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Subject: MIND, THE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A PARABLE, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thougjh well acquainted, mind and heart
Subject(s): Hearts; Mind, The


A SHEAF OF PLEASANT VOICES, by JOHN YAU    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are rooftops
Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Mind, The


ADVANCES, by KEITH WALDROP    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Seventy wingbeats
Subject(s): Weather; Time; Nature; Mind, The


BEETHOVEN'S FIFTH SYMPHONY, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The mind's deep history here in tones is wrought
Last Line: And turns to boundless hope the old despair.
Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Music & Musicians; Mind, The


BRAIN OF MY HEART, by GERALD STERN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thank god for the walnut in 1986
Subject(s): Mind, The; Walnuts


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


CREATE DESIRE, by KAREN VOLKMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Someone was searching for a form of fire.
Subject(s): Desire; Mind, The


EXPERIMENT IN DIVINATION: VOICE AND CHARACTER, by REBECCA WOLFF    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a curiosity that knows
Subject(s): Mind, The; Thought; Thinking


FORKHEAD BOX P2 (AKA POXP2), by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What haunts the brain: a cell spell
Subject(s): Mind, The


HARSH CLIMATE, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The brain itself in its skull
Subject(s): Mind, The; Cold


I BELIEVE THERE IS A SONG, by KAREN VOLKMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I believe there is a song that is stranger than wind, that sips the scald
Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Mind, The


I WISH NEVER TO SING, by KAREN VOLKMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I never wish to sing again as I used to, when two new eyes could
Subject(s): Body, Human; Mind, The


INHIBITED, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I could not pity your pain but I pitied the branches
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Grief; Pity; Mind, The; Sorrow; Sadness


MAGIC GLASS, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Thought; Mind, The; Thinking


NARCISSUS, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The mind is a city like london,
Subject(s): Mind, The; Narcissus (mythology); Nature


NO MATTER, NEVER MIND, by GARY SYNDER    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The father is the void
Subject(s): Mind, The


NOTES TOWARD A SUPREME FICTION: CONCLUSION, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Soldier, there is a war between the mind
Last Line: If he must, or lives on the bread of faithful speech
Variant Title(s): Another Kind Of War
Subject(s): War; Mind, The


O WRETCHED MIND OF MAN, O BLINDED HEART, by GEORGE SANTAYANA            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Mind, The; Nature


OF MODERN POETRY, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The poem of the mind in the act of finding
Last Line: Combing. The poem of the act of the mind
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Mind, The


OLNEY HYMNS: 19. CONTENTMENT, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fierce passions discompose the mind
Last Line: Have learned to be content.
Subject(s): Bible; Contentment; Religion; Mind, The; Theology


ON TOP, by GARY SYNDER    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All this new stuff goes on top
Subject(s): Mind, The


ONLY THE HEART IS HAUNTED, by VERNE BRIGHT    Poem Text                    
First Line: The mind is a sunbright house: the mind is not haunted
Last Line: Never the mind is entangled in memory's mesh.
Subject(s): Mind, The


SYZYGY, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I notice headlights out the living room window
Subject(s): Mind, The


THE BRAIN - IS WIDER THAN THE SKY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: As syllable from sound
Subject(s): Mind, The


THE BRAIN, WITHIN ITS GROOVE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And blotted out the mills!
Subject(s): Mind, The


THE MIND SPEAKS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Poor body, sitting there so calm
Last Line: To act beyond its power.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Cold; Death; Graves; Mind, The; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones


THE MIND'S LIBERTY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: The mind, with its own eyes and ears
Last Line: With its dark nipple in a cloud.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Reason; Mind, The; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


THE MIND-READER, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some things are truly lost. Think of a sun-hat
Subject(s): Religion; Mind, The; Theology


THE WHITE ROOM, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The obvious is difficult
Subject(s): Summer; Trees; Mind, The


THREE PERSONS, by FANNY HOWE    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The fields are infertile
Last Line: There was never any other
Subject(s): Mind, The


UNSUSPECTING, by JEAN TOOMER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a natty kind of mind
Subject(s): Mind, The


UNTITLED, by LAURIE SHECK    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are times when the mind
Subject(s): Mind, The