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Subject: APATHY
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A FIRST ON TV (FOR WALTER CRONKITE), by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the twentieth century / you are there
Subject(s): Apathy; Cronkite, Walter (b. 1916); Men; Television; Tv


A GHOST, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Today I entertained a ghost
Last Line: As make live men.
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Apathy; Ghosts; Supernatural


APATHY, by RICHARD ALDINGTON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come down the road and do not speak
Last Line: Gouged between ear and jaw right to the skull
Subject(s): Apathy


APATHY, by RICHARD ALDINGTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come down the road and do not speak
Subject(s): Apathy


APATHY, by BLOSSOM S. KIRSCHENBAUM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Jingley, jangley
Subject(s): Apathy


APATHY, by ELEANORE E. REED    Poem Text                    
First Line: The future's cautious curtain drew aside
Last Line: And that to me is ultimate despair.
Subject(s): Apathy


APATHY, by PAUL VERLAINE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am the empire at the end of its decadence
Last Line: Nothing but a nameless boredom to afflict you.
Subject(s): Apathy; France


APATHY AND ENTHUSIASM, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O the clammy cold november
Last Line: When young indians lead the war.
Subject(s): Apathy


APATHY IN ACTION, by MILT HAMMERLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Indifference vegetates %on flabby dispositions
Last Line: Tomorrow, muscles will move %and the fat will shake, %no sw eat
Subject(s): Apathy


ELEGY FOR N.N., by CZESLAW MILOSZ    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell me if it is too far for you
Subject(s): Apathy


FIRST ON TV (FOR WALTER CRONKITE), by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the twentieth century %you are there
Last Line: Will be to remain calm
Subject(s): Apathy; Cronkite, Walter (b. 1916); Men; Television


GUMMING, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I asked malachy brandon, eighty - two
Last Line: And don't give a fuck
Subject(s): Aging; Apathy; Dublin, Ireland; Love


INDIFFERENCE, by GEOFFREY ANKETELL STUDDERT-KENNEDY    Poem Text                 Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: When jesus came to golgotha they hanged him on a tree
Last Line: And jesus crouched against a wall and cried for calvary.
Alternate Author Name(s): Willie, Woodbine
Variant Title(s): The Crucifixion
Subject(s): Apathy; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion


LOST DESIRE, by ELEANORE MERLE IRELAND    Poem Text                    
First Line: I opened the door
Last Line: Gone, I know not where.
Subject(s): Apathy


MUSEE DES BEAUX ARTS, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: About suffering they were never wrong
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Subject(s): Apathy; Art & Artists; Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Human Rights; Icarus; Men; Museums; Mythology - Classical; Pain; Paintings & Painters; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter; Art Gallerys; Suffering; Misery


MUSEE DES BEAUX ARTS, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: About suffering they were never wrong
Last Line: Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky %had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Subject(s): Apathy; Art And Artists; Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Human Rights; Icarus; Men; Museums; Mythology - Classical; Pain; Paintings And Painters


ODE TO APATHY, SELS., by BERTIE GREATHEED    Poem Source                    
First Line: O! Would the sons of italy arise
Last Line: Which apennines divide, and alps and seas surround
Subject(s): Apathy; Florence, Italy


POOH!, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dainty miss apathy %sat on a sofa
Last Line: But contained just four letters, %and these pronounced pooh!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Apathy; Bores


THE GENERAL'S BRIEFING, by JANE MILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here is the infant formula plant
Last Line: No salt for tears no sea for sewage --
Subject(s): Apathy; Military-industrial Complex; Popular Culture - United States; War; War - Home Front


THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let us go then, you and I
Last Line: Till human voices wake us, and we drown.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S.
Subject(s): Aging; Alienation (social Psychology); Apathy; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Modern Man; Paralysis; Estrangement; Outcasts


TWO, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Two possible definitions of hell:
Last Line: Two, maybe it's just as well.
Subject(s): Apathy; Hell; Silence


UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 22. THE CELESTIAL SURGEON, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I have faltered more or less
Last Line: And to my dead heart run them in!
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Apathy; Religion; Theology


WRITTEN IN A THUNDERSTORM, 15 JULY 1841, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The heavens are wroth; the thunder's rattling peal
Subject(s): Apathy; Storms