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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: BUNTING, BASIL Matches Found: 116 Bunting, Basil Poet's Biography 116 poems available by this author ATTIS: OR, SOMETHING MISSING: 1. First Line: Out of puff %noonhot in tweeds and gray felt Last Line: Are sent by her. Praise her and call her %mother and mother of gods and eunuchs ATTIS: OR, SOMETHING MISSING: 2. First Line: I thought I saw my late wife (a very respectable woman Last Line: I will not look on any, %maybe all are jilts.' ATTIS: OR, SOMETHING MISSING: 3. First Line: What mournful stave, what bellow shakes the grove? Last Line: Attis his embleme: %nonnulla deest AUS DEM ZWEITEN REICH: 1. First Line: Women swarm in tauentsienstrasse Last Line: If, smoothing this silk skirt, you piknch my thighs, %that will be fabelhaft AUS DEM ZWEITEN REICH: 2. First Line: Herr lignitz knows old berlin. It is near the post office Last Line: Or a department store? They are said to be %almost equal to macy's in america AUS DEM ZWEITEN REICH: 3. First Line: The renowned author of Last Line: Stillborn fecundities, %frostbound applause BRIGGFLATTS: 1 Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Brag, sweet tenor bull Subject(s): England; English BRIGGFLATTS: 1 First Line: Brag, sweet tenor bull Last Line: Split in soft slate %a few months obliterate Subject(s): England BRIGGFLATTS: 2. First Line: Poet appointed dare not decline Last Line: Nor loaded spirit sink %till it had gloried in unlike creation BRIGGFLATTS: 3. First Line: Down into dust and reeds Last Line: So he rose and led home silently through clean woodland %where every bough repeated the slow worm's BRIGGFLATTS: 4. First Line: Grass caught in willow tells the flood's height that has sub Last Line: Further from neighbours %now the year ages BRIGGFLATTS: 5. First Line: Drip - icicle's gone Last Line: Starlight quivers. I had day enough. %for love uninterrupted night BRIGGFLATTS: CODA First Line: A strong song tows Last Line: To fell kings, guesses %where we go? CHOMEI AT TOYAMA Poem Text First Line: Swirl sleeping in the waterfall! Last Line: Clacked a few prayers Subject(s): Hermits; Japan; Kamo Chomei (1155-1216); Japanese CHOMEI AT TOYAMA First Line: Swirl sleeping in the waterfall! Last Line: My tongue %clacked a few prayers Subject(s): Hermits; Japan; Kamo Chomei (1155-1216) CODA Poem Text First Line: A strong song tows Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips FIRST BOOK OF ODES: 1 Poem Text First Line: Weeping oaks grieve, chestnuts raise Last Line: Is everlasting / resurrection Subject(s): Spring FIRST BOOK OF ODES: 1 First Line: Weeping oaks grieve, chestnuts raise Last Line: Is everlasting %resurrection Subject(s): Spring FIRST BOOK OF ODES: 10. CHORUS OF FURIES First Line: Let us come upon him first as if in a dream Last Line: Impotent to outpace %dispersion of the soul, disruption of the brain FIRST BOOK OF ODES: 11. First Line: Narciss, my numerous cancellations prefer Last Line: To one review-rid month's printed ignominy, %the public detection of your decay, that reeks FIRST BOOK OF ODES: 12. First Line: An arles, an arles for my hiring Last Line: (he is cadging for drinks at the streetcorners FIRST BOOK OF ODES: 13. First Line: Muzzle andjowl and beastly brow Last Line: He is said to have eaten several persons %but of course you can never be quite sure of these things FIRST BOOK OF ODES: 13. FEARFUL SYMMETRY Poem Text First Line: Muzzle and jowl and beastly brow FIRST BOOK OF ODES: 14. GIN THE GOODWIFE STINT Poem Text First Line: The ploughland has gone to bent Last Line: On a c.P.R. Packet Subject(s): Hate FIRST BOOK OF ODES: 14. GIN THE GOODWIFE STINT First Line: The ploughland has gone to bent Last Line: Taw pund emigrant %on a c.P.R. Packet Subject(s): Hate FIRST BOOK OF ODES: 15 First Line: Nothing %substance utters or time Last Line: Ears heavy to breeze of speech and %thud of the ictus FIRST BOOK OF ODES: 16. First Line: Molten pool, incadescent spilth of Last Line: No turmoil nor peril left you, %rusty ingot, bleak paralysedblob! FIRST BOOK OF ODES: 17 First Line: Now that sea's over that island Last Line: Very likely I shall never meet her again %or if I do, fear the latch as before FIRST BOOK OF ODES: 18. COMPLAINT OF THE MORPETHSHIRE FARMER Poem Text First Line: On the up-platform at morpeth station Last Line: As barren as her deck Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers FIRST BOOK OF ODES: 18. COMPLAINT OF THE MORPETHSHIRE FARMER First Line: On the up-platform at morpeth station Last Line: My sons'll see the land I am leaving %as barren as her deck Subject(s): Farm Life FIRST BOOK OF ODES: 19. First Line: Fruits breaking the branches Last Line: Where shall I hide? FIRST BOOK OF ODES: 2. First Line: Farewell ye sequent graces Last Line: Long blown barren sown gathered %haphazard to wither FIRST BOOK OF ODES: 20. VESTIGES - 1. First Line: Salt grass silent of hooves, the lake stinks Last Line: No litigation. The laws were simple FIRST BOOK OF ODES: 20. VESTIGES - 2. First Line: Jengiz to chang chun: china Last Line: And the girls can be sent on %separately if he insists FIRST BOOK OF ODES: 21. TWO PHOTOGRAPHS First Line: It's true then that you still overeat, fat friend Last Line: Excite its dislike FIRST BOOK OF ODES: 22. First Line: Mesh cast for mackerel Last Line: We have the sea to stare at, %its treason, copiousness, tedium FIRST BOOK OF ODES: 23. THE PASSPORT OFFICER First Line: This impartial dog's nose Last Line: Barely a precedent. %his actions are reflex FIRST BOOK OF ODES: 24. First Line: Vessels thrown awry by strong gusts Last Line: Spare the owners and underwriters %lititation FIRST BOOK OF ODES: 25. First Line: As appleblossom to crocus Last Line: In the old days %before thirty FIRST BOOK OF ODES: 26. First Line: Two hundred and seven paces Last Line: Girls! Girls! FIRST BOOK OF ODES: 27. First Line: On highest summits dawn comes soonest Last Line: (but that is not the time to give over loving) FIRST BOOK OF ODES: 28. First Line: You leave %nobody else Last Line: Nobody else mad %but me FIRST BOOK OF ODES: 29. First Line: Southwind, tell her what Last Line: Know I am lying %alone? FIRST BOOK OF ODES: 3. First Line: I am agog for foam. Tumultuous come Last Line: Into our catalepsy, dreaming foam, %while the dry shore awaits another tide FIRST BOOK OF ODES: 30. THE OROTAVA ROAD First Line: Four white heifers with sprawling hooves Last Line: And sharing our %desires and lack of faith in desire Subject(s): Passion FIRST BOOK OF ODES: 31. First Line: The soil sandy and the plow light, neither Last Line: Anything except your own numb toil, the %seasonal plod to spoil the land, alone Variant Title(s): O Ubi Campi FIRST BOOK OF ODES: 32. First Line: Let them remember samangan, the bridge and tower Last Line: Let them remember samangan, remember %they wept to remember the hour and go FIRST BOOK OF ODES: 33. First Line: Not to thank dogwood nor Last Line: Cool breezes. Lips %moistened, there are woods FIRST BOOK OF ODES: 34. First Line: These tracings from a world that's dead Last Line: And this unread memento be %the only lasting part of me FIRST BOOK OF ODES: 35. First Line: Search under evry veil Last Line: Say: who am I to doubt: %but every vein cries out FIRST BOOK OF ODES: 36. First Line: See! Their verses are laid Last Line: A glory not made %for which all else was made FIRST BOOK OF ODES: 4. First Line: After grimaces of capitulation Last Line: In noctambulistic exile to penetrate %secrets that moon and stars and empty death deride? FIRST BOOK OF ODES: 5. First Line: Empty vast days built in the waste memory seem a jail for Last Line: Strong with cadence multiply song, voices enmeshed by music %respond bringing the savour of our sadn FIRST BOOK OF ODES: 6. First Line: As to my heart, that may as well be forgotten Last Line: Previous experience desired but not essential %or let on a short lease to suit convenience Variant Title(s): Personal Colum FIRST BOOK OF ODES: 7. First Line: The day being whitsun we had pigeon for dinner Last Line: Never a spark of sedition %amongst the uneducated workingmen FIRST BOOK OF ODES: 8 First Line: Loud intolerant bells (the shrinking nightflower closes Last Line: Leave desiccated names: rabbits sucked by a ferret FIRST BOOK OF ODES: 9. Poem Text First Line: Dear be still! Time's start of us lengthens slowly Last Line: Lusts explode slambang at the first touch like bombs Subject(s): Time FIRST BOOK OF ODES: 9. First Line: Dear be still! Time's start of us lengthens slowly Last Line: Lightnings. Leave it to me. Only a savage's %lusts explode slapbang at the first touch like bombs Subject(s): Time HOW DUKE VALENTINE CONTRIVED Poem Text First Line: Duke valentine had been in lombardy with the king Last Line: They were strangled in the same manner Subject(s): Italy; Murder; Italians HOW DUKE VALENTINE CONTRIVED First Line: Duke valentine had been in lombardy with the king Last Line: They were strangled in the same manner Subject(s): Italy KEEP TROTH Poem Text First Line: When algebra is done, boys Last Line: Keep troth and spoken time Subject(s): Schools; England; Patriotism; Duty; Students KEEP TROTH First Line: When algebra is done, boys Last Line: Keep troth, and spoken true Subject(s): Schools LIMERICK Poem Text First Line: That volatile poet called jonathan Last Line: But folks think he's just making fun o'them Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Williams, Jonathan (1929-2008); Wit & Humor LIMERICK Poem Text First Line: What a pity that bela bartok Last Line: Yes, obviously Subject(s): Bartok, Bela (1881-1945) LIMERICK First Line: That volatile poet called jonathan Last Line: But folks think he's just making fun o' them Subject(s): Poetry And Poets LIMERICK First Line: What a pity that bela bartok Last Line: And conducting the piece with Subject(s): Bartok, Bela (1881-1945); Composers ODES: 10. CHORUS OF FURIES Poem Text First Line: Let us come upon him first as if in a dream Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ODES: 15 Poem Text First Line: Nothing/substance utters or time Subject(s): Architecture & Architects ODES: 30. THE OROTAVA ROAD Poem Text First Line: Four white heifers with sprawling hooves ODES: 36 Poem Text First Line: See! Their verses are laid ON THE FLY-LEAF OF POUND'S CANTOS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: There are the alps. What is there to say about them? Last Line: Fools! Sit down and wait for them to crumble! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972) ON THE FLY-LEAF OF POUND'S CANTOS First Line: There are the alps. What is there to say about them? Last Line: Fools! Sit down and wait for them to crumble! Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972) SECOND BOOK OF ODES: 1. Poem Text First Line: A thrush in the syringa sings Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes SECOND BOOK OF ODES: 1. First Line: A thrush in the syringa sings Last Line: O gay thrush! Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes SECOND BOOK OF ODES: 10. First Line: Stones trip coquet burn Last Line: And silent taste %with all my skin SECOND BOOK OF ODES: 11 First Line: Boasts time mocks cumber rome. Wren %set up his own monument Last Line: Under the wind's wing, and leaves %delight in transience SECOND BOOK OF ODES: 12 First Line: Now we've no hope of going back Last Line: Only to drift too long, watch too glumly, and wait, wait SECOND BOOK OF ODES: 2 Poem Text First Line: Three michaelmas daisies Last Line: And the bees' [lay Subject(s): Daisies SECOND BOOK OF ODES: 2. First Line: Three michaelmas daisies Last Line: The root, the sap %and the bees's play SECOND BOOK OF ODES: 3. BIRTHDAY GREETING Poem Text First Line: Gone to hunt; and my brothers Last Line: Today I am fourteen years old Subject(s): Birthdays; Growth; Teenagers SECOND BOOK OF ODES: 3. BIRTHDAY GREETING First Line: Gone to hunt; and my brothers Last Line: Today I am fourteen years old Subject(s): Birthdays; Growth SECOND BOOK OF ODES: 4 Poem Text First Line: You idiot! What makes you think decay will Last Line: The slack leaf from which judah had sucked life? Subject(s): Deer; Death SECOND BOOK OF ODES: 4. First Line: You idiot! What makes you think decay will Last Line: Ribs, deaath shakiang them, and milk dry %the slack teat from which judah had sucked life? SECOND BOOK OF ODES: 5. First Line: Under sand clay. Dig, wait Last Line: This brine slaked him as %this sun shrinks SECOND BOOK OF ODES: 6. WHAT THE CHAIRMAN TOLD TOM Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Poetry? It's a hobby Subject(s): Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965); Poetry & Poets; Eliot, T. S. SECOND BOOK OF ODES: 6. WHAT THE CHAIRMAN TOLD TOM First Line: Poetry? It's a hobby Last Line: He ought to know. %go and find work Subject(s): Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965); Poetry And Poets SECOND BOOK OF ODES: 7. Poem Text First Line: O, it is godlike to sit selfpossessed Subject(s): Love - Erotic SECOND BOOK OF ODES: 7. First Line: O, it is godlike to sit selfpossessed Last Line: When her chin rises and she turns to smile. %o, it is godlike! Subject(s): Erotic Love SECOND BOOK OF ODES: 8. First Line: Carmencita's tawny paps %glow through a threadbare frock Last Line: Ay de mi muchachita! SECOND BOOK OF ODES: 9. First Line: All the caunts they peddle Last Line: Each dancer alone %with his foolhardy feet SONG OF ACKWORTH CLOCK First Line: Clock beneath the cupola Last Line: Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock, slow Subject(s): Clocks; Schools; Time SPOILS: 1 First Line: Man's life so little worth Last Line: Without noting beggar, dealer, changer; %pence we drop in the sawdust with split wine SPOILS: 2 First Line: They filled the eyes of the vaulting Last Line: Dazzle rebuts our stare, %wonder our fright SPOILS: 3 First Line: All things only of earth and water Last Line: What else do we live for and take part, %we who would share the spoils? THE SPOILS €¬ Poem Text First Line: Man's life is so little worth THE WORD Poem Text First Line: Nothing/substance utters or time THEY SAY ETNA First Line: They say etna %belches as much poison TO VIOLET Poem Text First Line: These tracings from a world that's dead UNCOLLECTED ODES: 1 First Line: Coryphee gravefooted precise, dance to the gracious music Last Line: Thoughts make moving about, dance to the mind's delicate symphony UNCOLLECTED ODES: 10 First Line: To abate what swells Last Line: No swathe from a cheek's bloom UNCOLLECTED ODES: 11 First Line: Such syllables flicker out of grass Last Line: Thick with dust and breath UNCOLLECTED ODES: 12 First Line: Yan tan tethera pethera pimp Last Line: Where nothing whatever's bitter but beer UNCOLLECTED ODES: 2. AGAINST THE TRICKS OF TIME First Line: Why should I discipline myself to verse Last Line: He unsays all words that have passed between men UNCOLLECTED ODES: 3. READING X'S COLLECTED WORKS First Line: Cemetery of other men's bastards let Last Line: Like you in the main UNCOLLECTED ODES: 4. HYMN TO ALIAS THOR First Line: Strength %inked with a light brush Last Line: Oftener the soil accepts the lightning UNCOLLECTED ODES: 5 First Line: The flat land lies under the water Last Line: The flat land hedge-grilled heliotrope under water UNCOLLECTED ODES: 6 First Line: Gertie gitana's hymn to waltzing Last Line: With your head in the gas oven UNCOLLECTED ODES: 7. ENVOI TO THE READER First Line: From above the moon Last Line: And have it printed? UNCOLLECTED ODES: 8. TRINACRIA First Line: Child, I have counted Last Line: There are fairer women than you UNCOLLECTED ODES: 9. A SONG FOR RUSTAM First Line: Tears are for what can be mended Last Line: Truth is asleep VILLON Poem Text First Line: He whom we anatomized Subject(s): Villon, Francois (1431-1463) WELL OF LYCOPOLIS: 1. First Line: Slinking by the jug-and-bottle Last Line: Just lit and flickering out already: %and we used to be so pretty! WELL OF LYCOPOLIS: 2. First Line: May my libation of flat beer stood ovrnight Last Line: Under the nail %when we reef WELL OF LYCOPOLIS: 3. First Line: Infamous poetry, abject love Last Line: Ay-o! Bully boys blow! %the gadarene swihine have got us in two WELL OF LYCOPOLIS: 4 First Line: Stuck in the mud they are saying: 'we were sad Last Line: As though styx were silvered by a wind from heaven WHAT THE CHAIRMAN TOLD TOM Poem Text First Line: Poetry? It's a hobby Subject(s): Poetry & Poets |
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