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Author: ransom, john Matches Found: 104 Lewis, John Ransom 2 poems available by this author BIG BANG First Line: Was it a supra nova IF I WERE A CLOUD First Line: Little white cloud Palmer, John Ransom 5 poems available by this author DROWNING First Line: He should be walking in the clear moonlight Subject(s): Physicians EMPTINESS First Line: Be dead, then - die - be of another world Subject(s): Death; Physicians FATIGUE ATTACKS THE NERVES, THE BRAIN Subject(s): Physicians LIFE LIKE A MATADOR GOES FORTH Subject(s): Physicians NOTE ON THE CONTINUITY OF LIFE First Line: Let the earth eat up her dead Subject(s): Physicians Ransom, John Crowe Poet's Biography 91 poems available by this author ADDRESS TO THE SCHOLARS OF NEW ENGLAND Poem Text First Line: When sarah pierrepont let her spirit rage Subject(s): Harvard University; New England; Scholarship & Scholars ADDRESS TO THE SCHOLARS OF NEW ENGLAND First Line: When sarah pierrepont let her spirit rage Last Line: And if there's passion enough for half their flame, %your wisdom has done this, sages of harvard Subject(s): Harvard University; New England; Scholarship And Scholars AMPHIBIOUS CROCODILE Poem Text First Line: In due season the amphibious crocodile Subject(s): Crocodiles AMPHIBIOUS CROCODILE First Line: In due season the amphibious crocodile Last Line: And quite invisible but for the end of his nose Subject(s): Crocodiles ANTIQUE HARVESTERS Poem Text First Line: Tawny are the leaves turned but they still hold Subject(s): Harvest ANTIQUE HARVESTERS First Line: Tawny are the leaves turned but they still hold Last Line: Why, the ribs of the earth subsist frail as a breath %if but god wearieth Subject(s): Harvest ARMAGEDDON Poem Text First Line: Antichrist, playing his lissome flute and merry Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology ARMAGEDDON First Line: Antichrist, playing his lissome flute and merry Last Line: These armageddons weary me much,' he said Subject(s): Bible; Religion AUTUMN LOVE First Line: Easter thaws no overwintered mind BELLS FOR JOHN WHITESIDE'S DAUGHTER Poem Text Recitation First Line: There was such speed in her little body Last Line: Lying so primly propped. Subject(s): Daughters; Death - Children; Fathers & Daughters; Funerals; Social Protest; Death - Babies; Burials BLACKBERRY WINTER First Line: If the lady hath any loveliness, let it die Last Line: Anxious for the flash of whether eyes or swords, %and hoping a little, a little, that either may be BLUE GIRLS Poem Text Recitation First Line: Twirling your blue skirts, traveling the sward Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Transience; Youth; Impermanence BLUE GIRLS First Line: Twirling your blue skirts, traveling the sward Last Line: Since she was lovelier than any of you Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Transience; Youth CAPTAIN CARPENTER Poem Text First Line: Captain carpenter rose up in his prime Last Line: And made the kites to whet their beaks clack clack. Subject(s): Despair CONRAD AT TWILIGHT Poem Text First Line: Conrad, conrad, aren't you old Last Line: But conrad has not answered a word. Subject(s): Conrad, Joseph (1857-1924) DEAD BOY Poem Text Recitation First Line: The little cousin is dead, by foul subtraction Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies DEAD BOY First Line: The little cousin is dead, by foul subtraction Last Line: But this was the old tree's late branch wrenched away, %grieving the sapless limbs, the shorn and sh Subject(s): Death - Children DOG First Line: Cock-a-doodle-doo the brass-lined rooster goes Last Line: Blaze two red eyes as hot as cooking-coals ECLOGUE Poem Text First Line: Jane sneed began it: my poor john, alas! Last Line: Beneath ground as above. Subject(s): Life; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love EMILY HARDCASTLE, SPINSTER Poem Text First Line: We shall come tomorrow morning, who were not to have her love Last Line: Where the foreigner may take her for his gloomy halidom Subject(s): Spinsters; Old Maids EMILY HARDCASTLE, SPINSTER First Line: We shall come tomorrow morning, who were not to have her love Last Line: And seal her to the stranger for his castle in the gloom Subject(s): Spinsters EPITAPH First Line: Napoleon took many captures and is dead Last Line: And mustered invisible regiments to his aid, %for he triumphed; and the envious caesars took it as t EQUILIBRISTS First Line: Full of her long white arms and milky skin Last Line: Mouldered the lips and ashy the tall skull, %let them lie perilous and beautiful Variant Title(s): History Of Two Simple Lover FIRST TRAVELS OF MAX First Line: As hath been, lo, these many generations GOOD SHIPS Poem Text First Line: Fleet ships encountering on the high seas Last Line: And unto miserly merchant hulks converted Subject(s): Ships & Shipping GOOD SHIPS First Line: Fleet ships encountering on the high seas Last Line: Beautiful timbers fit for storm and sport %and unto miserly merchant hulks converted Subject(s): Ships And Shipping HER EYES Poem Text First Line: To a woman I knew Last Line: On her good name Subject(s): Eyes HER EYES First Line: To a woman I knew Last Line: I apprehend will get some blame %on her good name Subject(s): Eyes HERE LIES A LADY Poem Text First Line: Here lies a lady of beauty and high degree Last Line: After six little spaces of chill, and six of burning. Subject(s): Death; Women; Dead, The IN PROCESS OF A NOBLE ALLIANCE Poem Text First Line: Reduce this lady unto marble quickly Last Line: Ye harping the springe that catches the dove. INLAND CITY Poem Text First Line: She lies far inland, and no stick nor stone of her Last Line: Moor in my little boats vigilantly! Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life INLAND CITY First Line: She lies far inland, and no stick nor stone of her Last Line: But ye walls and gateposts, and ye halls and gardens, %moor in my little boats vigilantly! Subject(s): Cities JACK'S LETTER First Line: Do not imagine that jack and rose apart Last Line: Her parcel soon will thicken to a blossom %which will be soft to hold and sweet to smell JANET WAKING Poem Text First Line: Beautifully janet slept Subject(s): Death; Hens; Dead, The JANET WAKING First Line: Beautifully janet slept Last Line: And would not be instructed in how deep %was the forgetful kingdom of death Subject(s): Death; Hens JUDITH OF BETHULIA First Line: Beautiful as the flying legend of some leopard Last Line: Yes, and chilled with fear and despair LADY LOST First Line: This morning, flew up the lane Last Line: And her right home and her right passion LITTLE BOY BLUE First Line: His rubbed his eyes and wound the silver horn Last Line: And there were spent and sleepy cows to keep, %he rubbed his eyes again and went to sleep LOVER First Line: I sat in a friendly company MAN WITHOUT SENSE OF DIRECTION First Line: Tell this to ladies: how a hero man Last Line: To peace, as men are served by women %who comfort them in darkness and in sun MIRIAM TAZEWELL Poem Text First Line: When miriam tazewell heard the tempest bursting Last Line: For weeks she went untidy, she went sullen Subject(s): Hate MIRIAM TAZEWELL First Line: When miriam tazewell heard the tempest bursting Last Line: And not to unstop her own storm and be maudlin, %for weeks she went untidy, she went sullen Subject(s): Hate MISS EUPHEMIA First Line: Out of her house she crept Last Line: And sit she sits with us only %till next pentecost MORNING First Line: Jane awoke ralph so gently on one morning NECROLOGICAL Poem Text First Line: The friar had said his paternosters duly Last Line: Whom the kites of heaven solicited with sweet cries Subject(s): Death; Dead, The NECROLOGICAL First Line: The friar had said his paternosters duly Last Line: And so stil that he likened himself unto those dead %whom the kites of heaven solicited with sweet c Subject(s): Death NOCTURNE First Line: Where now is the young adam, sultry in his aiden? Last Line: If he had the heart, and the head, for a furious antique bacchanal NOONDAY GRACE First Line: My good old father tucked his head NUMBER FIVE First Line: Come in out of the night,' said the landlord Subject(s): Guilt NUMBER FIVE First Line: Come in out of the night,' said the landlord Last Line: That never to girls nor priests may tell the wrong - %and I run by the river where the dead things d Subject(s): Guilt OLD MAN PLAYING WITH CHILDREN First Line: A discreet household exclaims on the grandsire Last Line: But I will be the more honourable in these days OLD MANSION (AFTER HENRY JAMES) Poem Text First Line: As an intruded I trudged with careful innocence Last Line: To dip, alas, into some unseemlier world Variant Title(s): Southern Mansion Subject(s): Houses OLD MANSION (AFTER HENRY JAMES) First Line: As an intruded I trudged with careful innocence Last Line: To dip, alas, into some unseemlier world Variant Title(s): Southern Mansio Subject(s): Houses OUR TWO WORTHIES Poem Text First Line: All the here and all the there Last Line: He is our exegete Subject(s): Jesus Christ OUR TWO WORTHIES First Line: All the here and all the there Last Line: He is our exegete Subject(s): Jesus Christ PAINTED HEAD Poem Text First Line: By dark severance the apparition head Subject(s): Heads PAINTED HEAD First Line: By dark severance the apparition head Last Line: To spread the hyacinthine hair and rear %the olive garden for the nightingales Subject(s): Heads PARTING AT DAWN First Line: If there was a broken whispering by night PARTING, WITHOUT A SEQUEL Poem Text First Line: She has finished and sealed the letter Last Line: And cold as any icicle Subject(s): Farewell; Parting PARTING, WITHOUT A SEQUEL First Line: She has finished and sealed the letter Last Line: And all the time she stood there hot at fever %and cold as any icicle Subject(s): Farewell PHILOMELA Poem Text First Line: Procne, philomela, and itylus Last Line: Thy fabulous provinces belong. Subject(s): Birds PIAZZA PIECE Poem Text First Line: I am a gentleman in a dustcoat trying / to make you hear Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Death; Mortality; Old Age; Youth; Dead, The PIAZZA PIECE First Line: I am a gentleman in a dustcoat trying %to make you hear Last Line: I am a lady young in beauty waiting Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Death; Mortality; Old Age; Youth PRELUDE TO AN EVENING First Line: Do not enforce the tired wolf Last Line: You shall make noes but wanderingly, %smoothing the heads of the hungry children PRIMER OF SCIENCE. FR. TWO GENTLEMEN IN BONDS First Line: The king, to a diligent scholar of great laws SOMEWHERE IS SUCH A KINGDOM Poem Text First Line: The famous kingdom of the birds Last Line: If no such beast were, no such bird? Subject(s): Birds SOMEWHERE IS SUCH A KINGDOM First Line: The famous kingdom of the birds Last Line: And dare I think it is absurd %if no such beast were, no such bird? Subject(s): Birds SONNET OF A SURE HEART Poem Text First Line: The way seemed full of her, but these came nigh Last Line: She brings me all the other wonders in. SPECTRAL LOVERS Poem Text Recitation First Line: By night they haunted a thicket of april mist Subject(s): Consolation; Love SPECTRAL LOVERS First Line: By night they haunted a thicket of april mist Last Line: Who touch their quick fingers fluttering like a bird %whose songs shall never be heard Subject(s): Consolation; Love SURVEY OF LITERATURE Poem Text First Line: In all the good greek of plato Subject(s): Literature SURVEY OF LITERATURE First Line: In all the good greek of plato Last Line: No belly and no bowels, %only consonants and vowels Subject(s): Literature SWIMMER First Line: In dog-days plowmen quit their toil Subject(s): Swimming THE LAST JUDGMENT Poem Text First Line: To his angel company drowsing on their strings Last Line: And showed her small round bosom kissed by the asp. Subject(s): Angels; Gabriel; God THE MILLER'S DAUGHTER Poem Text First Line: I have seen, o, the miller's daughter Last Line: A mose rare miller's daughter. Subject(s): Daughters; Mills And Millers THE SWIMMER Poem Text First Line: In dog-days plowmen quit their toil Last Line: Come to the top, o wicked swimmer! Subject(s): Swimming & Swimmers THEY HAIL THE SUNRISE Poem Text First Line: They swore they found the dark exceeding bitter Last Line: Strong as the sun, and girded up, and deathless. THEY PRAISE THE SUN Poem Text First Line: How shall the golden day discreetly pass? Last Line: Dark spaces intervene, but new suns rise. Subject(s): Sun TOM. TOM. THE PIPER'S SON First Line: Grim in my little black coat as the sleazy beetle Last Line: Hush, hush, he is come TWO GENTLEMEN IN BONDS, SELS. TWO IN AUGUST Poem Text First Line: Two that could not have lived their single lives Subject(s): Desire; Love TWO IN AUGUST First Line: Two that could not have lived their single lives Last Line: Under the hackberry trees where the birds talked %with words too sad and strange to syllable Subject(s): Desire; Love TWO SONNETS: 1 First Line: It was beside the fire that I had lit Last Line: And I played the god; disdaining her no more %I smiled, and drew her closer than before Subject(s): Love TWO SONNETS: 1. YEA Poem Text First Line: It was beside the fire that I had lit Last Line: I smiled, and drew her closer than before Subject(s): Love UNDER THE LOCUSTS First Line: What do the old men say VAGRANT First Line: Now what can he want VISION BY SWEETWATER Poem Text First Line: Go and ask robin to bring the girls over Subject(s): Deja Vu VISION BY SWEETWATER First Line: Go and ask robin to bring the girls over Last Line: From one of the white throats which it hid among? Subject(s): Deja Vu WHAT DUCKS REQUIRE First Line: Ducks require no ship and sail WINTER REMEMBERED First Line: Two evils, monstrous either one apart Last Line: Ten frozen parsnips hanging in the weather WRESTLING First Line: Came threshint-time, the height of all our seasons Ransom. John Crowe Poet's Biography 6 poems available by this author ADA RUEL Poem Text First Line: The queens of hell had lissome necks to crane Subject(s): Youth; Women - Old Age GRANDGOUSIER Poem Text First Line: Dry bones, / dry brains Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary POEMS HAVE CHANTED MORTALITY Poem Text First Line: It had better been hidden Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Mortality PROMETHEUS IN STRAITS Poem Text First Line: Garrulous gentlemen on a verandah, Subject(s): Prometheus THE EQUILBRISTS Poem Text Recitation First Line: Full of her long white arms and milky skin Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Lust; Love - Erotic; Male-female Relations WINTER REMEMBERED Poem Text First Line: Two evils, monstrous either one apart, Subject(s): Winter; Absence; Grief; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness |
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