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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: COWLEY, MALCOLM Matches Found: 50 Cowley, Malcolm Poet's Biography 50 poems available by this author BARN DANCE Poem Text First Line: He had been happy thinking she might love him Last Line: Down here among the the cattle that he knew Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers BILL GEORGE Poem Text First Line: Old bill george Last Line: From indian meadows west to cherry tree BLUE JUANITA, SELS. BLUE JUNIATA Poem Text First Line: Farmhouses curl like horns of plenty, hide Last Line: Made visible, a monument of air Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers BONES OF A HOUSE Poem Text First Line: Farmhouses curl like horns of plenty, hide Last Line: Became a music visible in the air CHESTNUT RIDGE Poem Text First Line: The northern turnpike winds Last Line: Deepens and fades on the chestnuts of the ridge COAL TOWN Poem Text First Line: They scarred the hillside here to build a town Last Line: Beauty is hammering, pounding through my brain. Subject(s): Beauty; Love DANNY Poem Text First Line: You marched off southward with the fire of twenty Last Line: Or mumble petulant inanities? Subject(s): American Civil War DAY COACH Poem Text First Line: Tickets please Last Line: He stumbled off with his burden of stars and hills. Subject(s): Railroads; Stations Of The Cross; Tourists; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips EMPTY BARN, DEAD FARM Poem Text First Line: Houses are incidents, barns four-square and real Last Line: The way he was taken off it was a judgment Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers ERNEST First Line: Safe is the man with blunderbuss Last Line: Against the jackals of the mind FOR ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S EVE Poem Text First Line: Then die! / outside the prison gawk Last Line: Like ashes in the winds of god. Subject(s): Bartholomew, Saint (1st Century); Saints HISTORY Poem Text First Line: If I told you that in this house Last Line: Nothing more than this. Subject(s): History; Home; Historians INTERMENT Poem Text First Line: We have lived too long together in this room Last Line: And you will turn, going silently out the door LAUREL MOUNTAIN Poem Text First Line: Listen: we were working in the woods Last Line: And hemlock needles tangled in his hair LONG VOYAGE First Line: Not that the pines were darker there Subject(s): Home MOONRISE Poem Text First Line: The dance was over. There was one last fiddle Last Line: She came to meet me here, she came to meet me MOUNTAIN FARM Poem Text First Line: I watched the agony of a mountain farm Last Line: All the night through an open and empty door. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers MOUNTAIN VALLEY Poem Text First Line: Lost in this mountain valley, we have struggled Last Line: Staring down at our cornfields covetously. Subject(s): Death; Old Age; Dead, The NOCTURNAL LANDSCAPE Poem Text First Line: I said: the moon is obviously a boat Last Line: Her eyes were fixed and mad, like mine and ghe panthers' PASSPORT BLUES Poem Text First Line: When I was a virgin Last Line: Honey, please find me a home Subject(s): Spinsters; Old Maids PINEY WOODS First Line: Teeth on the saw Last Line: The little tree dies Subject(s): Trees POEM FOR TWO VOICES Poem Text First Line: We will make our way out of this city Last Line: It is too late now PROPHETIC Poem Text First Line: With blocks of broken asphalt where the streets ran once Last Line: What excellent gardens! RESTAURATEUR WITH MUSIC Poem Text First Line: Knishes, kisses Last Line: Art in america, ai ai Subject(s): Restaurants; Jews; Cafes; Diners; Judaism ROXANNE Poem Text First Line: Was flatbush born, was twenty-six Last Line: And lived, no more than she Subject(s): Women; Suicide; Survival RUNAWAY Poem Text First Line: Now after bob had fed the cattle Last Line: Westward again, and was gone forever. Subject(s): Farm Life; Travel; Agriculture; Farmers; Journeys; Trips SEVEN Poem Text First Line: I woke and could not see the familiar white Last Line: The white egg-shaped motionless, speechless no STONE HORSE SHOALS First Line: To wade the sea mist, then to wade the sea Last Line: New fruit, strange to the tongue of men and birds SUDDEN ENCOUNTER Poem Text First Line: The worm twisted down-stream into the depths of the pool Last Line: Pink as the fins of trout THE DRY SEASON Poem Text First Line: I climbed the mountain, to its inmost crags Last Line: No blood is there THE EATER OF DARKNESS Poem Text First Line: Dipping an adroit hand into his hat Last Line: But the bullets were real and the death was real, I couldn't get over it THE FIRSTBORN Poem Text First Line: What can I offer you now, now Last Line: Only the rain beating now and the trees dim in the air THE HILL ABOVE THE MINE Poem Text First Line: Nobody comes to the graveyard on the hill Last Line: Your white bones drifting like herons across the moon. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Labor & Laborers; Graveyards; Work; Workers THE LONG VOYAGE Poem Text First Line: Not that the pines were darker there Last Line: At home, in my own country Subject(s): Home THE LOST PEOPLE Poem Text First Line: The bedroom on the courtyard, and the tree Last Line: And comforting arms, the stupor of the tomb THE MOTHER Poem Text First Line: It was a noon of freedom Last Line: Now binding me to truth Subject(s): Mothers THE SOURCE Poem Text First Line: In the hot afternoon Last Line: Rising from white sand THE STREETS OF AIR Poem Text First Line: All night waiting, in an empty house Last Line: Your path shall be the empty streets of air THE URN Poem Text First Line: Wanderers outside the gate, in hollow Last Line: Rumors of home, like oceans in a shell THOSE OF LUCIFER First Line: Out of an empty sky the dust of hours THREE HILLS Poem Text First Line: There is beauty for some TOMORROW MORNING First Line: Tomorrow, walking in the dew-bright fields TOWARDS A MORE PASSIONATE APPREHENSION OF LIFE AND DEDICATED First Line: It was an arduous task. The man must be a genius. Subject(s): Dadaism TOWARDS A MORE PASSIONATE APPREHENSION OF LIFE AND DEDICATED First Line: It was an arduous task. The man must be a genius. Last Line: Manifestations %are geometrical not ethical Subject(s): Dadaism TRANSLUCENT FINGERS Poem Text First Line: Translucent fingers on the yellow keys Last Line: To live among the other waxen flowers. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Old Age TUMBLING MUSTARD First Line: Born in a fence-corner TWO SWANS Poem Text First Line: One morning during carnival they found two Last Line: Fixedly into a fixed and empty sky. Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Old Age WILLIAM WILSON First Line: A man there is of fire and straw Last Line: True love lay strangled by othello WINTER TENEMENT First Line: When everything but love was spent Last Line: And poke the ashes in the grate' |
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