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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 140 SYLLABLES, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All my life I have wondered
Last Line: Out of all the dirty squares
Subject(s): Expressionism - Poets; Poetry & Poets; Social Protest


140 SYLLABLES, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All my life I have wondered
Last Line: Out of all the dirty squares
Subject(s): Expressionism - Poets; Poetry And Poets; Social Protest


A LETTER, ON HIS DEPARTURE FORM LONDON; TO R.L., ESQ., by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear peter, your absence at present I rue
Last Line: If so, I'll go see it, or 'twill be a hard case.
Subject(s): Expressionism - Poets; Letters; News; Pens & Pencils; Writing & Writers


A SUGGESTION, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I send, transmit, consign, convey
Last Line: "I wish you ""merry christmas."
Subject(s): Christmas; Expressionism - Poets; Letters; Postal Service; Nativity, The; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


BATTLEFIELD, by AUGUST STAMM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Clods' friability lulls iron to sleep
Last Line: Child's gaze
Subject(s): Expressionism - Poets


BLUDGEON YOUR FANCIES, by JEFF CLARK    Poem Source                    
First Line: More than bluebells and dolorous roams
Last Line: Sick with cliche, with thoughts of the sound of %'pursuit by hounds...'
Subject(s): Expressionism - Poets


BUNCH OF DRIFTER SONS HOLLERED, by GOTTFRIED BENN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Veilless %your blood
Subject(s): Expressionism - Poets


CODICIL, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Most of the world's poetry
Subject(s): Expressionism - Poets; Poetry & Poets; Self


CODICIL, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Most of the world's poetry
Last Line: The use of the pronoun, 'I'
Subject(s): Expressionism - Poets; Poetry And Poets; Self


DE PROFUNDIS, by GEORG TRAKL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is a stubble field, where a black rain is falling
Last Line: Angels of crystal rang out once more
Subject(s): Expressionism - Poets; Farm Life


DEMONOLOGUE (1), by JEFF CLARK    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was fascinating to induce fear
Last Line: When I raised hs face and held it there
Subject(s): Expressionism - Poets; Fear; Man-woman Relationships; Supernatural


DEMONOLOGUE (2), by JEFF CLARK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I know his scent and infest there
Last Line: Invitation to pure action is ignored
Subject(s): Expressionism - Poets; Man-woman Relationships; Supernatural


DEMONOLOGUE (3), by JEFF CLARK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I had a ward I adored and tortured in four ways
Last Line: The more the horse moaned the less I was inclined to lord the less
Subject(s): Expressionism - Poets; Man-woman Relationships; Torture


DISTANCES ACCUMULATE FICTIONS, by GUY BENNETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: A dissolute mouth admits
Last Line: A lateral land that retains %the sea
Subject(s): Expressionism - Poets; Language


ENCOUNTER, by AUGUST STAMM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thy going smileth in me over
Last Line: Timid trembling limps away %bereft bereft!
Subject(s): Expressionism - Poets


EQUILIBRIUM OF LILY PADS, by JEANNE EMMONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our canoe slices through green cells, unseals
Last Line: At the low place where the radiant veins converge
Subject(s): Expressionism - Poets; Nature


EVENING, by GEORG TRAKL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With dead shapes of heroes
Last Line: Of the mountain lake
Subject(s): Expressionism - Poets


FOILY INCH, by JEFF CLARK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who follows one to the park
Last Line: Is drowned by wild parrots
Subject(s): Expressionism - Poets


FRIEND, by PAUL KLEE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Notes %from afar
Last Line: A friend, soon in the morning, behind the mountain
Subject(s): Expressionism - Poets; Friendship


GRASS, by JEFF CLARK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oriented in new tropics, away from bong
Last Line: Minatory mornings none where I've gone
Subject(s): Absence; Expressionism - Poets; Horseback Riding; Travel


HAPPY ONE, by PAUL KLEE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The happy one, who is almost
Last Line: Bend down, above him
Subject(s): Expressionism - Poets


MAL DE DUSK, by JEFF CLARK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who deals in scales and fleshrecord players
Last Line: Make dusk din and make dusk ping and make dusk
Subject(s): Expressionism - Poets; Singing And Singers


MORGUE: 1. LITTLE ASTER, by GOTTFRIED BENN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                
First Line: A drowned truck-driver was propped on the slab
Last Line: Little aster!
Subject(s): Asters; Autopsies; Expressionism - Poets; Flowers; Morgues


MORGUE: 2. LOVELY CHILDHOOD, by GOTTFRIED BENN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                
First Line: The mouth of a girl who had long lain among the reeds looked gnawed away
Last Line: Oh, how the little muzzles squeaked!
Subject(s): Autopsies; Death - Children; Expressionism - Poets; Morgues; Death - Babies


NIGHT CAFE, by GOTTFRIED BENN    Poem Source                    
First Line: 824: the love and life of women
Last Line: A paunched obesity waddles after her
Subject(s): Expressionism - Poets


POEM, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A painting with no background at all, or
Last Line: The light of their eyes
Subject(s): Farewell; Expressionism - Poets; Parting


POEM, by PAUL KLEE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The big animals: despondent
Last Line: Burst %this bladder!
Subject(s): Expressionism - Poets


POEM, by PAUL KLEE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I stand in full armor
Last Line: O glow with the dead
Subject(s): Expressionism - Poets; World War I


POETRY, by JAMES DANIELS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Poetry, a unique form of expression
Last Line: I found in the long-living art
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Expressionism - Poets; Love; Poetry And Poets; Solitude


REVEALMENT, by BERT HENDERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Why can I seem to write of naught but you?
Last Line: When your bright flag of beauty is unfurled.
Subject(s): Expressionism - Poets


REVELATION AND DECLINE, by GEORG TRAKL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Strange are the paths of mankind in the night
Last Line: Legged down stony precipices, snowflakes falling
Subject(s): Expressionism - Poets


ROOTBOUND, by JEANNE EMMONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In april, in the nursery, the impatiens
Last Line: Opening to receive his dark embraces
Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Babies; Expressionism - Poets; Grandparents; Mothers


SHE WILL DESTROY YOU, by JEFF CLARK    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is alleged in my temple that mine
Last Line: I'm allowed no line to surround it, affrightment
Subject(s): Expressionism - Poets; Love


SLEEP, by GEORG TRAKL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Damn you dark poisons
Last Line: Over toppling cities %of steel
Subject(s): Expressionism - Poets


TERCETS, by JEFF CLARK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Clatter in the landscape
Last Line: Tomorrow, in night, in three warm cores, %I'll prepare
Subject(s): Birds; Death; Ducks; Expressionism - Poets; Soul


THREE PORTRAITS: GEORG TRAKL, by ELSE LASKER-SCHULER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: His eyes were so distant
Last Line: His shadow lingered ineffably %across the evening of my room
Subject(s): Bible; Expressionism - Poets; Trakl, Georg (1887-1914)


THREE PORTRAITS: GEORGE GROSZ, by ELSE LASKER-SCHULER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes colored tears play
Last Line: His god only seems to be dead
Subject(s): Bible; Expressionism - Poets; Grosz, George (1893-1959)


THREE PORTRAITS: TO THE BARBARIAN, by ELSE LASKER-SCHULER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nights when I lie
Last Line: Oh you %you!
Subject(s): Bible; Expressionism - Poets


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 1, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Freedom at last!
Last Line: Written—and of this book.
Subject(s): Democracy; Expressionism - Poets; Freedom; Life; Nations; Politics & Government; Self-consciousness; Liberty


URDEATH, by AUGUST STAMM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Space %time
Last Line: Erring %nothing
Subject(s): Expressionism - Poets


WOLF SPEAKS, by PAUL KLEE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The wolf speaks, while chewing
Last Line: Where, then, is %their god?
Subject(s): Expressionism - Poets