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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: tate, allen Matches Found: 131 Tate, John Orley Allen Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen 131 poems available by this author ADAPTATION OF A THEME BY CATULLUS First Line: Past towns, states, deserts, hills and rivers borne AENEAS AT NEW YORK First Line: You have sir said it well but I have if Subject(s): Aeneas; Mythology - Classical; New York City AENEAS AT WASHINGTON Poem Text First Line: I myself saw furious with blood Subject(s): Aeneas; Mythology - Classical; Washington, D.c. AENEAS AT WASHINGTON First Line: I myself saw furious with blood Last Line: I thought of troy, what we had built her for Subject(s): Aeneas; Mythology - Classical; Washington, D.c. ANABASIS First Line: Noble beyond degree ANCESTORS First Line: When the night's coming and the last light falls ART First Line: When you are come by ways emptied of light BATTLE OF MURFREESBORO, 1862-1922 Poem Text First Line: He shakes the dust from off his feet Last Line: And skyscrapers tower in far new york. Subject(s): American Civil War; Murfreesboro, Battle Of (1862); U.s. - History BIZARRE Poem Text First Line: Do you remember how last year we walked Last Line: Their tone is light because they could not be! BORED TO CHORESIS Poem Text First Line: Inert and in the twilight ... Peace is not hers Last Line: Choreographic and polynesian. Subject(s): Boredom; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Ennui BRIEF MESSAGE First Line: This, warren, is our trouble now BURIED LAKE First Line: Lady of light, I would admit a dream Last Line: I knew that I had known enduring love CALIDUS JUVENTA? Poem Text First Line: We are afraid that we have not lived Last Line: In a palsied age. Subject(s): Life CAUSERIE First Line: What are the springs of sleep? What is the motion COLD PASTORAL First Line: Walk in this faithless grass with studious tread CREDO IN INTELLECTUM VIDENTEM First Line: I can't revise these manners but I think CROSS First Line: There is a place that some men know Last Line: Who would come back is turned a fiend %instructed by the fiery dead CUL-DE-SAC Poem Text First Line: God took a crayon in his hand Last Line: And only god knows what they said. DAY First Line: Chariot so strict chariot DEATH OF LITTLE BOYS First Line: When little boys grown patient at last, weary Last Line: There is a calm for you where men and women %unroll the chill precision of moving feet DEBT Poem Text First Line: A withered silence filled my chest of sorrow Last Line: Fleeced I the giver, yet am penniless. Subject(s): Relationships DITTY First Line: The moon will run all consciences to cover Last Line: Tuck in their eyes, and cover %the flying dark with sleep like falling leaves DUSK First Line: Day hot in the terror of her head EAGER YOUTHS TO A DEAD GIRL First Line: This girl borrowed no dim light of a star EAGLE First Line: Say never the strong heart ECLOGUE OF THE LIBERAL AND THE POET First Line: In that place, shepherd, all the men are dead EDGES Poem Text First Line: I've often wondered why she laughed Last Line: Beholding what was cavernous. Subject(s): Relationships ELEGY FOR EUGENESIS Poem Text First Line: Your death, dear lady, was quite cold Last Line: As I light this cigarette - and under an inscrutable curse. ELEGY ON JEFFERSON DAVIS Poem Text First Line: No more the white refulgent streets Last Line: Orestes fled in night and day. Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Consolation; Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889); U.s. - History; Confederacy EMBLEMS First Line: Maryland, virginia, caroline %pent images in sleep Last Line: Of august strikes like a hawk the crouching hare EUTHANASIA Poem Text First Line: No more the white refulgent streets Last Line: A scented sorrow, corseted! Subject(s): Euthanasia EYE First Line: I see the horses and the sad streets FAIR CUIRASS SHATTERED Poem Text First Line: One time I thought that sunset's flaming air Last Line: And laugh to think that you had parried death. FALSE NIGHTMARE First Line: I give the yawp barbaris FAREWELL REHEARSED First Line: Come to me darling little ben FAREWELL TO ANACTORIA First Line: Never the tramp of foot or horse FIRST EPILOGUE TO OENIA First Line: Whatever I have said to praise Last Line: Of a spent wind in a winter tree FOR A DEAD CITIZEN First Line: He was the finest of our happy men FRAGMENT OF A MEDITATION First Line: Not yet the thirtieth year, the thirtieth HISTORICAL EPITAPHS First Line: Jefferson had many charms HITCH YOUR WAGON TO A STAR Poem Text First Line: The dull conclave of crows'-footed faces Last Line: Emptying a smile on redkey, indiana. HOMILY First Line: If your tired unspeaking head HORATIAN EPODE TO THE DUCHESS OF MALFI Poem Text First Line: The stage is about to be swept of corpses Last Line: And the katharsis fades in the warm water of a yawn. Subject(s): Webster, John (1580-1625) IDIOT First Line: The idiot greens the meadow with his eyes IDYL First Line: In a valley late bees with whining gold INSIDE AND OUTSIDE First Line: Now twenty-four or maybe twenty-five INTELLECTUAL DETACHMENT Poem Text First Line: This is the man who classified the bits Last Line: It turned on him - he's dead. Shall we detest him? Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals IVORY TOWER First Line: Let us begin to understand the argument Last Line: To strict rapunzel to let down her hair JOHN BROWN Subject(s): Abolitionists; Brown, John (1800-1859); Slavery JOHN MILTON Poem Text First Line: Your mind was wrought in cosmic solitude Last Line: Me not with goodness, but with thundering verse. Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674) JUBILO First Line: Tail-spinning from the shelves of sky Subject(s): War LAST DAYS OF ALICE First Line: Alice grown lazy, mammoth but not fat Last Line: Let us be evil, could we enter in %your grace, and falter on the stony path! LIGHT First Line: Last night I fled until I came LITYERSES First Line: Twilight stifled the valley wearily LONG FINGERS First Line: The twilight is long fingers and black hair Last Line: Once touched long fingers, which are not anything Subject(s): Fingers LYCAMBES TALKS TO JOHN (IN HELL) First Line: Why that wild poet came to me to damn me Last Line: Ethereal passion: I know it by your laughter Subject(s): Archilochus (7th Century B.c.); Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry And Poets MADNESS First Line: The wardrobe towers above the table lamp Last Line: Who rearranges with impartial feet %the silence in the caverns of a skull Variant Title(s): Longitud Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Old Age; Rooms MAIMED MAN First Line: Didactic laurel, loose your reasoning leaf MARY MCDONALD First Line: Mary mcdonald, I met you in the street MEANING OF DEATH First Line: I rise, gentlemen, it is the pleasant hour MEANING OF LIFE First Line: Think about it at will: there is that MEDITERRANEAN First Line: Where we went in the boat was a long bay Last Line: Rot on the vine: in that land were we born Subject(s): Mediterranean Sea MESSAGE FROM ABROAD First Line: What years of the other times, what centuries MORE SONNETS AT CHRISTMAS (TEN YEARS LATER): 1 First Line: Again the native hour lets down the locks Last Line: This crucial day, whose decapitate joke %languidly winds into the inner ear Subject(s): Christmas; War MORE SONNETS AT CHRISTMAS (TEN YEARS LATER): 2 First Line: The day's at end and there's nowhere to go Last Line: Well-milked chinese, negroes who cannot sing, %the huns gelded and feeding in a ring Subject(s): Christmas; War MORE SONNETS AT CHRISTMAS (TEN YEARS LATER): 3 First Line: Give me this day a faith not personal Last Line: Is of an enemy in remote oceans %unstalked by christ: these are the better notions Subject(s): Christmas; War MORE SONNETS AT CHRISTMAS (TEN YEARS LATER): 4 First Line: Citizen, myself, or personal friend Last Line: Mild-mannered, gifted in your masters' ease %while the sun squats upon the waveless seas Subject(s): Christmas; War MOTHER AND SON First Line: Now all day long the man who is not dead Last Line: The bright wallpaper, imperishably old, %uncurls and flutters, it will never fall MR. POPE Poem Text First Line: When alexander pope strolled in the city Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) MR. POPE First Line: When alexander pope strolled in the city Last Line: One cannot say: around a crooked tree %a moral clims whose name should be a wreath Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) NON OMNIS MORIAR Poem Text First Line: I ask you: has the singer sung Last Line: Death frames the singer and the song. Subject(s): Death; Dramatists; Ford, John (1586-1639); Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593); Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The NUPTIALS Poem Text First Line: When noon-time comes the whistle blows Last Line: Hauled away. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives OATH First Line: It was near evening, the room was cold Last Line: On a rock crying: who are the dead? %then lytle turned with an oath - by god it's true! OBITUARY; IN MEM. S.B.V. 1834-1909 First Line: So what the lame four-poster gathered here Last Line: Whose faces are sweet names %for the life-blood that labors you so much ODE TO FEAR First Line: Let the day glare, o memory, your tread Subject(s): Fear ODE TO OUR YOUNG PRO-CONSULS OF THE AIR First Line: Once more the country calls Subject(s): War ODE TO THE CONFEDERATE DEAD Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Row after row with strict impunity Subject(s): American Civil War; Cemeteries; Confederate States Of America; United States - History; Graveyards; Confederacy ODE TO THE CONFEDERATE DEAD First Line: Row after row with strict impunity Last Line: Riots with his tongue through the hush- %sentinel of the grave who counts us all! Subject(s): American Civil War; Cemeteries; Confederate States Of America; U.s. - History PARADIGM First Line: For when they meet, the tensile air Last Line: This is their equity in birth, %hate is its ignorant paradigm PARTHENIA Poem Text First Line: With pale green hopes and the gay colors flying Last Line: Scourging the night and gathering the day. Subject(s): Suicide; Virginity; Vestals PASTORAL First Line: The enquiring fields, couresies PAUPER First Line: I see him old, trapped in a burly house Last Line: Deaf to the measured pathos of the air PERIMETERS Poem Text First Line: In the cold morning the rested street stands up Last Line: There will be staring and drinks without taste. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PREVIGILIUM VENERIS First Line: Cras amet qui nunquam amavit quique amavit cras amet PROCESSION First Line: Faster, faster with no loss of ritual PROGRESS OF OENIA First Line: Seed in your heart, warm dust transmuted QUALITY OF MERCY First Line: You will not forswear the bargainings RECORDS First Line: At nine years a sickly boy lay down RED STAINS Poem Text First Line: In a pyloned desert where the scorpion reigns Last Line: Her calm steel eyes, her earth-old throat of honey! REFLECTIONS IN AN OLD HOUSE First Line: When death draws down the blinds in this old house RESURGAM First Line: Life stood on the top stair a moment RETRODUCTION TO AMERICAN HISTORY First Line: Cats walk the floor at midnight, that enemy of fog ROBBER BRIDEGROOM First Line: Turn back. Turn, young lady dear SEASONS OF THE SOUL First Line: Summer, this is our flesh Last Line: Whether your kindness, mother %is mother of silences SEASONS OF THE SOUL: 2. AUTUMN First Line: It had an autumn smell Last Line: For him whose vision froze %him in the empty hall SHADOW AND SHADE First Line: The shadow streamed into the wall Last Line: I said, lest we should die alone SINBAD Poem Text First Line: I sailed too long over that monstered ocean Last Line: But the roc . . . SONNET First Line: Could I be sure that I shall see the day SONNET TO BEAUTY First Line: The wonder of light is your familiar tale SONNET TO THE PORTRAIT OF HART CRANE First Line: Unweathered stone beneath a rigid mane Last Line: A bitter rose falls on a marble stair Subject(s): Art And Artists; Crane, Hart (1899-1932); Portraits SONNETS AT CHRISTMAS: 1 Poem Text First Line: This is the day his hour of life draws near Subject(s): Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology SONNETS AT CHRISTMAS: 1 First Line: This is the day his hour of life draws near Last Line: Ring out the silence I am nourished by Subject(s): Christmas; Religion SONNETS AT CHRISTMAS: 2 Poem Text First Line: Ah, christ, I love you rings to the wild sky Variant Title(s): "ah Christ, I Love You Rings To The Wild Sky""; Subject(s): Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology SONNETS AT CHRISTMAS: 2 First Line: Ah, christ, I love you rings to the wild sky Last Line: In late december before the fire's daze %punished by crimes of which I would be quit Variant Title(s): Ah Christ, I Love You Rings To The Wild Sk Subject(s): Christmas; Religion SONNETS OF THE BLOOD First Line: What is the flesh and blood compounded of STRANGER Poem Text First Line: This is the village where the funeral Last Line: The night drops down with sullen grace. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SUBWAY First Line: Dark accurate plunger down the successive knell Last Line: Dazed, while the wordless heavens bulge and reel %in the cold revery of an idiot SUICIDE Poem Text First Line: I have felt darkness lead me by the hand Last Line: A light, a twisted thought, a shattered brain. Subject(s): Suicide SULPICIA TO CERINTHUS First Line: Ne tibi sim, mea lux, aeque iam fervida cura SWIMMERS First Line: Kentucky water, clear springs: a boy fleeing Last Line: Though never claimed by us within my hearing TERCETS OF THE TRIAD First Line: This winter's revolt of the unbellied trees THE FLAPPER Poem Text First Line: All night long the darling daughter squirms Last Line: The canto amoroso of her hips. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Youth THE MEDITERRANEAN Poem Text First Line: Where we went in the boat was a long bay Subject(s): Mediterranean Sea THE SCREEN Poem Text First Line: Dusk creeps in the parted shutter Last Line: I have lived for, a lonely customer. Subject(s): Death - Animals THE WOLVES Poem Text First Line: There are wolves in the next room waiting Subject(s): Wolves THESE DEATHY LEAVES Poem Text First Line: Though the grey year scatter these deathy leaves Last Line: With a quick sculpture of a fresh grace. Subject(s): Leaves; Winter TO A PRODIGAL OLD MAID Poem Text First Line: Sing now no hymn nor chant a dirge Last Line: To have come a springtime since. Subject(s): Spinsters; Old Maids TO A ROMANTIC First Line: You hold your eager head Last Line: The dead are those who lies %were doors to a narrow house Variant Title(s): Advice To A Young Romanticis Subject(s): Advice TO A ROMANTIC NOVELIST First Line: Now that you've written it TO THE LACEDEMONIANS First Line: The people - people of my kind, my own TO THE ROMANTIC TRADITIONISTS First Line: I have looked at them long TRAVELLER First Line: The afternoon with heavy hours Last Line: And the dark shift within the bone %brings him the end he could not find TROUT MAP First Line: The management area of cherokee Last Line: Now mapless the mountains were a dream Subject(s): Rivers TRUE BELIEVER Poem Text First Line: Young abdul scorched in fire of a desert sun Last Line: And drew his scimitar and hacked his bones. TWELVE First Line: There by some wrinkled stones round a leafless tree Last Line: To the mind's briefer and more desert place TWO CONCEITS First Line: Sing a song of 'sistence UNNATURAL LOVE First Line: Landor, not that I doubt your word VISION BEATIFIC First Line: You may walk among fuchsias unloud WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text First Line: Now william pulled the lever down Last Line: With a lot of psychoanalytic lust. Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827) WINTER MASK First Line: Towards nightfall when the wind WOLVES First Line: There are wolves in the next room waiting Last Line: Like a bearded spider on a sunlit floor, %will snarl - and man can never be alone Subject(s): Wolves |
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