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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: snodgrass, william Matches Found: 279 Snodgrass, William Dewitt Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D. 279 poems available by this author A FLAT ONE Poem Text First Line: Old fritz, on this rotating bed Subject(s): Sickness; Illness ADOLF HITLER First Line: Eight long years, my will was Last Line: Death is. Will death and you resume %dominion. %have your will once more Subject(s): Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945) AFTER EXPERIENCE TAUGHT ME Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: After experience taught me that all the ordinary Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War AFTER EXPERIENCE TAUGHT ME First Line: After experience taught me that all the ordinary Last Line: What evil, what unspeakable crime %have you made your life worth? Subject(s): World War Ii AH SUNFLOWER First Line: As the sunflower, weary of time Last Line: Where my sunflower wishes to go ALBERT SPEER First Line: Not even %a farewell. Not even Last Line: Too little of my children Subject(s): Speer, Albert (1905-1981); World War Ii ALWAYS DECKED OUT First Line: Always decked out in the height of fashion Last Line: Their glamour never strikes my heart ANECDOTE OF THE JAR First Line: I dropped a jar on a hill Last Line: As everything else in tennessee did ANNIVERSARY VERSES FOR MY OLDES WIFE First Line: I vowed and vowed again Last Line: This old dog's learned the right %old lady'd fix you fast APRIL INVENTORY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The green catalpa tree has turned Subject(s): Old Age APRIL INVENTORY First Line: The green catalpa tree has turned Last Line: There is a loveliness exists, %preserves us, not for specialists Subject(s): Old Age ASSUMING FINE FEATHERS, W.D. TAKES FLIGHT First Line: Over these cheekbones AT MELVILLE'S TOMB First Line: He often saw - underseas, far offshore Last Line: This great soul is found only in the sea AT THE GARDEN PARTY First Line: The flushed appearance of these faces from our set Last Line: Pink peonies on a dark green bough AT THE PARK DANCE First Line: As the melting park AT THE VILLA First Line: Sun-glazed waters, calm ahead. Our boat's wake Last Line: But don't bad things happen to unlucky people too? Subject(s): Malice AUCTION First Line: For the gay tailfeathers, say, what'll you pay AUTUMN VARIATIONS: 1 First Line: The evening grosbeak on the lawn Last Line: We must make do, once summer's done, %with our fair-weather friends or none AUTUMN VARIATIONS: 2 First Line: The garden's garter snake Last Line: Dig down in the numb %security of clay, one %with their fate AUTUMN VARIATIONS: 3 First Line: In spray-paint, psychedelic, gaudy Last Line: Determined paths, a wilder atmosphere %wheels in, flaunting its chains, blades and black leather AUTUMN VARIATIONS: 4 First Line: Imperial greenery withdraws Last Line: Under those implacable branches, %nothing grows AUTUMN VARIATIONS: 5 First Line: Maple and ash in the hedgerow Last Line: Blocks scattered like packed bags and crates %around the field while the field waits AUTUMN VARIATIONS: 6 First Line: Sharp, black crickets %have got the house Last Line: Says we'll know soon %what sort of man you are AUTUMN VARIATIONS: 7 First Line: Bark strips peel off the sycamore Last Line: Where the racoon and field mouse beat %a long, inglorious retreat AUTUMN VARIATIONS: 8 First Line: Bare bones! Bare bones! Last Line: Whose body's lying on the bed, %eyes that still stare too wide to close BAD SON First Line: Why dois your brand sae drap wi' bluid Last Line: And all on account of me, o!' BAWDY NOON First Line: You could be hunting through a barrel Last Line: My favorite swiss cheese and some dandy %fat bartlett pears BELLY DANCER First Line: At first we heard her necklaces and jewelry Last Line: The human accoutrements her body was opposed to BETHSABE'S SONG First Line: The sun is hot but its fire is cool if tempered by sweet air Last Line: Nor pierce some shifty eye %that's prowling lightly BIRDS CAUGHT, BIRDS FLYING First Line: I handed you, for you to hold Last Line: And watch them go on, on their way %again then, when they must be gone BIVOUAC ON A MOUNTAIN SIDE First Line: I now see an army halted on its march Last Line: Working their way through, the stars that endure forever BLUE HEAVEN First Line: Almighty god! I merely think of thee Last Line: From growing tired of life, no love of thee BORN AGAIN First Line: From turning in its ever-widening gyre Last Line: Now stalks to bethlehem to soon be born? BOY MADE OF MEAT First Line: Why do they make boys out of meat BREAK ON AND ON AND ON Last Line: Will not come back to me BRIGHT DAY IN THE GARDEN Last Line: For bright days in the garden CALL FOR CLUES First Line: Okay, you leaves up there, come clean CAMPUS ON THE HILL First Line: Up the reputable walks of old established trees CARDINAL First Line: I wake late and leave CAVALRY CROSSING A FORD First Line: A long, stretched-out line, winding through islands of greenery Last Line: In the wind the guidon flags gayly flutter CELTIC TUNE First Line: Merrygorounds are no use; neither are rickshaws Last Line: But scrapping the gauges won't halt the elements CERTAIN MAN LIVED IN A VERY NICE TOWN Last Line: While spheres turned and weather changed CHARGES AGAINST COCK ROBIN First Line: Speaker: his honor james t. 'just CHASTE AND CAUTIOUS SONG First Line: The men were all too tall or short Last Line: One pretext, one excuse CHERRY SAPLINGS First Line: You turn your back on them no more COMING BACK First Line: Look at that, they're coming back; just look Last Line: They slowly walk on short leashes, %pale men on a leash! COMING DOWN FROM THE ACROPOLIS First Line: We bent our backs, the two of us, climbing COMPLAINT AT NIGHTFALL First Line: The houses are haunted Last Line: Dreams of adventures %in dangerous times CORONER'S INQUEST First Line: Who killed cock robin? CREDO First Line: This is the song D.D. BYRDE CALLYING JENNIE WRENN First Line: Deare wee brown byrdie, dare wee too DANCE SUITE: MR. EVIL DISGUISES HIMSELF AS HERSELF... First Line: Note the elegance of line Last Line: Crooning like gnats, 'I'll %knock him dead!' DARKLING ALPHABET First Line: A is for atom, the source DE/COMPOSING ANIMAL First Line: In early summer in the fields Last Line: Then made for all mankind this sad lament DEATH AND THE MAIDEN First Line: My name is death and I've come in disguise Last Line: I am a fair young maiden, waiting here DEER EVENING First Line: Only deer, that search Last Line: And will not scare DIPLOMACY: THE FATHER First Line: Your mission, in any disputed area, is to find Last Line: As cradled and sustained %as in yourself DISGUISED AS COCK ROBIN, W.D. ESCAPES First Line: Come, rosie angel, faced with blues DISGUISED AS HUMPTY-DUMPTY, W.D. PRACTICES TUMBLING First Line: What is more odious than all DISPOSAL First Line: The unworn long gown, meant for dances DOCTOR JOSEPH GOEBBELS, MINISTER FOR PROPAGANDA First Line: I came here to read nursery tales Last Line: Sick of their own taste, sick of winning. %they'll think of us. That's a beginning Subject(s): Goebbels, Joseph (1897-1945); Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945) DOSTOIEVSKY WARNS W.D. ABOUT WEARING RASKOLNIKOV'S HAT First Line: To step out in sporting such a topper DREAM SONG: 29 First Line: So heavy a burden was once placed on henry's heart Last Line: And he has never killed anybody DRIVING LATE AT NIGHT First Line: Driving late at night I found an animal Last Line: And shoved the corpse over the cliff for good and all DRUMMER VAUGHAN First Line: They throw in drummer vaughan to rest Last Line: Strange constellations will remain %above him endlessly EIGHT A.M. First Line: He stood, and heard the steeple Last Line: The clock struck eight ELDERHOSTEL IN THE EAST First Line: Old ireland's not a place the old should go Last Line: Is where the sick and elderly should come ELM TREE First Line: The winter birds have come END First Line: When the present has latched its postern behind my hesitant stay Last Line: He nevermore will listen to such sounds as these'? ENGLAND IN 1819 First Line: An old, mad, blind, despised and dying king Last Line: That's lost all hope of finding its true way ENVOI, POST-TURP First Line: Farewell, children of my right hand and bliss Last Line: Encodes our texts, pirates, and then reprints us, says, %'good night, bad cess to you, sweet prince ESSENTIAL VERSE First Line: They spoil your life, your parents do Last Line: And raising children would be worse EXAMINATION First Line: Under the thick beams of that swirly smoking light Last Line: They nod, whispering, 'one of ours; one of ours. Yes. Yes' FARM KIDS First Line: Our neighbor's slim rag doll of a daughter (not Last Line: Make sure they'll make nothing of their lives but lives FATHER'S ST. VITUS' DANCE First Line: The whiskey that was on your breath Last Line: I, meanwhile, clung to your shirt FIRST LEAF First Line: The first leaf, as we drive off FIRST THE RED PETALS First Line: First the red petals shut, next the white ones Last Line: Into my heart and get lost in me FISHING DRUNK First Line: I wade a creek that's surging high Last Line: Salvation can be mine at once FLASH FLOOD First Line: The worst is over: the people FLAT ONE First Line: Old fritz, on this rotating bed Last Line: No. We'd still have to help you try. We would %have killed for you today Subject(s): Sickness FOR HUGUES CUENOD-IN HIS 100TH YEAR First Line: Midway along our road sometimes a voice Last Line: Why not just say: one voice for all seasons FOR THE FUTURE'S SAKE First Line: I said to my friend Last Line: Harm to the ecology.' FOREVER NEAT AND DRESSED First Line: Forever neatly dressed %as going to a feast Last Line: Catch eyes but miss the heart FOREVER TO BE NEAT, FOREVER DRESSED Last Line: They strike mine eyes, but never strike my heart FORTEMENTE First Line: In the silent, scarcely holy night Last Line: Mouthing our neighbors' worst surmises Subject(s): Animal Rights; Hunting FORTY GUN SALUTE First Line: Cut engines, lights out, silent as the argo Last Line: Through 40 storm-torn years, still working, still afloat FOURTH OF JULY First Line: The drifting smoke is gone, today FOX TROT: THE WHISPER, THE WHISTLE AND THE SONG First Line: Whispering, coaxing in some hearer FRIEND First Line: I walk into your house, a friend FROM A POLISH CABARET First Line: Man eats man; all just men know Last Line: With us it's the reverse FUEHRER BUNKER: 1 APRIL 1945. CHORUS (8) First Line: Old lady barkeep had a hitler Last Line: His name live on, renowned Subject(s): Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Legacies; World War Ii GIRL OUTSIDE YOUR WINDOW First Line: Doesn't know %she doesn't know you Last Line: Some message scrawled out, %desperate, in a foreign hand GOD'S GRANDEUR First Line: The world is charged with the grandeur of god Last Line: With his warm breast and his bright-colored wings GRIEVING FOR THE DEATH, BY FIRE, OF A CHILD IN LONDON First Line: Never until the darkness that creates Last Line: Having died once, you live forever HEART'S NEEDLE First Line: Child of my winter, born Subject(s): Divorce; Fathers And Daughters; Parents HELTER-SKELTER STREET SCENE First Line: Among the crowds, a spectre - these faces Last Line: Petals on a branch, all wet and black HOME TOWN First Line: I go out like a ghost HOUSE THE POET BUILT First Line: This is the house the poet built HUGE FISH First Line: I caught a huge fish Last Line: And I tossed the fish away I'VE LOST SO MUCH First Line: I've lost so much just twice before Last Line: I need your help once more IF I SHOULD NOT SURVIVE Last Line: With my lips of clay IN A SUBWAY PASSAGE First Line: The vision of these faces among the crowd Last Line: Bringing beauty into a dark, forbidding scene IN AN ABANDONED SUBWAY TUNNEL First Line: The sudden appearance of this crowd of faces Last Line: Used condoms flushing down a muddy sewer IN EARLIEST Last Line: Balloonman whistles %softly, %from far %off IN FLOWER First Line: A gold tall teacup Last Line: Its cipher, could thread %your question down %dark circuits %to the center %echoing IN FLOWER First Line: Some viking's blond shock Last Line: Dark networks, and the field %is taken IN FLOWER: 1. TULIPS First Line: Tight green buds %like fists or as Last Line: Their brimming overflow %to wish you well IN FLOWER: 3. BEARDED IRIS First Line: All labial folds and ripples Last Line: Soothing all refusal %down INQUEST First Line: Under the lamp your hands do not seem red INVITATION First Line: Come live with me and be my last Last Line: Who else knows what I need to know? JANET'S PET First Line: Janet slept beautifully Last Line: Was the merciless kingdom of death JAUFRE RUDEL: LAN QUAN LI JORN First Line: When days grow long and warm with may Last Line: Who's cursed me so my love runs ill LADY First Line: Asshole' and 'shit' were always on her lips Last Line: Or elegant: I know she wipes her hands Subject(s): Hate LAST TIME First Line: Three years ago, one last time, you forgot LASTING First Line: Fish oils,' my doctor snorted, 'and oily fish Last Line: The heart's tough muscle-weak still in gratitude Subject(s): Aging; Dieting; Food And Eating; Health LEADEN ECHO AND THE GOLDEN ECHO: THE GOLDEN ECHO First Line: Stop that! %I have one, so be quiet Last Line: Let's go over there LEADEN ECHO AND THE GOLDEN ECHO: THE LEADEN ECHO First Line: Isn't there any known method or attachment to prevent Last Line: So begin to lose heart, %give up and despair LEAVING THE MOTEL First Line: Outside, the last kids holler Last Line: We would no doubt have other rooms then, %or other names Subject(s): Absence; Erotic Love; Hotels LEAVINGS First Line: Foolish, frugal mrs. Mousie, why Last Line: Our taint still seeping through the territory LEDA AND THE SWAN First Line: An unforseen assault; that huge form still Last Line: Zeus felt, before his wings could let her go? LIMPING HOME First Line: See, they return; ah, see the tentative movements, and the slow Last Line: Slow on the leash, pallid the leash-men! LITTLE GIRL'S FUNERAL First Line: There was such life in her compact frame Last Line: Mood and tragic fate LOBSTERS IN THE WINDOW First Line: First, you think they are dead Last Line: Hear what the newsboys shout, %or see the raincoats pass Subject(s): Lobsters LOCKED HOUSE First Line: As we drove back, crossing the hill Last Line: Maybe we should have known LOOKING First Line: What was I looking for today LOURDAULT, LOURDAULT Last Line: Lourdault, lourdault, garde que tu feras Subject(s): Singing And Singers LOVE LAMP First Line: There is our candle, on the bedstand still Last Line: By the years like amber. And I remember %the smoldering fire-points of his eyes LOVE, THE TYRANT First Line: She fears him, and has always been Last Line: Or to live bitter and estranged %together, unforgiven LOVELIEST OF TREES First Line: Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Last Line: To see these cherries strung with lace LOVERS GO FLY A KITE First Line: What's up, today, with our lovers Last Line: On an invisible staff %to run up an allegiance! Subject(s): Kites LULLABY: THE COMFORTING OF COCK ROBIN First Line: May the insatiable powers LULLABY: THE COMFORTING OF COCK ROBIN First Line: Smooth quill and bristle down LYING AWAKE First Line: This moth caught in the room tonight Last Line: And turn him out toward living. Yet %we don't: we take things as they are Subject(s): Moths; Passivity MANET: THE EXECUTION OF THE EMPEROR MAXIMILLIAN First Line: Dear good god, we've blundered into some musical MARSH First Line: Swampstrife and spatterdock MASQUERADA: NEITHER HEAT OF MASK NOR POINT OF HOUSE First Line: Crimson - not just in the cheeks MASTERY First Line: Mastery appears in inches, not in miles Last Line: And that split-second more before the fall MATISSE: THE RED STUDIO First Line: There is no one here Last Line: But there is no one here Subject(s): Art And Artists; Matisse, Henri (1869-1954); Paintings And Painters MEMENTOS, I Poem Text First Line: Sorting our letters and piles of my old cancelled checks Subject(s): Love - Loss Of MEMENTOS, I First Line: Sorting our letters and piles of my old cancelled checks Last Line: I will find that it's still there Subject(s): Love - Loss Of MEMENTOS, II. First Line: I found them there today MEMORY OF COCK ROBIN DWARFS W.D. First Line: Each single winged thing Last Line: To match that bird %once heard MEN'S ROOM IN THE COLLEGE CHAPEL First Line: Here, in the most unchristian basement Last Line: Returning, masterless and twisting Subject(s): Graffiti; Hate MHTIS OUTIS First Line: He fed them generously who were his flocks, Last Line: To kneel by my old face and know my name. MIDNIGHT CARNIVAL, SELS. MIDNIGHT CARNIVAL: TUNNEL OF ROMANCE First Line: Were you on galapagos Last Line: Non conturbat timor mortis %riding on a tortoise! MILLER'S WIFE First Line: The miller's wife had waited long Last Line: Calm and unruffled to the sight MIND IS BOTH First Line: Enchanting and enchanted %like the patina on the wing Last Line: Not a tyrant's word which is immutable MONET: 'LES NYMPHEAS' First Line: The eyelids glowing, some chill morning Last Line: O soft as the thighs of women; %o radiance, into which I go on dying MOTH CHORALE First Line: In switzerland, just one half-timbered floor Last Line: And I'm supposed to concentrate? Subject(s): Insects; Moths MOTHER First Line: She stands in the dead center like a star Last Line: With the black shapes of her mates, her sapless young, %where she moves by habit, hungering and blin MOUSE First Line: I remember one evening - we were small MUSEE DES MALS ARTS First Line: How well they comprehended, the old masters Last Line: Needing to get someplace, sailed calmly by MUTABILITY First Line: It was all differeent; that, at least, seemed sure MY FATHER'S DANCING First Line: Your whiskey-breath smelled strong Last Line: Still hanging off your shoulder MY FATHER'S VALUES IN THE WORLD First Line: My childhood was lonely and cursed by poverty Last Line: And learned my lessons from him MY PHOTO LEFT IN ITALY First Line: I think that cupid's deaf, not blind Last Line: These fill her eyes and shut her ears NANTUCKET First Line: Flowers through the open window Last Line: A spoon is placed - and the %fresh linen tablecloth NIGHT VOICES First Line: Clear out here %you don't hear screams, shots, chants Last Line: Which of us can longest last this out NO SWAN SO FINE First Line: No water so still as the Last Line: Flowers, though the king has passed away OCEAN WAVE First Line: Outstretched, the flowing %wave pours constantly Last Line: Then quietly ebbing, %wanes in silence OF AMERICAN HISTORY First Line: I am an ordinary man with unhealthy addictions Last Line: I am a lecherous young man who delights in all this corruption OLD APPLE TREES Poem Text First Line: Like battered old mill hands, they stand in the orchard Subject(s): Apple Trees; Corpses; Detroit, Michigan; Orchards; Trees; Cadavers OLD APPLE TREES First Line: Like battered old mill hands, they stand in the orchard Last Line: It seemed better that we kept alive Subject(s): Apple Trees; Corpses; Detroit, Michigan; Orchards; Trees OLD FLAME First Line: Some ten years later she still writes Last Line: Can't sleep till they've fouled their nest %or drunk the bat hwater they've pissed in OLD JEWELRY First Line: This gypsy bodice of old coins OLD SOLDIER First Line: When wars between the sexes stopped, all older folks were shot Last Line: As a veteran killer, george, glad to see you again ON HIGH First Line: As the day-laborers in our loft pried loose Last Line: To which we do not lift our eyes OPERATION First Line: From stainless steel basins of water ORPHEUS First Line: Stone lips to the unspoken cave OWLS First Line: Wait; the great horned owls %calling from the wood's edge; listen Last Line: The dead black woods, where they take %soundings on nothing fast, take %soundings on each other, eac Subject(s): Poetry And Poets OXEN First Line: Christmas eve, and twelve of the clock Last Line: Convinced that it was so OZYMANDIAS First Line: My name is ozymandias, king of kings Last Line: Great art alone endures to rule the heart.' PAPAGENO First Line: Far in the woods my stealthy flute Last Line: Come take this rare bird into hand; %in that trim cage, he might sing true Variant Title(s): The Magic Flut Subject(s): Flutes PARADISE-REFUGE First Line: I'd like to go Last Line: And aren't swung by the sea PARTIAL ECLIPSE First Line: Once we'd packed up your clothes PARTING FOREVER First Line: At last she has signed and sealed the letter Last Line: But also in a chill PHOEBE'S NEST First Line: This green is the green of live moss PHONE MESSAGE First Line: In shop for repairs, our hi-fi's gone Last Line: If you're a mind to. Why hold back? Subject(s): Absence PIANOLA First Line: All day, through the house, a woman is singing to me Last Line: Off in the flood of remembrance; I weep to return to the past PLACID WATERS First Line: There was a dull murmur in the trees Last Line: And trees could not contain a calmer tone POET RIDICULED BY HYSTERICAL ACADEMICS First Line: Is it, then, your opinion Last Line: When all departments have a place %for nincompoops like thee POSTLUDES First Line: The winter evening settles down Last Line: Collecting trash in parking lots POWWOW (TAMA RESERVATION, IOWA, 1949) First Line: They all see the same movies Last Line: That go with us, that do not live again Subject(s): Native Americans - Reservations PRODUCE MARKET IN CALIFORNIA First Line: What thoughts I have of you tonight, walt whitman, for I walked Last Line: Bank and stood seeing the boat bob on the calm waters of the river styx? PROSE POEM First Line: As the cat climbed over the top of the jamcloset, first the right Last Line: Forefoot carefully then the hind stepped down into the pit of the %empty flowerpot Variant Title(s): Poetr QUEEN-ANNE'S-LACE First Line: Her body's not so white as anemone petals nor so smooth - nor Last Line: Gone over - or nothing Variant Title(s): Wild Carro RACCOON TIME First Line: Nautilus island's penny-pinching Last Line: And will not scare RECONSTRUCTIONS First Line: This fall, we left your grandma's REGRADUATING THE LUTE First Line: Having gathered power and resonance RESURRECTIONS First Line: Some part of this yew Last Line: That grants them this rebirth! RETURNED TO FRISCO, 1946 First Line: We shouldered like pigs along the rail to try Last Line: The golden gate, fading away astern %stood like the closed gate of your own backyard Subject(s): World War Ii RICHER QUARRY First Line: Wherever richard cory chanced to go Last Line: Amazed us by committing suicide RIDDLE First Line: So small it is, there must be at least two SEASHELL First Line: Say that inside this shell, some live SEASONING BARN First Line: Here in the darkness of these dry, bird-sounding lofts SEEING YOU HAVE A WOMAN SEEN WHEN NIGHT IS SOUNDLESS Last Line: Come; enjoy it all SEPARATION ANTHEM First Line: You can say you've downsized, pink-slipped Last Line: And we wish you every wonder of it SEPTEMBER First Line: In town, your friends play hide-and-seek SEPTEMBER IN THE PARK First Line: This pinched face of the moon SETTING OUT First Line: Staying here, we turn inflexible SHE LIVED AMONG THE UNTRAVELLED WAYS Last Line: How great a loss to me! SILVER POPLARS First Line: That winking, glimmering like the wings SIR PATRICK SPENS First Line: The king sits in a coastal town Last Line: With the scot lairds all around SITTING OUTSIDE First Line: These lawn chairs and the chaise lounge Last Line: If you got too close. And you can't be too sure SIX MINNESINGER SONGS, SELS First Line: Only love and love's longing fills my singing Last Line: True love weighs down love's delight SLENDER CREATURE First Line: A slender creature through the grass Last Line: And felt the grip of fear SLUMBER DID MY SPIRIT STEAL First Line: My soul slept soundly all that time Last Line: The same as you and me SNOW SONGS: 1 First Line: One. Now another. One Last Line: Most never seen. %all, gone Subject(s): Snow SNOW SONGS: 2 First Line: First, the exhausted, brown Last Line: What with the pervasive, dense %smother of shredded documents Subject(s): Snow SNOW SONGS: 3 First Line: White out; white out; so Last Line: And the lighted %screen that will flick off Subject(s): Snow SNOW SONGS: 4 First Line: The leading colonists of summer Last Line: With long abandoned, half-finished %plans, conclusions drawn Subject(s): Snow SNOW SONGS: 5 First Line: The horizon, a maternal flour sifter Last Line: Whitewash, whitewash over holy wishdom's dome Subject(s): Snow SNOW SONGS: 6 First Line: Now snow lies level Last Line: The radio up louder; try to %catch the local dialect Subject(s): Snow SNOW SONGS: 7 First Line: 8,000,000 alleluias or %lace paper valentines, these Last Line: This dull white coverlet %over the patient's eyes Subject(s): Snow SNOW SONGS: 8 First Line: Leaving the snow Last Line: Plaster hardening, %a fading face Subject(s): Snow SONG First Line: Observe the cautious toadstools SONG First Line: Sweet beast, I have gone prowling Last Line: Come and take my milk Subject(s): Love SONNET #129 First Line: Vigor and spunk drain out to barren guilt Last Line: To seek some other pleasure than this hell SONNET #73 First Line: That time of year thou mayst in me behold Last Line: And love me more though soon I have to die SONNET #73 First Line: I've reached an age when everybody sees Last Line: Knowing I've got to go before much longer SONNET: 67 First Line: I wake and feel that night has come, not day Last Line: Their selves as I am mine, but even worse SPRING AND ALL First Line: By the road to the contagious hospital Last Line: And begin to awaken SPRING AND FALL First Line: Oh, margaret, do you feel such grief Last Line: It's margaret that you can't help mourn STANZA HE KILLED First Line: Had he and I but met Last Line: Or lend them crowns and shillings.' STATEMENT OF CONSCIENCE First Line: I am in mexico and only now learned of the anti-war Last Line: Throw iraq's oil onto those brush fires? %every success to you, %w.D. Snodgrass Subject(s): Politics; War STILL NEAT, STILL DRESSED Last Line: Adulterous art %can't strike my heart STILL TO BE STYLISH AND EVERMORE DRESSED Last Line: They strike at my eyes, but can't strike at my heart STROLLING MINSTREL'S BALLAD OF THE SKULLS AND FLOWERS First Line: Dahlia, amaryllis, iris SUMMER SEQUENCE: 1. First Line: Every young plant springing Last Line: You gentle down to ground %once more SUMMER SEQUENCE: 10. First Line: The loitering red-tail screeches Last Line: Another ring laid on the trees, %more fat around the heart SUMMER SEQUENCE: 2. First Line: All night black tree Last Line: Each emerald green leaf %splatteed clean SUMMER SEQUENCE: 3. First Line: Up this hillside, through patches Last Line: To jail it up at last - %the dry bones of its past SUMMER SEQUENCE: 4. First Line: As cock orioles lock Last Line: Bright rivet %to its mark SUMMER SEQUENCE: 5. First Line: Green; we're eager for you, green Last Line: The bankroll buying out the bank %while mildew, mold, and mosses grow SUMMER SEQUENCE: 6. First Line: In broad daylight, the fat Last Line: Perish all thought of bound, %soar, breakfree - the elan of flight SUMMER SEQUENCE: 7. First Line: Another leaf %and who needs it? Last Line: Down through tired clay %and broken stone SUMMER SEQUENCE: 8. CABBAGE BUTTERFLIES First Line: Paired like square vanes Last Line: We go %upstairs? SUMMER SEQUENCE: 9. First Line: Deregulated summer rolls on Last Line: Takeover; the greenback reigns. Our %scriptures: lovecharts,popcharts, and the dow SURVIVORS First Line: We wondered what might change TANGO: W.D. IS DWARFED BY VISION OF MR. EVIL & COCK ROBIN First Line: Turn %that %red- %breast %loose TAP DANCE: W.D. ESCAPES FROM MISS TREAVLE First Line: Loose as a linnet and fresh out of love TEEN-AGER First Line: The high-priced jeans, the nwe car - she got what Last Line: In life. Why add my barrel to her notch? Subject(s): Hate TEN DAYS LEAVE First Line: He steps down from the dark train, blinking; stares Last Line: Their sleep and black them out. He wonders when %he'll grow into his sleep so sound again Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; World War Ii TENDENCY THAT DRAWS FLOWERS FROM THEIR STALK Last Line: That the same warped appetites break down my body THESE TREES STAND VERY TALL UNDER THE HEAVENS THROUGH THE NURSERY WINDOW First Line: There, there, sir. You have every cause TO A CHILD First Line: We've taken the dog out for his walk TO AUTUMN First Line: Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness Last Line: And flocks of swallows fly home through the skies TYGER First Line: O tyger, beast that burns so bright Last Line: What hand would dare to seize the fire? TYGER First Line: O tyger, you creature that's burning so bright Last Line: What is the hand that would dare seize the fire? UPON JULIA'S GARMENTS First Line: When dressed in silk my julia goes Last Line: Its gleam completely captures me! UPON JULIA'S GOWN First Line: When in a silk dress kate goes Last Line: Her scintillation quite takes me VALEDICTION First Line: Since his sharp sight has taught you VAN GOGH: THE STARRY NIGHT First Line: Only the little VARIOUS WAYS OF LOOKING AT BLACKBIRDS First Line: Among mountains in winter Last Line: There was a blackbird VERSIONS First Line: What makes you your own liberator, free Last Line: And sell me on the brotherhood of man; %I'll take my enemies every time I can VIEWING THE BODY First Line: Flowers like a gangster's funeral Subject(s): Corpses VUILLARD: THE MOTHER AND SISTER OF THE ARTIST First Line: Admire, when you come here, the glimmering hair Last Line: Of the air and of the bright wallpaper W.D. AND COCK ROBIN DISCUSS THE DREADED INTERROGATION First Line: Their charges or the case they've built W.D. ATTEMPTS TO SAVE COCK ROBIN First Line: No sir I would not like to sell W.D. ATTEMPTS TO SWALLOW THE SYMBOL'''''' First Line: Never put anything, they tell you W.D. CONSULTS WITH KAFKA AND DOSTOEVSKY First Line: D. Go straight to prison; don't pass go W.D. CREATES A DEVICE FOR ESCAPING First Line: After one first green step ahead W.D. DISGUISED AS COCK ROBIN AND HIDDEN DEEP IN CRIMSON First Line: They'll never find me hidden W.D. IS CONCERNED ABOUT THE CHARACTER ASSASSINATION First Line: Come, rosie angel, clasp W.D. LIFTS TEN TIMES THE WEIGHT OF HIS OWN BODY First Line: These russian heavies are all wrong W.D. MEETS MR. EVIL WHILE REMOVING THE RECORD First Line: So; caught you in, my fine young fellow W.D. SITS IN KAFKA'S CHAIR AND IS INTERROGATED First Line: Now 'w' - we'll call you 'w' W.D. TRIES TO WARN COCK ROBIN First Line: The brutish are coming, the brutish are coming W.D., DON'T FEAR THAT ANIMAL First Line: My hat leaps up when I behold WARNING First Line: Hope not that wilbur's steely hip Last Line: What power's secured through artifice WEATHER REPORT First Line: The evening darkens over Last Line: We must go in, fond lover WEEPING First Line: Weeping, more and more weeping! Last Line: Of weeping, more and more weeping WHAT WE SAID First Line: Stunned in that first estrangement WHEN THE ROBINS COME Last Line: With my tongue of lead WHOLLY UNDONNE First Line: At earth's imagined compass points and poles Last Line: Which dost insuire that thou'lt commute my sentence WHOSO LIST TO HUNT First Line: Who list her hunt may spend his time in vain Last Line: And wild to hold beyond all living things |
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