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Subject: VAN GOGH, VINCENT (1853-1890)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A MINOR VAN GOGH (HE SPEAKS), by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The strokes are pulses: from my shapely cloud
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890)


AFTER VAN GOGH, by TIMOTHY LIU    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What a simple thing death is - peasants
Last Line: The hearth - the understanding between them
Subject(s): Death; Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890)


AT THE VAN GOGH MUSEUM, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No, we say -- it wouldn't have looked that way
Last Line: Even blacker than the navy sky
Subject(s): Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890)


ATELIER CEZANNE, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Blue chair / we whisper
Subject(s): Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890)


BLUES (VAN GOGH: THE NIGHT CAFE 1888), by XUE DI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The hand stirring coffee
Last Line: To themselves! Nothing else to cling to
Subject(s): Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890)


BURNING SILK VEIL (VAN GOGH: WHEATFIELD WITH CYPRESSES 1859), by XUE DI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Pale yellow world, color of my
Last Line: The others -- have profited nothing
Subject(s): Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890)


CHURCH (VAN GOGH: THE CHURCH AT AUVERS 1890), by XUE DI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sacred music unsounding
Last Line: Now, my hert, pray for them all
Subject(s): Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890)


DRAWBRIDGE (VAN GOGH: THE LANGLOIS BRIDGE 1888), by XUE DI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bright pure water
Last Line: Cruel! Brief happy time
Subject(s): Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890)


FAREWELL TO VAN GOGH, by CHARLES TOMLINSON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The quiet deepens. You will not persuade
Subject(s): Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890)


FAREWELL TO VAN GOGH, by CHARLES TOMLINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The quiet deepens. You will not persuade
Last Line: Await us, weighing the unstripped bough
Subject(s): Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890)


FIELD COVERED WITH CROWS (VAN GOGH: WHEAT FIELD WITH CROWS 1890), by XUE DI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Waves of yellow wheat cry in my throat
Last Line: Cry to mankind
Subject(s): Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890)


FIRE TO FIRE, by HELEN ANDERSON WINSLOW    Poem Text                    
First Line: A van gogh stroke is your fire of hair
Last Line: On the world's high noon.
Subject(s): Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890)


FOR VINCENT VAN GOGH, by LOREN KLEINMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I wanna run %beneath your
Last Line: With my full %featured kisses
Subject(s): Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890)


GLEANER (VAN GOGH: PEASANT WOMAN STOOPING 1885), by XUE DI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Pure ox horn. Then cows curved over wooden buckets
Last Line: In the ray of sunlight, close and airless
Subject(s): Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890)


INJURED PORTRAIT (VAN GOGH: SELF-PORTRAIT WITH BANDAGED EAR AND PIPE ), by XUE DI    Poem Source                    
First Line: When music deserts the human heart, when
Last Line: Whose heart will hear the sacred harmonies
Subject(s): Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890)


MINOR VAN GOGH (HE SPEAKS), by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The strokes are pulses: from my shapely cloud
Last Line: Locked in the light of earth, compassionate
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890)


OPEN LETTER-POEM-NOTE TO VINCENT VAN G., by UNKNOWN+190    Poem Source                    
First Line: They were buying... Your name maybe
Last Line: In the fifth month of this twentieth century's '80, it was bought by the highest bidder for 5.2 mill
Subject(s): Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890)


POPPY FIELDS (VAN GOGH: FIELD WITH POPPIES ), by XUE DI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Summer ripens across the land. Swallows
Last Line: Like a hundred horseheads spinning madly in the sun
Subject(s): Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890)


PORTRAIT (VAN GOGH: SELF-PORTRAIT 1889), by XUE DI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Say, who can grasp pain with its whirlpool claw
Last Line: Salt, to the traveler
Subject(s): Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890)


ROAD (VAN GOGH: ROAD WITH CYPRESSES 1890), by XUE DI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The workers are coming. Their blurred faces
Last Line: His claws rake human faces
Subject(s): Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890)


SCENE (VAN GOGH: THE PLAIN WITH FARM NEAR AUVERS 1890), by XUE DI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Plants ripen, their round
Last Line: Lonely earth, crying with muffled sobs
Subject(s): Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890)


SOWER (VAN GOGH: SOWER WITH SETTING SUN 1888), by XUE DI    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the soil wakes from its deep sleep
Last Line: Grazing on fruit blown down in the dusk
Subject(s): Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890)


STARRY NIGHT, by ROBERT FAGLES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Long as I paint
Last Line: All this frenzy back into your hands %our brushstrokes burning clearer into dawn
Subject(s): Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890)


STARRY NIGHT, by ANNE SEXTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The town does not exist
Last Line: From my life with no flag, %no belly, %no cry
Subject(s): Depression, Mental; God; Religion; Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890)


STARRY NIGHT (VAN GOGH: THE STARRY NIGHT 1889), by XUE DI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Evening is a trembling amber
Last Line: We hear them howling at our dream of life
Subject(s): Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890)


SUNDAY'S GIFT [FROM VAN GOGH'S CROWS OVER THE WHEAT FIELD], by ALICE R. FRIMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like oedipus before him
Last Line: In a flower or crowned %in a yellow kitchen chair
Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Sun; Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890)


SUNFLOWER (VAN GOGH: SUNFLOWERS 1888), by XUE DI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sunflower claws walk the earth
Last Line: Sings furiously, shackled in blood
Subject(s): Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890)


THE STARRY NIGHT, by ANNE SEXTON    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The town does not exist
Subject(s): Depression, Mental; God; Religion; Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890); Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Theology


THE WORM IN THE EAR, by LARRY LEVIS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If peasants had written they would have ceased to be peasants
Last Line: Chin up? Ready?
Subject(s): Peasantry; Writing & Writers; Heidegger, Martin (1889-1976); Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890)


UNNATURAL APPETITES, by B. J. BUHROW    Poem Source                    
First Line: When van gogh was painting his stars
Last Line: Still, you never get the dirt out of the starved kid. %and the blue sky arches forever, painfully pr
Subject(s): Appetite; Food And Eating; Food Habits; Paintings And Painters; Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890)


VAN GOGH, by CHARLES TOMLINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I thought, once, that your hillshapes swam and swayed
Last Line: When hills no longer pressed their bulwarks round %but shattered to echoes as if it were they had ce
Subject(s): Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890)


VAN GOGH IN THE PULPIT, by WILLIAM LOGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am a stranger on earth
Last Line: Expelled from paradise, %that will be our paradise
Subject(s): Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890)


VAN GOGH'S CHAIRS, by STEPHEN HINES    Poem Source                    
First Line: He came over and I had no
Last Line: Idea %about our chairs
Subject(s): Chairs; Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890)


VAN GOGH'S COUNTRY MUSIC, by PHILIP APPLEMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cypresses
Last Line: The sadness would last forever
Subject(s): Country Music; Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890)


VAN GOGH'S DEATH, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We climbed the steep stairway
Last Line: On the headstones planted close to the wall
Subject(s): Death; Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890); Dead, The


VAN GOGH'S DEATH, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We climbed the steep stairway
Last Line: To the headstones planted close to the wall
Subject(s): Death; Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890)


VAN GOGH'S POTATO EATERS, by LIZ ROSENBERG    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The children climbing outside on the leafy playground
Last Line: Which is the same life everywhere - %and which is nowhere the same
Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890)


VAN GOGH. WILLIAMSBURG, by GABRIEL PREIL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: My pen wandering
Last Line: The desert face %of a job-like jew
Subject(s): Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890); Williamsburg, Brooklyn


VAN GOGH; PORTRAIT OF DR. GACHET, by RONALD STUART THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not part of the health service
Last Line: Becoming patient himself %of art's diagnosis
Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S.
Subject(s): Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890)


VINCENT, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My name is vincent
Last Line: Transitory and bewitching light
Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890)


VINCENT, by DON MACLEAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Starry, starry night
Last Line: They're not list'ning stll. %perhaps theu never will
Subject(s): Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890)


VINCENT VAN GOGH, by HARRIET R. BEAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: These humble folk, which first his groping hand
Last Line: Graveward -- bequeath such beauty to the world?
Subject(s): Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890)


VINCENT VAN GOGH, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Walking at night in a hat fitted with twelve candles
Subject(s): Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890)


VINCENT VAN GOGH, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Walking at night in a hat fitted with twelve candles
Last Line: And in the foreground, nervously applied, %an intricate maze of thin-sown poppyheads
Subject(s): Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890)


VINCENT'S COMPLAINT, by RICHARD DEUTCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: At arles, where the rhone
Last Line: Like a mad orange in a nameless desert %whirls around hurling itself
Variant Title(s): Vincent's Praye
Subject(s): Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890)


WHITE CHINESE ROSES (VAN GOGH: WHITE ROSES 1890), by XUE DI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Flowers bloom in the house. Milk
Last Line: And forgive the dying
Subject(s): Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890)