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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: WETZSTEON, RACHEL Matches Found: 78 Wetzsteon, Rachel Poet's Biography 78 poems available by this author A RIVAL Poem Text First Line: Names flow from her mouth as so many hearty allies; Last Line: She dips her pen in a lake of ink, and the pen flies Subject(s): Writing & Writers ABSTRACT AUBADE First Line: The sun, like some stupidly drunk party guest Last Line: A dead grief, a starless night's aberration, go now AFTER EDEN Poem Text First Line: Somewhere zeno was smiling, the foul Subject(s): Divorce ALGONQUIN AFTERTHOUGHTS Poem Text First Line: Or else our drunken tumble was Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Love - Erotic; Lies; Wine AMONG THE NEUTRALS: 1 First Line: The ultimate shame Last Line: Not even allowed to burn %with other sinners! AMONG THE NEUTRALS: 2 First Line: How could we not know Last Line: We were drowning in huge tubs %of lukewarm water? AMONG THE NEUTRALS: 3 First Line: Tomorrow I choose Last Line: Has mushroom-clouded into %forever I'm stung AMONG THE NEUTRALS: 4 First Line: Even the poor souls Last Line: Lower down in the sad wood %stood up for something AMONG THE NEUTRALS: 5 First Line: It was a way of Last Line: Being all things to all men. %but that means nothing AMONG THE NEUTRALS: 6 First Line: Deep misery of Last Line: Votes not cast, dark memory %of love undeclared AMONG THE NEUTRALS: 7 First Line: Fair velleities Last Line: Kept us frozen. Do not let %this happen to you AMONG THE NEUTRALS: 8 First Line: Domino-like, one Last Line: Maybe' followed another %until...All fell down AMONG THE NEUTRALS: 9 First Line: Through our tears we see Last Line: Ourselves back on solid ground %making up our minds ANOTHER VIEW OF THE IDEAL PERSON First Line: A rattle of avid hands, but the only thing really moving Last Line: Planning another way of making it melt AT THE ZEN MOUNTAIN MONASTERY Poem Text First Line: A double line of meditators sits Last Line: Down broadway and up west end avenue Subject(s): Zen Buddhism AUTUMN First Line: I'm always in a good mood on the first days of autumn Last Line: We're all too thrilled to be rude on the first days of autumn BLUE OCTAVO HAIKU Poem Text First Line: In fat armchairs sat Subject(s): Life Choices BRIEF ENCOUNTERS First Line: By as many times as the framed sets of teeth Last Line: See with what force the tall door slams CABARET LUDWIG Poem Text Subject(s): Love - Complaints CHASING SPRING First Line: In a certain sense, it was just what he wanted. The green Last Line: Giving off its own heat, the shock of the crocus CLUBFOOT First Line: Meanwhile, meanwhile used to be my limp's Last Line: The little level huts that they call home COMING BACK TO THE CAVE First Line: Coming back to the cave is when the hard part Last Line: Patterns in darkness, friends, I have seen such wonders COMMANDS FOR THE END OF SUMMER Poem Text First Line: Deepen,/leaves, not with what Subject(s): Conduct Of Life DINNER AT LE CAPRICE First Line: How good it would be if our surroundings always Last Line: Who shows them to their table at le caprice DRINKS IN THE TOWN SQUARE Poem Text First Line: No sooner had they carried their martinis Last Line: Fists in their pockets, daggers in their eyes Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; City & Town Life; Wine DRINKS IN THE TOWN SQUARE First Line: No sooner had they carried their martinis Last Line: Fists in their pockets, daggers in their eyes. DUET First Line: The man on the stage, seducing his cello, Last Line: A basement, but an adjoining chamber EXCERPTS FROM A BOTANIST'S JOURNAL First Line: There is a rose that baffles all the world Last Line: Because it was no longer mine, to gold FIVE-FINGER EXERCISE Poem Text First Line: When things get hot and heavy this weekend or one august Subject(s): Future; Love FOREST MURMURS First Line: People always picture a forest Last Line: It's a slap in the face I'd travel forever to get GOING PUBLIC First Line: When your eyes, trained too long on the things that happen Last Line: Another light in the city switches on GOLD LEAVES Poem Text First Line: Someone ought to write about (I thought Subject(s): Gold; Alchemy & Alchemists HOLY DAYS First Line: Whether they spent their time scanning old views Last Line: Unloved, but loving the view HOMAGE TO EDDIE IZZARD First Line: What vision lights up wilderness tonight? Last Line: When I get home I'll place in the window %a candle lit for blokes in dresses tonight HOME AND AWAY First Line: Long before us, the kindling dried, becoming Last Line: Through which, sometimes, a park bench will appear IN MEMORY OF W.H. AUDEN First Line: When there are so many intervening years Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Poetry & Poets IN MEMORY OF W.H. AUDEN First Line: When there are so many intervening years Last Line: Not a room, but a way to light it, %not a goal, but a way of arriving Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Poetry And Poets LATE SHOW First Line: And so it came about that there was no way Last Line: A duller but bore intimate story? LAWYERS ON THE LEFT BANK First Line: So this is me at thirty-two, the strange dream seemed to say Last Line: And burn holes in the carpet with averted bedroom eyes LEARNING FROM THE MOVIES First Line: In the world of the high jump, if something can go wrong Last Line: The seeming goners, towers of raw strength, show us LEPER IN THE CITY First Line: We all have the same memory Last Line: Too strange to pity, and too green to love LOOKOUT First Line: High above the city Last Line: As we go down together, talking all the way LOVE AND WORK Poem Text First Line: In an uncurtained room across the way Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Love; Work; Workers LOVE AND WORK First Line: In an uncurtained room across the way Last Line: I'll call you when I've finished one more page Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Love MACDOWELL Poem Text First Line: For once I fought back Subject(s): Writing & Writers; Artist Colonies MADELEINE FOR A WHILE (AFTER HITCHCOCK'S VERTIGO) First Line: Scottie looked down from a very great height Last Line: Scottie looked down from a very great height MAGNETISM First Line: I stood and let the forces come to me Last Line: Another lifetime tendering that debt METAMORPHOSIS First Line: The living holiday with suns for eyes Last Line: A beast behind a big desk, doing sums NARCISSUS ON THE MOVE First Line: The time had come to look up from the lake Last Line: With amorous intent, no two alike ON LEAVING THE BACHELORETTE BRUNCH Poem Text Recitation First Line: Because I gazed out the window at birds Subject(s): Love POEM FOR A NEW YEAR Poem Text First Line: Love that a reign of terror struck dumb Subject(s): Love; Winter; New Year POEM FOR A NEW YEAR First Line: Love that reign of terror struck dumb, Last Line: May I robustly, fondly meet it. POMONA First Line: It's all about the way you store your fruit Last Line: A racetrack where a vain endeavor was RAIN AT READING Poem Text First Line: We had gathered under a tent in the park Subject(s): Rain; Poetry & Poets RIVAL First Line: Names flow from her mouth as so many hearty allies; Last Line: She dips her pen in a lake of ink, and the pen flies. Subject(s): Writing And Writers SAKURA PARK Poem Text First Line: The park admits the wind Subject(s): Parks SEVENTH SUNDAY Poem Text Subject(s): Relationships SHORT ODE TO MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS Poem Text First Line: Convergence of worlds, old stomping ground, Subject(s): Morningside Heights, New York City; City & Town Life SHORT ODE TO SCREWBALL WOMEN Poem Text First Line: On sullen nights like these Subject(s): Women SIGNIFICANT SPOT First Line: Not long ago I would have breathed a sigh Last Line: And whispered words like oneness), it meant war SILVER ROSES Poem Text First Line: The strings, as if they knew Subject(s): Relationships SONG First Line: The mighty among us have vanished forever Last Line: I'll summon you gently to summon you back SPEECH AFTER A SPECTACLE First Line: The balconies and the ballrooms may Last Line: Take note, unbeliever: I am only seconds away SPIGOT VARIATIONS First Line: Returning home from a secret meeting Last Line: Give me that crimson rain again SURGICAL MOVES First Line: Lights dimmed, the scraper scraped, and I could feel Last Line: Clean up the mess, it is no mess of mine TAGALONG First Line: I'm loking for a war that's big enough Last Line: That guiding, solemn, cautionary hand TAKING TO THE HILLS Poem Text First Line: If walking, like wine, only abets a sad mood Subject(s): Walking; Nature; Mountains; Love; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE OTHER STARS Poem Text First Line: Tripartite schemes were all very well Subject(s): Life Choices; Social Commentaries; Relationships THE WORLD HAD FLED Poem Text First Line: The world had fled, with all its silly cares Subject(s): Love - Nature Of THOUGHTS WHILE WALKING Poem Text First Line: I hate the travel logs that tell you Subject(s): Travel; Life Choices; Journeys; Trips THOUGHTS WHILE WALKING First Line: I hate the travel logs that tell you Last Line: Fertile ground between shouting and silence THREE SONGS First Line: Much has been said of the Last Line: Still on the run THREE SONGS First Line: I was in the bookstore, reading the ends of mysteries Last Line: He holds his tongue and saves it for his mother TRIUMPH OF MARSYAS First Line: I stood, all pus and muscle, at the stake Last Line: Your patron, the well-tempered, shallow sun URBAN GALLERY Poem Text First Line: When the wind invades the treetops Subject(s): Human Behavior; City & Town Life; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature URBAN GALLERY First Line: When the wind invades the treetops Last Line: But sickness is catching; lovers, permit me entrance. WITNESS First Line: I crawled out of the wreckage whistling Last Line: But never heard the music in my head WORMS AND US Poem Text First Line: Maggots in the food, maggots in the floorboards Subject(s): Death; Dead, The |
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