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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: LANGUAGE Matches Found: 1560 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "DIRGE (TO THE MEMORY OF MISS ELLEN GREE, OF KEW ...)", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Peerless yet hapless maid of q! Last Line: Her dirge and leg Subject(s): Alphabets;bees;death;funerals;insects;language; "beekeeping;dead, The;burials;bugs;words;vocabulary; (REVEAL CODE): INDRA'S NET VIII, by JOHN CAYLEY Poem Source First Line: Code key Last Line: Real inscriptions of the reveal Subject(s): Language ...WATER AND THE WORD SUICIDE, by KATE SONTAG Poem Source First Line: While the rest of us were asleep Last Line: In branches, about to take their lives into their wings Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers 25TH DANCE - SAYING THINGS ABOUT MAKING GARDENS, by JACKSON MACLOW Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Everyone begins making thunder though taking pigs somewhere Alternate Author Name(s): Mac Low, Jackson Subject(s): Language Poetry 350-LB. POEM, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: My sisters appear in monosyllabic bikinis Last Line: And try to appear %in small print Subject(s): Language; Obesity; Poetry And Poets; Women 54045, by JOAN SALVAT-PAPASSEIT Poem Source First Line: The turning dynamo moves its fiery members Last Line: In truth I didn't have one friend Subject(s): Language; Tourists; Travel; Trolley Cars 9/29/1993, by JOAN RETALLACK Poem Source First Line: She is wearing %(the) mind in side out Last Line: To lie in the shade (& get very cool) Subject(s): Language; Translating And Interpreting A CERTAIN SWIRL, by MARY RUEFLE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The classroom was dark, all the desks were empty, Subject(s): Schools; Language; Students; Words; Vocabulary A DAY DREAM, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My eyes make pictures, when they are shut Last Line: Murmur it to yourselves, ye two beloved women! Variant Title(s): Eye Subject(s): Dreams; Language; Nightmares; Words; Vocabulary A DEFENSE OF POETRY, by CHARLES BERNSTEIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: My problem with deploying a term liek Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Language; Words; Vocabulary A DESCRIPTION OF SUCH A ONE AS HE WOULD LOVE, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A face that should content me wondrous well Last Line: And knit again the knot that should not slide. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Epigram;epigram: 29 Subject(s): Faces; Grief; Language; Sorrow; Sadness; Words; Vocabulary A DREAM-POEM, by ANTOINETTE DE COURSEY PATTERSON Poem Text First Line: Lost in a dream one night Last Line: Lyrical word! Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary A FALSE GALLOP OF ANALOGIES, by WARHAM ST. LEGER Poem Text First Line: There is a fine stuffed chavender Last Line: Stuff'd chavender, or chub. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary A FEW DIFFERENCES: 3, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You don't confuse a cake of soap Last Line: Caused by a stomach full of bubbles Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms A FEW DIFFERENCES: 5, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In what way do your two lips differ? Last Line: When there's a need to sulk and pout Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms A FEW DIFFERENCES: 6, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The kindly barber trims your nape Last Line: And shake you, and be pretty rough Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms A FEW DIFFERENCES: 7, by RICHARD WILBUR Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A jester differs from a dunce Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms A GREAT SQUARE HAS NO CORNERS, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: "writes with a mop, ""a great square has no corners." Subject(s): Time; Language; Words; Vocabulary A GRUB STREET RECESSIONAL, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O noble gracious english tongue Last Line: The gift of thy simplicity. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): English Language; Newspapers; Journalism; Journalists A HANDBOOK TO HOMER, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poluphloisboisterous homer of old Last Line: That is the homer for college and school! Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Subject(s): Greek Language; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey A LANCASHIRE DIALOGUE, OCCASIONED BY A PREACHER WITHOUT NOTES, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wus yo at church o' sunday morning, john? Last Line: James. If onny comes, I'll tak it; john,—good bye! Subject(s): Clergy; Lancashire, England; Language; Preaching & Preachers; Speech; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Words; Vocabulary; Oratory; Orators A LANGUAGE, by SUSAN STEWART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I had heard the story before Subject(s): Language; Teaching & Teachers; Miscarriage; Words; Vocabulary; Educators; Professors A LITTLE LANGUAGE, by ROBERT DUNCAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know a little language of my cat, tho dante says Last Line: As if crouching, springs / to life Variant Title(s): A Little Language Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Language; Words; Vocabulary A LITTLE OVERFLOWING WORD, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: As eloquent appears Subject(s): Language; Time A LITTLE WORD, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: I spoke a word Last Line: Be such as bring forth noble deeds. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Language; Religion; Words; Vocabulary; Theology A MARTIAN SENDS A POSTCARD HOME, by CRAIG RAINE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Caxtons are mechanical birds with many wings Subject(s): Books; Civilization; Language; Reading; Words; Vocabulary A MEDITATION, by AGNES LEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rome has been dead these many hundred years Last Line: Rome still rules. Alternate Author Name(s): Freer, Otto, Mrs. Subject(s): Government; Language; Latin; Law & Lawyers; Legacies; Roman Empire; Rome, Italy; Words; Vocabulary; Attorneys A MINOR CANON, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: New phrases daily on our ears are prest' Last Line: "a minor canon,"" said the quiet dean." Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary A NEW SONG OF NEW SIMILES, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My passion is as mustard strong Last Line: And mute as any fish. Subject(s): Language; Metaphor; Words; Vocabulary; Similes A PATHETIC APOLOGY FOR ALL LAUREATS, PAST, PRESENT, AND TO COME, by WILLIAM WHITEHEAD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye silly dogs, whose half-year lays Last Line: —ye silliest of all silly dogs. Subject(s): Language; Poets Laureate; Words; Vocabulary A PROJECT FOR FREIGHT TRAINS, by DAVID YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting at crossings and waiting for freights to pass, we have all noticed Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Railroads; Words; Vocabulary; Railways; Trains A SEASON IN HELL: THE ALCHEMY OF WORDS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Listen. The tale of one of my follies Last Line: That is over. Now I know how to greet beauty. Subject(s): Dreams; Language; Nightmares; Words; Vocabulary A SONG OF PATERNAL CARE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A lithuanian lithographer Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary A TEST OF POETRY, by CHARLES BERNSTEIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What do you mean by rashes of ash? Is industry Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Language; Words; Vocabulary A THESAURUS NIGHTMARE, by J. WILLARD RIDINGS Poem Text First Line: Drink (ingurgitate, engulph, engorge, gulp) to me Last Line: (spirits, liquor, stingo, grog, cup that cheers, sir john barleycorn). Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms A TRANSLATION, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How did you decide to translate me Subject(s): French Language; Love; Translating & Interpreting A VIOL'S PLAINT, by ALBERT SAMAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My heart that dreads what time may bring Last Line: And on thy soft glove left a stain. Subject(s): Language; Man-woman Relationships; Pain; Words; Vocabulary; Male-female Relations; Suffering; Misery A VULNERARY, by JONATHAN WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: One comes to language from afar, the ear Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary A WORD IS DEAD, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That day Subject(s): Language A WORD MADE FLESH IS SELDOM, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Till morning touching mountain — Subject(s): Language A WORD THAT MAKES US LINGER (WRITTEN IN VISITOR'S BOOK AT GOPSALL), by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Kind hostess mine, who raised the latch Last Line: But I can't write that dreadful word. Alternate Author Name(s): Locker, Frederick Subject(s): Farewell; Language; Parting; Words; Vocabulary ABBREVIATED HISTORY OF SIGNS, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And not to be removed Last Line: Down to sight, the origins %of space in ruined shine Subject(s): Language; Signs And Signboards ABORIGINE SOUND POEM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Dad a da da Last Line: Da kata kai Subject(s): Language ABOUT, by JAMES TERENCE SHERRY Poem Source First Line: This is about about, until now a subject reference, point of Subject(s): Language Poetry ABOUT', by JACQUES ROUBAUD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It has long been known that poets don't know what they're saying Last Line: Answered miss s....'told you so!' they said Subject(s): Language; Poetry And Poets; Poetry Readings; Writing Schools ACADEMIC KIDS, by JANET MCCANN Poem Source First Line: Your father asks you, how many Last Line: And never write our names Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ADAM'S TASK, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, paw-paw-paw; thou, glurd; thou, spotted Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Animals; Bible; Language; Mythology; Eve; Words; Vocabulary ADAM'S TASK, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, paw-paw-paw; thou, glurd; thou, spotted Last Line: Thou, sproal; thou, zant; thou, lily-eater. %naming's over. Day is done Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Animals; Bible; Language; Mythology ADIRONDACKS, EASTER SUNDAY, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: Experience, in linguistic terms Last Line: There's a rainbow coming if the light just holds Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Language; Poetry And Poets ADJUNCT, by BROCK DETHIER Poem Source First Line: With a bartleby of arts %and a doctorate in denial Last Line: While I'm teaching your replacement %how to climb Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ADVENTURES OF BUCKY BADGER, by JACK ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: After all these years, I've got to tell this Last Line: Say hi there %hi there %hi Subject(s): Curiosities And Wonders; Language ADVICE TO A YOUNG POET, by KELLY CHERRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To catch a poem %to seize it %like something falling Last Line: On its own terms Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers AFFIRMATIVE ACTION BLUES (1993), by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Right now two black people sit in a jury room Last Line: I am not a pinata, rodney king insists. Opw can't we all get along Subject(s): King, Rodney (b.1966); Trials; Racism; Language; Police Violence AFTER AN OLD PICTURE OF SCHOOL HOUSE CHILDREN, by WILL HOCHMAN Poem Source First Line: Attending cures snobbery and mind Last Line: The point that there could have been more %and surely was Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers AFTER JERICHO, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is an aggression of fact Last Line: Your words, %every one of them, are volunteers Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Language AFTER THREE CHINESE POEMS, by DAVID SHAPIRO Poem Source First Line: One word tied to another word - that is all Last Line: O clear poetry! %no dust tonight Subject(s): Language; Poetry And Poets AFTERWORD: AN ELDERLY WOMAN FALLS ASLEEP AT A POETRY READING, by DAVID STARKEY Poem Source First Line: And those of us behind her %can't help but smile Last Line: The rewards of poetry are financial rather than spiritual Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers AFTERWORD: BUTTONS, by DAVID STARKEY Poem Source First Line: For years, I've wanted to write a poem Last Line: Those who are listening carefully, or doodling, or nodding %off Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers AFTERWORD: POEMS, LIKE CHILDREN, by DAVID STARKEY Poem Source First Line: Little things, they are neither as good %nor as hard as we want them to be Last Line: Variation on the writer's block poem myself Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers AFTERWORD: THE ART OF PEDAGOGY/ THE PEDAGOGY OF ART: THE ART OF PEDA.., by DAVID STARKEY Poem Source First Line: It starts, perhaps, with a notation, %a few words scrawled in the margins Last Line: Guidelines that I wouldn't want my students to follow Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers AFTERWORD: THE PEDAGOGY OF ART, by DAVID STARKEY Poem Source First Line: Just this once, I will resist narrative Last Line: Alleluia as her program %plainly states, gloria deus Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers AFTERWORD: THE YEAR MY POETRY BECAME A FAD, by DAVID STARKEY Poem Source First Line: It was the coup of a lifetime for a minor poet Last Line: We need to pay close attention to what that story is telling us Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers AFTERWORD:INSTRUCTIONS FOR COMPOSING A HAIKU, by DAVID STARKEY Poem Source First Line: Make it exact: the ribs should show Last Line: As evidenced in the following poem, which my thesis director %found particularly appalling Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers AGE OF ORANGE: A HISTORY INFERRED FROM SENTENCES IN THE OXFORD, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the year 1200, st. Dominic planted an orange Last Line: And so back to orange fizz and the ritual conference Subject(s): Dictionaries; History; Language; Oranges AID/I/SAPPEARANCE, by JOAN RETALLACK Poem Source First Line: 1. In contrast with the demand of continuity in the customary %description Last Line: Y %1. %2. %3.%4. %5. %6. %7 Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Language; Translating And Interpreting AIDED BY THE LANGUAGE OF MORNING, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN Poem Source First Line: The gruff, throaty complaints of blue jays Last Line: And my mind which seeks to recover my history, %my splintered past Subject(s): Americans In Europe; Childhood Memories; Immigrants; Language AIN'T NEVER GONNA MATTER NOHOW/ TEACHING IN THE CULTURE OF DREAMS, by JANELLE MASTERS Poem Source First Line: I am writing this cuz you say I got to but I ain't goin to turn it in cuz Last Line: Ain't nobody talks like that for real Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Language; Poetry And Poets AIR, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Your body is the duct in which Last Line: Burns in a terrible flame and smells Subject(s): Air; Language AKA, by BRUCE ANDREWS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lola the elder Last Line: Made of onionskin Subject(s): Language Poetry ALBANY, by RON SILLIMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: If the function of writing is to 'express the world.' my father withheld child Subject(s): Family Life; Conduct Of Life; Social Commentaries; Language Poetry; Relatives ALBUM - A RUNTHRU, by CLARK COOLIDGE Poem Source First Line: I look in that one kind of dwindled. And in this Subject(s): Language Poetry ALICE DU CLOS: OR THE FORKED TONGUE. A BALLAD, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is not yet risen Last Line: Lies bleeding on the glade. Subject(s): Language; Lies; Words; Vocabulary ALL HAIL DIGREDI, by ANGUS WOODWARD Poem Source First Line: According to legend, most students signed up for dr. Digredi's Last Line: Loved ones hardly recognized them Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ALL THE KING'S MEN, SELS., by GUY DEBORD Poem Source First Line: The problem of language is at the heart of all struggles Last Line: Write out poetic orders; it has to carry them out Subject(s): Language; Poetry And Poets ALPHA IMAGES, by KARL CURTIS ELDER Poem Source First Line: A %in the beginning Last Line: Zip zip - stiches which seem a %bout to disappear Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Language ALPHABET, by RUTH MAASSEN Poem Source First Line: Now that fall has come Last Line: As ants ferrying away %freights unheard-of Subject(s): Language ALPHABET OF MOTHER LANGUAGE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If kali were a car, what kind of car would she be? Subject(s): Alphabets; Language; Words; Vocabulary ALPHABETS OF SURRENDER, by LUCIO MARIANI Poem Source First Line: They say it's always the same poem that gets written Last Line: And prompts each of us to cry the poem that is ours alone Subject(s): Language; Poetry And Poets AMBIGUITY, by BOB MCKENTY Poem Source First Line: The inconclusive evidence Last Line: To vote for ha-rass or ha-rass Subject(s): Language AMBIGUITY AS A BOWL OF MILK, by JAMES TAYLOR Poem Source First Line: Their valence Last Line: Pallid syntaxes %of(f) the land Subject(s): Language; Milk AMERGIN AND CESSAIR; A BATTLE OF POETIC INCANTATION, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I plant my foot on this land Last Line: I am the silence of things secret Subject(s): Bly, Robert (b. 1926); Language; Men AMERICAN POETRY, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever it is, it must have Last Line: Uttering cries that are almost human. Subject(s): Language; Men; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary AMPHIBIANS HAVE FEELINGS TOO, by GERALD LOCKLIN Poem Source First Line: There was this fine guy named steve odin Last Line: Why have you been writing frog on my paper %all semester?' Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers AN ABBREVIATED HISTORY OF SIGNS, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And not to be removed Subject(s): Language; Signs & Signboards; Words; Vocabulary AN EPIGRAM ON SCOLDING, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great folks are of a finer mould Last Line: For whore and rogue; and dog and bitch. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary AN EPISTLE TO A FRIEND, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The art of english poetry, I find Last Line: With righter verdict, tho' the court's a dream. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Books; English Language; Language Poetry; Poetry & Poets; Reading AN IMAGINABLE CONFERENCE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Exchanging gentle grips, the men retire Last Line: Vistas of lilac weighted their shrewd lids Subject(s): Language; Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955); Words; Vocabulary AN ORATORICAL DIFFICULTY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'd like to speak of camouflage Last Line: It shall not be in flanders. Subject(s): Language - Pronunciation ANAGRAMS, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many have rearranged their names Subject(s): Names; Language; Words; Vocabulary ANATOMICAL SONG, by KERSTIN THOREK Poem Source First Line: I can't be had in furnished rooms Last Line: Even though our tongues are on the edge of convulsion Subject(s): Humanity; Language; Nature AND MOST OF ALL, I WANNA THANK ?Ǫ, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Patient language, always waiting to be Last Line: Me there, ring true and truly ring me there Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary AND SOMETIMES, by CHRISTIAN BOK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Syzygy pyx Last Line: Hhh my zzz Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary AND SOMETIMES, by CHRISTIAN BOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Syzygy pyx Last Line: Myrrh %my rhythms Subject(s): Language AND THE LOVE OF LAUGHTER, by BRUCE ANDREWS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What he lent himself studious of blind faith Subject(s): Language Poetry AND, HINGES, by TED GREENWALD Poem Source First Line: Fog hanged over the park, the night cold, and, clean Subject(s): Language Poetry ANECDOTE THAT WENT WITH IT, by RAY DIPALMA Poem Source First Line: The long reaches of the street Subject(s): Language Poetry ANGEL WINGS, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: High / on the great Last Line: Utah Subject(s): Creeley, Robert (b. 1926); Language; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary ANIMAL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In the very earliest time Last Line: All spoke the same language Subject(s): Animals; Eskimos; Language; Native Americans ANIMATION SUBSIDES INTO TERMINAL SLAPSTICK, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Last Line: They thought they had Subject(s): Language ANNIVERSARIES: CLAREMONT AVENUE, FROM 1945, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm sitting on a bench at one hundred and fifteenth Last Line: No place to go. Subject(s): Chinese Language; Death; Grief; Memory; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945); Teaching & Teachers; Women; Women's Rights; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Educators; Professors; Feminism ANNUNCIATION IN AN INITIAL R, by ANGIE ESTES Poem Source First Line: But whose initial? Left here, illuminated Last Line: Made the semaphore which means %end of word Subject(s): Language ANOTHER TRANSLATOR, by RICHARD HOWARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first one just happened to be there, a little like Last Line: Ma cherie, is pronounced “hap-pi-ness” Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph Subject(s): De Gaulle, Yvonne (1900-1979); Language; Translating & Interpreting; Words; Vocabulary ANTHOLOGY OF OOM, by ISIDOR SCHNEIDER Poem Text First Line: Make you mouth a cavern Last Line: A wave of oblivion. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary ANTONVILLE, by PETER SEATON Poem Source First Line: I provide my past with you, the most Subject(s): Language Poetry ANY LIT, by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are a ukulele beyond my microphone Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary APPLES FOR SALE, by LEWIS MANSFIELD KNAPP Poem Text First Line: In youthful days I saw old orchards bloom Last Line: I too, my friend, am polished and for sale. Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Language; Orchards; Words; Vocabulary APPROXIMATELY, by DIANE WARD Poem Source First Line: Meaning a context or vision to confer with this which could be a Subject(s): Language Poetry AQUEOUS HUMOR, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: At bottom, the world is water Last Line: High up, we swim in lanes in our bright tank suits Subject(s): Humor; Language; Water ARABIC (JORDAN, 1992), by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man with laughing eyes stopped smiling Last Line: In every language and opened its doors. Subject(s): Arabic Language; Arabs - Women; Grief; Jordan; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery ARBEIT MACHT FREI, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Work shall set you free:' a sensible sentiment Last Line: Pain to the piano with you, this quiet cry. Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Language; Truth; Words; Vocabulary ARCANA GARDENS, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cat's apprehensive inside her head Last Line: "time for your van morrison sir" Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Words; Vocabulary AREITO, by JAY WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is my mitote, Subject(s): Language; Relationships; Nature; Words; Vocabulary ARMENIAN LANGUAGE IS A WILD CAT, by OSIP EMILYEVICH MANDELSTAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: What is our fate to be? - who gave the orders? - %it is the fatal thudding in our chests, %and a bun Alternate Author Name(s): Mandelshtam, Osip Emilievich Subject(s): Armenian Language ARMENIAN LANGUAGE IS THE HOME OF THE ARMENIAN, by MOUSHEGH ISHKAN Poem Source First Line: The armenian language is the home Last Line: In the wilderness of his future, or his past Subject(s): Armenian Language ART ELECTIVE, by STEPHEN DALE COREY Poem Source First Line: Reflex of memory thrusts %the strong-voweled name rouault Last Line: The writhings of facts made real Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ART LESSON, by CRAIG CHALLENDER Poem Source First Line: ...Eschews the quotidian,' he was saying Last Line: In spite of everything, she liked to read Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ART OF POETRY: WORDS, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A mark of success in this painful discrimation Last Line: For nothing but use determines the fate of words Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Language ART OF WRITING: 7. THE MUSIC OF WORDS, by LU CHI Poem Source First Line: Like shifting forms in the world Last Line: Like painting yellow on a base of black Subject(s): Language; Writing And Writers ARTIFICE OF ABSORPTION, SELS., by CHARLES BERNSTEIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By absorptioni mean engrossing, engulfing Last Line: In each new %departure Subject(s): Language AT A VACATION EXERCISE IN THE COLLEGE, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail native language, that by sinews weak Last Line: The rest was prose Subject(s): Cambridge University; English Language; Latin AT NIGHT, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Home, home from the horizon far and clear Last Line: Your words to me, your words! Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Variant Title(s): To W.m.; Thoughts At Evening Subject(s): Birds; Language; Night; Words; Vocabulary; Bedtime AT SAGAPONACK, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: There are rhythms to life and language Last Line: Of anything, thinking %this is thinking Subject(s): Language; Life; Poetry And Poets AT THE BAL MASQUE; COLUMBINE TO PIERROT, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah - ah- ah - if you ask for a love like that Last Line: Qu'est c'-qu'est c'-qu'est c' que tu fais dans cette galère? Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): France; French Language; Love AT THE SAN FRANCISCO AIRPORT, by YVOR WINTERS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the terminal: the light Last Line: In light, and nothing else, awake. Subject(s): Air Travel; Language; Words; Vocabulary AT THE SAN FRANCISCO AIRPORT, by YVOR WINTERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the terminal: the light Last Line: In light, and nothing else, awake Subject(s): Air Travel; Language AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF TULIPS, by HOLLY IGLESIAS Poem Source First Line: The book's overdue, but I can't let it go; sigh at the mere sight of Last Line: Orders us to decline granum. I just want to go home and write my own %book: the dictionary unraveled Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers BAIT, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: Poetry can never be about me Last Line: Closed, sealed, composed, %and inviolable %form Subject(s): Language; Poetry And Poets; Solitude; Writing And Writers BAIT GOAT, by KAY RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a / distance where Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary BALLAD TO THE TUNE - 'I'LL TELL THEE, DICK, THAT I HAVE BEEN', by PATRICK CAREY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And can you think that this translation Last Line: Than to have none at all. Subject(s): English Language; French Language; Great Britain - Parliament; Latin Language BALLADE OF THE STRANGE WORD, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: These warm spring days Last Line: "but ""apricate." Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Language; Life; Youth; Words; Vocabulary BALLADE: 33, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since that my language without eloquence Last Line: And I mine own, that yours may not. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Friendship; Language; Words; Vocabulary BANS O' KILLING, by SIMONE LOUISE BENNETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So yuh a de man, me hear bout Last Line: Haffe kill yuhself Alternate Author Name(s): Bennett, Louise Subject(s): Language BAR MITZVAH LESSONS, by MARVIN DIOGENES Poem Source First Line: I took bar mitzvah lessons from mr. Bodzin Last Line: His knowing assessment %of how far I had to go Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers BARBED SPEECH OF THE ARARAT GORGE', by OSIP EMILYEVICH MANDELSTAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The armenian language is a wild cat Last Line: A turquoise blind from birth, %will never read the hollow book %of clay fired with black blood Alternate Author Name(s): Mandelshtam, Osip Emilievich Subject(s): Armenian Language BE ING & NO TH' ING NESS, by JOAN RETALLACK Poem Source First Line: Pre-sign behavior first thought memento &/but/err clarity Last Line: Across the gerund dive don't stop &/or am I x x y = 0 near ing? Subject(s): Language; Poetry And Poets BEARING WITHNESS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Weep with the star of gold Last Line: The leaf that never grows old Subject(s): Gold; Immortality; Language BEAST ON THE BRINK, by JANE BARNES Poem Source First Line: When you are sitting across from me reading Last Line: While you were reading Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers BECAUSE WORDS HAVE NO EFFECT UPON THE WIND, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Is to stay alive Subject(s): Language; Wind; Trees; Survival BECKY'S MIRROR, by DEAN NEWMAN Poem Source First Line: I know I had on those heavy, steel-toed boots-my legs felt like Last Line: Said, 'see that, dad? That's me. It's a me-er' Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers BED, by RAY DIPALMA Poem Source First Line: Dark o'clock Subject(s): Language Poetry BEFORE EVERYTHING, by DEVAN COOK Poem Source First Line: 6:50 a.M., before everything %except coffee and newspaper Last Line: Wording your own time %fill it Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers BEGINNING TO END, by CARLA HARRYMAN Poem Source First Line: I used to be sure but I've forgotten how to count. Would you like Subject(s): Language Poetry BESIDE HER DESK IS THE DESK, by KJELL ESPMARK Poem Source First Line: She's listening with her whole body Last Line: In this amicable inexorable grammar %each has his final place Subject(s): Language; Lectures; Schools; Sweden; Teaching And Teachers BETWEEN WHAT I SEE AND WHAT I SAY, by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The words open Subject(s): Language; Poetry And Poets BEYOND HIS JURISDICTION, by HENRY (HARRY) HARBORD MORANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was a western manager, and a language-man was he Last Line: "that narks yez,"" michael answered—""he's a cocky down in vic." Alternate Author Name(s): Breaker, The; Lumpkin, Tony Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Language; Sheep; Work; Workers; Words; Vocabulary BEYOND WORDS, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That row of icicles along the gutter Last Line: You wait Subject(s): Hate; Language; Words; Vocabulary BEYOND WORDS, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That row of icicles along the gutter Last Line: You wait Subject(s): Hate; Language BI-LINGUAL, by ANDREI CODRESCU Poem Source First Line: I speak two languages. I've learnt one of them in a trance, for no Last Line: Has already detached itself and is floating in space entirely free Subject(s): Language BIG UP, by LARRY STRAUSS Poem Source First Line: That first month no one would do my homework. Instead, I'd Last Line: Privacy I've changed them Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers BILL MATTHEWS, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slub he used, and slur a lot, and blurred Last Line: #name? Subject(s): Friendship; Language BINARY, by BOB PERELMAN Poem Source First Line: Two heads are better than one Subject(s): Language Poetry BIRDS, by MAIREAD BYRNE Poem Source First Line: Impossible to be a poet not knowing the meaning of phlox Last Line: Lists of homes. Or a hummock in the yard or its own huruburu bird Subject(s): Birds; Language BITCH, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, when he and I meet, after all these years Last Line: "saying, ""good-bye! Good-bye! Nice to have seen you again." Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Ill-tempered; Language; Love; Women; Women's Rights; Words; Vocabulary; Feminism BLATHERSKITE, by THOMAS ELIAS WEATHERLY Poem Source First Line: Genius exiles selves Subject(s): Language BLIZZARD, by CYNTHIA MILLER COFFEL Poem Source First Line: Julie seaton can't sleep. She's standing in her living room in Last Line: And she thinks, I'll never get to sleep Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers BLUEPRINT, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had a blueprint Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary BODY LANGUAGE, by RHINA POLONIA ESPAILLAT Poem Source First Line: Here is cassandra's gift part two this knack Last Line: Wafting their sickly message through the air %while thinking swears aloud they are not there Subject(s): Language BONEHEAD, by THOMAS LUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bonehead time, bonehead town. Bonehead teachers Last Line: Bonehead me, bonehead you Subject(s): Language BOOK, by KATE GUESS Poem Source First Line: As a child, I had two copies of each of my favorite books Subject(s): Books; Language BOOK OF (HR)RS, SELS., by PATRICIA MCCARTHY Poem Source First Line: Say something geographically accurate. Sorcery from the syllogisms. Why don't Last Line: Translation, not exact ('loosely adapted') all horizons on our heads : woeful and empty the sea Subject(s): Geography; Language BOOK OF THE YELLOW CASTLE, by MICHAEL PALMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This can be seen as placing a mirror against the page Subject(s): Language Poetry BOOK OF THE YELLOW CASTLE, by MICHAEL PALMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This can be seen as placing a mirror against the page Last Line: These are scalings of a sentence Subject(s): Language Poetry BOOK OF WHO ARE WAS (INSET), by BENJAMIN HOLLANDER Poem Source First Line: Effortless forgetting. %over razed underbrush Last Line: Penetrating each reading into sub-script worlds Subject(s): Books; Language; Story-telling; Translating And Interpreting; Writing And Writers BOOK YEARS, by BOB PERELMAN Poem Source First Line: A religious virgin of unspecific sex Subject(s): Language Poetry BORROWED TONGUE, by KHALED MATTAWA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe I'm a fool Subject(s): Arabic Language BOUNDARIES OF LANGUAGE, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: The loom has stopped. Mushrooms give off a pleasant scent Last Line: Old men sing with you, their throats growing moist. No one can stop them Subject(s): Language BOWLS, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the green / with lignum vitae balls and ivory markers Last Line: In nothing so much as in a letter. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary BRAINS AND BOOKS, by DIANE PAYNE Poem Source First Line: Walking back home, daypack filled with books, I see grandpa Last Line: In a house with bookshelves, and I'll still be playing aggrava- %tion with grandpa Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers BRIEF EXPERIMENT IN LINGUISTICS, by JOAN RETALLACK Poem Source First Line: Position 1: stand erect with feet together, buttocks tight Last Line: Robot - dollar - pistol - coucherama!) %under the night sky Subject(s): Language - Pronunciation; Translating And Interpreting BRIGHT SINGING WORDS, by HARRY R. TRUSLER Poem Text First Line: Bright singing words may take a dull Last Line: Grow dark -- you are the sun! Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary BRIGHT WORDS, by ERIS GOFF Poem Text First Line: They floated through a purple haze of light Last Line: A bright wing like his word upon the ground. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary BRONZE TRUMPETS AND SEA WATER; ON TURNING LATIN VERSE INTO ENGLISH, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alembics turn to stranger things Last Line: Who smooths the ripples out of it. Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Change; English Language; Latin Language; Translating & Interpreting BROTHER GIAN, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear jesus christ, I'm brother gian Last Line: From eve his sins forever rise! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Language; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary BUNGALOW, by MATTHEW J. SPIRENG Poem Source First Line: What was it you said about bungalow Last Line: For us, very catskills, despite what we've learned Subject(s): Bungalows; Language BURDEN OF WORDS, by GWEN EBERT Poem Source First Line: My sisters can barely finish a sentence. I watch them fish in the dark Last Line: Burden to bear - not this hard collection of words, this heart wood, this %center that was meant to Subject(s): Language BY A SWIMMING POOL OUTSIDE SIRACUSA, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All afternoon I have been struggling Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary BY TALKING TO THEM WERE YOU ABLE TO DISPERSE THEM, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Last Line: With your belt wait a minute hold still Subject(s): Flowers; Language; Poetry And Poets; Roses CALLE MIGUEL ANGEL, by SUEJIN SUH Poem Source First Line: You stood %hands close to your side Last Line: With the crowd %on the madrid metro Subject(s): Language; Madrid, Spain; Tourists; Travel CALLING, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Summers she climbed the hawthorn tree Last Line: Tongues, the ancient language of poets Subject(s): Books; Language Poetry; Latin; Poetry And Poets CAN LANGUAGE BE TAUGHT WITH THE FINGERTIPS?, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is raining hard, too hard for us to go down to paestum Last Line: She brushes my lips with hers and says, 'I'll try never to give you a hard time' Subject(s): Language CAN YOU PREDICT THE PAST? CAN YOU REMEMBER THE FUTURE?, by JANET MCCANN Poem Source First Line: My son tells me hitler was elected Last Line: I wish I could've been there Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers CANADA IN ENGLISH, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mrs. Tinko says canada Last Line: Skulls – are for us Subject(s): Language; Chicanos; Words; Vocabulary; Mexican Americans CANAL STREET 33/14, by BERNARD HEIDSIECK Poem Source First Line: Flakes not of fabric but of words of fabric of words Last Line: All! ... Was this at all useful? Was it really so? Zero Subject(s): Language CANTICLES 5:6, by ELIZABETH SINGER Poem Text First Line: Oh! How his pointed language, like a dart Last Line: Do the vain world no form or beauty see. Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Language; Love; Words; Vocabulary CANTO 36, by EZRA POUND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A lady asks me Subject(s): Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Social Commentaries; Language; Male-female Relations; Words; Vocabulary CARIBBEAN: LANGUAGE AS TRANSLUCENT IMMINENCE, by WILL ALEXANDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Language being the primal conductor of liberty becomes the mag Last Line: Which a beacon mesmerically burns with the stars of a translucent imminence Subject(s): Caribbean Sea; Identity; Language Poetry; Tongues CASE FOR LITERATURE, by DARRELL G. H. SCHRAMM Poem Source First Line: Peace without the sweat of dance Last Line: Someone reads. The stories we need Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers CATCH, by ROBERT FRANCIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Two boys uncoached are tossing a poem together Subject(s): Language; Men; Sports CATHEDRALS IN THE DARK, by DIANALEE VELIE Poem Source First Line: Awakening the century, %a star so blazing Last Line: Of how you built %cathedrals in the dark Subject(s): Language; Writing And Writers CEDES COEMPTIS SALTIBUS ..., by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This phrase of 'riches built on high' Last Line: Give us a better if you can. Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.); Language; Latin; Universities & Colleges; Words; Vocabulary CELT, by ROBERT FRANCIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I heard a voice clang like a brass kettle clanging Last Line: Things that had been mere history before Subject(s): History; Ireland; Irish Language CELTIC SPEECH, by LIONEL PIGOT JOHNSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never forgetful silence fall on thee Last Line: Remains wild music, even to the world's end. Subject(s): Language; Patriotism; Words; Vocabulary CERTAIN PHENOMENA OF SOUND, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cricket in the telephone is still Subject(s): Language; Sound; Words; Vocabulary CHACUN A SON BERLITZ, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: French is easy Last Line: Against the scarecrows: it's on account of their esprit de caw Subject(s): French Language CHALK DUST AND URBAN RENEWAL, by TRISTA CORNELIUS Poem Source First Line: A memory: a long, cavernous classroom. The teacher stands at Last Line: And grit, and, like communion, passing it around for everyone %to taste Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers CHANSON INNOCENTE: 1, FR. TULIPS, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In just - / spring - when the world is mud- Last Line: Wee Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Balloons; Language; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Spring; Words; Vocabulary CHANSON WITHOUT MUSIC, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You bid me sing, - can I forget Last Line: "dum ille clamat, ""dos pou sto!" Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary CHAPTER 1, by CHRISTIAN BOK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Writing is inhibiting. Sighing, I sit, scribbling in ink this pidgin Last Line: Finish writing this writ, signing it, kind sir: nihil, dicit, fini Subject(s): Language; Vowels; Writing & Writers; Words; Vocabulary CHAPTER A, SELS., by CHRISTIAN BOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Awkward grammar appals a craftsman. A dada bard damns Last Line: Rasp catatas. A lass as sad as a swan twangs a glass harp Subject(s): Language CHAPTER E, SELS., by CHRISTIAN BOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Western men revere the greek legends. We retell them Last Line: The green gems, les gemmes vertes, bedeck her velvet flesh Subject(s): Language; Vowels CHAPTER I, SELS., by CHRISTIAN BOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Writing is inhibiting. Sighing, I sit, scribbling in ink this pidgin Last Line: Frills drift in mizzling twilight. I think: night is nigh Subject(s): Language; Vowels CHAPTER O, SELS., by CHRISTIAN BOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Loops, hoops, or whorls form lots of fonts to jot down Last Line: No song of solomon conforms to crossword protocols Subject(s): Language; Vowels CHARLES D'ORLEANS, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Charles d'orleans goes into the rock Last Line: And turquoise of course, not the legality %of barbarians. Listen: scythians are edible Subject(s): History; Language; Rocky Mountain Range; Scythians; Travel CHILDBEARING HIPS, by ALLISON JOSEPH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Around the workshop table in this advanced Last Line: Not touch, no apologies permitted here Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers CHINA, by BOB PERELMAN Poem Source First Line: We live on the third world from the sun. Number three. Nobody tells us Last Line: But better get used to dreams too Subject(s): China; Language Poetry CHRIST'S WORDS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The words of christ are fruitful seeds Last Line: Here and through eternity. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Language; Words; Vocabulary CHRISTIAN BERARD, by GERTRUDE STEIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Eating is her subject. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Language; Words; Vocabulary CHURCHILL'S BLACK DOG OR MR. NUSZBAUM COMPLAINS, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: I who have no pupils Last Line: I, %and even that, not much longer Subject(s): Language; Poetry And Poets CIPHERS, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, to be a wonder-child Last Line: Nature's old rosetta stone! Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary CIRCLING THE FLOWERS: 2, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He could spend an hour Last Line: Made of water, woke convinced %he'd never been who he was Subject(s): Language; Speech Disorders CIRCUS, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When god decided to invent Last Line: Breath bigger than a circustent %and everything began Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Language CLAIRVOYANT JOURNAL: CLAIRVOYANTLY WRITTEN - SILENT TEACHER, by HANNAH WEINER Poem Source First Line: Hannah this is the best page -- hannah this may Last Line: Close as you naked could come Subject(s): Language Poetry CLAIRVOYANT JOURNAL: MAR 7 SIGNAL, by HANNAH WEINER Poem Source First Line: Jerry's home told you not to move the couch Last Line: Sorry about this page stupid Subject(s): Language CLARITY LOOMS, by KATHY MARTIN Poem Source First Line: I'm a loon, you said, a wonderful loon! Last Line: Founderer on land. %'more at lament.' Subject(s): Birds; Language CLASSICS SOCIETY (LEEDS GRAMMAR SCHOOL 1552-1952), by TONY HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The grace of tullies eloquence doth excell' Last Line: A dreadful schism in the british nation Subject(s): Cicero, Marcus Tullius (106-43 B.c.); Language; Latin; Schools CLASSIFICATION, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think that love's a proper noun,' said miss angelia gay Last Line: "their grammar's not my grammar,"" said miss matila prim." Subject(s): Grammar; Language; Words; Vocabulary CLEAR WATER 3, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, yes. Fame never got anyone Last Line: Awhile. My words kill, killed, me, my lord. Yes. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary CLICK-ROSE 2: 15, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source First Line: To the poem I read in the making Last Line: Unseasonably hot terrifying which the other as close as they%are have not been through Subject(s): Flowers; Language; Poetry And Poets; Poetry Readings; Roses CLOSING HOURS, by ANN LAUTERBACH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This trace, if it exists, is alms for delusion. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary COAL, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I / is the total black, being spoken / from the earth's inside Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Language; Words; Vocabulary COAL, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I %is the total black, being spoken %from the earth's inside Last Line: Now take my word for jewel in the open light Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Language COBALT, by THOMAS ELIAS WEATHERLY Poem Source First Line: Thomas speech beyond Subject(s): Language COLDEST PLACE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: When words knife through you Last Line: And say the stabbing words aloud? Subject(s): Language; Strength COLLOAM, by PETER T. INMAN Poem Source First Line: Morrow every listen Subject(s): Language Poetry COMING TO THAT, by DOROTHEA TANNING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If it comes to that,' he said, 'there'll be no preventing it.' Subject(s): Language; Mind, The; Words; Vocabulary COMMA SPLICE, by WILLIAM M. RAMSEY Poem Source First Line: For farmers it is a wall heaved down Last Line: A start stops a hope never finished Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers COMPANY OF MOTHS, by PALMER. MICHAEL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: We thought it could all be found in the book of poor text Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary COMPLETE BALANCING WEATHER MEETS, by TED GREENWALD Poem Source Subject(s): Language Poetry COMPLETE THOUGHT, by BARRETT WATTEN Poem Source First Line: The world is complete Last Line: The violinist arrives at a spot Subject(s): Language Poetry COMPULSION, by JANE BARNES Poem Source First Line: Yes, you will, you will %write down what you hear Last Line: With questionable future access- %this is all Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers COMPULSIVE QUALIFICATIONS, by RICHARD HOWARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Richard, may I ask a question? What is an episteme? Last Line: A god being crucified Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph Subject(s): Writing & Writers; Language; Words; Vocabulary CON MOTIVO DE, by MAYA QUINTERO Poem Source First Line: Perfume made with pheromones Last Line: I at least understand Subject(s): Language CONCEPTS AND THEIR BODIES (THE BOY IN THE FIELD ALONE), by PATTIANN ROGERS Poet's Biography First Line: Staring at the mud turtle's eye Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary CONCEPTS AND THEIR BODIES (THE BOY IN THE FIELD ALONE), by PATTIANN ROGERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Staring at the mud turtle's eye Last Line: Until he chooses to stop, %and it will be so hereafter Subject(s): Language CONFIDENCE TRICK, by BRUCE ANDREWS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Intentionally leaderless - recite this alphabet; body never ends Subject(s): Language Poetry CONJUNCTIONS OF MORNING GLORIES, by MARTHA RONK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lists of conjunctions, a leg Last Line: A bird scolds even before, even without. %and. And. And Subject(s): Flowers; Language CONSIDERED SPEECH, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strictly speaking' (he insisted) 'these are not - ' Last Line: But grave accentuations cut in the rind of the earth Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary CONSTABLE'S CLOUD STUDIES, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: After the first, when he saw the earth Last Line: These convolvuli of simplest blues and whites Subject(s): Language CONVERSATION AMONG THE RUINS, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through portico of my elegant house you stalk Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary CONVERSATIONAL REFORMER, by HARRY GRAHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When theo: roos: unfurled his bann Alternate Author Name(s): Streamer, Col. D. Subject(s): Language COOL WEB, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Children are dumb to say how hot the day is Last Line: Facing the rose, the dark sky and the drums, %we shall go mad no doubt and die that way Subject(s): Heat; Language COSMOGRAPHY, by MYUNG MI KIM Poem Source First Line: Who even came this way, bellow or saw Last Line: Sound as it comes. Alkali, snag snag sang %usher liberty Subject(s): Books; Korea; Language; Planets; Poetry And Poets; Universe; Writing And Writers COVERT STREET, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The boy who lived in the library Last Line: When he came to his own, covert street %hushed in the breeze bowing the sycamores Subject(s): Books; Language; Librarians And Libraries CREATIVE WRITING AT JEFFERSON CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION, by AMORAK HUEY Poem Source First Line: Here are the rules Last Line: Soft-gray and smudging at the touch Subject(s): Education; English Language; Prisons And Prisoners; Schools; Teaching And Teachers; Writing And Writers CREOLE, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Roman Empire; Names; Ancestors & Ancestry; Language; Creoles; Heritage; Heredity; Words; Vocabulary CRIB, by KAY RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the greek for / woven or plaited Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary CRIB, by KAY RYAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the greek for %woven or plaited Last Line: Or thought we did Subject(s): Language CYBERSPACE, by SYLVIA K. POLIKOFF Poem Source First Line: Internet, online, cyberspace Last Line: And I can't keep up the pace! Subject(s): Computers; Language D E MO O, by RON SILLIMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is a test. Subject(s): Language Poetry DANGEROUS AGE, by F. W. VAN EMDEN Poem Text First Line: I cannot dance, I cannot sing Last Line: To bring you to my arms. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary DANTE: BOOK ONE, 3 (1), by ROBERT DUNCAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know a little language of my cat, tho dante says Last Line: As if crouching, springs %to life Variant Title(s): A Little Languag Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Language DARK HARBOR: 29, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The folded memory of our great and singular elevations Subject(s): Language; Self; Words; Vocabulary DARLING, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I break this toast for the ghost of bread in lebanon Last Line: "the word ""together"" wants to live in every house." Subject(s): Language; Lebanon; Mothers; Words; Vocabulary DEAD HOUSE SONNET, by BRIAN TEARE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: House of each sentence endlessly hinged, house of each phrase Subject(s): Language; Writing & Writers; Words; Vocabulary DEAD LANGUAGE LESSON, by ALICE E. STALLINGS Poem Source First Line: They lift their half-closed eyes out of the grammar Last Line: Turning glib boys into swine Alternate Author Name(s): Stallings, A. E. Subject(s): Language; Learning DEAR DERRIDA, by DAVID KIRBY Poem Source First Line: My new grad-school roommates and I are attending Last Line: Yeah, deconstruction might have saved us Subject(s): Deconstructionism; Derrida, Jacques (1930-2001); Language; Memory DEAR WEBSTER, by CONNIE FIFE Poem Source First Line: I am the one who talks with the mountains Last Line: And din't die Subject(s): Language; Native Americans; Racism DEATH, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Death calls my dog by the wrong name. Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Language; Dead, The; Words; Vocabulary DEATH OF FLOYD COLLINS, by CLARK COOLIDGE Poem Source First Line: These were contemporaries of the mammoth Subject(s): Language Poetry DEATH OF READING, by DARRELL FIKE Poem Source First Line: Damn the inventor of the highlighter pen Last Line: Suspended above the page like a tiny guillotine blade Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DECISION MIDSUMMER, by JOHN WILLSON Poem Source First Line: Entire letters - the r Last Line: More word, finish, %abandon Subject(s): Language; Writing And Writers DEEDS, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man of words and not of deeds Last Line: You're dead, and dead, and dead indeed. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary DEEP BLUE, by HOLLY IGLESIAS Poem Source First Line: Seeds extracted one by one from la cascara, the membrane sharp around Last Line: One vulval bloom. Squeals, !Ay honey, esta to die for! Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DEMARCATIONS, by KARL CURTIS ELDER Poem Text First Line: Had you a whole line Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary DESCRIPTION WITHOUT PLACE, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it possible that to seem – itis to be Last Line: And very much more gaily Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Earth; Imagination DEUTSCH DURCH FREUD, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I believe - / I do believe, I do believe Last Line: For certain; I don't know enough german Subject(s): German Language; Writing & Writers DIALECTIC, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They spoke to him in hebrew and he understood Last Line: Is born with them and is to be %sloughed off like some afterbirth of the spirit Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Language DIALOGUE BEFORE SUNRISE, by JULES LAFORGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'd like to live; but truly Last Line: Go ajourneying with the moon. Subject(s): Conversation; Dawn; Language; Sunrise; Words; Vocabulary DICTEE: ELITERE LYRIC POETRY, by THERESA HAK KYUNG CHA Poem Source First Line: Day recedes to darkness Last Line: Stops writing at all Subject(s): Korea; Language DICTION LESSON, by PATRICIA VALDATA Poem Source First Line: A writing workshop, held in a tent Last Line: Discusses the merits of moving from %the general to the specific Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DICTIONARY, by CARLOS DE OLIVEIRA Poem Source First Line: Side %by side Last Line: The icy ache %of water Subject(s): Dictionaries; Language DIGDOG, by RUTH PITTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rooting in packingcase of %dirty straw hurling Last Line: Poltron de renardearther %digdog Subject(s): Language DIRECTIONS, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this desert of language Last Line: Causing me to stumble Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Language DISCUSS YOUR CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCE WITH LANGUAGE: 2. FATHER, by RICHARD JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I lay in fields of clover Last Line: Love with nothing but air. Subject(s): Fathers; Language; Words; Vocabulary DISGUST, by LIAM RECTOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was well towards the end Subject(s): Middle Age; Language; Words; Vocabulary DISILLUSION, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A scholar / weary of erecting the fragile towers of words Subject(s): Language; Suicide; Words; Vocabulary DISTANCES ACCUMULATE FICTIONS, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source First Line: A dissolute mouth admits Last Line: A lateral land that retains %the sea Subject(s): Expressionism - Poets; Language DITTO MARCEL DUCHAMP? DITTO DITTO GERTRUDE STEIN?, by JOAN RETALLACK Poem Source First Line: What or who killed the dinosaurs? Last Line: Is it too late to remember memory's not enough? Subject(s): Language; Poetry And Poets; Stein, Gertrude (1874-1946); Tongues DIVERSITY OF CREATURES, by CORINNE HUNTINGTON JACKSON Poem Text First Line: The huntingtons within me stand aloof, and coldly distant Last Line: But—ah, the phinneys hearken, puckish-wise, their celtic tongues in cheek. Subject(s): Immigrants; Language; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Words; Vocabulary DO WORDS OUTLAST, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary DOMESTIC INTERIOR: 6. THE MUSE MOTHER, by EAVAN BOLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My window pearls wet Last Line: From this rainy street Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary DOMESTIC INTERIOR: 6. THE MUSE MOTHER, by EAVAN BOLAND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My window pearls wet Last Line: My mother tongue Subject(s): Language DON'T SILENCE YOUR SELF, NO TE CALLES, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: He took some words from the bowl Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary 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 DOOZY, by PHILIP DACEY Poem Source First Line: It's doozy in the dictionary, and doozy in my heart Last Line: Easy jazzy %doozy end Subject(s): Language; Sound DOUBLE, by MARY RAE ARMANTROUT Poem Source First Line: So these are the hills of home. Hazy tiers Subject(s): Language Poetry; Nothingness DOUBLE S-O-B IS BOSS SPELLED BACKWARDS, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: He don't care what's been recommended Last Line: I've got to wash my elephant Subject(s): Language; Relationships DOUBTLESS: THE DANCER, by MAGGIE O'SULLIVAN Poem Source First Line: The dancer - %jink Last Line: Striking out of me Subject(s): Language DRAWING, by JAMES TERENCE SHERRY Poem Source First Line: Fingers tremble over the belly Subject(s): Language Poetry DRAWING ON KREISLER, by JAMES TERENCE SHERRY Poem Source First Line: He strings the separate nor near you Subject(s): Language Poetry DREAM, by JOHN RONALD RENEL TOLKIEN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Why ever did I wake up!' he cried Last Line: I was having such beautiful dreams.' Subject(s): Language DREAM OF TEACHING, by KENNETH M. AUTREY Poem Source First Line: Each fall I know the dream will come Last Line: Books reappear and bloom again Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DRIVING THROUGH THE GOTHIC ALPHABET .. WAY HOME CALLIGRAPHY LESSONS, by CYNTHIA GALLAHER Poem Source First Line: Symmetrical streaks Last Line: Become written on chicago's rusty parchment Subject(s): Language DROP'T SONNET, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When a language drops a distinction (as e.G. English Last Line: As / thine Subject(s): Language DROPPING YOUR AITCHES, by JOSEPH WARREN BEACH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Stopping at an otel with an iberian Last Line: As a true confession, an istorical Subject(s): Language - Pronunciation DUE RESPECT, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come moo, dear moo, let's you and me Last Line: And that's the way it shapes up, moo Subject(s): Language; Mothers; Words; Vocabulary DUE RESPECT, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come moo, dear moo, let's you and me Last Line: And that's the way it shapes up, moo Subject(s): Language; Mothers DUMBNESS, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sure man was born to meditate on things Last Line: And penetrate the heart, if not the ear. Subject(s): Babies; Freedom; Language; Infants; Liberty; Words; Vocabulary E.S.L. (ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE), by CHARLES MARTIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My frowning students carve Subject(s): English As A Second Language; Literary Form E.S.L. (ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE), by CHARLES MARTIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My frowning students carve Last Line: As all the rest of my class is %bound to discover Subject(s): English As A Second Language; Literary Form EACH SENTENCE IS INTO THE EAST, by JOE WENDEROTH Poem Source First Line: When none of this interests me I distort my jaw Last Line: That even its simplest tools %cannot stop promising Variant Title(s): Each Sentence Is Into The Fas Subject(s): Language; Writing And Writers EACH SOUND, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Beginnings are brutal, like this accident Last Line: Unspeakable light. Subject(s): Language; Primitive Man; Progress; Words; Vocabulary; Cavemen EARLIER N'AMES ARE ALMOST FORGOTTEN, by JOAN RETALLACK Poem Source First Line: Nabja- beak nipple nibba nib (see Last Line: -ing in l'uganda in which obulamubwo %is how is life Subject(s): Language; Poetry And Poets; Translating And Interpreting EASY SONG, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's rained every day since you Last Line: In the perfume of your flesh. %moi aussi, je suis content Subject(s): Contentment; French Language; Love; Man-woman Relationships ECHO & ELIXIR 2, by KHALED MATTAWA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cairo’s taxi drivers speak to me in english Last Line: The wicked binds, the cataclysmic fares Subject(s): Language; Cairo; Taxis; Relationships; Social Commentaries; Enemies; Words; Vocabulary EFFECTS OF THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION ON LANGUAGE, by BOB MCKENTY Poem Source First Line: We've stolen from the carpenter 'erection,' 'stud,' and 'screw' Last Line: And gave the banks our 'premature withdrawal' Subject(s): Language; Sex EJACULATION, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this short interval to tear Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Language; Feathers; Words; Vocabulary ELIZABETHAN & NOVA SCOTIAN MUSIC, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: What will see us through, a certain calm Last Line: As stab it in the back with gentleness Subject(s): Language; Music And Musicians; Nova Scotia ELLIPTICAL, by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Failure; Language; Relationships; Words; Vocabulary EMBARAZAR, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dairy association's huge success with the campaign got milk? Prompted them to expand Subject(s): Miscommunication; Language; Words; Vocabulary EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 15. RATHER DEEDS THAN WORDS, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You say you love, but I had rather see't Last Line: But doing, doing, that's the proving part. Subject(s): Activity; Language; Love; Exercise; Words; Vocabulary EMPEDOCLES, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: The way nothing arrived back then Last Line: The way a sky filled only with fire Subject(s): Language; Poetry And Poets ENCYCLICAL ON READING ALOUD, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: It is hard to read well, clear as the chime Last Line: Beginning was the rabble rousing word Subject(s): Books; Language; Poetry And Poets; Poetry Readings ENDANGERED NOUNS, by DAVID ANTIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The other day I looked out of the window and saw a Last Line: And I'm not sure how long she was prepared to wait Subject(s): Language ENGLISH, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Their army barracks were fun in the jungle Last Line: With its thin rays on the windowpane Variant Title(s): Lunch At The Army Canteen Subject(s): English Language; Generals; Great Britain - Civil War; Military; Soldiers; English Civil War ENGLISH, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Their army barracks were fun in the jungle Last Line: With its thin rays on the windowpane Variant Title(s): Lunch At The Army Cantee Subject(s): English Language; Generals; Great Britain - Civil War; Military; Soldiers ENGLISH - UGH!, by TSUBOI SHIGEJI Poem Source First Line: One morning, reading the paper, I was flabbergasted Last Line: Or, rather, wheat-wine to our fascist friends Subject(s): English Language; Fascism And Fascists; Human Rights; Japan - Foreign Population ENGLISH 108, by PHEBE DAVIDSON Poem Source First Line: Look at her %stone glass-eye bitch Last Line: Instead of just %paper and %words Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ENGLISH A, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No paraphrase does Last Line: You whatsoever %wish. Period Subject(s): English Language ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE, 1927, by CYNTHIA SOBSEY Poem Source First Line: New on the block Last Line: She got an a in class %held her new words like the star spangled banner Subject(s): English Language; Grandparents; Immigrants; Jews - Women ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGAUAGE, by PHILIP TERMAN Poem Source First Line: It's been raining for days Last Line: And her children will be lost in strange lives Subject(s): Language ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE, by APRIL BERNARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE, by NICK CARBO Poem Source First Line: He then asked me, japanese Last Line: Brush against his sculpted thigh Subject(s): English As A Second Language ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ship %I wrote on the empty blackboard Subject(s): English As A Second Language ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE, by J. D. SMITH Poem Source First Line: He is in the front of his desk Last Line: I am in the king's place Subject(s): English As A Second Language ENGLISH FLAVORS, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love to lick english the way I licked the hard Last Line: Flavored and sharp -- to the ambiguities of meaning. Subject(s): English Language; English Language; Language; Mouths; Nuns; Pleasure; Taste (sense); Words; Vocabulary ENGLISH LANGUAGE, SELS., by WILLIAM WETMORE STORY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Give me of every language, first my vigorous english Subject(s): English Language ENGLISH LESSON, by SUE ANN ALDERSON Poem Source First Line: You spoke of your child and I Last Line: Without having had your throat cut Subject(s): Children; Language ENGLISH LESSONS, by BORIS LEONIDOVICH PASTERNAK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When it was desdemona's time to sing Last Line: Their bodies with other worlds Subject(s): English Language ENGLISH TEACHER'S BAD DAY, by GRACE BAUER Poem Source First Line: Something there is %that doesn't love a wall Last Line: To define the elements of tragedy %in two-hundred-fifty words Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ENGLISH TONGUE, by DEBORA GREGER Poem Source First Line: Aligned across a snowy styrofoam tray%six frozen new zealand lamb tongues Last Line: Blackens with centuries like the shriveled trowel %of sain't tongue in its jewel-scabbed reliquary Subject(s): English Language ENGLISH TONGUE, by LEWIS WORTHINGTON SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Words that have tumbled and tossed from Subject(s): English Language ENGLISH WAS ONLY A SECONG LANGUAGE, by WALTA BORAWSKI Poem Source Subject(s): English As A Second Language; Homosexuality; Incest ENIGMA: 2, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A whimsical set we must often see Last Line: Yet us at this moment, fair reader, you see. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary ENIGMA: 5, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A term for autumn leaves when all their lovely tints are fled Last Line: Now, reader, I shall like to see this mystery unsealed. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary ENIGMA: 7, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you get into me, I have no sort of doubt Last Line: You're myself, if you practice unnatural graces. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary ENOUGH, by MANYA COULENTIANOS BEAN Poem Source First Line: Enough -- stop cursing long Last Line: The safe thick dark %beneath the bodies Subject(s): Language ENTERING THE STUDENT'S POEM, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The most beautiful videos / come from reading poetry Last Line: The blood rushing to her forehead. Subject(s): Exchange Students; Language Poetry; Poetry Readings; Foreign Exchange Programs EPIGRAM ON A LATE CATTLE-SHOW IN SMITHFIELD, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old farmer bull is taken sick Last Line: He's had a fit of cattle-epsy! Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary EPIGRAM: EHEU FUGACES, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What horace says is / eheu fugaces Last Line: Sighing I murmur, 'o mihi praeteritos!' Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.); Language; Old Age; Words; Vocabulary EPISTLE TO A STUDENT OF DEAD LANGUAGES, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I pity him, who, at no small expense Last Line: Till reason's morn shall on him break! Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Language; Poetry And Poets EPISTLE TO JOHN GUTHRIE, by SYDNEY GOODSIR SMITH Poem Source First Line: We've come intil a gey queer time Last Line: Jeez! Wha'ld use ale for athol brose? Subject(s): Language ERRATA, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For 'antrim' read 'armagh.' Last Line: For 'loom' read 'bloom.' Subject(s): Language ERRATA, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where it says snow Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary ERRATA, by KEVIN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Baby, give me just Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary ESSAY ON THE ORIGIN OF OUR LANGUAGES, by LISA ROBERTSON Poem Source First Line: We learned in the inestimable Last Line: Bursts before falling as whiteness on parked cars Subject(s): Language ESTATE SALE, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On igavel I bought Subject(s): Language; Fathers; Words; Vocabulary ETYMOLOGICAL DIRGE, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Calm comes from burning Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary ETYMOLOGY, by OLGA BROUMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I understand her well because I too practice love Last Line: That is a larger that. Subject(s): Faith; Language; Love; Mythology - Classical; Violence; Women's Rights; Belief; Creed; Words; Vocabulary; Feminism EVENING OF RUSSIAN POETRY, by VLADIMIR NABOKOV Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The subject chosen for tonight's discussion Last Line: Lubov moya, otstoopnika prostee Subject(s): Russian Language EVERYTHING WE NEED, by DEVAN COOK Poem Source First Line: A few days after christmas I was at my parents' house, standing Last Line: Say it again,' she said. ' say it. Say it' Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers EVIL TONGUE, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: A worm inhabits the ear of eden Last Line: And we must not look down, or we will fall Subject(s): Change; Evil; Language EXPECT NOTHING ELSE FROM ME, by RITA JOE Poem Source First Line: Words no longer need Last Line: Expect nothing else from me Subject(s): Language EXTENT AND ROOT OF (1). ELSEWHERE, THINGS TEND, by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As each syllable leaves these lips as touch, feel how onerous Subject(s): Despair; Language; Self; Words; Vocabulary EXTENT AND ROOT OF (1). ELSEWHERE, THINGS TEND, by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As each syllable leaves these lips as touch, feel how onerous Last Line: With no more room, falling %into nowhere else Subject(s): Despair; Language; Self EXTREMITIES, by MARY RAE ARMANTROUT Poem Source First Line: Going to the desert Subject(s): Language Poetry FACADES FOR NORMA COLE, by MICHAEL PALMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These ornaments as we pass Subject(s): Language Poetry FACADES FOR NORMA COLE, by MICHAEL PALMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These ornaments as we pass Last Line: It came about by itself %during yesterday's storm Subject(s): Language Poetry FAERIE QUEENE (COMPLETE), by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo I the man, whose muse whilome did maske Last Line: O that great sabbaoth god graunt me that sabbaoths sight! Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights And Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry And Poets; Sleep; Virtue FAILURES IN INFINITIVES, by BERNADETTE MAYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why am I doing this? Failure Subject(s): Failure; Language; Conduct Of Life; Words; Vocabulary FAIR WORDS, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy words are good, and freely given Last Line: A sin against the light. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary FAMILIAR EPISTLES ON A SERMON, 'OFFICE & OPERATIONS OF HOLY SPIRIT': 4, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gospel's simpler language being writ Last Line: Of brisker tempers—let us next enquire. Subject(s): Bible; Bible, N.t. Gospels; Books; Language; Religious Education; Writing & Writers; Reading; Words; Vocabulary; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools FANNY: 119, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was among the first and warmest patrons Last Line: Themselves for acting well, in life, their part %as wives and mothers. There she learned by heart Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Polish Language FANNY: 120, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Words, to the witches in macbeth unknown Last Line: Also, why frogs, for want of air, expire; %and how to set the tappan sea on fire! Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Language; Learning; Literature; Plays And Playwrights; Polish Language FANNY: 121, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In all the modern languages she was Last Line: For she had taken lessons, twice a week. %for a full month in each; and she could speak Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Education, Adult; Language; Polish Language; Teaching And Teachers FANNY: 122, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: French and italian equally as well Last Line: Was quite familiar in low dutch and spanish, %and thought of studying modern greek and danish Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Education; Knowledge; Language FAREWELL, by BERT LESTON TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell!' another gloomy word Last Line: Without it? Alternate Author Name(s): T., B. L. Subject(s): Farewell; Fate; Language; Poetry & Poets; Parting; Destiny; Words; Vocabulary FAREWELL TO ENGLISH, by MICHAEL HARTNETT Poem Source First Line: Her eyes were coins of porter and her west Subject(s): English Language; Irish Language FATHER MERCY, MOTHER TONGUE, by LINDA GREGERSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If the english language was good enough for jesus Subject(s): Language; United States; Words; Vocabulary; America FAUST BOOK: REBUKES MEPHISTOPHELES FOR VULGAR LANGUAGE, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Knowledge is my bread and butter Last Line: Wagner sniggered. Your famulus %grows familiar! Mephisto hissed Subject(s): Devil; Faust; Language FED DRAPES, by CLARK COOLIDGE Poem Source First Line: Fell far but the barn (came) up & smacked me Subject(s): Language Poetry FENCE OF THE TEETH, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not the burgeoning season (late may, early june) nor the centry fast Last Line: Glistening, stirring, dripping, blushing green Subject(s): Language FEW DIFFERENCES: 3, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You don't confuse a cake of soap Last Line: With angel food or gingerbread Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms FEW DIFFERENCES: 5, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In what way do your two lips differ? Last Line: When there's a need to sulk and pout Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms FEW DIFFERENCES: 6, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The kindly barber trims your nape Last Line: And shake you, and be pretty rough Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms FEW DIFFERENCES: 7, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A jester differs from a dunce Last Line: But one of them is bright, perhaps Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms FIDO: AN EPISTLE TO FIDELIA, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting one day beside a silver brook Last Line: That you intend to work no miracles. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Love; Writing & Writers; Language; Words; Vocabulary FIELD GUIDE TO THE HEAVENS, by FRANK X. GASPAR Poem Source First Line: Tonight I am speaking in tongues again Last Line: Every fruit, sleep soundly: surely, verily, nothing will be lost Subject(s): Heaven; Language; Stars FINDING THE WORDS, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: When I walk it Last Line: Like sparks %from a chip of flint Subject(s): Language; Life; Past FINELY WRITTEN LABELS, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It isn't enough we knolw these pains Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary FIRE, by JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Youk'n hide de fier, but w'at you gwine do wid de smoke? Subject(s): Language FIRE EXIT: 78, by ROBERT KELLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The woods green moveless sea Last Line: Rebuking every image. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary FIRST LANGUAGE, by KRISTIN KOVACIC Poem Source First Line: My father has an accent. Everybody loves it Last Line: The work of love. %this is what we say Subject(s): Language FIRST NIGHT OF CLASS, by LAURA APOL Poem Source First Line: Nothing begins with us- %not this story or any other Last Line: Our words the edge of a knife %we are just beginning to hone Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers FIRST PIANO TEACHER, by AVA LEAVELL HAYMON Poem Source First Line: Earnest mrs. Clinkscales, the first piano teacher Last Line: He'd put on airs for the rest of his life! Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers FIRST WORDS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How can I tell thee, dear, what never words Last Line: The shifting of the changeful lights of fate. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Fate; Hearts; Language; Love; Pacific Ocean; Destiny; Words; Vocabulary FISH, SPRING, WINDOW, by LEONORA SMITH Poem Source First Line: These students, dopey with spring-their heads Last Line: But all shimmery as aquarium fish, or the rainbow halos of %circus angels Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers FIVE NOTEBOOKS FOR EXIT ART: 4. PUEBLO DE ALTARES, by CECILIA VICUNA Poem Source First Line: Pueblo: people Last Line: Towns by any name are all Subject(s): Language FIVE PARAGRAPH ESSAY, by LEONORA SMITH Poem Source First Line: A five paragraph essay %reminds me of a blind date Last Line: Worth taking home from school Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers FIXING IT, by EDMUND CONTI Poem Source First Line: Not ain't Last Line: Not broke, %broken Subject(s): Language FLAT OUT, by JACQUELINE BRICE-FINCH Poem Source First Line: A fine weariness %penetrates %to my bones Last Line: Finally %the voice of reason %penetrates: %goin' home %chile, %an'get %some rest Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers FLATTENED BY FLATTERY, by TERRY RASMUSSEN Poem Source First Line: He catches me off guard Last Line: Foolish, silly old woman Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers FLOW CHART, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still in the published city but not yet Last Line: Put up to warm us and as soon expunged, in part of wholly Subject(s): Language Poetry; Life FLOW CHART, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still in the published city but not yet Last Line: Again in earnest, color-coded. It's open: the bridge, that way Subject(s): Language Poetry FO'C'S'LE YARNS: 2D SERIES. DEDICATION, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear countrymen, whate'er is left to us Last Line: Secure an anchor for their keltic souls. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Manx Gaelic (language) FOR ?Ç£FIDDLE-DE-DE?Ç¥, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: What’s the french for “fiddle-de-dee”? Last Line: —I think I know. But the word’s still mum Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary FOR REBECCA, FOR WHOM NOTHING HAS BEEN WRITTEN PAGE AFTER PAGE, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: We have a language that serves us more, or less Subject(s): Grandchildren; Language; Grandsons; Granddaughters; Words; Vocabulary FOR REVEL, PRESS WIVEL, by PETER JAEGER Poem Source First Line: Only moan moss and mottle tatters tuft. Elsewhere less roles Last Line: When leaky, swell: I manhattan you Subject(s): Language FOR SHE, by CARLA HARRYMAN Poem Source First Line: The back of the head resting on the pillow was not wasted. We Subject(s): Language Poetry FOR W.H. AUDEN AND ALAIN BOMBARD, by SKIP EISIMINGER Poem Source First Line: One may survive %a wreck at sea Last Line: A poem may be said %to have saved the day Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers FOREIGN LANGUAGE, by RICARDO PAU-LLOSA Poem Source First Line: Every object is a room Last Line: When you bit, you never knew what hit you Subject(s): Language FOREIGN WORDS, by ULRICH J. BEIL Poem Source First Line: No question: the traces of reddish water Last Line: There before me, the order of its signs Subject(s): Language FORTY YEARS, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For forty years / the sheets of white paper have Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary FOUR EPISTLES: MIRACLE AT THE FEAST OF PENTECOST: 1, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our folks gone a visiting, reverend sir Last Line: Was all by one language,—as clear as the sun. Subject(s): Holy Ghost; Language; Miracles; Religion; Spiritual Life; Holy Spirit; Words; Vocabulary; Theology FOUR EPISTLES: MIRACLE AT THE FEAST OF PENTECOST: 2, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many thanks have been order'd this day to attend Last Line: Excuse the presumption.—dear vicar, adieu! Subject(s): Apostles; Baptism; Bible; Language; Prayer; Religion; Spiritual Life; Disciples, Twelve; Christenings; Words; Vocabulary; Theology FOUR EPISTLES: MIRACLE AT THE FEAST OF PENTECOST: 4, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have with attention, dear vicar, repass'd Last Line: And, speaking or silent, am yours to command, Subject(s): Bible; Hebrew Literature; Language Poetry; Religion; Theology FOUR VARIATIONS ON THE HISTORY OF SPEECH, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen the sabotage of the body Subject(s): Speech; Language; Oratory; Orators; Words; Vocabulary FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 18, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Think'st thou to seduce me with words that have no meaning? Last Line: But alas! Who less could do that found so good occasion! Variant Title(s): "think'st Thou To Seduce Me Then""; Subject(s): Courtship; Language; Seduction; Words; Vocabulary FRANKIE, by PAT NOLAN Poem Source First Line: The girls from the factory across the river came into my grandmother's Last Line: Made a joke or act the fool, they would do it in english. It just wasn't a serious %language to them Subject(s): English Language; Girls FREE, by VIRGIL SAUREZ Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When we first arrived in the united states Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary FRENCH AND ENGLISH, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never go to france Last Line: A nation with a dummy! Subject(s): English Language; French Language FRENCH LESSON: HOTEL D'EUROPE, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cheap paris hotel, a true bargain Last Line: Quite as satisfactory as this Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Paris, France; Hotels; French Language FRENCH WITH A MASTER, by THEODORE TILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Teach you french? I will, my dear! Last Line: Aimer, aimer; c'est a vivre. Subject(s): French Language FRENCHMAN ON THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, by EDMUND VANCE COOKE Poem Source First Line: I vould you make ze little speak avec plaisir Subject(s): English Language FRESHMEN LIT & COMP, by STEPHEN DALE COREY Poem Source First Line: Wednesday evenings rooted to his place Last Line: The aura that holds around the perfect forging Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers FRIENDSHIP, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear friend, I pray thee, if thou wouldst be proving Last Line: To satisfy my mind. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Faith; Friendship; Language; Love; Belief; Creed; Words; Vocabulary FROM THE RETRIEVED NOTEBOOK, by J. L. KUBICEK Poem Source First Line: You lasso your words deftly Last Line: Stand quivering %free with a brand? Subject(s): Holub, Miroslav (1923-1998); Language FROM: MINIATURIST DIWAN, by MAC WELLMAN Poem Source First Line: Telecommute with teledu, x Last Line: These things x are x the fundament %holds the sky up Subject(s): Language FUNCKTIONSLUST, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's german for the pleasure in what one does best. Last Line: A baby who never speaks a word of german knows, %tasting the nipple, the sweet milk flooding in. Subject(s): Family Life; Germany; Language - Pronunciation FUTURE WEIGHT, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source Last Line: Horizontal and %holding much secrecy Subject(s): Language; Writing And Writers G'L'A'N'C'E'S, by JOAN RETALLACK Poem Source First Line: How to creep up on discover disclose distance in a connec Last Line: Light glanced off Subject(s): Language; Poetry And Poets; Tongues; Voices GAELIC LEGACY, by ANN RUSSELL DARR Poem Source First Line: Trying to ignore the only thing Last Line: His civilized socks. %peace Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Grandparents; Irish Language GARDEN, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I listened from a beach-chair in the shade Last Line: To all the noises that my garden made Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Language GARGANTUA, SELS., by FRANCOIS RABELAIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The cake-bakers, however, were not at all inclined to accede Last Line: From their wiping their arses with the neck of a goose Subject(s): Language; Men GATE A-4, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wandering around the albuquerque airport terminal, after learning Subject(s): Air Travel; Arabic Language; United States; America GENTLE COMMUNION, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even the long-dead are willing to move Last Line: Our own private green honey Subject(s): Language; Memory; Spirituality; Words; Vocabulary GENTLE COMMUNION, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even the long-dead are willing to move Last Line: I know not to bite or chew. I wait %for the thick melt, %our private green honey Subject(s): Language; Memory GEOGRAPHY LESSONS, by GRACE BAUER Poem Source First Line: What's nebraska? Asks adam Last Line: I am still trying to imagine into place Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers GERTRUDE AND LUDWIG'S BOGUS ADVENTURE, by CHARLES BERNSTEIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As billy goes higher all the balloons Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary GETTING A HOLD, by MARTHA RONK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The foreign objects are related to the accent Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary GETTING A WORD IN, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Very sad Last Line: Come out of nowhere) / very sad Subject(s): Grief; Language; Rain; Trees; Sorrow; Sadness; Words; Vocabulary GHAZALS: 20, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some sort of rag of pure language, no dictums but a bell Last Line: Be needed, the sibyl will return as an undiscovered lover. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Despair; Dreams; Language; Travel; Nightmares; Words; Vocabulary; Journeys; Trips GIANT OTTERS, by JACKSON MACLOW Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They were a close family of giant otters Last Line: No demand for clarity %as the eyes are unsealed and the world flows in as light? Alternate Author Name(s): Mac Low, Jackson Subject(s): Language Poetry; Otters GIFT OF TONGUES, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Once, we knew words were magic Last Line: With a perfect pandemonium of words Subject(s): Christianity; God; Language; Prayer; Religion GIRL ON THE AQUEDUCT, by DEBORA GREGER Poem Source First Line: The turkist girl on the roman aqueduct Last Line: These words are for her. They make nothing happen Subject(s): Girls; Language GLOSSARY OF LITERARY TERMS FOR MY SON, by VIVIAN SHIPLEY Poem Source First Line: Sunday, leaving grand central station, at 125th street Last Line: Your pain is white, is blinding as light [or, your pain is as blinding as white light] off chrome bu Subject(s): Children; Language; Literary Form; New York City GLUKUPIKRON; TO SAPPHO, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Word you created / which we translate Last Line: Your word for love. Subject(s): Language; Love - Nature Of; Pain; Pleasure; Words; Vocabulary; Suffering; Misery GLYPHS, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: & the code / public record stopped midsentence Subject(s): Language; Native Americans; Poetry & Poets; Tongues; Words; Vocabulary; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America GLYPHS, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: & the code %public record stopped midsentence Last Line: They were bled %who reads them now? %idzat %artist Subject(s): Language; Native Americans; Poetry And Poets; Tongues GOD OF ISRAEL, by ABRAHAM GLANTS-LEYELES Poem Source First Line: The god of israel is not rich Last Line: Letters in love with letters Subject(s): Books; Jews; Language GOING HOME, by WING TEK LUM Poem Source First Line: Ngoh m' sick song tong hwa Last Line: But chinamen aren't supposed to cry Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Language; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations GOLDEN WORDS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some words are played on golden strings Last Line: Shall answer when you call. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Honor; Language; Love; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary GOOD WORDS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Full Text First Line: Good words are doves that fly Last Line: Black evil from their wings Subject(s): Language GOSPEL, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The new grass rising in the hills, Subject(s): Landscape; Language; Words; Vocabulary GRAFIK, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cut / / / / / I multiply everyday images. I apply an aluminum point Last Line: C/////////////r/////////////I////////////m//////////////e//////////////s Subject(s): Social Commentary; Grief; Language GRAIL, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: Remember the time %that we were searching for something Last Line: So endlessly vague became visible Subject(s): Language; Poetry And Poets; Writing And Writers GRAMMARIAN, by DARRELL G. H. SCHRAMM Poem Source First Line: Is wind a noun or a verb?' Last Line: And refused to look at deciduous trees Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers GRANDGOUSIER, by RANSOM. JOHN CROWE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dry bones, / dry brains Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary GRANDMA'S BYWORDS, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: Grandma rocks on the porch Last Line: And we have bucket music Subject(s): Grandparents; Houses; Language GREEK BANISHED FROM THE SCHOOLS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Calm speech of sophocles, ethereal clear Last Line: Through dog's-eared pages on a hopeless quest. Subject(s): Greek Language; Schools; Students GREETINGS, by SUSAN LASHER Poem Source First Line: As if one of the humbler statues %in the park - robert burns, schubert Last Line: Order, and the million forms of farewell Subject(s): Farewell; Greetings; Language; Parks; Statues GUARD, SELS., by LYN HEJINIAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Language Poetry GUESTS, by CYNTHIA HOGUE Poem Source First Line: One thinks aloud, careless Last Line: They all sit watching for falling stars %in the tender, wisteriad night Subject(s): Language HABIT OF ENERGY, by DIANE WARD Poem Source First Line: An enthusiastic gummed flap, awaiting. Something cloudy in the head Last Line: Thrill and thrill snatched suddenly an idle habit of energy, a moment Subject(s): Language Poetry HADRIAN'S LANE, by RAY DIPALMA Poem Source First Line: What fills the whisper and Subject(s): Language Poetry HAG OF BEARE (CAILLECH BERRI), by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ebb like the ocean Subject(s): Irish Language; Poetry & Poets; Translating & Interpreting; Women's Rights; Gaelic; Feminism HAG OF BEARE (CAILLECH BERRI), by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ebb like the ocean Last Line: That's all you get to blunt your knife Subject(s): Irish Language; Poetry And Poets; Translating And Interpreting; Women's Rights HALF-LIGHT, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: My son and I sat on the bed of a late half-light Last Line: Nourished within this half-light Subject(s): Language; Native Americans; Secrets; Sons HAPPINESS, by EDITH WHARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This perfect love can find no words to say Last Line: The sound of deep that calleth unto deep. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary HARSH WORDS, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Harsh words too cruelly sped, yet thoughts / unspoken Last Line: This is love's poor heaven. Yet not to love is hell. Subject(s): Language; Love - Complaints; Words; Vocabulary HE DID NOT KNOW, by GERTRUDE STAHLE VAN ERDEN Poem Text First Line: Her words as light as snow flakes Last Line: They melted into tears. Subject(s): Indifference; Language; Words; Vocabulary HE OPENS WIDE A THIRD EYE, by ZHAO ZHENKAI Poem Source Last Line: The exile of words has begun Subject(s): Language HE SAID, SHE SAID, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it something I said Subject(s): Language; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Words; Vocabulary; Male-female Relations HE SAID, SHE SAID, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it something I said Last Line: And what if it was a trick Subject(s): Language; Love; Man-woman Relationships HE/SHE, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Brought up never getting punched Last Line: Meant so much hurt and love Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Language HEBREW CRADLE SONG, by EZEKIEL LEAVITT Poem Text First Line: Night has on the earth descended Last Line: That thy mother used to tell! Subject(s): Bible; Hebrew Language; Jews; Singing & Singers; Judaism; Songs HERE YET BE DRAGONS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So many languages have fallen Last Line: Tongue and remain proud? Subject(s): Language HERE'S LOOKING AT YOU FRANCIS BACON, by JOAN RETALLACK Poem Source First Line: On the metro the man across Last Line: The brain the joke with therefore I am Subject(s): Bacon, Francis (1561-1626); Language; Philosophy And Philosophers HI, NEIGHBOR (NOUN)!, by ALMA DENNY Poem Source First Line: Happy land, uncommon, too Last Line: You do it ungrammatical Subject(s): Language HIDDEN MEANING, by SUSAN MUSGRAVE Poem Source First Line: Imagine hailing a taxi Last Line: Meaning, and wouldn't it be a kind %of terrible occasion Subject(s): Language; Poetry And Poets; Taxis HIDING PLACE, by RICHARD ARMOUR Poem Source First Line: Move over, ham Last Line: At least I'll keep Subject(s): Language HIGHLIGHTS, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: Drunk, her eyes would water and sparkle Last Line: Who used to be married to her sister Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers HOGWASH, by ROBERT FRANCIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The tongue that mothered such a metaphor Last Line: Daisies, daisies, in a field of daisies? Subject(s): Language; Metaphor HOLLYWOOD AND HYDROQUINONE, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She lightened her skin %played sousa and joplin Last Line: I am your mother invent me Subject(s): Immigrants; Language - Pronunciation; Maryland HOLY LAND, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over beds wearing thick homespun cotton Last Line: Of their shoes. Subject(s): Israel; Language; Palestine; Women; Words; Vocabulary HOME, by KISHITISA Poem Source First Line: All around me quiet Last Line: All around me home Subject(s): Language HOPE, by SUSAN WOOD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: What saves us begins Last Line: In which going and coming are the same word Subject(s): Greek Language HOPE, by SUSAN WOOD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What saves us begins Last Line: Like ancient greek a difficult language %in which going and coming are the same word Subject(s): Greek Language HOTEL FRANCOIS 1ER, by GERTRUDE STEIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a very little while and they had gone in front of it. It was that they had liked it Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Friendship; Language; City & Town Life; Art & Artists; Social Commentaries; Male-female Relations; Words; Vocabulary HOUND'S NEST FOR A PARAFEN, by JAMES TERENCE SHERRY Poem Source First Line: When the wind patch Subject(s): Language Poetry HOW PALESTINIANS KEEP WARM, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Choose one word and say it over Last Line: And when your shawl is as thin as mine is, you tell stories. Subject(s): Heat; Language; Palestine; Story-telling; Words; Vocabulary HOW TO DO THINGS WITH WORDS, by JOAN RETALLACK Poem Source First Line: The subject of this paper, excuses, is one not to be treated Last Line: (death I think she said is no parenthesis) %(fuce Subject(s): Language; Poetry And Poets; Talk; Translating And Interpreting HOW WE TALK, by FLORENCE WEINBERGER Poem Source First Line: All the large questions Last Line: Are primal, daughter Subject(s): Language HOW ZEN RUIINS POETS, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before I knew that mind Subject(s): Language; Thought; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary; Thinking HOWYOUBEENS', by TERRANCE HAYES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mostly people talk to people, holding Last Line: Wasting it. Dumb. Whining about the wind Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary HUMAN HOUSE, by TAMURA RYUICHI Poem Source First Line: I guess I'll be back late Last Line: My house is built of my words Subject(s): Language HUNGARY, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN Poem Source First Line: You're home Last Line: For a flicker of happiness Subject(s): Hungary; Language - Pronunciation; Tourists; Travel I ALWAYS WANTED TO WRITE BOOKS, EVER SINCE I FOUND OUT THAT, by MARILYN BROOKE GOFFSTEIN Poem Source Last Line: It was people who wrote them Subject(s): Language I AM LOOKING FOR WORDS, by MICHELLE LEIGH Poem Source First Line: I am looking for words that lack sweetness, dry words that rattle like Last Line: The dead night Subject(s): Consolation; Language I BROOD ABOUT SOME CONCEPTS, FOR EXAMPLE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A concept like 'I,' which I am told by many Last Line: To disclose. The thing itself ... Subject(s): Language; Philosophy & Philosophers; Thought; Words; Vocabulary; Thinking I BROOD ABOUT SOME CONCEPTS, FOR EXAMPLE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A concept like 'I,' which I am told by many Last Line: So that is what he inteded, they intended %to disclose. The thing itself.... Subject(s): Language; Philosophy And Philosophers; Thought I CAN'T SPEAK, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's hopeless. Our heads are full of television Subject(s): Conversation; Language; Words; Vocabulary I CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT BOOKS, by THOMAS JEFFERSON Poem Source Subject(s): Language I DO NOT, by MICHAEL PALMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I do not know english Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary I DO NOT, by MICHAEL PALMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not know english Last Line: I do not know english Subject(s): Language I DO NOT CALL IT HIS SIGN, by MAHADEVI Poem Source Last Line: What use for words at all? Subject(s): Language I DROVE THROUGH THIS OLD WORLD THIS AFTERNOON, by CLARK COOLIDGE Poem Source First Line: And it was ancient, quiet, lean and brass Subject(s): Language Poetry I HAVE A VOICE IN MY HEAD THAT TALKS BACKWARDS., by LEMN SISSAY Poem Source Last Line: So I walk forwards and listen to it backwards instead Subject(s): Language; Riddles I HAVE HEARD, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The misuse of the word hopefully Last Line: Everyone will be saying it Subject(s): Language I WAVE GOOD-BYE WHEN BUTTER FLIES, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary I'M PROUD OF HER, by GERALD LOCKLIN Poem Source First Line: I am deeply touched when Last Line: She's passed already %in a blaze of glory Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers IAMBICUM TRIMETRUM, FR. LETTER TO HARVEY, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unhappie verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state Last Line: "and I dye, who will saye"" this was, immerito?" Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary ICE CREAM, by GEORGE HERRTIMAN Poem Source First Line: If it don't melt all will be well, otherwise all won't Last Line: Don't melt, ice-cream, dahlink, not yet not yet Subject(s): Ice Cream; Language ICE CREAM, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream Subject(s): Language IDIOMS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Like a perpetual, sweet-smelling surf Last Line: Regards herself with the face %of water in her words Subject(s): Absence; Language; Silence IDLE WORDS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My god!' the beauty oft exclaimed Subject(s): Language IF I COULD TELL HOW GLAD I WAS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Than for eternity Subject(s): Language IF I TOLD HIM, A COMPLETE PORTRAIT OF PICASSO, by GERTRUDE STEIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: If I told him would he like it. Would he like it if I told him. Subject(s): Portraits; Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973); Language; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Words; Vocabulary IFA SUITE IN PRAISE OF THE YORUBA ORACLE, SELS., by AWOTUNDE AWORINDE Poem Source First Line: Slender as a needle Last Line: (o carver, incise reality!) Subject(s): Language IGNORING THE LINGUIST, by ROBERT PARHAM Poem Source First Line: When the professor explained that Last Line: While the light, because it is summer %refuses to leave Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ILLITERATE, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Touching your goodness, I am like a man Last Line: That keep him rich and orphaned and beloved? Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Language IMAGE OF A SAINT, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Many favor sunflowers seeding Last Line: You walk in sandals unimpeded Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Saints; Words; Vocabulary IMAGINABLE CONFERENCE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Exchanging gentle grips, the men retire Last Line: Vistas of lilac weighted their shrewd lids Subject(s): Language; Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955) IMITATIONS OF HORACE: EPISTLE 2.2, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear col'nel, corbham's and your country's friend Last Line: Whom folly pleases, and whose follies please. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary IMMIGRANTS WRESTLING WITH SOUNDS, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN Poem Source First Line: The blackboard is parcelled like a small farmer's field Last Line: Don't buy an immigrant dog Subject(s): English As A Second Language; Hungary; Language - Pronunciation; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration IMPERFECT PASSION OF A WORD, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: Where a flock of starlings should fly-only the emptiness Last Line: Of language: I know in my blood that this is not in vain Subject(s): Language; Self IMPERIALISM TAKES OFF MY HEAD, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: In the morning, when I awake, %I feel the monster has been translated Last Line: Embrace me, hold me, %be my skin, %beam energy without these chains Subject(s): Imperialism; Language IMPORTANCE OF DICTIONARIES, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mallarme told degas that poems Last Line: More colorful and stimulating Subject(s): Degas, Edgar (1834-1917); Dictionaries; Language; Mallarme, Stephane (1842-1898); Paintings And Painters IN A HOSPITAL CORRIDOR, by ANNE-ELISE ROANE WINTER Poem Text First Line: She was an alien. Her large sloe- black eyes Last Line: Forgetting all her agony -- she smiled! Subject(s): Hospitals; Language; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Words; Vocabulary IN ANSWER TO QUESTION FROM GREEK GRAMMAR: WHAT FUTURES SPEAK, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They speak of never withering shades Last Line: Yet are believed again. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary IN DEFENSE OF PARENTHESES, by JOY DWORKIN Poem Source First Line: Sometimes a sweet order in the mess Last Line: - now our will, now that of the gods) tight Subject(s): Language IN EVERY LANGUAGE, by E. ETHELBERT MILLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remind me (again) how beautiful you are Subject(s): Love; Language; Words; Vocabulary IN MEMORIAM: A.F (OB. OCT. 12, 1879), by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bright skies, bright sea Last Line: Has blessed our children -- it is well. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Death; Manx Gaelic (language); Dead, The IN MY CRAFT OR SULLEN ART, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Who pay no praise or wages %nor heed my craft or art Subject(s): Language; Men; Poetry And Poets IN MY OWN LANGUAGE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We can't cut this timber Last Line: Only as I learn to speak it Subject(s): Language; Santa Cruz Mountains, California IN MY TONGUE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the words in my tongue Last Line: In the heart of my lord! Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary IN PORTUGUESE, by ADELIA PRADO Poem Source First Line: Spider, cork, pearl Last Line: Your arm brushing up against mine Subject(s): Brazil; Language; Poetry And Poets IN THE ALLEY, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: N the alley behind the florist's shop Subject(s): Refuse And Refuse Removal; Language; Words; Vocabulary IN THE HEART, by LOUISE DOUGLAS Poem Text First Line: A scholar's words could not define the curve Last Line: Curves sing in the heart and baffle sages. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary IN THE MADHOUSE, by MARILYN HORTON-BARRIOS Poem Source First Line: I carry bits of twig Last Line: That I gathered %when I could fly Subject(s): Insanity; Language IN THE MUSEUM OF THE WORD (HENRI MATISSE), by ANN LAUTERBACH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was the shield of another language Subject(s): Travel; Language; Journeys; Trips; Words; Vocabulary IN THIS LIGHT, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sure, I used to say his name like a truth that, just Subject(s): Language; Grief; Words; Vocabulary; Sorrow; Sadness IN THIS SENSE, BEYOND, by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I apologize, but I do not apologize Last Line: But if grief needs to be it is in the end, anyway Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary IN THIS SENSE, BEYOND, by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I apologize, but I do not apologize Last Line: But if grief needs to be it is in the end, anyway Subject(s): Language INCOHERENCE, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We that are swift with words Last Line: Is trembling more than mine! Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Language; Silence; Words; Vocabulary INCOMMUNICADO, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The groundhog on the mountain did not run Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Groundhogs; Language; Woodchucks; Words; Vocabulary INFANTILE LANGUAGE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When she's asleep and wakes for a moment Last Line: With its tender little tales Subject(s): Language INFLUENCE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We know not what mysterious power Last Line: May, for a time, remember me. Subject(s): Language; Life; Love; Tears; Words; Vocabulary INTENDING TO SPEAK, by DEAN KOSTOS Poem Source First Line: Intending to speak in past tense Last Line: I decided to speak in present tense Subject(s): Language INTERNUNCIO, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Off and on I lose it for weeks Last Line: And of my own blood a firefly among fireflies Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Language INTIMATE LANGUAGE, by BEVERLY ACUFF MOMOI Poem Source First Line: I was learning the language...Being with it every moment... I started Last Line: #name? Subject(s): Language; Love INTO TO POETRY, by STEVEN ALBERT BAUER Poem Source First Line: You thought it was math that taught Last Line: And a voice asking, is this my life? Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers INTRODUCTION TO POETRY, by SHANNON MARQUEZ MCGUIRE Poem Source First Line: Walking library aisles two hours, up toe pr's, down the ps's Last Line: I listen, and notice that I'm humming-a little alliteration, %some soft consonance Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers INVOCATION OF PEACE; AFTER THE GAELIC, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep peace I breathe into you Last Line: Peace! Peace! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Christianity; Irish Language; Peace; Prayer; Gaelic INWARD COMPANION: WORDS, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Were words sole proof of happiness Last Line: Mourn, beyond speech to share Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Language IOTA SUBSCRIPT, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seek not in me the big I capital Last Line: But upsilon which is the greek for you Subject(s): Greek Language IOTA SUBSCRIPT, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seek not in me the big I capital Last Line: But upsilon which is the greek for you Subject(s): Greek Language IS BIGGER BETTER?, by JUDY DIGREGORIO Poem Source First Line: Facilitate, communicate Last Line: Why don't we simply say, 'let's talk?' Subject(s): Language; Talk ISRAEL, by ISRAEL ZANGWILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hear, o israel, jehovah, the lord our god is one Last Line: But we, jehovah his people, are dual and so undone. Subject(s): Hebrew Language; Israel; Jews; Jews - Exodus From Egypt; Judah (bible); Religious Discrimination; Judaism; Religious Conflict 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 IT ALL STAYS OPEN, by ROBERT KELLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Merchandise mind / middleman personality Last Line: That isn’t (entirely) me Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary IT HURTS HIM TO THINK, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The decree went forth Last Line: Infected milk, so that whatever %I throw up now is still theirs Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Language IT WAS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: He seized her in the dark and kissed her Last Line: "he cried. She laughed and said, ""it is" Subject(s): Language; Words;vocabulary ITALIAN, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is italian? It is the language spoken Subject(s): Italian Language JABBERERS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I rise out of my depths with my language Last Line: As the shower at a scissors grinder's wheel.... Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary JAPANESE PRESENTATION, I & II, by JOAN RETALLACK Poem Source First Line: Izubuchi says pound's poems Last Line: Though his body remained on the earth %& wept in the rain Subject(s): Buddhism; Japan; Language; Poetry And Poets JAZZ FANTASIA, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Drum on your drums, batter on your banjos Subject(s): Jazz; Language; Music & Musicians; Words; Vocabulary JAZZ FANTASIA, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Drum on your drums, batter on your banjos Last Line: Hills...Go to it, o jazzmen Subject(s): Jazz; Language; Music And Musicians JOB 18, 2, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: When will you ever finish using words? Last Line: In the desert Subject(s): Bible; Books; Language JUST GUESSING: A LITTLE LECTURE ON AMBITION, by DAVID GRAHAM Poem Source First Line: Rainer maria rilke never worked a day Last Line: No: like you, like me, rilke was just guessing Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers JUST WORDS, by TILLA FERGUSON Poem Text First Line: Words, just little things are they Last Line: Of the words that do no wrong. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary KAL. APR., by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hate your vulgarian ill-mannered Last Line: Do lend me an as! Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Subject(s): Boats; Latin Language; Racing KAS BUVO-TAI NEBUS, by DAVID AVIDAN Poem Source First Line: Two lithuanians who remember their mothertongue Last Line: How do you say sleep in lithuanian? Subject(s): Language; Lithuania KETJAK, SELS., by RON SILLIMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Revolving door Last Line: Straight line. Look at that room filled with fleshy babies. We ate them Subject(s): Language Poetry KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 18. OF THE SEA, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: A site of passage, of dreadful to move on, of depth between Last Line: Beyond displacement %in exchange Subject(s): Language; Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Sea; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 23. OF MARRIAGE, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: Flesh, considered as cognitive region, as opposed to undifferentiated Last Line: Through periods of waxing and weaning Subject(s): Language; Marriage; Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 24. CONCERNING THEIR COYNE, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: Indians are ignorant of europe's coyne yet call it moneash Last Line: Does not differ Subject(s): Language; Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 27. OF THEIR HUNTING, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: First they pursue their game in grammatical components when they drive the wood Last Line: And home, time and %the western world Subject(s): Language; Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KITCHEN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mama has made bread Last Line: Oh children think about the good times Subject(s): Language KRAKOW, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Gombrowicz, prosze, pana, jest horym Last Line: Too far. They didn't know how not to go too far Subject(s): Krakow, Poland; Language; Marriage L'HEURE DU TIGRE (EXTRACT 4), by MATHIAS TSCHABOLD Poem Source First Line: One by one I unwound the words on a thread Last Line: A question a gaping dust between the fingers Subject(s): Language; Night L*A*N*G*U*A*G*E, by RONALD W. WALLACE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The poet says that language is an absence Last Line: Poststructuralism doing its after-dinner tricks Alternate Author Name(s): Wallace, Ron Subject(s): Language LACRIMARE, LACRIMATUS, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strum / a ton / a rung Subject(s): Crying; Latin Language; Poetry & Poets; Tears; Tongues; War; Women LACRIMARE, LACRIMATUS, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strum %a ton %a rung Last Line: I wonder what dido understood Subject(s): Crying; Latin Language; Poetry And Poets; Tears; Tongues; War; Women LADIES AND GENTLEMEN IN OUTER SPACE, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is my philosophy Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary LADY ASKS ME, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A discerning friend Last Line: An old book of fair language ful of hy sentence is alwey a goode thynge to poure Subject(s): Language LANDED: A VALENTINE, by RICHARD HOWARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See how the brown kelp withers in air Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph Subject(s): Kelp; Language; Words; Vocabulary LANDSCAPE IS LANGUAGE, by DAVID SMITH-FERRI Poem Source First Line: At the hour of owl flight Last Line: At breakfast %still dripping Subject(s): Birds; Language; Nature; Owls LANGUAGE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Your tongue like a barefoot walk Last Line: Becomes for a moment %moss, %water, %stone Subject(s): Language; Love; Romance; Tongues LANGUAGE, by JOAN BROSSA Poem Source First Line: Bread Last Line: Lungumul Subject(s): Language LANGUAGE, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Locate I %love you some- %where in Last Line: Of holes %aching. Speech %is a mouth Subject(s): Language; Love LANGUAGE, by FRANCES MARY FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is a country of little rivers Last Line: Inarticulate heart. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary LANGUAGE ACQUISITION, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Burn, or speak your mind. For the oak to untruss Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary LANGUAGE BARRIER, by F. J. BERGMANN Poem Source First Line: I used to be ashamed of not being in touch with popular culture. It Last Line: Well-prepared individuals are chaining themselves together across %the exits Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Language; Teenagers LANGUAGE LESSON 1976, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When americans say a man Subject(s): Americans; Language; Play; United States; Words; Vocabulary; America LANGUAGE LESSON 1976, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When americans say a man Last Line: And let me be %the one you never hold Subject(s): Americans; Language; Play; United States LANGUAGE MESH, by PAUL ANTSCHEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Eye's roundness between the bars Last Line: Mouthsfull of silence Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul Subject(s): Language LANGUAGE OF ENDANGERMENT, by VICTORIA LENA MANYARROWS Poem Source Last Line: Threatens us no more Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Language; Tongues; Writing And Writers LANGUAGE OF MUSIC, by ESTHER EUGENIA DAVIS Poem Text First Line: Two open windows where I went to sing Last Line: But music just begins where language ends. Subject(s): Language; Music & Musicians; Sound; Words; Vocabulary LANGUAGE, THE TRUEST TONGUE, by BARBARA PATURICK TRAMONTE Poem Source First Line: A friend who teaches english in Subject(s): Language LANGUAGES, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are no handles upon a language Last Line: Blowing ten thousand years ago. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary LAPSTRAKE, by TED GREENWALD Poem Source First Line: The cleat curved you curved the spider Subject(s): Language Poetry LARGESSE OF POSSIBILITY, by RUSH RANKIN Poem Source First Line: ... In words, those layers Last Line: From one orbit %to another Subject(s): Language; Poetry And Poets LAST WORDS, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It wasn't oscar wilde who said, die my dear Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Language; Writing & Writers; Words; Vocabulary LATIN, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: In a dark wood, surely Last Line: In a script ever more obscure Subject(s): Language; Latin; Poetry And Poets LATTER DAY, by MARY RAE ARMANTROUT Poem Source First Line: When the particular Subject(s): Language Poetry LAUREL'S EYES, by CHARLES BERNSTEIN Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary LEARNING A DEAD LANGUAGE, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is nothing for you to say. You must Last Line: When there is nothing for you to say Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Language; Poetry And Poets; Rhyme LEDGER DOMAIN, by PETER GIZZI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A morning's silver announces sky Subject(s): Cadiot, Olivier; Language; Books LENS, by MICHAEL PALMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I failed to draw a map and you followed it perfectly Subject(s): Language Poetry LENS, by MICHAEL PALMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I failed to draw a map and you followed it perfectly Last Line: A few steps should be enough Subject(s): Language Poetry LET'S REMAKE THE WORLD, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between the warm wind's Last Line: Who was gazing at us Subject(s): Language LETTER 7, by PALMER. MICHAEL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: But the buried walls and our mouths of fragments Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary LETTER BEFORE A, by COLETTE INEZ Poem Source First Line: The letter before a carries an absence Last Line: And the letter after z buzzing with hypothesis Subject(s): Alphabets; Language LEVIATHAN, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Truth also is the pursuit of it Subject(s): Relationships; Reality; Language; Words; Vocabulary LIBRARY, by LOUIS JENKINS Poem Source First Line: I sit down at a table and open a book of poems and move Last Line: Crews with chain saws and representatives of the paper company Subject(s): Language; Men LIBRARY IS BURNING, by MICHAEL PALMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The library is burning floor by floor Last Line: It felt the most precise Subject(s): Language Poetry LIES, by TED GREENWALD Poem Source First Line: Only %avenue Subject(s): Language Poetry LIFE GOES ON, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over the dulling years you write Subject(s): Love; Language; Words; Vocabulary LIGHT MOVEMENTS KNOW SOUND, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source First Line: Gravity, form, or fur Last Line: As man, for things %repute language Subject(s): Books; Language; Translating And Interpreting LIKE GHOSTS OF EAGLES, by ROBERT FRANCIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The indians have mostly gone Last Line: Those mighty whisperers %missouri, mississippi Subject(s): Environment; Language; Native Americans LINGUISTICUFFS, by STEPHANIE STRICKLAND Poem Source First Line: I think I doubt the existence of an ideal Last Line: Message, chosen %and sent Subject(s): Language LIP-SERVICE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Julia once and once again Last Line: Perfect adoration! Subject(s): Language; Love; Words; Vocabulary LIST OF MOST DIFFICULT WORDS, by LEN ROBERTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I was still standing although Last Line: Sure they would someday save me Subject(s): Language LISTEN MR. OXFORD DON, by JOHN AGARD Poem Source First Line: Me not no oxford don Last Line: I making de queen's english accessory/to my offence Subject(s): English Language; Immigrants; Oxford University LITERACY: OR HOW I ENDED UP AT THE OLD FOLKS HOME, by ANNE-MARIE OOMEN Poem Source First Line: In my battered kalkaska classroom, %the old man had come, asking Last Line: Spreading like bright wings over their faces Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers LITTLE ERRAND, by BRIAN TEARE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I gather the rain Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary LIVING CLOISTERS, by MEGAN HARLAN Poem Source First Line: They raise themselves around us, %sudden shelters Last Line: In a root, arterial language Subject(s): Language; Poetry And Poets; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration LIVING IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE - I (WINTER), by CAROL ANN DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Light shrinks daily Last Line: In the ever-present snow the dictionary %on my lap unopened useless Subject(s): Language; Winter LOGICAL ENGLISH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "I said, 'this horse, sir, will you shoe?'" Subject(s): Animals;horses;language; Words;vocabulary LOGICAL FALLACIES, by ALISON TOWNSEND Poem Source First Line: This morning I taught my freshman english class Last Line: A prayer of feathers outlined %against the winter sky Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers LOGOS, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is not the place I would like to start Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary LONG OVERDUE NOTE TO MY COLLEGE PROFESSOR WHO BROKE DOWN, by DAVID GRAHAM Poem Source First Line: At long last I know what you mean Last Line: Over, and about our silence Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers LOOKING FOR THE RIGHT WORDS, by FLORENCE WEINBERGER Poem Source First Line: Some mornings nothing wants to change Last Line: You don't know how to improve on that Subject(s): Language LOOKING FOR WORDS, by ROSALIND BRACKENBURY Poem Source First Line: Looking for words plain enough to tell the truth Last Line: Looking for words plain enough to tell the truth Subject(s): Human Rights; Language; Truth LOSING A LANGUAGE, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: A breath leaves the sentences and does not come back Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary LOSING A LANGUAGE, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A breath leaves the sentences and does not come back Last Line: Here is the rain we saw Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Language LOST LANGUAGE, by ELAINE EQUI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How and where shall we begin to Last Line: Looking out at the sea Subject(s): Books; Language; Speech; Tongues; Writing And Writers LOUISIANA PERCH, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Certain words disappear from a language Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary LOUISIANA PERCH, by RON PADGETT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Certain words disappear from a language Last Line: Have hamburgers! Have hamburgers Subject(s): Language LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 26, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the time when Last Line: Brant write the character of 'heart' Subject(s): Hearts; Language; Nature LOVE SONG NO 38, by BRUCE ANDREWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Language Poetry LOVE SONG NO 48, by BRUCE ANDREWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Language Poetry LOVE SONNET OF A PLAYER, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Say, kid, d'you know, I just can't understand Last Line: I'll kill three baseball scribes by monday night! Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Language; Sports; Words; Vocabulary LOVE'S LANGUAGE, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Their little language the children Last Line: Which is hidden with love and thee. Subject(s): Language; Love - Nature Of; Words; Vocabulary LOVELILTS, by MARION HILL Poem Text First Line: Thine eyes, dear one, dot dot, are like, dah, what? Last Line: Dash, god! Dot stars, keep thou our secret dark! Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary LOVING YOU IN FLEMISH, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me love you in my tongue tonight Last Line: Verget awe noam en al de rest . . . Subject(s): Antwerp, Belgium; Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Food & Eating; Language; Love; Lust; Man-woman Relationships; Memmeling, John (1430-1495); Metaphor; Ostend, Belgium; Prostitution; Tongues; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter; LUCAS A NON; EPIGRAM, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You'll oft find in books, rather ancient than recent Last Line: That desunt means simply not decent to print! Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary LUCRETIUS, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: In the house of your body one poet Last Line: Still write your name Subject(s): Alphabets; Cicero, Marcus Tullius (106-43 B.c.); Language; Poetry And Poets LUDICROUS STICK, by TINA DARRAGH Poem Source First Line: To %clean Subject(s): Language Poetry LYRICK FOR LEGACIES, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gold I've none, for use or show Last Line: As my last remembrances. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary MAGIC WORDS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In the very earliest time Last Line: That's the way it was Subject(s): Eskimos; Language; Men; Native Americans MAGISTER LINGUISTICUS, by FRANCIS CLAIBORNE MASON Poem Text First Line: His feet became too feeble for the stair Last Line: "he strove with bits of words until he died." Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary MAINTAINS, SELS., by CLARK COOLIDGE Poem Source First Line: A nouner Subject(s): Language Poetry MANGO, NUMBER 61, by RICHARD BLANCO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pescado grande was number 14, while pescado chico was number 12 Last Line: Number 61s, mangos, here in number 87, america Subject(s): Language; Mango Trees; Numbers; Spain MANIFEST DESTINY, by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Northbound, on the way to the station, through the narrow rutted Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Prisons & Prisoners; Language; Reality; Convicts; Words; Vocabulary MANLIUS TO COEYMANS, by CLARK COOLIDGE Poem Source First Line: But could it come up into a limestone so correct, teeth Subject(s): Language Poetry MANY A PHRASE HAS THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Hush - only to me! Variant Title(s): Poem: 276; Poem: 33 Subject(s): Language MARRY AT A HOTEL, ANNUL ?ÇÖEM, by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Language; Hotels; Words; Vocabulary; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses MARS 6 / FROM LIP SERVICE, by BRUCE ANDREWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O awkward more vagrant thicker Subject(s): Language Poetry MARSH LANGUAGES, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dark soft languages are being silenced Last Line: The one language that has eaten all the others. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary MARTIAN SENDS A POSTCARD HOME, by CRAIG RAINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Caxtons are mechanical birds with many wings Last Line: In colour, with their eyelids shut Subject(s): Books; Civilization; Language MASTERMIND, by BARB LUNDY Poem Source First Line: At the alternative energy rally Last Line: Probability holds at 50/50 Subject(s): Language; Poetry And Poets; Rhyme MATTER OF FACT, by BRUCE ANDREWS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sanity be applicable something men Subject(s): Language Poetry MEANING OF SIMPLICITY, by YANNIS RITSOS Poem Source First Line: I hide behind simple things that you may find me Last Line: And it's then a word is true, when it insists on the encounter Subject(s): Language; Simplicity MEANING OF SIMPLICITY, by YANNIS RITSOS Poem Source First Line: I hide behind simple things so you'll find me Last Line: And that's when a word is true: when it insists on the meeting Subject(s): Language; Simplicity MEASURES, by JACKSON MACLOW Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Immoderate use turns to restraint Last Line: Thou art said %to have a stubborn soul, a quickening in his eye Alternate Author Name(s): Mac Low, Jackson Subject(s): Language Poetry MEDITATION AT LAGUNITAS, by ROBERT HASS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the new thinking is about loss Subject(s): California; Deconstructionism; Language; Longing; Words; Vocabulary MEDITATION AT LAGUNITAS, by ROBERT HASS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the new thinking is about loss Last Line: Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, %saying blacberry, blackberry, blackbrry Subject(s): California; Deconstructionism; Language; Longing MERE GLIMPSE, by ANN MENEBROKER Poem Source First Line: The poem begins Last Line: And dog crossed %is empty Subject(s): Language; Poetry And Poets MESA BLANCA (1), by VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ Poem Source First Line: If I were writing on rock Last Line: To lick the invisible %generations Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Language; Poetry And Poets; Puerto Ricans - New York City; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration MESSAGE (1), by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: When I had a studio Last Line: Me another 20 years %to get the message Subject(s): Language MESSAGES AS TRANSLATION, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With all of sterling's poems in spanish Subject(s): Language; Spain; Translating & Interpreting; Words; Vocabulary MESSAGES AS TRANSLATION, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With all of sterling's poems in spanish Last Line: There's no hiding place down here.' Subject(s): Language; Spain; Translating And Interpreting MILLENNIAL POLKA, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Using words this way Last Line: Among the bloody berries Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary MILLENNIAL POLKA, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Using words this way Last Line: About in the full barns %among the bloody berries Subject(s): Language MIMESIS, by BARRETT WATTEN Poem Source First Line: It thinks, permanent address, states, stands apart, exits Last Line: Could hide this little man, having no intention to be useful Subject(s): Language Poetry MIND (TROBRIANDS, NEW GUINEA), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The mind, nanola, by which term intelligence Last Line: Resides within man and can escape only through his voice Subject(s): Language; Men MINDING THE DARKNESS: IV. V, by PETER DALE SCOTT Poem Source First Line: 6-oct-97 Last Line: Like the priests in utopia %saintly %and therefore very few Subject(s): History; Language; Poetry And Poets MINE: THE ONE THAT ENTERS THE STORIES, SELS., by CLARK COOLIDGE Poem Source First Line: Here I will say it, but it keeps leaving me. Here I will parry Subject(s): Language Poetry MISTRESS, by KEKI N. DARUWALLA Poem Source First Line: No one believes me when I say Last Line: She is indian english, the language that I use Subject(s): Language MISUNDERSTOOD, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: People do not understand me Last Line: And you will be understood. Subject(s): Knowledge; Language; Schools; Words; Vocabulary; Students MODE Z, by BARRETT WATTEN Poem Source First Line: Could we have those trees cleared out of the way Subject(s): Language Poetry MODERN GREEK 101, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These phrases, once lodged in your memory, Subject(s): Greek Language MOM'S GRAMMAR, by JOSE KOZER Poem Source First Line: In may, which bird was it Last Line: Familiar tu; mom in proper castilian Subject(s): Language; Mothers MONOSYLLABIC, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me be monosyllabic today, o lord Last Line: Enjoy slow-pacing clocks. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary MONOTONOUS VARIETY, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She 'greeted' and he 'volunteered' Last Line: They had a thing or two to say. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms MORE BEST JOKES OF THE DELPHIC ORACLE, by BILL KNOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I vow to live always at trash point: to Last Line: To the inchworm's socialization progress. Alternate Author Name(s): Saint Geraud; Knott, William Subject(s): Dictionaries; Language; Lips; Progress; Words; Vocabulary MORE OPPOSITES: 1, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite of duck is drake Last Line: Of duck, of course, is getting hit Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 1, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite of duck is drake Last Line: Of duck, of course, is getting hit Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 10, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite of 'gee!' is some Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 10, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite of 'gee!' is some Last Line: Don't interrupt me, please. Gee whiz! Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 11, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite of kite, I'd say Last Line: (if you can work the blasted thing) Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 11, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite of kite, I'd say Last Line: (if you can work the blasted thing Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 12, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When ships send out an s.O.S. Last Line: It means that things could not be finer Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 12, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When ships send out an s.O.S. Last Line: It means that things could not be finer Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 13, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When some poor thirsty nomad sees Last Line: A sandy islet in the sea Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 13, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When some poor thirsty nomad sees Last Line: A sandy islet in the sea Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 14, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite of robber? Come Last Line: Posite of robber is a cop Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 14, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite of robber? Come Last Line: Posite of robber is a cop Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 15, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite of less is more Last Line: Try to be temperate, more or less Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 15, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite of less is more Last Line: Try to be temperate, more or less Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 16, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An echo's opposite is the cry Last Line: It won't until; it hears from you Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 16, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An echo's opposite is the cry Last Line: It won't until it hears from you Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 17, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the opposite of root? Last Line: (such happenings are very rare Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 18, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A dragon is a winged snake Last Line: A golden egg (or so they say Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 19, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite of stunt? You're right! Last Line: Or merely lying on the grass Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 2, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite of doctor? Well Last Line: It's anyone who makes you sick Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 20, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite of so-and-so Last Line: You so-and-so! I want that back! Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 20, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite of so-and-so Last Line: You so-and-so! I want that back!' Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 21, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite of punch, I think Last Line: I'm getting punchy. That will do Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 21, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite of punch, I think Last Line: I'm getting punchy. That will do Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 22, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A spell is something you are under Last Line: And things are only fairly creepy Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 22, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A spell is something you are under Last Line: And other horribel mistaiks Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 23, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite of hot, we know Last Line: Since all those things are not so hot Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 23, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite of hot, we know Last Line: Since all those things are not so hot Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 24, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite of moth? It's moth! Last Line: As well as dresses, coats, and hats Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 25, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite of top, in case Last Line: Since none of those is fun to spin Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 26, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you are playing on a harp Last Line: A soda should be full of fizz Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 27, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gray is the opposite of blue Last Line: And so its opposite is cheerful Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 27, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gray is the opposite of blue Last Line: And so its opposite is cheerful Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 28, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the opposite of chew? Last Line: If you were seen to have a cud Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 29, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the opposite of a u? Last Line: May have no opposite at all Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 3, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the opposite of baby? Last Line: The answer is grown-up. Maybe Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 3, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the opposite of baby? Last Line: The answer is a grown-up, maybe Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 30, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder if you've ever seen a Last Line: A wild beast laughing uncontrollably! Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 31, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite of pluck, my dear Last Line: Of adding feathers to a bird Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 32, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite of sound? Well, that's Last Line: Or banging powder puffs together Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 32, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite of sound? Well, that's Last Line: Or banging powder puffs together Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 33, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the opposite of missouri? Last Line: In massachusetts, anyway Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms; United States MORE OPPOSITES: 33, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the opposite of missouri? Last Line: In massachusetts, anyway Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 34, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite of stop is go Last Line: I'll stop. And go. Farewell, my friend Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 4, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: What is the opposite of pillow? Last Line: Or else we'll have a pillow fight Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 4, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the opposite of pillow? Last Line: Or else we'll have a pillow fight Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 5, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite of tar is rat Last Line: And bring the vessel into port Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 5, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite of tar is rat Last Line: And bring the vessel into port Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 6, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite of sheep, I think Last Line: To let you know it knows you're there Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 7, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How often travelers who mean Last Line: Or you may draw a curious crowd Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 8, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An omen is a sign of some Last Line: And the cat looks a little fatter Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 8, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An omen is a sign of some Last Line: And the cat looks a little fatter Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORE OPPOSITES: 9, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the opposite of road? Last Line: Because you are already there Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms; Roads MORE OPPOSITES: 9, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the opposite of road? Last Line: Because you are already there Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms MORNING'S MAIL, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: This emptiness has never known a sound Last Line: Why leave these burning words unsigned? Subject(s): Emptiness; Language; Letters MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 21, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hardly in any common tender wise Last Line: So gives back such a meaning in her own. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Language; Mothers & Daughters; Words; Vocabulary MOUNTAIN-PASS, by EVA STROM Poem Source First Line: This mountain-pass on the way to akra, this road that lost itself Last Line: Once more make something that could resemble a meaning? Subject(s): Language; Travel MOUTH, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: To speak of an obvious thing Last Line: With an icelandic kitchen mouth Subject(s): Language; Speech; Truth MR MACANDREW WRITES FROM ST KILDA, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: I have put aside all thoughts of helping these people Last Line: Servant, reverend george macandrew of dumblane Subject(s): Child Molesting; Clergy; Irish Language; Prayer; Religion; Saint Kilda (scotland) MR. HOWARD, by GERALDINE DELUCA Poem Source First Line: Mr. Howard was tall and skinny as a crane. He had a narrow Last Line: Was afraid. Maybe he wouldn't remember me. Or worse, maybe %he would Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers MUSE, by MEENA ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was young when you came to me. Last Line: This is pure transport Subject(s): Language; Inspiration MUTENESS, by OLDRICH MIKULASEK Poem Source First Line: It is not necessary and some things one shouldn't Last Line: Woman condemned to love %for live Subject(s): Language; Speech Disorders MY BAD, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: Ignore her, they said Last Line: I make on a white shirt Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers MY FAITHFUL MOTHER TONGUE, by CZESLAW MILOSZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Faithful mother tongue Last Line: For what is needed in misfortune is a little order and beauty Subject(s): Polish Language MY FAVORITE WORD, by LUCIA HYMES Poem Source First Line: There is one word Subject(s): Language MY LAST GLAD SUMMER, by PHEBE DAVIDSON Poem Source First Line: My last glad summer of lust Last Line: Made lilies bloom beneath my skin Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers MY LIFE, SELS., by LYN HEJINIAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Language Poetry MY LIFE: REASON LOOKS FOR TWO, THEN ARRANGES IT FROM THERE, by LYN HEJINIAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where I woke and was awake, in the Last Line: Duration. Language makes / tracks Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary MY NAME, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A child saw my name passing into Subject(s): Self; Names; Language; Words; Vocabulary MY NEPALI WORDS BROKEN, FRAGMENTED, by MOHAN KOIRALA Poem Source First Line: Sugar, I write sugar, and paraffin I write Last Line: Who will buy onions?' %can nepali poems not be written at all Subject(s): Human Rights; Language Poetry; Pens And Pencils; Poetry And Poets; Writing And Writers MY POEM, by SANDOR WEORES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Miklos and eva Last Line: We always try for better kids Subject(s): Language; Pens And Pencils; Poetry And Poets; Rhyme MY POETRY IS LINEAR: 14, by YAMAMOTO TARO Poem Source First Line: My words Last Line: Do not fall like parachutes %into the heart of death Subject(s): Language MY QUARREL WITH LANGUAGE POETRY, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: Dulsville, as in the after-hours Last Line: And we went out and ate them Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Death; Friendship; Language Poetry MY TONGUE DOES NOT MARRY SLOGANS, by WOLE SOYINKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sooner plead a writer's block, a cramp Subject(s): Language MY TRUTH, INSCRIBED IN LETTERS OF SMOKE...', by CHRISTIAN VIREDAZ Poem Source Last Line: Deep down in your eyes Subject(s): Language; Smoke; Truth MYSTERY AND MANNERS, by MARVIN DIOGENES Poem Source First Line: Dr. Kopkind?' I asked the man standing at the emergency %room check-in Last Line: Like he could use some help Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers NAKED AND THE NUDE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For me, the naked and the nude Last Line: By gorgons with long whips pursued, %how naked go the sometime nude! Subject(s): Language; Nudity NAME, SELS., by ALAN DAVIES Poem Source First Line: If the devices fail pens Subject(s): Language Poetry NAMING THE LIGHT, by KENNETH LINCOLN Poem Source First Line: Saffron - one word, no more, to alchemize Last Line: That glitters: within each eye the light burns Subject(s): Language; Light NARRATIVE CHARM FOR IBBOTROYD, by MAGGIE O'SULLIVAN Poem Source First Line: Cobble & pebble in the teeth. Fang & club upon Last Line: Edge the word. Crow trembles in the knot Subject(s): Language; Troy NATIONAL THOUGHTS, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A woman, caught in a homeland-trap of the chosen people: you Last Line: And to sleep inside it, forever Subject(s): Jews; Israel; Hebrew Language; Judaism NATIVE, by MARY RAE ARMANTROUT Poem Source First Line: How many constants should there be? Last Line: Redundant but syncopated Subject(s): Language Poetry NATIVE TONGUE, by JOHN DUFFRESNE Poem Source First Line: To glimpse it lounging in the red clay Last Line: This rude animal from a swarm of angels Subject(s): Confessions; Language; Poetry And Poets NATURE AND LANGUAGE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oft, when some happy thought for song is found Last Line: While all our sweetest thoughts go safe to heaven. Subject(s): Language; Nature; Words; Vocabulary NAVIGATION, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Evergreens have reasons Subject(s): Language; Mountains; Mouths; Nature; Navigation; Sky; Trees; Words; Vocabulary; Hills; Downs (great Britain) NECROMANCE, by MARY RAE ARMANTROUT Poem Source First Line: Poppy under a young Last Line: The mermaid's %privacy Subject(s): Language Poetry NEOTENY, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: According to webster's, the condition Last Line: And the axolotl ('esteemed for food in mexico,' %says webster's) covets our lovableness Subject(s): Language NERVES: TERRORIST FOR LANGUAGE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nerves, blind / attraction to Subject(s): Language; Literary Form; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary NERVES: TERRORIST FOR LANGUAGE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nerves, blind %attraction to Last Line: Act like you're dead & %remember you're dead Subject(s): Language; Literary Form; Poetry And Poets NERVOUSWORK, by WILLIAM SNYDER Poem Source First Line: Saturday morning, and orange juice and the heater's buzz Last Line: But my regrets must be every bit as fine. Every bit Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers NEUTRA'S WINDOW, by MARTHA RONK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behind the glass barrier by moving her lips Subject(s): Children; Obedience; Language; Childhood; Words; Vocabulary NEVER TOO LATE: INFIDA'S SONG, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet adon, dar'st not glance thine eye - Last Line: N'oserez vous, mon bel ami? Variant Title(s): N'oserez Vous, Mon Bel Ami? Subject(s): French Language; Love; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess) NEVER TOO LATE: MULLIDOR'S MADRIGAL, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dildido, dildido Last Line: Trop belle pour moi, voilà mon trépas! Variant Title(s): Love Subject(s): French Language; Love NEW, by GERTRUDE STEIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We knew./anne to come Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary NIEGE FONDANT, by BARBARA GUEST Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Seen on the whimpering screen the white ruff a tongue wags out numbered Subject(s): Weather; Language; Words; Vocabulary NIGHT, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That is my dream! Last Line: Night coming tenderly %black like me Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): Language NIGHTHOUR, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: I write %the way my kind does Last Line: Only the poet holds still %and peels the skin off the hours %clock, poet, frog, %and despises time Subject(s): Books; Language; Poetry And Poets; Translating And Interpreting; Writing And Writers NO 11, by BRUCE ANDREWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Language Poetry NO 116, by BRUCE ANDREWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Language Poetry NO CHANCE OPERATIONS, by JAMES TERENCE SHERRY Poem Source First Line: He had a stroke of luck Subject(s): Language Poetry NO IDEAS BUT IN THINGS, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A severed past, / a dismembered part Subject(s): Transience; Language NON, by RON SILLIMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Proto-mallie: the flaneur. Subject(s): Language Poetry NOSE DEEP INTO YOUR LITTLE PAGE...', by CHRISTIAN VIREDAZ Poem Source Last Line: What your pen is writing Subject(s): Language NOSTRADAMUS IN HEAVEN, by SARAH SLOANE Poem Source First Line: When nostradamus died and went to heaven one inky july Last Line: Singing back to him again from this half-grown, blue-green, %divine, dull world Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers NOT A CAGE, by JOAN RETALLACK Poem Source First Line: Scientific inquiry, seen in a very broad perspective may Last Line: The most obscure things have already been said Subject(s): Language; Writing And Writers NOT A VERBAL EQUIVILANT, by DARA WIER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You said one thing as a way ofsaying something else Last Line: Curve in the road that will point us slowly into as nearby cave Subject(s): Language; Relationships NOT KNOWING THE LANGUAGE, by MARTHA RONK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A tendency towards mannerism and widening the streets Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary NOT TO BE, by BROCK DETHIER Poem Source First Line: Carve your name in the paper Last Line: Treasure strong verbs %share the gift Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers NOT-FRANCE, by CARLA HARRYMAN Poem Source First Line: I can't stuff myself anymore! (arguments in the form of noble people Last Line: Bored open to a gash in the middle of the condition that is not-france Subject(s): Language Poetry NOTE ABOUT ALLEN TATE, by KELLY CHERRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I took literary criticism with allen tate. My mind was not on Last Line: Observantly, in a way that recognizes change in the world Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers NOTE AFTER NOTE, by LI CH'ING-CHAO Poem Source First Line: Searching and searching, seeking and seeking Last Line: How can that one word 'sorrow' grasp it? Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Language NOTES FOR ECHO LAKE 1, by PALMER. MICHAEL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary NOTES FOR ECHO LAKE 4, by PALMER. MICHAEL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who did he talk to Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary NOTHING, by JAMES TERENCE SHERRY Poem Source First Line: That of which many large varieties are found in the major Subject(s): Language Poetry; Nothingness NOVEL CONVERSATION, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men believe that I can speak Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary NOYTA CCCP, by CHRISTIAN BOK Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary O, by RITA DOVE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shape the lips to say an o, say a Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary O, by RITA DOVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shape the lips to say an o, say a Last Line: Like it used to be, not even the future Subject(s): Language O HADA CIBERNETICA: 17, by CARLOS GERMAN BELLI Poem Source First Line: On emerging from the womb your shinbone Last Line: Won't blurt out a single word Subject(s): Language; Tongues O-U-G-H. A FRESH HACK AT AN OLD KNOT, by CHARLES BATTELL LOOMIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm taught p-l-o-u-g-h Last Line: And killed him wiz a rough. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary ODONATA, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: Eye-stitcher, ear-cutter, darner Last Line: Atonements, wheeling around a definition Subject(s): Language OF ALL THE CORNERS TO FORGET: TO CALL A HARBINGER, by GIAN LOMBARDO Poem Source First Line: Nun compared to sum. Once humble salted, then summered in mumbles. Another Last Line: With fables portrayed creatures of habit Subject(s): Language OF BEING NUMEROUS, 3, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The emotions are engaged Subject(s): Language; New York City; Words; Vocabulary; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple OF CERTAIN ADJECTUIVES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A 'generous' liquor! Ah, if generous Last Line: God for the right! Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Language; Words; Vocabulary OF TIME AND THE LINE, by CHARLES BERNSTEIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: George burns likes to insist that he always / takes the straight lines Subject(s): Language Poetry; Popular Culture - United States OF TIME AND THE LINE, by CHARLES BERNSTEIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: George burns likes to insist that he always %takes the straight lines Last Line: An angle but only one lime to make a margarita Subject(s): Language Poetry; Popular Culture - United States OFFERING, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the hedges, clipt and even Last Line: Yet awhile before they are trodden. Subject(s): Language; Leaves OLD LANGUAGE, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: England, what have you done to make the speech Last Line: Its brisk pattern? When spring wakens the hearts %of the young children to sing, what song shall be Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Language; Wales OLD MASTERS, by JOHN ALEX LATTA Poem Source First Line: Dare to remain remote, indifferent to the theorizing frenzies and polemical Last Line: Formal listing. The ironist's rubric rarely red and closure is like 'is,' an %already expendable lur Subject(s): Experience; Language ON BEING EXTRAVAGANT, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extra-vagant enough Last Line: Prevails so much more widely and fatally Subject(s): Language; Men ON CAPT. FOOTE'S MARRIAGE WITH MISS PATTON, by JAMES LEIGH PERROT Poem Source First Line: Thro' the rough ways of life, with a pattern on your guard Last Line: Nor the foot find the pattern a clog Subject(s): Language; Marriage ON HEARING A WELSHMAN SPEAK, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And as he speaks time turns Last Line: With the last hurrying feet %seeking the english plain? Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Language ON RHYME AND BLANK VERSE, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What a deal of impertinent stuff at this time Last Line: All the bus'ness he knows is—to execute well. Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Rhyme; Singing & Singers; Words; Vocabulary; Songs ON THE ARROW TRACK, by J. H. G. Poem Text First Line: Coming from the arrow, I / with my empty dray Last Line: "ta-ra-ra boom-dee-ay!" Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Family Life; Language; Singing & Singers; Relatives; Words; Vocabulary; Songs ON THE CORNER TO OFF THE CORNER, SELS., by TINA DARRAGH Poem Source First Line: Performing military service for the king and bearing a child Subject(s): Language Poetry ON THE DISPOSITION OF MIND, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To hear the words of scripture, or to read Last Line: To seek the truth, receive it, and retain. Subject(s): Bible; Books; Language; Reading; Words; Vocabulary ON THE DISPOSITION OF MIND (2), by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We ought to read, my worthy friend ponthieu Last Line: The book of books is ev'ry man's own heart. Subject(s): Books; Language; Religious Education; Reading; Words; Vocabulary; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools ON THE GREEK SCHOLAR GOTTFRIED HERMANN, by RICHARD PORSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The germans in greek Last Line: And hermann's a german. Subject(s): Greek Language; Hermann, Gottfried (1772-1848) ON THE LINE, by HELEN BOURNAS-NEY Poem Source First Line: If you love words more than meaning Last Line: Make scintillant, uncommon, the exhausted day? Subject(s): Language ON THE MARRIAGE OF MR. GELL OF EAST BOURN TO MISS GILL, by JANE AUSTEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Of eastbourn, mr. Gell Last Line: By accepting my e.S. - Subject(s): Language; Names ON THE ROAD TO LARRY ROBIN'S BOOKSTORE, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are many monsters -- the ashes of the members Last Line: 100 poets reading for robin's Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Booksellers; Language; Literature; Pornography; Bookstores; Words; Vocabulary ON THE TERRACE OF CANG JIE'S INVENTION OF CHARACTERS AT SAN-HUI TEMPLE, by TS'EN SHEN Poem Source First Line: A wilderness temple, its grass-grown terrace at dusk Last Line: Still like that time when he first invented writing Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Chinese Language; Temples ON THE WAY TO LANGUAGE, by MICHAEL PALMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The answer was / the sun, the question Subject(s): Language Poetry ON THE WAY TO LANGUAGE, by MICHAEL PALMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The answer was %the sun, the question Last Line: Crossed by the bridge %of frequent sighs Subject(s): Language Poetry ON THE WORDS IN POETRY, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You want to know why and how I just began to write poetry Last Line: Ephemeral lives dangerous, great, and bearable Subject(s): Language; Men; Words; Vocabulary ON THE WORDS IN POETRY, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You want to know why and how I just began to write poetry Last Line: Dangerous, great, and bearable Subject(s): Language; Men ON THE WRITING OF POETRY, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A writer is not so much someone who has something to say Last Line: And if I let them string out, surprising things will happen Subject(s): Language; Men ON THOUGHTS, by MARGARET E. HENDRICKSON Poem Text First Line: Busy with thoughts Last Line: That go ever astray. Subject(s): Language; Mankind; Thought; Words; Vocabulary; Human Race; Thinking ONE TO TEN, by JANET S. WONG Poem Source First Line: Yut yee sam see Last Line: Could you say that again? Subject(s): Chinese Language; Mathematics ONE WORD, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: I have in my throat one word Last Line: And my flesh abroad with no soul Subject(s): Immigrants; Language - Pronunciation; Travel ONE-HUNDRED-PER-CENT FRENCH, by CHARD POWERS SMITH Poem Text First Line: A fellow never understands the french Last Line: "had learned to smile and ask, ""ca va, monsieur?" Subject(s): French Language ONLY JAPANESE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Though to talk too much of heaven Last Line: Japanese Subject(s): Japanese Language;translating & Interpreting OPEN LETTER TO MY STUDENTS, by KATHLEEN KIRK Poem Source First Line: Here's the difference between us: %I don't know what a hackey sack is Last Line: The wire scraped along concrete, %the balcony, %the hackey sack Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers OPPOSITES: 1, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the opposite of nuts Last Line: You’re nuts if you think otherwise Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 1, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the opposite of nuts Last Line: You're nuts if you think otherwise Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 10, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the opposite of fox? Last Line: Perhaps a greenish ox would do Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 10, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the opposite of fox? Last Line: Perhaps a greenish ox would do Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 11, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite of making faces Last Line: Fixed expression can be scary Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 11, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite of making faces Last Line: Fixed expression can be scary Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 12, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the opposite two? Last Line: A lonely me, a lonely me Subject(s): English Language; Hair; Synonyms & Antonyms; Togetherness; Solitude OPPOSITES: 12, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the opposite of two? Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 12, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the opposite of two? Last Line: A lonely me, a lonely you Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 13, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the opposite of doe Last Line: The current slang for dough is bread Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 13, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the opposite of doe Last Line: The current slang for dough is bread Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 14, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the opposite of penny? Last Line: Of someone who is penniless Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 14, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the opposite of penny? Last Line: Which is it, heads or tails? You lose Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 15, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite of squash? Offhand Last Line: The opposite of squash is bean Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 15, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite of squash? Offhand Last Line: The opposite of squash is bean Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 16, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the opposite of actor? Last Line: I'm romeo. Who might you be? Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 16, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the opposite of actor? Last Line: I'm romeo. Who might you be? Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 17, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's more than one way to be right Last Line: The opposite of white is yolk! Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 17, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's more than one way to be right Last Line: The opposite of white is yolk!' Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 18, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite of doughnut? Wait Last Line: A cookie with a hole around it Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 18, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite of doughnut? Wait Last Line: A cookie with a hole around it Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 19, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because what's present doesn't last Last Line: Something with which you like to play Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 19, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because what's present doesn't last Last Line: Something with which you like to play Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 2, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the opposite of flying? Last Line: Would be to take a train or bus Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 2, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the opposite of flying? Last Line: Would be to take a train or bus Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 20, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the opposite of hat? Last Line: And run the risk of looking silly Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 20, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the opposite of hat? Last Line: And run the risk of looking silly Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 21, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposites of earth are two Last Line: To choose. All right, we’ll keep them both Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 21, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposites of earth are two Last Line: To choose. All right. We'll keep them both Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 22, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite of a cloud could be Last Line: Caused by a cloud's not being there Subject(s): Clouds; English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 22, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite of a cloud could be Last Line: Caused by a cloud's not being there Subject(s): Clouds; English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 23, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not to have any hair is called Last Line: And must be patted on their pores Subject(s): English Language; Hair; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 23, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not to have any hair is called Last Line: And must be patted on their pores Subject(s): English Language; Hair; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 24, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the opposite of cupid? Last Line: “I hate you,” “ouch,” and “c uty it out” Subject(s): English Language; Supernatural; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 24, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the opposite of cupid? Last Line: I hate you,' 'ouch,' and 'cut it out.' Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 25, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the opposite of a shoe? Last Line: The question's foolish, is it not? Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 26, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the opposite of fleet Last Line: Engage the first fleet in a battle Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 26, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the opposite of fleet Last Line: Engage the first fleet in a battle Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 27, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the opposite of july? Last Line: The opposite of july’s july Subject(s): English Language; July; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 27, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the opposite of july? Last Line: The opposite of july's july Subject(s): English Language; July; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 28, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the opposite of bat Last Line: Another answer might be ball Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 28, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the opposite of bat Last Line: Another answer might be ball Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 29, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite of well is sick Last Line: Without a lot of 'well...Well...Well...' Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 3, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite of foot is what? Last Line: The opposite of foot was horse Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 3, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite of foot is what? Last Line: The opposite of foot was horse Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 30, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite of tiller? Well, Last Line: Since none of these can steer a boat Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 31, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite of fast is loose Last Line: The opposite of fast is feast Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 31, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite of fast is loose Last Line: The opposite of fast is feast Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 32, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the opposite of a prince? Last Line: And sitting on a lily pad Subject(s): English Language; Supernatural; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 32, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the opposite of a prince? Last Line: And sitting on a lily pad Subject(s): English Language; Supernatural; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 33, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite of a king, I'm sure Last Line: If she is quarrelsome and mean Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 34, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite of spit, I'd say Last Line: And decent instincts of mankind! Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 34, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite of spit, I'd say Last Line: And decent instincts of mankind! Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 35, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the opposite of ball? Last Line: And merely make a dreadful hole Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 35, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the opposite of ball? Last Line: And merely make a dreadful hole Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 36, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite of trunk could be Last Line: The answer tail is rather clever Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 36, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite of trunk could be Last Line: Of anything in which to pack Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 37, by RICHARD WILBUR Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite of post, were you Subject(s): English Language; Postal Service; Synonyms & Antonyms; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen OPPOSITES: 37, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite of post, were you Last Line: To put your letters in the mail Subject(s): English Language; Postal Service; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 38, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the opposite of mirror Last Line: While looking at a swarm of flies Subject(s): English Language; Mirrors; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 38, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the opposite of mirror Last Line: While looking at a swarm of flies Subject(s): English Language; Mirrors; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 39, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite of opposite? Last Line: That's much too difficult. I quit Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 39, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite of opposite? Last Line: That's much too difficult, I quit Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 4, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the opposite of cheese? Last Line: I'm certainly not opposed to it Subject(s): Cheese; English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 5, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite ofjunk is stuff Last Line: That isn’t in the least chinese Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 5, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite ofjunk is stuff Last Line: That isn't in the least chinese Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 6, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the opposite of string? Last Line: It’s gnirts, which doesn’t mean a thing Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 6, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the opposite of string? Last Line: It's gnirts, which doesn't mean a thing Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 7, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite of standing still Last Line: Or any other mode of travel Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 7, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite of standing still Last Line: Or any other mode of travel Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 8, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the opposite of riot? Last Line: It's lots of people keeping quiet Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 8, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the opposite of riot? Last Line: It's lots of people keeping quiet Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms OPPOSITES: 9, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite of a hole's a heap Last Line: If it will give you any pleasure Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 9, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite of a hole's a heap Last Line: If it will give you any pleasure Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms ORANGE, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I peeled my orange Last Line: I was making a fire in my hands Variant Title(s): Orange Subject(s): Language ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE, by MILAN DEKLEVA Poem Source First Line: Women talk the jargon of shattered flowerbeds Last Line: The hundred times safeguarded secret %of worthlessness Subject(s): Alphabets; Language; Speech; Voices ORIGINS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, by JOSEPH DUEMER Poem Source First Line: My language is originating before my eyes, in the mouth Subject(s): English Language ORTHODOXIES 26, by ECE AYHAN Poem Source First Line: She can not cover the sadness of her silver wings, the Last Line: How to cross herself efficiently with index and third fingers Subject(s): Farewell; Greek Language OUR ANGLO-SAXON TONGUE, by JAMES BARRON HOPE Poem Source First Line: Good is the saxon speech! Clear,short ... Strong Subject(s): Language OUR LADY OF CONGRESS, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposition likes dry poems Last Line: But the luck we have left. Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Slavery; Words; Vocabulary; Serfs OUR MOTHER TONGUE, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the vague atlantic deep Last Line: Forget not it is yours and ours. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Variant Title(s): An Envoy To An American Lady Subject(s): English Language OUR TONGUES SLAPPED INTO SILENCE, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: In first grade I was five years old, the youngest and smallest in my class Last Line: Made sure our tongues were drowned in the murky waters of assimilation Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Culture Conflict; Language; Native Americans; Native Americans - Education; Navajo Indians; Punishment; U.s. - Race Relations OUT OF A WAR OF WITS, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of a war of wits, when folly of words Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary OUTRIGGER, by CHARLES BERNSTEIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is some goggling and conversation coming from the box Last Line: Its gash, evince its crepe Subject(s): Language Poetry PAGE ON THE LILY, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source Last Line: I am in all mirrors Subject(s): Books; Language; Poetry And Poets PAGE ONE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: When the anger at grammar had subsided Last Line: The wondrous opening sentence on page one Subject(s): Books; Future; Language; Learning PAIR O' THEM, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Old bard, young bird Last Line: In the end will be the word Subject(s): Bards; Birds; Language PALIMPSEST, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it not strange to think that you alone Last Line: Now it were better if you had not read? Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Language; Writing & Writers; Words; Vocabulary PAN-AMERICA, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pan-america, glorious name! Last Line: But -- who holds the handle and what's in the pan? Subject(s): Language; South America; Words; Vocabulary PANAMA, by E. ETHELBERT MILLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the early twenties Subject(s): Immigrants; Language; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Words; Vocabulary PARADISE LIGHTNING DAZZLE: 8. EQUIVALENTS, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's `bride' and `bridge,' Last Line: The crashing cataract spews. Subject(s): Equality; Heaven; Language; Paradise; Words; Vocabulary PARADOXES AND OXYMORONS, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This poem is concerned with language on a very plain level Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary PARADOXES AND OXYMORONS, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This poem is concerned with language on a very plain level Last Line: Has set me softly down beside you. The poem is you Subject(s): Language; Poetry And Poets PARSLEY, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a parrot imitating spring Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Language; Parsley; Racism; Trujillo, Rafael (1891-1961); Words; Vocabulary; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry PART OF SPEECH, SELS., by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And when 'the future' is uttered, swarms of mice Last Line: To a part. To his spoken part. To a part of speech Subject(s): Language PARTING CONEY ISLAND, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We had so much to say; we had no faith in words Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary PASSAGE, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Words/after all Subject(s): Language; Nature; Words; Vocabulary PASSIVE PARTICIPLE'S PETITION, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Urban, or sylvan, or whatever name Last Line: Of preter tense, and participle too. Subject(s): Language; Magazines; Writing & Writers; Words; Vocabulary PENTECOST, by ANNETTE KOHN Poem Text First Line: Down by the shining sea Last Line: The treasure of the lord. Subject(s): God; Hebrew Language; Jews; Prayer; Sinai, Mount; Judaism PEOPLE IN LOUISIANA, by JAMES MIKEAL HILL Poem Source First Line: Have night air inside Last Line: Until the old people can speak it in prose Subject(s): Language; Louisiana PERFORMANCE OF HENRY V AT STRATFORD-UPON-AVON, by ELIZABETH JENNINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Nature teaches us our tongue again Last Line: Out in this place but can renew our tongue, %flesh out our feeling, make us apt for life Subject(s): Dramatists; Language; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) PERIOD, by JOSIE KEARNS Poem Source First Line: Thank god. Thank the french. Thank everyone Last Line: Like one heartbreak at a time. We like one end Subject(s): Language; Writing And Writers PERMANENTLY, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: One day the nouns were clustered in the street Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary PERMANENTLY, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One day the nouns were clustered in the street Last Line: Which can never be undone %until the destruction of language Subject(s): Language PERSIMMONS, by LI-YOUNG LEE Poem Full 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 PERSON, SELS., by LYN HEJINIAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A person is clinging Subject(s): Language Poetry PERSPECTIVE, by PATRICIA VALDATA Poem Source First Line: In the overheated classroom %twenty students lean back Last Line: Flesh with its beak as students passed by Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers PHYSICS TEACHER, by ANNE-MARIE OOMEN Poem Source First Line: He wanted to believe something defied the laws Last Line: His own hands open and the bird %explodes into its own law and beauty Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers PICKING BLACKBERRIES WITH A FRIEND .. READING JACQUES LACAN, by ROBERT HASS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: August dust is here. Drought Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary PICKING BLACKBERRIES WITH A FRIEND .. READING JACQUES LACAN, by ROBERT HASS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: August dust is here. Drought Last Line: Goes to get a bigger pot Subject(s): Language PIED BEAUTY, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Glory be to god for dappled things Last Line: Praise him. Subject(s): Beauty; Christianity; Environment; Fields; God; Language; Men; Nature; Religion; Worship; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Words; Vocabulary; Theology PIG IN THE SPIGOT, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because he swings so neatly through the trees Last Line: But don't say that! I'll hate it if you do Subject(s): Language PITCHER, by ROBERT FRANCIS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: His art is eccentricity, his aim Subject(s): Baseball; Language; Men; Sports; Words; Vocabulary PITCHER, by ROBERT FRANCIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: His art is eccentricity, his aim Last Line: Not to, yet still, still to communicate %making the batter understand too late Subject(s): Baseball; Language; Men; Sports PLAYGROUND, by KATE SONTAG Poem Source First Line: You search the day for inspiration Last Line: Distracted now and elsewhere Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers PLURALISM, by ARTHUR MADSON Poem Source First Line: I drive a boxy chevy sedan, four doors Last Line: Would I come for a ride? Subject(s): Automobiles; Language POCKET, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Language POEM, by RAY DIPALMA Poem Source First Line: Face to face and in the face Subject(s): Language Poetry POEMS, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you come back to me / it will be crow time Last Line: The madness of my tongue. Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary POEMS FROM LEFT, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's something wrong that can't be salved Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Language; Human Behavior; Words; Vocabulary; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature POET AS ORACLE, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: She speaks in the voice of flowers, forgotten gods Last Line: Worlds to fit in the palm of her hand Subject(s): Language; Poetry And Poets; Speech POET MEETS HIS CLASS IN THE CHEMISTRY LAB, by KENNETH M. AUTREY Poem Source First Line: The periodic chart is god here Last Line: And dare each other to taste them Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers POETIC MUSE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: With rhythm true the heart doth beat Last Line: And words, like music, then escape. Subject(s): Language; Muses; Music & Musicians; Words; Vocabulary POETICS, by THOMAS ELIAS WEATHERLY Poem Source First Line: Cagey moves avail Subject(s): Language POETRY, by JANE MILLER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Invited onto the grounds of the god Last Line: Being made into words even as we speak. Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary POETRY IS A DESTRUCTIVE FORCE, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That's what misery is Last Line: It can kill a man Subject(s): Language; Men; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary POETRY IS A DESTRUCTIVE FORCE, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That's what misery is Last Line: Its nose is on its paws. %it can kill a man Subject(s): Language; Men; Poetry And Poets POETRY: WHAT IS IT?, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is poetry? This question has been often propounded Last Line: Rank and character of a true poet. Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Words; Vocabulary PONDYCHERRY, by BRENDAN GALVIN Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The way some people sing for themselves Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary POOEM, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, too, once hoped to have a hoopoe Last Line: (sighed) your far-off friend, u.E. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary POOEM, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, too, once hoped to have a hoopoe Last Line: (signed) you far-off friend, u-e Subject(s): Language PORTUGUESE MISTAKE, by JOSE OSWALD DE SOUZA ANDRADE Poem Source First Line: When the portuguese arrived Last Line: The portuguese Subject(s): Brazil; Language PORTUGUESE PRINCESS LOOKS TO THE EAST, by THOMAS STEIN Poem Source First Line: The portuguese princess looks to the east Last Line: To an early evening that may or may not be Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers POSITED, by JAMES MCMICHAEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: That as all parts of it Subject(s): Water; Language; Words; Vocabulary POSTCARDS TO A YOUNG POET, by WILLIAM HARMON Poem Source First Line: Your worst enemy Last Line: But what what you say says %counts Subject(s): Language; Poetry And Poets POWER OF NEVER, by JOY HARJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never is the most powerful word in the english language, or perhaps any lan- Last Line: It won't work. It never will Subject(s): Language PREACHING THE SUBJEUNCTIVE, by GRACE BAUER Poem Source First Line: If I were the kind of poet to steal Last Line: We keep wishing we were. And are Subject(s): Language; Poetry And Poets PRECIOUSNESS OF IMPERFECTION, by WILLIAM SNYDER Poem Source First Line: I'm getting so frustrated, she says, this is so Last Line: And with me even. With all of us, gone as we are %to confusion and flaw Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers 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 PREFERENCE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Such words of wisdom he had, they just Last Line: He said he preferred blood to ink. Subject(s): Conversation; Language; Violence PREMIERE LECON, by FLORENCE E. VON WIEN Poem Text First Line: You moved on the platform with aesthetic grace, professeur Last Line: Do you know you are beautiful, michel? Subject(s): French Language; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Male-female Relations; Students PREPOSITIONS IN ALABAMA, by KENNETH M. AUTREY Poem Source First Line: About columbus day, 6th grade, I learned the power Last Line: We'd ever need of who, what, when, and where Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers PRETTY, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Why is the word pretty so underrated? Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary PRETTY, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why is the word pretty so underrated? Last Line: And so be delivered entirely from humanity %this is prettiest of all, it is very pretty Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie Subject(s): Language PRETTY WORDS, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poets make pets of pretty, docile words Last Line: Gilded and sticky, with a little sting. Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary PRIMER, by BOB PERELMAN Poem Source First Line: The surface of the earth displays Subject(s): Language Poetry PRIVETS COME INTO SEASON AT HIGH TIDE, by TED GREENWALD Poem Source Subject(s): Language Poetry PROBLEMS OF TRANSLATION: PROBLEMS OF LANGUAGE, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I turn to my rand mcnally atlas Last Line: Por la mañanita Subject(s): Language; Social Commentary; Words; Vocabulary PRODIGAL SON LEARNS THE WORD 'ANTEBELLUM', by DIONISIO D. MARTINEZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After the peace accord is signed. It is much like the delayed reaction Last Line: Their knees to mingle with statements and raise questions of their own Subject(s): Language PRODUCE, by DARRELL FIKE Poem Source First Line: Oh, send along a half-dozen fresh ones' Last Line: Simile, red potatoes sly and winking Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers PROJECT FOR FREIGHT TRAINS, by DAVID YOUNG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting at crossings and waiting for freights to pass, we have all noticed Last Line: See who can provide the best set of colors and words for the next time Subject(s): Language; Poetry And Poets; Railroads PROLOGUE DESIGNED FOR THE PLAY OF OEDIPUS, by THOMAS SHERIDAN (1687-1738) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Today before a learn'd audience comes Last Line: The d-----l a word I'll have just now in greek. Subject(s): Greek Language PROMISCUOUS, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mixes easily, dictionaries Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Language; Human Behavior; Words; Vocabulary; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature PROOFREADING ASSYRIAN, by MOLLY MCQUADE Poem Source First Line: I don't know that the language we use Last Line: With famished lost-language lust Subject(s): Books; Language PROSE 31, by PALMER. MICHAEL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A logical principle is said to be an empty Subject(s): Philosophy & Philosophers; Language; Words; Vocabulary PROSPERITY, by DIANE WARD Poem Source First Line: Mention trusty as a talk of marching, orders Subject(s): Language Poetry PROVERBS 25, SELECTION, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Text First Line: A word fitly spoken Last Line: Is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary PUNCTUATION, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Driving 15 miles to shooting Last Line: Busy traveling in here %& points to himself Subject(s): Driving And Drivers; Language PURSUIT OF THE WORD, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What, shall there be word single to express Last Line: Over the blackened hills that hid the sun? Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary PUTTYROOT AND STOPCOCK, by DAVID GRAHAM Poem Source First Line: Old mr. What's his name was always good Last Line: The wondrous fog of your wide ignorance Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers QUESTIONNAIRE, by CHARLES BERNSTEIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Directions: for each pair of sentences, circle the letter, a or b, that best Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Language; Words; Vocabulary QUINDECAGON, by RON SILLIMAN Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Language Poetry QUO VADIS, M.F.A.?, by GERALD LOCKLIN Poem Source First Line: Do you remember how bartleby the scrivener Last Line: For a single one-year, non-tenure-track %lectureship %in creative writing Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers RAIN, by PELHAM GRENVILLE WODEHOUSE Poem Source First Line: Oh, the rain comes a pitter, patter Last Line: Till the clouds roll by Subject(s): Language RAMPART, by DEAN KOSTOS Poem Source First Line: When you speak a word, it becomes a Last Line: Dust is the word's gradual crumbing %as you proceed to speak Subject(s): Language RANGE, by MARY RAE ARMANTROUT Poem Source First Line: There cloud moves in front of cloud, and above, suggesting Subject(s): Language Poetry READ THIS CAREFULLY, by BOB RAINS Poem Source First Line: When friends I'm trying to amuse Last Line: Best leave this for another day. %okay? Subject(s): Dictionaries; Language; Mothers READING, by HOLLY IGLESIAS Poem Source First Line: The poet declares the body didactic; and I yearn for yours, desire Last Line: Beginning to slide like layers of an over-iced cake Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers READING FOR THE BLIND, by KARA PROVOST Poem Source First Line: You can tell by how she reads Last Line: Letting us see ourselves %as the angels see us Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers READING HENRY FOWLER'S MODERN ENGLISH USAGE IN SALT LAKE CITY ..., by NATASHA SAJE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You note the one 'r' in iridescent Subject(s): Fowler, Henry (1858-1933); Language; Words; Vocabulary REASON AND SONG, by MAY FOLWELL HOISINGTON Poem Text First Line: Priestess ordained of the high god of speech Last Line: But not more heartbreaking. Subject(s): Language; Reason; Words; Vocabulary; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals RECOMMEND, by JACKSON MACLOW Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Annex no next time or anxiety or brood or bid Last Line: Though autumn's over and the sly defeat the cunning %runningfarther when leaves greet us in octave s Alternate Author Name(s): Mac Low, Jackson Subject(s): Language Poetry RECURSUS, by PALMER. MICHAEL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The voice, because of its austerity, will often cause dust to rise. Subject(s): Voices; Language; Words; Vocabulary RECYCLING, by ALLISON BENNIS Poem Source First Line: Take the word glass, click, she, or neck. The glass bottles Last Line: To a specific sound - not the hoard of clicks of hands in a %mortal clutch, not a clock Subject(s): Language RED SHIFT, SELS., by PETER T. INMAN Poem Source First Line: Silos all by a stillness %nells from bend, a boil allow Subject(s): Language Poetry RED WHEELBARROW, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So much depends Last Line: Beside the white %chickens Subject(s): Language; Wheelbarrows REDO, SELS., by LYN HEJINIAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Language Poetry REEL, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whirl, whorl, or wharve! The world Last Line: And even stars affirm: %whatever whirls is real Subject(s): Language REHABILITATING JOSEPH ADAMS, by SCOTT SIMPSON Poem Source First Line: They caught him with the pictures- %drawings in ink Last Line: Brucker blood-red %brucker, brucker, dead Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers RELAYS, by BARRETT WATTEN Poem Source First Line: Let no one consider the original noise Subject(s): Language Poetry RELIGION OF LETTERS, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: Let others discover in the range of chinese characters Last Line: The very soul, religious and abstract, of the place Subject(s): Chinese Language REMEMBERING THE GOLDEN AGE, by ELIZABETH MACKLIN Poem Source First Line: When every comma was a pause for meaning Last Line: A clearly inflected language, a 'universal' comprehension Subject(s): Change; Language REMEMBERING WILD WORDS, by REX HUNTER Poem Text First Line: I remember the wild words, the drunken words, the boast- Last Line: Before the smirking bully knocked them flat with his bony fist. Subject(s): Death; Language; Memory; Dead, The; Words; Vocabulary REMEMBERING YOUR GREETING, by B. Z. NIDITCH Poem Source First Line: From the eclipse %of your every word and gesture Last Line: Aching in a winter coat %through a cold mirror %when night falls Subject(s): Language REPLY, by HELEN DEGAN COHEN Poem Source First Line: A teacher, who is also my friend Last Line: Like, o my teacher, my teacher, %before he dies Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers REPORT FROM A FAR PLACE, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Making these word things to Subject(s): Language REPROACH TO DEAD POETS, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You who have spoken words in the earth Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary RESERVE, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Keep back the one word more Last Line: Lacking that word, you shall be poor indeed. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary RETICENT SONNET, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: A pronoun is a kind of withdrawal from sonnet (as literary Last Line: Brushing, brushing, brushing wild grapes onto truth Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form); Language RETURN TO THE BIRDS, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When cities prod me with demands Last Line: Gratefully I return to birds Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Birds; Language RHETORIC, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is man's noblest edifice. All else Last Line: Beats futile hands on vague, invisible walls. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary RHETORIC OF WOOD, by MICHAEL SPOONER Poem Source First Line: In february, just five, and master %of the shoelace, isaac ties Last Line: If we poured every grain %of sand out of these bags?' Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers RIDDLE (1), by JANE AUSTEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When my 1st is a task to a young girl of spirit Last Line: If by taking my whole she effect her release Subject(s): Hemlocks; Language; Riddles RIDDLE (2), by JANE AUSTEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Divided, I'm a gentleman Last Line: That gentleman devours Subject(s): Agents; Language; Riddles RIDDLE (3), by JANE AUSTEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You may lie on my first, by the side of a stream Last Line: And affection diminish, think of her no more Subject(s): Language; Money; Riddles RIDDLE: WORDS, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From rosy bowers we issue forth Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary RIFFS AND RECIPROCITIES REDUX: SKY, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sky seemed the most efficient and arrogant of words, one syllable for Last Line: Find other attitudes, other words Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Language; Sky RIGORISTS, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We saw reindeer Subject(s): Language; Men; Reindeer; Words; Vocabulary RIGORISTS, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We saw reindeer Last Line: Whose reprieve he read in the reindeer's face Subject(s): Language; Men; Reindeer RIPE TACK, by RAY DIPALMA Poem Source First Line: Keel's echo small stagger Subject(s): Language Poetry ROLAIDS BOTTLE VASE, CHICAGO HIGHRISE, by SANDRA JEAN MCPHERSON Poem Source First Line: Because she cannot spell Last Line: For which - by ear - he wrote %all the words he sang by heart Subject(s): Language ROMAIOS, by WILLAM GAY BALLANTINE Poem Text First Line: Twas in the crowded avenue; o'erhead Last Line: To shine resplendent in thy future's crown! Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Greek Language; New York City; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple ROMANCE, by REBECCA WOLFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes even now I get this feeling Subject(s): Hitchhikers; Loneliness; Language; Words; Vocabulary RONDEAU, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: O jack, don't tease me every day Last Line: "that little word, ""I love." Subject(s): Language; Love; Words; Vocabulary ROSES AND TULIPS, by JANE ELKINGTON WOHL Poem Source First Line: It is all so ordinary Last Line: And finally, what in our ordinary lives, %we might call love Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers RULES OF CONDUCT: COLORED ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 1943, by ALLISON JOSEPH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Watch your language, say words right Last Line: Keep every anger coiled in tight Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers SAINT PASCAL BAYLON / SAN PASCUAL BAILON, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: San pascual pastorcito Last Line: And also your culinary trickery Subject(s): Saints; Cooking & Cooks; Language SAMOVAR LOVE COMPONENT, by KHALED MATTAWA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love the word samovar, and I love Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary SAND, by HANNAH WEINER Poem Source First Line: Daughter pail -- slipper sale underwail Last Line: Passed an old henry Subject(s): Language SAY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The doorman decides who's allowed in Last Line: Walk through the empty house. Say despair. Say hope Subject(s): Language SAYING NOT MEANING, by WILLIAM BASIL WAKE Poem Text First Line: Two gentlemen their appetite had fed Last Line: "sir, I meant -- capers!" Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary SCENES FROM THE TEACHING MOMENT LOUNGE, by LYNNA WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Among the fiction writers in my graduate writing program Last Line: It was my first teachable moment, and my favorite still Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers SCENES OF TRANSLATION, by JOAN RETALLACK Poem Source First Line: Local travelling -- excursions -- sight-seeing Last Line: Moca moco moscas usw etc Subject(s): Language; Tourists; Translating And Interpreting; Travel SCHOLAR, by GRACE BAUER Poem Source First Line: Deconstructs desire, confines Last Line: There are no words to signify Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers SCRATCHWORD, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The word is scratched on a small stone Last Line: In the shadow of a rock: %epic Subject(s): Etching; Language; Stones SEARCH FOR MY TONGUE, SELS., by SUJATA BHATT Subject(s): Language SECOND APARTMENT, FIRST-YEAR TEACHER, by CLAUDIA MONPERE MCISAAC Poem Source First Line: Just one grocery bag but it was heavy Last Line: And gold china and at the cup's bottom %a clutch of yellow roses Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers SECOND THOUGHTS, by ELAINE EQUI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: 1. Once one has learned the trick of keeping up appearances Last Line: 29. Even a landscape can make a gesture toward us Subject(s): Language; Latin; Poetry And Poets; Thought SECRET LANGUAGE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wish I could talk to your body Last Line: That secret language for you? Subject(s): Erotic Love; Language; Love SEDUCED BY ANALOGY, by BOB PERELMAN Poem Source First Line: First sentence: her cheap perfume Subject(s): Language Poetry SEE THAT MY GRAVE IS SWEPT CLEAN, by ERIC PANKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Words are but an entrance, a door cut deep into cold clay Subject(s): Graves; Language; Tombs; Tombstones; Words; Vocabulary SEE THAT MY GRAVE IS SWEPT CLEAN, by ERIC PANKEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Words are but an entrance, a door cut deep into cold clay Last Line: Are words but an entrance? Words are but an entrance Subject(s): Graves; Language SELECTIONS, by MIGUEL HERNANDEZ Poem Source First Line: The classical poet is one who finds the solution to his life Last Line: My work than all the poets together Subject(s): Language; Men SELF AS WORD, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: You can hear the meaning in the sonics Last Line: Elves in a world of giants, brash eyes in the potato flesh Subject(s): English Language; Language; Self SEMINAR, by SHANNON MARQUEZ MCGUIRE Poem Source First Line: But tonight, another crime, besides the way it Last Line: Teaching's rapture shining from your eyes Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers SENRYU (88), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The accent back home Last Line: The broader it gets Subject(s): Language - Pronunciation SENRYU (93), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: So hard to fall for Last Line: English-language typist Subject(s): English Language SENRYU: BLIND DATE, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Scrabble tiles spilled Last Line: No one keeping score Subject(s): Language Games SENSES OF RESPONSIBILITY, by CHARLES BERNSTEIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all these, pieces from which this Last Line: As a chiseled voice rose above it almost filling the room Subject(s): Language Poetry SENSES OF RESPONSIBILITY, by CHARLES BERNSTEIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all these, pieces from which this Last Line: Desire projected & recast, to unmake the borders of logic Subject(s): Language Poetry SENTENCE, by SAUL YURKIEVICH Poem Source First Line: Doesn't read what he should Last Line: Lives but shouldn't %shouldn't live Subject(s): Books; Human Rights; Language; Poetry And Poets; Writing And Writers SENTENCES MY FATHER USED, by CHARLES BERNSTEIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Casts across otherwise unavailable fields Last Line: Anyway granules, leopards, folding chairs Subject(s): Language Poetry SENTENCES MY FATHER USED, by CHARLES BERNSTEIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Casts across otherwise unavailable fields Subject(s): Language Poetry SENTIMENTAL ELEGY, by ARKADY DRAGOMOSHCHENKO Poem Source First Line: Tell me, what binds us to some meaning Last Line: In each chance sound %split by the desire for such binding Subject(s): Language SEPTEMBER, by MARK TRUSCOTT Poem Source First Line: Drawn to this blue Last Line: This motion %boiling itself down Subject(s): Language; September SERMON ON LANGUAGE, by ROBERT KELLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But in my heart Last Line: Quench my thirst! Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary SESTINA LOGARITHMICA, by WILLIAM HARMON Poem Source First Line: I know the knot too well Last Line: Know to %knot the %well eye Subject(s): Language SESTINA: AS THERE ARE SUPPORT GROUPS, THERE ARE SUPPORT WORDS, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When visiting a distant (and imponderable) shire, Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary SETTING TYPE, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From a long way, the semicolon begins to wave Last Line: I think they ought to get edited and settle down Subject(s): Language SEVEN FABLES OF TEACHING AND LEARNING: 1. MAGPIE, by HANS OSTROM Poem Source First Line: When I was six years old, I met magpie in woods beside a Last Line: Even after I had graduated, magna cum feathers, from woods %into more knowing Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers SEVEN FABLES OF TEACHING AND LEARNING: 2. BAD DOG, by HANS OSTROM Poem Source First Line: When I was eleven, bad dog bit me. 'that will teach you,' he Last Line: Baring his teeth. Bad teacher! Down! Get in your house! Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers SEVEN FABLES OF TEACHING AND LEARNING: 3. LIZARD, by HANS OSTROM Poem Source First Line: Oh I, age seventeen, was hammering boulders at a gravel pit Last Line: Tend not to do well on the quizzes that count' Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers SEVEN FABLES OF TEACHING AND LEARNING: 4. SQUIRREL, by HANS OSTROM Poem Source First Line: Later, when seriousness befell me, I encountered squirrel, a nervous Last Line: I scrambled, my cheeks bursting with clever things to say Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers SEVEN FABLES OF TEACHING AND LEARNING: 5. DEER, by HANS OSTROM Poem Source First Line: Learned deer, she of the polished obsidian hooves, stopped me Last Line: These are, we only think we know' Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers SEVEN FABLES OF TEACHING AND LEARNING: 6. RACCOON, by HANS OSTROM Poem Source First Line: One evening I was fortunate enough to hear raccoon's Last Line: Disappeared. I was left to a lunar tutorial Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers SEVEN FABLES OF TEACHING AND LEARNING: 7. SNAKE, by HANS OSTROM Poem Source First Line: Snake was rumored to be one of the best teachers in those Last Line: Add-though of course I'm biased-that it helps to stay %grounded Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers SEVEN FORBIDDEN WORDS, by MICHAEL PALMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who peered from the invisible world Subject(s): Language Poetry SEVEN FORBIDDEN WORDS, by MICHAEL PALMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who peered from the invisible world Last Line: And the inhabitants welcomed them Subject(s): Language Poetry SEVEN POEMS: 6, by PAUL ANTSCHEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Open glottis, air flow Last Line: Likewise the optic stem Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul Subject(s): Language SEVEN WORDS OF POETRY, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: All this happened on the same day, as I remember -- the seven words Last Line: Museum! Tell me mama-san -- how long have you been in this oday fresh! Subject(s): Asian Americans - Japanese; English As A Second Language; Poetry And Poets SF, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sf stood for sigmund freud, or serious folly Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary SHADOW, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A shadow his father makes with joined hands Last Line: Like a rabbit's head Subject(s): Language SHADOW, by OPAL WHITELEY Poem Source First Line: And this I have learned Last Line: Grownups do not know the language of shadows Subject(s): Language; Shadows SHAKESPEARE WAS A WOMAN, by JOAN RETALLACK Poem Source First Line: Then appointed no hope Last Line: This this blue Subject(s): Language; Women SHALL GAELIC DIE?, by IAIN CRICHTON SMITH Poem Source First Line: A picture has no grammar. It has neither evil nor good Last Line: The 'sobhrach' or the primrose' was in our hands. Its reasons belonged to us Subject(s): Gaelic Language SHARED SENTENCES, by ALAN DAVIES Poem Source First Line: Towards the latter days of the evening Subject(s): Language Poetry SHE DEALT HER PRETTY WORDS LIKE BLADES, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She dealt her pretty words like blades Last Line: Mortality's old custom- %just locking up to die Variant Title(s): Poem: 458; Poem: 47 Subject(s): Language SHEDS OF OUR WEBS, by CHARLES BERNSTEIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Floating on completely vested time, alacrity Last Line: All, which heave at having had Subject(s): Language Poetry SHHH, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The language that remains unspoken, often Last Line: To the tires' susurration on the sodden leaves, & the slow, %unbroken seeping-upward of the combo. S Subject(s): Davis, Miles (1926-1991); Language; Music And Musicians; Silence SHIFT, by KAY RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Words have loyalties Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary SHORT COURSE IN SEMIOTICS: 2., by LUCIA MARIA PERILLO Poem Source First Line: You can see how straightaway the tangling subdivides Last Line: & hence the much-delayed answer to item (a) above Subject(s): Language SHORT COURSE IN SEMIOTICS: 3., by LUCIA MARIA PERILLO Poem Source First Line: Naked woman dadadadada police': not a story but words Last Line: And blindly her hand happens on the child Subject(s): Language; Poetry And Poets; Women SHORT COURSE IN SEMIOTICS: 4., by LUCIA MARIA PERILLO Poem Source First Line: Perphaps what she expected was for the men on shore Last Line: We manage to make sense to anyone at all Subject(s): Language; Poetry And Poets SHORT NOTE ON THE SPARSENESS OF THE LANGUAGE, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wow man I said Last Line: And my two books and cut and that was that Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary SHORT NOTE ON THE SPARSENESS OF THE LANGUAGE, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wow man I said Last Line: And my two books and cut and that was that Subject(s): Language SHORT WORDS, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some dried-up phlox so old the blue was white Subject(s): Death; Language; Dead, The; Words; Vocabulary SHORT WORDS, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some dried-up phlox so old the blue was white Last Line: Dried-out marsh grass, dead lilies, august roses Subject(s): Death; Language SI, SI, E.E., by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Warm legend, blue shadow Last Line: (& yes, they wore great big hats, size extra large Subject(s): Books; Cummings, E. E. (1894-1962); Language; Poetry & Poets; Reading; Words; Vocabulary SIGN LANGUAGE, by SARA WILLINGHAM Poem Source First Line: It is the time just before Last Line: Turning and changing in the wind %like my daughter's hands Subject(s): Daughters; Language SIGNING SINGING, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flashing hands, face, eyes, arms, all the upper body Last Line: With a 'p' before it, so something there is that sings, you see Subject(s): Hands; Language; Singing And Singers SILENT TEACHERS/REMEMBERED SEQUEL: CLAIR STYLE -- SEEN WORDS, by HANNAH WEINER Poem Source First Line: Hannah type your preferences without seeing glad Last Line: Black children speak Subject(s): Language Poetry SIMILIES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: As wet as a fish - as dry as a bone Subject(s): Language;metaphor; Words;vocabulary;similes SINCE YOU ASKED ME ...., by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For the sweet sake of inscapes Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 50, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A pin has a head, but has no hair Last Line: And baby crows, without being a cock. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): A Pin Subject(s): Language; Nonsense; Words; Vocabulary SISTER ALBERT, by BILL RANSOM Poem Source First Line: Sixty-two students crowded the room right up to sister albert's Last Line: Then do it once more, just for fun, and we can both go %home' Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA LECTURES CREATIVE WRITING CLASS: EVANGELIST, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: John, zebedee's son, best writer Last Line: Words are always our salvation Subject(s): Language SITTING UP, STANDNG, TAKING STEPS, by RON SILLIMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: High gray sky. A large wood table with only a green bottle of 'white' rhine Subject(s): Language Poetry SIX FROM ARNO HOLZ'S ?Ç£PHANTASUS?Ç¥, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I want to know all the secrets! Last Line: Into a golden chamber pot Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Language; Words; Vocabulary SIX WORDS, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes / no Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary SLEEPING WITH THE DICTIONARY, by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I beg to dicker with my silver-tongued companion Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary SLIM CUNNING HANDS, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slim cunning hands at rest, and cozening eyes Last Line: Nor all earth's flowers, how fair Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Death; Language SMALL BANG, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: The poem heard how it was composed Last Line: That ends the poem %with a sigh Subject(s): Language; Poetry And Poets; Writing And Writers SMALL DEFEATS: MY DAUGHTERS' LANGUAGE, by GORDON WEAVER Poem Source First Line: My daughters' tongues breed rough metaphors Last Line: Hands clutching at the undefined %substance of sunlight Subject(s): Daughters; Language SMALL TALK, by JOANIE MACKOWSKI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Someone pours more wine. A black moth opens Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary SO CRANE'S LATIN'S A LITTLE OFF SO, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Tongue of the sea Subject(s): Language SO I KNOW, by HICOK. BOB Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: He put moisturizer the morning he shot Last Line: Of this word, / suddenly Subject(s): Language; Social Commentary; Words; Vocabulary SO MANY POLITE WORDS...', by PHILIPPE MORAND Poem Source Last Line: Of textual and carnal %bodies Subject(s): Language SOLILOQUY OF THE IRISH POET, by VICKI HEARNE Poem Source First Line: My singing moves the wind, the seaking of swift horses Last Line: Threads inside the seams, binding him, freeing me Subject(s): Ireland; Irish Language; Poetry And Poets SOLSTICE, by KATHY FAGAN Poem Source First Line: There was a sound of grouse from the field Last Line: Sure as it was of some enormity of its own %elsewhere and not far from here Subject(s): Children; Language; Nature SOME DIFFERENCES: DAWN AND DAYBREAK, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn is a thing that poets write Last Line: My opulent bric-a-brac earth to damn his eyes Variant Title(s): A Few Differences: 1 Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms SOME DIFFERENCES: DAWN AND DAYBREAK, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn is a thing that poets write Last Line: And drink it, and go off to work Variant Title(s): A Few Differences: Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms SOME DIFFERENCES: OWL AND CAT, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An owl is like a cat because Last Line: Until some fireman brings a ladder Variant Title(s): A Few Differences: Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms SOME DIFFERENCES: ROOM AND MOOR, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How is a room unlike a moor? Last Line: You wouldn't have one in the house Variant Title(s): A Few Differences: 4 Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms; Moors (land); Rooms SOME DIFFERENCES: ROOM AND MOOR, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How is a room unlike a moor? Last Line: You wouldn't have one in the house Variant Title(s): A Few Differences: Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms SOME WODS INSIDE OF WORDS, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you've washed your clothes, and they are still wringing wet Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary SOMETHING (FOR CREELEY), by A. DI MICHELE Poem Source First Line: It's not what you say Last Line: That there is language %says Subject(s): Language SOMETIMES A MESH OF IDEAS., by DENNIS BRUTUS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: State the bare fact and let it sing Alternate Author Name(s): Bruin, John Subject(s): Language SONG, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Hast thou gems for men to see Last Line: "than of thee." Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Language; Thought; Words; Vocabulary; Thinking SONG OF PATERNAL CARE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A lithuanian lithographer Last Line: She did. They lived in lithgow, austl., %litherly ever after Subject(s): Language SONG: 97, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Madam, I you require Last Line: Ye get not that ye lack. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Language; Truth; Women; Words; Vocabulary SONGS ARE THOUGHTS (NETSILIK ESKIMO), by ORPINGALIK Poem Source First Line: Songs are thoughts, sung out with the breath when people Last Line: Get a new song Subject(s): Language; Men SONGS FOR MY MOTHER: 3. HER WORDS, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mother has the prettiest tricks Last Line: How beautiful they are. Variant Title(s): Her Words Subject(s): Language; Mothers; Words; Vocabulary SONNET, by BERNADETTE MAYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Name address date Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary SONNET ISOLATE, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: A sonnet is a rectangle upon the page Last Line: While using only two pronouns, “I” and “not-I Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form); Language SONNET: 165, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the fashion now to wave aside Last Line: In antique stuffiness, a phrase that blows %still through men's smoky minds, and clears the air Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Language SONNET: 41, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By bolstered words I am borne in hand Last Line: Is my 'no fears' of your 'no faith'. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Faith; Fear; Language; Belief; Creed; Words; Vocabulary SONNET: 65, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea Last Line: That in black ink my love may still shine bright. Variant Title(s): "time And Love (2);""since Brass, Nor Stone, Nor Earth, Nor Boundless Sea""; Subject(s): Beauty; Language; Men; Time; Words; Vocabulary SOON, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I say the word walk, or even spell it, Subject(s): Language; Dogs; Words; Vocabulary SOONEST MENDED, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Barely tolerated, living on the margin Subject(s): Language; Time; Words; Vocabulary SOOTHING AND AWFUL' (VISTORS' BOOK AT MONTACUTE CHURCH), by URSULA ASKHAM FANTHORPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You are meant to exclaim. The church Last Line: Their words would be thin like ours; they would join %in our inarticulate anthem: very cosy Alternate Author Name(s): Fanthrope, U. A. Subject(s): Language SOUND-POSTURE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What we do get in life and miss so often in literature Last Line: And concrete symbol of communication in language Subject(s): Language; Men; Words; Vocabulary SOUND-POSTURE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What we do get in life and miss so often in literature Last Line: Can only write the dreary kind of grammatical prose known as professorial Subject(s): Language; Men SPANISH LESSON, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We look down into a garden Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary SPANISH TONGUE, by BONIFACIO BYRNE Poem Source First Line: Sweeter I find the old castilian tongue Last Line: And the broad scope of all infinity! Subject(s): Language; Poetry And Poets SPATIAL RELATIONS, by LEONORA SMITH Poem Source First Line: Remember the geometric forms on aptitude tests Last Line: Which hung in the blurred wakes of their folding Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers SPEAKING THE LANGUAGE, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: Again the language fails me Last Line: By some rare, invisible power Subject(s): Language; Relationships SPECIAL RELATIONS, SELS., by DANIEL LUFT Poem Source First Line: Language of florence is Last Line: Language always falls short Subject(s): Language SPECIAL WORDS, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mother she has special words Last Line: Don't really mean so awful much. Subject(s): Children; Language; Mothers; Childhood; Words; Vocabulary SPEECH, by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK Poem Source First Line: Scatter the burning coal of your altar away, prophet Last Line: We'll hop into our graves Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman Subject(s): Language SPEECH ALONE, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: It happens that one pronounces Last Line: Blaze in a sun of glory Subject(s): Language - Pronunciation; Poetry And Poets; Speech SPEECHES AT THE BARRIERS: 2, by SUSAN HOWE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Right or ruth / rent Subject(s): Language Poetry SPEECHES AT THE BARRIERS: 2, by SUSAN HOWE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Right or ruth %rent Last Line: Fugitive dialogue of masterwork Subject(s): Language Poetry SPELLING, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My daughter plays on the floor Last Line: Your first word Subject(s): Daughters; Women; Language SPINE TO SPIN, SPOKE TO SPEAK, by ANDREW JORON Poem Source First Line: The pilot alone knows Last Line: All signal is this %afterglow Subject(s): Language SPOKE, SELS., by HANNAH WEINER Poem Source First Line: What if the september flowers hurt I was prepared Subject(s): Language Poetry SPRING RICE FIELD, by KENNETH M. AUTREY Poem Source First Line: Basho's great haiku Last Line: Peeled from a still pond Subject(s): Education; English Language; Matsuo Basho (1644-1694); Schools; Teaching And Teachers STARGAZER'S LEGACY, by VASKO POPA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: His words were left after him Last Line: The falling stars tuck their heads %in the shadows of his words Alternate Author Name(s): Popa, Vasco Subject(s): Language START ANYWHERE, by BARRETT WATTEN Poem Source Subject(s): Language Poetry STATISTICS, by BARRETT WATTEN Poem Source First Line: There is no language but 'reconstructed' parentheses Last Line: Between 'to have intelligibility' hopeless repetition which takes you away Subject(s): Language STEINZAS IN MEDIATION, by JOAN RETALLACK Poem Source First Line: There are are there instances of this en every era Last Line: It might should or Subject(s): Language; Poetry And Poets; Writing And Writers STEPS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man letters the sign for his grocery in arabic and english Last Line: Making the shadows that cross each other's smiles. Subject(s): Advertising; Children; Language; Letters; Signs & Signboards; Childhood; Words; Vocabulary STILL THERE ARE WORDS, by MINNIE MARKHAM KERR Poem Text First Line: Still there are words that never will be said! Last Line: Have almost captured them and made them mine. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary STONE DREAMS, by JANE ELKINGTON WOHL Poem Source First Line: When I first went to his house I could not understand Last Line: I think,' stephanie says, 'it's about %sometimes we think we know a person %and we really don't' Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers STOVE'S OUT, by CHARLES BERNSTEIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is an emptiness that fills Last Line: Unseating a chiffon shock Subject(s): Language Poetry STRANGLEHOLD OF ENGLIST LIT., by FELIX MNTHALI Poem Source First Line: Those questions, sister Last Line: How could they be answered? Subject(s): Austen, Jane (1775-1817); English Language; Literature; Novels And Novelists STREETS, by BOB PERELMAN Poem Source First Line: There's no history in the past Subject(s): Language Poetry STRESS MANAGEMENT FOR POETS, by CHRISTOPHER SCRIBNER Poem Source First Line: If words do not exactly rhyme Last Line: And ignore the whole stressed-and-unstressed shtick Subject(s): Language; Poetry And Poets STRUGGLE FOR THE TAAL, by BREYTEN BREYTENBACH Poem Source First Line: We ourselves are aged Last Line: As for us, we are aged Subject(s): Aging; Language STUDY IN O, by KATHLEEN HALME Poem Source First Line: Although they felt the chromosomal undertow Last Line: The whole explosion, %no one misspoke Subject(s): Language STUDY NATURE, by GERTRUDE STEIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do. / victim. Subject(s): Nature; Language; Words; Vocabulary STUDYING THE LANGUAGE, by EILEAN NI CHUILLEANAIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On sundays I watch the hermits coming out of their holes Last Line: Because, without these, I would be a stranger here Alternate Author Name(s): Ni Chuilleanain, Eilean Subject(s): Language SUBSTITUTION: SYNTACTIC AND VERBAL, by GIULIA NICCOLAI Poem Source First Line: A careful and syntactic space Last Line: It continually seeks to destroy itself Subject(s): Language SUBSTITUTION: THE SUBJECT IS THE LANGUAGE, by GIULIA NICCOLAI Poem Source First Line: An idea of vengeance: the retaliation Last Line: With which to commit a capital offense Subject(s): Language SUGAR, by GERTRUDE STEIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A violent luck and a whole sample and even then quiet Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary SUN, by MICHAEL PALMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Write this. We have burned all their villages Subject(s): Language; Sun; Words; Vocabulary SUN (1), SELS., by MICHAEL PALMER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Language SUN (2), by MICHAEL PALMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Write this. We have burned all their villages Last Line: Known as these letters -- humid, sunless. The writing occurs on their walls Subject(s): Language SURFACE, by MOLLY LOU FREEMAN Poem Source First Line: Exhibiting a wave or a star Last Line: We name things as if we know them, %as if we understand extent Subject(s): Language; Names SWEAR IT, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother swore ripely, inventively Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary SWEATER WEATHER: A LOVE SONG TO LANGUAGE, by SHARON BRYAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Never better, mad as a hatter Subject(s): Language; Rhyme; Words; Vocabulary SWEATER WEATHER: A LOVE SONG TO LANGUAGE, by SHARON BRYAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Never better, mad as a hatter Last Line: Up and about, over and out Subject(s): Language; Rhyme SWEDISH ARCHAEOLOGY:READING KARIN BOYE IN THE ORIGINAL, by JACQUELINE KARP-GENDRE Poem Source First Line: Slow work at first Last Line: Of words- %wind-honed Subject(s): Language SWEDISH LESSON, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: Talk about the mother tongue Last Line: Buried alive in this, their language Subject(s): Immigrants; Language; Sweden; United States SYLLABLES LOST, by CHRISTINE D. BEYER Poem Source First Line: This is how it has been for years Last Line: Drying on the beaches in curved shapes %of her language Subject(s): Japan; Language SYMBIOSIS, by JAMES TERENCE SHERRY Poem Source First Line: This poem's about somebody else, not me Subject(s): Language Poetry SYMBOLS, by CHARD POWERS SMITH Poem Text First Line: It has been hard to learn that hair Last Line: He sits his throne. I climb to mine. Subject(s): Hair; Language; Love; Words; Vocabulary SYMPHONY NO. 3, IN D MINOR, by JONATHAN WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Language; Nature; Writering & Writers; Animals; Words; Vocabulary SYMPOSIUM, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: You can bring a horse to water but you can't make it hold Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary SYNESTHESIA, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: What sound does sunlight make when it strikes Last Line: The body of a five pointed star Subject(s): Language; Speech; Voices TABLE, by RAY DIPALMA Poem Source First Line: Not wide but a wing Subject(s): Language Poetry TAKING A WALK WITH YOU, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My misunderstandings: for years I thought muno bello meant Subject(s): Language; Knowledge; Words; Vocabulary TAKING SHAPE IN SANTORINI, by MELISSA BERTON Poem Source First Line: Here is a test, or game, of sorts: start Last Line: To this mixed world, and how she'll come each day to sort it Subject(s): Games; Language TAKING THE WORLD LITERATURE CLASS OUTSIDE, by JANET MCCANN Poem Source First Line: You, propped on the liveoak %drifting toward sleep Last Line: Rings three chimes %& we are scattered by %two joyous labradors! Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers TALENT, by MARION D. KENDALL Poem Text First Line: I am a namer of words Last Line: I am a poet. Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Words; Vocabulary TALK TO THE PEACH TREE, by SIPHO SYDNEY SEPAMLA Poem Source First Line: Let's talk to the swallows visiting us in summer Last Line: It's about time Subject(s): Human Rights; Language; Talk TALKING TO THE MOON, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A defeated politician is in circulation Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Language; Moon; Words; Vocabulary TAO OF POETRY, by SAM HAMILL Poem Source First Line: Each word carefully %tied to the next, the poem Last Line: Just beyond what words can say Subject(s): Language; Poetry And Poets TAOSENO, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: Even the sun is different here: %more generous along its helioptrope horizon Last Line: Travels the length of this ruin %this place of silence and sheen Subject(s): Language; Maps; Travel TEACHER, by TOM ROMANO Poem Source First Line: Why do I forget question marks Last Line: Before I take a long swig, %say, 'why not' Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers TEACHER SHOT BY STUDENT, OR THE RISK OF OVERSTATEMENT, by KATHLEEN KIRK Poem Source First Line: I fail him for submitting %a paper written by his girlfriend Last Line: And down the halls of their lives Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers TEACHER'S LOUNGE, by BILL RANSOM Poem Source First Line: At the bell you hobble to your corners Last Line: Or like a child spinning helpless in the ring Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers TEACHING ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE, by MARGOT TREITEL Poem Source First Line: All year I've been speaking the small Subject(s): English As A Second Language; Teaching And Teachers TEACHING IN MY SLEEP, by KATHLEEN KIRK Poem Source First Line: Tonight again I am %teaching in my sleep Last Line: Stars and teach me %how to wake and fly Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers TEACHING POETRY: A WAY TO GRACE THE WORLD?, by KELLY CHERRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ever since someone suggested to me that teaching poetry may Last Line: Flush, as I am surprised by joy Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers TEACHING READING, by JANE ELKINGTON WOHL Poem Source First Line: Ginger root gnarls in my hand Last Line: She climbs on finally %and the bus driver off Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers TEETHING ON TYPE: 2, SELS., by JULIE PATTON Poem Source First Line: Your mammy and your daddy' Last Line: Sea of troubles where they saw' Subject(s): Language Poetry TEMPUS? FUGGIT!, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unbound from yonder level / of oceans of presence Last Line: In loud formations over sound / never dim Subject(s): Language TENDER ARC, by DIANE WARD Poem Source First Line: Describe porcelain and I was touching the cool gleam of white Subject(s): Language Poetry TENDER BUTTONS: A SUBSTANCE IN A CUSHION, by GERTRUDE STEIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The change of color is likely and a difference a very little difference is prepared. Sugar is not a Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary TENDRILS, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While leaves are popping bullets of air Last Line: Of violent / untranslatable language Subject(s): Love; Language TESTAMENT, by GLENNA PRESTON HOLLOWAY Poem Source First Line: Saint james described it as a raging fire Last Line: With this bizarre appendage this antique %oh james may god forgive the human tongue Subject(s): Language TESTING, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The flint hunters / the obsidian assayers Last Line: And most ignominiously Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Language TEXT AND COMMENTARY, by ELKE ERB Poem Source First Line: Warning %murderer master suspicion Last Line: Life: an obstruction guards it against a blossoming %to which it has not ripened Subject(s): Language THAT ONE GUY, by JOSHUA THORNTON Poem Source First Line: E's the wispiest strand Last Line: Oregano's %his second favoriterb Subject(s): Language; Sound THAT VAGRANT MISTRAL VEXING THE SUN: A FAR CRY , by DARA WIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I washed my brain and hung it to dry Last Line: For birds, in lieu fo words, and seeds Subject(s): Language THE, by MARTHA RONK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When having finished .....The Subject(s): Writing & Writers; Language; Words; Vocabulary THE ABRACADABRA BOYS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Language; Social Classes; Words; Vocabulary; Caste THE ADJECTIVE, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look not too coldly or too proudly down Last Line: Won him salaams who else had noteless passed. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary THE ADMISSION, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: If you love me Last Line: To you. Subject(s): Language; Love; Words; Vocabulary THE ADMONITION BY THE AUCTOR TO ALL YONG GENTILWOMEN, by ISABELLA WHITNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye virgins that from cupid's tents Last Line: I live this hundred yeares. Subject(s): Language; Love - Nature Of; Words; Vocabulary THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One by one, the scholars come to learn the puritan tongue Last Line: The thirteen parallel pioneer stripes, justified and multiplied. Subject(s): Language; New England; Puritans; Words; Vocabulary THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#13): 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND THUNDER, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the dead man hears thunder, he thinks someone is speaking Last Line: The dead man speaks god's language. Subject(s): Death; God; Language; Religion; Speech; Spirituality; Thunder; Dead, The; Words; Vocabulary; Theology; Oratory; Orators THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#63), by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead man has up-the-stairs walking disorder Last Line: The dead man stands for living anyway. Subject(s): Death; Language; Love; Sickness; Dead, The; Words; Vocabulary; Illness THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#65), by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead man struggles not to become crabby, chronic or hypothetical Last Line: When the river met the shore. Subject(s): Death; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Language; Poetry & Poets; Reason; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Dead, The; Words; Vocabulary; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#68), by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead man likes it when the soup simmers and the kettle hisses Last Line: Some say the dead man was miserable to be so happy. Subject(s): Death; Language; Happiness; Story-telling; Dead, The; Words; Vocabulary THE BREEZE, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Language; Wnd; Words; Vocabulary THE BRONZE-GREEN GOLD-GREEN FOREGROUND, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Too, in the rain. The code changed again Subject(s): Language THE CARELESS WORD, by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A word is ringing through my brain Last Line: Dwell weeping on a careless word. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary THE CARIBBEAN: LANGUAGE AS TRANSLUCENT IMMINENCE, by WILL ALEXANDER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Language being the primal conductor of liberty becomes the mag Subject(s): Caribbean Sea; Identity; Language Poetry; Tongues THE CHAUTAUQUAN MAID, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She had studied every ology Last Line: But they got themselves in trouble, and, of course, got whipped, by gaul. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); England; Geology; Greek Language; Latin; Philology; English THE CHURCH WARDEN AND THE CURATE, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eh? Good daay! Good daay! Thaw it bean't not mooch of a daay Last Line: Fur they leaved their nasty sins I' my pond, an' it poison'd the cow. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary THE CLUE, by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, frame some little word for me Last Line: Save hers for whom thou makest it. Alternate Author Name(s): Roge, Mme. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary THE COMING OF THE WORDS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wistful words, singing words, come to me at times Last Line: Of love, and give my longing a presence and a name! Subject(s): Language; Life; Love; Soul; Tears; Words; Vocabulary THE COOL WEB, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Children are dumb to say how hot the day is Subject(s): Heat; Language; Words; Vocabulary THE COUNTRY OF BOUNDERS, by ERNEST FRANCIS O'FERRALL Poem Text First Line: The coach was creaking up the hill, the straining nags were nodding Last Line: "then drawled, ""hey, boss! Them blankers there is native 'boundahs' bounding!" Alternate Author Name(s): Kodak Subject(s): England; Kangaroos; Language; English; Words; Vocabulary THE DREAM REALM; WRITTEN WHILE HEARING ONE SINGING IN A FOREIGN TONGUE, by MAE BAKER HENLINE Poem Text First Line: Dear mona, asleep by the wonder well Last Line: Singing no more, you have left me ... A rose. Subject(s): Language; Singing & Singers; Words; Vocabulary; Songs THE EAR IS AN ORGAN MADE FOR LOVE, by E. ETHELBERT MILLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was the language that left us first Subject(s): Language; Love; Music & Musicians; Words; Vocabulary THE EMPRESS HOTEL POEMS, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just get up / and sit down again. Then Last Line: In the other poem. Subject(s): Hotels; Housekeeping; Language; Rooms; Tourists; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Words; Vocabulary THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 1, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! I the man, whose muse whylome did maske Last Line: More mild, in beastly kind, then that her beastly foe. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 2, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Right well I wote most mighty soueraine Last Line: And to be easd of that base burden still did erne. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 3, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It falls me here to write of chastity Last Line: The redcrosse knight diverst, but forth rode britomart. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 4, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rugged forhead that with grave foresight Last Line: That since their days such lovers were not found elswhere. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 5, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So oft as I with state of present time Last Line: We on his first adventure may him forward send. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 6, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The waies, through which my weary steps I guyde Last Line: That in another canto shall to end be brought. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 7. TWO CANTOS OF MUTABILITY, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What man that sees the ever-whirling wheele Last Line: O that great sabbaoth god graunt me that sabaoths sight! Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FATALIST: THE BEST WORDS, by LYN HEJINIAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The best words get said frequently—they are like fertile pips Last Line: For whom r would have released a flock of red canaries Subject(s): Language; Books; Words; Vocabulary; Reading THE FENCE OF THE TEETH, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not the burgeoning season (late may, early june) nor the centry fast Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary THE FLYING WORDS, by MORRIS GILBERT BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now through the skies do come impetuous messengers Last Line: In the staring terrible hours when sleep is slow. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary THE FORGOTTEN DIALECT OF THE HEART, by JACK GILBERT Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, Subject(s): Language; Ancestors & Ancestry; Words; Vocabulary THE GIFT OF TONGUES, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once cast with men of language strange Last Line: And then flits back to heaven? Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary THE GREAT AUSTRALIAN ADJECTIVE, by W. T. GOODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sunburnt - stockman stood Last Line: "_____!" Alternate Author Name(s): Goodge, William Thomas Subject(s): Language; Obscenity; Words; Vocabulary THE GREEK QUARTER, by JOHN MYERS O'HARA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cryptic letters of the golden tongue Last Line: The blue Ægean sparkling in the day. Subject(s): Coffee Houses; Greek Language; Immigrants; New York City; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE HEART, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The heart you hold too small and local thing Last Line: The grandeurs of his babylonian heart. Variant Title(s): All's Vast Subject(s): Criticism & Critics; Hearts; Language; Words; Vocabulary THE HOLE IN THE SEA, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's there Last Line: The driest thing there is. Subject(s): Courage; Language; Religion; Sea; Secrets; Spirituality; Story-telling; Valor; Bravery; Words; Vocabulary; Theology; Ocean THE ILLITERATE, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Touching your goodness, I am like a man Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary THE INARTICULATE, by LELIA S. MARSTALLER Poem Text First Line: We are the inarticulate who know Last Line: Who have no language save to curse our fate. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary THE INVADERS, by ROBERT KELLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Given: / when he saw the shape of the cloud Last Line: All I could do was say them so I did Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary THE KING'S HORSES, by HERBERT H. LONGFELLOW Poem Text First Line: I have been thinking about the sensibilities of a word Last Line: I must wait. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary THE LANGUAGE, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Locate I / love you some- / where in Subject(s): Language; Love; Words; Vocabulary THE LAST WORD, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As if your half-witted tongue Subject(s): Death; Language; Dead, The; Words; Vocabulary THE LATIN TONGUE, by JAMES J. DALY Poem Text First Line: Like a loud-booming bell shaking its tower Last Line: Ran straight for comfort up to god. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary THE LIBRARY IS BURNING, by MICHAEL PALMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The library is burning floor by floor Subject(s): Language Poetry THE LITTLE WORDS WITHIN MY BOOK, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text Last Line: At home or dinner-time or play Subject(s): Books; Language THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 26, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the time when Last Line: Brant write the character “heart” Subject(s): Hearts; Language; Nature; Words; Vocabulary THE MAN WHOSE VOICE HAS BEEN TAKEN FROM HIS THROAT, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remains all supple hands and gesture Last Line: Like an answer Subject(s): Language; Silence; Words; Vocabulary THE MASK, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In open palm the old man cradles his Last Line: I leave with her naked countenance. Subject(s): Language; Travel; Words; Vocabulary; Journeys; Trips THE MESSENGER, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a wild merriment of wind and bird Last Line: "blind to our agonies of death and birth!" Subject(s): Death; Language; Life; Messages & Messengers; Dead, The; Words; Vocabulary THE MOTHER TONGUE, by MAXIMILIAN GOTTFRIED SCHENKENDORF Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mother tongue, oh, tongue most dear Last Line: Then my mother tongue I speak. Subject(s): German Language; Nationalism - Germany THE MOUNTAIN MAID, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Half seated on a mossy crag Last Line: I could not comprehend her. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Gaelic Language THE MUNICH MANNEQUINS, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children. Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Silence; Language; Munich, Germany; Words; Vocabulary THE MUSE, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There she was, for centuries, the big Last Line: The writer. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Alexander The Great (356-323 B.c.); Language; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Psychoanalysis; Writing & Writers; Words; Vocabulary; Psychoanalysts; Psychotherapy THE MYSTIC TIE, by MAX MEYERHARDT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a mystic tie that joins Last Line: Which time and change cannot efface. Subject(s): Children; Hebrew Language; Israel; Jews; Childhood; Judaism THE NEED FOR DICTIONARIES II, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is named Last Line: By its disguises. Subject(s): Dictionaries; Language; Words; Vocabulary THE NEW VERSION, by WILLIAM J. LAMPTON Poem Text First Line: A soldier of the russians Last Line: "fair smnlxzrskgqrxzski on the irkztrvzkimnov." Subject(s): Russian Language THE NOSE OF KIM DARBY'S DOUBLE, by RON SILLIMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Canyons, paths / dug thru the snow Subject(s): Driving; Landscape; Language Poetry THE NURSERY SAGE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: I know a quaint philosopher Last Line: That fond expression—dad! Subject(s): Babies; Fathers; Language; Mothers; Infants; Words; Vocabulary THE OBSOLETION OF A LANGUAGE, by KAY RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: We knew it / would happen, Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary THE OFFERING, by ANITA GRAY CHANDLER Poem Text First Line: If I could change these words to flow'rs Last Line: May never reach your heart. Subject(s): Language; Singing & Singers; Words; Vocabulary; Songs THE ORGY ON PARNASSUS, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You phrase-tormenting fantastic chorus Last Line: And here was a bard shall outlast you all. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Language; Life; Love; Muses; Parnassus (mountain), Greece; Words; Vocabulary THE P.R.B.: 2, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The p.R.B. Is in its decadence: / for woolner in australia cooks his chops Last Line: And so the consummated p.R.B. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Hunt, Holman (1827-1910); Language; Millais, Sir John E. (1829-1896); Pre-raphaelites; Rivers; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882); Smoking; Words; Vocabulary; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes THE PIG IN THE SPIGOT, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because he swings so neatly through the trees Last Line: An ape feels natural in the word trapeze Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary THE POEM OF THE LITTLE HOUSE AT THE CORNER OF MISAPPREHENSION AND MARVEL, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary THE POET, by MARIAN PHILLIPS JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: The poet reads and lives - and learns to feel Last Line: Do blend -- escaping not -- save through his pen! Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary THE POET'S WORDS, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Language ends in the tongue's clay pit Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Language THE POWER OF WORDS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a strange mystery, the power of words! Last Line: A word is but a breath of passing air. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary THE PRESENCE IN ABSENCE, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poetry is not made of words Last Line: And barking after the train is gone Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Language THE PSYCHOTROPIC SQUALLS, by WILL ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To peer into the obverse Last Line: Of unstable altimeter reverses Subject(s): Language THE PUZZLED CENSUS-TAKER, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Got any boys?' the marshal said Last Line: The lady from over the rhine. Variant Title(s): Nein' Boys And Girls Subject(s): Census; Language; Words; Vocabulary THE REBUKE, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said brown -- 'when I, myself to rid Last Line: "you might have talk'd gum-arabic!" Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Arabic Language; Teeth; Toothaches THE RED WHEELBARROW, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: So much depends Subject(s): Language; Wheelbarrows; Words; Vocabulary THE SAXON LEGEND OF LANGUAGE, by MARY WESTON FORDHAM Poem Text First Line: The earth was young, the world was fair Last Line: To mate or man, or beast or bird. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary THE SHEDS OF OUR WEBS, by CHARLES BERNSTEIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Floating on completely vested time, alacrity Last Line: All, which heave at havind had Subject(s): Language Poetry THE SONG OF THE HAPPY SHEPHERD, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The woods of arcady are dead Last Line: Dream, dream, for this is also sooth. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Language; Truth; Shepherds & Shepherdesses THE SONGS OF MAXIMUS: SONG 1, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Colored pictures Subject(s): Language; City & Town Life; Words; Vocabulary THE TIME OF OUR LIVES, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not sated first, then sad (the two words branch Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary THE TONGUE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "the boneless tongue, so small and weak" Last Line: "the sacred writer crowns the whole, / 'who keeps his tongue doth keep his soul!'" Subject(s): Hebrew Language;jews;tongues; Judaism THE TRADE-OFF, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Words make the thoughts. Subject(s): Language; Knowledge; Words; Vocabulary THE TRUTH ABOUT GOD: DEFLECT, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a friend who is red hot with pain Last Line: Subsided behind a heap of blueblack syllables Subject(s): Pain; Language THE TWO, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When he gets off work at packard, they meet Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Restaurants; Language; Past; Grief; Male-female Relations; Cafes; Diners; Words; Vocabulary; Sorrow; Sadness THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wise men ask, 'what language did christ speak?' Last Line: Christ spoke the universal language—love. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Language; Words; Vocabulary THE WHALER'S ODYSSEY, by C. H. WINTER Poem Text First Line: I met him on the lachlan side Last Line: When he pursued that gundaroo! Alternate Author Name(s): Riverina Subject(s): Language; Story-telling; Travel; Whales; Words; Vocabulary; Journeys; Trips THE WHOLE WORLD'S SADLY TALKING TO ITSELF - W. B . YEATS, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hands full of sand, I say Subject(s): Language; Farewell; Words; Vocabulary; Parting THE WORD (1), by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The word has no legs or eyes Last Line: Getting it / down Subject(s): Language; Writing & Writers; Words; Vocabulary THE WORD (2), by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was auden, I don't remember Last Line: After we are / not Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Language; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary THE WORDS OF BELIEF, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three words will I name thee -- around and about Last Line: Till in those three words he believes no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von Subject(s): Faith; Language; Belief; Creed; Words; Vocabulary THE WORDS-AND-MUSIC MEN, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They said they could make up songs Subject(s): Language; Music & Musicians; Words; Vocabulary THEIR LONELY BETTERS, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I listen from a beach-chair in the shade Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary THEIR LONELY BETTERS, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I listen from a beach-chair in the shade Last Line: Words are for those with promises to keep Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Language THEORY OF LANGUAGE, by JOSEPH DUEMER Poem Source First Line: His office phone chirps twice, & then falls silent. They had agreed to break Last Line: Phone lines. Yes, hello, he says, the air of his office still, silent, private Subject(s): Language; Love THERE ARE MIRACLES EXTANT IN THIS WORLD, by WILLIAM SNYDER Poem Source First Line: At the premier of haydn's 96th, a chandelier Last Line: Now, I bubble in my grades-mostly a's and b's Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers THERE IS A WORD, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: "is a soul ""forgot""!" Subject(s): Time; Language THERE IS NO WORD, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There isn’t a word for walking out of the grocery store Last Line: I have willingly poured into it Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary THESE DAYS, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever you have to say Subject(s): Language; Men; Words; Vocabulary THESE DAYS, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever you have to say Last Line: Where they come from Subject(s): Language; Men THIN PLACES, by CLARK COOLIDGE Poem Source First Line: As if the sun were winding round a spool, this Subject(s): Language Poetry THINGS MEN HAVE TOLD ME, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: When my father was a boy he fell down in a stony Last Line: My future in those first strange words Subject(s): Language; Madagascar; Travel THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 13, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Awake, thou spring of speaking grace, mute rest becomes Last Line: Do it not in slumber smother! Subject(s): Language THOU SHALT WALK IN THE MIDST OF THY TUTORS, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once on a time a youthful cove Last Line: Vy! Vot a cove he'll be! Subject(s): Children; Education; Language; Lear, Edward (1812-1888); Paintings And Painters; Youth THOUGHTS, by GERHART HAUPTMANN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Poetry is the art of letting the primordial word Last Line: The common word Subject(s): Language; Men THOUGHTS, by SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is written without effort is Last Line: In general read without pleasure Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson, Dr. Subject(s): Language; Men THOUGHTS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poetry is the spontaneous overflow Last Line: Its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity Subject(s): Language; Men THREE PANELS: GONE, by MARK IRWIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We would like to speak, but only Subject(s): Language; Memory THREES, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was a boy when I heard three red words Last Line: Ham and eggs -- how much? -- and -- do you love me, kid? Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary THROUGH WALLS, by MARY RAE ARMANTROUT Poem Source First Line: Stomach: lonely Subject(s): Language Poetry TIE-DOWN OF A BONSAI, by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A ladder propped against a rainbow Subject(s): Bonsai; Language; Music & Musicians; Rainbows; Words; Vocabulary TIME, by JOAN BROSSA Poem Source First Line: This line is the present Last Line: Can change that Subject(s): Language; Poetry Readings TIME TALKED, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: Time used to talk to me with bells and whistles. The Last Line: Used to be here. Even now, my dinner bell rings when I %am hungry Subject(s): Language; Time TIMES, by THOMAS ELIAS WEATHERLY Poem Source First Line: Truly alone muley Last Line: Human blows sound blues Subject(s): Blues (music); Jazz; Language; Music And Musicians TIS TO THE EAST, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Will guide his people home Subject(s): Hebrew Language;israel;jews;zionism; Judaism TO -, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As, in lone fairy-lands, up some rich shelf Last Line: Far from all words where love lies fathomless. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Love; Language; Words; Vocabulary TO A THESAURUS, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O precious codex, volume, tome Last Line: Farewell! Adieu! Good-by! So long! Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Language; Thesaurus; Words; Vocabulary TO A THESAURUS, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O precious code, volume, tome Last Line: Farewell! Adieu! Good-by! So long! Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Language; Thesaurus; Words; Vocabulary TO AN EX-STUDENT, ON LEARNING SHE IS A WORLD-CLASS GYMNAST, by STEPHEN DALE COREY Poem Source First Line: What routines you must have mounted Last Line: Your silent sprung flights and twistings show %what the body of his song can be Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers TO DIDO, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With dumb belongings there can be Last Line: They learned what they are. How more can I make them yours? Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Language; Reason; Tongues TO HELEN KELLER, by CRAVEN LANGSTROTH BETTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out from the dark leaved life, bloomed hope, riped love Last Line: Thus one brave heart ten thousand souls can stay. Subject(s): Faith; Hope; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Language; Love; Belief; Creed; Optimism; Words; Vocabulary TO HIS FRIEND TO AVOID CONTENTION OF WORDS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Words beget anger: anger brings forth blowes Last Line: Then for to murder friendship, by dispute. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary TO IGNACE PADEREWSKI, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Not yours? The softly spoken word Last Line: The country of the heart? Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Language; Nations; Poland; Words; Vocabulary TO MADAME DE DAMAS LEARNING ENGLISH, by HORACE (HORATIO) WALPOLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though british accents your attention fire Last Line: For who would teach you but the verb 'I love'? Alternate Author Name(s): Orford, 4th Earl Of Subject(s): English Language; Love TO MRS. GOODCHILD, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night-winds shriek is pitiless and hollow Last Line: Send the beforenamed book -- and am yours most sincerely. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary TO MY DEPRESSED NEPHEW, by JOANNE CHILDERS Poem Source First Line: Even if I should repeat the words Last Line: Frightens you from the ripened feast Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Language TO NO ONE IN PARTICULAR, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whether you sing or scream Last Line: To no one in particular. Subject(s): Language; Murder; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Words; Vocabulary; Songs TO ONE WHO SCANTS WORDS, by IRENE M. MORSE Poem Text First Line: Love me, my dear, and tell me that you do Last Line: Love me, my dear, and tell me that you do. Subject(s): Hearts; Language; Love - Nature Of; Passion; Romance; Words; Vocabulary TO PART, by ANN B. KNOX Poem Source First Line: No wonder to part stirs Last Line: When I address the word, part Subject(s): Absence; Language TO SOMEONE WHO LOVES BEAUTY / JOSE HIERRO, by STEPHEN BERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If you love beautiful words, don't stop here Last Line: The music of other waves will wipe out forever Subject(s): Language TO THE READER: IF YOU ASKED ME, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want you with me, and yet you are the end Subject(s): Language; Books; Words; Vocabulary; Reading TO THE UNWRITTEN POEMS OF YOUNG JOY, by BESMILR BRIGHAM Poem Source First Line: That were. %that were not abstract as language is abstract Last Line: The structure of language Subject(s): Animals; Hunting; Language; Poetry And Poets; Wolves TO THE WELSH LANGUAGE, by KATHERINE PHILIPS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If honour to an ancient name be due Last Line: Lest her own captive else should her subdue Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda Subject(s): Language; Welsh Language TO WALT WHITMAN, by TOM MACINNES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hello there, walt! Last Line: Forever on their own! Subject(s): Admiration; Language; Poetry & Poets; Praise; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Writing & Writers; Words; Vocabulary TONGUE, MY DIVA, by JILL GONET Poem Source First Line: Gymnast of consonants in a skiff, heir Last Line: To us whenever we are talking to ourselves Subject(s): Language TONGUES, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I turn to my cold blood Last Line: In the cold, brackish language of water, / and of salt Subject(s): Language TONGUES, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To mortify the spirit I once attended Last Line: The stuttering leaves on the insensible pavement. Subject(s): Class Struggle; French Language; Tongues TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. NOT OF MYSELF, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not of myself - I have no power over myself Last Line: Those who do not read them. Subject(s): Language; Writing & Writers; Words; Vocabulary TOWARDS THE DAY OF LIBERATION, by ROBERT KELLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It doesnt matter what we see there Last Line: The shadow's own Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary TOWARDS THE PRIMEVAL LIGHTNING FIELD, by WILL ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old chronological towers are ash Last Line: Great sustained emotion of eternity Subject(s): Language TOWER OF BABEL, by THOMAS JAMES MERTON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: History is a dialogue between Last Line: The movement into the web Subject(s): History; Language TRANSLATION, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How did you decide to translate me Last Line: The other as if to say yes you can %speak french to me now I if you wish Subject(s): French Language; Love; Translating And Interpreting TRANSLATION, by DEIRDRE O'CONNOR Poem Text First Line: Though there's no such thing as a 'self,' I missed it Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary TRANSLATION ORDERS (IN 3 SETS), by BENJAMIN HOLLANDER Poem Source First Line: You come to with a signature that is, not the literal style Last Line: These are instructions for a 'whole civil war' Subject(s): Language; Translating And Interpreting; Writing And Writers TRANSLATIONS, by BENJAMIN HOLLANDER Poem Source First Line: What he overhears is the underbrush. What he Last Line: Then those too will disappear with their fingers Subject(s): Language; Translating And Interpreting TRIPLE SONNET OF THE PLUSH PONY PART 3, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: A body in the dawn Last Line: Thy breath Subject(s): Language; Horses TRIUMPHS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, by JAMES GILBORNE LYONS Poem Source First Line: Now gather all our saxon bards - let hearts and harps be strung Alternate Author Name(s): Lyons, J. Gilbourne Subject(s): English Language TROPE MARKET, by JACKSON MACLOW Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the network, in the ruin Last Line: Fetishistically in nacreous %instantaneity spookily shod Alternate Author Name(s): Mac Low, Jackson Subject(s): Language Poetry TROUBLE WITH WRITING, by SARAH SLOANE Poem Source First Line: A goat ate my pen. Frost grew %all over my computer Last Line: Under the sound %of each sound Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers TUESDAY 8:45, by JOSEPH H. BALL Poem Source First Line: Kirsten, %I had forgotten Last Line: My imagination %can we re-schedule for friday? Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers TWO DEFINITIONS, by HELEN FIELD WATSON Poem Text First Line: Adaptability is constant willingness Last Line: To take detours. But purpose means a forward press. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary TWO PARTS, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Listen to me Last Line: Puking long streams of it Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary TWO ST. PETERSBURGS, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The statue turned Subject(s): Language; Saint Petersburg, Florida; Saint Petersburg, Russia; Words; Vocabulary; Leningrad; Petrograd TWO ST. PETERSBURGS, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The statue turned Last Line: Is not yet fallen off Subject(s): Language; Saint Petersburg, Florida; Saint Petersburg, Russia TWO STONES WITH ONE BIRD, by CHARLES BERNSTEIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary TWO WORDS, by PETER SEATON Poem Source First Line: It's clear, you run wild with my message. All the answers Subject(s): Language Poetry TWO WORDS: A WEDDING, by B. P. NICHOL Poem Source First Line: There are things you have words for, things you do not Last Line: Because we are %words and our meanings change Subject(s): Language UNDER [SELECTION], by RON SILLIMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The word as ground, sounded and scratching, etching detail, retching in the throat, crosses a moat o Subject(s): Language Poetry UNFINISHED POEM / VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY, by STEPHEN BERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I pick off the petals and don't know Last Line: But the fact is -- man, in his soul, his lips, his bones Subject(s): Language; Mayakovsky, Vladimir (1893-1930) UNICORN, by CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, now that we have seen each other,' said the unicorn Last Line: Yes, if you like,' said alice Alternate Author Name(s): Carroll, Lewis Subject(s): Language UNNATURAL SPEECH, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The game has changed Subject(s): Chicanos; English Language; Mexican Americans UNRECORDED SPEECH, by ANNA ADAMS Poem Source First Line: She says 'how was you?' kissing. 'come on in Last Line: Proving that double negatives mean 'no' Subject(s): Language UNSPOKEN WORDS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The kindly words that rise within the heart Last Line: Will strike another when in turn you seek Subject(s): Kindness;language; Words;vocabulary UNTITLED, by FRANK MARTINUS ARION Poem Source First Line: I fell in deep snow %if you cannot save me Last Line: Then lie down beside me %help me weep Subject(s): Language; Love - Cultural Differences; Snow UNTITLED, by ERIC PAUL SHAFFER Poem Source First Line: Words wind from my mouth Last Line: As though seeing a single strand of black %in an evening bowl of rice Subject(s): Language; Poetry And Poets UNTITLED, by THOMAS ELIAS WEATHERLY Poem Source First Line: Barre lizzy hates Subject(s): Language UP FROM SLOBBERY, by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): African Americans; Language; Social Commentaries; Negroes; American Blacks; Words; Vocabulary USELESS WORDS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So long as we speak the same language and do not understand each other Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary USK, by CHARLES HUBERT SISSON Poem Source First Line: Such a fool as I am you had better ignore Last Line: Come sleep, come lighting, comes the dove at last Subject(s): Language; Prayer; Worship VAGUE NIGHT RESTS, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source Last Line: Eventually changing %our deliberate verb Subject(s): Language; Poetry And Poets VARIOUS MEANINGS, by JACKSON MACLOW Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The bottom of a green arras extends a vocabulary Last Line: In two or three %months the manacles could not have been forgotten. Too much light Alternate Author Name(s): Mac Low, Jackson Subject(s): Language Poetry VENTRILOQUISM, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You girls by moonlight lovered Subject(s): Language; Flirtation; Words; Vocabulary VERBA DE VERBO VITAE, by ARMEL O'CONNOR Poem Text First Line: How vain, the world's artillery of words Last Line: And bless a poet's singleness of heart. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary VERBAL CALISTHENICS, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My love for you is more Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary VERBUM INDICTUM, by EDITH FOLWELL HUDSON Poem Text First Line: Words are hid in the depths of me Last Line: But the spoken word is master of me! Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary VERSES ON DANGER OF ATTACHING WRONG IDEAS TO WORDS OR EPITHETS, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis not to tell what various mischief springs Last Line: Resolv'd to post him for an arrant cheat. Subject(s): Idealism; Language; Words; Vocabulary VIGILS, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are talking about metaphor Subject(s): Language; Metaphor; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary; Similes VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 1: SATIRE 6, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Another scorns the home-spun threed of rimes Last Line: New coyne of words neuer articulate. Subject(s): Language; Virgil (70-19 B.c.); Words; Vocabulary; Vergil VISIT, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, do not ask, 'what is it?' Last Line: Let us go and make our visit Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Language VISITING ST. B'S, by CHRISTIAN KARLSON STEAD Poem Source First Line: We were talking about gender Last Line: Even the flies in st. B's %can recognize a stranger Subject(s): Churches; Language VOCABULARY, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When was the last time something ensued Last Line: Wouldn't the kindling be enough wouldn't any single %twig of this world recite all of our names Subject(s): Language; Reason; Rhyme VOCABULARY, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ruminations, illuminations! Last Line: Gleam of a new poem in your bill Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Language VOCABULARY OF DEARNESS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How a single word Last Line: And where is the rake? Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary VOCABULARY SENTENCE(S), by CAROL SNOW Poem Source First Line: . Grimace Last Line: ...That looks more like a wince, really.' Subject(s): Language VOICES, by ANTONIO PORCHIA Poem Source First Line: When you seem to be listening to my words, they seen to be your Last Line: This world understands nothing but words, and you have come %into it with almost none Subject(s): Language; Poetry And Poets VOLAPUK, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I can speak Last Line: Volapuk. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Language; Travel; Words; Vocabulary; Journeys; Trips VOWELS, by CHRISTIAN BOK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Loveless vessels Last Line: We lose Subject(s): Language; Vowels; Words; Vocabulary VOWELS, by CHRISTIAN BOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Loveless vessels Last Line: So level %wlves evolve Subject(s): Language; Vowels W (A USER'S MANUAL), by CHRISTIAN BOK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the v you double, not the u, as if to use Last Line: At a vowel at a powwow in between sawteeth Subject(s): Language; Vowels; Words; Vocabulary W (A USER'S MANUAL), by CHRISTIAN BOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the v you double, not the u, as if to use Last Line: Where u and you become a tautonym, a continnuum Subject(s): Language; Vowels WAKE UP, by LI SHIZHENG Poem Source First Line: Outside the window the sky is clean Last Line: Clean language clean language Subject(s): Human Rights; Language; Truth WALL REV, by JACKSON MACLOW Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A line is a crack Alternate Author Name(s): Mac Low, Jackson Subject(s): Language Poetry WAS NOT' WAS ALL THE STATEMENT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That was philology Variant Title(s): Poem: 1342; Poem: 127 Subject(s): Language; Philology WATCHING MY STUDENTS WRITE, by ROBERT PARHAM Poem Source First Line: This is why I am here: to watch them work Last Line: Makes it an appetite, the kindest of all Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE, by KAY RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That's water under Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE, by KAY RYAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That's water under Last Line: Slide ever onward; %we aren't demented Subject(s): Language WAY OPPOSITE, by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite of walk? Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary WEEKS, SELS., by HANNAH WEINER Poem Source First Line: We get along wonderfully. It was something that inspired me Last Line: Coast guard station in italy. We chose the ones we could identify the easiest Subject(s): Language Poetry WELLS II, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last sinhala word I lost Subject(s): Language; Childhood Memories; Farewell; Loss; Water; Words; Vocabulary; Parting WELSH, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why must I write so? Last Line: And bear children %to accuse the womb %that bore me Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Language; Wales WHAT, by RON SILLIMAN Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The flowser semon Subject(s): Language Poetry WHAT DO I SEE, by GERTRUDE STEIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A very little snail Last Line: Listen to them frfom here Subject(s): Women; Language; Nature WHAT IS BIBBIDI-BOBNBIDI-BOO IN SANSKRIT?, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When people tell me french is difficult, I show my dimple Last Line: Having gained the gratitude of mr. Berlin, I am now leafing trough the works of mr. Oscar hammerstei Subject(s): Dimples; French Language WHAT LANGUAGE IS FOR, by JULIA SPICHER KASDORF Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The blond son, the blue-eyed boy brings me home Last Line: And feelings english can't name: %scholpst du? %mein liebchen, schlopst du? Subject(s): Language WHAT THE TEACHER LEARNS, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The student from taiwan, Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary WHAT'S HERE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Idaho potatoes have made it to honolulu Last Line: I'll go soon. And, don't remember me. Subject(s): Honolulu; Language; Travel; Words; Vocabulary; Journeys; Trips WHEEL, by PALMER. MICHAEL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: You can say the broken word but cannot speak Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary WHEN HELEN KELLER SPOKE (WALT WHITMAN DINNER, 1918), by GEORGE JAY SMITH Poem Text First Line: After others had said their say Last Line: Which she could not hear. Subject(s): Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Language; Life; Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Words; Vocabulary WHEN I OPEN THE BOOK, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Which raises green from the fallen seed Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Love; Language WHEN I WROTE A LITTLE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poem in the ancient mode for you Last Line: The dark sure sea of our existence Subject(s): Language; Love; Words; Vocabulary WHEN THE WORD 'BALSA: BECOMES ART, by VIRGIL SAUREZ Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Makeshift / is a word Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary WHERE ARE MY WINGED WORDS? DISSOLVED IN AIR, by GREGORY Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And scatter those words too Alternate Author Name(s): Gregory Of Narek; Gregory The Master; Gregory, Narekatzi Subject(s): Language WHERE THERE'S A WILL, THERE'S VELLEITY, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seated one day at the dictionary I was pretty weary and also pretty ill at ease Last Line: Why, they're crazy Subject(s): Language WHILE, by BRUCE ANDREWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Were I idiom and Last Line: Taut that the Subject(s): Language Poetry WHILE, by BRUCE ANDREWS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Were I idiom and Subject(s): Language Poetry WHILE I LIVE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dream of language as the sun Last Line: But you must wait / while I live Subject(s): Language; Life WHISPERED--, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: Words %just small Last Line: Like animals %or grass Subject(s): Language; Talk; Voices WHITE FOOLSCAP: BOOK OF CORDELIA, by SUSAN HOWE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heroine in ass-skin / mouthing o helpful Subject(s): Language Poetry WHITE FOOLSCAP: BOOK OF CORDELIA, by SUSAN HOWE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Heroine in ass-skin %mouthing o helpful Last Line: Ifor I %haveaten %it a %way Subject(s): Language Poetry WHO IS TO SAY, by PALMER. MICHAEL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary WHO SHAPES THE CARVEN WORD, by DAVID MORTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who shapes the carven word, the lean, true line Last Line: And footprints that no mortal feet had made. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary WHO'LL BUY MY LINGUAL? OR, YOU PRONOUNCE PLUIE, LOUIE, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wander through a paris shower Last Line: And now I think a glass of wine %would not be too unpleasant, hein? Subject(s): French Language WHY NOT?, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "if bet bedecks herself with gems, bestirs herself when bid" Last Line: "herself with food, and feel beglad a nice book to beread?" Subject(s): Language; Words;vocabulary WHY PUNCTUATE?, by JOYCE WHITE Poem Source First Line: If you dare Last Line: Making it clear is the writer's part Subject(s): Language; Writing And Writers WHY'S/WISE: WISE 3, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Son singin Last Line: Yeh, awe gon be here %a taste Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): Language WILDFLOWER COMPOSITION, by MELISSA A. GOLDTHWAITE Poem Source First Line: Spring: I make a chart, tape every weed Last Line: Or walking barefoot, testing your own ground Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers WINDSHIELD VIPERS (KEEPING TIME), by KATHERINE M. FISCHER Poem Source First Line: Careening through snowy %hillsides, the evergreens Last Line: Small sweetness %of pooling %sap Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers WINGED WORDS, by ROBERT+(3) CRAWFORD Poem Source First Line: The winged words, they pass Last Line: From germs divine Subject(s): Language WIPE THAT SIMILE OFF YOUR APHASIA, by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As horses as for Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary WISH, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With a swoop and a dart Last Line: Singing like a flame Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Language WITHOUT FUNCTIONING, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source Last Line: To earth, its quiet %without expectation Subject(s): Language WITTGENSTEIN EATS, by ROBERT HAHN Poem Source First Line: The proposition bemused his hostess and sounded Last Line: In decayed words, we might still say, if we could say %what we mean, and say the same thing each tim Subject(s): Food And Eating; Language WOMAN, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give us that grand word 'woman' once again Last Line: And leave the lesser word for lesser praise. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Language; Women; Words; Vocabulary WOMAN IN THE CHINESE ROOM: A PROSPECTIVE, by JOAN RETALLACK Poem Source First Line: Intersperse entries & numerals from notebooks Last Line: Quiet putt rusted civet beast or breast Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Language; Translating And Interpreting WORD, by ALVARO MUTIS Poem Source First Line: When suddenly in the middle of a life arrives a word Last Line: Of a fertile misery Subject(s): Language; Poetry And Poets WORD, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Word is the one and only foundation of the world Last Line: Death was named mistakingly by those %to whom the light was hidden Subject(s): Language WORD, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The word bites like a fish Last Line: Or shall I put it in %to rhyme upon a dish? Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Language WORD (1), by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The word has no legs or eyes Last Line: Getting it down %getting it %down Subject(s): Language WORD (2), by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was auden, I don't remember Last Line: Always %after we are %not Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Language; Poetry And Poets WORD DRUNK, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think of the twenty thousand poems of li po Last Line: Suffused with light. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary WORD FOR ME - ALSO, by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Vowels are a part of the english language. There are five Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki Subject(s): English Language WORD GAME (1), by JANE AUSTEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Why d'you ask me to scribble in verse Last Line: And the bailiffs will seize me to-morrow Subject(s): Language WORD GAME (1), by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To mutton I am not averse Last Line: For lambs I would to-morrow Subject(s): Language WORD GAME (2), by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I hate your french tragedies written in verse Last Line: Though he laboured from now till to-morrow Subject(s): Language; Racine, Jean (1639-1699) WORD GAME (2), by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I've said it in prose, and I'll say it in verse Last Line: And to feast well to-day than to fast till to-morrow Subject(s): Language WORD I LIKE WHITE PAINT CONSIDERED, by JAMES TERENCE SHERRY Poem Source First Line: Anonymous days transact to know Subject(s): Language Poetry WORD IS THE MAKING OF THE WORLD, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Language WORD MADE FLESH, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Word whose breath is the world-circling atmosphere Last Line: A spirit clothed in world, a world made man? Subject(s): Language; Religion; Words; Vocabulary; Theology WORD MADE FLESH IS SELDOM, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Like this consent of language, %this loved philology Variant Title(s): Poem: 1651; Poem: 171 Subject(s): Bible; Language; Religion WORD MADE FLESH, SELS., by JOHANNA DRUCKER Poem Source First Line: Dntity fined the air Last Line: Corpse from which it took its original flig Subject(s): Language WORD PARK, by MATTHEA HARVEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Proper nouns are legible in any light and like to stay near their Last Line: The photograph the water is bluer than blue Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary WORD PLUM IS DELICIOUS, by HELEN CHASIN Poem Source Last Line: And reply, lip and tongue %of pleasure Subject(s): Language; Plums; Sound WORD POWER, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: First doll, I rocked her blue-eyed blink in my lap Last Line: "I proclaimed, ""dirty." Subject(s): Dolls; Language; Names; Toys; Words; Vocabulary WORD TO THE WISE, by OCTAVIO ARMAND Poem Source First Line: If on your walks you have moved some stones Last Line: So have I Subject(s): Books; Forgiveness; Language; Poetry And Poets; Wisdom WORD WORLD, by BOB PERELMAN Poem Source First Line: Gentle analogists rock the surface Subject(s): Language Poetry WORDS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Boys flying kites haul in their white-winged birds Last Line: But god himself can't kill them once they're said Subject(s): Finality;language; Words;vocabulary WORDS, by SAMUEL ALFRED BEADLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Words are but leaves to the tree of mine Last Line: Or the cindered dross of hell. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary WORDS, by LAURA M. BRADLEY Poem Text First Line: Oh, what are words? And what can words convey? Last Line: To catch our swift emotions on the wing. Subject(s): Language; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Words; Vocabulary WORDS, by FRANCES BROWNE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Words -- household words! -- that linger on Last Line: The morning of the world once more! Subject(s): Language WORDS, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Words are the stones I use in building Last Line: I know the worth of your words to you! Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary WORDS, by HAROLD CALEB DALTON Poem Text First Line: If music could be loosened from its bars Last Line: When she stood white, above her wordless dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Dalton, Power Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary WORDS, by MAHMOUD DARWISH Poem Source First Line: When my words were wheat Last Line: Flies covered my lips Subject(s): Language; Revolutions WORDS, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How I love the rhymes that I can dance to, sing to Last Line: The twice-sweet pleasure if that voice is one's own! Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Language WORDS, by ROBERT FINCH Poem Text First Line: There are words that can only be said on paper Last Line: And the undetectable words used in their stead. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary WORDS, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The simple contact with a wooden spoon and the word Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary WORDS, by PAULINE HANSON Poem Source First Line: Human but animal bodies, we are what wants Last Line: Can tell us how and why only words can save us? Subject(s): Language WORDS, by CHARLES HARPUR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Words are deeds. The words we hear Last Line: A nobler feat than inkerman. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary WORDS, by JOHN MILTON HAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When violets were springing Last Line: Though all the trees are bare. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary WORDS, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Always departing, or waiting to arrive, as inclining, rapture Last Line: Dusk-lit, the trees seem ancient with their epic wings Subject(s): Emotions; Language; Mouths WORDS, by HETTIE JONES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are keys Last Line: Though it dreams of leaving Subject(s): Language; Love – Loss Of WORDS, by ELLA LOUISE LUICK Poem Text First Line: Not enough sweet words of love Last Line: When you no longer live. Subject(s): Language; Love; Words; Vocabulary WORDS, by GRACE MANSFIELD Poem Text First Line: Our words are flame and ashes, fleet Last Line: The coin we used along the way we went. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary WORDS, by JOSE ANTONIO MAZZOTTI Poem Source First Line: In back of love lie obscure words Last Line: At the foot of the morning %clean Subject(s): Language WORDS, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Axes / after whose stroke the wood rings Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary WORDS, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Axes %after whose stroke the wood rings Last Line: From the bottom of the pool, fixed stars %govern a life Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Language WORDS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Words are lighter than the cloud-foam Last Line: Echoes in god's skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Language; Life; Dead, The; Words; Vocabulary WORDS, by BENJAMIN ROSENBAUM Poem Text First Line: I have known words as swift shod as the wind Last Line: "words said with quiet thanks before ""amen." Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary WORDS, by VERN RUTSALA Poem Source First Line: We had more than we could use Last Line: And this is why we came to love %the double negative Subject(s): Language WORDS, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Let them serve you champagne in bed Last Line: He creeps in silence. Strikes the window Subject(s): Language WORDS, by LEW SARETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He never flickered a muscle, never stirred Last Line: And flood-tides find release. Subject(s): Language; Passion; Words; Vocabulary WORDS, by KATHERINE SEDGWICK Poem Text First Line: Words are coverings. - weddings Last Line: From her bleak caverns to the sky. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary WORDS, by JAN SKACEL Poem Source First Line: Those begged out at the last minute Last Line: Suddenly comes after us and collects Subject(s): Language; Poetry And Poets WORDS, by WANG JIA-XIN Poem Source Last Line: And we tremble at its touch Subject(s): Language WORDS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drudging democracy of words, alert Last Line: All lips that move not to their maker's praise! Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary WORDS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had this thought a while ago Last Line: And been content to live. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Variant Title(s): The Consolation Subject(s): Language; Sympathy WORDS, by LILLIAN E. ZELTZER Poem Text First Line: Words are so futile Last Line: Words are so futile ... Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary WORDS ARE NEVER ENOUGH, by CHARLES TORY BRUCE Poem Text First Line: These are the fellows who smell of salt to the prairie Last Line: These are the fellows who keep the salt in the blood. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Language; Nova Scotia; Anglers; Words; Vocabulary WORDS INTO WORDS WON'T GO, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are no things rain is like Last Line: There are no things change is like Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary WORDS O' CHEER, by ELIZABETH DOTEN Poem Text First Line: Although not present to your sight Last Line: Of heaven on ony. Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie Subject(s): Language; Speeches & Addresses; Words; Vocabulary WORDS OF PARTING, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The words of parting in our english tongue Last Line: Farewell, -- our very souls are in that cry! Subject(s): Farewell; Language; Life; Love; Soul; Tears; Parting; Words; Vocabulary WORDS RISING, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I open my journal, write a few Last Line: Who sleeps at night inside his volin case Subject(s): Language WORDS THE DREAMER SPOKE TO MY FATHER IN MAINE, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ocean light as we wake reminds us how dark Last Line: We could be there if we could lift our eyes Subject(s): Conversation; Language; Maine (state); Sea; Words; Vocabulary; Ocean WORDS THE DREAMER SPOKE TO MY FATHER IN MAINE, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ocean light as we wake reminds us how dark Last Line: We could be there if we could lift our eyes.' Subject(s): Conversation; Language; Maine (state); Sea WORDS THE HAPPY SAY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Are beautiful Variant Title(s): Poem: 1750; Poem: 176 Subject(s): Language WORDS WHEN WE NEED THEM, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before this early moment Last Line: We could still say. Subject(s): Dawn; Language; Morning; Silence; Sunrise; Words; Vocabulary WORDS, WORDS, WORDS, by MARGARET WADE CAMPBELL DELAND Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: I loved a maid (oh, she was fair of face!) Last Line: I learned the maiden some one else had married! Subject(s): Courtship; Language; Loss; Love - Loss Of; Time; Words; Vocabulary WORDS-AND-MUSIC MEN, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They said they could make up songs Last Line: Just take a word or two and you'll see, you'll see, %oh boy we're a lot like you Subject(s): Language; Music And Musicians WORKSHOP PANTOUM, by ALLISON JOSEPH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Does anybody want to start this off? Last Line: Ok, next. Anybody want to start this off? Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers WORKSHOP POEM, by RONALD W. WALLACE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They assembled it from dead body parts Last Line: Gave itself away. The world ignored it Alternate Author Name(s): Wallace, Ron Subject(s): Art And Artists; Language WORKSHOP: WRITING THE PUBLISHABLE HIGH-END POEM, by MICHAEL ATKINSON Poem Source First Line: The title should be reflexive somehow Last Line: You see, it isn't easy, it's art, try again Subject(s): Editors; Language; Publishing; Writing And Writers WORLD SHIFTS, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source Last Line: Ceaselessly cautioning, veering, %touching speech Subject(s): Language Poetry; Speech WORLD TREE, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: If you are lost in this world, bewildered Last Line: On wings that open like a hinge Subject(s): Advice; Language; Wisdom WRESTLE THEORY, by ALICE GEORGE Poem Source First Line: If a) either there are no truly interesting 'ideas' or b) language Last Line: Move and imagine ourselves moving, or (sharks) we shall %languish in a horrid wet Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers WRITING IS AN AID TO MEMORY, SELS., by LYN HEJINIAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Language Poetry WRITING IS AN AID TO MEMORY: 17, by LYN HEJINIAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bird carries its peck up the branch Last Line: " lighting by trees is beautiful Subject(s): Nature; Language; Words; Vocabulary WRITTEN IN BLOOD, by TIFFANY MIDGE Poem Source First Line: I surrender to roget's pocket thesaurus Last Line: Savage, apache, reskin Subject(s): Language; Racism X, by DOYLE WESLEY WALLS Poem Source First Line: My son only wants to type the 'x' on the screen Last Line: The stars. The way they shine Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers XERXES, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: X was king xerxes Last Line: Green, yellow, and red Subject(s): Language YARD, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want...I want a ship from some near star Last Line: To land in the yard Subject(s): Language YESSIR MISTER, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yessir mister mystery dwells in dese dose dem Subject(s): Family Life; Language; Relatives; Words; Vocabulary YET DISH, by GERTRUDE STEIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Put a sun in sunday, sunday. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary YIDDISH FOR GOYS, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With a word -- shlep, or nebish, or shlemiel -- Last Line: He used to say. That shmuck hitler could kill %a tough momzer like me? Subject(s): Jews; Language; Yiddish YOU, by CHARLES BERNSTEIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time wounds all heals, spills through Last Line: Hide's felicity depends Subject(s): Language Poetry YOU, by CHARLES BERNSTEIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time wounds all heals, spills through Last Line: Hide's felicity depend Subject(s): Language Poetry YOU CAN READ THE WORLD, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And what if that's not enough? Subject(s): Language; Life YOU'VE SET THE WORDS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To running through my Last Line: Words too our words Subject(s): Language YOU: PART 1, by RON SILLIMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hard dreams. The moment at which you recognize that your own death lies Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Death; Social Commentaries; Language Poetry; Dead, The YOU: PART 10, by RON SILLIMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not yet joining letters into words, read the book aloud from memory. Subject(s): Language Poetry YOU: PART 12, by RON SILLIMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A guide to the sky under full nondisclosure. Subject(s): Nature; Language Poetry YOU: PART 18, by RON SILLIMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: P=h=I=l=a=d=e=l=p=h=I=a. Under the dogwood tree, Subject(s): Language Poetry; City & Town Life YOU: PART 19, by RON SILLIMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moment in which I realize I'm not wearing my glasses. Old stone Subject(s): Language Poetry YOU: PART 20, by RON SILLIMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old stone inn, used by the tories to plot the assault on Subject(s): Language Poetry YOU: PART 21, by RON SILLIMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Smidgens in the glass harass. Moment at which first bird starts to Subject(s): Language Poetry YOU: PART 22, by RON SILLIMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Small boy in a seaman's cap reminds me suddenly of my own such Subject(s): Language Poetry YOU: PART 23, by RON SILLIMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sun is in the trees behind which a train rushes north to new york. Subject(s): Language Poetry YOU: PART 24, by RON SILLIMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sun is in the trees behind which a train rushes north to new york. Subject(s): Language Poetry YOU: PART 26, by RON SILLIMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The breeze sucks the shade into the window's screen. Subject(s): Language Poetry YOU: PART 27, by RON SILLIMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Driving through completely unfamiliar streets, realizing this will be Subject(s): Language Poetry YOU: PART 28, by RON SILLIMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Squirrel at the thistle sock, fat and gray. White bearded affable Subject(s): Language Poetry YOU: PART 29, by RON SILLIMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lightning rolling, popping, snapping all across the sky (the whole Subject(s): Language Poetry YOU: PART 30, by RON SILLIMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The aggression of toddlers or of squirrels. Theory of naming Subject(s): Language Poetry YOU: PART 32, by RON SILLIMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To look up at the impossible brightness would be fatal, tall cloud Subject(s): Language Poetry YOU: PART 36, by RON SILLIMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On his desk, the book of psalms and new testament, printed in Subject(s): Language Poetry YOU: PART 37, by RON SILLIMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the pop foul descends from the heavens into the crowd, hands and Subject(s): Language Poetry YOU: PART 38, by RON SILLIMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In the land of the elephants, death transforms the world: a hunter Subject(s): Language Poetry YOU: PART 39, by RON SILLIMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Optical dimultiplexer divides data Subject(s): Language Poetry YOU: PART 40, by RON SILLIMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the forest mist, first dawn light is suspended, diffused, shadowless, Subject(s): Language Poetry YOU: PART 8, by RON SILLIMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Readers of the lost art. Monster with an eye in its mouth (body of a rocket Subject(s): Language Poetry YOU: PART 9, by RON SILLIMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Language Poetry YOUR TIRED, YOUR POOR: 2. ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The underpaid young teacher Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): English As A Second Language; Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors YOUR TIRED, YOUR POOR: 2. 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