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Discover our poem explanations - click here!Searching... Author: BERRYMAN, JOHN Matches Found: 666 Berryman, John Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. 666 poems available by this author 1-SEP-39 First Line: The first scattering rain on the polish cities Last Line: The animals shook [or, ran], the eagle soared and dropped [or, dropt] Subject(s): World War Ii 77 DREAM SONGS (THE DREAM SONGS: BOOKS 1-3) A SYMPATHY, A WELCOME Poem Text First Line: Feel for your bad fall how could I fail Subject(s): Fathers & Sons ADDRESS TO THE LORD First Line: Master of beauty, craftsman of the snowflake Last Line: I even feel sure you will assist me again, master of insight & beauty ALCOHOLIC First Line: O all the problems other people face Last Line: Your will for & with me Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Prayer ALL WE WERE GOING STRONG LAST NIGHT THIS TIME First Line: All we were going strong last night this time, Last Line: In blue jeans & a sweater. I sat down & wrote. AMERICAN LIGHTS, SEEN FROM OFF ABROAD Poem Text First Line: Blue go up & blue go down Subject(s): Americans; United States; America AMERICAN LIGHTS, SEEN FROM OFF ABROAD First Line: Blue go up & blue go down Last Line: Here comes a cropper.' that's what I said Subject(s): Americans; United States AMOS First Line: For three insane things evil, and for four ANCESTOR First Line: The old men wept when the old man in blue %bulked in the doorway of the train ANIMAL TRAINER (1) First Line: I told him: the time has come, I must be gone ANTITHESES First Line: Dawdling into glory APPARITION First Line: Frequently when the night AT CHINESE CHECKERS First Line: Again-but other faces bend with mine AWAY First Line: Ah! So very slowly BACK First Line: I was out of your church for 43 years, my dear BALL POEM First Line: What is the boy now, who has lost his ball Last Line: With all that move me, under the water %or whistling, I am not a little boy Subject(s): Sports BLACK BOOK, SELS. First Line: Grandfather, sleepless in a room upstairs BLACK BOOK, SELS. (II) First Line: Luftmenschen dream, the men who live on air BLACK BOOK, SELS. (III) First Line: Lover & child, a little sing BOSTON COMMON First Line: Slumped under the impressive genitals CADENZA ON GARNETTE First Line: If I had said out passions as they were' CANTO AMOR Poem Text First Line: Dream in a dream the heavy soul somewhere Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CANTO AMOR First Line: Dream in a dream the heavy soul somewhere Last Line: Sing then beyond my song: whirl & rejoice! Subject(s): Marriage CAPTAINS SONG First Line: The tree before my eyes bloomed into flame CARAVAN First Line: The lady in her silver-grey CEREMONY AND VISION First Line: The weather in the drawing-room CERTAINTY BEFORE LUNCH First Line: Ninety percent of the mass of the universe Last Line: I know you are there. The sweat is, I am here CLOUD AND FLAME First Line: The summer cloud in summer blue COMMUNIST First Line: O tell me of the russians, communist, my son!' COMPLINE First Line: I would at this late hour as little as may be CONVERSATION Poem Text First Line: Whether the moorings are invisible Last Line: Into this delicate and dangerous place Subject(s): War CONVERSATION First Line: Whether the moorings are invisible Last Line: The guns and enemies that face %into this delicate and dangerous place Subject(s): War CRISIS First Line: My offended contempt for the mental & stylistic workings CURSE First Line: Cedars and the westward sun DAMN YOU, JIM D., YOU WOKE ME UP First Line: I thought I'd say a thing to please myself DAMNED First Line: Damned. Lost & damned. And I find I'm pregnant DANGEROUS YEAR First Line: Thus far, to march, into the dangerous year DANTE'S TOMB First Line: A tired banana & an empty mind DARLING I WAIT O IN MY UPSTAIRS BOX First Line: Darling I wait o in my upstairs box Last Line: Before he went a-coming across the sea-o. DEATH BALLAD First Line: Tyson & jo, tyson & jo Last Line: & needs therefore, tyson jo, your loving DEFENSIO IN EXTREMIS First Line: I said: mighty men have encamped against me DESIRE IS A WORLD BY NIGHT First Line: The history of strangers in their dreams DESIRES OF MEN AND WOMEN First Line: Exasperated, worn, you conjure a mansion Last Line: Where now you are, where now you wish for life, %whence you project your naked fantasies DESPAIR First Line: It seems to be dark all the time Last Line: There are no matches %utter, his father, one word Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) DISCIPLE First Line: Summoned from offices and homes, we came DISPOSSESSED First Line: And something that - that is theirs - no longer ours' Last Line: In empty houses where old things take place DOWN & BACK First Line: It is supernal what a youth can take DREAM SONG #22, 'OF 1826' First Line: I am the little man who smokes & smokes Last Line: I am henry pussy-cat! My whiskers fly Variant Title(s): The Dream Songs: 2 DREAM SONG: 29 First Line: There sat down, once, a thing on henry's heart Last Line: Nobody is ever missing Variant Title(s): The Dream Songs: 2 DREAM SONGS, SELS. DREAM SONGS: 1 First Line: Huffy henry hid the day Last Line: Hard on the land wears the strong sea %and empty grows every bed DREAM SONGS: 10 First Line: There were strange gatherings. A vote would come DREAM SONGS: 100 First Line: How this woman came by the courage, how she got DREAM SONGS: 101 First Line: A shallow lake, with many waterbirds DREAM SONGS: 102 First Line: The sunburnt terraces which swans make home DREAM SONGS: 103 First Line: I consider a song will be as humming-bird DREAM SONGS: 104 First Line: Welcome, grinned henry, welcome, fifty-one DREAM SONGS: 105 First Line: As a kid I believed in democracy: I DREAM SONGS: 106. 28 JULY First Line: Calmly, while sat up friendlies & made noise DREAM SONGS: 107 First Line: Three 'coons come at his garbage. He be cross Last Line: I've given up literature & taken down pills %and that rabbi t doesn't trust me DREAM SONGS: 108 First Line: Sixteen below. Our cars like stranded hulls DREAM SONGS: 109 First Line: She mentioned 'worthless' & he took it in DREAM SONGS: 11 First Line: His mother goes. The mother comes & goes DREAM SONGS: 110 First Line: It was blue & plain ones. I forget all that DREAM SONGS: 111 First Line: I miss him. When I get back to camp DREAM SONGS: 112 First Line: My framework is broken, I am coming to an end DREAM SONGS: 113. OR AMY VLADECK OR RIVA FREIFELD First Line: That isna henry limping. That's a hobble DREAM SONGS: 114 First Line: Henry in trouble whirped out lonely whines DREAM SONGS: 115 First Line: Her properties, like her of course & frisky & new DREAM SONGS: 116 First Line: Through the forest, followed, henry made his silky way DREAM SONGS: 117 First Line: Disturbed, when henry's love returned with a hubby DREAM SONGS: 118 First Line: He wondered: do I love? All this applause DREAM SONGS: 119 First Line: Fresh-shaven, past months & a picture in new york DREAM SONGS: 12. SABBATH First Line: There is an eye, there was a slit Last Line: To the kirk moves the youngest witch %watch DREAM SONGS: 120 First Line: Foes I sniff, when I have less to shout DREAM SONGS: 121 First Line: Grief is fatiguing. He is out of it DREAM SONGS: 122 First Line: He published his girl's bottom in staid pages DREAM SONGS: 123 First Line: Dapples my floor the eastern sun, my house faces north DREAM SONGS: 124 First Line: Behold I bring you tidings of great joy DREAM SONGS: 125 First Line: Bards freezing, naked, up to the neck in water DREAM SONGS: 126. A THURN First Line: Among them marble where the man may lie Last Line: Which the tiresome world debated, complicated Variant Title(s): A Thur DREAM SONGS: 127 First Line: Again, his friend's death made the man sit still Last Line: And refuses to come home DREAM SONGS: 128 First Line: A hemorrhage of his left ear of good friday DREAM SONGS: 129 First Line: Thin as a sheet his mother came to him DREAM SONGS: 13 First Line: God bless henry. He lived like a rat DREAM SONGS: 13 First Line: Henry was not a coward. Much DREAM SONGS: 130 First Line: When I saw my friend covered with blood, I thought DREAM SONGS: 131 First Line: Come touch me baby in his waking dream DREAM SONGS: 132. A SMALL DREAM First Line: It was only a small dream of the golden world DREAM SONGS: 133 First Line: As he grew famous - ah, but what is fame? DREAM SONGS: 134 First Line: Sick at 6 & sick again at 9 Last Line: He arose, benign, & performed DREAM SONGS: 135 First Line: I heard said 'cats that walk by their wild lone.' DREAM SONGS: 136 First Line: While his wife earned a living, rabbi henry DREAM SONGS: 137 First Line: Many's the dawn sad henry as seen in DREAM SONGS: 138. COMBAT ASSIGNMENT First Line: Henry, moot, grunted. Like a lily of the valley DREAM SONGS: 139 First Line: Green grieves the prince over his girl forgone DREAM SONGS: 14 First Line: Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so Last Line: Into mountains or sea or sky, leaving %behind: me, wag Subject(s): Boredom; Life DREAM SONGS: 140 First Line: Henry is vanishing. In the first of dawn DREAM SONGS: 141 First Line: One was down on the mass. One on the masses DREAM SONGS: 142 First Line: The animal moment, when he sorted out her tail Last Line: But when henry & his wives came to blows Subject(s): Love DREAM SONGS: 143 First Line: That's enough of that, mr bones. Some lady you made Last Line: For anyone so desperate. I repeat: I love him %until I fall into coma DREAM SONGS: 144 First Line: My orderly tender having too gentle a face DREAM SONGS: 145 First Line: Also I love him: me he's done no wrong Last Line: An instant longer, in the summer dawn %left henry to live on Subject(s): Fathers And Sons; Suicide DREAM SONGS: 146 First Line: These lovely motions of the air, the breeze DREAM SONGS: 147 First Line: Henry's mind grew blacker the more he thought Last Line: So long ago, in the goodness of which it was composed. %delmore, delmore! DREAM SONGS: 148. GLIMMERINGS First Line: His hours of thought grew longer, his study less DREAM SONGS: 149 First Line: This world is gradually becoming a place Last Line: When he was young & gift-strong DREAM SONGS: 15 First Line: Let us suppose, valleys & such ago DREAM SONGS: 150 First Line: He had followers but they could not find him DREAM SONGS: 151 First Line: Bitter & bleary over delmore's dying DREAM SONGS: 152 First Line: I bid you then a raggeder farewell DREAM SONGS: 153 First Line: I'm cross with god who has wrecked this generation Last Line: And never again can come, like a man slapped, %news like this DREAM SONGS: 154 First Line: Flagrant his young male beauty, thick his mind DREAM SONGS: 155 First Line: I can't get him out of my mind, out of my mind Last Line: His wit & passion, gift, the whole young man %alive with surplus love Subject(s): Schwartz, Delmore (1913-1966) DREAM SONGS: 156 First Line: I give in. I must not leave the scene of this same death DREAM SONGS: 157 First Line: Ten songs, one solid block of agony DREAM SONGS: 158 First Line: Being almost reday now to say goodbye DREAM SONGS: 159 First Line: Pain & shock, together. They are all going away DREAM SONGS: 16 First Line: Henry's pelt was put on sundry walls DREAM SONGS: 160 First Line: Halfway to death, from his young years, he failed DREAM SONGS: 161 First Line: Draw on your resources. Draw on your resources DREAM SONGS: 162. VIETNAM First Line: Henry shuddered: a war which was no war DREAM SONGS: 163 First Line: Stomach & arm, stomach & arm DREAM SONGS: 164 First Line: Three limbs, three seasons smashed; well, one to go Last Line: He springs youthfully in his six-by-two like a dancer DREAM SONGS: 165 First Line: An orange moon upon a placid sea DREAM SONGS: 166 First Line: I have strained everything except my ears DREAM SONGS: 167. HENRY'S MAIL First Line: His mail is brimming with foundation reports DREAM SONGS: 168. THE OLD POOR First Line: And god has many other surprises, like DREAM SONGS: 169 First Line: Books drugs razor whisky shirts DREAM SONGS: 17 First Line: Muttered henry: - lord of matter, thus DREAM SONGS: 170 First Line: I can't read any more of this rich critical prose DREAM SONGS: 171 First Line: Go, ill-sped book, and whisper to her or DREAM SONGS: 172 First Line: Your face broods from my table, suicide Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963) DREAM SONGS: 173. IN MEM: R.P. BLACKMUR First Line: Somebody once pronounced upon one path DREAM SONGS: 174. KYRIE ELEISON First Line: Complex his task: he threads the mazers daily DREAM SONGS: 175 First Line: Old king cole was a merry old soul and a merry old soul was henry DREAM SONGS: 176 First Line: All that flashing over the atlantic DREAM SONGS: 177 First Line: Am tame now. You may touch me, who had thrilled DREAM SONGS: 178 First Line: Above the lindens tops of poplars waved DREAM SONGS: 179 First Line: A terrible applause pulls henry's ear DREAM SONGS: 18. A STRUT FOR ROETHKE First Line: Westward, hit a low note, for a roarer lost Last Line: The garden master's gone Variant Title(s): A Strut For Roethk DREAM SONGS: 180. THE TRANSLATOR - I First Line: Henry rushes not in here. The matter's their money DREAM SONGS: 181. THE TRANSLATOR - II First Line: Because I am not able to forget DREAM SONGS: 182 First Line: Buoyant, chockful of stories, henry lingered DREAM SONGS: 183. NEWS OF GOD First Line: Eastward he longs, before, well, any bad DREAM SONGS: 184 First Line: Failed as a maker, nailed as a scholar, failed DREAM SONGS: 185 First Line: The drill was after or is into him DREAM SONGS: 186 First Line: There is a swivelly grace that's up from grace DREAM SONGS: 187 First Line: Them lady poets must not marry, pal Last Line: It is a true error to marry with poets %or to be by them s DREAM SONGS: 188 First Line: There is a kind of undetermined hair DREAM SONGS: 189 First Line: The soft small snow gangs over my heavy house DREAM SONGS: 19 First Line: Here, whence %all have departed or will do DREAM SONGS: 190 First Line: The doomed young envy the old, the doomed old the dead young DREAM SONGS: 191 First Line: The autumn breeze was light & bright. A small bird DREAM SONGS: 192 First Line: Love me love me love love me love me %I am in need thereof DREAM SONGS: 193 First Line: Henry's friend's throat hurt (yvor winters' dead) DREAM SONGS: 194 First Line: If all must hurt at once, let yet more hurt now DREAM SONGS: 195 First Line: I stalk my mirror down this corridor DREAM SONGS: 196 First Line: I see now all these deaths are to one end DREAM SONGS: 197 First Line: I saw in my dream DREAM SONGS: 198 First Line: I held all solid, then I let some jangle DREAM SONGS: 199 First Line: I dangle on the rungs, an open target DREAM SONGS: 2. BIG BUTTONS, CORNETS: THE ADVANCE First Line: The jane is zoned! No nightspot here, no bar DREAM SONGS: 20. THE SECRET OF THE WISDOM First Line: When worst got things, how was you? Steady on? DREAM SONGS: 200 First Line: I am interested & amazed on the building across the way DREAM SONGS: 201 First Line: Hung by a thread more moments instant henry's mind DREAM SONGS: 202 First Line: With shining strides hear his redeemer come DREAM SONGS: 203 First Line: Nothing! - these young men come to interview me DREAM SONGS: 204 First Line: Henry, weak at keyboard music, leaned on DREAM SONGS: 205 First Line: Come & dance, housman's hopeless heroine DREAM SONGS: 206 First Line: Come again closer, dr. Swift & professor housman DREAM SONGS: 207 First Line: How are you? Fine, fine (I have tears unshed) DREAM SONGS: 208 First Line: His mother wrote good news: somebody was still living DREAM SONGS: 209 First Line: Henry lay cold & golden in the snow DREAM SONGS: 21 First Line: Some good people, daring & subtle voices Last Line: Clear whom he meant DREAM SONGS: 210 First Line: Mr. Blackmur, what the holy cities of america? DREAM SONGS: 211 First Line: Forgoing the andes, the sea-bottom, angkor DREAM SONGS: 212 First Line: With relief to public action, briefly stopt DREAM SONGS: 213 First Line: Wan shone my sun on easter morning, - ay DREAM SONGS: 214 First Line: Which brandished goddess wide-eyed henry's nights DREAM SONGS: 215 First Line: Took henry tea down at the athenaeum with yeats DREAM SONGS: 216 First Line: Scads a good eats,' dere own t'ree cars, the 'teens DREAM SONGS: 217 First Line: Some remember ('pretty well') the korean war DREAM SONGS: 218 First Line: Fortune gave him to know the flaming best DREAM SONGS: 219. SO LONG? STEVENS First Line: He lifted up, among the actuaries Last Line: Better than us; less wide DREAM SONGS: 220 First Line: If we're not jews, how can messiah come? DREAM SONGS: 221 First Line: I poured myself out thro' my tips. What's left? DREAM SONGS: 222 First Line: It was a difficult crime to re-enact DREAM SONGS: 223 First Line: It's wonderful the way cats bound about DREAM SONGS: 224. EIGHTY First Line: Lonely in his great age, henry's old friend DREAM SONGS: 225. PEREANT QUI ANTE NOS NOSTRA DIXERUNT First Line: Madness & booze, madness & booze DREAM SONGS: 226 First Line: Phantastic thunder shook the welkin, high DREAM SONGS: 227 First Line: Profoundly troubled over miss birnbaum DREAM SONGS: 228 First Line: The father of the mill surveyed his falls DREAM SONGS: 229 First Line: They laid their hands on henry, kindly like DREAM SONGS: 23. THE LAY OF IKE First Line: This is the lay of ike Last Line: He misread even clauswitz - wide empty grin %that never los t a vote (o adlai mine) DREAM SONGS: 230 First Line: There are voices, voices. Light's dying. Birds have quit DREAM SONGS: 231. ODE TO THAT BORING SHIT JAMES THOMSON First Line: Now gently rail on henry pussycat DREAM SONGS: 232 First Line: They work not well on all but they did for him DREAM SONGS: 233. CANTATRICE First Line: Misunderstanding. Misunderstanding, misunderstanding DREAM SONGS: 234. THE CARPENTER'S SON First Line: The child stood in the shed. The child went mad Last Line: This great man sought his retire Subject(s): Bible; Religion DREAM SONGS: 235 First Line: Tears henry shed for poor old hemingway Last Line: Or all my life I'll suffer from your anger %killing what you began DREAM SONGS: 236 First Line: When henry swung, in that great open square Last Line: The stop was mourning %and it was all well done began DREAM SONGS: 237 First Line: When in the flashlights' flare the adultering pair DREAM SONGS: 238. HENRY'S PROGRAMME FOR GOD First Line: It was not gay, that life.' you can't 'make me small' DREAM SONGS: 239 First Line: Am I a bad man? Am I a good man? DREAM SONGS: 24 First Line: Oh servant henry lectured on DREAM SONGS: 240 First Line: Air with thought thick, air scratched. The desks are hinged DREAM SONGS: 241 First Line: Father being the loneliest word in the one language DREAM SONGS: 242 First Line: About that 'me.' after a lecture once DREAM SONGS: 243 First Line: An undead morning. I - shuffle me poss's DREAM SONGS: 244 First Line: Calamity jane lies very still DREAM SONGS: 245. A WAKE-SONG First Line: Find me a sur-vivid fool, find me another DREAM SONGS: 246 First Line: Flaps, on winter's first day, loosely the flag DREAM SONGS: 247 First Line: Henry walked as if he were ashamed DREAM SONGS: 248 First Line: Snowy of her breasts the drifts, I do believe DREAM SONGS: 249 First Line: Bushes lay low. Uneven grass even lay low DREAM SONGS: 25 First Line: Henry, edged, decidedly, made up stories DREAM SONGS: 250 First Line: Sad sights. A crumbled, empty cigarette pack DREAM SONGS: 251. WALKING, FLYING - 1 First Line: Henry wandered: west, south, north, and east DREAM SONGS: 252. WALKING, FLYING - 2 First Line: We hit the great cities (only I missed madras) DREAM SONGS: 253. WALKING, FLYING - 3 First Line: He shopped down siaghin, and through sierpes DREAM SONGS: 254 First Line: Mrs. Thomas, mrs. Harris, and mrs. Neevel %were all his students DREAM SONGS: 255 First Line: My twin, the nameless one, wild in the woods DREAM SONGS: 256 First Line: Henry rested, possessed of many pills DREAM SONGS: 257 First Line: The thunder & the flaw of their great quarrel Last Line: And fell it on the start DREAM SONGS: 258 First Line: Scarlatti spurts his wit across my brain DREAM SONGS: 259 First Line: Does then our rivalry entend beyond %your death? DREAM SONGS: 26 First Line: The glories of the world struck me, made me aria, once Last Line: I had a most marvellous piece of luck. I died the island DREAM SONGS: 260 First Line: Tides of dreadful creation rocked lonely henry DREAM SONGS: 261 First Line: Restless, as once in love, he put pen to paper DREAM SONGS: 262 First Line: The tenor of the line of your retreats DREAM SONGS: 263 First Line: You couldn't bear to grow old, but we grow old DREAM SONGS: 264 First Line: I always wanted to be old, I wanted to say DREAM SONGS: 265 First Line: I don't know one damned butterfly from another DREAM SONGS: 266 First Line: Dinch me, dark god, having smoked me out DREAM SONGS: 267 First Line: Can louis die? Why, then it's time to join him DREAM SONGS: 268 First Line: Henry, absent on parade, hair-triggered, mourned DREAM SONGS: 269 First Line: Acres of spirits every single day DREAM SONGS: 27 First Line: The greens of the ganges delta foliate DREAM SONGS: 270 First Line: This fellow keeps on sticking at his drum DREAM SONGS: 271 First Line: Why then did he make, at such cost, crazy sounds? DREAM SONGS: 272 First Line: The subject was her. He was the object. Clings DREAM SONGS: 273 First Line: Surivive - exist - who is at others' will DREAM SONGS: 274 First Line: It's lovely just here now in the midst of night DREAM SONGS: 275 First Line: And yet I find myself able, at this deep point DREAM SONGS: 276. HENRY'S FAREWELL - 1 First Line: He tossed a farewell party for his pals DREAM SONGS: 277. HENRY'S FAREWELL - 2 First Line: Willing them well! He hoped would not collapse DREAM SONGS: 278. HENRY'S FAREWELL - 3 First Line: Fail may your enemies, abundant here DREAM SONGS: 279 First Line: Leaving behind the country of the dead DREAM SONGS: 28. SNOW LINE First Line: It was wet & white & swift and where I am DREAM SONGS: 280 First Line: Decision taken, henry'll be back abroad DREAM SONGS: 281. THE FOLLOWING GULLS First Line: We missed quebec but now the north shore lights DREAM SONGS: 282 First Line: Richard & randall, & one who never did DREAM SONGS: 283 First Line: Shrouded the great stars, the great boat moves on DREAM SONGS: 284 First Line: The hand I shook will operate no more DREAM SONGS: 285 First Line: Much petted henry like a petal throve DREAM SONGS: 286 First Line: So henry's enemy's lost, not paranoia DREAM SONGS: 287 First Line: A best word across a void makes a hard blaze DREAM SONGS: 288 First Line: In neighbourhoods evil of noise, he deployed, henry DREAM SONGS: 289 First Line: It is, after her! & in the late afternoon DREAM SONGS: 290 First Line: Why is ireland the wettest place on earth Last Line: Fate across all them rolls Subject(s): History; Iowa; Ireland; Poetry And Poets DREAM SONGS: 291 First Line: Cold & golden lay the high heroine Last Line: Who may hire us for theirs DREAM SONGS: 292 First Line: The irish sky is raining, the irish winds are high Last Line: & the last voice in drawled; 'henry? A brick' Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Immigrants; Nationalism - Ireland DREAM SONGS: 293 First Line: What gall had he in him, so to begin book vii DREAM SONGS: 294 First Line: I broke a mirror, in which I figured you DREAM SONGS: 295 First Line: You dear you, clearing up henry's foreign affairs DREAM SONGS: 296 First Line: Of grace & fear, said lady valerie DREAM SONGS: 297 First Line: Golden his mail came at his journey's end DREAM SONGS: 298 First Line: Henry in transition, transient henry DREAM SONGS: 299 First Line: The irish have the thickest ankles in the world Last Line: Depressed, down on my knees Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Labor And Laborers; Prayer DREAM SONGS: 3. A STIMULANT FOR AN OLD BEAST First Line: Acacia, burnt myrrh, velvet, prickly stings DREAM SONGS: 30 First Line: Collating bones: I would have liked to do DREAM SONGS: 300. HENRY COMFORTED First Line: Your first day in dublin is always your worst DREAM SONGS: 301 First Line: Shifted his mind & was once more full of the great dean DREAM SONGS: 302 First Line: Cold & golden lay the high heroine Last Line: Henry not being at home DREAM SONGS: 303. THREE IN HEAVEN I HOPE First Line: Three in heaven I hope' saild old jane to henry DREAM SONGS: 304 First Line: Maris & valerie held his grand esteem DREAM SONGS: 305 First Line: Like the sunburst up the white breast of a black-footed penguin DREAM SONGS: 306 First Line: The danish priest has horns of solid fire DREAM SONGS: 307 First Line: The irish monk with horns of solid mire DREAM SONGS: 308. AN INSTRUCTIONS TO CRITICS First Line: The women of kilkenny weep when the team loses DREAM SONGS: 309 First Line: Fallen leaves & litter. It is september DREAM SONGS: 31 First Line: Henry hankovitch, con guitar DREAM SONGS: 310 First Line: His gift receded. He could write no more DREAM SONGS: 311 First Line: Famisht henry ate everything in sight DREAM SONGS: 312 First Line: I have moved to dublin to have it out with you DREAM SONGS: 313 First Line: The irish sunshine is lovely but a belfast man DREAM SONGS: 314 First Line: Penniless, ill, abroad, henry lay skew DREAM SONGS: 315 First Line: Behind me twice her necessary knight DREAM SONGS: 316 First Line: Blow upon blow, his fire-breath hurt me sore DREAM SONGS: 317 First Line: My mother threw a tantrum on a high terrace DREAM SONGS: 318 First Line: Happy & idle, songless henry swung DREAM SONGS: 319 First Line: Having escaped, except in his dreams, many dooms DREAM SONGS: 32 First Line: And where, friend quuo, lay you hiding DREAM SONGS: 320 First Line: Steps almost unfamiliar toward his door DREAM SONGS: 321 First Line: O land of connolly & pearse, what have DREAM SONGS: 322 First Line: I gave my love a cookie, as I said DREAM SONGS: 323 First Line: Churchill was ever-active & crammed with glee DREAM SONGS: 324. AN ELEGY FOR W.C.W., THE LOVELY MAN First Line: Henry in ireland to bill underground Last Line: Of our trials & our last bride began Subject(s): Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963) DREAM SONGS: 325 First Line: Control it now, it can't do any good DREAM SONGS: 326 First Line: My right foot being colder than my left knee DREAM SONGS: 327 First Line: Freud was some wrong about dreams, or almost all DREAM SONGS: 328 First Line: I write with my stomach: henry ruefully DREAM SONGS: 329 First Line: Henry on lsd was henry indeed Subject(s): Lsd (lysergic Acid) DREAM SONGS: 33 First Line: An apple arc'd toward kleitos; whose great king DREAM SONGS: 330 First Line: The twiss is a tidy bundle, chirped joyous henry DREAM SONGS: 331 First Line: This is the third. What have I more to say DREAM SONGS: 332 First Line: Trunks & impedimenta. My manuscript won't go DREAM SONGS: 333 First Line: And now I've sent, custodian of songs DREAM SONGS: 334 First Line: Thrums up from nowhere a distinquisht wail DREAM SONGS: 335 First Line: In his complex investigations of death DREAM SONGS: 336 First Line: Henry as a landlord made his eight friends laugh DREAM SONGS: 337 First Line: The mind is incalculable. Greatly excited DREAM SONGS: 338 First Line: According to the annals of the four masters DREAM SONGS: 339 First Line: A maze of drink said: I will help you through the world DREAM SONGS: 34 First Line: My mother has your shotgun. One man, wide DREAM SONGS: 340 First Line: The secret is not praise. It's just being accepted DREAM SONGS: 341. THE DIALOGUE, AET. 51 First Line: Imperishable henry glared at the map DREAM SONGS: 342 First Line: Fan-mail from foreign countries, is that fame? DREAM SONGS: 343 First Line: Another directory form to be corrected DREAM SONGS: 344. HERBERT PARK, DUBLIN First Line: Were you good to him? He was not to you DREAM SONGS: 345 First Line: Anarchic henry thought of laying hands DREAM SONGS: 346 First Line: Henry's very rich american friends DREAM SONGS: 347 First Line: The day was dark. The day was hardly day DREAM SONGS: 348 First Line: 700 years? It's too soon to decide DREAM SONGS: 349 First Line: The great bosch in the prado, castles in spain DREAM SONGS: 350 First Line: All the girls, with their vivacious littles DREAM SONGS: 351 First Line: Animal henry sat reading the times literary supplement DREAM SONGS: 352 First Line: The cabin, congdon st., & the old gristmill DREAM SONGS: 353 First Line: These massacres of the superior peoples %the armenians, the jews, the ibos, al DREAM SONGS: 354 First Line: The only happy people in the world DREAM SONGS: 355. SLATTERY'S, IN BALLSBRIDGE First Line: Cling to me & I promise you'll drown too DREAM SONGS: 356 First Line: With fried excitement he looked across at life DREAM SONGS: 357 First Line: Henry's pride in his house was almost fierce DREAM SONGS: 358. THE GRIPE First Line: The price he pays for sleep. Pockets of grief DREAM SONGS: 359 First Line: In sleep, of a heart attack, let henry go DREAM SONGS: 35: MLA First Line: Hey, out there! - assistant professors, full Last Line: Forget your footnotes on the old gentlemen: %dance around mary DREAM SONGS: 36 First Line: The high ones die, die. They die. You look up and who's there? DREAM SONGS: 360 First Line: The universe has gifted me with friends DREAM SONGS: 361. THE ARMADA SONG First Line: They came ashore with erections DREAM SONGS: 362 First Line: And now I meet you in the thinky place DREAM SONGS: 363 First Line: I cast as feminine miss shirley jones %as she was in oklahoma! DREAM SONGS: 364 First Line: There is one book that henry hasn't read: %ubu roi DREAM SONGS: 365 First Line: Henry, a foreigner, lustful & old DREAM SONGS: 366 First Line: Chilled in this irish pub I wish my loves Last Line: Lilac was found in his hand DREAM SONGS: 367. HENRY'S CRISIS First Line: In sight of a more peaceful country, just beyond DREAM SONGS: 368 First Line: At a gallop through his gates came monsters, buoyant DREAM SONGS: 369 First Line: I threw myself out helter-skelter-whiz DREAM SONGS: 37. THREE AROUND THE OLD GENTLEMAN First Line: His malice was a pimple down his good DREAM SONGS: 370 First Line: Henry saw with tolstoyan clarity DREAM SONGS: 371. HENRY'S GUILT First Line: Sluggish, depressed, & with no mail to cheer DREAM SONGS: 372 First Line: O yes I wish her well. Let her come on DREAM SONGS: 373 First Line: My eyes with which I see so easily DREAM SONGS: 374 First Line: Drum henry out, called some. Others called no DREAM SONGS: 375. HIS HELPLESSNESS First Line: I know a young lady's high-piled ashen hair Last Line: Whose last letter flew like a prayer DREAM SONGS: 376 First Line: Christmas again, when you're supposed to be happiest DREAM SONGS: 377 First Line: Father hopkins, teaching elementary greek DREAM SONGS: 378 First Line: The beating of a horse fouled nietszche's avatar DREAM SONGS: 379 First Line: To the edge of europe, the eighteenth edge DREAM SONGS: 38 First Line: The russian grin bellows his condolence DREAM SONGS: 380. FROM THE FRENCH HOSPITAL IN NEW YORK First Line: Wordsworth, thou form almost divine, cried henry DREAM SONGS: 381 First Line: Cave-man henry grumbled to his spouse DREAM SONGS: 382 First Line: At henry's bier let some thing fall out well Last Line: She flings to her head a leg, bobs, all is well, %she dances henry away DREAM SONGS: 383 First Line: It brightens with power, when the dawn begins DREAM SONGS: 384 First Line: The marker slants, flowerless, day's almost done Last Line: And fell it on the start DREAM SONGS: 385 First Line: My daughter's heavier. Light leaves are flying Last Line: I wouldn't have to scold %my heavy daughter Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters DREAM SONGS: 39 First Line: Goodbye, sir, & fare well. You're in the clear DREAM SONGS: 4 First Line: Filling her compact & delicious body Last Line: Where did it all go wrong? There ought to be a law against henry. %- mr. Bones: there is Subject(s): Desire; Love DREAM SONGS: 40 First Line: I'm scared a lonely. Never see my son Last Line: Forever never, get back on the take, %free, black & forty-one DREAM SONGS: 41 First Line: If we sang in the wood (and death is a german expert) DREAM SONGS: 42 First Line: O journeyer, deaf in the mould, insane DREAM SONGS: 43 First Line: Oyez, oyez!' the man who did not deliver DREAM SONGS: 44 First Line: Tell it to the forest fire, tell it to the moon DREAM SONGS: 45 First Line: He stared at ruin. Ruin stared straight back Last Line: For all the imposters, and to make it stick. %henry nodded, un DREAM SONGS: 46 First Line: I am, outside. Incredible panic rules Last Line: Like the memory of a lovely fuck, %was: do, ut des DREAM SONGS: 47. APRIL FOOL'S DAY, OR, ST MARY OF EGYPT First Line: Thass a funny title, mr bones Last Line: Whom god has not visited Subject(s): Bible; Religion DREAM SONGS: 48 First Line: He yelled at me in greek DREAM SONGS: 49. BLIND First Line: Old pussy-cat if he won't eat, he don't DREAM SONGS: 5 First Line: Henry sats in de bar & was odd Last Line: An image of the dead on the fingernail %of a newborn child DREAM SONGS: 50 First Line: In a motion of night they massed nearer my post DREAM SONGS: 51 First Line: Our wounds to time, from all the other times DREAM SONGS: 52. SILENT SONG First Line: Bright-eyed & bushy tailed woke not henry up DREAM SONGS: 53 First Line: He lay in the middle of the world, and twitcht Last Line: We are using our own skins for wallpaper and we cannot win DREAM SONGS: 54 First Line: No visitors' I thumb the roller to DREAM SONGS: 55 First Line: Peter's not friendly. He gives me sideways looks Last Line: Some other sound is overcoming. His last words are: %'we betrayed me.' DREAM SONGS: 56 First Line: Hell is empty. O that has come to pass DREAM SONGS: 57 First Line: In a state of chortle sin - once he reflected DREAM SONGS: 58 First Line: Industrious, affable, having brain on fire DREAM SONGS: 59. HENRY'S MEDITATION IN THE KREMLIN First Line: Down on the cathedrals, as from the giralda DREAM SONGS: 6. A CAPITAL AT WELLS First Line: During the father's walking - how he look DREAM SONGS: 60 First Line: Afters eight years, be less dan eight percent DREAM SONGS: 61 First Line: Full moon. Our narragansett gales subside Last Line: And a sullen glory pauses over them harmed, %incident to murder DREAM SONGS: 62 First Line: That dark brown rabbit, lightness in his ears Last Line: Mr. Bones, we are all brutes & fools DREAM SONGS: 63 First Line: Bats have no bankers and they do not drink DREAM SONGS: 64 First Line: Supreme my holdings, greater yet my need Subject(s): Religion DREAM SONGS: 65 First Line: A freaking ankle crabbed his blissful trips DREAM SONGS: 66 First Line: All viruses enter into this world DREAM SONGS: 67 First Line: I don't operate often. When I do DREAM SONGS: 68 First Line: I heard, could be, a hey there from the wing Last Line: Black to the birds again Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937) DREAM SONGS: 69 First Line: Love her he doesn't but the thought he puts DREAM SONGS: 7. 'PRISONER OF SHARK ISLAND,' PAUL MUNI First Line: Henry is old, old; for henry remembers DREAM SONGS: 70 First Line: Disengaged, bloody, henry rose from the shell DREAM SONGS: 71 First Line: Spellbound held subtle henry all his four DREAM SONGS: 72. THE ELDER PRESENCES First Line: Shh! On a twine hung from diastered trees DREAM SONGS: 73. KARENSANSUI, RYOAN-JI First Line: The taxi makes the vegetables fly DREAM SONGS: 74 First Line: Henry hates the world. What the world to henry DREAM SONGS: 75 First Line: Turning it over, considering, like a madman Last Line: Small girls to dream awhile toward the flashing & bursting tree DREAM SONGS: 76. HENRY'S CONFESSION First Line: Nothin very bad happen to me lately Last Line: I saw nobody coming, so I went instead DREAM SONGS: 77 First Line: Seedy henry rose up shy in de world Last Line: & his heart full, he's making ready to move on DREAM SONGS: 78. OP. POSTH. NO. 1 First Line: Darkened his eye, his wild smile disappeared DREAM SONGS: 79. OP. POSTH. NO. 2 First Line: Whence flew the litter whereon hwe was laid? DREAM SONGS: 8 First Line: The weather was fine. They took away his teeth DREAM SONGS: 80. OP. POSTH. NO. 3 First Line: It's buried at a distance, on my insistence, buried DREAM SONGS: 81. OP. POSTH. NO. 4 First Line: He loom' so cagey he say 'leema beans.' DREAM SONGS: 82. OP. POSTH. NO. 5 First Line: Maskt as honours, insult like behaving DREAM SONGS: 83. OP. POSTH. NO. 6 First Line: I recall a boil, whereupon as I had to sit DREAM SONGS: 84. OP. POSTH. NO. 7 First Line: Plop, plop. The lobster toppled in the pot DREAM SONGS: 85. OP. POSTH. NO. 8 First Line: Flak. An eventful thought came to me DREAM SONGS: 86. OP. POSTH. NO. 9 First Line: The conclusion is growing - I feel sure, my lord DREAM SONGS: 87. OP. POSTH. NO. 10 First Line: These hearings endlessly, friends, word is had DREAM SONGS: 88. OP. POSTH. NO. 11 First Line: In slack times visit I the violent dead DREAM SONGS: 89. OP. POSTH. NO. 12 First Line: In a blue series towards his sleepy eyes DREAM SONGS: 9 First Line: Deprived of his enemy, shrugged to a standstill Last Line: Fancy the brain from hell %held out so long. Let go DREAM SONGS: 90. OP. POSTH. NO. 13 First Line: In the night-reaches dreamed he of better graces DREAM SONGS: 91. OP. POSTH. NO. 14 First Line: Noises from the underground made gibber some DREAM SONGS: 92. ROOM 231: THE FOURTH WEEK First Line: Something black somewhere in the vistas of his heart DREAM SONGS: 93 First Line: General fatigue stalked in, & a major-general DREAM SONGS: 94 First Line: Ill lay he long, upon his last return DREAM SONGS: 95 First Line: The surly cop lookt out at me in sleep DREAM SONGS: 96 First Line: Under the table, no. That last was stunning DREAM SONGS: 97 First Line: Henry of donnybrook bred like a pig DREAM SONGS: 98 First Line: I met a junior - not so junior - and DREAM SONGS: 99. TEMPLES First Line: He does not live here but it is the god DRUGS ALCOHOL LITTLE SISTER First Line: When I peered out, he had nine nights to spare DRUNKS First Line: One night in albany ECCE HOMO First Line: Long long with wonder I thought you human ELEGY, FOR ALUN LEWIS Poem Text First Line: Little attention we paid to each other alive Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ENEMIES OF THE ANGELS First Line: The irish and the italians own the place EPILOGUE First Line: He died in december. He must descend Last Line: Nouns, verbs do not exist for what I feel the island FACTS & ISSUES First Line: I really believe he's here all over this room FARE WELL Poem Text First Line: Motions of waking trouble winter air Subject(s): Farewell; Parting FARE WELL First Line: Motions of waking trouble winter air FAREWELL TO MILES First Line: We are to tell one man tonight good-bye FIRST NIGHT AT SEA First Line: I'm at a table with canadians FORM First Line: Mutinous & free I drifted off FORMAL ELEGY Poem Text First Line: A hurdle of water, and o these waters are cold Last Line: Let us continue Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963) FORMAL ELEGY First Line: A hurdle of water, and o these waters are cold Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963) FOUR DREAMS SONGS Poem Text First Line: The greens of the ganges delta foliate Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares FRESHMAN BLUES First Line: My intense friend was tall & strongly made FRIENDLESS First Line: Friendless in clare, except brian boydell GISLEBERTUS' EVE First Line: Eve & her envy roving slammed me down Last Line: I too find it delicious GLORY THERE IS OVER IRELAND NOW Last Line: With swifter sun the passionate long race %and won, that lonely man HANDSHAKE, THE ENTRANCE First Line: You've got to cross that lonesome valley' HAVE A GENUINE AMERICAN HORROR & MIST ON THE ROCKS First Line: The terrible trains crawl seaward thro' the south HE RESIGNS First Line: Age, and the deaths, and the ghosts Last Line: Above an empty heart HEAVEN First Line: Free! While in the cathedral at seville HELL POEM First Line: Hospital racket, nurses' iron smiles HELLO First Line: Hello there, biscuit! You're a better-looking broad HENRY BY NIGHT First Line: Henry's nocturnal habits were the terror of his women Last Line: Sweating & shaking: something's gotta give: %up for good at five HENRY'S UNDERSTANDING First Line: He was reading late, at richard's, down in maine Subject(s): Night; Bedtime HENRY'S UNDERSTANDING First Line: He was reading late, at richard's, down in maine Last Line: Into the terrible water & walk forever %under it out toward the island Subject(s): Night HER & IT First Line: I fell in love with a girl HEROES First Line: For all his vehemence & hydraulic opinions HIS TOY, HIS DREAM, HIS REST (THE DREAM SONGS: BOOKS 4-7) HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET (17-39) First Line: The winters close, springs open, no child stirs Last Line: Under a frenzy of who love me & who shine Subject(s): Birth; Bradstreet, Anne (1612-1672) HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET (COMPLETE) Poem Text First Line: The governor your husband lived so long Last Line: A sourcing whom my lost candle like the firefly loves Subject(s): Bradstreet, Anne (1612-1672) HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET (COMPLETE) First Line: The governor your husband lived so long Last Line: A sourcing -- whom my lost candle like the firefly loves Subject(s): Bradstreet, Anne (1612-1672) HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET: 1 First Line: The governor your husband lived so long Last Line: Simon..' simon will you listen while read a song HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET: 10 First Line: Vellum I palm, and dream. Their forest dies Last Line: For an unknown cry or a flicker of unknown eyes HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET: 11 First Line: Clapped souls ours, by the day spring's strong winds swelled Last Line: In arms, against that one, and our dissidents, and myself HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET: 12 First Line: Versing, I shroud among the dynasties Last Line: Mistress neither of fiery nor velvet verse, on your knees HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET: 13 First Line: Hopeful & shamefast, chaste, laborious, old Last Line: I found my heart more carnal and sitting loose from god HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET: 14 First Line: Vanity & the follies of youth took hold of me Last Line: Vouchsafed, what did seem life. I kissed his mystery HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET: 15 First Line: Drydust in god's eye that aquavivid skin Last Line: At twenty-one. Ambition mines, atrocious sin HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET: 16 First Line: Food endless, people few, all to be done Last Line: We lead a thoughtful life. But boston's cage we shun HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET: 17 First Line: The winters close, springs open, no child stirs Last Line: I revolt from, I am like, these savage foresters Subject(s): Birth; Bradstreet, Anne (1612-1672) HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET: 18 First Line: Whose passionless dicker in the shade, whose glance Last Line: And merciful, ingrown months, blessing a swelling trance Subject(s): Birth; Bradstreet, Anne (1612-1672) HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET: 19 Poem Text First Line: So squeezed, wince you I scream? I love you & hate Last Line: Shame I am voiding oh behind it is too late Subject(s): Birth; Bradstreet, Anne (1612-1672); Child Birth; Midwifery HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET: 19 First Line: So squeezed, wince you I scream? I love you & hate Last Line: Shame I am voiding oh behind it is too late Subject(s): Birth; Bradstreet, Anne (1612-1672) HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET: 2 First Line: Outside the new world winters in grand dark Last Line: Who care. Both of our worlds unhanded us. Lie stark HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET: 20 Poem Text First Line: Hide me forever I work thrust I must free Last Line: And it passes the wretched trap whelming and I am me Subject(s): Birth; Bradstreet, Anne (1612-1672); Child Birth; Midwifery HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET: 20 First Line: Hide me forever I work thrust I must free Last Line: And it passes the wrteched trap whelming and I am me Subject(s): Birth; Bradstreet, Anne (1612-1672) HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET: 21 Poem Text First Line: Drencht & powerful, I did it with my body Last Line: Blossom. Is that thing alive? I hear a famisht howl Subject(s): Birth; Bradstreet, Anne (1612-1672); Child Birth; Midwifery HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET: 21 First Line: Drencht & powerful, I did it with my body Last Line: Blossom. Is that thing alive? I hear a famisht howl Subject(s): Birth; Bradstreet, Anne (1612-1672) HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET: 3 First Line: Thy eyes look to me mild. Out of maize & air Last Line: To a lone stranger; or not; shimmer & disappear HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET: 34 First Line: I trundle over the bodies, on the iron bars Last Line: God awaits us (but I am yielding) who hell wars HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET: 35 First Line: #name? Last Line: Broadens and time holds up your heart against my eyes HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET: 36 First Line: #name? Last Line: To crunch, a minute tangle of eternal flame HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET: 37 First Line: I fear hell's hammer-wind. But fear does wane Last Line: Small women swarming towards the mortar's rim in vain HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET: 4 First Line: Jaw-ript, rot wth its wisdom, rending then Last Line: And the governor, & father, & simon, and the huddled men HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET: 42 First Line: When by me in the dusk my child sits down Last Line: Away in brutish london, for a hollow crown HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET: 43 First Line: Father is not himself. He keeps his bed Last Line: My baby john breaks out. O far from where he bred! HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET: 44 First Line: Bone of moaning: sung. Where he has gone Last Line: Finish, lord, in me this work thou hast begun HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET: 45 First Line: And they tower, whom the pear-tree lured Last Line: And the galled effort on the wilderness ended HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET: 46 First Line: Arminians, and the king bore against us Last Line: Hard at the outset; in the ending thus hard, thus? HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET: 47 First Line: Sacred & unutterable mind Last Line: To heaven's springs? Lest stricter writhings have me declined HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET: 48 First Line: What are those pictures in the air at night Last Line: Missed he must have. In the gross storm of sunlight HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET: 49 First Line: I sniffg a fire burning without outlet Last Line: Less I was anxious when more passioned to upset HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET: 5 First Line: By the week we landed we were, most, used up Last Line: And the day itself he leapt ashore young henry winthrop HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET: 50 First Line: The mansion & the garden & the beauty of god Last Line: I look. I bear to look. Strokes once more his rod HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET: 51 First Line: My window gives on the graves, in our great new house Last Line: Beat when you will our end. Sinkins & droopings drowse HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET: 52 First Line: They say thro' the fading winter dorothy fails Last Line: Docile I watch. My wrechkt chest hurts when simon pales HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET: 53 First Line: In the yellowing days your faces wholly fail Last Line: Unfit, desirous, glad - even the singings veil HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET: 54 First Line: You are not ready? You are ready. Pass Last Line: Hungry throngs collect. They sword into the carcass HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET: 55 First Line: Headstones stagger under great draughts of time Last Line: Reactor piles wage slow upon the wet brain rime HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET: 56 First Line: I must pretend to leave you. Only you draw off Last Line: I renounce not even ragged glances, small teeth, nothing HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET: 57 First Line: O all your ages at the mercy of my loves Last Line: A sourcing whom my lost candle like the firefly loves HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET: 6 First Line: (delivered from the waves; because he found Last Line: Hard on the sumptuous feasting of thanksgiving) drowned HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET: 7 First Line: How long with nothing in the ruinous heat Last Line: Dyings - at which my heart rose, but I did submit HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET: 8 First Line: That beyond the atlantic wound our woes enlarge Last Line: Keep that I have committed to his charge HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET: 9 First Line: Winter than summer worse, that first, like a file Last Line: Away: open my mouth, my eyes wet: I would smile HOME BALLAD First Line: We must work & play and john jacob niles HOW DO YOU DO, DR BERRYMAN, SIR?' First Line: Edgy, perhaps. Not on the point of bursting-forth HUDDLE OF NEED First Line: I wondered about their things. Were they large or small? I KNOW' First Line: Revelations every two hours on the lounge I'VE FOUND OUT WHY, THAT DAY, THAT SUICIDE First Line: I've found out why, that day, that suicide Last Line: Did you bolt so, before it caught, our fire? IMAGES OF ELSPETH First Line: O when I grunted, over lines and her IN & OUT First Line: Niceties of symbolism & identification IN MEMORIAM (1914-1953) First Line: Took my leave (last) five times before the end INNOCENT Poem Text First Line: Cats' eyes could see a flub of blood Subject(s): Innocence INTERSTITIAL OFFICE First Line: Bitter upon conviction KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN WHEN YOU KISS: DO: WHEN First Line: Keep your eyes open when you kiss: do: when Last Line: You do, you do, and I look into them. KING DAVID DANCES Poem Text First Line: Aware to the dry throat of the wide hell in the world Last Line: All the black same I dance my blue head off! Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology KING DAVID DANCES First Line: Aware to the dry throat of the wide hell in the world Last Line: Of all the black same I dance my blue head off! Subject(s): Bible; Religion LAUDS First Line: Let us rejoice on our cots, for his nocturnal miracles Last Line: Permissive, smiling on - our silliness you forged LETTER TO HIS BROTHER First Line: The night is on these hills, and some can sleep LIGHTING First Line: Sick with the lightning lay my sister-in-law LINES TO MR FROST First Line: Felled in my tracks by your tremendous horse LONDON Poem Text First Line: I hardly slept across the north atlantic Last Line: & took a 9:06 train up to cambridge Subject(s): Air Travel; London LONDON First Line: I hardly slept across the north atlantic Subject(s): Air Travel; London LONG HOME First Line: Bulks where the barley blew, time out of mind MATINS First Line: Thou hard. I will be blunt: like widening MEDITATION First Line: The clouds before the sun when the sun rose MEETING First Line: One luncheon party in andy's rooms in magdalene MESSAGE First Line: Amplitude,-voltage,-the one friend calls for the one MINNESOTA THANKSGIVING First Line: For that free grace bringing us past great risks MOON AND THE NIGHT AND THE MEN First Line: On the night of the belgian surrender the moon rose Last Line: Of none, nor of anyone, and the war %goes on, and the moon in the breast of man is cold Subject(s): Belgium; Leopold Iii, King Of The Belgians; World War Ii MY SPECIAL FATE First Line: I tore it open, by one end, & found MYSTERIES First Line: And now you be my guest NARCISSUS MOVING First Line: Noise of the vans woke us before we would NAVAJO SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT First Line: Warrior who went with a crowd, my sand-painter grandfather' NEW YEAR'S EVE First Line: The grey girl who had not been singing stopped Last Line: We clasp upon the stroke, kissing with happy cries NIGHT AND THE CITY First Line: Two men sat by a stone in what dim place NINE DREAM SONGS Poem Text First Line: In a motion of night they massed nearer my post Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares NINETEEN THIRTY-EIGHT Poem Text First Line: Across the frontiers of the helpless world Last Line: Criminal, to stand as warning Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) NINETEEN THIRTY-EIGHT Poem Text First Line: Across the frontiers of the helpless world Last Line: Criminal, to stand as warning Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) NINETEEN THIRTY-EIGHT First Line: Across the frontiers of the helpless world Last Line: Criminal, to stand as warning Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) NO First Line: She says: seek help! Ha-ha ha-ha & christ NONES First Line: Problem. I cannot among your saints NOT TO LIVE First Line: It kissed us, soft, to cut our throats, this coast NOTE TO WANG WEI Poem Text First Line: How could you be so happy, now some thousand years Last Line: Be dust myself pretty soon; not now Subject(s): Wang Wei (699-759) NOTE TO WANG WEI First Line: How could you be so happy, now some thousand years Last Line: Be dust myself pretty soon; not now Subject(s): Wang Wei (699-759) NOWHERE First Line: Traitoring words,-tearing my thought across OF POETS - TO RICHARD WILBUR First Line: I'm tired from my book, done in a few weeks while teaching Last Line: Sometimes things come to a dead end. %st paul & st augustine ended in defeat OF SUICIDE First Line: Reflexions on suicide, & on my father, possess me Last Line: Apparently he didn't. I'll teach luke OLD MAN GOES SOUTH AGAIN ALONE First Line: O parakeets & avocets, o immortelles OLYMPUS First Line: In my serpentine researches ON THE DEATH OF YEATS First Line: The rain upon the window and the wall Last Line: He takes his place, lifted at last %as antaeus strengthless,for his setting forth ON THE LONDON TRAIN First Line: Despite the lonesome look OTHER CAMBRIDGE First Line: Tom grumbold's bridge has balusters set diagonally OVERSEAS PRAYER First Line: Good evening. At the feet of the king, my lord PACIFIST'S SONG First Line: I am the same yes as you others, only PARTING AS DESCENT First Line: The sun rushed up the sky; the taxi flew POEM FOR BHAIN First Line: Although the relatives in the summer house POET'S FINAL INSTRUCTIONS First Line: Dog-tired, suisired, will now my body down POINT OF AGE First Line: At twenty-five a man is on his way POSSESSED First Line: This afternoon, discomfortable dead PRAYER AFTER ALL First Line: Father, father, I am overwhelmed PRAYER OF THE MIDDLE-AGED MAN First Line: Amid the doctors in the temple at twelve PRIME First Line: Occludes wild dawn. Up thro' green ragged clouds PROFESSIONAL NOTES: 1 First Line: We are competitors, you say, and so Last Line: Neither beng foremost, both having won %the difficult altitudes of the sun PROFESSIONAL NOTES: 556 First Line: Hurry, I hear on all sides or you'll be Last Line: And pause to prune a cadence by the way, %for who arrives at all is there in time PROFESSOR'S SONG First Line: (rabid or dog-dull) let me tell you how Last Line: Convulsed, foaming immortal blood: farewell PURGATORY First Line: The days are over, I leave after breakfast RECOVERY First Line: I don't know what the hell happened all that summer RELATIONS First Line: I feel congruity, feel colleagueship REVIVAL First Line: At seventeen (dear) I was strictly nowhere RIVER ROUGE, 1932 First Line: Snow on the ground. A day in march ROCK-STUDY WITH WANDERER First Line: Cold cold cold of a special night' ROETHKE'S YULE First Line: I feel a stupid rumbling Last Line: Where she weaves, I stood! %something's gonna get born! %(well ... No real good!) SANCTUARY First Line: An evening faultless interval SCHOLARS AT THE ORCHID PAVILION First Line: Sozzled, mo-tsu, after a silence, vouchsafed SCOTS POEM Poem Text First Line: Loversgrove lay SCOTS POEM First Line: Loversgrove lay SEARCH First Line: I wondered ever too what my fate would be SEXT First Line: High noon has me pitchblack, so in hope out SHIRLEY & AUDEN First Line: O lithest shirley! & the other worlds SOMBER PRAYER First Line: O my lord, I am not eloquent SONG First Line: From pharos I have seen her white SONG OF THE BRIDEGROOM First Line: A sort of anxiousness crystal in crystal has SONG OF THE DEMENTED PRIEST First Line: I put those things there. - see them burn Last Line: In my red coat. I am the king of the dead Subject(s): Clergy; Depression, Mental SONG OF THE MAN FORSAKEN AND OBSESSED First Line: Viridian and gamboge and vermilion SONG OF THE TORTURED GIRL First Line: After a little I could not have told Last Line: Minutes I lay awake to hear my joy SONG OF THE YOUNG HAWAIIAN First Line: Ai, they all pass in front of me those girls SONNET: 103 First Line: A 'broken heart' - but can a heart break, now? Last Line: Weeks of this, - no doctor finds a thing), %not much; still,this is something SONNET: 115 First Line: As usual I'm up before the sun Last Line: Someone, and come & find me on the floor SONNET: 13 First Line: I lift -- lift you five states away your glass Last Line: Grey eyes light! And we have our drink together SONNET: 15 First Line: What was ashore, then? Cargoed with forget Last Line: And I begin now to despair of port Variant Title(s): What Was Ashore, Then?..cargoed With Forge SONNET: 23 Poem Text First Line: They may suppose, because I would not cloy your ear Last Line: Pompous and vague on the stump of his career Subject(s): Poetry & Poets SONNET: 23 First Line: They may suppose, because I would not cloy your ear Last Line: Tarpped in my rib-cage something throes and aches! Subject(s): Poetry And Poets SONNET: 25 Poem Text First Line: Sometimes the night echoes to prideless wailing SONNET: 25 First Line: Sometimes the night echoes to prideless wailing SONNET: 37 First Line: Sigh as it ends - I keep an eye on your %amour with scotch Last Line: Flat on the bare rivetted to bach SONNET: 71 First Line: Our sunday morning when dawn-priests were applying Last Line: Boughs made over us, deep in a bed half made %needle-soft, half the sea of our simulatenous dying SPINNING HEART First Line: The fireflies and the stars our only light STATUE First Line: The statue, tolerant through years of weather SURVIVING LOVE Poem Text First Line: The clapper hovers, but why run so hard? Subject(s): Love SURVIVING LOVE First Line: The clapper hovers, but why run so hard SYMPATHY, A WELCOME First Line: Feel for your bad fall how could I fail Last Line: Deep in a forsaken wood, poor paul, %whose wild bad father loves you well Subject(s): Fathers And Sons TAMPA SOUP First Line: The first signs of the death of the boom came in the summer TEA First Line: O! I had my gyp prepare that tea TERCE First Line: Oh half as fearful for the yawning day THANKSGIVING: DETROIT First Line: Lockout. The seventh week. Men in the square THE BALL POEM Poem Text First Line: What is the boy now, who has lost his ball Subject(s): Sports THE CAGE Poem Text First Line: And the americans put pound in a cage Subject(s): Pound, Ezra (1885-1972); Prisons & Prisoners; Convicts THE DISPOSSESSED Poem Text First Line: And something that - that is theirs - no longer our's THE DREAM SONGS: 1 Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Huffy henry hid the day, Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE DREAM SONGS: 14 Poem Text First Line: Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so Subject(s): Boredom; Life; Ennui THE DREAM SONGS: 142 Poem Text First Line: The animal moment, when he sorted out her tail Last Line: But when henry & his wives came to blows Subject(s): Love THE DREAM SONGS: 145 Poem Text First Line: Also I love him: me he's done no wrong Last Line: Trying to make yourself forgive someone for something so unforgiveable Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Suicide THE DREAM SONGS: 155 Poem Text First Line: I can't get him out of my mind, out of my mind Last Line: Alive with surplus love Subject(s): Schwartz, Delmore (1913-1966) THE DREAM SONGS: 172 Poem Text First Line: Your face broods from my table, suicide Last Line: How one act can affect so many people that are left behind Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963) THE DREAM SONGS: 234. THE CARPENTER'S SON Poem Text First Line: The child stood in the shed. The child went mad Last Line: The great man sought his retire Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE DREAM SONGS: 29 Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: There sat down, once, a thing on henry's heart Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE DREAM SONGS: 290 Poem Text First Line: Why is ireland the wettest place on earth Last Line: Fate across all them rolls Subject(s): History; Iowa; Ireland; Poetry & Poets; Historians; Irish THE DREAM SONGS: 299 Poem Text First Line: The irish have the thickest ankles in the world Last Line: Depressed. Down on my knees Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Labor & Laborers; Prayer; Work; Workers THE DREAM SONGS: 324. AN ELEGY FOR W.C.W., THE LOVELY MAN Poem Text First Line: Henry in ireland to bill underground Subject(s): Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963) THE DREAM SONGS: 385 Poem Text First Line: My daughter's heavier. Light leaves are flying Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters THE DREAM SONGS: 4 Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Filling her compact & delicious body Subject(s): Desire; Love THE DREAM SONGS: 47. APRIL FOOL'S DAY, OR, ST MARY OF EGYPT Poem Text First Line: Thass a funny title, mr bones Last Line: Whom god has not visited Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE DREAM SONGS: 64 Poem Text First Line: Supreme my holdings, greater yet my need Last Line: Is blinds. Them blinds on fire Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE DREAM SONGS: 68 Poem Text First Line: I heard, could be, a hey there from the wing Last Line: Black to the birds instead Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937); Songs THE MOON AND THE NIGHT AND THE MEN Poem Text First Line: On the night of the belgian surrender the moon rose Subject(s): Belgium; Leopold Iii, King Of The Belgians; World War Ii; Second World War THE SONG OF THE DEMENTED PRIEST Poem Text First Line: I put those things there. - see them burn Subject(s): Clergy; Depression, Mental; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress THE TRAVELLER Poem Text First Line: They pointed me out on the highway, and they said Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips THE WHOLLY FAIL Poem Text First Line: Sir partofall, our best, o the physicist is THEY HAVE First Line: A thing o say a sixteenth of an inch TO A WOMAN First Line: The problem is urgent, yes for this hot light TO DYLAN THOMAS: 1 First Line: Congratulations on a brilliant book Last Line: On sultry nights when sound and terror %flung up and photographed a foam of blood TO DYLAN THOMAS: 2 First Line: There are more methods, but this one is one Last Line: Pale men of morning are reminded %to enact their loveless and this leaping night TO DYLAN THOMAS: 3 First Line: This is to say that you have done it well Last Line: When the old are out, the vases broken, %this foam, flower and ceremony for our fear TO HIS GHOST First Line: I could never in later years talk, my own Last Line: Between at the bar who never came.) %insult & shame survived our nights; I cringe, %and rear TRANSIT First Line: O a little lonely in cambridge that first fall TRAVELLER First Line: They pointed me out on the highway, and they said Last Line: The end of their journey, I descended too Subject(s): Railroads; Travel TRAVELLING SOUTH First Line: A red moon hung above the pines that night TRIAL First Line: The oxen gone, the house is fallen where TWO ORGANS First Line: I remind myself at that time of plato's uterus UNKNOWABLE? PERHAPS NOT ALTOGETHER First Line: I dare interpret: adonai of rescue USUAL PRAYER First Line: According to thy will: that this day only VENICE, 182- First Line: White & blue my breathing lady leans VESPERS First Line: Vanity! Hog-vanity, ape-lust VIEWS OF MYSELF First Line: Another old friend, long afterward WASHINGTON IN LOVE First Line: Rectitude, and the terrible upstanding member Last Line: Bring the wounded. Martha! Bring the wounded, men WHETHER THERE IS SORROW IN THE DEMONS First Line: Near the top a bad turn some dare. Well WHITE FEATHER First Line: Imagine a crowded war-time street WINTER LANDSCAPE First Line: The three men coming down the winter hill Last Line: Ankle-deep in snow down the winter hill %dsescend while three birds watch and the fourth flies WINTER-PIECE TO A FRIEND AWAY Last Line: The thaw alone delays, - %your letter came! WORLD'S FAIR Poem Text First Line: The crowd moves forward on the midway Subject(s): Exhibitions; World's Fairs; Expositions WORLD'S FAIR First Line: The crowd moves forward on the midway Subject(s): Exhibitions WORLD-TELEGRAM First Line: Man with a tail heads eastward for the fair YES, YES, I OFFERED HIM A CIGARETTE Last Line: Many's the better hour, more the worse, %have come & done on my bed YOUNG WOMAN'S SONG First Line: The round and smooth, my body in my bath YOUR BIRTHDAY IN WISCONSIN YOU ARE 140 Poem Text First Line: One of the wits of the school' your chum would say Last Line: Hot diggity! Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) YOUR BIRTHDAY IN WISCONSIN YOU ARE 140 First Line: One of the wits of the school' your chum would say Last Line: And yours & yours & yours! %hot diggity! Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) |
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