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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MEN Matches Found: 868 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "THE GENTLEMAN'S STUDY, IN ANSWER TO THE LADY'S DRESSING-ROOM", by MISS" "W---- [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: "some write of angels, some of goddess" Last Line: "they are still fulsome, wretched man" Alternate Author Name(s): "w----, Miss; Subject(s): "man-woman Relationships;men;swift, Jonathan (1667-1745);women's Rights;" Male-female Relations;feminism A BETTER RESURRECTION, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have no wit, no words, no tears Last Line: O jesus, drink of me. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Faith; Gays & Lesbians; Jesus Christ; Pain; Belief; Creed; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Suffering; Misery A BLESSING, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just off the highway to rochester, minnesota Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Variant Title(s): The Blessing Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Men; Minnesota; Nature; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love A COAL FIRE IN WINTER, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Something old and tyrannical burning there Subject(s): Coal Mines & Miners; Fire; Men A CREOLE TRIPTYCH: 1. THE DANDY, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO Poem Text First Line: His shirt of silk and trappings show his style Last Line: Or 'tis some sculpture moving live and warm. Subject(s): Horseback Riding; Men A DECADE, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you came, you were like red wine and honey Last Line: But I am completely nourished. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men A FIRST ON TV (FOR WALTER CRONKITE), by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the twentieth century / you are there Subject(s): Apathy; Cronkite, Walter (b. 1916); Men; Television; Tv A FLOWER GIVEN TO MY DAUGHTER, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Frail the white rose and frail are Subject(s): Daughters; Fathers; Men; Prayer A GENESIS TEXT FOR LARRY LEVIS, WHO DIED ALONE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It will always happen -- the death of a friend Last Line: But where was that woman and her snake when we needed them? Subject(s): Aging; Death; Friendship; Levis, Larry (1946-1996); Memory; Men; Dead, The A GLIMPSE, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A glimpse, through an interstice caught Last Line: Little, perhaps not a word. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Men; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men A HEAD, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A dead boy living among men as a man Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men A HORRIBLE EXAMPLE, by OLIVER MARBLE Poem Text First Line: There was a man who put on airs Last Line: Because they were too ladified. Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Dolls; Friends, Religious Society Of; Men; Prayer; Toys; Quakers A MAN, by MRS. VICTOR KIRK Poem Text First Line: If I could only be the man Last Line: Bring out my best, and then some more. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Men A MAN IN OUR TOWN, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We pitied him as one too much at ease Subject(s): Memory; Men; Neighbors A MARRIAGE, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The first retainer / he gave to her Subject(s): Men A MERRY CHRISTMAS - IN SPITE OF ALL!, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long years ago in london town Last Line: Can rob us of our christmas cheer. Subject(s): Christmas; Gays & Lesbians; Nativity, The; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men A PLAINT TO MAN, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you slowly emerged from the den of time Last Line: And visioned help unsought, unknown. Subject(s): Men A POEM FOR THE OLD MAN, by JOHN WIENERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God love you Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men A POEM FOR TRAPPED THINGS, by JOHN WIENERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This morning with a blue flame burning Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men A POEM SOME PEOPLE WILL HAVE TO UNDERSTAND, by AMIRI BARAKA Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dull unwashed windows of eyes Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism; Men; Negroes; American Blacks A POET'S EDUCATION, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In fact, the classroom overlooked a street Last Line: His dusty classrom beckoned, high aloft Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Medical Students; Poetry & Poets; Education; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men A POISON TREE, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was angry with my friend Last Line: My foe outstretched beneath the tree. Subject(s): Anger; Bible; Enemies; Environment; Hate; Men; Mythology; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation A PRAYER FOR MY SON, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bid a strong ghost stand at the head Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Fathers; Men; Poetry & Poets; Prayer A QUOI BON DIRE, by CHARLOTTE MEW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seventeen years ago you said Last Line: You will have smiled, I shall have tossed your hair. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men A RITUAL TO READ TO EACH OTHER, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: If you don't know the kind of person I am Subject(s): Men A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 15, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look not in my eyes, for fear Last Line: A jonquil, not a grecian lad. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 44, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shot? So quick, so clean an ending? Last Line: But wear it and it will not fade. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men A SPRIG OF ROSEMARY, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot see your face Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men A STORY, by LI-YOUNG LEE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sad is the man who is asked for a story Subject(s): Fathers; Men; Prayer A STORY ABOUT THE BODY, by ROBERT HASS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The young composer, working that summer at an artist's colony Subject(s): Men A STORY THAT COULD BE TRUE, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you were exchanged in the cradle and Subject(s): Fathers; Men; Prayer A TREATIE OF HUMAN LEARNING (COMPLETE 1-151), by FULKE GREVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mind of man is this world's true dimension Last Line: Ere she can judge all other knowledge vain. Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, 1st Baron; Brooke, Lord Subject(s): Art Schools; Men A VERY EARLY MORNING EXERCISE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chan yuen is on the threshold of a remarkable career Subject(s): Introspection; Men; Nanking, China A WOMAN LIKE ME, by EILEEN MYLES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wanna hear something really funny? Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men ACROSS THE SWAMP, by OLAV H. HAUGE Poem Source First Line: It is the roots from all the trees that have died Last Line: To water and eternity Subject(s): Men; Swamps ADVICE, by HERACLITUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with many Last Line: Nature loves to hide Alternate Author Name(s): Herakleitos Subject(s): Men ADVICE, by BILL HOLM Poem Source First Line: Someone dancing inside us Last Line: If they don't, the next world %will be a lot like this one Subject(s): Men AFFECTATION, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The men of simple manners please; they Last Line: Blamed ridiculous you are! Subject(s): Etiquette; Men; Pride; Manners; Courtesy; Self-esteem; Self-respect AFTER A POEM FOR COCKSUCKERS, by JOHN WIENERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have never stopped loving him Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love - Unrequited; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men AFTER MAKING LOVE WE HEAR FOOTSTEPS, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: For I can snore like a bullhorn Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Fathers; Men; Prayer AFTER MAKING LOVE WE HEAR FOOTSTEPS, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For I can snore like a bullhorn Last Line: This blessing love gives again into our arms Subject(s): Erotic Love; Fathers; Men; Prayer AFTER THE FUNERALS, by FELICE PICANO Poem Source First Line: After the funerals, the questions arise Last Line: Spilling rhythm, even out sweat was silver Subject(s): Aids (disease); Men; Sickness AFTER THE PARTY, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Amid glasses clinking, mineral water, schnapps Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men ALL THAT IS LOVELY IN MEN, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing for a dirty man Last Line: That is lovely in women Subject(s): Men ALL THAT IS LOVELY IN MEN, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing for a dirty man Last Line: That is lovely in women Subject(s): Men ALL THE FRUIT, by JOHANN CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH HOLDERLIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All the fruit is ripe, plunged in fire, cooked Last Line: As in a rocking boat on the sea Alternate Author Name(s): Holderlin, J. C. F.; Holderlin, Friedrich Subject(s): Fruit; Men ALL THE WOMEN CAUGHT IN FLARING LIGHT, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Imagine a big room of women doing anything Subject(s): Women; Mothers; Gays & Lesbians; Children; Grief; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness ALL THINGS TO ALL MEN, by SHEM TOV BEN JOSEPH FALAQUERA Poem Text First Line: Adapt thyself to time and circumstance Last Line: But if an ass thou meetest simply bray. Alternate Author Name(s): Palquera, Ben Joseph Subject(s): Jews; Men; Judaism 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 AMERICAN POETRY, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever it is, it must have Last Line: Uttering cries that are almost human. Subject(s): Language; Men; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary AMERICAN PRIMITIVE, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look at him there in his stovepipe hat Subject(s): Men; Social Protest AMERICAN PRIMITIVE, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look at him there in his stovepipe hat Last Line: And I love my daddy like he loves his dollar Subject(s): Men; Social Protest AN AMERICAN POEM, by EILEEN MYLES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was born in boston in Subject(s): Self; Gays & Lesbians; Ancestors & Ancestry; Boston; Social Classes; Social Commentaries; Poetry & Poets; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Heritage; Heredity; Caste AN ARK FOR LAWRENCE DURRELL, by ROBERT DUNCAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If we are to cross the barriers of snow Last Line: The snake has hiw own way among us Subject(s): Fathers; Men; Prayer AND IF HE HAD BEEN WRONG FOR ME, by ROBERT DUNCAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet he was there, and all my thirst Last Line: Kept silent come to speak Subject(s): Men AND IF HE HAD BEEN WRONG FOR ME, by ROBERT DUNCAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet he was there, and all my thirst Last Line: Kept silent come to speak Subject(s): Men AND THE MEN, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Want back in Last Line: Please, they're begging you. Look out Subject(s): Men; Relationships ANGELUS, by BRIAN TEARE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peace, okay!, speak goodness of marriage Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Marriage; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ANGER THAT BREAKS THE MAN INTO CHILDREN, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Has one central fire against two craters Subject(s): Men ANIMALS ARE PASSING FROM OUR LIVES, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's wonderful how I jog Subject(s): Animals; Hate; Men ANIMALS ARE PASSING FROM OUR LIVES, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's wonderful how I jog Last Line: Cleverly to hook his teeth %with my teeth. No. Not this pig Subject(s): Animals; Hate; Men APE, by RUSSELL EDSON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: You haven't finished your ape, said mother to father, who had monkey Subject(s): Men APE, by RUSSELL EDSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You haven't finished your ape, said mother to father, who had monkey Last Line: I'm just saying that I'm damn sick of ape every night, cried father Subject(s): Men APOSTASY, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We open our mouths and the seasons Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men APPOINTED ROUNDS, by LOUIS JENKINS Poem Source First Line: At first he refused to deliver junk mail because it was stupid Last Line: In the streets of athens, gasping, no news Subject(s): Men ARCHAIC TORSO OF APOLLO, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We cannot know his legendary head Last Line: That does not see you. You must change your life Subject(s): Apollo; Imagination; Men; Mythology - Classical; Statues; Vision ARK FOR LAWRENCE DURRELL, by ROBERT DUNCAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If we are to cross the barriers of snow Last Line: The snake has his own way among us Subject(s): Fathers; Men; Prayer ARMANI WEATHER, by ELAINE EQUI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In that long %navy blue %cashmere coat Last Line: Like the apple %against his dark skin Subject(s): Cold; Men; Winter AS A BOY WHEN DESPERATE I'D PRAY WITH BARE KNEES, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But from the window I look like an old man Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Boys; Men; Nature; Old Age; Prayer; Youth AS FROM A QUIVER OF ARROWS, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What do we do with the body, do we Subject(s): Aids (disease); Gays & Lesbians; Sickness; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Illness ASCENSIONS, by WILLIAM PILLEN Poem Source First Line: You, marc chagall, should be able to tell us Last Line: Not even a marker saying: %here the kikes %en-masse ascended Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Men AT APRIL, by ANGELINA WELD GRIMKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Toss your gay heads Last Line: At our hearts? Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men AT HOME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was dead, my spirit turned Last Line: That tarrieth but a day. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Ghosts; Gays & Lesbians; Supernatural; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men AT THE CAPRI, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men AT THE WASHING OF MY SON, by DAVID RAY Poem Source First Line: I ran up and grabbed your arm, the way a man Subject(s): Fathers; Men; Prayer AUTOMOBILE, by RUSSELL EDSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A man had just married an automobile Last Line: Father and mother watch an automobile with a just married sign %on it growing smaller in a road Subject(s): Men AUTUMN, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They brought me a quilled, yellow dahlia Last Line: All I once possessed? Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men AVE ATQUE VALE; TO H.B.S., by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: We were three men Last Line: We are three men. Subject(s): Friendship; Men BALLAD OF THE DESPAIRING HUSBAND, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: My wife and I lived all alone Subject(s): Divorce; Men BALLAD OF THE DESPAIRING HUSBAND, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My wife and I lived all alone Last Line: Oh lady, grant me time, %please, to finish my rhyme Subject(s): Divorce; Men BALLAD OF THE DOUBLE SOUL, by JAMES BRANCH CABELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the beginning the gods made man Last Line: Of the noontide sun. Subject(s): Men BALLS [OR, & BALLS], by ANNE MCNAUGHTON Poem Source First Line: Actually: it's the balls I look for, always Last Line: From beautiful pebbles beneath Subject(s): Erotic Love; Men BARBARIANS, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I pause beside the stream, and hear Last Line: Asks am I intelligent! Subject(s): Ignorance; Men; Dullness; Stupdity BE A MAN!, by WILLIAM ALLAN Poem Text First Line: In the battle rush o' life Last Line: Like a man! Subject(s): Men BEATUS VIR, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Happy is the man who loves the woods and waters Last Line: Happy the man. Subject(s): Happiness; Men; Joy; Delight 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 BEING AWARE, by DENNIS COOPER Poet's Biography First Line: Men are drawn to my ass by Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Pornography; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men BEING BUT MEN, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Being but men, we walked into the trees Subject(s): Men; Conduct Of Life BEYOND GRIEF, by RICHARD LEON SPAIN Poem Text First Line: Man is amazed with sin and sick with terror Last Line: Beyond his grief, across the lupine sky. Subject(s): Men BIG DREAM, LITTLE DREAM, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The elgonyi say, there are big dreams and little dreams Subject(s): Men; War BIG DREAM, LITTLE DREAM, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The elgonyi say, there are big dreams and little dreams Last Line: And before you know there is war Subject(s): Men; War BIG JIM, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The only man I ever knew who put Last Line: Under the sagging springs, just in case. Subject(s): Biography; Men; Biographers BIRDS NEST, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source First Line: Birds nest Last Line: And men think I'm nothing Subject(s): Human Rights; Life; Men; Mothers BLACK HAIRS, by HEINZ PASSMAN Poem Source First Line: My darling, you know how much I like to see the light on a Last Line: Light on the bird's wing Subject(s): Men; Perception BLACK RIDERS, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are blows in life so violent -- I can't answer Last Line: There are blows in life so violent...I can't answer Subject(s): Men BLESSING, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just off the highway to rochester, minnesota Last Line: That if I stepped out of my body I would break %into blossom Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Variant Title(s): The Blessin Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Men; Minnesota; Nature BODY OF A WOMAN, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Body of a woman, white hills, white thighs Last Line: And the fatigue is flowing, and the grief without shore Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Men BONES OF MY FATHER, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are no dry bones Subject(s): Men BOY AT THE WINDOW, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seeing the snowman standing all alone Last Line: Such warmth, such light, such love, and so much fear Subject(s): Fathers; Men; Prayer BREAD AND WINE: PART 7, by JOHANN CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH HOLDERLIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh friend, we arrived too late. The divine energies Last Line: Who used to stroll over the fields through the whole divine night Alternate Author Name(s): Holderlin, J. C. F.; Holderlin, Friedrich Subject(s): Men BREASTS, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love breasts, hard Subject(s): Breasts; Men BREASTS, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love breasts, hard Last Line: I will tip each breast %like a dark heavy grape %into the hive %of my drowsy mouth Subject(s): Breasts; Men BROTHER, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could not tell you though I were crucified Last Line: Aye, and when my need was, brother through the night! Subject(s): Brotherhood; Family Life; Love - Nature Of; Men; Relationships; Relatives BROTHERS AND SISTERS, by MICHAEL FOLEY Poem Source First Line: No, not writers for heaven's sake. That bunch of slobbers Last Line: Eyes locked on mine, holding them, really impressed Subject(s): Men BUILDING TRUST, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I liked it when he fucked me Last Line: Be trusted, not by anyone Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Mothers; Love – Complaints; Distrust; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men BY THESE WATERS, by FRANK BIDART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What begins in recognition Last Line: By these waters on my knees I have wept Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men C'MON PIGS OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION EAT MORE GREASE, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Eat eat more marbled sirloin more pork'n gravy Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men CAFE: 3 A.M., by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Detectives from the vice squad Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Gays & Lesbians; Negroes; American Blacks; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men CALL NO MAN HAPPY, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Call no man happy until he has stood Last Line: No sorrow, but a lyric festival. Subject(s): Happiness; Men; Joy; Delight CANNIBAL BEACH, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard that the wide beach of my childhood Last Line: Mess up their chenille bedspread Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men CARD 19: THE SUN, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you show yourself to the woman Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men CARREFOUR, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O you, / who came upone me once Last Line: Of the forest bees? Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men CATCH, by ROBERT FRANCIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Two boys uncoached are tossing a poem together Subject(s): Language; Men; Sports CHANGING DIAPERS, by GARY SNYDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How intelligent he looks Subject(s): Fathers; Men; Prayer CHANGING DIAPERS, by GARY SNYDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How intelligent he looks Last Line: You and me -- and geronimo %are men Subject(s): Fathers; Men; Prayer CHERRIES, by JOE LAMB Poem Source First Line: When I was five, we lived in tesuque Last Line: The cherries were thick, sweet, and %yellow Subject(s): Aging; Cherries; Fruit; Memory; Men; Mothers CLADE SONG. THIS TOO SHALL PASS, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You think of the time Last Line: It's more than over Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Time; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men CLIFTON, by JOAN LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I loved booze Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Gays & Lesbians; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men COCKFIGHT IN A LOXAHATCHEE GROVE, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Trucks backed against the canal Last Line: And dragging wings, only one crawls back into our shadow. Subject(s): Chickens; Gambling; Men; Wagering; Betting COCKS AND MARES, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every man wants to be a stud Subject(s): Men COCKS AND MARES, by RUTH STONE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every man wants to be a stud Subject(s): Men COLONEL, by CAROLYN FORCHE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What you have heard is true. I was in his house. His wife carried a tray Last Line: Some of the ears on the floor were pressed to the ground Alternate Author Name(s): Sidlosky, Carolyn Subject(s): Men; Military; War COME ALL YE BRAVE BOYS, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come all you young men that proudly display Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men COME IN, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I came to the edge of the woods Last Line: And I hadn't been Subject(s): Men COME IN, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I came to the edge of the woods Last Line: And I hadn't been Subject(s): Men COMING IN FOR A LANDING, by JAMES RICHARD BROUGHTON Poet's Biography First Line: Though no pilot guarantees a bumpless arrival Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men CONFESSIONAL, by FRANK BIDART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is she dead? Last Line: No, I didn't forgive her Subject(s): Forgiveness; Gays & Lesbians; Clemency; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men CONFESSIONAL POEM, by LOUIS JENKINS Poem Source First Line: I have this large tatoo on my chest Last Line: Gosh, I didn't know we were this far west Subject(s): Men CONVERSATION IN THE MOUNTAINS, by LI PO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If you were to ask me why I dwell among green mountains Last Line: There is another heaven and earth beyond the world of men Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): Men CONVERSATION IN THE MOUNTAINS, by LI PO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If you were to ask me why I dwell among green mountains Last Line: There is another heaven and earth beyond the world of men Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): Men CORDON NEGRO, by ESSEX HEMPHILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I drink champagne early in the morning Last Line: "my concerns are small Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men CORE OF MASCULINITY, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The core of masculinity does not derive from being male Last Line: Make us afraid of how we were Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Men CORNKIND, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So the rain falls / it drops all over the place Subject(s): Fertility; Gays & Lesbians; Morris, William (1834-1896); Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men COUNTRY FELLOWS AND THE ASS; ABSURDITY OF ATTEMPTING TO PLEASE ALL MEN, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A country fellow and his son, they tell Last Line: To think of pleasing all is but a jest. Variant Title(s): The Countrymen And The Ass Subject(s): Fables; Fathers & Sons; Men; Allegories COUNTRY MAN, SELS., by GEORGE FAREWELL Subject(s): Country Life; Fields; Labor And Laborers; Men; Peasantry COUPLES SYNDROME, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother's argument Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Togetherness; Mothers; Prejudice; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men CRAZY DOG EVENTS (CROW INDIAN), by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Act like a crazy dog. Wear sashes & other fine clothes Last Line: It jump dpwn a steep and rock bank, until both of you are crushed Subject(s): Men CRAZY DOG EVENTS (CROW INDIAN), by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Act like a crazy dog. Wear sashes & other fine clothes Last Line: Make it jump down a steep & rocky bank, until both of you are crushed Subject(s): Men CRAZY JANE TALKS WITH THE BISHOP, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I met the bishop on the road Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Fools; Love; Men; Old Age; Women; Idiots CRAZY JANE TALKS WITH THE BISHOP, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I met the bishop on the road Last Line: For nothing can be sole or whole %that has not been rent Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Fools; Love; Men; Old Age; Women CREPE DE CHINE, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These drugstore windows Last Line: Call me crepe de chine Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men DANCER, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have ruled %for forty years Last Line: I wonder, %the dancer or the dance? Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Men; Old Age; Sex; Virginity DANSE RUSSE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If when my wife is sleeping Last Line: The happy genius of my household? Subject(s): Family Life; Men; Solitude; Relatives; Loneliness DARKMOTHERSCREAM, by ANDREI VOZNESENSKY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Darkmotherscream is a siberian dance Last Line: Not having grasped the phrase: darkmotherscream Alternate Author Name(s): Voznesenskii, Andrei Subject(s): Men DAYS OF 1941 AND '44, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The nightmare shower room. My tormentor leers Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men DEAR GONGLYA, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The most inscrutable beautiful names in this world Subject(s): Names; Gays & Lesbians; Desire; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men DEATH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There is no needle without piercing point Last Line: I want to feel the dancers' feet Subject(s): Men DEATH MASK, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: In the mirror now Last Line: The sudden / exhaling Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Old Age; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men DELIGHTS OF THE DOOR, by FRANCIS PONGE Poem Source First Line: Kings don't touch doors Last Line: Spring pleasantly confirms Subject(s): Men DEMOLITION, by TONY HOAGLAND Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: They hang a big tube from the side of an office building Subject(s): Construction Sites; Men; Realism DENVER STREET, by WILLARD JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: A garish flare of magazines Last Line: And navels before breakfast! Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Oranges; Youth; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men DESIGN, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I found a dimpled spider, fat and white Last Line: If design govern in a thing so small. Subject(s): Death; Fate; God; Insects; Men; Nature; Spiders; Dead, The; Destiny; Bugs DICKHEAD, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To whomever taught me the word dickhead Last Line: I made a word my friend Subject(s): Men DID THIS HAPPEN TO YOUR MOTHER?, by ALICE WALKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love a man who is not worth Subject(s): Men; Worry DID THIS HAPPEN TO YOUR MOTHER?, by ALICE WALKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love a man who is not worth Last Line: Unclench my teeth long enough %to tell him so Subject(s): Men; Worry DIFFERENCE, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The jellyfish / float in the bay shallows Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men DIFFICULT DEFINITION, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is a man? A bit of clay Last Line: And classify and catalogue? Subject(s): Men DIM FACE OF BEAUTY, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dim face of beauty haunting all the world Last Line: To a little sand. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Men; Peace; Stars; Nightmares DINER, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: The men smell %of petroleum Last Line: A siren skins %the afternoon Subject(s): Men; Restaurants DISTANT FOOTSTEPS, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father is sleeping. His noble face Last Line: Down them my heart is walking on foot Subject(s): Men DIVINE PLAN, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: This grain of life, this tiny beast of dew Last Line: Pain fitted to his size. Subject(s): Life; Men DOMESTIC, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If, when studying road atlases Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love; Family Life; Travel; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Relatives; Journeys; Trips DOMESTIC LIFE: 4. THE WATERFALL, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Failing to hold on to things Last Line: All his furniture. Subject(s): Domestic Relations; Men; Waterfalls DOSSIER OF IRRETRIEVABLES, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night at bar 6 Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Gays & Lesbians; Social Commentaries; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men DOUBLE LIFE, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father was a fundamentalist minister. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Conduct Of Life; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men DREAM, by FELIX POLLAK Poem Source First Line: He dreamed of Last Line: Such a %dangerous dream Subject(s): Men DRY LOAF, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is equal to living in a tragic land Subject(s): Men; War DRY LOAF, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is equal to living in a tragic land Last Line: No doubt that soldiers had to be marching %and that drums had to be rolling, rolling, rolling Subject(s): Men; War DULCE ET DECORUM EST, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Bent double, like old beggars under sacks Last Line: Pro patria mori. Subject(s): Chemical Warfare; Hate; Men; Patriotism; Social Protest; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War EARTHWORM, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who really respects the earthworm Last Line: This deathless, gray, tiny farmer in the planet's soil Subject(s): Environment; Farm Life; Fields; Men EATING CLAY, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Face damp on a lover's thigh and scratchy Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love - Erotic; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men EDEN INCUNABULUM, by BRIAN TEARE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So his luciferous kiss, ecliptic : me Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Relationships; Death; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Dead, The EGO TRIPPING, by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was born in the congo / I walked to the fertile crescent and built the sphinx Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki Variant Title(s): Ego-tripping (there May Be A Reason Why) Subject(s): Men; Mothers; Poetry & Poets EGO TRIPPING, by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was born in the congo %I walked to the fertile crescent and built the sphinx Last Line: I cannot be comprehended %except by my permission %I mean...I ...Can fly %like a bird in the sky Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki Variant Title(s): Ego-tripping (there May Be A Reason Why Subject(s): Men; Mothers; Poetry And Poets EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND ELEVEN, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still the loud death drum, thundering from afar Last Line: And swears -- thy world, columbus, shall be free. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Liberty; Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men EMPTY WARRIORS, by HAKI R. MADHUBUTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The men Last Line: Smiles and outrage Alternate Author Name(s): Lee, Don L. Subject(s): Men ENGLISH ARE SO NICE, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But nice enough, just nice enough %to let them feel they're not quite as nice as they might be Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): England; Men EPIGRAM: 45. ON MY FIRST SON, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy Last Line: As what he loves may never like too much. Variant Title(s): On His First Sonne;on My First Sonne;epitaph: On My Son Subject(s): Death - Children; Fathers; Grief; Men; Mourning; Parents; Prayer; Sons; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; Parenthood EPITAPH, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again, traveller, you have come a long way led by that star Last Line: Living on catastrophe, eating the pure light Subject(s): Epitaphs; Friendship; Gays & Lesbians; Men EXORCISM OF THE STRAIGHT / MAN / DEMON, by AARON SHURIN Poem Source First Line: You are just the kind of man Subject(s): Homosexuality; Men EXPERIENCE, by JAMES SIMMONS Poem Source First Line: I want to fight you,' he said in a belfast accent Last Line: New to me, as I struck, as he struck Subject(s): Men FACING AN HOUR-GLASS, by ELFRIDA DE RENNE BARROW Poem Text First Line: I see your outline Last Line: Your feet in the dust. Subject(s): Girls; Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men FAITH, by CZESLAW MILOSZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The word faith means when someone sees Last Line: What has no shadow has no strength to live Subject(s): Men FAMILY JEWELS, by ESSEX HEMPHILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I live in a town Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men FAUSTINE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lean back, and get some minutes' peace Last Line: Or what, faustine? Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men FEAST OF STEPHEN, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The coltish horseplay of the locker room Last Line: And hears an unintelligible prayer Subject(s): Men FEEDING THE DOG, by RUSSELL EDSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: An old woman likes to melt her husband Last Line: She might pour him into an even smaller series of husband molds Variant Title(s): The Meltin Subject(s): Men FEELING FUCKED UP, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Lord she's gone done left me done packed / up and split Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Men; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse FEELING FUCKED UP, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord she's gone done left me done packed %up and split Last Line: The whole muthafucking thing %all I wnat now is my woman back %so my soul can sing Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Men FEMALE MASCULINITY, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two guys sucking each other in the steam room Subject(s): Social Commentaries; Gays & Lesbians; Relationships; Love - Erotic; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men FIRE AND ICE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some say the world will end in fire, / some say in ice Last Line: And would suffice. Subject(s): Death; Desire; Fire; Hate; Ice; Judgment Day; Men; Time; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man FIRE ON THE HILLS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The deer were bounding like blown leaves Subject(s): Fire; Men FIRE ON THE HILLS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The deer were bounding like blown leaves Last Line: The destruction that brings an eagle from heaven is better than mercy Subject(s): Fire; Men FIRST LESSON, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first thing to remember about fathers is, they're men. Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Men FIRST ON TV (FOR WALTER CRONKITE), by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the twentieth century %you are there Last Line: Will be to remain calm Subject(s): Apathy; Cronkite, Walter (b. 1916); Men; Television FLOWER GIVEN TO MY DAUGHTER, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Frail the white rose and frail are Last Line: My blueveined child Subject(s): Daughters; Fathers; Men; Prayer FLYING EAGLES OF TROOP 62, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ralph neal was the scoutmaster Last Line: Enough to drive you crazy Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Men FOLLIES OF THE WISE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: A man is a fool in his youth, my son Last Line: Is happy indeed, and wise—so wise! Subject(s): Fools; Life; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Men; Wisdom; Women; Idiots; Male-female Relations FOOD OF LOVE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm going to murder you with love Last Line: And you'll begin to die again. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Gluttony; Love; Men; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism FOOL'S GOLD, by MARGARET CLYDE ROBERTSON Poem Text First Line: Men have lived and men have died Last Line: Sand beneath a microscope. Subject(s): Fools; Men; Idiots FOOTBALL, by LOUIS JENKINS Poem Source First Line: I take the snap from center, fake to the right, fade back Last Line: One has to make choices. This isn't right and I'm not going to throw it Subject(s): Football; Men; Sports FOR BROTHER, WHAT ARE WE, by THOMAS CLAYTON WOLFE Poem Source Last Line: And we shall follow the print of his foot forever Variant Title(s): What Are We Subject(s): Mankind; Men; Religion FOR ELI JACOBSON, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are few of us now, soon Subject(s): Brotherhood; Men FOR ELI JACOBSON, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are few of us now, soon Last Line: Happiest men alive in our day Subject(s): Brotherhood; Men FOR MY SON, NOAH, TEN YEARS OLD, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night and day arrive, and day after day goes by Subject(s): Fathers; Men; Prayer FOR MY SON, NOAH, TEN YEARS OLD, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night and day arrive, and day after day goes by Last Line: So we pass our time together, calm and delighted Subject(s): Fathers; Men; Prayer FOR THE GODDESS TOO WELL KNOWN, by ELSA GIDLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have robbed the garrulous streets Last Line: I ask no man pardon.) Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men FOR THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, by FRANK BIDART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Bound, hungry to pluck again from the thousand / technologies of ecstasy Last Line: In all but szigeti’s hands Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men FORGOTTEN SEX, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They tore down the old movie palaces Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men FOUR QUATRAINS, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where is a foot worthy to walk a garden Last Line: Not to sober up too soon Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Men FRANK SINATRA, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I love to listen to men in bars, %the lonely drinkers Last Line: Where frank sinatra sang %only for them Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Insanity; Marriage; Men; Sinatra, Frank (1915-1998); Singing And Singers FREUD TALKS OF THE PRIMAL MEAL (CHARLES BOER, CO-AUTHOR), by JAMES HILLMAN Poem Source First Line: It is the privilege of age to correct the follies of youth Last Line: Screen memories as I have, who needs celluloid Subject(s): Men FRIENDSHIP, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When we were charming backfisch Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men FRIENDSHIP'S MYSTERY, TO MY DEAREST LUCASIA, by KATHERINE PHILIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, my lucasia, since we see Last Line: Grows deathless by the sacrifice. Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men FROM CHILDHOOD, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The darkness in the room was like enormous riches Last Line: As if plowing through deep drifts of snow Subject(s): Men; Mothers FRONT DOOR MAN, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You! First thing at the door Last Line: How, cupid, can I cope Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Cupid; Men; Relationships FUNERAL EVA, by KORONEAU Poem Source First Line: Oh, priest pangeivi, you let go Last Line: Shall eat our feces Subject(s): Men FUTILITY, by CLAUDE GEORGE WILSON Poem Text First Line: Man is a dying lonely ghost crying Last Line: His breast. Subject(s): Birth; Men; Child Birth; Midwifery GARGANTUA, SELS., by FRANCOIS RABELAIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The cake-bakers, however, were not at all inclined to accede Last Line: From their wiping their arses with the neck of a goose Subject(s): Language; Men GENTLEMAN WITHOUT COMPANY, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The homosexual young men and the love-mad girls Last Line: And black roots that look like fingernails and shoes Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Men GEORGE, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: Didn't own much Last Line: Be poor and follow me Subject(s): Character; Farm Life; Men; Poverty GEORGE WASHINGTON, LOVER, by GREG HEWETT Poem Source First Line: I always preferred the quiet life Last Line: I am the good wife Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology); Men; Presidents, United States; Washington, D.c.; Washington, George (1732-1799) GETTING HAPPY, by FORREST HAMER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the men got happy in church Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men GIFT, by LI-YOUNG LEE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To pull the metal splinter from my palm Last Line: When he's given something to keep. %I kissed my father Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Men; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations GIGGING ON ALLATOONA, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Light bleeding onto pines Last Line: Rolling away from the boat far out across the black water. Subject(s): Boats; Country Life; Hunting; Men; Hunters GOBLIN MARKET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Morning and evening / maids heard the goblins cry Last Line: "to strengthen whilst one stands." Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Fairies; Gays & Lesbians; Sisters; Elves; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men GOD'S GRANDEUR, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The world is charged with the grandeur of god Last Line: World broods with warm breast and with ah! Bright wings. Subject(s): Christianity; Earth; Environment; Faith; God; Labor & Laborers; Men; Nature; Redemption; Religion; War; World; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Belief; Creed; Work; Workers; Theology GODDESS, by THEODORE FAULLAIN DE BANVILLE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She had opened an immense hole in the soft ground Last Line: She whom thou namest death, and she whom thou namest life Subject(s): Men; Mothers GOOD DEEDS OF THE MOON, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon, who is whimsicality itself, gazed into the window Last Line: Gives her poisoned breasts to the moon-maddened men Subject(s): Men GRAPPA IN SEPTEMBER, by CESARE PAVESE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The mornings run their course, clear and deserted Last Line: The women are not alone in enjoying the morning Subject(s): Men GREATNESS, by KARL E. MUNDT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great men of ancient times were men of brawn Last Line: To battle when the modern conflicts call. Subject(s): History; Life, Modern; Men; Morality; Strength; Historians; Ethics GREED AND AGGRESSION, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone in quaker meeting talks about greed and agression Subject(s): Men GREED AND AGGRESSION, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone in quaker meeting talks about greed and agression Last Line: Faint, our mouths running, into sleep Subject(s): Men GRIEF, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Grief reached across the world to get me Last Line: My head aches from crying %forever, goodbye Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius Subject(s): Grief; Men 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 GUARDIAN ANGEL, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: I am the bird that flutters against your window Last Line: And who can never forget you Subject(s): Men GUEST IS INSIDE, by KABIR Poem Source First Line: The guest is inside you, and also inside me Last Line: They rise above both coming in and going out Variant Title(s): The Boa Subject(s): Men GUILD, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every night, as my grandfather sat Last Line: That young man my father Subject(s): Men GUY TALK, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My son asks, what does it mean when you're Subject(s): Machismo; Men; Reproductive System; Sex Organs; Genitalia GUY TALK, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My son asks, what does it mean when you're Last Line: If just for a moment Subject(s): Machismo; Men; Reproductive System HARLEM, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What happens to a dream deferred Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Variant Title(s): Dream Deferred;lenox Avenue Mural;harlem: 2;from Montage Of A Dream Deferred: Harlem (2) Subject(s): African Americans; Dreams; Gays & Lesbians; Men; Racism; Negroes; American Blacks; Nightmares; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry HARLEM, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What happens to a dream deferred Last Line: Or does it explode? Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Variant Title(s): Dream Deferred; Lenox Avenue Mural; Harlem: 2; From Montage Of A Dream Deferred: Harlem (2 Subject(s): African Americans; Dreams; Homosexuality; Men; Racism HAS ANYONE SEEN THE BOY, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Has anyone seen the boy Last Line: Of him, even third or fourth hand Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Men HATRED, by GWENDOLYN B. BENNETT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I shall hate you Last Line: My hatred. Subject(s): Hate; Men HAVE YOU ANYTHING TO SAY IN YOUR DEFENSE, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, on the day I was born Subject(s): Men HAVE YOU ANYTHING TO SAY IN YOUR DEFENSE, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, on the day I was born Last Line: One the day I was born, %god was sick, %gravely Subject(s): Men HE LOVED THREE THINGS, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And I was his wife Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Men HE SAID TO, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crawl toward the machine guns Last Line: Being a man. Subject(s): Army Life; Men; Soldiers; Drills & Minor Tactics HEALING, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am not a mechanism, an assembly of various sections Last Line: Which mankind at large has chosen to sanctify Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Men HERACLITUS, by CALLIMACHUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They told me, heraclitus, they told me you were dead Last Line: For death he taketh all away, but these he can not take. Alternate Author Name(s): Kallimachos Subject(s): Friendship; Heraclitus (540-480 B.c.); Gays & Lesbians; Life Change Events; Poetry & Poets; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men HERE IS MUSIC: ARTHUR RIVERS FREELING; IN MEMORIAM, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Friend of my youth, for all time young to me Last Line: Where I miss no man as I now miss you. Subject(s): Men; Youth HERE IS MUSIC: DOUBLE BALLADE WITH DOUBLE REFRAIN (1), by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: I held, aforetime, man must thieve Last Line: Since man but garners that he gave! Subject(s): Men HIGH TALK, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Processions that lack high stilts have nothing that catches the eye. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Men HIGH TALK, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Processions that lack high stilts have nothing that catches the eye. Last Line: Those great sea-horses bare their teeth and laugh at the dawn. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Men HILL, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is some time since I have been Last Line: Which is in me %like a hill Subject(s): Men; Religion HISTORY, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The listless beauty of the hour Last Line: Till at length they mate Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Men HOCKNEY: BLUE POOL, by DAVID TRINIDAD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Los angeles, / california: / a summer afternoon Subject(s): Cities; Hockney, David (b. 1937); Gays & Lesbians; Lakes; Los Angeles; Urban Life; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Pools; Ponds HOLY LONGING, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tell a wise person, or else keep silent Last Line: On the dark earth Subject(s): Men HOMERIC HYMN TO ARES, SELS., by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hear me Last Line: And the fate of a violent death Subject(s): Men; War HOMO WILL NOT INHERIT, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Downtown anywhere and between the roil Last Line: Gorgeous, and on fire. I have my kingdom Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Gays & Lesbians; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men HOMOSEXUALITY, by HENRI COLE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First I saw the round bill, like a bud Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men HOMOSEXUALITY, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So we are taking off our masks, are we, and keeping Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men HOPEFUL SPIRITUAL ATHLETE, by KABIR Poem Source First Line: The spiritual athlete often changes the color of his clothes Last Line: Bound hand and foot Variant Title(s): The Hears Subject(s): Men HOW BEASTLY THE BOURGEOIS IS, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Like sickening toadstools, and left to melt back, swiftly %into the soil of england Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Bourgeoisie; Hate; Men HOW MUCH IS NOT TRUE, by KABIR Poem Source First Line: There is nothing but water in the holy pools Last Line: If you have not lived through something, it is not true Subject(s): Men; Perception HOW TO MARRY A RICH MAN, by ELIZABETH J. CLARKE ROBBINS Poem Source First Line: The trick is disinterest, %to primp in a mirror Last Line: Watching the stars %surround the back of your dress Subject(s): Love - Materialism; Marriage; Men; Wealth HOWL; FOR CARL SOLOMON, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Imagination; Vision; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Fancy HUMAN DEBASEMENT; A FRAGMENT, by EDWARD RUSHTON Poem Text First Line: In early days / if kings were made by men Last Line: All, all these works are thine! Subject(s): Freedom; Humanity; Men; Religion; Tyranny & Tyrants; Liberty; Theology I AM ASKING YOU TO COME BACK HOME, by JO CARSON Poem Source Last Line: When I am dead, it will not matter %how hard you press your ear the ground Subject(s): Homecoming; Men; Mothers I AM GOING TO SPEAK OF HOPE, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not suffer this pain as cesar vallejo Subject(s): Men I AM GOING TO SPEAK OF HOPE, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not suffer this pain as cesar vallejo Last Line: Today I am simply in pain Subject(s): Men I AM MAN, by TOMI CAROLY TINSLEY Poem Source Subject(s): Men I KNEW A WOMAN, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I knew a woman, lovely in her bones Subject(s): Desire; Love; Men; Women I KNEW A WOMAN, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I knew a woman, lovely in her bones Last Line: These old bones live to learn her wanton ways %(I measure time by how a body sways) Subject(s): Desire; Love; Men; Women I KNOW MY HUSBAND'S BODY, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men I LIVE MY LIFE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I live my life in growing orbits Last Line: Or a great song Subject(s): Men I STAND HERE, DO YOU UNDERSTAND, by OLAV H. HAUGE Poem Source Last Line: I'm going to stand here, do you understand Subject(s): Men I WRUNG MY HANDS UNDER MY DARK VEIL, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wrung my hands under my dark veil Last Line: And said: why don't you get out of the rain Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Men I'M NOT A MAN, by HAROLD NORSE Poem Source Subject(s): Homosexuality; Men IDEA OF ANCESTRY, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Taped to the wall of my cell are 47 pictures: 47 black Last Line: They are all of me, I am me, they are thee, and I have no children to float in the space between Subject(s): African Americans; Ancestors And Ancestry; Fathers; Korean War, 1950-1953; Men; Prayer; Prisons And Prisoners IDENTITY, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: But the eye of god Last Line: That is his own bad eyesight. Subject(s): Identity; Mankind; Men; Self; Human Race IDYLL 14, by BION Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Woman's strength is in her beauty Last Line: Man's—to bear and dare for duty. Subject(s): Men; Women IMITATIONS OF HORACE: ODE IV, 1, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Again? New tumults in my breast? Last Line: And now, on rolling waters snatch'd away. Variant Title(s): To Venus Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Middle Age; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men IN A TAVERN, by LOUIS JENKINS Poem Source First Line: It's no use, he says, she's left me Last Line: Make it out of here Subject(s): Men IN EXCELSIS, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You - you / your shadow is sunlit on a plate of silver Last Line: Are rubies mortised in a gate of stone. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 13, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tears of the widower, when he sees Last Line: And not the burthen that they bring. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 130, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy voice is on the rolling air Last Line: I shall not lose thee tho' I die. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): All Is Well Subject(s): Friendship; Gays & Lesbians; Religion; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Theology IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 27, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I envy not in any moods Last Line: Than never to have loved at all. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 7, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dark house, by which once more I stand Last Line: On the bald street breaks the blank day. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): In Memoriam;in Memoriam (2) Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Mourning; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Bereavement IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 9, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair ship, that from the italian shore Last Line: More than my brothers are to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): Dead, In A Foreign Land Subject(s): Death; Gays & Lesbians; Dead, The; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men IN MEMORY OF MY MOTHER, by PATRICK KAVANAGH Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I do not think of you lying in the wet clay Alternate Author Name(s): Monaghan, Patrick Subject(s): Men; Mothers IN MEMORY OF MY MOTHER, by PATRICK KAVANAGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I do not think of you lying in the wet clay Alternate Author Name(s): Monaghan, Patrick Subject(s): Men; Mothers IN MY CRAFT OR SULLEN ART, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Who pay no praise or wages %nor heed my craft or art Subject(s): Language; Men; Poetry And Poets IN PATTERDALE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mind of man is framed even like the breath Subject(s): Men IN PRAISE OF MY PROSTATE, by ROBERT PHILLIPS Poem Source First Line: My internist said you are unnaturally large Last Line: For now, the zebras and unicorns will wait Subject(s): Bodies; Men IN RERUM NATURA (WHILE SITTING BEFORE A LONDON FIRESIDE), by CARLTON KENDALL Poem Text First Line: In a city of tolling bells Last Line: Whence comes your laughter; where goes your tear?' Subject(s): London; Men IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Full Text First Line: For a week you lie beneath one sheet Subject(s): Aids (disease); Gays & Lesbians; Love; Sickness; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Illness IN THE CELL, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting in the car at the end of summer, my Subject(s): Body, Human; Men IN THE THIRD MONTH, by DAVID RAY Poem Source First Line: First snow wet against the windshield Subject(s): Fathers; Men; Prayer IN THE WESTERN NIGHT: 1. THE IRREPARABLE, by FRANK BIDART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First, I was there where unheard Last Line: Massed above the towers, rushing Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men IN THE WESTERN NIGHT: 2. IN MY DESK, by FRANK BIDART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two cigarette butts - / left by you Last Line: Now the envelope is in my desk Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men IN THE WESTERN NIGHT: 3. TWO MEN, by FRANK BIDART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man who does not know himself, who Last Line: You, through the waters (you are cruel) fleeing Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men INDEED INDEED, I CANNOT TELL, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: One iota to abate %of a pure impartial hate Subject(s): Hate; Men INFLUENCE OF NATURAL OBJECTS; FOR BILL IRELAND, by JAMES SIMMONS Poem Source First Line: Night after night from our camp on sugar loaf hill Last Line: And so on till we slept under the stars Subject(s): Men INNER PART, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When they had won the war Last Line: As black as death, emitting a strange odor Subject(s): Men INTERLUDE, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I have baked white cakes Last Line: Outside. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men INTERVIEW, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought once I'd like to be a kleptomaniac, Subject(s): Divorce; Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men INVISIBLE KING, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who rides at night, who rides so late Last Line: The boy lay dead in the father's arms Subject(s): Men INVISIBLE MEN, by NAKASUK Poem Source First Line: There is a tribe of invisible men Last Line: And everyone went back to their ordinary lives Subject(s): Eskimos; Men; Native Americans IRISH CLIFFS OF MOHER, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is my father in this world, in this house Last Line: A likeness, one of the race of fathers: earth %and sea and air Subject(s): Men ISN'T IT FUNNY?, by ESSEX HEMPHILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't want to hear you beg Last Line: " hair is cut close too, like mine Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men IT IS THIS WAY WITH MEN, by CHARLES KENNETH WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are pounded into the earth Last Line: Love. Take care of us please Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, C. K. Subject(s): Men Ï„Î?θνάκην δ€™ ολίγω €™Ï€Î¹Î´Î?Ï?ης φαίνομ€™ αλαία, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Red cheeked boyfriends tenderly kiss me sweet mouthed Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love - Erotic; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men JOHN DILLINGER'S DICK, by ROBERT PHILLIPS Poem Source First Line: Some say it's pickled Last Line: Could they reveal all %their awesome capability Subject(s): Bodies; Men; Reproductive System JUST AS THE WINGED ENERGY OF DELIGHT, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Is where god learns Subject(s): Men KADDISH, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother of my birth, for how long were we together Subject(s): Men; Mothers; Mourning; Bereavement KADDISH, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother of my birth, for how long were we together Last Line: I have found my mother %and I am safe and always have been Subject(s): Men; Mothers; Mourning KEEP HIM A BABY, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Keep him a baby as long as you can; Last Line: Keep him a baby as long as you can. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Babies; Men; Mothers; Infants KEEPING THEIR WORLD LARGE, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I should like to see that country's tiled bedrooms Subject(s): Men; War KEEPING THEIR WORLD LARGE, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I should like to see that country's tiled bedrooms Last Line: Shine, o shine %unfalsifying sun, on this sick scene Subject(s): Men; War KIWI, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: The stubby brown fur of your outside Last Line: Succulence of fruit, a planet Subject(s): Bodies; Fruit; Men KORE, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: As I was walking Subject(s): Men; Persephone; Proserpine; Proserpina KORE, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I was walking Last Line: Leading me %now? Subject(s): Men; Persephone KORE (BY AN ETHIOPIAN WOMAN, AS REPORTED BY CARL KERENYI), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: How can a man know what a woman's life is Last Line: In this you can see if she is a good woman or not Subject(s): Men; Mothers LAMB, by MICHAEL DENNIS BROWNE Poem Source First Line: Saw a lamb being born Last Line: Saw a lamb being born Subject(s): Men LAMENT, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your dying was a difficult enterprise Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Aids (disease); Gays & Lesbians; Sickness; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Illness LAST GODS, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: She sits naked on a rock Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Men LAST GODS, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sits naked on a rock Last Line: Two faces float, looking up %at a great maternal pine whose branches %open out in all directions %ex Subject(s): Erotic Love; Men LAST NIGHT, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Last night, as I was sleeping Last Line: Here inside my heart Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Variant Title(s): Last Night As I Was Sleepin Subject(s): Men LAST WORDS OF MY ENGLISH GRANDMOTHER, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There were some dirty plates Last Line: What are all those %fuzzy-looking things out there? %trees? Well I'm tired %of them and rolled her h Subject(s): Death; Grandparents; Men; Mothers LASTNESS: 2, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: A black bear sits alone Subject(s): Fathers; Men; Prayer LASTNESS: 2, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A black bear sits alone Last Line: And smelled the grasslands and the ferns Subject(s): Fathers; Men; Prayer LEAVES OF HEAVEN, by EDWARD SANDERS Poem Source Last Line: Kiss a hot %wet lightbulb Subject(s): Men LEDA, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the god needing something, decided to become Last Line: And lying in her soft place he became a swan Subject(s): Men LESBOS, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Viciousness in the kitchen! Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Suicide; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men LESSONS OF THE WAR: 1. NAMING OF PARTS, by HENRY REED Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Today we have naming of parts. Yesterday Subject(s): Guns; Men; Soldiers; World War Ii; Second World War LESSONS OF THE WAR: 1. NAMING OF PARTS, by HENRY REED Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Today we have naming of parts. Yesterday Last Line: Silent in all of the gardens and the bees going backwards and forwards, %for to-day we have naming o Subject(s): Guns; Men; Soldiers; World War Ii LET HIM BE, by JOHN BALABAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Let the man be who had nothing to tell you Last Line: So let him be, this man who's walking down the hillside. %let him alone. Let him slam the table with Subject(s): Men; Solitude LET IT RIDE, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men LETTER TO A FRIEND: WHO IS NANCY DAUM?, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: All things are real Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men LIBRARY, by LOUIS JENKINS Poem Source First Line: I sit down at a table and open a book of poems and move Last Line: Crews with chain saws and representatives of the paper company Subject(s): Language; Men LIE DOWN WITH A MAN, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In those days I thought I had to Last Line: Two things I was afraid of Subject(s): Men; Sex; Fear LIGHT YOU GIVE OFF', by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Radiance that cannot be hidden Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Men LIKE ANY OTHER MAN, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was born with a knife Last Line: Unlocked my body. Subject(s): Change; Happiness; Man-woman Relationships; Men; Salvation; Joy; Delight; Male-female Relations LINES FOR AN OLD MAN, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tiger in the tiger-pit Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Hate; Men LINES FOR AN OLD MAN, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tiger in the tiger-pit Last Line: The dullard knows that he is mad. %tell me if I am not glad Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Hate; Men LINES ON HEARING THE ORGAN, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Grinder, who serenely grindest / at my door the hundreth psalm Last Line: For encomium, as a change. Subject(s): Organ-grinders; Hurdy-gurdy Men LISTENING TO THE KOLN CONCERT, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After we had loved each other intently Subject(s): Love; Men LISTENING TO THE KOLN CONCERT, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After we had loved each other intently Last Line: Will never be quite round, %and each has to enter the nest %made by the other imperfect bird Subject(s): Love; Men LITTLE INFINITE POEM, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: To take the wrong road Last Line: We will have to get down on all fours and eat the grasses of the cemeteries forever Subject(s): Men; Poetry And Poets; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) LITTLEWIT AND LOFTUS, by PAMELIA VINING YULE Poem Text First Line: John littlewit, friends, was a credulous man Last Line: And I'm wise although knowing no more! Subject(s): Death; Faith; God; Good; Humility; Men; Science; Wisdom; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Scientists LOCKER ROOM CONVERSATION, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are some men my husband never sees Last Line: A couple of friends.-what did you think of that guy? / -what guy, they said Subject(s): Bodies; Men; Nudity; Nakedness LOCKER ROOM CONVERSATION, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are some men my husband never sees Last Line: A couple of friends. - what did you think of that guy? %- what guy, they said Subject(s): Bodies; Men; Nudity LOOKING FORWARD, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I am grown to man's estate Last Line: Not to meddle with my toys. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): A Child's Garden Of Verses: 12 Subject(s): Men LORENZO, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had not known that there could be Last Line: Selected for an enemy. Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Men; Enemies LOVE POEM, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Speak earth and bless me with what is richest Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men LOVE POEM ON A THEME BY WHITMAN, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Love; Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men LUCASIA, ROSANIA, AND ORINDA PARTING AT A FOUNTAIN, by KATHERINE PHILIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, here are our enjoyments done Last Line: The fears and sorrows of this day. Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda Subject(s): Grief; Gays & Lesbians; Love; Time; Sorrow; Sadness; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men LUGGAGE, by FRANK BIDART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: You wear your body as if without Last Line: Rise like grief before you Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Self; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men LULLABY, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lay your sleeping head, my love Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Variant Title(s): "song 11;""let Your Sleeping Head, My Love""; Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love; Mortality; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men LYRICS OF THE RAIL: 1. THE SCORNED TOWN, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: The green fields waver, break a space Last Line: A phantom never seen! Subject(s): Fields; Men; Railroads; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Railways; Trains LYRICS OF THE RAIL: 2. THE CANYON, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: The sky withdraws, the cutting narrows Last Line: Plunges the train at set of sun. Subject(s): Canyons; Evening; Men; Railroads; Sunset; Twilight; Railways; Trains MAD AS THE MIST AND SNOW, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Bolt and bar the shutter Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Men MAD AS THE MIST AND SNOW, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bolt and bar the shutter Last Line: And many-minded homer were %mad as the mist and snow Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Men MADONNA OF THE EVENING FLOWERS, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day long I have been working Last Line: Canterbury bells. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men MAGIC WORDS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In the very earliest time Last Line: That's the way it was Subject(s): Eskimos; Language; Men; Native Americans MAIDEN'S CHOICE, by CAROLYN M. BARBER Poem Text First Line: Billy rides in a limousine Last Line: When he hasn't asked me to? Subject(s): Courtship; Men MALE RAGE POEM, by PIER GIORGIO DI CICCO Poem Source First Line: Feminism, baby, feminism. %this is an anti-feminist poem Last Line: Take it like a man Subject(s): Anger; Men; Women's Rights MALEST CORNIFICI TUO CATULLO, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm happy, kerouac, your madman's allen Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Kerouac, Jack (1922-1969); Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men MAN, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weak and puny, small and frail Last Line: Made him master of the world! Subject(s): Fights; Men; Soldiers; Strength MAN, by ROUD SHAW Poem Text First Line: Nor joy nor grief rewards / the brute in life Last Line: Man only, dies. Subject(s): Men MAN AND BOY, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: He had decided not to go to the beach Last Line: You're warm and soft. You're the master of the night Subject(s): Men MAN FROM WASHINGTON, by JAMES WELCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The end came easy for most of us Last Line: A world of money, promise and disease Subject(s): Men; Native Americans; War MAN I LUNCH WITH OCCASIONALLY, by ANNA DEMAY Poem Source First Line: Eats %sparsely. %when I arrive Last Line: It fills his glass %every empty space Subject(s): Lunch; Men; Story-telling MAN IN BLACK, by NAVARRE SCOTT MOMADAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I rode across the snowfields in the moonlight, holding myself in steady Last Line: Life with billy the kid Alternate Author Name(s): Momaday, N. Scott Subject(s): Men; Strangers MAN IN OUR TOWN, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We pitied him as one too much at ease Last Line: And though he be forgotten, it was good %for more than one of you that he was there Subject(s): Memory; Men; Neighbors MAN IN THE BOWLER HAT, by ARTHUR SEYMOUR JOHN TESSIMOND Poem Source First Line: I am unnoticed, the unnoticeable man Subject(s): Men MAN IN THE CELLAR UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF MOONLIGHT, by AL GABOR Poem Source First Line: If he stands on a chair Last Line: In the bare trees %rooted in the sky Subject(s): Cellars; Men; Moon MAN LOST BY A RIVER, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a voice inside the body Last Line: For having strayed %from the path of his routine, %for no good reason Subject(s): Men MAN ON A CORNER, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: The man with the golden retreiver is still sitting Last Line: Of love; it shifts, sighs, lays its head close Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Men MAN WATCHING, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can tell by the way the trees beat Last Line: By constantly greater beings Subject(s): Men MAN WHO CLOSED SHOP, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To allow himself to be properly held Last Line: Beforehand, several touches ago Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Men MAN'S MAN; TO RON RINDO, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: I know where I can find you Last Line: Running up and down his legs, his trunk %the branches of his arms Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Bars And Bartenders; Men MANTALK, by GREG HEWETT Poem Source First Line: I was born when you were 29 Last Line: Of the language of men Subject(s): Aging; Birth; Fathers; Men MARRIAGE, by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No more alone sleeping, no more alone waking Last Line: All for her sake must the maiden die! Alternate Author Name(s): Anodos Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men MARRIAGE, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first retainer %he gave to her Last Line: And lived with her Subject(s): Men MARRIAGE OF TWO OLD MEN (1), by SHARON CHMIELARZ Poem Source First Line: Has he married my father? Have I married his Last Line: What will happen to us, tad, without a woman? Subject(s): Men; Old Age; Single People; Solitude MAYBE LOVE, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe love will come Last Line: To wet the silken dust Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men MELANCHOLY INSIDE FAMILIES, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I keep a blue bottle Last Line: And I know the earth, and I am sad Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Men MEN, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hate men Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Men; Hate MEN, by ADRIENNE SU Poem Source First Line: There are those you wish for and never get, for various reasons Last Line: The living man, this minute, feeling his way through the black universe Subject(s): Men MEN AND BIRTH; THE UNEXPLAINABLE, by HAKI R. MADHUBUTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Malepractice and maleabsence issue is loneliness & limiting Last Line: Smiles occasional tears and undying commitment Alternate Author Name(s): Lee, Don L. Subject(s): Fathers; Men; Prayer MEN AND MONKEYS, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hawthorn lane was full of flower Last Line: Until they passed over the brow of the hill. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Organ-grinders; Hurdy-gurdy Men MEN IMPROVE WITH THE YEARS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am worn out with dreams Last Line: Among the streams. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Aging; Men; Regret MEN IN LOVE, by DREW TEN EYCK Poem Source First Line: We are met dogs come in from the lake Last Line: Bury it in a shallow grave Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Love; Men MEN OF DAWN, by EFRAIN HUERTA Poem Source First Line: And then, here, in the dark breast of the darkest river Last Line: And armored hearts Subject(s): Insomnia; Men MEN'S TALK, by JOHN TRANTER Poem Source First Line: I was one step ahead of the plausible talkers Last Line: Knocked the boy down %punishment Subject(s): Men; Talk MILITEROTICS, by CHARLES ORTLEB Poem Source First Line: In vietnam %eels live in the water Subject(s): Homosexuality; Men; Vietnam; Violence MILKWEED, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While I stood here, in the open, lost in myself Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Men; Nature MILKWEED, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While I stood here, in the open, lost in myself Last Line: The air fills with delicate creatures %from the other world Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Men; Nature MIND (TROBRIANDS, NEW GUINEA), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The mind, nanola, by which term intelligence Last Line: Resides within man and can escape only through his voice Subject(s): Language; Men MINIVER CHEEVY, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Miniver cheevy, child of scorn / grew lean while he assailed the seasons Last Line: And kept on drinking. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Dreams; Drinks & Drinking; Men; Nostalgia; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Nightmares; Wine MOLE, by AL-MUNFATIL Poem Source First Line: There is a mole on ahmad's cheek Last Line: It is like a rose-garden, whose gardener is an abyssinian Subject(s): Men MOLESTER, by JEFF CRANDALL Poem Source First Line: Like gathering flowers Last Line: A torqued and aching trunk Subject(s): Guilt; Men MONOLOGUE OF TWO MOONS, NUDES WITH CRESTS: 1938, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Once, lily and I fell from a ladder Last Line: Twigs, leaves, and an infinite black string. Subject(s): Accidents; Adolescence; Desire; Gays & Lesbians; Teen Agers; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men MOOD, by DOROTHY ALLISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Floating like a dust moat Last Line: But little laments in a row. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Loss; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men MORAL PROVERBS AND FOLK SONGS, SELS., by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The other one who walks by your side Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Men MORE SEXY NOW THAN EVER, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Was up for a hot little piece of hispanic tail Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men MORE THAN HEMINGWAY, by DANIEL J. BOYNE Poem Source First Line: Some men become more hemingway Last Line: And I stopped writing the fan mail %that was never answered anyway Subject(s): Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961); Men MOTHER AND SON, by ALDEN A. NOWLAN Poem Source First Line: She goes on with her story Last Line: Even if he could make up his mind %that it's what he wants Subject(s): Men; Mothers MR. MACKLIN'S JACK O'LANTERN, by DAVID MCCORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mr. Macklin takes his knife Last Line: O mr. Macklin! Where's the door? Subject(s): Men MR. P, by GLEN DOWNIE Poem Source First Line: His silence is absolute %oracular Last Line: & becomes all eyes %a small down-cellar god Subject(s): Aging; Growth; Men MR. WELLS, by WILLIAM SCHWENCK GILBERT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! My name is john wellington wells Alternate Author Name(s): Gilbert, W. S. Subject(s): Men; Supernatural MR. WELLS, by ELIZABETH MADOX ROBERTS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On sunday morning, then he comes Last Line: That mr. Wells is coming in Subject(s): Men MR. WHAT'S-HIS-NAME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They called him mr. What's-his-name Last Line: I'll ask for mr. What's-his-name. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Men; Cadavers; Dead, The MULTIPLE IDENTITY QUESTIONNAIRE, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm a jew? A nice jewish boy? Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Jews; Buddhism; Self; Identity; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men MUSEE DES BEAUX ARTS, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: About suffering they were never wrong Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Apathy; Art & Artists; Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Human Rights; Icarus; Men; Museums; Mythology - Classical; Pain; Paintings & Painters; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter; Art Gallerys; Suffering; Misery MUSEE DES BEAUX ARTS, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: About suffering they were never wrong Last Line: Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky %had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Apathy; Art And Artists; Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Human Rights; Icarus; Men; Museums; Mythology - Classical; Pain; Paintings And Painters MY FATHER WENT TO FUNERALS, by HOWARD NELSON Poem Source First Line: What could my father do Last Line: And I have begun to go to funerals Subject(s): Men MY FATHER'S WEDDING: 1924, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today, lonely for my father, I saw Subject(s): Men MY FATHER'S WEDDING: 1924, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today, lonely for my father, I saw Last Line: Few friends came; he invited few. %his two-story house he turned %into a forest, %where both he and Subject(s): Men MY LAST HUSTLER, by RICHARD HOWARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When 'brad' is lying naked, or rather naked is lying Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men MY MOTHER, by JOHN WIENERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Talking to strange men on the subway Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Mothers; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men MY MOTHER LOVES WOMEN, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men MY PAPA'S WALTZ, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The whiskey on your breath / could make a small boy dizzy Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Dancing & Dancers; Fathers; Men; Night; Play; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Bedtime MY PAPA'S WALTZ, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The whiskey on your breath %could make a small boy dizzy Last Line: Then waltzed me off to bed %still clinging to your shirt Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Dancing And Dancers; Fathers; Men; Night; Play MY PAST, by DENNIS COOPER Poet's Biography First Line: Is a short string of beautiful Subject(s): Desire; Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men NAMES, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You should try to hear the name the holy one has for Last Line: No one knows our name until our last breath goes out Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Men NECESSITY, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Work? / I don't have to work Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Men; Negroes; American Blacks NECESSITY, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Work? %I don't have to work Last Line: Which is why I reckon I does %have to work after all Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Men NEVER TOO LATE: FRANCESCO'S ROUNDELAY, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting and sighing in my secret muse Last Line: "wo worth the faults and follies of mine eye!" Subject(s): Beauty; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Men; Women; Youth; Male-female Relations NEW AGE AT AIRPORT MESA, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My husband was hanging wet sheets, almost in disbelief Last Line: I told her I was done feeling sorry for myself. Subject(s): Canyons; Hearts; Gays & Lesbians; Laundry & Laundering; Self-pity; Widows & Widowers; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men NEW LOVE AND THE GENTLE HEART, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: New love and the gentle heart are the same thing Last Line: A generous man has the same effect upon a woman Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Men NEW YORK (OFFICE AND ATTACK), by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Beneath all the statistics Last Line: Where the hudson is getting drunk on its oil Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Death; Men; New York City - Revolutionary Period NEXT TO OF COURSE GOD AMERICA I, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: He spoke. And drank rapidly a glass of water Subject(s): Men NIGHT GLEAM, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over and over thru the dull material world the call is made Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men NIGHT OUT, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: Ten p.M. Half lit, lenny benson Last Line: At the head of the dead wolf on the wall Subject(s): Men; Night NINE DESIRES, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The desire of the fairy women, dew Last Line: The desire of the soul, wisdom. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Desire; Fairies; Men; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Soul; Women; Elves NO CHANCE, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The man who never had a chance, the victim Last Line: Same old whine—because he hadn't any spine. Subject(s): Family Life; Men; Pity; Relatives NO MORE AUCTION BLOCK (SPIRITUAL), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: No more auction block for me Last Line: Many thousand gone Subject(s): Men NO THEORY, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No theory will stand up to a chicken's guts Subject(s): Men NO THEORY, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No theory will stand up to a chicken's guts Last Line: At the odor escaping Subject(s): Men NOCTURNES: JOSHUA TREE, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each of us locked inside our rooms Last Line: Nailed down behind the bedroom door Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Trees; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men NOISE OF THE CITY, by ANDRE SPIRE Poem Text Last Line: And the beating of my heart. Subject(s): Cities; Human Behavior; Laughter; Men; Noises; Urban Life; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature NOTEBOOK OF A RETURN TO THE NATIVE LAND, SELS., by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would rediscover the secret of great communications Last Line: Me would not understand any better the roaring of a tiger Subject(s): Men O WHA'S THE BRIDE?, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O wha's the bride that carries the bunch Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Men O WHA'S THE BRIDE?, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O wha's the bride that carries the bunch Last Line: My virgin womb ha'e met Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh Subject(s): Erotic Love; Men ODE FOR THE AMERICAN DEAD IN ASIA, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: God love you now, if no one else will ever Variant Title(s): Ode For The American Dead In Korea Subject(s): Korean War, 1950-1953; Men; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War ODE TO JOY, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: We shall have everything we want and there'll be no more dying Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men ODE TO THE LITTLE CHINA MAN, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who art thou-sweet little china man? Last Line: I'm miss eliza's beau! Subject(s): China; Men; Statues ODE: SALUTE TO THE FRENCH NEGRO POETS, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From near the sea, like whitman my great predecessor, I call Subject(s): Cesaire, Aime (b. 1913); Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men OFFERING, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Father, you must have been Last Line: "ah . . . Dearest father, dear Subject(s): Boats; Fathers; Men OLD MAN'S EVENSONG, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis but a teeny mite Last Line: Home on the sod. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Men; Old Age OLD MEN, by KATHRYN MARIS Poem Source First Line: Dad said my ass was getting fat Last Line: A kindred artist of a different kind, %the kind of artist I won't be again Subject(s): Aging; Art And Artists; Men; Old Age OLD SONG (TRADITIONAL, WEST AFRICA), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Do not seek too much fame Last Line: To be alive to hear this song is a victory Subject(s): Men OLD WOMAN NATURE, by GARY SNYDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Don't be shocked, %she's heating you some soup Subject(s): Kabuki; Men; Mothers ON BEING EXTRAVAGANT, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extra-vagant enough Last Line: Prevails so much more widely and fatally Subject(s): Language; Men ON THE BEACH AT FONTANA, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wind whines and whines the shingle Last Line: Ache of love Subject(s): Fathers; Love; Men; Prayer; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore ON THE BEACH AT FONTANA, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wind whines and whines the shingle Last Line: And in my heart how deep unending %ache of love! Subject(s): Fathers; Love; Men; Prayer; Seashore ON THE WORDS IN POETRY, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You want to know why and how I just began to write poetry Last Line: Ephemeral lives dangerous, great, and bearable Subject(s): Language; Men; Words; Vocabulary ON THE WORDS IN POETRY, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You want to know why and how I just began to write poetry Last Line: Dangerous, great, and bearable Subject(s): Language; Men ON THE WRITING OF POETRY, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A writer is not so much someone who has something to say Last Line: And if I let them string out, surprising things will happen Subject(s): Language; Men ON THE YARD, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A slim / young fascist Last Line: Did I / completely Subject(s): Men ON THE YARD, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A slim %young fascist Last Line: Not %did I %completely Subject(s): Men ON WOMEN, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three talents to the fair belong Last Line: While thus th' inchanted rashly help it on. Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Men; Virtue; Women; Male-female Relations ONCE I PASS'D THROUGH A POPULOUS CITY, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I pass'd through a populous city, imprinting my brain, for Last Line: I see her close beside me with silent lips sad and tremulous. Subject(s): Men ONE WHO IS AT HOME, by FRANCISCO ALBANEZ Poem Source First Line: Each day I long so much to see Last Line: He does not leave his house Subject(s): Men ONION, by KATHA POLLITT Poem Source First Line: The smoothness of onions infuriates him Last Line: And he's weeping in the kitchen most unromantic tears Subject(s): Men; Misogyny ONLY WHEN MY HEART FREEZES, by ALDEN A. NOWLAN Poem Source Last Line: In a strange, wild country Subject(s): Abandonment; Men ORIENTAL PHANTASY, by LE BARON COOKE Poem Text First Line: Sometimes the sky Last Line: Marionettes . . . Subject(s): Asia; Gays & Lesbians; Puppets; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Marionettes OTIS, by LORENZO THOMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Some women think %a man should hunt for them Subject(s): Men OUTCAST; A TALE OF A LADIES' CRICKET MATCH, by PELHAM GRENVILLE WODEHOUSE Poem Source First Line: Out in the silent rockies Last Line: There's a thin, sad, pale, grey hermit: %folks know him as 'jaundiced jim' Subject(s): Courtship; Cricket (game); Man-woman Relationships; Men; Service, Robert (1874-1958); Sports OX, by RUSSELL EDSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There was once a woman whose father over the years had become an ox Last Line: Slowly climb the stairs to his room, and there spend the night in mournful lowing Subject(s): Men PEER GYNT TELLS HIS MOTHER ABOUT IS NEWEST DVENTURE, by HENRIK JOHAN IBSEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You're lying, peer Last Line: Things happen more than once, you know Alternate Author Name(s): Bjarme, Brynjolf Subject(s): Men PENIS ENVY, by ERICA MANN JONG Poem Source First Line: I envy men who can yearn Last Line: With infinite emptiness Subject(s): Envy; Men PERFUME!, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The perfume %of flowers: a plane Last Line: What the heart is, %the sceptre! Subject(s): Men PIED BEAUTY, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Glory be to god for dappled things Last Line: Praise him. Subject(s): Beauty; Christianity; Environment; Fields; God; Language; Men; Nature; Religion; Worship; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Words; Vocabulary; Theology PITCHER, by ROBERT FRANCIS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: His art is eccentricity, his aim Subject(s): Baseball; Language; Men; Sports; Words; Vocabulary PITCHER, by ROBERT FRANCIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: His art is eccentricity, his aim Last Line: Not to, yet still, still to communicate %making the batter understand too late Subject(s): Baseball; Language; Men; Sports PLEASE MASTER, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Please master can I touch your cheek Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; United States; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; America POEM ABOUT MY RIGHTS, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Even tonight and I need to take a walk and clear Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men POEM FOR GEORGE PLATT LYNES, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: George platt lynes photographed a naked man, curled Last Line: Raises his hand to feel the fine light fail? Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men POEM FOR MEN ONLY, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It wasn't easy, inventing the wheel Subject(s): Men POEM FOR MEN ONLY, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It wasn't easy, inventing the wheel Last Line: Go back to the beginning. Think about it. %take, if you like, all day Subject(s): Men POEM SOME PEOPLE WILL HAVE TO UNDERSTAND, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dull unwashed windows of eyes Last Line: Will the machinegunners please step forward? Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism; Men POETRY IS A DESTRUCTIVE FORCE, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That's what misery is Last Line: It can kill a man Subject(s): Language; Men; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary POETRY IS A DESTRUCTIVE FORCE, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That's what misery is Last Line: Its nose is on its paws. %it can kill a man Subject(s): Language; Men; Poetry And Poets POPHAM OF THE NEW SONG: 2, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And so a man I love says fifteen years is all he has Last Line: Each other's hair. They don't believe in me or you. Subject(s): Children; Death; Love; Men; Reason; Stairs; Childhood; Dead, The; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals PORTRAIT, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother never forgave my father %for killing himself Last Line: And slapped me hard %in my sixty-fourth year %I can feel my cheek %still burning Subject(s): Men; Poetry And Poets PORTRAIT, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My childhood is memories of a patio in seville Last Line: Almost naked like the children of the sea Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Men PORTRAIT OF A MAN, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You wear glasses Last Line: Having cogitated, you begin again to write Subject(s): Men; Portraits PORTRAIT OF A MAN, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You wear glasses Last Line: Having cogitated, you begin again to write Subject(s): Men; Portraits POWER, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Half of the penis remains Subject(s): Sex Organs; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men POWER, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The difference between poetry and rhetoric Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men PRAYER FOR MY SON, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bid a strong ghost stand at the head Last Line: Protecting, till the danger past, %with human love Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Fathers; Men; Poetry And Poets; Prayer PRAYER TO ST. FRANCIS, by BRIAN TEARE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now low rod : Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Marriage; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PROVERBS FROM HELL, SELS., by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging Last Line: Exuberance is beauty Subject(s): Bible; Men; Mythology PROVIDER, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let's say he's at the company christmas party Last Line: No place to call home Subject(s): Fathers; Houses; Men; Paranoia; Professions; Worry PYTHONIC, by LESTER LYNN RUDOLPH RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: The man who flew back to yesterday Last Line: The monotony was such a bore. Subject(s): Boredom; Men; Youth; Ennui QUINN THE ESKIMO (THE MIGHTY QUINN), by ROBERT ZIMMERMAN Poem Source First Line: Ev'rybody's building the big ships and the boats Last Line: You'll not see nothing like the mighty quinn Subject(s): Men RACE, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I got to the airport I rushed up to the desk Last Line: All night %I watched him breathe Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Men RAIN, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night the sound had %come back again Last Line: Be wet %with a decent happiness Subject(s): Men RAIN, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each storm-soaked flower has a beautiful eye Last Line: Alone with lost years Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Men; Mourning RAPE, by JOAN LARKIN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After twenty years I want to call it that, but was it? Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men RATIONAL MAN, by ROLFE HUMPHRIES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His restless glance abruptly drew Last Line: Took comfort from the poplar trees. Subject(s): Men; Poplar Trees; Reason; Solitude; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Loneliness READING LU CHI, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moonlight touching all eight corners Subject(s): Books; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men READING WHITMAN IN A TOILET STALL, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A security-man who stood, arms crossed, outside Last Line: As we walk out of our secrets into the world Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Trysts; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men REMINISCENCE, by DOROTHY ALLISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long since, these ghosts lay dead - Last Line: Memories are only heavy prisoners now. Subject(s): Ghosts; Gays & Lesbians; Memory; Supernatural; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men RHYME OF MY INHERITANCE, by JOAN LARKIN Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: My mother gave me a bitter tongue Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men RICHARD PENNIMAN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: He is %you bet your dying ass Subject(s): Male Chauvinism; Men; Racism RIDDLE, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A woman, though my head and tail are both of them the same Last Line: "metamorphosed to a man then, the woman disappears!" Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Men; Riddles; Women RIGHT MEANING, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, you know there is a place somewhere called Last Line: Eating her lunch, and her eyes that will die descend gently %along my arms Subject(s): Men; Mothers RIGORISTS, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We saw reindeer Subject(s): Language; Men; Reindeer; Words; Vocabulary RIGORISTS, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We saw reindeer Last Line: Whose reprieve he read in the reindeer's face Subject(s): Language; Men; Reindeer RIPENING, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The longer we are together Last Line: To know you by the signs of this world Subject(s): Men RIPENING, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The longer we are together Last Line: The bitter way to better prayer, we have %the sweetness of ripening. How sweet %to know you by the s Subject(s): Men RITES OF MANHOOD, by ALDEN A. NOWLAN Poem Source First Line: It's snowing hard enough that the taxis aren't running Last Line: From the way that only hours ago he imagined it Subject(s): Men RITUAL TO READ TO EACH OTHER, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you don't know the kind of person I am Last Line: Should be clear: the darkness around us is deep Subject(s): Men ROSABEL (OF ROSALIE), by ANGELINA WELD GRIMKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leaves that whisper whisper ever Last Line: And for her, -- for her. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Gays & Lesbians; Women's Rights; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Feminism RUNDOWN CHURCH, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: I had a son and his name was john Last Line: His son! His son! His son! Subject(s): Fathers And Sons; Men; World War I SAILING TO BYZANTIUM, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: That is no country for old men. The young Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Birds; Constantinople; Death; Imagination; Immortality; Istanbul, Turkey; Men; Old Age; Poetry & Poets; Vision; Istambul; Byzantium; Dead, The; Fancy SAILING TO BYZANTIUM, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That is no country for old men. The young Last Line: To lords and ladies of byzantium %of what is past, or passing, or to come Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Art And Artists; Birds; Constantinople; Death; Imagination; Immortality; Istanbul, Turkey; Men; Old Age; Poetry And Poets; Vision SAPPHIC SUICIDE NOTE, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Day out Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Letters; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Suicide; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SATURN, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He lay on the couch night after night Subject(s): Men SATURN, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He lay on the couch night after night Last Line: What a man's life was Subject(s): Men SAY GOODNIGHT (1), by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is better to be alone. Tree and sun Subject(s): Solitude; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SAY GOODNIGHT (2), by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trunks of charred pines rooted to the rocks Subject(s): Women; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SAY GOODNIGHT (3), by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Muted bells ringing inside my body Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SAY GOODNIGHT (4), by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No kisses. Not tonight. Stand Subject(s): Night; Togetherness; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SAY YES QUICKLY, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forget your life. Say god is great. Get up Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Men; Religion; Theology SAY YES QUICKLY, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Forget your life. Say god is great. Get up Last Line: From before the beginning of the universe Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Men; Religion SCATTERED CONGREGATION, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We got ready and showed our home Last Line: Don't know. But that's where we're going Subject(s): Churches; Men SEA HAG IN THE CAVE OF SLEEP, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: Words whirl her round in pools Last Line: I come out from between my own legs %into this world Subject(s): Men; Sex; Women SECONDS OUT, by MACDARA WOODS Poem Source First Line: After humpty dumpty fell apart Last Line: And at the speed of light %sons are older than their space-men fathers Subject(s): Cambodia; Fathers And Sons; Men SECRET, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don't worry, nobody has the Last Line: The only possible %victory Subject(s): Men SELECTIONS, by MIGUEL HERNANDEZ Poem Source First Line: The classical poet is one who finds the solution to his life Last Line: My work than all the poets together Subject(s): Language; Men SENRYU: OCCUPIED, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When he unzipped Last Line: Stimulus package - Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SENT FOR WATER, by GLENN WARD DRESBACH Poem Text First Line: He was only a little lad Last Line: "must work together!" Subject(s): Men SEPARATION BY DEATH, by IBN HAZM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She was pure and white Last Line: And after stopping a while, it is still hovering in the air Alternate Author Name(s): Ibn Hazm Al-andalusi; Abdalusi, Ibn Hazm Al- Subject(s): Men SET OF DENTURES, A SMOKESTACK, A KNOLL, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: Outdoors in august, laboring all day in his garden, he's shirtless Last Line: Which were born with nothing we cannot bear Subject(s): Bodies; Men; Old Age SEVENTH HELL: OF SMOKE, WHERE FIRE-RAISERS TRY .. ESCAPE, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The houses of men are on fire Last Line: The mind of man is on fire %and where will his eye find rest Subject(s): Men; Nuclear War SEXES, by ARTHUR JOSEPH MUNBY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O, you are fair -- you have soft-turtle eyes Last Line: Hiss in our dull ears: how can we be pure? Subject(s): Men; Women SHADOWBOXING, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm telling my story to this couple who're over for dinner, they're friends, though not best friends Last Line: It takes some getting used to Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Marriage; Theater & Theaters; Motor Vehicle Bureaus; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Stage Life SHAME, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ask for justice but do not release Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Mothers & Sons; Divorce; Grief; Loss; Shame; Guilt; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Sorrow; Sadness SHARDS, by LAURENCE HARTMUS Poem Text First Line: I walk among you, women, Last Line: In walking among you. Subject(s): Men; Women SIMPLY, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I must set a shape in air Last Line: That I am. Subject(s): Life; Men SISTERS IN ARMS, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The edge of our bed was a wide grid Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Death - Children; South Africa; Racism; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Death - Babies; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry SNOWBANKS NORTH OF THE HOUSE, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those great sweeps of snow that stop suddenly six feet from the house Subject(s): Men SNOWBANKS NORTH OF THE HOUSE, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those great sweeps of snow that stop suddenly six feet from the house Last Line: No one knows why he came, or why he turned away, and did not climb the hill Subject(s): Men SNOWMAN, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: This is a poem for tom Last Line: For all of the good providers Subject(s): Family Life; Grief; Labor And Laborers; Men; Murder; Self-doubt; Snow SO BIG, by ALBERTA M. PARIS Poem Text First Line: Heil fuehrer,' resounded from glen to glen Last Line: (I wonder how big he seems to god.) Subject(s): Men SOME MEN, by DAZZLY ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: Wee nah look no quarrel wi dem Subject(s): Men; Women SOME MEN, by NTOZAKE SHANGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, Paulette Subject(s): Men SOME PLACES OUT WEST, by JOHN REINHARD Poem Source First Line: They celebrate the testicle Last Line: And the heavy weight of their delight Subject(s): Fathers And Sons; Men; Tradition; West (u.s.) SOMEONE DIGGING IN THE GROUND, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: An eye is meant to see things Last Line: By someone digging in the ground Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Men SOMETIMES A MAN STANDS UP DURING SUPPER, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Toward that same church, which he forgot Subject(s): Fathers; Men; Prayer SONG (1), by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love a woman? You're an ass Last Line: Does the trick worth forty wenches. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Misogyny; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONG OF MEN, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How beautiful are the bodies of men Subject(s): Men; Body, Human; Women; God SONG OF THE BLACK BEAR, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My moccasins are black obsidian Last Line: There is danger where I walk Subject(s): Men SONG OF THE CUBAN BLACKS, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: When the full moon comes Last Line: I'll go to santiago Subject(s): Men; Santiago, Cuba SONG OF THE THUNDERS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Sometimes %I go about pitying Last Line: While I am carried by the wind %across the sky Subject(s): Men; Thunder SONGS ARE THOUGHTS (NETSILIK ESKIMO), by ORPINGALIK Poem Source First Line: Songs are thoughts, sung out with the breath when people Last Line: Get a new song Subject(s): Language; Men SONNET: 1, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sporting at fancie, setting light by love Last Line: When his faire forehead with disdain is frowned. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 1, by ROBERT DUNCAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Now there is a love of which dante does not speak unkindly Last Line: For a joining that is not easy Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 10, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thus was my love, thus was my ganymed Last Line: He loves to be belov'd, but not to love. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 10, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, think not I am faithful to a vow Last Line: I am most faithless when I most am true. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Variant Title(s): "oh, I Think Not I Am Faithful To A Vow!; Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 104, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: To me, fair friend, you never can be old Last Line: Ere you were born was beauty's summer dead. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 11, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sighing, and sadly sitting by my love Last Line: He straight perceav'd himselfe to be my lover. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 110, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! 'tis true I have gone here and there Last Line: Even to thy pure and most most loving breast. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 116, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Let me not to the marriage of true minds / admit impediments Last Line: I never writ, nor no man ever loved. Variant Title(s): "love;love's Not Time's Fool;true Love;love Unalterable;the Marriage Of True Minds;""let Me Not To The Marriage Of True Minds""; Subject(s): Fidelity; Gays & Lesbians; Life Change Events; Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Religion; Faithfulness; Constancy; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology SONNET: 12, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some talke of ganymede th' idalian boy Last Line: But he is fairer then I can indite. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 14, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here: hold this glove (this milk-white cheveril glove) Last Line: Then glove is love: and so I send it thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 144, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Two loves I have of comfort and despair Last Line: Till my bad angel fire my good one out. Variant Title(s): "two Loves I Have, Of Comfort And Despair""; Subject(s): Comfort; Despair; Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 17, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cherry-lipt adonis in his snowie shape Last Line: Be slow to love, and quicke to hate, enduring? Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 19, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah no; nor I my selfe: though my pure love Last Line: Are dearest unto me, as doth ensue. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Subject(s): Ganymede (mythology); Beauty; Love - Erotic; Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 20, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But now my muse toyld with continuall care Last Line: Pardon I crave of them, and of thee, pitty. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 20, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: A woman's face with nature's own hand painted Last Line: Mine be thy love and thy love's use their treasure. Variant Title(s): "a Woman's Face, With Nature's Own Hand Painted""; Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 29, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want to do a complaint now. Which is to say Subject(s): Body, Human; Men SONNET: 29, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes Last Line: That then I scorn to change my state with kings. Variant Title(s): "amor Omnia Vincit;a Consolation;fortune And Men's Eyes;""when, In Disgrace With Fortune And Men's Eyes""; Subject(s): Desire; Friendship; Gays & Lesbians; Jealousy; Love; Religion; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Theology SONNET: 35, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: No more be griev'd at that which thou hast done Last Line: To that sweet thief which sourly robs from me. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 36, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Let me confess that we two must be twain Last Line: As, thou being mine, mine is thy good report. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 4, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two stars there are in one faire firmament Last Line: How can it chuse (with me) but be dark night? Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 53, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: What is your substance, whereof are you made Last Line: But you like none, none you, for constant heart. Variant Title(s): "what Is Your Substance, Whereof Are You Made""; Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 55, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Not marble nor the gilded monuments Last Line: You live in this, and dwell in lovers' eyes. Subject(s): Friendship; Gays & Lesbians; Poetry & Poets; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 57, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Being your slave, what should I do but tend Last Line: Though you do any thing, he thinks no ill. Variant Title(s): "absence;""being Your Slave, What Should I Do Not Tend""; Subject(s): Absence; Desire; Gays & Lesbians; Love; Separation; Isolation; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 6, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet corrall lips, where nature's treasure liea Last Line: What should I doe, if I did so indeede? Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 60, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore Last Line: Praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand. Variant Title(s): "revolutions;""like As The Waves Make Towards The Pebbled Shore""; Subject(s): Aging; Gays & Lesbians; Time; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 65, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea Last Line: That in black ink my love may still shine bright. Variant Title(s): "time And Love (2);""since Brass, Nor Stone, Nor Earth, Nor Boundless Sea""; Subject(s): Beauty; Language; Men; Time; Words; Vocabulary SONNET: 67, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Ah wherefore with infection should he live Last Line: In days long since, before these last so bad. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 7, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet thames I honour thee, not for thou art Last Line: My mirth is turn'd to extreame miserie. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 8, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I wish that I his pillow were Last Line: How hony-combs from his lips dropping bee. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 87, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell! Thou art too dear for my possessing Last Line: In sleep a king, but, waking, no such matter. Subject(s): Absence; Gays & Lesbians; Loss; Love; Separation; Isolation; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 94, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: They that have power to hurt, and will do none Last Line: Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds. Variant Title(s): "the Life Without Passion;""they That Have Pow'r To Hut And Will Do None""; Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Hypocrisy; Sin; Villains In Literature; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 8, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where praise already is is the only place grief Last Line: Into the sky, not troubled by her breath Subject(s): Men; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONS OF PROMISE, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: In every meanest face I see Last Line: But has for him some treasure chaste. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Men SORTES VERGILIANAE, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You have been living now for a long time and there is nothing you do not know Last Line: Only long patience, as the star climbs and sinks, leaving illumuniation to the setting sun Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SOUND-POSTURE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What we do get in life and miss so often in literature Last Line: And concrete symbol of communication in language Subject(s): Language; Men; Words; Vocabulary SOUND-POSTURE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What we do get in life and miss so often in literature Last Line: Can only write the dreary kind of grammatical prose known as professorial Subject(s): Language; Men SPHINCTER, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hope my good old asshole holds out Subject(s): Aids (disease); Gays & Lesbians; Sickness; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Illness SPIDER, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is a huge spider, which can no longer move Last Line: And what a strange pain that traveler has given me Subject(s): Animals; Men STAR VEHICLES: I'M NOT IN 'DARLING', by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bette davis has no reason to be jealous of michelangelo antonioni Last Line: A wilderness stretching farther than the exiled eye could see Subject(s): Davis, Bette (1908-1989); Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men STAR VEHICLES: THE GARBO INDEX, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dead friend vito praised garbo's last scene in queen christina Last Line: With the tranquililty of all final compositions Subject(s): Garbo, Greta (1905-1990); Gays & Lesbians; Identity; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men STORY, by LI-YOUNG LEE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sad is the man who is asked for a story Last Line: Which posits that a boy's supplications %and a father's love add up to silence Subject(s): Fathers; Men; Prayer STORY ABOUT THE BODY, by ROBERT HASS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The young composer, working that summer at an artist's colony Last Line: Swept them from the corners of her studio -- was full of dead bees Subject(s): Men STORY THAT COULD BE TRUE, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you were exchanged in the cradle and Last Line: Maybe I'm a king Subject(s): Fathers; Men; Prayer STRANGE FRUIT, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spray-painted across a garage door Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Prejudice; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men STRANGE MEN, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She said, I am heaven, thou art earth Last Line: Now climbing through her bedroom window Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Men; Sex STRANGE MUSIC, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men have seen their own graves at the edge Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SUNDAY AT THE STATE HOSPITAL, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am sitting across the table Subject(s): Hospitals; Insanity; Men; Madness; Mental Illness SUNDAY AT THE STATE HOSPITAL, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am sitting across the table Last Line: And trying with almost no success %to bring the present to its mouth Subject(s): Hospitals; Insanity; Men SUNFLOWER, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: What sower walked over earth Last Line: It's not all as evil as you think Subject(s): Men SUNFLOWER, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When dean young vacuums he hears Last Line: Clouds that were his idea Subject(s): Men; Sunflowers SUNFLOWER, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When dean young vacuums he hears Last Line: Clouds that were his idea Subject(s): Men; Sunflowers SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 5. RIBH CONSIDERS CHRISTIAN LOVE IN SUFFICENT, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why should I seek for love or study it? Last Line: How can she live till in her blood he live! Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Hate; Men SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 5. RIBH CONSIDERS CHRISTIAN LOVE IN SUFFICENT, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why should I seek for love or study it? Last Line: How can she live till in her blood he live! Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Hate; Men SURGERY, by KENNETH PITCHFORD Poem Source First Line: So now just suppose that someone wanted to know Subject(s): Homosexuality; Men SURVIVORS, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some mornings I do not hear Subject(s): Gay Men; Relationships SWEET BOY, GIMME YR ASS, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lemme kiss your face, lick your neck Last Line: Softness this relaxed sweet sigh? Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SYMPATHY, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lately, alas I knew a gentle boy Last Line: Nor mortals know a sympathy more rare. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Sympathy; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Empathy TAKE GOOD CARE OF YOURSELF, by MARK WUNDERLICH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the runway at the roxy, the drag queen Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Gays & Lesbians; Popular Culture - United States; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men TEH LOVER, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is enough left, he says Last Line: Come in cold and content from his quest. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Love Affairs; Men THAT JOURNEYS ARE GOOD, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If a fir tree had a foot or two like a tgurtle, or a wing Last Line: You know every fruit grows more handsome in the light of the sun Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Men THE AGE OF AIDS, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our postman, jim was always after me Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Postal Service; Aids (disease); Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE APE AND THE FOX, ON THE FRUITS OF GREEDINESS AND CREDULITY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old esop so famous was certainly right Last Line: That your majesty's grace did not understand trap. Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Cruelty; Fables; Men; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans; Allegories THE ASS FESTIVAL, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pink cum dribbles out my anus Subject(s): Social Commentaries; Gays & Lesbians; Love - Erotic; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE ASSIGNATION, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every vow I kept Last Line: Inside of you Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Promises; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE AUTOMOBILE, by RUSSELL EDSON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man had just married an automobile Subject(s): Men THE BARREL-ORGAN, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a barrel-organ carolling across a golden street Last Line: Come down to kew in lilac-time (it isn't far from london!) Subject(s): Kew Gardens, London; Organ-grinders; Hurdy-gurdy Men THE BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Defending you, my country, hurts Last Line: For once I would be what I would always be Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE BEAU AND THE BEDLAMITE, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A patient in bedlam that did pretty well Last Line: They'll die of themselves, if you let them alone. Subject(s): Men; Prisons & Prisoners; Convicts THE BEAUTIFUL, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Incertitudes are buying shirts Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Mythology - Classical; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE BLACK RIDERS, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are blows in life so violent -- I can't answer Subject(s): Men THE BLAME, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Men couple her name with sin and with shame Last Line: We're to blame, brother mine, we're to blame! Subject(s): Brotherhood; Men; Women THE BONES OF MY FATHER, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are no dry bones Subject(s): Men THE BOOK OF SCAPEGOATS, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Click the grief castanets. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Social Commentaries; Skin Condition; Grandparents; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers THE BREAD OF THIS WORLD; PRAISES III, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the christmaswhite plains of the floured and flowering Last Line: But that is a workaday story and this is the end of the week Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Men; Work; Workers THE BUGLER'S FIRST COMMUNION, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A bugler boy from barrack (it is over the hill there) Last Line: Forward-like, but however, and like favourable heaven heard these. Subject(s): Army Life; Eucharist; Gays & Lesbians; Drills & Minor Tactics; Communion; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE CARRIERS, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The father was a carrier Last Line: Little brothers, I miss you. so. heavy-laden Subject(s): Men; Conduct Of Life; Absence; Separation; Isolation THE CHERRY TREE, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In her gnarled sleep it Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Cherry Trees; Environment; Gays & Lesbians; Poetry & Poets; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE COLONEL, by CAROLYN FORCHE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: What you have heard is true. I was in his house. His wife carried a tray Alternate Author Name(s): Sidlosky, Carolyn Subject(s): Men; Military; War THE COMING MAN, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Not for the great departed Last Line: In the men that are to be. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Men; Salvation THE CONVENT THRESHOLD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's blood between us, love, my love Last Line: And love with old familiar love. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE CORNELIAN, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No specious splendor of this stone Last Line: And none remain'd to give the rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE DAY LADY DIED, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is 12:20 in new york a friday Last Line: Minneapolis, mn, www.Coffeehousepress.Com Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Men; Music & Musicians; Music, Rock; Singing & Singers; Rock & Roll; Songs THE DEAD POET, by ALFRED BRUCE DOUGLAS Poem Text First Line: I dreamed of him last night, I saw his face Last Line: And so I woke and knew that he was dead. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900); Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE DEATH OF ANTINOUS, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the beautiful young man drowned Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE DEMOCRATIC BARBER; OR, COUNTRY GENTLEMAN'S SURPRISE, by JOHN PARRISH Poem Text First Line: Good gad! Who's this? What's this, my son? Last Line: Unto the world I will the deed proclaim. Subject(s): Democracy; Human Rights; Men; Paine, Thomas (1737-1809) THE DRUNK HUNTER, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spun on a flat rock Last Line: They will tell what found him in the deeper woods. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Guns; Hunting; Men; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Hunters THE EARTHWORM, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who really respects the earthworm Subject(s): Environment; Farm Life; Fields; Men; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE FEAST OF STEPHEN, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The coltish horseplay of the locker room Subject(s): Men THE FLYING EAGLES OF TROOP 62, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ralph neal was the scoutmaster Last Line: The country is enough to drive you crazy Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Men; Boy Scouts; Childhood Memories THE FOOT-SOLDIER'S SONG, by CHARLES VILDRAC Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'd like to be the old man/ I saw along the way: Last Line: On the first day of the war. Alternate Author Name(s): Messager, Charle Subject(s): Men; Old Age; Singing & Singers; Soldiers THE FORSAKEN WIFE, by ELIZABETH THOMAS Poem Text First Line: Methinks, 'tis strange you can't afford Last Line: I yet superior am to you. Subject(s): Men; Pride; Women; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE GARDEN, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were after crevices, whatever god had Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Seekinmg; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE GARDEN BY MOONLIGHT, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A black cat among roses Last Line: When I am gone. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE GIFT, by LI-YOUNG LEE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: To pull the metal splinter from my palm Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Men; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations THE GREAT UNSEEN, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Like unto the ocean Last Line: Is the great unseen. Subject(s): Men; Soul THE GROUNDHOG, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART Poem Full 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 GUILD, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every night, as my grandfather sat Subject(s): Men THE HAMMAM NAME (FROM A POEM BY A TURKISH LADY), by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Winsome torment rose from slumber, rubbed his eyes, and went his way Last Line: The water froze. Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Gays & Lesbians; Turkey; Showers & Showering; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE HILL, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: It is some time since I have been Subject(s): Men; Religion; Theology THE HILL WIFE: THE IMPULSE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was too lonely for her there Last Line: Besides the grave. Subject(s): Marriage; Men; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE ICE-CREAM WARS, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Although I mean it, and project the meaning Last Line: A randomness, a darkness of one's own Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE IDEA OF ANCESTRY, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Taped to the wall of my cell are 47 pictures: 47 black Subject(s): African Americans; Ancestors & Ancestry; Fathers; Korean War, 1950-1953; Men; Prayer; Prisons & Prisoners; Negroes; American Blacks; Heritage; Heredity; Convicts THE INDIAN SERENADE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I arise from dreams of thee Last Line: Where it will break at last! Variant Title(s): Lines To An Indian Air; Serenade;the Indian Girl's Song Subject(s): Desire; Love; Men THE INNER PART, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When they had won the war Subject(s): Men THE IRISH CLIFFS OF MOHER, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is my father in this world, in this house Last Line: And sea and air. Subject(s): Men THE LAST MAN: A RUFFIAN, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a fellow Last Line: Like roots, with pointed nails.—he is the man. Subject(s): Men THE LAST WORDS OF MY ENGLISH GRANDMOTHER, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There were some dirty plates Subject(s): Death; Grandparents; Men; Mothers; Dead, The; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers THE LAUGHTER OF DEAD MEN, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Candid jeremiads drizzle from his lips Last Line: And all the singular adventures it implies Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE LAWYER AND JUSTICE, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love! Thou divinest good below Last Line: Till hardwicke sooth'd her into grace. Subject(s): Fables; Justice; Law & Lawyers; Men; Women; Allegories THE LETTER, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Going to him! Happy letter! Tell him Last Line: "gesture, coquette, and shake your head!" Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Letters; Love; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE LIGHT THAT LIES IN HUMAN TIES, by HENRY WILLIAM HANEMANN Poem Text First Line: My dears, if you a man would know Last Line: Behind his beard. Subject(s): Men THE LION FOR REAL, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I came home and found a lion in my living room Subject(s): Animals; Gays & Lesbians; Lions; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE LITTLE THINGS, by ELIZABETH ISLER Poem Text First Line: Men cannot guess the things they do Last Line: That burn unnoticed, quietly. Subject(s): Men THE LOVER, by ROBERT DUNCAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been seeing his face everywhere, the face of a former lover Last Line: Seeing his wrath in faces passing Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Instead of the flatland of my youth Last Line: And wait for him Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE MAN, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All our light mockeries / have ever paled before thy white desire Last Line: A power man knows not, that doth rend and shake him! Subject(s): Courage; Mankind; Men; Valor; Bravery; Human Race THE MAN FROM WASHINGTON, by JAMES WELCH Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The end came easy for most of us Subject(s): Men; Native Americans; War; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE MAN WHO COOKS THE GRUB, by SAMUEL ELLSWORTH KISER Poem Text First Line: We have read in song and story Last Line: Is the man who cooks the grub. Subject(s): Guns; Heroism; Men; Soldiers; War; Heroes; Heroines THE MAN WITHOUT THE HOE, by J. GORDON COOGLER Poem Text First Line: In a dingy little hovel Last Line: Without the hoe. Subject(s): Markham, Edwin (1852-1940); Men; Selfishness; Solitude; Loneliness THE MEN OF MONOMOY, by JOE CONE Poem Text First Line: Tell ye the story far and wide Last Line: Who sleep on handkerchief shoal. Subject(s): Courage; Men; Sacrifices; Soldiers; Story-telling; Valor; Bravery THE MEN OF OLD, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know not that the men of old Last Line: On all that lies below. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Men THE MOLE, by AL-MUNFATIL Poem Text First Line: There is a little mole Last Line: Its gardener. Subject(s): Men THE MUSIC-GRINDERS, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are three ways in which men take Last Line: A button in the hat! Subject(s): Organ-grinders; Hurdy-gurdy Men THE OGRES, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the palisade of silver birch-trees Last Line: By any gust of anger or despair. Subject(s): Anger; Giants; Men THE OLD MAN'S COMFORTS AND HOW HE GAINED THEM, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are old, father william,' the young man cried Last Line: And he hath not forgotten my age. Variant Title(s): Father William Subject(s): Clergy; Comfort; Faith; God; Men; Old Age; Prayer; Youth; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Belief; Creed THE OLD MAN'S DARLING, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So I'm 'crazy,'in loving a man of three-score Last Line: It's being the darling of one of three-score! Subject(s): Love - Age Differences; Men THE ORGAN GRINDER, by RONALD WALKER BARR Poem Text First Line: Well, pierrot, mon bon ami, we Last Line: "in italy, to cure his cough!" Subject(s): Organ-grinders; Hurdy-gurdy Men THE ORGAN-BOY, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great brown eyes Last Line: Yes, my child, that I will. Subject(s): Boys; Organ-grinders; Hurdy-gurdy Men THE PERFUME!, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The perfume / of flowers: a plane Subject(s): Men THE PLAYBOY OF THE DEMI-WORLD, by WILLIAM PLOMER Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Aloft in heavenly mansions, doubleyou one Subject(s): Hate; Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 168, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One day I left the mountains Last Line: Men don't ever get free Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Aging; Beauty; Chinese Literature; Men; Women THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 57, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A likable excellent fellow Last Line: He doesn't pass on the eternal lamp Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Men; Mortality THE PORTRAIT, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: My mother never forgave my father / for killing himself Subject(s): Men; Poetry & Poets THE RACE, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I got to the airport I rushed up to the desk Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Men THE RAGGEDY MAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: O the raggedy man! He works fer pa Last Line: Raggedy! Raggedy! Raggedy man! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Handy Men; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE RAIN, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: All night the sound had / come back again Subject(s): Men THE RIGHT MEANING, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, you know there is a place somewhere called Subject(s): Men; Mothers THE RING, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How long before the grave Last Line: Into the morgue’s gas jets Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Rings; Gifts & Giving; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE RIVER-MERCHANT'S WIFE: A LETTER, by LI PO Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead Last Line: As far as cho-fu-sa. Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Variant Title(s): Cathay: The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter Subject(s): Absence; Labor & Laborers; Love - Marital; Men; Teenagers; Separation; Isolation; Work; Workers; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE ROADS OF MEN, by BENJAMIN FRANCIS MUSSER Poem Text First Line: The roads that men have made wind everywhere Last Line: A shining lane to join all souls to god! Subject(s): Men; Roads; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Paths; Trails THE RUINED COTTAGE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, charles! I knew that this would fix thine eye Last Line: I trust in god they will not pass away. Subject(s): Boys; Children; Home; Life Change Events; Memory; Men; Nostalgia; Widows & Widowers; Childhood THE SACRIFICE, by FRANK BIDART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When judas writes the history of solitude Last Line: Death fought; before giving in Subject(s): Guilt; Cancer (disease); Suicide; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE SCATTERED CONGREGATION, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We got ready and showed our home Subject(s): Churches; Men; Cathedrals THE SECOND COMING, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Turning and turning in the widening gyre Last Line: Slouches towards bethlehem to be born? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Chaos; Easter; History; Holidays; Imagination; Judgment Day; Men; Millenium; Religion; Vision; War; The Resurrection; Historians; Fancy; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology THE SECRET, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don't worry, nobody has the Last Line: "the life so dying of Subject(s): Men THE SEVENTH HELL: OF SMOKE, WHERE FIRE-RAISERS TRY .. ESCAPE, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The houses of men are on fire Subject(s): Men; Nuclear War; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb THE SILENCE, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She took the spareribs out of the oven Last Line: Wish I was there with you Subject(s): Mothers; Farewell; Absence; Gays & Lesbians; Togetherness; Relationships; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE SIZE OF IT, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I knew the length of an average penis Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Sexual Organs; Size & Shape; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Sex Organs; Genitalia THE SONG OF WANDERING AENGUS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I went out to the hazel wood Last Line: The golden apples of the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Fairies; Imagination; Men; Supernatural; Vision; Witchcraft & Witches; Elves; Fancy THE STORM (1), by TIMOTHY LIU Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black ants crawl in the sugar bowl Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE TAXI, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I go away from you Last Line: To wound myself upon the sharp edges of the night? Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love; Taxis; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE THREAD OF LIFE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The irresponsive silence of the land Last Line: And sing, o grave, where is thy victory? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Jesus Christ; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE TRANSIENCE OF HANDS, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A swirl of dead skin Last Line: On a schoolroom counter. Subject(s): Hands; Memory; Men; Touch (sense) THE TRULY GREAT, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I think continually of those who were truly great Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Freedom; Greatness; Heroism; Life Change Events; Men; War; Liberty; Heroes; Heroines THE TURTLE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not because of his eyes, / the eyes of a bird Last Line: He is your friend Subject(s): Fathers; Men; Prayer THE TWINS, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good and bad are in my heart Last Line: That the other was the best. Subject(s): Evil; Identity; Men; Twins; Virtue THE WAKING, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow Subject(s): Men; Night; Religion; Sleep; Waking; Bedtime; Theology THE WHITE CITY, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will not toy with it nor bend an inch Last Line: Are sweet like wanton loves because I hate. Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): African Americans; Hate; Men; Racism; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry THE WILD OLD WICKED MAN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because I am mad about women Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Men; Old Age; Passion THE WOMAN HANGING FROM THE THIRTEENTH FLOOR WINDOW, by JOY HARJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She is the woman hanging from the 13th floor Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Gays & Lesbians; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE WORLD; SONNET, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world is too much with us: late and soon Last Line: Or hear old triton blow his wreathed horn. Variant Title(s): Rather A Pagan;worldliness Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Melancholy; Men; Nature; Paganism & Pagans; Social Protest; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dejection THE WORST HORROR, by EURIPIDES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dire is the violence of ocean waves Last Line: Of woes unnumbered, and their deadly foe. Subject(s): Men; Women THE YOKE, by FRANK BIDART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don't worry -- I know you're dead Last Line: Turn your face again Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Bereavement THEOGONY: THE GREAT FATHER EATING HIS CHILDREN, by HESIOD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rheia, submissive in love to kronos Last Line: And rheia's sorrow was beyond forgetting Subject(s): Men THESE DAYS, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever you have to say Subject(s): Language; Men; Words; Vocabulary THESE DAYS, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever you have to say Last Line: Where they come from Subject(s): Language; Men THESE MEN, by PHILIP BOOTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is man, that mindful of him Subject(s): Men THIEF, by ALDEN A. NOWLAN Poem Source First Line: Having myself been scared silly when I was young Last Line: Is a giantess, ready and able to grind his bones to %bake her bread Subject(s): Men; Mothers THINGS I'LL NOT DO: NOSTALGIAS, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never go to bulgaria, had a booklet & invitation Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THINK OF THE SOUL, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: See, hear, and am silent Subject(s): Men; Women; Soul; Racism; Past; Death; Social Commentaries; Grief; Conduct Of Life THIRD USE OF THE PENIS, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: My friend ann, the reference librarian Last Line: What is the third use of the penis? Subject(s): Jokes; Librarians And Libraries; Men; Reproductive System THIS FORM OF LIFE NEEDS SEX, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will have to accept women Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Sex; Women; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THIS ONE'S FOR YOU, by JAN HELLER LEVI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Love; Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THIS PLACE RUMORD TO HAVE BEEN SODOM, by ROBERT DUNCAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Might have been. / certainly these ashes might have been pleasures Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THORN PIECE, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cliffs, / cliffs, / and a twisted sea Last Line: Like leaves falling Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Russell, Ada Dwyer (1863-1952); Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THOSE OLD GENTLEMEN, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've been reading the ancient chinese masters Last Line: On the hill behind me as the wilight darkens Subject(s): Aging; Men THOSE WINTER SUNDAYS, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Sundays too my father got up early Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Fathers; Home; Men; Sabbath; Winter; Childhood; Relatives; Sunday THOSE WINTER SUNDAYS, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sundays too my father got up early Last Line: What did I know, what did I know %of love's austere and lonely offices? Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Fathers; Home; Men; Sabbath; Winter THOUGHTS, by GERHART HAUPTMANN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Poetry is the art of letting the primordial word Last Line: The common word Subject(s): Language; Men THOUGHTS, by HERACLITUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Awake we share a common world; sleeping each turns to his Last Line: Many a man lives as if he followed his own private reason Alternate Author Name(s): Herakleitos Subject(s): Men THOUGHTS, by SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is written without effort is Last Line: In general read without pleasure Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson, Dr. Subject(s): Language; Men THOUGHTS, by SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A decent provision for the poor is the true test of a civilization Last Line: We may attend wholly to the salvation of our own souls Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson, Dr. Subject(s): Men THOUGHTS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poetry is the spontaneous overflow Last Line: Its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity Subject(s): Language; Men THOUSAND CHINESE DINNERS, SELS., by ROBERT MEZEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From a thousand chinese dinners, one cookie Last Line: Who knew it was no joke but couldn't help laughing Subject(s): Men THREE ANGELS, by ROBERT ZIMMERMAN Poem Source First Line: Three angels up above the street Last Line: Does anyone even try? Subject(s): Men THREE EMIGRATIONS: 3. THE MAN AND WOMAN, by MICHAEL DAVID RILEY Poem Source First Line: Together in this cave with windows Last Line: From the slag, the bones and straw of our time Subject(s): Immigrants; Men; Women THREE MEN, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a house born of the brown earth Last Line: And wondered where it was calling. Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Variant Title(s): An Adobe House Subject(s): Earth; Houses; Men; Poetry & Poets; World THREE MEN WALKING, THREE BROWN SILHOUETTES, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They remember the dead who died in the resistance Subject(s): Men; Walking THREE MEN WALKING, THREE BROWN SILHOUETTES, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They remember the dead who died in the resistance Last Line: The snow grows heavier Subject(s): Men; Walking THREE QUATRAINS: 1, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Never too many fish in a swift creek Last Line: Nor can lovers see too much of the world Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Men THREE QUATRAINS: 2, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy Last Line: Let the lover be Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Love; Men THREE QUATRAINS: 3, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A night full of talking that hurts Last Line: This night will pass. %then we have work to do Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Variant Title(s): Poem On Night: Subject(s): Men; Night THROW YOURSELF LIKE SEED, by MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shake off this sadness, and recover your spirit Alternate Author Name(s): Unamuno Y Jugo, Miguel De Subject(s): Men THROW YOURSELF LIKE SEED, by MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shake off this sadness, and recover your spirit Last Line: From your work you will be able one day to gather yourself Alternate Author Name(s): Unamuno Y Jugo, Miguel De Subject(s): Men TO BE A SLAVE OF INTENSITY, by KABIR Poem Source First Line: Friend, hope for the guest while you are alive Last Line: Look at me, and you will see a slave of that intensity Variant Title(s): The Time Before Deat Subject(s): Men TO A FRIEND: MR. BAKER IS WELL, by THOMAS CHATTERTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O'erwhelm'd with pleasure at the joyful news Last Line: The beauteous hoyland shall employ my line. Subject(s): Friendship; Happiness; Men; News; Joy; Delight TO A VISITING POET IN A COLLEGE DORMITORY, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here tame boys fly down the long light of halls Last Line: To father men and poems in your mind. Subject(s): Men; Poetry & Poets; Universities & Colleges; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism TO AUSONIUS, by PAULINUS OF NOLA Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I, through all chances that are given to mortals Alternate Author Name(s): Meropius Pontius Anicius Pauli Subject(s): Ausonius, Decimus Magnus (310-394); Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men TO AUTUMN, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness Last Line: And gathering swallows twitter in the skies. Variant Title(s): Ode To Autumn Subject(s): Autumn; Men; Nature; Seasons; War; Fall TO EARTHWARD, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love at the lips was touch / as sweet as I could bear Last Line: To all my length. Subject(s): Aging; Love; Men TO JUAN AT THE WINTER SOLSTICE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is one story and one story only Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Men; Mothers; Mythology; Sons; Sun TO JUAN AT THE WINTER SOLSTICE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is one story and one story only Last Line: But nothing promised that is not performed Subject(s): Goddesses And Gods; Men; Mothers; Mythology; Sons; Sun TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: 23. THE FEAR OF BEING GREAT, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: The fear of being great is what keeps men Last Line: Can understand what living truly is. Subject(s): Fear; Greatness; Men TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: 27. SUBSERVIENCY, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: No man may accept a gift with honor-- Last Line: And by acceptance would their honor cast aside. Subject(s): Honor; Men TO MY EXCELLENT LUCASIA, ON OUR FRIENDSHIP. 17TH JULY 1651, by KATHERINE PHILIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I did not live until this time Last Line: Immortal as our soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda Subject(s): Friendship; Gays & Lesbians; Owen, Anne (lewis) (1633-1692); Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men TO PRESIDENT BUSH AT THE START OF THE GULF WAR, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This thin-lipped king with his helmeted head Last Line: Waves to them, gestures to the young to die Subject(s): Men; War TO SOME SUPPOSED BROTHERS, by ESSEX HEMPHILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You judge a woman Last Line: The way america / loves us Variant Title(s): Conditions: 21 Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men TO THE STATES. TO IDENTIFY THE 16TH, 17TH, OR 18TH PRESIDENTIAD, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why reclining, interrogating? Why myself and all drowsing Last Line: South, north, east, west, inland and seaboard, we will surely awake.) Subject(s): Men; Politics & Government; Presidents, United States; United States; America TO WOMEN, AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The feelings I don't have, I don't have Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Men TO WOMEN, AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The feelings I don't have, I don't have Last Line: You'd better abandon all idea of feelings altogether Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Men TOM, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A key. The door. Open Subject(s): Desire; Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men TOWARD THE PIRAEUS: 1, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You would have broken my wings Last Line: If I escape your evil heart. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Hearts; Man-woman Relationships; Men; Pain; Male-female Relations; Suffering; Misery TOWARD THE PIRAEUS: 3, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What had you done Last Line: That I am wise. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Lies; Man-woman Relationships; Men; Male-female Relations TOWARD THE PIRAEUS: 4, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I had been a boy Last Line: Intolerably cold and sweet. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Admiration; Bible; Man-woman Relationships; Men; Male-female Relations TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. AS A WOMAN OF A MAN, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Democracy! Last Line: I will conceive by thee, democracy. Subject(s): Bodies; Democracy; Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. IN THE DRAWING ROOMS, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the drawing-rooms I saw scarce one that seemed at ease Last Line: Own life for them. Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Men; Poetry & Poets; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. THROUGH THE LONG NIGHT, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You, proud curve-lipped youth, with brown sensitive face Last Line: And I remain gazing into them. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men TOYS, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seeing them like this Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Popular Culture - United States; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men TREASURES ON EARTH, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What no one wants. Coin by coin Last Line: Intervals — till you shut it off completely Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Absence; Transience; Relationships; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men TREE MARRIAGE, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In chota nagpur and bengal Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men TROIKA FOR LOVERS, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His gait is like he's got a cricket in his shoe Last Line: But the dream that produced it. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Men; Relationships; Triplets TRULY GREAT, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think continually of those who were truly great Last Line: And left the vivid air signed with their honour Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Freedom; Greatness; Heroism; Life Change Events; Men; War TRYING TO TALK WITH A MAN, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out in this desert we are testing bombs Last Line: As if we were testing anything else. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Atomic Bomb - Testing; Men; Nuclear Freeze TURTLE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not because of his eyes, %the eyes of a bird Last Line: To unknown places. %he is your friend Subject(s): Fathers; Men; Prayer TURTLE, SWAN, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because the road to our house Subject(s): Aids (disease); Gays & Lesbians; Sickness; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Illness TWENTY POEMS OF ANNA AKHMATOVA: 4. THE GUEST, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everything's just as it was: fine hard snow Last Line: And nothing I can keep from him Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Men TWENTY POEMS OF ANNA AKHMATOVA: 9, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twenty-first. Night. Monday Last Line: And now it seems I'm sick all the time Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Men TWENTY-ONE LOVE POEMS: 1, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wherever in this city, screens flicker Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men TWENTY-ONE LOVE POEMS: 12, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleeping, turning in turn like planets Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men TWENTY-ONE LOVE POEMS: 16, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across a city from you, I'm with you Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men TWIN ACES, by KEITH WILSON Poem Source First Line: Back to back, stud poker &an open %pot. The play, intense, grew harder Last Line: Home, 4 a.M., my father singing & looking %back over his shoulder, the quiet street %behind him Subject(s): Men; Poetry And Poets TWO LOVES: TO THE SPHINX, by ALFRED BRUCE DOUGLAS Poem Text First Line: I dreamed I stood upon a little hill Last Line: "I am the love that dare not speak its name." Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men TWO MEN, by IDELLA PURNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One was a star; the other was the dark Last Line: Where is my love, has anybody seen? Subject(s): Love; Men TWO POEMS FOR DAVID KALSTONE: 2. FAREWELL PERFORMANCE, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Art. It cures affliction. As lights go down and Variant Title(s): Farewell Performance Subject(s): Aids (disease); Gays & Lesbians; Sickness; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Illness TWO SINNERS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a man, it was said one time Last Line: "but the world said, frowning, ""we shall not call." Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Men; Repentance; Sin; Women; Penitence TWO TAKEN, by SCOTT HIGHTOWER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In iran, the table of allah Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Iran; Capital Punishment - Minors; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Persia UNITED FRUIT COMPANY, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the trumpet sounded, it was Last Line: Thrown down on the dump Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Men UNITY, by FAZIL HUSNU DAGLARCA Poem Source First Line: The horse's mind Last Line: Into the hay's mind Subject(s): Men UNTIL ONE IS COMMITTED, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, Last Line: Power and magic in it Subject(s): Men UNWANTED, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poster with my picture on it Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Labor & Laborers; Poetry & Poets; Social Protest; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Work; Workers UP AND DOWN: 1. SNOW KING CHAIR LIFT, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Prey swooped up, the iron love seat shudders Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men UP AND DOWN: 2. THE EMERALD, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hearing that on sunday I would leave Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men UPON MAN, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man is compos'd here of a two-fold part Last Line: Prepares the way for mans docility. Subject(s): Men UPSTREAM, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The strong men keep coming on Last Line: The strong men keep coming on. Subject(s): Death; Freedom; Men; Dead, The; Liberty VARIATIONS ON SAPPHO: 33, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Maids, not to you my mind doth change Last Line: My weary bosom fill. Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper) Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men VARIATIONS ON SAPPHO: 35, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, gorgo, put the rug in place Last Line: Thy pride upon a ring? Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper) Variant Title(s): Long Ago: 35 Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Pride; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Self-esteem; Self-respect VENUS TRANSIENS, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me / was venus more beautiful Last Line: The sands at my feet. Subject(s): Botticelli, Sandro (1444-1510); Gays & Lesbians; Mythology - Classical; Paintings & Painters; Venus (goddess); Filipepi, Alesandro Di Mariano; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men VERY EARLY MORNING EXERCISE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chan yuen is on the threshold of a remarkable career Last Line: The first dawn glows at the end of the streets Subject(s): Introspection; Men; Nanking, China VISIBLE MAN, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: For christmas, he got me the microscope Last Line: Paving the shortest way %to his shining soul Subject(s): Boys; Men VOYAGES: 2, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And yet this great wink of eternity Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Imagination; Men; Vision; Fancy VOYAGES: 2, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And yet this great wink of eternity Last Line: The seal's wide spindrift gaze toward paradise Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Imagination; Men; Vision WAKING, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow Last Line: I learn by going where I have to go Subject(s): Men; Night; Religion; Sleep; Waking WALK, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My eyes already touch the sunny hill Last Line: But what we feel is the wind in our faces Subject(s): Men WALKING AROUND, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It so happens I am sick of being a man Last Line: Underwear, towels and shirts from which slow %dirty tears are falling Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Men WALKING THROUGH A WALL, by LOUIS JENKINS Poem Source First Line: Unlike flying or astral projection Last Line: Step through on the other side Subject(s): Men WANT, by JOAN LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She wants a house full of cups and the ghosts Subject(s): Relationships; Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men WANTED - A MAN, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back from the trebly crimsoned field Last Line: "abraham lincoln, give us a man!" Subject(s): American Civil War; Mcclellan, George Brinton (1826-1885); Men; U.s. - History WANTED - A MAN!, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: What we lack and sorely need Last Line: Men whose souls have wings. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Men; Religion; Theology WANTED-A MAN, by ST. CLAIR ADAMS Poem Source First Line: You say big corporations scheme Last Line: But where'll I find a man? Subject(s): Men WAR, by MIGUEL HERNANDEZ Poem Source First Line: Old age in the towns Last Line: In the coffins Subject(s): Men; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); War WAR IS KIND: 1, by STEPHEN CRANE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind Last Line: War is kind. Subject(s): American Civil War; Americans; Men; Social Protest; United States - History; United States; America WAR PRAYER, by SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O lord our father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts Last Line: That are sore beset and seek his aid with humble nd contrite hearts. Amen Alternate Author Name(s): Twain, Mark Subject(s): Men WAS HE HENPECKED?, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'll tell you what it is, my dear Last Line: Said mrs. Dorking wisely. Subject(s): Marriage; Men; Women's Rights; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism WAXWINGS, by ROBERT FRANCIS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Four tao philosophers as cedar waxwings Subject(s): Men WAXWINGS, by ROBERT FRANCIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Four tao philosophers as cedar waxwings Last Line: For this I have abandoned %all my other lives Subject(s): Men WE MUST DIE BECAUSE WE HAVE KNOWN THEM, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Play inside him as though in quivering cages Subject(s): Men WE REAL COOL; THE POOL PLAYERS. SEVEN AT THE GOLDEN SHOVEL, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: We real cool. We / left school. We Last Line: Die soon. Variant Title(s): We Real Cool Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Children; Americans; Death; Labor & Laborers; Men; United States; Youth; Negroes; American Blacks; Dead, The; Work; Workers; America WEIGHT OF SWEETNESS, by LI-YOUNG LEE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No easy thing to bear, the weight of sweetness Last Line: Under the weight %of peaches Subject(s): Men WELCOME BACK, MR. KNIGHT: LOVE OF MY LIFE, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome back, mr. K: love of my life Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Men; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse WELCOME BACK, MR. KNIGHT: LOVE OF MY LIFE, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome back, mr. K: love of my life Last Line: You gotta watch / out for the 'ol liver' Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Men WEST WALL, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the unmade light I can see the world Last Line: Or tasting in your mouth the sun in the apricots Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Men WHAT HAPPENED DURING THE ICE STORM, by JIM HEYNEN Poem Source First Line: One winter there was a freezing rain. Last Line: They made their way toward the warm blurry lights of the house Subject(s): Men WHAT I HEARD AT THE DISCOUNT DEPARTMENT STORE, by DAVID BUDBILL Poem Source First Line: Don't touch that. And stop your whining too Last Line: You know you can't do that with me. %you're with your mother now Subject(s): Child Molesting; Men; Mothers WHAT IS MAN?, by PALLADAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Remember, o man, how your father made you, his son! Last Line: Your life in unquenchable lust and a drop of shame. Alternate Author Name(s): Pallades Subject(s): Men WHAT THE COUNTRY MAN KNOWS BY HEART, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: Why he lives there he can't say Last Line: And blood beats the walls of his heart Subject(s): Life; Men; Self; Silence WHEN I DRINK I BECOME THE JOY OF FAGGOTS, by DOROTHY ALLISON Poet's Biography First Line: When I drink I become Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men WHEN THE FATHER IS ABSENT, by JAMES HILLMAN Poem Source First Line: The missing father is not your or my personal father Last Line: Unless the all be precisely discriminated Subject(s): Men WHERE WILL YOU BE?, by PATRICIA PARKER Poem Full Text First Line: Boots are being polished Alternate Author Name(s): Parker, Pat Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; African Americans - Women; Gays & Lesbians; Women's Rights; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Feminism WHERE YOU ARE: 1, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flung to your salt parameters in all that wide gleam Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men WHERE YOU ARE: 2. EVERYWHERE, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought I'd lost you. But you said I'm inbued Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men WHERE YOU ARE: 3. VAN GOGH, FLOWERING ROSEBUSHES: 1889, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A billow of attention Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men WHICH ONE IS GENUINE, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I once knew a woman named benedicta, who infused everything Last Line: Perhaps for the rest of my life, to the grave of the ideal Subject(s): Men; Perception WHO'D WANT TO BE A MAN, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With his heart Last Line: And where is the rain? Subject(s): Character; Grief; Men; Sorrow; Sadness WHY ARE YOUNG MEN SO UGLY, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have little tractors in their blood Last Line: Look like a disease Subject(s): Men WHY LOG TRUCK DRIVERS RISE EARLIER THAN STUDENTS OF ZEN, by GARY SNYDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the high seat, before-dawn dark Subject(s): Men WHY LOG TRUCK DRIVERS RISE EARLIER THAN STUDENTS OF ZEN, by GARY SNYDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the high seat, before-dawn dark Last Line: There is no other life Subject(s): Men WILD MALLRD THOUGHT, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In literature it is only the wild that attracts us. Last Line: Hearth-stone of the race, which pales before the light of common day Subject(s): Men WILD MAN COMES TO THE MONASTERY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There was a time when I thought sweeter than the quiet Last Line: I like better to eat a head of clean water-cress in a place without sorrow Subject(s): Men WILD OLD WICKED MAN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because I am mad about women Last Line: Daybreak and a candle-end Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Men; Old Age; Passion WILDERNESS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a wolf in me - fangs pointed for tearing gashes Last Line: Am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness. Subject(s): Men WIND, ONE BRILLIANT DAY, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The wind, one brilliant day, called Last Line: What have you done with the garden that was entrusted to you Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Men WINTER, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How long will the bed that we made together Subject(s): Gay Men; Relationships WITCH, by SANTAL Poem Source First Line: I have cut the plaintain grove Last Line: Kill the girls, kill the boys Subject(s): Marriage; Men; Mothers WITCH WIFE AND I, by SARA BARD FIELD Poem Text First Line: When the moon has poured her light Last Line: Day has brought you back to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Wood, Charles Erskine Scoot, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Gays & Lesbians; Love; Witchcraft & Witches; Nightmares; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men WITH CHAOS IN EACH KISS, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Outside your door, an ocean Subject(s): Love; Music & Musicians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men WITH KIT, AGE 7, AT THE BEACH, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: We would climb the highest dune Subject(s): Fathers; Labor & Laborers; Men; Prayer; Swimming & Swimmers; Work; Workers; Swimmers WITH KIT, AGE 7, AT THE BEACH, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We would climb the highest dune Last Line: As far as was needed,' I said, %and as I talked, I swam Subject(s): Fathers; Labor And Laborers; Men; Prayer; Swimming WONDROUS THE MERGE, by JAMES RICHARD BROUGHTON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Had my soul tottered off to sleep Subject(s): Desire; Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men WORD IN EDGEWAYS, by CHARLES TOMLINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me about yourself they Last Line: Pleasure and I yes I did enjoy our %conversation goodnight thankyou Subject(s): Men WORDS FOR MY DAUGHTER, by JOHN BALABAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: About eight of us were nailing up forts Last Line: To call me back into our helpless tribe. Subject(s): Children; Fathers & Daughters; Men; Parents; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War; Childhood; Parenthood WORK, by GYULA ILLYES Poem Source First Line: They stuck pigs in the throat. Might I not have done it Last Line: Have been executed differently Subject(s): Men YELLOW CLOVER, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Must I, who walk alone Last Line: Only white cover blossoms on your grave. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men YESTERDAY, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: My friend says I was not a good son Last Line: And nothing I had to do Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Children; Men; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING?', by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was shy and tender as a 10 year old kid, you know what I'm saying? Last Line: She was nice to me a scared gay kid at eastside high , you know what I'm saying? / allen ginsberg Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men YOU LOVE, YOU WONDER, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You love a woman and you wonder where she goes all night Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love - Nature Of; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men YOU. THEREFORE, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: You are like me, you will die too, but not today: Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Mortality; Love; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men |
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