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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: FIELD, EDWARD Matches Found: 518 Egerton, Sarah Fyge Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Edward, Mrs.; Fyge, Sarah 10 poems available by this author FEMALE ADVOCATE OR, AN ANSWER TO A LATE SATYR, SELS. ON A SERMON PREACH'ED ON ... 'YOU HAVE SOLD YOUR SELVES FOR NAUGHT' Poem Text First Line: With grotius on new-testament yo've done Last Line: We scarcely know your pulpit from the bench. Subject(s): Churches; Devil; Sermons; Cathedrals; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub ON MY LEAVING LONDON, JUNE THE 29TH Poem Text First Line: What cross impetuous planets govern me Last Line: And be to all the busy world as lost. Subject(s): Fate; London; Pain; Destiny; Suffering; Misery ON MY WEDDING DAY Poem Text First Line: Abandon'd day, why dost thou now appear? Last Line: And be like me, that's by thy self no more. Subject(s): Happiness; Marriage; Soul; Youth; Joy; Delight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE EMULATION Poem Text First Line: Say, tyrant custom, why must we obey / the impositions of thy haughty sway? Last Line: No, we'll be wits, and then men must be fools. Subject(s): Women THE LIBERTY Poem Text First Line: Shall I be one, of those obsequious fools Last Line: With what reluctance they indure restraints. Subject(s): Freedom; Life; Pride; Women; Liberty; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE REPULSE TO ALCANDER Poem Text First Line: What is't you mean, that I am thus approached? Last Line: And shun at once the censure and the crime. Subject(s): Seduction TO MARINA Poem Text First Line: Plague to thy husband, scandal to thy sex Last Line: Vesuvius' noise and flame has less of hell than thine. Subject(s): Hypocrisy; Lust TO ONE WHO SAID I MUST NOT LOVE Poem Text First Line: Bid the fond mother spill her infant's blood Last Line: But love each day renews th' torturing scene of death. Subject(s): Love - Complaints TO PHILASTER Poem Text First Line: Go, perjured youth, and court what nymph you please Last Line: For the first ardour of thy soul was all possessed by me. Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy Field, Edward Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce 278 poems available by this author A BILL TO MY FATHER Poem Text First Line: I am typing up bills for a firm to be sent to their clients Last Line: And my father sends it Subject(s): Fathers A MAN AND HIS PENIS Poem Text First Line: Someone said Last Line: The perfect size Subject(s): Reproductive System AFGHANISTAN First Line: Once you've been stranded in desert Last Line: And turn on the shower AFTER A LIFETIME INSISTING Last Line: Warding disaster off for one more night AFTER CAVAFY First Line: An old man in tears before the muse Last Line: There is no failure AFTER THE MOONWALK First Line: When they landed on the moon Last Line: Glued to our tv sets, %watching it all AGE OF AIDS First Line: Our postman, jim was always after me Last Line: And nothing we can do about it %hey, hey Subject(s): Homosexuality AND GOD CREATED MICE Poem Text First Line: I was doing yoga one night Last Line: I already look crazy enough Subject(s): Yoga; Ice AND GOD CREATED MICE First Line: I was doing yoga one night Last Line: I already look crazy enough Subject(s): Homosexuality; Yoga ANTHROPOLOGIST First Line: Letters from an adventurous friend describe Last Line: For those, like my friend, with the nerve to risk their necks AT THE CONEY ISLAND AQUARIUM: AND ODE FOR OOKIE, THE OLDER WALRUS First Line: Do not worry, sweet little walurus, about the superior cuteness Last Line: And squirm there fishily always, ookie, mine alone AT THE GATES OF HEAVEN Poem Text First Line: Did you hear about the three nuns Last Line: And in she flew Subject(s): Heaven AT THE GATES OF HEAVEN First Line: Did you hear about the three nuns Last Line: And in she flew Subject(s): Homosexuality AT THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART Poem Text First Line: I'm still doing it Last Line: I'm still doing it Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Perseverance AT THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART First Line: I'm still doing it Last Line: I'm still dong it Subject(s): Homosexuality AUNT EDWINA'S FIVE-MINUTE BLENDER RECIPES First Line: Dollinck, with my schedule Last Line: To be more than part of the solution AWARDS First Line: A gold medal to the inventor of the bed Last Line: And though it's not something they'd like to hear, %almost like an arab race BASKETBALL LEGS First Line: When coach covert said I had good Last Line: Though it didn't reverse my ineptitude on the court BEAUTY CURE First Line: When I was just a girl Last Line: Try some today! BERLIN '87 First Line: It is not what it is, but where it is Last Line: We all sleep better BILL TO MY FATHER First Line: I am typing up bills for a firm to be sent to their clients Last Line: And my father sends it BIO First Line: My first book was published finally Last Line: To go on writing poetry to the end BLINKS First Line: All blind jokes are anti-blind Last Line: I'll probably drop dead in harness BOMBA THE JUNGLE BOY IN 'FANGS OF DEATH' First Line: He was always ecaping on a vine Last Line: As the whole exploding cosmos does BOOK OF MY LIFE First Line: Come, my friends Last Line: Is written here %for you Subject(s): Homosexuality BOOK OF THE DEAD First Line: An island in the fog. Waves lapping Last Line: But that's another story BOTH MY GRANDMOTHERS 1. MY POLISH GRANDMA Poem Text First Line: Grandma and the children left at night Last Line: To go to a new country Subject(s): Family Life; Grandparents; Immigrants; Relatives BOTH MY GRANDMOTHERS 1. MY POLISH GRANDMA First Line: Grandma and the children left at night Last Line: To go to a new country Subject(s): Family Life BOTH MY GRANDMOTHERS 2. MY RUSSIAN GRANDMA First Line: When my father's father went to america Last Line: I write this remnant down BREAKFAST First Line: I am sitting here at my desk in the morning as usual Last Line: Like you never knew was possible Subject(s): Homosexuality BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN First Line: The baron has decided to mate the monster Last Line: As his hideous body grabs them Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States BRIEF BIO First Line: A boy who is an inveterate hitchhiker Last Line: Cannot fail to learn about sex BUKOWSKI OPTION First Line: An old guy has two choices Last Line: You win %bukowski Subject(s): Homosexuality CALLAS First Line: The voice that came out of her Last Line: Shattered, and she fell Subject(s): Callas, Maria (1923-1977); Homosexuality CANNIBAL BEACH Poem Text First Line: I heard that the wide beach of my childhood Last Line: Mess up their chenille bedspread Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men CANNIBAL BEACH First Line: I heard that the wide beach of my childhood Last Line: Mess up their chenille bedspread Subject(s): Homosexuality CATEGORIES: 1. NURSES AND PATIENTS First Line: If we divide the world into nurses and patients Last Line: Both parties agree there will be no cure CATEGORIES: 2. COWS AND BULLS First Line: You can always spot a bull Last Line: And I'll show you what I do.' CENTAUR First Line: Look, below he's a horse Last Line: How badly I have treated him, %and do it yet CHARMED POOL First Line: At the charmed pool swarming with the lower forms of life Last Line: And did he ever fall in love again? CHOPIN First Line: Chopin is such a great composer Last Line: Like promising to love forever and ever and ever, and doing it COLOMBIAN JOKE Poem Text First Line: On the day god Last Line: Watching what happens Subject(s): Creation; Washington, D.c.; Wit & Humor COLOMBIAN JOKE First Line: On the day god Last Line: Watching what happens Subject(s): Homosexuality COLOSSUS Poem Text First Line: It's awesome to have straddled a century Last Line: To crumble into ruins with it Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; Social Commentaries COLOSSUS First Line: It's awesome to have straddled a century Last Line: To crumble into ruins with it Subject(s): Homosexuality COME BACK, MISS MOFFO, WE LOVE YOU Poem Text First Line: I don't blame you for only singing in europe Last Line: Anna moffo / we love you Subject(s): Moffo, Anna (1934-2006); Opera COME BACK, MISS MOFFO, WE LOVE YOU First Line: I don't blame you for only singing in europe Last Line: Anna moffo %we love you Subject(s): Homosexuality COUPLES SYNDROME Poem Text First Line: My mother's argument Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Togetherness; Mothers; Prejudice; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men COUPLES SYNDROME First Line: My mother's argument Last Line: Desperate not to be %left alone Subject(s): Homosexuality CREDO Poem Text First Line: What good is poetry Last Line: Has been my own salvation Subject(s): Poetry & Poets CRIER First Line: As much as I'd like to be Last Line: If they allow me to CURSE OF THE CAT WOMAN Poem Text Recitation First Line: It sometimes happens Subject(s): Love - Complaints CURSE OF THE CAT WOMAN First Line: It sometimes happens Last Line: Love had won, and heaven pardoned her DAVID'S DREAM First Line: He said that he dreamed Last Line: And leave your ruler home DEATH MASK Poem Text Recitation First Line: In the mirror now Last Line: The sudden / exhaling Subject(s): Old Age; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men DEATH MASK First Line: In the mirror now Last Line: The sudden %exhaling Subject(s): Homosexuality DECRYPTING THE MESSAGE Poem Text First Line: It came to me in the bathroom Last Line: Reclaim the topn / and stand tall Subject(s): Bodies; Self; Hair DECRYPTING THE MESSAGE First Line: It came to me in the bathroom Last Line: And stand tall Subject(s): Homosexuality DIETRICH Poem Text First Line: She never had to make up Last Line: With the shades permanently up Subject(s): Dietrich, Marlene DIETRICH First Line: She never had to make up Last Line: With the shades permanently up Subject(s): Homosexuality DIRTY FLOOR First Line: The floor is dirty Last Line: Give me the broom. The leftovers sweep the leavings away DIRTY OLD MAN: TWO VARIATIONS First Line: When I go senile I swear I'm going to let go Last Line: Every man in sight? Subject(s): Homosexuality DOG SITTERS First Line: Old friends, we tried so hard Last Line: You can only get flattened DOGGEREL OF SYMPTOMS First Line: Physicians and doctors Last Line: Instead of writing out the check? DONKEYS First Line: They are not silent like workhorses Last Line: Beat them and hear nothing ENCONADO First Line: She sat on the toilet seat, legs spread Last Line: Her bloody cunt, my mother's bloody cunt ENGLAND AGAIN First Line: It's the furtiveness around the edges EPITAPH Poem Text First Line: Jerk, loser, fuck up Last Line: And fell in a lake of shit Subject(s): Self-hate EPITAPH First Line: Jerk, loser, fuck up Last Line: And fell in a lake of shit Subject(s): Homosexuality EPITAPH FOR NO GRAVE First Line: Poet, whether true or phony, I can't jude Last Line: Is for a horny youth to dive in right after me Subject(s): Homosexuality EVENING, WITH LEAVES First Line: From dutch rooftops, pigeons in summer rut Last Line: Leaving for england EVENT First Line: Before the blond horsemen rode into our village Last Line: Playing naked and dirty among the chickens FINAL VISIT First Line: I flew down because they were worried Last Line: I know you found peace FOR ARTHUR GREGOR First Line: A child devoted to sacres study, pale Last Line: And ran, his head uncovered, through fields of flowers %and fell in the grass and lay there overpowe Subject(s): Gregor, Arthur (b. 1923) FRANKENSTEIN Poem Text Recitation First Line: The monster has escaped from the dungeon Subject(s): Monsters FRANKENSTEIN First Line: The monster has escaped from the dungeon Last Line: He plunges to his death FRENCH LESSON: HOTEL D'EUROPE Poem Text First Line: Cheap paris hotel, a true bargain Last Line: Quite as satisfactory as this Subject(s): Paris, France; Hotels; French Language FRENCH LESSON: HOTEL D'EUROPE First Line: Cheap paris hotel, a true bargain Last Line: Quite as satisfactory as this Subject(s): Homosexuality FROM POLAND Poem Text First Line: After soulless germany, my sister writes Subject(s): Poland; Homecoming; Family Life; Jews FROM THE BOOKE OF SHYTING First Line: No half-measures Last Line: (if wipe, feel free to use this sheet FULL HEART First Line: My mother's family was made up of loving women Last Line: As the ice melts again over my head with a click GANESH First Line: How lucky to be born with an elephant's head Last Line: To see if it's true what it shows GARBO Poem Text First Line: Her eyes never blink Last Line: She could not, would not, choose another fate Subject(s): Garbo, Greta (1905-1990); Gays & Lesbians GARBO First Line: Her eyes never blink Last Line: She could not, would not, choose another fate Subject(s): Garbo, Greta (1905-1990); Homosexuality GARDEN First Line: The plants on the window ledge are all growing well Last Line: When a sweet creature of your own brings all of it to you GETTING TO KNOW YOU First Line: Like the hard-on Last Line: With a sappy grin Subject(s): Homosexuality GIANT PACIFIC OCTOPUS First Line: I live with a giant pacific octopus Last Line: For as long as god will let you have him GLORY HOLES FOR LARRY Poem Text First Line: It's not only young guys dying of aids Last Line: To the joys of gay sex Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Aids (disease); Old Age; Friendship GLORY HOLES FOR LARRY First Line: It's not only young guys dying of aids Last Line: That you were lucky enough %to know him Subject(s): Homosexuality GRAFFITI First Line: Blessings on all the kids who improve the signs in the subways Last Line: That shoot great drops of gism through the sky GRANDMA TAKES A FOSTER CHILD First Line: Grandma turned a little odd in spring Last Line: And she sat down crying by the fire alone GUIDE First Line: How I loved the high country, the snow, and the cold Last Line: There was no way to go, but on? HAITI Poem Text First Line: In the bare, utilitarian lobby of my building, Subject(s): Haiti; Disasters HAPPY LANDINGS First Line: Coming home is coming down Last Line: Fried and indigestible HEAR, O ISRAEL First Line: At age sixty'four, waking in the night Last Line: With beating hearts in the long night HOLLAND First Line: If some trickster of destiny left you a swamp Last Line: You miss them forever HOLY MEN, ALL First Line: Rilke in religious mode Last Line: To the oxford book of modern verse Subject(s): Homosexuality HOMELAND SECURITY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: My advice to anybody who looks like an arab these days is, Subject(s): Homeland Security HOW TO SPEAK DUTCH First Line: It's helpful to work up a mouthful of spit Last Line: To begin to speak dutch Subject(s): Homosexuality HYDRA First Line: This island whose name means water Last Line: Waiting for the island to sink quietly back into the sea HYPOCHONDRIAC First Line: Obsession with health can easily take over Last Line: I could be cured I HAVE ALWAYS SAID THAT IF I GOT IT Last Line: Is it mere death that terrifies me so? IN THE LAND OF RUMPS First Line: What bespeaks the authenticity of the place Last Line: A big, beautiful dutch ass IN THE LAND OF RUMPS: THE CAPITOL First Line: Except for the medieval toytown center, the capitol Last Line: Seems the more dated, and a trivial exercise IN THE LAND OF RUMPS: THE ECONOMY First Line: It's true they've got the biggest port in europe Last Line: No raw materials at all -- they're rich as croesus IN THE LAND OF RUMPS: THE LAND OF BIG RUMPS First Line: Chairs are built deeper, roomier, to accomodate it Last Line: And afterwards the victor humped the loser IN THE LAND OF RUMPS: THE QUEEN First Line: Just looking at her, you know Last Line: Beautifully, in concert, as a nation JOURNEY First Line: When he got up that morning everything was different Last Line: With such radiance that everyone looked up and wondered JOY OF COOKING First Line: Men don't generally learn it from their mothers Last Line: Eating is the one consolation Subject(s): Homosexuality KILLJOY Poem Text First Line: When my mother and father Last Line: Artist / & / killjoy Subject(s): Suburbs; Anti-semitism; Family Life; Fathers KILLJOY First Line: When my mother and father Last Line: Artist %& %killjoy Subject(s): Homosexuality KUNTZES First Line: Sometimes one of the bigger girls in the sandpit Last Line: At acme extermination, herr hitler, proprietor LAST BOHEMIANS First Line: We meet in a cheap diner and I think, god Last Line: Of what our generation set out to do LAZY ESKIMO First Line: When I go out for caribou cow Last Line: Poor you and your little spear LETTER FROM A FRIEND First Line: I have an idea for an e. Field-type poem, although Last Line: Dear friend, I couldn't say it better LIFE OF JOAN CRAWFORD First Line: She was a working girl from a small town Last Line: Ladies and gentlemen: miss joan crawford LIVING WILL First Line: All is ready for the final event Last Line: The last word Subject(s): Homosexuality LOST, DANCING First Line: When the drums come to you door Last Line: To the alexandria you are losing LOWER EAST SIDE: THE GEORGE BERNSTEIN STORY First Line: It starts on the lower east side Last Line: To sing the grand finale: %lower east side Subject(s): Music, Popular; New York City MAE WEST Poem Text First Line: She comes on drenched in a perfume called self-satisfaction Subject(s): West, Mae (1893-1980) MAE WEST First Line: She comes on drenched in a perfume called self-satisfaction Last Line: Can only look on, astonished MAGIC MOUNTAIN First Line: Instead of the flatland of my youth Last Line: And wait for him Subject(s): Homosexuality MAGICAL MOVIE MOMENTS: BAHAMAS First Line: At the subway entrance on forty-second street Last Line: For a happy ending Subject(s): Homosexuality MALE MANIFESTO First Line: Coming is overrated and in the long run Last Line: Holding up the universe on your finger MAN AND HIS PENIS First Line: Someone said Last Line: And take a bow Subject(s): Homosexuality; Reproductive System MEMORY GAP First Line: If I could find the dream book of the past Last Line: Or is this really me? MINOR VARIATIONS First Line: Navigator to pilot: help Last Line: And that's why they're called %crickets MIRROR SONG First Line: It's in the bathroom that I loudly groan Last Line: From job to christ-on-the-cross to you: %o brother! Variant Title(s): In The Mirro MORNNG SERVICE First Line: Thank you, god, for not making me a woman Last Line: To worry about myself Subject(s): Homosexuality MOVING MAN First Line: He was a burly, curly-blond ape of a man Last Line: And the moving man moved his prick all the way in, %taking his time Subject(s): Homosexuality MUSIC LESSONS First Line: Tip-top on a bare tree Last Line: Begging me to make my cello talk MY SISTER, THE QUEEN Poem Text First Line: Walking the broad allee past kensington palace Last Line: Through the unearthly gardens Subject(s): England; Courts & Courtiers; Sisters MY SISTER, THE QUEEN First Line: Walking the broad allee past kensington palace Last Line: Through the unearthly gardens Subject(s): Homosexuality NAKED FOOL,OR, THE HISTORY OF A MOUSTACHE First Line: Another of those electric dreams Last Line: But, still, below, the bareassed fool NANCY First Line: When scolded by aunt fritzy ritz Last Line: But stay forever three feet tall NATURAL DESIRE First Line: It's not a cosmic earthquake Last Line: Has been from natural desire NEW CYCLE First Line: My father buying me the bicycle that time Last Line: Daddy, darling daddy, please buy me a bicycle NEW STAGE, SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 1992 First Line: Today, I have reached maturity Last Line: This is maturity, %not perfection NEW YORK Poem Text Recitation First Line: I live in a beautiful place, a city Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple NEW YORK First Line: I live in a beautiful place, a city Last Line: And we pass by without holding NEW YORKERS Poem Text First Line: Everywhere else in the country, if someone asks, Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple NEW YORKERS First Line: Everywhere else in the country, if someone asks Last Line: And both of you know what that means, %never NIGHT SONG First Line: When I get up in the night to pee Last Line: And though I have to desperately, not getting up to pee- %oh, how I hate it, hate it, being me Subject(s): Fathers; Night NIGHTMARE First Line: Expecting to be put in a sack and dumped in a ditch Subject(s): Family Life NOSE, OR THE WIT AND WISDOM OF JUNIOR MURPHY First Line: We weren't ever allowed to go Last Line: I had a million dollars in the bank NOTES FROM A SLAVE SHIP First Line: It is necessary to wait until the boss's eyes are on you Last Line: The shore a fading memory and the direction lost NOWHERE First Line: Such a beautiful state we have founded Last Line: Run, and oh, the wicked %weep? ODE TO FIDEL CASTRO Poem Text First Line: O boy god, muse of poets Last Line: Whenever I spout a big, ripe absolute Subject(s): Castro, Fidel (b. 1926); Poetry & Poets ODE TO FIDEL CASTRO First Line: O boy god, muse of poets Last Line: The way you meant to be Subject(s): Castro, Fidel (b. 1926); Poetry And Poets OH BROTHER' CANTATA: SONG First Line: Give me a puff of your cigarette Last Line: Not just in his years of ripeness %but even into the vigor of old age OH, BROTHER' CANTATA: 1. MISSING THE BOAT First Line: There I stood on the shore Last Line: Though shit across the sky OH, BROTHER' CANTATA: 10. THE FALL OF COMMUNISM First Line: Once it was easy to brush panhandlers aside Last Line: When we, too, may shortly join them? OH, BROTHER' CANTATA: 11. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF COUPLES (4) First Line: By law, %every couple Last Line: With two %bullets OH, BROTHER' CANTATA: 12 First Line: We're so lucky to have them Last Line: Still, counting ourselves lucky OH, BROTHER' CANTATA: 13. 'WHAT'LL IT BE, POPS?' First Line: Now that you're no longer a sex object Last Line: Is not considered garbage? OH, BROTHER' CANTATA: 14 First Line: The young are not as jewish as the old Last Line: Oh, brother! OH, BROTHER' CANTATA: 2. NEW YORK RATS First Line: Crossing canal street Last Line: Every time a train %roars through OH, BROTHER' CANTATA: 3. ON FIRST LOOKING INTO THE MIRROR IN THE First Line: Not a pretty sight OH, BROTHER' CANTATA: 4. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF COUPLES (1) First Line: I'm so used to fighting with you Last Line: I don't know how not to OH, BROTHER' CANTATA: 5 First Line: Being old is not so bad Last Line: And everybody loved her OH, BROTHER' CANTATA: 6. THE FAULT OF THE JEWS First Line: Gurdjieff said it takes three jews Last Line: And turning everything into an audition OH, BROTHER' CANTATA: 7. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF COUPLES (2) First Line: When sex dies Last Line: That's always me, of course, not you OH, BROTHER' CANTATA: 8 First Line: I cringe %at what israel is doing Last Line: This time it's not being done to us OH, BROTHER' CANTATA: 9. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF COUPLES (3) First Line: After years together, they thought Last Line: Though sex was not the key to it Variant Title(s): The 'oh Brother' Cantata: Stories From Lives Of My Friend OH, THE GINGKOS First Line: In this city where's it's perfectly ordinary Last Line: He stopped the police from raiding gay bars Subject(s): Gingko Trees ON HIS POSTURE First Line: Someone Last Line: Go %around %slumping Subject(s): Homosexuality ON REFLECTION First Line: I couldn't have admitted it then ONE MORE FOR THE QUILT First Line: The last time we talked on a street corner Last Line: Brilliant flash across the sky: %lord, have mercy on us OPEN SESAME First Line: The door in the rock closed Last Line: Arms outstretched %across the seamless face of it OPERA QUEENS Poem Text First Line: A composer I know, a neighbor Last Line: "gasping Subject(s): Opera OPERA QUEENS First Line: A composer I know, a neighbor Last Line: With milanovian mirth Subject(s): Homosexuality PEOPLE WHO EAT IN COFFEE SHOPS Poem Text Recitation Subject(s): Human Behavior; Food Habits; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature PEOPLE WHO EAT IN COFFEE SHOPS Last Line: Dousing their cigarettes in sloppy saucers PHYSCIAN, HEAL THYSELF First Line: The rabbis say choose life Last Line: And let what takes me take me PLANT POEM Poem Text First Line: The shrimp plant on my desk had one long low branch Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters PLANT POEM First Line: The shrimp plant on my desk had one long low branch Last Line: I wonder if it was struggling to get free POEM FOR THE LEFT HAND First Line: Cancer strikes and I lose my left hand Last Line: Now I cut them through and laugh for the liberation POETRY FILE: CHICKEN RAMPANT, BAR SINISTER First Line: I tell him my thirteen secret names Last Line: Maybe what it comes down to is do you like the sensibility? Subject(s): Homosexuality POST MASTURBATIO First Line: Afterwards, the penis Last Line: Are again convincing Variant Title(s): Post Masturbatu PROLOGUE First Line: Look, friend, at this universe Last Line: Look, friend, at me PROMISES, PROMISES First Line: Leaving aside the drinkers and dopers Last Line: Or is it all crackpot theories? QUE C'EST DROLE, L'AMOUR QUI MARCHE DANS LES RUES...' First Line: She lit another cigarette Last Line: And welcomed me into the club REPRIEVE First Line: Away for a month, I knew something was missing Last Line: And in the confusion, how hard they run, %for life is sweet to them Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 RESERVOIR First Line: The ancient reservoir Last Line: Will it still be possible to reopen it, and explore? ROACH INVASION First Line: I'm just dozing offf Last Line: Who pays the rent around here anyway? ROACHES First Line: An old decrepit city like london Last Line: Greeting you joyfully ROCKABILLY First Line: I wanna be your jockey shorts Last Line: Your juicy genitals ROLE MODELS First Line: Studying men older than me for clues Last Line: Unexpectedly, love filled me, and overflowed in tears ROMANCE OF EXTINCT BIRDS: THE CARIER PIGEON First Line: These talented and plucky creatures Last Line: The feathered heroes ROVING EYE First Line: It cheers me up to see a pair of buns Last Line: But even into the goatish vigor of old age RULE OF THE DESERT First Line: All night on the bus crowded three to a seat Last Line: As I was in back with the heavy-breathing men SAFETY First Line: I knew it couldn't last, the safety Last Line: I went down under them %almost with relief Subject(s): Homosexuality SAND MAP First Line: I am looking for the places Last Line: Making the best of it SCREAM First Line: Aids is germ warfare against homosexuals Last Line: It is also, and becoming more so every day, %germ warfare against humanity Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 SELF PORTRAIT IN THE BATHROOM MIRROR First Line: Mystery man, %with enigmatic eyes Last Line: I've seen hell and it shows SENTIMENTALIST First Line: How hard I tried to be hard Last Line: Crushed the longings of my sentimental heart Variant Title(s): Son Subject(s): Travel SHARK ISLAND First Line: Biff harmon, specialist in shark behaviour Last Line: And hitchhiked back to civilization SHARKS First Line: Especially at evening Last Line: And beware, beware, the late swimmer SHINING First Line: It was something unearthly Last Line: And the wink of an eye %they're gone SHY GUY First Line: Such a dear fellow, such a shy one Last Line: He so elegantly expels SILVER WINGS First Line: 1995 %and jeff, an american, is in london Last Line: His real life began Subject(s): Homosexuality SLEEPER First Line: When I was the sissy of the block who nobody wanted on their %team Last Line: If only he could find the special role Subject(s): Sports SOME SAY THE BODY CURES ITSELF Last Line: By getting rid of you SONG First Line: If today I am haggard and old Last Line: It wasn't fate's but my own doing SONG: TROP TARD POUR PARIS First Line: Returning to france after years Last Line: Trop tard pour paris SONJA HENIE SONNET First Line: In high school we danced trhe lindy white-style Subject(s): Sports SONNY HUGG AND THE PORCUPINE Poem Text First Line: This baby porcupine squeezing into a crevice of rock SONNY HUGG AND THE PORCUPINE First Line: This baby porcupine squeezing into a crevice of rock Last Line: Not quite as darling but with bodies good for hugging SPACE OPERA (A FRAGMENT) First Line: The count ordered a dragon ship Last Line: Unable to resist the spacemen's magaic SPIRIT OF '76 First Line: The first twenty-four years of this century Last Line: Did I ever tell you about the time n the war %will produce a yawn Subject(s): Homosexuality SPOILED COAST First Line: My first impression on the bus Last Line: Of the andalusian night ST. PETERSBURG, 1918 First Line: You were sitting on a grassy hummock Last Line: Would never so full Subject(s): Homosexuality STARS IN MY EYES First Line: A limousine pulled up to paradise pictures STREET INSTRUCTIONS: AT THE CROTCH Poem Text First Line: While walking toward housewife wielding baby Last Line: "let it all move. Subject(s): Bodies; Sex STREET INSTRUCTIONS: AT THE CROTCH First Line: While walking toward housewife wielding baby Last Line: Let it all move. %be there Subject(s): Homosexuality STROKER First Line: If youu're a man, that's a cock in your hand Last Line: Is queer for himself STUMPS First Line: We parked in the driveway, my sister and I Last Line: For new occupants, another retired couple probably, %to live out whatever is left for their lives SUBSIDENCE First Line: Lately, I have a feeling of the earth subsiding Last Line: Clod by grassy clod into the sea SWEET GWENDOLYN AND THE COUNTESS First Line: The countess rode out on her black horse in spring Last Line: Off to her dark castle TAILSPIN First Line: Going into a tailspin Subject(s): Flight TELEPHONE First Line: My happiness depends on an electric appliance Last Line: For the human voice and the good news of friends Subject(s): Telephones; Travel TELL IT TO THE MARINES First Line: When the marine corps convoy Last Line: To one bored driver after another TEMPTATION First Line: He dreaned that a policeman Last Line: Reached out and groped the cop THE AGE OF AIDS Poem Text First Line: Our postman, jim was always after me Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Postal Service; Aids (disease); Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN Poem Text First Line: The baron has decided to mate the monster Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States THE DOG SITTERS Poem Text Recitation First Line: Old friends, we tried so hard Subject(s): Dogs THE FAREWELL Poem Text First Line: They say the ice will hold Subject(s): Farewell; Parting THE GUIDE Poem Text First Line: How I loved the high country, the snow and the cold Last Line: There was no way to go, but on? Subject(s): Mountain Climbing THE JOY OF COOKING Poem Text First Line: Men don't generally learn it from their mothers Subject(s): Mothers; Cooking & Cooks THE LAST BOHEMIANS Poem Text First Line: We meet in a cheap diner and I think, god Subject(s): Greenwich Village, New York City; Bohemians; Old Age THE LETTER ON THE BRINK OF WAR Poem Text First Line: Dears, / you're already painting the porch? You ladies are up early Last Line: And dare we talk about the future? / love, eddie Subject(s): Letters; Social Commentaries; Politics & Government; United States THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN Poem Text First Line: Instead of the flatland of my youth Last Line: And wait for him Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE REPRIEVE Poem Text First Line: Away for a month, I knew something was missing Last Line: For life is sweet to them Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 THE RETURN OF FRANKENSTEIN Poem Text First Line: He didn't die in the whirlpool by the mill Subject(s): Monsters THE SCREAM Poem Text First Line: Aids is germ warfare against homosexuals Last Line: Germ warfare against humanity Subject(s): Aids (disease) THE SLEEPER Poem Text First Line: When I was the sissy of the block who nobody wanted on their / team Last Line: If only he could find the special role Subject(s): Football; Boys THE TAILSPIN Poem Text First Line: Going into a tailspin Last Line: And that way come out of your tailspin whole Subject(s): Flight; Aviation & Aviators; Flying THE TELEPHONE Poem Text First Line: My happiness depends on an electric appliance Last Line: For the human voice and the good news of friends Subject(s): Telephones; Travel; Journeys; Trips TIJUANA BLUES First Line: Now that the berlin wall is down Last Line: Proclaiming it ours TIME BOMB First Line: From the very first, the moment of commitment Last Line: Appears, if not luckier, then less anguished TIRED First Line: Never to really wake up Last Line: Jumping up as they do, alert and ready to go %tails wagging TO LOVE First Line: Away from home on a tour in the west Last Line: Went almost light-hearted on with my journey TO MY COUNTRY Poem Text First Line: I've never praised you in my poems Last Line: And blame the poor for being poor Subject(s): United States; Poetry & Poets; Social Commentaries TO MY COUNTRY First Line: I've never praised you in my poems Last Line: For neglect, for obscurity Subject(s): Homosexuality TO THE SUN First Line: Already on the plane they seem stupider Last Line: And that this is not the inevitable future TOOTHY LURKERS First Line: The shores are patrolled by sharks Last Line: With those toothy lurkers in the waves? TREES First Line: Here is the truth about trees Last Line: The giant breed, of which we are the pigmies TRIAD First Line: A temple sculpture: two warriors in combat Last Line: It's within a female principle men unite TRIPLETS FOR FATHER MALONE First Line: I know I've sinned, father Subject(s): Malone, Marvin (d. 1996); Poetry & Poets; Triplets TRIPLETS FOR FATHER MALONE First Line: I know I've sinned, father Last Line: Wouldn't you think that made me %just right for wormwood? Subject(s): Malone, Marvin (d. 1996); Poetry And Poets; Triplets TROUBLE WITH STRANGERS First Line: Sex, back then, when I was the whore of babylon Last Line: You are devoured Subject(s): Homosexuality TULIPS AND ADDRESSES Poem Text First Line: The museum of modern art on west fifty-third street Last Line: When they see the bright, red, beautiful flowers in my window. Subject(s): Museums; Poetry & Poets; Tulips; Art Gallerys TULIPS AND ADDRESSES First Line: The museum of modern art on west fifty-third street Last Line: When they see the bright red beautiful flowers in my window Subject(s): Museums; Poetry And Poets; Tulips UNDER THE NIGHT SKY, TURNING First Line: As long as it spins around us, this starry night Last Line: O, could you really exist? Subject(s): Homosexuality UNWANTED Poem Text First Line: The poster with my picture on it Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Labor & Laborers; Poetry & Poets; Social Protest; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Work; Workers UNWANTED First Line: The poster with my picture on it Last Line: Warning: this man is not dangerous, answers to any name %responds to love, don't call him or he will Subject(s): Homosexuality; Labor And Laborers; Poetry And Poets; Social Protest UP SHIT CREEK IN A HEATWAVE First Line: First, the air conditioner started dripping Last Line: In relation to my prostate? VALLEJO IN PARIS Poem Text First Line: Among the french Last Line: It's my foreign accent that marks me out, / makes me irresistable Subject(s): Paris, France VALLEJO IN PARIS First Line: Among the french Last Line: It's my foreign accent that marks me out %makes me irresistible Subject(s): Homosexuality VETERAN First Line: Even before the fear of blackmail and police Last Line: And put sex away, probably forever Subject(s): Aids (disease); Erotic Love; Sickness VIEW OF JERSEY First Line: Often in the morning the fog is thick over jersey VISITING HOME First Line: It is an exercise in independence Last Line: Even if I can't stand it, still %I am VOCALISE First Line: There is no escape, I sing Last Line: There is no escape, %from being me WAITING FOR THE COMMUNISTS First Line: What's all the commotion about? Last Line: You've got to admit they were the perfect solution WET DREAM First Line: Often in dreams, I make love Last Line: And everything works in harmony %to a perfect orgasm WHAT GRANDMA KNEW First Line: The office feels like a sealed glass case today Last Line: But by the time life got through with grandma %she was glad to be alone Subject(s): Poetry And Poets WHATEVER BECAME OF FREUD? Poem Text First Line: Has the age of psychology really passed? Last Line: And for all its radiant promises, that was all Subject(s): Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939) WHATEVER BECAME OF FREUD? First Line: Has the age of psychology really passed? Last Line: And for all its radiant promises, that was all Subject(s): Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939); Homosexuality WHATEVER HAPPENED TO MAY CASPAR? First Line: What happens to old movie stars Last Line: That cast the deepest %shadow? WHEN I WAS A DOG First Line: Ah, if only young men Last Line: Light up the world Subject(s): Homosexuality WINNERS AND THE LOSERS First Line: I stood before them Last Line: Caw, caw, he cried, as he jumped %off a table, flapping his arms WOMAN WHO TURNED TO STONE First Line: A woman once refused to get married Last Line: And her song was done WORLD TRAVELLER First Line: On the shore of the caspian sea Last Line: Could not, in this lifetime at least, %be undone WORLD WAR II Poem Text First Line: It was over target berlin the flak shot up our plane Last Line: Destroying the germans and their cities Subject(s): World War Ii; Air Raids; Aviation & Aviators; Rescues WORLD WAR II First Line: It was over target berlin the flak shot up our plane Last Line: And went on hauling bombs over the continent of europe %destroying the germans and their cities Subject(s): Homosexuality; World War Ii WRITING FOR MONEY Poem Text First Line: My friend and I have decided to write for money Last Line: "that’s why I’m writing this poem, Subject(s): Travel; Writing & Writers; Journeys; Trips WRITING FOR MONEY First Line: My friend and I have decided to write for money Subject(s): Travel ZLATYA'S REVENGE First Line: Lady zlatya, wife of the aga of udbinya Last Line: To which he invites all his gentlmen Subject(s): Homosexuality Field, Edward Salisbury 1 poems available by this author TO MY MOTHER First Line: I've gone about for years I find Subject(s): Mothers Masefield, John Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward 228 poems available by this author 534 Poem Text First Line: For ages you were rock, far below light Last Line: Of those who speed your launching come to be. Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Queen Mary (ship); Sea; Unemployment; Recessions; British Empire; England - Empire; Ocean A BALLAD OF JOHN SILVER Poem Text First Line: We were schooner-rigged and rakish, with a long and lissome hull Last Line: A little south the sunset in the islands of the blest. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping A CONSECRATION Poem Text First Line: Not of the princes and prelates with periwigged charioteers Last Line: Amen. Subject(s): Death; Freedom; Social Classes; Dead, The; Liberty; Caste A PRAYER FOR A BEGINNING REIGN Poem Text First Line: He who is order, beauty, power and glory Last Line: Over a kingdom worthy, the world's wonder. Subject(s): Beauty; Coronations; Courts & Courtiers; Elizabeth Ii, Queen Of England; Prayer A PRAYER FOR THE KING'S MAJESTY Poem Text First Line: O god, whose mercy is our state Last Line: With wisdom that can never end. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Depressions, Economic; George V, King Of England (1865-1936); Prayer; Religion; Recessions; Theology A PRAYER FOR THE KING'S REIGN Poem Text First Line: O god, the ruler over earth and sea Last Line: In this beginning reign may be fulfilled. Subject(s): Coronations; George Vi, King Of England (1894-1952); Great Britain - Rulers; Peace; Prayer ALL YE THAT PASS BY First Line: On the long dusty ribbon of the city street ANOTHER CROSS Subject(s): Religion AT GALLIPOLI First Line: Ship after ship, crammed with soldiers, moved Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day AT THE PASSING OF A BELOVED MONARCH Poem Text First Line: The everlasting wisdom has ordained Last Line: That millions yet unborn shall bless her reign. Subject(s): Crowns; George Vi, King Of England (1894-1952); Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Memory; Prayer; War; Wisdom; British Empire; England - Empire AUGUST, 1914 First Line: How still this quiet cornfield is tonight Subject(s): England AUTUMN PLOUGHING First Line: After the ranks of stubble have lain bare Last Line: Before the blackbird pecks the scarlet hips BALLAD OF CAPE ST. VINCENT First Line: Now, bill, ain't it prime to be a-sailin' BALLAD OF SIR BORS First Line: Would I could win some quiet and rest, and a little ease BEAUTY Poem Text First Line: I have seen dawn and sunset on moors and windy hills Last Line: Are her voice, and her hair, and eyes, and the dear red curve of her lips. Subject(s): Beauty; Love BEING HER FRIEND BILL First Line: He lay dead on the cluttered deck and stared at the cold skies BIOGRAPHY First Line: When I am buried, all my thoughts and acts BIOGRAPHY, SELS. First Line: Other bright days of action have seemed great Last Line: And gives his work compassion and new eyes, %the days that make us happy make us wise BLACKSMITH First Line: The blacksmith in his sparky forge BOOK & BOOKPLATE First Line: This pookplate, that thou here seest put BORN FOR NOUGHT ELSE BURIAL PARTY First Line: He's deader 'n nails, the fo'c's'le said, 'n gone to his long sleep CAPE HORN GOSPEL: 1 First Line: I was in a hooker once, said karlssen CAPE HORN GOSPEL: 2 First Line: Jake was a dirty dago lad, an' he gave the skippier chin CAPTAIN STRATTON'S FANCY Poem Text First Line: Oh, some are fond of red wine, and some are fond of white Last Line: Like an old bold mate of henry morgan. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Pirates; Wine; Piracy; Buccaneers CARDIGAN BAY First Line: Clean, green, windy billows notching out the sky CARGOES Poem Text First Line: Quinquireme of nineveh from distant ophir Last Line: Firewood, iron-ware, and cheap tin trays. Subject(s): Sea; Shipbuilding; Ships & Shipping; Ocean CAVALIER First Line: All the merry kettle-drums are thudding into rhyme CENTRAL I; SONNET First Line: O little self, within whose smallness lies CHRISTMAS EVE AT SEA First Line: A wind is rustling south and soft CHRISTMAS, 1903 First Line: O, the sea breeze will be steady, and all the tall ship's going trim CREED First Line: I hold that when a person dies Subject(s): Faith; Religion CROWD First Line: They had secured their beauty to the dock Last Line: These twenty threadbare men with frost-bit ears %and canvas bags and little chests of gears D'AVALOS' PRAYER First Line: When the last sea is sailed, when the last shallow charted, Subject(s): Faith; Sea DAUBER First Line: Four bells were struck, the watch was called on deck Subject(s): Sea DAWN First Line: The dawn comes cold: the haysack smokes DEAD KNIGHT First Line: The cleanly rush of the mountain air Last Line: The mournful word the seas say %when tides are wandering outor in Subject(s): Knights And Knighthood DEATH ROOMS First Line: My soul has many an old decaying room EAST COKER Poem Text First Line: Here, whence his forbears sprang, a man is laid Last Line: And christmas song respond, and easter song. Subject(s): Assassination; Crime & Criminals; Death; Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965); Rest; Somerset, England; Dead, The; Eliot, T. S. EMIGRANT First Line: Going by daly's shanty I heard the boys within ENSLAVED, SELS. First Line: All early in the april, when daylight comes at five Subject(s): Love EPILOGUE First Line: I have seen flowers come in stony places Last Line: So I trust, too EPILOGUE TO THE EVERLASTING MERCY First Line: How swift the summer goes EVENING - REGATTA DAY First Line: Your nose is red jelly, your mouth's a toothless wreck EVERLASTING MERCY First Line: From '41 to '51 Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Redemption; Religion FELLOW MORTAL First Line: I found a fox, caught by the leg Last Line: That gin went plonk into the pond FEVER SHIP First Line: There'll be no weepin' gells ashore when our ship sails FEVER-CHILLS First Line: He tottered out of the alleyway with cheeks the colour paste FOX AWAKES First Line: On old cold crendon's windy tops Last Line: And over the hedge and into ride %in ghost heath wood for his roving bride FOX HUNT First Line: From the gallows hill to the tineton copse Subject(s): Hunting FRAGMENTS Poem Text First Line: Troy town is covered up with weeds Last Line: An adam from the crumbled clay. FRONTIER First Line: Would god the route would come from home Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life GALLEY ROWERS First Line: Staggering over the running combers GENTLE LADY First Line: So beautiful, so dainty-sweet GOLDEN CITY OF ST. MARY First Line: Out beyond the sunset, could I but find the way HARBOUR-BAR First Line: All in the feathered palm-trees tops the bright green parrots screech HARP First Line: In a dark corner of the room HARPER'S SONG First Line: This sweetness trembling from the strings HELL'S PAVEMENT First Line: When I'm discharged in liverpool 'n' draws my bit o' HER HEART First Line: Her heart is always doing lovely things I YARNED WITH ANCIENT SHIPMEN BESIDE THE GALLEY RANGE IGNORANCE First Line: Since I haved learned love's shining alphabet Subject(s): Love IN MEMORY OF A.P.R First Line: Once in the windy wintry weather INVOCATION First Line: O wanderer into many brains JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY Poem Text First Line: All generous hearts lament the leader killed Last Line: The promise of his spirit be fulfilled. Subject(s): Assassination; Dallas, Texas; Death; Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963); Lament; Presidents, United States; Dead, The JUNE TWILIGHT First Line: The twilight comes; the sun KING'S HIGHWAY First Line: A wonderful way is the king's highway Last Line: To the still more wonderful is to be %- runs the king's highway Subject(s): Religion LAUGH AND BE MERRY, REMEMBER, BETTER THE WORLD LOLLINGDON DOWNS: 1 First Line: So I have known this life LOLLINGDON DOWNS: 10 First Line: Can it be blood or touch its brain LOLLINGDON DOWNS: 11 First Line: Not only blood and brain its servants are LOLLINGDON DOWNS: 12 First Line: Drop me the seed, that I, even in my brain LOLLINGDON DOWNS: 13 First Line: Ah, but without there is no spirit scattering LOLLINGDON DOWNS: 14 First Line: You are too beautiful for mortal eyes LOLLINGDON DOWNS: 15 First Line: Is it a sea on which the souls embark Subject(s): Death LOLLINGDON DOWNS: 17 First Line: Night is on the downland, on the lovely moorland Last Line: And the night is full of the past Variant Title(s): Night On The Downlan LOLLINGDON DOWNS: 2 First Line: O wretched man, that, for a little mile LOLLINGDON DOWNS: 3 First Line: Out of the special cell's most special sense LOLLINGDON DOWNS: 4 First Line: You are the link which binds us each to each LOLLINGDON DOWNS: 5 First Line: I could not sleep for thinking of the sky Last Line: Night where my soul might sail a million years %in nothing, not even death, not even tears Variant Title(s): Sonne Subject(s): Sky LOLLINGDON DOWNS: 6 First Line: How did the nothing come, how did these fires LOLLINGDON DOWNS: 7 First Line: It may be so but let; the unknown be LOLLINGDON DOWNS: 9 First Line: What is this life which uses living cells LOLLINGDON DOWNS: SONNET Poem Text First Line: Ah, we are neither heaven nor earth, but men Last Line: For unborn men to look at and say 'hush.' LONDON TOWN First Line: Oh london town's a fine town LYRICS FROM THE BUCCANEER First Line: We are far from sight of the harbour lights MADMAN'S SONG First Line: You have not seen what I have seen Subject(s): Insanity MIDNIGHT First Line: The fox came up by stringer's pound MIDSUMMER NIGHT First Line: The perfect disc of the sacred moon MOTHER CAREY NIGHT AT DAGO TOM'S First Line: Oh yesterday, I t'ink it was, while cruisin' down the street NO MAN TAKES THE FARM, SELECTION OLD SONG RE-SUNG First Line: I saw a ship a-sailing, a-sailing, a-sailing ON EASTNOR KNOLL First Line: Silent are the woods, and the dim green boughs are Last Line: A land of shadows Subject(s): Evening ON GROWING OLD Poem Text Recitation First Line: Be with me, beauty, for the fire is dying Last Line: Even the night will blossom as the rose. Subject(s): Aging ON MALVERN HILL First Line: A wind is brushing down the clover Last Line: Quiet are the clan and chief, and quiet %centurion and signifer Subject(s): Great Britain - Roman Conquest ON THE PASSING OF KING GEORGE V Poem Text First Line: When time has sifted motives, passions, deeds Last Line: And ventured to a nobler marching word. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; George V, King Of England (1865-1936); Memory; Prayer; Rest; Dead, The ON THE SETTING FORTH OF ... PRICESS ELIZABETH & THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH Poem Text First Line: What can we wish you that you have not won Last Line: And safe returning crown your journey done. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Elizabeth Ii, Queen Of England; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Philip, Duke Of Edinburgh (b. 1921); Travel; British Empire; England - Empire; Mountbatten, Philip; Journeys; Trips ONE OF THE BO'SUN'S YARNS First Line: Loafin' around in sailor town, a-bluin' o' my advance ONE OF WALLY'S YARNS First Line: The watch was up on the topsail-yard a-making fast the sail PARTRIDGES First Line: Here they lie mottled to the ground, unseen Last Line: The twilight hears and darkness hears them call PASSING STRANGE First Line: Out of the earth to rest or range Last Line: Our joy, a rampart to the mind Subject(s): Life Change Events PERSONAL First Line: Tramping at night in the cold and wet, I passed the lighted inn PIER-HEAD CHORUS First Line: Oh I'll be chewing salted horse and biting flinty bread PLOUGH First Line: The past was faded like a dream Subject(s): Labor And Laborers PORT OF HOLY PETER First Line: The blue laguna rocks and quivers PORT OF MANY SHIPS First Line: It's a sunny pleasant anchorage, is kingdom come Subject(s): Sea POSTED First Line: Dream after dream I see the wrecks that lie Last Line: Of live ships passing, nor the gannet's plunge POSTED AS MISSING First Line: Under all her topsails she trembled like a stag Last Line: Thinking of the sailor-men who sang among the crows, %hoisting of her topsails when she sailed so pr Subject(s): Sailors And Sailing RACER First Line: I saw the racer coming to the jump REST HER SOUL, SHE'S DEAD First Line: She has done with the sea's sorrow and all the world's way REYNARD THE FOX, SELS. RIDER AT THE GATE First Line: A windy night was blowing on rome Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.) RIGHT ROYAL, SELS. First Line: In a race-course box behind the stand RIVER First Line: All other waters have their time of peace ROADWAYS First Line: One road leads to london Last Line: God put me here to find Subject(s): Roads ROSAS First Line: There was an old lord in argentine ROSE OF THE WORLD First Line: Dark eleanor and henry sat at meat SEA-CHANGE Poem Text First Line: Goneys and gullies an' all o' the birds o' the sea Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEA-CHANGE First Line: Goneys and gullies an' all o' the birds o' the sea Last Line: And coming the proud over all o' the birds o' the sea Subject(s): Sea SEA-FEVER Poem Text Recitation First Line: I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky Last Line: And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over. Subject(s): Sea; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Ocean; Journeys; Trips; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes SHIP First Line: Begore man's labouring wisdom gave me birth SHIPS First Line: I cannot tell their wonder nor make known SING A SONG O' SHIPWRECK First Line: He lolled on a bollard, a sun-burned son of the sea SONG First Line: One sunny time in may SONG AT PARTING First Line: The tick of the blood is settling, my heart will soon be still SONNET Poem Text First Line: Go, spend your penny, beauty, when you will Last Line: In the lover's kiss that makes the old couple's story. SONNET First Line: When all these million cells that are my slaves SONNET First Line: Thou in life's street's the tempting shops have lured SONNET First Line: The little robin hopping in the wood SONNET First Line: Not for your human beauty nor the power %to shake me by your voice oryour touc SONNET First Line: There was an evil in the nodding wood SONNET First Line: They called that broken hedge the haunted gate SONNET First Line: What are we given, what do we take away SONNET First Line: For, like an outcast from the city, I SONNET First Line: Perhaps in the chasms of the wasted past SONNET First Line: In emptiest furthest heaven where no stars are SONNET First Line: If all be governed by the moving stars SONNET First Line: So from the cruel cross they buried god SONNET First Line: Come to us fiery with the saints of god SONNET First Line: They took the bloody body from the cross SONNET First Line: You will remember me in days to come SONNET First Line: Time being an instant eternity %beauty above man's million years must see SONNET First Line: Each greedy self, by consecrating lust SONNET First Line: So beauty comes, so with a failing a hand SONNET First Line: Beauty was with me once, but now, grown old SONNET First Line: Not for the anguish suffered is the slur SONNET First Line: Out of the barracks to the castle yard %those roman soldiers came SONNET First Line: You are more beautiful than women are SONNET First Line: Wherever beauty has been quick in clay SONNET First Line: Beauty retires; the blood out of the earth SONNET First Line: Not that the stars are all gone mad heaven SONNET First Line: I saw her like a shadow on the sky SONNET First Line: Beauty, let be; I cannot see your face SONNET First Line: The other form of living does not stir SONNET First Line: How many ways, how many different times SONNET First Line: Restless and hungry, still it moves and slays SONNET First Line: There are two forms of life, of which one moves SONNET First Line: Over the church's door they moved a stone SONNET First Line: So in the bright empty sky the stars appear SONNET First Line: There, on the darkened deathbed, dies the brain SONNET First Line: These myriad days, these many thousand hours SONNET First Line: But all has passed, the tune has died away SONNET First Line: Men are made human to that dear place SONNET First Line: Long long ago, when all the glittering earth SONNET First Line: Night came again, but now I could not sleep SONNET First Line: Let that which is to come be as it may Subject(s): Death SONNET First Line: Even after all these years there comes ... Dream Subject(s): Death SONNET First Line: What is this atom which contains the whole SONNET First Line: It may be so with us, that in the dark Last Line: It may be that we cease; we cannot tell. %even if we cease, life is a miracle Variant Title(s): Life Is A Miracl Subject(s): Life SONNET First Line: If I could come again to that dear place Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Roses SONNET First Line: Man has his unseen friend, his unseen twin SONNET First Line: Flesh, I have knocked at many a dusty door Last Line: Or something that the things not understood %make for their uses out of flesh and blood SONNET First Line: Now they are gone with all their songs and sins SONNET First Line: Men are made human by the mighty fall SONNET First Line: I never see the red rose crown the year SONNET ON THE DEATH OF HIS WIFE First Line: That blessed sunlight that once showed to me SORROW OF MYDATH First Line: Weary the cry of the wind is, weary the sea SPANISH WATERS First Line: Spanish waters, spanish waters, you are ringing in my ears Last Line: By the loud surf of los muertos which is beating in my ears Subject(s): Treasures SPUNYARN ST. MARY'S BELLS First Line: It's pleasant in holy mary TEWKESBURY ROAD Poem Text First Line: It is good to be out on the road, and going one knows not where Last Line: At the noise of the lambs at play and the dear wild cry of the birds. Subject(s): Animals; Wandering & Wanderers THE CHOICE Poem Text First Line: The kings go by with jewelled crowns Last Line: Escape from prison. Variant Title(s): Lollingdon Downs: 8 Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE DAFFODIL FIELDS: 1 Poem Text First Line: Between the barren pasture and the wood Last Line: The dancing waters danced by dancing daffodils. Subject(s): Children; Death; Fathers; Friendship; Love; Love - Unrequited; Oaths; Childhood; Dead, The THE DAFFODIL FIELDS: 2 Poem Text First Line: They buried gray; his gear was sold; his farm Last Line: She flung her down and cried I' the withered daffodils Subject(s): Love; Oaths; South America; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE DAFFODIL FIELDS: 3 Poem Text First Line: The steaming river loitered like old blood Last Line: And lion watched her pass among the daffodils. Subject(s): Abandonment; Cruelty; Love; Pleasure; South America; Travel; Unfaithfulness; Desertion; Journeys; Trips; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE DAFFODIL FIELDS: 4 Poem Text First Line: Time passed, but still no letter came; she ceased Last Line: As colts in april feel there in the daffodils. Subject(s): Abandonment; Longing; Love - Unrequited; Oaths; South America; Waiting; Desertion THE DAFFODIL FIELDS: 5 Poem Text First Line: The river brimming full was silvered over Last Line: Over the barren fields where march brings daffodils. Subject(s): Abandonment; Death; Fathers; Love; Love - Unrequited; Marriage; Regret; Desertion; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE DAFFODIL FIELDS: 6 Poem Text First Line: The rider lingered at the fence a moment Last Line: While the brown brook ran on by buried daffodils. Subject(s): Homecoming; Love; Regret; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE DAFFODIL FIELDS: 7 Poem Text First Line: Upon a light gust came a waft of bells Last Line: To this old tale of woe among the daffodils. Subject(s): Abandonment; Death; Love; Marriage; Murder; Regret; Shame; Tragedy; Desertion; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE ISLAND OF SKYROS; SONNET Poem Text First Line: Here, where we stood together, we three men Last Line: "war with this force, and breathe, and am its king." Subject(s): Skyros (island), Greece; World War I - Casualties THE LEMMINGS Poem Text First Line: Once in a hundred years the lemmings come Last Line: Westward, in search, to death, to nothingness. Subject(s): Lemmings; Nothingness; Nihilism; Voids THE SEEKERS Poem Text First Line: Friends and loves we have none, nor wealth, nor blest abode Last Line: But the hope, the burning hope, and the road, the lonely road. Subject(s): Cities; Earth; Roads; Solitude; Travel; Urban Life; World; Paths; Trails; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips THE TARRY BUCCANEER Poem Text First Line: I'm going to be a pirate with a bright brass pivot-gun Last Line: Neer. Subject(s): Pirates; Piracy; Buccaneers THE WEST WIND Poem Text First Line: It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries Last Line: In the fine land, the west land, the land where I belong. Subject(s): April; England; English THEY MARCHED OVER THE FIELD OF WATERLOO Last Line: They sailed with the free salt upon their lips %to sunlight from the tomb Subject(s): World War Ii THIRD MATE First Line: All the sheets are clacking, all the blocks are whining THY EVERLASTING MERCY, CHRIST First Line: Up the slow slope a team came bowing TO HIS MOTHER, C. L. M. First Line: In the dark womb where I began Last Line: O grave, keep shut lest I be shamed Variant Title(s): C. L. M Subject(s): Courage; Mothers TO RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text First Line: Your very heart was england's; it is just Last Line: That england's very heart should keep your dust. Subject(s): Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936) TO THE SEAMEN First Line: You seamen, I have eaten your hard bread Last Line: And ships will dip their colours in salute %to you, henceforth, when passing zuydecoote Subject(s): Dunkirk, France; World War Ii TOMORROW First Line: Oh yesterday the cutting edge drank thirstily and deep TRADE WINDS First Line: In the harbour, in the island, in the spanish seas TRAGEDY OF POMPEY THE GREAT, SELS. TREE First Line: This is the living thing that cannot stir TRUTH First Line: Man with his burning soul %has but an hour of breath Last Line: The ship my striving made %may see night fade Subject(s): Life Change Events; Religion TURN OF THE TIDE First Line: An' bill can have my sea-boots, nigger jim can have my knife TWA BROTHERS First Line: There were twa brethren in the north Last Line: And home shall never come TWILIGHT Poem Text First Line: Twilight it is, and the far woods are dim, and the Last Line: Beautiful souls who were gentle when I was a child. Subject(s): Friendship UNEXPLORED, UNCONQUERED; SONNET First Line: Out of the clouds come torrents, from the earth UP ON THE DOWNS First Line: Up on the downs the red-eyes kestrels hover Last Line: On the chalk downland bare Subject(s): Environment; Fields VAGABOND First Line: Dunno a heap about the what an' why VALEDICTION First Line: We're bound for blue water where the great winds blow VALEDICTION First Line: You can take 'n' tell nan I'm goin' about the world agen VALEDICTION (LIVERPOOL DOCKS) First Line: Is there anything I can do ashore for you VISION First Line: I have drunken the red wine and flung the dice WANDERER First Line: All day they loitered by the resting ships WANDERER'S SONG First Line: A wind's in the heart of me, a fire's in my heels WASTE First Line: No rose but fades: no glory but must pass WATCH IN THE WOOD First Line: When death has laid her in his quietude WATCHING BY A SICK-BED First Line: I heard the wind all day WHEN BONY DEATH HAS CHILLED HER GENTLE BODY WIDOW IN THE BYE STREET First Line: Down bye street, in a little shropshire town WILD DUCK First Line: Twilight. Red in the west Subject(s): Ducks WOOD-PIGEONS First Line: Often the woodman scares them as he comes Subject(s): Pigeons WORD First Line: My friend, my bonny friend, when we are old YARN OF THE LOCH ACHRAY First Line: The loch achray was a clipper tall Smallfield, Edward 1 poems available by this author CATTARAUGUS CREEK First Line: Last august, wading the river's margin |
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