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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: STEVENS, WALLACE Matches Found: 691 Stevens, Wallace Poet's Biography 691 poems available by this author (PROSE STATEMENT ON THE POETRY OF WAR) First Line: The immense poetry of war and the poetry of a work of the Last Line: Nothing will ever appease this desire except a consciousness of %fact as everyone is at least satisf Subject(s): World War Ii A CLEAR DAY AND NO MEMORIES Poem Text First Line: No soldiers in the scenery, Last Line: The conscience is converted into palms, Subject(s): Nothingness; Nihilism; Voids A DISH OF PEACHES IN RUSSIA Poem Text First Line: With my whole body I taste these peaches Last Line: One self from another, as these peaches do Subject(s): Fruit; Peaches A HIGH-TONED OLD CHRISTIAN WOMAN Poem Text First Line: Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame Last Line: Wink as they will. Wink most when widows wince. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets A PASTORAL NUN Poem Text First Line: Finally, in the last year of her age Last Line: Each matters only in that which it conceives Subject(s): Nuns A POSTCARD FROM THE VOLCANO Poem Text First Line: Children picking up our bones Last Line: Smeared with the gold of the opulent sun Subject(s): Bones A RABBIT AS KING OF THE GHOSTS Poem Text Recitation First Line: The difficulty to think at the end of day Last Line: And the little green cat is a bug in the grass Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Rabbits; Hares A ROOM ON A GARDEN Poem Text First Line: O stagnant east-wind, palsied mare Last Line: Of lilies rusted, rotting, wet / with rain Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening A VALENTINE Poem Text First Line: Willow soon, and vine Last Line: Her pierrot ... Amen Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day A WINDOW IN THE SLUMS Poem Text First Line: I think I hear beyond the walls Last Line: Up to my window rise Subject(s): Slums; Tenements ACADEMIC DISCOURSE AT HAVANA First Line: Canaries in the morning, orchestras Last Line: In the grand decadence of the perished swans ADD THIS TO RHETORIC First Line: It is posed and it is posed Last Line: This is the figure and not %an evading metaphor %add this.Itit is to add ADULT EPIGRAM First Line: The romance of the precise is not the elision Last Line: It is the ever-never-changing same, %an appearance of again,the dive-dame AGENDA Poem Text First Line: Whipped creams and the blue danube Last Line: No doubt, the well-tuned birds are singing, / slowly and sweetly AGENDA First Line: Whipped creams and the blue danube Last Line: No doubt, the well-tuned birds are singing, %slowly and sweetly ALL THINGS IMAGINED ARE OF EARTH COMPACT Last Line: But their old persons move again, and burn AMERICAN SUBLIME First Line: How does one stand Last Line: What bread does one eat AMERICANA First Line: The first soothsayers of the land, a man Last Line: Flaunts that first fortune, which he wanted so much AN ORDINARY EVENING IN NEW HAVEN Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The eye's plain version is a thing apart Last Line: A dust, a force that traverses a shade Variant Title(s): An Ordinary Evening In New Haven, Selection Subject(s): New Haven, Connecticut ANALYSIS OF A THEME First Line: How happy I was the day I told the young blandina of three- Last Line: We enjoy the ithy oonts and long-haired %plomets, as the herr gott %enjoys his comets ANATOMY OF MONOTONY First Line: If from the earth we came, it was an earth Last Line: Falls from that fatal and that barer sky, %and this the spirit sees and is aggrieved ANECDOTE OF CANNA First Line: Huge are the canna in the dreams of Last Line: Observes the canna with a clinging eye, %observes and then continues to observe ANECDOTE OF MEN BY THE THOUSAND First Line: The soul, he said, is composed %of the external world Last Line: Is an invisible element of that place %made visible ANECDOTE OF THE ABNORMAL First Line: He called hydrangeas purple. And they were Last Line: Tuck in the straw, %and stalk the skies ANECDOTE OF THE JAR Poem Text First Line: I placed a jar in tennessee Last Line: Like nothing else in tennessee. Subject(s): Americans; Art & Artists; Bottles; Civilization; United States; America ANECDOTE OF THE PRINCE OF PEACOCKS First Line: In the moonlight %I met berserk Last Line: As sleep falls %in the innocent air ANECDOTE OF THE PRINCE OF PEACOCKS First Line: In the land of the peacocks, the prince thereof Last Line: The prince's frisson reached his fingers' tips ANGEL SURROUNDED BY PAYSANS Poem Text First Line: There is / a welcome at the door to which no one comes? Last Line: Apparels of such lightest look that a turn / of my shoulder and quickly, too quickly, I am gone? Subject(s): Reality ANGEL SURROUNDED BY PAYSANS First Line: There is %a welcome at the door to which no one comes? Last Line: Apparels of such lightest look that a turn %of my shoulder and quickly, too quickly, I am gone? Subject(s): Reality ANGLAIS MORT A FLORENCE First Line: A little less returned for him each spring Last Line: Before the colors deepened and grew small ANNUAL GAIETY First Line: In the morning in the blue snow Last Line: And joy of snow and snow ANOTHER WEEPING WOMAN First Line: Pour the unhappiness out Last Line: And you are pierced by a death ANYTHING IS BEAUTIFUL IF YOU SAY IT IS First Line: Under the eglantine %the fretful concubine Last Line: The very will of the nerves, %the crack across the pane, %the dirt along the sill APOSTROPHE TO VINCENTINE First Line: I figured you as nude between Last Line: And that white animal, so lean, turned heavenly, heavenly vincentine ARCADES OF PHILADELPHIA THE PAST Poem Text First Line: Only the rich remember the past Subject(s): Strawberries ARCADES OF PHILADELPHIA THE PAST First Line: Only the rich remember the past Last Line: They seem a little painted, now %the mountains are scratched and used, clear fakes Subject(s): Strawberries ARCHITECTURE Poem Text First Line: What manner of building shall we build? Last Line: And the nut-shell esplanades Subject(s): Architecture & Architects ARCHITECTURE First Line: What manner of building shall we build? Last Line: And the nut-shell esplanades Subject(s): Architecture And Architects ARRIVAL AT THE WALDORF First Line: Home from guatemala, back at the waldorf Last Line: After that alien, point-blank, green and actual %guatemala ARTIFICIAL POPULATIONS First Line: The centre that he sought was a state of mind Last Line: And music that lasts long and lives the more AS AT A THEATRE First Line: Another sunlight might make another world Last Line: Philosophers' end...What a difference would it make, %so long as the mind, for once, fulfilled itsel AS YOU LEAVE THE ROOM First Line: You speak. You say: today's character is not Last Line: And yet nothing has been changed except whhat is %unreal, as if nothing had been changed at all ASIDES ON THE OBOE First Line: The prologues are over. It is a question, now Last Line: The glass man, without external reference ATTEMPT TO DISCOVER LIFE First Line: At san miguel de los banos Last Line: On the table near which they stood %two coins werw lying - dos centavos AURORAS OF AUTUMN First Line: This is where the serpent lives, the bodiless Last Line: Like a blaze of summer straw, in winter's nick AUTUMN Poem Text First Line: Long lines of coral light Last Line: In the calm above Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN First Line: Long lines of coral light Last Line: In the calm above Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons AUTUMN REFRAIN First Line: The skreak and skritter of evening gone Last Line: And the stillness if in the key, all of it is, %the stillness is all in the key of that desolate sou BAGATELLES THE MADRIGALS First Line: Where do you think, serpent Last Line: Out of all the minds, %one of the songs of that dominance BALLADE OF THE PINK PARASOL Poem Text First Line: I pray thee where is the old-time wig Last Line: But where is the pink parasol? Subject(s): Umbrellas BALLADE OF THE PINK PARASOL First Line: I pray thee where is the old-time wig Last Line: But where is the pink parasol? Subject(s): Umbrellas BANAL SOJOURN Poem Text First Line: Two wooden tubs of blue hydrangeas stand at the foot of the stone steps Last Line: One has a malady, here, a malady. One feels a malady Subject(s): Summer; Boredom; Ennui BANAL SOJOURN First Line: Two wooden tubs of blue hydrangeas stand at the foot of the Last Line: One has a malady, here, a malady. One feels a malady BANJO BOOMER Poem Text First Line: The mulberry is a double tree Last Line: Mulberry, shade me, shade me awhile Subject(s): Mulberry Trees BANJO BOOMER First Line: The mulberry is a double tree Last Line: Mulberry, shade me, shade me awhile Subject(s): Mulberry Trees BANTAMS IN PINE-WOODS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Chieftain iffucan of azcan in caftan Last Line: And fears not portly azcan nor his hoos. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets BED OF OLD JOHN ZELLER First Line: This structure of ideas, these ghostly sequences Last Line: Of things at least that was thought of in the old peak of night BEGINNING First Line: So summer comes in the end to hese few stains Last Line: Now, the first tutoyers of tragedy %speak softly, to begin with, in the eaves Subject(s): Love BLANCHE MCCARTHY First Line: Look in the terrible mirror of the sky Last Line: Upward, from unimagined coverts, fly BLUE BUILDINGS IN THE SUMMER AIR First Line: Cotton mather died when I was a boy. The books Last Line: You are one of the not-numberale mice %searching all day, all night, for the honey-comb Subject(s): Mather, Cotton (1663-1728) BOOK OF VERSES TO E.V.M.: 1 First Line: One day more Last Line: Oh, far hesperides! BOOK OF VERSES TO E.V.M.: 10. SONG First Line: A month -- a year -- of idle work Last Line: That calls me to it without choice, %alone BOOK OF VERSES TO E.V.M.: 11. AFTER MUSIC First Line: The players pause Last Line: The thought of all %you are to me BOOK OF VERSES TO E.V.M.: 12. TWILIGHT First Line: Here the huge moth Last Line: To giants, crouched in fear %of fearful night Subject(s): Evening BOOK OF VERSES TO E.V.M.: 13. ADAGIO First Line: Drone, dove, that rounded woe again Last Line: And ghosts from gardens beckon BOOK OF VERSES TO E.V.M.: 14 First Line: There is my spectre Last Line: I should never escape %that wild, starry tune BOOK OF VERSES TO E.V.M.: 15. DAMASK First Line: You need not speak, if that be shame Last Line: Now the enchanting measures fall -- %a spirit intervenes BOOK OF VERSES TO E.V.M.: 16. REST First Line: Glimpses of eden for the tired mind Last Line: You by my side are more than these BOOK OF VERSES TO E.V.M.: 17. IN TOWN First Line: It's well enough to work there Last Line: Thinking of a wood I know, %deep in fragrant gloom BOOK OF VERSES TO E.V.M.: 18. MEDITATION First Line: There were feet upon the waters in the morning Last Line: That vanish soon in the devouring ground BOOK OF VERSES TO E.V.M.: 19. HOME AGAIN First Line: Back within the valley Last Line: And the starry night! Subject(s): Homecoming BOOK OF VERSES TO E.V.M.: 2. NEW LIFE First Line: Noon, and a wind on the hill Last Line: And the face of the world to be BOOK OF VERSES TO E.V.M.: 20 First Line: What have I to do with arras Last Line: I sing to you? BOOK OF VERSES TO E.V.M.: 3. AFIELD First Line: You give to brooks a tune Last Line: Take up their airs again BOOK OF VERSES TO E.V.M.: 4 First Line: Hang up brave tapestries Last Line: And shadows when I pray BOOK OF VERSES TO E.V.M.: 5. IN A CROWD First Line: So much of man Last Line: A song serene BOOK OF VERSES TO E.V.M.: 6. ON THE FERRY First Line: Fog, now, and a bell Last Line: Toll the stale brain dissolved %in images of storm Subject(s): Ferry Boats BOOK OF VERSES TO E.V.M.: 7. TIDES First Line: These infinite green motions Last Line: Or hermit moon declining Subject(s): Tides BOOK OF VERSES TO E.V.M.: 8. WINTER MELODY First Line: I went into the dim wood Last Line: These rose for me -- a second time -- %the pageant moon Subject(s): Winter BOOK OF VERSES TO E.V.M.: 9. SONNET First Line: Explain my spirit -- adding word to word Last Line: Home to your heart, as to a hidden nest BOTANIST ON ALP (NO. 1) First Line: Panoramas are not what they used to be Last Line: Yet the panorama of despair %cannot be the specialty %of t is ecstatic air BOTANIST ON ALP (NO. 2) First Line: The crosses on the convent roofs Last Line: And merely of their glittering, %a mirror of a mere delight? BOUQUET First Line: Of medium nature, this farouche extreme Last Line: He walks through the house,looks round him and then leaves %the bouquet has slopped over the edge an BOUQUET OF BELLE SCAVOIR First Line: It is she alone that matters Last Line: It is she that he wants, to look at directly, %someone before him to see and to know BOUQUET OF ROSES IN SUNLIGHT Poem Text First Line: Say that it is a crude effect, black reds Last Line: In seeing them. This is what makes them seem / so far beyond the rhetorician's touch Subject(s): Roses BOUQUET OF ROSES IN SUNLIGHT First Line: Say that it is a crude effect, black reds Last Line: In seeing them. This is what makes them seem %so far beyond the rhetorician's touch BOWL Poem Text First Line: For what emperor Last Line: I never tie / to think of this Subject(s): Bowls BOWL First Line: For what emperor Last Line: I never tie %to think of this Subject(s): Bowls BRAVE MAN First Line: The sun, that brave man Last Line: That brave man comes up %from below and walks without meditation, %that brave man BURGHERS OF PETTY DEATH First Line: These two by the stone wall Last Line: Propounds blank final music CANDLE A SAINT First Line: Green is the night, green kindled and apparelled Last Line: Moving and being, the image at its source, %the abstract, the archaic queen. Green is the night CARLOS AMONG THE CANDLES Poem Text First Line: How the solitude of this candle penetrates me Last Line: He springs through the window. Curtain Subject(s): Candles CARNET DE VOYAGE First Line: An odor comes from a star Last Line: Such mockery away, %he nonino! CELLE QUI FUT HEAULMIETTE First Line: Out of the first warmth of spring Last Line: Of a mother with vague severed arms %and of a father bearded in his fire CERTAIN PHENOMENA OF SOUND Poem Text First Line: The cricket in the telephone is still Last Line: I am and have a being and play a part / you are that white eulalia of the name Subject(s): Language; Sound; Words; Vocabulary CERTAIN PHENOMENA OF SOUND First Line: The cricket in the telephone is still Last Line: I am and have a being and play a part %you are that white eulalia of the name CHAOS IN MOTION AND NOT IN MOTION First Line: Oh, that this lashing wind was something more Last Line: He knows he has nothing more to think about %like the wind that lashes everything at once CHIAROSCURO First Line: The house-fronts flare Last Line: A still-trembling hand %and its only bangle CHILD ASLEEP IN ITS OWN LIFE First Line: Among the old men that you know life Last Line: Distant, yet close enough to wake %the chords above your bedto-night CHOCORUA TO ITS NEIGHBOR First Line: To speak quietly at such a distance, to speak Last Line: Greater than mine, of his demanding, head %and, of human realizings, rugged roy... CLEAR DAY AND NO MEMORIES First Line: No soldiers in the scenery Last Line: And are not now: in this shallow spectacle, %this invisible activity, this sense COLLOQUY WITH A POLISH AUNT Poem Text First Line: How is it that my saints from voragine Last Line: Holding their books toward the nearer stars, / to read, in secret, burning secrecies..... Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy COLLOQUY WITH A POLISH AUNT First Line: How is it that my saints from voragine Last Line: Holding their books toward the nearer stars, %to read, in secret, burning secrecies..... COLORS Poem Text First Line: Pale, orange, green and crimson, and Last Line: Faun-color, black and gold. Subject(s): Colors COLORS First Line: Pale, orange, green and crimson, and Last Line: Faun-color, black and gold Subject(s): Colors COMEDIAN AS THE LETTER C: 1. THE WORLD WITHOUT IMAGINATION First Line: The world without imagination Last Line: The ruses that were shattered by the large COMEDIAN AS THE LETTER C: 2. CONCERNING THUNDERSTORMS OF YUCATAN First Line: In yucatan, the maya sonneteers Last Line: Let down gigantic quavers of its voice, %for crispin to vociferate again COMEDIAN AS THE LETTER C: 3. APPROACHING CAROLINA First Line: The book of moonlight is not written yet Last Line: To which all poems were incident, unless %that prose should wear a poem's guise at last COMEDIAN AS THE LETTER C: 4. THE IDEA OF A COLONY First Line: Nota: his soil is man's intelligence Last Line: With crispin as the tiptoe cozener? %no, no: veracious page on page, exact COMEDIAN AS THE LETTER C: 5. A NICE SHADY HOME First Line: Crispin as hermit, pure and capable Last Line: For all it takes it gives a humped return %exchequering from piebald fiscs unkeyed COMEDIAN AS THE LETTER C: 6. AND DAUGHTERS WITH CURLS First Line: Portentous enunciation, syllable Last Line: The relation comes, benignly, to its end? %so may the relation of each man be clipped COMMON LIFE First Line: That's the down-town frieze Last Line: The men have no shadows %and the women have only one side COMMUNICATIONS OF MEANING First Line: The parrot in its palmy boughs Last Line: The petals flying through the air COMPLETELY NEW SET OF OBJECTS First Line: From a schuylkill in mid-earth there came emerging Last Line: Under tinicum or small cohansey %the fathers of the makers may lie and weather CONNOISSEUR OF CHAOS Poem Text Recitation First Line: A violent order is disorder; and Last Line: For which the intricate aips are a single nest Subject(s): Chaos CONNOISSEUR OF CHAOS First Line: A violent order is disorder; and Last Line: For which the intricate alps are a single nest Subject(s): Chaos CONTINUAL CONVERSATION WITH A SILENT MAN First Line: The old brown hen and the old blue sky Last Line: Of things and their motion: the other man, %a turquoise monster moving round CONVERSATION WITH THREE WOMEN OF NEW ENGLAND Poem Text First Line: The mode of the person becomes the mode of the world Last Line: That talk shifts the cycle of the scenes of kings? Subject(s): Human Behavior; Women; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature CONVERSATION WITH THREE WOMEN OF NEW ENGLAND First Line: The mode of the person becomes the mode of the world Last Line: That talk shifts the cycle of the scenes of kings? Subject(s): Human Behavior; Women CORTEGE FOR ROSENBLOOM Poem Text First Line: Now the wry rosenbloom is dead Last Line: Rosenbloom is dead Subject(s): Death; Dead, The COUNTRY WORDS First Line: I sang a canto in a canton Last Line: Of being, more than birht or death %it wants words virile with his breaht COUNTRYMAN First Line: Swatara, swatara black river Last Line: The place of a swarthy presence moving %slowly, to the look of a swarthy name COURSE OF A PARTICULAR First Line: Today the leaves cry, hanging on branches swept by wind Last Line: Than they are in the final finding of the ear, in the thing %itself, until, at last, the cry concern COUSINE BOURGEOISE First Line: These days of disinheritance, we feast Last Line: Is the table a mirror in which they sit and look? Are they men eating reflections of themselves? Variant Title(s): Cuisine Bourgois CREATIONS OF SOUND First Line: If the poetry of x was music Last Line: We say ourselves in syllables that rise %from the floor, rising in speech we do not speak CREDENCES OF SUMMER Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Now in midsummer come and all fools slaughtered Last Line: Their parts as in a youthful happiness Subject(s): Summer CREDENCES OF SUMMER First Line: Now in midsummer come and all fools slaughtered Last Line: Their parts as in a youthful happiness Subject(s): Summer CRUDE FOYER First Line: Thought is false happiness: the idea Last Line: Of the least, minor, vital metaphor, content, %at last, there, when it turns out to be here CUBAN DOCTOR First Line: I went to egypt to escape Last Line: I knew my enemy was near I, %drowsing in summer's sleepiest horn CURTAINS IN THE HOUSE OF THE METAPHYSICIAN First Line: It comes about taht the drifting of these curtains Last Line: Up-rising and down-falling, bares %the las largeness, bold to see CY EST POURTRAICTE, MADAME STE URSULE, ET LES UNZE MILLE... First Line: Ursula, in a garden, found Last Line: And he felt a subtle quiver, %that was not heavenly love, %or pity. %this is not writ %in any book DANCE OF THE MACABRE MICE Poem Text First Line: In the land of turkeys in turkey weather Last Line: What a beautiful tableau tinted and towering, / the arm of bronze outstretched against all evil! Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers DANCE OF THE MACABRE MICE First Line: In the land of turkeys in turkey weather Last Line: What a beautiful tableau tinted and towering, %the arm of bronze outstretched against all evil! Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers DEATH OF A SOLDIER First Line: Life contracts and death is expected Last Line: When the wind stops and, over the heavens, %the clouds go, nevertheless, %in their direction Subject(s): Holidays; Soldiers; War DEBRIS OF LIFE AND MIND First Line: There is so little that is close and warm Last Line: The most gay and yet no so gay as it was %stay here. Speak of familiar things a while DELIGHTFUL EVENING First Line: A very felicitous eve Last Line: The spruces' outstreched hands; the twilight overfull %of wormy metaphors DEPRESSION BEFORE SPRING First Line: The cock crows Last Line: But no queen comes %in slipper green DESCRIPTION WITHOUT PLACE Poem Text First Line: Is it possible that to seem – itis to be Last Line: It is possible that to seem - it is to be Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Earth; Imagination DESCRIPTION WITHOUT PLACE First Line: It is possible that to seem it is to be Last Line: Be alive with its own seemings, seeming to be %like rubies reddened by rubies reddening DESIRE & THE OBJECT First Line: It is curious that I should have spoken of rael Last Line: That I desire it to shine because it shines DESIRE TO MAKE LOVE IN A PAGODA First Line: Among the second selves, sailor, observe Last Line: An innocence approaching toward its peak Subject(s): Desire DEZEMBRUM First Line: Tonight there are only the winter stars Last Line: The reason can give nothing at all %like the response to desire DINNER BELL IN THE WOODS First Line: He was facing phantasma when the bell rang Last Line: In the garden, outside the door of phantasma DISCOVERY OF THOUGHT First Line: At the antipodes of poetry, dark winter Last Line: Surviving being born, the event of life DISH OF PEACHES IN RUSSIA First Line: With my whole body I taste these peaches Last Line: That such ferocities could tear %one self from another, as these peaches do Subject(s): Fruit; Peaches DISILLUSIONMENT OF TEN O'CLOCK Poem Text Recitation First Line: The houses are haunted Last Line: In red weather. Subject(s): Conformity; Dreams; Nightmares DOCTOR OF GENEVA First Line: The doctor of geneva stamped the sand Last Line: In an unburgherly apocalypse. %the doctor used his handkerchief and sighed DOLLS Poem Text First Line: The thought of eve, within me, is a doll Last Line: And of another, whom I must not name Subject(s): Dolls; Toys DOLLS First Line: The thought of eve, within me, is a doll Last Line: And of another, whom I must not name Subject(s): Dolls; Toys DOMINATION OF BLACK Poem Text Recitation First Line: At night, by the fire Last Line: And I remembered the cry of the peacocks Subject(s): Birds DOMINATION OF BLACK First Line: At night, by the fire Last Line: Came striding like the color of the heavy hemlocks. %I felt afraid. %and I remembered the cry of the Subject(s): Birds DOVE IN SPRING First Line: Brooder, brooder, deep beneath its walls Last Line: This howling at one's ear, too far %for daylight and too near for sleep Subject(s): Doves DOVE IN THE BELLY First Line: The whole of appearance is a toy. For this Last Line: Within them right for terraces-oh, brave salut! %deep dove, placate you in your hiddenness DRUM MAJORS IN THE LABOR DAY PARADE First Line: If each of them wasn't a prig Last Line: Let's go home DRY LOAF Poem Text First Line: It is equal to living in a tragic land Last Line: No doubt that soldiers had to be marching / and that drums had to be rolling, rolling, rolling Subject(s): Men; War DRY LOAF First Line: It is equal to living in a tragic land Last Line: No doubt that soldiers had to be marching %and that drums had to be rolling, rolling, rolling Subject(s): Men; War DUTCH GRAVES IN BUCKS COUNTY Poem Text First Line: Angry men and furious machines Last Line: Time was not wasted in your subtle temples / no: nor divergennce made too steep to follow down Subject(s): Bucks County, Pennsylvania; Graves; Tombs; Tombstones DUTCH GRAVES IN BUCKS COUNTY First Line: Angry men and furious machines Last Line: Time was not wasted in your subtle temples %no: nor divergennce made too steep to follow down Subject(s): Bucks County, Pennsylvania; Graves DWARF First Line: Now it is september and the web is woven Last Line: Sitting beside your lamp, there citron to nibble %and coffeedribble...Frost is in the stubble EARTHY ANECDOTE Poem Text First Line: Every time the bucks went clattering Last Line: Later, the firecat closed his bright eyes / and slept Subject(s): Deer EARTHY ANECDOTE First Line: Every time the bucks went clattering Last Line: Bristled in the way. %later, the firecat closed his bright eyes %and slept ELSIE'S MIRROR ONLY SHOWS Poem Text Last Line: May I still be her mirror true ELSIE'S MIRROR ONLY SHOWS Last Line: May I still be her mirror true Subject(s): Mirrors; Transience ESTHETIQUE DU MAL First Line: He was at naples writing letters home Last Line: Merely in living as and where we live EVENING WITHOUT ANGELS First Line: Why seraphim like lutanists arranged Last Line: Where the voice that is great within us rises up, %as we stand gazing at the rounded moon EXAMINATION OF THE HERO IN A TIME OF WAR Poem Text First Line: Force is my lot and not pink-clustered Last Line: May truly bear its heroic fortunes / for the large, the solitary figure Subject(s): Heroism; War; Heroes; Heroines EXAMINATION OF THE HERO IN A TIME OF WAR First Line: Force is my lot and not pink-clustered Last Line: May truly bear its heroic fortunes %for the large, the solitary figure Subject(s): Heroism; War EXERCISE FOR PROFESSOR X First Line: I see a camel in my mind Last Line: Is like moonlight on the pacific EXPLANATION First Line: Ach, mutter Last Line: Drifting through space %like a figure on the church-wall EXPOSITION OF THE CONTENTS OF A CAB Poem Text First Line: Victoria clementina, negress Last Line: Except linen, embroidered / by elderly women? Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Taxis EXPOSITION OF THE CONTENTS OF A CAB First Line: Victoria clementina, negress Last Line: Except linen, embroidered %by elderly women? Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Taxis EXTRACTS FROM ADDRESSES TO THE ACADEMY OF FINE IDEAS First Line: A crinkled paper makes a brilliant sound Last Line: Behold the men in helmets borne on steel, %discolored, how they are going to defeat EXTRAORDINARY REFERENCES First Line: The mother ties the hair-ribbons of the child Last Line: The child's three ribbons are in her plaited hair FABLIAU OF FLORIDA Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Barque of phosphor Last Line: There will never be an end / to this droning of the surf Subject(s): Americans; Florida; United States; America FABLIAU OF FLORIDA First Line: Barque of phosphor Last Line: Fill yhour black hull %with white moonlight. %there will never be an end %to this droning of the sur Subject(s): Americans; Florida; United States FADING OF THE SUN First Line: Who can think of the sun costuming clouds Last Line: The meat is sweet %and they will not die FAREWELL TO FLORIDA Poem Text Recitation First Line: Go on, high ship, since now, upon the shore Last Line: To the cold, go on, high ship, go on, plunge on Subject(s): Florida FAREWELL TO FLORIDA First Line: Go on, high ship, since now, upon the shore Last Line: To the cold, go on, high ship, go on, plunge on Subject(s): Florida FAREWELL WITHOUT A GUITAR Poem Text First Line: Spring's bright paradise has come to this Last Line: And of that other and her desire Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement FAREWELL WITHOUT A GUITAR First Line: Spring's bright paradise has come to this Last Line: And of that other and her desire Subject(s): Mourning FINAL SOLILOQUY OF THE INTERIOR PARAMOUR Poem Text First Line: Light the first light of evening, as in a room Last Line: In which being there together is enough Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy FINAL SOLILOQUY OF THE INTERIOR PARAMOUR First Line: Light the first light of evening, as in a room Last Line: In which being there together is enough FIRST WARMTH First Line: I wonder, have I lived a skeleton's life Last Line: And thus an elevation, as if I lived %with something I couldtouch, touch every way FISH-SCALE SUNRISE First Line: Melodious skeletons, for all of last night's music Last Line: The sun rises green and blue in the fields and in the heavens. %thee clouds foretell a swampy rain FLORAL DECORATIONS FOR BANANAS Poem Text First Line: Well, nuncle, this plainly won't do Last Line: Their musky and tingling tongues. Subject(s): Bananas FLORIST WEARS KNEE-BREECHES First Line: My flowers are reflected Last Line: And place them before you %in a white dish Subject(s): Flowers FLYER'S FALL First Line: This man escaped the dirty fates Last Line: Profundum, physical thunder, dimension in which %we believe without belief, beyond belief FOR AN OLD WOMAN IN A WIG First Line: There is a moment's flitter Last Line: Sought out the unknown new in your surrounding? FOR AN OLD WOMAN IN A WIG: 1 First Line: ..There is a moment's flitter Last Line: Of sounds returning, or the phantom leaven %of leaves so shaken in a water's tumble FOR AN OLD WOMAN IN A WIG: 2 First Line: Is deth in hell more death than death in heaven? Last Line: Tarry, are you gone? ..Such spirits are the fellows, %in heaven, of those whom hell's illusions harr FOR AN OLD WOMAN IN A WIG: 3 First Line: When summer ends and changing autumn mellows Last Line: If you, with irrepressible will, abounding %in.. Wish for revelation, %sought out the unknown new FORCES, THE WILL & THE WEATHER First Line: At the time of nougats, the peer yellow Last Line: The weather was like a waiter with a tray %one had come early to a crisp cafe FROGS EAT BUTTERFLIES. SNAKES EAT FROGS. HOGS EAT SNAKES. MEN EAT HOGS First Line: It is true that the rivers went nosing like swine Last Line: While they went seaward to the sea-mouths FROM A JUNK First Line: A great fish plunges in the dark Last Line: In wind and wave -- it is the moon FROM A VAGABOND First Line: For us, these little books contain Last Line: Once more whisper in the dark Subject(s): Wanderers And Wandering FROM THE MISERY OF DON JOOST Poem Text First Line: I have finished my combat with the sun; Last Line: And sight, and all there was of the storm, / knows nothing more Subject(s): Mortality FROM THE MISERY OF DON JOOST First Line: I have finished my combat with the sun Last Line: And sight, and all there was of the storm, %knows nothing more FROM THE PACKET OF ANACHARSIS First Line: In his packet anacharsis found the lines Last Line: And flare and bloom with his vast accumulation %stands and regards and repeats the primitive lines GALLANT CHATEAU Poem Text First Line: Is it bad to have come here Last Line: The bed is empty, / the curtains are stiff and prim and still Subject(s): Houses; Solitude; Loneliness GALLANT CHATEAU First Line: Is it bad to have come here Last Line: It is good. The bed is empty, %the curtains are stiff and prim and still GHOSTS AS COCOONS First Line: The grass is in seed. The young birds are flying Last Line: On dung. Come now, pearled and pasted, bloomy- %leafed, %while the domes resound with chant involvin GIGANTOMACHIA First Line: They could not carry much, as soldiers Last Line: A mask, a spirit, an accoutrement %for soldiers, the new moon stretches twenty feet GIRL IN A NIGHTGOWN First Line: Lights out. Shades up Last Line: It is shaken now. It will burst into flames, %either now or tomorrow or the day after that GLASS OF WATER First Line: That the glass would melt in heat Last Line: One would have still to discover. Among the dogs %and dung, %one would continue to contend with one' GOD IS GOOD. IT IS A BEAUTIFUL NIGHT First Line: Look round, brown moon, brown bird, as you rise to fly Last Line: The song of the great space of your age pierces %the fresh night GOLDEN WOMAN IN A SILVER MIRROR First Line: Suppose this was the root of everything Last Line: And mother. How long have you lived and looked, %ababba, expecting this king's queen to appear? GOOD MAN HAS NO SHAPE First Line: Through centuries he lived in poverty Last Line: Epitaphium to his death, which read, %the good man has no shape, as if they knew GOOD MAN, BAD WOMAN Poem Text First Line: You say that spite avails her nothing, that Last Line: She can corrode your world, if never you Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations GOOD MAN, BAD WOMAN First Line: You say that spite avails her nothing, that Last Line: She can corrode your world, if never you GRAY ROOM First Line: Although you sit in a room that is gray Last Line: Beside you... %what is all this? %I know how furiously your heart is beating GRAY STONES AND GRAY PIGEONS Poem Text First Line: The archbishop is away. The church is gray Last Line: Globed in today and tomorrow, / dressed in his colored robes Subject(s): Clergy; Colors; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops GRAY STONES AND GRAY PIGEONS First Line: The archbishop is away. The church is gray Last Line: Globed in today and tomorrow, %dressed in his colored robes GREEN PLANT First Line: Silence is a shape that has passed Last Line: Glares, outside of the legend, with the barbarous green %of the harsh reality of which it is part GUBBINAL Poem Text First Line: That strange flower, the sun, Last Line: The world is ugly, / and the people are sad Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy GUBBINAL First Line: That strange flower, the sun Last Line: That savage of fire, %that seed, %have it your way. %the world is ugly, %and the people are sad HAND AS A BEING First Line: In the first canto of the final canticle Last Line: Of her, of her alone, at last he knew %and lay beside her underneath the tree HEADACHE Poem Text First Line: The letters of the alphabet Last Line: The maker of the alphabet / had a headache Subject(s): Alphabets; Headaches HEADACHE First Line: The letters of the alphabet Last Line: The maker of the alphabet %had a headache Subject(s): Alphabets; Headaches HERMITAGE AT THE CENTRE First Line: The leaves on the macadam make a noise- Last Line: And one last look at the ducks is a look %at lucent children round her in a ring HIBISCUS ON SLEEPING SHORES Poem Text First Line: I say now, fernando, that on that day Last Line: As the flag above the old cafe / and roamed there all the stupid afternoon Subject(s): Seashore; Moths; Beach; Coast; Shore HIBISCUS ON THE SLEEPING SHORES First Line: I say now, fernando, that on that day Last Line: As the flag above the old cafe %and roamed there all the stupid afternoon HIEROGLYPHICA First Line: People that live in the biggest houses Last Line: Or poets with holy magic. %hey-di-do HOLIDAY IN REALITY First Line: It was something to see that their white was different Last Line: And I taste at the root of the tongue the unreal of what %isreal HOME AGAIN Poem Text First Line: Back within the valley Last Line: And the starry night Subject(s): Homecoming HOME AGAIN First Line: Back within the valley Last Line: And the starry night Subject(s): Homecoming HOMUNCULUS ET LA BELLE ETOILE Poem Text First Line: In the sea, biscayne, there prinks Last Line: That know the ultimate plato, / tranquillizing with this jewel / the torments of confusion Subject(s): Evening Star HOMUNCULUS ET LA BELLE ETOILE First Line: In the sea, biscayne, there prinks Last Line: That know the ultimate plato, %tranquillizing with this jewel %the torments of confusion HOUSE WAS QUIET AND THE WORLD WAS CALM Last Line: Is the reader leaning late and reading there HOW NOW, O, BRIGHTENER First Line: Something of the trouble of the mind Last Line: And take from this restless unhappy happiness %their stunted looks HOW TO LIVE. WHAT TO DO Poem Text First Line: Last evening the moon rose above this rock Last Line: That they had left, heroic sound / joyous and jubilant and sure Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature HOW TO LIVE. WHAT TO DO First Line: Last evening the moon rose above this rock Last Line: That they had left, heroic sound %joyous and jubilant and sure Subject(s): Human Behavior HUMAN ARRANGEMENT First Line: Place-bound and time-bound in evening rain Last Line: In a glitter that is a life, a gold %that is a being, a will, a fate HYMN FROM A WATERMELON PAVILION Poem Text First Line: You dweller in the dark cabin, Last Line: Rise, since rising will not waken, / and hail, cry hail, cry hail Subject(s): Relationships; Nature HYMN FROM A WATERMELON PAVILION First Line: You dweller in the dark cabin Last Line: You dweller in the dark cabin, %rise, since rising will not waken, %and hail, cry hail, cry hail I HAVE LIVED SO LONG WITHOUT RHETORICIANS Last Line: Wear long black equali %when they are abroad ICE CREAM First Line: The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream Subject(s): Language IDEA OF ORDER AT KEY WEST First Line: She sang beyond the genius of the sea Last Line: In ghostlier demarcations, keener sounds Subject(s): Key West, Florida; Order; Perception; Sea; Singing And Singers IDIOM OF THE HERO Poem Text First Line: I heard two workers say, 'this chaos Last Line: Out of the clouds, pomp of the air, / by which at least I am befriended Subject(s): Social Classes; Caste IDIOM OF THE HERO First Line: I heard two workers say, this chaos Last Line: Out of the clouds, pomp of the air, %by which at least I am befriended IF I LOVE THEE, I AM THINE Last Line: And whisper, 'I am thine' IMAGO First Line: Who can pick up the weight of britain Last Line: Lightly and lightly, o my land, %move lightly through the air again IMITATION OF SIDNEY: TO STELLA (MISS B?) Poem Text First Line: Unnumbered thoughts my brain a captive holds Last Line: Yet these do all take flight at thought of thee Subject(s): Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586) IMITATION OF SIDNEY: TO STELLA (MISS B?) First Line: Unnumbered thoughts my brain a captive holds Last Line: Yet these do all take flight at thought of thee Subject(s): Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586) IN A BAD TIME First Line: How mad would he have to be to say, he beheld Last Line: Cry out, 'I am the purple muse.' make sure %the audience beholds you, not your gown IN A GARDEN Poem Text First Line: Oh, what soft wings shall rise above this place Last Line: Odor and dew of the familiar earth Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening IN A GARDEN First Line: Oh, what soft wings shall rise above this place Last Line: Odor and dew of the familiar earth Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening IN APRIL Poem Text First Line: Once more the long twilight Last Line: Beyond the peiades / to vivid zion Subject(s): Spring IN BATTLE Poem Text First Line: Death's nobility again Last Line: To that short, triumphant sting? Subject(s): Death; Dead, The IN BATTLE First Line: Death's nobility again Subject(s): Death IN THE CAROLINAS First Line: The lilacs wither in the carolinas Last Line: For once vent honey? %the pine-tree sweetens my body. %the white iris beautifies me IN THE CLEAR SEASON OF GRAPES First Line: The mountains between our lands and the sea Last Line: Are overhung by the shadows of the rocks %and his nostrils blow out salt around each man IN THE ELEMENT OF ANTAGONISMS First Line: If it is a world without a genius Last Line: And the north wind's mighty buskin seems to fall %in an excessive corridor, alas! INDIAN RIVER Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The trade-wind jingles the rings in the nets around the racks Last Line: Yet there is no spring in florida, neither in boskage perdu, nor on the nunnery beaches Subject(s): Rivers INDIAN RIVER First Line: The trade-wind jingles the rings in the nets around the racks Last Line: Yet there is no spring in florida, neither in boskage perdu,nor on $the nunnery beaches INDIGO GLASS IN THE GRASS First Line: Which is real Last Line: Neither one, nor the two together INFANTA MARINA Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Her terrace was the sand Last Line: And uttered their subsiding sound Subject(s): Women; Sea; Ocean INFANTA MARINA First Line: Her terrace was the sand Last Line: Partaking of the sea, %and of the evening, %as they flowed around %and uttered their subsiding sound INFERNALE First Line: A hour of night in middle earth cries out Last Line: Soaring olympus glitters in the sun INSCRIPTION FOR A MONUMENT Poem Text First Line: To the imagined lives Last Line: Stuttering dreams ... INVECTIVE AGAINST SWANS First Line: The soul, o ganders, flies beyond the parks Last Line: And the soul,o ganders, being lonely, flies %beyond your chilly chariots, to the skies IRISH CLIFFS OF MOHER First Line: Who is my father in this world, in this house Last Line: A likeness, one of the race of fathers: earth %and sea and air Subject(s): Men IT MUST BE ABSTRACT First Line: I am the spouse. She took her necklace off JACK-RABBIT First Line: In the morning Last Line: Look out, o caroller %the entrails of the buzzard %are rattling' JASMINES'S BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS UNDERNEATH THE WILLOW First Line: My titillations have no foot-notes Last Line: In an interior ocean's rocking %of long, capricious fugues and chorals JOUGA First Line: The physical world is meaningless tonight Last Line: And after a while, when ha-ee-me has gone to sleep, %a great jaguar running will make a little sound JULY MOUNTAIN First Line: We live in a constellation Last Line: Vermont throws itself together L'ESSOR SACCADE First Line: Swallows in the elderberry Last Line: Fly over the pigeons %on the chimney LACK OF REPOSE First Line: A young man seated at his table Last Line: A few sounds of meaning, a momentary end %to the complication, is good, is a good LANDSCAPE WITH BOAT First Line: An anti-master-man, floribund ascetic Last Line: And say, 'the thing I hum appears to be %the rhythm of this celestial pantomime.' LARGE RED MAN READING First Line: There were ghosts that returned to earth to hear his phrases Last Line: And spoke the feeling for them, which was what they had lacked LAST LOOKS AT THE LILACS Poem Text First Line: To what good, in the alleys of the lilacs Last Line: Patron and imager of the gold don john / who will embrace her before summer comes Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs LAST LOOKS AT THE LILACS First Line: To what good, in the alleys of the lilacs Last Line: Patron and imager of the gold don john %who will embrace her before summer comes Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs LATE HYMN FROM THE MYRRH-MOUNTAIN First Line: Unsnack your snood, madanna, for the stars Last Line: The deer-grass is thin. The timothy is brown %the shadow of an external world comes near LATEST FREED MAN First Line: Tired of the old descriptions of the world Last Line: The blue of the rug, the portrait of vidal %qui fait fi des joliesses banales, the chairs LE MONOCLE DE MON ONCLE Poem Text First Line: Mother of heaven, regina of the clouds, Last Line: That fluttering things have so distinct a shade LE MONOCLE DE MON ONCLE First Line: Mother of heaven, regina of the clouds Last Line: That fluttering things have so distinct a shade LEBENSWEISHEITSPIELEREI First Line: Weaker and weaker, the sunlight falls Last Line: With what he is and as he is, %in the stale grandeur of annihilation LES PLUS BELLES PAGES First Line: The milkman came in the moonlight and the moonlight Last Line: Did several spirits assume a single shape? %theology after breakfast sticks to the eye LESS AND LESS HUMAN, O SAVAGE SPIRIT Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: If there must be a god in the house, must be Last Line: Of which we are too distantly a part Subject(s): Animals LESS AND LESS HUMAN, O SAVAGE SPIRIT First Line: If there must be a god in the house, must be Last Line: Of which we are too distantly a part Subject(s): Animals LETTRES D'UN SOLDAT (1914-1915) Poem Text First Line: The spirit wakes in the night wind'is naked. Last Line: In their direction Subject(s): World War I; First World War LETTRES D'UN SOLDAT (1914-1915) First Line: No introspective chaos -- I accept Last Line: You know the phrase Subject(s): World War I LETTRES D'UN SOLDAT: 5 First Line: The palais de justice of chambermaids Last Line: Make more awry our faulty human things Subject(s): World War I LETTRES D'UN SOLDAT: 6 First Line: There is another mother whom I love Last Line: And little will or wish, that day, for tears Subject(s): World War I LETTRES D'UN SOLDAT: 7 First Line: Hi! The creator too is blind Last Line: From that meticulous potter's thumb Subject(s): World War I LETTRES D'UN SOLDAT: 8 First Line: John smith and his son, john smith Last Line: And-a-runny-tummy-tum Subject(s): World War I LETTRES D'UN SOLDAT: 9 First Line: Life contracts and death is expected Last Line: The clouds go, nevertheless, %in their direction Subject(s): World War I LIFE IS MOTION Poem Text First Line: In oklahoma, / bonnie and josie Last Line: Celebrating the marriage / of flesh and air Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives LIFE IS MOTION First Line: In oklahoma, %bonnie and josie Last Line: They cried, %'ohoyahyo, %ohoo'... %celebrating the marriage %of flesh and air Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage LIFE ON A BATTLESHIP Poem Text First Line: The rape of the bourgeoisie accomplished, the men Last Line: To the final full, and end without rhetoric Subject(s): Battleships LIFE ON A BATTLESHIP First Line: The rape of the bourgeoisie accomplished, the men Last Line: To the final full, and end without rhetoric Subject(s): Battleships LIKE DECORATIONS IN A NIGGER CEMETERY Poem Text First Line: In the far south the sun of autum is passing Last Line: But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow Subject(s): African Americans; Cemeteries; Southern States; Negroes; American Blacks; Graveyards; South (u.s.) LIKE DECORATIONS IN A NIGGER CEMETERY First Line: In the far south the sun of autum is passing Last Line: One of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? %but the wise man avenges by building his city in snow Subject(s): African Americans; Cemeteries; Southern States LIKE DECORATIONS IN A NIGGER CEMETERY, SELS First Line: In the far south the sun of autumn is passing Last Line: His beard is of fire and his staff is a leaping flame Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) LILAC BUSH Poem Text First Line: This is the lilac-bush Last Line: To rest in a grassy shade LIONS IN SWEDEN First Line: No more phrases, swenson: I was once Last Line: To monsieur dufy's hamburg whence they came %the vegetation still abounds with forms LITTLE JUNE BOOK TO E.V.M.: 1. MORNING SONG First Line: The blue convolvulus Last Line: Flashes inglorious life %to glorious dream LITTLE JUNE BOOK TO E.V.M.: 10 First Line: Only to name again Last Line: Falls at its ending %to sweet doom LITTLE JUNE BOOK TO E.V.M.: 11. SHOWER First Line: Pink and purple Last Line: And the robin's %ballad of the rain Subject(s): Rain LITTLE JUNE BOOK TO E.V.M.: 12. IN THE SUN First Line: Down the golden mountains Last Line: There was no god's necessity, %nor any human doubt LITTLE JUNE BOOK TO E.V.M.: 13. SONG First Line: This is the house of her Last Line: And the wide door of it %opens to me LITTLE JUNE BOOK TO E.V.M.: 14. IN APRIL First Line: Once more the long twilight Last Line: Beyond the pleiades, %to vivid zion LITTLE JUNE BOOK TO E.V.M.: 15. ECLOGUE First Line: Lying in the mint Last Line: I heard a woman's voice %lying in the mint LITTLE JUNE BOOK TO E.V.M.: 16 First Line: He sang, and, in her heart, the sound Last Line: Far off, in some relinquished vale LITTLE JUNE BOOK TO E.V.M.: 17 First Line: I am weary of the plum and of the cherry Last Line: And settles on my lips the while I sing LITTLE JUNE BOOK TO E.V.M.: 18 First Line: An odorous bush I seek Last Line: Once more, in songs of love LITTLE JUNE BOOK TO E.V.M.: 19 First Line: There, a rocked in the wain Last Line: How calmly the white river flows LITTLE JUNE BOOK TO E.V.M.: 2 First Line: If only birds of sudden white Last Line: Sighed in our summer-sounding trees! LITTLE JUNE BOOK TO E.V.M.: 20. PIERROT First Line: I lie dreaming 'neath the moon Last Line: Then, behold our empty star LITTLE JUNE BOOK TO E.V.M.: 3. A CONCERT OF FISHES First Line: Here the grass grows Last Line: And the wind blows LITTLE JUNE BOOK TO E.V.M.: 4 First Line: Life is long in the desert Last Line: Under emerald poplars, %with round ivory paling LITTLE JUNE BOOK TO E.V.M.: 5. VIGNETTE First Line: This, too, is part of our still world Last Line: Sinking in darkness, all night long LITTLE JUNE BOOK TO E.V.M.: 6 First Line: This is the lilac-bush Last Line: Soon again, the happy sound %will enchant the purple ground Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs LITTLE JUNE BOOK TO E.V.M.: 7. NOON-CLEARING First Line: Now, the locust, tall and green Last Line: Flash two-and-twenty back to me LITTLE JUNE BOOK TO E.V.M.: 8 First Line: Man from the waste evolved Last Line: And roses to spring in LITTLE JUNE BOOK TO E.V.M.: 9 First Line: She that winked her sandal fan Last Line: Hands folded, eyes too still to weep! LOAD OF SUGAR-CANE First Line: The going of the glade-boat Last Line: When they rise %at the red turban %of the boatman Subject(s): Boats; Sugar LOCAL OBJECTS First Line: He knew that he was a spirit without a foyer Last Line: As toward an absolute foyer beyond romance LONELINESS IN JERSEY CITY Poem Text First Line: The deer and the dachshund are one Last Line: They think that things are all right, / since the deer and the dachshund are one Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness LONELINESS IN JERSEY CITY First Line: The deer and the dachshund are one Last Line: They think that things are all right, %since the deer and the dachshund are one Subject(s): Solitude LONG AND SLUGGISH LINES First Line: It makes so little difference, at so much more Last Line: You were not born yet when the trees were crystal %nor are you now, in this wakefulness inside a sle LOOKING ACROSS THE FIELDS AND WATCHING THE BIRDS FLY First Line: Among the more irritating minor ideas Last Line: And there beca\ome a spirit's mannerism, %a glass aswarm with things going as far as they can LOT OF PEOPLE BATHING IN A STREAM First Line: It was like passing a boundary to dive Last Line: To prepare for bed, in the frame of the house, and move %round the rooms, which do not ever seem to LUNAR PARAPHRASE Poem Text First Line: The moon is the mother of pathos and pity Last Line: And quieting dreams in the sleepers in darkness / the moon is the mother of pathos and pity Subject(s): November LUNAR PARAPHRASE First Line: The moon is the mother of pathos and pity Last Line: And quieting dreams in the sleepers in darkness %the moon is the mother of pathos and pity Subject(s): November LYTTON STRACHEY, ALSO, ENTERS INTO HEAVEN Poem Text First Line: I care for neither fugues nor feathers Last Line: Dixhuitieme and georgian and serene Subject(s): Strachey, Lytton (1880-1932) LYTTON STRACHEY, ALSO, ENTERS INTO HEAVEN First Line: I care for neither fugues nor feathers Last Line: Dixhuitieme and georgian and serene Subject(s): Strachey, Lytton (1880-1932) MADAME LA FLEURIE Poem Text First Line: Weight him down, o side-stars, with the great weightings of the end. Last Line: In that distant chamber, a bearded queen, wicked in her dead light Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness MADAME LA FLEURIE First Line: Weight him down, o side-stars, with the great weightings of Last Line: In that distant chamber, a bearded queen, wicked in her dead%light MAN AND BOTTLE First Line: The mind is the great poem of winter, the man Last Line: Romantic tenements of rose and ice MAN CARRYING THING Poem Text First Line: The poem must resist the intelligence Last Line: We must endure our thoughts all night, until / the bright obvious stands motionless in cold Subject(s): Thought; Thinking MAN CARRYING THING First Line: The poem must resist the intelligence Last Line: We must endure our thoughts all night, until %the bright obvious stands motionless in cold MAN ON THE DUMP First Line: Day creeps down. The moon is creeping up Last Line: Where was it one first heard of the truth? The the Subject(s): Refuse And Refuse Disposal MAN WHOSE PHARYNX WAS BAD First Line: The time of year has grown indifferent Last Line: One might. One might. But time will not relent MAN WITH THE BLUE GUITAR First Line: The man bent over his guitar Last Line: The imagined pine, the imagined jay Subject(s): Human Rights; Music And Musicians MAN WITH THE BLUE GUITAR, SELS. First Line: The man bent over his guitar Last Line: Of a man that plays a blue guitar MANDOLIN AND LIQUEURS First Line: La-la! The cat is in the violets Last Line: Does not really matter %at all MARTIAL CADENZA Poem Text First Line: Only this evening I saw again low in the sky Last Line: Again, and lived and was again, and breathed again / and moved again and flashed again, time flashed Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War MARTIAL CADENZA First Line: Only this evening I saw again low in the sky Last Line: Again, and lived and was again, and breathed again %and moved again and flashed again, time flashed Subject(s): World War Ii MEDITATION First Line: How long have I meditated, o prince Last Line: Bossuet did not preach at the funerals %of puppets MEDITATION CELESTIAL & TERRESTRIAL First Line: The wild warblers are warbling in the jungle Last Line: To warblings early in the hilarious trees %of summer, the drunken mother? MEMORANDUM First Line: The katy-dids at ephrata return Last Line: Millions hold millions in their arms MEN MADE OUT OF WORDS First Line: What should we be without the sexual myth Last Line: The eccentric propositions of its fate d MEN THAT ARE FALLING First Line: God and all angels sing the world to sleep Last Line: The night wind blows upon the dreamer, bent %over words that are life's voluble utterance Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) METAPHOR AS DEGENERATION Poem Text First Line: If there is a man white as marble Last Line: And the memorial mosses hang their green / upon it, as it flows ahead Subject(s): Metaphor; Similes METAPHOR AS DEGENERATION First Line: If there is a man white as marble Last Line: And the memorial mosses hang their green %upon it, as it flows ahead Subject(s): Metaphor METAPHORS OF A MAGNIFICO Poem Text First Line: Twenty men crossing a bridge Last Line: The first white wall of the village... / the fruit-trees... Subject(s): Medici, Lorenzo De (1449-1492) METAPHORS OF A MAGNIFICO First Line: Twenty men crossing a bridge Last Line: So the meaning escapes. %the first white wall of the village... %the fruit-trees... Subject(s): Medici, Lorenzo De (1449-1492) METROPOLITAN MELANCHOLY First Line: A purple woman with a lavender tongue Last Line: Are really much a million pities MONTRACHET-LE-JARDIN First Line: What more is there to love than I have loved? Last Line: I affirm and then at midnight the great cat %leaps quickly from the fireside and is gone MOTIVE FOR METAPHOR First Line: You like it under the trees in autumn Last Line: The vital, arrogant, fatal, dominant x MOUNTAINS COVERED WITH CATS First Line: The sea full of fishes in shoals, the woods that let Last Line: And quickly understand, without their flesh, %how truly they had not been what they were MOZART, 1935 Poem Text First Line: Poet, be seated at the piano Last Line: And the streets are full of cries. / be seated, thou Subject(s): Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791); Music & Musicians MOZART, 1935 First Line: Poet, be seated at the piano Last Line: And the streets are full of cries. %be seated, thou Subject(s): Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791); Music And Musicians MRS. ALFRED URUGUAY First Line: So what said the others and the sun went down Last Line: The ultimate elegance: the imagined land MUD MASTER First Line: The muddy rivers of spring Last Line: The peach-bud maker, %the mud master, %the masteer of the mind MYTHOLOGY REFLECTS ITS REGION. HERE Last Line: Wood of his forests and stone out of his fields %or from under his mountains NAKED EYE OF THE AUNT First Line: I peopled the dark park with gowns Last Line: Black fact emerges from her swishing dreams NEGATION First Line: Hi! The creator too is blind Last Line: For this, then, we endure brief lives, the evanescent symmetries %from that meticulous potter's thum NEW ENGLAND VERSES First Line: The whole world including the speaker Last Line: A perfect fruit in perfect atmosphere %nature as pinakothek whist! Chanticleerr.... NEWS AND THE WEATHER First Line: The blue sun in his red cockade Last Line: There's a moment in the year, solange %when the deep breath fetches another year of life NIGHT-SONG First Line: I stand upon the hills to-night Last Line: That sings a song all bold and free, %of glory and of joy Subject(s): Night NIGHT-WIND OF AUGUST Last Line: That it is only the night-wind Subject(s): Wind NO POSSUM, NO SOP, NO TATERS First Line: He is not here, the old sun Last Line: One joins him there for company. %but at a distance, in another tree NOMAD EXQUISITE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: As the immense dew of florida Last Line: So, in me, come flinging / forms, flames, and the flakes of flames Subject(s): Florida; Landscape NOMAD EXQUISITE First Line: As the immense dew of florida Last Line: So, in me, come flinging NOT IDEAS ABOUT THE THING BUT THE THING ITSELF Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: At the earliest ending of winter Last Line: A new knowledge of reality. Subject(s): Reality NOT IDEAS ABOUT THE THING BUT THE THING ITSELF First Line: At the earliest ending of winter Last Line: A new knowledge of reality Subject(s): Reality NOTE ON MOONLIGHT Poem Text First Line: The one moonlight, in the simple-colored night Last Line: Certain and ever more fresh. Ah! Certain, for sure Subject(s): Moon NOTES TOWARD A SUPREME FICTION: 4 Poem Text First Line: Two things of opposite natures seem to depend Subject(s): Relationships NOTES TOWARD A SUPREME FICTION: CONCLUSION Poem Text First Line: Soldier, there is a war between the mind Last Line: If he must, or lives on the bread of faithful speech Variant Title(s): Another Kind Of War Subject(s): War; Mind, The NOTES TOWARD A SUPREME FICTION: CONCLUSION First Line: Soldier, there is a war between the mind Last Line: How gladly with proper words the soldier dies, if he must, or lives on the bread of faithful speech Variant Title(s): Another Kind Of Wa Subject(s): War NOTES TOWARD A SUPREME FICTION: DEDICATION Poem Text First Line: And for what, except for you, do I feel love? Last Line: The vivid transparence that you bring is peace Subject(s): Love NOTES TOWARD A SUPREME FICTION: IT MUST BE ABSTRACT First Line: Begin, ephebe, by perceiving the idea Last Line: Nor sanctify, but plainly to propound NOTES TOWARD A SUPREME FICTION: IT MUST CHANGE First Line: The old seraph, parcel-gilded, among violets Last Line: The suitable amours. Time will write them down NOTES TOWARD A SUPREME FICTION: IT MUST GIVE PLEASURE First Line: To sing jubilas at exact, accustomed times Last Line: You will have stopped revolving except in crystal NOTES TOWARD A SUPREME FICTION: PRELUDE First Line: And for what, except for you, do I feel love? Last Line: The vivid transparence that you being is peace NOVEL First Line: The crows are flying above the foyer of summer Last Line: To understand, as if to know became %the fatality of seeing things too well NUANCES OF A THEME BY WILLIAMS Poem Text First Line: It's a strange courage Last Line: Or an old horse Subject(s): Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963) NUANCES OF A THEME BY WILLIAMS First Line: It's a strange courage Last Line: Be not an intelligence, %like a widow's bird %or an old horse Subject(s): Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963) NUDITY AT THE CAPITAL First Line: But nakedness, woolen massa, concerns an innermost atom Last Line: If that remains concealed, what does the bottom matter? NUDITY IN THE COLONIES First Line: Black man, bright nouveautes leave one, at best, pseudonymous Last Line: Thus one is most disclosed when one is most anonymous NUNS PAINTING WATER-LILIES Poem Text First Line: These pods are part of the growth of life within life Last Line: Or accessible only in the most furtive fiction Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies NUNS PAINTING WATER-LILIES First Line: These pods are part of the growth of life within life Last Line: Or accessible only in the most furtive fiction Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies O FLORIDA, VENEREAL SOIL Poem Text First Line: A few things for themselves Last Line: A hand that bears a thick-leaved fruit, / a pungent bloom against your shade Subject(s): Florida O FLORIDA, VENEREAL SOIL First Line: A few things for themselves Last Line: A hand that bears a thick-leaved fruit, %a pungent bloom against your shade Subject(s): Florida OAK LEAVES ARE HANDS First Line: In hydaspia, by howzen Last Line: In glittering seven-colored changes, %by howzen, the chromatic lowzen ODE First Line: A night in may! Last Line: And a hail to the morning star OF BRIGHT & BLUE BIRDS & THE GALA SUN First Line: Some things, nino, some things are like this Last Line: The will to be and to be total in belief, %provoking a laughter, an agreement, by surprise OF HARTFORD IN A PURPLE LIGHT Poem Text First Line: A long time you have been making the trip Last Line: Of the ocean, ever-freshening, / on the irised hunks, the stone bouquet Subject(s): Sun; Light; Colors; Hartford, Connecticut OF HARTFORD IN A PURPLE LIGHT First Line: A long time you have been making the trip Last Line: Of the ocean, ever-freshening, %on the irised hunks; the stone bouquet OF HEAVEN CONSIDERED AS A TOMB First Line: What word have you, interpreters, of men Last Line: For answer from their icy elysee OF IDEAL TIME AND CHOICE First Line: Since thirty mornings are required to make Last Line: Stand at the centre of ideal time, %the inhuman making choice of a human self OF MERE BEING First Line: The palm at the end of the mind Last Line: The bird's fire-fangled feathers dangle down OF MODERN POETRY Poem Text First Line: The poem of the mind in the act of finding Last Line: Combing. The poem of the act of the mind Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Mind, The OF MODERN POETRY First Line: The poem of the mind in the act of finding Last Line: Combing. The poem of the act of the mind Subject(s): Poetry And Poets OF THE MANNER OF ADDRESSING CLOUDS Poem Text First Line: Gloomy grammarians in golden gowns Last Line: Than mute bare splendors of the sun and moon. Subject(s): Clouds OF THE SURFACE OF THINGS Poem Text First Line: In my room, the world is beyond my understanding Last Line: The singer has pulled his cloak over his head / the moon is in the folds of the cloak OF THE SURFACE OF THINGS First Line: In my room, the world is beyond my understanding Last Line: The singer has pulled his cloak over his head %the moon is in the folds of the cloak OLD LUTHERAN BELLS AT HOME First Line: These are the voices of the pastors calling Last Line: And the bells belong to the sextons, after all, %as they jangle and dangle and kick their feet OLD MAN ASLEEP First Line: The two worlds are asleep, are sleeping, now Last Line: The redness of your reddish chestnut trees, %the river motion, the drowsy motion of the river r ON AN OLD HORN First Line: The bird kept saying that birds had once been men Last Line: Flying like insects of fire in a cavern of night %pipperoo,pippera, pipperum...The rest is rot ON THE ADEQUACY OF LANDSCAPE First Line: The little owl flew through the night Last Line: The red bird most and the strongest sky %not the people in the air that hear %the little owl fly ON THE ROAD HOME First Line: It was when I said Last Line: The fragrance of the autumn warmest, %closest and strongest ON THE WAY TO THE BUS First Line: A light snow, like frost, has fallen during the night Last Line: A way of pronouncing the word inside of one's tongue %under the wintry trees of the terrace ONE OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE WEST First Line: Our divinations Last Line: Suppose it was a drop of blood...%so much guilt lies buried%beneath the innocence %of autumn days ORDINARY EVENING IN NEW HAVEN First Line: The eye's plain version is a thing apart Last Line: Is a solid. It may be a shade that traverses %a dust, a force that traverses a shade Variant Title(s): An Ordinary Evening In New Haven, Sels Subject(s): New Haven, Connecticut ORDINARY WOMEN First Line: Then from their poverty they rose Last Line: Then from their poverty they rose, %from dry guitars, and to catarrhs %they flitted %through the pal OUR STARS COME FROM IRELAND Poem Text First Line: Out of him that I loved Last Line: When the whole habit of the mind was changed, / the ocean breathed out morning in one breath Subject(s): Ireland; Poetry & Poets; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Irish OUR STARS COME FROM IRELAND First Line: Out of him that I loved Last Line: When the whole habit of the mind was changed, %the ocean breathed out morning in one breath Subject(s): Ireland; Poetry And Poets; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration OUT OF THOSE HIBISCUSES OF DAMOZELS First Line: She was all of her airs and, for all of her airs Last Line: And the cheeks like flower-pots under her hair OUT OF WEDLOCK First Line: The strong music of hard times Last Line: Saying we have forgot them, they never lived OUTSIDE THE HOSPITAL First Line: See the blind and the lame at play Last Line: Red roses, my princess, I ran to bring, %and be your knight OWL IN THE SARCOPHAGUS First Line: Two forms move among the dead, high sleep Last Line: The mind, among the creatures that it makes, %the people, those by which it lives and dies OWL'S CLOVER: 1. THE OLD WOMAN & THE STATUE First Line: Another evening in another park Last Line: Of night. How clearly that would be defined! OWL'S CLOVER: 2. THE STATUE AT THE WORLD'S END First Line: The thing is dead -- everything is dead Last Line: An abysmal migration into a possible blue? Variant Title(s): Mr. Burnshaw And The Statu OWL'S CLOVER: 3. THE GREENEST CONTINENT First Line: Large-leaved and many-footed shadowing Last Line: Sultan of african sultans, starless crown OWL'S CLOVER: 4. A DUCK FOR DINNER First Line: The bulgar said, 'after pineapple with fresh mint Last Line: And daunt that old assassin, heart's desire? OWL'S CLOVER: 5. SOMBRE FIGURATION First Line: There is a man whom rhapsodies of change Last Line: Night and the imagination being one PAGE FROM A TALE First Line: In the hard brightness of that winter day Last Line: They would march single file, with electric lamps, alert %for a tidal undulation underneath PAISANT CHRONICLE First Line: What are the major men? All men are brave Last Line: A cafe. There may be a dish of country cheese %and a piineapple on the table. It must be so PALACE OF THE BABIES Poem Text First Line: The disbeliever walked the moonlit place Last Line: His broad-brimmed hat came close upon his eyes Subject(s): Night; Loneliness; Babies; Bedtime; Infants PALACE OF THE BABIES First Line: The disbeliever walked the moonlit place Last Line: His broad-brimmed hat came close upon his eyes PALTRY NUDE STARTS ON A SPRING VOYAGE First Line: But not on a shell, she starts Last Line: Scullion of fate, %across the spick torrent, ceaselessly, %upon her irretrievable way PAROCHIAL THEME First Line: Long-tailed ponies go nosing the pine-lands Last Line: Of the guillotine or of any glamorous hanging. %piece the world together, boys, but not with your ha PASTOR CABALLERO First Line: The importance of its hat to a form becomes Last Line: These two go well together, the sinuous brim %and the green flauntings of the hours of peace PASTORAL NUN First Line: Finally, in the last year of her age Last Line: The two things compared their tight resemblances:%each matteers only in that which it conceives Subject(s): Nuns PEDIMENT OF APPEARANCE First Line: Young men go walking in the woods Last Line: The month of understanding. The pediment %lifts up its heavy scowl before them PETER PARASOL First Line: Aux taureaux dieu cornes donne PETER PARASOL First Line: Why are not women fair Last Line: With parasols, in the afternoon air PETER QUINCE AT THE CLAVIER Poem Text Recitation First Line: Just as my fingers on these keys Last Line: And makes a constant sacrament of praise. Subject(s): Beauty; Lust; Music & Musicians; Susanna (bible); Women In The Bible PHASES Poem Text First Line: There's a little square in paris Last Line: To that short, triumphant sting? PHASES First Line: There was heaven Last Line: Look deep, and let the truth be known PHASES First Line: There's a little square in paris Last Line: To that short, triumphant sting? Subject(s): World War I PIANO PRACTICE AT THE ACADEMY OF THE HOLY ANGELS First Line: The time will come for these children Last Line: And these long, black instruments will be so little to them that will be needing so much, seeking so PIECES First Line: Tinsel in february, tinsel in august Last Line: That lives in space. It is a person at night %a member of the family, a tie %an ethereal cousin, ano PLACE OF THE SOLITAIRES First Line: Let the place of the solitaires Last Line: In the place of the solitaires, %which is to be a place of perpetual undulation PLAIN SENSE OF THINGS First Line: After the leaves have fallen, we return Last Line: Had to be imagined as an inevitable knowledge, %required, as a necessity requires PLANET ON THE TABLE First Line: Ariel was glad he had written his poems Last Line: In the poverty of their words, %of the planet of which they were apart PLEASURES OF MERELY CIRCULATING First Line: The garden flew round with the angel Last Line: Has rather a classical sound PLOT AGAINST THE GIANT First Line: When this yokel comes maundering Last Line: I shall whisper %heavenly labials in a world of gutturals. %it will undo him PLOUGHING ON SUNDAY Poem Text First Line: The white cock's tail Last Line: The wind pours down Subject(s): Plowing & Plowmen; Sabbath; Sunday PLOUGHING ON SUNDAY First Line: The white cock's tail Last Line: The wind pours down Subject(s): Plowing And Plowmen; Sabbath POEM THAT TOOK THE PLACE OF A MOUNTAIN First Line: There it was, word for word Last Line: Where he could lie and, gazing down at the sea, %recognize his unique and solitary home POEM WITH RHYTHMS First Line: The hand between the candle and the wall Last Line: Not as in air, bright-blue-resembling air, %but as in the powerful mirror of my wish and will POEM WRITTEN AT MORNING First Line: A sunny day's complete poussiniana Last Line: To the total thing, a shapeless giant forced %upward %green were the curls upon that head POEMS OF OUR CLIMATE First Line: Clear water in a brilliant bowl Last Line: Lies in flawed words and stubborn sounds POESIE ABRUTIE First Line: The brooks are bristling in the field Last Line: Is brighter than the sun itself %cinerarias have a speaking sheen Variant Title(s): Retur POETRY IS A DESTRUCTIVE FORCE Poem Text First Line: That's what misery is Last Line: It can kill a man Subject(s): Language; Men; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary POETRY IS A DESTRUCTIVE FORCE First Line: That's what misery is Last Line: Its nose is on its paws. %it can kill a man Subject(s): Language; Men; Poetry And Poets POLO PONIES PRACTICING Poem Text First Line: The constant cry against an old order Last Line: On the shapes of the mind Subject(s): Sports POLO PONIES PRACTICING First Line: The constant cry against an old order Last Line: On the shapes of the mind Subject(s): Sports POSTCARD FROM THE VOLCANO First Line: Children picking up our bones Last Line: Smeared with the gold of the opulent sun Subject(s): Bones PREJUDICE AGAINST THE PAST First Line: Day is the children's friend Last Line: The philosopher's hat to be part of the mind, %the swedish cart to be part of the heart PRELUDE TO OBJECTS First Line: If he will be heaven after death Last Line: Of parents, lewdest of ancestors %we are conceived in your conceits PRIMITIVE LIKE AND ORB First Line: The essential poem at the centre of things Last Line: Of color, the giant of nothingness, each one %and the giant ever changing, living in change PRIMORDIA IN THE NORTHWEST Poem Text First Line: All over minnesota Last Line: Are you two boatmen / different from each other? Subject(s): Minnesota PRIMORDIA IN THE NORTHWEST First Line: All over minnesota Last Line: Are you two boatmen %different from each other? Subject(s): Minnesota PRIMORDIA IN THE SOUTH Poem Text First Line: Unctuous furrows / the ploughman portrays in you Last Line: Yet there is no spring in florida, neither in boskage perdu, nor on the nunnery beaches. Subject(s): Southern States; South (u.s.) PRIMORDIA IN THE SOUTH First Line: Unctuous furrows %the ploughman portrays in you Last Line: In the distances of sleep? %speak it Subject(s): Southern States PROLOGUES TO WHAT IS POSSIBLE First Line: There was an ease of mind that was like being alone in %a boat at sea Last Line: The way a look or a touch reveals its unexpected %magnitudes PUBLIC SQUARE First Line: A slash of angular blacks Last Line: The bijou of atlas, the moon %was last with its porcelain leer PUELLA PARVULA First Line: Every thread of summer is at last unwoven Last Line: Flame, sound, fury composed...Hear what he says, %the dauntless master, as he stars the human tale PURE GOOD OF THEORY First Line: It is time that beats in the breast and it is time Last Line: For a moment, a moment in which we read and repeat %the eloquences of light's faculties QUATRAIN Poem Text First Line: Go not, young cloud, too boldly through the sky Last Line: For eastward lies the night. Subject(s): Transience; Impermanence QUATRAIN First Line: He sought the music of the distant spheres Last Line: Within the keeping of his human heart QUESTIONS ARE REMARKS First Line: In the weed of summer comes this green sprout why Last Line: He does not say, 'mother, my mother, who are you,' %the way the drowsy, infant, old men do QUIET NORMAL LIFE First Line: His place, as he sat and as he thought, was not Last Line: There was no fury in transcendent forms. %but his actual candle blazed with artifice RABBIT AS KING OF THE GHOSTS First Line: The difficulty to think at the end of day Last Line: You sit with your head like a carving in space %and the little green cat is a bug in the grass Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Rabbits RE-STATEMENT OF ROMANCE Poem Text First Line: The night knows nothing of the chants of night Last Line: In the pale light that each upon the other throws Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love RE-STATEMENT OF ROMANCE First Line: The night knows nothing of the chants of night Last Line: Supremely true each to its separate self, %in the pale light that each upon the other throws Subject(s): Love - Marital READER First Line: All night I sat reading a book Last Line: The sombre pages bore no print %except the trace of burning stars %in the frosty heaven REALITY IS AN ACTIVITY OF THE MOST AUGUST IMAGINATION First Line: Last friday, in the big light of last friday night Last Line: There was an insolid billowing of the solid. %night's moonlight lake was neither water nor air RED FERN First Line: The large-leaved day grows rapidly Last Line: Until sight wakens the sleepy eye %and pierces tha physical fix of things Subject(s): Ferns RED LOVES KIT First Line: Your yes her no, your no her yes. The words Last Line: It will be fecund in rapt curios REGION NOVEMBER First Line: It is hard to hear the north wind again Last Line: The trees are swaying, swaying, swaying Subject(s): November REPETITIONS OF A YOUNG CAPTAIN Poem Text First Line: A tempest cracked on the theatre. Quickly Last Line: Walked toward him on the stage and they embraced Subject(s): War REPETITIONS OF A YOUNG CAPTAIN First Line: A tempest cracked on the theatre. Quickly Last Line: The precisions of fate, nothing fobbed off, nor changed %in a beau language without a drop of blood Subject(s): War REPLY TO PAPINI Poem Text First Line: Poor procurator, why do you ask someone else Last Line: The satisfaction underneath the sense, / the conception sparkling in still obstinate thought Subject(s): Papini, Giovanni (1881-1956) REPLY TO PAPINI First Line: Poor procurator, why do you ask someone else Last Line: The satisfaction underneath the sense, %the conception sparkling in still obstinate thought Subject(s): Papini, Giovanni (1881-1956) REVOLUTIONIST STOP FOR ORANGEADE First Line: Capitan profundo, capitan geloso Last Line: Deeper than a truer ditty %of the real that wrenches, %of the quick that's wry RIVER OF RIVERS IN CONNECTICUT First Line: There is a great river this side of stygia Last Line: Of each of the senses; call it, again and again, %the river that flows nowhere, like a sea Subject(s): Connecticut; Rivers ROCK First Line: It is an illusion that we were ever alive Last Line: Night's hymn of the rock, as in a vivid sleep ROLE OF THE IDEA IN POETRY First Line: Ask of the philosopher why he philosophizes Last Line: I am the greatness of the new-found night Subject(s): Poetry And Poets ROMANCE FOR A DEMOISELLE LYING IN THE GRASS First Line: It is grass Last Line: Delicatest machine ROOM ON A GARDEN First Line: O stagnant east-wind, palsied mare Last Line: Of lilies rusted, rotting, wet %with rain Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening SAD STRAINS OF A GAY WALTZ First Line: The truth is that there comes a time Last Line: Will glisten again with motion, the music %will be motion and full of shadows SAIL OF ULYSSES First Line: Under the shape of his sail, ulysses Last Line: Straight forward through another night %and clumped stars dangled all the way Variant Title(s): Presence Of An External Master Of Knowledg Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses SAILING AFTER LUNCH First Line: It is the word pejorative that hurts Last Line: And then rush brightly through the summer air SAINT JOHN AND THE BACK-ACHE First Line: The mind is the terriblest force in the world, father Last Line: Presence lies far too deep, for me to know %its irrational reaction, as from pain SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE CHIROPODIST'S; HISTOIRE First Line: For simple pleasure, he beheld Last Line: The rotting man was first to sing SEA SURFACE FULL OF CLOUDS Poem Text First Line: In that november off tehuantepec Last Line: And heaven rolled as one and from the two / came fresh transfigurings of freshest blue Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA SURFACE FULL OF CLOUDS First Line: In that november off tehuantepec Last Line: And heaven rolled as one and from the two %came fresh transfigurings of freshest blue Subject(s): Sea SECRET MAN First Line: The sounds of rain on the roof Last Line: Will shout from the tower's rim SENSE OF THE SLEIGHT-OF-HAND MAN First Line: One's grand flights, one's sunday baths Last Line: That is fluent in even the wintriest bronze SHOWER Poem Text First Line: Pink and purple Last Line: Ballad of the rain SICK MAN First Line: Bands of black men seem to be drifting in air Last Line: The peaceful, blissful words, well-tuned, well-sung, well-spoken Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music); Jazz; Music And Musicians SILVER PLOUGH-BOY First Line: A black figure dances in a black field Last Line: Slips from the wrinkled sheet! How softly the sheet falls %to the ground! Subject(s): Plowing And Plowmen SIX DISCORDANT SONGS: CONTRARY THESES (1) First Line: Now grapes are plush upon the vines Last Line: Before, before. Blood smears the oaks %a soldier stalks before my door SIX DISCORDANT SONGS: CONTRARY THESES (2) First Line: One chemical afternoon in mid-autumn Last Line: The noble, alexandrine verve. The flies %and the bees still sought the chrysanthemums' odor SIX DISCORDANT SONGS: JUMBO First Line: The trees were plucked like iron bars Last Line: Of the secondary men. There are no rocks %and stones, only this imager SIX DISCORDANT SONGS: METAMORPHOSIS First Line: Yillow, yillow, yillow Last Line: Dangling in an illogical %to and to and fro %fro niz - nil -imbo SIX DISCORDANT SONGS: PHOSPHOR READING BY HIS OWN LIGHT First Line: It is difficult to read. The page is dark Last Line: The elemental parent, the green night, %teaching a fusky alphabet SIX DISCORDANT SONGS: THE SEARCH FOR SOUND FREE FROM MOTION First Line: All afternoon the gramophone Last Line: The syllable of a syllable SIX SIGNIFICANT LANDSCAPES First Line: An old man sits Last Line: As, for example, the ellipse of the half-moon %rationalists would wear sombreros SKETCH OF THE ULTIMATE POLITICIAN First Line: He is the final builder of the total building Last Line: A dream interrupted out of the past, %from beside us, from where we have yet to live SNOW AND STARS Poem Text First Line: The grackles sing avant the spring Last Line: And fill the hill and fill it full / of ding, ding, dong Subject(s): Grackles; Snow; Stars SNOW AND STARS First Line: The grackles sing avant the spring Last Line: And fill the hill and fill it full %of ding, ding, dong SO-AND-SO RECLINING ON HER COUCH First Line: On her side, reclining on her elbow Last Line: As anything but sculpture. Good-bye, %mrs. Pappadopoulos, and thanks SOLITAIRE UNDER THE OAKS Poem Text First Line: In the oblivion of cards Last Line: Under the oak trees, completely released Subject(s): Card Games; Playing Cards SOLITAIRE UNDER THE OAKS First Line: In the oblivion of cards Last Line: Under the oak trees, completely released Subject(s): Card Games SOME FRIENDS FROM PASCAGOULA Poem Text First Line: Tell me more of the eagle, cotton, Last Line: Dropping in sovereign rings / out of his fiery lair / speak off the dazzling wings Subject(s): Eagles SOME FRIENDS FROM PASCAGOULA First Line: Tell me more of the eagle, cotton Last Line: Dropping in sovereign rings %out of his fiery lair %speak off the dazzling wings SOMEONE PUTS A PINEAPPLE TOGETHER: 1 First Line: O juventes, o filii, he contemplates Last Line: Concourse of planetary originals, %yet, as it seems, of human residence SOMEONE PUTS A PINEAPPLE TOGETHER: 2 First Line: He must say nothing of the fruit that is Last Line: Its invitation to false metaphor. %the incredible gave him a purpose to believe SOMEONE PUTS A PINEAPPLE TOGETHER: 3 First Line: How thick this gobbet is with overlays Last Line: The eye, a geometric glitter, tiltings %as of sections collecting toward the greenest cone SOMNAMBULISMA First Line: On an old shore, the vulgar ocean rolls Last Line: Poured forth the fine fins, the gawky beaks, the personalia,%which, as a man feeling everything, wer SONATINA TO HANS CHRISTIAN Poem Text First Line: If any duck in any brook Last Line: Do you know, hans christian / now that you see the night? Subject(s): Andersen, Hans Christian (1805-1875); Writing & Writers SONATINA TO HANS CHRISTIAN First Line: If any duck in any brook Last Line: Do you know, hans christian %now that you see the night? Subject(s): Andersen, Hans Christian (1805-1875); Writing And Writers SONG First Line: She loves me or loves me not Last Line: The green of the woods is just as fair, %and fair the sky SONG First Line: Ah yes! Beyond these barren walls Last Line: And find him looking in her eyes SONG First Line: There are great things doing Last Line: Tell that to your mother SONG OF FIXED ACCORD Poem Text First Line: Rou-cou spoke the dove Last Line: The lord of love and of sooth sorrow, / lay on the roof / and made much within her Subject(s): Doves SONG OF FIXED ACCORD First Line: Rou-cou spoke the dove Last Line: The lord of love and of sooth sorrow, %lay on the roof %and made much within her SONNET First Line: Build up the walls about me; close each door Last Line: And pass immortal mornings by the sea SONNET: 1 First Line: I strode along my beaches like a sea Last Line: In mystery beneath the evening star SONNET: 10 First Line: Yet mystery is better than the light Last Line: Passing with ardor through the happy earth SONNET: 11 First Line: I found it flaming in the scarlet rose Last Line: Not point to things in greater mystery hid SONNET: 12 First Line: I sang an idle song of happy youth Last Line: My weary eyes were filled with bitter tears SONNET: 13 First Line: How sweet it is to find an asphodel Last Line: Roll the huge waters of an endless main SONNET: 14 First Line: And even as I passed beside the booth Last Line: Soft as a song heard far in paradise SONNET: 2 First Line: Come, said the world, thy youth is not all play Last Line: And if you steal them from me I shall die SONNET: 3 First Line: When I think of all the centuries long dead Last Line: But not -- if strength of will abides -- not I SONNET: 4 First Line: Through dreary winter had my soul endured Last Line: Sweet-startling from her heavy-laden breast SONNET: 5 First Line: The rivers flow on idly in their light Last Line: With eyes undimmed and youth both pure and strong SONNET: 6 First Line: If we are leaves that fall upon the ground Last Line: Streamed forth a wild perfume into the light SONNET: 7 First Line: There shines the morning star! Through the forlorn Last Line: All bright and lovely on the hosts of rome SONNET: 8 First Line: The soul of the happy youth is never lost Last Line: To keep sweet tryst with still-eyed guenevere SONNET: 9 First Line: Cathedrals are not built by the sea Last Line: The low and splendid rising of the moon SOULS OF WOMEN AT NIGHT First Line: Now, being invisible, I walk without mantilla Last Line: Not one of the five, and keep a rendezvous, %of the loftiest amour, in a human midnight? ST. ARMORER'S CHURCH FROM THE OUTSIDE Poem Text First Line: St. Armorer's was once a great success Last Line: The origin and keep of its health and his own / and there he walks and does as he lives and likes Subject(s): Churches; Christianity; Cathedrals ST. ARMORER'S CHURCH FROM THE OUTSIDE First Line: St. Armorer's was once an immense success Last Line: The origin and keep of its health and his own %and there he walks and does as he lives and likes STANZAS FOR 'EXAMINATION OF THE HERO IN TIME OF WAR' Poem Text First Line: An immense drum rolls through a clamor of people Last Line: A challenge to a final solution Subject(s): War; Heroism STARS AT TALLAPOOSA Poem Text First Line: The lines are straight and swift between the stars. Last Line: Making recoveries of young nakedness / and the lost vehemence the midnights hold Subject(s): Stars STARS AT TALLAPOOSA First Line: The lines are straight and swift between the stars Last Line: Making recoveries of young nakedness %and the lost vehemence the midnights hold STREET SONGS: 1. THE PIGEONS Poem Text First Line: Over the houses and into the sky Last Line: And into their airy home Subject(s): Cities; Pigeons; Urban Life STREET SONGS: 1. THE PIGEONS First Line: Over the houses and into the sky Last Line: And into their airy home Subject(s): Cities; Pigeons STREET SONGS: 2. THE BEGGAR First Line: Yet in this morn there is a darkest night Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Cities; Urban Life STREET SONGS: 2. THE BEGGAR First Line: Yet in this morn there is a darkest night Last Line: The place, pass on. It is a place to beg Subject(s): Begging And Beggars; Cities STREET SONGS: 3. STATUARY Poem Text First Line: The windy morn has set their feet to dancing Last Line: Then goes his way with all his fancy free Subject(s): Cities; Statues; Urban Life STREET SONGS: 3. STATUARY First Line: The windy morn has set their feet to dancing Last Line: Then goes his way with all his fancy free Subject(s): Cities; Statues STREET SONGS: 3. THE MINSTREL First Line: The streets lead out into a mist Last Line: From out among the heather bells Subject(s): Cities; Minstrels STREET SONGS: 4. THE MINSTREL Poem Text First Line: The streets lead out into a mist Last Line: From out among the heather bells STUDY OF IMAGES 1 First Line: It does no good to speak of the big, blue bush Last Line: They can be no more faded than ourselves %the blood refreshes with its stale demands STUDY OF IMAGES 2 First Line: The frequency of images of the moon Last Line: And breeding and bearing birth of harmony, %the final relation, the marriage of the rest STUDY OF TWO PEARS Poem Text First Line: Opusculum paedagogum / the pears are not viols Last Line: As the observer wills Subject(s): Pear Trees; Trees; Pears STUDY OF TWO PEARS First Line: Opusculum paedagogum %the pears are not viols Last Line: The pears are not seen %as the observer wills Subject(s): Pear Trees; Trees SUN THIS MARCH First Line: The exceeding brightness of this early sun Last Line: Oh! Rabbi, rabbi, fend my soul for me %and true savant of this dark nature be SUNDAY MORNING Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Complacencies of the peignoir, and late / coffee and oranges in a sunny chair Last Line: Downward to darkness, on extended wings. Subject(s): Christianity; Death; God; Life; Nature; Religion; Dead, The; Theology SURPRISES OF THE SUPERHUMAN First Line: The palais de justice of chambermaids Last Line: For somehow the brave dicta of its kings %make more awry our faulty human things TABLE TALK Poem Text First Line: Granted, we die for good Last Line: Of the way things happen to fall Subject(s): Life TABLE TALK First Line: Granted, we die for good Last Line: Happens to like is one %of the ways things happen to fall TATTOO Poem Text First Line: The light is like a spider Last Line: On the surface of the water / and in the edges of the snow Subject(s): Light TATTOO First Line: The light is like a spider Last Line: On the surface of the water %and in the edges of the snow TEA Poem Text First Line: When the elephant's-ear in the park Last Line: Like umbrellas in java Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TEA First Line: When the elephant's-ear in the park Last Line: On shining pillows, %of sea-shades and sky-shades, %like umbrellas in java Subject(s): Poetry And Poets TEA AT THE PALAZ OF HOON Poem Text First Line: Not less because in purple I descended Last Line: And there I found myself more truly and more strange. TEA THE PALAZ OF HOON Poem Text Recitation First Line: Not less because in purple I descended Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips TESTAMENTUM First Line: Plant the tea-plant on my grave Last Line: That young persephone will not resist THE AMERICAN SUBLIME Poem Text First Line: How does one stand Last Line: What bread does one eat? THE BEGINNING Poem Text First Line: So summer comes in the end to hese few stains Last Line: Speak softly, to begin with, in the eaves Subject(s): Love THE BIRD WITH THE COPPERY, KEEN CLAWS Poem Text First Line: Above the forest of the parakeets Last Line: To flare, in the sun-pallor of his rock. Subject(s): Birds THE BLUE BUILDINGS IN THE SUMMER AIR Poem Text First Line: Cotton mather died when I was a boy. The books Last Line: Searching all day, all night, for the honey-comb Subject(s): Mather, Cotton (1663-1728) THE CANDLE A SAINT Poem Text First Line: Green is the night, green kindled and appareled Last Line: The abstract, the archaic queen. Green is the night Subject(s): Green (color); Candles; Saints THE COMEDIAN AS THE LETTER C Poem Text First Line: Nota: man is the intelligence of his soil, Last Line: And from the peristyle project a masque Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Se;f; Travel; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Imagination; Journeys; Trips; Fancy THE COMMON LIFE Poem Text First Line: That's the downtown frieze Subject(s): Life THE CREATIONS OF SOUND Poem Text First Line: If the poetry of x was music, Last Line: From the floor, rising in speech we do not speak Subject(s): Sound THE CUBAN DOCTOR Poem Text First Line: I went to egypt to escape Last Line: Drowsing in summer's sleepiest horn Subject(s): Enemies THE CURTAINS IN THE HOUSE OF THE METAPHYSICIAN Poem Text First Line: It comes about that the drifting of these curtains Last Line: The last largeness, bold to see Subject(s): Metaphysics THE DEATH OF A SOLDIER Poem Text First Line: Life contracts and death is expected Last Line: In their direction Subject(s): Holidays; Soldiers; War THE DESIRE TO MAKE LOVE IN A PAGODA Poem Text First Line: Among the second selves, sailor, observe Last Line: An innocence approaching toward its peak. / and the second Subject(s): Desire THE DOVE IN SPRING Poem Text First Line: Brooder, brooder, deep beneath its walls Last Line: For daylight and too near for sleep Subject(s): Doves THE DWARF Poem Text First Line: Now it is september and the web is woven Last Line: And coffee dribble . . . Frost is in the stubble Subject(s): Winter THE EMPEROR OF ICE-CREAM Poem Text Recitation First Line: Call the roller of big cigars Last Line: The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream. Subject(s): Ice Cream THE FLORIST WEARS KNEE-BREECHES Poem Text First Line: My flowers are reflected Last Line: In a white dish. Subject(s): Flowers THE GOOD MAN HAS NO SHAPE Poem Text First Line: Through centuries he lived in poverty Last Line: The good man has no shape, as if they knew Subject(s): Morality; Ethics THE HAND AS A BEING Poem Text First Line: In the first canto of the final canticle Last Line: And lay beside her underneath the tree Subject(s): Poetry & Poems; Hands; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE HIGH-TONED OLD CHRISTIAN WOMAN Poem Text First Line: Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame Last Line: Wink as they will. Wink most when widows wince Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Women - Old Age THE IDEA OF ORDER AT KEY WEST Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: She sang beyond the genius of the sea Last Line: In ghostlier demarcations, keener sounds Subject(s): Key West, Florida; Order; Perception; Sea; Singing & Singers; Ocean; Songs THE IRISH CLIFFS OF MOHER Poem Text First Line: Who is my father in this world, in this house Last Line: A likeness, one of the race of fathers: earth / and sea and air Subject(s): Men THE LOAD OF SUGAR-CANE Poem Text First Line: The going of the glade-boat Last Line: At the red turban / of the boatman Subject(s): Boats; Sugar THE MAN ON THE DUMP Poem Text First Line: Day creeps down. The moon is creeping up Last Line: Where was it one first heard of the truth? The the Subject(s): Refuse & Refuse Disposal THE MAN WITH THE BLUE GUITAR: 1-6 Poem Text Recitation First Line: The man bent over his guitar Last Line: A composing of senses of the guitar Subject(s): Human Rights; Music & Musicians THE MAN WITH THE BLUE GUITAR: 25 Poem Text First Line: He held the world upon his nose Last Line: A fat thumb beats out ai-yi-yi THE MEN THAT ARE FALLING Poem Text Recitation First Line: God and all angels sing the world to sleep Last Line: Upon the pillow to repose and speak Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) THE NIGHT-WIND OF AUGUST Poem Text Last Line: That is the only night-wind THE OLD LUTHERAN BELLS AT HOME Poem Text First Line: These are the voices of the pastors calling Last Line: As they jangle and dangle and kick their feet Subject(s): Bells; Religion; Theology THE PALTRY NUDE STARTS ON A SPRING VOYAGE Poem Text First Line: But not on a shell, she starts, Last Line: Upon her irretrievable way Subject(s): Sea Voyages THE PASTOR CABALLERO Poem Text First Line: The importance of its hat to a form becomes Last Line: And the green flauntings of the hours of peace Subject(s): Hats THE PLACE OF THE SOLITAIRES Poem Text First Line: Let the place of the solitaires Last Line: Which is to be a place of perpetual undulation THE PLAIN SENSE OF THINGS Poem Text First Line: After the leaves have fallen, we return Last Line: Had to be imagined as an inevitable knowledge, / required, as a necessity requires Subject(s): Imagination; Reality; Fancy THE PLANET ON THE TABLE Poem Text Recitation First Line: Ariel was glad he had written his poems Last Line: Of the planet of which they were part Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sun THE READER Poem Text First Line: All night I sat reading a book Last Line: In the frosty heaven Subject(s): Books; Reading THE RED FERN Poem Text First Line: The large-leaved day grows rapidly Last Line: And pierce the physical fix of things Subject(s): Ferns THE REGION NOVEMBER Poem Text First Line: It is hard to hear the north wind again Last Line: The trees are swaying, swaying, swaying Subject(s): November THE RIVER OF RIVERS IN CONNECTICUT Poem Text First Line: There is a great river this side of stygia Last Line: The river that flows nowhere, like a sea Subject(s): Connecticut; Rivers THE ROLE OF THE IDEA IN POETRY Poem Text First Line: Ask of the philosopher why he philosophizes Last Line: One father proclaims another, the patriarchs / of truth Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE SAIL OF ULYSSES Poem Text First Line: Under the shape of his sail, ulysses Last Line: Through clumped stars dangling all the way Variant Title(s): Presence Of An External Master Of Knowledge Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE SENSE OF THE SLEIGHT-OF-HAND MAN Poem Text First Line: One's grand flights, one's sunday baths Last Line: That is fluent in even the wintriest bronze Subject(s): Life THE SHAPE OF THE CORONER Poem Text First Line: It was the morn Last Line: In a parlor of day. Subject(s): Corpses; Embalming; Cadavers THE SILVER PLOUGH-BOY Poem Text First Line: A black figure dances in a black field Last Line: How softly the sheet falls to the ground! Subject(s): Plowing & Plowmen THE SNOW MAN Poem Text Recitation First Line: One must have a mind of winter Last Line: Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is. Subject(s): God; Nature; Perception; Religion; Theology THE ULTIMATE POEM IS ABSTRACT Poem Text First Line: This day writhes with what? The lecturer Last Line: And in that enormous sense, merely enjoy Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE WELL DRESSED MAN WITH A BEARD Poem Text First Line: After the final no there comes a yes Last Line: It can never be satisfied, the mind, never Subject(s): Mind, Tne THE WIND SHIFTS Poem Text First Line: This is how the wind shifts Last Line: Who does not care Subject(s): Wind THE WORLD AS MEDITATION Poem Text First Line: Is it ulysses that approaches from the east Last Line: Never forgetting him that kept coming constantly so near Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Odysseus THE WORMS AT HEAVEN'S GATE Poem Text First Line: Out of the tomb, we bring badroulbadour Last Line: Out of the tomb we bring badroulbadour. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards THEORY First Line: I am what is around me Last Line: A high bed sheltered by curtains %these are merely instances THINGS OF AUGUST Poem Text First Line: These locusts by day, these crickets by night Last Line: She is exhausted and a little old THINGS OF AUGUST First Line: These locusts by day, these crickets by night Last Line: And willed. She has given too much, but not enough %she is exhausted and a little old THINKING OF A RELATION BETWEEN THE IMAGES OF METHAPHORS Poem Text First Line: The wood-doves are singing along the perkiomen Last Line: In whose breast, the dove, alighting, would grow still Subject(s): Metaphor; Similes THINKING OF A RELATION BETWEEN THE IMAGES OF METHAPHORS First Line: The wood-doves are singing along the perkiomen Last Line: The fisherman might be the single man %in whose breast, the dove, alighting, would grow still Subject(s): Metaphor THIRTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING AT A BLACKBIRD Poem Text First Line: Among twenty snowy mountains Last Line: In the cedar-limbs. Subject(s): Birds; Blackbirds; Perception THIS AS INCLUDING THAT Poem Text First Line: It is true that you live on this rock Last Line: In an association like yours / with the rock and mine with you Subject(s): Thought; Thinking THIS AS INCLUDING THAT First Line: This rock and the dry birds Last Line: A fly crawls on the balustrades THIS SOLITUDE OF CATARACTS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: He never felt twice the same about the flecked river Last Line: Breathing his bronzen breath at the azury center of time Subject(s): Nature THIS SOLITUDE OF CATARACTS First Line: He never felt twice the same about the flecked river Last Line: Without the oscillations of planetary pass-pass, %breathing his bronzen breath at the azury centre o Subject(s): Nature THOUGH VALENTINE BRINGS LOVE Poem Text Last Line: And very much more gaily Subject(s): Valentine's Day; Spring; Inspiration THOUGH VALENTINE BRINGS LOVE Last Line: And very much more gaily Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day THOUGHT REVOLVED First Line: A lady dying of diabetes Last Line: Sat alone, his great toe like a horn, %the central flaw in the solar morn Variant Title(s): The Mechanical Optimis THREE TRAVELERS WATCH A SIJNRISE Poem Text First Line: All you need, / to find poetry Last Line: As red is multiplied by the leaves of trees THUNDER BY THE MUSICIAN Poem Text First Line: Sure enough, moving, the thunder became men Last Line: Of one wilder than the rest (like music blunted. / yet the sound of that) Subject(s): Music & Musicians THUNDER BY THE MUSICIAN First Line: Sure enough, moving, the thunder became men Last Line: Of one wilder than the rest (like music blunted, yet the sound of that) Subject(s): Music And Musicians TO AN OLD PHILOSOPHER IN ROME Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: On the threshold of heaven, the figures in the street Last Line: And frame from thinking and is realized Subject(s): Philosophy & Philosophers; Religion; Theology TO AN OLD PHILOSOPHER IN ROME First Line: On the threshold of heaven, the figures in the street Last Line: And frame from thinking and is realized Subject(s): Philosophy And Philosophers; Religion TO HIS WIFE Poem Text First Line: Though valentine brings love Last Line: And very much more gaily Subject(s): Marriage TO MADAME ALDA, SINGING A SONG, IN A WHITE GOWN Poem Text First Line: So much sorrow comes to me out of your singing Last Line: It drifts from sight Subject(s): Singing & Singers TO MADAME ALDA, SINGING A SONG, IN A WHITE GOWN First Line: So much sorrow comes to me out of your singing Last Line: It drifts from sight Subject(s): Singing And Singers TO MISS GAGE First Line: Froebel be hanged! And pestalozzi - pooh! Last Line: Where fearful futures of the real live TO THE MORN First Line: If this be night, break softly, blessed day Last Line: And drop, all blasted, at the sovereign sight Subject(s): Morning TO THE ONE OF FICTIVE MUSIC Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Sister and mother and diviner love Last Line: The imagination that we spurned and crave. Subject(s): Music & Musicians TO THE ROARING WIND Poem Text First Line: What syllable are you seeking, Last Line: Speak it Subject(s): Wind TO THE ROARING WIND First Line: What syllable are you seeking Last Line: Vocalissimus, %in the distances of sleep? %speak it TRADITION First Line: A poem about tradition could easily be Last Line: Made eminent in a reflected seeming-so Subject(s): Tradition TWO AT NORFOLK Poem Text First Line: Mow the grass in the cemetery, darkies, Last Line: Without an escape in the lapses of their kisses / make a bed and leave the iris in it Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards TWO AT NORFOLK First Line: Mow the grass in the cemetery, darkies Last Line: Without an escape in the lapses of their kisses %make a bed and leave thee iris in it TWO FIGURES IN DENSE VIOLET LIGHT First Line: I had as lief be embraced by the porter at the hotel Last Line: Are clear and are obscure; that it is night; %that the moon shines TWO ILLUSTRATIONS THAT THE WORLD IS WHAT YOU MAKE OF IT: 1 First Line: The sky seemed so small that winter day Last Line: In a sunday's violent idleness TWO ILLUSTRATIONS THAT THE WORLD IS WHAT YOU MAKE OF IT: 2 First Line: He left half a shoulder and half a head Last Line: Left only the fragments found in the grass %from his project, as finally magnified TWO LETTERS Poem Text First Line: In a secrecy of words Last Line: From everything would end. It would all meet. TWO LETTERS: 1. A LETTER FROM First Line: Even if there had been a crescent moon Last Line: What we heard and the light, though little, was enough TWO LETTERS: 2. A LETTER TO First Line: She wanted a holiday Last Line: From everything would end. It would all meet TWO TALES OF LIADOFF First Line: Do you remember how the rocket went on Last Line: The sounds that soon become a voluble speech %voluble but archaic and hard to hear TWO VERSIONS OF THE SAME POEM, THAT WHICH CANNOT BE FIXED: 1 First Line: Once more he turned to that which could not be fixed Last Line: Which was realized, like reason's constant ruin. %sleep deep, good eel, in your perverse marine TWO VERSIONS OF THE SAME POEM, THAT WHICH CANNOT BE FIXED: 2 First Line: The human ocean beats against this rock Last Line: Perhaps these forms are seeking to escape %cadaverous undulations. Rest, old mould... ULTIMATE POEM IS ABSTRACT First Line: This day writhes with what? The lecturer Last Line: Complete, because at the middle, if only in sense, %and in that enormous sense, merely enjoy UNITED DAMES OF AMERICA First Line: There are not leaves enough to cover the face Last Line: To cover, to crown, to cover-let it go- %the actor that will at last declaim our end VACANCY IN THE PARK First Line: March - someone has walked across the snow Last Line: The four winds blow through the rustic arbor %under its mat tresses of vines VALENTINE First Line: Willow soon, and vine Last Line: Her pierrot -- amen! Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day VALLEY CANDLE Poem Text First Line: My candle burned alone in the immense valley Last Line: Converged upon its image, / until the wind blew Subject(s): Candles VALLEY CANDLE First Line: My candle burned alone in an immense valley Last Line: Converged upon its image, %until the wind blew VARIATIONS ON A SUMMER DAY Poem Text First Line: Say of the gulls that they are flying Last Line: It was not yet the hour to be dauntlessly leaping Subject(s): Summer VARIATIONS ON A SUMMER DAY First Line: Say of the gulls that they are flying Last Line: The beads on her rails seemed to grasp at transparence %it was not yet the hour to be dauntlessly le Subject(s): Summer VIRGIN CARRYING A LANTERN First Line: There are no bears among the roses Last Line: The pity that her pious egress %shoudl fill the vigil of a negress %with heat so strong! VITA MEA First Line: With fear I trembled in the house of life Last Line: First gleamed upon the prison of unrest WAVING ADIEU, ADIEU, ADIEU Poem Text First Line: That would be waving and that would be crying Last Line: Have I except it comes from the sun? Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation WAVING ADIEU, ADIEU, ADIEU First Line: That would be waving and that would be crying Last Line: Have I except it comes from the sun Subject(s): Absence WEAK MIND IN THE MOUNTAINS First Line: There was the butcher's hand Last Line: Bent and broken them down, %could have stood up sharply in he sky WEEPING BURGHER First Line: It is with a strange malice Last Line: I, weeping in a calcined heart, %my hands such sharp, imagined things WELL DRESSED MAN WITH A BEARD First Line: After the final no there comes a yes Last Line: It can never be satisfied, the mind, never WHAT IS DIVINITY Poem Text First Line: What is divinity if it can come Last Line: These are the measures destined for her soul Subject(s): God WHAT THEY CALL RED CHERRY PIE First Line: Meyer is a bum. He eats his pie Last Line: And that's red cherry pie WHAT WE SEE IS WHAT WE THINK First Line: At twelve, the disintegration of afternoon Last Line: Another thought, the paramount ado...%since what we think is never what we see WHO LIES DEAD? First Line: Who lies dead in the sea? Last Line: The sweep of a myriad band? WIDOW First Line: The cold wife lay with her husband after his death Last Line: Under her pillow, on which he had never slept WILD DUCKS, PEOPLE AND DISTANCES First Line: The life of the world depends on that he is Last Line: Held off the final, fatal distances, %between us and the place in which we stood WIND SHIFTS First Line: This is how the wind shifts Last Line: Like a human, heavy and heavy, %who does not care WINDOW IN THE SLUMS First Line: I think I hear beyond the walls Last Line: The voice of the children still %upon my window rise Subject(s): Slums WINTER BELLS First Line: The jew did not go to his synagogue Last Line: Of the sea there, to give this further thought WOMAN IN SUNSHINE First Line: It is only that this warmth and movement are like Last Line: Confessing the taciturn and yet indifferent, invisibly clearr, the only love WOMAN LOOKING AT A VASE OF FLOWERS First Line: It was as if thunder took form upon Last Line: Became the form and the fragance of things %without clairvoyance, close to her WOMAN SINGS A SONG FOR A SOLDIER COME HOME First Line: The wound kills that does not bleed Last Line: Just ouut of the village, at its edge, %in the quiet there WOMAN THAT HAD MORE BABIES THAN THAT First Line: An acrobat on the border of the sea Last Line: Of an elevation, an elixir of the whole WOMAN WHO BLAMED LIFE ON A SPANIARD First Line: You do not understand her evil mood Last Line: Sinks into likeness blessedly beknown WORD IS THE MAKING OF THE WORLD Subject(s): Language WORD WITH JOSE RODRIGUEZ-FEO First Line: As one of the secretaries of the moon Last Line: Of that simplified geography, in which %the sun comes up like news from africa WORLD AS MEDITATION First Line: Is it ulysses that approaches from the east Last Line: Never forgetting him that kept coming constantly so %near Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses WORLD WITHOUT PECULIARITY First Line: The day is great and strong Last Line: The hating woman, the meaningless place, %become a single being, sure and true YELLOW AFTERNOON First Line: It was in the earth only Last Line: To lie on one's bed in the dark, close to a face %without eyes or mouth, that looks at one and speak YOU SAY THIS IS THE IRIS? YOU SAY THIS IS THE IRIS? Last Line: Their wonders nameless go Subject(s): Iris (flower) |
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