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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: REALITY Matches Found: 126 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 |
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