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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A STORY OF THE SEA-SHORE, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I sought the long clear twilights of my home
Last Line: For, though he slay me, I will trust in god.
Subject(s): Beauty; Children; Christianity; Death; Decay; God; Homecoming; Longing; Love; Nature; Sea; Seashore; Story-telling; Waiting; Childhood; Dead, The; Rot; Decadence; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore


A THOUGHT, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Blythe bell, that calls to bridal halls
Last Line: Weeps also its decay.
Subject(s): Bells; Decay; Rot; Decadence


ALL THINGS DECAY, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: & so must our sleigh
Subject(s): Decay


ALL THINGS DECAY AND DIE, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All things decay with time: the forest sees
Last Line: Droops, dies, and falls without the cleavers stroke.
Subject(s): Decay; Rot; Decadence


ALMANAC, by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Into my ravaged garden as into the tattered
Last Line: I follow crossing over.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Subject(s): Decay; Gardens & Gardening; Rot; Decadence


ART OF CRACKAGE, by SANDRA STONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: By the way, those flowers, button size
Last Line: An unbearable crack, a report of the dark
Subject(s): Decay


AS A PLANE TREE BY THE WATER, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Darkness has called to darkness, and disgrace
Subject(s): Decay; Rot; Decadence


AS A PLANE TREE BY THE WATER, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Darkness has called to darkness, and disgrace
Last Line: Sing for the resurrection of the king. %flies, flies are on the plane tree, on the streets
Subject(s): Decay


AT DAYBREAK, by PEARL FANCOLLY HALLETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beside the walk / a terraced wall
Last Line: At break of day.
Subject(s): Decay; Sickness; Rot; Decadence; Illness


AUTUMN, by JESSE SILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: In token of his bounteous grace
Last Line: Youth will not come to thy beck and call.
Subject(s): Autumn; Decay; Leaves; Seasons; Wind; Fall; Rot; Decadence


BOSTON: 1961, by JORDAN MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Boston hulks displeasured on the bay
Last Line: The river charles is babbling at its bank.
Subject(s): Boston; Decay


BOY WANDERING IN SIMMS' VALLEY, by ROBERT PENN WARREN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Through brush and love-vine, well blooded by blackberry thorn
Last Line: And stood wondering what life is, and love, and what they might be
Subject(s): Decay; Rot; Decadence


BOY WANDERING IN SIMMS' VALLEY, by ROBERT PENN WARREN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Through brush and love-vine, well blooded by blackberry thorn
Last Line: And stood wondering what lufe is, and love, %and what they may be
Subject(s): Decay


COMPOST, by BENJAMIN SCOTT GROSSBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: We are past the time of myths, past a belief
Last Line: I think, this is waht artists do; %I think, this is what god does
Subject(s): Decay; Leaves


DEAD DEER, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Amid pale green milkweed, wild clover
Last Line: Cruel luxuriance.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Death; Decay; Deer; Dead, The; Rot; Decadence


DEATH OF THE KAPOWSIN TAVERN, by RICHARD HUGO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I can't ridge it back again from char
Subject(s): Abandonment; Bars & Bartenders; Decay; Kapowsin, Washington; Desertion; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Rot; Decadence


DEATH OF THE KAPOWSIN TAVERN, by RICHARD HUGO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I can't ridge it back again from char
Last Line: Although, I know in time the lake will send %wind black enough to blow it all away
Subject(s): Abandonment; Bars And Bartenders; Decay; Kapowsin, Washington


DECAY, by KENNETH A. WEEME    Poem Source                    
First Line: The mortar has been chipped away
Last Line: But, god, in his jest, decrees %decay will do just fine
Subject(s): Decay


DITTY, by AUDREY BEECHAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: If this town should tumble down
Subject(s): Death; Decay


FLY, by MIROSLAV HOLUB    Poem Source                    
First Line: She sat on the willow bark
Last Line: Fleeing %from the fires of estres
Subject(s): Decay; Flies


FOR UNA, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I built her a tower when I was young
Last Line: And when they vanish we’ll have spent the night well
Subject(s): Transience; Mortality; Social Commentary; Decay; Love - Erotic; Impermanence; Rot; Decadence


GEOLOGY, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What matter if my life be passed
Last Line: They'll find the lime that made my bones.
Subject(s): Death; Decay; Geology; Dead, The; Rot; Decadence


GERONTION, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here I am, an old man in a dry month
Last Line: Thoughts of a dry brain in a dry season.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S.
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Cowardice; Decay; Emptiness; Old Age; Estrangement; Outcasts; Rot; Decadence


GROUNDHOG, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In june, amid the golden fields
Last Line: Of montaingne in his tower, %of saint theresa in her wild lament
Subject(s): Death; Decay; Groundhogs; Men; Transience


HOUSE ON 15TH S.W., by RICHARD HUGO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cruelty and rain could be expected
Subject(s): Abandonment; Decay; Houses


IN CELEBRATION OF SPRING, by JOHN BALABAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our asian war is over; others have begun
Last Line: That we will be keepers of a garden, nonetheless.
Subject(s): Decay; Social Problems; Soldiers; Veterans; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Rot; Decadence


IN THE WILDERNESS MOTEL, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Red star hovering
Last Line: The comfort, the company of ruin.
Subject(s): Abandonment; Decay; Hotels; Nature; Desertion; Rot; Decadence; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


IRREPARABLENESS, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have been in the meadows all the day
Last Line: Held dead within them till myself shall die.
Subject(s): Decay; Rot; Decadence


JUNK, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An axe angles from my neighbor's ashcan
Subject(s): Decay; Junk & Junkyards; Labor & Laborers; Rot; Decadence; Work; Workers


JUNK, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An axe angles from my neighbor's ashcan
Last Line: And wayland's work is worn away
Subject(s): Decay; Junk And Junkyards; Labor And Laborers


LANDSCAPE WITH ABANDONED TRASH, by KATE NORTHROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: The washer stopped where it tumbled to,
Last Line: & fanfare, the coronation %of a king.
Subject(s): Decay; Pollution


LATE AUTUMN, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: October, - and the skies are cool and grey
Last Line: His perfect harvesting; he sleeps at ease.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Subject(s): Autumn; Decay; Harvest; October; Seasons; Fall; Rot; Decadence


MARGITES, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I neither plough the field, nor sow
Last Line: And think a life well lost is mine.
Subject(s): Walking; Idleness; Decay


MICHELANGELO, by RHYS CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Stern and grim-visaged, gaunt, and dark of gaze
Last Line: Into unfurrowed fields of light.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Decay; Genius; History; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Paintings & Painters; Sculpture & Sculptors; Sistine Chapel; Time; Rot; Decadence; Historians


MILK, by KATE NORTHROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is something blue about it
Last Line: Of pale grass growing over.
Subject(s): Decay; Relationships


MONTANA RANCH ABANDONED, by RICHARD HUGO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cracks in eight log buildings, counting sheds
Subject(s): Abandonment; Decay


NAMING WEATHER: NOTES FOR JEAN: 3. DECAYING STAGE: DIFFUSION, by MARY PINARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: -- I am alone %and croweded by these forms - the scooped
Last Line: Not even scavengers come %to its ossuary %osteoma -- osteitis %oma %oma
Subject(s): Decay


NORTHERN MICHIGAN, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On this back road the land
Last Line: Through the woods.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Country Life; Decay; Landscape; Michigan; Nature; Rot; Decadence


ODE TO ROT, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Decay; Rot; Decadence


ON THE ROAD, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The fascination of flesh,' the stranger said, 'lies in the fact
Last Line: Beauty is a glimpse on the road to putrefaction.'
Subject(s): Bodies; Decay; Temptation


OZYMANDIAS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: I met a traveler from an antique land
Last Line: The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Variant Title(s): Ozymandias Of Egypt
Subject(s): Death; Decay; Deserts; Egypt; Fame; Food & Eating; Pride; Rameses Ii, King Of Egypt; Ruins; Statues; Time; Transience; Vanity; Dead, The; Rot; Decadence; Reputation; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Impermanence


PIANO BURIAL, by EDA LOU WALTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Empty the garden where I played your singing
Last Line: Mountains-sides of aspen.
Subject(s): Decay; Flowers; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Rot; Decadence


PROTUS, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Among these latter busts we count by scores
Last Line: To give you the crown-grasper. What a man!
Subject(s): Decay; Statues; Rome, Italy; Rot; Decadence


PUT BACK THE DARK, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let's not stop in cold, in drought
Last Line: When your hand into mine put back the dark.
Subject(s): Death; Decay; Dead, The; Rot; Decadence


PUTREFACTION, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of late
Last Line: And we can't even / cry
Subject(s): Decay; Rot; Decadence


PUTREFACTION, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of late
Subject(s): Decay


PUTREFACTION, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Putrefaction is the end
Last Line: Of all that nature doth entend.
Subject(s): Decay; Rot; Decadence


RALEIGH WAS RIGHT (FIRST VERSION), by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: We cannot go to the country
Subject(s): Country Life; Decay; Dramatists; Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593); Nostalgia; Plays & Playwrights ; Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618); Rot; Decadence; Dramatists


RALEIGH WAS RIGHT (FIRST VERSION), by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We cannot go to the country
Last Line: For the country will bring us no peace
Subject(s): Country Life; Decay; Dramatists; Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593); Nostalgia; Plays And Playwrights; Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618)


RANGE-FINDING, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The battle rent a cobweb diamond-strung
Last Line: But finding nothing, sullenly withdrew.
Subject(s): Decay; Nostalgia; Soldiers; War; Rot; Decadence


REPETITION, by RUTH STONE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's unbearable and yet, every day
Last Line: Holding her red flag %at the end of the line
Subject(s): Decay


RESURRECTION, by GIOVANNI MALITO    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the third day my skeleton discovers
Last Line: In this universe is now making use of me
Subject(s): Death; Decay


ROADSIDE POEMS: A MANCHESTER POEM, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis a poor drizzly morning, dark and sad
Last Line: Dearer than eden-groves with rivers four.
Subject(s): Christianity; Cities; Decay; Flowers; God; Home; Labor & Laborers; Manchester, England; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Urban Life; Rot; Decadence; Work; Workers


RONDEL, by GEORGE AUGUSTUS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The lilacs are in bloom
Last Line: The lilacs are in bloom.
Subject(s): Decay; Flowers; Grief; Roses; Summer; Time; Rot; Decadence; Sorrow; Sadness


SERMON OF THE FALLEN, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From an east window
Last Line: Even as a boy, I could feel the trembling in us all.
Subject(s): Decay; Fear; Sermons; Rot; Decadence


SEVEN ODES TO SEVEN NATURAL PROCESSES: ODE TO ROT, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Der gut herr gott
Last Line: Achieves in plants, in living plants
Subject(s): Decay; Rot; Decadence


SEVEN ODES TO SEVEN NATURAL PROCESSES: ODE TO ROT, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Der gut herr gott
Last Line: The lightning-forged organic conspiracy's %merciful counterplot
Subject(s): Decay


SO FOR THE LITTLE WHILE, by LINDLEY WILLIAMS HUBBELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So for the little while that you remain
Last Line: Which I shall find, if I find anything.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hayasi Shuseki
Subject(s): Decay; Rot; Decadence


SONG OF THE SHIPS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The great ships go a-shouldering
Last Line: And sail no more, no more!
Subject(s): Decay; Sailing & Sailors; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Rot; Decadence; Beach; Coast; Shore


SONNET: DEATH-WARNINGS, by FRANCISCO GOMEZ DE QUEVEDO Y VILLEGAS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw the ramparts of my native land
Last Line: That was not a reminder of the end.
Alternate Author Name(s): Quevedo, Francisco Gomez De; Quevedo, Francisco De
Subject(s): Death; Decay; Omens; Dead, The; Rot; Decadence


SPRING SONG, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The fiddlehead ferns down by our pond
Last Line: All growth's a slave, and rot is boss
Subject(s): Decay; Rot; Decadence


SPRING SONG, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The fiddlehead ferns down by our pond
Last Line: All growth's a slave, and rot is boss
Subject(s): Decay


ST. MARTIN'S SUMMER, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No protesting, dearest!
Last Line: Ghost-bereft!
Subject(s): Disillusion; Fate; Decay; Destiny; Rot; Decadence


SURFACE AND STRUCTURE: BONAVENTURE HOTEL, LOS ANGELES, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Four black glass silos
Last Line: Broken from a necklace.
Subject(s): Decay; Hotels; Los Angeles; Rot; Decadence; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


SWEENEY AMONG THE NIGHTINGALES, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Apeneck sweeney spreads his knees
Last Line: To stain the stiff dishonoured shroud.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S.
Subject(s): Constellations; Decay; Mythology; Rot; Decadence


TESTAMENT, by W. J. KEITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Books burn, crumble, decay
Last Line: By a hard fate. %it is also true
Subject(s): Decay; Time


THAT DREARY LAKE, by EMILY JANE BRONTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That dreary lake, that midnight sky
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis
Subject(s): Decay; Rot; Decadence


THE BURNT-OUT SPA, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An old beast ended in this place:
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Decay; Rot; Decadence


THE CYCLISTS, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Spread on the roadway,
Subject(s): Bicycles; England; Decay; Cycling; English; Rot; Decadence


THE DEAD FOREST, by MAIDI PAYNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: From the living slopes we went
Last Line: And wearing birds that chipper in their sleep.
Subject(s): Decay; Forests; Rot; Decadence; Woods


THE DESERTED SHRINE, by GLADYS CROMWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I was the temple for a people's need
Last Line: Of love that on forsaken hearts abide.
Subject(s): Churches; Decay; Ruins; Shrines; Temples; Cathedrals; Rot; Decadence; Mosques


THE DISMANTLED SHIP, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In some unused lagoon, some nameless bay,
Last Line: Lies rusting, mouldering.
Subject(s): Decay; Ships & Shipping; Rot; Decadence


THE GROUNDHOG, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In june, amid the golden fields
Subject(s): Death; Decay; Groundhogs; Men; Transience; Dead, The; Rot; Decadence; Woodchucks; Impermanence


THE HOUSE ON THE HILL, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: They are all gone away
Last Line: There is nothing more to say.
Subject(s): Decay; Desolation; Rot; Decadence


THE IMPROVISATORE: RODOLPH THE WILD, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a massy cloud of dismal hue
Last Line: Up to the hillock found him dead and cold.
Subject(s): Change; Death; Decay; Deception; Despair; Evil; Insanity; Love; Lust; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Rot; Decadence; Madness; Mental Illness; Songs


THE IVY GREEN, by CHARLES DICKENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green
Last Line: A rare old plant is the ivy green.
Variant Title(s): English Ivy
Subject(s): Decay; Ivy; Plants; Rot; Decadence; Planting; Planters


THE LION'S SKELETON, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How long, o lion, hast thou fleshless lain?
Last Line: Have sifted out the substance of thy feet.
Subject(s): Animals; Decay; Lions; Skeletons; Rot; Decadence


THE MOSQUE AT EPHESUS, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A gray shell with a ruined tower
Last Line: White on the mouldering tower.
Subject(s): Decay; Ruins; Stones; Rot; Decadence; Granite; Rocks


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 18, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I spur my horse past ruins
Last Line: Unnamed in the records of immortals
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Animals; Chinese Literature; Decay; Horses; Lament; Mortality; Ruins; Rot; Decadence


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 181, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A pitiful hundred-year house
Last Line: To rebuild would never work
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Decay; Houses; Rot; Decadence


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 247, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In this village is a house
Last Line: A pearl concealed in rags
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Decay; Houses; Rot; Decadence


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 270, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Emperor wu of the han they say
Last Line: Today are nothing but weeds
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Decay; Past; Rot; Decadence


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 288, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Deer live deep in the forest
Last Line: And soon their loveliness fades
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Decay; Deer; Mortality; Rot; Decadence


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 291, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here where I once stayed
Last Line: Why not read some old lines
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Aging; Chinese Literature; Decay; Past; Rot; Decadence


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 58, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The peach would bloom through summer
Last Line: Long ago was an endless sea
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Decay; Fruit; Past; Peaches; Rot; Decadence


THE POET, by JANE MILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You would procure the oil of forgiveness from the angel
Last Line: With great humility, bathed in tears and barefoot.
Subject(s): Americanization; Cities; Decay; Modern Man; United States; Urban Life; Rot; Decadence; America


THE RUIN, by MERLE FULLMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: About this place there drifts a sense of peace
Last Line: Their monuments, to crumble and reveal.
Subject(s): Decay; Past; Ruins; Rot; Decadence


THE SILENCE, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We walk through a yellow-ocher adobe house
Last Line: Water is, taking the shape of the container.
Subject(s): Decay; Houses; Silence; Rot; Decadence


THE TIMBER, by HENRY VAUGHAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sure thou didst flourish once! And many springs
Last Line: Dirt in her way, will keep above the sky.
Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist
Subject(s): Decay; Trees; Rot; Decadence


THE WASTE LAND (1-5, COMPLETE), by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: April is the cruellest month, breeding
Last Line: Shantih shantih shantih
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S.
Subject(s): Civilization; Decay; Emptiness; Rot; Decadence


THE WOOD-PILE, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out walking in the frozen swamp one gray day
Last Line: With the slow smokeless burning of decay.
Subject(s): Decay; Wood; Rot; Decadence


THERE IS A BONDAGE WORSE, FAR WORSE, TO BEAR, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Fade, and participate in man's decline
Subject(s): Decay; Nature


UNDER US, by MOLLY MCQUADE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Worms have no minds
Last Line: At the work of loving ground
Subject(s): Decay; Worms


VOICE OF THE CONDEMNED, by ESTHER M. LEIBRAND    Poem Text                    
First Line: Have you anything to say before you're scrapped
Last Line: For a few last words while their old bones bleach.
Subject(s): Decay; Time; Rot; Decadence


WARBLER AT HOWELL'S DRIVE-IN, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You might come here now
Last Line: Or gone into briars, pine needles, air?
Subject(s): Adolescence; Aging; Decay; Motion Pictures; Teen Agers; Rot; Decadence; Movies; Cinema


WHAT COULD HAPPEN, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Noon. A stale saturday. The hills
Last Line: Beyond that shadowy nest of red madrones.
Subject(s): Decay; Driving & Drivers; Towns; Women; Rot; Decadence


WIND FEAR, by EDA LOU WALTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Someday,' you said
Last Line: That was your hair.
Subject(s): Decay; Wind; Rot; Decadence