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Discover our poem explanations - click here!Searching... Author: ARMITAGE, SIMON Matches Found: 45 Armitage, Simon Poet's Biography 45 poems available by this author ABOUT HIS PERSON First Line: Five pounds fifty in change, exactly Last Line: That was everything AT SEA Poem Text First Line: It is not through weeping BABY First Line: I think about the time Last Line: The shadow of ourselves, and ourselves only BASTARDS Poem Text First Line: Those bastards in their mansion Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate; Birth - Out Of Wedlock; Bastards BASTARDS First Line: Those bastards in their mansion Last Line: Me, I stick to the shadows, carry a gun Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate BUS TALK First Line: Of all the bloody cheek. How the hell would they feel CHAPTER AND VERSE First Line: They were ushered along to the water's edge Last Line: Here endeth the first lesson CIVILIANS First Line: We signed the lease and knew we were landed COLUMBA First Line: These x rays prove what we probably knew, my lady Last Line: White, turning its head to this wavelength of light CONVICTIONS First Line: No convictions--that's my one major fault Last Line: But no cause, no cause DRAWING THE ARCTIC CIRCLE First Line: The last blizzard softens into sleet Last Line: But it has no warmth, no light, no colour EIGHTIES, NINETIES First Line: Firstly, we worked in laughable conditions FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS First Line: In the country, the county, the parish, the place Last Line: This is as much as you know, as far as it goes GOOSEBERRY SEASON Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Which reminds me. He appeared GREAT BEAR First Line: Because of your own natural sense of detah Last Line: And your eyeball, left in a beehive, gives off sweetness IVORY Poem Text First Line: No more mularkey, / no baloney. No more cuffuffle Last Line: From the peanut gallery Subject(s): Life Change Events IVORY First Line: No more mularkey, %no baloney. No more cuffuffle Last Line: And no remarks %from the peanut gallery Subject(s): Life Change Events LYNX First Line: All night, a presence outside int he gardens and grounds Last Line: Eight beads of urine hardened into eight discolored pearls Subject(s): Lynx LYRA First Line: The old guitar with its broken neck, bowled over Last Line: And my fingertips now are unfeeling, harder than thimbles MILLET: THE GLEANERS First Line: No one's twisting her arm but there it is Last Line: Of flattened grass where we laid the blanket NIGHT SHIFT Poem Text First Line: Once again I have missed you by moments Last Line: Body-heat stowed in the crumpled duvet Subject(s): Love NIGHT SHIFT First Line: Once again I have missed you by moments Last Line: Body-heat stowed in the crumpled duvet Subject(s): Love ON AN OWD PIKTCHA First Line: Int swelterin eet, mongst birds n tbeez Last Line: Already green, ttree o tcross ON MILES PLATTING STATION First Line: The stitchwort has done well for itself, clinging POEM First Line: And if it snowed and snow covered the drive Last Line: Sometimes he did this, sometimes he did that SNOW JOKE First Line: Heard the one about the guy from heaton mersey? SOMEWHERE ALONG THE LINE First Line: You met me to apologize, you were saying Last Line: I keep those animated moments of you as %our catalogue of chances rushed and chances missed SWINE First Line: Brung up with swine, I was Last Line: Not skin, but rind TEN PENCE STORY First Line: Out of the melting pot, into the mint THE SHOUT Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: We went out Subject(s): School THE TWANG Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Well it was st. George's day in new york TWO CLOCKS Poem Text First Line: In the same bedroom we kept two small clocks Last Line: Maybe these clocks are a poor example Subject(s): Holidays; New Year TWO CLOCKS First Line: In the same bedroom we kept two small clocks Last Line: Maybe these clocks are a poor example Subject(s): Holidays; New Year VERY SIMPLY TOPPING UP THE BRAKE FLUID First Line: Yes, love, that's why the warning light comes on WEEK AND A FORTNIGHT First Line: Tricked into life with a needle and knife Last Line: The seven acts of mercy and the fourteen stations of the cross WHOLE OF THE SKY: APUS First Line: In 1596, de houtman and keyser were taking the piss Last Line: Without a bright star or a meteor shower to its name WHOLE OF THE SKY: TAURUS First Line: So we tracked it down to where it was finally stood Last Line: Through the sky's fields and the open gate of the sun WHOLE OF THE SKY: THE FLYING FISH First Line: Blue-backed, silver-bellied, half-imagined things Last Line: Wholeheartedly out of the sea at their own stars WHOLE OF THE SKY: THE MARINER'S COMPASS First Line: Living alone, I'm sailing the world Last Line: With another soul means disqualification WHOLE OF THE SKY: THE PHOENIX First Line: Tvillage cuckoo wer caught one sprig Last Line: Meanwahl, tbird wer nested in crahther's chimney WHOLE OF THE SKY: URSA MINOR First Line: Arctic fox, arctic hare, arctic tern, polar bear Last Line: Arctic skua, arctic hare, arctic fox, polar bear WORK First Line: I'm dreaming of that work, man seated reading Last Line: And bar and bolt the windows and the hatch YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Because you're classically trained Subject(s): Beauty ZOOM! Poem Text First Line: It begins as a house, an end terrace Subject(s): Books; Reading ZOOM! First Line: It begins as a house, an end terrace Last Line: It's just words %I assure them. But they will not have it |
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