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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CAKE OF NINETEEN SLICES, by MARY JO BANG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She was aware of the alarm
Last Line: A real of no real appeal
Subject(s): Cakes; Nature; Reality


A SIMPLE LIE, by NEVILLE PEACE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I had gone back
Last Line: Give me a simpler lie.
Subject(s): Homecoming; Reality


A WORKING PRINCIPLE, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let them go around on tiptoes
Last Line: They will say black is merely the absence of color
Subject(s): Reality


AFTER A BLACK ABSTRACT PAINTING, by JORDAN MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: If nothing's ever really what it seems,
Last Line: A cross, when neon shines a certain way.
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Paintings And Painters; Reality; Vision


AGAINST CONSOLATION, by ROBERT CORDING    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The lecturer is talking
Last Line: Beautifully innocent of any meaning
Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Death; Reality; Weil, Simone (1909-1943)


ALL NIGHT I DREAM YOU LOVE ME WELL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Or never doubt again
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Dreams; Reality


AN EMPHASIS FALLS ON REALITY, by BARBARA GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Reality


AN EQUATION FOR MARIE, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This dream prorogued / is not a cause
Subject(s): Dreams; Reality; Nightmares


ANGEL IN THE HOUSE, by GERALD MASSEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You have your angel in the house! But look
Last Line: In presence of the living, loving real
Alternate Author Name(s): Bandiera
Subject(s): Reality


ANGEL SURROUNDED BY PAYSANS, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is / a welcome at the door to which no one comes?
Subject(s): Reality


ANGEL SURROUNDED BY PAYSANS, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is %a welcome at the door to which no one comes?
Last Line: Apparels of such lightest look that a turn %of my shoulder and quickly, too quickly, I am gone?
Subject(s): Reality


ANSELM KIEFER, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At the border between reality and the imagination
Subject(s): Fights; Reality


ANSELM KIEFER, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At the border between reality and the imagination
Last Line: The rails battered to silence behind your back -
Subject(s): Fights; Reality


APPEARANCE AND REALITY, by JOHN HOLLANDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Higgledy-piggledy / josephine bonaparte
Last Line: Prudence (her teeth were a carious green)
Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Reality; Teeth


APPEARANCE AND REALITY, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Amphibian, crustacean? The nooked neck
Subject(s): Facades; Reality; Appearances


APPEARANCE AND REALITY, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Amphibian, crustacean? The nooked neck
Last Line: By watching stuff. It's friendly. Really a mammal
Subject(s): Facades; Reality


AS I WALK THESE BROAD MAJESTIC DAYS OF PEACE, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And our visions, the visions of poets, the most solid announcements of any
Subject(s): Reality


AT THE CONFERENCE ON WOMEN IN THE ACADEMY, by JEAN VALENTINE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The young scholar, her weeping finger
Subject(s): Academia; Women; Reality


CAKE OF NINETEEN SLICES, by MARY JO BANG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She was aware of the alarm
Last Line: A real of no real appeal
Subject(s): Cakes; Nature; Reality


CHRYSALIDS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Her gaze meets his as he looks down
Last Line: Are chrysalids of winged dreams
Subject(s): Earth;reality;socialism;streets;towns; World;avenues


CINEMA VERITE, by DOROTHY WALTERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: This road is so fuzzy
Last Line: Muttering old benedictions %as you go
Subject(s): Reality


CODAS, by JEFF DANIEL MARION    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What you see is what you get'
Subject(s): Reality


COMING TO GRIPS, by JORDAN MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like every faceless fact that stares with zeal,
Last Line: But shed its trappings as you make your way.
Subject(s): Reality; Seasons


DID THE HAREBELL LOOSE HER GIRDLE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Or the earl — an earl?
Subject(s): Reality


DISENCHANTMENT, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Although from adam stained with crime
Last Line: The heart is disenchanted.
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Deception; Hallucinations And Illusions; Love; Reality


DREAM AND REALITY, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am in a room
Last Line: And this is reality
Subject(s): Reality


DREAM AND REALITY, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am in a room
Last Line: And this is reality
Subject(s): Reality


DREAMER, by BEATRICE RAW    Poem Text                    
First Line: Let the brave soul boldly go
Last Line: From tempests of reality.
Subject(s): Dreams; Reality; Soul; Nightmares


EQUATION FOR MARIE, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This dream prorogued %is not a cause
Last Line: For it is being %and no seeming
Subject(s): Dreams; Reality


EVASION, by LEONA JOLLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The realities of life
Last Line: They lurk beneath the shade.
Subject(s): Life; Reality


FACE TO FACE WITH REALITY, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: What did you see out there, my lad
Last Line: And we thank him for his grace.
Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John
Subject(s): Death; Reality; Religion; Dead, The; Theology


FIRST CHALDAIC ORACLE, by ANNE CARSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is something you should know
Last Line: Because it is out there (orchid) outside your and, it is
Subject(s): Reality


FIRST THINGS FIRST, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Woken, I lay in the arms of my own warmth and listened
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Subject(s): Reality


FIRST THINGS FIRST, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Woken, I lay in the arms of my own warmth and listened
Last Line: Thousands have lived without love, not one without water
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Subject(s): Reality


FOR, by LOLA HASKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: For the daffodil's horn that blazes spring for the hooting taxis
Last Line: For the moment just before we understand what %the promised little talk is all about
Subject(s): Innocence; Reality


GRAFFITI FOR A PARTICLE ACCELERATOR, by DEXTER MASTERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: We have suffered enough to be wise
Subject(s): Reality


GYPSY'S WINDOW, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It seems a stage
Last Line: Vase, look real, as unreal %as real roses
Subject(s): Flowers; Poetry And Poets; Reality; Roses


HARD-CORE REALTY, by THOMAS FINK    Poem Source                    
First Line: We tripped over the arsenal
Last Line: Thankfully, her zip code was spared
Subject(s): Reality


HUMAN KIND CANNOT BEAR VERY MUCH REALITY', by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hence tricks of dimension on us soft as kisses
Subject(s): Reality; Love - Nature Of


I AM SO LOST, by ARIWARA NO NARIHIRA    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Dream from reality
Subject(s): Love; Reality


I DREAMED OF FOREST ALLEYS FAIR, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The quiet of my breast
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Dreams; Reality; Sleep


I KNOW THIS VICIOUS MINUTE'S HOUR, by DYLAN THOMAS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: But I go or die
Subject(s): Time; Reality


I WOULD GO ADVENTURING, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, I would go -- would go adventuring
Last Line: But fate, the jester, gave me the hearth fire!
Subject(s): Home; Reality; Travel; Journeys; Trips


ICE EAGLE, by DIANE WAKOSKI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was with resolution that she gave up the
Last Line: The ice eagle can do nothing %but melt
Subject(s): Reality; Swanson, Gloria (1897-1983); Women


IF I WERE TICKLED BY THE RUB OF LOVE, by DYLAN THOMAS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Man be my metaphor
Subject(s): Sex; Innocence; Reality


IF, MY DARLING, by PHILIP LARKIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: If my darling were once to decide
Last Line: Might knock my darling off her unpriceable pivot
Subject(s): Fairy Tales; Man-woman Relationships; Reality; Male-female Relations


IN FLANDERS, by JAMES NORMAN HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Could you have seen them marching
Last Line: To see ten thousand fighting men.
Subject(s): Flanders, Belgium; Reality; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; World War I; First World War


IN VAST WOODS, BLINKING, by FRIEDERIKE MAYROCKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Out of resinous dreams, he said, you wrap sand paintings
Last Line: And talked till it got light
Subject(s): Dreams; Reality


JASON THE REAL, by TONY HOAGLAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: If I was a real guy
Last Line: That is how one earns a name / like jason the real
Subject(s): Friendship; Pain; Reality


LAKE ECHO, DEAR, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Is the woman in the pool of light
Last Line: It will change the world one drop
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D.
Subject(s): Reality


LEVIATHAN, by GEORGE OPPEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Truth also is the pursuit of it
Subject(s): Relationships; Reality; Language; Words; Vocabulary


LIFE EXPLAINS AND DEATH SPIES OUT, by WASHINGTON DELGADO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Reality gathers %my papers
Last Line: From my house, my bed, my body %and from my soul
Subject(s): Life; Reality


LIGHT THAT CAME TO LUCILLE CLIFTON, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: You might as well answer the door, my child, %the truth is furiously knocking.'
Subject(s): Abandonment; Reality; Single Parents


MAIA, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Illusion works impenetrable
Last Line: By man who thirsts to be deceived.
Subject(s): Hallucinations & Illusions; Reality


MAKING DREAMS OF REALITY, by ROBERT PARHAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Freud told you the easy way: go to sleep
Last Line: But not even your eyes will stay closed
Subject(s): Dreams; Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939); Reality


MANIFEST DESTINY, by JORIE GRAHAM    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Northbound, on the way to the station, through the narrow rutted
Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Prisons & Prisoners; Language; Reality; Convicts; Words; Vocabulary


MARRIED BLUES, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I didn't want it, you wanted it
Subject(s): Marriage; Reality; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


MATINS: 2, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The authentic! I said
Subject(s): Reality


MATINS: 3, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The new day rises
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Reality


MATINS: 6, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The authentic! It rolls
Subject(s): Reality


MOLE-BLIND, by MARTHANN CANFIELD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Conscious of fine
Last Line: For smiling grows shorter.
Subject(s): Reality


MUSE OF THE ACTUAL, by LYNNE KNIGHT    Poem Source                    
First Line: She'd hate if her mother was proved right
Last Line: Would stay put, like the laws of the actual
Subject(s): Reality


NAIADS, by SCOTT HIGHTOWER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A lot of us were upset when it
Last Line: Down to bull creek
Subject(s): Reality


NEST OF DREAMS, by HELEN FIELD WATSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sometimes one has a dream within a dream
Last Line: And what, reality.
Subject(s): Dreams; Reality; Nightmares


NOT IDEAS ABOUT THE THING BUT THE THING ITSELF, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: At the earliest ending of winter
Last Line: A new knowledge of reality.
Subject(s): Reality


NOT IDEAS ABOUT THE THING BUT THE THING ITSELF, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At the earliest ending of winter
Last Line: A new knowledge of reality
Subject(s): Reality


OBSERVED, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Reality is the other person
Last Line: In the other.
Variant Title(s): "reality Is The Other Person"";
Subject(s): Imagination; Reality; Fancy


OF BEING NUMEROUS, 1, by GEORGE OPPEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: There are things
Subject(s): Reality; Self; Ruins


ON A COUNTRY ROAD, A YOUNG MAN FALLS FORWARD AND GREETS REALITY, by ANDY WEAVER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nearby, a heron sits
Last Line: These broken branches %of metaphor
Subject(s): Country Life; Mankind; Reality; Walking


ON REFLECTION, by ANNE STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Fire; Reality


ON THE GARDEN WALL, by HELEN FIELD WATSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sometimes shadows seem to me
Last Line: Better than reality.
Subject(s): Reality; Shadows


ONE WORLD, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The worlds in which we live at heart are one
Last Line: "the world ""I love,"" -- the only living root."
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Reality


PARABLES, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a child who dreamed
Last Line: And we begin again!
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Dreams; Imagination; Poetry And Poets; Reality


PICTURE OF A GIRL DRAWN IN BLACK AND WHITE, by DIANE WAKOSKI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A girl sits in a black room
Subject(s): Girls; Reality


PICTURE OF A GIRL DRAWN IN BLACK AND WHITE, by DIANE WAKOSKI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A girl sits in a black room
Last Line: And complete combing my black unreal hair
Subject(s): Girls; Reality


PLAINNESS [LLANEZA], by JORGE LUIS BORGES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The garden's grillwork gate
Last Line: As a part of undeniable reality, %like stones of the road, like trees
Subject(s): Reality; Simplicity


POETRY AND REALITY, by JANE TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The worldly minded, cast in common mould
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Reality


PORTRAIT AND REALITY, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If on the closed curtain of my sight
Last Line: Never the same, and sweeter with each change.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Reality


REAL AND HALF REAL, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a time to find a new world: who was sent forth? Columbus, that is
Last Line: What's done in earnest is done is done outside it
Subject(s): War; Reality


REALISM, by IDA C. CLARK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Why strive for 'plays' to amuse and attract
Last Line: Depicts, without disguise?
Subject(s): Life; Reality


REALITIES, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Things that I have to hold and keep, ah! These
Last Line: Is that which passeth knowledge, god's dear love.
Subject(s): Reality; God


REALITIES, by MAUDE CHATEAUNEUF OVERTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Through all the ages on this mundane sphere
Last Line: Are manifest realities sublime!
Subject(s): Reality


REALITY, by GLADYS CROMWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What things are real
Last Line: Their silent company?
Subject(s): Dreams; Reality; Nightmares


REALITY, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Reality, reality, / lord jesus christ thou art to me!
Last Line: "unveiled, thy ""bright reality""?"
Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Reality


REALITY, by EMMA LAZARUS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Celestial hopes and dreams
Last Line: Only their loftiest dream.
Subject(s): Reality


REALITY, by RUTH STONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As a fish, gutted for trade
Last Line: So beautiful; come to this.
Subject(s): Reality


REALITY, by ANNA WICKHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Only a starveling singer seeks
Last Line: Rather than her, we'll sing reality.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hepburn, Patrick, Mrs.
Subject(s): Reality


REALITY AND ITS DURATION, by ROSEANN LLOYD    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the end of the workshop, we're doing a meditation from shakti
Last Line: Where and when
Subject(s): Meditation; Mothers And Daughters; Reality


REALITY AND WILLIE YEATS, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Reality and yeats were two
Last Line: Signals from some reality
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Reality; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939)


REALITY AND WILLIE YEATS, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Reality and yeats were two
Last Line: Signals from reality
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Reality; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939)


REALITY REQUIRES, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Reality requires / that we speak of these things: / life rolls on
Subject(s): Reality


RITES OF PARTICIPATION, SELECTION, by ROBERT DUNCAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The drama of our time is the coming of all men into one fate
Last Line: Either by the inner senses of the imaginative faculty or by the outer senses
Subject(s): Reality; Imagination


RITES OF PARTICIPATION, SELS., by ROBERT DUNCAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The drama of our time is the coming of all men into one fate
Last Line: The vagabond must return to be admitted in the creation of what we consider we are
Subject(s): Reality


SEEING FOR A MOMENT, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I thought I was growing wings
Subject(s): Mirrors; Perception; Reality


SEEING FOR A MOMENT, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I thought I was growing wings
Last Line: Word after word %floats through the glass. %towards me
Subject(s): Mirrors; Perception; Reality


SEEMS LIKE WE MUST BE SOMEWHERE ELSE, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet possession, rose-blue
Subject(s): Reality


STARTLING REALITY OF THINGS, by FERNANDO ANTONIO NOGUEIRA PESSOA    Poem Source                    
Last Line: All this is absolutely independent of my will
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Reality


STUFF, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: High up there she saw what
Last Line: Dazed by facts and cared-for. / circle facts
Subject(s): Reality


SUNDAY IN NOVEMBER, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And who were they all in your sleep last night
Last Line: Come morning.
Subject(s): Dreams; Reality; Nightmares


SYNONYMS, by ROBERT PENN WARREN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where eons back earth slipped and cracked
Subject(s): Beauty; Reality; Nature


TERMS IN WHICH I THINK OF REALITY, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Reality is a question
Subject(s): Reality


THE ARTIST, by HENRY BELLAMANN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What would you do
Subject(s): Reality


THE DAWN CHORUS, by DEREK MAHON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is not sleep itself but dreams we miss
Last Line: We yearn for that reality in this
Subject(s): Reality


THE DREAMER IN ME, by JAMES OPPENHEIM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The dreamer in me keeps on dreaming though
Last Line: Yet my friend and I go on talking as if there were nothing strange in it at all.
Subject(s): Dreams; Reality; Nightmares


THE DREAMS WE WAKE FROM, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Are dams bursting oceans suddenly swallowed
Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Reality; Nightmares


THE GULF, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pascal had his gulf, wandering with him
Last Line: -ah! To leave numbers and entities never!
Subject(s): Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662); Reality


THE GYPSY'S WINDOW, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It seems a stage
Subject(s): Flowers; Poetry & Poets; Reality; Roses


THE ICE EAGLE, by DIANE WAKOSKI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was with resolution that she gave up the
Last Line: The ice people can do nothing / but melt
Subject(s): Reality; Swanson, Gloria (1897-1983); Women


THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 15, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Because I dream
Last Line: Are only dreams
Subject(s): Dreams; Reality


THE MISER, by MONA VAN DUYN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: I was out last night
Subject(s): Self; Reality; Misers; Obsessions


THE PLAIN SENSE OF THINGS, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After the leaves have fallen, we return
Subject(s): Imagination; Reality; Fancy


THE POEMS OF BIG STICK: 3, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whenever cold mountain stops to visit
Last Line: So anything real includes it all
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Poetry & Poets; Reality


THE REALISTS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hope that you may understand!
Last Line: With the dragons?
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Reality


THE RETURN, by EZRA POUND    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: See, they return; ah, see the tentative
Last Line: Pallid the leash-men!
Subject(s): Reality


THE REVOLUTIONARY, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He knew her face well enough; had studied this
Last Line: For the face he had trusted under the confident stars
Subject(s): Male-female Relationships; Reality


THE SHOW MUST GO ON, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The play had been staged as long as we could remember,
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights; Reality; Dramatists


THE STORY, by DENIS JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dunking one
Last Line: I will know by these signs
Subject(s): Reality


THE UNTELLING, by MARK STRAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He leaned forward over the paper
Subject(s): Reality; Truth


THINGS ARE WHAT THEY SEEM, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The cloud between
Last Line: Prevention.
Subject(s): Reality


THROUGH THE FLOATING PERMANENCE, by GUY BENNETT    Poem Source                    
Last Line: The reality of our shaded gardens
Subject(s): Colors; Paintings And Painters; Reality


THURSDAY, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have had my dream -- like others
Last Line: At my nose -- and decide to dream no more.
Subject(s): Reality


VISITING HOURS, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A cat came round the shed
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): Love; Reality


WATER SONGS, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: A disconnected connection
Last Line: And everything is alright
Variant Title(s): March Water Songs
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Grief; Reality; Singing And Singers; Tears


WILD GARDENS OVERLOOKED BY NIGHT LIGHTS, by BARBARA GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Parking lot trucks overlooked by night lights. Buildings
Subject(s): City & Town Life; Reality


WITHIN THAT LITTLE HIVE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And dreams, reality
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1607; Poem: 163
Subject(s): Dreams; Reality


WORLD OF NOISE, by NICK MOUDRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The landscape was full of newsreels
Last Line: Told us we could no longer sleep & we lay always awake
Subject(s): Landscape; Noises; Reality; Waking