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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: MULDOON, PAUL Matches Found: 196 Muldoon, Paul Poet's Biography 196 poems available by this author 7, MIDDAGH STREET: BEN First Line: Come back, peter. Come back, ben britten Last Line: In this, as in so many things, %it won't be over till the fat lady sings 7, MIDDAGH STREET: CARSON First Line: In itself, this old, three-storey brownstone Last Line: Otto of her cleft: %two girls, I thought, two girls in silk kimonos 7, MIDDAGH STREET: CHESTER First Line: The fat lady sings to der rosenkavalier Last Line: Sand-vein was a seam of beryl, abstruse %as this lobster's 7, MIDDAGH STREET: GYPSY First Line: Save thou, my rose; in it thou art my all Last Line: I keep that papier=mache cow's head packed %just in case vaudeville does come back 7, MIDDAGH STREET: LOUIS First Line: Both beautiful, one a gazebo Last Line: Never mind chalk a rivet, never mind caulk a seam %on the quinquereme of nineveh 7, MIDDAGH STREET: SALVADOR First Line: This lobster's not a lobster but the telephone Last Line: Of the acanthus leaf, %its spiky puce-and alabaster an end in itself 7, MIDDAGH STREET: WYSTAN First Line: Quinquereme of nineveh from distant ophir; Last Line: My 'onlie begetter' and fair lady; %for nothing this wide universe I call... A COLLEGELANDS CATECHISM Poem Text First Line: Which is known as the orchard county? Last Line: By way of the "garden state"? Subject(s): Knowledge; New Jersey A JOURNEY TO CRACOW Poem Text First Line: As we high-tailed it across the meadows Last Line: As we high-tailed it across the meadows Subject(s): Cracow, Poland AFTERMATH First Line: Let us now drink, I imagine patriot cry to patriot Last Line: From which, my love, let us now drink AISLING Poem Text First Line: I was making my way home late one night Last Line: She gives me back a confident 'all clear' Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Love AISLING First Line: I was making my way home late one night Last Line: She gives me back a confident 'all clear' Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love ANCESTOR First Line: The great-grandmother who bears down on us, as if beholding the mote Last Line: Across the library may not be so unreasoning in her reprimand ANONYMOUS: MYSELF AND PANGUR First Line: Myself and pangur, my white cat Last Line: Shed light on what had seemed obscure ANSEO Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: When the master was calling the roll Last Line: And raise their hands / as their names occurred Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions; Nostalgia ANSEO First Line: When the master was calling the roll Last Line: And raise their hands %as their names occurred Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions; Nostalgia APPLE SLUMP First Line: The bounty-threat of snow Last Line: That mean little towel %into the ring ARMAGEDDON, ARMAGEDDON, SELS First Line: When oisin came back to ireland Last Line: And I know something of how he felt AS Poem Text First Line: As naught gives way to aught Last Line: I give way to you Subject(s): Holidays; New Year AS First Line: As naught gives way to aught Last Line: I give way to you Subject(s): Holidays; New Year AVENUE First Line: Now that we've come to the end Last Line: As if the whole world lay before us BANGLE First Line: Between the bream with cumin and the beef with marrow Last Line: Reminiscent of the worst excesses of conlon nancarrow BANGLE (SLIGHT RETURN) First Line: The beauty of it, ventured publius vergilius maro Last Line: For wooroonooran, my darlings, read wirra wirra BECHBRETHA First Line: At a garden-party in hillsborough, county down Last Line: That melmoth the wanderer %left at the top of the cliff BETWEEN TAKES First Line: I was standing in for myself, my own stunt double Last Line: Did its little bit of laundry among the boulders BIG HOUSE First Line: I was the only girl under the stairs BIRTH First Line: Seven o'clock. The seventh day of the seventh month of the year Last Line: Her off to the nursery, then check their staple-guns for sta BLAYE First Line: Her wetsuit like a coat of mail Last Line: Their weapons of mass destruction BLISSOM First Line: The thing is, when agnieszka and I lay like bride Last Line: At those five ewe and three wether-tegs BLOWING EGGS Poem Text First Line: This is not the nest Last Line: These his wrists, surprised and stained Subject(s): Nest; Eggs BRAZIL First Line: When my mother snapped open her flimsy parasol Last Line: And 'deasil' expunged from the annals of chile BRIEFCASE First Line: I held the briefcase at arm's length from me Last Line: And strike out along the east river %for the sea. By which I mean the 'open' sea BROCK Poem Text First Line: Small wonder Last Line: Patrolling his now-diminished estate / and taking stock of this and that Subject(s): Animals; Badgers BROCK First Line: Small wonder Last Line: Patrolling his now-diminished estate %and taking stock of this and that Subject(s): Animals; Badgers BURMA First Line: Thunder and lightning. The veil of the temple rent Last Line: The pavilion which, this morning, we watched them hoist CAULIFLOWERS First Line: More often than not he stops at the headrig to light his pipe Last Line: In an unmarked pit, that were harvested by their own light CESAR VALLEJO: TESTIMONY First Line: I will die in paris, on a day the rain's been coming down hard Last Line: By lonliness, by heavy rain, by the aforementioned roads CHINOOK First Line: I was micro-tagging chinook salmon Last Line: And carp, %relinquishing the table to pompeii CHRISTO'S First Line: Two workmen were carrying a sheet of asbestos Last Line: Like, as I said, 'one of your man's landscapes'. %'your man's? You don't mean christo's?' CLONFEACLE First Line: It happened not far away Last Line: Ending in the air CONEY First Line: Although I have never learned to mow Last Line: And although I have never learned to swim %I would willingly have followed him COWS Poem Text Last Line: Let's rest for a while in a place where a cow has lain Subject(s): Cows; Ireland; Irish COWS First Line: Even as we speak, there's a smoker's cough Last Line: Let's rest for a while in a place where a cow has lain CROSSING THE LINE First Line: A windswept gallery. With its telephones Last Line: Where pryderi's gifts of hounds and horses %turn out to have been fungus CUBA Poem Text First Line: In her white muslin evening dress Last Line: He brushed against me, father. Very gently Subject(s): Confessions CUBA First Line: My eldest sister arrived home that morning Last Line: He brushed against me, father. Very gently CUCKOO CORN Poem Text First Line: That seed that goes into the ground Last Line: Knowing of cuckoo corn, of seed and season Subject(s): Corn DANCERS AT THE MOY Poem Text First Line: This italian square Last Line: The ease of trampolines Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Horses DANCERS AT THE MOY First Line: This italian square %and circling plain Last Line: Give their earthen floors %the ease of trampolines DOUBLE GHAZAL FOR SEAMUS HEANEY First Line: New york. November. The pierpont morgan's or the frick's sky high Last Line: May bear us, in his narrow-keeled, square-sterned cutter, home and dry DUFFY'S CIRCUS First Line: Once duffy's circus had shaken out its tent Last Line: I watched a man sawing a woman in half EARTHQUAKE First Line: The jacket of her chalk-stripe suit Last Line: Ireland has moved; they haven't ERRATA Poem Text First Line: For 'antrim' read 'armagh.' Last Line: For 'loom' read 'bloom.' ERRATA First Line: For antrim read armagh Last Line: For loom read bloom ERRATA First Line: For 'antrim' read 'armagh.' Last Line: For 'loom' read 'bloom.' Subject(s): Language EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION Poem Text First Line: I gave you back my claim on the mining town Last Line: Our canyon walls had already given back Subject(s): Relationships; Mines & Miners FIELD HOSPITAL First Line: Taking, giving back their lives Last Line: Pinning themselves to our sleeves %like medals given the brave FOOTLING First Line: This I don't believe: rather than take a header Last Line: And turned in o herself, the phantom 'a' in cesarian FOX First Line: Such an alarm Last Line: You're saying, go back to bed. %it's only you dog-fox FRIDGE First Line: An ogham stone stands foursquare as the fridge Last Line: Sean o'boyle; john mccarter; jerry hicks FROG First Line: Comes to mind as another small upheaval Last Line: Like the juice of freshly squeezed limes, %or a lemon sorbet? GATHERING MUSHROOMS Poem Text First Line: The rain comes flapping through the yard Last Line: Lie down with us and wait Subject(s): Mushrooms; Morels GATHERING MUSHROOMS First Line: The rain comes flapping through the yard Last Line: Lie down with us and wait Subject(s): Mushrooms GLAD EYE First Line: Bored by ascham and zeno GOLD First Line: You loomed like merlin Last Line: Hare on a green shutter. %not marilyn GONE First Line: Since one of our functions is to forget Last Line: To bid, unwittingly, against each other %for the set of ten venetian goblets? GRASS WIDOW Poem Text First Line: And of course I cried Last Line: The gulf stream warming my heart Subject(s): Farewell; Parting GREEN GOWN First Line: Again and again, when it came her turn Last Line: Her breast - not a stroke - the green of her green gown HALF DOOR NEAR CLUNY First Line: Stablestablestables Last Line: Stables HAY Poem Text First Line: This much I know. Just as I'm about to make that right turn Last Line: From those hot and heavy box pleats. This much, at least, I know Subject(s): Hay & Haymaking HAY First Line: This much I know. Just as I'm about to make that right turn Last Line: From those hot and heavy box pleats. This much, at least, I know HAY First Line: This much I know. Just as I'm about to make that right Last Line: From those hot-and-heavy box pleats. This much, at least, I know HEDGEHOG Poem Text First Line: The snail moves like a Last Line: Will a god trust in the world Subject(s): Hedgehogs; Secrets HEDGEHOG First Line: The snail moves like a %hovercraft Last Line: Will a god trust in the world HEDGES IN WINTER Poem Text First Line: Every year they have driven stake after stake after stake Last Line: Only his deliberate hand, a bird pretending a broken wing Subject(s): Winter; Hedges HOLY THURSDAY Poem Text First Line: They're kindly here, to let us linger so late Last Line: And smiles, and bows to his own absence Subject(s): Maundy Thursday; Restaurants; Farewell; Waiters & Waitresses; Cafes; Diners; Parting HOLY THURSDAY First Line: They're kindly here, to let us linger so late, Last Line: And smiles, and bows to his own absence. HOPEWELL HAIKU First Line: The door of the shed Last Line: Now yields a hip flask HORSES First Line: A sky. A field. A hedge flagrant with gorse Last Line: Through a door in the shape of a horseshoe HUG First Line: Of course, of course, of course, I heard you intone Last Line: With what was surely your kisses, kisses, kisses I'M CONTEMPLATED BY A PORTRAIT OF A DIVINE First Line: I cannot speak to you. My lips are fused Last Line: In case my heart should slip out, fly up IMMRAMA Poem Text First Line: I, too, have trailed my father's spirit Last Line: His children asleep under their mosquito-nets Subject(s): Fathers INCANTATA First Line: I thought of you tonight, a leanbh, lying there in your long barrow Last Line: And take in your ink-stained hands my own hands stained with ink INDIANS ON ALCATRAZ First Line: Through time their sharp features Last Line: That they would not attack after dark IRELAND First Line: The volkswagen parked in the gap Last Line: Across two fields and a river JOHN LUKE: THE FOX First Line: Believe you me, when I padded over the ploughlands to the old galloway %place Last Line: Galloway who, in 1912, had stood in line at balmoral to catch a glimpse %of bonar law JOURNEY TO CRACOW First Line: As we high-tailed it across the meadows Last Line: As we high-tailed it across the meadows Subject(s): Cracow, Poland KISSING AND TELLING Poem Text First Line: Or she would turn up 'the songs of leonard cohen' Last Line: I could name names. I could be indiscreet Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Love KISSING AND TELLING First Line: Or she would turn up 'the songs of leonard cohen' Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love LAG First Line: We were joined at the hip. We were joined at the hip Last Line: It was chang who died first. Eng lived on for five hours LANDING First Line: A full moon. A squid hauling itself through the shallows Last Line: It shines a beam on the seabed to cancel its own shadow LASS OF AUGHRIM First Line: On a tributary of the amazon Last Line: Of a priest %from a long-abandoned mission LIFE First Line: My life as a bat Last Line: Iguana death is a closed mouth LITTLE BLACK BOOK First Line: It was aisling who first soft-talked my penis-tip between her legs Last Line: I fluttered, like an erratum slip, between her legs Subject(s): Erotic Love LONG FINISH Poem Text First Line: Ten years since we were married, since we stood Last Line: With such force and fervor as spouses may yet espouse / and then some Subject(s): Love LONG FINISH First Line: Ten years since we were married, since we stood Last Line: With such force and fervor as spouses may yet espouse %and then some Subject(s): Love LONGBONES First Line: When she came to me that night in damascus street Last Line: That she herself was the mirror covered with a sheet LOVEBIRDS First Line: So she moved into the hospital the last nine days Last Line: To her twittering on and on until the last LUNCH WITH PANCHO VILLA: 1 First Line: Is it really a revolution, though Last Line: Directly on to a back yard LUNCH WITH PANCHO VILLA: 2 First Line: Not any back yard, I'm bound to say Last Line: About pigs and trees, stars and horses MA First Line: Old photographs would have her bookish, sitting Last Line: The soft flame of a canary MACHA Poem Text First Line: Macha, the ice age Last Line: To your breasts Subject(s): Legends, Irish MAKING THE MOVE First Line: When ulysses braved the wine-dark sea MARRIAGE OF STRONGBOW AND AOIFE First Line: I might as well be another guest Last Line: A double-edged knife between my ribs %and hit the spot exactly MEETING THE BRITISH Poem Text First Line: We met the british in the dead of winter Last Line: And two blankets embroidered with smallpox Subject(s): French & Indian Wars; Small Pox MEETING THE BRITISH First Line: We met the british in the dead of winter Last Line: They gave us six fishhooks %and two blankets embroidered with smallpox MILKWEED AND MONARCH Poem Text First Line: As he knelt by the grave of his mother and father Last Line: He could barely tell one from the other Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood MILKWEED AND MONARCH First Line: As he knelt by the grave of his mother and father Last Line: He could barely tell one from the other Subject(s): Parents MIST-NET First Line: Though he checked the mist-net Last Line: Were his mother's dying words: %you mustn't. You mustn't MIXED MARRIAGE First Line: My father was a servant boy Last Line: Or the factions of the faction-fights %the ribbon boys, the caravats MORE A MAN HAS THE MORE A MAN WANTS First Line: At four in the morning he wakes Last Line: On a luminous stone no bigger than a...' %'huh MOY SAND AND GRAVEL First Line: To come out of the olympic cinema and be taken aback Last Line: As if washing might make it clean MUDROOM First Line: We followed the narrow track, my love, we followed the Last Line: That left him all agog MULES First Line: Should they not have the best of both worlds? Last Line: That we would know from what heights it fell MY GRANDFATHER'S WAKE First Line: If the houses in wyeth's christina's dream Last Line: To the old-fashioned child of seven %they had sent in search of a bucket of steam NEST First Line: We cut through the fashionable, lightweight stuff NIGHTINGALES First Line: In great contrast to the nightingale's preeminent voice Last Line: Of unwelcome guests. Wide boys. Would-be assassins NOW, NOW First Line: A sentence of death, my love, as if we were destined Last Line: In the sentence of death OCT-50 First Line: Whatever it is, it all comes down to this; Last Line: Whatever it is, it leaves me in the dark. ONE LAST DRAW OF THE PIPE Poem Text First Line: Even though it happened as long ago as the late fifties, I could still draw Last Line: Even now I hear it coming down. I hear it coming down on my yew-bough now Subject(s): Native Americans; Graves; Smoking; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Tombs; Tombstones; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes ONTARIO First Line: I spent last night in the nursery of a house in pennsylva- Last Line: Well, it starts a thousand miles to the north, and it %ends right here OSCAR First Line: Be that as it may, I'm wakened by the moans Last Line: And she once again has him under her thumb OUR LADY OF ARDBOE Poem Text First Line: Just there, in a corner of the whin-field Last Line: With one arm as long as the other Subject(s): Christianity OUR LADY OF ARDBOE First Line: Just there, in a corner of the whin-field Last Line: With one arm as long as the other OVID: METAMORPHOSES First Line: All the more reason, then, that men and women Last Line: They go leaping about the bog-hole with their frog-fellows PAUL KLEE: THEY'RE BITING First Line: The lake supports some kind of bathysphere Last Line: Otherwise-drab window %into which I might glance to check my hair PAUNCH First Line: Barefoot, in burgundy shorts and a salmon-pink Last Line: The chair takes a dim view through a knothole PINEAPPLES AND POMEGRANATES Poem Text First Line: To think that, as a boy of thirteen, I would grapple Last Line: I'm talking about pineapples right? Not pomegranates Subject(s): Pineapples; Sex PLOT First Line: Alfalfalfalfalfalfa Last Line: Alfa PLOVERS Poem Text First Line: The plovers come down hard, then clear again Last Line: For they are the embodiment of rain Subject(s): Plovers PLOVERS First Line: The plovers come down hard, then clear again Last Line: For they are the embodiment of rain Subject(s): Plovers POINT First Line: Not sato's sword, not sato's consecrated blade Last Line: With such force that the point was broken off PROFUMO First Line: My mother had slapped a month-long news embargo Last Line: That you and she are chalk %and cheese? Away and read masefield's cargoes PROMISES, PROMISES Poem Text First Line: I am stretched out under the lean-to Last Line: That I kissed when we kissed goodbye Subject(s): North Carolina; Kisses; Farewell; Parting QUOOF Poem Text First Line: How often have I carried our family word Last Line: Or some other shy beast / that has yet to enter the language Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Love QUOOF First Line: How often have I carried our family word Last Line: Or some other shy beast %that has yet to enter the language Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love RAINER MARIA RILKE: BLACK CAT First Line: Despite its being invisible, a ghost has enough mass Last Line: Set in a lump of amber RAINER MARIA RILKE: THE UNICORN First Line: This, then, is the beast that has never actually been Last Line: Would it be bodied out in her, in her mirror's full length RATTLESNAKE First Line: My rattlesnake has warm skin Last Line: His little fangs clinking the tea cup RIGHT ARM First Line: I was three-ish %when I plunged my arm into the sweet-jar RUNE Poem Text First Line: What can I tell you? Though your quarry Last Line: In its drive-up window? Go figure Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Riddles RUNE First Line: What can I tell you? Though your quarry Last Line: In its drive-up window? Go figure Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Riddles SCHOOLMARM Poem Text First Line: I've taken sacred sex Last Line: I did a stretch at harvard law / mit's school for charm Subject(s): Schools; Teachers; Infatuation; Students SIESTA Poem Text First Line: Father took me to one side Last Line: I never broke the sharping stone Subject(s): Fathers; Accidents; Tools SLEEVE NOTES First Line: Like being driven over by a truck Last Line: Was still aglow as I drove home to my wife and child SOAP-PIG First Line: I must have been dozing in the tub SOCCER MOMS First Line: They remember gene chandler topping the charts with 'duke of earl' Last Line: And winning their hearts, mavis and merle SOMETHING ELSE First Line: When your lobster was lifted out of the tank Last Line: Which made me think %of something else, then something else again SOMETHING OF A DEPARTURE First Line: Would you be an angel Last Line: And take it like a man SONOGRAM First Line: Only a few weeks ago, the sonogram of jean's womb Last Line: A gladiator in his net, passing judgement on the crowd STOIC First Line: This was more like it, looking up to find a burlapped fawn Last Line: With their long-tailed shovels or broad griffawns SUSHI First Line: Why do we waste so much time in arguing?' Last Line: With the look of a man unlikely to confound %duns scotus, say, with scotus eriugena SYMPOSIUM Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: You can bring a horse to water but you can't make it hold Last Line: Who's shot his bolt. There's no smoke after the horse is gone Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary SYMPOSIUM First Line: You can bring a horse to water but you can't make it hold Last Line: Who's shot his bolt. There's no smoke after the horse is gone SYMPOSIUM First Line: You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it hold Last Line: Who's shot his bolt. There's no smoke after the horse is gone TELEGRAM FOR SEAMUS HEANEY First Line: It was far from it he was reared,' I hear my da volunteer Last Line: But, wonder of wonders, the shapes of warships in the limbs of trees TELL Poem Text First Line: He opens the scullery door, and a sudden rush Last Line: When he hears what must be an apple split / above his head Subject(s): Apples TELL First Line: He opens the scullery door, and a sudden rush Last Line: When he hears what must be an apple split %above his head THE AVENUE Poem Text First Line: Now that we've come to the end Last Line: As if the whole world lay before us Subject(s): Farewell; Morning; Parting THE COYOTE Poem Text First Line: Veering down the track like a girl veering down a cobbled street Last Line: Taking in the spray-painted ring where you and I knuckle down Subject(s): Dogs THE ELECTRIC ORCHARD Poem Text First Line: The early electric people had domesticated the wild ass Last Line: Electrocution, falling, the age of innocence Subject(s): Orchards; Electricity THE FROG Poem Text First Line: Comes to mind as another small Last Line: Like the juice of freshly squeezed limes, / or a lemon sorbet? Subject(s): Story-telling; Frogs THE GLAD EYE Poem Text First Line: Bored by ascham and zeno Last Line: Could look without commitment into another eye Subject(s): Eyes; Arrows THE INDIANS ON ALCATRAZ Poem Text First Line: Through time their sharp features have softened and blurred Last Line: Leaves me more grateful for the fact that they never attack after dark Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE LITTLE BLACK BOOK Poem Text First Line: It was aisling who first soft-talked my penis-tip between her legs Last Line: I read the singapore grip between her legs Subject(s): Love - Erotic THE MIRROR Poem Text First Line: He was no longer my father Last Line: While I drove home/ the two nails Subject(s): Fathers THE MORE A MAN HAS THE MORE A MAN WANTS Poem Text First Line: At four in the morning he wakes Last Line: On a lunimous stone no bigger than a ...' / huh Subject(s): Ireland; Crime & Criminals; Stein, Gertrude (1874-1946); Irish THE SIGHTSEERS Poem Text First Line: My father and mother, my brother and sister Last Line: There was still the mark of an o when he got home Subject(s): Oppression; Ireland; Irish THE THROWBACK Poem Text First Line: Even I can't help but notice, my sweet Last Line: She wore when she stood Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers THE TRAIN Poem Text First Line: I've been trying, my darling, to explain Last Line: That, we, not it, might be the constant thing Subject(s): Love THE WAKING FATHER Poem Text First Line: My father and I are catching spricklies Last Line: Telling now of the real fish farther down Subject(s): Fathers THEY THAT WASH ON THURSDAY First Line: She was such a dab hand, my mother Last Line: In a heraldry shop on nassau street -- on a green field a %white hand THIRD EPISTLE TO TIMOTHY First Line: Midnight. June 1923. Not a stir except for the brough Last Line: They float out across the dark face of the earth, an earth %without form, and void THREE DEER, MOUNT ROSE, AUGUST 1995 First Line: How about that? As I stepped outside, the doe and her Last Line: Rather than the pleiades, to blurt it out like a polaroid THROWBACK First Line: Even I can't help but notice, my sweet Last Line: She wore when she stood firm against xerxes THRUSH Poem Text First Line: I guessed the letter Last Line: Out of my freckled hand Subject(s): Letters; Love - Loss Of TITHONUS First Line: Not the day-old cheep of a smoke detector on the blink Last Line: But what turns out to be the two-thousand-year-old chirrup %of a grasshopper TOE-TAG First Line: They became you, that pair of kid gloves Last Line: And one untimely, indigo-flowering cactus %like a big toe with its tag TRACT First Line: I cleared the trees about my cabin Last Line: That came within range of a musket ball TRAIN First Line: I've been trying, my darling, to explain Last Line: That we, not it, might be the constant thing Subject(s): Love TRUCE First Line: It begins with one or two soldiers Last Line: To congratulate each other %and exchange names and addresses TWICE First Line: It was so cold last night the water in the barrel grew a sod Last Line: Leisurely pan; 'two places at once, was it, or one place twi VAMPIRE Poem Text First Line: Seeing the bird in winter reflected in the sheet of ice Last Line: The top repeatedly punctured by a thirsting bird WEEPIES First Line: Most saturday afternoons %at the local hippodrome Last Line: I believe something fell asunder %in even will hunter's hands WHIM Poem Text First Line: She was sitting with a pint and a small one Last Line: Like the last of an endangered species Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Love WHIM First Line: She was sitting with a pint and a small one Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love WHITE First Line: Your mother shows me a photograph of you got up in lace Last Line: When it seemed I might have been frostbitten WHITE SHOULDERS First Line: My heart is heavy. For I saw fionnuala Last Line: To bring up my double scoop of vanilla WHY BROWNLEE LEFT, AND WHERE HE WENT Last Line: Foot, and gazing into the future Variant Title(s): Why Brownlee Lef WIND AND TREE Poem Text First Line: In the way that the most of the wind Last Line: I tell new weather Subject(s): Environment; Love - Erotic; Love; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation WIND AND TREE First Line: In the way that the most of the wind Last Line: I tell new weather Subject(s): Environment; Erotic Love; Love; Trees WIRE First Line: As I roved out this morning at daybreak Last Line: The end of the line, right down to the wire WISHBONE First Line: Maureen in england, joseph in guelph, %my mother in her grave Last Line: The wishbone like a rowelled spur %on the fibula of sir - or sir - YARROW First Line: Little by little it dawned on us that the row Last Line: That was lost with all hands between ireland and montevideo YGGSDRASILL First Line: From below, the waist-thick pine Last Line: Their horses on the shores of lough erne %and lough neagh YOU GOTTA TAKE OUT MILT Poem Text First Line: I ran into miss adventure Last Line: If you wanna stay in with me Subject(s): Murder; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives |
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