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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: FROST, ROBERT Matches Found: 680 Frost, Robert Poet's Biography 680 poems available by this author A BLUE RIBBON AT AMESBURY Poem Text First Line: Such a fine pullet ought to go Last Line: And warrant prudence in a man Subject(s): Festivals; Fairs; Pageants A BOUNDLESS MOMENT Poem Text First Line: He halted in the wind, and–what was that Last Line: A young beech clinging to its last year’s leaves Subject(s): Trees A BROOK IN THE CITY Poem Text First Line: The farmhouse lingers, though averse to square Last Line: This new-built city from both work and sleep. Subject(s): Animals; Brooks; Rivers; Streams; Creeks A CABIN IN THE CLEARING Poem Text First Line: I don't believe the sleepers in this house Last Line: The kindred spirit of an inner haze Subject(s): Houses; Pilgrim Fathers A CASE FOR JEFFERSON Poem Text First Line: Harrison loves my country too Last Line: And having it all made over new Subject(s): Patriotism A CLIFF DWELLING Poem Text First Line: There sandy seems the golden sky Last Line: Oh years ago—ten thousand years Subject(s): Primitve Man A CLOUD SHADOW Poem Text First Line: A breeze discovered my open book Last Line: For fear I would make her miss the place Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Spring A CONCEPT SELF-CONCEIVED Poem Text First Line: The latest creed that has to be believed Last Line: The rule is, never give a child a choice Subject(s): Religion; Theology A CONSIDERABLE SPECK Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: A speck that would have been beneath my sight Last Line: On any sheet the least display of mind Subject(s): Kindness; Conduct Of Life A CORRECTION Poem Text First Line: When we told you minus twenty Last Line: What we found was minus forty. Subject(s): Mathematics A DREAM OF JULIUS CAESAR Poem Text First Line: A dreamy day; a gentle western breeze Last Line: The fairy hosts of silvery light might shed. Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.) A DREAM PANG Poem Text First Line: I had withdrawn in forest, and my song Last Line: For the wood wakes, and you are here for proof. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares A DRUMLIN WOODCHUCK Poem Text First Line: One thing has a shelving bank, Last Line: About my crevice and burrow Subject(s): Woodchucks A FOUNTAIN, A BOTTLE, A DONKEY€™S EARS, AND SOME BOOKS Poem Text First Line: Old davis owned a solid mica mountain Last Line: In time she would be rid of all her books Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) A GIRL'S GARDEN Poem Text First Line: A neighbor of mine in the village Last Line: To the same person twice. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening A HILLSIDE THAW Poem Text First Line: To think to know the country and now know Last Line: The thought of my attempting such a stay! Subject(s): Sun; Moon; Thaw A HUNDRED COLLARS Poem Text Last Line: The doctor slid a little down the pillow. Subject(s): Hotels; Relationships; Fear; Money; Collars; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses A LATE WALK Poem Text First Line: When I go up through the mowing field Last Line: To carry again to you. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening A LEAF-TREADER Poem Text First Line: I have been treading on leaves all day until I am Last Line: Now up, my knee, to keep on top of another year of snow Subject(s): Leaves A LINE-STORM SONG Poem Text First Line: The line-storm clouds fly tattered and swift Last Line: And be my love in the rain. Subject(s): Desire; Love; Storms A LONE STRIKER Poem Text Recitation First Line: The swinging mill bell changed its rate Last Line: Come get him——they knew where to search Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers A LOOSE MOUNTAIN Poem Text First Line: Did you stay up last night (the magi did) Last Line: So we won't simply take it and absorb it Subject(s): Stars A MINOR BIRD Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: I have wished a bird would fly away Last Line: In wanting to silence any song Subject(s): Birds A MISSIVE MISSILE Poem Text First Line: Someone once in ancient mas d’ azil Last Line: From company means coming to our senses Subject(s): Time A MOOD APART Poem Text First Line: Once down on my knees to growing plants Last Line: That looks in onto a mood apart Subject(s): Evil A NATURE NOTE Poem Text First Line: Four or five whippoorwills Last Line: September the twenty-third Subject(s): Birds; Whipporwills A NEVER NAUGHT SONG Poem Text First Line: There was bever naught Last Line: But the force of thought Subject(s): Physics A PASSING GLIMPSE; TO RIDGE TORRENCE ON LAST LOOKING INTO HESPERIDES Poem Text First Line: I often see flowers from a passing car Last Line: Not in position to look too close Subject(s): Torrence, Frederic Ridgely (1875-1950) A PATCH OF OLD SNOW Poem Text First Line: There's a patch of old snow in a corner Last Line: If I ever read it. Subject(s): Snow A PECK OF GOLD Poem Text Recitation First Line: Dust always blowing about the town Last Line: We all must eat our peck of gold.' Subject(s): California - Gold Discoveries; Dust; Gold Rush; Forty-niners A PRAYER IN SPRING Poem Text First Line: Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today Last Line: But which it only needs that we fulfil. Subject(s): Spring A QUESTION Poem Text First Line: A voice said, look me in the stars Last Line: Were not too much to pay for birth Subject(s): Life A RECORD IN STRIDE Poem Text First Line: In a vermont bedroom closet Last Line: And got the united states stated Subject(s): Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers A REFLEX Poem Text First Line: Hear my rigmarole. Last Line: That there is an it? Subject(s): Science; Scientists A ROADSIDE STAND Poem Text First Line: The little old house was out with a little new shed Last Line: Far into the lives of other folk Subject(s): Roadside Stands A ROGERS GROUP Poem Text First Line: How young and unassuming Last Line: By the rogers group they made Subject(s): Rogers, John (1829-1904); Sculpture & Sculptors A SEMI-REVOLUTION Poem Text First Line: I advocate a semi-revolution Last Line: But they're the one thing that should be done by halves Subject(s): Revolutions A SERIOUS STEP LIGHTLY TAKEN Poem Text First Line: Between two burrs on the map Last Line: And forty-five presidents Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Farm Life; Heritage; Heredity; Agriculture; Farmers A SERVANT TO SERVANTS Poem Text First Line: I didn’t make you know how glad I was Last Line: I'd rather you'd not go unless you must. Subject(s): Household Employees A SOLDIER Poem Text First Line: He is that fallen lance that lies as hurled Last Line: Further than target ever showed or shone Subject(s): Holidays; War A STAR IN A STONE-BOAT; FOR LINCOLN MACVEAGH Poem Text First Line: Never tell me that not one star of all Last Line: That I am like to compass, fool or wise. Subject(s): Stars A STEEPLE ON THE HOUSE Poem Text First Line: What if it should turn out eternity Last Line: Means that a soul is coming on the flesh Subject(s): Worship A SUMMER'S GARDEN Poem Text First Line: I made a garden just to keep about me Last Line: The lives I entertained where are they now? Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening A TIME TO TALK Poem Text First Line: When a friend calls to me from the road Last Line: For a friendly visit. Subject(s): Friendship A TRIAL RUN Poem Text First Line: I said to myself almost in prayer, Last Line: And when to stop it rests with you Subject(s): Machinery & Machinists A WINTER EDEN Poem Text First Line: A winter garden in an alder swamp Last Line: To make it worth life’s while to wake and sport Subject(s): Winter; Gardens & Gardening A WINTER'S NIGHT Poem Text First Line: Oh, little cot beside the wood Last Line: The moon shall keep, the moon shall keep. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime A WISH TO COMPLY Poem Text First Line: Did I see it go by, Last Line: We'll be all right if nothing goes wrong with the lighting Subject(s): Physics A-WISHING WELL Poem Text First Line: A poet would a-wishing go Last Line: To start the world all over at Subject(s): Wishes A-WISHING WELL First Line: A poet would a-wishing go Last Line: Where someone someone else begat %to start the world all over at Subject(s): Wishes ACCEPTANCE Poem Text First Line: When the spent sun throws up its rays on cloud Last Line: Into the future. Let what will be, be Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events; Dead, The ACCEPTANCE First Line: When the spent sun throws up its rays on cloud Last Line: Let the night be too dark for me to see %into the future. Let what will be be Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events ACCIDENTALLY ON PURPOSE Poem Text First Line: The universe is but the thing of things, Last Line: Passionate preference such as love at sight Subject(s): Universe ACCIDENTALLY ON PURPOSE First Line: The universe is but the thing of things Last Line: Passionate preference such as love at sight ACQUAINTED WITH THE NIGHT Poem Text First Line: I have been one acquainted with the night Last Line: I have been one acquainted with the night Subject(s): Night; Solitude; Bedtime; Loneliness ACQUAINTED WITH THE NIGHT First Line: I have been one acquainted with the night Last Line: Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right. %I have been one acquainted with the night Subject(s): Night; Solitude AFTER APPLE PICKING Poem Text First Line: My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree Last Line: Or just some human sleep. Subject(s): Americans; Apple Trees; Apples; Fruit; Trees; United States; America AFTERFLAKES Poem Text First Line: In the thick of a teeming snowfall Last Line: With the sun shining through Subject(s): Snow AFTERFLAKES First Line: In the thick of a teeming snowfall Last Line: Were but frost knots on an airy gauze, %with the sun shining through Subject(s): Snow ALL REVELATION Poem Text First Line: A head thrusts in as for the view, Last Line: All revelation has been ours ALL REVELATION First Line: A head thrusts in as for the view Last Line: All revelation has been ours AMERICA IS HARD TO SEE Poem Text Recitation First Line: Columbus may have worked the wind Last Line: As cortez on the aztecs made Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers AMERICA IS HARD TO SEE First Line: Columbus may have worked the wind Last Line: His can be no such easy raid %as cortez on the aztecs made Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers AN EMPTY THREAT Poem Text First Line: I stay Last Line: To make them out Subject(s): Trapping & Trappers; Traps; Snares; Trappers AN ENCOUNTER Poem Text First Line: Once on the kind of day called 'weather breeder' Last Line: "half looking for the orchid calypso." Subject(s): Trees AN EQUALIZER Poem Text First Line: It is as true as caesar's name was kaiser Last Line: We now and then should take an equalizer Subject(s): Economics; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes AN IMPORTER Poem Text First Line: Mrs. Someone's been to asia Last Line: Teach your grandmother egg suction Subject(s): Asia; Mass Production; Far East; East Asia; Orient AN OLD MAN'S WINTER NIGHT Poem Text Recitation First Line: All out-of-doors looked darkly in at him Last Line: It's thus he does it of a winter night. Subject(s): Winter; Old Age AN UNHISTORIC SPOT Poem Text First Line: Ah passionate is rest when to the earth Last Line: And every one that passes looks at me. Subject(s): Rest AN UNSTAMPED LETTER IN OUR RURAL LETTER BOX Poem Text First Line: Last night your watchdog barked all night Last Line: To say as much as I wrote you this Subject(s): Letters ANSWER First Line: But islands of the blessed, bless you son Last Line: I never came upon a blessed one ANY SIZE WE PLEASE Poem Text First Line: No one was looking at his lonely case, Last Line: And hugged himself for all his universe Subject(s): Size & Shape ANY SIZE WE PLEASE First Line: No one was looking at his lonely case Last Line: He slapped his breast to verify his purse %and hugged himself for all his universe ARMFUL First Line: For every parcel I stoop down to seize Last Line: And try to stack them in a better load ASKING FOR ROSES Poem Text First Line: A house that lacks, seemingly, mistress and master Last Line: And grants us by silence the boon of her roses. Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Flowers; Herrick, Robert (1591-1674); Poetry & Poets; Roses ASSERTIVE Poem Text First Line: Let me be the one Last Line: Like pearls, and now a silver blade ASSURANCE Poem Text First Line: The danger not an inch outside Last Line: I trust feels properly defied Subject(s): Confidence ASSURANCE First Line: The danger not an inch outside Last Line: I trust feels properly defied ASTROMETAPHYSICAL Poem Text First Line: Lord, I have loved your sky, Last Line: Me up, not down Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise ASTROMETAPHYSICAL First Line: Lord, I have loved your sky Last Line: At least it ought to send %me up, not down AT WOODWARD'S GARDENS Poem Text First Line: A boy, presuming on his intellect Last Line: That blinking could not seem to blink away Subject(s): Monkeys; Knowledge AT WOODWARD'S GARDENS First Line: A boy, presuming on his intellect Last Line: It's knowing what to do with things that counts ATMOSPHERE; INSCRIPTION FOR A GARDEN WALL Poem Text First Line: Winds blow the open grassy places bleak Last Line: The hours of daylight gather atmosphere Subject(s): Walls ATMOSPHERE; INSCRIPTION FOR A GARDEN WALL First Line: Winds blow the open grassy places bleak Last Line: The hours of daylight gather atmosphere Subject(s): Walls AUSPEX Poem Text First Line: Once in a california sierra Last Line: That there was anything I couldn’t be Subject(s): Eagles AUSPEX First Line: Once in a california sierra Last Line: That there was anything I couldn't be AWAY! Poem Text First Line: Now I out walking Last Line: From having died Subject(s): Farewell; Parting AWAY! First Line: Now I out walking %the world desert Last Line: With what I learn %from having died BAD ISLAND -- EASTER First Line: That primitive head Last Line: And persisting in theft %with cynical daring Subject(s): Easter Island BEAR First Line: The bear puts both arms round the tree above her Last Line: A baggy figure, equally pathetic %when sedentary and when peripatetic Subject(s): Animals; Bears BEARER OF EVIL TIDINGS Last Line: What hurry to tell belshazzar %what soon enough he would know? Subject(s): Messengers BED IN THE BARN First Line: He said we could take his pipe away Last Line: For you're sadly apt to overdo %your praise when wholly left to you BEECH Poem Text First Line: Where my imaginary line Last Line: Though by a world of doubt surrounded Subject(s): Beech Trees; Trees BEECH First Line: Where my imaginary line Last Line: Though by a world of doubt surrounded Subject(s): Beech Trees; Trees BEREFT Poem Text First Line: Where had I heard this wind before Last Line: Word I had no one left but god. Subject(s): God; Solitude; Loneliness BEYOND WORDS Poem Text First Line: That row of icicles along the gutter Last Line: You wait Subject(s): Hate; Language; Words; Vocabulary BEYOND WORDS First Line: That row of icicles along the gutter Last Line: You wait Subject(s): Hate; Language BIRCHES Poem Text First Line: When I see birches bend to left and right Last Line: One could do worse than be a swinger of birches. Subject(s): Birch Trees; Children; Environment; Trees; Winter; Youth; Childhood; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation BIRTHPLACE First Line: Here further up the mountain slope Last Line: And now her lap is full of trees Variant Title(s): The Birthda Subject(s): Birth; Holidays; Home BLUE RIBBON AT AMESBURY First Line: Such a fine pullet ought to go Last Line: And warrant prudence in a man Subject(s): Festivals BLUE-BUTTERFLY DAY Poem Text First Line: It is blue-butterfly day here in spring Last Line: Where wheels have freshly sliced the april mire. Subject(s): Animals; Butterflies; Insects; Bugs BLUEBERRIES Poem Text First Line: You ought to have seen what I saw on my way' Last Line: "like two kinds of jewels, a vision for thieves." Subject(s): Blueberries BOEOTIAN Poem Text First Line: I love to toy with the platonic notion Last Line: At least I will not have it systematic Subject(s): Philosophy & Philosophers BOEOTIAN First Line: I love to toy with the platonic notion Last Line: At least I will not have it systematic Subject(s): Philosophy And Philosophers BOND AND FREE Poem Text First Line: Love has earth to which she clings Last Line: To find fused in another star. Subject(s): Love BOUNDLESS MOMENT First Line: He halted in the wind, and -- what was that Last Line: A young beech clinging to its last year's leaves BROKEN DROUGHT First Line: The prophet of disaster ceased to shout Last Line: Who advised men to come and live therein? BROWN'S DESCENT, OR, THE WILLY-NILLY SLIDE Poem Text First Line: Brown lived at such a lofty farm Last Line: By road, a matter of several miles. Subject(s): Farm Life; Homecoming BUILD SOIL Poem Text First Line: Why tityrus! But you've forgotten me. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers BUILD SOIL -- A POLITICAL PASTORAL First Line: Why, tityrus! But you've forgotten me Last Line: We're too unseparate. And going home %from company means coming to our senses BURSTING RAPTURE Poem Text First Line: I went to the physician to complain, Last Line: That’s what a certain bomb was sent to be Subject(s): Farm Life; Atomic Bomb; Agriculture; Farmers BURSTING RAPTURE First Line: I went to the physician to complain Last Line: That's what a certain bomb was sent to be BUT OUTER SPACE Poem Text Last Line: Than populous Subject(s): Space & Space Travel BUT OUTER SPACE Last Line: Stays more popular %than populous Subject(s): Space And Space Travel BY MYSELF First Line: Let me be the one %to do what is done CABIN IN THE CLEARING; FOR ALFRED EDWARDS First Line: Mist: I don't believe the sleepers in this house Last Line: The kindred spirit of an inner haze CAESAR'S LOST TRANSPORT SHIPS Poem Text First Line: Some fell away to westward with the wind Last Line: And overhead the petrel wafted wide. Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Disasters; Shipwrecks CANIS MAJOR Poem Text Recitation First Line: The great overdog Last Line: That romps through the dark Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CANIS MAJOR First Line: The great overdog Last Line: That romps through the dark Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CARPE DIEM Poem Text First Line: Age saw two quiet children Last Line: Too present to imagine Subject(s): Carpe Diem CARPE DIEM First Line: Age saw two quiet children Last Line: Too present to imagine Subject(s): Carpe Diem CASE FOR JEFFERSON First Line: Harrison loves my country too Last Line: Blowing it all to smithereens %and having it all made over new CHOOSE SOMETHING LIKE A STAR Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: O star (the fairest one in sight), Last Line: To stay our minds on and be staid Subject(s): Stars CHOOSE SOMETHING LIKE A STAR First Line: O star (the fairest one in sight) Last Line: To stay our minds on and be staid CHRISTMAS TREES; A CHRISTMAS CIRCULAR LETTER Poem Text First Line: The city had withdrawn into itself Last Line: In wishing you herewith a merry christmas. Subject(s): Christmas Trees CLASS HYMN Poem Text First Line: There is a nook among the alders Last Line: "as thought-stones stir our heart's ""farewell!" Subject(s): Commencement; Graduation CLEAR AND COLDER First Line: Wind, the season-climate mixer Last Line: Human beings love it - love it. %gods are above are not above it CLEAR AND COLDER; BOSTON COMMON Poem Text First Line: As I went down through the common Last Line: The pace of the winter town. Subject(s): Boston; Winter CLIFF DWELLING First Line: There sandy seems the golden sky Last Line: Oh, years ago - ten thousand years CLOSED FOR GOOD First Line: Much as I own I woe Last Line: To pay them some sweet share %for having once been there CLOUD SHADOW First Line: A breeze discovered my open book Last Line: For fear I would make her miss her place Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Spring CLUMSY MAN First Line: Well, I am clumsy. I stumble, I hit my head Last Line: Lurch through his oak door and, farewell, feel %sweet symmetry around my open wings COCOON First Line: As far as I can see this autumn haze Last Line: Spinning their own cocoon did they but know it Subject(s): Cocoons COME IN Poem Text First Line: As I came to the edge of the woods Last Line: And I hadn't been Subject(s): Men COME IN First Line: As I came to the edge of the woods Last Line: And I hadn't been Subject(s): Men CONSIDERABLE SPECK (MICROSCOPIC) First Line: A speck that would have been beneath my sight Last Line: On any sheet the least display of mind COURAGE TO BE NEW First Line: I hear the world reciting Last Line: With their ever breaking newness %and their courage to be new COW'S IN THE CORN; A ONE-ACT IRISH PLAY IN RHYME First Line: A kitchen. Afternoon. Through all o'toole Last Line: For curtain let the scene stay on till night DEPARTMENTAL Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: An ant on the table cloth Last Line: But how thoroughly departmental Subject(s): Ants; Bureaucracy; Insects; Bugs DEPARTMENTAL First Line: An ant on the table cloth Last Line: But how thoroughly departmental Subject(s): Ants; Bureaucracy; Insects DESERT PLACES Poem Text First Line: Snow falling and night falling fast, oh, fast Last Line: To scare myself with my own desert places Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness DESERT PLACES First Line: Snow falling and night falling fast, oh, fast Last Line: I have it in me so much nearer home %to scare myself with my own desert places Subject(s): Solitude DESIGN Poem Text First Line: I found a dimpled spider, fat and white Last Line: If design govern in a thing so small. Subject(s): Death; Fate; God; Insects; Men; Nature; Spiders; Dead, The; Destiny; Bugs DESPAIR Poem Text First Line: I am like a dead diver after all's Last Line: White lily from the air -- and now the fishes come. Subject(s): Despair DEVOTION Poem Text First Line: The hear can think of no devotion Last Line: Counting an endless repetition Subject(s): Devotion DEVOTION First Line: The heart can think of no devotion Last Line: Counting an endless repetition DIRECTIVE Poem Text First Line: Back out of all this now too much for us Last Line: Drink and be whole again beyond confusion Subject(s): Country Life; Houses; Memory DIRECTIVE First Line: Back out of all this now too much for us Last Line: Drink and be whole again beyond confusion Subject(s): Country Life; Houses; Memory DISCOVERY OF THE MADEIRAS; A RHYME OF HACKLUYT First Line: A stolen lady was coming on board Last Line: And soon it is neither here nor there %whether time's rewards are fair or unfair Subject(s): Hakluyt, Richard (1552-1616); Madeira (island) DOES NO ONE AT ALL EVER FEEL THIS WAY IN THE LEAST? Poem Text First Line: O ocean sea for all your being vast Last Line: And telling them how sinbad was a sailor Subject(s): Sea; Ocean DOES NO ONE AT ALL EVER FEEL THIS WAY IN THE LEAST? First Line: O ocean sea for all your being vast Last Line: Of what it is by calling in a pool %and telling them how sinbad was a sailor Subject(s): Sea DOOR IN THE DARK First Line: In going from room to room in the dark Last Line: So people and things don't pair any more %with what they used to pair with before DOWN THE BROOK Poem Text First Line: I leave the meadow for the brook Last Line: The clouded moon is dim and bleary. Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks DRAFT HORSE First Line: With a lantern that wouldn't burn Last Line: Wanted us to get down %and walk the rest of the way Subject(s): Animals; Horses DRUMLIN WOODCHUCK First Line: One thing has a shelving bank Last Line: I have been so instinctively thorough %about my crevice and burrow DUST IN THE EYES First Line: If, as they say, dust thrown in my eyes Subject(s): Dust; Eyes DUST IN THE EYES First Line: If, as they say, dust thrown in my eyes Last Line: And blind me to a standstill if it must Subject(s): Dust; Eyes DUST OF SNOW Poem Text First Line: The way a crow Last Line: Of a day I had rued. Variant Title(s): A Favour;snow Dust Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Hope; Snow; Optimism EGG AND THE MACHINE First Line: He gave the solid rail a hateful kick Last Line: The next machine that has the power to pass %will get this plasm in its goggle glass EMPTY THREAT First Line: I stay %but it isn't as if Last Line: That need endless talk talk %to make them out ENDS Poem Text First Line: Loud talk in the overlighted house Last Line: But some mean what they say Subject(s): Honesty; Divorce ENDS First Line: Loud talk in the overlighted house Last Line: And some will say all sorts of things, %but some mean what they say EQUALIZER First Line: It is as true as caesar's name was kaiser Last Line: So that the poor won't have to steal by stealth, %we now and then should take an equalizer Subject(s): Economics; Wealth ESCAPIST - NEVER Poem Text First Line: He is no fugitive—escaped, escaping Last Line: All is an interminable chain of longing Subject(s): Seeking ESCAPIST -- NEVER First Line: He is no fugitive -- escaped, escaping Last Line: All is an interminable chain of longing ETHEREALIZING Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: A theory if you hold it hard enough Last Line: To keep our abstract verse from being dry Subject(s): Thought ETHEREALIZING First Line: A theory if you hold it hard enough Last Line: To keep our abstract verse from being dry EVENING IN A SUGAR ORCHARD Poem Text First Line: From where I lingered in a lull of march Last Line: And that was what the boughs were full of soon. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight EVENSONG Poem Text First Line: Came the wind last Last Line: That the stars are down. Subject(s): Death; Evening EVIL TENDENCIES CANCEL First Line: Will the blight end the chestnut? Last Line: Till another parasite %shall come to end the blight FEAR OF GOD First Line: If you should rise from nowhere to somewhere Last Line: And using for apparel what was meant %to be the curtain of the inmost soul Subject(s): God FEAR OF MAN First Line: As a girl no one gallantly attends Last Line: May I in my brief bolt across the scene %not be misunderstood in what I mean FIGURE IN THE DOORWAY First Line: The grade surmounted, we were riding high Last Line: He could look at us in our diner eating, %and if so moved uncurl a hand in greeting FIRE AND ICE Poem Text First Line: Some say the world will end in fire, / some say in ice Last Line: And would suffice. Subject(s): Death; Desire; Fire; Hate; Ice; Judgment Day; Men; Time; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man FIREFLIES IN THE GARDEN Poem Text First Line: Here come real stars to fill the upper skies Last Line: Only, of course, they can't sustain the part Subject(s): Animals FIREFLIES IN THE GARDEN First Line: Here come real stars to fill the upper skies Last Line: Only, of course, they can't sustain the part Subject(s): Animals FISH-LEAP FALL Poem Text First Line: From further in the hills there came Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers FIVE NOCTURNES Poem Text First Line: She always had to burn a light Last Line: There will come another day Subject(s): Night; Bedtime FIVE NOCTURNES: 1. THE NIGHT LIGHT First Line: She always had to burn a light Last Line: Who have, as I suppose, ahead %the darkest of it still to dread FIVE NOCTURNES: 2. WERE I IN TROUBLE First Line: Where I could think of no thoroughfare Last Line: Were I in trouble with night tonight FIVE NOCTURNES: 3. BRAVADO First Line: Have I not walked without an upward look Last Line: It was a risk I had to take - and took FIVE NOCTURNES: 4. ON MAKING CERTAIN ANYTHING HAS HAPPENED First Line: I could be worse employed Last Line: It might take all night FIVE NOCTURNES: 5. IN THE LONG NIGHT First Line: I would build my house of crystal Last Line: We can rest assured on eider %there will come another day FLOOD First Line: Blood has been harder to dam back than water Last Line: Oh, blood will out. It cannot be contained Variant Title(s): Bloo Subject(s): Blood FLOWER GUIDANCE Poem Text First Line: As I went from flower to flower Last Line: Never pick a flower. Subject(s): Flowers FLOWER-GATHERING Poem Text First Line: I left you in the morning Last Line: That I've been long away. Subject(s): Flowers FOR ALLAN Poem Text First Line: Who wanted to see how I wrote a poem Last Line: Excepting santa claus. Subject(s): Christmas; Neilson, Allan; Poetry & Poets; Nativity, The FOR ONCE, THEN, SOMETHING Poem Text First Line: Others taunt me with having knelt at well-curbs Last Line: Truth? A pebble of quartz? For once, then, something. Subject(s): Summer FOR TRAVELERS GOING SIDEREAL Last Line: But on venus it must be venereal FOREST FLOWERS Poem Text First Line: Some flowers take station close to where we stay Last Line: Because they will whoso touches stem Subject(s): Flowers FORGIVE, O LORD Poem Text First Line: Forgive, o lord, my little jokes on thee Last Line: And I’ll forgive thy great big one on me Subject(s): Forgiveness; Clemency FOUNTAIN, A BOTTLE, A DONKEY'S EARS, AND SOME BOOKS First Line: Old davis owned a solid mica mountain Last Line: In time she would be rid of all her books FOUR-ROOM SHACK ASPIRING HIGH Poem Text Last Line: Hope you’re satisfied to last Subject(s): Houses FOUR-ROOM SHACK ASPIRING HIGH Last Line: Hope you're satisfied to last FRAGMENTARY BLUE Poem Text Recitation First Line: Why make so much of a fragmentary blue Last Line: If only gives our wish for blue a whet. Subject(s): Blue (color) FREEDOM OF THE MOON First Line: I've tried the new moon tilted in the air Last Line: The color run, all sorts of wonder follow Subject(s): Moon FROM IRON Poem Text First Line: Nature within her inmost self divides Last Line: To trouble men with having to take sides Subject(s): Nature FROM IRON: TOOLS AND WEAPONS; TO AHMED S. BOKHARI First Line: Nature within her inmost self divides Last Line: To trouble men with having to take sides FROM PLANE TO PLANE First Line: Neither of them was better than the other Last Line: Dick said to old pike, innocent of shakespeare GATHERING LEAVES Poem Text First Line: Spades take up leaves Last Line: The harvest shall stop? Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Seasons; Fall GATHERING LEAVES First Line: Spades take up leaves Last Line: And who's to say where %the harvest shall stop? Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Seasons GENEALOGICAL Poem Text First Line: It was my grandfather's grandfather's grandfather's Last Line: And I think he explains my lifelong liking for indians. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Heritage; Heredity GHOST HOUSE Poem Text First Line: I dwell in a lonely house I know Last Line: As sweet companions as might be had. Subject(s): Haunted Houses; Supernatural GIFT OUTRIGHT First Line: The land was ours before we were the land's Last Line: But still unstoried, artless, unenhanced, %such as she would become Subject(s): Inaugural Poem; United States; War GIFT OUTRIGHT OF 'THE GIFT OUTRIGHT'; WITH SOME PRELIMINARY HISTORY .. Poem Text First Line: Summoning artists to participate Last Line: Such as she was, such as she would become Subject(s): Inaugural Poem; Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963) GIFT OUTRIGHT OF 'THE GIFT OUTRIGHT'; WITH SOME PRELIMINARY HISTORY .. First Line: Summoning artists to participate Last Line: Of which this noonday's the beginning hour Subject(s): Inaugural Poem; Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963) GOD'S GARDEN Poem Text Recitation First Line: God made a beauteous garden Last Line: That leads you on to heaven. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening GOING FOR WATER Poem Text First Line: The well was dry beside the door, Last Line: Like pearls, and now a silver blade. Subject(s): Water GOLD HESPERIDEE First Line: Square matthew hale's young grafted apple tree Last Line: In gratitude for which square matthew vowed %to walk a graver man restrained in wrath GOOD HOURS Poem Text First Line: I had for my winter evening walk Last Line: At ten o'clock of a winter eve. Subject(s): Evening; Winter; Walking; Sunset; Twilight GOOD RELIEF Poem Text First Line: Shall we, then, wish as many as possible Last Line: In suffering is give you good relief. Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The GOOD-BY AND KEEP COLD Poem Text First Line: This saying good-by on the edge of the dark Last Line: But something has to be left to god. Subject(s): Orchards GREECE Poem Text First Line: They say: 'let there be no more war!' Last Line: Now prove it once again! Subject(s): Crete; Greco-turkish War (1897); Greece; Greeks HAEC FABULA DOCET Poem Text First Line: The play seems out for an almost infinite run. Last Line: Are absolutely sure to come to grief Subject(s): Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect HAEC FABULA DOCET First Line: A blindman by the name of la fontaine Last Line: Too proud to be beholden for relief, %are absolutely sure to come to grief HANNIBAL Poem Text First Line: Was there ever a cause too lost Last Line: For the generous tears of youth and song? Subject(s): Hannibal (247-183 B.c.) HANNIBAL First Line: Was there ever a cause too lost Last Line: For the generous tears of youth and song? HAPPINESS MAKES UP IN HEIGHT Poem Text First Line: Oh, stormy stormy world, Last Line: Of so much warmth and light Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight HAPPINESS MAKES UP IN HEIGHT FOR WHAT IT LACKS IN LENGTH First Line: Oh, stormy stormy world %the days you were not swirled Last Line: We went from house to wood %for change of solitude HARDSHIP OF ACCOUNTING First Line: Never ask of money spent Last Line: To remember or invent %what he did with every cent Subject(s): Accountants And Accounting HER HUSBAND GAVE HER A RING Poem Text Last Line: For being so sinfully reckless Subject(s): Rewards; Adultery HER HUSBAND GAVE HER A RING Last Line: For being so sinfully reckless Subject(s): Gifts And Giving; Marriage HOME First Line: Home is the place where, when you have to go there %they have to take you in Last Line: I should have called it %something you somehow haven't to deserve Subject(s): Religion HOME BURIAL Poem Text First Line: He saw her from the bottom of the stairs Last Line: "I'll follow and bring you back by force. I will! -- " Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love HOW HARD IS IT TO KEEP FROM BEING KING WHEN IT'S IN YOU AND IN THE SITUATION Poem Text Last Line: Or more than half I’m half inclined to say Subject(s): Darius I, King Of Persia; Poetry & Poets HOW HARD IT IS TO KEEP FROM BEING KING WHEN IT'S IN YOU ... First Line: The king said to his son: enough of this! Last Line: Or more than half I'm half inclined to say HUNTER JAMES Poem Text First Line: Nothing ever so sincere Last Line: T won’t prove a bore to hear Subject(s): Sincerity HYLA BROOK Poem Text First Line: By june our brook's run out of song and speed Last Line: We love the things we love for what they are. Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks I AM A MEDE AND PERSIAN Poem Text Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972) I COULD GIVE ALL TO TIME Poem Text First Line: To time it never seems that he is brave Last Line: And what I would not part with I have kept Subject(s): Time I COULD GIVE ALL TO TIME First Line: To time it never seems that he is brave Last Line: And what I would not part with I have kept Subject(s): Time I ONLY GO Last Line: When I'm the show I WILL SING YOU ONE-O Poem Text First Line: It was long I lay Last Line: And nation nation Subject(s): Night; Universe; Bedtime I WILL SING YOU ONE-O First Line: It was long I lay Last Line: To drag down man %and nation nation IMMIGRANTS Poem Text First Line: No ship of all that under sail or stream Last Line: Has been her anxious convoy in to shore Subject(s): Immigrants; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration IMMIGRANTS First Line: No ship of all that under sail or stream Last Line: Has been her anxious convoy to shore Subject(s): Immigrants IMPORTER First Line: Mrs. Someone's been to asia Last Line: Teach your grandmother egg suction Subject(s): Asia; Mass Production IN A DISUSED GRAVEYARD Poem Text First Line: The living come with grassy tread Last Line: I think they would believe the lie Subject(s): Mourning; Time; Bereavement IN A DISUSED GRAVEYARD First Line: The living come with grassy tread Last Line: I think they would believe the lie Subject(s): Mourning; Time IN A GLASS OF CIDER Poem Text First Line: It seemed I was a mite of sediment Last Line: The thing was to get now and then elated Subject(s): Cider IN A GLASS OF CIDER First Line: It seemed I was a mite of sediment Last Line: The thing was to get now and then elated IN A POEM Poem Text First Line: The sentencing goes blithely on its way Last Line: In having its undeviable say Subject(s): Poetry & Poets IN A POEM First Line: The sentencing goes blithely on its way Last Line: As surely as it keeps the stroke and time %in having its undeviable way Subject(s): Poetry And Poets IN A VALE Poem Text First Line: When I was young, we dwelt in a vale Last Line: Nor vainly listen all the night long. Subject(s): Love IN DIVES' DIVE First Line: It is late at night and still I am losing Last Line: Let's have another look at another five Subject(s): Card Games; Gambling IN ENGLAND Poem Text First Line: Alone in rain I sat today Last Line: Is never far from sailing. Subject(s): Country Life; England; English IN EQUAL SACRIFICE Poem Text First Line: Thus of old the douglas did Last Line: The heart he bore to the holy land. Subject(s): Douglas, Sir James De Douglas, Lord Of; Robert I. King Of Scotland (1274-1329); Douglas The Good; Black Douglas, The; Bruce, Robert; The Bruce IN HARDWOOD GROVES Poem Text First Line: The same leaves over and over again! Last Line: I know that this is the way in ours. Subject(s): Leaves; Life Change Events IN NEGLECT Poem Text First Line: They leave us so to the way we took Last Line: And try if we cannot feel forsaken. IN THE CLEARING: FRONTISPIECE First Line: But god's own descent Last Line: Of the soul's ethereal %into the material IN THE HOME STRETCH Poem Text First Line: She stood against the kitchen sink, and looked Last Line: As much at home as if they'd always danced there. Subject(s): Home IN TIME OF CLOUDBURST Poem Text First Line: Let the downpour roil and toil! Last Line: And resentful of man’s condition Subject(s): Rain IN TIME OF CLOUDBURST First Line: Let the downpour roil and toil! Last Line: Never make me tired and morose %and resentful of man's condition Subject(s): Rain IN WINTER IN THE WOODS ALONE Poem Text Last Line: For yet another blow Subject(s): Lumber & Lumbering IN WINTER IN THE WOODS ALONE Last Line: Or for myself in my retreat %for yet another blow INEQUITIES OF DEBT First Line: These I assume were words so deeply meant Last Line: To rear against the inscription on the wall Subject(s): Debt INNATE HELIUM Poem Text First Line: Religious faith is a most filling vapor Last Line: Some gas like helium must be innate Subject(s): Faith; Belief; Creed INNATE HELIUM First Line: Religious faith is a most filling vapor Last Line: Some gas like helium must be innate Subject(s): Faith INTO MY OWN Poem Text First Line: One of my wishes is that those dark trees Last Line: Only more sure of all I thought was true. Subject(s): Trees INVESTMENT First Line: Over back where they speak of life as staying Last Line: But get some color and music out of life? Subject(s): Family Life; Marriage IOTA SUBSCRIPT Poem Text First Line: Seek not in me the big I capital Last Line: But upsilon which is the greek for you Subject(s): Greek Language IOTA SUBSCRIPT First Line: Seek not in me the big I capital Last Line: But upsilon which is the greek for you Subject(s): Greek Language IRIS BY NIGHT Poem Text Recitation First Line: One misty evening, one another's guide Last Line: In a relation of elected friends Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) IRIS BY NIGHT First Line: One misty evening, one another's guide Last Line: From all division time or foe can bring %in a relation of elected friends Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) IT BIDS PRETTY FAIR Poem Text First Line: The play seems out for an almost infinite run. Last Line: We'll be all right if nothing goes wrong with the lighting Subject(s): Sun IT BIDS PRETTY FAIR First Line: The play seems out for an almost infinite run Last Line: We'll be all right if nothing goes wrong with the lighting IT IS THE YEAR TWO THOUSAND Poem Text First Line: To start the world of old Last Line: To watch this end de luxe Subject(s): 2000 A.d. IT IS THE YEAR TWO THOUSAND First Line: To start the world of old Last Line: And annotating books %to watch this end de luxe Subject(s): 2000 A.d. IT TAKES ALL SORTS OF IN AND OUTDOOR SCHOOLING Poem Text Last Line: To get adapted to my kind of fooling Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature IT TAKES ALL SORTS OF INDOOR AND OUTDOOR SCHOOLING Last Line: To get adapted to my kind of fooling KITCHEN CHIMNEY First Line: Builder, in building the little house Last Line: A chimney that only would serve to remind me %of castles I used to build in air Subject(s): Houses KITTY HAWK Poem Text First Line: Kitty hawk, o kitty Last Line: Not to mention clutch Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina; Wright, Orville (1871-1948); Wright, Wilbur (1867-1912); Airplanes; Air Pilots KITTY HAWK First Line: Kitty hawk, o kitty Last Line: Like darius green %in their home town, dayton Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina; Wright, Orville (1871-1948); Wright, Wilbur (1867-1912) LA NOCHE TRISTE Poem Text First Line: Changed is the scene: the peace Last Line: Where they have ruled alone. Subject(s): Aztecs; Cortes, Hernando (1485-1547) LAST MOWING First Line: There's a place called far-away meadow Last Line: All shapes and colors of flowers, %I needn't call you by name Variant Title(s): Mowin Subject(s): Fields; Flowers; Mowing And Mowers LEAF-TREADER First Line: I have been treading on leaves all day until I am Last Line: Now up my knee to keep on top of another year of snow Subject(s): Leaves LEAVES COMPARED WITH FLOWERS Poem Text Recitation First Line: A tree's leaves may be ever so good Last Line: Leaves are all my darker mood Subject(s): Leaves LEAVES COMPARED WITH FLOWERS First Line: A tree's leaves may be ever so good Last Line: Leaves are all my darker mood Subject(s): Leaves LESSON FOR TODAY First Line: If this uncertain age in which we dwell Last Line: I would have written of me on my stone: %I had a lover's quarrel with the world Subject(s): War LET CONGRESS DO IT First Line: Wainwrights and wheelwrights from old we've had Last Line: That would not only say it right: it would sing right Subject(s): U.s. - Congress; Wright, Orville (1871-1948); Wright, Wilbur (1867-1912) LET'S NOT THINK First Line: The east wind had its say Last Line: I promise for the pools, %the shallow little fools LETTER TO JOSEPH WARREN Poem Text First Line: Winter has beaten summer in fight Last Line: Her ruined city with salt. Subject(s): Winter LETTER TO LEONARD BACON First Line: I don't know whether you are in this world or in the old Last Line: No I got it from the sweet singer of michigan where he is honest enough to acknowledge he got it Subject(s): Bacon, Leonard (1887-1954); Moore, Julia A. (1847-1920); Nash, Ogden (1902-1971); Poetry And Poets LETTER TO LOUIS UNTERMEYER, 1931 Poem Text First Line: Dear louis: / the telescope has come and I am charmed Last Line: I need nobody else's art, I hope Subject(s): Telescopes & Binoculars; Untermeyer, Louis (1885-1977); Opera Glasses LETTER TO LOUIS UNTERMEYER, 1931 First Line: Dear louis: %the telescope has come and I am charmed Last Line: I need nobody else's art, I hope Subject(s): Telescopes And Binoculars; Untermeyer, Louis (1885-1977) LETTER TO LOUIS UNTERMEYER, 1944 First Line: Dear louis: %I'd rather there had been no war at all Last Line: I'd take a hand in it if you would let me Subject(s): Untermeyer, Louis (1885-1977); World War Ii LINES WRITTEN IN DEJECTION ON THE EVE OF GREAT SUCCESS First Line: I once had a cow that jumped over the moon Last Line: Or what it was foughten for LITERATE FARMER AND THE PLANET VENUS First Line: My unexpected knocking at the door Last Line: Marvelous world in nineteen-twenty-six LITTLE KINGDOM Last Line: And be peaceful minded %in time of peace Subject(s): Peace LOCKED OUT; AS TOLD TO A CHILD Poem Text First Line: When we locked up the house at night Last Line: At dusk to watch the moon down early. Subject(s): Flowers; Night; Bedtime LODGED Poem Text First Line: The rain to the wind said Last Line: I know how the flowers felt Subject(s): Rain; Flowers LODGED First Line: The rain to the wind said Last Line: I know how the flowers felt LONE STRIKER First Line: The swinging mill bell changed its rate Last Line: Come get him -- they knew where to search Subject(s): Labor And Laborers LOOKING FOR A SUNSET BIRD IN WINTER Poem Text Recitation First Line: The west was getting out of gold Last Line: A piercing little star was through Subject(s): Birds LOOKING FOR A SUNSET BIRD IN WINTER First Line: The west was getting out of gold Last Line: A piercing little star was through Subject(s): Birds LOOSE MOUNTAIN (TELESCOPIC) First Line: Did you stay up last night (the magi did) Last Line: About when best to have us in our orbit, %so we won't simply take it and absorb it LOST FOLLOWER First Line: As I have know them passionate and fine Last Line: Something about a kingdom in the sky %(as yet unbrought to earth) he means to try LOST IN HEAVEN Poem Text First Line: The clouds, the source of rain, one stormy night Last Line: Let’s let my heavenly lostness overwhelm me Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise LOST IN HEAVEN First Line: The clouds, the source of rain, one stormy night Last Line: Let's let my heavenly lostness overwhelm me LOVE AND A QUESTION Poem Text First Line: A stranger came to the door at eve Last Line: The bridegroom wished he knew. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives LOVE BEING ALL ONE Poem Text First Line: Could I forget thee, I should forget Last Line: I should forget to forget defeat. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of LOVELY SHALL BE CHOOSERS First Line: The voice said, 'hurl her down!' Last Line: Trust us,' the voices said LOWES TOOK THE OBVIOUS POSITION Last Line: The poet has to leave a track %of torn up scraps of prior poets Subject(s): Poetry And Poets LUCRETIUS VERSUS THE LAKE POETS Poem Text First Line: Dean, adult education may seem silly Last Line: God bless the dean and make his deanship plenary Subject(s): Education, Adult; Poetry & Poets LUCRETIUS VERSUS THE LAKE POETS First Line: Dean, adult education may seem silly Last Line: I grant you - if you're sure about the word. %god bless the dean and make his deanship plenary Subject(s): Education, Adult; Poetry And Poets MAN IS AS TALL AS HIS HEIGHT Last Line: \and he swings a commensurate pen Subject(s): Size And Shape MAPLE Poem Text First Line: Her teacher's certainty it must be mabel Last Line: Name children some names and see what you do. Subject(s): Names MARX AND ENGELS Poem Text First Line: Them two panacea guys Last Line: At the time of his debut Subject(s): Communism; Engels, Friedrich (1820-1895); Marx, Karl (1818-1883); Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953) MARX AND ENGELS First Line: Them two panacea guys Last Line: Maybe none but you and me Subject(s): Communism; Engels, Friedrich (1820-1895); Marx, Karl (1818-1883); Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953) MASQUE OF MERCY First Line: You can't come in (knock, knock) the store is closed Last Line: Nothing can make injustice just but mercy MASQUE OF REASON First Line: A fair oasis in the purest desert Last Line: You'd as well smile as frown on the occasion MASTER SPEED First Line: No speed of wind or water rushing by Last Line: That life is only life for evermore %together wing to wing and oar to oar Subject(s): Love - Marital MEETING AND PASSING Poem Text First Line: As I went down the hill along the wall Last Line: Before we met and you what I had passed. Subject(s): Relationships MENDING WALL Poem Text First Line: Something there is that doesn't love a wall Last Line: He says again, 'good fences make good neighbors.' Subject(s): Neighbors; Walls MIDDLENESS OF THE ROAD First Line: The road at the top of the rise Last Line: The universal blue %and local green suggest MIDDLETOWN MURDER First Line: Jack hitched up into his sky blue bob Last Line: As much as singing that bad was good Subject(s): Murder MIDSUMMER BIRDS Poem Text First Line: Could there be aught more hushed Last Line: May be none but me and you Subject(s): Birds MILKY WAY IS A COWPATH First Line: On wings too stiff to flap Last Line: Had been with flocks and herds %for what they didn't earn MINOR BIRD First Line: I have wished a bird would fly away Last Line: And of course there must be something wrong %in wanting to silence my song Subject(s): Birds MISGIVING Poem Text First Line: All crying 'we will go with you, o wind!' Last Line: It may not seem better to me to rest. Subject(s): Wind; Freedom MISSGIVING Poem Text First Line: All crying, ‘we will go with you, o wind!’ Last Line: It may not seem better to me to rest Subject(s): Wind MISSIVE MISSILE First Line: Someone in ancient mas d'azil Last Line: It cannot speak as far as this MONEY Poem Text First Line: Never ask of money spent Last Line: What he did with every cent Subject(s): Money MOOD APART First Line: Once down on my knees to growing plants Last Line: That looks in on to a mood apart MOON COMPASSES Poem Text First Line: I stole forth dimly in the dripping pause Last Line: So love will take between the hands a face . . . Subject(s): Compasses MOON COMPASSES First Line: I stole forth dimly in the dripping pause Last Line: So love will take between the hands a face MOST OF IT First Line: He thought he kept the universe alone Last Line: And forced the underbrush - and that was all MOWING Poem Text First Line: There was never a sound beside the wood but one Last Line: My long scythe whispered and left the hay to make. Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Mowing & Mowers; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Lawn Mowers MY BUTTERFLY Poem Text First Line: Thine emulous fond flowers are dead, too Last Line: Under the eaves. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs MY GIVING Poem Text First Line: I ask no merrier christmas Last Line: That night. Subject(s): Christmas Gifts MY NOVEMBER GUEST Poem Text First Line: My sorrow, when she's here with me Last Line: And they are better for her praise. Subject(s): November NATURE NOTE First Line: Four or five whippoorwills Last Line: Their latest that I remember, %september the twenty-third Subject(s): Birds; Whipporwills NEITHER OUT FAR NOR IN DEEP Poem Text First Line: The people along the sand Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore NEITHER OUT FAR NOR IN DEEP First Line: The people along the sand Last Line: But when was that ever a bar %to any watch they keep? Subject(s): Seashore NEVER AGAIN WOULD BIRDS' SONG BE THE SAME Poem Text First Line: He would declare and could himself believe Last Line: To any watch they keep? Variant Title(s): Never Gain Would Birds' Song Be The Same Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Birds; Eve NEVER AGAIN WOULD BIRDS' SONG BE THE SAME First Line: He would declare and could himself believe Last Line: And to do that to birds was why she came Variant Title(s): Never Gain Would Birds' Song Be The Sam Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible; Birds NEVER NAUGHT SONG First Line: There was never naught Last Line: Almost next to naught %but the force of thought NEW GRIEF Poem Text First Line: Where two had walked awhile, now only one Last Line: Or wholly perish. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness NEW HAMPSHIRE Poem Text First Line: I met a lady from the south who said Last Line: At present I am living in vermont Subject(s): New Hampshire NEW HAMPSHIRE First Line: I met a lady from the south who said Last Line: And restful just to think about new hampshire. %at present I am living in vermont Subject(s): New Hampshire NO HOLY WARS FOR THEM Poem Text First Line: States strong enough to do good are but few, Last Line: Can ever give us is a nuisance brawl Subject(s): War NO HOLY WARS FOR THEM First Line: States strong enough to do good are but few Last Line: No holy wars for them. The most the small %can ever give us is a nuisance brawl NOT ALL THERE First Line: I turned to speak to god Last Line: God found I wasn't there -- at least not over half Subject(s): God NOT OF SCHOOL AGE Poem Text First Line: Around bend after bend Subject(s): Children; Childhood NOT OF SCHOOL AGE First Line: Around bend after bend Last Line: He bet it was out to-day, %and would I see if he was right? Subject(s): Children NOT QUITE SOCIAL Poem Text First Line: Some of you will be glad I did what I did, Last Line: And pay a death-tax of farily polite repentance Subject(s): Punishment NOT QUITE SOCIAL First Line: Some of you will be glad I did what I did Last Line: I shall will to the common stock of air my breath %and pay a death-tax of fairly polite repentance NOT TO KEEP Poem Text First Line: They sent him back to her. The letter came Last Line: They had given him back to her, but not to keep. Subject(s): World War I - Casualties NOTHING EVER SO SINCERE Poem Text Last Line: It wont prove a bore to hear Subject(s): Sincerity; Wit & Humor NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY Poem Text First Line: Nature's first green is gold Last Line: Nothing gold can stay. Subject(s): Gold; Life Change Events; Transience; Impermanence NOVEMBER Poem Text First Line: We saw leaves go to glory Last Line: The waste of nations warring Subject(s): November; War NOVEMBER First Line: We saw leaves go to glory Last Line: By denying and ignoring %the waste of nations warring Subject(s): November; War NOW CLOSE THE WINDOWS Poem Text First Line: Now close the windows and hush all the fields Last Line: But see all wind-stirred. Subject(s): Windows OBJECTION TO BEING STEPPED ON First Line: At the end of the row Last Line: The first tool I step on %turned into a weapon OCTOBER Poem Text First Line: O hushed october morning mild Last Line: For the grapes' sake along the wall. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall OF THE STONES OF THE PLACE Poem Text First Line: I farm a pasture where the boulders lie Last Line: It came from where he came from anyway Subject(s): Stones; Granite; Rocks OF THE STONES OF THE PLACE First Line: I farm a pasture where the boulders lie Last Line: It came from where he came from anyway Subject(s): Stones OFFER First Line: I narrow eyes and double night Last Line: If I supply the sorrow felt, %will they supply the tears? Subject(s): Grief OH THOU THAT SPINNEST THE WHEEL Last Line: That I may feel them like a dancer %in the sinews of my back and neck OLD AGE Poem Text First Line: My old uncle is long and narrow Last Line: But it is not necessarily serious. Subject(s): Old Age OLD BARN AT THE BOTTOM OF THE FOGS First Line: Where's this barn's house? It never had a house Last Line: The cheapest tramp that came along that way %could mischievously lock him in to stay Subject(s): Barns OLD DOG ON A BIRD SINGING IN ITS SLEEP Poem Text First Line: A bird half wakened in the lunar noon Last Line: Had made it much more easily a prey Subject(s): Birds ON A BIRD SINGING IN ITS SLEEP First Line: A bird half wakened in the lunar noon Last Line: Had made it much more easily a prey Subject(s): Birds ON A TREE FALLEN ACROSS THE ROAD (TO HEAR US TALK) Poem Text First Line: The tree the tempest with a crash of wood Last Line: And steer it a direction straight through space. Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation ON BEING CHOSEN POET OF VERMONT Poem Text First Line: Breathes there a bard who isn't moved Last Line: By his country and his neighborhood? Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ON BEING CHOSEN POET OF VERMONT First Line: Breathes there a bard who isn't moved Last Line: By his country an his neighborhood? Subject(s): Poetry And Poets ON BEING IDOLIZED Poem Text First Line: The wave sucks back and with the last of water Last Line: Like the ideal of some mistaken lover. Subject(s): Waves ON BEING IDOLIZED First Line: The wave sucks back and with the last of water Last Line: Like the ideal of some mistaken lover ON GOING UNNOTICED Poem Text First Line: As vain to raise a voice as a sigh Last Line: You took as a trophy of the hour. Subject(s): Forests; Woods ON LOOKING UP BY CHANCE AT THE CONSTELLATIONS Poem Text First Line: You'll wait a long, long time for anything much Last Line: That calm seems certainly safe to last to-night Subject(s): Constellations ON LOOKING UP BY CHANCE AT THE CONSTELLATIONS First Line: You'll wait a long, long time for anything much Last Line: That calm seems certainly safe to last tonight Subject(s): Constellations ON OUR SYMPATHY WITH THE UNDER DOG Poem Text First Line: First under up and then again down under Last Line: Lest both should bite him in the toga-togs Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Politics & Government ON OUR SYMPATHY WITH THE UNDER DOG First Line: First under up and then again down under Last Line: Lest both should bite him in the toga-togs Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Politics ON TAKING FROM THE TOP TO BROADEN THE BASE Poem Text First Line: Roll stones down on our head! Last Line: To broaden its base Subject(s): Mountains; Avalanches; Hills; Downs (great Britain) ON TAKING FROM THE TOP TO BROADEN THE BASE First Line: Roll stones down on our head Last Line: To broaden its base ON TALK OF PEACE AT THIS TIME Poem Text First Line: France. France, I know not what is in my heart Last Line: Is made secure for us and hell is thwarted. Subject(s): France; Peace; World War I; First World War ON THE HEART'S BEGINNING TO CLOUD THE MIND Poem Text First Line: Something I saw or thought I saw Last Line: Far into the lives of other folk Subject(s): Marriage; Railroads; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Railways; Trains ON THE HEART'S BEGINNING TO CLOUD THE MIND First Line: Something I saw or thought I saw Last Line: Far into the lives of other folk Subject(s): Marriage; Railroads ON THE INFLATION OF THE CURRENCY, 1919 Poem Text First Line: The pain of seeing ten cents turned to five! Last Line: They know what's best for them too well to laugh. Subject(s): Inflation (economics) ON THE SALE OF MY FARM Poem Text First Line: Well-away and be it so Last Line: Seeking ache of memory here. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers ONCE BY THE PACIFIC Poem Text First Line: The shattered water made a misty din Last Line: "before god's last ""put out the light"" was spoken." Subject(s): Judgment Day; Pacific Ocean; Seashore; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Beach; Coast; Shore ONCE MORE BREVITY Recitation by Author Subject(s): Wells; Neighbors ONE FAVORED ACORN Poem Text First Line: More than a million seed Last Line: At being allowed to live. Subject(s): Acorns ONE GUESS First Line: He has dust in his eyes and a fan for a wing Last Line: And a mouthful of dye stuff instead of a sting Variant Title(s): My What-is-i Subject(s): Grasshoppers ONE MORE BREVITY First Line: I opened the door so my last look Last Line: And finding, wasn't disposed to speak ONE STEP BACKWARD TAKEN Recitation by Author First Line: Not only sands and gravel ONE STEP BACKWARD TAKEN First Line: Not only sands and gravels Last Line: Then the rain stopped and the blowing %and the sun came out to dry me OUR CAMP; IN THE AUTUMN WOODS Poem Text First Line: In a haunt in the depths of the forest Last Line: To strand on the sands of sleep. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime OUR DOOM TO BLOOM Poem Text First Line: Cumaean sibyl, charming ogress, Last Line: Unless ‘twould rather wilt than fade Subject(s): Fate; Destiny OUR DOOM TO BLOOM First Line: Cumaean sibyl, charming ogress Last Line: Unless 'twould rather wilt than fade OUR HOLD ON THE PLANET Poem Text First Line: We asked for rain. It didn't flash and roar Last Line: Our hold on the planet wouldn't have so increased Subject(s): Earth; Rain; World OUR HOLD ON THE PLANET First Line: We asked for rain. It didn't flash and roar Last Line: Or our number living wouldn't be steadily more, %our hold of the planet wouldn't have so increased Subject(s): Earth; Rain OUR SINGING STRENGTH Poem Text First Line: It snowed in spring on earth so dry and warm Last Line: And sing the wildflowers up from root and seed Subject(s): Spring; Singing & Singers; Songs OUR SINGING STRENGTH First Line: It snowed in spring on earth so dry and warm Last Line: And sing the wildflowers up from root and seed OUT, OUT -' Poem Text First Line: The buzz saw snarled and rattled in the yard Last Line: Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs. Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Dead, The PAN WITH US Poem Text First Line: Pan came out of the woods one day, Last Line: Play? Play? -- what should he play? Subject(s): Pan (mythology); Pipers PANS First Line: The voice on patmos speaking bade me 'shut your eyes!' Last Line: The scale-pans crashed and clanged it. It was a trust PARES CONTINUAS FUTUTIONES Poem Text First Line: Says our harvard neo malthusian Last Line: Which seems a licentious conclusion Subject(s): Reproduction; Mating PARES CONTINUAS FUTUTIONES First Line: Says our harvard neo malthusian Last Line: Which seems a licentious conclusion! Subject(s): Reproduction PARTING Poem Text First Line: I dreamed the setting sun would rise no more Last Line: With longing deep as everlasting night. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness PASSING GLIMPSE; TO RIDGE TORRENCE ON LAST LOOKING INTO HESPERIDES First Line: I often see flowers from a passing car Last Line: Not in position to look too close Subject(s): Torrence, Frederic Ridgely (1875-1950) PAUL'S WIFE Poem Text First Line: To drive paul out of any lumber camp Last Line: In any way the world knew how to speak in. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PEA BRUSH Poem Text First Line: I walked down alone sunday after church Last Line: And since it was coming up had to come. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers PEACEFUL SHEPHERD First Line: If heaven were to do again Last Line: The cross, the crown, the scales may all %as well have been the sword Subject(s): Religion PERIL OF HOPE Poem Text First Line: It is right in there Last Line: For a night of frost Subject(s): Fear; Frost PERIL OF HOPE First Line: It is right in there Last Line: For a night of frost PERTINAX First Line: Let chaos storm! Last Line: I wait for form PLACE FOR A THIRD Poem Text First Line: Nothing to say to all those marriages! Last Line: When his time comes to die and settle down. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PLANNERS First Line: If anything should put an end to this Last Line: These anyway might think it was important %that human history should not be shortened PLOWMEN Poem Text First Line: A plow, I hear men say, to plow the snow Last Line: At having cultivated rock. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers POD OF THE MILKWEED Poem Text First Line: Calling all butterflies from every race Last Line: Should come to nothing must be fairly faced Subject(s): Milkweed POD OF THE MILKWEED First Line: Calling all butterflies of every race Last Line: Should come to nothing must be fairly faced POETS ARE BORN NOT MADE Poem Text First Line: My nose is out of joint Last Line: Anything they write. Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Poetry & Poets; Twins PRECAUTION First Line: I never dared be radical when young Last Line: For fear it would make me conservative when old PRIDE OF ANCESTRY Poem Text First Line: The deacon's wife was a bit desirish Last Line: Accounts for their genius and love of drink Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Heritage; Heredity PRIDE OF ANCESTRY First Line: The deacon's wife was a bit desirish Last Line: That thweir descent from such a calorie %accounts for their genius and love of drink Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry PROPHET First Line: They say the truth will make you free Last Line: Which may be what you want to be Subject(s): Truth PROPHETS REALLY PROPHESY AS MYSTICS, THE COMMENTATORS ... First Line: With what unbroken spirit naive science Last Line: Spinning as well as running on a course %it seems too bad to steer it off course PROVIDE, PROVIDE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The witch that came (the withered hag) Subject(s): Bible; Fame; Old Age; Religion; Transience; Reputation; Theology; Impermanence PROVIDE, PROVIDE First Line: The witch that came (the withered hag) Last Line: With boughten friendship at your side %than none at all. Pr0vide, provide! Subject(s): Bible; Fame; Old Age; Religion; Transience PURPOSE OF THE UNIVERSAL PLAN Last Line: Admits of little purposes in man PURSUIT OF THE WORD Poem Text First Line: What, shall there be word single to express Last Line: Over the blackened hills that hid the sun? Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary PUSSY-WILLOW TIME Poem Text First Line: That every footprint's now a pool Last Line: And unborn violets first are thought of. Subject(s): Pussy Willows PUTTING IN THE SEED Poem Text First Line: You come to fetch me from my work tonight Last Line: Shouldering its way and shedding the earth crumbs. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Plants; Childhood; Planting; Planters QUANDARY Poem Text First Line: Never have I been sad or glad Last Line: I passed with such a high iq Subject(s): Intelligence QUANDARY First Line: Never had I been sad or glad Last Line: I passed with such a high I.Q. QUEST OF THE PURPLE-FRINGED First Line: I felt the chill of the meadow underfoot Last Line: Said that the fall might come and whirl of leaves, %for summer was done QUESTION First Line: A voice says, look me in the stars Last Line: Were not too much to pay for birth QUESTIONING FACES Poem Text First Line: The winter owl banked just in time to pass Last Line: To glassed-in children at the window sill Subject(s): Owls QUESTIONING FACES First Line: The winter owl banked just in time to pass Last Line: To glassed in children at the window sill RABBIT-HUNTER First Line: Careless and still Last Line: (nor I) have wit %to comprehend Subject(s): Sports RANGE-FINDING Poem Text First Line: The battle rent a cobweb diamond-strung Last Line: But finding nothing, sullenly withdrew. Subject(s): Decay; Nostalgia; Soldiers; War; Rot; Decadence RECORD STRIDE First Line: In a vermont bedroom closet Last Line: As if I had measured the country %and got the united states stated REFLEX First Line: Hear my rigmarole Last Line: That there is an it? RELUCTANCE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Out through the fields and the woods Last Line: Of a love or a season? Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of RESTORATION First Line: In the dark moment on the eastern stairs Last Line: Oh what a friend to have for my familiar REVELATION Poem Text First Line: We make ourselves a place apart Last Line: Must speak and tell us where they are. Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology RIDERS Poem Text First Line: The surest thing there is is we are riders Last Line: We have ideas yet that we haven’t tried Subject(s): Life Change Events RIDERS First Line: The surest thing there is is we are riders Last Line: We have ideas yet that we haven't tried Subject(s): Life Change Events RING AROUND Poem Text First Line: We dance around in a ring and suppose Last Line: But the secret sits in the middle and knows Subject(s): Secrets ROADSIDE STAND First Line: The little old house was out with a little new shed Last Line: I wonder how I should like you to come to me %and offer to put me gently out of my pain ROGERS GROUP First Line: How young and unassuming Last Line: No one was so far touched %by the rogers group they made Subject(s): Rogers, John (1829-1904); Sculpture And Sculptors ROSE FAMILY First Line: The rose is a rose Last Line: You, of course, are a rose - %but were always a rose ROSE POGONIAS Poem Text First Line: A saturated meadow Last Line: While so confused with flowers. Subject(s): Flowers SAND DUNES Poem Text First Line: Sea waves are green and wet Last Line: For the one more cast off shell. Subject(s): Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Poetry & Poets; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Beach; Coast; Shore SECRET SITS First Line: We dance round in a Last Line: But the secret sits in the %middle and knows SEMI-REVOLUTION First Line: I advocate a semi-revolution Last Line: Yes, revolutions are the only salves, %but they're one thing that should be done by halves Subject(s): Revolutions SERIOUS STEP LIGHTLY TAKEN First Line: Between two burrs on the map Last Line: A half a dozen major wars, %and forty-five presidents Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Farm Life SILKEN TENT First Line: She is as in a field a silken tent Last Line: In the capriciousness of summer air %is of the slightest bondage made aware Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love; Tents SITTING BY A BUSH IN BROAD DAYLIGHT Poem Text First Line: When I spread out my hand here today Last Line: The other persists as our faith Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology SITTING BY A BUSH IN BROAD DAYLIGHT First Line: When I spread out my hand here today Last Line: The other persists as our faith Subject(s): Bible; Religion SKEPTIC Poem Text First Line: Far star that tickles for my my sensitive plate Last Line: Like a caul in which I was born and am still wrapped Subject(s): Doubt; Skepticism SKEPTIC First Line: Far star that tickles for my my sensitive plate Last Line: Like a caul in which I was born and still am wrapped Subject(s): Doubt SNOW Poem Text First Line: The three stood listening to a fresh access Last Line: "what'll you bet he ever calls again?" Subject(s): Snow SOLDIER First Line: He is that fallen lance that lies as hurled Last Line: And tripped the body, shot the spirit on %further than target ever showed or shone Subject(s): Holidays; War SOME SCIENCE FICTION Poem Text First Line: The chance is the remotest Last Line: But isn’t because of an isthmus Subject(s): Conduct Of Life SOME SCIENCE FICTION First Line: The chance is the remotest Last Line: But isn't because it's an isthmus SOMETHING FOR HOPE Poem Text First Line: At the present rate it must come to pass Last Line: But spes alii agricolam ‘tis said Subject(s): Farm Life; Hope; Agriculture; Farmers; Optimism SOMETHING FOR HOPE First Line: At the present rate it must come to pass Last Line: Hope may not nourish a cow or horse, %but spes alit agriculam 'tis said Subject(s): Farm Life; Hope SONG OF THE WAVE Poem Text First Line: Rolling, rolling, o'er the deep Last Line: Then the wave's short life is o'er. Subject(s): Waves SOUND-POSTURE Poem Text First Line: What we do get in life and miss so often in literature Last Line: And concrete symbol of communication in language Subject(s): Language; Men; Words; Vocabulary SOUND-POSTURE First Line: What we do get in life and miss so often in literature Last Line: Can only write the dreary kind of grammatical prose known as professorial Subject(s): Language; Men SPAN OF LIFE First Line: The old dog barks backward without getting up Last Line: I remember when he was a pup Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SPOILS OF THE DEAD Poem Text First Line: Two fairies it was Last Line: The spoils of the dead. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SPRING POOLS Poem Text First Line: These pools that, though in forests, still reflect Last Line: From snow that melted only yesterday Subject(s): Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Lakes; Spring; Pools; Ponds SPRING POOLS First Line: These pools that, though in forests, still reflect Last Line: These flowery waters and these watery flowers %from snow that melted only yesterday Subject(s): Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Lakes; Spring STAR-SPLITTER First Line: You know orion always comes up sideways Last Line: How different from the way it ever stood? STARS Poem Text First Line: How countlessly they congregate Last Line: Without the gift of sight. Subject(s): Stars STEEPLE ON THE HOUSE First Line: What if it should turn out eternity Last Line: Means that a soul is coming on the flesh Subject(s): Worship STOPPING BY WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING Poem Text First Line: Whose woods these are I think I know Last Line: And miles to go before I sleep. Subject(s): Duty; Evening; Forests; Religion; Snow; Solitude; Winter; Sunset; Twilight; Woods; Theology; Loneliness STORM FEAR Poem Text First Line: When the wind works against us in the dark Last Line: And save ourselves unaided. Subject(s): Storms STRONG ARE SAYING NOTHING First Line: The soil now gets a rumpling soft and damp Last Line: There may be little or much beyond the grave, %but the strong are saying nothing until they see SUBVERTED FLOWER First Line: She drew back; he was calm Last Line: From her chin, picked up her comb %and drew her backward home SUMMERING Poem Text First Line: I would arise and in a dream go on Last Line: I could not slumber if the wains were out! Subject(s): Summer SYCAMORE Poem Text First Line: Zaccheus he Last Line: Our lord to see Subject(s): Bible; Plane Trees; Zacchaeus; Sycamores; Zaccheus SYCAMORE First Line: Zaccheus he Last Line: Our lord to see Subject(s): Bible; Plane Trees; Zacchaeus SYM-BALL-ISM Poem Text First Line: The symbol of the number ten Last Line: In any least degree Subject(s): Mathematics SYM-BALL-ISM First Line: The symbol of the number ten Last Line: You ask the heroine and hero Subject(s): Mathematics TEN ILLS: PERTINAX Poem Text First Line: Let chaos storm Last Line: I wait for form Subject(s): Patience TEN MILLS: IN DIVES' DIVE Poem Text First Line: It is late at night and still I am losing Last Line: Let's have a look at another five Subject(s): Card Games; Gambling; Playing Cards; Wagering; Betting TEN MILLS: NOT ALL THERE Poem Text First Line: I turned to speak to god Last Line: At least not over half Subject(s): God TEN MILLS: ONE GUESS Poem Text First Line: He has dust in his eyes and a fan for a wing Last Line: And a mouthful of dy stuff instead of sting Variant Title(s): My What-is-it Subject(s): Grasshoppers TEN MILLS: PRECAUTION Poem Text First Line: I never dared be radical when young Last Line: For fear it would make me conservative when old Subject(s): Politics TEN MILLS: THE HARDSHIP OF ACCOUNTING Poem Text First Line: Never ask of money spent Last Line: What he did with every cent Subject(s): Accountants & Accounting TEN MILLS: THE WRIGHTS' BIPLANE Poem Text First Line: This biplane is the shape of human flight Last Line: For it was writ in heaven doubly wright Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Wright, Orville (1871-1948); Wright, Wilbur (1867-1912); Airplanes; Air Pilots TEN MILLS: WASPISH Poem Text First Line: On glossy wires artistically bent Last Line: But he's as good as anybody going Subject(s): Wasps; Yellow Jackets TEN THIRTY A.M. Poem Text First Line: How much rain can down pour Last Line: In any least degree Subject(s): Rain TEN THIRTY A.M. First Line: How much rain can down pour Last Line: Inside the house or me %in any least degree Subject(s): Rain TEN THOUSAND THINGS REPOND TO SPRING SUN First Line: Spring days are quiet, growing longer. Last Line: The ten thousand things respond to spring sun. TENDENCIES CANCEL Poem Text First Line: Will the blight kill the chestnut? Last Line: Shall come to kill the blight Subject(s): Chestnuts; Blight THE AIM WAS SONG Poem Text First Line: Before man came to blow it right Last Line: The aim was song -- the wind could see. Subject(s): Music & Musicians THE ARMFUL Poem Text First Line: For every parcel I stood down to seize Last Line: And try to stack them in a better load Subject(s): Moving & Mobers THE AX-HELVE Poem Text First Line: I've known ere now an interfering branch Last Line: "see how she's cock her head!" Subject(s): Axes; Hatchets THE BAD ISLAND -- EASTER Poem Text First Line: That primitive head Last Line: With cynical daring Subject(s): Easter Island THE BEAR Poem Text First Line: The bear puts both arms round the tree above her Last Line: When sedentary and when peripatetic Subject(s): Animals; Bears THE BEARER OF EVIL TIDINGS Poem Text Last Line: What soon enough he would know? Subject(s): Messages & Messengers THE BIRDS DO THUS Poem Text First Line: I slept all day Last Line: I choose to sleep. Subject(s): Sleep THE BIRTHPLACE Poem Text First Line: Here further up the mountain slope Last Line: And now her lap is full of trees Variant Title(s): The Birthday Subject(s): Farm Life; Birth; Holidays; Home; Agriculture; Farmers; Child Birth; Midwifery THE BLACK COTTAGE Poem Text First Line: We chanced in passing by that afternoon Last Line: We rose to go. Sunset blazed on the windows. THE BONFIRE Poem Text First Line: Oh, let's go up the hill and scare ourselves Last Line: "and have our fire and laugh and be afraid." Subject(s): Fire; War THE BROKEN DROUGHT Poem Text First Line: The prophet of disaster ceased to shout Last Line: Who advised man to come and live therein? Subject(s): Drought THE CENSUS-TAKER Poem Text First Line: I came an errand one cloud-blowing evening Last Line: It must be I want life to go on living. Subject(s): Census THE COCOON Poem Text First Line: As far as I can see this autumn haze Last Line: Spinning their own cocoon did they but know it Subject(s): Cocoons THE CODE - HEROICS Poem Text First Line: There were three in the meadow by the brook Last Line: "discharge me? No! He knew I did just right." Subject(s): Farm Life THE COURAGE TO BE NEW Poem Text First Line: I hear the world reciting Last Line: And their courage to be new Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE COW IN APPLE TIME Poem Text First Line: Something inspires the only cow of late Last Line: Her udder shrivels and the milk goes dry. Subject(s): Cows THE DEATH OF THE HIRED MAN Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Mary sat musing on the lamp-flame at the table Last Line: Dead,' was all he answered. Subject(s): Death; Home; Labor & Laborers; Dead, The; Work; Workers THE DEMIURGE€™S LAUGH Poem Text First Line: It was far in the sameness of the wood Last Line: Thereafter I sat me against a tree Subject(s): Hunting THE DISCOVERY OF THE MADEIRAS; A RHYME OF HACKLUYT Poem Text First Line: A stolen lady was coming on board Last Line: Whether time’s rewards are fair or unfair Subject(s): Hakluyt, Richard (1552-1616); Madeira (island) THE DOOR IN THE DARK Poem Text First Line: In going from room to room in the dark Last Line: With what they used to pair with before Subject(s): Sight THE DRAFT HORSE Poem Text First Line: With a lantern that wouldn't burn Last Line: And walk the rest of the way Subject(s): Animals; Horses THE EGG AND THE MACHINE Poem Text First Line: He gave the solid rail a hateful kick Last Line: Will get this plasm in it goggle glass Subject(s): Hate; Automobiles; Cars THE EXPOSED NEST Poem Text First Line: You were forever finding some new play Last Line: And so at last to learn to use their wings. Subject(s): Nests THE FALLS Poem Text First Line: Tis a steep wood of rocks Last Line: And the falls came down there. Subject(s): Waterfalls THE FEAR Poem Text First Line: A lantern light from deeper in the barn Last Line: It touched, it struck it, clattered and went out. Subject(s): Fear THE FEAR OF GOD Poem Text First Line: If you should rise from nowhere to somewhere Last Line: To be the curtain of the inmost soul Subject(s): God THE FEAR OF MAN Poem Text First Line: As a girl no one gallantly attends Last Line: Not be misunderstood in what I mean Subject(s): Fear THE FIGURE IN THE DOORWAY Poem Text First Line: The grade surmounted, we were riding high Last Line: And if so moved uncurl a hand in greeting Subject(s): Railways; Solitude; Loneliness THE FLOOD Poem Text First Line: Blood has been harder to dam back than water Last Line: Oh, blood will out. It cannot be contained Variant Title(s): Blood Subject(s): Blood THE FLOWER BOAT Poem Text First Line: The fisherman's swapping a yarn for a yarn Last Line: To seek for the happy isles together. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers THE FREEDOM OF THE MOON Poem Text First Line: I've tried the new moon tilted in the air Last Line: The color run, all sorts of wonder follow Subject(s): Moon THE GENERATIONS OF MEN Poem Text First Line: A governor it was proclaimed this time Last Line: It touched, it struck it, clattered and went out Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry THE GIFT OUTRIGHT Poem Text First Line: The land was ours before we were the land's Last Line: Such as she was, such as she would become Subject(s): Inaugural Poem; United States; War; America THE GOLD HESPERIDEE Poem Text First Line: Square matthew hale’s young grafted apple tree Last Line: To walk a graver man restrained in wrath Subject(s): Apple Trees THE GRINDSTONE Poem Text First Line: Having a wheel and four legs of its own Last Line: Be satisfied if he'd be satisfied. Subject(s): Grindstones THE GUM GATHERER Poem Text First Line: There overtook me and drew me in Last Line: And bring it to market when you please. Subject(s): Farm Life THE HILL WIFE: HOUSE FEAR Poem Text First Line: Always - I tell you this they learned Last Line: Until they had lit the lamp inside. Subject(s): Fear; Marriage; Supernatural; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE HILL WIFE: LONELINESS Poem Text First Line: One ought not to have to care / so much as you and I Last Line: And their built or driven nests. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Solitude; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Loneliness THE HILL WIFE: THE IMPULSE Poem Text First Line: It was too lonely for her there Last Line: Besides the grave. Subject(s): Marriage; Men; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE HILL WIFE: THE OFT-REPEATED DREAM Poem Text First Line: She had no saying dark enough Last Line: Of what the tree might do. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE HILL WIFE: THE SMILE Poem Text First Line: I didn't like the way he went away Last Line: He's watching from the woods as like as not. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE HOUSEKEEPER Poem Text First Line: I let myself in at the kitchen door Last Line: "who wants to hear your news, you -- dreadful fool?" Subject(s): Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids THE INEQUITIES OF DEBT Poem Text First Line: These I assume were words so deeply meant Last Line: To rear against the inscription on the wall Subject(s): Debt THE INVESTMENT Poem Text First Line: Over back where they speak of life as staying Subject(s): Family Life; Marriage; Relatives; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE KITCHEN CHIMNEY Poem Text First Line: Builder, in building the little house Last Line: Of castles I used to build in air Subject(s): Houses THE LAST MOWING Poem Text First Line: There's a place called far-away meadow Last Line: I needn’t call you by name Variant Title(s): Mowing Subject(s): Fields; Flowers; Mowing & Mowers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Lawn Mowers THE LAST WORD OF A BLUEBIRD; AS TOLD TO A CHILD Poem Text First Line: As I went out a crow Last Line: "he would come back and sing." Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds; Imagination; Fancy THE LATER MINSTREL Poem Text First Line: Remember some departed day Last Line: And triumphs over doubt. Subject(s): Minstrels THE LESSON FOR TODAY Poem Text First Line: If this uncertain age in which we dwell Last Line: So science and religion really meet Subject(s): War THE LINE-GANG Poem Text First Line: Here come the line-gang pioneering by. Last Line: They bring the telephone and telegraph. Subject(s): Trees; Poles THE LOCKLESS DOOR Poem Text First Line: It went many years Last Line: And alter with age. Subject(s): Supernatural THE LOST FAITH Poem Text First Line: We shrine our fathers as their wars recede Last Line: So true in passing, if it must be past. Subject(s): Fathers; War; Transience; Past; Death THE LOST FOLLOWER Poem Text First Line: As I have known them passionate and fine Last Line: (as yet unbrought to earth) he means to try Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE LOVELY SHALL BE CHOOSERS Poem Text First Line: The voice said, hunt her down Last Line: “trust us,” the voices said Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE MASTER SPEED Poem Text First Line: No speed of wind or water rushing by Last Line: Together wing to wing and oar to oar Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE MIDDLENESS OF THE ROAD Poem Text First Line: The road at the top of the rise Last Line: And local green suggest Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails THE MIDDLETOWN MURDER Poem Text First Line: Jack hitched up into his sky blue bob Last Line: As much as singingthat bad was good Subject(s): Murder THE MILKY WAY IS A COWPATH Poem Text First Line: On wings too stiff to flap Last Line: For what they didn’t earn Subject(s): Milky Way THE MILL CITY Poem Text First Line: It was in a drear city by a stream Last Line: Less to the sound of voices than of feet. Subject(s): Mills & Millers THE MOST OF IT Poem Text First Line: He thought he kept the universe alone; Last Line: And forced the underbrush—and that was all THE MOUNTAIN Poem Text First Line: The mountain held the town as in a shadow Last Line: Gave them their marching orders and was moving. Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE NEED OF BEING VERSED IN COUNTRY THINGS Poem Text First Line: The house had gone to bring again Last Line: Not to believe the phoebes wept. Subject(s): Country Life THE OBJECTION TO BEING STEPPED ON Poem Text First Line: At the end of the row Last Line: Turned into a weapon Subject(s): Accidents; Tools; Wit & Humor THE OFFER Poem Text First Line: I narrow eyes and double night Last Line: Will they supply the tears? Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE OLD BARN AT THE BOTTOM OF THE FOGS Poem Text First Line: Where's this barn's house? It never had a house Last Line: The widespread doors two stories high Subject(s): Barns THE ONSET Poem Text First Line: Always the same, when on a fated night Last Line: And there a clump of houses with a church. Subject(s): Winter; Death; Dead, The THE OVEN BIRD Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: There is a singer everyone has heard Last Line: Is what to make of a diminished thing. Subject(s): Birds; Singing & Singers; Songs THE PARLOR JOKE Poem Text First Line: You won't hear unless I tell you Last Line: If it's trouble up-to-date. Subject(s): Immigrants THE PASTURE Poem Text First Line: I'm going out to clean the pasture spring Last Line: I sha'n't be gone long. - you come too. Subject(s): Animals; Country Life THE PEACEFUL SHEPHERD Poem Text First Line: If heaven were to do again Last Line: As well have been the sword Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE PLANNERS Poem Text First Line: If anything should put an end to this, Last Line: That human history should not be shortened Subject(s): Transience THE PROPHET Poem Text First Line: They say the truth will make you free Last Line: Which may be what you want to be Subject(s): Truth THE PROPHETS REALLY PROPHESY AS MYSTICS THE COMMENTATORS MERELY BY STATISTICS Poem Text First Line: With what unbroken spirit naive science Last Line: It seems bad to steer off by force Subject(s): Science; Scientists THE QUEST OF THE PURPLE-RINGED Poem Text First Line: I felt the chill of the meadow underfoot, Last Line: For summer was done Subject(s): Snails THE RABBIT-HUNTER Poem Text First Line: Careless and still Last Line: To comprehend Subject(s): Sports THE RAIN BATH Poem Text First Line: Do you remember how in camp one day Last Line: We ran forth naked to the morning bath. Subject(s): Floods; Youth THE REASON OF MY PERFECT EASE Poem Text Subject(s): Writing & Writers THE ROAD NOT TAKEN Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Two roads diverged in a yellow wood Last Line: And that has made all the difference. Subject(s): Fate; Freedom; Life; Life Change Events; Roads; Time; Destiny; Liberty; Paths; Trails THE ROSE FAMILY Poem Text First Line: The rose is a rose Last Line: But were always a rose Subject(s): Roses THE RUBAIYAT OF CARL BURELL Poem Text First Line: There was a young fellow, begad Last Line: And was eaten alive by a sun-dew. Subject(s): Wit & Humor THE RUNAWAY Poem Text First Line: Once when the snow of the year was beginning to fall Last Line: "ought to be told to come and take him in." Subject(s): Animals; Escapes; Horses; Fugitives THE SACHEM OF THE CLOUDS (A THANKSGIVING LEGEND) Poem Text First Line: When the sedge upon the meadows crosses, falls and interweaves Last Line: Hears a shrieking answer speeded from the winter's snowy mouth. Subject(s): Clouds; Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THE SECRET SITS Poem Text First Line: We dance round in a ring and suppose, Last Line: But the secret sits in the middle and knows Subject(s): Secrets THE SELF-SEEKER Poem Text First Line: Willis, I didn’t want you here to-day Last Line: "good-bye."" he flung his arms around his face." Subject(s): Law & Lawyers; Wit & Humor THE SEVEN ARTS Poem Text First Line: In the dawn of creation that morning Last Line: And the seven will all die a-bourneing. Subject(s): Bourne, Randolph Silliman (1886-1918); Critics & Criticism; Seven Arts (magazine); Social Protest THE SILKEN TENT Poem Text First Line: She is as in a field a silken tent Last Line: Is of the slightest bondage made aware Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Love; Tents THE SOUND OF THE TREES Poem Text First Line: I wonder about the trees Last Line: But I shall be gone. Subject(s): Trees THE STAR-SPLITTER Poem Text First Line: You know orion always comes up sideways. Last Line: How different from the way it ever stood? Subject(s): Stars THE STAR-SPLITTER Poem Text First Line: You know orion always comes up sideways. Last Line: How different from the way it ever stood? Subject(s): Stars THE STRONG ARE SAYING NOTHING Poem Text First Line: The soil now gets a rumpling soft and damp, Last Line: Hut the strong are saying nothing until they see Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE SUBVERTED FLOWER Poem Text First Line: She drew back; he was calm: Last Line: And drew her backward home Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Flowers; Male-female Relations THE TELEPHONE Poem Text First Line: When I was just as far as I could walk Last Line: "well, so I came." Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Telephones; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE THATCH Poem Text First Line: Out alone in the winter rain Last Line: In on to the upper chamber floors. Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Grief; Rain; Roofing & Roofers; Straw; Sorrow; Sadness THE THREE GENERATIONS OF MEN Poem Text First Line: A governor it was proclaimed this time Last Line: "but if we must, in sunshine."" so she went." Variant Title(s): The Generations Of Men Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry THE TIMES TABLE Poem Text First Line: More than halfway up the pass Last Line: And bring back nature in people’s place Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE TRAITOR Poem Text First Line: Sea-bird of the battle surf Last Line: Where he sleeps in endless gloom. Subject(s): Blackmore, Richard Doddridge (1825-1900); Fictional Characters THE TRIAL BY EXPERIENCE Poem Text First Line: Even the bravest that are slain Last Line: Bearing it crushed and mystified. Variant Title(s): The Trial By Existence Subject(s): Life THE TUFT OF FLOWERS Poem Text First Line: I went to turn the grass once after one Last Line: Whether they work together or apart.' Subject(s): Mowing & Mowers; War; Lawn Mowers THE VALLEY'S SINGING DAY Poem Text First Line: The sound of the closing outside door was all Last Line: That once you had opened the valley's singing day. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs THE VANISHING RED Poem Text First Line: He is said to have been the last red man Last Line: Oh, yes, he showed john the wheel pit all right Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE VANTAGE POINT Poem Text First Line: If tired of trees I seek again mankind, Last Line: I look into the crater of the ant. Subject(s): Life THE VINDICTIVES Poem Text First Line: You like to hear about gold. Last Line: Of being brought down to the real Subject(s): Gold THE WHITE-TAILED HORNET Poem Text First Line: The white-tailed hornet lives in a balloon Last Line: I watched him where he swooped, he pounced, he struck Subject(s): Hornets THE WIND AND THE RAIN Poem Text First Line: That far-off day the leaves in flight Last Line: That have none left to stay Subject(s): Rain THE WOOD-PILE Poem Text First Line: Out walking in the frozen swamp one gray day Last Line: With the slow smokeless burning of decay. Subject(s): Decay; Wood; Rot; Decadence THE YOUNG BIRCH Poem Text First Line: The birch begins to crack its outer sheath Last Line: To live its life out as an ornament Subject(s): Birch Trees THERE ARE ROUGHLY ZONES Poem Text First Line: We sit indoors and talk of the cold outside Last Line: It can blame this limitless trait in the hearts of men Subject(s): Ambition; Trees THERE ARE ROUGHLY ZONES First Line: We sit indoors and talk of the cold outside Last Line: But if it is destined never again to grow, %it can blame this limitless trait in the hearts of men Subject(s): Ambition; Trees THEY WERE WELCOME TO THEIR BELIEF First Line: Grief may have thought it was grief. %care may have thought Last Line: But neither one was the thief %of his raven colour of hair TIME OUT Poem Text First Line: It took that pause to make him realize Last Line: (and was a text albeit done in plant) Subject(s): Mountain Climbing TIME OUT First Line: It took that pause to make him realize Last Line: That may be clamored at by cause and sect %but it will have its moment to reflect TIMES TABLE First Line: More than halfway up the pass Last Line: And bring back nature in people's place TO A MOTH SEEN IN WINTER Poem Text First Line: Here's first a gloveless hand warm from my pocket Last Line: Who am tasked to save my own a little while. Subject(s): Moths; Winter TO A THINKER Poem Text First Line: The last step taken found your heft Last Line: But trust my instinct——I'm a bard Subject(s): Thought TO A THINKER First Line: The last step taken found your heft Last Line: At least don't use your mind too hard, %but trust my instinct -- I'm a bard TO A YOUNG WRETCH (BOETHIAN) Poem Text First Line: As gay for you take your farther's ax Last Line: Help me accept its fate with christmas feeling Subject(s): Boethius, Amicus Manlius (480-524); Holidays TO A YOUNG WRETCH (BOETHIAN) First Line: As gay for you take your farther's ax Last Line: The symbol star it lifts against your ceiling %help me accept its fate with christmas feeling Subject(s): Boethius, Amicus Manlius (480-524); Holidays TO AN ANCIENT Poem Text First Line: Your claims to immortality were two. Last Line: Or aren’t the bones enough I live to lime? Subject(s): Immortality TO AN ANCIENT First Line: Your claims to immortality were two Last Line: Or aren't the bones enough I live to lime? TO E.T. Poem Text First Line: I slumbered with your poems on my breast Last Line: And see you pleased once more with words of mine? Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) TO EARTHWARD Poem Text First Line: Love at the lips was touch / as sweet as I could bear Last Line: To all my length. Subject(s): Aging; Love; Men TO PRAYER I THINK I GO Poem Text Last Line: "I must be spoken to and told Subject(s): Prayer TO PRAYER I THINK I GO Last Line: I must be spoken to and told %before too late! Subject(s): Prayer TO THE RIGHT PERSON Poem Text First Line: In the one state of ours that is a shire, Last Line: To make up for a lack of meditation Subject(s): Schools; Students TO THE RIGHT PERSON First Line: In the one state of ours that is a shire Last Line: Upon its doorsteps as at mercy's feet %to make up for a lack of meditation TO THE THAWING WIND Poem Text First Line: Come with rain, o loud southwester! Last Line: Turn the poet out of door. Subject(s): Wind TOO ANXIOUS FOR RIVERS Poem Text First Line: Look down the long valley and there stands a mountain Last Line: To find ‘twas the effort, the essay of love Subject(s): Rivers TOO ANXIOUS FOR RIVERS First Line: Look down the long valley and there stands a mountain Last Line: And he needn't have fared into space like his master %to find 'twas the effort,the essay of love TRACES First Line: These woods have been loved in and wept in Last Line: And their bark sheds tears everlasting %of silvery rosin drops TREE AT MY WINDOW Poem Text First Line: Tree at my window, window tree Last Line: Mine with inner, weather Subject(s): Trees TREE AT MY WINDOW, WINDOW TREE Last Line: Your head so much concerned with outer, %mine with inner, weather Subject(s): Trees TRESPASS Poem Text First Line: No, I had set no prohibiting sign Last Line: But it made my property mine once more Subject(s): Property; Possessions TRESPASS First Line: No, I had set no prohibiting sign Last Line: But it made my property mine once more Subject(s): Property TRIAL RUN First Line: I said to myself almost in prayer Last Line: Your least touch sets it going round, %and when to stop it rests with you TRIPLE BRONZE Poem Text First Line: The infinite’s being so wide Last Line: The infinite’s being so wide TRIPLE BRONZE First Line: The infinite's being so wide Last Line: And that defense makes three %between too much and me TROUBLE RHYMING First Line: It sort of put my spirits in the Last Line: I take my share of shame for chica Subject(s): Rhyme TWILIGHT Poem Text First Line: Why am I first in thy so sad regard Last Line: And thou art here and I am everywhere! Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight TWO LEADING LIGHTS Poem Text First Line: I never happen to contrast Last Line: Presuming on her femininity Subject(s): Moon; Sun TWO LEADING LIGHTS First Line: I never happen to contrast Last Line: An irresponsible divinity %presuming on her femininity Subject(s): Moon; Sun TWO LOOK AT TWO Poem Text First Line: Love and forgetting might have carried them Last Line: Had made them certain earth returned their love Subject(s): Love TWO LOOK AT TWO First Line: Love and forgetting might have carried them Last Line: As if the earth in one unlooed-for favour %had made them certain earth returned their love Subject(s): Love TWO TRAMPS IN MUD TIME Poem Text First Line: Out of the mud two strangers came Last Line: For heaven and the future´s sakes Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes TWO TRAMPS IN MUD TIME First Line: Out of the mud two strangers came Last Line: Is the deed ever really done %for heaven and the future's sakes Subject(s): Wanderers And Wandering TWO WITCHES: 1. THE WITCH OF COOS Poem Text First Line: I stayed the night for shelter at a farm Last Line: The rural letter box said toffile lajway. Subject(s): Witchcraft & Witches TWO WITCHES: 2. THE PAUPER WITCH OF GRAFTON Poem Text First Line: Now that they've got it settled whose I be Last Line: I might have, but it doesn't seem as if. Subject(s): Witchcraft & Witches U.S. 1946 KING'S X Poem Text First Line: Having invented a new holocaust Last Line: King's x – no fairs to use it any more! Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Nuclear Freeze U.S. 1946 KING'S X First Line: Having invented a new holocaust Last Line: King's x -- no fairs to use it anymore! Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement UNHARVESTED Poem Text First Line: A scent of ripeness from over a wall. Last Line: So smelling their sweetness would be no theft Subject(s): Harvest UNHARVESTED First Line: A scent of ripeness from over a wall Last Line: So smelling their sweetness would be no theft UNLESS I CALL IT A PEWTER TRAY Last Line: In order to make the colors shift, %and that's not playing it quite alone UNSTAMPED LETTER IN OUR RURAL LETTER BOX First Line: Last night your watchdog barked all night Last Line: Myself, in forma pauperis, %to say as much I write you this Subject(s): Letters UNTRIED Poem Text First Line: On glossy wires artistically bent Last Line: But he's as good as anybody going Subject(s): Birds VERSION Poem Text First Line: Once there was an archer Last Line: That's how matter mattered Subject(s): Hunting VERSION First Line: Once there was an archer Last Line: And his shaft got blunted %on its non-resistance VINDICTIVES First Line: You like to hear about gold Last Line: Let them suffer starvation and die %of being brought down to the real VOICE WAYS Poem Text First Line: Some things are never clear. Last Line: So we won't say nothing is clear Subject(s): Weather VOICE WAYS First Line: Some things are never clear Last Line: So we won't say nothing is clear WAITING AFIELD AT DUSK Poem Text First Line: What things for dream there are when spectre-like Last Line: For whom these lines when they shall greet her eye. Subject(s): Dreams; Absense WANTON WASTE First Line: Sweet if you wonder at the expense of seed Last Line: Of the sidereal principle in space %to bring the birth the puny human race WARNING Poem Text First Line: The days will come when you will cease to know Last Line: He will forget, he will forget. Subject(s): Forgetfulness WASPISH First Line: On glossy wires artistically bent Last Line: Poor egotist, he has no way of knowing %but he's as good as anybody going Subject(s): Wasps WASTE OR COD FISH EGGS First Line: Some harvard boys when they were rudely faced Last Line: Their totem symbol just gave up their god %and suicided with a lightning rod WE VAINLY WRESTLE WITH THE BLIND BELIEF Poem Text Last Line: And wholly perish Subject(s): Death; Dead, The WE VAINLY WRESTLE WITH THE BLIND BELIEF Last Line: And wholly perish WERE THAT STAR SHINING THERE BY NAME Last Line: Things prove each other in a way WEST RUNNING BROOK Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Fred, where is north? Last Line: To-day will be the day of what we both said Subject(s): Marriage; Brooks; Death; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Streams; Creeks; Dead, The WEST-RUNNING BROOK First Line: Fred, where is north?' Last Line: Today will be the day of what we both said WHAT FIFTY SAID Poem Text First Line: When I was young my teachers were the old Last Line: I got to school to youth to learn the future Subject(s): Aging; Schools; Students WHAT FIFTY SAID First Line: When I was young my teachers were the old Last Line: I go to school to youth to learn the future Subject(s): Aging; Schools WHAT THING A BIRD WOULD LOVE Poem Text First Line: As I was faring home Last Line: What thing a bird would love. Subject(s): Birds WHEN THE SPEED COMES Poem Text First Line: When the speed comes a-creeping overhead Last Line: Upon the soul, still sore from yesterday. Subject(s): Time WHITE-TAILED HORNET First Line: Thw white-tailed hornet lives in a balloon Last Line: And this day's work made even that seem doubtful Subject(s): Hornets WHY WAIT FOR SCIENCE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Sarcastic science she would like to know Last Line: I have a theory, but it hardly does Subject(s): Science; Scientists WHY WAIT FOR SCIENCE First Line: Sarcastic science she would like to know Last Line: I have a theory, but it hardly does Subject(s): Science WILD GRAPES Poem Text First Line: What tree may not the fig be gathered from Last Line: That I need learn to let go with the heart. Subject(s): Grapes WILLFUL HOMING Poem Text First Line: It is getting dark and time he drew to a house Last Line: And to those concerned he may seem a little late Subject(s): Homecoming WILLFUL HOMING First Line: It is getting dark and time he drew to a house Last Line: And to those concerned he may seem a little late Subject(s): Homecoming WILLOW POEM Poem Text First Line: It is a willow when summer is over Last Line: Into the water and on the ground Subject(s): Willow Trees WILLOW POEM First Line: It is a willow when summer is over Last Line: Into the water and on the ground Subject(s): Willow Trees WIND AND THE RAIN First Line: That far-off day the leaves in flight Last Line: Rain was the tears adopted by my eyes %that have none left to stay Subject(s): Rain WIND AND WINDOW FLOWER Poem Text First Line: Lovers, forget your love Last Line: A hundred miles away. Subject(s): Love WINTER EDEN First Line: A winter garden in an alder swamp Last Line: An hour of winter day might seem too short %to make it worth life's while to wake and sport WINTER OWNERSHIP Poem Text First Line: Who is it gathering snow on lash and lip Subject(s): Winter WINTER OWNERSHIP First Line: Who is it gathering snow on lash and lip Last Line: He cuts steps darkly down to the very grass, %caressing contour, asserting ownership Subject(s): Winter WINTER WINDS Poem Text First Line: At twelve o'clock tonight Last Line: Not to be oft aroused. Subject(s): Wind WISH TO COMPLY First Line: Did I see it go by Last Line: All I saw was a wink WRIGHTS' BIPLANE First Line: This biplane is the shape of human flight Last Line: Its makers' name -- time cannot get that wrong, %for it was writ in heaven doubly wright Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; Wright, Orville (1871-1948); Wright, Wilbur (1867-1912) YOUNG BIRCH First Line: The birch begins to crack its outer sheath Last Line: It was a thing of beauty and was sent %to live its life out as an ornament Subject(s): Birch Trees |
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