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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: DECAY Matches Found: 97 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 |
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