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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: ford, ford Matches Found: 383 Brown, Ford Madox Poet's Biography 2 poems available by this author FOR THE PICTURE, 'THE LAST OF ENGLAND' Poem Text First Line: The last of england! O'er the sea Last Line: She cannot see a void, where he will be. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Farewell; Paintings & Painters; Woolner, Thomas (1825-1892); Parting O.M.B. (DIED NOVEMBER, 1874) Poem Text First Line: As one who strives from some fast steamer's Last Line: Some vestige of your thought outspans the abysm! Subject(s): Brown, Oliver Madox (1855-1874) Brown, Steven Ford 4 poems available by this author AFTER THE VIETNAM WAR First Line: Sometimes %on windless nights Last Line: Their cries are almost human Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 LOVE EMBRACE OF THE WORLD: FRIDA KAHLO TRIPTYCH: 1. THE ACCIDENT First Line: We took the bus to coyoacan after school. Rain Last Line: Among the crowd, louder now, I hear someone crying, %la bailarina! La bailarina! La bailarina! SUMMER, THAT MASSIVE BLUE First Line: Summer, that massive blue dirigible, has floated Last Line: Window, streams through our bodies THINGS ARE BEING BUILT First Line: Things are being built. Across the lush Last Line: For a chance to be dazzled by the real Ford, ? 1 poems available by this author VERSES ON A TREE SPLIT IN A STORM; YORKSHIRE, 1863 First Line: When didst thou first behold the blush of morn? Last Line: Speak, if thy knotted trunk has a tongue, %and tell us how things looked when thou wast young Subject(s): Trees Ford, Anna M. 1 poems available by this author FOX AND GEESE First Line: Come, children dear, and listen to me Ford, Charles Henri Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Ford, Charles Henry 89 poems available by this author ABC'S First Line: Ask horror for a helping hand Last Line: Zero hours zinc the throat %of time the drunkard every day: %oh how to sober hihm up before %he drea AFTERNOON WITH ANDRE BRETON First Line: Suppose, suppose the lion closed a fist on the calendar Last Line: The virgin, day, flies, flies from the negro, night BABY'S IN JAIL; THE ANIMAL DAY PLAYS ALONE Last Line: You bit a butterfly, I'll chew a leaf. %baby will come to love and grief BAD HABIT First Line: Drug of the incomprehensible Last Line: Perpetually haunted, hopeless addict, %herding unheard of cattle! %rider on the bat-winged horse BALLAD FOR BAUDELAIRE First Line: For this man shed no tear Last Line: The world to his clairvoyant eye %a crystal swarming with eternity BUTTERFLY AND THE BULL First Line: One moment you are stabbed with a white flag Last Line: Your fame I trust, your actions I descry, %nor reconcile the bull and butterfly CANDY DARLING First Line: The king of the monkeys tried to marry her Last Line: I lift the glass of veneration to a glimmering vision, explosive flower planted %in the mud of a law CHANSON PUR BILLIE First Line: Whoa, hillbilly, you've got me where you want me - in the ferris wheel of Last Line: Gienic - housebreaker, cardsharper, anything you say - so long as the boss %can be billie holiday COMEDY OF BELIEF First Line: I believe in the day hung between your hands Last Line: Doubt will topple the last door, the cold grave's. %belief, let the wind walk over us, and the grass CURSE FOR THE WAR MACHINE First Line: May all the slabs of clamor that you leave Last Line: The carbonated soul will not aspire: %burn in the echo that deafened the heart's fire! DESIRE TO BE IN TWO PLACES AT ONCE First Line: Stones watch the sea like cats: -- the stone of sleep Last Line: I; stone and cat: -- both mine to wonder at Subject(s): Animals; Cats DICTY GLIDE IN CENTRAL PARK MENAGERIE First Line: Cowboy, where's your class-conscious horse? Last Line: And it's not your smile will cut you down, %nor a ten-gallonhat in which you'll drown EMBLEMS OF ARACHNE, SELS. EPIGRAMS First Line: The world's a mirror, break it and you die! Last Line: When war goes on forever %and life almost as it was before %tell me tales that dead men tell, there FACE OF THE EARTH First Line: Sand tears fall; time's tear always falling Last Line: And there'll be other eyes to open %and see what else there is to see %on the face of the earth that FLAG OF ECSTASY First Line: Over the towers of autoerotic honey Last Line: Like one of those tender strips of flesh %on either side of the bertebral column %marcel, wave! FOR DJUNA BARNES: 1 ROOTS First Line: And so the flowres grow and are deformed Last Line: Sometimes and birds have screens, fishers are muted %in their deep waters; the beautiful are rooted FOR DJUNA BARNES: 2 THE JEWELED BAT First Line: It is with terror that the jeweled bat Last Line: The lovely black bat used to fly across %not knowing then the solitude that was FOR DJUNA BARNES: 3 SEIS HARMANOS First Line: Six brothers in an autumn boat called me Last Line: Though scattered far apart in their first flood, %are now one will, one engine and one blood FOX WITH THE BLUE VELVET BAND First Line: Going from side to side and from place to place Last Line: In the house on any street without a room GARDEN OF DISORDER: 1 First Line: To lodge your harvest in the lion's mouth Last Line: Rear-gas of the sensational nor the %reactionary apple in the garden of the irrational GARDEN OF DISORDER: 2 First Line: Let us try dividing the impersonal and personal Last Line: Oh why are we afraid? For beowulf bellows %across the centuries to bravery's bedfellows GARDEN OF DISORDER: 3 First Line: Perfume the clock, and the cricket will take care of aunt bess Last Line: I'd rather be the shepherd %who traded spoors with the leopard GARDEN OF DISORDER: 4 First Line: Lenin has withdrawn to a dialectic Last Line: In may's revolving botany: boquets of terror %from the garden of revolution Subject(s): Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich (1870-1924); Russia HE CUTS HIS FINGER ON ETERNITY First Line: What grouchy war-tanks intend to shred Last Line: Or grammar they hung up your ace-in-the-hole coat on, %or love with closed eyes that your hot hand s I WONDER First Line: Where do we go from here? Last Line: And the tongue was red as flame %and the tree that grows will be red as a rose %as rose as red as th I WOULDN'T PUT IT PAST YOU First Line: And you may not have hair as curly as the alphabet Last Line: And my downtown a-waving in the wind IMPOSSIBILITY OF DYING IN YOUR ARMS DOES NOT SADDEN ME First Line: I do not want to be told any more of your facts! I cannot abide any more Last Line: Interested as the action of an enzyme. 'it is sweet,' said laotse, tasting the %vinegar IS HE A BLOOD RELATION OF YOURS Last Line: Now he is stroking a giant feather %I go towards him, I am stranded in the great beyond IT SEEMS YOU NEVER WERE First Line: Should every object claim a place to fit Last Line: Though I find you fishing on every shore %no heart but my heart will make you live once more MATIN POUR MATTA First Line: When the foot opens like a cup Last Line: When you split the world in two, %one half lives, the other dies for you MAX ERNST First Line: Though the practice of chastity confers magical powers Last Line: Was it all due to a weakness on the dark squares %or to antibodies delicate and frightening as a thr Subject(s): Chastity; Ernst, Max (1891-1976) MESSAGE FOR RIMBAUD First Line: Your summerhouse of underdone meat is still standing, boy. The last time Last Line: Was no signature, but I recognized humanity's handwriting MISHIMA First Line: The unplayed idea returned to haunt you, yukio mishima Last Line: You wear the hidden smile that triggers the trance of the sun O First Line: O seditious toxins of nostalgia Last Line: Undisguised as the virus of nothingness %rialtos revel in reptilian tranfusions OM KRINSHNA II: THE CONVALESCENCE 1 First Line: O rook your pearly gray ruff Last Line: Krishna in the bucket seat of his lotus knows %the bloodsugar in his brainbank is always overdrawn OM KRINSHNA II: THE CONVALESCENCE 2 First Line: After being awarded the booby prize for cod banging Last Line: In the cream separator the turning is conical %a drop falls from a narrow tube %urine digests starch OM KRINSHNA II: THE CONVALESCENCE 3 First Line: Caracas. Pre-puberty education for the mentally defective continued here Last Line: The critter next to me was going at it %like a night violet responding with its perfume to the night OM KRINSHNA II: THE CONVALESCENCE 4 First Line: Sweat glands are being measured in seattle Last Line: Farewell my dearest evil not every bulbous extremity will serve OM KRINSHNA II: THE CONVALESCENCE 5 First Line: With ruby eyes singed in bristles and vestigial wings Last Line: In an arched sewer redolent of the knot of brahma %hit the dog in the water with the force of an exo OM KRINSHNA II: THE CONVALESCENCE 6 First Line: The curfew in bangkok from midnight to 4:30 a.M. Remains in force Last Line: Another shortage of snow tires is expected %emotional numbness gives way to undisguised intoxication OM KRINSHNA II: THE CONVALESCENCE 7 First Line: He who buys flesh buys groans Last Line: The pig-boy and the punk-pusher play the beast with two backs %before ingesting french vanilla in an OM KRINSHNA II: THE CONVALESCENCE 8 First Line: Bacteria equipped with non-bacterial functions Last Line: Drove screechingly away from what is said to be the most scientific prison %anywhere OM KRISHNA I: SPECIAL EFFECTS 1 First Line: With an elaborate wail Last Line: The other, ari ho-chen, pocketing the perfect title, there's a vapor dome %on the day coach OM KRISHNA I: SPECIAL EFFECTS 10 First Line: Not to lose the drastic insight which is poetry Last Line: Prostrate and gloating a pregnant sow foresees the future %in the flung snot of princes OM KRISHNA I: SPECIAL EFFECTS 11 First Line: We are the severings of a serpentine mirror Last Line: The sallow demeanor of a prodigal son %mark the flora and fauna of a missing person OM KRISHNA I: SPECIAL EFFECTS 12 First Line: A well-conceived madonna is the eye-opening blue or a gift-wrapped city Last Line: Ladies, there's a certain kind of abnormal lull, seems to nest in %foldaway cruelties. It's the mumm OM KRISHNA I: SPECIAL EFFECTS 13 First Line: Beasts of song unstring their priceless tokens Last Line: Who will banish my distrust of alien broods OM KRISHNA I: SPECIAL EFFECTS 14 First Line: Take-over remains in texas. Copper values jump. A girl manacled north Last Line: No one does it like an aching kid, looking for a place to stay OM KRISHNA I: SPECIAL EFFECTS 15 First Line: Alchemists shift the unadulterated. 'testing 1-2-3 ...' persuasive jargon gets Last Line: Brainwork's a spooky thing, the way traveling should always be Subject(s): Alchemy And Alchemists OM KRISHNA I: SPECIAL EFFECTS 16 First Line: Dehumanized sentences teach him everything Last Line: Another example of indirect carnage %let us imagine that we have imagined it all OM KRISHNA I: SPECIAL EFFECTS 2 First Line: Mysteries of behavior are solved by inanition Last Line: Standing inside the doorway as though desperate %your lies are what give you away OM KRISHNA I: SPECIAL EFFECTS 3 First Line: This is the story of fire without flames Last Line: Into which of your eyes should I look %now that I have given you pain I see you more clearly OM KRISHNA I: SPECIAL EFFECTS 4 First Line: Aware of an eventual pairing off, the changes stem from a fang-and-claw Last Line: Iron. So let the hole in the ground tell you something. %allrooms are bedrooms OM KRISHNA I: SPECIAL EFFECTS 5 First Line: Metaphysical weasel may your firstborn inherit Last Line: Kindness expires in the coilsof concupiscence %drives a stake through the heart of orion OM KRISHNA I: SPECIAL EFFECTS 6 First Line: A geek I know used to say that by standards prevalent in gypjoint hospitals Last Line: Ties, I'd show you mistress quickly socking it to adolph, who'd have loved a hero's funeral OM KRISHNA I: SPECIAL EFFECTS 7 First Line: Shuddering pageant, utter your joyous leaves Last Line: To cut into our bafflement a snake without mishap %lunging at fugitives with 'face of oval scorn' OM KRISHNA I: SPECIAL EFFECTS 8 First Line: Loin de l'abbatoir plus doux que le sommeil Last Line: A see-through parasite is sloping the other way %eyelides open and close like greek foreskins OM KRISHNA I: SPECIAL EFFECTS 9 First Line: Scaley mammal lingering in what unreal quagmire .. Condemned to Last Line: Agate-eyed eros is sweeping the sidewalk. A sleepless stallion in the %archway OM KRISHNA II: PHASE THREE 1 First Line: Astride the chiffonier of post-oral conductions Last Line: Only the vesicula seminalis escape unscathed %overhead helicopters are searching the rooftops OM KRISHNA II: PHASE THREE 2 First Line: You cannot learn too much about the one you idolize Last Line: Rapists with a typhoon in the breast %exchange beauty for hurt OM KRISHNA II: PHASE THREE 3 First Line: When a throwback to autogenesis takes place Last Line: And when do lovers go unburied %all that will be left is an image %standing in the doorway of sleep OM KRISHNA II: PHASE THREE 4 First Line: She gave what she could but not always what she could have Last Line: But he flies away gracefully the first to escape %and disappears with an owl's sound %married men sm OM KRISHNA II: PHASE THREE 5 First Line: I would like to have seen rupert brooke and king Last Line: Though his foreskin might taste as if water of the %arabian sea had dried it up OM KRISHNA II: THE CONVALESCENCE 6 First Line: Dressed in a dhoti with scarf of yellow silk Last Line: On the grave sits a young frog undisturbed by the cold winter wind OM KRISHNA II: THE CONVALESCENCE 7 First Line: Indra with his string of pearls Last Line: Whatever the waves are saying will be cradled by the wind %leaving skull-silver mirrors to keep you OM KRISHNA II: THE CONVALESCENCE 8 First Line: What seems like fragmentation is making all in one Last Line: Ginseng roots wrenched from their circuits %mix with the dregs of dreamless sleep OM KRISHNA II: THE ILLNESS 1 First Line: The thousand-hooded one sleeps quietly his big toe in his mouth Last Line: Of the guardian of cosmic law %family secrets exist no longer than quills on a toad OM KRISHNA II: THE ILLNESS 2 First Line: He was not born he was dragged out Last Line: The game becomes a work of art there are counter-strategies of mud and %poinsettias %doors are opene OM KRISHNA II: THE ILLNESS 3 First Line: A war for dharma is waged with flower-tipped arrows Last Line: Into a puja for the wax-winged icarus I am sorry but your banana leaf has %been flooded OM KRISHNA II: THE ILLNESS 4 First Line: Distractions in the forest Last Line: Shares with him blood siphoned from sleeping rabbits %his lotus eyes live only for the moment OM KRISHNA II: THE ILLNESS 5 First Line: One reason for nature's attractin and repulsion Last Line: If you wish to solve the riddle of his charm %it's not what he does it's what he lets you do OM KRISHNA II: THE ILLNESS 6 First Line: Where is govinda tell him to come here Last Line: A peacock dances in the wildwood %while two studs hurt each other taking it in turn OM KRISHNA II: THE ILLNESS 7 First Line: The ashes of age having disappeared Last Line: She went to the parapet and closed her eyes %he bit his lips till the blood came then walked away OM KRISHNA II: THE ILLNESS 8 First Line: His satanic majesty is ignorant as hell Last Line: With suprapubic aplomb the puer of testicular exploits %enunciated his ripostes %calculations for fi OM KRISHNA II: THE ILLNESS 9 First Line: Not only a miracle of beauty but a worker of miracles Last Line: Why did bedi insist on battling at number eleven in the queen's park owl %test match OVERTURNED LAKE First Line: Blue unsolid tongue, if you could talk Last Line: As the mind is overturned by memory, the heart by dread PLAINT (BEFORE A MOB OF 10,000 AT OWENSBORO, KY.) Poem Text First Line: I, rainey betha, 22 / from the top branch of race-hatred look at you Subject(s): Social Protest PLAINT (BEFORE A MOB OF 10,000 AT OWENSBORO, KY.) First Line: I, rainey betha, 22 %from the top branch of race-hatred look at you Last Line: Oh, who is the forester must tend such a tree, lord? %do angels pick the cherry-blood of folk like m Subject(s): Social Protest POEM FOR PAUL EULARD First Line: The clouds of dissipation hand like wars Last Line: Whose eyes looked out from every pore, %and buried (like the bone of lust) %by children who never mo PRISON LIFE First Line: Is the dilatory lightningbug more free Last Line: Poetry roams in you head %like a sick child who burgeons %like a poem in a soiled bed %like a child SECRET HAIKU, SELS. SERENADE TO LEONOR First Line: Lion-girl of the rue payenne Last Line: As the cat with the violet lips leaps in %to visit the lion-girl of the rue payenne ST.-JOHN PERSE First Line: Holding habit-shaped memories in a leopard-skin apron Last Line: Your meanings, apparitional and boundless, added up to the sacred %number 7 THERE'S NO PLACE TO SLEEP IN THIS BED, TANGUY First Line: The storks like elbows had a fit of falling Last Line: There's no place to sleep in this bed, tanguy %there are too many monuments of broken hearts THIS IS THE STORY OF FIRE WITHOUT FLAMES Last Line: Your teeth are white as white radishes %before you wore those clothes they were not holy TO CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE First Line: As much to blame as francis archer seems Last Line: And makes him one of those grave thieves who go %to pick the lock of christopher marlowe WAR First Line: Being black, you mergedd with the night Last Line: And marauders no more apropos %than those in ethiopia, %bombs hurled at 15,000 poets, %killing 2,000 YOUR HOROSCOPE First Line: Capricornus Last Line: Your happiness: illusory as a killer in repose Ford, Charles L. 1 poems available by this author THE SACRAMENT Poem Text First Line: This is my body, which is given for you Last Line: "and hear thy voice, ""arise, let us go hence." Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The Ford, Corey 2 poems available by this author UP-SET First Line: Kid march had the stuff but his style was hard WHEN WEST COMES EAST First Line: I hail from high in the alkali Ford, Daniel Barker 1 poems available by this author LAY OF CAPE COD First Line: Hurrah! For old cape cod Subject(s): Cape Cod Ford, Deborah 20 poems available by this author AMAZING HAIR First Line: She wore her own hair Last Line: The bishop discussed wall street %with the organist ARITHMETIC First Line: Arithmetic cannot get along with one alone Last Line: May have special meaning %for the concept of number. %and a parrot may eat it. %what shall I say num BILLY First Line: Billy comes along %bouncing on the four Last Line: And sunlight, sighting %between the steering rim %and dash, grinning over %his load of dirt BRUSH STROKES First Line: I can't ever remember Last Line: I tucked thought away %and laced my fingers %through hers, %palms straining together %to close the g EXCELLENT DUMPLING HOUSE First Line: I dallied that morning in the open market Last Line: In the marketplace, chicken feet %still dance %the chicken dance FIBONACCI First Line: Fibonacci's golden numbers Last Line: The activity is not misleading. %it is the way we stay afloat FRAGILE DAYS First Line: In a dark room full of tears Last Line: In a dark room full of tears %she lived out her fragile days GLITTER First Line: On surf avenue %it's one minute and fifty seconds Last Line: In the inky sky. %what dad promised us %were stars HISTORY First Line: Let me just say this about homer Last Line: But what reporting is, and how %much more than we were ever taught to expect %is really lies LANDSCAPE First Line: Nineteenth century foundations Last Line: Told they have too many children, %balancing resignation and fortitude MARIONETTE First Line: Orange sea anemones washed ashore Last Line: A rusty sunset dilates my vision; %hungry sting rays %gnaw at my black toe NAKED ON SUNDAY First Line: Naked on sunday when god isn't home Last Line: We take note, pay no attention at all %as we continue to read poems %naked on sunday NOTEBOOK First Line: Run over a snapper.' Last Line: He waded through alligator swamps %with chunks of horsemeat %trussed to his legs PHYSICS First Line: Max planck and I discussed theology Last Line: Then ran into a brick wall-- %the bits and pieces all falling %on the still solid ground POEM First Line: A poem ought to be a rosetta stone Last Line: Already my eyes sting %from soft pretzels and chestnuts %that must be roasting %where you are RELIGION LESSON First Line: Somewhere, I was told Last Line: In front of a closed country store, %and upon the monks of st. Francis %elsewhere and in harmony SAFFRON AND SILVER First Line: We will make you braided plaits of gold set with beads of Last Line: That explanations would be useless, %that love is, above all, history, %that breathing is a matter o SNAILS First Line: Go deliberately %tasting all that lies in their path Last Line: They do not stop until death-- %dissolving them like ink-- %leaves only a ram's horn %ro record the STRANGER First Line: I remember when you were a stranger Last Line: I now know loss, and I now know comfort. %here at home, there are no more shadows UNCLE JIM First Line: He was old when I knew him: Last Line: He grows smaller each summer %like the cash crop harvested Ford, Edsel 1 poems available by this author LOOKING FOR SHILOH ON A COUNTRY ROAD Last Line: Because, like shiloh, they were in too deep Ford, Edward Baunton 2 poems available by this author MOTHER MOST DEAR, LONG IS THE PATH BUT PLAIN TIPHAINE LA FEE First Line: The whispered spells your red lips stain Ford, Elizabeth 2 poems available by this author NEW YORKER COVER First Line: Five calendar ducks padding in an arc Last Line: And underneath here we are: skin, %web, shell, and bits of broken glass SMALL ALMANAC FOR YOUNG WIDOW First Line: The terrapins rustling through dry leaves Last Line: With hair od deer and print of horse's hooves %even though by then his bones are white Ford, Flora P. 1 poems available by this author STAND OUT, YE MINERS First Line: Stand out, stand out, ye miners Subject(s): Mines And Miners Ford, Ford Madox Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox 95 poems available by this author A LULLABY Poem Text First Line: We've wandered all about the upland fallows Last Line: Sleep, liebchen, sleep, the stars are shooting. Subject(s): Night; Sleep; Bedtime A MASQUE OF THE TIMES O' DAY Poem Text First Line: I am the dawn, beloved by those that watch Last Line: These too shall pass away. Subject(s): Day; Plays & Playwrights ; Time; Dramatists A NIGHT PIECE Poem Text First Line: As I lay awake by my good wife's side Last Line: Above the hills. Subject(s): Night; Singing & Singers; Bedtime; Songs A PAGAN Poem Text First Line: Bright white clouds and april skies Last Line: When it's dark at four of a winter's night. Subject(s): Paganism & Pagans A SEQUENCE Poem Text First Line: You make me think of lavender Last Line: Ah, heart's desire, once more by the old fire stretch out thy hands. Subject(s): Admiration; Farewell; Love; Parting A SOLIS ORTUS CARDINE Poem Text First Line: Oh, quiet peoples sleeping, bed by bed Last Line: Give us your prayers! A SUABIAN LEGEND Poem Text First Line: God made all things Last Line: So soon: so soon.) Subject(s): Creation; Death; God; Dead, The AFTER ALL Poem Text First Line: Yes, what's the use of striving on? Last Line: And all the rest's just waste—just waste of time. Subject(s): Abandonment; Death; Forgetfulness; Desertion; Dead, The ALDINGTON KNOLL; THE OLD SMUGGLER SPEAKS Poem Text First Line: Al'ington knoll it stands up high Last Line: Cater the marsh and crost the sea. Subject(s): Death; Mountains; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain) AN ANNIVERSARY Poem Text First Line: Two decades and a minute Last Line: Two decades and a minute. Subject(s): Anniversaries; Time AN END PIECE Poem Text First Line: Close the book and say good-bye to everything Last Line: As over the hill comes the morning. Subject(s): Change; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails AN IMITATION (TO M.M.) Poem Text First Line: Come, my sylvia, let us rove Last Line: Sporting o'er the velvet green. Subject(s): Dramatists; Fairies; Man-woman Relationships; Nature; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Elves; Male-female Relations; Dramatists AND AFTERWARDS (A SAVAGE SORT OF SONG ON THE ROAD) Poem Text First Line: Once I was a gallant and bold I Last Line: "but I'll never again,"" etc." Subject(s): Change; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations ANTWERP Poem Text First Line: Gloom! %an october like november Subject(s): Antwerp, Belgium AT THE BAL MASQUE; COLUMBINE TO PIERROT Poem Text First Line: Ah - ah- ah - if you ask for a love like that Last Line: Qu'est c'-qu'est c'-qu'est c' que tu fais dans cette galère? Subject(s): France; French Language; Love AUCTIONEER'S SONG Poem Text First Line: Come up from the field Last Line: Bid up! Subject(s): Auctions; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers AUTUMN EVENING Poem Text First Line: The cold light dies, the candles glow Last Line: But in the shadows, lo! Your eyes. Subject(s): Autumn; Night; Seasons; Fall; Bedtime BEGINNINGS; FOR ROSSETTI'S FIRST PAINTING Poem Text First Line: Whether the beginnings of things notable Last Line: And yet—it's just a question. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) CANZONE A LA SONATA (TO. E.P.) Poem Text First Line: What do you find to boast of in our age Last Line: Gape open—where's your grinning melody? Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Youth; Heritage; Heredity CHILDREN'S SONG Poem Text First Line: Sometimes wind and sometimes rain Last Line: If things will always alter so. Subject(s): Children; Weather; Childhood CLAIR DE LUNE Poem Text First Line: I should like to imagine Last Line: Going over.... Subject(s): Moon CLUB NIGHT Poem Text First Line: There was an old man had a broken hat Last Line: "and we'll dance all the village to its knees." Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Old Age; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CONSIDER Poem Text First Line: Now green comes springing o'er the heath Last Line: "none striving, constraining none, and thinking not on death." Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The ENOUGH Poem Text First Line: Long we'd sought for avalon Last Line: The oars—yea, and yearned. Subject(s): Avalon (legend); Sea; Ocean FINCHLEY ROAD Poem Text First Line: As we come up at baker street Last Line: And the twilight settling down on us. Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails FOOTSLOGGERS Poem Text First Line: What is love of one's land? FOUR IN THE MORNING COURAGE Poem Text First Line: The birds this morning wakened me so early it was hardly day Last Line: The starling waked me ere the day aping the thrush's sober tune). Subject(s): Birds; Morning; Summer FROM INLAND Poem Text First Line: I dreamed that you and I were young Last Line: That fled so bravely to its death. Subject(s): Old Age; Past; Relationships; Youth FROM THE SOIL (TWO MONOLOGUES) Poem Text First Line: Aham a mighty simple man and only Last Line: All over hill and dale. ... Subject(s): Farm Life; God; Labor & Laborers; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers GRAY; FOR A PICTURE Poem Text First Line: The firelight gilds the patterns on the walls Last Line: And wonder who shall do the like again. Subject(s): Death; Farm Life; Graves; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers; Tombs; Tombstones GREY MATTER Poem Text First Line: They leave us nothing Last Line: Begins the ancient mystery anew. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Women; Male-female Relations HOW STRANGE A THING Poem Text First Line: How strange a thing to think upon Last Line: Doth bear us and our sin. Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers; Curiosities & Wonders; Earth; Enigmas; Oddities; World IN TENEBRIS Poem Text First Line: All within is warm Last Line: Let the light fall on my face. Subject(s): Light; Longing; Waiting IN THE LITTLE OLD MARKET-PLACE (TO THE MEMORY OF A.V.) Poem Text First Line: It rains, it rains Last Line: From wet dawn to wet dawn... Subject(s): Markets; Rain; Supermarkets IN THE STONE JUG Poem Text First Line: Old days are gone Last Line: Too shall come in with me out of the rain. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crime & Criminals; Death; Sin; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Dead, The IN THE TRAIN Poem Text First Line: Out of the window I see a dozen great stars, burning bright Last Line: Shall the white stars wheel in their reverie. Subject(s): Railroads; Stars; Railways; Trains IRON MUSIC Poem Text First Line: The french guns roll continuously KING COPHETUA'S WOOING; A SONG DRAMA IN ONE ACT Poem Text First Line: Could I but keep my beggar's staff Last Line: Blue and low. Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Courts & Courtiers; Plays & Playwrights ; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dramatists LOVE IN WATCHFULNESS; UPON THE SHEEPDOWNS Poem Text First Line: Sail, oh sail away Last Line: You'll sail away. Subject(s): Love MAURESQUE (TO V.M.) Poem Text First Line: To horse! To horse! The veil of night sinks softly down Last Line: The crescent moon looks softly down. Subject(s): Horseback Riding MODERN LOVE Poem Text First Line: Knee-deep among the buttercups, the sun Last Line: That lies before us, you of the dear eyes. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Love MOODS ON THE MOSELLE Poem Text First Line: Sweet! Sweet! Sweet! Sings the bird upon the bough Last Line: That our songs sing now. Subject(s): Change; Mourning; Bereavement NIGHT PIECE Poem Text First Line: Ah, of those better tides of dark and melancholy Last Line: They lie so deep. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime OLD HOUSES OF FLANDERS Poem Text OLD MAN'S EVENSONG Poem Text First Line: Tis but a teeny mite Last Line: Home on the sod. Subject(s): Men; Old Age OLD WINTER Poem Text First Line: Old winter's hobbling down the road Last Line: He's not such a bad old fellow. Subject(s): Seasons ON A MARSH ROAD (WINTER, NIGHTFALL) Poem Text First Line: A bluff of cliff, purple against the south Last Line: Nor none look back upon this world folding to-night, to rain and to sleep. Subject(s): Nature; Night; Winter; Bedtime ON HEAVEN, SELECTION Poem Text First Line: And my dear one sat in the shadows; very softly she wept Last Line: In front of a café in heaven. Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise ON THE HILLS Poem Text First Line: Keep your brooding sorrows for dewy-misty hollows Last Line: In the brooding hollows where no breezes are. Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain) PERSEVERANCE D'AMOUR; A LITTLE PLAY Poem Text First Line: A pretty pass Last Line: From the window-sill. Its wings clatter in the stillness. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; France; Love; Plays & Playwrights ; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dramatists RHYMING Poem Text First Line: The bells go chiming Last Line: O'er high germany. Subject(s): Germany; Rhyme; Germans SANCTUARY Poem Text First Line: Shadowed by your dear hair, your dear kind eyes Subject(s): Love SEA JEALOUSY Poem Text First Line: Cast not your looks upon the wan grey sea Last Line: Of droned sea song. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SIDERA CADENTIA (ON THE DEATH OF QUEEN VICTORIA) Poem Text First Line: When one of the old, little stars doth fall Last Line: And the ultimate change that we fear feels a little less far. Subject(s): Death; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Dead, The SILVER MUSIC Poem Text First Line: In chepstow stands a castle SONG Poem Text First Line: Oh! Purer than the day new-born Last Line: Come soon! Subject(s): Day; Nature; Night; Bedtime SONG DIALOGUE Poem Text First Line: Is it so, my dear Last Line: "now that day's begun." Subject(s): Day; Night; Bedtime SONG OF THE HEBREW SEER Poem Text First Line: Oh would that the darkness would cover the face of the land Last Line: The myriad, myriad sounds of the sea. Subject(s): God; Jews; Prophecy & Prophets; Religion; Judaism; Theology SONNET (SUGGESTED BY THE 'PHOEBUS WITH ADMETUS' BY GEORGE MEREDITH) Poem Text First Line: After apollo left admetus' gate Last Line: Had quickened their dead world? And, ah, his lute... Subject(s): Apollo; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Mythology - Greek; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SPRING ON THE WOODLAND PATH Poem Text First Line: So long a winter such an arctic night Last Line: With the old hearts in this forgotten way? Subject(s): Grief; Love; Relationships; Spring; Winter; Sorrow; Sadness ST AETHELBURGA; FOR A PICTURE Poem Text First Line: Queen, saint, evangelist; sweet, patient, fain to wait Last Line: She enters through that gate. Subject(s): Aethelburga Of Kent (d. 647); Christianity; Courts & Courtiers; Kent, England; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens SUSSMUND'S ADDRESS TO AN UNKNOWN GOD (ADAPTED FROM HIGH GERMAN) Poem Text First Line: My god, they say I have no bitterness Last Line: And turn reformer. Subject(s): God; Sussmund, Carl Eugen Von (1872-1910) THANKS WHILST UNHARNESSING Poem Text First Line: West'ring the last silver light doth gleam Last Line: (he closes the stable door and enters the cottage.) Subject(s): Gratitude; Horseback Riding THAT EXPLOIT OF YOURS Poem Text First Line: I meet two soldiers sometimes here in hell Last Line: Are saying the selfsame words at this very moment %concerning that exploit of yours Subject(s): World War I THE DREAM HUNT Poem Text First Line: My lady rides a-hunting Last Line: My heart and makes away. Subject(s): Hunting; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Hunters; Male-female Relations THE EXILE Poem Text First Line: My father had many oxen Last Line: Of hirelings once queen's daughters and slaves the seed of kings. Subject(s): African Americans; Slavery; Southern States; Negroes; American Blacks; Serfs; South (u.s.) THE FACE OF THE NIGHT; A PASTORAL Poem Text First Line: I have seen the night with her hair gemm'd with stars Last Line: It continues through the night. Subject(s): Faces; Legends; Night; Plays & Playwrights ; Bedtime; Dramatists THE FEATHER Poem Text First Line: I wonder dost thou sleep at night Last Line: Friend of mine, my enemy. Subject(s): Enemies; Friendship; Friendship - False Friends; Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.); Fair Weather Friends THE GIPSY AND THE CUCKOO Poem Text First Line: Tell me, brother, what's a cuckoo, but a roguish chaffing bird? Last Line: Were the sounds all organ pealing, psalm and song and prayer? Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Gypsies; Gipsies THE GREAT VIEW Poem Text First Line: Up here, where the air's very clear Last Line: There is france. Subject(s): Beauty; France; Nature THE GYPSY AND THE TOWNSMAN Poem Text First Line: Pleasant enough in the seed time Last Line: There than here in the saddest month of the weariest year. Subject(s): Gypsies; Towns; Weather; Gipsies THE MOTHER; A SONG DRAMA Poem Text First Line: It's I have conquered you Last Line: Curtain. Subject(s): Dust; Grass; Mothers; Nature; Plays & Playwrights ; Dramatists THE OLD FAITH TO THE CONVERTS Poem Text First Line: When the world is growing older Last Line: But we—we shall never return. Subject(s): Conversion; Faith; Belief; Creed THE OLD LAMENT Poem Text First Line: What maketh lads so cruel be? Last Line: And never once look back! Subject(s): Lament; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails THE PEASANT'S APOLOGY Poem Text First Line: Down near the earth Last Line: Bitterness and blackness from the earth. Subject(s): Grief; Peasantry; Sorrow; Sadness THE PEDLAR LEAVES THE BAR PARLOUR AT DYMCHURCH Poem Text First Line: Good night, we'd best be jogging on Last Line: To sleep to-night. Subject(s): Peddlers & Peddling THE PORTRAIT Poem Text First Line: She sits upon a tombstone in the shade Last Line: And solves the riddles of the universe. Subject(s): Life THE SONG OF THE WOMEN; A WEALDEN TRIO Poem Text First Line: When ye've got a child 'ats whist for want of food Last Line: Singin' of the shepherds on that morn. Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Carols; Jesus Christ; Women; Nativity, The THE STARLING Poem Text First Line: It's an odd thing how one changes! Last Line: Yes, it's strange how one changes! . . . Subject(s): Starlings THE THREE-TEN Poem Text First Line: When in the prime and may day time dead lovers went a-walking Last Line: Those maids, thank god! Are' neath the sod and all their generation. Subject(s): Death; Love; Dead, The THE UNWRITTEN SONG Poem Text First Line: Now where's a song for our small dear Last Line: And hush herself to sleep? Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs THE WIND'S QUEST Poem Text First Line: Oh, where shall I find rest? Last Line: Anarchist journal, the torch, in 1891. Subject(s): Rest; Wind THERE SHALL BE MORE JOY' First Line: The little angels of heaven TO ALL THE DEAD Poem Text First Line: A chinese queen on a lacquered throne Last Line: To all the dead! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TO CHRISTINA AND KATHARINE AT CHRISTMAS Poem Text First Line: Now christmas is a porter's-rest whereon to set his load Last Line: For you and me! Subject(s): Christmas; God; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The TO CHRISTINA AT NIGHTFALL Poem Text First Line: Little thing, ah, little mouse Last Line: Ah, sweet! Do you the like where I lie dead. Subject(s): Children; Night; Childhood; Bedtime TO PETRONELLA AT SEA Poem Text First Line: To the remotest verges of the sea Subject(s): Love TWO FRESCOES Poem Text First Line: Down there where europe's arms Last Line: Rose over africa. Subject(s): Africa; Art & Artists; Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens VIEWS Poem Text First Line: Being in rome I wonder will you go Last Line: When I may be your I, your rome my rome. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Man-woman Relationships; Rome, Italy; Male-female Relations VOLKSWISE Poem Text First Line: A poor girl sat by a tower of the sea Last Line: "just a token, just a glimmer of his ship's lant ... Horn?" Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Sailing & Sailors; Waiting; Male-female Relations; Seamen; Sails WHAT THE ORDERLY DOG SAW Poem Text First Line: Seven white peacocks against the castle wall WHEN THE WORLD CRUMBLED' First Line: Once there were purple seas WHEN THE WORLD WAS IN BUILDING' Poem Text First Line: Thank goodness, the moving is over WIFE TO HUSBAND Poem Text First Line: If I went past you down this hill Last Line: And nought had passed of all that was of yore? Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WISDOM Poem Text First Line: The young girl questions: 'whether were it better' Last Line: "nor may till we be dead." Subject(s): Death; Life; Rest; Wisdom; Dead, The Ford, Francis Alan 1 poems available by this author SONG OF THE GULF STREAM First Line: Twas yesterday he made me and tommorrow ... Die Subject(s): Sea Ford, Gail 2 poems available by this author DIE TODAY? First Line: If I knew we would die today Last Line: The rising %falling %sea Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) I SEE AGAIN First Line: The sixty-year-old man %forty-eight hours tired Last Line: I drink him drink him in Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) Ford, Gena 3 poems available by this author LEGACY First Line: Grandad, I didn't burn it Last Line: No one here could play it Subject(s): Grandparents; Violins LINES FOR A HARD TIME First Line: Evil does not go always Last Line: As we can. And send our sons %to walk out in open day NUDE ON THE BATHROOM WALL First Line: I'll prop her, I swear, ankle, butt and chin Last Line: For desperately sensual bathers to drown Ford, Grace D. 1 poems available by this author HIGHEST EDUCATION First Line: Boys of mine, I send you forth Ford, Gregory J. 1 poems available by this author BITS AND PIECES First Line: Freckles %tickle your nose Ford, Harriet 1 poems available by this author HIS SISTER, HIS COUSIN, AND HIS PANTS First Line: There was a man in allentown, and he was wondrous wise Ford, Horatio 1 poems available by this author FRINGED GENTIAN First Line: A violet grew in the meadow-grass Ford, Janice 2 poems available by this author CHAFF Poem Text First Line: Let me no more in fretful mood arise Last Line: Nor this, my voice, be raised in cold disdain. MY ROSE Poem Text First Line: There is a lovely rose that never dies Last Line: The fragrance that has made it mine. Subject(s): Immortality; Youth Ford, John James B. 2 poems available by this author HEY VERBAL Last Line: What's pouring shite. Icky TO THE STRANGE ANGELS Last Line: Bury me %with my play-station Ford (1586-1639), John 12 poems available by this author BROKEN HEART, SELS. First Line: Bassanes. Beasts onely capable of sense, enjoy Last Line: No tempests of commotion shall disquiet %the calmes of my composure BROKEN HEART, SELS. First Line: Our orisons are heard; the gods are merciful BROKEN HEART, SELS. (AFTER SENECA) First Line: Put out thy torches hymen, or their light Last Line: Till men can call th'effects of them their owne FANCIES First Line: Fancies are but streams LADY'S TRIAL, SELS. First Line: Pleasures, beauty, youth attend ye Last Line: For in all the loser gains LINES TO JOHN WEBSTER ON HIS PLAY THE DUCHESS OF MALFI Poem Text First Line: Crown him a poet, whom nor rome nor greece Last Line: A lasting fame to raise his monument. Subject(s): Webster, John (1580-1625) LOVE AND DEATH LOVE'S SACRIFICE Poem Text First Line: Depart the court? Last Line: That ever here befell a sadder day. [exeunt. Subject(s): Love - Complaints PERKIN WARBECK Poem Text First Line: Studies have of this nature been of late Last Line: And often find a welcome to the muses. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Henry Vii, King Of England (1457-1509); Impostors & Imposture; English History; Fitzroy, Henry, Duke Of Richmond; Tudor, Henry THE BROKEN HEART Poem Text First Line: Our scene is sparta. He whose best of art Last Line: The broken heart may be pieced-up again. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Marriage - Forced; Marriage - Arranged THE LOVER'S MELANCHOLY Poem Text First Line: To tell ye, gentlemen, in what true sense Last Line: In this kind he'll not trouble you again. TIS PITY SHE'S A WHORE First Line: Dispute no more in this Ford, John+(2) 1 poems available by this author SILKSTONE, YORKSHIRE, AND DUBLIN; A COMPARISON First Line: Two famous places I record Last Line: But I prefer the coal, though some %declare that whisky's warmer Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Silkstone, England Ford (17th Century-), John 1 poems available by this author TO MY FRIEND AND KINSMAN, JOHN FORD, AUTHOR OF 'PERKIN WARBECK' Poem Text First Line: Dramatic poets, as the times go now Last Line: Many may imitate, few match thy play. Subject(s): Ford, John (1586-1639) Ford, K. B. 1 poems available by this author BABY KANGAROO First Line: Queer little baby kangaroo Ford, Katie 4 poems available by this author LAST BREATH IN SNOWFALL First Line: I loved one person do you see the evergreen there in fog %one by one Last Line: Towards the city and twine a new twine binding me %binding LAST BREATH ON THE FLOOR First Line: In the shower linoleum then floorboards then earth in Last Line: What is used on the disobedient in some countries acid LAST BREATH WITH NO PROOF First Line: What is unremembered may be lodged she said a child %may not Last Line: And the trespass it begins again? THAT THE OMISSIONS CAST A BLUER LIGHT First Line: There would have been birds there Last Line: How is it to be always and never touched? Ford, Linda 1 poems available by this author BEACH GLASS First Line: Bits of jagged bottle glass splashing color Last Line: Blasted and worn smooth Ford, Martyn 3 poems available by this author AFTER THE FUNERAL First Line: Jeoffry is not in mourning Last Line: Scuttle back behind the wainscot. %this killing is strictly for laughs NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR First Line: Amidst the unsuspecting young Last Line: Wolfish men in sheepskin jackets, %get each golf ball in its hole THRIFT First Line: He sits in his windowless dining room Last Line: Has been eaten up. As if he also hated waste, %which, when we look around us, is not the case Subject(s): Saving And Thrift Ford, Mary A. 1 poems available by this author A HUNDRED YEARS FROM NOW Poem Text First Line: The surging sea of human life forever onward rolls Last Line: Beneath the shadow of thy throne a hundred years from now. Subject(s): Religion; Theology Ford, Mary Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author WEEKEND ANGELS First Line: On sunny saturdays, the liquor park Last Line: And heimie's gospels kindly smooth their beds Ford, Michael C. 6 poems available by this author CONVERSATIONS & THE NEW POETICS First Line: Koertge & I were born in little DENNIS HOPPER HOPES, ONCE MORE... First Line: After all, kiddo, our words tap-dance Last Line: Young girls with carrots in their mouths %being chased by elmer fudd DULCIMER IN THE BASEMENT First Line: Marie flaurette, last year (by now Last Line: I'll try not to think the only thing shrunk %by a shrink is imagination HAPPY ANNIVERSARY First Line: A few years ago, I remember visiting MY MOTHER'S FATHER First Line: I was the only child back Last Line: That just isn't him TREASON WOULD FAIN BE IN ONE SO FAIR First Line: Declining collectively, in irresponsible Last Line: The risk of an encounter with weaponry, you %took the woman's way out Ford, Nick Aaron 1 poems available by this author NIGHT AND A CHILD Poem Text First Line: Dark grey clouds massed themselves Last Line: The child dreamed of heaven. Subject(s): Children; Childhood Ford, Richard Clyde 1 poems available by this author FOREST BOAT SONG First Line: The dawn is comin,' callin'. Ford, Robert 4 poems available by this author BARBER WILLIE'S BONNIE DAUCHTER Poem Text First Line: There leeves a lass in oor toun-en' Last Line: Frae barber willie's bonnie dauchter! Subject(s): Daughters; Shaving BONNIEST BAIRN IN A' THE WARL' CUPID IN THE TEMPLE Poem Text First Line: I canna, winna cloak the fact Last Line: But cease your sabbath descration! Subject(s): Cupid; Love; Eros TWA PU'D FLOWERS Poem Text First Line: I pu'd a flower in yonder vale Last Line: "my violet, that droop'd, and died." Subject(s): Flowers Ford, Robert Arthur Douglas 5 poems available by this author DELUSION OF REFERENCE First Line: The arms of the sea are extended EARTHQUAKE First Line: The seasons burn. The wind is dry Last Line: The blast with her too late warning %and testimony of love Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes ROADSIDE NEAR MOSCOW First Line: Bent and heavy with rain SAKHARA First Line: Here the eye is inevitably cast Last Line: The half-starved children %in the desert slums TWENTY BELOW First Line: The woman watches her husband rubbing his nose Last Line: And thaws before the flames Subject(s): Cold Ford, S. Gertrude 4 poems available by this author FIGHT TO THE FINISH' First Line: Fight the year out!' the war-lords said Last Line: On!' echoed hate where the fiends kept tryst: %asked the church, even, what said christ? Subject(s): Women; World War I HOW SHALL THE MINER KNOW? First Line: The world lies cold and white and bright Subject(s): Mines And Miners NATURE IN WAR-TIME First Line: The banished thrush, the homeless rook Last Line: Winds sweep it now; a battle-ground %between two gun-swept hills Subject(s): Women; World War I TENTH ARMISTICE DAY First Line: Lest we forget!' let us remember then Last Line: Build their memorial in the league of nations! Subject(s): Women; World War I Ford, S. V. R. 4 poems available by this author INASMUCH First Line: Good deacon roland - 'may his tribe increase!' OBSTINATE MUSIC-BOX First Line: For forty years the meetinghouse at riverdale OCEAN'S DEAD First Line: Down in the depths SHOUTING JANE First Line: Our minister, good dr. Kane, a ... 'proper man' Ford, Sara De 3 poems available by this author LOVE AT 17 First Line: I lost control of the left lane Last Line: Recognize the smell and decide, %it serves her right? SLEEPING BEAUTY First Line: In your scarred, peeling crib you lay neglected Subject(s): Fairy Tales WHO NAMED YOU MOON? First Line: Your mother lacked the courage Last Line: Signed. 'I am,' you said. 'you forget %our beginnings. I can do better.' Ford, Simon 3 poems available by this author LONDONS REMAINS Poem Text First Line: All you whose cheeks my londons obsequies Last Line: More glorious by your overthrow. Subject(s): London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 LONDONS RESURRECTION Poem Text First Line: My salamander-muse, which newly sprung Last Line: Ev'n so to die, that so she might arise. Subject(s): London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 THE CONFLAGRATION OF LONDON, POETICAL DELINEATED Poem Text First Line: What ayls the poet? What unwonted fire? Last Line: That's such an one, and let him stand for me. Subject(s): Langham, Sir John (1584-1671); London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 Ford, Terri 2 poems available by this author BEACH OF MY MOM First Line: I know why the ships are she. I've got Last Line: Roaring. Against this current I'm wading out Subject(s): Seashore SONG FOR TWO BODIES First Line: Lumber me up, my licky bloke Last Line: Mouth. There will be tongues, %I think, and bells Ford, Thomas+(1) 1 poems available by this author WHITE SLAVE; OR, THE FACTORY GIRL'S LAST DAY First Line: Twas on a winter's morning Last Line: While the white slave was dying, %who gain'd their father's gold! Ford (1580-1648), Thomas 3 poems available by this author FOND LOVE, NO MORE, FR. LOVE'S LABYRINTH PASSING BY Poem Text First Line: There is a lady sweet and kind Last Line: Yet will I love her till I die. Subject(s): Fidelity; Faithfulness; Constancy SINCE FIRST I SAW YOUR FACE I RESOLVED Ford, Victoria 1 poems available by this author CARVING FRUIT First Line: This morning one was bruised among the whole Last Line: And saved for last the bruise, the sweetest part Ford, William 22 poems available by this author AT MOUNT RUSHMORE First Line: About this official american monument AUDITION First Line: What the mirror reveals at dawn Last Line: Who knows your old nickname. %everyone's waiting. %get on with it AUGUST DEPRESSION, WINTER DREAMS: 1. First Line: By the early month the corn reaches up Last Line: All those things you let simmer %on the well-resolved back burners %of the worst winter in many AUGUST DEPRESSION, WINTER DREAMS: 2. First Line: Christmas brought darkness earlier Last Line: Over the dead fields of plenty, %taking its time with crows overhead %all the way home to west l.A BIRD PLAGUE First Line: That's what they are, starlings Last Line: No matter the character COUNTRY CRIME, A TALE First Line: It has been a week or so DESERT ROMANCE First Line: The eye dilates into the moon Last Line: Here are the altars of borax and rock %and the bakeries of sand DOCTOR DOCTORUM First Line: When your father told his pain, you left DOWN ON THE RED FUNGI FLOOR First Line: Now stalking the forest floor Last Line: Upon the red fungi floor EX-SMOKER First Line: Tobacco lives forever Last Line: To lift our thoughts to heaven HOMELESS BELOW THE BRIDGE First Line: They cry out in their longing Last Line: I've seen them, below the bridge Subject(s): Homeless LEAVING INSURANCE First Line: You'd rather be fishing %you'd kidded for years Last Line: Your teeth shining %as never before LOVE IN MIDDLE AGE First Line: It doesn't matter who begins Last Line: If we're truly lucky MORNING SPIRITS First Line: Lost walk now, %to the morning spirits Last Line: Not saying where they've been OF MILES DAVIS First Line: The pop-out eyes belong to baldwin Last Line: Nameless, we think, but for the music-%with bird close by and trane coming on Subject(s): Davis, Miles (1926-1991); Jazz; Music And Musicians OF RAY YOUNG BEAR DES MOINES POETRY FESTIVAL 1992 First Line: The young girls do not know your poems Last Line: And the words of medicine rising %beyond what my ears may touch ON A PAINTING OF WILLIAM ZORACK, 1912 First Line: There in the velvet pond Last Line: Dreamed of world beyond OUTSIDER RETURNS HOME First Line: Of course you don't remember me Last Line: No wonder everything's dead QUARRY IN IOWA First Line: Before it was broken up Last Line: Its half-moon shape the one %blue thing for miles and miles SECOND DEATH First Line: It takes place sometime after a sleep Last Line: Only then %will we truly believe that our lives %are worthy of eternal punishment THANKSGIVING First Line: November, the month %between leaves and busses Last Line: Neither one of us %will look it up WOMAN AT THE WELL First Line: He told me all the things I had done Ford, William R., Jr. 3 poems available by this author ESCAPE THE PRISON PAST First Line: Can you not escape the prison past Last Line: No refuge from here, %no way to last Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners HIGH, WYOMING ROCKS First Line: It is where the wind will talk Last Line: Now collected there for you HILL BEYOND THE DREAM First Line: Out in the low mist of dawn Last Line: And the hill beyond the dream Ford-smith, Honor 2 poems available by this author AUX LEON - WOMEN First Line: Before the sunlight Last Line: Right here %among us LALA: THE DRESSMAKER First Line: Across from chang's green emporium Last Line: Lick the rotten wooden walls Martin, Herman Ford 4 poems available by this author FLAME Poem Text First Line: It was april. In the orchard Last Line: "go to search the city." Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers HOME Poem Text First Line: He left his office for the street Last Line: He turned towards the sea. Subject(s): Home; Sea; Ocean HUNGER Poem Text First Line: I have known hunger Last Line: But he is crucified. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Hunger; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion O TRAVELER Poem Text First Line: O traveler, what trenchant wonder Last Line: And crowned you with a curse? Subject(s): Experience; Travel; Journeys; Trips Park, Marian Ford 27 poems available by this author ALIEN SPIRIT First Line: The alien within me Last Line: Astonishing me %with her passion COVENANT KEPT First Line: Though shades of sorrow may envelope me Last Line: I search for rainbows in more sunny skis %and write my memos to our blessed lord EQUINOX First Line: I watch you go Last Line: As the last leaf ... %and just as dry ETERNAL SPRING First Line: Grandmother ease %her ninety pounds Last Line: Possesses the youth of spring %and the wisdom to enjoy it GOING HOME First Line: Old ghosts are in the atmosphere Last Line: One lonely sound comes to my ears ... %I hear the old house softly cry HOMECOMING OF A P.O.W. First Line: The family is once again secure Last Line: The waiting done at last, nw hope is born %for all that heaven holds and has to give I WANT TO GO WHERE POTS GO First Line: If I should die and go where poes go Last Line: Oh let me then come home to fireside %where I can dream and let all pain subside IN MEMORIAM First Line: Your love, %sweet as the breaath of morning Last Line: Was brushed aside %by the glacial hand of winter LONG FREIGHT First Line: The sudden wail %of a midnight train Last Line: To strike out aimlessly %and die for an unknown god MARY First Line: Smooth as the pearls she wore Last Line: And beneath the surface %howls strained at the tether METRONOME AT DUSK First Line: There is a pensive time of day Last Line: They ring with ancient beat, and so %I must forget past errors made MIDNIGHT First Line: I feel an agony Last Line: And the antidote will appear %with the morning sun ODE TO A LOST LOVE First Line: Your memory lingers Last Line: Leaving one candle gleaming %in my solitary soul OLD GHOSTS First Line: Darknes cloes in %to arouse old ghosts Last Line: To filter out %the unbearables OLD TOM CAT First Line: He strides the night away on panther feet Last Line: Of age, and like an old cat he will laze %and dream a reverie of other days OLD TRAIN STATION First Line: A vestige of victorian age, she stands Last Line: At dusk her grey decrepitude is masked; %the sunset halos relics of our past ONE STARRY NIGHT First Line: Let the last ray of wun Last Line: Over the world ... %and time paused POINT OF VIEW First Line: My neighbor, elegant in every way Last Line: And I, in turn, could not exchange with her %one cookie crumb for all her elegance PRELUDE TO FEAR First Line: I felt the stiffness Last Line: Weeps with feaar %of the unknown PROLOGUE First Line: I bow to winter skies Last Line: An edge of sadness when birds leave %and they will sing no more SEASON OF PAUSE First Line: I stand in silence Last Line: I'm sorry to tell you, %we didn't get it all.' SHIPS IN THE NIGHT First Line: Within my soul a flet of dreams Last Line: And I can sail majestic seas %on jewels of kinder years TOO LITTLE TIME First Line: My days slip past me Last Line: Flings shadows of ancestral ghosts %upon my walls TRIBAL RITE First Line: Each one of us has a legacy Last Line: The forgotten remnant %of another age UNSOLVABLES First Line: This day has died slowly Last Line: With velvet fingers that cloak %the inflexible fist of futility WHEN SUMMER ENDS First Line: A deluge of rain Last Line: Penetrate the lush green %of a dying season WHEN TIME STANDS STILL First Line: There are those times Last Line: Enjoy, and haul %the silence in after me Piper, Edwin Ford 21 poems available by this author ANNIE Poem Text First Line: Maybe nine years, her hair in yellow braids Last Line: Sang to her doll a formal lullaby. BIG SWIMMING First Line: Rain on the high prairies Last Line: Beyond midnight... %big swimming BINDLESTIFF Poem Text First Line: Oh, the lives of men, lives of men Last Line: And remember mary's son. CHURCH First Line: The blinding july sun at ten o'clock Last Line: A little thing, this church? Remove its roots, %ossa upon pelion would not fill the pit Subject(s): Churches; Religion GEE-UP DAR, MULES Poem Text First Line: He stood up in our khaki with the poise Last Line: "gwan-n, mules! Gee-up dar, mules!" Subject(s): African Americans; Heroism; Negroes; American Blacks; Heroes; Heroines HAVE YOU AN EYE Poem Text First Line: Have you an eye for the trails, the trails Last Line: Was never trimmed for shoe? Subject(s): Cowboys INDIAN COUNSEL First Line: Do not be always looking on the fire Last Line: No, not on the fire - %you will go blind LAST ANTELOPE First Line: Behind the board fence at the banker's house Last Line: At the banker's house, behind the high board fence %the last slim pronghorn perishes of fear LOW VOICES First Line: Beat against me no more MEANWHILE Poem Text First Line: The august sun had still two hours of sky Last Line: How ease the watching of her wide-stretched eyes? MOON-WORSHIP Poem Text First Line: I hear them singing in the open spaces Last Line: The worship of the moon. Subject(s): Moon POSTSCRIPT Poem Text First Line: I am a maker of songs Last Line: I am a lover of songs. PRAIRIE SCHOONER First Line: The meadow larks rejoice, as the bright sun ROAD AND PATH Poem Text First Line: O, road, and path, and path and road Last Line: And the needs of folk long dead? Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails SIX YOKE First Line: I sit by the trail in the misty moonlight SWEETGRASS RANGE First Line: Come sell your pony, cowboy THE BANDED Poem Text First Line: Who are the banded? Gather from the four Last Line: Shall ask for health, a clean soul, and good neighbors. Subject(s): Neighbors THE BOY ON THE PRAIRIE Poem Text First Line: At thirteen he first saw a railway train Last Line: With grant and lincoln as his greatest men. Subject(s): Children; Middle West; Prairies; Childhood; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States; Plains THE GAMES Poem Text First Line: Luck makes him head, he meets it pranksomely Last Line: Youth, and romance, and music of the moon! Subject(s): Children; Games; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements VERSES First Line: Heart hunger is for me and you WHOA, ZEBE, WHOA Poem Text First Line: Saddle me up the zebra dun Last Line: Whoa, till I hitch you, whoa! Subject(s): Horseback Riding Schively, Edwin Ford 1 poems available by this author IN MEMORIAM: CHARLES P. KRAUTH First Line: Soldier of christ! Now lay thine armor down Shaw, Carleton Ford 1 poems available by this author ENEMY First Line: The reason for my laughter lies Swetnam, Ford 3 poems available by this author BIRTHDAY METAMORPHOSES First Line: Gerald, this one makes forty Last Line: And with the tree exchanges rain ONE WINTER First Line: Snow on the mountain again Last Line: Even the humans, heavy of blood, %jitter and almost fly PIONEER LEAGUE, BUTTE V. POCATELLO First Line: Fertilizer plants in their summer layoff Last Line: We have another chance to catch the runner Subject(s): Baseball; Sports |
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