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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: LATIN Matches Found: 141 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "TE DEUM LAUDAMUS (WE PRAISE THEE, GOD)", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "thee, sovereign god, our grateful accents praise" Last Line: "as we have hoped, do thou reward our pain; / we've hoped in thee, let not our hope be vain" Subject(s): God;latin Literature; Roman Literature 12-DEC, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: And when god thought %said st. A. He thought Last Line: You're always slightly %thinking of it Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry 1470: THE FIRST BOOK PRINTED IN PARIS, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source Last Line: Was not a bible, but a book of private letters Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry 2-JUN, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: The flight of red (the various) Last Line: I was raised to a pious life %and cannot live here Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry 2-OCT, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: At the center of the picture, a river Last Line: A peeled muscle exposed to sun %cut in two. I would not choose Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry 24-DEC, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: Before birth %ex patre (was the) (lumiere the pere: %tu lumen) Last Line: Across les siecles %that licked them clean Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry 25-NOV, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: There is perfect weather; you can smell it Last Line: Heads thrown back and talking quietly to each other Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry 3-APR, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: Curve %now my %love these trees, three Last Line: Two men alone in boats Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry 3-MAR, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: Father son and holy father son and only counting if it gathers Last Line: Its own and only weather %sounds like laughter Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry 3-NOV, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: Jean colombe. Stole from the cathedrals of auxerre Last Line: Liked november, the number 11, the water at a given distance, and no castle %but that hidden by tree Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry 3-SEP, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: The ellipse that leads into (sept) Last Line: A shard of glass %dry grass in autumn Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry 4-FEB, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: And this in the middle Last Line: Of the hundred years' war Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry 7-JUL, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: Because (it's said) seven heavenly bodies Last Line: Asleep in the grass, white grass %invisible in the white light Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry 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 APRIL 1, 1411: THE BETROTHAL, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: This is how they lived: the dialogue was staged Last Line: All the way back from the black sea, which (they say) really is black Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry APRIL 25: DAY OF ST. MARK, PATRON OF VELLUM: MANUFACTURE AND...., by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: Veined day; the daylight through Last Line: Of the unborn calf %turning gold Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry APRIL 2: FEAST DAY OF FRANCIS OF PAOLA, PATRON ...., by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: I do here suspend the here and this: %wood Last Line: The quite of late, with the stars countable on the face of things. You get %used to these things Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry APRIL 4, 1400, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: 4=3 +1 = trinity (holy) fused to (ideal) unity (or multiplicity ruptured by Last Line: And this at the height %of the plague Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry APRIL: IN THE GARDEN, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: The earth tilts, cracking open fields and the courtyard, %open Last Line: Beauty is no less unlikely for having been invented Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry 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 AUGUST 1424: THE FIRST DANCE MACABRE, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: Long line of arm in and and there on the farthest wall we are Last Line: (you dance and we'll sing.) last until lent of the coming year Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry AUGUST 1427: ABUNDANCE, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: Item: this year. %and made so beautiful august that it made never of the age of Last Line: Can enter. Wealth of sudden fruit, call me %whatever you want Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry AUGUST 17, 1427: THE FIRST RECORD OF GYPSIES IN EUROPE, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: Sont arrives: twelve men from basse egypt Last Line: See you walking down a long road with enormous fields on either side, very %green Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry AUGUST 1: THE OUTING, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: (all this shall someday be %birds: %plane 1: %count them: 5 %choreographed) Last Line: Who hunt birds, it's %always morning here Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry AUGUST 20, 1418: FAMINE WITH RUMORS OF WAR, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: From the root word 'tend' Last Line: You turned to stone or sun? How many can you see through %disguised as shore Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry AUGUST 26, 1425, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: Item: %they arm the blind. (who were also the starved) Last Line: Denly mad. In fact, most were midly entertained, and the rest just unusually tired Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry AUGUST 3: THE TOWER IN THE BACKGROUND , NAMED LA GUINETTE, WHICH IS..., by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: Things had names. Towers, jewels, swords. We vestige the gesture in Last Line: Ask the way by name, who name %to whole this fragile hold Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry 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 BOGOTA, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: Three at night %I drag this naked life along Last Line: Stride toward yet another passage, step into the water and live Subject(s): Boats; Fishing And Fishermen; Latin America - History; South America; Tourists; Travel 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 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 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 CHRONICLE OF LIMA, by MAUREEN AHERN Poem Source First Line: Here're recorded my birth and marriage Last Line: Remember, hermelinda, remember me Subject(s): Latin America - History; Peru 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 CONDORS' EYES, by ROBERTO BRENES MESEN Poem Source First Line: A dream is into lily-water pouring Last Line: For some new caesar bold, lord of our western world! Subject(s): America - Exploration; Birds; Latin America - History; Wings DEAD CONQUERORS, by ANTONIO CISNEROS Poem Source First Line: They came by water Last Line: Few survived their horses Subject(s): Death; Latin America - History; Peru DECEMBER 0: NEW MATH, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: How feared it was this certain Last Line: Acre in and into %entire rooms, whole towns, our mouths Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry DECEMBER 1: THE HUNT, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: To every month %its animal %animal Last Line: Every instant of an animal's life and almost makes it equal Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry DECEMBER 25, 1456: JE FRANCOYS VILLON, ESCOLLIER, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: It's snowing %bitter %ground Last Line: Who said when wolves live on the wind they get fat Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry DECEMBER 28: DAY OF THE SAINTS-INNOCENTS, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: Were not counted %we lost count Last Line: The dead, utter in their number, and wrong Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry DOUBTFUL STRAIT, by ERNESTO CARDENAL Poem Source First Line: The country is beautiful Last Line: Into the water Subject(s): Latin America - History EARLY MORNING: OURS OF THE WHOLLY SPIRIT, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: In sequential moment %follow glory and the glory to be %nearly pointed out Last Line: Reigns %without amen who lives Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry EVOLUTION OF THE GARDEN, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: As albertus magnus instructs us Last Line: We could live here %gardinum %hundreds %of acres set aside for watching animals Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry FEBRUARY 1 BIS, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: And the body between word and world fuses, frays' Last Line: The footsteps leading up to it %all by themselves, hives Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry FEBRUARY 14, 1404: THE BIRTH OF LEON BATTISTA ALBERTI, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: One-eyed ceiling %always vault saw converging Last Line: The fan becomes a fan Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry FEBRUARY 19, 1414: FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE WHOOPING COUGH IN EUROPE, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: All these cranes they say omen as they might/ as if a Last Line: White slice in (cf. White) (cf. Within) Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry FEBRUARY 1: WINTER AGRICULTURE, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: And here to our left we see Last Line: Maps, my lady, we live in a tiny, tiny world Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry FEBRUARY 2: THE BENEDICTION OF THE CANDLES, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: When the faithful go marked %forehead in ashes washes Last Line: A strange shape for paradise. I thought it would be more round Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry FOREWORD, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: That mine that was a country, a %poverty starred Last Line: But that you did %not look back Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry FORTUNE, THE BOCCACCIO OF JEAN SANS PEUR, 1409-1419, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: We know our monsters only -not par l'entremise des anciens textes-but by the Last Line: In the wind are yet other %futures, but they refuse Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry FORWARD, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: Nunc %we videmus %see Last Line: Tunc %tunc %autem %ad faciem %si Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry FOURTH MONTH: APRIL: WITH PREVIEW OF JOAN OF ARC, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: To: land, air, and water. Must be added fire. Is utterly altered by fire. Are Last Line: Said no, it heals, said the flames seal something I was just about to think %anneals. I see an edge Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry GAS OR NOVOCAIN, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here I sit, reading the stoic Last Line: The senses, and the right / to homosexuality Subject(s): Books; Latin; Reading GAS OR NOVOCAIN, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here I sit, reading the stoic Last Line: The senses, and the right %to homosexuality Subject(s): Books; Latin HEROIC MAMBISA, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: Are you real? Last Line: I'll be more you. %I'll be more me. %I'll be more cuba. %in silence, %so you can understand me Subject(s): Cuba; Fate; Heroism; Latin America - History HISTORY OF PERU, by WASHINGTON DELGADO Poem Source First Line: There's no past Last Line: That say nothing Subject(s): Latin America - History; Peru HORATIANS, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into what fictive realms [or, worlds] can imagination translate you Last Line: This world with a happy eye, %but from this a sober perspective Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Latin Literature HYMN FOR ST. JOHN'S EVE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: O sylvan prophet! Whose eternal fame Last Line: Whilst each glad parent told and blessed / the secrets of each other's breast Variant Title(s): Hymn For The Nativity Of St. John Baptist Subject(s): Christmas;latin Literature;prophecy & Prophets; "nativity, The;roman Literature; IMPERFECT TIMES, by WASHINGTON DELGADO Poem Source First Line: Peru was a chimera Last Line: What will it be? Subject(s): Latin America - History; Peru; South America INVENTION OF EQUAL HOURS, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: Rare they %and approximate who %could tell the hour after Last Line: You'd wake up in the middle of the night and find you'd been counting in %your sleep Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry JANUARY 17: ST. ANTONY'S DAY: LES FLAMMES, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: There's a disease that eats up the limbs that feels like ants are eating them' Last Line: Was hidden (or slid, envelope-style) %into fire or flood, but usually fire Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry JANUARY 1: ONCE FRAMED, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: The walls break down never were sugar in a storm castle on a Last Line: The colors running, the men carving meat Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry JANUARY 1: THE FEAST OF THE NEW YEAR, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: Vows, a fete of, phalanx of, flagrant and sky all written on in snow: hommage Last Line: Aproche + aproche (scatter the century) %last Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry JANUARY 28: ST. THOMAS, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: This day a great theophany %internaling an only %shining face Last Line: Meaning water, or lover of water, or both Variant Title(s): January 28, 1403: St. Thoma Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry JANUARY 29, 1408: THE GREAT FLOOD OF, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: To a life of moving water %and a watermark on the water Last Line: A cup and saucer spin for a moment on the surface Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry JANUARY 3: THE FEAST OF ST. GENEVIEVE; PATRON SAINT OF PARIS; 422-500, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: Blew the candle out no devil knew not %the name stopped Last Line: Sewn with the blindman's stitch Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry JANUARY 5/5, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: =one. Need say we what was that you said it shrank %to a point Last Line: Year. %fury. %snow Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry JANUARY 6, 1400: THE FOUNDING OF LA COUR AMOUREUSE...., by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: Cold, %bored, %and underfoot, thin %ice (glance Last Line: Other of unconscionable red, who unasked, who, undeterred, said %yes Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry JANUARY 6: ST. MATTHEW'S DAY, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: As the magi stood before herod and said %further home Last Line: (and not a mark on him) stood %calmly eating the burning grass Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry JULY 1: FIELD GEOMETRY, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: All that interlock is fawn all that water joins Last Line: Beyond, say, to the shoulder of the average man Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry JULY 2, 1421: A RIVER OF BLOOD HAS FLOWED THREE DAYS INTO THE SEINE, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: In one this week %in this now year %of all our after Last Line: And all their arms %walking on water to victory, singing Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry JULY 3, 1418: THE MIRACLE OF CRIME, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: When, coming home drunk, a swiss soldier stabbed the stone statue of the virgin Last Line: A dark lamp, a torch of burning gold, who'd never bled before %him alive Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry JULY 5, 1421: IN WHICH THE PLIGHT, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: Of starving wolves Last Line: They are swimming up the freezing river in droves Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry JULY: COQUELICOT, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: Folio sept: verso. So it goes. There will be. All field entire they. The Last Line: Though now we say azura, from which %the blue is made Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry JUNE 15, 1416: THE DEATH OF JEAN, DUC DE BERRY, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: Who had fallen in love in prison (1363)- the swan once wounded Last Line: Or it's the same one passing (enormous) and in between %the sky Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry JUNE 1: REAPING, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: Sickle one, scythe two and sweep and sheaf and sign Last Line: (list everything you could carry %away in a boat) Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry JUNE 24: THE LONG DAY, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: The day of jean l'amour. The 'saint-john'-all summer starts here. Lit a fire Last Line: Our word 'singer.' now sing I said louder. I said soon Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry 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 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 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 LATIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Latin is a dead tongue Subject(s): Latin LEIT-MOTIF: OH GREAT CITY OF LIMA, by MIRKO LAUER Poem Source First Line: Everything's interrelated: the weak Last Line: There lie the true predictions Subject(s): Bourgeoisie; Latin America - History; Peru; War LINES IN A LETTER TO HIS LADY COUSIN, HONOR DRIDEN, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For since 'twas mine, the white hath lost its hiew Last Line: Whom you so farre shall bless to make your seale. Subject(s): Latin Literature; Letters; Virginity; Roman Literature; Vestals LOVE, ATTRIBUTED CITY, by NANCY MOREJON Poem Source First Line: Here I say again: the heart of the city has not yet died Last Line: Here I say again: love, attributed city Subject(s): Hearts; Latin America - History; Love; Patriotism; Poetry And Poets MACHINE DESIGNS, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: Still thin, though straight, the between Last Line: And you hear the shift %as a short 'I'-I.E., sill, lip, shipping Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry MARCH 1432, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: So bitterly froze and the floodwaters reached Last Line: Flood after freeze and flood again they are talking peace between kings Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry MARCH 1: SPRING AGRICULTURE, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: Thus we find triads: dimension, form, and order %substance, nature, power Last Line: Something (we can't see what) (sheaf?) (shearing?) holding (soft) %against himself Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry MARCH 25, 1472/75: THE ANNUNCIATION, LEONARDO DA VINCI, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: As in mid as in air as if there could %be enough Last Line: Empty space %to %emptiness Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry MARCH 25: THE ANNUNCIATION, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: Mary of the turning %who turns around and stammers Last Line: What am I doing? And what am I incapable of doing? Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry MARCH 8 (FEAST DAY OF JOHN OF GOD, PATRON SAINT OF PRINTERS)......., by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: Moves the word is good of god what moving Last Line: (as god is to every %clockwork aviary) Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry MARCH: NOCTURNE, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: And as are the nocturnes, three Last Line: Gates shall enter in %shall and Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry MARCH: THE THIRD LESSON: TO BE SAID AT NIGHT OR UPON RISING, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: Cedar of libanus, the exalted %(as was I, oh l., a witness) a cypress Last Line: And the cypress and the olive and the scar above the eye Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry MAY 1, I A.M.: LES REVENANTS, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: Old and on / certain nights of the walpurgis I saw them Last Line: (the precision) there %by choice Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry MAY 19, 1435: THE GREAT FREEZE, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: It is reported he walked out Last Line: The hundred and forty you could see right through %the crystal trees Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry MAY 1: BROAD DAY, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: Note the curves we pause and forth %and he turns %and she looks Last Line: And pointed and smiled, but I couldn't hear what he said Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry MAY 21, 1420: SIGNING THE TREATY OF TROYES, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: And thus we give up: this and this and Last Line: You get a great view from here; it just isn't yours anymore Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry MAY 30, 1427: JOAN-NOT-YET-SAINT WITH SHEEP, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: When they eat from your hand it's said that you're saved Last Line: And up about half an inch. What %will you give Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry MAY 5: EARTH, AIR, FIRE, WATER, AND ETHER, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: As is the number %of man: four limbs and a heart, star-shaped if the star Last Line: A hand (what was held) (hold this) (my most urgent most and %agile wound) Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry MAY 9: TRANSLATION DAY OF SAINT NICHOLAS OF MYRA, PATRON SAINT OF..., by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: Called city of one hundred bell-towers (not one hundred bells) Last Line: (choose from among) %(my lady, try on this one) Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry MOUNTAINS KNOW, by CONCHA MELENDEZ Poem Source First Line: I love my country's lofty mountains! Last Line: The mountains lofty and unmoved! Subject(s): Latin America - History; Mountains; Travel NOVEMBER 11, 1422: THE FUNERAL OF CHARLES THE SIXTH, THE MAD, AND ..., by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: Le visage decouvert %and the naked face Last Line: Drunk the well and for once in our lives could ask for more Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry NOVEMBER 1485: JEAN COLOMBE HANDS THE FINISHED MANUSCRIPT TO ..., by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: And from there four hundred years %hidden in air Last Line: Was later found somewhere else Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry NOVEMBER 1: ALL SAINTS' DAY, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: St. (breathe) known by his (guess) st. (yes) known by Last Line: In antonella's st. Jerome, he is seated in a room whose architecture emulates %the chambers of the h Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry NOVEMBER 23, 1407: THE MURDER OF LOUIS D'ORLEANS IN THE RUE ...., by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: Murdered: one brother %of a mad king of Last Line: On your knees you %surrounded him and beat him to death Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry NOVEMBER 25: ST. CATHERINE'S DAY, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: Wheels! (see page yeah, sure first invented in and Last Line: Water %my homuncular bead Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry NOVEMBER 2: ALL SOULS' DAY, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: Walk again have passed this gate at night and Last Line: And so on is the on. Walking is a holy thing; it sieves the sun Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry NOVEMBER 9, 1414: MARGERY KEMPE MARRIES GOD, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: Who is they we %say (they said) %tear Last Line: The way it curves to fit the most intricate of them Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry OCTOBER 1, 1445, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: How to paint a filament designed to be invisible Last Line: For every man standing %on the edge of a river is a part of it Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry OCTOBER 12, 1492: THE DEATH OF PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA AND THE ERROR..., by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: A child %the size of the %palm of the Last Line: From on earth %looks safe Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry OCTOBER 15, 1415: GUILD INITIATION: PAOLO UCCELLO EXAMINES THE SKY, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: Vasari swears %the birds were there, are %still Last Line: It's that now %the hunted sail for a minute Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry OCTOBER 25, 1415: THE BATTLE OF AGINCOURT, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: Having promised to cut three fingers Last Line: Soft trees, %ten thousand men Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry OCTOBER 28, 1449: THE TRANSLATION OF THE RELICS OF ST. JEAN...., by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: Is over %that has ever been told Last Line: They come back at all? %will be loved Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry OCTOBER 4, 1451: NICHOLAS OF CUSA PREACHES AT AIX-LA-CHAPELLE, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: Godar %chi tectan Last Line: Often find myself at home Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry OCTOBER 7, 1434, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: Remembered for its gale-both of the two surviving accounts of this day Last Line: And laid it down on a garden gate, balancing. I swear I saw this %with my eyes Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry OCTOBER: A SUPERSTITIOUS HOUR, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: Nothing is as is seen Last Line: To have seen, whenever she glanced up, a face she no longer recognized Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry ON A BEAUTIFUL BAR BUTTERFLY IN THE BLACK CAT, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Vinea submittit car(e)as non semper edulis Last Line: She-goats bred in vineyards are not always edible Subject(s): Goats; Latin; Nonsense PAINTER PAINTS A CALENDAR, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: Languor. Succor. Ardor. Such is the tenor of the entry. You open a little door Last Line: Always %wanted %he said %and did Variant Title(s): The Painter Rearranges The Mirrors (1415 Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry PETRI INTERROGATO; AFTER DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Source First Line: Diligis me, simon joannis?' Last Line: Pasce oves, %pasce,' dicit, %'pecudes!' Subject(s): Latin PLURALITY OF WORLDS, by WASHINGTON DELGADO Poem Source First Line: Fifty worlds lie on my table Last Line: I light a cigarette and divide it among fifty %meaningless worlds Subject(s): Latin America - History; Peru PORTO RICO, by JOSE GAUTIER BENITEZ Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: Borinquen! Name as sweet to the thought Last Line: To the sweet influence of the world without! Subject(s): Islands; Latin America - History; Puerto Rico; West Indies PREFACE, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: Numbers, which saint augustine considered %god thinks Last Line: To empty the ocean to fill in the sand Variant Title(s): Such Rich Hour: Prefac Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry PROLOGUE, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: And ten days later, the locks and keys Last Line: That it had to happen/will happen (circle one) this way Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry QUESTION OF TIME, by ANTONIO CISNEROS Poem Source First Line: In 1964, %where your bearded eyes Last Line: Would have shipwrecked beneath the sun Subject(s): Death; Fights; Latin America - History; Soldiers; Spanish Armada RANCHO ARRIBA, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: Rancho arriba is far from the crowds Last Line: Rancho arriba is a thorn that reminds me, %that reminds them of who I am, %of who we are Subject(s): Latin America - History; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration RECIPES FOR RED, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: Ardor and pestle %igneous anchor Last Line: Monsieur, will you do me the honor; take the blood from this faucet %and make from it a pair of glov Variant Title(s): Such Rich Hour: Recipes For Re Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry RECURRENT MIRACLE, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: Une si belle chance that a %merveille could strike Last Line: And wondered if anything would change Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry RESPONSE: CHRISTINE, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: De pisan founds (inciting Last Line: Who (what) came (is just now coming) in Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry S & M, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: The masochist confesses that his pain Last Line: Even if I have to be ... %what is that word they used? %even if I have to be ... A sadist.' Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Ethnic Groups - United States; Latin America - History; Protest, Social; Puerto Ricans - New York City; Tyranny And Tyrants SAILOR'S WILL, by ANDREW HEWITT Poem Text First Line: Red slippers from a princess's feet Last Line: Songs of her men to her dying day. Subject(s): Latin SATURDAY, MARCH 2, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: Melusine, who was touched %beyond oath Last Line: Are you doing in my sky? Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry 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 SEPTEMBER 1, 618: IN LIGHT OF GOLD: 1. FIRE GILDING, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: The trick this time is mercury %rubbed in by hand, hand and chalice Last Line: This huge we %put it there Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry SEPTEMBER 1. 618: IN LIGHT OF GOLD: 3. GILDING BY ATTRITION, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: You take ground glass (you grind glass) Last Line: Or the people or at least their eyes Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry SEPTEMBER 1.618: IN LIGHT OF GOLD: 2. CHRYSOGRAPHY WITH GOLD INKS, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: Refractory. %ground the lens rubbing two fingers together: I am lonely Last Line: Burnish with a tooth tied firmly to an oar Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry SEPTEMBER 10, 1419: THE ASSASSINATION OF JEAN SANS PEUR, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: In retaliation (see november 23) %kneeling in homage Last Line: In a red hat, and behind him, a man dressed in red Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry SEPTEMBER 21, 1431: WOMAN LOSES SLEEP, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: Early afternoon-many around-you know how those women Last Line: Of falling. 'a rest' she says 'like one has never felt, and the extravagant %promise of an imminent Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry SONG TO FIDEL, by ERNESTO GUEVARA Poem Source First Line: You said the sun would rise Last Line: Nothing more Subject(s): Castro, Fidel (b. 1926); Communism; Cubism; Guerrillas; Latin America - History; Militarism 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 TO THE PANAMA CANAL, by BENIGNO PALMA Poem Source First Line: Hail, prodigy of human effort, emblem of freedom Last Line: Nobly to the sacrifice, to exclaim: 'for the good of the %world!' Subject(s): Freedom; Latin America - History; Panama Canal WHEN BELLS WERE NAMED, by COLE SWENSEN Poem Source First Line: And wake up to %the hour of the bells each one and then rang Last Line: Music at it most refined) the raised hand waved, it %rang Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry |
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