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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: JUSTICE, DONALD Matches Found: 211 Justice, Donald Poet's Biography 211 poems available by this author A DANCER'S LIFE Poem Text First Line: The lights in the theater fail, the long racks Last Line: Like a small theater, empty, without lights Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers A LETTER Poem Text First Line: You write that you are ill, confused. The trees Last Line: Ten years older, tame now, less mad, less beautiful Subject(s): Sickness; Aging; Illness A WINTER ODE TO THE OLD MEN OF LUMMUS PARK, / MIAMI, FLORIDA Poem Text First Line: Risen from rented rooms, old ghosts Last Line: To lean on you so hard, so long! Subject(s): Old Age ABOARD! ABOARD! Poem Text First Line: O how the little towns flare in passing Subject(s): Railroads; Longing; Railways; Trains ABOUT MY POEMS Poem Text First Line: How fashionably sad my early poems are! Last Line: And the pieces of sky that will go on falling for days Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ABSENCES First Line: It's snowing this afternoon and there are no flowers Last Line: On the silent piano; the snow; and the absent flowers abounding AFTER A LINE BY JOHN PEALE BISHOP Poem Text First Line: Why will they never speak? Last Line: Head-shakes and head-nods Subject(s): Old Age AFTER A PHRASE ABANDONNED BY WALLACE STEVENS First Line: The alp at the end of the street AFTER-SCHOOL PRACTICE: A SHORT STORY First Line: Rain that masks the world Last Line: And gradually the storm outside dies away also AMERICAN SCENES (1904-1905) First Line: Immense pale houses! Sunshine just now and snow Last Line: Beautifully down the pages of his calling AN ELEGY IS PREPARING ITSELF Poem Text First Line: There are pines that are tall enough Last Line: Waiting, in their dark clothes, apart Subject(s): Religion; Theology ANONYMOUS DRAWING Poem Text First Line: A delicate young negro stands Last Line: Simply to leave him out of the scene forever Subject(s): Art & Artists ANONYMOUS DRAWING First Line: A delicate young negro stands Last Line: Simply to leave him out of the scene forever Subject(s): Art And Artists ANOTHER SONG First Line: Merry the green, the green hill shall be merry Last Line: And jack from joan, and they shall never marry Variant Title(s): Tune For A Lonesome Fif ARTIST ORPHEUS First Line: It was a tropical landscape, much like florida's, which he knew Last Line: And once or twice the sound a twig makes when it snaps ASSASSINATION First Line: It begins again, the nocturnal pulse Last Line: It enters. Look, we are dancing Subject(s): Assassination AT A REHEARSAL OF UNCLE VANYA First Line: You mean well, doctor Last Line: In the crows' shadow AT A REHEARSAL OF UNCLE VANYA Poem Text First Line: You mean well, doctor Last Line: In the crow's shadow Subject(s): Crows; Chekhov, Anton (1860-1904) BAD DREAMS First Line: Why do we turn in our beds Last Line: All things for what they are BANJO DOG VARIATIONS First Line: Agriculture and industry %embraced in public on a wall Last Line: One budding still? %ah, oh, my banjo dog BEYOND THE HUNTING WOODS Poem Text First Line: I speak of that great house Last Line: Ever, ever come? Subject(s): Houses, Deserted; Memory; Houses BEYOND THE HUNTING WOODS First Line: I speak of that great house Last Line: Nor home from the hunting woods %ever, ever come? Subject(s): Houses BODY AND SOUL: 1. HOTEL First Line: If there was something one of them held back Last Line: And all was as it had been been and would be BODY AND SOUL: 2. RAIN First Line: The new umbrella, suddenly blowing free Last Line: Silence of cities suddenly and the snow %turning to rain and back again to snow BUS STOP First Line: Lights are burning %in quiet rooms Last Line: Left on for hours %burning, burning BUT THAT IS ANOTHER STORY Poem Text First Line: I do not think the ending can be right Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BUT THAT IS ANOTHER STORY First Line: I do not think the ending can be right Last Line: At the exhausted lovers where they sleep Subject(s): Marriage CHAPTER IN THE LIFE OF MR. KEHOE, FISHERMAN First Line: Some nights on the dock Last Line: Sleep well, mr. Kehoe CHILDHOOD First Line: Once more beneath my thumb the globe turns Last Line: Forlorn suburbs, but with golden names CHILDREN WALKING HOME FROM SCHOOL THROUGH GOOD NEIGHBORHOOD Poem Text First Line: They are like figures held in some glass ball Last Line: Like the leaves already blazing and falling farther north. Subject(s): Children; Schools; Childhood; Students CHILDREN WALKING HOME FROM SCHOOL THROUGH GOOD NEIGHBORHOOD First Line: They are like figures held in some glass ball Last Line: Like the leaves already blazing and falling farther north t palms Subject(s): Children; Schools CINEMA AND BALLAD OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION First Line: We men had kept our dignity Last Line: Pulled out an ancient mouth harp and began to play t palms COOL DARK ODE Poem Text First Line: You could have sneaked up Last Line: Which all too often were carelessly left open for you Subject(s): Night; Bedtime COUNTING THE MAD Poem Text Recitation First Line: This one was put in a jacket Last Line: And cried and cried no no no no / all day long Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Humanity; Insanity; Social Protest; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Madness; Mental Illness COUNTING THE MAD First Line: This one was put in a jacket Last Line: And cried and cried no no no no %all day long Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Humanity; Insanity; Social Protest COUPLETS First Line: Have I not waited with a numbed impatience Last Line: And the high mournful whistle crying, noon, noon CROSSING KANSAS BY TRAIN Poem Text First Line: The telephone poles / have been holding their Last Line: Sons asleep / in their workclothes Subject(s): Kansas CROSSING KANSAS BY TRAIN First Line: The telephone poles %have been holding their Last Line: Sons asleep %in their workclothes Subject(s): Kansas DANCE LESSONS OF THE THIRTIES First Line: Wafts of old incense mixed with cuban coffee Last Line: O little lost bohemias of the suburbs DANCER'S LIFE First Line: The lights in the theater fail. The long racks Last Line: Like a small theater, empty, without lights DREAM SESTINA First Line: I woke by first light in a wood Last Line: Why have they changed that way to wood DREAMS OF WATER First Line: An odd silence %falls as we enter Last Line: Grandfathers loll in steaming tubs %huge, unblushing EARLY POEMS First Line: How fashionably sad those early poems are Last Line: Now the long silence. Now the beginning again ELEGY IS PREPARING ITSELF First Line: There are pines that are tall enough Subject(s): Religion ELSEWHERES EVENING OF THE MIND First Line: Now comes the evening of the mind Last Line: And empty spaces in the throat FIRST DEATH First Line: I saw my grandmother grow weak Last Line: To the mercy of the files FOR A FRESHMAN READER; AFTER...GERMAN OF HANS M. ENZENBERGER First Line: Don't bother with odes, my son FOR THE SUICIDES OF 1962 First Line: If we recall your voices Last Line: Under the lids we have closed FOR THE SUICIDES OF TWO YEARS AGO Poem Text First Line: If you recall your voices Last Line: Under the lids we had closed Subject(s): Suicide FRAGMENT: TO A MIRROR First Line: Behind that bland facade of yours Last Line: Your half of nothingness FROM A NOTEBOOK First Line: Named ambassador Last Line: Sent back a poem that lasted %three thousand years FROM BAD DREAMS Poem Text First Line: Why do we turn in our beds Last Line: The retreating tail of tye monster winking and flashing Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares GIRL SITTING ALONE AT A PARTY First Line: You sit with hands folded Last Line: This is that other music, to which %I embrace your shadow GRANDFATHERS First Line: Why will they never sleep Last Line: Head-shakes or head-nods Variant Title(s): After A Line By John Peale Bisho HANDS First Line: No longer do the hands know HEART First Line: Heart, let us this once reason together Last Line: Afterwards we will take thought for our good name HELL (R. B. VAUGHN SPEAKS) First Line: After so many years of pursuing the ideal Last Line: And there were those that followed HENRY JAMES BY THE PACIFIC First Line: In a hotel room by the sea, the master Last Line: Beautifully down the pages of his calling. HERE IN KATMANDU Poem Text First Line: We have climbed the mountain Last Line: As soon as it must, from the mountain Variant Title(s): Sestina Subject(s): Katmandu, Nepal HERE IN KATMANDU First Line: We have climbed the mountain Last Line: As soon it must, from the mountain Variant Title(s): Sestin HERE LIES LOVE Poem Text First Line: Though books said nothing could save Last Line: Knocking the stave Subject(s): Love HOMAGE TO THE MEMORY OF WALLACE STEVENS First Line: Hartford is cold today but no colder for your absence Last Line: Including even this almost human cry HOUSES Poem Text First Line: Time and the weather wear away Last Line: And what miraculous escapes! Subject(s): Houses HOUSES First Line: Time and the weather wear away Last Line: And what miraculous escapes! Subject(s): Houses HOUSES Subject(s): Travel IN BERTRAM'S GARDEN First Line: Jane looks down at her organdy skirt Last Line: Naked to the naked moon IN MEMORY OF MY FRIEND, THE BASSOONIST, JOHN LENOX First Line: One winter he was the best Last Line: And the sea air smells again of good gin t palms IN MEMORY OF THE UNKNOWN POET, ROBERT BOARDMAN VAUGHN First Line: It was his story. It would always be his story Last Line: The boredom, and the horror, and the glory t palms IN THE ATTIC Poem Text First Line: There's a half hour toward dusk when flies Last Line: Numbed elbows propped on rotting sills Subject(s): Attics IN THE ATTIC First Line: There's a half hour toward dusk when flies Last Line: And the chin sank then onto palms above %numbed elbows propped on rotting sills Subject(s): Attics IN THE GREENROOM First Line: How reassuring %to encounter them Last Line: What is this green for %if not renewal INCIDENT IN A ROSE GARDEN (1) First Line: Sir, I encountered death Last Line: I take it you are he INCIDENT IN A ROSE GARDEN (2) Poem Text First Line: The gardener came running Last Line: I take it you are he? Subject(s): Religion; Theology INCIDENT IN A ROSE GARDEN (2) First Line: The gardener came running Last Line: I take it you are he? Subject(s): Religion INVITATION TO A GHOST Poem Text First Line: I ask you to come back now as you were in youth Last Line: Whisper to me some beautiful secret that you remember from life Subject(s): Coulette, Henri (1927-1988); Nature INVITATION TO A GHOST First Line: I ask you to come back now as you were in youth Last Line: Whisper to me some beautiful secret that you remember from life Subject(s): Coulette, Henri (1927-1988); Nature LADIES BY THEIR WINDOWS First Line: They lean upon their windows. It is late Last Line: Whose windows are the limits of their lives LANDSCAPE Poem Text First Line: There were some pines, a canal, a piece of sky Last Line: And how the miles reel at the wide gaze! Subject(s): Landscape; Farewell; Parting LANDSCAPE WITH LITTLE FIGURES First Line: There once were some pines, a canal, a piece of sky Last Line: And the pieces of sky that will go on now falling for days LAST DAYS OF PROSPERO Poem Text First Line: The aging magician retired to his island Last Line: Low chucklings or grand, indifferent sighs Subject(s): Retirement LAST DAYS OF PROSPERO First Line: The aging magician retired to his island Last Line: Low chucklings or grand, indifferent sighs LAST EVENING: AT THE PIANO First Line: And night and far to go Last Line: Or like the skin of some great battle drum LETHARGY Poem Text First Line: It smiles to see me Last Line: Since first I lifted my hand / to set it down Subject(s): Lethargy; Religion; Theology LETHARGY Poem Text First Line: It smiles to see me Subject(s): Religion; Theology LETHARGY First Line: It smiles to see me Last Line: Since first I lifted my hand %to set it down Subject(s): Religion LETTER First Line: You write that you are ill, confused. The trees Last Line: Ten years older, tamed now, less mad, less beautiful LINES AT THE NEW YEAR First Line: The old year slips past LITTLE ELEGY First Line: Weep, all you girls Last Line: They do not yet quite focus LOCAL STORM First Line: The first whimper of the storm Last Line: Still, how nice for our egos LORCA IN CALIFORNIA First Line: Blue are the cycles Last Line: O, the teeth of their branches LOVE'S MAP Poem Text First Line: Your face more than others' faces Last Line: And the dark interior Subject(s): Faces LOVE'S STRATAGEMS Poem Text First Line: All these maneuverings to avoid Last Line: Not had their eyes been stricken blind, / arms cut off at the elbow Subject(s): Love LOVE'S STRATAGEMS First Line: All these maneuverings to avoid Last Line: Not had their eyes been stricken blind, %arms cut off at the elbow Subject(s): Love MAN CLOSING UP First Line: Like a deserted beach Last Line: But the man closing up %does not say the word MAN OF 1794 First Line: And like a discarded statue, propped up in a cart Last Line: As though already he were possessed of a sweet, indefinite leisure MANHATTAN DAWN (1945) First Line: There is a smoke of memory MAP OF LOVE First Line: Your face more than others' faces Last Line: And the dark interior MEMO FROM THE DESK OF X First Line: Re: the question of poems MEMORIES OF THE DEPRESSION YEARS First Line: ...In the kitchen, as she bends to serve Last Line: Over the clean blue willowware MEMORY OF A PORCH Poem Text First Line: What I remember Last Line: Half-asleep in their boxes Subject(s): Memory; Children MEMORY OF A PORCH; MIAMI, 1942 First Line: What I remember MEN AT FORTY Poem Text Last Line: Behind their mortgaged houses MEN AT FORTY Last Line: Behind their mortgaged houses Subject(s): Aging; Labor And Laborers; Middle Age MIAMI OF OTHER DAYS First Line: The city was not yet itself. It had Last Line: Out there somewhere in the orbits of the lost MISSING PERSON First Line: He has come to report himself Last Line: This last disguise, him MRS. SNOW Poem Text First Line: Busts of the great composers glimmered in niches Last Line: Ah, those were the days Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors MRS. SNOW First Line: Busts of the great composers glimmered in niches Last Line: Ah, those were the days MULE TEAM AND POSTER Poem Text First Line: Two mules stand waiting in front of the brick wall of a warehouse Last Line: Like a great scythe laid down there and forgotten Subject(s): Mules; Evans, Walker (1903-1975) MULE TEAM AND POSTER First Line: Two mules stand waiting in front of the brick wall of a warehouse Last Line: Like a great scythe laid down there and forgotton MY SOUTH: 1. ON THE PORCH Poem Text First Line: There used to be a way the sunlight caught Last Line: I would be evening soon then, very soon Subject(s): Southern States; South (u.s.) MY SOUTH: 1. ON THE PORCH First Line: There used to be a way the sunlight caught Last Line: I would be evening soon then, very soon Subject(s): Southern States MY SOUTH: 2. AT THE CEMETRY Poem Text First Line: Above the fence-flowers, like a bloody thumb Last Line: Somewhere among the purpling wild verbena Variant Title(s): Variations On Southern Themes Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards MY SOUTH: 2. AT THE CEMETRY First Line: Above the fence-flowers, like a bloody thumb Last Line: Somewhere among the purpling wild verbena Variant Title(s): Variations On Southern Theme Subject(s): Cemeteries MY SOUTH: 3. ON THE FARM Poem Text First Line: And I, missing the city intensely at that moment Last Line: Protected by a cloud let down by the gods to save him Subject(s): Farm Life; Southern States; Agriculture; Farmers; South (u.s.) MY SOUTH: 3. ON THE FARM First Line: And I, missing the city intensely at that moment Last Line: Protected by a cloud let down by the gods to save him Subject(s): Farm Life; Southern States MY SOUTH: 4. ON THE TRAIN, HEADING NORTH THROUGH FLORIDA ... Poem Text First Line: Midnight or after, and the little lights Last Line: And the great wheels smash and pound beneath our feet Subject(s): Railroads; Southern States; Railways; Trains; South (u.s.) MY SOUTH: 4. ON THE TRAIN, HEADING NORTH THROUGH FLORIDA ... First Line: Midnight or after, and the little lights Last Line: And the great wheels smash and pound beneath our feet Subject(s): Railroads; Southern States NARCISSUS AT HOME First Line: Alone at last! But I am forgetting myself NINETEENTH-CENTURY PORTRAIT First Line: Under skies god himself must have painted blue Last Line: Above which must have risen, sometimes, tall ghosts of absent palms NORTH First Line: Already it is midsummer Last Line: We tremble sometimes, %not with emotion NOSTALGIA AND COMPLAINT OF THE GRANDPARENTS Poem Text First Line: Our diaries squatted, toad-like Last Line: The dead don't get around / much anymore Subject(s): Grandparents; Old Age; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers NOSTALGIA AND COMPLAINT OF THE GRANDPARENTS First Line: Our diaries squatted, toad-like Last Line: The dead don't get around %much anymore Subject(s): Grandparents; Old Age NOSTALGIA OF THE LAKEFRONTS Poem Text First Line: Cities burn behind us; the lake glitters Last Line: Nostalgia comes with the smell of rain, you know Subject(s): Lakes; Nostalgia; Pools; Ponds NOSTALGIA OF THE LAKEFRONTS First Line: Cities burn behind us; the lake glitters Last Line: Nostalgia comes with the smell of rain, you know Subject(s): Lakes; Nostalgia OCTOBER: A SONG First Line: Summer, goodbye Last Line: Like young girls in balthus t palms ODE TO A DRESSMAKER'S DUMMY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: O my coy darling, still Last Line: Prim ghost the evening light shone through Subject(s): Clothing & Dress ODE TO A DRESSMAKER'S DUMMY First Line: O my coy darling, still Last Line: Hiding your sex as best you could? %prim ghost the evening light shone through OLD-FASHIONED DEVIL First Line: Who is it snarls our plow lines, wastes our fields Last Line: Come plodding by us on his way to hell ON A PAINTING BY PATIENT B OF INDEPENDENCE STATE HOSPITAL Poem Text First Line: These seven houses have learned to face one another Last Line: Not public like mountains but private like companions Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness ON A PAINTING BY PATIENT B OF INDEPENDENCE STATE HOSPITAL First Line: These seven houses have learned to face one another Last Line: Not public like mountains' but private like companions Subject(s): Insanity ON A PICTURE BY BURCHFIELD First Line: Writhe no more, little flowers. Art keeps long hours Last Line: Already your agony has outlasted ours ON A WOMAN OF SPIRIT WHO TAUGHT BOTH PIANO AND DANCE First Line: Thanks to the powers-that-once-were for all rouges Last Line: Was a hummingbird, and flew from art to art ON AN ANNIVERSARY Poem Text First Line: Thirty years and more go by Last Line: And the evening has no end Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ON AN ANNIVERSARY First Line: Thirty years and more go by Last Line: And the evening has no end Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Marriage ON THE DEATH OF FRIENDS IN CHILDHOOD Poem Text Recitation First Line: We shall not ever meet them bearded in heaven Last Line: Come, memory, let us seek them there in the shadows Subject(s): Children; Death; Childhood; Dead, The ON THE DEATH OF FRIENDS IN CHILDHOOD First Line: We shall not ever meet them bearded in heaven Last Line: Come, memory, let us seek them there in the shadows ORPHEUS OPENS HIS MORNING MAIL First Line: Bills. Bills. From the mapmakers of hell, the repairers of fractured lutes PANTOUM OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION Poem Text First Line: Our lives avoided tragedy Last Line: And there is no plot in that; it is devoid of poetry Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Life; Recessions PANTOUM OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION First Line: Our lives avoided tragedy Last Line: And there is no plot in that; it is devoid of poetry PARTY First Line: After midnight the charm PIANO TEACHERS: A MEMOIR OF THE THIRTIES First Line: Busts of the great composers Last Line: Coming home, the long day ending POEM First Line: This poem is not addressed to you Last Line: This poem is not addressed to you POEM FOR A SURVIVOR First Line: Holding this poem POEM TO BE READ ALOUD AT 3 A.M First Line: Excepting the diner %on the outskirts Last Line: Had the light on POEM TO BE READ AT 3 A.M Poem Text First Line: Excepting the diner Last Line: Had the light on Subject(s): Night; Bedtime POET AT SEVEN First Line: And on the porch across the upturned chair Last Line: And whip him down the street, but gently, home PORTRAIT WITH BROWN HAIR Poem Text First Line: The days, the days! Last Line: In mexico, still a virgin Subject(s): Hair; Sex PORTRAIT WITH ONE EYE First Line: They robbed you of your ticket Last Line: Like conscience, always collect PRESENCES Poem Text First Line: Everyone, everyone went away today Last Line: Everything going away in the night again and again Subject(s): Abandonment; Desertion PRESENCES First Line: Everyone, everyone went away today Subject(s): Abandonment PSALM AND LAMENT First Line: The clocks are sorry, the clocks are very sad Last Line: But the years are gone. There are no more years t palms PUPIL First Line: Picture me, the shy pupil at the door Last Line: Of c# minor and the calms of c t palms RETURN OF ALCESTIS First Line: I bring alcestis from the dolorous shades Last Line: Why has he brought me from the dolorous shades SADNESS First Line: Dear ghosts, dear presences, o my dear parents Last Line: Not that they are but that they feel immense SEA WIND: A SONG First Line: Sea wind, you rise Last Line: And goes on blossoming alone SELF-PORTRAIT AS STILL LIFE First Line: The newspaper on the table Last Line: Manana? Always manana SESTINA ON SIX WORDS BY WELDON KEES First Line: I often wonder about the others Last Line: A land of others and of silence' SMALL WHITE CHURCHES OF THE SMALL WHITE TOWNS First Line: The twangy, off-key hymn songs of the poor Last Line: And the paper fans in motion, like little wings SNOWFALL First Line: The classic landscapes of dreams are not Subject(s): Religion SOMETIME DANCER BLUES First Line: When the lights go on uptown Last Line: Without a sound, without a sound SONATINA IN YELLOW First Line: The pages of the album Last Line: And slowly the keys grow darker to the touch SONG First Line: Morning opened %like a rose Last Line: And all that day %was a fairy tale %told once in a while %toa good child SONNET TO MY FATHER First Line: Father, since always now the death to come Last Line: Yet while I live, you do not wholly die SOUTH First Line: The long green shutters are drawn Last Line: Take our places, we wait %we wait to be moved SOUTHERN GOTHIC Poem Text First Line: Something of how the homing bee at dusk Last Line: Red roses within roses within roses Subject(s): Transience; Houses, Deserted; Impermanence STANZAS ON A HIDDEN THEME First Line: There is a gold light in certain old paintings Last Line: Shall be forgotten as though it had never existed STRAY DOG BY THE SUMMERHOUSE First Line: This morning, down Last Line: And it was sweet Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SUMMER ANNIVERSARIES First Line: At ten there came an hour Last Line: To blow them out with a breath SUNSET MAKER First Line: The bestor papers have come down to me Last Line: Our sunset maker studied with bonnard t palms TALES FROM A FAMILY ALBUM First Line: How shall I speak of doom, and ours in special Last Line: Put doom upon my tongue and bade me utter TELEPHONE NUMBER OF THE MUSE First Line: Sleepily, the muse to me: let us be friends Last Line: I have the number written down somewhere THE ASSASSINATION Poem Text Recitation First Line: It begins again, the nocturnal pulse Last Line: It enters. Look, we are dancing Subject(s): Assassination THE EVENING OF THE MIND Poem Text First Line: Now comes the evening of the mind Last Line: And empty spaces in the throat Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE POET AT SEVEN Poem Text First Line: And on the porch, across the upturned chair Last Line: And whip him down the street, but gently, home Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Childhood THE SNOWFALL Poem Text First Line: The classic landscapes of dreams are not Last Line: In childhood, never believed till now. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE STRAY DOG BY THE SUMMERHOUSE Poem Text First Line: This morning, down Last Line: And it was sweet Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THE WALL Poem Text First Line: The wall surrounding them they never saw Last Line: As they advanced, the giant wings unfurled. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THERE IS A GOLD LIGHT IN CERTAIN OLD PAINTINGS Poem Text Recitation Last Line: Shall be forgotten as though it had never existed Subject(s): Paintings & Painters THIN MAN First Line: I indulge myself Last Line: This edge. Asleep, I %am a horizon THINGS, SELECTION Poem Text First Line: Hard, but you can polish it Last Line: Stays put. Crushed, becomes a road Subject(s): Religion; Stones; Theology; Granite; Rocks THINGS, SELS. First Line: Hard, but you can polish it Subject(s): Religion; Stones THINKING ABOUT THE PAST Poem Text Recitation First Line: Certain moments will never change, nor stop being Last Line: Time a bow bent with his certain failure. / dusks, dawns, waves, the ends of songs Subject(s): Nostalgia THINKING ABOUT THE PAST First Line: Certain moments will never change, nor stop being Last Line: Time a bow bent with his certain failure. %dusks, dawns; waves; the ends of songs Subject(s): Nostalgia THREE ODES First Line: You could have sneaked up Last Line: Colorless, formless %and that will not return TO A TEN MONTHS'CHILD First Line: Late arrival, no %one would think of blaming you Last Line: So calm, so lately crossed TO SATAN IN HEAVEN First Line: Forgive, satan, virtue's pedants, all such Last Line: Longs for the cocoon or the looping net TO THE HAWKS Poem Text First Line: Farewell is the bell Last Line: Grows round with the sound Subject(s): Antiwar Movement; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Mcnamara, Robert S.; Rusk, Dean (1909-1994); Bindy, Mcgeorge (1919-1996); War Hawks TO THE HAWKS: MCNAMARA, RUSK, BUNDY First Line: Farewell is the bell TO THE UNKNOWN LADY WHO WROTE LETTERS FOUND IN HATBOX First Line: What, was there never any news Last Line: And madam roxie will advise TO WAKEN A SMALL PERSON First Line: You sleep at the top of streets Last Line: The puddles of parking lots %cannot contain such rainbows TOURIST FROM SYRACUSE First Line: You would not recognize me Last Line: You must not hope to arrive TREMAYNE First Line: Snow melting and the dog Last Line: And something about late flowers for the bees -- t palms UNFLUSHED URINALS First Line: Seeing them, I recognize the contempt Last Line: The acceptingness of the washbowls, in which we absolve ourselves VAGUE MEMORY FROM CHILDHOOD First Line: It was the end of day Last Line: It was the end of day. %shadows came engulfing VARIATION ON BAUDELAIRE'S LA SERVANTE AU GRAND COEUR First Line: That servant with the big heart but so clumsy Last Line: The worn-out flowers in their little vase VARIATIONS FOR TWO PIANOS Poem Text First Line: There is no music now in all arkansas Last Line: Higgins is gone, taking both his pianos / there is no music now in all arkansas Subject(s): Arkansas; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Pianos VARIATIONS FOR TWO PIANOS First Line: There is no music now in all arkansas Last Line: Higgins is gone, taking both his pianos %there is no music now in all arkansas Subject(s): Arkansas; Music And Musicians; Musical Instruments; Pianos VARIATIONS ON A NEO-CLASSIC THEME Poem Text First Line: It's not a landscape from too near Last Line: Forgot against this very hour Subject(s): Landscape VARIATIONS ON A TEXT BY VALLEJO Poem Text First Line: I will die in miami in the sun Last Line: Turning away abruptly, out of respect Subject(s): Writing & Writers VARIATIONS ON A TEXT BY VALLEJO First Line: I will die in miami in the sun Last Line: Turning away abruptly, out of respect Subject(s): Writing And Writers VILLANELLE AT SUNDOWN First Line: Turn your head. Look. The light is turning Last Line: And why this is, I'll never be able to tell you VOICE OF COL. VON STAUFFENBERG RISING FROM PURGATORY First Line: That last night we passed quietly, my brother and I Last Line: That through failure one had been spared for heaven after all WAITING ROOM First Line: Reading the signs WALL First Line: The wall surrounding them they never saw Last Line: As they advanced, the giant wings unfurled Subject(s): Religion WHITE NOTES Poem Text First Line: Suddenly there was a dress Last Line: Then, in another time Subject(s): Love – Loss Of WHITE NOTES First Line: Suddenly there was a dress Last Line: Would have the power to bruise you any more %then, in another time WINTER ODE TO THE OLD MEN OF LUMMUS PARK, MIAMI, FLORIDA First Line: Risen from rented rooms, old ghosts Last Line: To lean on you so hard, so long WOMEN IN LOVE Poem Text First Line: It always comes, and when it comes they know Last Line: The knack is this, to fasten and not let go Subject(s): Love WOMEN IN LOVE First Line: It always comes, and when it comes they know Last Line: The knack is this, to fasten and not let go Subject(s): Love YOUNG GIRLS GROWING UP (1911) First Line: No longer do they part and scatter so hopelessly before you Last Line: Saying to one another: live, we must try to live, my friend |
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