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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: elizabeth, I Matches Found: 6442 Adams, Elizabeth Kemper 5 poems available by this author CEDAR GROVE First Line: My family no longer live in the house Last Line: Carry their cool fury forward CHECKERED LINEN First Line: I return to this book an inhabitant Last Line: Struck by lightning or chosen a prophet IN LIGHTER VEIN Poem Text First Line: In lighter vein, -- blue eyes and rosy lips Last Line: In lighter vein. Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight O MODERN GIRL First Line: O modern girl, we knows you well RED SEA First Line: I slam the brake on tightly, put the car Last Line: Feathers you slipped impossibly %light over my shoulders Adcock, Elizabeth S. Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Adcock, Betty 99 poems available by this author AFTER GEOLOGY, AFTER BIOLOGY First Line: In school we learned how continental plates Last Line: With mr. Saunders after class %now let us pray ANCESTORS First Line: The first immigrants spoke then with their winds ARGUMENT First Line: I can't deny you know much more Last Line: Stands up between the rocket and the spear AT THE AGE WHEN YOU GET BAD NEWS First Line: Letting go of the future Last Line: The trees, my father, the blank sweater, %that dog starting to run AYS First Line: The name softens in the bayou BIG THICKET SETTLER, 1840'S First Line: Aus hooks watched one ox list like a drunk deacon BIRD WOMAN First Line: She takes them as they come Last Line: They rise. They rise BLIND SINGER First Line: Her movement's hesitant, close-in, but sure Last Line: She turns them all. She turns them all face up CAPE SOUNION First Line: This light is never silent CASE FOR GRAVITY First Line: Hydrangeas bloomed beside the house Subject(s): Hydrangeas CLEARING OUT, 1974 First Line: After this kind of death, sudden and violent CLOUDED LEOPARDS OF CAMBODIA AND VIET NAM First Line: They are gone, almost, into the music of their name Last Line: A rain that is only rain CORNER OF PAWNEE AND BROADWAY First Line: Beached on a wichita street corner CYCLADIC First Line: Every pale american april, my eyes will ache DEATH First Line: Our aged cat has sickened. We did make Last Line: The same round course as everything: %a planet, not a sun DIAGNOSIS First Line: Perhaps we die of an overload of stories Last Line: Like summer's quick-winging lights %in a casket of glass DIGRESSION ON THE NUCLEAR AGE First Line: In some difficult part of africa, a termite tribe Last Line: That whatever it is we're working on won't work Subject(s): History; War DIGRESSION ON THE NUCLEAR AGE Poem Text First Line: In some difficult part of africa, a termite tribe Subject(s): History; War; Historians DUNKED CLOWN AT THE CARNIVAL, SELS First Line: Down again, I kept trying to tell you Last Line: Are being mailed to the dark, the new owner EAST TEXAS AUTUMN AS A WAY TO SEE TIME First Line: After the coded messages of wild geese are over Last Line: The bright maps of birds, the world unhooded %in gunmetal light. %how nobody won ELIZABETH POEMS: 1. BOX-CAMERA SNAPSHOT First Line: She stands sharp as a plumb line beside the flowerbeds Last Line: Counting its missing fingers ELIZABETH POEMS: 2. AFTERNOON, PLAYING ON A BED First Line: Colored sticks leap from her fingers, settle Last Line: On the round world rolling ELIZABETH POEMS: 3. ASTHMA, 1948 First Line: Before dawn, the stick-child Last Line: For ribcage and neckbone ELIZABETH POEMS: 4. WITNESS First Line: Begin with a morning %I take this one Last Line: Close to home like the gift of sight ELIZABETH POEMS: 5. FISHING First Line: The rub of that summer warmed her sickroom Last Line: Have forgotten to bring food ELIZABETH POEMS: 6. TRAVELING, 1950 First Line: It is winter. We can just glimpse the moon Last Line: My breath on the dark glass leaves a dripping print EXCHANGE First Line: In the cavernous, tin-ceilinged back room FARM First Line: Perhaps it comes at night Last Line: We plant geraniums in a trench around the house FOUR FROM THE SPIDER First Line: Enact yourself between fixed points Last Line: Nothing--not saving grace not closing argument-- %attaches to your having been %the wheel you turned FRONT PORCH First Line: This is deep-roofed shelter Last Line: Shadow-trees on the tall steps, climbing HAND MADE First Line: It squats like a shipwreck Last Line: Across the eyes, %under the breastbone HER DYING AS A BIRD: SMALL FANTASY FOR A BELOVED AUNT First Line: Bunched on a near branch, breast Last Line: And the long generations of spring- %for the clean vanishing ILLUMINATIONS First Line: I don't know when he died. When we were children Last Line: It would be years before we'd see the light IN A TRUNK NOT LOOKED INTO FOR TWENTY YEARS First Line: Snapshots curled in rigor mortis Last Line: And desperate with spring IN ANOTHER LIFE... First Line: People will say it at parties, speaking of the shock Last Line: The kind you live in every muscle before dawn JANUARY First Line: Dusk and snow this hour Last Line: The stunning chaos of the world Subject(s): January; Winter KAISER'S BURNOUT First Line: Jayhawkers, an army, and fire are the reasons KINDS OF SLEEP First Line: First there's the one which all the children Last Line: An angel shape, not breathing your small tune, not %writing your name LINES ON A POET'S FACE First Line: Furrows of the wide brow %are legible as a good field Last Line: Name for the world %of all the names that are right LINES TO A PAST LOVE First Line: These are dead: the otter Last Line: Too old to love, too ignorant to sing LIVING FOR A WHILE IN THE COUNTRY First Line: This far from the city, it's possible Last Line: And no homecoming Variant Title(s): Living For Awhile In The Countr LOCOMOTION First Line: Perhaps a woman could leave this, grown Last Line: Brilliant with splinters, words, arrival Subject(s): Locomotives LUXOR First Line: The tour over, we foreigners have gathered Last Line: Dress of fear and bitter, bitter light MAKING First Line: We thought we were moving on Last Line: Can vanish into light MIND First Line: It's nothing you can put your finger on Last Line: Thus compassless, dangerous, good at belief and good at lies, %we say together: yes, we see it. And MINERAL First Line: After the nightmare has flown Last Line: Making its way in the moonless hour %from houses of the oldest poor NEW SOUTH First Line: It's lovely where we live. We chose it Last Line: The air around me thick and still. Like glass NOTE FOR THE BIRDWATCHERS OF THE SUBLIME First Line: In thin andean kingdoms, flutes Last Line: Every breath meaner, every breath darker NOTHING HAPPENED First Line: That year the doves sounded autumn early OIL First Line: First sour lake, then saratoga, then baston ON THE WAY TO WRITE A POEM IN THE 1980'S First Line: At first it will be like one of those maps ONE OF A KIND First Line: Consider the mule, thick as a stump Last Line: The man who is angry too, sensing the serious kinship Subject(s): Asses And Mules ONE STREET First Line: No one speaks of the way Last Line: Their breath our shelter ONE YEAR First Line: Doves sounded the autumn distance early Last Line: They came that close PASTURE BURN-OFF AT MIDNIGHT First Line: Bad weather grass so poor nothing would eat it PHOTOGRAPH OF THE COURTHOUSE SQUARE, 1950'S First Line: Here is the town with its spine broken PLATH First Line: Aurelia, your child had a talent Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963) POEM FOR DIZZY First Line: Sweet and sly, you were all business when the old bent- Last Line: The one about hope. The one abut oldest love Subject(s): Gillespie, Dizzy (1917-1993); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Poetry And Poets POETRY WORKSHOP IN A MAXIMUM SECURITY REFORM SCHOOL First Line: I brought them an armful of apples Last Line: On the scarred blackboard: %poem weapon POETRY WORKSHOP IN A REFORM SCHOOL First Line: The only difference, I said Last Line: And I have come away peled to the bone, %having given away all my weapons PROMISES First Line: I won't commit the dread it's who I am Last Line: Waiting to be this breath, alive and still PROPHECY First Line: The poets have gone out looking for god again Last Line: Not kneeling but falling REDLANDS JOURNEY First Line: What could going back there claim for me Last Line: You'll light old knives and scissors for the dark REMEMBERING BRUSHING MY GRANDMOTHER'S HAIR First Line: I see her in a ring of sewing, light RENT HOUSE First Line: I can't think why I've come to see this REPETITION First Line: Lidded three-quarter %moon climbing liveoak's ladder Last Line: What hound's cry rides our dark like a mane of fever? REVENANT First Line: Horizontal in my green coat Last Line: I neither know nor quite forget ROLLER RINK First Line: That summer it just appeared, %like a huge canvas butterfly Last Line: And ease of the promise that farm boy made %who went and stayed SHOOTING SCIPT First Line: The 1940's: my father's hat Last Line: There's no one here to thank SIPHNOS, 1987 First Line: Just past our neighbors' lemon trees Last Line: The laws already broken %of matter and of time SOUTH WOODS IN OCTOBER, WITH THE SPIDERS OF MEMORY First Line: There's no touch like this one Last Line: Brushing the small dead from your face SOUTHBOUND First Line: You can go back in a clap of blue metal Last Line: You may listen for thunder Subject(s): Southern States; Travel STORIES, 1940'S First Line: For example, oscar sawyer's store STRAYING INTO FEBRUARY WOODS First Line: A few things seem to stay. Beeches Last Line: With only the greenest lover's %forever forever forever SUMMER First Line: Roomful of early evening, airy curtains plying Last Line: Dance-time and echo. Summer. Feathers and fire SURVIVING THE WRECK First Line: Sometimes in the drift between sleep and waking Last Line: And those three horses come SWAN STORY First Line: If you take my hand Last Line: Dear one, hold on. We are %only halfway there THRESHOLD First Line: They are brittle, tucked carefully as saved letters Last Line: Our one embrace is flung %from flesh to the wild, marauding garden TIME AFTER TIME First Line: Time: it does things Last Line: And that old distortion: joy Subject(s): Time TIME AT THE MOVIES First Line: Say we move through our days some way secure Last Line: And you forget yourself. %and they are gone TO A YOUNG FEMINIST WHO WANTS TO BE FREE First Line: You describe your grandmothers walking straight Last Line: Backward whole embrace TO MY FATHER, KILLED IN A HUNTING ACCIDENT First Line: You'd have been waiting all morning Last Line: And whatever is helped to die TO SYLVIA, GROWN DAUGHTER First Line: You who loved so much the creek mud Last Line: And because the likeness may be torn %by now. And you may not know TOPSAIL ISLAND First Line: January absolves the village Last Line: I mean to weather TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY First Line: This is the silence known, a place Last Line: Can wear such still shining, %this pair of rings TWO POEMS WITH ONE EPIGRAPH First Line: A critic also can finesse Last Line: Is perfect. Iron. Infinite TWO WORDS First Line: Far west of my late afternoon Last Line: It was there all the time VALENTINE AT FIFTY First Line: Too many times I have left you Last Line: Distance, red and purple siberite now whole, %now touched with golden paths of breakage toward the d VERSO First Line: Walking the deepening back pasture Last Line: Like that shining, all bone, all bone VOYAGES First Line: We were five girls prowling alleyways behind the houses Last Line: As if all around us were depths we really could drown in WALKING OUT First Line: Fishing alone in a frail boat Subject(s): Drowning WHITE RHINOCEROS First Line: Immense, stuck with two nose-horns, they're ghostly Last Line: We think t he fey %rhinoceros. %we think that WHY WHITE SOUTHERN POETS WRITE THE WAY WE DO First Line: Because we were the last ones deserted Last Line: To dance, to sing anyhow, to grieve WIDOW SEEN First Line: All over the neighborhood, the sun Last Line: Life goes all to pieces at her feet WIDOW SPEAKING First Line: Morning comes in on strings of light Last Line: Threaded with deep cracks around the rim? WOMAN HIDDEN IN THIS PAINTING First Line: Like a renegade summer she begins Last Line: A changing %chink of weather in the window WOMAN IN A SERIES OF PHOTOGRAPHS First Line: Cold mornings, one foot WRITING POEMS LATE First Line: The summer's little clocks, soft works awhir Last Line: In a metallic skirl, a din %as of icebergs touching in another world WRITTEN AT A COUNTRY MANSION OF THE 1920S, NOW PARTIALLY RESTORED... First Line: Our shoes clamor in empty chambers Last Line: Dark here, darker. And the whippoorwill %practicing a dying art Albrecht, Elizabeth 2 poems available by this author SOMETHING MISSING ON THE LEFT First Line: When you arrange a still life, prune the parts Last Line: Alternatives to what I know around me: life bereft %of order, something missing on the left WOMAN TALKING MAN INTO CHILD First Line: Allergic to their stings, you see my words as bees Last Line: So - since all this buzzing's wasted on you dear, %look here- the honey Alexander, Elizabeth Poet's Biography 153 poems available by this author A POEM FOR NELSON MANDELA Poem Text First Line: Here where I live it is sunday Last Line: And I see this sunday clean Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (1918-2013) AFFIRMATIVE ACTION BLUES (1993) Poem Text First Line: Right now two black people sit in a jury room Last Line: I am not a pinata, rodney king insists. Opw can't we all get along Subject(s): King, Rodney (b.1966); Trials; Racism; Language; Police Violence AFFIRMATIVE ACTION BLUES (1993) First Line: Right now two black people sit in a jury room Last Line: I am not a pinata, rodney king insists. Now can't we all get along? Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women AFTER THE GIG: MICK JAGGER First Line: The baby cries. Mick jagger swaggers backstage Last Line: Picks the baby up, coo-coos, %and then rocks that baby down ALA First Line: At the hoop you sing 'black man!' Last Line: Fingers to the talking book: %bama. Alabama. What you said ALICE AT ONE HUNDRED AND TWO First Line: Yes, she said, I want to live a lot more years Last Line: Yes, she said, I want to live a lot more years %but not so slowly APOLLO First Line: We pull off %to a road shack Last Line: Stranger, stranger %even than we are Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women APOLLO Poem Text Recitation First Line: We pull off / to a road shack Last Line: Even than we are Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women ARS POETICA #100: I BELIEVE Poem Text First Line: Poetry, I tell my students Last Line: And are we not of interest to each other? Subject(s): Poetry & Poets AT THE BEACH Poem Text First Line: Looking at the photograph is somehow not Last Line: On darrell’s brown shoulder Subject(s): Aids (disease) AT THE BEACH First Line: Looking at the photograph is somehow not Last Line: Of your elbow, melvin, %on darrll's brown shoulder AUTUMN PASSAGE First Line: On suffering, which is real Last Line: As it turns to something else BABY First Line: The doctor handed me a parfait dish Last Line: I am formless and fanged, boy and girl both, %food and baby at the very same time BEARDEN First Line: One eye is larger than her two black hands Last Line: Low moons. Women taking tin-tub baths BILLY STRAYHORN WRITES LUSH LIFE First Line: Empty ice-cream carton %in a kitchen garbage can Last Line: This life, new york, piano %love, then lonely, this life, love BLACKWATER RIVER First Line: In winter the river must tunnel, as blind BLUES Poem Text First Line: I am lazy, the laziest Last Line: Or open arms saying, I forgive you, all Subject(s): Indolence; Sleep; Conduct Of Life BOSTON YEAR Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: My first week in cambridge a car full of white boys Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Alienation (social Psychology); Americans; Boston; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; United States; Estrangement; Outcasts; America BOSTON YEAR First Line: My first week in cambridge a car full of white boys Last Line: No one. Red notes sounding in a grey trolley town Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Alienation (social Psychology); Americans; Boston; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; United States BUTTER First Line: My mother loves butter more than I do Last Line: Our parent's efforts, glowing from the inside %out, one hundred megawatts of butter BUTTER Poem Text First Line: My mother loves butter more than I do Last Line: Out, one hundred megawatts of butter Subject(s): Butter; Family Life; Relatives CLEAN First Line: Dreamt of almost-viscous water Last Line: Bonjour, claude levi-strauss! %at last, I am totally clean! COMPASS First Line: I swing %the thin tin %arm to mark Last Line: To breathe in cold air, to breathe %in...Out... %breathe in CONCH CHOWDER First Line: I'm making conch chowder, says my next-door neighbor, joe. There Last Line: My eyes fill up again when she says the word, family. I sit down in front %of the tv and eat my co COUGH MEDICINE Poem Text First Line: Grape robitussen tastes like melted lollipop Last Line: Down the bathtub drain, who are frozen in place forever Subject(s): Medicine; Drugs, Prescription CRASH Poem Text First Line: I am the last woman off of the plane Last Line: With gravy and rice, to celebrate Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Air Crashes; Aeronautics - Accidents; Airplane Collisions CRASH First Line: I am the last woman off of the plane Last Line: At my parents', for my mother's roast chicken %with gravy and rice, to celebrate CREOLE CAT First Line: I am in new orleans with my two friends jennifer and anna, and with Last Line: Wolfe is thrilled, says he'll put her on the main stage at the joe papp %public theater. He'll make DARK ROOM First Line: Black poetry is Last Line: My brothers, go on %with your darkest, your dark %and lovely selves DEADWOOD DICK First Line: Colored cowboy named nat love Last Line: Black cowboy. Leather hat DIRT-EATERS First Line: Tra %dition %wanes %I read Last Line: Her smile %famili %ar as the %smell %of %dirt EARLY CINEMA First Line: According to mister hedges, the custodian Last Line: There was no school that day, %no movies for months after EARLY CINEMA Poem Text First Line: According to mister hedges, the custodian Last Line: No movies for months after Subject(s): Motion Pictures; School; Movies; Cinema ELEGY First Line: Motherless, fatherless Last Line: Of metal, city of black, black coal EMANCIPATION Poem Text First Line: Corncob constellation, / oyster shell, drawstring pouch, dry bones Last Line: We're free Subject(s): Freedom; Slavery; Liberty; Serfs EQUINOX First Line: Now is the time of year when bees are wild Last Line: To say, we are waiting. She is silent, light %as an empty hive, and she is breathing EVIDENCE First Line: Like everyone else, I dream I've been raped long ago and forgotten it, by Last Line: Think about that name. Arsenio, arsenic, arsenal, arsonist, a name which is %closest to fire. FAMILY STONE First Line: We drive 'the nutmeg state' in summer Last Line: As the word 'connecticut,' dream of mammoth %feet with painted toes, buckets of clabber, sirens FAREWELL TO YOU First Line: Each man on this slow train Last Line: Beloved romare bearden: %farewell to you FEMALE SEER WILL BURN UPON THIS PYRE First Line: Sylvia plath is setting my hair Last Line: The nursery tidy, the floor swept clean %of burnt hair and bumblebee husks FEMINIST POEM NUMBER ONE First Line: Yes I have dreams where I am rescued by men Last Line: All of it, all of it, under one roof Subject(s): Women's Rights FEMINIST POEM NUMBER ONE Poem Text First Line: Yes I have dreams where I am rescued by men Last Line: All of it, all of it, under one roof Subject(s): Women's Rights; Feminism FOUR BONGOS: TAKE A TRAIN First Line: The drummer wears suspenders to look like Last Line: Like changeable weather, in gabardine FUGUE: 1. WALKING (1963) First Line: You tell me, knees are important, you kiss Last Line: Into a light both brilliant and unseen FUGUE: 2. 1964 First Line: In a beige silk sari Last Line: My mother was a chignon. %my mother in her youth FUGUE: 3. 1968 First Line: The city burns. We have to stay at home Last Line: He makes the world a better place for negroes. %the year is nineteen-sixty-eight FUGUE: 4. 1971 First Line: Hey blood, my father said then Last Line: Hey blood. My father %still says that sometimes FUGUE: 5. THE SUN KING (1974) First Line: James hampton, the sun king Last Line: And the sun king lives %in washington, dc GEORGIA POSTCARD First Line: I. Atlanta Last Line: The mammoth dogwoods, %the christmas tree farm GERANIUMS First Line: In my front yard, negro Last Line: Geraniums in my front yard, %survivors, nigger red GIFT First Line: I dreamed I forgot to say thank you Last Line: It is not quite so noisy inside %and then he disappeared GRAVITAS First Line: Emergency! A bright yellow school bus Last Line: And a spine made of pearls, %and every day I speak to her in tongues HAIRCUT Poem Text First Line: I get off the irt in front of the schomburg center Last Line: Dying every day Subject(s): Barbers; Harlem (new York City) HOSEA WILLIAMS First Line: Rabble-rousing lunchbreaks Last Line: As a swamp, as a goldfish %swimming in a cut-glass bowl HOSTAGE First Line: As far as we can %determine they have been Last Line: Exciting things like this never happen to me HOUSE PARTY SONNET: '66 First Line: Small, still. Fit through the bannister slit Last Line: Hum of invisible dancers asleep ISLANDS NUMBER FOUR: 1. First Line: Agnes martin, islands number four Last Line: What looks to be perfect is not perfect. %odd oval portholes that flood with light ISLANDS NUMBER FOUR: 2. First Line: Description of a slave ship, 1789 Last Line: And sold for twelve ounces of gold apiece %or gone overboard. Islands. Aftermath JOHN COL First Line: John col- %trane's central park Last Line: John coltrane col- %trane song KEVIN OF THE N. E. CREW First Line: From the bus I see graffiti Last Line: Weed - fence - pole - split %kevin Subject(s): Literary Form KEVIN OF THE N. E. CREW Poem Text First Line: From the bus I see graffiti Last Line: Weed fence pole split / kevin Subject(s): African Americans – Children L.A. BY NIGHT First Line: We're in a postcard, driving Last Line: Light, a magnificent %planet, l.A. By night LADDERS First Line: Filene's department store Last Line: Monkey, girl? Answer me Subject(s): Literary Form LADDERS Poem Text First Line: Filene's department store Last Line: Monkey? Girl? Answer me Subject(s): African Americans; Family Life; Department Stores LAMENT First Line: We argue. I dream we live where I used to live Last Line: I share with one I have pledged to love forever, the windows %gaping open, the word armageddon har LETTER: BLUES First Line: Yellow freesia are like twining arms Last Line: Will feed my city dirt roots. Wait for me LIFE AS DINNER PARTY First Line: Tonight is a dinner party gone awry Last Line: Enough for everyone, extra for me, %so cool, so pure, so white, so sweet LYNDA HULL Poem Text First Line: The poet lynda hull, whom I did not know well Last Line: Leaving this bitch of a world for the next Subject(s): Death; Hull, Lynda (1954-1994); Dead, The MANHATTAN ELEGY Poem Text First Line: I left behind a mother, father Last Line: New york, my city of adults Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple MANHATTAN ELEGY First Line: I left behind a mother, father Last Line: To sing this kaddish for new york, %new york, my city of adults MIAMI FOOTNOTE First Line: I could go to any city Last Line: There is no escaping the warm %water, this pink city, miami MINNESOTA FATS DESCRIBES HIS YOUTH Poem Text First Line: I've been eating Last Line: They would shoot me the grapes Subject(s): Food & Eating; Minnesota Fats (fictional Pool Hustler) MONET AT GIVERNY First Line: Iris and haystack. Japanese footbridge Last Line: Disgusting, I see everything in blue.' MOVIE STAR First Line: In the dream, I slept with jack nicholson Last Line: Brown lipstick, a boar-bristle brush, florida water, pimple cream NARRATIVE: ALI Poem Text First Line: My head so big Last Line: Myself / muhammad Subject(s): Ali, Muhammad (cassius Clay) NARRATIVE: ALI: 1. First Line: My head so big Last Line: Language, any %continent: ali NARRATIVE: ALI: 10. RUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE First Line: Ali boma ye Last Line: I pound my chest but of my own accord NARRATIVE: ALI: 11. First Line: I said to joe frazier Last Line: We both bad niggers. %we don't do no crawlin' NARRATIVE: ALI: 12. First Line: They called me the fistic pariah. Last Line: Myself, %muhammad NARRATIVE: ALI: 2. First Line: Two photographs Last Line: And after that %I slept at night NARRATIVE: ALI: 3. First Line: I need to train Last Line: Hear them talk, %talk back NARRATIVE: ALI: 4. First Line: Bottom line: olympic gold Last Line: Drag the ribbon down, %red, white, and blue NARRATIVE: ALI: 5. First Line: Laying on the bed Last Line: Months with sonji, %first woman I loved NARRATIVE: ALI: 6. First Line: There's not Last Line: Is whip me, %but he can't NARRATIVE: ALI: 7. DRESSING-ROOM VISITOR First Line: He opened Last Line: Meaning niggers %like me NARRATIVE: ALI: 8. TRAINING First Line: Unsweetened grapefruit juice Last Line: Two-thirty, two-twenty, %two-ten, two-oh-nine NARRATIVE: ALI: 9. First Line: Will I go Last Line: You could be %snatched back NARRATIVE: ALI; A POEM IN TWELVE ROUNDS First Line: My head so big Last Line: Myself, %muhammad Subject(s): Ali, Muhammad (cassius Clay); Boxing And Boxers; Sports NAT KING COLE ON THE AMALFI DRIVE First Line: He signs after making the beast with two backs Last Line: My dahlias rustle, brush. A wink for me, %a smile for me, for me in black and white NAT TURNER DREAMS OF INSURRECTION First Line: Drops of blood on the corn, as dew from heaven Last Line: I am not a conjurer. Certain marks on my head and breast. %shelter me, great dismal swamp. A green-b NEONATOLOGY First Line: Is %funky, is %leaky, is %a soggy, bloody crotch, is Last Line: From silence and blood, silence %then everything, %jazz NINETEEN First Line: That summer in culpeper, all there was to eat was white cauliflower Last Line: The rain sounded just like that,' he said, 'on the roofs there.' ODE First Line: The sky was a street map with stars for house-parties Last Line: Now dreadlocked vendors sell mechanized monkeys %progammed to beat guaguanco OMNI-ALBERT MURRAY First Line: (three four) the ancestors are humming: write a poem, girl Last Line: Omni-albert murray omni omni albert murray Subject(s): African Americans; Ellington, Edward Kennedy ("duke"); New York City OMNI-ALBERT MURRAY Poem Text First Line: (three four) the ancestors are humming: write a poem, girl Subject(s): African Americans; Ellington, Edward Kennedy ('duke'); New York City; Negroes; American Blacks; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple OPIATE First Line: A date with michael jordan proves Last Line: I wake to a foghorn, opiate of the masses, %no memory of the feel of his dark and lovely skin ORANGE First Line: The doctor has diagnosed cancer, sees Last Line: That is how you know which ones we are ORNETTE COLEMAN AND THELONIOUS MONK AT DINNER First Line: When people smoked, and it hung over the table like magic Last Line: Jelly, just what you wanted and all you can eat OVERTURE: WATERMELON CITY First Line: Philadelphia is burning and water Last Line: To hi-life and zouk, %we burn PAINTING First Line: I've cropped the black hair diego loves Last Line: I will witness my own cremation %because ash is as lovely as fire PAPI LINDO VS THE BEAUTIFUL MAN First Line: The beautiful one is the ultimate victor Last Line: Ness, and there you are before me, in a plain %white suit with no buttons, a beautiful man PARTY First Line: Obi had a big ole party Last Line: Explode, explode, explode, %and the baby inside of me danced PASSAGE First Line: Henry porter wore good clothes for his journey Last Line: When I can, I'll come for you. I swear, %I'll come for you PAUL SAYS First Line: White people need to get a life Last Line: Was magical. Afros everywhere. I used to have a butterfly net PECCANT First Line: Maryland state correctional facility for women Last Line: Where all around me sin and not sin is scraped off tin trays %into oversized sinks, all that excess, PENMANSHIP First Line: I notice older women have better penmanship Last Line: When gold-foil stars are not enough, nor penmanship? PIG First Line: Held a whole baby pig Last Line: For word if I should swallow %because it was my dinner POEM FOR NELSON MANDELA First Line: Here where I live it is sunday Last Line: Daughters. This is philadelphia %and I see this sunday clean Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918) POSTPARTUM DREAM #12: APPOINTMENT First Line: I answered all Last Line: To be a good lawyer, the best, %just like my dad POSTPARTUM DREAM #2: FOLK ART First Line: It's me! Discovered in a sleeve Last Line: Basement walls suddenly bill taylor blue POSTPARTUM DREAM #8 First Line: In a hail of bazooka fire they drop Last Line: Her nipples stand out from here to st. Louis, %unsexy and mighty, full of that much milk PRAISE SONG FOR THE DAY Poem Text First Line: Each day we go about our business Last Line: Praise song for walking forward in that light. Subject(s): Obama, Barack PRELIMINARY SKETCHES: PHILADELPHIA Poem Text First Line: Fish-man comes with trout and fresh crabs Last Line: Brother brother brotherly love Subject(s): Philadelphia, Pennsylvania PRELIMINARY SKETCHES: PHILADELPHIA First Line: Fish-man comes with trout and fresh crabs Last Line: I'm listening for the philly sound-- %brother brother brotherly love RACE First Line: Sometimes I think about great-uncle paul who left tuskegee Last Line: Here a poem tells a story, a story about race RACE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Sometimes I think about great-uncle paul who left tuskegee, Last Line: Here a poem tells a story, a story about race Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks RADIO DAYS First Line: In the movie a latin bandleader Last Line: I saw jackie robinson hit that ball.' RANDALL, MARGARET First Line: Yes we did 'march around somewhere' and yes it was cold Last Line: Passing from hand to hand RECETA CULINARIA First Line: Make soup from this: Last Line: Cilantro to taste ROBESON AT RUTGERS First Line: Hard to picture, but these goliath trees Last Line: From the chemicals paul robeson's totem face? Subject(s): Robeson, Paul (1898-1976) ROBESON AT RUTGERS Poem Text First Line: Hard to picture, but these goliath trees Subject(s): Robeson, Paul (1898-1976) ROBESON AT RUTGERS Poem Text First Line: Hard to picture, but these goliath trees Last Line: From the chemicals paul robeson’s totem face? Subject(s): Robeson, Paul (1898-1976); Robeson, Paul (1898-1976) ROLLERBLADE, INC. First Line: Ex-husband arrives on rollerblades Last Line: I think: I have burned my caramel. %I think: rollerblade, inc. A trade man SABER-TOOTHED First Line: What a fabulous living room! Last Line: Queen of my house, no tiger, %no squirrel, no cockroach, no mouse STRAVINSKY IN L.A. Poem Text First Line: In white pleated trousers, peering through green Last Line: Watts, los angeles, aspiration Subject(s): Watts Towers, Los Angeles (1921-1955) SUMMERTIME First Line: Where we live there are caged peacocks Last Line: Could bounce to the sky and stick Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women THE DIRT-EATERS Poem Text First Line: Tra / dition Last Line: Of / dirt Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks THE FEMALE SEER WILL BURN UPON THIS PYRE Poem Text First Line: Sylvia plath is setting my hair Last Line: Of burnt hair and bumblebee husks Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963) THE VENUS HOTTENTOT Poem Text First Line: Science, science, science! Last Line: Geometric, deformed, unnatural Subject(s): Circus; Women - African TODAY'S NEWS First Line: Heavyweight champion of the world mike tyson Last Line: This is your life. Get up and look for color, %look for color everywhere TOMATO First Line: My friend amy has a jones for pregnant women Last Line: A million months pregnant, %and her lover is feeding her chocolate, square by square TONI MORRISON DREAMS: 1 First Line: Toni morrison despises %conference coffee, so I offer Last Line: Nuns go by, quiet as lust %everything in silver-gray and black TONI MORRISON DREAMS: 1. First Line: Toni morrison despises Last Line: Nuns go by as quiet as lust %everything in silver-gray and black TONI MORRISON DREAMS: 2 First Line: She does not love %my work, but she loves Last Line: My baby, tells me %to have many more TONI MORRISON DREAMS: 2. WORKSHOP First Line: She asks us to adapt Last Line: Oh %the work is hard TONI MORRISON DREAMS: 3. First Line: She does not love Last Line: To have many more TONI MORRISON DREAMS: 3. A READING AT TEMPLE UNIVERSITY First Line: Love,' she wrote %and 'love' and 'love' and 'love' Last Line: She whispered it %love TONI MORRISON DREAMS: 4. A READING AT TEMPLE UNIVERSITY First Line: Love, she wrote Last Line: She whispered it, %love TOUR GUIDE First Line: We have discovered indian cliff dwellings Last Line: The objects of people who lived here and disappeared. %but we know who was here first. We have photo UNTITLED First Line: If you win a macarthur genius grant Last Line: Like a simple, well-executed thought VAN DERZEE First Line: I say your name: james van derzee Last Line: You're drinking ginger ale and scotch VENUS HOTTENTOT First Line: Science, science, science! %everything is beautiful Last Line: It was shriveled and hard, %geometric, deformed unnatural VISITATION First Line: Pablo neruda still lives in my dream Last Line: Of course you fall asleep, he says, and waves. %adios carina. You're off to write a poem VISITOR First Line: The city rocks at close of day Last Line: Vacuum-packed coffee beans, ebony fists, %black soap that lathers up creamy, and white WAR First Line: In the dream there was goo Last Line: My newest, pulsing word %in a dream where I do not picture enemies WASHINGTON ETUDE First Line: After rain, mushrooms %appear in the park Last Line: Regard the flare %of blooming stars, %the cicada's maraca WEST INDIAN PRIMER First Line: On the road between spanish town Last Line: Lamps. I write this west indian primer WHAT I'M TELLING YOU First Line: If I say, my father was betty shabazz's lawyer, the poem can go further Last Line: Candy, something dim and unspoken, expectation WHEN First Line: In the early nineteen-eighties, the black men Last Line: Then all the men's faces were spotted WHO I THINK YOU ARE First Line: Empty out your pockets nighttime, daddy Last Line: Cigar bands and glinting, dimestore lockets Subject(s): Literary Form YOUR EX-GIRLFRIEND First Line: Is hollering from her new york tenement window Last Line: Joy is so important, your ex-girlfriend says, and smiles %you've got to keep your life absolutely fu ZODIAC First Line: You kissed me once and now I wait for more Last Line: Again, I think. I want you to kiss me Subject(s): Literary Form ZODIAC Poem Text First Line: You kissed me once and now I wait for more Last Line: Again, I thin. I want you yo kiss me Subject(s): Kisses Aley, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author BIG GAME HUNTER First Line: Momma was mad at daddy Last Line: We didn't know canada meant %vacation or that momma %never had one Allen, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author VERSE FOR VESTIGIALS First Line: Sometimes a child is washed from that warm room Last Line: Along on twos. %the markings are for hope Allen, Elizabeth Akers Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Percy, Florence; Chase, Elizabeth Anne 33 poems available by this author BABYHOOD Poem Text First Line: O, baby, with your marvellous eyes Subject(s): Babies; Infants BIRD'S NEST First Line: Over my shadowed doorway BLUSH, HAPPY MAIDEN, WHEN YOU FEEL BRINGING OUR SHEAVES First Line: The time for toil is past, and night has come ENDURANCE Poem Text First Line: How much the heart may bear, and yet not break! Last Line: Lo, all things can be borne! Subject(s): Fortitude EVERY DAY First Line: O, trifling tasks so often done FESSEDEN'S GARDEN Poem Text First Line: From this high window, in the twilight dim Last Line: The immortality of birds and flowers! Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Portland, Maine FOUR WORDS First Line: Beloved, the briefest words are best GOING TO SLEEP Poem Text First Line: The light is fading down the sky Subject(s): Sleep IN A GARRET Poem Text First Line: This realm is sacred to the silent past Last Line: And close again the long unopened door. Subject(s): Home; Houses, Deserted IN THE DEFENCES First Line: Along the ramparts which surround the Last Line: In black relief against the low full moon LAST First Line: Friend, whose smile has come to be LEFT BEHIND Poem Text First Line: It was the autumn of the year Last Line: "she loved you better than you knew." Subject(s): Disappointment LITTLE FEET Poem Text First Line: Two little feet, so small that both may nestle Last Line: Will guide the baby's feet. Subject(s): Babies; Children; Mothers; Infants; Childhood MIRACLE-WORKERS First Line: Who had seen them, the mystic Subject(s): Nature MY DEARLING Poem Text First Line: My dearling! - thus, in days long fled Last Line: The hapless fate of anne boleyn! Subject(s): Boleyn, Anne (1507-1536) MY SHIP Poem Text First Line: Down to the wharves, as the sun goes down Last Line: And watch to see if my ship comes in. Subject(s): Grief; Ships & Shipping; Sorrow; Sadness OLD STORY First Line: My heart is chilled and my pulse is slow OUR AUTUMN Poem Text First Line: The voice of nature singing mournful dirges Subject(s): Autumn; Fall ROCK ME TO SLEEP Poem Text First Line: Backward, turn backward, o time, in your flight Last Line: Rock me to sleep, mother, -- rock me to sleep! Subject(s): Home; Mothers & Daughters; Time; Women; Youth SEA-BIRDS Poem Text First Line: O lonesome sea-gull, floating far Last Line: Where is thy mate, and where thy nest? Subject(s): Birds SPRING AT THE CAPITAL First Line: The poplar drops beside the way Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day STONE-CUTTER First Line: There dwelt in far japan STREET MUSIC First Line: Methought a sweet sound from the street uprose Last Line: Recalled, too suddenly, by - 'if you please, a dime!' Subject(s): Begging And Beggars; Music And Musicians THE LAST LANDLORD Poem Text First Line: You who dread the cares and labors Last Line: With no dread of moving-day! Subject(s): Landlords & Tenants THE TELLTALE Poem Text First Line: Once, on a golden afternoon Last Line: "warbled the telltale -- ""do it again!" Subject(s): Love - Beginnings TOAD First Line: Close by the basement door-step Subject(s): Toads TRUE First Line: The fair frail blooms which loved the sun UNTIL DEATH First Line: Make me no vows of constancy, dear WHEN THE GRASS SHALL COVER ME WHERE THE ROSES GREW First Line: This is where the roses grew WHITE HEAD Poem Text First Line: From the pleasant paths I used to tread Last Line: And the islands of casco bay! Subject(s): Casco Bay, Maine WILLOW First Line: O willow, why forever weep Subject(s): Willow Trees Amherst, Elizabeth Frances Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, Mrs. Elizabeth 5 poems available by this author A PRIZE RIDDLE ON HERSELF WHEN 24 Poem Text First Line: I'm a strange composition as e'er was in nature Last Line: For those who first guess me shall have me for guessing. Subject(s): Self A SONG FOR THE SINGLE TABLE ON NEW YEAR'S DAY Poem Text First Line: Ye single folks all, that adorn this gay table Last Line: Derry down &c. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People FROM A YOUNG WOMAN TO AN OLD OFFICER WHO COURTED HER Poem Text First Line: Dear colonel, name the day, / let your love no longer stay Last Line: My loss quickly to repair with a fal la la. Subject(s): Love - Age Differences THE WELFORD WEDDING Poem Text First Line: Susan and charlotte and letty and all Last Line: Susan and charlotte and letty and all. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives VERSES DESIGNED TO BE SENT TO MR. ADAMS Poem Text First Line: Indeed, good sir, you're quite mistaken Last Line: What spirits, pray, possess you men? Subject(s): Animals; Evil Antalek, Elizabeth 8 poems available by this author NIGHTPIECE First Line: The radiators simmer and night-flags Last Line: Into your half-open ears Subject(s): Cities; Night OBAASAN ALONE First Line: Unfair to assume, because she has milk-white Last Line: But look-lace curtains. In this fashion, she survives OBAASAN AT THE BUS STOP First Line: She shuffles to the curb, bent Last Line: Silence wives and husbands eat together OBAASAN IN THE BEAUTY PARLOR First Line: Old woman sleeping in a swivel Last Line: Teeth a handful of black corn RECEIVING THE BLESSING OF ST. BLAISE First Line: I remember the x those wax Last Line: Rebuilt from the foundations %of two different fires Subject(s): Religion RED LESSONS First Line: My mother taught me how to light Last Line: Behind me-a new fire to contain Subject(s): Family Life TOMB OF THE WRESTLERS' First Line: Nothing left in this rented room Last Line: It breathes with a hidden mouth Subject(s): Death WHERE I USED TO LIVE First Line: Again the morning glories have died Last Line: Inside me, to teach me %that I'm older Subject(s): Children; Growth Aoki, Elizabeth 4 poems available by this author BEDBUGS First Line: This kind of wiggly, lovable pest Last Line: Your doctor advises you make the bloodsucker %uncomfortable Subject(s): Beds; Insects DAUGHTERS OF SOOT First Line: Yes, I'm the one who took the coal soot Last Line: Then we will throw them also upon the pyre, %spread their ashes on your plate LLOYD'S LAMENT First Line: Lloyd points out the hamburger joint Last Line: That makes all those good sandwiches fall apart Subject(s): Food And Eating UNDERNEATH YOU First Line: Here you are in the shuddering moment Last Line: Desperately afraid. He is desperately afraid Archer, Josephine Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author THE BOBBIN-WINDER Poem Text First Line: I saw time sitting on a stool Last Line: And a thing of beauty wrought. Subject(s): Farm Life; South Dakota; Agriculture; Farmers Arnold, Elizabeth 7 poems available by this author BOAT MAN First Line: As he approaches, he knows she'll hear his boat, the ropes Last Line: His frail spark, in pity and in thanks FALL RECURRENCE First Line: Hee I am a third time, lying on a metal bed in sheets Last Line: Than an instant, slow as years FALL, NORTH FLORIDA First Line: At the nursery on a sunday Last Line: The sun's heat through cold air %and barbara humming HORSEMAN First Line: Five years post-chemo, a knife stabbed through Last Line: High stone front, the patterned iron gates %above the marble lintel shut OFF THE SANTA FE RIVER NEAR MACCLENNY, FLORIDA First Line: Arguing about which way to go, how fast Last Line: Had nothing for our lungs to breathe SWIM First Line: When you look through air Last Line: Would she bend and pull me out, %back into the sunlit world TEMPO RUBATO 1 First Line: Tremendous blocks of ice Last Line: And flooded through itself %beyond beyond Arthur, Elizabeth Ann 2 poems available by this author COMPASS BEARINGS First Line: It wasn't just the plane FILLING CANVAS First Line: I have a vision of those ships, idle, near Austen, Cassandra Elizabeth 2 poems available by this author CHARADE (2) First Line: By my 1st you may travel with safety & speed Last Line: What am I, fair lady, pray tell me Subject(s): Seasons CHARADES (1) First Line: Should you chance to suffer thirst Last Line: And may be fairly called a drug Subject(s): Liquorice Austen, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author PERMANENT FRAGILITY OF MEANING First Line: Why persist, scratching across the white field Last Line: I rise up and begin again Subject(s): Politics; War Austen, Jane Anna Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author ON READING A LETTER First Line: With what delight I view each line Last Line: It's warmth for ever share Subject(s): Letters Auvache, Elizabeth V. 1 poems available by this author DECEMBER Poem Text First Line: December days are dark and gray Last Line: Round the bright and cheery blaze. Subject(s): Christmas; Cold; December; Nativity, The Bachinsky, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author DOMESTIC MINUTIAE GOT HER DOWN First Line: It's the details she can't stand Last Line: Taken off the air Balch, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author THE' UNKNOWN' ANSWERS First Line: There are letters and letters, as I suppose there are Subject(s): Love Balestrieri, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author TORCH LAKE First Line: This is the lake the indians rode at night Ball, Elizabeth 5 poems available by this author ANCIENT APRIL First Line: How old is april? FLAME AND GRAY First Line: I had forgotten OUTLOOK First Line: I thought the room a cage PEOPLE First Line: I am in love with people POEMS OF REBELLION First Line: I like to wear knickers Bancroft, Elizabeth 2 poems available by this author LAWN LESSONS First Line: Lord, how we laughed Last Line: Why they thought being wet %would matter to those dogs Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Ranch Life WINTER SOLSTICE First Line: Work horses, eyes closed Last Line: Telephone wires were lonely %without birds Subject(s): Ranch Life Bancroft, Elizabeth Jane 1 poems available by this author LOYALTY TO GOD First Line: Mine is a loyalty that depends Barnes, Elizabeth I. 1 poems available by this author PEACE PICTURES Poem Text First Line: In a dear old - fashioned parlor Last Line: Then -- how beautiful is peace. Subject(s): Peace Barr, Elizabeth N. 1 poems available by this author NIRVANA Poem Text First Line: The all-embracing mother wraps herself about me Last Line: O love, it is so lovely to be dead! Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise Barrett, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author FEVER First Line: Two days, I lay, on twisted sheets Last Line: You thread me these: camomile, honey, kiss Bartlett, Elizabeth+(1) 21 poems available by this author 1 + 1 = 2. ONE First Line: It started after they were married 999 CALL First Line: He lay on the floor covered in shit Last Line: I look, but it is never there AFTER THE STORM First Line: That morning after the storm BEHOLD THIS DREAMER First Line: He who would climb the heights of tone CAGE First Line: Thoughts like an empty cage CHARLOTTE, HER BOOK First Line: I am charlotte. I don't say hello Last Line: Over charlotte. This is her book CONTRE JOUR First Line: Contre jour, he said, a photographic phrase Last Line: Pounds per annum and her keep DARK ANGEL ENTER, MEMORY First Line: Memory is no stranger INSTEAD OF A MASS First Line: The cameraman doesn't like it cold LETTER FROM AUSTRALIA First Line: This is the best hand I can manage PEOPLE LIGHTS First Line: See the bright multitude Last Line: Across the empty night, %scattering loneliness PRIVATE HURRICANE First Line: It blew in on the telephone QUESTION IS PROOF First Line: If I ask why SAFE JOURNEY First Line: The twelve hours of the night SEE YOU TOMORROW First Line: How the bedtime refrain still echoes SIGN IS ZETA SILK CUT First Line: We have been sent out SPELL BEAUTY First Line: Before I heard the word or could read the word, I knew it Last Line: Beauty has its own existence SUNDAY PAPERS First Line: The winds of famine, war and disease Last Line: With magnificent days at sea %and breaktaking memories TRAVELOGUE First Line: Birds once swooped through these Bartlett, Elizabeth+(2) 53 poems available by this author ABC First Line: Mururoa is shaped like the letter c Last Line: Of cat food, choosing duck and heart ABSTRACT First Line: We are like foolish children Last Line: We think, a little distrait, %and abstracted ADULT EDUCATION HAPPY ENDINGS First Line: There's not much pleasure Last Line: Is he. He tips his coffee in the sink BASTILLE DAY First Line: This morning we are in paris Last Line: This morning we are in paris BEAUTIFUL KNEES OF THE VISITING LAY PREACHER First Line: They say he is a charismatic teacher Last Line: Upon the landscape of my parched %and frightened soul CARING COMMUNITY First Line: He has motor neurone disease Last Line: A passion flower they think CODA First Line: Stout, but upright, she played bach badly Last Line: And the music stops at his puny call DEUTSCHMARKS AND LEMON TREES First Line: First deutschmarks and then the lemon trees Last Line: Before your letter from gartenstrasse and then silence DIALYSIS First Line: Don't wear good clothes, they said Last Line: Lost her slightly comic and outmoded name DISMISSED First Line: He gives her a mock salute Last Line: In the pink end of empire sunset DYMPHNA First Line: Dymphna, nobody dies of grief Last Line: And a diamond as big as the ritz EDWARD THOMAS IN SURINDERS First Line: Why am I sitting here? Last Line: I hew at my seam of words %in the only way I know Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) EMMANUEL MAN First Line: Hearing a man cry is not like Last Line: We laugh inordinately ENEMIES First Line: I, do not know who my enemies are Last Line: Is he an enemy too? %so many EXPELLED First Line: When he expelled us from the sorority Last Line: Like disobedient ghosts or migrant birds GELDINGS First Line: She has gelded her husband Last Line: Though tossing in their laundered sheets, %the juices seep GERMAN LESSON First Line: His white cottage looks across the fields Last Line: Ick spreche nicht gut deutsch GOD IS DEAD -- NIETZSCHE First Line: Daddy and I are always here, you know Last Line: I am, in spite of everything, %your loving mother HARRODS OF PORTH First Line: A small shabby shop, the paint pouting Last Line: The aristocratic appetites of love HARVEST AT DYFFRYNSAITH First Line: I stand in my plaited glory Last Line: I am the hollow goddess of the earth HUNTED First Line: When I broke cover the hunt began Last Line: His coat thrown aside, stiffened with mud LACEMAKER First Line: Purblind, he cannot cage, coop or kennel me Last Line: Making words like lace, small and similar and spurned LEGENDS AND REALITIES First Line: Hammered into words the feeling wasn't quite the same Last Line: And left her idly sipping tepid beer, a woman drinking alone LES NEIGES D'ANTAN First Line: Though it was a thing of the past Last Line: Than their own. They wiped away the frost LIFE SENTENCE First Line: The judge and jury assembled in the hours Last Line: Like a double exposure which would not go away LILIUM First Line: The creamy throat is speckled Last Line: Triumphant fleur-de-lis LIMBO LINE First Line: The train now standing at platform 13 will leave for Last Line: Of trains on the limbo line LISTED BUILDING First Line: She was mistress in our shared kitchen Last Line: I am family, but in name only MINE First Line: Not that I wanted it Last Line: Beautiful, lovely, miraculous, %rich. %mine MISSING PERSON First Line: Curled up in the foetus position Last Line: To the list of missing persons MR ZWIEGENTHAL First Line: He was your other father, she said Last Line: The baltic, and in your buttonhole a rose MUSIC APPRECIATION First Line: Give them beethoven, bach and mozart Last Line: Music appreciation. %kiss my arse NO SURRENDER First Line: It was as phoney as hell, she thought Last Line: They fought with words and no surrender NORTH TERMINAL First Line: Gatwick at easter Last Line: Created either an oasis or a mirage NOTES FOR A THESIS ON THE THIRTIES First Line: Great tears ran down the scullery walls Last Line: Preparing to soil the linen of the world PLOUGHMAN'S LUNCH First Line: It would have to be Last Line: Thinking of mutton stew %on winter nights POSTCARD GIRL First Line: In a field of wild flowers and grass Last Line: And belongs to the man who painted her, %dreaming PUSHKIN First Line: No, don't make a mistake, he did not write Last Line: And urinated daily where he lay SCENES FROM AN URBAN HOTHOUSE First Line: Swinging from the curtains Last Line: Hooked as david on the hittite's wife SCHADENFREUDE First Line: You will know me by the things I recall Last Line: You will know me by the way I look at you SEASON IN HELL First Line: I wake up slowly Last Line: The stars like spilt corn in the sky %over minneapolis SLEEPTALK First Line: The children are asleep at last Last Line: Answer: of maize. (or so the proverb says SMILE FOR DADDY First Line: At last he is quiet; his harsh words Last Line: But that is my funeral, not his SONG OF A FOURTH DIVISION MAN First Line: When you were young I would have given you Last Line: Pheasants among the toilet rolls STRETCH MARKS First Line: Laying awake in a provincial town Last Line: Tell, but poems they can be sure of STUDY IN BLUE First Line: In divine contemplation, piety and sincerity, blue Last Line: For a study in blue, judged something slightly different SUNFLOWER First Line: July. The sunflower turns her face Last Line: To care for, and nothing else THEMES FOR WOMEN First Line: There is love to begin with, early love Last Line: The men tread mud in after docking lambs' tails, %and smell of blood THERE IS A DESERT HERE First Line: There is a desert here I cannot travel Last Line: No more hauling of ashes, %I promise you VISITORS First Line: There was one in the room, thinking of the sherry Last Line: Like a perfume or a discarded cigarette burning away Subject(s): Depression, Mental WEANING First Line: Her mastectomy scar %is not so livid now Last Line: Lapped it up, %you might say WINTER GARDENS First Line: Behind the glass the voluptuous palms Last Line: Using sods and a bath-brick for the knives WINTER'S TALE First Line: I know I'm not a good student, but I try Last Line: Thick, I say. What is this thick? Baxter, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author IN YOUR ABSENCE Poem Text First Line: It may be when the sunlight strikes the sill Last Line: Are many as the things I hear and see. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation Bear, Elizabeth 2 poems available by this author CONFESSIONS FROM GILCREASE First Line: Sitting on the steps of the museum porch Last Line: How long will we regret that? Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers DRIVING HOME AT NIGHT AFTER PICKING UP THE MILK First Line: A heron flew over the road and the car Last Line: One more unknown in the rearview mirror Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers Beasley, Elizabeth Wilcox 4 poems available by this author AT THE VILLAGE DEPOT Poem Text First Line: Why sure, we come down when the train pulls in Last Line: When that fast train comes whistling down the line. Subject(s): Railroad Stations PILGRIMAGE Poem Text First Line: A score of years had passed since they had laid Last Line: And scarlet poppies, swaying with each breeze.) Subject(s): Death - Children; Graves; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones SEVEN YEARS First Line: The body renews itself completely Last Line: You wonder how the brain grew back its own history VACANT STALL Poem Text First Line: I went into the barn - the west was red Last Line: And feel your velvet nose against my cheek? Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Horses Beck, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author TO OUR UNKNOWN DEAD First Line: With eyes that are misty and heartstrings that tremble Beitel, Elizabeth Kelty 2 poems available by this author THE TREE ACROSS THE ROAD Poem Text First Line: God never made a fairer thing! Last Line: Of autumn, in the wood. Subject(s): Autumn; God; Seasons; Spring; Trees; Fall TICKER TAPE Poem Text First Line: I sit and watch the figures glide along Last Line: What message brings your ticker tape to me? Subject(s): Stock Exchange Bellamy, Elizabeth W. 1 poems available by this author BABY LOGIC First Line: She was ironing her dolly's new gown Belloc, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author PELION First Line: A boy out hunting Bennett, Anna Elizabeth 5 poems available by this author CANDLE SONG First Line: Out of my longing, dusk-aware LAUGHING WOMAN First Line: She who all the garrulous day RENUNCIO First Line: Body, who would articulate SKEPTIC First Line: He has not run sun-shod along the wind WIND First Line: Life a mad trumpeter of stars Bennett, Elizabeth 2 poems available by this author SMALL EXPLOSION, AUGUST 6TH, 1985. First Line: A knock at the door TROUBLE WAS MEALS First Line: Dad was head of the family, for sure Last Line: And put it on the shelf next to old crow %so I could find I t when mother got old Subject(s): Women Bentley, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author TO A REDBREAST, THAT FLEW INTO A HOUSE ... Poem Text First Line: Fear not, sweet bird! Thy flutt'ring cease Last Line: Shall e'er thy steps molest. Subject(s): Robins Bernstein, Elizabeth A. 1 poems available by this author BOOMERANG First Line: The dream watches you laughing %as you read my obituary Last Line: To join us in tasting %the bitterness %of salt Berry, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author SUPERMARKET First Line: Being beautiful never used to matter Last Line: A leg or a heart ocsts the same, %my lamb Subject(s): Life; Markets Bertoldi, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author UNSUNG TYRANT First Line: By a strange twist Last Line: Dealing out the hours %with unending games of solitaire Bewick, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author BLACK MY BEGINNING Last Line: Globe floating on air Subject(s): Riddles Bibesco, Elizabeth (asquith) 1 poems available by this author SONNET First Line: There is no comfort in the sensual world Bishop, Elizabeth Poet's Biography 155 poems available by this author 12 O'CLOCK NEWS First Line: As you all know, tonight is the night of the full moon Last Line: Inscrutable people, our opponents, or of the sad corruption of their leaders A COLD SPRING First Line: A cold spring: / the violet was flawed on the lawn Subject(s): Spring A MIRACLE FOR BREAKFAST Poem Text First Line: At six o'clock we were waiting for coffee Last Line: As if the miracle were working, on the wrong balcony ANAPHORA Poem Text Recitation First Line: Each day with so much ceremony Last Line: Mortal fatigue Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement ANAPHORA First Line: Each day with so much ceremony Subject(s): Mourning ARGUMENT First Line: Days that cannot bring you near ARMADILLO; FOR ROBERT LOWELL First Line: This is the time of year Last Line: And a weak mailed fist %clenched ignorant against the sky Subject(s): Animals; Armadillos; Birds; Brazil; Owls ARRIVAL AT SANTOS First Line: Here is a coast; here is a harbor Last Line: We are driving to the interior AT THE FISHHOUSES First Line: Although it is a cold evening Last Line: Our knowledge is historical, flowing, and flown Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen AT THE FISHHOUSES Poem Text Recitation First Line: Although it is a cold evening Last Line: Our knowledge is historical, flowing, and flown Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers BALL POEM First Line: What is the boy now, who has lost his ball Last Line: Or whistling, I am not a little boy BALLAD OF THE SUBWAY TRAIN First Line: Long, long ago when god was young Last Line: They really are the dragons who %licked up the swarm of stars BIGHT First Line: At low tide like this how sheer the water is Last Line: All the untidy activity continues, %awful but cheerful Subject(s): Nature; Wharves BRAZIL, JANUARY 1, 1502 First Line: Januaries, nature greets our eyes Last Line: And retreating, always retreating, behind it BURGLAR OF BABYLON First Line: On the fair green hills of rio Last Line: The hill of astonishment, %and the hill of babylon Subject(s): Burglars; Crime And Criminals; Rio De Janeiro CAPE BRETON First Line: Out on the high bird islands, ciboux and hertford CASABIANCA First Line: Love's the boy stood on the burning deck Last Line: On deck. And love's the burning boy Subject(s): Hemans, Felicia (1793-1835) CASABIANCA Poem Text First Line: Love's the boy stood on the burning deck Subject(s): Hemans, Felicia (1793-1835) CHEMIN DE FER First Line: Alone on the railroad track CIRQUE D'HIVER First Line: Across the floor flits the mechanical toy Last Line: We stare and say, 'well, we have come this far' COLD SPRING First Line: A cold spring: %the violet was flawed on the lawn Last Line: These particular glowing tributes %every evening now throughout the summer Subject(s): Spring COLDER THE AIR First Line: We must admire her perfect aim Last Line: It is this clock that later falls %in wheels and chimes of leaf and cloud CONVERSATION First Line: The tumult in the heart COOTCHIE First Line: Cootchie, miss lula's servant, lies in marl Subject(s): Mourning COOTCHIE Poem Text First Line: Cootchie, miss lula's servant, lies in marl Last Line: Will proffer wave after wave Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement CRUSOE IN ENGLAND Poem Text Recitation First Line: A new volcano has erupted Last Line: And friday, my dear friday, died of measles / seventeen years ago come march Subject(s): Robinson Crusoe CRUSOE IN ENGLAND First Line: A new volcano has erupted Last Line: And friday, my dear friday, died of measles %seventeen years ago come march Subject(s): Robinson Crusoe DEAD First Line: The winter is her lover now Last Line: For winter holds his breath and see-- %this frost upon the grass DEATH & LIFE OF A SEVERINO, SELS. DRUNKARD First Line: When I was three, I watched the salem fire Last Line: I'm half-drunk now... %and all I'm telling you may be a lie ELECTRICAL STORM First Line: Dawn an unsympathetic yellow FAUSTINA, OR ROCK ROSES First Line: Tended by faustina %yes in a crazy house Last Line: And womders oh, whence come %all the petals FILLING STATION First Line: Oh, but it is dirty! Last Line: Somebody loves us all Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations FILLING STATION Poem Text Recitation First Line: Oh, but it is dirty! Last Line: Somebody loves us all Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops FIRST DEATH IN NOVA SCOTIA Poem Text First Line: In the cold, cold parlor / my mother laid out arthur Last Line: With his eyes shut up so tight / and the roads deep in snow? Subject(s): Death; Nova Scotia; Dead, The FIRST DEATH IN NOVA SCOTIA First Line: In the cold, cold parlor %my mother laid out arthur Last Line: With his eyes shut up so tight %and the roads deep in snow? Subject(s): Death; Nova Scotia FISH First Line: I caught a tremendous fish Last Line: And I let the fish go Subject(s): Environment; Fishing And Fishermen; Sea; Sports FLORIDA First Line: The state with the prettiest name Last Line: Whimpers and speaks in the throat %of the indian princess Subject(s): Americans; United States FLORIDA Poem Text First Line: The state with the prettiest name Last Line: Whimpers and speaks in the throat / of the indian princess Subject(s): Americans; United States; America FLORIDA DESERTA First Line: Oh summer clouds that come so low, come down Last Line: Restore to every sun-bleached, spectral brain %its coldest blue and green FOR C.W.B First Line: Let us live in a lull of the long winter winds Last Line: And eat them for tea from two lily-white bowls FROM THE COUNTRY TO THE CITY First Line: The long, long legs Last Line: We bring a message from the long black length of body: %'subside,' it begs and begs FROM TROLLOPE'S JOURNAL First Line: As far as statues go, so far there's not GENTLEMAN OF SHALOTT First Line: Which eye's his eye? GOING TO THE BAKERY First Line: Instead of gazing at the sea HOUSE GUEST First Line: The sad seamstress Last Line: And our fates will be like hers, %and our hems crooked forever? Subject(s): Seamstresses HOUSE GUEST Poem Text First Line: The sad seamstress Last Line: An our hems crooked forever? Subject(s): Seamstresses IMAGINARY ICEBERG First Line: We'd rather have the iceberg than the ship Last Line: To see them so: fleshed, fair, erected indivisible IN THE WAITING ROOM First Line: In worcester, massachusetts, %I went with aunt consuelo Last Line: And it was still the fifth %of february, 1918 Subject(s): Aunts; Children; Dentists; Imagination; Labor And Laborers; Pain; World War I INSOMNIA First Line: The moon in the bureau mirror Last Line: Is now deep, and you love me Subject(s): Love INSOMNIA Poem Text First Line: The moon in the bureau mirror Last Line: Is now deep, and you love me Subject(s): Love INVITATION TO MISS MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text First Line: From brooklyn, over the brooklyn bridge, on this fine morning Last Line: Please come flying Subject(s): Americans; Moore, Marianne (1887-1972); United States; America INVITATION TO MISS MARIANNE MOORE First Line: From brooklyn, over the brooklyn bridge, on this fine morning Last Line: Please come flying Subject(s): Americans; Moore, Marianne (1887-1972); United States IT IS MARVELLOUS First Line: It is marvellous to wake up together Last Line: Change as our kisses are changing without our thinking Subject(s): Love; Morning IT IS MARVELLOUS Poem Text First Line: It is marvellous to wake up together Last Line: Change as our kisses are changing without our thinking Subject(s): Love; Morning JERONIMO'S HOUSE Poem Text First Line: My house, my fairy / palace, is Last Line: Glued with spit Subject(s): Houses JERONIMO'S HOUSE First Line: My house, my fairy %palace, is Last Line: My shelter from %the hurricane Subject(s): Houses LARGE BAD PICTURE First Line: Remembering the strait of belle isle or Last Line: It would be hard to say what brought them there, %commerce or contemplation Subject(s): Paintings And Painters LARGE BAD PICTURE Poem Text First Line: Remembering the strait of belle isle or Last Line: It would be hard to say what brought them there, / commerce or contemplation Subject(s): Paintings & Painters LATE AIR Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: From a magician's midnight sleeve Last Line: Burn quietly, where the dew cannot climb Subject(s): Love LATE AIR First Line: From a magician's midnight sleeve Last Line: Burning quietly, where the dew cannot climb Subject(s): Love LESSON 10 First Line: What is a map? Last Line: In the southeast? In the northeast? %in the southwest? Variant Title(s): Simplicity [and Sweet Neglect Subject(s): Nature LESSON 10 Poem Text First Line: What is a map? Last Line: Southeast? In the northeast? In the southwest? Variant Title(s): Simplicity [and Sweet Neglect] Subject(s): Maps; Nature LESSON 6 First Line: What is geography? Subject(s): Geography LESSON 6 First Line: What is geography? Last Line: Of what is the earth's surface composed? %land and water Subject(s): Nature LESSON VI First Line: What is geography? %a description of the earth's surface Last Line: Of what is the earth's surface composed? %land and water Subject(s): Nature LETTER TO N.Y. First Line: In your next letter I wish you'd say Last Line: What are you doing and where you are going Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Youth LETTER TO N.Y. Poem Text First Line: In your next letter I wish you'd say Last Line: What are you doing and where you are going Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Youth; Work; Workers LINES WRITTEN IN THE FANNIE FARMER COOKBOOK Poem Text Recitation First Line: You won't become a gourmet* cook Subject(s): Cookbooks LITTLE EXERCISE Poem Text Recitation First Line: Think of the storm roaming the sky uneasily Last Line: Think of him as uninjured, barely disturbed Subject(s): Mangroves; Storms LITTLE EXERCISE First Line: Think of the storm roaming the sky uneasily Last Line: Think of him as uninjured, barely disturbed Subject(s): Mangroves; Storms LOVE LIES SLEEPING First Line: Earliest morning, switching all the tracks LULLABY FOR THE CAT First Line: Minnow, go to sleep and dream Last Line: Sleep, and let them come Subject(s): Animals; Cats LULLABY FOR THE CAT Poem Text First Line: Minnow, go to sleep and dream Last Line: Sleep, and let them come Subject(s): Animals; Cats MAN-MOTH First Line: Here, above, %cracks in the buildings are filled with battered moonlight Last Line: Cool as from underground springs and pure enough to drink Subject(s): Animals; Human Rights MANNERS First Line: My grandfather said to me Last Line: So we all got down and walked, %as our good manners required Subject(s): Etiquette; Grandparents MANNERS Poem Text First Line: My grandfather said to me Last Line: So we all got down and walked, / as our good manners required Subject(s): Etiquette; Grandparents; Manners; Courtesy; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers MANUELZINHO First Line: Half squatter, half tenant (no rent Last Line: Again I promise to try MAP First Line: Land lies in water; it is shadowed green Last Line: More delicate than the historians' are the map-makers' colors MIRACLE FOR BREAKFAST First Line: At six o'clock we were waiting for coffee Last Line: A window across the river caught the sun %as if the miracle were working, on the wrong balcony MONUMENT First Line: Now can you see the monument? It is of wood Last Line: A piece of sculpture, or poem, or monument, %and all of wood. Watch it closely MOOSE First Line: From narrow provinces %of fish and bread and tea Last Line: Then there's a dim %smell of moose, an acrid %smell of gasoline Subject(s): Moose NORTH HAVEN First Line: I can make out the rigging of a schooner Last Line: The words won't change again. Sad friend, you cannot change O BREATH First Line: Beneath that loved and celebrated breast ONE ART First Line: The art of losing isn't hard to master Last Line: Though it may look like (write it!) like disaster Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mourning ONE ART Poem Text First Line: The art of losing isn't hard to master Last Line: Though it may look like (write it!) like disaster Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Bereavement OVER 2,000 ILLUSTRATIONS AND A COMPLETE CONCORDANCE Poem Text Recitation First Line: Thus should have been our travels Last Line: And looked and looked our infant sight away Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips OVER 2000 ILLUSTRATIONS AND A COMPLETE CONCORDANCE First Line: Thus should have been our travels Last Line: And looked and looked our infant sight away PARIS, 7 A.M. First Line: I make a trip to each clock in the apartment PINK DOG (RIO DE JANEIRO) First Line: The sun is blazing and the sky is blue Last Line: Dress up! Dress up and dance at carnival! Subject(s): Animals; Carnivals; Dogs; Rio De Janeiro PINK DOG (RIO DE JANEIRO) Poem Text First Line: The sun is blazing and the sky is blue Last Line: Dress up! Dress up and dance at carnival! Subject(s): Animals; Carnivals; Dogs; Rio De Janeiro POEM Poem Text First Line: About the size of an old-style dollar bill Last Line: The yet-to-be-dismantled elms, the geese Subject(s): Nova Scotia POEM First Line: About the size of an old-style dollar bill Last Line: The yet-to-be-dismantled elms, the geese Subject(s): Nova Scotia PRODIGAL First Line: The brown enormous odor he lived by Last Line: But it took him a long time %finally to make his mind up to go home Variant Title(s): The Prodigal: The Brown Enormous Odor He Lived B Subject(s): Prodigal Son; Smells PRODIGAL: BUT EVENINGS THE FIRST STAR CAME TO WARN. First Line: But evenings the first star came to warn. Last Line: Finally to make his mind up to go home. QUAI D'ORLEANS First Line: Each barge on the river easily tows QUESTIONS OF TRAVEL First Line: There are too many waterfalls here; the crowded streams Last Line: And here, or there -- no. Should we have stayed at home, %wherever that may be? Subject(s): Rivers; Travel QUESTIONS OF TRAVEL Poem Text First Line: There are too many waterfalls here; the crowded streams Last Line: And here, or there -- no. Should we have stayed at home, / wherever that may be? Subject(s): Rivers; Travel; Journeys; Trips RAIN TOWARDS MORNING First Line: The great light cage has broken up in the air REPRIMAND First Line: If you taste too often, inquisitive tongue RIVERMAN First Line: I got up in the night Last Line: The dolphin singled me out; %luandinha seconded it Subject(s): Brazil; Dolphins; Witchcraft And Witches ROOSTERS First Line: At four o'clock %in the gun-metal blue dark Last Line: Faithful as enemy, or friend Subject(s): Roosters ROOSTERS Poem Text Recitation First Line: At four o'clock / in the gun-metal blue dark Last Line: Faithful as enemy, or friend Subject(s): Roosters; Cocks SALEM WILLOWS First Line: Oh, salem willows, %where I rode a golden lion Last Line: And aunt maud sat and knitted %and knitted, waiting for me SANDPIPER First Line: The roaring alongside he takes for granted Last Line: The millions of grains are black, white, tan, and gray, %mixed with quartz grains, rose and amethyst Subject(s): Birds; Sandpipers SANDPIPER Poem Text First Line: The roaring alongside he takes for granted Last Line: The millions of grains are black, white, tan, and gray, / mixed with quartz grains, rose and amethys Subject(s): Birds; Sandpipers SEASCAPE Poem Text First Line: This celestial seascape, with white herons got up as angels Last Line: And when it gets dark he will remember something / strongly worded to say on the subject Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEASCAPE First Line: This celestial seascape, with white herons got up as angels Last Line: And when it gets dark he will remember something %strongly worded to say on the subject Subject(s): Sea SESTINA First Line: September rain falls on the house Last Line: The grandmother sings to the marvellous stove %and the child draws another inscrutable house Subject(s): Family Life SESTINA Poem Text First Line: September rain falls on the house Last Line: The grandmother sings to the marvellous stove / and the child draws another inscrutable house Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives SHAMPOO First Line: The still explosions on the rocks Last Line: Battered and shiny like the moon SLEEPING ON THE CEILING First Line: It is so peaceful on the ceiling Last Line: But oh, that we could sleep up there Subject(s): Sleep SLEEPING ON THE CEILING Poem Text First Line: It is so peaceful on the ceiling Last Line: But oh, that we could sleep up there Subject(s): Sleep SLEEPING STANDING UP First Line: As we lie down to sleep the world turns half away SOME DREAMS THEY FORGOT First Line: The dead birds fell, but no one had seen them fly SONG First Line: Summer is over upon the sea SONG FOR THE RAINY SEASON First Line: Hidden, oh hidden %in the high fog Last Line: Waterfalls shrivel %in the steady sun SONGS FOR A COLORED SINGER First Line: A washing hangs upon the line Last Line: For this occasion's all his fault, %the time has come to call a halt Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music SONGS FOR A COLORED SINGER Poem Text Recitation First Line: A washing hangs upon the line Last Line: For this occasion's all his fault, / the time has come to call a halt Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music SONNET Recitation SONNET First Line: Caught-the bubble %in the spirit-level Last Line: Flying wherever %it feels like, gay! SONNET First Line: I am in need of music that would flow Last Line: Held in the arms of rhythm and of sleep SQUATTER'S CHILDREN First Line: On the unbreathing sides of hills Last Line: Its soggy documents retain %your rights in rooms of falling rain Subject(s): Children SQUATTER'S CHILDREN Poem Text First Line: On the unbreathing sides of hills Last Line: Your rights in rooms of falling rain Subject(s): Children; Childhood STREET BY THE CEMETERY First Line: The people on little verandahs in the moonlight %are looking at the graveyard Last Line: Floating in a cluster %in the dirty harbor SUICIDE OF A MODERATE DICTATOR First Line: This is a day when truths will out, perhaps Last Line: Segmented rainbow steadily hung above it. %at eight two little boys were flying kites SUICIDE OF A MODERATE DICTATOR Poem Text First Line: This is a day when truths will out, perhaps Last Line: Segmented rainbow steadily hung above it. / at eight two little boys were flying kites SUMMER'S DREAM First Line: To the sagging wharf SUNDAY, 4 A.M. First Line: An endless and flooded THE ARMADILLO; FOR ROBERT LOWELL Poem Text First Line: This is the time of year Last Line: Clenched ignorant against the sky! Subject(s): Animals; Armadillos; Birds; Brazil; Owls; Brazilians THE BIGHT Poem Text First Line: At low tide like this how sheer the water is Last Line: All the untidy activity continues, / awful but cheerful Subject(s): Nature; Wharves; Piers THE BURGLAR OF BABYLON Poem Text First Line: On the fair green hills of rio Last Line: The hill of astonishment, / and the hill of babylon Subject(s): Burglars; Crime & Criminals; Rio De Janeiro THE FISH Poem Text First Line: I caught a tremendous fish Last Line: And I let the fish go Subject(s): Environment; Fish & Fishing; Sea; Sports; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Anglers; Ocean THE MAN-MOTH Poem Text First Line: Here, above, / cracks in the buildings are filled with battered moonlight Last Line: Cool as from underground springs and pure enough to drink Subject(s): Animals; Human Rights THE MOOSE Poem Text First Line: From narrow provinces / of fish and bread and tea Last Line: Smell of moose, an acrid / smell of gasoline Subject(s): Moose THE MOUNTAIN Poem Text First Line: At evening, something behind me Last Line: Tell me how old I am Subject(s): Aging THE PRODIGAL Poem Text First Line: The brown enormous odor he lived by Last Line: Finally to make up his mind to go home Variant Title(s): The Prodigal: The Brown Enormous Odor He Lived By Subject(s): Prodigal Son; Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances THE RIVERMAN Poem Text First Line: I got up in the night Last Line: Luandinah seconded it Subject(s): Brazil; Dolphins; Witchcraft & Witches; Brazilians; Porpoises THE WEED Poem Text First Line: I dreamed that dead, and meditating Last Line: For a year, a minute, an hour Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THREE VALENTINES First Line: Love with his gilded bow and crystal arrows TROUVEE First Line: Oh, why should a hen TWELFTH MORNING; OR WHAT YOU WILL First Line: Like a first coat of whitewash when it's wet Last Line: The day of kings' UNBELIEVER First Line: He sleeps on the top of a mast Last Line: It is as hard as diamonds; it wants to destroy us all UNDER THE WINDOW: OURO PRETO First Line: The conversations are simple: about food Last Line: Like tatters of the morpho butterfly Subject(s): Food And Eating UNDER THE WINDOW: OURO PRETO Poem Text First Line: The conversations are simple: about food Last Line: Like tatters of the morpho butterfly Subject(s): Food & Eating VAGUE POEM First Line: The trip west %I think I dreamed that trip Last Line: Exacting roses from the body %and the even darker, accurate, rose of sex VARICK STREET First Line: At night the factories Subject(s): Modern Man; New York City VARICK STREET Poem Text Recitation First Line: At night the factories Last Line: Sell you, of course, my dear, and you'll sell me Subject(s): Modern Man; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple VIEW OF THE CAPITOL FROM THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS First Line: Moving from left to left, the light VISITS TO ST. ELIZABETHS First Line: This is the house of bedlam Last Line: That lies in the house of bedlam Subject(s): Insanity VISITS TO ST. ELIZABETHS Poem Text First Line: This is the house of bedlam Last Line: That lies in the house of bedlam Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness WADING AT WELLFLEET First Line: In one of the assyrian wars WEED First Line: I dreamed that dead, and meditating Last Line: And answered then: 'I grow it,' it said, %'but to divide your heart again' Subject(s): Dreams WHILE SOMEONE TELEPHONES First Line: Wasted, wasted minutes that couldn't be worse Last Line: Might they not be his green gay eyes WIT First Line: Wait. Let me think a minute,' you said Blake, Elizabeth Jessup 1 poems available by this author WITHIN AND WITHOUT First Line: It took without to make within a heaven Last Line: And heaven was bounded by a window pane Blake, Mary (may) Elizabeth (mcgrath) 8 poems available by this author A SONG OF WORK Poem Text First Line: Work while the sun climbeth high in the heaven Last Line: Then at the last, find rest with god. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers DEAD SUMMER First Line: What lacks the summer? GOING AND COMING First Line: Forward! %'on to the front!' the order ran HEARTSICK! First Line: Is it the tramp of men to battle IN EXILE First Line: The green is on the grass and the blue is in the sky THE DAWNING O' THE YEAR Poem Text First Line: All ye who love the springtime - and who but loves it well Last Line: Till ye meet it in old ireland in the dawning o' the year! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year WOMEN OF THE REVOLUTION First Line: Heart of the patriot touched by freedom's kindling breath WONDERFUL COUNTRY OF GOODBOY-LAND First Line: Did you ever hear of goodboy-land Bletsoe, Elizabeth 2 poems available by this author HAIKU HUNDRED First Line: As stars are fading Last Line: On your sleeping back WEIRD STUFF THIS Last Line: A man could drown in her deceits, her slipperiness Subject(s): Lighthouses; Riddles Bogart, Elizabeth Alternate Author Name(s): Estelle 3 poems available by this author HE CAME TOO LATE! NEGLECT HAD TRIED THE COUNTRY CHURCH Poem Text First Line: It was an humble temple; and it stood Last Line: Till the last trump shall sound, and time be o'er. TO THE MEMORY OF A FRIEND WHO DIED ON SABBATH MORNING Poem Text First Line: Oh, it was meet, beloved friend! Last Line: Oh, may I go to thee! Bohm, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author TRACKS First Line: Two azure lines traverse the town Subject(s): Railroads Borson, Ruth Elizabeth 24 poems available by this author ABUNDANCE First Line: The moon: hoof-print in ice AFTER A DEATH First Line: Seeing that there's no other way Last Line: Because the chair is there Subject(s): Chairs; Death CRICKET'S AUTUMN (AN INTRODUCTION TO WANG WEI) First Line: The crickets recognize no human voice: no one calls Last Line: Seeing all the peopled world at the end of your hand DREAMING OF LI BAI (AN INTRODUCTION TO DU FU) First Line: All day the floating clouds move overhead Last Line: Now I dream of you afraid to tumble from your own boat FLOWERS First Line: The sunset, a huge flower, wilts on the horizon Last Line: There are holes in his face FROM THE NIGHT INTERSTATE First Line: Totally dark now over western new york, and darker still Last Line: Vanish, vanishingly high, with all the small clouds %drifting east GRAY GLOVE First Line: Among branches %a bird lands fluttering Last Line: In order for you to hear HELLO DESIRE First Line: Hello desire, you've been gone awhile Last Line: Blue moon at twilight. Handsome friend. %loose your petals. %think on me IN THE CAFE Subject(s): Travel JACARANDA First Line: Old earth, how she sulks Last Line: In luminous drops %is raining down JUST BEFORE DAWN First Line: At the hour just before dawn LIFE AMONG FLOWERS First Line: I would like to lie down on a leaf of banana Last Line: His little furred fox-face blooded and content LIMITS OF KNOWLEDGE, TILTON SCHOOL, NEW HAMPSHIRE First Line: At certain points in the universe longing condenses Last Line: Because that is how she sees her life so far, %and she has not lived elsewhere MOON TUB First Line: Tincture of moonlight the stranger said Last Line: Love you I'd become a nun right now, %or a cranefly. Something other OCTOBER, HANSON'S FIELD First Line: Frost chains the pumpkins PREPARING TO LEAVE GUIZHOU (AN INTRODUCTION TO DU FU) First Line: The voices come from all directions now Last Line: It' with you, the world, when you come RAIN First Line: The bay the color of steel, of a warship Last Line: It just looks like a white mist that slowly blows and changes Subject(s): Rain SAVE US FROM First Line: Save us from night Last Line: From another measureless day, save us SUMMER CLOUD First Line: Hello little buntings, if that's what you are Last Line: All painted with a whitewash called summer cloud TALK First Line: The shops, the streets are full of old men Last Line: Something to be tinkered with at their leisure THINKING OF SUZHOU (AN INTRODUCTION TO DU FU) First Line: The centuries are %set in stone, or lost in gardens, to elude us Last Line: Wild again, staining the mansion walls THIS IS THE LAST NIGHT First Line: Night drips tar into the grass TRANSPARENCE OF NOVEMBER First Line: The orchestra of the dark tangled field YOU LEAVE THE CITY First Line: You leave the city and I'm free Last Line: For when in rome, atlantis, all the wronged cities - %and they send for him and he's gone Bouton, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author WOODLAND LESSON First Line: Not a sound through the forest's deep silence was heard Boyd, Elizabeth Poet's Biography 1 poems available by this author ON THE DEATH OF AN INFANT OF FIVE DAYS OLD Poem Text First Line: How frail is human life! How fleet our breath Last Line: And the shocked father tear for tear return. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies Brackley, Elizabeth Poet's Biography 2 poems available by this author THE SECOND ANTEMASQUE Poem Text First Line: I have lost my melch cow Last Line: Pr. And our purses they are empty. Subject(s): Country Life; Cows; Singing & Singers; Songs THE THREE SAD SHEPPARDESSES, GOE TO A LITTLE TABLE, WHERE THEY SINGE Poem Text First Line: When once the presence of a friend is gone Last Line: Your welcome, when wee owne him as our day. Subject(s): Grief; Love; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs Braddon, Mary Elizabeth 3 poems available by this author AFTER THE BATTLE First Line: The wistful hound creeps, listening, to the door QUEEN GUINEVERE First Line: I wear a crown of gems upon my brow Last Line: And hush me to that slumber, calm and deep, %from which none wake again! Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Women TO A COQUETTE First Line: Lady, in thy radiant eyes Last Line: Only masks thy cruelties Subject(s): Cruelty; Flirtation Bradfield, Elizabeth 2 poems available by this author ENDURANCE First Line: There's a woman now Last Line: And you wade in anyway POLAR EXPLORER #3 APSLEY CHERRY-GARRARD, 1911 First Line: Young thing, his eyeglasses constant trouble Last Line: With the cries of flightless birds standing, rocked back, %on the sharp bones of their heels Brady, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author PUSSY WILLOWS Poem Text First Line: Perhaps they are pearls from the robe of / the night Last Line: Have I solved your sweet secret at last? Subject(s): Spring; Willow Trees Branch, Amy Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author INCENSE TO THE LAUGHING BUDDHA First Line: When my mother first came to america Last Line: Yes she replies %yes, human Brantley, Mary Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author DESERTED DERRICK Poem Text First Line: Towering high above oil-stained lands Last Line: That cast its rays upon the derrick in an early year. Subject(s): Petroleum; Ruins; Wells; Oil Brewster, Elizabeth 17 poems available by this author ANGELIC INFLUENCE First Line: There is an old story about angels Last Line: And walk daily among angels ANTI-LOVE POEMS First Line: No, I don't love you Last Line: I wonder, do you see me %as bird, or ship, or shark? CREATION First Line: It is said that when god created the universe Last Line: Hauling in the great leviathan itself FOR H.D., IMAGISTE First Line: Saint hilda, with your tall, classic beauty GREAT-AUNT REBECCA First Line: I remember my mother's aunt rebecca Last Line: Soft as silk and tough as that thin wire %they use for snaring rabbits Subject(s): Aunts; Pioneers HILDA DOOLITTLE ANALYZES SIGMUND FREUD First Line: She thinks of him by several names:. IF I COULD WALK OUT INTO THE COLD COUNTRY Last Line: And must be forced, and forced again, to die POEM FOR MY SIXTY-THIRD BIRTHDAY First Line: They used to call it the grand climacteric POEMS FOR SEVEN DECADES: FIRST MOVIE First Line: The first movie I ever saw Last Line: Be so uppity %as to place her individual talent %next to all that tradition? POEMS FOR SEVEN DECADES: IN THE TWENTIES First Line: Yes, it was the same world but different Last Line: A thick, checked carriage blanket, smelling of horse POEMS FOR SEVEN DECADES: SEVENTH DECADE First Line: My seventh decade ends Last Line: What quaint, archaic hope? %what rising star? POEMS FOR SEVEN DECADES: SKIRTS First Line: In the twenties my first sister wore short skirts Last Line: One of them now is dead. %their daughters are middle-aged. %what's the hem length now? POEMS FOR SEVEN DECADES: THE EIGHTIES First Line: Welcome to the nineteen-eighties,' Last Line: Perhaps was stone still %for generations %and may be yet again POEMS FOR SEVEN DECADES: THE FIFTIES First Line: For some people the fifties meant the korean war Last Line: I sat by my father's bedside %watching another life %wind to its close POEMS FOR SEVEN DECADES: THE SEVENTIES First Line: In 1972, at age fifty Last Line: Do I love it? Do I dislike it? %both, maybe PRINCESS ADDRESSES THE FROG PRINCE First Line: Oh, frog prince, frog prince Subject(s): Fairy Tales WHERE I COME FROM First Line: People are made of places. They carry with them Last Line: A door in the mind blows open, and there blows a frosty wind from fields of snow Bridges, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author USE ME, ENGLAND Subject(s): World War I Bromme, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author LATE NIGHT TABAC First Line: Marcel wears at least three layers in all Last Line: The packs on the counter, no need to ask Brooks, Mary Elizabeth Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Norna; Aikin, Mary Elizath 5 poems available by this author DREAM OF LIFE Poem Text First Line: I heard the music of the wave Last Line: Thus woke his wassail song -- Subject(s): Waves; Ships & Shipping; Dreams; Nightmares OH, WEEP NOT FOR THE DEAD Poem Text SONG Poem Text First Line: Come, while with wine the goblets flow Last Line: And snap the chain of memory. Subject(s): Wine THE LAMENT OF JUDAH Poem Text First Line: In vain the crimson garment now Last Line: Turn sickening from your revelry! Subject(s): Judah (bible) THE SONG OF CAPTIVE ISRAEL Poem Text First Line: Come, sweep the harp! One thrilling rush Last Line: And thus we sever: fare thee well! Subject(s): Israel Brown (australian), Elizabeth 3 poems available by this author END OF A TUNE Poem Text First Line: Must the tune end Last Line: Bitter and blind? SPIRITUAL LAND First Line: A distant rock, a far off land Last Line: Peace, strength, remakes a home %a land once more %free to roam Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian YOU GOT YOU GOT TO BE TOLD First Line: Driving to work, planned day ahead Last Line: People, poverty, capitalists drool %the colours of change %traffic lights rule Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian Brown (american), Elizabeth 2 poems available by this author COUNCIL Poem Text First Line: Do not go to the hunted hill Last Line: Blind your daring eyes. HUNTER'S MOON Poem Text First Line: The hunter's moon is out tonight Last Line: Our lover's lips unkissed. Subject(s): Hunting; Hunters Browne, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author ENGLAND BESEIGED First Line: England has watched her glories depart Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Poet's Biography 280 poems available by this author A CHILD ASLEEP Poem Text First Line: How he sleepeth, having drunken Last Line: Dare not bless him! But be blessed by his peace, and go in peace. Subject(s): Children; Sleep; Childhood A CHILD'S GRACE AT FLORENCE; A.A.E.C. Poem Text First Line: Of english blood, of tuscan birth Last Line: For death's annunciation.' Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies A CHILD'S THOUGHT OF GOD Poem Text First Line: They say that god lives very high! Last Line: Who kissed you through the dark, dear guesser?' Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology A COURT LADY Poem Text First Line: Her hair was tawny with gold, her eyes with purple were dark Last Line: "of the king." Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty A CURSE FOR A NATION: PROLOGUE Poem Text First Line: I heard an angel speak last night Last Line: I send it over the western sea. Subject(s): Curses; Slavery; United States; Serfs; America A CURSE FOR A NATION: THE CURSE Poem Text First Line: Because ye have broken your own chain Last Line: This is the curse. Write. Subject(s): Curses; Writing & Writers A DEAD ROSE Poem Text First Line: O rose, who dares to name thee? Last Line: Lie still upon this heart which breaks below thee! Subject(s): Roses A DENIAL Poem Text First Line: We have met late - it is too late to meet Last Line: Look in my face and see.' Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Time A DRAMA OF EXILE Poem Text First Line: Rejoice in the clefts of gehenna Last Line: Falling tears of angel.] Subject(s): Eden; Gabriel; Heaven; Devil; Paradise; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub A FALSE STEP Poem Text First Line: Sweet, thou hast trod on a heart Last Line: I trod upon ages ago!' Subject(s): Hearts; Unkindness A FLOWER IN A LETTER Poem Text First Line: My lonely chamber next the sea Last Line: A beauty worthier singing! Subject(s): Flowers A LAY OF THE EARLY ROSE Poem Text First Line: A rose once grew within Last Line: And this yearning to completeness!' Variant Title(s): The Lay Of The Rose Subject(s): Flowers; Roses A MAN'S REQUIREMENTS Poem Text First Line: Love me, sweet, with all thou art Last Line: As a man is able. Subject(s): Women A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT Poem Text First Line: What was he doing, the great god pan Last Line: As a reed with the reeds of the river. Subject(s): Flutes; Mysticism; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology) A PORTRAIT Poem Text First Line: I will paint her as I see her Last Line: We may all be sure he doth. Subject(s): Children; Childhood A PORTRAIT Poem Text First Line: I will paint her as I see her Last Line: We may all be sure he doth. Subject(s): Children; Childhood A REED Poem Text First Line: I am no trumpet, but a reed Last Line: Then let them leave me in the sedge. Subject(s): Reeds A RHAPSODY OF LIFE'S PROGRESS Poem Text First Line: We are born into life - it is sweet, it is strange Last Line: Thou art sweet, thou art strange! Subject(s): Conduct Of Life A ROMANCE OF THE GANGES Poem Text First Line: Seven maidens 'neath the midnight Last Line: The river floweth on. Subject(s): Ganges River, India; Love A SABBATH MORNING AT SEA Poem Text First Line: The ship went on with solemn face Last Line: To the full godhead's burning. Subject(s): Sabbath; Sea; Sunday; Ocean A SEA-SIDE WALK Poem Text First Line: We walked beside the sea Last Line: Seen haply each was sad. Subject(s): Walking; Silence; Togetherness A SONG AGAINST SINGING Poem Text First Line: They bid me sing to thee Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs A SONG FOR THE RAGGED SCHOOLS OF LONDON; WRITTEN IN ROME Poem Text First Line: I am listening here in rome Last Line: Let us take them into pity. Subject(s): London; Schools; Students A SUPPLICATION FOR LOVE, HYMN 1 Poem Text First Line: God, named love, whose fount thou art Last Line: Give thine -- that we may love like thee! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Worship A TALE OF VILLAFRANCA; TOLD IN TUSCANY Poem Text First Line: My little son, my florentine Last Line: What matter if we live? Subject(s): Italy - Revolutions A THOUGHT FOR A LONELY DEATH-BED Poem Text First Line: If god compel thee to this destiny Last Line: And smile away my mortal to divine!' Subject(s): Religion; Theology A VALEDICTION Poem Text First Line: God be with thee, my beloved - god be with thee! Last Line: May god love thee, my beloved, -- may god love thee! Subject(s): Religion; Theology A VIEW ACROSS THE ROMAN CAMPAGNA Poem Text First Line: Over the dumb campagna-sea Last Line: To inaugurate rome for a world amazed! Subject(s): Campagna Di Roma, Italy A VISION OF POETS Poem Text First Line: A poet could not sleep aright Last Line: And life is perfected by death.' Subject(s): Poetry & Poets A WOMAN'S SHORTCOMINGS Poem Text First Line: She has laughed as softly as if she sighed Last Line: Oh, never call it loving! Subject(s): Love; Women A YEAR'S SPINNING Poem Text First Line: He listened at the porch that day Last Line: May see the spinning is all done. Subject(s): Spinning ADEQUACY Poem Text First Line: Now, by the verdure on thy thousand hills Last Line: Only to make me worthier of the least. Subject(s): England' Conduct Of Life AMY'S CRUELTY Poem Text First Line: Fair amy of the terraced house! Last Line: Till doted on for ever!' Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Love - Nature Of; Kindness; Unkindness; Male-female Relations AN APPREHENSION Poem Text First Line: If all the gentlest-hearted friends I know Last Line: This everlasting face to face with god? Subject(s): Confidence AN AUGUST VOICE Poem Text First Line: You'll take back your grand-duke? Last Line: Bah! -- call back the grand-duke!! Subject(s): Italy - Revolutions AN ESSAY ON MIND Poem Text First Line: Since spirit first inspir'd, pervaded all Last Line: That tells creation where his steps have been! AN ISLAND Poem Text First Line: My dream is of an island-place Last Line: When god's great sunrise finds him out? Subject(s): Islands AND I, I HAD COME BACE TO AN EMPTY NEST AND SHINING WITH GLOOM, THE WATER GREY Subject(s): Sea AURORA LEIGH: BOOK 1 Poem Text First Line: Of writing many books there is no end Last Line: Deliver us from evil, let us pray. Subject(s): Marriage; Cousins; Writing & Writers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AURORA LEIGH: BOOK 2 Poem Text First Line: Times followed one another. Came a morn Last Line: Except through swirl of spray and all that roar. Subject(s): Marriage; Cousins; Writing & Writers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AURORA LEIGH: BOOK 3 Poem Text First Line: To-day thou girdest up thy loins thyself Last Line: When they two had their meeting after death. Subject(s): Marriage; Cousins; Writing & Writers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AURORA LEIGH: BOOK 4 Poem Text First Line: They met still sooner. 'twas a year from thence Last Line: If that's your way, poor insect.' that's your way! Subject(s): Marriage; Cousins; Writing & Writers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AURORA LEIGH: BOOK 5 Poem Text First Line: Aurora leigh, be humble. Shall I hope Last Line: And would not interrupt your life with ours. Subject(s): Marriage; Cousins; Writing & Writers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AURORA LEIGH: BOOK 6 Poem Text First Line: The english have a scornful insular way Last Line: Which angels were too weak to roll away. Subject(s): Marriage; Cousins; Writing & Writers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AURORA LEIGH: BOOK 7 Poem Text First Line: The woman's motive? Shall we daub ourselves Last Line: Dissolving slowly, slowly, until lost. Subject(s): Marriage; Cousins; Writing & Writers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AURORA LEIGH: BOOK 8 Poem Text First Line: One eve it happened, when I sat alone Last Line: Much rather than I read it. Thus it ran. Subject(s): Marriage; Cousins; Writing & Writers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AURORA LEIGH: BOOK 9 Poem Text First Line: Even thus. I pause to write it out at length Last Line: The rest in order: -- last, an amethyst.' Subject(s): Marriage; Cousins; Writing & Writers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AURORA LEIGH; A POEM IN NINE BOOKS First Line: Of writing books there is no end Last Line: The rest in order: - last, an amethyst Subject(s): Books; Landscape; Mothers; Religion AUTUMN First Line: Go, sit upon the lofty hill Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons BEING A MOTHER Poem Text First Line: I thought a child was given to sanctify Last Line: Through being a mother? -- then she's none. Subject(s): Mothers BEREAVEMENT Poem Text First Line: When some beloveds, 'neath whose eyelids lay Last Line: Discerns in speechless tears both prayer and praise. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement BERTHA IN THE LANE Poem Text First Line: Put the broidery-frame away Last Line: I aspire while I expire. Subject(s): Death; Disappointment; Women; Dead, The BEST MEN, DOING THEIR BEST BIANCA AMONG THE NIGHTINGALES Poem Text First Line: The cypress stood up like a church Last Line: The nightingales, the nightingales! Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales CALLS ON THE HEART Poem Text First Line: Free heart, that singest to-day Last Line: Broken hearts triumph so.' Subject(s): Hearts; Freedom; Independence; Liberty CASA GUIDI WINDOWS Poem Text First Line: I heard last night a little child go singing Last Line: The vail, lean inward to the mercy-seat. Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Italy - Revolutions; Savonarola, Girolamo (1452-1498) CATARINA TO CAMOENS Poem Text First Line: On the door you will not enter Last Line: Be the sweetest his have seen! Subject(s): Camoens, Luiz De (1524-1580) CHANGE UPON CHANGE Poem Text First Line: Five months ago the stream did flow Last Line: Should I change less than thou? Subject(s): Transience; Change; Impermanence CHEERFULNESS TAUGHT BY REASON Poem Text First Line: I think we are too ready with complaint Last Line: Because the way is short, I thank thee, god.' Subject(s): Contentment CHRISTMAS GIFTS Poem Text First Line: The pope on christmas day Last Line: To show us where christ was born!' Subject(s): Christmas Gifts; Popes; Papacy COMFORT Poem Text First Line: Speak low to me, my saviour, low and sweet Last Line: He sleeps the faster that he wept before. Subject(s): Consolation; Religion; Theology CONFESSIONS Poem Text First Line: Face to face in my chamber, my silent chamber, I saw her Last Line: And no gentler than these.' Subject(s): Sin; God CONSOLATION Poem Text First Line: All are not taken; there are left behind Last Line: Can I suffice for heaven and not for earth?' Subject(s): Consolation CONTENT [IN SERVICE] First Line: I was too ambitous in my deed Subject(s): Religion COWPER'S GRAVE Poem Text First Line: It is a place where poets crowned / may feel the heart's decaying Last Line: And I, on cowper's grave, should see his rapture in a vision. Subject(s): Cowper, William (1731-1800); Graves; Poetry & Poets; Tombs; Tombstones CROWNED AND BURIED Poem Text First Line: Napoleon! Years ago, and that great word Last Line: Be worthier, I discern not: angels may. Variant Title(s): Napoleon's Return Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821) CROWNED AND WEDDED Poem Text First Line: When last before her people's face her own fair face she bent Last Line: The blessings happy peasants have, be thine, o crowned queen!' Subject(s): Marriage; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Weddings; Husbands; Wives DE PROFUNDIS Poem Text First Line: The face which, duly as the sun Last Line: Smiling -- so I! Thy days go on! Subject(s): Barrett, Edward (d. 1840); Consolation; Death; Drowning; Dead, The DEAR CHRIST COMFORT YOU DIED ... ' (THE TIMES OBITUARY) Poem Text First Line: What shall we add now? He is dead DISCONTENT Poem Text First Line: Light human nature is too lightly tost Last Line: God's chartered judgments walk for evermore. Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; God DUCHESS MAY First Line: Broad the forest spread on the sloping hills of linteged DUTY Poem Text First Line: The sweetest lives are those to duty wed Last Line: Of service which thou renderest. Variant Title(s): Reward Of Service Subject(s): Duty; Religion; Theology EARTH AND HER PRAISERS Poem Text First Line: The earth is old Last Line: And hail upon the vine!' Subject(s): Earth; World EXAGGERATION Poem Text First Line: We overstate the ills of life, and take Last Line: That by the grief of one came all our good. Subject(s): Grief; Discontent; Sorrow; Sadness; Dissatisfaction FAREWELLS FROM PARADISE Poem Text First Line: Hark! The flow of the four rivers Last Line: Ye shall hear nevermore! Subject(s): Farewell; Parting FINITE AND INFINITE Poem Text First Line: The wind sounds only in opposing straits Last Line: And rush exultant on the infinite. Subject(s): Infinity; Soul FIRST NEWS FROM VILLAFRANCA Poem Text First Line: Peace, peace, peace, do you say? Last Line: And god's face -- waiting, after all! Subject(s): Italy - Revolutions; Peace FLUSH OR FAUNUS Poem Text First Line: You see this dog. It was but yesterday Last Line: Who by low creatures leads to heights of love. Subject(s): Animals; Consolation; Dogs; Friendship; Love FUTURITY Poem Text First Line: And, o beloved voices, upon which Last Line: New memnons singing in the great god-light. Subject(s): Brotherhood; God GARIBALDI Poem Text First Line: He bent his head upon his breast Last Line: Palermo's taken, we believe. Subject(s): Garibaldi, Giuseppe (1807-1882) GET LEAVE TO WORK GOD DID ANOINT THEE WITH HIS ODOROUS OIL GOD, SET OUR FEET LOW AND OUR FOREHEAD HIGH GRIEF Poem Text First Line: I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless Last Line: If it could weep, it could arise and go. Variant Title(s): Hopeless Grief Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness HEAVEN AND EARTH Poem Text First Line: God, who with thunders and great voices kept Last Line: As heaven has paused from song, let earth from moan! Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise HECTOR IN THE GARDEN Poem Text First Line: Nine years old! The first of any Last Line: And though hector is twice dead. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening HIRAM POWERS' GREEK SLAVE Poem Text First Line: They say ideal beauty cannot enter Last Line: By thunders of white silence, overthrown. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Powers, Hiram (1805-1873); Sculpture & Sculptors HIS MOTHER'S FACE Poem Text First Line: The light upon his eyelids pricked them wide Last Line: As might have well bean learnt there. Subject(s): Mothers HUGH STUART BOYD: HIS BLINDNESS Poem Text First Line: God would not let the spheric lights accost Last Line: Scarce plainer than heaven's angels on the wing. Subject(s): Blindness; Boyd, Hugh Stuart (1781-1848); Visually Handicapped HUGH STUART BOYD: HIS DEATH, 1848 Poem Text First Line: Beloved friend, who living many years Last Line: To join the dead found faithful to the end? Subject(s): Boyd, Hugh Stuart (1781-1848); Death; Dead, The HUGH STUART BOYD: LEGACIES Poem Text First Line: Three gifts the dying left me, aeschylus, / and gregory nazianzen, and a clock Last Line: Chime in the day which ends these parting-days! Subject(s): Boyd, Hugh Stuart (1781-1848) IF THOU MUST LOVE ME Last Line: Thou may'st love on, through love's eternity Subject(s): Love INCLUSIONS Poem Text First Line: O wilt thou have my hand, dear, to lie along in thine? Last Line: Nor hands nor cheeks keep separate, when soul is joined to soul. Subject(s): Love INSUFFICIENCY (1) Poem Text First Line: When I attain to utter forth in verse Last Line: Fit peroration without let or thrall. Subject(s): Soul; Writing & Writers INSUFFICIENCY (2) Poem Text First Line: There is no one beside thee, and no one above thee Last Line: I love thee so, dear, that I only can leave thee. Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Parting IRREPARABLENESS Poem Text First Line: I have been in the meadows all the day Last Line: Held dead within them till myself shall die. Subject(s): Decay; Rot; Decadence ISOBEL'S CHILD Poem Text First Line: To rest the weary nurse has gone Last Line: In his broad, loving will. Subject(s): Death - Children; Dreams; Women; Heaven; Mothers; Longing; Death - Babies; Nightmares; Paradise ITALY First Line: The darling of the earth ITALY AND THE WORLD Poem Text First Line: Florence, bologna, parma, modena Last Line: And to love best shall still be, to reign unsurpassed. Subject(s): Italy; Italians KING VICTOR EMANUEL ENTERS FLORENCE, APRIL, 1860 Poem Text First Line: King of us all, we cried to thee, cried to thee Last Line: True king of us all! Subject(s): Victor Emmanuel Ii, King Of Italy L.E.L.'S LAST QUESTION Poem Text First Line: Do you think of me as I think of you Last Line: Do you think of me as I think of you? Subject(s): Friendship; Landon, Leitia Elizabeth (1801-1838) LADY GERALDINE'S COURTSHIP Poem Text First Line: Dear my friend and fellow-student, I would lean my spirit o'er you! Last Line: And I shall not blush in knowing that men call him lowly born.' Subject(s): Modern Life; Courtship LEAST FLOWER, WITH A BRIMMING CUP, MAY STAND LESSONS FROM THE GORSE Poem Text First Line: Mountain gorses, ever-golden Last Line: Drops be on our cheeks -- o world, they are not tears but dew. Subject(s): Gorse LET STAR-WHEELS AND ANGEL-WINGS, WITH THEIR HOLY LIFE Poem Text First Line: Each creature holds an insular point in space Last Line: Of god's calm angel standing in the sun. Subject(s): Life LIFE AND LOVE Poem Text First Line: Fast this life of mine was dying Last Line: Evermore ... But only love? Subject(s): Love LIKE A SICK CHILD Poem Text First Line: Like a sick child that knoweth not Last Line: Could come from any other. Subject(s): Mothers LITTLE MATTIE Poem Text First Line: Dead! Thirteen a month ago! Last Line: Rather than such angels, lord! Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies LOOK Subject(s): Peter, Saint (c. 64 A.d.); Religion LORD WALTER'S WIFE Poem Text First Line: But why do you go!' said the lady, while both sat under the yew Last Line: "come, dora, my darling, my angel, and help me to ask him to dine." Subject(s): Home; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love LOVE Poem Text First Line: We cannot live, except thus mutually Variant Title(s): Aurora And Tithonus Subject(s): Mythology - Classical LOVED ONCE Poem Text First Line: I classed, appraising once Last Line: Who dream that they loved once. Subject(s): Complacency; Despair MAN AND NATURE Poem Text First Line: A sad man on a summer day Last Line: Who can be bright without the sun.' Subject(s): Earth; Clouds; Mankind; Birds; Sea; World; Human Race; Ocean MARIAN'S CHILD First Line: There he lay upon his back MAY'S LOVE Poem Text First Line: You love all, you say Last Line: Only me--fair may! Subject(s): Beauty; Longing MEMORY AND HOPE Poem Text First Line: Back-looking memory Last Line: To 'reach the things before.' Subject(s): Memory; Hope; Dreams; Optimism; Nightmares MOTHER AND POET; TURIN, AFTER THE NEWS FROM GAETA, 1861 Poem Text First Line: Dead! One of them shot by the sea in the east Last Line: Let none look at me! Subject(s): Death - Children; Italy; Mothers; Savio, Laura; Death - Babies; Italians MOUNTAINEER AND POET Poem Text First Line: The simple goatherd between alp and sky Last Line: Nor bright because god's glory shines for you. Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) MY DOVES Poem Text First Line: My little doves have left a nest Last Line: My seaward hill, my boundless sea. Subject(s): Doves MY HEART AND I Poem Text First Line: Enough! We're tired, my heart and I Last Line: I think, we've fared, my heart and I. Subject(s): Grieg; Weariness; Hearts; Fatigue MY KATE Poem Text First Line: She was not as pretty as women I know Last Line: My kate? Subject(s): Women MYSTERY Poem Text First Line: We sow the glebe, we reap the corn Last Line: Soon large enough for death. Variant Title(s): Human Life's Mystery Subject(s): God; Life; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature NAIL THAT HOLDS THE WOOD MUST PIERCE IT FIRST NAPOLEON III IN ITALY Poem Text First Line: Emperor, emperor! / from the centre to the shore Last Line: Evermore. Subject(s): Italy; Napoleon Iii (1808-1873); Regalia; Italians; Royal Perogatives NATURE'S REMORSES; ROME, 1861 Poem Text First Line: Her soul was bred by a throne, and fed Last Line: Sunshine from heaven, and the eyes of a child. Subject(s): Italy; Remorse; Despair; Italians NEVERMORE ALONE Subject(s): Religion NIGHT AND THE MERRY MAN Poem Text First Line: Neath my moon what doest thou Last Line: Laughs as loud as I can do? Subject(s): Moon; Ambition; Night; Pain; Memory; Bedtime; Suffering; Misery NOTHING SMALL First Line: There's nothing great O PUSILLANIMOUS HEART, BE COMFORTED OH, FEAR TO CALL IT LOVING First Line: Unless you can think, when the song is done ON A PORTRAIT OF WORDSWORTH BY B.R. HAYDON Poem Text First Line: Wordsworth upon helvellyn! Let the cloud Last Line: This is the poet and his poetry. Subject(s): Haydon, Benjamin Robert (1786-1846); Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) ON YOUR CURLS' FULL ROUNDNESS STAND Subject(s): Sleep ONLY A CURL Poem Text First Line: Friends of faces unknown and a land Last Line: To the safe place above us. Adieu. Subject(s): God OUT IN THE FIELDS [WITH GOD] Poem Text First Line: The little cares that fretted me Last Line: Out in the fields with god. Variant Title(s): Cares Subject(s): Fields; Religion; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Theology PAIN IN PLEASURE Poem Text First Line: A thought ay like a flower upon mine heart Last Line: And they will all prove sad enough to sting! Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery PAN First Line: Sweet, sweet, sweet, o pan! Last Line: Came back to dream on the river Subject(s): Mythical Animals PARTING LOVERS Poem Text First Line: I love thee, love thee, giulio! Last Line: Nor this... This heart-break. Go! Subject(s): Italy; Patriotism; Italians PATIENCE TAUGHT BY NATURE Poem Text First Line: O dreary life,' we cry, 'o dreary life!' Last Line: Grows by, contented through the heat and cold. Subject(s): Nature; Patience; Religion; Theology PERCHANCE THIS SLEEP THAT SHUTTETH OUT THE DREARY Subject(s): Sleep PERPLEXED MUSIC Poem Text First Line: Experience, like a pale musician holds Last Line: And, smiling down the stars, they whisper -- sweet. Subject(s): Patience; Experience PORTRAIT First Line: Face and figure of a child Subject(s): Children PORTRAIT OF A FRIEND First Line: My dear mr. Ruskin, - I thank you from my heart Subject(s): Friendship PRAISE OF EARTH First Line: O earth %I count the praises thou art worth Subject(s): Earth PROOF AND DISPROOF Poem Text First Line: Dost thou love me, my beloved? Last Line: Dost thou love me, my beloved? Subject(s): Love QUESTION AND ANSWER Poem Text First Line: Love you seek for, presupposes Last Line: When you shall be safe and gone. Subject(s): Love RHYME OF THE DUCHESS MAY Poem Text First Line: To the belfry, one by one, went the ringers from the sun Last Line: Round our restlessness, his rest. Subject(s): Courtship; Loyalty; Brides ROSALIND'S SCROLL Poem Text First Line: I left thee last, a child at heart Last Line: A saint companionless. Subject(s): Prayer SANTA MARIA NOVELLA First Line: Or enter, in your florence wanderings Subject(s): Italy SAY NEVER, YE LOVED ONCE SEASIDE MEDITATION, SELS. First Line: Go, travel 'mid the hills! The summer's hand SERAPH AND THE POET Poem Text First Line: The seraph sings before the manifest Last Line: Sing, seraph, -- poet, -- sing on equally! Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs SINCE WITHOUT THEE WE DO NO GOOD Poem Text Subject(s): Worship SLEEPING AND WATCHING Poem Text First Line: Sleep on, baby on the floor Last Line: With reveille holy. Variant Title(s): The Child And The Watcher Subject(s): Babies; Sleep; Infants SOLEMN THING IT IS TO ME Subject(s): Sleep SONG First Line: Weep, as if you thought of laughter Last Line: It is that they are spread to go SONNET TO GEORGE SAND: 1. A RECOGNITION Poem Text First Line: True genius, but true woman! Dost deny Last Line: Where unincarnate spirits purely aspire. Variant Title(s): George Sand;a Recognition;to George Sand, A Recognition Subject(s): Sand, George (1804-1876); Dupin, Amanda. Baronne Dudevant SONNET TO GEORGE SAND: 2. A DESIRE Poem Text First Line: Thou large-brained woman and large-hearted man Last Line: To kiss upon thy lips a stainless fame. Variant Title(s): To George Sand; A Desire Subject(s): Sand, George (1804-1876); Dupin, Amanda. Baronne Dudevant SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE (1-44, COMPLETE) Subject(s): Love SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE (1-44, COMPLETE) Subject(s): Love SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 1 Poem Text First Line: I thought once how theocritus had sung Last Line: The silver answer rang, -- 'not death, but love.' Variant Title(s): "i Thought Once How Theocritus Had Sung""; Subject(s): Life Change Events; Love SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 10 Poem Text First Line: Yet, love, mere love, is beautiful indeed Last Line: How that great work of love enhances nature's. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 11 Poem Text First Line: And therefore if to love can be desert Last Line: To bless thee, yet renounce thee to thy face. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 12 Poem Text First Line: Indeed this very love which is my boast Last Line: Is by thee only, whom I love alone. Subject(s): Love SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 13 Poem Text First Line: And wilt thou have me fashion into speech Last Line: Lest one touch of this heart convey its grief. Variant Title(s): "and Wilt Thou Have Me Fashion Into Speech""; Subject(s): Love SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 14 Poem Text First Line: If thou must love me, let it be for nought Last Line: Thou mayst love on, through love's eternity. Variant Title(s): Love For Love's Sake;for Love's Sake Only Subject(s): Love - Marital; Love - Nature Of; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 15 Poem Text First Line: Accuse me not, beseech thee, that I wear Last Line: Over the rivers to the bitter sea. Subject(s): Love SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 16 Poem Text First Line: And yet, because thou overcomest so Last Line: Make thy love larger to enlarge my worth. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 17 Poem Text First Line: My poet, thou canst touch on all the notes Last Line: A grave, on which to rest from singing? Choose. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 18 Poem Text First Line: I never gave a lock of hair away Last Line: The kiss my mother left here when she died. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 19 Poem Text First Line: The soul's rialto hath its merchandise Last Line: No natural heat till mine grows cold in death. Subject(s): Love; Hair; Gifts & Giving SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 2 Poem Text First Line: But only three in all god's universe Last Line: We should but vow the faster for the stars. Subject(s): God SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 20 Poem Text First Line: Beloved, my beloved, when I think Last Line: Who cannot guess god's presence out of sight. Subject(s): Love; Spiritual Life; Women & Religion SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 21 Poem Text First Line: Say over again, and yet once over again Last Line: To love me also in silence with thy soul. Variant Title(s): Assurance Subject(s): Love - Marital; Spiritual Life; Women & Religion; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 22 Poem Text First Line: When our two souls stand up erect and strong Last Line: With darkness and the death-hour rounding it. Subject(s): Love; Spiritual Life; Women & Religion SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 23 Poem Text First Line: Is it indeed so? If I lay here dead Last Line: My near sweet view of heaven, for earth with thee! Subject(s): Love; Sacrifices; Heaven; Paradise SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 24 Poem Text First Line: Let the world's sharpness, like a clasping knife Last Line: God only, who made us rich, can make us poor. Subject(s): Love SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 25 Poem Text First Line: A heavy heart, beloved, have I borne Last Line: Betwixt the stars and the unaccomplished fate. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 26 Poem Text First Line: I lived with visions for my company Last Line: Because god's gifts put man's best dreams to shame. Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Women & Religion SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 27 Poem Text First Line: My own beloved, who hast lifted me Last Line: That love, as strong as death, retrieves as well. Subject(s): Love; Spiritual Life; Women & Religion SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 28 Poem Text First Line: My letters! All dead paper, mute and white! Last Line: If, what this said, I dared repeat at last! Variant Title(s): Love Letters Subject(s): Letters; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 29 Poem Text First Line: I think of thee! - my thoughts do twine and bud Last Line: I do not think of thee -- I am too near thee. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 3 Poem Text First Line: Unlike are we, unlike, o princely heart! Last Line: And death must dig the level where these agree. Variant Title(s): Death And Love Subject(s): Death; Angels; Man-woman Relationships; Dead, The; Male-female Relations SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 30 Poem Text First Line: I see thine image through my tears tonight Last Line: As now these tears come -- falling hot and real? Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 31 Poem Text First Line: Thou comest! All is said without a word Last Line: Like callow birds left desert to the skies. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 32 Poem Text First Line: The first time that the sun rose on thine oath Last Line: And great souls, at one stroke, may do and doat. Subject(s): Love SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 33 Poem Text First Line: Yes, call me by my pet name! Let me hear Last Line: With the same heart, will answer and not wait. Subject(s): Names; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 34 Poem Text First Line: With the same heart, I said, I'll answer thee Last Line: That no child's foot could run fast as this blood. Subject(s): Names; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 35 Poem Text First Line: If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange Last Line: And fold within the wet wings of thy dove. Variant Title(s): Fullness Of Love Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 36 Poem Text First Line: When we met first and loved, I did not build Last Line: Must lose one joy, by his life's star foretold. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 37 Poem Text First Line: Pardon, oh, pardon, that my soul should make Last Line: And vibrant tail, within the temple-gate. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 38 Poem Text First Line: First time he kissed me, he but only kissed Last Line: I have been proud and said, 'my love, my own.' Variant Title(s): Chrism And Crown Of Love;first, Second, Third;three Kisses Subject(s): Kisses; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 39 Poem Text First Line: Because thou hast the power and own'st the grace Last Line: To pour out gratitude, as thou dost, good! Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 4 Poem Text First Line: Thou hast thy calling to some palace-floor Last Line: That weeps ... As thou must sing ... Alone, aloof. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 40 Poem Text First Line: Oh, yes! They love through all this world of ours! Last Line: And think it soon when others cry 'too late.' Subject(s): Love SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 41 Poem Text First Line: I thank all who have loved me in their hearts Last Line: Love that endures, from life that disappears! Subject(s): Love SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 42 Poem Text First Line: My future will not copy fair my past.' / I wrote that once Last Line: New angel mine, unhoped for in the world! Variant Title(s): Past And Future Subject(s): Time; Love SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 43 Poem Text First Line: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways Last Line: I shall but love thee better after death. Variant Title(s): Sonnets From The Portguese: 42;the Ways Of Love;perfect Love Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Life Change Events; Love; Love - Marital; Religion; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Theology SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 44 Poem Text First Line: Beloved, thou hast brought me many flowers Last Line: And tell thy soul their roots are left in mine. Subject(s): Love; Flowers SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 5 Poem Text First Line: I lift my heavy heart up solemnly Last Line: The hair beneath. Stand farther off then! Go. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 6 Poem Text First Line: Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand Last Line: And sees within my eyes the tears of two. Variant Title(s): Far And Yet Near Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Love - Nature Of; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 7 Poem Text First Line: The face of all the world is changed, I think Last Line: Because thy name moves right in what they say. Subject(s): Life Change Events SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 8 Poem Text First Line: What can I give thee back, o liberal Last Line: Go farther! Let it serve to trample on. Variant Title(s): The Gift Subject(s): Gifts & Giving SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 9 Poem Text First Line: Can it be right to give what I can give? Last Line: Beloved, I only love thee! Let it pass. Subject(s): Gifts & Giving SOUNDS Poem Text First Line: Hearken, hearken! / the rapid river carrieth Last Line: And not the voice of god? Subject(s): Sound STANZAS Poem Text First Line: I may sing; but minstrel's singing Last Line: Be it so! Subject(s): Mortality SUBSTITUTION Poem Text First Line: When some beloved voice that was to you Last Line: Speak thou, availing christ! -- and fill this pause. Subject(s): Religion; Theology SUMMING UP ITALY; INSCRIBED TO INTELLIGENT PUBLICS OUT OF IT Poem Text First Line: Observe how well it will be at last Last Line: The virtue of slandering the doers. Subject(s): Italy; Italians TEARS Poem Text First Line: Thank god, bless god, all ye who suffer not Last Line: And leave the vision clear for stars and sun. Subject(s): Consolation; Grief; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness THAT DAY Poem Text First Line: I stand by the river where both of us stood Last Line: Go, -- be clear of that day! Subject(s): Infidelity; Forgiveness; Clemency THE BATTLE OF MARATHON Poem Text First Line: The war of greece with persia's haughty king Last Line: Fill all the seas, and thunder thro' the skies. Subject(s): Marathon, Greece; Persian Wars THE BEST [THING IN THE WORLD] Poem Text First Line: What's the best thing in the world? Last Line: -- something out of it, I think. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE CLAIM Poem Text First Line: Grief sate upon a rock and sighed one day Last Line: And eke my life out with the breath she sigheth.' Subject(s): Grief; Joy; Sorrow; Sadness THE COMPLAINT OF ANNELIDA TO FALSE ARCITE Poem Text First Line: The sword of sorrow, whetted sharp for me Last Line: And in such phrase as meets your present hearing. THE CRY OF THE CHILDREN Poem Text First Line: Do ye hear the children weeping, o my brothers Last Line: Than the strong man in his wrath.' Variant Title(s): The Bitter Cry Of The Children Subject(s): Child Labor; Coal Mines & Miners; Freedom; Social Protest; Liberty THE CRY OF THE HUMAN Poem Text First Line: There is no god,' the foolish saith Last Line: Be pitiful, o god. Variant Title(s): Convinced By Sorrow Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE DANCE Poem Text First Line: You remember down at florence our cascine Last Line: Cried exultant in great wonder and free gratitude. Subject(s): Florence, Italy THE DEAD PAN Poem Text First Line: Gods of hellas, gods of hellas Last Line: Pan, pan is dead. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology) THE DESERTED GARDEN Poem Text First Line: I mind me in the days departed Last Line: That happy child again. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening THE EXILE'S RETURN Poem Text First Line: When from thee, weeping I removed Last Line: Still shared by thee. Subject(s): Reunions; Exile THE FORCED RECRUIT AT SOLFERINO Poem Text First Line: In the ranks of the austrian you found Last Line: Have glory, -- let him have a tear. Subject(s): Army - Austria; Italy; Italians THE FOURFOLD ASPECT Poem Text First Line: When ye stood up in the house Last Line: So hopefully ye think upon the dead! Subject(s): Death; Heroism; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines THE HOUSE OF CLOUDS Poem Text First Line: I would build a cloudy house Last Line: To which I looked with thee! Subject(s): Clouds THE KING'S GIFT Poem Text First Line: Teresa, ah, teresita! / now what has the messenger brought her Last Line: Child, teresita!' Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Greed; Garibaldi, Guiseppe (1807-1882); Avarice; Cupidity THE LADY'S 'YES' Poem Text First Line: Yes!' I answered you last night Last Line: Shall be yes for evermore. Subject(s): Flirtation; Love THE LAY OF THE BROWN ROSARY Poem Text First Line: Onora, onora,' - her mother is calling Last Line: O reader, breathe (the ballad saith) some sweetness out of each! Subject(s): Brides; Rosary; Sin THE LITTLE FRIEND; WRITTEN IN THE BOOK WHICH SHE MADE & SENT Poem Text First Line: The book thou givest, dear as such Last Line: Ye meet th' advancing years! Subject(s): Books; Reading THE LOOK Poem Text First Line: The saviour looked on peter. Ay, no word Last Line: And filled the silence, weeping bitterly. Subject(s): Peter, Saint (c. 64 A.d.); Religion; Theology THE LOST BOWER Poem Text First Line: In the pleasant orchard closes Last Line: Lost ... And won!' Subject(s): Innocence; Loss; Children; Childhood THE MASK Poem Text First Line: I have a smiling face, she said Last Line: Whom sadder can I say? She said. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE MEANING OF THE LOOK Poem Text First Line: I think that look of christ might seem to say Last Line: Because I know this man, let him be clear.' Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Peter, Saint (c. 64 A.d.); Religion; Theology THE MEASURE, HYMN 4 Poem Text First Line: God the creator, with a pulseless hand Last Line: With the dry dust of death. Subject(s): God; Creation THE MEDIATOR, HYMN 2 Poem Text First Line: How high thou art! Our songs can own Last Line: Behold our darkness only there! Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE MOTHER'S PRAYER Poem Text First Line: Dear lord, dear lord / thou who didst not erst deny the mother-joy to mary mild Last Line: From all the world to him. Subject(s): Mothers THE MOURNING MOTHER Poem Text First Line: Dost thou weep, mourning mother Last Line: Wait on, thou mourning mother. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Death - Babies THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH; LAST POEM, ROME, MAY, 1861 Poem Text First Line: Now give us lands where the olives grow Last Line: Said the south to the north. Subject(s): Andersen, Hans Christian (1805-1875); Writing & Writers THE PET NAME Poem Text First Line: I have a name, a little name Last Line: And heighten it with heaven. Subject(s): Children; Names; Childhood THE POET Poem Text First Line: The poet hath the child's sight in his breast Last Line: And praise his world for ever, as thou bidst. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POET AND THE BIRD; A FABLE Poem Text First Line: Said a people to a poet - 'go out from among us straightway!' Last Line: Was only of the poet's song, and not the nightingale's. Subject(s): Nighingales; Poetry & Poets THE POET'S VOW Poem Text First Line: Eve is a twofold mystery Last Line: Still, like them we must weep.' Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Marriage; Eve; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE PRISONER Poem Text First Line: I count the dismal time by months and years Last Line: Of sunlit hills transfigured to divine. Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners; Convicts THE PROSPECT Poem Text First Line: Methinks we do as fretful children do Last Line: The sunset consummation-lights of death. Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Dead, The THE ROMANCE OF THE SWAN'S NEST Poem Text First Line: Little ellie sits alone Last Line: That swan's nest among the reeds! Subject(s): Birds; Children; Swans; Childhood THE ROMAUNT OF MARGRET Poem Text First Line: I plant a tree whose leaf Last Line: Margret, margret. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Longing; Courts & Courtiers; Dreams; Failure; Longing; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Nightmares THE ROMAUNT OF THE PAGE Poem Text First Line: A knight of gallant deeds Last Line: Which, ere it endeth, suits but one? Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood THE RUNAWAY SLAVE AT PILGRIM'S POINT Poem Text First Line: I stand on the mark beside the shore Last Line: In my broken heart's disdain! Subject(s): Slavery; Serfs THE SEA-MEW Poem Text First Line: How joyously the young sea-mew Last Line: And, with our touch, our agony. Subject(s): Mews (birds) THE SERAPHIM Poem Text First Line: O seraph, pause no more! Last Line: Before his heavenly throne should walk in white. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion THE SLEEP Poem Text First Line: Of all the thoughts of god that are / borne inward unto souls afar Last Line: "he giveth his beloved sleep." Variant Title(s): He Giveth His Beloved Sleep;to Sleep Subject(s): Bible; Death; Jews; Religion; Sleep; Dead, The; Judaism; Theology THE SOUL'S EXPRESSION Poem Text First Line: With stammering lips and insufficient sound Last Line: Before that dread apocalypse of soul. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE SOUL'S TRAVELLING Poem Text First Line: I dwell amid the city ever Last Line: Forgets the rush and rapture of his wings. Subject(s): Heaven; God; Paradise THE STUDENT Poem Text First Line: My midnight lamp is weary as my soul Last Line: We cannot understand thy idiocy! Subject(s): Students THE SWORD OF CASTRUCCIO CASTRACANI Poem Text First Line: When victor emanuel the king / went down to his lucca that day Last Line: With a hero to head us, -- our king! Subject(s): Castruccio Castracani, Antelmineli; Italy; Victor Emmanuel Ii, King Of Italy; Italians THE TWO SAYINGS Poem Text First Line: Two sayings of the holy scriptures beat Last Line: On him who could reject but not sustain! Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology THE VIRGIN MARY TO THE CHILD JESUS Poem Text First Line: Sleep, sleep, mine holy one! Last Line: Wak'st thou, o loving one? Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary THE WEAKEST THING Poem Text First Line: Which is the weakest thing of all Last Line: Guarding the weakest! Subject(s): Weakness THE WEEPING SAVIOUR, HYMN 3 Poem Text First Line: When jesus' friend had ceased to be Last Line: Thy very tears had flowed in vain. Subject(s): Sin THE YOUNG QUEEN Poem Text First Line: The shroud is yet unspread Last Line: People's voice! Subject(s): Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901) THICK SLEEP WHICH SHUT ALL DREAMS FROM ME Subject(s): Sleep THOU HATEST ME WELL, THOU HATEST ME WELL TO BETTINE; THE CHILD-FRIEND OF GOETHE Poem Text First Line: Bettine, friend of goethe Last Line: Preserving evermore the child. Subject(s): Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von (1749-1832) TO FLUSH, MY DOG Poem Text First Line: Loving friend, the gift of one Last Line: Loving fellow-creature! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TO L.E.L. ON THE DEATH OF FELICIA HEMANS Poem Text First Line: Thou bay-crowned living one that o'er the bay-crowned Last Line: The foot-fall of her parting soul is softer than her singing.' Variant Title(s): Felicia Hemans; To L.e.l. Referring To Her Monody;felicia Hemans Subject(s): Hemans, Felicia (1793-1835); Landon, Leitia Elizabeth (1801-1838) TO MARY RUSSELL MITFORD, IN HER GARDEN Poem Text First Line: What time I lay these rhymes anear thy feet Last Line: To preach a sermon on so known a text! Subject(s): Mitford, Mary Russell (1787-1855) TRUE DREAM First Line: I had not an evil in view Last Line: I saw a gleam, I heard a sound - %the clock was striking eight Subject(s): Dreams TWO SKETCHES: 1. H.B. Poem Text First Line: The shadow of her face upon the wall Last Line: Methinks there's still some warmer place within.' Subject(s): Barrett, Henrietta TWO SKETCHES: 2. A.B. Poem Text First Line: Her azure eyes, dark lashes hold in fee Last Line: In that sole garden where christ's brow dropped blood. Subject(s): Moulton-barrett, Arabella VALLOMBROSA First Line: And vallombrosa, we two went to see VANITIES Poem Text First Line: Could ye be very blest in hearkening Last Line: It is in vain, it is in vain!' Subject(s): Vanity; Passion VICTORIA'S TEARS Poem Text First Line: O maiden! Heir of kings! Last Line: To wear that heavenly crown! Subject(s): Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901) VOID IN LAW Poem Text First Line: Sleep, little babe, on my knee Last Line: Sleep. Subject(s): Law; Children; Childhood WHERE'S AGNES? Poem Text First Line: Nay, if I had come back so Last Line: Poplars, cedars, cypresses! Subject(s): Trees; Beauty WINE OF CYPRUS Poem Text First Line: If old bacchus were the speaker Last Line: I am sipping like a fly. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets WISDOM UNAPPLIED Poem Text First Line: If I were thou, o butterfly Last Line: Are wise (for all thy scorn) as thou.' Subject(s): Butterflies; Wisdom; Advice WOMAN'S QUESTION First Line: Do you know you have asked for the costliest thing Variant Title(s): A Woman's Answe WORK Poem Text First Line: What are we set on earth for? Say, to toil Last Line: And share its dew-drop with another near. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers WORK AND CONTEMPLATION Poem Text First Line: The woman singeth at her spinning-wheel Last Line: The better for the sweetness of our song. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Christianity; Work; Workers YOU WHO KEEP ACCOUNT Browning, Elizabeth Jones 4 poems available by this author IT IS LEGEND First Line: There is a place in every heart LATE SNOW IN THE SMOKIES Poem Text First Line: Spring, one night Last Line: That palmer knew, and corot could not miss. Subject(s): Smoky Mountains; Snow; Spring REFLECTION First Line: The light from your candled window STOLEN COLOR First Line: I did not know the night, with cruel caustic strength Brunazzi, Elizabeth 5 poems available by this author BLACK SILK SKIRTS First Line: They were dark %parachutes opening Last Line: Dancing women %whose heads sway the stars FAITS-DIVERS OR NEWS IN BRIEF First Line: In my town this week Last Line: Shady part of town. To dance with %each other. Past 2:30 a.M SHIRT (1) First Line: Its red and white Last Line: To have it near %and rub my face in it SHIRT (2) First Line: My cheek ... Would I say Last Line: Why a heart, %a heart? SHIRT (3) First Line: And ask myself: %what say to you Last Line: A new shirt %for a new world Bryan, Elizabeth Mabel 1 poems available by this author FATHER OF THE MAN First Line: No fence will keep a growing boy outside Buchtenkirk, Elizabeth J. 1 poems available by this author BLACK SOLDIER First Line: Up from a darkness, darker yet Buell, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author BALLAD OF A GRAY CLOAK Poem Text First Line: The gray cloak of her motherhood Last Line: Is heavy -- sweet to bear. Subject(s): Caregivers; Mothers; Sacrifices; Solitude; Loneliness Burningham, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author BETWEEN TWO SEASONS Poem Text First Line: It can't be just the winter on the world Last Line: My restless heart is caught between two seasons. Subject(s): Seasons Burns, Elizabeth 3 poems available by this author JOAN OF ARC First Line: I start with a prayer Subject(s): Joan Of Arc (1412-1431) ON HOLIDAY IN SCOTLAND, 1ST JULY 1999 First Line: The day the parliament was opened Last Line: Crunched underfoot %on hardened sand WOMEN WHO LIVED IN BYRON'S BODY First Line: In the other life Last Line: And likes to stand in the sun Burtnett, Elizabeth 2 poems available by this author NEW UNIVERSE First Line: They have discovered a new universe SUNSET First Line: The sun cuts into the mountains like a torch cutting a steel Bush, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author FANTASIA IN E MINOR Poem Text First Line: Night is a dissident changeling born Last Line: Unbearable. Subject(s): Hallucinations & Illusions Busky, Elizabeth R. 1 poems available by this author YOUR ARRIVAL First Line: Waiting in the coming Last Line: The brassy unfastened band of welcome Campbell, Elizabeth 2 poems available by this author NUDE CLEANING A BATHTUB First Line: Rejoice and be glad PASSING First Line: I love it when the grosbeaks ride through town Last Line: Out of dark shells for the last first time again Campbell, Elizabeth K. 1 poems available by this author SKI PATROL First Line: These who were young and free Canaday, Elizabeth Barbara 1 poems available by this author EARTH'S BREAST Poem Text First Line: Dear earth, it almost seems a sacrilege Last Line: Of earth. It breathes so near the heart of god. Subject(s): Earth; Walking; World Canfield, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author WAY WE ARE First Line: Leaving la as fresh as you ever see it Last Line: When she faced a downhill slope Capozzoli, Elizabeth R. 1 poems available by this author HANGING BY A THREAD First Line: I'm hanging by a thread and I feel like letting go Cardozo, Elizabeth C. 1 poems available by this author WE MET THEM ON THE COMMON WAY Subject(s): Religion Carew, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author TRAGEDY OF MARIAN, SELS. Carlson, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author ALL AMERICAN GIRLS First Line: Look like women-play like men!' Last Line: Sweet childhood dream, %the ecstacy of play Carter, Elizabeth Poet's Biography 5 poems available by this author A DIALOGUE Poem Text First Line: Says body to mind, ''tis amazing to see' Last Line: I'll snap off my chains and fly freely away.' Subject(s): Thought; Thinking LINES WRITTEN AT MIDNIGHT DURING A THUNDER-STORM Poem Text First Line: Let coward guilt, with pallid fear Last Line: Of everlasting day! Subject(s): Storms ODE TO WISDOM Poem Text First Line: The solitary bird of night Last Line: Is vanity and woe. Subject(s): Wisdom ON THE DEATH OF MRS. [ELIZABETH] ROWE Poem Text First Line: Accept, much honoured shade! The artless lays Last Line: And spend their blest eternity in praise. Subject(s): Death; Rowe, Elizabeth Singer (1674-1737); Dead, The TO A GENTLEMAN, ON HIS INTENDING TO CUT DOWN A GROVE ... First Line: In plaintive sounds, that tun'd to woe Last Line: Unknown to solar fire; %and what excludes apollo's rage, %shall harmonize his lyre Subject(s): Nature Cary, Elizabeth (tanfield) Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Falkland, Viscountess 3 poems available by this author THE TRAGEDIE OF MARIAM, FAIRE QUEENE OF JEWRY: CHORAL SONG Poem Text First Line: Those mindes that wholy dote upon delight Last Line: That care for nothing being in their power. Subject(s): Jews; Self-gratification; Judaism TO THE QUEENES MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTIE Poem Text First Line: Tis not your faire out-side though famous greece Last Line: And comes to england, though in france he tarrie. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Hearts; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; English TRAGEDIE OF MARIAM, FAIRE QUEENE OF JEWRY, SELS. Subject(s): Jealousy; Jews; Mariamne The Hasmonaean (57-29 B.c.) Case, Elizabeth York 5 poems available by this author EMPTY NEST First Line: My mate and I had a cosy nest FAIRYLAND First Line: I've a home in elfin land FAITH AND REASON First Line: Two travellers started on a tour SOUTHLAND First Line: A paradise of sunny skies UNBELIEF Poem Text First Line: There is no unbelief Last Line: God knoweth why. Subject(s): Faith; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology Cavazza, Elizabeth 3 poems available by this author GOOSE A LA MODE First Line: Within the garden's deepness filled of light JACK AND JILL First Line: What moan is made of the mountain, what sob of the hillside LULLABY First Line: Through sleepy-land doth a river flow Subject(s): Nature; Spring Chadbourne, Elizabeth M. 3 poems available by this author IN MEMORY OF MISS PHEBE First Line: See these jewels - a king hath chosen them PAUL AT ATHENS First Line: The day was wondrous fair in attica TRIBUTE TO MISS MCKEEN First Line: A pilgrim journey'd to his king's abode Chambles, Elizabeth 2 poems available by this author CHURCH STEPS First Line: Steps up to god's house, a poem in the stone GALE-TOSSED First Line: Have you seen the leaves above a huge bonfire Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret 6 poems available by this author ENFRANCHISED SLAVES AND THEIR BENEFACTRESS First Line: Oh, blessings on thee, lady! We could lie Subject(s): Freedom SLAVE-PRODUCE First Line: Eat! They are cates for a lady's lip Subject(s): Freedom THE BRANDYWINE Poem Text First Line: My foot has climb'd the rocky summit's height Last Line: They shall lead back my thoughts, loved brandywine, to thee. Subject(s): Brandywine Creek THE CHINESE SON Poem Text First Line: I come to thee, my mother! The black sky Last Line: It was a smile of thine, to bless me with its beam. Subject(s): Mothers THE DEVOTED Poem Text First Line: Stern faces were around them bent, and eyes of vengeful ire Last Line: And left her all unharm'd amidst her loveliness and pride! Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE SOLDIER'S PRAYER Poem Text First Line: I care not for the hurried march through august's burning noon Last Line: But I must die -- must waste away beneath this inward strife, Subject(s): American Revolution Chapman, Elizabeth Biller 7 poems available by this author ADOBE First Line: Her eyes are dark almonds, remembering Last Line: So, you will ask, how is your life Subject(s): Friendship; Memory; Sickness IN KONA, THINKING OF THE ELEMENTS First Line: The trades: after midnight they grow strong as the surf Last Line: Afternoon slipped down, extravagant into evening Subject(s): Nature; Travel LIGHT THICKENS First Line: Intimacies of grooming: his girth already loose Last Line: Run your hand over my forehead, love. %you are my haven LIKING MEN, MISTRESS QUICKLY First Line: Knew what her pleasures were a posset Last Line: Mist rising from our shingles like breath NEITHER CAN THE FLOODS DROWN IT First Line: We catch only glimpses of you Last Line: Leftward, into what was and will be %your green world Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Daughters; Family Life ON THE SCREENED PORCH First Line: Suppertime. Corn, cooked-some milk Last Line: In meanders, like memory %downward, the liquid's dark bitterness gone TO ARCH ROCK First Line: This is a dangerous time Last Line: Those alarming wings Chapman, Elizabeth Rachel 4 poems available by this author HEREAFTER First Line: Whire men and free!' is this the highest bliss Last Line: Our darkness, let us in thy hands lie still Subject(s): Racism; Slavery HOPE First Line: Some men would tell us hope was only given Last Line: Of hope alone necessitates a god Subject(s): Hope; Women's Rights LITTLE CHILD'S WREATH, 30 First Line: Kind little lad, with dark, disordered hair Last Line: Made sudden twilight of the summer world Subject(s): Boys WOMAN'S STRENGTH First Line: You ought to be stronger than I, dear Last Line: My strength, do you see? If you touched me, %might melt into tears Subject(s): Women Charles, Elizabeth Rundell 5 poems available by this author ANTICIPATION First Line: How doth death speak of our beloved THE CHILD ON THE JUDGMENT SEAT Poem Text First Line: Where hast been toiling all day, sweetheart Last Line: In a look of his own for thee. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE UNNAMED WOMEN: 1 Poem Text First Line: The hand that might have drawn aside Last Line: And consecrated by his smile. TIS I, BE NOT AFRAID First Line: Tossed with rought winds and faint with fear UNFAILING CRUISE First Line: Is thy cruise of comfort failing? Rise and share it with another Charlton, Elizabeth 3 poems available by this author CAMPO DE CONFIANZA (FIELD OF FAITH) First Line: By noon, red dust climbs Last Line: Where the moon hangs on invisible wires-- %a blinding pool behind his hiden smile DREAM OF GRAND TETON First Line: Without dreams %when I sleep Last Line: Needing only %the eye's awareness of white %the feather's knowledge of wind MINISTRATIONS FOR RECOVERY First Line: I left him in cruel april Last Line: Massaged perfumed cream into my feet %while the ceiling fan turned slowly overhead Cheney, Annie Elizabeth 2 poems available by this author COYOTE PROWLED First Line: A coyote came one night to the sea Subject(s): Animals THE TAJ MAHAL Poem Text First Line: O beauty Last Line: Still young and unconcerned. Subject(s): Taj Mahal Cheney (1859-), Elizabeth 2 poems available by this author OVERHEARD IN AN ORCHARD First Line: Said the robin to the sparrow Last Line: Such as cares for you and me Subject(s): Religion THERE IS A MAN ON THE CROSS Poem Text First Line: Whenever there is silence around me Last Line: "there is a man on the cross." Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Religion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Theology Christman, Elizabeth Ann 1 poems available by this author POET TO HIS WIFE First Line: Who knows what breathless lady long ago Claman, Elizabeth 2 poems available by this author LOVE & DESIRE First Line: Falling up into the sky Last Line: Until the whole cake rises in the sun! SHOW BIZ PARTIES First Line: My dad cracks a joke and two men laugh Last Line: A prick this big. Beautiful Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social Clamen, Elizabeth 4 poems available by this author BIDDEN AND UNBIDDEN First Line: I live in a house with ghosts Last Line: If my hands are empty, theyr song %hot in my ear CAFE MACONDO First Line: Sixteenth near mission, my favorite cafe Last Line: And the tongue of an anteater Subject(s): Restaurants LA TERRASSE DES MARRONNIERS First Line: We sit in the sudden rain, my hands spilling over Last Line: And the cafe windows reverberate Subject(s): Restaurants LOVE AND DESIRE First Line: Falling up into the sky Last Line: Until the whole cake rises in the sun! Subject(s): Sky; Stars Clare, Elizabeth 2 poems available by this author ANGELS First Line: Late afternoons as shadows Last Line: To the familiar weight of bone and muscle TO THE CURIOUS PEOPLE WHO ASK, 'WHAT DO YOUR TREMORS FEEL LIKE?' First Line: Tell me: have you ever watched Last Line: That I cannot imagine Clark, Jolie Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author OLIVIA'S PANTOUM First Line: You cannot stop stealing Last Line: Sunglasses in one fist, money in the other Cleaveland, Elizabeth H. Jocelyn Alternate Author Name(s): Cleveland, Elizabeth H. Jocely 3 poems available by this author HIDDEN PATH; OR, THE ATLANTIC CABLE First Line: No vulture's eye hath seen the path NO SECT [OR SECTS] IN HEAVEN Poem Text First Line: Talking of sects quite late one eve Last Line: "for all had put on ""christ's righteousness." Subject(s): Religion; Sects; Theology SHIBBOLETH First Line: Down to the stream they flying go Clephane, Elizabeth Cecilia Poet's Biography 2 poems available by this author BENEATH THE CROSS Subject(s): Religion THE LOST SHEEP Poem Text First Line: There were ninety and nine that safely lay Last Line: "rejoice, for the lord brings back his own!" Variant Title(s): Ninety And Nine Subject(s): Faith; God; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology Coatsworth, Elizabeth Jane Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs. 86 poems available by this author A LADY COMES TO AN INN Poem Text First Line: Three strange men came to the inn Last Line: Has forgotten those men and that beautiful bride. Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy AFTER CHRISTMAS A LANDLORD REMEMBERS First Line: All day my wife, the maids, the men Last Line: But there's gold buried near the wall %and the beasts still act queer Subject(s): Christmas ALL GOATS Poem Text First Line: All goats have a wild-brier grace Last Line: Satiric eye. Subject(s): Goats ALL ON A CHRISTMAS MORNING First Line: I saw a robin Subject(s): Friendship ANNOUNCEMENT Poem Text First Line: Let it be understood that I am don juan gomez Last Line: "and cry, ""don juan is praying, and must not pray in vain!" Subject(s): Don Juan; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Prayer; Saints; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary BAD KITTENS First Line: You may call, you may call Last Line: With a goblin light in their eyes BARN First Line: I am tired of this barn!' said the colt Last Line: But we looked at him first of all creatures %by the bright strange light of a star! Subject(s): Barns; Christmas BIRTH OF HENRI QUATRE Poem Text First Line: This is so brisk, so fine a day Last Line: My memories turn to jeanne d'albret. Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery BLESSING OF THE BEDS First Line: Make the bed BROADWAY First Line: That man has the head of a goat and ... Paunch. CALLING IN THE CAT First Line: Now from the dark, a deeper dark CAT AND NORTHERN LIGHTS First Line: To think our cat was wandering Subject(s): Animals; Cats CIRCUS-POSTERED BARN First Line: When dobbin and robin, unharnessed from the plow Subject(s): Animals COMMENTS FROM A COUNTRY GARDEN First Line: Most snakes are harmless, well I know Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening CONQUISTADOR First Line: Who dares to say I am untrue to spain COUNTERS Poem Text First Line: To think I once saw grocery shops Last Line: Not hemispheres to me. Variant Title(s): To Think! Subject(s): Grocers DANIEL WEBSTER'S HORSES Poem Text First Line: If when the wind blows Last Line: "see their shoes fit." Subject(s): Animals; Fantasy; Horses; Webster, Daniel (1782-1852) DEDICATED TO HER HIGHNESS Poem Text First Line: The queen of sheba was a true romantic Last Line: A sovereign in state, surrounded by her servants. Subject(s): Sheba, Queen Of (10th Century B.c.) DOWN THE RAIN FALLS Last Line: When they talk to themselves %for company's sake Subject(s): Rain EMPTY HOUSE First Line: Knowing what's possible, one knows Subject(s): Fantasy EVENING First Line: It is evening FIELDS ARE SPREAD Subject(s): Moon FIRESIDE KITTEN First Line: The ashes in the fire stir Subject(s): Animals; Cats FIVE INCONSEQUENTIAL CHARMS Poem Text First Line: Spoon, o spoon Last Line: Beg your kindness, foster-mother. Subject(s): Charms (magic) GREEN WOODS First Line: Green are the woods where the lovers wander Subject(s): Fantasy HOW GRAY THE RAIN Last Line: Fill empty hands %when someone enters through a door KANGAROO First Line: It is a curious thing that you Last Line: That where they go there's none to say Subject(s): Animals LADY First Line: The candle is out- %it has crashed to ... LAPLANDIA First Line: They are such narrow beings with small bones LE TOUR DE FRANCS Poem Text First Line: Loneliness? When I think of loneliness Last Line: Left isolated in a harsh inimical land. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness MARCH First Line: A blue day Last Line: Spring's winning! Subject(s): Spring MARCH IN NEW MEXICO First Line: Coming home in the cold wind Last Line: The trail is a love poem, a little stanza which the desert %wind will erase Subject(s): March (month); New Mexico MURDER HOUSE First Line: Abandoned is the house Subject(s): Fantasy NILE First Line: All day long, day after day NO SHOP DOES THE BIRD USE NO SNAKE IN SPRINGTIME EVER FELT THE YEARNING NOSEGAY First Line: Violets, daffodils %roses and thorn NOW AUTUMN IS HERE I YEARN FOR A ROMAN VILLA OLD MARE First Line: Grey despair ON A NIGHT OF SNOW First Line: Cat, if you go outdoors, you must walk in the snow Last Line: And things that are yet to be done. Open the door! Subject(s): Animals; Cats ON A PORTRAIT OF MARY TUDOR IN PRADO Poem Text First Line: I have seen / a portrait of this mary Last Line: Of tudor blood turned acid in the veins. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Mary I, Queen Of England (1516-1568); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens ON BUYING A MAINE FARM Poem Text First Line: The house should be white Last Line: To swing overhead. Subject(s): Farm Life; Maine (state); Agriculture; Farmers OPEN DOOR First Line: Out of the dark Subject(s): Animals; Cats PAINTED DESERT First Line: Lean and tall and stringy are the navajo PIRATES Poem Text First Line: Pirates, after all, were usually Last Line: At twenty-one or so! Subject(s): Pirates; Piracy; Buccaneers POEM OF PRAISE First Line: Swift things are beautiful Last Line: And the ox that moves on %in the quiet of power PREPARATION First Line: Blond, primitive, among her props and stays RAIN First Line: Where are the cats? Subject(s): Animals; Cats REFLECTION Poem Text First Line: Geraniums Last Line: With such unsubtle gaiety at their belts. Subject(s): Animals; Flowers; Geraniums RETURN First Line: How can a woman tell %what she has seen Last Line: Displayed an indian %with feathered hair ROOSTERS First Line: Get out of my way!' Last Line: You're right!' %says rooster two Subject(s): Animals SAINT JOHN First Line: A wild pleasure for saint john SILVER Poem Text First Line: Fishing is life for towns along the sea Last Line: Yet they shall keep a people until spring. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Water; Winter; Anglers SOMETIMES A LITTLE HOUSE WILL PLEASE Last Line: Creaks the small rocking chair Subject(s): Home SONG FOR SNOW First Line: The earth is lighter %than the sky Last Line: And leaf-like ears %turn to the sound SONG OF THE CAMELS First Line: Not born to the forest are we Subject(s): Camels SONG OF THE RABBITS OUTSIDE THE TAVERN Poem Text First Line: We who play under the pines Last Line: Under a winter's moon. Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits; Hares SONG OF THE THREE SEEDS IN THE MACAW'S BEAK Poem Text First Line: Cracked by that accurate beak Last Line: The three seeds sung. Subject(s): Death; Parrots; Seeds; Dead, The SONG, SELS. First Line: I like fish,' said the mermaid SPIDERS First Line: The spiders are good housekeepers STORM First Line: In fury and terror STORM SNAPPED ITS FINGERS Last Line: Now's the time, my little bird, %to prove how you were made! Subject(s): Ships And Shipping SUBJUNCTIVE Poem Text First Line: Suppose marie antoinette had come to wiscasset Last Line: And herself going milking with a silver milking pail. Subject(s): Maine (state); Marie Antoinette, Queen Of France SUDDEN STORM First Line: The rain comes in sheets SWAN First Line: Hawks stir the blood like fiercely ringing bells Subject(s): Birds SYRACUSE First Line: And here where all is waste and wild THE CURSE Poem Text First Line: On the cord dead hangs our sister Last Line: Take her up-- let us depart. Subject(s): Curses THE GATE Poem Text First Line: The dust is thick along the road Last Line: "shadowed cool by a cassia tree." Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE MOUSE Poem Text First Line: I heard a mouse Last Line: "is spread any more." Subject(s): Animals; Mice THE PROUD DEAD LADIES Poem Text First Line: Under the groined firmament of the cathedral Last Line: Too arrogant to stir even to the whispers of their lovers. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THIS AIR THAT BLOWS IN FROM THE SEA Last Line: Themselves, as is the wind that blows %so coldly from the sea Subject(s): Sea THIS GREEN FIELD First Line: This green field is the masterpiece Last Line: But let him turn, and it will slip %into the thicket like a deer THIS IS THE HAY THAT NO MAN PLANTED Last Line: Twined in the stalks of the wild salt hay Subject(s): Seaweed THREE First Line: We were just three Subject(s): Friendship THREE MISSES BARKER First Line: Such tea party furies TO A BLACK DOG, BEREAVED First Line: Unless that kitty shines again in heaven TO BARNS First Line: Praise be to barns Subject(s): Barns TWO CATS First Line: I'm very good friends with both our cats Subject(s): Friendship TWO POEMS ON NEW HAMPSHIRE First Line: For chivalry, the golden-coated collic WAYS OF TRAINS First Line: I hear the engine pounding Last Line: But leaves what you desire! WHALE AT TWILIGHT First Line: The sea is enormous, but calm with evening Last Line: Tranquil as a fountain in a garden where no %wind blows Subject(s): Nature WHAT COULD BE LOVELIER THAN TO HEAR Last Line: And hear the thunder cross the sky %with elephant tread Subject(s): Rain; Summer WILDERNESS IS TAMED First Line: The axe has cut the forest down Last Line: The rivers bridged, the new towns named Subject(s): Country Life; Frontier And Pioneer Life WIND SHRIEKED LOUD First Line: What I know Subject(s): Fantasy WITCHES' SONG First Line: Early, early, comes the dark YOU PLAY A FIFE Cobbold, Elizabeth Alternate Author Name(s): Knipe, Eliza 7 poems available by this author KESWICK Poem Text First Line: Lo! How the orient morning sweetly lights Last Line: My pen's unequal to the task—I stop. Subject(s): Keswick, England; Nature ON SOME VIOLETS PLANTED IN MY GARDEN BY A FRIEND Poem Text First Line: Catherine, though not from fortune's glittering stores Last Line: The changing climate and the stormy sky. Subject(s): Flowers; Violets ON THE LAKE OF WINDEMERE Poem Text First Line: Haste, airy fancy! And assist my song Last Line: And overlook the errors of eighteen. Subject(s): Nature; Windermere, Lake (england) SONNETS OF LAURA: 1. REPROACH Poem Text First Line: Ah! Little cause has petrarch to complain Last Line: While night and silence only laura's know. Variant Title(s): Reproach Subject(s): Petrarch (1304-1374); Francesco Petrarca SONNETS OF LAURA: 2. THE VEIL Poem Text First Line: What weak remonstrance! -- how I joy to find Last Line: Guard of my pride, my honor, and my fame. Subject(s): Petrarch (1304-1374); Francesco Petrarca SONNETS OF LAURA: 3. ABSENCE Poem Text First Line: What boots it that thy steps to distant shores Last Line: Vain is thy journey, and its distance vain. Subject(s): Petrarch (1304-1374); Francesco Petrarca THE NURSE AND THE NEWSPAPER; AN OCCASIONAL EPILOGUE Poem Text First Line: Hush! Pretty darling, hush! -- bye, bye, bye, bye Last Line: And give us safe deliv'ry from our terrors. Subject(s): Babies; Charity; Newspapers; Nurses; Infants; Philanthropy; Journalism; Journalists Coddington, Elizabeth Roosa 1 poems available by this author LIFE Poem Text First Line: I snatched the sparkling cup of life Last Line: And slowly sipped; and lo, the very dregs were sweet. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Life; Wine Cohen, Elizabeth Krajeck 7 poems available by this author #2, SHOES First Line: You could cry Last Line: They are getting somewhere Subject(s): Cities DRIVE-BY SHOOTING First Line: By the time you read this Last Line: From los angeles, a supernova %will be born Subject(s): Cities HARD SELL First Line: All spring I was loose cloud Last Line: Of the altos and bass. Clear, %high and alone in that company I OF EACH NIGHT First Line: I pause with one foot on the road LIGHT YEARS First Line: When we switched on Last Line: We had, but passed through %us, on our separate paths, travelling RIBS First Line: She's porous %and brittle as sucked peppermint Last Line: Of angels of darkness of black cracks %in the clouds SENSE OF LIFE AND RAIN First Line: My legs are weak with worry, grieving Coleridge, Mary Elizabeth Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Anodos 90 poems available by this author A CLEVER WOMAN Poem Text First Line: You thought I had the strength of men Last Line: O evil angel, set me free! Subject(s): Women A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU' First Line: I wish thee happy' - o, my dear A MOMENT Poem Text First Line: The clouds had made a crimson crown Last Line: As if it had not been. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings AH NO! AH, I HAVE STRIVEN, I HAVE STRIVEN AH, NOT THE TERROR OF A LONG-DRAWN DEATH AN INSINCERE WISH ADDRESSED TO A BEGGAR Poem Text First Line: We are not near enough to love Last Line: And truth reveal herself to you! Subject(s): Brothers; Deception; Family Life; Wealth; Half-brothers; Relatives; Riches; Fortunes ARE THE DEAD AS CALM AS THOSE ARM THEE! ARM THEE! FORTH UPON THE ROAD! AS I WENT SINGING OVER THE EARTH Subject(s): Singing And Singers BARE BOUGHS THE AUTUMN HATH AND SO HATH SPRING CLOSELY I WATCHED IT, HOUR BY HOUR COME BACK TO ME, MY SWALLOW DEPART FROM ME. I KNOW THEE NOT! EGYPT'S MIGHT IS TUMBLED DOWN EGYPT'S MIGHT IS TUMBLED DOWN Poem Text FIGHTING WOULD I HAVE YOU DIE FORGIVE? O YES! HOW LIGHTLY, LIGHTLY SAID! GONE Poem Text First Line: About the little chambers of my heart Last Line: One door alone is shut, one chamber still. Subject(s): Friendship; Loss HE WHO HAS LIVED IN SUNSHINE ALL DAY LONG HER FACE, FOR UTTER STILLNESS, HATH NO PEER I ASK OF THEE, LOVE, NOTHING BUT RELIEF I ENVY NOT THE DEAD THAT REST I HAVE FORGED ME IN SEVENFOLD HEATS I HAVE MORE SORROW, DEAREST, IN THY LOVE I KNOW NOT HOW IT IS WITH ME - THE LIGHT I LOVED YOUR FACE I SAW A STABLE Poem Text First Line: I saw a stable, low and very bare Last Line: And the world's danger. Variant Title(s): Salus Mundi Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology I SAW THEE GO INTO THE NIGHT, BELOVED I SHALL FORGET YOU, O MY DEAD IN DISPRAISE OF THE MOON Poem Text First Line: I would not be the moon, the sickly thing Last Line: That light, reflected, but makes darkness plain. Subject(s): Moon IN ONE ESTATE NOT FOR ONE MOMENT RESTING IN THE MIST AND THE RAIN I MET YOU JEALOUSY Poem Text First Line: The myrtle bush grew shady Last Line: "even so!' said the queen." Subject(s): Jealousy; Love LAY ME, LAY ME WHERE I DIE LORD OF THE WINDS, I CRY TO THEE LOVE NOT ME FOR COMELY GRACE Last Line: To doat upon me ever LOVE, THE IMMORTAL THING, BY TIME CONSTRAINED LOVE, WHEREOF PUREST LIGHT THE SHADOW IS LOW-FLYING SWALLOW THO' THE SKY BE FAIR MARRIAGE Poem Text First Line: No more alone sleeping, no more alone waking Last Line: All for her sake must the maiden die! Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men MORTAL COMBAT Poem Text First Line: It is because you were my friend Last Line: And be a man like other men. Subject(s): Discontent; Friendship; Mankind; Dissatisfaction; Human Race NIGHT IS FALLEN WITHIN, WITHOUT NO LONGER LIVE! NOT AS I AM THOU ART - AND YET THOU ART NOW WOLDE First Line: Now wolde I faine some merthes make Last Line: I love no mo O DARKNESS GATHER ROUND O EARTH, MY MOTHER! NOT UPON THY BREAST O MIGHTY SPIRIT, WHITHER ART THOU FLED? O NOT MORE SURELY LOVE LIES HID O TELL ME NOT THAT YEARS WILL GIVE O THE HIGH VALLEY, THE LITTLE LOW HILL ON A DAY, AND ON A DAY ONE DAY IN EVERY YEAR ONE MORNING EARLY, AS I WOKE, I FELT ONLY A LITTLE SHALL WE SPEAK OF THEE ONLY THE NAME AND NOTHING MORE OTHER MEN MAY NEVER CARE OUR LADY Poem Text First Line: Mother of god! No lady thou Last Line: "and the rich he hath sent empty away." Subject(s): Christmas; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary SOME IN A CHILD WOULD LIVE, SOME IN A BOOK STAY WITH ME, HAPPY DAY! STREET LANTERNS Poem Text First Line: Country roads are yellow and brown Last Line: Topaz, and the ruby stone. Subject(s): Light; London; Roads; Paths; Trails THAT THIS SHOULD BE THE COMMON GRIEF OF ALL THE DESERTED HOUSE Poem Text First Line: There's no smoke in the chimney Last Line: Nor any bird of the air. Subject(s): Houses, Deserted THE FIRE, THE LAMP, AND I, WERE ALONE TOGETHER THE OTHER SIDE OF A MIRROR Poem Text First Line: I sat before my glass one day Last Line: "that heard me whisper, ""I am she!" Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE POET'S HEART WITHOUT HIS GIFT OF SONG THE SONG OF NIGHTINGALES THE SUM OF LOSS I HAVE NOT RECKONED YET THE TEARS THAT FALL ARE WATER SPILT ON THE GROUND THE WHITE WOMEN Poem Text First Line: Where dwell the lovely, wild white women folk Last Line: And gazing died. Subject(s): Amazons; Legends, Malayan; Women's Rights; Feminism THE WITCH Poem Text First Line: I have walked a great while over the snow Last Line: Oh, lift me over the threshold, and let me in at the door. Subject(s): Death; Women; Dead, The THEE HAVE I SOUGHT, DIVINE HUMILITY THERE IS A LADY SWEET AND KIND Last Line: Yet will I love her till I die THERE WITH TWO LIVES BEFORE ME DID I CHOOSE THEREFORE I WROTE IT, NOT THAT MEN SHOULD BUY THEY SERVED WITH NELSON, AND WITH NELSON DIED THOU THAT CANST SIT IN SILENCE HOUR BY HOUR THY VOICE IS IN THE WINDS AND IN THE WATERS TIRED OF THE DAILY ROUND TIS NOT LOVE THAT IS DEAD TRUE TO MYSELF AM I, AND FALSE TO ALL TWO DIFFERING SORROWS MADE THESE EYES GROW DIM UNWELCOME Poem Text First Line: We were young, we were merry, we were very very wise Last Line: And a man with his back to the east. Subject(s): Feasts WE NEVER SAID FAREWELL, NOR EVEN LOOKED WE WERE NOT MADE FOR REFUGES OF LIES WEARY WAS I OF TOIL AND STRIFE WHEN MARY THRO' THE GARDEN WENT WHERE A ROMAN VILLA STOOD, ABOVE FREIBURG' Poem Text First Line: On alien ground, breathing an alien air Last Line: But not our english hills!' Subject(s): Nostalgia; Roman Empire; Ruins; Travel; Journeys; Trips WHETHER I LIVE, OR WHETHER I DIE Colman, Mary Elizabeth 2 poems available by this author ANSWER Poem Text First Line: Hungry unnumbered since the birth of time Last Line: Is whipped, stripped, done and dead. Subject(s): Time COST First Line: It was a shabby house, lacking grace or dignity Last Line: I wish he were dead Subject(s): Germany; World War Ii Colter, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author CHOICE Poem Text First Line: Last week I talked to a sailor Last Line: "and I answered -- ""poetry."" . . ." Colwell, Elizabeth 2 poems available by this author I WONDER RETROSPECTION First Line: Strange, how that day Cook, Elizabeth Anderson 1 poems available by this author BIG TREES IN MARIPOSA Poem Text First Line: I stood with awe in silence on the ground Last Line: But these majestic giants still live on! Subject(s): Mariposa County, California; Trees Cook-lynn, Elizabeth 92 poems available by this author ...OLD WOMAN LOVED TO SING Last Line: Bury it deep inside the darkened earth Subject(s): Native Americans 1880 First Line: Smallpox used them up winter' Last Line: After it finished with them Subject(s): Native Americans 1890 First Line: Later, when the grave %was fenced, we tied Last Line: The hanging %eagle feathers Subject(s): Native Americans ACADEMIC POEM FOR INDIAN DISSENTERS First Line: I don't speak of kunstler or aim Last Line: For political remedy %I reach for paper and pen Subject(s): Native Americans AFTER A LONG WINTER First Line: Between the touching hills, a shield of pine Last Line: Glare golden in the sun Subject(s): Native Americans AFTER THE RITUAL First Line: There is, like they say, %something that moves' Last Line: Who had been told many things %by the unktechies Subject(s): Native Americans ALL THINGS WILL PASS First Line: You brought me bone %out of eyes of grief Last Line: And the meadowlark declared us dead Subject(s): Native Americans AT DAWN, SITTING IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE First Line: I sit quietly %in the dawn; a small house in the missouri breaks Last Line: Flat prairie above. We may pretend Subject(s): Native Americans AT MEDICINE CREEK First Line: There are things here that are siouxan Last Line: To the sound of their own endless %clatter and hoofbeats Subject(s): Native Americans BARE FACTS First Line: The spirit lives %when it moves and sings your name Last Line: When cricket tells us everything %he knows Subject(s): Native Americans BLEAK TRUTH IS First Line: The old man knew many %stories about the river Last Line: Who go behind the bush and beat around.' Subject(s): Native Americans BY THE TIME Last Line: Of the tribe continued in the imagination to be inherent in maka, the earth Subject(s): Native Americans CATHER'S OEUVRE First Line: Against the glare at my dark window Last Line: Often get the story wrong Subject(s): Native Americans CITY GAMES OF LIFE AND DEATH; WALKING THE MISSION DISTRICT First Line: I can why indians come here Last Line: They changed their ways Subject(s): San Francisco COLLABORATOR First Line: I remember the fallen trees, thin and pale as frost smoke Last Line: Sway in the gloom %of my forfeiture Subject(s): Native Americans CONTRADICTION First Line: As one who does not mind Last Line: When women throw down bundles Subject(s): Native Americans COVE First Line: Was a quiet place %hidden from above by an overhang Last Line: And witness the alien banks %and shout their names Subject(s): Native Americans DEER AT THE KESHENA AMPHITHEATRE, 1993 First Line: The singers come from everywhere. Fine white Last Line: Where it is safe to walk Subject(s): Native Americans DELUGE First Line: Look at the disorder %the leaves and vines torn from swaying trees Last Line: Only the river gods will tell you what you can expect Subject(s): Native Americans DISTANCES First Line: I was writing this poem before I knew how far I had come and Last Line: Because that was so, distance would not devour me Subject(s): Native Americans DRIFTWOOD First Line: The river's down again, my love Last Line: Like trees of pristine worlds %left high and dry Subject(s): Native Americans ELAN First Line: Sometimes after the glare of sunrise Last Line: To the nation he honors Subject(s): Native Americans FLUTE MAKER'S STORY First Line: For those on prairie hills who make the sounds Last Line: Forever in maka, no magic sets you free Subject(s): Native Americans FOR THE INDIANS IN THE MINT BAR WHO ROBBED THE JOINT AND HEADED FOR First Line: In a world where all the villains Last Line: A perfect pair, they dramatize the comic scenes %of non-translatable plays Subject(s): Native Americans FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS First Line: I'm always asked about the latest dance Last Line: An act of faith to seem unripe Subject(s): Native Americans FUNERAL SERMON First Line: Thousands of years ago Last Line: They were on their way Subject(s): Native Americans GETTING RICH First Line: On promises %we see the silvery band of the river Last Line: The bitter stories %of broken faith Subject(s): Native Americans GHAZAL #1 First Line: One of these days we'll all be hiding out like treed Last Line: Death of the natural and sensual world Subject(s): Native Americans GHAZAL #2 First Line: Whether well and accurately or poorly and falsely, tribal boswells Last Line: Stiff-kneed toward the river, whistled Subject(s): Native Americans GHAZAL #3 First Line: The missouri breaks, lying between the uplands and river bottoms Last Line: Tired of the first; that was not the way of a good dakotah Subject(s): Native Americans GOING HOME First Line: Those roads of hard packed earth, streaked with the familiarity Last Line: Valedictorians and pied pipers of every order Subject(s): Native Americans GRANDFATHER AT THE INDIAN HEALTH CLINIC First Line: It's cold at last and cautious winds creep Last Line: To everyone who comes Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; U.s. - Race Relations HISTORY OF UNCHI First Line: They say %that storytellers such as she Last Line: Of glorious songs %and children? Subject(s): Native Americans HOW THE MAN BROKE HORSES First Line: He rode the familiar plain toward Last Line: To ride a horse down. Reverently Subject(s): Native Americans INDIAN RESERVATION SONG First Line: Who stole indian land today? I want Last Line: One cushy job to another? Subject(s): Native Americans IT IS TRUE THAT WOMEN HAVE ALWAYS HAD A Last Line: Having many children and numerous relatives, and she had neither Subject(s): Native Americans JAMES BAY CREE First Line: And their neighbors, the naskapi Last Line: At the latter day %upon the earth.' Subject(s): Native Americans JESUS SAVES OR DON'T ASK ME TO JOIN AA AND BE A FOOL First Line: I told you once, there is a trend Last Line: I think I'll sing a forty-nine instead Subject(s): Native Americans JOURNEY, SELS. First Line: Wet sickly JOURNEY: 1. DREAM First Line: Wet, sickly %smells of cattle-yard silage fill the prairie air Last Line: To dim the river's glare, a malady of modern times Subject(s): Native Americans JOURNEY: 2. MEMORY First Line: Dancers with cane whistles Last Line: And seek the house of relatives to stay the night Subject(s): Native Americans JOURNEY: 3. SACRISTANS First Line: This journey through another world, beyond bad dreams Last Line: Of incense burners. Migrations make %new citizens of rome Subject(s): Native Americans KEYA PI First Line: I stood %watching the strays,' Last Line: She was kiowa, anyway Subject(s): Native Americans KILLDEER IN SNOW First Line: His jeering song connects the wintered earth Last Line: When seething waters %rose to meet %his cries Subject(s): Native Americans LAST REMARKABLE MAN First Line: Old hunka' of the people Last Line: We speak of you in pre-poetic ritual Subject(s): Native Americans LAST WORD First Line: You'll never play paganini's guitar Last Line: I'll walk by as if I never knew you Subject(s): Native Americans LITERAL HISTORY HAS HAD ITS SPECIAL WAY Last Line: Returned to the camp and told his people that the owl spoke to him, %they knew it to be true Subject(s): Native Americans LONG WAY First Line: We seldom mentioned him, %my favorite uncle Last Line: At different times of the day %everlastingly %toward the sun Subject(s): Native Americans MAKE BELIEVE First Line: Curtain rises! %the ceaseless rolling of a rock Last Line: The play which deserves no re-runs %is sold out Subject(s): Native Americans MASQUERADE First Line: After decades of wearing the veiled mask Last Line: Resolve of translating no more %the fateful script Subject(s): Native Americans MOMENT First Line: Silently, the day so sunless spirits weep Last Line: When we were children %of prairie hawks Subject(s): Native Americans MOUNT RUSHMORE First Line: Owls hang in the night air Last Line: A cenotaph becomes the tourist temple %of the profane Subject(s): Native Americans MUFFLED THUNDER First Line: In the hills %sounding close and friendly Last Line: Like anguished relatives %who know my wounds Subject(s): Native Americans MY FLIGHT First Line: How can I know %what keeps me disengaged, fleeing Last Line: That little horse sang %I will be there Subject(s): Native Americans MY GRANDMOTHER'S BURIAL GROUND: PAUL WAHUKEZATININKEYA, JULY 12, 1892 First Line: I walked beside the stone Last Line: And dried skins of crows Subject(s): Native Americans MY PREVIOUS LIFE First Line: When I was thirty, my slim bone and muscle Last Line: Acknowledgement that nothing matters except the love of those %who love you Subject(s): Native Americans MYTHMAKERS First Line: There is a ball game %played with a sacred ball Last Line: Of slaves and warlords %with sweet pride Subject(s): Native Americans MYTHOLOGY OF THE ETERNAL HOMELANDS: 1. FIRST THE LOON DIVED First Line: Uncheda, born one hundred years Last Line: Rainbow to the monsters %of the other side Subject(s): Native Americans MYTHOLOGY OF THE ETERNAL HOMELANDS: 2. SO THE MUSKRAT DIVED First Line: Though the agency town %still called 'the Last Line: We talk of apostates %and the price we paid Subject(s): Native Americans NEAR SHERIDAN, WYOMING First Line: Buffalo grass, tall and ripening in the sun Last Line: Still able to catch the seeds of scrubby pines %and hold them Subject(s): Native Americans NOT EVERYTHING First Line: In the world %had to have a beginning because Last Line: Giving some of his power away Subject(s): Native Americans NOVEMBER DAY First Line: So dry we couldn't weep-or curse Last Line: Immutably, I think of this %on all november days and more Subject(s): Native Americans POEM FOR MY EX-BROTHER-IN-LAW First Line: He slit the yellow belly of a rattler Last Line: And he talked to me of personal histories gone sour Subject(s): Native Americans POET'S BRIEF ADDRESS TO THE STUDENTS AND FACULTY UPON THE OCCASION First Line: Theses and arguments %everlasting debates of moral philosophy Last Line: What art and ancestors had to do with it Subject(s): Native Americans POET'S LAMENT First Line: All things considered, they said Last Line: With sitting bull dead %it was easier said Subject(s): Native Americans PROFILE OF THE SUN AND MY AGING FATHER First Line: In that moment of time %between creation and death Last Line: To reaffirm the plains' long daytime Subject(s): Native Americans PROSE POEM First Line: Sacred and religious in form, a man with red-wrapped braids Last Line: Road from oblivion to recovery, a human quest to give back the story Subject(s): Native Americans REMEMBERING THE SPIRIT AND THE LAND IN THE TIME OF SITTING BULL First Line: From appomattox to wounded knee Last Line: Unable to run or regret. %you've got the picture Subject(s): Native Americans REVISION First Line: Looking back %a funny kind of whirlwind Last Line: And only when you made me listen %was I alive Subject(s): Native Americans ROOM OF GOD AND DOOR TO HEAVEN First Line: Aula dei et porta coeli %open to nothingness Last Line: For my seeking %aula dei et porta coeli Subject(s): Native Americans SIMILE First Line: Meditation %constantly practiced %under endless overcast skies Last Line: She stretches her arms %espectedly %vividly %and begins the dance Subject(s): Native Americans SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS First Line: To get things straight Last Line: For white hawk as for little crow or me Subject(s): Native Americans SPIDER AS SHE USED TO BE First Line: Swiftly, innocently, %the primordial Last Line: That the risk is %glittering and golden Subject(s): Native Americans SUMMER VISIT First Line: Her wide window overlooks %green gardens, an empty tennis court Last Line: Lord hear my prayer. Lord hear my prayer Subject(s): Native Americans SURVIVAL First Line: At night, startled by the %snowy owl who flees her Last Line: Restored in my night dreams Subject(s): Native Americans TATEKEYA'S EARTH First Line: Looking for the place to cross the creek Last Line: I weep for tatekeya's earth Subject(s): Native Americans THERE WAS ONCE Last Line: Able to perform this incredible act she would only say that the %rocks had helped her Subject(s): Native Americans THEY SEEMED First Line: To come from the depths and Last Line: She is listening %to hear %the drums %of indians.' Subject(s): Native Americans THIS IS THE ROAD First Line: I first left on %scenic and coruscating Last Line: Mallards nesting beside it Subject(s): Native Americans TO WHOMEVER ONE CALLS WHENEVER ONE HAS A QUARTER First Line: I drive many miles through towns where the only Last Line: The wind dancing on telephone lines %hooked up to oblivion Subject(s): Native Americans TOURISTS SHOULDN'T WRITE HOME THAT INDIANS AREN'T REAL First Line: Where soft round hills TRESPASS First Line: Wind moans off prairie hills. Hang on Last Line: Wind moans off prairie hills. Hang on Subject(s): Native Americans VISITING PROFESSOR AND THE YELLOW SKY First Line: Yesterday afternoon %I woke and heard them again Last Line: Blue-black is the carnivore %yellow the sky Subject(s): Native Americans WAY IT IS First Line: Living here %in the hills, walking Last Line: Things pass and times are gone forever Subject(s): Native Americans WE STOOD First Line: In the freezing spearfish %creek to our ankles; me Last Line: Eloquence of that place %in my memory Subject(s): Native Americans WHEN THE DAKOTAPI REALLY LIVED AS THEY WISHED First Line: One down an abyss and he never reached the spirit land Last Line: One down an abyss and he never reached the spirit land Subject(s): Native Americans WHEN YOU TALK OF THIS First Line: Wine-puffed %lesions Last Line: Was a good and faithful woman Subject(s): Native Americans WIDOWHOOD First Line: At death's best hour %she waved away Last Line: What had changed the world? Subject(s): Native Americans; Widows And Widowers WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE First Line: You acquiesced when they made you Last Line: On the ground %without much hope Subject(s): Native Americans WOMAN'S OLD AGE First Line: She had come to the time of her life Last Line: That you can walk away Subject(s): Native Americans WORLD HE LIVED IN First Line: Was like some vast museum with rock walls Last Line: Supine and covered with dust Subject(s): Native Americans WRITER'S CHOICES First Line: I went to my library %this morning. Slattern Last Line: Originates in dreams %and poetry Subject(s): Native Americans Cooper, Elizabeth M. 1 poems available by this author REMEMBRANCE Poem Text First Line: Give rosemary for remembrance Last Line: The memory of a smile. Subject(s): Memory; Superstition; Tradition Copmann, Elizabeth 4 poems available by this author CONFLICTS Poem Text First Line: Hunger has brought me to this door Last Line: When I knock -- oh -- be away! MOCKING-BIRD Poem Text First Line: The song that bursts and shatters Last Line: Anguish of a sinner? Subject(s): Mockingbirds OF ONE REMEMBERED Poem Text First Line: Always I see her as a flower Last Line: Touched earth -- and knew its yearning. OKLAHOMA PRAIRIES Poem Text First Line: Not in the path of the brazen sun Last Line: Trails a rainbow through the grasses. Subject(s): Prairies; Plains Corbett, Elizabeth T. Alternate Author Name(s): Corbett, E. T., Mrs. 13 poems available by this author CHRISTENING OF MY BOY First Line: No, I won't forget our parson - not down to my dyin' day FORECLOSURE OF THE MORTGAGE First Line: Walk right in the settin-room, deacon Subject(s): Mortgages FROGS' SINGING-SCHOOL First Line: Down in the rushes beside the pool INVENTOR'S WIFE First Line: It's easy to talk of the patience of job Subject(s): Inventions And Inventors LECTURE First Line: She spoke of the rights of woman MISS MINERVA'S DISAPPOINTMENT First Line: Yes, debby, 'twas a dissapp'intment; and though, of course, I try MISSPELLED TAIL First Line: A little bouy said, 'mother, deer' NEWSBOY First Line: Want any papers, mister? Variant Title(s): The Newsboy's Cat; Or The Fam'ly Ma TAIL OF THE SEE First Line: I went a-sailing with my deer THE OLD DEACON'S LAMENT Poem Text First Line: Yes, I've been a deacon of our church Last Line: I don't believe I can! Subject(s): Memory THE THREE WISE COUPLES Poem Text First Line: Three wise old couples were they, were they, Last Line: "to see the bear and the circus show!" THREE WISE OLD WOMEN Poem Text First Line: Three wise old women were they, were they Last Line: You must find out, for I don't know. WHAT BIDDY SAID IN THE POLICE COURT First Line: Yis, luk at me now, if ye can, tim Core, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author RECYCLING A MEMORY First Line: After I fell in front of myself a hard Last Line: The secret to memory is repetition, %the secret to memory is repetition Corley, Elizabeth Lewis 2 poems available by this author MAKING MONEY First Line: Underwater with the shellfish and the numbers NEAR FOALING First Line: A tall weathered man out in all weathers Last Line: Come soon. Come soon. I can deny you nothing Cornish, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author SAMPLER VERSE RECORDED IN CORNWALL; 9TH YEAR OF HER AGE First Line: I sit by the fire in the dark winter night Last Line: Shake the windows like robbers who want to come in Cosgrove, Elizabeth Williams 4 poems available by this author I AM TALLER TONIGHT OKLAHOMA Poem Text First Line: Oklahoma wears a crown of diamonds in her blue-black hair Last Line: He wears his new store-clothes with a cowboy swagger. Subject(s): Oklahoma POEMS FOR EASTER: 1 Poem Text First Line: Shall a man live, though first he die?' Last Line: Then -- why not I? Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection POEMS FOR EASTER: 2 Poem Text First Line: Angel, from my heart this day Last Line: Roll the stone of doubt away. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection Counselman, Mary Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author ROOM IN DARKNESS HAS A FOURTH DIMENSION Subject(s): Fantasy Cowgill, Elizabeth King 4 poems available by this author PICTURES OF THE SOUTHWEST: DESERTED Poem Text First Line: Nothing so forlorn Last Line: Sockets of a bleaching skull. Subject(s): Houses; Ruins; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States PICTURES OF THE SOUTHWEST: HEAT Poem Text First Line: Naked heat devils Last Line: Like demons paroled from hell. Subject(s): Heat; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States PICTURES OF THE SOUTHWEST: OIL Poem Text First Line: Black smoke hides the sun Last Line: Such a hell as dante saw. Subject(s): Petroleum; West (u.s.); Oil; Southwest; Pacific States THOUGHTS OF YOU Poem Text First Line: How strange that thoughts of you Last Line: At mention of your name! Subject(s): Memory Cox, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author MASK First Line: Image in the bulb-ringed mirror Cox, Elizabeth Barks 1 poems available by this author AT A LOSS First Line: My mother's chants Last Line: In a warm breath %on my eyes Craigmyle, Elizabeth 6 poems available by this author CHAINED TIGERS: 1 First Line: There is a dreadful legend of the past CHAINED TIGERS: 2 First Line: My cell is narrower. Shut within a room IN THE DAY OF THE EAST WIND First Line: The rocks at my feet are strewn with crimson Subject(s): Sea SOLWAY SANDS Poem Text First Line: Twa race doon by the gatehope-slack Last Line: And solway sands are white in the moon. Subject(s): Love; Vendetta; Feuds SONG OR SOBBING? First Line: What aileth thee, o sea? Subject(s): Sea UNDER DEEP APPLE BOUGHS First Line: The garden-shadows are flecked with ... Light Crane, Elizabeth Green 1 poems available by this author GENTIAN Poem Text First Line: So all day long I followed through the fields Last Line: Although sad news to his beloved he bears. Subject(s): Flowers; Gentians; Fringed Gentians Crosby, Elizabeth Mae 1 poems available by this author NEW ENGLAND First Line: Long, graceful, curving lines of shining beach Last Line: New england's pleasures call you the year around Cross, Elizabeth 6 poems available by this author CHILDHOOD'S SUMMER First Line: Let us remember the time when morning began HUMMINGBIRD MOTH: 1 First Line: The empire of flagstone and woodpecker gone Last Line: The entire field of sound behind you, waving HUMMINGBIRD MOTH: 2 First Line: Nonetheless, we roamed Last Line: Whoosh and bang %good-bye HUMMINGBIRD MOTH: 3 First Line: Where went Last Line: The nest of music? HUMMINGBIRD MOTH: 4 First Line: This impossible fashion of loneliness Last Line: What might work but does not HUMMINGBIRD MOTH: 5 First Line: Instead, stacking stones to look for order in color, size, marks-for form Last Line: To raise this impossible ceiling Crouse, Mary Elizabeth B. 3 poems available by this author LIGHT Poem Text First Line: Thou one all perfect light Last Line: We go, to prove they shine. Subject(s): Lamps; Light THE STRENGTH OF WEAKNESS Poem Text First Line: How often do the clinging hands, though weak Last Line: Clasp round strong hearts that otherwise would break. Subject(s): Strength WIDOWHOOD Poem Text First Line: Now is she crowned with perfectness at last Last Line: She labors, knowing that heaven hath her life. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Life; Widows & Widowers; Work; Workers Crow, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author RAIN AFTER SNOW Poem Text First Line: Crystal and silver is this day Last Line: Of beauty through a crystal case. Subject(s): Rain; Snow Crowell, Elizabeth 2 poems available by this author HANDSTAND First Line: August, the girl stands on her hands Last Line: Center of the world %to bring her back NIGHT LIGHT First Line: Surprised, they would shimmer out of love Last Line: The darkness growing beyond the light Curry, Elizabeth 6 poems available by this author BRIEF LOOK AT ART First Line: Whether we're pharaohs %moving sideways, one eye apiece Last Line: We cannot see you as you see us CAI: MORNING IN BEIJING First Line: I search for feeling in my dreams Last Line: Not only blood %but also screams Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 HARVEST First Line: We sit and shuffle dollar bills Last Line: Born in the garbage of blood %we all pay, child, %for having had a face I LOVED IT, YOUR PAIN First Line: When you stood by the door, dressed in maroon velvet Last Line: #name? ON THE EVE OF WAR First Line: The wailing war, good friday, and the minaret Last Line: And in america there is a dussen sandstorm, %the roaring sound of war PRESENCE First Line: The child learns distance with a pointing finger Last Line: Touching my inconsolable grief with your pain Cushing, Elizabeth L. 2 poems available by this author APRIL First Line: Hark to the silvery sound CITY ELMS First Line: Old trees, I love your shade Dalton, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author SWANS' SONG First Line: The snowflakes flutter down outside our bed Last Line: Glistening cries will pierce the dark, like stars Danforth, Elizabeth Hanley 3 poems available by this author AUTUMN HOME-COMING First Line: Brown harvest fields and grey stone walls Last Line: Stanch in the very bone of me, %stand to thy praise, o god! NEW ENGLAND PORT First Line: The tall white houses looking out to sea Last Line: Whose like we shall not look upon again, %strong men and gentle, in a nobler world WINDY MORNING First Line: He thrusts his home-made kite into the air Last Line: Stand for a moment, spell bound, half-afraid, %before the beauty of a world he made Dannelly, Elizabeth Otis Marshall 1 poems available by this author DESTRUCTION OF COLUMBIA Poem Text First Line: Methinks there'll be emblazoned on the dismal walls of hell Last Line: "time cannot teach forgetfulness,"" the past can never die." Subject(s): American Civil War; Columbia, South Carolina; United States - History Daryush, Elizabeth 16 poems available by this author ANGER LAY BY ME ALL NIGHT LONG Last Line: Ah no, his honest words are such %that he's my true-lord, and my doom Subject(s): Anger AUTUMN, DARK WANDERER HALTED HERE ONCE MORE Last Line: Now seated by your tattered tent she broods %on timeless heights, eternal solitudes CHILDREN OF WEALTH IN YOUR WARM NURSERY Last Line: Is wired within for this, in every room EYES THAT QUEENLY SIT Last Line: If but the window %love illuminate FAREWELL FOR A WHILE Last Line: No more, mortal death, %shalt thou deceive me FLANDERS FIELDS First Line: Here the scented daisy glows Last Line: Poppies bright and rustling wheat %are a desert to love's feet Subject(s): Women; World War I FOR A SURVIVOR OF THE MESOPOTAMIAN CAMPAIGN First Line: War's wasted era is a desert shore Last Line: Has wrecked for them for ever earth's small ways Subject(s): Women; World War I FRESH SPRING First Line: Fresh spring, in whose deep woods I sought Last Line: Eternal, whom with tears I name FRUSTRATION First Line: God granted, god denies Last Line: Bends desire but to my %creating will HOW ON SOLEMN FIELDS OF SPACE Last Line: Soul's vague lily scents the void NEWS-REEL First Line: A glare-lit wall-cliff; windows row on row Last Line: Stumbles, a stranger, fears what it may find NOVEMBER First Line: Faithless familiars, %summer-friends untrue Last Line: The roving spirit %stay her and return O STRONG TO BLESS Last Line: Mother, yet once more %come home to thee STILL-LIFE First Line: Through the open french window the warm sun Last Line: Like a love-letter, full of sweet surprise SUBALTERNS First Line: She said to one: how glows Last Line: Now, life's so deadly slow Subject(s): Women; World War I UNKNOWN WARRIOR First Line: Not that broad path chose he, which whoso wills Last Line: Yea, who dares thus die, haply he may see, %suddenly, unsought immortality Subject(s): Women; World War I Davis, Elizabeth A. 1 poems available by this author SEPTEMBER First Line: A fresher green is on the grass Davis, Robin Elizabeth 4 poems available by this author LISTS THAT FOLLOW First Line: Buy sole for friday - don't think Last Line: Pray forgetting - smile when she wakes NOT FAR FROM OUR TOWN Last Line: Of their wandering dreams NOW HER SMALL GRAVE First Line: These branches lie broad Last Line: You lie in your small grave REQUIEM First Line: He returns %the meadowlark father Last Line: Directly into the wind Dawson, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author THE BEAUTY OF A CITY Poem Text First Line: The beauty of a city seems to be Last Line: In the rain; and smiles on passing faces. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life Dayton, Elizabeth Alternate Author Name(s): Day, Beth 3 poems available by this author LESSON OF THE ROSE First Line: The wild, red rose %thta 'wastes its sweetness on the desert air,' Last Line: Teach us to keep our souls as pure in hue; %teach us to be ourselves as true SELLING THE FARM First Line: Well, why don't you say it, husband? I know what you want to say THREE GATES [OF GOLD] Poem Text First Line: If you are tempted to reveal Last Line: What the result of speech may be. Subject(s): Truth De Mary, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author PIONEER WOMAN Poem Text First Line: I want my own to come to me Last Line: When lo, my heart's at rest. Subject(s): Frontier & Pioneer Life; Pioneers Deeble, Elizabeth 2 poems available by this author ON READING 'KUBLA KHAN' First Line: The milk of paradise. So ends the rime SONG First Line: Among the pines the drowsy breeze Degenhardt, Elizabeth 5 poems available by this author HEAVINESS OF THE MASK First Line: I feel the heaviness of the mask around my neck Last Line: Until my emotions were an ape %swinging %from green vines MENTHOL EUCALYPTUS COUGH DROPS First Line: Bukowski gets drunk to write his poems. Tonight Last Line: I wanted to see his eyes - to stay awake enough to see his eyes PROPOSAL First Line: He jokes %because he can't remember Last Line: Up for him like she had to finish anything %from that drunken, shirling, dark night forward RED RED WINE First Line: My voluptous and crazy sister, celia bobbed Last Line: Runs deep through the lives and saturday nights of sisters %searching for ignition UPPER REGISTERS OF A HORN First Line: My mother is a leg of lamb Last Line: Out of the budding fig trees %outside my peeling %good friday %hideaway Delmore, Elizabeth 6 poems available by this author DIFFERENCE First Line: Touchingly alike, old man, old dog Last Line: Haunted by this, the ultimate desolation, %even as he weeps %he sleeps IS IT NOT STRANGE? First Line: When I recall that place Last Line: We were happy, %nothing remains. %is it not strange? MARMALADE First Line: It snowed. %you kissed me and left and I was desolate Last Line: Blend it with the scent of cooking oranges %but it will have a very salty taste. %it is still snowin SUCH SWEET SORROW First Line: The trees were hung with marzipan Last Line: Where my tears fell on the ground %trees sprang up, green and beautiful, %all hung with marzipan WILLOW First Line: We are the clan of willows Last Line: But remember, without us you can't make a hit %in the beautiful white english game Subject(s): Willow Trees YEW First Line: Running down the fell, I round a rock Last Line: Who am rooted to the spot %while you %plod upward steadily towards the sky Denison, Elizabeth W. 2 poems available by this author SPECKLED HEN First Line: Dear brother ben I take my pen Variant Title(s): Little Maid And The Speckled He WILLIE'S MISHAP First Line: Twas a day in july, and the water was low Dinwiddie, Elizabeth Mcmurtrie 1 poems available by this author THE CHOSEN Poem Text First Line: Chosen of old, the guardians of the law Last Line: The freedom of the strong. Subject(s): Clergy; History; Jews; Prophecy & Prophets; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Historians; Judaism Dodd, Elizabeth Caroline 87 poems available by this author AESTHETICS AND NECESSITY: 1. SACRAMENT First Line: The sky's gentle dusking %each evening; the familiar Last Line: Give me your hand, I say, %and already you have Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) AESTHETICS AND NECESSITY: 2. SURREALISM First Line: In darkness, the plains extend %unseen, forever Last Line: Cities burning, the horizon consumed %in spectacular, terminal combustion Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) AESTHETICS AND NECESSITY: 3. GLEN CANYON First Line: The fire, a freight train %of sound, would have leaped Last Line: These clear perceptions %giving us ourselves? Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) AESTHETICS AND NECESSITY: 4. WATERSHED First Line: Late afternoon light %dresses the grasses Last Line: Is enough, touches me %here, yes, here Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) ALL WOUNDS First Line: You can't trust time to heal Last Line: A little less unlikely, possibility AMERICAN DIPPER First Line: Office politics %and the pettiness of each day Last Line: Who dives into the cold %factual current, eyes open Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) ARCHITYPAL LIGHT First Line: Almost silent, the canoe %slips %into bayou Last Line: My hair, my face, %as I face forward Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) AS IT HAPPENS THIS MORNING First Line: This mountain lake gives everything back Last Line: Of stones, dry twigs in hand %for another small, essential fire Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) AT SCOTT'S BLUFF, NEBRASKA First Line: Wind %is the language of this morning Last Line: This is memory, this %could be grief Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) AVIARY First Line: A quick flash of color Last Line: Adrift with leaves. For the moment, %she has stopped eating Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) BECAUSE AT LAST YOU'LL HAVE TO TURN AROUND First Line: When someone else's sadness sends you Last Line: The make-shift firing range your heart thumps %old emotions,pity and fear Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) BICYCLING IN THE GREAT SALT MARSH First Line: On the packed sand road my tires Last Line: Touch my skin. Nothing has moved Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) BLACKJACK First Line: When my great-great- %grandfather ace gutowsky Last Line: Their leaves as long as they can Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) BLUE OF THE MUSSEL SHELL First Line: Sight lingers alone %the near angle of weathered Last Line: Colors this prospect, giving, just now, %the last light back Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) BOG AT QUODDY HEAD First Line: Wind, and spray, and circling Last Line: Of water, the whispered past %perfect Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) BRIGHTS: 1. First Line: The only time I ever saw a fox Last Line: In increments, the little bodies %acccumulating weight Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) BRIGHTS: 2. First Line: Of course, we betray each other Last Line: Rise and fall with your breath %and look away Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) BRIGHTS: 3. First Line: Even the low crest Last Line: I realize their strange, mortal attraction %for the smaller animals Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) CATASTROPHISM First Line: When I follow the line %of your arm, pointing Last Line: The swift, unlooked-for %passion when lives pool, lovely, %although mutable Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) CAVE First Line: Sightless, shadowless, %the toothless blindcat cruises Last Line: Of her home, this truth: so much was she loved Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) CORDUROY ROAD First Line: Crossing the high %wet slope, ascending Last Line: Textured surface that we follow down Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) DEPTH IMAGE First Line: As the human %eye desires light %and movement, seeks out Last Line: Latent, this lake's %floating trellis Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) DIEBACK First Line: I wonder whether, Last Line: And comes back, that dies and goes %on. Or this time doesn't. Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) DOOR: 1. WEALTHY HOTCHKISS BROWN First Line: Well, you know doors are always opening Last Line: But also not enough to know what we should do Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) DOOR: 2. VINA CONOWAY PRIESTLEY First Line: Sometimes I felt that land was haunted, when Last Line: We can't see, and can't yet understand Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) DR. PATERSON HAS GONE AWAY TO REST AND WRITE First Line: Gouache %in sleep, the psyche leaks dreams Last Line: Promising, when needed, heat DREAM OF SPRING First Line: Easter sunday, the children Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) ELEGY First Line: Through the screen door, swish and twitter Last Line: Almost heart-shaped leaves, each %lopsided in a different shape, each %rooted in the shade, trying t Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) EVENT First Line: Weeks of little rain have left us Last Line: And, understand, this is all he can find %to give her-%he crosses the street %to leave her way clear Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) FAUVE First Line: High northern %summer, red cedar Last Line: And a somber interior %whisper, color Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) FORM AND THEORY: 1. IMMANENCE First Line: The light dust %breath %the light, crusting %on the body Last Line: The light strikes %the cliff wall, scattered %sand Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) FORM AND THEORY: 2. GEORGIA O'KEEFFE First Line: Because of the lovely curve %of the pelvis Last Line: Because of the open %door in the wall Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) FORM AND THEORY: 3. FUMAROLE CONES First Line: A remembered hiss %of ash caught Last Line: Wind flutes through %the darkened canyon Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) HICKORY RIDGE First Line: Amid the moist profusion of ferns Last Line: Another time, my throat might have slit %for spring to come Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL First Line: Above drift classic, backlit clouds, connections Last Line: These presences, truth %so often various, %whether one watches, or not Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) IMAGINING THE JOURNEY WEST First Line: Somewhere outside topeka, in sod walls Last Line: My last connection to the voice that named me Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) IN THE DREAM I AM: 1. MUSEUM PIECE First Line: Fremont figurines lie in %orderly rows, limbs and torsos Last Line: Eyes locked with god's, %measuring deserts in his clemency Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) IN THE DREAM I AM: 2. AFTER THE ICE STORM First Line: For days the landscape %glittered, terrible clarity Last Line: And thuds, the bodies %casting off stasis Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) IN THE DREAM I AM: 3. IN THE DREAM I AM First Line: At the edge %of a river, squatting amid summer's Last Line: Someone is turning, slowly, to look Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) IN THE TEETH First Line: How much they must've loved %each ridge and valley, rich Last Line: Singing, what you've lost, and where %he kicked you hardest INTO THE PLACES: 2. CONTEXTS First Line: Washington irving's %rendition of captain bonneville's impression Last Line: We had almost nothing to say Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) INTO THE PLACES: 3. CRATERS OF THE MOON First Line: A'a, pahoehoe, syllabic %archipelagoes ringed Last Line: Then shuts the door- %like stone Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) INTO THESE PLACES: 1. EXPLORING AN UNKNOWN REGION IN THE UNITED .. First Line: One morning in may, %w.L. Cole and I, both of boise Last Line: By the wail of the coyote %and the chirp of the rock cony Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) INVESTIGATION AND LAMENT: 1. SCHACTER'S COGNITIVE LABELING.. First Line: For example, a man and a woman Last Line: To an inner life; water, stone, distance, %other, self Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) INVESTIGATION AND LAMENT: 2. QUANTAM MECHANICS First Line: What we learned in school, it seems Last Line: Like us all, trying to name what can't be seen %or understood Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) INVESTIGATION AND LAMENT: 3. MY MOTHER'S STORY First Line: Never been loved, never been loved Last Line: She wanted to love me, %she wanted to Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) JIM BACHAE'S NEW HIP First Line: We meet him paused past fields Last Line: Cloud and sudden changing light Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) LABRADOR DUCK: 1. BEACON First Line: Out of sight, just past %the trail's bend Last Line: Each wave's lift and hurl and drop Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) LABRADOR DUCK: 2. DIORAMA First Line: In the blue light of depicted winter, long island sound Last Line: Against me; an arm before the face Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) LABRADOR DUCK: 3. MEMENTO First Line: I linger at the water's edge Last Line: Into the historic, the fingers' %living curl and crest Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) LAKE FLORISSANT First Line: Like words in a language %I almost remember Last Line: What could the herds remember, %or imagine? Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) NORTH First Line: In mid-november, 18 degrees, cold air %astounds, astringent in the lungs Last Line: Inside with ice, %the material %attendance of our breaths Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) NORTHWEST PASSAGE First Line: We walk across cottongrass flox Last Line: The milky way showed one of the many %visible directions Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) PARIETAL First Line: Two elk cross the immediate %field of sight, disappearing Last Line: Showing where the elk had bedded down %to save a tiny, furless child Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) PETROGLYPHS First Line: Greasewood, four-wing saltbush Last Line: Something in the world has changed. %what will it mean? Subject(s): Change; Nature; West (u.s.) PHILOLOGY First Line: When johnny rotten's voice persists Last Line: What's been recorded reeling, sucking wind PIEBALD ROBIN First Line: Suddenly, white %tailfeathers, beige-and-white Last Line: Whether one watches, or not Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) PILTDOWN MAN AND SURPRISE LILY First Line: They named it eoanthropus Last Line: Of the mourners gathered, %their undying love PRAIRIE HILLS IN SNOW: 1. PSYCHE First Line: In wind, the hills ripple %into disappearing Last Line: Everything has gone under %the surface Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) PRAIRIE HILLS IN SNOW: 2. SCAR First Line: When the dog broke through %and floundered in near-freezing Last Line: Growing an imperfect %but serviceable skin Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) PRAIRIE HILLS IN SNOW: 3. BURIAL First Line: Along the river trail %a few more trees are down Last Line: Loose snow skitters %in the raw air Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) PROBLEM OF OTHER MINDS First Line: By now the rippling line Last Line: Could, any of us, change ROUTE: 1. PIONEER MOUNTAINS, MID-JULY First Line: I rest against dull stone %and lichen, count drifting cirrus wisps Last Line: Each evening fire, each %day's book and map and boot Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) ROUTE: 2. DAYBOOK-SCATTERED NOTES First Line: In winter, a handiful of dried stinging nettles added to boiling Last Line: Stonecrop %shooting star Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) ROUTE: 3. WHEN SERGEANT FLOYD TOOK SICK First Line: ('cramp cholic'/ burst appendix') Last Line: When the fires in the prairie have distroyed it Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) ROUTE: 4. CAMAS First Line: Mid-november, 1805, clark notes the vote %on where to situate Last Line: I could have swourn it was water Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) ROUTE: 5. GLACIAL MILL First Line: In philadelphia and elsewhere, lewis Last Line: We lift our paddles, %point toward shore Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) ROUTE: 6. THIRD WEEK OF SEPTEMBER, WIND First Line: Out of the southwest, the wash %all dries by mid-day Last Line: New walnut hulls begin %to blacken on the blacktop Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) SANDBAGGED First Line: Rupture's wordless mantra, thunder %stumbles through the pre-dawn dark Last Line: This year, and what, if anything, %you'll find remaining SLOW AIR: 1. ALLEGHENY FRONT First Line: Geosyncline %sunlight and sediment Last Line: The bog exhales its stagnant bloom Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) SLOW AIR: 2. CONVERSATION First Line: ...We start from the old phrase 'he was on hunting,' which Last Line: I was, you was, they was- %-but it was years ago Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) SLOW AIR: 3. FIDDLE First Line: Head ferns, from a forest %of ferns, knee-high, thigh Last Line: With a woman's voice, continuing %when she falls silent Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) SOUTHERLY First Line: Wind-driven, loose grass and dried bracken Last Line: And open sky, a pause %in the sentence %turn in the line Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) SURREALISM First Line: Well, if it looks Last Line: Just, say it, stuck, struck TAPHONOMY First Line: Before us lies the body what's left Last Line: Death this moment this Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) TRIPTYCH: JUMP STUDIES: 1. CATARACT First Line: He hangs, toe- %holds and hands almost Last Line: If any of us shouted, %none would hear Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) TRIPTYCH: JUMP STUDIES: 2. DIVIDE First Line: The rock stops, drops %near- vertical, there Last Line: The singular, %slight drumming %of his stride Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) TRIPTYCH: JUMP STUDIES: 3. KILL SITE First Line: Open grass chitter %dickcissel rock Last Line: We don't talk stop %breathe imagine back Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) UBI SUNT First Line: Sometime near dawn the fog moved Last Line: Now, now, now, they all call out Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Nature; November; Weather; West (u.s.) VARIATIONS ON THE HORIZONTAL: 1. EQUINOX First Line: Cormorants crossing the air Last Line: The quick %confluence of edges Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) VARIATIONS ON THE HORIZONTAL: 2. EMERGENCE First Line: In the first world, nothing %had spoken. Therefore, distances Last Line: But lifting from the level ground, %the charred, dark statues gaze Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) VARIATIONS ON THE HORIZONTAL: 3. CLOVIS POINT WITH MASTODON First Line: Already the world %was changing, the plain Last Line: To propulsive, sudden tumors, %lead within the breast Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) VARIATIONS ON THE HORIZONTAL: 4. SAVANNA First Line: Like melody caught in the mind's %fond ear, the grasslands sang Last Line: In wind, the flames raced %sideways %and I stood up Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) VIRGINIA RAIL First Line: The eye lifts to the shimmer %of sky and water Last Line: Beside the salt marsh squinting, trying to see Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) WESTERN GREBE IN MOUNTAIN LIGHT First Line: Twenty hours and four thousand feet %after last night's alpine hail Last Line: In the sun like water tossed %from the grebe's bright neck Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) WITHIN THE BRIGHT POTENTIAL First Line: In rockwell kent's alaska, %it is clear the world Last Line: Dark marks within %the circumambient bright potential Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) WORK First Line: With a finger's chipped polish, she follows Last Line: Stand beside her while she looks Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) Dodge, Mary Elizabeth Mapes Poet's Biography 56 poems available by this author AMONG THE ANIMALS First Line: One rainy morning AN OFFERTORY Poem Text First Line: Oh, the beauty of the christ child Last Line: Yet who hath seen his face? Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The BIRDIES WITH BROKEN WINGS BYE, BABY, NIGHT IS COME Poem Text First Line: Bye, baby, day is over Last Line: Bye, baby, bye! CHILD AND THE SEA First Line: One summer day, when birds flew CHRISTMAS EVE First Line: All night long the pine-trees wait COURTESY First Line: A pretty little boy a pretty little girl Last Line: You should carry it, and walk along with me Subject(s): Hats DEAR LITTLE GOOSE First Line: While I'm in the ones, I can frolic all the day DEATH IN LIFE First Line: She sitteth there a mourner EARLY TO BED First Line: Early to bed and early to rise Last Line: And go back to bed at once. Why not? EMERSON Poem Text First Line: We took it to the woods, we two Last Line: Went sauntering through the wood. Subject(s): Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) FIRE IN THE WINDOW First Line: Fire in the window! Flashes in the pane! Last Line: The sun's going down, sir, I haven't a doubt Subject(s): Fire FROST KING First Line: Oho! Have you seen the frost-king HEART-ORACLES First Line: By the motes de we know where the HOME AND MOTHER Poem Text First Line: Sleep, my own darling Last Line: Ah me, but a mother is cumbered with cares!) Subject(s): Children; Home; Mothers; Sleep; Childhood HUMAN TIE First Line: Speak tenderly! For he is dead JANE'S RESCUE First Line: Goodbye, little birdie! JEANNETTE AND JO First Line: Two girls I know - jeannette and jo LEARNING TO PRAY First Line: Kneeling, fair in the twilight gray LETTERS AT SCHOOL First Line: One day the letters went to school LETTING THE OLD CAT DIE First Line: Not long ago I wandered near LIFE IN LACONICS Poem Text First Line: Given a roof, and a taste for rations Last Line: "shrink away with the whisper, ""we're in the wrong place." Subject(s): Life LIMERICK First Line: There was a brave knight of lorraine LIMERICK First Line: There was a young person called kate LITTLE GIRL WHO WOULN'T EAT CRUSTS First Line: The awfulest times that ever could be LITTLE MISS LIMBERKIN Last Line: She frightened a little mouse %out of its dream Subject(s): Mice LITTLE WORDS First Line: How wise he is! He can talk in greek! MOON CAME LATE First Line: The moon came late to a lonesome bog Last Line: What very grand people they have in this place! MOTHER Poem Text First Line: Early one summer morning Last Line: "we gathered them for you." Subject(s): Mothers MY WINDOW-IVY First Line: Over my window the ivy climbs NIGHT AND DAY First Line: When I run about all day Subject(s): Day NOW THE NOISY WINDS ARE STILL ONCE BEFORE Poem Text First Line: Once before, this self-same air Last Line: When life that could not be, comes back! Subject(s): Deja Vu; Memory ONE AND ONE First Line: Two little girls are better than one Variant Title(s): Mother's Darlin OVER THE WAY Poem Text First Line: Over the way, over the way Last Line: "please won't you be my mother-in-law?" Subject(s): Mothers-in-law; Women POOR CROW! Poem Text First Line: Give me something to eat Last Line: I've come a long way. Subject(s): Birds; Crows PUSSY'S CLASS First Line: Now, children,' said puss, as she SHADOW-EVIDENCE Poem Text First Line: Swift o'er the sunny grass Last Line: All my life long. SHEPHERD JOHN First Line: Oh! Shepherd john is good and kind Last Line: But grander fields for you! Subject(s): Shepherds And Shepherdesses SNOW-FLAKES Poem Text First Line: Whenever a snow-flake leaves the sky Last Line: "t is summer!"" -- and it melts away." Subject(s): Nature; Snow; Summer SOMEONE IN THE GARDEN First Line: Someone in the garden murmurs all the day Last Line: He murmurs all day, and moans all the night SPRING [AND THE FLOWERS] First Line: In the snowing and the blowing Variant Title(s): Nearly Read Subject(s): Holidays; Trees STOCKING SONG ON CHRISTMAS EVE First Line: Welcome christmas! Heel and toe Subject(s): Christmas STRANGER IN THE PEW First Line: Poor little bessie! She tossed back her curls TAKING TIME TO GROW First Line: Mamma! Mamma!' two eaglets cried Last Line: An eaglet can afford to wait Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Growth; Patience THAT'S WHAT WE'D DO First Line: If you were an owl THE MAYOR OF SCUTTLETON Poem Text First Line: The mayor of scuttleton burned his nose Last Line: What the mayor of scuttleton next would do. Subject(s): Politics & Government THE MINUET Poem Text First Line: Grandma told me all about it Last Line: "long ago." Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers THE STARS Poem Text First Line: They wait all day unseen by us, unfelt Last Line: The eternal jewels of the short-lived night. THE TWO MYSTERIES Poem Text First Line: We know not what it is, dear, this sleep so deep and still Last Line: And as life is to the living, so death is to the dead. Subject(s): Death; Death - Children; Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Dead, The; Death - Babies THE ZEALLESS XYLOGRAPHER; DEDICATED TO THE END OF THE DICTIONARY Poem Text First Line: A xylographer started to cross the sea Last Line: In a xanthic xebec went sailing the main. Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Dictionaries; Sea; Ocean THERE'S A WEDDING IN THE ORCHARD Poem Text First Line: There's a wedding in the orchard, dear Last Line: And aisles of flowery light. Subject(s): Marriage; Orchards; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TINKER, COME BRING YOUR SOLDER Last Line: And an hour before one in the morning Subject(s): Repairing UMPIRES First Line: We chose our blossoms, sitting on the grass Subject(s): Love WAY TO DO IT First Line: I'll tell you how I speak a piece Last Line: Now you'll please applaud WOODEN HORSE First Line: A real horse is good Last Line: So a fine wooden horse for me! Subject(s): Animals; Horses Dorney, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author THE CHEMISTRY OF CHARACTER Poem Text First Line: John and peter and robert and paul Last Line: God in his wisdom created them all. Subject(s): Religion; Theology Doten, Elizabeth Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie 30 poems available by this author BIRDIE'S' SPIRIT-SONG First Line: With rosebuds in my hand COMPENSATION Poem Text First Line: Out in the desolate midnight Last Line: As full an acceptance at last! Subject(s): Rewards FAREWELL TO EARTH Poem Text First Line: Farewell! Farewell! Last Line: Until then—farewell! Farewell! Subject(s): Angels; Death; Farewell; Heaven; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Dead, The; Parting; Paradise FOR A' THAT Poem Text First Line: Is there a luckless wight on earth Last Line: Will not come back for a' that. Subject(s): Heaven; Home; Love; Paradise HOPE FOR THE SORROWING Poem Text First Line: Ye holy ministers of love Last Line: To nobler toils pass on! Pass on! Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness I STILL LIVE Poem Text First Line: O thou, whose love is changeless Last Line: I thank thee that I live. Subject(s): Angels; God; Heaven; Immortality; Love; Paradise IN A HUNDRED YEARS Poem Text First Line: It will be all the same in a hundred years Last Line: For 'tis not the same in a hundred years! Subject(s): Future; Religion; Theology KEPLER'S VISION Poem Text First Line: Upon the clear, bright, northern sky Last Line: The truths that yet shall be revealed. Subject(s): Immortality; Spirituality LIFE Poem Text First Line: To be, or not to be,' is not the question' Last Line: Is swallowed up in immortality. Subject(s): Dramatists; Life; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) LITTLE JOHNNY Poem Text First Line: Sing not, o blessed angels! Last Line: "and helpers of their joy." Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Graves; Love; Sympathy; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Empathy LOVE Poem Text First Line: O world! Somewhat I have to say to thee Last Line: Shall find fruition in a brighter sphere. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion; Poetry & Poets LOVE AND LATIN Poem Text First Line: Dear girls, never marry for knowledge Last Line: "and not with a latin ""amo." Subject(s): Hearts; Love MISTRESS GLENARE, BY 'MARIAN' Poem Text First Line: A virtuous woman is mistress glenare Last Line: That poor sinful woman is—mistress glenare. Subject(s): Evil; Sin; Women - Secluding MY SPIRIT-HOME Poem Text First Line: I come, I come from my spirit-home Last Line: In the freedom and peace of god. Subject(s): Hallucinations & Illusions; Sickness; Spirituality; Illness RECONCILIATION Poem Text First Line: God of the granite and the rose! Last Line: Unite to praise thee evermore! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Reconciliation RESURREXI Poem Text First Line: From the throne of life eternal Last Line: Like an amulet of safety, to your heart forevermore. Subject(s): Angels; Mortality; Prayer; Spirituality SONG OF THE NORTH Poem Text First Line: Away, away! Cried the stout sir john Last Line: That can hold a human soul. Subject(s): Franklin, Sir John (1786-1847) THE BURIAL OF WEBSTER Poem Text First Line: Low and solemn be the requiem above the nation's / dead Last Line: And future generations shall honor webster's name! Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Heaven; Dead, The; Burials; Paradise THE CRADLE OR COFFIN Poem Text First Line: The cradle or coffin, the robe or the shroud Last Line: Tell us, o mortals, which like ye the best? Subject(s): Coffins; Death; Mortality; Dead, The THE EAGLE OF FREEDOM Poem Text First Line: O, land of our glory, our boast, and our pride! Last Line: Hurrah for the eagle, the bird of the free! Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Freedom; Wings; Liberty THE EMBARKATION Poem Text First Line: The band of pilgrim exiles in tearful silence stood Last Line: "for the feeble and the faithful are the conquerors at last." Subject(s): Farewell; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Travel; Parting; Journeys; Trips THE KINGDOM Poem Text First Line: Twas the ominous month of october Last Line: "receive, and believe, as a child." Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Mythology; Dead, The; Paradise THE MEETING OF SIGURD AND GERDA Poem Text First Line: O, early love! O, early love! Last Line: And freely to forgive. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Memory; Male-female Relations THE PARTING OF SIGURD AND GERDA Poem Text First Line: She stood beneath the moonlight pale Last Line: Won by thine earnest love. Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Parting; Male-female Relations THE PRAYER OF THE SORROWING Poem Text First Line: God! Hear my prayer! Last Line: Amen! My heart repeats, amen! Subject(s): Grief; Prayer; Sorrow; Sadness THE PROPHECY OF VALA Poem Text First Line: I have walked with the fates and the furies 'mid Last Line: "fare you well! I go—I go!'" Subject(s): Mythology; Prophecy & Prophets THE SONG OF TRUTH Poem Text First Line: From the unseen throne of the great unknown Last Line: "hear me, o god! My god!" Subject(s): Truth THE SPIRIT-CHILD, BY 'JENNIE' Poem Text First Line: O, thou holy heaven above us! Last Line: Rise victorious in the strife. Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Graves; Heaven; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise THE STREETS OF BALTIMORE Poem Text First Line: Woman weak, and woman mortal Last Line: In the streets of baltimore! Subject(s): Baltimore, Maryland; Poetry & Poets; Speeches & Addresses WORDS O' CHEER Poem Text First Line: Although not present to your sight Last Line: Of heaven on ony. Subject(s): Language; Speeches & Addresses; Words; Vocabulary Douglas, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author E.D. IN PRAISE OF MR. WILLIAM FOULAR HER FRIEND First Line: The glorious greiks dois praise thair homers quill Last Line: No vanting grece nor romane now will strywe, %they all do yeild sen foular doith arrywe Du Bridge, Elizabeth Brown 1 poems available by this author CRIMSON CROSS First Line: Outside the ancient city's gate Subject(s): World War I Dunn, Elizabeth Bemis 2 poems available by this author EVENING Poem Text First Line: The sun sinks to rest Last Line: A silence tremulous and tender. Subject(s): Birds HIS PRESENCE Poem Text First Line: When there are days that grow so dark Last Line: And I am not alone. Subject(s): Presence Dutcher, Elizabeth Davies 2 poems available by this author APRIL Poem Text First Line: I never saw an april quite like this Last Line: Brings cheer and happiness to me. Subject(s): April; Spring THE HOUSE IN THE HILLS Poem Text First Line: I walked the little road with eager feet Last Line: And I was thankful for my country home. Subject(s): Home Eames, Elizabeth J. 5 poems available by this author CHARITY Poem Text First Line: All stainless in the holy white Last Line: The olive branch, in holy beauty bending. DIEM PERDIDE Poem Text First Line: O greatly wise! Thou of the crown and rod Last Line: Such triflers with the solemn trust of time! Subject(s): Time LINES Poem Text First Line: Of making many books there is no end' Last Line: That all the days of man's short life are vanity! Subject(s): Books; Wisdom; Reading ON THE PICTURE OF A DEPARTED POETESS Poem Text First Line: This still, clear, radiant face! Doth it resemble Last Line: The better land thy dream of love fulfilled. Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The THERE SHALL BE LIGHT' First Line: Onward and upward, o my soul! Easter, Marguerite Elizabeth (miller) 1 poems available by this author MY LADDIE'S HOUNDS (VIRGINIA MOUNTAINS) Poem Text First Line: They are my laddie's hounds Last Line: Till fa' o' day? Ebeltoft, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author WINTER Poem Text First Line: With crystal needle, flashing bright Last Line: Above their regal robes of white. Subject(s): Winter Ebert, Elizabeth 4 poems available by this author OLD COWBOY'S PRAYER First Line: I never thought too much about heaven, lord Last Line: And watch you light the first faint evenin' star %with twilight comin' fast across the plain Subject(s): Cowboys ORDINARY MORNING First Line: Twas just an ordinary mornin' Last Line: And the calf is doin' fine Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers SONG FROM THE DAY THE PUMP BROKE First Line: We fought the water pipes all day Last Line: I love you, and I always will, my dear Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers STORE CANDY First Line: Don't go,' she said, 'we'll do with what we have.' Last Line: And all the bright store candy scattered round Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life; Women - Writers Eckel, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author TIRED MISSIONARY First Line: When thou wert wakeful, lord Eddy, Elizabeth 8 poems available by this author ALONE First Line: A bicycle %is wild Last Line: Bears watching %alive a %wild AVOCADO First Line: Thou great greener than green BLACK RASPBERRIES First Line: We ate from canton china Last Line: I continued eating %none bit back GREEN BABY First Line: There is a %green baby sitting JELLYROLL I'M COMING BEAUTIFUL, OR EVERYBODY WAIT FOR ME First Line: No flowers %all I ask Last Line: It's safe to %now NEAR-MISS EDDY First Line: Doris humphrey's father RIPOSTE TO BEN FRANKLIN First Line: Seek out the older women Last Line: Fly %it RITE First Line: My teenage son was Subject(s): Family Life Edwards, Elizabeth 7 poems available by this author CHRONIC LIAR BUYS A CANARY First Line: The name on her brown uniform said jeanette Last Line: His heart leapt at the very sound of it HAMMER First Line: Widow maker, hambone, judge's lackey Last Line: Are doomed to die without each other LUNAR ECLIPSE First Line: The blackened sun passed over the moon slowly Last Line: The color of burnt apples MISE EN SCENE First Line: It is late march and you still haven't called Last Line: Like the calculating legs of spiders ON THE TRAIN FROM BOSTON TO D.C. IN DEAD WINTER First Line: We skim effortlessly over ice-clogged backwater bays Last Line: Where someone said they'd always love %someone else forever PENNY NAIL First Line: Rotten tooth, point of contention, witch's kiss Last Line: The sound of snapping twigs PERSPECTIVES First Line: While my mother smoked pot with her college students Last Line: The kind that don't last, the ones in which I live Egbert, Ella Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author DAYS LIKE THESE First Line: I like the tangled brakes and briers Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons Elizabeth Alternate Author Name(s): Sylva, Carmen; Pauline Elizabeth Ottilie Luis 10 poems available by this author CARMEN Poem Text First Line: And all which I here have been singing Last Line: Then will my meaning come! DIMBOVITZA Poem Text First Line: Dimbovitza! Magic river Last Line: Lies my dearest treasure sleeping. Subject(s): Rivers; Romania; Rumania; Roumania FODDER-TIME Poem Text First Line: How sweet the manger smells! The cows all listen Last Line: To feed the kine that know no base emotion! Subject(s): Cows LONGING Poem Text First Line: I long to feel thy little arm's embrace Last Line: Nay, heaven's bliss alone can end it now. Subject(s): Longing THE BOATMAN'S SONG Poem Text First Line: Down-stream 'tis all by moonlight Last Line: Long in the sand remain. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails THE COUNTRY LETTER-CARRIER Poem Text First Line: It thaws. On field and roadway the packing drifts have Last Line: Cheer. Subject(s): Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen THE POST Poem Text First Line: Swift, swift as the wind drives the great russian csar Last Line: I'd leap to the saddle and drive to my tomb. THE SOWER Poem Text First Line: Beneath the mild sun vanish the vapor's last wet traces Last Line: With steady hand he paces afield without a mutter. Subject(s): Plants; Solitude; Planting; Planters; Loneliness THE STONE-CUTTER Poem Text First Line: We hammer, hammer, hammer on and on Last Line: Whom no one looks upon? Subject(s): Stone-cutting TRIBUTE TO CHARLES DICKENS First Line: I love him so for all the good Subject(s): Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) Elizabeth I Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Tudor, Elizabeth 11 poems available by this author AN ANSWER Poem Text First Line: Ah silly pugg, wert thou so sore afraid? Last Line: The less afraid the better shalt thou spead Subject(s): Fortune; Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618) ANSWER First Line: Ah silly pugg, wert thou so sore afraid? Last Line: The less afraid the better shalt thou spead Subject(s): Fortune; Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618) LIMERICK First Line: The daughter of debate %whose discord aye doth sow ON MONSIEUR'S DEPARTURE Poem Text First Line: I grieve, and dare not show my discontent Last Line: Or die and so forget what love ere meant. Variant Title(s): Self And The Otherself Subject(s): Discontent; Farewell; Love; Dissatisfaction; Parting ON THE NOTORIOUS SPENDTHRIFT SIR ANDREW NOEL, OF BROOKE First Line: The word of denial and letter of fifty Last Line: Is that gentleman's name that will never be thrifty Subject(s): Saving And Thrift ON THE SACRAMENT First Line: He was the word that spake it SONNETT: 1 First Line: Fortune hath taken thee away, my love Last Line: No fortune base shall ever alter me THE DAUGHTER OF DEBATE Poem Text First Line: The doubt of future foes / exiles my present joy Last Line: Such change, and gape for joy. Variant Title(s): The Doubt;the Doubt Of Future Foes Subject(s): Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587); Mary Stuart WRITTEN IN HER FRENCH PSALTER Poem Text First Line: No crooked leg, no bleared eye Last Line: As in the inward suspicious mind. Subject(s): Self-doubt WRITTEN ON A WALL AT WOODSTOCK Poem Text First Line: Oh fortune, thy wrestling wavering state Last Line: So god send to my foes all they have thought. Variant Title(s): Verses Written On A Shutter ... Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners; Convicts YOUTH AND CUPID Poem Text First Line: When I was fair and young, and favour graced me Last Line: "importune me no more!" Variant Title(s): Importune Me No More Subject(s): Carpe Diem Elizabeth Of York 1 poems available by this author I PRAY TO VENUS Poem Text First Line: My heart is set upon a lusty pin Last Line: This joy and I, I trust, shall never twin. Subject(s): Contentment; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess); Women Elizabeth, Martha 32 poems available by this author AMBIGUOUS LOVE POEM First Line: How sad I was to give up on you Last Line: Wiped across my forehead, cool %like a blessing AMBIGUOUS LOVE POEM First Line: What joy %to love as an infant loves Last Line: How alone I am. No one else %consoles me like that APRIL HAIL First Line: The storm opens with percussion Last Line: Making pleasure last AS THE MIGRAINE TURNS First Line: The coffee, like the night, is dark Last Line: As if I were not gone but in another room BARTON CREEK, ALONE First Line: When I reached in Last Line: That the doorway takes them unaware %and one falls in BASICS OF THE DANCE First Line: I wear my hair up, I wear it down Last Line: Or we could talk about it now, if you like BELOVED First Line: I want this word Last Line: A word with the sound of beloved ELBOW NOTES First Line: Twin bends: knee cousins Last Line: Fray my sleeve. Hook my love's arm. Hold on ENDING First Line: Even before touching we were like lovers of long custom Last Line: Dust, stirred and exhausted, glittering as it spun down FACE FROM THE PAST First Line: I wanted my face to call out across the ages Last Line: If that is the cost of love FAITHDANCING First Line: The late sun glances off the mountain Last Line: How my arms are open GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS First Line: Missoula, february, longing for a kiss Last Line: Tender on my lips LES FLEURS DU MAL First Line: Where is the man in the white car Last Line: And so he loves me MAN SENSES THE PRESENCE OF AN APPROACHING STORM First Line: The glamor of spring is undercut by wind Last Line: Takes a breath %before the next begins MANON CONSIDERS LEAVING HER LOVER First Line: The cloud-surf rolls slow-motion down to the coast MANON CONSIDERS WHEN TO LEAVE HER LOVER First Line: When I've travelled your face Last Line: I would let you go MANON REASSURES HER LOVER First Line: When I cannot sleep, I stroke you Last Line: Golden in the faint light from the window MANON REMEMBERS WHAT SHE FIRST NOTICED ABOUT HER LOVER First Line: The trick Last Line: How old you are, and noticed %with real fear %that it didn't matter MANON WONDERS ABOUT HER LOVER AFTER MEETING ONE OF HIS... First Line: This woman like dry ice, the smoking cole Last Line: Like a child filling the gap in his teeth %with his tongue, for anew edge to cut through? ODE TO KNEES First Line: There are no bad knees, though they may be sneaky OLD LETTER TO THE FUTURE First Line: Day breaks, but night bends Last Line: How much longer now OLD NEW YEAR'[S First Line: Snow glittered like sugar in a glass jar Last Line: I knew I would suffer for it RECOGNITION First Line: There are two faces I look for in a man Last Line: It lends itself more easily %to sorrow SAFE LOVE First Line: Never has anyone loved my skin Last Line: I chewed my nails down raw SCISSORS, PAPER, STONE First Line: There is love I remember Last Line: To bite the soft red hearts %of strawberries SECULAR HARASSMENT First Line: It started at puberty with kay, bigboned SEEING THE ELEPHANT First Line: A scruffy summer country fair Last Line: Riding over the hill, and down %and on, and on SHE TEACHES HIM TO REACH OUT First Line: Give me your hand. Place it on my bare breast Last Line: We balance gain and loss - the feel of choice SPRING STORIES First Line: Fire ants pounded highways from grass to house Last Line: Like a baby waiting to be changed SUNDAY LUNCH IN PONDER, TEXAS First Line: All the waitresses who knew us had gone Last Line: I placed my fingertips lightly on his thigh %for the ride home Subject(s): Lunch; Relationships WINTER THAW -- MISSOULA, MONTANA First Line: The sun threatens a snowman Last Line: And walk my shadow further on YOU COULD SEE IT IN MISSOULA First Line: The man walking his fish in the clark fork Last Line: Forget--next time I get to be the fish Ellett, Elizabeth Lummis Fries Alternate Author Name(s): Ellet, Elizabth F. 12 poems available by this author ABIDE WITH US' First Line: Abide with us; the evening hour draws on LIKE SOUTHERN BIRDS Poem Text First Line: Like southern birds, whose wings of light Last Line: Lights, while it spurns, the world below. Subject(s): Birds LINES Poem Text First Line: Look not upon the past - the mournful past Last Line: For thee the shame and sorrow of the past. O'ER THE FAR MOUNTAIN PEAK ON HIGH SODUS BAY Poem Text First Line: I bless thee - native shore! Last Line: Its childhood with the music of thy waves Subject(s): Sodus Bay, Lake Ontario SONNET Poem Text First Line: Shepherd, with meek brow wreathed with blossoms sweet Last Line: To mingle with thy flock, and ever follow thee. SONNET Poem Text First Line: O weary heart, there is a rest for thee! Last Line: "come unto me, and I will give you rest." SUSQUEHANNA Poem Text First Line: Softly the blended light of evening rests Last Line: To mark the wrecks of time, and read their doom. Subject(s): Susquehanna (river) THE CLOUD WHERE SUNBEAMS SOFT REPOSE THE DELAWARE WATER-GAP Poem Text First Line: Our western land can boast no lovelier spot Last Line: Fertility renewed and fresh delights. Subject(s): Delaware (river) THE DYING GIRL'S MESSAGE Poem Text First Line: The struggle's o'er; the coward fear is past Last Line: On this my long, and sad, and last farewell! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE WAVES THAT ON THE SPARKLING SAND Emerson, Elizabeth H. 1 poems available by this author POPLARS Poem Text First Line: Poplars in winter wear dresses of silver Last Line: Pouring a river of gold into the sea. Subject(s): Poplar Trees Epstein, Mary-elizabeth 1 poems available by this author RETIRED First Line: Two old ghosts Everett, Elizabeth Abbey 1 poems available by this author FRIENDSHIP TOWN Poem Text First Line: In the meadows near life's highway Last Line: Glow the lights of friendship town. Subject(s): Friendship Fahnstock, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author PRAYER FOR STRENGTH First Line: Make thou me strong, o lord! Farrell, Elizabeth 4 poems available by this author AMARYLLIS First Line: Blood red skin %is stretched open Last Line: The same square %of light FULL TILT First Line: There is something about the kid on the roof TAKING HOLD First Line: On my knees in the garden I want to be sure WALLS First Line: When the walls were new, smooth blueboard Fell, Mary Elizabeth 14 poems available by this author CONFESSIONAL First Line: In the dim nave of the saturday church Last Line: Worth what he saved me from, not even %my sins original IN COAL First Line: The sun gets up and lords it Last Line: The moon in his mouth Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers NOT WORKING First Line: A man of your experience' they say Last Line: As the beer in this glass Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers OUT-OF-LUCK, MASSACHUSETTS First Line: The town that couldn't be licked Last Line: Roads run east, west, anywhere %better than here Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers PICKET LINE IN AUTUMN First Line: The face getting brown Last Line: You keep on walking long enough Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers PRAYER IN BAD WEATHER First Line: O giver of flies Last Line: Fungal apparition %secret bud %bless me SLUGS First Line: Someone described them as snails Last Line: Ribbons of their trails are everywhere TRIANGLE FIRE: AMONG THE DEAD First Line: First a lace of smoke Last Line: Awake among the dead Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers TRIANGLE FIRE: ASCH BUILDING First Line: In a window Last Line: A disposition of her life Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers TRIANGLE FIRE: CORTEGE First Line: A cold rain comforts the sky Last Line: She travels before me into the dark Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers TRIANGLE FIRE: HAVDALLAH First Line: This is the great divide Last Line: Strike for the rest Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers TRIANGLE FIRE: INDUSTRIALIST'S DREAM First Line: This one's %dependable won't Last Line: And you don't hear %her complaining Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers TRIANGLE FIRE: PERSONAL EFFECTS First Line: One lady's %handbag, containing Last Line: One portion of limb and hair %of human being Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers TRIANGLE FIRE: THE WITNESS First Line: Woman, I might have watched you Last Line: Of ashes in my own Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers Ferguson, Elizabeth Graeme 1 poems available by this author COUNTRY PARSON First Line: How happy is the country parson's lot! Fergusson, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author HEART First Line: They paced the moor, 'twas cold and wild Fiorite, Elizabeth 2 poems available by this author EPIPHANY First Line: In the dark before dawn Last Line: In just such chance epiphanies, %you touch me MY EYES SPEAK TO ME First Line: It's not fair, you know, for us to take all the blame Last Line: Isn't that enough for you? Fitzroy, Caroline Blanche Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author AULD ROBIN GRAY First Line: When the sheep are in the fauld, and the kye at hame Last Line: For auld robin gray, he is kind unto me Flanders, Isadore Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author IN KEW GARDENS First Line: Whom do you thin I saw in kew Fleisher, Elizabeth Hirst 1 poems available by this author THE LOVER TO HIS LUTE Poem Text First Line: I would make a song for my beloved Last Line: That she may know how grave a thing my love is, and be glad. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Wellesley College; Songs Fleming, Elizabeth Poate 1 poems available by this author MOTHERHOOD Poem Text First Line: How still the house is! Last Line: Lord jesus, heal my little boy! Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Sickness; Childhood; Illness Fleming, Elizabeth+(1) 17 poems available by this author BALLOON SELLER First Line: I'd like to peddle toy balloons CHAIN OF PRINCES STREET First Line: If I were queen of all the land FIRES First Line: The kitchen fire that wakes so soon HEDGEHOG AND HIS COAT First Line: The owls have feathers lined with down Subject(s): Hedgehogs HURDY-GURDY MAN First Line: There's lots of things I'd like to be IF I WERE A PIG Subject(s): Pigs IN THE MIRROR OLD MOTHER FROST First Line: The woodcutter's prettiest daughter was lost Last Line: She glistened with pitch from her head to the ground OLD MRS. JARVIS PATCHWORK QUILT First Line: She mixes blue and mauve and green Subject(s): Quilts PEARKIN AND APPLEKIN First Line: In the leafy branches spin SECRET First Line: Jenny wren's got a house SOFT WATER First Line: The good king's daughter Last Line: And made him the prince's whipping-boy SPOON First Line: Before I eat my pudding TOADSTOOLS First Line: It's not a bit windy Subject(s): Mushrooms WHO'S IN? First Line: The door is shut fast %and everyone's out Last Line: Why, everyone's in! Subject(s): Houses WINDOW CLEANER Flynn, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author AFTER GRAVE DELIBERATION ... First Line: When I go %it should be by cremation Last Line: Wishing me luck in placing myself %elsewhere Fodaski, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author FLOOD WATCHING First Line: It comes like this Last Line: They can't cease/they cease Follin-james, Elizabeth 2 poems available by this author COMING OF AGE First Line: Ochre and sage daubed CROSSINGS First Line: We listened to satchmo, drove %on back roads to lubbock Follin-jones, Elizabeth 2 poems available by this author BOUNTY First Line: In this afternoon sun, all things Last Line: Carton, the weight of wisteria %on a neighbor's fence IN THE SINGULAR First Line: Edward believes there is no life %beyond us in the universe Last Line: That someday the sun will grow cold Folsom, Elizabeth K. 1 poems available by this author IN WEST YARMOUTH First Line: I walked a little way %one day Subject(s): Cape Cod Foote, Elizabeth Mathews 1 poems available by this author DUALITY Poem Text First Line: I found myself in old and well-known places Last Line: The stranger that was I. Subject(s): Self Ford, Elizabeth 2 poems available by this author NEW YORKER COVER First Line: Five calendar ducks padding in an arc Last Line: And underneath here we are: skin, %web, shell, and bits of broken glass SMALL ALMANAC FOR YOUNG WIDOW First Line: The terrapins rustling through dry leaves Last Line: With hair od deer and print of horse's hooves %even though by then his bones are white Ford, Mary Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author WEEKEND ANGELS First Line: On sunny saturdays, the liquor park Last Line: And heimie's gospels kindly smooth their beds Forman, Elizabeth Chandler 1 poems available by this author THREE LADS First Line: Down the road rides a german lad Last Line: For I'm off to the war and away Subject(s): Women; World War I Foulke, Elizabeth E. 1 poems available by this author CONTRADICTION Poem Text First Line: Today the wind toys with the trees Last Line: Are you the wind, shall I believe? Subject(s): Wind Frear, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author ALONE Poem Text First Line: Over the trackless sea, from dawn to dawn Last Line: Fearlessly toward the sunset we shall sail away -- alone. Subject(s): Sea Voyages; Solitude; Loneliness Friend, Elizabeth Pierson 1 poems available by this author STEAM REASSURES HIM First Line: My husband is watching me iron Last Line: And he asks, why aren't you painting? Frost, Elizabeth Hollister 7 poems available by this author BLOWN LEAVES First Line: It is winter in your tool-house DUST First Line: I know a lady (you know a lady) HAD YOU BEEN OLD Subject(s): Death SKATING First Line: 1935, before the war, he holds her hand Last Line: And I leave him %lost in that fragile circle, %the country where he was born SPRING First Line: Spring knocked thrice upon the door TIME First Line: Round the picnic fire TRYST First Line: I look down Fullerton, Mary Elizabeth 12 poems available by this author ADVENTURE First Line: I heard a hallo in thee wood COMET First Line: The comet that my father saw DREAM First Line: Unwound the long evolvement HEART'S NOT YET A NEIGHBOR INDEPENDENCE First Line: I resent great instruments LEARNING First Line: The thing one learns too much LOVERS First Line: To be unloved brings sweet relief PASSIVITY First Line: Call not on comfort lest she come Subject(s): Passivity SELECTOR'S WIFE First Line: The quick compunction cannot serve SKULL First Line: O bowl that held the hot imprisoned fire UNIT First Line: Had life remained one whole WAR First Line: The vast occasion of our time Subject(s): War Garbutt, Elizabeth 2 poems available by this author A BITTER LOSS AND BARREN GAIN Poem Text First Line: Six hundred years have passed since bacon taught Last Line: Increased the sum of human misery. MIRAGE - THE PASSING WEST Poem Text First Line: Tall poplars shiver in the summer heat Last Line: And poplar trees are shivering in the heat. Subject(s): Mirages; West (u.s.) - Exploration Gardey, Elizabeth Johanna 2 poems available by this author FAULTS Poem Text First Line: Have we a friend and faults has he? Last Line: There will be many friends for you and me. Subject(s): Gossip GOSSIP Poem Text First Line: Gossip is a cruel thing Last Line: And a great deal of gladness we will find here. Subject(s): Gossip Gargano, Elizabeth 6 poems available by this author GIRL'S HOME JOURNAL First Line: Monday. School closed for sickness RED CLAY: 1. First Line: Sister, the whole town calls me Last Line: Her toes. She's not lonely. %she's not waiting RED CLAY: 2. First Line: Sister, your father's got a new wife Last Line: Blurred and dazzling. %there's too much sunlight RED CLAY: 3. First Line: Even in this depression, my father says Last Line: Tomorrow. Now sister, read me %the next name on that damn list RED CLAY: 4. First Line: The woman I call mother pins me Last Line: I make a wish. Not sister %anymore, but emily RED CLAY: 5. First Line: Downstairs, my grandmother's pans Last Line: The eyelids close. I keep reading %though I know how the story ends Garrett, Elizabeth 110 poems available by this author AGAINST THE WORLD'S GOING First Line: It is more than the sun's going or the gold Last Line: Or hands on a grain of wheat, %a crumbling husk, %inexorablyrubbing AIRBORNE First Line: Upupup! The light percussive Last Line: On my shore, you did weigh more AIRLIFT First Line: She's playing aeroplanes Last Line: For the descent, the earth in eclipse ALLIANCE FRANCAISE First Line: You wrestle with your tongue Last Line: Their lingua franca pollen on your sleeve ANATOMY OF DEPARTURE First Line: As the two ripe halves Last Line: Bone by bone, dismantling AND THE WORLD IN A BOWL OF PORRIDGE First Line: The barbed hand stops punishing Last Line: In another world, on the rim of a spoon, %the snail retracts its golden horn BEGGAR-POETS First Line: Speechless, artless, toothless Last Line: Beneath the bounty of a gaunt %sky; listening to the wind %hollow my cupped hand BENEDICTION First Line: What was it stooped to bless Last Line: As if for my emptiness- %his unseen, upturned face? BY ALL MEANS TELL THE TRUTH First Line: That nothing could take form from metaphor Last Line: I am the thing itself, not what I seem.' CALLING First Line: It was a day like this when first my unborn breath Last Line: Nor would it heed the cupped hand calling CHANT DE LA RUE DES ROSIERS First Line: I am learning Last Line: Saying: sing, sing, %my squeaky hinge. %and I will CHORUS LINE First Line: Somewhere in amongst the lace Last Line: Crisp as a trellis of ice- %flames the impossible rose CONJURINGS First Line: If ever I was your wish- Last Line: Then, and only then, %remember this %if ever I was your wish CONTRARY MOTION First Line: Spreadeagled for sleep, godlike, on your back Last Line: From the future, is a far cry COSMOS AND MIMOSA First Line: Just when you've spent your last obol Last Line: Of mimosa. Follow her, for she has far to go COWLED TRAVELLER First Line: Connoisseur of the medlar Last Line: Sou'westered, o my capuchin- %what schemes are you hatching? DARK VESSEL First Line: A woman stands at the stairs' foot Last Line: And starboard lights of some dark vessel DEAD-HEADING First Line: A rose, crimson Last Line: Too ripe, too late, the hour %opens on us like a wound %thispulse of love, its flower DEGAS' ECOLIERE First Line: It is not every day, on meeting Last Line: Intensely private hanging-on to %childhood, but sought it nonetheless DOUBLE First Line: Darling - I am not what I appear Last Line: I am my mother's daughter. %cover my face with my hands, %myhands with water EBB TIDE First Line: If ever known, I have forgotten now Last Line: Once, when the slack tide stiffened to possess %me, I rose to inherit the land ENVOI (1) First Line: These things, among the many Last Line: Let them lie there %as long as love allows ENVOI (2) First Line: Go, little bud of flame Last Line: Beats beneath this breast ENVOI (3) First Line: Go, little huddle of noise, with your a to z Last Line: Irrefutable, and never to let it go EPITHALAMIUM First Line: Ask not, this night, how we shall love Last Line: Day our respondent, and each parting as the bride %and groom, and hour before their marriage EVE SHARING First Line: That time, the apple went clean in half Last Line: Miraculous %as a child's milk tooth, shed once %and never to be had again FATA MORGANA First Line: Guess who?-the sudden cool Last Line: Like a sleeping lover, %nightly with whom death lies FIELD WITH ONE POPPY First Line: For my child's sake I have tried to close Last Line: Te susurration of the wild grass FONS ET ORIGO First Line: This is the first flung Last Line: It is stalk, and cup, and acorn FOXGLOVE First Line: Who taught the cunning little vixen Last Line: Nonchalant, she slips a glove %on either slender paw, as if %murder were mere elegance of love FUNDAMENTAL First Line: In the first there was the vast Last Line: For the woman that is your mother GIFT First Line: What riches squandered while it barters Last Line: Leaving the feast untouched GONE First Line: And this is the brat Last Line: Of the blackbird's song on the breeze HAND UPON HAND First Line: Hand stole from hand unlawful handful Last Line: Hand fondles hand in lustful hand-thrall %though hand for free hand would unhand all HISTORY GOES TO WORK First Line: The soft-boiled egg is emptied Last Line: And will not put its shell back on, %and calmly waits for more IMAGO First Line: When I returned Last Line: With the listening of it IMPOSTOR First Line: Don't think that I don't know your games Last Line: Only the heart %with its four black holes-see? %there are norules. Now hand me that key Subject(s): Impostors And Imposture IMPROPRIATRIX First Line: Fling it out! Last Line: Th vast white challenge %of her sheet IN ABSENTIA First Line: It is like this: Last Line: I get no further %than the ground on which you stood. %the slipper wants a foot IN SAECULA SAECULORUM First Line: In the fullness off fruitfall Last Line: The day it sung its last? INTERREGNUM First Line: This morning earth tilts to a new angle Last Line: Its ripeness, and its reason INVERTED FUGUE First Line: Out of the blue a child said: 'yellow Last Line: The poem, the double helix of your being IT IS THE WARP OF ME' First Line: It is the warp of me Last Line: No door will close %but through and through love blows JOURNEYMAN First Line: A wheel. A way Last Line: Heaving his heart up hill LA MADDALENA First Line: History has left her whole Last Line: Is testament of woman: more whole %than any virgin, bearing flesh as soul LOST PROPERTY First Line: Kneel, and let us pray for the departed Last Line: But none so fittingly expressed %as by my own hand cupped around my breast LOVE'S PARALLEL First Line: Since, in the loop of time this will return Last Line: The heart's sheer gradient, encircled MEDIANT First Line: Open %close Last Line: Apart - two noughts, one link METEOROLOGY First Line: Damn these predictable forecasts- Last Line: Breathe on my coal, my love, for this %is our hearth, our single heart, faith's %orison, and one tru MIMESES First Line: Draged, drenched, from sleep, by horror Last Line: It wept milk straight from my chilled heart MIRROR WRITING First Line: #name? Last Line: Of infinity with casua foot or finger, %while they dream of mortal limits MISER First Line: Over the bed's cliff my legs dangle Last Line: To my memory, love's ballast MORTAL First Line: Out of the blueblack Last Line: Today. A moving, into the light MOTHER, BABY, LOVER First Line: When in the darkness Last Line: In gratitude, and less %than ignorance of what they miss MOULES A LA MARINIERE First Line: We scoured the secret places of the creek Last Line: Like sea's after-sting on the tongue. Still lingers %a trace of guilt. I wash my salty fingers NIGHT PASSAGE First Line: Between the differing colour of our skins Last Line: Like gulliver, to a strange land %and a stranger's sun-dark hand NILAK First Line: The sky began as a blue bowl scooped Last Line: A sea where crests of lilac break %to foam; and in their leaves, the soft %lallation of the waves O, FAIR NEW MEXICO First Line: Under a sky of azure OAK BRIDE First Line: Let earth be my pillow, and the bridal Last Line: The first drops like acorns falling ON FIRST READING DANTE'S RIME PETROSE First Line: What infidelity was it that stole Last Line: To haunt the midnight margins of this sheet ONE DAY YOU'LL ASK WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DIE Last Line: On the hunched fear that let the darkness in PARIS MATINS First Line: Plain song. This one note drawn Last Line: Were like the apples of hesperides PERPETUUM MOBILE First Line: What made the mother Last Line: Lente currite %noctis equi PHRYGIAN MODE First Line: They will say we stole it; like the sweet Last Line: Steals music from the bone's flute PONT AU CHANGE: TWO VIEWS First Line: Under the bridge or over Last Line: And silver-consider this a fair %exchange, but hardly the same river PRINTS First Line: How deep is it with you? Snowfall Last Line: Which is a wisdom - and an art PSEUDO-NARCISSUS First Line: I said: the reflection of narcissus Last Line: Shatter the sweet reflection. %I am seduced utterly %by my own seduction REPRIEVE First Line: I was a diver then Last Line: Of the water stands unbroken RIBES RUBRUM First Line: Light's rosary, blood-bright spheres Last Line: To the sun's dark crucible RIDDLE First Line: I am the difficult silk that slides from your grasp Last Line: I am relinquishment and eternal theft, %I am a gesture of greeting and farewell Subject(s): Riddles; Waves RUMAUCOURT: 1. ANDREE First Line: Home-maker, child-bearer, wife Last Line: The gap %is framed, fixed, in white and black RUMAUCOURT: 1. JOSIANNA First Line: After-dinner faces cloud the kitchen Last Line: Arrests its image, holds the captor hostage RUMAUCOURT: 1. ROBERT First Line: Here is a man who shares my father's blood Last Line: Feels her pull and loves the way she winds him %round her little finger. Does he sense %his wife beh RUMAUCOURT: 1. RUMAUCOURT, 1937 First Line: His window opened onto monochrome Last Line: Or did it ever chime? And had night fallen %early there-or did the camera lie? RUMAUCOURT: 1. SONS. LES SONS. LES SENS First Line: Guillaume, yves, arsene. Roll the strange Last Line: Recall again %my cousins, much removed: guillaume, yves, arsene RUMAUCOURT: 1. THE GO-BETWEEN First Line: Close the book and fold them into dark Last Line: Close your eyes; shrink down behind my lens. %now show me where day begins, night ends RUMAUCOURT: 2. FIRST LIGHT First Line: When first we woke in that place, we may have sensed Last Line: The importunate tug of the blood, our being here %waking to rumaucourt RUMAUCOURT: 2. SECOND LIGHT First Line: In sleep, voiceless, calling out for water Last Line: The shameful thing away. I woke, %crying out for water RUMAUCOURT: 2. THE KITCHEN First Line: Soft shift of air in milky somnolence Last Line: Bundled here, neat, far from the undone %flesh, its careful knot RUMAUCOURT: 2. THE WINDOW First Line: Small rain; the slow crow drawl Last Line: The same six hens fretting the dumb %palimpsest of earth RUMAUCOURT: 2. THRESHOLDS First Line: Loosed in the yard like gangaboon hens, to grub Last Line: Supper lay stonecold in andree's place %beside the fire, nor why her dumb face %cried tears down RUMAUCOURT: 3. THE BETRAYAL First Line: Turning another page, I felt time leap Last Line: For in the utter %silence of this frame, her fingers flutter%still: l'adieu supreme des mouchoirs RUMAUCOURT: 3. THE RETURN First Line: A child's geography. If nothing moved Last Line: The spacious holdings %of the head; the heart's soft ruck RUMAUCOURT: CLOSE-UP First Line: An accident of memory reversed Last Line: Of a heart, pulsing beneath my thumb RUSSIAN DOLLY First Line: Down decades, centripetal, like a russian dolly Last Line: From girdled shores, turn silently, and turn. %around my waist the spikeless roses twine SIREN SONG First Line: This is the season of shipwreck; Last Line: Softly in her sleep, sings that serene %shore, where only hearts can break SMALL GREY BIRD First Line: Forgetting is the small grey bird Last Line: The heart - its light abandoned nest SMALL HOLDINGS First Line: An acre of hope, untilled, a fallow ground Last Line: Hollow of loss, or nest, for the lark to borrow SONG First Line: He recalled for her the lost thread Last Line: Eggs in the wren's nest cooling SONG WITHOUT WORDS First Line: How can we hear with our eyes? Last Line: Instruments of his palette, %light from a plucked string SPINDLE SIDE First Line: The sun is spinning strands of spider-light Last Line: You own me now, come taste the sweets %of fate: the shears, the rule, the thread SPINSTER First Line: This day beggars description Last Line: That, from the outside in, %I shall consider the art of spinning Subject(s): Spinning SPLIT WILLOW AT BATHFORD First Line: Alexis, that your birth Last Line: Of root and soul SUSPENDED VERDICT First Line: If cardiologists lack skill Last Line: What caused this thing to break %its metre, making %simple heaven, pure hell? TER BORCH TO HIS STUDENTS First Line: This is not a matchbox trick: Last Line: As the stars in their ecliptic, simple %as a child's hands round an apple TRANSPOSITION First Line: It is clear now, in the occlusion of your eyes' Last Line: Back to my mouth, where no reflection is TRIPTYCH First Line: First frost. The cumulus of breath Last Line: Of the hum note outliving the swung bell TWO FLORAS First Line: What if these two should meet Last Line: And the coloured shadow it casts TYRANNY OF CHOICE First Line: Pick a card, any card Last Line: Whichever way you turn her TYRANNY OF THE SPECTRUM First Line: What shall we make Last Line: Of scissors, shatter rainbows, %make snow paradisiac UNGUENTARIUM First Line: That night, all night, he lay on his back Last Line: Intact, like some miraculous fossil UNOFFICIAL LEAVE First Line: Distracted for a moment in a grove Last Line: At my use, abandoned glove VILLANELLE First Line: Can you be jealous of the sun Last Line: Can you be jealous of the sun, %the nut-brown body of my sin? VISTA First Line: Standing, with your back turned, taut at work Last Line: Of brilliant sound, my stolen breath in your hand WATER CARRIERS First Line: It was a tunnel of rutted mud and thirst Last Line: Was like a crowning WEDDING BREAKFAST First Line: A table in the sunlight; Last Line: Tasting first fruits of loss; the slow %ripening of cherries, blood-bright WHEAT INTO DARNEL First Line: For darnel: see walloon Last Line: Your hand upon mine, sowing %our self's own signature WINGED First Line: I had a page and Last Line: To recall me by WINTER SOLSTICE First Line: See- Last Line: The still, dark clots of berries, black %in the moving silence, where a thin light shook WOMANHOOD First Line: It was the colour of incense Last Line: Where she turned them free %with the taste of obol %where her name should be Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn 1 poems available by this author IN CRAWFORD First Line: And now I come to the love affair Subject(s): Love Gayle, Elizabeth 6 poems available by this author BOG POEM First Line: Last night I gave birth to a bog DERRICK MAN First Line: At midnight, in water deeper than sky Last Line: No stop signs, no trees, no streetlights. No ceiling OFFSHORE FOG: DAY TWELVE First Line: Homicidal fog has us trapped here Last Line: So I shout look away with a voice that floats up %from the bottom, forget him, look away ONE FRIDAY AFTERNOON IN THE FALL First Line: Lucy and I drive toward october michigan where SKY MUSIC First Line: The first cold front has passed over our town Last Line: And the music swandiving off the leaves THAT SPARK OF LIFE First Line: If you only knew, monster, how many times I've needed Gayle, Mary Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author SEATED ON HER CEDAR CHEST, MISS LIZZY FACES ADOLESCENCE First Line: This rocking displays my can-cans and unstiffens my sash Gies, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author SOMETIMES I LIVE 800 MILES AWAY Gilliam, Elizabeth M. 1 poems available by this author MEDITATION First Line: Time is Gilliland, Elizabeth Cox 4 poems available by this author HANDMADE BOOK First Line: If colors of day are shaped by sun Last Line: Deckle pages close %and are tied with straw Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women PREAMBLE First Line: Before I can paint I must think Last Line: That I begin to make my art Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women THE WHIPPOORWILL'S SONG Poem Text First Line: Whippoorwill is calling Last Line: Twill be home to me. Subject(s): Birds; Whipporwills WORKING IN THE GARDEN First Line: I crosshatch the shadow of bud Last Line: And dying has been arranged for retreat %from the larger world of cities and cars Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women Gluck, Louise Elizabeth Poet's Biography 350 poems available by this author #################################################################################################### First Line: Is it winter again, is it cold again Last Line: The vines, were they harvested? #################################################################################################### First Line: Summer after summer has ended Last Line: I won't believe you #################################################################################################### First Line: Snow had fallen. I remember Last Line: More than you have harmed me, %my beloved life #################################################################################################### First Line: The light has changed Last Line: Still believing in something #################################################################################################### First Line: It is true there is not enough beauty in the world Last Line: The poem said, %in the dark tunnel #################################################################################################### First Line: The brightness of the day becomes Last Line: She is beautiful tonight, but when is she not beautiful? 12.6.71 First Line: You having turned from me Last Line: Which has not ceased since %began ABISHAG First Line: At god's word david's kinsmen cast Last Line: Believe that of my body Subject(s): Abishag (bible); David (d. 962 B.c.); Women In The Bible ADULT GRIEF First Line: Because you were foolish enough to love one place ALL HALLOWS First Line: Even now this landscape is assembling Last Line: And the soul creeps out of the tree AMAZONS First Line: End of summer: the spruces put out a few green shoots Last Line: We used soft chalk, the disappearing medium ANCIENT TEXT First Line: How deeply fortunate my life, my every prayer %heard by the angels Last Line: How charged and meaningful the nights' continuous silence and opacity ANIMALS First Line: My sister and I reached Last Line: One thing that could %feed her sister ANNIVERSARY First Line: I said you could snuggle. That doesn't mean Last Line: Because there's a lot more where those feet come from APHRODITE First Line: A woman exposed as rock Last Line: The fault in the rock APPEARANCES First Line: When we were children, my parents had our portraits painted Last Line: If you want me to be a man, I'll be a man APPLE TREES First Line: Your son presses against me Last Line: The dead fields, women rooted to the river APRIL First Line: You have no place in this garden Last Line: Between you, among all your kind, for me %to know you, a deep blue %marks the wild scilla, white %th ARCHIPELAGO First Line: The tenth year we came upon immense sunlight, a relief Last Line: Shrieks in its extremity AUBADE First Line: Today above the gull's call Last Line: Not sorted for departure AUBADE First Line: The world was very large. Then Last Line: And I didn't know what the riches were made of AUBADE First Line: There was one summer %that returned many times over Last Line: There was one dawn %I grew old watching AUGUST First Line: My sister painted her nails fuchsia Last Line: The more fiercely we believed AUTUMNAL First Line: Public sorrow, the acquired Last Line: The spear useless beside her BALCONY First Line: It was a night like this, at the end of summer Last Line: The only thing left of that night, of the hours in that room BASKETS First Line: It is a good thing BIRTHDAY First Line: Every year, on her birthday, my mother got twelve roses Last Line: He hates deception: she doesn't want him making %signs of affection when he can't feel BRENNENDE LIEBE First Line: Dearest love: the roses are in bloom again Last Line: Which I find so beautiful BRIDAL PIECE First Line: Our honeymoon %he planted us by Last Line: End. Rockaway. He reaches for me in his sleep BROODING LIKENESS First Line: I was born in the month of the bull BROWN CIRCLE First Line: My mother wants to know Last Line: Now that I'm helpless %to spare my son BUTTERFLY First Line: Look, a butterfly. Did you make a wish Last Line: It doesn't count CANA First Line: What can I tell you that you don't know Last Line: Now that the yellow torches have become %green branches CELESTIAL MUSIC First Line: I have a friend who still believes in heaven Last Line: The love of form is a love of endings Subject(s): Faith CELESTIAL MUSIC Poem Text First Line: I have a friend who still believes in heaven Subject(s): Faith; Belief; Creed CELL First Line: It's always there. My back's Last Line: Hump mount, tranquil in darkness CEREMONY First Line: I stopped liking artichokes when I stopped eating Last Line: Make them for yourself CHICAGO TRAIN First Line: Across from me the whole ride Last Line: I saw her pulsing crotch...The lice rooted in that baby's hair CHILD CRYING OUT First Line: You're asleep now Last Line: If it speaks at all %it speaks in dreams CHILDREN COMING HOME FROM SCHOOL First Line: The year I started school, my sister couldn't walk long Last Line: Since, in that sense, I had no home any longer CHILDREN COMING HOME FROM SCHOOL: 1 First Line: If you live in a city, it's different: someone has to meet Last Line: If she's old enough to walk this way, she's old enough %to hold her own violin CHILDREN COMING HOME FROM SCHOOL: 2 First Line: My son accuses me Last Line: First steadily down, then sideways CHILDREN COMING HOME FROM SCHOOL: 3 First Line: One thing you learn, growing up with my sister Last Line: It's not a bad life. Of course, she has those gifts, %time and intelligence CIRCE'S GRIEF First Line: In the end, I made myself Last Line: I am in your life forever CIRCE'S POWER First Line: I never turned anyone into a pig Last Line: I could hold you prisoner CIRCE'S TORMENT First Line: I regret bitterly Last Line: If I cannot have you CIVILIZATION First Line: It came to us very late Last Line: Though it could never be mastered CLEAR MORNING First Line: I've watched you long enough Last Line: Because you think it is your right %to dispute my meaning: %I am prepared now to force %clarity upon CLOVER First Line: What is dispersed Last Line: I hear two voices speaking, %one your spirit, one %the acts of your hands CONDO First Line: I lived in a tree. The dream specified Last Line: Against the ground? CONFESSION First Line: To say I'm without fear Last Line: In the end, they have %no emotion but envy COPPER BEECH First Line: Why is the earth angry at heaven? Last Line: Only in gold and silver COTTONMOUTH COUNTRY First Line: Fish bones walked the waves off hatteras Last Line: I know. I also left a skin there COUSINS First Line: My son's very graceful; he has perfect balance Last Line: She may as well be first; she's already alone CRIPPLE IN THE SUBWAY First Line: For awhile I thought had gotten Last Line: Boots flashing on and on, all that easy kidskin DAISIES First Line: Go ahead: say what you're thinking. The garden Last Line: Hearing this morning: think twice %before you tell anyone what was said in this field %and by whom Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening DAY WITHOUT NIGHT First Line: The image %of truth is fire: it mounts Last Line: Of moonlight on the dark water DECADE First Line: What joy touches %the solace of ritual? A void Last Line: And the life %filling again. And finally %a place %found for everything DEDICATION TO HUNGER: 1. FROM THE SUBURBS First Line: They cross the yard Last Line: She is a child; he could touch her %if he wanted to DEDICATION TO HUNGER: 2. GRANDMOTHER First Line: Often I would stand at the window Last Line: His hand over her mouth DEDICATION TO HUNGER: 3. EROS First Line: To be male, always Last Line: Because the bond %cannot be proven DEDICATION TO HUNGER: 4. THE DEVIATION First Line: It begins quietly Last Line: Of which death is the mere by-product Subject(s): Eating Disorders; Women DEDICATION TO HUNGER: 4. THE DEVIATION Poem Text First Line: It begins quietly Subject(s): Eating Disorders; Women DEDICATION TO HUNGER: 5. SACRED OBJECTS First Line: Today in the field I saw Last Line: For whose deed %there is no parallel in the natural world DEPARTURE First Line: My father is standing on a railroad platform Last Line: The train is waiting with its breath of ashes Subject(s): Farewell; Fathers; Railroads DEPARTURE First Line: The night isn't dark; the world is dark Last Line: Unless I see you grieve over me DESCENDING FIGURE: 1. THE WANDERER First Line: At twilight I went into the street Last Line: Though I craved its protection DESCENDING FIGURE: 2. THE SICK CHILD First Line: A small child %is ill, has wakened Last Line: Paint from their faces DESCENDING FIGURE: 3. FOR MY SISTER First Line: Far away my sister is moving in her crib Last Line: Her head covered with black feathers DESTINATION First Line: We had only a few days, but they were very long Last Line: I could live almost completely in imagination DOORWAY First Line: I wanted to stay as I was Last Line: Prior to flowering, the epoch of mastery %before the appearance of the gift, %before possession DREAM First Line: I had the wierdest dream. I dreamed we were married again Last Line: Because it was a dream DREAM OF LUST First Line: After one of those nights, a day Last Line: It is still not worth %losing the world DREAM OF MOURNING First Line: I sleep so you will be alive Last Line: And thought it would hold me DROWNED CHILDREN First Line: You see, they have no judgment Last Line: Come home, come home, %lost in the waters, blue and permanent EARLY DARKNESS First Line: How can you say Last Line: But because you were born, %because you required life %separate from me EARLY DECEMBER IN CROTON-ON-HUDSON First Line: Spiked sun. The hudson's Last Line: Down by a storm stood, limbs bared %I want you EASTER SEASON First Line: There is almost no sound...Only the redundant stir Last Line: Of the bud descend. The rest is risen EDGE First Line: Time and again, time and again I tie EGG First Line: Everything went in the car Last Line: The pieces of the baby ELMS First Line: All day I tried to distinguish Last Line: And have understood %it will make no forms but twisted forms Subject(s): Elm Trees; Grief ELMS First Line: All day I tried to distinguish Subject(s): Elm Trees; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness EMBRACE First Line: She taught him the gods. Was it teaching? He went on Last Line: As all that is wild comes to the surface EMPTY GLASS First Line: I asked for much; I received much Last Line: I have nothing, I am at your mercy END OF SUMMER First Line: After all things occurred to me Last Line: Vacant again, lifeless, covered with snow- %then white light%no longer disguised as matter END OF THE WORLD: 1. TERRA NOVA First Line: A place without associations Last Line: That had followed him here END OF THE WORLD: 2. THE TRIBUTE First Line: In that period of strange calm Last Line: And with them all the odors of summer END OF THE WORLD: 3. THE END OF THE WORLD First Line: It is difficult to describe, coming as it still does Last Line: Who will save one man END OF WINTER First Line: Over the still world, a bird calls Last Line: The one continuous line %that binds us to each other Subject(s): Relationships; Winter EPITHALAMIUM First Line: There were others; their bodies Last Line: Here is my hand that will not harm you EROS First Line: I had drawn my chair to the hotel window, to watch the rain Last Line: And afterward, I took off my wedding ring %that was what I wanted: to be naked EURYDICE First Line: Eurydice went back to hell Last Line: Is another matter EVENING PRAYERS First Line: I believe in sin Last Line: Time to begin lying EXALTED IMAGE First Line: Not one animal, but two Last Line: Exalted figure of the poet, figure of the dreamer EXILE First Line: He did not pretend FABLE First Line: Two women with Last Line: The one who couldn't bear %to divide the mother FABLE First Line: The weather grew mild, the snow melted Last Line: Then the dream ended. The everlasting began FABLE First Line: Then I looked down and saw Last Line: And I said again but the light will give us no peace FANTASY First Line: I'll tell you something: every day Last Line: Not so far as the marriage, the first kiss FIELD FLOWERS First Line: What are you saying? That you want Last Line: Of change. Better than earth? How %would you know, who are neither %here nor there, standing in our FIRE First Line: Had you died when we were together Last Line: Since the dead do not like being alone FIRST MEMORY First Line: Long ago, I was wounded. I lived Last Line: It meant I loved Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters FIRSTBORN First Line: The weeks go by. I shelve them Last Line: On veal, your favorite. I pay with my life FLOWERING PLUM First Line: In spring from the black branches of the flowering plum tree Last Line: Unraveling dark stains in heavier winds, in summer FOR JANE MYERS First Line: Sap rises from the sodden ditch Last Line: Expands to admit its adversary FOR MY MOTHER First Line: It was better when we were Last Line: Gauze flutterings of vegetation Subject(s): Mothers FORMAGGIO First Line: The world Last Line: That would be the self in the present Subject(s): Earth; Rivers FORTRESS First Line: There is nothing now. To learn Last Line: Forms in the human body FROM A JOURNAL First Line: I had a lover once, %I had a lover twice Last Line: Easily three times I loved FROM THE JAPANESE First Line: A cat stirs in the material world Last Line: Lions on the ramparts, the promontory GAME First Line: And yet I've lived like this for years Last Line: And pick her feet until they knocked. Like customs. She'd just wait GARDEN First Line: I couldn't do it again Last Line: An image of departure %and they think %they are free to overlook %this sadness Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening GARDEN First Line: One sound. Then the hiss and whir Last Line: Laid like weights on the table Subject(s): Birth; Death; Fear; Gardens And Gardening; Love GARMENT First Line: My soul dried up Last Line: It was another hope entirely GEMINI First Line: There is a soul in me Last Line: Thicken & descend as snow GIFT First Line: Lord, you may not recognize me Last Line: In love's name, your emissary Subject(s): Animals; Dogs GOLD LILY First Line: As I perceive Last Line: Close enough to hear %your child's terror? Or %are you not my father, %you who raised me? Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters GRANDMOTHER IN THE GARDEN First Line: The grass below the willow Last Line: Summer cottons drift, equivalent to air GRATITUDE First Line: Do not think I am not grateful for your small kindness to me Last Line: Cramped, and the bright sun shining on its tusks GRETEL IN DARKNESS First Line: This is the world we wanted Last Line: That black forest and the fire in earnest Subject(s): Fairy Tales GRETEL IN DARKNESS First Line: This is the world we wanted Subject(s): Fairy Tales HAPPINESS First Line: A man and woman lie on a white bed Last Line: Passes gently over us Subject(s): Love HARVEST First Line: It grieves me to think of you in the past Last Line: This is your punishment: %with one gesture I established you%in time and in paradise HAWK'S SHADOW First Line: Embracing in the road HAWTHORN TREE First Line: Side by side, not Last Line: The cause of your flight, human %passion or rage: for what else %would you let drop %all you have ga HEART'S DESIRE First Line: I want to do two things Last Line: Then maybe the lights will play HEAVEN AND EARTH First Line: Where one finishes, the other begins Last Line: As the fire of the summer sun %truly does stall %being entirely contained by %the burning maples %at HERE ARE MY BLACK CLOTHES First Line: I think now it is better to love no one Last Line: Will not need them in my new life HESITATE TO CALL First Line: Lived to see you throwing %me aside Last Line: Love, you ever want me, don't HORSE First Line: What does the horse give you HYACINTH First Line: Is that an attitude for a flower, to stand ILLUMINATIONS First Line: My son squats in the snow in his blue snowsuit Last Line: Cold and single over the map of language Subject(s): Children INFERNO First Line: Why did you move away? Last Line: Raised to the highest power INLET First Line: Words fail me. The ocean traveling stone Last Line: And only I, shadrach, come back alive and well IPOMOEA First Line: What was my crime in another life Last Line: To mark me as a part %of my master: I am %his cloak's color,my flesh giveth %form to his glory ISLAND First Line: The curtains parted. Light %coming in. Moonlight, then sunlight Last Line: And then the moon fading, the white sails flexing ISLANDER First Line: Sugar I am calling you. Not Last Line: I watch your hands pulling at the grapes ITHACA First Line: The beloved doesn't Last Line: The shroud becomes a wedding dress JACOB'S LADDER First Line: Trapped in the earth Last Line: Like a star. Never %to leave the world! Is this %not what your tears mean? JAPONICA First Line: The trees are flowering Last Line: Since they were a gift JEANNE D'ARC First Line: It was in the fields. The trees grew still Last Line: The enemy to whom I owe my life LA FORCE First Line: Made me what I am Last Line: I have the care of her LABOR DAY First Line: It's a year exactly since my father died Last Line: Not a sentence, but a breath, a caesura LABOR DAY First Line: Requiring something lovely on his arm Last Line: Pastures spewing infinite tiny bells. You pimp Subject(s): Erotic Love; Unfaithfulness LADY IN THE SINGLE First Line: Cloistered as the snail and conch Last Line: Like andromeda. No one telephones LAMENT First Line: Suddenly, after you die, those friends Last Line: A fortunate life': it means %to exist in the present LAMENTATIONS First Line: They were both still Last Line: You'll get what you want. You'll get your oblivion LAMIUM First Line: This is how you live when you have a cold heart Last Line: You and the others who think %you live for truth and, by exeension, love %all that is cold LANDSCAPE First Line: Time passed, turning everything to ice Last Line: Above the world %there was only blue, blue everywhere LATE SNOW First Line: Seven years I watched the next-door Last Line: The robins' tree. I saw it come. The mama withers on her eggs LEGEND First Line: My father's father came LETTER FROM OUR MAN IN BLOSSOMTIME First Line: Often an easterly churns Last Line: Botticelli: I have known no happiness so based in truth LETTER FROM PROVENCE First Line: Beside the bridge's photogenic Last Line: Go near. We heard they live on love LETTERS First Line: It is night for the last time Last Line: All that was written on them LIBERATION First Line: My mind is clouded LOST LOVE First Line: My sister spent a whole life in the earth Last Line: My mother's heart into the earth, %so it would grow LOVE IN MOONLIGHT First Line: Sometimes a man or woman forces his despair Last Line: Shining as the moon shines: stone or not, %the moon is still that much of a living thing LOVE POEM First Line: There is always something to be made of pain Last Line: Like one brick wall after another LOVER OF FLOWERS First Line: In our family, everyone loves flowers Last Line: The face of love, to her, %is the face turning away LULLABY First Line: My mother's an expert in one thing Last Line: Why would it stay intact, stay faithful to its one form, %when it could be free? LULLABY First Line: Time to rest now; you have had Last Line: You must be taught to love me. Human beings must be %taught to love %silence and darkness Subject(s): Love MAGI First Line: Toward world's end, through the bare Last Line: Blazing in darkness, all they wish to see MARATHON: 1. LAST LETTER First Line: Weeping, standing still -- then going out again into the garden Last Line: I was not transfigured. I would never be free MARATHON: 2. SONG OF THE RIVER First Line: Once we were happy, we had no memories Last Line: Were other couples, choosing souvenirs MARATHON: 3. THE ENCOUNTER First Line: You came to the side of the bed Last Line: The proof will be my body MARATHON: 4. SONG OF OBSTACLES First Line: When my lover touches me, what I feel in my body Last Line: Then for us, in its path, time doesn't pass, %not even an hour MARATHON: 5. NIGHT SONG First Line: Look up into the light of the lantern Last Line: You'll get what you want. You'll get your oblivion MARATHON: 6. THE BEGINNING First Line: I had come to a strange city, without belongings Last Line: Which came to mean being always alone MARATHON: 7. FIRST GOODBYE First Line: You can join the others now Last Line: Carries to that kingdom MARATHON: 8. SONG OF INVISIBLE BOUNDARIES First Line: Last night I dreamed we were in venice Last Line: We who would leave behind %exact records MARATHON: 9. MARATHON First Line: I was not meant to hear Last Line: Is meaningless; you throw it away MARINA First Line: My heart was a stone wall Last Line: Wails in the empty bedchamber MATINS First Line: Not the sun merely but the earth Last Line: For me, always %the delight is the surprise MATINS First Line: What is my heart to you Last Line: Of my mother's heart, or if not then, %in dream, first %being that would never die MATINS First Line: You want to know how I spend my time? Last Line: As empty now as at the first note. %or was the point always %to continue without a sign? MATINS First Line: I see it is with you as with the birches Last Line: Do their worst, let them %bury me with the romantics, %theirpointed yellow leaves %falling and cover MATINS First Line: Forgive me if I say I love you: the powerful Last Line: The crickets not yet rubbing their wings, the cats %not fighting in the yard? MATINS: 1 First Line: The sun shines; by the mailbox, leaves Last Line: With a tree, whereas the happy heart %wanders the garden like a falling leaf, a figure for %the part MATINS: 2 First Line: Unreachable father, when we were first Last Line: We merely knew it wasn't human nature to love %only what returns love MEADOWLANDS 1 First Line: I wish we went on walks Last Line: You could hold him MEADOWLANDS 2 First Line: Alissa isn't bringing back Last Line: Belong to the dog MEADOWLANDS 3 First Line: How could the giants name Last Line: So what king %fired simms MEMO FROM THE CAVE First Line: O love, you airtight bird Last Line: Scent of its pussy-foot- %ing fingers lingers, when it's over MEMOIR First Line: I was born cautious, under the sign of taurus Last Line: A few words were all I needed %nourish, sustain, attack MERIDIAN First Line: Long island sound's Last Line: Rippling over the muddy ocean MESSENGERS First Line: You have only to wait, they will find you Last Line: And you above them, wounded and dominant METAMORPHOSIS: 1. NIGHT First Line: The angel of death flies Last Line: Even the spot on the lung %was always there Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters METAMORPHOSIS: 2. METAMORPHOSIS First Line: My father has forgotten me Last Line: Turned away from the contract Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters METAMORPHOSIS: 3 FOR MY FATHER First Line: I'm going to live without you Last Line: Against your cheek, my hand is warm %and full of tenderness Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters MIDNIGHT First Line: Speak to me, aching heart: what Last Line: If you don't answer, someone else will answer MIDSUMMER First Line: How can I help you when you all want Last Line: Why would I make you if I meant %to limit myself %to the ascendant sign, %the star, the fire, the fu MIRROR First Line: Watching you in the mirror I wonder MIRROR IMAGE First Line: Tonight I saw myself in the dark window as Last Line: You have no place in the world MOCK ORANGE First Line: It is not the moon, I tell you Last Line: That odor in the world? MOONBEAM First Line: The mist rose with a little sound. Like a thud Last Line: Without which we have only the mirror, you and I MOONLESS NIGHT First Line: A lady weeps at a dark window Last Line: The streetlight becoming a bus stop MORNING First Line: The virtuous girl wakes in the arms of her husband Last Line: The meaning of that word, youth MOTHER AND CHILD First Line: We're all dreamers; we don't know who we are Last Line: What am I for? What am I for? MOUNT ARARAT First Line: Nothing's sadder than my sister's grave Last Line: Who doesn't hesitate to take %a son from a mother MOUNTAIN First Line: My students look at me expectantly MURDERESS First Line: You call me sane, insant -- I tell you men Last Line: Dissolved, and god presided at her body MUSE OF HAPPINESS First Line: The windows shut, the sun rising Last Line: The likelihood %of seeing it through to the end MUTABLE EARTH First Line: Are you healed or do you only think you're healed? Last Line: Hunger was added MY COUSIN IN APRIL First Line: Under cerulean, amid her backyard's knobby rhubarb squats Last Line: To catch, the early bud phases, on the springing grass MY LIFE BEFORE DAWN First Line: Sometimes at night I think of how we did Last Line: After all these years MY NEIGHBOR IN THE MIRROR First Line: M. Le professeur in prominent senility Last Line: Now and, judging by his refuse, eats little but oatmeal MYTHIC FRAGMENT First Line: When the stern god Last Line: I stiffened in the god's arms, %of his encompassing love %myfather made %no other sign from the wate NATIVITY POEM First Line: It is the evening Last Line: For whom there is no ornament NEST First Line: A bird was making its nest Last Line: First, I love it. %then, I can use it Subject(s): Birds; Memory NEW LIFE First Line: I slept the sleep of the just Last Line: One species of ruthlessness NEW WORLD First Line: As I saw it Last Line: Without relation to earth NIGHT PIECE First Line: He knows he will be hurt Last Line: Who are his enemies. He cannot sleep %apart from them NORTHWOOD PATH First Line: For my part %we are as we were Last Line: You would do it again NOSTOS First Line: There was an apple tree in the yard Last Line: The rest is memory NOVEL First Line: No one could write a novel about this family Last Line: Each heart pierced through with a sword NURSE'S SONG First Line: As though I'm fooled. That lacy body managed to forget Last Line: Scream when her lover pats your hair ODYSSEUS' DECISION First Line: The great man turns his back on the island Last Line: Sea that can only move forward OTIS First Line: A beautiful morning, nothing Last Line: I wished to be is the self I am PALAIS DES ARTS First Line: Love long dormant showing itself Last Line: As male and female, thrust and ache PARABLE First Line: It was an epoch of heroes PARABLE OF FAITH First Line: Now, in twilight, on the palace steps Last Line: The world has sinned, the world %must be pardoned PARABLE OF FLIGHT First Line: A flock of birds leaving the side of the mountain Last Line: Each kiss left the face of the earth PARABLE OF THE BEAST First Line: The cat circles the kitchen Last Line: Deep in the flesh of another animal PARABLE OF THE DOVE First Line: A dove lived in a village Last Line: And time does this to us PARABLE OF THE GIFT First Line: My friend gave me Last Line: Enough to make you happy PARABLE OF THE HOSTAGES First Line: The greeks are sitting on the beach Last Line: Some by sleep, some by music? PARABLE OF THE KING First Line: The great king looking ahead Last Line: About to become extinct? PARABLE OF THE SWANS First Line: On a small lake off Last Line: Part of their song %after a litttle longer PARABLE OF THE TRELLIS First Line: A clematis grew at the foot of a great trellis Last Line: A harbor or willow tree PARADISE First Line: I grew up in a village: now Last Line: The place where something was taken away %to make another person PARODOS First Line: Long ago, I was wounded Last Line: To the dark nature these %are proofs, not %mysteries PENELOPE'S SONG First Line: Little soul, little perpetually undressed one Last Line: By too many falling needles Subject(s): Singing And Singers PENELOPE'S STUBBORNNESS First Line: A bird comes to the window. It's a mistake Last Line: With the smallest hearts have %the greatest freedom PHENOMENAL SURVIVALS OF DEATH IN NANTUCKET First Line: Here in nantucket does the tiny soul Last Line: My second in the sea PICTURES OF THE PEOPLE IN THE WAR First Line: Later I'll pull down the shade Last Line: Language; tanks and dwellings meanwhile misty in the rear PIETA First Line: Under the strained Last Line: Steadily in its dark context POEM First Line: In the early evening, as now, a man is bending Last Line: Filming with weak, white blossoms POMEGRANATE First Line: First he gave me Last Line: Remembering %that she is one to whom %these depths were not offered POND First Line: Night covers the pond with its wing Last Line: As in another life we were of the same blood PORCELAIN BOWL First Line: It rules out use Last Line: On green ceramic %hand in the grass PORTLAND, 1968 First Line: You stand as rocks stand Last Line: For whom you are standing still PORTRAIT First Line: A child draws the outline of a body Subject(s): Family Life PORTRAIT OF THE QUEEN IN TEARS First Line: As my father, the late star, once told me Last Line: Go wild...I also was a hot property in those days PRECEDENT First Line: In the same way as she'd prepare for the others Last Line: Dreaming, the way you do when a child's coming PRESQUE ISLE First Line: In every life, there's a moment or two Last Line: Muslin, flicker of silver. Heavy jar filled with white peonies PRISM First Line: Who can say what the world is? The world Last Line: Who stirs first and sees, there in the first dawn, %the stranger PURPLE BATHING SUIT First Line: I like watching you garden Last Line: And I need you and I claim you QUEEN OF CARTHAGE First Line: Brutal to love, %more brutal to die Last Line: Since the fates go by that name also Subject(s): Death; Love QUIET EVENING First Line: You take my hand; then we're alone Last Line: Is my voice pursuing you QUINCE TREE First Line: We had, in the end, only the weather for a subject Last Line: You, in your innocence, what do you know of this world? RACER'S WIDOW First Line: The elements have merged into solicitude Last Line: As he lies draining there. And see %how even he did not get to keep that lovely body Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Automobile Racing; Widows And Widowers RADIUM First Line: When summer ended, my sister was going to school Last Line: By a miracle, became part of the potatoes RAIN IN SUMMER First Line: We were supposed to be, all of us Last Line: But she was frightened, she trusted me RAINY MORNING First Line: You don't love the world Last Line: Passion for red meat RED POPPY First Line: The great thing %is not having Last Line: The way you do. I speak %because I am shattered REPROACH First Line: You have betrayed me, eros RETREATING LIGHT First Line: You were like very young children Last Line: And I am free to do as I please now, %to attend to other things, in confidence %you have no need of RETREATING WIND First Line: When I made you, I loved you Last Line: Which begins and ends, in form echoing %this arc from the white birch %to the apple tree RETURN First Line: At first when you went away Last Line: The wound was that deep RETURNING A LOST CHILD First Line: Nothing moves. In its cage, the broken Last Line: Click of his brain's whirling empty spindle REUNION First Line: When odysseus has returned at last Last Line: Tenderly he touches her forearm REUNION First Line: It is discovered, after twenty years, they like each other Last Line: Which, before, they could not ROCK First Line: Insignia %of the earth's Last Line: The soul of a reptile after all ROMAN STUDY First Line: He felt at first Last Line: Watchful nature ROSY First Line: When you walked in with your suitcase, leaving Last Line: You understand, the animal means nothing to me Subject(s): Animals; Dogs RUSE First Line: They sat far apart %deliberately, to experience, daily Last Line: Distance was sufficient, by itself SAINT JOAN First Line: When I was seven, I had vision: %I believed I would die. I would die Last Line: I will not let you have me again SAINTSS First Line: In our family, there were two saints Last Line: Where it touches land, it must turn to violence SATURNALIA First Line: The year turns. The wolf takes back her tit Last Line: Token slaves suck those dripping fowl we offer %to insure prosperity SCHOOL CHILDREN First Line: The children go forward with their little satchels Last Line: Drawing to themselves the gray limbs of the fruit trees %bearing so little ammunition Subject(s): Education; Schools SCILLA First Line: Not I, you idiot, not self, but we, we-waves Last Line: Looking down and seeing some image %of water, and hearing what? Waves, %and over waves, birds singin SCRAPS First Line: We had codes Last Line: The usual miracle SCREENED PORCH First Line: The stars were foolish, they were not worth waiting for Last Line: And our intense need was absorbed by the night %and returned as sustenance SEATED FIGURE First Line: It was as though you were a man in a wheelchair SECONDS First Line: Craved, having so long gone Last Line: I'd let my house go up in flame for this fire SEIZURE First Line: You saved me, you should remember me Last Line: How could I not be SENSUAL WORLD First Line: I call to you across a monstrous river or chasm Last Line: Meaning, it will feed you, it will ravish you %it will not keep you alive SEPTEMBER TWILIGHT First Line: I gathered you together Last Line: As though you were a draft to be thrown away, %an exercise %because I've finished you, vision %of de SEVEN AGES First Line: In my first dream the world appeared Last Line: In a dream I possessed it SHAD-BLOW TREE: 1. THE TREE First Line: It is all here Last Line: Against the green, poisoned landscape SHAD-BLOW TREE: 2. THE LATENT IMAGE First Line: One year he focused on a tree Last Line: Root, rock, and all things perishing SILVER LILY First Line: The nights have grown cool again, like the nights Last Line: With a man- %after the first cries, %doesn't joy, like fear,make no sound? SILVER POINT First Line: My sister, by the chiming kinks Last Line: Her towel, browns like a chicken, under fire SIREN First Line: I became a criminal when I fell in love Last Line: The dream doesn't rescue the maiden SLAVE SHIP First Line: Sir: crusing for profit Last Line: Hold's gold and slew that living cargo SNOW First Line: Late december: my father and I Last Line: The heavy snow %not falling, whirling around us SNOWDROPS First Line: Do you know what I was, how I lived? You know Last Line: Afraid, yes, but among you again %crying yes risk joy %in the raw wind of the new world SOLSTICE First Line: June's edge. The sun Last Line: Terrible ascent, climaxed in ice SOLSTICE First Line: Each year, on this same date, the summer solstice comes Last Line: It takes genius to forget these things SONG First Line: Like a protected heart Last Line: Another flower nor %the shadowy heart, at %earth level pulsing %half maroon, half crimson SPRING SNOW First Line: Look at the night sky Last Line: I have shown you what you want: %not belief, but capitulation %to authority, which depends on violen STARS First Line: I'm awake, I am in the world Last Line: I set myself on fire STILL LIFE First Line: Father has his arm around tereze Last Line: Stands behind her camera SUMMER First Line: Remember the days of our first happiness Last Line: We were artists again, my husband. %we could resume the journey SUMMER AT THE BEACH First Line: Before we started camp, we went to the beach Last Line: Because it was true: when I didn't move I was perfect SUMMER NIGHT First Line: Orderly, and out of long habit, my heart continues to beat Last Line: What could be dearer than this, given the closeness of death? SUNSET First Line: My great happiness Last Line: In the breeze of the summer evening %and in the words that become %your own response SWANS First Line: You were both quiet, looking out over the water SWIMMER First Line: You sat in the tub Last Line: We are traveling together TANGO First Line: On evenings like this Last Line: One is always the watcher, %one the dancer TELEMACHUS' BURDEN First Line: Nothing %was exactly difficult because Last Line: He came back for that TELEMACHUS' CONFESSION First Line: They %were not better off Last Line: Grieves enough for us all TELEMACHUS' DETACHMENT First Line: When I was a child looking Last Line: Insane. Also %very funny TELEMACHUS' DILEMMA First Line: I can never decide Last Line: Husband and wife, other times %to opposing forces TELEMACHUS' FANTASY First Line: Sometimes I wonder about my father's Last Line: To some extent he %became who they were TELEMACHUS' GUILT First Line: Patience of the sort my mother Last Line: Separate from what %one loves deeply TELEMACHUS' KINDNESS First Line: When I was younger I felt Last Line: Always to be able to pity them TERMINAL RESEMBLANCE First Line: When I saw my father for the last time, we both did the same Last Line: Like him, waved to disguise my hand's trembling Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters THANKSGIVING First Line: In every room, encircled by a name Last Line: Misted snow over the pronged death THANKSGIVING First Line: They have come again to graze the orchard Last Line: They have their place in the dying order THE GARDEN Poem Text First Line: One sound. Then the hiss and whir Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening THE GIFT Poem Text First Line: Lord, you may not recognize me Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THE SCHOOL CHILDREN Poem Text First Line: The children go forward with their little satchels Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students TIME First Line: There was too much, always, then too little Last Line: And the perceived became the remembered, %the remembered, the perceived TO AUTUMN First Line: Morning quivers in the thorns; above the budded snowdrops Last Line: The great poems of my middle period TO FLORIDA First Line: Southward floated over Last Line: Will meet him at the terminal TREE HOUSE First Line: The pail droops on chain, rotten Last Line: Neglect. Open my room, trees. Child's come TRILLIUM First Line: When I woke up I was in a forest. The dark Last Line: I didn't even know I felt grief %until that word came, until I felt %rain streaming from me TRIUMPH OF ACHILLES First Line: In the story of patroclus UNDER TAURUS First Line: We were on the pier, you desiring Last Line: Instruct me in the dark UNDERTAKING First Line: The darkness lifts, imagine, in your lifetime Last Line: Everywhere you turn is luck UNPAINTED DOOR First Line: Finally, in middle age, %I was tempted to return to childhood Last Line: This is the house; this must be %the childhood I had in mind UNTRUSTWORTHY SPEAKER First Line: Don't listen to me; my heart's been broken Last Line: Because a wound to the heart %is also a wound to the mind UNWRITTEN LAW First Line: Interesting how we fall in love Last Line: Gradually taught me the meaninglessness of that term VESPERS (1) First Line: Once I believed in you; I planted a fig tree Last Line: To sit at your right hand, if it exists, partaking %of the perishable, the immortal fig, %which does VESPERS (2) First Line: Even as you appeared to moses, because Last Line: I was not a child; I could take advantage of illusions VESPERS (3) First Line: You thought we didn't know. But we knew once Last Line: Would so envy the bond we had then %as to tell us it was not earth %but heaven we were losing? VESPERS (4) First Line: In your extended absence, you permit me Last Line: The red leaves of the maple falling %even in august, in early darkness: I am responsible %for these VESPERS (5) First Line: More than you love me, very possibly Last Line: Pale blue and deep blue, since you already know %how like your raiment it is VESPERS (6) First Line: I don't wonder where you are anymore Last Line: Not as sustenance the flower holds %but like bright light through the bare tree VESPERS (7) First Line: I know what you planned, what you meant to do, teaching me Last Line: Nothing was left to me, and would believe instead %in the end you were left to me VESPERS (8) First Line: Your voice is gone now; I hardly hear you Last Line: When you go, you go absolutely, %deducting visible life from all things %but not all life, %lest we VESPERS (9) First Line: End of august. Heat Last Line: No hope %of enduring? Blaze of the red cheek, glory %of the open throat, white, %spotted with crimso Subject(s): Absence; Tomatoes VESPERS: PAROUSIA First Line: Love of my life, you Last Line: To be changed so quickly %into an image, an odor- %you are everywhere, source %of wisdom and anguish VIOLETS First Line: Because in our world Last Line: Which is never to die: poor sad god, %either you never have one %or you never lose one VITA NOVA First Line: You saved me, you should remember me Last Line: It is still spring, it is still meant tenderly VOID First Line: I figured out why you won't buy furniture Last Line: You'd have more control WHITE LILIES First Line: As a man and woman make Last Line: I felt your two hands %bury me to release its splendor Subject(s): Love WHITE ROSE First Line: This is the earth? Then Last Line: Or to show me you are not the light I called to %but the blackness behind it WIDOWS First Line: My mother's playing cards with my aunt Last Line: The one who has nothing wins Subject(s): Aunts; Mothers; Widows And Widowers WILD IRIS First Line: At the end of my suffering Last Line: To find a voice: %from the center of my life came %a great fountain, deep blue %shadows on azure sea WINGED HORSE First Line: Here is my house abstraction Last Line: Dream out of blind hope WINTER MORNING First Line: Today, when I woke up, I asked myself WISH First Line: Remember that time you made the wish Last Line: I wished for another poem Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Wishes WITCHGRASS First Line: Something Last Line: And I'll be here when only the sun and moon %are left, and the sea, and the wide field. %I will cons WITCHGRASS First Line: Something %comes into the world unwelcome Last Line: And I'll be here when only the sun and moon %are left, and the sea, and the wide field %I will const WORLD BREAKING APART First Line: I look out over the sterile snow WOUND First Line: The air stiffens to a crust Last Line: In me. It's still alive YELLOW DAHLIA First Line: My sister's like a sun, like a yellow dahlia Last Line: I couldn't separate %the two halves, %one child from the other YOUTH First Line: My sister and I at two ends of the sofa Last Line: It has become the present: unending and without form Godley, Elizabeth 2 poems available by this author NINETY-NINE First Line: The doctor: good morning, and how do you do Last Line: There's nothing the matter with you RAGGED ROBIN First Line: Rags and tatters Gold, Elizabeth 3 poems available by this author MUSIC OF CHOPIN First Line: Mazurka, little fragment %of the dance, press Last Line: The bow, shiver %of a bow upon the strings POLTERGEISTS HURL KNIVES AND FRYPANS AT FAMILIES First Line: As if we needed assistance as if Last Line: Stumbling through the house %groping for any weapon at hand Subject(s): Ghosts; Guilt; Supernatural RECOVERY First Line: I like to think of frenchy after the shot Last Line: Once more, mouth scrubbed %raw by the hundredth take Goldring, Elizabeth 62 poems available by this author ADVENT First Line: I see your smoke in the clouds Last Line: Up to the change counter %out the doors %onto the curb %into a taxi AFTERGLOW First Line: Egg %breaks %over %hen coals Last Line: Burning %to ox-blood %embers ANESTHESIA AMNESIA First Line: This hearth reflects nothing, %no glimmer of crystal %or traces of coal Last Line: This last thing I remembered: %a double pink hibiscus ASHFORD MOTEL First Line: I wish your eyes %could still me mine Last Line: I can come %without coming %but not the leaving AT A GAS PUMP NEAR GORDES First Line: Plump white hat %pushed back Last Line: She pumps benzine %at her filling station off n 100 AZTEC MOON First Line: Electronic bees %surge. %I cower, %razored by information %grazing my temples Last Line: Stop %calling hate %disease BEACHES First Line: The man with a wave for his tongue Last Line: On she dreams %sleeping with horses Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri BLUE HAVEN (TOBAGO, 1987) First Line: You never leave me %except to draw a face Last Line: We won't go there anymore CHILD BALANCES THE WEIGHT OF A RULER ON TWO INDEX FINGERS First Line: Ruler %one: he who rules %a sovereign king Last Line: It's a measure %even when she saws it off DON'T BREAK MY AMULET First Line: Holding my toe, %I sit next to eight pregnant women Last Line: Chief rain-in-the-bag, %I love you DRIVING AWAY FROM PINE RIDGE YOUR PROFILE DRENCHED IN RAIN First Line: Two straws drink hot %injun joe Last Line: Can't hear what %say I love you DRIVING DOWN TO NICE First Line: I remember %the four a.M. Flowers %the fresh scents Last Line: Stifling songs of missa solemnis %still hot in my gut ELECTRONICS OF BLINDNESS First Line: Electric octave drops to blue tone Last Line: Violet eagles rise, %tracked on both my eyes Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri FARM STORIES: 1. OCTOBER FIRE First Line: The red leaves won't lie down Last Line: Beg to lie down %everywhere FARM STORIES: 2. CLEAN WINTER First Line: I'm waiting for the silver fox Last Line: And his breath will catch against the snow FARM STORIES: 3. SPRING FLOODS First Line: Rain's pounding inside my head Last Line: Their wet tweets announce %another quicksand savior FARM STORIES: 4. THE FARM WIFE First Line: Her lantern draws water Last Line: Asparagus %stands loose in the field FOR CHARLOTTE First Line: You played your cello wired, topless, %under water Last Line: Wouldn't let you disappear %like a queen FOUR DAYS AFTER YOU LEFT First Line: I thought I felt the bedsheets move %of course not Last Line: The phone's dead %no %hello GEDACHTNISKIRCHE (MEMORIAL CHURCH IN BERLIN, REBUILT IN THE '50S) First Line: I crave the blue %it chews me Last Line: Blue without fire %blue stamens bring a red poppy GOULIMINE First Line: Black hands finger %red castles Last Line: It hasn't rained for nine years GRANDMA'S GARDEN First Line: I was there as a child Last Line: I heard her garden drown HARRY First Line: Old man %white thistle %sagging jowls %plays the jacaranda Last Line: Next day %he sent me fifty roses %curled %with yellow %edges HUGS AND KISSES First Line: I hug the sour-face %middle-age lady Last Line: As the new skins of my lacerated hand I NEED A METAPHOR First Line: My feet toughen %toe ends yellow %I see what happens Last Line: Into souls we could not bare %enough to see KILLER MACHINE First Line: Smiles run from your eyes and mouth corners %sound of smiles Last Line: It's just %legs for now KYOTO First Line: Tea %cambridge %ceremony %ma Last Line: 7. Serving tea LAVENDER First Line: Did hegel say %r e d %is absolute? Last Line: A nun crosses the field, %her fluttering habit %a lunar bird LEIPZIG JOURNAL (NOVEMBER 6-11, 1989) First Line: Pale leaves paper the cobbles Last Line: Western guys will rape your brides, %their cannibal hearts %full throttle LEUKEMIA First Line: She pulled the darkest %most luminous fantasies seen anywhere Last Line: (at the intersection of %vassar and mass. Ave) LONE PINE, CA First Line: A big foot leaps to a mile Last Line: A hundred miles off %death valley MORNING GLORY First Line: Two days after surgery %the doctor unwraps my eye Last Line: Her pencil red lips %burst %without warning MOTOROLA MORNING First Line: My heart's a beamed up motorola morning Last Line: Collapse in the suction of his leaving NEO-WILHELMIANS First Line: The ones who %drop their new briefcases %on your foot Last Line: They eat sweets though %and their time is now ON THE BOSTON AND MAINE TRAIN: 1. IN First Line: The train stops %short of a drunk Last Line: He squeezes a plump leg with his free hand ON THE BOSTON AND MAINE TRAIN: 2. OUT First Line: A black lady screams %fuck Last Line: There's no black dogs ONE LATE AFTERNOON A WEEK AFTER MY DAUGHTER STARTED MIDDLE SCHOOL ... First Line: A little cat, a little dog, a little girl in a joseph's hat and blue Last Line: On our way back, queen anne's lace ball into fleurs due mal %among the landing crows ORANGE MONARCHS First Line: Black gas %leeches %make a %blood sucking %diving suit %of my skin Last Line: Bug off to south america. %it's butterfly candyland PAPER CELLO First Line: A bald shopkeeper %in karlsruhe %inched up the ladder Last Line: Frank said %your last words were, %' I want a banana' PITTSBURGH SECRETS First Line: I asked if you were the artist Last Line: I was your birthday- %sixteen years ago, %in pittsburgh POST OP First Line: Micro-surgeons have drained my eyes. %I look in the mirror Last Line: Shoots black %into %yellow black %revolver PRINCESS First Line: Don't stare at me Last Line: I'm happy not to see Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes RESTRAINT First Line: He's there for me in the objects he tagged, %books he marked Last Line: Seasons, stopping my memory of poems ROOSTERS DON'T FLY First Line: Tangled lorelei %perched in trees %comb tails assessed at thirteen meters Last Line: Rooster flame %rooster star %rooster sky ROSEMARY First Line: The pot of %dead rosemary is heavy Last Line: As I carry the urn %outside SHE CONSTRUCTION First Line: Everybody loses a watch, %trips, %faints, %gets depressed Last Line: Would I rather be someone else? %maybe, once, (elizabeth) SOCKS First Line: Walking the tread mill %I watch the socks get in front of each other Last Line: I grin despite the friction of tread mill %and walking feet SOLE SURVIVOR First Line: I'll wait until they're gone Last Line: Only their poems %on my mind SOMETIMES HE JUST WANTED TO SIT WITH A BEER AND WATCH THE GAME First Line: One and a half years since charlotte died %frank's getting ready Last Line: His voice still hangs around %promising to call SOUVENIR (NOVEMBER 11, 1989) First Line: The wall is a zone %nothing moves %protection Last Line: A souvenir %sold piecemeal SPEAKING TONGUES First Line: Voices put mouths %around sound Last Line: For the first time he looks surprised STAINED GLASS First Line: I sit in the crypt of starry sainte chapelle Last Line: My brain is popping bleeps STAN First Line: His bones %dangle from the necklace Last Line: He is magic %he is god SUNFLOWERS First Line: They smash %headlong %onto green earth Last Line: Dark glasses %from then on SWANSONG First Line: Migrations flock %intensify %april's coronations Last Line: Swans ascend, %our hands %their traces TALL BUILDINGS First Line: Tall buildings %zip down their flies %zip up their flies Last Line: Tall buildings %stuck on twelve %going down TAROUDANT, MOROCCO First Line: You are welcome %I am at your service Last Line: And she says %from a mouth purple %with life %bonjour! TODOS SANTOS First Line: Woman gathers the family %builds the fire Last Line: Rolls out next year's %candy pink skeletons VALENTINE First Line: The field of snow ate new snow Last Line: She ponders the sequence in french WAY TO M'NAMID First Line: Mud lives in mud houses Last Line: And tanks loom %sudden as the desert WILDFLOWERS First Line: Daisies, dianthus %and phlox %outdo the planted perennials Last Line: Where you are painting %blue women YOYO First Line: I don't believe in the prairie twister Last Line: And blow sirocco, %anytime. %I want my eyes back Gongaware, Elizabeth D. 1 poems available by this author LOVE Poem Text First Line: Love is a shining vital thing Last Line: A dream's hope, and a whispering. Subject(s): Love Goodwill, M. Elizabeth 4 poems available by this author COLD AUTUMN First Line: Let my eyes close on a dark green cedar LONELINESS First Line: Prow up, mast high, while rigging swings STILL CIGARETTE First Line: Smoke is a wondrous thing, velvet and curling SYMPATHY First Line: The contraband of all the world Gould, Elizabeth 13 poems available by this author GRACE AND THANKSGIVING First Line: We thank thee, lord, for quiet upland lawns Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving MIDSUMMER NIGHT First Line: The sun goes down MINCEMEAT First Line: Sing a song of mincemeat MISS TABBY CAT'S RECEPTION First Line: The eldest miss tabbycat gave an 'at home' MISTRESS COMFORT First Line: Little mistress comfort MY NEW RABBIT First Line: We brought him home, I was so pleased RED IN AUTUMN First Line: Tipperty-toes, the smallest elf SHINING THINGS First Line: I love all shining things SLUMBER IN SPRING First Line: Grey pussy-willows SUCH A BLUSTERY DAY! First Line: A merry wind danced over the hill WASHING-UP SONG First Line: Sing a song of washing-up WHEN TIME COMES CREEPING First Line: Put your arm around me WISH First Line: I'd love to give a party Subject(s): Wishes Grace, Mary Elizabeth 57 poems available by this author ANON, ANON, MY SWEET SHAY First Line: I broke a heart once, what seemed like a long time ago Last Line: Anon, anon, my sweet shay AT DAWN IN DEVONSHIRE First Line: She had opal-coloured eyes Last Line: And fed it to the fish %at dawn in devonshire BANSHEE AND THE BODHRAN First Line: I believed Last Line: Even one's desire to breathe BAYOU DREAM First Line: It was once said %or perhaps it was me Last Line: Terrified of his last sleep BEGGAR'S BOUNTY WISH First Line: Scar tissue, not string, binds another's truth Last Line: Gathering feathers %wanting more BIG BLUE WHALE First Line: There's been Last Line: Still staring back at us, is that %goddamn big blue whale of cravin' BLACKFLY WEDDING First Line: A friend of a friend told me %you will be wed in the place to the place Last Line: Cloth crumbling in my hand BOAST TO KAVANAGH First Line: Remember when kavanagh would take his walks, come out of Last Line: Shut the hell up. None of you are goddamn listening anyway BOOTLEGGING APPLES ON THE ROAD TO REDEMPTION First Line: I stopped at the side of the road for awhile Last Line: Whatever keeps blood out of the baby's bottle is my only prayer BRING ME BRAVE First Line: The babbles and the babes Last Line: Become a need %this desire to feel for the first time clean BROTHER LOVE First Line: North, south, west, and east Last Line: Or I %has left this place CHILD OF BLUE Last Line: So I too may be a child of blue %so fair, innocent, untouched by truth CONTEMPT First Line: I'm afraid %my heroes have lost their courage tonight Last Line: Not comprehending the worth of a life, imagined or otherwise CROSSROADS CANT First Line: I just can't seem to jive with so much of this big town Last Line: Just give me some soul, some butter to spread smooth and sexy %on this day's bread CUT-AND-COME-AGAIN-CAKE SMILE First Line: Agh %she's a killeybeg's girl Last Line: Half the poet %she %just is DAY First Line: The day is old Last Line: The ground lays marred, mishapen, %typical martyr of time DEEP SONG FOR CELIA'S OWN LOVE First Line: Mother loved me for my spanish eyes Last Line: And no one heard it screaming DEGAS DAMNED First Line: It was your smile Last Line: Full of waiting water DISCOURSE ON LOVE First Line: Wife: shibion, take little amen to play outside. Shibion now, your father Last Line: Yourself %with the eyes of a dead fish DOWN THE ROAD First Line: I believed my soul Last Line: And a pocketknife that made me bleed GYPSYLEAFGIRLS First Line: Autumn wind, %we praise you far too much Last Line: Of all the gypsyleafgirls HAIR RIBBONS ARE ONLY HEROES' DAUGHTERS First Line: I sat %watching him in the corner Last Line: For what I knew I'd see in his eyes HARMONIC RASP First Line: You play a czardas %with that hand Last Line: The grey now coming into your dark eyes HUMMINGBIRDS AND GHOSTS First Line: I chanced upon %a picture once Last Line: I conceived their connection HUSH OF THE BLISS First Line: I come collected of things yet to be gathered Last Line: Aching for that one thought %to make it smooth I HAVE STUMBLED First Line: I have stumbled twice %once for love and once for life Last Line: This is my place, this is my place IT BEHOOOVES ME First Line: It behoooves me, all my bewailin' Last Line: I want a bag of brand new bones %I do JO JUMP RIDE First Line: Where alden and I would spend the whole night dancing Last Line: There, all our screaming was all our screaming, he never heard %the seagulls squawking KILBARO SOOT AND STONE First Line: I shall tell you this only once Last Line: Of the kings, courageous men %and the women of no name no time LILAN LOVES HER LILACS Last Line: She'll give that lilac love to me MACAROON SMILE First Line: The man with the macaroon smile Last Line: In my eyes MADDA MADDA ROSE First Line: The church bells ring across the street at st. Mary magdalene's Last Line: Madda madda rose %I place my high cross on you high MANGOES AND MARIGOLDS Last Line: Mangoes and marigolds %that's what I wished your heart to be MULBERRY SLEEVE First Line: I said %she had her own story Last Line: Everyone is granted that one nobility OHMYOMAGH First Line: We'll spend the day in omagh, omagh, omagh Last Line: Is where I'd want %my wings to keep OLE First Line: You know, by the way she moves she's had the cool joy Last Line: I'm wrong %she is all of sea PAGAN PASSION First Line: The brown of your eyes are the black-eyed suzies Last Line: You make me believe that the world has just began REQUIEM First Line: Mind goes, mind falters, I am beyond any understanding that Last Line: One's name into one's bones, leave them there, hoping for some new birth RUSSIAN DOLL First Line: Angels do not live in heaven Last Line: As they dance and sing for him %their mother SABBATH OF OUR LOVE First Line: Everything has told me twice Last Line: These are for the sabbath of our love SAINT SWEENEY First Line: Sweeney sweeney sweeney Last Line: And someone telling me lyricism is dead SASSAFRAS BABY Last Line: So we can hear birthday songs %every day of the year SEASHELL First Line: When we promised %I saw Last Line: Not being afraid of each other's other SECOND SIGHT First Line: She %walks up to me Last Line: Thinking I haven't seen her for who she is SEPTEMBER NEVER COMING First Line: I asked you to cut me flowers from the soon-to-be-september fields Last Line: To catch the dripping of my blood SHAMAN LUST First Line: The first %I heard your name Last Line: Has kept his gift of blackberries safe in the boat of his tongue SHANTYTOWN GIRL First Line: I took my three names and walked out of the rubble, the remembrance Last Line: Shantytown girl %with shantytown eyes SHOULDN'T IT First Line: Shouldn't it come easy Last Line: Into one image I can name %you SOMEDAY First Line: Somedays %I get so tired of all the misunderstanding Last Line: Got to be something better than this THIS IS TODAY First Line: When he was a boy %he knew a summergirl with grey eyes Last Line: Yesterday he was not old enough to see the faces TINDERBOX First Line: There is no such notion as things forgotten or things remembered. They Last Line: Keep my memories under the pantry stairs, safe in a %tinderbox.' TINKERMAN'S TELLING First Line: I collect thoughts Last Line: My skeleton is too alive %to be bone TOMORROW TO DONEGAL First Line: Down to donegal %down %down to donegal down Last Line: Still easy with my one-day wish to sing %(and no sense of direction) VISITING THE SORROW TREE First Line: I must go back to all the places Last Line: Make grotto of my grief WE CAME SLOW First Line: We came slow %to your stone house Last Line: Who is this god %what is his lie WEDDING VOW First Line: I will cradle you in the autumn of your aching Last Line: The singe of death from our %tongues WHAT I WANT-ODE TO IMMORTALITY First Line: What I want, is what I want, and what I want, is what I can't have Last Line: What I want, is what I want, and what I want, is what I can't have Grainger, Elizabeth 2 poems available by this author ON THE INVENTION OF BRAILLE First Line: It begins in blindness: taste of invisible ink Last Line: In the moon than your eyes, your telescopes TO TAKE BREAD AT MY HAND First Line: Forget who was the deer Last Line: And their bare feet, to hooves Grant, Elizabeth Alternate Author Name(s): Grant Of Carron, Mrs. 1 poems available by this author ROY'S WIFE Poem Text First Line: Roy's wife of aldivalloch! Last Line: Though she's for ever left her johnnie. Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy Gratner, Satya Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHING' YET First Line: All us bra-burning-mamas Last Line: You ain't seen nothin' yet Gray, Elizabeth (beth) 2 poems available by this author CALLAS First Line: What does silence say of itself? Last Line: They rose fluting clear like trumpets, %as if their rising were a harmony, %as if the sun were their GHOST HORSES First Line: Sold from a passing carnival, the spokane carrousel ponies Gray, Elizabeth Burbank 2 poems available by this author BIRTH First Line: Run up the flag DEATH First Line: Hang out the crepe Green, Cornelia Elizabeth 2 poems available by this author THE COMING OF THE STORM. TWO PICTURES: 1 Poem Text First Line: The far off clouds are one dark purple mass Last Line: In yellow splendor on the river grass. Subject(s): Storms; Wellesley College THE COMING OF THE STORM. TWO PICTURES: 2 Poem Text First Line: The golden glory fades from grass and tree Last Line: That shaking flash of light! The storm is here. Subject(s): Storms; Wellesley College Greene, Elizabeth Bacon 2 poems available by this author CASTLE-BUILDING First Line: We sat in the sun, on the soft, white sand MY CURTAINS First Line: The wind is blowing my curtains white Griswold, Elizabeth M. 1 poems available by this author FREEDOM'S NATAL DAY First Line: Wake her with voice of cannon-give her Subject(s): Fourth Of July Guerard, Vera Elizabeth 2 poems available by this author AT SEA First Line: My time is nearly up SPRING OF JOY First Line: The sunshine after rain Gulloway, Elizabeth Alternate Author Name(s): Galloway, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author SHADOWS Poem Text First Line: Shadows, like vague dreams of / youth Last Line: Just evade my grasp. Subject(s): Friendship; Love; Relationships Gunter, Susan Elizabeth 2 poems available by this author SESTINA FOR ESTHER First Line: The first thing that I remember is a house SOUR CHERRIES First Line: Going down dark uneven stairs Hahn, Elizabeth 3 poems available by this author IN CHINESE First Line: The ideograph presents itself Last Line: To be snatch from the moon %with the hand PLEA First Line: All of this is very well, my dear Last Line: At least we have cast off, and with a loosened heart WITH A FINE-TOOTHED COMB First Line: That's how, he said, the judge went over Last Line: For one reason: %to make music Halkett, Elizabeth Alternate Author Name(s): Wardlaw, Lady 1 poems available by this author HARDYKNUTE; A FRAGMENT Poem Text First Line: Stately stept he east the wa' Last Line: And all the warrior fled.] Hall (1842-1920), Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author THIS CUP WILL PASS Poem Text First Line: O lord! How long will tyrants hold their sway Last Line: Blot out from time, and memory decay. Hall, Elizabeth+(1) 4 poems available by this author CROCUS BED First Line: She saw the dawn, all dusty pink Last Line: With sheepish look he pointed to %a baby crocus, smiling through HULL ON THE HORIZON First Line: Some sunday from waters edge, I shall Last Line: Will wrap myself in oyster silk, %go down to soweto and founder %in the mocking of netted doves SELVEDGES First Line: Kept in a scrap box STOPPING AT TUCSON First Line: I am related, but not to your mother Subject(s): Social Problems Hamilton, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author MY AIN FIRESIDE Poem Text First Line: I hae seen great anes and sat in great ha's Last Line: Fireside. Subject(s): Home Hands, Elizabeth Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Daphne 8 poems available by this author A SONG Poem Text First Line: Ye swains cease to flatter, our hearts to obtain Last Line: The worthy man only can hold a place there. Subject(s): Admiration; Worth, Patience LOB'S COURTSHIP Poem Text First Line: As lob among his cows one day Last Line: And he shabbed off, and said no more. Subject(s): Courtship ON A WEDDING Poem Text First Line: Hark! Hark! How the bells ring, how happy the day Last Line: And all that she wish'd to receive. Subject(s): Happiness; Love - Marital; Marriage; Mythology - Classical; Joy; Delight; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ON AN UNSOCIABLE FAMILY Poem Text First Line: O what a strange parcel of creatures are we Last Line: For to please ourselves, truly, is more than we can. Subject(s): Family Life; Indifference; Relatives POEM, ON SUPPOSITION OF ADVERTISEMENT ...VOLUME OF POEMS, BY A SERVANT Poem Text First Line: The tea-kettle bubbled, the tea things were set Last Line: Like courtiers contending for honours, sat down. Subject(s): Advertising; Books; Household Employees; Social Classes; Women Writers; Reading; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Caste POEM, ON SUPPOSITION OF THE BOOK HAVING BEEN PUBLISHED AND READ Poem Text First Line: The dinner was over, the tablecloth gone Last Line: And gave the discourse a definitive blow. Subject(s): Books; Household Employees; Social Classes; Women Writers; Reading; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Caste THE WIDOWER'S COURTSHIP Poem Text First Line: Roger a doleful widower Last Line: And homeward went his way. Subject(s): Courtship; Widows & Widowers WRITTEN .. ON SEEING A MAD HEIFER RUN THROUGH THE VILLAGE Poem Text First Line: When summer smiled, and birds on every spray Last Line: No more she'll fright our village, I presage. Subject(s): Cows Hanly, Elizabeth Fitzgerald 2 poems available by this author NOVEMBER ELEVENTH First Line: A thousand whistles break the bonds of sleep ON READING THE MEMOIRS OF A MIDGET Poem Text First Line: I can remember in my father's house Last Line: Infinite passion and revolt and pain. Subject(s): Dwarfs; Memory Harcourt, Elizabeth 3 poems available by this author CHINESE SPRING Poem Text First Line: The moon of flowers is here Last Line: The moon of flowers is here! Subject(s): Moon; Spring LITTLE FEET Poem Text First Line: Where have you gone, little feet Last Line: "I dance down a silvery street!" Subject(s): Feet THE THREE GIFTS Poem Text First Line: I made a song for her to sing Last Line: The ring she never wore is rust. Hardy, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author THE STRIKER Poem Text First Line: Now we have struck and the strike is won for all Last Line: Streamer of smoke across the endless sky! Subject(s): Labor Unions; Strikes; Labor Disputes; Lockouts Hardy, Elizabeth Clark 3 poems available by this author HOLE IN THE FLOOR First Line: In the primitive days of our grandfather's TOMMY BROWN First Line: I'm jest discouraged,' said mr. Brown WHEN I SAIL AWAY First Line: Sometime at eve when the tide is low Subject(s): Friendship; Religion Hardy, Elizabeth Stanton 5 poems available by this author ARISTOCRAT First Line: From the taut hills, the austere pine ECHO First Line: Travelers who came that day to pisa's baptistry SEA SHELL First Line: Out from this fluted shell the muffled roar SIGNATURE UPON ROCK First Line: What years of slow erosion, tide and ice THE SIGNET Poem Text First Line: Within four walls that hold Last Line: Once upon a time. Subject(s): Rooms; Time Harlan, Karen Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author TIME TO DIE SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 First Line: He called to say he was stuck at work Last Line: I'm sorry, I have to take time to die Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) Harman, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author THE SOLDIER'S DIRGE Poem Text First Line: Dead in the battle,-dead on the field Last Line: To his memory, honor; to him, good-night. Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day Harrington, Elizabeth 5 poems available by this author BLOOD First Line: I was late to your funeral. %took a side trip with blood first Last Line: Long after the lap has disappeared BREAKTHROUGH First Line: Now they can drop dna into cells %like pocket change-take a desert womb Last Line: Taking footprints, mouthing sounds EXCHANGE First Line: He is a man. He talks Last Line: But of course you never could Subject(s): Divorce IF I SHOULD DIE First Line: I almost made you once. Carried you home careful as soup in a petri Last Line: From your pockets. Rise and shine, my mother used to say. Children %should be seen and heard POVERTY DAYS First Line: We hungered something %terrible. Wore someone else's shoes Last Line: Our biggest expense. In a pinch, we did %what we did best. We went wanting Harrison, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author TAKING OFF First Line: To die in spring, to join one's fleeting breath Last Line: While ardent still it pulses, to inspire %a spring eternal, young as the robin's phrases Subject(s): World War Ii Harrod, Elizabeth B. 4 poems available by this author AUGUST NIGHT, 1953 First Line: We lie by towering hollyhocks CALVINIST AUTUMNAL First Line: By these slow shadows and the frosted air SONNET AGAINST THE TOO-FACILE MYSTIC First Line: Secret in bed the lustful with soft cries SUMMER AFTERNOON First Line: Withdrawn on this warm ledge I lie Hart, Elizabeth Anna 2 poems available by this author MOTHER TABBYSKINS First Line: Sitting at a window Last Line: Some are dogs, you see QUEST First Line: Where do you journey Hartley, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author MY NATIVE LAND! Poem Text First Line: How grand are scotland's rugged hills, where mountain torrent foam! Last Line: That scotia's thistle leaves a wound when clutch'd by foeman's hand. Subject(s): Patriotism; Scotland Hartley, Elizabeth Lyman 1 poems available by this author NATIVITY First Line: A baby cried within a lowly stable Harvor, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author BURNING HAMMOCK, 1917 First Line: We all hate the uniform Last Line: Out of homesickness, out of terror, %he has the courage ot dictate to me: %darling dot ... Hastings, Flora Elizabeth 5 poems available by this author PRAYERS First Line: When I kneel down my prayers to say SONG OF EARLY RISING First Line: Get up, little sister, the morning is bright THE CROSS OF VASCO DA GAMA Poem Text First Line: We have breasted the surge, we have furrowed the wave Last Line: For the bright cross is beaming before us now! Subject(s): Gama, Vasco Da (1460-1524) THE SWAN SONG Poem Text First Line: Grieve not that I die young - is it not well Last Line: Let me depart! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TO A BUTTERFLY First Line: Butterfly, butterfly, brilliant and bright Hatmaker, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author THROWBACK First Line: Born in beckameyer, illinois in the mid 1800s Last Line: That his uncle roy %lives in rockford Hauer, Elizabeth N. 1 poems available by this author VISION Poem Text First Line: There have been times when I have looked at life Last Line: Dwarfing my paltry tragedies to nought. Haukaas, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author HUMMINGBIRD HEART First Line: Primo levi watches a man eat Last Line: Understands that the line between what happens to one man and another %is fragile, eggshell Subject(s): Survival Hazen, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author LAUNDRY DAY First Line: You had method %more meticulous than a maid Last Line: Expectant fingers in soapy water %was enough Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers Hedman, Anna Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author ECHOES OF NEW YORK First Line: Strange creatures are we Helmstetler, Elizabeth R. S. 2 poems available by this author BLISS First Line: The days you force your existence PHOTOGRAPH First Line: Here my dress is bright obtrusive silk Last Line: In its eternal optimism %face to the ceiling %heels to the ground Hepburn, Elizabeth Newport 1 poems available by this author MACHINES- OR MEN? First Line: If one were sound-proof, like a well-built house Herron, Elizabeth 2 poems available by this author DESERT ROSE First Line: Night after night the dizzying sky Last Line: I run straight toward the sun, %into the empty light LEAVING First Line: Daughter, take these things Last Line: Oh so slowly I grow %toward my own life Hewitt, Mary Elizabeth Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, Mary Elizabeth 9 poems available by this author ALONE Poem Text First Line: There lies a deep and sealed well Last Line: Flow forth, rejoicing, unto thee. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness BLESS THEE Poem Text First Line: I may not break the holy spell Last Line: "my heart still whispers, ""bless thee!" GREEN PLACES IN THE CITY Poem Text First Line: Ye fill my heart with gladness, verdant places Last Line: We, by these glimpses, may remember thee! Subject(s): Cities; Gardens & Gardening; Urban Life LAMENT OF JOSEPHINE Poem Text First Line: The empress! - what's to me the empty name! Last Line: Hath o'er their ruin leapt to liberty! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of MIDNIGHT ON MARATHON (A GREEK SUPERSTITION) Poem Text First Line: When midnight to the peasant yields Last Line: "and ""christ"" thy battle-cry?" Subject(s): Superstition THE LAST CHANT OF CORINNE Poem Text First Line: By that mysterious sympathy which chaineth Last Line: Cry to thy heart, beloved! Remember me! THE OCEAN-TIDE TO THE RIVULET Poem Text First Line: My voice is hoarse with calling to the deep Last Line: Joy! -- joy! -- my breast receives its own again! THE PRAYER OF A THIRSTING HEART Poem Text First Line: Thou unto whom my cry ascends in anguish Last Line: Give me to drink! I perish here of thirst! YARN First Line: Tis saturday night, and our watch below Hildreth, Elizabeth 2 poems available by this author BOY THE DEVIL LOVED First Line: So then the boy the devil loved Last Line: She raised up fierce as a lie, %barely holding its own roof NUDOPHOBIA First Line: If you aren't told of waiting Last Line: In the places where we rest, %you become naked Hill, Elizabeth Sewell 55 poems available by this author COMING HOME Poem Text First Line: They have hauled in the gang-plank. The breast-line crawls back Last Line: Flutter out the white signals that I'm coming home. Subject(s): Homecoming CONVOY Poem Text First Line: The smoke hung low on the sand-duned shore Last Line: Sound four? Subject(s): Disasters; Ferry Boats; Sea; Shipwrecks; Ocean DARIEN Poem Text First Line: The waves swing hushed to the blue sky-line Last Line: The double world grows one—at darien! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Sea Voyages; Storms; Waves; Seamen; Sails; Ocean FATHER'S GOOD SON Poem Text First Line: The wheat hangs heavy to the further hill Last Line: Runs around the spit where turns the fatted calf. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Relationships GOD'S WEATHER: APRIL Poem Text First Line: The shadows fall soft down the haw-whitened hillside Last Line: The wooing soft south of his weather, god's weather. Subject(s): Orchards; Seasons; Spring GOD'S WEATHER: AUGUST Poem Text First Line: God's peace and the moon on the meadow's dead clover Last Line: With the mists and the moon and the weather—god's weather. Subject(s): Prairies; Summer; Weather; Plains GOD'S WEATHER: DECEMBER Poem Text First Line: The dusk of the evening, with winter stars growing Last Line: We wait with the stars thro' his weather, god's weather. Subject(s): Weather; Winter GOD'S WEATHER: FEBRUARY Poem Text First Line: The hid sun strikes red thro' the low eaves' slow dripping Last Line: God's breath in the night and his weather, god's weather. Subject(s): Months; Weather GOD'S WEATHER: JANUARY Poem Text First Line: Up the whitening blue, as the day-star grows dimmer Last Line: Whip out a mad peal to just weather—god's weather. Subject(s): Months; Snow; Time; Weather; Winter GOD'S WEATHER: JULY Poem Text First Line: The heavy shade bends to tall clover and grasses Last Line: Growing, grateful for grace of hot weather, god's weather. Subject(s): Months; Summer; Weather GOD'S WEATHER: JUNE Poem Text First Line: In the west pile the stormclouds, and bluegrass and roses Last Line: Beaten prone in the wet fragrant weather, god's weather. Subject(s): Months; Storms; Weather GOD'S WEATHER: MARCH Poem Text First Line: A wild whir of wings thro' the woodland's browns hieing Last Line: Blow on thro' the woods and the weather, god's weather. Subject(s): Harvest; Months; Spring; Weather GOD'S WEATHER: MAY Poem Text First Line: There's a blurr'd roll of drumbeats. The soft south wind straying Last Line: With the sigh of the southwind, the balm of god's weather. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Months; Old Age; Spring GOD'S WEATHER: NOVEMBER Poem Text First Line: But bleak blows the wind from the northeast; in drifting Last Line: Wells out with the wind and the weather, god's weather. Subject(s): Months; Weather GOD'S WEATHER: OCTOBER Poem Text First Line: The cold late rain drips from the low clouds close palling Last Line: The haze on the home hill and weather, god's weather. Subject(s): Cold; Months; Summer; Weather GOD'S WEATHER: SEPTEMBER Poem Text First Line: All gold! Down the hillside peep clumped daisies golden Last Line: Sends a cheer down the year to just weather—god's weather. Subject(s): Autumn; Months; Seasons; September; Weather; Fall GOOD-BYE Poem Text First Line: The orchards hang heavy to the top of the slope Last Line: And I kneel there tonight. Dear, there is no good-bye. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting I GIVE YOU PEACE I WISH YOU JOY INTO THE FOG Poem Text First Line: Down thro' the hills winding wearily down Last Line: Light in the window—and home! Subject(s): Memory LIFE ON THE LAKES: ALONGSHORE Poem Text First Line: The storm swings over the waters wide Last Line: "off the men—running high—going fast—getting thick." Subject(s): Seashore; Storms; Beach; Coast; Shore LIFE ON THE LAKES: AY, AY, SIR! Poem Text First Line: The wires lead back from the grey old town Last Line: That has kept the faith, and the orders lie. Subject(s): Courage; Faith; Valor; Bravery; Belief; Creed LIFE ON THE LAKES: DERELICT Poem Text First Line: Driving back thro' the night on the lonely last ride Last Line: Hushed and wistfully. Subject(s): Roads; Solitude; Travel; Paths; Trails; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips LIFE ON THE LAKES: DOWN ON THE BEACH (1) Poem Text First Line: The storm-light fades from the cloud-banked west Last Line: The far lamp glows. Subject(s): Seashore; Travel; West (u.s.) - Exploration; Beach; Coast; Shore; Journeys; Trips LIFE ON THE LAKES: DOWN ON THE BEACH (2) Poem Text First Line: The glory floats up the radiant west Last Line: The far lamp glows. LIFE ON THE LAKES: ORDERS Poem Text First Line: It is in or out as the orders send Last Line: To the weathered wharves of the grey old town. Subject(s): City & Town Life; Memory LIFE ON THE LAKES: OUTWARD BOUND Poem Text First Line: The waters lap by the pier's green side Last Line: In ghostly sheath. Subject(s): City & Town Life; Fields; Home; Travel; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Journeys; Trips LIFE ON THE LAKES: REQUIEM Poem Text First Line: There's a far wet way to the journey's end Last Line: Where the headboards show—sleep well, my friend! Subject(s): Sea Voyages; Storms LIFE ON THE LAKES: STORM Poem Text First Line: A chill creeps over the waters wide Last Line: The hurt call sounds four! Subject(s): Lightning; Rain; Storms; Weather; Lightning Rods NEWARK: 1666 Poem Text First Line: Sunset on the hills; with dark below Last Line: Thro' urgent years, the passaic knows. Subject(s): Newark, New Jersey NEWARK: 1766 Poem Text First Line: A flame thro' the whole great countryside Last Line: O little town of one hundred years! Subject(s): Newark, New Jersey; War NEWARK: 1866 Poem Text First Line: The dying roar of artillery Last Line: O city of two hundred years! Subject(s): History; New Jersey; Peace; War; Historians NEWARK: 1916 Poem Text First Line: Sheeted gas flaring down the hard-fought field Last Line: Thro' fifty and two hundred years! Subject(s): New Jersey; War PEACE AND WAR Poem Text First Line: Peace upon the wide-flung country-side Last Line: Wanted—men! Subject(s): Military Recruitment; War SPRING WILL COME Poem Text First Line: The sun called down to the northwind 'back!' Last Line: And spring has come! Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Seasons; Spring THE FUMFAY AND THE MOON Poem Text First Line: A little fumfay fell in love with the moon Last Line: But she'd been in love with the moon! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Memory THE LONG TRAIL: ANSWER Poem Text First Line: From the clearing's scope in the breaking wood Last Line: The motherland is calling the children home! Subject(s): Pioneers; Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips THE LONG TRAIL: CALLING THE CHILDREN HOME Poem Text First Line: So the long trail sleeps. But fast and far Last Line: Mother-mine calling the children home! Subject(s): Prairies; Roads; Plains; Paths; Trails THE LONG TRAIL: OUTWARD BOUND Poem Text First Line: Out on the long trail. The foam drifts back Last Line: These pioneers. Subject(s): Pioneers; Roads; Paths; Trails THE LONG TRAIL: THE CORN LANDS Poem Text First Line: And the corn-lands call! The long, long trail Last Line: From the soft blue haze of the timber line. Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life; Prairies; Roads; Agriculture; Farmers; Plains; Paths; Trails THE LONG TRAIL: THE GOLD RUSH Poem Text First Line: Now it's gold and gold! Last Line: And we strike it rich. Subject(s): Canyons; Prairies; Roads; Travel; Plains; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips THE LONG TRAIL: THE MOUNTAIN WALL Poem Text First Line: The long trail calls! Last Line: The snows drift deep thro' the closing night. Subject(s): Mountains; Roads; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips THE LONG TRAIL: THE PIONEERS Poem Text First Line: Thro' the breaking wood Last Line: With its call to new days. Subject(s): Pioneers; Roads; Paths; Trails THE LONG TRAIL: THE PRAIRIE FARM Poem Text First Line: Under the lifting ridges of smoke Last Line: Is come—is come! Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Labor & Laborers; Prairies; Roads; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Work; Workers; Plains; Paths; Trails THE LONG TRAIL: THE PRAIRIE FIRE Poem Text First Line: So the summer is done. Then high and higher Last Line: The back-fire's stifling, scarred retreat. Subject(s): Fire THE LONG TRAIL: THE RANGE Poem Text First Line: Or the dull gaze lifts Last Line: To warmer crests with their glimpse of sea. Subject(s): Cowboys; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE LONG TRAIL: THE SUMMER SEA Poem Text First Line: And the long trail sleeps by the summer sea Last Line: Calls to new harbors world-argosies. Subject(s): Summer THE LONG TRAIL: THE TIMBER Poem Text First Line: Hickory and walnut, the thicket's mass Last Line: Thro' open glades to splashing feet. Subject(s): Fields; Plums; Prairies; Roads; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Plum Trees; Plains; Paths; Trails THE OLD FARM Poem Text First Line: Oh, the old, old farm, and the old farm's joys! Last Line: "across the twilight's dusk and grey, still calls, ""come, boys, come in""!" Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Prairies; Agriculture; Farmers; Plains THE PATH OF GOLD Poem Text First Line: Dawn on the world's new shores. The path Last Line: O path of gold to human destiny! Subject(s): Freedom; Sailing & Sailors; Seashore; Liberty; Seamen; Sails; Beach; Coast; Shore THE ROCK PILE Poem Text First Line: Here is the rock pile; so, blow on blow Last Line: Do the birds sing? I do not know. Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery TO THE MASTERS OF 1917 Poem Text First Line: The task is done. The student look Last Line: By the touch of the master sanctified. Subject(s): Blood; Death; Pain; War; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery TO YOU WHO WENT Poem Text First Line: Out on the quest, o you who went Last Line: So fine the quest, we who are sent! Subject(s): Heroism; Soldiers; Victory; War; Heroes; Heroines VICARIOUS Poem Text First Line: The price? Youth laughs and life is very good Last Line: Demand of you, our great one, that you make good. Subject(s): Youth VIGNETTE FROM MEMORY Poem Text First Line: The late dusk settles heavy thro' Last Line: "I come in?" Subject(s): Memory Hillman, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author WHEN LUCIFER FLIES First Line: At night's dead hour Hodges, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author PROPOSAL Poem Text First Line: You will not know it, but I now have brought Last Line: And dwell there with me -- if for only a season. Hodges, Elizabeth Mary Ann 1 poems available by this author ANYTHING TO EARN A CRUST First Line: I thought, when I entered into life Last Line: Honesty is all my eye - %anything to earn a crust Holden, Elizabeth W. 1 poems available by this author STILLNESS First Line: Begins like a comma Last Line: With flowers, bloom star-faced, blue %pealing their sea deep silence Holgate, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author MERE MAN First Line: Churning counterclockwise Hollis, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author FRESH OLD MR. MOON First Line: Sometimes at night when I wake up Holmes, Elizabeth 28 poems available by this author AFTER A YARD SALE First Line: The items spurned by every soul Last Line: Real-estate-logo mugs for a solid dollar %and hoisted the box like a prize AFTER THE STORY'S END First Line: Even as a child I thought it %poor reward for wendy-so Last Line: She's truly flown at last, escaped %her childhood's haunting. Grown up BELLY First Line: The belly's big egg signals Last Line: A blaze of tulips: %open, open DOORSTEP First Line: Little mole, your mouth Last Line: Year by year, before %we blunder away DREAM BABIES First Line: Their skin is like an orchid Last Line: Peonies open screaming EARLY LABOR First Line: Down the hospital hall a minutes-old baby Last Line: A clap of thunder rattles the monitor Subject(s): Birth; Children; Hospitals EVEN YOUR FAULTS WERE CHARMING THEN First Line: The first crickets were occasional FATHERS First Line: Something's familiar about the villain Last Line: Pursued by that confident long-jawed beast, %time ticking loud in its belly FORMER SELVES First Line: Shameful, bad-tempered, bumptious, mean Last Line: Our painful shadows stitched to naked feet FOUR STANDS: 1 First Line: The man with the pruning shears walks Last Line: Under hand. The vine travels %too - blossoms doubled white %and yellow, sweet in their narrow hearts FOUR STANDS: 2 First Line: The vine follows, blooming Last Line: Humility though love %seeps across my brain %and thoughts leap %invisible hurdles - this %elegant ch FOUR STANDS: 3 First Line: What grows in the city grows Last Line: Abd broad o, even the word %lengthens like the future FOUR STANDS: 4 First Line: Often in pure stands' - how Last Line: Are plumes on hills that rise and coast like wings HERRING GULLS First Line: Cold snapped our stand Last Line: In the winter that matters, their iced bed IMPERATIVE First Line: I practice a shined-up waiting Last Line: I hush my breath to keep it vlowing JACKET PHOTOGRAPH First Line: She's wearing a thin-strapped %low-cut something, her clavicle Last Line: Like the discreet nod of soloist to conductor %like a brief bow to desire on every side KANSAN LOOKS AT TREES IN THE EAST First Line: They look like they're sucking up life Last Line: You see the weather coming MOM First Line: It's hard for me to speak the words NOT ME, I'M NOT Last Line: In the noonday dark PATIENCE OF THE CLOUD PHOTOGRAPHER First Line: Some days just happen, the way Last Line: The best life is change PREGNANT AND FAR GONE First Line: Make me a hollow in the mountains Last Line: Split me open SECOND BIRTH First Line: Surely no worse to be that pioneer Last Line: A couple of good-sized steaks, well done Subject(s): Birth SONOGRAM First Line: To call you baby is the wildest Last Line: While your heart gapes, already %wanting everything Subject(s): Sonograms TAKING A HISTORY First Line: On the nurse's chart I am the point Last Line: Slow boom, haunting the background TALE OF THE FAN First Line: On the hottest days her apartment Last Line: Other end, the matte black fan said %no and no, whirring itsone-eyed head THINGS PAST First Line: I keep them over Last Line: When the hurled grains %hung clear fire, and %could not be called back VISION FOR AN EARLY ASYLUM First Line: A place in the country where thoughts Last Line: A half-dozen willful kinds, intractably %purple and blue and gold WOMAN AND TWO RUGS First Line: She makes the yellow rug and the orange Holt, Elizabeth Kendrick 1 poems available by this author DOWNS AND DUNES First Line: The downs are out at gloucester Last Line: September paints the downs and dunes %and goes her ancient way House, Elizabeth 3 poems available by this author BETWEEN THE CURLS First Line: The people in my life are few MY REJECTION SLIP IS SHOWING First Line: There upon my desk they're waiting RESCUED FLOWER First Line: The old man walked with measured step Howard, Elizabeth 3 poems available by this author LAMENT First Line: That's little man moseley handcuffed Last Line: Not even in self-defense as he claims Subject(s): Funerals; Prisons And Prisoners LESSON First Line: Girl, your lithe legs are taking %you headlong toward regret, the man Last Line: The night winds blow cold QUINTON First Line: I have to run, an appointment Last Line: I held him in my arms; %we cried together Subject(s): Classmates; Physicians; Schools; Sympathy Howard, Elizabeth F. 1 poems available by this author WAY First Line: Because thou art the way Howe, Susan Elizabeth 47 poems available by this author ALTERNATIVES TO WINTER First Line: One bitter dawn, walk Last Line: To tether him, guide him back ANOTHER AUTUMN First Line: This pear is the shape of my womb Last Line: Crosswise, through the heart APPETITES First Line: When I was fifteen, my thighs pale Last Line: Muttering pork chop, pork chop ARCHANGEL First Line: Stone spirit Last Line: The physics of sunrise BIG TRADITION First Line: When you marry into this family COMING TO BIRTH First Line: I imagine those above us Last Line: To the delicious breast DEATH OF A GUPPY First Line: It was all Last Line: Food I have %yes, eaten DEEP CANYON, LATE NIGHT First Line: When my husband drives the dark Last Line: To point out the safest way home DEER PASS THROUGH THE DUSK First Line: Like old memories- %half-imagined, half-real Last Line: Toward evening %but the shadow's substance DOGS OF RARAMOUCHI First Line: Carina, negro, and lobo, the girl calls them Last Line: In four directions. Believe it. Don't ask %the source of our velvet excess FEEDING First Line: I am walking my puppy Last Line: Shiver, exposed, blind-sided %by a swift, keen hunger FIGHTING WITH MY MOTHER First Line: My mother, riding Last Line: Sometimes it is FLYING AT NIGHT First Line: Although we are putting it off Last Line: There are forces building up FREAK ACCIDENT CLAIMS RHINO First Line: She blundered to her death, like a woman Last Line: To the body -- heave and throe %heave and throe GIRL WITH THE MANDOLIN First Line: When you see the painting she comes Last Line: Too young to refuse or give permission IN THE CEMETERY, STUDYING EMBRYOS First Line: The dead around here Last Line: Translucent and budding, curl up Subject(s): Cemeteries INSOMNIAC First Line: The serial killer Last Line: To live out my life LARGE, AMERICAN GALLINACEOUS BIRD' First Line: Think of the turkeys in the turkey sheds Last Line: Guests with what sounds like the welcome %pitiful, pitiful, pitiful LESSONS OF EROSION First Line: To hike to the spires, you climb Last Line: Than how the land needs you, %saliva, blood, bile LETTER TO MY HUSBAND, SENT FROM IRELAND First Line: You would like this kitchen-it tilts Last Line: In which the wasp died LIBERTY ENLIGHTENING THE WORLD: THE STATUE HAS HER SAY First Line: Men are always doing it -- conceiving Last Line: Always going numb Subject(s): Statue Of Liberty MANTIS First Line: Leaf and stick, stick-brown Last Line: Five inches long, every day growing MARY KEEPS ALL THESE THINGS First Line: I stir the innkeeper's sympathy Last Line: Of this small and brilliant life MOUNTAIN PSALM First Line: We didn't come here to pray Last Line: In the clean moment, on the legitimate rock MOUNTAINS BEHIND HER First Line: When she appears %there are always mountains behind her Last Line: As for the others, the narrator reports, %they never reach the summit Subject(s): Fairy Tales NIGHT JOGGING IN THE CITY First Line: No stars, but there is weather Last Line: Somebody's womb against time NOR AM I WHO I WAS THEN First Line: Far north in the county Last Line: Of my imagination ON LOSING MY CAMERA BELOW DEAD HORSE POINT First Line: I would really like to know Last Line: Hope for, what I already love PALEONTOLOGIST WITH AN EAR INFECTION First Line: I am hearing through my bones Last Line: Of the mortal fights its way out and in PILL ON THE CARPET First Line: I pick it up outside the restroom door Last Line: For the woe that is in life' REAL THING First Line: Strawberry days, summer festival Last Line: The win-a-glass crystal cup SEXUAL EVOLUTION First Line: We live on the bottom Last Line: The surface, washed themselves up SOPHIA WHISPERS First Line: Just before dawn you lie on a cot Last Line: In this tension between wave and sky, this balanced %surfacethat always proceeds from depth STOLEN TELEVISION SET First Line: At the seaview retirement home, the elderly Last Line: Throb of comfort like a dark, first home SUMMER DAYS, A PAINTING BY GEORGIA O'KEEFFE First Line: The skull of an elk is the center -- parched, cleaned Last Line: Eyeless sockets and the silent, imminent skull Subject(s): Mormons TELEPHONING CHINA First Line: Is an act of faith: trust enough numbers Last Line: A thin, wavering arc over the world THINGS IN THE NIGHT SKY First Line: First the deepening of elements we long for Last Line: Receiving infinite differences %dark centers of bright stars Subject(s): Mormons TIGER EATING A EUROPEAN First Line: Most exquisite toy, whimsey and revenge Last Line: Makes the tiger growl, the european scream TO A RECREATIONAL PARACHUTIST First Line: Humans imagined flight Last Line: And the great bloom %of the earth, rising TO MY BROTHER IN HIS CASKET First Line: Across the vast distance of the funeral Last Line: Nor what it was that I had hoped to know TO THE MAKER OF THESE PETROGLYPHS First Line: Chipping your lines into stone Last Line: And show a people shattered %never whole WE LIVE IN THE ROADSIDE MOTEL First Line: Five days in elko in january Last Line: Where soft things with tender %bellies can hide out WHAT TAKES THE PLACE OF THE BODY First Line: A widow, she trusts her house Last Line: On her children and herself WHY I AM A WITCH First Line: Because each october the maple in the field WISDOM OF THE PYROTECHNICIAN First Line: Bombs are the biggest Last Line: But sheltered his sleeping son WOMAN WHOSE BROOCH I STOLE First Line: She hadn't hoped to be lifted after passing Last Line: Coming through in pink glitter and gold Subject(s): Mormons YOUR LUCK IS ABOUT TO CHANGE' First Line: Ominous inscrutable chinese news Last Line: Then savor the newborn babe Subject(s): Christmas; Fortune Tellers; Luck Howell, Elizabeth Lloyd 1 poems available by this author MILTON'S PRAYER [OF PATIENCE, OR, IN BLINDNESS] Poem Text First Line: I am old and blind! Last Line: Lit by no skill of mine. Variant Title(s): Old And Blind Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Religion; Theology Howkins, Elizabeth 2 poems available by this author HEIST First Line: The moon %stretches a bandanna of light Last Line: Pocketing the last dry leaves %like crisp bills Subject(s): Forests MILAGRO First Line: One wore a dress the color of river Last Line: The boys soccer team to brazil Hubbard, Elizabeth Ingram 1 poems available by this author CATHOLIC PSALM First Line: Bordered by bluff and meadow, reflecting a golden day Ireland, Mary Elizabeth Haines 1 poems available by this author SUNDAY SCHOOL TRUANT First Line: One time, when dressed for sunday-school Irving, Elizabeth Mansfield 1 poems available by this author MEDLEY First Line: On linden, when the sun was low Isler, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author THE LITTLE THINGS Poem Text First Line: Men cannot guess the things they do Last Line: That burn unnoticed, quietly. Subject(s): Men Jacobson, Elizabeth 2 poems available by this author FOURTEEN MONTHS, A MAN WITH DEXTERITY First Line: My boy with his obsidian eyes, a face of berries Last Line: And bites into my breast as if it were a nectarine Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) I NEVER WANTED ON FOR SEX First Line: Being on the opposite end of the pole Last Line: Every target a bulls-eye, unmissable like hitting yourself in the face Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology) Jaeger, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author CROAK Poem Text First Line: When it darkens and rains Last Line: With relish I croak in my nook. Subject(s): Likes & Dislikes; Pleasure Jamison, Elizabeth 2 poems available by this author CLOUD CHILD First Line: Know what I think, aunt jane? TROUBLE IN THE TREE-TOP First Line: Little bird, mother bird, why is such a flurry? Jennings, Elizabeth 75 poems available by this author ABSENCE Poem Text First Line: I visited the place where we last met Last Line: Were shaken by my thinking of your name Subject(s): Life Change Events AFTERNOON IN FLORENCE First Line: This afternoon disturbs within the mind AFTERTHOUGHT First Line: For weeks before it comes I feel excited, yet when it Subject(s): Christmas AGO First Line: Old %few years more attend me, I am redundant Subject(s): Old Age ANIMALS' ARRIVAL First Line: So they came %grubbing, rooting, barking, sniffing Last Line: They slept for the waiting day ANNUNCIATION First Line: Nothing will ease the pain to come Last Line: And great salvations grip her side Subject(s): Christmas ANSWERS First Line: I kept my answers small and kept them near Last Line: And all the great conclusions coming near BEECH First Line: They will not go. These leaves insist on staying Last Line: Now half-forgotten, no part of a tree? Subject(s): Environment; Trees BEYOND POSSESSION First Line: Our images withdraw, the rose returns CHILD AND THE SHADOW First Line: Your shadow I have seen you play with often CHOICES First Line: Inside the room I see the table laid Last Line: Into that room. We need each other's need CHOICES First Line: Inside the room I see the table laid Last Line: Into that room. We need each other's need CLIMBERS First Line: To the cold peak without their careful women COMMUNICATION First Line: No use to speak, no good to tell you that DEATH First Line: His face shone' she said Last Line: Rather to please us were the flowers she gave DELAY Poem Text First Line: The radiance of that star leans on me Last Line: And love arrived may find us somewhere else Subject(s): Love; Patience; Stars; Time DISGUISES First Line: Always we have believed ENEMIES First Line: Last night they came across the river and ENGLISH WILD FLOWERS First Line: Forget the latin names; the english ones Last Line: An eden summer, this flower-rich creation Subject(s): Environment; Fields ESCAPE AND RETURN First Line: Now from the darkness of myself FANTASY First Line: Tree without a leaf I stand Last Line: Nothing on account of love FATHER TO SON First Line: I do not understand this child FISH'S WARNING First Line: Stay by the water, stand on your shadow, stare Last Line: I am frail for your finding but one whom only the night can drown Subject(s): Animals FLORENCE: DESIGN FOR A CITY First Line: Take one bowl, one valley FOR A CHILD BORN DEAD First Line: What ceremony can we fit Last Line: That grief can be as pure as this Subject(s): Life Change Events; Women FOR A GENTLE FRIEND First Line: I have come to where the deep words are Last Line: And marvel at the quiet good he's done Subject(s): Life Change Events FOR EDWARD THOMAS First Line: I have looked about for you many times Last Line: Upon cool suns, your words the play %of stars with water, your dark - mine Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) FOUNTAIN First Line: Let it disturb no more at first Last Line: Panicked by no perception of ourselves %but drawing the water down to the deepest wonder FOUNTAIN First Line: Let it disturb no more at first Last Line: But drawing the water down to the deepest wonder FRAGMENT FOR THE DARK First Line: Let it not come near me, let it not Last Line: May their filaments last till true morning GHOSTS First Line: Those houses haunt in which we leave Subject(s): Travel HARVEST AND CONSECRATION First Line: After the heaped piles and the cornsheaves waiting HER GARDEN First Line: Not at the full moon will she pick those flowers Last Line: Whether it is the flowers' life or her death IDENTITY First Line: When I decide I shall assemble you IDLER First Line: An idler holds that rose as always rose Subject(s): Idleness IN A GARDEN First Line: When the gardener has gone his garden Last Line: I did. Sickness for eden was so strong Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening IN THE NIGHT First Line: Out of my window late at night I gape Last Line: I turn and the world turns on the other side Subject(s): Night INTO THE HOUR First Line: I have come into the hour of a white healing Last Line: Around, ahead. I need not ask its meaning LETTER TO PETER LEVI First Line: Reading your poems I am aware Last Line: And then it is our world which is fragile: %you toss it like a juggler Subject(s): Levi, Peter; Poetry And Poets; Strength LOVE POEM First Line: There is a shyness that we have Last Line: For love is quiet, and love is kind Subject(s): Life Change Events MEDITATION ON THE NATIVITY First Line: All gods and goddesses, all looked up to Last Line: A maid, a child, god young Subject(s): Christianity MEN FISHING IN THE ARNO First Line: I do not know what they are catching Subject(s): Travel MIRRORS First Line: Was it a mirror then across a room MUSIC AND WORDS First Line: No human singing can Subject(s): Singing And Singers MY GRANDMOTHER First Line: She kept an antique shop - or it kept her Last Line: Only the new dust falling through the air Subject(s): Grandparents NIGHT GARDEN OF THE ASYLUM First Line: An owl's call scrapes the stillness Last Line: We are in witchcraft, bedevilled Subject(s): Depression, Mental NOT FOR USE First Line: A little of summer spilled over, ran Last Line: Was what I was thinking of NOT IN THE GUIDE-BOOKS First Line: Nobody stays here long OLD MAN First Line: His age drawn out behind him to be watched ON ITS OWN First Line: Never the same and all again Last Line: Love is its own and not again ON ITS OWN First Line: Never the same and all again Last Line: Love is its own and not again ONE FLESH First Line: Lying apart now, each in a separate bed Last Line: These two who are my father and my mother %whose fire from which I came, has now grown cold? Subject(s): Aging; Parents; Women PARTING First Line: Though there was nothing final then PERFORMANCE OF HENRY V AT STRATFORD-UPON-AVON First Line: Nature teaches us our tongue again Last Line: Out in this place but can renew our tongue, %flesh out our feeling, make us apt for life Subject(s): Dramatists; Language; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) REMBRANDT'S LATE SELF-PORTRAITS First Line: You are confronted with yourself. Each year Last Line: What each must reckon with Subject(s): Death; Rembrandt Harmensz Van Riij (1606-1669) ROOM First Line: This room I know so well becomes SECOND WORLD WAR First Line: The voice said 'we are at war' Last Line: Of what our world waited for Subject(s): Women SECRET BROTHER First Line: Jack lived in the green-house Last Line: And my brother making %our own secret sign Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural SONG AT THE BEGINNING OF AUTUMN First Line: Now watch this autumn that arrives Last Line: When I said autumn, autumn broke Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons SONG FOR A DEPARTURE First Line: Could you indeed come lightly Last Line: And haunt them when you depart SONNET First Line: Run home all cliches, let the deep words come Last Line: Now only darkness is my sky, my view SPRINGTIME FOR LOUISE First Line: Child of no sex or sense Last Line: But now you learn each sound %for the sweet singing's sake %and walk on holy ground STORM First Line: Right in the middle of the storm it was TERESA OF AVILA First Line: Spain. The wild dust, the whipped corn, earth easy THINKING OF LOVE First Line: That desire is quite over TO A FRIEND WITH A RELIGIOUS VOCATION First Line: Thinking of your vocation, I am filled Last Line: Vocations, visions fail, the will grows slack %and I am stunned by silence everywhere Subject(s): Religion TRANSFORMATION First Line: Always I trip myself up when I try Last Line: Trusting myself, I enter night, stars, moon UGLY CHILD First Line: I heard them say I'm ugly Last Line: They don't - because I'm me WATER MUSIC First Line: What I looked for was a place where water Last Line: Let my last journey be to sounds of water Subject(s): Rivers WAY OF LOOKING First Line: It is the association after all WAY OF WORDS AND LANGUAGE First Line: When you are lost Last Line: And you will not say 'that is mine WEATHERCOCK First Line: A hard tin bird was my lover WINTER LOVE First Line: Let us have winter loving that the heart Subject(s): Travel WORLD OF LIGHT First Line: Yes when the dark withdrew I suffered light YOUNG ONES First Line: They slip on to the bus, hair piled up high Last Line: So many ways to be unsure or bold Jester, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author JOYS OF SUMMER First Line: Who's more joyful than a child Last Line: To scold or lecture even once? %who? Their teacher Johnson, Elizabeth 2 poems available by this author BE MY KID BLUES First Line: If you be my kid : I'll be your teddy bear Last Line: Sleep with my man : if it kills me dead Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SOBBIN' WOMAN BLUES First Line: Oh I ain't got : no easy rider now Last Line: Keep me worried : bothered all the time Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) Johnson, Elizabeth Ray 2 poems available by this author CRYSTAL UNCLEAR First Line: It was an apple cider black out Last Line: Coke he liked the sale and he like to say %be careful of where your feet are taking you WHAT YOU WANT First Line: I ordered a gigolo for my 26th year Last Line: Thieves groping for the release and the man I ordered %to bethe statue of its indifference Jones, Elizabeth Warren 3 poems available by this author I COULD Poem Text First Line: I could live riotously / from sun to sun Last Line: As moonlight on a frosted sill. Subject(s): Free Will & Determinism ONE WOMAN Poem Text First Line: She never bent Last Line: God lives -- and understands! Subject(s): Women WHEN YEARS HAVE PASSED Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924) Jones, Mary Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author WHEN SUNSET OVERTAKES ME Poem Text Last Line: And button it with clover. Subject(s): Time Jordan, Elizabeth Goodrich 1 poems available by this author GRANDMOTHER'S COTTAGE First Line: As I climbed the hill this morning Last Line: Yes, it must be I was dreaming, %as I climbed the hill today Katz, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author ELEGY FOR A DIVER First Line: Maybe this is what the last moments were like Last Line: His hands against your diving mask Kaup, Elizabeth Dewing Alternate Author Name(s): Dewing, Elizabeth Bartol; Dewing, E. B. 3 poems available by this author SONGS OF THE WIVES OF SOLOMON: THE ESCAPE Poem Text First Line: I have run through the great gates of the garden into Last Line: Remained in the shining garden alone in the spring night. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Spring SONGS OF THE WIVES OF SOLOMON: THE SWORD Poem Text First Line: The great sword is broken, beloved Last Line: And walk with me in the way that the sword could not close? Subject(s): Pain; Swords; Suffering; Misery SONGS OF THE WIVES OF SOLOMON: VARIATIONS Poem Text First Line: He says I am fair among fair women Last Line: For an hour of that which I have not. Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives Kay, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author PHOENIX First Line: A thousand miles and two world wars Last Line: My father opens the door- %and, smiling, sets it free Keith, Elizabeth Whittemore 1 poems available by this author NEW ENGLAND First Line: Heart-sick for home, they named their towns Last Line: Names like a cry from a burdened heart %bringing a breath of home Kemf, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author PRIMAVERA First Line: The first time I saw you dance Kempf, Elizabeth 2 poems available by this author SECOND CHANGE SONG First Line: If I ever get a baby in my belly again Subject(s): Death - Children TUESDAY MORNING I WAS TRANSPORTED TO A ROOM Subject(s): Death - Children Kendrick, Hephzibah Elizabeth Spencer 1 poems available by this author AMERICA'S PEACE CRY Poem Text First Line: O lord god of hosts, give ear to our prayer Last Line: To the glorious dawn, of the world's peace day! Subject(s): Peace; Prayer Kennedy, Imogene Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author ONE DAY Last Line: Which is the same hour fader's prayer Subject(s): Jamaica, West Indies Kerlikowske, Elizabeth 4 poems available by this author ACCEPTANCE SPEECH First Line: What can I do when I hate my city, kalamazoo? Last Line: I accepted that and kalamazoo %I accept you BROTHER / SISTER First Line: It was the same kind of way CLOSING THE CABIN First Line: A boarded door swings open in the afternoon Last Line: This crumbling trunk than the oldest limb? DOC IS NOT A GOD AGAINST THE SNOW First Line: Standing with a flock of crows Last Line: Trailing crows like kite rags Kessler, Elizabeth Porter 1 poems available by this author SANTY ISN'T SANTY CLAUS Poem Text First Line: Maybe you think santy claus Last Line: He's just a lot of men. Subject(s): Christmas; Santa Claus; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint Khan, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author SELECTIVE MEMORY First Line: Your cousin neena, the one who kept asking me Last Line: It's only you I have forgotten Kinney, Elizabeth Clementine Dodge Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Stedman, Edmund Burke, Mrs. 13 poems available by this author A DREAM Poem Text First Line: Twas summer, and the spot a cool retreat Last Line: "can change it to the fount which maketh green my own." A WINTER NIGHT Poem Text First Line: How calm, how solemn, how sublime the scene! Last Line: This cold, this beautiful, this mournful winter night! CULTIVATION Poem Text First Line: Weeds grow unasked, and even some sweet flowers Last Line: But thoughts are plants whose stately growth is slow. DIVIDENT HILL Poem Text First Line: Pause here, o muse! That fancy's eye Last Line: Their heaven-built monument. Subject(s): Heroism; Mountains; Heroes; Heroines; Hills; Downs (great Britain) ENCOURAGEMENT Poem Text First Line: When first peeps out from earth the modest vine Last Line: And to the future flowers immortal give. FADING AUTUMN Poem Text First Line: Th' autumnal glories all have passed away! Last Line: We'll cease to sigh for summer's living green. MOONLIGHT IN ITALY Poem Text First Line: There's not a breath the dewy leaves to stir Last Line: The sense of worship into uttered praise. Subject(s): Italy; Moon; Italians MOUNT HOPE CEMETERY, ROCHESTER Poem Text First Line: Come hither, ye who fear the grave, and call it lone and drear Last Line: Till the last trump should bid it rise, to see a father, god! THE BLIND PSALMIST Poem Text First Line: He sang the airs of olden times Last Line: And in thy songs, find speech. THE QUAKERESS BRIDE Poem Text First Line: No, not in the halls of the noble and proud Last Line: "I am thine!" Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Quakers THE QUAKERS BRIDE Poem Text First Line: Oh! Not in the halls of the noble and proud Last Line: "as the quakeress bride's -- ""until death I am thine." THE SPIRIT OF SONG Poem Text First Line: Eternal fame! Thy great rewards Last Line: And grows by utterance strong. TO THE BOY Poem Text First Line: Thou happiest thing alive Last Line: By earth's discordant things. Subject(s): Boys Kirby, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author SONG OF FAIRIES First Line: Oh, the beauty of the world is in this garden Kirschner, Elizabeth 28 poems available by this author AT GILSON POND First Line: The last days of august show us Last Line: Bright as pansies, the dazzle that delivers us, %like a wildguess, from one day to the next AT THE STONE ZOO First Line: Sunk in a spirit which mysteries her Last Line: Devour its pink, dewy litter in darkness %lasting to enstory her BLUENESS OF STARS First Line: The stars, the implacable stars Last Line: To move about again in slow %deliberate circles, numb %as a thumb, this strange %inward, flighty %th BUILT WITH THE SAME BEAUTY First Line: For once I let the universe be large Last Line: Though bound in the beautiful %failings of flesh CIRCADIA First Line: Up beyond the town line and the plow line Last Line: Refusal to fly away from winter CORNERSTONE FARM Poem Text First Line: Dolor of the ruined barn Subject(s): Milk; Milkmen; Milkmaids FALL OF LIGHT First Line: I believe if I look over my shoulder Last Line: The birds. Their flight, upsweeping %toward light, toward air FAUX DOE First Line: Pointed toward the woods Last Line: Is always on the verge of escape GIVE HER A GREATER I AM First Line: Evenings, the white cuffs %of lily's nightgown are moist Last Line: Wants to creep within %wet black green earth GREAT MEADOWS First Line: When my husband %first brought me here Last Line: That urge each into being %what it must GREY NIGHT, GREY DAY First Line: When I slipped out of time Last Line: Hearts long broken, give in, give over, give HAIKU First Line: This is how the dream wanted it Last Line: While I look on, hands on my belly %as if they had been born there HATBOX First Line: Wood thrushes fill the buildings Last Line: Newly risen from dreams so beautiful as to unearth her %while deer come to feed at her feet IF THE MORNING MEANT WAKING First Line: Lily would not toss, untouched- %her nipples, dark clitoral eyes Last Line: As cupped peaches-do not weep!-love cannot be %clouds torn into effigies LAKE OF HER GIRLHOOD First Line: Lured by breezes, lily lags among birches Last Line: Like a tiny hymn or a red amen without answer LIFE IN THE ORPHANAGE First Line: You're not out of the woods of this deadly Last Line: The dead, which once a year confused me %by turning green MONSTROUS MISTAKES First Line: Once I was among horses, my tiny house Last Line: Whenever another female succumbed %to the saga of long-standing birth NOT FAR FROM HERE First Line: Before me is a tree OLD ENOUGH TO STOP BEARING CHILDREN First Line: Lily walks, debauched %by breezes that stir Last Line: Whose slow feet meter %woodsy decay ON THE NIGHT OF FALLING COMETS First Line: My childhood surrounded me - a version Last Line: Is pinned to her hair. She washes wounds %wide as boats - huge, blue and blessed ORDAINED TO MAR HER WITH THE EROTIC First Line: Emile moves lily %into rented rooms- %in one corner Last Line: The secondhand cups %in the old glass cupboards OUT OF HIS RIBS First Line: Someone's father is dying- %he is not here, only Last Line: Recalls her name from childhood, %repeats it in his ear POSTAL ROUTES First Line: I imagine packages coming to me in the dark, thudding Last Line: State on earth, who draw us into figures %we shall remain RED DOOR First Line: Andrew, to whom lily is newly wed Last Line: Trundling in their own fertility SHAMELESS LIGHT First Line: I miss none of them: my family, blood Last Line: My own blinking wildly while whole, lavish seconds %go by SWAY First Line: Salamanders drift Last Line: In soft surprise %love aches and latitude Subject(s): Bodies; Lizards TIPPING BACK First Line: I stya with the shadow Last Line: My mother, as usual, angry %in the darkened house TWO BLUE SWANS First Line: My mother and father are two wounds, hanging Last Line: And so, I am the afterlife, the glow %they felt when young and in love. %when nearing for that first Knapp, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author INTERVIEW WITH AN ECHO First Line: What time of year was it? %october Last Line: Eternities of this. Then the confluence Knies, Elizabeth 25 poems available by this author ABSENCE First Line: You have withdrawn Last Line: Like a path to a sepulchre ANIMALS First Line: Come to us %from paradise Last Line: A little awkwardly %without a word ARCHITECTURE First Line: The space in the square Last Line: This space this shape this thought BEAST First Line: When I got out it was awful Last Line: I would never be the same CHARM First Line: Now you have gone Last Line: Hold back the dark CIRCLES First Line: The light at this hour Last Line: Transforms %into another day COULD IT BE First Line: Could it be that you will never change, even here Last Line: And you look down laughing on your mutability FALLEN AMONG THIEVES First Line: It was at great expense, great personal expense Last Line: You did not even deceive me GREEN First Line: It is not the right color green Last Line: And it holds nothing, like all false coins GUARDIAN First Line: Cannot you hear the chirping crickets sending Last Line: They are set out on lawns like keepsakes HIGH SEA First Line: I write you letters and my words don't say what I want them to %say Last Line: Far out on the open sea over the breathing earth HYDRANGEAS IN EARLY FALL First Line: The bowl of hydrangeas is turbulent as clouds Last Line: And open onto the sea, like balconies IN WINTER First Line: The earth is lightly held in winter Last Line: Necessity lends them repose INTERSTICES First Line: Cold room winter Last Line: Plants in sun MEDITATION First Line: Here, once more, and as if for the first time Last Line: Forever, and now in these verses, coming to NEW YEAR First Line: I cannot find my way Last Line: Unable to conceive of the crossing-over NO MORE First Line: There will be no more surprises Last Line: They cannot be expected to console OSCURA First Line: I study your profile against the light Last Line: And the sky doubles down over you and them POSSESSIONS First Line: I have %a plain desk in a room Last Line: Of birds, the patience of vows SOME SIGNS First Line: The kingfisher on the wire is intellectual Last Line: Peer curiously out, small as pets SONATINA First Line: You do not hear me conversing with my cats Last Line: Push into my heart like a vase THERE First Line: In a land bounded by blue rivers Last Line: They would live according to the shape of the land TO A FRIEND, NOW FAR AWAY First Line: The mountains' blue smoke tells me you are gone Last Line: Will it be in this century? WITHIN THE YEAR First Line: I make my circular way %along the cliffs Last Line: Burn %at the center YOU ARE MY EYES Last Line: Of simple light and air Kolts, Elizabeth Thornton 2 poems available by this author I LOVE THE SEASONED THINGS Poem Text First Line: I like the weather-beaten things in life Last Line: I love the seasoned things of life. Subject(s): Likes & Dislikes YALLER ROSES Poem Text First Line: Honey, bring de yaller roses Last Line: To de lonely heart dat grieves. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses Kostova, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author SUDDENLY I REALIZED I WAS SITTING First Line: I was entirely - let me start again. I was entirely unsure how the situation Last Line: This case, however, I realized suddenly that I was sitting on Kroeter, Doris Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author OZARKS PICTURESQUE Poem Text First Line: Purpling hills, with silver mist enshrining Last Line: Thanking god that beauty fills his soul. Subject(s): Beauty; Ozarks (mountains) Kuhlman, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author IN A WORD First Line: The male domestic fowl Last Line: Raises his crowned head Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Violence Lamb, Elizabeth Searle 323 poems available by this author 39 BLOSSOMS First Line: The morning glory vine Last Line: Leaving all the morning glories closed AGAINST THE BLUE OF SKY First Line: With broken blades Last Line: Letting in only a sliver %of moon AMAZONIA First Line: A dolphin leaps Last Line: For something to die CASTING INTO A CLOUD: CONCERT AT LORETTO CHAPEL First Line: The door still closed Last Line: By the weathered gravestone %new snow CASTING INTO A CLOUD: CREEDE, COLORADO First Line: Field of wild iris Last Line: Into my backpack CASTING INTO A CLOUD: INDIAN MARKET, SANTA FE: 1 First Line: In her bright velvet dress Last Line: On his wooden flute CASTING INTO A CLOUD: INDIAN MARKET, SANTA FE: 2 First Line: All the beaded cradleboards Last Line: Driving under the raven flying over its shadow CASTING INTO A CLOUD: SAN ILDEFONSO PUEBLO First Line: Behind the pueblo %the presence of black mesa Last Line: Adjusting it, she tunes in %on crickets CASTING INTO A CLOUD: SANTA FE AUTUMN First Line: All night %singing in the bathroom Last Line: That dark guttural sound %his shadow CASTING INTO A CLOUD: SANTA FE SPRING First Line: Before firstlight Last Line: On her own shadow CASTING INTO A CLOUD: SANTA FE WINTER First Line: The first fall of snow Last Line: Snowy fields soak up the sound %black shadow CASTING INTO A CLOUD: SOUTHWEST SUMMER First Line: One white iris: %a bumblebee pulls his droning Last Line: Above our lady of guadalupe %the painted roses FLOATING MARKET OF IQUITOS, PERU First Line: Fetid smells Last Line: Under this full moon FOR LAFCADIO HEARN First Line: Out of the east %a dried maple leaf slips Last Line: - having no persimmon tree - %for lafcadio hearn FOR RAYMOND ROSELIEP 1917-1983 First Line: So many years %since you left Last Line: The blackness %of night sky FOUR FOR CAROLYN & MICHAEL: 1 First Line: The red leaves Last Line: The water sound FOUR FOR CAROLYN & MICHAEL: 2 First Line: Taking a deep breath Last Line: Of raked pebbles GEORGIA O'KEEFFE'S CLIFFS: KASEN RENKU: 1 First Line: Georgia o'keeffe Last Line: Across the cliffs GEORGIA O'KEEFFE'S CLIFFS: KASEN RENKU: 10 First Line: He snaps the photo Last Line: Just as she turns GEORGIA O'KEEFFE'S CLIFFS: KASEN RENKU: 11 First Line: He snaps the photo Last Line: Just as she turns GEORGIA O'KEEFFE'S CLIFFS: KASEN RENKU: 12 First Line: The japanese windchimes Last Line: A whispering of sound GEORGIA O'KEEFFE'S CLIFFS: KASEN RENKU: 13 First Line: No rain Last Line: Smell of sage GEORGIA O'KEEFFE'S CLIFFS: KASEN RENKU: 14 First Line: Of course it rises there Last Line: This full moon of autumn GEORGIA O'KEEFFE'S CLIFFS: KASEN RENKU: 15 First Line: A hacking cough Last Line: Of the election booth GEORGIA O'KEEFFE'S CLIFFS: KASEN RENKU: 16 First Line: The phone stops ringing Last Line: Just as I reach it GEORGIA O'KEEFFE'S CLIFFS: KASEN RENKU: 17 First Line: Dried statice, yellow Last Line: Without scent GEORGIA O'KEEFFE'S CLIFFS: KASEN RENKU: 18 First Line: A smiling buddha Last Line: Presides from his corner GEORGIA O'KEEFFE'S CLIFFS: KASEN RENKU: 19 First Line: Steam rises Last Line: Snowing outside GEORGIA O'KEEFFE'S CLIFFS: KASEN RENKU: 2 First Line: Fossil shell Last Line: In my daughter's palm GEORGIA O'KEEFFE'S CLIFFS: KASEN RENKU: 20 First Line: Taste of anise Last Line: In the crescent-shaped cookies GEORGIA O'KEEFFE'S CLIFFS: KASEN RENKU: 21 First Line: A rock squirrel Last Line: #name? GEORGIA O'KEEFFE'S CLIFFS: KASEN RENKU: 22 First Line: Horse chestnuts hidden Last Line: In my daughter's lunchbox GEORGIA O'KEEFFE'S CLIFFS: KASEN RENKU: 23 First Line: Pinning up Last Line: Hum of the fridge GEORGIA O'KEEFFE'S CLIFFS: KASEN RENKU: 24 First Line: Old spiderwebs Last Line: And a fraying broom GEORGIA O'KEEFFE'S CLIFFS: KASEN RENKU: 25 First Line: In the corner Last Line: Both eyes missing GEORGIA O'KEEFFE'S CLIFFS: KASEN RENKU: 26 First Line: Industrial glare Last Line: Obscures the cattail marsh GEORGIA O'KEEFFE'S CLIFFS: KASEN RENKU: 27 First Line: March wind Last Line: Dragon kites GEORGIA O'KEEFFE'S CLIFFS: KASEN RENKU: 28 First Line: Lunar eclipse Last Line: Birds sleep at noon GEORGIA O'KEEFFE'S CLIFFS: KASEN RENKU: 29 First Line: Such a silence Last Line: Tossed in the ditch GEORGIA O'KEEFFE'S CLIFFS: KASEN RENKU: 3 First Line: Pale hollyhocks Last Line: A butterfly GEORGIA O'KEEFFE'S CLIFFS: KASEN RENKU: 30 First Line: Rush of cold water Last Line: Irrigation ditch opens GEORGIA O'KEEFFE'S CLIFFS: KASEN RENKU: 31 First Line: I miss him Last Line: Without geraniums GEORGIA O'KEEFFE'S CLIFFS: KASEN RENKU: 32 First Line: Made of chocolate Last Line: These two valentines GEORGIA O'KEEFFE'S CLIFFS: KASEN RENKU: 33 First Line: Shadow of finches Last Line: And scattered seed GEORGIA O'KEEFFE'S CLIFFS: KASEN RENKU: 34 First Line: A patch of old snow Last Line: Lingers into spring GEORGIA O'KEEFFE'S CLIFFS: KASEN RENKU: 35 First Line: But what about Last Line: We saw together? GEORGIA O'KEEFFE'S CLIFFS: KASEN RENKU: 36 First Line: The new lambs frolic Last Line: In the south meadow GEORGIA O'KEEFFE'S CLIFFS: KASEN RENKU: 4 First Line: Abstract sculpture in steel Last Line: Bisects thundercloud sky GEORGIA O'KEEFFE'S CLIFFS: KASEN RENKU: 5 First Line: After rain Last Line: Pine-scented air GEORGIA O'KEEFFE'S CLIFFS: KASEN RENKU: 6 First Line: Mourning doves coo Last Line: Your voice long-distance tonight GEORGIA O'KEEFFE'S CLIFFS: KASEN RENKU: 7 First Line: Raggedy palm trees Last Line: With tattered sleeves GEORGIA O'KEEFFE'S CLIFFS: KASEN RENKU: 8 First Line: A windsock at the airport Last Line: The latest politician GEORGIA O'KEEFFE'S CLIFFS: KASEN RENKU: 9 First Line: Roses drenched with rain Last Line: With kissing peonies HAIKU First Line: In its tiny pot Last Line: First day of spring HAIKU First Line: A dusting of snow Last Line: Pale sunlight HAIKU First Line: And after Last Line: Spring peepers HAIKU First Line: In the last light Last Line: The white petunia HAIKU First Line: Before firstlight Last Line: Whiten the dry ditch HAIKU First Line: Field of wild iris Last Line: Kicks up his heels HAIKU First Line: In morning sun two white horses the autumn aspen HAIKU First Line: Early blizzard Last Line: In the dark, in the snow HAIKU First Line: The elk herd Last Line: #name? HAIKU First Line: For this one moment Last Line: Above the frozen meadow HAIKU First Line: A white horse Last Line: Blossoming locust HAIKU First Line: Behind the pine Last Line: So full of itself HAIKU First Line: Raised by a hoist Last Line: Cristo rey's re-cast bells HAIKU First Line: Early morning Last Line: Holds a cup of sun HAIKU First Line: The old white cherry Last Line: Blooming like mad HAIKU First Line: Lilacs in bloom Last Line: The family graves HAIKU First Line: Broken kite, sprawled Last Line: In the beach plum HAIKU First Line: The far shore Last Line: To meet us HAIKU First Line: A lizard inching Last Line: Nearer the cave's mouth HAIKU First Line: Far back under a ledge Last Line: Water sound HAIKU First Line: Still...Some echo Last Line: In the museum HAIKU First Line: Pausing Last Line: White chrysanthemums HAIKU First Line: Shimmering beneath the glaze Last Line: On the chinese ginger jar HAIKU First Line: The old album Last Line: My own young face HAIKU First Line: A plastic rose Last Line: Spring morning HAIKU First Line: Spring morning Last Line: The apple orchard HAIKU First Line: A flight of birds Last Line: No cloud moves HAIKU First Line: Kokeshi doll Last Line: In morning sun HAIKU First Line: African fertility god Last Line: A towhee drinking HAIKU First Line: By the night light Last Line: Leaving it there HAIKU First Line: Too early awake Last Line: This moon HAIKU First Line: The year turns Last Line: Summer's dust HAIKU First Line: Autumn sky Last Line: And raven HAIKU First Line: Before tonight's frost Last Line: With the geraniums HAIKU First Line: Autumn's full moon Last Line: The darkest shadows HAIKU First Line: New year's day Last Line: Catches a sunbeam HAIKU First Line: A branch of pine Last Line: And the falling snow HAIKU First Line: New year's eve Last Line: But in the fog ghosts HAIKU First Line: Spring morning Last Line: It makes no shadow HAIKU First Line: The apricot Last Line: Over the wall HAIKU First Line: A blue balloon Last Line: Drifts into sky HAIKU First Line: Gray morning Last Line: Its own sun HAIKU First Line: A spring morning Last Line: Murmuring like bees HAIKU First Line: In a cobwebby corner Last Line: Left over HAIKU First Line: This clear morning Last Line: In the spider web HAIKU First Line: Half silted under Last Line: After spring run-off HAIKU First Line: Espanola lowriders Last Line: Breakdancers spin HAIKU First Line: A single shoe Last Line: Rush hour HAIKU First Line: Deep in the pine Last Line: To face ravens HAIKU First Line: Someone else Last Line: The same sky HAIKU First Line: In the old adobe Last Line: Turned to the wall HAIKU First Line: X-ray eye Last Line: Misses the heart of it HAIKU First Line: From the dead tree Last Line: There on the ditch bank HAIKU First Line: October's bright sky Last Line: Ring for sunday mass HAIKU First Line: Trickster-coyote Last Line: Sudden clap of thunder HAIKU First Line: On the ditch bank Last Line: Purple shadows HAIKU First Line: On the sandstone cliff Last Line: Its moonshadow HAIKU First Line: Old mission church Last Line: Of the bell tower HAIKU First Line: With every rain Last Line: Sinks into the earth HAIKU First Line: On the hillside Last Line: The gold of aspen HAIKU First Line: Drying on the roof Last Line: The first yellow leaves HAIKU First Line: In abiquiu Last Line: Georgia o'keeffe HAIKU First Line: She crawls on her knees Last Line: Shadow of a cross HAIKU First Line: The brown-robed priest Last Line: Sunflash off his leica HAIKU First Line: Medicine woman Last Line: In her vision-dream HAIKU First Line: Crickets Last Line: Sounding off HAIKU First Line: Precisely Last Line: A cricket all night HAIKU First Line: By the hollyhocks Last Line: I straighten up HAIKU First Line: All saint's eve Last Line: Flickering candles HAIKU First Line: Such a thin shadow Last Line: Faint cry of geese HAIKU First Line: After the shelling Last Line: Back together HAIKU First Line: Mother teresa Last Line: The dove HAIKU First Line: A candle burns Last Line: Scent of roses HAIKU First Line: Street photographer Last Line: Cold at his back HAIKU First Line: Sacshuaman Last Line: On pre-inca stones HAIKU First Line: The tourist Last Line: Of the cliff HAIKU First Line: The curandero Last Line: Sudden rain sudden rainbow HAIKU First Line: This ancient shaman Last Line: The black jaguar comes HAIKU First Line: Abandoned cabin Last Line: Bleached bones HAIKU First Line: Tossing a stone Last Line: The setting sun HAIKU First Line: A flush of bats Last Line: Sunset afterglow HAIKU First Line: So heavily Last Line: From the deer carcass HAIKU First Line: The elk herd Last Line: An early snow HAIKU First Line: Moonshadows Last Line: Beneath the spruces HAIKU First Line: House wrens nest Last Line: Fragrance of lilac HAIKU First Line: Slivers of moonlight Last Line: By honeysuckle HAIKU First Line: A pair of magpies Last Line: In the willows HAIKU First Line: So few whooping cranes Last Line: South to the bosque HAIKU First Line: In my study Last Line: Easter dawn-sun HAIKU First Line: Ditch-cleaning day Last Line: Has a flat HAIKU First Line: Summer sky Last Line: Of one cloud HAIKU First Line: After ditch-cleaning Last Line: Below the headgate HAIKU First Line: Almost daybreak Last Line: That cry of the raven HAIKU First Line: A headgate rusting Last Line: Dry summer wind HAIKU First Line: A couple of dogs Last Line: Dusty morning HAIKU First Line: Windswept mesa Last Line: By ravenshadow HAIKU First Line: The old weaver Last Line: As if she could see HAIKU First Line: Dark thunder Last Line: On the ash tree HAIKU First Line: A question mark Last Line: Twilight HAIKU First Line: From what live moment Last Line: Frozen in amber HAIKU First Line: Polished gold, this death mask Last Line: Dark night behind the eyeholes HAIKU First Line: Stained glass peacock Last Line: Sits quietly HAIKU First Line: In the museum Last Line: Mayan silence HAIKU First Line: Outside the museum Last Line: Of a skyscraper HAIKU First Line: The toy dumpster Last Line: Spring thaw HAIKU First Line: Santa fe sky Last Line: The depth of blue HAIKU First Line: The wasp nest Last Line: June morning HAIKU First Line: An earwig Last Line: A hot day HAIKU First Line: Morning song of finches Last Line: The mexican tiles HAIKU First Line: A spider spins Last Line: Behind the harp HAIKU First Line: The shakuhachi Last Line: Holding each note HAIKU First Line: No sound spins Last Line: The harpist's hands HAIKU First Line: Glissandos Last Line: Wind from the sea HAIKU First Line: Playing bach Last Line: Off key HAIKU First Line: The harpist's face Last Line: Pale moonlight HAIKU First Line: So quiet Last Line: The hazy moon HAIKU First Line: How twilight Last Line: Of the cello HAIKU First Line: Watching her fingers Last Line: Renku party HAIKU First Line: After rain Last Line: The scent of sage HAIKU First Line: Church bells at seven Last Line: On blue morning glories HAIKU First Line: A wild canary Last Line: Half a rainbow HAIKU First Line: I cross the courtyard Last Line: Beneath my feet HAIKU First Line: Feeling it Last Line: Mace in my pocket HAIKU First Line: Sure of the news Last Line: How cold my hands HAIKU First Line: The doll house Last Line: All the night long HAIKU First Line: Fading roses Last Line: Summer morning HAIKU First Line: She waits Last Line: To disengage HAIKU First Line: Through the screen Last Line: Crosses the desk HAIKU First Line: The bronze iris Last Line: Of the honey bee HAIKU First Line: The first august rain Last Line: That stays and stays HAIKU First Line: That spider pulling Last Line: Hot morning HAIKU First Line: The polished wood Last Line: Swift as hummingbirds HAIKU First Line: The loom Last Line: The slender fingers HAIKU First Line: Before leaving Last Line: Santa fe blue HAIKU First Line: March winds Last Line: Sweeps the sky HAIKU First Line: Shutting out the cold Last Line: By another door HAIKU First Line: How black the raven Last Line: Ash wednesday HAIKU First Line: Bach's prelude and fugue Last Line: Unbidden tears HAIKU First Line: A spring day Last Line: Through my hair HAIKU First Line: The whistling vessels Last Line: In our heads HAIKU First Line: Outstretched wings Last Line: The pale sun HAIKU First Line: Ancient cottonwoods Last Line: September's brittle wind HAIKU First Line: He holds the hand lens Last Line: Dried cottonwood leaf HAIKU First Line: On cristo rey Last Line: Dark clouds HAIKU First Line: Morning walk Last Line: On the path HAIKU First Line: His long shadow Last Line: Before he does HAIKU First Line: On the cell phone Last Line: Of the wild geese HAIKU First Line: My shadow Last Line: Home HAIKU First Line: I rake dried leaves Last Line: His job HAIKU First Line: How disconcerting Last Line: Out of sync HAIKU First Line: Contrails cross Last Line: The bitter cold HAIKU First Line: This dawnsilence Last Line: As heavy HAIKU First Line: Gnarled pine Last Line: The sun rising HAIKU First Line: The sweet bite Last Line: Against the window HAIKU First Line: Still a wildness Last Line: Their cries above clouds HAIKU First Line: The first blossom Last Line: Christmas cactus HAIKU First Line: Lute strings Last Line: Greensleeves' HAIKU First Line: Christmas morning Last Line: Sag on the wall HAIKU First Line: Not just one! Last Line: Christmas night HAIKU First Line: The crunch of snow Last Line: Bells of the new year IN THE PERUVIAN ANDES First Line: Cuzco. The city lies in a green valley nearly 12,000 feet above Last Line: In this plaza of the inca - %but no! Crickets IN THIS BLAZE OF SUN First Line: Pausing %halfway up the stair Last Line: ...A different green LAURA GILPIN PHOTOGRAPHS CHICHEN ITZA First Line: The air green Last Line: Ancient spirits, restless %a nightbird LINES FOR MY MOTHER, DYING First Line: The surgeon speaking Last Line: Into invisible light LUNAR NEW YEAR: KASEN RENKU: 1 First Line: Lunar new year Last Line: A bright star LUNAR NEW YEAR: KASEN RENKU: 10 First Line: Another dawn empty Last Line: As the night before LUNAR NEW YEAR: KASEN RENKU: 11 First Line: A squad car Last Line: On the street below LUNAR NEW YEAR: KASEN RENKU: 12 First Line: On the park bench Last Line: An old man and the pigeons LUNAR NEW YEAR: KASEN RENKU: 13 First Line: Naked Last Line: A summer moon LUNAR NEW YEAR: KASEN RENKU: 14 First Line: Minnows glide Last Line: In the dark pond LUNAR NEW YEAR: KASEN RENKU: 15 First Line: On my dresser Last Line: A hand mirror LUNAR NEW YEAR: KASEN RENKU: 16 First Line: Cracks in the paint job Last Line: Or is it this wrinkled face? LUNAR NEW YEAR: KASEN RENKU: 17 First Line: Heavier than the rain Last Line: Their scent LUNAR NEW YEAR: KASEN RENKU: 18 First Line: At the birthday party Last Line: Soap bubbles float away LUNAR NEW YEAR: KASEN RENKU: 19 First Line: The whole mountain Last Line: In the sunset LUNAR NEW YEAR: KASEN RENKU: 2 First Line: Firecrackers celebrate Last Line: The year of the ox LUNAR NEW YEAR: KASEN RENKU: 20 First Line: Ravens circling above Last Line: The fast-food restaurant LUNAR NEW YEAR: KASEN RENKU: 21 First Line: He pulls her close Last Line: Into high gear LUNAR NEW YEAR: KASEN RENKU: 22 First Line: So you think it's for the babies Last Line: La llorona cries? LUNAR NEW YEAR: KASEN RENKU: 23 First Line: Two mallards Last Line: At the shore line LUNAR NEW YEAR: KASEN RENKU: 24 First Line: It stands out among bare trees Last Line: The moonshiner's cabin LUNAR NEW YEAR: KASEN RENKU: 25 First Line: All those rebs Last Line: Of history LUNAR NEW YEAR: KASEN RENKU: 26 First Line: Again he tells how his hound Last Line: Dixie treed those 'possums LUNAR NEW YEAR: KASEN RENKU: 27 First Line: Two old cronies Last Line: Time for a drink LUNAR NEW YEAR: KASEN RENKU: 28 First Line: No visitors today Last Line: I call the nurse again LUNAR NEW YEAR: KASEN RENKU: 29 First Line: Full moon Last Line: Answering LUNAR NEW YEAR: KASEN RENKU: 3 First Line: Skipping, he follows Last Line: So many worms LUNAR NEW YEAR: KASEN RENKU: 30 First Line: First falling leaves Last Line: Notes of a pennywhistle LUNAR NEW YEAR: KASEN RENKU: 31 First Line: Gossamer Last Line: Rocking in the swells LUNAR NEW YEAR: KASEN RENKU: 33 First Line: Hunting for a season word Last Line: In the new saijiki LUNAR NEW YEAR: KASEN RENKU: 34 First Line: Aimed at the sun Last Line: Kaleidoscope LUNAR NEW YEAR: KASEN RENKU: 35 First Line: The calico cat receives Last Line: So many love notes LUNAR NEW YEAR: KASEN RENKU: 36 First Line: All at once Last Line: The humming of bees LUNAR NEW YEAR: KASEN RENKU: 37 First Line: In the playground a businessman Last Line: Tries out the swings LUNAR NEW YEAR: KASEN RENKU: 4 First Line: A train crosses the bridge Last Line: I count the clickety-clacks LUNAR NEW YEAR: KASEN RENKU: 5 First Line: The coyotes Last Line: Awaiting the moon LUNAR NEW YEAR: KASEN RENKU: 6 First Line: Fallen apples Last Line: She gathers them anyway LUNAR NEW YEAR: KASEN RENKU: 7 First Line: The old stove Last Line: An autumn drizzle LUNAR NEW YEAR: KASEN RENKU: 8 First Line: All hallow's eve, neighbors Last Line: Visiting neighbors' graves LUNAR NEW YEAR: KASEN RENKU: 9 First Line: She wonders about Last Line: In her hope chest NEW HEARING AID. Last Line: Adjusting it, she tunes in %on crickets Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women NIGHTSONG First Line: Walk wind %into the night ON THE AMAZON FREIGHTER EL VIAJERO First Line: A dugout canoe %glides out of mourning mist Last Line: That shape: %the southern cross ON THE ISLAND OF BARBADOS First Line: Flying in by night Last Line: Even here...Even now PICASSO'S 'BUST OF SYLVETTE' First Line: Not knowing what Last Line: Spreading out the photographs RETURNING TO BELEM, BRAZIL First Line: After midnight %a cock crows - how his echo Last Line: The old woman stretches out %her hand RIPPLES SPREADING OUT: 1 First Line: In the pond Last Line: Into twilight RIPPLES SPREADING OUT: 10 First Line: Still so clear Last Line: And of the song RIPPLES SPREADING OUT: 2 First Line: His voice Last Line: Below the dam RIPPLES SPREADING OUT: 3 First Line: Turning down the lamp Last Line: The dark is luminous RIPPLES SPREADING OUT: 4 First Line: Andy warhol dies' Last Line: On the campbell soup cans RIPPLES SPREADING OUT: 5 First Line: Haiku, too! Last Line: Howl!' RIPPLES SPREADING OUT: 6 First Line: Before the star was lit Last Line: I, who never heard his voice RIPPLES SPREADING OUT: 7 First Line: Out from the shore Last Line: Luminous light RIPPLES SPREADING OUT: 8 First Line: Still these remain Last Line: And lizard's shadow RIPPLES SPREADING OUT: 9 First Line: O'keefe's 'black cross' Last Line: In the high desert SEQUENCE FROM LAGOS, NIGERIA First Line: Mosquitoes in airport's hot moist air hum Last Line: Into the deepest of the nightdark the talking drums SIX QUARTERS OF MOON First Line: Moonrise%reflects itself Last Line: By a martyr's cross SPRING SNOW: HALF KASEN: 1 First Line: Along the ditch Last Line: Of spring snow SPRING SNOW: HALF KASEN: 10 First Line: Faintly the bells Last Line: Of cristo rey SPRING SNOW: HALF KASEN: 11 First Line: Twenty minutes Last Line: After school SPRING SNOW: HALF KASEN: 12 First Line: At the haystack Last Line: Elk feeding SPRING SNOW: HALF KASEN: 13 First Line: In wing chairs Last Line: The drinkers nod SPRING SNOW: HALF KASEN: 14 First Line: The archeological dig Last Line: Moon through the tent SPRING SNOW: HALF KASEN: 15 First Line: Monarch butterflies Last Line: Migrating to mexico SPRING SNOW: HALF KASEN: 16 First Line: Withered berries Last Line: On frost heave SPRING SNOW: HALF KASEN: 17 First Line: A picnic Last Line: A cloud passes SPRING SNOW: HALF KASEN: 18 First Line: She laughs as the swing Last Line: Rises again and again SPRING SNOW: HALF KASEN: 2 First Line: A flock of robins Last Line: Already gathering SPRING SNOW: HALF KASEN: 3 First Line: The march wind Last Line: From across the alley SPRING SNOW: HALF KASEN: 4 First Line: Rocking, the old woman Last Line: Counts on her fingers SPRING SNOW: HALF KASEN: 5 First Line: Twirling pistols Last Line: Kid curry SPRING SNOW: HALF KASEN: 6 First Line: Golden aspen leaf Last Line: With a hole in it SPRING SNOW: HALF KASEN: 7 First Line: Early morning Last Line: On the mountain SPRING SNOW: HALF KASEN: 8 First Line: A breeze rocks the blinds Last Line: And dries her tears SPRING SNOW: HALF KASEN: 9 First Line: Before swimming Last Line: Her false eyelashes SYLVETTE: 1984 First Line: Acid rain... %on the streets of new york Last Line: And a jazz riff, playing %across her face TANKA First Line: I wake to snow Last Line: Out of the last dream TANKA First Line: Thick adobe walls Last Line: In any of the shadows TANKA First Line: Pottery shards Last Line: Under the back door sill TANKA First Line: A great thunderhead Last Line: Against the coyote fence TANKA First Line: Such a lively one Last Line: Of my nasturtium leaves TANKA First Line: The corn dance Last Line: These kernels of blue corn TANKA First Line: Yes, the harpist Last Line: Cobwebs off the harp strings? TO MEASURE THE WIDTH OF PRAIRIE: 1 First Line: Spotting an antelope Last Line: This moon, its fullness TO MEASURE THE WIDTH OF PRAIRIE: 2 First Line: There...A coyote Last Line: The smell of it WATER RUNS CLEAR: SOLO KOCHO RENKU: 1 First Line: Labor day Last Line: Water runs clear WATER RUNS CLEAR: SOLO KOCHO RENKU: 10 First Line: Bright butterflies Last Line: And hollyhocks WATER RUNS CLEAR: SOLO KOCHO RENKU: 11 First Line: A boy and a girl Last Line: The summer moon WATER RUNS CLEAR: SOLO KOCHO RENKU: 12 First Line: Barely heard, the coyotes Last Line: Higher on the mountain WATER RUNS CLEAR: SOLO KOCHO RENKU: 13 First Line: An acrid smell Last Line: After rain WATER RUNS CLEAR: SOLO KOCHO RENKU: 14 First Line: Photos of petroglyphs Last Line: No clue to the site WATER RUNS CLEAR: SOLO KOCHO RENKU: 15 First Line: Unrolling them Last Line: Above the window WATER RUNS CLEAR: SOLO KOCHO RENKU: 16 First Line: Wind blows the snow Last Line: Against the window WATER RUNS CLEAR: SOLO KOCHO RENKU: 17 First Line: Sparks Last Line: In the kiva fireplace WATER RUNS CLEAR: SOLO KOCHO RENKU: 18 First Line: She pours the green tea Last Line: Into fragile cups WATER RUNS CLEAR: SOLO KOCHO RENKU: 19 First Line: From another time Last Line: The madrigals WATER RUNS CLEAR: SOLO KOCHO RENKU: 2 First Line: Cedar waxwings flock Last Line: To the russian olive WATER RUNS CLEAR: SOLO KOCHO RENKU: 20 First Line: A framed print Last Line: In the bedroom WATER RUNS CLEAR: SOLO KOCHO RENKU: 21 First Line: The calico cat Last Line: On my lap WATER RUNS CLEAR: SOLO KOCHO RENKU: 22 First Line: San ysidro Last Line: Celebrating his day WATER RUNS CLEAR: SOLO KOCHO RENKU: 23 First Line: One tree left Last Line: Apple blossoms WATER RUNS CLEAR: SOLO KOCHO RENKU: 24 First Line: A double rainbow Last Line: Above the greening field WATER RUNS CLEAR: SOLO KOCHO RENKU: 3 First Line: A roofless chapel Last Line: A homeless man WATER RUNS CLEAR: SOLO KOCHO RENKU: 4 First Line: Blue silk scarf Last Line: In her corner WATER RUNS CLEAR: SOLO KOCHO RENKU: 5 First Line: Scheherazade' - how long Last Line: In concert! WATER RUNS CLEAR: SOLO KOCHO RENKU: 6 First Line: The orient express Last Line: Speeds through the night WATER RUNS CLEAR: SOLO KOCHO RENKU: 7 First Line: Broken glass Last Line: Was bashed in WATER RUNS CLEAR: SOLO KOCHO RENKU: 8 First Line: A long time, living Last Line: In the 'land of enchantment' WATER RUNS CLEAR: SOLO KOCHO RENKU: 9 First Line: On canyon road Last Line: On the shady side Landon, Letitia Elizabeth Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia 361 poems available by this author A CHILD SCREENING A DOVE FROM A HAWK, BY STEWARDSON Poem Text First Line: Ay, screen thy favourite dove, fair child Last Line: A hawk for every dove! Subject(s): Doves; Paintings & Painters A COMPARISON Poem Text First Line: A pretty, rainbow sort of life enough Last Line: And, like all toys, ephemeral. Subject(s): Life A GIRL AT HER DEVOTIONS, BY NEWTON Poem Text First Line: She was just risen from her bended knee Last Line: On feelings which that picture may not tell. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Prayer A HISTORY OF THE LYRE Poem Text First Line: Sketches indeed, from that most passionate page Last Line: That fed upon itself! A LADY'S BEAUTY Poem Text First Line: Ladye, thy white brow is fair Last Line: On thy lip, and in thine eyes. Subject(s): Beauty A LEGEND OF TINTAGEL CASTLE Poem Text First Line: Alone in the forest, sir lancelot rode Last Line: Can bring back the waste to our hearts and our years? Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Arthur, King A LONG WHILE AGO Poem Text First Line: Still hangeth down the old accustom'd willow Last Line: A long while ago. Subject(s): Friendship; Melancholy; Memory; Dejection A NIGHT IN MAY Poem Text First Line: Light and glad through the rooms the gay music is waking Last Line: Its glory a shade, and its loveliness tears. A NOBLE LADY Poem Text First Line: A pale and stately lady, with a brow Last Line: The past had left its darkness. Subject(s): Past A POET'S LOVE Poem Text First Line: Faint and more faint amid the world of dreams Last Line: To dream once more my early dreams again. Subject(s): Love A PORTRAIT Poem Text First Line: Many were lovely there; but, of that many Last Line: Her face was full of feeling. A RUINED CASTLE ON THE RHINE; FORMERLY BELONGING TO TEMPLARS Poem Text First Line: On the dark heights that overlook the rhine Last Line: Whose noblest victories are yet unwon. Subject(s): Castles; Rhine (river), Europe; Templars (knights) A SUMMER DAY Poem Text First Line: Sweet valley, whose streams flow as sparkling and bright Last Line: The light of thy beauty, the hope of thy spring. Subject(s): Summer A SUMMER EVENING'S TALE Poem Text First Line: Come, let thy careless sail float on the wind Last Line: To darkness, and to silence, and the grave! A SUPPER AT MADAME DE BRINVILLIERS Poem Text First Line: Small but gorgeous was the chamber Last Line: Wine and sigh alike are death! Subject(s): Brinvilliers, Marie De (1630-1676); Poisons & Poisoning A SUTTEE Poem Text First Line: Gather her raven hair in one rich cluster Last Line: No more to part. Subject(s): Sacrifices; Widows & Widowers AFTER THE MASQUERADE, BY THOMPSON Poem Text First Line: She left the festival, for it seem'd dim Last Line: Of love known all too soon, repented all too late. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters AGE Poem Text First Line: Age is a dreary thing when left alone Last Line: The short dark pathway leading to the tomb. Subject(s): Aging AGE AND YOUTH Poem Text First Line: I tell thee,' said the old man, 'what is life' Last Line: "whose consciousness is as an unknown curse?" Subject(s): Old Age; Youth ALEXANDER AND PHILIP Poem Text First Line: He stood by the river's side Last Line: That faith and trust were made for the brave. Subject(s): Alexander The Great (356-323 B.c.) ALEXANDER ON THE BANKS OF THE HYPHASIS Poem Text First Line: Lonely by the moonlit waters Last Line: But whose altar is the tomb! Subject(s): Alexander The Great (356-323 B.c.) ALL TRUE DEEP FEELING PURIFIES THE HEART Subject(s): Love ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA; AN ANECDOTE FROM PLUTARCH Poem Text First Line: Glorious was the marble hall Last Line: "never can live with one shade of distrust." Subject(s): Antony, Marc (83-30 B.c.); Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); Marcus Antonius; Anthony, Mark APOLOGUE: THE THOUGHT SUGGESTED BY A SPANISH SAYING Poem Text First Line: Seek for me in the arab maid's bower Last Line: Parted once, we part for ever. Subject(s): Air; Fire; Shame; Water ARIADNE WATCHING THE SAE AFTER THE DEPARTURE OF THESEUS Poem Text First Line: Lonely - lonely on the shore Last Line: Loving, but beloved no more! Subject(s): Ariadne; Grief; Mythology - Classical; Sorrow; Sadness ARION: A TALE Poem Text First Line: The winds are high, the clouds are dark Last Line: And pour'd their hymn to the queen of the tide. AWAKENING OF ENDYMION Poem Text First Line: Lone upon a mountain, the pine-trees wailing round him Last Line: Like that youth to night's fair queen! Subject(s): Endymion BITTER EXPERIENCE Poem Text First Line: How often, in this cold and bitter world Last Line: There are too many such! BONDS OF AFFECTION Poem Text First Line: There is in life no blessing like affection Last Line: And wealth an empty glitter, without love. Variant Title(s): Affection BRIDAL FLOWERS Poem Text First Line: Bind the white orange-flowers in her hair Last Line: The bride and morning bathe their wreath with tears Subject(s): Flowers; Marriage; Omens; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CAFES IN DAMASCUS Poem Text First Line: Languidly the night-wind bloweth Last Line: Could be such a dream! Subject(s): Damascus, Syria; Restaurants; Cafes; Diners CALYPSO WATCHING THE OCEAN Poem Text First Line: Years, years have pass'd away Last Line: Mid the far-off southern seas. Subject(s): Calypso (mythology) CAN YOU FORGET ME? Poem Text First Line: Can you forget me? - I who have so cherished Last Line: You have forgotten me. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of CARRICK-A-REDE, IRELAND Poem Text First Line: He dwelt amid the gloomy rocks Last Line: A solitary man. Subject(s): Ireland; Solitude; Irish; Loneliness CEMETRY OF THE SMOLENSKI CHURCH Poem Text First Line: They gather, with the summer in their hands Last Line: The future has its hope, the past its deep affection. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Russia; Smolensk, Russia; Graveyards; Soviet Union; Russians CHANCE NOTES STRUCK THE LUTE - FANCIES AND THOUGHTS CHANGE Poem Text First Line: How much of change lies in a little space! Last Line: Grows dark and actual. Subject(s): Change CHANGE; A FRAGMENT Poem Text First Line: And this is what is left of youth Last Line: .... And this, this is life! Subject(s): Change CHANGES IN LONDON Poem Text First Line: The presence of perpetual change Last Line: Will yet have passed away. Subject(s): Change; London CHRIST CROWNED WITH THORNS Poem Text First Line: Too little do we think of thee Last Line: From past and guilty years. Subject(s): Jesus Christ CI-DEVANT! Poem Text First Line: I cannot, if I would, call back again Last Line: Of happiness in love no more. CLYTIE First Line: Look upon that flower! CONFIDENCE Poem Text First Line: Fear not to trust her destiny with me Last Line: Its sole dependence was upon my love. CORFU Poem Text First Line: Now doth not summer's sunny smile Last Line: Alas! And is such heart mine own? Subject(s): Corfu (island), Greece CRESCENTIUS Poem Text First Line: I look'd upon his brow; no sign / of guilt or fear was there Last Line: Her patriot and her latest one. CUPID AND SWALLOWS FLYING FROM WINTER, BY DAGLEY Poem Text First Line: Away, away, o'er land and sea Last Line: While the winter lords it here. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Winter CURELESS WOUNDS Poem Text First Line: False look, false hope, and falsest love Last Line: Are easier than such wounds to heal. CUSTOM AND INDIFFERENCE Poem Text First Line: I cannot choose, but marvel at the way Last Line: There is for grief, in which we have no share. Subject(s): Indifference DANGERS FACED Poem Text First Line: My heart is filled with bitter thought Last Line: We face them, and they're gone. Subject(s): Fear DEAR GIFTS Poem Text First Line: Life's best gifts are bought dearly. Wealth is won Last Line: How dark the penalty that it exacts! Subject(s): Genius; Pleasure; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes DEATH AND THE YOUTH Poem Text First Line: Not yet, the flowers are in my path Last Line: "I'm ready now to die!" Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH IN THE FLOWER Poem Text First Line: Tis a fair tree, the almond-tree: there spring Last Line: Tis death! Subject(s): Almond Trees; Death; Trees; Dead, The DEATH-BED OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT Poem Text First Line: On his bed the king was lying Last Line: The warriors of the world! Subject(s): Alexander The Great (356-323 B.c.); Death; Dead, The DESPONDENCY Poem Text First Line: Ah, tell me not that memory Last Line: And hopes now numbered with the dead! Subject(s): Despair DIFFERENT THOUGHTS SUGGESTED BY A PICTURE BY G.S. NEWTON First Line: Which is the truest reading of thy look? Last Line: On which I swear forgetfulness Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Paintings And Painters; Women DOUBT Poem Text First Line: I tell thee death were far more merciful Last Line: And broken ere it reach the stream below. Subject(s): Doubt; Skepticism EARTH LEADS TO HEAVEN Poem Text First Line: This is a weary and a wretched life Last Line: And we can but remember and regret. Subject(s): Future Life; Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life EGERIA'S GROTTO Poem Text First Line: A silver fountain with a changeful shade Last Line: A wish, a vision, and a fantasie. ERINNA Poem Text First Line: Was she of spirit race, or was she one Last Line: Thy truth, thy tenderness, be all thy fame! Subject(s): Erinna (4th Century B.c.) EUCLES ANNOUNCING THE VICTORY OF MARATHON Poem Text First Line: He cometh from the purple hills Last Line: Sets in tears and blood o'er marathon. Subject(s): Marathon, Greece EXPECTATION Poem Text First Line: She looked from out the window Last Line: All that thou hast sought unfound. EXPERIENCE Poem Text First Line: My very heart is filled with tears! I seem Last Line: Thy starry rest is in eternity! EXPERIENCE TOO LATE Poem Text First Line: It is the past that maketh my despair Last Line: Loathed, yet despised, why must I think of it? FAIRIES ON THE SEA-SHORE, BY HOWARD Poem Text First Line: My home and haunt are in every leaf Last Line: Will put us and our glow-worm lamps to flight! Subject(s): Fairies; Paintings & Painters; Elves FAITH DESTROYED Poem Text First Line: Why did I love him? I looked up to him Last Line: That which I loved. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Troy FAITH ILL REQUITED Poem Text First Line: I feel the presence of my own despair Last Line: When falsehood wears such seeming? Subject(s): Faith; Belief; Creed FALSE APPEARANCES Poem Text First Line: Who, that had looked on her that morn Last Line: Was semblance, and but misery there! FANTASIES INSCRIBED TO T. CROFTON CROKER, ESQ. Poem Text First Line: I'm weary, I'm weary, - this cold world of ours Last Line: For, alas! I'm but dreaming, and dreams are but vain. FAREWELL! OH MY BROTHER! Poem Text First Line: Come up with the banner, and on with the sword Last Line: I return to her side, and to england, again. Subject(s): Homecoming FATE Poem Text First Line: The steps of fate are dark and terrible Last Line: The heaven which is our future and our home. Subject(s): Fate; Destiny FELICIA HEMANS Poem Text First Line: Thou art gone from us, and with thee departed Last Line: Around thy grave -- a grave which is a shrine. Subject(s): Hemans, Felicia (1793-1835) FOUNTAIN'S ABBEY Poem Text First Line: Never more, when the day is o'er Last Line: With its beauty to cheer decay. Subject(s): Monasteries; Ruins; Abbeys FURNESS ABBEY; IN THE VALE OF NIGHTSHADE, LANCASHIRE Poem Text First Line: I wish for the days of the olden time Last Line: And I sigh for the days of the veil and the vow. Subject(s): Furness Abbey; Lancashire, England; Past; Abbey Of St. Mary GENIUS Poem Text First Line: Alas! And must this be the fate Last Line: Alive to every misery? Subject(s): Genius GENTLENESS PICTURED Poem Text First Line: A gentle creature was that girl Last Line: The sweetness at the heart. GIFTS MISUSED Poem Text First Line: Oh, what a waste of feeling and of thought Last Line: The opiate of the mind! Subject(s): Praise GLADESMUIR Poem Text First Line: There is not / a valley of more quiet happiness Last Line: They made her grave by ronald's. Subject(s): Home GOSSIPING Poem Text First Line: These are the spiders of society Last Line: In the ingenious torment they contrive. Subject(s): Gossip HANNIBAL'S OATH Poem Text First Line: And the night was dark and calm Last Line: How that oath of hate was kept. Subject(s): Hannibal (247-183 B.c.); Hate HAPPINESS WITHIN Poem Text First Line: And yet it is a wasted heart Last Line: The sooner it will break. Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight HEBE Poem Text First Line: Youth! Thou art a lovely time Last Line: Asking but to rest or break. Subject(s): Youth HOME Poem Text First Line: I left my home; - 'twas in a little vale Last Line: Alas! For the green valley! Subject(s): Home HOPE Poem Text First Line: Is not the lark companion of the spring? Last Line: Sweet as the tender myrtle. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism HOPE AND LOVE Poem Text First Line: The sun was setting o'er the sea Last Line: Or hope grow cold, or love forget! Subject(s): Hope; Love; Optimism HUMANITY ANGELIC Poem Text First Line: If ever angels walked on weary earth Last Line: In the strong love that bound it to its kind. HURDWAR, A PLACE OF HINDOO PILGRIMAGE First Line: I love the feeling which, in former days Last Line: And owns the true god in the false god's shrine Subject(s): Hinduism; India; Religion ILLUSION Poem Text First Line: And thus it is with all that made life fair Last Line: Illusions vain, as any in the past. Subject(s): Hallucinations & Illusions; Life IMMORTALITY Poem Text First Line: Strong as the death it masters, is the hope Last Line: Mine the first welcome heard in paradise. Subject(s): Immortality INEZ Poem Text First Line: Alas that clouds should ever steal Last Line: Of inez on her juan's breast. INFLUENCE OF POETRY Poem Text First Line: This is the charm of poetry: it comes Last Line: Than dwelleth with the common-place of life. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets JULIET AFTER THE MASQUERADE Poem Text First Line: She has left the lighted hall Last Line: Beating thine unto the last! Subject(s): Paintings & Painters KATE KEARNEY Poem Text First Line: Why doth the maiden turn away Last Line: And pine, the victims of a dream. Subject(s): Legends, Irish LIFE SURVEYED Poem Text First Line: Not in a close and bounded atmosphere Last Line: To yield is to resemble. Subject(s): Life LIFE'S MASK Poem Text First Line: Which was the true philosopher? - the sage Last Line: Beneath, the pale and careworn countenance. LINES OF LIFE Poem Text First Line: Well, read my cheek, and watch my eye Last Line: Long after life has fled. LINES WRITTEN UNDER A PICTURE OF A GIRL BURNING LOVE LETTER Poem Text First Line: I took the scroll: I could not brook Last Line: I fear'd it was love's history. Subject(s): Letters; Love - Complaints LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD First Line: Come back, come back together LITTLE SHEPHERD First Line: She had lost many children - now LITTLE SHROUD First Line: She put him on a snow-white shroud Last Line: And only asked of heaven it aid %her heavy lot to bear LONG YEARS HAVE PAST SINCE LAST I STOOD Poem Text First Line: A place of rugged rocks, adown whose sides Last Line: Should never seek those scenes again. LOVE (1) Poem Text First Line: She pressed her slight hand to her brow, or pain Last Line: And this is love! Subject(s): Love - Complaints LOVE (2) Poem Text First Line: Love is a thing of frail and delicate growth Last Line: For which there is no healing. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of LOVE A MYSTERY Poem Text First Line: It matters not its history - love has wings Last Line: His life thy empire, and his heart thy throne? Subject(s): Love - Nature Of LOVE NURSED BY SOLITUDE, BY W. I. THOMSON, EDINBURGH Poem Text First Line: Ay, surely it is here that love should come Last Line: With thy sweet wings furl'd but in solitude? Subject(s): Love; Paintings & Painters; Solitude; Loneliness LOVE'S ENDING Poem Text First Line: And this, then, is love's ending. It is like Last Line: By passion's earthquake, loathes the name of love. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LOVE'S FOLLOWERS Poem Text First Line: There was an evil in pandora's box Last Line: His followers for ever. Subject(s): Curses; Love LOVE'S LAST LESSON Poem Text First Line: Teach it me, if you can, - forgetfulness! Last Line: Have lain there long before. Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Love LOVE'S SLAVES Poem Text First Line: Where is the heart that has not bowed Last Line: More than another's whole of feeling! Subject(s): Love LOVE'S TIMIDITY Poem Text First Line: I do not ask to offer thee Last Line: May pray for thee and weep. Subject(s): Love LOVE, HOPE, AND BEAUTY Poem Text First Line: Love may be increased by fears Last Line: For without hope it dies. Subject(s): Beauty; Hope; Love - Nature Of; Optimism MANMADIN, THE INDIAN CUPID, FLOATING DOWN THE GANGES Poem Text First Line: There is darkness on the sky Last Line: Well may bend to thee, o love! Subject(s): Cupid; India; Eros MARIUS AT THE RUINS OF CARTHAGE Poem Text First Line: He turn'd him from the setting sun Last Line: And then went forth to war again! Subject(s): Carthage; Marius, Gaius (157-86 B.c.); Roman Empire; War MEMORY (1) Poem Text First Line: Ah! There are memories that will not vanish Last Line: But memory stands a ghost amid the gloom! Subject(s): Memory MEMORY (2) Poem Text First Line: I do not say bequeath unto my soul Last Line: And now its only task is to remember. Subject(s): Memory MOONLIGHT Poem Text First Line: The moonlight falleth lovely over earth Last Line: Such gentle intercession. Subject(s): Hate MUCH CHANGE IN A LITTLE TIME Poem Text First Line: And she too - that beloved child, was gone Last Line: We know not love till those we love depart. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of MUSIC OF LAUGHTER Poem Text First Line: She had that charming laugh which, like a song Last Line: The depth and truth of earnest tenderness. Subject(s): Laughter NECESSITY Poem Text First Line: In the ancestral presence of the dead Last Line: Till the stern tide ebbs -- and there is the grave. NEW YEAR'S EVE Poem Text First Line: There is no change upon the air Last Line: My heart is its own grave! Subject(s): Despair; Holidays; New Year NIGHT AT SEA Poem Text First Line: The lovely purple of the noon's bestowing Last Line: Her voyage done -- to-morrow we shall land. Subject(s): Sea Voyages NYMPH AND ZEPHYR; A STATUARY GROUP, BY WESTMACOTT Poem Text First Line: And the summer sun shone in the sky Last Line: "but in the search, not in the success." Subject(s): Sculpture & Sculptors OH! IF THOU LOVEST AND ART A WOMAN ON A STAR Poem Text First Line: Beautiful star, that art wandering through Last Line: An early grave, and a broken heart! Subject(s): Stars ON AN ENGRAVING OF HINDOO TEMPLES Poem Text First Line: Little the present careth for the past Last Line: By thy free laws and thy immortal creed. Subject(s): India; Temples; Women; Mosques ON READING A DESCRIPTION OF THE DELECTABLE MOUNTAINS Poem Text First Line: Oh far away ye are, ye lovely hills Last Line: Let its dark portals open -- let me die! Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) ON THE PORTRAIT OF ROBERT PEEL Poem Text First Line: Dim through the curtains came the purple twilight slowly Last Line: The power to scatter benefits and blessings round its sway. Subject(s): Peel, Sir Robert (1788-1850) ON WORDSWORTH'S COTTAGE; NEAR GRASMERE LAKE Poem Text First Line: Not for the glory on their heads Last Line: Thy temple, is thy name alone. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) ONE DAY Poem Text First Line: The sunshine of the morning Last Line: What find ye but the grave? OPINIONS Poem Text First Line: He scorned them from the centre of his heart Last Line: How can he choose but loathe them? ORNAMENTS Poem Text First Line: Bring from the east, bring from the west Last Line: To the human heart, feverish and beating, below? PARTING Poem Text First Line: We do not know how much we love Last Line: Farewell's a bitter word to say. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting PEACE WROUGHT BY PAIN Poem Text First Line: Over that pallid face were wrought Last Line: The gold it wins, is gold from heaven. Subject(s): Pain; Peace; Suffering; Misery PETRARCH'S DREAM Poem Text First Line: Rosy as a waking bride Last Line: Kindled from the tomb. Subject(s): Petrarch (1304-1374); Francesco Petrarca PHANTOM BRIDE First Line: And over hill and over plain Last Line: The next they laid him by her side Subject(s): Death PIRATE'S SONG OFF THE TIGER ISLAND First Line: Our prize is won, our chase is o'er Last Line: Our first health shall be to him Subject(s): Pirates PLEASURE BECOMES PAIN Poem Text First Line: I cannot count the changes of my heart Last Line: Till the heart saith of pleasure, it is pain. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery POET First Line: Ah, deeply the minstrel has felt all he sings POETICAL CATALOGUE OF PICTURES Poem Text First Line: Beautiful art! My worship is for thee Last Line: What his high communing had been. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters POLITICAL PORTRAITS: 1 Poem Text First Line: O no, sweet lady, not to thee Last Line: And such, sweet lady, be thy fate! POLITICAL PORTRAITS: 2 Poem Text First Line: Ah! Little do those features wear Last Line: Ah! Little like our actual one. POLITICAL PORTRAITS: 3 Poem Text First Line: His hand is on the snowy sail Last Line: Are only emblems; -- what art thou? POLITICAL PORTRAITS: 4 Poem Text First Line: His brow is pale with high and passionate thoughts Last Line: For the green memory of an early grave. POLITICAL PORTRAITS: 5 Poem Text First Line: Thy beauty! Not a fault is there Last Line: It could not dwell with thee. POLITICAL PORTRAITS: 6 Poem Text First Line: The light is kindling in his eye Last Line: The vanity of fame! PORTRAIT OF A LADY, BY SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE Poem Text First Line: Lady, thy lofty brow is fair Last Line: Grace and ornament of all! Subject(s): Lawrence, Sir Thomas (1769-1830); Paintings & Painters PRESENTIMENT Poem Text First Line: I feel the shadow on my brow Last Line: And feels it is divine. PRIDE IN TRIFLES Poem Text First Line: Why, life must mock itself, to mark how small Last Line: Has fancied into grandeur. Subject(s): Vanity PRINCESS VICTORIA First Line: And art thou a princess? -- in sooth, we may well Last Line: Is -- god keep the crown long from that innocent brow! Subject(s): Great Britain - Rulers; Politics REMEMBRANCE (1) Poem Text First Line: Pale memory sits alone, brooding o'er the past Last Line: Has absolute dominion. Subject(s): Future; Memory REMEMBRANCE (2) Poem Text First Line: Love taketh many colours, and weareth many shapes Last Line: To droop beneath an outward smile -- such is woman's lot. Subject(s): Women REMORSE Poem Text First Line: Alas! He brings me back my early years Last Line: And I am desperate with my misery! Subject(s): Remorse RESOLVES Poem Text First Line: What mockeries are our most firm resolves Last Line: To winds and waves that laugh at man's control. REVENGE Poem Text First Line: Ay, gaze upon her rose-wreath'd hair Last Line: For thou art not beloved. Subject(s): Revenge RIENZI SHOWING NINA THE TOMB OF HIS BROTHER Poem Text First Line: It was hidden in a wild wood Last Line: Thus was she won. Subject(s): Courtship ROLAND'S TOWER: A LEGEND OF THE RHINE Poem Text First Line: Where, like a courser starting from the spur Last Line: Was roland's death-bed! Subject(s): Roland ROSALIE Poem Text First Line: Tis a wild tale - and sad, too, as the sigh Last Line: She knelt -- and gazed -- and saw her mother -- dead! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SAPPHO Poem Text First Line: She leant upon her harp, and thousands look'd Last Line: Are sacred -- the devoted sappho! Subject(s): Sappho (610-580 B.c.) SCALE FORCE, CUMBERLAND First Line: It sweeps, as sweeps an army Last Line: From such a scene depart! SCENE DURING THE PLAGUE AT GIBRALTAR Poem Text First Line: At first, I only buried one Last Line: And there I stood alone. Subject(s): Gibraltar; Yellow Fever SCENES IN LONDON: 1. PICCADILLY Poem Text First Line: The sun is on the crowded street Last Line: Which leave themselves behind. Subject(s): Piccadilly, London SCENES IN LONDON: 2. OXFORD STREET Poem Text First Line: Life in its many shapes was there Last Line: How strangely do ye meet! Subject(s): Oxford Street, London SCENES IN LONDON: 3. THE SAVOYARD IN GROSVENOR SQUARE Poem Text First Line: He stands within the silent square Last Line: Than ours is for each other. Subject(s): Grosvenor Square, London SCENES IN LONDON: 4. THE CITY CHURCHYARD Poem Text First Line: I pray thee lay me not to rest Last Line: Give loveliness to death. Subject(s): Churchyards; Funerals; London; Burials SECRETS Poem Text First Line: Life has dark secrets; and the hearts are few Last Line: Avenging, and betraying. Subject(s): Secrets; Time SELF-BLINDEDNESS Poem Text First Line: What shakespeare said of lovers, might apply Last Line: Life's best repose is blindness to itself. SELF-REPROACH Poem Text First Line: Deep in the heart is an avenging power Last Line: There is no wretchedness like self-reproach. Subject(s): Self-criticism SHE SAT ALONE BESIDE HER HEARTH SHE WAS SENT FORTH Subject(s): Love SHUHUR, JEYPORE Poem Text First Line: A lonely grave, far from all kindred ties Last Line: And pine and perish 'neath a foreign sky. Subject(s): Graves; India; Tombs; Tombstones SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE Poem Text First Line: Divinest art, the stars above Last Line: By showing what her sex can be. Subject(s): Lawrence, Sir Thomas (1769-1830); Paintings & Painters; Women SIR WALTER MANNY AT HIS FATHER'S TOMB; BALLAD Poem Text First Line: Oh, show me the grave where my father is laid Last Line: I shall not mourn my task is done. Subject(s): Chivalry SIR WALTER SCOTT Poem Text First Line: Dead! - it was like a thunderbolt Last Line: We can but weep above thy grave. Subject(s): Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832) SMALL MISERIES Poem Text First Line: Life's smallest miseries are, perhaps, its worst Last Line: The pang that they inflict! SONG (1) Poem Text First Line: I pray thee let me weep to-night Last Line: Where hope in death is sleeping. SONG (10) Poem Text First Line: Oh! Breathe not of love Last Line: And give me his wings. Subject(s): Love SONG (11) Poem Text First Line: Our early years - our early years Last Line: Recall them not again. Subject(s): Past SONG (12) Poem Text First Line: Oh, when the grave shall open for me Last Line: The bending and dark blue violet. Subject(s): Flowers; Graves; Violets; Tombs; Tombstones SONG (13) First Line: I loved her! And her azure eyes Last Line: How I ever lived while free? SONG (14) First Line: A mouth that is itself a rose Last Line: None but I may know SONG (15) First Line: I send back thy letters Last Line: How faithless thou art Subject(s): Unfaithfulness SONG (16) First Line: As steals the dew along the flower Last Line: I first loved thee SONG (2) Poem Text First Line: My heart is like the failing hearth Last Line: As suffer deep seek mirth in vain. SONG (3) Poem Text First Line: Farewell, farewell! I'll dream no more; / 'tis misery to be dreaming Last Line: Thus sang the lady isabelle. SONG (4) Poem Text First Line: Where do purple bubbles swim Last Line: As thus, with bow'd down head, she sung. SONG (5) Poem Text First Line: I have belied my woman's heart Last Line: "watch over love's enchanted sleep." Subject(s): Love SONG (6) Poem Text First Line: Where, oh! Where's the chain to fling Last Line: The magic of so dear a tone. SONG (7) Poem Text First Line: I know my heart is as a grave Last Line: Lovely as her own, arise. SONG (8) Poem Text First Line: Oh never another dream can be Last Line: That early dream of ours. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares SONG (9) Poem Text First Line: Farewell! - and never think of me Last Line: Then -- and then only -- think of me! Subject(s): Farewell; Parting SONG OF THE HUNTER'S BRIDE Poem Text First Line: Another day - another day Last Line: My ulric, welcome home! Subject(s): Hunting; Hunters SORROWS AND PLEASURES Poem Text First Line: It is an awful thing how we forget Last Line: That draw all life together. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness ST. GEORGE'S HOSPITAL, HYDE PARK CORNER Poem Text First Line: These are familiar things, and yet how few Last Line: Wore its pale marble look of cold defiance. Subject(s): Hospitals STANZAS Poem Text First Line: I know it is not made to last Last Line: To know that once it loved. STANZAS ON THE DEATH OF MRS. HEMANS Poem Text First Line: Bring flowers to crown the cup and lute Last Line: And I can write no more. Subject(s): Hemans, Felicia (1793-1835) STANZAS ON THE NEW YEAR Poem Text First Line: I stood between the meeting years Last Line: "for happiness dwells there!" Subject(s): Holidays; New Year STANZAS TO THE AUTHOR OF MONT BLANC, ADA, ETC. Poem Text First Line: Thy hands are fill'd with early flowers Last Line: Not wither all that grows beneath! STERN TRUTH Poem Text First Line: Life is made up of vanities - so small Last Line: And makes us feel that fate is terrible. Subject(s): Vanity SUBJECTS FOR PICTURES Poem Text First Line: What seek I here to gather into words? Last Line: And grows distinct with poetry. Subject(s): Imagination; Paintings & Painters; Poetry & Poets; Fancy SUCCESS ALONE SEEN Poem Text First Line: Few know of life's beginnings - men behold Last Line: Men would behold its threshold, and despair. Subject(s): Success THE AFRICAN PRINCE Poem Text First Line: It was a king in africa Last Line: One hope within his heart. Subject(s): Africa; Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE ALTERED RIVER Poem Text First Line: Thou lovely river, thou art now Last Line: And when have dreams not flown? Subject(s): Rivers THE ANCESTRESS; A DRAMATIC SKETCH Poem Text First Line: It is in this we differ; I would seek Last Line: Castle hide the whole. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Guilt; Punishment; Heritage; Heredity THE ARAB MAID Poem Text First Line: From the dark and sunless caverns Last Line: Love has only one. Subject(s): Arabs THE ASTROLOGER Poem Text First Line: Alas! For our ancient believings Last Line: But happiness still is to come. Subject(s): Astrology & Astrologers; Fate; Destiny THE BANQUET OF ASPASIA AND PERICLES Poem Text First Line: Waken'd by the small white fingers Last Line: The bright athenian bride. Subject(s): Aspasia (5th Century B.c.); Pericles (490-429 B.c.) THE BASQUE GIRL AND HENRI QUATRE Poem Text First Line: Love! Summer flower, how soon thou art decay'd Last Line: Had seal'd love's sacrifice! THE BATTLE FIELD Poem Text First Line: It was a battle field, and the cold moon Last Line: And listless slumber. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE BAYADERE: AN INDIAN TALE Poem Text First Line: There were seventy pillars around the hall Last Line: "aza the queen of his heart and hall!" THE BROKEN SPELL: THE FIRST PROVENCAL MINSTREL'S LAY Poem Text First Line: Where on earth is the truth that may vie Last Line: Of the knightly deeds which their numbers told. THE CARRIER-PIGEON RETURNED Poem Text First Line: Sunset has flung its glory o'er the floods Last Line: The darkness of the grave is now before her. Subject(s): Pigeons THE CASTLE OF CHILLON Poem Text First Line: Fair lake, thy lovely and thy haunted shore Last Line: The heart thy fuel, and the grave thy shrine. Subject(s): Alps; Chillon Castle, Switzerland; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE CEDARS OF LEBANON Poem Text First Line: Ye ancients of the earth, beneath whose shade Last Line: Than ye have known -- cedars of lebanon! Subject(s): Cedar Trees; Lebanon THE CHARM IS GONE Poem Text First Line: I did not wish to see his face Last Line: It can be charmed no more! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE CHILD OF THE SEA: THE LAY OF THE SECOND PROVENCAL BARD Poem Text First Line: It was a summer evening; and the sea Last Line: The tale of sorrow, sin. And death. THE CHURCH AT POLIGNAC Poem Text First Line: Kneel down in yon chapel, but only one prayer Last Line: For, mercy, thy cause is the cause of mankind. Subject(s): Churches; Polignac, Auguste De (1780-1847); Cathedrals THE COMBAT, BY ETTY Poem Text First Line: They fled, - for there was for the brave Last Line: He strikes, -- the work of death is done! Subject(s): Etty, William (1787-1849); Paintings & Painters THE CONISTON CURSE: A YORKSHIRE LEGEND Poem Text First Line: They knelt upon the altar steps, but other looks were there Last Line: And touches all, -- no master yet has ever left an heir. Subject(s): Curses; Yorkshire, England THE CORONATION Poem Text First Line: What memories haunt the venerable pile! Last Line: Make the place sacred. THE COUNTRY RETREAT Poem Text First Line: Oh lone and lovely solitude Last Line: Is what the city yields. Subject(s): Country Life THE COVENTANTERS Poem Text First Line: Mine home is but a blacken'd heap Last Line: Upon the rock, and loathe the vale beneath? THE CRUSADER Poem Text First Line: He is come from the land of the sword and shrine Last Line: He found it -- that warrior has died with the brave! THE DANCING GIRL Poem Text First Line: A light and joyous figure, one that seems Last Line: The dust and ashes of a happier time. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers THE DEATH OF THE SEA KING Poem Text First Line: Dark, how dark the morning Last Line: The earl and the maiden together lie dead! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE DESERTER Poem Text First Line: Alas, for the bright promise of our youth! Last Line: Shot for desertion! Subject(s): Desertion, Military THE DIARY OF A WEEK Poem Text First Line: A record of the inward world, whose facts Last Line: On such these records linger. Subject(s): Diaries THE DISTURBING SPIRIT Poem Text First Line: Doubt, despairing, crime, and craft Last Line: Well may bend to thee, o love! THE DREAM IN THE TEMPLE OF SERAPIS Poem Text First Line: The heavy night is falling Last Line: The temple of the god. Subject(s): Alexander The Great (356-323 B.c.); Temples; Mosques THE DREAM: THE LAY OF THE SCOTTISH MINSTREL Poem Text First Line: There are no sounds in the wanderer's eye Last Line: As the master told his ancient tale. Subject(s): Scotland THE DYING CHILD Poem Text First Line: Her cheek is flushed with fever red Last Line: There, there, my child, lie down and die! Subject(s): Death - Children; Guilt; Pain; Poverty; Death - Babies; Suffering; Misery THE EARL OF SANDWICH Poem Text First Line: They called the islands by his name Last Line: And calls them by some name of home. Subject(s): Montagu, John, 4th Earl Of Sandwich; Twitcher, Jemmy THE EASTERN KING: THE PILGRIM'S TALE Poem Text First Line: He flung back the chaplet, he threw down the wine Last Line: Like the lone lily on his grave. Subject(s): Despair THE EMERALD RING; A SUPERSTITION Poem Text First Line: It is a gem which hath the power to show Last Line: My heart is broken -- not estranged! Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Love - Complaints; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces THE ENCHANTED ISLAND, BY DANBY Poem Text First Line: And there the island lay, the waves around Last Line: His bride to the fair island. Subject(s): Danby, Francis (1793-1861); Paintings & Painters THE EVENING STAR Poem Text First Line: Ah, loveliest! That through my casement gleaming Last Line: Oh, life and earth, what were ye without dreams! Subject(s): Stars THE FACTORY; 'TIS AN ACCURSED THING! Poem Text First Line: There rests a shade above yon town Last Line: There is a curse on thee! Subject(s): Factories; Industrial Revolution; Pollution THE FAIRY OF THE FOUNTAINS Poem Text First Line: Why did she love her mother's so? Last Line: The fountain fairy -- melusine! Subject(s): Fountains; Legends, English THE FAIRY QUEEN SLEEPING, BY STOTHARD Poem Text First Line: She lay upon a bank, the favourite haunt Last Line: Wake, titania, wake, our queen! Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599); Stothard, Thomas (1755-1834) THE FALCON; THE LAY OF THE NORMAN KNIGHT Poem Text First Line: I hear a sound o'er hill and plain Last Line: Your pleasant dream, half thought, half sigh. THE FAREWELL Poem Text First Line: Farewell! / shadows and scenes that have, for many hours Last Line: And hopes, almost misgivings! Subject(s): Farewell; Parting THE FATHER'S LOVE Poem Text First Line: Tis no tmy home - he made it home Last Line: But I had only thine. Subject(s): Fathers THE FEARFUL TRUST Poem Text First Line: It is a fearful trust, the trust of love Last Line: Its childhood is departed. Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE FEAST OF LIFE Poem Text First Line: Bid thee to my mystic feast Last Line: But life in its reality! Subject(s): Life THE FEMALE CONVICT Poem Text First Line: She shrank from all, and her silent mood Last Line: The convict has found in the green sea a grave. Subject(s): Adversity; Death; Prisons & Prisoners; Dead, The; Convicts THE FETE Poem Text First Line: There was a feast that night Last Line: Came thronging in. Variant Title(s): The Banquet THE FIRST DAY Poem Text First Line: Tis may again, another may Last Line: Bade his soft notes arise the while. THE FIRST DOUBT Poem Text First Line: Youth, love, and rank, and wealth - all these combined Last Line: She sank before the presence of despair! Subject(s): Love - Unrequited THE FIRST GRAVE Poem Text First Line: A single grave! - the only one Last Line: Which sanctify the grave! Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones THE FUNERAL Poem Text First Line: Mark you not yon sad procession Last Line: Wilt thou keep that urn? Love mine! Subject(s): Funerals; Burials THE FUTURE Poem Text First Line: Ask me not, love, what can be in my heart Last Line: Thank heaven, the future is at least unknown! Subject(s): Future THE GANGES Poem Text First Line: On sweeps the mighty river - calmly flowing Last Line: Bear as that bears -- where'er thou goest -- blessing! Subject(s): Ganges River, India THE GOLDEN VIOLET Poem Text First Line: To-morrow, to-morrow, thou loveliest may Last Line: "the victor's crown of violet." THE GRASP OF THE DEAD Poem Text First Line: Twas in the battlefield, and the cold pale moon Last Line: With his sword in his own brave keeping! THE GREY CROSS Poem Text First Line: A grey cross stands beneath yon old beech-tree Last Line: Echoes in the lime valleys of castile! THE GUERILLA CHIEF Poem Text First Line: But the war-storm came on the mountain gale Last Line: Marks the guerilla and the maiden's tomb! THE HAUNTED LAKE: THE IRISH MINSTREL'S LEGEND Poem Text First Line: Rose up the young moon; back she flung Last Line: Mid these northern halls, to the meed of fame. Subject(s): Lakes; Legends, Irish; Pools; Ponds THE HEART'S OMENS Poem Text First Line: I felt my sorrow ere it came Last Line: The spirit world to ours. Subject(s): Omens THE HINDOO GIRL'S SONG Poem Text First Line: Float on - float on - my haunted bark Last Line: For it has gained the shore. Subject(s): Girls; India; Superstition THE IMPROVISATRICE: A MOORISH ROMANCE Poem Text First Line: Softly through the pomegranate groves Last Line: I sang, but, as I sang, I wept. THE IMPROVISATRICE: INTRODUCTION Poem Text First Line: I am a daughter of that land Last Line: Her latest, wildest song was breaking. THE IMPROVISATRICE: LEADS AND CYDIPPE Poem Text First Line: She sat her in her twilight bower Last Line: As e'er was poured in woman's ear! THE IMPROVISATRICE: LORENZO'S HISTORY Poem Text First Line: I was betrothed from earliest youth Last Line: "lorenzo to his minstrel love." THE IMPROVISATRICE: SAPPHO'S SONG Poem Text First Line: Farewell, my lute! - and would that I Last Line: Vibrate the chord whereon it sleeps! Subject(s): Farewell; Lutes; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Parting THE IMPROVISATRICE: SONG Poem Text First Line: Farewell - we shall not meet again Last Line: Came sweet upon the midnight wind. THE IMPROVISATRICE: THE CHARMED CUP Poem Text First Line: And fondly round his neck she clung Last Line: Worshipped and flattered but for thee! THE IMPROVISATRICE: THE HINDOO GIRL'S SONG Poem Text First Line: Playful and wild as the fire-flies' light Last Line: As tehose the pining wood-dove sings. THE IMPROVISATRICE: THE INDIAN BRIDE Poem Text First Line: She has lighted her lamp, and crowned it with flowers Last Line: With words that love wrung from despair. THE INFLUENCE OF THE DEAD Poem Text First Line: Who are the spirits watching by the dead? Last Line: While love stands watching by the sepulchre. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE IONIAN CAPTIVE Poem Text First Line: Sadly the captive o'er the flowers is bending Last Line: And see her household and her hills again! THE KINGS OF GOLCONDA Poem Text First Line: Morning is round the shining palace Last Line: Of golconda's ancient kings. THE LAST LOOK Poem Text First Line: The shade of the will fell dark on the tide Last Line: "ah, who will now watch o'er my favourite flowers!" Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Childhood THE LAST NIGHT WITH THE DEAD Poem Text First Line: How awful is the presence of the dead! Last Line: In losing those who loved us. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE LAUREL Poem Text First Line: Fling down the laurel from her golden hair Last Line: And last, farewell! Oh, my false love, to thee! Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE LITTLE GLEANER Poem Text First Line: Very fair the child was, with hair of darkest auburn Last Line: For ever, in its joy, does the full heart think of heaven. THE LITTLENESS OF LIFE Poem Text First Line: Life is so little in its vanities Last Line: To their own wretched level nobler things. Subject(s): Life; Vanity THE LOST Poem Text First Line: I did not know till she was lost Last Line: That now is left behind. THE LOST PLEIAD Poem Text First Line: A story from the stars; or rather one Last Line: But turns to death on touching earth. Subject(s): Pleiades (constellation) THE MARRIAGE VOW Poem Text First Line: The altar, 'tis of death! For there are laid Last Line: For in the grave is rest. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE MASK OF GAIETY Poem Text First Line: Tis strange to think, if we could fling aside Last Line: These are the bars, the curtains to the breast. Subject(s): Facades; Appearances THE MIND'S UNREST Poem Text First Line: Mind, dangerous and glorious gift! Last Line: It is itself its sacrifice. Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE MINISTER Poem Text First Line: Dim thro' the sculptured aisles the sunbeam falls Last Line: Which leads and cheers man to eternity. THE MINSTREL OF PORTUGAL Poem Text First Line: Their path had been a troubled one, each step Last Line: Her humble lover perish'd! Subject(s): Minstrels THE MINSTREL'S MONITOR Poem Text First Line: Silent and dark is the source of yon river Last Line: The beauty and glory of sunshine and fame. THE MOORISH MAIDEN'S VIGIL Poem Text First Line: Does she watch him, fondly watch him Last Line: And it is the grave! Subject(s): Waiting THE MOUNTAIN GRAVE Poem Text First Line: She sate beside the rock from which arose Last Line: Where agatha was sleeping. Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones THE NAMELESS GRAVE Poem Text First Line: A nameless grave - there is no stone Last Line: And such a nameless grave! Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones THE NEGLECTED ONE Poem Text First Line: And there is silence in that lonely hall Last Line: And she is dead, -- her secret unreveal'd. THE NIZAM'S DAUGHTER Poem Text First Line: She is yet a child in years Last Line: Is a thrice-veiled shrine. Subject(s): Girls THE OAK; A FRAGMENT Poem Text First Line: It is the last survivor of a race Last Line: This oak has no companion!... Subject(s): Oak Trees THE OLD TIMES Poem Text First Line: Do you recall what now is living only Last Line: The dear old times. Subject(s): Past THE OMEN Poem Text First Line: Oh, how we miss the young and bright Last Line: The father beside his child was sleeping. THE ORIENTAL NOSEGAY, BY PICKERSGILL Poem Text First Line: Through the light curtains came the perfumed air Last Line: Fling, fling the flowers away! Subject(s): Flowers; Paintings & Painters THE PAINTER'S LOVE Poem Text First Line: Your skies are blue, your sun is bright Last Line: When hearts they would have soothed are broken! Subject(s): Love; Paintings & Painters THE PAST Poem Text First Line: Weep for the love that fate forbids Last Line: To dream, despair, and die! Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE PILGRIM'S TALE Poem Text First Line: I have gone east, I have gone west Last Line: Apply its lesson as ye may. THE POET'S FIRST ESSAY Poem Text First Line: It is a fearful stake the poet casts Last Line: That only gives the laurel to the grave. THE POET'S LOT Poem Text First Line: The poet's lovely faith creates Last Line: The beauty of the rose. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POET'S PAST Poem Text First Line: Remembrance makes the poet: 'tis the past Last Line: Only to know it is not of our sphere? Subject(s): Past; Poetry & Poets THE POLAR STAR Poem Text First Line: A star has left the kindling sky Last Line: My heart to look for you. Subject(s): Stars THE POOR Poem Text First Line: Few, save the poor, feel for the poor Last Line: But with a sadder eye. Subject(s): Poverty THE POWER OF WORDS Poem Text First Line: Tis a strange mystery, the power of words! Last Line: A word is but a breath of passing air. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary THE PROPHETESS Poem Text First Line: In the deep silence of the midnight hours Last Line: The wide world round us is one mighty tomb. THE QUEEN OF CYPRUS: THE PROVENCAL LADY'S LAY Poem Text First Line: A summer isle, which seem'd to be Last Line: Nor tell whence that pilgrim minstrel came. THE RAKI Poem Text First Line: There's dust upon the distant wind, and shadow on the skies Last Line: Embalmed by poetry and love. Subject(s): Chivalry; Gifts & Giving; India; Jewelry & Jewelers; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces THE RECORD Poem Text First Line: He sleeps, his head upon his sword Last Line: This was a hero's name. Subject(s): Heroism; Heroes; Heroines THE REPLY OF THE FOUNTAIN Poem Text First Line: How deep within each human heart Last Line: Itself with fantasies like these. THE RING: THE GERMAN MINNESINGER'S TALE Poem Text First Line: Both were young, and both were fair Last Line: As her heart had the misery it painted known. THE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Why, what a history is on the rose! Last Line: Unfolded to the earliest breath of june. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE ROSE: THE ITALIAN MINSTREL'S TALE Poem Text First Line: The count gonfali held a feast that night Last Line: Less from a vision of earth than of heaven. THE RUINED MIND Poem Text First Line: Ah! Sad it is to see the deck Last Line: In their worst shape -- the ruined mind? THE RUSH-BEARING AT AMBLESIDE Poem Text First Line: Summer is come, with her leaves and her flowers Last Line: Let us seek the green rush by the deep woodland springs. Subject(s): Festivals; Flowers; Fairs; Pageants THE SAILOR Poem Text First Line: Oh! Gloriously upon the deep Last Line: And where her sailor slept, there slept his mother! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails THE SEA-SHORE Poem Text First Line: I should like to dwell where the deep blue sea Last Line: And I ask no home but beside the deep. Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore THE SECOND DAY Poem Text First Line: Sweet spirit of delicious song Last Line: As he told his tale of high emprize. THE SHEPHERD BOY Poem Text First Line: Like some vision olden Last Line: Lowly shepherd boy. Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses THE SICK ROOM Poem Text First Line: Tis midnight, and a starry shower Last Line: Of suffering, and of sorrow's room. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness THE SLEEPING BEAUTY Poem Text First Line: Sleep with honey-dews hath bound her Last Line: Soon it will mourn its rest forsaken! Subject(s): Sleep THE SOLDIER'S FUNERAL Poem Text First Line: And the muffled drum rolled on the air Last Line: The father had pray'd o'er his only son! Subject(s): Funerals; Soldiers; Burials THE SOLDIER'S GRAVE Poem Text First Line: There's a white stone placed upon yonder tomb Last Line: But who died on his own home-pillow! Subject(s): Graves; Soldiers; Tombs; Tombstones THE SPANISH PAGE; OR, THE CITY'S RANSOM Poem Text First Line: She was a chieftain's daughter, and he a captive boy Last Line: The warrior spared the moorish town, for that dead maiden's sake. THE SULTAN'S REMONSTRANCE Poem Text First Line: It suits thee well to weep Last Line: For which thou dar'dst not die. Subject(s): Cowardice THE TEMPLE GARDEN Poem Text First Line: The fountain's low singing is heard in the wind Last Line: Where sweep those dark branches of shadowy green! Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening THE TROUBADOUR: CANTO 1 Poem Text First Line: Call to mind your loveliest dream Last Line: Her heart was sole memorial. THE TROUBADOUR: CANTO 2 Poem Text First Line: The first, the very first; oh! None Last Line: A sign and seal with thee and me! THE TROUBADOUR: CANTO 3 Poem Text First Line: Land of the olive and the vine Last Line: Of good or ill that could befall. THE TROUBADOUR: CANTO 4 Poem Text First Line: It was a wild and untrain'd bower Last Line: Like the dear love I had for thee! THE TWO DEATHS: 1. DEATH OF SIGURD, EARL OF NORTHUMBERLAND Poem Text First Line: The earl lay on his purple bed Last Line: And earl sigurd's life is done! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE TWO DEATHS: 2. DEATH OF CAMOENS Poem Text First Line: Pale comes the moonlight thro' the lattice gleaming Last Line: Camoens, by thy grave! Subject(s): Camoens, Luiz De (1524-1580); Death; Dead, The THE UNKNOWN GRAVE Poem Text First Line: There is a little lonely grave Last Line: The nameless poet hath a shrine. Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones THE VALE OF LONSDALE, LANCASHIRE Poem Text First Line: I could no tdwell here, it is all too fair Last Line: Between the placid scene, and its unrest. Subject(s): Country Life; Lancashire, England THE VENETIAN BRACELET Poem Text First Line: Those subtle poisons which made science crime Last Line: "and, half effaced, a name -- ""amenaide." THE VIOLET Poem Text First Line: Violets! - deep-blue violets! Last Line: The bending and deep-blue violet! Subject(s): Flowers; Violets THE VISIONARY AND THE TRUE Poem Text First Line: Ah! Waking dreams that mock the day Last Line: Cold, calm and stern, is truth. THE WARRIOR; A SKETCH Poem Text First Line: The warrior went forth in the morning light Last Line: They bear the young chieftain cold on his bier! THE WOODLAND BROOK Poem Text First Line: Thou art flowing, thou art flowing Last Line: A deeper fondness o'er me steal. THE WORLD WITHIN Poem Text First Line: There was a shadow on his face, that spake Last Line: Who could believe in what he knew was vain. THE WREATH Poem Text First Line: Nay, fling not down those faded flowers Last Line: To even faded bloom! Subject(s): Memory THE WREATH: TALE OF THE MOORISH BARD Poem Text First Line: The earliest beauty of the rose Last Line: Land of hearth and home, aught to liken to thee. Subject(s): Flowers THE WRONGS OF LOVE Poem Text First Line: Alas, how bitter are the wrongs of love Last Line: For which there is no healing. Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE YOUNG AVENGER: THE SPANISH MINSTREL'S TALE Poem Text First Line: The warrior's strength is bow'd by age, the warrior's step is slow Last Line: As thus the minstrel sung his last. THE YOUNG POET'S FATE Poem Text First Line: Trace the young poet's fate Last Line: His talents and his state! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE ZEGRI LADY'S VIGIL Poem Text First Line: Ever sits the lady weeping Last Line: Of the ladye weeping there. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE ZENANA; AN EASTERN TALE Poem Text First Line: What is there that the world hath not Last Line: Recalled this tale of ancient time. Subject(s): India THOMAS MOORE, ESQ. Poem Text First Line: If titania, just wakened from dreams which the rose Last Line: And to wish for her welfare is wishing for thine. Subject(s): Moore, Thomas (1779-1852) THOUGHTS ON CHRISTMAS-DAY IN INDIA Poem Text First Line: It is christmas, and the sunshine Last Line: Is what I can feel no more. Subject(s): Christmas; India; Nativity, The TO MY BROTHER Poem Text First Line: Do you recall the fancies of many years ago Last Line: How much we loved his dangers, and how we mourned his fall! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails TO OLINTHUS GREGORY Poem Text First Line: Is there a spot where pity's foot Last Line: Sees all life held most dear enshrined. Subject(s): Death - Children; Drowning; Death - Babies TO THE MEMORY OF A FAVOURITE CHILD; THE DAUGHTER OF A FRIEND Poem Text First Line: Her voice is on the haunted air Last Line: An altar for my prayers and tears. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies TO THE QUEEN Poem Text First Line: Within the page, oh, royal ladye! - seeking Last Line: A nation breathes upon victoria's name! Subject(s): Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901) TOWN AND HARBOR OF ITHACA Poem Text First Line: By another light surrounded Last Line: Where ulysses was the king. Subject(s): Ithaca, Greece; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus UNAVAILING REGRET Poem Text First Line: Farewell! And when the charm of change Last Line: And sigh to think it is in vain. UNGUIDED WILL Poem Text First Line: God, in thy mercy, keep us with thy hand! Last Line: Have sunk the deepest! VANITY Poem Text First Line: Vanity! Guiding power, 'tis thine to rule Last Line: Each deems his task the glory of the world. Subject(s): Vanity WANT OF SYMPATHY Poem Text First Line: These are the things that fret away the heart Last Line: How must she feel the chill! Subject(s): Sympathy; Empathy WARNING Poem Text First Line: Pray thee, maiden, hear him not Last Line: Then, maiden! Read thy fate in mine. WAVE, WIND, AND BARK Poem Text First Line: Wave that wand'rest singing by Last Line: Bidding her: forget me not! WE MIGHT HAVE BEEN! Poem Text First Line: We might have been! - these are but common words Last Line: We might have been. WEAKNESS ENDS WITH LOVE Poem Text First Line: I say not, regret me; you will not regret Last Line: It died with the sentence -- I love thee no more! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of WHAT IS SUCCESS? Poem Text First Line: All things are symbols; and we find Last Line: Ere half its race be run. Subject(s): Success WHEN SHOULD LOVERS BREATHE THEIR VOWS? WIND First Line: The wind has a language, I would I could learn Subject(s): Wind YOUTH AND LOVE Poem Text First Line: Young, loving, and beloved - these are brief words Last Line: Still it is much to think that it has been. Subject(s): Love; Youth Laneve, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author SUMMER First Line: The robin is singing Lang, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author HONEY BEAR First Line: There was a big bear Langgasser, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author SPRING 1946 First Line: So you return Last Line: My child, my nausicaa! Lapin, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author YES First Line: Why did my birth start in the front seat of a ford Last Line: A bad translation from another language Latimer, Mary Elizabeth 2 poems available by this author SAINT ANTHONY First Line: It was christmas eve; a snow storm passed ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON First Line: Long back in the far off ages, when low lay the night of rome Lay, E. Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author MARGARET'S GUEST First Line: Margaret sat at her work alone Lay, Elizabeth Stanton 1 poems available by this author QUERY Poem Text First Line: Dear silent one Last Line: Your steadfast ways? Subject(s): Silence Ledig, Elizabeth Lineback 1 poems available by this author NOSTALGIA Poem Text First Line: I'm tired of cities with churches and schools Last Line: Guess I'm homesick for peru. Subject(s): Peru Lee, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author MINUTIAE Poem Text First Line: Move out upon a gorgeous star Last Line: Not faintly, not by chance! Lerner, Elizabeth 4 poems available by this author CALORIES AND OTHER COUNTS First Line: Most woman gain weight in their thighs first NAME IT AFTER ME First Line: In the unbecoming light of night SOCIOBIOLOGY First Line: Sometimes I feel like I'm flipping out THIS LITTLE PIGGY First Line: He was teased, singled out Lewis, Elizabeth Burton 223 poems available by this author AFTER CARDIAC COMPLAINT First Line: I finally rejected the tedium Last Line: And go out enjoying some fun AND GOD SHALL WIPE AWAY ALL TEARS First Line: I know that I shall look into his eyes Last Line: We swill sing praise together at his throne APRIL First Line: April wears a daffodil Last Line: Emotions in confusion ARBUTUS First Line: Beneath the trees in solitude you couch Last Line: You throw your heady fragrance to the night ARTESIAN WATER First Line: Bubbling, flowing from the depth of earth Last Line: Thanks god %for artesian water ASK ANY FARMER First Line: In may of nineteen-seventy-seven Last Line: Not before, but after our fields are seeded? ASTRONAUT First Line: Move up the sky and push it back Last Line: That dim our vision ATTORNEY-AT-LAW First Line: Small boned, %wiry of body Last Line: And his oratory %outshone demosthenes AUGUST First Line: August is a lazy day Last Line: Play leap-frog in her hair AURORA BOREALIS First Line: This morning the north was ablaze with light Last Line: In a dawn of blazing gold AUTUMN First Line: Gray and green are the faraway hills Last Line: For summer is passing by BABIES First Line: Babies are cute and cuddly and smelly Last Line: And when they are gone, o boy, how we miss them BAITED WITH BEAUTY First Line: She spun a web Last Line: Of such beauty %be so deadly? BEST LOVE First Line: I loved him best Last Line: While the blizzard rage BETWEEN SEASONS First Line: There is quite a pause Last Line: Before the dawn %of spring BIG MAN IN TOWN First Line: Why is he always called robert Last Line: Filled with luke-warm wind? BLUE JADE First Line: You are gone %but now within my mind Last Line: The picture of your %memory BLUE VELOUR First Line: I put on the old blue nightie Last Line: Of that winter, long ago BONUS First Line: We stood upon the hill and watched the sun Last Line: An added bonus, diana, guardian of the night BRAVE DOG First Line: Tammy chased a rabbit Last Line: She hid beneath the bed BULLY Last Line: Stay in the house %because he threatens %them BUT OH, I CRY First Line: I do not cry for you, my love Last Line: And I must stay %alone. %I cry for me CAESAR First Line: Caesar, the cat with the amber eye Last Line: And he blinks at me with his amber eye CARDIAC COMPLAINT First Line: I watched all the blips Last Line: I am bored with this darn ennui CAT FUN First Line: Little miss kitty sits-in-the-sun Last Line: And dreams all the day of the night that is done CATLOVE First Line: Puppies love everyone! Last Line: Cats are like that. %I love my cat CHRISTMAS SONGS: CHRISTMAS First Line: The tv ads and lurid songs Last Line: That god means us to give CHRISTMAS SONGS: CHRISTMAS MEDITATION First Line: I wonder if mary at rest in the hay Last Line: For the infant there? CHRISTMAS SONGS: CHRISTMAS QUESTIONS First Line: What is this all pervading joy Last Line: As angel, and magi, and joy, and kings? CHRISTMAS SONGS: DO YOU KNOW? First Line: Do you see the glory in the eastern skies Last Line: Because he was born and because he lives? CHRISTMAS SONGS: I FOUND THEE, LORD First Line: I lost thee, lord Last Line: Accepting thy great gift for me CHRISTMAS SONGS: I LIKE CHRISTMAS First Line: I enjoy the christmas cards that come Last Line: On the birthday of the boy CHRISTMAS SONGS: I LOVE CHRISTMAS First Line: I love the christmas season Last Line: Two thousand years ago CHRISTMAS SONGS: LIGHTS First Line: The christmas lights that stain the snow Last Line: A light for all humanity, %a beacon for eternity CHRISTMAS SONGS: LISTEN! First Line: If you listen carefully christmas eve Last Line: Of the blessed baby boy CHRISTMAS SONGS: LULLABY First Line: Sleep little boy in your manger bed Last Line: Sleep little one to the song of the dove. %loo, loo, lullaby loo CHRISTMAS SONGS: SING NOEL First Line: If all the world would sing noel Last Line: To the infant prince of peace CHRISTMAS SONGS: THE GIFT LAMB First Line: His fingers curled %in my soft wool Last Line: While his fingers curled %in my soft wool CHRISTMAS SONGS: XMAS First Line: We left christ on the attic shelf this year Last Line: There seems to be %something missing CINQUAIN IX First Line: Cool %blessed cool Last Line: A different attitude prevails CLOCK WATCHER First Line: Clarence the clock %hangs on the wall Last Line: Or you've lost a life time of hours CLOUD PICTURES First Line: We sit and watch the sunset sky Last Line: Seen against a sunset sky COLD IN THE NOGGIN First Line: There is naught to be said Last Line: To be brief, you don't want it no more COLD LARKS First Line: Two meadow larks %along the super-highway Last Line: In the early morning cold COLORS First Line: Green are the hills that are calling to me Last Line: Blue, green, red and gold am I... %why? Why? Why? CONSOLATION First Line: I remember the day topsy died Last Line: He doesn't hurt now, mom, he's asleep.' %the comfort? CRYSTALS First Line: On a happy day %I hung crystal Last Line: In a house %filled with rainbows CURE FOR ANYTHING First Line: I slept for many hours Last Line: Before I just expire? DAKOTA First Line: Dakota land of plain and pine Last Line: From river sioux to the black hills DANCING TREES First Line: Maples and birches %like can-can dancers Last Line: Their green dresses %in proper decorum DAY IT RAINED First Line: Please, mr. Weatherman, call off the rain Last Line: Please, mr. Weatherman, send no more showers DAYBREAK First Line: Day is being born behind a hill Last Line: And all the world rejoices in her light DEAR BROTHER AND SISTER First Line: Sixty is a lot of years Last Line: Yes, if that's what %your asking for DEAR OLD RAGGEDY ANN First Line: Raggedy ann came on christmas Last Line: From that antique rocking chair DEATH AT DAWN First Line: The old moon is dying Last Line: Be as slender as she DEATH OF A GIANT First Line: A dandelion %pushes up a chunk of earth's crust Last Line: Takes one look at the world, %sighs %and dies DELIBER ME FROM WOMEN'S LIB First Line: Now women's lib may take its place Last Line: And sock him in the kisser DO YOU DREAM First Line: Do you dream, may darling Last Line: How very much I love you so? DRUMS First Line: Raindrops falling hard Last Line: Drum like tramping feet EARLY MORNING First Line: Once upon a gorgeous morning Last Line: At rest on a blanket of cobalt suede EARLY RETIREMENT First Line: I sit here uptight almost every night Last Line: Thinking you surely were not.' EMPTY STORM First Line: Mother nature %put on a clown suit Last Line: Nothing %...But laughter EYES First Line: Cat's eyes %bat's eyes Last Line: With wisdom of the years FAKE BUTTERFLIES First Line: The silk butterflies %hang from a plastic thread Last Line: Or am I too %impatient? FAMILY NAME First Line: I phoned him Last Line: Stubborn chin.' %we must be kin FEBRUARY First Line: Bleak february wraps himself Last Line: He beckons to spring FEBRUARY ROBIN II First Line: In dreary february %we long for signs Last Line: How could that silly robin know? FEBRUARY ROBIN: 1 First Line: How absurd Last Line: Silly bird FENCES First Line: I have a tree %so wide its shade Last Line: I will leave it as it is FILIGREE First Line: We loved beneath a silver moon Last Line: To wear on our wedding day FIRST DAY OF SUMMER First Line: Every watery hollow %and every blade of grass Last Line: Is itching with their biting %oh! Woe! FIRST FLAKE First Line: A snowflake fell on my coatsleeve Last Line: Calling billions and trillions more FIRST LOVE First Line: At a time between may and june Last Line: Your eyes first met mine FOSSIL First Line: I saw you lying there beside the shore Last Line: Before man knows the history of your life GIANT OAK First Line: Death came like a rush of wind Last Line: Of magnitude and worth... %and we are blessed GIFT WRAPPED First Line: A jet stream flashes across the sky Last Line: The light remains when the jet is gone GIFTS First Line: How god must love these boys and girls Last Line: Are angels, loaned awhile from heaven GIPSY First Line: Where has summer gone? Last Line: Summer is a tramp! GIVE US THIS DAY First Line: April is dead! Long live may! Last Line: We want may as we want it GO SLOWLY, TIME First Line: Oh, time, you are running too fast, too fast Last Line: That I may grow graciously old GOD BLESS SOUTH DAKOTA First Line: Lord, give us in south dakota Last Line: There is no better place GOLDEN GIFT First Line: Sunrise is a golden thing Last Line: A friend, my friend, is a golden gift GONE First Line: Someplace %along the way Last Line: Please, %has anybody %seen my head? GOOD FRIEND First Line: Some people have charm Last Line: And one of the very best of these %is you! GOOD MEDICINE, CHEAP First Line: I went to see my doctor Last Line: And she gave them to me free GOODBYE TO SPRING First Line: Spring took one fleeting look Last Line: He rules the world. %will spring return? GOSSIP First Line: If you ever want to know Last Line: And what she does not know %she makes up GOSSIP First Line: Old widow arachnid sits in the dark Last Line: That old widow arachnid has bitten them dead GRANDDAD First Line: I remember...I remember Last Line: I feel it, know it still is here GRANDMA K First Line: Everybody calls her %grandma kenner Last Line: And her cat scruffy %love all kids H. H. H. H. HATTIE First Line: When I first saw happless hattie Last Line: And your stupid, silly verse HAIKU First Line: When we %in secret seek Last Line: I need find secret words to speak %to you HELPER WOMAN First Line: She came to me %one cold winer day Last Line: A few weeks later %she died. %I cried HUCKLEBERRY JONES First Line: His name is really not huckleberry Last Line: Have you ever %seen huck grin? I HAVE A FRIEND First Line: How sad must be the lives of those Last Line: Forgotten, gloom ridden, ignored %desolate and denuded I LOVE YOU STILL First Line: Fifty years of wedded bliss? Last Line: Fifty years of love? %indeed ICE CAN BE BEAUTIFUL (?) First Line: The sun on the ice made rainbows Last Line: From every faceted face IF I HAD KNOWN First Line: If I had lived amid judea's hills Last Line: But who ran in faith? IMPRESSION ON FOGGY WINTER MORNING First Line: A milky film with the moon behind Last Line: Black tree fingers point in a stark white death IN ALL SEASONS First Line: Gentle rain of spring Last Line: From the loving arms of god IN THE GARDEN First Line: In the garden of eden Last Line: To help with their feedin' INCOME TAX RETURNS First Line: Somebody got the nicest check Last Line: Save, it, someone, I recommend it INDEPENDENT MONTH First Line: Two days we had spring Last Line: Unpredictable %foolish %april INDIAN SUMMER First Line: Indian summer came Last Line: Is the warmth of summer IRE BEFORE FIRE First Line: Teacher got a little mad Last Line: She said, 'I don't care. I'm tired!' KIDS IN LOVE First Line: Marjie is getting married Last Line: Marty and marjie %will make it KINDS OF LOVE First Line: There are so many kinds of love Last Line: That I have for my lord and maker LAKE First Line: It was flaming on the prairie Last Line: Regaining strength %to journey on LANGUAGE OF LOVE First Line: My true love sent me roses Last Line: To know that he loves me LATE FOG First Line: A ghostly sun %in a milky sky Last Line: Scoops up the fog %in a silver spoon LATE FROST First Line: We held our breath and waited Last Line: We'll tarry yet with autumn for while! LATE MARCH First Line: Old man winter %is becoming careless Last Line: To wash and groom him %for his burial LET SORROW GO First Line: Oh, sing, my heart, %let sorrow go Last Line: Some spring. %oh, sing, my heart LOST FRIEND First Line: A friend stood at the brow of a hill Last Line: I love you, oh, my friend!' LOVE PROLONGED First Line: I went to a beautiful wedding Last Line: Looked into my eyes that same way MAD YOUNG LOVE First Line: My love is a sort of devil-may-care Last Line: She is half-past-two, and today I am three MARATHON First Line: What a way %to start the day! Last Line: To heck with rats, let's run the race MARCH First Line: Here comes march with her bluster and flurry Last Line: She is farewell to winter, she is welcome to spring MAYFLOWERS First Line: Pasques bloom in their fur coats Last Line: Can be wet and cold MEDITATION First Line: No one is too big to cry Last Line: The hearts of others MEETING First Line: Were I to see your blessed face Last Line: My being would blend with yours forever MEMORIAL DAY First Line: I must go %to plant geraniums Last Line: On the new grave %where she sleeps MIGRATION First Line: Flying from the frozen north Last Line: Upon a wintry sky MIRACLE OF A SMILE First Line: Monday morning dark with gloom Last Line: A rainbow makes the rain worthwhile MISS DAVIS 'OLD TEACHER' First Line: She was at our fortieth class reunion, tinier than ever Last Line: Could have a teacher like mae MONDAY MORNING First Line: Kids are silly, high, hilarious, willy-nilly Last Line: Better far to have them silly, high, hilarious willy-nilly MORNING STORM First Line: The west was sodden Last Line: With its militant, awful dance MOTHER First Line: My mother was %I suppose Last Line: Eccentric? %senile? %old? %perhaps! MOVING DAY First Line: The truck is gone Last Line: Grown deep, deep in the soil of home MY CHOICE First Line: I choose love. %there is so much to love Last Line: To show the way. %I choose life MY MOTHER SAID NOT TO USE THAT WORD First Line: My mind was as blank Last Line: Had a definite, indelicate bad smell MY SILVER CROWN First Line: The leaves on backyard willow trees Last Line: When I my lord and savior meet NEW SNOW First Line: The new snow made the world seem purty Last Line: Enough of the stuff is what we've got NEW TEACHER First Line: She is young. %this is her first job Last Line: She will not stay here long NIGHT SOUNDS First Line: The night sings softly lullaby Last Line: Good night, good night day creatures cry NO ELEGY First Line: Sing not, my soul, %an elegy Last Line: Remember bitter tears %and burning grief NO RAIN First Line: Amber blazing sky Last Line: Brings no rain...No rain NOVEMBER LETHARGY First Line: Twas the day of thanksgiving Last Line: And slept all through the game ODE IN ANSWER TO THE OFT ASKED QUESTION AS TO WHETHER OR NOT MY First Line: Oh, my hair has lost all of its color Last Line: Shout hooray! For my teeth are my own ODE TO DISORGANIZATION First Line: I've been running around Last Line: Will all three be pointed OLD MAN GROVES Last Line: Or his woodshed %upset %on halloween ON THE SHELF First Line: Bring out the fiddle and play it with glee Last Line: To land on her feet on the dining room floor OTHER COLORS First Line: Earth is gold and white Last Line: Color is shown everywhere OUR ANNIVERSARY First Line: How dear are the things we tend to remember Last Line: To the vision ahead of the next fifty years PACK RAT First Line: I cleaned the drawers of my desk today Last Line: And I put them all back. I may need them some more PARANOIA First Line: My children sat %and spoke Last Line: I love them anyway PARSON First Line: Sickness %death %disappointment %scandal %are his sorrows Last Line: He loves and leads his flock %like a good shepherd PEGASUS OF THE JUNKYARD First Line: A junkyard's a depressing place Last Line: From a junkyard's medusa of unwanted things PESKY CAT First Line: Cat, I say that you cannot Last Line: Or I will blast you into vapor! PLAINT OF THE WIFE OF A BALD HEADED BEARD First Line: If he had as much hair on the top of his head Last Line: And he wouldn't look quite so like sin PLETHORA First Line: I watered the plants on the sill today Last Line: But we keep on guzzling the liquid stuff POLTERGEISTS, MAYBE? First Line: Goblins came %and it was not even halloween Last Line: When everyone %is just %a bit %crazy! PRIZE PICTURE First Line: I painted a picture one day in spring Last Line: But would you believe it? It won first prize! PROCRASTINATION First Line: A poem there was on monday Last Line: For sunday was far too late PROPHET OF PRECIPITATION First Line: A sundog released from its icy chain Last Line: And we will have bad weather foretold by him PUNISHED WOMAN First Line: Let me tell you of the legend Last Line: The lake they named the punished woman QUATRAIN First Line: Prim pinks and roses Last Line: But food for the soul REASONS FOR RAINBOWS First Line: Make the most of laughter Last Line: Are reflections of god's grace RETROSPECT IN JANUARY First Line: Once I remember %the grass was green Last Line: Oh, I remember that time, %do you? RUSSET APPLES First Line: When I was ten %I took book and pillow Last Line: Of a golden russet apple tree %in the lower orchard SAVAGE First Line: Their tipis fell %in a thundering hell Last Line: Why the redmen hate? SAY, CAT First Line: Say, cat, why are you lying there Last Line: All curled up in your silky hair? SEARCH First Line: I searched for wealth on many grassy plots Last Line: I found what I had needed most...A loving friend SEND HIM BACK First Line: Came winter from the cold and mighty north Last Line: A january thaw. Let's send him back SIGNS OF SPRING First Line: Wild canadians flying high Last Line: Winter seemed so very long SMALL TOWN DAKOTA First Line: There is something about Last Line: There are few strangers %in a small town SMALL TOWN NEWLYWEDS First Line: Katie and sandy %have lived as one Last Line: Sixty-seven years %of laughing together SNOW AGAIN? First Line: I think that I would not care to live Last Line: The changing of the seasons SNOW IN OCTOBER First Line: October is no time for snow Last Line: October should be days of sun and fun SNOW, ERMINE SNOW, GO! First Line: Winter put on another new coat Last Line: And let out the seams on our old summer dresses SOMEDAYS First Line: I have so few somedays Last Line: I must make each day %a someday SONGS OF THE SEASONS First Line: Springtime sings a song that is gay Last Line: In the comfort of the earth SPRING HOUSEKEEPING First Line: The wrens have let the house Last Line: In a throat splitting burst of song SPRING IS A-COMING First Line: There are puddles of mud and spots of ice Last Line: Ice, snow and mud will be no more SUBTLETY First Line: Magic is %my love's smile Last Line: How subtle %his magic SUMMER SKY First Line: Someone has spilled the whipped cream Last Line: Of softest, diaphanous silk SUMMER'S FAREWELL First Line: Red leaves, gold and amber Last Line: Where we can dance %farewell to summer SUNDAY MORNING First Line: Where are my people? Last Line: Where are my people? %where are they? SWALLOWTAIL First Line: I saw a butterfly %being born Last Line: Then it sailed away %on its short adventure SWEET GIRL GRADUATE First Line: Where is the little girl %I used to hold close Last Line: For they will all %come true, %or better ones will.' SYMPHONY First Line: Merry she goes as a bird on the wing Last Line: Composing in motion her own symphony TAKE IT AWAY CARL First Line: The fog may walk Last Line: You may have %the fog TALE OF A NAIL First Line: Once there was a little nail Last Line: Do not drive nails into my wall!' TEACHER'S LAMENT First Line: Slowly draws the day to restful closing Last Line: Thank god, thank god today is friday THAT'S THE WAY IT IS! First Line: I put on a pair of stockings Last Line: The second one pops a run THERE ARE Last Line: That make as much show %as crows on snow TIME TO DYE First Line: He is really my older brother Last Line: Today is my dyeing day TIRED TEACHER'S COMMENT First Line: I have just a sec to say, 'to heck with these semester tests.' Last Line: I would give an eye if I thought I was getting anywhere TO A NEW GRANDSON First Line: Dear, sweet little boy Last Line: To his dad and me TO JEAN ANN First Line: I cannot cry for you now Last Line: But never good-bye.' TO MY CHILD'S TEACHER First Line: You took my child and led him Last Line: Thank you, teacher TOO LATE GOODBYE First Line: I thought there would always be time Last Line: Goodbye, mom, I love you'? TOO TIRED First Line: A young girl stands %trembling with exhaustion Last Line: That shows no emotion %except apathy TOWN CHARACTER First Line: We call him %'the town character.' Last Line: Who is to say %what is normal? TOWN DRUNK First Line: So, toby is drunk again Last Line: So toby is drunk %again TRICK OR TREAT First Line: The goblins came to our house in numbers, scores and droves Last Line: They didn't do a tricky thing, they wanted just the treat TRILOGY OF A GASTROPOD First Line: My tail is a part of my head Last Line: I know %I'm slow UNCI'S TALE First Line: This is the way %unci told me Last Line: At the edge %of the missouri UNCLAIMED TREASURE First Line: Little miss evans %lives in her Last Line: Of sadness %behind her eyes VARIETY First Line: Speak of variety infinite! Last Line: With snow, fog, wind and everything VIOLAS First Line: Violas lift their funny faces Last Line: One of them winked at me WAITING First Line: Yes, I can wait until lilacs bloom again Last Line: And we shall live in fragrant spring eternally WAITING FOR YOU First Line: I waited for you %through those early years Last Line: And will love you %even longer WAY OF A MAN First Line: At dawning with my hair unkempt Last Line: For then he is my loving mr WEDDINGS First Line: Aggie and joe got married Last Line: But not to one another %necessarily WHAT IS LOVE? First Line: I do not like Last Line: With a capital l? WHAT IS PEACE? First Line: Peace, they say, is the absence of war Last Line: When the world is free WHAT WAS THE PRICE? First Line: He called to me to come, but I said, 'no Last Line: I think I know. I should have followed him WHAT'S THAT? First Line: Some people have it Last Line: What is that something? %gee, I forgot! WHEN IS SPRING? First Line: When the pussy willows peep Last Line: S l o w. %you'll know WHITE ON WHITE First Line: White on white the frosted trees Last Line: Stark against the foggy sky... %black on white WIND First Line: The wind blew cold Last Line: I wish it would blow us %some nicer days WIND AT MY WINDOW First Line: The wind at my window whistles a tune Last Line: Or whisper a happier tune WINGS AND WINDS First Line: A wand of green is springboard Last Line: A symphony of color WINTER First Line: How can I dislike winter so Last Line: An efflorescence of pure poetic light WINTER DRIVING First Line: I like the moon on the glistening snow Last Line: I drove into town, and by gosh, I got stuck WINTER OF '96-97 First Line: Wherever you stay or wherever you go Last Line: But this year we may have snow in july WINTER STILL First Line: Did you hear the happy meadowlark Last Line: Leaving his heralding of spring %once more untold WINTER TREES First Line: The trees all dressed in velvet, pink at dawn Last Line: Almost naked in their brown and black tights WINTER WOES First Line: I slithered and slid Last Line: And my fanny quite red WISHFUL THINKING First Line: Our first snow was in october, %remember? Last Line: The snowing and blowing will all %go away? WORD First Line: I lost a word, where shall I look? Last Line: In my crossword puzzle book YOUNG SON First Line: I knew %when the phone Last Line: Don't... %don't... %don't Libbey, Elizabeth 15 poems available by this author AT THE NORTH CEMETERY First Line: It's six in the evening, pouring rain Last Line: Has moved far off. And she raises %her glass to it, says, 'good night, good luck.' BRINGING HOME THE GROCERIES First Line: I'm going out, going to blaze COME INTO THE NIGHT GROVE First Line: These cedars don't hear Last Line: What we let go of with every pore is %what keeps us alive DEPRESSION WINDFALL First Line: There shouldn't be men in the orchard FORCING THE END First Line: This story has been going on so long Last Line: Star, no deep water %she's welcome to HELPMATE First Line: Love, float into me for sleep's sake JUANA BAUTISTA LUCERO, CIRCA 1926, TO HER PHOTOGRAPHER First Line: I open up, mop gray ice Last Line: It down again. Let it, like any window, %have what it wants of dust KEENING First Line: I pulled in, parked in the curve Last Line: In our lives, rain, the mud from my hands %taken into the earth of her hair LAIR First Line: It's the four of us abed, blizzard Last Line: It's beautiful, it's art, it's fun watching %us get the job done MEDITATION First Line: I'm running the edge of old hawley rod Last Line: Which must speak for me what cannot be said truly. %to speaktruly, is no to say goodbye MORNING AFTER First Line: I try now, sipping coffee in the sun QUICHE OF THE DAY First Line: From greg the waiter I order SPRING AND First Line: Five days five nights of rain, rush Last Line: To hand us down our sweet dreams, %hand us up clear of our breathing, give us a wink STARS ON A CLOUDY NIGHT First Line: They're up there, I've seen them. I've read WINTER SUNRISE IN THE BERKSHIRES First Line: So this morning when sunrise Last Line: Do it two days in a row? %can you let me know? Lincoln, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author SCARS First Line: There's a white crooked scar Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Women Lindsay, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author LETTING IN THE LIGHT First Line: I am warm wrapped in my fur Last Line: I have opened my eyes Little, Elizabeth Jane 1 poems available by this author FOG Poem Text First Line: An old man died Last Line: Unless the fog comes. Subject(s): Death; Fog; Dead, The; Haze Little, Elizabeth Mary Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Lizzie M. 4 poems available by this author A WHISPER Poem Text First Line: When the grip of the black frost tightened Last Line: The cuckoo calling again! LIFE Poem Text First Line: O life! That mystery that no man knows Last Line: For since love holds my hand I seem to know! Subject(s): Love NEW YEAR'S DAY First Line: The storm-wind sank, the moon rode high Subject(s): Holidays; New Year REMEMBRANCE First Line: Say, what is this you ask of me, my sweet Lloyd, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author HOLIDAY ACROSTIC First Line: C stands for children, who always are ready Subject(s): Holidays Loeb, Elizabeth Vera 1 poems available by this author SONG First Line: I gave my love a silver ring Lomele, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author IN THE BLUEST OF BLUE SKIES First Line: Wind-driven white clouds Last Line: Then one long, high note from a single flute. Long, Elizabeth-ellen 1 poems available by this author RAIN CLOUDS First Line: Along a road Last Line: With wild-flower frills Subject(s): Clouds; Rain Longwell, E. Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author PEAR TREE First Line: I love our old pear tree Last Line: For me and the bears Subject(s): Pear Trees; Play; Trees Loomis, Annie Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author IN MY DREAMS Poem Text First Line: In that far off, mysterious realm which we call dreamland Last Line: Oh, blessed night, when I can sleep -- and dream -- and see! Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Life; Sleep; Nightmares Lumpkin, Elizabeth Welton 1 poems available by this author THE LIBRARY SPEAKS Poem Text First Line: I stand upon my little hill Last Line: My mission to fulfill. Subject(s): Libraries & Librarians Lund, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author HORSES First Line: From here I can see Last Line: Trampled as the soft, %the brown Macdonald, Elizabeth Roberts 9 poems available by this author A SONG OF SEASONS Poem Text First Line: Sing a song of spring-time Last Line: That will last for aye! Subject(s): Nature; Seasons FLOOD TIDE First Line: When the sea sobs by lonely shores HARVEST First Line: Rich days there are when wisdom, love, and dream MADRIGAL First Line: Spring went by with laughter MARCH WIND First Line: The dark spring storm swept up MOUNTAIN-ASH First Line: All the hills are dark REASSURANCE First Line: Now lucent splendours, amethyst and gold SHEPHERD First Line: Among the hills of night my thoughts WHISPERING POPLARS First Line: I hear the whispering poplars Macdonald, Kathryn Elizabeth 3 poems available by this author CAT CRAVEN ATTEMPTS TO EXPLAIN THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING ... First Line: Listen up, fish! There's this theory CAT CRAVEN'S SOLILOQUY UPON THE DOG First Line: Personally, I think they're a fad ROAD KILL First Line: So far, I have only killed birds. Two in one day Last Line: Leaving me to tell you, standing, %still, in their light Macfadden, Elizabeth Alternate Author Name(s): Sheridan, Thomas, Mrs. 1 poems available by this author IN PITY FIRST TO HUMAN KIND Mackinstry, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author MAN WHO HID HIS OWN FRONT DOOR First Line: There was a little, elvish man Last Line: And smiled to see her too! Macklin, Elizabeth 52 poems available by this author 1,985 YEARS THROUGH A WORD BETWEEN US First Line: Of course ovid wrote relapsa est %when she slipped back Last Line: Orpheus turned and stopped %singing. Relapsa est 8 P.M., AUGUST OF THIS YEAR First Line: The wet cicadas scree-slide over how many miles Last Line: Nothing resembling a human quarrel %or losing battle. Is only round AT 43, SHE THINKS WHAT TO NAME HER CHILDREN First Line: Oh . . . Firstborn, asher!--asher means 'happy'-- Last Line: Because I'm alone but I am happy AT THE CLASSIC TEACHER'S First Line: You gave us phlox, blue-rose, burst on the marble Last Line: What only in your buried garden tastes whole and round AT THE CREEK'S EDGE First Line: So. Not a mystery anymore: the puffball spore ATTRACTION STEPS INTO THE HOUSE First Line: And says see? Here we can walk to the lake Last Line: And faces itself, its opposite twin, %in the water CHANCE SMALL FRUIT First Line: In the taste Last Line: I miss the tree CHIDING THE VERY-GOD First Line: I can't imagine medicine given me CONFESSION OF LIES First Line: No, it isn't needed: this blue sky, the two exact trees Last Line: Is as wide and dear and clean as when I was small. %wheneveri lie, I tell a truth DEFINITE ARTICLE' Last Line: And instantly repeated, definite, 'the truth?' Subject(s): Truth EDWARD M. STRINGHAM COPIED IN PENCIL First Line: Before when he had the palmer hand Last Line: After risking loss to feast on not having being FIELD GUIDE TO LESSER DESIRES First Line: Straight as a line, as a drawn bead Last Line: Least tree. What we will do here is just %sin FOOLISHLY HALVED, I SEE YOU First Line: The white-green wheel of a sliced lime Last Line: Although-you do too love him-he is in danger. FOR THE BOY WHO WAS ALSO SINGING & LISTENING First Line: The place was land by the river -- old Last Line: For a long instant %heard us HAPPY JACK'S ON OUR SATURDAY MORNING First Line: No, she could barely speak about peaches Last Line: It cut my too sweet heart right out.' Subject(s): Food And Eating; Fruit; Morning; Peaches HOMELAND First Line: What are your principal products? How Last Line: A spade balanced on the world. It's where she falls from I FAIL TO SPEAK TO MY EARTH, MY DESIRE First Line: Having set my heart on you, I remove it Last Line: I were still waiting to be shown what it is I am for. I IMAGINE BACK First Line: I imagine back%to the year when my throat, lungs, chest IMAGINARY PICNIC First Line: In me still, she takes me fishing for tadpoles Last Line: I am glad it has happened to me Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Picnics IMAGINE First Line: Once I spoke a foreign language Last Line: Not having done a thing, except in a dream. %I was not there INSTRUCTIONS: EARLY EPIPHANIES First Line: What to do: first you put your hand on her arm INTO THE CHANGE-TRAIN LANDSCAPE First Line: I thought they were buoys Last Line: As: gold, gold, gold. Maroon LINES TO SEDUCE A STRANGER AN HOUR BEFORE THE SHIP SAILS First Line: A stranger-is it a total stranger? Last Line: Not so strange at all after all. Hori da-and not if LOOKING TO CONSOLE THE MAKER First Line: A potter fragile as porcelain is reading this MARRIAGES First Line: Are not the same -- surely you knew that Last Line: The hopelessly hopeful intention in old-style building NEARSIGHTED First Line: Who misreads the serious joke, the speech Last Line: A lost clear lost tradition NOW I HEAR IT First Line: This weird music we played all the time Last Line: Bridalwreath, anarchic bay flowers, wild-rose carnations ON THE RIVER RIDE AT THE 25TH REUNION First Line: What there was was a spherical rock in sunlight Last Line: Proven, in this boat neighbors ONE THING ALONE First Line: He had been the translator of his mother's memories Last Line: Out of my mind, I'm immensely happy ONLY CHILD SENDS A GIFT TO HER MOTHER First Line: What came after me is the point - that one fall ONLY CHILDREN First Line: See what the outdoors Last Line: Humans somehow granitic, stone Subject(s): Children ORNAMENT IN A PORT CITY First Line: The wind - and there is a wind - might as well be OUR DEAR RIVER First Line: People who know don't like Last Line: Over and over, we barely need it OUR FALL First Line: It's not only just beginning to be unwarm PSALM 103 & VANITY First Line: The lord is full of compassion Last Line: Is clearing away the ivy %(maintenance!) vanity? Subject(s): Compassion; God REASSURANCE IN A HOT SUMMER First Line: The woman and the dragon in the sand-colored room REMEMBERING THE GOLDEN AGE First Line: When every comma was a pause for meaning Last Line: A clearly inflected language, a 'universal' comprehension Subject(s): Change; Language SEE. SEE? First Line: See where the frog Last Line: Too green. He had to leap Subject(s): Animals; Frogs SEEKING TO ACCOUNT TO A FISHERMAN THIEF First Line: See this fish flipping around, hand-sized, silver to SELVES, YOUNG First Line: A breath, a cough, a little warning Last Line: So you will see the farm, and not 'lost labor SOLO IN I First Line: A geranium set against gray stones shows Last Line: I am not a girl. I am no girl's mother SORRY CREATURES IN THIS COUNTRYSIDE First Line: Under some rushing, creaking trees are STORE First Line: A shop like a boat - red tchotchkes! - and look Last Line: To leave there having, though not having bought Subject(s): Retail Trade SURFACE TENSION First Line: Desire restrained takes a long, cool bath THERE IS STILL WATER First Line: There are still hammers, aren't there Last Line: As if spring. Work as they tell you TRANSLATING CONCORD; FOR A.S. First Line: Listen, wait, hear; and then speak Last Line: Maybe in dreams. For now, no dying TREE WITH ORNAMENTS BY MY MOTHER First Line: It could be a wintering bear this year Last Line: Invisible bird fir fragrance, who says they could even be broken Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Trees; Trees; Winter TWO BEAR First Line: Oh, here %somebody's planted a white-shadowed cloud Last Line: Or fleas. Honey. And some wet smell somewhere, %like water: an unknown swimmer in a slow stream TWO SCENES IN COLOR First Line: Smelling of pinks, it's light thrown crosswire as if through arches WALK DOWNHILL DURING HEAT WAVE ELSEWHERE First Line: The right ;;movement of the right foot Last Line: No care too great, no care too small WHAT NOW First Line: Is coming from the hunters' woods Last Line: Can it come about? A slow, vast generosity has loaded %the earth with treasure and what now WHAT SHE SAID AFTERWARD First Line: Used to be I could lie like crazy--lie Last Line: To tell the truth. Now there isn't any Macleod, Elizabeth Forrester 3 poems available by this author CROW First Line: I know he's a jolly rover I WONDER First Line: You used to think it silly MYRTLE BUSH First Line: O, little cheerful myrtle bush! Macleod, Elizabeth S. 1 poems available by this author ALEXANDER MACKENZIE First Line: Draw nigh with reverance, canada Macpherran, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author MY MOTHER First Line: A dear sweet face Maddock, Anne Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author SPRING Poem Text First Line: The sun lies light on a jade-green hill Last Line: And the note of a bird links earth with god! Subject(s): Religion; Spring; Theology Mahnkey, Mary Elizabeth 20 poems available by this author AFTER-GLOW First Line: Playthings agian on my kitchen floor Subject(s): Farm Life ANDY YOUNGBLOOD First Line: When andy youngblood comes to the mill Subject(s): Farm Life BACK IN THE MOUNTAINS First Line: I'll take down the old clock Subject(s): Farm Life BEFOOLED First Line: And this my true love said to me CHERRY PIES First Line: This her kitchen, where whe worked and sang Subject(s): Farm Life DESTITUTE First Line: E was so good,' she sobbed Subject(s): Farm Life DO NOT FORGET, MY DEAR, THAT HE IS MINE Subject(s): Farm Life HOLLYHOCK TEA First Line: When I grow old, I'll raise turnips Subject(s): Farm Life IN NEW YORK First Line: What shall I do in the city Subject(s): Farm Life MY POEMS First Line: They come when I am churning Subject(s): Farm Life; Poetry And Poets OASIS First Line: The late rains that have advanced everything so wonderfully Subject(s): Farm Life OZARK CHARACTERS, SELS. PROUD BRIDE First Line: The next day after the infair QUESTION First Line: Could I have been in maryland Subject(s): Farm Life RIDGE RUNNER First Line: If I could live on white oak ridge Subject(s): Farm Life THE GOLD STAR MOTHER PASSES Poem Text First Line: A gold star gleaming on her breast Last Line: Who had no son to die. Subject(s): Childlessness; Death - Mothers; Dead, The THEY COULDN'T BUY IT ALL First Line: It seemed as if the huse were glad to see me Subject(s): Farm Life TO MY HUSBAND First Line: How casually you take my slate and school Subject(s): Farm Life TWO DRESSES First Line: I had three dresses Subject(s): Farm Life WHEN THEY KILLED JIM LEE First Line: I loved the tales my grandsire told Subject(s): Farm Life Major, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author THE AUTHORS CONFESSION, SELECTION Poem Text First Line: Old age -- the eternal son of god for sin did die Last Line: O let not any intice thee time to waste. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ; Love; Seasons; Sin; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion Marion, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author MY MUSE AND I First Line: We're bitches, both of us, it's true. She's so Markham, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author CONTRAST ON MATRIMONY First Line: 1. The man must lead a happy life Last Line: 3. Who will not yield to woman's sway %4. Is sure of perfect blessedness Marsh, Elizabeth A. 1 poems available by this author FOUR WINDS First Line: The four winds of earth once assembled together Last Line: And then in due order, they moved to adjourn; %each wind voted, aye--and departed in turn Martin-burk, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author ELEGY First Line: I reach back to rusty memories Mathews, Eliza Kirkham Alternate Author Name(s): Kirkham, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author THE INDIAN Poem Text First Line: Alone, unfriended, on a foreign shore Last Line: Reveal enough to british eyes! Mayer, Elizabeth 5 poems available by this author BOY First Line: The surge of the waters was in his speech CARD FROM STRATFORD (TO J. A. K.) First Line: If we could take in warwickshire %the walls that shakespeare took Last Line: Such luck! My mother disapproved %my going on the stage CYCLE Poem Text First Line: Fertile the field Last Line: White the bread. LUCREZIA BORGIA (1480-1519) Poem Text First Line: When she was painted as sienna'a saint Last Line: Why should she be assigned an evil haze? Subject(s): Borgia, Lucrezia [lucretia] (1480-1519) WE LOVE TO SUFFER Poem Text First Line: I am a celt Last Line: And found her glory in a thorn-pressed brow? Subject(s): Celts; Pain; Suffering; Misery Mcbride, Elizabeth 4 poems available by this author COROZAL First Line: It was always painful Last Line: I was the peach leaves of the amaryllis. %you were the jaguar god. Your teeth were mine INCA DOVES First Line: When she was a bride she ground the corn Last Line: Of life alone. I am here, he whispers into her hair. %I am alive. And you will soon be with me LINGUISTICS First Line: The first year out of the hospital I lay O CORPOREAL First Line: We cleared the house and built a wall inside Last Line: We hope we will not have to choose between water and silence, %water and fire ... Between water and Subject(s): Prayer; Religion Mcdaniel, Wilma Elizabeth 399 poems available by this author 17-APR-87 First Line: Good friday the refrigerator chugs in this Last Line: Had I been there 1930-31 First Line: This faded yellow snapshot unsettles my memory of my Last Line: It was the best show in town and free 1939 IN CALIFORNIA First Line: It was a year of farewells Last Line: Bringing everything I lost 20-AUG-86 First Line: San joaquin valley seared Last Line: Nothing to take out of this %world %except a string of hearts 24-AUG-80 First Line: Not everyone had died at that period. That morning sheldon brought us tomatoes Last Line: Material for a dress? It must have been that hole-in-the-wall yardage shop that closed %after three ABDICATION DAY First Line: Uncle bartis said to Last Line: If I was a king %you can bet %I wouldn't give up no throne %for a woman like %mrs. Simpson ADMISSION First Line: I worry too much %about heavy stuff: %that I realize Last Line: Know the way %out of this place either? ADVANCEMENT First Line: Nona would recall Last Line: Tickled red-faced %to be coming up in the world AFTER APPARITION 8/1936 First Line: The second after Last Line: And went to work %at twice their usual speed AFTER DEVALYN'S WEDDING First Line: Lester told grandpa wiley, trying Last Line: If my blood pressure would take it %but it won't, grandpa told him %stick to coffee, son AFTER OUR NEIGHBORS LEFT, 1933 First Line: Like buster looked at Last Line: Had to go to california %and take his kids %and he picked up%an old prince albert tobacco can %for a AFTER TAKING NIGHT MEDICATION 8/18, 10:15 P.M. First Line: I have always been a person of %small means Last Line: Under the mulberry tree when I was eight AFTER THE BASQUE FAIR IN NEVADA First Line: Mrs. Neal knew in her soul the man would show up Last Line: Man under the pepper trees AFTER THE LOSS First Line: I think mona is coming to life again, thank heaven. She Last Line: Might just do that very thing AFTERMATH OF WAR First Line: Pinatas on the highest shelf Last Line: He understands, and dead AGREEMENT First Line: I look in my full-length mirror Last Line: I am the best of my kind ALCIE'S POEMS First Line: She had hundreds of poems Last Line: And remains enough to make %her unforgettable %on days she might have been %erased completely ALIAS First Line: Hunting trash %is my middle name Last Line: And search for mold, %around someone else's %life ALL I SAW WAS PAINTED FRUIT First Line: Crops were abundant and china Last Line: It made me wonder if papa %knew the hired man told %lies sometimes AMAZING GRACE First Line: The summer doors Last Line: Sugar was sweet %and honey too %but he guessed he'd never tasted %grace AMELIE BLAIN First Line: She outlived old cyrus Last Line: Even if she was a total orphan %and looked to be fourteen AMERICAN FOLK MUSIC, 1937 First Line: Fiddles fiddled %guitars strummed Last Line: The girl confided %with a coke bottle in her %hand %makes you think you're %in another world ANCESTOR First Line: A god-fearing man %with a buggy whip Last Line: Hanging on the wall behind %his chair ANGELIC PERSPECTIVE First Line: Nothing %absolutely nothing can Last Line: I'm gonna make it to heaven %I already %know how to fly ANNUAL RISK First Line: I loved that red barn and the homemade wreath aunt lulie put up every year Last Line: Better than being a total infidel APPEARANCES First Line: Arfus polk once asked ART IN THE GREAT SOCIETY First Line: You tell me your town Last Line: Didn't have an ounce of talent ASSESSING A SON-IN-LAW First Line: A tex-mex Last Line: He don't know nothing %about germans %if he did %he'd know where to get a job AT SPRING YARD SALE First Line: Without my consent %the cycle turns Last Line: Except buy this winter scene %painted on plyboard AUNT SULA'S GOING AWAY PRESENT First Line: Neighbor women made Last Line: All them boys %thought you'd never get %your girl %and remember us now %and then %when you reach cal BAD TIMING First Line: We love clifford alright, but we were sorry Last Line: Dessert. Who wants regular coffee and who %wants decaf? BAKERSFIELD THEOLOGY First Line: A siren blasts and one fire engine streaks past Last Line: Someone is gonna raise you up %someday BASS FAMILY AT MIGRANT CREEK First Line: Urbano had never heard of Last Line: And you will stick me %with the electric bill %when you comeback %from fishing BENEFITS First Line: The city has been good Last Line: To give him singing lessons BIBLE STORIES First Line: Buster's favorite bible story Last Line: The way she looked at him %and closed the bible BLUSTERY PALM SUNDAY IN TULARE, CALIFORNIA 4-9-95 First Line: Wind is howling Last Line: And wouldn't get in the car BONUS CONCERT IN TULARE, 1997 First Line: You don't really believe %wynona will open the fair %here tomorrow?' Last Line: Just the way it did %for reba mcintyre %and randy travis' BORROWED COATS First Line: The night was clear %as mama's crystal cake plate %and stinging cold Last Line: I looked hard and made one %irrevocable choice BREADSTUFF First Line: I have never liked bagels Last Line: And women folding clothes %in the white foam laundromat BREAKING POINT First Line: Uncle bart is a sound baptist. Totally temperate. He has Last Line: Cold and foggy in england, %sometimes even in the summer BREAKING THE DROUGHT First Line: The year of 1982 had been dry of spirit along Last Line: Hear a rainstorm battering the house, she rested %securely and went sound asleep again BROTHER AND SISTER ON ERRAND First Line: A rain crow made its melancholy Last Line: I tell you, wanda %you cain't trust no snake BURNED IN THE TEST First Line: I have wasted so much %sunrise Last Line: They never hold %and been burned in the test CALENDARS First Line: Some people are good at remembering milestones CALIFORNIA FRIGID ZONE 1937 First Line: It should not have been %so hard to understand Last Line: Nor did I try to %that lifelong year CALLING COWS First Line: Thelma was his wife Last Line: Dreamed of flying over the moon CALLING ON A BEREAVED NEIGHBOR First Line: Esther is a hard woman %to love %and she never liked me Last Line: Just something to keep him %in motion CAN CROWS SMELL JASMINE First Line: Brother crow %since you spend all Last Line: Can crows smell jasmine %do you kiss good night CARMEN'S WEDDING First Line: Bride and groom had Last Line: Picked up the flower %and put it in her hair %said, here comes the bride CHANGING DOLLS First Line: Tony bettencourt %never thought of chalk dolls Last Line: He cries when strangers %speak to him %asks them %do I know you CHANGING EMPLOYMENT First Line: The kinfolks reported that Last Line: And started working as %a janitor in fresno CHILD TRAINING First Line: Myron and beulah farley Last Line: Since he graduated from %lincoln school forty years ago CHOICES First Line: Strange how the government Last Line: Better %I stick to rawhide boots %and calvin %who works for john deere CHRISTMAS CARD FROM A MISSIONARY IN A REMOTE AREA... First Line: It arrived late Last Line: His entire sunday collection %he once wrote %is never more than that CLASS First Line: In 1934 the w.P.A. Last Line: I think it's carnelian, ravonia said, %belonged to my virginia great aunt CLERICAL COLLAR First Line: Morning coffee time %my eyes are worse %than yesterday Last Line: If anyone else recognizes the collar %please get in touch with me %care of hanging loose CLERICAL COLLAR First Line: Leviticus coony was saying Last Line: If what he's been saying %all along is true COMMENTS ON MUSICAL PROGRAM... First Line: Mr. Gates has grown old Last Line: And wolfman jack %to entertain us downhome folks CONFRONTATION First Line: Acid tongued pellus told Last Line: I'm gettin' too big to wear these %overhalls %when we go to town on saturday CONVERSATION, 1932 First Line: Mister calhoun read a lot Last Line: Uncle john spat tobacco %more like starvation %driving them %I'd say, mister calhoun CONVERSION AND BAPTISM OF A BIKER First Line: The event had been expected for CORNERED First Line: I knew herb's crafty eyes %were on the vacant seat Last Line: Let's knock off and have some of %the goodies over there' COULD I STOP THERE First Line: Today I changed from %plain graham crackers %to the new chocolate flavor Last Line: And longing for %all the colors of gauguin COUNTRY DREAM MAKER First Line: Maggie was more than Last Line: And gave thalia back her money COURTESY First Line: I knew he had quit Last Line: And step aside to let it pass COURTING MUSIC First Line: Cousin mick was my favorite %a good sharing okie boy Last Line: And sat down with his head against it CRETA First Line: March couldn't be mean Last Line: And that it worked real good DAY AFTER JOHN BERRYMAN'S SUICIDE JANUARY 8, 1972 First Line: Some call my brother a brick. He's stable Last Line: To drink his coffee, didn't say anything %more DAY AND NIGHT First Line: No one will dispute Last Line: Soothe away my fears DAY BEFORE GRAFFITTI WEEK OPENED First Line: Herb watches the traffic Last Line: Can't really believe I'm forty-eight %and got three grown children %and one grandchild DAY OF RETURN, AUGUST 4, 1986 First Line: Bakersfield august %and its heat is modified hell Last Line: Shared many a tepid drink of %water from a wet burlap covered %jug DEACON HOSEA PHILPOT First Line: Hosea were stringties Last Line: Secretely %he went with a girl %from bowlegs %who smoked %lucky strike cigarettes %and wore red gart DEATH IN A SACRED PORSCHE First Line: Julio had a gnawing fear Last Line: Sacrifice %and hurled him from a cliff DEFINITION First Line: Poets are queer people DIGNITY First Line: I smooth my sheets %plump the pillows Last Line: Under my left arm %a magnifying glass in my purse DISCIPLES OF BIG MUDDY First Line: Like phoebe in the new testament Last Line: Shoulders at beauteous perdition DOUBLE FRATRICIDE, 1923 First Line: Wade and brently met at the Last Line: But everyone knew %both were carrying guns %already looking for %each other DUST DEVILS AT BIG SUR First Line: I hate to admit it was poetry Last Line: You could conjure dust devils at big sur DUSTBOWL DOXOLOGY First Line: Sweet %it was Last Line: Hugged %the faithful merced river %and the sound of young %sunday picnic voices %drifted downstream DUSTBOWL PROPHET First Line: Like all the men Last Line: But it was too late for %oklahoma ELOPEMENT First Line: No wild romance Last Line: The first time she saw his %watercolor %the blue fish ELROY'S NEW USED CAR First Line: Wearing baggy sweatclothes Last Line: At acme motors %give me a deal that I can live %with EMMAUS ON OLIVE STREET, 4/19/87 First Line: A siren blasts sunday afternoon apart Last Line: But cannot recall why he bought the %lily %whose fragrance fills his apartment EMPLOYMENT 1937 First Line: Hard time boys went Last Line: Driving taxi %in a red light district %was just that %no more no less EMPTYING THE WASTEBASKET First Line: My nephew %holed up in the bathroom Last Line: And won't be remembered %the day after his funeral %and the boy is only fifteen ENTRAPMENT First Line: A patch on my heart %my face full of frowns Last Line: That bees who tipple white wine %can be deadly ERROR IN JUDGMENT First Line: Papa was very young in 1900 Last Line: Down the dusty road\ ESSENTIALS First Line: Joe fluty had an old EVALUATION OF CABO SAN LUCAS First Line: At thrifty drug today Last Line: But I wouldn't go there twice EVENING PRAYERS First Line: I switch on the porch light EXPIATION ON CHERRY AVENUE First Line: The antique table still Last Line: Finally did the trick EXPLANATION First Line: Orville walker explains Last Line: When I was young %two thousand miles away from it %I missed the whole kaboodle EXTREMIST First Line: I may be something %of a nitpicker Last Line: I could go for that %write a small check %even sign it FAMILY BUSINESS First Line: Carly weyman and his Last Line: And carl graduated into %shoe laces %liniment %and chalk dolls %bought a used tire for the %truck FAMILY CONNECTIONS First Line: I saw cousin luke at he veterans' barbeque. He was Last Line: When things are hard FAMILY CONNECTIONS First Line: I saw cousing luke at the Last Line: But it's sure nice to think about %them when things are hard FAMILY DISGRACE First Line: My cousin buford windham Last Line: Corrina corrina %where'd you stay last night %come home this morning %sun was shining bright FAMILY PASSAGE First Line: Their mother had more Last Line: In houston tomorrow %morning, no later FARM CHILDREN IN THE GRIP OF 1933 First Line: Coffee was grounds FASTIDIOUS LEONARD First Line: A newspaper plops %on the walk Last Line: And come up smelling %like a rose FATHER LAMENTING HIS DAUGHTER First Line: The car was already Last Line: But I wish to god %she wouldn't wear that %bright red dress %black would be better %show more respec FATHERLY ADVICE First Line: Uncle claudie never talked Last Line: Will never be as good as %a woman %don't ask me why that is %but I know it's true FINDING OLD PERFUME BOTTLE First Line: This has gone %far enough Last Line: Keep the cap on the bottle %slam the trunk lid hard FINE CUISINE MEMORY First Line: It now seems incredible %to me that once I knew Last Line: That boy tico made real chili' FIRST ENCOUNTER WITH ORIENTAL CHILD First Line: Little roddy came inside Last Line: I've got me a nice little %crosseyed friend %he give me these lemons FIRST HOME FOR MIDDLE-AGED HONEYMOONER First Line: Their home was once called a cottage Last Line: And in the church, she will quickly tell you FLASHBACK OF KINFOLKS First Line: It took a while to get settled in california Last Line: Hitch up another mule and watch the sky for rain FLAWED EXISTENCE First Line: Speaking from %a crooked mouth Last Line: And carry sprouts %everywhere they go FLAWED VISION First Line: Zona had magic eyes Last Line: For doing salome's dance in the %ladieswear department %instead of marking prices on %winter clothes FLORAL SICKNESS First Line: Ruby dixon appears anemic Last Line: And began searching %for a medical cure FOLK MEDICINE First Line: There wasn't much sickness Last Line: If he give you the wrong stuff FORGIVENESS First Line: A shirttail relative on Last Line: And that's being dirt poor %folks will forgive anything else%everything but that FORTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD MAN ON TOTAL DISABILITY First Line: Some of the bored and %nosy tenants Last Line: Because he has a nice %belt buckle? Get real! FOURTEEN AND FEELING IT First Line: Clemmie proclaimed FRIENDSHIP FRACTURE First Line: Yes we had been friends Last Line: I can't figure it any other way FRONIE HAS LOST THE WAR First Line: In light skirmishes Last Line: And you gird up %and move on to other arenas %fake diamond strikes %bonanzas of pure gold %that will FRYING POTATOES First Line: At one time %I would have tossed %this day off Last Line: Until the potatoes reach %charred perfection FUNERAL OF A PORTUGESE MILKER First Line: The stoplight turns red Last Line: Of a widow %and her many dark-eyed children GENE PETRELLI, VALLEY THESPIAN First Line: He drove tractor Last Line: Gene shrugged %I've gotta take this makeup off %and couldn't answer to himself GENERAL CONFESSION First Line: It is a biblical fact Last Line: Pray hard, please %help me write myself out of this GENETIC PATTERN First Line: They say nonie's niece Last Line: It has to be something in %their family genes GEORGIA BRIDE IN TERRITORIAL OKLAHOMA First Line: The magnolia bushes left her Last Line: And frame it wet against the sky GETTING UNDER THE WIRE First Line: Aunt nonie never wanted Last Line: And broke all his whiskey bottles %the day before he died GIRL FROM BUTTONWILLOW First Line: Clyde is a little paunchy Last Line: Better to a girl %than a fellow with a cottonsack across his %shoulder GOING TO AUTOGRAPHING IN FOREIGN CAR First Line: I am uneasy in this car: %so small-where does the gas go? Last Line: White willows brushed my hair %and the turtle never tired GRANDFATHER'S VIEW First Line: Mister marshall takes %a dim view %of modern music Last Line: When we meant %sing sing GRANDPA'S STETSON First Line: Truth %will work itself up Last Line: By a merciless july GREAT DEPRESSION DEVOTIONS First Line: Poor people had to guard Last Line: Stood in the midst of the sweaty %workers %and blessed them with loving %eyes GREAT DEPRESSION TRAGEDY First Line: Kinfolk edged closer %around the potbelly stove Last Line: And leaped from the train %coda: true GREEN GRAPE PIE First Line: Athro haley Last Line: When we cut the crust %of mama's supper pie %giant emeralds %spilled out on our cracked %plates Subject(s): Food And Eating; Pies HANNAH CULLHANE First Line: Her windows sparkled clean. I do remember clearly Last Line: Pan and a teakettle HAP TURNER'S LANTERN First Line: His lantewrn hung in Last Line: And his cajun wife eulalia %danced with a rose between %her teeth HARLEY JOE GOES TO TOWN First Line: Saturday night HARVEST TIME First Line: Summer dragged its heels HAT HALL OF FAME First Line: The rough walls of Last Line: Them old hats %could tell a lot of stories %if they could talk HAVING TEA WITH MILLICENT AVERY, A PATRIOT First Line: The old woman said Last Line: I guess they aren't waiting for someone %to come home HEALING First Line: We'd known mark since his Last Line: And we aren't fool enough to ask HIGHWAY 46 TO PASA ROBLES First Line: It's a different place Last Line: I pass through there now %and then %glad I don't have to stay HILDA SHOREHAM IN BIG MUDDY First Line: Some thought it strange Last Line: And yet wear flaming love %cologne %every single place she went HIRED GIRL'S PET First Line: Five a.M. HIRED GIRL'S PET First Line: Five a.M. %hens still drooped Last Line: She carried from job to job HIRED HAND FROM BROOKLYN, 1926 First Line: Until the summer of 26 Last Line: And said goodbye to all the %hens HOLIDAY ACCOMMODATIONS First Line: Joe and della greer own Last Line: And wish each other %merry christmas %and happy new year HOLIDAY COLOR First Line: Otie was very drunk, but Last Line: It's cold out here I DIDN'T COME HERE TO PITCH NO HORSESHOES First Line: The acrid smoke of charcoal fire drifts across Last Line: I didn't come out here to pitch no horseshoes, too %much like hard work Subject(s): Horseshoes I HAVE MY OWN IDEAS First Line: I know for a fact %she is an md Last Line: I overheard %at the pay phone I NEVER FELT RIGHT First Line: Aunt rose made coffee %for the two of us Last Line: Had died last year %instead of 1940 I WOULD LIKE TO SHOOT THE QUACK First Line: Our neighbor vance turned bitter Last Line: I hope that quack spends purgatory %in pork rinds IN COURTHOUSE PARK First Line: Weathered face Last Line: I guess not many folks looking %for heaven these days IN FRONT OF CAYUCAS EMPORIUM 6/16/88 First Line: The paper mobile Last Line: She kisses it and laughs %and all of them for me IN THE PARADISE RESTAURANT First Line: My first visit here %across the room %I see a woman in rose Last Line: Then I asked the waitress %to bring more tea IN THEIR COMPANY First Line: I really am patient %most of the time Last Line: Even if they have tidied up their acts %become boring little saints INCIDENT BEFORE VISITING PROFESSOR'S LECTURE First Line: Sparrows flew down %and packed at grains of Last Line: When you see the word %iamb %just remember it means foot INDULGENT MOTHER First Line: Lupe villa's son ramon Last Line: And she rushed out and %sent it to him INFLATION First Line: Vonda must have been %the best-looking girl in Last Line: Cold in a football game with turlock INSTRUCTIONS; JULY 21, 1993 First Line: There have been delays Last Line: That winds around the wall INTERPRETER First Line: Newly moved to big muddy Last Line: Until she pointed at gary cooper %and asked me %what do they say about him %ain't he good looking INVITATION TO CELEBRATION OF UNIVERSITY PRESS MAGAZINE First Line: I don't know how it happened Last Line: And the rose pink punch IS WOODY GILMORE A TWO-TIMER First Line: I came home really bamboozled today. I don't know what Last Line: Called him, a two-timer? IT FIGURES First Line: The fog is deadly, but Last Line: Coming to his wake JANUARY REALITY First Line: The cost of living goes up %the perm in my hair Last Line: Who can pay sixty %coda: it will happen JESUS FOR SALE IN BAKERSFIELD First Line: Crockery and Last Line: And she moved on to the rack %that held the frilly negligees JEWELS OF STORYTELLERS First Line: The gang was waiting for me Last Line: I gather up all of them and carry them home JILTED First Line: I should have found a corral Last Line: And never waves goodbye JOE COOLEY IN HARDHAT THE WEEK AFTER HIS DIVORCE First Line: Temperature has dropped JOHN'S FATHER First Line: Mr. Conley wears plaid shirts Last Line: That kind of music and singin' %really helps me pass the time JOKESTER First Line: For several years Last Line: If he saw the lord returning JUST BEFORE THE 1932 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS First Line: A thin and threadbare time K-MART SAGE First Line: Dirty stetson Last Line: You take buck owens %why he looks just right %if you put that face on %a woman %they'd run her out o LAMENT FOR PASSING NAMES OF CHARACTER First Line: I reach out in great distress Last Line: In my best efforts to hold them here LAST COMMANDMENT First Line: It was ironic that mrs. Cooley LAST DUST STORM BEFORE LEAVING OKLAHOMA, 1934 First Line: The wind blew zilpha Last Line: In a wired-together truck %toward california LAST GO-AROUND First Line: Cletus looks good for sixty %and the hard traveling Last Line: Well I can tell you for a certain %this is my last go-around LATE SPRING FOR A CATHOLIC First Line: It is a cold day for spring Last Line: Or shall I open the old book %where a purple ribbon marks lent LEAVING MODESTO EARLY First Line: Chrome spigots Last Line: And slept like a baby %while the nursemaid moon %watched her all night LIBRARY PATRONS First Line: I well remember a valley day Last Line: Made from a newspaper LIES First Line: I don't know how Last Line: Do you call that white %ivory %or sandy pink LITERARY MENTOR First Line: Cousin truman %had finished one year at tulsa u Last Line: For yourself %try to broaden your mind LITTLE EVA'S FUNERAL First Line: Model t's lined the road Last Line: They saw the shovels %and now tears falling %into white handkerchiefs LIVE AND LET LIVE First Line: There was a stray dog %on my lawn tonight Last Line: Though it must have been %something like 'tricky' LONG WAIT First Line: Entering town LONG WAIT First Line: Entering town %from either direction, a bill-board announces Last Line: Until next april fool's day LONGEVITY First Line: I am old %from two lifetimes Last Line: To my tornado music LONNIE WICKERSHAM First Line: One divorce LOTTERY First Line: Girl %gambling is sin Last Line: And gamble my soul away LUNCH IN SKIPPER'S First Line: A blast of cold air from Last Line: Say, you are a doll %and I love you, too MAIL ORDER FREAK First Line: Jason ordered a clock from Last Line: Wearing her drugstore watch %and jason still doesn't know %what time it is MARTHEY PUTNAM First Line: A good woman Last Line: Murdered %in their own homes %is something I never %counted on MARTY FEDDERMAN IN CALIFORNIA First Line: His eyes MARVIN First Line: We always thought marvin Last Line: To qualify %for my marvin canon Subject(s): Death; Malone, Marvin (d. 1996); Memory MAYBE I AM ALL WRONG First Line: She is a second cousin %from kokomo Last Line: And in my car %using my credit card' MECHANIC PHILOSOPHER First Line: Joe vernon works on Last Line: But I think better %of 'em %than most men do MECHANIC SAINT First Line: If herb hit the lottery Last Line: May be a living saint MERCED THEATER, 1936 First Line: Religion-wise %how I remember Last Line: And went home saved %and sanctified MISMATCH First Line: I always liked guy Last Line: Marlene will be back %where he found her MISNOMERS First Line: Names are idyllic on cottonwood road MONDO PENA'S FUNERAL First Line: They really had no business Last Line: Altar on her tongue MOONLIGHTING First Line: Red and blue pennants Last Line: I think you'll like us MOTHER AND SON First Line: Reuben slept in a water closet Last Line: And her only son MOTHER IN BIG MUDDY First Line: Myella foley %told things straight Last Line: To californy %ner no place else %you're still fourteen %remember %and this here hag is your %mother MOTHER'S VOCATION First Line: I don't know how %god feels Last Line: A perfect little %thomas merton %anyone can see it MOURNERS First Line: Bob and wendy drove up %from glendale and spent Last Line: Then left for the bay area %and jerry's funeral MR. MATSON'S SUPER ABUNDANCE First Line: A tarpapered house %is good enough for me Last Line: Then there's something %bad wrong with me MRS PERCIVAL'S TOILET WATER First Line: I knew her smell %through seven years %from five to twelve Last Line: Breathing its heavy fragrance MUG FOR COMFORT First Line: This sturdy gray mug %stood out Last Line: Solid silver circa 1819 %from great-grandpa's knapsack MURDER PAST MIDNIGHT First Line: That cricket was unreasonable %I gave him every way out Last Line: And killed that scogger %after a twenty-minute fight MY AUNT ASSESSES A POLISHED SUITOR First Line: Aunt jenny could see Last Line: Be certified insane MY BENCH COMPANION AT K-MART First Line: Fresh faced Last Line: I could pass on by the %popcorn machine %if I couldn't smell the stuff MY BROTHER AND HIS BARBER First Line: My fussy silver-haired brother Last Line: Another barber %half as good MY CITY COUSIN First Line: My young feelings were Last Line: Than other girls in the world MY FATHER'S BROTHERS First Line: Light of foot %and heavy of hair Last Line: Knowing their mother %was half cherokee MY FAVORITE PAPERWEIGHT First Line: This ceramic squirrel with Last Line: Looking at everywone, searching %for me, I know he was MY LANDLADY BRINGS ME AN EASTER GIFT First Line: She brought me a pot Last Line: And shade of hair till ninety MY NEW BUSINESS First Line: You thought I had %retired from sweets Last Line: My peppermint canes %will walk you home MY QUESTION First Line: Why don't bells toll Last Line: Where brother prayed by the hour %and his tears flooded the pews MY ROOM AT AUNT EURA'S, 1937 First Line: Working for school clothes Last Line: Calendar hung %then fell asleep %and never heard the fisherman %come home from pismo beach MY SURPRISE RECEPTION First Line: The girls hadn't meant Last Line: With the quilt in a big %shopping bag NAMESAKE First Line: Virgil and leona way lived Last Line: I never liked my name nohow %and I brought you this rose NAUSEA ON THURSDAY First Line: The facts were there before us Last Line: Frozen peas. Gagged on a baked potato %with flabby skin NEW CALIFORNIA INDUSTRY First Line: I used to know exactly where I was Last Line: Seeking more desert land for prisons NEW TENANT: 4/1/89 First Line: The apartment manager Last Line: Maybe he should look up %that word %not expose his ignorance NEW WIFE ON A DIARY FARM First Line: The anglo neighbor was Last Line: Then she broke off %a lot of blackeyed susans %and made a bouquet Subject(s): Diaries NEWS LEARNED RECENTLY ABOUT SURVIVING DUST BOWL NEIGHBORS First Line: Funny you would ask me Last Line: Appreciate them that way NEWS ON THE LEGAL FRONT First Line: Twenty-one trees %the lawyers planted %on volunteer saturday Last Line: Surveyed the scene %and serenaded all NICKNAMES, 1929 First Line: His hair and complexion Last Line: Only three people knew %his real name was olaf NIGHT TREASURES First Line: Sleep keeps me waiting NINE-YEAR-0LD OKLAHOMAN ADDICTED TO WRITING POETRY First Line: Kinfolks knew it by heart Last Line: And let her write it out of her %system NITPICKER First Line: Iris complains about the silliest Last Line: A miser. She is just a born nitpicker %I guess NO TIME AT ALL First Line: Nona miller pats her left Last Line: No, it don't seem like no time at all, once %it has passed NOTABLE DEATH OF 1949 First Line: As yet the sky %had not caved in Last Line: And mama's petunias were stirring %in the breeze NOTE SLIPPED UNDER A DOOR First Line: Lawrence dooley: I have heard the altar fires NOVEMBER EVENING First Line: The last leaf has fallen Last Line: The wind is blowing cold %could chill you to the bone OBSESSION WITH HUNTING GREENS First Line: Orville is a tax consultant Last Line: Salt pork and we never had any trouble OIL FIELD WORKER REMEMBERING HIS MOTHER'S SUNDAY DINNERS First Line: One precious dried lemon Last Line: Set a man on the straight path %again OIL WELL EXPLOSION AT LOST HILLS First Line: Bluntnosed lizards Last Line: We've got it whipped now %and wipes specks of oil off his %glasses OKIE BOY BOSS AT PUCCINELLO'S, 1936 First Line: The owner made him Last Line: It's a lot of things %that ring he wears %the way he walks %like he was gonna pounce %on someone any OKIE HONESTY First Line: Tell the truth Last Line: And he wouldn't swear %before a woman %if you put a live coal on %his tongue OKIE TEENAGE GIRL DESCRIBES FRIEND, 1936 First Line: Crazy girl %that vonetta jones Last Line: I see color %smell it %taste it %and take it home for my %dreams' OKLAHOMA COUSIN VISITS - 1984 First Line: Only fifteen minutes Last Line: Dirty expensive habit %don't know if I can kick it %this late in the game OLD AND NEW TALENT First Line: The church of spiritual journey Last Line: In a few years he will be as good %maybe better OLD NEIGHBOR REPORTS ON A TRIP TO MERCED First Line: Everything has changed Last Line: And all them little kids playin' %in the dust %ain't okies now %they call'em boat people ONLY BROTHER First Line: I knew that moe had only one brother, a classy physician who lived in a Last Line: Was like a fundamentalist caught up in the rapture. No desire to ever come down again OPAL First Line: Sister finally got %a storm named after her Last Line: It takes %to blow anger %out to sea Variant Title(s): Opal 9-30-9 OPEC RIPPLE First Line: Harry downs Last Line: But I've gotta do something %can't drag around like this %forever OPENING MY MAIL First Line: He wrote me in a jerky hand %in care of the postmaster Last Line: And I am half-crazy to meet them ORIGINS First Line: By a still small voice Last Line: Instead of food %the okies in california %always knew %wherethey had come from OUR NEIGHBOR NEIL First Line: Our neighbor neil lives in the past. It's Last Line: It's sad, don't you think? I mean %to totally miss today OUR OLD WAYS First Line: The most charming man %I ever met Last Line: And I sat down on the stool beside him OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BAIL BONDSMEN First Line: Little joey arrived late %in life after herman and beth Last Line: If you don't like it behind the wall %give speedy mcferrin a call OVERHEARD AT WEDDING First Line: She is a beautiful girl Last Line: I think so %surely the name sullivan %can't be spanish OVERHEARD IN WYATT'S CAFETERIA, BAKERSFIELD CA, 8/86 First Line: Sunday has come down with Last Line: Creation? %it's already been created OWNERSHIP First Line: Of all those in creation PAGAN MYSTERY First Line: I had many country cousins %among them was mobley Last Line: And gave his testimony %at every prayer meeting PAPA AT THE PLOW First Line: The sun came up with Last Line: When pomade glistened %on the young blades' hair %and fiddles waltzed him %'over the waves' PAPA BROADCASTING TURNIP SEED First Line: He was a graceful Last Line: But he planted purple %all over the land %and told the tragedy of %bud kinchloe %by lantern light PASTOR FOR A DAY First Line: A poor man died this week PATRON OF LITTLE STORE IN OREGON BYPASSED BY FREEWAY 5/14/88 First Line: The big man's boots were Last Line: Who could bite a nail %in half PATTERN OF MEN First Line: His parents can't really afford to Last Line: Hoed cotton to buy the type of shirt rudolph valentino wore PEEP SHOW FOR COUNTRY CHILDREN First Line: Broken windows %sagging blinds Last Line: Tangee red in her blood %paint clara bow on her mouth %and dance the charleston PERCY MONETTE First Line: I remember he wore knickers Last Line: On the old highway that %runs through red bluff %they say he hocked his cello PERFUME HOUND First Line: Here is oleander gardens %where men are only Last Line: The fragrances %women wear PERMANENT RESIDENT First Line: Both men hold beer cans Last Line: If you've put all your %eggs in one basket %and it's here in modesto PHIROZE PATEL'S DAUGHTERS First Line: Okies thought he must Last Line: Some of their jewelry PICKING GRAPES 1937 First Line: Magic seventeen Last Line: A girl could be whatever %she desired %the firstbreath of %eve in paradise %the last gasp of jean ha PICNIC TRAGEDY, 1934 First Line: Mexican joe Last Line: No one believed that they all %would drown %before joe's eyes %while the valley sun %burned lake mcc PIES First Line: In 1933 %hope for the future Last Line: He got a crinkle of hope %around his eyes PIT STOP First Line: Crazy how that worked out Last Line: Don't look up from my cup until I have to ask for more hot water PLENITUDE First Line: She keeps an icon Last Line: Unbelieving boundaries POLITICAL OFFER First Line: The offer flattered me Last Line: Cake and the knife to cut it POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, WINTER OF 1931 First Line: Aunt flossie bates lived Last Line: If things get better for women %it will be brought to pass by %women POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: 6/10/89 First Line: Waiting in line Last Line: I liked the old man fine %when he was governor %but this boy of his has always %drove me nuts POOR WOMAN'S PRIVATE DEVOTIONS First Line: 7:30 a.M. Standard kitchen time Last Line: And that is over and over %again PREDATORS First Line: Sleek deadly swift Last Line: Pending a property %settlement PRIMER FOR BUFORD First Line: Uncle claudie windham's life Last Line: Pretty soon %there won't be anyone left that %can tell him PRIORITIES First Line: Old bill explained, my PROFESSIONAL OPINION First Line: In an empty room Last Line: These lines are lovely %a useful piece %of a holy item %and then he asked me %for another piece of c PROFESSOR'S PLEA IN 1936 First Line: The thin professor asked Last Line: They need that magic that I %don't have %and are growing up without %it %and that will make them poo PROFILE OF A LADY REMEMBERED First Line: It was pure gospel to Last Line: Came from petty's drugstore PROGRESS First Line: Melvin stared at the Last Line: Five years in california %and we have went %from fresh fruit on our %table %to wax apples in a bowl PROPER PRESENT First Line: Aunt boots' children %knew her birth date Last Line: Don't know what happened to them PROPHETESS OF BIG MUDDY, 1925 First Line: Grandma meade cut Last Line: It's scripture %and she called, who else %wants pecan pie %three pieces left PUBLICATION First Line: Now and then Last Line: Some fool will see %what I see %in a poem QUANDARY First Line: It was pure cherrywood Last Line: How could people make such %pretty things %and do what they done to us RAUNCHY TEETERS First Line: He was everything Last Line: Much worse for girls READING A NAME THOUGHT TO BE DEFUNCT First Line: The newspaper article Last Line: An indiana tombstone REALITY First Line: Silver foil REALITY First Line: Silver foil %from chewing gum Last Line: This one here, he said %feels like longjohn underwear %it sure enough %ain't no toy RECOLLECTIONS OF HOMESTEAD UNCLE First Line: It was hard %out there in early day %new mexico Last Line: To keep the sand %from blowing away' RED IS FOR MARTYRS First Line: This is a switch Last Line: And wished I had my taxes %back %the ones that paid to kill %the young men %in all our wars RED PEPPER SAUCE First Line: Old mister jerrold lived Last Line: Took the bottle with her when she %left %anyway both of them were gone %when I came home from work % REMEMBERING First Line: I don't know why Last Line: To wear a little lipstick REMEMBERING A CAT'S FUNERAL, 1926 First Line: My brother harol Last Line: Post oak hill %where we laid poor andrew %down in a crackerbox Subject(s): Animals; Cats REMEMBERING AN EVENT FROM 1937 First Line: Lila faye palmer bought REMEMBERING FARM WOMEN First Line: As a child %I watched them %and I remember Last Line: When wives were vomiting %with another pregnancy REMEMBERING MAMA WHILE WASHING GIFT CUPS First Line: It seems to me Last Line: Pieces of your life %and put them back together REPRIMAND AT ROSEWOOD MANOR First Line: The old rooster forgets %his true age Last Line: Yourself a glass %of punch %and sit down %please REPRIMAND AT ROSEWOOD MANOR 7-2-95 First Line: The old rooster forgets Last Line: And sit down %please RESOLUTIONS First Line: It isn't that she hasn't Last Line: Finding fault with everyone %except the woman %who looks back in the mirror RESTRAINT ON HEARING NEWS OF H.R. First Line: Although there are Last Line: As it is %she only removes curlers %from her hair %and reaches for a brush RETARDED BOY IN MIGRANT CAMP 1935 First Line: The moon was a giant Last Line: And when he smelled the %magic roses %he fainted dead away REVELATION First Line: When three of us %were eating in molly's cafe Last Line: And paid me a dollar a day %for doing work I loved REVIVAL First Line: Three tall brothers Last Line: I've got a little light %I'm gonna let it shine %but the girl snapped her gum %and looked away RITUAL ON MAYFAIR STREET, JULY 1993 First Line: The summer sun is sinking %on friday Last Line: When home beckons him with an urgency %he always find surprising ROCKING HORSE First Line: The price of cotton Last Line: And the bells rang out %in every town %peace on earth %to horse and rider %as they sped past ROOTS First Line: Every summer cousin bob Last Line: Out his old harmonica %and play home on the range %and red river valley ROSTER First Line: No alterntive route Last Line: This is not a poem. %it is a cold fact. %five of my brothers. All young ROYAL ORDER OF CCC First Line: Maybe it was because Last Line: Already had the grades to qualify SATURDAY ESSENTIALS First Line: E.B. Went to safeway Last Line: On the brumby motel bed %enoutgh to see loretta lynn %at the fairgrounds %and buy a tank of gas SCOUTING WITH PLAYMATES, 1932 First Line: Five of us children %looking for black walnuts Last Line: Ballard's old egg-sucking dog SEEKING INSIGHT First Line: By word of mouth and family Last Line: My middle name is antonia SILVER DREAM First Line: Rilla fried potatoes every night Last Line: And the jilted girl's fiancee %had shown up %and wanted her to take him %back SISTER BEULINE'S ADVICE First Line: After that last red-hot revival, when the evangelist claimed Last Line: Ordered more chocolate from the rawleigh man SMALL CRUCIFIXION First Line: Just before good friday Last Line: And the pastor knows the thief %but cannot accuse the son %of his most devoted friends SOLUTION First Line: I knew neva's pentecostal parents Last Line: Once I learned how to handle him' SOME DAY SOON First Line: Telephone poles are holy %look %how they form a line Last Line: A special corner %smelling of grade a milk SPARE ME YELLOW SKIES First Line: Temperature is 105 Last Line: But someone spare me yellow skies SPECTACLE SEEN FROM FRONT PORCH First Line: The young man in jeans Last Line: Until the police caught up %with them SPIRITUAL DIRECTION First Line: In making my easter duty Last Line: And heard the grate %slide shut SPLENDID GIFT OF CHINA First Line: The chinese teapot is on my Last Line: Melts in the butter SPYING IN CITY PARK First Line: My peanuts were gone Last Line: In olden times %they called this romance %and I need a big mac bad STAMP First Line: Waiting at the stop sign Last Line: The light turned green %the other car shot forward %silverhead called after it %you come and see us, STORYTELLERS First Line: Mr. Crowley is going back to school Last Line: I am desperately afraid that they will %grow up without the touch of magic so many %of you possess STRATEGY First Line: Stella was an okie girl Last Line: Going up the bus steps %she called back %I don't ever want to pick %another grape again SUBJECT MATTER First Line: The critic asked, what are the subjects Last Line: Days of 1936-37-38-39-40 SUDDENLY I REMEMBER First Line: Five years ago %american antiques %were all the rage Last Line: Mama's rosewood bible stand %safe to use again SUMMER DATE First Line: The ginger rogers moon was Last Line: I hate dancing %and I'll never go to the %eagles hall again %with johnny purvis %or any other boy SUMMER HIRED HAND, 1926 First Line: He came from osage county %I remember he had warm brown eyes Last Line: Just don't shake me out no %haystack cereal from a box SUMMER SCENE First Line: July's turned its heat Last Line: Grapes are oozing %and the armenian pope %has come to fresno SUNDAY DRIVE First Line: Brother accidentally touched Last Line: Brother rolled the window down %and the fly flew out on its own SURPRISE First Line: Nettie is a pious girl %she has every right Last Line: And she gathered up %her bible and walked off SURPRISE VISIT FROM CHILDHOOD FRIEND TURNED BANKER First Line: Harvey wilcox %tracked me down Last Line: You wouldn't believe %how far a country boy can go %with crock-cut hair %and dropseat pants SWEAT First Line: When I was spindly four, when the world was all easter Last Line: Wondered if mama earned her bread by baking it TENANT IN NUMBER 14 First Line: Mr. Dobbs if frail Last Line: Perhaps he is reciting his %office %maybe only grumbling %about the price of food THEATRICAL NAMES First Line: Coming out of colony kitchen THEM CHINAMEN HAS GOT A LOTTERY First Line: Only eight years old Last Line: Oncet I peeked behind the %curtains %and seen 'em wearin' funny %robes THEY GAVE ME A CHAIR BESIDE THE FIRE First Line: Young people who live near %the old feed mill Last Line: And the tribal chief started the ceremony %to greet the rising sun THINKING OF RED SQUIRRELS First Line: I remember their bushy ails and Last Line: Basic stuff like that THOUGHTS AFTER TELEPHONE CALL First Line: You telephoned me from buffalo %three days after christmas Last Line: Longer than the salmon patties I fried tonight THOUGHTS ON THE TRINITY, FEBRUARY 14, 2000 First Line: Excepting god almighty Last Line: Even three names make one long name %my own TIMING First Line: Only four years old Last Line: Lay on the cot with his hand %stretched out %on their old collie's head %and lived to die in the %ba TO BOATING FRIENDS First Line: Even if I threw %my life overboard Last Line: Even if I were going down %for the third time TO THE POINT First Line: Hovis wore TOMMY LEE BIRE'S OBSESSION First Line: Laguna seca Last Line: No time to even think %about girls %nor nothing else TONIGHT IS CARNIVAL First Line: Under the lamp %with the shade that turns yellow Last Line: Strands of beads thrown from a float TOURING AMERICA First Line: Some kind of third cousin Last Line: And bit deeply into another plum TREASURE RECOVERED IN A CLEANING SPREE First Line: I dump old purses Last Line: I will wear it %night and day TRILOGY: 1: A KIDNAPPER First Line: In kern county Last Line: And you don't forget %a name like that TRILOGY: 2: A FRIEND IN NEED First Line: Alfie mendoza Last Line: I'll take you out there %next wednesday TRILOGY: 3: PETER COTTONTAIL First Line: Headed toward shafter Last Line: I've gotta find my boy TWO COUSINS First Line: She had written twice Last Line: Really happy %said I must visit her TWO HELENS First Line: As our school principal escorted him out to the bleachers Last Line: Have inspired the gauchos the way our helen has TWO WORLDS First Line: Ervin pike %was what girls called %a sweet boy Last Line: And I saw ervin kiss the girl U.F.W. PICKETS ON OLD HIGHWAY 99 First Line: Two disciples went on their way after ULYSSES IN OHKAHOMA First Line: That sharecrop boy Last Line: A honeyvoiced girl %who lived on the dark %side of the river UNCLE EBBIE'S BACHELOR HOME IN THE HOLLOW First Line: Featherbed high Last Line: Showed off his army %blanket %a drape above %the curved white hip %of a chamberpot UNION DUES: DECEMBER 22, 1993 First Line: I never met jimmy hoffa Last Line: The benefits of paid-up %union dues UNMATCHED First Line: Hair and eyes don't %have to match Last Line: And struck a spark %in her grieving eyes VARIETIES OF JAM First Line: You hardly ever meet Last Line: And no one west of %plainview, texas has the recipe %for that sweet hot jam VENERABLE LADY IN I.C.U. First Line: She dozed for an hour, then Last Line: And waited for him VERLA'S ANSWER First Line: His companion's back is turned Last Line: The dessert bar. You want me to %bring you anything else? VIA DOLOROSA First Line: Dustbowl women Last Line: Abusive stateline guards %purple %when tires went flat %and the waterhose broke VIEW FROM MY WINDOW First Line: Trucks rumble past this Last Line: I can hear a dove mourning in the %magnolia tree %where the cambodians live VIEW OF LONE WOMAN NOT CRAZY ABOUT FOOTBALL First Line: Aunt lulu's gout is worse Last Line: Why don't they call all of 'em %greenbacks %and stop trying to fool the %public VIGIL WITH AUNT MAGGIE BOWMAN First Line: Darman phoned me %from a garage Last Line: She stirs on the pillow %'and tie up the morning glories' VINEYARD PHANTASY First Line: I felt sorry for the boy Last Line: He never had a girl to start with VINEYEARD VACATION First Line: Corrina hated picking grapes %and tying up their vines Last Line: Down the road forever %toward san francisco Variant Title(s): Let Yourself G VISITING ART SHOW AT GALLO BUILDING First Line: A peacock screamed in italian Last Line: Only cost 25 cents to make him forget %california %for two nights and a day VISITING MENNONITE FRIENDS First Line: This country has changed Last Line: A few meadowlarks there %a now and then cottontail %a patch of queen anne's lace VISITING PIONEER VILLAGE 4-5-'87 First Line: The indian mortar rock VISITING ROMPERS COOLEY AGAIN First Line: As a baby in french camp Last Line: I remember when he %stuck his head inside %a picture frame %and called %hang me on the wall VISITING ST. PATRICK'S CEMETERY AT ESCALON First Line: That's all wrong Last Line: Escalon %thousands of them %had a wife %who never baked a pie WAITING FOR A TRAIN First Line: Two silly people %asked me point-blank Last Line: Which I always answer %from my darkened room WAITING FOR THE FIRE First Line: As late as january Last Line: Fire to fall on them %and give direction WAITING GAME, 1926 First Line: Ground was sandy cool and easy Last Line: Coda: true, about the whiskey, I saw it Variant Title(s): Waiting Game 192 WATCHING A CORTEGE PASS First Line: Otto removed his hat Last Line: Make a corpse think %he was going for a joyride %maybe want to get up %and drive himself WATCHING TRUCK DRIVERS AT PANCAKE HOUSE First Line: Boys %I always order pancakes Last Line: Nothing much a cook %can do to ruin a pancake %if the stove don't blow up WATERMELON BIN AT MARKET, JULY 4TH, 1988 First Line: The black man Last Line: Texas melon man %this pile here ain't no good WE NEVER CALLED IT THEATRE First Line: Live theater %actual faces with people's eyes Last Line: But they were farther away %than just across the wide missouri WEATHER EYE First Line: Mind how you look Last Line: Who became his wife WEEKENDS First Line: 115 degrees in red bluff today Last Line: I hope the boy's mind %comes back %before his tires play out WHERE CAN WE FIND LIONEL SILVA First Line: Look for a pile of rubble Last Line: And a toothless dog guards %the driveway %to a jetstream trailer house WHERE ON EARTH First Line: Not everyone in his family had died, but there were only Last Line: Hole-in-the-wall yardage shop that closed after three weeks WHO ELSE First Line: Who else but a raving Last Line: And drink a toast of sarsaparilla %to lily langtry WHOOPING COUGH EPIDEMIC, 1924 First Line: The preacher's wife curled Last Line: She went back in spring %and put a penny doll inside %the jar %to look out at the robins WIDOWER AND SON - 1926 First Line: With the outside world cut off Last Line: With the sears roebuck catalog %for his sole companion WINDS OF MY LIFE First Line: It's funny how those things Last Line: And hope the ghosts %belong to us WINGS First Line: I walk toward the car WISHING ON THE AVON MOON First Line: Cabin twenty's shower Last Line: Maria tells herself avon should create %a brand new scent called %rio grande %to be worn by runaways WOMAN DISAPPEARS First Line: She was her own woman Last Line: And something like tears %glistened behind his glasses WOMAN'S ACCOMMODATIONS First Line: One can say %she has lived Last Line: Burned the house down WORRIES OF A RURAL MOTHER First Line: R.C. Never sat down when Last Line: A flannel robe would be %best for him %and a wife with a down-home %face WRITING ASSIGNMENT First Line: My balky pen lies here Last Line: A can of snuff WRITING POETRY ON A STOLEN TABLE First Line: What a good place a corner WRITING POETRY ON NEW PAPER First Line: Rich %alluring %this sudden change seems Last Line: There are no inky crossouts %no roadblocks %of junk mail flyers %to slow my pen XENOPHOBIC KINFOLKS First Line: Remembering how it was Last Line: Worked for standard oil %in venezuela YOU CAN'T GO BACK First Line: Willis cates told papa Last Line: Coming west %you can't go back %to where you was %even if you could get there YOUR MONEY WILL BE REFUNDED First Line: Cousin lonza came home ZANE GREY SECRET First Line: Papa called rory several times Last Line: And loaned them to a few worthy readers ZEALOT IN BIG MUDDY First Line: What did three quatrains and a couplet Last Line: We could count the waves in her marcel Mcdonald, Elizabeth Keough 2 poems available by this author BATAAN ANGELS First Line: After they survived bataan Last Line: They were the greatest show on earth Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses POLITICS OF DISEASE First Line: She flew to canada from africa-sick. Cough and fever Last Line: I've looked out enough windows to know what passes by, %enters Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses Mcgaw, Elizabeth T. 1 poems available by this author MOOSILAUKE First Line: Serene, majestic - moosilauke, thou stand'st Mclagan, Elizabeth 7 poems available by this author AND THE EYES OF THE BLIND SHALL BE OPENED First Line: It's all I can do not to stray from the high Last Line: The bright weight of all I am not supposed to say KANDINSKY'S HUNGER COMPOSITION #2, 1910 First Line: He's losing the figure, giving up Last Line: Let everything enter. Shut nothing out ONCE MORE WITH FEELING First Line: Twice more with starlings kissing Last Line: Comes a glossy wavering READING THE NAMES First Line: Last in a line of english teachers, failure's sour breath Last Line: The alchemy of their names: as a warning, as praise RIVER BOTTOM First Line: Before my lungs, before %the oxygen's indifference, there Last Line: A child who once jumped off a dock %and went down fast RUNNING First Line: Late afternoon stillness, and a girl Last Line: She's a knife, narrow and flashing, searching %her hands and mouth for a sign TOURIST OF DESIRE First Line: I will probably never be a whale, though I have Last Line: Each stroke smoking with rosin, drive that music into %our veins? Mcmynn Elizabeth P. 1 poems available by this author HALCYON DAYS Poem Text First Line: A mystic calm broods over all the land Last Line: Your death is but the prelude to rebirth. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life Mcneil, Elizabeth 7 poems available by this author FIGS AND FISH First Line: When ms. X was a girl %her brothers called her beast Last Line: His face above her grinning like a dog's %humping its bone into her thigh HOHOKAM First Line: It is early summer, the corn coming up Last Line: There is no more food. %the river is small. %the birds have flown away IN COMMON GROUND First Line: In stacked photos on the shelf Last Line: Her arm a bridge %rising crooked between us MS. X LEARNS TO FLOAT ON LAND First Line: What I remember's %a rim of ice on my thigh Last Line: Waterbed shaking %he fucks like a walrus MS. X ON THE ROCKS First Line: Men look with their hang-dog faces Last Line: The mermaid mystery's in me %in my tail that won't be parted MS. X'S LAST STAND First Line: A mermaid wrapped in this purple quilt Last Line: All is well %god is in her heaven WADE OUT, SHAKE MY DAUGHTER'S ASHES First Line: To the thick heart of ocean Last Line: Into swollen night %this numb blue gourd of ash Mcwebb, Elizabeth Upham 1 poems available by this author AT MRS. APPLEBY'S First Line: When frost is shining on the trees Last Line: It's spring at mrs. Appleby's Subject(s): Houses Melvill, Elizabeth Alternate Author Name(s): Culcross, Lady 1 poems available by this author ANE GODLIE DREAME, SELECTION Poem Text First Line: I looked down, and saw a pit most black Last Line: It is to come that I believed was past. Melville, Elizabeth Alternate Author Name(s): Colville, Elizabeth (melville); Colville Of Culros, Elizabeth (melville); Colross, Lady 2 poems available by this author A SONNET SENT TO BLACKNESS TO MR. JOHN WELSCH Poem Text First Line: My dear brother, wt courage bear the crosse Last Line: When shew of c's love thy rich reward shall be: Subject(s): Brothers; Hope; Half-brothers; Optimism ANE GODLIE DREAME, SELS. Mercer, Lianne Elizabeth 3 poems available by this author AT THE FENCE First Line: In her faded, ironed, cotton dress Last Line: As I burrowed deep into the sleeping iris %whispered, 'grow me toward the sky.' EMPTY SWING First Line: You still the swing Last Line: Orchid sinking in still wind Subject(s): Nurses NIGHT WALKER First Line: I click the lock of the psychiatric intensive care unit, leave Last Line: Stalking hope. The night licks its fur and yawns, but its %eyes never close Subject(s): Nurses Merrick, Elizabeth Levy 1 poems available by this author FIREFLIES First Line: Their lights sparked on Last Line: As small eyes looked upward Merrill, Elizabeth F. 1 poems available by this author HIGH ROCK Poem Text First Line: Overlooking the town of lynn Last Line: Of the restless hurrying tides below. Subject(s): Lynn, Massachusetts Michel, Elizabeth 2 poems available by this author S IS FOR SONNET First Line: Son, we've sung together seven years, long WOMEN'S WARD First Line: That summer on six east Middleton, Elizabeth 7 poems available by this author THE DEATH AND PASSION: 23 Poem Text First Line: Unhappy merchant, thus t'expose thy lord Last Line: Of him, who came, this sicke worlde to redeeme. Subject(s): Death; Jesus Christ; Love; Religion; Resurrection, The; Dead, The; Theology THE DEATH AND PASSION: 24 Poem Text First Line: Oh blessed virgin, hadst thowe present bene Last Line: That juryes wealth, on hayre should never buy. Subject(s): Death; Jesus Christ; Love; Religion; Resurrection, The; Dead, The; Theology THE DEATH AND PASSION: 25 Poem Text First Line: But thowe true patterne of pure pyety Last Line: Goe buy thyne owne from those preistes murth'ring handes. Subject(s): Death; Jesus Christ; Love; Religion; Resurrection, The; Dead, The; Theology THE DEATH AND PASSION: 26 Poem Text First Line: And judas o yf greedy hope of gayne Last Line: Then scornefull foes, whose spight and pyde abhorre him. Subject(s): Death; Jesus Christ; Love; Religion; Resurrection, The; Dead, The; Theology THE DEATH AND PASSION: 27 Poem Text First Line: Oh what would lazarus new brought to live Last Line: Who lov'd him more then all ye world can doe. Subject(s): Death; Jesus Christ; Love; Religion; Resurrection, The; Dead, The; Theology THE DEATH AND PASSION: 28 Poem Text First Line: Yea leave the earth, and ask the angels bright Last Line: Thy guilt had bene the lesse, thy gayne the more. Subject(s): Death; Jesus Christ; Love; Religion; Resurrection, The; Dead, The; Theology THE DEATH AND PASSION: 29 Poem Text First Line: But sin, with self conceit it self doth blind Last Line: Weare in his pow'r, to use him, as he please. Subject(s): Death; Jesus Christ; Love; Religion; Resurrection, The; Dead, The; Theology Mihaly, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author MAY 4TH First Line: Four students' faces Last Line: Ever be enough, %like an old dead %river bed we %try to fill up Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 Miles, Sarah Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author HYMN TO CHRIST First Line: Thou, who didst stoop below Variant Title(s): Looking Unto Jesu Mische John, Elizabeth 4 poems available by this author EARTH SCIENCE First Line: My father says %I have written too many PAUL'S SONG First Line: Everything I know about optimism RACIAL MEMORIES First Line: Dinah shore sings of america Last Line: By my rejection of everything she knows to be true: the beautiful %are blond Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles STANDARD MEASURES First Line: It is Mitchell, Elizabeth Harcourt 1 poems available by this author LAMENT OF A FORESAKEN CAT First Line: The family went out of town Montgomery, Eleanor Elizabeth Alternate Author Name(s): Singing Shepherd, The 3 poems available by this author A NEW ZEALAND REGRET Poem Text First Line: Come! In this cool retreat Last Line: Sung my soul across the sea. Subject(s): Homesickness ADIEU Poem Text First Line: O shepherds! Take my crook from me Last Line: My shepherds dear -- good night! Subject(s): Farewell; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Parting TO ONE IN ENGLAND First Line: I send to you' %songs of a southern isle Montgomery, Elizabeth Shaw 1 poems available by this author SCARABAEUS Poem Text First Line: The lady was white as ivory Last Line: Split wide for passion's sake. Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Love Affairs; Murder Monyhan, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author TO A MODERN POET Poem Text First Line: I find that I have lost my taste Last Line: And wait for god beyond a hill. Moody, Elizabeth Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Greenly, Elizabeth 7 poems available by this author DR. JOHNSON'S GHOST Poem Text First Line: Twas at the solemn hour of night Last Line: And word -- wrote never more. Subject(s): Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784) SAPPHO BURNS HER BOOKS AND CULTIVATES THE CULINARY ARTS Poem Text First Line: Companions of my favorite hours Last Line: Severest -- disappointed love. Subject(s): Books; Cooking & Cooks; Women - Writers; Reading THE HOUSEWIFE'S PRAYER, ON THE MORNING PRECEDING A FETE; TO ECONOMY Poem Text First Line: Goddess adored! Who gained my early love Last Line: And guard, o goddess, guard each candle's end! Subject(s): Housekeeping; Parties THE HOUSEWIFE; ADDRESSED TO LYSANDER Poem Text First Line: O thou that with deciding voice oft sways Last Line: When woman's knowledge own'd its boundary here! Subject(s): Housewives; Mythology; Women TO A GENTLEMAN WHO INVITED ME TO GO A-FISHING Poem Text First Line: For vacant hours of man's destructive leisure Last Line: Chagrined and weary, if it shuns the bait? Subject(s): Fish & Fishing TO DR. DARWIN, ON READING HIS LOVES OF PLANTS Poem Text First Line: No bard e'er gave his tuneful powers Last Line: To libel harmless trees and flowers. Subject(s): Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1802); Linneaus (carl Von Linne) (1707-1778); Plants; Planting; Planters TO SLEEP; A SONG Poem Text First Line: Sleep expand thy downy wing Last Line: That parts my soul from love—and you. Subject(s): Calm; Grief; Love - Complaints; Sleep; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Sorrow; Sadness Moore, Elizabeth Evelyn 1 poems available by this author MIZZ NOAH Poem Text First Line: Mr. Noah he build him an ark Last Line: An' start clean up de mud! Subject(s): Animals Morgan, Elizabeth S. 1 poems available by this author DAPHNE'S BLUES First Line: Didn't you hear him daddy Last Line: Now you've got your river and your tree %yeah, daddy, you both got your laurel tree Subject(s): Hollins College, Virginia Morgan, Elizabeth Seydel 100 poems available by this author ACADEMIC YEAR First Line: You quit smoking, buy a new kind of pen Last Line: Someone from another year, %you cannot bear ADAMSONS' PEACOCKS First Line: Brakes screech, heavy metal thunks. A second, then glass crashes Last Line: Beyond the gorgeous plumage, after the measured dancing, %past any sequential ritual we ever learned ALL LEGENDARY QUESTS First Line: A dance of goldfinches led through a gate Last Line: And found all legendary quests are true ALL MY FRIENDS' PETS ARE GROWING OLD ANGER VILLANELLE First Line: I've seen the innocent flinching at my meaning Last Line: That I can't say is caused by too much leaving APRIL FOOL First Line: In the window undiluted blue Last Line: You switch on something rented, %black and white AT A LECTURE First Line: He says the verse derives from the verb to turn AT EPIDAURUS First Line: Our little tribe Last Line: They've come down to AT HOME HERE First Line: The fork toward the door stands for travel Last Line: And then the act of take-off, of river skim AT THE COUNTRY CLUB First Line: The lifeguard and the married lady AT THE EDGE First Line: At the edge of our house BEAR IN MIND First Line: Bear in mind the tricky gifts Last Line: And strands of her hair were found BEYOND RECOGNITION First Line: And though there is no sudden face BLACK ANIMALS First Line: If it had been a dream Last Line: Can you realize that is the end of my story, and yours Subject(s): Animals; Dreams BLUES IN THE BLUE RIDGE First Line: On the year's hottest day Last Line: In hot black suits and blues BRANCHES First Line: Somewhere in here it's there, in a tributary Last Line: And myriad gifts of bower birds BREAD AND CIRCUS First Line: Chained, then bribed to dumb summaries Last Line: To get our bread, forget we're trapped CALCULUS FOR A POETRY STUDENT First Line: I add you to the moon Last Line: Your hunger for life takes in me CARAVATI'S JUNKYARD First Line: Dried sinks and hot Subject(s): Junk And Junkyards CHARLOTTESVILLE, INDIAN SUMMER First Line: It almost felt the same as summer Last Line: Did that last time, when I felt my bones go clean COUNTING SHEEP First Line: The drunk in the kitchen is mother CZECHOSLOVAKIA 1989 First Line: There was something so lovely about the way Last Line: We didn't know we'd written DAPHNE'S BLUES First Line: Didn't you hear him daddy Last Line: Yeah, daddy, you both got your laurel tree DAPHNE'S DREAM First Line: He came to me, the walker from the river Last Line: And put his cheek against my skin DAY LILY First Line: The day you touched me DEFINE SPACE First Line: Space in the brain Last Line: And asks us all here to hold hands DEFINE TIME First Line: The cool blues trumpet sweet Last Line: There is no such thing as time DO YOU OR I OR ANYONE KNOW First Line: What is this way of gods: how they go? Last Line: She will never explain DO YOU REMEMBER WHERE YOU WERE? First Line: I wanna hold your hand smacked a slap Last Line: Blood all over everybody's car, ka-pow, ka-pow, pow ELECTION First Line: There are passions of nature Last Line: We crave disaster. We will need you forever ENOUGH First Line: Beige remains of the garden Last Line: This lopsided midmonth moon-enough %to see by EURIPIDIES' CAVE First Line: In pericles' city cold marble nights Last Line: Phaedra's whispers medea breathing %before she screams Subject(s): Philosophy And Philosophers EVERY FACT IS A FIELD First Line: It is summer on your father's farm FALL JAZZ First Line: Wynton marsalis' trumpet called down the walls FAMILY LIFE First Line: This -- %brownhaired boy, ambling up a mountainside Last Line: For me to tell the rest FIRST WORDS First Line: Could adam and eve have felt better Last Line: They'd have a name for FRIEND OF HOPKINS First Line: One night in my kitchen you cried out the dark GHOST GOVERNOR First Line: Governor winthrop steps down the hall Last Line: Or not, she doesn't know GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA First Line: They cruised through the marshes Last Line: Discussing economics on the golden isles HALLOWEEN First Line: They gave me no choice, dried HEART'S CORE First Line: It's a difficult nut to crack Last Line: Blasting unseen fragile valves HER WORDS First Line: Mother wrote words HERON First Line: The moment between what wasn't I AM A GHOST-WRITTEN BOOK Last Line: Haunt every line Subject(s): Adoption INTIMATE CARS First Line: It was like dancing in public Last Line: Then I followed you, into the traffic ISLAND LIFE First Line: Between tow birches on a hill JANUARY FLIES First Line: Such moist warmth, such insistent LAWS OF NATURE First Line: The moment hangs now Last Line: Our laws, they'll sigh, are round and sweet LOCKING UP First Line: In '54 a bunch of boys slipped through the pines LOSS WITHOUT CEREMONY First Line: That hunger in the gut no one cooks for Last Line: Making something with your friends LUNCHEON OF THE BOATING PARTY First Line: Long before he had to strap the brushes MACHO / PSYCHE First Line: The first word is dark-eyed, muscled, moves Subject(s): Machismo MATTHEW IN UNIFORM First Line: Nights in the late sixties Last Line: The shine of a mother's mongering pride MAY TENTH First Line: Ten on may tenth MOTHER'S SIDE First Line: Red hair, red hair, and that pale skin Last Line: The other sound burning outside in the dark MY NAOMI Last Line: I am ruth Subject(s): Adoption NEIGHBORHOOD First Line: I jerk awake at dawn to snarls ON MONDAY POINT First Line: We had not imagined how immense it would be ONE TROUBLE WITH FORGIVENESS First Line: This is his face in the photograph Last Line: When this boy stood in my doorway PARTY First Line: It's an old story, what happens later PARTY BEFORE THE PARTY First Line: Late sun changed the bottles PATHOS OF THE INADEQUATE First Line: Mother called from the hospital PHONEBOOK IN A MOTEL DRAWER First Line: I looked you up %inthis phonebook Last Line: I wil not call PLACE YOU LEFT First Line: I'm leaning again in my doorway Last Line: Where lilac used to be POLITICAL SCIENCE First Line: The governor studies history Last Line: There is no other art POWER FAILURE First Line: All the relations sleep PURITANS First Line: More weight! %giles corey ordered Last Line: Feels again his strange weight RED First Line: One red poppy wild in the brush SAFEWAY First Line: This world is category. Raw meat SEASONS First Line: Sunburned, you cast across the surf SETTLEMENT First Line: It was so silent SEVERE FIRE WEATHER First Line: It is the weather she wakes to Last Line: Inch by inch in severe fire weather SEX First Line: Before she got cancer mary kinsella SHAKEDOWN TIME IN THE PINE FOREST First Line: Past fifty feet we can't reach the seeds SOLON AND SAPPHO AS STATUES First Line: Robed in similar linens Last Line: Between the head and the heart, between %a man and a woman SOUNDS THAT HAVE GONE FROM OUR LIVES First Line: Listen! You can hear it now-the acoustic Last Line: Cries of pain and quiet sobbing on the stairs STATE OF MAINE First Line: It was hard to resist the state of maine Last Line: Jefferson's classic capitol would be shuttered %against the heat STILLNESS LIKE THIS First Line: It's stillness that gets you STONEY CREEK THAT AFTERNOON First Line: If she was there SUMMER LOVER'S BOOK First Line: I lean my face onto the words he wrote Last Line: Touching a real cheekbone, reading in trees SUNSET ON EASTERN BEACHES First Line: In tuscany we sat for seven evenings Last Line: Their sandy bodies shining SWING, BOAT, TABLE First Line: What hanno has made of wood this year Last Line: A few vaguely yearning-and not knowing why- %to sit in a tree TIDEWATER CLIMBING COMPANY First Line: Lures me from sea level TRANSIENT First Line: Widening circles of thin gold swamp grass Last Line: The creator knows, and lets go Subject(s): Art And Artists; Creative Ability; Nature TRANSLATIONS First Line: Borges thinks U.F.O. OFF THE COAST OF MAINE First Line: You jump up, trying to pull me away UNARMED First Line: Get a gun was what was offered Last Line: That I never got, so much more afraid %of stupidity, of sadness UNGOVERNABLE First Line: Trying to counter it %is painful as sandbags Last Line: Our lips shaping the word survived %like a kiss UNINVESTIGATED STANZA First Line: In italy stanza means rooms Last Line: Loud, and louder, at our door VALDOSTA First Line: How do I like it here? Last Line: Then disappear, and I hate it here, I hate it VIRGINIA CAPITOL First Line: She sits on the top of the capitol steps Last Line: The bridges are burning; richmond's on fire VISION First Line: Is this the check VOLCANIC First Line: Like night coming on the wrong way WAITING FOR YOU First Line: Tiger, when I was fleet WALKING WOODS CREEK First Line: Something is falling above me %like rain Last Line: Can trick us into similes %we almost believe WAYS WE COME APART First Line: At the seams,' suggests a remedy WHAT IS THE MOST ELVIS EVER WEIGHED? First Line: I guess I could say the answer begins Last Line: And so we did, his eyes and ours darkwide and shining, %ready to watch the wighty world come on WHAT WE DID WHILE MOTHER DIED First Line: I washed my hair and stood in the backyard Last Line: Did she...Eat anything %today? WILLEM DEKOONING DECLARED INCOMPETENT First Line: Experts sent to inspect him assert Last Line: Continues to paint %every day WITHOUT A PHILOSOPHY First Line: Toward the end of this summer, %this long labyrinth Last Line: Feed on the aster, then go in %and disappear Morrow, Elizabeth Alternate Author Name(s): Cutter, Elizabeth Reeve 10 poems available by this author A GIFT Poem Text First Line: My friend holds careless in his palm Last Line: The gem is mine. Subject(s): Gifts & Giving AN OLD MAP Poem Text First Line: How small and arrogantly safe that world Last Line: Disclosed the continent of you. Subject(s): Maps; Mediterranean Sea ATLAS First Line: No granite mountains, no tempestuous seas BREAD AND WINE Poem Text First Line: All day work in the shops Last Line: And this is wine. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Labor & Laborers; Wine; Work; Workers CHEEK OF JUNE Poem Text First Line: Roses are red for summer's blood runs sealed Last Line: Knowing they pledge their faith in summer's heart. Subject(s): Flowers; Red (color); Roses; Summer LOT'S WIFE Poem Text First Line: If you would sing of heroes, sing of her Last Line: The sky saluted and prometheus bowed! Subject(s): Lot (bible) THE PROUDEST FRUIT Poem Text First Line: Apples are the proudest fruit Last Line: Immortality. Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Mythology - Classical; Persephone; Proserpine; Proserpina THIS PINE-TREE, LOVED BY MANY A PASSING MOON THREE QUATRAINS First Line: Dear daughter, when the dusty shelf receives me WALL First Line: My friend and I have built a wall Subject(s): Religion Morse, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author THE NEW HIGHWAY Poem Text First Line: My fear is the fear of the road - of the new highway Last Line: All the years in between the boy and the man -- all the fears! Subject(s): Fear; Roads; Paths; Trails Moss, Elizabeth Patton 1 poems available by this author SERMON WITHOUT WORDS Subject(s): Religion Mourant, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author SHALLOT First Line: Listening %is closed doors Last Line: The morning %like blood Nannestad, Elizabeth 13 poems available by this author ALTIPLANO First Line: Who knows the altiplano? Who's been there? Last Line: Drawn out around and over them, a signature %by an inventive hand ANDEAN FLOWER First Line: In one part of the journey, the mountain side Last Line: Soon there were thousands of them %up and over the sides of the mountain COME BACK DOWN First Line: Just sitting, thinking %on nothing in particular Last Line: The chair leg broke and left me %up in the air, thinking %upon a chair JUMP First Line: The water says, come here %and I say, no. You're Last Line: Make my cold arms in the cold sea warm, %strike out for the shore LOVESONG IN FRONT OF MOUNTAINS First Line: Look what you have done tome, once a wild , wild woman Last Line: Until you deck my head with flowers %and sit me like this to look at mountains, and I am burned MOSQUITO First Line: Ho. You there, ,little monster of depravity Last Line: Are you finished? Been satisfied? %well then, let's be %strangers PATTERNS ON THE FLOOR OF THE POOL First Line: Swallows, swallows %lit by the water shine Last Line: Will they be long? %you ask too much. Look at you %still asking QUEEN OF THE RIVER First Line: Here the boat set me down, and I wait. The oarsman swung on %the pole Last Line: It is cool now, and I who have flown in my dreams and died %stop sweating, pull the sheet up onto a STONE-FIGURE First Line: Some medieval %simple soul in stone Last Line: Shit-streaked nests in your hair %you're gripped by the scrag %you stay there THIS SMALL ART First Line: Is nothing but %a long thorn %in my heart Last Line: Take it. Go on %you might not get %another one WE WATCHED THE MOON RISE Last Line: Then went to our beds %and the moon %took the short way %around and went back down WHAT MAKES THE HEART STAND STILL First Line: The winds of chance blow nightly, they blow away Last Line: Beats up in the trees. Where else %could it be beating? YOU MUST BE JOKING First Line: I waited for you until the hours turned to stone Last Line: You can call, you can call. I will not come Newell, Mary Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author FOR A VALENTINE First Line: If you could look into my heart Noble, Elizabeth S. 2 poems available by this author THE DREAMER Poem Text First Line: O you who walk with vision-misted eyes Last Line: To know how dull that life which dreams forsake. THE RETURN Poem Text First Line: He sailed upon the misted sea Last Line: Her arms outstretched across the sands. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping Norton, Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Sheridan Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline 57 poems available by this author ALLAN PERCY First Line: It was a beauteous lady richly dressed AS WHEN FROM DREAMS AWAKING Last Line: And every grief that clouds our light, %reminds us of the last! Subject(s): Memory BABEL First Line: Know ye in ages past that tower Subject(s): Babel, Tower Of BANNER OF THE COVENANTERS First Line: Wake! Wave aloft, thou banner! Let every snow fold BINGEN ON THE RHINE Poem Text First Line: A soldier of the legion lay dying in algiers Last Line: The rhine. Subject(s): Germany; Patriotism; War; Germans DEDICATION OF THE DREAM; TO THE DUCHESS OF SUTHERLAND Poem Text First Line: Once more, my harp! Once more, although I thought Last Line: Among the many such with which thy life is stored. DREAMS First Line: Surely I heard a voice-surely my name Last Line: I start, I wake, I am alone again! EXTRACT FROM THE DREAM Poem Text First Line: Oh twilight! Spirit that does render birth Last Line: Plods his sauntering way along, whistling the fragment of some village song! Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares FIRST LOVE First Line: Yes, I know that you once were my lover Last Line: But my heart is john hardy's alone HAUNTING EYES First Line: In the hour I first beheld thee I DO NOT LOVE THEE Poem Text Last Line: Because they see me gazing where thou art. Subject(s): Desire; Love I WAS NOT FALSE TO THEE First Line: I was not false to thee, and yet Last Line: I was not false to thee Subject(s): Fidelity IFS First Line: Oh, if the winds could whisper what they hear IN THE COLD CHANGE, WHICH TIME HATH WROUGHT ON LOVE Poem Text Last Line: Weep for the dead no more! Subject(s): Death LAKE First Line: There is a lake - but I forget its name LINES, ETC. First Line: A woman should not rule this realm' Last Line: And guard our coeur de lion still, %in every sacred right! Subject(s): Great Britain - Rulers; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Women's Rights LOVE NOT Poem Text First Line: Love not, love not, ye hapless sons of clay! Last Line: Love not! Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness MARRIAGE AND LOVE, SELS. First Line: Laura was lightsome, gay, and free from guile Last Line: Of what he might have been - ah! Might be yet MUSIC'S POWER First Line: Have you never heard, in music's sound MY HEART IS LIKE A WITHERED NUT Last Line: Nor sun, nor smile shall it light it more MY MOTHER Poem Text First Line: My mother! With thy calm and holy brow Last Line: And greet thy nature as the type of all. Subject(s): Mothers NAME First Line: Thy name was once the magic spell, by which my thoughts were bound Last Line: When the jocund sound that woke it once is gone -- for ever gone Subject(s): Names NONE REMEMBER THEE! NOT LOST, BUT GONE BEFORE First Line: How mournful seems, in broken dreams OBSCURITY OF WOMAN'S WORTH First Line: In many a village churchyard's simple grave Last Line: And greet thy nature as the type of all PICTURE OF SAPPHO First Line: Thou! Whose impassion'd face Last Line: Thou wert a woman, and wert left despairing RECOLLECTIONS Poem Text First Line: Do you remember all the sunny places Last Line: Let us remember this. Subject(s): Memory RECOLLECTIONS OF A FADED BEAUTY, SELS. First Line: I recollect the man who did declare Last Line: Alas! Alas! I always sighed for more Subject(s): Regret; Transience SAPPHO, SELS. First Line: Warriors and statesmen have their meed of praise Last Line: The soldier dies surrounded: could he live %alone to suffer,and alone to strive? SAY NOT 'TIS DARK - THE NIGHT Subject(s): Immortality SONNET Poem Text First Line: Be frank with me, and I accept my lot Last Line: Of the dear loss of all which thou dost counterfeit. SONNET: 13. THE WEAVER First Line: Little they think, the giddy and the vain Last Line: Where weary lazarus leans his head on abraham's breast Subject(s): Lazarus SONNET: 7 Poem Text First Line: Like an enfranchised bird, who wildly springs Last Line: My heart still feels the weight of that remembered chain. Subject(s): Freedom; Love - Loss Of; Liberty SORROWS OF ROSALIE: BOOK 2, SELS. First Line: I pressed my baby to my throbbing breast Last Line: Some wish, the bitter grief he caused me, to console! Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate; Grief; Mothers - Unwed; Seduction SORROWS OF ROSALIE: BOOK 3, SELS. First Line: On, on -- through many a dark and mounrful day Last Line: And, shrinking back, it turned to that kind one, and smiled Subject(s): Grief; Kindness; Mothers - Unwed THE ARAB TO HIS FAVORITE STEED Poem Text First Line: My beautiful! My beautiful! That standest meekly by Last Line: Away! Who overtakes us now shall claim thee for his pains! Variant Title(s): The Arab's Farewell To His Horse;the Arab's Farewell To His Steed Subject(s): Animals; Arabs; Horses THE BLIND MAN TO HIS BRIDE Poem Text First Line: When first, beloved, in vanish'd hours Last Line: The blind man vainly yearn'd to see! THE CARELESS WORD Poem Text First Line: A word is ringing through my brain Last Line: Dwell weeping on a careless word. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary THE CHILD OF EARTH Poem Text First Line: Fainter her slow step falls from day to day Last Line: "why didst thou linger? -- thou art happier now!" THE FAITHLESS KNIGHT Poem Text First Line: The lady she sate in her bower alone Last Line: Ere that steed and its rider return again! Subject(s): Grief; Knights & Knighthood; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness THE FALLEN LEAVES Poem Text First Line: We stand among the fallen leaves Last Line: The present fills our hearts! Subject(s): Leaves; Time THE KING OF DENMARK'S RIDE Poem Text First Line: Word was brought to the danish king Last Line: "to the halls where my love lay dying!" Subject(s): Death; Denmark; Dead, The; Danes THE LADY OF LA GARAYE Poem Text First Line: Ruins! A charm is in the word Last Line: Sound through the river's sweep of onward rushing time! Subject(s): France THE LADY OF LA GARAYE: DEDICATION Poem Text First Line: Friend of old days, of suffering, storm, and strife Last Line: Twas a true friend to whom such thanks were given! Subject(s): Friendship THE MOTHER'S HEART Poem Text First Line: When first thou camest, gentle, shy, and fond Last Line: But in the mother's heart found room for all! Subject(s): Mothers THE MOURNERS Poem Text First Line: Low she lies, who blest our eyes Last Line: Ah! Wherefore do we weep? Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement THE SENSE OF BEAUTY Poem Text First Line: Spirit! Who over this our mortal earth Last Line: Which glimmering light leads nearest to the day? Subject(s): Beauty THE VISIONARY PORTRAIT Poem Text First Line: As by his lonely hearth he sate Last Line: "be real -- be mortal -- and be mine!" THE WIDOW TO HER SON'S BETROTHED Poem Text First Line: Ah, cease to plead with that sweet cheerful voice Last Line: Weep for his mother! -- weep, young bride, for me! Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers-in-law; Death - Babies TO MY BOOKS Poem Text First Line: Silent companions of the lonely hour Last Line: On these, my unripe musings, told so well. Subject(s): Books; Reading TO THE LADY H.O.; ISLE OF WRIGHT, SEPTEMBER, 1839 Poem Text First Line: Come o'er the green hills to the sunny sea! Last Line: Our one sole feeling shall be peace -- deep peace! Variant Title(s): Ataraxia TWILIGHT Poem Text First Line: It is the twilight hour Last Line: In his mercy to the last! Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight UNDYING ONE: CANTO 2, SELS. First Line: She pointed to the river's surface where Last Line: Never to die -- but ever withering? VOICE FROM THE FACTORIES, SELS. Subject(s): Child Labor; Factories WE HAVE BEEN FRIENDS TOGETHER WEALTH IS NOT HAPPINESS First Line: I have tasted each varied pleasure WEEP NOT FOR HIM THAT DIETH Poem Text First Line: Ah! Bless'd are they for whom, 'mid all their pains Last Line: As I, my mother, claim'd my place in thine. Subject(s): Mothers Notter, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author IMAGINE MY MOTHER First Line: Ten years dead and lives forever Last Line: Always closer, to the forsake woman %who inhabits me Subject(s): Death; Memory; Mothers O'neill, Elizabeth Stone 4 poems available by this author ACORNS First Line: This was a prodigious acorn year Last Line: Such a harvest falls once in a lifetime DOWSER First Line: Looking, I am always looking at opaque surfaces Last Line: Trying to fathom the ways of water and life %in a universe %of exploding stars LITTLE GREEN HERON First Line: Being smaller than the great blue Last Line: By the unsuspecting lagoon, %indifferent to any values %except the value of fish METRONOME First Line: We are all marking time Last Line: Metronomes between dawn and dark %marking time, marking time, marking time Oakley, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author CONJURING First Line: Pursuing the brilliance of scarlet macaws, the insides of blood oranges, a .... Last Line: Ther. Near the cabbage plants the mouse darted into shadowed green. I pointed my three-year-old fing Omand, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author FEW DAYS (MY ADOPTED-AWAY DAUGHTER TURNS EIGHTEEN) First Line: In a a few days %I will be free Last Line: Not the other way around Subject(s): Adoption Oness, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author BELLEEK First Line: For years I resisted it, the only Last Line: Whispers through me now: come here little one.... %come here till I tell you Subject(s): Inheritance And Succession Osborn, Mary Elizabeth 8 poems available by this author ALMA MATER First Line: Welcome, boy, to these green fields Last Line: Of those who left humanity %and barred the door COME NOT NEAR First Line: Sparrows in gossip outside the bedroom eaves EXQUISITE LADY First Line: Say good night to him and shut the door MID-CENTURY First Line: This whirlwind sounds a larger dissonance Last Line: Behind drawn curtains; play a harpsichord %and circumvent the storm OLD MAN IN THE PARK First Line: Saint francis? No indeed, although at that RURAL LEGEND First Line: Systolic city noise denies the thrush Last Line: That the bird has roused the god-with-pointed-ears? THOUGHT FOR THE WINTER SEASON First Line: In time of sorrow one should be Last Line: And, fending frost in his own lungs, %be reconciled to living things WATER-IMAGES First Line: Mrs. Ambrose watched the iridescence Osborne, Elizabeth Ann 2 poems available by this author HIGHWAY DESCRIPTION First Line: The speed limit's thirty-five MY LAMP First Line: O lucky me! Osbourne, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author SPRING First Line: Spring, spring, spring Otis, Elizabeth Lincoln 1 poems available by this author IF' FOR GIRLS First Line: If you can dress to make yourself attractive Otto, Minnie Elizabeth 4 poems available by this author A PRAYER Poem Text First Line: Dear lord / the brightness of this day Last Line: Day to day. Subject(s): God; Prayer FLAMBOYANT Poem Text First Line: The royal poinciana / in its riot of flame Last Line: It's blithe and gay. Subject(s): Poincianas ODE TO THE PELICAN Poem Text First Line: The florida pelican / is a doleful old bird Last Line: On the mangrove limbs. Subject(s): Birds; Fish & Fishing; Pelicans STEPHANOTIS Poem Text First Line: You lovely flower / exquisitely fair Last Line: Little princess of tropical flowers. Subject(s): Flowers; Perfume; Spring Pallitto, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author IN THE UKRAINIAN MUSEUM First Line: In peasant blouse and patterned skirt Last Line: Eight hundred yards of hair %descending into silence Parker, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author AT HER WINDOW First Line: Crossing the invisible line Parker, Elizabeth West 1 poems available by this author NORA Poem Text First Line: When I came back from nora's burial Last Line: "oh, let me be like her!" Subject(s): Death; Housekeeping; Dead, The Parker, Mary Elizabeth 9 poems available by this author ANCHORITE, NOT JULIAN OF NORWICH First Line: Nowhere on my chaste handkerchiefs Last Line: But dangerous in its moving unmoving nonetheless BOY PLAYING WAR First Line: Light frail as pencil smudge Last Line: Whose boy are you now? CHECKING OUT First Line: I took everything I wanted from that hotel room Last Line: No tears and no censer to perfume my way Subject(s): Hotels CHEWED First Line: After carrying her breath in a paper sack Last Line: True, she thinks, but we all %don't have teeth fastened in us GARGOYLE WARNS A SCULPTOR IN HIS LOFT First Line: When the amaryllis thrusts up its leaves Last Line: I lift you over the city on rushing wings HEART HEALTH SURVEY: HOME INTERVIEW First Line: I am a stranger to her house this evening Last Line: In the chalice of the tall plum IMPERFECT WIFE First Line: There were dogs at my wedding, a gray nose snuffling Last Line: Or milkweed, or pollen, or tears Subject(s): Marriage LETTER TO THE FEMALE SAINTS First Line: Tortures of the body aren't what I think of Last Line: Of terror that can make the walls implode NIGHT DRIVING First Line: Four women driving in the wrong city Last Line: That won't escape us. They always rise and flee Payne, Elizabeth Palmer 1 poems available by this author MOTHER COMES AT NIGHT First Line: Sometimes when I am awake at night Pearce, Mary Elizabeth 3 poems available by this author CAIN AND ABEL Poem Text First Line: But yesterday / we roamed the plain Last Line: What peril lurks! My brother! Subject(s): Abel; Cain THE CRYSTAL CUP Poem Text First Line: I had a crystal cup both old and rare Last Line: An earthen cup will serve, though once it mattered. Subject(s): Cups; Sonnet (as Literary Form) YUCCAS Poem Text First Line: Pale and dim fell the moonlight Last Line: The yuccas witnessed my sorrow. Subject(s): Grief; Yucca Plants; Sorrow; Sadness Pennell, Elizabeth Hart 2 poems available by this author GLOUCESTER NIGHTS Poem Text First Line: So often on a night like this Last Line: Upon a night like this. Subject(s): Gloucestershire, England; Wellesley College SPRING IN WELLESLEY Poem Text First Line: Again the promises of spring appear Last Line: In wellesley now? Subject(s): Spring; Wellesley College Perez, Mary Elizabeth 4 poems available by this author FOLLOWING THE ADAGIO First Line: Far as I know one stone goes forward Last Line: In the solo segovia is playing here SMALL HANDBOOK First Line: Among things imprisoned, even %before I knew it Last Line: And your dutiful lips %on the front cover %like the wounded sea? SNOW BLOOMS First Line: There's no good reason Last Line: That want happy endings STRICTLY DELIBERATE First Line: It shows me drenched Last Line: One can say orchid all one wants Perkins, Fanny Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author TO A CAT First Line: O, tabby of the yellow eyes Subject(s): Animals; Cats Perry, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author MEETING HOUR First Line: Before dawn Last Line: Ready for %the blameless light Peterson, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author LESSON First Line: One thing you taught me I'm grateful for Last Line: And yet you are at home there. %'never anything happens you can't wear jeans.' Phelps, Elizabeth Maxwell 2 poems available by this author CRIMSON TREE Poem Text First Line: This is not just a tree, red-gold Last Line: Hosannah and amen in me! Subject(s): Religion; Trees; Theology LITTLE HILLS LEAN NEAR Poem Text First Line: I love the sea, the thundering sea Last Line: So neighborly with me at night. Pickett, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author THE 'STILL-HOUSE SPRING Poem Text First Line: Dripping over fern and docks Last Line: Forever the 'still-house spring! Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Dead, The Poliner, Elizabeth 6 poems available by this author DOES THE GARDENER DREAM ONLY OF THE GARDEN? First Line: Since I've planted %flowers in my two boxes Last Line: Not even love, %could feel this good EAST HAMPTON, CONNECTICUT, 1977 First Line: The bells I didn't hear Last Line: Of the living bellringers sounded HIBERNATION First Line: The tail of the polar month Last Line: With the only voice that remains OCTOBER First Line: Each october I write a story sadder than the last Last Line: Now who'd've thought it would cause all this.' RAIN STORM First Line: If nature is a woman, today Last Line: Part of the wicked display, %the open nasty weather SOOTHING THE BURN First Line: My sister and I, barely teenage Last Line: I feel her palms gather the burn, open to fire Subject(s): Grandparents; Sisters; Sunbathing; Vacation Powell, Elizabeth 3 poems available by this author LOST DAY First Line: Can you evenly baste the sky, gather in the excess Last Line: Quickly now, %the swatch of blue fades MAXIMUM APERTURE First Line: He said the setting was for maximum aperture Last Line: Hoping his great camera could point out some new information %that might prove helpful in the end Subject(s): Death; Science; Sickness VARIATION ON MAGRITTE'S EIGHT METHODS OF BRINGING ABOUT THE CRISIS.. First Line: And what of isolation? %I asked the light to join us Last Line: There was a lilac tree arching toward the dark %I was standing on both sides of the door Pratt, Elizabeth 2 poems available by this author CAT AND MOUSE Poem Text First Line: The claws of life at times remain Last Line: Then you can love and sing -- and pray. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Faith; Life; Mice; Belief; Creed ORIENTAL POPPIES First Line: Like flame-clad spanish dancers gay Last Line: And then upon the ground they lie, %pale ghosts of gorgeous loves gone by Prentiss, Elizabeth Payson 6 poems available by this author KITTY First Line: Once there was a little kitty Variant Title(s): Long Time Ag LITTLE ANGEL First Line: Right into our house one day MORE LOVE TO THEE, O CHRIST! MYSTERY OF LIFE IN CHRIST First Line: I walk along the crowded streets, and mark NOW LET ME LAY THE PEARL AWAY SLEEP, BABY, SLEEP Preston, Elizabeth Dimon 5 poems available by this author AUTUMN LEAVES First Line: The life of a leaf %is sealed with the year CUPID'S CHRISTMAS SONG First Line: Pray hang a bit of mistletoe I HAVE A SHARE IN FLANDERS FIELDS First Line: I own a spot in northern france I WOULD FORGET First Line: Three scenes I would forget %if they would LILACS First Line: When the purple of the lilac in the green Prew, Elizabeth Mary 1 poems available by this author PATCH First Line: Little patch, who made thee? Price, Elizabeth 5 poems available by this author AFTER SOME PHOTOGRAPHS BY CHANSONETTA EMMONS (C 1880-1910) First Line: Only in girlhood can nature Last Line: As they would be in private, her neck open %wide to the ocean she is lost upon CHRISSY First Line: Her body was the glove her sexuality fit into Last Line: For a brief moment at the top of the world DESIRE First Line: When we met we were all desire MUSK First Line: A woman lives beneath the night Last Line: So many times, it is a round flat word, %a gem of blood, lost for now in the dark water SUMMER KITCHEN First Line: The factories and mills were giant dragons Last Line: And I followed the five toes and heel of light %my sister's feet left going down the basement stairs Price, Elizabeth A. 2 poems available by this author TIMBUKTU First Line: At 6 p.M. My mother is in the kitchen WHEN THINGS WERE JUST GETTING INTERESTING Last Line: Signed, sealed, untouchable, %already designated for heaven Pullen, Elizabeth Jones Alternate Author Name(s): Cavazza, Elizabeth 5 poems available by this author ALICIA'S BONNET Poem Text First Line: Last night alicia wore a tuscan bonnet Last Line: And many humming-birds were fastened on it. Subject(s): Hats DERELICT Poem Text First Line: She wanders up and down the main Last Line: A ship condemned, like a lost soul. HER SHADOW Poem Text First Line: Still as I move thou movest Last Line: I, too, a shade! LOVE AND POVERTY Poem Text First Line: One sat within a hung and lighted room Last Line: "sang this one, ""it was poverty who went!" THE SEA-WEED Poem Text First Line: The flying sea-bird mocked the floating dulse Last Line: "land ho!"" columbus cried." Subject(s): Seaweed Raby, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author BARGAIN First Line: The letter requested her Last Line: Collected by strangers, who display %them in living rooms, proud %to have paid so little Randall-mills, Elizabeth 4 poems available by this author CLOUD OF WHITENESS First Line: No man is singular Last Line: Forever consonant %with the praised CROSSING THE COUNTY LINE IN THE NIGHT First Line: Go tiptoe into memories Last Line: They are fragile mansions in the night QUICK STILL CENTER First Line: Sun brightens the mating cardinals Raplee, Elizabeth Virginia 2 poems available by this author NOSTALGIA First Line: My eyes are tired of brick, of steel and stone POET CONSIDERS PERFECTION First Line: I sat, and held the book upon my knees Subject(s): Religion Rapp, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author I HANG FROM A THIN GREEN ROPE Last Line: Unless they first beat me to death Subject(s): Hazelnuts; Riddles Rawlins, Susan Elizabeth 11 poems available by this author DAILY BREAD First Line: As long as there will be dinner DEPOSITION First Line: Leaving the property to you Last Line: Excess baggage, we marry a lot. %further deponent sayeth not GROWING THINGS First Line: Weeding again, endlessly Last Line: Desperate orchardist, said, %'anything growing.' INTERVENTION First Line: The jewish question. The half Last Line: You letting, stan wanted to know, you %letting those goons define you? LETTING GO AND HOLDING First Line: Some nights you are Last Line: Or I'll come %to you NOTES FROM A PLAGUE YEAR First Line: It is a whole new game QUEEN OF HEARTS SAYS HIT ME, NOT TOO HARD First Line: Some players take care SATURDAY NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS First Line: But I had to exchange the wrong one Last Line: He can't be being see - no %way - with that old bag with %the ear muffs STILL THINGS CHANGE First Line: Stone out of most of my mind WAY TO GO First Line: Stan is playing ball this summer, a nice team, kind Last Line: Hum it in there. Good game. %hum you babe WHAT IS IMPORTANT First Line: In the commercial, young men Last Line: Small increments. The goal is %a window so clean that %no one can see it Rees, Elizabeth 33 poems available by this author 52 YEARS OF SICKNESS AND HEALTH First Line: Just a month ago my hand was steady Last Line: Quietly and choose which bottle to smash CASTAWAY First Line: Pick a dot on the map Last Line: Out where no one comes, %no one but the washed-up beach COPLEY SQUARE First Line: Crossing a square exacts precision Last Line: The trash starts to sing COVENANT First Line: For two nights and days now Last Line: Your father's sadness before you DURING First Line: The image is the ocean EARLY INTIFADA First Line: In afula black flies buzz Last Line: Even so, she smiles, %lifting her porcelain fist FACING IN First Line: Because the look of your face Last Line: That startle of your self FAMILY RITUAL First Line: Jumping from bed to bed %over our sleeping faces Last Line: Dancing until you break the dark HANINA, AFTER LEBANON First Line: The refrigerator's hiss %wakes us this afternoon Last Line: I watch you spear a piece, %then imagine the taste in your mouth HUNTING THE HODAG First Line: Past lakes with names like velvet and star Last Line: Until this furious snowfall stops INDIAN GIVER First Line: I am taking the smells of myself off your fingers Last Line: But I am taking charge I am taking leave, %I am taking myself off your hands INTENSIVE CARE First Line: My grandmother, ethel, is 87 and worried LIGHTNING STORM First Line: After exquisite love %I look for a breeze Last Line: To catching fire simply %a matter of weather or impulse MARTYR; IN MEMORY OF ETTY HILLESUM First Line: Weeks before they called your name Last Line: In a protective hand, the still bird waits MCFARLAND'S COVE First Line: Deep inside the run-down farmhouse Last Line: We sink before we float MONSOON First Line: Fitting the key into the lock NARCISSUS First Line: I especially hate beautiful plants Last Line: I only love the things I love OMNIBUS First Line: You have something to scream about and it Last Line: As I was shaken by my mother PAPUSZA: ROMA DOLL First Line: We knew she wasn't ours Last Line: Her ears shining like foreign coins REASONS FOR RHYTHM First Line: Behind the unfinished island RECOVERY First Line: Behind a drifting island Last Line: Ask questions %with small words RENDEZVOUS First Line: I leave the city in chugging frames Last Line: That drowning in light %just after the tunnel ROSE First Line: Tall men in thick robes %carried off my grandmother %when a rose broke Last Line: Doesn't know that he's crying RUNNING TO THE GROCERY WITH MARK First Line: Swaggering into gristede's %we drip, laughing Last Line: And mean, I am I am I am, %those preening, aching %vowels, those wants SOCIETY LADIES' BALL First Line: We both have our old ladies-in-waiting to attend SURVIVOR First Line: My lungs are glass bowls %stained from that smoke Last Line: Falling glass gathers speed, %but screams cannot shatter Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath TAKE ONE First Line: The hotel room was 1930s and any moment Last Line: All weekend it would be like that, %and any moment management night knock TALIA First Line: Five days old, she already feels the burden Last Line: A woman waiting inside TENS OF FEET First Line: Down around a whining lake the land is sponge Last Line: Braided around a chapel of granite TO A YOUNG DANCER First Line: Look at these hyacinths %I picked from the neighbor's yard Last Line: Let me see them next to your eyes TURTLE INVASION First Line: I stand on an island covered with turtles Last Line: They turn under and reveal their veins: %splinters of motion WAY IT WORKS First Line: With first names like turner and price Last Line: Life snaps down their checks, %their apple cheeks WOMEN First Line: I reach across a chiseled lake Rendall, Elizabeth 4 poems available by this author BUTTERCUP COW First Line: Buttercup cow has milk for me Subject(s): Cows IF I WERE A PIG First Line: If I were a pig and lived under a thatch WHAT SHALL WE DRESS OUR BABY IN? First Line: Winter and summer must soon begin WIND First Line: Why does the wind so want to be Revere, Elizabeth 63 poems available by this author ASTARTE First Line: He left no will BETWEEN THE MIST OF ORGANDY BIRDS First Line: Dull things, I've kept you still BIRTH First Line: Someone speaks to me BOTTLE MEN First Line: It's the drive in them, the hate, the BRIDAL SHOWER First Line: It's a shower of kettles DAY THE POND DAM BROKE First Line: There was only a stream left DON'T MENTION THE INDIANS First Line: Once, one cheated me EDWARD First Line: You must have met him FIRES IN THE SNOW First Line: No one quarrels with a blizzard FOR EMILY DICKINSON First Line: You sit with your box FOR JEAN First Line: Her smile glowed FOR PETER, MEMORIES OF MAMARONECK First Line: Peter, all the crows FROM A HOTEL WINDOW First Line: I look out the wide window GRANDFATHER'S CHAIR First Line: It rails my studio window HAPPY ANNIVERSARY First Line: An oak looms on the sky HOLLY TREE, FOR ANN First Line: Last night I tried to run HOUSE IS EMPTY First Line: Tears drop from wishbones HOUSE OF HUMMELS First Line: When grandma was cold I'M A FARM GIRL First Line: Neighbors don't know me here IF SOMEDAY IN NEVER, NEVER LAND First Line: Cradling her blanket, the IRISH GRANDMA First Line: On an isle where no tree JANET First Line: You speak to me JENNY First Line: I see her skating LILACS First Line: I've no hands to keep LOST PHOTOGRAPH First Line: They'd lost our face MANSION ON THE HILL First Line: It's the biggest house MARCH SNOW First Line: The clock reads ten MARIE First Line: She sits with her MOON IS A CLOWN First Line: He gave me his eyes, a MOOR First Line: Across the moor MOTHER First Line: She nods on a ship MOTHER'S DAY First Line: She brings me a rose Subject(s): Mother's Day MY FATHER CAN YOU SEE ME First Line: The meadow's golden under my MY GRANDPARENTS First Line: Grandfather your voice MY HUSBAND First Line: He shops for me, those MY LITTLE WALDEN First Line: Green pills shake in their MY QUILT IS STAINED WITH HOURS First Line: Little boy MY SON FAR FROM HOME First Line: You wrinkle and fade NEXT TIME First Line: They told us you'd be dead NIGHT CALLER First Line: In the house of white wings NIGHTMARE First Line: The doctor's face OLD HOUSE WAITS First Line: Magnolias fell silently REMEMBER First Line: Remember when winter SARAH, SARAH First Line: They crowd the hall SILVER TROWEL First Line: His eyes looked in then STONE BOATS First Line: Father you dream in your stone THEY HIDE FROM ME First Line: Those meadows that flooded THEY MARRY THE MOON First Line: You stamped me black priest THEY STOLE A PORTRAIT First Line: They took a portrait THREE SISTERS First Line: I climbed a mountain once TO THE CRANE First Line: I've watched you wheel TRAIN First Line: Was it you grandfather VESPERS First Line: The house is quiet, he's gone VOICE First Line: I winnowed the rain WE LAUGHED IN THE RAIN WEDDING ALBUM First Line: In a chintz lined trunk with WHERE THE DOLLS PLAY First Line: The days flee WHITE GHOST First Line: Father called me candy WHITE HORSE First Line: I float from my skin YARD SALE First Line: The ground is covered YOUR FACE IS A GHOST First Line: Darling your face is a ghost Reynolds, Elizabeth Gardner 1 poems available by this author LITTLE BLACK DOG First Line: I wonder if christ had a little black dog Subject(s): Animals; Dogs Rhodes, Margaret Elizabeth 2 poems available by this author NOW IT IS SUMMER First Line: After long peace there comes ... Silver chatter THIS THEN IS DEATH First Line: They said it was a little thing to die Rice, Elizabeth Stanton 1 poems available by this author CHRISTMAS First Line: There's a wondrous peace lies on this earth Last Line: Peace on earth to all of you - %a merry christmas there! Subject(s): Christmas Richards, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author PORTLAND First Line: It came to him riding a subway or bus Richards, Elizabeth Davis 5 poems available by this author ECHO First Line: The daffodils march up and down PINE-CLAD HILLS Poem Text First Line: I hope that I shall live forever, here Last Line: Her promises of immortality. Subject(s): Pine Trees; Trees TO THE THEATRE Poem Text First Line: O house of life, upon whose certain stage Last Line: All mystery as does the last, dark lover. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights; Theater & Theaters YOUNG GIRL DEAD First Line: She was as slim and beautiful YOUTH ASKS Poem Text First Line: Gilliflower, gilliflower Last Line: Although love is dead? Subject(s): Youth Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Richards, Laura E. 76 poems available by this author A SONG OF TWO ANGELS Poem Text First Line: Two angels came through the gate of heaven Last Line: (in heaven alone is perfect rest.) A VALENTINE Poem Text First Line: O little loveliest lady mine Last Line: Here is my heart for your valentine! Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day ALIBAZAN First Line: All on the road to alibazan ALICE'S SUPPER First Line: Far down in the meadow the wheat grows green ANTONIO Poem Text First Line: Antonio, antonio, / was tired of living alonio Last Line: In the anticatartical zonio. Subject(s): Courtship AT EASTER TIME Poem Text First Line: The little flowers came through the ground Last Line: "at blessed easter time!" Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection BABY GOES TO BOSTON First Line: What does the train say? Last Line: Smoky choky chee! BABY'S VALENTINE First Line: Valentine, o valentine BALLAD OF TITUS LABIENUS First Line: Now titus labienus CAT MAY LOOK AT A KING First Line: The cat %came and sat Last Line: On tabby tom instead!' Subject(s): Animals CAVE-BOY First Line: I dreamed I was a cave-boy Last Line: A million years ago! DANDY CAT First Line: To sir green-eyes grimalkin de tabby de sly Subject(s): Animals; Cats DIFFERENCE First Line: Eight fingers %ten toes DUNKIRK First Line: What is the word tonight? Subject(s): Dunkirk, France EGG First Line: Oh! How shall I get it? ELETELEPHONY First Line: Once there was an elephant Last Line: I fear I'd better drop the song %of elephop and telephong! Subject(s): Elephants; Tongue Twisters ELETELEPHONY Poem Text First Line: Once there was an elephant Subject(s): Elephants; Tongue Twisters EMILY JANE First Line: Oh! Christmas time is coming again FUSSY First Line: There was a funny little man GREGORY GRIGGS First Line: Gregory griggs, gregory griggs, %had forty-seven different wigs Last Line: But he never could tell which he liked the best GROMBUSKIN First Line: Grombuskin was a giant Last Line: A long time ago!' HARRIET HUTCH Last Line: And rode to the moon on her grandmother's crutch HIGH BARBAREE First Line: As I was sailing down the coast Last Line: For you may save the life of %a pretty muffin bird! Subject(s): Animals; Cats HOWL ABOUT AN OWL First Line: It was an owl lived in an oak Last Line: Tu-whit! Tu-whit! Tu-whit! IN SAMARCAND First Line: In silken, milken samarcand IN THE CLOSET First Line: They've taken away the ball JIPPY AND JIMMY First Line: Jippy and jimmy were two little dogs Last Line: And we won't go to sail until we learn how, %bow-wow! Bow-wow! Bow-wow-wow! Bow-wow! JOHN BOTTLEJOHN First Line: Little john bottlejohn lived on a hill JOHNNY'S BY-LOW SONG Poem Text First Line: Here on our rock-away horse we go Last Line: Lullaby, lullaby, by-low. KINDNESS TO ANIMALS First Line: Riddle cum diddle cum dido, %my little dog's name is fido Last Line: And I rinse him all off in the sinkie Subject(s): Animals KING BARNABAS AND THE ALBATROSS First Line: Good king barnabas met one day Last Line: (heigh ho, birds on the wing! KING OF THE HOBBLEDYGOBLINS First Line: His eyes are green and his nose is brown LAD First Line: There was a lad LEGEND OF LAKE OKEEFINOKEE First Line: There once was a frog LEXINGTON MINUTE-MAN First Line: Twas the gray of the morning, revere at the gate Subject(s): U.s. - History LITTLE COSSACK First Line: The tale of the little cossack LITTLE JOHN BOTTLEJOHN LITTLE SUNBEAM First Line: Little yellow sunbeam Subject(s): Nature; Summer MEN OF GLOUCESTER First Line: On the tossing sea, the heaving sea MERMAIDENS First Line: The little white mermaidens live in the sea Last Line: And never feel a bit tired Subject(s): Mermaids And Mermen MOLLY PITCHER [JUNE 28, 1778] Poem Text First Line: All day the great guns barked and roared Last Line: To hold the name of molly pitcher. Subject(s): American Revolution; Monmouth, Battle Of (1778); Pitcher, Molly (1754-1832); Mcguire, Molly; Mccauley, Mary Ludwig Hays MONKEYS AND THE CROCODILE First Line: Five little monkeys Last Line: Wicked uncle crocodile, %to gobble up our brother! MOUSE First Line: I'm only a poor little mouse. Ma'am! MRS. SNIPKIN AND MRS. WOBBLECHIN First Line: Skinny mrs. Snipkin %with her little pipkin Last Line: And out of the window a-tumble she did go NANCY'S NIGHTMARE First Line: I am the doll that nancy broke! NAUGHTY BILLY First Line: Billy put the puppy-dog NICHOLAS NED / HE LOST HIS HEAD NICHOLAS, NED Last Line: So he thought it was night, and he went to bed NONSENSE RIME First Line: The owl and the eel and the warming pan NURSERY SONG First Line: Oh, peterkin pout and gregory grout OLD RAT'S TALE First Line: He was a rat, and she was a rat OUR COLORS First Line: Red! 'tis the hue of battle Subject(s): Flags - United States OUR PRESIDENTS First Line: First came general washington Subject(s): Presidents, United States OWL, THE EEL, AND THE WARMING-PAN PARTY First Line: On willy's birthday, as you see Last Line: While they were quarrelling, ate it all PENCIL-TREE First Line: Oh, could I find the forest PITCHER OF TEARS First Line: The woman had closed her eyes PONSONBY PERKS Last Line: And cut off their heads with smiles and smirks POSTMAN First Line: Hey! The little postman Last Line: I wish you'd go away! Subject(s): Postal Service PRINCE TATTERS First Line: Little prince tatters has lost his cap! PUNKYDOODLE AND JOLLAPIN First Line: Oh, pillykin willykin winky wee! SANDY HOOK Poem Text First Line: White sand and cedars; cedars, sand Last Line: Rattling their life-boats down the sand! SEVEN LITTLE TIGERS AND THE AGED COOK SHARK First Line: Oh! Blithe and merrily sang the shark SOME FISHY NONSENSE First Line: Timothy tiggs and tomothy toggs %they both went a-fishing for pollothywogs Last Line: That things with no legs should pretend to be frogs SONG OF THE CORN POPPER First Line: Pip! Pop! Flipperty flop! SONG OF THE LITTLE WINDS Poem Text First Line: The birdies may sleep, but the winds must wake Last Line: He thinks his mother's own song to hear. THE MANOR LORD Poem Text First Line: Beside the landsman knelt a dame Last Line: "amen, our lord is dead!" TOMMY'S DREAM, OR, THE GEOGRAPHY DEMON First Line: I hate my geography lesson! UMBRELLA BRIGADE First Line: Pitter patter!' falls the rain Last Line: Here we go, %the umbrella brigade! WAS SHE A WITCH? First Line: There was an old woman %lived down in a dell Last Line: She never, no never, no never would tell WHAT A VERY RUDE LITTLE BIRD SAID First Line: Thing with two legs, out on the lawn WHERE HELEN SITS Poem Text Last Line: Where helen sits. WHY DOES IT SNOW? First Line: Why does it snow? Why does it snow Last Line: With their riddle cum dinky dee Subject(s): Snow WHY I NO LONGER TRAVEL First Line: In kalamazoo, in kalamazoo WINIFRED WHITE / SHE MARRIED A FRIGHT Richmond, Elizabeth Yates 2 poems available by this author DOWN WHERE THE WATER LILIES GROW First Line: Mind you the place where the water-lilies grow, love Last Line: Yet the oceans and the mountains have sundered %you and me OLD NORTHWESTERN BRAVES First Line: They slumber well! The nightmare of the ages Last Line: Whose whitened bones the restless lake-wave bleaches, %whoserhymes and runes the wintry winds repeat Riddell, Elizabeth 16 poems available by this author CHILDREN MARCH First Line: The children of the world are on the march COUNTRY TUNE First Line: As I went out to walk FOREBEARS: 1 (THE MAP) First Line: O search the heart and belly you may find Last Line: Who long ago lay with my ancesters FOREBEARS: 2 (THE REVEREND EDWARD SMITH) First Line: By waggon hill he went Last Line: On his pious bone FOREBEARS: 3 (JOHN TEAGUE) First Line: He twined the country like a briar in the fair weather Last Line: To practise divination FOREBEARS: 4 (MONTFORT LEE AND PETER COCKERILL) First Line: When the ships nimbus and pacific fortune Last Line: And seldom read a book or sang a song FOREBEARS: 5 (MARY LOMAX) First Line: Here is the woman with the face of pearl and rose Last Line: Nothing is left of all she had to say FOREBEARS: 6 (THE MAN FROM RICHMOND) First Line: The man from richmond ran before Last Line: He was I and I am he LETTER First Line: I take my pen in hand Last Line: Always with love, with love LIFESAVER First Line: He was brought up out of the sea MY SECOND COUSIN First Line: She came over clouds and sea NEWS OF A BABY First Line: Welcome, baby, to the world of swords Last Line: We are your eager hosts Subject(s): Women OLD SAILOR TRAIN IN THE NIGHT First Line: Who hears in the night UNDER THE CASUARINA First Line: The garrulous old man who once had owned WAKEFUL IN THE TOWNSHIP First Line: Barks the melancholy dog Subject(s): Wanderers And Wandering Ring, Elizabeth Glendenning 1 poems available by this author ASLEEP BY THE IRISH SEA First Line: To france! How many weary miles Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I Robb, Elizabeth B. 2 poems available by this author POETRY WEEK Poem Text First Line: How fitting that a few short days Last Line: Poured from his heart. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TIGHTENED STRINGS Poem Text First Line: The charm of music's soul - elating voice Last Line: There is no music but on tightened strings. Subject(s): Hearts; Music & Musicians Robbins, Elizabeth J. Clarke 1 poems available by this author HOW TO MARRY A RICH MAN First Line: The trick is disinterest, %to primp in a mirror Last Line: Watching the stars %surround the back of your dress Subject(s): Love - Materialism; Marriage; Men; Wealth Roberts, Elizabeth 8 poems available by this author DISCONSOLATE MORNING First Line: The sparse season, the lean Last Line: Where the sea has left its draft GRANITE HANDS Poem Text First Line: The great granite hands of the mountain Last Line: Strong hands were built for shelter. Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) OCTOBER MORNING First Line: A white calla lilly frightens me OLD LOVE SONG First Line: Oh, my truelove,' is part of it Last Line: I touched it with my spade SERENITY First Line: Let your days be quiet and serene SPRING WOODS Poem Text First Line: I walked in a spring woods Last Line: He starts his work? Subject(s): Forests; Meditation; Woods SUMMER IS ENDED THE CITY LIGHTS Poem Text First Line: I thought the city lights beneath me Last Line: Scattered around my feet. Subject(s): Stars Roberts, Elizabeth Madox Poet's Biography 39 poems available by this author A BEAUTIFUL LADY Poem Text First Line: We like to listen to her dress Last Line: "miss josephine is going by." Subject(s): Beauty; Women AT THE WATER First Line: I liked to go to the branch today AUTUMN Poem Text First Line: Dick and will and charles and I Last Line: And shook his fist in a cornstalk's face. Subject(s): Political Campaigns AUTUMN FIELDS First Line: He said his legs were stiff and sore Last Line: And the land where he had been Subject(s): Autumn; Farm Life; Seasons BIG BROTHER First Line: Our brother clarence goes to school Last Line: To see if we keep on watching him Subject(s): Schools BUTTERBEAN TENT First Line: All through the garden I went and went Last Line: Such a good day it was when I spent %a long, long while in the butterbean tent CHILD ASLEEP First Line: I looked for him everywhere CHRISTMAS MORNING First Line: If bethlehem were here today Last Line: And when I'd tiptoe softly out %I'd meet the wise-men going in Subject(s): Christmas CHRISTMAS MORNING Poem Text First Line: If bethlehem were here today Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The CINDERELLA'S SONG First Line: Oh, little cat beside my stool Last Line: Oh, little cat beside my stool Subject(s): Cinderella; Fairy Tales CIRCUS First Line: Friday came and the circus was there Last Line: But I didn't see him eat Subject(s): Circus CORNFIELD First Line: I went across the pasture lot Last Line: Knows all about the corn and how %it comes together like a fan Subject(s): Corn DAY IS DONE EVENING SONG First Line: I draw my sight in when I sleep Last Line: And wind it round and round with flesh FATHER'S STORY First Line: We put more coal on the big red fire Last Line: To make little dents in his big round face FIREFLY; A SONG Poem Text First Line: A little light is going by Last Line: And made to go on wings. Subject(s): Fireflies; Imagination; Glowworms; Fancy GRANDMOTHER First Line: When grandmother comes to our house HENS First Line: The night was coming very fast Last Line: She pushed her head close into her wing %but nothing answered anything Subject(s): Hens HORSE First Line: His bridle hung around the post IN THE NIGHT First Line: The light was burning very dim Subject(s): Supernatural LITTLE RAIN First Line: When I was making myself a game Last Line: Was up on a little stem waiting there, %and I got some rain in my hair MILKING TIME First Line: When supper time is almost come Last Line: He hands it to me through the fence Subject(s): Cows; Milk MILKING TIME Poem Text First Line: When supper time is almost come Subject(s): Cows; Milk; Milkmen; Milkmaids MR. WELLS First Line: On sunday morning, then he comes Last Line: That mr. Wells is coming in Subject(s): Men MUMPS First Line: I had a feeling in my neck Last Line: And not a one said sour things %to anyone any more Subject(s): Mumps (illness) MY HEART Poem Text First Line: My heart is beating up and down Last Line: And all the lamps are lit. Subject(s): Hearts PEOPLE First Line: The ants are walking under the ground Last Line: And in between are the people PICNIC First Line: They had a picnic in the woods SHELLS IN ROCKS First Line: I've been along the quarry road SKY First Line: I saw a shadow on the ground Subject(s): Sky SONG OF THE DOVE First Line: The dove cries on the tower stones Last Line: Lay a stone on my name STRANGE TREE First Line: Away beyond the jarboe house Last Line: And leaning out to look at me Subject(s): Supernatural THE HENS Poem Text First Line: The night was coming very fast Subject(s): Hens THE RABBIT Poem Text First Line: When they said the time to hide was mine Last Line: And I looked back very hard at him. Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits; Hares UNCLE MELLS AND THE WITCHES TREE First Line: He said was tired and sore all day Subject(s): Supernatural WATER NOISES Poem Text First Line: When I am playing by myself Last Line: "the water say, ""and do you think?" Subject(s): Water WOODCOCK OF THE IVORY BEAK First Line: Bough of the plane tree, where is the clear-beaked bird Last Line: Oh, woodcock of the ivory beak, I came here to see... WOODPECKER First Line: The woodpecker pecked out a little round hole Last Line: And the big, big wheels of thunder roll, %he can snuggle back in the telephone pole Subject(s): Birds; Woodpeckers WORM First Line: Dickie found a broken spade Roberts, Jane Elizabeth Gostwycke 2 poems available by this author IN THE GOLDEN BIRCH Poem Text First Line: How the leaves sing to the wind! Last Line: And the hill-tops own its might! Subject(s): Birch Trees SECRET SONG First Line: Oh snowbird, snowbird! Robinson, Elizabeth 117 poems available by this author AMARYLLIS First Line: Your upwardness would subvert translation, that alone Last Line: The sad %baton buttons its collar. The code is thready and old AND IMPROVISATION ..., FR. SIX SONNETS APERTURE First Line: Now a man rises early to go to work Last Line: To search the leavings %a means to blouse behind him APOLLO First Line: I know the way the funnel works. The fingers rub the lips, fasten to mouth Last Line: Formed in the translation, viscous aftereffect of speaking. %made a registration APRICOT RANCH First Line: Too late at night and precission shrinks Last Line: Honey-colored and mendicant. He is not %migrant since he moves out of necessity ARRAY OF ORTHODOXY First Line: The rush of air was given a nickname; it was possible, yes, necessary Last Line: Tableland remaining stable and tru to law. %every belly inflating fully and, yes, we %agree, needing ASEA First Line: Distant, a spire of the boat's temple %is visible Last Line: Concerned as we'd been for the knots adrift %in the tether AUGUST First Line: Permit me to borrow from you Last Line: That crook %behind me AVERSION TO FRUIT ..., FR. SIX SONNETS BECAUSE I HAVE FEET First Line: Tools, in the morning, wake Last Line: Pronounciation falls and rights itself, %broadens its forehead for grammar and stride BEOWOLF First Line: Drowsiness builds upon itself, leading further to a Last Line: Now arrive the sleeping fires despite any effort at %detainment. Exhalation. Courage. Valor BIG SANCTUARY CARRIED ..., FR. SIX SONNETS BOOK OF APPREHENSION First Line: Aside: %now I speak for myself Last Line: The slow unfolding that covers %his haste BOSTON First Line: Impacts that decline are not enough for me Last Line: But the chain of command disallows this and clear %an alchemical strand. I blow wind toward antiquit BY CONSTERNATION THE HEART ..., FR. SIX SONNETS CALL First Line: A certain woman turns in her sleep Last Line: But she sleeps with her hand at her human mouth, muttering CARRINGTON, SELS: 1. NATURE MORTE First Line: How can you question my decision Last Line: Descended a laving brightness on the bread and water CARRINGTON, SELS: 11. TREACLE PRINTS First Line: The small details, the inkstands, %and the sugar spoon, with arum-lily Last Line: And the gargoyle-sideboard %for what I resume CARRINGTON, SELS: 12. MAKING SIGNS First Line: Irony bites my hand %where I recognize the tooth marks Last Line: And no nourishment there %I avail of myself CARRINGTON, SELS: 14. THE ILEX TREE First Line: We wait for it to come %root bound, %painted over %or endeared by habit Last Line: The fluid medium of duration CARRINGTON,SELS: 13. 'THIS IMAGINARY LIFE OF ROUEE' First Line: She who once issued herself %valentine %was born gladys Last Line: Retracting the given name before it can traduce CIRCLE First Line: I Last Line: Your mild comma %when the entrance caresses %yours %perpetually known COAL First Line: You said that you found my trinkets in the gutters of the city Last Line: You race to the other side of the overpass to watch the debris %move along CREASES First Line: And quilt through recall Last Line: The smell of feathers %pulled up from underneath DAWN: 1 First Line: What you drink, you already have thought Last Line: You mean to release this china cup %to see through it. %you may break your arm %or block remission DAWN: 2 First Line: The bass tone of shadows Last Line: Just break it. %that will bring the messengers DEAR FRIENDS First Line: I, too, lived in the womb of the trees and I do Last Line: There are rubies in this mine %and they fell as scales once.Now they're yours DUST BOWL First Line: This is the smell of youth. To recognize an incline that Last Line: And forsakes and forsakes. Here we sit over a motor charged by the five digits ELECTRICAL THINGS First Line: The comfort of following out the loop. To dream EMITTED ADORATION First Line: Upended the bosom that %the vase made Last Line: But the impasse was blotted out EXCURSION First Line: The boat went, and then it went no more Last Line: Attach like roots and offer hunger %as the manageable tragedy FERRY First Line: Let's begin again. %a storybook %on a raft Last Line: From here to there an antidote FERRY OF NO CHARGE ..., FR. SIX SONNETS FIELD First Line: A certain person %dug not the jaw Last Line: Mouths fall with %rain and embed images FOR KAREN First Line: As a child, I could never sleep Last Line: I say that I am not tires. %I say that the air rushes both ways through the fabric FOR RAIN (1) First Line: Now, with the sequence of falling things FOR RAIN (2) First Line: Nothing protects so well as this porousness Last Line: All that steps swallow %to imprint its steady receipt FORMULA First Line: The idea is that you would dissolve yourself into water Last Line: The solution in a thirsty knot bequeaths FOUNTAIN First Line: Below its floor, mint Last Line: Bed of lists. The membrane %a cluster of white pulls down %round, too hard to toss GESTURE First Line: Clouds overhead Last Line: Whose sparrows posed from a distance Subject(s): Birds; Sparrows GHOSTS First Line: Ghosts' intention %is what we learn Last Line: To scare away any %thorough mortal HANSEL AND GRETEL First Line: Trail strewn with neon crumbs Last Line: To direction is %recognition and ceaselessness HORSESHOE CRAB First Line: My hinges are broken by force of sunlight HOUSE First Line: Figment or insect %serves up admonition Last Line: Roof rising again in feigned dark HOW MY FATHER ARRANGED MY BED First Line: Every night I make my bed I dissolve I AM GOING TO INSPIRE THE LUNGS ..., FR. SIX SONNETS ITS COMPANION First Line: Ties the leaf, %a thread Last Line: Of air %its tie ITS EXCESS First Line: Tea swaying in its cup %and someday %all over Last Line: Fortuitous and extra %our %emphasis JEMANJE First Line: As under sound %the seeming presence Last Line: Giving off %the movement for beacons KNOB First Line: That's how milk would trace the breast of an infertile woman Last Line: The blouse, the blouse, so like the window. %would respond in kind LA COLONIA First Line: You are offered no direction Last Line: In the dim morning's %greater topography LESBIA'S SPARROWS First Line: Often I'm withouth shoes Last Line: Too much with its drab feathers %I'd exclaim in the air LITTLE MATCHGIRL First Line: The fingers were divorced from the hands Last Line: The wicks of the fingers %one from another so far MARCH First Line: Three fish in a cradle hurled Last Line: Gills sent into createdness %the structure of the world MELT First Line: Interchange of grammar hence Last Line: Suddenly so gluttonous where the authorship %switched dominion %pelts and %mantling and rind surroun MESHES First Line: What a mouth has to do with the opening in a door. I hid a Last Line: I scared the other boys. %smoke came out of my nose when I forgot to %exhale through my mouth MEXICAN RAIN First Line: Though it always happens the rain is in the blue hues, purple, green, this was Last Line: And leading us, down the road and on the chase, as though he were shaped like %a man MICA First Line: The rocks have sweet fins NEARINGS First Line: Call out the first name Last Line: Then it went away in the color NEW LANGUAGE First Line: Given the limitation of trees, what if each Last Line: This clothes a bare arm while leaves fall and fall NEW TENANTS First Line: A sparse accomodation I would know Last Line: Can alter my portal which these walls now claim as theirs NIGHT First Line: They are or were %a brigade of hobgoblins, crooks, %-the paupers Last Line: Broke down and wept each year %on the anniversary of his narrative NIGHTWORKS First Line: What I was I should refute Last Line: At its stub as it's perfumed me NORTE First Line: The inside of cactus is damp Last Line: There is no story. There is no transformation NOVEMBER First Line: I didn't know what nation I was in OSTRACAS First Line: Now I make memory on pieces of cup Last Line: By general concurrence angels %which wove better clay %for temperature %overwritten on white garb PANOPLY First Line: You can sit here Last Line: Set in the woods, that %house, that flight PASSAGE First Line: Something falls from the heavens, the sky, the cloudburst itself Last Line: Because salvation is simply an exchange of names PENARTH PIER First Line: This sums up the difference between 'ocean' and 'sea' PENDANT First Line: Catching a glimpse of his afterness Last Line: Mother's torah %omits prologue PLAINT First Line: Knees, after all, what Last Line: Invert this, its plaint, plaint %submersion PROPERTIES First Line: I may be simple Last Line: There is no way to make apparent RAIL First Line: A leaf blows past the window, puppetlike. Wash back the water with juice Last Line: The slick front steps that manipulate my baseness RESURRECTION Poem Text First Line: Come to me, my beloved Last Line: Save the plaint of a leaf in the tree. Subject(s): Love; Past; Trees RETURN First Line: One %who would be you %brought hand over hand Last Line: I began to hover in your name %at its midpoint ROSES First Line: There's a fullness in the dirt where the garden SALISBURY PLAIN First Line: Bones in a sand cliff. So I could say frigidity prevails Last Line: Quick movements through the floodlight that washed the close SAO BENTO First Line: Was it a criss ir a flower Last Line: Feed them. Would you like to see %a weighing? SAUDADE First Line: On its face there is Last Line: Snap %of the cabinet %if edible %its seal broken SCARECROW First Line: It's the bridge your reach remembers and not migratory Last Line: A rowboat against that flow, that serious, that golden, that%down blanket SHATTER First Line: Some marring in the glass of the body Last Line: Now in the childish field %the collar simply slackens SHOWER First Line: The smallest ideas become perceptible Last Line: And what that washes up to Subject(s): Sleep SITE LEGEND First Line: After %all the effort Last Line: The arm that points, here, %is not habitual but genuine SIX PIECES First Line: Someone is making food somewhere Last Line: Whe has nothing to say %her broad shoulders %shrink into your sternum SLEEP: 1 First Line: Was he watching her sleep? She did not know it. It was not Last Line: If he could lift the water he would pour it over the body, but is %hurts those %moving hands SLEEP: 2 First Line: Now I promise you that I will come back. I will penetrate that Last Line: Hold your breath. There is a kiss in me which is clean and patient. %believing it has the body, prec SLEEPTALK First Line: In your sleep, you talk Last Line: That you are which you are SLOPE First Line: These few queries Last Line: At its leaving off point SONNET First Line: I wake up each half hour. The child-self looks through a screen Last Line: From night is night, child, what you've folded back absently, and made welcome again STRING: I First Line: In a dream, I fly. It seems that it is a wedding, the openi Last Line: The feeling of flight is always preceded by a feeling of %warmth on the inner surfaces of the hands STRING: II First Line: Sometimes when I wake up from this dream, I consider my han Last Line: I consider my hands. %their smell is not human. It is papery, slightly sweet STRING: III First Line: When I wake up, it's the cold tooth in the socket. The sing Last Line: But %misses and scratches his eye. Now it's morning and everything %subsides STRING: IV First Line: Randomly, god pulls the string out of the hole, propelling t Last Line: Struggling toward the bathroom, still drowsy. And %thereby saves the tooth. Coils the twine into the STRING: IX First Line: In the end, you know this tooth does not incise anything. It Last Line: That's like a man dreaming that he has the longest penis in the world.' STRING: V First Line: While she moves toward the sink, her arm considers turning o Last Line: It's a gray counter and these legs are orange, are well-defined and %muscular, and poised bodiless m STRING: VI First Line: What does he wait for while he sits there? He should realize Last Line: He's preening the fiber of arm and leg. He goes nowhere, %soft, stable, the gray dwarfed man who com STRING: VII First Line: The only things lit up at night in this country are church m Last Line: No god, no peace. %know god, know peace. %god's word is soul food STRING: VIII First Line: During the drive home, in the dark, she sits in the back sea Last Line: She sits in the back seat sullenly %and eats the webbing out from between her fingers and toes STRING: X First Line: He laughed at the slogans, too, but knows better. At the to Last Line: And says that I want to get married. %no, it was a matter of warmth and patience, held over the tree STRING: XI First Line: Now clap. And she, well, she jumped in undefended. The membr Last Line: The membrane %was gone which waited for the line to pull the door open TENETS OF ROOTS AND TROUBLE First Line: This begins the chapter pronounced 'creation' Last Line: Tooth %pushing up through the gums TERM First Line: House %hung by a blue string Last Line: Flattening more perfectly %in its service THEM First Line: The wind knocks a concise nest Last Line: To the lost message shushing the plain THREE DRAGONS: AMPHISBAENA First Line: How could you know yourself without your Last Line: By habitations of the sewer THREE DRAGONS: FIREDRAKE First Line: You are made in anti-alphabetical order Last Line: You understand, that will not err %and cannot forgive THREE DRAGONS: WYVERN First Line: Your claim %slips. Say it goes from wolf Last Line: Gut, hands at pivot of clock %purely, and truceless THREE ICONS First Line: The city of your furnishings Last Line: And immature, worried faces THREE LITTLE First Line: A chimney turns gravity to creature Last Line: We could not welcome you otherwise TO RE S/VOLVE First Line: Traveling through the %desert %in a silent vehicle Last Line: I feel a divine %jealousy for you' TOPPLE First Line: In seven minutes the sky will fall Last Line: Is what it regrets TREASURE CHEST First Line: Surprisingly, it is %small Last Line: On one side or the other TREE, FOREST First Line: I put water through a sieve, too Last Line: I saw through the pinkness of the strait TWO COMPANIONS First Line: Now, to annul %is to reverberate Last Line: Because of its indebted vow WHEN THAT First Line: That was a stranger Last Line: Pouring oil on a stone pillow WHITE HOUSE First Line: Then a fleshy film covers the roadway Last Line: This is what transports me at night as though to pray for forgiveness WHOSE MONSTER'S NOISE AND WEATHER First Line: From what language does this beast extend Last Line: Vomited it up to great %effect WORDS FOR THE HEELLESS First Line: Warning %this is the contour Last Line: Covenanted %sleepless %eye %on this Rodger, Sarah-elizabeth 1 poems available by this author AND IF I CRY RELEASE First Line: The thought of you is spray against my face Rodhouse, Mary Elizabeth 2 poems available by this author OFF TO THE COUNTRY First Line: We're off to the country, - one, two, three TO A TUFTED TITMOUSE First Line: Ho, little bird with the crest and air Roll, Elizabeth J. 1 poems available by this author ORANGE First Line: I remember the way Rose, Elizabeth+(1) 1 poems available by this author COUNTERPOINT First Line: Now let the mind rest Rose, Elizabeth+(2) 2 poems available by this author PRESENT TENSES First Line: Come unto me %in the twilight of the evening Last Line: But we only spoke in present tenses %and tomorrow is on the rise Subject(s): Teaching And Teachers WHEN CLAY TREASURES TRAVEL First Line: Surrounded %by clay and silver and turquoise Last Line: Destined for maine-- %far from the dancing grounds %of the sun Subject(s): Teaching And Teachers Rosner, Elizabeth 5 poems available by this author FINDING A HOME FOR MY BODY IN THE WORLD First Line: If only you didn't have such short thighs Last Line: In the forgiveness of water, I exhale the lines that unmade me IN THE MARGINS First Line: I am listening to dust: your letters Last Line: Forget me. It's a small request SONG OF MY MOTHER First Line: You're descending again Last Line: And cannot be filled SOUVENIRS First Line: My father is a chocolate hoarder Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SWIMMING LESSONS First Line: First there was putting my Last Line: The child who willingly submerged %in transparent arms Rounsevell, Elizabeth Phelps 1 poems available by this author ENCOURAGEMENT Poem Text First Line: I am so tired!' I cried Last Line: But you and I will know. Subject(s): Strength; Weariness; Fatigue Rowe, Elizabeth Singer Poet's Biography 21 poems available by this author A HYMN Poem Text First Line: In vain the dusky night retires Last Line: A near approach to thee? A LAPLANDER'S SONG TO HIS MISTRESS Poem Text First Line: Shine out, resplendent god of day Last Line: To seize my orramoor. Subject(s): Lapland; Love BRIGHT OFFERINGS FROM SHEPHERDS First Line: A snowy lamb I've bred, so full of play DESPAIR Poem Text First Line: Oh! Lead me to some solitary gloom Last Line: And to the grave's dark solitude retire. EXPOSTULATION Poem Text First Line: How long, great god, a wretched captive here Last Line: Unthinking sots: kind heaven let me be gone, %I'm tired, I'm sick of this dull farce's repetition HYMN Poem Text First Line: The glorious armies of the sky Last Line: Than cease from praising thee! HYMN OF THE THREE EASTERN MAGI, ADORING OUR SAVIOUR First Line: From those blessed regions where the sun displays Subject(s): Magi PARAPHRASE ON THE CANTICLES, SELS. First Line: What charming voice is that salutes my ear? Last Line: Come forth, my dove, my charming innocence; %how canst thou fear, while I am thy defence? PARAPHRASE ON THE CANTICLES: BLUSHING First Line: At thy approach, my cheek with blushes grow Last Line: And thorns to them I sooner would compare %than other beauties to my darling fair PARAPHRASE ON THE CANTICLES: DAUGHTERS OF JERUSALEM First Line: What thy beloved is, we first would know Last Line: What charms unequalled in him dost thou see, %impatient fair! To raise these storms in thee? PARAPHRASE ON THE CANTICLES: FRUITFUL TREE First Line: And I as soon would rank a fruitful tree Last Line: And now I charge you, virgins, not to make %the least disturbance, till my love awake PARAPHRASE ON THE CANTICLES: SPITEFUL FOXES First Line: Do thou the spiteful foxes then destroy Last Line: Turn my beloved, turn again; and thy %dear sight shall make the lazy moments fly PARAPHRASE ON THE CANTICLES: SPOUSA First Line: Commencing all perfection, he is such Last Line: He's altogether-lovely, this is he, %now, virgins! Pity, though you envy me PARAPHRASE ON THE CANTICLES: THE BRIDEGROOM First Line: Though all the lower world should ransacked be Last Line: I'll on the hills of frankincense reside, %and pass the time with thee my charming bride SERAPHS IN HEAVEN First Line: To those blest shades, and amaratine bow'rs TO A VERY YOUNG GENTLEMAN AT A DANCING-SCHOOL First Line: So when the queen of love rose from the seas TO CELINDA First Line: I can't, celinda, say, I love Last Line: The treacherous and deluding arts, %of those base things called men TO MADAM S---AT THE COURT Poem Text First Line: Come, prethee, leave the courts Last Line: Can here procure for thee. Subject(s): Country Life TO ONE THAT PERSUADES ME TO LEAVE THE MUSES, SELS. TO ORESETES First Line: To vex the soul with these unjust alarms Last Line: With downcast eyes as languishing an air, %the emblem of lovbe, and of despair UPON THE DEATH OF HER HUSBAND Poem Text First Line: In what soft language shall my thoughts get free Last Line: My spotless faith shall be for ever thine. Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives Russell, Elizabeth (cooke) 2 poems available by this author ELEGY First Line: How was I startled at the cruel feast Last Line: He made no flatt'ring parasite his guest, %but ask'd the good companions to the feast RIGHT NOBLE TWICE, BY VIRTUE AND BY BIRTH Last Line: Lord russel once, now my tears' thirsty clay Sagaser, Elizabeth Harris 9 poems available by this author CERTAINTY ON NAPLES ROAD: WATCHING HIM SLEEP First Line: She would nevr leave the man Last Line: Stay away from him, death. %you stay away COMING ROUND First Line: Though she will voice profound and tender reasons Last Line: Thirsting for tea he once brought - assam bop - %a clarinet riff surging about her knes I WILL First Line: It's the death of your memory I still Last Line: Flings us far and wingless away LIVING OFF THE LAND First Line: Through infidelities - dense at scottish woods Last Line: In september, lovers eating lobster, %a new sweater, the throubbing, radiant trees LOVE WITHOUT POEMS First Line: The last lover makes love when one is gone Last Line: This altar is alone in a mortal wood, unwatched, %for better or worse - until we die - our own OCTOBER First Line: Surging, rhymeless, the old flames Last Line: Sugar hard in veins %of leaves ONE OF YOUR BIRTHDAYS First Line: You come into yourself with ease, as if Last Line: Streaming into yet another person's life: %'it's me!' you cry, ghostless, childless SOMETIMES First Line: It happened yesterday: I go back Last Line: Our great good luck TALKING ABOUT NEW HAMPSHIRE First Line: Now a hundred times you've heard Last Line: That jet-red lovers' coal %that melts the snow Sampson, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author AMERICAN EAGLE First Line: Son of the sky, whose deed has thrilled Last Line: We only know that we all want so much to live! Subject(s): Lindbergh, Charles Augustus (1902-1974) Sanderson, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author THE LAST WORD Poem Text First Line: Life is a boat that is drifting Last Line: When the tide turns. Sands, Elizabeth Haynes 7 poems available by this author AFTERNOON Poem Text First Line: Out of the dust of yesterday Last Line: And bitter, burning tears. Subject(s): Afternoon; Sea; Tears; Youth; Ocean BEACHCOMBER Poem Text First Line: Far below the rim of the world Last Line: That bends its crooked arms to the sea? Subject(s): Beachcombers DEFINITION Poem Text First Line: A sudden closing of the eyes Last Line: It's called by someone, passing, by another, death. Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Faces; Silence; Dead, The NEW JOURNEYING First Line: Well,' said the old man POND STREET Poem Text First Line: The trees are high over pond street Last Line: A leisurely minute ... Subject(s): Peace; Travel; Journeys; Trips TANKA Poem Text First Line: The beech leaves falling Last Line: Of withered palsied fingers. Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Leaves; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The WHITE FOG Poem Text First Line: Spreading ever outward with curved fingers Last Line: Through the ether. Subject(s): Fog; Silence; Haze Sangster, Margaret Elizabeth Munson Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. 204 poems available by this author A CHRISTMAS THOUGHT Poem Text First Line: The sweetest gift the father's love Last Line: That thrilled the bethlehem way. Subject(s): Christmas; Gifts & Giving; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary A CLUSTER OF ROSES TO A FRIEND Poem Text First Line: Roses, beautiful roses Last Line: Be the gifts of his matchless love. Subject(s): Flowers; Friendship; Love; Roses A COQUETTE Poem Text First Line: I am never in doubt of her goodness Last Line: Whose birthdays are three, when all told. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Hearts; Love; Romance; Spring A DREAM Poem Text First Line: Some perfect day I shall not need Last Line: Only that I have fallen asleep. Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares A GARDEN OF SPICES Poem Text First Line: All odors sweet of spice and balm Last Line: That we, dear lord, are thine. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love A HAPPY NEW YEAR Poem Text First Line: All robed in ethereal whiteness Last Line: Look forth on a happy new year. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year A LOST PEARL Poem Text First Line: I do not know where I lost it Last Line: To my heart the lost heart of my friend. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Hearts; Love; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement A MAPLE LEAF Poem Text First Line: So bright in death I used to say Last Line: The gold and scarlet of the sun. Subject(s): Death; Old Age; Dead, The A MASQUERADE Poem Text First Line: A little old woman before me Last Line: "that I was ninety-nine." Subject(s): Masquerades; Mothers & Daughters; Old Age A NEW DAY Poem Text First Line: As if already pulsed in every part Last Line: For childhood's joy, for dreams and hopes and fears. Subject(s): Day; Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life A RAINY DAY Poem Text First Line: All day, against the window pane Last Line: For days clear shining after rain. Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Mothers; Pain; Tears; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery A SEAFOG Poem Text First Line: Up from the sea came a chill gray mist Last Line: As it bows to its gracious king. Subject(s): Death; Fog; Grief; Praise; Soul; Dead, The; Haze; Sorrow; Sadness A SONG OF THE BURDEN BEARER Poem Text First Line: Over the narrow footpath Last Line: To breathe to his will, amen. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Prayer; Worship A SUMMER MORNING Poem Text First Line: One set apart in days of old Last Line: Who worships in the morning gates. Subject(s): Summer A THANKSGIVING FEAST Poem Text First Line: We two are the last my daughter! Last Line: Will be here thanksgiving day. Subject(s): Feasts; Food & Eating; Gratitude; Holidays; Thanksgiving Day; Turkey A THOUGHT Poem Text First Line: Seen by memory's magic Last Line: Slightly prized to-day. Subject(s): Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Religion; Theology A TWILIGHT MEMORY Poem Text First Line: At fall of night, when shadows gray Last Line: I dwell a safe and happy child. Subject(s): Memory A VANISHED HOPE Poem Text First Line: Sweet with the scents of the summer Last Line: Her firstborn out of her sight! Subject(s): Hope; Optimism A VESPER SONG Poem Text First Line: The clouds of the sunset, fold on fold Last Line: Perhaps to some one lost in the dark. Subject(s): Hymns (as Literary Form); Melodies; Praise; Singing & Singers A WAY-SIDE GRAVE Poem Text First Line: Our upland journey wound its way Last Line: Was golden glimmering with may. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Crosses; Death; Graves; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones A WINTER SUNSET Poem Text First Line: A wonderful glory of color Last Line: Will guerdon thy trusting heart. Subject(s): Evening; Winter; Sunset; Twilight ABRAHAM LINCOLN First Line: Child of the boundless prairie, son of the virgin soil Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States AN AUTUMN DAY Poem Text First Line: Like a jewel, golden-rimmed Last Line: Dreams its happy life away. Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Seasons; Fall AN EASTER IDYL Poem Text First Line: Many a year the easter came, laughing o'er / land and sea Last Line: And even in sorrow's exile may lift up her eyes and be blessed. Subject(s): Catholic Church - Clergy; Easter; Holidays; Love; Prayer; Catholic Priests; The Resurrection AN EASTER SONG Poem Text First Line: The golden sun climbs up the sky Last Line: God sends thee easter day! Subject(s): Catholics; Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Prayer; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; The Resurrection AN EVENING REVERIE Poem Text First Line: Since climbed the trembling light of dawn far up the / eastern stairs Last Line: "nor, for my little thought of thee, take thou thy thoughts away!" Subject(s): God; Jesus Christ; Peace; Prayer ANGELS Poem Text First Line: In the old days god sent his angels oft Last Line: God bless you all, our angels unaware! Subject(s): Angels; Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise APPLE BLOSSOMS Poem Text First Line: All day in the green, sunny orchard Last Line: The while that he dreamily spoke. Subject(s): Apple Trees; Farm Life; Forests; Fruit; Harvest; Spring; Trees; Agriculture; Farmers; Woods ARE THE CHILDREN AT HOME? Poem Text First Line: Each day, when the glow of sunset Last Line: "yes, dear! They are all at home!" Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Death - Babies ASHES OF ROSES Poem Text First Line: Friend, in whose eyes I looked to-day Last Line: Shall we complain, such gems who bear? Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses AT THE OLD FARM Poem Text First Line: Yes, 't is true. The blinds are closed, and the front Last Line: "that, before he went, he spoke to the ""dear wife"" tenderly." Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love AT THE PARTING OF THE WAYS Poem Text First Line: Go forth in thy turn,' said the lord of Last Line: And the angels in heaven heard him, and lifted a paean of praise. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year AUTUMN DAYS Poem Text First Line: Into the cup of our life to-day Last Line: Thank him from strand to strand. Subject(s): Autumn; God; Gratitude; Harvest; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN PLOUGHING Poem Text First Line: More than the beauty of summer Last Line: Though his ploughshare lay me low. Subject(s): Farm Life; Fruit; Growth; Harvest; Agriculture; Farmers AVERAGE MAN First Line: When it comes to a question of trusting Subject(s): Hope AWAKENING Poem Text First Line: Never yet was a springtime Last Line: The song! The green and the gold! BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: A plaintive monotone of pain Last Line: Whose royal work shall ever live. Subject(s): Taylor, Bayard (1825-1878) BEFORE THE FROST Poem Text First Line: There's a little pause of waiting, in the time that / falls between Last Line: Let us raise our psalms majestic, let us tell his praise abroad! Subject(s): Frost BEFORE THE LEAVES FALL Poem Text First Line: I wonder if oak and maple Last Line: May come through the ripening frost. Subject(s): Leaves; Nature BESIDE THE BARS Poem Text First Line: Grandmother's knitting has lost its charm Last Line: For the two who linger beside the bars. Subject(s): Death; God; Grandparents; Love - Loss Of; Old Age; Prayer; Dead, The; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers BIT OF THE BOOK IN THE MORNING Last Line: To hallow the end of the day Subject(s): Religion BITTER-SWEET Poem Text First Line: Whence that fragrant name of thine Last Line: And our lips uplift a song. Subject(s): Life BON VOYAGE! Poem Text First Line: To eastern lands, far-famed in song and / story Last Line: And bring you home—the pilgrim journey through. Subject(s): Friendship; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sea Voyages CAMP ECHOES Poem Text First Line: Rally round the flag, boys! Give it to / the breeze!' Last Line: Then wrap the flag about us in the bed where last we lie. Subject(s): Camp-meetings; Flags; Military Recruitment; Patriotism; Soldiers; War CASTING THE FIRST VOTE Poem Text First Line: From mountain homes engirdled Last Line: And truth's brave deeds are wrought. Subject(s): Freedom; Marching & Marches; Patriotism; War; Youth; Liberty CHILDREN'S SLUMBER SONG Poem Text First Line: All the lambs in all the folds are sleeping by their / mothers Last Line: The happy messengers have lulled each darling house-hold band. Subject(s): Angels; Children; Childhood CHRISTMAS Poem Text First Line: We love to think of bethlehem Last Line: Comes yet on christmas day. Subject(s): Babies; Bethlehem, Palestine; Birth; Children; Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery; Childhood; Nativity, The CHRISTMAS DAY Poem Text First Line: Of all dear days is christmas day Last Line: In all the winds that blow. Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Children; Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Peace; Childhood; Nativity, The CHRISTMAS IN THE NORTH First Line: Far up in the northern country CHRISTMAS-TIDE Poem Text First Line: At christmas-tide the fields are bare Last Line: That love is heaven and christ is king. Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The CHRYSANTHEMUMS Poem Text First Line: When the last red leaves are shining in the rich / october sun Last Line: And the fury of the tempest whirl athwart the darkening day. Subject(s): Chrysanthemums; Flowers COMFORT ONE ANOTHER Poem Text First Line: Comfort one another; / for the way is growing dreary Last Line: But the presence of the lord, and for all his people room. Subject(s): Caregivers; Comfort; Love; Sympathy; Empathy CONVALESCENT Poem Text First Line: The fever went at the turn of the night Last Line: And we, we just thank god. Subject(s): Convalescence DAY BY DAY Poem Text First Line: With staff and shoon I journey Last Line: Fares onward day by day? Subject(s): Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Travel; Journeys; Trips DEAR LITTLE HEADS IN THE PEW First Line: In the morn of the holy sabbath DINNA BIDE AWA DINNA CHIDE Poem Text First Line: Ah! Dinna chide the mither! Last Line: Ye may na hae her lang! Subject(s): Babies; Hearts; Sickness; Infants; Illness DON Poem Text First Line: Black as a crow, with a satin sheen Last Line: The master you carried at gettysburg. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Old Age EASTER BELLS Poem Text First Line: Chime, solemn bells of easter! Last Line: And soothe earth's sad unrest. Subject(s): Catholic Church - Clergy; Easter; Holidays; Immortality; Catholic Priests; The Resurrection EASTER CHORDS Poem Text First Line: Christ the lord is risen to-day! Last Line: And earth and heaven together meet in ecstasies of glory. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; The Resurrection EASTER FLOWERS Poem Text First Line: Blooming to garland easter Last Line: To deck our king's highway. Subject(s): Easter; Flowers; Holidays; Jesus Christ; The Resurrection EDITH'S LESSON First Line: Out in the meadow the scented breeze ELIZABETH, AGED NINE' First Line: Out of the way in a corner ERIC'S FUNERAL Poem Text First Line: Tired? Yes, a little, I believe. I'm not so very / strong Last Line: But are like unto the angels in god's house, which is heaven. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Funerals; Dead, The; Burials EVEN SO, COME' First Line: Come, lord jesus! FAITH First Line: God knows, not I, the reason why Last Line: My days and ways, so I am free Subject(s): Religion FOLDED HANDS Poem Text First Line: Pale, withered hands that more than four- / score years Last Line: So dwells the mother in the best of lands. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Prayer; Dead, The; Paradise FOLLOW ME Poem Text First Line: Master and servant, through the storm and sleet Last Line: "step after step, my feet make prints for thee." Subject(s): God; Hearts; Love FROM NAZARETH First Line: Comes any good from nazareth GARDENS Poem Text First Line: The wide, fair gardens, the rich, lush gardens Last Line: "where we kissed the mother and said ""good-night." Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Lilies; Love; Poppies GETHSEMANE Poem Text First Line: The dew lay thick on thorn and flower Last Line: "thy sleepless friend will watch with thee!" Subject(s): Gethsemane GOD'S WAY Poem Text First Line: Our way had been to smooth her upward / road Last Line: God's way is best, and praise our god to-day. Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology GOOD WORLD AFTER ALL First Line: Though sharp may be our trouble Subject(s): Hope GOOD-FRIDAY Poem Text First Line: Be hushed, my heart, remembering Last Line: Full paid on calvary. Subject(s): Calvary; Catholic Church - Clergy; Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Jesus Christ; Catholic Priests GOOD-NIGHT Poem Text First Line: Good-night, sweet year, that brought to me Last Line: And all the shadows flee away. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year GROWING OLD Poem Text First Line: Is it parting with the roundness Last Line: Walk, by way of growing old. Subject(s): Evening; Old Age; Sunset; Twilight HARVEST Poem Text First Line: Spring hath the morning gladness Last Line: With the peace of god is blest. Subject(s): Children; Harvest; Mothers; Spring; Childhood HER LETTER Poem Text First Line: She has written her little letter Last Line: When she had a half-hour free. Subject(s): Letters; Writing & Writers HITHERTO Poem Text First Line: To bluest skies that arch the way Last Line: Have helped and cheered me hitherto. Subject(s): God; Gratitude; Prayer HOLLY AND PINE Poem Text First Line: When christmas comes with mirth and cheer Last Line: When again the christmas angels come. Subject(s): Children; Christmas Trees; Gifts & Giving; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Public Worship; Childhood; Church Attendance ICE-CROWNED Poem Text First Line: Glancing in armor of crystal Last Line: Into what peace are ye borne! Subject(s): Grief; Memory; Peace; Sorrow; Sadness IF CHRIST WERE HERE TO-NIGHT, AND SAW ME TIRED Last Line: And heaven will be of thy rich life a part Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Religion IN AN UPPER ROOM Poem Text First Line: Within an upper chamber Last Line: Abides the lord we love. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Love; Peace; Prayer IN BETHLEHEM Poem Text First Line: Come back to-day to bethlehem Last Line: Where yet the angels are! Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Stars; Nativity, The IN COMMON DAYS Poem Text First Line: In days supreme, of fond delight Last Line: Then most we need the strength of prayer. Subject(s): Prayer IN GALILEE Poem Text First Line: The master walked in galilee Last Line: Abiding oft in galilee. Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Galilee, Palestine; Jesus Christ; Love; Disciples, Twelve IN MY NEIGHBOR'S GARDEN Poem Text First Line: In the bound of mine own enclosure Last Line: Might seem the best to me. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Beauty; Bible; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Roses IN THE KING'S BANQUETING HOUSE Poem Text First Line: I walk on my way with the others, I toil at my daily / task Last Line: He calls me in to the banquet, and what can I do but obey? Subject(s): Contentment; Love IN THE SHADOW Poem Text First Line: We walk within the shadow, and we feel its Last Line: But the shadow fades at dawning, and the east is flecked with gold. Subject(s): Echoes; Memory; Rest; Shadows INFELIX Poem Text First Line: Who, gazing on thy cradle sleep Last Line: And thine own mother comfort thee. Subject(s): Angels; Babies; Comfort; Mothers; Infants IRENE First Line: In sweetest blush of maiden bloom JESUS WENT BEFORE Poem Text First Line: Their faces to jerusalem Last Line: "our master went before!" Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Jesus Christ; Disciples, Twelve JOINT HEIRS Poem Text First Line: There came a precious meaning Last Line: By saints and angels heard. Subject(s): Heaven; Jesus Christ; Praise; Prayer; Paradise KNIGHT AND LADY Poem Text First Line: He lifted his hand to his plumed chapean Last Line: Gave token of wounds which had left their scars. Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood LILIES Poem Text First Line: The lilies, ah, the lilies! Last Line: A lilied beauty bring. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Lilies LITTLE VAGABOND First Line: Now who may this be?' I questioned LOVE'S KINGDOM Poem Text First Line: You see no pomp of circumstance Last Line: And I am royal there. Subject(s): Love; Praise LOVE-LORN Poem Text First Line: In her cage by my window swings a bird Last Line: The strain of the singer, her mate, that died. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness MANNA Poem Text First Line: Twas in the night the manna fell Last Line: Enough. Dear lord, what want we more? Subject(s): Blessings; Food & Eating; God; Hunger MARTYRS Poem Text First Line: My child, whose soul is like a flame Last Line: Because no night is there. Subject(s): Children; Martyrs; Childhood MARY First Line: She walked among the lilies Subject(s): Easter; Holidays MERCEDES Poem Text First Line: O loveliest lily, severed from the stem Last Line: But love has borne her to the upper sky. Subject(s): Death; Love; Dead, The MERCHANTMEN Poem Text First Line: Long ago I stood by the sea Last Line: The fated ship that I loved so well. Subject(s): Merchants; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping MIDNIGHT First Line: God help the homeless ones who lack this night Last Line: God of our fathers, we thy children lie Subject(s): Religion MISS LUCINDA'S OPINION Poem Text First Line: But why do I keep thanksgiving? Last Line: And I'd not change place with a queen. Subject(s): Gratitude; Holidays; Home; Thanksgiving MOTH-EATEN Poem Text First Line: I had a beautiful garment Last Line: The moth with its blighting steals. Subject(s): Moths MOTHER'S WORK Poem Text First Line: Dear patient woman, o'er your children bending Last Line: That yours is not a hushed and empty nest. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood MOTHER-COMFORT Poem Text First Line: Friend, upon whose golden tresses Last Line: Such sweet blessing from the throne? Subject(s): Comfort; Love; Mothers MY HEART WAS COMFORTED First Line: One came and told me suddenly Subject(s): Friendship MY LORD AND MY GOD' First Line: Twas evening and the doors were shut MY PRIMROSE Poem Text First Line: My little primrose, gentle flower Last Line: But we are happy through it all. Subject(s): Primroses NEW-MOWN HAY Poem Text First Line: Sweet, oh sweet, from the fields to-day Last Line: Of hours in grateful trusting spent. Subject(s): Mothers; Old Age NOT READY Poem Text First Line: Out of our pain and struggle Last Line: The goodness which brims the days! Subject(s): Altars; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Religious Education; Worship; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools NOW AND THEN First Line: There were hours when life was bitter Last Line: And the lord can make them anywhere, %his 'desert place apatr' Subject(s): Religion OCTOBER Poem Text First Line: We are drinking the wine of the ages Last Line: Is an angel at the door. Subject(s): Autumn; October; Seasons; Fall OH, FACE TO FACE WITH TROUBLE Poem Text Last Line: That god will do the rest. Subject(s): God ONE STEP AT A TIME Poem Text First Line: There's a mine of comfort for you and me Last Line: A single step at a time. Subject(s): Faith; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Prayer; Roads; Travel; Belief; Creed; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips OUR FATHER'S WORLD Subject(s): Religion OUR LOST Poem Text First Line: They never quite leave us, our friends who have passed Last Line: But they live, like ourselves, in god's infinite care. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Heaven; Loss; Dead, The; Paradise OUR MISSIONARIES First Line: Forget them not, o christ, who stand Subject(s): Prayer OUR OWN Poem Text First Line: If I had known in the morning Last Line: To undo the work of the morn! OVERCOMETH! First Line: To him that overcometh PASTURE LANDS Poem Text First Line: Green pastures,' said the psalmist Last Line: And bend me at his feet. Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas PATIENCE WITH THE LIVING Poem Text First Line: Sweet friend, when you and I are gone Last Line: Be patient with the living. PEACE Poem Text First Line: They all shall pass: the radiant days Last Line: O god, our home, our peace in thee. Subject(s): Religion; Theology PEACE First Line: My peace,' the peace of the lord most high Last Line: Be this our joy if we go or stay Subject(s): Religion PILGRIMS Poem Text First Line: There's but the meagre crust, love Last Line: And pain is for a day. Subject(s): Love; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims POND-LILIES Poem Text First Line: In early morning, when the air Last Line: The brooding haze, the trembling flush. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies SABBATH DAY Poem Text First Line: A little aside from the sweep and whirl Last Line: Are cordial and help to my spirit yet. Subject(s): Prayer; Sabbath; Sunday SNOWDROP AND CROCUS Poem Text First Line: Long were the wintry days and cold Last Line: No wonder earth is glad to-day. Subject(s): Snow; Winter SONG FOR OUR FLAG First Line: A bit of color against the blue SONG OF SUMMER First Line: The ships glide in at the harbor's mouth ST. MARTIN AND THE BEGGAR Poem Text First Line: In the freezing cold and the blinding snow Last Line: Soldier and servant and knight of christ. Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Jesus Christ STRAWBERRY TIME Poem Text First Line: When the strawberry, ripening, blushes Last Line: From fields where the berries are thick. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Fruit; Harvest; Labor & Laborers; Strawberries; Work; Workers SUMMER FRUITS Poem Text First Line: When scarlet strawberries first were seen Last Line: "chant ""praise the lord, for he is good." Subject(s): Forests; Fruit; Nature; Strawberries; Woods SUNRISE First Line: Though the midnight found us weary Last Line: In the circuit of the year Subject(s): Religion TE DEUM LANDAMUS Poem Text First Line: We praise thee! We bless thee! Last Line: Who takes our sins away. Subject(s): Praise THANKSGIVING Poem Text First Line: What time the latest flower hath bloomed Last Line: "and end it with, ""thy will be done." Subject(s): Religion; Theology THANKSGIVING First Line: For all true words that have been spoken Last Line: We give thee praise for all, for all Subject(s): Religion THE ABSENT BOY Poem Text First Line: They miss him in the orchard, where the fruit is sunning over Last Line: For somewhere in the thick of strife they know their boy is there Subject(s): Absence; Army - United States; Unknown Soldier; War; Separation; Isolation THE ACADEMY BELL Poem Text First Line: The rich air is sweet with the breath of september Last Line: Of the never-forgotten academy bell. Subject(s): Bells; Happiness; Joy; Delight THE AMBULANCE Poem Text First Line: I never see in our bustling town Last Line: For a breath of heaven in the darkest day. Subject(s): Accidents; Ambulances; Healing; Hospitals; Red Cross; Sickness; Cures; Illness THE ARGIVE MOTHER Poem Text First Line: On the terse heroic pages Last Line: Have no patience in our prayer! Subject(s): Juno (goddess); Mothers; Women - Heroes THE BETTER LIFE Poem Text First Line: From silken cords of earth's delight Last Line: The winds of heaven blow. Subject(s): Future Life; Prayer Meetings; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE BLOOM OF THE CACTUS Poem Text First Line: Rare splendor of scarlet in royalest fashion Last Line: So blooms my rich flower in the sun's golden shine. Subject(s): Flowers; Love THE BUILDING OF THE NEST Poem Text First Line: They'll come again to the apple-tree Last Line: Your fairy building grow. Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Mothers; Weavers And Weaving THE CHRISTMAS ANGELS Poem Text First Line: Again, as of old, the shadows fold, and the Last Line: Children yet. Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Christmas Carols; Jesus Christ; Love; Worship; Childhood; Nativity, The THE CHRISTMAS BALL; SUGGESTED BY A PICTURE Poem Text First Line: Scintillant stars in the sky's blue height Last Line: And the dancers meet at the christmas ball. Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Carols; Gifts & Giving; Happiness; Holidays; Santa Claus; Nativity, The; Joy; Delight; Nicholas, Saint THE CURTAIN FALLS Poem Text First Line: Over the sorrow and over the bliss Last Line: Silently downward the curtain falls. Subject(s): Healing; Holidays; New Year; Cures THE DAYS WHEN NOTHING HAPPENS Poem Text First Line: For the days when nothing happens Last Line: Praises this thanksgiving day. Subject(s): Gratitude; Holidays; Thanksgiving Day; Turkey THE DEAREST ONE Poem Text First Line: Oh! Which of all my dearest dear is most / my very own? Last Line: Whose want and weakness are his prayer, and without word can plead. Subject(s): Altars; Jesus Christ; Love; Prayer THE EDELWEISS Poem Text First Line: Far up on sternest alpine crests Last Line: And find faith's edelweiss. Subject(s): Faith; Belief; Creed THE ENGLISH FARM-LABORER'S SUNDAY Poem Text First Line: The winds are sweet that sweep to-day Last Line: Each day in all the seven. Subject(s): Bible; Churches; Labor & Laborers; Sabbath; Cathedrals; Work; Workers; Sunday THE EVER-OPEN WAY Poem Text First Line: I sometimes like, when all my way seems barred Last Line: And thou thyself art still my strength and song. Subject(s): Faith; Jesus Christ; Prayer; Belief; Creed THE FAIRY'S GIFT Poem Text First Line: Over the little one's cradle Last Line: She found the heart of a friend. Subject(s): Children; Courts & Courtiers; Friendship; Love; Childhood THE FIRST FIRE OF THE SEASON Poem Text First Line: How it leaps, in dance excited Last Line: Of the fall. Subject(s): Friendship THE FOUNDLING Poem Text First Line: There's the glimmer of dew on the bending grass Last Line: But love has found him at morning's light. Subject(s): Comfort; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE GATE OF PRAYER Poem Text First Line: In a dream I seemed to stand Last Line: "I bear, come thou to me." Subject(s): God; Jesus Christ; Prayer; Religion; Theology THE HEAVEN-SIDE Poem Text First Line: The sky was soft with tender blue Last Line: Seem isles of peace in upper air. Subject(s): Angels; God; Heaven; Peace; Paradise THE HOME-BOUND SHIP Poem Text First Line: Far out on the stormy ocean Last Line: Bringing my loved ones home. Subject(s): Homecoming; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE HONEY-BIRD Poem Text First Line: The honey-bird, my children Last Line: Are neighbors to the bees. Subject(s): Birds; Children; Forests; Hunting; Childhood; Woods; Hunters THE LETTER SHE DID NOT WRITE Poem Text First Line: It was never set down in black and white Last Line: Had come to the letter she could not write? Subject(s): Babies; Love; Mothers; Infants THE LOVING-CUP Poem Text First Line: Tis the time of year for the loving-cup Last Line: Where the babe and mary are. Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Children; Christmas; Gifts & Giving; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Love; Childhood; Nativity, The THE MARKET-BELL Poem Text First Line: Sweet from his pipe the piper drew Last Line: Earth's loud, imperious market bell. Subject(s): Bells; Music & Musicians; Sound THE MINUET Poem Text First Line: Clustered like roses, the golden lights Last Line: The proud, the leisurely minuet. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers THE MOTHER'S CHAIR Poem Text First Line: The century's day had just begun Last Line: As she rests in the prim little rocking-chair. Subject(s): Babies; Grandparents; Mothers; Infants; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers THE NEW YEAR Poem Text First Line: The clock struck twelve in the tall church tower Last Line: Which the wise are swift to see. Subject(s): Greetings; Holidays; New Year THE NIGHT OUR DARLING DIED Poem Text First Line: I'm thinking of an evening, a weary time ago Last Line: In the hours of weary watching, that night our darling died. Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Grief; Heaven; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise THE OLD CHURCH Poem Text First Line: It lifteth its gray old spire from the heart of the busy town Last Line: Of the hallelujahs rising in that temple of the lord. Subject(s): Churches; God; Graves; Prayer; Sabbath; Temples; Cathedrals; Tombs; Tombstones; Sunday; Mosques THE OLD SCHOOL-HOUSE Poem Text First Line: Set on a rounding hill-top Last Line: Till the grand hills fall asleep. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Childhood; Students THE PATCHWORK QUIZ Poem Text First Line: In sheen of silken splendor Last Line: When mother dear was there. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Clothing & Dress; Family Life; Fashion; Mothers; Quilts; Relatives THE REASON Poem Text First Line: Something has changed him; yesterday Last Line: His wife is coming home to-day! Subject(s): Love - Marital; Relationships; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE RIVER Poem Text First Line: Far up on the mountain the river begins Last Line: And bless thee in shadow and sun. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Old Age; Rivers; Sailing & Sailors THE SADNESS OF SUMMER Poem Text First Line: O beautiful summer! Thou bringest again Last Line: We hear the sweet whisper, we 're fain to obey. Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Desire; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Heaven; Roses; Death - Babies; Paradise THE SIN OF OMISSION Poem Text First Line: It isn't the thing you do, dear Last Line: At the setting of the sun. Variant Title(s): At Sunset Subject(s): Religion; Sin; Theology THE SPLENDOR OF LILIES Poem Text First Line: Oh, rare as the splendor of lilies Last Line: To carpet a path for our king. Subject(s): Easter; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Lilies; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection THE THINNING RANKS Poem Text First Line: The day grows lonelier; the air Last Line: But heaven shall be our trysting-place. Subject(s): God; Heaven; Love; Paradise THE TRAILING ARBUTUS Poem Text First Line: A year ago, in the sweet spring weather Last Line: We will hunt for spring's sweet blooms together. Subject(s): Arbutus; Flowers; Spring; Mayflowers THE TROUBLESOME BABY Poem Text First Line: The little ones cling to the mother Last Line: That may love thee better than all. Subject(s): Angels; Babies; Caregivers; Mothers; Rest; Infants THE UNRETURNING Poem Text First Line: Earth, knowing not eld, in thy youth all / divine Last Line: But not from the dark come my darlings to me. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Grief; Mothers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE WELCOME Poem Text First Line: Anither bairn cam' hame Last Line: In the hearts o' mither an' me! Subject(s): Greetings; Homecoming; Love THE WORD SHE REMEMBERED Poem Text First Line: You remember the sermon you heard, my / dear?' Last Line: To meet each cross with a happy song. Subject(s): Churches; Clergy; Prayer Meetings; Sermons; Cathedrals; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops THINE IS THE POWER THOUGHT First Line: He who died on calvary Last Line: Ever since, over all our loss %shines the glory of the cross Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice; Religion THREE BASKETS Poem Text First Line: Bertha's basket: maiden bertha, with the / merry dancing eyes Last Line: Folding dearest work for others, whether she be maid or wife. Subject(s): Grandparents; Household Employees; Love; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Servants; Domestics; Maids TRINITY CHIMES: ON A SATURDAY AFTERNOON Poem Text First Line: The light of the indian summer Last Line: Who had no time for prayer. Subject(s): Churches; God; Heaven; Prayer; Trinity, The; Cathedrals; Paradise TROUBLE Poem Text First Line: One folds the little white hands, and lays a flower Last Line: God wot,—a living grief is worse than the peace that folds the dead. Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness TRUST FOR THE DAY Poem Text First Line: Because in a day of my days to come Last Line: To my rest in his home above. Variant Title(s): Sufficient Unto The Day Subject(s): Love; Trust UNDER THE CLOUD Poem Text First Line: Under the cloud we pass Last Line: And our sorrow is glorified. Subject(s): Death; Desolation; Graves; Heaven; Mourning; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise; Bereavement UNTOLD Poem Text First Line: A face may be woeful-white to cover a heart that's / aching Last Line: Alas! For the weary feet that may not rest to-morrow. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; Heaven; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise VALDEMAR THE HAPPY Poem Text First Line: Favored in love, and first in war Last Line: While the poor, proud king is desolate. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Leadership VESPERS Poem Text First Line: I leave the city behind me Last Line: And the thrushes sing their hymn. Subject(s): Churches; Hymns (as Literary Form); Jesus Christ; Prayer; Religion; Worship; Cathedrals; Theology VIOLETS Poem Text First Line: A friend brought sweetest violets Last Line: "for thee his morning star he sets." Subject(s): Flowers; Friendship; Spring; Violets WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY Poem Text First Line: No rockets flamed in sudden fire Last Line: The grandest name that stars the state. Subject(s): Babies; Birthdays; Mothers; Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799); Infants WASHINGTON'S NAME IN THE HALL OF FAME First Line: Republics are ungrateful, but ours, its best-loved son Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799) WEDDED HANDS Poem Text First Line: The year, sweet wife, is on the wane Last Line: Good-night, old year, good-night! Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WHEN POLLY PLAYED FOR DANCING WHEN SPRING COMES BACK Poem Text First Line: When spring comes back the violets lift Last Line: Among the garden mazes. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Spring; Violets WHERE DO THE OLD YEARS GO? First Line: Pray, where do the old years go? WHITE CARNATION First Line: Here's to the white carnation Subject(s): Carnations WHITER THAN SNOW Poem Text First Line: Whiter than snow! The soft flakes, shod with peace Last Line: Abides where christ's redeemed ones surely go. Subject(s): Faith; God; Truth; Belief; Creed WHITTIER Poem Text First Line: His fourscore years and five Last Line: It was not time to go! Subject(s): Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892) WHO ROSE AGAIN FROM THE DEAD' First Line: O earth, forget thy winter; o nature, bud / and bloom WILD WEATHER OUTSIDE Poem Text First Line: Wild weather outside where the brave ships go Last Line: Where the sweet wife smiles in the cottage door. Subject(s): Prayer; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping; Storms Sangster (1894-1981), Margaret Elizabeth 154 poems available by this author A PRAYER FOR FAITH Poem Text First Line: God, give me back the simple faith that I so long have clung to Last Line: For if the prayer dies from my heart I will be quite alone. Subject(s): Faith; Belief; Creed AFTER A DAY OF WAITING First Line: All day long I waited - waited with soul aflame Last Line: That with soul aflame I had waited, all through the day, for you AFTER HEARING MUSIC COMING FROM A DEVASTATED FARMHOUSE First Line: Just a little wisp of song played softly in the twilight Last Line: Coming with the bitter chill that marks the death of day AFTER PEACE First Line: I wonder what they're doin' home tonight? Last Line: An' - 'say - let's sing!' %says jim ALL ALONG THE BROAD HIGHWAY THE LITTLE DREAMS WERE GROWING Last Line: All the gallant little dreams were lying gaunt and dead ANSWER First Line: I am myself - you cannot take my dreams Last Line: I am myself - you cannot break my heart APRIL First Line: I had not meant to love again - all that was lost to me Last Line: But april opened up my heart, and, oh, I ran to meet him ARMISTICE (NOVEMBER, 1928) First Line: This autumn, just before thanksgiving hurries AT DAWN: 1. THE CAVEMAN First Line: I live! And the scarlet sunrise is climbing the mountain steep Last Line: And I shout aloud, and the scarlet dawn shouts back,%on the gale, to me AT DAWN: 2. THE FARMER First Line: The dawn is here! I climb the hill Last Line: The dawn is here, and with it - spring! AT DAWN: 2. THE PIONEER First Line: I creep along, but silently Last Line: And what is death - but dying? AT FIRST SIGHT First Line: Seeing you once, how can I forget Last Line: And our eyes have smiled, and I can't forget AT PARTING First Line: Love of my life, the time has come for parting Last Line: Love of my heart - the time has come to go AT PRAYER MEETING First Line: There were only two or three of us Subject(s): Prayer Meetings AT TWILIGHT First Line: You came to me through the candlelight Last Line: And I told you, dear, to stay away AUTUMN SONG First Line: Let's go down the road together, you and I Last Line: Down the autumn road that calls us, you and I! BABY'S HANDS First Line: God made the rivers, the hills, and the seas Last Line: Then god made the hands of a baby - and smiled BALCONY SCENES First Line: The stage is set, like a garden Last Line: Their fingers are all a-thrill, %with the music of the ages BE OF GOOD CHEER' First Line: Temptation came to me today Last Line: And all the lights that I could see %were stars of home, agleam for me! BOWERY PAWN-SHOP First Line: A dusty, musty little shop set in a dingy street Last Line: And, oh, the ache of countless hearts that lies behind it all! CAMPUS First Line: The creeping ivy clings against grey towers Last Line: Draw strength and knowledge from the far-flung sky! CAPTIVE-HEART First Line: Now that the day is done I am ready to greet you Last Line: You will be content with my mask of a smile - %knowing I love you CHILD FACES, SADDENED, OLDER THAN THEY SHOULD BE Last Line: For, in their souls, france goes to meet her dawn CHRISTMAS TREE First Line: Our darling little florence, our blessing Subject(s): Christmas CITY DAWN First Line: I lay awake and watched the dawn creep over the COLORS First Line: I love color Last Line: That brought heaven %very near to me COMMENCEMENT First Line: June sunlight slants across the path Subject(s): Commencement COMPREHENSION - A MOTHER'S SONG First Line: I know how mary felt, there in the hay Last Line: My little son was born on christmas day DEDICATED TO MAJOR BOWES First Line: Somewhere a blessed garden grows DESERT PATH; SEVEN SONNETS: 1 First Line: The camel tracks led whitely across the desert Last Line: With precious stones and incense, before a little child DESERT PATH; SEVEN SONNETS: 2 First Line: A thief he was by calling, who to the stable came Last Line: But back across the desert there silent rode a man DESERT PATH; SEVEN SONNETS: 3 First Line: The years are met as milestones upon a winding road Last Line: When he would find the christ-child with love upon his face DESERT PATH; SEVEN SONNETS: 4 First Line: Where work lay for the asking it seemed that men might work Last Line: If I could see him smiling, I would not steal!' he cried DESERT PATH; SEVEN SONNETS: 5 First Line: It was a glowing ruby that caused the thief to fall Last Line: His soul he bore the torment of bitterness and sin DESERT PATH; SEVEN SONNETS: 6 First Line: They caught him when the morning had tinged the eastern skies Last Line: And coldly came the sentence - 'he shall be crufified' DESERT PATH; SEVEN SONNETS: 7 First Line: They nailed him, god's creation, upon a cross of shame Last Line: The thief had gazed at heaven in christ's triumphant eyes EASTER First Line: He came to call last night Last Line: I felt god's hand, a moment, touching mine ECHOES First Line: And when, at last, the evening creeps EVENING SONG First Line: I do not want to be worshipped Last Line: We will make our own love songs FIVE SONNETS: 1. THE COMING First Line: I know that love will come to me, some day Last Line: When springtime blossoms, shyly, into may FIVE SONNETS: 2. REALIZATION First Line: I know that you are not the one that I Last Line: My heart throbs faster, and I know - I know FIVE SONNETS: 3. THE RAIN OUTSIDE First Line: You close beside me, and outside, the rain Last Line: A dream of youth eternal, and of - you FIVE SONNETS: 4. I USED TO WRITE First Line: I used to write so many songs of love Last Line: Laughed at the groping words I tried to write FIVE SONNETS: 5. MOON-GLOW First Line: I wonder if, dim centuries ago Last Line: A journey back, across the years, with you FORGIVEN Poem Text First Line: You left me when the weary weight of sorrow Last Line: And told me, dear, that you were glad to come! Subject(s): Forgiveness; Clemency FRAGMENT: A WITHERED ROSE First Line: A book of verse Last Line: But still faintly fragrant %with sweet memories FRAGMENT: ASHES OF LOVE First Line: Dust on the letters you sent me Last Line: Does it mean that I love again? FROM A CITY WINDOW First Line: The dust is thick on the city street Last Line: For hand in hand through a magic land %we are wandering side by side FROM A PET-SHOP WINDOW First Line: His eyes said, 'come and buy me' Subject(s): Animals; Dogs FROM MY ROOM First Line: I love you, dear Last Line: Here alone in my room I stand, and nothing matters, %only - I love you! FROM PARIS TO CHATEAU THIERRY First Line: The road winds out its weary way Last Line: And crows rise black against the day %from every tree and hollow FROM THE DECK OF A TRANSPORT (A RETURNING SOLDIER SPEAKS) First Line: I am coming back with a singing soul through the surge of the splendid sea Last Line: I am coming back to the used-to-be - but, god, do in want tocome? GRATITUDE First Line: I thank you for these gifts, dear god Subject(s): Prayer HAUNTED HOUSE First Line: It stands neglected, silent, far from the ways of men Last Line: I know that ghosts must haunt it, the ghosts of sweeter days HEREDITY First Line: You told me, last night Last Line: On the back of his head, %and knew - love HIGH OR LOW Poem Text First Line: For mother in lowly cabin, or mother in palace hall Last Line: The light of heavenly beauty shines in her tender face. Subject(s): Mothers HIS TAPESTRY AND MINE First Line: I weave upon my tapestry I DREAMED YOUR FACE First Line: I dreamed your face, one night, when heaven seemed resting Last Line: And raised my eyes to see pale sunlight slanting %across your hair IF MOTHER WOULD LISTEN IN A CANOE First Line: Starlight, and the silver lake Last Line: Dear, that we might drift like this evermore IN A SHOP WINDOW First Line: He was such a little puppy, in a window of a sho p Subject(s): Animals; Dogs IN GRATITUDE FOR FRIENDS First Line: I thank you, god in heaven, for friends Subject(s): Prayer IN MEMORIAM; TO AN AMERICAN AVIATOR First Line: He went to battle in mist-hung sky Last Line: Will bloom, like prayers, upon a hero's grave INDEPENDENCE DAY - 1919 First Line: Over the mists of a century they come, and their tramping feet Last Line: They march to their rendezvous with the ones who died in the yesterday Variant Title(s): Independence Day Toda Subject(s): Fourth Of July INTANGIBLE First Line: Dear, you are like the summer dusk to me Last Line: Steals up so softly that one feels alone IT'S LOTS OF FUN TO PLAY AROUND Last Line: And not be tied to anyone, %or anything JIM-DOG First Line: He wasn't, well, a fancy kind o' dog Last Line: They'd find some corner, touched with love, fer him Subject(s): Animals; Dogs L'ENVOI First Line: Only we two, dear - and the candlelight Last Line: Only we two, and magic, here together LADY ACROSS THE COURT First Line: She only comes when night is near Last Line: And yet I, somehow, think she feels %the love of me - a lonely child LI'L EMPTY CLOSET First Line: There's a li'l empty closet in a li'l empty room Last Line: Is crowded - crowded ful o' loneliness LIGHTS OF THE CITY First Line: He was young Last Line: And - I wondered LIL' FELLER First Line: When th' sunshine's golden-yeller Last Line: Cause he's glad, my lil' feller, %in th' mornin' o' th' day LOST DOG First Line: I saw a little dog today Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MOTHER'S PRAYER First Line: Father in heaven, make me wise Variant Title(s): A Mother Speak Subject(s): Religion MUSIC OF THE SLUMS: 1. THE VIOLIN-MAKER First Line: Over a slum his sign swings out Last Line: It swings %over a street where sorrow sings MUSIC OF THE SLUMS: 2. THE PARK BAND First Line: Side by side and silent - eagerly they stand Last Line: And all a city slum is out to listen to the band MUSIC OF THE SLUMS: 3. THE ORGAN MAN First Line: He's very old, his music box is old and rusty, too Last Line: Or that the tune he plays was quite forgotten long ago MY MOTHER First Line: My mother's kinder chubby - she's fat, th' fellers say Last Line: Yes - my mother's sorter chubby - but I like her that a-way NEW YEAR First Line: Why do we greet thee, o blithe new year? NEW YEAR IS A BANNER NOW I MAY SING OF SADNESS First Line: Knowing, dear, that my whole heart lies at rest Last Line: Knowing, dear, that I have your love - your love OLD SAILOR First Line: I've crossed the bar at last, mates Last Line: And thrill the heart of me OLD SAMPLER First Line: Out of the way, in a corner ON FIFTH AVENUE First Line: I walked down fifth avenue the other day Last Line: All the world walks, leisurely, down fifth avenue in the summertime OTHER DAYS First Line: I wonder if you ever dream of other days Last Line: I turn and half expect to see you smiling there OUR FLAG First Line: Fling it from mast and steeple Subject(s): Flags - United States PARIS: 1. AFTER PEACE First Line: The city thrills once more to joyous singing Last Line: The weary footsteps of the ones who died PARIS: 2. THE RUE DE LA PAIX First Line: The windows glow with many jewels, with rubies fire-entangled Last Line: From broken dreams, an empty faith, and hopes forever stilled PARIS: 3. THE FLOWER WAGONS First Line: Violets and mignonette, crowded so close together Last Line: Maling all the paris day colorful and sweet PARIS: 4. ACROSS THE YEARS First Line: They say a queen once walked along the marble steps with grace Last Line: Who came, her eyes all filled with trust, to keep her tryst with life PARIS: 5. SUNLIGHT First Line: The sun shines over paris fitfully Last Line: Like some lost dream, before the tear-drops start PARIS: 6. THE LATIN QUARTER - AFTER First Line: They were the brave ones, the gallant ones, the laughing ones Last Line: Still to draw as well as most - with two fingers gone PARIS: 7. NOTRE DAME First Line: Through colored glass, on burnished walls Last Line: Knows peace, at least, and all is well Subject(s): Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris PARIS: 8. SUNDAY MORNING First Line: The streets are silent, and the church bells ring Last Line: The god of paris smiles above its pain PEAKS First Line: A storm may rage in the world below Last Line: That it cannot touch my heart PEASANT GIRL SINGS First Line: Somewhere, out there, he is - just a boy, that's all Last Line: Keep him, my boy, from harm - %somewhere, out there PHOENIX First Line: The ruined wheat fields lying in the sun Last Line: But what about the hearts that gave - and gave POSSESSION (A TENEMENT MOTHER SPEAKS) First Line: Y' ain't as pretty as some babies are Last Line: But, god, yer mine! PRAYER FOR OUR BOYS RETURNING First Line: God, bring them back just as they went away Last Line: And let them have their boyhood back again. %amen PRAYER ON EASTER FOR OUR BOYS KILLED IN ACTIN First Line: Dear god, they will not come again, those lads of ours Last Line: That is only life asleep - and all is well QUEEN First Line: Barefooted came the beggar maid Last Line: Give me my rags, and let me go RECOGNITION First Line: Out of my need you come to me, o father REFUGEE First Line: We hurried, once, down the purple road Last Line: That we knew in love's abode RESURRECTION First Line: You took the lilt from my heart of hearts Last Line: That my song would come again RETURN First Line: Now that the tumult of the war is over Last Line: The fairy folk are coming back to france RIVER AND THE TREE First Line: You are white and tall and swaying,' sang the river to the tree Last Line: That the birch-tree shone reflected in the water down below! RIVETER First Line: His hammer falls with rhythmic, titan grace Subject(s): Rivets And Riveting ROAD SONG First Line: An open road and a wide road RUINED CHURCH First Line: They could not take the living god away Last Line: Folk paused before they entered in to prayer SACRIFICE First Line: I started out in a cloak of pride Last Line: When love stood smiling - %but love was dead! SCARLET FLOWERS First Line: The window box across the street Last Line: Is filled with scarlet flowers SHADOWS First Line: You come to me at twilight, when the others Last Line: Just out of reach with misty, wide-flung hands SINGING ON THE MARCH First Line: God put a song into my heart one day Last Line: And you will find that you have done your part SIX SONNETS: 1. SOMEHOW First Line: Somehow I never thought that you would go Last Line: And yet - I never thought that you would go SIX SONNETS: 2. I WONDER First Line: I wonder if you dream, across the night Last Line: Your prayer would be my kiss upon your lips SIX SONNETS: 3. SOME DAY First Line: Some day when on exultant feet you come Last Line: A little harder when they look at me SIX SONNETS: 4. DREAM First Line: Sometimes I dream that you are back with me Last Line: Because I dreamed that you were back with me SIX SONNETS: 5. UNDERSTANDING First Line: Now, when I stand in some great crowded place Last Line: And heart meets heart and I can sympathize SIX SONNETS: 6. THE WAKING First Line: Now war is over and a world set free Last Line: Reviving dreams that long have lain asleep SOMETHING NEW First Line: There's something new at our home - I'm s'prised you didn't know it SONGS FROM FRANCE: SCARS First Line: Summer sweeps, like sad laughter, over france Last Line: But there are scars that summer cannot hide SOUL OF A MOTHER First Line: Sometimes I think god grew tired of making SPRING IN THE CITY First Line: I saw a crocus blooming in the park Last Line: I read springtime eternal in your eyes STEEL First Line: They think that we're just animals, almost Last Line: Thanks god that I've a man-sized job to do! SUMMER SONG First Line: If I might go with my true love Last Line: And eden-place would bloom a-new %for my true love and me THANKSGIVIN' PUMPKIN PIES First Line: So you bid me to thanksgivin'! Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THANKSGIVING First Line: I think god loves simplicity THE BLIND MAN Poem Text First Line: I see a blind man every day Last Line: And guide us on our way. Subject(s): Blindness; Visually Handicapped THERE ARE SUCH WEARY LITTLE LINES ABOUT THE MOUTH OF YOU Last Line: Will creep close to you in the dark, and kiss them quite away THERE IS NO DREAM SO SMALL YOU CANNOT MAKE IT Subject(s): Commencement THEY NEVER QUITE LEAVE US THEY'LL COME AGAIN TO THE APPLE TREE THREE SONGS OF AWAKENING: 1 First Line: The flowers spring from the broken heart Last Line: And thrilled to a whispered name THREE SONGS OF AWAKENING: 2 First Line: I saw a sky as blue as eyes I know Last Line: Like love that wakens, dwey-eyed, from sleep THREE SONGS OF AWAKENING: 3 First Line: We who have wondered know the answer, now Last Line: When spring has triumphed over winter weather TIM - MY BUNKIE First Line: I met tim th' other day Last Line: That's him TO A CERTAIN ROOM First Line: Your room is still the dainty little place Last Line: Your room is there - but, oh, its soul has died TO A PAIR OF GLOVES First Line: Jus' a little pair o' gloves Last Line: Empty now TO A PORCELAIN PUPPY DOG First Line: Oh, pudgy porcelain puppy dog from far-away japan Last Line: To pat you, porcelain pupy dog, that I could understand? TO AN OLD SCHOOLHOUSE First Line: Down by the end of the lane it stands Last Line: Just as we came when the world was young TO DREAM ALONE First Line: How long the days may seem, how long each night Last Line: And love - the flame of love that we have known TOGETHER First Line: They lay together in the sun and waited for the end Last Line: Peter, from delancey street, in new york town Subject(s): New York City; Togetherness TRIBUTE First Line: This angel's prayer is very small TWO LULLABIES: 1. TO A DREAM BABY First Line: Oh, little child whose face I cannot see Last Line: About the star sheep and the shepherd moon TWO LULLABIES: 2. POPPY LAND First Line: Sleep, little tired eyes, close to the heart of me Last Line: All of my heart wanders with you, the rest of me %watches your dreaming VACATION TIME First Line: The grammars and the spellers VALENTINE First Line: I wonder if you know, up there in heaven Last Line: For all the golden dreams that used to be WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY Poem Text First Line: Tis splendid to live so grandly Last Line: Keep the thought of your natal day. Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799) WATERIN' THE HORSES First Line: I took th' horses to th' brook - to water 'em you know Last Line: O city folk an' all they never see WHEN I AM OLD First Line: When I am old and drenched in worlds of sadness Last Line: Will I remember, dear, your lips on mine? WHEN WAR CAME First Line: War came, one day, and drew us close together Last Line: Although it swept us many miles apart WHEN YOU WENT BY First Line: I stood in the rain and watched you pass Last Line: But my heart lay, crushed, at your feet WOOD MAGIC First Line: The woods lay dreaming in a topaz dream Last Line: You held me close and kissed my wind-tossed hair WRITING First Line: Sometimes a mist of sunlight across a stranger's hair Last Line: Cannot erase the writing you traced upon my heart Sargent, Elizabeth Nancy 3 poems available by this author BREAK First Line: As in a dream of flood from which we rose intact but alone Last Line: Breathe; burn; and change CHILD First Line: Child of the season of adventure, child of the heart Last Line: Child, poem and poet, you are most golden %you are most golden of all Subject(s): Children PARADISE First Line: There is a walled garden where the flowers never pale or turn dark Last Line: Put your arms around me. Our winter is real Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening Sargent, Elizabeth Rial 1 poems available by this author A HEART SONG Poem Text First Line: On my ear there fell a cry of hate! Last Line: A mother's heart was singing to its child. Subject(s): Mothers; Singing & Singers Sawyer, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author WARNING Poem Text First Line: Who drinks of rumor's unguent brew Last Line: More spiced than the first. Subject(s): Thirst Saxon, Elizabeth L. 1 poems available by this author SIEGE OF THE ALAMO First Line: Come, gather round, my boys, tonight Scanlon, Elizabeth 5 poems available by this author BEGUN FROM THE 18TH HALF-TRUTH First Line: Starfish harbor no regrets %& are also known as asteroids Last Line: As when signifying that which is beyond us, %we draw so many fish out of water PECULIAR GNOSIS OF TRAINS First Line: By which one knows where one is Last Line: The alligator's immensity of tongue that awes ST. LUCY'S DAY First Line: Each astonishing day's light %sharpen the glint, the edge, the letter opener Last Line: Cannot see, yet know %on the other side, comes out read SWAN SONG First Line: Gloria in your opera gloves Last Line: Its song hums you & leads %to leas of morning WE GUIDE, WE FOLLOW First Line: Like the blind for their seeing-eyes Last Line: If not for your own good %then for mine Subject(s): Politics; War Scantlebury, Elizabeth E. 1 poems available by this author HYMN OF DEDICATION First Line: Father, here a temple in thy name we build Subject(s): Prayer Schmitt, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author YOUNG MILK SNAKE First Line: This warm february day has coaxed you out Last Line: Spark, and I feel forgiveness in the air Schneider, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author HOUSTONIA First Line: Is it a veil of melting snow Schuff, Karen Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author LOST INNOCENCE First Line: Over coffee, lightly laughing Schultz, Elizabeth 2 poems available by this author DOMESTIC SUBLIME First Line: Both lake and sky %stretched out Last Line: Rearranging the lake's %simple garments TREMORS First Line: This morning, a quiver vibrates Last Line: Carols tolling through the night Schwartz, Mary Elizabeth 4 poems available by this author GOSSIPS First Line: Two fat, old ladies SEASONS First Line: For spring is a boisterous child laughing TO PORTSMOUTH First Line: What are you to me, oh metropolis? WAITING Poem Text First Line: How slow the red sun sinks in the silent west Last Line: The night has ridden west, but never you. Scobie, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author RAIN HAS RETURNED Poem Text First Line: The rains have returned to the cornlands Last Line: And flag-lilies blossom once more. Subject(s): Rain Scott, Elizabeth A. 1 poems available by this author EGG First Line: A secret bouncing just between us Last Line: Don't reveal your egg too soon- %it might break %you Sellers, Elizabeth Lou 1 poems available by this author DENOUEMENT Poem Text First Line: Your shoulders were so neatly square Last Line: But, darling, I loathe knobby knees. Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore Seton, Elizabeth Anne Bayley 1 poems available by this author MARY, VIRGIN AND MOTHER First Line: Oh, virgin joy of all the world art thou Sewell, Elizabeth 2 poems available by this author EPIPHANY: FOR THE ARTIST First Line: The furred magnificence, the precious stones Subject(s): Paintings And Painters JOB First Line: They did not know this face Last Line: What next what next what next what next what next Subject(s): Bible; Religion Shane, Elizabeth 3 poems available by this author HERONS ON BO ISLAND Subject(s): Birds; Herons HUSH SONG Poem Text First Line: Och, hush ye then, och hush ye Last Line: An' me at home. TRAVELLER First Line: Now who's to kow the trouble's in a promise Sheehan, Elizabeth Winston 2 poems available by this author COMPASSION Poem Text First Line: The master, journeying up from jericho Last Line: Blind bartimaeus crying to that one. TO A 17TH CENTURY LOOKING-GLASS Poem Text First Line: Give up to us, o shadowed looking-glass Last Line: Listen, heart! Have we stood here before? Subject(s): Mirrors Shepard, Elizabeth Alsop 1 poems available by this author WHITE FOX First Line: Suddenly out of the faint gray smother Sheppard, Elizabeth S. 1 poems available by this author CHILDREN'S CITIES First Line: There was a certain king who had three sons Sherwood, Mary Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author ROMANCE OF A YEAR First Line: How gracefully the young bertine Shields, Elizabeth Mce. 3 poems available by this author GOD IS NEAR First Line: Sometimes when morning lights the sky Subject(s): Prayer I'M GLAD First Line: I've tried, dear god Subject(s): Prayer PRAYER OF A TEACHER First Line: If I had seen thee, master Subject(s): Prayer Sholl, Elizabeth Neary 223 poems available by this author 144 MINDEN STREET First Line: I can still see him from down the block, my landlord, charlie Last Line: It's probably a wrong number, someone confusing us again, %with the boston ballet 24 HOURS First Line: Right now it's an old jughead in the laundromat Last Line: Saying whatever it takes %to make something move, elsie, elsie, my god 8-MAR First Line: My student wants something from me Last Line: He just wanted my full attention AFTER READING BASHO First Line: I dream of a terrible journey Last Line: Humans, named what-does-it-matter- %if-you-see AFTER THAT First Line: In lakewood, new jersey, they'd rock all day Last Line: That the world end, that the world continue? ALBUM First Line: I picked up shells from the waves Last Line: They dive, just as it crumples ALCHEMY First Line: #name? Last Line: Lying in a dark bed, tightening itself %into diamond ALL QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED, NO First Line: I thought of snow, but it was still summer Last Line: Underneath-will we ever be done? AMOCO First Line: Now the fields are bleak and I don't care Last Line: Dashing itself across the sand APPALACHIAN WINTER First Line: I sit in darkness %beside the stove, rocking Last Line: Words that say there is nothing to fear Subject(s): Appalachia; Women ARGUMENT, 1973 First Line: Top of the stairs, times square station, a man reels Last Line: Two wet fingers around the dark bruise, %a man's swollen cheek, you never know AT THE AQUARIUM First Line: Once a student told me she made love Last Line: Tumbling backward among fins, mouths, %the slow green sway where everything matters? AT THE PUBLIC MARKET: 2 First Line: The flesh of swordfish swirls like wood grain Last Line: Till it arrives at what can't be consumed AT THE PUBLIC MARKET: 3 First Line: Pineapples all patchwork and spikes Last Line: But everything, marrow, muscle, skin AUBADE First Line: My dreams change abruptly Last Line: Up through the light april rain AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN THIRD PERSON First Line: Though she was born late in their lives Last Line: Lavender-scented diaphanous soap? BABYSITTING TO THELONIOUS MONK First Line: My niece wants eggs, now, please, and I swirl Last Line: Pooling in her small dark hands, spilling through fingers %till spilling, child, is what it's about Subject(s): Child Care; Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982) BACK WITH THE QUAKERS First Line: You think you can handle these things Last Line: Each one turned a different way BACKWASH First Line: Bad times, and I go back in my mind Last Line: Utterly owned, and the boy shared with me BACKWASH First Line: Bad times, and I go back in my mind Last Line: Utterly owned, and the boy gave to me BAPTISM BY FIRE First Line: This house could burn Last Line: We must be patient and gentle, %gentle, whatever we touch BARNEGAT LIGHT First Line: I like to come here Last Line: I know is moving, moves with me? BASS LINE First Line: He needs a bigger body, bull fiddle Last Line: Like somebody who knows what swinging is BAYHEAD, NEW JERSEY 1906 First Line: No one has thought about destroying the sand duties Last Line: Had fathers and mothers BECAUSE WE IMAGINE A JOURNEY First Line: And don't know how difficult the passage Last Line: It's all right, all right now, to let go BEHIND THE SAINT-LAZARE STATION First Line: Every day, seventh period, we'd look Last Line: Till we were loose and giddy, as if we'd %drunk whatever he put in my hand BETWEEN PICKETS First Line: Remember the steep houses with picket fences Last Line: Drifting somewhere slightly above our beds? BETWEEN WOMEN First Line: My best friend has moved %to another city Last Line: Leaves on garfield street BIRD LADY First Line: You think I don't work for the feds? What do you know Last Line: Mashed down %for the toothless, of which I am not one, %but don't get so close BIRD SUIT First Line: I was thinking of a bird suit. Not big bird Last Line: Its grainy flickering black and white BLINDWOMEN First Line: They do not mind when we tap down Last Line: They are angry. We do not hide BLUES IS A THIEF First Line: The singer rasps, the blues is a thief, and the sax has Last Line: Thanks, I'd say as she leans against the wall, exhaling, %eyes closed, skirt riding up. Sure, bitch, BLUES IS MY COMPANION First Line: On the radio, eddie kirkland, bluesman, talking Last Line: Kind of stepped-on thing at the back of the song BOARDWALK First Line: I was sitting there thinking, this is how Last Line: When standing here we're already immersed BOOK OF NUMBERS: 1 First Line: Before we wrote on sheep skins with blood Last Line: Furniture gone, so anything might happen BOOK OF NUMBERS: 2 First Line: Out of the chemical bath a young man sharpens Last Line: The spark, the wing, trembling fire BOOK OF NUMBERS: 3 First Line: Our young son would run up and down the long Last Line: Obstreperous, pulsing and fragile soul BOOK OF NUMBERS: 4 First Line: Is this the only comfort allowed, just this Last Line: Its eerie flute making the air tremble BREAKING THROUGH First Line: We arrive at dusk Last Line: I have the feeling they will crack it BREATHING SHALLOW First Line: Midway through my life I wake up Last Line: Is an open field of stars CATECHISM First Line: I begin as tradition advises Last Line: Breaks from its throat and wakes you, %listen CHANCES First Line: Behind the car peeling out with my daughter Last Line: In all the chances she took to get it CHANGING FACES First Line: Banjo fiddle flute guitar Last Line: If there are bears in the woods CHILDREN'S ZOO First Line: The man talks about monkeys Last Line: Imagine containing something %three times your strength CLEANING HOUSE First Line: I have to lean my whole weight against the closet Last Line: We can start %to undo things COAT First Line: I stare at the blue linoleum Last Line: Or just close her eyes and slip through them, %their stupid miserable questions COEXISTENCE First Line: You want to be left alone Last Line: What was it like before the war? COLLAGE First Line: I hang the pictures of my father Last Line: No cameras or children allowed COMMON First Line: Is wind, the most natural occurrence Last Line: Trusting what I don't understand CONVALESCENCE First Line: When you were sick %when you were raped in prison Last Line: They come out wild at me DAWN First Line: At the day camp years ago where we drove Last Line: You are useless, %you don't know, you don't know a thing DAYLIGHT SAVINGS First Line: My grandfather knew when Last Line: With crackers %when the meat is ready DEATH WATCH First Line: You can't do this, I shout Last Line: What is this place I have no desire to explore? DESIGN IN AMERICA First Line: Behind the art museum, the sky slips Last Line: Into little wads of cocoon, slightly cracked DIFFERENT PORCHES First Line: I'm jiggling tips, so my fingers can smell Last Line: Open your bible to matthew 29.' DISTINCT CALL OF THE ALLIGATOR First Line: The first time I flew over florida I was amazed Last Line: Creatures %with powerful jaws and very sly smiles %we had matching purses made out of once DOGS First Line: What mongrel delight they took, crashing my backyard Last Line: After we've been so drastically transformed? DON'T EXPLAIN First Line: I just wanted to tell what I saw Last Line: The music couldn't keep itself from breaking DOUG ARBITER First Line: Things feel/what you %want them to feel Last Line: Was to be taken in %completely DREAM, A DOG, AND A DREAM First Line: A meadow with one tree Last Line: Because she is yelling at him DREAMER'S BODY IS STILL OF THIS WORLD First Line: The boy is crouched in a chair Last Line: In doorways watching our fear %turn against us DRIFTING THROUGH THIS PIOUS TOWN First Line: Look at this sweet drooling young man Last Line: I meet people who think they are right %about everything that's wrong with the world EDGES First Line: It isn't myself I watch Last Line: I'm going to love the whole world, %to jump ELEGY First Line: Last night ashen as a runner Last Line: Earnestly, one by one ELEGY WITH POSTCARD First Line: A cloudless day, one forsythia bud Last Line: Across the plate's dark blue mountain pass ELEGY WITH TRAINS (1) First Line: My friend loved the story of the two men Last Line: Waiting, the whole unspared naked choir Subject(s): Friendship; Railroads; Sickness ELEGY WITH TRAINS (2) First Line: My friend would tell the story of those two men Last Line: In the guards' eyes, when they put out their hands EMMA BELL MILES First Line: I felt I had no part in the life about me Last Line: Beautiful, terrible %by accident? EQUINOX First Line: Jasmine, oleander, not yet magnolia Last Line: In leafy shade like someone waiting in line EXCHANGE First Line: My dog was barking at rocks, but where was Last Line: Determined to see us through FALL First Line: The fog moves in Last Line: Hearing the endless echo %of ourselves across the mountains FALLING First Line: When the house began to tip, I stepped back Last Line: Vanishing through a hedge of light? FARMWIFE First Line: The woman who has nodded to me from her porch Last Line: To cushion her relentless, %affirming head FEEL First Line: We're stopped between two sets of bars Last Line: Tobacco and sulphur that can slip through %any security, and get you, %wherever you are FESTIVAL IN THE PARK First Line: Tough times and lots to lose - the singer croons Last Line: Mercy.' that still lingers as we drift away FIGHTING FOR OUR LIVES First Line: When you speak %your thin white face Last Line: Cut holes in the frozen whiteness %they stand on FINE ARTS First Line: Riding a backpack through the museum, my son Last Line: From closing, far from whatever that means FISHERMAN'S WIFE First Line: I am moving silently Last Line: Of everything buoyant and soft FLOOD First Line: Hiding from dust, %records of our lives Last Line: It cannot be filed away FORGET YOUR LIFE First Line: Plaster drips from the ceiling Last Line: So intently all her rough opinions leave her %like swine rushing over a cliff. Now, teach yourself FORSYTHIA First Line: Again we come to these rains Last Line: All I see is forsythia FOUR CROWS AT DUSK First Line: Perched on a steep slate roof: the first Last Line: But-it-ain't-over-yet-honey good news GIRL NAMED SPRING First Line: The only calm here is the trees, waiting Last Line: With the word rescue written backward across its hood, %its windshield a crazed reflection of bare l GOOSE-GIRL First Line: I toss a stone Last Line: They hurl themselves into the sky HALF THE MUSIC First Line: What's that noise? My step-father asks Last Line: And held, its death in my hands, and my heart %flying full speed as if straight at plate glass HALFWAY First Line: Tolstoy or camus or something denser Last Line: Clamorous rain, impossible to control HALLOWS First Line: My children wake %rubbing their soft faces Last Line: Along retinue of light HANGING OUT THE WASH First Line: Once you were real as the red blouse Last Line: What is it you want me to see? HAPPY BIRTHDAY First Line: There will come a time (won't there) Last Line: Demonic grins, our enemies, our fathers HEADING WEST First Line: Matthew, my son Last Line: To spread out the tar HERE First Line: Wharves with their warehouses sagging Last Line: That have to end, begin HIGH TIDE First Line: The tide goes higher and higher up the beach Last Line: You can rub it across your face HOMELESS ENCAMPMENT First Line: As if a creature had flown all night Last Line: Running in cold rivulets down our backs HOOD First Line: I can still see the hand-painted signs Last Line: Then the clenched heart's furious growl HOSPITAL STATE First Line: The smell of piss guides us down the halls Last Line: Everything we wanted %to say. Take that Subject(s): Hospitals HOW DREAMS COME TRUE First Line: Sometimes at night %you do things while I am sleeping Last Line: It's these books, these books %waving them in the air IMPEDIMENTS First Line: After all those years of throat lock and panic Last Line: One amen away from bursting into flame IN A TIME OF DROUGHT First Line: Are there languages in this world with forty different names Last Line: And soft, your scattered and lavish, bank-breaking rain IN THE CLEAR First Line: The rain is so fine I can Last Line: Undertow, seeing the spaces between %things brilliant IN THE WILDERNESS First Line: I have the food Last Line: Are coming and going at once %on the same blade INTO THE WOODS First Line: Lord god, don't help me out by the clearing Last Line: Their joint custody, the way they've been passing %me back and forth my whole life IT WOULD BE BETTER IF WE DID'T TALK ABOUT IT First Line: What do I know of this extravagant Last Line: What it takes to break wood into blossom JANUARY 4TH First Line: The house next door is gutted Last Line: People hunched over debris JEPHTHAH'S DAUGHTER First Line: I came out with timbrels and dancing %to greet you Last Line: Out of this hunger, my body JOB'S WIFE First Line: Yes, I said it Last Line: The door swung open JOINING THE CIRCUS First Line: Hadn't I gone to see clowns with bald heads, red noses? Last Line: The disconnected %waving of fists, the terrible love %you have to have nothing to feel KIND OF DARKNESS First Line: Butterflies - those sailboats of the insect world Last Line: While here is a kind of darkness we tear at LADDERS AND ROPES First Line: Music, by definition is not random,' Last Line: There was such a long %dying of sound, we didn't see how far we had gone %into the silence LAMENT First Line: Spring %and a delicate depression Last Line: Who is last, hardest to open Subject(s): Appalachia; Women LAST BOAT First Line: We were waiting for the ferry Last Line: For the ferry, wishing it wouldn't come LATE PSALM First Line: I am hating myself for the last time Last Line: Get wild rapture instead? LEARNING TO LOVE THE SKY First Line: It isn't easy to believe Last Line: Could roll over and open its eyes LEISURE VILLAGE First Line: To sleep through this pack of blackbirds Last Line: With their clouded eyes, stand there and gawk LEPERS First Line: In our caves %in our small isolated colonies Last Line: Crazed, knows the completion %of this act LIFE OF KEATS, SPARED BRIEFLY BY JOHN COLTRANE First Line: When the life of keats is just too much Last Line: Till only those without ears can hear it LIGHTS OUT First Line: The first time I saw them they were sitting Last Line: At the doorsill, praying god have mercy, %with her one good eye, she stands there knowing this %know LITTLE ELEGY First Line: A moment of silence at soup kitchen Last Line: And now he's gone LIVES OF BIRDS First Line: My mother %at her bedroom window Last Line: A jay. She'd take up the binoculars %focus the lens LOOSE KEYS First Line: Sometimes fumbling among the loose keys Last Line: Or not wanting anything nearly enough LOT'S WIFE First Line: Skyline of mausoleums! The city is gone Last Line: There is no sting in your flesh, %no curse in your preservation? LOUDER First Line: The morning is white with mist Last Line: Of their wings iridescent LOVE POEM First Line: If I took a picture of you now Last Line: Which don't like letting go of things %let go LOVING MAMMON First Line: I saw you in the paper, with a shovel Last Line: Endlessly counting, endlessly missing a stone MAPLES IN PITTSBURGH First Line: This yellow tree %black branches full of applause Last Line: Down the steps into this shining ovation MATINS First Line: Every morning before we light the stove Last Line: We'll be patient and faithful MEDITATION, WITH OTHER VOICES First Line: Damp september morning. Gray sky, the texture Last Line: Of turning radiant, spraying up, swamping the jetty? MEMORY First Line: Old woman who knows better Last Line: To be saved from MESSENGERS FALLING TO OUR AID (1) First Line: Learning too far into an overheard conversation Last Line: And then--ah, the blue birth of flame MESSENGERS FALLING TO OUR AID (2) First Line: Sometimes everything dazzles--broken glass Last Line: And then--the blue birth of flame MIDNIGHT FLOWERS First Line: Pulped by flood waters, my favorite picture book Last Line: Perfect replicas flooding the blackness MIDNIGHT VAPOR LIGHT BREAKDOWN First Line: This ladies' room fluorescence will not be ignored Last Line: I'm saying, the way he looked at me- %it was summer, our clothes were thin. I could %have gone, up t MILKWEED First Line: I love wind I love fire Last Line: Flung from the stick in her hand MONKEY HOUSE First Line: Such a howl went up when I walked in Last Line: Now crammed into one very small house MOONWALK First Line: The moon goes up %like a pregnant lady Last Line: Souls, half-thoughts, dreams %without noticing MOTHERS & DAUGHTERS First Line: I have been the mother Last Line: I accept with both arms MY MOTHER TELLS THE STORY Last Line: Made up the story myself MY MOTHER'S YARD First Line: Birds flash. %the dead pine squeaks Last Line: Take off. You get higher, %you circle and glide MYSTERIOSO First Line: If you jiggle the book of russian icons Last Line: You had to be hurt into hearing? NARCISSUS First Line: You know that time I said Last Line: When it isn't me NOTES FROM A YOUNGEST DAUGHTER First Line: We will let it fall down Last Line: As though anywhere were the center of earth OLD BIRDS First Line: It's a frigging bird,' my son complains, and liking Last Line: Who pounds out his longing against a backboard %and doesn't keep score. He lets birds be birds OLD HOUSE IS A FERRY AND NOW WE'RE CASTING OFF First Line: The river is as wide as a city Last Line: With water and speak with our hair OUTSIDE THE DEPOT First Line: I loved the way it felt once, practically invincible Last Line: They didn't move all night, just sang. %even laughed, he told me. I didn't know how to write back PANTOMIME First Line: A tree is falling Last Line: We cannot hold ourselves together %or apart PAST First Line: I love hanging out laundry, bright linens Last Line: But that is the past now, now she has to let go PHOTOGRAPHER First Line: Notary, butcher, repossessor Last Line: That no one else is left-on us PICK A CARD First Line: I wonder if it still exists - point pleasant boardwalk Last Line: That he's done something well, so he does it again. %pick a card, any card PILGRIMAGE First Line: She says just when she Last Line: Yes, mama. I must. I am tired of selling shoes PINK SLIP First Line: Twenty years I gripped your press Last Line: If people like me get to rise up and speak POEM First Line: I don't like the look on his face Last Line: Like waves against the breakwater? %mother POSSESSION First Line: This is not the first time Last Line: No wonder %she comes right back in QUEEN OF THE NIGHT First Line: They're not gone, yet, those notes my friend lifts Last Line: At the gate, ordinary voice seeking flight READING First Line: Because the titmice at the feeder are Last Line: Literate in seed husk, rain slant, cloud REAL FAUX PEARLS First Line: The announcer promises, and we snicker Last Line: Falls onto white cloth, what will I find - down %on my knees among this coughing, these tears? RED LINE First Line: Eight hours on my feet at joe's pizzeria and I know inside Last Line: Slowed down to separate frames-delayed %into a scorched rosary of light REDBUD First Line: I had to step outside having just finished Last Line: Never dared let ourselves go that far into its beauty REFLECTIONS OF THE YOUNGEST DAUGHTER First Line: I row to the other side of the lake Last Line: Its silent tongue across the water RELEASING GRANDFATHER First Line: The old man's full of accusations Last Line: Like skirts swirling at my legs RENOVATING THE OLD GIRLS' DETENTION CENTER First Line: The previous occupants %inscribed messages on the ceiling Last Line: If we do it all of the time REUNION First Line: My family is back %in new jersey Last Line: You have grown distant %since you left home' RIDING HOOD First Line: My daughter makes songs from the words Last Line: Shake your yellow hair at him RIM First Line: Once my sister wrote me as her son stole Last Line: Every petal of bark clear RIVER First Line: We stand by the river but do not cross Last Line: Opening hands and eyes, making us all one body ROOMS OVERHEAD First Line: Thunder crashes like furniture dropped overhead Last Line: Blue tropical sky ROOT CANAL First Line: Leaning over my mouth he asks what I know Last Line: Wind rousing every hair on our bodies SAME ELEGY NEVER COMPLETED EACH DAY IT'S A DIFFERENT DEATH First Line: Your life is over before mine begins Last Line: But all the flowers in the trenton graveyard %have had their fill of you SAPPHO First Line: My child wants to send a letter Last Line: Carrying nothing-in both hands %on my head my hips SEASIDE HEIGHTS, NJ First Line: The amusement park rebuilds itself Last Line: Over and over %the machine rutted earth SEX ED First Line: Well-dressed, demure, jammed into those Last Line: Her toss back her yellow hair and yank open %the heavy doors to school Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Education; Schools; Women SHADES OF GRAY First Line: Suddenly I feel I've imagined that life Last Line: I have to look hard to keep the man, the child %from slipping away SHORE WALK WITH MONK First Line: Whoever lived here is gone, but a slick Last Line: Done with, just slipped out of and left behind SIGHTSEER SNEAKS INTO THE STAR'S BASEMENT First Line: Is your glass house pretty, sir? Last Line: Tell her we have everything we need SISTER First Line: The young woman at the back of the bookstore Last Line: Thick and throaty, viscous, translucent honey Subject(s): Sisters SISTER First Line: She slumps down on the curb and trails her hand Last Line: Sweet and throaty, viscous, translucent honey SKIING ON WATER First Line: One year I took the wrapping off a carton of powdered milk Last Line: Faster than ever in wilder, more astonishing blue SMALL PATCH OF ICE First Line: If I told you we could see nail polish stopping Last Line: Pretend they have nothing to do with us, %these dark pleasures, this dinky patch of ice SOLID GROUND First Line: Hurricane tide, a sudden drop Last Line: Green terror and luminous jewel SOMETHING TO SAY First Line: Hyped up on caffeine and thorazine Last Line: Which'll be my sister again having to tell me %she can't make the pain go away SOUP KITCHEN First Line: Ginny at a table of young men belly dancing Last Line: Then stand there in that odd yellow light, %letting it soften SPARROWS First Line: My neighbor's tree was simmering Last Line: Lit and singing from the tree, or nothing does SPRING FRAGMENTS First Line: There is a look some girls have Last Line: Steps out of her faltering body SPRING SONG First Line: Open the windows let in the spring air Last Line: You went away and now you've come back ST. MARY'S BLUES First Line: Nights, the hiss of breaking glass against Last Line: Unflinching gaze she spoke to me. Cry, girl, %she said, go on and let yourself loose STING OF SNOW First Line: I watch snow slide off branches Last Line: And more real presence beyond loss STRAY HORN First Line: Three blocks into my run, I'm too stubborn Last Line: Stunned by the belly, the being of song Subject(s): Music And Musicians STREAM First Line: Sign of the times, back then, how in one day Last Line: Someplace familiar and he let me go STUTTERER First Line: Under the pillow at night Last Line: Wind sock, fish net, splintering star STYLE First Line: Black slacks and a red blazer in public school Last Line: Whispering, sweetheart, don't, don't SWEENEY AT PRAYER First Line: Why sweeney haunts me while I wait outside Last Line: Heart-sore and hoarse into the flimsiest trees TEST PATTERNS First Line: Someone on the street smiles in your direction Last Line: Busting into a jillion pieces at once THERAPY First Line: Where are we going? Last Line: Now she is howling love THINKING OF YOU, HIROSHIMA First Line: Champagne goes straight to my head Last Line: Listening to trees, trees leaning together %advanced, unbearably patient, like another race THREE DEATHS First Line: Last autumn, tensed for winter, I was sealing up Last Line: A monkey carved out of peach pit, assorted puzzles, key rings, %a whistle shaped like a tiny violin THREE GRAVEYARDS First Line: My mother's grandmother brought three children Last Line: But light blowing strands of hair %across our faces THREE WISHES First Line: That was the winter the city hired two guys Last Line: You got fire, what more do you want? THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS First Line: I sit in a room filled with plaques Last Line: When the sun shines you can't read a word TIME AS A DECK OF CARDS First Line: You are shuffling nervously Last Line: Will reveal itself %in all of your gestures TINY GATE First Line: The steady turning of pages, students murmuring Last Line: The river was giving itself to me TO THE DREGS First Line: I saw my own children leaning Last Line: Stop and let it drench you TO WALT WHITMAN IN HEAVEN First Line: Things that look good and aren't: high fashion Last Line: Hovering over blacktop and lamp-green lawn TONIGHT I AM MENDING CLOTHES First Line: I use old clothe on the knees, stitch boldly Last Line: God mended her. Not one stitch shows TOO DEEP First Line: Running out of the restaurant, my daughter and friends Last Line: You know the feeling, %trying to talk yourself out of a jam you know is way too deep TRANSITION First Line: Beside this pond a mockingbird perched Last Line: Completing and undoing us at once UNDERSONG First Line: As if it's that easy - just breathe in, breathe out Last Line: And world without rift. Amen URGENCY First Line: I'm not ready, I shout Last Line: Cover the hood. O my husband, what is this %strange land I have no desire to explore? VALENTINES First Line: Why not fill the day with machines - eddie Last Line: So what if you get them wrong? VERTICAL MELANCHOLY First Line: Poor moth-eaten lawn, weedy and pissed on Last Line: No, in the daylight, what is pouring now? WE KEEP HER First Line: We keep her in a box Last Line: Peering into a doll's house WEATHERMAN HASN'T BEEN RIGHT FOR A WEEK First Line: Now there is sunlight Last Line: 4 years 10 years drifting back and forth %from some unattainable lesson WHAT THE MOON WON'T LET ME FORGET First Line: Last night they were all booing at me when I got off the bus WHAT WE CAN SHARE First Line: In my first nightmare Last Line: We could have had together WHATEVER MOVES First Line: I may be saved yet Last Line: Water and sand into light WHEN CURSING FAILS First Line: Snow will you ever give up %will you ever surrender, become invisible like rain Last Line: Earth like snow only darker will cover us all WHORES First Line: It is hard having a body support you Last Line: Because you have made them lonely WISPS First Line: She sits in the window looking at webs Last Line: Dropping over her body WITH YOU IN THE DARKNESS First Line: Once again I find you Last Line: If I leave these things where they belong WORLD SNOW POSITS 1 First Line: This morning I went running six miles an hour Last Line: Only a slender white rail at the end of the road %keeps me from daring the same dissolution WORLD SNOW POSITS 2 First Line: But the way your hand shakes Last Line: In this world, where elements swirl and sometimes the gift is %hunger and trembling WORLD SNOW POSITS 3 First Line: Last night I tried to pray as sleep fell Last Line: Letting love fall %in textures we have no language to conceive WORLD SNOW POSITS 4 First Line: Two days without food and I go to the aquarium Last Line: You thought you were locked-up in prison, %it was just the opposite, just the opposite Y First Line: Unlike st. Peter who sank when he looked down Last Line: Among the echoes of children immersed in their schooling, %little parables of survival YOU FIGURE IT OUT First Line: Behind me the sunken face of a woman Last Line: Only, hey-what is it a dog says, %when it throws back its head and doesn't stop? YOUR LIFE IS MONEY First Line: Its value dwindles till all you can buy Last Line: Generosity dies. The poor %get poorer Siddal, Elizabeth 8 poems available by this author DEAD LOVE First Line: Oh never weep for love that's dead Last Line: And this only earth, my dear, %where true love is not given Subject(s): Love - Complaints HE AND SHE AND ANGELS THREE First Line: Ruthless hands have torn her Last Line: And sing at his right hand Subject(s): Angels LORD MAY I COME? First Line: Life and night are falling from me Last Line: O god, remember me LOVE AND HATE First Line: Ope not thy lips, thou foolish one Last Line: That stole my life away Subject(s): Hate; Love LUST OF THE EYES First Line: I care not for my lady's soul Last Line: Up to the unknown lands SILENT WOOD First Line: O silent wood, I enter thee Last Line: Can god bring back the day when we two stood %beneath the clinging trees in that dark wood? TRUE LOVE First Line: Farewell, earl richard Last Line: Watching or fainting, %sleeping or dead Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of WORN OUT First Line: The strong arms are around me, love Last Line: Lest I might wake, and weep Sill, Elizabeth 2 poems available by this author FANNY'S MUD PIES First Line: Under the apple-trees, spreading and thick GRANDPAPA'S SPECTACLES First Line: Grandpapa's pectacles cannot be found Sillings, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author CORRECTION FACILITY First Line: I see you have escaped again Last Line: To correct you again Simonton, Martha Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author PROMISE Poem Text First Line: If spring should come again Last Line: But oh, my dear your voice I'll miss! Subject(s): Spring Simpson, Mabel Elizabeth 4 poems available by this author BODY Poem Text First Line: My body is only lent to me Last Line: My body is only lent to me. Subject(s): Bodies MEMORIAL TO ST. FRANCIS First Line: I cannot build a tower PRAYER Poem Text First Line: O beauteous growth of all the earth Last Line: Grasses, grasses be near to me! VIGIL Poem Text First Line: No one will ever really know Last Line: O this is I, this is I! Simson, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author OPENING THE CONVERSATION First Line: All ordinary memories are mine Last Line: If only I knew %how to make those sounds Singer, Elizabeth 4 poems available by this author A FAREWEL TO LOVE Poem Text First Line: Well, since in spight of all that love can do Last Line: And think no more of hymen, or of love. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Muses A PINDARICK, TO THE ATHENIAN SOCIETY Poem Text First Line: I've toucht each string, each muse I have invok't Last Line: A female breast did ne're before commence. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Soul; Dead, The; Destiny CANTICLES 5:6 Poem Text First Line: Oh! How his pointed language, like a dart Last Line: Do the vain world no form or beauty see. Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Language; Love; Words; Vocabulary TO MUTIUS Poem Text First Line: A thousand great resolves, as great Last Line: With his eternal doom. Subject(s): Fate; Hate; Love; Mutability; Pride; Destiny; Self-esteem; Self-respect Skurnick, Elizabeth 3 poems available by this author MY HUSBAND IS A DERMATOLOGIST First Line: I am afraid a creature will rise from the bottom Last Line: He would scour the sky itself, and empty it clean of stars MY HUSBAND IS A STATE TROOPER First Line: Because of a sideways shadow, the man in the car Last Line: By day, and in the evening unzip him again MY HUSBAND WAS A SPOKESMAN FOR THE PRESIDENT First Line: Who are you to be always speaking? Is not what I want Last Line: And deeper, like a fish, his mouth closing and opening Smart, Elizabeth 2 poems available by this author BY GRAND CENTRAL STATION I SAT DOWN AND WEPT First Line: Our passion by the ice pond forced the sun into sight. It has rocked Last Line: My gardayne) fall only towards that Subject(s): Love BY GRAND CENTRAL STATION I SAT DOWN AND WEPT First Line: Under the redwood tree my grave was laid, and I beguiled my true Last Line: Smile like a cobweb was fastened across the mouth of the cave of %fate Subject(s): Love Smith, Elizabeth 41 poems available by this author AFTER YOU'VE GONE First Line: Now listen honey : while I say Last Line: You'll miss the best pal : you ever had Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BABY DOLL First Line: I went to see the doctor the other day : he said I was well as well could be Last Line: She say you in hard luck bessie : doggone your bad-luck soul Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BACK WATER BLUES First Line: When it rained five days : and the skies turned dark as night Last Line: There ain't no place : for a poor old girl to go Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BLACK MOUNTAIN BLUES First Line: Back in black mountain %a child will smack your face Last Line: I'm out here for trouble %I've got the black mountain blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BLUE SPIRIT BLUES First Line: Had a dream last night : that I was dead Last Line: Run so fast : till someone woke me up Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) COLD IN HAND BLUES First Line: Now I've tried hard : to treat him kind Last Line: Because the one I've got : have done gone cold in hand Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DO YOUR DUTY First Line: I heard you say you didn't love me baby : *you say you heard* mrs brown Last Line: If I'm tired of sleeping by myself : you too dumb to realize Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DOWN HEARTED BLUES First Line: Gee but it's hard to love someone : when that someone don't love you Last Line: I'm going to hold it : until you men come under my command Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) EMPTY BED BLUES First Line: I woke up this morning : with an awful aching head Last Line: Else he'll double-cross you %and leave you with them empty bed blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GET IT, BRING IT, AND PUT IT RIGHT HERE, SELS First Line: I've had a man for fifteen years Last Line: Or else he's gonna keep it out there Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Women's Rights GIMME A PIGFOOT First Line: Up in harlem : every saturday night Last Line: Do the shim-sham-shimmy : till the rising sun Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) GIN HOUSE BLUES First Line: I'm going to the gin house : when the whistle blows Last Line: I want him to drive them off : so they won't come back no more Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I AIN'T GOIN' TO PLAY SECOND FIDDLE First Line: Let me tell you daddy : mama ain't going to sit and grieve Last Line: They you're going : to hang your head and weep Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I'M DOWN IN THE DUMPS First Line: My man's got something : he gives me such a thrill Last Line: I need a whole lots of loving : because I'm down in the dumps Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) J.C. HOLMES BLUES First Line: Listen people : if you want to hear Last Line: I been mistreated : and I don't mind dying Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) JAIL-HOUSE BLUES First Line: Thirty days in jail : with my back turned to the wall Last Line: Say I just come here : to have a few words with you Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) JAZZBO BROWN FROM MEMPHIS TOWN First Line: Don't you start no crowing : lay your money down Last Line: There ain't nothing on that horn : that old jazz can't do Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LONG OLD ROAD First Line: It's a long old road : but I'm going to find the end Last Line: Found my long lost friend : and I might as well stayed at home Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LOST YOUR HEAD BLUES First Line: I was with you baby : when you didn't have a dime Last Line: I'm a good gal : but I've just been treated wrong Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ME AND MY GIN First Line: Stay away from me : because I'm in my sin Last Line: I don't want no pork chop : just give me gin instead Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) MEAN OLD BED BUG BLUES First Line: Yes bedbugs sure is evil : they don't mean no good Last Line: Got myself a wishbone : wish they cut their own doggone throats Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NASHVILLE WOMEN'S BLUES First Line: Folks up north : you all have heard the blues Last Line: They way they strut : is really no bluff Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) NOBODY KNOWS YOU WHEN YOU'RE DOWN AND OUT First Line: Once I lived the life : of a millionaire Last Line: Nobody wants me : around their door Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ONE AND TWO BLUES First Line: If you want me to love you : *keep much* Last Line: Be a long-tailed one : have plenty of jack Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) POOR MAN'S BLUES First Line: Mr rich man rich man : open up you heart and mind Last Line: If it wasn't for the poor man : mr rich man what would you do Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) PREACHIN' THE BLUES First Line: Because just a little spirit : of the blues tonight Last Line: Jumped up and done a shimmy : you ain't never seen Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) RECKLESS BLUES First Line: When I was young : nothing but a child Last Line: Come in pretty papa : mama wants some loving right now Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SEND ME TO THE 'LECTRIC CHAIR First Line: Judge judge please mr judge : send me to the electric chair Last Line: I don't wan : to spend no ninety-ninety years in jail Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SHIPWRECK BLUES First Line: Captain : tell your men to get on board Last Line: I feel like : someone has shipwrecked poor me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SOBBIN' HEARTED BLUES First Line: You treated me wrong : I treated you right Last Line: Going to keep on walking : until I lose these sobbing-hearted blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ST. LOUIS BLUES First Line: I hate to see : the evening sun go down Last Line: The man I love : wouldn't go nowhere Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ST. LOUIS DADDY First Line: I hate to leave st louis : and I tried so hard to stay Last Line: Now I'm going to detroit : and find me an angel man Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SUGAR MAN BLUES--PART 1 First Line: Sugar man sugar man : please come back to me Last Line: I ain't had nothing sweet : since my sugar been gone Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SUGAR MAN BLUES--PART 2 First Line: Sugar man sugar man : you got the best sugar in town Last Line: Lord I want my sugar : just to *have my* sugar *and how* Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TAKE ME FOR A BUGGY RIDE First Line: Daddy you really knows your stuff : when you take me for a buggy ride Last Line: You done sent salvation : to my very soul Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TICKET AGENT EASE YOUR WINDOW DOWN First Line: Ticket agent : ease your window down Last Line: Because you can get a crooked daddy : most anywhere Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) TROMBONE CHOLLY First Line: If gabriel knowed : how you could blow Last Line: A-doing the charleston : while you blow Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WEEPING WILLOW BLUES First Line: I went down to the river : sat beneath a willow tree Last Line: The way he treats me girls : he'll do the same thing to you Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) YELLOW DOG BLUES First Line: Ever since miss suzie johnson : lost her jockey lee Last Line: She's wondering : where her easy rider's gone Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) YOU'VE BEEN A GOOD OLD WAGON First Line: Look a-here daddy : I want to tell you please get out of my sight Last Line: He's a good old wagon : daddy and he ain't broke down Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) YOUNG WOMAN'S BLUES First Line: Woke up this morning : when the chickens was crowing for day Last Line: And I'm a good woman : and I can get plenty of men Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) Smith, Elizabeth Oakes Prince Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Seba (e. Oakes), Mrs.; Oakes-smith, Elizabeth 25 poems available by this author AN INCIDENT Poem Text First Line: A simple thing, yet chancing as it did Last Line: I would not soar like thee, in loneliness to pine! Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Flight; Life; Flying ANGELS Poem Text First Line: With downy pinion they enfold Last Line: Where much has been forgiven. Subject(s): Angels ATHEISM: ANNIHILATION Poem Text First Line: Doubt, cypress crowned, upon a ruined arch Last Line: And silence claims again her region cold and drear. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Love; Sleep; Dead, The; World ATHEISM: FAITH Poem Text First Line: Beware of doubt - faith is the subtle chain Last Line: That questions of thy faith, the cold external doubt. Subject(s): Atheism; Doubt; Faith; Life; Skepticism; Belief; Creed ATHEISM: REASON Poem Text First Line: The infinite speaks in our silent hearts Last Line: Who, though divorced from good, bow to the lord of hosts. Subject(s): Atheism; Death; Reason; Soul; Dead, The; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals CHARITY, IN DESPAIR OF JUSTICE Poem Text First Line: Out-wearied with the littleness and spite Last Line: All known to god, -- and ask of men, sweet charity. Subject(s): Charity; Philanthropy INSCRIPTION, FR. THE SINLESS CHILD Poem Text First Line: Sweet eva! Shall I send thee forth Last Line: To love, and peace, and youth. Subject(s): Children; Love; Peace; Youth; Childhood LOVE DEAD Poem Text First Line: This morn with trembling I awoke Last Line: With but phantoms round me flitting! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of NIGHT Poem Text First Line: Thrice welcome, solemn, thoughtful night Last Line: I rest my aching head. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime OAK First Line: The young oak grew, and proudly grew Subject(s): Holidays; Trees ODE TO SAPPHO Poem Text First Line: Bright, glowing sappho! Child of love and song Last Line: Alas! A lyre and heart -- both broken! Subject(s): Love; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Soul SINLESS CHILD, SELS. STANZAS Poem Text First Line: O god! That we should live, the dull pulse beat Last Line: There are who martyrs live to their dark fate. STRENGTH FROM THE HILLS Poem Text First Line: Come up unto the hills! Thy strength is there Last Line: And god himself more near! Subject(s): Mountains; Strength; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE ACORN Poem Text First Line: An acorn fell from an old oak tree Last Line: Preserved for its destiny. Subject(s): Oak Trees THE APRIL RAIN Poem Text First Line: The april rain! The april rain! Last Line: In your pure and healthful play. Subject(s): April; Rain THE BARD Poem Text First Line: It can not be, the baffled heart, in vain Last Line: And ye, charmed with the voice, gave but a stone instead. Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Poetry & Poets; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness THE DREAM Poem Text First Line: I dreamed last night, that I myself did lay Last Line: And we bow down in dread, o'ershadowed by death's wing! Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Earth; Graves; Grief; Dead, The; Nightmares; World; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness THE DROWNED MARINER Poem Text First Line: A mariner sat on the shrouds one night Last Line: Away from decay, and away from the storm. THE GREAT AIM Poem Text First Line: Earth beareth many pangs of guilt and wrong Last Line: Thy truth becomes an act, -- thy aspiration -- life.! THE POET Poem Text First Line: Sing, sing - poet, sing! Last Line: Though it pierce, shall give thee rest. Subject(s): Grief; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness THE RECALL, OR SOUL MELODY Poem Text First Line: Nor dulcimer nor harp shall breathe Last Line: Unto a deathless melody. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Soul THE UNATTAINED Poem Text First Line: And is this life? And are we born for this? Last Line: The present can not sate nor e'er thy spirit fill. Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Life; Dead, The TO THE HUDSON Poem Text First Line: Oh, river! Gently as a wayward child Last Line: That like the ocean call invites me to its strand. Subject(s): Hudson River UNPROFITABLE SERVANTS Poem Text First Line: Vain we number every duty Last Line: For the good we leave undone. Smith, Elizabeth S. 3 poems available by this author SHADOWS Poem Text First Line: The sun is sinking in the west Last Line: My love still calls for thine. Subject(s): Shadows STAR DUST Poem Text First Line: Deep in the mellow afterglow Last Line: And light. Subject(s): Night; Silence; Stars; Bedtime THE MYSTERY Poem Text First Line: What go wid all de flies I kill? Last Line: Wid out a wink of sleep. Subject(s): Insomnia; Sleeplessness Smither, Elizabeth 27 poems available by this author AT THE TUKI TUK MOTEL First Line: Towards morning a motorbike wakes me like a bird Last Line: A home of it, away from home, left with %the bare pins, the sound of a bike, not even a bird CASANOVA AND THE RESIDUES OF INDIFFERENCE First Line: At the amusement parlour %the fellatio clowns Last Line: Satin lamps, the latest books %and the night turned back %like a quilt CASANOVA IN MIDWINTER First Line: Along the empty promenade %the spa-like waters of the sea Last Line: Or the chambermaid's life savings %in exchange for certain renovations CITY GIRL IN THE COUNTRY First Line: The rooster crows like someone being sick Last Line: The girl in the garden calls out 'shit!' %aimlessly pulling out the weeds CREATIVE WRITING COURSE FACES THE SONNET First Line: Something formal, say a silver jug %by cellini or espaliering apples Last Line: Or envy: who gave the popes these millions %who left these fossils of great beauty %which still frui FILING CATALOGUE CARDS First Line: When pregnancy fails' %'when the winds blow' Last Line: Holds the world together %keeping apart the green child %from the windblown tiger FIRST HOLIDAY UNDER CANVAS First Line: Gulls come under the canvas and herrings Last Line: Drowing on its back and hurled it into air. It flew %away without faltering. I envied it FIRST SPEECH LESSON First Line: Sister teresa bends over me %as I lie with my head on a book Last Line: Receives the palatals of the rain %and the mute statue of christ %points to his rib reserve heart FROG PRINCE First Line: That night when he lay on my pillow %the engorged face of my father Last Line: Today a prince with a migraine %wakes beside me %his other arm encircles GREAT GRANDMOTHER First Line: Great grandmother was set on fire %by a birthay cake. Grandfather waved Last Line: They damaged her pompoms because you were jealous %(she was taking grandfather away from you) HERE COME THE CLOUDS First Line: Here come the clouds the same as last june Last Line: And here they are. Is this it then? %this empty sky, waiting JENNIFER'S WEDDING First Line: Catch a glimpse of her, super secretary Last Line: To which a wedding is not even one spin %in a year's ring, amille-feuille of growing KEPT AWAKE BY A PARTY First Line: Hours ago noise became its motto Last Line: Hair and hands and ankles %the cries from the wings of a great stadium LA LIGNE DONNEE First Line: The exercise in observation where %several people decide Last Line: At once jerky and feminine ...%leave the room at this juncture %the poem will follow LATE SUMMER DEW First Line: Some measure whose meaning we defer Last Line: And we humans between, walking on air LEGEND OF MARCELLO MASTROIANNI'S WIFE First Line: All summer in the shallow sea %she lay on a lilo waiting Last Line: Into the darkness the litany she'd learnt: %whales, dolphins, the dove-like sea MALE POETS WITH SMALL HANDWRITING First Line: Why do none of the male poets I know Last Line: Whereas I'm reining in a most fearful scribble %in which at the heart %words lie under the trampled O IN SHAKESPEARE EXPLAINED First Line: Sometimes a writer turns %his eye to the whole of his subjet Last Line: For sure the play is a sandwich %and slippery as eel or heart %o is the word for it ORANGEADE WITH AN AMERICAN AT BRIGHTON First Line: The pavilion is a seraglio %a distinct slap %in the eye of a wife Last Line: In the dining-room %and now the photos %of my wife %left behind in boston PIECES OF EIGHT First Line: So often treasure is tiny coins Last Line: Single weed lifted as you walk QUESTION OF GRAVITY First Line: All day we fought against the sky %and in theatres aimed towards the gods Last Line: Murmured a prayer and looked towards the roof %dreamed and straightened out our backs SHAKESPEARE VIRGINS First Line: The english examiner of speech %forgave our accents but not Last Line: Discarded near the almshouse %that shakespeare might have noticed %only en passant SINGING IN THE RAIN First Line: I am caught at the bus stop like gene kelly Last Line: Go on humming: heaven and earth are you to me SKYFUL OF STARS First Line: Look up and they're word perfect Last Line: That may be of air or earth, wherever %the desirable water is, a loving gaze TEMPTATIONS OF ST. ANTONY BY HIS HOUSEKEEPER First Line: Once or twice he eyed me oddly. Once %he said thank god you're a normal woman Last Line: If he asked, he terrifies himself %I think it makes him praybetter, or at least he spends longer and TINY WIEIGHT OF THE SOUL First Line: At death the body diets by an ounce or less Last Line: Is enough to pierce the ratio as though %some last postcript of a proof was left %as lightly as the VARIATION ON BASHO'S SNOW PARTY First Line: Could we not have an air party Last Line: At a benefactor, thinking %a benediction was in order Socolow, Elizabeth (liz) Anne 11 poems available by this author ANOTHER CONVERSATION WITH THE BELOVED First Line: The darter fish are almost extinct you tell me Last Line: After sex from which we weep for the having, %and the having to forget BAMBOO INDOORS AT THE CORPORATE CENTER First Line: Bamboo, I mean a whole grove of green stalks Last Line: Clustered in harmony on the topmost branches of a true %forest where it rains CITYSCAPE First Line: My aunt, seventy-eight, playful as a hoop Last Line: She showed me the cards he sent; %raging at the printed verse, she %kissed his signature DRIVING TO WORK IN NEW JERSEY First Line: This is the state where lindberg flew solo Last Line: Not to notice. And keep remembering the truth is: %we are not all alive LAUGHING ANGEL: REIMS First Line: In all the cathedrals of europe LYING First Line: A lie is a kind of gap Last Line: Easy to walk in the sun OPHELIA First Line: So wet. %in this whole country Last Line: In the full afternoon, a man from a place where water %is for pleasure as well as thirst TACK YOU TAKE First Line: This afternoon, since seeing the stopped tan car Last Line: Summons us to action TAINT First Line: Did your mother ever wear a hat TO A FRIEND IN FEAR First Line: I know from those nights alone on the river Last Line: The body giving in to sleep WOMAN SINGING THE BLUES WHILE CLEANING HOUSE IN DETROIT First Line: Wherever I have to do the most ordinary things Last Line: A woman singing the blues %in full, and perfect voice Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan Sparks, Iris Elizabeth 5 poems available by this author BLACK TREES ON A MISTY DAY Poem Text First Line: Black trees on a misty day Last Line: Stamp me with impending night. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation CANYON WALLS Poem Text First Line: I know the deep-browed peace of canyon walls Last Line: And the silence reigns. Subject(s): Canyons; Rocky Mountain Range; Silence COWBOY Poem Text First Line: Cowboy, cowboy Last Line: Seek muscle and brain. Subject(s): Cowboys THE SOUTHWEST Poem Text First Line: There lies a fabulous splendor in this land Last Line: The vast and ancient beauty of this land. Subject(s): West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States VIRTUE MAY GROW FROM OUT THIS FIELD OF PAIN Poem Text First Line: Virtue may grow from out this field of pain Last Line: Love's bitter sunkissed well. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery Spires, Elizabeth Poet's Biography 98 poems available by this author 0 DEGREES First Line: These nights when the wind blows 1999 First Line: In a hundred years, we won't be here Last Line: The singing. Only the singing ABOVE THE PAGODA First Line: In my next life, I will live in a house Last Line: This life is no different from that one ANNONCIADE First Line: Morning, and the sounds of the valley float APOLOGY First Line: Too many nights %the heart cries out Last Line: A song is narrow. %a life is narrow Subject(s): Literary Form AT THE BAMBI MOTEL First Line: Walls the color of old plums, a 'tapestry' Last Line: Pink lightbulbs and wait till you see %what's on their walls...' AWAKENING First Line: Trying the door, %I bend to enter the playhouse Last Line: But the child is gone. %the house stands empty BEDS First Line: Each day, I take the lift from the sublet down to the ground floor Last Line: In the perfect bed of her own making BELLS First Line: Whether it be true or not BERTRAM AT FAT CAMP First Line: In your worst dreams you've imagine this - %a hunger desert Last Line: Wrinkling like a septuagenarian, and %dwindle BLACK FAIRY TALE First Line: Who were you that day you left your parents BODIES First Line: Here, in the half-dark of the sauna Last Line: Will it be given to us to know Subject(s): Bodies; Saunas BROWN RABBIT First Line: You were mauled by the cat Last Line: To tear to shreds the fabric of our lives BRUISE First Line: All black, a hard dark Last Line: But pray that crow not come back CABIN First Line: The two-lane highway rushes up and down Last Line: A spider on your shoe is listening to all you say CELESTIAL First Line: When god made the angels, a man made me CELIA DREAMING First Line: Bright sphere, I have watched you dreaming Last Line: It is you, you who are with me, you and not another CEMETERY REEF; GRAND CAYMAN ISLAND First Line: Walking down the beach, I took your arm Last Line: Remember you with the kind that always die Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Death; Grand Cayman Island, West Indies CHILDHOOD First Line: Once, without form or substance, I answered the call Last Line: Let everything remain as it is CLOCK First Line: The sweep of a hand Last Line: It's me. I'm back. I'm here COMB AND THE MIRROR First Line: Two-natured, loving my world Last Line: The weather of their lives Subject(s): Literary Form COURTESAN WITH FAN First Line: Auspicious night %the stars balance on poles CURIO First Line: Today, wave upon wave Last Line: To the ones that I loved DIVINER First Line: As lightning passes from cloud to branching tree DOGWOOD First Line: Whiter than paper, whiter than snow Last Line: Tell me why we have to die EASTER SUNDAY, 1955 First Line: What were we? What have we become Last Line: -- death's, too -- to be happy if we can EASTERN NECK ISLAND First Line: Up in the sky, this late in the day FABERGE'S EGG First Line: Dear friend, 'called away' from my country FACES OF CHILDREN First Line: Meeting old friends after a long time, we see Last Line: Beckons brightly. They trust us to lead them there FEBRUARY ORIGAMI First Line: A room, empty and cold FIRST DAY First Line: The ward is quiet, the mothers delivered Last Line: I have had a child. Now I must live with death FISHER BEACH First Line: Low tide. Umbrellas dot the beach Last Line: We were here FOR SOMEONE ONE First Line: One candle on GHAZAL First Line: My name in the black air, called out in the early morning Last Line: The world on a may morning. I cannot go back to that morning GLASS-BOTTOM BOAT First Line: In the cubano diner, tiny cups GLOBE First Line: I spread my game on the cracked linoleum floor Last Line: Same age as I am writing this GOOD FRIDAY. DRIVING WESTWARD First Line: The rain. Rain that will not end Last Line: This endless road with all the others. %night and night's eternity coming on Subject(s): Cities GRASS First Line: I walked in the waist-high grass Last Line: Warmed by the sun, %shining in the sun GREAT SEA First Line: A great sea moves within us, beyond us Last Line: And the journey is everything HAIKU MASTER First Line: Under the plum moon, he sits Last Line: Now to paint what isn't there IN HEAVEN IT IS ALWAYS AUTUMN First Line: In heaven it is always autumn. The leaves are always near Last Line: The light is gold. And while we're here, I think it must be heaven INTERROGATIONS OF THE SPARROW First Line: All night, all night %I lie on my pallet of straw Last Line: Like no one. No one thing Subject(s): Literary Form JANUARY 1: KEY WEST First Line: Applauding another sunset JOSEPHINE First Line: In the big birdhouse, questions and answers LETTER IN JULY First Line: My life slows and deepens Last Line: A moment that, even now, %I carry in my body LIFE EVERLASTING First Line: On a night like any other night, in the house Last Line: Wake to the everlasting present of our life LIKE WATER First Line: It hadn't been three months since he had died Last Line: I want him back the way I want a drink of water' LITTLE BOYS First Line: The little boys are lined up, two by two MANSION BEACH First Line: I count the rays of the jellyfish Last Line: As I wish now, o let it never be complete! MUTOSCOPE First Line: Swirl and smash of waves against the legs Last Line: The past preserved and persevering, %the sentimental past NAP First Line: Tragic and intimate Last Line: We uncreated the other NEEDLE First Line: Eye to eye, I NIGHT AND THE DOLL First Line: Out in the dark yard, the doll looks up at the moon Last Line: The animate world flashing and streaming around her ON THE ISLAND First Line: One ferry arrives as one is pulling out Last Line: Wave back at her. They wave back ON THE KING'S ROAD First Line: Pulling the air around her like a shawl PATCHY FOG First Line: This morning the lilies on ames pond PRIMOS First Line: As an unlucky match is singled out and struck PROFIL PERDU First Line: In 1949, in menton, after long lovemaking PUELLA AETERNA First Line: I was changeling in a changeling world RED BOOMERANG First Line: Do you remember? February RIDDLE First Line: Three sat down at the table Last Line: Tomorrow they'll be at it again Subject(s): Food And Eating RIDDLE First Line: What you were and were not: %I was. Both you and not you Last Line: Who you were, mother, %but what am I? ROBED HEART First Line: They come in white livery bringing the sun Last Line: And I am, mother, I am! ROCK First Line: For a day and a night Last Line: Give up, give up, give up ROCKO First Line: I often wondered who was walking who Last Line: The brave old man and his good dog rocko ROMAN LACHRYMATORY BOTTLES First Line: Of glass, of alabaster, these phials Last Line: In every one of them, and are gone ROSA TACCHINI First Line: Hides, horns, hooves, tallow, wool ROSE First Line: We waited for the roses to bloom Last Line: As, over and over, you brought me spring flowers Subject(s): Flowers; Roses SAINT TERESA IN ECSTASY First Line: Feathered by flame SAKE First Line: A squat bottle Last Line: Warm. Drink again. %for your sake. Mine SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS: 1692 First Line: You also believed, matthew hopkins SEVEN GOUGH SQUARE First Line: We shall receive no letters in the grave Last Line: Your husband, samuel johnson SHADOW First Line: The body all in black Last Line: The shadow, wrapped in its own dark light, %striding toward you SILENCE First Line: Brightness and flow, silence descends around me Last Line: Tooth and claw, upon the living heart that spawned it? SIMS: THE GAME First Line: In some ways it's life real life Last Line: In some ways yes in some ways no SKINS First Line: Above my head the apples on my grandparents' tree SNAIL First Line: I watch you traverse the long green table Last Line: I monster that I am bow down before you SOME LAST THINGS First Line: On this day the street ice melts its altars SOMETHING HAPPENS First Line: A man sits beside me at a party Last Line: Something is happening to us all SONG OF RENUNCIATION First Line: Nothing can be taken back Last Line: In poverty, we bear love's sins. %uttering the same words again and again Subject(s): Love STONINGTON SELF-PORTRAIT First Line: Old sinner, pilgrim of doubt SUMMER OF CELIA First Line: Is this a dream? The august sun Last Line: Shocked and surprised, in our separate bodies SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT FULHAM PALACE Poem Text First Line: A sunday afternoon in late september, one of the last Last Line: And ask, once more, to enter that innocent first world. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; London; Nuclear Freeze TEQUILA First Line: I live in a stone house high in the mountains THANKSGIVING NIGHT: ST. MICHAEL'S First Line: A scarred night, fog, the sky and streaky white THEATRE OF PAIN First Line: In the theatre of pain where all things are born Last Line: Welcome to the world TRAVELLERS First Line: When the lake lies still as a mirror TRIPTYCH First Line: You find me in every photograph Last Line: And prefer those other two TRURO First Line: I found a white stone on the beach Last Line: The wordless white stone of my life TWO CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF A METAPHOR First Line: In the beginning, was it spring or summer? Last Line: That's how it was with us TWO WATCHERS First Line: Dusk. The light on the water contracts to a tear Last Line: Begin to come on in the great houses of baltimore UNFEMININE FLOWER First Line: Formally, shall she begin Last Line: She: the unfeminine flower VICTORIANA: GOLD MOURNING PENDANT WITH AN EYE PAINTED First Line: Who made this thing WAKE First Line: Ash in the air. Ash in everyone's mouth Last Line: To yours. I am your soul. %I am who you turn to when the world stops WALK First Line: Past the skittish sheep in the sheeplot WIDOW'S WALK First Line: Captain: the weathervane's rusted WOMAN ON THE DUMP First Line: She sits on a smoldering couch Last Line: In the background unexhaustedly %burning, burning, burning Subject(s): Cities WORLDLING First Line: In a world of souls, I set out to find them Last Line: And my parents, spent by the dream %of creation, slept on St Jacques, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author HOW LOVELY Last Line: Longing for a daughter St. Jacques, Elizabeth 8 poems available by this author HAIKU First Line: On a step Last Line: The quiet butterfly HAIKU First Line: In the night barn Last Line: But cat's eyes HAIKU First Line: Swaying Last Line: The wildflower HAIKU First Line: The cave's mouth Last Line: In the light HAIKU First Line: Lightning flash Last Line: Of the midnight bat HAIKU First Line: March winds Last Line: Also moans HAIKU First Line: Mallard feather Last Line: On his bedroom wall HAIKU First Line: Dodging Last Line: The silver fox Stahlecker, Elizabeth 11 poems available by this author ASKING YOU First Line: I ask you if the bushes aren't beautiful Last Line: Into a hundred branches, holding blossoms %precisely, heavy above the lawn BLACK AND WHITE First Line: Only now do they give the sickness a name Last Line: In her arm, your father %beside her, smiling, small CAPE MAY POINT First Line: Because of the trees Last Line: As if for once he could carry a tune FIELD OF SKY First Line: In proofreading someone again exclaims Last Line: The sky takes it in slices: %within minutes the whole sun sliced to sky MEETING MR. DOROSHENKO First Line: At st. Basil's orphanage printing press Last Line: But look: the ink %he induced me to choose %is bright as blood NIGHT VISION First Line: You wonder at times why there sin't more to life Last Line: There the deadly illness, there your hard core %splitting like old wood left out in the rain PRACTICE First Line: The band isn't getting any better Last Line: Among the primary colors others wear, %surer of their bodies, their deep tans STRAY First Line: I could tell you what these raisins Last Line: Trying to slip his way into the one I do THREE FLIGHTS UP First Line: A prelude of winter across the panes WAITING First Line: Either he wasn't Last Line: Sun set: narrow pink tie %on a blue shirt-- %what he's wearing WITH MY LOOKS First Line: I take my heart to the cleaners Last Line: With my looks, I get my way Stanciu, Elizabeth Ann 1 poems available by this author ON THE EDGE OF FOREVER First Line: We were on the edge of forever Stebbins, Mary Elizabeth (hewitt) 2 poems available by this author HAROLD THE VALIANT Poem Text First Line: I mid the hills was born Last Line: Coldly disdains me. THE SUNFLOWER TO THE SUN Poem Text First Line: Hymettus' bees are out on filmy wing Last Line: Take root like me, or give me life like thine! Stein, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author LEAVING GOMORRAH First Line: There were faults, ducts formed by the earth tearing Last Line: The conundrum of its hollow eye Stewart, Elizabeth Grey 5 poems available by this author APPLE WINE First Line: In the glittering wet, by new pools BIRD IN THE SUN First Line: Oh, bird that sings of love FOR MY SON Poem Text First Line: These years have been so very short Last Line: It is so hard to let you go. Subject(s): Comfort LOOK FOR NO PITY SIERRA MEMORY First Line: Do you remember a june morning years ago Stoddard, Elizabeth Drew (barstow) Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Stoddard, Richard, Mrs. 17 poems available by this author A BABY SONG Poem Text First Line: Come, white angels, to baby and me Last Line: Sleep, child, and the whitest of dreams to thee! A SEA-SIDE IDYL Poem Text First Line: I wandered to the shore, nor knew I then Last Line: "farewell! Dull sands, and rocks, and sedge, farewell." Subject(s): Mattapoisett, Massachusetts; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore A SUMMER NIGHT Poem Text First Line: I feel the breath of the summer night Last Line: That waiteth for me. Subject(s): Summer ABOVE THE TREE First Line: Why should I tarry here, to be but one Last Line: Believing it their own, and it will serve BEFORE THE MIRROR First Line: Now like the lady of shalott Last Line: These phantoms by this ancient loom Subject(s): Weavers And Weaving HOUSE BY THE SEA First Line: Tonight I do the bidding of a ghost Last Line: The dead that do not die! IN THE STILL, STAR-LIT NIGHT Poem Text Last Line: How could the spirit flee? LAST DAYS Poem Text First Line: As one who follows a departing friend Last Line: That man alone may speak the word -- farewell. MERCEDES Poem Text First Line: Under a sultry, yellow sky Last Line: Now she knows her lover's fate! NAMELESS PAIN Poem Text First Line: I should be happy with my lot Last Line: If any other lot were mine. Subject(s): Pain; Women's Rights; Suffering; Misery; Feminism NOVEMBER Poem Text First Line: Much have I spoken of the faded leaf Last Line: The loss of beauty is not always loss! ON THE CAMPAGNA Poem Text First Line: Stop on the appian way Last Line: Deep as the shadow of rome! Subject(s): Campagna Di Roma, Italy ONE MORN I LEFT HIM IN HIS BED Last Line: A grief - your and my universe! Subject(s): Death - Children THE HOUSE OF YOUTH Poem Text First Line: The rought north-winds have left their icy caves Last Line: Back to the house of youth! Subject(s): Mattapoisett, Massachusetts THE POET'S SECRET Poem Text Last Line: The secret each alone must learn. UNRETURNING Poem Text First Line: Now all the flowers that ornament the grass Last Line: And the vast world beneath hides him from me! WIFE SPEAKS First Line: Husband, today could you and I behold Last Line: Wait for a future which contains no past? Subject(s): Marriage Stoessl, Elizabeth 5 poems available by this author FRAU HERRMANN First Line: Housebound and fevered among the pillows Last Line: It is true then: I am beyond saving - %even by the baptists, even by her Subject(s): Death; Girls; Sickness SUBVERSIONS: BLUE BOY CANNERY First Line: Thelma failed the corn-ear inspection line because she Last Line: Gloves, hosed down her safety glasses and her boots, and %took herself far from the scene Subject(s): Canneries; Labor And Laborers SUBVERSIONS: BONNEVILLE HATCHERY First Line: Margaret squatted next to jerry. Each time a slaughtered Last Line: Floordrain, threw the cups out half-emptied, or drank the %milt and absorbed its power Subject(s): Labor And Laborers SUBVERSIONS: KINSLER'S COAT FACTORY First Line: Valerie stilled her treadle when they raised the piecework Last Line: Returned. The women followed. The men kept cutting, %did not look up Subject(s): Factories; Labor And Laborers SUBVERSIONS: PERRY KNITTING MILL First Line: He moved down the line inspecting their work quickly so Last Line: And to savor the women's laughter and their gratitude for %20 minutes of peace Subject(s): Knitting; Labor And Laborers; Mills And Millers Stone, Cara Elizabeth Hanscom Whiton 1 poems available by this author MUSIC IN AN AVENUE Poem Text First Line: I knew the minstrel not, and yet I knew Last Line: That all the coming centuries shall know. Subject(s): Music & Musicians Stone, Mary Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author SCARUM CAT First Line: Precious dolly dorothy Stoner, Elizabeth R. 1 poems available by this author CRUTCHES' TUNE First Line: Down the street, with a lilting swing Subject(s): World War I Streater, Elizabeth Greene 1 poems available by this author FLAME Poem Text First Line: At midnight I awoke from tranquil sleeping Last Line: When beauty, love, and life can never burn? Subject(s): Fire Stuart, Elizabeth Alternate Author Name(s): Elizabeth, Princess 1 poems available by this author VERSES BY THE PRINCESS ELIZABETH, GIVEN TO LORD HARINGTON Poem Text First Line: This is joy, this is true pleasure Last Line: Be praise perpetually! Sullam, Elizabeth 17 poems available by this author 4-AUG-83 First Line: I cannot tell %why memory feeds upon secret wells Last Line: In my landscape a surfing of shadows ARCTIC First Line: You stepped over the unattended Last Line: At the booms of calving ice cliffs AVIGNON, 1984 First Line: Winter goes about reserved on avignon DISAPPEARANCES First Line: There were estuaries here'-you say Last Line: You are no stranger to sudden soliloquies. %but there were estuaries here' FOR NEVA MAFFII AGAZZI First Line: We made them ours, %those cities we saw Last Line: To learn the speech %of the dead before you die GARDA SEE (LAKE GARDA) First Line: Slowly the car cliffs down IN MEMORY OF ROBERTO TINTI, CALLED BOB, COMMANDER First Line: You ducked, shouted LEAVING THE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM First Line: Perfection was the pond, a circle cut by the po Last Line: Per enigmate,' allows parallel lines to meet %in his infinity LOCKET First Line: Your sister's lips quiver in a smile Last Line: And rings, now in my hand, one of earth's %countless, deciduous things NIGHT WALKS UNAWARE First Line: Of her own doings RAVENNA, 1985 First Line: It was here where the land was haloed REAPPEARANCES First Line: I watch him scrape and smooth Last Line: And tries to understand itself SAP OF OLEANDER THICKENED IN YOUR VEINS First Line: A universe began to constrict SAPPHO First Line: It is so gray in the field of asphodelus Last Line: Like me a fragment of matter %crumbled by the gods SUNSET First Line: There is confusion of signs TO JOSEPH First Line: Latex drips over new york skyscrapers Last Line: Classic hand, the sky releases a rain of old coins Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness TRANSITIONS First Line: The morning rises to upper rooms Suszynski, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author I REMEMBER First Line: I remember when %we'd edge the roof with multicolored lights Last Line: By god's incarnation, %our hands entwined Swain, Elizabeth Bacon 1 poems available by this author KITTENS PLAY First Line: One soft, small ball of gray hides 'neath the chair Swift, Elizabeth Townsend 1 poems available by this author FROM AMERICA First Line: Oh, england, at the smoking trenches dying Subject(s): World War I Tallent, Elizabeth 2 poems available by this author DIMINUTIVES First Line: The rationale for doing away with the rest Last Line: Comedienne was a girly-girl word to the wise LOVER AS OED First Line: This is what comes of buying dictionaries with pictures Last Line: Now I would take back every word Tanner, Elizabeth 2 poems available by this author A CERTAIN TUESDAY Poem Text First Line: I love today, bright and uneventful Last Line: And yet I think I always shall ... THE STOP-OVER Poem Text First Line: Night is here Last Line: To rest awhile till dawn. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips Taylor, Elizabeth 3 poems available by this author ODE Poem Text First Line: Ah poor olinda never boast Last Line: He, like a god, is e'ry where! Subject(s): Freedom; Hearts; Liberty SONG Poem Text First Line: Ye virgin powers defend my heart Last Line: Returns into my breast. Subject(s): Love; Truth; Wit & Humor TO MERTILL WHO DESIRED HER TO SPEAK TO CLORINDA OF HIS LOVE Poem Text First Line: Mertill though my heart should break Last Line: Or fear to lose, -- but you. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love; Dead, The Taylor, Elizabeth Cushing 1 poems available by this author KEEP CLIMBING Poem Text First Line: Oh, life is a ladder Last Line: If you will only try. Subject(s): Climbing; Life Teffault, Elizabeth M. 2 poems available by this author A CRACK IN THE SIDEWALK Poem Text First Line: Yesterday / as I walked along my way Last Line: So I took it home with me. Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails DREAM GARDEN Poem Text First Line: Were I to plant a garden Last Line: There in the midst of it? Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening Teft, Elizabeth 4 poems available by this author ON LEARNING. DESIRED BY A GENTLEMAN Poem Text First Line: Well, ignorance, the cause is yet unknown Last Line: Consider, sir, a simple virgin's muse. Subject(s): Education; Women's Rights; Feminism ON SNUFF-TAKING Poem Text First Line: Custom, in this small article I find Last Line: Lest custom makes it amiable in time. Subject(s): Snuff (tobacco) ON VIEWING HERSELF IN A GLASS Poem Text First Line: Was nature angry when she formed my clay? Last Line: With never-fading charms to dress my mind! Subject(s): Mirrors; Self TO A GENTLEMAN WHO DISORDERED A LADY'S HANDKERCHIEF, ... CUT HIS THUMB Poem Text First Line: Your punishment is just, you must confess Last Line: Lest serpents sting you, when you next intrude. Subject(s): Punishment; Rudeness; Bad Manners Thelen, Elizabeth 2 poems available by this author ASK MARTHA First Line: Dear reader, %mildew is your punishment Last Line: Will be gleaming soon enough, %thanks to you Subject(s): Cleanliness; Home; Housekeeping; Housewives; Magazines WHAT WE THINK OF AS OUR HEARTS First Line: High school. A spring saturday, bored Last Line: In between: gowanda, patchin, %colden, eden Thomas, Elizabeth 16 poems available by this author A NEW LITANY, OCCASIONED BY AN INVITATION TO A WEDDING Poem Text First Line: From marrying in haste, and repenting at leisure Last Line: Libera nos. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ANTIQUE First Line: Sing me a song of samarcand CRABAPPLE First Line: All day long Last Line: Death would be so light, %so airy, so dressed up %like an angel? EPISTLE TO CLEMENA. OCCASIONED BY AN ARGUMENT AGAINST THE AUTHOR Poem Text First Line: Though you my resolution still accuse / and for misanthropy condemn the muse Last Line: But harder yet an honest man to choose. Subject(s): Fidelity; Marriage; Women; Faithfulness; Constancy; Weddings; Husbands; Wives INSIDE THE HEART First Line: From across the tiled, tundra JILL, A PINDARIC ODE, SELS. First Line: Nine times the sun his yearly course had run Last Line: She fixed her fainting eyes on mine, then fetched a sigh and died MIDNIGHT THOUGHT (ON THE DEATH OF MRS. E.H. & HER DAUGHTER) Poem Text First Line: Oh sacred time! How soon thou'rt gone! Last Line: Tis want of sense makes superfluity. Subject(s): Death; Love; Soul; Time; Dead, The ON SIR J- S- SAYING IN A SARCASTIC MANNER, MY BOOKS WOULD MAKE ME MAD Poem Text First Line: Unhappy sex! How hard's our fate Last Line: And thank our gracious laws that give such liberty. Subject(s): Women - Writers PREDESTINATION; OR THE RESOLUTION Poem Text First Line: Ah! Strive no more to know what fate / is pre-ordained for thee Last Line: Of thy presumptuous curiosity! THE DREAM. AN EPISTLE TO MR. DRYDEN Poem Text First Line: When yet a child, I read great virgil o'er Last Line: But envies those that in your presence stand. Subject(s): Dreams; Dryden, John (1631-1700); Poetry & Poets; Nightmares THE EXECRATION Poem Text First Line: Enslaved by passions, swelled with pride Last Line: Of rosalinda, whom I hate. Subject(s): Curses; Hate THE FORSAKEN WIFE Poem Text First Line: Methinks, 'tis strange you can't afford Last Line: I yet superior am to you. Subject(s): Men; Pride; Women; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE TRIPLE LEAGUE TO MRS. SUSAN DOVE Poem Text First Line: Pensive eliza lately sat Last Line: That charming iris still is mine. Subject(s): Cupid; Fate; Friendship; Soul; Eros; Destiny THE TRIUMVIRATE Poem Text First Line: Oh! Wondrous force of sympathy Last Line: May cry at sight, ''tis very he!' Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery THE TRUE EFFIGIES OF A CERTAIN SQUIRE: INSCRIBED TO CLEMENA Poem Text First Line: Some generous painter now assist my pen Last Line: And own this folly worse than when 'twas acted o'er. Subject(s): Hate TO ALMYSTREA [MARY ASTELL], ON HER DIVINE WORKS Poem Text First Line: Hail, happy virgin! Of celestial race Last Line: From the false brand of incapacity. Subject(s): Astell, Mary (1668-1731); Women's Rights; Feminism Thomas, Elizabeth Brewster 2 poems available by this author IN AUTUMN First Line: When the last girl came Last Line: Will never return to the tree RED First Line: We missed the point: the red gash Last Line: To a halt, he's swallowing Thomas, Elizabeth Greene 5 poems available by this author BEAUTY RETURNED First Line: Beauty fled from her, into far places HOUSEWIFE SPEAKS First Line: My days are filled LOVER SPEAKS First Line: Amber and gold and a trail of mist LULLABY First Line: Moon-fingers steal adown the night TO A LADY IN A CHURCHYARD First Line: Pale black-robed lady with the patient eyes Thomas, Elizabeth H. 2 poems available by this author TOMMY'S THANKSGIVING First Line: I'm thankful for a lot of things WOODLAND BABY First Line: Little curlyhead, tucked in tight Thomas, Elizabeth M. 2 poems available by this author LITTLE BIRD BLUE, COME SING US YOUR SONG PEARL AND I ARE FAR TOO FAT First Line: My granddaughters named her pearl, not me Last Line: Hopefully, she covered me with kisses Subject(s): Animals; Dogs Thomas, Elizabeth+(1) 2 poems available by this author SUNDAY First Line: It comes, a green worm squatting Last Line: And hangs me on a string to dry VISIONS OF DOOM AT CANAL VILLERE First Line: Once a hurricane enters the mouth Last Line: In tiny embroidered chapels %and ancient, airtight cottages Thompson, Elizabeth B. 1 poems available by this author GOD'S GIFT TO MAN Poem Text First Line: Death is not all there is to life Last Line: When life is god's gift to man. Tibbetts, Elizabeth 19 poems available by this author AFTER A DARK WINTER First Line: Medium is best, the two friends agree Last Line: Waiting to enter real lives Subject(s): Love; Sex; Women APRON First Line: I pull back the throat plate and drop a bobbin Last Line: Seaming raw edges together CLIMBING GRIEF First Line: High above the daughters' cries Last Line: To see how much the mice had eaten EIGHTY-FIVE First Line: Shoo,' she says and waves me away like a big fly Last Line: On a saturday night in their clean white shirts FERTILITY First Line: Out of my vagina came a dog Last Line: Let down their silent streams FULL AS PIE First Line: In the bag on my back - where I carry Last Line: A mouth ready to eat the world now %and speak it back to me HOME VISIT First Line: I didn't want to be Last Line: Was not a godblasted thing to be afraid of IDA GOES TO THE HENS First Line: When all the day had fallen down and Last Line: Reached out her ready hand to fill %her apron pockets with still-warm eggs IN THE WELL First Line: There was a trout' Last Line: Where a face looks up now from that plate of sky Subject(s): Trout INSTITUTION First Line: Weather permitting, the able women who carry Last Line: Far from where we start, or how you too, %could forget what you've lost LOVE AND PAIN First Line: After the funeral there is, of course Last Line: Its shell of bone and teeth, were his soul MUSE VISITS AFTER I'LL NEVER WRITE ANOTHER CHICKEN POEM First Line: You arrive, and I become the white hen %that is taking her first spring bath Last Line: And forgets the daily (even %this morning's) strain of the egg-for this NURSE READS A BOOK OF LUMINOUS THINGS First Line: She picks it up in stray moments Last Line: Beside him when anything is possible Subject(s): Books; Poetry And Poets ORDERING HENS First Line: If you forget that my mother's mother paid only Last Line: Side to side, clucking their torn song PERFECT SELVES First Line: The harbor was full of sewage Last Line: To sizzle like a smelt in the pan Subject(s): Swimming; Water SHE STEPS CLOSER First Line: Every day she steps closer to the place Last Line: And old bread and open her windows to the birds SONNET FOR A NURSE First Line: Sometimes I wash the bodies of the dead Last Line: There, there, I say while I still have the chance TALKING TO GOD First Line: The rooster is talking to god Last Line: Who is eggless but carries all my gold' WHEN LAVENDER COMES First Line: It may fall like a blow to the cheek Last Line: With this tied around her, %she could fly Tipper, Elizabeth 3 poems available by this author A SATYR Poem Text First Line: As dungeons are for criminals prepared Last Line: Make me true christian, tho' no satyrist. Subject(s): Life; Prisons & Prisoners; Sin; Women OBSERVATIONS ON THE LIFE OF EPICTETUS Poem Text First Line: Poor epictetus, born the slave of fate Last Line: Of every spark of good we think or do. Subject(s): Epicetus (60-140); Fate; Heaven; Life; Stoicism; Destiny; Paradise TO A YOUNG LADY DESIRED A VERSE ... SERVANT ONE DAY, MISTRESS ANOTHER Poem Text First Line: More than a king's my word does rule to day Last Line: When all the world's a riddle, why not I? Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Freedom; Riddles; Liberty Todd, Elizabeth Simpson 1 poems available by this author LIGHT First Line: Light is my canopy Toldridge, Elizabeth Barnet 1 poems available by this author DEAR DAY, DEAR NIGHT Poem Text First Line: The silver dawn has been / dappled with golden dye Last Line: And after that, dear night! Subject(s): Day; Night; Sleep; Bedtime Tollet, Elizabeth 6 poems available by this author HYPATIA, SELECTION Poem Text First Line: What cruel laws depress the female kind Last Line: Some senseless idiot curse a lettered bride. Subject(s): Sexism ON A DEATH'S HEAD Poem Text First Line: On this resemblance, where we find / a portrait drawn from all mankind Last Line: For all that's beautiful or dear. Subject(s): Love; Skulls ON THE PROSPECT FROM WESTMINSTER BRIDGE, MARCH 1750 Poem Text First Line: Caesar! Renowned in silence as in war Last Line: And last of all resign thy julian year. Subject(s): Great Britain - Roman Conquest; Westminster Bridge, London THE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Beneath my feet when flora cast Last Line: And love and life must fade and fall. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses TO MY BROTHER AT ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE IN CAMBRIDGE Poem Text First Line: Blest be the man, who first the method found Last Line: Nor in the patriot's labours lose the friend. Subject(s): Brothers; Cambridge University; Half-brothers WINTER SONG Poem Text First Line: Ask me no more, my truth to prove, / what I would suffer for my love Last Line: To banish danger from thy sleep. Tompkins, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author TIDE AT NIGHT First Line: The tide laps and steals Tonna, Charlotte Elizabeth Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Charlotte Elizabeth 5 poems available by this author NO SURRENDER Poem Text First Line: Behold the crimson banners float Last Line: Their patriot -- 'no surrender!' Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty OSRIC, SELS. THE MAIDEN CITY Poem Text First Line: Where foyle his swelling waters Last Line: Yet the maiden on her throne, boys, shall be a maiden still. Subject(s): Londonderry, Northern Ireland; War THE MILLENIUM Poem Text First Line: When from scattered lands afar / speeds the voice of rumoured war Last Line: Come; creation groans for thee! TO A HORSE (WRITTEN IN AMERICA) Poem Text First Line: I know by the ardour thou canst not restrain Last Line: And a long look reverts to yon shadowy plain. Tornes, Elizabeth (beth) 5 poems available by this author BATHING MY GRANDMOTHER First Line: She is decidedly not beautiful Last Line: Bits of white light sparkling %in the lopsided stone EASTER First Line: Remember your birth. Destiny Last Line: Out to the church lawn where the sun burns off %the morning mist, just beginning to warm us STORY First Line: These things happen if you work as a waitress SUMMER SOLSTICE First Line: The momentary fire of the sun imprints Last Line: Can change the landscape, remembered, mute %and comfort us with promises of dark VISITING MY SECOND COUSIN First Line: You say you haven't planted a garden since your mother died Last Line: You are free to think freely here, too bad %there is no war in this country Torrey, Elizabeth F. 1 poems available by this author TRUE STORY First Line: One day early in the winter, when the first snow was Last Line: So my aunt cooked him for their next sunday dinner Tousey, Elizabeth 2 poems available by this author HEROIC MAIDEN Poem Text First Line: Heroic maiden of the long ago Last Line: Kneeling, the world salutes you, joan of arc! Subject(s): Joan Of Arc (1412-1431) TO ENGLAND IN HER SORROW Poem Text First Line: I wear a quiet garb today Last Line: With love's memorial flower. Subject(s): England; Mourning; English; Bereavement Towner, Elizabeth Hawley 2 poems available by this author GARDEN IN MIDSUMMER Poem Text First Line: A spell is on the garden like a bond Last Line: Whirls to her doom. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening ROAD-SONG Poem Text First Line: I will loose my cloak and follow Last Line: Scrip or weight or care! Townsend, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author INCOMPREHENSIBILITY OF GOD First Line: Where are thou? Thou! Source and support Townsend, Elizabeth W. 1 poems available by this author BABY First Line: We've got a baby! Trefusis, Elizabeth 4 poems available by this author AURORA, OR THE MAD TALE MADLY TOLD Poem Text First Line: Tis night. And this the fearful hour Last Line: This maniac had been dead a year, a month, and day! Subject(s): Deception; Grief; Man-woman Relationships; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations EUDORA'S LAMENTATION OVER HER DEAD CHILD Poem Text First Line: Make it wide, make it deep, and with moss be it lined Last Line: "now earth shrinks from her view, and the mourner's at rest." THE BOY AND THE BUTTERLFY Poem Text First Line: Proud of its little day, enjoying Last Line: She dies! -- the victim of his art. THE QUARREL Poem Text First Line: What have I done? In what have I offended? Last Line: Gods! Gods! How great a criminal am I! Subject(s): Love; Love - Unrequited Trotter, Elizabeth Maxine 3 poems available by this author AGAIN AND AGAIN First Line: It is cold. The cows bunch Last Line: Between the last good storm and now? GREAT BLUE HERON First Line: In the shallows the water is boiling Last Line: Are my own folding lungs, %my own flashing skin IMPRINTED First Line: An hour after she is born-alone Last Line: I could do otherwise %she seems to say Subject(s): Birth; Mothers And Daughters Trotter, Elizabeth Stanley 2 poems available by this author A MAY DAY ORISON Poem Text First Line: These are the children of the may Last Line: Emblem of happy hours. Subject(s): Angels; Children; May (month); Spring; Childhood ANY WOMAN TO ANY MAN Poem Text First Line: Man, earthbound, goes to god an arduous way Last Line: In all the things that wantonness betrays. Turner (1755-1846), Elizabeth Poet's Biography 30 poems available by this author AMBITIOUS SOPHY Poem Text First Line: Miss sophy, one fine sunny day Last Line: Was hurt and bruised—for down she fell. BIRD'S NEST First Line: Eliza and anne were extremely distress'd CANARY First Line: Mary had a little bird Subject(s): Canaries CONCEITED GRASSHOPPER First Line: There was a little grasshopper FALSEHOOD 'CORRECTED' Poem Text First Line: When jacky drown'd our poor cat tib Last Line: Such naughty things to do. Subject(s): Boys; Lies HOW TO LOOK WHEN SPEAKING Poem Text First Line: Louisa, my love,' mrs. Manners began Last Line: "to speak and to look as you ought!" Subject(s): Etiquette; Manners; Courtesy HOW TO WRITE A LETTER Poem Text First Line: Maria intended a letter to write Last Line: "though silent your tongue, you can speak with your pen." Subject(s): Letters MARIA'S PURSE Poem Text First Line: Maria had an aunt at leeds Last Line: "admit the insects' greater skill!" Subject(s): Bees; Girls; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs MRS. TURNER'S OBJECT-LESSONS NEW BOOK First Line: A neat little book, full of pictures was brought PLAYING WITH FIRE Poem Text First Line: The friends of little mary green Last Line: Again, before she died! Subject(s): Accidents; Death - Children; Fire; Girls; Play; Death - Babies POISONOUS FRUIT Poem Text First Line: As tommy and his sister jane Last Line: Again along the shady lane. Subject(s): Death - Children; Poisons And Poisoning; Death - Babies POLITENESS Poem Text First Line: Good little boys should never say Last Line: "and, ""yes, ma'am,"" to a lady." Subject(s): Boys; Etiquette; Manners; Courtesy REBECCA'S AFTER-THOUGHT Poem Text First Line: Yesterday, rebecca mason Last Line: Lov'd her better, and forgave her. Subject(s): Forgiveness; Girls; Clemency RICHARD'S REFORMATION Poem Text First Line: Miss lucy was a charming child Last Line: And since has better grown. Subject(s): Boys; Punishment RUDENESS Poem Text First Line: James went to the door of the kitchen and said Last Line: Were learn'd to be us'd in the parlour alone! Subject(s): Boys; Rudeness; Bad Manners THE CRUEL BOY Poem Text First Line: Richard is a cruel boy Last Line: By feeling his own whip. Subject(s): Boys; Cruelty THE DIZZY GIRL Poem Text First Line: As frances was playing and turning around Last Line: "or perhaps it had never been well." Subject(s): Girls; Play THE GIDDY GIRL Poem Text First Line: Miss helen was always too giddy to heed Last Line: And giddy miss helen was drown'd. Subject(s): Drowning; Girls THE GREEDY BOY Poem Text First Line: Sammy smith would drink and eat Last Line: Was often greedy sam. Subject(s): Boys; Greed; Avarice; Cupidity THE HOYDEN Poem Text First Line: Miss agnes had two or three dolls, and a box Last Line: That she never will play with rude boys any more Subject(s): Boys; Girls; Play THE LESSON Poem Text First Line: One afternoon, as joseph west Last Line: Beat headstrong till he'd have no more. Subject(s): Boys; Fights THE LOST PUDDING Poem Text First Line: Miss kitty was rude at the table one day Last Line: Without giving kitty one taste. Subject(s): Etiquette; Food & Eating; Girls; Manners; Courtesy THE MODELS Poem Text First Line: As dick and bryan were at play Last Line: Will act like dick and bryan. Subject(s): Boys; Honesty THE RESULT OF CRUELTY Poem Text First Line: Jack parker was a cruel boy Last Line: Whilst bellowing at a furious bull. Subject(s): Boys; Cruelty THE SASH Poem Text First Line: Mamma had ordered ann, the maid Last Line: To whip her, there's no doubt. Subject(s): Girls; Punishment THE SUPERIOR BOYS Poem Text First Line: Tom and charles once took a walk Last Line: To talking put a stop Subject(s): Boys THE WONDERS Poem Text First Line: Mamma, dear mamma,' cried, in haste, mary anne Last Line: "a silent rebuke to all—indolent hands." Subject(s): Girls THE WORM Poem Text First Line: As sally sat upon the ground Last Line: To frighten her away. Subject(s): Girls; Worms WHO WERE YOU? First Line: On september 11, a man and a woman jumped from one of the burning Last Line: And has not %landed yet Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) Van Tine, Elizabeth 2 poems available by this author AFTER THE FUNERAL First Line: I was her hired man forty years SUMMER STORM First Line: I knew a stillness once before a storm Last Line: The heart-escaping storm shall never rest Vanbuskirk, Elizabeth Conrad 1 poems available by this author DRY SEPTEMBER First Line: It has been not raining Last Line: We must go to war Subject(s): Drought; Thirst Vanderveer, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author SECURITY Poem Text First Line: My mind has been searching for you Last Line: And leaves a heap of cooling embers at your feet. Vester, Clara Elizabeth 2 poems available by this author TO LAURA First Line: Loveliest dream girl YOCTANGEE PARK First Line: When under the ground Vickery, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author HEAVENLY LOVE; WORKED WITH THE HAIR OF HER FATHER, THOMAS First Line: Christs arms do still stand open to receive Last Line: And died a death to rise them from the dead Voss, Elizabeth 5 poems available by this author BENEATH A SHADY TREE First Line: Beneath my shady tree I rest FOREST RAINSTORM First Line: The rain is splashing, beating GYPSIES First Line: Like windy leaves borne here and there POT OF GOLD First Line: Oh, why not grasp and firmly hold SO PURE A THING First Line: My eyes, enraptured, drank their fill Waddell, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author CRUSADERS Poem Text First Line: They have taken the tomb of our comrade christ Last Line: To give our comrade back to his own. Subject(s): Crusades; Jesus Christ Wade, Blanche Elizabeth 2 poems available by this author FASHIONABLE CALL First Line: A little bee named beatrice, and an ant named antoinette SONG OF THE CHRISTMAS TREES First Line: Sleep, thou little child of mary Subject(s): Christmas Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart; Phelps, Mary Gray 22 poems available by this author AFTERWARD First Line: There is no vacant chair. The loving meet ALL THE RIVERS RUN INTO THE SEA APPLE BLOSSOMS First Line: I sit beneath the apple-tree BABY'S PRAYER First Line: Lord b'ess papa, mamma, daisy CONEMAUGH Poem Text First Line: Fly to the mountain! Fly! Last Line: "teach us, altho' we die, to stand." Subject(s): Conemaugh (river), Pennsylvania; Johnstown Flood (1889) DESERTED First Line: I'd rather see an empty bough ETERNAL CHRISTMAS First Line: In the pure sould, although it sing or pray Last Line: And keep eternal christmas in the heart Subject(s): Christmas; Religion FEELING THE WAY GALATEA First Line: A moment's grace, pygmalion! Let me be GENEROUS CREED First Line: Saying 'there is no hope,' he stepped Subject(s): Religion GEORGE ELIOT First Line: A lily rooted in a sacred soil Subject(s): Eliot, George (1819-1880) GLOUCESTER HARBOR Poem Text First Line: One shadow glides from the dumb shore Last Line: A widowed woman's heart. Subject(s): Gloucester, Massachusetts LEARNING TO PRAY First Line: My inmost soul, o lord, to thee LETTER First Line: Two things love can do LITTLE MUD-SPARROWS First Line: I like that old, kind legend Subject(s): Christmas MALVERN HILL Poem Text First Line: Was there ever message sweeter Last Line: Wishing they'd been better men? Variant Title(s): A Message Subject(s): American Civil War; Malvern Hill, Battle Of (1862); U.s. - History ON THE BRIDGE OF SIGHS First Line: It chanceth once to every soul PRAYER AT THE CLOSE OF A MARRED DAY First Line: Take unto thyself, o father Subject(s): Prayer SILENT CHILDREN First Line: The light was low in the schoolroom SOME DAY, SOME DAY OF DAYS, THREADING THE STREET THE LOST COLORS Poem Text First Line: Frowning, the mountain stronghold stood Last Line: For your sake storm we any height. THE ROOM'S WIDTH Poem Text First Line: I think if I should cross the room Last Line: To cross the room? Warner, Claire Elizabeth 2 poems available by this author HOPE First Line: White candles glow in the darkness of the night THE INN BY THE ROAD Poem Text First Line: Ne'er was the sky so deep a hue Last Line: Tis the inn by the road on our way to god. Subject(s): Immortality Washington, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author GARDEN OF JOY--BLUES First Line: Well take me down : and have a time Last Line: All I want : is [a bottle of, some more] Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) Weaver, Elizabeth 3 poems available by this author COCOON First Line: She strumbled on it. The story Last Line: Always the drawer of knives %and the thousand days Subject(s): Cocoons IDENTITY First Line: Inferior, yours. Sister of siren, born in chiffon Last Line: One of me is anchored in your spare arms TWO DELICIOUS, WITH PRAWN SAUCE First Line: Rapunzel had her hair. All she had Last Line: Every note, a single lucky sentence Subject(s): Rapunzel Weber, Elizabeth 5 poems available by this author FLOOD First Line: Eight weeks I carried her Last Line: She rises like that water %in dark swirls toward our house JANUARY First Line: I knew her fingers were already forgetting me Last Line: To the sound of snow falling on snow MY GRANDMOTHER'S HANDS First Line: In the cracked october morning Last Line: Dissolving into your hands UNEMPLOYED WOMAN BEGGING: KOLN, 1930 First Line: Her face is a field where crops forgot to come up Last Line: But corridors in a dream she once had %where she woke screaming and her mother rubbed her back Subject(s): Unemployment VIRGIN FROM THE STRASBOURG CATHEDRAL First Line: Look how her hands would beckon Last Line: As if to touch you Weldon, Elizabeth 2 poems available by this author CRAZED EGOISM SENDS NATIONS INTO WAR DESIGNS OF GALLANTRY Poem Text First Line: My future, once so well-arranged Last Line: I must remember to forget. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Self Welk-berliner, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author LEDA First Line: Of course she took the knowledge Last Line: At the backs of the fragile necks Wells, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author THEY DID NOT KNOW Poem Text First Line: The styx is black, they say Last Line: Where radiantly live the dead! Subject(s): Charon; Hades; Wellesley College; Styx (river) West, Elizabeth Dickinson Alternate Author Name(s): Dowden, Mrs. Edward 2 poems available by this author ADRIFT Poem Text First Line: Unto my faith, as to a spar, I bind Last Line: Come safe to land, and love be left behind. THERE SHALL BE NO MORE SEA' First Line: There shall be no more sea.' ah, surely this Weston, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author CONCERNING THE FLOODING OF PRAGUE AFTER CONSTANT RAINS First Line: The unkind skies have called up angry winds Last Line: Oh jove, who tames wild monsters of the deep, %incline your head and drown these many woes Subject(s): Nature Weston, Elizabeth G. 1 poems available by this author MULATTO CHILD First Line: What is it like? Last Line: In the shining depths of her mahogany eyes White, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author MY ROSE Poem Text First Line: Yesterday, I picked you from Last Line: Lie sleeping in repose. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Roses White, S. Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author GLASS DISPLAY Poem Text First Line: See how the sunlight lingers on the rim Last Line: These testimonies writ in shining glass. Whittemore, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author MY FRIENDS ARE LITTLE LAMPS TO ME Whittier, Elizabeth H. Poet's Biography 9 poems available by this author CHARITY Poem Text First Line: The pilgrim and stranger, who, through the day Last Line: "and merciful one, for thee I wait!" Subject(s): Charity; Philanthropy DR. KANE IN CUBA Poem Text First Line: A noble life is in thy care Last Line: That still his love may help and save. Subject(s): Cuba; Kane, Elisha Kent (1820-1857) JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Poem Text First Line: He rests with the immortals; his journey has been long Last Line: Shall his voice be heard to cheer us, shall his finger point the way. Subject(s): Adams, John Quincy (1767-1848); Presidents, United States LADY FRANKLIN Poem Text First Line: Fold thy hands, thy work is over Last Line: Hovers o'er the winter sea. Subject(s): Franklin, Sir John (1786-1847) LINES WRITTEN AFTER THE DEPARTURE OF JOSEPH STURGE Poem Text First Line: Fair islands of the sunny sea! Midst all rejoicing things Last Line: Who here walked with the multitude, and sat at meat with all! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Slavery; Sturge, Joseph (1793-1859); Anti-slavery; Serfs NIGHT AND DEATH Poem Text First Line: The storm-wind is howling Last Line: Her glory above. Subject(s): Death; Night; Dead, The; Bedtime THE DREAM OF ARGYLE Poem Text First Line: Earthly arms no more uphold him Last Line: Walks the great maccallum more! Subject(s): Scotland THE MEETING WATERS Poem Text First Line: Close beside the meeting waters Last Line: Flashing from a stronger tide! THE WEDDING VEIL Poem Text First Line: Dear anna, when I brought her veil Last Line: "the dead is safe with god alone!" Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives Wilbur, Elizabeth A. 1 poems available by this author AMERICANS COME! First Line: What is the cheering, my little one? Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I Wilkinson, Elizabeth Hays 2 poems available by this author GOOD NIGHT Poem Text First Line: The sun is sleeping in the skies Last Line: Was once a babe like you. THE LAND OF NOD Poem Text First Line: Far and away in the land of nod Last Line: O'er the path that all little ones know. Willard, Frances Elizabeth Caroline 4 poems available by this author A GOOD, GREAT NAME Poem Text First Line: A good, great name!' so speak the bells Last Line: "it shall sing on, ""a good, great name!" Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799) MY ANSWER First Line: Somebody asked me to take a drink ON HEIGHTS OF POWER First Line: Love's light illuminates the pathway ye trod WHILE WE MAY First Line: The hands are such dear hands Williams, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author SUNBATHERS First Line: Over mazatlan the sky smiles Last Line: What will you do with these brilliant bar flies? %how will you clear the smoke from our eyes? Willis, Elizabeth 68 poems available by this author 9-SEP First Line: It's turneresque in twilight. The word comes at me with its headlights on Last Line: Can't relent for every job the stars drop on my back AFTER BAUDELAIRE First Line: Lost in a room of hermetic fireplaces, locked with the key Last Line: Make it up to them or erase your way out ANYONE HAS HALF A LIFE Last Line: On peels or wheels ARTHUR IN EGYPT First Line: Where do you go after a season in denver, walking Last Line: It passed through AS PROUD & DIFFICULT AS GREEK Last Line: Then follow like a nonsense syllable %ma. Pa AUTOGRAPHEME First Line: A thought on the lip %of little sand island Last Line: In the storied night, loing e %cricketing awake, asleep BETWEEN THE ACTS First Line: Between all the versions of 'what I want to say is' Last Line: But of the iris in containing BOOK OF MATTHEW First Line: Here's a text that's mixed with others Last Line: The beginning of sorrows CARRYING AN ATMOSPHERE Last Line: And fell to CATALOGUE RAISONNE First Line: A face cut by air Last Line: A change in tone where the fabric is torn CLASH BY NIGHT First Line: A good man's up to his waist in mackerel. Sometimes Last Line: His catch is no match for noir Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Night CONSTABLE'S DAY OFF First Line: Loving the human bird Last Line: In the green and untidy %molecular air CURTAINED BATTLE PRIZE OF ME, NOT-ME, SHAKEN INTO SWEAT Last Line: Crowned with bullets for thorns DAY LEFT OFF WITH A KIND OF SINGING 'BANG.' GOLDEN-ROD Last Line: Brick heart, letting go DON'T BOTHER TO KNOCK First Line: Nel's off the farm, watched over by a dutch uncle Last Line: Walking the arena into old rooms. It's a wrap ELEGY First Line: The day I drove Last Line: That crashes in between FATEFUL HISTORY Last Line: To make it new %or rue among the rose FELT THINGS LAST LONGER THAN SEEN THINGS, SAYS WHO, DRAWING Last Line: Listen. It's tough, hearts get crushed by metal these days, %no matter what FIGS OF LOST THOUGHT Last Line: Too tough to swallow FISHER KING First Line: Falling in the alley %or shadow of debt Last Line: Its burning eye %whatever you wanted FLIGHT ANGELS First Line: Chick flies too high, testing the stratosphere. Mary's out Last Line: Witness death, in feathers, out of view FOOL BY NATURE, DAYLIGHT BEATS ME UP. A TRIM SURRENDER Last Line: In the drift, the life on paper FORGETTING THE TUMBLED Last Line: The verso alive %against you FORGETTING YOUR GRASP Last Line: Like comic weather GIRL GOES HOME, GOES DOWN, A SLIPPERY SYMPTOM. BOY Last Line: Blocks my window. I mean to last GRAMMAR IS CORAL Last Line: Durable thing GREAT EGG OF NIGHT First Line: Infancy moons us with its misty cloudcover, glowing like clover Last Line: Mistaking angle for angel, piloting home HAZE HORNS IN WITH IRE FOR SUMMER. EVEN HAD DREAMS Last Line: That pen. Fall for piffle, yet. I miss the town that born me HEART OF ANOTHER IS A DARK FOREST First Line: Believing in my velvet way, I feel the urn to fall dearly Last Line: Subtle tart. A crystal palace for baking HUMAN ABSTRACT First Line: In this type of you Last Line: All is fair I FIND YOU IN A STRING Last Line: Was he or she IN SIMPLE SHADE AN INDIGENT ITINERARY IS LOST AGAINST THE Last Line: Naked self, no longer nude INGRID WASHINAWATOK First Line: Tenderly buttoning its gaze Last Line: Who dared to cross into %the human camp JORDAN (H-YRDN) First Line: The names of the lovers are entwined in a garden Last Line: Into karnak of thebes KISS ME DEADLY First Line: Christina rossetti papers london with canary flyers Last Line: Along the way, that's poetry LITTLE JOURNEYS First Line: To lovers' houses, a womanly Last Line: Arrayed in poppies MAIDEN, SEL. First Line: Conductor you knit me Last Line: Perhaps (how I thought you) %to salt that harness with pleasure MAYOR OF HELL First Line: Lunch is a stomp of shabby caps and overbites in Last Line: Love a nurse MONSTER First Line: You wake up crashing through an image of yourself Last Line: Marry the man who saves her Subject(s): Dreams; Monsters MY FELLOW AMERICANS First Line: Who came to see %a baby in a star Last Line: Dear mike & debbie %regard the flying boy ON DANGEROUS GROUND First Line: He's a bad one whining down a concrete river slick with night. Another Last Line: Radiance of faces in a mine. He sinks against her ivy wall. There's no telling %where she'll lead ON THE RESEMBLANCE OF SOME FLOWERS TO INSECTS First Line: A smoky vessel drifts east like a slippery elixir. By simple rotation Last Line: Large things on the breeze OUR DAPHNE DISSIPATES Last Line: They said %'little apple cake' SO LOVING LOVE Last Line: Teacher's picture SONGS FOR A First Line: To spell and to measure Last Line: God never was my darling STOLEN LIFE First Line: Siblings are forever, spinning out fate like an evil twin Last Line: She can hold her own at sea Subject(s): Brothers; Family Life; Sisters TARZAN, THE APE MAN First Line: Cheetah touches the river and cries. Tarzan belongs to Last Line: Ear and ride it home, he'll fan out all his hidden plumage TEACHER'S LOVE Last Line: A flash of light %in white air TENSION First Line: He's half a doc on graveyard, a boy scout in glasses. His dream's a modern Last Line: Poker for a new life in pipe cleaners. They want their own lousy law-abiding %roll in the dirt THINKING THROUGH Last Line: Crawling (not climbing) down %netted, I bet THREE APPLES, TWO CHESTNUTS, BOWL, AND SILVER GOBLET; OR, THE SILVER.. First Line: As in the darkly open science of the foreground, sheepishly Last Line: As air, locked in a form of capture THUNDER ROAD First Line: Fleeing into fretted sun, he has his reasons. Decoyed and Last Line: More than enough green TO LIVE IN SOMEONE Last Line: Not quite falling TREE OF PERSONAL EFFORT First Line: The lost highway of ornament fades into origin. Shipwrecks Last Line: A dragonfly in your hand for luck TROUBLE FELL WEEPING AT THE SIGHT OF PAVED-OVER LOVE Last Line: And this once pair, a final spelling in figments of polish, %of door UNABLE TO HIRE ONESELF Last Line: Someone sees %inside you UNDER THE ARC/OF DISASTER First Line: Blue bodies of dauphins Last Line: They begin to light up UNKNOWN First Line: Moonlight has a human grip. Silver light glints against Last Line: She is always in costume, floating above us like a thumb VALLEY GENES, SCREENING FOR DUST, PUMP OFF BEAUTY FOR A Last Line: Boarded. Slightly foxed. Otherwise, fine VAN TROMP, GOING ABOUT TO PLEASE HIS MASTERS, SHIPS A SEA, GETTING... First Line: Constancy scribbles itself out in waves: a revisionary litter Last Line: Life. Afield and legion. The opposite of grass WHAT LAST BROKE AGAINST LEAF, UNDER LEAF-BEARING MIND? Last Line: Out from under. It's dirt. Don't win. Don't put it out WHAT YOU RISE OUT OF MAY NOT BE DIRT, BUT WHAT YOU BREATHE Last Line: In desert night, deserted. Constantinopilized. Oranged WILD BUNCH First Line: Men ride toward the cleaners like steam through the Last Line: Till the end spells them out in big red drops WITHOUT AN ARCH Last Line: To dirt, like a question WITHOUT PITY First Line: To embark sleepily Last Line: To hate the agony %of any human thing WOLFMAN First Line: A man with a cane had made a long trip. He's unstrung Last Line: You can't protect everyone from yourself Subject(s): Wolves WOMAN'S FACE First Line: Doctors sculpt a monster to disprove everything. Scaling Last Line: Forehead glows like cream above the austrian ego. She %can read YOUNG BLAKE First Line: Sleeps into heaven with his lamps on, finishing explanatory Last Line: Milk on your chin. With flowering ears and hearsay Wilmot, Elizabeth Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, Countess Of; Malet, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author SONG Poem Text First Line: Nothing adds to loves fond fire Last Line: Your love, fond fugitive, to gain. Subject(s): Fate; Hate; Love; Pain; Destiny; Suffering; Misery Wilson, Anne Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author IN A MUSEUM First Line: So there you lie Subject(s): Animals; Cats Winthrop, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author MONSTER IN MY CLOSET First Line: The monster moved into my closet Last Line: The floor of the closet was clean and bare, %not a shoe did they leave for me Subject(s): Monsters Winton, Elizabeth 4 poems available by this author LITTLE VALENTINE First Line: If thoughts had wings SPECIAL DELIVERY First Line: There came by the post SUMMER WALK First Line: A little girl went for a walk SURPRISE First Line: In the roses, snuggled deep Wood, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author CHRISTMAS MASS First Line: My graduation mass Subject(s): Christmas Woody, Elizabeth A. 67 poems available by this author ALCOHOLIC 1960, THE CHILDREN HAVE BEEN TAKEN First Line: The old in evil is acknowledged and dropped Last Line: That hold on to one another is the street ANONYMOUS First Line: On exhibit, the leg bones melt Last Line: It points with accusation BE CAREFUL OR YOU MIGHT BURN First Line: Jewel, jewel, jewel lee one star, Last Line: To this great, red dust of blood and earth BIRD OF GRIEF First Line: Tin cans are incongruous scarecrows Last Line: A claw of avidity CEDAR AND SALMON First Line: Her laughter is how a finger sounds running the surface Last Line: Working the light to imagine the making CIRCUMFERENCE SO LARGE First Line: Under the layers of atmosphere, we deflect words Last Line: The fragile castings we have made CRICKET First Line: Brilliant, he bristles as an undercover militant. Last Line: Cornering his legs to hear the voice of starlight DEER DANCER First Line: Spirals are everywhere, Last Line: The torso, a rib cage of fierce incarnations DISSOLUTION OF AFFECTION First Line: In the vexation of giving an image without color, Last Line: Of this desultory remorse EAGLE THOUGHT 1 First Line: You have discovered a raven. Last Line: You think that you are an eagle EAGLE THOUGHT 2 First Line: The eagle rests on the peak of the roof. Last Line: It influences the light as it floats in the span of upheld hand EAGLES Poem Text First Line: Yellow paper planes fly Last Line: As an edge in the sky. Variant Title(s): Eagles; For The Taos Journey Subject(s): Birds; Eagles EBB OF FOOLISH ENDEAVORS First Line: In the billowing need for amity the wave Last Line: Fidgets and elapses, tending to itself. %desists ENGLISH IN THE DAUGHTER OF A WASCO/SAHAPTIN WOMAN, SPOKEN IN THE First Line: This mother-tongue, the queen's language, is lonely, Last Line: Await the thunderbird's return FLOWER First Line: The wave of hair on the pillows Last Line: Scrape on gristle GIRLFRIENDS First Line: Filled with old lovesr, in the clutch of the chair Last Line: You dream of heaven and they all run up to meet you HAND INTO STONE; IN MEMORY OF ELIZABETH THOMPSON PITT First Line: Her creped fingers Last Line: We breathed our own breath %under this cover HAWK MAN First Line: You pluck at strings Last Line: As good as the feathered hand for sounds HOME AND THE HOMELESS First Line: The buildings are worn. Last Line: Age, the creak in the handmade screen door fades behind itself IF NO ONE PRAYED, WE'D BURN LIKE LIGHT BULBS... First Line: Parochial school made you a street priest. Last Line: But no one saved you ILLUMINATION First Line: The irresistible and benevolent light Last Line: Elsewhere, over the tall, staunch mountains of indemnity IN MEMORY OF CROSSING THE COLUMBIA First Line: My board and blanket were navajo Last Line: Dancing the woman-salmon dance %there is not much time to waste INVISIBLE DRESS First Line: It is tanned deer hide. Sometimes it is too large Last Line: And radiantly fearless JUNE, IN RED WILLOW AND COTTONWOOD First Line: A shadow of a passing venerable hawk Last Line: Someone submits to end the premises of night LIGHT First Line: Leave all the implements collected Last Line: Timid rebellion, worn wood LUMINARIES OF THE HUMBLE First Line: The adverse year was uncertain for the salmon Last Line: Needles, their eyes rimmed with endearing vulnerability LUMINARIES OF THE HUMBLE: EXHIBIT First Line: I lie on the illusion of verdant environment at horse thief lake Last Line: Needles, their eyes rimmed with endearing vulnerability LUMINARIES OF THE HUMBLE: LUSTER First Line: I am a dress of vermilion, harvest of orange roses, Last Line: I am only a dress in the state of being true. They hope to %converse LUMINARIES OF THE HUMBLE: NIGHTMARES First Line: As crosses burn, hate is not an outlaw. Last Line: The night burns with inflamed crosses and swastikas LUMINARIES OF THE HUMBLE: STARS OF SOLACE First Line: The adverse year was uncertain for the salmon. Last Line: Move in the celestial bone shapes of night LUUV IZ DA MUUZIK First Line: Old flames brought the music of ardor. Last Line: Da da dah %muuuzik MARIA, AT QUARTER TO EIGHT IN THE MORNING First Line: The gold fall of ginkgo leaves Last Line: Among her things MARKERS OF ABSENCE First Line: The leaves denote by their pitch Last Line: As salmon. No one grows or laughs MEETING First Line: Moving west is a fabrication of comfort Last Line: Copper light resumes ceremony from absence to embrace our shoulders MEMORY DRAWN FROM ELIZABETH PITT, SET IN PROPER PLACE BY NORA AND MA First Line: As wayward fatigue wears into the body accustomed Last Line: In the country you come from. MIRROR First Line: The scars are posed Last Line: Shivering drape MY BROTHER First Line: It was bruise marks of hands that alluded to tracks of murder. Last Line: Into the mad boil of the river's strength NIGHT CRACKLES, SPEELYAY'S REST First Line: Dark refuses the amnesia of pictographs, Last Line: Tickles the stars in speelyay's ears OF STEPS TO DROWNING First Line: The pain of empty flower stems Last Line: Bones grasp at mosses and branch %to muddy the water for drowning OLD PERSON First Line: Stoking the fire, boiling the water for cooking. Last Line: Enfold the downturned face ORIGINATING FIRE First Line: A barren thief scratches at the door Last Line: Where the fire uncontrolled fire %is imprisoned light PERFIDY First Line: A few sounds, over and again, grip me through this drunken mess. Last Line: And grow into my daughters PLATEAU WOMEN First Line: Gathering, the women are vessels holding vessels, Last Line: The memory, this certain way RECOVERY First Line: A match's spark is an element of premeditation, Last Line: A new person is among the survivors ROSETTE First Line: Beading a story Last Line: Moves through this fabric SHE-WHO-WATCHES...THE NAMES ARE PRAYER First Line: There is celilo %dispossed, the village of neglect Last Line: And everyone dissolved from the fall Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social SIGNALS FROM SLEEP First Line: With spots on your spine webbing, Last Line: There is life in your legs SISTER First Line: I still fumble with the marks. Last Line: This continent with victims STRAIGHT AND CLEAR First Line: Between the confluence of the rivers, the smolt twist and die Last Line: Continuity,itself, straight in the clear circle SUNNY BOY First Line: A strange, difficult, mix of events Last Line: Old horse bridles hang in the wind TARGET First Line: Calls shoot through a window, over the telephone, Last Line: That meet and lock against one another, %anger and fear THREE MEASURES OF ALCOHOL: 1990 COURT LAW First Line: She will leave because he has penetrated the daughter. Last Line: Futile aspersions against her spouse THREE MEASURES OF ALCOHOL: ONE OF THE HOMES First Line: Caw. Caw. %black calamity delights in sparkle, Last Line: She will be spanked for bedwetting THREE MEASURES OF ALCOHOL: SHELTER BECKONS First Line: For the woman, her husband's fists are directed both ways. Last Line: Until the mother pulls her out TONGUE First Line: It is the enemy's language you twist. Last Line: The cross on your neck TRANSLATION OF BLOOD QUANTUM First Line: 31/32 warm springs-wasco-yakima-pit river-navajo Last Line: Over the land or beings animate or inanimate TWO WOMEN First Line: Downtown, so urbane, the sisters' walk is suspended Last Line: Their grandmother in their hips TWY-TWY First Line: Mimic the life of another, during the day. Last Line: We have only what will fit into a shoe box VEIL First Line: A crown rarely slips in some irresponsible faux pas. Last Line: Only a word, the woman is the assiduous presence of peace VERSION OF MOON First Line: Light flows westward, optic rays of great nerve, Last Line: Moon bit sculpture WALK THIS WAY First Line: Purity, the insuperable emptiness I have most slept with Last Line: Finds fault to complement the ache of bone and teeth WARM RIVER SPRINGS First Line: Daylight moves the wind while the river fastens Last Line: The current floats into secretive arms of safety. %the burn of volcanic springs cools in depths of c Variant Title(s): Warm Springs Rive Subject(s): Rivers WARRIOR AND THE GLASS PRISONERS 1. THE GLASS GIRL-A DREAM First Line: I like what the soldiers give Last Line: I hold together the front of my dress %and all the mirrors I have sewn on, %sparkle and break WARRIOR AND THE GLASS PRISONERS 2. DON'T TOUCH ME WHEN I S First Line: I called her 'woman' in cheyenne Last Line: I am waiting for someone to stop %and tell me to go home WATERWAYS ENDEAVOR TO TRANSLATE SILENCE FROM CURRENTS First Line: First of the voices are innocent, from memory. Last Line: That remains undisturbed WIND'S MOVEMENT First Line: Father tells me the wind is still free Last Line: Made less by the exclusion of imprisonment WISH-XAM First Line: Rattle seedpods, shed skins, to translucent hulls Last Line: Rich with oils and segments of heartbeat in sturgeon, %the river like the snake rests its spine by d Subject(s): Native Americans; Rivers; Sports Wordsworth, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author GOOD AND CLEVER First Line: If all the good people were clever Last Line: Few can be good, like the clever, %or clever, so well as the good Wray, Elizabeth 3 poems available by this author AS THE SNOW FALLS, ANOTHER BREATHES IN AN ADJOINING ROOM First Line: As it is cold in the room and early morning Last Line: What I had nearly forgotten and what I'd missed - %that it would not matter if I returned or went on FIFTH TAKE, FIRST FRAME: First Line: In which I'm miles beyond the flat sanity LOVE POEM, I First Line: One day the thing to do Last Line: For emphasis. And lie there until %someone calls, although it may be days Wrenn, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author NUMBER FIVE AND BLUE First Line: Echo me now Last Line: Consume me %as I consume %this blue Wurz, Elizabeth 2 poems available by this author HERE WHERE THE LIGHT IS GOOD First Line: My grandmother slaps the pamphlet on her palm Last Line: Her body or my body as the tenor I LOOKED TO THE SANCTUARY'S WALLS First Line: My father never required that I listen to brother paul Last Line: The blue base. %I sat up to look Wyndham, Elizabeth 1 poems available by this author LIDDLE FOR ME!; ELECTION BALLAD SUNG AT ESLINGTON First Line: By the margin of tyne as I saunter'd along Last Line: That all the way home I sang - liddell for me! Subject(s): Elections Young, Elizabeth 2 poems available by this author PLEASURE First Line: Lies coiled, defensive Last Line: To embrace or constrict you once more SIREN OF ULYSSES First Line: He nears where joy will seize him by surprise Last Line: He yet bears the memory of his urgent need Zeidler, Susanna Elizabeth 2 poems available by this author IN WITNESS OF WOMEN POETS First Line: Rhapsodius does not imagine women write Last Line: We will be more like equals Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights VERIFICATION OF THE POETIC TALENTS OF YOUNG MAIDENS First Line: The rhapsodist cannot believe that maidens can make verse Subject(s): Women's Rights Zelvin, Elizabeth 62 poems available by this author ABORTED WHALE WATCH First Line: The tent-sized umbrella I have foolishly brought Last Line: Spouts mingling with the mist, then in the hush %create sound waves, create language, create music Subject(s): Marine Animals; Psychoanalysis; Relationships; Sea Voyages; Seasickness; Tourists; Travel; Whales ALCOHOLIC'S GRANDCHILD First Line: His grandpa used to take him into central park Last Line: And in a husky growl, say %smell dead men Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Psychoanalysis; Relationships AT THE BEACH ALONE First Line: At the beach alone %I step toward the creaming surf Last Line: One now too fragile, one distant one lost Subject(s): Psychoanalysis; Relationships; Solitude AUTUMN First Line: It's late october and the garden glows Last Line: For the heartbeat before winter comes Subject(s): Love; Psychoanalysis; Relationships BABY IN GROUP First Line: Her mother drank too much, shot up Last Line: Ten months to go until her blood can tell us %if she dies or lives Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Psychoanalysis; Relationships BULIMIC IN SEARCH OF INTIMACY First Line: In the secret world of women Last Line: Curl his tongue around her tears %she would never leave him Subject(s): Bulimia; Eating Disorders; Psychoanalysis; Relationships CALIFORNIA SISTER First Line: The thing about you and me Last Line: Some day we'll hold each other, woman friend %if the world survives Subject(s): Jews - Women CELEBRATION First Line: Where did it come from %the strength to shed that tattered cocoon depression Last Line: To spiral down the molten core of illness %and pop the cork of death Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Psychoanalysis; Relationships COLOSSA First Line: My mother has always been larger than life Last Line: Like manhattan reaching for the sky Subject(s): Mothers; Psychoanalysis; Relationships COUPLE THERAPY First Line: She says I found his letters to another woman Last Line: She reaches out and lays her hand on his Subject(s): Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Psychoanalysis; Relationships DAD TURNS NINETY First Line: Sometime between the birthday and %the birthday brunch Last Line: We were away, he changed his mind %and didn't die Subject(s): Aging; Birthdays; Fathers; Psychoanalysis; Relationships DENISE AT TWENTY-NINE Last Line: She waits, facing toward home %empty of sight, releases from blood Subject(s): Death - Children DIVORCEE First Line: Waking in the early morning Last Line: Upon her cheek, her neck, her breast Subject(s): Divorce; Psychoanalysis; Relationships DRACULA'S WAKE First Line: Although I never liked cats much myself Last Line: How did you get so good at death? Subject(s): Death; Grief; Loss; Psychoanalysis; Relationships; Sympathy DWARF GETS SOBER First Line: Daisy saw the world from the sand up Last Line: The judge who's giving her kids back %asks what do you want, daisy? Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Psychoanalysis; Relationships ENCAPSULATED DELUSION First Line: Aster can't remember that her father is dead Last Line: The suit of dusty black limp %as if nothing lay within it Subject(s): Hallucinations And Illusions; Psychoanalysis; Relationships FEMINIST'S INCORRECT WEDDING SONG First Line: We talk of growth Last Line: Don't tell the women Subject(s): Marriage; Psychoanalysis; Relationships; Women's Rights FORT HILL CEMETERY, 1991 First Line: Our plot's a bargain: six feet of earth with ocean view Last Line: With steady beats above the illimitable sea Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Mourning; Psychoanalysis; Relationships FRISBEE PRACTICE First Line: Smooth limbs flung skyward as the frisbee sails Last Line: Grinning as from his body rises %the sweet odor of spring Subject(s): Psychoanalysis; Relationships; Sons GARDEN First Line: Crocuses invested in the fall Last Line: The garden breathes Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Psychoanalysis; Relationships GLADS First Line: I first admired gladioli Last Line: Until even cut, in water, every one %flew its triumphant colors Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Psychoanalysis; Relationships GROWING PEONIES First Line: The first time I grew peonies Last Line: And a paradisal scent %rare as water in the desert Subject(s): Peonies; Psychoanalysis; Relationships HITTING BOTTOM First Line: Swimming in the bottle, aquarium for one Last Line: To say his name and add %I'm an alcoholic Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Psychoanalysis; Relationships HOSPITAL AUDIENCE First Line: The dreary auditorium is rimmed with portraits Last Line: Tomorrow she may be high on crack again %but right now she is dancing, dancing Subject(s): Hospitals; Psychoanalysis; Relationships HOT TUB IN THE STARRY NIGHT First Line: Who wouldn't give an ear for such a night Last Line: Whispery grasses growing as I go Subject(s): Nature; Psychoanalysis; Relationships HUSBAND SPEAKS First Line: My husband, brian, in his long career as reluctant Last Line: Make it clear that he currently has a wonderful boss! Subject(s): Marriage; Poetry And Poets; Psychoanalysis; Relationships I HEAR THE MERMAIDS First Line: I hear the mermaids singing too, mrs. Stevens Last Line: The mermaids go on singing Subject(s): Mermaids And Mermen; Psychoanalysis; Relationships ICE STORM First Line: While sixty cars were slewing wildly on Last Line: Not the darkness she expected %but the beckoning tunnel of light Subject(s): Death; Graves; Heaven; Psychoanalysis; Relationships IN THE YARD First Line: If I sit long enough on this wooden bench Last Line: I think I'll sit right here on this old bench %for twenty years and watch the dogwood grow Subject(s): Old Age; Psychoanalysis; Relationships INSOMNIA First Line: Not fighting it for once Last Line: I lie down again beside you %and map with my lips your warm unconscious form JAMIE THINKS HE'S ALWAYS RIGHT First Line: This is a found poem, a verbatim quotation Last Line: So he's always wrong Subject(s): Psychoanalysis; Relationships; Sons LAST FIREFLY First Line: As the moon rises it circles Last Line: Singing with yellow light its clear small song Subject(s): Fireflies; Psychoanalysis; Relationships LIMITATIONS OF THERAPY First Line: Maria sits on the edge of her chair Last Line: That's just what they say about you!' %says maria Subject(s): Jews - Women; Psychoanalysis; Relationships MEDITATION First Line: Sitting lotus hurts my knees Last Line: And deep inside, a still small voice assures me I can go on Subject(s): Meditation; Psychoanalysis; Relationships MERMAID AS SHE REALLY IS Last Line: She hails it blowing a derisive raspberry %on a shell-pink conch Subject(s): Mermaids And Mermen; Psychoanalysis; Relationships; Sea; Women MONARCHS First Line: I remember when they found the hidden valley Last Line: Pausing for just a moment on its long journey Subject(s): Psychoanalysis; Relationships MOTHERS First Line: We used to ride the broadway bus together Last Line: I envy you %wait till next year Subject(s): Mothers; Psychoanalysis; Relationships MY AUNTS ON BOTH SIDES WITH THE LONGEVITY GENES First Line: Still a virgin at ninety-one Last Line: I guess the honeymoon is over Subject(s): Aunts; Longevity; Psychoanalysis; Relationships MY FATHER'S BIRTHDAY First Line: My mother doesn't want to give the party Last Line: Rather pleased about it all %and says: I am an ancient man Subject(s): Aging; Fathers; Psychoanalysis; Relationships; Worry MY MOTHER IN PROVINCETOWN First Line: Mother, now pushing ninety Last Line: The men are pretty and the women are strong! Subject(s): Aging; Birthdays; Mothers; Psychoanalysis; Relationships NATURAL DEATH First Line: The first my age to die Last Line: Our hands on hers, seeking to hold her and to let her go %and murmured over and over, these are good Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Memory; Psychoanalysis; Relationships NEW YEAR'S 1990 First Line: Joanne's husband was on pan am flight 103 Last Line: And at the turn of the decade write new poems %while you lie breathing Subject(s): Fireworks; Gratitude; Holidays; New Year; Psychoanalysis; Relationships NIGHT POEM First Line: It's like the red shoes only listened of dancing Last Line: Kissing my mouth, stroking my ass, parting my thighs %I don't write poems Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Psychoanalysis; Relationships NINE First Line: Convenient, my darling Last Line: To put your arms around me Subject(s): Jews - Women ON BORROWED TIME First Line: At 76 and 80 my parents buy new tennis rackets Last Line: It frightens me %having lost so much Subject(s): Jews - Women OUT OF SEASON First Line: The first frost is overdue Last Line: And practice positive thinking my mother says %that crap! Subject(s): Psychoanalysis; Relationships; Thought OUTING First Line: Then there was the day I took them to the zoo Last Line: And presenting me with a rose-colored t-shirt %that said we're all crazy about you! Subject(s): Insanity; Psychoanalysis; Relationships PEACEABLE KINGDOM First Line: A tawny lion sprawls on flowers Last Line: She tells him trouble! And he says knowingly, ah, dat freebase, mon! Subject(s): Jews - Women; Psychoanalysis; Relationships POET IN THE GARDEN Last Line: The poet's thighs ache as if she had been riding %a broad wild night of love Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Love; Poetry And Poets; Psychoanalysis; Relationships; Romance PURSUER PLEADS WITH THE DISTANCER First Line: If you must borrow your survival traits Last Line: Tight shut against the merest dangerous grain of light Subject(s): Psychoanalysis; Relationships RABBI'S WIFE First Line: A wilted flower child Last Line: To send your prayers with me %I will deliver them Subject(s): Jews; Psychoanalysis; Relationships RETURN TO BROOKLYN First Line: Half an hour early for my appointment Last Line: And said she was bathing the baby now %too fearful to let me in Subject(s): Brooklyn, New York; Psychoanalysis; Relationships RIFT First Line: There is a rift in the world Last Line: Arms outflung to embrace the light, riding the midst %singing as she goes Subject(s): Love; Psychoanalysis; Relationships RUNNING AROUND THE RESERVOIR First Line: God, it's not as if I don't know why you wanted her Last Line: That she should have to miss this perfect day Subject(s): Psychoanalysis; Relationships; Solitude SECRETS OF THE THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIP First Line: The pale eyes flashing in his dark face Last Line: They do not know that I am grieving %they do not know I loved you Subject(s): Hallucinations And Illusions; Jews - Women; Meditation; Psychoanalysis; Relationships STEP THREE WITH WHALES First Line: When the finback glides Last Line: Boat and water and whale are one Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Psychoanalysis; Relationships STEPFATHER First Line: This poem dates from a period in my Last Line: One of the people you like Subject(s): Psychoanalysis; Relationships; Stepfathers TELEPATHY First Line: Saturdays they never spent together Last Line: They failed to recognize each other's voices Subject(s): Extrasensory Perception; Psychoanalysis; Relationships THEIR LAST GIFTS; FOR MY FATHER, JOSEPH LAPIDUS (1899-1990) First Line: Her last gift to him Last Line: Such a short time to hurt %such a long time to be immortal Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Jewish Families; Mourning; Psychoanalysis; Relationships THRESHOLD First Line: I stand here on the threshold of life's exit door Last Line: Nodding cheerfully as he passes me by Subject(s): Death; Praise; Psychoanalysis; Relationships; Writing And Writers WATERLINE First Line: Walking the beach in winter Last Line: Until the next flows in, and those that can %fly out past sight of shore Subject(s): Longevity; Psychoanalysis; Relationships WHERE WE MEET First Line: As the world slow-dances through the universe Last Line: Anchored as we stitch our common way %from dark to morning, from past to future Subject(s): Aging; Psychoanalysis; Relationships |
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