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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: williams, william carlos Matches Found: 955 Williams, William Carlos Poet's Biography 955 poems available by this author (EZRA POUND) First Line: In my uncivilized, amputated country thinking (I exist in a matrix of Last Line: Was a lot more junk back of the house, you could see it by the concrete mixer I was telling you abou 14-OCT First Line: Rose in the park %with a white center Last Line: Fallen leaves still leaves %your loveliness %unshaken 15 YEARS LATER First Line: On seeing my own play Last Line: A light in his eyes %nothing more 3 A.M. THE GIRL WITH THE HONEY COLORED HAIR First Line: Everyone looked and, passing, revealed himself Last Line: Turned frightened to address %me, pitifully alone 3 STANCES Poem Text First Line: Elaine / poised for the leap Last Line: Permitting / may it / carry you far Subject(s): Babies; Girls; Infants 3 STANCES (ELAINE) First Line: Poised for the leap she %is not yet ready for Last Line: Wrists %set for the getaway 3 STANCES: 2. ERICA First Line: The melody line is %everything Last Line: On the bridge of it %points the way %inward 3 STANCES: 3. EMILY First Line: Your long legs %built %to carry high Last Line: Permitting %may it %carry you far 4TH OF JULY Poem Text First Line: The ship moves Last Line: I'd heard / a night hawk calling Subject(s): Shi-ps & Shipping; Heat 4TH OF JULY First Line: The ship moves %but its smoke Last Line: I'd heard %a night hawk calling 9-JUN First Line: That profound cleft Last Line: And motor cars? Our bottoms %ache from the heat A CELEBRATION Poem Text First Line: A middle-northern march, now as always Last Line: Time is a green orchid. Subject(s): Spring A COLD FRONT Poem Text First Line: This woman with a dead face Last Line: Quick action is the main thing Subject(s): Mothers; Abortion A CONFIDENCE Poem Text First Line: Today, dear friend, this grey day Last Line: Melting away because of their passion! A CORONAL Poem Text First Line: New books of poetry will be written Last Line: Many and many a time. Subject(s): Books; Reading A FLOWING RIVER Poem Text First Line: You are lovely as a river Last Line: And ripples in my thought Subject(s): Rivers A FOND FAREWELL Poem Text First Line: You - why you're / just sucking Last Line: Going elsewhere Subject(s): Farewell; Parting A FOOT-NOTE Poem Text First Line: Walk on the delicate parts Last Line: Comrades. Read good poetry! Subject(s): Communism; Poetry & Poets A FRIEND OF MINE Poem Text First Line: Well, lizzie anderson! Seventeen men and Last Line: Look at them wel ---! Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate; Birth - Out Of Wedlock; Bastards A GOODNIGHT Poem Text First Line: Go to sleep - though of course you will not Last Line: And the night passes -- and never passes -- Subject(s): Night; Bedtime A LA LUNE Poem Text First Line: Slowly rising, slowly strengthening moon Last Line: You, o moon, must have understanding of these things. Subject(s): Moon A LOVE SONG Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: What have I to say to you Last Line: As I do now? Subject(s): Love A MAN TO A WOMAN Poem Text First Line: Though you complain of me Last Line: In your identity. Subject(s): Fame; Man-woman Relationships; Reputation; Male-female Relations A MATISSE Poem Text First Line: On the french grass, in that room on fifth ave., lay that woman Last Line: So she came to america Subject(s): Nudity; Paintings And Painters; Pornography; Portraits; Nakedness A PORTRAIT IN GREYS Poem Text First Line: Will it never be possible Last Line: Where it is level and undisturbed by colors. Subject(s): Colors A PRELUDE Poem Text First Line: I know only the bare rocks of today Last Line: "sisters,"" I say to them." Subject(s): Time A, B & C OF IT First Line: Love's very fleas are mine. Enter Last Line: Odor is time without me ACT First Line: There were the roses, in the rain Last Line: And cut them and gave them to me %in my hand AD INFINITUM Poem Text First Line: Still I bring flowers Last Line: To speak a lesser thing. Subject(s): Flowers ADAM First Line: He grew up by the sea Last Line: Coldly %and with patience- %without a murmur, silently %a desperate, unvarying silence %to the unhur ADDRESS First Line: Walk softly on my grave Last Line: Live in this %whom green youth denied ADDRESS: First Line: To a look in my son's eyes Last Line: To another woman %it was never for sale ADVENT OF TODAY First Line: South wind %striking in -- torn Last Line: Middle parts of the sky AFRICA Poem Text First Line: Quit writing / and in morocco Last Line: The language. Right Subject(s): Morocco; Writing & Writers AFRICA First Line: Quit writing %and in morocco Last Line: Organize %the language. %right AFTERMATH First Line: The winnah! Pure as snow %courageous as the wind Last Line: There is a girl now to %add to the blue-eyed boy %good! The air of the uplands is stimulating AGAINST THE SKY First Line: Let me not forget at least Last Line: Southward. Southward! Where %new mating warms the wit and cold %does not strike, for respite AGONIZED SPIRES First Line: Crustaceous %wedge %of sweaty kitchens Last Line: Left ventricles %with long %sunburnt fingers AGONY AMONG THE CROWD First Line: To die unwrinkled near a breath of fire Last Line: Like the man drowned in his misfortune AIGELTINGER First Line: In the bare trees old husks make new designs Last Line: Aigeltinger, you were profound ALL THAT IS PERFECT IN WOMAN First Line: The symbol of war, a war Last Line: Familiar to the sea, familiar %to the sea, the sea ALL THE FANCY THINGS First Line: Music and painting and all that Last Line: Or what? A %clean air, high up, unoffended %by gross odors AN AFTER SONG Poem Text First Line: So art thou broken in upon me, apollo Last Line: This is strange to me, here in the modern twilight. Subject(s): Apollo AN ELEGY FOR D.H. LAWRENCE Poem Text First Line: Green points of the shrub / and poor lawrence dead Last Line: Now the sprinkled spice-bush / in flower Subject(s): Consolation; Lawrence, David Herbert (1885-1930) AN OLD SONG Poem Text First Line: The black-winged gull Last Line: Of their torment / day or night Subject(s): Gulls; Love; Seagulls AND THUS WITH ALL PRAISE Poem Text First Line: Wonderful creatures Last Line: Have these for name, none other. Subject(s): Women; Names AND WHO DO YOU THINK 'THEY' ARE? First Line: The day when the under-cover writings Last Line: (after we have %put poison in it) for good and all ANOTHER OLD WOMAN First Line: If I could keep her %here, near me Last Line: (gesture of getting %a strike) it %is a great joy ANOTHER YEAR First Line: In the rose garden in the park Last Line: The slender quietness of the old bushes %is a virtue all its own APOLOGY Poem Text First Line: Why do I write today? Last Line: In the same way. APPARITION First Line: My greetings to you, sir, whose memory Last Line: Did you make the war? Whichever, there you are APPEAL Poem Text First Line: You who are so mighty Last Line: This is my song. Subject(s): Desire APPROACH OF WINTER Poem Text First Line: The half-stripped trees Last Line: Edge the bare garden. Subject(s): Winter APPROACH TO A CITY First Line: Getting through with the world-- Last Line: Always for there is small holiness %to be found in braver things APPROACHING HOUR First Line: You communists and republicans Last Line: Get ready for the awakening APRES LE BAIN First Line: I gotta %buy me a new Last Line: Wig-%gle for this. %(you pig APRIL Poem Text First Line: If you had come away with me Last Line: I awoke smiling but tired. Subject(s): April APRIL IS THE SADDEST MONTH First Line: There they were %stuck Last Line: She following %through the shrubbery ARRIVAL Poem Text First Line: And yet one arrives somehow Last Line: Like a winter wind . . . ! Subject(s): Winter ART First Line: In spring looking at a %piece %of abstract art Last Line: A new laid breast just %hatched %by modigliani ARTIST First Line: Mr. T. %bareheaded %in a soiled undershirt Last Line: But the show was over ASPHODEL, THAT GREENY FLOWER First Line: Of asphodel, that greeny flower Last Line: And begun again to penetrate %into all crevices %of my world ASPHODEL, THAT GREENY FLOWER, SELECTION Poem Text First Line: Of asphodel, that greeny flower Last Line: Who wants to die at peace in his bed / besides Subject(s): Flowers; Love AT DAWN Poem Text First Line: The war of your great beauty is in all the skies Last Line: I am bewildered with multiplicity. Subject(s): Beauty AT KENNETH BURKE'S PLACE First Line: And 'the earth under our feet' Last Line: Been brought to life again AT NIGHT First Line: The stars, that are small lights Last Line: Curiously in a thin half-circle AT THE BALL GAME Poem Text First Line: The crowd at the ball game Last Line: Permanently, seriously / without thought Subject(s): Baseball; Crowds AT THE BALL GAME First Line: The crowd at the ball game Last Line: Permanently, seriously %without thought Subject(s): Baseball; Sports AT THE BAR First Line: Hi, open up a dozen Last Line: You'll blow a fuse if %ya keep that up AT THE BRINK OF WINTER Last Line: They are going to sleep AT THE FAUCET OF JUNE First Line: The sunlight in a %yellow plaque upon the Last Line: Manchuria, a %partridge %from dry leaves ATLANTIC CITY CONVENTION First Line: No wit (and none needed) but Last Line: None of us. Neither by you, certainly, %nor by me ATTIC WHICH IS DESIRE First Line: The unused tent Last Line: Ringed with %running lights %the darkened %pane %exactly %down the center %is %transfixed AUTUMN Poem Text First Line: A stand of people Last Line: Matted grasses for / his goats Subject(s): Graves; Leaves; Tombs; Tombstones AUTUMN First Line: A stand of people Last Line: Reaps a basketful of %matted grasses %for his goats AUX IMAGISTES Poem Text First Line: I think I have never been so exalted Last Line: Shall not endure for ever. Subject(s): Flowers AVENUE OF POPLARS First Line: The leaves embrace %in the trees Last Line: The cave of %les trois freres BALLAD First Line: To a man and his wife Last Line: God of married lovers %has blessed them and %their house BALLAD OF FAITH First Line: No dignity without chromium Last Line: The horn sounds hoarsely BALLAD OF TIME AND THE PEASANT First Line: Old time was sitting in the sun Last Line: Such merit hath thy rhyme BALLET Poem Text First Line: Are you not weary Last Line: Our laughter. Subject(s): Nature; Solitude BANNER BEARER First Line: In the rain, the lonesome Last Line: On some obscure %insistence-from bridge- %ward going %into new territory BARE TREE First Line: The bare cherry tree Last Line: Therefore chop it down %and use the wood %against this biting cold BASTARD PEACE First Line: Where a heavy Last Line: Beyond the field and shining %water, 12 o'clock blows %but nobody goes %other than the kids from sch BERKET AND THE STARS Poem Text First Line: A day on the boulevards chosen out of ten years of Last Line: Three generations -- which is relatively forever! BETWEEN WALLS Poem Text First Line: The back wings Last Line: "pieces of a green Subject(s): Hospitals BETWEEN WALLS First Line: The back wings Last Line: Pieces of a green bottle Subject(s): Hospitals BEWILDERMENT OF AGE First Line: How can I else than ponder on these things Last Line: Then be content it rests with more than men BEWILDERMENT OF YOUTH First Line: Man perplexed by detail in his youth Last Line: These final few go mingling into one BIRD First Line: Bird with outstretched %wings poised %inviolate unreaching Last Line: To a stop %miraculously fixed in my %arresting eyes BIRD SONG First Line: It is may on every hand Last Line: To another-- %announcing spring is %here spring is here BIRD'S COMPANION First Line: As love %that is Last Line: Lusty for the sun %the bird's companion BIRDS AND FLOWERS First Line: It is summer, winter, any %time -- no time at all -- but delight Last Line: More! The particular flower is %blossoming BIRDSONG First Line: Disturb the balance, broken bird Last Line: Break also your happiness for me BIRTH First Line: A 40 odd year old para 10 %navarra %or navatta she didn't know Last Line: Not a man among us at least %can have unequaled %that BIRTH OF VENUS First Line: Today small waves are rippling, crystal clear, upon the pebbles Last Line: Shall die soon enough, to dream of april, not knowing why we have been %struck down, heedless of wha BITTER WORLD OF SPRING First Line: On a wet pavement the white sky recedes Last Line: Red-finned in the dark %water headed unrelenting, upstream BLACK WINDS First Line: Black winds from the north Last Line: Into the old mode, how hard to %cling firmly to the advance BLIZZARD Poem Text First Line: Snow: / years of anger following Last Line: Upon the world. Subject(s): Snow BLUEFLAGS Poem Text First Line: I stopped the car Last Line: From wet, gummy stalks. Subject(s): Flowers BOTTICELLIAN TREES First Line: The alphabet of %the trees Last Line: In summer the song %sings itself %above the muffled words BREAKFAST First Line: Twenty sparrows %on Last Line: Share and share %alike BRIEF LIFE First Line: Pray %pay %no attention to my greatness Last Line: Ready, at the last (if ever) %sweet %meat BRILLIANCE First Line: Oh sock, sock, sock Last Line: Finis! Finish %and get out of this BRILLIANT SAD SUN First Line: Lee's lunch Last Line: What beauty %beside your sadness -- and %what sorrow BULL First Line: It is in captivity Last Line: And eyes matted %with hyacinthine curls Subject(s): Bulls BURNING THE CHRISTMAS GREENS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Their time past, pulled down Last Line: Ourselves refreshed among / the shining fauna of that fire Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The BURNING THE CHRISTMAS GREENS First Line: Their time past, pulled down Last Line: Ourselves refreshed among %the shining fauna of that fire Subject(s): Christmas BUTTERANDEGGS Poem Text First Line: It is a posture for two multiplied Last Line: Something else. Subject(s): Conduct Of Life CALYPSO First Line: We watched %a red rooster CALYPSOS First Line: Well god is %love %so love me Last Line: Wings %zippy zappy %and crow CANTHARA Poem Text First Line: The old black-man showed me Last Line: His old emotion. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Lust CATASTROPHIC BIRTH First Line: Fury and counter fury! The volcano Last Line: The broken cone breathes softly on %the edge of the sky, violence revives and regathers CATHOLIC BELLS First Line: Tho' I'm no catholic Last Line: The beginning and the end %of the ringing! Ring ring %ring ring ring ring ring! %catholic bells --! Subject(s): Bells; Catholics CENTENARIAN First Line: I don't think we shall Last Line: There's whiskey in the jar CEZANNE Poem Text First Line: No pretense no more than the / french painters of / the early years Last Line: It was reflected from Subject(s): Cezanne, Paul (1839-1906); Paintings And Painters CEZANNE First Line: No pretense no more than the %french painters of %the early years Last Line: No choice but between %a certain variation %hard to perceiv e in a shade of blue Subject(s): Cezanne, Paul (1839-1906); Paintings And Painters CHANSON First Line: This woman! How shall I describe her Last Line: So that I am willing to stay there CHERRY BLOSSOMS AT EVENING First Line: In the prebirth of the evening Last Line: The clustered faces of the flowers %straining to look in CHICORY AND DAISIES Poem Text First Line: Lift your flowers / on bitter stems Last Line: With her teeth! Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers CHILD AND VEGETABLES First Line: The fire of the seed is in her pose Last Line: Resting contours of eagerness %and unrest CHILDE HAROLD TO THE ROUND TOWER CAME First Line: Obviously, in a plutocracy Last Line: Poverty of mans lies encased %there to insure %against his bounty CHILDREN First Line: Once in a while Last Line: And place one %on each headstone CHINESE NIGHTINGALE Poem Text First Line: Long before dawn your light Last Line: You were at your trade. Subject(s): Nightingales; Dawn CHINESE TOY First Line: Six whittled chickens Last Line: When shuttled by the %playful hand CHORAL: THE PINK CHURCH First Line: Pink as a dawn in galilee Last Line: Milton, the unrhymer, %singing among %the rest CHRISTMAS 1950 First Line: The stores %guarded %by the lynx-eyed %dragon Last Line: And they'll %thrive %there also CHRYSANTHEMUM First Line: How shall we tell Last Line: In its modesty %to that splendor CLASSIC PICTURE First Line: It is a class picture Last Line: And puzzle as we will about them %they may mean %anything CLASSIC SCENE First Line: A power-houe %in the shape of Last Line: The other remains %passive today CLASSIC SCENE First Line: A power-house Last Line: From one of which %buff smoke %streams while under %a grey sky %the other remains %passive today CLOCK OF THE YEARS First Line: Every man %is his own clock Last Line: Ti toc %tic toc %tic toc! CLOUDS First Line: Filling the mind %upon the rim of the overarching sky, the horses of Last Line: The poet foretells his own death); convolutged, lunging upon a pismire, a conflagration, a CLOUDS (FIRST VERSION) First Line: Filling the mind %upon the rim of the overarching sky, the horses of Last Line: Into the no-knowledge of their nameless destiny CLOUDS 3 (SCHERZO) First Line: I came upon a priest once at st. Andrew's Last Line: In his ecstasy -- though without losing a beat -- %turned and grinned at me from his cloud COD HEAD First Line: Miscellaneous weed %strands, stems, debris Last Line: Head between two %green stones -- lifting %falling CODA First Line: Inseparable from the fire %its light Last Line: Into all crevices %of my world CODA: First Line: Who shall reap the harvest Last Line: And the sun and the moon add their wonder COLD FRONT First Line: This woman with a dead face Last Line: In a case like this I know %quick action is the main thing COME ON! First Line: A different kind of thought Last Line: In listening %to the nightingale %or fools COMFORT First Line: My head hurts like hell Last Line: Here take two aspirins COMPLAINT Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: They call me and I go Last Line: With compassion. Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors COMPLETE COLLECTED POEMS 1906-1938 (1938): THE SUN First Line: Lifts heavily Last Line: Logged %in the penetrable %nothingness %whose heavy body %opens %to their leaps %without a wound COMPLETE DESTRUCTION Poem Text First Line: It was an icy day Last Line: Died by the cold. COMPLEXITY First Line: Strange that their dog %should look like the woman Last Line: A kindly %fellow who sells italian %goat cheese COMPOSITION First Line: The red paper box Last Line: And a ring %to fasten them %to a trunk %for the vacation CON BRIO Poem Text First Line: Miserly, is the best description of that poor fool Last Line: Mounted, if god was willing, on a good steed. Subject(s): Lancelot Du Lac; Greed CONQUEST (DEDICATED TO F. W.) Poem Text First Line: Hard, chilly colors Last Line: Into the overpowering white! Subject(s): Sun; Sky CONSERVATION OF THE HUMAN SUB-SPECIES First Line: Ladies and gentlemen -- %etcetera, etcetera Last Line: A physiological level must seem itself perverse. %I thank you CONSTRUCTION Poem Text First Line: On the sidewalk Last Line: There was a used / condom squashed / flat Subject(s): City & Town Life CONSTRUCTION First Line: On the sidewalk %in front of the funeral %home Last Line: There was a used %condom squashed %flat CONTEMPORANIA Poem Text First Line: The corner of a great rain Last Line: That makes the little leaves follow me. Subject(s): Rain CONTROVERSY First Line: What do you know about it? The architect said Last Line: I said, to you, gentlemen CONVENTIONAL BALLAD First Line: Ladies, ladies! What you offer %is not always what we please Last Line: Save only by a process of %condemnation? Ladies, %ladies, l adies, ladies CONVIVIO First Line: We forget sometimes that no matter what Last Line: Have it clean, full of sharp movement COUNTER First Line: My days are burning Last Line: Indifferent, idle-- %my days are burning CRIMSON CYCLAMEN First Line: White suffused with red Last Line: Till flower touches flower %all round %at the petal tips %merging into one flower CRUDE LAMENT Poem Text First Line: Mother of flames Last Line: Would god they had taken me with them! Subject(s): Mothers; Fire CRYSTAL MAZE First Line: Hard, hard to learn Last Line: A quietness and %quieted, standing asserted CUCHULAIN First Line: I had been his fool Last Line: Madman, clown-- %success CURE First Line: Sometimes I envy others, fear them Last Line: And opened flower-like to my hand DAISY Poem Text First Line: The dayseye hugging the earth Last Line: Blades of limpid seashell. Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers DANCE (1) First Line: In brueghel's great picture, the kermess Last Line: Rollicking measures, prance as they dance %in brueghel's great picture, the kermess Variant Title(s): The Danc Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Dancing And Dancers DANCE (2) First Line: When the snow falls the flakes Last Line: Dancing, dancing as may be credible Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Dancing And Dancers; Festivals; Paintings And Painters DANSE RUSSE Poem Text First Line: If when my wife is sleeping Last Line: The happy genius of my household? Subject(s): Family Life; Men; Solitude; Relatives; Loneliness DAWN Poem Text First Line: Ecstatic bird songs pound Last Line: Songs cease. Subject(s): Dawn DAYBREAK Poem Text First Line: Half a moon is flaming in the south Last Line: Vitreous dawn before dawn! Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise DEAD BABY First Line: Sweep the house %under the feet of the curious Last Line: A curiosity -- %surrounded by fresh flowers DEATH Poem Text First Line: He's dead / the dog won't have to Last Line: Just bury it / and hide its face -- / for shame DEATH First Line: So this is death that I Last Line: The comfortable dark womb DEATH First Line: He's dead %the dog won't have to Last Line: Just bury it %and hide its face -- %for shame Subject(s): Death; Physicians DEATH BY RADIO (FOR F.D.R.) First Line: Suddenly his virtues became universal Last Line: Through which we saw %all mankind weeping DEATH OF SEE First Line: One morning %the wind scouring Last Line: Upon the mind %from a clean %world DEATH THE BARBER First Line: Of death %the barber Last Line: For which %death shaves %him twice %a week DECEMBER First Line: White rose your sea shell Last Line: The glass fallen %shattered to the ground DECEPTRICES First Line: Because they are not Last Line: The unalterable conclusion Subject(s): Youth DEDICATION FOR A PLOT OF GROUND Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: This plot of ground Last Line: But your carcass, keep out. Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) DEEP RELIGIOUS FAITH First Line: Past death %past rainy days Last Line: Imagination has fallen asleep %in a poppy-cup DEFECTIVE RECORD First Line: Cut the bank for the fill Last Line: On to build a %house on to build a house on %to build a house %on to build a house onto DEFENSE First Line: I'll tell you what to do Last Line: To mock you from the shrubbery DEFIANCE TO CUPID Poem Text First Line: Not in this grave Last Line: Will break that sleep / and run away Subject(s): Graves; Death; Life; Tombs; Tombstones; Dead, The DEFIANCE TO CUPID First Line: Not in this grave Last Line: Will break that sleep %and run away DELLA PRIMAVERA TRANSPORTATA AL MORALE: 1. 'APRIL' First Line: The beginning -- or %what you will: %the dress Last Line: The long-limbed trees whose %branches %wildly toss Subject(s): April DESCENT First Line: From disorder (a chaos) %order grows Last Line: The chaos feeds it. Chaos %feeds the tree DESCENT First Line: The descent beckons %as the ascent beckoned Last Line: A descent follows, %endless and indestructible Subject(s): Aging DESCENT OF WINTER: 10/21 First Line: In the dead weeds a rubbish heap Last Line: They should not have to suffer %as younger people must and do %there should be a truce for them DESCENT OF WINTER: 10/22 First Line: That brilliant field Last Line: And a young dog %jumped out %of the old barrel DESCENT OF WINTER: 10/28 First Line: In this strong light Last Line: A few yellow leaves %still shaking %far apart %just one here one there %trembling vividly DESCENT OF WINTER: 12/15 First Line: What an image in the face of almighty god is she Last Line: Loose feet kicking the pebbles as she goes DESCENT OF WINTER: 1928 First Line: What are these elations I have Last Line: Foi! You made me think right away of him DESCENT OF WINTER: 9/30 First Line: There are no perfect waves Last Line: There is no hope-if not a coral %island slowly forming %to wait for birds to drop %the seeds will ma DESERT MUSIC, SELS. First Line: The dance begins: to end about a form Last Line: Hears that music and of our %skill sometimes to record it DESIGN FOR NOVEMBER First Line: Let confusion be the design Last Line: Its petty imageries, flying %birds, its fogs and windy %phalanxes DETAIL (1) First Line: Doc, I bin lookin' for you Last Line: I'll bring it up to you DETAIL (2) First Line: I had a misfortune in september, %just at the end of my vacation Last Line: I'm too %old to have a child. Why I'm fifty DETAIL (3) First Line: Hey! %can I have some more %milk Last Line: Always the gentle %mother DETAIL (4) First Line: Her milk don't seem to Last Line: She seems to gain all right, %I don't know DETAILS FOR PATERSON Poem Text First Line: I just saw two boys. Last Line: Miraculously upon / the dead stick of night Subject(s): Boy Scouts DETAILS FOR PATERSON First Line: I just saw two boys Last Line: Miraculously upon %the dead stick of night DISH OF FRUIT First Line: The table describes Last Line: A table -- how will it describe %the content of the poem? DIVERTIMIENTO Poem Text First Line: Miserable little woman / in a brown coat-- / quit whining Last Line: Three wives and twenty-two children. Subject(s): Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) DRINK Poem Text First Line: My whiskey is / a tough way of life Last Line: Of skyscrapers. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking DRUGSTORE LIBRARY First Line: That's the kind of books %they read Last Line: When they pull 'em out DRUNK AND THE SAILOR First Line: The petty fury %that disrupts my life -- %at the striking of a wrong key Last Line: The fury of love %is no less DRUNKARD First Line: You drunken %tottering %bum Last Line: Abandoned %in that powerless %committal %to despair Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism EARLY MARTYR First Line: Rather than permit him Last Line: To such bought %courts as he thought %to trust to but they %double-crossed him EAST COOCOO First Line: The innocent locomotive %laboring against the grade Last Line: Locomotive stand falling apart %untended for a thousand years EDUCATION A FAILURE Poem Text First Line: The minor stupidities Last Line: In the cover of the / low branches EDUCATION A FAILURE First Line: The mirror stupidities %of my world Last Line: In the cover of the %low branches EL HOMBRE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: It's a strange courage Last Line: Toward which you lend no part! Subject(s): Stars ELECTION DAY First Line: Warm sun, quiet air Last Line: From between the stones %and strokes the head %of a spotted dog ELEGY FOR D.H. LAWRENCE First Line: Green points of the shrub %and poor lawrence dead Last Line: And in the woods %now the crinkled spice-bush %in flower Subject(s): Consolation; Lawrence, David Herbert (1885-1930) END OF THE PARADE First Line: The sentence undulates %raising no song Last Line: Cadenced melody %full of sweet breath END OF THE ROPE First Line: Paper by maillol, no kiddin' Last Line: See you again -- some day ENTITY First Line: Antipoetic is the thing Last Line: First the hen and then the egg EPIGRAMME Poem Text First Line: Hast ever seen man Last Line: I turn up this nugget. Subject(s): California – Gold Discoveries EPITAPH Poem Text First Line: An old willow with hollow branches Last Line: Shimmering at the bare wood's edge. ETERNITY First Line: Come back, mother, come back from Last Line: Mother, live in me %always ETERNITY First Line: She had come, like the river Last Line: Olympia, her face drawn but relieved %said nothing. Breakfast %at seven EVE First Line: Pardon my injuries %now that you are old Last Line: Crack under the unwanted pressure EVERY DAY First Line: Every day that I go out to my car Last Line: Pink. One can feel it turning slowly %upon its thorny stem EXERCISE First Line: Sick as I am Last Line: Age %and learn %to breathe again EXERCISE First Line: Maybe it's his wife Last Line: Was far from official %for that time %of day EXERCISE NO. 2 First Line: The metal smokestack %of my neighbor's chimney Last Line: We have never visited each other EXULTATION First Line: England, confess your sins! Toward the poor Last Line: Have worked this cleansing mystery upon you EXULTATION First Line: The rain surpasses itself. It has gone beyond itself to the contours of a Last Line: To exult at the brilliant fulfillment of a summer day Subject(s): Rain; Seasons; Summer; Weather EYEGLASSES First Line: The universality of things Last Line: To discover. But %they lie there with the gold %earpieces folded down %tranquilly titicaca FARMER First Line: The farmer in deep thought Last Line: Bristling by %the rainsluiced wagonroad %looms the artist figure of %the farmer-composing %-antagoni FERTILE Poem Text First Line: You are a typical american woman Last Line: Find the symmetrical brown seeds Subject(s): Fertility; Americans; Women; Human Bheavior FERTILE First Line: You are a typical american woman Last Line: Find the symmetrical brown seeds FIGHT First Line: It was outside a place %across the track Last Line: That's %all I care about it. %overheard by: %william carlos williams FIGUERAS CASTLE First Line: Nine truckloads of jewels %while the people starved Last Line: For it as these were %in their dire need FINE WORK WITH PITCH AND COPPER Poem Text First Line: Now they are resting Last Line: And runs his eye along it Subject(s): Roofing And Roofers FINE WORK WITH PITCH AND COPPER First Line: Now they are resting Last Line: One still chewing %picks up a copper strip %and runs his eye along it Subject(s): Roofing And Roofers FIRE SPIRIT Poem Text First Line: I am old. / you warm yourselves at these fires Last Line: Where shall I turn for comfort? Subject(s): Old Age FIRST PRAISE Poem Text First Line: Lady of dusk-wood fastnesses Last Line: Praising my lady. Subject(s): Courtship FISH First Line: It is the whales that drive Last Line: They know some boat will be lost FLATTERY First Line: You tell me that I love myself Last Line: Up your own varied seasons FLIGHT TO THE CITY First Line: The easter stars are shining Last Line: From the great end of a cornucopia of glass FLOWER First Line: This too I love Last Line: Canary %in his cage %beside her caroling FLOWER First Line: A petal, colorless and without form Last Line: When I am fresh, in the morning, when %my mind is clear and burning--to write FLOWERS ALONE First Line: I should have to be Last Line: And all %the living hybrids FLOWERS BY THE SEA First Line: When over the flowery, sharp pasture's Last Line: The sea is circled and sways %peacefully upon its plantlike stem FLOWERS BY THE SEA (FIRST VERSION) First Line: Over the flowery, sharp pasture's edge Last Line: Sways peacefully upon its plantlike stem FLOWING RIVER First Line: You are lovely as a river Last Line: To what sea that shines %and ripples in my thought Subject(s): Rivers FOLLY OF PREOCCUPATION First Line: There enters no thing scatheless from the womb Last Line: Which man to try out solely here hold place FOND FAREWELL First Line: You? Why you-re %just sucking %my life blood out Last Line: I'm %going elsewhere FOOT-NOTE First Line: Walk on the delicate parts Last Line: Comrades. Read good poetry FOR A LOW VOICE First Line: If you ignore the possibilities of art Last Line: Rather a triumph of %a sort! Whoop la! Whee hee!--don't you think FOR BILL BIRD, SELS. First Line: It was getting kinda late. We'd been talking cars. I wanted them to come Last Line: Oh don't worry, mother, she says, we're careful Subject(s): Conversation FOR ELEANOR AND BILL MONAHAN Poem Text First Line: Mother of god! Our lady Last Line: And love them for it Subject(s): Religion; Theology FOR ELEANOR AND BILL MONAHAN, SELS. First Line: Mother of god! Our lady Subject(s): Religion FOR G.B.S., OLD First Line: As the mind burns %the external is swallowed Last Line: His tempest frozen %into a pattern %of ice FOR VIOLA: DE GUSTIBUS Poem Text First Line: Beloved you are Last Line: O quince of my despondency. Subject(s): Caviar FOREIGN Poem Text First Line: Artsybashev is a russian Last Line: Hardly of great moment. Subject(s): Russia FORGOTTEN CITY First Line: When with my mother I was coming down Last Line: When so near the metropolis, so closely %surrounded by the familiar and the famous? Subject(s): Americans; United States FORMAL DESIGN First Line: This fleur-de-lis %at a fence rail Last Line: Arching neck the beast %is lightly %tethered FRAGMENT First Line: My god, bill, what have you done Last Line: --the gutter, whre everything comes %from the manure heap FRAGMENT First Line: As for him who %finds fault Last Line: The power of %your words FRANKLIN SQUARE First Line: Instead of %the flower of the hawthorn Last Line: The bench %pursing her old mouth %for what coin FRANKLIN SQUARE First Line: Instead of Last Line: A city, a decadece %of bounty- %a tall negress approaching %the bench %pursing her old mouth %for wh FROM A BOOK First Line: I would rather look down Last Line: Tra-la %tr-la %tra-la la la la FROM A PLAY First Line: I am a writer %and I take %great satisfaction Last Line: Than the merely %literal %burden of the thing %could ever tell FROM A WINDOW Poem Text First Line: Here's a question for us. Help me Last Line: What is the answer to this rivalry Subject(s): Hospitals FROM A WINDOW First Line: Here's a question for us. Help me %to find the answer Last Line: What is the answer to this rivalry FRUIT First Line: Waking %I was eating pears Last Line: She said %when separate jointly %we embraced FULL MOON First Line: Blessed moon %noon %of night Last Line: The warm %the radiant %all fulfilling %day FULL MOON (FIRST VERSION) First Line: Blessed moon %noon %of night Last Line: The warm %the radiant %all fulfilling %day GARDEN, SELS. First Line: It is far to assisi Subject(s): Religion GAYEST OF BRIGHT FLOWERS First Line: The gayest of bright flowers (last year) Last Line: The voluptuous conception of %a potful of tomatoes GENESIS First Line: Take some one in england with brains enough Last Line: Enough for the sprout to thrive and grow up GENIUS First Line: We have written %but not enough %not intensely enough Last Line: Green for our thoughts %but it is %too late GENTLE NEGRESS First Line: Wandering among the chimneys Last Line: As I sat to comfort her %lying in bed GENTLE NEGRESS First Line: No other such luxuriance: the %elephant among bending trees Last Line: Unresistant to go %down quietly, in a violence of %half spoken words! Lillian ! %lillian GENTLE REJOINDER First Line: These are the days I want to %give up my job and join Last Line: But you probably %don't want to, do you GIFT First Line: As the wise men of old brought gifts Last Line: And bowed down %to worship %this perfection Subject(s): Bible; Religion GIRL First Line: With big breasts Last Line: She had seen a dime %on the pavement GIRL First Line: The wall, as I watched, came neck-high Last Line: Unencumbered to skip dancing away GOAT First Line: Having in the mind thought Last Line: Unblinking, meditant -- %listless %in its assured sanctity GOOD NIGHT Poem Text First Line: In brilliant gas light Last Line: I am ready for bed. Subject(s): Fantasy; Night GOSSIPS First Line: Blocking the sidewalk so Last Line: Russia on a view of %the reverse of %the moon GOTHIC CANDOR First Line: You have such a way of talking of him Last Line: That's the way he was when he was %here with us, just a little jewish baby GRACEFUL BASTION First Line: A white butterfly %in an august garden Last Line: The cotton clouds %should merely fall GRAPH First Line: There was another, too %a half-breed cherokee Last Line: Pressed close %just below the belly GRAPH FOR ACTION First Line: Don't say 'humbly.' %respectfully, yes Last Line: And that settled it GREAT MULLEN Poem Text First Line: One leaves his leaves at home Last Line: And you are high, grey and straight. Ha! Subject(s): Adultery; Deception GREETING FOR OLD AGE First Line: Advance and take your place Last Line: Or you should admit %the sophistry of it GROTESQUE Poem Text First Line: The city has tits in rows Last Line: Against her stomach. Subject(s): Cities GULLS Poem Text First Line: My townspeople, beyond in the great world Last Line: The gulls moved seaward very quietly. Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Seagulls HALFWORLD First Line: Desperate young man Last Line: The incestuous %and leaning stars HARD CORE OF BEAUTY First Line: The most marvellous is not Last Line: Pleasure; pleasure by boat, %a by-way of a sunday %to the smooth river HARD LISTENER First Line: The powerless emperor %makes himself dull Last Line: By insects and waiting %only for the cold HARD TIMES First Line: Stone steps, a solid Last Line: Parking space! Three %steps up from his %less lucky fellows HE HAS BEATEN ABOUT THE BUSH LONG ENOUGH First Line: What a team %flossie, mary, a chemistry prof Last Line: New ice on %a country %pool HEALALL Poem Text First Line: It is the daily love, grass high Last Line: It will cure her. Subject(s): Healing; Plants; Cures; Planting; Planters HEEL & TOE TO THE END First Line: Gagarin says, in ecstasy Last Line: As if he had %been dancing HEMMED-IN MALES First Line: The saloon is gone up the creek Last Line: Any more for me to go now %except home HERMAPHRODITIC TELEPHONES First Line: Warm rains %wash away winter's Last Line: The radiant nothing %of crystalline %spring HERO Poem Text First Line: Fool, / put your adventures Last Line: Roses for your button-hole. Subject(s): Heroism; Fools HEY RED! First Line: There are men and %plenty of them Last Line: Brains I suppose %at that. Thick HIC JACET Poem Text First Line: The coroner's merry little children Last Line: Who laugh so easily. Subject(s): Happiness; Children HIGH BRIDGE ABOVE THE TAGUS RIVER AT TOLEDO First Line: A young man, alone, on the high bridge over the tagus which Last Line: In old age they walk in the old man's dreams and still walk HIS DAUGHTER First Line: Her jaw wagging Last Line: The fat man, %caught in his stride, %collarless, %turned sweating %toward her HISTORY Poem Text First Line: A wind might blow a lotus petal Last Line: A lover! Will that do? HISTORY OF LOVE First Line: And would you gather turds Last Line: Of that stuff whence we both are got HOMAGE Poem Text First Line: Elvira, by love's grace Last Line: Is without passers. Subject(s): Beauty HORNED PURPLE First Line: This is the time of year Last Line: Out of their sweet heads %dark kisses -- rough faces HORSE First Line: The horse moves %independently Last Line: Like fumes from %the twin %exhausts of a car Subject(s): Animals HORSE SHOW First Line: Constantly near you, I never in my entire Last Line: There, I was so interested to hear about it Subject(s): Relationships HOST First Line: According to their need, %this tall negro evangelist Last Line: Had only my eyes %with which to speak HOUNDED LOVERS First Line: Where shall we go Last Line: The movement of benediction %does not turn back %the cold wind Subject(s): Desire; Love HOUSE First Line: The house is yours %to wander in as you please Last Line: To walk in it at your pleasure-- %it is yours HOW BAD IT IS TO SAY: First Line: I cannot sing %I cannot sing of cash the king Last Line: Innocence defiled irrational %unreconciled HOW HAS THE WAY BEEN FOUND? Last Line: Oily, stained waters--? %on the highest airs HULA-HULA First Line: I should like to come upon Last Line: Shake his broad shoulders HURRICANE First Line: The tree lay down Last Line: Have your heaven, %it said, go to it HYMN TO LOVE ENDED First Line: Through what extremes of passion %had you come, sappho, ot t Last Line: Who will besides -- when love is ended %to the waking of sweetest song HYMN TO PERFECTION First Line: For thee, o perfection, great ruler Last Line: I sing, and thou calm'st my affliction! HYMN TO THE SPIRIT OF FRATERNAL LOVE First Line: Thou heaven-sprung flame which for man's good most needs must %flare Last Line: And grant thee gain I WILL SING A JOYOUS SONG Poem Text Last Line: The wind is blowing, blowing all between. Subject(s): Songs; Absence I WOULD NOT CHANGE FOR THINE First Line: Shall I stroke your thighs, %having eaten Last Line: I hope that there %I might remembered be IDYL Poem Text First Line: Wine of the grey sky Last Line: And the sea! Subject(s): Clouds; Rain ILLEGITIMATE THINGS Poem Text First Line: Water still flows Last Line: The language / of old ecstasies Subject(s): War ILLEGITIMATE THINGS First Line: Water still flows -- %the thrush still sings Last Line: The language %of old ecstasies IMITATIONS First Line: O flee from me, find me not, call me not love! Last Line: And feel the woodland breeze IMMORTAL Poem Text First Line: Yes, there is one thing braver than all flowers Last Line: And thy name, lovely one, is ignorance. Subject(s): Ignorance IMPROMPTU: THE SUCKERS First Line: Take it out in vile whiskey, take it out Last Line: What it is. They are mystified by certain %insistences IN CHAINS Poem Text First Line: When blackguards and murderers Last Line: Liquor and love / rescue the cloudy sense / banish its despair / give it a home Subject(s): Evil; Life Choices IN CHAINS First Line: When blackguards and murderers %under cover of their offices Last Line: Liquor and love %rescue the cloudy sense %banish its despair%give it a home IN HARBOR Poem Text First Line: Surely there, among the great docks, is peace, my mind Last Line: Yes, it is certainly of the high sea they are talking. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; Sea IN SAN MARCO, VENEZIA Poem Text First Line: I for whom the world is a clear stream Last Line: All waste the very mesh I hold supreme. Subject(s): Venice, Italy IN SISTERLY FASHION First Line: The ugly woman clutched %her lover round the neck Last Line: Sisterly fashion your fitted %limbs your honied breath \ IN THE 'SCONSET BUS First Line: Upon the fallen %cheek %a gauzy down Last Line: Bright %mouth agape %pants restlessly %backward IN THE AMERICAN GRAIN, SELS. INCOGNITO First Line: I want to be where fordie is Last Line: Fordie sings to the harp, sighing INFORMATIVE OBJECT First Line: The monolith of a double flight %of six concrete steps Last Line: Rain the threshold to other entrances INJURY First Line: From this hospital bed %I can hear an engine Last Line: The only way left now %for you INNOCENCE First Line: Innocence can never perish Last Line: Who'll raise the latch and let her in? INTELLIGENT SHEEPMAN AND THE NEW CARS First Line: I'd like to %pull %the back out Last Line: My 'girls' %to %the fairs in INTERESTS OF 1926 First Line: It is spring Last Line: Her injury...And %such is the %celebrated may INVITATION Poem Text First Line: You who had the sense Last Line: Let us be conscious and talk of these things. Subject(s): Fathers INVOCATION AND CONCLUSION First Line: January! %the beginning of all things Last Line: My changes yet. Now look at me IO BACCHO! First Line: God created alcohol Last Line: At a grecian urn. God created alcohol to allay us IRIS First Line: A burst of iris so that Last Line: Those trumpeting %petals IT IS A LIVING CORAL Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: A trouble / archaically fettered Last Line: Among the wreckage / sickly green Subject(s): United States - History IT IS A LIVING CORAL First Line: A trouble %archaically fettered %to produce Last Line: Among the wreckage %sickly green IT IS A SMALL PLANT Poem Text Last Line: Forty times over, forty times / over -- namelessly Subject(s): Plants; Desire ITALIAN GARDEN First Line: When she married years ago Last Line: Our cars which cannot %penetrate %hers ITEM Poem Text First Line: This, with a face Last Line: At the young men / who with their gun-butts / shove her / sprawling- / a note / at the foot of the p Subject(s): War ITEM First Line: This, with a face Last Line: At the young men %who with their gun-butts %shove her %sprawling- %a note %at the foot of the page IVY CROWN First Line: The whole process is a lie Last Line: And so it is %past all accident Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening JANUARY Poem Text First Line: Again I reply to the triple winds Last Line: Its derisive music. Subject(s): January JANUARY MORNING Poem Text First Line: I have discovered that most of / the beauties of travel are due to Last Line: That's the way it is with me somehow. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips JERSEY LYRIC First Line: View of winter trees Last Line: Where %by fresh-fallen %snow %lie 6 woodchunks ready %for the fire JINGLE First Line: There ought to be a wedding Last Line: When we would. We would, we would JOHN LANDLESS AT THE FINAL PORT (FIRST VERSION) First Line: John landless in a keelless boat Last Line: Who this traveler missing punishment JULY First Line: Hot cheeked july, with lusty sinews primed Last Line: Where action's brazen helmet solely shines JUNE First Line: Youthful june tricked out in loose, attire Last Line: I cannot brook denial! Live aye with me! JUNGLE First Line: It is not the still weight Last Line: To guide you %upstairs, sir K. MCB Poem Text First Line: You exquisite chunk of mud Last Line: Even become dust on occasion. Subject(s): Mud KELLER GEGEN DOM Poem Text First Line: Witness, would you Last Line: It strikes midnight. Subject(s): Confessions KING! First Line: Nell gwyn, %it says in the dictionary Last Line: Preserved forever-- %since it is beautiful %and true KORA IN HELL, SELS. First Line: There is neither beginning nor end to the imagination Last Line: Save only when set into vibration by the forces of darkness opposed to it LA BELLE DAME DE TOUS LES JOURS First Line: It speaks, it moves Last Line: The tropic window-sill LA FLOR Poem Text First Line: I had been reading what you have written of your idleness Last Line: I have imagined of any living thing -- which is now manifest. Subject(s): Flowers; Writing & Writers LABRADOR First Line: How clean these shallows Last Line: Encloses this %straining mind, these %limbs in a single gesture LADY SPEAKS First Line: A storm raged among the live oaks Last Line: Above my head %like flames in the final %fury LAMENT First Line: What face, in the water Last Line: But now another face, %with long nose and clear blue eyes, %secure LANDSCAPE WITH THE FALL OF ICARUS Poem Text First Line: According to brueghel Last Line: Icarus drowning Subject(s): Landscape LAST TURN (FIRST VERSION) First Line: Then see it! In distressing %detail -- from behind a red light Last Line: The pigment the genius of a world %artless but supreme LAST TURN (SECOND VERSION) First Line: Then see it! In distressing Last Line: Our concepts, artless but supreme LAST WORDS OF MY ENGLISH GRANDMOTHER First Line: There were some dirty plates Last Line: What are all those %fuzzy-looking things out there? %trees? Well I'm tired %of them and rolled her h Subject(s): Death; Grandparents; Men; Mothers LAST WORDS OF MY GRANDMOTHER (FIRST VERSION) First Line: She stayed over after %the summer people had gone Last Line: Trees? Well, I'm tired of them LATE FOR SUMMER WEATHER Poem Text First Line: He has on / an old light grey fedora Last Line: Nothing to do. Hot cha Subject(s): Summer; Clothing & Dress LATE FOR SUMMER WEATHER First Line: He has on %an old light grey fedora Last Line: Nothing to do. Hot cha LE MEDECIN MALGRE LUI Poem Text First Line: Oh I suppose I should wash the walls of my office Last Line: But a white thought! Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers LEAR Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: When the world takes over for us Last Line: Signify the strength of the waves' lash Subject(s): Storms LEAR First Line: When the world takes over for us Last Line: Signify the strength of the waves' lash LESSON First Line: The hydrangea %pink cheeked nods its head Last Line: From the anchored stem %and sets it rolling LIBERTAD! IGUALDAD! FRATERNIDAD Poem Text First Line: You sullen pig of a man Last Line: Dreams are not a bad thing. Subject(s): Dreams; Capitalism LIGHT BECOMES DARKNESS First Line: The decay of cathedrals Last Line: Saw injected into %the russian nobility LIGHT HEARTED AUTHOR Poem Text First Line: The birches are mad with green points Last Line: And it ends Subject(s): Brothers; Conduct Of Life; Relationships; Birch Trees; Half-brothers LIGHT HEARTED WILLIAM Poem Text First Line: Light hearted william twirled / his november moustaches Last Line: Twirling his green moustaches. LIGHT SHALL NOT ENTER First Line: It is in the minds %of the righteous Last Line: Are not to burn -- shall %escape the heat. Pah LILY First Line: The branching head of Last Line: Caught and held %and there's a fly -- %are blossoming LINES Poem Text First Line: Leaves are greygreen Last Line: The glass broken, bright green. LINES ON RECEIVING THE DIAL'S AWARD: 1927 First Line: In the common mind a corked bottle Last Line: I go through the motions of drinking, %drinking to the dial and its courtesy LION First Line: Traffic, the lion, the sophisticate Last Line: To bed together for the last time LOCUST TREE IN FLOWER (FIRST VERSION) First Line: Among %the leaves %bright Last Line: Down %and quickly %fall Subject(s): Locust Trees LOCUST TREE IN FLOWER (SECOND VERSION) First Line: Among %of %green Last Line: May %again Subject(s): Locust Trees LONELINESS OF LIFE First Line: Could I but breast this overwhelming tide Last Line: And this strange folk they know not e'en my name LOVE Poem Text First Line: Love is twain, it is not single Last Line: Glist'ring then for aye undone. Subject(s): Love LOVE CHARM First Line: Take this, the nexus %of reality Last Line: To your heart %and wait, only wait %the while %its fissions curdle LOVE POEM First Line: Basic hatred %sometimes has a flower Last Line: It assumes %the shape of love %is love %to all appearances LOVE SONG Poem Text First Line: Sweep the house clean Last Line: From black branches. Subject(s): Love - Complaints LOVELY AD First Line: All her charms %are bubbles Last Line: Whereas for us %his sleek %black hair %is hint enough LOVING DEXTERITY First Line: The flower %fallen %she saw it Last Line: On %the stem %again LOVING DEXTERITY (FIRST VERSION) First Line: The flower %fallen %a pink petal Last Line: And placed it %on its stem again LUSTSPIEL First Line: Vienna the volk iss very lustig Last Line: She likes to dance and sing LYRIC PULSE First Line: Let the serpent bide under M.B. Poem Text First Line: Winter has spent this snow Last Line: Against the sky's limits! Subject(s): Smoking MAMA First Line: Kitten! Kitten! Grown woman Last Line: Counter-slap will make him (you %shall see) bear down hard MAN AND NATURE First Line: The roar and clatter Last Line: The frozen street light MAN IN A ROOM Poem Text First Line: Here, no woman, nor man besides Last Line: Torn petals, dew-wet, yellowed my bare ankles. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness MANEUVER First Line: I saw the two starlings Last Line: That's what got me--to %face into the wind's teeth Subject(s): Starlings MARCH Poem Text First Line: Winter is long in this climate Last Line: At fiesole. Subject(s): March (month) MARCH IS A LIGHT First Line: Upon the dead grass %and houses, the wind %retains its edge, let it Last Line: Their angles forward into %the wind to let it pass MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text First Line: Will not some dozen sacks of rags Last Line: Before he must return to the dark street. Subject(s): Moore, Marianne (1887-1972) MARRIAGE Poem Text First Line: So different, this man Last Line: In a field. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love MARRIAGE OF SOULS First Line: That heat! %that terrible heat Last Line: Unfused %and unfusing Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage MARRIAGE RITUAL First Line: Above %the darkness of a river upon %winter's icy sky Last Line: Just at the water's edge and -- %my face %constant to you MARTIN AND KATHERINE Poem Text First Line: Alone today I mounted that steep hill Last Line: Work sleeps; love wakes; sing and the glad air thrill! Subject(s): Nature; Happiness MATISSE First Line: On the french grass, in that room on fifth ave., lay that womaon who Last Line: French girl lies and smiles at the sun without seeing us Subject(s): Nudity; Paintings And Painters; Pornography; Portraits MAY 1ST TOMORROW First Line: The mind's a queer sponge Last Line: Burdensome as twin stones %that the mind alone can milk %and give again %chee woo! Etcetera MEMORY OF APRIL Poem Text First Line: You say love is this, love is that Last Line: Love has not even visited this country. Subject(s): April MEN First Line: Wherein is moscow's dignity %more than passaic's dignity Last Line: The men are different who see it %draw it down in their minds %or might be different MENTAL HOSPITAL GARDEN First Line: It is far to assisi, %but not too far: %over this garden Last Line: The full meaning %of it %all METRIC FIGURE Poem Text First Line: There is a bird in the poplars Last Line: Of leaves clashing in the wind Subject(s): Spring METRIC FIGURE (1) First Line: Gotta hold your nose Last Line: To the confession %or psychiatric couch or booth METRIC FIGURE (2) Poem Text First Line: There is a bird in the poplars Last Line: Of leaves clashing in the wind. Subject(s): Sun METRIC FIGURE (3) Poem Text First Line: Veils of clarity Last Line: Beneath the advancing ripples. Subject(s): Seashore MEZZO FORTE Poem Text First Line: Take that, damn you; and that Last Line: It's not my fault if you will be a cat. Subject(s): Women – Abused MIDDLE First Line: Of this profusion %a robin flies carrying Last Line: Peonies and %changeless laurels MIDWINTER First Line: Laughing with ice Last Line: A jeweled chorus' %thundeous if silent %applause MIN SCHLEPPNER Poem Text First Line: Gaunt, my hope, horse-wise Last Line: Sees! Subject(s): Hope MIND HESITANT First Line: Sometimes the river %becomes a river in the mind Last Line: The tide will %change %and rise again, maybe MIND'S GAMES First Line: If a man can say of his life or Last Line: And ourselves decay--unless %the ecstasy be general MIRRORS First Line: Is germany's bestiality, in detail Last Line: Imaged there as on the eyes of a fly MISERICORDIA Poem Text First Line: I am frightened master, quivering with fear Last Line: Writ in her features! Come to me master! Subject(s): Persephone; Fear MISTRUST OF THE BELOVED First Line: At the height of love Last Line: And see-saws, your hatred %will reawaken MISTS OVER THE RIVER Poem Text First Line: The river-mirror mirrors the cold sky Last Line: Of reading have not made you wise Subject(s): Rivers MISTS OVER THE RIVER First Line: The river-mirror mirrors the cold sky Last Line: Many years, I see, many years %of reading have not made you wise Subject(s): Rivers MODEST ACHIEVEMENT First Line: Flossie put the velvet pansies Last Line: Charged to lift and waken %the somber show MONSTROUS MARRIAGE First Line: She who with innocent and tender hands Last Line: After that she had a leather belt made %upon which he perched to enjoy her MOON -- First Line: Diving %through bedrooms Last Line: Waking to %smells of lechery MOON AND STARS First Line: January! The beginning Last Line: Singing %wake the stormy %stars MOON, THE DRIED WEEDS Last Line: Gigantic highschool boys %ten feet tall MORAL First Line: Just junk %is what it amounts to %now-a-days Last Line: So that %nothing holds %firm any more MORNING First Line: On the hill is cool! Even the dead Last Line: Covered, swaddled, pinched and saved %shrivelled, broken-to be rewetted and %used again MOTOR-BARGE First Line: The motor-barge is %at the bridge the %air lead Last Line: To push past %the construction %with its heavy load MOUNTED AS AN AMAZON First Line: She rides her hips as %it were a horse Last Line: And emotional dignity of the whole MUJER Poem Text First Line: Oh, black persian cat Last Line: Oh, black persian cat. Subject(s): Animals; Cats MY LUV First Line: My luv %is like Last Line: Insulator %on %a blue sky NAKED Poem Text First Line: What fool would feel Last Line: You up there -- waiting. NANTUCKET First Line: Flowers through the window Last Line: A glass pitcher, the tumbler %turned down, by which %a key is lying-and the %immaculate white bed NARCISSUS IN THE DESERT First Line: Three faces in a single one Last Line: Plunge thine hair under %and narcissus will have lived NAVAJO First Line: Red woman, %(keep christ out of this -- and Last Line: Through %the pale green %of the starveling %sage NEGRO WOMAN First Line: Carrying a bunch if marigolds %wrapped %in old newspaper Last Line: Holding the flowers %upright %as a torch %so early in the morning NEW CATHEDRAL OVERLOOKING THE PARK Last Line: The naked spring that shivers for me %among the long black trees NEW CLOUDS First Line: The morning that I first loved you Last Line: Separate edges were the edges of the sky NEW ENGLAND Poem Text First Line: Is a condition Last Line: To end “walking on air” Subject(s): New England NEW ENGLAND First Line: Is a condition Last Line: Smile-a thought of indians %on chestnut branches %to end 'walking on the air' Subject(s): New England NEW MEXICO First Line: Anger can be transformed Last Line: The confessed brilliance %of this desert noon NIGHT Poem Text First Line: Houses -- / the dark side silhouetted Last Line: "what do I care!" Subject(s): Night NIGHT RIDER First Line: Scoured like a conch Last Line: The pulse a remembered pulse %of full-tide gone NO GOOD TOO First Line: She's the girl %had her picture Last Line: Brought home %from a gin mill NON-ENTITY First Line: The rusty-gold green trees Last Line: Pours autumn, shaking nerves %of color over it NOTE First Line: When the cataract dries up, my dear Last Line: Then bury it, old women that they are, %secretly where all male flesh is buried NOTE TO MUSIC: BRAHMS 1ST PIANO CONCERTO First Line: Of music, in a cavernous house Last Line: Upon our nails before the savage %snow NOVEMBER First Line: Hail, thou month of final fruits and snow! Last Line: Thou too shalt wither and grow sudden cold NUN'S SONG First Line: For the wrongs that women do Last Line: That each may be, at your side %a very bride OBSERVER First Line: What a scurvy mind %whose constant breath Last Line: All its quickening %pleasures prove OF ASPHODEL: CODA Poem Text First Line: Inseparable from the fire Last Line: Into all the crevices / of my world Subject(s): Time; Love; Imagination; Fancy OFFERING Poem Text First Line: As the hedges, clipt and even Last Line: Yet awhile before they are trodden. Subject(s): Language; Leaves OL' BUNK'S BAND Recitation by Author First Line: These are men! The gaunt, unforesold, the vocal Last Line: These are men, men, men Subject(s): Bands; Jazz; Johnson, Bunk (1889-1949); Music & Musicians; Orchestras OL' BUNK'S BAND First Line: These are men! The gaunt, unforesold, the vocal Last Line: Need no more! These are men! %men Subject(s): Bands; Jazz; Johnson, Bunk (1889-1949); Music And Musicians OLD HOUSE First Line: Rescued! New-white (from time's %dragon: neglect -- tastelessness -- Last Line: A house almost gone, shining again OLD-FASHIONED GERMAN CHRISTMAS CARD First Line: Armed with %a bass-violin %horn Last Line: Between %villages in %the cold ON A PROPOSED TRIP SOUTH Poem Text First Line: They tell me on the morrow I must leave Last Line: Gay birds and hear the bees make heavy droon. Subject(s): Southern States; South (u.s.) ON FIRST OPENING THE LYRIC YEAR Poem Text First Line: It is a certain satisfaction to overlook a cemetery Last Line: But for myself somehow this does not satisfy. Subject(s): Individuality; Cemeteries ON GAY WALLPAPER First Line: The green-blue ground %is ruled with silver lines Last Line: Blows in %the scalloped curtains to %the sound of rain ON ST. VALENTINE'S DAY Poem Text First Line: On st. Valentine's day / I went to seek my love Last Line: Knowing that I am not mistaken Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day ON ST. VALENTINE'S DAY First Line: On st. Valentine's day %I went to seek my love Last Line: Knowing that I am not mistaken Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day ON THINKING OF A DISTANT FRIEND First Line: Up stairs and stairs I climb, the final task Last Line: To at a breath breathe round such ecstasy! ORCHARD First Line: This is the time %for which we have been %waiting Last Line: Time not forgetting to %spit out %the pit ORCHESTRA First Line: The precise counterpart Last Line: It is a design of a man %that makes them twitter. %it is a design OUR (AMERICAN) RAGCADEMICIANS First Line: Oh what fools! What shattered fools we are Last Line: And back him up, to give -- what we deserve OVERTURE TO A DANCE OF LOCOMOTIVES Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Men with picked voices chant the names Last Line: The dance is sure. Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains PAINTING First Line: Starting from black or %finishing %with it Last Line: Then she married and %moved to %another country PASSAIC, N. J. First Line: I'd like to live on tulip street Last Line: And fig trees grow freely there %for practically anyone PASSER DOMESTICUS First Line: Shabby little bird %I suppose it's Last Line: To the eye you have %crept in unmolested PASTORAL Poem Text First Line: When I was younger Last Line: Of vast import to the nation. PASTORAL 1 (FIRST VERSION) Poem Text First Line: The old man who goes about Last Line: Astonish me beyond words! Subject(s): Old Age PASTORAL 2 Poem Text First Line: If I talk to things Last Line: Before given. PATERSON First Line: Before the grass is out the people are out Last Line: And desire, they are -- no ideas beside the facts PATERSON, SELS. PATERSON: BOOK 1. PREFACE Poem Text First Line: To make a start Last Line: To paterson Subject(s): Paterson, New Jersey PATERSON: BOOK 1. PREFACE First Line: To make a start Last Line: To paterson Subject(s): Paterson, New Jersey PATERSON: BOOK 1. THE DELINEAMENTS OF GIANTS Poem Text First Line: Patterson lies in the valley under the passaic falls Last Line: Generally, and so to man, / to paterson Subject(s): Paterson, New Jersey PATERSON: BOOK 1. THE DELINEAMENTS OF GIANTS First Line: Patterson lies in the valley under the passaic falls Last Line: Earth, the chatterer, father of all speech Subject(s): Paterson, New Jersey PATERSON: BOOK 2. SUNDAY IN THE PARK Poem Text First Line: Outside / outside myself Last Line: Typewriter; at least the easiest to do something about Subject(s): Parks PATERSON: BOOK 2. SUNDAY IN THE PARK First Line: Outside Last Line: White cloud at evening - before the shuddering night Subject(s): Parks PATERSON: BOOK 3. THE LIBRARY First Line: I love the locust tree Last Line: This rhetoric is real PATERSON: BOOK 4. THE RUN TO THE SEA First Line: Two silly women Last Line: The final somersault %the end PATERSON: BOOK 5 First Line: In old age Last Line: Satyrically, the tragic foot PATERSON: EPISODE 17 First Line: Beat hell out of it Last Line: To the attentive %and obedient mind PATERSON: THE FALLS First Line: What common language to unravel? Last Line: Its clamor broken apart-and from %all learning, the empty %ear struck from within, roaring PAUL First Line: When you shall arrive Last Line: That blackfish heft %and shine %is your own PAUSE First Line: Values are split, summer, the fierce Last Line: Belly such a stem as will crack quartz PEACE Poem Text First Line: I grant you: peace is desirable. War being, in a figure Last Line: Subsidized -- it also has its courage. Subject(s): Peace PEACE ON EARTH Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The archer is awake! Last Line: Sleep safe till to-morrow. Subject(s): Astrology & Astrologers PERFECTION First Line: O lovely apple! %beautifully and completely rotten Last Line: Since I placed you on the porch %rail a month ago %to ripen %no one. No one PERIOD PIECE: 1834 First Line: It was on the old paterson and hudson r.R. Last Line: Whistler was set up to be born PERPETUUM MOBILE: THE CITY First Line: A dream %we dreamed %each %separately Last Line: In a wall of %rain -- %farewell PETUNIA First Line: Purple! %for months unknown %but for %the barren sky Last Line: From the very %sand %saluting us PHILOMENA ANDRONICO First Line: With the boys busy Last Line: Her hips and %in the warm still %air lets %her arms %fall %fall %loosely %(waiting) %at her sides PHOENIX AND THE TORTOISE First Line: The link between barnum and calas Last Line: The mind survive and I be an american PICTURE OF A NUDE IN A MACHINE SHOP First Line: And foundry, %(that's art) %a red ostrich plume Last Line: A blow-torch flame, %undisguised PICTURE SHOWING First Line: Picture showing %return of bodies Last Line: --christ, I'd rather %come home %steerage PICTURES FROM BRUEGHEL: 1. SELF-PORTRAIT Poem Text First Line: In a red winter hat blue Last Line: No time for anything but his painting Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Paintings & Painters; Icarus; Mythology - Classical; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter PICTURES FROM BRUEGHEL: 1. SELF-PORTRAIT First Line: In a red winter hat blue Last Line: No time for any- %thing but his painting PICTURES FROM BRUEGHEL: 10: CHILDREN'S GAMES: 1 First Line: This is a schoolyard %crowded %with children Last Line: Humor faithfully %recorded %it PICTURES FROM BRUEGHEL: 10: CHILDREN'S GAMES: 2 First Line: Little girls Last Line: Through which a boy must pass %roll the hoop or a %construction %made of bricks %some mason has aban PICTURES FROM BRUEGHEL: 10: CHILDREN'S GAMES: 3 First Line: The desperate toys Last Line: Brueghel saw it all %and with his grim %humor faithfully %recorded %it PICTURES FROM BRUEGHEL: 2. LANDSCAPE WITH THE FALL OF ICARUS Poem Text First Line: According to brueghel / when icarus fell Last Line: A splash quite unnoticed / this was / icarus drowning Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Icarus; Mythology - Classical; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter PICTURES FROM BRUEGHEL: 2. LANDSCAPE WITH THE FALL OF ICARUS First Line: According to brueghel %when icarus fell Last Line: A splash quite unnoticed %this was %icarus drowning Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Icarus; Mythology - Classical PICTURES FROM BRUEGHEL: 3. THE HUNTERS IN THE SNOW Poem Text First Line: The over-all picture is winter Last Line: A winter-struck bush for his / foreground to / complete the picture Subject(s): Art & Artists; Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Paintings & Painters; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter PICTURES FROM BRUEGHEL: 3. THE HUNTERS IN THE SNOW First Line: The over-all picture is winter Last Line: A winter-struck bush for his %foreground to %complete the picture Subject(s): Art And Artists; Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Paintings And Painters PICTURES FROM BRUEGHEL: 4. THE ADORATION OF THE KINGS Poem Text First Line: From the nativity / which I have already celebrated Last Line: For profound worship Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The PICTURES FROM BRUEGHEL: 4. THE ADORATION OF THE KINGS First Line: From the nativity %which I have already celebrated Last Line: As a work of art %for profound worship Subject(s): Christmas PICTURES FROM BRUEGHEL: 5. PEASANT WEDDING First Line: Pour the wine bridegroom Last Line: Helpers one in a red %coat in his hatband PICTURES FROM BRUEGHEL: 6. HAYMAKING First Line: The living quality of %the man's mind Last Line: The patient horses no one %could take that %from him PICTURES FROM BRUEGHEL: 7. THE CORN HARVEST First Line: Summer! %the painting is organized Last Line: Resting %center of %their workaday world PICTURES FROM BRUEGHEL: 7: THE CORN HARVEST First Line: Summer! Last Line: Whose shade %carelessly %he does not share the %resting %center of %their workaday world PICTURES FROM BRUEGHEL: 8. THE WEDDING DANCE IN THE OPEN AIR First Line: Disciplined by the artist Last Line: Oya! %kicking up their heels PICTURES FROM BRUEGHEL: 9. THE PARABLE OF THE BLIND First Line: This horrible but superb painting Last Line: Follows the others stick in %hand triumphant to disaster PIGHEADED POET First Line: Everything I do %everything I write Last Line: I walk barefoot %in quicksand PINK LOCUST First Line: I'm persistent as the pink locust Last Line: But who, among the rest, %will deny me %my place PLACE (ANY PLACE) TO TRANSCEND ALL PLACES First Line: In new york, it is said Last Line: About the roots for nourishment PLAY Poem Text First Line: Subtle, clever brain, wiser than I am Last Line: To remain idle? Teach me, o master. PLEA FOR MERCY First Line: Who hasn't been frustrated %with the eternal virgin Last Line: Shining before him and he %cold as a stone POEM Poem Text First Line: On getting a card Last Line: To suffer no diminution / of its splendor Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Relationships POEM First Line: The rose fades %and is renewed again Last Line: To suffer no diminution %of its splendor Subject(s): Flowers; Roses POEM First Line: Daniel boone, the father of kentucky. Col.W. Crawford, the Last Line: Hunter. Captain jack, the poet scout. Gen. Crook, the conqueror of the apaches POEM First Line: On getting a card Last Line: Has other outstanding %virtues %which delight me POEM First Line: Looking up, of a sudden Last Line: No moon was in the sky POEM First Line: As the cat %climbed over Last Line: The empty %flowerpot Subject(s): Animals; Cats POEM First Line: It's all in %the sound. A song Last Line: Eyes -- waking %centrifugal, centripetal POEM (THE PLASTIC SURGEON) First Line: The plastic surgeon who has %concerned himself Last Line: Events have taken since those days POEM FOR NORMAN MACLEOD First Line: The revolution %is accomplished Last Line: What's around you %no bull POET AND HIS POEMS First Line: The poem is this: %a nuance of sound Last Line: It's %a constant mystery %no less in the %writing of the imaginative %lines than in love POLAR BEAR First Line: His coat resembles the snow Last Line: To lie down with us %its arms %about our necks %murderously a little while POOR First Line: It's the anarchy of poverty Last Line: In a wind that fitfully %turning his corner has %overwhelmedthe entire city Subject(s): Poverty POROUS First Line: Cattail fluff %blows in Last Line: Through the heavy walls %and vanishes PORTENT Poem Text First Line: Red cradle of the night Last Line: The dusky child! ! Subject(s): Prophecy & Prophets; Children PORTRAIT OF A LADY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Your thighs are appletrees Last Line: I said petals from an appletree. Subject(s): Portraits; Women PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN AT HER BATH Poem Text First Line: It is a satisfaction Last Line: The birds and the flowers / look in Subject(s): Native Americans - Pre-columbian PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN AT HER BATH First Line: It is a satisfaction Last Line: Glad of a fellow to %marvel at %the birds and flowers %look in Subject(s): Native Americans - Pre-columbian PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN IN BED Poem Text First Line: There's my things Last Line: I'm tired. Subject(s): Idleness; Women PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN WITH A BAD HEART Poem Text First Line: Have I seen her Last Line: It'd be the best thing. Subject(s): Hearts; Courtship PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR Poem Text First Line: The birches are mad with green points Last Line: And it ends. Subject(s): Birch Trees; Despair; Brothers PORTRAIT OF THE TIMES First Line: Two w. P. A. Men %stood in the new %sluiceway Last Line: Turned her back %on them %at the corner PORTRAIT OF THE TIMES First Line: Two w.P.A. Men Last Line: A bunch of %late chrysanthemums %to her %fatted bosoms %turned her back %on them %at the corner POSTLUDE Poem Text First Line: Now that I have cooled to you Last Line: Calm in atlantis. POT OF FLOWERS First Line: Pink confused with white Last Line: Reaching up their modest green %from the pot's rim %and there, wholly dark, the pot %gay with rough PREDICTER OF FAMINE First Line: White day, black river Last Line: A gull flies low %upstream, his beak tilted %sharply, his eye %alert to the providing water PRELUDE IN BORICUA First Line: Mixup of kinkhead and high yaller Last Line: And much of pretension and hearsay PRELUDE TO WINTER Poem Text First Line: The moth under the eaves Last Line: When the leaves fall Subject(s): Moths; Autumn; Fall PRELUDE TO WINTER First Line: The moth under the eaves %with wings like Last Line: Unmoving under the eaves %when the leaves fall PRIMROSE Poem Text First Line: Yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow Last Line: Green meadow and clouds the sky. Subject(s): Summer; Yellow (color) PROBLEM First Line: How to fit %an old brownstone church %among a group Last Line: Should it be tumbled down, %nothing %could replace it PROLETARIAN PORTRAIT Poem Text First Line: A big young bareheaded woman Last Line: She pulls out the paper insole / to find the nail / that has been hurting her Subject(s): City & Town Life PROLETARIAN PORTRAIT First Line: A big young bareheaded woman Last Line: She pulls out the paper insole %to find the nail %that has been hurting her PROMENADE Poem Text First Line: Well, mind, here we have / our little son beside us Last Line: And have breakfast! Subject(s): Food & Eating; Nature PROOF OF IMMORTALITY Poem Text First Line: For there is one thing braver than all flowers Last Line: And thy name, lovely one, is ignorance Subject(s): Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity PROVINCE First Line: The figure %of tall %white grass Last Line: The kernel %of all seeking, %the eternal PUERTO RICO SONG First Line: Well, god is %love Last Line: It goes QUALITY OF HEAVEN First Line: Without other cost than breath Last Line: From which the birds were %frightened. %--the fleece-light air QUEEN-ANNE'S-LACE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Her body is not so white as Subject(s): Queen Anne's Lace QUEEN-ANNE'S-LACE First Line: Her body is not so white as Last Line: A pious wish to whiteness gone over - %or nothing Subject(s): Queen Anne's Lace QUEST OF HAPPINESS First Line: This much, I find, must then be also true Last Line: About my heart, and -life's new song, begin! QUESTION AND ANSWER First Line: What's wrong with american literature Last Line: You ask me? How much do I get QUIETNESS First Line: One day in paradise Last Line: So lascivious %and still R R BUMS First Line: Their most prized possession-- %their liberty Last Line: Hungry as an oriole RAIN First Line: As the rain falls %so does %your love Last Line: And falling endlessly %from %her thoughts RAINDROPS ON A BRIAR First Line: I, a writer, at one time hipped on Last Line: Storm, its waterdrops %ranged upon the arching stems %irregularly as an accompaniment RALEIGH WAS RIGHT First Line: We cannot go to the country Last Line: For the country will bring us no peace Subject(s): Country Life; Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618) RALEIGH WAS RIGHT (1944 VERSION) Poem Text First Line: We cannot go to the country Last Line: "for the country will bring us RALEIGH WAS RIGHT (FIRST VERSION) Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: We cannot go to the country Last Line: For the country will bring us no peace Subject(s): Country Life; Decay; Dramatists; Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593); Nostalgia; Plays & Playwrights ; Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618); Rot; Decadence; Dramatists RALEIGH WAS RIGHT (FIRST VERSION) First Line: We cannot go to the country Last Line: For the country will bring us no peace Subject(s): Country Life; Decay; Dramatists; Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593); Nostalgia; Plays And Playwrights; Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618) RAPER FROM PASSENACK First Line: Was very kind. When she regained Last Line: But it's the foulness of it can't %be cured. And hatred, hatred of all men %-and disgust Subject(s): Hate RAPID TRANSIT First Line: Somebody dies every four minutes Last Line: Line and you are there in a few minutes %interborough rapid transit co RARE GIST First Line: The young german poked his head Last Line: It was almost, I confess, %as though I envied him RAT First Line: The rat sits up and works his %moustaches, the ontologic Last Line: Have it clean, full of sharp movement READIE POME First Line: Grace - face: hot - pot: lank - spank: meat - eat Last Line: Sleep: come - numb: dum - rum: some - bum RED LILY First Line: To the bob-white's call %and drone of reaper Last Line: In your common cup %all beauty lies RED WHEELBARROW First Line: So much depends Last Line: Beside the white %chickens Subject(s): Language; Wheelbarrows RED-WING BLACKBIRD First Line: The wild red-wing black bird croaks frog Last Line: Swamp and the odors of the swamp vodka %to his nostrils RENDEZVOUS Poem Text First Line: My song! It is time Last Line: Impatiently to receive us! Subject(s): Songs RESEMBLANCE First Line: The jewess was happy Last Line: Like a painting %by rouault RETURN TO WORK First Line: Promenading their %skirted galleons of sex Last Line: Gently %slapping her thighs REVERIE AND INVOCATION Poem Text First Line: Whether the rain comes down Last Line: And win so! And win so! / a life everlasting Subject(s): Aging; Memory REVERIE AND INVOCATION First Line: Whether the rain comes down Last Line: And win so! And win so! %a life everlasting REWAKING First Line: Sooner or later %we must come to the end Last Line: Your love the very sun %itself is revived Subject(s): Love - Marital RHYMED ADDRESS: THE LOBSTER First Line: Rhymed address to carl rakosi %acknowledging (with thanks) Last Line: Without that final %brilliance %for me RIGAMAROLE First Line: The veritable night %of wires and stars Last Line: Is the perfect %human touch RIGHT OF WAY First Line: In passing with my mind Last Line: I saw a girl with one leg %over the rail of a balcony RIPOSTE Poem Text First Line: Love is like water or the air Last Line: Like poetry! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets RITUALISTS First Line: In may, approaching the city, I Last Line: Rhythms of casting - that slow dance RIVER RHYME Poem Text First Line: The rumpled river Last Line: Of swamps a bulk / that writhes and fattens / as it speeds Subject(s): Rivers RIVER RHYME First Line: The rumpled river %takes its course %lashed by rain Last Line: Of swamps a bulk %that writhes and fattens %as it speeds RIVER RHYME II First Line: Shine miraculous %mottled river Last Line: Love portends %never its flower %in bloom ROCK-OLD DOGMA First Line: It had to be, of course, a rock Last Line: Rock-like but living and will live again ROCKING WOMAN First Line: Wind your thread %and wind your thread, Last Line: The leaves falling %when the wind blows ROGATION SUNDAY First Line: O let the seeds be planted Last Line: Speak their message of revival and thrive %by our labor this maytime ROMANCE MODERNE Poem Text First Line: Tracks of rain and light linger in Last Line: It's the clay of these parts. ROSE (1) First Line: First the warmth, variability Last Line: The gold hawk's-eye speaks once %coldly its perfection Subject(s): Flowers; Roses ROSE (2) First Line: The stillness of the rose Last Line: Stillness was an eternity %long since begun Subject(s): Flowers; Roses ROSE (3) First Line: The rose is obsolete Last Line: The fragility of the flower %unbruised %penetrates space Subject(s): Flowers; Roses ROSEBUSH IN AN UNLIKELY GARDEN First Line: The flowers are yours %the full blown Last Line: The stillness %of this squalid corner this %veined achievement is %yours RUMBA! RUMBA! First Line: No, not the downfall %of the western world Last Line: Dance, baby, dance %to the cuban rumba RUSSIA First Line: The williams avenue zionist church (colored) Last Line: Upon which you will build your empire SADNESS OF THE SEA First Line: This is the sadness of the sea Last Line: The seeds will make it habitable SALE First Line: Why should I, who know the cost so well Last Line: And I be I, come world end when it will SAPPHO First Line: That man is peer of the gods, who %face to face sits listening Last Line: I grow %paler than grass and lack little %of dying SAPPHO, BE COMFORTED First Line: There is only one love Last Line: Present for my passionate caresses SAVAGE BEAST First Line: As I leaned to retrieve Last Line: Had been here in my %place, only a little closer Subject(s): Hate SEA First Line: The sea that encloses her young body Last Line: Underneath the sea where it is dark %there is no edge %so two SEA-ELEPHANT First Line: Trundled from Last Line: Fish dripping from %the bounty %of....And spring %they say %spring is icummen in SEA-ELEPHANT First Line: Trundled from %the strangeness of the sea Last Line: The bounty %of...And spring %they say %spring is icummen in Subject(s): Animals SEA-TROUT AND BUTTERFISH Poem Text First Line: The contours and the shine Last Line: Separates this from that / and the fine fins' sharp spines Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers SEA-TROUT AND BUTTERFISH First Line: The contours and the shine Last Line: Separates this from that %and the fine fins' sharp spines SEAFARER Poem Text First Line: The sea will wash in Last Line: Without me nothing laughs Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEAFARER First Line: The sea will wash in Last Line: It is I! I who am the rocks! %without me nothing laughs Subject(s): Sea SELF First Line: The poem %is a discipline Last Line: Laid crudely %delicately %before you SELF-PORTRAIT 1 Poem Text First Line: You lie packed Last Line: And go in clouds! Subject(s): Self SELF-PORTRAIT 2 Poem Text First Line: It is raining Last Line: Lips opening upward. Subject(s): Self SEMBLABLES First Line: The red brick monastery in Last Line: His club gives sign, that agony %within where the wrapt machines %are praying Subject(s): Monasteries SEPTEMBER First Line: Rich september, season bountiful Last Line: Starts up to hear their prophecies begun SERAPH Poem Text First Line: I was here alone Last Line: But it was gone. Subject(s): Compassion; Light SHADOWS First Line: Shadows cast by the street light Last Line: The scent of the rose, %startle us anew SHE WHO TURNS HER HEAD First Line: She turns her head %to breathe the morning air Last Line: Overpowering mastery %of this %garish dream SHOOT IT JIMMY! First Line: Our orchestra %is the cat's nuts Last Line: Nobody else %but me-- %they can't copy it SHORT POEM First Line: You slapped my face Last Line: I smiled %at the caress SICILIAN EMIGRANT'S SONG Poem Text First Line: O -- eh -- lee! La -- la Last Line: Donna! Donna! Maria! Subject(s): Immigrants; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration SICILIAN EMIGRANT'S SONG First Line: O-eh-lee! La-la! %donna! Donna! SICK AFRICAN Poem Text First Line: Wm. Yates, colored Last Line: Too weak to stand. Subject(s): African Americans SIGNS EVERYWHERE OF BIRDS NESTING, WHILE Last Line: He is led forward by their announcing wings SILENCE First Line: Under a low sky Last Line: Of the green leaved peach tree SIMPLEX SIGILUM VERI First Line: An american papermatch packet Last Line: His might drove a golf ball SIMPLEX SIGILUM VERI: A CATALOGUE (FIRST VERSION) First Line: An american papermatch packet Last Line: His might drove a golf ball SKETCH FOR A PORTRAIT OF HENRY FORD First Line: A tin bucket %full of small used parts Last Line: Way and the bucket %is propelled through %space SLEEPING BRUTE First Line: For three years at evening Last Line: Asleep among the gray shadows SLOW MOVEMENT Poem Text First Line: All those treasures that lie in the little bolted box whose tiny space is Last Line: As they are now. SLUGGISHLY First Line: Or with a rush %the river flows Last Line: Having eaten %fouling %the water grass SMELL Poem Text First Line: Oh strong-ridged and deeply hollowed Last Line: Must you have a part in everything? SMILING DANE First Line: The danish native %before the christian era Last Line: We can still see in his smile %their grimaces SNOW BEGINS First Line: A rain of bombs, well placed Last Line: Gently and silently in the night SOLO First Line: The pavilion pierces the green sky Last Line: To soar with her like a mandarin drake SOLSTICE First Line: The river is full Last Line: The shortest day of the year %is favorable SOME SIMPLE MEASURES: 1. EXERCISE IN TIMING First Line: Oh %the sumac died Last Line: It's %the first time %I %noticed it SOME SIMPLE MEASURES: 2. HISTOLOGY First Line: There is %the %microscopic Last Line: This is %reassuring SOME SIMPLE MEASURES: 3. PERPETUUM MOBILE First Line: To all the girls Last Line: Forth and back and forth %and back and forth SOME SIMPLE MEASURES: 4. THE BLUE JAY First Line: It crouched %just before the take-off Last Line: Serving art %as usual SOME SIMPLE MEASURES: 5. THE EXISTENTIALIST'S WIFE First Line: I used to follow %the seasons Last Line: No season but %the one %for me now SOME SIMPLE MEASURES: 6. A SALAD FOR THE SOUL First Line: My peasant soul %we may not be destined to Last Line: The source %of all delicious salads SOME SIMPLE MEASURES: 7. CHLOE First Line: The calves of %the young girls legs Last Line: On my way to %mail a letter %smiling to a friend SOME SIMPLE MEASURES: 8. THE COCKTAIL PARTY First Line: A young woman %on whose belly I have never Last Line: What we were saying %eyes blinded %breathless by that alone SOME SIMPLE MEASURES: 9. THE STOLEN PEONIES First Line: What I got out of women Last Line: Brought us closer %we had been %married ten years SONG First Line: The black-winged gull Last Line: Of their torment %day or night SONG First Line: You are forever april Last Line: In the spring %of %the year SONG First Line: I'd rather read an account Last Line: Bring us to %eat out of the same bowl SONG First Line: If I %could count the silence %I could sleep, sleep Last Line: Until sleep dropped as rain %upon me SONG First Line: Beauty is a shell Last Line: Undying accents %repeated till %the ear and the eye lie %down together in the same bed SONG First Line: Pluck the florets from %a clover head Last Line: And suck the honey, sweet SONNET IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR First Line: Nude bodies like peeled logs Last Line: Other than trailing woodbine that %has no odor, odor of a nude woman %sometimes, odor of a man SORT OF A SONG First Line: Let the snake wait under Last Line: Saxifrage is my flower that splits %the rocks SOUND OF WAVES First Line: A quatrain? Is that %the end I envision Last Line: The sound of waves, a %voice -- speaking SOURCE First Line: The slope of the heavy woods %pales and disappears %in the wall of mist Last Line: The profuse body advances %over the stones unchanged SPARROW First Line: This sparrow %who comes to sit at my window Last Line: This was I, %a sparrow. %I did my best; %farewell Subject(s): Sparrows SPARROWS AMONG DRY LEAVES Poem Text First Line: The sparrows by the iron fence post Last Line: Obscure and insatiable / appetite Subject(s): Sparrows SPARROWS AMONG DRY LEAVES First Line: The sparrows by the iron fence post Last Line: Obscure and insatiable appetite Subject(s): Sparrows SPIRIT OF '76 Poem Text First Line: Dear miss monroe: provided you will allow me to use small letters Last Line: W. C. Williams Subject(s): Monroe, Harriet (1860-1936); Poetry & Poets SPOUTS Poem Text First Line: In this world of / as fine a pair of breasts Last Line: Reflectively drops down again. SPRING Poem Text First Line: O my grey hairs Last Line: You are truly white as plum blossoms. Subject(s): Aging; Hair SPRING AND ALL Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: By the road to the contagious hospital Last Line: Entrance-still, the profound change / has come upon them: rooted, they / grip down and begin to awak Variant Title(s): Poem Subject(s): Spring SPRING AND ALL First Line: By the road to the contagious hospital Last Line: Entrance-still, the profound change %has come upon them: rooted, they %grip down and begin to awaken Variant Title(s): Poe Subject(s): Spring SPRING AND ALL, XIV Poem Text First Line: Of death / the barber Last Line: Entrance - still, the profound change / has come upon them: rooted, they / grip down and begin to aw Subject(s): Barbers; Death; Dead, The SPRING IS HERE AGAIN, SIR First Line: Goffle brook of a may day Last Line: It, to our satisfaction, %as in the past, still wet SPRING SONG Poem Text First Line: Having died / one is at great advantage Last Line: Hand in hand in the dirt with you. Subject(s): Death; Desire SPRING STORM Poem Text First Line: The sky has given over Last Line: Of the overhanging embankment. Subject(s): Spring; Storms SPRING STRAINS Poem Text First Line: In a tissue-thin monotone of blue-grey buds Last Line: Flung outward and up -- disappearing suddenly! Subject(s): Spring ST. FRANCIS EINSTEIN OF THE DAFFODILS First Line: Sweet land' %at last Last Line: And throws off his covers %one by one ST. FRANCIS EINSTEIN OF THE DAFFODILS (FIRST VERSION) Poem Text First Line: In march's black boat / einstein and april Last Line: Shaking the flowers! Subject(s): Mathematics; Statue Of Liberty ST. VALENTINE Poem Text First Line: A woman's breasts Last Line: Will stand up by / that book! Subject(s): Sex STILL LIFE Poem Text First Line: Astride the boney jointed ridge Last Line: The whole dry world's gaping misery Subject(s): Bodies; Breasts; Women STILL LIFES First Line: All poems can be represented by Last Line: In more or less haphazard disarray STILLNESS Poem Text First Line: Heavy white rooves / of rutherford Last Line: And say -- nothing. Subject(s): Silence STONE CROCK First Line: In my hand I hold %a postcard Last Line: Now he is dead how %gentle he %was and %persistent STORM First Line: A perfect rainbow! A wide Last Line: Cannot waken anything %but drives the smoke from %a few lean chimneys streaming %violently southward Subject(s): Travel STORMY Poem Text First Line: What name could Last Line: Stormy! / stormy! Stormy Subject(s): Dogs; Names STORMY First Line: What name could %better %explode from Last Line: Stormy! %stormy! Stormy STREET MARKET, NY., 1908 First Line: Eyes that can see Last Line: Blind to a patent wide reality STROLLER Poem Text First Line: I have seen the hills blue Last Line: Of an old willow. Subject(s): Women STRUGGLE OF WINGS First Line: Roundclouds occluding patches of the %sky rival steam bluntly towering Last Line: Very well then, a red vest STYLIST First Line: Long time no see Last Line: To come up and bring %me into town. %no answer SUB TERRA Poem Text First Line: Where shall I find you Last Line: Nostrils lipping the wind! SUMMER SONG Poem Text First Line: Wanderer moon / smiling a / faintly ironical smile Last Line: Where would they carry me? SUN First Line: Lifts heavily %and cloud and sea Last Line: Whose heavy body %opens %to their leaps %without a wound SUN BATHERS First Line: A tramp thawing out Last Line: While a fat negress %in a yellow-house window %nearby %leansout and yawns %into the fine weather SUNDAY First Line: Small barking sounds Last Line: A distant door slammed. %amen SUNDAY (FIRST VERSION) First Line: Small barking sounds Last Line: Stillness. A distant door %slammed. Amen SUNFLOWERS First Line: There's a sort of %multibranched sunflower Last Line: In one basket and, in %the other shining reds SUZANNE First Line: Brother paul! Look! Last Line: Shrieking %and pounding the glass %with both fists! %brother paul! The moon! SUZY First Line: Women your age have decided Last Line: Not to look he yearns after %you protectively %hopelessly wanting nothing SWAGGERING GAIT First Line: Bareheaded %the hair blond in tight curls Last Line: Sharing %that one distinction SYMPATHETIC PORTRAIT OF A CHILD Poem Text First Line: The murderer's little daughter Last Line: That darts along her smile? Subject(s): Children; Childhood TAILPIECE First Line: What time is it? Yes Last Line: River to time without end %the salt sea TAPIOLA First Line: He is no more dead than finland herself is dead Last Line: Has been born and continues to live in all our %minds, all of us, forever TERM First Line: A rumpled sheet %of brown paper Last Line: The ground. Unlike %a man it rose %again rolling %with the wind over %and over to be as %it was befo Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural TESTAMENT OF PERPETUAL CHANGE First Line: Mortal prudence, handmaid of divine providence Last Line: Of the cliff dwellers' palaces still in my possession of my mind THE BIRDS Poem Text First Line: The world begins again Last Line: And the dripping grass. Subject(s): Blackbirds THE BIRTH OF VENUS': SONG Poem Text First Line: Come with us and play Last Line: It is forbidden! Subject(s): Sin; Lust THE BOTTICELLIAN TREES Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The alphabet / of the trees Last Line: Above the muffled words -- Subject(s): Trees; Winter THE BULL Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: It is in captivity Last Line: With hyacinthine curls Subject(s): Bulls THE CATHOLIC BELLS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Tho' I'm no catholic Last Line: Ring ring ring ring ring! / catholic bells -! Subject(s): Bells; Catholics; Roman Catholics; Catholicism THE CATS' MONTH Poem Text First Line: Your frosty hands Last Line: Where deep snow lies. Subject(s): Animals; Cats THE CENTENARIAN Poem Text First Line: I don't think we shall Last Line: There's whiskey in the jar! Subject(s): Women - Old Age; Drinks & Drinking; Wine THE COLD NIGHT Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: It is cold. The white moon Last Line: Perfect after many babiers. / oya! Subject(s): Cold THE DANCE (1) Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: In brueghel's great picture, the kermess Last Line: In brueghel's great picture, the kermess Variant Title(s): The Dance Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Dancing & Dancers; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter THE DANCE (2) Poem Text First Line: When the snow falls the flakes Last Line: Dancing, dancing as may be credible Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Dancing & Dancers; Festivals; Paintings And Painters; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter; Fairs; Pageants THE DARK DAY Poem Text First Line: A three-day-long rain from the east Last Line: Backward, backward, backward. THE DEATH OF FRANCO OF COLOGNE: HIS PROPHECY OF BEETHOVEN Poem Text First Line: It is useless, good woman, useless: the spark fails me Last Line: Over the bronze gates of paradise! Subject(s): Death; Children; Aging THE DECEPTRICES Poem Text First Line: Because they are not Last Line: The unalterable conclusion Subject(s): Youth THE DELICACIES Poem Text First Line: The hostess, in pink satin and blond hair -- dressed high -- shone beautifully Last Line: Cream cheese and whole walnuts! Subject(s): Food & Eating; Parties THE DESCENT Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The descent beckons / as the ascent beckoned Subject(s): Aging THE DESOLATE FIELD Poem Text First Line: Vast and grey, the sky Last Line: Yearning silently over me. Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE DISPUTANTS Poem Text First Line: Upon the table in their bowl Last Line: Grown frail as vaudeville. THE DRUNKARD Poem Text First Line: You drunken / tottering / bum Last Line: To despair Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics THE FLOWERS ALONE Poem Text First Line: I should have to be Last Line: The living hybrids Subject(s): Flowers THE FOOL'S SONG Poem Text First Line: I tried to put a bird in a cage Last Line: Heigh-ho! Truth in a cage. Subject(s): Truth THE FORGOTTEN CITY Poem Text First Line: When with my mother I was coming down Last Line: Surrounded by the familiar and the famous Subject(s): Americans; United States; America THE GENTLE MAN Poem Text First Line: I feel the caress of my own fingers Last Line: Of the kind women I have known. THE GIFT Poem Text First Line: As the wise men of old brought gifts Last Line: To worship / this perfection Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE GREAT FIGURE Poem Text First Line: Among the rain Last Line: Through the dark city. Subject(s): Fire THE GREAT MULLEN Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: One leaves his leaves at home Last Line: And you are high, grey and straight. Ha! Subject(s): Flowers THE HORSE Poem Text First Line: The horse moves / independently Last Line: Exhausts of a car Subject(s): Animals THE HORSE SHOW Poem Text First Line: Constantly near you, I never in my entire Last Line: There, I was so interested to hear about it Subject(s): Relationships THE HOUNDED LOVERS Poem Text First Line: Where shall we go Last Line: Does not turn back / the cold wind Subject(s): Desire; Love THE HUNTER Poem Text First Line: In the flashes and black shadows Last Line: And become fast to a twig again. THE HURRICAN Poem Text First Line: The tree lay down Last Line: It said, go to it Subject(s): Hurricanes; Trees THE IVY CROWN Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The whole process is a lie Last Line: Past all accident Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening THE LAST WORDS OF MY ENGLISH GRANDMOTHER Poem Text First Line: There were some dirty plates Last Line: Of them and rolled her head away Subject(s): Death; Grandparents; Men; Mothers; Dead, The; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers THE LATE SINGER Poem Text First Line: Here it is spring again Last Line: I am late at my singing. Subject(s): Singing & Singers THE LOCUST TREE IN FLOWER (SECOND VERSION) Poem Text First Line: Among / the leaves / bright Last Line: And quickly / fall Subject(s): Locust Trees THE LOCUST TREE IN FLOWER (FIRST VERSION) Poem Text First Line: Among / the leaves / bright Last Line: And quickly / fall Subject(s): Locust Trees THE LOCUST TREE IN FLOWER (SECOND VERSION) Poem Text First Line: Among / of / green Last Line: And quickly / fall! Subject(s): Locust Trees THE LONELY STREET Poem Text First Line: School is over. It is too hot Last Line: They mount the lonely street. Subject(s): Schools; Students THE MANOEUVRE Poem Text First Line: I saw the two starlings Last Line: Face into the wind's teeth Subject(s): Starlings THE MARRIAGE OF SOULS Poem Text First Line: That heat! / that terrible heat Last Line: Unfused / and unfusing Subject(s): Marriage; Man-woman Relationships; Love – Complaints; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE MENTAL HOSPITAL GARDEN Poem Text First Line: It is far to assisi Last Line: The full meaning / of it / all Subject(s): Religion; Psychiatric Hospitals; Gardens & Gardening; Theology THE MORAL Poem Text First Line: Just junk / is what it amounts to Last Line: Firm any more Subject(s): Junk & Junkyards THE NIGHTINGALES Poem Text First Line: My shoes as I lean Last Line: Over shoes and flowers. Subject(s): Shoes THE OBSERVER Poem Text First Line: What a scurvy mind Last Line: All its quickening / pleasures prove Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE OGRE Poem Text First Line: Sweet child, / little girl with well-shaped legs Last Line: These are my excuses. Subject(s): Daughters; Thought THE OLD MEN Poem Text First Line: Old men who have studied Last Line: Be yours! Subject(s): Old Age THE OLD WORSHIPPER Poem Text First Line: How times change, old friend Last Line: Old worshipper! THE ORCHESTRA Poem Text First Line: The precise counterpart Last Line: It is a design Subject(s): Music & Musicians THE ORDEAL Poem Text First Line: O crimson salamander Last Line: O crimson salamander. Subject(s): Salamanders THE POET AND HIS POEMS Poem Text First Line: The poem is this: Last Line: Writing of imaginative / lines than in love Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POOR Poem Text First Line: By constantly tormenting them Last Line: Took him for their friend and adviser. Subject(s): Poverty THE RAPER FROM PASSENACK Poem Text First Line: Was very kind. When she regained Last Line: "be cured. And hatred, hatred of all men Subject(s): Hate THE RED WHEELBARROW Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: So much depends Subject(s): Language; Wheelbarrows; Words; Vocabulary THE REVELATION Poem Text First Line: I awoke happy, the house Last Line: For that quiet look -- Subject(s): Dreams THE REWAKING Poem Text First Line: Sooner or later / we must come to the end Last Line: Itself is revived Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE ROSE (1) Poem Text First Line: First the warmth, variability Last Line: Coldly its perfection Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE ROSE (2) Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The stillness of the rose Last Line: Long since begun Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE ROSE (3) Poem Text First Line: The rose is obsolete Last Line: Penetrates space Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE SAVAGE BEAST Poem Text First Line: As I leaned to retrieve Last Line: Place, only a little closer Subject(s): Hate THE SEA-ELEPHANT Poem Text First Line: Trundled from / the strangeness of the sea Last Line: Spring is icummen in --- Subject(s): Sea Monsters THE SEMBLABLES Poem Text First Line: The red brick monastery in Last Line: Within where the wrapt machines / are praying ... Subject(s): Monasteries; Abbeys THE SHADOW Poem Text First Line: Soft as the bed in the earth Last Line: Brings dark to my eyes. THE SLOUGHING WIND Poem Text First Line: Some leaves hang late, some fall Last Line: The tale of winter branches and old bones. Subject(s): Leaves; Winter THE SPARROW Poem Text First Line: This sparrow / who comes to sit at my window Subject(s): Sparrows THE STORM Poem Text First Line: A perfect rainbow! A wide Last Line: Violently southward Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE TERM Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: A rumpled sheet / of brown paper Last Line: And over to be as / it was before Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural THE THINKER Poem Text First Line: My wife's new pink slippers Last Line: Out of pure happiness. THE THREE GRACES Poem Text First Line: We have the picture of you in mind Last Line: So as I write this mary has died Subject(s): Beauty; Change; Death; Dead, The THE TULIP BED Poem Text First Line: The may sun -- whom / all things imitate Last Line: Reposedly. THE TURTLE Poem Text First Line: Not because of his eyes, / the eyes of a bird Last Line: He is your friend Subject(s): Fathers; Men; Prayer THE UNFROCKED PRIEST Poem Text First Line: When a man had gone Last Line: Respect for under- / standing Subject(s): Disrespect THE UNKNOWN Poem Text First Line: Do you exist Last Line: Detail is all Subject(s): Birds; Imagination; Fancy THE USES OF POETRY Poem Text First Line: I've fond anticipation of a day Last Line: To worlds afar whose fruits all anguish mend. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE WANDERER: A ROCOCO STUDY (FIRST VERSION) Poem Text First Line: Even in the time when still I Last Line: And of the new wandering. Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers THE WANDERER; A ROCOCO STUDY: ABROAD Poem Text First Line: Never, even in a dream Last Line: Invisible. Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers THE WANDERER; A ROCOCO STUDY: ADVENT Poem Text First Line: Even in the time when as yet Last Line: Followed after. Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers THE WANDERER; A ROCOCO STUDY: BROADWAY Poem Text First Line: It was then she struck -- from behind Last Line: And led me away. Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers THE WANDERER; A ROCOCO STUDY: CLARITY Poem Text First Line: Come!' cried my mind and by her might Last Line: "I will take my peace in her henceforth!" Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers THE WANDERER; A ROCOCO STUDY: SOOTHSAY Poem Text First Line: Eight days went by, eight days Last Line: "and this shall be as it is spoken." Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers THE WANDERER; A ROCOCO STUDY: ST. JAMES' GROVE Poem Text First Line: And so it came to that last day Last Line: "and of the new wandering!" Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers THE WANDERER; A ROCOCO STUDY: THE STRIKE Poem Text First Line: At the first peep of dawn she roused me Last Line: "I am at peace again, old queen, I listen clearer now." Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers THE WIDOW'S LAMENT IN SPRINGTIME Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Sorrow is my own yard Last Line: And sink into the marsh near them. Subject(s): Grief; Widows & Widowers; Sorrow; Sadness THE WOODPECKER Poem Text First Line: Innocence! Innocence is the condition of heaven Last Line: Stabbing there with a barbed tongue which succeeds! Subject(s): Birds; Woodpeckers THE WORLD NARROWED TO A POINT Poem Text First Line: Liquor and love / when the mind is dull Last Line: Give it a home Subject(s): Alcohol & Alcoholics; Love THE YACHTS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Contend in a sea which the land partly encloses Last Line: In waves still as the skillful yachts pass over Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Yachts & Yachting; Seamen; Sails; Ocean THE YOUNG HOUSEWIFE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: At ten a.M. The young housewife Last Line: Dried leaves as I bow and pass smiling. Subject(s): Housewives THE YOUNG LAUNDRYMAN Poem Text First Line: Ladies, I crave your indulgence for Last Line: Your husband's shirts to wash, please, for wu kee. Subject(s): Asian Americans; Laundry & Laundering THEOCRITUS: IDYL 1 First Line: The whisper of the wind in %that pine tree Last Line: Take your song, %which drives all things out of mind , %with you to the other world THERE ARE NO PERFECT WAVES Last Line: That never seem to rest THESE First Line: Are the desolate, dark weeks Last Line: The clock has stopped %that ticked yesterday so well? %and hears the sound of lakewater %splashing - THESE PURISTS First Line: Lovely! All the essential parts Last Line: An organ grinder in pine street THING First Line: Each time it rings Last Line: Serve it bitterly %together, they and I THINKING BACK TOWARD CHRISTMAS: A STATEMENT FOR THE VIRGIN First Line: With sharp lights winking Last Line: Still stand a man in good stead THIS FLORIDA: 1924 First Line: Of which I am the sand Last Line: Peggy has a little albumen %in hers THIS IS JUST TO SAY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: I have eaten / the plums Last Line: They were delicious / so sweet / and so cold Subject(s): Love; Plums; Plum Trees THIS IS JUST TO SAY First Line: I have eaten %the plums Last Line: They were delicious %so sweet %and so cold Subject(s): Love; Plums THIS IS PIONEER WEATHER First Line: Me, go to florida Last Line: Down hill screaming %our heads off THISTLE Poem Text First Line: They should have called the thistle Last Line: For the honey only. And so -- a thistle. Subject(s): Thistles THOUGHTFUL LOVER First Line: Deny yourself all %half things. %have it %or leave it Last Line: For time without %odor is time %without me THREE GRACES First Line: We have the picture of you in mind Last Line: And as I write this mary has died Subject(s): Beauty; Change; Death THREE IMPROVISATIONS FROM KORA IN HELL: 26 First Line: Doors have a back side also. And grass blades are double-edged Last Line: In the earth of the place the most solid figure imaginable impossible to %remove him THREE IMPROVISATIONS FROM KORA IN HELL: 8 First Line: Some fifteen years we'll say I served this friend, was his valet Last Line: Woman-the moon is swinging from its star THREE IMPROVISATIONS FROM KORA IN HELL: 9 First Line: Why pretend to remember the weather two years back? Why Last Line: Liken the moon to a cow and its light to milk THREE NAHUATL POEMS First Line: One by one I proclaim your songs Last Line: He has fled to the place where all lack a body THREE SONNETS First Line: As the eye lifts, the field %is moving -- the river Last Line: Upon her %their memory clings, each one %distinct, enriching her %while I yet live to enjoy, perhaps THRENODY First Line: The christian coin -- %embossed with a dove and sword Last Line: As it drops, lost, to its grave THURSDAY Poem Text First Line: I have had my dream -- like others Last Line: At my nose -- and decide to dream no more. Subject(s): Reality TIME THE HANGMAN Poem Text First Line: Poor old abner, poor old white-haired nigger Last Line: Are on your knees, and you are silent and broken. Subject(s): African Americans; Old Age; Negroes; American Blacks TITLE First Line: As in gauguin's the loss of virginity Last Line: And emotional dignity of the whole TO First Line: A child (a boy) bouncing Last Line: Which is the old back yard TO A CHINESE WOMAN First Line: Passing my house in the suburbs Last Line: To %hell with this--after %her!--startling the flowers TO A DEAD JOURNALIST Poem Text First Line: Behind that white brow Last Line: "to have found so monstrous Subject(s): Newspapers; Journalism; Journalists TO A DEAD JOURNALIST First Line: Behind that white brow Last Line: To have found so monstrous %an obscurity Subject(s): Newspapers TO A DOG INJURED IN THE STREET Poem Text First Line: It is myself / not the poor beast lying there Last Line: To believe it Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TO A DOG INJURED IN THE STREET First Line: It is myself %not the poor beast lying there Last Line: Let all men believe it, as you have taught me also %to believe it Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TO A FRIEND Poem Text First Line: Well, lizzie anderson! Seventeen men -- and Last Line: The law is changed into a mouthful of phrases. Subject(s): Law & Lawyers; Promiscuity TO A FRIEND First Line: Sweet lady, sure it seem a thousand years Last Line: To pray you greet me then, say is't o'er bold? TO A FRIEND CONCERNING SEVERAL LADIES Poem Text First Line: You know there is not much / that I desire, a few chrysanthemums Last Line: Move on their stalks and rattle drily. TO A LADY First Line: Sunshine is to spring so constant Last Line: Thy love too be sorely tried TO A LOVELY OLD BITCH First Line: Sappho, sappho, sappho! Initiate Last Line: Rust, broken fruit-baskets %and bits of plaster, %painted on one side, %from dismantled bedrooms TO A MAN DYING ON HIS FEET First Line: Not that we are not all %dying on our feet Last Line: The plane leaves at 6:30 %or have you another %appointment TO A MEXICAN PIG-BANK First Line: And a small %flock Last Line: A red %blanket %on his left %shoulder TO A POOR OLD WOMAN Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Munching a plum on Last Line: They taste good to her Subject(s): Plums; Plum Trees TO A POOR OLD WOMAN First Line: Munching a plum on Last Line: Comforted %a solace of ripe plums %seeming to fill the air %they taste good to her Subject(s): Plums TO A SOLITARY DISCIPLE Poem Text First Line: Rather notice, mon cher Last Line: Of the moon. Subject(s): Spires; Steeples TO A SPARROW Poem Text First Line: Your perch is the branch Last Line: To complete the décor Subject(s): Sparrows TO A SPARROW First Line: Your perch is the branch Last Line: Among the hemlocks %insistently of you Subject(s): Birds TO A WOMAN SEEN ONCE First Line: No one is lovely %but you alone Last Line: That mold--I %am through with you TO A WOOD THRUSH First Line: Singing across the orchard Last Line: Before a cheated world TO A WOODPECKER First Line: December bird in the bare tree Last Line: Woods hang out the snow as if %it wer gay %curtains TO ALL GENTLENESS First Line: Like a cylindrical tank fresh silvered Last Line: By the other, alternates, the cosine, the %cylinder and the rose TO AN ELDER POET Poem Text First Line: To be able Last Line: They taste good to her Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Old Age; Flowers TO AN ELDER POET First Line: To be able %and not to do it Last Line: Wait forever %shaken by the rain %forever TO AN OLD JAUNDICED WOMAN First Line: O tongue %licking %the sore on Last Line: Saffron eyeballs %I can't die %I can't die TO BE CLOSELY WRITTEN ON A SMALL PIECE OF PAPER Poem Text First Line: Lo the leaves Last Line: Any girl's locket Subject(s): Leaves TO BE CLOSELY WRITTEN ON A SMALL PIECE OF PAPER WHICH FOLDED INTO A TIGHT LOZENGE WILL FIT ANY GIRL' Poem Text First Line: Lo the leaves Subject(s): Leaves; Autumn; Fall TO BE HUNGRY IS TO BE GREAT First Line: The small, yellow grass-onion Last Line: Of it is they grow everywhere TO BE RECITED TO FLOSSIE ON HER BIRTHDAY First Line: Let him who may %among the continuing lines Last Line: You will believe me %a rose %to the end of time TO BE RECITED TO FLOSSIE ON HER BIRTHDAY First Line: Let him who may Last Line: A rose %to the end of time TO CLOSE First Line: Will you please rush down and see Last Line: I, I, I don't think it's breathin' TO DAPHNE AND VIRGINIA First Line: The smell of the heat is boxwood Last Line: Or watch a heavy goose %who waddles, slopping %noisily in the mud of %his pool TO ELSIE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The pure products of america Last Line: And adjust, no one to drive the car Subject(s): United States; Social Commentaries; America TO FLOSSIE First Line: Who showed me %a bunch of garden roses Last Line: But aren't they %in wax %paper for the %moment beautiful TO FORD MADOX FORD IN HEAVEN Poem Text First Line: Is it any better in heaven, my friend ford Last Line: Part, provence, he loved so well Subject(s): Ford, Ford Madox (1873-1939) TO FORD MADOX FORD IN HEAVEN First Line: Is it any better in heaven, my friend ford Last Line: A part of that which you were the known %part, provence, he loved so well Subject(s): Ford, Ford Madox (1873-1939) TO FREIGHT CARS IN THE AIR Poem Text First Line: All the slow Last Line: The silence / to the left Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains TO FREIGHT CARS IN THE AIR First Line: All the slow Last Line: In silence %to the left Subject(s): Railroads TO FRIEND-TREE OF COUNTED DAYS First Line: Brief harp of the larches Last Line: Counterpoint of the void in which %I believe TO GREET A LETTER-CARRIER First Line: Why'n't you bring me a %good letter? Last Line: Atta boy! Atta boy! TO HAVE DONE NOTHING First Line: No that is not it Last Line: Has the power %of confusion %which only to %have done nothing %can make %perfect TO HIS LADY WITH A QUEER NAME First Line: Love, change thy name! Elizabeth Last Line: How soon wouldst find some other's heart TO MARK ANTHONY IN HEAVEN Poem Text First Line: This quiet morning light Last Line: Listening in heaven. Subject(s): Antony, Marc (83-30 B.c.); Heaven; Marcus Antonius; Anthony, Mark; Paradise TO MY BETTER SELF First Line: Good, honest part of me, I bid thee pray Last Line: And age stretch out to everlasting peace TO MY FRIEND EZRA POUND First Line: Or he were a jew or a %welshman Last Line: You show yourself to be inept not to say %usurious TO REGAIN THE DAY AGAIN Last Line: I have need of thy tears and to be unjust TO SIMPLICITY First Line: Thou first born nymph of any woody dell Last Line: Where art thou hid? Cry, cry again! I come! I come! I come! TO THE DEAN First Line: What should I say of henry miller Last Line: All be praising you, you are a very good %influence TO THE GHOST OF MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS First Line: To celebrate your brief life Last Line: Thrown from the saddle %and get your neck broke %as it must have happened and it did in the end TO THE OUTER WORLD Poem Text First Line: At peace here -- I feel you about me Last Line: And we will join you all wherever you may be circling. Subject(s): Hope TO THE SHADE OF PO CHU-I Poem Text First Line: The work is heavy. I see Last Line: Save of death the bright dancer? Subject(s): Po Chu-yi (772-846) TO THE UNKNOWN LADY First Line: So shall thy praise, thou whom I love so well Last Line: In iron crowns rusted as gleams the untouched gold TO WAKEN AN OLD LADY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Old age is Last Line: Piping of plenty. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Old Age; Work; Workers TO WISH MYSELF COURAGE Poem Text First Line: On the day when youth is no more upon me Last Line: Long at the birth -- and sing me the youth-song! Subject(s): Youth; Aging TOLSTOY First Line: That art is evil (stale %art, he might have said) Last Line: Commit yourself to heaven TRACT Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: I will teach you my townspeople Last Line: I think you are ready. Subject(s): Funerals; Burials TRAGIC DETAIL First Line: The day before I died Last Line: Insistent upon the loose gown TRALA TRALA TRALA LA-LE-LA Poem Text First Line: When the time has arrived Last Line: Trala trala la-le-la Subject(s): Holidays TRALA TRALA TRALA LA-LE-LA First Line: When the time has arrived Last Line: To the end of time trala %trala trala la-le-la Subject(s): Holidays TRANSITIONAL Poem Text First Line: First he said Last Line: Am I not I -- here? TRANSLATION First Line: There is no distinction in the encounter, sweet Last Line: Our mistress whom we serve TRANSLATIONS FROM THE SPANISH First Line: The tired workman Last Line: You murmur complaints of me TREE First Line: The tree is stiff, the branch Last Line: The tree will remain, stiffly upright TREE AND SKY Poem Text First Line: - again / the bare brush of Last Line: Vaporously / the unmoving / blue Subject(s): Trees; Sky TREE AND SKY First Line: Again %the bare brush of %the half-broken Last Line: Vaporously %the unmoving %blue TREES Poem Text First Line: Crooked, black tree Last Line: In your eagerness. Subject(s): Trees TREES First Line: The trees -- being trees Last Line: No part of us untouched TRIBUTE TO NERUDA THE POET COLLECTOR OF SEASHELLS First Line: Now that I am all but blind Last Line: His lines the variable pitch %which modern verse requires TRIBUTE TO THE PAINTERS First Line: Satyrs dance! %all the deformities take wing Last Line: Shall be quieted, %put to bed %again TURKEY IN THE STRAW First Line: I'll put this in my diary Last Line: I kissed her while she pissed TURTLE First Line: Not because of his eyes, %the eyes of a bird Last Line: To unknown places. %he is your friend Subject(s): Fathers; Men; Prayer TWELVE LINE POEM First Line: Pitiful lovers broken by your loves Last Line: The reprehensible absurdities of %an inferior attitude TWO ASPECTS OF APRIL First Line: Nothing is more certain than the flower Last Line: Good luck, 1932! It's your turn now TWO DELIBERATE EXERCISES: 1. LESSON FROM A PUPIL RECITAL First Line: In a fourfold silence the music Last Line: The hand-shakes of his constituents TWO DELIBERATE EXERCISES: 2. VOYAGES First Line: In the center, above the basin Last Line: For us or nowhere the tree-lined avenues of our desires TWO PENDANTS: FOR THE EARS First Line: I dreamed of a tiger, wounded Last Line: He must %be a smart little bird %good-bye! UNFROCKED PRIEST First Line: When a man had gone Last Line: Respect for the understanding UNISON First Line: The grass is very green, my friend Last Line: Hear the unison of their voices UNITED FRONT First Line: They have removed a building to make %parking space for the bank Last Line: And there %a black cat scratches and sits down UNITED STATES First Line: The government of your body, sweet Last Line: I yield my willing services UNKNOWN First Line: Do you exist %my pretty bird Last Line: Or do I merely %think you %perfect %in mid-air USURERS OF HEAVEN First Line: Wanting to save their fortunes for Last Line: Rest, rest! And be comforted VENUS OVER THE DESERT First Line: If I do not sin, she said, you shall not %walk in the long gowns down stone Last Line: Poor monks, you think you are gentle but I tell you %you kill as sure as shot kills a bird flying VIEW First Line: The moon %ovoid %in the black press Last Line: Above %the ringed city VIEW BY COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY ON A COMMERCIAL CALENDAR First Line: The church of vico-morcote %in the canton ticino Last Line: Something %has come to an end here, %it has been accomplished VIEW OF A LAKE First Line: From a %highway below a face %of rock Last Line: The three %with straight backs %ignore %the stalled traffic %all eyes %toward the water VIRTUE Poem Text First Line: Now? Why -- / whirlpools of / orange and purple flame Last Line: Gold watch chains. Come! Subject(s): Conduct Of Life VIRTUOUS AGENT First Line: That which gives me to see Last Line: The law may bury me in quicklime VISION OF LABOR: 1931 First Line: In my head the juxtapositions Last Line: Flung their boots over their shoulders and went home VISIT First Line: I have committed many errors Last Line: You were kind to be at such %pains with me and--thanks %for the view WAITING Poem Text First Line: When I am alone I am happy Last Line: As it has happened now? WAR, THE DESTROYER Poem Text First Line: What is war, / the destroyer / but an appurtenance Last Line: Beside the face Subject(s): War; Dancing & Dancers WAR, THE DESTROYER First Line: What is war, %the destroyer %but an appurtenance Last Line: Displayed flagrantly %in its place %beside the face Subject(s): Troy WEASEL SNOUT Poem Text First Line: Staring / she kindles Last Line: Through glass walls / to inimate / dead things Subject(s): Weasels WEASEL SNOUT First Line: Staring she %kindles %the street windows Last Line: Through glass walls %to inimate %dead things WELL DISCIPLINED BARGEMAN First Line: The shadow does not move. It is the water moves Last Line: Avidly into the gale. Only the bargeman raking %upon his barge remains, like the shadow, sleeping WHEN FRESH, IT WAS SWEET First Line: Balieff's actors from the bat Last Line: Katinka rebegins to dance-- %finis WHEN STRUCTURE FAILS RHYME ATTEMPTS TO COME TO THE RESCUE Poem Text First Line: The old horse dies slow Last Line: Refuge of his dreams Subject(s): Horses; Death WHEN STRUCTURE FAILS RHYME ATTEMPTS TO COME TO THE RESCUE First Line: The old horse dies slow Last Line: By far all pace and every %refuge of his dreams WIDE AWAKE, FULL OF LOVE First Line: Being in this stage Last Line: Will not startle for %the grinning worm WILD ORCHARD First Line: It is a broken country Last Line: Has turned %from his repose WILDFLOWER First Line: Black eyed susan %rich orange Last Line: Arab %indian %dark woman WILLOW POEM Poem Text First Line: It is a willow when summer is over Last Line: Into the water and on the ground. Subject(s): Willow Trees WIND INCREASES First Line: The harried %earth is swept Last Line: A way %to the last leaftip WIND OF THE VILLAGE First Line: Seated above the dead Last Line: And death is one swallow only WINDS First Line: Flowing edge to edge Last Line: The mind and husbands from wives WINTER First Line: Now the snow %lies on the ground %and more snow Last Line: This is winter %winter, winter %leather-green leaves %spearshaped %in the falling snow WINTER QUIET Poem Text First Line: Limb to limb, mouth to mouth Last Line: The ecstasy. Subject(s): Fields; Winter WINTER SUNSET Poem Text First Line: Then I raised my head Last Line: They'd set there. Subject(s): Evening; Winter WINTER TREES Poem Text First Line: All the complicated details Last Line: Stand sleeping in the cold. Subject(s): Trees WISTFULNESS IN IDLENESS First Line: Oh, for a song! Last Line: The boon of a song! WOMAN IN FRONT OF A BANK First Line: The bank is a matter of columns Last Line: Arranged hair profusely blond) or %darwin's and there you %have it: %a woman in front of a bank WOMAN WALKING Poem Text First Line: An oblique cloud of purple smoke Last Line: I might well see you oftener. Subject(s): Country Life; Women; Desire WOODPECKER First Line: Innocence! Innocence is the condition of heaven Last Line: Flight, means only desire and desire the end of flight, %stabbing there with a barbed tongue which s Subject(s): Birds; Woodpeckers WOODTHRUSH First Line: Fortunate man it is not too late Last Line: His dapple breast reflecting %tragic winter %thoughts my love my own WORDS LYING IDLE First Line: The fields parched, the leaves Last Line: This dryness and the death implied WORDS, THE WORDS, THE WORDS First Line: The perfume of the iris, sweet citron Last Line: Rise and shake your skirts %to the buttercups, yellow as polished %gold WORLD CONTRACTED TO A RECOGNIZABLE IMAGE First Line: At the small end of an illness Last Line: The wall lived for me in that picture %I clung to it as a fly WORLD NARROWED TO A POINT First Line: Liquor and love %when the mind is dull Last Line: Liquor and love %rescue the clousy sense %banish its despair%give it a home WRESTED FROM MIRRORS First Line: In falling the dream was broken Last Line: Lifts the ensanguined heads of the black bulls WRITER'S PROLOGUE TO A PLAY IN VERSE First Line: In your minds you jump from doors Last Line: You shall laugh to see yourselves %all naked, on the stage WRONG DOOR First Line: Gi' me a reefer, lawd Last Line: Of where I is by a new door YACHTS First Line: Contend in a sea which the land partly encloses Last Line: Their cries rising %in waves still as the skillful yachts pass over Subject(s): Sailors And Sailing; Sea; Yachts And Yachting YELLOW CHIMNEY First Line: There is a plume %of fleshpale %smoke upon the blue Last Line: Of the sun not of %the pale sun but %his born brother %the %declining season YELLOW FLOWER First Line: What shall I say, because talk I must? Last Line: And acclimate %and choose it for my own YELLOW SEASON First Line: The black, long-tailed, %one then, unexpectedly, another Last Line: Beyond the crackle %of death's tinking certainty YELLOW TREE PEONY First Line: The girl whose arms are leaves Last Line: Who will protect us %from her dominion YOU HAVE PISSED YOUR LIFE First Line: Any way you walk Last Line: You have pissed your life YOUNG CAT AND THE CHRYSANTHEMUMS First Line: You mince, you start Last Line: I wish you had not come here YOUNG LOVE (FIRST VERSION) First Line: What about all this writing Last Line: Patching up sick school children YOUNG SYCAMORE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: I must tell you Last Line: But two / eccentric knotted / twigs / bending forward / hornlike at the top Subject(s): Plane Trees; Sycamores YOUNG SYCAMORE First Line: I must tell you Last Line: But two %eccentric knotted %twigs %bending forward %hornlike at the top Subject(s): Plane Trees YOUNG WOMAN AT A WINDOW Poem Text First Line: She sits with / tears on Last Line: To the glasss Subject(s): United States; America YOUNG WOMAN AT A WINDOW First Line: She sits with %tears on Last Line: Pressed %to the glass Subject(s): United States YOUNG WOMAN AT A WINDOW First Line: While she sits %there Last Line: But rubs his %nose YOUTH AND BEAUTY Poem Text First Line: I bought a dishmop -- / having no daughter Last Line: To her father. |
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