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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: UNTERMEYER, JEAN STARR Matches Found: 61 Untermeyer, Jean Starr Poet's Biography 61 poems available by this author A MAN Poem Text First Line: Often, when I would sit, a dreamy, straight-haired child Last Line: Or keep some ancient promise with the heavens A SOLDIER LISTENS Poem Text First Line: What was it came to distress you? Last Line: Who from the clamoring dead? Subject(s): Death; Pain; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery ACCORDING TO SCRIPTURE First Line: Now are my vitals strapped and held together AFTER FLOOD Poem Text First Line: Only these ravished banks Last Line: Against his lawless might Subject(s): Floods ALTAR First Line: There were estrangements on the road of love ANCIENT RIDDLE First Line: I cried for stone to hack and hew AT SEA First Line: Lonelier than gulls and wilder is the heart AUTUMN Poem Text First Line: How memory cuts away the years Last Line: High priestess of your home. BIRTHDAY First Line: Now the beautiful business of summer is over BITTER BREAD AND WEAK WINE First Line: I have tasted sorrow CATHARSIS First Line: Tis true she was rejected and cast out CLAY HILLS Poem Text First Line: It is easy to mould the yielding clay. Last Line: To recall the granite strength of my desire Subject(s): Rocks CLAY HILLS First Line: It is easy to mold the yielding clay CLOTHES Poem Text First Line: Since the earliest days I have dressed myself Last Line: I would find out what I really am. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress DISCOVER ME AGAIN Poem Text Last Line: At the hail of your love Subject(s): Relationships DURING DARKNESS First Line: Take me under thy wing, o death FROM A DAY-BOOK OF A FORGOTTEN PRINCE Poem Text First Line: My father is happy or we should be poor Last Line: Come singing so gaily right up to the door Subject(s): Fathers; Family Life; Relatives GLIMPSE IN AUTUMN First Line: Ladies at a ball GOTHIC First Line: Think not, my dearest, though I love to speak GULLS First Line: The sun was shining so upon the river HIGH-TIDE Poem Text First Line: I edged back against the night Last Line: She walked the deep fields of the sky Subject(s): Sea; Ocean HIGH-TIDE First Line: I edged back against the night HOLY BAND First Line: It was evening and the light was golden INJUNCTION First Line: Mix the lyric water KRISTIN'S SONG Poem Text First Line: Poor, my dear Last Line: Binds me to thee Subject(s): Disappointment; Death; Dead, The LAKE-SONG First Line: The lapping of lake water LAST PLEA First Line: O god, let me be beautiful in death LOVE AND ART First Line: I left the place where one had sung LULLABY FOR A MAN-CHILD Poem Text First Line: The mountains waver through my tears Last Line: Sleep, my son. MATER IN EXTREMIS Poem Text First Line: I stand between them and the outer winds Last Line: I am about to fall. Subject(s): Failure; Shields MIDNIGHT VISION First Line: A silver wind flew by our house MOMENTARY DANIEL Poem Text First Line: Down, down, hot beast Last Line: And let me out Subject(s): Daniel (bible) NATURE CURE First Line: Tell it again in stronger tones OLD MAN Poem Text First Line: When an old man walks with lowered head Last Line: Frail bridges to infinity. Subject(s): Death; Old Age; Dead, The ON TEMPLES First Line: Why do men make crypts of stone ONE KIND OF HUMILITY First Line: Shall we sat heaven is not heaven Subject(s): Nature OPEN DAY Poem Text First Line: A lilac ribbon is unbound Last Line: What care can move, what grief can chill? PASSIONATE SWORD First Line: Temper my spirit, o lord Last Line: Grasp it, thyself, o my god; %swing it straighter and higher Subject(s): God POSSESSION First Line: Walk into the world RAIN Poem Text First Line: I have always hated the rain Last Line: That afternoon, when we first talked as lovers Subject(s): Rain RAIN First Line: I have always hated the rain RELIGHTED TORCH Poem Text First Line: This certain miracle will happen Last Line: Who follows rapt your vernal fire RESCUE Poem Text First Line: Wind and wave and the swinging rope Last Line: But not of you. Subject(s): Death; Love; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean SELF-REJECTED Poem Text First Line: Plow not nor plant this arid mound Last Line: Spare your trouble. Subject(s): Farm Life; Hope; Agriculture; Farmers; Optimism SILVER YOKE First Line: I grow sick: I grow fainter and fainter SINFONIA DOMESTICA Poem Text First Line: When the white wave of a glory that is hardly I Last Line: With ewer and basin, with clothing and with food? Subject(s): Love SINFONIA DOMESTICA First Line: When the white wave of a glory that is hardly I SOLUTION Poem Text First Line: Now loss has solved Last Line: And love pay love's arrears Subject(s): Faith; Belief; Creed SONG FOR A SUNNY MORNING First Line: O holy cause SPENT First Line: Oh, the night, the night STONY WATER Poem Text First Line: Here many suns and many a sky, deep-overcast and dark Last Line: And under what seems stone, untainted springs thta yield too much Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE PASSIONATE SWORD Poem Text First Line: Temper my spirit, o lord Subject(s): God THE REALISTS Poem Text First Line: The demon lover quit and poised for flight Last Line: No fictive dream deludes - for so threy are Subject(s): Farewell; Parting THEY SAY - . Poem Text First Line: They say I have a constant heart, who know Last Line: Service to all of beauty -- and her due. Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Light TIME Poem Text First Line: Time is the meagre measure set by man Last Line: Are greened in time, unhalted by man's fears Subject(s): Time TO A WAR POET First Line: I stand before your grief with hanging, futile hands TONE PICTURE (MALIPIERO: IMPRESSONI DAL VERO) Poem Text First Line: Across the hot square, where the barbaric sun Last Line: Aloof and silent. Subject(s): Markets; Mystery; Sun; Supermarkets TWO AND ONE First Line: Two loved him and clove to his side UNDEDICATED First Line: The very sounding of her name UNSHARED ELEGY First Line: There will be none to chronicle the event WHITE ARMOUR First Line: Demand no bay or laurel now |
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