|
|
Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: leithauser, Matches Found: 83 Leithauser, Brad Poet's Biography 81 poems available by this author 1944: PURPLE HEART First Line: Back -- he'd come back, though with a sewed-up chest Last Line: Grateful to have known so choice a foolishness AFTER THE DETONATION OF THE MOON First Line: We were overwhelmed, just as they'd intended Last Line: To wonder when if ever this sea too might still ANGEL First Line: There between the riverbank ANOTHER COUPLE First Line: She wanted things respectable Last Line: You learn how to string them along ANOTHER DREAM First Line: Unreckonable Last Line: Too, coming my way -- isn't it perfection ANSWER TO A CHILD'S QUESTION First Line: Why so dark today? Last Line: Quenched by water vapor AT AN ISLAND FARM First Line: If only the light might last Last Line: Or whether, aloft, some few of them found %another shore BETWEEN LEAPS First Line: Binoculars I'd meant for birds BLESSING FOR MALCOLM LOWRY First Line: His was a discriminating taste for error Last Line: And another damn day done in before the dawn BOWL OF CHINESE FIREWORKS First Line: Late %afternoon light Last Line: And with the cool, expansive self- %possesion of his kind, %grins extravagantly back %at the blaze t BURIED GRAVES First Line: From the pier, at dusk, the dim Last Line: A mild but endless winter CALLER First Line: After the final and all Last Line: Of the cigarettes that, with each passing day, %prove harder to light your hands are shaking so CANDLE First Line: According to %your point of view Last Line: The single fellow %who hunches darkly, %as though with shame, %there are the blue-yellow %center of Subject(s): Candles CAT AND MUSTANG: A STILL LIFE First Line: A big yellow cat that has taken Last Line: And a given, a given good CLOUDS IN WINTER: DUSK First Line: One forgets Last Line: And the blood freeze CREST AND CARPET First Line: I often picture it as a great cold Last Line: Their ever more distant errands CRUSH First Line: Harmless, no doubt Last Line: Undressing and you, yes, whisper my name, %and I take your head in my hands DEATH OF THE FAMILY ARCHIVIST First Line: What you took away Last Line: On a night-march into the world's least %understood terrain EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY MICROSCOPE First Line: Still coruscating: this steel fantasy Last Line: Than any bare, unprivileged eye could see EXPANDED WANT AD First Line: Although it's true FALSE SPRING First Line: (she who'd been taken Last Line: Of green, of gold, no wonder FAME TRAIN First Line: The season's major talents are Last Line: Claque, clique, claque FIRST BIRTHDAY First Line: You have your one word, which fills you to brimming Last Line: As might, too, and flight. And fright. %some will be gone. But you will come right FLIGHT UP THE COAST First Line: Sunlit inlets Last Line: Lost and divine FROM R.E.M. First Line: What made the moment was the lack of all Last Line: Was a boon, to be sure, but nothing more GHOST OF A GHOST First Line: The pleasures I took from life GLACIER First Line: The sheerly steadied stubborn tons of it Last Line: Of whatever gesture-- %call or signal-- %you'd care to offer%by way of a farewell GLOW First Line: Given a day Last Line: Tongued wonder as %a breathless inner voice exclaims, %how strong they look! HALF HOME First Line: The last time, ever Last Line: Now I'd have you guiding me HAUNTED First Line: A crying white candle Last Line: Blows out our faces HONEYMOON CONCEPTION (1952) First Line: All night, though not a flake fell, the snow deepened Last Line: Smooth and rich-bellied, as if big with child HONEYMOON CONCEPTION (1952) First Line: All night, though not a flake fell, the snow deepened... Last Line: Smooth and rich-bellied, as if big with child.) Subject(s): Birth; Conception; Honeymoons IN MINAKO'S HOUSE First Line: In old minako wada's house Last Line: Perhaps she loves best IN THE WALL: 1. A NEAR MISS First Line: You stepped from the bookstore today Last Line: Recall ow ever doing him a favor IN THE WALL: 2. DIRECT HIT First Line: Ir rained as well -- a warmer, tropical Last Line: My sons, both awe-struck and unsentimental IN THE WALL: 3. HIT AND MISS First Line: Do I profane one of the dead Last Line: Truth ws, I took you for my brother JUST A MOMENT First Line: The jet-lagged, dragged-out series of events Last Line: Wherein no seconds tick, no hours boom, %is the world breaking up before one's eyes LATER First Line: The goal I suppose is a steadied mind Last Line: The wind's now ruffling a tree LIFE-GIVING First Line: With nothing but god's word MAIL FROM ANYWHERE First Line: Mail from pretty much anywhere was nearly NIGHT DIVE First Line: It feels so much Last Line: Ever-lightless %depths are richer %for having some %mobile mind free-- %floating upon them? NORTH OF NIGHT (ON THE SUMMER SOLSTICE) First Line: To a mind uprooted from Last Line: Wheeling, gleam-relayed rendezvous- %even that made sense NOT ON SPEAKING TERMS First Line: Somehow having become someone who sets aside Last Line: To turn a fresh configuration to the sun OLD BACHELOR BROTHER Poem Text First Line: Here from his prominent but thankfully Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives OLD BACHELOR BROTHER First Line: Here from his prominent but thankfully Last Line: In all their passionate anonymity Subject(s): Marriage OLD HUNTER First Line: Up at four Last Line: Or someone else's gun ONE FROM OFF THE MANTEL First Line: He taught astronomy Last Line: Which I pocketed PENINSULAR First Line: Impuse alone, indicating Last Line: A message of concern %only to those %so rootless somehow they might %even for a moment have forgotte PLAY First Line: Easily, first our red canoe's Last Line: Water-filtered sun across its nether ceiling PLEXAL First Line: Below, on the badly cracked floor Last Line: Some workable emplacement, in which to rest %inclusively, they've escaped again %the unwaking repose PLUS THE FACT OF YOU First Line: The sun, having come Last Line: Three buttons of your blouse undone POST-COITUM TRISTESSE: A SONNET First Line: Why %do %you %sigh Last Line: Hum- %drum %come %-mm? %hm QUILLED QUILT, A NEEDLE BED First Line: Under the longleaf pines RAIN AND SNOW (KYOTO, JAPAN) First Line: When, with a shiver, after Last Line: City glimmer in passing-- %the river, waiting to be %visiblyundazzled by %even beauty so unlikely Subject(s): Kyoto, Japan RED LEATHER JACKET First Line: Had I not spoken first Last Line: What would you have said REYKJAVIK WINTER COUPLETS First Line: One senses %waking at dark Last Line: And, out there, the clouds of snow coming down %are perfectly equal ROUTES First Line: Last night, as you were sleeping Last Line: A dream, my friend? The only difference is %I actually, this time, hear you SET IN STONE First Line: Of legendary littleness Last Line: A thing so fine SHILOH, 1993 First Line: On the cold battlefield Last Line: Of another spill of red SIGNALLED First Line: Daybreaks to those gray Last Line: The old mistake %but we're sorry %to wake you we're %sorry and you must wake SMALL WATERFALL: A BIRTHDAY POEM First Line: Maybe an engineer Last Line: And the sun's high-lit headwaters SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW First Line: We lived back then a quarter mile or so Last Line: Now fits a living woman to his hands SONNET First Line: Two years ago, when time magazine (in whose employ I once Last Line: Accommodated so many divergent talents and temperaments SUB-ARCTIC First Line: Smoke echoes up from a deep fault Last Line: Catches it all without rising - merely one %feat in a land of miracles where only %the living and th SUB-TROPICAL First Line: Evil's rife %out amon the deep Last Line: To whisper the evil leaves awake %and, treacherously, %to blase fresh paths on the sea, %where no ma THROUGH TWO WINDOWS First Line: Comforting, in its way, how wherever you may be Last Line: All a small price to pay for any look %at the roof of another world, of course TRIPTYCH: A MARSH IN MARCH First Line: It's like the morning-after after some Last Line: Of their upstart beggardom TRIPTYCH: TROPICS, PSYCHOTROPICS: 1. VERY HOT First Line: It is the sun compels Last Line: Bloody hands in the sea TRIPTYCH: TROPICS, PSYCHOTROPICS: 2. VERY TRICKY First Line: Dusk and a substituting moon Last Line: Of a working heart TRIPTYCH: TROPICS, PSYCHOTROPICS: 3. VERY STILL First Line: Tonight the moon has set Last Line: Which, in one unretreating wave %buries all utterly TWO FOUR-LINERS, SELS. TWO SUMMER JOBS, SELS. UNCLE GRANT First Line: It was the trip up the amazon Last Line: Now, and in perpetuity, %to the united states government VERY First Line: Something of a surprise Last Line: His latest arrival drifts further away VISA First Line: The slipping out Last Line: Granted a new exit. And an entry WHITE JET First Line: The morning's grown so still Last Line: May be more marvel yet WINDOW SHOW First Line: It's an early fall, perhaps Last Line: How much brighter's grown the glow %thrown by that small brown flame! WORDED WELCOM First Line: Afloat within %an empty sea, and seemingly at home Last Line: His little head, he meets, a pledged, %the rich, soiled earnest of %a peopled world WORDED WELCOME First Line: Afloat within YET NOT YET First Line: Yet what do you answer Last Line: Under an iced-over moon YOUR NATURAL HISTORY First Line: The night of your conception, from the floor Last Line: From ice. By just such miracles you came Leithauser, Hailey 2 poems available by this author FORM First Line: In pattern affirm %expansion of thought Last Line: When fervor is sought %yield frenzy of storm GUIDELINES: WRITING THE SONNET First Line: It must be quiet: %heart's I am, I am Last Line: Mulling a solemn %dress of green velvet |
|