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Discover our poem explanations - click here!Searching... Author: gwynn, robert Matches Found: 120 Gwynn, Robert Samuel Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Gwynn, R. S. 120 poems available by this author 1-800 First Line: Credit cards out, pencil and notepad handy Last Line: Of what may be the area code of god 1916 First Line: So thank mum for the book of poetry 1916 First Line: Other rank: %'a' company Last Line: Deliverance of constantinople from the turks 1969 First Line: A dim-lit, smoky bar. Your twenty-first Last Line: Where everything you gaze upon is new ALBRECHT HAUSHOFER: THREE SONNETS FROM MOABIT PRISON: TIME First Line: I dream a lot at night, a lot by day Last Line: The current surges on. His hands are tied Variant Title(s): Tim ALSO TO THE TOWER First Line: My second thought was, kill the s.O.B. ALSO TO THE TOWER First Line: My first thought was, he lied in every word Last Line: Nothing, dear childe, would give us greater joy! AMONG PHILISTINES Poem Text First Line: The night before they meant to pluck his eyes Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Samson; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty AMONG PHILISTINES First Line: The night before they meant to pluck his eyes Last Line: As searing, the twin picks hissed in his eyes Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Samson ANACREONTIC First Line: You drink to piss it all the way ANACREONTIC First Line: You drink to piss it all away Last Line: When you're gone you're gone ANONYMOUS: SONNET AGAINST RACINE'S PHEDRE First Line: Fidgety phaedra, pale in her gilt chair Last Line: Confesses everything and dies, stage-center APPROACHING A SIGNIFICANT BIRTHDAY, HE PERUSES THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF First Line: All human things are subject to decay Last Line: I do not think that they will sing to me ARS POETICA First Line: Sweet music makes the same old story new Last Line: That is a lie, but it will have to do AS YOU LEAVE VERMONT First Line: My ties lie wrinkled on the floor AT ROSE'S RANGE First Line: Old gladys, in lime polyester slacks Last Line: I reckon there's just one way this can end AT THE CENTER First Line: The pianist is playing debussy Last Line: How no one asks how long you plan to stay AUDENESQUE: FOR THE LATE RETURNS First Line: Ambivalence's faction %exits from the booth Last Line: Still in each other's shoes B. 1885; D. 1980 First Line: Grandpater's wit, the empire's plum Last Line: Hoolywood bloddy unsufferable BALLAD OF BURTON AND BOBBY AND BILL First Line: My best friend and I would often stop by Last Line: They've boarded the door. We'll bargain no more %with burton and bobby and bill Subject(s): Children; Memory; Schools BALLADE OF THE YALE YOUNGER POETS OF YESTERYEAR First Line: Tell where, oh, where are they Last Line: And where is lindley williams hubbell? Subject(s): Poetry And Poets BARD OF VIA VOICE First Line: Shell like comparing the to a summer's day? Last Line: And then I scorn to change by state with a Variant Title(s): The Bard Of Viavoic BEARING & DISTANCE First Line: The lady has left her cigarette butts in the ashtray Last Line: The line recedes to where the smoke still curls BEFORE PROSTATE SURGERY First Line: Farewell, thou joy of my right hand, my toy Last Line: From death to life we might thee yet recover BLACK HELICOPTERS First Line: Gather your families. Lift your eyes Last Line: Black helicopters rule the skies BODY BAGS First Line: Let's hear it for dwayne coburn, who was small Last Line: To settle in the tray, where all the dust is BONE SCAN First Line: Shadows surround me, building in the air Last Line: Now, circuits close. A tunnel beckons where %shadows surround me BOX OF ASHES First Line: A box of ashes, which we scattered on Last Line: Ponder, father, why these green blades have grown: %a box of ashes Subject(s): Cemeteries; Memory; Parents CHANG ENG First Line: Constant other %who know I think Last Line: Warnings to one %he could not save CLASSROOM AT THE MALL First Line: Our dean of something thought it would be good Last Line: Something of value, soon to go on sale CLEANTE TO ELMIRE First Line: Rising, madame, towards heaven in a bed Last Line: It is the wind that bears the world away COASTAL FREEZE First Line: It will come with warnings published on the air, %so beware Last Line: Stunned camellia stands, white petals shed below- %snow on snow DARK PLACE First Line: In the dark place where I had come to piss Last Line: Where none of us deserves a death like this DEATH OF MISHIMA First Line: The color of mishima's toe was blue DECLINE OF THE WEST First Line: Help is on the way! Cried the decadent Last Line: As if the axeman's sorrows were his own DENOUEMENT First Line: Who were those persons who chased us? Last Line: What is the mark on your cheek? DREAM AGAIN First Line: The dream again. Near christmas. It is time Last Line: Tinkling above their candles as they climb %the wall in shadows, marking nothing more than time DRIVE-IN First Line: Under the neon sign he stands Last Line: And no one tells me how it ends EASIEST ROOM IN HELL First Line: What torments for the genteel sonneteers Last Line: Ubi sunt? %ars longa, vita brevis EDUCATION OF NARCISSUS First Line: From the jacuzzi, wreathed in scented foam Last Line: That, cured, he's ready to ascend the slopes of art EMINENT PERSONAGES First Line: To strive, to seek,' sang tennyson FOR W. First Line: Who will not proffer you his pot of beer Last Line: May that vast motive wash and wash our own FRANCOIS VILLON: EPITAPH First Line: Francis by name, france's by state Last Line: Will teach my neck my ass's weight FRANCOIS VILLON: THE DEBATE OF BODY AND HEART First Line: What's that I hear? Me. Who: your heart Last Line: Then, I've no more to say. I'll get along GREAT FEAR First Line: Here where the door stands open, lights are on Last Line: Ready for the next one, whose name is you HONEYMOONERS First Line: Is hell like this room? Last Line: Ed from the sewers? HORATIO'S PHILOSOPHY First Line: Absented from felicity a year Last Line: Sunday, stood knocking at reynaldo's door HUMAN NATURE First Line: Walking for pleasure, not reward Last Line: Came forward from the turning wood HUNCHBACK WITH THE WITHERED ARM IAGO TO HIS TORTURERS First Line: Tighter, me boys! One half-twist on that screw Last Line: It's all in the wrist. For this relief, much thanks IMMORTAL COMBAT First Line: Our scene fades, showing several years have passed Last Line: Eclipsed in turn by each, like orbiting twin moons IN PLACE OF AN ELEGY First Line: Facing a gray morning, I read 'the joys Last Line: Car there were screams, her own voice screaming JUST FOLKS First Line: As penance for your class's wrongs Last Line: Friend, you've more than paid your dues: %ego te absolvo LAIRD OF THE MAZE First Line: Despite he was a frog and relished flies Last Line: A slick spot drying on the courtyard stone LETTER FROM BILTMORE First Line: Two days by rail from richmond, through a vast Last Line: Also, I lack a tooth. Affectionately, %henry james LETTER FROM CARTHAGE First Line: To carthage then I came Last Line: My shoes are filled with dust.' LIES First Line: Here lies a truth about the poet who fished Last Line: The trick is lying still. The trick was true LOCAL INITIATIVE First Line: For years his parents saw that wreaths were placed Last Line: Blockbuster, target, texaco, and lowes MAKE US AN OFFER First Line: ...A shriner...She was big in eastern star Last Line: The brown spots on its pages whispering, 'no' MASTERPIECE First Line: It came but was hard enough for those MIMOSA First Line: Thrusting fernlike leaves Last Line: A tree that the mind can bear MONSIEUR MAGUS First Line: In the south of france the peasants had the gall Last Line: Wonder and wander. The blind shall lead the blind Variant Title(s): M. Magu MY AGENT SAYS First Line: My agent says los angeles will call Last Line: My agent says los angeles may call NOTES AND QUERIES: AN ACADEMIC OPERETTA, SELS. OLE AND SVEN JOIN THE NAVY First Line: In world war ii, at uncle sam's request Last Line: Ya,' ole says. 'but look how wide she is!' OPRAH OUT OF CONTROL First Line: I have seen many horrible headlines Last Line: And I shudder, in spite of my zoloft, %at oprah out of control OUR HEARTS WERE GROWING UP Last Line: They left no bones behind Variant Title(s): Our Hearts Were Growing U PARENTHETICAL First Line: None of his seven sons survived the nursery PARTING First Line: Lord, it has come, the parting PRESIDENTIAL CLERIHEW CONFESSIONS First Line: Harry s. Truman: %' I hadn't a cluan Last Line: When rugs and stairs %caught me unawairs' PROFESSOR'S LOT First Line: When the student body scorns an education Last Line: The professor's lot is now a happy one - a happy one! RANDOLPH FIELD, 1938 Poem Text First Line: Framed by the open window, a lone stearman Last Line: Before he sideslips into dreams of fire. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Military; Sickness; World War Ii; Youth; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Illness; Second World War RELEASE First Line: Slow for the sake of flowers as they turn Last Line: Breathe quietly, release into repose: be still RESPECT First Line: While lining up a birdie putt, old jim Last Line: Besides, they had been married forty years' RHAPSODE First Line: His agent could not book him Last Line: Troy never falls RINGS First Line: I could roll it up with my hair RUBBERS First Line: You held back too SCENES FROM THE PLAYROOM First Line: Now lucy with her family of dolls Last Line: Her grinning babies, clean behind the ears SHAKESPEAREAN SONNET First Line: A man is haunted by his father's ghost Last Line: A sexy queen is bitten by a snake SHORT HISTORY OF THE NEW SOUTH First Line: Pass the biscuits,' said pappy, pursing his lips Last Line: Pass the pizza,' says pappy, stroking his silver beard SIMPLIFICATION First Line: There were days to be gotten through, and days before Last Line: The sunlight melts like copper in your hair SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS First Line: Good catholic girl, she didn't mind the cleaning Last Line: Beat it to st. Anne's where she took the veil Subject(s): Sin SQUIBS: DR. ARBUTHNOT'S OPINION First Line: When ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw Last Line: A double hernia will lay him low SQUIBS: PARA(NOI)DOX First Line: Your gun barrel pressed into my neck Last Line: I'd face you. But you might ignore me SQUIBS: TO CHEERLEADERS, THAT THEY MAKE MUCH OF TIME First Line: Imagining you seasons hence Last Line: I lift my own glass higher. Cheers STALEMATE First Line: Hand grenades fill the fruit bowls STEPHANE MALLARME: WINDOWS First Line: Sick of the ward, sick of the fetid smell Last Line: Risking the plunge into eternity? Variant Title(s): Mallarme: Window STRANDED IN THE JUNGLE First Line: We were stranded in the jungle, and we were feeling bad Last Line: Ah ahah ah ah %ah ahah ah ah THREE VIEWS OF THE YOUNG POET First Line: Here is the young poet sleeping TOAST FROM CANA First Line: Let there be light, his father once had said Last Line: Like the best vintage - deeper, richer, stronger Subject(s): Marriage; Religion; Toasts TRAIN FOR ILL: A BALLAD First Line: The train for ill is a long train Last Line: Aboard the train for ill TRIUMPH OF NARCISSUS First Line: Now hermes to olympus slowly flies Last Line: And plan for him, perhaps, a victory barbecue TWO PORTRAITS: 1. THE GARDEN PARASOL First Line: She's listening. Make her eyes stray from the book Last Line: Holds nothing that can comprehend the sun TWO PORTRAITS: 2. THE PORCH SWING First Line: In the new moon's light she might be taken Last Line: Of feet that do not have to touch the ground TWO VILANELLES: ELLENALLIV FOR LEW: ON HIS RETIREMENT First Line: Retirement into gentle go not do Last Line: Do to tasks undone many have still you TWO VILANELLES: OPTIMIST First Line: Villanelle follows sonnet, day by day Last Line: Fridays bring fishcakes and a triolet Variant Title(s): Optimis ULTIMA THULE First Line: Is not where it's at said the man UNTITLED First Line: In which I rise untroubled by my dreams Last Line: Unborn, my children come to touch my hands Variant Title(s): In Which I Rise Untroubled By My Dream VERSIONS FOR THE MILLENNIUM: AND AS MRS. PARKER MIGHT SAY First Line: Men rarely bring rosebuds Last Line: To girls who wear nose-studs VERSIONS FOR THE MILLENNIUM: CARPE DIEM First Line: Don't sweat it if your tresses gray Last Line: Tomorrow can get lifted Variant Title(s): Carpe Die VERSIONS FOR THE MILLENNIUM: DEAR C-MINUS First Line: Stand close around, ye stygian set Last Line: This crap will it affect my grade? VERSIONS FOR THE MILLENNIUM: DON'T LEAVE HOME WITHOUT IT First Line: My life had stood - a loaded gun Last Line: Join - the nra! VERSIONS FOR THE MILLENNIUM: EBARRETT@BRITNET. COM First Line: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways Last Line: I'll send them in a zip file, via e-mail VERSIONS FOR THE MILLENNIUM: I LIKE TO WATCH First Line: Drink to me only with thine eyes Last Line: Is if we never touch VERSIONS FOR THE MILLENNIUM: I-900 First Line: When you are old and grey and full of sleep Last Line: I don't come easy. And I don't come cheap VERSIONS FOR THE MILLENNIUM: LUCASTA: STAYING HOME FROM THE WARS First Line: No, dick, I don't think you're unkind Last Line: Between my breasts a nunnery VERSIONS FOR THE MILLENNIUM: THE LOVE SONG OF LORD ALFRED DOUGLAS First Line: Had we but world enough and time Last Line: This boyness, oscar, were no crime Variant Title(s): The Love Song Of Lord Alfred Dougla VERSIONS FOR THE MILLENNIUM: UPON DEMI'S BREASTS First Line: Display thy breasts, my demi, like a bough Last Line: Against what looks as succulent as granite VERSIONS FOR THE MILLENNIUM: UPON HER FEET First Line: Her pretty feet Last Line: Sorry, I think that's pretty sick VERSIONS FOR THE MILLENNIUM: UPON JULIA ROBERT'S CLOTHES First Line: Whenas in silks my julia goes Last Line: Instead, ask julia's body double VERSIONS FOR THE MILLENNIUM: VISIT ENGLAND'S HONEYMOON CAPITAL! First Line: Where ignorant armies clash by night'? Last Line: Tomorrow I shall get some sun Variant Title(s): Visit England's Honeymoon Capital VICE SQUAD First Line: During the wet year and a half or so VITAMIN DEFICIENCY First Line: So I grabbed a handful of men and WEST PALM First Line: Arma virumque cano. It should be Last Line: And point the bow out where the blue meets blue %and one soon loses sight of everything WHY THEY LOVE US First Line: Dogs love us uncomplainingly because Last Line: They don't have sense enough to see our flaws WHY THEY LOVE US First Line: Dogs love us uncomplainingly because Last Line: They don't have sense enought to see our flaws Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Love YUPPIEGRAMS First Line: A singles bar! Warm refuge for the lonely Last Line: A statement? Yes, alas. Noli me tangere YUPPIGRAMS: SNAPSHOTS FROM THE 80S: 1. SWINGERS First Line: A singles bar! Warm refuge for the lonely Last Line: The mating ritual of rolodexes YUPPIGRAMS: SNAPSHOTS FROM THE 80S: 2. DRESS FOR SUCCESS First Line: Whenas in clinging silks my julia goes Last Line: A statement? Yes, alas. Noli me tangere YUPPIGRAMS: SNAPSHOTS FROM THE 80S: 3. WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE First Line: He roared up to the cook-out on his harley Last Line: And grant him tenure very soon thereafter |
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