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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: ALEXANDER, WILL Matches Found: 262 Alexander, Will Poet's Biography 49 poems available by this author ABOVE THE HUMAN NERVE DOMAIN Poem Text First Line: To unlock predisposives in carbon Last Line: Of the bell of a bloodless liminal amber Subject(s): Science; Scientists ALBANIA & THE DEATH OF ENVER HOXHA First Line: Sacrifice / closely paralleled with sadness Subject(s): Albania; Hoxha, Enver (1908-1985) ALBANIA & THE DEATH OF ENVER HOXHA First Line: Sacrifice %closely paralleled with sadness Last Line: & the bulging knot of old 'fox-trots' %& purges Subject(s): Albania; Hoxha, Enver (1908-1985) APPRENTICESHIP Poem Text First Line: Here I am Last Line: By ... Paratactic co-ordination /& fire Subject(s): Poetry & Poets CARIBBEAN: LANGUAGE AS TRANSLUCENT IMMINENCE 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 CONCERNING THE HENBANE BIRD , SELS First Line: ... I am witness as draft %as cataclysm through stillness Last Line: Yet at the same time enduring the anti-isolation of mass COPING PRANA Poem Text First Line: It is the way I breathe Last Line: Being leakage from a barbarous index province Subject(s): Body, Human; Reason DAWNING ZONE/THE ERUPTING PARALLEL SPECIES First Line: Crossed beyond the zones of the piscean, meandering like a sand Last Line: The substance of vistas EXPLOSIVE DECIBEL JOURNEYS First Line: Inside the catalytic mine field Last Line: & the eerie decibels of an insolvent limbo FINAL POLTERGEIST OF POMPEII First Line: In this ruthless zone of nervous brutality Last Line: For the lava to flow & turn the flesh into tufa FISHING AS IMPENETRABLE STRAY First Line: Perhaps I fish by carnivorous scorpion Last Line: Inscripted %on certain methane tablets in kemet IMPULSE AND NOTHINGNESS First Line: These dense geranium surges of thought Last Line: Spying on shapes in the darkness INSIDE THE GHOST VOLCANO Poem Text First Line: With the body of a morbid hanging doll Last Line: As pleas for hushed exhibits Subject(s): Volcanoes LIFE IN POST-SOCRATIC BIOLOGY First Line: Body Last Line: With a taint which seeps from conquered fractional salt LIGHTNING: PART II: BALL LIGHTNING First Line: Disk falling from negative chargesh Last Line: Imposed existence of peril NEXUS OF PHANTOMS First Line: In a lorikeet cave %motions exist of disintegrated swans Last Line: Scattered across a geometric optometry OBLIQUE SENSORIAL SAVAGERY First Line: You are green Subject(s): Animals; Wilderness OBLIQUE SENSORIAL SAVAGERY First Line: You are green Last Line: Always cooking in your nostrils %a wayward blend of hot photinos & selvas Subject(s): Animals; Wilderness ON ANTI-BIOGRAPHY Poem Text First Line: For me, biography is a lantern, burning in the midst of parenthetical opaqueness. In a Last Line: Into the ecstasy of x-rays and blackness Subject(s): Biography; Biographers ON THE FORMING SUBSTANCE OF ORISHAS First Line: Like spectra glass Subject(s): Faith; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology ON THE FORMING SUBSTANCE OF ORISHAS First Line: Like spectra glass Last Line: Beyond the trait of canonic barrier as reversion Subject(s): Faith; Religion PART 3 RETURN STROKE, FR. LIGHTNING First Line: Lightning channel filled up with language Last Line: Piercing the brink of the transparent boundless POET IN POST-ENDURANCE First Line: Evolved from the smoke of a swirling helium tree Last Line: Across the arch of your ferocious lingual fingers PROVISION FOR THE HIGHER OZONE BODY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: A beaker of yeast Subject(s): Bodies; Reason; Spiritual Life; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals PROVISION FOR THE HIGHER OZONE BODY First Line: A beaker of yeast Last Line: At the pitch of the transmuted ozone body Subject(s): Bodies; Reason; Spiritual Life PSYCHOTROPIC SQUALLS First Line: To peer into the obverse Last Line: Of unstable altimeter reverses REMORSE & INFINITY First Line: Rushing into salt %& blackened sapphire shadows %immortality Last Line: Into an a-moral falling %of hyperemian rains SONG IN BARBAROUS FUMAROLE OF THE JAPANESE CRESTED IBIS Poem Text First Line: To claim as arcane vapour Last Line: Of stunning axial omegas Subject(s): Japanese Ibis SONG OF OCCULT SOLAR RIDDLES First Line: Sun %cut off at the nerves Last Line: Sun %purple voice %crushed anis rivulets %like a splayed outmacaw star %boiling in the branches SPONTANEOUS BLAZES: BETRAYED First Line: I know what it feels like to be hurt Last Line: At this very moment I feel I know nothing SPONTANEOUS BLAZES: INVISIBLE CITY First Line: If I were to build an invisible city it would have crystalline food, which Last Line: Would mount a maroon boat, and arrive at the crystalline towers to have a trans_ %parent repast SPONTANEOUS BLAZES: MY INTERIOR CITY First Line: We are dogs feeding off living aliens and humans. The city's water supply ends Last Line: Are broken. The birds cease to fly, they simply walk on the earth SPONTANEOUS BLAZES: ON THE UNIVERSE First Line: The universe contains moons, planets, suns, galaxies Last Line: And I wonder if there are other things out there uncountable %in terms of the earth SPONTANEOUS BLAZES: THERE'S ALWAYS LIGHT First Line: The world can't stay dark forever. The sun occulted. No one that's in pain Last Line: And if someone cares, and if someone would stretch out a hand and say I care STRATOSPHERIC CANTICLES, SELS. First Line: To paint %is to make a mark of mirrors Last Line: With a temperature which reddens into eclectic willows of jade SUMATRAN MIRROR WORLD First Line: An eaten dictatorial bracelet wasting down to the natural Last Line: Into nude bursts of ether, feeding from a crown of secretive skull bones & saffron TELEPATHIC CARNIVORE First Line: The fleece of its ubiquitous mineral body Last Line: In a transcendental verbal swagger Subject(s): Animals; Lions THE CARIBBEAN: LANGUAGE AS TRANSLUCENT IMMINENCE First Line: Language being the primal conductor of liberty becomes the mag Subject(s): Caribbean Sea; Identity; Language Poetry; Tongues THE IMPALPABLE BRUSH FIRE SINGER Poem Text First Line: No/he is not an urn singer Last Line: Stung at its source by piranhas Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs THE POINTLESS NETHER PLOW Poem Text First Line: It is farming in an inclement sun system Last Line: Carving his soil with volcanic blue seeds Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE PSYCHOTROPIC SQUALLS Poem Text First Line: To peer into the obverse Last Line: Of unstable altimeter reverses Subject(s): Language THE TELEPATHIC CARNIVORE Poem Text First Line: The fleece of its ubiquitous mineral body Subject(s): Animals; Lions THOUGHT AS PHILOSOPHICAL TORMENT Poem Text First Line: In the mirror of excessive drift Last Line: Bound to invisible comradery Subject(s): Thought; Thinking TOWARDS THE PRIMEVAL LIGHTNING FIELD Poem Text First Line: The old chronological towers are ash Last Line: Great sustained emotion of eternity Subject(s): Language VENTRILOQUAL LABOUR First Line: As species after species implodes through disappearance, it seems the Last Line: Chemically superseding the poisonous metrical weight of our era WATER DOG First Line: Born under butane & water Last Line: Of cyclic ambrosial dimensions WITHIN A MORE INTENSE THALASSIC First Line: A spark from ambrosian leper fields Last Line: Emitting their powers %from the depth of 'hydrozoan medusae' WITHIN THE OPAQUE TERMITES' MORASS First Line: They %of collided pincer malfunction Last Line: The wrnching leonine soils WITHIN THE ORACULAR SEA HORSE MIRROR First Line: Immersed %in this verdurous galaxy of salt Last Line: For declination & explosion Alexander, William P. 1 poems available by this author THE BLUEBIRD Poem Text First Line: One bird I know, that haunts the blissful / scene Last Line: A benediction, when the bluebird sings! Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds; Spring Alexander (1567-1640), William Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Stirling, 1st Earl Of 9 poems available by this author ALEXANDRIAN TRAGEDY (EXCERPT) First Line: So change all things which subject are to sight Last Line: There are three thousand in one great mans brest AURORA Poem Text First Line: O happy tithon! If thou know'st thy hap Last Line: Who art of one so worthy well-beloved! Subject(s): Love DOOMSDAY: TREASURES IN HEAVEN Poem Text First Line: That happy squadron is not question'd now Last Line: We see how hardly rich men go to heaven. Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise ECHO First Line: Ah, will no soul give ear unto my mone? PRIDE First Line: Pride by presumption bred, when at a height Subject(s): Pride ROBERT BURNS Poem Text First Line: All scottish legends did his fancy fashion Last Line: Driving his laurell'd plough! Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets SONNET Poem Text First Line: Then whilst that latmos did contain her bliss Last Line: And for each kiss I take would give her twain. TRAGEDY OF CROESUS First Line: Fierce tyrant, death, who in thy wrath Subject(s): Croesus, King Of Lydia (d. 546 B.c.) TRAGEDY OF DARIUS, SELS. Alexander (1824-1911), William Poet's Biography 13 poems available by this author A FINE DAY ON LOUGH SWILLY Poem Text First Line: Soft slept the beautiful autumn Last Line: And lost its way in the heaven. Subject(s): Nature AMONG THE SAND-HOLLS First Line: Form the ocean half rood EPITAPH IN FAHAN CHURCHYARD First Line: Alone with christ in this sequester'd place EPITAPH IN THE CATHEDRAL OF DERRY First Line: Down through our crowded lanes and closer air INSCRIPTION [ON THE STATUE ERECTED TO CAPTAIN BOYD] First Line: Oh! In the quiet havem, safe for aye OXFORD AND HER CHANCELLOR First Line: Fair as that woman whom the prophet old OXFORD IN 1845 First Line: A city of young life astir for fame PREFACE TO THE FINDING OF THE BOOK AND OTHER POEMS First Line: I never yet heard music, howe'er sweet SONNETS. SUGGGESTED BY ST. AUGUSTINE First Line: What love I when I love thee, o my god? THE BIRTHDAY CROWN Poem Text First Line: If aught of simple song have power to touch Last Line: Give her the unfading crown!' Subject(s): Birthdays UP ABOVE First Line: Down below, the wild november whistling VERY FAR AWAY First Line: One touch there is of magic white VISION OF OXFORD, SELS. First Line: Methought I met a lady yester even Baan, Alexander Willem 1 poems available by this author RACE First Line: A beast that roams the plains Craig, William Alexander 1 poems available by this author A NORSE WAR-SONG, A.D. 750, FR. THE DEATH SONG OF LODBROC Poem Text First Line: We hew'd with our swords Last Line: We hew'd with our swords. Subject(s): War Mair, Alexander William Poet's Biography 2 poems available by this author HESIOD, 1908 Poem Text First Line: Death at the headlands, hesiod, long ago Last Line: And strong orion and the hyades. Subject(s): Death; Hesiod (9th Century B.c.); Dead, The IN MEMORIAM First Line: Though of their glory all the earth is haven Percy, William Alexander Poet's Biography 181 poems available by this author A BALLAD OF ST. SEBASTIEN Poem Text First Line: Sebastien, sebastien Last Line: O pale-eyed man, art thou the king? Subject(s): Archers And Archery; Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery A BRITTANY LOVE SONG Poem Text First Line: My only love is a sailor lad Last Line: Or let him die in the sea! Subject(s): Jealousy A CANTICLE Poem Text First Line: Lovely is daytime when the joyful sun goes singing Last Line: Of glimmering petals down an air from far away. Subject(s): Beauty; Nature A HUNGER SONG Poem Text First Line: Some are fed on kingly fare Last Line: Feed me not, love, on crumbs. Subject(s): Death; Hunger; Love; Singing & Singers; Soul; Dead, The A LITTLE PAGE'S SONG Poem Text First Line: God's lark at morning I would be Last Line: And maybe praise! Subject(s): Religion; Spring; Theology A PAGE SINGS Poem Text First Line: Where leads my way? Last Line: Tis all of you! Subject(s): Morning; Singing & Singers; Youth A PAGE'S ROAD SONG Poem Text First Line: Jesu, / if thou wilt make Last Line: Jesu. Subject(s): Heaven; Jesus Christ; Singing & Singers; Trees; Paradise A SEA BALLAD Poem Text First Line: Is that the sea, is that the sea? Last Line: "god without pity! O son, little son!" Subject(s): Mothers; Sea; Ocean A SEA-BIRD Poem Text First Line: I cry, I cry Last Line: And my heart that is mad. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Hearts; Night; Sea; Dead, The; Bedtime; Ocean A VOLUNTEER'S GRAVE Poem Text First Line: Not long ago it was a bird Last Line: Than this dead boy! Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Graves; Sleep; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones A WINTER'S NIGHT Poem Text First Line: The wind has reverenced the splendor of the night Last Line: I would to-night the storms were all awake! Subject(s): Night; Storms; Wind; Winter; Bedtime A WOOD SONG Poem Text First Line: My love is a bush in bloom Last Line: And dearer far than you. Subject(s): Forests; Love; Singing & Singers; Woods ADVENTURE Poem Text First Line: Who would not love to go Last Line: Taking, you fail. Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Morning ADVICE IN SPRINGTIME First Line: When evening skies are smoked with rose Last Line: Beneath the unwimpled spring's embrace AFTER ANY BATTLE Poem Text First Line: Voice of earth: these are my children's voices! Born Last Line: And butchery to sacrifice! Subject(s): Death; Earth; Tears; Voices; Dead, The; World AFTER HEARING MUSIC First Line: Give me a breath of air! Last Line: Or purple ships outbound? AFTER READING THE RUBAIYAT Poem Text First Line: Still burning, let me cast the cup of youth aside Last Line: The blood of life's unraptured warriors. Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Night; Youth; Nightmares; Bedtime AFTERGLOW First Line: Limpid lavender like water-hyacinths Last Line: Flush ethereally with the flooding of first love ALL SOUL'S DAY Poem Text First Line: Quiet with amber light Last Line: Doth courage and assurance bring. Subject(s): All Souls' Day; Death; Soul; Tears; Dead, The AN EPISTLE FROM CORINTH Poem Text First Line: Paul of tarsus, I have enquired of jesus Last Line: An upward gaze. . . . Subject(s): Corinth, Greece; Death; Jesus Christ; Dead, The ARCADIAN IDYLL First Line: Far, far from here Last Line: The little wood-gods %listening ARCADY LOST Poem Text First Line: The cherry bloom and robin time of year Last Line: Where once, o comrade mine, we heard them sing. Subject(s): Hearts; Pain; Singing & Singers; Spring; Suffering; Misery AT PARTING Poem Text First Line: And so we part! Last Line: And I have heart to rhyme. Subject(s): Absence; Beauty; Lips; Smiles; Separation; Isolation AUSTRALIA IN LONDON Poem Text First Line: Between the battle over Last Line: We fought, as you, to be free. Subject(s): Australia; Freedom; Kisses; London; Youth; Liberty AUTUMN SONG First Line: Time was when billowy autumn skies Last Line: Tis happiness that grieves AUTUMN TUNE Poem Text First Line: Sweeter than spring, sweeter than spring Last Line: Where death is a-dream on azure wings. Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Dreams; Fear; Life; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The; Nightmares AUTUMN WISDOM First Line: The nights of autumn stars are never still Last Line: He spills his fruit and laughs against the stars AUTUMNAL Poem Text First Line: To-night the tumult of the autumn wind Last Line: A little while, o leaves, and we shall know! Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Earth; Seasons; Wind; Fall; Dead, The; World AVERNEL First Line: From avernel the hills flow down Last Line: Between the clear dark trees BEFORE DAWN Poem Text First Line: Breath of the dawn, breath of the dawn Last Line: Purify me. Subject(s): Dawn; Sea; Soul; Sunrise; Ocean BETH MARIE Poem Text First Line: Impatiently she drew her breath Last Line: Who only seemed a rose. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The BRITTANY IDYLL First Line: Far, far from here Last Line: As all men know BURNISHED CALM First Line: If I could be as calm as willow branches Last Line: And with a burnished calm CALYPSO TO ULYSSES Poem Text First Line: If there were any room within my heart Last Line: Than you an aging man's concupiscence. Subject(s): Calypso (mythology); Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus CANOPUS First Line: When february brings the hopeless days Last Line: And birds are nesting in the calm sweet sun CHARIOTEER OF DELPHI First Line: You who ran races stand so still Subject(s): Delphi; Sculpture And Sculptors CHORUS Poem Text First Line: Surely in no benignant mood Last Line: The disenchanted ledges of old age. Subject(s): Aging; Goddesses & Gods; Life; Mythology; Youth COMPENSATION First Line: Delicious hurt is in the throb Last Line: With eyes undimmed and unhurt throat CONFIDANTS First Line: Rejoice, my heart, that the stars do not comprehend COURAGE Poem Text First Line: Into a brown wood flew a brown bird Last Line: And whistled merrily. Subject(s): Birds CRETAN IDYL Poem Text First Line: Ah, see the grasshoppers, flame-colored, beautiful Last Line: Flashing their flame-colored wings. Subject(s): Crete DEBUSSY SERENADE First Line: Love, they say, is kind Last Line: And go, enriched DEFEAT Poem Text First Line: Though you have struck me to the bloody core Last Line: Lift up your shadow eyes to mine still wet. Subject(s): Eyes; Hearts; Tears DELIGHT First Line: Delight it is has kept me Last Line: Before I'd lose delight! DELPHI HUMORESQUE Poem Text First Line: The tree of agamemnon gives a shade Last Line: Then, kissing a dead leaf good-bye, is gone. Subject(s): Delphi; Greece; Castri; Greeks DUSK: ASSUAN Poem Text First Line: Serene, he mounts the minaret of day Last Line: But faithful come those worshipers, the stars. Subject(s): Birds; Dusk; Silence ECSTASY Poem Text First Line: The moon shines now Last Line: Hour of delight! Subject(s): Dreams; Forests; Love; Moon; Nightmares; Woods ENZIO'S KINGDOM First Line: Dead, then, the most imperial of emperors Last Line: The end is sure, and we have much to dream on EPILOGUE Poem Text First Line: O god, author of song Last Line: To shape not all unworthy of the thee in me. EPILOGUE First Line: This wind upon my mouth, these stars I see Last Line: I am content with that I cannot prove EURIPIDES Poem Text First Line: To him the fate we bear was like a sea Last Line: That builded on the sea, loved his name most. Subject(s): Death; Euripides (484-406 B.c.); Hearts; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Sin; Dead, The; Ocean EVENING LINES Poem Text First Line: Ah, dreamy world and liquid-sounding leaves Last Line: Mysterious harmony, perhaps heard elsewhere. Subject(s): Faith; Hearts; Lips; Silence; Belief; Creed EX AETATE Poem Text First Line: Not for more hours of bliss I make demand Last Line: Of sunshine, certain memory of them. Subject(s): Life; Summer EXCHANGE First Line: It does not seem a piteous thing to pass Last Line: What loved exchange - these desolate, hurt blisses %for folded earth! FAILURE Poem Text First Line: For them that on the mountain fight beneath Last Line: Unvigilant, unwounded; they but sheep! Subject(s): Dreams; God; Life; Tears; Nightmares FAREWELL TO ETNA Poem Text First Line: Great mountain, swathed in blue with foamy crest Last Line: May counsel with my soul to rival his. Subject(s): Farewell; Mountains; Soul; Tears; Parting; Hills; Downs (great Britain) FARMERS Poem Text First Line: I watch the farmers in their fields Last Line: Wisdom and discontent? Variant Title(s): Agricolae Subject(s): Farm Life; God; Love; Quarrels; Rain; Agriculture; Farmers; Arguments; Disagreements FOR A POET'S BIRTHDAY First Line: The plowman breaks the smelling earth Last Line: Where song is sown with seed FOR A WORD First Line: How shall you ever know the adoration Last Line: This tenderness of love you cannot know? FOR MUSIC Poem Text First Line: O singer, canst thou summon up Last Line: So long ago? -- then sing! Subject(s): Hearts; Science; Singing & Singers; Spring; Scientists FOR THEM THAT DIED IN BATTLE Poem Text First Line: How blossomy must be the halls of death Last Line: And honor's music on them like sunrise. Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Tears; Youth; Dead, The FOUR CAPRI IMPROMPTUS Poem Text First Line: Sweet as the furze flower fainting in the noon heat Last Line: But not less quickly withered? Subject(s): Flowers; Sea; Ocean FRENCH BLUE First Line: There's a blue flower grows in france Last Line: Of one dear lady's eyes GENTLE HERDSMAN, TELL TO ME GIRGENTI Poem Text First Line: So many here have struggled, fought the fight! Last Line: Defeated always -- but how splendidly! Subject(s): Death; Goddesses & Gods; Life; Mythology; Dead, The GREENVILLE TREES: THE CHINA-BERRIES First Line: Thousands of years ago Last Line: Yet then too we are beautiful! Subject(s): Prehistoric Antiquities; Trees GREENVILLE TREES: THE LOCUSTS First Line: In vain we fill the winter's palms Last Line: And it grows late GREENVILLE TREES: THE LOMBARDY POPLARS First Line: Captive in this drab alien land Last Line: Stride down the street that leads to france GREENVILLE TREES: THE WATER OAKS First Line: Once in our branches Last Line: A harvest for some still-delaying husbandman HIS PEACE First Line: I love to think of them at dawn Last Line: The marvellous peace of god Subject(s): Religion HYMN OF THE MAGDALENE First Line: I could not see the morning stars he made Last Line: I have returned to you and to my god! HYMN TO THE SUN First Line: Strike down into my breast, o sun, and cleanse my soul Last Line: Enough to last this little way to night IN AN AUTUMN WOOD Poem Text First Line: Thou, too, o bronze-eyed darling of the feast Last Line: I love thy loveliness that hears no cry. Subject(s): Autumn; Hearts; Love; Pain; Seasons; Fall; Suffering; Misery IN APRIL ONCE Poem Text First Line: Guido: thou are the knightliest jailer that ever stood Last Line: Voice of the madman. Son of david, have mercy on us! Subject(s): April; Churches; Florence, Italy; God; Plays & Playwrights; Popes; Prisons & Prisoners; Cathedrals; Papacy IN DALMATIA Poem Text First Line: A brotherhood of bleached, air-scourged peaks Last Line: Pauses to gaze adown, and, smiling, dives. Subject(s): Death; Life; Sea; Youth; Dead, The; Ocean IN FRANCE Poem Text First Line: Let not a foreign earth weigh down my head Last Line: They will know I am theirs; they will make room. Subject(s): France; Love; Summer IN NEW YORK: 1. ON SUNDAY MORNING Poem Text First Line: Far, far from here the church bells ring Last Line: As she prays for her child. Subject(s): Bells; New York City; Religion; Sun; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Theology IN NEW YORK: 2. THE SONG YOU LOVE Poem Text First Line: When I have sung the sweet songs and the sad Last Line: Restless with words it could not sing. Subject(s): New York City; Singing & Singers; Soul; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple IN NEW YORK: 3. WEARINESS Poem Text First Line: I sometimes think thou art my secret love Last Line: Then give, beseech thee, give me sleep. Subject(s): Dreams; Kisses; Life; Love; New York City; Nightmares; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple IN NEW YORK: 4. IN THE NIGHT Poem Text First Line: Drifting, groping / for delight Last Line: Not there? Subject(s): Love; Night; Sleep; Wind; Bedtime IN NEW YORK: 5. HOME Poem Text First Line: I have a need of silence and of stars Last Line: And then -- the summer stars . . . I will go home. Variant Title(s): Home Subject(s): Eyes; Faith; Home; Life; Love; Silence; Belief; Creed IN OUR YARD Poem Text First Line: Moses, moses, seeing god Last Line: That held a mocking-bird. Subject(s): God; Moses IN THE COLD BRIGHT WIND Poem Text First Line: Merlin, merlin's gone away Last Line: And his laughter on the wind. Subject(s): Merlin IN THE DELTA Poem Text First Line: The river country's wide and flat Last Line: A pilgrim and our guest. IN THE STORM Poem Text First Line: The shining moments are so far between! Last Line: And this, too, ends. There is a certain end. Subject(s): Life; Soul; Storms INSOMNIA First Line: O little boats of capri Last Line: When mine were sleepless, too INVOCATION Poem Text First Line: Sleep of the cooled lids and breath of flowers Last Line: Bring back the purple to my hills of dream. Subject(s): Flowers; Science; Sleep; Tears; Youth; Scientists ITALIAN SUMMER First Line: Tiberius is in his grave Last Line: Love passes like a fashion LETTER First Line: Aid my heart in its fidelity! Last Line: And aid my heart in its fidelity LETTER FROM JOHN KEATS TO FANNY BRAWNE First Line: I had not thought to ever taste again Last Line: Good-bye, bright star, good-bye. God bless you, fanny LEVEE NOCTURNE First Line: A swan hangs brooding where the light Last Line: Escape awhile in sleep LONGING Poem Text First Line: At last the sunset and the quietness Last Line: And then, together, home. Subject(s): Dreams; Longing; Love; Peace; Tears; Nightmares LULLABY Poem Text First Line: Sleep, brown-eyed, sleep Last Line: The dew, only the dew. Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares MAD MAID'S SONG First Line: Here's tansy for you, and a sprig of rue Last Line: Wear them, and wear enough for two MARCH MAGIC Poem Text First Line: Once more the fickle birds return Last Line: A magic wisp of moon. Subject(s): Birds; Magic; March (month); Sea; Ocean MEDITATING A JOURNEY First Line: The swallows curling in the sky Last Line: How coldly bright! MEMORY First Line: I saw four days of spring come floating down Last Line: That now I think you do not even see MR. W. H. TO THE POET Poem Text First Line: My thanks, dear friend, as always! But, I fear Last Line: And friendship is love's canonized name. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Friendship; Gratitude; Love NEW MOON Poem Text First Line: Now day / drawing his golden waters down the west Last Line: From their too youthful wonder in the sea. Subject(s): Moon; Sea; Stars; Ocean NIGHT OFF GALLIPOLI: 1. A DELIRIOUS VOICE Poem Text First Line: Sweeter than sleep and the dream of death Last Line: Being rest. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Sea; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares; Ocean NIGHT OFF GALLIPOLI: 2. VOICE OF A YOUTHFUL TURK Poem Text First Line: If only up the straits the tempest flew Last Line: Dying again upon the mouth of you! Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Death; Moon; Storms; Dead, The NIGHT OFF GALLIPOLI: 3. AN ENGLISH VOICE Poem Text First Line: I knew the stars would come Last Line: O southward blowing wind, blow on! Subject(s): Death; Lesbos (island), Greece; Sea; Soul; Stars; Dead, The; Ocean NIGHT OFF GALLIPOLI: 4. VOICE OF A BRETON FISHERMAN Poem Text First Line: Douarnenez! Douarnenez! Last Line: Break on mine eyes with the breaking day! Subject(s): Eyes; Fish & Fishing; Home; Sea; Towns; Ocean NIGHT OFF GALLIPOLI: 5. VOICE OF AN ENGLISH POET Poem Text First Line: South!...These stars I know!...And south is greece! Last Line: That hide but do not hush the river's brink. . . . Subject(s): Death; Greece; Hearts; Sleep; Stars; Dead, The; Greeks NIGHT OFF GALLIPOLI: 6. A CANADIAN VOICE Poem Text First Line: God, god, how well they meant Last Line: Give them, o god, not heroes' hearts, but brains! Subject(s): Freedom; God; Mythology - Classical; Nations; Sea; Liberty; Ocean NIGHT OFF GALLIPOLI: 7. VOICE OF A FRENCH POET Poem Text First Line: And so the songs must go unsung Last Line: And I am well content. Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Hearts; Singing & Singers; Nightmares NIGHT OFF GALLIPOLI: 8. A HOST OF SPIRITS Poem Text First Line: We fought and saw the stars and fell Last Line: Take us; like men we fought. Subject(s): Death; Fights; Life; Dead, The NOVEMBER Poem Text First Line: How has november won Last Line: How close the tears! Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; November; Tears; World OCTOBER First Line: These are the days, too few, that I would hold Last Line: And all is well though much has never been ON LEAVE Poem Text First Line: I have reached a green, green island Last Line: I have touched at the isle of the blest. Subject(s): Grief; Islands; Rivers; Sea; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean ON LEAVING TAORMINA Poem Text First Line: O almond trees, beneath whose fruited shade Last Line: Take on, I pray, one shade of pink the more. Subject(s): Love; Sea; Soul; Summer; Trees; Ocean ONE PATH First Line: Outside the earthly paradise Last Line: I know - but that is well OUTCAST First Line: A summer's twilight ramble brought me where Last Line: Nature, who played the trick, can laugh no more.' OVERTONES Poem Text First Line: I heard a bird at break of day Last Line: Alone, among dead trees. Subject(s): Birds; Nature PHAON IN HADES Poem Text First Line: To-day the very dead would love his face Last Line: Of blame, were I to love his beauty less! Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Faces; Hades; Persephone; Tears; Dead, The; Proserpine; Proserpina POPPY FIELDS Poem Text First Line: You say this poppy blooms so red Last Line: To rise, a poppy field of france? Subject(s): Fields; Poppies; Pastures; Meadows; Leas PORTRAIT First Line: When I see you I think of mary, the mother of god Last Line: The mother of god, before she was a mother PRISON SONG Poem Text First Line: Beat, beat, wings of my heart Last Line: For between -- the iron bars. Subject(s): Birds; Hearts; Prisons & Prisoners; Singing & Singers PROLOGUE Poem Text First Line: Whose blood runs gay as summer's Last Line: One of your kith and kind. Subject(s): Blood; Hearts; Night; Bedtime RAIN PATTER First Line: The lambs are sleeping in the rain Last Line: Than walking together in the rain! RECOGNITION First Line: Quietly, silently passing, at twilight, when streets are crowded RIOLAMA Poem Text First Line: There is a land beyond the lands you know Last Line: My native land that I shall never know. Subject(s): Dreams; Forests; Love; Moon; Nightmares; Woods SAFE SECRETS First Line: I will carry terrible things to the grave with me Last Line: I can sleep without fear of telling SANCTUARY Poem Text First Line: Sweep over me, o lovely winds Last Line: Face down, and calls on you. Subject(s): Hearts; Pain; Rain; Sanctuaries; Wind; Suffering; Misery SAPPHO IN LEVKAS Poem Text First Line: Zeus, my father, once again Last Line: At last the comfort and the cleansing of the sea. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Life; Love; Mythology; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Truth SET OF MOON Poem Text First Line: The archeress had gone Last Line: The city of the gods that never sleep. Subject(s): Archers And Archery; Cities; Moon; Urban Life SHE GRIEVES IN THE DUSK Poem Text First Line: Ah, he was white and slender Last Line: Thinking him true. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SIGHT AND SOUND Poem Text First Line: I saw a handful of white stars Last Line: "that blue-bird's ""lover, lover, lover!" Subject(s): Colors SIREN SONG First Line: These are the seaward cliffs: let us sing and forget Last Line: And the heart that sings is the heart that is cloven SOARING Poem Text First Line: My heart is a bird to-night Last Line: Make shudder the trees, lean and bare! Subject(s): Hearts; Stars; Trees SONG Poem Text First Line: O singing heart, think not of aught save song Last Line: And here or there, sometime, somewhere, 'twill reach the grain. Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Hearts; Science; Singing & Singers; Scientists SONG First Line: Sorrowful leaves of the winter oak Last Line: In the spring, the spring, the tender spring SPRING NIGHT IN THE MOUNTAINS First Line: The lakes of the sky are clearer than day Last Line: Are blown past, lip to lip, unforsworn ST FRANCIS TO THE BIRDS Poem Text First Line: Daytime? The stars quite gone? Last Line: Go! But birds, my birds, come back to me! Subject(s): Birds; God; Love; Saints STIRRUP CUP First Line: I whisper to my heart words of courage SUBLIMATION First Line: Lock your sin in a willow cage Last Line: His beak will take its drink SWALLOWS Poem Text First Line: Over the roofs the swallows fly Last Line: They would not fly again. Subject(s): Flight; Prayer; Swallows; Flying THAT KINGDOM First Line: Fingerless cactus hands heal in the sun Last Line: Where ocean yawns and screaming storm-birds cluster THE COAST OF BOHEMIA Poem Text First Line: Like some still angel who, in toilless might Last Line: Of sea flamed loose -- and then we saw those isles. Subject(s): Bohemian Forest, Europe; Sea; Ocean THE DELTA AUTUMN Poem Text First Line: Give me an ebbing sunset of the fall Last Line: Of that be my dreaming, under the fennel-crusted sand. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall THE FARM AGAIN Poem Text First Line: The dreamy rain comes down Last Line: Gay phantom armies pass. Subject(s): Farm Life; Laughter; Rain; Soldiers; Agriculture; Farmers THE GLEAM Poem Text First Line: This corpuscle that from my heart Last Line: Eternal mind's activity. Subject(s): Light THE GREEN BIRD SEETH ISEULT Poem Text First Line: A green bird on a golden bush Last Line: Deliriously. Subject(s): Birds THE HAPPY ISLES Poem Text First Line: How comes the spring in those far lands of yours? Last Line: And on their crest the calm of sunset. Subject(s): Islands; Soul; Spring; Tears THE HOLY WOMEN Poem Text First Line: I have seen mary at the cross Last Line: Live on our street. Subject(s): Women THE IMMORTAL RESIDUE Poem Text First Line: Love and the lofty heart and tears - these three Last Line: Hold back their portion due of tears and dark. Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Socrates (470-399 B.c.); Tears; Nightmares THE LITTLE SHEPHERD'S SONG Poem Text First Line: The leaves, the little birds, and I Last Line: A bird! Subject(s): Poplar Trees; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Singing & Singers THE LOST HERITAGE Poem Text First Line: Beauty gone, and beauty gone Last Line: And loveliness its toy. Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Beauty; History; Knowledge; Love; Time; Historians THE MAN IN WHITE Poem Text First Line: Soldier, knowest thou the land Last Line: "and we shall be at home." Subject(s): Kisses; Sleep; Soldiers; Strangers; Time THE PILGRIM OF THE UPLAND MEADOWS Poem Text First Line: Diverging trails we climb Last Line: Or else a quiet stone. Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE QUESTION Poem Text First Line: Is it enough to feel the opal spring Last Line: It is enough? Subject(s): Beauty; Fate; Life; Soul; Destiny THE RETURN OF THE LEAVES Poem Text First Line: Leaves and the sweet-choired blue Last Line: Fled, with all but its pain. Subject(s): Hearts; Leaves; Pain; Youth; Suffering; Misery THE SILENT SINGERS Poem Text First Line: And proserpine, still fragrant of the air Last Line: But pluto's mouth, o mother proserpine! Subject(s): Death; Goddesses & Gods; Hearts; Mythology; Singing & Singers; Tears; Dead, The THE SOLDIER GENERATION Poem Text First Line: We are the sons of disaster Last Line: Will yield of our strivings, god. Subject(s): Faith; Grief; Lies; Soldiers; Truth; Belief; Creed; Sorrow; Sadness THE SQUIRE Poem Text First Line: I have sung me a stave, a stave or two Last Line: That ever death did house. Variant Title(s): The Young Squire Subject(s): Death; Drinks & Drinking; Sea; Dead, The; Wine; Ocean THE UNLOVED TO HIS BELOVED Poem Text First Line: Could I pluck down aldebaran Last Line: More vainly turn and stretch to you my hands. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited THE WANDERER Poem Text First Line: I have grown weary of the open sea Last Line: A little hour of peace, a little sun! Subject(s): Poseidon (mythology); Sea; Singing & Singers; Storms; Wandering & Wanderers; Ocean THE WOOD Poem Text First Line: There was a knight once rode from out the sun Last Line: Or came unto the marsh, I never knew. Subject(s): Dreams; Eyes; Forests; Knights & Knighthood; Nightmares; Woods THREE WOOD SONGS: 1. TO A DOGWOOD IN SUMMER Poem Text First Line: They tell me that essential you Last Line: Your moonlight and your snow. Subject(s): Dogwood; Snow; Summer; Trees THREE WOOD SONGS: 2. PATH'S END Poem Text First Line: Death is here, death is there Last Line: Death remains, and fear, and fear. Subject(s): Death; Fear; Dead, The THREE WOOD SONGS: 3. CHORALE Poem Text First Line: The branches of the sky bend grandly in the night wind Last Line: And splendor endures, and the glory of stars is forever. Subject(s): Night; Stars; Wind; Bedtime THRENODY First Line: Sleep on, sleep on TO A MOCKING-BIRD Poem Text First Line: Thy taunting happiness Last Line: Beareth the blue, homeric, star-entangled tide! Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Hearts; Mockingbirds; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight TO A MOCKING-BIRD: FROM TAORMINA Poem Text First Line: The nightingale has a golden heart Last Line: With the free, proud heart of a man. Subject(s): Birds; Life; Love; Mockingbirds; Nightingales; Tears TO A STRANGER First Line: When I see your beauty the beasts in me lie down Last Line: Against the hardly-visible, wide-swarming stars TO AN OLD TUNE Poem Text First Line: You cannot choose but love, lad Last Line: Or stab you -- smile, lad, smile. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Life; Love; Dead, The TO BUTTERFLY Poem Text First Line: Do you remember how the twilight stood Last Line: When it is march -- do you remember still? Subject(s): Birds; Evening; Gardens & Gardening; Moon; Silence; Sunset; Twilight TO C. P. Poem Text First Line: Her spirit's loveliness was such Last Line: That now are grey with tears for me. Subject(s): Bodies; Eyes; Tears TO CHATTERTON Poem Text First Line: Immortal boy! Whose years scarce reached my own Last Line: Have I, and still my fields are green and wet. Subject(s): Death; Fear; Fortune; Life; Soul; Dead, The TO LUCREZIA Poem Text First Line: Pause we within the sunset, love Last Line: This barrier -- thy loveliness! Subject(s): Eyes; Love; Time; Youth TO MILTON Poem Text First Line: As well house up the homeless bedouin stars Last Line: Thou nomad of god's universal night! Subject(s): God; Love; Night; Tears; Bedtime TO ONE DYING First Line: When you are gone the stars will be content Last Line: Of patient waiting done TO THE FAIREST COELIA, SELS. TO THE MISSISSIPPI Poem Text First Line: They came from fierce, burnt spain to seek for gold Last Line: Of hot, long listlessness and moody course. Subject(s): Death; Explorers; Gold; Mississippi; Dead, The; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers TRAPPED Poem Text First Line: Chart back as best he might the way he'd come Last Line: The liveliest beast grows somewhat seedy, trapped. Subject(s): Trapping WHERE ILIUM WAS PROUD Poem Text First Line: Along the sands where ilium was proud Last Line: Only a deathless tale in poets' mouths. Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets; Pride; Iliad; Odyssey; Self-esteem; Self-respect WILD GEESE Poem Text First Line: When naked winter on the midnight falls Last Line: Or spirit choirs dark-flying towards some dawn? Subject(s): Geese; Stars; Winter WINDS OF WINTER First Line: Shake out, dark-tressed and multitudinous storm-winds Last Line: Welcome, dark-tressed and multitudinous storm-winds WINTER-FEAR Poem Text First Line: The rain has come Last Line: The sun, then, god! What agony these days of rain! Subject(s): Fear; Rain; Wind; Winter WONDER AND A THOUSAND SPRINGS First Line: Along the just-returning green Last Line: And smile before he joins me, near %but underground YOUTH First Line: When I look on the youth of the world I weep Last Line: Spare them, o heartless gods who spared not us! Percy. William Alexander 2 poems available by this author FROST-MORNING Poem Text First Line: The morn is cold. A whiteness newly brought TENEBRAE Poem Text First Line: Sayest thou then to all that will to hearken Subject(s): Christianity Smith, William Alexander 3 poems available by this author HIS DAY First Line: Gouty. Cork the vinic overflow JOB HUNT First Line: On bad days, the sky opens up like a bum's fly OBSERVING THE PULSE IN THE HOLLOW OF MY WRIST First Line: Light tension, there - the tendons vee |
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