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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Keyword: corbiere Matches Found: 52 AFTER THE RAIN, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Text First Line: I love the little rain / which dries itself Last Line: "a circle of gold on your eiderdown." Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Love; Rain AFTERWARDS: 2, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Source First Line: It's getting dark, little thief of starlight! Last Line: It's getting dark, little thief of starlight! Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Night ART-FLOWER, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Source First Line: Yes. What painstaking art in your subtle story. What precious bric- Last Line: You! If you weren't false, would you be any the more true? Love is a %duel: touche, thanks Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan BLIND MAN'S CRIES, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Text First Line: The murdered eye is not dead Last Line: I hear the horn's knell Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion BLINDMAN'S CRIES, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Source First Line: The eye, murderer, is not yet dead Last Line: Hear the deathknelling horn Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Blindness CABIN-KID, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Text First Line: Your old man's a sailor, I suppose? Last Line: I'll get revenge-a sailor too! Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails CITY IS A WORLD OF NIGHT, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Source First Line: Its sea, dead calm: the tidal wave Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan DO, L'ENFANT DO, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Source First Line: Buona vespre! Dors: ton bout de cierge Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan EPITAPH, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Source First Line: He killed himself with ardor or died of laziness. If he's alive, it's by Last Line: A heartless heart, not very firm on his feet, so much a success he was, so %to speak,a failure Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan EPITAPH FOR HIMSELF, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Text First Line: Of many things adulterate Last Line: He lived while waiting but to die. Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Epitaphs; Imagination; Prisons & Prisoners; Fancy; Convicts EVIL LANDSCAPE, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Text First Line: Beach of old bones - the tide gasps / death-knells Last Line: The mushrooms, their stools. Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Evil; Landscape GANGREL RYMOUR AND PAIRDON OF SANCT ANNE: THE BALLAD SINGER, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Source First Line: But ae braithless note Last Line: A true sign o the corse for ye Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan GANGREL RYMOUR AND THE PAIRDON OF SANCT ANNE, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Source First Line: Sainit is the fouthless shore Last Line: And her sca'd hand will make %a true sign o the cross for ye Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Scottish Translations HOURS, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Text First Line: Alms to the highwayman in pursuit Last Line: My heart! . . . Keep singing, go on -- don't count. Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Fear ILL-STARRED FLOWER, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Source First Line: The pale flowerlet will grow back here over the grave, the flowerlet Last Line: Victim loves it: it's the ill-starred flower, the bohemian flower. The pale %flowerlet will grow bac Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan INSOMNIA, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Text First Line: Insomnia, impalpable creature / is all your love in your head Last Line: We will sleep together a while. Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleeplessness KAZOO, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Text First Line: Sleep in love, naughty tuner of cicadas Last Line: Sleep in love, naughty tuner of cicadas! Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Death; Dead, The LA CORBIERE, by ANNE LE MARQUAND HARTIGAN Poem Source First Line: There is an account of the arrival and departure of a Last Line: Only a harsh gulls cry LANDSCAPE OF EVIL, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Source First Line: Bone-white, bane-white, throttles tight Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan LETTER FROM MEXICO, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Text First Line: You gave the youngster into my care. - he's dead Last Line: "a soldier. An old salt." Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Death - Children; Sailing & Sailors; Death - Babies; Seamen; Sails LETTER FROM MEXICO, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Text First Line: You put the kid in my care. He's dead Last Line: "a soldier. An old salt." Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Death - Children; Sailing & Sailors; Death - Babies; Seamen; Sails LETTER FROM MEXICO (VERA CRUZ, 10 FEBRUARY, 186-), by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Source First Line: You entrusted the boy to me. He has died Last Line: Beside him there. A sailor. An old soldier Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan LETTING THE PACK RUN, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Source First Line: I have lift the gallows to all the hanged men, fools from birth, eager Last Line: Blunted, obsolescent, nothing has left me anything Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan LITANY OF SLEEP, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Source First Line: You who snore by a sleeping spouse, cud-chewer, do you know the Last Line: Dozing sack! (various beds--a daytime night) Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan LITANY OF SLEEP (EXCERPT), by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Source First Line: You who snore with your sleeping wife so near Last Line: Sheep, on waking, says to me: you has sawn me apart Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan LITTLE CORPSE GOOD FOR A LAUGH, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Source First Line: Light groomer of comet-tails, go, quick Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan LULLABY UPON A STONE, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Source First Line: Are you scared of the dark, small thief of sparkles Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan MIDNIGHT FREAKS, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Source First Line: The beach is bone-grist, and death rattles Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan OLD ROSCOFF, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Source First Line: Bolt-hole of brigandage, old keep Last Line: At england, trailing a few wild flowers Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan PARIAH, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Source First Line: Let them treat themselves to republics--free men! With an iron collar Last Line: Bones can certainly get there by themselves Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan PARIS AT NIGHT, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Text First Line: It is the sea: dead calm - and the spring tide Last Line: On a bed of the morgue . . . With his eyes wide open! Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Night; Paris, France; Bedtime PARIS BY DAY, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Text First Line: See the great circle of copper shine above Last Line: Our special sustenance is our flask of gall. Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Day; Heat; Paris, France; Poetry & Poets - French; Sun PARIS BY NIGHT, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Text First Line: Tis the sea - calm surface. - and the great tide Last Line: On a bed of the morgue—with staring eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Calm; Night; Paris, France; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Bedtime PARIS NOCTURNE, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Source First Line: It's the sea-calm, flat-and the tides of spring Last Line: Up onto a bed in the morgue-and the eyes open wide Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan PETIT MORT POUR RIRE, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Source First Line: Va vite, leger peigneur de cometes Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan RHAPSODY OF THE DEAF MAN, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Text First Line: The specialist told him: 'fine, let's leave it at that' Last Line: Silence is golden (st. John chrysostom). Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan RHAPSODY OF THE DEAF MAN, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Source First Line: Said the expert: 'all right, let's call it a day' Last Line: And nothing will be able to shake our accord Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan RHAPSODY OF THE DEAF MUTE, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Text First Line: The expert said: 'all right. You needn't come any more' Last Line: And nothing can disturb the conversation. Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Deafness; Physical Disabilities; Physicians; Speech Disorders; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples; Doctors; Stuttering; Muteness ROCK-A-BYE BABY, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Source First Line: Buona vespre. Sleep. Your bit of candle-end Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan RONDEL, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Text First Line: It's dark, child, snatcher of sparks! Last Line: It's dark, child, snatcher of sparks! Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Night; Bedtime SLEEP, BABY, SLEEP, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Text First Line: Buona vespre! Sleep: your candle-end Last Line: -buona notte! Sleep: your candle-end . . . Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan SMALL DEATH TO LAUGH, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Text First Line: Away, airy comber of comets! Last Line: Away, airy comber of comets! Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE END, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Text First Line: Well now, these mariners - sailors, captains Last Line: -o let them roll, parvenu landlubbers! Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Death; Sailing & Sailors; Dead, The; Seamen; Sails TIME, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Source First Line: Alms for the hunting highwayman, an evil eye for the murderer's Last Line: Tear. You weep, my heart! Come on, sing some more--don't count Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan TO A SUCKLING SATIRIST, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Source First Line: Withwild hexametric oars, you row in verse and versus everyone Last Line: Thoughts, gathered long before, when the days were fine in paradise %lost Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan TO MAKE A DEAD BOY LAUGH, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Source First Line: Go quickly, nimble comber of comets! Last Line: Go quickly, nimble comber of comets! Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan TO MOUNT AETNA, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Text First Line: Aetna - I've been up vesuvius / vesuvius has shrunk, it seems Last Line: A little more . . . Or less . . . Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Etna (volcano); Volcanoes; Aetna (volcano) TO MY MOUSE-COLORED MARE, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Text First Line: No spur or whiplash needed now Last Line: We're arsy-varsy! . . . Hold it, girl! Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Horseback Riding TO THE ETERNAL MADAM, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Source First Line: Mannequin of the ideal! Half whipping boy, half bait! Eternal Last Line: When the poet is bellowing heart, smart, dart! Then, while he's snor- %ing, come kiss your conqueror Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan TO THE MEMORY OF ZULMA, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Source First Line: She was age twenty rich, I was twenty francs young. We pooled our Last Line: Lune: have sexual intercourse; faire un trou a la lune: not pay ones debts Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan TOAD, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Source First Line: A song in a windless night Last Line: Good night. That toad you heard is I Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Toads TRISTE CORBIERE, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: With his countenance of night |
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