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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: pound, ezra Matches Found: 374 Pound, Ezra Poet's Biography 374 poems available by this author 1915: FEBRUARY Poem Text First Line: The smeared, leather-coated, leather-greaved engineer Last Line: The unseen twigs, breaking their tips with blossom. Subject(s): World War I; First World War A BALLAD OF THE MULBERRY ROAD Poem Text First Line: The sun rises in south east corner of things Last Line: They stand and twirl their moustaches. A GIRL Poem Text First Line: The tree has entered my hands Last Line: And all this is folly to the world. A PACT Poem Text First Line: I make a pact with you, walt whitman Last Line: Let there be commerce between us. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) A SONG OF THE DEGREES Poem Text First Line: Rest me with chinese colours Last Line: O filaments of amber, two-faced iridescence! A VILLONAUD: BALLAD OF THE GIBBET Poem Text First Line: Drink ye a skoal for the gallows tree! Last Line: "and bring their souls to his ""haulte citee." A VIRGINAL Poem Text Recitation First Line: No, no! Go from me. I have left her lately Last Line: As white their bark, so white this lady's hours. Subject(s): Love ABU SALAMMAMM - A SONG OF EMPIRE Poem Text First Line: Great is king george the fifth Last Line: Be at an end. Subject(s): George V, King Of England (1865-1936) ADDENDUM FOR CANTO 100 First Line: The evil is usury, neschek Last Line: The water-bug's mittens show on the bright rock below him AFTER CH'U YUAN Poem Text First Line: I will get me to the wood Last Line: And accost the procession of maidens. ALBA Poem Text First Line: As cool as the pale wet leaves Last Line: She lay beside me in the dawn. Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight ALBATRE Poem Text First Line: This lady in the white bath-robe which she calls a peignoir Last Line: Between the two indolent candles. AMITIES Poem Text First Line: You wore the same quite correct clothing Last Line: Cum jocunda femina. AN IMMORALITY Poem Text First Line: Sing we for love and idleness Last Line: To pass all men's believing. AN OBJECT Poem Text First Line: This thing, that hath a code and not a core Last Line: Disturbeth his reflections. ANCIENT MUSIC Poem Text First Line: Winter is icummen in Last Line: Found under the latin words of a very ancient canon. Subject(s): Hate; Social Protest ANCIENT WISDOM, RATHER COSMIC Poem Text First Line: So-shu dreamed Last Line: Hence his contentment. ANCORA Poem Text First Line: Good god! They say you are risque Last Line: Had we ever such an epithet cast upon us!! AND THE DAYS ARE NOT FULL ENOUGH Poem Text Last Line: Not shaking the grass AND THUS IN NINEVEH Poem Text First Line: Aye! I am a poet and upon my tomb Last Line: "as lesser men drink wine." APPARUIT Poem Text First Line: Golden rose the house, in the portal I saw Last Line: Dar'dst to assume this? APRIL Poem Text First Line: Three spirits came to me Last Line: Pale carnage beneath bright mist. ARIDES Poem Text First Line: The bashful arides Last Line: He went to his doom. AU JARDIN Poem Text First Line: O you away high there Last Line: Did he so? Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening AU SALON Poem Text First Line: I suppose, when poetry comes down to facts Last Line: The absolute unimportant. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets BALLAD FOR GLOOM Poem Text First Line: For god, our god, is a gallant foe Last Line: Whom god deigns not to overthrow hath need of triple mail BALLAD OF THE GOODLY FERE Poem Text First Line: Ha' we lost the goodliest fere o' all Last Line: Sin' they nailed him to the tree. Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Disciples, Twelve; Theology BALLATETTA Poem Text First Line: The light became her grace and dwelt among Last Line: Lest they should parch too swiftly, where she passes. Subject(s): Sex BEFORE SLEEP Poem Text First Line: The lateral vibrations caress me Last Line: I am up to follow thee, pallas. BLACK SLIPPERS: BELLOTTI Poem Text First Line: At the table beyond us Last Line: She re-enters them with a groan. BLANDULA, TENULLA, VAGULA First Line: What hast thou, o my soul, with paradise? CANTICO DEL SOLE Poem Text First Line: The thought of what america would be like Last Line: It troubles my sleep. CANTO 1 Poem Text Recitation First Line: And then went down to the ship Variant Title(s): The Odyssey: Book 11 (homer) Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets; Ulysses; Iliad; Odyssey; Odysseus CANTO 1 First Line: And then went down to the ship Last Line: Girdles and breast bands, thou with dark eyelids %bearing the golden bough of argicida. So that Variant Title(s): The Odyssey: Book 11 (homer Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Mythology - Classical; Poetry And Poets; Ulysses CANTO 1 (1917) Poem Text First Line: Hang it all, there can be but one sordello! Last Line: O casella! CANTO 10 Poem Text First Line: And the poor devils dying of cold, outside sorano Last Line: All I want you to do is to follow the orders, %they've got a bigger army, %but there are more men in CANTO 100 First Line: And some habsburg ploughed his imperial furrow Last Line: Neither weighed out nor hindered CANTO 101 First Line: Finding scarcely anyone save monsieur de remusat Last Line: His body and soul are at peace CANTO 102 First Line: This I had from kalupso Last Line: Tried to buy peace with money CANTO 103 First Line: 1850: gt objection to any honesty in the white house Last Line: That has had (1958) %no publicity CANTO 104 First Line: Na khi alk made out of wind noise Last Line: Iu's weights are still in the treasury CANTO 105 First Line: Feb. 1956 %is this a divagation Last Line: As had, presumably, villon CANTO 106 First Line: And was her daughter like that Last Line: The sky is leaded with elm boughs CANTO 107 First Line: The azalea is grown while we sleep Last Line: The caelator's son, named pythagora CANTO 108 First Line: Comminuit %there is frost on the rock's face Last Line: For every new cottage 4 acres %stat. De 31 eliz %angliae amor CANTO 109 First Line: Pro veritate Last Line: You in the dinghy (piccioletta) astern there CANTO 11 First Line: Egradement li antichi cavaler romanj Last Line: Sponte et ex certa scienta - to enricho de aquabello CANTO 110 First Line: Thy quiet house Last Line: Awoi or komachi %the oval moon CANTO 111 (NOTES THEREFOR) First Line: I, one thing, as relation to one thing Last Line: Also bumped off 8000 byzantines %edictum prologo %rothar CANTO 112 (THEREFROM) First Line: Owl, and wagtail Last Line: Winnowed in fate's tray %neath %luna CANTO 113 First Line: Thru the 12 houses of heaven Last Line: But the mind as ixion, unstill, ever turning CANTO 114 First Line: Pas meme freron Last Line: To tigullio. And that the truth is in kindness CANTO 115 Poem Text First Line: The scientists are in terror Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress CANTO 115 First Line: The scientists are in terror Last Line: And the living were made of cardboard Subject(s): Depression, Mental CANTO 116 First Line: Came neptunus %his mind leaping Last Line: A little light, like a rushlight %to lead back to splendour CANTO 12 First Line: And we sit here Last Line: I am not your fader but your moder,' quod he, %'your fader was a rich merchant in stambouli.' CANTO 13 Poem Text Recitation First Line: Kung walked Variant Title(s): Kung's Wisdom Subject(s): Confucius & Confucianism CANTO 13 First Line: Kung walked Last Line: The blossoms of the apricot %blow from the east to the west, %and I have tried to keep them from fal Variant Title(s): Kung's Wisdo Subject(s): Confucius And Confucianism CANTO 13 First Line: Kung walked %by the dynastic temple Last Line: And I have tried to keep them from falling.' CANTO 14 First Line: Io venni in luogo d'ogni luce muto Last Line: Monopolists, obstructors of knowledge. %obstructors of distribution CANTO 15 First Line: The saccharescent, lying in glucose Last Line: Blind with the sunlight, %swollen-eyed, rested, %lids sinking, darkness unconscious CANTO 16 Poem Text First Line: And before hell mouth; dry plain Subject(s): World War I; Heroism; Death; First World War; Heroes; Heroines; Dead, The CANTO 16 First Line: And before hell mouth; dry plain Last Line: That they wouldn't be under haig; %and that the advance was beginning; %that it was going to begin I CANTO 17 First Line: So that the vines burst from my fingers Last Line: Sigismundo, after that wreck in dalmatia. %sunset like the grasshopper flying CANTO 18 First Line: And of kublai Last Line: War, one war after another, %men start 'em who couldn't put up a good hen-roost. %also sabotage... CANTO 19 First Line: Sabotage? Yes, he took it up to manhattan Last Line: For ten bobs' worth of turquoise CANTO 2 First Line: Hang it all, robert browning Last Line: And frogs singing against the fauns %in the half-light. %and... CANTO 2 (1917) Poem Text First Line: Leave casella Last Line: Take my sordello! CANTO 20 First Line: Sound slender, quasi tinnula Last Line: Peace! %borso, borso! CANTO 21 First Line: Keep the peace, borso!' where are we? Last Line: And the old man went on there %beating his mule with an asphodel CANTO 22 First Line: An' that man sweat blood Last Line: And the girl says: %'it'z a animal.' %signori, you go and enforce it CANTO 23 First Line: Et omniformis,' psellos, omnis Last Line: And the waves rising but formed, holding their form. %no light reaching through them CANTO 24 First Line: Thus the book of the mandates Last Line: Albert made me, tura painted my wall, %and julia the countess sold to a tannery... CANTO 25 First Line: The book of the council major Last Line: Ayes 102, noes 38, 37 undecided %register of the senate %terra 1537, carta 136 CANTO 26 First Line: And I came here in my young youth Last Line: Wolfgang amadeus, august 1777 %(inter lineas) %'as is the sonata, so is little miss cannabich.' CANTO 27 First Line: Formando di disio nuova persona Last Line: Can you tell the down from the up? CANTO 28 First Line: And god the father eternal (boja d'un dio!) Last Line: That flew out into nothingness %and her father was the son of one too %that got the annulment CANTO 29 First Line: Pearl, great sphere, and hollow Last Line: Pine by the black trunk of its shadow %and on hill black trunks of the shadow %the trees melted in a CANTO 3 Poem Text Subject(s): Mythology; Social Commentaries; Murder CANTO 3 First Line: I sat on the dogana's steps Last Line: Or plaster flakes, mantegna painted the wall. %silk tatters, 'nec spe nec metu.' CANTO 3 (1917) Poem Text First Line: Another's a half-cracked fellow-john heydon Last Line: Bearing the golden bough of argicida. CANTO 30 First Line: Compleynt, compleynt I hearde upon a day Last Line: And in august that year died pope alessandro borgia, %il papa mori CANTO 31 First Line: Tempus loquendi Last Line: (on the state of england in 1814) %hic explicit cantus CANTO 32 First Line: The revolution,' said mr. Adams Last Line: The cannibals of europe are eating one another again %quandosi posa CANTO 33 First Line: Quincey nov. 13, 1815 %is that despotism Last Line: The meeting decided we were over-inflated CANTO 34 Poem Text First Line: Oils, beasts, grasses, petrifaction, birds, incrustations Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821) CANTO 34 First Line: Oils, beasts, grasses, petrifactions, birds, incrustations Last Line: Constans proposito %justum et tenacem CANTO 35 First Line: So this is (may we take it) mitteleuropa Last Line: Have a load-line, no heavy deck cargo. Tola, octroi and deci me CANTO 36 Poem Text First Line: A lady asks me Subject(s): Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Social Commentaries; Language; Male-female Relations; Words; Vocabulary CANTO 36 First Line: A lady asks me Last Line: Quan ben m'albir e mon ric pensamen CANTO 37 Poem Text First Line: Thou shalt not', said martin vanburen. 'jail 'em for debt' Subject(s): United States - Politics & Government; Immigrants; Debt; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration CANTO 37 First Line: Thou shalt not, said martin van buren, jail 'em for Last Line: Hic %jacet %fisci liberator CANTO 38 First Line: An' that year metevsky went over to america del sud Last Line: Avant ceux de la nation CANTO 39 First Line: Desolate is the roof where the cat sat Last Line: I have eaten the flame CANTO 4 Poem Text First Line: Palace in smoky light, Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Desire; Relationships; Heroism; Heroes; Heroines CANTO 4 First Line: Palace in smoky light Last Line: And we sit here %there in the arena CANTO 40 First Line: Esprit de corps in permanent bodies Last Line: Hung this with his map in their temple CANTO 41 First Line: Ma qvesto %said the boss, e divertente Last Line: Patented his new shell in eight countries %ad interim 1933 CANTO 42 First Line: We ought, I think, to say in civil terms: you be Last Line: In respect to 200,000 (two hundred thousand) CANTO 43 First Line: To the serenissimo dno (pronounced domino) Last Line: Or 80 million lira pre-war CANTO 44 First Line: And thou shalt not, firenze 1766, and thou shalt not Last Line: Nicolo piccolomini, provveditore CANTO 45 Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: With usura / with usura hath no man a house of good stone Subject(s): Gonzaga, Luigi (1267-1360); Hate; Usury CANTO 45 First Line: With usura %with usura hath no man a house of good stone Last Line: Corpses are set to banquet %at behest of usura Subject(s): Gonzaga, Luigi (1267-1360); Hate; Usury CANTO 46 First Line: And if you will say that this tale teaches Last Line: Mr cummings wants farley's job, headline in current paper CANTO 47 First Line: Who even dead, yet hath his mind entire! Last Line: That hath the power over wild beasts CANTO 48 First Line: And if he money be rented Last Line: And if the wind was, the old man placed a stone CANTO 49 First Line: For the seven lakes, and by no man these verses Last Line: And the power over wild beasts CANTO 5 First Line: Great bulk, huge mass, thesaurus Last Line: Both sayings run in the wind %ma se morisse CANTO 50 First Line: Revolution, said mr adams, took place in the Last Line: Only we two have moved CANTO 51 First Line: Shines %in the mind of the heaven god Last Line: Time was of the league of cambrai CANTO 52 First Line: And I have told you of how things were under duke Last Line: Fought smoke nuisance in london. Dredged harbour in sligo CANTO 53 First Line: Yeou taught men to break branches Last Line: Of such stock was kungfutseu CANTO 54 First Line: So that tien-tan chose bulls, a thousand Last Line: Died te-tsong; the deceived CANTO 55 First Line: Orbem bellis, urbem gabellis Last Line: By tang and teng, let 'em pass CANTO 56 First Line: Billets, biglietti, as coin was too heavy for transport Last Line: Faictes moi mes funerailles CANTO 57 First Line: And when kien ouen was throned Last Line: Pirates almost took fou-kien CANTO 58 First Line: Sinbu put order in sun land, nippon, in the beginning Last Line: Dead by the hand of litse CANTO 59 First Line: De libro chi-king sic censeo Last Line: That he kept their tempers till they came to conclusion CANTO 6 First Line: What you have done, odysseus Last Line: Theseus from trozene %and they wd. Have given him poison %but for the shape of his sword-hilt CANTO 60 First Line: So the jesuits brought in astronomy Last Line: From 1662 and came after him CANTO 61 First Line: Yong tching Last Line: Perhaps you will look up his verses CANTO 62 First Line: Acquit of evil intention Last Line: By fairness, honesty and straight moving %arriba adams CANTO 63 First Line: Towards sending of ellsworth Last Line: A contest appeared to be opened CANTO 64 First Line: To john's bro, the sheriff, we lay a kind word in passing Last Line: Says gridley: you keep very late hours CANTO 65 First Line: Jurors refuse to take oath Last Line: Sent to london were sent to siberia CANTO 66 First Line: Could not let us bring their sugar to europe Last Line: And any other dominions CANTO 67 First Line: Whereof memory of man runneth not to the contrary Last Line: Heretofore save in england CANTO 68 First Line: The philosophers say: one, the few, the many Last Line: Or french of the last 25 years CANTO 69 First Line: In which case a miniser here from congress wd/be useful Last Line: Smelt it or before he told tom about it CANTO 7 First Line: Eleanor (she spoiled in a british climate) Last Line: E biondo, with glass-grey iris, with an even side-fall of hair %the stiff, still features CANTO 70 First Line: My situation almost the only one in the world Last Line: So they are against any rational theory %dum spiro amo CANTO 71 First Line: A german ambassador once told me he cdn't bear Last Line: Ignorance of coin, credit and circulation CANTO 72 First Line: If one begins to remember the dung war Last Line: The regiments and the banners will return CANTO 74 (THE PISAN CANTOS) First Line: The enormous tragedy of the dream in the peasant's bent Last Line: We who have passed over lethe CANTO 75 (THE PISAN CANTOS) First Line: Out of phlegethon Last Line: Not of one bird but of many CANTO 76 (THE PISAN CANTOS) First Line: And the sun high over horizon hidden in cloud bank Last Line: And whose only right is their power CANTO 77 (THE PISAN CANTOS) First Line: And this day abner lifted a shovel Last Line: Bringest to focus %zagreus %zagreus CANTO 78 (THE PISAN CANTOS) First Line: By the square elm of ida Last Line: There %are %no %righteous %wars CANTO 79 (THE PISAN CANTOS) First Line: Moon, cloud, tower, a patch of the battistero Last Line: O puma, sacred to hermes, cimbica servant of helios CANTO 8 First Line: These fragments you have shelved (shored). Last Line: And that year he got out to cesena %and brought back the levies, %and that year he crossed by night CANTO 80 (THE PISAN CANTOS) First Line: Ain' committed no federal crime Last Line: Sunset grand couturier CANTO 81 Poem Text Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; ; Relationships; Disappointment; Books; Reading CANTO 81 (THE PISAN CANTOS) First Line: Zeus lies in ceres bosom Last Line: All in the diffidence that faltered... CANTO 81 (THE PISAN CANTOS), SELS. CANTO 81: LIBRETTO First Line: Yet %ere the season died a-cold Last Line: All in the diffidence that faltered CANTO 82 (THE PISAN CANTOS) First Line: When with his hunting dog I see a cloud Last Line: On the middle wire %periplum CANTO 83 (THE PISAN CANTOS) First Line: Hudor et ax Last Line: Oh let an old man rest CANTO 84 First Line: 8th october Last Line: If the hoar frost grip thy tent %thou wilt give thanks when night is spent CANTO 84 (THE PISAN CANTOS) First Line: 8th october: si tuit li dolh elh plor Last Line: Thou wilt give thanks when night is spent CANTO 85 First Line: Our dynasty came in because of a great sensibility Last Line: Risked the smoke to go forward %aperiens tibi animum CANTO 86 First Line: With solicitude %that mirroured turbationem Last Line: House, foreign relations %bellum cano perenne CANTO 87 First Line: Between the usurer and any man who Last Line: Tigers mourn sikandar CANTO 88 First Line: It was saturday the 1st day of april, toward noon Last Line: And %fifty %2 %weeks %in %4 %seasons CANTO 89 First Line: To know the histories Last Line: Or, if you like, reck, at lake biwa CANTO 9 First Line: One year floods rose Last Line: With a touch of rhetoric in the whole %and the old sarcophagi, %such a lie, smothered in grass, by s CANTO 90 First Line: From the colour the nature %&by the nature the sign!' Last Line: But only in the love flowing from it. %ubi amor ibi oculus est CANTO 91 First Line: Ab lo dolchor qu'al cor mi vai Last Line: O queen cytherea %che 'l terzo ciel movete CANTO 92 First Line: And from this mount were blown Last Line: Sez ari 'custom in trade' CANTO 93 First Line: A man's paradise is his good nature' Last Line: E monna vanna - tu mi fai rimembrar CANTO 94 First Line: Brederode' %(to rush, ap 4. 1790) Last Line: To build light %jih %hsin %said ocellus CANTO 95 First Line: Love, gone as lightning Last Line: Who now is sea-god CANTO 96 First Line: And the wave concealed her Last Line: Anno sexto imperii, of the second justinian %'pacem' CANTO 97 First Line: Melik & edward struck coins-with-a-sword Last Line: Kadzu, arachidi, acero %not lie down CANTO 98 First Line: The boat of ra-set moves with the sun Last Line: And not to lose life for bad temper CANTO 99 First Line: Till the blue grass turn yellow Last Line: The fu jen receives heaven, earth, middle %and grows CANTUS PLANUS Poem Text First Line: The black panther lies under his rose tree Last Line: Hesper adest. CAUSA Poem Text First Line: I join these words for four people Last Line: You do not know these four people. CINO; ITALIAN CAMPAGNA 1309, THE OPEN ROAD Poem Text First Line: Bah! I have sung women in three cities Last Line: The clouds that are spray to its sea. CLASSIC ANTHOLOGY AS DEFINED BY CONFUCIUS, SELS. First Line: She: curl-grass, curl-grass Last Line: How should I leave my love alone! CLASSIC ANTHOLOGY AS DEFINED BY CONFUCIUS, SELS. First Line: Vitex in swamp ground Last Line: Having no heavy house CLASSIC ANTHOLOGY AS DEFINED BY CONFUCIUS: 'LONG WIND, THE DAWN First Line: Falcon gone to the gloom Last Line: I am drunk with the pain CLASSIC ANTHOLOGY AS DEFINED BY CONFUCIUS: ALBA Poem Text First Line: Creeper grows over thorn Last Line: But at last to the one same house CODA Poem Text First Line: O my songs Last Line: Will you find your lost dead among them? COITUS Poem Text First Line: The gilded phaloi of the crocuses Last Line: The night about us is restless. COME MY CANTILATIONS COMMISSION Poem Text First Line: Go, my songs, to the lonely and the unsatisfied Last Line: Be against all sorts of mortmain. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets DANCE FIGURE Poem Text First Line: Dark eyed, / o woman of my dreams Subject(s): Marriage; Beauty; Dancing & Dancers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DANCE FIGURE; FOR THE MARRIAGE IN CANA OF GALILEE Poem Text First Line: Dark-eyed / o woman of my dreams Last Line: None with swift feet. DANS UN OMNIBUS DE LONDRES First Line: Les yeux d'une morte Last Line: Les yeux d'une morte %m'ont salue DE AEGYPTO Poem Text First Line: I, even I, am he who knoweth the roads Last Line: Through the sky, and the wind thereof is my body. DOGMATIC STATEMENT CONCERNING THE GAME OF CHESS: THEME FOR A SERIES OF PICTURES Poem Text First Line: Red knights, brown bishops, bright queens Subject(s): Chess DORIA Poem Text First Line: Be in me as the eternal moods Last Line: Remember thee. DUM CAPITOLIUM SCANDET Poem Text First Line: How many will come after me Last Line: Clear speakers, naked in the sun, untrammelled. ENVOI Poem Text First Line: Go, dumb-born book, Subject(s): Books; Love; Reading EPILOGUE Poem Text First Line: O chansons foregoing Last Line: Are those of a maitre-de-cafe. EPITAPH Poem Text First Line: Leucis, who intended a grand passion Last Line: Ends with a willingness-to-oblige. EPITAPH: FU I Poem Text First Line: Fu I loved the high cloud and the hill Last Line: Alas, he died of alcohol. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics EPITAPH: LI PO Poem Text First Line: And li po also died drunk Last Line: In the yellow river. Subject(s): Li Po (701-762); Li Bai (71-762) ERAT HORA Poem Text First Line: Thank you, whatever comes.' and then she turned Last Line: Than to have watched that hour as it passed. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The FAMAM LIBROSQUE CANO Poem Text First Line: Your songs? / oh! The little mothers Last Line: How I 'scaped immortality. FAN-PIECE, FOR HER IMPERIAL LORD Poem Text First Line: O fan of white silk Last Line: You also are laid aside. FISH AND THE SHADOW Poem Text First Line: The salmon-trout drifts in the stream Last Line: That falls through the pale green water. FOR E. MCC. Poem Text First Line: Gone while your tastes were keen to you Last Line: Behold the shield! He shall not take thee all. FOR THE TRIUMPH OF THE ARTS Poem Text First Line: And what are the arts? Subject(s): Arts & Artists FRAGMENT (1966) First Line: That her acts Last Line: Whatever I may write %in the interim FRAGMENT TO W.C.W.'S ROMANCE Poem Text First Line: Oh hale green song Subject(s): Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963) FRANCESCA Poem Text First Line: You came in out of the night Last Line: Alone. FRATRES MINORES Poem Text First Line: With minds still hovering above their testicles Last Line: Is incapable of producing a lasting nirvana. FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS Poem Text First Line: Come, my songs, let us express our baser passions Last Line: Or that there is no caste in this family. GENTILDONNA Poem Text First Line: She passed and left no quiver in the veins, who now Last Line: Grey olive leaves beneath a rain-cold sky. GUIDO INVITES YOU THUS Poem Text First Line: Lappo I leave behind and dante too Last Line: "lo, thou hast voyaged not! The ship is mine." HEATHER Poem Text First Line: The black panther treads at my side Last Line: Watches to follow our trace. HISTRION First Line: No man hath dared to write this thing as yet HOMAGE TO QUINTUS SEPTIMIUS FLORENTIS CHRISTIANUS Poem Text First Line: Theodorus willl be pleased at my death HOMAGE TO SEXTUS PROPERTIUS: 1 Poem Text First Line: Shades of callimachus, coan ghosts of philetas Last Line: A name not to be worn out with the years. Subject(s): Propertius, Sextus (50-15 B.c.) HOMAGE TO SEXTUS PROPERTIUS: 10 Poem Text First Line: Light, light of my eyes, at an exceeding late hour I was wandering Last Line: Since that day I have had no pleasant nights. Subject(s): Propertius, Sextus (50-15 B.c.) HOMAGE TO SEXTUS PROPERTIUS: 11 Poem Text First Line: The harsh acts of your levity! Last Line: Though you walk in the via sacra, with a peacock's tail for a fan. Subject(s): Propertius, Sextus (50-15 B.c.) HOMAGE TO SEXTUS PROPERTIUS: 12 Poem Text First Line: Who, who will be the next man to entrust his girl to a friend? Last Line: And now propertius of cynthia, taking his stand among these. Subject(s): Propertius, Sextus (50-15 B.c.) HOMAGE TO SEXTUS PROPERTIUS: 2 Poem Text First Line: I had been seen in the shade, recumbent on cushioned helicon Last Line: Stiffened our face with the backwash of philetas the coan. Subject(s): Propertius, Sextus (50-15 B.c.) HOMAGE TO SEXTUS PROPERTIUS: 3 Poem Text First Line: Midnight, and a letter comes to me from our mistress Last Line: At any rate I shall not have my epitaph in a high road. Subject(s): Propertius, Sextus (50-15 B.c.) HOMAGE TO SEXTUS PROPERTIUS: 4. DIFFERENCE OF OPINION WITH LYGDAMUS Poem Text First Line: Tell me the truths which you hear of our constant young lady Last Line: After twelve months of discomfort? Subject(s): Propertius, Sextus (50-15 B.c.) HOMAGE TO SEXTUS PROPERTIUS: 5 Poem Text First Line: Now if ever it is time to cleanse helicon Last Line: "because helen's conduct is ""unsuitable." Subject(s): Propertius, Sextus (50-15 B.c.) HOMAGE TO SEXTUS PROPERTIUS: 6 Poem Text First Line: When, when, and whenever death closes our eyelids Last Line: Small talk comes from small bones. Subject(s): Propertius, Sextus (50-15 B.c.) HOMAGE TO SEXTUS PROPERTIUS: 7 Poem Text First Line: Me happy night, night full of brightness Last Line: God am I for the time. Subject(s): Propertius, Sextus (50-15 B.c.) HOMAGE TO SEXTUS PROPERTIUS: 8 Poem Text First Line: Jove, be merciful to that unfortunate woman Last Line: There will be, in any case, a stir on olympus. Subject(s): Propertius, Sextus (50-15 B.c.) HOMAGE TO SEXTUS PROPERTIUS: 9 Poem Text First Line: The twisted rhombs ceased their clamour of accompaniment Last Line: Promised me. Subject(s): Propertius, Sextus (50-15 B.c.) HORAE BEATAE INSCRIPTIO Poem Text First Line: How will this beauty, when I am far hence Last Line: Turned in their sapphire tide, come flooding o'er us! HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY: 1. E.P. ODE POUR L'ELECTION DE SON SEPULCHRE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: For three years, out of key with his time Last Line: No adjunct to the muses' diadem. Variant Title(s): Pour L'election De Son Sepulchre: E.p. Ode Subject(s): London; Poetry & Poets HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY: 10 Poem Text First Line: Beneath the sagging roof Last Line: The door has a creaking latch. HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY: 11 Poem Text First Line: Conservatrix of milesien' / habits of mind and feeling Last Line: Told her would fit her station. HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY: 12 Poem Text First Line: Daphne with her thighs in bark Last Line: Of pierian roses. HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY: 13. ENVOI, 1919 Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Go, dumb-born book Last Line: All things save beauty alone. Subject(s): Beauty; Composers; Lawes, Henry (1596-1662); Singing & Singers; Songs HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY: 2 Poem Text First Line: The age demanded an image / of its accelerated image Last Line: "or the ""sculpture"" of rhyme." HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY: 3 Poem Text First Line: The tea-rose tea-gown, etc. Last Line: Shall I place a tin wreath upon! HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY: 4 Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: These fought in any case Last Line: Laughter out of dead bellies. Subject(s): World War I; First World War HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY: 5 Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: There died a myriad Last Line: For a few thousand battered books. Subject(s): World War I; First World War HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY: 6. YEUX GLAUQUES Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Gladstone was still respected / when john ruskin produced Last Line: Adulteries. Subject(s): Buchanan, Robert William (1841-1901); Burne-jones, Edward Coley (1833-1898); Critics & Criticism; Dramatists; Novels & Novelists; Paintings & Painters; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Ruskin, John (1819-1900); Dramatists HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY: 7. 'SIENA MI FE' Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Among the pickled fetuses and bottled bones Last Line: Because of these reveries. Subject(s): Exiles; Plarr, Victor Gustav (1863-1929); Poetry & Poets HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY: 8. BRENNBAUM Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The sky-like limpid eyes Last Line: "of brennbaum ""the impeccable." Subject(s): Beerbohm, Max (1872-1956); Humorists HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY: 9. MR. NIXON Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: In the cream gilded cabin of his steam yacht Last Line: And died, there's nothing in it. Subject(s): Bennett, Arnold (1867-1931); Novels & Novelists; Poetry & Poets HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY: ENVOI: 1909 First Line: Go, dumb-born book Last Line: All things save beauty alone I WAIT Poem Text First Line: As some pale-lidded ghost that calls Subject(s): Waiting IF EVERYTHING HAPPENS THAT CAN'T BE DONE Poem Text Last Line: We're wonderful one times one Subject(s): Books IF EVERYTHING HAPPENS THAT CAN'T EB DONE IF EVERYTHING HAPPENS THAT CAN'T EB DONE Last Line: We're wonderful one times one Subject(s): Love - Marital IKON Poem Text First Line: It is in the art hightes business to create the beautiful image Last Line: In that long dreaming; to strew our path to valhalla; to give rich gifts by the way. IMAGE FROM D'ORLEANS Poem Text First Line: Young men riding in the street Last Line: In the bright new season. IMPRESSIONS OF FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET (DE VOLTAIRE) Poem Text First Line: Where, lady, are the days Last Line: Forgetting even her beauty. Subject(s): Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet De IN A STATION OF THE METRO Poem Text First Line: The apparition of these faces in the crowd Last Line: Petals on a wet, black bough. Subject(s): Beauty; Imagism; Paris, France; Subways IN DURANCE (1907) Poem Text First Line: I am homesick after mine own kind Last Line: "beyond, beyond, beyond, there lies . . ." IN EXITUM CUIUSDAM; ON A CERTAIN ONE'S DEPARTURE Poem Text First Line: Time's bitter flood'! Oh, that's all very well Last Line: How many faces I'd have out of mind. IONE, DEAD THE LONG YEAR' First Line: Empty are the ways ITE Poem Text First Line: Go, my songs, seek your praise from the young and from the Last Line: And take your wounds from it gladly. KORE First Line: Yea, she hath passed hereby and blessed the sheaves L'ART Poem Text First Line: Green arsenic smeared on an egg-white cloth Subject(s): Paintings & Paintdrs; Food & Eating L'ART, 1910 Poem Text First Line: Green arsenic smeared on an egg-white cloth Last Line: Crushed strawberries! Come, let us feast our eyes. L'HOMME MOYEN SENSUEL Poem Text First Line: Tis of my country that I would endite Last Line: He is the prototype of half the nation. LA FRAISNE Poem Text First Line: For I was a gaunt, grave councillor Last Line: Here 'mid the ash trees. LADIES Poem Text First Line: Four and forty lovers had agathas in the old days Last Line: Assails me, and concerns me almost as little. LANGUE D'OC: ALBA Poem Text First Line: When the nightingale to his mate Last Line: "flies." Variant Title(s): Alba LANGUE D'OC: AVRIL Poem Text First Line: When the springtime is sweet Last Line: We take their measure. LANGUE D'OC: COMPLEYNT OF A GENTLEMAN WHO HAS BEEN WAITING OUTSIDE .. Poem Text First Line: O plasmatour and true celestial light Last Line: "though day break." LANGUE D'OC: DESCANT ON A THEME BY CERCLAMON Poem Text First Line: When the sweet air goes bitter Last Line: In my ears. LANGUE D'OC: VERGIER Poem Text First Line: In orchard under the hawthorne Last Line: And day comes on. LES MILLWIN Poem Text First Line: The little millwins attend the russian ballet Last Line: For it seems to us worthy of record. LIU CH'E Poem Text First Line: The rustling of the silk is discontinued Last Line: A wet leaf that clings to the threshold. MARVOIL Poem Text First Line: A poor clerk I, 'arnaut the less' they call me Last Line: Mihi pergamena deest Subject(s): Arnaut De Marvoil [mareuil] (1170-1200); Poetry & Poets MAUBERLEY: 1 Poem Text First Line: Turned from the 'eau-forte / par jaquemart' Last Line: To forge achaia. MAUBERLEY: 2 Poem Text First Line: For three years, diabolus in the scale Last Line: Left him as epilogues. MAUBERLEY: 3. 'THE AGE DEMANDED' Poem Text First Line: For this agility chance found Last Line: Exclusion from the world of letters. MAUBERLEY: 4 Poem Text First Line: Scattered moluccas / not knowing, day to day Last Line: "an hedonist." MAUBERLEY: 5. MEDALLION Poem Text Recitation First Line: Luini in porcelain! Last Line: The eyes turn topaz. Subject(s): Luini, Bernardino (1480-1532); Paintings & Painters MEDITATIO Poem Text First Line: When I carefully consider the curious habits of dogs Last Line: I confess, my friend, I am puzzled. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MESMERISM Poem Text First Line: Aye you're a man that! Ye old mesmerizer Last Line: Clear sight's elector! MIDDLE-AGED; A STUDY IN EMOTION Poem Text First Line: Tis but a vague, invarious delight Last Line: "to see the brightness of." Subject(s): Middle Age MOEURS CONTEMPORARIES Poem Text First Line: Mr. Hecatomb styrax, the owner of a large estate Last Line: I never saw her again. MONUMENTUM AERE, ETC. Poem Text First Line: You say that I take a good deal upon myself Last Line: Over your grave. MR. HOUSMAN'S MESSAGE Poem Text First Line: O woe, woe Last Line: Oh, woe, woe, woe, etcetera. . . . Subject(s): Housman, Alfred Edward (1859-1936) N.Y. Poem Text First Line: My city, my beloved, my white! Ah, slender Last Line: And thou shalt live for ever. Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple NA AUDIART Poem Text First Line: Though thou well dost wish me ill Last Line: Que be-m vols mal. Subject(s): Bertran De Born (1202-1215) NEAR PERIGORD Poem Text First Line: You'd have men's hearts up from the dust Last Line: A broken bundle of mirrors . . . ! NICHARCHUS UPON PHIDON HIS DOCTOR Poem Text First Line: Phidon neither purged me, nor touched me Last Line: But I remembered the name of his fever medicine and died. Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors NIGHT LITANY (1) Poem Text First Line: O dieu, purifiez nos coeurs! Last Line: O god of waters. NIGHT LITANY (2) First Line: Yea, the lines hast thou laid unto me NOTES FOR AN UNPUBLISHED CANTO First Line: La carence or damn slimness NOTES FOR CANTO 117 ET SEQ. Poem Text First Line: For the blue flash and the moments Last Line: To be men not destroyers NOTES FOR CANTO 120 Poem Text First Line: I have tried to write paradise Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Heaven; Paradise O ATTHIS Poem Text First Line: Thy soul Last Line: Thou restless, ungathered. OF JACOPO DEL SELLAIO Poem Text First Line: This man knew out the secret ways of love Last Line: The eyes of this dead lady speak to me. Subject(s): Jacopo Del Sallaio (1442-1493); Love OLD IDEA OF CHOAN BY ROSORIU Poem Text First Line: The narrow streets cut into the wide highway at choan Last Line: Whom we meet on strange roadways? ON HIS OWN FACE IN A GLASS Poem Text First Line: O strange face there in the glass! Last Line: And ye? ORTUS Poem Text First Line: How have I laboured? Last Line: No portion, but a being. OUR CONTEMPORARIES Poem Text First Line: When the taihaitian princess Last Line: And wrote ninety petrarchan sonnets. PAGANI'S Poem Text First Line: Suddenly discovering in the eyes of the very beautify normande cocotte Subject(s): Museums; Art Gallerys PAGANI'S, NOVEMBER 8 Poem Text First Line: Suddenly discovering in the eyes of the very beautiful Last Line: The eyes of the very learned british museum assistant. PAN IS DEAD Poem Text First Line: Pan is dead. Great pan is dead Last Line: "upon such hollow season?" PAPYRUS Poem Text First Line: Spring / too long Last Line: Gongula . . . . . . Subject(s): Poetry & Poets PARACELSUS IN EXCELSIS Poem Text First Line: Being no longer human, why should I Last Line: "in us alone the element of calm." PHANOPOEIA: CONCAVA VALLIS Poem Text First Line: The wire-like bands of colour involute Last Line: Stretches both sea-cliff and ocean. PHANOPOEIA: ROSE WHITE, YELLOW, SILVER Poem Text First Line: The swirl of light follows me through the square Last Line: It falls and rolls to your feet. PHANOPOEIA: SALTUS Poem Text First Line: The swirling sphere has opened Last Line: You have perceived the leaves of the flame. PHASELLUS ILLE First Line: This papier-mache, which you see, my friends PHYLLIDULA Poem Text First Line: Phyllidula is scrawny but amorous Last Line: Let her change her religion. PICCADILLY Poem Text First Line: Beautiful, tragical faces PIERE VIDAL OLD Poem Text First Line: When I but think upon the great dead days Last Line: Ha! This scent is hot! PLANH FOR THE YOUNG ENGLISH KING Poem Text First Line: If all the grief and woe and bitterness Last Line: There where there is no grief, nor shall be sadness. PORTRAIT D'UNE FEMME Poem Text Recitation First Line: Your mind and you are our sargasso sea Last Line: Yet this is you. Subject(s): Farr, Florence; Women POST MORTEM CONSPECTU Poem Text First Line: A brown, fat babe sitting in the lotus Last Line: And laughter is the end of all things. PRAISE OF YSOLT Poem Text First Line: In vain have I striven Last Line: While in his heart art thou? PREFERENCE Poem Text First Line: It is true that you say the gods are more use to Last Line: You will say that I deserve this. Variant Title(s): The Choice PROVINCIA DESERTA Poem Text First Line: At rochecoart Last Line: I have thought of them living. Subject(s): France QUIES Poem Text First Line: This is another of our ancient loves Last Line: Hath lacked a something. 'twas but marginal. SALUTATION Poem Text First Line: O generation of the thoroughly smug Last Line: And do not even own clothing. SALUTATION THE SECOND Poem Text First Line: You were praised, my books Last Line: And that you will live forever. SALUTATION THE THIRD Poem Text First Line: Let us deride the smugness of 'the times' Last Line: Lick off the blacking. SALVATIONISTS Poem Text First Line: Come, my songs, let us speak of perfection Last Line: All the bulmenian literati. SATIEMUS Poem Text First Line: What if I know thy speeches word by word? Last Line: Nor find aught novel in thy merriment? SENNIN POEM BY KAKUHAKU Poem Text First Line: The red and green kingfishers Last Line: Can you even tell the age of a turtle? SESTINA: ALTAFORTE Poem Text Recitation First Line: Damn it all! All this our south stinks peace Last Line: "hell blot black for alway the thought ""peace!" Subject(s): Blood; Peace; War SHOP GIRL Poem Text First Line: For a moment she rested against me Last Line: And the harlots of baudelaire. SILET Poem Text First Line: When I behold how black, immortal ink Last Line: To plague to-morrow with a testament! Subject(s): Writing & Writers SIMULACRA Poem Text First Line: Why does the horse-faced lady of just the unmentionable age Last Line: Undeterred by the manifest age of my trappings? SOCIETY Poem Text First Line: The family position was waning Last Line: Now bears the palsied contact of phidippus. SPEECH FOR PSYCHE IN THE GOLDEN BOOK OF APULEIUS Poem Text First Line: All night, and as the wind lieth among Last Line: O winds, what wind can match the weight of him! SUB MARE Poem Text First Line: It is, and is not, I am sane enough Last Line: These things that are familiars of the god. SURGIT FAMA Poem Text First Line: There is a truce among the gods Last Line: "full of gossip and old tales." TAME CAT Poem Text First Line: It rests me to be among beautiful women Last Line: "is both stimulating and delightful." Subject(s): Beauty TEMPORA Poem Text First Line: Io! Io! Tamuz! Last Line: "may my poems be printed this week?" TENZONE Poem Text First Line: Will people accept them? Last Line: In the darkness. THE ALCHEMIST Poem Text First Line: Sail of claustra, aelis, azalais Last Line: Quiet this metal. Subject(s): Alchemy & Alchemists; Supernatural THE ALTAR Poem Text First Line: Let us build here an exquisite friendship Last Line: Where these have been, meet 'tis, the ground is holy. THE BATH TUB Poem Text First Line: As a bathtub lined with white porcelain Last Line: O my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady. THE BELLAIRES Poem Text First Line: The good bellaires Last Line: Are very charming people. THE CHARGE OF THE BREAD BRIGADE Poem Text First Line: Half a loaf, half a loaf, / half a loaf? Um-hum? Last Line: Fed 'em with hogwash! Subject(s): Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron THE CLOAK Poem Text First Line: Thou keep'st thy rose-leaf Last Line: Time than my eyes. THE COMING OF WAR: ACTAEON Poem Text First Line: An image of lethe Last Line: The silent cortege. Subject(s): War THE CONDOLENCE Poem Text First Line: O my fellow sufferers, songs of my youth Last Line: And return to that which concerns us. THE ENCOUNTER Poem Text First Line: All the while they were talking the new morality Last Line: Of a japanese paper napkin. THE EYES Poem Text First Line: Rest master, for we be a-weary, weary Last Line: And we would look thereon. THE FAUN Poem Text First Line: Ha! Sir, I have seen you sniffing and snoozling Last Line: "and scare itself to spasms." Subject(s): Horticulture THE FLAME Poem Text First Line: Tis not a game that plays at mates and mating Last Line: Your grasp, I have eluded. THE GAME OF CHESS Poem Text First Line: Red knights, brown bishops, bright queens Last Line: Blocked lights working in. Escapes. Renewal of contest. Subject(s): Chess THE GARDEN Poem Text First Line: Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall Last Line: Will commit that indiscretion. Subject(s): Kensington Gardens; Social Classes; Caste THE GARRET Poem Text First Line: Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are Last Line: The hour of waking together. THE GREAT DIGEST OF CONFUCIUS Poem Text First Line: The great learning (adult study, grinding corn in the head's mortatr to fit it Last Line: "happen. ""take not cliff for morass and treacherous bramble." Subject(s): Confucius And Confucianism; Discipline; Education; Order; Self-control THE GYPSY Poem Text First Line: That was the top of the walk, when he said Last Line: With caravans, but never an ape or a bear. THE HOUSE OF SPLENDOUR Poem Text First Line: Tis evanoe's, / a house not made with hands Last Line: Break down the four-square walls of standing time. THE LAKE ISLE Poem Text First Line: O god, o venus, o mercury, patron of thieves Last Line: Where one needs one's brains all the time. THE NEEDLE Poem Text First Line: Come, or the stellar tide will slip away Last Line: Until this course turneth aside. THE NEW CAKE OF SOAP Poem Text First Line: Lo, how it gleams and glistens in the sun Last Line: Like the cheek of a chesterton. THE PATTERNS Poem Text First Line: Erinna is a model parent Last Line: Her offspring are fat and happy. THE PICTURE (VENUS RECLINING) Poem Text First Line: The eyes of this dead lady speak to me Last Line: The eyes of this dead lady speak to me. Subject(s): Jacopo Del Sallaio (1442-1493); Love; Paintings And Painters THE PLUNGE Poem Text First Line: I would bathe myself in strangeness: Last Line: Alien people! THE REST Poem Text First Line: O helpless few in my country Last Line: I have beaten out my exile. Subject(s): Exiles; United States; America THE RETURN Poem Text First Line: See, they return; ah, see the tentative Last Line: Pallid the leash-men! Subject(s): Reality THE RIVER-MECHANT'S WIFE: A LETTER Poem Text First Line: While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead - see more at: http://www.Poets.Org/viewmedi Subject(s): Nature; Marriage; Againg; Absence; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Separation; Isolation THE SEAFARER Poem Text First Line: May I for my own self song's truth reckon Subject(s): Sea Voyages THE SEEING EYE Poem Text First Line: The small dogs look at the big dogs Last Line: That we find minute observation. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THE SOCIAL ORDER Poem Text First Line: This government official Last Line: Save a squabble of female connections. THE SPRING Poem Text First Line: Cydonian [or, cydonion] spring with her attendant train Last Line: Moves only now a clinging tenuous ghost. THE STUDY IN AESTHETICS Poem Text First Line: The very small children in patched clothing Last Line: And at this I was mildly abashed. THE TEA SHOP Poem Text First Line: The girl in the tea shop Last Line: She also will turn middle-aged. THE TEMPERAMENTS Poem Text Recitation First Line: Nine adulteries, 12 liaisons, 64 fornications and something Last Line: He had to be four times cuckold. Subject(s): Sex THE THREE POETS Poem Text First Line: Candidia has taken a new lover Last Line: And the third writes an epigram to candidia. Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets THE TOMB AT AKR CAAR Poem Text First Line: I am thy soul, nikoptis. I have watched Last Line: "I do not go." Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones THE TREE Poem Text First Line: I stood still and was a tree amid the wood Last Line: That was rank folly to my head before. Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation THE WHITE STAG Poem Text First Line: I ha' seen them 'mid the clouds on the heather Last Line: "bid the world's hounds come to horn!" THRENOS Poem Text First Line: No more for us the little sighing Last Line: Tintagoel. TO A FRIEND WRITING ON CABARET DANCERS Poem Text First Line: Good 'hedgethorn,' for we'll anglicize your name Last Line: "la donna e mobile." Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers TO DIVES Poem Text First Line: Who am I to condemn you, o dives Last Line: As you are with useless riches? TO FORMIANUS' YOUNG LADY FRIEND; AFTER VALERIUS CATULLUS Poem Text First Line: All hail! Young lady with a nose Last Line: O most unfortunate age! TO KALON Poem Text First Line: Even in my dreams you have denied yourself to me Last Line: And sent me only your handmaids. TO WHISTLER, AMERICAN; ON LOAN EXHIBIT OF PAINTINGS AT TATE GALLERY Poem Text First Line: You also, our first great Last Line: Show us there's chance at least of winning through. Subject(s): Whistler, James Abbott (1834-1903) TO-EM-MEI'S 'THE UNMOVING CLOUD' Poem Text First Line: The clouds have gathered, and gathered Last Line: "he can not know of our sorrow." TRANSLATOR TO TRANSLATED First Line: O harry heine, curses be TS'AI CHI'H Poem Text First Line: The petals fall in the fountain Last Line: Their ochre clings to the stone. VILLANELLE: THE PSYCHOLOGICAL HOUR Poem Text First Line: I had over-prepared the event Last Line: "dear pound, I am leaving england." VILLONAUD FOR THIS YULE Poem Text First Line: Towards the noel that morte saison Last Line: Wining the ghosts of yester-year. VORTEX.POUND Poem Text First Line: The vortex is the point of maximum energy Last Line: Cover us with your pools of fir WAR SONG Poem Text First Line: Well pleaseth me the sweet time of easter Subject(s): War WAR VERSE (1914) Poem Text First Line: O two-penny poets, be still-- Last Line: From leman and brialmont. Subject(s): World War I; First World War WELL PLEASETH ME THE SWEET TIME OF EASTER Subject(s): Spring WOMEN BEFORE A SHOP Poem Text First Line: The gew-gaws of false amber and false turquoise attract them Last Line: "like to like nature"": these agglutinous yellows!" WOMEN OF TRAKIS, SELS. First Line: Phoebus, phoebus, ere thou slay Last Line: Or death reign instantly |
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