAL VARIATIONS First Line: O fort savannah! Do you remember ann bailey Last Line: More than I do, he's in florida, ugh, that whiskey again HOMAGE First Line: It's a brave thing %to know the cheapness of Last Line: Oh erik satie %our man HOMAGE TO ANDRE GIDE First Line: I would attend your pleasure's picturesque remorse Last Line: And my longings had not become centuries, when the air %is r HOMAGE TO PASTERNAK'S CAPE MOOTCH First Line: The mind is stifled.' very little sky Last Line: Which is deep brown, the tall trunk of hell HOMAGE TO RROSE SELAVY First Line: Towards you like amphibious airplanes Last Line: Display! I'll beat you and carry you to venice HOMOSEXUALITY Poem Text First Line: So we are taking off our masks, are we, and keeping Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men HOMOSEXUALITY First Line: So we are taking off our masks, are we, and keeping Last Line: And I want to be wanted more than anything else in the world Subject(s): Homosexuality HOTEL PARTICULIER First Line: How exciting it is %not to be at port lligat Last Line: Is this the hostel where the lazy and fun-loving %start up t HOTEL TRANSYLVANIE First Line: Shall we win at love or shall we lose Last Line: To know who I am/why I came there/what and why I am and made HOUSE First Line: They took the cardboard box and covered Last Line: Full of heart, so prudently habituated HOW ROSES GET BLACK First Line: First you took arthur's porcelain Last Line: And it is of them I choose to speak HOW TO GET THERE First Line: White the october air, no snow, easy to breathe Last Line: For a couple of hours, but I am not that person Subject(s): New York City HUNTER First Line: He set out and kept hunting Last Line: In the clouds, he was humiliated HUNTING HORNS First Line: How nice it is to take up Last Line: Blow the horns any more I LOVE THE WAY IT GOES First Line: Just start writing %it's plenty powerful yet so lightweight Last Line: The album as usual contained a pubic hair IMAGE OF LEDA First Line: The cinema is cruel Last Line: A shadow and caressing a disguise IMAGE OF THE BUDDHA PREACHING First Line: I am very happy to be here at the villa hugel Last Line: Which is hopeful of a new delay in terror %I don't think IN FAVOR OF ONE'S TIME First Line: The spent purpose of a perfectly marvelous Last Line: And we live outside his garden in our tempestuous rights IN HOSPITAL First Line: These laboratories and those picnics Last Line: White sheet, need not %imagine permanence IN MEMORY OF MY FEELINGS; TO GRACE HARTIGAN First Line: My quietness has a man in it, he is transparent Last Line: Which I myself and singly must now kill %and save the serpent in their midst IN THE MOVIES First Line: Out of the corner of my eyes Last Line: As my ghosts are laid along your glimmering teeth INTERIOR (WITH JANE) First Line: The eagerness of objects %to what we are afraid to do Last Line: Simply because it is %coldest of the things we know INVINCIBILITY First Line: Avarice, the noose that lets oil, oh my dear oh Last Line: Resenting the leaves and not yet geared to the undercutting IT SEEMS FAR AWAY AND GENTLE NOW Last Line: While alterable noon assumes its virtue JADE MADONNA First Line: I'll give him two more days Last Line: That's my cows thinking about my money. %I think too JANE AT TWELVE First Line: Wishing away all her time the little girl faces the window and breathing is Last Line: Of flame which is her breathing always JANE AWAKE First Line: The opals hiding in your lids Last Line: The nightly savage, in a trance JANE BATHING First Line: Up to our noses in the cresting wallops we find too busily what is under over Last Line: Testy two; a welling in the pupils of the strangers JE VOUDRAIS VOIR First Line: An immense plain full of nudes Last Line: To help celebrate my serious misgivings JOE'S JACKET First Line: Entraining to southampton in the parlor car with jap and vincent, I Last Line: It will not be need, it will be just what it is and just wha JOHN BUTTON BIRTHDAY First Line: Sentiments are nice, 'the lonely crowd,' Last Line: Favorite mountain and the million reasons for them both JOSEPH CORNELL First Line: Into a sweeping meticulously Last Line: Flowers -- of -- near -- distances Subject(s): Cornell, Joseph (1903-1972); Sculpture And Sculptors JOVE First Line: He was used to guises and masks Last Line: And to earth. He plunged and flowered JULY IS OVER AND THERE'S VERY LITTLE TRACE Last Line: In my bathing trunks; now snow fills up my scarf KATY First Line: They say I mope too much Last Line: I think I'll be alone for a little while KITVILLE First Line: Sands, sunset, toilets Last Line: Her smiling, her pathos L'AMOUR AVAIT PASSE PAR LA First Line: Yes %like the still center of a book on joan miro Last Line: As the second flame in its happy reflecting ignores the cand LARRY First Line: Watching the muddy light attack Last Line: Of my being sure of your being sure of you LAY OF THE ROMANCE OF THE ASSOCIATIONS First Line: High above manhattan's towers Last Line: And after, languorously bathe, to sweeten city water for all LEAFING THROUGH FLORIDA First Line: It is sad and unimaginable tht I can be Last Line: Austria and you were given by florida in '38 LEBANON First Line: Perhaps he will press his warm lips Last Line: My breath will find its altar in those lips LEGEND First Line: You give me money happy days' Last Line: I came to be known as the drowner %that is my story LES ETIQUETTES JAUNES First Line: I picked up a leaf Last Line: Like the small chameleon LES LUTHS First Line: Ah nuts! It's boring reading french newspapers Last Line: Mexican egg and the clock that will not make me know %how to LET'S GET OUT First Line: Ouch! Help. The helicopter is zooming Last Line: The only way not to leave is to go LETTER TO BUNNY First Line: Once before I tried to tell you Last Line: Be always my heroine and flower. Love, frank LIEBESLIED First Line: I came to you %from out of the boue Last Line: The other one was on my prick LIFE ON EARTH First Line: Shine, 'o world!' don't weary the gulping pole Last Line: So evil, and now closed at last in evil! Evil! Evil LIGHT COMES ON BY ITSELF Last Line: I am waiting for you to love me LIGHT PRESSES DOWN Last Line: To match their tears LIKE First Line: It's not so much Last Line: Not even a long distance swimmer like my self LINES DURING CERTAIN PIECES OF MUSIC First Line: A faint trace of pain and then a tornado Last Line: Well that's too much! That's all LINES FOR THE FORTUNE COOKIES First Line: I think you're wonderful and so does everyone else Last Line: You too could be premier of france, if only...If only LINES TO A DEPRESSED FRIEND First Line: Joyouse you should be Last Line: Remember the pleasure, even there, your beauty affords LINES WHILE READING COLERIDGE'S THE PICTURE First Line: I have no kindness left Last Line: The more passionately short-lived LINES WRITTEN IN A RAW YOUTH First Line: I have the lame dog with me and the cloud Last Line: Of my desires and win and force them free LISZTIANA First Line: A ribbon is floating in the air Last Line: Horses neigh and stomp upon the arctic LISZTIANA, MUCH LATER First Line: I sit in your t shirt Last Line: Both, and ruined now by storms LITTLE ELEGY FOR ANTONIO MACHADO First Line: Now your protesting demons summon themselves Last Line: In the night and developing our own in salt-like praise LITTLE TRAVEL DIARY First Line: Wending our way through the gambas, angulas Last Line: For our quest for the rocher de la vierge and salt spray Subject(s): Diaries LOCARNO First Line: Bushes toss on the crowded terrace Last Line: You know, miss, I never done delivered no baby before LOUISE First Line: Sometimes I think I see a tiny figure Last Line: Back at it. Why it's louise ! Hi, louise LOVE First Line: A whispering far away Last Line: He is drowning in the word LOVE (TO BE LOST) First Line: To be lost %the stars go out a broken chair Last Line: Lightness the arrow ears its sigh of depth and its sorrows LOVER First Line: He waits, and it is not without Last Line: Growing smaller in the colossal dark LUNCH HOUR First Line: Plank plank -- tons of it Last Line: How do you like the first snow of summer? %your %plant in -- MACARONI First Line: Voici la clematite around the old door Last Line: If the plant that died, 'mourir, c'est ainsi pousser' MADRID First Line: Spain! Much more beautiful than egypt Last Line: I am cherishing the black and white of your love MADRIGAL FOR A DEAD CAT NAMED JULIA First Line: They never understand %she said they always want pictures Last Line: The castle and its vague green moat MANIFESTO First Line: Do you know what you have been reading Last Line: Over the world, the red world and the white world MARY DESTI'S ASS First Line: In bayreuth once %we were very good friends of the wagners Last Line: That was love but I kept on traveling MAUNDY SATURDAY First Line: Why must all russian composers -- try to be brave Last Line: The rice is still on the floor -- and I am still MAYAKOVSKY First Line: My heart's aflutter Last Line: Perhaps I am myself again MEDITATIONS IN AN EMERGENCY Poem Text First Line: Am I to become profligate as if I were a blonde? Or religious as Subject(s): Love - Complaints MEDITATIONS IN AN EMERGENCY First Line: Am I to become profligate as if I were a blonde? Or religious as Last Line: Mail downstairs. Turning, I spit in the lock and the knob turns Subject(s): Love - Complaints MELANCHOLY BREAKFAST Last Line: The elements of disbelief are very strong in the morning MELMOTH THE WANDERER First Line: These women are given the Last Line: Long time lover since youth MEMOIR OF SERGEI O First Line: My feet have never been comfortable Last Line: Democratic and ordinary and tired MEMORIAL DAY 1950 First Line: Picasso made me tough and quick, and the world MEMORIES OF BILL First Line: That's right, eat, you Last Line: And he is a big man METAPHYSICAL POEM First Line: When do you want to go Last Line: Okay I'll call you %yes call me MEXICAN GUITAR First Line: Actors with their variety of voices Last Line: Burst into tears first, she is always in the nick of time MILITARY CEMETERY First Line: We've got to get out war memorials corrected Last Line: We lean against the stones in springtime reading books MODERN SOLDIER First Line: Essays, boring conversations and vistas Last Line: Ripping into a silence which is already you MORNING First Line: I've got to tell you Last Line: I beg you do not go MOTHER OF GERMAN DRAMA First Line: Two major documents -- the documents released Last Line: Long-range dislocations that might -- that have sometimes MOUNTAIN CLIMBING First Line: There were plenty of fronds and no graveyard. Echo, even. Be not willing, Last Line: Under the strain of a mythology which is as yet a secret MOZART CHEMISIER First Line: For instance you walk in and faint Last Line: I don't have a ticket MRS. BERTHA BURGER First Line: A widow. She has lived so many lives Last Line: May love, as one again beholds the sun MUSE CONSIDERED AS A DEMON LOVER First Line: Once at midnight in the fall Last Line: Am an angel. Trouvez hortense MUSIC Poem Text First Line: If I rest for a moment near the equestrian Subject(s): Americans; New York City; United States; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; America MUSIC First Line: If I rest for a moment near the equestrian Last Line: But no more fountains and no more rain, %and the stores stay open terribly late Subject(s): Americans; New York City; United States MUY BIEN First Line: I like to make changes in plans Last Line: (waiting for you to call I thought your cook had died) MY HEART First Line: I'm not going to cry all the time Last Line: The better part of it, my poetry, is open MY HEAT First Line: If, jetting, I committed the noble fault Last Line: That's no furnace, that's my heart!' NAPHTHA First Line: Ah jean dubuffet %when you think of him Last Line: For being so entertaining %but I have to smile Subject(s): Homosexuality NEW PARTICLES FROM THE SUN First Line: From canada -- leningrad kirov -- saint-saens -- ex-maryinsky Last Line: Looking towards the new world of watches, a specific sentien NEWSBOY First Line: And so to be near Last Line: And some are nearer %than others NEXT BIRD TO AUSTRALIA First Line: Leave there be no weeping Last Line: And I go where the wild geese go NIGHT THOUGHTS IN GREENWICH VILLAGE First Line: O my coevals! Embarrassing Last Line: Our nose at the very sea NOCTURNE First Line: There's nothing worse Last Line: The seagulls and the noise NOTE TO HAROLD FONDREN First Line: The sky flows over kentucky and maryland Last Line: And are ourselves its necessity and flower NOTE TO JOHN ASHBERY First Line: More beautiful even than wild ducks Last Line: Pleasantly and make a scaly leg NOW THAT I AM IN MADRID AND CAN THINK First Line: I think of you %and the continents brilliant and arid Last Line: You are smiling, you are emptying the world so we can be alo OCTOBER First Line: Summer is over, %that moment of blindness Last Line: By a thug in a back bedroom OCTOBER 26 1952 10:30 O'CLOCK First Line: This minute I've not been able not been Last Line: To jane. Where are you? Where are you? Where are you ODE First Line: An idea of justice may be precious Last Line: In love with your speed, your heaviness and breath ODE (TO JOSEPH LESUEUR) ON THE ARROW THAT FLIETH BY DAY First Line: To humble yourself befoe a radio on a sunday Last Line: (air of the stars) ashore or leaning on the prow ODE ON CAUSALITY First Line: There is the sense of neurotic coherence Last Line: Has earned himself the title bird in flight ODE ON LUST First Line: Asking little more than Last Line: Till they stand with their arms spread, nude in the arena; become empresses Subject(s): Franck, Cesar (1822-1890) ODE ON NECROPHILIA First Line: Well, %it is better %that %omeon Last Line: So seldom look on love %that it seems heinous ODE ON SAINT CECILIA'S DAY First Line: Pan sized the reeds Last Line: Today we hallow %others' songs ODE TO JOY Poem Text Recitation First Line: We shall have everything we want and there'll be no more dying Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men ODE TO JOY First Line: We shall have everything we want and there'll be no more dying Last Line: Lets us live with it %no more dying Subject(s): Homosexuality ODE TO MICHAEL GOLDBERG ('S BIRTH AND OTHER BIRTHS) First Line: I don't remember anything of then, down there around the magnolias Last Line: And he will be the wings of an extraordinary liberty Subject(s): Memory ODE TO TANAQUIL LECLERCQ First Line: Smiling through my own memories of painful excitement your wide eyes stare Last Line: To see if you are there, and safe %are you ODE TO WILLEM DE KOONING First Line: Beyond the sunrise %where the black begins Last Line: Maybe they're wounds, but maybe they are rubies' %each pain Subject(s): De Koonig, William (1904-1997) ODE: SALUTE TO THE FRENCH NEGRO POETS Poem Text First Line: From near the sea, like whitman my great predecessor, I call Subject(s): Cesaire, Aime (b. 1913); Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men ODE: SALUTE TO THE FRENCH NEGRO POETS First Line: From near the sea, like whitman my great predecessor, I call Last Line: And dying in black and white we fight for what we love, not are Subject(s): Cesaire, Aime (b. 1913); Homosexuality OLD MACHINIST First Line: Not the grey stranded end of a raffish explosion (and not the not either) Last Line: Well I guess I've had my say OLIVE GARDEN First Line: The weight must come at above. It is not blessed to live thus. I was washed Last Line: And it is the arm of god ON A BIRTHDAY OF KENNETH'S First Line: Kenny! %kennebunkport! I see you standing there Last Line: No wonder I felt so lonely on saturday when you didn't give l party! %I didn't know why ON A MOUNTAIN First Line: Rocks with lichen on Last Line: Of lovers, and the pleasant cold ON A PASAGE IN BECKETT'S WATT & ABOUT GEO. MONTGOMERY First Line: There was someone, my life there at that time Last Line: Of clarity, member, redness, or face Subject(s): Beckett, Samuel (1906-1989) ON LOOKING AT LA GRANDE JATTE, THE CZAR WEPT ANEW First Line: He paces the blue rug. It is the end of summer Last Line: Frozen fast in wintry eyes. Explicit rex ON RACHMANINOFF'S BIRTHDAY First Line: Blue windows, blue rooftops %and the blue light of the rain Last Line: Tenderly upon your cold, tired eyes Variant Title(s): On Rachmaninoff's Birthday (2 ON RACHMANINOFF'S BIRTHDAY #158 First Line: I am sad %I better hurry up and finish this Last Line: That's amusing, hein? %so think Subject(s): Rachmaninoff, Sergey (1873-1943) ON RACHMANINOFF'S BIRTHDAY #161 First Line: Diane calls me so I get up Last Line: Of death on the door and a long wait Subject(s): Rachmaninoff, Sergey (1873-1943) ON RACHMANINOFF'S BIRTHDAY (1) First Line: Quick! A last poem before I go %off my rocker Last Line: You'll never be mentally sober Subject(s): Rachmaninoff, Sergey (1873-1943) ON RACHMANINOFF'S BIRTHDAY (3) First Line: I am so glad that larry rivers made a statue of me Last Line: Readily played -- like a rhapsody, or a fresh house ON RACHMANINOFF'S BIRTHDAY (4) First Line: It is your 86th birthday Last Line: Do not see your owlish obstinacy staring back Subject(s): Rachmaninoff, Sergey (1873-1943) ON RACHMANNOFF'S BIRTHDAY & ABOUT ARSHILE GORKY First Line: It's terrible under kay francis's armpits' Last Line: Why do gnats always get into white wine Subject(s): Rachmaninoff, Sergey (1873-1943) ON SAINT ADALGISA'S DAY First Line: The geraniums and rubber plants Last Line: With news, with news they fill its head ON SEEING LARRY RIVERS' WASHINGTON CROSSING THE DELAWARE AT THE MUSEUM First Line: Now that our hero has come back to us Last Line: On your gun barrel, you see the general fear ON THE WAY TO THE SAN REMO First Line: The black ghinkos snark their way up Last Line: Who wish to outlive the men OPERA First Line: Free to suffer speechful constraint Last Line: Though again you try to try ORANGES: 12 PASTORALS First Line: Black crows in the burnt mauve grass, as intimate as rotting rice Last Line: O my posterity! This is the miracle: that our elegant world redeems by filth ORIGINAL SIN First Line: Dense black trees trapped and bound! The hairy skull Last Line: Python waits at the open window, broods OVERLOOKING THE RIVER First Line: Clouds or cloudbursts, the haze Last Line: Forest, with rogues, by the mill's pouring turbines PANIC FEAR First Line: How obscure can woods get Last Line: And the leaves are like teeth PASTORAL DIALOGUE First Line: The leaves are piled thickly on the green tree Last Line: Move up, would you accept it like a torch PEARL HARBOR First Line: I belong here. I was born Last Line: My teeth. I am a native of this island Subject(s): Pearl Harbor PERSONAL POEM Poem Text First Line: Now when I walk around at lunchtime Subject(s): Baraka, Amiri (leroi Jones); Likes & Dislikes; New York City; Poetry & Poets; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple PERSONAL POEM First Line: Now when I walk around at lunchtime Last Line: Back to work happy at the thought possibly so Subject(s): Baraka, Amiri (leroi Jones); Likes And Dislikes; New York City; Poetry And Poets PETIT POEME EN PROSE First Line: Connais-tu peut-etre la chanson ancienne 'c'estait un etranger' Last Line: Why are you reading this poem anyway PIPES OF PAN First Line: A calmness is enforced by moving light Last Line: They found earth mute and passionless, and left PISTACHIO TREE AT CHATEAU NOIR First Line: Beaucoup de musique classique et moderne guillaume and not Last Line: And the sepulchre jumps and jounces and turns pink with wrat PLACES FOR OSCAR SALVADOR First Line: After a sun lunch the burning landscape Last Line: I think half-thoughts I do not reach the other shore PLEASANT THOUGHT FROM WHITEHEAD First Line: Here I am at my desk. The Last Line: You will read them too POEM Poem Text First Line: Lana turner has collapsed! POEM First Line: The ivy is trembling in the hammock Last Line: After this long swim, this heart attack POEM First Line: When your left arm twicthes Last Line: To know is of you in me Subject(s): Erotic Love POEM First Line: When I am feeling depressed and anxious sullen Last Line: Together we always will be in this life come what may POEM First Line: I watched an armory combing its bronze bricks Last Line: Which wilfully parades in %its room, refusing to move POEM First Line: At night chinamen jump %on asia with a thump Last Line: We couple in the grace %of that mysterious race POEM First Line: I ran through the snow like a young czarevitch! Last Line: Where the shots hung glittering in air like poems POEM First Line: Twin spheres full of fur and noise Last Line: It must be discovered soon and disappear POEM First Line: O sole mio, hot diggety, nix 'I wather think I can.' Last Line: You see I have always wanted things to be beautiful %and now, for a change, they are POEM First Line: That's not a cross look it's a sign of life Last Line: Your breathing is like that history lesson POEM First Line: So many echoes in my head Last Line: Wearing each other when alone POEM First Line: Now the violets are all gone, the rhinoceroses, the cymbals Last Line: Nor in the morning when the rain has stopped POEM First Line: Now it is the 27th %of this month Last Line: Born in the sign which I should only like %with love POEM First Line: Let's take a walk, you %and I Last Line: We look back at each other anxiously POEM First Line: To be idiomatic in a vacuum Last Line: Our wings, our straining struts POEM First Line: Instant coffee with slightly sour cream Last Line: Is this love, now that the first love %has finally died, where there were no impossibilities? Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Love; Poetry And Poets POEM First Line: And tomorrow morning at 8 o'clock in springfield, massachusetts Last Line: When at last I meet exhaustion in these flowers, go straight POEM First Line: Hate is only one of many responses Last Line: By your mysterious concern Subject(s): Hate POEM First Line: Lana turner has collapsed! Last Line: Oh lana turner we love you get up Subject(s): Homosexuality; Turner, Lana (1920-1995) POEM First Line: All the mirrors in the world Last Line: Oh rain, melt me! Mirror, kill Subject(s): Aging; Mirrors; Perception POEM First Line: Khrushchev is coming on the right day Last Line: I am foolish enough always to find it in wind POEM First Line: Light -- clarity -- avocado salad in the morning Last Line: I am sure of nothing but this, intensified by breathing POEM First Line: I don't know as I get what d. H. Lawrence is driving at Last Line: As others luckily sometimes see me %in a good light POEM First Line: The eager note on my door said 'call me' Last Line: Only casually invited, and that several months ago POEM AT THE TOP OF THE RUNG Last Line: But the sea rose delicately around its feet and sucked POEM (ALL OF A SUDDEN ALL THE WORLD) First Line: All of a sudden all the world Last Line: Comes out of me is blonde POEM (ALTHOUGH I AM A HALF HOUR) First Line: Although I am a half hour Last Line: Yes. To kill the time POEM (AS YOU KNEEL) First Line: As you kneel %be a scholar Last Line: To the moods of others %like a peony POEM (DEE DUM, DEE DUM, DUM DUM, DEE DA) Last Line: Starting the day with rose-colored binoculars POEM (GOD! LOVE! SUN! ALL DEAR AND SINGULAR THINGS!) First Line: God! Love! Sun! All dear and singular things Last Line: I see a girl tap-dancing on the dawn POEM (HE CAN REST. HE HAS BLESSED HIM AND HURT HIM) First Line: He can rest. He has blessed him and hurt him Last Line: Upon the clapping altitudes, and go blind and white POEM (HE SIGHTED HER AT THE MOMENT OF RECALL) First Line: He sighted her at the moment of recall Last Line: As the future of our faces multiplies in tears POEM (I AM NOT SURE THERE IS A CURE) First Line: I am not sure there is a cure Last Line: Away, then! If she falls, she falls POEM (I LIVE ABOVE A DYKE BAR AND I'M HAPPY) First Line: I live above a dyke bar and I'm happy Last Line: We must be survivors of thermopylae POEM (IF I KNEW EXACTLY WHY THE CHESTNUT TREE) First Line: If I knew exactly why the chestnut tree Last Line: Or a dirty child, or a fatal abcess POEM (IT WAS SNOWING AND NOW) First Line: It was snowing and now Last Line: So we can hurry through life POEM (IVY INVADES THE STATUE) First Line: Ivy invades the statue Last Line: I am, at such simple fear POEM (JOHNNY AND ALVIN ARE GOING HOME, ARE SLEEPING NOW) First Line: Johnny and alvin are going home, are sleeping now Last Line: Are not gentle. So the breaths come home and sleep POEM (NOW IT IS LIGHT, NOW IT IS THE CALM) First Line: Now it is light, now it is the calm Last Line: Which is only the night's reflection POEM (PAWING THE MOUND WITH HIS HAIRY LEGS) First Line: Pawing the mound with his hairy legs Last Line: Kerchief of a juvenile delinquent he admires POEM (SIGNED THE SEEING EYE ) Last Line: And have a good time POEM (SOME DAYS I FEEL THAT I EXUDE A FINE DUST) First Line: Some days I feel that I exude a fine dust Last Line: I don't like that stranger sneezing over our love POEM (TEMPESTUOUS BREATHS! WE WATCH A GIRL) First Line: Tempestuous breaths! We watch a girl Last Line: My breath, soot from a volcano, watching her walk POEM (THE CLOUDS ACHE BLEAKLY) First Line: The clouds ache bleakly Last Line: To keep from being guilty POEM (THE DISTINGUISHED) First Line: The distinguished %and freshly dusted apollodorus-type, he Last Line: Where the amorous and listening eye lifts its reproaches POEM (THE EYELID HAS ITS STORMS. THERE IS THE OPAQUE FISH-) First Line: The eyelid has its storms. There is the opaque fish Last Line: Of the currents at the bottom of the gulf of mexico POEM (THE FLIES ARE GETTING SLOWER NOW) First Line: The flies are getting slower now Last Line: Their lonely ways. The light hardens POEM (THE HOSTS OF DREAMS AND THEIR IMPOVERISHED MINIONS) First Line: The hosts of dreams and their impoverished minions Last Line: The prayers went up, billowed. Not for kenneth, but he came POEM (THE LITTLE ROSES, THE BLACK MAJESTIC SAILS) First Line: The little roses, the black majestic sails Last Line: Became known to them, as the sail knows the air it fills POEM (THE STARS ARE TIGHTER) First Line: The stars are tighter Last Line: All bearings are possible POEM (TO JAMES SCHUYLER) First Line: There I could never be a boy Last Line: And I have masterred the speed and strength which is the armor of the %world Subject(s): Youth POEM (TODAY THE MAIL DIDN'T COME) First Line: Today the mail didn't come Last Line: And the light improved and the student wouldn't stop working POEM (WHE EWHEE) First Line: Whe %ewhee -- ry never Last Line: My %r POEM (WOULDN'T IT BE FUNNY) First Line: Wouldn't it be funny Last Line: While everyone's in church %ploop POEM ABOUT RUSSIA First Line: What shall we pray %now that you hate us Last Line: Of quick wolves! Oh tears POEM EN FORME DE SAW First Line: I ducked out of sight behind the sawmill Last Line: That's not really being alone, is it, signed the saw POEM FOR A PAINTER First Line: The ice of your imagination lends Last Line: For fiery spindrift tears me into view POEM IN ENVY OF CAVALCANTI First Line: Oh! My heart, although it sounds better Last Line: Mess, and am unable to utter a good word POEM IN JANUARY First Line: March, the fierce! Like a wind of garters Last Line: Your veins are using up the redness of the world POEM IN TWO PARTS First Line: Sunday afternoon at the ranch Last Line: And it is all much in the jungle POEM READ AT JOAN MITCHELL'S First Line: At last you are tired of being single Last Line: The least and best of human attainments POEM V (F) W First Line: I don't know if you doubt it Last Line: I see them with your eyes POEM; TO FRANZ KLINE First Line: I will always love you Last Line: I will always love you Subject(s): Love POET First Line: He'd be wispy in a double feature Last Line: Of love. It's his international zone POET IN THE ATTIC First Line: High in th' exciting gloom in his eye Last Line: Childishly thrusts for lost pompeii POETRY First Line: The only way to be quiet Last Line: And were the inexorable %product of my own time POLITICAL POEM ON A LAST LINE OF PASTERNAK'S First Line: A certain person's epoch's burning' Last Line: How do you get to spain and eat grapes and only grapes POLOVTSOI First Line: White %blood %dead %when Last Line: Flame %contend %disperse PORTRAIT First Line: Not to be gathered again -- across a solemn couch Last Line: And belief will be able to leave its station PORTRAIT OF GRACE First Line: Her spinning hair webbed lengthening through Last Line: Stolen from the summits mark her brow POST THE LAKE POETS BALLAD First Line: Moving slowly sweating a lot Last Line: Soviet exposition am I joe POSTCARD FROM JOHN ASHBERY First Line: What a message! What a picture Last Line: Even in empirical pictures! No PRAYER TO PROSPERO First Line: Our father local and famous Last Line: Free our need is difficult %strangers steal our voice PRESENT First Line: The stranded gulch %below grand central Last Line: Of the heavens for its favorite bodies %in the mixed-up air PROUD POEM First Line: Ah! I know only too well how Last Line: Grinning into clever flames QU'EST-CE QUE DE NOUS! First Line: La crise, non plus en tout plein Last Line: And come back all calm and warm QUIET ROOM First Line: When music is far enough away Last Line: While the coins lie in wet yellow sand RADIO First Line: Why do you play such dreary music Last Line: Bed in it, more than the ear can hold RANT First Line: What you wanted I told you' Last Line: Footsteps. Wow! What a relief RENAISSANCE First Line: Bang your tambourine! Kiss Last Line: Kids! Savages ripe from the trees RENT COLLECTING First Line: I hate the revolutionary vision, a sea of navels Last Line: By a giant hardon, the taverners are loose RETURNING First Line: Coming down the ladder Last Line: As boyscouts rub sticks together who've read the manual, know of death RHAPSODY First Line: 515 madison avenue %door to heaven? Portal Last Line: Belong to the enormous bliss of american death RIVER First Line: Whole days would go by, and later their years Last Line: Like a signal! Upon the open flesh of the world ROGERS IN ITALY First Line: Warm plantains and chilled light radishes Last Line: Day has took, and make my history into a hat ROMANZE, OR THE MUSIC STUDENTS First Line: The rain, its tiny pressure Last Line: And it is all marching magnificently by ROUND ROBIN First Line: Yes, it's true, I arouse strange sights in Last Line: Look, a knife has just dropped into the ocean.' SAINT First Line: Like a pile of gold that his breath Last Line: He sleeps like a temple to no god SATYR First Line: The trees toss and plunge in a skyblue surf Last Line: Full flowers! Round eyes! Rush upward! Rapture! Space SAVOY First Line: It's cutting into me on its bareback with talons lifted Last Line: Do you tender the bounty which has availed itself of your pr SCENE First Line: Pie, tomatoes, eggs, coffee, spaghetti Last Line: I love you. I'll buy you, dear, a television set SCHOENBERG First Line: In a fever of style, having slaughtered the false florimells of harmonious Last Line: Newspapers, at the mercy of every fresh breath from the tradewinds SECOND AVENUE; IN MEMORY OF VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY First Line: Quips and players, seeming to vend astringency off-hours Last Line: Which is immobility forging an entrail from the pure obstruc SENTIMENTAL UNITS First Line: If only more people looked like jerry lieber we would all be a lot happier Last Line: Part 9 is an imitation of joe brainard SEPTEMBER 14, 1959 (MOON) First Line: Serenity lopes along like exhaustion Last Line: Thankful and enlightening russian moon SEVEN NINE SEVEN First Line: A disgusting sun %trying desperately to look lonely Last Line: Exploding against the old dull bed SHOE SHINE BOY First Line: Jimmy I got an errand for you to do Last Line: My red friends will %pass among you. One dollar a bottle SHORT HISTORY OF BILL BERKSON First Line: Don't remember nothing -- interesting Last Line: Blue curls -- my life begins -- again SHOULD WE LEGALIZE ABORTION First Line: Now we have in our group of a lot of uscrupulous Last Line: There's nobody at the controls! %forget %we ever met SLEEPING ON THE WING First Line: Perhaps it is to avoid some great sadness Last Line: As space is disappearing and your singularity SMOKING First Line: The blue plumes drift and Last Line: Silence, a shadowy cancan line SNAPSHOT FOR BORIS PASTERNAK First Line: The wrinkled page of the sky swells Last Line: Completion in vicarious mortality, like poetry SNEDEN'S LANDING VARIATIONS First Line: What an oak! The immense expanses of silver Last Line: You were always kissing summer goodbye SONG First Line: Did you see me walking by the buick repairs? Last Line: I was thinking of you %and right now Subject(s): Love SONG First Line: It is dirty %does it look dirty Last Line: You don't refuse to breathe do you SONG First Line: I am stuck in traffic in a taxicab Last Line: Nothing can go wrong for us, tell me SONG FOR LOTTA First Line: You're not really sick Last Line: And browns my strong %belief tht love is SONG OF ENDING First Line: Berdie, berdie %where are you, and why Last Line: All birds hide what they have lost SONNET (LAMPOONING BLIZZARDS, HOW YOUR OCULARIES) First Line: Lampooning blizzards, how your ocularities Last Line: Of a tremendously necessary white departure SONNET (THE BLUENESS OF THE HOUR) First Line: The blueness of the hour Last Line: Water which is not a pool SONNET FOR JANE FREILICHER First Line: Wakening at noon I smelled airplanes and hay Last Line: Comes the bold painting of fernand leger SONNET FOR LARRY RIVERS & HIS SISTER First Line: A young man talking to his sister on Last Line: Your bagatelle has been accepted.' SONNET ON A WEDDING First Line: On the glass escarpment of Last Line: Her fingers perch upon his nape like doves Subject(s): Marriage SOUTHAMPTON VARIATIONS First Line: The cold snow, the silver tomb, separates Last Line: Yet in this snow alone I find the drowsy splendor of the sun SPIRIT INK First Line: Prince of calm, treasure of fascinating cuts on my arm Last Line: Tough ass, dissembler and fool, o syrup of mammoths SPLEEN First Line: I know so much Last Line: Them I know, and hate SPOILS OF GRAFTON First Line: Look! The table, like an arriere Last Line: Put down mendelssohn and run SPRING'S FIRST DAY First Line: Made a 'human fly' escape with their baby from a smoke Last Line: Interview by appointment any place, any time at your conveni ST. PAUL AND ALL THAT First Line: Totally abashed and smiling Last Line: You never come when you say you'll come but on the other han STAG CLUB First Line: A prickly beer's like Last Line: Over the bitches, their pears STARVING POET First Line: I must have leisure, for the leisure bears Last Line: And force their meat upon the multitude STATE OF WASHINGTON First Line: An impression of waves mounting the shore Last Line: Must roar; as trees must shed their shadows to gain rest STATUE First Line: Alone in the dusk with you Last Line: Against you, close as we can come STEP AWAY FROM THEM First Line: It's my lunch hour, so I go Last Line: And back to work. My heart is in my %pocket, it is poems by pierre reverdy Subject(s): Lunch; Reverdy, Pierre (1889-1960); Streets STEPS First Line: How funny you are today new york Last Line: And smoke too many cigarettes %and love you so much STEVEN First Line: The little dark haired boy whose black looks Last Line: The still hid; but we must keep him from this talent STUDENTS First Line: You are someone %who's crazy about a Last Line: And wipe the sweat away STUDY FOR WOMEN ON A BEACH First Line: I see now tigers by the sea Last Line: Talk on as incense raises its pillars SUDDEN SNOW First Line: While a company of dancers hoots whistles stomps Last Line: And we divert our course a little without fear SUMMER BREEZES First Line: An element of mischief contributed Last Line: And that summer my swimming improved a lot SUNSET First Line: You fragile woman whose profile barely discerns Last Line: Which strains to burst this slender fist TARQUIN First Line: Exactly at one o'clock your arms broach Last Line: And herd the clouds, their mountainous eclipse TERRESTIAL CUCKOO First Line: What a hot day it is! For THANKSGIVING First Line: The heat rises, it is not the pressure Last Line: And tomorrow we will put a bullet through your red hide THE DAY LADY DIED Poem Text First Line: It is 12:20 in new york a friday Last Line: Minneapolis, mn, www.Coffeehousepress.Com Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Men; Music & Musicians; Music, Rock; Singing & Singers; Rock & Roll; Songs THINKING OF JAMES DEAN First Line: Like a nickelodeon soaring over the island from sea to bay Last Line: Pleasure. A leaving word in the sand, odor of tides: his name Subject(s): Dean, James (1931-1955) THOSE WHO ARE DREAMING, A PLAY ABOUT ST. PAUL First Line: He gets up, lights a cigarette, puts fire Last Line: From him. He is alone, protected only by your love THREE AIRS First Line: So many things in the air! Soot Last Line: The air becoming no air becoming air again THREE POEMS First Line: Dante %I could guide you into depravity but I'm not sure I could lead either Last Line: I sometimes wonder how we all get through this soap opera th THREE RONDELS First Line: Dreaming that there's a sea god Last Line: Door of america, mention my fear to the cigars THREE-PENNY OPERA First Line: I think a lot about Last Line: Was who, though. Those %were intricate days TO A FRIEND First Line: If you discard me, too late Last Line: Speak, for clumsy at your %ear can no more feed Subject(s): Friendship TO A POET First Line: I am sober and industrious Last Line: Square, now that I am off my couch TO AN ACTOR WHO DIED First Line: As the days go, and they go fast on this island Last Line: Outside of nature nothing feeds, as rocks address no sun TO CANADA (FOR WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY) First Line: I shall be so glad when you come down Last Line: Oh what's the use I think I will TO EDWIN DENBY First Line: I'm so much more me Last Line: And yet in me unmade TO GIANNI BATES First Line: Like a piano concerto your black Last Line: Too, I've not been silent again, or since TO GOTTFIRED BENN First Line: Poetry is not instruments Last Line: In the universal light of tragedy TO HELL WITH IT First Line: Hungry winter, this winter' Last Line: And another filthy page of poetry. %and mean it TO JANE, SOME AIR First Line: Now what we desire is space Last Line: I don't think I'll return to the zoo TO JANE; AND IN IMITATION OF COLERIDGE First Line: All fears, all doubts and even dreams Last Line: Are secretly near, like jane TO JOHN ASHBERY First Line: I can't believe there's not Last Line: Meaning 'you go, like the blossoms.' TO JOHN WIENERS First Line: You walk into a theatre in the semidark Last Line: And the snow and theatre, like philip sparrow, nestle there TO LARRY RIVERS First Line: You are worried that you don't write Last Line: You do what I can only name TO MAXINE First Line: The sender of this letter is a mailman Last Line: You put on lipstick as others put on hats TO MUSIC OF PAUL BOWLES First Line: Dear bill I think it was very nice of you to have me Last Line: Up or we'll miss myrna loy and william powell %get that soap TO MY DEAD FATHER First Line: Don't call to me father Last Line: Forgive the roses and me Subject(s): Aging; Mirrors TO MY MOTHER First Line: Oh witness !N to be sure Last Line: Or someone's accidentally died Subject(s): Mothers TO RICHARD MILLER First Line: Whre is mike goldberg? I don't know Last Line: Thinking of the sea and the uncomfortable sand TO THE FILM INDUSTRY IN CRISIS First Line: Not you, lean quarterlies and swarthy periodicals Last Line: You perpetuated! Roll on, reels of celluloid, as the great earth rolls on! TO THE HARBORMASTER Poem Text First Line: I wanted to be sure to reach you Subject(s): Religion; Sea; Theology; Ocean TO THE HARBORMASTER First Line: I wanted to be sure to reach you Last Line: Waves which have kept me from reaching you Subject(s): Religion; Sea TO THE MOUNTAINS IN NEW YORK First Line: Yes! Yes! Yes! I've decided Last Line: It is raining. Shall I grow trees or flowers TO THE POEM First Line: Let us do something grand Last Line: Of its own a real right thing TO YOU First Line: What is more beautiful than night Last Line: The light to glow there over the river TODAY First Line: Oh! Kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas! Last Line: Do have meaning. They're strong as rocks TOMB OF ARNOLD SCHOENBERG First Line: The avalanche drifts to earth through giant air Last Line: I weep upon your bier, this glacial shore TONIGHT AT THE VERSAILLES, OR ANOTHER CARD ANOTHER CABARET First Line: I am appearing, yes it's true Last Line: And I'll pick you up after the show TRIREME First Line: The strangeness of palaces for a cowboy Last Line: I don't want to be but I am TRUE ACCOUNT OF TALKING TO THE SUN AT FIRE ISLAND First Line: The sun woke me this morning loud Last Line: Darkly he rose, and then I slept Subject(s): Fire Island; Sun TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT YOU FEEL First Line: Only your keen ear Last Line: And we are not together TWO BOYS First Line: A favorite %just as he's about to rise, he erupts Last Line: Enormous pride in sight TWO DREAMS OF WAKING First Line: I stumble over furniture, I fall into a gloomy hammock Last Line: And I can't talk to them or anything TWO EPITAPHS First Line: The two slept in a dark red armory Last Line: Suffering, and hung over the city as northern lights TWO RUSSIAN EXILES: AN ODE First Line: Like a cat who pushes and flexes forelegs Last Line: Music must die but poetry is silent joy TWO SHEPHERDS, A NOVEL First Line: Here he comes now, the big prick-with-ears Last Line: To pick up a real razzle-dazzle cunt. Man TWO TRAGIC POEMS First Line: When the wheat got out of the can Last Line: Kennedy is in colombia, cheers TWO VARIATIONS First Line: Now I am not going to face things Last Line: And next time my face won't come with me UNFINISHED First Line: As happiness takes off the tie it borrowed from me Last Line: Better than albert schweitzer, pablo casals and helen keller put together UNICORN First Line: Lingering, vying, fearing, and flowers and fruit Last Line: Quite other than the gentlemen who bear me down V.R. LANG First Line: You are so serious, as if Last Line: And with your beads on, because it rains VARIATIONS ON PASTERNAK'S MAIN LIEBCHEN First Line: Walls, except that they stretch through china Last Line: Just as the sight of you, no wall, no moon, no world, makes me VARIATIONS ON SATURDAY First Line: As the polka from schwanda Last Line: Around your shoulders like a cave VARIATIONS ON THE TREE OF HEAVEN First Line: Sitting in a corner of the gallery Last Line: Not just waiting wherever you are VERY RAINY LIGHT, AN ECLOGUE First Line: D: remembering at best bitterly Last Line: Truly you master a heady scent VINCENT First Line: Here I sit in jager house Last Line: Warm morning like a %sidewalk phone booth VINCENT AND I INAUGURATE A MOVIE THEATRE First Line: Now that the charles theatre has opened Last Line: A print of alice adams with you it will cheer them up VINCENT, (2) First Line: This morning a blimp was blocking 53rd street Last Line: On the palisades-columbus-avenue-love-bed-awards WALK ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON First Line: The gulls wheeled %several miles away Last Line: Probably, our country %will declare war WALKING First Line: I get a cinder in my eye Last Line: Turning it into sky again WALKING TO WORK First Line: It's going to be the sunny side Last Line: Straight against the light I cross WALKING WITH LARRY RIVERS First Line: The guts that stream out of the needle's eye Last Line: Our brains, bashed out in flight against the bridge WARM DAY FOR DECEMBER First Line: 57th street %street of joy Last Line: You're almost there %57th street WASHINGTON SQUARE First Line: That arch bestrides me, french Last Line: Is in danger of passing without wickedness WEATHER NEAR ST. BRIDGET'S STEEPLES First Line: You are so beautiful and trusting Last Line: Love, being the joining and the joining without memory or fa WHAT APPEARS TO BE YOURS First Line: The root -- an acceptable connection Last Line: Warm -- through a hole in the stocking -- the sky WHITMAN'S BIRTHDAY BROADCAST WITH STATIC First Line: Pas la jeunesse a moi Last Line: Da, ich bin der komponist, und ich bin komponiert WHO IS WILLIAM WALTON First Line: He isn't the english composer Last Line: Zooming through the head who are you WHY I AM NOT A PAINTER Poem Text First Line: I am not a painter, I am a poet Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Poetry & Poets WHY I AM NOT A PAINTER First Line: I am not a painter, I am a poet Last Line: It oranges. And one day in a gallery %I see mike's painting,called sardines Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Poetry And Poets WIND First Line: Who'd have thought that snow falls Last Line: It always loathed containment %beasts %I love evil WITH BARBARA AT LARRES First Line: Fall facesw who have lunched on other Last Line: The air, the air from all the burning conversation WITH BARBARA GUEST IN PARIS First Line: Oh barbara! Do you think we'll ever Last Line: Smiles and bears %the purple city air WOMEN First Line: They sit on the stairs and cry Last Line: Polka dot or stripe. Eat their emeralds YESTERDAY DOWN AT THE CANAL First Line: You say that everything is very simple and interesting Last Line: (but I hate all that crap) Subject(s): Boredom YET ANOTHER FAN First Line: It's a great shame %madame mallarme Last Line: Our freckles into %coral and grass YOU ARE GORGEOUS AND I'M COMING First Line: Vaguely I hear the purple roar of the torn-down third avenue el Last Line: To say we are in america and it is all right not to be elsew YOU AT THE PUMP First Line: A bouquet of zephyr-flowers hitched to a hitching %post in far off roanoke Last Line: I love you, pocahontas %where his feet are YOUNG CHRIST First Line: My skull, which like an eye strains Last Line: A burning child, adoring and my father's pyre YOUNG POET First Line: Full of passion and giggles Last Line: The insight which comes as a kiss %and follows as a curse [I KISS YOUR CUP] First Line: I kiss your cup %which will not be used again Last Line: That makes a rubens out of you %makes me a serpent [THEN THE WEATHER CHANGED.] First Line: Then the weather changed. There were all Last Line: And will not credit the evil of my intentions O'hara (20th Century-), Frank 1 poems available by this author VOYAGER Poem Text First Line: He had returned from a far land; once more Last Line: "of fire and snow"" . . . The uncle told a tale." Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips |
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