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Author: WARREN, ROSANNA Matches Found: 67 Warren, Rosanna Poet's Biography 67 poems available by this author ALPS First Line: The mountains taught us speechlessness ANTIETAM CREEK First Line: The lovers cross the bridge, and the brown stream Last Line: Till evening drains the landscape, and they go %hand gripping hand, coats buttoned, heads held low ANTIQUE First Line: It doesn't happen these days, the retinal shock when Last Line: Subtraction, and hearing it cry aloud, nightly, in our arms ARRIVAL Poem Text First Line: That's how a god descends from a mountain peak Last Line: Later, how in such a flash, the dark came there Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology BROKEN POT First Line: I am far from you, I am walking farther Last Line: With my tribute %of broken shards, my symbola %from the original vessel in whose clay we share CHILD MODEL First Line: I want to adopt you, doll-like child CORMORANT First Line: Up through the buttercup meadow the children lead Last Line: And, beyond the cove, the channel bells Subject(s): Birds; Cormorants COST First Line: That wasn't our baby COUPLE (FOR ISABEL ARCHER) Poem Text First Line: You turn to the window, and whatever it was Last Line: We are left with mere afternoon, in a daze Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives COUPLE (FOR ISABEL ARCHER) First Line: You turn to the window, and whatever it was Last Line: To collide, each with its destined mate Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage CYPRIAN First Line: We could almost see her Last Line: She who turns herself away DAY LILIES Poem Text First Line: For six days, full-throated, they praised Subject(s): Lilies DAYLIGHTS First Line: So the sky wounded you, jagged at the heart DEPARTURE First Line: I can only speak to people who Last Line: Nor will it, while we are alive DIVERSION First Line: Go, I say to myself, tired of my notebooks and my reluctatnt pen Last Line: And which will die, soon, from her ministrations E.W. Poem Text First Line: Your purpled, parchment forearm Subject(s): Mothers; Illness FARM First Line: Once you have described the barn, erase the page Last Line: Into the north atlantic. Of the couple who lived here once %and quarreled, we know little. Mist dele FOR D. Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The plane whumps down through rainclouds, streaks Subject(s): Absence; Air Travel; Separation; Isolation FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE Poem Text First Line: It's not your mountain Subject(s): Absence; Bears; Separation; Isolation FROM THE NOTEBOOKS OF ANNE VERVEINE Poem Text First Line: When his dogs leapt on actaeon, he Subject(s): Mythology; Love - Erotic; Relationships; Art & Artists FUNERARY PORTRAITS First Line: Mother presses her head to her hand, already FURTHER PAGES FROM THE NOTEBOOKS OF ANNE VERVEINE First Line: The carpet is not a story. It is a place Last Line: On my long gray street, the rue de lille, where I still live GARDEN (CRETE -- NEW YORK) First Line: Petals fell white and remorseless as Last Line: I begin my life GIRL BY MINOAN WALL First Line: If, from a centuried window, she looks out HAGAR First Line: Was it a mountain wavering on the rim Last Line: Lord of thistle and mica. Here I am Subject(s): Hagar HELLENISTIC HEAD First Line: She's in two worlds, her veil blown half across her face Last Line: The other half is stone that turns into wind INTERIOR AT PETWORTH: FROM TURNER First Line: It was a way of punishing the house, setting it ablaze ISLAND IN THE CHARLES First Line: Taking the well-worn path in the mind though dusk enroaches Last Line: Draws off to the harbor and, farther, to the unseen sea %until evening settles, and takes her in its JACOB BURCKHARDT, AUGUST 8, 1987 First Line: He's dismissed them over LE VENTRE DE PARIS: 1. LA RUE MONTORGEUIL: THE MARKET First Line: They built the church here, imagining Last Line: Is life, and life runs %in us as doen this street LE VENTRE DE PARIS: 2. ST. EUSTACHE: THE MARKET CHURCH First Line: The little we know Last Line: Its organ recitals, %its street %whistling with market blood LENA'S HOUSE: WATERCOLOR First Line: To have come so far into this sodden green Last Line: And compose in every scene the maternal landscape LILY First Line: The highway forever draws away MAN IN STREAM Poem Text First Line: You stand in the brook, mud smearing Subject(s): Rivers; Beavers; Death; Dead, The MAN, THAT IS BORN OF WOMAN Poem Text First Line: It is in slow choking Last Line: Let it go Subject(s): Nature; Leaves MAN, THAT IS BORN OF WOMAN First Line: It is in slow choking Last Line: Shelf, could clench as surely %an altocirrus wisp, %as freely %let it go Subject(s): Nature MATERNAL Poem Text First Line: They keep them in vials at the institute of tears Last Line: Over broken glass, rocks and soot. I count my bones Subject(s): Mothers MAX JACOB AT SAINT BENOIT Poem Text First Line: The noonday square. Plane leaves, dust Last Line: " at drancy. There, the nazis let him die - a sick old jew? - ""natural death. "" " Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts MAX JACOB AT SAINT BENOIT First Line: The noonday square. Plane leaves, dust Last Line: - an old jew with pneumonia - 'naturally.' Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social MEDITERRANEAN Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: - when she disappeared on the path ahead of me Subject(s): Mothers; Death; Dead, The MISTRAL I Poem Text First Line: Two donkeys graze in a meadow of wild golden buttons Last Line: And children find some new thing, and shout at the sea Subject(s): Seashore; Children MUD First Line: It's not as simple as rhyming mud and blood Last Line: Wanted. Not that we wanted to know.) NECROPHILIAC First Line: More marrow to suck, more elegies Last Line: Forever groping grief forever young. NIGHTSHADE First Line: Suddenly, looking once more at the japanese elm, I saw Last Line: Raw and brilliant from the feverish trickle of snot NORTH: 1. OVER PRAIRIE First Line: Not in but past %the piled tumultuous torsos we Last Line: Touched. It's possible to fly %not in but past NORTH: 2. THE RIVER First Line: If it flashed a message in the pewtery twilight of northern plains Last Line: If you touch me, I will run through your hands like water NORTH: 3. HOME First Line: Would it be ablution if the brook Last Line: And davens beyond our telling, what it tells NOTEBOOKS OF ANNE VERVEINE, SELS: 3 First Line: I kissed a flame what did I expect Last Line: How much that is human will never burn OLD CUBIST First Line: He sees your Last Line: If you taste a wafer %it will not be sanctified OMALOS First Line: The moon bloats full and white Last Line: Floats downward from rock-jag, wavering, %the baleful laughter of goats PAINTING A MADONNA First Line: If he has been so careful PORNOGRAPHY First Line: That's good, the charcoal triangle of eye RENOIR Poem Text First Line: Under striped flutter of awnings, have come Last Line: A constellation visible at dusk Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings And Painters; Renoir, Jean (1894-19979) RENOIR First Line: Under striped flutter of awnings, have come Last Line: A constellation visible at dusk Subject(s): Art And Artists; Paintings And Painters; Renoir, Jean (1894-19979) SIDE STREET First Line: Controlled movement is the new step we dance down america lane Last Line: I swear, that's really the name of the road to the prison: america lane SIMILE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: As when her friend, the crack austrian skier, in the story Subject(s): Skiing; Fear; Mothers; Death; Dead, The SIMILE First Line: As when her friend the crack austrian skier, in the story Last Line: Who was it, finally, %who loosened %her hands? SONG Poem Text First Line: A yellow coverlet / in the greenwood Last Line: I turn away Subject(s): Nature SONG First Line: A yellow coverlet %in the greenwood Last Line: Preserves its blue heat %down my throat Subject(s): Nature THE CORMORANT Poem Text First Line: Up through the buttercup meadow the children lead Last Line: And, beyond the cove, the channel bells Subject(s): Birds; Cormorants THE TRIUMPH OF DEATH Poem Text First Line: In your lace ruff you resemble a giant Subject(s): Herbert, Mary Sidney (1561-1621); Pembroke, Countess Of; Sidney, Mary (1561-1621); Dudley, Mary TIDE PICKERS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Question marks at the tide line, dark figures bend Subject(s): Sea; Ocean TIDE-PICKERS First Line: Question-marks at the tide line, dark figures bend TRAVEL First Line: 43,000 feet below us Last Line: Heading, in every sense, in the wrong direction TWO DAYS BEFORE YOU DIED, WE SAW YOUR DEATH Last Line: How wrenched up your %emaciated smile: 'come in! Come in!' UMBILICAL First Line: It is not the first time Last Line: Lines trace, for a %moment, a map VIRGIN PICTURED IN PROFILE First Line: A white-gowned woman making offering |
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