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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: BLY, ROBERT (B. 1926) Matches Found: 33 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 65 LINES OF MEMORIES FOR ROBERT BLY AT 65, by WILLIAM DUFFY Poem Source First Line: Thirty-seven years ago this fall Last Line: And my best wishes for you, old friend, %are whispered only by the angels Subject(s): Bly, Robert (b. 1926) AFTER MARTIAL, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Roblinus in our leading literary Last Line: Shot must come from a pot which %is used to relieve his (distress) Subject(s): Bly, Robert (b. 1926); Martial (40-104) ALL QUIET, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How come nobody is being bombed today? Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Bly, Robert (b. 1926); Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Anti-war Protests ALL QUIET, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How come nobody is being bombed today? Last Line: At which I could have voiced a protest, %running my whole family off a cliff Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Bly, Robert (b. 1926); Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 AMERGIN AND CESSAIR; A BATTLE OF POETIC INCANTATION, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I plant my foot on this land Last Line: I am the silence of things secret Subject(s): Bly, Robert (b. 1926); Language; Men AN APPEAL, by DAVID IGNATOW Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We need you on tv to tell us the story of your life, holding us with Subject(s): Bly, Robert (b. 1926) APPEAL, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We need you on tv to tell us the story of your life, holding us with Last Line: Will know then that you are one of us, we will address ourselves %to all sides and in a world chorus Subject(s): Bly, Robert (b. 1926) AS IN A GLASS DARKLY, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Exiles from ourselves Last Line: As the mirroring spaces of still water, the swallows, %bird and image, indistinguishably meet Subject(s): Bly, Robert (b. 1926) AWAKENING, by JAMES HILLMAN Poem Source First Line: One wednesday davis woke to see Last Line: A thank-god friday man who sees, %and does not see Subject(s): Bly, Robert (b. 1926) BECOMING MILTON, by COLEMAN BRYAN BARKS Poem Source First Line: Milton, the airport driver, retired now Last Line: Nail it, but he can't do that, tom Subject(s): Bly, Robert (b. 1926); Men; War COALITION, by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If among earth's kings lord gilgamesh should remain unreasonable Last Line: Of pharoah death, imperator death, shogun death, president death Subject(s): Bly, Robert (b. 1926) COOKING, by JAMES HILLMAN Poem Source First Line: In the gloaming o my darling Last Line: The pungency of thyme desires %savored memories instead Subject(s): Bly, Robert (b. 1926) CORMORANT, by THOMAS R. SMITH Poem Source First Line: Buoyant on the chill harbor Last Line: In the buckets were mine to keep, %enough though neither large nor many Subject(s): Bly, Robert (b. 1926) DAVIS DECLARES THAT BIRDS STILL SING IN THE MORNING, by JAMES HILLMAN Poem Source First Line: Those who live where I do not Last Line: These, davis hammers into place, %makes his shield and joins the race Subject(s): Bly, Robert (b. 1926) DRIVING, by JAMES HILLMAN Poem Source First Line: Sure, he had thought of it -- dying Last Line: Did the dog want to die? %davis let it lie Subject(s): Bly, Robert (b. 1926) DRIVING A NEW FRIEND TO THE AIRPORT IN EARLY MARCH, by JAMES HABA Poem Source First Line: A peach in the hand suddenly Last Line: Let our teeth crack with curses, %and the birds of our wrists feed among algae at the %bottom of pon Subject(s): Bly, Robert (b. 1926) FOR RUSSIA AND MIKHAIL GORBACHEV, AUGUST 19, 1991, by FRAN QUINN Poem Source First Line: It was the rabbit who lost so many feet to luck Last Line: Martins sing his abrupt return %always along the swaying path that mark the seasons Subject(s): Bly, Robert (b. 1926) FOR THOMAS HART BENTON AND ROBERT BLY, by DAVID RAY Poem Source First Line: The day we brought bly by to meet you Last Line: And your brow cleft by that crack %I see on my own face now Subject(s): Bly, Robert (b. 1926) FROM CHILDHOOD, by C. OWEN CHRISTIANSON Poem Source First Line: Alone on the bluff Last Line: Alone on the bluff %and sees the river %flowing by. %and sees the river %flowing by Subject(s): Bly, Robert (b. 1926) GROANS, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When poet x comes out with a startling Last Line: From the milk and eggs and from the pleasure %of paying full attention to another, made audible Subject(s): Bly, Robert (b. 1926) LISTENING TO ROBERT BLY AT UNITY CHURCH, by THOMAS R. SMITH Poem Source First Line: Why don't our heads flop to one side Last Line: But to someone who has worn and discarded %generations of hands in my family Subject(s): Bly, Robert (b. 1926) LOSS OF MEMORY, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The holy words: why did we let them go? Last Line: Of green pastures and still waters %and the twelve signs of love that never fails Subject(s): Bly, Robert (b. 1926) MEHR LICHT, by DAVID RAY Poem Source First Line: Begin anew with this weeping Last Line: With fire at their backs, too. They too %call out for more light, claw the sky for it Subject(s): Bly, Robert (b. 1926) PARTING, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are watching me, wondering when Last Line: Seeing me pass among the dead, %seeing yourself as in an aging mirror Subject(s): Bly, Robert (b. 1926) PASSING AN ORCHARD BY TRAIN, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grass high under apple trees Last Line: To forgive me Subject(s): Bly, Robert (b. 1926); Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers PASSING AN ORCHARD BY TRAIN, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grass high under apple trees Last Line: I want to tell him %that I forgive him, that I want him %to forgive me Subject(s): Bly, Robert (b. 1926); Farm Life PILLOW SONG, by FRAN QUINN Poem Source First Line: Tired, you learn to lean on tiredness Last Line: The crown and the king and the poor one ascending %through new lives Subject(s): Bly, Robert (b. 1926); Crowns PLAINS POET, by MERIDEL LESUEUR Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The struggle of poets on our earth Last Line: To gather to the earth breast %to spring up bright meadows of lovers and warriors Subject(s): Bly, Robert (b. 1926) ROBERT BLY AT POINT LOBOS, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: While I study the red blisters Last Line: From a watery life Subject(s): Bly, Robert (b. 1926) WALKING THROUGH A CORNFIELD IN THE MIDDLE OF WINTER, I STUMBLE ..., by BARBARA HARR Poem Source First Line: Blue toads are dying all over minnesota Last Line: Blazing into magazines under my feet Subject(s): Bly, Robert (b. 1926); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights WINTER DAY, by NILS PETERSON Poem Source First Line: This wind will not swerve, hurtling straight Last Line: His face towards this flood, and set forth, %dark coat billowing behind like a wake Subject(s): Bly, Robert (b. 1926) WITHIN THE ONION, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you follow the spiral Last Line: The other worships water. %from then our sun rises Subject(s): Bly, Robert (b. 1926) WOODWINDS, by FRAN QUINN Poem Source First Line: The woodwinds have a voice Last Line: One begins to fade. The woodwinds %have a voice that's clear%and low, a reminder of melancholy Subject(s): Bly, Robert (b. 1926) |
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