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| Searching... Author: COWLEY, MALCOLM Matches Found: 51 Cowley, Malcolm Poet's Biography 51 poems available by this author BARN DANCE Poem Text First Line: He had been happy thinking she might love him Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers BILL GEORGE Poem Text First Line: Old bill george BLUE JUANITA, SELS. BLUE JUNIATA Poem Text First Line: Farmhouses curl like horns of plenty, hide Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers BONES OF A HOUSE Poem Text CHATEAU DE SOUPIR: 1917 Poem Text First Line: Jean tells me that the senator Last Line: A perforated pepper box. Subject(s): Love; Paintings & Painters CHESTNUT RIDGE Poem Text First Line: The northern turnpike winds COAL TOWN Poem Text First Line: They scarred the hillside here to build a town Last Line: Beauty is hammering, pounding through my brain. Subject(s): Beauty; Love DANNY Poem Text First Line: You marched off southward with the fire of twenty Subject(s): American Civil War DAY COACH Poem Text First Line: Tickets please Last Line: He stumbled off with his burden of stars and hills. Subject(s): Railroads; Stations Of The Cross; Tourists; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips EMPTY BARN, DEAD FARM Poem Text First Line: Houses are incidents, barns four-square and real Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers ERNEST First Line: Safe is the man with blunderbuss Last Line: Against the jackals of the mind FOR ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S EVE Poem Text First Line: Then die! / outside the prison gawk Last Line: Like ashes in the winds of god. Subject(s): Bartholomew, Saint (1st Century); Saints HISTORY Poem Text First Line: If I told you that in this house Last Line: Nothing more than this. Subject(s): History; Home; Historians INTERMENT Poem Text First Line: We have lived too long together in this room LAUREL MOUNTAIN Poem Text First Line: Listen: we were working in the woods LONG VOYAGE First Line: Not that the pines were darker there Subject(s): Home MOONRISE Poem Text First Line: The dance was over. There was one last fiddle MOUNTAIN FARM Poem Text First Line: I watched the agony of a mountain farm Last Line: All the night through an open and empty door. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers MOUNTAIN VALLEY Poem Text First Line: Lost in this mountain valley, we have struggled Last Line: Staring down at our cornfields covetously. Subject(s): Death; Old Age; Dead, The NOCTURNAL LANDSCAPE Poem Text First Line: I said: the moon is obviously a boat PASSPORT BLUES Poem Text First Line: When I was a virgin Subject(s): Spinsters; Old Maids PINEY WOODS First Line: Teeth on the saw Last Line: The little tree dies Subject(s): Trees POEM FOR TWO VOICES Poem Text First Line: We will make our way out of this city PROPHETIC Poem Text First Line: With blocks of broken asphalt where the streets ran once RESTAURATEUR WITH MUSIC Poem Text First Line: Knishes, kisses Subject(s): Restaurants; Jews; Cafes; Diners; Judaism ROXANNE Poem Text First Line: Was flatbush born, was twenty-six Subject(s): Women; Suicide; Survival RUNAWAY Poem Text First Line: Now after bob had fed the cattle Last Line: Westward again, and was gone forever. Subject(s): Farm Life; Travel; Agriculture; Farmers; Journeys; Trips SEVEN Poem Text First Line: I woke and could not see the familiar white STONE HORSE SHOALS First Line: To wade the sea mist, then to wade the sea Last Line: New fruit, strange to the tongue of men and birds SUDDEN ENCOUNTER Poem Text First Line: The worm twisted down-stream into the depths of the pool THE DRY SEASON Poem Text First Line: I climbed the mountain, to its inmost crags THE EATER OF DARKNESS Poem Text First Line: Dipping an adroit hand into his hat THE FIRSTBORN Poem Text First Line: What can I offer you now, now THE HILL ABOVE THE MINE Poem Text First Line: Nobody comes to the graveyard on the hill Last Line: Your white bones drifting like herons across the moon. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Labor & Laborers; Graveyards; Work; Workers THE LONG VOYAGE Poem Text First Line: Not that the pines were darker there Last Line: At home, in my own country Subject(s): Home THE LOST PEOPLE Poem Text First Line: The bedroom on the courtyard, and the tree THE MOTHER Poem Text First Line: It was a noon of freedom Subject(s): Mothers THE SOURCE Poem Text First Line: In the hot afternoon THE STREETS OF AIR Poem Text First Line: All night waiting, in an empty house THE URN Poem Text First Line: Wanderers outside the gate, in hollow THOSE OF LUCIFER First Line: Out of an empty sky the dust of hours THREE HILLS Poem Text First Line: There is beauty for some TOMORROW MORNING First Line: Tomorrow, walking in the dew-bright fields TOWARDS A MORE PASSIONATE APPREHENSION OF LIFE AND DEDICATED First Line: It was an arduous task. The man must be a genius. Subject(s): Dadaism TOWARDS A MORE PASSIONATE APPREHENSION OF LIFE AND DEDICATED First Line: It was an arduous task. The man must be a genius. Last Line: Manifestations %are geometrical not ethical Subject(s): Dadaism TRANSLUCENT FINGERS Poem Text First Line: Translucent fingers on the yellow keys Last Line: To live among the other waxen flowers. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Old Age TUMBLING MUSTARD First Line: Born in a fence-corner TWO SWANS Poem Text First Line: One morning during carnival they found two Last Line: Fixedly into a fixed and empty sky. Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Old Age WILLIAM WILSON First Line: A man there is of fire and straw Last Line: True love lay strangled by othello WINTER TENEMENT First Line: When everything but love was spent Last Line: And poke the ashes in the grate' |
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