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Discover our poem explanations - click here!Searching... Author: LOY, MINA Matches Found: 73 Loy, Mina Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Cravan, Arthur, Mrs.; Lowy, Mina Gertrude; Haweis, Stephen, Mrs. 73 poems available by this author AGED WOMAN Poem Text First Line: The past has come apart Last Line: Dilation has entirely eliminated your long reality AID OF THE MADONNA Poem Text First Line: Madonnas are everlastingly mothers in ecstasy Last Line: Under flowers of fire ANGLO-MONGRELS AND THE ROSE: ENGLISH ROSE First Line: Early english everlasting %quadrate rose %paradox-imperial Last Line: And what it does to the nose %while smelling it %see punch APOLOGY OF A GENIUS Poem Text First Line: Ostracized as we are with god - Last Line: Stands to the censor's scythe. AT THE DOOR OF THE HOUSE Poem Text First Line: A thousand women's eyes Last Line: At the door of the house BABIES IN HOSPITAL Poem Text First Line: Small elena Last Line: I am guilty of BLACK VIRGINITY First Line: Baby priests %on green sward Last Line: Are headed off for the refectory BRANCUSI'S GOLDEN BIRD Poem Text First Line: The toy become the aesthetic archetype Last Line: In gorgeous reticence BRANCUSI'S GOLDEN BIRD First Line: The toy Last Line: Licked by chromatic flames %in labyrinths of reflections CHIFFON VELOURS Poem Text First Line: She is sere Last Line: A yard of chiffon velours CRAB-ANGEL Poem Text First Line: An atomic sprite Last Line: Waving a yellow farewell with his perruque DEAD First Line: We have flowed out of ourselves Last Line: Of the half that is left inside them DER BLINDE JUNGE Poem Text First Line: The dam bellona Last Line: Upon a mouth-organ. Subject(s): Blindness; Visually Handicapped EFFECTUAL MARRIAGE OR THE INSIPID NARRATIVE Poem Text First Line: The door was an absurd thing Last Line: Having no vices EPHEMERID Poem Text First Line: The eternal is sustained by serial metamorphosis Last Line: Kidnap into fantasia FAUN FARE First Line: Surreptitious fanfare Last Line: Allergy to diapers FILM-FACE First Line: As the gods sat on olympus Last Line: On marie dressler GERTRUDE STEIN Poem Text First Line: Curie Last Line: A radium of the word. Subject(s): Curie, Marie (1867-1934); Stein, Gertrude (1874-1946); Women GIOVANNI FRANCHI Poem Text First Line: The threewomen who all walked Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Wit & Humor GIOVANNI FRANCHI First Line: The threewomen - who all walked Last Line: Than - giovanni bapini knew himself HOT CROSS BUM First Line: Beyond a hell-vermilion Last Line: Of coition HUMAN CYLINDERS Poem Text First Line: The human cylinders / revolving in the enervating dusk Subject(s): Relationships; Disappointment HUMAN CYLINDERS First Line: The human cylinders Last Line: With a solution HUMAN CYLINDERS IDIOT CHILD ON A FIRE-ESCAPE Poem Text First Line: Obedient as a bundle Last Line: Almost emptied IGNORAMUS Poem Text First Line: Shut it up Last Line: For the last ITALIAN PICTURES: COSTA MAGIC Poem Text First Line: Her father / indisposed to her marriage Last Line: Whose hair down covers her thighs Subject(s): Italy; Italians ITALIAN PICTURES: JULY IN VALLOMBROSA Poem Text First Line: Old lady sitting still Last Line: Of head-waiters Subject(s): Italy; Italians ITALIAN PICTURES: THE COSTA SAN GIORGIO Poem Text First Line: We english make a tepid blot Last Line: Onto the middle of the street Subject(s): Italy; Italians JOYCE'S ULYSSES Poem Text First Line: The normal monster Last Line: On the sub rosa -- -- -- JULES PASCIN Poem Text First Line: So this is death Last Line: Cinderellas awander LADY LAURA IN BOHEMIA Poem Text First Line: Trained in a circus of swans Last Line: She is yet like a diamond on a heap of broken glass LETTERS OF THE UNLIVING Poem Text First Line: The present implies presence Last Line: On lethe LIONS' JAWS Poem Text First Line: O far away on the benign peninsular Last Line: Into the fatal lap of italy LOVE SONGS TO JOANNES Poem Text First Line: Spawn of fantasies Last Line: Love - the preeminent litterateur Variant Title(s): Songs To Joannes Subject(s): Dadaism; Love; Papini, Giovanni (1881-1956) LUNAR BAEDEKER Poem Text First Line: A silver lucifer Last Line: Waxes and wanes Subject(s): Dreams; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Nightmares; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin MARBLE Poem Text First Line: Greece has thrown - white shadows Last Line: Of a lost hand MASS-PRODUCTION ON 14TH STREET Poem Text First Line: Ocean in flower Last Line: The mannequin's harlequins MEDITERRANEAN SEA Poem Text First Line: The monstrous sapphire Last Line: Of the tinselled sands MEXICAN DESERT Poem Text First Line: The belching ghost-wail of the locomotive Last Line: Belabour the cinders of twilight MOREOVER THE MOON Poem Text First Line: Face of the skies Subject(s): Moon MOREOVER, THE MOON First Line: Face of the skies Last Line: Our every corpuscle become an elf NANCY CUNARD Poem Text First Line: Your eyes diffused with holy lights Subject(s): Cunard, Nancy (1896-1965) NANCY CUNARD First Line: Your eyes diffused with holy lights Last Line: Of princess murat %and george moore Subject(s): Cunard, Nancy (1896-1965) O HELL Poem Text First Line: To clear the drifts of spring Last Line: In the shaft of the sun OMEN OF VICTORY Poem Text First Line: Women in uniform Subject(s): Women OMEN OF VICTORY First Line: Women in uniform Last Line: Fallen in the sugar Subject(s): Women ON THIRD AVENUE First Line: You should have disappeared years ago' -- Last Line: Of their passage PARTURITION First Line: I am the centre Last Line: Man and woman god made them -- thank god PERLUN First Line: The whipper snapper of the sun Last Line: Think I'm a doll for anyone to pat PHOTO AFTER POGROM Poem Text First Line: Arrangement by rage / of human rubble Last Line: Corpses are virgins Subject(s): Pogroms; Corpses PHOTO AFTER POGROM First Line: Arrangement by rage %of human rubble Last Line: Sealing the faces %of corpses. %corpses are virgin Subject(s): Pogroms POE Poem Text First Line: A lyric elixir of death / embalms Subject(s): Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849) POE First Line: A lyric elixir of death %embalms Last Line: Where frozen nightingales in ilix aisles %sing burial rites Subject(s): Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849) PORTRAIT OF A NUN First Line: The smile folded as a marriage-veil Last Line: But jesus is %gentle to us Subject(s): Nuns PROPERTY OF PIGEONS Poem Text First Line: Pigeons doze Last Line: To peer into a vast transparency RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION Poem Text First Line: This misalliance / follows the custom Subject(s): Christianity; Faith; Belief; Creed SKETCH OF A MAN ON A PLATFORM Poem Text First Line: Man of absolute physical equilibrium Last Line: Stings the face of the public SONGGE BYRD; FOR ISADORA DUNCAN First Line: Gossip-blown songstress Last Line: Descended from the skies %so many gods Subject(s): Duncan, Isadora (1878-1927) STARRY SKY OF WYNDHAM LEWIS Poem Text First Line: Who raised these rocks of human mist Last Line: To sky worn images THE BLACK VIRGINITY Poem Text First Line: Baby priests/ on green sward Subject(s): Women; Religion; Theology THE DEAD Poem Text First Line: We have flowed out of ourselves Subject(s): Hell THE SONG OF THE NIGHTINGALE IS LIKE THE SCENT OF SYRINGA Poem Text Subject(s): Nightingales; Singing & Singers; Songs THE WIDOW'S JAZZ Poem Text First Line: The white flesh quakes to the negro soul Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music; Chicago; Jazz; Music & Musicians THERE IS NO LIFE OR DEATH Poem Text Last Line: Have no immensity THREE MOMENTS IN PARIS: 1. ONE O'CLOCK AT NIGHT Poem Text First Line: Though you have never possessed me Last Line: Wants to go to bed Subject(s): Paris, France; Women THREE MOMENTS IN PARIS: 2. CAFE DU NEANT Poem Text First Line: Little tapers lighted leaning diagonally Subject(s): Paris, France THREE MOMENTS IN PARIS: 2. CAFE DU NEANT First Line: Little tapers lighted leaning diagonally Last Line: Prophetically blossoms in perfect putrefaction %yet there are cabs outside the door Subject(s): Paris, France THREE MOMENTS IN PARIS: 3. MAGASINS DU LOUVRE Poem Text First Line: All the virgin eyes in the world are made of glass Subject(s): Paris, France THREE MOMENTS IN PARIS: 3. MAGASINS DU LOUVRE First Line: All the virgin eyes in the world are made of glass Last Line: Having surprised a gesture that is ultimately intimate %all the virgin eyes in the world are made of Subject(s): Paris, France TIME-BOMB Poem Text First Line: The - present - moment Last Line: Momentum VIRGINS PLUS CURTAINS MINUS DOTS Poem Text First Line: Latin borghese Last Line: Might - scratch WIDOW'S JAZZ Poem Text First Line: The white flesh quakes to the negro soul Last Line: Of unpeopled space Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Chicago; Jazz; Music And Musicians |
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