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| Searching... Subject: EXILES Matches Found: 594 17-JAN-32, by MIKLOS RADNOTI Poem Source First Line: I went hiking into the morning mountains Last Line: Take care! Subject(s): Death; Exiles; News; Prisons And Prisoners A JACOBITE'S EXILE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The weary day rins down and dies Last Line: The graves wherein we lie. Subject(s): Exiles; Jacobites; Night; Sea; Bedtime; Ocean A NEW YORK TORY'S EPISTLE TO ONE OF HIS FRIENDS, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dark glooms the day that sees me leave this shore Last Line: He reigns secure the monarch of the wild. Subject(s): American Revolution; Exiles A NIGHT AT ST. HELENA, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It wants three hours to midnight. Do you hear Last Line: Ninette, ninette, remember the old guard. Subject(s): Exiles; Napoleon I (1769-1821) A PEASANT WOMAN'S SONG, by DION BOUCICAULT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm very happy where I am Last Line: Oh! Nobody but me. Alternate Author Name(s): Bourcicault, Dion; Boursiquot, Dionysius Lardner Variant Title(s): The Exiled Mother Subject(s): Country Life; Exiles; Homesickness A POEM OF EXILE; FOR NELL ALTIZER, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The boat is always going by, set afloat Last Line: Alone along the looming foreign shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Boats; Courts & Courtiers; Exiles; Seashore; Travel; Beach; Coast; Shore; Journeys; Trips A RENEGADO EPISTLE TO THE INDEPENDENT AMERICANS, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We tories, who lately were frightened away Last Line: The worst that can happen is -- feathers and tar. Subject(s): American Revolution; Exiles; Treason & Traitors ABOUT WRITING POETRY, by SOPHIE SLINGELAND Poem Source First Line: Why take time, with so little time left Last Line: Will find we once had words Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles ACHIMOTA: FROM THE STORY MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source First Line: There is a place between accra and the legon hills Last Line: A forest, and its meaning-%the place, and its silence Subject(s): Exiles ADMINISTRATOR, by MARILYN MEI LING CHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The women are within her, smoking angel dust, sipping tea Last Line: The state is your conservator; the prairie will be your life Alternate Author Name(s): Chin, Marilyn Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles AFTER THE MAD SONGS OF SAIGON, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Squeezing a half-eaten peach, %I rub the other palm Last Line: I hear mosquitoes sing Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Variant Title(s): After The Fall Of Saigon; After The Noise Of Saigo Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 AFTER WIRIYAMU VILLAGE MASSACRE BY PORTUGUESE, by JACK A. MAPANJE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No, go back into your exile, go back quick Last Line: Where is your verse? You have no shame! %no, go back until our anger has simmered Subject(s): Exiles; Imperialism; Malawi; Massacres AGAINST SIMPLE READING, by MEREDITH STRICKER Poem Source First Line: My mother's hair is a maze I cannot read Last Line: Against the enemy's decoding, against simple reading Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles ALCESTE IN THE WILDERNESS, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Evening is clogged with gnats as the light falls Last Line: Peruked and stately for the final act Subject(s): Exiles ALIEN, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: The foreign woman %asks for a drink Last Line: Tattoos of her %sorrows Subject(s): Exiles; Islands; Maps; Tourists; Travel ALIEN, by NANCY PADDOCK Poem Source First Line: They can enter the window and they will Last Line: That wobbles daily into darkness %into light Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles ALL MY FRIENDS ARE EXILES, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source Last Line: We have everywhere to go, %but home Subject(s): Exiles ALL THAT IS NEEDED, by LOURDES ESPINOLA Poem Source First Line: We are alone in never-ending exile Last Line: That we are alone, %alone, as ever Subject(s): Exiles ALPHABET BY THE POOL ON A SUNDAY AFTERNOON, by LUSIA SLOMKOWSKA Poem Source First Line: My mother crawled with the rest Last Line: Put their lips to a straw %and blew the insides out Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles ALTAR CALL, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source First Line: On the day of my confirmation Last Line: Who time is prone to make us forget %I offer this my third liberation Subject(s): Exiles AMONG STRANGERS, by SILVIA CURBELO Poem Source First Line: One lost track of the story Last Line: One licked his empty plate Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social AN EXILE'S HYMN AT THE SUNSET OF THE SEA, by JULJUSZ SLOWACKI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I grieve, o god; for my sake in the west Last Line: I'll grieve, o god! Subject(s): Exiles ANA IN MIAMI, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Every morning in miami Last Line: Is one more morning's blessing Subject(s): Cuba; Exiles; Miami, Florida; Survival; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration ANCHORAGE, by JOY HARJO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This city is made of stone, of blood, and fish Last Line: To survive? Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; Survival; United States - Race Relations; Estrangement; Outcasts; Indians Of America; American Indians; ANCIENT BALLAD: KING DON SANCHO, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Time it is to pay, urraca %if your promise you would hold Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Distrust; Exiles; Hate ANCIENT GREEK SONG OF EXILE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where is the summer, with her golden sun? Last Line: -- far from my own bright land! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Exiles; Greece; Greeks AND I AM A WOMAN RAVISHED AND NAKED, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source Last Line: I'm a black man's child, still %stranded on the shores of saxon seas Subject(s): Exiles AND MOTHER WAS YOUNG, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source Last Line: Watching the defeated years %march past Subject(s): Exiles ANDROGYNY, by STEPHEN ORLEN Poem Source First Line: Just when you thought it safe enough Last Line: Which cannot distinguish one sex from the other Alternate Author Name(s): Orlen, Steve Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social ANNE HUTCHINSON'S EXILE (1638), by EDWARD EVERETT HALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Home, home - where's my baby's home? Last Line: "home, home, here's my baby's home!" Subject(s): Exiles; Hutchinson, Anne (1591-1643); Religious Discrimination; Religious Conflict ANNOTATIONS, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source First Line: This last work has evidently been Last Line: Something shattering happened. %we can't reassemble the fragments Subject(s): Exiles ANOREXIC, by RUTH ANDERSON BARNETT Poem Source First Line: It's only the attic I miss Last Line: Where cheers rise from the empty bleaches %again and again, though %I am like a cloud by now, like v Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social ANOTHER TIME TRACK, by ILZE MUELLER Poem Source First Line: He's from another time track Last Line: Is the slow rush and thrill of this wild passing %enough forhim? Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles ANTICIPATION, by SHEILA RICHTER Poem Source First Line: My friend says the vines are prized for making baskets. She Last Line: It killed the lilac bushes and the weight may pull the phone lines down Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles ANY ANYWAY I CAN'T GO HOME, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source First Line: Suddenly I recall that yesterday Last Line: And being a long way from home %I don't know that I'll write it Subject(s): Exiles APOCRYPHA, by JANOS PILINSZKY Poem Source First Line: Everything will be forsaken then Last Line: Trickling, the empty ditch trickles down Subject(s): Absence; Emptiness; Exiles; Farewell; Human Rights; Love - Loss Of; Orphans; Prisons And Prisoners; Solitude APOLOGY, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: I demand an apology Last Line: Marked by the scars of memory %fragile and alone Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Exiles; Human Rights - Argentina; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration ASSIGNMENT, by LEN ROBERTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All of the pens leaked Last Line: Staggered home from boney's bar Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social AT A PARTY, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN Poem Source First Line: They want to petition the hungarian government Last Line: Knitted into the sweater Subject(s): Czechoslovakia - Communist Regime; Exiles; Government; Hungary AT LAST RITES, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source First Line: I am a passion of disharmonies Last Line: That portion of the earth which gave me birth Subject(s): Exiles AT MOTHER TERESA'S, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Finally there are enough people to hug! Last Line: Her face closes. I will never guess Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social AT MT. AUBURN CEMETERY, by DIANA DER-HOVANESSIAN Poem Source First Line: My father is lying in a green %field, green, green under the sun Last Line: What can I say, I who therefore %cannot be here to say it? Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles AT PRESENT I AM WORKING AS A SECURITY GUARD, by EDISON DUPREE Poem Source First Line: Watching a mallard, just beyond Last Line: Feeding species Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social AT THE GATE, by NATHAN FREDERICK SPIELVOGEL Poem Text First Line: They drive me out of my country Last Line: They'll be led by the alien jew. Subject(s): Exiles; Jews; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Judaism; Journeys; Trips AUTHOR IN EXILE TO HIS PUBLISHER IN PRISON, by VASSILIS VASSILIKOS Poem Source First Line: Dear theodore, %going through some old papers Last Line: Because, as the saying goes, careful accounts %make good friends Subject(s): Exiles AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JOHN DOE, by JON LAVIERI Poem Source First Line: He got hauled in %on a routine sweep for illegals Last Line: And over there, the man who posed %as a man we all knew Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social BABOUCHKA, by SOPHIE SLINGELAND Poem Source First Line: Now, does she still want to live? Last Line: Let her go with her dreams yet unlived? Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles BABYLEAVES THAT KILL THE RAVEN OR THE POSION TREE, by ECE AYHAN Poem Source First Line: He ran away on a steamboat, a jalopy but quick. Playing Last Line: When children and school openings collide. In mitsrayim Subject(s): Escapes; Exiles; Ravens BALLATA 11. LAST SONG; FROM EXILE, by GUIDO CAVALCANTI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Since I do not hope to return ever Last Line: For her true worth, for ever Subject(s): Exiles; Italian Renaissance BANISHED FROM MASSACHSETTS; 1660 (PAINTING BY E. A. ABBEY), by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Over the threshold of his pleasant home Last Line: The gain was theirs, the loss alone was thine. Subject(s): Abbey, Edwin Austin (1852-1911); Exiles; Paintings And Painters; Pilgrim Fathers BARBELLS OF THE GODS, by MARK COX Poem Source First Line: It's a thursday, getting late Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social BATTERED TODDLER, PAGE B6, by ELLEN DORE WATSON Poem Source First Line: Sometimes grown-ups forget you're down there Last Line: Turns out to be, it will be one good mother Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social BEE MOTHER, by MEREDITH STRICKER Poem Source First Line: Mother - anya, meh Last Line: We speak or will never hear Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles BEGGARS, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Each day as I leave holiday health spa Last Line: Of stones dripping green blood, and rotting plums Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social BEING A MONSTER, by LAWRENCE RAAB Poem Source First Line: You talk about disappointment Last Line: That you and I share almost nothing Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social BELOVED SPIC, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here in the new white neighborhood Last Line: With a sign that read: for sale Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social BERMUDAS, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Where the remote bermudas ride Last Line: With falling oars they kept the time. Variant Title(s): The Emigrants In Bermudas;in Exile;song Of The Emigrants In Bermudas Subject(s): Bermuda; Exiles; Explorers; Fantasy; God; Religion; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Theology; Seamen; Sails; Ocean BLACK IRISH BLUES (1), by JOE-ANNE MCLAUGHLIN Poem Source First Line: Already this tremor in my hands Last Line: Understand, it killed me just the same Variant Title(s): Companion Piece Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social BLANTYRE, by FRANK MKALAWILE CHIPASULA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rusty grey roofs, stunted white-washed walls Last Line: Walled into personal prisons where fear rules Subject(s): Exiles; Police States; Scotland BLOOD IS A NEST, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: The blood is a nest of feathers Last Line: The questions stayed behind %in my flight Variant Title(s): Blood Nes Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Exiles; Human Rights - Argentina; Survival BLUENESS OF THE DAY: 1. MIZUNO IN PARIS (1947), by DAVID MURA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It happened in an instant Last Line: Of my eyes, the alien energy thrashing her thighs, %but no, it's just my face, that implacable mask Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social BOB HOLLY, by J. E. LIDDLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two men a 'pipe' had in a 'show' Last Line: And none have seen him from that date. Alternate Author Name(s): Kodak; Liddle, John Edward Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Exiles; Gold; Gold Mines & Miners; Punishment BODO, by THOMAS LUX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We could weep for him Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts BODO, by THOMAS LUX Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We could weep for him Last Line: In which a fish head floated Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social BOOK OF HUMAN ANOMALIES, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Maud stevens received her first tattoo in 1904 Last Line: In and out of breath through our complex sleeps %astonishing Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social BOSTON YEAR, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: My first week in cambridge a car full of white boys Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Alienation (social Psychology); Americans; Boston; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; United States; Estrangement; Outcasts; America BOSTON YEAR, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My first week in cambridge a car full of white boys Last Line: No one. Red notes sounding in a grey trolley town Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Alienation (social Psychology); Americans; Boston; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; United States BOTTLED, by JILL BRECKENRIDGE Poem Source First Line: When mother's drinking, the door to my room Last Line: I love you. You! Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles BRANCH BETWEEN THE BONES: 1. PAUL KLEE IN EXILE, by PIMONE TRIPLETT Poem Source First Line: Caught, held between the joints, the sickness whispered Last Line: You are the gristle thinning, you are the silence I grind.' Subject(s): Exiles BRODSKY IN EXILE, by AMY SCATTERGOOD Poem Source First Line: He left russia with only his typewriter Last Line: (it's trial underway) and flew like history over tired, sleeping europe Subject(s): Exiles; Russia BROKEN SONNETS, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: After supper in the big room Last Line: The one god and the angels forgot. Or simply missed Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social BROTHER BODY, by PETER COOLEY Poem Source First Line: Here I am, awakened by accident Last Line: I plug in the shaver, lift myself to it. Now today Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social BURIAL, by ALICE WALKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They have fenced in the dirt road Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; Estrangement; Outcasts BURIAL, by ALICE WALKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They have fenced in the dirt road Last Line: Them sad. But seen from the angle of her death Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles BYZANTINE NOBLEMAN IN EXILE COMPOSING VERSES, by CONSTANTINE P. CAVAFY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The frivolous can call me frivolous Last Line: It may be just this strictness that provokes their %disapproval Alternate Author Name(s): Kavafis, Konstantinos; Cavafy, C. P. Subject(s): Byzantine Empire; Exiles; Poetry And Poets CAJUN, by SHERYL A. ST. GERMAIN Poem Source First Line: I want to take the word back into my body, back Last Line: Again, the word's been stolen, like me %gutted Alternate Author Name(s): St. Germain, Sheryl Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social CALIBAN, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source First Line: This tongue that I have mastered Last Line: I speak this dispossession %in the language of the master Subject(s): Exiles CALLE DE LA AMARGURA, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: On the street of bitterness Last Line: Calle de la amargura, no one is surprised %at the awful taste of paradise Subject(s): Castro, Fidel (b. 1926); Cuba - Rebellions Against Spanish Rule; Exiles; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration CANCIONES, by KENNETH ZAMORA DAMACION Poem Source First Line: What told us that the day was over? Last Line: Perhaps, they'll call out to us Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social CASE STUDY: ABUSE, BUT THE GIRL'S ROOM CLEAN . . ., by GAYLE ROGERS KAUNE Poem Source First Line: Meanwhile, the child regresses Last Line: The rungs of her chair, vibrate %with their eager feet Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles CHOSEN, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: They stand on the shore Last Line: A plangent hope, a culture of water? Subject(s): Cuba; Exiles; Miami Beach; Seashore; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration CHRISTMAS IN THE MIDWEST, by MAUREEN SEATON Poem Source First Line: I brought a lover home Last Line: Without their disapproval, the headlights %of a straight society to validate us Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles CLUB, by MITSUYE YAMADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He beat me with the hem of a kimono Last Line: I placed her %between my clothes in my packed suitcase. %that is how we left him %forever Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Escapes; Exiles; Violence COLD HARBOUR SEASONS: 1. OUTSIDE AUTUMN, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source First Line: I never saw your homes Last Line: How your nine to five friendliness %left me lonely nights Subject(s): Exiles COLD HARBOUR SEASONS: 2. STILL LIFE IN WINTER BROWN-OUT, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source First Line: In the background Last Line: The slam of the dark solid door %clamming behind her in the echoing silence Subject(s): Exiles COLD HARBOUR SEASONS: 3. SUMMER'S POISONING IVY, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source First Line: Even in the sunshine Last Line: An ivory haven of walls towering %corridors of lost faith Subject(s): Exiles COMMENT ON MY HOST, by MARK SOLOMON Poem Source First Line: What a relief to be speaking again, restored Last Line: Though he shakes his head, mumbling into his beard Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social CONSENT, by CAROL FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Arrows striking all sides of the body and st. Sebastian smiling Last Line: A little of what already exists and the towering sense of kindnesses no world can offer? Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts CONSENT, by CAROL FROST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Arrows striking all sides of the body and st. Sebastian smiling Last Line: A little of what already exists and the towering sense of kindness no %world can offer? Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social CONSPIRACY, by ROBERT HILL LONG Poem Source First Line: The cambodian kids speak english faster Last Line: The smile that translates all-clear, truce, %ok, hello. That says the kids can stay Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social CORPOREAL, by ROBERT A. AYRES Poem Source First Line: In seventh grade larry saclarides had a gym locker next to mine, and Last Line: Desire's root will grow Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social COUNTER-COUP, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source First Line: Harshly aware of the brightness of electric light Last Line: From guns to guns again: %again Subject(s): Exiles COYOTE'S DISGUISE AS A MAN IS UP, by DIANE GLANCY Poem Source First Line: Coyote eats a tuna sandwich at her desk Last Line: Now she was life itself. Star of texas. Blessing and gratitude Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles CRITIC, by CHARLES KENNETH WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the boston public library on boylston street, where all the bums come Last Line: And start again: page one, chapter one, his blood-rimmed eyes as rapt as %david's doing psalms Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, C. K. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social CRYPTO-JEWS, by ROBIN BECKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This summer, reading the history of the jews of spain Last Line: Weather, peddle our goods and die into the future Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social CUANDO EL TEOLOTE CANTA, EL INDIO MUERE, by CONSUELO DE AERENLUND Poem Source First Line: Long before the spainards came Last Line: Slowly fill with tears Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social CUBA, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: There it is, the long prow Last Line: And the death of desire Variant Title(s): The Floating Islan Subject(s): Cuba; Exiles; West Indies CURE, by EUGENE WILDMAN Poem Source First Line: Everyone in here hates. That is why this place is called a clinic Last Line: The bars you are on Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social CURRENT NOW, VOYAGER FANTASY, by REMY HOLZER Poem Source First Line: I am standing tensely at the desk Last Line: The woman with a past, the voyager, camille Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social DANTE, by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What should be said of him cannot be said Last Line: Ne'er walked the earth a greaer man than he Alternate Author Name(s): Michel Angelo Subject(s): Exiles; Italian Renaissance DAVID, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: There on the hills Last Line: And commune with god. Subject(s): Exiles; Solitude; Loneliness DAVID'S RUMOR, by LIAM RECTOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am busy doing drawings Last Line: This riot, that hall, that vacancy and pressure %wherein we draw towards goodbye Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Loss; Marginality, Social; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration DAY LILY AND THE FOX, by EMILY HIESTAND Poem Source First Line: An irish soul walks away from paddy's Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social DEFLECTION TOWARD THE RELATIVE MINOR, by FORREST GANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They were partakers of a strange taste. - at the hour when Last Line: In the evening ground when the bell Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Children; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Night; Estrangement; Outcasts; Childhood; Bedtime DEFLECTION TOWARD THE RELATIVE MINOR, by FORREST GANDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They were partakers of a strange taste. - at the hour when Last Line: Sounded for [evening] prayer Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Children; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Night DEPARTED TRAVELLERS, by GRANT HYDE CODE Poem Text First Line: I have been exiled among stony hilltops Last Line: Have wistful eyes. Subject(s): Exiles; Travel; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Journeys; Trips DEPRESSIVE EPISODE, by JANET HOLMES Poem Source First Line: It's funny, but I don't remember much Last Line: Of health has tried to take her life. They hate her Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social DESPERANTO, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dream's forfeit was a night in jail Subject(s): Roth, Joseph (1894-1939); Exiles DIALOGUE ON FINDING SOMEPLACE TO LIVE; AFTER ANNE SEXTON, by LORI STORIE-PAHLITZSCH Poem Source First Line: When we were small we could call anything home Last Line: When we were little we could call anything home Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles DIARY, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am at last that thing, a stranger in my own life Last Line: And holding on between the few late pinched tomatoes %and the whistling dove Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Diaries; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social DIRINGER'S THE ALPHABET: A KEY TO THE HISTORY OF MANKIND, by STEPHANIE STRICKLAND Poem Source First Line: I wanted . . .A guneaform, a woman's form Last Line: But as I said, wiped out Variant Title(s): On First Looking Into Diringer's The Alphabet: A Key To The Histor Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles DISAPPEARED WOMAN: 1, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: I am the disappeared woman Last Line: Call my name Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Disappeared Persons; Exiles; Human Rights DISAPPEARED WOMAN: 2, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Now with everybody %disappeared Last Line: Charred %by moldering blood? Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Exiles; Human Rights - Argentina DISAPPEARED WOMAN: 3, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Find her, %uncover her Last Line: On her saint's day Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Exiles; Human Rights - Argentina DISAPPEARED WOMAN: 4, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: I dream her by roadsides Last Line: And on thresholds %I embrace her Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Exiles; Human Rights - Argentina DISAPPEARED WOMAN: 5, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: I had no witnesses Last Line: Because I never went to my %own funeral Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Exiles; Human Rights - Argentina DISAPPEARED WOMAN: 6, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Mother %I know you are calling me Last Line: Filled with daggers and serpents Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Exiles; Human Rights - Argentina DIVORCED, by DONALD SHARE Poem Source First Line: The air swimming with the bugs' forlorn morse code on a hellish mid-morning Last Line: The wind insistent, out rhythm inconstant, my thoughts divorced Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social DONEGAL, by BRENDAN JAMES GALVIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bog cotton and whin. A stone Last Line: Goes up each morning, %singing to penetrate the sun Subject(s): Donegal, Ireland; Exiles; Irish Language DOOMSAYERS, by PATTIANN ROGERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Some say because the tallest pine Last Line: And they are wrong, all of them. %wrong Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles DOUBLE, by JOAN ALESHIRE Poem Source First Line: Attractive at that distance, hair fanning out Last Line: Her true, betraying sister Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social DOWN AND OUT DRUNK; WRITTEN ON LEAVING JING-KOU, by SU SHIH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The clouds were thin, the moon was faint Last Line: But I am always setting off %to go farther on southeast Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Exiles DOWNTOWN SUNDAY, by ROBERT+(2) CRAWFORD Poem Source First Line: The amputated husband Last Line: Main street's like a lost %funeral procession Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social DREAM TRANSFORMATIONS, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source First Line: My body heats in dreams Last Line: And meanwhile expectant children are watching %meanwhile the children are waiting Subject(s): Exiles DREAM WAR, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: With his eyes closed, he looked like a dead man on some eternal ship Last Line: A wilderness rooted in a nighttime that knows nothing of daybreaks' Subject(s): Dreams; Exiles; Soldiers DUST AND BLUE, by CYNTHIA OLSON Poem Source First Line: All eyes watch the sky. The boring blue sky. No thunder-heads Last Line: The child, so real, obediently in tow Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles EDEN RETOLD: 7. EXILE, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The one who gave the warning with his wings Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Exiles; Eve EDGE, by SANDRA PRICE Poem Source First Line: I set the shorelines of the world by perpetual decrees, so Last Line: Gifts that come through gracem which has no bounds Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles EL SALVADOR, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Eva tells me %that she is from el salvador Last Line: Not even the jews Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; El Salvador; Escapes; Exiles; Human Rights - Argentina; Immigrants; Memory; War ELBA, by GERRIT KOUWENAAR Poem Source First Line: I wear a warning bloodcoat Last Line: And st. Helena comes later Subject(s): Cobra Artists; Exiles; Napoleon I (1769-1821) ELEGIAC SONNET: 43, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The unhappy exile, whom his fates confine Last Line: Then, from contrasted truth -- my feeble soul recoils. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Exiles ELEGIES FROM THE NORTH 2, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: The sodden moss sinks underfoot when we cross half-frozen bays and walk Last Line: Separate, I can barely swallow, tell me the lyrics of your song. I want to sing %with you Subject(s): Cold; Exiles; Snow ELINOR FROST'S MARBLE-TOPPED KNEADING TABLE, by PATTIANN ROGERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Imagine that motion, the turning and pressing Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; Estrangement; Outcasts ELINOR FROST'S MARBLE-TOPPED KNEADING TABLE, by PATTIANN ROGERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Imagine that motion, the turning and pressing Last Line: Clang open the door, tosses another stick %on the fire Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles ELLIS ISLAND, SEPTEMBER 1907 (1), by ANDREA HOLLANDER BUDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sadie, who was only twelve, wrote each letter down Last Line: Where she could become it Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Immigrants; Jews; Marginality, Social; Names ELM TREE ON LAFAYETTE STREET, by ROD KESSLER Poem Source First Line: Thinks it's all junk these days, the routine Last Line: Thinks. Just look at me. And it bugs him that we don't get it Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social EMBATTLED GARDENS I: THE ROAD THROUGH GETHSEMANE 1., by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source First Line: Breaking out of old dispensations Last Line: Sweating drops of blood %in a garden Subject(s): Exiles EMBATTLED GARDENS I: THE ROAD THROUGH GETHSEMANE 2., by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source First Line: The price paid was dear Last Line: And do the rescued witness %the resolution in the rising Subject(s): Exiles EMBATTLED GARDENS I: THE ROAD THROUGH GETHSEMANE 3., by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source First Line: This was going to be about how christ Last Line: Hear %the splintering of bones on wood Subject(s): Exiles EMBLEMS OF EXILE, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hunchback in the park with halo of pigeons Last Line: Which the beggarman mind accepts but cannot reconcile Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Exiles; Hunchbacks; Physical Disabilities; Ugliness; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples EMIGRANT - IMMIGRANT I, by RINA FERRARELLI Poem Source First Line: From the people %beyond reckoning of generations Last Line: They don't know, do you? Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles EMIGRANT - IMMIGRANT II, by RINA FERRARELLI Poem Source First Line: A slight accent. %forming Last Line: A bridge, a border town Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles EMIGRANTS, by KJELL ESPMARK Poem Source First Line: Do we darken the night sky for you Last Line: We're trying in the next galaxy Subject(s): Automobiles; Continents; Exiles; Immigrants; Travel EN TOUR; A SONG SEQUENCE: 5. THE EXILE, by ALBERTA BANCROFT Poem Text First Line: Lovelier than jewels Last Line: "on the clear, green seas --" Subject(s): Exiles ENDURING WITNESS, THE MOSQUES OF KATTANKUDI, by PETER MICHELSON Poem Source First Line: Muhammad wheels us through Last Line: Upon those durable imperatives %grace and hospitality Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social EPIPHANY, by NANCY PADDOCK Poem Source First Line: My church is filled with snow Last Line: I kneel, %baptized, in a rush %of melting Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles ERIN'S FLAG, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unroll erin's flag! Fling its folds to the breeze! Last Line: "they'll sail to the music of ""home, sweet home!" Subject(s): Exiles; Flags - Ireland EROSION, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Parachuting into the desert is a quiet arrival Last Line: Eroding the shore beneath the nomad's feet Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social EUGENIE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In exile, widowed, childless, desolate Last Line: Threefold the cross that measures love divine. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Exiles EVERYONE WHO WANTS TO WORK CAN, by BROOKE WIESE Poem Source First Line: A woman at the lecture waves her hand Last Line: And who cannot read any of these words? Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social EVERYTHING I NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN, by MARTIN JUDE FARAWELL Poem Source First Line: I sit %in the second-to-last seat Last Line: The dumbest one in the room Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Kindergarten; Marginality, Social EVOLUTION OF APPETITE, by KELLEEN ZUBICK Poem Source First Line: Think about st. Joan without Last Line: Divoting, then lifting to end Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social EXAMPLE, by PAUL ZIMMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The papers on my desk out of hand Last Line: Smile my abiding smile and work and work Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social EXILE, by JESSIE J. DALTON Poem Text First Line: Mine the lonely way Last Line: I stand apart, and beat my lonely drum. Subject(s): Exiles EXILE, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The time came for him to be released Last Line: The unruly fiction which he labored to believe Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social EXILE, by MARTA FENYVES Poem Source First Line: The train started to take off Last Line: What - will - tomorrow - %bring Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles EXILE, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: In the evening they listen to the same Last Line: Touches my dogs my friends Subject(s): Exiles EXILE, by ERICH FRIED Poem Source First Line: He took %flight Last Line: Only %his flight Subject(s): Exiles; World War Ii EXILE, by NELS JENSEN HERBY Poem Text First Line: Give me the fruit of eden's knowledge-tree Last Line: In exile glad, despising paradise. Subject(s): Exiles; Knowledge; Sonnet (as Literary Form) EXILE, by YAHYA KEMAL Poem Source First Line: Exile, what is it, can he know who has not been driven Last Line: Yet this man, overcome by it, to be broken must endure Subject(s): Exiles; Muslims EXILE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The dalai lama, exiled, fondles the beards Last Line: There's a smile on every face %and on the face of god. Subject(s): Exiles; Freedom; Religion; Tibet EXILE, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: He returned to grass two feet tall Last Line: Felt his feet settling on the road Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social EXILE, by BORIS NOVAK Poem Source First Line: No star can help me any more Last Line: My only home is my throat Subject(s): Exiles EXILE, by ALEJANDRA PIZARNIK Poem Source First Line: This mania of knowing I am an angel Last Line: And devastate hope Subject(s): Angels; Exiles; Love - Complaints EXILE'S LETTER, by LI PO Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: To so-kin of rakuyo, ancient friend, chancellor of gen Last Line: And send it a thousand miles, thinking. Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): Exiles EXILE'S LETTER (OR: AN ESSAY ON ASSIMILATION), by MARILYN MEI LING CHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We are in louisiana now Alternate Author Name(s): Chin, Marilyn Subject(s): Assimilation; Exiles EXILE'S LETTER: AFTER THE FAILED REVOLUTION, by MARILYN MEI LING CHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A world exists beyond the limits of this pane Last Line: On regret road we must not tarry Alternate Author Name(s): Chin, Marilyn Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles EXILE, REPRESENTATIVE, by BREYTEN BREYTENBACH Poem Source First Line: You grow less agile, more compliant Last Line: From belching entrails come blind freedom fighters Subject(s): Exiles EXILE, SELS., by MARIE RENE AUGUSTE ALEXIS SAINT-LEGER LEGER Subject(s): Exiles; France; World War Ii EXILED, by MYRA WADSWORTH Poem Text First Line: There's a country that I love, far away Last Line: There's a green-grown tiny mound, far away. Subject(s): Exiles EXILED FROM NEW JERSEY, by EDWARD BARTOK-BARATTA Poem Source First Line: I wanted to come back, brother, and visit Last Line: I will walk without shoes each of the million streets Subject(s): Exiles; New Jersey EXILED FROM THE LIGHT, by SEBASTIAN SALAZAR BONDY Poem Source First Line: The president caressed the mane of his favorite horse Last Line: Poor peruvians exiled from the light Subject(s): Assassination; Exiles; Grief; Peru; Social Protest EXILES, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source First Line: Funerals are important Last Line: Our unburied dead eat with us, %follow behind through bedroom doors Subject(s): Exiles EXILES, by DIANA DER-HOVANESSIAN Poem Source First Line: My father, listening Last Line: They leaned toward news %that never came Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social EXILES, by JUDY F. HAM Poem Source First Line: My father beat the robins Last Line: And never brought my babies home Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles EXILES, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Exiles are we from our very birth Last Line: Where the lost gods of our people are! Subject(s): Death; Exiles; Home; Wandering & Wanderers; Dead, The EXMATRIATE, by JACQUELINE LAPIDUS Poem Source First Line: Waking to drizzle and the inevitable Last Line: Eating dry bread in steerage %for a glimpse of the new world Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles FALLING FOR JESUS, by ENID SHOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For years I wanted to trade Last Line: In a slack face-the pose %of a woman in love Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social FAREWELL, by FLORENCE CHARD DACEY Poem Source First Line: I search %for the straight path Last Line: How we love you! %but we are leaving Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles FEBRUARY, by ZHAO ZHENKAI Poem Source First Line: Night approaching perfection Last Line: Certain movements and shadows Subject(s): Exiles; Winter FEW WORDS IN THE MOTHER TONGUE, by IRENA KLEPFISZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lemoshl: for example Last Line: Zi kholmt %di hor %di lange shvartse hor %zi kholmt %zi kholmt %zi kholmt Alternate Author Name(s): Klepfitz, Irena Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles FIRST LESSONS, REDUX, by MARILYN MEI LING CHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is not the hunter who is cunning Last Line: But a moth dying on the screen %leaving her face-powder Alternate Author Name(s): Chin, Marilyn Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles FISH STORY: HOW LANGUAGE CARRIES US INTO THE UNKNOWN, by BRIGITTE FRASE Poem Source First Line: We practice our scales Last Line: They have secret names %but only we can sing them Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles FISSURES IN OLD FRIENDSHIPS: 1. ADMIRATION, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source First Line: In your sure footed stride Last Line: Of those of us who crave %a strength to match your beauty Subject(s): Exiles FISSURES IN OLD FRIENDSHIPS: 2. WALKING DISTANCES, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source First Line: 9 shadow falls this twilight Last Line: Passes between us in our talk along this path %and leaves you wondering what happened Subject(s): Exiles FISSURES IN OLD FRIENDSHIPS: 3. DEMANDS, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source First Line: It's not that I don't want you with me Last Line: Or whimpering %behind me Subject(s): Exiles FISSURES IN OLD FRIENDSHIPS: 4. ROOMMATES, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source First Line: Sometimes, I waited Last Line: And you have brought me %pink roses, out of season Subject(s): Exiles FLIGHT OF APOLLO, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Earth was my home, but even there I was a stranger. This mineral crust. Last Line: The intelligence of the stars Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social FOR A WOMAN MURDERED WHILE RUNNING AT LAND'S END, OCT. 1979, by PATRICIA KIRKPATRICK Poem Source First Line: Late in the fall Last Line: It is hard to keep going Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles FOR DEAR LIFE, by ALANE ROLLINGS Poem Source First Line: Before we pushed off for moon in manana land Last Line: In this mess of a sea that never settles Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social FOR LEAH, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source First Line: I'd like to spare a thought for leah, who Last Line: Through all those years of being compared %I think I know the bitterness of sorrow leah felt Subject(s): Exiles FOR MY MOTHER, WHO LIVES: 4, by LORRAINE JEAN DUGGIN Poem Source First Line: We come from a long line Last Line: Reach a despairing hand across me %not that night, anyway Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Ancestors And Ancestry; Exiles; Mothers FOR THE DRUNK, by CAROLE SIMMONS OLES Poem Source First Line: Where the river cleaves Last Line: I hand him his hat Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY 1787, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The noblest bards of albion's choir Last Line: His lyre had blameless been, his tribute all sincere. Subject(s): Birthdays; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Exiles; George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); Muses FOR THE RECORD; IN MEMORY OF ELEANOR BUMPURS, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Call out the colored girls Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Alienation (social Psychology); Bumpurs, Eleanor; Exiles; Labor & Laborers; Violence; Estrangement; Outcasts; Work; Workers FOR THE RECORD; IN MEMORY OF ELEANOR BUMPURS, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Call out the colored girls Last Line: Planning their return %and they weren't even %sisters Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Alienation (social Psychology); Bumpurs, Eleanor; Exiles; Labor And Laborers; Violence FOREIGN LAND, by WASHINGTON DELGADO Poem Source First Line: I work in a foreign country Last Line: And I'll have lost everything in a foreign country Subject(s): Absence; Exiles; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration FOREIGNER'S ART, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: This is how I dress my face Last Line: Soon he will turn away Subject(s): Cuba; Exiles; Strangers; U.s. - Foreign Population FOREIGNERS, by MEREDITH STRICKER Poem Source First Line: When I meet gustavo and hilda Last Line: Believing against all evidence, no one will take this away Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles FORKED TONGUE, by HELEN RUGGIERI Poem Source First Line: Celtic tribes speak an anapestic lilt Last Line: One to be thought in, one to be loved %one for the heart, one for the head Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles FRAGMENTS OF LOST LOVES: 1. A DIVIDED LOVE POEM, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source First Line: The man I want Last Line: And I've a whole lot of other gifts he doesn't now he doesn't %know Subject(s): Exiles FRAGMENTS OF LOST LOVES: 2. AN END TO THE AFFAIR, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source First Line: In the silence that separates Last Line: And took a breath %and moved Subject(s): Exiles FRAGMENTS OF LOST LOVES: 3. CONFESSIONS, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source First Line: I was confused Last Line: I didn't tell you to hurt you either, %I just wanted you to know what I had known all along Subject(s): Exiles FREEDOM, by CAROLINA HOSPITAL Poem Source First Line: For 20 years they hid your words Last Line: Here, a poem %doesn't upset anyone Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Censorship; Exiles FREEDOM, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: A few months after Last Line: Take care Subject(s): Cuba; Exiles; Freedom; Hunger; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration FREEDOM RIDES QUIZ, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source First Line: Can you tell me where is dien bien phu? Last Line: I'll tell you who will; %ask the children of soweto if the answer rhymes with still Subject(s): Exiles FROM MY PARISIAN DIARY, by MBELLA SONNE DIPOKO Poem Source First Line: Thirty centimes is all the money I have left Last Line: And we must open new fronts even in our dreams Subject(s): Diaries; Exiles FROM VERY CLOSE, by OTTO ORBAN Poem Source First Line: I had been a battery commander and lived and slept with the Last Line: Filled with dry bread that I've wrapped in paper Subject(s): Exiles; War GENEALOGY, by JOAN LARKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I come from alcohol Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Estrangement; Outcasts GENEALOGY, by JOAN LARKIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I come from alcohol Last Line: And all that I could ever hope to bear Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles GENERAL, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source First Line: He had just planned Last Line: Pieces of a jigsaw %without a trace of fear Subject(s): Exiles GENESES, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source First Line: We are leaving the strait of belle isle Last Line: Eddying currents of a song inspired %by the cadence heard at the end of an announcement Subject(s): Exiles GENESIS 4:3-10, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source First Line: Am I my brother's keeper?' Last Line: And the voice that asks the questions %is the self that knows the answers Subject(s): Exiles GOING OUT FOR CIGARETTES, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's a story as famous as the three little pigs Last Line: Downstream, and its upturned reflection in the water Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts GOING OUT FOR CIGARETTES, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's a story as famous as the three little pigs Last Line: Nothing but the arc of the stone bridge he notices %downstream, and its upturned reflection in the w Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social GOOD DEVIL, by KURT BROWN Poem Source First Line: He was bad at torture. Flubbed his first flaying Last Line: Glistening with everlasting life Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social GOOD LUCK, by JOSE OSWALD DE SOUZA ANDRADE Poem Source First Line: Four hundred years ago Last Line: Space in a prison Subject(s): Exiles; History GRAND TRADITION OF WESTERN CULTURE, by JULIA STEIN Poem Source First Line: My girlhood was surrounded by flickering screens Last Line: Their ghosts from the death camps %will be in the aisles and rooms screaming Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles GREEN MARKET, NEW YORK, by JULIA SPICHER KASDORF Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The first day of false spring, I hit the street Last Line: Whoever puts his hand to the plow and looks back %is not fit for the kingdom of god Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles GRIEF, by MAUREEN SEATON Poem Source First Line: After the ghanaian dancing we fought Last Line: What does africa %mean to a black new yorked? And why %did you hurt so hard you had to sleep? Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles GUARDIAN ANGEL, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Afloat between lives and stale truths Last Line: Beneath the surfaces of the world Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social GUESTS ON THE SEA, by MAHMOUD DARWISH Poem Source First Line: Guests on the sea: our visit is short Last Line: Sea, do not give us the song that we do not deserve Subject(s): Exiles GWENDOLYN BROOKS, by HAKI R. MADHUBUTI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She doesn't wear %costume jewelry Last Line: Bro, they been calling that sister by the wrong name Alternate Author Name(s): Lee, Don L. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Brooks, Gwendolyn (1917-2000); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social HANDFUL OF PEBBLES, MOUTHFUL OF STONES, by PEGATHA HUGHES Poem Source First Line: So serious. Why don't you smile?' Last Line: Finally, I leave that place Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles HARLEM, by MAUREEN SEATON Poem Source First Line: There was little more that summer Last Line: To keep ourselves from burning up %so hot the sun in our hearts Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles HEALTH'S EXILES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O diamond isle upon a diamond sea Last Line: Back in the home-land where their heart remains! Subject(s): Exiles; Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894) HEIRLOOM, by CINDA THOMPSON Poem Source First Line: My great-grandmother's native %american eyes stare back Last Line: Her son would ever wish %to know Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles HERBIE, by DAVID ALPAUGH Poem Source First Line: Was almost eighteen years old Last Line: You can have my fucking tricycle, herbie Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social HERMANN AND DOROTHEA, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Truly, I never have seen the market and street so deserted Last Line: "might against might, and peace should revisit us all with its gladness." Subject(s): Exiles; Freedom; Germany; Liberty; Germans HISTORIES OF NATIONS, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source Last Line: And the next of these generations must weep again %when the first fruits die Subject(s): Exiles HOME NEWS, by AHMED TIDJANI-CISSE Poem Source First Line: My dear son I am well thanks to god Last Line: Send me a shirt and a neck-tie Subject(s): Exiles HOME NEWS, by AHMED TIDJANI-CISSE Poem Source First Line: My dear son I am well thanks be to god Last Line: Send me a shirt and neck-tie. Subject(s): Exiles HOMEGOING, by BRIGITTE FRASE Poem Source First Line: Hoboken was the first stop Last Line: With one finger I followed the grain of the world Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles HOMO WILL NOT INHERIT, by MARK DOTY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Downtown anywhere and between the roil Last Line: Gorgeous, and on fire. I have my kingdom Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Gays & Lesbians; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men HOMO WILL NOT INHERIT, by MARK DOTY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Downtown anywhere and between the roil Last Line: Gorgeous, and on fire. I have my kingdom Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Homosexuality; Marginality, Social HOUSE OF EXILES, by INGEMAR LECKIUS Poem Source First Line: The exiles' house has a doorway Last Line: Lekh-lekha! Subject(s): Exiles HOW SHE OPERATES, by GRACE CAROLINE BRIDGES Poem Source First Line: She holds you by the hair Last Line: All in good time Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles HOW TO APPROACH YOUR LOVER'S WIFE, by AMY BOTTKE Poem Source First Line: Spot her, but don't lock on her Last Line: Chat recipes with the host Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY: 7. 'SIENA MI FE', by EZRA POUND Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Among the pickled fetuses and bottled bones Last Line: Because of these reveries. Subject(s): Exiles; Plarr, Victor Gustav (1863-1929); Poetry & Poets I LEARNED TO SEW, by MITSUYE YAMADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How can I say this? Last Line: Say that I am not going back %I am staying here Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles I MUST DEPART NOW, by ARIWARA NO YUKIHIRA Poem Source Last Line: So soon disordered Subject(s): Exiles IDENTITY CARD, by MAHMOUD DARWISH Poem Source First Line: Put it on record %I am an arab Last Line: Beware, beware of my hunger %and of my anger Subject(s): Exiles; Identity; Middle East - Conflicts IF SHE CAN'T HEAR YOU, by BEVERLY ACUFF MOMOI Poem Source First Line: I ask each of them, nine boys, one girl, to make a list of leaders, of he Last Line: How long before you are no longer the mother of a young girl's dream's? Subject(s): Exiles ILLICIT PASSION, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source First Line: All our dreams are possible Last Line: Straining for rain through a scarred earth %hiding traces of abandoned lives Subject(s): Exiles IMAGINATION, by DINA UAHUPIRAPI Poem Source First Line: Here I am six years old in sub b, sitting on the big rock Last Line: Shiny memory to take with me to travel around the world Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles IN AND OUT OF CHECKPOINTS, by YE WEILIAN Poem Source First Line: Is the river a boundary line? Last Line: Is the sea a boundary line? Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social IN DREAMS, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In dreams the exile cometh home Last Line: In dreams alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Dreams; Exiles; Nightmares IN EXILE, by BLANCHE EDITH BAUGHAN Poem Source First Line: The sea is a lonely thing Subject(s): Exiles IN EXILE, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twilight is here, soft breezes bow the grass Last Line: And the broad prairie melts in mist of tears. Subject(s): Exiles; Jews; Judaism IN EXILE, by MORRIS ROSENFELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go, with the wand'rer's staff in hand Last Line: Lo, there will cease the tyrant's rod. Subject(s): Exiles; Jews; Jews - Exodus From Egypt; Wandering & Wanderers; Zionism; Judaism IN EXILE, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An angel with a flaming sword Last Line: Whose form is life, whose shadow death! Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Angels; Death; Exiles; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise IN MEMORIAM, by MIQUEL MARTI I POL Poem Source First Line: Since poems aren't always organized Last Line: You, me, soledad gonzalez Subject(s): Exiles; Memory; Women - Secluding IN PRAISE THAT IT WAS NOT MY BONE AND TISSUE, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source First Line: The face out the window of my darkened room Last Line: Dust %where his bullets just missed the dining room lock Subject(s): Exiles IN THE BARN, by ROGER FANNING Poem Source First Line: A cat composed as an uncut pie Last Line: How they beg to be devoured Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social IN THE BASEMENT OF THE GOODWILL STORE, by TED KOOSER Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: In musty light, in the thin brown air Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts IN THE BASEMENT OF THE GOODWILL STORE, by TED KOOSER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In musty light, in the thin brown air Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHOIR, by GREGORY DJANIKIAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had never seen a cornfield in my life Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Education; Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Minorities - United States; Schools; United States - Race Relations; Estrangement; Outcasts; Students IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHOIR, by GREGORY DJANIKIAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I had never seen a cornfield in my life Last Line: Des moines, I was saying to myself %baton rouge. Terre haute. Boise Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Education; Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Minorities - United States; Schools; U.s. - Race Relations IN THE NEW COUNTRY, by BARBARA RAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I love america. Ham bones and shoes Last Line: We'll feed to the pig in the cellar Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS, SIXTEEN MONTHS SOBER, by JOAN LARKIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To find words for this Last Line: I'm picking up %this pen Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles INNER MAN, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It isn't the body Last Line: Though you utter %every one of my words, %you are a stranger. %it's time you spoke.' Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social INNER MONGOLIA - THE GRASSLANDS, by SIBYL JAMES Poem Source First Line: The road climbs steeply till it crests above the hills Last Line: That circle of protection, keeping always on the edge %of longing, unable to swing home Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles INSOMNIA LITANY, by JOAN LOGGHE Poem Source First Line: I am a jew among sunflowers, a jew Last Line: Of the unlabeled. An uncircumcised sleep Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social INVISIBILITY POEM: LESBIAN, by ILZE MUELLER Poem Source First Line: There's quite enough to %identify her Last Line: The times she imagines %the price she pays for Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles INVISIBLE BOUNDARIES, by MAUREEN VIOLA HURLEY Poem Source First Line: No conozco la palabra to say I sometimes miss you en espanol Last Line: How easily I was replaced by the one %who wears your daughter's face Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles ISRAEL AND COLUMBIA, by JOHN MCCABE Poem Text First Line: O glory of an elder age! Last Line: As herald of the new world's morn. Subject(s): Exiles; Hebrew Language; Jews; Right To Asylum; Judaism ITINERARY, by DOUG ANDERSON Poet's Biography First Line: In arizona coming across the border with dope in my tires Subject(s): Aging; Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Estrangement; Outcasts ITINERARY, by DOUG ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In arizona coming across the border with dope in my tires Last Line: Through the heart. Corazone. Corragio. Core Subject(s): Aging; Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 IX, by GIZELLA HERVAY Poem Source First Line: What a trap: the stone the light Last Line: From whose hands we can receive bread Subject(s): Exiles; Punishment; Whips JERUSALEM IN ZION, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source First Line: We haven't grasped the prophecies, dreams, birthrights Last Line: Zion may stand, but dear god, %jerusalem's divided Subject(s): Exiles JERUSALEM SHADOW, by MELANIE KAYE-KANTROWITZ Poem Source First Line: Imagine the desert the cast of light Last Line: Let my people heal Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles JEWISH, by HARVEY M. PLOTNICK Poem Source First Line: My skin is white, but my name is foreign, a dark reflection Last Line: And sometimes you sudder as I stir in mass graves Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Jews; Marginality, Social JOTTINGS: EXILE, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You cannot exile me Last Line: How then can you exile me? Subject(s): Exiles JUST THIS DAY, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Just this day, white winter Last Line: The beautiful ones %are still among us Subject(s): African Americans; Exiles; Freedom; Protest, Social; Writing And Writers KIND OF LOSS, by INGEBORG BACHMANN Poem Source First Line: Used together: seasons, books, a piece of music Last Line: It's not you I've lost, %but the world Subject(s): Exiles KNEADING BREAD, by TERESA ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: There is a rhythm to it Last Line: Of the heel of your hand %do not be afraid Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles KNIFE-THROWER'S WIFE, by MEKEEL MCBRIDE Poem Source First Line: The knife-thrower's wife stands Last Line: Like a crowd of adoring suitors Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social LACKAWANNA ELEGY, by IWAN GOLL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: America %the tongues of your rivers burn with thirst Last Line: In the rose-garden of your sick soul %the holocaust waits to begin Alternate Author Name(s): Goll, Yvan Subject(s): Exiles; United States; World War Ii LADY IN THE PINK MUSTANG, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sun goes down for hours, taking more of her along Last Line: Until we're even. Until the last %coin is rubbed for luck and spent. %I don't sell for nothing less Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Popular Culture - United States LADY'S SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A choir of bright beauties in spring did appear Last Line: When pan, and his son, and fair syrinx, return Variant Title(s): The May Queen; Phillis Unwilling; The Beautiful Lady Of The Ma Subject(s): Country Life; Exiles; James Ii, King Of Scotland (1430-1460) LAMENT OF THE SCOTCH-IRISH EXILE, by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, I want to win me hame Last Line: Ancient history began. Subject(s): Exiles; Ireland; Lament; Irish LAMENTATION FOR LOST HARMONIES: FOR SINGER, FLUTE, DANCER, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source First Line: I must seek sure notes for the dancer Last Line: And steps for the dance %for a harmony of children to sing free Subject(s): Exiles LARGE BEAK FINCHES, by IMNIWOL Poem Source First Line: The large beak finches have flown away Last Line: Will not have left any traces Subject(s): Absence; Exiles LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT, by ARIEL DORFMAN Poem Source First Line: When they tell you Last Line: Don't believe them Subject(s): Disappeared Persons; Exiles; Human Rights LAY OF THE CID: HIS WIFE & DAUGHTERS COME TO EXILED ONE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: And lo! The dame ximena came with her daughters twain Last Line: May they grant me, wife, much honored, to serve thee then once more Subject(s): Cid, El (1043-1099); Exiles LAY OF THE CID: THE BANISHMENT OF THE CID, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: He turned and looked upon them, and he wept very sore Last Line: That he lacked the king's favor now well the cid might see Subject(s): Cid, El (1043-1099); Enemies; Exiles; Grief LAY OF THE CID: THE FAREWELL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: And now the prayer is over and the mass in its due course Last Line: The god who gave us spirits shall give us aid also Subject(s): Absence; Cid, El (1043-1099); Exiles; Grief; Travel LAZARUS, by RONALD BOYD KOERTGE Poem Source First Line: After jesus raised him from the dead Last Line: God's name in vain on his cracked and loamy lips Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social LEARNING MY FATHER'S LANGUAGE, by LORRAINE JEAN DUGGIN Poem Source First Line: He tells me about the time Last Line: Pronouncing from his first year %reader a word he sees on the page: %em-er-gen-cy Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles LEARNING THE WAR, by WENDY WILDER LARSEN Poem Source First Line: I never made friends faster Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social LEAVING, by MARGOT FORTUNATO Poem Source First Line: Who would have guessed she didn't have everything Last Line: No one saw her afterwards Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles LEAVING EDEN, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: The date palm and the cypress Last Line: Before we tasted murder, mortality Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Women's Rights LEAVING THE COUNTRY, by WYN COOPER Poem Source First Line: He drifts into a room of strangers Last Line: Or run across the wet summer grass Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social LEAVING THE OLD GODS, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: The people who watch me hang my coat Last Line: I can't understand your words Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Central America; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Nature LEFT EYE OF ODIN, by REGINA DECORMIER-SHEKERJIAN Poem Source First Line: She knows them all. Urchins. Beggars Last Line: In the garden, a bird rings the bell %of sky Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles LESSON, by KATHLEEN CAIN Poem Source First Line: Pride got passed at the breakfast table Last Line: No. He said. Worse. %worse Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles LETTERS FROM AN EXILE, by VALERIE DUFF Poem Source First Line: Trotsky's dead. My strays Last Line: We argue, we sweat Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social LIBERATION, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source First Line: We are all mothers Last Line: What we will make %of the broken pieces of our lives Subject(s): Exiles; Freedom LINE UP, by FORREST HAMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Once again, someone took me %for another black man, my brother Last Line: Presuming it belonged to me Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social LINES ON CARMEN SYLVA, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Trembling old men are stamm'ring Last Line: An ode to humanity. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Exiles; Humanity; Jews; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism LISA'S RITUAL, AGE 10, by GRACE CAROLINE BRIDGES Poem Source First Line: Afterwards when he is finished with her Last Line: It is tall like a promise %only better Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Child Molesting; Exiles LITTLE CITIZEN, LITTLE SURVIVOR, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A brown rat has taken up residence with me Last Line: Lend me your presence, and I will lend you mine. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Rats; Estrangement; Outcasts LIVING IN AT LEAST TWO WORLDS, by CLEM L. RAWLINS Poem Source First Line: Back from the spring in the green draw Last Line: Glad the oat-man's home Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Nature LONG DIVISION: A TRIBAL HISTORY, by WENDY ROSE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Our skin loosely lays Last Line: I suckle coyotes and grieve Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Nature LONG FOR HOME, by MOYSHE-LEYB HALPERN Poem Source First Line: Long for home and hate your homeland Last Line: Like rain upon the ocean %fall your tears Subject(s): Exiles; Homesickness LOVE OF BLONDES, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: I don't know what I would be Last Line: And I obliging Subject(s): Cuba; Exiles; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration LXIV, by GIZELLA HERVAY Poem Source First Line: I've no country only castles and cities Last Line: Is really ours Subject(s): Exiles LXXXVI, by GIZELLA HERVAY Poem Source First Line: I wane with the moon Last Line: To never-resurrection Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Exiles; Prisons And Prisoners MACENATTOWAWIN (BIRCH BARK BITING), by DIANE GLANCY Poem Source First Line: The white bark is peeled from the birch. The layers pulled apart Last Line: Bringing her bitings from the dark Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles MAGNIFICAT!, by MICHAEL S. GLASER Poem Source First Line: Tonight, on holiday in oxford, bach's magnificat Last Line: Gloria et spiritui sancto Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social MAL'OCCHIO, by JENNIFER MARTELLI Poem Source First Line: The red pepper hangs from a nail Last Line: Muffled goodness. Beneficent abstraction. Snuffed flame Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social MAN IN THE MOON, by ALVIN DAVID GREENBERG Poem Source First Line: White-faced, white-suited, as big as the full moon in the tropical sky Last Line: Black sky like a terrible white sign: they know you wherever you are Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social MANIC: A CONVERSATION WITH JIMI HENDRIX, by TIMOTHY SEIBLES Poem Source First Line: All these hang-ups, all this time wasted when Last Line: Is a smile, you know Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social MARIUS AMONG THE RUINS OF CARTHAGE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas noon - and afric's dazzling sun on high Last Line: "marius, the exile, rest where carthage once hath been!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Carthage; Exiles; Marius, Gaius (157-86 B.c.) MARK, by ROBERT PATRICK DANA Poem Source First Line: Shatterfall. Scutter Last Line: This isn't about truth Alternate Author Name(s): Dana, Robert Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social MAWU OF THE WATERS, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source First Line: I am mawu of the waters. Last Line: As fresh streams surge %to make seas. Subject(s): Exiles MAWU/MAWO, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source First Line: Mmmmmmmmmmm Last Line: A! A! Subject(s): Exiles; Freedom MAX JACOB AT SAINT BENOIT, by ROSANNA WARREN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The noonday square. Plane leaves, dust Last Line: " at drancy. There, the nazis let him die - a sick old jew? - ""natural death. "" " Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts MAX JACOB AT SAINT BENOIT, by ROSANNA WARREN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The noonday square. Plane leaves, dust Last Line: - an old jew with pneumonia - 'naturally.' Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social MEAL, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source First Line: You wonder what it is that makes them pray Last Line: They say grace they are not forsaken %and mean it. You wonder Subject(s): Exiles MEMORY OF WILMINGTON, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thirty-some years ago, hitchhiking Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts MEMORY OF WILMINGTON, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thirty-some years ago, hitchhiking Last Line: Was far along on its way to becoming a city %and already well advanced on its way back to dust Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social MENNONITES, by JULIA SPICHER KASDORF Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We keep our quilts in closets and do not dance Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Amish; Exiles; Estrangement; Outcasts; Mennonites MENNONITES, by JULIA SPICHER KASDORF Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We keep our quilts in closets and do not dance Last Line: That we lift, as chaff lifts, toward god Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Amish; Exiles MIAMI: 2.CALLE OCHO, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Because the ebb and flow Last Line: Riding the edge of the sea Subject(s): Cuba; Exiles; Love; Sea Voyages; Tourists; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration MIDLIFE, by JOSEPH MILLAR Poem Source First Line: She's slim and seems distracted, the social worker Last Line: And the wind in th trees outside %like someone passing Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social MIGRATIONS, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source First Line: We have lived that moment of the scattering of the people Last Line: Where do the birds fly, after the last sky? Subject(s): Exiles MITSRAYIM, by ECE AYHAN Poem Source First Line: A country of the sultan of jinns where he secretly escaped Last Line: Mitsrayim. Forty days. He has grown his hair. He likes his loneliness Subject(s): Exiles; Sea Voyages; Travel MONARCHS, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All morning, as I sit thinking of you Last Line: The beauty and silence of the great migrations Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; Longing MORNING AFTER MY DEATH, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My body is a white thing in the sun, now Last Line: Polished and swarming frankly in the sun Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social MOTHER, by BEA LIU Poem Source First Line: I wish that I could talk with her again Last Line: You're a big girl now. You can work things out Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; Maturity MOTHER TONGUE, by CAROLINA HOSPITAL Poem Source First Line: A dark cul de sac Last Line: I cannot answer %I have stopped speaking Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles MOUNT SINAI REVISITED, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source First Line: Desperately in need Last Line: We seek yet another %sign Subject(s): Exiles MOVE 5 HOUSES DOWN THE STREET IN A DAY, by DIANE GLANCY Poem Source First Line: Iron horse. Ah ho. Iron lung. Rattling the air. Squeezing out smoke Last Line: The nurse of the heart saying soon it will get well Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles MURDERER, by CHRISTOPHER DAVIS Poem Source First Line: As I talked, I kept thinking Last Line: I hardly know what I've done Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social MUTE PROPHETS, by NICHOLAS SAMARAS Poem Source First Line: There is a language before Last Line: And the world %will tremble Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social MY FIRST MEMORY, SWITZERLAND, CIRCA 1947, by JOAN (THALER) DOBBIE Poem Source First Line: I think I was not yet two Last Line: Snorting hugely %& drank up all my water Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles MY MOTHER'S HOMELAND, by BELKIS CUZA MALE Poem Source First Line: My mother always said Last Line: The place where she would die Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles NAME THE OLDEST MEMBER OF YOUR FAMILY, by KALAMU YA SALAAM Poem Source First Line: The baby, the newborn, is the oldest Last Line: Eternity are wise enough to distinguish Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social NAPOLEON AT HELENA, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And who shall write thine epitaph? Thou man Last Line: "o'er unforgiven injuries, answer'd -- ""none." Subject(s): Exiles; Napoleon I (1769-1821) NAZIS, by IRA SADOFF Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thank god they're all gone Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts NAZIS, by IRA SADOFF Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thank god they're all gone Last Line: I can see he's not one of us Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social NEW BOY, by PETER E. MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Crossing brooklyn ferry from staten island Last Line: To play with, someone mean enough to take him in? Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social NEW NETHERLAND, 1654, by GRACE SCHULMAN Poem Source First Line: Pardon us for uttering a handful Last Line: To tales unstamped by laws and never sacred Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social NEW REFUGEE, by MARISELLA VEIGA Poem Source First Line: Stands %outside my door this morning Last Line: Come in. Have lunch. In this house %we are not without a gun Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; Refugees NEW YORK CITY MIRA MIRA BLUES, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From the freeway you can almost Last Line: A shroud of down, stilling, if only %for a moment, the island's screams Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; Puerto Ricans - New York City NIGHT SHIFT AT THE FRUIT CANNERY, by ILZE MUELLER Poem Source First Line: The thin neon light spills on the hands in the tubs Last Line: Still dazzle-eyed, they look up and see %stars in their multitudes blazing over their heads Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles NO TOOL OR ROPE OR PAIL, by BOB ARNOLD Poem Source First Line: It hardly mattered what time of year Last Line: And they waved Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social NOBODY HERE BUT US, by RICHARD GARCIA Poem Source First Line: Being old is not so bad. You wake up Last Line: And spin that chicken over my head, spraying blood like rain Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social NOCHEBUENA, by ROSARIO CAICEDO Poem Source First Line: Where I come from we have no snow Last Line: Sometimes I feel %that I've been left %with nothing Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles NORTH, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The ancients knew the sorrows of exile Subject(s): Exiles; North, The NOSTALGIA, by STEPHEN BERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Why look back at the old roads again? Drugs and buggery flourished. My Last Line: Under those wheels...Oh, I welcome it Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social OBON: FESTIVAL OF THE DEAD, by MITSUYE YAMADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the day of the festival uncle leads our Last Line: The sky is aflame as thousands of silent roman %candles float out with the tide Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; Japanese Americans - Internment; Rites And Ceremonies OF COLOURS AND SHADOWS, by AHMED TIDJANI-CISSE Poem Source First Line: Royal blue azure blue %the nobility of a cololur Last Line: I have ceased to be the shadow of my colour Subject(s): Exiles OHIO IS THE IROQUOIS WORD FOR BEAUTIFUL, by HELEN RUGGIERI Poem Source First Line: The moon is nailed to the 'river' %by a great horn of light....' Last Line: A great corucopia %flowing into the ohio Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles OLD FOLSOM PRISON, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This could be scotland: a crag and far below Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts OLD FOLSOM PRISON, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This could be scotland: a crag and far below Last Line: There was room for air, if you were there Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social OLD NEIGHBORHOOD, by GERALD COSTANZO Poem Source First Line: There was a time in my life when Last Line: Neighborhood %once more Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social OLMOS, by DENNIS NURKSE Poem Source First Line: A man walks a dusty road Last Line: That will mould me out of ashes Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social ON A CERTAIN FIELD IN AUVERS, by JOHN HAINES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the road to hallucination Last Line: And the great light of the sun Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts ON A CERTAIN FIELD IN AUVERS, by JOHN HAINES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the road to hallucination Last Line: And the great light of the sun Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social ON BEING KICKED OUT OF THE HAROLD WASHINGTON LIBRARY CENTER FOR NAPPIN, by THOM WARD Poem Source First Line: Above me no seraphim or nymphs Last Line: Dear james I too %have wasted my life Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social ON BEING TOLD I DON'T SPEAK LIKE A BLACK PERSON, by ALLISON JOSEPH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Emphasize the h, you ignorant ass Last Line: Greetings familiar %in any language Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Loss; Marginality, Social; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration ON RETURNING, by BRIGITTE FRASE Poem Source First Line: Today I learn 'tamarisk' Last Line: The mountains will go with me Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles ON TV THE FACE OF THE SLAUGHTERED, by LYLE GLAZIER Poem Source Last Line: Hungry, in fact, as hell Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social ONE POLAR BEAR, by PETER SEARS Poem Source First Line: You know how in the zoo most of the polar bears Last Line: I know about rubbing yourself away on the bars Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social ONE SECRET THAT HAS CARRIED, by JASON SHINDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Irene loves a man %who is afraid of sex: she's attended Last Line: Would say it was somebody else's Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social ORADOUR-SUR-GLANE. SILENCE, by LUCIA CORDELL GETSI Poem Source First Line: April. I have wheeled you to the park Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles ORIGINAL MIND, by NANCY PADDOCK Poem Source First Line: Though the world fills with sorrow and rage Last Line: Stumbling over the very roots %of paradise Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles OTHER SIDE, by MEREDITH STRICKER Poem Source First Line: The country she inhabits, where pale people Last Line: As you cross the stage, cross the mirrors %in a saffron dress, turning and returning Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles OVID IN EXILE, by GENE THORNTON Poem Source First Line: I hate the quiet, green suburban hills Last Line: That taper down too soon to red-eyed dawn Subject(s): Exiles; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Rome, Italy PAID VACATION, by JOAN OLIVER Poem Source First Line: I've decided to go away forever Last Line: Lives in exile Subject(s): Exiles; Farewell; Travel; Vacation PARACHUTIST'S WIFE, by SANDRA M. GILBERT Poem Source First Line: Six men turned to smoke in the next square Last Line: In my bone cave %I marry the wind Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles PARADING WITH THE VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Apache, omaha, osage, choctaw, comanche, cherokee, oglala, micmac Last Line: Absence of buffalo here in the %gateway to the west, st louis Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Variant Title(s): Parading With The V.f.w Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Depressions, Economic; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians PAREDON, by RICARDO PAU-LLOSA Poem Source First Line: Staring down the mountainous wall Last Line: Cursed island who has never known its sick from itself Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social PARTY, by DONALD FINKEL Poem Source First Line: They're throwing a party upstairs Last Line: With, my delectable sea-grape %I do without Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social PASSING (2), by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A professor invites me to his black lit class; they're Last Line: My father quizzed me Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts PASSING (2), by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A professor invites me to his black lit class; they're Last Line: What do you think %he would always write?' my father'd say Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social PATHOLIGIST, by ELLEN DUDLEY Poem Source First Line: If he turns them, they are purple, black from head to heel Last Line: Cool belly, his whole body tingling Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social PAUL VERLAINE AT THE GRAVE OF LUCIEN LETINOIS, by BIN RAMKE Poem Source First Line: What does the world with its lung of ocean breathe Last Line: He could not buy his bones Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social PEOPLE AT THE PAY TELEPHONE, by VICTORIA MCCABE Poem Source First Line: A husband or a lover has run this one out Last Line: Eating fine food, talking to people Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social PERSIMMONS, by LI-YOUNG LEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In sixth grade mrs. Walker / slapped the back of my head Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Education; Exiles; Language; Marginality, Social; Persimmons; Schools; Estrangement; Outcasts; Words; Vocabulary; Students PERSIMMONS, by LI-YOUNG LEE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In sixth grade mrs. Walker %slapped the back of my head Last Line: In your palm, the ripe weight Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Education; Exiles; Language; Marginality, Social; Persimmons; Schools PETITION OVER PRAYERS UNSPOKEN: AN INCANTATION, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source First Line: With the gift of laughter beloved of the lord Last Line: Through the dailiness of living which %the living take for granted Subject(s): Exiles PETITIONS, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source First Line: And we have asked for courage not Last Line: Making more barren %the strangeness of our foreign homes Subject(s): Exiles PHARAOH'S ARMY GOT DROWNDED, by LYNN DOMINA Poem Source First Line: The cop's face for an odd second Last Line: In any world but ours Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social PHAROAH, by ECE AYHAN Poem Source First Line: ...Grown. And you used to go to bed with a pharaoh till Last Line: Ready to bear this monstrous traveler in hashish Subject(s): Exiles; Travel PHOTO THAT WATCHES, by CARLOTA CAULFIELD Poem Source First Line: I, who have been so many angels Last Line: You, who have been so many angels Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles PICTURE FROM MY COUSIN, by ILZE MUELLER Poem Source First Line: I wanted to write about these children on the beach, but what can Last Line: And my heart clenches with fear and with love for these %children, the summer after chernobyl Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles PILLAR OF FLAME, by BARBARA UNGER Poem Source First Line: A clumsy cross burns Last Line: I dig the pit again. %I kneel inside Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles PLANTINGS, by CATALINA CARIAGA Poem Source First Line: Everywhere %they go %they plant Last Line: Gardenias %are birds %of paradise Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles POEM, by DENIS JOHNSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There was something I can't bring myself Last Line: I pulled to the side of the road and wrote this poem Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social POEM FOR MY GRANDMOTHER'S GRANDMOTHER, by LESLEA NEWMAN Poem Source First Line: Minukha, minukha, here comes your faigl's rukhl Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women POEM FOR NATALIA GINZBURG, by ANITA HELLE Poem Source First Line: When natalia ginzburg died, the papers of her region declared Last Line: The nocturnal pause between two pronouns, you and I Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social POEM FOR THE MAN WHO SAID SHIT, by DAVID CLEWELL Poem Source First Line: At first I lost it in your beard Last Line: The sergeant will say it's people like me Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social POEM OF THE CID: 1. THE CID CALLS HIS VASSALS TOGETHER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: He %turned and looked back to see the towers Last Line: This treachery upon me Subject(s): Exiles POEM: 4, by LAURENCE MINOT Poem Text First Line: Edward our comely king Last Line: And keþed him in þe berde. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Exiles; France; Grief; Sin; Sorrow; Sadness POEMS ON THE DEATH OF SIR HORATIO PALLAVICINO: AN EPITAPH, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some leave their home for private discontent Last Line: Which was thy good, and true religion. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Exiles; Grief; Home; Knights & Knighthood; Sorrow; Sadness POETS, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What were they like as schoolboys? Long on themes Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social PORTRAIT, by BEVERLY ACUFF MOMOI Poem Source First Line: Hair - shiny black geisha hair Last Line: Please be nice to me Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; Sexism PORTRAIT, by CONSTANCE URDANG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Trespasser in my own house Last Line: Not even the dog knows me Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social POURING OUT MY FEELINGS AFTER PARTING FROM YUAN CHEN, by PO CHU-YI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Drip drip, the rain on paulownia leaves Last Line: One who shares my heart has gone away %and I learn how emptych'ang-an can be Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): Exiles PRAYER, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet jesus, let her save you, let her take Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Women; Estrangement; Outcasts PRAYER, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet jesus, let her save you, let her take Last Line: Either life you choose will end in her arms Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Women PREFACE, SELS., by 'ALI AHMAD SA'ID Poem Source First Line: I write in a language that exiles me. The relationship of an arab poet Last Line: A promise of a beginning, a perpetual beginning Subject(s): Arabic Language; Exiles PROSE-POEM FOR LYNNE: 1., by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source First Line: Your sudden call scattered my meditations Last Line: Why then is the health of the daughter of my people not %recovered? Subject(s): Exiles PROSE-POEM FOR LYNNE: 2., by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source First Line: How long? Last Line: And can only write these words for you %out of an early sorrow Subject(s): Exiles PROSE-POEM FOR LYNNE: 3., by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source First Line: Yet is the journey over? Last Line: We sing songs for you %for we are glad we walked together, awhile Subject(s): Exiles PSALM 137: EXILE, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Text First Line: We sat & cried along babylon rivers Subject(s): Exiles; Jews; Mysticism - Judaism; Judaism PUT A WOMAN INTO THE MEMORY BOX, by BRIGITTE FRASE Poem Source First Line: Steady in the darkness Last Line: Gazing quietly at your image Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles PYTHIAN ODES: 4. COURAGE IN EXILE, by PINDAR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When some great oak-tree, glorious in mens' gaze Last Line: And its home lies desolate Subject(s): Courage; Exiles QUICKNESS OF FEAR, by BEVERLY ACUFF MOMOI Poem Source First Line: Putting away wedding gifts Last Line: I am waiting for you %to leave me Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles RACIAL MEMORIES, by ELIZABETH MISCHE JOHN Poem Source First Line: Dinah shore sings of america Last Line: By my rejection of everything she knows to be true: the beautiful %are blond Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles RADIATING NAIVETE, by LUCIE BROCK-BROIDO Poem Source First Line: I am a false philosopher of this Last Line: Knuckled god, nobody's humming bird Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social RADIO YEREVAN, by DIANA DER-HOVANESSIAN Poem Source First Line: Since 1915 %the walled monastery Last Line: His happy child %will inherit all his tears Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles RAID ON A CHEYENNE VILLAGE, by DIANE GLANCY Poem Source First Line: Death was lovely Last Line: What could be lovelier than the fire - %oak yellow, orange %red as life? Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles RAINBOW CALENDAR OF ISAAC LURIA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Nisan if you see the rainbow from the east side Last Line: Great sorrow in the deserts Subject(s): "cabbala;calendars;exiles;jews;luria, Isaac Ben Solomon (1534-1572);mysticism - Judaism;" Kabbala;kabbalah;judaism REMEMBERING MEXICO, 1969, by BARBARA LAU Poem Source First Line: We were dauntless then Last Line: On the edge %of danger Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles REMEMBERING THE PRIEST QUANG TRI, by DOAN VAN KHAM Poem Source First Line: Though you fled the capital for the woods Last Line: In rivers and mountains, his face still shines Subject(s): Clergy; Exiles REPORT FROM ANOTHER COUNTRY, by CHARLENE LANGFUR Poem Source First Line: A friend writes, 'we're not talking about any port' Last Line: Play us songs %that will make our feet tap until nothing else matters Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles RESTAURANT, by MAXINE HONG KINGSTON Poem Source First Line: The main cook lies sick on a banquette, and his assistant Last Line: And wonder at the clean diners behind glass in candlelight Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Restaurants RETABLO, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: The park bench is unoccupied Last Line: Tomorrow is christmas Subject(s): Cuba; Exiles; Homeless; Marriage; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration RETURN TO MANKILLER FLATS, OKLAHOMA, by MARY CRESCENZO SIMONS Poem Source First Line: Another trail of tears Last Line: And bellies of those spirits walked before Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles RETURNED AMERICAN, by KATHLEEN CAIN Poem Source First Line: I stare out of the long windowed house Last Line: And the trees in the rain Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles RIDDLE OF NOAH, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You want to change your name. You're looking Last Line: In quest of his rightful self while the world looks on Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social ROBERT WILSON, by MICHAEL COLLIER Poem Source First Line: Though he is dead now and his miracle Last Line: Straight in the river and walked deftly toward us %out of the water to his shoes %that lay abandoned Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: WHITHER NOW?, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whither now? My stupid foot Last Line: Have myself been wandering greatly. Subject(s): Exiles; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; War; Journeys; Trips; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes RUSSIA 1914; BOLINAS 1988, by GAIL SHAFARMAN Poem Source First Line: Out of my window high as aerie Last Line: Of salt, of fish, of water, %of blood Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles SALT, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lisa, leona, loretta? %she's sipping a milkshake Last Line: In a wooden barrel Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations SAND NIGGER, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In the house in detroit Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Cities; Detroit, Michigan; Dissenters; Exiles; Lebanon; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts; Urban Life SAND NIGGER, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the house in detroit Last Line: With cousin and brother %against the stranger Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Cities; Detroit, Michigan; Dissenters; Exiles; Lebanon; Marginality, Social SANTA FE JOURNEY: 4. CHIMAYO, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A dog ambles across the empty dusty road Last Line: I am the bear that comes at nightfall %to greet the new moon%soy india, soy mexicana %soy mujer %soy Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; Puerto Ricans - New York City SANTOS AND STONES, by J. DELAYNE BARBER Poem Source First Line: Alma, te quiero que tu no eres ni gringa Last Line: You might have ended elsewhere %than on that bridge, alma, cupping the blue %of the sky in your fath Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles SATURDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER, by JONATHAN HOLDEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pure sunlight is strewn all over the lawn Last Line: I'm on nobody's team Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social SEA WORLD, by ERIC BERLIN Poem Source First Line: This lady in her wheel chair has been left Last Line: Move as slow as pennies dropped in a pool Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social SEARCH, by NANCY PETERSON Poem Source First Line: Mugsy, what happened to you? Last Line: I breathe out %to pink your flesh Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles SEARCHING FOR SCHUPFEN, by DONA LUONGO STEIN Poem Source First Line: It's not just schupfen she's looking for Last Line: She'll tell each child what the flowers smell like %and if there's a name, the name Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles SEASON OF THE DEAD: 1. VERGILIAN FORTUNES FROM THE AENEID, by ANDRES ROJAS Poem Source First Line: Weeping I left my native coast Last Line: The only crop we had that year was death Subject(s): Exiles; Travel SECOND LANGUAGE, by CHRISTINE DUMAINE Poem Source First Line: If I must die young Last Line: Then there is earth I say %lifting hands of louisiana black Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles SEED IS THE LIGHT OF THE EARTH; FOR MURIEL RUKEYSER, by CHRISTINA V. PACOSZ Poem Source First Line: In the absence of light Last Line: As the seed loves the earth enclosing it Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles SENSE OF WRITING, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source First Line: I see piles of dirty coffee cups Last Line: And grope for words I cannot find. %I need someone here that I can touch Subject(s): Exiles SERMONS FROM RIVERSIDE: 1. CHOICES, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source First Line: At the moment of hesitation before the knife fall Last Line: Before the promise dies, the lamb cries %and astonished children climb off the altar Subject(s): Exiles SEVEN SIDES AND SEVEN SYLLABLES; FOR AIMEE CESAIRE AND PIERRE EMMANUEL, by EDOUARD J. MAUNICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Happen you come on your own Last Line: With this, my derisive voice. Subject(s): Exiles; Identity; Negritude (literary Movement); Poetry & Poets SEVEN SORROWS: 2, by WANG CAN Poem Source First Line: Jing-man is not my home Last Line: This wayfaring will never end, %the sting of care is hard to endure Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Exiles; Night; Solitude SHAME, by VERN RUTSALA Poem Source First Line: This is the shame of the woman whose hand hides Last Line: And the shame of knowing how cheap such dreams are Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social SHE DRIVES, by SOPHIE CABOT BLACK Poem Source First Line: And drives as if she is Last Line: Offered across the table Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles SHE-WHO-WATCHES...THE NAMES ARE PRAYER, by ELIZABETH A. WOODY Poem Source First Line: There is celilo %dispossed, the village of neglect Last Line: And everyone dissolved from the fall Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social SHORT WAVE IN SHANGHAI, by SIBYL JAMES Poem Source First Line: I've never felt so knifed loose from the world Last Line: World war ii, and the front is somewhere %just past the fading line I hold Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles SHOW BIZ PARTIES, by ELIZABETH CLAMAN Poem Source First Line: My dad cracks a joke and two men laugh Last Line: A prick this big. Beautiful Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social SILOS, by NANCY PADDOCK Poem Source First Line: All week she watched Last Line: Like black corridors %a woman could get lost in Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles SILVER WEDDING, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source First Line: After celebrations Last Line: Celebrations leave their marks, %there are new stains on the old lace tablecloth Subject(s): Exiles SIMPLEST AND THE HARDEST, by MARGARET LLOYD Poem Source First Line: I prepare for you the way I plan Last Line: Allowed to be still as well as the heart %which closes and opens when he departs Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social SINGLE SPACE, by NORITA DITTBERNER-JAX Poem Source First Line: The first nights alone, after my husband moved out and the kids Last Line: Or the image %of the woman floating out to sea Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles SIX SMALL FIRES, by PAUL JENKINS Poem Source First Line: They hurry through the forest suitcases in hand Last Line: I set just now to witness my shame Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social SLAVESHIPS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Loaded like spoons Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Jesus Christ; Marginality, Social; Slavery; Estrangement; Outcasts; Serfs SLAVESHIPS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Loaded like spoons Last Line: Can this sin live Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Jesus Christ; Marginality, Social; Slavery SO WE GOT OUT OF LEBANON, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: His screech his %portentous scold %iyew iyew Subject(s): Arabs; Exiles; Jerusalem; Jews; Lebanon; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine SOLOING, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mother tells me she dreamed Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts SOLOING, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My mother tells me she dreamed Last Line: Turned back and lost the music Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social SONDRA, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You stock the shelves with quick-food - baked beans, canned peas Last Line: Shop waiting for customers while darkness drops around you like a net Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; India SONG, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is a song for the speechless Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts SONG, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is a song for the speechless Last Line: Who have no voices have one tongue Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social SONG OF AN EXILE, by WILLIAM HAMILTON Poem Source First Line: I have seen the cliffs of dover Subject(s): Exiles; Soldiers; World War I SONG OF THE SIBERIAN EXILES, SELS., by NIKOLAY ALEXEYEVICH NEKRASOV Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We stand unbroken in our places Last Line: For each stone is of use to russia, %and each by our own hand Alternate Author Name(s): Nekrasov, N. A. Subject(s): Exiles; Freedom SONG OF THE SPANISH JEWS, by GRACE AGUILAR Poem Text First Line: Oh, dark is the spirit that loves not the land Last Line: And seek not and wish not a lovelier rest. Subject(s): Exiles; Immigrants; Jews; Spain; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Judaism SONGS OF EXILE, by JOAN OLIVER Poem Source First Line: One night when the moon was full Last Line: That I dream of it whole Subject(s): Exiles SOUL MAKE A PATH THROUGH SHOUTING, by CYRUS CURTIS CASSELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thick at the schoolgate are the ones Last Line: I'm just going to school. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Civil Rights Movement; Dissenters; Education; Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; Little Rock, Arkansas; Marginality, Social; Minorities - United States; Schools; United States - Race Relations; Estrangement; Outcasts; SOUND SCATTERS LIGHT THROUGH DARKENED AGES, COME TO, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source Last Line: Come one step across chasms come between %come home Subject(s): Exiles SPACE, by MAURA STANTON Poem Source First Line: Monday a boy who cannot lift Last Line: Mother, teacher, aliens, stones Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social SPACE BETWEEN, by ANA LUISA ORTIZ DE MONTELLANO Poem Source First Line: I'm a runaway child Last Line: Those of the mother who turns into another Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles ST. HELENA, by PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER Poem Text First Line: On a volcano whose dark throat doth dash Last Line: Lowers the great napoleon to the grave. Subject(s): Exiles; Napoleon I (1769-1821) STAR-SPANGLED, by MICHELE GLAZER Poem Source First Line: One man won't say anything Last Line: And how so many birds fit inside Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social STRANGER, by GERALD LOCKLIN Poem Source First Line: We were building a fort Last Line: Build a cardboard fort Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social SUMMONS, by DAVID RIVARD Poet's Biography First Line: Suppose I can convince myself this Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts SUMMONS, by DAVID RIVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Suppose I can convince myself this Last Line: And skittering over one another's backs Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT THE STATE HOSPITAL, by MARILYN J. BOE Poem Source First Line: I've come to see a stranger Last Line: To guide me, so I won't stay lost %in the dark mystery of my daughter's face Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles SUPER-BRAVE, by TERESA WHITMAN Poem Source First Line: My son's father is kiowa-comanche Last Line: The muscle and pitch of landscape %the wingbone of a man's shoulder Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles SWORD, by ECE AYHAN Poem Source First Line: The vagabondary of the sea. The octopus beached on the Last Line: Round my waist a sea of thoughts Subject(s): Exiles; Sailors And Sailing; Sea; Ships And Shipping SYLLABLE UPON SYLLABLE, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: I am learning a grammar of exile, on the slopes of silence. It Last Line: There I place them, syllable upon syllable. From the rising to the setting of the sun Subject(s): Exiles; Learning TENNESSEE WALTZ, by JAMES HAUG Poem Source First Line: He bows because he is nobody Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social TESTIMONIES...FOR FATHER: 1., by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source First Line: Faced Last Line: Across immortal spaces %and always and only love survives Subject(s): Exiles TESTIMONIES...FOR FATHER: 2., by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source First Line: We can not Last Line: Bereaved %anew Subject(s): Exiles TESTIMONIES...FOR FATHER: 3., by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source First Line: Time Last Line: Perpetual fictions %days do not dull the memories Subject(s): Exiles TESTIMONIES...FOR FATHER: 4., by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source First Line: And if history grant us one request Last Line: An apology %for you Subject(s): Exiles TESTIMONIES...FOR FATHER: 5., by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source First Line: Good memories come back now Last Line: Random moments frozen %like fossils in an arbitrary space Subject(s): Exiles TESTIMONIES...FOR FATHER: 6., by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source First Line: Each day we find one thing Last Line: We have to solve alone 5do some great deed we cannot tell Subject(s): Exiles TESTIMONIES...FOR FATHER: 7., by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source First Line: Shared stories spill from our lips Last Line: So many pieces of one vision %repeated in remembrance Subject(s): Exiles TESTIMONIES...FOR FATHER: 8., by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source First Line: Resurrection is a promise Last Line: But always %love survives Subject(s): Exiles THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#58), by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They came to the door because he was small or went to some Last Line: This time the dead man will see them in hell. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Death; Dissenters; Exiles; Funerals; Graves; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones THE CANADIAN BOAT SONG, by JOHN WILSON (1785-1854) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Listen to me, as when ye heard our father Last Line: But we are exiles from our fathers' land. Alternate Author Name(s): North, Christopher Subject(s): Exiles; Patriotism THE CID'S DEPARTURE INTO EXILE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With sixty knights in his gallant train Last Line: -- he is gone from the towers of his own bivar! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Cid, El (1043-1099); Exiles; Cid Campeador (143-199); Diaz De Vivar, Rodrigo (143-199) THE CLUB, by MITSUYE YAMADA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He beat me with the hem of a kimono Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Escapes; Exiles; Violence; Estrangement; Outcasts; Fugitives THE CONVICTS OF NEW SOUTH WALES: ELINOR, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more to daily toil, once more to wear Last Line: And fit the faithful penitent for heaven. Subject(s): Australia; England; Exiles; New South Wales, Australia; Prisons & Prisoners; Repentance; English; Penitence THE CONVICTS OF NEW SOUTH WALES: HUMPHREY AND WILLIAM, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See'st thou not, william, that the scorching sun Last Line: And humphrey gets more good from guilt than glory. Subject(s): Comfort; England; Exiles; New South Wales, Australia; Pleasure; Prisons & Prisoners; Story-telling; English THE CRYPTO-JEWS, by ROBIN BECKER Poet's Biography First Line: This summer, reading the history of the jews of spain Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts THE DOWNFALL OF THE GAEL, by FEARFLATHA O'GNIVE Poem Text First Line: My heart is in woe Last Line: Or the billows burst o'er her! Alternate Author Name(s): Gnimb, Fearflatha Subject(s): Exiles; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims THE EMIGRANTS, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Slow in the wintry morn, the struggling light Last Line: The reign of reason, liberty, and peace! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Exiles; French Revolution (1789) THE EXILE, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The swallow with summer Last Line: Except in the skies! Subject(s): Exiles THE EXILE, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here night is hideous with lurid flame Last Line: Amid a wizard-world of wandering stars. Subject(s): Exiles; Prisons & Prisoners; Convicts THE EXILE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not when the seamew cries above the grey-green foam Last Line: Or the hill-wind in a broom-sweet place. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Exiles; Home; Longing; Nostalgia; Sighs THE EXILE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since I have lost the mountains, I Last Line: I see the mountains in my dreams. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Exiles; Longing; Memory; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE EXILE, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spring's sweet odours from the meadow Last Line: In my own dear far-off land. Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs. Subject(s): Exiles THE EXILE (PARAPHRASED FROM THE FRENCH), by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've passed through the nations unheeded, unknown Last Line: And cherish the exile, no longer alone! Subject(s): Exiles THE EXILE OF BEAUTY, by REMY DE GOURMONT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go seeking in the human forest old Last Line: Be ugliness to them, though beauty's self thou art. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Exiles; Lips; Love; Dead, The THE EXILE TO HIS WIFE, by JOSEPH BRENAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come to me, dearest, I'm lonely without Last Line: Come to the heart that is throbbing to press thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Brennan, Joseph Subject(s): Absence; Exiles; Separation; Isolation THE EXILE'S DEPARTURE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fond scenes, which delighted my youthful existence Last Line: Shall be the heart's prayer of the lonely exile! Subject(s): Exiles THE EXILE'S DEVOTION, by THOMAS D'ARCY MCGEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I forswear the art divine Last Line: My native land, to thee! Subject(s): Exiles THE EXILE'S DIRGE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There went a dirge through the forest's gloom Last Line: They had reached the exile's lonely tomb. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Exiles; Funerals; Burials THE EXILE'S LAMENT, by FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am not happy here, mother! Last Line: Where you and lizzie are. Alternate Author Name(s): Vane, Violet Subject(s): Exiles; Lament; Love; Mothers THE EXILE'S REVERIES, SELECTION, by JAMES KENNEDY Poem Text First Line: Chased from my calling to this hackneyed trade Last Line: Patriots drag the felon's chain. Subject(s): Books; Exiles; Melancholy; Poetry & Poets; Revolutions; Sailing & Sailors; Soldiers; Reading; Dejection; Seamen; Sails THE EXILE'S SECRET, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye that have faced the billows and the spray Last Line: And thus began, -- the rose-lipped english girl. Subject(s): Exiles THE EXILE'S SONG, by ROBERT GILFILLAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, why left I my hame [home]? Last Line: To their ain countrie. Subject(s): Exiles; Patriotism THE FEMALE EXILE. WRITTEN AT BRIGHTELMSTONE IN NOVEMBER 1792, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: November's chill blast on the rough beach is howling Last Line: I can warm the cold heart of the wretched no more! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Brighton, England; Exiles; French Revolution (1789) THE FLIGHT OF APOLLO, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Earth was my home, but even there I was a stranger. This mineral crust. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts THE HOOSIER IN EXILE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hoosier in exile - a toast Last Line: "the hoosier in exile!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Exiles; Nightmares; World THE INNER MAN, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It isn't the body Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts THE INTRUDER, by PHILIP MAX RASKIN Poem Text First Line: Once in my secluded chamber Last Line: "stay""—and I awoke. ..." Alternate Author Name(s): Raskin, P. M. Variant Title(s): ...whom You Are To Blame' Subject(s): Exiles; Hebrew Literature; Israel; Jews - Exodus From Egypt; Oppression THE JEWISH EXILE, by LEON HUHNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wherefore weep our brethren yonder Last Line: Israel and jerusalem. Subject(s): Exiles; Jews; Jews - Exodus From Egypt; Judaism THE JEWISH SOLDIER (1), by ALICE LUCAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mother england, mother england, 'mid the / thousands Last Line: England say! Alternate Author Name(s): Montefiore, Julia Subject(s): Exiles; Great Britain - Civil War; Heroism; Jews; Right To Asylum; Soldiers; English Civil War; Heroes; Heroines; Judaism THE JEWISH SOLDIER (2), by ALICE LUCAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hard by the walls of plevna, not fifty yards away Last Line: And on gatschina's palace forevermore they lie. Alternate Author Name(s): Montefiore, Julia Subject(s): Exiles; Jews; Jews - Persecution; Russia; Judaism; Soviet Union; Russians THE LADY IN THE PINK MUSTANG, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun goes down for hours, taking more of her along Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Popular Culture - United States; Estrangement; Outcasts THE LAND OF EXILE, by CH'U YUAN Poem Text First Line: Methinks there's a genius Last Line: Cradle my sorrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Qu Ping; Qu Yuan Subject(s): Exiles THE MAN FORBID, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mankind has cast me out. When I became Last Line: The cliffed escarpment ends in stormclad strength. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Animals; Apes; Books; Death; Education; Exiles; Humanity; Life; Mankind; Estrangement; Outcasts; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans; Reading; Dead, The; Human Race THE MEMORY, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down the little, crooked street that went to meet the sea Last Line: The blowing grass, the torn nets -- and one girl's scorning. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Exiles; Insects; Bugs THE MODERN FIRST LADY, by SOAME JENYNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Skilled in each art that can adorn the fair Last Line: And with true scorpion rage she stings herself to death. Subject(s): Death; Exiles; Grief; Tears; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE MORNING AFTER MY DEATH, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My body is a white thing in the sun, now Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts THE NATIVE LAND, by FRANCISCO DE ALDANA Poem Text First Line: Clear fount of light! My native land on high Last Line: That, whither love aspires, there shall my dwelling be. Variant Title(s): My Native Land Subject(s): Exiles; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE NORTH, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ancients knew the sorrows of exile Subject(s): Exiles; North, The THE ONE SECRET THAT HAS CARRIED, by JASON SHINDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Irene loves a man / who is afraid of sex: she's attended Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts THE PARTING SONG, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A youth went forth to exile, from a home Last Line: "murmuring, ""return, my son!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Exiles; Farewell; Greece; Parting; Greeks THE PROPHECY OF DANTE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more in man's frail world! Which I Last Line: And make them own the prophet in his tomb. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Exiles THE REST, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O helpless few in my country Last Line: I have beaten out my exile. Subject(s): Exiles; United States; America THE RUSSIAN EXILE, by JAMES THOMSON (1834-1882) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But what is this? Our infant winter sinks Last Line: Hardens his heart against assailing want. Alternate Author Name(s): B. V.; Bysshe Vanolis Subject(s): Exiles; Russia; Siberia; Soviet Union; Russians THE TOMBS OF THE FATHERS, by JAMES MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In babylon they sat and wept Last Line: "how doth she now sit desolate!" Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot Subject(s): Babylon; Exiles; Jews; Judaism THEN, by DIANE GLANCY Poem Source First Line: And what of afterlife? I comfort Last Line: Great spirit saying here, in this way %now more toward that Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles THINGS GROW UP OUT OF THE DARK, by JOAN (THALER) DOBBIE Poem Source First Line: On the wall by the bathtub there clings Last Line: Because something that just might turn out to be beautiful %demanded to be born Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles THIS GIFT OF ASHES, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source First Line: My passion spent on recreating Last Line: But hesitant flames left untended %gutter Subject(s): Exiles THIS SPRING, by REGINA DECORMIER-SHEKERJIAN Poem Source First Line: The dissent of trees over the space of roots Last Line: Something turning sllowly green, and holy Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles THOREAU, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My father and I have no place to go Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Loss; Marginality, Social; Moving & Movers; Refugees; Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862); United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Estrangement; Outcasts THOSE WHO WANT OUT, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In their homes, much glass and steel. Their cars Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Environment; Exiles; Nature; Estrangement; Outcasts; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation THOSE WHO WANT OUT, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In their homes, much glass and steel. Their cars Last Line: They do not love the earth Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Environment; Exiles; Nature THOUGH I HAVE SWORN, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source Last Line: At such remove from their realities %spotlights the pain Subject(s): Exiles THREE: 2) EXILE, by ALEXANDRA THURMAN Poem Source First Line: Gold, books, money, dust, home Last Line: Shriveled. No one thought to water them Subject(s): Exiles; United States TO AN EXILE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As still upon the prophet shone Last Line: The splendor of thy native skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Exiles TO AN UNKNOWN POET, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I haven't the heart to say Last Line: In this bastion of culture. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Estrangement; Outcasts; Feminism TO JERUSALEM, 1990, by MYRA SHAPIRO Poem Source First Line: It's a sheroot, that's what Last Line: After school, in my own house. Home Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social TO MASTER W. MONTAGUE, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, I arrest you at your country's suit Last Line: Give you fair leave to wound me so agen. Subject(s): Revenge; Exiles TO THE POETS EXILED IN AMSTERDAM, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: The scene must open with a narrow house, sleepless with the fear Last Line: Like an eternal light, rises above the uproar of the mob, dancing endlessly Subject(s): Amsterdam, Netherlands; Exiles; Poetry And Poets TONG-CAHO TOWER AT ZHENG-MAI STATION, by SU SHIH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For the rest of my days I would grow old Last Line: Is a hair's breadt line of green mountains, %and that is the heartland Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Exiles TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. HIGH IN MY CHAMBER, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High in my chamber I can hear the deep bells chime Last Line: Through the night rising I hear. Subject(s): Exiles; Prisons & Prisoners; Convicts TRAVELING BACK, by SARA HUNTER Poem Source First Line: Traveling for the last time Last Line: The minnesota prairie %and burying ground Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles TRAVELOGUE FOR EXILES, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look and remember. Look upon this sky Subject(s): Exiles TRAVELOGUE FOR EXILES, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Look and remember. Look upon this sky Subject(s): Exiles TRILOGY FOR AZANIA: 1. LOCUSTS AND WILD HONEY, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source First Line: It was not intended as a life sentense of prison food Last Line: A body apart/hate dances a ritual beheading %to hold still the tongue Subject(s): Exiles TRILOGY FOR AZANIA: 2. BEATITUDES OF THE RIGHTEOUS FAMISHED, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source First Line: Blessed are the poor-in-spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of Last Line: For they shall be filled amen. They shall surely be %filled Subject(s): Exiles TRILOGY FOR AZANIA: 3. DOXOLOGY FOR LIBERATION DAY, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source First Line: This poem is an unfinished song Last Line: This anthem will be done when freedom come... Subject(s): Exiles TSUNEKO-PSYCHIATRIC MEDICATIONS CLINIC, by SUSAN KOLODNY Poem Source First Line: Along the north-south street, glass birds Last Line: The north-south street the square flat stones Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social TWO STANDARDS, by ELISE PASCHEN Poem Text First Line: Joan's one eighth. I'm a quarter Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Authors - Conferences And Workshops; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage; Women; Estrangement; Outcasts; Writer's Conferences And Workshops TWO STANDARDS, by ELISE PASCHEN Poem Source First Line: Joan's one eighth. I'm a quarter Last Line: I will take that ancestral one Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Authors - Conferences And Workshops; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage; Women UNDER HER CRIB, by MARCIA PELLETIERE Poem Source First Line: In the yiddish song a goat danced under Last Line: And miril sings, so the goat will dance her girl to sleep Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social UNLOCKING THE DOORS, by JILL BRECKENRIDGE Poem Source First Line: One night, I saw a woman Last Line: If only I could take her %by the arm and not let go Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; Violence UNREPENTANT, by BRANDEL FRANCE DE BRAVO Poem Source First Line: What could I do %when I saw his face Last Line: From my young bones Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social UNSPOKEN WORLD, by HELEN RUGGIERI Poem Source First Line: I sometimes think about Last Line: I never learned and %mock in plangorous bleats %poems I never wrote Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles UPON MASTER WALTER MONTAGUE HIS RETURN FROM TRAVEL, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lead the black bull to slaughter, with the boar Last Line: As laymen clasp their hands, we join our feet. Subject(s): Homecoming; Exiles UPSTATE, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A knife blade of cold air keeps prying Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts UPSTATE, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A knife blade of cold air keeps prying Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social USUAL IMMIGRANT UNCLE POEM, by ASKOLD MELNYCZUK Poem Source First Line: He feared money so much he was known Last Line: Still, that doesn't quite explain the money Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social WALK, by ETHAN GILSDORF Poem Source First Line: Why must that slight man Last Line: This is no world for old men Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social WE ARE AMERICANS NOW, WE LIVE IN THE TUNDRA, by MARILYN MEI LING CHIN Poet's Biography First Line: Today in hazy san francisco, I face seaward Alternate Author Name(s): Chin, Marilyn Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Estrangement; Outcasts WE ARE AMERICANS NOW, WE LIVE IN THE TUNDRA, by MARILYN MEI LING CHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Today in hazy san francisco, I face seaward Last Line: Hide your daughters, lock your doors Alternate Author Name(s): Chin, Marilyn Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations WE WALK TOWARDS A LAND NOT OF OUR FLESH, by MAHMOUD DARWISH Poem Source Last Line: We have a country where we see %only the invisible Subject(s): Exiles WEIGHT, by JAY SCHNEIDERS Poem Source First Line: All day long she works to not feel fat. She culls Last Line: We would have it no other way Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social WHEN FATHER DIED, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source Last Line: I swim %and do not drown Subject(s): Exiles WHEN YOU ARE GROWN, AMANDA ROSE, by LAURA BOSS Poem Source Last Line: You're going to have a good life Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social WHERE IS THE SEA?; SONG OF THE GREEK ISLANDER IN EXILE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where is the sea? -- I languish here Last Line: -- where is my own blue sea? Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Exiles; Sea; Ocean WHERE WE ARE, by JULIA SPICHER KASDORF Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bertha let me run barefoot those weeks Last Line: Yet it's her I see, hunched in the soft spot %of airplane light, embroidering above him, alive Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles WHY SHE HURRIES OUT, THEN HOME, by MARTHA RHODES Poem Source First Line: She's always expecting disaster Last Line: A small gray cloud waiting at the gate Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social WITHIN AND WITHOUT, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go thou into thy closet; shut thy door Last Line: The poet awakes from his dream. Variant Title(s): A Sonnet Sequence Subject(s): Abandonment; Children; Christianity; Clergy; Death; Escapes; Exiles; Family Life; Future Life; God; Humility; Marriage; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets; Poverty; Redemption; Regret; Revenge; Salvation; Unfaithfulness; Desertion; Childhood; Priests; Rab WITHOUT, by BRUCE BERGER Poem Source First Line: Friends my own age all have kids they can't wait Last Line: The quiet of a dead end Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social WITHOUT YOU I AM, by DIANA DER-HOVANESSIAN Poem Source First Line: A lute without strings Last Line: Song without a lure Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles WOMAN WHO WEEPS, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up from the valley, ten children working the fields Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts WOMAN WHO WEEPS, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Up from the valley, ten children working the fields Last Line: Village to village and into the smoky huts, %her soul a well, an eye, and open door Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social WOMEN I KNEW, by LOIS ROMA-DEELEY Poem Source First Line: At thirteen I was reading oedipus rex Last Line: Rough landmarks %to star the way %back Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles WORD & WORLD, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source First Line: Am I am brother's keeper?' %first breaking of the blood bond Last Line: They with silent tears now sow Subject(s): Exiles; Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918) WRITING AGAIN ON THE SAME THEME (A NEW THATCHED HALL), by PO CHU-YI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sun's high, I've slept enough, still too lazy to get up Last Line: Why should I always think of ch'ang-an as home? Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): Exiles WRITTEN ON MY INTO EXILE ..., by HAN YU Poem Source First Line: One document at dawn, submitted to the nine-tiered palace Last Line: Eb kind and gather up my bones from the shores of the fetid river Alternate Author Name(s): T'su-chih Subject(s): Exiles XCIII, by GIZELLA HERVAY Poem Source First Line: I was put to death but survived it Last Line: But never lived a death with him Subject(s): Exiles; Prisons And Prisoners; Survival XLV, by GIZELLA HERVAY Poem Source First Line: For the person with convict-eyes Last Line: Does he hear words he can believe Subject(s): Exiles; Prisons And Prisoners XXIII, by GIZELLA HERVAY Poem Source First Line: I don't know what fear is Last Line: The roads don't know where they're leading Subject(s): Exiles; Roads; Travel XXIX, by GIZELLA HERVAY Poem Source First Line: We're alarmed by the dead Last Line: From their wide-open eyes Subject(s): Death; Exiles; Prisons And Prisoners YOU CALL ME BY OLD NAMES: HOW STRANGE, by RHINA POLONIA ESPAILLAT Poem Source Last Line: But no names from another life %a long time back, a long way south Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles YUBA CITY SCHOOL, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the black trunk I shake out Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; India; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Estrangement; Outcasts YUBA CITY SCHOOL, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From the black trunk I shake out Last Line: From me, nail shut my lips. My son %will keep sitting in the last row %among the red words that drin Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; India; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations ZION, by EUGENE KOHN Poem Text First Line: Land of the cedar and palm Last Line: In god's time we shall come to thee. Subject(s): Exiles; Jews; Peace; Praise; Zionism; Judaism |
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