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Subject: MOORE, MARIANNE (1887-1972)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 8 STEPS IN SEARCH OF MM, by LAUREL SPEER    Poem Source                    
First Line: We know she was a bryn mawr graduate (1909)
Last Line: I like that in her
Subject(s): Moore, Marianne (1887-1972)


APOCRYPHAL DOUBTS OF MARIANNE MOORE, by JOAO CABRAL DE MELO NETO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have always avoided speaking of myself
Last Line: Is a form of speaking of the thing?
Subject(s): Moore, Marianne (1887-1972)


ARS POETICA, by E. S. MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fractured facts in %factored fiction
Last Line: From vine and root %and facts of snow
Subject(s): Moore, Marianne (1887-1972)


AT EMILY'S IN AMHERST, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: On this day of our visit they are spraying the attic
Last Line: And I promise to come back, to think of her always
Subject(s): Moore, Marianne (1887-1972)


DIANE'S PERSONAL GHOST RANCH, by DIANE WAKOSKI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I imagine riding a ghost-stallion, my
Subject(s): Ghosts; O'keeffe, Georgia (1887-1986); Moore, Marianne (1887-1972); Ranch Life


HOMAGE TO MARIANNE MOORE, by ALICE NOTLEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: I can go there almost anytime
Last Line: You mean. No it isn't. Satisfactory. It's heaven.
Subject(s): Moore, Marianne (1887-1972); Homage & Respect


IMAGINARY ANCESTORS: MARIANNE MOORE, by MADELINE DEFREES            Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Marianne moore, did you wear the tricorne
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Subject(s): Moore, Marianne (1887-1972)


IMAGINARY ANCESTORS: MARIANNE MOORE, by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Marianne moore, did you wear the tricorne
Last Line: Says, if only on the gallows
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Subject(s): Moore, Marianne (1887-1972)


INVITATION TO MISS MARIANNE MOORE, by ELIZABETH BISHOP    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From brooklyn, over the brooklyn bridge, on this fine morning
Subject(s): Americans; Moore, Marianne (1887-1972); United States; America


INVITATION TO MISS MARIANNE MOORE, by ELIZABETH BISHOP    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From brooklyn, over the brooklyn bridge, on this fine morning
Last Line: Please come flying
Subject(s): Americans; Moore, Marianne (1887-1972); United States


LATE INNINGS, by NEAL BOWERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bucking and bolting before the hurrying dark
Last Line: And the last boy digs in at home with the crickets, %the gathering dew, waiting for the long, dark c
Subject(s): Baseball; Moore, Marianne (1887-1972); Sports


LATE READING, by ROBERT PHILLIPS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Admiring her work and enjoying
Last Line: Precise as the world's exactest clock
Subject(s): Moore, Marianne (1887-1972)


LINES AFTER MARIANNE MOORE, by ALICE WIRTH GRAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: And so is the silk of the spider
Last Line: Can be cultivated %economically
Subject(s): Moore, Marianne (1887-1972)


LOVERSE, by E. S. MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Solar coziness by @ by
Last Line: Only you @ I %again
Subject(s): Moore, Marianne (1887-1972)


MARIANNE MOOR'S APARTMENT, by JANET MCCANN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There it is in philadelphia
Last Line: And opened a wrong door into the next world
Subject(s): Moore, Marianne (1887-1972)


MARIANNE MOORE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Will not some dozen sacks of rags
Last Line: Before he must return to the dark street.
Subject(s): Moore, Marianne (1887-1972)


MARIANNE MOORE ANNOUNCES LUNCH, by KAY RYAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With several well-placed
Subject(s): Moore, Marianne (1887-1972); Food & Eating


MARIANNE MOORE: A BIT OF HISTORY IN A MODERN MODE, by SHARON KINNEY-HANSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: She spoke french, english
Last Line: But we can remember marianne %and connect
Subject(s): Moore, Marianne (1887-1972)


MISS MOORE AT ASSEMBLY, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A 'chattering, gum-snapping audience'
Last Line: Say, 'I've always wanted to play a snare drum'?
Subject(s): Moore, Marianne (1887-1972)


MOSAIC FOR MARIANNE MOORE, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The concluded gardens of personal liking
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Subject(s): Moore, Marianne (1887-1972)


NO ONE WANTS TO BE OBSCURE: TO M.M., by ROSALY DEMAIOS ROFFMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Daffodils and hyacinths have lovely skins
Last Line: If only I could shake my angel I would
Subject(s): Moore, Marianne (1887-1972)


OF MARIANNE MOORE AND JIM THORPE, by DAN JAFFE    Poem Source                    
First Line: In your cape, miss moore
Last Line: To shine in the sun
Subject(s): Moore, Marianne (1887-1972)


POEMS OF MARIANNE MOORE, by DAVID FERRY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let her look at a stone / the stone becomes an apple
Last Line: In her art's happiness
Subject(s): Moore, Marianne (1887-1972)


POEMS OF MARIANNE MOORE, by DAVID FERRY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let her look at a stone %the stone becomes an apple
Last Line: And find how sweet it is %is her art's happiness
Subject(s): Moore, Marianne (1887-1972)


SEARCHING FOR MARIANNE, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Driving around brooklyn I kept trying to get in touch
Last Line: Even the living speak best through their books. Let her.
Subject(s): Moore, Marianne (1887-1972)


SEEKING, by JUDY RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I read your assertion as a dare
Last Line: Framed by the points of a tricorne hat
Subject(s): Moore, Marianne (1887-1972)