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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: ford, ford Matches Found: 4301 Albritton, Marsdon Gilford 1 poems available by this author PASTEL Poem Text First Line: Softly my phantoms move - the days that were Last Line: As transient as a dreamer's ecstasy. Alford, Dorothy Moore 1 poems available by this author RECOMPENSE Poem Text First Line: The toils and pains of an honest day Last Line: Is the love of god and man -- all told. Subject(s): Contentment; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers Alford, Henry Poet's Biography 24 poems available by this author A CHURCHYARD SOLILOQUY Poem Text First Line: Stand by me here, beloved, where thick crowd Last Line: The day and darkness, in life's twilight time? Subject(s): Churchyards A DOUBT Poem Text First Line: I know not how the right may be Last Line: Are farthest off from earthly pride. Subject(s): Doubt; Skepticism A FUNERAL Poem Text First Line: Slowly and softly let the music go Last Line: And streaks of orient light in time's horizon play. Subject(s): Funerals; Burials A MEMORY Poem Text First Line: The sweetest flower that ever saw the light Last Line: But rising clearly on the inner mind. Subject(s): Memory A SPIRITUAL AND WELL-ORDERED MIND Poem Text First Line: As on the front / of some cathedral pile Last Line: Through every broad receptacle of sense. Subject(s): Worship; Christianity ACADEME Poem Text First Line: Before the day the gleaming dawn doth flee Last Line: Hath risen the noon, and thou wert in thy prime. Subject(s): Athens, Greece AFTER HARVEST Poem Text First Line: Come, ye thankful people, come Last Line: Raise the glorious harvest-home! Variant Title(s): Harvest Home;thanksgiving Day Subject(s): Harvest; Holidays; Thanksgiving Day AGED OAK AT OAKLEY First Line: I was a young fair tree BAPTISMAL HYMN First Line: In token that thou shalt not fear BE JUST, AND FEAR NOT First Line: Speak thou the truth! Let others fence BE NOT AMAZED AT LIFE. 'TIS STILL BEAUTY OF NATURE Poem Text First Line: Oft have I listen'd to a voice that spake Last Line: Like guardian spirits watch the slumbering earth? Subject(s): Nature COLONOS Poem Text First Line: Colonos! Can it be that thou hast still Last Line: Lifted to heaven by unexampled woe! Subject(s): Colonos (mountain), Greece EASTER EVE First Line: I saw two women weeping by the tomb FILIOLAE DULCISSIMAE First Line: Say, wilt thou think of me when I'm away GYPSY GIRL First Line: Passing I saw her as she stood beside HYMN FOR ALL SAINTS DAY IN THE MORNING Poem Text First Line: Stand up before your god Last Line: But many in the tomb. Subject(s): All Saints' Day; Allhallowmas; Allhallows LADY MARY Poem Text First Line: Thou wert fair, lady mary Last Line: Hath just begun to break. Subject(s): Mary, Mother Of Jesus LIFE'S ANSWER First Line: I know not if or dark or bright Variant Title(s): Contentment; Trus Subject(s): Trust MENDIP HILLS OVER WELLS First Line: How grand beneath the feet that company Subject(s): England; Landscape PROCESSIONAL FOR SAINTS' DAY First Line: Ten thousand times ten thousand THE MASTER IS COME, AND CALLETH FOR THEE' Poem Text First Line: Rise,' said the master, 'come unto the feast' THE SALZBURG CHIMES Poem Text First Line: Sweetly float o'er town and tower Last Line: Wake the slumbering salzburg chimes. Subject(s): Bells; Salsburg, Austria YOU AND I Poem Text First Line: My hand is lonely for your clasping, dear; Last Line: We ought to be together, you and I. Subject(s): Togetherness Alford, Janie 2 poems available by this author MOTHER LOVE First Line: I bent my ears to a lily's cup Subject(s): Mothers THANKS BE TO GOD Poem Text First Line: I do not thank thee, lord Last Line: Unspeakable! His gift! Subject(s): Holidays; Religion; Thanksgiving; Theology Alford, John 2 poems available by this author GLORY, GLORY TO THE SUN HORSEMEN First Line: Panting the horsemen topped the glowing hill Allen, Clifford 2 poems available by this author THE NATURAL FIRE Poem Text First Line: This is no hearth-kept blaze. If only Last Line: The searched and seaching protoflame! Subject(s): Fire THE SONNET Poem Text First Line: Love for love's sake, like art for art's, belies Last Line: Love wishes well, or it is no such thing. Subject(s): Love; Sonnet (as Literary Form) Asquith, Herbert Henry Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Oxford And Asquith, 1st Earl 9 poems available by this author BIRTHDAY GIFTS First Line: What will you have for your birthday Subject(s): Holidays EGGS First Line: Bob has blown a hundred eggs Last Line: If those eggs began to sing! Subject(s): Eggs ELEPHANT First Line: Here comes the elephant Last Line: Of what is he thinking %between those wide ears? Subject(s): Elephants FROWNING CLIFF First Line: The sea has a laugh Last Line: He'll smile at last %on a golden bed Subject(s): Sea NIGHTFALL First Line: Hooded in angry mist, the sun goes down SHIP SAILS UP TO BIDEFORD Last Line: And the misty english trees Subject(s): Ships And Shipping THE VOLUNTEER Poem Text First Line: Here lies a clerk who half his life had spent Last Line: Who goes to join the men of agincourt. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War TORTOISE First Line: Safe in his fortress YOUTH IN THE SKIES First Line: These who were children yesterday Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators Axford, Roger 1 poems available by this author VICTORY First Line: Beware, beware the snare of 'victory' Bailey-wofford, Jan 1 poems available by this author ENCOUNTER First Line: When the nurses left the room and his father headed Bamford, Samuel 1 poems available by this author FAREWELL TO MY COTTAGE First Line: Farewell to my cottage, that stands on the hill Last Line: And I shall remember my cottage no more Barford, Cherie 4 poems available by this author CYLINDRICAL SLEEVE First Line: Sunday afternoon/mccahon's %angel points intent with %message Last Line: I turn from that finger %jabbing direction thru humid air %towards a %bearable horizon %of trees %ar LUBECK CASTLE First Line: Leaning across the rack %to ask for hours %and minutes Last Line: Past/present/future blurred %as my mind %still intact %fled the room PLEA TO THE SPANISH LADY First Line: Important strees fall before you %and now talune berthed in apia Last Line: Drowing at each other's feet %go now lady %we have fallen before you TODAY IT'S WEDNESDAY First Line: It was thursday %when the pope chastised Last Line: Which you'd have opened on tuesday %and today it's wednesday and raining Barford, John 5 poems available by this author ERIC First Line: Implacable, unmerciful, fulfilled %to overflowing with the sap of life Last Line: Ere yet man bowed beneath experience %and followed fettered in the train of fate Subject(s): Homosexuality SERVE HER RIGHT First Line: Gertie green made eyes at me Last Line: I decided to transfer %affections to her brother Subject(s): Homosexuality SUNDERED First Line: O the aching pain of that long, long night Last Line: Will it last till my life is o'er! Subject(s): Homosexuality TOLERATION First Line: Is it too much to ask that I should be Last Line: Love - and let love Subject(s): Homosexuality WHOM JESUS LOVED' First Line: Come, little john, tell me the lovely tale Last Line: You the divinity of it have proved, %'whom jesus loved' Subject(s): Homosexuality Barford, Richard 1 poems available by this author ASSEMBLY, SELS. First Line: In every work regard the writer's end Last Line: What cares, what tumults from the slightest thing Subject(s): Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) Barford, Wanda 1 poems available by this author SORTING THINGS OUT First Line: A wooden spoon %a sieve. That special saucepan for the rice Last Line: The thick ring on your finger hurting me Barney, Natalie Clifford 4 poems available by this author COUPLETS First Line: You asked me for a love poem Subject(s): Women's Rights EQUINOX First Line: Tonight, I have autumn in my soul Last Line: With a last punch in the heart TO A BRIDE-TO-BE First Line: And do you marry, offering your youth Subject(s): Women's Rights WOMAN First Line: Woman, supple frame Subject(s): Women's Rights Barnwell, Mildred Telford 5 poems available by this author AMBITION Poem Text First Line: What use in heaven could I ever be Last Line: To dream and rhyme for him eternally? Subject(s): Ambition; Faith; Belief; Creed AND LOCUSTS BLOOM TOMORROW Poem Text First Line: My heart is like an unused room Last Line: With bloom tomorrow! Subject(s): Locust Trees GROWTH Poem Text First Line: April weeps ... And weeps ... And weeps Last Line: Poor april's tears, essential to good sowing . . . Subject(s): Spring RAIN ON FALL NIGHTS Poem Text First Line: It rained the night we buried him Last Line: Leaving some room for laughter? Subject(s): Grief; Rain; Sorrow; Sadness RECESS Poem Text First Line: She has become as a barren tree Last Line: And helpless nestlings to hover. Bartlett, George Bradford 2 poems available by this author FLOATING HEARTS Poem Text First Line: One of indian summer's most perfect days Last Line: Has never been able to get away. Subject(s): Assabet River, Massachusetts; Rivers MIGNONETTE First Line: As I sit at my desk by the window Subject(s): Mignonettes Basford, Kathleen 1 poems available by this author OCTOBER MAPLES Last Line: Pigs' noses %poking through the orchard gate- %longer and longer Bashford, Henry Howarth Poet's Biography 12 poems available by this author AT THE GATE First Line: Beyond the gate I see a hand Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers L'ENVOI First Line: For songs divine, half heard and half Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers LULLABY IN BETHLEHEM Poem Text First Line: There hath come an host to see thee Last Line: Baby dear. Subject(s): Magi PARLIAMENT HILL First Line: Have you seen the lights of london how they twinkle Last Line: Bending like a finger-tip, and beckoning to you Subject(s): London PHILOSOPHER First Line: Whereas this world thro' time and space Subject(s): Philosophy And Philosophers ROMANCES First Line: As I came down the highgate hill Variant Title(s): Highgate Hil SONG OF SETTLEMENT First Line: I sing a song of the west land STRANGER First Line: Here's a sailor come home from the guineas THE GYPSIES [OR, GIPSIES] Poem Text First Line: Where do the gypsies come from? Last Line: Or look in a gypsy's eye. Subject(s): Egypt; Gypsies; Gipsies THE VISION OF SPRING, 1916 Poem Text First Line: All night in a cottage far Last Line: Lo, the dawn out-topped the night. Subject(s): World War I; First World War WOODFORD FAIR First Line: As we came back from woodford fair WRAGGLE TAGGLE GIPSIES First Line: There were three gipsies a-come to my door Last Line: Along with the wraggle taggle gipsies, o! Bashford, Herbert Poet's Biography 15 poems available by this author ALICE First Line: Of deepest blue of summer skies ALONG SHORE Poem Text First Line: What wondrous sermons these seas preach to men! Last Line: They rocked the infant time! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean AN OLD GARDEN Poem Text First Line: The old, gray fence is wrapped in vines Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening BY THE PACIFIC Poem Text First Line: From this quaint cabin window I can see Last Line: The heavy heart-beats of eternity. Subject(s): Pacific Ocean CUBA, 1897 First Line: O god! That I might breathe of freedom's air Subject(s): Patriotism FOG Poem Text First Line: A phantom form lurks near this wintry coast Subject(s): Fog; Haze INA COOLBRITH Poem Text First Line: A clear, white flame illumes her song Subject(s): Coolbrith, Ina D. (1842-1928) MORNING IN CAMP Poem Text First Line: A bed of ashes and a half-burned brand Last Line: Great, pulsing heart of bold, advancing day! Subject(s): Camping; Camps; Summer Camps MOUNT RAINIER Poem Text First Line: Long hours we toiled up through the solemn wood Last Line: And, lo, above loomed majesty! Subject(s): Mount Rainier NIGHT IN CAMP Poem Text First Line: Fierce burns our fire of driftwood; overhead Last Line: The darkness pushing down upon the land. Subject(s): Camping; Camps; Summer Camps SONG OF THE FOREST RANGER First Line: Oh, to feel the fresh breeze blowing Subject(s): Forest Rangers; Holidays SUNSET Poem Text First Line: Like some huge bird that sinks to rest Last Line: It lays a scarlet, outstretched wing. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight THE ARID LANDS Poem Text First Line: These lands are clothed in burning weather Last Line: The home of silence and of heat! Subject(s): Drought THE COUGAR Poem Text First Line: He lies in wait where woods aew dim Subject(s): Cougars THE SEAGULL Poem Text First Line: A ceaseless rover, waif of many climes Last Line: Or shriek amid black hollows of the sea? Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Seagulls Bax, Clifford Poet's Biography 16 poems available by this author A BERKSHIRE HOLIDAY Poem Text First Line: Before the spring had flowered away full summer burst in middle may Last Line: World. Subject(s): May (month); Nostalgia AT THE TURN OF THE YEAR First Line: I heard the wind rise, the first autumn wind IN NEW YORK Poem Text First Line: I stood with men upon the crowded curb Subject(s): New York City; Grief; Mankind; Crowds; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Sorrow; Sadness; Human Race IN THE TRAIN Poem Text First Line: Suddenly from a wayside station Last Line: Her, he loves the heart of england? Subject(s): England; Railroads; English; Railways; Trains MEANING OF MAN First Line: Dear and fair as earth may be MUSICIAN Poem Text First Line: Many know you now by virtue of that music Last Line: All the rest of life is lovelier for those years. Subject(s): Memory; Music & Musicians SQUARE PEGS Poem Text First Line: What's that? The taximeter points, you day Last Line: That all men share, the world for man is one. Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives THE DREAMER Poem Text First Line: Under a bridge of stone the river shuddered by Last Line: Time and the universe were idly eddying on. Subject(s): God THE ESSAYS OF MONTAIGNE Poem Text First Line: Florio, a wreath to crown your grizzled head Subject(s): Montaigne, Michel De (1533-1592) THE MYTH OF OSIRIS Poem Text First Line: Wandering once by a river the spirit of evil, set Subject(s): Osiris THE UNKNOWN HAND Poem Text First Line: Hans andersen, when he was old and frail Last Line: Squire turner pounds on shanks's de la mare! Subject(s): Writing & Writers THE VOLCANIC ISLAND Poem Text First Line: Kate Last Line: Dorothea (raising her cup). And freud! THRENODY ON THE DEATH OF SWINBURNE Poem Text First Line: Never again, o poet passionate-hearted Subject(s): Death; Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909); Dead, The TRAFALGAR SQUARE Poem Text First Line: Do you not also feel, as here we gaze Subject(s): Trafalgar Square, London; Crowds TURN BACK, O MAN Poem Text First Line: Turn back, o man, forswear thy foolish ways Subject(s): Religion; Theology TURN BACK, O MAN First Line: Turn back, o man, forswear thy foolish ways Last Line: Earth shall be fair, and all he folk be one Subject(s): Religion Bayliss, John Clifford 3 poems available by this author OCTOBER First Line: It is now the tenth hour of this october night REPORTED MISSING First Line: With broken wing they limped across the sky Last Line: So two men waited, saw the third dead face %and wondered when the wind would let them die Subject(s): World War Ii WHEN MOONS ARE DEAD AND WINTER'S PALLID BREATH Beck, Clifford A. 1 poems available by this author WHEN IT IS THAT MEN TOIL Beckford, William 2 poems available by this author ELEGIAC SONNET TO A MOPSTICK Poem Text First Line: Straight remnant, of the spiry birchen bough Last Line: Turn on the twistings of this troublous world. ODE First Line: To orisons, the midnight bell Subject(s): France; Travel Bedford, Madeline Ida 2 poems available by this author MUNITION WAGES First Line: Earning high wages? Yus Last Line: I'll have repaid mi wages %in death - and pass by Subject(s): Women; World War I PARSON'S JOB First Line: What do you want %coming to this 'ere 'ell? Last Line: Teach me - ow - to pray Subject(s): Women; World War I Bedford, Randolph 1 poems available by this author THE DAYS OF '84 Poem Text First Line: Let's go back on to the roper, where they say they've struck the stuff Last Line: We were men, and we dealt straight with all in the days of '84. Subject(s): Gold Mines & Miners; Nostalgia Belford, Ken 12 poems available by this author 8 First Line: Hunchbacked and corrected BESIDE THE ROAD First Line: There is a bale of hay BLUELINE First Line: Sure as hell BRANCHES BACK INTO First Line: His job was CARRIER INDIANS First Line: They have no word for conscience Last Line: I am one of them DUSK First Line: From an old man FOR KELLEY First Line: Take a look, I GLOVE GLUE First Line: The soldier is %all alone NEW POTATOES First Line: The fiction of relationship PEANUTS First Line: Old ernie anderson eating peanuts STOVE First Line: It is an old stove TURN (A POEM IN 4 PARTS) First Line: What they are doing is turning Last Line: But the boot prints remain. He will never come back Belford, November 2 poems available by this author MOVING First Line: Black is a verb SPIT MIRROR First Line: I will spit being black Bell, Henry Glassford Poet's Biography 10 poems available by this author END First Line: I know at length the truth, my friend FATE OF SERGEANT THIN First Line: Weep for the fate of sergeant thin LADY JANE GREY Poem Text First Line: Raising the eye from thos lone waterfalls Subject(s): Grey, Lady Jane (1537-1554) MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS Poem Text First Line: I looked far back into other years, an lo, in bright array Last Line: Then weigh against a grain of sand the glories of a throne. Subject(s): Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587); Mary Stuart MILAN CATHEDRAL First Line: O peerless church of old milan Subject(s): Italy MY ALPENSTOCK Poem Text First Line: Best of artists! Mark for me Last Line: That my legs are no small beer. Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Swiss THE ROAD TO APPENZELL Poem Text First Line: Green sunny road that skirts the foot Last Line: The yellow-coated pumpkins grow! Subject(s): Alps; Appenzell, Switzerland; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) TIME Poem Text First Line: I strive against the strength of time Subject(s): Time TO A LADY First Line: Task a horse beyond his strength UNCLE First Line: I had an uncle once - a man Benford, Laurence 1 poems available by this author BEGINNING OF A LONG POEM ON WHY I BURNED THE CITY First Line: My city slept %through my growing up in hate Last Line: And I went off to college %with a gasoline can Subject(s): African Americans; Social Protest Beresford, Anne Ellen 2 poems available by this author ROMANIES IN TOWN First Line: Let us leave this place, brother Last Line: They have no time for wild birds %and will shoot us down SATURDAY IN NEW YORK First Line: On saturday on saturday %people look at elephants in Last Line: The wind blows ice from the sea %said the old lady in the w heel chair Beresford, J. 1 poems available by this author ADDRESS FROM THE BOOK-COLLECTOR TO THE BOOK-READER First Line: Ye pedants, burning to be known Last Line: That persians but adore the sun %till taught to know our god- black-letter Subject(s): Books; Pedants Beresford, Larry 37 poems available by this author ELVIS SIGHED ON CHURCH STREET First Line: In a great big crazy world Last Line: Just-friends-passionately-platonic-embrace %kiss-off? FUNKIES SANS FRONTIERES First Line: Yes, those were the nights, hot and swollen Last Line: My friends think you're too smart-alecky' HONORED GUESTS AT THE FIRST ANNUAL MISTER FUNKY TESTIMONIAL DINNER First Line: Mister saturday night Last Line: Mister thank you all %very %very %much INTRODUCING MISTER FUNKY First Line: That's mister funky to you, pal Last Line: Hunker down with this, babe LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC First Line: We share a bed when we can Last Line: Am I always this restless in bed? MISTER FUNKY ANSWERS HIS CRITICS First Line: Yes, it's true; I blew it big time this time Last Line: No matter what the personal cost. Next question? MISTER FUNKY AS A SEA MONSTER First Line: With my glasses stowed in a locker Last Line: She was than my niece MISTER FUNKY DREAMS OF FREEDOM First Line: I fell asleep with mahler Last Line: Put out that stinky stogie' MISTER FUNKY EXITS MARGARET'S GOING-AWAY PARTY First Line: I said I've really got to be Last Line: The sky was clear, rich and blue MISTER FUNKY GETS ROUSTED BY THE COPS FOR SHOUTING AT STRANGE WOMEN First Line: No, that's not what I meant. I'm sorry! Last Line: But give me another chance to get it wrong MISTER FUNKY HAS HIS REASONS First Line: Marry me,' I said Last Line: I said, returning her keys MISTER FUNKY IS WARNED NOT TO START THE NOODLES First Line: Mister kurtz is explaining how to make Last Line: Has had time to come together MISTER FUNKY MISSES NEW ORLEANS First Line: I'm so tired of being broke, %tra la la Last Line: I'm going to disneyland MISTER FUNKY REGRETS First Line: You always get up afterward Last Line: I'll smell you %and remember MISTER FUNKY REPORTS KIDNAPPED EYEBROWS First Line: I remember baby, arms crossed Last Line: From responsibility, spirit them across state lines? MISTER FUNKY REQUESTS: NO STARCH First Line: Her lips tasted sweet Last Line: Across the dying party %slowly, slowly MISTER FUNKY WONDERS: HOW DID THIS GET STARTED? First Line: I know a man who's legally blind Last Line: Really isn't your color' MISTER FUNKY'S BLUES First Line: Baby broke my heart Last Line: I didn't; it wasn't MISTER FUNKY'S COMPLAINT First Line: Even my bank teller knows my secrets Last Line: Your privileges have been invalidated' MISTER FUNKY'S CRYING LESSON First Line: He died last night, you know,' the nurse explained Last Line: To offer any tears of my own MISTER FUNKY'S DATE First Line: Margaret arrives at my door Last Line: Good. I'm starving!' MISTER FUNKY'S DOG First Line: I've been telling my friends that I want a dog Last Line: You know- a dog, a big friendly energetic dog MISTER FUNKY'S FIRST CAR First Line: I even dream about it Last Line: First I must find that car' MISTER FUNKY'S GENERIC CHINESE POEM First Line: I can't write lyric poetry Last Line: I just grow older MISTER FUNKY'S GOTTA GO First Line: Trying to get out more these days Last Line: Into the hope %of a urinal MISTER FUNKY'S INNER CHILD First Line: When I first learned the word lurid Last Line: That looked %lurid MISTER FUNKY'S LAMENT First Line: All I really want is Last Line: Is that asking for so much? MISTER FUNKY'S LAST RESORT First Line: I've even considered love potions Last Line: That I'd made another terrible choice? MISTER FUNKY'S MATING RITUAL First Line: Mother never told me love would be like this Last Line: What was the message %I gave to you? MISTER FUNKY'S METAPHYSICS OF LOVE First Line: I came late to the banquet table of love, my dear Last Line: Is this what you had in mind? MISTER FUNKY'S MIDNIGHT LEMONADE First Line: At the bus shelter on castro and duboce Last Line: In french we call these nectarines' MISTER FUNKY'S NATURAL HISTORY OF THE SEXES First Line: All men are worms, says my sister Last Line: On arnie's inexorable chopping block MISTER FUNKY'S PAIN First Line: I'm lying face down Last Line: Just about long enough to wring somebody's neck MISTER FUNKY'S PASSIONATE REJOINDER First Line: Margaret, what just happened here? Last Line: As the marching band marched off into the sunset MISTER FUNKY'S POTATO AND PAPRIKA DAYS First Line: That last package of macaroni Last Line: And pop it into my passionate mouth MISTER FUNKY'S SOUR GRAPES First Line: What should I say to baby's new fiance? Last Line: Before softly calling her back %from never never land MISTER FUNKY'S SUPPORT GROUP First Line: Across the table %in stained glass dimness Last Line: When I open my mouth and spill my guts %everyone thanks me Bickford, Ian 2 poems available by this author AS IF LOOKING OUT FROM INSIDE A STRONG WIND First Line: There ought to be a way Last Line: Parts of her hands REQUEST First Line: Though, yes, winter %draws all inward and apart Last Line: Let the conversation resume %between friends, in a bed, in a room Bilsford, Guy 1 poems available by this author CENTURY OF PEACE First Line: Three thousand miles of border line! Subject(s): History Binford, Helaina L. 26 poems available by this author ABBA FATHER First Line: Know the kind of god he is BLESS'D First Line: I stand in awe as I survey CALL First Line: Gazing from a convent window COME TO THE BROOK First Line: God gave me an island of time - all my own FOREVER FREE First Line: The day has come! I can't turn back FREE FRIEND First Line: Is one to whom you can pour out all the stuff GOD'S PROMISE First Line: The rain drenched earth is fragrant HEARTACHE First Line: In the midst of the tempest of heartache INDEPENDENCE DAY First Line: The freedom of our country INTERCESSION First Line: His call to intercession ISAIAH: 55 First Line: Oh lord, my heart would soar, this day LIBERTY First Line: Life in jesus this is for me ON PARENTHOOD First Line: How deep the wounds of parenthood ONE LINERS First Line: Love is a determination, not an emotion' POTENTIAL First Line: Oh lord and father of mankind PROCLAMATION First Line: Record my word! I've called you close to me QUESTIONS First Line: Where am I going? Where do I stay REACH OUT TO JESUS First Line: Don't you know my heart is sad and hurting SABBATH PEACE First Line: It's sabbath peace SHELTER FROM THE STORM First Line: The storms of life assail us SOUL SEARCHING First Line: I was convinced that fate had doomed my way STAND, AND BE COUNTED First Line: It's the 'heart condition' with the lord VICTORY First Line: Victory is one of the key attributes of god it's part of his YESHUA IS HIS NAME First Line: The mind of the creator began to vision man ZION First Line: I lift my eyes to the steeple Blackford, Anne 1 poems available by this author TWINS First Line: That june morning you died Blackford, Byron Haverly 1 poems available by this author THE END Poem Text First Line: The day is passing Last Line: But what matters? Subject(s): Love; Night; Bedtime Blatchford, P. L. 1 poems available by this author VISION OF HANDEL First Line: In his room alone and silent Boleyn, George Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Rochford, Viscount 2 poems available by this author O DEATH, ROCK ME ASLEEP First Line: O death, o death, rock me asleep Last Line: For now I die, %I die, I die! Subject(s): Death O DEATH, ROCK ME ASLEEP Poem Text First Line: O death, o death, rock me asleep Subject(s): Death; Dead, The Bomford, Nora 1 poems available by this author DRAFTS First Line: Waking to darkness; early silence broken Last Line: Everything is part %of one supreme intent, the deathless heart Subject(s): Women; World War I Botsford, Allan 1 poems available by this author SUCH A FRIEND First Line: O sweeter than the honey well Subject(s): Friendship Botsford, S. B. 1 poems available by this author SONNEETING MADE EASY First Line: With hyphens, clip off endings that don't fit Last Line: So get a pencil and a piece of pa- %and you're all set to start 'the sonnet ca-' Subject(s): Poetry And Poets Bradford, Ann Z. 72 poems available by this author AHH, THE BEAUTY OF Last Line: Age and time ANGEL OF Last Line: Whispers %look deeper ANYTIME I GIVE A GIFT Last Line: What my genuine motive is AWAKEN, DEAR HEART Last Line: And you'll know CHANGE OF DIRECTION Last Line: Is always a choice CHOOSE JOY FOR A MINUTE Last Line: What you choose CHOOSE TO CHANGE YOUR MIND Last Line: Think it might be you? CLOCK TICKS AWAY Last Line: In %every moment DARE TO BE YOURSELF Last Line: No one can do that any better than you DO YOU KNOW THAT THERE IS NOT Last Line: Any more wonderful and unique %than you? DO YOU KNOW THAT YOU HAVE Last Line: As anybody? DON'T GIVE UP Last Line: Love will always show you a way EMBRACE EXCHANGE Last Line: She'll make you more flexible FAITH SPRINGS OUT Last Line: The instant hope filters in FIND A WAY THROUGH Last Line: To %feel %life FIRST YOU LAY THE FOUNDATION Last Line: You fill it in FLOWERS BLOOMING IN THE WALL OF LIFE Last Line: Finds its way FORGIVE YOUR ENEMIES Last Line: Are %you HEART BEATS, LIKE RAIN Last Line: And dances with delight %for eternity HONOR EVERYTHING YOU FEEL Last Line: You're honoring all of you HOW FAR WILL YOU GO? Last Line: The love and acceptance that you need? I CAN ONLY CHANGE Last Line: What I can see I CAN'T DO ANY BETTER Last Line: Than the best I can do I HAVE WASTED NOW Last Line: In yesterday I LOVE THE RIVER Last Line: Slowly I sleep I PRAYED FOR INDEPENDENCE Last Line: Thank you I SEE THE ME Last Line: In the %moon IF A GIFT IS GIVEN Last Line: Sacrifice and resentment IF EVERYONE IS A PART OF EVERYONE Last Line: Why hurt a part of ourselves? IF I GIVE MYSELF Last Line: What I haven't get given to myself IF WE WILL WAIT IN THE DARKNESS Last Line: Hope will come LIFE IN THE RIVER First Line: It's about giving in, %changing Last Line: Joy is... %just is LIKE THE BUD ON THE TREE Last Line: Once again LISTEN TO THE WIND Last Line: The great reward after the struggle LOOK AT LIFE Last Line: No matter what LOOK INTO MY EYES Last Line: You LOVE OPENS THE DOOR Last Line: Awareness MAYBE WHEN WE REACH OUT Last Line: And grab it MOON BEAMS DOWN Last Line: You %in universal arms MY GIFT TO YOU Last Line: What I've given myself NEW PERSPECTIVE Last Line: Without a footprint... %luscious! ON AND ON Last Line: Rivers run ONCE AGAIN First Line: Once again my heart will well up with joy Last Line: That will never end RAINS CAME Last Line: Said the glimpse of the sun REMOVE THE BLOCKS Last Line: Life is life. %hope RIVER OF LIFE Last Line: And fly SAY NO Last Line: By saying yes and resenting it? SELF Last Line: Just %small %talk SHADOW LOOMS Last Line: Your whole life through STOP Last Line: To fix it STOP. PAUSE Last Line: Until you think STRETCH Last Line: Is %'awaiting' SWEET SORROW Last Line: A lesson learned well TEARS Last Line: All along the way TEARS ROLL OUT Last Line: Do the rough seas around my heart %subside THANK GOD First Line: Thank you, for the river of life Last Line: Forever reminding me %of your beauty TO BRING FORTH ANYTHING FROM WITHIN-CREATIVITY Last Line: A gift, an answer-takes a leap of faith TO SHINE Last Line: Your god-given right TREASURES IN THE HIDDEN BLACKNESS Last Line: Your heart dares to open TREE OF LIFE Last Line: To allow %everything WE ALL HAVE DEPTH TO OUR SOULS Last Line: The more enlightened %you become WE ARE ALL Last Line: With all we meet WE ARE HERE TO Last Line: Enlightenment is being aware of this WE CAN ALWAYS IT TO THE NEXT MOMENT WE REMEMBER WHO WE ARE Last Line: In someone else WE SOMETIMES WAIT Last Line: And it comes forth from within WHEN IT'S TIME TO SAY THE FINAL GOODBYE Last Line: Love gently lets her go WHY DO WE HAVE TO FALL APART Last Line: We can know what is WILLOW OF LIFE Last Line: In the wind WITH EVERY HEART CONNECTION Last Line: Our souls dance YOU BROUGHT TO LIFE Last Line: My running away from it YOUR CREATIVITY Last Line: Is waiting in the wings Bradford, Edwin Emanuel 2 poems available by this author HIS MOTHER DRINKS First Line: Within a london hospital there lies Last Line: What since his father died home means to him -- %his mother drinks TREE OF KNOWLEDGE Bradford, Ellen Knight 1 poems available by this author HOW THE REFUGEES WERE SAVED First Line: The sun had dropped low down the western sky Last Line: As freely as air or as sunshine from heaven Subject(s): Armenia; Refugees Bradford, Gamaliel 54 poems available by this author A COMMON CASE Poem Text First Line: She tossed a soul Last Line: Just a common case. Subject(s): Soul ARDOR Poem Text First Line: Others make verses of grace Last Line: And burn with the ardor of living. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs BOOKS Poem Text First Line: Books are alcohol to me Last Line: From the contact of the cover. Subject(s): Books; Reading CAN'T YOU First Line: Oh, believe I wish you well! CHERRY-BUDS Poem Text First Line: When cherry-buds appear Last Line: Should not be sung or said. Subject(s): Cherries; Fruit; Love - Loss Of DEEDS UNDONE Poem Text First Line: He scorned the gifts that fortune brought Last Line: Gave him a giant's strength. DREAMS Poem Text First Line: Come to me in my dreams, and I Last Line: Dreams will be quite enough for yours. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares EXIT GOD Poem Text First Line: Of old our fathers' god was real Last Line: He had his pleasant side. Subject(s): God FLIGHT OF KISSES First Line: She kissed me first for courtesy GOD First Line: Day and night I wander widely through the wilderness of thought Last Line: Is a keen, enormous, haunting, never-sated thirst for god Subject(s): God; Religion GOD First Line: I think about god Last Line: I am thinking of god GOD'S HUMOR Poem Text First Line: I'm a little bit perplexed Last Line: Comfortingly better. HEINELET Poem Text First Line: They met, as it were, in a mist Last Line: And the cold mist is thicker than ever. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of HEINELET First Line: He asked if she ever could love him Last Line: By god, she admitted she did HOPE First Line: When I was a little boy HUNGER First Line: I've been a hopeless sinner, but I understand ILLIMITABLE Poem Text First Line: Parting love, far-fled content Last Line: Kiss me, and I will go. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of JOY OF LIVING First Line: The south wind is driving Last Line: I'm glad to be living: %aren't you? JUDAS Poem Text First Line: They called him king; and I would have no king Last Line: Oh, god! Oh, god! Why did I do this thing? Subject(s): Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.) LOVE'S DETECTIVE First Line: They always called her love's detective MARE AMORIS Poem Text First Line: If your ecstasies implore Last Line: Where I enter I destroy. Subject(s): Sea; Togetherness; Ocean MORTALITY Poem Text First Line: How could you believe that I Last Line: Tell me, how? -- god knows I do. Subject(s): Mortality MY ART Poem Text First Line: My prose is for others Last Line: To sing is my art. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets MY DELIGHT Poem Text First Line: Thick and stormy was the night Last Line: Night and wind and storm. Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight MY TREES, MY TREES! THEIR AGE-LONG GLORY NAPOLEON Poem Text First Line: For france and liberty he set apart Last Line: On a lone island 'mid the atlantic waves. Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821); World War I - France ODE TO THOMAS JEFFERSON First Line: Even in his day what the wise felt most PORCELAIN VASE Poem Text First Line: Her love was like a porcelain vase Last Line: And rather more for use. Subject(s): Love RAIN Poem Text First Line: Rain, rain, rain Last Line: Of the rain, rain, rain. Subject(s): Rain RIDER First Line: I wave my cap, I shake my reins RIOT First Line: You think my life is quiet ROBERT E. LEE Poem Text First Line: O, robert lee, you paladin Last Line: "good friend, it really doesn't matter." Subject(s): Lee, Robert Edward (1807-1870) ROSES Poem Text First Line: God made roses. / who made you, Last Line: Worth a bunch of roses. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses ROUSSEAU First Line: That odd, fantastic ass, rousseau Subject(s): Rousseau, Jean Jacques (1712-1778) SONG OF THE SEA ROVER Poem Text First Line: The first day she was cold and still Last Line: The rovers of the sea. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE ANNIVERSARY Poem Text First Line: The mighty tides of fate still ebb and flow Last Line: Is love -- and I love thee and thou lov'st me. Subject(s): Anniversaries; Love THE CONGREGATION Poem Text First Line: The ghosts of night's long hours depart Last Line: To dissipate great sorrows. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE DIVAGATOR Poem Text First Line: You think my songs are strange Last Line: I want my songs unique. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs THE FABRIC Poem Text First Line: She could untangle without scandal Last Line: The structure into little bits. Subject(s): Fate; Destiny THE FISHERMAN Poem Text First Line: I sit beside lethean streams Last Line: The failures I'm securing. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers THE LOT Poem Text First Line: I've seen a specialist who thinks Last Line: And next a specialist. Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors THE PURSUIT Poem Text First Line: I had visited her often Last Line: Found it bitter, and forgot her. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE SURPRISE Poem Text First Line: Life is full of subtle things Last Line: Nurse celestial fire. Subject(s): Surprise THE THING TO DO Poem Text First Line: For, after all, the thing to do Last Line: But all will listen eagerly. Subject(s): Hearts; Singing & Singers; Songs THE THYROID GLAND Poem Text First Line: If you removed my thyroid gland Last Line: Are all my thyroid gland. Subject(s): Animals; Oxen THE TISSUE Poem Text First Line: Others make their poems of air Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE TOPMOST BOUGH Poem Text First Line: Don't you love me now Last Line: God, then, I'll forget you. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THINGS OF CLAY Poem Text First Line: Sing a little, play a little Last Line: Smiles and slips away. Subject(s): Life THOMAS JEFFERSON First Line: He made men free and sought to make them wise THREE PORTRAITS Poem Text First Line: Her manners were perfectly dainty Last Line: I hope to understand her. Subject(s): Grandparents; Portraits; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers VICISSITUDES Poem Text First Line: I remember passionate flights Last Line: Heaven after hell. Subject(s): Despair VILLA OF HADRIAN First Line: The golden glory of an autumn sun Subject(s): Italy WHO Poem Text First Line: The long and melancholy wind Subject(s): Freedom; Sea; Liberty; Ocean WHOLESOME HELL First Line: If praying to the saint could comfort Bradford, Jim 4 poems available by this author FOR MY FATHER First Line: A man in a white suit Last Line: White on white ON A BUS IN EASTERN WASHINGTON First Line: The moon %is a sun Last Line: More pure, %even, than the snow TWO WINTER WALKS: 1. SATURN IN LEO First Line: After a snow Last Line: The beginning of time TWO WINTER WALKS: 2. NEPTUNE IN CAPRICORN First Line: The second scene %is of gray Last Line: In the center of everything %like everyone else Bradford, Loraine S. 1 poems available by this author THE WINGED VICTORY Poem Text First Line: Headless, the nike dominates the hall Last Line: Her vital body's there to claim our trust! Subject(s): Freedom; Strength; Victory; Liberty Bradford, Mary Lythgoe 5 poems available by this author ADVICE First Line: Lift your withered hands and feel Last Line: Back in layers row on row %its living form against the light Subject(s): Mormons ASSUAGEMENT First Line: I am in the standing position Last Line: When you look on me, gelede man, %wear the carved mask and kneel Subject(s): Mormons BORN AGAIN First Line: As you enter the water unsinning Last Line: To the font I add a cup of tears. %and my own beginning Subject(s): Mormons COMING APART TOGETHER First Line: We exchange in great detail the weather report Last Line: Just as if we ourselves had invented %the weather, our bodies, and love itself Subject(s): Mormons TRIAD First Line: Stephen %carries secrets he hasn't had time Last Line: His body enough to shelter him %from rain and other agonies Subject(s): Mormons Bradford, May N. 1 poems available by this author U.S. SPELLS 'US' First Line: My papa's all dressed up today Bradford, Michael 4 poems available by this author HER WORDS First Line: Hugs and kisses and I love you forever %was the last thing Last Line: Running between the canes? %me, held and free in your bony arms again US AS CHILDREN First Line: The photographs, you reminded me, %could just easily be of anyone Last Line: Is close our eyes and wait for the shutter %to send us, clicking, home WHAT I SAID AT HER FUNERAL First Line: That one time when she was bored with a story about pants Last Line: My mom asked me %will you always remember her like this? YOUR HANDS, SLIDING First Line: How frightening it was to fall in love Last Line: Feeling every thirsty place with your lazy film %before you slid again Bradford, Sarah H. 1 poems available by this author RESURRECTION First Line: Two thousand years ago a flower Subject(s): Easter; Holidays Bradford, William 2 poems available by this author NEW ENGLAND'S GROWTH Poem Text First Line: Famine once we had Last Line: If you will take the pains them to seek for. Subject(s): New England; United States - Colonial Period PLYMOUTH HARVEST First Line: All sorts of grain which our land doth yield Branford, Frederick Victor 14 poems available by this author BLADE OF GRASS First Line: Horses I saw, and on the horses gods Subject(s): Grass COCKNEY'S DREAM First Line: He heard a voice storm up the falls of song DYING AIRMAN TO NATURE First Line: When the fountains of sun-fire were flameless Subject(s): Science FAREWELL TO MATHEMATICS First Line: I labored on the anvil of my brain FLANDERS First Line: Two broken trees possess the plain Subject(s): Flanders, Belgium GLEEMAN First Line: The heat he beat from snow and sleet IDIOT First Line: Eighty years beside loch goil NIGHT FLYING First Line: Aloft on footless levels of the night Subject(s): Science NOVISSIMA VERBA First Line: Here laurel falls; here droops the high and holy ODE TO SORROW First Line: Immortal sorrow, that with the spirit of god OVER THE DEAD First Line: Who in the splendor of a simple thought RETURN First Line: The hearts of the mountains were void SIREN ROCKS First Line: Now all along the lone calabrian shore SONNET First Line: We thought to find a cross Branford, William 1 poems available by this author TROOPER TEMPLE PULVERMACHER First Line: Forgotten soldier, in the winter grass Bridges, Mabel Rutherford 1 poems available by this author MY SON'S SON TO HIS SON'S SON - PERHAPS Poem Text First Line: See that lovely, stately thing! Last Line: And write of trees. Subject(s): Grandchildren; Pine Trees; Grandsons; Granddaughters Bridgford, Kim 63 poems available by this author AFTER CANCER First Line: To think that this might be all that there is Last Line: Is just another way of saying, live AFTER-LIGHT First Line: Sitting on the screened-in porch Last Line: Looking up into the face %of the one he does not see ALONG THE EDGE OF THE SEA First Line: I used to love the story Last Line: And dive, my dear %and come up laughing ALONG THE EDGES First Line: Some days it's easier to dwell on things Last Line: The shuttered eyelids closing on his days AND NOW First Line: The past is as startling to me Last Line: Outside the world is black and white, %like movies from the past ANGEL First Line: I keep my money in a fur-lined slipper Last Line: But usually, I would say, %it comes out something like this ANOREXIC SONNET First Line: I am in love with pins, with my own bones Last Line: But not to die. The trouble is the body ARGUMENT First Line: I couldn't tell which one of us was wrong Last Line: I couldn't tell which one of us was wrong Subject(s): Quarrels; Relationships ARS POETICA First Line: You are stern, and yet your flowers are not Last Line: Heavy in the arms of paradox AT THE ZOO First Line: I didn't know what to feel Last Line: It was one of our happiest days BEFORE ANYTHING HAPPENED Last Line: And I saw the underside of everything %up until then BEING LEFT WITH THE MYSTERY First Line: Gradually the world had shrunk Last Line: Until there is no human time BELLS First Line: First, she hears the bells hit the air Last Line: As her stalk leans and yields, %bows and breaks BETRAYAL First Line: One of those old secrets Last Line: That brings every small, hard fact %skittering into daylight BIRD-MAKER First Line: The bird-maker looks like Last Line: What the birds do next %is up to them BLUE GONE TO BLACK First Line: She is walking to work on the dirt road Last Line: And she the subject of a picture %that would turn completely black BREAKFAST IN FUR First Line: The first thing you want to be Last Line: Or why you are so %at home here CIRCUS ANIMALS ARE BACK IN TOWN Last Line: The circus animals are back in town, %inviting touch, like dreams about to happen DOLLS First Line: She took the silent mimicry of dolls Last Line: The dolls took off their clothes and tried to die DUST First Line: Every town is the same Last Line: And he will come to get me EVENING First Line: On evenings when the light is hard to catch Last Line: That scatters through a love's ambivalence EXCESS First Line: In the spring in the flowr garden Last Line: I start to tell you about sunflowers %and stop. You already know about excess FAITH First Line: We believe in too much %a rabbit's foot hanging Last Line: The short end of the wishbone %where faith begins FALLING FROM HEAVEN First Line: It's all there Last Line: About what it means %to be human FREE FALL First Line: The leaves are bright as kisses on the air Last Line: Of the soul in the last felt moment of its burning? GOBBLING First Line: Mother was the one who sent us packing Last Line: And there we were %ready to bite into it GREEN First Line: There's so much green here Last Line: Is everything you ever wanted from yourself, %that green, that green, that green GREEN HANDS First Line: In art class I drew a sun Last Line: Like the inside of her ear %and pulled out GUARDIAN ANGELS First Line: They are horrible but beautiful Last Line: At the center of it all %is hope HEAT First Line: It's a peculiar day-- Last Line: Moved on to something else HELL First Line: It's how we knew it would be Last Line: Fascinated by the infinite %forms of suffering HOBBIES First Line: The day my husband ran off Last Line: But you wouldn't know by looking at her. %that's the way with women IN PASSING First Line: If he tries hard enough, he can know love Last Line: Going beyond the universe at last IN THE WOODS First Line: Remember how the wood were dark with grief? Last Line: Remember how the woods were dark with grief? IN THIS PLACE First Line: When you enter this place Last Line: Switling around you, %the wind in the leaves IT'S SOMETHING NEAR First Line: There it is again. It's something near Last Line: There it is again. It's something near; %I feel it like the underside of fear JUST AS THE SLIGHTEST PUFF OF WIND First Line: Can set a wind chime %jangling its tinkly music Last Line: All his leafy hopes %reduced to stuffing KISS First Line: Sometimes, in the middle of the ordinary Last Line: The gunfight all fourth of july spangles, %the dead with dust in their mouths? LEAVES First Line: Along the ashy avenues of fall Last Line: Of all that's lost and gained in broken things LIFE COILS First Line: You might think first Last Line: Of what's yet to be made LOOKING BACK First Line: Not once did we walk through that golden grass, %miraculous Last Line: On a passing life. When the lid goes down %there is no one MADNESS First Line: Madness doesn't always kill Last Line: And ahead to your forgetfulness MEDUSA First Line: I know what a sculptor feels like Last Line: To see the weavework of nests %balanced in the trees, %and who takes whatever comes Subject(s): Medusa; Mythology - Classical MEMORY First Line: Memory is an apple or a pear Last Line: When your mother signed her claim to you away MESSAGES First Line: When I tell mama Last Line: And that sentence lay curled in a bottle, %making its way across the waves PHOTOGRAPH OF SPRING First Line: In the photograph she is wearing Last Line: Its secrets away from her ROBERT FROST First Line: You seemed to know the most about the dark Last Line: It was the neighbor's voice that made it art ROSES, YOU SAY, ROSES First Line: Look at them, the dark roses Last Line: As love takes those blonde, %those bright roses in SALT First Line: I've taken to grieving little things- Last Line: When I fall, the purple circles wander, wander, wander, %andeventually there is blood SEEING THINGS First Line: My father-in-law is going blind %because of his cancer Last Line: Back on his pillow, telling us a joke %he finds so funny he can't help crying Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Fathers-in-law SILKY First Line: In the attic I touch the past Last Line: And mistook distance %for happiness SNOW WHITE'S STEPMOTHER TRIES TO BE GOOD First Line: But fails. There's so much %she could do Last Line: Snow white take %that poisoned apple, %raise it to her lips SORROW First Line: It's the o's you hear, building Last Line: Looking down at the face %of happiness drowning STIRRINGS First Line: When you stir the edge of lake water Last Line: But you don't know %who you are waving to or why STORY OF THE PAST First Line: I lived in a house at the end of the lane Last Line: Distant and delicate, like something from a story SUICIDE First Line: When the suicide moved in across the street Last Line: She hadn't decided on her method yet THERE'S NO ONE TO LOVE First Line: There's no one to love. The world is full Last Line: As a lover, kissing the lost and beautiful. %there's no one to love WHAT THE TREES KNOW First Line: Perhaps the trees are leaning there in grief Last Line: Perhaps the wind has shaken their belief WHAT YOU KNOW First Line: Because it is invented %and therefore better than the present Last Line: Its lips at the whorls of their ears %you know it's truer than what happened WHAT YOU MIGHT SAY IF A FRIENDSHIP ENDS UNHAPPILY First Line: It's not hate that I feel for you Last Line: Until finally, my friends, %I had to get the hell out Subject(s): Healing WHEN THE DARKNESS COMES First Line: As I sip tea within the screened silence Last Line: With its necessary rain WHEN THERE'S PAUSE First Line: The night seems to be breaking apart Last Line: All that wet longing, %the spaces behind the stars WOMAN HOLDING HERSELF First Line: She is wearing a white robe Last Line: You may have this and no more Bridgford, Kim Suzzane 12 poems available by this author AFTER-DAYS First Line: I've closed the curtains AMERICAN DREAM First Line: The slap of a flag against the air FIRE First Line: The hours sag Last Line: That goes on and on and on %with no water, the air drifting away, %and rest at the end of it FOR SYLVIA PLATH First Line: The morning has a look of otherness about it GARDEN First Line: My mamma loved flowers Last Line: Tremble with christ's fragrance, %and wait in the garden %ofearthly, destructible ways HONOR OF THE BODY First Line: It's amazing, the honor of the body OFFERING First Line: Lying there next to you ONLY REASON First Line: I am sure, no matter what, that it all SIMPLE MATTER First Line: My mood has changed as suddenly STORYTELLER First Line: Sometimes words can seem common, but, when whe would tell a story Last Line: Us in with her silky thread so that one destiny shadowed %another, like flowers in a tall vase, frag TEA First Line: Make love to me. Don't make love to me Last Line: How about some tea? He says %yes, tea, she says, amazed. %what's what I want. Tea WEATHER First Line: The out of doors has the lush washed look Brooke, Stopford Augustus Poet's Biography 12 poems available by this author AT LAST First Line: In the day the sun is darkened Subject(s): Love COURAGE First Line: Oft, as we run the weary way DEATH Poem Text First Line: My little hour of envied joy is past Last Line: Enough of loveless life, shut to the door. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The MAY AND LOVE First Line: May in the woods and in my heart Subject(s): Love NATURE AND LOVE Poem Text First Line: When first I gave him all my love Last Line: "thou hast not forgotten!--no, nor I." Subject(s): Nature; Worship RIQUET OF THE TUFT, SELS. SONG First Line: Come, where on the moorland steep THE EARTH AND MAN Poem Text First Line: A little sun, a little rain Last Line: Have left it younger than a boy. Subject(s): Mankind; Earth; Human Race; World THE HULDRA-WOMAN Poem Text First Line: Who walks alone in the red pinewood Last Line: Again, and again betray. Subject(s): Women; Love THE JUNGFRAU'S CRY Poem Text First Line: I, virgin of the snows, have liv'd Last Line: I am weary of it all. Subject(s): Jungfrau (mountain), Switzerland THE NOBLE LAY OF AILLINN Poem Text First Line: Prince baile of ulster rode out in the morn Last Line: To meet, at last, for ever! Subject(s): Trysts; Death; Dead, The VERSAILLES (1784) Poem Text First Line: In carnival we were, and supp'd that night Last Line: That drummond fear'd -- artois shall flog the man. Subject(s): French Revolution (1789); Versailles, Frances Brooke, W. Stopford 1 poems available by this author KING AND THE HUNTSMAN First Line: The king and his huntsman are gone to the chase Browder, Clifford 6 poems available by this author HAPPENINGS First Line: A rollercoastering white-rumped flicker Last Line: The dark force of things OLD PRETENDER First Line: Like rheumatism, you were always there ON READING CERTAIN CONTEMPORARIES First Line: No spark, no spunk Last Line: Of mouse-turd poems %dry little lumps on the page SCRATCH First Line: That's it %scuff my moods Last Line: Let's hassle a bit %let's tussle and chew SHARPS First Line: Quickie jack-offs, peppercorns Last Line: Life comes in nippy spurts SUMMER First Line: Is a lazy-tongued Brown, Ford Madox Poet's Biography 2 poems available by this author FOR THE PICTURE, 'THE LAST OF ENGLAND' Poem Text First Line: The last of england! O'er the sea Last Line: She cannot see a void, where he will be. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Farewell; Paintings & Painters; Woolner, Thomas (1825-1892); Parting O.M.B. (DIED NOVEMBER, 1874) Poem Text First Line: As one who strives from some fast steamer's Last Line: Some vestige of your thought outspans the abysm! Subject(s): Brown, Oliver Madox (1855-1874) Brown, Jayne Relaford 1 poems available by this author EMILY DICKINSON ATTENDS A WRITING WORKSHOP First Line: Why plural? %and why all the caps? %(- and dashes? Last Line: I'd like to see you bring this %through workshop again Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) Brown, Stanford E. 1 poems available by this author ...FROM THE FERNY BRAKE First Line: My garden chimes %are not a sound Last Line: With my garden chimes, not so. Brown, Steven Ford 4 poems available by this author AFTER THE VIETNAM WAR First Line: Sometimes %on windless nights Last Line: Their cries are almost human Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 LOVE EMBRACE OF THE WORLD: FRIDA KAHLO TRIPTYCH: 1. THE ACCIDENT First Line: We took the bus to coyoacan after school. Rain Last Line: Among the crowd, louder now, I hear someone crying, %la bailarina! La bailarina! La bailarina! SUMMER, THAT MASSIVE BLUE First Line: Summer, that massive blue dirigible, has floated Last Line: Window, streams through our bodies THINGS ARE BEING BUILT First Line: Things are being built. Across the lush Last Line: For a chance to be dazzled by the real Buford, Naomi E. 1 poems available by this author HERITAGE First Line: The world is mine Burford, Ted 1 poems available by this author MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE First Line: There are seveal twilit and passagey levels Last Line: And its beer-brown water flowing, %out towards the unseen, distant barrier Burgess, Edward Sandford 9 poems available by this author OCTETTE (1) First Line: O fair and blue it met mine eye OCTETTE (2) First Line: Magnolia woods are cool and deep OCTETTE (3) First Line: Elms of the mohawk, all the way OCTETTE (4) First Line: Earth-loving elms of grace that vie OCTETTE (5) First Line: I marvel when they pass you by OCTETTES REMEMBERING KEATS First Line: Bright spirit now one hundred years at rest SEA-GODDESS RESTORES THE RAPT SHELLEY First Line: I the unsated sea, that saw thy beauty TO ONE WEARING ARBUTUS First Line: The days may wear, the weeks may spend Burr, David Stanford 2 poems available by this author ABIDANCE First Line: My dormant bones lie fallow Last Line: Oh great spirit, let his cord reeve %my rings again. Raise me up in situ! DOWSING FOR THE MOLE AT AGE EIGHT First Line: For three days I have allowed the mole Last Line: Then my hand is pulled down sharp %by that mamal's tiny, frantic heart Canan, Janine Burford 19 poems available by this author AKHMATOVA First Line: Akhmatova, the oriole is always grieving %is she happy or sad Last Line: From your bronze eyelids %and the stars above -- are they happy or sad? BENTLEY'S IS GOING OUT OF BUSINESS First Line: Mrs. Bentley walks into the dressing room Last Line: No one to tend young breasts %in the darkening nights of patriarchy CLARITY First Line: Life drenches with light Last Line: We sing together in the light %and our caring is unimpeded -unending CREATION First Line: Twelve years old, I lie in my bed. How far does the sky go, the dark, stars DEAR BODY First Line: Dear body, gazing in the mirror it is you DIAGNOSIS First Line: Diagnosis: emotional illness. Neurosis. Anxiety neurosis FROG First Line: Frog, your eyes-two polished memories of the stream Last Line: And so they decapitate you, frog-to deaden their pain FULL BLOOM First Line: When the rose is told %she looks young for her age Last Line: As petal on petal rolls out from her source %like a glorious persian carpet? I TURNED ON THE HOT WATER First Line: I turned on the hot water, filled the tub, poured in some bubbles INANNA'S DECENT First Line: Inanna, queen of the great above, set her heart on earth's deepest IT'S HER BIRTHDAY First Line: It's her birthday. She almost forgets how many years - more MOTHER COOKS THE SOUP First Line: The mother cooks the soup. The mother stands over the open fire OUR LADY First Line: Lady, how can I speak, my mouth silent PASSAGE First Line: A girl speaks for five minutes Last Line: Forests of trees, and beings - are they %human - of beauty and grace SHE IS CAREFULLY STEPPING OVER THE IMPORTANT COMMUNICATIONS VERMILION FLOWER First Line: Emily dickinson is staying at home. She's wearing her white eyelet dress Last Line: Look inward and out. Stars sparkle in the back of her head. In her hand, %the vermilion flower outst WHAT WOMAN WANTS First Line: First woman does womanly things Last Line: Increasingly she wants to be woman, %softly sensing the world as it is WOMAN MEDITATES ON THE TURNING OF THE SIXTIETH CENTURY First Line: Hasn't tenderness the sweetest scent? Last Line: And into her garden a lark is descending WOMAN, HEAD ON HER BELLY First Line: A woman, head on her belly, the moon, the long curve of the Candee, Harry Safford Poet's Biography 2 poems available by this author AUF WIEDERSEHEN Poem Text First Line: In the brown of her eyes Last Line: "the waltz is our last, ""auf wiedersehen!" Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Love MARIGOLD Poem Text First Line: I love confinement in thy bonds Last Line: I marry gold! Subject(s): Comedy; Gold Caughey, Elford 1 poems available by this author FIRST FLIGHT First Line: I saw the flowering earth we left spread Chase, Clifford 1 poems available by this author STILE First Line: I built a fence around my heart Clark, William Bedford 1 poems available by this author ADORATION AT 2 A.M. First Line: Only a layman, you have your practiced Last Line: Back home again, you dream briefly toward dawn Clifford, Carrie Williams 1 poems available by this author BLACK DRAFTEE FROM DIXIE First Line: Upon his dull ear fell the stern command Last Line: Where from the hell of war he never flinched %because he cried, 'democracy' was lynched Subject(s): African Americans - Women Clifford, Deborah Ann 1 poems available by this author MOTHER'S EARRINGS First Line: For years the diamond earrings Clifford, Ethel 5 poems available by this author CAPTAIN'S SONG First Line: Mary, mary of the ships CHILD First Line: The little new soul is come to earth HARP OF SORROW First Line: Sorrow has a harp of seven strings Subject(s): Religion LAST HOUR First Line: O joys of love and joys of fame Subject(s): Nature SONG OUT OF OXFORDSHIRE First Line: Would we might see the crocus blow Clifford, George Alternate Author Name(s): Cumberland, 3d Earl Of 3 poems available by this author BABY'S DEBUT First Line: Thy lisping prattle and thy mincing gait RIGHT HONOURABLE GEORGE EARLE OF CUMBERLAND First Line: My heavie sprite opprest with sorrowe's might Last Line: And for thy sake this world becomes my hell TO CYNTHIA Poem Text First Line: My thoughts are winged with hopes, my hopes with love Last Line: Till cynthia shine as she hath done before. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of Clifford, James 9 poems available by this author EMPHYSEMA DIARY (EXTRACTS): 1 First Line: Wind that holds the oak's ramifications: trunk and bark, twigs and Last Line: Breath that balances her: slightly moving each vein and limb, in the last %room EMPHYSEMA DIARY (EXTRACTS): 2 First Line: She's telling him about her grandfather: a man with a long white hair and Last Line: In the waves, breathing free, bearing her up, and in his hands, she was %light EMPHYSEMA DIARY (EXTRACTS): 3 First Line: It all seems to slip through her fingers. What was just said. The woman's Last Line: Just let me sleep a little' EMPHYSEMA DIARY (EXTRACTS): 4 First Line: Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily Last Line: This is all I ever do' EMPHYSEMA DIARY (EXTRACTS): 5 First Line: Dark form in the lake. The rowboat tips as he leans over to look a Last Line: Floating up. One day a breeze brings you down EMPHYSEMA DIARY (EXTRACTS): 6 First Line: Now her body shakes with each breath, eyes fluttering, blood forcing Last Line: Arm: its black crumpled veins swell wildly, subside, swell. No, not yet, %not yet, not EMPHYSEMA DIARY (EXTRACTS): 7 First Line: As a girl in southern indiana, with her aunt, she observed the night sky Last Line: Feet and knees, along a spine charged with particles and gasses, out %through cold lips EMPHYSEMA DIARY (EXTRACTS): 8 First Line: Something about the lips...Eyelid twitches Last Line: Shards of air. A bright dark. Quivers on the single eye EMPHYSEMA DIARY (EXTRACTS): 9. SONG First Line: She fell in front of a large audience. That was all. There were flowers Last Line: Dreams in a room lined with wallpaper Clifford, John 2 poems available by this author GOD'S WORD Subject(s): Religion HAMMERS AND ANVIL First Line: I paused last eve beside the blacksmith's door Last Line: The anvil is unchanged; the hammer's gone Subject(s): Religion Clifford, Margaret Rowe 1 poems available by this author ARIZONA First Line: Come to this land of sunshine Clifford, William Kingdon 1 poems available by this author I WAS NOT AND WAS CONCEIVED Last Line: I am not and grieve not Subject(s): Life Change Events Cohen, Eckford 1 poems available by this author THE SECRET OF THE PINES Poem Text First Line: I sat and listened to the pines Last Line: Chant when the breezes blow. Subject(s): Pine Trees Commerford, Charles 2 poems available by this author MEADOW LARK SANG AT THE DROOPING OF DUSK Subject(s): Birds VISIT WITH A WOODPECKER First Line: I can recall an orchard gnarled and old Subject(s): Birds Conford, David 2 poems available by this author LAW & ORDER First Line: I carry my %policeman %in my pocket Last Line: Then we %all fall down LETTER FROM YOUR FUTURE First Line: Dear fool: you might as well Last Line: Like it or not, you will be Subject(s): Future; Letters Cooke, Amy Buford 1 poems available by this author INCONSTANT Poem Text Last Line: Death comes at last, and so, -- good-bye. Subject(s): Sin Coolidge, Richard Bradford 1 poems available by this author LOSS OF THE COFFEE PUMP; PRAYER OF THE UNDERGRADUATE First Line: In sorrow bowed Cornford, Adam 34 poems available by this author ANIMUS, FR. THE CYBORG'S PATH First Line: Lights no worm in light Last Line: Light traveling without the others light BODDHISATAVA First Line: We sat in the room called living Last Line: The windows are open. Look INVISIBLE GRANDEUR First Line: Over my head rises a tall column of darkness Last Line: Tremble and gather and advance JOBLESS MAN LOOKS AT THE CAPITAL MARKETS First Line: Between the sphere of the fixed stars Last Line: Am also among the endangered LEARNING TO FLY First Line: As I reach the crest of the ridge Last Line: Settling into an outline, taking my place LIGHTNING ROD TO STORM: THE ANIMATION First Line: Then, over this nonstop damage report, under your swishing Last Line: Solitudes in brilliance LIGHTNING ROD TO STORM: THE ARRIVAL First Line: Ahead of you the light runs gasping, silvery head down Last Line: Working yourself loose for a fury LIGHTNING ROD TO STORM: THE ATTACK First Line: You aim your first blinding pink claw at my head Last Line: Into systems the satellite stopmovies do not show LIGHTNING ROD TO STORM: THE CHANCE First Line: Who knows Last Line: In the town's plain geometry LIGHTNING ROD TO STORM: THE DISMANTLING First Line: As I also am given, spoken, after all no sentence Last Line: A tolling tongue in a brazen head like roger bacon's LIGHTNING ROD TO STORM: THE EMBLEMS First Line: Rain, if it comes then, will be no simile Last Line: Of steam unfurling at their lips LIGHTNING ROD TO STORM: THE GIFT First Line: It's been dark for hours. Traffic diminished Last Line: Gift of nothing; %yet given. Given LIGHTNING ROD TO STORM: THE INVITATION First Line: You're talking, quietly, brushing my hatchet face Last Line: The force I need LIGHTNING ROD TO STORM: THE LEAVETAKING First Line: Crap, you say levelly, slapping down gallons per second Last Line: Stops. You're gone LIGHTNING ROD TO STORM: THE ORIGINALS First Line: All I can see, though Last Line: With a cool, tasteless trickle: choice. Like us LIGHTNING ROD TO STORM: THE RAGE First Line: You've begun again. The rooftiles beside me Last Line: Pounds my face to fracture and molten spatter LIGHTNING ROD TO STORM: THE RECOVERY First Line: For a long while Last Line: Is building just over the frayed horizon LIGHTNING ROD TO STORM: THE REMAKING First Line: For all that, 'storm' is what I want to call you now Last Line: Ready to speak to the town %in tongues of burning? LIGHTNING ROD TO STORM: THE UPHEAVAL First Line: Of course, it will be nothing Last Line: As the machine pistols slung across their ribs LIGHTNING ROD TO STORM: THE WASTE First Line: You're not listening, you hear only accusation Last Line: Into an intricate long dragon scream MOUTH First Line: A mouth has opened inside me Last Line: A brilliance my eyes will not meet MUCUS: A VALENTINE First Line: Bubbling up under the tongue's roots Last Line: Waiting in every kiss OPINIONS First Line: They're personal Last Line: What is best for you OUTERLIMITS Last Line: Whatever I am keep talking PEEPSHOW First Line: Blackness snaps away from the little screen Last Line: We do not even imagine PERIOD PIECE First Line: Five days in advance Last Line: Until it stops PSALM OF THE SHADOW First Line: 1 when your sister went away she forgot to take her shadow Last Line: 8 for its map of blackened roads you are the only distance RAPTURE First Line: And it came to pass just as they had foretold Last Line: In one corner of a city where the festival goes on SCARS TALKING First Line: My body is their village / remote and backward Last Line: Incessant speech SCREAM First Line: How it hung like smoke over her typewriters noisy terraces Last Line: From a woman's mouth STILL First Line: Reach over for the alarm. Get up Last Line: We have still not begun TIME THIEF'S JOURNAL First Line: 9:02 I walk through through the main doors into winter Last Line: Daylight saving me VINTAGE First Line: My chest splits open like an impatient seed Last Line: And I ride down among the heavy clusters of blood YOUR TIME AND YOU First Line: Respond to your time's advances Last Line: Bite off its head Cornford, Frances Crofts Darwin Poet's Biography 61 poems available by this author ALL SOULS' NIGHT First Line: My love came back to me Last Line: He did not think me strange or older, %nor I, him Subject(s): Aging; Love ALL SOULS' NIGHT Poem Text First Line: My love came back to me Subject(s): Aging; Love AT NIGHT First Line: On moony nights the dogs bark shrill Variant Title(s): Night Son Subject(s): Animals AT THE END First Line: The day my great-aunt sarah died, how I remember well Last Line: The knowledge in her listening face as certain was, and wide AUTUMN MORNING AT CAMBRIDGE Poem Text First Line: I ran out in the morning, when the air was clean and new Last Line: Gowns. Subject(s): Cambridge, England; England; English CAMBRIDGESHIRE First Line: The stacks, like blunt impassive temples, rise Subject(s): England CHILD'S DREAM First Line: I had a little dog, and my dog was very small Last Line: All among its petals, was his hairy face Variant Title(s): The Little Do Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CHILDHOOD First Line: I used to think that grown-up people chose Last Line: And I knew that she was helplessly old, %as I was helplessly young Subject(s): Old Age; Time CHILDHOOD Poem Text First Line: I used to think that grown-up people chose Subject(s): Old Age; Time COAST: NORFOLK First Line: As on the highway's quiet edge Last Line: With whitened corn, and tarry poles, %and far-off gulls like risen souls CORNER OF THE FIELD First Line: Here the young lover, on his elbow raised COUNTRY BEDROOM First Line: My room's a square and candle-lighted boat Last Line: Far off one owl amidst the waves of dark Subject(s): Country Life COUNTRY IDYLL First Line: Deep in the stable tied with rope Last Line: He pulls the blanket higher round his ears COURSEGOULES First Line: Beside the road to coursegoules Last Line: And shepherdess and sheep DAWN First Line: So begins the day Last Line: So my heart will wake %happy, for your sake Subject(s): Love DAYBREAK First Line: I heard an ancient sound: a cock that crew Subject(s): Animals DEEP IN BRAMBLY HEDGES DANK, FR. THE HILLS Subject(s): Birds E.W.D. Poem Text First Line: The sudden knowledge that you are not there Last Line: Of the old pain. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation EPITAPH FOR EVERYMAN First Line: My heart was more disgraceful, more alone Last Line: O passer-by, my heart was like your own FEAR OF LIFE Poem Text First Line: Thought shield you with her great grey wings Last Line: Away from hearts that wrench and tear. FERI DEAD First Line: We, who must grow old and staid Subject(s): Science FOR M.S. SINGING FRUHLINGSGLAUBE First Line: Here are the schubert leider. Now begin. Subject(s): Singing And Singers FOR NIJINSKY'S TOMB First Line: Nijinsky's ashes here in peace repose Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Nijinsky, Vaslav (1890-1950) FRAGMENT OF EMPEDOCLES First Line: I heard a thrush sing in the flowering may FROM A LETTER TO AMERICAN ON VISIT TO SUSSEX; SPRING 1942 First Line: How simply violent things Last Line: His mud-brown tunic gently staining red, %while larks get on with their odl job of singing Subject(s): World War Ii GLIMPSE First Line: O grasses wet with dew, yellow fallen leaves GRAND BALLET First Line: I saw you dance that summer before the war Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Nijinsky, Vaslav (1890-1950) HARVEST First Line: They are mowing wheat %through the heavy days Last Line: They are mowing wheat %through the heavy days Subject(s): Environment; Fields HERD First Line: How calmy cows move to the milking sheds Subject(s): Animals HILLS First Line: Out of the complicated house came I Subject(s): Mountains IN FRANCE First Line: The poplars in the fields of france Subject(s): Poplar Trees IN THE BACKS First Line: Too many of the dead, some I knew well Last Line: Why is this air so sacred and so still? Subject(s): Cambridge University; England; Rivers LINCOLNSHIRE REMEMBERED First Line: Gold as the hair of fairy story queens LONDON DESPAIR First Line: This endless gray-roofed city, and each heart NEAR AN OLD PRISON First Line: When we would reach the anguish of the dead NEW-BORN BABY'S SONG First Line: When I was twenty inches long Last Line: And that made up for the rest OLD NURSE (1) First Line: I am an old woman, comfortable, calm and wise Last Line: But, in the new world's light, with new toys played OLD NURSE (2) First Line: I cannot but believe, though you were dead ON AUGUST THIRTEENTH, AT THE MOUNT, MARSDEN, BUCKS First Line: Out of this seemliness, this solid order ON MAOU DYING AT THE AGE OF SIX MONTHS First Line: Strange sickness fell upon this perfect creature Subject(s): Animals; Cats ON THE BEACH First Line: On what pure mission do the seagulls fly Last Line: Supremely calm, though just a little late PARTING IN WARTIME First Line: How long ago hector took off his plume Last Line: And now we three in euston waiting-room Subject(s): Time; War PEASANT WOMAN First Line: I saw you sit waiting with your sewing on your knees PRE-EXISTENCE Poem Text First Line: I laid me down upon the shore Last Line: The little pebbles lay. PROVENCE First Line: The olive-boughs are black,like blinding hair Subject(s): Provence, France RAGWORT First Line: The thistles on the sandy flats RECOLLECTION First Line: My father's friend came once to tea Last Line: I know a person who has died.' SCHOLAR First Line: You often went to breathe a timeless air Last Line: We dared not beg you, with one sigh, to stay %or turn from your discoveries aside Subject(s): Children SHE WARNS HIM First Line: I am a lamp, a lamp that is out Last Line: I am a star that is dead Subject(s): Love SPIRITS OF CHILDREN ARE REMOTE AND WISE Last Line: The shore where they can lightly come again Subject(s): Life Change Events SPRING MORNING First Line: Now the moisty wood discloses SUMMER BEACH First Line: For how long known this boundless wash of light SUSAN TO DIANA; VILLANELLE First Line: Your youth is like a water-wetted stone Last Line: Bright with a beauty that is not its own THE CERTAIN KNOT OF PEACE Poem Text First Line: So, my proud soul, so you, whose shining force Last Line: Silenced by sleep. Subject(s): Sleep THE OLD WITCH IN THE COPSE Poem Text First Line: I am a witch, and a kind old witch Last Line: Her fool's desire. Subject(s): Witchcraft & Witches THE WATCH Poem Text First Line: I wakened on my hot, hard bed Subject(s): Watches TO A FAT LADY SEEN FROM THE TRAIN Poem Text First Line: O why do you walk through the fields in gloves Last Line: Missing so much and so much? Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Obesity; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas TRAVELLING HOME First Line: The train. A hot july. On either hand Subject(s): England WATCH First Line: I wakened on my hot, hard bed Last Line: Come quick, come quick, come quick, come quick Subject(s): Watches WOMAN WITH THE BABY TO THE PHILOSOPHER First Line: How can I dread you, o portentous wise Last Line: Renowned - who put your toes inside your mouth Subject(s): Life Change Events YOUTH Poem Text First Line: A young apollo, golden-haired Last Line: For the long littleness of life. Subject(s): Brooke, Rupert (1887-1915); Poetry & Poets; Soldiers' Writings; Youth Cornford, John Poet's Biography 4 poems available by this author FULL MOON AT TIERZ: BEFORE THE STORMING OF HUESCA First Line: The past, a glacier, gripped the mountain wall Subject(s): War LETTER FROM ARAGON First Line: This is quiet sector of a quiet front Subject(s): War TO MARGOT HEINEMANN First Line: Heart of the heartless world Last Line: Don't forget my love Variant Title(s): Huesc Subject(s): Desire; Love; World War Ii TO MARGOT HEINEMANN Poem Text First Line: Heart of the heartless world Variant Title(s): Huesca Subject(s): Desire; Love; World War Ii; Second World War Couch, Louis Bradford 1 poems available by this author LINCOLN BOULDER First Line: O mighty boulder, wrought by god's own hand Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States Crawford, Catherine 24 poems available by this author BAIT First Line: Forking apart the cold bacon this morning Last Line: I miss how fish tasted, lake-sweet in the pan DJ First Line: He could've listened to her talk all day Last Line: He felt like driftwood: %afraid even to breathe DREAM FRAGMENTS: 1. GRAY READERS First Line: All night, %I have been writing letters in my sleep Last Line: I send these words to break their silence DREAM FRAGMENTS: 2. DREAMING BY WATER, I SEE First Line: ...An egret rise from the dark slough Last Line: My soul in a white heat is lifting DREAM FRAGMENTS: 3. STONE First Line: In this dream, %I pick up a rough, plain grayish stone Last Line: It is part of the trails of back country DREAM FRAGMENTS: 4. COLD BLOOD First Line: Tapping %on my half-open window in this dream Last Line: Under my relief, I touch my own fragility DWELLERS First Line: I saw a man, %his eyes the color of scorched wheat Last Line: It made a difference, her saying those words EVICTING THE STARLINGS First Line: Niche %when I arrive home, their chicks are gone. Last Line: She holds feathers over my body. %I fledge with hope. FISHING AT END OF DAYLIGHT First Line: Rowing together in the last hour Last Line: To cast. I could only watch, stunned %as the line ran out FOR A NEIGHBOR IN HIS OWN WORLD First Line: It's hard to forget %his street-stained leathers Last Line: Another piece of our rain forest is gone FORESIGHT First Line: She says her cats will protect her Last Line: Dropped at night in bent grass. She says %she is not afraid INDEPENDENCE DAWN First Line: Swimming up this morning from layers of sleep Last Line: To see this show of light %summer and her light-filtered leaves LITTLE MASKED BEAR First Line: Who are you? I said to the hunched shadow Last Line: Scrubbing herself new with white sand MAKING A WEB First Line: Yesterday, %I saw hanging on the other side Last Line: Or me, now making this poem %to catch and hold my love for her MEDICINE ROOT First Line: The 'possum she sheltered all those years collapsed %in the spring rains Last Line: Lying on her side, she feared she would burst %if she even thought of playing dead MILLER, I MAKE THIS FOR YOU First Line: Every morning, the wind does %what we do when we make bread Last Line: A sense of our own well-being MOON SHOTS First Line: So this is where %the souls of slaughtered pumpkins go Last Line: Whose branches sprout from %the heads of fallen deer ON WIND First Line: Yesterday at dusk, %the air swung back and forth Last Line: They cover themselves with newsprint %the color of sour milk PRODIGAL MOON First Line: When the sun goes down, the moon wraps herself Last Line: She will have few words to say and no false light PUNISHMENT OF THE PALM First Line: The palm tree has risen from a parched place on the Last Line: Swishing it in our faces like a kind of giant toilet brush RAISING THE SAIL First Line: Swining her legs over the side of the bed, her feet touch Last Line: Sun like a creased sail ready to fill REWRITING CLICHES First Line: Asleep on a sunflower %lassitude seeping from bones Last Line: Sputtering on, refuses to brown, %its rough voice flecked with blood UNANSWERED QUESTION First Line: When is a meal over? Last Line: To those who ask: %when is this meal over? WINTER SKETCHES, SAN JOSE First Line: The red leaf on the walk said stop Last Line: I wore its skull on the tip of my finger Crawford, Charlotte Holmes 1 poems available by this author VIVE LA FRANCE! Poem Text First Line: Franceline rose in the dawning gray Last Line: "vive la france!" Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I - France Crawford, Dan 1 poems available by this author JESUS AND I First Line: I can not do it alone Last Line: But he never gives in, so we two shall win - jesus and I Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion Crawford, David 3 poems available by this author A. C. T. First Line: The puffed hollow dots smeared the page Last Line: I sat alone discovering the meaning of whistles %telling us it was time to play TEEN LOVE First Line: I dived and plunged Last Line: As she slipped her hormones %into my back pocket and %calledit love UPROOTED First Line: Chained with blankets Last Line: The droplets you confused with rain %showering a garden %we planted Crawford, Dessa 2 poems available by this author BOOKENDS First Line: My mom prefers sinatra to the dead Last Line: They've both agreed to never get tattooed POSTCARD FROM A TOURIST WHO HAS SEEN TOO MANY RUINS BETWEEN STONEHENGE First Line: The history of architecture marches Last Line: Along on fallen arches Subject(s): Architecture And Architects; Ruins Crawford, Eva L. 2 poems available by this author RECOMPENSE Poem Text First Line: He said he would come to meet me Last Line: My long lost paradise. Subject(s): Faith; Belief; Creed THE SHATTERED DREAM Poem Text First Line: Not often do I come to kneel Last Line: And you alone will understand. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement Crawford, Frances 16 poems available by this author BLACK LEOPARD First Line: O, stealthy beauty, crouching in my tree HE WHO WOULD BE REBORN MUST SEEK I DO NOT KNOW IF YOU WILL KNOW INTENSITY ABSTRACTED IN AIR, READY TO BREAK IT IS A SECRET SORROW MELODY, FROM TREBLE TONES MOULD SPROUTS IN OLD SHOES AND EMPTY HEADS POPLARS IN THE FIELDS OF FRANCE SANCTUARY IN A MAZE SUBTLE EVIL THAT THE MIND ENGENDERS SUPPLE BODY BENDS TO WILL TO FACE THE ARROWS OF THE CHANCE-DRAWN BOW UNCAPTURED IS ESSENTIAL DEATH WHO COMFORTS FLESH UNRECONCILED WHO SEES THE PANIC UNCONFESSED WITHIN THE SPRING'S BRIGHT SHELL OF DAWN Crawford, Francis Marion 4 poems available by this author DEATH IN LIFE First Line: Have you no heart?' francesca asked suddenly Subject(s): Love LOVE - STRONGER THAN DEATH First Line: Dalrymple found marie addolorata in the Subject(s): Love NEW NATIONAL HYMN Poem Text First Line: Hail, freedom! Thy bright crest Last Line: Take thou, at last, our souls to thine eternal peace. Variant Title(s): National Hymn Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Independence Day PETTY IRRITATIONS First Line: The storm brewed during a silent meal Subject(s): Love Crawford, Griff 1 poems available by this author JOG ON, JEHOSOPHAT First Line: Road gets rougher every mile Subject(s): Hope Crawford, Isabella Valancy 28 poems available by this author BATTLE First Line: Slowly the moon her banderoles of light Last Line: To quicken hell with horror - for the strength %that is not of the heavens is of hell Subject(s): Sky BLUE FORGET-ME-NOT First Line: Could every blossom find a voice CAMP OF SOULS First Line: My white canoe, like the silvery air Last Line: When the bright day laughs, or the wan night grieves, %come the dusky plumes of red 'singing leaves' CHRISTMAS BABY First Line: How did the new baby get into the house? CITY TREE First Line: I stand within the stony, arid town Last Line: To where my emerald branches call and wave %as to the mystic skies DARK STAG First Line: A startled stag, the blue-grey night Last Line: The brown earth crimsons as he dies, %the strong and dusky stag DEACON AND HIS DAUGHTER First Line: He saved his soul an' saved his pork FAIRY TOIL First Line: Beneath grave sister claudia's eyes FAITH, HOPE AND CHARITY First Line: A star leaned down and laid a silver hand Variant Title(s): These Thre FARMER'S DAUGHTER CHERRY First Line: The farmer quit what he was at GISLI, THE CHIEFTAN, SELS. HELOT, SELS. First Line: Still the helot stands, his feet LA BLANCHISSEUSE First Line: Margation at early dawn LAUGHTER First Line: Laughter wears a lilied gown Subject(s): Laughter LILY BED First Line: His cedar paddle, scented, red LOVE ME, LOVE MY DOG' First Line: He had a falcon on his wrist MALCOLM'S KATIE, SELS. MALCOLM'S KATIE, SELS. MARCH First Line: Shall thor with his hammer MOTHER'S SOUL First Line: When the moon was horned the mother died ROSE First Line: The rose was given to man for this SONG FOR THE SOLDIERS First Line: If songs be sung let minstrels strike their harps SONG FOR THE SOLDIERS: HIS MOTHER First Line: In the first dawn she lifted from her bed SONG FOR THE SOLDIERS: HIS SWEETHEART First Line: Sylvia's lattices were dark SONG FOR THE SOLDIERS: HIS WIFE AND BABY First Line: In the lone place of the leaves SONG OF THE AXE Poem Text First Line: High grew the snow beneath the low-hung sky Last Line: "we build up nations -- this my axe and I!" Variant Title(s): The Axe Subject(s): Axes; Hatchets SWORD First Line: At the forging of the sword THE CANOE Poem Text First Line: My masters twain made me a bed Last Line: As white locks of tall waterfalls. Variant Title(s): Said The Canoe Subject(s): Canoes & Canoeing Crawford, James P. 3 poems available by this author BRIGHT WATER FOR ME! Poem Text First Line: O! Come, come with me to the stream in the glade Last Line: And our drink the cool water, pure water shall be. Subject(s): Brooks; Water; Streams; Creeks I WEAR A JEWEL Poem Text First Line: I wear a jewel near my heart, for gold I wadna sell ye Last Line: For many a love is bann'd on earth that's no a sin in heaven. Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Love; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces THE DRUNKARD'S RAGGIT WEAN Poem Text First Line: A wee bit raggit laddie gangs wan'rin through the street Last Line: An' cherish wi' a parent's care, their puir wee raggit wean. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse Crawford, John 1 poems available by this author SONG OF THE ARKANSAS First Line: Up the arkansas I come Crawford, John Wallace Alternate Author Name(s): Jack, Captain 66 poems available by this author ALL HALLOWS CHURCH, LONDON '87 First Line: A pure stream of black taxis BEAUTY UNAWARE First Line: At times in calm and tranquil depths BILOXI SANDS First Line: The dull sand dunes stretch silent BLOW OUT YOUR CANDLES First Line: What a joy to be reminded CAFE' DUMONDE First Line: Faces of all kinds flood the scene CALL FOR LETHE First Line: Vagaries of sound come floating toward me CHESTER'S WALL First Line: Speaking of walls CONSTANCY First Line: Dead night lies round about: horror creeps DISTANT GLORY First Line: I see a smile amid the dark DREAMS First Line: Skirted %maidens waving palms DUSKY TRAVEL First Line: As I traveled down the asphalt highway ECHO OF THE PAST First Line: Seems I hear an echo of the past EQUALIZER First Line: Faithful death's prize varies FRIGHT First Line: Passing years call before me tears shed GABRIEL MEEKS, CHILD OF CARE HOW WAS I TO KNOW IF I COULD CLOTHE EACH JEWELED THOUGHT. Subject(s): Hope IF ROOSEVELT HAD BEEN BAD First Line: You never spoke a greater truth Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919) ISLANDS IN THE SKY First Line: The bee buzzes on its way JANUARY HIGHS First Line: Northern boys had so much on us LILAC MEMORIES First Line: The waters flow serenely now LINES WRITTEN IN EARLY MORN First Line: Stillness pervades-a quiet LOOKING BACK First Line: By this soft light, I often sit to woo the mind MAKING THE CONNECTION First Line: I had no idea what I was doing, a boy of ten MEMORIES First Line: The summer scenes cause memories MOTHER'S PRAYER First Line: Mother, who, in days of childhood MOUNTAIN SPRING First Line: Late snow lay still like lace over MUSEUM PIECE First Line: Here silence reigns NEW MEXICAN SUNSET First Line: Pale brown mesas set NIGHT First Line: Shadow time %the sun sinks low ONCE IT WAS THAT ONLY GREEN HAWTHORNE PARTING IS SUCH SORROW First Line: The fall of leaves, an old ploy PEACE, MY CHILD First Line: Peace, my child, for the day is done PLAYING HUCK FINN First Line: On hot, july days PRAIRIE SUNSET First Line: Orange, reddish beams QUIET STREETS First Line: Quiet streets full of midnight litter RACES YET TO RUN First Line: I could not know the feeling in advance RATTLIN' JOE'S PRAYER Poem Text First Line: Jist pile on some more o' them pine knots Last Line: So I guess I hed best turn in too. Subject(s): Bible; Coffins; Mass; Prayer; War REACHING First Line: The water ripples slowly past the man of ease RELIVING First Line: It is a natural thing, I suppose SATURDAY AT HELMS First Line: On certain saturdays when clouds hung low SORGHUM-MAKING TIME First Line: I was young, naive and innocent SOUTHERLY VISION First Line: Thirty years make a big difference SPACE First Line: Space %is so inviting STONEHENGE, MAY '83 First Line: Tall elephant sculptures STRUGGLE First Line: A fading rose of summer SUNSHINE AND RAIN First Line: If you should see a fellow-man Subject(s): Hope SWAN SONG First Line: The great white hulk rises SWINGING First Line: The call echoed in waves THAR WAS JIM First Line: Wildest boy in all the village THICKET PLAYING AND SUCH First Line: Back in those youthful butterfly days TIME, VANQUISHED First Line: The black night and the long bright road VENGEANCE First Line: The black beach bears heavy scars Subject(s): Vengeance VENGEANCE OF JEHU First Line: The calling was swift VERSAILLES: REFLECTIONS ON TIME First Line: I sat perched high VISIONS First Line: I saw a star fall from heaven VORTEX: REALITY First Line: Whiring words, whirling words WAITING First Line: It was strange WALKING TALL First Line: Halloween at hicks was sheer delight WATCHER First Line: Like a weary watcher of the sea WEEDS OF THE ARMY First Line: Some of the papers tell us that the boys of the g.A.R WELL-MEANT First Line: A letter meant for comfort comes WHAT HAPPENED HAPPINESS WHERE QUIET WATERS FLOW First Line: The lotus blosson calls again WINTER SATURDAY First Line: A country blessing came on saturday night WITHOUT WORDS First Line: Why must it be when all alone Crawford, Julia Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Macartney, Louise; Crawford, Louisa Matilda Jane 3 poems available by this author KATHLEEN MAVOURNEEN Poem Text First Line: Kathleen mavourneen! The gray dawn is breaking Last Line: Then why art thou silent, kathleen mavourneen? Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation WE PARTED IN SILENCE Poem Text First Line: We parted in silence, we parted by night' Last Line: Shall hang o'er its waters forever. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting WE PARTED IN SILENCE First Line: We parted in silence, we parted by night' Last Line: But the odor and bloom of those bygone years %shall hang o'er its waters forever Subject(s): Absence Crawford, Nelson Antrim 6 poems available by this author COMRADES AND LOVERS, REST NOT Poem Text First Line: Oh, you genteel, conventional, uncourageous Last Line: Rest not. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) GLORIES Poem Text First Line: Through the half open door Last Line: Jostling to-day's glory of the west. Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals IN THE KEY OF BLUE Poem Text First Line: I have a field of flax, blue-blooming Last Line: Blown across a misty salt sea. Subject(s): Flax THE CARRYING OF A GHOST Poem Text First Line: Let the ghost of the brave be carried away Last Line: The ghost goes on the long ghost-road. Subject(s): Ghosts; Mourning; Native Americans - Religion; Rites & Ceremonies; Supernatural; Bereavement THE MATHEMATICIAN Poem Text First Line: Stranger alike to traffic's clamor crude Last Line: And in a graph he finds eternity. Subject(s): Mathematics TREES Poem Text First Line: Pink-sprinkled summer twilight Last Line: In spite of your faultlessness. Subject(s): Trees Crawford, Pauline Avery 3 poems available by this author SHUT DOORS ALONG THE HALL LIKE SLEEPING EYES THERE IS NO SOUND SAVE THROUGH THE SWELTRY STREET TO ME WIDE-EYED THROUGHOUT THE ALIEN NIGHT Crawford, Robert Macarthur 1 poems available by this author U.S. AIR FORCE; OFFICIAL SONG OF THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE First Line: Off we go into the wild blue yonder Last Line: Nothing'll stop the army air corps! Subject(s): Air Force - United States Crawford, Robert W. 3 poems available by this author COSMOGRAPHY First Line: Your new pajamas have these silver stars Last Line: Explore a universe of nights with you HARBINGERS First Line: The wasps stumble; the days are more concise Last Line: Can still imagine pasting each one back THERE HAS TO BE A REASON FOR IT First Line: We don't sell many iron pots these days' Last Line: The doorknob rattle as sarah locked up early Crawford (?-1733), Robert 9 poems available by this author BUSH ABOON TRAQUAIR First Line: Hear me, ye nymphs, and every swain COURTSHIP OF EVE First Line: I met her in a garden of the lord Subject(s): Courtship COWDENKNOWES First Line: When summer comes, the swains on tweed Last Line: Convey to me the best of swains, %and my lov'd cowdenknowes Subject(s): Cowdenknowes, Scotland DOWN THE BURN, DAVIE Poem Text First Line: When trees did bud, and fields were green Last Line: And aye shall follow you.' Subject(s): Love HAWTHORN-TIME First Line: O girls upon these scottish roads I TOOK MY LOVE PASSENGERS IN A TIME BEYOND ORCHARDS First Line: November winds returning bite with beaks Subject(s): Love TIMBERS OF DESIGN First Line: Only the beauty of color is lost TWEEDSIDE Poem Text First Line: What beauties does flora disclose! Last Line: Or the pleasanter banks of the tweed? Subject(s): Tweed (river), England & Scotland Crawford, Robert+(2) 15 poems available by this author AT LANSDOWNE KIRK First Line: You seer from gold-leaf behind the pulpit Last Line: He is still holding, still laying down his gun BLUE SONG First Line: Hoireann o %I am sad %since a week ago Last Line: Say hullo for me %to dunvegan CELTIC SAINTS First Line: One twirls a shamrock to explain the trinity, another Last Line: Still undicovered, with its small green island, its ringing %bronze quadrangular bell CEUD MILE FAILTE First Line: This morning I eyeball frosty wavelets Last Line: An abrupt hundred thousand goodbyes CRANNOG First Line: A coppiced alder, baba yaga hut Last Line: Sense of quickened water, wind, and hearth DOWNTOWN SUNDAY First Line: The amputated husband Last Line: Main street's like a lost %funeral procession Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social EYES DOWN First Line: Today I wake like a chainsawed forest Last Line: I would have missed if I'd been looking up FIAT LUX First Line: Let there be braziers, holophotal lenses Last Line: As has been said before, let there be light FULL VOLUME First Line: Diving-suited, copper-helmeted, no thought of turning back Last Line: Level, be lost in it, pushed by it, sung by it, not to be found HARRIS First Line: So many days: a day to paint the oil storage tank HOME First Line: Has canary-yellow curtains, so expensive Last Line: Like a call-sign. You are shouting, 'I'm home' Subject(s): Love INNER GLASGOW First Line: You were a small red coat among the pit bings Last Line: To lie along the bowsprits of our lives Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland MITE First Line: Let there be darkness, but not quite enough Last Line: Let the innocents be slaughtered. Except one MOMENT OF YOUR TIME First Line: Z-rods and a pictish hoopla of carved rings Last Line: Every last atom pregnant with an a TO HENRY DARNLEY, KING OF SCOTS First Line: The marigold nowhere turns from the sun Last Line: Your turns of fortune we are left exposed Crawford, Robert+(3) 3 poems available by this author LOVE BY THE SEA First Line: In a fan-shaped chair beside the sand Last Line: For some sweet purpose, we suppose SONG First Line: Love, love me only Last Line: I'd love again never Subject(s): Love WINGED WORDS First Line: The winged words, they pass Last Line: From germs divine Subject(s): Language Crawford, Robert+(4) 11 poems available by this author CONFESSION First Line: That poem I said I wrote to god Last Line: Injustice done to both of you, %I fear FRENCH BRAIDS First Line: While one hand is content to touch, admire Last Line: It falls the way the rain lets go the air HAPPY HOLIDAYS First Line: If presumption is the problem Last Line: What if the greeted person's sad? IMPORTANCE OF DOORS First Line: All she wanted was a door that she could close Last Line: And so, denied a little door, she left LAST TIME First Line: As they are sitting sipping lemon tea Last Line: One doesn't always want to be reminded NEW ENGLAND First Line: At noon the breeze blew hither Last Line: And put them all right back NOT ICE-OUT, EITHER First Line: That thing! That thing! That awful moment when Last Line: When was it she became a ghost full-time? POWER FAILURE First Line: Groggy, at first, you think a bulb's burnt out Last Line: For winter, and a covering of snow REPETITION First Line: The ground is covered in three feet of snow Last Line: That 'everything's been done before, you know' WALKING TOUR First Line: Kipling, rudyard; beckett, thomas Last Line: There are dead people everywhere WHOLE OF IT First Line: This first hot day, under an apple tree Last Line: And make each blossom hum above my head Crawford, Roger 1 poems available by this author FROM THE LOVE SONG OF TOMMO FROGLEY Poem Text First Line: Comeahead then comeahead Last Line: Chattin back ter their radios Subject(s): Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965); Eliot, T. S. Crawford, Rosetta 1 poems available by this author MY MAN JUMPED SALTY ON ME First Line: Going down to the river : take a rope and a rock Last Line: Cut him if he stands still : shoot him if he runs Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) Crawford, Shelcie 1 poems available by this author DEAR LORD Crawford, Sophie 2 poems available by this author IN PARIS, MAYBE First Line: A girl I know Last Line: Into motes of light INLAND SEA First Line: Inland, looking into the canyon Last Line: For a tide in our bodies. %anything for the ocean Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 Crawford, Tom 59 poems available by this author AT THREE O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING First Line: I dream of holding you AUNT MARY First Line: I hurt more than my death BIRD LORE First Line: If they say you are not to be trusted BIRD'S LANDING First Line: I love this age like wood BURIED TWICE NOW AND STILL NOT BURIED First Line: Buried twice now COHO First Line: You want the line to go on singing COUNT US DRIVING First Line: The dash-lights won't give you more EASTWING First Line: The president walks out to the eastwing EATING WHAT COMES First Line: I know you want so much the simple peace ENORMOUS SLEEP First Line: My growing up EVERYDAY WAS AN INVENTION First Line: I an standing here now EVERYTHING MUST GO First Line: Tonight %the moon shines like a new ax FARMER CREEK First Line: It is always the creek FEEDING CYCLE OF THE CATFISH First Line: It is said they feed at night FOLDED SOCKS First Line: I am interested in love FOX First Line: How much I love her GRANDFATHER First Line: This would be before the war when sweet butter came Last Line: God in the poem? Some barred-rocks running around? Subject(s): Farm Life GRAY LODGE First Line: Every afternoon I close the door to my room and lie down GRETEL First Line: Don't say, 'who can understand %this life' Last Line: Enough, and can find the path Subject(s): Farm Life GRETEL (II) First Line: We are like two old miners Last Line: A red plane scoots over the trees %now, and disappears Subject(s): Farm Life HEART First Line: The heart, we tell ourselves, is a pump Last Line: What's measurable? The walk to the gate %before boarding. The solitary ride home Subject(s): Healing; Kent State University - Riot, 1970 I SAW A BIRD FALL OUT OF THE AIR First Line: Grasping its chest I WANT TO SAY LISTEN First Line: Three of us crouch around the deer in the center of the road IN SAFETY First Line: I carry dead dogs somewhere inside me IT IS ALMOST POSSIBLE TO SHOUT ACROSS THIS RIVER First Line: I love all of you IT'S SNOWING IN FLINT MICHIGAN First Line: On stever street LAUNDRY First Line: Somedays I pull my heart out LETTER TO AN OLD FRIEND First Line: No one cares about me LIVING NEAR HEBO First Line: This report is late and it should be LOOK AT IT MY WAY LYING HERE I AM ASTONISHED First Line: When I think MATTER OF WINGS First Line: Outside they are washing down the swallow's nests MORNING First Line: George and I MORNING FOR RUE First Line: I know that you've been described as the spacy half-wit in the MY FATHER THE INVENTOR First Line: My father is much older now NESTUCCA RIVER POEM First Line: When you come this far toward the mouth NIGHT FISHING First Line: I remember that night in brightwood, oregon NO NAME CREEK First Line: There is a small grove of yellow alders OCTOBER 11 POEM First Line: We are sending our dog back and forth in the room. He's dead OREGON 1955; THE FIRST TIME I FISHED FOR TROUT First Line: The first time I fished for trout OTIS CAFE First Line: You can believe in the eight plastic hands-feminine Last Line: In front of you, steaming, you'd want to leave, %you'd think that you had dreamed this all up PACIFIC CITY First Line: You can get here three ways PARTY First Line: Besides water POINT ABOUT PAIN First Line: The alfalfa mower took my legs off Last Line: Just how big was the harvest? PRETTIER THAN EVER First Line: Fourteen years RAIN First Line: The rain is a cold steady drip over the eaves RELEASE AT NETARTS BAY First Line: We carry the bird in a cardboard box SHE HAS ALWAYS LIVED FOR THE NEW SHOOTS First Line: And through the window I hear her SKINNING First Line: Philosophy puts us off SOMETIMES UNDER A HOT SUN First Line: Thirsty owls SUMMER FRUIT First Line: When I die THINGS I LEARNED ABOUT CARPENTRY AND COULDN'T WAIT TO TELL First Line: It's not the shellacking that gets me WAR EFFORT, 1943 First Line: Everything right now is a reminder of the war I was too small to fly in Last Line: Who can understand this country? The surplus of feelings. The peace %that never comes Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 WHALE DEPOSIT First Line: I am filling out WHEN I CRACK THAT DOOR First Line: I never know what's coming through WHERE WE WERE BURIED WOULDN'T THAT BE RIGHT First Line: If I could really see YAQUINA HEAD First Line: To begin with we are laughable Crawford, Virginia 5 poems available by this author FIRST LOVE First Line: He sits down in his metal folding chair Last Line: Out of control %amazed by what she is feeling IN TONGUES First Line: The man sitting next to me Last Line: But I hear him wake our daughter PLANETARYLIGHT First Line: As a child %I believed sleeping in moonlight Last Line: All the earth %trading light for light SNOWPEAS IN HEAVEN First Line: This is what I imagine Last Line: I would cook them gently %keeping them green and crisp SOMEONE ELSE'S First Line: No one knows %I'm not her mother Last Line: Coo as I change %her diaper Crawford, W. H. 1 poems available by this author COMPANY UNION NATIONAL ANTHEM First Line: I'm a worker with a foggy brain, I don't mind being robbed Subject(s): Mines And Miners Crawford, William 1 poems available by this author ON MRS. A. H. AT A CONCERT First Line: Look where my dear hamilla smiles Crawford-hayes, Reba 1 poems available by this author WAR First Line: Wet bodies of those who have fallen Last Line: The children, crying mommy, mommy! Subject(s): Politics; War Crowley, Susan Hanniford 1 poems available by this author SOUND First Line: I like to listen to the music between the harmony and Last Line: What is the subtle symphony of love that echoes %through my heart? %how could I ever live without it Danford, Douglas 1 poems available by this author MERCHANT WHO LIVES ON THE TYNE Last Line: Dill water runs steep,' he'll reply Dargan, Olive Tilford Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding 76 poems available by this author A DIRGE Poem Text First Line: Mortal child, lay thee where / earth is gift and giver Last Line: Shall disturb thee never. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Dead, The; Burials ABNEGATION Poem Text First Line: Christ, dear christ, were the wood-ways sweet Last Line: Ay,—and for that dost thou live! Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry AND THE LAST SHALL BE FIRST' First Line: Of the dumb, bayed god in men AT THE GRAVE OF HEINE Poem Text First Line: South-heart of song / in winter drest Last Line: Through whose high morn the bird sings on. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones AUGUST EVENING First Line: The shadows of the mountains stretch cool on the valley BALLAD Poem Text First Line: When I with death have gone on quest Last Line: Though I who sang forgotten be. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The BEYOND THE WAR Poem Text First Line: Now seres the planet like a leaf Last Line: A sister's flowering. Subject(s): War CALLED Poem Text First Line: I rise, I pass; / the feast is on, bright is the board Last Line: And cover me. Subject(s): Pity CYCLE'S RIM, SELS. First Line: Deep lies thy body, jewel of the sea DEFIANCE First Line: Or dear or great they fall as grass DUO Poem Text First Line: Woman in the garden Last Line: Shall find a mother there! Subject(s): Angels; Death; Prayer; Dead, The EVVIE'S MOTHER First Line: She took the last egg out of the basket FAR BUGLES Poem Text First Line: The mountain road bent round a cliff Last Line: Taking, and leaving, the old, imponderable load. Subject(s): Life; Love - Marital; Old Age; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love FATHERLAND Poem Text First Line: Come fingered as a friend, o death! Last Line: Where southern waters creep. Subject(s): Nature FOR M. L. P. Poem Text First Line: Rose love lay dreaming where I passed Last Line: Now flames it gold. Subject(s): Love FRANCESCA Poem Text First Line: Sweet of the dawn is she Last Line: Alone, and know. Subject(s): Beauty; Love FRIENDS Poem Text First Line: There's one comes often as the sun Last Line: I sometimes see across the world—a room. Subject(s): Friendship; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations HAVENED Poem Text First Line: Come, flower of life, and lay thy beauty's rose Last Line: Upon my heart thy curls' beloved gold! Subject(s): Beauty; Love HIS ARGUMENT Poem Text First Line: One time I wooed a maid (dear is she yet!) Last Line: And lay thy long, soft locks where my heart is. Subject(s): Courtship; Love HOME First Line: He came, her hero crowned IN A MOUNTAIN PASTURE Poem Text First Line: Green bowl where heaven drinks and cools the cheek Last Line: Buddha, or jesus, ghandi, or my friend. IN THE BLACK COUNTRY Poem Text First Line: Hell hath its uses; here each mortar mouth Last Line: An earth of ashes and a sky of brass? Subject(s): Skyscrapers; Staffordshire, England IN THE BLUE RIDGE Poem Text First Line: The mountain night is shining, jim of tellico Last Line: And beg him bless you, bless you ever, jim of tellico! Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness IN THE STUDIO Poem Text First Line: Bowed in the firelight's softly climbing gleam Last Line: Falls on her face, and beauty looks at me. Subject(s): Art & Artists INTERFERIN'. First Line: There is a healing in the gold %of the june IT WILL BE A HARD WINTER' First Line: They say the blue king jays have flown LA DAME REVOLUTION Poem Text First Line: Red was the might that sired thee Last Line: Waits man, the undefiled. Subject(s): Hope; Love; Peace; Optimism LE PENSEUR First Line: Warm in this marble, that is stone no more LITTLE DAUGHTERS Poem Text First Line: What is sweeter, sweet, than you? Last Line: "she is not dead till ye have murdered me!" Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LOVERS' LEAP Poem Text First Line: In greece I found the place, though earth Last Line: And leap to find thee where thou art! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Seasons LUTE AND FURROW First Line: The winter has grown so still MAGDALEN TO HER POET Poem Text First Line: Take back thy song; or let me hear what thou Last Line: The pity at whose touch dies every sin. Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Sin; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene MID-MAY Poem Text First Line: Hand clamped to desk, / and eyes on task undone Last Line: When pan is at the door? Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Pain; Suffering; Misery OBSEQUIES Poem Text First Line: The spirits of the twilight go sighing on these slopes Last Line: To a forest funeral. Subject(s): Forests; Funerals; Woods; Burials OLD FAIRINGDOWN Poem Text First Line: Soft as a treader on mosses Last Line: There is that in the village that never will sleep! Subject(s): Boys; Dwarfs; Farewell; Insomnia; Knowledge; Pain; Sleep; Villages; Parting; Sleeplessness; Suffering; Misery ON BOSWORTH FIELD Poem Text First Line: Here, richard, didst thou fall, caparisoned Last Line: To tread eternity. Subject(s): Fame; Reputation ON CLINGMAN DOME First Line: The balsom buds are bluer Subject(s): Great Smoky Mountains ON THE MOUNTAIN First Line: She passed like a running flame RELEASED First Line: Leaving behind us the puddling swamp-woods RESCUE First Line: Ruthless unrest has urged slow feet RETURNING First Line: When I came back to my hills SAFE Poem Text First Line: My dream-fruit tree a palace bore / in stone's reality Last Line: Warm for eternity. Subject(s): Comfort; Home SAL'S GAP First Line: From trough to tip the gap is thick with laurel SONG OF TO-MORROW Poem Text First Line: Sound, o harp of being, set Last Line: Thou shalt never moan again. Subject(s): Future; Pain; Past; Suffering; Misery SONNET: 26 First Line: The pasture is a forest where we lie SONNET: 36 First Line: Today I went among the mountain folk SOROLLA Poem Text First Line: I am fleet,' said the joy of the sun Last Line: And sorrow the sigh of a day. Subject(s): Time THANKSGIVING Poem Text First Line: Supremest life and lord of all, / I bring my thanks to thee Last Line: And lift my thanks to thee. Subject(s): Blessings; God; Holidays; Thanksgiving THE CONQUEROR Poem Text First Line: O spring, that flutter'st the slow winter by Last Line: So he, when throned, no greater lord doth know. Subject(s): Seasons THE GAME Poem Text First Line: Tis played with eyes; one uttered word Last Line: My own to play again. Subject(s): Eyes; Games; Play; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE INQUISITOR Poem Text First Line: The hound is at the witch's tree Last Line: The moon would stare and stare. Subject(s): Inquisition THE KISS Poem Text First Line: I stole into the secret room Last Line: Stood sovereign. Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The THE LITTLE TREE Poem Text First Line: It pushed a guided way between Last Line: "is wakened from above!" Subject(s): Graves; Trees; Tombs; Tombstones THE LOSS Poem Text First Line: When thou shalt search thy glass nor find the flower Last Line: But for the wounds it healed not bow thy head. Subject(s): Loss THE MASTER Poem Text First Line: For leonardo, sound, my sonnet string! Last Line: But first he stayed the tremble of his hand. Subject(s): Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519); Paintings & Painters THE PATH-FLOWER Poem Text First Line: A red-cap sang in bishop's wood Last Line: I watched her vanishing. Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Forests; Gifts & Giving; Spring; Strangers; Woods THE PIPER Poem Text First Line: I met a crone 'twixt wood and wood Last Line: The piper plays.. Subject(s): Pipers THE REBEL Poem Text First Line: A riot-maker! Can the fruit Last Line: The laughter of her greater sons. Subject(s): Chaos; Life; Revolutions THE ROAD Poem Text First Line: On gilead road the shadows creep Last Line: So dear is that before. Subject(s): Nature; Roads; Paths; Trails THERE'S ROSEMARY' First Line: O love that is not love, but dear, so dear! THESE LATTER DAYS Poem Text First Line: Take down thy stars, o god! We look not up Last Line: We read no sign. O god, take down thy stars! Subject(s): God; Greed; Stars; Avarice; Cupidity THIS WAR, SELS First Line: O, brothers of the lyre and reed Last Line: Till stars that watch have sign to sing %a sister's flowering Subject(s): World War I TO A HERMIT THRUSH Poem Text First Line: Dweller among leaves, and shining twilight boughs Last Line: My wings must fail e'en with my song. Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Thrushes TO A LADY SITTING IN STARLIGHT Poem Text First Line: Those stars that drown their lightin two dark lakes Last Line: To beat a world to sand with every wave. Subject(s): Stars TO A LOST COMRADE Poem Text First Line: We found the spring at eager noon Last Line: "cry ""hollo!"" I will come." Subject(s): Brotherhood TO A TEXAS PRIMROSE Poem Text First Line: A flake of cloud was trembling cast Last Line: This side of castaly. Subject(s): Primroses TO MIRIMOND (HER BIRTHDAY, IN DECEMBER) Poem Text First Line: Dost think that time, to whom stars vainly sue Last Line: If thou, when all is gone, wouldst still have all. Subject(s): Beauty; Time TO MOINA Poem Text First Line: There were no heaven but for lovers' eyes Last Line: And find his purple if his lady choose. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of TO SLEEP Poem Text First Line: O silent lover of a world day-worn Last Line: As one would pass from gentle friend to friend. Subject(s): Death; Sleep; Dead, The TO WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text First Line: Be a god, your spirit cried Last Line: Where your piping goes before. Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827) TRYST (AFTER READING FROM SHAKESPEARE) Poem Text First Line: Night, thou art heavy, with no stars to chain Last Line: A dead hand lies like flame upon my heart. Subject(s): Death; Dramatists; Love - Loss Of; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dead, The; Dramatists TWILIGHT First Line: The mountains lie in curves so tender VISION Poem Text First Line: Look in, o mystic, on the lese Last Line: In nestled love, a song, a flower. Subject(s): God WE CREATORS First Line: Let us go on with experiments YE WHO ARE TO SING Poem Text First Line: O silence of all silences, where wait Last Line: If graves may listen then, I then shall listening be! Subject(s): Death; Time; Dead, The YOUTH Poem Text First Line: He hears the hour's low hint and springs Last Line: Sole immortality! Subject(s): Youth Davidson, Clifford 1 poems available by this author SHIP, SEA, AND STAR First Line: Guided by stars, their ship sailed Davies (1565-1618), John Alternate Author Name(s): Welsh Poet; Davies Of Hereford, John 9 poems available by this author ALTHOUGH WE DO NOT ALL THE GOOD WE LOVE Poem Text First Line: Although we do not all the good we love, Last Line: Is love that burns, but burns like painted fire. BUTTERED PIPPIN-PIES Poem Text First Line: If there were, oh! An hellespont of cream Last Line: Which having found, if they tobacco kept, %the smoke should dry me well before I slept Variant Title(s): The Author Loving These Homely Meats Specially, Viz.: Cream, Pancakes Subject(s): Food And Eating GULLING SONNETS: AS WHEN THE BRIGHT CERULIAN FIRMAMENT Last Line: One scurvy thought infecteth all the rest ORCHESTRA OR A POEM OF DANCING (EXCERPT) First Line: Where lives the man that never yet did hear Last Line: Your better parts must dance with them forever REMEMBRANCE OF MY FRIEND MR. THOMAS MORLEY First Line: Death hath deprived me of my dearest friend Last Line: That nature wrought must unto dust be brought SOME BLAZE THE PRECIOUS BEAUTIES OF THEIR LOVES Poem Text First Line: Some blaze the precious beauties of their loves Last Line: So say, she is, and wond'ring owe the rest. TO MY BROWNE, YET BRIGHTEST SWAIN / THAT WOONS, OR ... PLAIN Poem Text First Line: Pipe on, sweet swain, till joy, in bliss, sleep waking Last Line: Dum carmen gratulatorium. Subject(s): Browne, William (1591-1645) TO OUR ENGLISH TERENCE, MR. WILL. SHAKESPEARE First Line: Some say, good will, (which I in sport sing) Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) WIT'S PILGRIMAGE, SELS. De Vere, Edward Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bulbeck, Lord; Oxford, 17th Earl Of; Vere, Edward De 26 poems available by this author A DOUBTFUL CHOICE Poem Text First Line: Were I a king I might command content Last Line: A kingdom! Or a cottage! Or a grave! Variant Title(s): The Earle Of Oxenforde To The Reader: 16;a Choice;epigram Subject(s): Death; Life; Wealth; Dead, The; Riches; Fortunes A RENUNCIATION Poem Text First Line: If women could be fair, and yet not fond Last Line: To play with fools, o, what a fool was I! Variant Title(s): Of Women Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Women COURT LADY ADDRESSES HER LOVER First Line: Though I be strange, sweet friend, be thou not so Last Line: As for the rest, I leave it to thy thought EARLE OF OXENFORDE TO THE READER: 10 First Line: Feyne would I singe but fury makes me frette Last Line: I rest revengd of whome I am abusd EARLE OF OXENFORDE TO THE READER: 12 First Line: Wing'd with desyre, I seeke to mount on hyghe Last Line: Which shall in joys of eyther fortunes be EARLE OF OXENFORDE TO THE READER: 13. LOVE COMPARED TO A TENNIS First Line: Whereas the harte at tennysse playes and men to gaminge fall Last Line: Made by the earle of oxeforde EARLE OF OXENFORDE TO THE READER: 15 First Line: Who taught the first to sighe alas my harte? Last Line: As nought but death may ever change thy mynde EARLE OF OXENFORDE TO THE READER: 2 First Line: Even as the waxe doeth melt, or dewe consume awaie Last Line: That never am lesse idle loe, then when I am alone EARLE OF OXENFORDE TO THE READER: 3 First Line: A croune of bayes shall that man weare Last Line: And syng bis woe worthe on me, forsaken man EARLE OF OXENFORDE TO THE READER: 4 First Line: Framd in the front of forlorne hope, past all recoverie Last Line: To waile this losse of my good name, as of these greefes the ground EARLE OF OXENFORDE TO THE READER: 5 First Line: I am not as I seme to bee Last Line: But I in vaine doe breathe my winde EARLE OF OXENFORDE TO THE READER: 6 First Line: If care or skill could conquere vaine desire Last Line: Deserves no paine, though he doe pine and die EARLE OF OXENFORDE TO THE READER: 7 First Line: My meanyng is to worke what wonders love hath wrought Last Line: Unto myself who hath the crime in others that I grudge EARLE OF OXENFORDE TO THE READER: 8 First Line: The lyvely larke stretcht forth her wynge Last Line: Than to enjoy that others mysse.' EARLE OF OXENFORDE TO THE READER: 9 First Line: The tricklyng teares that fales along my cheeks Last Line: Dispise her state, and pitie me FANCY AND DESIRE First Line: Come hither, shepherd's swain - 'sir, what do you require?' OF THE BIRTH AND BRINGING UP OF DESIRE First Line: When wert thou born, desire? Last Line: Ten thousand times a day Variant Title(s): The Earle Of Oxenforde To The Reader: 1 Subject(s): Desire PAINS AND GAINS First Line: The labouring man, that tills the fertile soil Last Line: But who sits still and holdeth fast the nets Variant Title(s): The Earle Of Oxenforde To The Reader: POEMS POSSIBLY BY OXFORD: 2. IN PRAISE OF A CONTENTED MINDE First Line: My mynde to me a kingdome is, such perfect joye therin I finde Last Line: Thus doe I live, thus will I die, would all did so as well as I POEMS POSSIBLY BY OXFORD: 4 First Line: I do increase their wandring wits, till that I dim their sight Last Line: My hand and head with quivering quill, shall blaze his name at large POEMS POSSIBLY BY OXFORD: 4 First Line: In pescod time when hownd to horne gives eare while bucke is kild Last Line: And like the dere I make them fall, that overcrosse the lawnd.' SHEPHERD, WHAT'S LOVE? I PRAY THEE TELL SITTING ALONE UPON MY THOUGHT Poem Text First Line: Sitting alone upon my thought, in melancholy mood Last Line: As 'twere apollo's oracle THE SHEPHERD'S COMMENDATION OF HIS NYMPH Poem Text First Line: What shepherd can express Last Line: These beauties make me die. Subject(s): Beauty WHEN I WAS FAIR AND YOUNG Poem Text First Line: When I was fair and young, then favour graced me Last Line: Go, go, go, seek some other where, importune me no more WHITE AND RED Poem Text First Line: What cunning can express Last Line: These beauties make me die Variant Title(s): The Earle Of Oxenforde To The Reader: 1 Deford, Miriam Allen 10 poems available by this author BRIGHT HORSEMAN Poem Text First Line: Darkness stands ear-pricked, poised, champing its icy snaffle Last Line: And darkness sees and trembles; darkness, broken, obeys. Subject(s): Horseback Riding CARTHAGE First Line: Sow it with salt where men went to and fro Subject(s): Carthage ESSENCE Poem Text First Line: Out of the darkness - a light Last Line: Only the world's staunch lover! Subject(s): Despair; Fate; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Silence; Destiny FIRST ANNIVERSARY Poem Text First Line: A year ago tonight I did not lie alone Last Line: But morning came. HOMAGE TO CHARLES LINDBERGH First Line: Said the sea: I am old Subject(s): Lindbergh, Charles Augustus (1902-1974) LETTER TO THE DEAD First Line: Fable and figment of desire Last Line: Lonely and lost, go forth to bear %the season's burden of despair RUNNING WATER First Line: The night wind is not more lovely THE MUSICMAKER'S CHILD Poem Text First Line: A maiden, waiting for a man to take her Last Line: I, the child of weir the musicmaker. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Dead, The; Burials TRAVELLER'S DUTY Poem Text First Line: Come day, go day Last Line: But will not teach us how to do it! Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips WE SHALL SAY First Line: Now with earth riven and a bloodied sun Deford, Sheri 2 poems available by this author HARD ENOUGH First Line: Leaving a party in MILL STREET TUNNEL First Line: When I was Deford, William 2 poems available by this author FINDING HOME First Line: I am not at home in stillness. Walking Last Line: We lay silent as stones, still as windless trees FLY First Line: You died here lying on ricepaper wings Last Line: Of shit. But you're already named for your noblest act Dick, Cotsford 8 poems available by this author BALLADE OF BELIEF First Line: Says herbert: pray, list to my notion BALLADE OF BURIAL First Line: The sunlight sways the summer sky DOMESTIC DOLORES First Line: Don't we know our domestic dolores TRIOLET First Line: How nice a month on moors to pass TRIOLET First Line: Away from city chafe and care TRIOLET First Line: Plague take the rain! Upon my word TRIOLETS FOR 'THE TWELFTH,' SELS. VACATION VILLANELLE First Line: O halcyon hours of happy holiday Dinnies, Anna Peyre Alternate Author Name(s): Shackleford, Anna Peyre 7 poems available by this author HAPPINESS Poem Text First Line: There is a spell in every flower Last Line: The god who blesses me. Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight HOPE Poem Text First Line: In life's young morn, with buds and flowers Last Line: To endless peace in heaven! Subject(s): Hope; Optimism LINES (AFTER SEEING MACREADY IN VIRGNIA) Poem Text First Line: And I have seen thee, gifted one! At last! Last Line: Still is thine empire own'd in every heart! Subject(s): Macready, William Charles (1793-1873) LINES ADDRESSED TO A WHITE CHRYSANTHEMUM, PRESENTED TO THE WRITER Poem Text First Line: Fair gift of friendship, and her ever bright Last Line: Thou bloom'st the fairest 'mid the frosts of life. Subject(s): Chrysanthemums; Flowers; Winter THE WIFE Poem Text First Line: I could have stemmed misfortune's tide Last Line: I could not live alone. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love TO MY HUSBAND'S FIRST GRAY HAIR Poem Text First Line: Thou strange, unbidden guest! From whence Last Line: Such is thine errand, first gray hair. Subject(s): Aging; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WEDDED LOVE Poem Text First Line: Come, rouse thee, dearest! - 'tis not well Last Line: In fond, undying, wedded love. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love Dorbin, Sanford 1 poems available by this author TIMBER First Line: Squat as a miner he fit like a salamander Last Line: And continued the job, swimming in the sweat of present time Doughty, Mulford 1 poems available by this author SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE Poem Text First Line: Song of a fair may morning Last Line: Only a mile from me. Subject(s): Death; France; Military; Soldiers; War; Dead, The Dumford, Stacy E. 1 poems available by this author TIME First Line: Hourglasses %they determine Dunford, Marie 1 poems available by this author INCIDENTAL GIVEN First Line: As blue is made by light Last Line: Behind a curtain of falling leaves Subject(s): Absence Dunford, Nelson James 2 poems available by this author TWO VIEWS OF ARLES: 1. IN SEARCH OF THE BRIDGE AT ARLES First Line: The jobless hang out, wreathed in knots of smoke Last Line: The arles of old succumbs to cultural blight TWO VIEWS OF ARLES: 2. A BRIDGE TO ARLES DISCOVERED First Line: Wind-rippled rows of trees mark off whose crop Last Line: Black branches, gnarled with age, frame blue of sky Durnford, Delova 1 poems available by this author BUT I DON'T KNOW Poem Text First Line: Women, they say, are lonelier than men Last Line: Of friendly talk, over too soon, too soon. Subject(s): Conversation Dyment, Clifford 71 poems available by this author AGONY OF WOOD First Line: Roots from the earth wrenched AIR RAID First Line: Whenever I am sad because of the news Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii AS A BOY WITH A RICHNESS OF NEEDS I WANDERED Last Line: And I wonder if I am wrong, or the world, whose aspect %is nowhere strange, but is nowhere home AT A RUINED ABBEY First Line: The cistercian aim was prayer and labor AXE IN THE WOOD First Line: I stopped to watch a man strike at the trunk BAHNHOFSTRASSE First Line: Night slides down the mountain side CALENDAR First Line: Today we plan tomorrow: and the day CARPENTER First Line: With a jack plane in his hands CARRION First Line: A yellowhammer in her mouth, the cat came mewing CHILDREN First Line: Quietly the children wait CHRISTMAS POEM First Line: I see him burning in a flame CLIMBING THE MOUNTAIN First Line: The ridge my eye holds to COMING OF THE FOG First Line: Only the lamps are live COUNTRY SCENE First Line: Here we can gather CRUCIFIXUS First Line: The lamentations about her, the gapers running DARK CITY First Line: The lighted city is dark, but somewhere a bus DESERT First Line: Beside a dune high as a tree Subject(s): Nuclear War ENEMIES First Line: Scanning horizons FAITHFUL First Line: They travel arid passes where the rocks FALL First Line: I saw the flowers dropping on the water FIRST SWALLOWS First Line: Watch the wild movement of a wing FOUNDATIONS: 1 First Line: They raised a building. Orations were made FOUNDATIONS: 2 First Line: The building falls. Cracks wriggle. Explosions FOX First Line: Exploiter of the shadows Last Line: Surrendering of feeling FROM MANY A MANGLED TRUTH A WAR IS WON FROM MANY A MANGLED TRUTH A WAR IS WON. Last Line: Of lie and truth and war when the war is won? Subject(s): War GLOVED HANDS First Line: Gloved hands are blind Last Line: Of running limbs, %of burning crocus HEDGEHOG IN AIR RAID First Line: The sky was a terrific beach Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii HOLIDAYS IN CHILDHOOD First Line: Last year harold was making a boat IMPRESSION First Line: The smooth sands IN DARKNESS First Line: That street like rope uncoils; the lamps IN THE COLD DAY IN THE FLIGHT OF THAT TERN, WHICH FROM SOARING ROCK KING OF THE WOOD First Line: Winter: winter in the woods LETTER TO A FRIEND First Line: I wish I could write to you happily, for I MAN AND BEAST First Line: Hugging the ground by the lilac tree Last Line: Who is it sins now, those eyes say, %you the hunter, or I the prey? Subject(s): Birds; Soldiers; World War Ii MEDITATION ON A PICTURE First Line: A man is walking rapidly in snow MEGALOMANIA First Line: When you were speaking I was not with you NATIVITY First Line: I held the ashes of a star NEWS OF SUFFERING First Line: Shouldering a way through crowds Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii NOW IS THE FALL' First Line: Now is the fall, but not death olive OBSERVE YOURSELF: YOU ARE AN INSTRUMENT PASSION First Line: Image of the rose, of roses PASTORAL First Line: In the old days the white gates swung Last Line: Came the sauntering sorrowful stranger PIETA First Line: Her heart with grief is singular as the sky RAVEN First Line: A raven crouched in a tree REST IN YOUR ROOM AND ISLAND RUIN First Line: Soul's agony has dripped SAINT AUGUSTINE AT 32 First Line: Girl, why do you follow me SAINT CLARE First Line: Francis was moved by clare. Receiving her SASSOFERRATO'S MADONNA First Line: From the hearth and the curious women SAVAGE THE DAYLIGHT AND ANNIHILATE NIGHT SCHOOLBOY DESIRES AND NOW First Line: This desire came a year or so ago SEAGULL'S SONG First Line: The seagull rises from the rock SECRET IDIOM First Line: Not far beyond the town wild flowers grow SEED, THE IRON First Line: Farmer, sow the seed SLEEP, MY LOVE' First Line: Sleep, my love, now love is over SNOW First Line: In no way that I chose to go Last Line: Could lead me from the grief of snow SON First Line: I found the letter in a cardboard box STORM First Line: The stars are hidden by the clouds SWANS First Line: Midstream they met. Challenger and champion Last Line: Bobbed on the river like children's little boats SWITCH CUT IN APRIL First Line: This thin elastic stick was plucked Last Line: The crystal cast into the light SYRINGA First Line: In the amber grove leisurely TEMPLE First Line: Luke tells us the boy jesus THIS IS NOT MY COUNTRY, THESE HILLS BALD TIGRESS First Line: They trapped her in the indian hills TO LONDON THE TRAIN GALLOPS, ITS SHRILL STEEL HOOVES WALLS OF BIRTH First Line: Now over the pillow and the bed WAYFARER First Line: A lamp shines in single window WINTER TREES First Line: Against the evening sky the trees are black Last Line: This is the winter, kind only to the bound Subject(s): Environment; Trees WITH EYES UPTURNED TO THE BLUE ARENA WHERE Edwards, Amelia Blandford Poet's Biography 1 poems available by this author THREE GRAINS OF CORN; THE IRISH FAMINE Poem Text First Line: Give me three grains of corn, mother Last Line: Give me three grains of corn. Subject(s): Adversity; Famine; Ireland; Irish Eidson, Rexford 1 poems available by this author A LITTLE SONG Poem Text First Line: Wandering out amain Last Line: Of what we sought. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses; Singing & Singers; Songs Elliott, Henry Rutherford 1 poems available by this author A RECIPE FOR SANITY Poem Text First Line: Are you worsted in a fight? Last Line: Laugh it off. Subject(s): Advice; Laughter Erford, Esther 4 poems available by this author MAN FROM THE AUBURN WOOD First Line: More autumns flown than I have left to lose PLAINT First Line: Sweet cat with topaz eyes WINDOWS First Line: Rose window WOMEN'S DREAM GROUP First Line: The stories are eerily familiar Evans, Bradford 1 poems available by this author HIDE AND SEEK First Line: Choose a night with no moon Fargo, Ruth Scofield Alternate Author Name(s): Fordyce, William, Mrs. 2 poems available by this author PERFECTION Poem Text First Line: I swept my house of life and garnished it Last Line: Lo! Eight had entered in! THE FABLE OF THE FINCHES Poem Text First Line: Little friendly, golden finches Last Line: Finches out of fragments grew! Subject(s): Finches Faulkner, Sanford C. 1 poems available by this author ARKANSAS TRAVELER First Line: On a lonely road quite long ago Fetters, Clifford Paul 8 poems available by this author END AGAIN First Line: There is a gentle fierceness to this sunset Last Line: Could swim with you in the flowing return Subject(s): Evening MS. SCUBA First Line: Self contained underwater breathing apparatus Last Line: A breath from her diminishing aqua lung NIGHT ON THE DOCK First Line: How old is the sound of a moored boat Last Line: Lyre strummed by the vanished OPERATIONS First Line: Surgeons plunder for infectious loot Last Line: Down on knees, she's come home! Subject(s): Homecoming; Presence REMEDIES First Line: I have flower essences for to write much better Last Line: Besides, I like the idea of flower juice in me. %I'll let you know what happens SAVING PRIVATE RYAN , SELS First Line: For me, the most difficult scene of many difficult Last Line: Only two. One to kill, one to die. 'wait a second' Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Motion Pictures; Murder SOMETHING ABOUT SMALL THINGS First Line: Something about small things moving fast is comic Last Line: Rapid, wee man providng powers taht watch a giggle WINTER SOLSTICE, 5:30 AM First Line: Looking into dark today Last Line: Will stay one more minute Folsom, Joseph Fulford 5 poems available by this author THANKSGIVING IN SOMERSET Poem Text First Line: Still stand, as when our fathers tilled the soil Last Line: Slow down! We, too, some gratitude can show. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving THE BALLAD OF DANIEL BRAY Poem Text First Line: The delaware, with stately sweep Last Line: "he brought the boats to washington." Subject(s): American Revolution; Delaware (river); Trenton, Battle Of (1776) THE GRAVE OF STEPHEN CRANE Poem Text First Line: What does it matter now? November's sere Last Line: Still keep the field before the twilight fade. Subject(s): Crane, Stephen (1871-1900); Graves; Tombs; Tombstones THE MATCHLESS FLAG Poem Text First Line: The flag that ripples on the breeze Last Line: To publish liberty afar. Subject(s): Flags - United States; Patriotism; American Flag THE UNFINISHED WORK Poem Text First Line: The crowd was gone, and to the side Last Line: And sank beside him on the bench. Subject(s): Freedom; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Statues; Liberty Ford, ? 1 poems available by this author VERSES ON A TREE SPLIT IN A STORM; YORKSHIRE, 1863 First Line: When didst thou first behold the blush of morn? Last Line: Speak, if thy knotted trunk has a tongue, %and tell us how things looked when thou wast young Subject(s): Trees Ford, Anna M. 1 poems available by this author FOX AND GEESE First Line: Come, children dear, and listen to me Ford, Charles Henri Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Ford, Charles Henry 89 poems available by this author ABC'S First Line: Ask horror for a helping hand Last Line: Zero hours zinc the throat %of time the drunkard every day: %oh how to sober hihm up before %he drea AFTERNOON WITH ANDRE BRETON First Line: Suppose, suppose the lion closed a fist on the calendar Last Line: The virgin, day, flies, flies from the negro, night BABY'S IN JAIL; THE ANIMAL DAY PLAYS ALONE Last Line: You bit a butterfly, I'll chew a leaf. %baby will come to love and grief BAD HABIT First Line: Drug of the incomprehensible Last Line: Perpetually haunted, hopeless addict, %herding unheard of cattle! %rider on the bat-winged horse BALLAD FOR BAUDELAIRE First Line: For this man shed no tear Last Line: The world to his clairvoyant eye %a crystal swarming with eternity BUTTERFLY AND THE BULL First Line: One moment you are stabbed with a white flag Last Line: Your fame I trust, your actions I descry, %nor reconcile the bull and butterfly CANDY DARLING First Line: The king of the monkeys tried to marry her Last Line: I lift the glass of veneration to a glimmering vision, explosive flower planted %in the mud of a law CHANSON PUR BILLIE First Line: Whoa, hillbilly, you've got me where you want me - in the ferris wheel of Last Line: Gienic - housebreaker, cardsharper, anything you say - so long as the boss %can be billie holiday COMEDY OF BELIEF First Line: I believe in the day hung between your hands Last Line: Doubt will topple the last door, the cold grave's. %belief, let the wind walk over us, and the grass CURSE FOR THE WAR MACHINE First Line: May all the slabs of clamor that you leave Last Line: The carbonated soul will not aspire: %burn in the echo that deafened the heart's fire! DESIRE TO BE IN TWO PLACES AT ONCE First Line: Stones watch the sea like cats: -- the stone of sleep Last Line: I; stone and cat: -- both mine to wonder at Subject(s): Animals; Cats DICTY GLIDE IN CENTRAL PARK MENAGERIE First Line: Cowboy, where's your class-conscious horse? Last Line: And it's not your smile will cut you down, %nor a ten-gallonhat in which you'll drown EMBLEMS OF ARACHNE, SELS. EPIGRAMS First Line: The world's a mirror, break it and you die! Last Line: When war goes on forever %and life almost as it was before %tell me tales that dead men tell, there FACE OF THE EARTH First Line: Sand tears fall; time's tear always falling Last Line: And there'll be other eyes to open %and see what else there is to see %on the face of the earth that FLAG OF ECSTASY First Line: Over the towers of autoerotic honey Last Line: Like one of those tender strips of flesh %on either side of the bertebral column %marcel, wave! FOR DJUNA BARNES: 1 ROOTS First Line: And so the flowres grow and are deformed Last Line: Sometimes and birds have screens, fishers are muted %in their deep waters; the beautiful are rooted FOR DJUNA BARNES: 2 THE JEWELED BAT First Line: It is with terror that the jeweled bat Last Line: The lovely black bat used to fly across %not knowing then the solitude that was FOR DJUNA BARNES: 3 SEIS HARMANOS First Line: Six brothers in an autumn boat called me Last Line: Though scattered far apart in their first flood, %are now one will, one engine and one blood FOX WITH THE BLUE VELVET BAND First Line: Going from side to side and from place to place Last Line: In the house on any street without a room GARDEN OF DISORDER: 1 First Line: To lodge your harvest in the lion's mouth Last Line: Rear-gas of the sensational nor the %reactionary apple in the garden of the irrational GARDEN OF DISORDER: 2 First Line: Let us try dividing the impersonal and personal Last Line: Oh why are we afraid? For beowulf bellows %across the centuries to bravery's bedfellows GARDEN OF DISORDER: 3 First Line: Perfume the clock, and the cricket will take care of aunt bess Last Line: I'd rather be the shepherd %who traded spoors with the leopard GARDEN OF DISORDER: 4 First Line: Lenin has withdrawn to a dialectic Last Line: In may's revolving botany: boquets of terror %from the garden of revolution Subject(s): Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich (1870-1924); Russia HE CUTS HIS FINGER ON ETERNITY First Line: What grouchy war-tanks intend to shred Last Line: Or grammar they hung up your ace-in-the-hole coat on, %or love with closed eyes that your hot hand s I WONDER First Line: Where do we go from here? Last Line: And the tongue was red as flame %and the tree that grows will be red as a rose %as rose as red as th I WOULDN'T PUT IT PAST YOU First Line: And you may not have hair as curly as the alphabet Last Line: And my downtown a-waving in the wind IMPOSSIBILITY OF DYING IN YOUR ARMS DOES NOT SADDEN ME First Line: I do not want to be told any more of your facts! I cannot abide any more Last Line: Interested as the action of an enzyme. 'it is sweet,' said laotse, tasting the %vinegar IS HE A BLOOD RELATION OF YOURS Last Line: Now he is stroking a giant feather %I go towards him, I am stranded in the great beyond IT SEEMS YOU NEVER WERE First Line: Should every object claim a place to fit Last Line: Though I find you fishing on every shore %no heart but my heart will make you live once more MATIN POUR MATTA First Line: When the foot opens like a cup Last Line: When you split the world in two, %one half lives, the other dies for you MAX ERNST First Line: Though the practice of chastity confers magical powers Last Line: Was it all due to a weakness on the dark squares %or to antibodies delicate and frightening as a thr Subject(s): Chastity; Ernst, Max (1891-1976) MESSAGE FOR RIMBAUD First Line: Your summerhouse of underdone meat is still standing, boy. The last time Last Line: Was no signature, but I recognized humanity's handwriting MISHIMA First Line: The unplayed idea returned to haunt you, yukio mishima Last Line: You wear the hidden smile that triggers the trance of the sun O First Line: O seditious toxins of nostalgia Last Line: Undisguised as the virus of nothingness %rialtos revel in reptilian tranfusions OM KRINSHNA II: THE CONVALESCENCE 1 First Line: O rook your pearly gray ruff Last Line: Krishna in the bucket seat of his lotus knows %the bloodsugar in his brainbank is always overdrawn OM KRINSHNA II: THE CONVALESCENCE 2 First Line: After being awarded the booby prize for cod banging Last Line: In the cream separator the turning is conical %a drop falls from a narrow tube %urine digests starch OM KRINSHNA II: THE CONVALESCENCE 3 First Line: Caracas. Pre-puberty education for the mentally defective continued here Last Line: The critter next to me was going at it %like a night violet responding with its perfume to the night OM KRINSHNA II: THE CONVALESCENCE 4 First Line: Sweat glands are being measured in seattle Last Line: Farewell my dearest evil not every bulbous extremity will serve OM KRINSHNA II: THE CONVALESCENCE 5 First Line: With ruby eyes singed in bristles and vestigial wings Last Line: In an arched sewer redolent of the knot of brahma %hit the dog in the water with the force of an exo OM KRINSHNA II: THE CONVALESCENCE 6 First Line: The curfew in bangkok from midnight to 4:30 a.M. Remains in force Last Line: Another shortage of snow tires is expected %emotional numbness gives way to undisguised intoxication OM KRINSHNA II: THE CONVALESCENCE 7 First Line: He who buys flesh buys groans Last Line: The pig-boy and the punk-pusher play the beast with two backs %before ingesting french vanilla in an OM KRINSHNA II: THE CONVALESCENCE 8 First Line: Bacteria equipped with non-bacterial functions Last Line: Drove screechingly away from what is said to be the most scientific prison %anywhere OM KRISHNA I: SPECIAL EFFECTS 1 First Line: With an elaborate wail Last Line: The other, ari ho-chen, pocketing the perfect title, there's a vapor dome %on the day coach OM KRISHNA I: SPECIAL EFFECTS 10 First Line: Not to lose the drastic insight which is poetry Last Line: Prostrate and gloating a pregnant sow foresees the future %in the flung snot of princes OM KRISHNA I: SPECIAL EFFECTS 11 First Line: We are the severings of a serpentine mirror Last Line: The sallow demeanor of a prodigal son %mark the flora and fauna of a missing person OM KRISHNA I: SPECIAL EFFECTS 12 First Line: A well-conceived madonna is the eye-opening blue or a gift-wrapped city Last Line: Ladies, there's a certain kind of abnormal lull, seems to nest in %foldaway cruelties. It's the mumm OM KRISHNA I: SPECIAL EFFECTS 13 First Line: Beasts of song unstring their priceless tokens Last Line: Who will banish my distrust of alien broods OM KRISHNA I: SPECIAL EFFECTS 14 First Line: Take-over remains in texas. Copper values jump. A girl manacled north Last Line: No one does it like an aching kid, looking for a place to stay OM KRISHNA I: SPECIAL EFFECTS 15 First Line: Alchemists shift the unadulterated. 'testing 1-2-3 ...' persuasive jargon gets Last Line: Brainwork's a spooky thing, the way traveling should always be Subject(s): Alchemy And Alchemists OM KRISHNA I: SPECIAL EFFECTS 16 First Line: Dehumanized sentences teach him everything Last Line: Another example of indirect carnage %let us imagine that we have imagined it all OM KRISHNA I: SPECIAL EFFECTS 2 First Line: Mysteries of behavior are solved by inanition Last Line: Standing inside the doorway as though desperate %your lies are what give you away OM KRISHNA I: SPECIAL EFFECTS 3 First Line: This is the story of fire without flames Last Line: Into which of your eyes should I look %now that I have given you pain I see you more clearly OM KRISHNA I: SPECIAL EFFECTS 4 First Line: Aware of an eventual pairing off, the changes stem from a fang-and-claw Last Line: Iron. So let the hole in the ground tell you something. %allrooms are bedrooms OM KRISHNA I: SPECIAL EFFECTS 5 First Line: Metaphysical weasel may your firstborn inherit Last Line: Kindness expires in the coilsof concupiscence %drives a stake through the heart of orion OM KRISHNA I: SPECIAL EFFECTS 6 First Line: A geek I know used to say that by standards prevalent in gypjoint hospitals Last Line: Ties, I'd show you mistress quickly socking it to adolph, who'd have loved a hero's funeral OM KRISHNA I: SPECIAL EFFECTS 7 First Line: Shuddering pageant, utter your joyous leaves Last Line: To cut into our bafflement a snake without mishap %lunging at fugitives with 'face of oval scorn' OM KRISHNA I: SPECIAL EFFECTS 8 First Line: Loin de l'abbatoir plus doux que le sommeil Last Line: A see-through parasite is sloping the other way %eyelides open and close like greek foreskins OM KRISHNA I: SPECIAL EFFECTS 9 First Line: Scaley mammal lingering in what unreal quagmire .. Condemned to Last Line: Agate-eyed eros is sweeping the sidewalk. A sleepless stallion in the %archway OM KRISHNA II: PHASE THREE 1 First Line: Astride the chiffonier of post-oral conductions Last Line: Only the vesicula seminalis escape unscathed %overhead helicopters are searching the rooftops OM KRISHNA II: PHASE THREE 2 First Line: You cannot learn too much about the one you idolize Last Line: Rapists with a typhoon in the breast %exchange beauty for hurt OM KRISHNA II: PHASE THREE 3 First Line: When a throwback to autogenesis takes place Last Line: And when do lovers go unburied %all that will be left is an image %standing in the doorway of sleep OM KRISHNA II: PHASE THREE 4 First Line: She gave what she could but not always what she could have Last Line: But he flies away gracefully the first to escape %and disappears with an owl's sound %married men sm OM KRISHNA II: PHASE THREE 5 First Line: I would like to have seen rupert brooke and king Last Line: Though his foreskin might taste as if water of the %arabian sea had dried it up OM KRISHNA II: THE CONVALESCENCE 6 First Line: Dressed in a dhoti with scarf of yellow silk Last Line: On the grave sits a young frog undisturbed by the cold winter wind OM KRISHNA II: THE CONVALESCENCE 7 First Line: Indra with his string of pearls Last Line: Whatever the waves are saying will be cradled by the wind %leaving skull-silver mirrors to keep you OM KRISHNA II: THE CONVALESCENCE 8 First Line: What seems like fragmentation is making all in one Last Line: Ginseng roots wrenched from their circuits %mix with the dregs of dreamless sleep OM KRISHNA II: THE ILLNESS 1 First Line: The thousand-hooded one sleeps quietly his big toe in his mouth Last Line: Of the guardian of cosmic law %family secrets exist no longer than quills on a toad OM KRISHNA II: THE ILLNESS 2 First Line: He was not born he was dragged out Last Line: The game becomes a work of art there are counter-strategies of mud and %poinsettias %doors are opene OM KRISHNA II: THE ILLNESS 3 First Line: A war for dharma is waged with flower-tipped arrows Last Line: Into a puja for the wax-winged icarus I am sorry but your banana leaf has %been flooded OM KRISHNA II: THE ILLNESS 4 First Line: Distractions in the forest Last Line: Shares with him blood siphoned from sleeping rabbits %his lotus eyes live only for the moment OM KRISHNA II: THE ILLNESS 5 First Line: One reason for nature's attractin and repulsion Last Line: If you wish to solve the riddle of his charm %it's not what he does it's what he lets you do OM KRISHNA II: THE ILLNESS 6 First Line: Where is govinda tell him to come here Last Line: A peacock dances in the wildwood %while two studs hurt each other taking it in turn OM KRISHNA II: THE ILLNESS 7 First Line: The ashes of age having disappeared Last Line: She went to the parapet and closed her eyes %he bit his lips till the blood came then walked away OM KRISHNA II: THE ILLNESS 8 First Line: His satanic majesty is ignorant as hell Last Line: With suprapubic aplomb the puer of testicular exploits %enunciated his ripostes %calculations for fi OM KRISHNA II: THE ILLNESS 9 First Line: Not only a miracle of beauty but a worker of miracles Last Line: Why did bedi insist on battling at number eleven in the queen's park owl %test match OVERTURNED LAKE First Line: Blue unsolid tongue, if you could talk Last Line: As the mind is overturned by memory, the heart by dread PLAINT (BEFORE A MOB OF 10,000 AT OWENSBORO, KY.) First Line: I, rainey betha, 22 %from the top branch of race-hatred look at you Last Line: Oh, who is the forester must tend such a tree, lord? %do angels pick the cherry-blood of folk like m Subject(s): Social Protest PLAINT (BEFORE A MOB OF 10,000 AT OWENSBORO, KY.) Poem Text First Line: I, rainey betha, 22 / from the top branch of race-hatred look at you Subject(s): Social Protest POEM FOR PAUL EULARD First Line: The clouds of dissipation hand like wars Last Line: Whose eyes looked out from every pore, %and buried (like the bone of lust) %by children who never mo PRISON LIFE First Line: Is the dilatory lightningbug more free Last Line: Poetry roams in you head %like a sick child who burgeons %like a poem in a soiled bed %like a child SECRET HAIKU, SELS. SERENADE TO LEONOR First Line: Lion-girl of the rue payenne Last Line: As the cat with the violet lips leaps in %to visit the lion-girl of the rue payenne ST.-JOHN PERSE First Line: Holding habit-shaped memories in a leopard-skin apron Last Line: Your meanings, apparitional and boundless, added up to the sacred %number 7 THERE'S NO PLACE TO SLEEP IN THIS BED, TANGUY First Line: The storks like elbows had a fit of falling Last Line: There's no place to sleep in this bed, tanguy %there are too many monuments of broken hearts THIS IS THE STORY OF FIRE WITHOUT FLAMES Last Line: Your teeth are white as white radishes %before you wore those clothes they were not holy TO CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE First Line: As much to blame as francis archer seems Last Line: And makes him one of those grave thieves who go %to pick the lock of christopher marlowe WAR First Line: Being black, you mergedd with the night Last Line: And marauders no more apropos %than those in ethiopia, %bombs hurled at 15,000 poets, %killing 2,000 YOUR HOROSCOPE First Line: Capricornus Last Line: Your happiness: illusory as a killer in repose Ford, Charles L. 1 poems available by this author THE SACRAMENT Poem Text First Line: This is my body, which is given for you Last Line: "and hear thy voice, ""arise, let us go hence." Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The Ford, Corey 2 poems available by this author UP-SET First Line: Kid march had the stuff but his style was hard WHEN WEST COMES EAST First Line: I hail from high in the alkali Ford, Daniel Barker 1 poems available by this author LAY OF CAPE COD First Line: Hurrah! For old cape cod Subject(s): Cape Cod Ford, Deborah 20 poems available by this author AMAZING HAIR First Line: She wore her own hair Last Line: The bishop discussed wall street %with the organist ARITHMETIC First Line: Arithmetic cannot get along with one alone Last Line: May have special meaning %for the concept of number. %and a parrot may eat it. %what shall I say num BILLY First Line: Billy comes along %bouncing on the four Last Line: And sunlight, sighting %between the steering rim %and dash, grinning over %his load of dirt BRUSH STROKES First Line: I can't ever remember Last Line: I tucked thought away %and laced my fingers %through hers, %palms straining together %to close the g EXCELLENT DUMPLING HOUSE First Line: I dallied that morning in the open market Last Line: In the marketplace, chicken feet %still dance %the chicken dance FIBONACCI First Line: Fibonacci's golden numbers Last Line: The activity is not misleading. %it is the way we stay afloat FRAGILE DAYS First Line: In a dark room full of tears Last Line: In a dark room full of tears %she lived out her fragile days GLITTER First Line: On surf avenue %it's one minute and fifty seconds Last Line: In the inky sky. %what dad promised us %were stars HISTORY First Line: Let me just say this about homer Last Line: But what reporting is, and how %much more than we were ever taught to expect %is really lies LANDSCAPE First Line: Nineteenth century foundations Last Line: Told they have too many children, %balancing resignation and fortitude MARIONETTE First Line: Orange sea anemones washed ashore Last Line: A rusty sunset dilates my vision; %hungry sting rays %gnaw at my black toe NAKED ON SUNDAY First Line: Naked on sunday when god isn't home Last Line: We take note, pay no attention at all %as we continue to read poems %naked on sunday NOTEBOOK First Line: Run over a snapper.' Last Line: He waded through alligator swamps %with chunks of horsemeat %trussed to his legs PHYSICS First Line: Max planck and I discussed theology Last Line: Then ran into a brick wall-- %the bits and pieces all falling %on the still solid ground POEM First Line: A poem ought to be a rosetta stone Last Line: Already my eyes sting %from soft pretzels and chestnuts %that must be roasting %where you are RELIGION LESSON First Line: Somewhere, I was told Last Line: In front of a closed country store, %and upon the monks of st. Francis %elsewhere and in harmony SAFFRON AND SILVER First Line: We will make you braided plaits of gold set with beads of Last Line: That explanations would be useless, %that love is, above all, history, %that breathing is a matter o SNAILS First Line: Go deliberately %tasting all that lies in their path Last Line: They do not stop until death-- %dissolving them like ink-- %leaves only a ram's horn %ro record the STRANGER First Line: I remember when you were a stranger Last Line: I now know loss, and I now know comfort. %here at home, there are no more shadows UNCLE JIM First Line: He was old when I knew him: Last Line: He grows smaller each summer %like the cash crop harvested Ford, Edsel 1 poems available by this author LOOKING FOR SHILOH ON A COUNTRY ROAD Last Line: Because, like shiloh, they were in too deep Ford, Edward Baunton 2 poems available by this author MOTHER MOST DEAR, LONG IS THE PATH BUT PLAIN TIPHAINE LA FEE First Line: The whispered spells your red lips stain 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, Flora P. 1 poems available by this author STAND OUT, YE MINERS First Line: Stand out, stand out, ye miners Subject(s): Mines And Miners Ford, Ford Madox Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox 95 poems available by this author A LULLABY Poem Text First Line: We've wandered all about the upland fallows Last Line: Sleep, liebchen, sleep, the stars are shooting. Subject(s): Night; Sleep; Bedtime A MASQUE OF THE TIMES O' DAY Poem Text First Line: I am the dawn, beloved by those that watch Last Line: These too shall pass away. Subject(s): Day; Plays & Playwrights ; Time; Dramatists A NIGHT PIECE Poem Text First Line: As I lay awake by my good wife's side Last Line: Above the hills. Subject(s): Night; Singing & Singers; Bedtime; Songs A PAGAN Poem Text First Line: Bright white clouds and april skies Last Line: When it's dark at four of a winter's night. Subject(s): Paganism & Pagans A SEQUENCE Poem Text First Line: You make me think of lavender Last Line: Ah, heart's desire, once more by the old fire stretch out thy hands. Subject(s): Admiration; Farewell; Love; Parting A SOLIS ORTUS CARDINE Poem Text First Line: Oh, quiet peoples sleeping, bed by bed Last Line: Give us your prayers! A SUABIAN LEGEND Poem Text First Line: God made all things Last Line: So soon: so soon.) Subject(s): Creation; Death; God; Dead, The AFTER ALL Poem Text First Line: Yes, what's the use of striving on? Last Line: And all the rest's just waste—just waste of time. Subject(s): Abandonment; Death; Forgetfulness; Desertion; Dead, The ALDINGTON KNOLL; THE OLD SMUGGLER SPEAKS Poem Text First Line: Al'ington knoll it stands up high Last Line: Cater the marsh and crost the sea. Subject(s): Death; Mountains; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain) AN ANNIVERSARY Poem Text First Line: Two decades and a minute Last Line: Two decades and a minute. Subject(s): Anniversaries; Time AN END PIECE Poem Text First Line: Close the book and say good-bye to everything Last Line: As over the hill comes the morning. Subject(s): Change; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails AN IMITATION (TO M.M.) Poem Text First Line: Come, my sylvia, let us rove Last Line: Sporting o'er the velvet green. Subject(s): Dramatists; Fairies; Man-woman Relationships; Nature; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Elves; Male-female Relations; Dramatists AND AFTERWARDS (A SAVAGE SORT OF SONG ON THE ROAD) Poem Text First Line: Once I was a gallant and bold I Last Line: "but I'll never again,"" etc." Subject(s): Change; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations ANTWERP Poem Text First Line: Gloom! %an october like november Subject(s): Antwerp, Belgium AT THE BAL MASQUE; COLUMBINE TO PIERROT Poem Text First Line: Ah - ah- ah - if you ask for a love like that Last Line: Qu'est c'-qu'est c'-qu'est c' que tu fais dans cette galère? Subject(s): France; French Language; Love AUCTIONEER'S SONG Poem Text First Line: Come up from the field Last Line: Bid up! Subject(s): Auctions; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers AUTUMN EVENING Poem Text First Line: The cold light dies, the candles glow Last Line: But in the shadows, lo! Your eyes. Subject(s): Autumn; Night; Seasons; Fall; Bedtime BEGINNINGS; FOR ROSSETTI'S FIRST PAINTING Poem Text First Line: Whether the beginnings of things notable Last Line: And yet—it's just a question. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) CANZONE A LA SONATA (TO. E.P.) Poem Text First Line: What do you find to boast of in our age Last Line: Gape open—where's your grinning melody? Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Youth; Heritage; Heredity CHILDREN'S SONG Poem Text First Line: Sometimes wind and sometimes rain Last Line: If things will always alter so. Subject(s): Children; Weather; Childhood CLAIR DE LUNE Poem Text First Line: I should like to imagine Last Line: Going over.... Subject(s): Moon CLUB NIGHT Poem Text First Line: There was an old man had a broken hat Last Line: "and we'll dance all the village to its knees." Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Old Age; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CONSIDER Poem Text First Line: Now green comes springing o'er the heath Last Line: "none striving, constraining none, and thinking not on death." Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The ENOUGH Poem Text First Line: Long we'd sought for avalon Last Line: The oars—yea, and yearned. Subject(s): Avalon (legend); Sea; Ocean FINCHLEY ROAD Poem Text First Line: As we come up at baker street Last Line: And the twilight settling down on us. Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails FOOTSLOGGERS Poem Text First Line: What is love of one's land? FOUR IN THE MORNING COURAGE Poem Text First Line: The birds this morning wakened me so early it was hardly day Last Line: The starling waked me ere the day aping the thrush's sober tune). Subject(s): Birds; Morning; Summer FROM INLAND Poem Text First Line: I dreamed that you and I were young Last Line: That fled so bravely to its death. Subject(s): Old Age; Past; Relationships; Youth FROM THE SOIL (TWO MONOLOGUES) Poem Text First Line: Aham a mighty simple man and only Last Line: All over hill and dale. ... Subject(s): Farm Life; God; Labor & Laborers; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers GRAY; FOR A PICTURE Poem Text First Line: The firelight gilds the patterns on the walls Last Line: And wonder who shall do the like again. Subject(s): Death; Farm Life; Graves; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers; Tombs; Tombstones GREY MATTER Poem Text First Line: They leave us nothing Last Line: Begins the ancient mystery anew. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Women; Male-female Relations HOW STRANGE A THING Poem Text First Line: How strange a thing to think upon Last Line: Doth bear us and our sin. Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers; Curiosities & Wonders; Earth; Enigmas; Oddities; World IN TENEBRIS Poem Text First Line: All within is warm Last Line: Let the light fall on my face. Subject(s): Light; Longing; Waiting IN THE LITTLE OLD MARKET-PLACE (TO THE MEMORY OF A.V.) Poem Text First Line: It rains, it rains Last Line: From wet dawn to wet dawn... Subject(s): Markets; Rain; Supermarkets IN THE STONE JUG Poem Text First Line: Old days are gone Last Line: Too shall come in with me out of the rain. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crime & Criminals; Death; Sin; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Dead, The IN THE TRAIN Poem Text First Line: Out of the window I see a dozen great stars, burning bright Last Line: Shall the white stars wheel in their reverie. Subject(s): Railroads; Stars; Railways; Trains IRON MUSIC Poem Text First Line: The french guns roll continuously KING COPHETUA'S WOOING; A SONG DRAMA IN ONE ACT Poem Text First Line: Could I but keep my beggar's staff Last Line: Blue and low. Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Courts & Courtiers; Plays & Playwrights ; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dramatists LOVE IN WATCHFULNESS; UPON THE SHEEPDOWNS Poem Text First Line: Sail, oh sail away Last Line: You'll sail away. Subject(s): Love MAURESQUE (TO V.M.) Poem Text First Line: To horse! To horse! The veil of night sinks softly down Last Line: The crescent moon looks softly down. Subject(s): Horseback Riding MODERN LOVE Poem Text First Line: Knee-deep among the buttercups, the sun Last Line: That lies before us, you of the dear eyes. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Love MOODS ON THE MOSELLE Poem Text First Line: Sweet! Sweet! Sweet! Sings the bird upon the bough Last Line: That our songs sing now. Subject(s): Change; Mourning; Bereavement NIGHT PIECE Poem Text First Line: Ah, of those better tides of dark and melancholy Last Line: They lie so deep. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime OLD HOUSES OF FLANDERS Poem Text OLD MAN'S EVENSONG Poem Text First Line: Tis but a teeny mite Last Line: Home on the sod. Subject(s): Men; Old Age OLD WINTER Poem Text First Line: Old winter's hobbling down the road Last Line: He's not such a bad old fellow. Subject(s): Seasons ON A MARSH ROAD (WINTER, NIGHTFALL) Poem Text First Line: A bluff of cliff, purple against the south Last Line: Nor none look back upon this world folding to-night, to rain and to sleep. Subject(s): Nature; Night; Winter; Bedtime ON HEAVEN, SELECTION Poem Text First Line: And my dear one sat in the shadows; very softly she wept Last Line: In front of a café in heaven. Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise ON THE HILLS Poem Text First Line: Keep your brooding sorrows for dewy-misty hollows Last Line: In the brooding hollows where no breezes are. Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain) PERSEVERANCE D'AMOUR; A LITTLE PLAY Poem Text First Line: A pretty pass Last Line: From the window-sill. Its wings clatter in the stillness. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; France; Love; Plays & Playwrights ; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dramatists RHYMING Poem Text First Line: The bells go chiming Last Line: O'er high germany. Subject(s): Germany; Rhyme; Germans SANCTUARY Poem Text First Line: Shadowed by your dear hair, your dear kind eyes Subject(s): Love SEA JEALOUSY Poem Text First Line: Cast not your looks upon the wan grey sea Last Line: Of droned sea song. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SIDERA CADENTIA (ON THE DEATH OF QUEEN VICTORIA) Poem Text First Line: When one of the old, little stars doth fall Last Line: And the ultimate change that we fear feels a little less far. Subject(s): Death; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Dead, The SILVER MUSIC Poem Text First Line: In chepstow stands a castle SONG Poem Text First Line: Oh! Purer than the day new-born Last Line: Come soon! Subject(s): Day; Nature; Night; Bedtime SONG DIALOGUE Poem Text First Line: Is it so, my dear Last Line: "now that day's begun." Subject(s): Day; Night; Bedtime SONG OF THE HEBREW SEER Poem Text First Line: Oh would that the darkness would cover the face of the land Last Line: The myriad, myriad sounds of the sea. Subject(s): God; Jews; Prophecy & Prophets; Religion; Judaism; Theology SONNET (SUGGESTED BY THE 'PHOEBUS WITH ADMETUS' BY GEORGE MEREDITH) Poem Text First Line: After apollo left admetus' gate Last Line: Had quickened their dead world? And, ah, his lute... Subject(s): Apollo; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Mythology - Greek; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SPRING ON THE WOODLAND PATH Poem Text First Line: So long a winter such an arctic night Last Line: With the old hearts in this forgotten way? Subject(s): Grief; Love; Relationships; Spring; Winter; Sorrow; Sadness ST AETHELBURGA; FOR A PICTURE Poem Text First Line: Queen, saint, evangelist; sweet, patient, fain to wait Last Line: She enters through that gate. Subject(s): Aethelburga Of Kent (d. 647); Christianity; Courts & Courtiers; Kent, England; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens SUSSMUND'S ADDRESS TO AN UNKNOWN GOD (ADAPTED FROM HIGH GERMAN) Poem Text First Line: My god, they say I have no bitterness Last Line: And turn reformer. Subject(s): God; Sussmund, Carl Eugen Von (1872-1910) THANKS WHILST UNHARNESSING Poem Text First Line: West'ring the last silver light doth gleam Last Line: (he closes the stable door and enters the cottage.) Subject(s): Gratitude; Horseback Riding THAT EXPLOIT OF YOURS Poem Text First Line: I meet two soldiers sometimes here in hell Last Line: Are saying the selfsame words at this very moment %concerning that exploit of yours Subject(s): World War I THE DREAM HUNT Poem Text First Line: My lady rides a-hunting Last Line: My heart and makes away. Subject(s): Hunting; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Hunters; Male-female Relations THE EXILE Poem Text First Line: My father had many oxen Last Line: Of hirelings once queen's daughters and slaves the seed of kings. Subject(s): African Americans; Slavery; Southern States; Negroes; American Blacks; Serfs; South (u.s.) THE FACE OF THE NIGHT; A PASTORAL Poem Text First Line: I have seen the night with her hair gemm'd with stars Last Line: It continues through the night. Subject(s): Faces; Legends; Night; Plays & Playwrights ; Bedtime; Dramatists THE FEATHER Poem Text First Line: I wonder dost thou sleep at night Last Line: Friend of mine, my enemy. Subject(s): Enemies; Friendship; Friendship - False Friends; Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.); Fair Weather Friends THE GIPSY AND THE CUCKOO Poem Text First Line: Tell me, brother, what's a cuckoo, but a roguish chaffing bird? Last Line: Were the sounds all organ pealing, psalm and song and prayer? Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Gypsies; Gipsies THE GREAT VIEW Poem Text First Line: Up here, where the air's very clear Last Line: There is france. Subject(s): Beauty; France; Nature THE GYPSY AND THE TOWNSMAN Poem Text First Line: Pleasant enough in the seed time Last Line: There than here in the saddest month of the weariest year. Subject(s): Gypsies; Towns; Weather; Gipsies THE MOTHER; A SONG DRAMA Poem Text First Line: It's I have conquered you Last Line: Curtain. Subject(s): Dust; Grass; Mothers; Nature; Plays & Playwrights ; Dramatists THE OLD FAITH TO THE CONVERTS Poem Text First Line: When the world is growing older Last Line: But we—we shall never return. Subject(s): Conversion; Faith; Belief; Creed THE OLD LAMENT Poem Text First Line: What maketh lads so cruel be? Last Line: And never once look back! Subject(s): Lament; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails THE PEASANT'S APOLOGY Poem Text First Line: Down near the earth Last Line: Bitterness and blackness from the earth. Subject(s): Grief; Peasantry; Sorrow; Sadness THE PEDLAR LEAVES THE BAR PARLOUR AT DYMCHURCH Poem Text First Line: Good night, we'd best be jogging on Last Line: To sleep to-night. Subject(s): Peddlers & Peddling THE PORTRAIT Poem Text First Line: She sits upon a tombstone in the shade Last Line: And solves the riddles of the universe. Subject(s): Life THE SONG OF THE WOMEN; A WEALDEN TRIO Poem Text First Line: When ye've got a child 'ats whist for want of food Last Line: Singin' of the shepherds on that morn. Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Carols; Jesus Christ; Women; Nativity, The THE STARLING Poem Text First Line: It's an odd thing how one changes! Last Line: Yes, it's strange how one changes! . . . Subject(s): Starlings THE THREE-TEN Poem Text First Line: When in the prime and may day time dead lovers went a-walking Last Line: Those maids, thank god! Are' neath the sod and all their generation. Subject(s): Death; Love; Dead, The THE UNWRITTEN SONG Poem Text First Line: Now where's a song for our small dear Last Line: And hush herself to sleep? Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs THE WIND'S QUEST Poem Text First Line: Oh, where shall I find rest? Last Line: Anarchist journal, the torch, in 1891. Subject(s): Rest; Wind THERE SHALL BE MORE JOY' First Line: The little angels of heaven TO ALL THE DEAD Poem Text First Line: A chinese queen on a lacquered throne Last Line: To all the dead! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TO CHRISTINA AND KATHARINE AT CHRISTMAS Poem Text First Line: Now christmas is a porter's-rest whereon to set his load Last Line: For you and me! Subject(s): Christmas; God; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The TO CHRISTINA AT NIGHTFALL Poem Text First Line: Little thing, ah, little mouse Last Line: Ah, sweet! Do you the like where I lie dead. Subject(s): Children; Night; Childhood; Bedtime TO PETRONELLA AT SEA Poem Text First Line: To the remotest verges of the sea Subject(s): Love TWO FRESCOES Poem Text First Line: Down there where europe's arms Last Line: Rose over africa. Subject(s): Africa; Art & Artists; Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens VIEWS Poem Text First Line: Being in rome I wonder will you go Last Line: When I may be your I, your rome my rome. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Man-woman Relationships; Rome, Italy; Male-female Relations VOLKSWISE Poem Text First Line: A poor girl sat by a tower of the sea Last Line: "just a token, just a glimmer of his ship's lant ... Horn?" Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Sailing & Sailors; Waiting; Male-female Relations; Seamen; Sails WHAT THE ORDERLY DOG SAW Poem Text First Line: Seven white peacocks against the castle wall WHEN THE WORLD CRUMBLED' First Line: Once there were purple seas WHEN THE WORLD WAS IN BUILDING' Poem Text First Line: Thank goodness, the moving is over WIFE TO HUSBAND Poem Text First Line: If I went past you down this hill Last Line: And nought had passed of all that was of yore? Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WISDOM Poem Text First Line: The young girl questions: 'whether were it better' Last Line: "nor may till we be dead." Subject(s): Death; Life; Rest; Wisdom; Dead, The Ford, Francis Alan 1 poems available by this author SONG OF THE GULF STREAM First Line: Twas yesterday he made me and tommorrow ... Die Subject(s): Sea Ford, Gail 2 poems available by this author DIE TODAY? First Line: If I knew we would die today Last Line: The rising %falling %sea Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) I SEE AGAIN First Line: The sixty-year-old man %forty-eight hours tired Last Line: I drink him drink him in Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) Ford, Gena 3 poems available by this author LEGACY First Line: Grandad, I didn't burn it Last Line: No one here could play it Subject(s): Grandparents; Violins LINES FOR A HARD TIME First Line: Evil does not go always Last Line: As we can. And send our sons %to walk out in open day NUDE ON THE BATHROOM WALL First Line: I'll prop her, I swear, ankle, butt and chin Last Line: For desperately sensual bathers to drown Ford, Grace D. 1 poems available by this author HIGHEST EDUCATION First Line: Boys of mine, I send you forth Ford, Gregory J. 1 poems available by this author BITS AND PIECES First Line: Freckles %tickle your nose Ford, Harriet 1 poems available by this author HIS SISTER, HIS COUSIN, AND HIS PANTS First Line: There was a man in allentown, and he was wondrous wise Ford, Horatio 1 poems available by this author FRINGED GENTIAN First Line: A violet grew in the meadow-grass Ford, Janice 2 poems available by this author CHAFF Poem Text First Line: Let me no more in fretful mood arise Last Line: Nor this, my voice, be raised in cold disdain. MY ROSE Poem Text First Line: There is a lovely rose that never dies Last Line: The fragrance that has made it mine. Subject(s): Immortality; Youth Ford, John James B. 2 poems available by this author HEY VERBAL Last Line: What's pouring shite. Icky TO THE STRANGE ANGELS Last Line: Bury me %with my play-station Ford (1586-1639), John 12 poems available by this author BROKEN HEART, SELS. First Line: Bassanes. Beasts onely capable of sense, enjoy Last Line: No tempests of commotion shall disquiet %the calmes of my composure BROKEN HEART, SELS. First Line: Our orisons are heard; the gods are merciful BROKEN HEART, SELS. (AFTER SENECA) First Line: Put out thy torches hymen, or their light Last Line: Till men can call th'effects of them their owne FANCIES First Line: Fancies are but streams LADY'S TRIAL, SELS. First Line: Pleasures, beauty, youth attend ye Last Line: For in all the loser gains LINES TO JOHN WEBSTER ON HIS PLAY THE DUCHESS OF MALFI Poem Text First Line: Crown him a poet, whom nor rome nor greece Last Line: A lasting fame to raise his monument. Subject(s): Webster, John (1580-1625) LOVE AND DEATH LOVE'S SACRIFICE Poem Text First Line: Depart the court? Last Line: That ever here befell a sadder day. [exeunt. Subject(s): Love - Complaints PERKIN WARBECK Poem Text First Line: Studies have of this nature been of late Last Line: And often find a welcome to the muses. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Henry Vii, King Of England (1457-1509); Impostors & Imposture; English History; Fitzroy, Henry, Duke Of Richmond; Tudor, Henry THE BROKEN HEART Poem Text First Line: Our scene is sparta. He whose best of art Last Line: The broken heart may be pieced-up again. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Marriage - Forced; Marriage - Arranged THE LOVER'S MELANCHOLY Poem Text First Line: To tell ye, gentlemen, in what true sense Last Line: In this kind he'll not trouble you again. TIS PITY SHE'S A WHORE First Line: Dispute no more in this Ford, John+(2) 1 poems available by this author SILKSTONE, YORKSHIRE, AND DUBLIN; A COMPARISON First Line: Two famous places I record Last Line: But I prefer the coal, though some %declare that whisky's warmer Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Silkstone, England Ford (17th Century-), John 1 poems available by this author TO MY FRIEND AND KINSMAN, JOHN FORD, AUTHOR OF 'PERKIN WARBECK' Poem Text First Line: Dramatic poets, as the times go now Last Line: Many may imitate, few match thy play. Subject(s): Ford, John (1586-1639) Ford, K. B. 1 poems available by this author BABY KANGAROO First Line: Queer little baby kangaroo Ford, Katie 4 poems available by this author LAST BREATH IN SNOWFALL First Line: I loved one person do you see the evergreen there in fog %one by one Last Line: Towards the city and twine a new twine binding me %binding LAST BREATH ON THE FLOOR First Line: In the shower linoleum then floorboards then earth in Last Line: What is used on the disobedient in some countries acid LAST BREATH WITH NO PROOF First Line: What is unremembered may be lodged she said a child %may not Last Line: And the trespass it begins again? THAT THE OMISSIONS CAST A BLUER LIGHT First Line: There would have been birds there Last Line: How is it to be always and never touched? Ford, Linda 1 poems available by this author BEACH GLASS First Line: Bits of jagged bottle glass splashing color Last Line: Blasted and worn smooth Ford, Martyn 3 poems available by this author AFTER THE FUNERAL First Line: Jeoffry is not in mourning Last Line: Scuttle back behind the wainscot. %this killing is strictly for laughs NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR First Line: Amidst the unsuspecting young Last Line: Wolfish men in sheepskin jackets, %get each golf ball in its hole THRIFT First Line: He sits in his windowless dining room Last Line: Has been eaten up. As if he also hated waste, %which, when we look around us, is not the case Subject(s): Saving And Thrift Ford, Mary A. 1 poems available by this author A HUNDRED YEARS FROM NOW Poem Text First Line: The surging sea of human life forever onward rolls Last Line: Beneath the shadow of thy throne a hundred years from now. Subject(s): Religion; Theology 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 Ford, Michael C. 6 poems available by this author CONVERSATIONS & THE NEW POETICS First Line: Koertge & I were born in little DENNIS HOPPER HOPES, ONCE MORE... First Line: After all, kiddo, our words tap-dance Last Line: Young girls with carrots in their mouths %being chased by elmer fudd DULCIMER IN THE BASEMENT First Line: Marie flaurette, last year (by now Last Line: I'll try not to think the only thing shrunk %by a shrink is imagination HAPPY ANNIVERSARY First Line: A few years ago, I remember visiting MY MOTHER'S FATHER First Line: I was the only child back Last Line: That just isn't him TREASON WOULD FAIN BE IN ONE SO FAIR First Line: Declining collectively, in irresponsible Last Line: The risk of an encounter with weaponry, you %took the woman's way out Ford, Nick Aaron 1 poems available by this author NIGHT AND A CHILD Poem Text First Line: Dark grey clouds massed themselves Last Line: The child dreamed of heaven. Subject(s): Children; Childhood Ford, Richard Clyde 1 poems available by this author FOREST BOAT SONG First Line: The dawn is comin,' callin'. Ford, Robert 4 poems available by this author BARBER WILLIE'S BONNIE DAUCHTER Poem Text First Line: There leeves a lass in oor toun-en' Last Line: Frae barber willie's bonnie dauchter! Subject(s): Daughters; Shaving BONNIEST BAIRN IN A' THE WARL' CUPID IN THE TEMPLE Poem Text First Line: I canna, winna cloak the fact Last Line: But cease your sabbath descration! Subject(s): Cupid; Love; Eros TWA PU'D FLOWERS Poem Text First Line: I pu'd a flower in yonder vale Last Line: "my violet, that droop'd, and died." Subject(s): Flowers Ford, Robert Arthur Douglas 5 poems available by this author DELUSION OF REFERENCE First Line: The arms of the sea are extended EARTHQUAKE First Line: The seasons burn. The wind is dry Last Line: The blast with her too late warning %and testimony of love Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes ROADSIDE NEAR MOSCOW First Line: Bent and heavy with rain SAKHARA First Line: Here the eye is inevitably cast Last Line: The half-starved children %in the desert slums TWENTY BELOW First Line: The woman watches her husband rubbing his nose Last Line: And thaws before the flames Subject(s): Cold Ford, S. Gertrude 4 poems available by this author FIGHT TO THE FINISH' First Line: Fight the year out!' the war-lords said Last Line: On!' echoed hate where the fiends kept tryst: %asked the church, even, what said christ? Subject(s): Women; World War I HOW SHALL THE MINER KNOW? First Line: The world lies cold and white and bright Subject(s): Mines And Miners NATURE IN WAR-TIME First Line: The banished thrush, the homeless rook Last Line: Winds sweep it now; a battle-ground %between two gun-swept hills Subject(s): Women; World War I TENTH ARMISTICE DAY First Line: Lest we forget!' let us remember then Last Line: Build their memorial in the league of nations! Subject(s): Women; World War I Ford, S. V. R. 4 poems available by this author INASMUCH First Line: Good deacon roland - 'may his tribe increase!' OBSTINATE MUSIC-BOX First Line: For forty years the meetinghouse at riverdale OCEAN'S DEAD First Line: Down in the depths SHOUTING JANE First Line: Our minister, good dr. Kane, a ... 'proper man' Ford, Sara De 3 poems available by this author LOVE AT 17 First Line: I lost control of the left lane Last Line: Recognize the smell and decide, %it serves her right? SLEEPING BEAUTY First Line: In your scarred, peeling crib you lay neglected Subject(s): Fairy Tales WHO NAMED YOU MOON? First Line: Your mother lacked the courage Last Line: Signed. 'I am,' you said. 'you forget %our beginnings. I can do better.' Ford, Simon 3 poems available by this author LONDONS REMAINS Poem Text First Line: All you whose cheeks my londons obsequies Last Line: More glorious by your overthrow. Subject(s): London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 LONDONS RESURRECTION Poem Text First Line: My salamander-muse, which newly sprung Last Line: Ev'n so to die, that so she might arise. Subject(s): London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 THE CONFLAGRATION OF LONDON, POETICAL DELINEATED Poem Text First Line: What ayls the poet? What unwonted fire? Last Line: That's such an one, and let him stand for me. Subject(s): Langham, Sir John (1584-1671); London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 Ford, Terri 2 poems available by this author BEACH OF MY MOM First Line: I know why the ships are she. I've got Last Line: Roaring. Against this current I'm wading out Subject(s): Seashore SONG FOR TWO BODIES First Line: Lumber me up, my licky bloke Last Line: Mouth. There will be tongues, %I think, and bells Ford, Thomas+(1) 1 poems available by this author WHITE SLAVE; OR, THE FACTORY GIRL'S LAST DAY First Line: Twas on a winter's morning Last Line: While the white slave was dying, %who gain'd their father's gold! Ford (1580-1648), Thomas 3 poems available by this author FOND LOVE, NO MORE, FR. LOVE'S LABYRINTH PASSING BY Poem Text First Line: There is a lady sweet and kind Last Line: Yet will I love her till I die. Subject(s): Fidelity; Faithfulness; Constancy SINCE FIRST I SAW YOUR FACE I RESOLVED Ford, Victoria 1 poems available by this author CARVING FRUIT First Line: This morning one was bruised among the whole Last Line: And saved for last the bruise, the sweetest part Ford, William 22 poems available by this author AT MOUNT RUSHMORE First Line: About this official american monument AUDITION First Line: What the mirror reveals at dawn Last Line: Who knows your old nickname. %everyone's waiting. %get on with it AUGUST DEPRESSION, WINTER DREAMS: 1. First Line: By the early month the corn reaches up Last Line: All those things you let simmer %on the well-resolved back burners %of the worst winter in many AUGUST DEPRESSION, WINTER DREAMS: 2. First Line: Christmas brought darkness earlier Last Line: Over the dead fields of plenty, %taking its time with crows overhead %all the way home to west l.A BIRD PLAGUE First Line: That's what they are, starlings Last Line: No matter the character COUNTRY CRIME, A TALE First Line: It has been a week or so DESERT ROMANCE First Line: The eye dilates into the moon Last Line: Here are the altars of borax and rock %and the bakeries of sand DOCTOR DOCTORUM First Line: When your father told his pain, you left DOWN ON THE RED FUNGI FLOOR First Line: Now stalking the forest floor Last Line: Upon the red fungi floor EX-SMOKER First Line: Tobacco lives forever Last Line: To lift our thoughts to heaven HOMELESS BELOW THE BRIDGE First Line: They cry out in their longing Last Line: I've seen them, below the bridge Subject(s): Homeless LEAVING INSURANCE First Line: You'd rather be fishing %you'd kidded for years Last Line: Your teeth shining %as never before LOVE IN MIDDLE AGE First Line: It doesn't matter who begins Last Line: If we're truly lucky MORNING SPIRITS First Line: Lost walk now, %to the morning spirits Last Line: Not saying where they've been OF MILES DAVIS First Line: The pop-out eyes belong to baldwin Last Line: Nameless, we think, but for the music-%with bird close by and trane coming on Subject(s): Davis, Miles (1926-1991); Jazz; Music And Musicians OF RAY YOUNG BEAR DES MOINES POETRY FESTIVAL 1992 First Line: The young girls do not know your poems Last Line: And the words of medicine rising %beyond what my ears may touch ON A PAINTING OF WILLIAM ZORACK, 1912 First Line: There in the velvet pond Last Line: Dreamed of world beyond OUTSIDER RETURNS HOME First Line: Of course you don't remember me Last Line: No wonder everything's dead QUARRY IN IOWA First Line: Before it was broken up Last Line: Its half-moon shape the one %blue thing for miles and miles SECOND DEATH First Line: It takes place sometime after a sleep Last Line: Only then %will we truly believe that our lives %are worthy of eternal punishment THANKSGIVING First Line: November, the month %between leaves and busses Last Line: Neither one of us %will look it up WOMAN AT THE WELL First Line: He told me all the things I had done Ford, William R., Jr. 3 poems available by this author ESCAPE THE PRISON PAST First Line: Can you not escape the prison past Last Line: No refuge from here, %no way to last Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners HIGH, WYOMING ROCKS First Line: It is where the wind will talk Last Line: Now collected there for you HILL BEYOND THE DREAM First Line: Out in the low mist of dawn Last Line: And the hill beyond the dream Ford-smith, Honor 2 poems available by this author AUX LEON - WOMEN First Line: Before the sunlight Last Line: Right here %among us LALA: THE DRESSMAKER First Line: Across from chang's green emporium Last Line: Lick the rotten wooden walls Forde, A. N. 3 poems available by this author HEART OF AN ISLAND First Line: The heart of an island. Where is it Last Line: And the sea like a bangle round your wrist PEASANT'S HOPE FOR EMANCIPATION First Line: Mercury lightens Last Line: On the strings of the heart SEA BIRD First Line: Scrawling a signature across Last Line: In the welfare of the air Forde, Ken 3 poems available by this author MISSISSIPPI.1. First Line: River-long %mississippi road Last Line: Caught by surprise %in their frail armor OUTLAWED SECT First Line: Poets have become, in the minds of the uninitiated, impoverished cuckoo Last Line: That poetry survives and becomes, once again, an integral part of the literature of %our time X2S AND 42S (INTO NORTHEAST WASHINGTON) First Line: Mornings %I slip as a dull blade Last Line: Like stars the countless eyes of night? %I fear the shadows Forde, Lilian B. 3 poems available by this author INFINITY Poem Text First Line: A dream once gave me to a forest tree Last Line: God is.—my vision found infinity. Subject(s): Life PRAYER Poem Text First Line: Dear god, of all the prayers I'd make Last Line: And may each picture bless the one who reads. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters UNREPENTANCE Poem Text First Line: I am a dog. With a rip and a roar Last Line: I am a dog. Good night. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs Fordham, Diane 1 poems available by this author DROUGHT First Line: Grey sky Last Line: Or was that, week before last? Subject(s): Drought Fordham, Mary Weston 13 poems available by this author ALASKA Poem Text First Line: With thy rugged, ice-girt shore Last Line: With his corn and wine. Subject(s): Alaska; Sleep ATLANTA EXPOSITION ODE Poem Text First Line: Cast down your bucket where you are Last Line: For all one flag, one flag for all. Subject(s): African Americans - History; Exhibitions; Racial Equality; Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915); Black Heritage; World's Fairs; Expositions CHICAGO EXPOSITION ODE Poem Text First Line: Columbia, all hail! Last Line: Columbia! Be thine. Subject(s): Chicago IN MEMORIAM ALPHONSE CAMPBELL FORDHAM Poem Text First Line: Yes, my darling, when life's shadows Last Line: "surely at the ""gates of gold." Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies ON PARTING WITH A FRIEND Poem Text First Line: Can I forget thee!? No, while mem'ry lasts Last Line: "unite, ne'er more (rapt thought) to say ""farewell!" Subject(s): Friendship; Life; Love SLEEP, LOVE SLEEP First Line: Sleep, love sleep Last Line: Sleep, love sleep THE CHEROKEE Poem Text First Line: Twas a cloudless morn and the sun shone bright Last Line: He said, then calmly died. Subject(s): Cherokee Indians THE COMING WOMAN Poem Text First Line: Just look, 'tis a quarter past six, love Last Line: Exist, without a man cook. Subject(s): Housekeeping; Women's Rights; Feminism THE PEN Poem Text First Line: Mightier than the sword thou art Last Line: Mightier than the sword art thou. Subject(s): Life; Pens & Pencils THE SAXON LEGEND OF LANGUAGE Poem Text First Line: The earth was young, the world was fair Last Line: To mate or man, or beast or bird. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary THE SNOWDROP Poem Text First Line: How comest thou, o flower so fair Last Line: Till comes the breath of spring. Subject(s): Snowdrops (plants) THE WASHERWOMAN Poem Text First Line: With hands all reddened and sore Last Line: From the saviour's wounded side. Subject(s): Life; Love; Washerwomen TO THE MOCK-BIRD Poem Text First Line: Bird of the woodland, sing me a song Last Line: This my time of minstrelsy, bright, sunny may. Subject(s): Mockingbirds Fordyce, James 1 poems available by this author A SOLILOQUY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD Poem Text First Line: Struck with religious awe and solemn dread Last Line: What we must shortly be—and you are now. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The Fowler, Clifford 1 poems available by this author EASTER - HOME AGAIN First Line: The wheels of the train sing a full-toned song Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I Fowler, Jay Bradford, Jr. 24 poems available by this author CHRISTMAS POEM First Line: Christmas in the home DAWN First Line: After the painful tuning for the song DEEP IN THE BUTTERFLY BODY OF LOVE First Line: It was morning now and raining DO NOT ASK ME ABOUT THE SUN FREE FALL First Line: Not steadied by my hand GOOD MORNING, SISTER CORONA First Line: Yes, sister corona GRANDSON First Line: Steering the body of the woman in white IN THE OPEN MIRROR First Line: One bit of ash, that burned in secret LETTER HOME First Line: The night cuts through the park like a train LETTER NORTH First Line: I am so far south that it's as if, to be MOON HAS NO MOTION I CAN MOVE MOVING, AT LAST First Line: Unutterably white he made ONE LONG PILLOW FOR THE RIVER First Line: Here there are too many faces POSTER First Line: The gulls never leave SECOND BOB'S DINER POEM First Line: So now it comes to me STRAIGHT LINE OF LOVE First Line: My father will not ascend into heaven THERE ARE NO MORE BELLS IN THIS HOUSE TO BEN ON HIS SIXTH MONTH First Line: Now, warming to the world TO MARGARET AND HER FAMILY First Line: Your brother's son is weary. His flesh VALENTINE POEM - MEMORIES OF BEING SOMEONE ELSE First Line: Come a long WALKING THE DEAD LAND First Line: She raised the shade in the old WHAT A LONG JOURNEY FOR A WOMAN ALONE First Line: When he was a boy WHEN THE SECRET TAPER DESCENDS WINTHROP FRAGMENT First Line: Up north, in maine, this time of year Fraser, Sanford 1 poems available by this author LOOKING OUT TO SEA AGAIN ON THE UPTOWN EXPRESS First Line: Between pale office workers Last Line: Pause %to tease %her toes. Gafford, Charlotte 4 poems available by this author CURTAINS First Line: I have nursed the early sun in slats Last Line: What turns pale is the clock NIGHT CROSSING; FOR JULIE SUK First Line: On paths: the shifting of stones Last Line: Confusion, a mistake by the moon SEPARATION First Line: Deep as the wind furrows my darkness, I know Last Line: Nearly as long as I wait. And have waited SHIELD First Line: The eyes of hares are never closed Last Line: Rest fitful with only a thin shield %against waking Gessaman, Deborah Clifford 3 poems available by this author LATINATE CHORUS First Line: Early march down south, especially %after a day's sweet rain, nights Last Line: Spring awakening in southern swamps PAINT CLOTHES First Line: Thick muslin overalls on professionals Last Line: Lady brushes giant wall xs with glee, %clothed only in latex and paste RECIPES FOR LIFE First Line: My recipe file preserves Last Line: Hands roll and stir, homemakers, %history-makers who sweeten%bittersweet days in my kitchen Gessler, Clifford Poet's Biography 25 poems available by this author BUNDLES OF DREAMS WALKING First Line: What are they? Whither are they going-frail CHART OF THE PACIFIC First Line: This paper flatness, yellow-isled, and neat CLOUD TRAIL Poem Text First Line: The cool mist rolls against the ridge; we stand Last Line: On the high trails, and here alone, is peace. DARK BAMBOOS Poem Text First Line: The dark bamboos against the sullen sky' Last Line: And dark bamboos against the sullen sky. Subject(s): Bamboo; Winter DARK WISDOM Poem Text First Line: Who shall say it is vain Last Line: Dark wisdom of despair. Subject(s): Wisdom DECEMBER First Line: Rain over the tall oleanders %and over the whorls of cycads, rain Last Line: Ask of the leaves, ask of the ginger-embers, %ask of the dark, slow, tender heart of the rain! Subject(s): December FIRST POEM First Line: Deftly he crashed the hammer tipped with stone HAUNTED ISLAND Poem Text First Line: There is a haunted island in the sea Last Line: Come on the northern wind, the bird of death. Subject(s): Hawaii HAWAIIAN BLUES First Line: San francisco nights, and the fog coiling HAWAIIAN NIGHT First Line: Night, and the saxophones' dark laughter leaping HAWAIIAN SERENADE Poem Text First Line: Come, my kukui flower Last Line: Let us taste, while the tide is high! Subject(s): Hawaii ISLAND LOVE SONG First Line: She is sleek and lovely as teh brown slim mongoose Last Line: Let the wind sing it on the hills where ginger grows! NEVERTHELESS Poem Text First Line: Inasmuch as I love you Last Line: Of cool lanes white in the splendor of the rising moon. Subject(s): Love; Villages NIGHT ON THE ATOLL Poem Text First Line: Not like the soft and furry night of the high islands Last Line: No dawn like this awakening. PAPEETE WATERFRONT Poem Text First Line: The sunset kindles pyres across the bay Last Line: For healing, secretly, to mama po. Subject(s): Papeet, Tahiti PRAYER Poem Text First Line: O thou elemental Last Line: Peace. Subject(s): Prayer SACRED VALLEY Poem Text First Line: Dark things have happened in the misted hills Last Line: Do you not hear his distant, mocking laughter? SIESTA HOUR First Line: The heavy hand of afternoon weighs down STAR-DANCERS Poem Text First Line: Rongo told me how, when a boy, he lay Last Line: Intolerable vision of forbidden peace. Subject(s): Stars THE LIFE OF THE LAND IS ESTABLISHED IN RIGHTEOUSNESS Poem Text First Line: We have taken away their lands and their possessions Last Line: We have taken their land, we can not take their laughter. Subject(s): Hawaii THE MISSIONARY'S SON WRITES IN HIS DIARY Poem Text First Line: I am gnawn with desire for the daughters of lam kee chow Last Line: It is madness! I write no more. Subject(s): Asia; Desire; Diaries; Far East; East Asia; Orient THE NAVEL OF GOD Poem Text First Line: Days sailing, and the valleyed sea Last Line: And established there the foundations of the land. THE VOYAGE Poem Text First Line: Don't let them fool you, said the tough old sailor Last Line: "a pipe, and a glass, and a girl at the run's end." TIMELESS ISLAND First Line: The hours reel off the golden spool of time WALTHER VON DEM VOGELTHAL Poem Text First Line: Beside my door I washed my hair Last Line: Come whistling home again! Subject(s): Absence; Memory; Separation; Isolation Gibford, Dick 3 poems available by this author COWBOY'S TOAST First Line: Here's to the best of the good Subject(s): Cowboys LAST BUCKAROO First Line: By morning star and quarter moon Subject(s): Cowboys OLD COWMAN First Line: There's many types and sizes Subject(s): Cowboys Gibson, Clifford 18 poems available by this author BAD LUCK DICE First Line: I believe I'll try : them bad-luck dice again Last Line: But if I ever get lucky : I swear I'll have my diamonds on Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BEAT YOU DOING IT First Line: I've have the blues about my money : had the blues because I'm feeling bad Last Line: Because there's always been some good man : to beat you doing what you're trying to do Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BLUES WITHOUT A DIME First Line: Bad luck and trouble : and the blues without a dime Last Line: Because every day's like sunday : I mean she's always got a dollar in her hand Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) BROOKLYN BLUES First Line: Since we been apart : ??? Seems strange to me Last Line: You going to want me baby : just for company Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DON'T PUT THAT THING ON ME First Line: Don't care what you say : don't care what you do Last Line: If you got a good woman partner : you'd better treat her right Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) DRAYMAN BLUES First Line: Mr drayman mr drayman : back your truck up to my door Last Line: Say the days seem so lonesome : and the nights so long Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) HARD-HEADED BLUES First Line: A hard-headed woman : just like a bulldog without a chain Last Line: When you got a hard-headed woman : you bound to have the blues Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) I'M TIRED OF BEING MISTREATED First Line: Ain't going to cut no kindling : ain't going to buy no corn Last Line: You must have found something : to keep you away Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) ICE AND SNOW BLUES First Line: I'm going to build me a castle : out of ice and snow Last Line: After all your mistreating : no one can take your place Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) JIVE ME BLUES First Line: You can jive me baby : but I don't believe a thing you say Last Line: You can tell by that : I won't be here long Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) KEEP YOUR WINDOWS PINNED First Line: Keep your back door locked : baby keeps your windows pinned Last Line: And I think it's time for me : to make my get-away Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) LEVEE CAMP MOAN First Line: I am sorry : that I can't take you Last Line: Going back to the one I love : and acknowledge that I done wrong Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) OLD TIME RIDER First Line: Believe I'll take : my old-timey rider back Last Line: Says I can't do nothing : till that woman come back to you Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SHE ROLLS IT SLOW First Line: I got a little woman : but I swear she treats me mean Last Line: Gets it all together : then she mix it in her dough Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SOCIETY BLUES First Line: When I was society : the women would not let me be Last Line: It was a little brownskin woman : stole my heart away Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) STOP YOUR RAMBLING First Line: Baby stop you way of rambling : stay at home with me sometime Last Line: But some day baby : you'te going to reap just what you sow Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) SUNSHINE MOAN First Line: Oh tell me baby : how can it be Last Line: Got to give me lots of loving : and keep my company Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) WHISKEY MOAN BLUES First Line: I been drinking and gambling : barrelhousing all my days Last Line: But it's been so different now : since I have fell down Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music) Gifford, Barry 66 poems available by this author AFTER YOSANO AKIKO First Line: Coming from your bed Last Line: On my hair AT AN EXHIBITION OF SCROLLS & DRAWINGS BY TOMIOKA TESSAI: 2ND OF .... First Line: Old tessai %old tomioka Last Line: Are jewels of distant %song AT APOLLINAIRE'S GRAVE, PERE-LACHAISE First Line: A black and white cat Last Line: On flammere AT BIKKY'S WORKSHOP First Line: Woodchips strewn Last Line: Stolen %faces AT EZRA POUND'S GRAVE, SAN MICHELE First Line: This is the day of the dead Last Line: Of the year, or nearly AT THE ALBRIGHT-KNOX First Line: Pollock's painting Last Line: In america AT THE CHEROKEE BAR, JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI First Line: Words disappear %in this dream Last Line: In the blue perfect %night BAR GIRLS First Line: What would these girls Last Line: And expectation BLONDE LIGHT First Line: Your scent still Last Line: Never had enough BOHEMIAN CIGAR STORE, SAN FRANCISCO First Line: Last week %I was 28 Last Line: Mumbling 'bella, bella' BUDDHIST POEM First Line: On a wood bench Last Line: Devote your life to tea instead CHINESE NOTE FOR MARY LOU First Line: This backyard Last Line: Below the japanese sky CHINESE NOTES First Line: Separated by a river Last Line: Peacock vase CINO First Line: O beauties Last Line: Such is this troubador's disgust CLAIRE BLOOM'S FACE First Line: When I was five Last Line: My mussed-up hair - DELACROIX'S ATELIER, LATE OCTOBER First Line: Delacroix's painting, coin Last Line: Straight as delacroix's stovepipe DENVER ALBA First Line: Awakened in denver Last Line: Stomach rumble EPIPHANY FOR GERALD NEVEU First Line: A truck hauling a palm tree Last Line: Have yet to be born FAREWELL LETTER FROM JEANNE DUVAL TO CHARLES BAUDELAIRE First Line: Charles, from the beginning you always Last Line: My sweet, poetry is not enough FEW WORDS ABOUT RIMBAUD First Line: A hundred and eleven Last Line: This %punishment? FLAUBERT AT KEY WEST First Line: Under waving palms Last Line: Thirty years ago FOR MY WINNIE AT THE NEGRESCO First Line: Missing you Last Line: Any easier now GIOTTO'S CIRCLE First Line: The other night Last Line: Now and again HIGHWAY 83 First Line: In zapata, texas Last Line: Made perfect %sense HOW MANY MANGOS IN MANGO CHUTNEY First Line: There is a broken heart Last Line: I might have known IN SIGHT First Line: Rain splinters the bridge Last Line: Of neglect LARRY First Line: My mother %had a husband Last Line: In his bed, not %his head LETTER TO PROUST NO.2 First Line: Dear m Last Line: Testing various strengths; assumption without thought; sustenance LETTER TO PROUST NO.5 First Line: Dear marcel Last Line: With a handful of paint I could cover the sun LIVES OF THE FRENCH IMPRESSIONIST PAINTERS First Line: Monet had a beautiful garden that Last Line: His enemies had died MARACAS First Line: Lorca at the Last Line: As they %walk MARIA LA O First Line: In 1959, my cousin chris and I Last Line: Isn't there any more MUSICA LATINA First Line: In barcelona Last Line: He missed %hers MY FATHER First Line: The day %he died Last Line: For the big %blue car NEW YORK MOVIE First Line: There you are in 1939 Last Line: That's only partly true? NIGHT TRAIN TO MT. YATSU First Line: The japanese brakeman Last Line: I am as lonely as ever NINE MAY NINETY-SIX First Line: The matador luis miguel dominguin Last Line: I wonder if dominguin remembered that NORTH BEACH CHINESE SONNET First Line: Chinese children chase pigeons Last Line: For what's %not there NOTE ON INSPIRATION FOR DUANE BIG EAGLE First Line: Baudelaire kept a creole mistress Last Line: Nor were they ever NOTE TO A FRIEND FAR AWAY First Line: Cranes slowly Last Line: Birds, weather %will do NUDES First Line: Man ray's photograph Last Line: As if to avoid %exposure PARIS STREET First Line: Wind up gray Last Line: Her little blue cap! PHOEBE'S PROFILE First Line: Forged on flowers Last Line: Were meant to last POEM First Line: My arm %around Last Line: Trees %at kyoto POEM First Line: I am no painter Last Line: Of my %eye POEM First Line: Falling out of love Last Line: With her hand POEM First Line: A black %horse draws Last Line: Not remember %your face POEM FOR A PAINTER First Line: I have a friend Last Line: Into thick blue air POEM FOR PASCIN First Line: Pascin knew something about beauty Last Line: To prove it POEM UT ANIMUM NOSTRUM PURGET First Line: She lov'd villon - Last Line: And I did not paint PSEUDO-PINDARIC ODE TO FRANCIS JAMMES First Line: Of course, jammes was mad Last Line: And jammes makes it elegantly REDUX First Line: Walking in kensington gardens Last Line: Lady reading a letter REPLY TO WANG WEI First Line: Friends come %and go Last Line: As rain %drops SEASON OF TRUTH First Line: This is valuable experience Last Line: That is when I am most relaxed and feel best SLEEPY TIME DOWN SOUTH First Line: You came to me last night Last Line: As interesting? SONG First Line: O fly %wouldst I Last Line: For ever %in a rose SONNET TO A MARBLE BEAUTY First Line: O silent love Last Line: Caress your plain white bonnet SOUTHERN AIR First Line: The florida sky unwraps Last Line: The sky is never enough SURREALISTS COME TO CALIFORNIA First Line: Cruising in a cadillac Last Line: Or, adds aragon, a dream TO TERRY MOORE First Line: This morning I am not Last Line: Were your lovers ever gentle? TRAVELING LIGHT First Line: The sound of Last Line: So simple TROPICAL STREET First Line: Radio havana still plays Last Line: And visit me this way TWELFTH STREET First Line: Beautiful girl Last Line: While she's reading VISION DEL CALLE CRUZ REY First Line: Old man %sitting in his Last Line: Him %slowly WATCHING FISH First Line: Watching %fish Last Line: In %hats WHORES IN THE CLUB PAPAGAYO First Line: Under dim %red Last Line: Into green %slimy water Gifford, Edwina Cushing 1 poems available by this author BIRD SONG First Line: Sadness nibbles %at my heart Gifford, Ethel Annette 1 poems available by this author MY GARDEN Poem Text First Line: Come where the columbine and roses too Last Line: There in the golden silence with god. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening Gifford, Fannie Stearns Davis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Fannie Stearns 101 poems available by this author AFTERNOON Poem Text First Line: Some one is coming to call Last Line: Down in the daffodil leaves — Subject(s): Household Employees; Peasantry; Servants; Domestics; Maids AN OLD SONG Poem Text First Line: And if I came not again Last Line: Came I not again! ANCIENT BEAUTIFUL THINGS Poem Text First Line: I am all alone in the room Last Line: O god, are there always more? AND IF YOUR SHOES WERE CURLY GOLD AS I DRANK TEA TO-DAY AS IN A PICTURE-BOOK First Line: My mother died when I was young CELESTIAL RHYMES First Line: I shall write verses if I get to heaven CIRCUS First Line: The circus comes this week! CLEARNESS First Line: I have loved ... Sea-tide over shoal COMRADES First Line: You need not say one word to me, as up the hill we go CRACK O' DAWN Poem Text First Line: Crack o' dawn! Red sun looks in Last Line: God! Could I forget! Forget! Subject(s): Morning DAFFODILS First Line: I planted daffodils today DAWN-JOY Poem Text First Line: Clean, clean as crisped water-cress Last Line: My feet came close behind! Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise DAY First Line: There is your day DEATH IN THE SUN First Line: A warm gold shining world DREAMS BEHIND DOORS First Line: It is as if the kitchen door ECH-FINGERS First Line: When you were one hour old ESCAPE Poem Text First Line: Now since I cannot make it out Last Line: God knows, I cannot always cry! EVENING SONG Poem Text First Line: Little child, good child, go to sleep Last Line: Hush, child, little child! Hush.--good-night. FEET OR WINGS First Line: O tethered spirit, take for mate FIRE FANTASY Poem Text First Line: Flame flies up in the chimney black Last Line: Coming -- back ----? Subject(s): Fire FIREPLACE First Line: Once my hearth was red and bare FOR A CHILD First Line: Your friends shall be the tall wind Last Line: That god may make you wise GENTLE WOOD First Line: Shall I string me barberries GHOSTS Poem Text First Line: I am almost afraid of the wind out there Last Line: That I would not be glad if my dear ones came! Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural GIPSY FEET First Line: Oh, gipsy hearts are many enough, but gipsy feet are Subject(s): Nature GOODBYE! First Line: My songs have run away from me HANDS First Line: I learned a garden's use when I HILL-FANTASY (1) First Line: Sitteth by the red cairn a brown one HILL-FANTASY (2) First Line: I was on the mountain, wandering, wandering HOME Poem Text First Line: Home, to the hills and the rough, running water Last Line: Home-nest, -- my heart's nest, -- I loved you so much? Subject(s): Home HOOFS IN THE DARK Poem Text First Line: I wake in the night, and my heart says, 'hark!' Last Line: Out in the dark; out there in the dark. -- Subject(s): Death; Dead, The I DID NOT LONG FOR CHILDREN I HAVE LOOKED INTO ALL MEN'S HEARTS I SEW THE DREAMS MY YEARS GIVE BACK I SING NO MORE I WENT DOWN INTO MY HEART. IT WAS HOLLOW AND COLD AND DEEP LONELY JOY First Line: O do not dance and do not shine LOST DREAM First Line: I saw a reindeer, strayed from the LOVE HAS SHINING EYES First Line: I have read, and have been told Subject(s): Love MOODS MOON First Line: Where did the moon go MOON FOLLY First Line: I will go up the mountain after the moon NOW I WILL SADDLE THE SWIFT BROWN MARE NOW YOU CAN SPEAK TO ME O MY LOVE LEONORE Poem Text First Line: O my love leonore! O my lithe lady! Last Line: O my love leonore, -- o my lithe lady? -- Subject(s): Death; Dead, The OF HELEN KELLER Poem Text First Line: She, without eyes, sees more than I who know Last Line: Your visions fade before her high, pure heart! Subject(s): Blindness; Deafness; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Vision; Visually Handicapped OH, NEVER LEAVE YOUR DOOR UNLATCHED ONLY WHILE YOU SLEE PITY First Line: I wore a coat I made myself PROFITS Poem Text First Line: Yes, stars were with me formerly Last Line: Shall stars abide eternally! Subject(s): Stars PUPIL RETURNS TO HIS MASTER First Line: It is because they troubled me QUAINT First Line: It is quaint to scuttle home RAIN IN THE NIGHT Poem Text First Line: Out in the night the general good rain Last Line: God, send her back like rain to me! Subject(s): Rain RED SEED First Line: Now perhaps there is peace RESTLESSNESS Poem Text First Line: Life with his chin on my shoulder Last Line: Strange murmurous voice in my ear! RIDE Poem Text First Line: Lean in the saddle and look aside Last Line: Ride! Subject(s): Horseback Riding ROMANCE Poem Text First Line: Come over the waters and find me! Last Line: Come over the waters and save me! SEA SPELL First Line: The bay is bluer that all the sky SOMETIMES WE HARDLY WANTED YOU SONG First Line: But I was gone a hundred years SORROW IN SPRING Poem Text First Line: Sorrow knocked at my door Last Line: She smiles! And she rises to go! Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SORROW'S SHADOW Poem Text First Line: Some days, when I am dressed in shimmer-stuff Last Line: And take my hand, nor let me dance away? Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SOUL! - SOUL First Line: It will do no good to lie SOULS Poem Text First Line: My soul goes clad in gorgeous things Last Line: Shining and swift, as mine! STORM DANCE Poem Text First Line: The water came up with a roar Last Line: And the great gulls laugh, and the sea! Subject(s): Storms SUCH THINGS ARE FAR AWAY First Line: Why ... Even while your hair is red THE BLACK WITCH Poem Text First Line: Ye have driven me out from your court and your kirk Last Line: Who wrought such a curse on me! Subject(s): Witchcraft & Witches THE CHANGELING Poem Text First Line: I have two horns upon my head Last Line: This wild-heart thing you never bore? THE CHILDREN'S PEDDLER Poem Text First Line: Up above the village roofs the white road climbs away Last Line: Just the crazy peddlerman that all the children know! Subject(s): Children; Peddlers & Peddling; Childhood THE MOTHER Poem Text First Line: And now, they did not need her any more Last Line: "thou only, over all the world, must know!" Subject(s): Mothers THE NARROW DOORS Poem Text First Line: The wide door into sorrow Last Line: Across my sunny life! THE NEW HOUSE Poem Text First Line: My little house is very young Last Line: And not be dark, some day! Subject(s): Houses THE POET REBUKES HIS FLATTERERS Poem Text First Line: Why will you trouble me with praise? Last Line: Look there! His blood-stained hands and feet! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE RECLUSE Poem Text First Line: I am too much in love with loneliness Last Line: Life! Stab me! Make me fight before I die! Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness THE STARS GO BY' First Line: Under the lake he growls and he groans THE UNBORN Poem Text First Line: When out of the dark I come to you Last Line: When out of the dark I come to you? -- THE YEAR AFTER Poem Text First Line: Up and down my garden the roses are a-revel Last Line: -- yet 'tis you, you only, who know their dear lost names! Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening THOSE I LOVE Poem Text First Line: I could be glad and gay to-night Last Line: While those I love drink death? TINY SPANGLE OF AUTUMN First Line: I will sit here, low, while the sun is hot, on a flat warm stone TIRED First Line: No ... Do not ask me to be wise TO A COWARD Poem Text First Line: You have no right to spoil the sun Last Line: You will not dare to curse the stars! Subject(s): Cowardice TO REBECCA GROWING UP First Line: Light in your eyes says 'years!Years!' TO THE NORTH Poem Text First Line: I give three calls to the north Last Line: Come forth! Subject(s): North, The TO YOUTH -- IN SECRET JOY Poem Text First Line: Shut out the wind, shut out the gloom Last Line: Sometime your life may need this day! Subject(s): Youth TRYSTS First Line: My father and my mother sleep TURN OF THE ROAD First Line: Now my thick years bend your back UNCLE FRAZAR First Line: All my life he has been my comrade and friend UP A HILL AND A HILL UP ON THE MOUNTAIN Poem Text First Line: Up on the mountain, where nobody comes Last Line: "and the wild bee hums --" Subject(s): Mountains; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness WAIT FOR ME! WAIT FOR ME! I AM COMING! WATER FANTASY Poem Text First Line: O brown brook, o blithe brook, what will you say to me Last Line: But woe is me! You pagan brook, I cannot stay with you! WHAT I DESIRE TO DAY Poem Text First Line: What I desire to say will not be caught in words Last Line: What I desire to say dies ere I give it breath. WHAT IF I GROW OLD AND GRAY WHY DO YOU FIND ME STRANGE WILD THORN First Line: Wild, - wild, - wild WILD WEATHER Poem Text First Line: The sea was wild. The wind was proud Last Line: Oh, we ran far! Oh, we ran free! Subject(s): Storms WIND Poem Text First Line: The wind bows down the poplar trees Last Line: Under his hand of memory. Subject(s): Wind WINGS Poem Text First Line: Take down your golden wings now from their hook behind the door Last Line: Your golden wings, your windy wings, that leave me desolate. Subject(s): Wings WINTER DAWN IN A COUNTRY KITCHEN First Line: Dark, dark, precious and volatile hour YOU SHALL NOT WEAR VELVET Gifford, Humfrey (humphrey) 4 poems available by this author DELECTABLE DREAM, SELS. FOR SOLDIERS First Line: Ye buds of brutus' land, courageous youths, now play your parts! Last Line: If we live well, in heaven with christ our souls shall dwell IN THE PRAISE OF MUSIC First Line: The books of ovid's changed shapes Last Line: To tune this string aright PRAYER First Line: O mighty god, which for us men Gifford, Richard 2 poems available by this author LITTLE YE, SISTER-NINE TO HEALTH First Line: How shall I woo thee, sweetest ...? Gifford, Will 1 poems available by this author SPELLING DOWN First Line: Well, jane, I stayed in town last night Gifford, William 2 poems available by this author DELLA CRUSCANS First Line: Oh for the good old times! When all was new QUINTESSENCE OF ALL THE DACTYLICS Poem Text First Line: Wearisome sonneteer, feeble and querulous Last Line: "dactylics, call;st thou 'em? -- ""god help thee, silly one!" Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form); Southey, Robert (1774-1843) Glassford, James 1 poems available by this author DEAD WHO HAVE DIED IN THE LORD First Line: Go, call for the mourners, and raise the Goldstein, Sanford 1 poems available by this author IT TAKES Last Line: How thin and more thin %is my desire Grant, Ethel (watts) Mumford Alternate Author Name(s): Mumford, Ethel Watts 1 poems available by this author THE SEVEN DEADLY VIRTUES First Line: The seven deadly virtues Guildford, Nicholas De 1 poems available by this author OWL AND THE NIGHTINGALE, SELS. First Line: Ich was in one sumere dale Guilford, Charles (chuck) 3 poems available by this author AWAKENING First Line: I rose through the warm depths HOW IT COULD HAPPEN First Line: Imagine a life so complete MAYBE THE SKY First Line: Maybe the sky's washed out gray and the stones Last Line: So true it feeds you. No blame - no, no blame Guilford, Chuck 3 poems available by this author ABOUT SEPTEMBER First Line: In a cove on some cold northern lake Last Line: I, too, am a strange wild creature %in love with the terrible yearning %of earth for her own IN THE BURNT HILLS First Line: These are the steps we take Last Line: Under pressure for meaning, %brief images cast on the walls WIELDER OF MEN First Line: And planets. %stars. %of dream and vision Last Line: In silence, %unafraid Gulliford, Tristan 1 poems available by this author HEAVEN'S FIRE Last Line: But words will not convert me Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Redemption Haines, M. Rainsford 1 poems available by this author TELEGRAPH OPERATORS Poem Text First Line: You sit like silent magicians Last Line: About your quiet eyes and touched your patient glance with irony. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Telegraph; Work; Workers; Telegrams Haley, Molly Whitford Anderson 13 poems available by this author A FAITHLESS GENERATION ASKED A SIGN' A PRAYER FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY Poem Text First Line: O master of the galilean way Last Line: To heal a wounded world and bring it peace! Subject(s): Christianity AND LO, THE STAR! Subject(s): Christmas ARCHITECT First Line: I would not all him in, my heart decried Subject(s): Jesus Christ CHRISTMAS PRAYER First Line: Star tood over where the young child was' GARDEN HYMN First Line: I never knew thee, lord, until Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening HE IS OUR PEACE' - LOW IN A MANGER LYING HE KNEW THE LAND AND HELD ITS HONOR HIGH INTOLERANCE First Line: Across the way my neighbor's windows shine Subject(s): Religion NOT TO DESTROY BUT TO FULFILL' First Line: While the proud garment of our common days Subject(s): Peace; Troy RIVER OF GRACE First Line: Make of my heart an upper room, I pray Subject(s): Jesus Christ VACANT LOTS First Line: The city charts, white-veined on crackling blue WE HAVE SEEN HIS STAR IN THE EAST First Line: God, let our sons this holy night Subject(s): Christmas Halford, Theodora 1 poems available by this author HIGH ROAD Poem Text First Line: The river-road / has left me far behind Last Line: For drinking with the trees! Subject(s): Roads; Trees; Paths; Trails Hamp, Sidford F. 1 poems available by this author FRIAR TUCK First Line: Bold robin hood is a forester good Hanaford, Phoebe A. 1 poems available by this author FUNERAL HYMN First Line: Hushed today are the sounds of gladness Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States Handford, T. W. 4 poems available by this author BESSIE BO PEEP OF ENGLE STEEPE First Line: A dear little girl was bessie bo peep EASTER SONG First Line: The mists of easter morning LEAVES FROM FATHERLAND First Line: Just a few crocus leaves ON GRANDPAPA'S KNEE First Line: The cosiest place and the snuggest spot Hanford, Charles J. 1 poems available by this author GRANNY'S LITTLE FLOCK Poem Text First Line: The lamp's dim, the fire's low Last Line: To her sleepy flock. Subject(s): Grandparents; Shadows; Weaving & Weavers; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers Hanford, Mary 3 poems available by this author BIOPSY First Line: A scar on my right breast LAST SWIM First Line: A lover. He came back SUMMIT First Line: She folds grandmother's crocheted spread Hanley, Clifford 1 poems available by this author GLASGOW UNDERGROUND First Line: I know a lot of folk go fancy places at the fair Last Line: Oh it's lovely going your holidays %on the glasgow underground Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland Harford, David K. 1 poems available by this author FROM THE BATTER'S BOX First Line: God is a screwball Last Line: A sorrowful strikeout victim %of daily anticipation Harford, Lesbia 4 poems available by this author BEAUTY AND TERROR First Line: Beauty does not walk through lovely days FOLK I LOVE First Line: I do hate the folk I love Last Line: At the strength to love like them, %not too much Subject(s): Love I AM NO MYSTIC First Line: I am no mystic. All the ways of god Last Line: To that transcendent mystic love with which %the seraphim burn Subject(s): Christianity I HAVE GOLDEN SHOES Harrison, Clifford 3 poems available by this author BENEDICTION First Line: In the year eighteen and nine CABALA First Line: Ah! They were strong, those men of FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH First Line: On in the snow - on in the snow Harsh, Mary Rutherford 1 poems available by this author MAMMY'S LULLABY First Line: Put yer little kinky head upon yer mammy's shoulder Hartford-begley, Shauna 6 poems available by this author BOBBY SOCKS AND CASTRO DAYS First Line: You were dancing in your bobby socks Last Line: The world was %coming to %an end FEATHERS ABOVE FOR A TIME First Line: Raise your arms like a sea gull and fly with the candles lit Last Line: Spread your silent wings in the flicker and take feathered flight MOTHER TELL ME First Line: Mother %tell the little girl in me Last Line: Locked in memory PAINTER AND THE CAROUSEL First Line: Little did we know as children, way back then Last Line: The carousel ride was not all it was painted to be REAPER RIDES IN RWANDA First Line: Who calls this action forth and names Last Line: The world watches it all on a tv screen SARAH'S PLEA First Line: Tears like raindrops trickle down Last Line: Don't touch the children, or take your ease %on them Hasford, Gustav 1 poems available by this author BEDTIME STORY First Line: Sleep, america. %silence is a warm bed Last Line: Bad dreams are something you ate. %so sleep, you mother Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 Hayford, Gladys May Casely 6 poems available by this author BABY COBINA First Line: Brown baby cobina, with his large black velvet eyes Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women LULLABY First Line: Close your sleepy eyes, or the pale moonlight will steal you Last Line: In place of mammy's bibini, asleep on his wee bed Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women NATIVITY First Line: Within a native hut, ere stirred the dawn Last Line: And kissed their motherhood into his mother's eyes Subject(s): Christmas PALM WINE SELLER First Line: Akosua selling palm wine Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women RAINY SEASON LOVE SONG First Line: Out of the tense awed darkness, my frangepani comes Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women SERVING GIRL First Line: The calabash wherein she served my food Last Line: The countless things she served with her eyes? Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women Hayford, James 9 poems available by this author FROST'S FARM ROAD First Line: I pocketed a pebble Last Line: In or just under the great world Subject(s): Frost, Robert (1874-1963); New England; Poetry And Poets HORN First Line: O come sweet death, sang bach IN A CLOSED UNIVERSE First Line: Children and pets, please note LIGHT ON THE MOUNTAIN First Line: Their light's no more than a spark OVERSEER OF THE POOR First Line: The poor men's god that gives them sleep RESIDENT WORM First Line: The pitcher plant makes a living by Subject(s): Pitcher Plants SOMETHING SAID First Line: Nobody's out but a winter crow UNDER ALL THIS SLATE First Line: The bulletin of the boarding school WET SOCKS First Line: Nothing I own Last Line: Dry and warm later Hereford, William Richard 1 poems available by this author HIS LETTER Poem Text First Line: Dear father / please excuse,' he wrote Last Line: And hastened to the -- foot-ball game. Subject(s): Football Herford, Beatrice 2 poems available by this author I REMEMBER Poem Text First Line: I remember, I remember the place where I was born Last Line: "and says, ""was that the doorbell or did I hear the phone?" Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery OLD MAN First Line: Oh, why can't things stay as they were? Subject(s): Children Herford, Oliver Brook Poet's Biography 84 poems available by this author A BELATED VIOLET Poem Text First Line: Very dark the autumn sky Last Line: Violet never woke to know. Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Violets; Childhood A MODERN DIALOGUE Poem Text First Line: Why, bob, it's you! They got your name all wrong Last Line: (they ring off.) Subject(s): Courtship; Talk; Telephones A THANKSGIVING FABLE Poem Text First Line: It was a hungry pussy cat, upon thanksgiving morning Last Line: But the little mouse had overheard and declined (with thanks) to stay. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Holidays; Thanksgiving Day AUDACIOUS KITTEN First Line: Hurrah!' cried the kitten, 'hurrah!' BLUEBEARD'S LAST WIFE: A MASQUE OF BIGOTRY Poem Text First Line: The bluebeard of this drama, you must know Last Line: He was as one might say a self-made widower. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BLUEBEARD'S LAST WIFE: COMES ART Poem Text First Line: And now comes lovely art: watch bluebeard fascinate her Last Line: The fate of lovingcup and cigarette. Subject(s): Art & Artists BLUEBEARD'S LAST WIFE: COMES BRIGHT SUNDAY Poem Text First Line: Of bluebeard's wives bright sunday was the best Last Line: He pitched her, lute and all, into the moat. Subject(s): Sabbath; Sunday BLUEBEARD'S LAST WIFE: COMES LADY NICOTINE Poem Text First Line: Now comes the pensive lady nicotine Last Line: Sweet cigarette is dead! Peace to her ashes! Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes BLUEBEARD'S LAST WIFE: COMES LOVINGCUP Poem Text First Line: Gay lovingcup! As joyful as the morn Last Line: Drowned in a tank of half of one per cent. Subject(s): Beer; Drinks & Drinking; Ale; Wine BLUEBEARD'S LAST WIFE: COMES PIETY Poem Text First Line: But who is this with mild and gentle air Last Line: One bridal kiss -- that kiss will be his last! Subject(s): Piety BLUEBEARD'S LAST WIFE: COMES PLAYINGCARD Poem Text First Line: First comes the sprightly damsel playingcard Last Line: For that she dies -- bring on another wife! Subject(s): Card Games; Playing Cards BLUEBEARD'S LAST WIFE: COMES THE SISTERS DRAMA Poem Text First Line: Next to their death the sisters drama come Last Line: Who chops their heads off with his ruthless blade. Subject(s): Theater & Theaters; Stage Life BUNNY ROMANCE First Line: The bunnies are a feeble folk BUTTERFLY OF FASHION First Line: A real butterfly, I mean CANTANKEROUS 'GATOR First Line: There was a cantankerous 'gator Last Line: He would like as not swallow the waiter Subject(s): Alligators; Dinners And Dining; Food And Eating CHILD'S NATURAL HISTORY First Line: See, chil-dren, the fur-bear-ing seal CHIMPANZEE First Line: Children, behold athe chimpanzee CHROMOTONES Poem Text First Line: Her voice was darker than of old Last Line: And that was intermission. Subject(s): Critics & Criticism COW First Line: The cow is too well known, I fear CROCODILE DAMSEL, SEDUCTIVE AND HANDSOME DOG First Line: The dog is black or white or brown Subject(s): Animals; Dogs EARTH Poem Text First Line: If this little world tonight Last Line: "see the pretty shooting star!" Variant Title(s): Proem ENCHANTED OAK First Line: Beneathe an ancient oake one daye EVE (1) First Line: It is not fair to visit all EVE (2) First Line: O dear! I canot choose but write Last Line: Yes, but for my bite into the unknown, %meseems your 'garden' never could have grown FALL OF J.W. BEANE; A GHOST STORY First Line: In all the eastern hemisphere Last Line: In sweet enjoyment of their claims - %it is not well to mention names GODIVA First Line: I waited for the train at coventry' HEN First Line: Alas! My child, where is the pen HERE LIES BILL, THE SON OF FRED HOPELESS CASE First Line: Her sisters shunned her, half in fear I HEARD A BIRD SING Last Line: In the dark of december I SOMETIMES THINK THE PUSSY-WILLOWS GREY JAPANESQUE First Line: Oh, where the white quince blossom swings KITTEN'S NIGHT THOUGHTS First Line: When human folk put out the light KITTEN'S THOUGHT First Line: It's nice to think of how LAST VIOLET First Line: The gray old owl could scarce believe his eyes Subject(s): Holidays LIMERICK Poem Text First Line: There once were some learned m.D.'s Last Line: Allowed one to catch it with ease. Subject(s): Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers LIMERICK Poem Text First Line: There was an old man of the rhine Last Line: "and eight and a quarter of nine." Subject(s): Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers LIMERICK Poem Text First Line: There was a young man of the cape Last Line: "but they keep such a beautiful shape." Subject(s): Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers LIMERICK Poem Text First Line: There was a young man of laconia Last Line: They buried her 'neath a begonia. Subject(s): Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers LIMERICK Poem Text First Line: There was a young lady of twickenham Last Line: And took 'em both off and was sick in 'em. Subject(s): Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers LIMERICK Poem Text First Line: There once were some learned m.D.'s Last Line: Allowed one to catch it with ease. Subject(s): Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers LOUVAIN Poem Text First Line: Bleeding and torn, ravished with sword and flame Last Line: Shrived by the sacred sorrow of louvain. Subject(s): Betrayal; Faith; France; Future Life; God; Martyrs; Belief; Creed; Retribution; Eternity; After Life MAM'SELLE PRINTEMPS Poem Text First Line: Her manager (a wise old guy Last Line: "to me you always will be -- spring!" Subject(s): Critics & Criticism MARK TWAIN: A PIPE DREAM Poem Text First Line: Well I recall how first I met Last Line: Then heaven will be heaven indeed. Subject(s): Dreams; Smoking; Twain, Mark (samuel Langhorne Clemens); Nightmares; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes METAPHYSICS First Line: Why and wherefore set out one day Subject(s): Metaphysics MILK JUG (THE KITTEN SPEAKS) First Line: The gentle milk jug blue and white MIRROR CAT First Line: I really wish you'd all sit still MUSIC OF THE FUTURE First Line: The politest musician that ever was seen MUSICAL LION First Line: Said the lion: 'on music I dote' OUR BOY First Line: Wings and the boy I sing, who, braving fate Subject(s): U.s. - History PHYLLIS LEE Poem Text First Line: Beside a primrose 'broider'd rill Last Line: "I'll keep them shut,"" said phyllis lee." Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters; Women PLATYPUS First Line: My child, the duck-billed platypus PRINCE POMPOM First Line: Beneath a fruitful apple tree PRINCETON TOAST Poem Text First Line: I wish I had a barrel of rum Last Line: To drown trouble in? Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine RUBAIYAT OF A PERSIAN KITTEN First Line: They say the early bird the worm shall taste SILVER QUESTION First Line: The sun appeared so smug and bright SMILE OF THE GOAT First Line: The smile of the goat has a meaning that few Last Line: The censor attending a risque revue %and combining stern duty with pleasure Subject(s): Goats; Smiles SMILE OF THE WALRUS First Line: The smile of the walrus is wild and distraught Last Line: Like the smile of a thinker who thinks a great thought %and isn't quite sure what it means Subject(s): Smiles; Walruses SNAIL'S DREAM First Line: A snail who had a way, it seems Subject(s): Snails SOME TAKE THEIR GOLD IN MINTED MOULD SONG First Line: Gather kittens while you may SONG OF A HEART First Line: Upon a time I had a heart STAIRS First Line: Here's to the man who invented stairs STRIKE First Line: One mr. William thingum tite TELL-TALE First Line: The lily whispered to the rose Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening THE BACHELOR GIRL Poem Text First Line: Here's to the bachelor girl Last Line: Long life—and happy days! Subject(s): Independence; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People THE CATFISH Poem Text First Line: The saddest fish that swims the briny ocean Last Line: If you know what it is! Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Sea; Anglers; Ocean THE CLOUD Poem Text First Line: I wonder what your thoughts are, little cloud Last Line: Celeste: the cloud! Subject(s): Clouds; France; Plays & Playwrights ; Women; Dramatists THE ELF AND THE DORMOUSE Poem Text First Line: Under a toadstool / crept a wee elf Last Line: First were invented. Subject(s): Children; Fairies; Umbrellas; Childhood; Elves THE FIRST ROSE OF SUMMER Poem Text First Line: Oh dear! Is summer over? Last Line: "why, it's just begun!" Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Roses; Summer; Childhood THE LAUGHING WILLOW Poem Text First Line: To see the kaiser's epitaph Last Line: Would make a weeping willow laugh. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Laughter; Willow Trees THE POET'S PROPOSAL Poem Text First Line: Phyllis, if I could I'd paint you Last Line: "paintings must be framed with gold!" Subject(s): Courtship; Paintings & Painters; Poetry & Poets THE SECRET Poem Text First Line: When prudence wears her mask, ah me! Last Line: Takes off her mask. Subject(s): Prudence; Caution THE SERIAL Poem Text First Line: I burst upon the reader's eye Last Line: But this goes on forever. Subject(s): Books; Writing & Writers; Reading THERE, THERE, PIERROT Poem Text First Line: Pauvre pierrot, / weeping in the snow Last Line: I mean helas. TO HOPE Poem Text First Line: Here's to hope! - the child of care Last Line: Take after their grandmama or aunt. Subject(s): Children; Childhood TO LADY ASTOR Poem Text First Line: Hail, beauteous lady, world renowned Last Line: "to ""pussyfoot"" his diet!" Subject(s): Animals; Astor, Nancy, Viscountess (1879-1964); Lions; Politics & Government; Women's Rights; Feminism TO LADY ASTOR (PICTURED WITH BRITISH LION AT HEEL) Poem Text First Line: Hail, beauteous lady, world reknown Last Line: "to ""pussyfoot"" his diet!" Subject(s): Astor, Nancy, Viscountess (1879-1964); Politics & Government; Women's Rights; Feminism TRUTH Poem Text First Line: Permit me, madame, to declare Last Line: To flatter them, I'd have you know. Subject(s): Lies; Man-woman Relationships; Truth; Male-female Relations UNTUTORED GIRAFFE First Line: A child at school who fails to pass WAR RELIEF Poem Text First Line: Can you spare a threepenny bit' Last Line: "to relieve the poor church mice." Subject(s): Poverty; War WHY YE BLOSSOME COMETH BEFORE YE LEAFE Poem Text First Line: Once hoary winter chanced - alas! Last Line: How blossomed so ye leafless bough. Subject(s): Holidays; Trees Herford, Will 2 poems available by this author THAT GOD MADE First Line: This is the earth that god made Subject(s): Injustice; Religion WELFARE SONG First Line: Sing a song of 'welfare' Hesford, Wendy 2 poems available by this author FATHER First Line: Each morning I see your white skin Last Line: Something which binds me, %something to free me SONG First Line: I looked for the oceans of sugar Last Line: The stones of the sky %they know they are %all as one Subject(s): Healing Hodson, Margaret (holford) 3 poems available by this author MARGARET OF ANJOU, SELS. First Line: Now who is she, whose awful mien Last Line: In unseen fetters held, he listened and obeyed ON MEMORY; WRITTEN AT AIX-LA-CHAPELLE Poem Text First Line: No! This is not the land of memory Last Line: The wanderer's heart and soul to bind! Subject(s): Memory WALLACE, SELS. Hofford, M. L. 1 poems available by this author JERUSALEM THE BEAUTIFUL Holmes, George Sanford 6 poems available by this author AND YET FOOLS SAY First Line: He captured light and caged it in a glass Subject(s): Edison, Thomas Alva (1847-1931) FLAG OF LIBERTY AND LIGHT First Line: Athwart the path of years deep shadows rest FROM THE AGELESS SOIL First Line: God drew the plan and flung these ramparts MOTHERS First Line: Mayhap you live, to glory in the love SPECTRAL LEGION First Line: A wave of color floods upon the eye WHEN LABOR MARCHES, LET ALL MEN GIVE HEED Hosford, Jessie 1 poems available by this author CHANGE Poem Text First Line: My white hand, scarred and rough with scouring Last Line: "in the pocket of my cloak." Hosford, Maud 1 poems available by this author BARGAINS IN HEARTS First Line: For sale: a very fine line of hearts Huddesford, J. 1 poems available by this author OBEDIENT DOG First Line: I am his lordship's dog at whiteham Hungerford, Alys 2 poems available by this author SUMMER NOCTURNE First Line: Night gave to thee thy shadowy hair TOI First Line: All that I am is thine Hungerford, M. C. 2 poems available by this author OH, FOR A MAN! OLD KING COLE WAS A JOLLY OLD SOUL Jones, H. Bedford 2 poems available by this author HOW DO YOU DO First Line: How can you, friend?' the swedish say WINNER First Line: It's the fellow who can smile and take his licking Subject(s): Hope Jones, Howard Mumford Poet's Biography 11 poems available by this author ALLEGORY First Line: There is a temple in our mystic city ASTRONOMY First Line: The sky is bare %and throbbing with hot stars and sensuous air Last Line: To trouble planets as a wild thing runs, %lawless, among the flocks and feeding herds AUDIENCES First Line: Within, the dazzling lights are hushed and low CASE IS CLOSED First Line: The case is closed--the lawyers leave Last Line: Nobody's business, none to grieve. The case is closed COSMOS FLOWERS Poem Text First Line: Grey clouds, with sudden lakes of blue Last Line: Scheherazade! DEAD MARCH First Line: The horses plod through the splashy streets Last Line: As the eyes they robbed of their precious sight, %or the soul grown gray and old EXAMINATIONS First Line: Shelley was born in seventeen ninety-two HEARTBREAK Poem Text First Line: Ever the loud-voiced waters, crying, calling Last Line: And skeleton by skeleton comes death. IN HIS WILL' First Line: There is a stillness in october air THE BALLOON MAN Poem Text First Line: Balloons like a a flock of colored birds, hovering over his Last Line: Sky! Subject(s): Balloons THEY THAT DWELL IN SHADOW Kelly, Isabella (fordyce) Alternate Author Name(s): Hedgeland, Mrs. 1 poems available by this author TO AN UNBORN INFANT Poem Text First Line: Be still, sweet babe, no harm shall reach thee Last Line: And retired to endless rest. Subject(s): Pregnancy King, Stafford 1 poems available by this author HANG OUT THE FLAG Kuhn, Manford Hinshaw 2 poems available by this author HEARTS AND MOUTHS First Line: The gas tank rears itself against the smoke and sky WHEN? First Line: O called to you Lampson, Halford F. 50 poems available by this author ALWAYS A MOMENT First Line: No matter how fierce a storm may be Last Line: Let us take advantage of such golden moments, %for they could save our lives ALWAYS A WAY First Line: Although there may be walls of obstacles around you Last Line: There is always a way, %if we have the will to search for it ANOTHER DAY First Line: Another day is slowly drifting beneath the western sky Last Line: To help you make the coming sunrise %a better day for you and those around you ARE TRIBULATIONS GOOD? First Line: Life is not a bed or roses Last Line: Because we need to grow strong and %will never do so if life has no difficulties AREN'T YOU GLAD TO BE HERE? First Line: Have you ever wondered how you came to be you Last Line: Will always outweigh the evil a thousand times over. %aren'tyou glad you are a part of life? BE A RAINBOW First Line: Be a rainbow of your world Last Line: Be a rainbow of your world. %don't let the storms of life thrust you under BIRDS PRAISE GOD First Line: The birds praise god with their beautiful songs Last Line: We need to take lessons from these lovely, happy creatures, %and praise god more than we complain CAN WE FIND HAPPINESS HERE? First Line: Can we find happiness on earth? Last Line: To give us the courage we need to go on living. %giving us time to prepare ourselves for that lastin CHRISTMAS First Line: Christmas, never a season so happy and blessed Last Line: Christmas, never a season so happy and blessed %for there shines anew %the star of hope in bethlehem COURAGE First Line: Courage is that wonderful piece of tool we need Last Line: Let us ask god to strengthen our courage, %for it's the main key to victory DESPAIR First Line: When life seems to lose all meaning Last Line: Through whatever the situation may be, %if you will but only give your hand to him DWELLING ON UNHAPPINESS First Line: Speaking and dwelling only on the unhappiness of life Last Line: Whenever your burden seems too heavy to carry, %remember godsaid: %I will not give more than you can FRIEND First Line: A friend is one Last Line: The love of a friend %never rusts nor cracks, %but will shine forever GIVE ME THINE HAND First Line: Lord, please take my hand through this dark and dreary night Last Line: Give me strength to hold onto thee, %until night is over GOD SEETH NOT AS WE DO First Line: Sometimes, god sees things not as we do Last Line: Some day if we continue to believe and trust him, %all the unanswered questions of today will be ans HAPPINESS First Line: Happiness is a feeling within Last Line: That energizes our body and soul with delightfulness, %causing us to live longer and healthier HAVE YOU THANKED GOD? First Line: After the icy winds of winter ceased Last Line: Who are less fortunate than you? %but you or yourself shareth not your bread with them HE IS THE PROMISE First Line: Let nothing disturb your assurance in god Last Line: His promise to his children shall stand forever, %for he is the promise HOPE First Line: Have you ever wondered if there was no god Last Line: Shouldn't we show much more gratitude than we do to him, %for this great hope, which will never be f IF WE HOPE FOR HAPPINESS First Line: If our hope is peace and lasting happiness Last Line: Remember, if we have faith in him, %and believe in ourselves, %we shall overcome IN THY FOOTSTEPS First Line: Lord, help me to walk in thy footsteps Last Line: Lord, help me to walk more, %ane more in thy footsteps, day by day IS THER NO GOD? First Line: Within such a marvelous world Last Line: And be so sensitive to the punishment of our conscience, %when we committed wrong against our fellow LET ME NOT ASK First Line: Dear god, I know I should not ask Last Line: But give me strength to bear my cross, %as thou has done for us all LIFE IS A MIXTURE First Line: Life is a mixture of every ingredient this world has to offer Last Line: But he that endureth, %and abide in the creator's will, %shall obtain a crown of lasting peace LIFE MAY BE DARK, ROUGH, AND TOUGH First Line: Life may be dark Last Line: It will give us a reason %to get through or around the difficulties of life LIFE WE LIVE First Line: It is time we realize the life we live Last Line: And the influence we had %will soon be forgotten, %unless they are built upon the rock of justice an LOOKING DOWN First Line: If we only look down where evil rules and the hopes of men perish Last Line: We shall see the sunlight of hope up there %where lives our heavenly father LOVE HAS A WAY First Line: Without action, the word love has no meaning or melody Last Line: True love needs no introduction, %for it has a way of revealing itself %without a spoken word LOVING WORD First Line: A loving word is like beautiful music Last Line: Let us use them more often, %for they are like beautiful music %flowing in the air MIRACLES First Line: Miracles, how wonderful they can be to the eyes of men Last Line: That god is the creator of heaven and earth, %when you are the miracle of his loving hand MISSING LIFE'S BEAUTIES First Line: We live in such an amazing world Last Line: Yes, it's time we stop robbing ourselves of all the beauties%god has made for our enjoyment NO SPECIAL TIME TO WORSHIP GOD First Line: There is a time to plant Last Line: There should be no time or season to worship him %who cares for us all through the year OUR NEIGHBORS First Line: It is time we learn to live in peace with out neighbors Last Line: Where difficulty has paved the way, %but the more we try, %the better we will become OUR TROUBLES First Line: Why take our troubles to others Last Line: And give peace to our troubled hearts. %remember, god requests us to bring iour burden to him PART OF LIFE (1) First Line: Storm clouds will always be around Last Line: And you may find even your worst days %were not all that gloomy PART OF LIFE (2) First Line: We are the most intelligent species of life Last Line: And keep in good order %until our mission here is accomplished POEM TO MY SON, NICOLAS: YOU ARE MY JOY First Line: You are the star that shines Last Line: Your loving father, %halford REFRESH ME WITH LOVE First Line: O, lord, refresh my soul this day Last Line: O, lord, fill my heart with love and compassion, %so that I may have love to share with others on my SLOW ME DOWN First Line: Lord, help me to slow down my rushing pace this day Last Line: For all the things thou has providest me this day. %and let me forget not to share a little with the SMELL THE ROSES First Line: Of course, life may not be as rosy as you would like it Last Line: Let us thank god, more for the sweetness of life. %let us cease to dwell only on its bitterness TASK FOR ME AND YOU First Line: Life is an endless dream Last Line: I must live a life that others will admire, %and love to walk the path I have trod THINGS MONEY CAN'T BUY First Line: Money is one of the most powerful influences around Last Line: For they are free through the hearts of our fellow men, %andgod THINK NOT OF TOMORROW First Line: Let us do our best to make this day happier than yesterday Last Line: But should it be calm and lovely %don't forget to thank him for another nice day TIME First Line: Time is a precious gift that should not be wasted, but used wisely Last Line: For we must complete the assignment god has chosen us to do,%before the light of our days fade to an WAKE UP TO A NEW DAY First Line: Wake up to a brand new day, and shake away the troubles of yesterday Last Line: By commencing your daily task %with a song in your heart WE THANK THEE First Line: O, heavenly father, we thank thee Last Line: Dear lord, we thank thee for all the %blessings bestowed upon us day after day Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving WHO AM I? First Line: Who am I, and why am I here? Last Line: If we choose not to, %we will still be held responsible! WHY DOUBT HIM? First Line: Why should you wonder or doubt him? Last Line: Why should you wonder or doubt him %that giveth his life foryou? WORRIES First Line: Worries seem to manipulate the greatest portion of our lives Last Line: Thank god for your situation, for it could be worse. %thank god for your blessings WORRYING ABOUT TOMORROW First Line: Don't worry about tomorrow Last Line: If no storm clouds passed your way. %but most of all, thank him for seeing you safely through anothe Langford, Charles 3 poems available by this author DE UNION GROWIN' STRONG First Line: While dis union growin' strong in dis land Subject(s): Mines And Miners UNION BOYS ARE WE First Line: Union boys are we, happy as can be Subject(s): Mines And Miners WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED First Line: We shall not %we shall not be moved Subject(s): Mines And Miners Langford, Dorothy J. 2 poems available by this author ON TOP OF TROUBLED WATERS Poem Text First Line: The little ship was tossed about Last Line: Christ from his people parts. Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE SON OF MAN Poem Text First Line: He grew! From tiny babe to sturdy boy and vigorous man Last Line: The firstborn he, and we shall heaven fill! Subject(s): Jesus Christ Langford, G. W. 2 poems available by this author SPEAK GENTLY Poem Text First Line: Speak gently; it is better far Last Line: Eternity shall tell. SPEAK GENTLY Langford, Gary 3 poems available by this author HORSE LOOSE IN CITY First Line: The horse gallops where the wind is paved OUR HOUSE First Line: We build fires all winter long Subject(s): Home ZOO First Line: Flowers perfume under our feet Langford, Mary Frances 1 poems available by this author VIGNETTE FROM THE PAST First Line: Quaker lady dressed in gray Subject(s): Love Lanier, Clifford 3 poems available by this author EDGAR ALLAN POE First Line: Dreaming along the haunted shore of time Subject(s): Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849) FRIAR SERVETUS First Line: The monk servetus sits alone THE POWER OF PRAYER; OR, THE FIRST STEAMBOAT UP THE ALABAMA Poem Text First Line: You, dinah! Come and set me what de ribber-roads does meet Last Line: Baltimore, 1875. Subject(s): Rivers Lankford, Frances Stoakley 5 poems available by this author GRACE FOR A SPRING MORNING First Line: O god, dear architect of this bright day LAST LOVE SONG Poem Text First Line: Beyond the transcient garment of this flesh Last Line: Count me the friend of that inviolate ghost. PRAYER AT A NURSERY WINDOW First Line: So brief a time I have them, lord ROMANCE Poem Text First Line: Never wind blew as this wind blows Last Line: Put up your book now. Climb into bed. SERMON First Line: Pilgrim, go deftly. Breath is so brief Laube, Clifford James 7 poems available by this author AT THE BATTERY SEA-WALL First Line: From inland ledges I had dreamed this bay AVE, VITA NOSTRA First Line: Attila's spirit rides again the red roads of the east Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible BIDDEN WORD First Line: Traveling down the metered years COBWEBS First Line: When the human hustle ebbs Subject(s): Cobwebs CRY OUT OF BABYLON First Line: We are the sad inheritors of haste LAST RALLY First Line: Be rootfast. Never yield TO FEAR First Line: By this body's lonely ark Leno, John Bedford 1 poems available by this author NAME OF LIBERTY First Line: Twas shouted aloud at marathon Subject(s): Freedom Lilford, F. Z. S. 1 poems available by this author POET AND NATURALIST First Line: Somewhere about 1860 my brother met Subject(s): Country Life Lipford, Ernie 1 poems available by this author SNAKE First Line: I am the snake the snake the elders tell you Lipford, Falon 1 poems available by this author MY COMFORT First Line: For the thousandth time Last Line: With more experienced beauty! Lockhart, Clifford 1 poems available by this author NEVER SAY THANK YOU First Line: Sometimes you're god Last Line: You, all of you, are the best %and I thank you Long, Winifred Offord 1 poems available by this author CHALLENGE Poem Text First Line: Now comes the challenge, boldly then Last Line: Attuned to god, -- till all life sings. Lothrop, Harriet Mulford Stone 5 poems available by this author LITTLE BROWN SEED First Line: I'm of no use,' said the little brown seed OUR HAPPY SECRET First Line: Oh, I couldn't help it! SONG AMID THE HOLLY BERRIES First Line: Here I am again, and what do I see? SPRING SONG First Line: Birds to her music were whirring outside THANKSGIVING EVE First Line: It was thanksgiving eve - so they said Ludford, Gwen 2 poems available by this author I'M KIND OF BASHFUL First Line: Dear god, I know that there is a you Last Line: But I'm used to talking to people with skin NO REFERENCES NEEDED First Line: Ten little fingers, 10 little toes Last Line: Then I hear a voice say, 'I have a son' Lunsford, M. Rosser 4 poems available by this author GO YOUNG MAN WHERE MOUNTAIN TOPS LOSS OF A LOVED ONE First Line: To watch a loved one slowly die RURAL GEORGIA IN 1930'S First Line: Tall pine trees UNCONQUERED SHORE First Line: I saw the fateful fishes leap Martin, Edward Sandford 14 poems available by this author A GIRL OF POMPEII Poem Text First Line: A public haunt they found her in Last Line: Itself, imperishably pure. Subject(s): Pompeii, Italy; Youth A LITTLE BROTHER OF THE RICH Poem Text First Line: To put new shingles on old roofs Last Line: The trials of abounding wealth. Subject(s): Charity; Philanthropy BY THE EVENING FIRE Poem Text First Line: If mothers by their failings were condemned Last Line: Wrapped in her love, the restful child finds rest. Subject(s): Mothers CHRISTMAS, 1898 First Line: Though doubters doubt and scoffers scoff CONTEMPORARY SUITOR First Line: Time was that strephon when he found EGOTISM Poem Text First Line: Without him still this whirling earth Last Line: For I am he, and he is I. EPITHALAMIUM Poem Text First Line: The marriage bells have rung their peal Last Line: Here's to—success to her successor! Subject(s): Grief; Love - Unrequited; Marriage; Wedding Song; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Epithalamium FUIT ILIUM Poem Text First Line: Ere you dissipate a quarter Last Line: And tobacco grows, a weed. Subject(s): Poverty INFIRM Poem Text First Line: I will not go,' he said, 'for well' Last Line: And took his hat and went to see. Subject(s): Courtship; Desire; Weariness; Fatigue MEA CULPA First Line: There is a thing which in my brain MY NAME IS LEGION Subject(s): Religion PROCUL NEGOTIIS Poem Text First Line: I think that if I had a farm Last Line: Was nicely fixed myself. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving SEA IS HIS First Line: Almighty wisdom made the land Subject(s): Sea SNOWBOUND First Line: One, two, three, four; it's four o'clock Martin, Herman Ford 4 poems available by this author FLAME Poem Text First Line: It was april. In the orchard Last Line: "go to search the city." Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers HOME Poem Text First Line: He left his office for the street Last Line: He turned towards the sea. Subject(s): Home; Sea; Ocean HUNGER Poem Text First Line: I have known hunger Last Line: But he is crucified. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Hunger; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion O TRAVELER Poem Text First Line: O traveler, what trenchant wonder Last Line: And crowned you with a curse? Subject(s): Experience; Travel; Journeys; Trips Mcleod, Irene Rutherford Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): De Selincourt, Aubrey, Mrs. 17 poems available by this author AIM First Line: I shall walk freely yet HE LIVES! HE LIVES! NO SWING WIDE EVERY GATE LONDON First Line: There is no town but london town LONE DOG Poem Text First Line: I'm a lean dog, a keen dog, a wild dog, and lone Last Line: Wide wind, and wild stars, and hunger of the quest! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MAGIC First Line: Wind on before me, dim white road MARY First Line: Mary! I'm quite alone in all the world Variant Title(s): One Mothe Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I MOTHER TO SON Poem Text First Line: Before I knew the love of man Last Line: To you, go thread them for a song. Subject(s): Mothers MY DEAR COMES DOWN TO MEET ME ON A HILL First Line: Spring on a windswept hill! Subject(s): Mountains; Nature REBEL, SELS. First Line: Since I was a little child REBEL, SELS. First Line: Beyond the murk that swallows me Subject(s): Religion REST First Line: As a little child I come SO BEAUTIFUL YOU ARE, INDEED SONG First Line: I know %where the wind flowers blow! SONG First Line: How do I love you? SONG Poem Text First Line: Is love, then, so simple, my dear Last Line: With eternity in my hand. SWORD First Line: Christ is born in bethlehem! Meth, Clifford 1 poems available by this author MORGENSTERN'S WOUND First Line: Morganstern's affair carved a wound in him Last Line: Like he was brilliant & funny %& whole Subject(s): Marriage; Sex Miller, Clifford L. 1 poems available by this author SPRINGTIME First Line: An old, old world Minford-meas, M. 1 poems available by this author BONE CEREMONY First Line: Red bones, golden bones, %reduced bones. %bones spark. Gray shards Last Line: Toward the car and other %pithy places Mitford, Jack 2 poems available by this author ADVENTURES OF JOHNNY NEWCOME, SELS. Subject(s): Sea ADVENTURES OF JOHNNY NEWMAN, SELS. Subject(s): Sea Mitford, John Alternate Author Name(s): Burton, Alfred 2 poems available by this author SONNET First Line: Oh! Thou storm-beaten harp; whom erst the wave THE ROMAN LEGIONS Poem Text First Line: Oh, aged time! How far, and long Last Line: "avrelivs,"" smote with stern rebound." Mitford, Mary Russell Poet's Biography 16 poems available by this author ANTIGONE Poem Text First Line: Twas noon; beneath the ardent ray / proud thebes in all her glory lay Last Line: The royal virgin passed to death. BRIDAL SONG Poem Text First Line: Forth the lovely bride ye bring Last Line: Strew about! Strew about! Subject(s): Wedding Song; Epithalamium INFANT LOVE Poem Text First Line: If in this world of breathing harm Last Line: T is the pure kiss of infant love! LINNET IS SINGING THE WILD WOOD THROUGH ON A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN Poem Text First Line: Look where she sits in languid loveliness Last Line: The wind-flower, -----delicate and full of grace. Subject(s): Beauty ON A PICTURE OF JERUSALEM AT THE TIME OF THE CRUCIFIXION Poem Text First Line: Jerusalem! And at the fatal hour Last Line: Too full of the great theme to think of praise. RIENZI, SELS. THE FORGET-ME-NOT Poem Text First Line: Blossom that lov'st on shadowy banks to lie Last Line: Of parting tenderness -- forget me not! Subject(s): Forget-me-nots THE MARCH OF MIND Poem Text First Line: Fair nature smiled in all her bowers Last Line: Their only aim to bless. THE MASQUE Poem Text First Line: Room for the jocund queen of new-born flowers Last Line: The blended homage of the circling year. THE MASQUE OF THE SEASONS, SELECTION Poem Text First Line: Where is fiesco now? Last Line: Delighting and delighted. We must join them. THE VOICE OF PRAISE Poem Text First Line: There is a voice of magic power Last Line: My mother! Need I say't is thine! TO A YELLOW BUTTERFLY, APRIL 8, 1808 First Line: Hail! Loveliest insect of the spring! Last Line: May'st thou thy transient life enjoy! Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects TO MR. LUCAS, WRITTEN WHILST SITTING TO HIM FOR MY PORTRAIT, 1828 Poem Text First Line: Oh young and richly gifted! Born to claim Last Line: By the reflexion of their own pure light. Subject(s): Lucas, John (1807-1874); Models; Portraits TO MY MOTHER SLEEPING Poem Text First Line: Sleep on, my mother! Sweet and innocent dreams Last Line: O model most beloved of good and wise. Subject(s): Mothers WINTER SCENERY, JANUARY, 1809 Poem Text First Line: The dark sky lours: a crimson streak Last Line: The daemon desolation reigns! Subject(s): Desolation; Winter Morford, Henry Poet's Biography 11 poems available by this author A WRECK IN SHREWSBURY INLET Poem Text First Line: The ocean sands are round her keel Last Line: Content to perish, ne'er to bow! Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks COMING OF MONT BLANC First Line: Running along the high level Subject(s): Alps; Mountains ENGINEER'S MURDER First Line: Yes, I once committed a murder HOME TO REST IN First Line: The world, dear john, as the old folks told us LAKE LEMAN AND CHILLON Poem Text First Line: At the old genevan wharf she lay Last Line: By a guest with a bad digestion! Subject(s): Alps; Chillon Castle, Switzerland; Geneva (lake), Switzerland; Mountains; Leman, Lake; Hills; Downs (great Britain) OLD KNIGHT'S TREASURE First Line: Sir john was old, and grim, and gray TELL OF ALTORF First Line: Methinks no crown he needed Subject(s): Alps; Mountains THE BROWN-EYED GIRLS OF JERSEY Poem Text First Line: Before my bark the waves have curled Last Line: Some brown-eyed girl of jersey! Subject(s): New Jersey; Women THE DEATH OF TELL Poem Text First Line: There are, with forms celestial Last Line: That closed the life of tell! Subject(s): Schachen (river), Switzerland; Tell, William THE SPUR OF MONMOUTH Poem Text First Line: Twas a little brass half-circlet Last Line: My have clasped george washington's heel. Subject(s): Monmouth, Battle Of (1778) THE WRECKER'S OATH ON BARNEGAT Poem Text First Line: One night mid swarthy forms I lay Last Line: And hurling out as dread an oath. Subject(s): Barnegat Bay, New Jersey; Disasters; Shipwrecks Morford, Sybil 1 poems available by this author FAIRIES First Line: Have you ever heard the tapping of the fairy cobbler men Variant Title(s): Fairy Me Morrow, Bradford 6 poems available by this author BESTIARY: ARMADILLO First Line: Armadillo is a fortress. It looks like the michelin tire man, but Last Line: To eat an armadillo. I'd rather eat honey, or a bit of tire.I'd rather eat %an ant BESTIARY: FIREFLY First Line: Just as the buttrerfly in not made of butter, just as the silverfish is not a Last Line: Stars which shine as bright yet cannot move and are powerless to let %one hold them in a palm BESTIARY: HUMMINGBIRD First Line: Beast who is a directionless can drift in all directions, and that is a Last Line: Their tongues are black. They're nobody's fool. They drill the wind %like needles - but only when th BESTIARY: OPOSSUM First Line: The opossum is a mutable mother and is beloved for her mimes of Last Line: She is not dead. She is playing possum BESTIARY: PLANKTON First Line: Plankton are motes but not made of dust. They float, as do motes, in an Last Line: Plankton don't mean to be salad for sea lions and whales. But they are, as surely as motes are dust BESTIARY: TROUT First Line: Noble yak, you roam the himalayan mountain meadows in search of Last Line: Inspired, with no design. They quietly return to the sanctuary of their %rocky retreats to contempla Mulford, Edwin L. 1 poems available by this author LITTLE BOY THAT LIES ASLEEP ON A HILL Mulford, Wendy 3 poems available by this author GOODBYE TO THE BAY OF NAPLES First Line: It was we thought blue IN THE PUBLIC GARDEN First Line: Because you catch a train do not think you will arrive INTERIOR WITH FIGURES First Line: How many times you looked, and walked away Mumford, Angelina S. Alternate Author Name(s): Picciola 2 poems available by this author CHEERFUL CONTENT Poem Text First Line: I know no loneliness of heart, - no shadowy ideal Last Line: And often think the cup of life for me is full to brimming. Subject(s): Contentment TO A LADY Poem Text First Line: Thine eyes are very beautiful! Last Line: And for thy only child. Subject(s): Women Mumford, Charles 1 poems available by this author LINCOLN STILL LIVES Poem Text First Line: This mask of bronze cannot conceal his heart Last Line: O shame-faced death, you sped your shaft in vain. Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States Mumford, Edward W. 1 poems available by this author PENNSYLVANIA GIRL First Line: If you've essayed to find the maid Mumford, Erika 3 poems available by this author GOLD BANGLES: FOR MY INDIAN DAUGHTER First Line: It is twelve years since I first put on Last Line: Gold from this distant country %of your birth Subject(s): Adoption SHAMAN: FOR MALCOLM First Line: He comes in the spring Subject(s): Art And Artists WOMAN PAINTER OF MITHILA First Line: A small girl, I knelt Subject(s): Art And Artists Mumford, Lewis 1 poems available by this author CONSOLATION IN WAR First Line: Happy the dead! Last Line: Their death is justified Subject(s): War Mumford, Marilyn R. 1 poems available by this author RECOLLECTION First Line: When first our eyes engaged the startled bird Last Line: Give me your hand! She can't be far away - %this time we'll see her tip her head and sing Murdock, Mabelle Rutherford 1 poems available by this author SPIRIT OF THE SMOKIES Poem Text First Line: Slowly drifting from the campfires Last Line: Benediction to our prayer. Subject(s): Smoky Mountains Nayer, Louise Bedford 1 poems available by this author DREAM OF THE UNINTERRUPTED MOSS First Line: A note to the man who bought me Nowlin, Clifford H. 2 poems available by this author MID-WINTER CARDINAL First Line: Here is a scarlet knight immune to fear WAYS OF BROOKS First Line: The brook is talking to itself Offord, Robert M. Alternate Author Name(s): Offord, R. M. 2 poems available by this author LORD, MAKE ME QUICK TO SEE WE GIVE THEE THANKS, O GOD, THIS DAY Orr, Francis Crawford 3 poems available by this author QUESTIONNAIRE First Line: I asked a girl TO A MUSICIAN First Line: Finely constrained YOUR NAME First Line: In the intimate alchoves Padelford, Ida L. 2 poems available by this author PERFECT PATTERN Poem Text First Line: How strange the ways of life react on man Last Line: And never longs to hear a newer call? THE IRATE BEE Poem Text First Line: Devilish squirmy spider Last Line: And push my way clean through. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Spiders; Beekeeping; Bugs Park, Marian Ford 27 poems available by this author ALIEN SPIRIT First Line: The alien within me Last Line: Astonishing me %with her passion COVENANT KEPT First Line: Though shades of sorrow may envelope me Last Line: I search for rainbows in more sunny skis %and write my memos to our blessed lord EQUINOX First Line: I watch you go Last Line: As the last leaf ... %and just as dry ETERNAL SPRING First Line: Grandmother ease %her ninety pounds Last Line: Possesses the youth of spring %and the wisdom to enjoy it GOING HOME First Line: Old ghosts are in the atmosphere Last Line: One lonely sound comes to my ears ... %I hear the old house softly cry HOMECOMING OF A P.O.W. First Line: The family is once again secure Last Line: The waiting done at last, nw hope is born %for all that heaven holds and has to give I WANT TO GO WHERE POTS GO First Line: If I should die and go where poes go Last Line: Oh let me then come home to fireside %where I can dream and let all pain subside IN MEMORIAM First Line: Your love, %sweet as the breaath of morning Last Line: Was brushed aside %by the glacial hand of winter LONG FREIGHT First Line: The sudden wail %of a midnight train Last Line: To strike out aimlessly %and die for an unknown god MARY First Line: Smooth as the pearls she wore Last Line: And beneath the surface %howls strained at the tether METRONOME AT DUSK First Line: There is a pensive time of day Last Line: They ring with ancient beat, and so %I must forget past errors made MIDNIGHT First Line: I feel an agony Last Line: And the antidote will appear %with the morning sun ODE TO A LOST LOVE First Line: Your memory lingers Last Line: Leaving one candle gleaming %in my solitary soul OLD GHOSTS First Line: Darknes cloes in %to arouse old ghosts Last Line: To filter out %the unbearables OLD TOM CAT First Line: He strides the night away on panther feet Last Line: Of age, and like an old cat he will laze %and dream a reverie of other days OLD TRAIN STATION First Line: A vestige of victorian age, she stands Last Line: At dusk her grey decrepitude is masked; %the sunset halos relics of our past ONE STARRY NIGHT First Line: Let the last ray of wun Last Line: Over the world ... %and time paused POINT OF VIEW First Line: My neighbor, elegant in every way Last Line: And I, in turn, could not exchange with her %one cookie crumb for all her elegance PRELUDE TO FEAR First Line: I felt the stiffness Last Line: Weeps with feaar %of the unknown PROLOGUE First Line: I bow to winter skies Last Line: An edge of sadness when birds leave %and they will sing no more SEASON OF PAUSE First Line: I stand in silence Last Line: I'm sorry to tell you, %we didn't get it all.' SHIPS IN THE NIGHT First Line: Within my soul a flet of dreams Last Line: And I can sail majestic seas %on jewels of kinder years TOO LITTLE TIME First Line: My days slip past me Last Line: Flings shadows of ancestral ghosts %upon my walls TRIBAL RITE First Line: Each one of us has a legacy Last Line: The forgotten remnant %of another age UNSOLVABLES First Line: This day has died slowly Last Line: With velvet fingers that cloak %the inflexible fist of futility WHEN SUMMER ENDS First Line: A deluge of rain Last Line: Penetrate the lush green %of a dying season WHEN TIME STANDS STILL First Line: There are those times Last Line: Enjoy, and haul %the silence in after me Paul, Ann Whitford 15 poems available by this author AMELIA EARHART First Line: While other girls wore skirts and pinafores Last Line: It's just like flying!' Subject(s): Courage; Girls; Heroism; Women - Heroes CALIFORNIA MISSIONS First Line: They're tall and sturdy Last Line: To every word %their silence tells Subject(s): California; Missionaries And Missions FRANCES WARD First Line: For months and months her wagon train Last Line: And went on walking...Walking Subject(s): Courage; Girls; Heroism; Women - Heroes GOLDA MABOVITCH First Line: Her family left the town of pinsk Last Line: For every child to own a book Subject(s): Courage; Girls; Heroism; Women - Heroes HARRIET HANSON First Line: At five a.M. Her work began Last Line: Of fellow workers follow her! Subject(s): Courage; Girls; Heroism; Women - Heroes IDA LEWIS First Line: From the lighthouse %ida saw Last Line: To the lighthouse %ida rowed Subject(s): Courage; Girls; Heroism; Women - Heroes KATE SHELLEY First Line: Lightning ripped apart the sky. Thunder pounded loud Last Line: Dry and safe and warm Subject(s): Courage; Girls; Heroism; Women - Heroes MARIA MITCHELL First Line: With her father, each clear night Last Line: Because of her, back safe to shore Subject(s): Courage; Girls; Heroism; Women - Heroes MARY JANE MCLEOD First Line: She went with mama to her work Last Line: She learned to read! Subject(s): Courage; Girls; Heroism; Women - Heroes POCAHONTAS First Line: Young daughter of a native chief Last Line: Young daughter of a native chief Subject(s): Courage; Girls; Heroism; Women - Heroes RACHEL CARSON First Line: When rachel was a child Last Line: And all things growing wild Subject(s): Courage; Girls; Heroism; Women - Heroes SACAJAWEA First Line: Long years ago a girl embarked Last Line: She walked into our history books Subject(s): Courage; Girls; Heroism; Women - Heroes VIOLET SHEEHY First Line: High heat met dry timber! Fire out of control! Last Line: Stumbled onto the train that churned through the blaze Subject(s): Courage; Girls; Heroism; Women - Heroes WANDA GAG First Line: When father died, the neighbors told her Last Line: Supported by her artist's pen Subject(s): Courage; Girls; Heroism; Women - Heroes WILMA RUDOLPH First Line: One leg was bent; her foot turned in Last Line: She ran %and ran %and ran Subject(s): Courage; Girls; Heroism; Women - Heroes Pearce, Ruby Bransford 1 poems available by this author HER GARDEN Poem Text First Line: God made for her a garden Last Line: In the lives of those she taught. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; God Perkins, Leslie Danford 9 poems available by this author CREATIVE COOKING First Line: I baked my father's birthday cake Last Line: But wow! It sure looks nice Subject(s): Birthdays DEATH: THE RIVER STYX First Line: While crossing the styx I could tell Last Line: And my business is going to hell LAUNDRY DAY SOLILOQUY First Line: To bleach, or not to bleach-that is the question Last Line: Must give us pause. There's the respect %that makes calamity of 'so long stains.' LIVER LOVERS First Line: My wife cooks liver once a week Last Line: Our german shepherd's flourishing OCELOT First Line: If you should see an ocelot Last Line: And then you might get ocelate Subject(s): Ocelots ON USING MY FIRST COMPUTER First Line: No more will I retype a page Last Line: Deleting is divine PARENTHOOD: NINTH MONTH INVENTORY First Line: We have a silk-lined bassinet Last Line: Case we're still not ready ROMANCE WRITER'S LAMENT First Line: My spell-checker finds almost all of my typos Last Line: And exchanged long and passionate hisses SPAGHETTI CHALLENGE First Line: My mom's spaghetti is the best Last Line: If I got a chance to eat it Phillips, Rose Crawford 1 poems available by this author PINE TREES ON THE MOUNTAIN Poem Text First Line: Silence and solitude, and a dove's low call Last Line: Pine trees of the mountains... Looking up to god! Subject(s): Pine Trees; Trees; Worship Pierce, Enid Crawford 2 poems available by this author CONCERT BY STRINGS Poem Text First Line: They played the cesar franck quintet Last Line: Left us enrapt, with every question answered. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Symphonies; Concerts WALL STREET WAIL Poem Text First Line: Up and down where wall street is a - rumbling Last Line: But -- let this woolly lamb escape the shearing. Subject(s): Wall Street, New York City Pierpoint, Folliott Sandford 1 poems available by this author THE SACRIFICE OF PRAISE Poem Text First Line: For the beauty of the earth Last Line: This, our sacrifice of praise. Pinchot, Gifford 2 poems available by this author FOUR REQUIREMENTS FOR THE BEST SERVICE First Line: A forest well managed under the methods of Subject(s): Holidays; Trees USES OF THE FOREST First Line: A forest, large or small, my render its service Subject(s): Holidays; Trees Pinsker, Sanford 11 poems available by this author DEATH ARRIVES AS FLASHBACK First Line: Like those vietnam vets who go berserk Last Line: Or figure that I finally got life down right FAIR YOUTH BENEATH THE SPANISH STEPS First Line: In the room where keats end stopped Last Line: I suggest you start with 'indolence.' FOR ALLEN GINSBERG, WHO CUT OFF HIS BEARD First Line: Now your cheeks are as old and bald Last Line: Anything to get me over the shock %of finally meeting you face to face IN A FUNK, THE POET IMAGINES HIS OBIT First Line: Dead, they spare you nothing Last Line: No doubt all this is covered in the dead sea scrolls JUST A SMACK AT THE DECONSTRUCTIONISTS First Line: Call it a poem, for christ's sake Last Line: So, tell me mr. Deconstructionist, %what do you figure that signifies? Subject(s): Deconstructionism KADDISH, LONG DELAYED First Line: In an age that loves poetic death Last Line: I have no right to chant these lines over %your unvisted, utterly unfamiliar grave LINES IN EARLY MORNING First Line: My dog watches these words dumping Last Line: Out the door at 7:53. I'll take you first, %honest LOCAL NEWS First Line: It's when the national news strikes me PEOPLE MUCH MARRIED First Line: About this much they were agreed Last Line: He, imagining the same, predictable dream SUNDAY DINNER, IN FLANDERS First Line: All week my son sang 'here comes peter cottontail' SURPRISED BY SUMMER, I WEEP First Line: For the marigolds and lady fingers Last Line: To weep for all that is transient, and lovely Piper, Edwin Ford 21 poems available by this author ANNIE Poem Text First Line: Maybe nine years, her hair in yellow braids Last Line: Sang to her doll a formal lullaby. BIG SWIMMING First Line: Rain on the high prairies Last Line: Beyond midnight... %big swimming BINDLESTIFF Poem Text First Line: Oh, the lives of men, lives of men Last Line: And remember mary's son. CHURCH First Line: The blinding july sun at ten o'clock Last Line: A little thing, this church? Remove its roots, %ossa upon pelion would not fill the pit Subject(s): Churches; Religion GEE-UP DAR, MULES Poem Text First Line: He stood up in our khaki with the poise Last Line: "gwan-n, mules! Gee-up dar, mules!" Subject(s): African Americans; Heroism; Negroes; American Blacks; Heroes; Heroines HAVE YOU AN EYE Poem Text First Line: Have you an eye for the trails, the trails Last Line: Was never trimmed for shoe? Subject(s): Cowboys INDIAN COUNSEL First Line: Do not be always looking on the fire Last Line: No, not on the fire - %you will go blind LAST ANTELOPE First Line: Behind the board fence at the banker's house Last Line: At the banker's house, behind the high board fence %the last slim pronghorn perishes of fear LOW VOICES First Line: Beat against me no more MEANWHILE Poem Text First Line: The august sun had still two hours of sky Last Line: How ease the watching of her wide-stretched eyes? MOON-WORSHIP Poem Text First Line: I hear them singing in the open spaces Last Line: The worship of the moon. Subject(s): Moon POSTSCRIPT Poem Text First Line: I am a maker of songs Last Line: I am a lover of songs. PRAIRIE SCHOONER First Line: The meadow larks rejoice, as the bright sun ROAD AND PATH Poem Text First Line: O, road, and path, and path and road Last Line: And the needs of folk long dead? Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails SIX YOKE First Line: I sit by the trail in the misty moonlight SWEETGRASS RANGE First Line: Come sell your pony, cowboy THE BANDED Poem Text First Line: Who are the banded? Gather from the four Last Line: Shall ask for health, a clean soul, and good neighbors. Subject(s): Neighbors THE BOY ON THE PRAIRIE Poem Text First Line: At thirteen he first saw a railway train Last Line: With grant and lincoln as his greatest men. Subject(s): Children; Middle West; Prairies; Childhood; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States; Plains THE GAMES Poem Text First Line: Luck makes him head, he meets it pranksomely Last Line: Youth, and romance, and music of the moon! Subject(s): Children; Games; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements VERSES First Line: Heart hunger is for me and you WHOA, ZEBE, WHOA Poem Text First Line: Saddle me up the zebra dun Last Line: Whoa, till I hitch you, whoa! Subject(s): Horseback Riding Pitchford, Kenneth 4 poems available by this author 104 BOULEVARD SAINT-GERMAIN First Line: In a basement just off saint-michel Last Line: That you long for but deny, in your chaste north Subject(s): Paris, France ARCHAIC TORSO OF APOLLO First Line: We wouldn't recognize the shocking head Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical; Statues QUEEN First Line: Always before, we sped in the same direction Last Line: I on my last descent into the dark SURGERY First Line: So now just suppose that someone wanted to know Subject(s): Homosexuality; Men Playford, John 1 poems available by this author JOVIAL MARRINER, OR THE SEA-MAN'S RENOWN First Line: I am a jovial marriner, our calling is well known Radford, Debbie 2 poems available by this author NIGHTMARE First Line: Standing in the shower Last Line: Maybe I never went to sleep in the first place? PRODUCTION LINE First Line: Swarms of people %voices grate together Last Line: When repitition repeats %again and again and again Radford, Dollie Caroline Maitland Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs. 110 poems available by this author A BALLAD OF VICTORY Poem Text First Line: With quiet step and gentle face Last Line: "a crownless unknown 'victory.'" A BRIDE Poem Text First Line: I saw your portrait yesterday Last Line: The loneliest of all. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A CONCERT Poem Text First Line: Ah, was it all a fantasy Last Line: All paradise is in the street. Subject(s): Music & Musicians A DREAM OF 'DREAMS' Poem Text First Line: All day I read your book, at eve Last Line: To see his face so fair. Subject(s): Shreiner, Olive (1855-1920); Writing & Writers A MODEL Poem Text First Line: Year after year I sit for them Last Line: There is no one so tired as I! Subject(s): Models A MODERN POLYPHEME Poem Text First Line: A flash of colour through the trees Last Line: Thy black emotions, polypheme! A NOVEMBER ROSE Poem Text First Line: You came to see me yesterday Last Line: The brown earth covers. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall A NOVICE Poem Text First Line: What is it, in these latter days Last Line: My cigarette! A PORTRAIT Poem Text First Line: In winter days you came to me Last Line: Your canvas hangs upon my wall. Subject(s): Portraits A PRAYER Poem Text First Line: When summer sweetness fills the land Last Line: Its portion, in the great despair. A WANDERER Poem Text First Line: I am a bird that beats upon the air Last Line: That beat upon the air. Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers AT DUCLAIR Poem Text First Line: The song of songs my heart would make Last Line: Its burden would be free. Subject(s): Singing & Singers AT LAST Poem Text First Line: My feet had faltered in the way Last Line: So unaware. AT NIGHT Poem Text First Line: The door is shut and barred upon my home Last Line: The brooding night that knows its great intent. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime BEYOND THE WALLS OF PEACE Poem Text First Line: If you should meet with one who strays Last Line: The walls of peace. Subject(s): Peace BUTTERCUPS Subject(s): Buttercups; Flowers BY THE ARNO (SUNSET) Poem Text First Line: Between the mountains and the sea Last Line: In the cypress land. Subject(s): Arno River, Italy; Rivers BY THE SEA Poem Text First Line: The clouds have gathered soon to-night Last Line: And learn the whole. CHRYSANTHEMUMS Poem Text First Line: November with mysterious feet Last Line: Hid in each misty fold. Subject(s): Chrysanthemums; Flowers COLD STONE Poem Text First Line: Cold, quite cold, I could only see Last Line: And drew the veil away. COMRADES Poem Text First Line: What shall I do when you pass by Last Line: Dead joys do never rise again. EVENING Poem Text First Line: Listen and we shall hear the voice Last Line: I whisper it through your grass. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight FOR WINDOWS BY LOUIS DAVID Poem Text First Line: Arising from her jewelled bower Last Line: And touches us with healing hands. FROM OUR EMANCIPATED AUNT IN TOWN Poem Text First Line: All has befallen as I say Last Line: And send her greetings. Subject(s): Aunts FROM THE SUBURBS Poem Text First Line: It rushes home, our own express Last Line: Does travel daily. Subject(s): Suburbs GIVING Poem Text First Line: Ah, bring it not so grudgingly Last Line: Empty away. HER LOVER Poem Text First Line: The birds sang from the tree Last Line: "my heart is glad." HOPE Poem Text First Line: As still as a shadow falling Last Line: With threads that are strong as steel. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism IN APRIL Poem Text First Line: As lightly as a filmy veil Last Line: To bring you surely to the eternal gate. IN OUR SQUARE Poem Text First Line: Last night again we saw him there Last Line: This summer weather. IN SPRING Poem Text First Line: The land is full of blossom, in the plain Last Line: Oh spring, in all your grace. Subject(s): Spring IN THE QUANTOCK HILLS Poem Text First Line: Here autumn, like a flying bird Last Line: A crystal sea. IN YONDER BAY Poem Text First Line: In yonder bay the waves find rest Last Line: Before I die. MARCH Poem Text First Line: The march wind rises through the skies Last Line: The sunshine to the daffodil. Subject(s): March (month); Wind MY ANGEL Poem Text First Line: My passion was an angel veiled in grey Last Line: Shrouded and still she lies 'twixt you and me. Subject(s): Angels MY FRIEND Poem Text First Line: The tender touch of a gentle hand Last Line: Learn something there no other may know. Subject(s): Friendship MY PALACE-HOME Poem Text First Line: Give me thy hand, dear friend, and let me take thee Last Line: Thou canst not tell me that they are not fair. MY SONGS Poem Text First Line: There is no unawakened string Last Line: A mighty chorus fully told. Subject(s): Singing & Singers MY SWEETHEART Poem Text First Line: My sweetheart lays her hand in mine Last Line: The burning tears I weep. Subject(s): Love - Complaints NEW YEAR CARD Poem Text First Line: Greeting dear friend, through shower and sun Last Line: Still, greeting all the same dear friend. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NIGHT Poem Text First Line: And art thou come again, oh night Last Line: In some sweet lullaby. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime NOBODY IN TOWN Poem Text First Line: I stand upon my island home Last Line: When there was nobody in town. Subject(s): London OCTOBER Poem Text First Line: From falling leaf to falling leaf Last Line: Since last year -- when I loved you so. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall ORPHEUS Poem Text First Line: We wandered in that shadowland Last Line: Shall tell how fair you are. OUT ON THE MOOR Poem Text First Line: I have been wandering to-day Last Line: Of the great wisdom of the earth. RELEASE Poem Text First Line: Ah, love, through what unfathomed deeps Last Line: To my release. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The RETURN OF THE TROOPS Poem Text First Line: The town is very gay to-day Last Line: I neither sped nor greet. Subject(s): Homecoming; Soldiers SOLILOQUY OF A MAIDEN AUNT Poem Text First Line: The ladies bow, and partners set Last Line: Than when I wore it. Subject(s): Aunts; Dancing & Dancers; Spinsters; Old Maids SONG WRITTEN TO OLD MUSIC: CROATIAN Poem Text First Line: Rose that wert red Last Line: Now that I am dead. SONG WRITTEN TO OLD MUSIC: RUSSIAN Poem Text First Line: All the night and all the day Last Line: Sad and outcast from my home. SONG: 1 Poem Text First Line: My love shall be a cloud, to float Last Line: From one sweet flower. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of SONG: 10 Poem Text First Line: The little songs that come and go Last Line: The little songs that come and go. Subject(s): Singing & Singers SONG: 11 Poem Text First Line: Because your treasure is near Last Line: For their joy of release. SONG: 12 Poem Text First Line: I plucked my love from out my heart Last Line: And veiled my sight. SONG: 13 Poem Text First Line: Outside the hedge of roses Last Line: Dear one, to follow you. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses SONG: 14 Poem Text First Line: Across the sea beyond the sand Last Line: If peace be won. Subject(s): Peace SONG: 15 Poem Text First Line: For love of you my lute was strung Last Line: Which were so sweet for love of you. Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers SONG: 16 Poem Text First Line: I could not through the burning day Last Line: If love should fail. SONG: 17 Poem Text First Line: Outside your heart the lonely way Last Line: Where mine may break. SONG: 18 Poem Text First Line: Because I built my nest so high Last Line: As near the sun. SONG: 19 Poem Text First Line: My lover's lute has golden strings Last Line: How silent all its song would be. Subject(s): Singing & Singers SONG: 2 Poem Text First Line: My bird who may not lift his wing Last Line: Who now is dead. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Dead, The SONG: 20 Poem Text First Line: If all the world were right Last Line: If all the world were right! SONG: 21 Poem Text First Line: If my poor words were colours Last Line: In purest gold would shine. SONG: 22 Poem Text First Line: If you will sing the songs I play Last Line: The great refrain. Subject(s): Singing & Singers SONG: 23 Poem Text First Line: Through all the happy summer-time Last Line: To cheer my wanderings. SONG: 24 Poem Text First Line: I do not love you very much Last Line: To steal so large a part. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of SONG: 25 Poem Text First Line: Below the rocks where the samphire blows Last Line: By the town or sea. SONG: 26 Poem Text First Line: In the first light of the morning Last Line: Because I want him so. SONG: 27 Poem Text First Line: When first I saw your face, love Last Line: When first you turned to me and spoke! Subject(s): Love SONG: 28 Poem Text First Line: I am waiting to send you a song, love Last Line: And my sad sails were set. SONG: 29 Poem Text First Line: Love my heart is aching, aching Last Line: As they eastward roll. SONG: 3 Poem Text First Line: Oh, moons of longing that roll Last Line: With the salt of their breath. SONG: 30 Poem Text First Line: Violets, sweet violets Last Line: Many a scented violet. Subject(s): Flowers; Violets SONG: 31 Poem Text First Line: The golden gorse and the heather Last Line: Is full of a happy song. SONG: 32 Poem Text First Line: Why seems the world so fair Last Line: When we meet there. SONG: 33 Poem Text First Line: What song shall I sing to you Last Line: Than they have sung this golden june. SONG: 34 Poem Text First Line: Little maiden are you lonely Last Line: Standing there beside the sea. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SONG: 35 Poem Text First Line: The snow queen passed our way last night Last Line: To catch the morning's gold and red. Subject(s): Snow SONG: 4 Poem Text First Line: If I were in the valley-land Last Line: Beside me, love, in my despair. Subject(s): Despair SONG: 5 Poem Text First Line: Why am I singing all alone Last Line: Is shining through the world. SONG: 6 Poem Text First Line: Ah love, the sweet spring blossoms cling Last Line: Grown old in loving you. Subject(s): Love SONG: 7 Poem Text First Line: When the sun shone on the sand there Last Line: Because I want him so. Subject(s): Desire SONG: 8 Poem Text First Line: She comes through the meadow yonder Last Line: I watch where I stand, and sigh. SONG: 9 Poem Text First Line: Amid a crown of radiant hills Last Line: Its prisoned voice. SPEEDWELLS Poem Text First Line: I came to lay my sorrow in the wood Last Line: I had not strength to name. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SPRING-TIME Poem Text First Line: In the distant woods are blowing Last Line: Flowers open tremblingly. Subject(s): Flowers THE CLAVICHORD Poem Text First Line: The night is full of fantasies Last Line: Within my heart. Subject(s): Clavichords THE MORNING SONGS Poem Text First Line: And will you sing the songs anew Last Line: Of morning memory. Subject(s): Morning THE ONE I CHOOSE Poem Text First Line: How shall I, in my pride, array Last Line: Wherein she strays. THE SONGS UNSUNG Poem Text First Line: Light as petals in their falling Last Line: On the border of the day. THE UNKNOWN POETS Poem Text First Line: In the light of a summer sky Last Line: They die, and are well content. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO A STRANGER Poem Text First Line: Last night I lay and dreamed of you Last Line: Till I have dreamed my dream away! Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares TO MY CHILDREN: 1 Poem Text First Line: Shall I make a song for you Last Line: Is but a part. Subject(s): Children; Singing & Singers; Childhood TO MY CHILDREN: 10. IN SUMMER DAYS Poem Text First Line: Is it the sunshine on my eyes Last Line: And you look away! Subject(s): Summer TO MY CHILDREN: 2 Poem Text First Line: Sleep, my little dearest one Last Line: Still my love shall be thy guide. TO MY CHILDREN: 3 Poem Text First Line: My little dear, so fast asleep Last Line: Should love or life grow cold. Subject(s): Mothers TO MY CHILDREN: 4. HER HAIR Poem Text First Line: Each morning, as the day begins Last Line: And dies away. Subject(s): Children; Hair; Childhood TO MY CHILDREN: 5. ON THE MOOR Poem Text First Line: Out on the moor the sun is bright Last Line: Of a thousand things. Subject(s): Moors (land) TO MY CHILDREN: 6 Poem Text First Line: When you are lonely, full of care Last Line: I think, and there abide. Subject(s): Children; Childhood TO MY CHILDREN: 7. IN THE WOODS Poem Text First Line: Are your grave eyes graver growing? Last Line: Where I find my flowers. Subject(s): Forests; Woods TO MY CHILDREN: 8. JUNE Poem Text First Line: The skies are blue Last Line: Be sung -- be sung. Subject(s): June TO MY CHILDREN: 9. TWO SONGS Poem Text First Line: Winds blow cold in the bright march weather Last Line: She laughed and sang as she passed me by. TO ONE ASLEEP Poem Text First Line: Ah, do not wake, if sleeping be so dear Last Line: My cry into your dream that is so deep. Subject(s): Sleep TO THE CARYATID (IN THE ELGIN ROOM, BRITISH MUSEUM) Poem Text First Line: So long ago, and day by day Last Line: They are as sweet as long ago. Subject(s): British Museum, London; Caryatids; Museums; Women; Art Gallerys TO THE UNKNOWN AUTHOR OF OBITER DICTA Poem Text First Line: Though I may rest in some leafy place Last Line: The vagrant thoughts I chased in vain. Subject(s): Writing & Writers TO-NIGHT Poem Text First Line: The hours of the day have departed Last Line: And planets -- they all are mine. WESTLEIGH BELLS Poem Text First Line: How gently this evening the ripples break Last Line: To the sea where the white gulls call. Subject(s): Bells WISDOM Poem Text First Line: How can I measure your sorrow Last Line: Your lonely heart fears. YOUR GIFT Poem Text First Line: You turn your face away Last Line: And keep your gift for fear. Radford, Ernest Poet's Biography 10 poems available by this author BETWEEN THE LINES First Line: Cigar lights! Yer honour? Cigar lights? DEAR READER First Line: If you never write verses yourself HUPROAR First Line: Down 'ob'n sir? Circus, bank, bank! OUT First Line: I killed her? Ah, why do they cheer? PLYMOUTH HARBOUR Poem Text First Line: Oh, what know they of harbours Last Line: Who toss not on the sea! Subject(s): Plymouth, England; Sea; Ocean QUIET First Line: Tired brain, there is a place of rest SHELLEY MEMORIAL First Line: The rebel of eighty years ago SIX TRIOLETS SPRING VOICES First Line: Fine violets! Frest violets! Come but! TRANSPONTINE First Line: Ices- programmes- lemonade! Radford, Joseph 1 poems available by this author CHARTER First Line: When thrones shall crumble and moulder to dust, Last Line: On the high-beating hearts of millions enslav'd Radford, Margaret 2 poems available by this author HER DEATH First Line: The stars are setting in large forlorn light PIPPIN AND PEARMAIN First Line: My prince and my princess Radford, Michael 1 poems available by this author WHEAT OR WEED? First Line: Mid-afternoon in future years Rainsford, Christina 1 poems available by this author SHADBUSH First Line: In woods still winter bare Subject(s): Shadbush Rainsford, Kerr 1 poems available by this author SONNET ON A PHOENICIAN TOMB Poem Text First Line: A lonely grave above the rock-rimmed sea Last Line: Brings but new flowers to the wind-blown grass. Subject(s): Phoenicia Ransford, Tessa 1 poems available by this author BURDEN First Line: Elephants of polished teak, ivory tusks Last Line: Far from it. Chained to the log I cannot move Rayford, Julian Lee 5 poems available by this author BOOM First Line: Oyster boats are moored Last Line: Moving when you touch me %speaking when you touch me COTTONMOUTH Poem Text First Line: In this low, grey room Last Line: Burst flaming in my brain. JUNKYARDS First Line: You take any junkyard %you will see it is filled Last Line: The cogs and the flywheels %all the parts of dynamos %all the parts of motors %rusting Subject(s): Travel STEEL MILL MEN Poem Text First Line: The rails are shipped to peru, africa Last Line: Of steel mill smoke. Subject(s): Mills And Millers; Railroads; Steel; Railways; Trains THE OLD MAN WHITTLES Poem Text First Line: On some lumber by a yellow box car Last Line: On a peach-stone. Subject(s): Wood Carving; Whittling Redford, Sophie E. 1 poems available by this author MOTHER-TO-BE Poem Text First Line: What is that look in your lovely eyes? Last Line: Dear little mother-to-be! Subject(s): Singing & Singers Reed, Langford 34 poems available by this author IRONY OF FATE; OR, WHY SHE WAS JILTED LIMERICK First Line: Said a crow to a pelican, 'grant' LIMERICK First Line: A pony, renowned for his sauce LIMERICK First Line: A comical camel, named bert LIMERICK First Line: There once was an intelligent hippopotomus LIMERICK First Line: Said an elephant travelling by train LIMERICK First Line: Mrs. James simpson, of leavenworth, kas LIMERICK First Line: Eustace k. Bonehead, of chicago, in il LIMERICK First Line: A singular yankee of wis LIMERICK First Line: An old vivisector, who'd died LIMERICK First Line: There was an old person of florida LIMERICK First Line: To london there came, from corea LIMERICK First Line: An optimist living at datchet LIMERICK First Line: There was a young lady of harwich LIMERICK First Line: There was a young fellow of spa LIMERICK First Line: There was an old man of bombay LIMERICK First Line: There was an old lady of leith LIMERICK First Line: A canny scotch lad of pitlochry LIMERICK First Line: A bad-tempered bully of thurso LIMERICK First Line: There was an old man of tobago LIMERICK First Line: There was an old fellow of clewer LIMERICK First Line: There was a young lady of slough LIMERICK First Line: A strong silent man on a ranch LIMERICK First Line: There was a sweet maiden sublime LIMERICK First Line: Said a stern-faced young man, 'it is plain' LIMERICK First Line: There was a young woman whose jaw LIMERICK First Line: There was a young man of bow bells LIMERICK First Line: There was a maid fair to the sight LIMERICK First Line: An indolent vicar of bray LIMERICK: THE IRONY OF FATE First Line: Oh, list to the dolorous tale PATRIOT, LIVING AT EWELL SAID A FAIR-HEADED MAIDEN OF KLONDIKE SAID A FOOLISH YOUNG LADY IN WALES SUGGESTED EPITAPH FOR THE TOMB OF A GLUTTON First Line: Here lies a poor gluttonous sinner Rexford, Eben Eugene 16 poems available by this author AT FOURSCORE Poem Text First Line: She sits in the gathering shadows Last Line: And the snowflakes in her hair. Subject(s): Mothers BABY'S BEDTIME First Line: This is baby's bedtime BLUEBIRD First Line: Listen a moment, I pray you, what was that sound that Variant Title(s): A Sign Of Sprin Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds CHEERFUL MAN'S SERMON First Line: It's easy to smile and be cheerful Subject(s): Hope CRADLE SONG Poem Text First Line: O lullaby, my baby. The bee has gone to sleep Last Line: O sleep, my baby, sleep. GRANDFATHER'S BARN! I SHALL NEVER FORGET HO, FOR SLUMBERLAND!' First Line: A little song for bedtime, when, robed in gowns of white Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons KISS OF MARTHY'S First Line: When I went a-courting marthy KISSED HIS MOTHER First Line: She sat on the porch in the sunshine LIGHT ON DEADMAN'S BAR First Line: The lighthouse keeper's daughter looked out ... OLD YEAR AND THE NEW First Line: I stand upon the hill and hear ON THE ROAD TO DREAMTOWN First Line: Come here, my sleeping darling, and climb ONE OF THE HEROES First Line: Hark, throught the wild night's darkness rings out a terrible cry OVERSIGHT OF MAKE-UP First Line: A sweet little baby brother SILVER THREADS AMONG THE GOLD First Line: Darling, I am growing old,-- Last Line: Shine upon my brow today;-- %life is fading last away SONG FOR MAY, WHOSE BREATH IS SWEET Subject(s): Holidays; Trees Richards, Beresford 1 poems available by this author GUEST First Line: How will death come?' he asked his visitor Subject(s): Death Rock, William Woodford 1 poems available by this author BEYOND THE MEADOWS OF JERSEY Poem Text First Line: Over the meadows and far away Last Line: Is my snug little home in jersey. Subject(s): Fields; New Jersey; Pastures; Meadows; Leas Russell, Hattie Sanford 1 poems available by this author A CHRISTMAS SONG Poem Text First Line: The oak is a strong and stalwart tree Last Line: By the beautiful christmas tree. Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Trees; Oak Trees; Nativity, The Rutherford, Alison Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Cockburn, Patrick, Mrs.; Cockburn, Alison; Cockburn, Alicia 1 poems available by this author THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST Poem Text First Line: I've seen the smiling of fortune beguiling Last Line: For the flowers of the forest are a' wede away. Subject(s): Flowers; Fortune Rutherford, E., Jr. 1 poems available by this author HOMESICKNESS First Line: Gotta be a soldier! Gotta stick to biz! Subject(s): Soldiers Rutherford, George S. 5 poems available by this author POETIC HISTORY OF THE 7TH IOWA REGIMENT: ARRIVED AT CAMP MONTGOMERY Poem Text First Line: Arrived in good season at our journey's end Last Line: Whose tribe was assembled through this rebels advice. Subject(s): American Civil War; Army Life; U.s. - History; Drills & Minor Tactics POETIC HISTORY OF THE 7TH IOWA REGIMENT: BATTLE OF SHILOH Poem Text First Line: Soon war-clouds o'ershadowed this place of delight Last Line: And the rattle of hailstones completed the blast. Subject(s): American Civil War; Shiloh, Battle Of (1862); U.s. - History POETIC HISTORY OF THE 7TH IOWA REGIMENT: MARCH TO CAMP MONTGOMERY Poem Text First Line: Again we have orders, from high sources to march Last Line: We completed this journey of four or five miles. Subject(s): American Civil War; Camping; U.s. - History; Walking; Camps; Summer Camps POETIC HISTORY OF THE 7TH IOWA REGIMENT: SECOND DAY'S BATTLE Poem Text First Line: The army of buell came forth with the light Last Line: A little good water while they might remain. Subject(s): American Civil War; Shiloh, Battle Of (1862); U.s. - History POETIC HISTORY OF THE 7TH IOWA REGIMENT: TRIP TO PITTSBURG LANDING Poem Text First Line: Again our good regiment got under way Last Line: From sweet smelling blossoms the north has in june. Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History Rutherford, Jean Langille 1 poems available by this author SO COMES THE SUMMER'S CLOSE Poem Text First Line: This is a sullen day / a day of mist and Last Line: That promise snow. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; September; Fall Rutherford, Lily 1 poems available by this author SPRING TIME First Line: Hark! It is the spring time Subject(s): Holidays; Trees Rutherford, Robert 1 poems available by this author CARYATIDES First Line: Figures have I beheld, from granite hewn Rutherford, Ruth 1 poems available by this author FAR OFF I KNOW NOT WHERE YOU REST Subject(s): Love Safford, Charles 10 poems available by this author COMING TO SEED First Line: The fields come into their Last Line: Wheat, white backs ribboned %with swollen seeds DEATH IN THE FAMILY First Line: The grown ups are beating Last Line: It is already dead. It will fall %out of the socket if they %will just leave it alone FAMILY PARTY First Line: The relatives guard their Last Line: At the back of the house, %and beat all night at the %white teeth of the piano ICE RIDERS First Line: The maine trees are in Last Line: Sticks in the mussel mud %and bring the ice to life LETTER TO MARIE First Line: You were the one, riding the green seats Last Line: Harden in the cold, their bolts freeze %into the neck of the batteries LIVING WITH CANNIBALS First Line: My father comes naked Last Line: At the door, slit eyed, swaying %in and out of the light MOVING First Line: Our car tears into the night's Last Line: Each of their faces is a %blank and yellow moon PROPHECY First Line: There is a boy at my door, shirt haloed Last Line: Ending their orbit of blood in his hands, %their chambers cooling, coming empty of air SOMEBODY IN MY BED First Line: Morning rises heavy like a sow Last Line: Wolf man. Where %is your sweet heart now VIGIL First Line: Cousin anne lies dying Last Line: Like flies %curled against the winter Safford, June Billings 2 poems available by this author TWO RIDERS First Line: What a woman loves about the earth VERY FLOOR OF OUR EXISTENCE First Line: The very floor of our existence as a couple Last Line: A laughter filling the bed room, as I respond with the usual, 'no.' Safford, William Harrison 1 poems available by this author THE BATTLE OF MUSKINGUM; OR, THE DEFEAT OF THE BURRITES Poem Text First Line: Ye jovial throng, come join the song Last Line: To breakfast on cold porridge. Subject(s): Blennerhasset Island, West Virginia; Burr, Aaron (1756-1836) Samford, T. C. 2 poems available by this author JENNY First Line: Jenny slips inside the shadows Last Line: Tomorrow comes the jenny wakes-- %all the flowers in the garden fade %when she walks by MEMORY First Line: Memory is a shadow Sandford, Cynthia 1 poems available by this author BABY CHICKS First Line: Chickens scatter wildly Sandford, Egbert 2 poems available by this author HER PRAYER - FOR HIM First Line: I do not ask that he may never yield Subject(s): World War I LISTENING TO THE WIND Poem Text First Line: God is at the organ! Last Line: Far and near. Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology Sandford, James 1 poems available by this author OF LOVE First Line: Love all the senses doth beguile Sandford, M. E. 1 poems available by this author JUNIOR PARTNER WANTED First Line: There's a junior partner wanted Sandford, Michael 1 poems available by this author CLOUDS First Line: Clouds, too, can prove that they Sanford, Christy Sheffield 11 poems available by this author ANTI-MEMOIRS First Line: In the way we made the world from a boat DREAM OF SNAKES, CHOCOLATE AND MEN First Line: On captiva island I sit on a ledge beside palmettos LONG & HAPPY LIFE First Line: When I see the next century LOOKING AT PARIS AND THE MOON IN 1922 First Line: Nervy hands I met germaine at the quat'z arts MACHINE SCORED SHORT ANSWER POEM #3 First Line: I want my own - man - manse - mangrove Last Line: I want my own - lilac - lily - limelight MAGNOLIA GRANDIFLORA L. First Line: A fifty-foot southern magnolia grew in our ROMANCE OF CITRUS First Line: Cloud of esters escapes as elen splits an orange ROMANCE OF IMPRINTING First Line: Animal behavior newborn greylag geese follow anyone who moves ROMANCE OF THE SCALLOP First Line: The common bay scallop has baby blue eyes SCATTERED FOG First Line: Smoky bar in matamoros. Blind date. We each have a margarita TRAVELING THROUGH PORTS THAT BEGIN WITH M First Line: Jack scrubs the smell of hemp and tar from his hands Sanford, Mary B. 1 poems available by this author FOREST-FIRE First Line: The sunset stilly stealing on tinged with iys golden ray Sanford, Shelly 1 poems available by this author SUDDEN FEELINGS First Line: When I pass by you Saunders, Clifford 1 poems available by this author UNRAVELING First Line: On the first day of spring Schively, Edwin Ford 1 poems available by this author IN MEMORIAM: CHARLES P. KRAUTH First Line: Soldier of christ! Now lay thine armor down Scott, Gladys Guilford 1 poems available by this author THE WHITE BIRCH Poem Text First Line: The young white birch was slender and frail Last Line: Splashing her leaves at the sky. Subject(s): Storms Sealy, Clifford 1 poems available by this author BIRTH OF A NATION First Line: Strangled in the womb Seward, Mary L. Alternate Author Name(s): Mumford, Mary L. 2 poems available by this author JESUS' NIGHT OF PRAYER Poem Text First Line: Tis night! And weary eyes in slumber closing Last Line: "like him, unceasingly to ""watch and pray." Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry SYMPATHY Poem Text First Line: Come thou with me - thy clasped hand in Last Line: He'll linger not, for love will bid him flee. Subject(s): Sympathy; Empathy Seymour, Frances (thynne) Alternate Author Name(s): Hertford, Countess Of; Somerset, Duchess Of 2 poems available by this author THE STORY OF INKLE AND YARICO. A MOST MOVING TALE FROM 'THE SPECTATOR' Poem Text First Line: A youth there was possessed of every charm Last Line: And with her price pleased to the ship returned. Subject(s): Barbados TO THE COUNTESS OF POMFRET: LIFE AT RICHKINGS Poem Text First Line: We sometimes ride, and sometimes walk Last Line: And find enough to blame within. Subject(s): Country Life Shackford, Martha Hale 7 poems available by this author AN OXFORD GARDEN Poem Text First Line: A shy elusive sound of soft winds blowing Last Line: And drifting silence over all the place. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Wellesley College HAIR CLOTH Poem Text First Line: I wear no hair cloth next my flesh Last Line: Who with the saints belong. Subject(s): Wellesley College JOSEPH SEVERN Poem Text First Line: Severn, thy 'name is writ' with that of keats Last Line: A golden world seems ever present there. Subject(s): Severn, Joseph (1793-1879); Wellesley College NORMAN PEASANTS Poem Text First Line: Those workers in the fields and heat Last Line: To meet the fading stars, each day. Subject(s): Normandy, France; Peasantry; Wellesley College PERUGINO Poem Text First Line: Oh happy painter! You who stayed Last Line: And thus you painted life, content. Subject(s): Perugino [pietro Vannucci] (1450-1523); Wellesley College SUNSHINE AND SILENCE Poem Text First Line: Back to back with the still, old earth Last Line: I -- in my sunshine and doubt? Subject(s): Wellesley College THE ELIZABETHAN POETS Poem Text First Line: Like slender, rippling willow leaves Last Line: Eternally are glad. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wellesley College Shaw, Carleton Ford 1 poems available by this author ENEMY First Line: The reason for my laughter lies Sheridan, Helen Selina Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Gifford, Lady; Dufferin, Lady 10 poems available by this author CHARMING WOMAN Poem Text First Line: So miss myrtle is going to marry Last Line: Don't marry a charming woman, %if you are a sensible man! Subject(s): Marriage; Women DUBLIN BAY Poem Text First Line: Oh, bay of dublin, how my heart you're troublin' Last Line: Heav'n knows how dear my poor home was to me. Subject(s): Dublin Bay, Ireland KATY'S LETTER First Line: Och! Girls, dis ye iver hear LAMENT OF THE IRISH EMIGRANT Poem Text First Line: I'm sitting on the stile, mary Last Line: When first you were my bride. Variant Title(s): The Irish Immigrant Subject(s): Death; Ireland; Mourning; Dead, The; Irish; Bereavement LOVE HATH A LANGUAGE Poem Text MOTHER'S LAMENT Poem Text First Line: It is now nearly forty years, I guess Last Line: If they hadn't their father's nose O BAY OF DUBLIN! SONG First Line: When another's voice thou hearsest TERENCE'S FAREWELL Poem Text First Line: So, my kathleen, you're going to leave me Last Line: Ev'ry inch of the way that you go! Subject(s): Farewell; Parting TO MY DEAR SON Poem Text First Line: How shall I bless thee? Shillingford, A. L. I. 7 poems available by this author CHANGE First Line: Change! %change they demand Last Line: Change is the name %change IRONIES First Line: In the land of the most powerful, with MISANTHROPHY First Line: The olympic begun with praises to the gods Last Line: Look see: %your savior PEACE First Line: A holy land in agony THEY First Line: They say they want answers TO THE PEOPLE First Line: I am understanding not a television star WAR First Line: Free radicals Shuford, C. E. Alternate Author Name(s): Shuford, Gene 5 poems available by this author DROUTH Poem Text First Line: Heat is big-breasted Last Line: She laughs until morning. Subject(s): Drought HARVEST First Line: In the night the man could hear the wind walking LOVE SONG AFTER ABSENCE Poem Text First Line: The days when you were gone Last Line: Cascade of fountained stars.... Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation NO MUSIC Poem Text First Line: Death and no music Last Line: Death and no music. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TO A TAME GRIZZLY First Line: The way to a little black bear's heart is sugar Last Line: Of mountains waiting for our final silence Shuford, Kelly 2 poems available by this author DUSK IN TUSCUMBIA First Line: The sun strokes the horizon as farmers Last Line: And chickens roost, standing on one leg to fool %foxes into thinking they're little trees TO MY ZOOLOGIST HUSBAND First Line: Here is my leopard print teddy Last Line: And because the rattles on his tail vibrated so nicely Skelton, Christian Bradford 1 poems available by this author SEVENTY ON SEVENTY KANSAS BEGINS WHERE DENVER ENDS Smythe, Albert Ernest Stafford 9 poems available by this author ANASTASIS First Line: What shall it profit a man BY WAVE AND WAR First Line: Once again the ocean fulness DEATH THE REVEALER First Line: I know that death is god's interpreter EASTER EVE First Line: Golden rose the moon of march FORGOTTEN POET First Line: With fragrance flown, as of long-plucked bud NOVEMBER SUNSHINE First Line: One figure flitting through my dreamland ways SEASONS OF THE GODS First Line: I sat with may upon a midnight hill TRYSTING PATH First Line: Dear little darkened way where we have climbed WAY OF THE MASTER First Line: I know that the master walked on earth Spofford, Harriet Prescott Poet's Biography 44 poems available by this author A MOTHER-SONG Poem Text First Line: Soft sleeps the earth in moonlight blest Last Line: Some mighty wing shall fan thy sleep. A SIGH Poem Text First Line: It was nothing but a rose I gave her Last Line: Cannot make it old! AGATHA'S SONG First Line: Sooner or later, the storms shall beat CAN'T Poem Text First Line: How history repeats itself Last Line: The steadfast man whose name was grant. Subject(s): American Civil War; Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); U.s. - History; Wilderness Campaign (1864) DAYS OF REST First Line: Still sundays, rising o'er the world EVANESCENCE Poem Text First Line: What's the brightness of a brow? Last Line: So are lilies, so are roses! EVERY THANKSGIVING DAY First Line: Sweet it is to see the sun FANTASIA First Line: We're all alone, we're all alone! FIRST AND LAST First Line: Just come from heaven, how bright and fair FLAG SONG First Line: Out upon the four winds blow Subject(s): Flags - United States FOSSIL RAINDROPS First Line: Over the quarry the children were rambling FOUR O'CLOCK First Line: Ah, happy day, refuse to go! GINGERBREAD TREE First Line: Oh, do you know, and do you know Subject(s): Holidays; Trees GODSPEED First Line: The great ship spreads her wings ... Subject(s): Sea; Ships And Shipping GOLDSMITH'S WHISTLE First Line: A light heart had the irish lad GREAT PROCESSION First Line: Did you ever happen to think, when dark HEREAFTER First Line: Love, when all these years are silent, vanquished quite and laid to rest HOW WE BECAME A NATION [APRIL 15, 1774] Poem Text First Line: When george the king would punish folk Last Line: Made us a nation hard and fast. Subject(s): Boston Tea Party; U.s. - Colonial Period INSIDE PLUM ISLAND Poem Text First Line: We floated in the idle breeze Last Line: The boat lay at her mooring. Subject(s): Plum Island, Massachusetts MAGDALEN Poem Text First Line: If any woman of us all Last Line: Could we but also claim that deed! Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible; Mary Magdalene ME First Line: Through many, many summers MEASURE FOR MEASURE First Line: What love do I bring you? The earth MUSIC IN THE NIGHT Poem Text First Line: When stars pursue their solemn flight Last Line: And vanishes among the stars. Subject(s): Music & Musicians MY OWN SONG First Line: Oh, glad am I that I was born NIGHT SEA First Line: In the summer even Variant Title(s): Balla OAK HILL First Line: There are roses of passionate perfume OLD SONG First Line: An old song, an old song! But the new are ... ONLY First Line: Something to live for came to the place OUR MAYING First Line: O bring my muff and mittens, toots OUR NEIGHBOR Poem Text First Line: Old neighbor, for how many a year Last Line: Into horizons vaster far! Subject(s): New England PALMISTRY First Line: A little hand, a fair soft hand PHANTOMS ALL Poem Text First Line: Come, all you sailors of the southern waters Last Line: The navy of old spain! Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural PHILLIPS BROOKS First Line: Perhaps we did not know how much of god SNOWDROP First Line: Only a tender little thing THE HUNT Poem Text First Line: Wild stream the clouds, and the fresh wind is singing Last Line: Blows as the dust blows the ghost of the hunt! Subject(s): Hunting; Hunters THE NUN AND THE HARP Poem Text First Line: What memory fired her pallid face Last Line: "and I will pledge with mine!" Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Nuns; Sorrow; Sadness THE PINES Poem Text First Line: Couldst thou, great fairy, give to me Last Line: I will content me with my pines! TRUMPETS IN LOHENGRIN Poem Text First Line: Hark! 'tis the golden trumpets of the dawn Last Line: Blown to him from the kingdom of the grail! Subject(s): Trumpets TRYST First Line: Out of the darks and deeps of space Last Line: Can that fate fall on such as we? VANITY First Line: The sun comes up and the sun goes down VOICE Poem Text First Line: Said the archangels, moving in their glory Last Line: And every soul's a poet whose song surmounts our height! WHAT ONE BOY THINKS First Line: A stitch is always dropping in the ... Knitting WINGS First Line: Oh, I am dying, dying!' said the worm WITNESSES First Line: Whenever my heart is heavy Stableford, Ernest 1 poems available by this author WASH DAY First Line: I can't say how old I am Last Line: I'll be borne off in her basket again Stafford, Darrell 3 poems available by this author DECONSTRUCTION First Line: In 1990, when they took down the berlin wall Last Line: Into the wall of two-by-eights. I tell myself %the real contractor will be here soon LEARNING IN A SOUTHERN TOWN First Line: I served an apprenticeship in rusted trucks Last Line: Surrender their own souls to imagination or worse SACRIFICE First Line: We will have all day to burn seasoned oak in this fireplace Last Line: As I steph inside, you are feeding it with steaady abandon, %the flames often close enough, from whe Stafford, Ezra Hurlburt 3 poems available by this author CHINOOK First Line: Mildly through the mists of night LAST ORISON First Line: Shaper of breathing lives, and lord of all above STRANGE VESSEL First Line: And no one saw, while it was dark Stafford, Judy 4 poems available by this author FALL First Line: Golden, rolled petals Last Line: Inside, a bee, pollen-heavy, %buzzes noisily SPRING First Line: Young girl on the train Last Line: Cherry blossoms fall SUMMER First Line: Bamboo grove in shade Last Line: Two tiny, sweet, bird-shaped cakes %with bitter green tea WINTER First Line: Train wheels groan, we sway Last Line: Slowly my head nods Stafford, Juniata 2 poems available by this author MY COUNTRY'S FLAG Poem Text First Line: This is my country's flag Last Line: Will ever be my joy. Subject(s): Flags - United States; American Flag SUNSHINE MAKING First Line: Put a bit of sunshine in the day Stafford, Kim R. 13 poems available by this author DADDY First Line: Rub my thumb in the empty hollow of the milkweed pod Last Line: Has gone, I found whistling the empty pod you left me Subject(s): Children; Fathers; Ghosts; Memory; Supernatural FEATHER BAG, STICK BAG First Line: These five strands bear hair in a split match Last Line: This the song I sing about you %if you don't buy my songs. %hah! Feather bag, stick bag, bone bag JULIAETTA COFFEE BLUES First Line: My old truck broke down at the edge of town Last Line: So old it's just about worn away LOSING ONE First Line: Too small to work at haytime OPENING THE BOOK First Line: When our landlord's name was manlove Last Line: We would hollow into earth and wait %for shade to cover our family %singing I feel like a morning st POCATELLO TOWN First Line: Late one night in walltown the boys were playing cards Last Line: And how to steal with statutes instead of five-card draw, %in pocatello, pocatello town PROPOSAL First Line: The sign for our town Last Line: Is coming; don't get up ROCKING CHAIR First Line: In the earthquake the rocking chair Last Line: Except the rocking chair %on its smiling feet %dancing alone%in a corner SERMON ON EVE First Line: You know eve's mother was a man' Last Line: Eve bowed and gave him breath %again. Peace to you all. Amen SURFACE First Line: Alone, deeply forgetful, %happy with small things, you Last Line: Distant over a meadow of lint VILLANELLE FOR THE SPIDERS First Line: The smallest weavers work at night Last Line: To build their web that holds our light WAITING TO BE BORN First Line: You could hesitate forever, waiting Last Line: You undress in darkness -%with a flash the fabric leaves you WALKING TO THE MAILBOX First Line: We found a turtle stunned by sunlight Last Line: Made strong by wearing its %own death outward as I did %rising up with rosemary Stafford, Mabel 1 poems available by this author LOST Poem Text First Line: You never knew when I stopped loving you Last Line: With you, you never guessing you have lost. Subject(s): Life Stafford, Madge D. 1 poems available by this author AT DUSK Poem Text First Line: A lone bird's call Last Line: Deep dusk without a star... Subject(s): Dusk Stafford, Wendell Phillips Poet's Biography 19 poems available by this author A FAMILIAR SPIRIT Poem Text First Line: There is a ghost of a dog that comes Last Line: Who says a little dog hasn't a soul? Subject(s): Animals; Dogs AMERICA RESURGENT Poem Text First Line: She is risen from the dead! Last Line: And a helmet full of stars! Subject(s): World War I - United States HE IS ALL OURS' First Line: If I could forge you verses that would ring Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919) INVOCATION Poem Text First Line: O thou whose equal purpose runs Last Line: Be lightning for the land we love! Variant Title(s): The Land We Love Subject(s): United States; America LINCOLN Poem Text First Line: Say - if men asked for him - he has gone home Last Line: "they have the power to will, the will to wait." Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States LINCOLN; APRIL, 1865-1915 Poem Text First Line: O thou that on this april day Last Line: No marble white enough for thee! Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States LINDBERGH First Line: Lone eagle of the wild atlantic plain Subject(s): Lindbergh, Charles Augustus (1902-1974); U.s. - History LULLABY Poem Text First Line: Sleep, my baby, all the night Last Line: Go to sleep! LYRIC: 25 Poem Text First Line: How do I love you, dear? Last Line: Look up and love you, sweet! NEW YORK Poem Text First Line: O titan daughter crouching by the sea Last Line: As april mornings overflow the skies! Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple ON THE PHOTOGRAPH OF A LYNCHING First Line: This is the fruit of that forbidden tree Last Line: Bind on resplendent brows thy down-slipped crown of law Subject(s): Freedom; Lynching ONE OF OUR PRESIDENTS Poem Text First Line: He sits there on the low, rude, backless bench Last Line: "I thought, ""thank god, thank god the ship rides true!" Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Statues PANAMA HYMN First Line: We joint today the east and west PRAYER First Line: Thou that canst hush the sea R.S.S. First Line: We shall never miss thee less but more Last Line: But we have lost the man that never was %and never was to be SEPTEMBER IN THE NORTH Poem Text First Line: O love, do you remember Last Line: "when you and I are wed!" Subject(s): Marriage; September; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE COURT HOUSE Poem Text First Line: This is that theater the muse loves best Last Line: What peacock playhouse will contend with you? Subject(s): Muses; Plays & Playwrights; Theater & Theaters VERMONT Poem Text First Line: My heart is where the hills fling up Last Line: Lady of liberty! Subject(s): Vermont WASHINGTON AND LINCOLN First Line: Two stars alone of primal magnitude Stafford, William Edgar Poet's Biography 847 poems available by this author 108 EAST NINETEENTH First Line: Mother, the sweet peas have gushed out of Last Line: She will never be mad at us again 1932 First Line: Nobody could come because ours was the house Last Line: Those times when people turned away 1940 First Line: It is august. Your father is walking you Last Line: September, the depot, the dark, the light, the dark A FAMILY TURN First Line: All her kamikaze friends admired my aunt Subject(s): Aunts A RITUAL TO READ TO EACH OTHER Poem Text Recitation First Line: If you don't know the kind of person I am Subject(s): Men A STORY THAT COULD BE TRUE Poem Text First Line: If you were exchanged in the cradle and Subject(s): Fathers; Men; Prayer ABSENCES First Line: Once when the waves were talking one said Last Line: The waves %come in. Wherever you walk you see%a place for that wave. But it isn't there ACCOUNTABILITY First Line: Cold nights outside the taverns in wyoming Last Line: Students count off and break up and blow away %over the fro zen ground ACOMA MESA First Line: Surrounded by air, we live where Last Line: Come in and are near: the world falls, %a long silent plunge through the sky ACQUAINTANCE First Line: Because our world hardened Last Line: Built from the first on grief ACROSS KANSAS First Line: My family slept those level miles ACROSS NEBRASKA First Line: Popcorn spoke. A cathedral praised Last Line: Rows, roads, horizons %youth: goodby, goodby, goodby ACROSS THE LAKE'S EYE First Line: Walking ice across the lake's eye Last Line: Marking the progress of an island ADDRESS TO THE VACATIONERS AT CAPE LOOKOUT First Line: The whole weight of the ocean smashes on the rock Last Line: What disregards people does people good Subject(s): Seashore ADULTS ONLY First Line: Animals own a fur world Last Line: At the state fair AFTER ARGUING AGAINST THE CONTENTION ... FROM DISCONTENT AFTER SPRING AND SUMMER First Line: Sometimes a wind mentions your (cloud) face Last Line: Wire-strum town where that wind came first AFTER THAT SOUND, AFTER THAT SIGHT First Line: After that sound we weren't people Last Line: A new part of time AFTERNOON IN THE STACKS First Line: Closing the book, I find I have left my head Last Line: A candleflame in tibet leans when I move AFTERWARD First Line: In the day I sheltered on the sunny side Last Line: For my place. All else moves. I am learning to wait AFTERWARDS First Line: Gradually certain questions crept back. They Last Line: Froze into its pose in an empty block %where streetlights poured forth silence, looking at each othe AIRPORT AT ANCHORAGE First Line: Our plane, dragging its Last Line: Away, after more boxes ALIVE IN THE MOUNTAINS First Line: Alone, and then alone again, the summits ALL THE TIME First Line: Evenings, after others go inside, my glance quietly ascends through leaves ALLEGIANCES First Line: It is time for all the heroes to go home Last Line: Where we are, sturdy for common things ALONG HIGHWAY 40 First Line: Those who wear green glasses through nevada Last Line: And slept in the wilderness on the hard ground ALWAYS First Line: Inside the trees, where tomorrow Last Line: And call deep as I can %part of me AMBITIOUS TO WAKE UP First Line: Something you said a while back intrigued me. I had asked you for a Subject(s): Science Fiction AND THAT PICNIC AT ZIGZAG First Line: Tea at a campfire Last Line: I want that one ANIMAL THAT DRANK UP SOUND First Line: One day across the lake where echoes come now Last Line: It listens now, and practices at night ANNALS OF T'AI CHI: PUSH HANDS First Line: In this long routine 'push hands' Last Line: Out, yin following and becoming %by a beautiful absence its partner yang ANOTHER OLD GUITAR First Line: For years I was tuned a few notes too high Last Line: A relaxed little number the band call %their national anthem: 'somebody, maybe' ANOTHER TWILIGHT First Line: Sometime you will be in a shop Last Line: For something else, quickly, the way you do ANSWERERS First Line: There are songs too wide for sound Last Line: It speaks in is, trying. And even if %only by a note like this, we answer Subject(s): Silence ANTICIPATING First Line: Keeping your word is like putting a bell into Last Line: They back away. They dance on the stones %but the bell waits in its crypt. And it slowly moves ANY JOURNEY First Line: When god watches you walk, you are Last Line: It is now. It has all come true ANY MORNING First Line: Just lying on the couch and being happy Last Line: You can shake your head. You can frown Subject(s): Loss ANY TIME First Line: Vacation? Well, our children took our love apart Last Line: But will you do right?' (children, children, %oh, see tht waterfall.) APOLOGIA PRO VITA SUA First Line: As I traveled the earth I heard Last Line: Cried, because it was love AQUARIUM AT SEASIDE First Line: Groping stars called up from a field Last Line: It divides the world ARCHIVAL PRINT First Line: God snaps your picture -- don't look away -- Last Line: Hold it. Don't move. That's you forever ARE YOU MR. WILLIAM STAFFORD? Last Line: Well, it was yesterday. And the sun came, %why %it came ARGUING AGAINST CONTENTION THAT ART COMES FROM DISCONTENT First Line: Whispering to each handhold, 'I'll be back' Last Line: On the earth, riding the earth past the stars: 'made it again! Made it again!' AROUND YOU, YOUR HOUSE First Line: I give you the rain, its long hollow Last Line: The last flames up the draft and out %into the night, and I give you the rain ARRIVAL First Line: While the years were mine I walked the high country Last Line: What has to be: anywhere, anywhere ARTIST, COME HOME First Line: Remember how bright it is Last Line: A frog is living under the %back step AS PIPPA LILTED First Line: Good things will happen Last Line: It will be soon; %good things will happen ASK ME First Line: Some time when the river is ice ask me Last Line: What the river says, that is what I say ASSAY First Line: They found the big mine of honesty ASSURANCE First Line: You will never be alone, you hear so deep Last Line: That's what the silence meant: you're not alone. %the whole wide world pours down Subject(s): Presence ASSURANCE Poem Text First Line: You will never be alone, you hear so deep Subject(s): Presence AT A PIONEER CEMETERY First Line: Both sides fought stillness Last Line: They can't go fast enough %not to go away AT A SMALL COLLEGE First Line: Words jut forward out of the stone Last Line: You remember to breathe, to stand on the earth again Subject(s): Religion; Universities & Colleges AT AN INTERVAL IN THE TALK First Line: An owl call - round, globed as the moon Last Line: I turn my face and its hunger for the world. %here: today AT ARCHBISHOP LAMY'S CHURCH IN SANTE FE First Line: A few leaves cling and skitter Last Line: Places to go, and your part ended? AT COVE ON THE CROOKED RIVER First Line: At cove at our camp in the open canyon Last Line: When people cramp into their station wagons %and roll up the the windows and drive away AT FOURTH AND MAIN IN LIBERAL, KANSAS 1932 First Line: An instant sprang at me, a winter instant Last Line: Or a slice of evening, and behind it the whole world AT LIBERTY SCHOOL First Line: Girl in the front row who had no mother Last Line: There were not spiteful nails in any board AT MALHEUR GAME REFUGE First Line: Coyote butte rinsed by earthlight begins Last Line: This day floods over the earth and splashes %against you. In the sky your way appears: true north Subject(s): Environment; Nature AT MISSOULA First Line: We hunted bitterroot over the patient mountain Last Line: Its one-word constitution: patience AT NOON COMES THE LIFT... First Line: At noon comes the lift - sunlight Last Line: And the dark and the patient stars AT OUR HOUSE First Line: Home late, one lamp turned low Last Line: And where I stand, no one AT PORT TOWNSEND First Line: All night I sat up watching AT SUMMER CAMP First Line: Someone is leaving - tears. Someone Last Line: Taking a lost one home, past the trees %and the lake and all you wanted to say Subject(s): Camping; Religion AT THE APOSTLE ISLANDS First Line: We had a sled with a sail Last Line: Aimed always for home AT THE BOMB TESTING SITE Poem Text First Line: At noon in the desert a panting lizard Last Line: The hands gripped hard on the desert. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Atomic Bomb - Testing; Desserts; Nuclear Freeze AT THE CABIN First Line: Across the snowed-in roof Last Line: This cabin in the center %of a silence around your name AT THE CHAIRMAN'S HOUSEWARMING First Line: Talk like a jellyfish can ruin a party Last Line: But let me live definite, shock by shock AT THE EDGE OF TOWN First Line: Sometimes when clouds float Last Line: Some days, yes. We look up and follow AT THE FAIR First Line: Even the flaws were good Last Line: The whirling girl, laughing with a crooked old man AT THE FALLS: A BIRTHDAY PICTURE First Line: A few leaves flutter still, even on the maple Last Line: You can be %still. You can smile. I'm the one with the fears%it always was cold, those years AT THE GRAVE OF MY BROTHER First Line: The mirror cared less and less at the last Subject(s): Family Life AT THE GRAVE OF MY BROTHER: BOMBER PILOT First Line: Tantalized by the wind, this flag that flies Last Line: Shall we follow next? Who shall we kill %next time? AT THE KLAMATH BERRY FESTIVAL First Line: The war chief danced the old way Last Line: He took two steps, he took two steps %past the sociolotist AT THE OLD PLACE First Line: The beak of dawn's rooster pecked Last Line: Wake at once to more than day %to ella always AT THE PLAYGROUND First Line: Away down deep and away up high Last Line: Away up high, away down deep AT THE SALT MARSH First Line: Those teal with traveling wings Last Line: I scatter my asking. I hold the duck head AT THE SUMMIT First Line: Past the middle of the continent Last Line: Unhurried, we went down AT THE UN-NATIONAL MONUMENT ALONG THE CANADIAN BORDER First Line: This is the field where the battle did not happen Last Line: Hallowed by neglect and an air so tame %that people celebrate it by forgetting its name ATAVISM: 1 First Line: Sometimes in the open you look up Last Line: Again, for a moment, in the open ATAVISM: 2 First Line: Something is being told in the woods: aisles of Last Line: Wider than your mind, away out over everything ATTENUATE First Line: Some time, following out a sound Last Line: Gifts are made real by not being given ATWATER KENT First Line: Late nights the world flooded our dark house AUNT MABEL First Line: This town is haunted by some good deed Last Line: Or their graves in the rain AUTUMN First Line: Downt the road old mrs. Drew is raking Last Line: And pushes them carefully down with her hands AWARENESS First Line: Of a summer day, of what moves B.C. First Line: The seed that met water spoke a little name Last Line: And the little seed spoke: sequoia is my name BABY TEN MONTHS OLD LOOKS AT THE PUBLIC DOMAIN First Line: Somewhere near the end of a snow-shoe trail Last Line: Northwest in the direction %of his cosmic section Subject(s): Babies BACK HOME First Line: The girl who used to sing in the choir Last Line: Broke into jagged purple glass BAD DREAMS First Line: You are wounded, but at first you think Last Line: You're gone BEAVER PEOPLE First Line: Beaver people are trying to figure out the good water Last Line: In our own pageant, under this ice, dreaming BEFORE ANYONE DIED First Line: West of home where we lay talking quietly Last Line: You hold a million dollars in your hand BEFORE BILL CUNNINGHAM LEFT First Line: The joists were up, the studs braced, and long BEFORE THE BIG STORM First Line: You are famous in my mind Subject(s): Memory BEGINNING THE DAY First Line: Waking %it is still. No breeze, no one Last Line: I want to give him some other name BEING AN AMERICAN First Line: Some network has bought history, all the rights Last Line: A little bit of today and see how it is BEING SAVED First Line: We have all we need, some kind of sky and maybe Last Line: A ticket, a compass, a piece of iron, %our kind of pardon BEING SORRY First Line: When I was a kid I wanted to drop Last Line: And whatever was in those three little dots at the end Subject(s): Religion BELIEVER First Line: A horse could gallop over our bridge that minnows Last Line: When the right note shakes everything BELIEVING WHAT I KNOW First Line: A lake on the map of canada Last Line: Like a field I may take the next thing %so well that whatever is will be me BESS First Line: Ours are the streets where bess first met her Last Line: Again, and the streets opened, and she wished all well Subject(s): Cancer (disease) BI-FOCAL First Line: Sometimes up out of this land Last Line: Second it legends itself %deep, the way it is BIG BANG First Line: A shudder goes through the universe, even Last Line: It all together, not even shaking. %hard to believe BIG HOUSE First Line: She was a modern, you know Last Line: They're gone, they say, you know. I don't know where BIG WORLD, LITTLE MAN First Line: Some things it is wrong to think of,' Last Line: Many things I do not think of BIO: FITTING INTO MY YEARS First Line: Back then the people around us confidently Last Line: Hatched in the cornfields of iowa and crept into %english departments. And I was one Subject(s): History; Past BIRD INSIDE A BOX First Line: A bird inside a box, a box will Last Line: Like this, in here, in here BIRTHDAY First Line: We have a dog named 'here' Last Line: And we watch the clear sky bend BLACKBERRIES ARE BACK First Line: Blackberries are back. They cling near Last Line: Once they touch your tongue BLACKBIRDS First Line: One day we sang Last Line: Today we sing it all back at the sky BOOM TOWN First Line: Into any sound important Last Line: Had all closed their slim mouths BOTH WAYS First Line: Two things crossed main street Last Line: By the river where she starved one winter %and we didn't even notice she was gone BREVITIES First Line: A speech to the birds Last Line: And I has come to believe BRIDGE BEGINS IN THE TREES First Line: In an owl cry, night became real night Last Line: Sang again along the bone BRING THE NORTH First Line: Mushroom, soft ear, old memory BROKEN HOME First Line: Here is a cup left empty in their Last Line: That never really could lead to tomorrow BROTHER First Line: It's cold where bob is Last Line: I had a brother BROTHER FIRE First Line: It took years. At first a gust Last Line: Rolling out, free. Fire did it for us BURNING A BOOK First Line: Protecting each other, right in the center Last Line: I haven't even written, and nobody has BUSH FROM MONGOLIA First Line: This bush with light green leaves Last Line: The big winter can come back, and only %bushes from mongolia will survive Subject(s): Environment; Nature BY A RIVER IN THE OSAGE COUNTY First Line: They called it neosho, meaning Last Line: Went when it was clear BY THE BLACK SHIPS First Line: All afternoon the blue rested there Last Line: Power, but homer's, that won -- a fine little net %that conquered them all, even odysseus' men BY THE DESCHUTES SHORE First Line: Millions of miles away at evening the sun Last Line: The brown mouse, brown paws, brown, brown grass BY THE SNAKE RIVER First Line: Something sent me out in these desert places Last Line: In this water I lift pouring through my hands CAGE AT THE FILLING STATION First Line: In the turn of neck a wolverine offered Last Line: Smoke really ought to have a home CAMEO OF YOUR MOTHER First Line: What the blind have for their light Last Line: Waits inside your life, a touch %of light survived in amethyst CAMPING AT LOST LAKE First Line: Earth at large in constellations Last Line: Eloquent of light's return CAMPING WITH JACK First Line: So clear we slept outside the tent CANADIAN First Line: Hear the wild geese; know how their Last Line: Now, while we hear the wild geese CAPTIVE First Line: Calmly through the bars observe Last Line: Captor, witness, victinm -- calmed CAROLS BACK THEN: 1935 First Line: Clouds on the hills. I hear a throat voice Last Line: Ella, our town is all filling with snow CATECHISM First Line: Who challenged my soldier mother? Last Line: Kept wondering how to solve it but couldn't? %guess who CAVE PAINTING First Line: It was like the moon, the open before us Last Line: Learned to huddle together and foil the stars CEREMONY First Line: On the third finger of my left hand Last Line: In that river my blood flowed on CERTAIN BEND Subject(s): Nostalgia CHALIB DECIDES TO BE RETICENT First Line: There is a question I would like to ask Last Line: You would be glad that I didn't tell you Variant Title(s): Ghalib Decides To Be Reticen CHARGED BY MOONLIGHT First Line: Whatever this dance we're in, the moon Last Line: For me, a self like a frozen light CHICKENS THE WEASEL KILLED First Line: A passerby being fair about sacrifice CHILD IN THE EVENING First Line: Why does this house have no windows, mother? Last Line: I belong with my friends %it is all right. They may come in %this house is for everyone CHILD'S FACE IN A SMALL TOWN First Line: Sometimes it happens a storm Last Line: You turn your face toward it, and you know: sometimes it happens CHILDISH THINGS First Line: When they light the candles CHOOSING A DOG First Line: It's love,' they say. You touch Last Line: They see time going on and someone alone, %but they don't say anything Subject(s): Animals; Change; Dogs CHRISTIANITE First Line: This new kind of metal will not suffer CHURCH KEEPS ON First Line: No house can last, no house Last Line: Whatever it was when we thought it strong CIRCLE OF BREATH First Line: The night my father died the moon shone on the snow Last Line: Truant no more, I stepped forward and learned his death CLASH First Line: The butcher knife was there Last Line: When I learned tht great word -- 'choose' CLASS REUNION First Line: Where others ran I run my hand Last Line: Didn't mean to win like this. I mean, %they're gone. I mean,%I didn't win CLIMB First Line: One campfire higher every year Last Line: Then we may starve; it's climb-or-famine time CLIMBING ALONG THE RIVER First Line: Willows never forget how it feels Last Line: They crisscross forever COLOR THAT REALLY IS First Line: The color that really is comes over a desert Last Line: For those who survive past noon and by luck are saved %for awhile from those rays that could find an COLOR THAT REALLY IS First Line: It is my hope that those who blame Last Line: Events that I've turned into things to tell %if you like them, fine. If not, farewell COMING BACK First Line: Near your face a breath, your dog: 'it's day' COMING TO KNOW First Line: A balloon ascends on that path it finds COMMITMENT First Line: When you go away and the sun crosses COMPOSED, COMPOSED First Line: The flat people in magazines hear Last Line: Let there be light CONCEALMENT: ISHI, THE LAST WILD INDIAN First Line: A rock, a leaf, mud, even the grass Last Line: And sometimes whisper his name -- %'ishi' CONDITIONS First Line: Torn when winter came Last Line: It did. We understood CONFESSOR First Line: The girl hiding in the hall on the ferry Last Line: They one way, I another. I am their promise:%no one else is going to know CONNECTIONS First Line: Ours is a low, curst, under-swamp land Last Line: And if we purify the pond, the lilies die CONSERVATIVE First Line: Indiana felt the ice Last Line: For towns, I'll take this one CONSOLATIONS First Line: The broken part heals even stronger than the rest Last Line: Precious in your bleeding hands COURSE IN CREATIVE WRITING First Line: They want a wilderness with a map Last Line: Because you start. You blow a little whistle-%and a world begins under the map COYOTE First Line: My left hind- %foot Last Line: I wouldn't trade it for yours COYOTE IN THE ZOO First Line: A yellow eye meets mine Last Line: To the one that looks away CROSSING THE DESERT First Line: Little animals call Last Line: A light hanging in their eyes %returning our own DARK WIND First Line: Jean, who no longer is, was Last Line: My letters. I remember I learned she died, %all the air in the world pouring past DAY I GOT THE GOOD IDEA First Line: Had the right amount of rain, wind pushing it Last Line: Like standing barefoot on the picture on a dime DAY MILLICENT FOUND THE WORLD First Line: Every morning millicent ventured farther Last Line: Face now, with a new depth in it, into the light DAY TO REMEMBER First Line: I'm standing at lakeside drive with my bike Last Line: I belonged. It was 1935, the day %I became saved and a citizen of the world DAYS FOR THE WORLD First Line: That the world have days DEAR MARVIN First Line: I merge with your message wherever Last Line: There, your very best friend Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DEAR MOTHER First Line: Inside this camera I am tied to the film Last Line: I won't be home for a while DEDICATION First Line: We stood by the library. It was an august night Last Line: Toward some deathless meeting involving a crust of bread DEDICATIONS/PLEDGES/COMMITMENTS First Line: For the past Last Line: For following the little god who speaks only to me DEER STOLEN First Line: Deer have stood around our house Last Line: I follow them %through all the hush of long ago %to listen for what small deer know DEERSLAYER'S CAMPFIRE TALK First Line: At thousands of places on any Last Line: Unnoted clasp of the rock DENIAL First Line: Our on our deck four chairs Last Line: It's cool out here, isn't it? It's nice. %I like this day, and the air, and the sun DESIGN ON THE ORIOLE First Line: Dragon blood, they say - little emblems Last Line: Secret little punches through the hands DIFFERENT THINGS: 1 First Line: Steel hardly knows what a hint is, but for thistledown Last Line: Will remember a touch forever DIFFERENT THINGS: 2 First Line: One time I asked agnes to dance. How she Last Line: Fifty years later DIFFERENT THINGS: 3 First Line: Salmon return out of a wide ocean Last Line: Through the bitter current DIFFERENT THINGS: 4 First Line: Under sequoias, tiny blue flowers, dim Last Line: They reach deep into night for that color DISCOVERY First Line: Plowing the nest of the lark Last Line: On many a nest of song Subject(s): Farm Life DISPOSAL First Line: Paste her picture back of the mirror Last Line: Miles long like a thread along the wind DOCUMENTARY FROM AMERICA First Line: When the presidential candidate came to our town Last Line: A terrible lthing -- we said just as he said 'how do you do' DOUBT ON THE GREAT DIVIDE First Line: One of the lies the world is compelled to tell Last Line: Wire in the wind, and snow beginning to fall DREAM OF NOW First Line: When you wake to the dream of now Last Line: Your one little fire that will start again DREAMS TO HAVE First Line: They film a woman falling from a bridge Last Line: He has the sky DRIVING THE VALLEY ROAD First Line: It shocks even yet, that plunge DROPOUT First Line: Grundy and hoagland and all the rest who ganged Last Line: And never went back again Subject(s): Education; Schools DRUMMER BOY First Line: An army in the dust %raised by Last Line: But that's gone now %I skip in the gravel %all that I did has turned into this song' DUCKS DOWN IN THE MEADOW First Line: Stars, it is the end Last Line: The way it does for us EARLY MORNING First Line: Inside this dream to come awake Last Line: You, and come quiet into this place %and be your waking EARLY ONES First Line: They kept it all level EARTH First Line: When the earth doesn't shake, when the sky Last Line: The beginning of the world and the end Subject(s): Environment EARTH DWELLER First Line: It was all the clods at once become Last Line: The world speaks everything to us. %it is our only friend Subject(s): Farm Life EARTH DWELLER Poem Text First Line: It was all the clods at once become Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers EASTER MORNING First Line: Maybe someone comes to the door and says Last Line: While you hold the bible in one hand, lean forward %and say carefully, 'jesus?' ELEGY First Line: The responsible sound of the lawnmower Last Line: Come battering. I listen, am the same, waiting EMILY First Line: On that page where the whole world moved Last Line: Where the right word again begins time Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) ENTERING A WILDERNESS AREA First Line: Let air discover who you are, deliver Last Line: No boundary can stop you. %no woman. No man Subject(s): Nature EPIPHANIES OF AN OLD-MODEL HOOVER First Line: That time I glanced away when Last Line: By how I embrace it, all the world, all the sky, %and my hunger of love for whatever comes EPIPHANY First Line: You thinkers, prisoners of what will work Last Line: But I still call 'here, other, other' in the dark EPITAPH ENDING IN AND First Line: In the last storm, when hawks Last Line: Doves did not know where to fly, and Subject(s): Judgment Day; Millenium ESCAPE First Line: Now as we cross this white page together Last Line: Down the page and on out like this over the edge ESKIMO NATIONAL ANTHEM First Line: Wherever I work, some vibration Last Line: Hand, it is a kind of a comfort %al-eena, al-wona EVEN NOW First Line: Wherever I go such winter shakes our town Last Line: Flapped a message I can't quite read, %caught in such wind EVENING NEWS First Line: That one great window puts forth Last Line: Everything go deep again EVENT AT BIG EDDY First Line: The whole weight of the river Last Line: Everyone run into the street, and know, %and hold the face still with both hands EVOLUTION First Line: The thing is, I'm still Last Line: I sing, and a song shaped like a bird %flies out of my mouth EXISTENCES First Line: Half-wild, I hear a wolf Last Line: I am a track in the dust EXPERIMENTS First Line: Part of the cost, we knew, was the pain Last Line: Too near the room where my comfort is FALL JOURNEY First Line: Evening came, a paw, to the gray hut by the river Last Line: And then I stopped: my father's eyes were gray Subject(s): Family Life; Memory FALL JOURNEY Poem Text First Line: Evening came, a paw, to the gray hut by the river Subject(s): Family Life; Memory; Relatives FALL WIND First Line: Pods of summer crowd around the door Last Line: Once for thin walls, once for the sound of time Subject(s): Travel FAME First Line: My book fell in a river and rolled Last Line: To come, and the long nights, and the snow FAMILY TURN First Line: All her kamikaze friends admired my aunt Last Line: Pause -- 'and it's never been.' Subject(s): Aunts FAREWELL IN TUMBLEWEED TIME First Line: One after another, fish fast over the fence Last Line: Like the eagles that keep the mountains clean FAREWELL PICTURE First Line: My eyes look their twinned corridor far Last Line: Smash on my father's face like a valentine FAREWELL, AGE TEN First Line: While its owner looks away I touch the rabbit Last Line: But I will never pet the rabbit again FARM ON THE GREAT PLAINS First Line: A telephone line goes cold Last Line: Pacing toward what I know Subject(s): Farm Life; Mormons FATHER AND SON First Line: No sound -- a spell -- on, on out Last Line: The other end -- I hold that string FATHER'S VOICE First Line: No need to get home early Last Line: In the earth, in the air, in the rock FAUX PAS First Line: Waiting seems to be best. Your remark might FERNS First Line: After the firestorms that end history Last Line: And our thought swims into the air FICTION First Line: We would get a map of our farm as big Last Line: Just on the ground-he couldn't even %read-going our to slop the hogs FICTIONS First Line: They make a song for their dogs, up north Last Line: Autumn, under the free-spending sycamores FIFTEEN First Line: South of the bridge on seventeenth Last Line: He ran his hand %over it, called me good man, roared away. %I stood there, fifteen FINAL EXAM: AMERICAN RFENAISSANCE First Line: Fill in blanks: your name is Last Line: In a few choice words, tell why FINDING OUT First Line: No, not dark. Even at night a glow from a shaft Last Line: How I was in the world-%maybe to help you-a long time ago FIRST GRADE First Line: In the play amy didn't want to be Last Line: So amy was amy, and we didn't have the play %and sharon cried Subject(s): Education; Schools FIRST GRADE Poem Text First Line: In the play amy didn't want to be Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students FIRST WAR First Line: Soldiers wore puttees, then. That was Last Line: Unwound their puttees, and had legs again FISH COUNTER AT BONNEVILLE First Line: Downstream they have killed the river and built a dam Last Line: So many chinook souls, so many silverside FIVE A.M. First Line: Still dark, the early morning breathes Last Line: The air doesn't stir. Rain touches my face FIXERS First Line: On back roads you can find people Last Line: There!' FLAUBERT AT CROISSET First Line: The wind would veer, and over the sound Last Line: Often. Listening to them I died: %I died for every word Subject(s): Death; Wind FLOWERS AT AN AIRPORT First Line: Part of the time sun, part of Last Line: Shares in what lasts and lasts FOLK SONG First Line: First no sound, then you hear it Last Line: Come true in the air again FOLLOWING First Line: There dwelt in a cave, and winding I thought lower Last Line: Just count on the wheel, and the wheel remembers the sound FOR A CHILD GONE TO LIVE IN A COMMUNE First Line: Outside our ways you found Last Line: Those empty spaces. It has found them FOR A DAUGHTER GONE AWAY First Line: When they shook the box, and poured out its chances Subject(s): Absence; Daughters FOR A LOST CHILD First Line: What happens is, the kind of snow that sweeps Last Line: I find your note left from a trip that year %our family traveled: 'daddy, we would meet here' Subject(s): Healing FOR A LOST CHILD Poem Text First Line: What happens is, the kind of snow that sweeps Subject(s): Healing; Cures FOR A MARKER First Line: Where I lay first the grass Last Line: That first long night I listened, %going into the ground FOR A PLAQUE ON THE DOOR OF AN ISOLATED HOUSE First Line: Someone here, listen to your pulsed and breathing Last Line: But there are little rooms in your life like %this pause at the door, someone. Here FOR ALEXIS CHRISTA VON HARTMANN: PROVED NOT GUILTY First Line: It takes awhile, recovering. You confess Last Line: And so quietly you didn't know it was gone. %it is now. You are walking. It is evening FOR MY YOUNG FRIENDS WHO ARE AFRAID First Line: There is a country to cross you will Last Line: That's the world, and we all live there FOR THE GOVERNOR First Line: Heartbeat by heartbeat our governor tours Last Line: And beyond that the waves and the miles and %the waves FOR THE GRAVE OF DANIEL BOONE First Line: The farther he went the farther home grew Last Line: Here on his grace I put it down Subject(s): Boone, Daniel (1734-1820) FOR THE UNKNOWN ENEMY First Line: This monument is for the unknown Last Line: This monument is for you FOR YOU, WALT WHITMAN First Line: Here is a message for you-the whole world sent it Last Line: And maybe even the large gray world you were standing on Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) FORGING A PASSPORT First Line: On the north side where wind and water Subject(s): World War Ii - Japanese-americans FORM OUR BALLOON OVER THE PROVINCES First Line: From our balloon floating early Last Line: We are-reaches us millions of ways: %little fireflies quiet as truth %climbing their invisible trell FORT ROCK First Line: Dead grass makes an arc on the sand Last Line: Falling toward them all the time %at their front door FOUND IN A STORM First Line: A storm that needed a mountain Last Line: Meanings in search of a world FOUR OAK LEAVES First Line: When I was green, everyone loved me. Bees Last Line: As you can, then thrust forth: make truth your home FREEDOM First Line: Freedom is not following a river Last Line: If you wake up before other people Subject(s): Freedom FRIEND First Line: For anyone, for anyone Last Line: He runs on through the withering world FRIEND WHO NEVER CAME First Line: It has not been given me to have a friend Last Line: Sometimes in the sun today I glimpse that world in the blue FRIENDS First Line: How far friends are! They forget you Last Line: But this familiar pen that comforts %near things:friend, here's my hand Subject(s): Travel FRIENDS, FAREWELL First Line: After the chores are done I tune Last Line: But I want you all to bea easy after %I'm gone:nobody hear,nobody care, %and the stars go on FRIENDS: A RECOGNITION First Line: It came silent in my thought Last Line: Could save, those friends whose faces followed %me and shone forth everywhere FROM BEHIND THESE VINES First Line: We thought if we swept the ground FROM EASTERN OREGON First Line: Your day self shimmers at the mouth of a desert cave Last Line: Not any day, not here FROM HALLMARK OR SOMEWHERE First Line: Think now of a mountain-say, that one Last Line: You tap on the card and ponder. Strange- %you care whether the card is true FROM THE GRADUAL GRASS First Line: Imagine a voice calling Last Line: My mother, lost in my stride, fears death %as I hunt him GAEA First Line: Our earth, the whole of it, is alive, they say Last Line: Everyone, stop whatever you're doing %and listen Subject(s): Nature GARDEN CITY First Line: That town, those days, composed grand Last Line: Reels down the white line toward home GESTURE TOWARD AN UNFOUND RENAISSANCE First Line: There was the slow girl in art class Last Line: Look back through the door that always closes GIFT First Line: The writer's home he salvages from little pieces Last Line: Begin again, you tame onces; listen -- the roads are your home again GIFT First Line: Time wants to show you a different country. It's the one GIFT FOR KIT First Line: Fence wire sang - spring wind Last Line: Being alive. I brought it home this tumbleweed GIRL DADDY USED TO KNOW First Line: Winter adopted her Last Line: Wouldn't let go of those hills GIRL ENGAGED TO THE BOY WHO DIED First Line: A part of the wind goes around her face Last Line: And the weeds in the drive, for years GIRL WHO DIED, WHO LIVED First Line: Last night an old sound came be chance Last Line: Fingers in the rain still identify her face GLANCES First Line: Two people meet. The sky turns winter Last Line: Calm and still on a speeding stone GLASS FACE IN THE RAIN First Line: Sometime you'll walk all night. You'll Last Line: Who remember well, there will come %a glass face, invisible but still and real, %all night outside I GLIMPSE BETWEEN BUILDINGS First Line: Now that the moon is out of a job Last Line: Help me do right GLIMPSE BY THE PATH First Line: Mitten, follow that hand.' all Last Line: Glove in the snow, snow-filled GLIMPSE IN THE CROWD First Line: A parachute catches and suddenly you know Last Line: A widening place-almost,almost... %then suddenly you begin falling again GLIMPSED ON THE WAY First Line: Think of the miles we left Last Line: Somewhere ahead that cliff %still goes GLIMPSES First Line: One time when the wind blows it is years Last Line: For clues-just being is a big enough job, %no time for anything else GLIMPSES IN THE WOODS First Line: Don't you want people to think well of you Last Line: Weakness: teach me the sacred blur GRACE ABOUNDING First Line: Air crowds into my cell so considerately Last Line: Branch of a willow inclining toward earth, %may teach me how to join earth and sky GROUND ZERO (DECEMBER 1982) First Line: A bomb photographed me on the stone Last Line: I am so white on the stone GROUND ZERO (JUNE 1982) First Line: While we slept Last Line: And the flowers bending, and the far-off bird wings GROWING UP First Line: One of my wings beat faster Last Line: How I loved that terrible flame GUN OF BILLY THE KID First Line: When they factoried billy's gun Last Line: As one of the truths to tell GUTTERS OF JACKSON: CACHE STREET NORTH First Line: Gum wrappers with nothing, coors can Last Line: In the dark when they closed his tomb HAIL MARY First Line: Cedars darkened their slow way Last Line: Like them, dark by dark by dark HANGING TOUGH First Line: All right, I'll ask about home:-how is the grass Last Line: Their lives they'll just have to take care of all alone, %for themselves HAPPY IN SUNLIGHT First Line: Maybe it's out by glass butte Last Line: You're there, no one else, and the fence wire sings HAVE YOU HEARD THIS ONE? First Line: A woman forged her face Last Line: And los angeles %and chicago %and HAVING THE RIGHT NAME First Line: It is like a color inside your head that Last Line: Lost in the snow all night: any track %spells the needed word at dawn when you look out HAYCUTTERS First Line: Time tells them. They go along touching Last Line: Some year we'll have perfect hay Subject(s): Hay And Haymaking HEAD WITH A PH.D First Line: In this head is the sky. The dome HEARD UNDER A TIN SIGN AT THE BEACH First Line: I am the wind. Long ago Last Line: These times again, no matter how far HEARING THE WIND First Line: What the pines are saying - it isn't words - whispers to the edge HERO First Line: What if he came back, astounded Last Line: It takes to build the high walls of rome HERON IN RESIDENCE First Line: Our high-shouldered patient HIDE AND GO SEEK AT THE CEMETERY First Line: Where snow can't find them Last Line: And then the snow HOLCOMB, KANSAS First Line: The city man got dust on his shoes and carried Last Line: Deal with real killers only when they come HOLDING THE SKY First Line: We saw a town by the track in colorado Last Line: Those dark mountains have never wavered Subject(s): Railroads HOME STATE First Line: You can see mountains propped there Last Line: That sometime you might go away HOMECOMING First Line: Under my hat I custom you intricate, ella Last Line: Remember, tom? She's that girl we once spoke of HONEYSUCKLE First Line: Not yet old enough, still only a kid Last Line: That flavor lasts a long time, forever HOW I ENDURED First Line: My part of life now learns Last Line: Go away, and the ironing board stay, %awkward and ignorant as ever HOW I ESCAPED First Line: A sign said how to be wild Last Line: I walk what I mean HOW IT GOES First Line: It happens behind my eyes, this kingdom Last Line: I raise the hammer and breathe, and tap again HOW IT IS First Line: It is war. They put us on a train and Last Line: I'm not a soldier, I want to say %but the gaze is left behind. And I'm gone HOW IT IS WITH FAMILY First Line: Let's assume you have neglected to write Last Line: Just write, 'bob,' or 'peg,' 'it's me - send the money HOW THESE WORDS HAPPENED First Line: In winter, in the dark hours, when others Last Line: In those dark hours when others sleep HOW TO BE LUCKY First Line: Curtains at dawn catch that Last Line: One of those poems or stories of leslsie's %just emerges andwaits, looking at him HOW TO GET BACK First Line: By believing, you can get there -that edge Last Line: And themselves and the whole world %hover in belief. They've never been gone HOW TO REGAIN YOUR SOUL First Line: Come down canyon creek trail on a summer Last Line: And then shines back through the white wings to %be you again HUMAN CONDITION First Line: If there is a forest anywhere Last Line: There are these farms Subject(s): Farm Life HUMANITIES 101 First Line: Professor bob, walking over from savier street Last Line: Almost over, almost a book again HUMANITIES LECTURE First Line: Aristotle was a little man with HUNTING First Line: What the keen hound followed Last Line: Once near, and our own, and real I WAS IN THE CITY ALL DAY First Line: Into the desert, trading people for horses Last Line: One meaning like a bird slipping out into the dark ICE-FISHING First Line: Not thinking other than how the hand works Last Line: My boots, my hat, my body go IDENTITIES First Line: If a life could own another life Last Line: On bark, my stilled face alone-- %then water, then gravel, then stone IF I COULD BE LIKE WALLACE STEVENS First Line: The octopus would be my model Last Line: I'd say, 'talk some more. Boast again' %and I'd play the banjo and sing IF ONLY First Line: If only the wind moved, outside, and all else waited Last Line: Turn with one long reverent look, %and go tumbling downwind calling the names Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 IMPASSE First Line: Something shines through the mountains. I follow it Last Line: You just have to wait. That's how the mountains %do it, and all the earth, and the stars IN A CORNER First Line: Walls hold each other up when they meet Last Line: And I roll my head for the world, for its need %and this wild, snuggling need and pain of my own IN A MUSEUM IN THE CAPITAL First Line: Think of the shark's tiny brain Last Line: Every second wandering down like a snowflake %while an avalanche whispers our names IN A NORTHWEST MUSEUM First Line: This man - tlingit - filed his teeth to tear IN ANY COUNTRY First Line: Someone swims near in this restless water IN CAMP First Line: That winter of the war, every day Last Line: I'd still study the gospel and play the accordion IN DEAR DETAIL, BY IDEAL LIGHT First Line: Night huddled our town Last Line: By ideal light all around us IN FEAR AND VALOR First Line: My mother was afraid Last Line: My mother, lost in my stride, fears death, %as I hunt him IN FOG First Line: In fog a tree steps back Last Line: Inside: the universe that happens %deep and steadily IN FUR First Line: They hurt no one. They rove the north Last Line: They stand together. The future comes IN MEDIAS RES First Line: On main one night when they sounded the chimes Last Line: And our town burned and burned IN OUR STATE NO ONE EVER First Line: No one ever cared Last Line: We held out a hand IN RESPONSE TO A QUESTION First Line: The earth says have a place, be what that place Last Line: Listening, I think that's what the earth says IN SUBLETTE'S BARN First Line: Sublette moved up the cimarron alert Last Line: Comes here quietly still lost, trying to tell us what he means IN THE BACKYARD First Line: Something beyond us bends over town IN THE COLD First Line: When I got out of the rocket Last Line: It will touch everything IN THE DEEP CHANNEL First Line: Setting a trotline after sundown Last Line: To feel the swerve and the deep current %which tugged at the tree roots below the river IN THE DESERT First Line: What is that stiff figure Last Line: I hold up my hand for shade IN THE MORNING ALL OVER First Line: High there in our grove the little birds Last Line: Now let's have a song, just to hold the walls up: %many ways to go, the best wall is the wind IN THE MUSEUM First Line: Like that, I put the next thing in your hand Last Line: And swim away into their future waves IN THE NIGHT DESERT First Line: The apache word for love twists Last Line: Turns at a touch, the night desert %forever behind her back IN THE OLD DAYS First Line: The wide field that was the rest of the world Last Line: We knew that the night she had put into a story was real IN THE OREGON COUNTRY First Line: From old fort walla walla and the klickitats Last Line: Gorged with yew trees that were good for bows IN THE WHITE SKY First Line: Many things in the world have Last Line: Some days I think about it INCIDENT First Line: They had this cloud they kept like a zeppelin Last Line: But it finally said, 'ok, forget it' but, quietly, %to us, it whispered, 'let's get out of here' INDIAN CAVE JERRY RAMSEY FOUND First Line: Brown, brittle, wait-a-bit weeds Last Line: Old reflections. And then I breathe INDIAN CAVES IN THE DRY COUNTRY First Line: These are some canyons Last Line: We might use again %sometime INTERLUDE First Line: Think of a river beyond your thought Last Line: And wait for the wonder of that face INTRODUCTION TO SOME POEMS First Line: Look: no one ever promised for sure Last Line: Good: now it is time Subject(s): Aunts ISLAND MURMUR First Line: In the cimarron hills Last Line: Over the curve the world was of %in the cimarron hills ISLANDS First Line: There could be an island Last Line: But one should never neglect %anything, anything IT IS TIME YOU THINK First Line: Deaf to process, alive only to ends Last Line: Unless and until by god it happens to me IT RODE WITH US First Line: All things had their place. Even the wind Last Line: And called wherever my father drove, %'here, here, here' IT'S LIKE WYOMING First Line: At sunset you have piled the empties and Last Line: Barbed wire, field, you, night JACK LONDON First Line: Teeth meet on a jugular, pause, and bite Last Line: And exercise our song, from the island world Subject(s): London, Jack (1876-1916) JEFFERSON COUNTY First Line: A formal county like that JOB First Line: It starts before light Last Line: Begin -- translating the vast versions of the wind JOE'S CORNER First Line: That is his jacket. These are Last Line: When we thought there would be tomorrows JOURNEY First Line: Through many doors it's been - through Last Line: Whatever I touched led on JOURNEY First Line: You ramble over the wilderness, a bear or Last Line: A wolf? No, you can't %but you were JOURNEY First Line: Through many doors it's been-through Last Line: I am the door,' someone said. I closed my eyes;%whatever I touched led on JUDGMENTS First Line: I accuse - %ellen: you have become forty years old Last Line: And I am accused, and I accuse JUNCOS First Line: They operate from elsewhere Last Line: Clean little coveralls Subject(s): Birds JUST TO LET YOU KNOW First Line: The road from bend, looking for a way Last Line: Went there for, the other things - %they are still up there KANSAS HONK First Line: Down the road honk, clang Last Line: Honk if you love kansas KEEPING A JOURNAL First Line: At night it was easy for me with my little candle Last Line: Recognized itself and passed into meaning KEEPSAKES First Line: Star guides Last Line: Or that our storm is the right size KINSHIP First Line: In a wilderness at the end of a vine Last Line: Lost as %it ever was, racing to stay the same KNOWING First Line: To know the other world you turn Last Line: More than can be told:even the world %can't dive fast enough to know that other world KOLOB CANYON First Line: The storm is coming because Last Line: That is why evening steals %past the angel and surrounds you. %that is why the storm comes Subject(s): Nature LAKE CHELAN First Line: They call it regional, this relevance LANTERN, MAGIC First Line: Here is that far, deep country I've %told you about. Here's lightining then Last Line: Now I put the magic lantern away %some other day we'll have lightngin again LAST DAY First Line: Finally rain gives the blessing. It anoints LAST DAY First Line: To geronimo rocks were the truth Last Line: Then he could fall LAST FRIEND First Line: In every life poor body earns its own evil Last Line: Poor body, poor lover, in one grave buried LAST TIME First Line: They headed toward the platte, a lawn like texas Last Line: In the scenery of their fathers, their centuries' end LAST VACATION First Line: Mountains crowded around on the north Last Line: Like a bent jail sky over two meteors LATE AT NIGHT First Line: Falling separate into the dark Last Line: We live in a terrible season LATE FLIGHT First Line: Home from far, moon on the wing Last Line: Saying itself, saying light, saying %'it's hard.' 'I'm alone.' 'where are the years?' LATE GUEST First Line: I guess I thought it was music-that sound Last Line: Revelers, I'm sorry: I have to knock %in order to know if it really is music LATE THINKER First Line: Remembering mountain farms Last Line: Any night by the steady stove LATE, PASSING PRAIRIE FARM First Line: All night like a star a single bulb LATER First Line: Sometimes, loping along, I almost find Last Line: With our faces near and begin our low whine %that means we are on the trail the wolves have gone LEARNED AT THE WEAVERS' BARN First Line: You can thread heddles from the center-- Last Line: Comes up from the way materials form. %'some stuff by other stuff gives you ideas.' LEARNING First Line: A needle knows everything lengthwise Last Line: And it is late, I know it LEARNING TO LIKE THE NEW SCHOOL First Line: They brought me where it was bright and said Last Line: The world is no test-'so you got here, fine,' any new place says. And you say, 'yes, I'm here' LECTURE ON THE ELEGY First Line: An elegy is really about the wilting of a flower Last Line: And surrounded with labels: 'war' 'catastrophe' %'death' LEFT FOR THE BACK PAGES First Line: Here in the back pages hide the little Last Line: Hide in the grass and run wild with truth %to defy the king,to deny my fear? LETTER First Line: Dear governor Last Line: The calk night -- often recur to you %sincerely %a friend LETTER FROM OREGON First Line: Mother, here there are shadowy salmon LETTER NOT EVEN TO DELIVER First Line: The world often has a quiet look Last Line: Only the brownest birds that come here belong here LETTER NOT TO DELIVER First Line: Why should it be anguish (but anguish Last Line: It is all there is. And because I like %your face, when you turn toward me %I hear a long silence LETTING YOU GO First Line: Day brings what is going to be. Trees Last Line: Now when they ask me who you were %I remember, but remember my promise %and I say, 'no one' LEVEL LIGHT First Line: Sometimes the light when evening fails Last Line: In one stride night then takes the hill LIFE WORK First Line: Even now in my hands the feel of the shovel comes back Last Line: And the sky, and steady against my back, the earth LIFE, A RITUAL First Line: My mother had a child, one dark Last Line: Is for you, is for you LIGHT BY THE BARN First Line: The light by the barn that shines all night Last Line: Then the light by the barn again LIGHT, AND MY SUDDEN FACE First Line: I am the man whose heart for Last Line: I range the whole world in the dark %to hammer on doors with my heart LIKE A LITTLE STONE First Line: Like a little stone, feel the shadow of the great earth Last Line: The centers of stones need your prayers LIMBER GULLS OWNING THE WIND First Line: In my sleep they take place, each with LISTENING First Line: My father could hear a little animal step Last Line: Waiting for a time when something in the night %will touch us too from that other place LISTENING AT LITTLE LAKE ELKHART First Line: What signal brought us, following the faintest of trails? Last Line: The world has this voice; it wanders; it is lost %in the night and the stars. It cannot find where t Subject(s): Religion LIT INSTRUCTOR First Line: Day after day up there beating my wings Last Line: And the saying of it is a lonely thing LITTLE GIFT First Line: Fur came near, night inside it Last Line: All the way inward from the hole in my eye LITTLE GIRL BY THE FENCE AT SCHOOL First Line: Grass that was moving found all shades of brown Last Line: The sky -- the sky -- the sky LITTLE LOST ORPHANS First Line: Leaves took them in, lost Last Line: Hands curled for orphans and all their tomorrows LITTLE NIGHT STORIES First Line: There was a certain flake. For miles it Last Line: And we have to embrace all we are, in this, %our story: a flake, a flake, a flake LITTLE ROOM First Line: When I woke up at the beach Last Line: Then I moved my hand LITTLE ROOMS First Line: I rock high in the oak - secure, big branches Last Line: On the mane of the wind, like this, to give it to you LITTLE SERMON First Line: The butterfly, the bee, the hummingbird LITTLE WAYS THAT ENCOURAGE GOOD FORTUNE First Line: Wisdom is having things right in your life Last Line: No luck, no help, no wisdom LIVING First Line: Even pain you can take, in waves Last Line: Someday your road LIVING HERE First Line: In babylon, where I live now, revenge LIVING ON THE PLAINS First Line: That winter when this thought came -- how the river Last Line: And how the world can't keep up with our dreams LONESOME First Line: If you care, come by. We have Last Line: A million times, each time forever LONG DISTANCE (1) First Line: Sometimes when you watch the fire Last Line: You think they are Subject(s): Supernatural LONG DISTANCE (2) First Line: We didn't know at the time. It was Last Line: And nobody heard LOOK First Line: From my head this bubble labeled 'love' Last Line: Any time, ay time, big ideas come along %this bubble here is always ready, for you LOOK RETURNED First Line: At the border of october Last Line: And learn my life LOOKING ACROSS THE RIVER First Line: We were driving the river road Last Line: Whatever is near, come close %I have been over the water %and lived there all alone LOOKING FOR GOLD First Line: A flavor like wild honey begins Last Line: Wise in its flavor, a native of the sun LOOKING FOR SOMEONE First Line: Many a time driving over the coast range Last Line: Though we met, everything had to change LOOKING FOR YOU THROUGH THE GRAY RAIN Last Line: Looking for you through the gray rain LOOKING OUT AND STAYING TRUE First Line: The main thing meant this morning is LOOKING UP AT NIGHT First Line: It's awful stillness the moon feels, how the earth Last Line: And sand the old eternal cities and monuments and mountains. LOOKING WEST First Line: When I burned our leaves, a wind from the dark Last Line: And glowed a long time before it went out LORE First Line: Dogs that eat fish edging tidewater die Last Line: Brings in something else when the sun goes down LOSING A FRIEND First Line: Open the rain and go in LOST IN THE CENTURIES First Line: I went out on a week end. Quiet had come back LOST METEORITE IN THE COAST RANGE First Line: No foot comes here, where Last Line: Through the still sky LOVE IN THE COUNTRY First Line: We live like this: no one but Last Line: What has already been given us LOVE THE BUTCHER BIRD LURKS EVERYWHERE First Line: A gather of apricots fruit pickers left Last Line: Forsake all ways except the way we came LYF SO SHORT First Line: We have lived in that room larger than the world Last Line: That went into dirt, out of the world MAGIC MOUNTAIN First Line: A book opens. People come out, bend Last Line: Air. They took someone away. It's ending, %the book is ending. But I thought - never mind. It closes MANY THINGS ARE HIDDEN BY THE LIGHT First Line: Now I remember, letting the dark Last Line: Reeling our steadiness toward our terrible homes MAYBE First Line: Maybe (it's a fear), maybe Last Line: Maybe those who sang %were the lucky ones MAYBE ALONE ON MY BIKE First Line: I listen, and the mountain lakes Last Line: And I hear in the chain a chuckle I like to hear MEDITATION First Line: Animals full of light Last Line: Letting it happen again, %and again and again MEETING ROETHKE First Line: I'd see him dance into the room MEIN KAMPF First Line: In those reaches of the night when your thoughts Last Line: You must bear it. You need a thick shell in that rain MEMORANDUM First Line: You'll see sometime - half %of the world will fracture Last Line: Lean at once. And only some of the %things that shine are mean MEMORIAL DAY First Line: Said a blind fish loved that lake Last Line: I don't much go for chrome MEMORIAL FOR MY MOTHER First Line: For long my life left hers. It went Last Line: On our town's rough rind. How we loved its flavor MEMORIAL: SON BRET First Line: In the way you went you were important Last Line: Set off like other strangers %the bees, the wind Subject(s): Healing MEN First Line: After a war come the memorials Last Line: And they establish foundations and give %some of the money back MERCI BEAUCOUP First Line: It would help if no one ever mentioned Last Line: Holding the fork right, learning to say, 'likewise MESSAGE FROM SPACE First Line: Everything that happens is the message Last Line: Stillness unfolding their careful words %'everything counts.The message is the world' MESSAGE FROM THE WANDERER First Line: Today outside your prison I stand Last Line: There will be that form in the grass MIDWEST First Line: West of your city into the fern Last Line: Come west and see; touch these leaves MOLES First Line: Every day that their sky droops Last Line: They shrug dirt along their way, %and I rumble on through sorrows Subject(s): Animals; Moles MOMENT First Line: It happens lonely -- no one Last Line: They don't have it MOMENT AGAIN First Line: In breath, where kingdoms hide Last Line: As you say 'hello' to whoever it is %waiting again MONDAY First Line: Awake, like a hippopotomus with eyes bulged Last Line: I gradually become young, surge from the covers, %and go to work MONTANA ECLOGUE First Line: After the fall drive, the last Last Line: One flake at a time teaches %grace, even to stone Subject(s): Montana MONUMENTS FOR A FRIENDLY GIRL AT A TENTH GRADE PARTY First Line: The only relics left are those long Subject(s): African Americans - History; Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915) MORNING First Line: From high tide in the night a dead Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters MORNING TRAIN First Line: A yearning cry brandished from the north MORNINGS First Line: Quiet %rested, the brain begins to burn Last Line: The trees at the day, hill by hill %light MOTHER'S DAY First Line: Peg said, 'this one,' and we bought it Last Line: She will never be mad at us again Subject(s): Mother's Day MOUNTAIN THAT GOT LITTLE First Line: Hidden far somewhere trembling with Last Line: But here in our house we always would %know if there was a mountain, %no matter how little it is MOUSE NIGHT: ONE OF OUR GAMES First Line: We heard thunder. Nothing great - on high Last Line: It takes a man %to be a mouse this night,' he said Subject(s): Mice MR. FEAR First Line: At the last he knew everyone Last Line: They remembered that smile %long after they turned away MR. OR MRS. NOBODY First Line: Some days when you look out, the land Last Line: Today. And maybe all of the time MUCH HAVE I TRAVELED First Line: When we heard it like the ocean Last Line: There is no other tide %so strong as this tide %in the silence of the world MURDER BRIDGE First Line: You look over the edge, down, down Last Line: Shining, and that mother recovered and crying %in our world saying, 'little ones, little ones' MUSEUM AT TILLAMOOK First Line: Still faces on the wall: that look Last Line: Into joe's hollow tree MY FATHER: OCTOBER 1942 First Line: He picks up what he thinks is Last Line: Or wrong. He just wins or loses Subject(s): Fathers MY HANDS First Line: It is time for applause. My hands rest Last Line: Sure, always loyal to me MY LIFE First Line: In my cradle and then driving Last Line: Spins backward, and then I am gone %and pretty soon there isn't any world MY MOTHER WAS A SOLDIER First Line: If no one moved on order, she would kill Last Line: My mother said; 'that's the sound that finally wins.' MY PARENTS WERE SIMPLE FOLK First Line: While the hunter plunged where he wanted to go Last Line: How that hunter was led. Now I can sight many corridors %wide as the world, right down the middle of MY PARTY THE RAIN First Line: Loves upturned faces, loves everybody Last Line: A long session, governor. Who knows the end NEAR First Line: Walking along in this not quite prose way Last Line: To flame what we know, before any signal's given NEAR EDINBURGH CASTLE First Line: Wind riffles a telephone book Last Line: Their only grave is the sea NETWORK First Line: It shakes whenever you try - the tree by the door Last Line: Long after you're gone. That's why it's home NEW LETTERS FROM THOMAS JEFFERSON First Line: Dear sir %in washington we are breathing very sincerely Last Line: Particles were signaling what I cannot see %as ever %thomas jefferson NEWS EVERY DAY First Line: Birds don't say it just once. If they like it Last Line: Birds are like that. People are like that NEXT TIME First Line: Next time what I'd do is look at Last Line: The body glowing inside the clothes %like a light NO ONE WHO TRUSTS WORDS CAN LEARN Last Line: May turn from words and listen %toward the stone NORTH OF LIBERAL First Line: You open your mouth to say, 'wait!' Last Line: Forty years ago someone %did not come to meet you NOT HAVING WINGS First Line: If I had a wing it might hurt Last Line: Again. Take it easy, world, old friend NOT POLICY, BUT LOVE First Line: Regarding river lights Last Line: I watched those river lights %with long regard NOT VERY LOUD First Line: Now is the time of the moths that come Last Line: All through those long nights in our still, %vacant houses, if there is another war NOTE First Line: Straw, feathers, dust Last Line: That's the way the wind goes Subject(s): Wind NOTE SLID UNDER THE DOOR First Line: Some people don't know this Subject(s): Nuclear War NOTICE WHAT THIS POEM IS NOT DOING First Line: The light along the hills in the morning Last Line: Notice what this poem has not done NOTICING First Line: Often a crumb on my plate at the last NOVEMBER First Line: From the sky in the form of snow Last Line: Beside me, I too will come NOW First Line: Where we live, the teakettle whistles out Last Line: They ask how we are. It is this year NOW WAIT First Line: If you close this book, one page Last Line: Your eyes, my lips, your ears, my %heart. This book takes them,%to press, to keep%now start OBJECTOR First Line: In line at lunch I cross my fork and spoon Last Line: Cross: never to kill and call it fate OBSERVATION CAR AND CIGAR First Line: Tranquility as his breath, his eye a camera Last Line: Our loves are brought %before us and followed securely into a new evening ODE TO GARLIC First Line: Sudden, it came for you Last Line: Like a child again, you breathe on the world, and it %shines Subject(s): Garlic; Taste (sense) OLD BLUE First Line: Some day I'll crank up that corvette, let it Last Line: The person they slighted, this is my address: 'gone OLD DOG First Line: Toward the last in the morning she could not Last Line: And patted her still, a good last friend OLD FRIENDS First Line: I knew that summer well OLD HAMER PLACE First Line: The wind came every night like an animal Last Line: And a little bird came to sing our walls down OLD PICKEREL IN WALDEN POND First Line: One winter-open, I remember it was Last Line: That night the whole ice eye filled up with snow OLD WRITER'S WELCOME TO THE NEW First Line: Somewhere out there new light ON A CHURCH LAWN First Line: Dandelion cavalry, light little saviors Last Line: God is not big; he is right ON BEING INVITED TO A TESTIMONIAL DINNER First Line: We are trained and quiet intellectuals ON DON QUIXOTE'S HORSE First Line: Loose reins, the pony finds Last Line: Trained not to be trained ON EARTH First Line: Any sun that comes, even Last Line: Gift we hold, while we look around. ON HER SLATE AT SCHOOL MY MOTHER WROTE 'WINTER' Last Line: For awhile, children, %the trees around us have those years in them ON QUITTING A LITTLE COLLEGE First Line: By footworn boards, by steps Last Line: Ahead and go in my own way %toward my own place ON THE BOOKRACK AT CORNER DRUGS First Line: Second chance at love leands toward Last Line: Good morning, grumpy' printed on its generous side ON THE COAST First Line: Rain drives flat at our shack on the coast ON THE GLASS ICE First Line: It was time. Arriving at long lake the storm Last Line: I skated and skated till the lake was drowned ON THE QUIET First Line: The way mushrooms arrive, it is dark ON THE ROAD LAST NIGHT First Line: On the road last night I heard the tires Last Line: Always expected-'hello, glad to meet you,' %'goodby, so long.' and then just the road ON THE WRITING OF POETRY First Line: A writer is not so much someone who has something to say Last Line: And if I let them string out, surprising things will happen Subject(s): Language; Men ONCE IN A DREAM First Line: Once after we hid from each other you passed Last Line: Each in a separate room, more than %ever alive but never again to touch, %even in a place called hom ONCE IN THE 40'S First Line: We were alone one night on a long Last Line: A night like this, whatever we had to give %and no matter how far, to be so happy again ONCE MEN WERE CREATED First Line: A whistle had already loomed, outside Last Line: And sends anthems like this over the grave ONE GOOD THING First Line: One good thing, you can't get Last Line: And sometimes it seems like in the world %I don't have any other friends ONE HOME First Line: Mine was a midwest home -- you can keep your world Last Line: Wherever we looked the land would hold us up Subject(s): Home ONE HOME Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Mine was a midwest home -- you can keep your world Subject(s): Home ONE LIFE First Line: Pascal glanced at infinity Last Line: And the king, god was the only friend ONE OF THE YEARS First Line: Hat pulled low at work Last Line: Take the first snowflake ONE OF YOUR LIVES First Line: One of your lives, hurt by the mere sight of Last Line: Why you feel it so well %it is yours ONE TIME First Line: When evening had flowed between houses Last Line: And I reached, our hands touched %and we found our way home ONLY CARD I GOT ON MY BIRTHDAY WAS FROM INSURANCE MAN First Line: On upland farms into abandoned wells Last Line: Who travel these lonely wells can drink that star OREGON MESSAGE First Line: When we moved here, pulled %the trees in around us Last Line: Places! Best wishes. %burn this ORIGINS First Line: So long ago that we weren't people then Last Line: Who will accept us wanderers? Where is our home? OUR CAVE First Line: Because it was good, we were afraid Last Line: We buried in it the best things we had %and covered it over with branches and leaves Variant Title(s): Cav OUR CITY IS GUARDED BY AUTOMATIC ROCKETS First Line: Breaking every law except the one Last Line: Or go on in the dark with nobody listening OUR KIND First Line: Our mother knew our worth Last Line: But over their shoulders, god and %our mother, signaling:'ridiculous' OUR LIFE First Line: We should give it away, this breath Last Line: But always on solid earth, %so true, so near, so right OUR PEOPLE First Line: Under the killdeer cry Last Line: Under the killdeer cry OUR STORY First Line: Remind me again - together we %trace our strange journey, fi Last Line: Remind me again OUR TIME'S NAME First Line: Uncle relevant has Last Line: Breathes all the time OUTREACH First Line: In the barefoot dark without a cry Last Line: We feel a net come silvering through the land OUTSIDE First Line: The least little sound sets the coyotes walking OUTSIDE OF TOWN First Line: Loud sparrowns hidden Last Line: And I help the world have it %all, just by breathing OVER THE NORTH JETTY First Line: Geese and brant, their wingbeat Last Line: On that risky path just over the wave OWL First Line: An owl -- the cold with eyes Last Line: And moonset means our star OZYMANDIAS' BROTHER First Line: Without the style of ozymandias, therefore Last Line: Anyway, it was the world PACEMAKER First Line: Our slow breath goes out and returns PARENTAGE First Line: My father didn't really belong in history Last Line: I'd just s soon be pushed by events to where I belong Subject(s): Parents PASO POR AQUI First Line: Comanches tell how the buffalo Last Line: We came over the plains. Where are we going PASSING A PILE OF STONES First Line: A shadow hides in every stone Last Line: Could there be a light so far that when %you stop you make a shadow forever? PASSING REMARK First Line: In scenery I like flat country Last Line: There are so many things admirable people do not understand Subject(s): Love PASSING REMARK Poem Text First Line: In scenery I like flat country Subject(s): Love PEACE WALK First Line: We wondered what our walk should mean, taking that un-march quietly Last Line: At the end we just walked away; %no one was there to tell us where to leave the signs Subject(s): Poetry And Poets PEGLEG LOOKOUT First Line: Those days, having the morning clouds, and with no one Last Line: The blue bowl the last time and came down again PEOPLE OF THE SOUTH WIND First Line: One day sun found a new canyon Last Line: No one, no one, no one PEOPLE WHO WENT BY IN WINTER First Line: The morning man came in to report Last Line: In every storm I hear them pass PEOPLE WITH WHETSTONES First Line: Hard-working hunters beyond the taiga Last Line: People who talk about god PETERS FAMILY First Line: At the end of their ragged field Last Line: Never crossed. Their world went everywhere PILGRIMS First Line: They come to the door PLACES AND PUNCTUATION: THE COAST First Line: Seaside-rockaway, tillamook-astoria PLACES WITH MEANING First Line: Say it's a picnic on the fourth of july Last Line: Out of our lives to find that what passes has molded %everything we touch or see, outside on in POET TO A NOVELIST First Line: When we write, fighting feedback, eedback, dback Last Line: Because you know it so, I give you this POETS' ANNUAL INDIGENCE REPORT First Line: Tonight beyond the determined moon Last Line: Rich men, wise men, be our contemporaries POSTSCRIPT First Line: You reading this page, this trial Last Line: Could make you look up, calling 'friday' PRAIRIE TOWN First Line: There was a river under first and main Last Line: Little folded paws, judge me: I came away PREACHER AT THE CORNER First Line: He talked like an old gun killing buffalo Last Line: A strange kind of turn in the path, a kind of ivy PRESENTING THESE PIECES First Line: Just before waking - that single strong cry PRESERVATION First Line: In that new country mountains won't have a name Last Line: Was a world once and lay unexplored, %how a mountain was real without any name PROLOGUE First Line: You have to take the road seriously Last Line: To fear, to act, and just to be PROPORTIONING First Line: At any proud hour the flame Last Line: Then we go on PURIFYING THE LANGUAGE OF THE TRIBE First Line: Walking away means %'goodbye' Last Line: You had your chance PUT WEST First Line: This air the mountains watch, in oregon, holds Last Line: Microphone spots on their applauding gills QUIET DAY AT THE BEACH First Line: Gulls hit the silence and come through Last Line: A world we are all beginning to love QUIET TOWN First Line: Here in our cloud we talk Last Line: A long time, carrying bombs elsewhere to explode RAMBLING ON First Line: Ending a visit Last Line: Down a country road going away, %a visit ended REACHING OUT TO TURN ON A LIGHT First Line: Every lamp that approves its foot Last Line: Rip unknown through your hand READ TO THE LAST LINE First Line: Suppose a heroic deed Last Line: Pray for me READING WITH LITTLE SISTER: A RECOLLECTION First Line: The stars have died overhead in their great cold Last Line: The stars go down. We are never afraid RECOIL First Line: The bow bent remembers home long Last Line: And be myself again RELIGION BACK HOME First Line: When god's parachute failed Last Line: And he said, 'I always did get %them two guys mixed up' REMARKS ON MY CHARACTER First Line: Waving a flag I retreat a long way beyond Last Line: I steal away there, holding my arms like a tree REMEMBER First Line: The little towns day found Last Line: Any morning could bring us %any morning REMEMBERING First Line: When there was air, when you could Last Line: There is sigh like my breath when I do this %some days I do this again and again REMEMBERING A FIRST-GRADE MUSIC TEACHER First Line: Her non-representational near face Last Line: And in church I never sing Subject(s): Music Teachers REMEMBERING ALTHEA First Line: When you came out of your house Last Line: You knew, delicately, through amber, that august day REMEMBERING BROTHER BOB First Line: Tell me, you years I had for my life Last Line: This page and think: I never did REMNANTS OF A POEM, OBSCURE PARTS BURNED AWAY ... First Line: Noon in the elms, wide noon Last Line: Escape that day in the sun %body died REPORT FROM A FAR PLACE First Line: Making these word things to Subject(s): Language REPORT FROM AN UNAPPOINTED COMMITTEE First Line: The uncounted are counting %and the unseen are looking around Last Line: And a new river is out feeling for a valley %somewhere underour world Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 REPORT TO CRAZY HORSE First Line: All the sioux were defeated. Our clan Last Line: I run my hand along those old grooves in the rock Subject(s): Crazy Horse (oglala Sioux Chief); Native Americans - Wars REPORT TO CRAZY HORSE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: All the sioux were defeated. Our clan Subject(s): Crazy Horse (oglala Sioux Chief); Native Americans - Wars REPORTING BACK First Line: By the secret that holds the forest up Last Line: (our feet are trying to remember some path we are walking toward) REPRESENTING FAR PLACES First Line: In the canoe wilderness branches wait for winter Last Line: Among contradictory ridges in some crescendo of knowing REQUIEM First Line: Mother is gone. Bird songs wouldn't let her breathe RESCUED YEAR First Line: Take a model of the world so big Last Line: Will ripple forward and hold the train RESEARCH TEAM IN THE MOUNTAINS First Line: We have found a certain heavy kind of wolf Last Line: Above that -- storms of stone RETURN OF THE ANIMAL THAT DRANK UP SOUND First Line: After the animal that drank sound died, the world RETURN TO SINGLE-SHOT First Line: People who come back refuse to touch Last Line: The name of daniel boone's psychiatrist RETURNED TO SAY First Line: When I face north a lost cree Last Line: Our moccasins do not mark the ground REVEIVER First Line: Listening late at parties, hearing Last Line: White web floats up, a message for someone %like me, far, there on the shore REVELATION First Line: When I came back to earth, it was my bike Last Line: Will be that color here was before you came:%your head and what you hit will sound the same REVELATIONS First Line: Over these writings I bent my head Last Line: The beat in music, and we sprawl with it %and hear another world for a minute %that is almost there RIGHT NOW First Line: Tonight in our secret town RIGHT TIME First Line: All the lies in our town ran to the river one summer night and Last Line: And waiting while lights go off in a town, late and still, on a summer %night RIGHT TO DIE First Line: God takes care of it for Last Line: I'd be very kind when the hurt eyes %turn, sudenly loud, toward me Subject(s): Healing RITUAL TO READ TO EACH OTHER First Line: If you don't know the kind of person I am Last Line: Should be clear: the darkness around us is deep Subject(s): Men ROCK PRESENTED BY A FRIEND FROM ALASKA First Line: Where the mountains come true after no one ROLL CALL First Line: Red wolf came, and passenger pigeon ROOM 000 First Line: After the last class in the empty room Last Line: Why is a hall? Is a hall? Is a hall? ROVER First Line: She came out of the field - low Last Line: Now I belonged wherever dark %flowed, from that night on, %anywhere, any touch that was kind RUBY WAS HER NAME First Line: My mother, who opened my eyes, who Last Line: And the whole of her life went back to her heart, %from me in a look for the look she gave RUN BEFORE DAWN First Line: Most mornings I get away, slip out Last Line: Of darkness, the world going by, and my breath, and the road Subject(s): Sports RUNAWAY TEEN First Line: Any cold night I am hiding. Some people Last Line: It's hard being a person. %we all know that Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Teenagers RX CREATIVE WRITING: IDENTITY First Line: You take this pill, a new world Last Line: It tells you; %all you do is tell about it SABBATH First Line: A light-it's only the sun-has broken Last Line: And those window stories always follow you even %now %down alleys, up marble stairs SAINT MATTHEW AND ALL First Line: Lorene - we thought she'd come home. But Last Line: Said, 'your life, I need it.' and nobody else did SAINT OF THOUGHT First Line: One moment each noon, faced Last Line: Let the dark out SALVAGED PARTS First Line: Fire took the house. Black bricks Last Line: A rose pretends, a rock tells how it is SANTA'S WORKSHOP First Line: The doll bodies glide past on little Last Line: Go out to save the world SATURDAY NIGHTS First Line: My hands reason with steel Last Line: And whistle and creak in the wind SAUVIES ISLAND First Line: Some years ago I first hunted on sauvies island Last Line: Going back I hunt little surprises, and sauvies islands SAY First Line: Now and then in some sound you discover Last Line: They want you %to have it. They say 'song?' and they let it come SAYINGS FROM THE NORTHERN ICE First Line: It is people at the edge who say Last Line: When they decide, it is a bad day SAYINGS OF THE BLIND First Line: Feeling is believing Last Line: Names have a flavor SCENE First Line: Grandpa gives me a candy watch Last Line: At grandpa to take his hand %through the slow wind, we face toward you, %and stand SCENE IN THE COUNTRY BY A TELEGRAPH LINE First Line: The father staggers to act it all out Last Line: Or lost, or near, or far, any time SCHOOL DAYS First Line: After the test they sent an expert Last Line: I bend over my book and cry,%and fly all alone through the night%toward being the person I am Subject(s): Schools SCHOOL PLAY First Line: You were a princess, lost; I Last Line: Away, even though you've done all you can SCRIPTURE First Line: In the dark book where words crowded together Last Line: Wandering the shadow of the tabernacle world Subject(s): Mormons SECURITY First Line: Tomorrow will have an island. Before night Last Line: You turn to the open sea and let go SEDUCTION RIVER First Line: There was a girl whose body was found by a river SEEING AND PERCEIVING First Line: You learn to like the scene that everything Last Line: To the fallible: little bits of light %reflected by the sympathy of sight SERVING WITH GIDEON First Line: Now I remember: in our town the druggist Last Line: I walked with my cup toward the elevator man SHELLS First Line: When they turn the dial to 'know' Last Line: In somebody's big shell of the sky SIOUX HAIKU First Line: On a relief map Last Line: Where crazy horse tried' SITTING UP LATE First Line: Beyond silence, on the other side merging Last Line: Between one breath and the next SIZE OF A FIST First Line: This engine started years ago - many Last Line: Beat and away SLANT MESSAGE First Line: Tell them how tame geese lure wild ones Last Line: Their ways, like this, into my talk, my telling Subject(s): Geese; Nature SLANTS OF RAIN First Line: Some of the rain past the searchlight Last Line: They turn when I call. %they need me SLAVE ON THE HEADLAND First Line: When they brought me here from the north island Last Line: Over my bent head and the wide sea SLEEPING ON THE SISTERS LAND First Line: Rain touches your face just at daylight Last Line: That touches your face SLIDE SHOW First Line: Choose a day. Bring it up in the big lens Last Line: Packed and faded for years and then springs forth %in color,with sound if you're not careful. Ruth SLOW LAND First Line: The sun gradually pulls a whole SMALL ITEM First Line: A tumbleweed that was trying Last Line: Flared beautifully wasted at random SMOKE First Line: Smoke's way's a good way -- to find Last Line: Wherever you are, there is another door SNAPSHOT First Line: A hand reaches over the edge of rock Last Line: In the big empty %night the sound of the current frills along SNOW First Line: Without a word I arrive quietly. A random stranger Last Line: Placed. On even the littlest grave I trace %each word and carefully spell the names SO CLEAR, SO COLD First Line: At cold lake, wagon SO LONG First Line: At least at night, a streetlight Last Line: To love may be what's near %in the cold, even then Subject(s): Travel SO LONG First Line: At least at night, a streetlight Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips SOME AUTUMN CHARACTERS First Line: Rain finds lost beach toys Last Line: Friend will always wave SOME DAYS OF ITS GIFT First Line: It is a little day: no flags Last Line: I say it this day, valentine SOME EVENING First Line: In the form of mist, from under a stone Last Line: Or unlucky, exiled under a stone SOME LIGHTS First Line: You turn on a light in a room, and it Last Line: You know those other lights have survived. %they are there SOME NIGHT AGAIN First Line: When the world vanishes, I will come back Last Line: Where you swam one night across the moonlight %and I thought: still, it's good, though it has to end SOME SHADOWS First Line: You would not want too reserved a speaker Last Line: The world says, 'dog eat dog' SOMEONE WENT BY First Line: Someone went by in the alley Last Line: We never know who it is SOMETHING TO DECLARE First Line: They have never had a war big enough Last Line: Which way to come if it wants to find me SONG DEMONSTRATORS IN MEXICO SING IN TROUBLED PARTS CITY First Line: Dear ones, watching us on any street Last Line: The common humanity country and city own SONG IN THE MANNER OF FLANNERY O'CONNOR First Line: Snow on the mountain -- water in Last Line: Than the rest of us %so long, sucker SONG NOW First Line: Guitar string is Last Line: It can save this place SOPHOCLES SAYS First Line: History is a story god is telling Last Line: Will hesitate a step -- and meet his home SOUND FROM THE EARTH First Line: Somewhere, I think in dakota Last Line: Earthen bowl churned into foam SPACE COUNTRY First Line: As usual the highest birds first Last Line: In the air again clear, sharp, and cold SPANISH GUITAR First Line: Came to sudden account with the room Last Line: Themselves in a story -- 'sun or shade, %we are today's people.' SPARKLE DEPENDS ON FLAWS IN THE DIAMOND First Line: Wood that can learn is no good for a bow Last Line: Be honest in the kitchen SPEAKING FRANKLY First Line: It isn't your claim, or mine, or Last Line: Here none of you, none of us -- no one SPECTATOR First Line: Treat the world as if it really existed Last Line: You are foreign, part of some slow explosion SPIRIT OF PLACE: GREAT BLUE HERON First Line: Out of their loneliness for each other Last Line: The sunlight and the rain: heads in the light, %feet that go down in the mud where the truth is Subject(s): Nature SPRINGS NEAR HAGERMAN First Line: Water leaps from lava near hagerman Last Line: I go blind with hope. That plumed fall %is bright to remember STADIUM HIGH, TACOMA First Line: This building in front is greek, copper STAR IN THE HILLS First Line: A star hit in the hills behind our house Last Line: And thought again and said, 'ok -- any star' STARED STORY First Line: Over the hill came the horsemen, horsemen whistling Last Line: And all, slung here in our cynical constellation, %whistle the wild world, live by imagination STARTING WITH LITTLE THINGS First Line: Love the earth like a mole Last Line: Tomorrow the world STICK IN THE FOREST First Line: A stick in the forest that pointed Last Line: Be, be, buddha said STICK IN THE FOREST STILLBORN First Line: Where a river touches an island Last Line: Still faithful, still in thought, I bow, %little one STILLNESS IS THE RIGHT WAVE First Line: At the shore we always choose Last Line: Between the waves for us %outside the wind's eye STORIES TO LIVE IN THE WORLD WITH First Line: A long rope of gray smoke was Last Line: Lightly, looking around, out of the woods STORM AT THE COAST First Line: What moves on, moves far Last Line: But it is the wind and water will stay, %after the cliffs are gone STORM WARNING First Line: Something not the wind shakes along far Last Line: They'll want it all different then, %but they won't know how STORY First Line: After they pased I climbed Last Line: This high on the mountainside STORY THAT COULD BE TRUE First Line: If you were exchanged in the cradle and Last Line: Maybe I'm a king Subject(s): Fathers; Men; Prayer STORY TIME First Line: Tell that one about catherine Last Line: And pray and great voice comes. %and everything listens STRANGE FLOWER First Line: Without any history, this flower one day STRANGER First Line: The place he wanted to tell about Last Line: Towns where we almost lived STRANGERS First Line: Brown in the snow, a car with a heater Last Line: Lost back there in our old brown car STROKES First Line: The left side of her world is gone Last Line: The birthdays of the old require such candles Subject(s): Stroke SUB-URBAN First Line: In any town I must live near the rind SUMMER GAME First Line: All over the mountains we looked for Last Line: Over any old landscape again SUMMER WILL RISE First Line: Summer will rise till the houses fear Last Line: And for all who are here when those wanderers come SUMMONS IN INDIANA First Line: In the crept hours on our street Last Line: There are things you cannot learn through manyness SUNSET: SOUTHWEST First Line: In front of the courthouse holding the adaptable flag Last Line: Bloom from the eyes, and fall SURROUNDED BY MOUNTAINS First Line: Digging potatoes east of sapporo Last Line: Talking, and the water jar in the shade SURVEY First Line: Down in the frantic mountains Last Line: By night the wildcats pad by %gazing it quiet again SURVIVAL First Line: Evenings, we call quail Last Line: I shoot in this tricky light SURVIVING A POETRY CIRCUIT First Line: My name is old mortality - mine is the hand Last Line: To make all clean and clear, I tap on your tombstone %lest moss take all our names when old mortalit SURVIVOR First Line: Remember that party we had, the one Last Line: Forget sometime and we all be gone, %who said that night we'd always remain SWERVE First Line: Halfway across a bridge one night Last Line: Any light. Oh, any light TEMPORARY FACTS First Line: That look you had, agnes, was a temporary fact Last Line: In spiral nebulae a shadow goes on Subject(s): Transience TERMS OF SURRENDER First Line: We hide in the dead grass Last Line: The truest way there is to say god's name TESTIMONY TO AN INQUISITOR First Line: Mud through my toes I'm from this land TEXAS First Line: Wide, no limit, the whole Last Line: Our indulgences and mean just the earth again %texas THANKSGIVING FOR MY FATHER First Line: The freezing convict wanted Last Line: But even doris -- I've never found her THAT AUTUMN INSTANT First Line: You stand on a hill in july Last Line: Winter has brushed its hand THAT LAKE IN THE MOUNTAINS First Line: Never quite quiet, it accepted what came Last Line: And begin to feel my invisible hands Subject(s): Environment; Nature THAT TIME OF YEAR First Line: Remember t.J. Last Line: There is still time THE EPITAPH ENDING IN AND Poem Text First Line: In the last storm, when hawks Subject(s): Judgment Day; Millenium; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE FARM ON THE GREAT PLAINS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: A telephone line goes cold Subject(s): Farm Life; Mormons; Agriculture; Farmers THEN First Line: Something will happen. You will hold Last Line: Sprung into the sky, forever like yesterday THERE IS BLINDNESS First Line: There is blindness; there is Last Line: Pain is real %but over their shoulders %there looms real home-there's the world THESE DAYS First Line: Hurt people crawl as if they Last Line: To crawl away over the horizon THINGS ABOUT THE SUN First Line: Any time the sun Last Line: All those other times THINGS I LEARNED LAST WEEK First Line: Ants, when they meet each other Last Line: In the pentagon one person's job is to%take pins out of towns, hills, and fields, and then save the THINGS IN THE WILD NEED SALT First Line: Of the many histories, earth tells only one Last Line: It is in the earth wherever I walk THINGS THAT COME First Line: After it came down from the mountains Last Line: I am frantic to find these %little stones; I am building a house for us THINGS THAT HAPPEN First Line: Sometimes before great events a person will try Last Line: Stumbling days, again and again, to find my hand THINGS THAT HAPPEN WHERE THERE AREN'T ANY PEOPLE First Line: It's cold on lakeside road THINGS WE DID THAT MEANT SOMETHING First Line: Thin as memory to a bloodhound's nose Last Line: Till only the grass will know I fall THINKING ABOUT BEING CALLED SIMPLE BY A CRITIC First Line: I wanted the plums, but I waited Last Line: I reached in and got the plums THINKING FOR BERKY First Line: In the late night listening from bed Last Line: Sirens will hunt down berky, you survivors in your beds %listening through the night, so far and goo Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters THIRTEENTH AND PENNSYLVANIA First Line: Motorcycle, count my sins Last Line: Read my lips, forget my name THIS BOOK First Line: Late, at the beginning of cold Last Line: Thread in the world, weaving the dark and the cold THIS POINT ON THE PAGE First Line: Frightened at the slant of the writing, I looked up Last Line: And what weight formed each word, god knows THIS TOWN: WINTER MORNING First Line: This town has a spire Last Line: I'm the girl who burned THOSE LEAVES First Line: Somewhere a forest, every Last Line: We walk on. Leaves blow past THOUGHT MACHINE First Line: Its little eye stares 'on' in its forehead Last Line: A letter has reached home THOUGHT THAT IS REAL First Line: You came in my thought. Wind blew, rain... Last Line: But some things %we think make real all the rest. %all the world faded when you left my thought THREE ARTISTS ON LOCATION First Line: A glass door opens in the far gray house TIDES First Line: The first wave of a new tide hardly Subject(s): Tides TILLAMOOK BURN First Line: These mountains have heard god Last Line: Mowing the criss-cross trees and the listening peaks TIME First Line: The years to come (empty boxcars Last Line: And that was the day the world ended TIME First Line: The years to come (empty boxcars Last Line: And that was the day the world ended. TIME CAPSULE First Line: That year the news %was a storm Last Line: And pigs ate the greasy newspapers TIME'S EXILE First Line: From all encounters vintages ensue Last Line: Who finds his way by sunflowers through the dark TITLE COMES LATER First Line: In my sleep a little man cries, faker! Faker! Last Line: But awaking from awaking, I am a little man myself crying %faker! Faker! TOAD First Line: Hop, hope. Hop again Last Line: So slouch in the mud %as you, at the corner each night TODAY First Line: The ordinary miracles begin. Somewhere Last Line: Has passed through town, widening streets, touching %the ground, shouldering away the stars Subject(s): Religion TONIGHT First Line: Tonight and another night linger Last Line: Ever toward that other alone TORNADO First Line: First the soul of our house left, up the chimney Subject(s): Tornadoes TORQUE First Line: One day all the people come out on the street Last Line: Suppose this happens. The world looks %tame, but might go wild, any time TOTEM First Line: Some kind of swirl-and I was born Last Line: Some kind of swirl-and again I'll be born TOUCH ON YOUR SLEEVE First Line: Consider the slow descent Last Line: But it brushes your sleeve in the right place %and your life becomes important again TOUCHES First Line: Late, you can hear the stars. And beyond them Last Line: Is the world under your hand TOURIST COUNTRY First Line: Shadows, like navahoes, wear velvet Last Line: Oh so sincerely - its local part TOWARD NOW First Line: Back then someone said, 'I will tell them a story Last Line: Willingly caught up, being part of what is Subject(s): Environment; Nature TRAGIC SONG First Line: All still when summer is over Last Line: At last whispers away TRAVELING THROUGH THE DARK First Line: Traveling through the dark I found a deer Last Line: Then pushed her over the edge into the river Subject(s): Deer; Environment; Humanity TRAVELING THROUGH THE DARK Poem Text First Line: Traveling through the dark I found a deer Subject(s): Deer; Environment; Humanity; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation TREMELO First Line: The figure with your name is led nodding TRIP First Line: Our car was fierce enough Last Line: That you always remember their names TROUBLE WITH READING First Line: When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone Last Line: It holds you. And you have become a rich darkness TROUBLESHOOTING First Line: On still days when country telephone Last Line: And the little brown bird steadfastly wanders on %pulling what counts wherever it goes TRUSTING EACH OTHER First Line: Right at the height of the storm we crawled TRYING TO REMEMBER A TOWN First Line: After our trip one town was lost Last Line: Our blood makes a little leap over its name TRYING TO TELL IT First Line: The old have a secret Last Line: They do not understand TULIP TREE First Line: Many a winter night Last Line: I am still here TUNED IN LATE ONE NIGHT First Line: Listen - this is a faint station Last Line: To wrtie on a clear glass typewriter, %to listen with sympathy, %to speak like a child TURN OVER YOUR HAND First Line: Those lines on your palm, they can be read Last Line: Silent evasion that your life became TURNING POINTS First Line: Leafing through calendar pages you read TWELFTH BIRTHDAY First Line: They never found what slowly descended, silently Last Line: Maybe was nothing. But the day was real. %and I've never changed TWO EVENINGS First Line: Back of the stride of the power line Last Line: Like antelope fading into evening TWO OF A KIND First Line: Found on the same hill, one strange leaf ULTIMATE PROBLEMS First Line: In the aztec design god crowds Last Line: And how did he get out of the pea UNCLE GEORGE First Line: Some catastrophes are better than others Last Line: Held summer and winter against the slow blizzard, the sky Subject(s): Farm Life UNDERSTANDING POETRY, BY WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS First Line: The jar on a mountain, the tree that thinks UNIVERSE IS ONE PLACE First Line: Crisis they call it? -- when Last Line: Farm girl away through the wheat UNKNOWN BEINGS First Line: Streaming through the air, wild for attention Last Line: Trailing the unknown rest of our lives? UP IN THE HILLS First Line: Each place out of the wind has a name Last Line: Belongs right where it is VACATION First Line: One scene as I bow to pour her coffee: %three indians in the scouring drought Last Line: There is dust on everything in nevada %I pour the cream Subject(s): Nevada; Poetry And Poets VACATION TRIP First Line: The loudest sound in our car Last Line: I wish I hadn't come' VESPERS First Line: As the living pass, they bow Last Line: This is for you, my friend VIEW FROM HERE First Line: In antarctica drooping their little shoulders Last Line: We too stand and wait VIEWING THE COAST First Line: A tracker from neptune Last Line: At all there is, like rain VINE MAPLE First Line: There was a tree surpised by light VISIONS First Line: Once in mexico an old man was VISIT HOME First Line: In my sixties I will buy a hat Last Line: At the corner of central and main VISITING First Line: The weather visits us. It has another Last Line: Then comes a day: so long VITA First Line: God guided my hand Last Line: And a world %and a hand VOCATION First Line: This dream the world is having about itself Last Line: Your job is to find what the world is trying to be WAITING AT THE BEACH First Line: The sun tugs over the sky WAITING IN LINE First Line: You the very old, I have come Last Line: A passport costs everything there is WAKING AT 3 A.M. First Line: Even in the cave of the night when you Last Line: All right. And you sleep WALK IN THE COUNTRY First Line: To walk anywhere in the world, to live Last Line: For the long dance over the fields WALK WITH MY FATHER WHEN I WAS EIGHT First Line: Here is a space for the way the day started Last Line: After that walk through the fields WALKING ON THE BEACH First Line: Inside the ocean flow great rivers Last Line: That its glance almost makes us disappear Subject(s): Nature; Seashore WALKING THE BEACH UNDER THE OVERCAST First Line: It seems like someone's mind when they forget Last Line: Waits for you, and you go ahead. %and it's all right WALKING THE WILDERNESS First Line: God is never sure he has found WALKING WEST First Line: Anyone with quiet pace who Last Line: Badger-grey the sod goes under %a river of wind, a hawk on a stick WALKING WITH YOUR EYES SHUT First Line: Your ears receive a platter of sound WANDERER AWAITING PREFERMENT First Line: In a world where no one knows for sure Last Line: Men should not claim, nor should they have to ask WATCHING A CANDLE First Line: A candle went down its own long stair Last Line: A friend %in the mirrow saw me and waved %my steady hand, and I watched it wave WATCHING THE JET PLANES DIVE First Line: We must go back and find a trail on the ground Last Line: The jet planes dive; we must travel on our knees WAY I DO IT First Line: The best things we say, I Last Line: Then I turn home and run and run WAY I WRITE First Line: In the mornings I lie partly propped up Last Line: The sky waits. I lean forward and write WAY IT IS First Line: Those people we love Last Line: Not learning or earning, just one blinding %enlightenment WAY IT IS First Line: There's a thread you follow. It goes among Last Line: You don't ever let go of the thread WAY IT WILL BE First Line: Awake when the world turns over Last Line: It will happen. It has to. Some day WE INTERRUPT TO BRING YOU First Line: It will be coming toward earth, and Last Line: I can't get perry mason-the leaves%are all raked, and I'm not very sick, really WEATHER REPORT First Line: Light wind at grand prairie, drifting snow Last Line: These words we send are becoming parts of their night WEEDS First Line: What's down in the earth Last Line: As we sing in the wind Subject(s): Environment WELL RISING First Line: The well rising without sound Last Line: With care in such a world WEST OF HERE First Line: The road goes down. It stops at the sea Last Line: And what about you? %and what about me? WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO THE BEATS? First Line: On that street in san francisco Last Line: The hardest war to fight %is the one you don't know you're in, the one it takes quiet to find WHAT GOD USED FOR EYES BEFORE WE CAME First Line: At night sometimes the big fog roams in tall Last Line: The gray air holding ruin rock at hovenweep WHAT I HEARD WHISPERED AT THE EDGE OF LIBERAL, KANSAS First Line: Air waits for us Last Line: That's why we became grass WHAT I'LL SEE THAT AFTERNOON First Line: The young man who has to look Last Line: Caught in that corner tree %(everything stops, %and I am reaching out for everything.) WHAT IF WE WERE ALONE? First Line: What if there weren't any stars? Last Line: Calls all the rocks by their secret names. WHAT IT ALL MEANS First Line: The ink of this page wants to tell you about Last Line: Help me! Before it's too late. I am dying! WHAT'S IN MY JOURNAL First Line: Odd things, like a button drawer. Mean Last Line: Inevitable life story, maybe mine WHEN I MET MY MUSE First Line: I glanced at her and took my glasses Last Line: A sort of salvation.' and I took her hand WHEN I WAS YOUNG First Line: That good river that flowed backward Last Line: The clocks, though, still pursue what they endlessly loved Subject(s): Farm Life WHEN WE GOT TO CHITINA First Line: No one was going to come Last Line: For me there was no one WHEN WE LOOKED BACK First Line: The most present of all the watchers where we camped Last Line: Was a little spot in the trees when we looked back WHEN YOU GO ANYWHERE First Line: This passport your face (not you Last Line: A little country,' it says, 'allow this observer %quiet passage,' it says, 'ordinary,' it says, 'ple WHENEVER IT IS First Line: You stand in the magnet's embrace. Last Line: Time is back in its cage. It is today WHERE WE ARE First Line: Much travel moves mountains large Last Line: By day in the tall winter beyond any range WHERE WE LIVE First Line: Inside a house I live, inside Last Line: And you live beside me, %millions of stars away WHICH First Line: Which of the horses Last Line: I want that one Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Poetry And Poets WHISPERED INTO THE GROUND First Line: Where the wind ended and we came down Last Line: Even far things are real WHO IS RICHEST ALONG OUR STREET? First Line: I think the woman who walks her little dog WHOLE STORY First Line: When we shuddered and took into ourselves Last Line: With you to the end of the story WHY I AM HAPPY First Line: Now has come, an easy time. I let it Last Line: And I know where it is WHY I SAY ADIOS First Line: From their wide, still country words Last Line: So long,' we say, 'vaya con dios,' %'god be with you,' %'goodby!' - and the distance %beyond the sta WHY WE NEED FANTASY First Line: It's a sensational story Last Line: That brave, who needs a dream? %but there aren't enough caves, you know-%for animals that have our n WIDOW WHO TAUGHT AT AN ARMY SCHOOL First Line: She planted bullets in a window box Last Line: And stare out over the field WILD HORSE LORE First Line: Downhill, any gait will serve Last Line: We don't need the cavalry %any more WILLA CATHER First Line: Far as the night goes, brittle as the stars Last Line: Into all that silence and the judgment of the sky WIND WORLD First Line: One time wind world Last Line: Told me these things one day %about wind world WINNEMUCCA, SHE First Line: Lived here when eagles owned stony mountain Last Line: And the eagles are there WINTER ORCHARD First Line: In the bereaved orchard WINTERWARD First Line: Early in march we pitched our scar Last Line: Rocks and hurt birds, we come WISTERIA JONES First Line: She used to write, ribboning our talk away Last Line: If I met her today I'd say that now WITH KIT, AGE 7, AT THE BEACH First Line: We would climb the highest dune Last Line: As far as was needed,' I said, %and as I talked, I swam Subject(s): Fathers; Labor And Laborers; Men; Prayer; Swimming WITH KIT, AGE 7, AT THE BEACH Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: We would climb the highest dune Subject(s): Fathers; Labor & Laborers; Men; Prayer; Swimming & Swimmers; Work; Workers; Swimmers WITH MY CROWBAR KEY First Line: I do tricks in order to know Last Line: Myself at work with this crowbar key WITH NEIGHBORS ONE AFTERNOON First Line: Someone said, stirring their tea, I would Last Line: Absolution swish! - you took %the past into your mouth,%and swallowed it, warm, thin, bitter, and go WITH ONE LAUNCHED LOOK First Line: The cheetah levels at one far deer Last Line: One launched look and its afterward WITNESS First Line: This is the hand I dipped in the missouri Last Line: Toward whatever is there, with this loyal hand Subject(s): Mormons WOMAN AT BANFF First Line: While she was talking a bear happened along, violating Last Line: Up toward the saskatchewan WORLD STACCATO First Line: Things that say clear, linger Last Line: And waited for the ping WOVOKA'S WITNESS First Line: The people around me Last Line: The ghost dance, and be real WRITTEN ON THE STUB OF THE FIRST PAYCHECK First Line: Gasoline makes game scarce Last Line: Wherever I go is your ranch YELLOW CARS First Line: Some of the cars are yellow, that go Last Line: But the yelow-you turn your head: %hope lasts a long time if you're happy YELLOW FLOWERS First Line: While I was dying I saw a flower Last Line: We hear wheels %on the road-any sight, any sound-that music%the soul takes and makes it its own YES First Line: It could happen any time, tornado Last Line: But some bonuses, like morning, %like right now, like moon, %like evening YOU DON'T KNOW THE END First Line: Even as you are dying, a part of the world Last Line: There is a spirit abiding in everything YOU READING THIS, BE READY First Line: Starting here, what do you want to remember? Last Line: Starting here, right in this room, when you turn around? YOUNG First Line: Before time had a name, when win Last Line: Don't you understand YOUR LIFE First Line: You will walk toward the mirror Last Line: A surface, an image, a past YUCCA FLOWERS First Line: In the hills today if you bow Last Line: Gaps in the air, places like flowers %no one can see.Today you can feel %them still, if you bow in t Subject(s): Yucca Plants Stanford, Adrian 5 poems available by this author FOR SONNY COZZI First Line: Wait in some un/discovered corner Last Line: And hold your strong hand %in my own Subject(s): Homosexuality I LOVE MUCH Last Line: So shall I be adored Subject(s): Homosexuality IN THE DARKNESS, FUCK ME NOW Last Line: And shout in their private gloom, as I do: %fuck me now Subject(s): Homosexuality SACRIFICE First Line: Had my father known Last Line: Meet their end upon the ground Subject(s): Homosexuality STATEMENT First Line: If the realm of our magnificence is oblivious to you Last Line: For the amber cloak of maturity Subject(s): Homosexuality Stanford, Ann 20 poems available by this author ANNIVERSARY: A COUNTRY BURIAL First Line: Again december shadowed and gray Last Line: In an empty place, where none but loss shall come %with a greeting whispered, foolish, in the air Subject(s): Death BEAR First Line: We have once more caught Subject(s): Supernatural BIRDS AND COLUMBUS First Line: It was the birds that did it Last Line: But here, a crown of islands, %a world for taking Subject(s): Birds; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers CHANGES ON A THEME BY STEVENS First Line: The blackbird's circle is his own Last Line: He has told us over and over COVENANT OF GRACE, SELS. First Line: Brother symmes conversed with her on the ship Subject(s): Religion CRISIS First Line: Whatever this is, you have only this moment to do Last Line: Water, %the ice wall of this unchangeable moment DESCENT First Line: Let us, therefore, bend all our force and thoughts of %soul Last Line: I try this spring the climbing up to light GENIE First Line: I dwell in a dark small cell Subject(s): Supernatural GOING TO SLEEP First Line: You stretch out %flat on your back Last Line: Piece of yourself %you found there HOMEWARD BOUND First Line: They promenade on the slanting deck Last Line: As everyone is %on this vessel IT MUST FIRST OF ALL BE FUN Last Line: At the edge of the glade. You have come just in time OCTOBER LIKE CAGED BIRDS: FOUR RAINS First Line: Fall rain washes clean Last Line: Each breath we burn, the one desire, %each stuttered word, an eerie fire OMENS First Line: The wind has changed, and all the signs turned right Subject(s): Supernatural ON A SHIP AT SEA First Line: We know not where horizons end SAVED First Line: Midway between the ship and the shore Last Line: Above the sea-so far to go!-above the sea SPY HAS HIS FORTUNE TOLD First Line: Once again I am going on a journey Last Line: It's the drag of night, the sleeping quarry STOVE BOAT' First Line: The whale has caught this boat Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters UMBRELLA First Line: It is a king of shadow Last Line: Toward the blue circle come, %and suddenly are home Subject(s): Umbrellas VOICES INESCAPABLE First Line: We are never free of the voices Last Line: And the raped girl in the forest WRECK First Line: We do not see the wreck Last Line: The man beckoning in the foreground-we must trust him Stanford, Derek 2 poems available by this author CAROL FOR HIS DARLING ON CHRISTMAS DAY First Line: Tonight the christmas landscape of the skull TOMB OF HONEY SNAPS ITS MARBLE CHAINS First Line: Year after year before my life began Stanford, Donald Elwin 6 poems available by this author BAYOU First Line: Give me not gain but loss Last Line: The image pure and bare BEE First Line: No more through summer's haze I see Last Line: Have stiffened in the altered air NOON AT NEEBISH First Line: The clouds hand light as they from foam were spun SONNET ON GRADUATION First Line: When truth is felt all argument is done Subject(s): Commencement SPRING, 1934 First Line: Tis the earth's spring, and all the air is sweet VALENTINE First Line: Unproven love is the evading wraith Stanford, Eleanor 3 poems available by this author BARTRAM'S GARDEN First Line: What appears untidy and lacking Last Line: The grounds, house and gardens faithfully restored ON A LINE BY PETRARCH First Line: What I once loved I now love less Last Line: But no; not light; not watching you, undressed SPIRITUAL First Line: Just wheat and corn out here Last Line: Or something else that stirred in you? Stanford, Frank Poet's Biography 97 poems available by this author ALBINO First Line: I am afraid of you, macculduff,' Last Line: The point of a knife, twenty years old, %began working its way out of his knee ALLEGORY OF DEATH AND NIGHT First Line: When he comes home from work Last Line: She turns a flashlight on %the man's body, looking for seed %ticks that have been there since dawn ALLEGORY OF DEATH AND NIGHT Poem Text First Line: When he comes home from work Last Line: Ticks that have been there since dawn Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives BASS First Line: He jumps up high Last Line: The indian says %he is like a goose %passing in front %of the moon BETWEEN LOVE AND DEATH First Line: I watched the woman in the room Last Line: Asking did I know the woman, %and I said no, not I BLOOD BROTHERS First Line: There was born in the camp with six toes Last Line: It was the summer of the chinese daughter %I danced on the levee BLUE YODEL First Line: The girl in the black sweater Last Line: When I passed them asleep in their boathouse %her sweater dried in the air %like a black flag BLUE YODEL OF THE DESPERADO First Line: I went to new york to leave you Last Line: And when I got to where I was going %the place I came from %I needed a knife to clean my fingernails BRAKE First Line: I saw them coming down the back road Last Line: Born in the camp with six toes lewis says BROTHERS ON SUNDAY NIGHT First Line: We'd been dreaming Last Line: Then we heard %shouting that tore out the light BURIAL SHIP First Line: Jimmy's wolf died Last Line: It kept on going towards the heavens %it was a shooting star CEMETERY NEAR THE SEA Poem Text First Line: The word has no luck Last Line: And this is the crime / living and dreaming Subject(s): Sea; Graves; Ocean; Tombs; Tombstones CHIMERA First Line: I dream I am asleep in a boat Last Line: I am afraid a woman %will burn my hair CIRCLE OF LORCA Poem Text First Line: When you take the lost road Last Line: It's the evidence they need to make you disappear Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Relationships CREST Poem Text First Line: The night was a bad one. Last Line: Rain and all, we motioned them on Subject(s): Driving; Ferry Boats; Night; Rain; Relationships; Bedtime DEAD ORCHARD Poem Text First Line: Like seven birds sleeping on the plateau Last Line: The more the blossoms the more you suffer Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness DEATH AND MEMORY Poem Text First Line: When poor women died Last Line: I knew what to do, / I knew Subject(s): Funerals; Poverty; Women; Hair; Burials DEATH AND MEMORY First Line: When poor women died Last Line: Living and wearing the beautiful hair of the dead. %I knew what to do, %I knew DEATH AND THE ARKANSAS RIVER First Line: Walking from the killing place Last Line: Fighting with pillows, so quiet %not a soul is wakened EVERYBODY WHO IS DEAD First Line: When a man knows another man Last Line: The old men line up by the chair %and the barber pours a little %in each of their hands EVERYBODY WHO IS DEAD Poem Text First Line: When a man knows another man Last Line: The old men line up by the chair / and the barber pours a little / in each of their hands Subject(s): Death; Barbers; Dead, The FAITH, DOGMA, AND HERESY Poem Text First Line: It was sunday, before dinner. Last Line: They wiped their eyes, kissed us goodbye and left Subject(s): Murder FAREWELL First Line: Is a word Last Line: Like a sword %that has worn out %the scabbard FIRE LEFT BY TRAVELLERS First Line: Before in our lives we have all gone down Last Line: I looked down the steep slope of those days %a skier getting ready for a jump %I had things to say FLIES ON SHIT Poem Text First Line: To the gentlemen from the south Last Line: Because I cut my eye teeth on flies / floating in shit Subject(s): Southern States; Flies; South (u.s.) FREEDOM, REVOLT, AND LOVE Poem Text First Line: They caught them. Last Line: She died on the table like that, / smoke coming out of his mouth Subject(s): Love; Murder FREEDOM, REVOLT, AND LOVE First Line: They caught them Last Line: She died on the table like that, %smoke coming out of his mouth FRIEND OF THE ENEMY Poem Text First Line: The yolk went down my leg Last Line: Mark of the beast, birth, and trade Subject(s): Eggs; Nature GETTING TO SLEEP First Line: The two sisters come home for the holidays Last Line: Like a man with long sideburns %climbing the pine stairs in sock feet, %a man the both of them are I GOSPEL BIRD: 1: SUPERMAN First Line: Dressed in a superman suit Last Line: In a copper-wired co-cola bottle. %he says, 'I'll tend to you boy, I'll tend to you.' GOSPEL BIRD: 2: FIRE First Line: Chitum's cripple nigger carpenter Last Line: And drug him deep into the diamond woods. %my hand and chitum's store burned that night GOSPEL BIRD: 3: FLY AWAY, FLY AWAY First Line: My father talked like he was singing Last Line: Fly away, fly away, gospel bird,' I cried HIDDEN WATER First Line: A girl was in a wheelchair on her porch Last Line: And walking off with a stranger %to lie down and drink in the dark HIDDEN WATER Poem Text First Line: A girl was in a wheelchair on her porch Last Line: And walking off with a stranger / to lie down and drink in the dark I'D BEEN WALKING FOR EVER SO LONG First Line: I'd been walking for ever so long thirteen miles I bet Last Line: I know snatch wasn't looking and he was asleep %so I kissed sonny liston on his black neck IN ANOTHER ROOM I AM DRINKING EGGS FROM A BOOT Poem Text First Line: What if the moon was essence of quinine Last Line: Clearing a place for a mailbox Subject(s): Richter, Hans (1888-1976) INSTEAD Poem Text First Line: Death is a good word Last Line: You'll have to say it / soon, you know. To your / wife, your child, yourself Subject(s): Death; Dead, The INSTEAD First Line: Death is a good word Last Line: You'll have to say it %soon, you know. To your %wife, your child, yourself INTRUDER First Line: In the evenings they listen to the same Last Line: As long as I live nobody %touches my dogs my friends INVENTORY First Line: A man came into the store Last Line: Stealing a little jam %by god if I didn't hear someone %hit the bedrock again Subject(s): Knives INVENTORY Poem Text First Line: A man came into the store Last Line: Stealing a little jam / by god if I didn't hear someone / hit the bedrock again Subject(s): Knives; Daggers ISLAND First Line: Lord it was dark up yonder Last Line: That was because he had keys you could send back %and many pillows %whoa back boys oh goddamn ISLAND FUNERAL First Line: Mama julinda is let down into a hole Last Line: An island funeral %where days passed like a barge, %around us many stars sinking in their light ISLAND FUNERAL Poem Text First Line: Mama julinda is let down in a hole Last Line: An island funeral / where days passed like a barge, / around us many stars sinking in their light Subject(s): Funerals; Burials KITE First Line: Before he stole mr. Charlie's sedan Last Line: He thought, one more time, he wanted to be: %flatweeding, rocking dead easy LAP First Line: She pours sweetmilk over me before the sun comes up Last Line: She mosaics the lord's mysteries %with scales and egg yolks %emma is a humming LIES First Line: There are ships leaving tonight but I don't know where Last Line: I'll look at the moon like a bleeding toenail %the dancers will pass by LIGHT BLUE Poem Text First Line: The white clothes on the line put the man to sleep. Last Line: They would be dry and still Subject(s): Dreams; Relationships; Nightmares LIGHT THE DEAD SEE First Line: There are many people who come back Last Line: The dead have told these stories %to the living LINGER First Line: The moon wanders through my barn Last Line: The wind blows through the trees %like a woman on a raft LIVING First Line: I had my quiet time early in the morning Last Line: Jimmy liked 'take out some insurance on me baby' by %jimmy reed LIVING Poem Text First Line: I had my quiet time early in the morning Last Line: Jimmy liked 'take out some insurance on me baby' by jimmy reed Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Family Life; Country Life; Relatives LIVING WITH DEATH First Line: Long ago a man came to our place Last Line: She said death won't dare %touch a hair on our heads MAN IS SO AFRAID Poem Text First Line: Man is so afraid, he look down at cock, long ago many Last Line: Man like sendoff, man also like guns, / life strange Subject(s): Conduct Of Life MAN IS SO AFRAID, HE LOOK DOWN AT COCK, LONG AGO MANY MEMORY IS LIKE A SHOTGUN KICKING YOU NEAR THE HEART First Line: I get up, walk around the weeds Last Line: She gets up, comes into the room naked %with her split pillow, %says what's wrong, %I say an eyelash MILK TRUCK RUNNING INTO A CRAZY MAID ... First Line: They pull a coat over an old woman's eyes Last Line: An old woman holding them %taking them down into water MINNOW First Line: If I press Last Line: The ripples %it makes %can move %the moon NARCISSUS TO ACHILLES First Line: Yesterday, I passed over a bridge Last Line: Such thoughts I had, %I cannot tell you NOCTURNAL SHIPS OF THE PAST First Line: There was always a great darkness Last Line: Like a sleeping knife that runs deep %through the belly %thetomb ships come PICTURE SHOW NEXT DOOR TO THE STAMP STORE ... First Line: The movie has not begun Last Line: The movie is beginning. %the lid on the machine %comes down like a guillotine PITS Poem Text First Line: We go on and we tremble. Last Line: You fucked me out of my hand Subject(s): God; Relationships; Conduct Of Life PLACE ON A GRAVE First Line: It's not hard to forget what they ate Last Line: Like a wooden figure on the prow %of a ship with no horizon PLANNING THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THOSE WHO HAVE GONE Poem Text First Line: Soon I will make my appearance Last Line: Left on this earth I will use / no fingers Subject(s): Mortality PLAY IN WHICH DARKNESS FALLS Poem Text First Line: Two girls runaway from the home. They have a revolver Last Line: Cliff, spit on the beach. Birds I have never seen going by Subject(s): Roussel, Raymond (1877-1933); Girls; Escapes; Death; Fugitives; Dead, The POEM Poem Text First Line: I am afraid a woman Last Line: Will burn my hair Subject(s): Fear PUMP First Line: There was always a lizard Last Line: I liked bathing buck naked %under the pump, %not in a goddamn washtub RIVERLIGHT Poem Text First Line: My father and I lie down together. Last Line: And watches me die Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Death; Dead, The ROOMS First Line: A boy sits on the mantle with a piece of string Last Line: The fat woman rocking near the door %laughs at the boy with the sleeve over his eyes SINGING KNIVES First Line: The dogs woke me up Last Line: Blowing a jug %with a string full of crappie %and the cotton making every day SNAKE DOCTORS: 1: PIG First Line: I was in the outhouse Last Line: He was bleeding on my foot I said %'midget, I got friends on that river' SNAKE DOCTORS: 2: THE ACOLYTE First Line: The men rode by Last Line: The boat drifted away %a man said 'shadrach, meshach, and abednego' SNAKE DOCTORS: 3: HAMBONE First Line: They tied his hind legs together Last Line: I saw a knife in the moonlight %'sweet jesus' I said %born in the camp with six toes cut me down SNAKE DOCTORS: 4: CHAINSAW First Line: The man cut his hand off at dawn Last Line: When the flies got bad %I kept the hand in the smokehouse SNAKE DOCTORS: 5: SWIMMING AT NIGHT First Line: The midget ran his finger across his neck Last Line: Baby gauge sucked the poison out %oh sweet jesus the levees that break in my heart SUN GO DOWN First Line: I spent many afternoons Last Line: One of them wiped his nose %'step back boy %a dead man here' TALE First Line: The maid used to pull the drapes Last Line: The girls waited in the orchards %there was no need to lie TERRORISM First Line: While my mother is washing the black socks Last Line: And I will work that dark loose %from the backbone with my thumb. %mother, the sad dance on fire THE ARKANSAS PRISON SYSTEM Poem Text First Line: Is like a lyric poem Last Line: Death undresses in front of you Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners; Arkansas; Convicts THE INTRUDER Poem Text First Line: In the evenings they listen to the same Last Line: Touches my dogs my friends Subject(s): Friendship; Dogs THE LIGHT THE DEAD SEE Poem Text First Line: There are many people who come back Last Line: The dead have told these stories / to the living Subject(s): Death, Return From THE SINGING KNIVES Poem Text First Line: The dogs woke me up Last Line: And the cotton making everyday Subject(s): Knives; Hunting; Fish & Fishing; Daggers; Hunters; Anglers THE SNAKE DOCTORS Poem Text First Line: I was in the outhouse Last Line: Oh sweet jesus the levees that break in my heart Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Crime & Criminals; Pigs; Anglers; Boars; Hogs THE TRUTH Poem Text Last Line: And I stink like a dead mule under an overpass Subject(s): Truth; Poetry & Poets; Ali, Muhammad (cassius Clay) THE WOLVES Poem Text First Line: At night while the dogs Last Line: With their hearts eat out Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THEIR NAMES ARE SPOKEN First Line: Where the saplings come up Last Line: Now night a cool moss %on the undersides of the cold ground %keeps growing on the stones THERE IS NO WHERE IN YOU A PARADISE THAT IS NO PLACE First Line: One day when it rained and no one was for working THEY WERE SOCIETY PEOPLE First Line: I was a cook in the army so when I got out Last Line: I learned in vietnam one year. I fixed %a dinner none of her friends will ever forget TRANSCENDENCE OF JANUS Poem Text First Line: I am not asleep, but I see Last Line: Of poets, who have lost their eyes, their Subject(s): Death; Dead, The WANTED Poem Text First Line: A white bull, a cassock, an antique mirror Last Line: Like quartz, a crescent wrench, a bulldozer Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema WEARINESS OF MEN Poem Text First Line: My grandmother said when she was young Last Line: Stacked against her Subject(s): Grandparents; Farm Life; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Agriculture; Farmers WHAT ABOUT THIS Poem Text First Line: A guy comes walking out of the garden Last Line: Like an armadillo turning into a house payment Subject(s): Shooting; Drinks & Drinking; Music & Musicians; Strangers; Wine WIND BLOWING ON A SICK MAN First Line: Men with no headlights drive up in front of a whorehouse Last Line: The further they drive down the road %the closer their voices get WISHING MY WIFE HAD ONE LEG First Line: Caryatid with eyes of nails Last Line: Caryatid with the heart of a feather WOLVES First Line: At night while the dogs Last Line: With their hearts eat out Subject(s): Animals; Dogs YOU First Line: Sometimes in our sleep we touch Last Line: The darkest hair being brushed %in front of the darkest mirror %in the darkest room YOU Poem Text First Line: Sometimes in our sleep we touch Last Line: The darkest hair being brushed / in front of the darkest mirror / in the darkest room Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations Stanford, Michael 2 poems available by this author FROM THE ENDS OF THE EARTH First Line: I was nine when we lived in camp lejeune TUNES FROM A CRACKED CAULDRON First Line: Charles bovary walks shyly past the case Stanford, Theodore 1 poems available by this author THAT VENGEANCE GATHERS First Line: I have in anguish sought to comprehend Stanford, Theodore Anthony 3 poems available by this author MOOD Poem Text First Line: To dream - and so to watch the wan moon glimmer Last Line: But only waste and molten sky and pain! Subject(s): Dreams; Insanity; Moon; Sea; Nightmares; Madness; Mental Illness; Ocean SEED Poem Text First Line: O freighted thought, trembling within my mind Last Line: And destiny is ineluctable! Subject(s): Seeds; Soul; Spring; Thought; Thinking SUBMISSION Poem Text First Line: I hold your memory, a sacred flame Last Line: Before the rhythmic wish of tide and time. Subject(s): Memory Stanford, W. 1 poems available by this author QUERIES First Line: A bred and born philogist is what I claim Stanford, William Bedell 4 poems available by this author ANGELUS-TIME NEAR DUBLIN First Line: At twelve bell answers bell BEFORE SALAMIS First Line: The persian galleys plumed with warriors TO A GREEK SHIP IN THE PORT OF DUBLIN First Line: The cleanthes of andros Subject(s): Greece UNDERTONE First Line: When the landfolk of galway converse with a stranger Stapleford, Helen Louise 2 poems available by this author DEAD VOLCANO Poem Text First Line: Beneath the tao tree at waikiki Last Line: And pele sleeps through soft hawaiian days. Subject(s): Waikiki, Hawaii IMMORTALITY Poem Text First Line: Within the shadows of the church I kneel Last Line: "to share with him, his immortality." Subject(s): Jesus Christ Stark, Bradford 1 poems available by this author ALWAYS MODERN TIMES First Line: The history of the city %is a history of congestion %and despair Last Line: On the intimate processes which are used to describe it %it is always modern times Stearns, Harold Crawford 3 poems available by this author I WAIT Poem Text First Line: Day-long, night-long Last Line: A sob in the lonely trees. Subject(s): Solitude; Waiting; Loneliness MY CHILDREN Poem Text First Line: The stars-did you ever see stars Last Line: "yes, madam, to the sea." Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Stars; Childhood; Relatives REUBEN ROY Poem Text First Line: A little fellow, brown with wind Last Line: A carpenter. Stewart, Bradford 1 poems available by this author A SONG Poem Text First Line: The fairy music is silvery sweet Last Line: In the love-lighted eyes of you. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Trumpets Stratford, Sally 2 poems available by this author DISTANCE First Line: Who says I can't sit Last Line: When I opened my door MUKUNTUWEEP First Line: I rode and rode the traffic south Last Line: Seeping into my mattress, %like cool, clear water Sullivan, Archibald Beresford 2 poems available by this author LITTLE GRAY LAMB First Line: Out on the endless purple hills, deep in the clasp of somber night Subject(s): Christmas MERMAID First Line: There is a mermaid in the bay Swetnam, Ford 3 poems available by this author BIRTHDAY METAMORPHOSES First Line: Gerald, this one makes forty Last Line: And with the tree exchanges rain ONE WINTER First Line: Snow on the mountain again Last Line: Even the humans, heavy of blood, %jitter and almost fly PIONEER LEAGUE, BUTTE V. POCATELLO First Line: Fertilizer plants in their summer layoff Last Line: We have another chance to catch the runner Subject(s): Baseball; Sports Swofford, Michael 3 poems available by this author GRASSHOPPERS First Line: In the early mornings SWIFT FLIGHT First Line: So, at the end of all the pathways WINTER MORNING First Line: A pickup bed Syford, Ethel 1 poems available by this author HUNGARIAN LOVE-LAMENT Poem Text First Line: They say the cranes last night did cry Last Line: Overhead. Subject(s): Hungary; Love - Complaints Taylor, John Alford 3 poems available by this author DELPHI IN WINTER First Line: Be something till the nothing comes Last Line: To measures stricter than apollo's lyre NOT QUITE AWAKE First Line: A glitter of the surface wakes me Last Line: Contained in all the strangeness I contain QUEEN OF THE NIGHT First Line: Black as polished anthracite Last Line: Diamond teeth between her tungsten carbide lips Tennyson, Alfred Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron 552 poems available by this author A CHARACTER Poem Text First Line: With a half-glance upon the sky Last Line: With chisell'd features clear and sleek. Subject(s): Sunderland, Thomas (1808-1867) A CONTRAST Poem Text First Line: Dost ask why laura's soul is riven Last Line: Her hand without her heart she gave. A DEDICATION Poem Text First Line: Dear, near and true - no truer time himself Last Line: Which in our winter woodland looks a flower. Subject(s): Tennyson, Emily Sellwood A DIRGE Poem Text First Line: Now is done thy long day's work Last Line: Let them rave. Subject(s): Mortality; Rest; Nature A DREAM OF FAIR WOMEN Poem Text First Line: I read, before my eyelids dropt [or, dropped] their shade Last Line: Faints, faded by its heat. Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Sea; Sleep; Women; Ocean A FAREWELL Poem Text First Line: Flow down, cold rivulet, to the sea Last Line: For ever and for ever. Subject(s): Brooks; Inland Waters; Streams; Creeks A FRAGMENT Poem Text First Line: Where is the giant of the sun, which stood Last Line: Rock-hewn and sealed for ever. A VOICE SPAKE OUT OF THE SKIES' 0 Poem Text Last Line: Were nothing the next minute? Subject(s): Transience A WELCOME TO THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF EDINBURGH Poem Text First Line: The son of him with whom we strove for power Last Line: Alfred -- alexandrovna! ADDITIONAL VERSES, TO 'GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!' Poem Text First Line: God bless our prince and bride! Last Line: God bless the queen! Subject(s): William I, Kaiser Of Germany (1797-1888) ADELINE Poem Text First Line: Mystery of mysteries Last Line: Spiritual adeline. AKBAR'S DREAM Poem Text First Line: O god in every temple I see people that see Last Line: Kneel adoring him the timeless in the flame that measures time! Subject(s): Akbar (1542-1605) ALL THINGS WILL DIE Poem Text First Line: Clearly the blue river chimes in its flowing Last Line: For all things must die. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The AM I NOT THE NOBLER THROUGH MY LOVE? Subject(s): Love AMPHION Poem Text First Line: My father left a park to me Last Line: A little garden blossom. Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation ANACREONTICS Poem Text First Line: With roses musky-breathed Last Line: And loved me ever after. AND THE RAINBOW LIVES IN THE CURVE OF THE SAND Subject(s): Sea ANTONY TO CLEOPATRA Poem Text First Line: O, cleopatra! Fare thee well Last Line: I hear your voices from the tomb! Subject(s): Antony, Marc (83-30 B.c.); Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); Marcus Antonius; Anthony, Mark AUDLEY COURT Poem Text First Line: The bull, the fleece are cramm'd and not a room Last Line: Dipt by itself, and we were glad at heart. Subject(s): Picnics AYLMER'S FIELD Poem Text First Line: Dust are our frames; and, gilded dust, our pride Last Line: Follows the mouse, and all is open field. Subject(s): Friendship; Landscape; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect BABYLON Poem Text First Line: Bow, daughter of babylon, bow thee to dust! Last Line: And the satyrs shall dance, and the bittern shall cry! Subject(s): Babylon; Bible; Religion; Theology BALLAD OF ORIANA Poem Text First Line: My heart is wasted with my woe Last Line: Oriana. BARE, AS A WILD WAVE IN THE WILD NORTH SEA Subject(s): Sea BEAUTIFUL CITY Poem Text First Line: Beautiful city, the centre and crater of european confusion Last Line: Roll'd again back on itself in the tides of a civic insanity! Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life BECKET First Line: Am I the man? That rang Subject(s): Great Britain - History BEE AND THE FLOWER First Line: The bee buzz'd up in the heat BIRCH TREE SWANG HER FRAGRANT HAIR Subject(s): Holidays; Trees BLACK BULL OF ALDGATE Poem Text First Line: Black bull of aldgate, may thy horns rot from the sockets Last Line: Than ever hasty clement's did with bloated harry! Subject(s): Hate; Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses BOADICEA Poem Text First Line: While about the shore of mona those neronian legionaires Last Line: Fell the colony, city, and citadel, london, verulam, camulodune. Subject(s): Great Britain - Roman Conquest BREAK, BREAK, BREAK Poem Text Recitation First Line: Break, break, break, / on thy cold gray stones, o sea! Last Line: Will never come back to me. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nostalgia; Sea; Transience; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean; Impermanence BRITONS, GUARD YOUR OWN Poem Text First Line: Rise, britons, rise, if manhood be not dead Last Line: We swear to guard our own. Subject(s): Great Britain; Sharpshooters; Marksmen BY AN EVOLUTIONIST Poem Text First Line: The lord let the house of a brute to the soul of a man Last Line: A height that is higher. Subject(s): Religion; Theology CHARITY Poem Text First Line: What am I doing, you say to me, 'wasting the sweet summer hours?' Last Line: Grave with flowers. Subject(s): Evolution CHORUS IN AN UNPUBLISHED DRAMA, WRITTEN VERY EARLY Poem Text First Line: The varied earth, the moving heaven Last Line: Astonishment and boundless change. CIRCUMSTANCE Poem Text First Line: Two children in two two neighbor villages Last Line: So runs the round of life from hour to hour. Subject(s): Children CLARIBEL Poem Text First Line: Where claribel low-lieth Last Line: Where claribel low-lieth. Subject(s): Graves COLUMBUS Poem Text First Line: Chains, my good lord! In your raised [or, good] brows I read Last Line: I am but an alien and a genovese. Variant Title(s): Columbus Day Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers COMPROMISE Poem Text First Line: Steersman, be not precipitate in thy act Last Line: Take thou the bend, 't will save thee many a day. Subject(s): Gladstone, William Ewart (1809-1898) CROSSING THE BAR Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Sunset and evening star Last Line: When I have crossed the bar. Subject(s): Bible; Death; Evening; Immortality; Religion; Sea; Dead, The; Sunset; Twilight; Theology; Ocean DE PROFUNDIS Poem Text First Line: Out of the deep, my child, out of the deep Last Line: Hallowed be thy name -- halleluiah! Subject(s): Birth; Fathers; Child Birth; Midwifery DEDICATORY POEM TO THE PRINCESS ALICE Poem Text First Line: Dead princess, living power, if that Last Line: Of england, and her banner in the east? Subject(s): Alice, Grand Duchess Of Hesse-darmstadt DEMETER AND PERSEPHONE Poem Text First Line: Faint as a climate-changing bird that flies Last Line: Along the silent field of asphodel. Subject(s): Demeter; Persephone; Ceres; Proserpine; Proserpina DESPAIR Poem Text First Line: Is it you, that preached in the chapel there looking over the sand? Last Line: It matter to me? Subject(s): Despair DID NOT THY ROSEATE LIPS OUTVIE Poem Text Last Line: Ah! Say – hast thou a soul to gain? DORA Poem Text First Line: With farmer allan at the farm abode Last Line: But dora lived unmarried till her death. DOUBT AND PRAYER Poem Text First Line: Tho' sin too oft, when smitten by thy rod Last Line: So thou wilt strike thy glory thro' the day. Subject(s): Faith; Belief; Creed DUALISMS Poem Text First Line: Two bees within a crystal flowerbell rocked Last Line: Summer's tanling diamond-eyed. Subject(s): Summer EARLY SPRING Poem Text First Line: Once more the heavenly power Last Line: The poets too. Subject(s): Spring EDWARD GRAY Poem Text First Line: Sweet emma moreland of yonder town Last Line: And there the heart of edward gray!' Subject(s): Mourning EDWIN MORRIS; OR, THE LAKE Poem Text First Line: O me, my pleasant rambles by the lake Last Line: The light cloud smoulders on the summer crag. Subject(s): Lakes; Love - Loss Of; Pools; Ponds EGYPT Poem Text First Line: The sombre pencil of the dim-grey dawn Last Line: Gilded at morn, and purpled them at even! Subject(s): Egypt ELEANORE Poem Text First Line: Thy dark eyes open'd not Last Line: So dying ever, eleanore. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean ENGLAND AND AMERICA IN 1782 Poem Text First Line: O thou, that sendest out the man Last Line: Will vibrate to the doom. Subject(s): American Revolution; Freedom; Great Britain; Patriotism; Liberty ENGLISH WAR SONG Poem Text First Line: Who fears to die? Who fears to die? Last Line: England for aye! Subject(s): England; War; English ENOCH ARDEN Poem Text Recitation First Line: Long lines of cliff breaking have left a chasm Last Line: Had seldom seen a costlier funeral. Subject(s): Friendship; Love; Religion; Theology EPITAPH ON CAXTON, IN ST. MARGARET'S, WESTMINSTER Poem Text First Line: Thy prayer was 'light - more light - while time shall last!' Last Line: Till shadows vanish in the light of light. Subject(s): Caxton, William (1422-1491); Printing And Printers EPITAPH ON GENERAL GORDON Poem Text First Line: Warrior of god, man's friend, and tyrant's foe Last Line: This earth has never borne a nobler man. Subject(s): Gordon, Charles George (1833-1885) EPITAPH ON LORD STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE, IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY Poem Text First Line: Thou third great canning, stand among our best Last Line: Who wert the voice of england in the east. Subject(s): Canning, Sir Stratford (1786-1880); Stratford De Redcliffe, 1st Viscount EXHORTATION TO THE GREEKS Poem Text First Line: Arouse thee, o greece! And remember the day Last Line: As the war-song of freedom that calls on the brave. Subject(s): Freedom; Greece; Liberty; Greeks FAITH Poem Text First Line: Doubt no longer that the highest is the wisest and best Last Line: Dark no more with human hatreds in the glare of deathless fire! Subject(s): Faith; Belief; Creed FALCON First Line: So, my lord, the lady giovanna, who hath FAR - FAR - AWAY (FOR MUSIC) Poem Text First Line: What sight so lured him through the fields he knew Last Line: Far -- far -- away? Subject(s): Music & Musicians FATIMA Poem Text First Line: O love, love, love! O withering might Last Line: Die, dying clasp'd in his embrace. Subject(s): Love FLOWER IN THE CRANNIED WALL FORESTERS: KING RICHARD IN SHERWOOD FOREST First Line: There is no land like england Last Line: All the birds in merry sherwood sing and sing him home again Subject(s): Robin Hood FORLORN Poem Text First Line: He is fled - I wish him dead' Last Line: And while the moon was setting. Subject(s): Grief FRATER AVE ATQUE VALE Poem Text First Line: Row us out from desenzano, to your sirmione row Last Line: Sweet catullus's all-but-island, olive-silvery sirmio! Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Catullus, Gaius Valerius (84-54 B.c.); Death; Garda, Lake, Italy; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips FREEDOM Poem Text First Line: O thou so fair in summers gone Last Line: Brass mouths and iron lungs! Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty FRIENDSHIP Poem Text First Line: O thou most holy friendship! Wheresoe'er Last Line: That I will deem thee truth, so lovely is thy might! Subject(s): Friendship FRIENDSHIP; A SONNET Poem Text First Line: As when with downcast eyes we muse and brood Last Line: And either lived in either's heart and speech. Subject(s): Friendship FROM SORROW SORROW YET IS BORN Poem Text Last Line: Touch some gray ruin on the hill Subject(s): Hope GANYMEDE First Line: Swift from the chase jove's towering eagle bears Subject(s): Ganymede (mythology) GOD AND THE UNIVERSE Poem Text First Line: Will my tiny spark of being wholly vanish in your deeps and heights? Last Line: Nor the myriad world, his shadow, nor the silent opener of the gate.' Subject(s): God GOD'S DENUNCIATION AGAINST PHARAOH-HOPHRA, OR APRIES Poem Text First Line: Thou beast of the flood, who hast said Last Line: With wheels like a whirlwind, and chariots of fire! Subject(s): Egypt GODIVA Poem Text Recitation First Line: I waited for the train at coventry Last Line: And built herself an everlasting name. Subject(s): England; Godiva, Lady (1140-1180); English GOLDEN SUPPER First Line: Whether they were his lady's marriage bells HANDS ALL ROUND (1ST VERSION) Poem Text First Line: First drink a health, this solemn night Last Line: And the great cause of freedom, round and round. Subject(s): England; Freedom; Patriotism; English; Liberty HANDS ALL ROUND (2D VERSION) First Line: First pledge our queen this solemn Last Line: And the great name of england, round and round Subject(s): England HAPPY HE WITH SUCH A MOTHER Poem Text First Line: Yet there was one Last Line: He shall not blind his soul with clay. Subject(s): Mothers HAPPY; THE LEPER'S BRIDE Poem Text First Line: Why wail you, pretty plover? And what is it that you fear? Last Line: Of the everlasting god, I will live and die with you! Subject(s): Leprosy; Lepers HAROLD; A DRAMA, SELS. Subject(s): Great Britain - History HE LIVES, EVER LIVES IN THE HEARTS OF THE FREE HELEN'S TOWER Poem Text First Line: Helen's tower, here I stand Last Line: In earth's recurring paradise. Subject(s): Ireland; Sheridan, Helen Selina (1807-1867); Irish; Dufferin, Lady; Gifford, Lady HENDECASYLLABICS Poem Text Recitation First Line: O you chorus of indolent reviewers Last Line: Maiden, not to be greeted unbenignly. Subject(s): Catullus, Gaius Valerius (84-54 B.c.); Critics & Criticism; Horticulture; Poetry & Poets HERO TO LEANDER Poem Text First Line: O go not yet, my love Last Line: Or I will follow thee! Subject(s): Hero & Leander; Leander HEXAMETERS AND PENTAMETERS Poem Text First Line: These lame hexameters the strong-wing'd music of homer! Last Line: Barbarous experiment, barbarous hexameters. Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Translating & Interpreting; Iliad; Odyssey I WANDER IN DARKNESS AND SORROW Poem Text Last Line: The fall of the leaves at my feet!' Subject(s): Grief; Death IDYLLS OF THE KING (12 BOOKS, COMPLETE) IDYLLS OF THE KING: BALIN AND BALAN Poem Text First Line: Pellam the king, who held and lost with lot Last Line: With balin, either lock'd in either's arm. Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Arthur, King IDYLLS OF THE KING: DEDICATION Poem Text First Line: These to his memory -- since he held them dear Last Line: Till god's love set thee at his side again! Variant Title(s): To The Queen;albert, Prince Consort Of England Subject(s): Albert Of Saxe-coburg-gotha (1819-1861); Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Prince Consort Of Queen Victoria IDYLLS OF THE KING: GARETH AND LYNETTE Poem Text First Line: The last tall son of lot and bellicent Last Line: But he that told it later says lynette. Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Courage; Jesus Christ; Arthur, King; Valor; Bravery IDYLLS OF THE KING: GERAINT AND ENID Poem Text First Line: O purblind race of miserable men Last Line: In battle, fighting for the blameless king. Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Arthur, King IDYLLS OF THE KING: GUINEVERE Poem Text First Line: Queen guinevere had fled the court, and sat Last Line: To where beyond these voices there is peace. Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Arthur, King IDYLLS OF THE KING: LANCELOT AND ELAINE Poem Text First Line: Elaine the fair, elaine the lovable [or loveable] Last Line: Not knowing he should die a holy man. Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Arthur, King IDYLLS OF THE KING: MERLIN AND VIVIEN Poem Text First Line: A storm was coming, but the winds were still Last Line: Behind her, and the forest echo'd 'fool.' Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Love; Arthur, King IDYLLS OF THE KING: PELLEAS AND ETTARRE Poem Text First Line: King arthur made new knights to fill the gap Last Line: And modred thought, 'the time is hard at hand.' Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Arthur, King IDYLLS OF THE KING: THE COMING OF ARTHUR Poem Text First Line: Leodogran, the king of cameliard Last Line: The heathen hordes, and made a realm and reign'd. Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Arthur, King IDYLLS OF THE KING: THE HOLY GRAIL Poem Text First Line: From noiseful arms, and acts of prowess done Last Line: So spake the king; I knew not all he meant.' Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Arthur, King IDYLLS OF THE KING: THE LAST TOURNAMENT Poem Text First Line: Dagonet, the fool, whom gawain in his mood Last Line: And I shall never make thee smile again.' Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Tournaments; Arthur, King IDYLLS OF THE KING: THE MARRIAGE OF GERAINT Poem Text First Line: The brave geraint, a knight of arthur's court Last Line: And took it, and array'd herself therein. Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Arthur, King IDYLLS OF THE KING: THE PASSING OF ARTHUR Poem Text First Line: That story which the bold sir bedivere Last Line: And the new sun rose bringing the new year. Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Arthur, King IDYLLS OF THE KING: TO THE QUEEN Poem Text First Line: O loyal to the royal in thyself Last Line: Where all of high and holy dies away. Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Arthur, King IN MEMORIAM A.H.H. (COMPLETE) Poem Text First Line: I held it truth, with him who sings Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833) IN MEMORIAM A.H.H. (COMPLETE) First Line: I held it truth, with him who sings Last Line: And one far-off divine event, %to which the whole creation moves Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833) IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 1 Poem Text First Line: I held it truth, with him who sings Last Line: But all he was is overworn.' Subject(s): Immortality IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 10 Poem Text First Line: I hear the noise about thy keel Last Line: Should toss with tangle and with shells. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 100 Poem Text First Line: I climb the hill: from end to end Last Line: I think once more he seems to die. Variant Title(s): Memory Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 101 Poem Text First Line: Unwatched, the garden bough shall sway Last Line: From all the circle of the hills. Variant Title(s): Somersby, Lincolnshire: After Leaving The Rectory;mutability In Gardens Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 102 Poem Text First Line: We leave the well-beloved place Last Line: To one pure image of regret. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 103 Poem Text First Line: On that last night before we went Last Line: That landlike slept along the deep. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 104 Poem Text First Line: The time draws near the birth of christ Last Line: But all is new unhallow'd ground. Variant Title(s): The Bells Of Yule Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 105 Poem Text First Line: Tonight ungather'd let us leave Last Line: The closing cycle rich in good. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 106 Poem Text First Line: Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky Last Line: Ring in the christ that is to be. Variant Title(s): The New Year;the Old Year And The New Subject(s): Bells; Christmas; Holidays; New Year; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 107 Poem Text First Line: It is the day when he was born Last Line: And sing the songs he loved to hear. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 108 Poem Text First Line: I will not shut me from my kind Last Line: Whatever wisdom sleep with thee. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 109 Poem Text First Line: Heart-affluence in discursive talk Last Line: Nor let thy wisdom make me wise. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 11 Poem Text First Line: Calm is the morn without a sound Last Line: Which heaves but with the heaving deep. Variant Title(s): Lincolnshire Wolds And Lincolnshire Sea;autumn;the Awakening Of Spring;the Peace Of Sorrow;in Memoriam (3) Subject(s): Death; Grief; Mourning; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 110 Poem Text First Line: Thy converse drew us with delight Last Line: That spurs an imitative will. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 111 Poem Text First Line: The churl in spirit, up or down Last Line: And soil'd with all ignoble use. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 112 Poem Text First Line: High wisdom holds my wisdom less Last Line: In vassal tides that follow'd thought. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 113 Poem Text First Line: Tis held that sorrow makes us wise Last Line: And undulations to and fro. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 114 Poem Text First Line: Who loves not knowledge? Who shall rail Last Line: In reverence and in charity. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 115 Poem Text First Line: Now fades the last long streak of snow Last Line: And buds and blossoms like the rest. Variant Title(s): April;spring's Awakening;in Memoriam (6);now Fades The Last Long Streak Of Snow, Subject(s): Spring IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 116 Poem Text First Line: Is it, then, regret for buried time Last Line: Than some strong bond which is to be. Variant Title(s): New Year's Eve Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 117 Poem Text First Line: O days and hours, your work is this Last Line: And all the courses of the suns. Variant Title(s): Separation Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 118 Poem Text First Line: Contemplate all this work of time Last Line: And let the ape and tiger die. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 119 Poem Text First Line: Doors, where my heart was used to beat Last Line: I take the pressure of thine hand. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 12 Poem Text First Line: Lo, as a dove when up she springs Last Line: That I have been an hour away. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 120 Poem Text First Line: I trust I have not wasted breath Last Line: But I was born to other things. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 121 Poem Text First Line: Sad hesper o'er the buried sun Last Line: Thy place is changed; thou art the same. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 122 Poem Text First Line: O, wast thou with me, dearest, then Last Line: And every thought breaks out a rose. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 123 Poem Text First Line: There rolls the deep where grew the tree Last Line: I cannot think the thing farewell. Variant Title(s): In Memoriam (7) Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 124 Poem Text First Line: That which we dare invoke to bless Last Line: That reach thro' nature, moulding men. Subject(s): Religion; Theology IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 125 Poem Text First Line: Whatever I have said or sung Last Line: A thousand pulses dancing, fail. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 126 Poem Text First Line: Love is and was my lord and king Last Line: In the deep night, that all is well. Variant Title(s): My Lord And King;in Memoriam (8) Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 127 Poem Text First Line: And all is well, tho' faith and form Last Line: And smilest, knowing all is well. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 128 Poem Text First Line: The love that rose on stronger wings Last Line: Is toil cooperant to an end. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 129 Poem Text First Line: Dear friend, far off, my lost desire Last Line: And mingle all the world with thee. Variant Title(s): Known And Unknown Subject(s): Love; Religion; Theology IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 13 Poem Text First Line: Tears of the widower, when he sees Last Line: And not the burthen that they bring. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 130 Poem Text First Line: Thy voice is on the rolling air Last Line: I shall not lose thee tho' I die. Variant Title(s): All Is Well Subject(s): Friendship; Gays & Lesbians; Religion; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Theology IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 131 Poem Text First Line: O living will that shalt endure Last Line: And all we flow from, soul in soul. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 14 Poem Text First Line: If one should bring me this report Last Line: I should not feel it to be strange. Variant Title(s): Of One Dead Subject(s): Death; Dead, The IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 15 Poem Text First Line: Tonight the winds begin to rise Last Line: A looming bastion fringed with fire. Variant Title(s): In Memoriam (4) Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 16 Poem Text First Line: What words are these have fallen from me? Last Line: And mingles all without a plan? Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 17 Poem Text First Line: Thou comest, much wept for; such a breeze Last Line: Till all my widow'd race be run. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 18 Poem Text First Line: Tis well, 'tis something; we may stand Last Line: The words that are not heard again. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 19 Poem Text First Line: The danube to the severn gave Last Line: And I can speak a little then. Variant Title(s): The Hushing Of The Wye Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 2 Poem Text First Line: Old yew, which graspest at the stones Last Line: And grow incorporate into thee. Variant Title(s): The Dead Friend;in Memoriam;in Memoriam (1);in Memoriam: 2 Subject(s): Environment; Mourning; Trees; Yew Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Bereavement IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 20 Poem Text First Line: The lesser griefs that may be said Last Line: How good! Now kind! And he is gone.' Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 21 Poem Text First Line: I sing to him that rests below Last Line: Because her brood is stolen away. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 22 Poem Text First Line: The path by which we twain did go Last Line: The shadow sits and waits for me. Subject(s): Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 23 Poem Text First Line: Now, sometimes in my sorrow shut Last Line: To many a flute of arcady. Subject(s): Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 24 Poem Text First Line: And was the day of my delight Last Line: We saw not when we moved therein? Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 25 Poem Text First Line: I know that this was life - the track Last Line: And part it, giving half to him. Variant Title(s): The Daily Burden;the Dead Friend Subject(s): Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 26 Poem Text First Line: Still onward winds the weary way Last Line: To shroud me from my proper scorn. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 27 Poem Text First Line: I envy not in any moods Last Line: Than never to have loved at all. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 28 Poem Text First Line: The time draws near the birth of christ Last Line: The merry, merry bells of yule. Variant Title(s): Christmas Eve;christmas Bells;the Birth Of Christ;rise, Happy Morn Subject(s): Bells; Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 29 Poem Text First Line: With such compelling cause to grieve Last Line: Before their time? They too will die. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 3 Poem Text First Line: Old sorrow, cruel fellowship Last Line: Upon the threshold of the mind? Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 30 Poem Text First Line: With trembling fingers did we weave Last Line: The light that shone when hope was born. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 31 Poem Text First Line: When lazarus left his charnel-cave Last Line: The lips of that evangelist. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 32 Poem Text First Line: Her eyes are homes of silent prayer Last Line: Or is there blessedness like theirs? Variant Title(s): Mary Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 33 Poem Text First Line: O thou that after toil and storm Last Line: And even for want of such a type. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 34 Poem Text First Line: My own dim life should teach me this Last Line: Of vacant darkness and to cease. Variant Title(s): Life Shall Live For Evermore Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 35 Poem Text First Line: Yet if some voice that man could trust Last Line: And bask'd and batten'd in the woods. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 36 Poem Text First Line: Tho' truths in manhood darkly join Last Line: In roarings round the coral reef. Variant Title(s): The Word;the Word Incarnate Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 37 Poem Text First Line: Urania speaks with darkened brow Last Line: And darken'd sanctities with song.' Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 38 Poem Text First Line: With weary steps I loiter on Last Line: Not all ungrateful to thine ear. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 39 Poem Text First Line: Old warder of these buried bones Last Line: And passes into gloom again. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 4 Poem Text First Line: To sleep I give my powers away Last Line: Thou shalt not be the fool of loss.' Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 40 Poem Text First Line: Could we forget the widow'd hour Last Line: And thine in undiscover'd lands. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 41 Poem Text First Line: Thy spirit ere our fatal loss Last Line: But evermore a life behind. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 42 Poem Text First Line: I vex my heart with fancies dim Last Line: A truth from one that loves and knows? Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 43 Poem Text First Line: If sleep and death be truly one Last Line: Rewaken with the dawning soul. Variant Title(s): Time And Eternity Subject(s): Love; Mourning; Bereavement IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 44 Poem Text First Line: How fares it with the happy dead? Last Line: In that high place, and tell thee all. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 45 Poem Text First Line: The baby new to earth and sky Last Line: Beyond the second birth of death. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 46 Poem Text First Line: We ranging down this lower track Last Line: A rosy warmth from marge to marge. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 47 Poem Text First Line: That each, who seems a separate whole Last Line: Farewell! We lose ourselves in light.' Variant Title(s): Personal Resurrection Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 48 Poem Text First Line: If these brief lays, of sorrow born Last Line: Their wings in tears, and skim away. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 49 Poem Text First Line: From art, from nature, from the schools Last Line: The bases of my life in tears. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 5 Poem Text First Line: I sometimes hold it half a sin Last Line: Is given in outline and no more. Variant Title(s): Grief Unspeakable Subject(s): Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 50 Poem Text First Line: Be near me when my light is low Last Line: The twilight of eternal day. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 51 Poem Text First Line: Do we indeed desire the dead Last Line: To make allowance for us all. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 52 Poem Text First Line: I cannot love thee as I ought Last Line: When time hath sunder'd shell from pearl.' Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 53 Poem Text First Line: How many a father have I seen Last Line: Procuress to the lords of hell. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 54 Poem Text First Line: Oh yet we trust that somehow good Last Line: And with no language but a cry. Variant Title(s): Trust Subject(s): Faith; Hope; Religion; Worship; Belief; Creed; Optimism; Theology IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 54-55. THE LARGER HOPE First Line: O, yet we trust that somehow good Last Line: To what I feel is lord of all, %and faintly trust the larger hope Subject(s): Faith IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 55 Poem Text First Line: The wish, that of the living whole Last Line: And faintly trust the larger hope. Variant Title(s): The Strife Subject(s): Religion; Theology IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 56 Poem Text First Line: So careful of the type?' but no Last Line: Behind the veil, behind the veil. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 57 Poem Text First Line: Peace; come away: the song of woe Last Line: Adieu, adieu,' for evermore. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 58 Poem Text First Line: In those sad words I took farewell Last Line: And thou shalt take a nobler leave.' Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 59 Poem Text First Line: O sorrow, wilt thou live with me Last Line: Could hardly tell what name were thine. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 6 Poem Text First Line: One writes, that 'other friends remain' Last Line: And unto me no second friend. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 60 Poem Text First Line: He past; a soul of nobler tone Last Line: How should he love a thing so low?' Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 61 Poem Text First Line: If, in thy second state sublime Last Line: The soul of shakespeare love thee more. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 62 Poem Text First Line: Tho' if an eye that's downward cast Last Line: Is matter for a flying smile. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 63 Poem Text First Line: Yet pity for a horse o'er driven Last Line: A higher height, a deeper deep. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 64 Poem Text First Line: Dost thou look back on what hath been Last Line: Does my old friend remember me?' Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 65 Poem Text First Line: Sweet soul, do with me as thou wilt Last Line: And move thee on to noble ends. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 66 Poem Text First Line: You thought my heart too far diseased Last Line: His night of loss is always there. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 67 Poem Text First Line: When on my bed the moonlight falls Last Line: Thy tablet glimmers in the dawn. Subject(s): Grief; Mourning; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 68 Poem Text First Line: When in the down I sink my head Last Line: That foolish sleep transfers to thee. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 69 Poem Text First Line: I dream'd there would be spring no more Last Line: The words were hard to understand. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 7 Poem Text First Line: Dark house, by which once more I stand Last Line: On the bald street breaks the blank day. Variant Title(s): In Memoriam;in Memoriam (2) Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Mourning; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Bereavement IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 70 Poem Text First Line: I cannot see the features right Last Line: Looks thy fair face and makes it still. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 71 Poem Text First Line: Sleep, kinsman thou to death and trance Last Line: The breaker breaking on the beach. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 72 Poem Text First Line: Risest thou thus, dim dawn, again Last Line: And hide thy shame beneath the ground. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 73 Poem Text First Line: So many worlds, so much to do Last Line: Of force that would have forged a name. Variant Title(s): Death In Life's Prime Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship; Dead, The IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 74 Poem Text First Line: As sometimes in a dead man's face Last Line: His darkness beautiful with thee. Subject(s): Immortality IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 75 Poem Text First Line: I leave thy praises unexpress'd Last Line: Is wrought with tumult of acclaim. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 76 Poem Text First Line: Take wings of fancy, and ascend Last Line: The ruin'd shells of hollow towers? Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 77 Poem Text First Line: What hope is here for modern rhyme Last Line: To utter love more sweet than praise. Variant Title(s): The Poet's Tribute Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship; Dead, The IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 78 Poem Text First Line: Again at christmas did we weave Last Line: But with long use her tears are dry. Subject(s): Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 79 Poem Text First Line: More than my brother are to me Last Line: As his unlikeness fitted mine. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 8 Poem Text First Line: A happy lover who has come Last Line: Or, dying, there at least may die. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 80 Poem Text First Line: If any vague desire should arise Last Line: Reach out dead hands to comfort me. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 81 Poem Text First Line: Could I have said while he was here Last Line: It might have drawn from after-heat.' Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 82 Poem Text First Line: I wage not any feud with death Last Line: We cannot hear each other speak. Subject(s): Social Protest IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 83 Poem Text First Line: Dip down upon the northern shore Last Line: And flood a fresher throat with song. Variant Title(s): April Days;spring Subject(s): April; Spring IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 84 Poem Text First Line: When I contemplate all alone Last Line: The low beginnings of content? Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 85 Poem Text First Line: This truth came borne with bier and pall Last Line: As not unlike to that of spring. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 86 Poem Text First Line: Sweet after showers, ambrosial air Last Line: A hundred spirits whisper 'peace.' Variant Title(s): Evening Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 87 Poem Text First Line: I past [or, passed] beside the reverend walls Last Line: The bar of michael angelo? Variant Title(s): He Revisits Cambridge;trinity College, Cambridge Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 88 Poem Text First Line: Wild bird, whose warble, liquid sweet Last Line: Will flash along the chords and go. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 89 Poem Text First Line: Witch-elms that counterchange the floor Last Line: And buzzings of the honeyed hours. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 9 Poem Text First Line: Fair ship, that from the italian shore Last Line: More than my brothers are to me. Variant Title(s): Dead, In A Foreign Land Subject(s): Death; Gays & Lesbians; Dead, The; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 90 Poem Text First Line: He tasted love with half his mind Last Line: That cries against my wish for thee. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 91 Poem Text First Line: When rosy plumelets tuft the larch Last Line: And like a finer light in light. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 92 Poem Text First Line: If any vision should reveal Last Line: As often rises ere they rise. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 93 Poem Text First Line: I shall not see thee, dare I say Last Line: My ghost may feel that thine is near. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 94 Poem Text First Line: How pure at heart and sound in head Last Line: And hear the household jar within. Variant Title(s): Spiritual Communions;spiritual Companionship Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship; Dead, The IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 95 Poem Text First Line: By night we linger'd on the lawn Last Line: To broaden into boundless day. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 96 Poem Text First Line: You say, but with no touch of scorn Last Line: Although the trumpet blew so loud. Variant Title(s): Doubt;doubt And Faith Subject(s): Faith; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 97 Poem Text First Line: My love has talk'd with rocks and trees Last Line: I cannot understand; I love.' Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 98 Poem Text First Line: You leave us: you will see the rhine Last Line: Of crimson or in emerald rain. Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 99 Poem Text First Line: Risest thou thus, dim dawn again Last Line: They know me not, but mourn with me Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: EPILOGUE Poem Text First Line: O true and tried, so well and long Last Line: To which the whole creation moves. Variant Title(s): The Wedding-day Subject(s): Religion; Theology IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: PROEM Poem Text First Line: Strong son of god, immortal love Last Line: And in thy wisdom make me wise. Variant Title(s): Prologue Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology IN MEMORIAM: W.G. WARD Poem Text First Line: Farewell, whose like on earth I shall not find Last Line: How loyal in the following of thy lord! Subject(s): Catholics; Ward, William George (1812-1882); Roman Catholics; Catholicism IN THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL Poem Text First Line: Our doctor had call'd in another, I never had seen him before Last Line: The lord of the children had heard her, and emmie had past away. Subject(s): Children; Hospitals; Surgery; Childhood IN THE GARDEN AT SWAINSTON (IN MEMORIAM - SIR JOHN SIMEON) Poem Text First Line: Nightingales warbled without, / within was weeping for thee Last Line: Three dead men have I loved, and thou art last of the three. Subject(s): Catholics; Isle Of Wight; Mourning; Simeon, Sir John; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Bereavement IN THE VALLEY OF CAUTERETZ Poem Text First Line: All along the valley, stream that flashest white Last Line: The voice of the dead was a living voice to me. Subject(s): Pyrenees (mountains), Europe ISABEL Poem Text First Line: Eyes not down-dropped nor over-bright,but fed Last Line: Of such a finish'd chasten'd purity. JUNE BRACKEN AND HEATHER Poem Text First Line: There on the top of the down Last Line: As the green of the bracken amid the gloom of the heather. Subject(s): June KAPIOLANI Poem Text First Line: When from the terrors of nature a people have fashion'd and worship a spirit Last Line: Demon from hawa-I-ee. Subject(s): Hawaii; Kapiolani (hawaiian Chietainess); Volcanoes KATE Poem Text First Line: I know her by her angry air Last Line: She cannot find a fitting mate. KING CHARLES'S VISION Poem Text First Line: King charles was sitting all alone Last Line: Fled into the gloom of night! Subject(s): Charles Xi, King Of Sweden (1655-1697) LADY CLARA VERE DE VERE Poem Text First Line: Lady clara vere de vere / of me you shall not win renown Last Line: And let the foolish yeoman go. Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love - Materialism; Sorrow; Sadness LADY CLARE Poem Text First Line: It was the time when lilies blow Last Line: "and you shall still be lady clare." Subject(s): Love LAMENTATION OF THE PERUVIANS Poem Text First Line: The foes of the east have come down on our shore Last Line: Be tenfold return'd on his murderous head! Subject(s): Peru LAND OF LANDS First Line: You ask me why, though ill at ease LAND WHICH FREEMEN TILL LEONINE ELEGIACS Poem Text First Line: Low-flowing breezes are roaming Last Line: False-eyed hesper, unkind, where is my sweet rosalind? LILIAN Poem Text First Line: Airy, fairy lilian Last Line: Fairy lilian. Subject(s): Women LINCOLNSHIRE SHORES (AT MABLETHORPE) Poem Text First Line: Here often, when a child, I lay reclined Last Line: Dim shores, dense rains, and heavy-clouded sea! Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore LINES INSCRIBED ON STATUE OF THE DUCHESS OF KENT AT FROGMORE Poem Text First Line: Long as the heart beats life within her breast Last Line: By children of the children of thy child. LITERARY SQUABBLES Poem Text First Line: Ah god! The petty fools of rhyme Last Line: Is perfect stillness when they brawl. Variant Title(s): After-thought LOCKSLEY HALL Poem Text First Line: Comrades, leave me here a little, while as yet 'tis early morn Last Line: For the mighty wind arises, roaring seaward, and I go. Subject(s): Disappointment; Freedom; Grief; Holidays; Love; Religion; Veterans Day; War; Liberty; Sorrow; Sadness; Theology LOCKSLEY HALL SIXTY YEARS AFTER Poem Text First Line: Late, my grandson! Half the morning have I paced these sandy tracts Last Line: Then I leave thee lord and master, latest lord of locksley hall. Subject(s): Old Age LOST HOPE Poem Text First Line: You cast to ground the hope which once was mine Last Line: And filled the cup with dew. Subject(s): Love - Complaints LOVE Poem Text First Line: Thou, from the first, unborn, undying love Last Line: Looks through the thick-stemmed woods by day and night. Subject(s): Love LOVE AND DEATH (1) Poem Text First Line: What time the mighty moon was gathering light Last Line: But I shall reign for ever over all.' Subject(s): Love LOVE AND DUTY Poem Text First Line: Of love that never found his earthly close Last Line: Beyond the fair green field and eastern sea. Variant Title(s): What Sequel? Subject(s): Love LOVE AND SORROW Poem Text First Line: O maiden, fresher than the first green leaf Last Line: They never learned to love who never knew to weep. Subject(s): Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness LOVE IS COME WITH A SONG A SMILE Subject(s): Love LOVE THOU THY LAND, WITH LOVE FAR-BROUGHT Poem Text Last Line: Raw haste, half-sister to delay Subject(s): Patriotism LOVE WEEPETH ALWAYS - WEEPETH FOR THE PAST LOVE, PRIDE, AND FORGETFULNESS Poem Text First Line: Ere yet my heart was sweet love's tomb Last Line: What marvel that she died? Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Love; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect LUCRETIUS Poem Text First Line: Lucilia, wedded to lucretius, found Last Line: Thy duty? What is duty? Fare thee well!' Subject(s): Lucretius (99-55 B.c.) MADELINE Poem Text First Line: Thou art not steep'd in golden languors Last Line: A sudden-curved frown. MARGARET Poem Text First Line: O sweet pale margaret Last Line: Upon me thro' the jasmine-leaves. MARIANA Poem Text First Line: With blackest moss the flower-plots Last Line: O god, that I were dead!' Subject(s): Desolation; Despair; Dramatists; Love; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Solitude; Dramatists; Loneliness MARIANA IN THE SOUTH Poem Text First Line: With one black shadow at its feet Last Line: To live forgotten, and love forlorn.' Subject(s): Despair; Solitude MAUD Poem Text First Line: I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood Last Line: I embrace the purpose of god, and the doom assign'd. Subject(s): Obsessions; Love MECHANOPHILUS Poem Text First Line: Now first we stand and understand Last Line: Heaven over heaven expands. Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains MEMORY Poem Text First Line: Memory! Dear enchanter! Last Line: Along the dun deep streaming. Subject(s): Memory MERLIN AND THE GLEAM Poem Text First Line: O young mariner / you from the haven Last Line: Follow the gleam. Subject(s): Merlin MIDNIGHT Poem Text First Line: Tis midnight o'er the dim mere's lonely bosom Last Line: Winds his broad stream majestic, deep, and slow. Subject(s): Night MILTON Poem Text First Line: O mighty-mouthed inventor of harmonies Last Line: Whisper in odorous heights of even. Variant Title(s): In Quantity;milton, Alcaics Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674) MINNIE AND WINNIE Poem Text Recitation First Line: Minnie and winnie / slept in a shell Last Line: The sun is aloft! Subject(s): Children; Morning; Childhood MITHRIDATES PRESENTING BERENICE WITH THE CUP OF POISON Poem Text First Line: Oh! Berenice, lorn and lost Last Line: And then farewell -- farewell for ever! Subject(s): Mithridates Vi Eupator (d. 63 B.c.); Mithrodates The Great MONTENEGRO Poem Text First Line: They rose to where their sovran eagle Last Line: Has breathed a race of mightier mountaineers. Subject(s): Montenegro MOVE EASTWARD, HAPPY EARTH, AND LEAVE MY LIFE IS FULL OF WEARY DAYS Poem Text Last Line: And tell me if the woodbines blow Subject(s): Mortality MY LOVE HAS TALKED NO MORE Poem Text First Line: O sad no more! O sweet no more! Last Line: No more! Subject(s): Grief NOBILITY First Line: However it be, it seems to me NORTHERN FARMER, NEW STYLE Poem Text First Line: Dosn't thou 'ear my 'erse's legs, as they canters awaawy? Last Line: Proputty, proputty, proputty -- canter an' canter awaay. Subject(s): Cynicism; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers NORTHERN FARMER, OLD STYLE Poem Text First Line: Wheer 'asta bean saw long and mea liggin' 'ere aloan? Last Line: Git ma my aale, I tell tha, an' if I mun doy I mun doy. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers NOTHING WILL DIE Poem Text First Line: When will the streams be aweary of flowing Last Line: All things will change. Subject(s): Mutability NUMA AND EGERIA First Line: Holding one hand against his ear O DARLING ROOM Poem Text First Line: O darling room, my heart's delight Last Line: Wherein to read, wherein to write. ODE ON THE DEATH OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON Poem Text First Line: Bury the great duke / with an empire's lamentation Last Line: God accept him, christ receive him! Variant Title(s): Let Us Bury The Great Duke Subject(s): Courage; Freedom; Great Britain - History; Valor; Bravery; Liberty; English History ODE SUNG AT THE OPENING OF THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION Poem Text First Line: Uplift a thousand voices full and sweet Last Line: Her flowers. Subject(s): Exhibitions; World's Fairs; Expositions ODE TO MEMORY Poem Text First Line: Thou who stealest fire Last Line: Thou dewy dawn of memory. Subject(s): Memory OENONE Poem Text First Line: There lies a vale in ida, lovelier Last Line: All earth and air seen only burning fire.' OH HEART OF GOD THAT PITIES ALL OH! YE WILD WINDS, THAT ROAR AND RAVE! Poem Text Last Line: That ye may live to war again? Subject(s): Death OI PEOVRES Poem Text First Line: All thoughts, all creeds, all dreams are true Last Line: And all things flow like a stream. ON A DEAD ENEMY Poem Text First Line: I came in haste with cursing breath Last Line: By heaven! I cannot hate thee now! Subject(s): Hate ON A MOURNER Poem Text First Line: Nature, so far as in her lies Last Line: The falsehood of extremes! Subject(s): Freedom; Mourning; Liberty; Bereavement ON A SPITEFUL LETTER Poem Text First Line: Here, it is here - the close of the year Last Line: How I hate the spites and the follies! Subject(s): Hate; Letters ON CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY Poem Text First Line: Therefore your halls, your ancient colleges Last Line: And teach us nothing, feeding not the heart. Subject(s): Cambridge University ON ONE WHO AFFECTED AN EFFEMINATE MANNER Poem Text First Line: While man and woman still are incomplete Last Line: But, friend, man - woman is not woman-man. Subject(s): Sex Role ON SUBLIMITY Poem Text First Line: O tell me not of vales in tenderest green Last Line: Who feels the genuine force of high sublimity! ON THE JUBILEE OF QUEEN VICTORIA Poem Text First Line: Fifty times the rose has flower'd and faded Last Line: Dawns into the jubilee of the ages. Subject(s): Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901) OPENING OF THE INDIAN AND COLONIAL EXHIBITION BY THE QUEEN Poem Text First Line: Welcome, welcome with one voice! Last Line: Britons, hold your own! Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; British Empire; England - Empire OVER THE DARK WORLD FLIES THE WIND OWD ROA (OLD ROVER) Poem Text First Line: Naay, noa mander o' use to be callin' 'im roa, roa, roa Last Line: Fur we moant 'ev naw moor fires -- and soa, little dick, good-night. PARNASSUS Poem Text First Line: What be those crowned forms high over the sacred fountain? Last Line: Let the golden iliad vanish, homer here is homer there. Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey PERSIA Poem Text First Line: Land of bright eye and lofty brow! Last Line: Whence cynics rail'd at human pride. Subject(s): Iran; Persia POETS AND CRITICS Poem Text First Line: This thing, that thing is the rage Last Line: And the critic's rarer still. Subject(s): Criticism & Critics POETS AND THEIR BIBLIOGRAPHIES Poem Text First Line: Old poets foster'd under friendlier skies Last Line: Had swampt the sacred poets with themselves. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POLITICS Poem Text First Line: We move, the wheel must always move Last Line: Down hill 'too-quick' the chain. Subject(s): Politics & Government POPULAR First Line: Popular, popular, unpopular! %'you're no poet' - the critics cried! Last Line: You're no poet!' 'why?' - 'you are popular!' %pop-gun, popular and unpopular! Subject(s): Critics And Criticism; Fame PREFATORY POEM TO MY BROTHER'S SONNETS Poem Text First Line: Midnight - in no midsummer tune Last Line: May all thou art be mine! Subject(s): Turner, Charles Tennyson (1808-1879) PREFATORY SONNET TO 'THE NINETEENTH CENTURY' Poem Text First Line: Those that of late had fleeted far and fast Last Line: In seas of death and sunless gulfs of doubt. PROMISE OF MAY: SONG (1) First Line: The town lay still in the low sunlight Last Line: O joy for the promise of may Subject(s): May (month) PROMISE OF MAY: SONG (2) First Line: O happy lark, that warblest high Last Line: And how I long for rest Subject(s): May (month) QUEEN MARY; A DRAMA, SELS. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Love RECOLLECTIONS OF THE ARABIAN NIGHTS Poem Text First Line: When the breeze of a joyful dawn blew free Last Line: The good haroun alraschid. Subject(s): Arabia REMORSE Poem Text First Line: Oh! 'tis a fearful thing to glance Last Line: Their dreadful gaze on me alone? REQUIESCAT Poem Text First Line: Fair is her cottage in its place Last Line: To some more perfect peace. RIFLEMAN FORM! Poem Text First Line: There is a sound of thunder afar Last Line: Riflemen, riflemen, riflemen form! Variant Title(s): The War Subject(s): Fights; Prudence; Rifles; Soldiers; Sound; Storms; Caution RIZPAH Poem Text Recitation First Line: Wailing, wailing, wailing, the wind over land and sea Last Line: Going. He calls. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; England; Mothers; Rizpah (bible); Tragedy; Women In The Bible; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; English ROMNEY'S REMORSE Poem Text First Line: Beat little heart - I give you this and this' Last Line: Reflected, sends a light on the forgiven. Subject(s): Romney, George (1734-1802) ROSALIND Poem Text First Line: My rosalind, my rosalind Last Line: From off your rosy mouth. SAINT AGNES' EVE Poem Text First Line: Deep on the convent-roof the snows Last Line: The bridegroom with his bride! Variant Title(s): Eve Of St. Agnes;saint Agnes Subject(s): Agnes, Saint (d. 304 A.d.); Catholics; Heaven; Jesus Christ; Saints; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Paradise SAINT TELEMACHUS Poem Text First Line: Had the fierce ashes of some fiery peak Last Line: Dark with the blood of man who murder'd man. Subject(s): Rome, Italy SCOTCH SONG Poem Text First Line: There are tears o' pity, an' tears o' wae Last Line: Yet the smile o' luve is sweeter than a'! SEA DREAMS Poem Text First Line: A city clerk, but gently born and bred Last Line: Your own will be the sweeter,' and they slept. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SIR GALAHAD Poem Text First Line: My good blade carves the casques of men Last Line: Until I find the holy grail Variant Title(s): The Pure Heart Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Service; Arthur, King SIR JOHN FRANKLIN; ON THE CENTOTAPH IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY Poem Text First Line: Not here! The white north has thy bones Last Line: Toward no earthly pole. Subject(s): Arctic; Explorers; Franklin, Sir John (1786-1847); Westminster Abbey; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers SIR JOHN OLDCASTLE, LORD COBHAM Poem Text First Line: My friend should meet me somewhere hereabout Last Line: For I must live to testify by fire. Subject(s): Heresy; Oldcastle, Sir John (1377-1417); Heretics; Cobham, Baron (1377-1417) SIR LANCELOT AND QUEEN GUINEVERE Poem Text First Line: Like souls that balance joy and pain Last Line: Upon her perfect lips. Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Love; Arthur, King SOMEBODY Poem Text First Line: Somebody being a nobody Last Line: Would you have called me a nobody? Variant Title(s): "somebody Being A Nobody""; Subject(s): Fame; Reputation SONG (1) Poem Text First Line: It is the solemn even-time Last Line: Echoes sad thro' the cloister'd arches. SONG (2) Poem Text First Line: To sit beside a chrystal spring Last Line: It tells me that I think of you! SONG (3) Poem Text First Line: A spirit haunts the year's last hours Last Line: Heavily hangs the tiger-lily. Variant Title(s): Song Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SONG (4) First Line: Lady, let the rolling drums SONG (5) Poem Text First Line: I' the glooming light Last Line: The world will not change, and her heart will not break. SONG (6) Poem Text First Line: The lintwhite and the throstlecock Last Line: We pri'thee pass not on. SONG (7) Poem Text First Line: Every day hath its night Last Line: Ah! Welaway! SONG (8) Poem Text First Line: Who can say Last Line: The cause is nowhere found in rhyme. SONG: WE ARE FREE Poem Text First Line: The winds, as at their hour of birth Last Line: Atween the blossoms, 'we are free.' SONNET Poem Text First Line: She took the dappled partridge flecked with blood Last Line: To make my love an immortality. Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Love - Nature Of; Partridge; Rabbits; Hares SONNET (1) Poem Text First Line: Could I outwear my present state of woe Last Line: From my cold eyes, and melted it again. SONNET (10) Poem Text First Line: There are three things which fill my heart with sighs Last Line: And dazzled to the heart with glorious pain. SONNET (2) Poem Text First Line: If I were loved, as I desire to be Last Line: Below us, as far on as eye could see. Variant Title(s): "love Defiant;""if I Were Loved, As I Desire To Be""; Subject(s): Love SONNET (3) Poem Text First Line: Shall the hag evil die with child of good Last Line: Nor blot with floating shades the solar light. SONNET (4) Poem Text First Line: Though night hath climbed her peak of highest noon Last Line: An honorable eld shall come upon thee. SONNET (5) Poem Text First Line: The pallid thunder-stricken sigh for gain Last Line: And skins the color from her trembling lips. Subject(s): Hate SONNET (6) Poem Text First Line: Mine be the strength of spirit, full and free Last Line: The lavish growths of southern mexico. Variant Title(s): "mine Be The Strength Of Spirit Fierce And Free""; SONNET (7) Poem Text First Line: O beauty, passing beauty! Sweetest sweet! Last Line: Hath melted in the silence that it broke. Subject(s): Desire SONNET (8) Poem Text First Line: Check every outflash, every ruder sally Last Line: When in this valley first I told my love. SONNET (9) Poem Text First Line: Me my own fate to lasting sorrow doometh Last Line: When we two meet there's never perfect light. SONNET ON HEARING OF THE OUTBREAK OF THE POLISH INSURRECTION Poem Text First Line: Blow ye trumpet, gather from afar Last Line: Boleslas drove the pomeranian. Subject(s): Freedom; Poland; Liberty SONNET TO A COQUETTE: 1 Poem Text First Line: Caress'd or chidden by the dainty hand Last Line: That sets at twilight in a land of reeds. SONNET TO A COQUETTE: 2 Poem Text First Line: The form, the form alone is eloquent! Last Line: She still would take the praise, and care no more. SONNET TO A COQUETTE: 3 Poem Text First Line: Wan sculptor, weepest thou to take the cast Last Line: Which some green christmas crams with weary bones. SONNET TO WILLIAM CHARLES MACREADY Poem Text First Line: Farewell, macready, since tonight we part Last Line: Dwells pleased, through twice a hundred years, on thee. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Macready, William Charles (1793-1873) SONNET: ALEXANDER Poem Text First Line: Warrior of god, whose strong right arm Last Line: Returning with hot cheek and kindled eyes. Subject(s): Alexander The Great (356-323 B.c.) SONNET: BUONAPARTE Poem Text First Line: He thought to quell the stubborn hearts of oak Last Line: Perforce, like those whom gideon school'd with briers. Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821) SONNET: POLAND Poem Text First Line: How long, o god, shall men be ridden down Last Line: A matter to be wept with tears of blood! Subject(s): Freedom; Poland; Liberty SONNET: TO J.M.K. Poem Text First Line: My hope and heart is with thee - thou wilt be Last Line: Arrows of lightnings. I will stand and mark. Subject(s): Kemble, John Mitchell (1807-1857) SOUTHERN ALPS First Line: I climbed the roofs at break of day Subject(s): Alps; Mountains SPARROW-HAWK First Line: A sparhawk proud did hold in wicked jail Last Line: To let a thousand such enjoy their quiet SPEAK OUT First Line: If you have a friend worth loving ST. SIMEON STYLITES Poem Text First Line: Although I be the basest of mankind Last Line: Example, pattern; lead them to thy light. Subject(s): Simeon Stylites STANZA Poem Text First Line: Not he that breaks the dams, but he Last Line: His name is pure, his fame is free. Subject(s): Politics & Government STANZAS Poem Text First Line: What time I wasted youthful hours Last Line: Take care thou dost not fear to fall!' SUPPOSED CONFESSIONS OF A SECOND-RATE SENSITIVE MIND Poem Text First Line: O god! My god! Have mercy now Last Line: O damned vacillating state! THE 'HOW' AND THE 'WHY' Poem Text First Line: I am any man's suitor Last Line: Who will riddle me the what and the why? THE ANCIENT SAGE Poem Text First Line: A thousand summers ere the time of christ Last Line: So, farewell.' Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE BANDIT'S DEATH Poem Text First Line: Sir, do you see this dagger? Nay, why do you start aside? Last Line: For I with this dagger of his -- do you doubt me? Here is his head! Subject(s): Bandits THE BEGGAR MAID [AND KING COPHETUA] Poem Text First Line: Her arms across her breast she laid Last Line: This beggar maid shall be my queen!' Subject(s): Begging & Beggars THE BLACKBIRD Poem Text First Line: O blackbird! Sing me something well Last Line: Caught in the frozen palms of spring. Subject(s): Blackbirds THE BRIDESMAID Poem Text First Line: O bridesmaid, ere the happy knot was tied Last Line: O happy bridesmaid, make a happy bride!' Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE BROOK; AN IDYL Poem Text First Line: Here by this brook we parted, I to the east Last Line: But she -- you will be welcome -- o, come in!' Subject(s): Brooks; Landscape; Streams; Creeks THE BROOK; AN IDYL: THE BROOK'S SONG Poem Text First Line: I come from haunts of coot and hern Last Line: But I go on forever. Variant Title(s): The Song Of The Brook Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks THE BURIAL OF LOVE Poem Text First Line: His eyes in eclipse Last Line: Till love have his full revenge. Subject(s): Love THE CAPTAIN; A LEGEND OF THE NAVY Poem Text First Line: He that only rules by terror Last Line: With one waft of the wing. Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain; Sea; English Navy; Ocean THE CHARGE OF THE HEAVY BRIGADE AT BALACLAVA: EPILOGUE Poem Text First Line: Not this way will you set your name Last Line: Is in itself a deed.' Subject(s): Patriotism THE CHARGE OF THE HEAVY BRIGADE AT BALACLAVA: PROLOGUE Poem Text First Line: Our birches yellowing and from each Last Line: Paled, and the glory grew. Subject(s): Crimean War (1853-1856); Hamley, Sir Edward Bruce (1824-1893); Soldiers THE CHARGE OF THE HEAVY BRIGADE AT BALACLAVA: THE CHARGE Poem Text First Line: The charge of the gallant three hundred, the heavy brigade! Last Line: Glory to all the three hundred, and all the brigade! Subject(s): Balaclava, Crimea; Courage; Crimean War (1853-1856); Valor; Bravery THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE Poem Text Recitation First Line: Half a league, half a league, / half a league onward Last Line: Noble six hundred! Subject(s): Balaclava, Crimea; Cavalry; Courage; Crimean War (1853-1856); Duty; Heroism; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Patriotism; Russia; Soldiers; War; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines; Soviet Union; Russians THE CHURCH WARDEN AND THE CURATE Poem Text First Line: Eh? Good daay! Good daay! Thaw it bean't not mooch of a daay Last Line: Fur they leaved their nasty sins I' my pond, an' it poison'd the cow. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary THE CITY CHILD Poem Text First Line: Dainty little maiden, whither would you wander? Last Line: Daisies and kingcups and honeysuckle-flowers.' Subject(s): Flowers THE DAISY; WRITTEN AT EDINBURGH Poem Text First Line: O love, what hours were thine and mine Last Line: My fancy fled to the south again. Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Italy; Love; Monaco; Italians THE DAWN Poem Text First Line: Red of the dawn! Last Line: The men of a hundred thousand, a million summers away? Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise THE DAY-DREAM: EPILOGUE Poem Text First Line: So, lady flora, take my lay, / and, if you find a meaning there Last Line: And either sacred unto you. THE DAY-DREAM: L'ENVOI Poem Text First Line: You shake your head. A random string Last Line: And that for which I care to live. THE DAY-DREAM: MORAL Poem Text First Line: So, lady flora, take my lay Last Line: Should hook it to some useful end. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE DAY-DREAM: PROLOGUE Poem Text First Line: O lady flora, let me speak Last Line: And order'd words asunder fly. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE DAY-DREAM: THE ARRIVAL Poem Text First Line: All precious things, discover'd late Last Line: How dark those hidden eyes must be!' THE DAY-DREAM: THE DEPARTURE Poem Text First Line: And on her lover's arm she leant Last Line: Thro' all the world she follow'd him. THE DAY-DREAM: THE REVIVAL OF THE 'SLEEPING BEAUTY' Poem Text First Line: A touch, a kiss! The charm was snapt Last Line: And, smiling, put the question by. THE DAY-DREAM: THE SLEEPING BEAUTY Poem Text First Line: Year after year unto her feet Last Line: A perfect form in perfect rest. Subject(s): Fairy Tales; Love THE DAY-DREAM: THE SLEEPING PALACE Poem Text First Line: The varying year with blade and sheaf Last Line: And bring the fated fairy prince. Variant Title(s): The Magic Sleep Subject(s): Fairy Tales THE DEAD PROPHET Poem Text First Line: Dead! / and the muses cried with a stormy cry Last Line: One shriek'd, 'the fires of hell!' Subject(s): Carlyle, Thomas (1795-1881) THE DEATH OF OENONE Poem Text First Line: Oenone sat within the cave from out Last Line: And mixt herself with him and past in fire. THE DEATH OF THE DUKE OF CLARENCE AND AVONDALE Poem Text First Line: The bridal garland falls upon the bier Last Line: Until the great hereafter. Mourn in hope! Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement THE DEATH OF THE OLD YEAR Poem Text First Line: Full knee-deep lies the winter snow Last Line: A new face at the door. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Time THE DEFENCE OF LUCKNOW Poem Text First Line: Banner of england, not for a season, o banner of britain, hast thou Last Line: And ever aloft on the palace roof the old banner of england blew. Subject(s): India - Sepoy Rebellion (1857); Lucknow, India THE DEITY Poem Text First Line: Where is the wonderful abode Last Line: To such an awless flight ascend? THE DELL OF E -. Poem Text First Line: There was a long, low, rushy dell, emboss'd Last Line: Spread out beneath the sun their glorious canopy! THE DESERTED HOUSE Poem Text First Line: Life and thought have gone away Last Line: Would they could have stayed with us! Subject(s): Houses, Deserted THE DREAMER Poem Text First Line: On a midnight in midwinter when all but the winds were dead Last Line: Whirl, and follow the sun! THE DRUID'S PROPHECIES Poem Text First Line: Mona! With flame thine oaks are streaming Last Line: The queen of nations bows to earth! THE DUKE OF ALVA'S OBSERVATIONS ON KINGS Poem Text First Line: Kings, when to private audience they descend Last Line: Like some old book which he has read all over. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers THE DYING SWAN Poem Text First Line: The plain was grassy, wild and bare Last Line: Were flooded over with eddying song. Subject(s): Birds; Swans THE EAGLE; A FRAGMENT Poem Text First Line: He clasps the crag with crooked [or, hooked] hands Last Line: And like a thunderbolt he falls. Variant Title(s): The Eagle Subject(s): Birds; Eagles THE EPIC Poem Text First Line: At francis allen's on the christmas eve Last Line: Deep-chested music, and to this result. THE EXILE'S HARP Poem Text First Line: I will hang thee, my harp, by the side of the fountain Last Line: For ever farewell! Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres THE EXPEDITION OF BADIR SHAH INTO HINDOSTAN Poem Text First Line: As the host of the locusts in numbers, it might Last Line: And wither'd the flower of thy fame, hindostan! THE FALL OF JERUSALEM Poem Text First Line: Jerusalem! Jerusalem! / thou art low; thou Last Line: Th' unfading splendours of his son! Subject(s): Jerusalem; Jews; Judaism THE FIRST QUARREL Poem Text First Line: Wait a little,' you say, 'you are sure it'll all come right' Last Line: An' the boat went down that night -- the boat went down that night. Subject(s): Isle Of Wight THE FLEET Poem Text First Line: You, you, if you shall fail to understand Last Line: But then too late, too late. Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Navy - Great Britain; British Empire; England - Empire; English Navy THE FLIGHT Poem Text First Line: Are you sleeping? Have you forgotten? Do not sleep, my sister dear! Last Line: And every heart that loves with truth is equal to endure. THE FLOWER Poem Text First Line: Once in a golden hour Last Line: Call it but a weed. Subject(s): Flowers; Holidays; Trees THE FORESTERS: NATIONAL SONG Poem Text First Line: There is no land like england Last Line: Cho. -- for the french, etc. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; National Song - England; English History; English National Anthem THE FORESTERS: SONG Poem Text First Line: To sleep! To sleep! The long bright day is done Last Line: To sleep! To sleep! Subject(s): England; English THE GARDENER'S DAUGHTER Poem Text First Line: This morning is the morning of the day Last Line: Now the most blessed memory of mine age. Subject(s): Country Life; Gardens & Gardening; Landscape; Love THE GOLDEN YEAR Poem Text First Line: Well, you shall have that song which leonard Last Line: And buffet round the hills, from bluff to bluff. THE GOOSE Poem Text First Line: I knew an old wife lean and poor Last Line: And god forget the stranger!' Subject(s): Geese THE GRANDMOTHER'S APOLOGY Poem Text First Line: And willy, my eldest born, is gone, you say, little annie? Last Line: But stay with the old woman now; you cannot have long to stay. Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers THE GRASSHOPPER Poem Text First Line: Voice of the summer wind Last Line: Lighting on the golden blooms? Subject(s): Grasshoppers THE GRAVE OF A SUICIDE Poem Text First Line: Hark! How the gale, in mournful notes and stern Last Line: The quivering lip, proclaim the rest too well! Subject(s): Summer THE HESPERIDES Poem Text First Line: The north-wind fall'n, in the new-starred night Last Line: Standing about the charmed root. Subject(s): Hesperides (mythology) THE HIGH-PRIEST TO ALEXANDER Poem Text First Line: Go forth, thou man of force! Last Line: In his holy of holies for ever! Subject(s): Alexander The Great (356-323 B.c.); Jews; Judaism THE HIGHER PANTHEISM Poem Text First Line: The sun, the moon, the stars, the seas, the hills and the plains Last Line: But if we could see and hear, this vision -- were it not he? Subject(s): Pantheism; Religion; Theology THE ISLET Poem Text First Line: Whither, o whither, love, shall we go Last Line: And makes it a sorrow to be.' THE KRAKEN Poem Text First Line: Below the thunders of the upper deep Last Line: In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sea Monsters; Supernatural; Sea Serpents THE LADY OF SHALOTT Poem Text Recitation First Line: On either side the river lie Last Line: "the lady of shalott!" Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Death; Mysticism; Arthur, King; Dead, The THE LETTERS Poem Text First Line: Still on the tower stood the vane Last Line: There comes a sound of marriage bells.' THE LORD OF BURLEIGH Poem Text First Line: In her ear he whispers gaily Last Line: That her spirit might have rest. Subject(s): Cecil, William, 1st Baron Burleigh THE LOTOS-EATERS Poem Text Recitation First Line: Courage!' he said, and pointed toward the land Last Line: O rest ye, brother mariners, we will not wander more. Variant Title(s): The Lotus-eaters Subject(s): Lotus; Mythology - Classical; Rest; Ulysses; Lotos; Odysseus THE LOVER'S TALE Poem Text First Line: Here far away, seen from the topmost cliff Last Line: And I with him, my julian, back to mine. THE MAID OF SAVOY Poem Text First Line: Down savoy's hills of stainless white Last Line: Is the voice of the maid of savoy! THE MAKING OF MAN Poem Text First Line: Where is one that, born of woman, altogether can escape Last Line: Hallelujah to the maker 'it is finish'd. Man is made.' Subject(s): Mankind; Human Race THE MAY QUEEN Poem Text First Line: You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear Last Line: And the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE MERMAID Poem Text First Line: Who would be / a mermaid fair Last Line: All looking down for the love of me. Subject(s): Mermaids & Mermen; Supernatural THE MERMAN Poem Text First Line: Who would be / a merman bold Last Line: We would live merrily, merrily. Subject(s): Mermaids & Mermen; Supernatural THE MILLER'S DAUGHTER Poem Text First Line: I see the wealthy miller yet Last Line: Is dry and dewless. Let us go. Variant Title(s): What Would I Be THE MYSTIC Poem Text First Line: Angels have talked with him, and showed him thrones Last Line: Investeth and ingirds all other lives. THE NEW TIMON AND THE POETS Poem Text First Line: We know him, out of shakespeare's art Last Line: You bandbox. Off, and let him rest. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Timon (5th Century B.c.) THE NEW YEAR Poem Text First Line: I stood on a tower in the wet Last Line: And new year blowing and roaring. Variant Title(s): "1865-1866;""i Stood On A Tower In The Wet""; Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Time THE NORTHERN COBBLER Poem Text First Line: Waait till our sally cooms in, fur thou mun a' sights to tell Last Line: Fur I weant shed a drop on 'is blood, noa, not fur sally's oan kin. THE OAK Poem Text First Line: Live thy life / young and old Last Line: Naked strength. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Oak Trees; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE OLD CHIEFTAIN Poem Text First Line: Raise, raise the song of the hundred shells! Last Line: The memory of the days of old! THE OLD SWORD Poem Text First Line: Old sword! Tho' dim and rusted Last Line: A wreck of ancient time! Subject(s): Swords THE OWL (1) Poem Text First Line: When cats run home and light is come Last Line: The white owl in the belfry sits. Variant Title(s): Song: The Owl Subject(s): Birds; Owls THE OWL (2) Poem Text First Line: Thy tuwhits are lull'd I wot Last Line: Tuwhoo, tuwhit, tuwhit, tuwhoo-o-o! Subject(s): Birds; Owls THE PALACE OF ART Poem Text First Line: I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house Last Line: When I have purged my guilt.' Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE PASSIONS Poem Text First Line: Beware, beware, ere thou takest Last Line: The scorpions that sleep in thee! THE PLAY Poem Text First Line: Act first, this earth, a stage so gloom'd with woe Last Line: In some fifth act what this wild drama means. Subject(s): Life; Plays & Playwrights THE POET Poem Text First Line: The poet in a golden clime was born Last Line: She shook the world. Subject(s): Freedom; Hate; Poetry & Poets; Liberty THE POET'S MIND Poem Text First Line: Vex not thou the poet's mind Last Line: It would shrink to the earth if you came in. Variant Title(s): To The Critic Subject(s): Criticism & Critics THE POET'S SONG Poem Text First Line: The rain had fallen, the poet arose Last Line: When the years have died away.' Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE PRINCESS: LULLABY Poem Text Recitation First Line: Sweet and low, sweet and low Last Line: Sleep my little one, sleep, my pretty one, sleep. Variant Title(s): The Princess: Song Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood THE PRINCESS: SONG Poem Text First Line: Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean Last Line: O death in life, the days that are no more. THE PRINCESS: SONG Poem Text Recitation First Line: Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white Last Line: Into my bosom and be lost in me. THE PRINCESS: SONG Poem Text First Line: Home they brought her warrior dead Last Line: "sweet my child, I live for thee." THE PRINCESS: SONG Poem Text Recitation First Line: Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean Last Line: O death in life, the days that are no more. THE PRINCESS: [BUGLE] SONG Poem Text Recitation First Line: The splendor falls on castle walls Last Line: And answer, echoes, answer, dying, dying, dying. Variant Title(s): The Bugle;he Hears The Bugle At Killarney;blow, Bugle, Blow;bugle Song Of Peace; A Prophecy For Memorial Day;the Horns Of Elfland Subject(s): Bugles; Peace; Supernatural THE PRINCESS; A MEDLEY Poem Text First Line: Sir walter vivian all a summer's day Last Line: From those rich silks, and home well-pleased we went. Subject(s): Echoes; Mothers; Religion; Sea; Supernatural; Women's Rights; Theology; Ocean; Feminism THE PROGRESS OF SPRING Poem Text First Line: The ground-flame of the crocus breaks the mold Last Line: Life which is life indeed. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Landscape THE REVENGE; A BALLAD OF THE FLEET Poem Text First Line: At flores in the azores sir richard grenville lay Last Line: To be lost evermore in the main. Subject(s): England; Grenville, Sir Richard (1542-1591); Revenge (ship); Sea Battles; English; Naval Warfare THE RING Poem Text First Line: Mellow moon of heaven Last Line: Your nurse is waiting. Kiss me, child, and go. THE RINGLET Poem Text First Line: Your ringlets, your ringlets Last Line: Burn, burn. Subject(s): Hair THE ROSES ON THE TERRACE Poem Text First Line: Rose, on this terrace fifty years ago Last Line: Glows in the blue of fifty miles away. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE SAILOR BOY Poem Text First Line: He rose at dawn and, fired with hope Last Line: Far worse than any death to me.' Subject(s): Courage; Sailing & Sailors; Valor; Bravery; Seamen; Sails THE SEA-FAIRIES Poem Text First Line: Slow sailed the weary mariners and saw Last Line: Whither away, whither away, whither away with the sail and the oar? Subject(s): Mermaids & Mermen THE SILENT VOICES Poem Text First Line: When the dumb hour, clothed in black Last Line: On, and always on! Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural THE SISTERS Poem Text First Line: We were two daughters of one race Last Line: O, the earl was fair to see! Subject(s): Marriage; Sisters; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE SKIPPING-ROPE Poem Text First Line: Sure never yet was antelope Last Line: And hang yourself thereby. Subject(s): Rope THE SNOWDROP Poem Text First Line: Many, many welcomes Last Line: February fair-maid! Subject(s): Snow THE SPINSTER'S SWEET-ARTS Poem Text First Line: Milk for my sweet-arts, bess! Fur it mun be the time about now Last Line: Till robby an' steevie 'es 'ed their lap -- an' it sarves ye right. Subject(s): Spinsters; Old Maids THE SUN GOES DOWN IN THE DARK BLUE MAIN Poem Text Last Line: Of youth to the old and hoary? Subject(s): Transience THE TALKING OAK Poem Text First Line: Once more the gate behind me falls Last Line: And humm'd a surly hymn. Subject(s): Nature; Oak Trees THE TEARS OF HEAVEN Poem Text First Line: Heaven weeps above the earth all night Last Line: Smiles on the earth's worn brow to win her if she may. Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise THE THIRD OF FEBRUARY, 1852 Poem Text First Line: My lords, we heard you speak; you told us all Last Line: And hold against the world this honor of the land. Subject(s): France; Freedom; Napoleon Iii (1808-1873); Liberty THE THROSTLE Poem Text First Line: Summer is coming, summer is coming Last Line: And all the winters are hidden. Subject(s): Summer THE TOURNEY Poem Text First Line: Ralph would fight in edith's sight Last Line: Take her sir ralph,' said the king. THE TWO VOICES Poem Text First Line: A still small voice spake unto me Last Line: Than him that said, 'rejoice! Rejoice!' Subject(s): Despair; Nature; Suicide THE VALE OF BONES Poem Text First Line: Along yon vapour-mantled sky Last Line: Thou melancholy vale of bones! THE VICTIM Poem Text First Line: A plague upon the people fell Last Line: We give them the wife!' THE VILLAGE WIFE; OR, THE ENTAIL Poem Text First Line: Ouse-keeper sent tha my lass, fur new squire Last Line: Pluksh!!! The hens I' the peas! Why did n't tha hesp the gaate? Subject(s): Entail THE VISION OF SIN Poem Text First Line: I had a vision when the night was late Last Line: God made himself an awful rose of dawn. Subject(s): Sin THE VOICE AND THE PEAK Poem Text Last Line: Green-rushing from the rosy thrones of dawn! Subject(s): Mountains THE VOYAGE Poem Text First Line: We left behind the painted buoy Last Line: And we may sail for evermore. THE VOYAGE OF MAELDUNE Poem Text First Line: I was the chief of the race - he had stricken my father dead Last Line: When I landed again with a tithe of my men, on the isle of finn! Subject(s): Legends, Irish THE WALK AT MIDNIGHT Poem Text First Line: Soft, shadowy moon-beam! By thy light Last Line: Yon rude rough bridge of prostrate pine. THE WANDERER Poem Text First Line: The gleam of household sunshine ends Last Line: And deem me grateful, and farewell! THE WELCOME TO ALEXANDRA Poem Text First Line: Sea-kings' daughter from over the sea Last Line: Alexandra! Subject(s): Alexandra, Queen Of England; Wedding Song; Epithalamium THE WINDOW; OR, THE SONG OF THE WRENS: AT THE WINDOW Poem Text First Line: Vine, vine and eglantine Last Line: Dropt, a flower. Subject(s): Flowers THE WINDOW; OR, THE SONG OF THE WRENS: AY Poem Text First Line: Be merry, all birds, today Last Line: For it's ay ay, ay ay. THE WINDOW; OR, THE SONG OF THE WRENS: GONE Poem Text First Line: Gone! / gone, till the end of the year Last Line: Down in the south is a flash and a groan: she is there! She is there! THE WINDOW; OR, THE SONG OF THE WRENS: MARRIAGE MORNING Poem Text First Line: Light, so low upon earth Last Line: Flash for a million miles. Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WINDOW; OR, THE SONG OF THE WRENS: NO ANSWER (1) Poem Text First Line: The mist and the rain, the mist and the rain! Last Line: The wet west wind and the world may go on. THE WINDOW; OR, THE SONG OF THE WRENS: NO ANSWER (2) Poem Text First Line: Winds are loud and you are dumb Last Line: Love can love but once a life. THE WINDOW; OR, THE SONG OF THE WRENS: ON THE HILL Poem Text First Line: The lights and shadows fly! Last Line: And the winds are up in the morning! THE WINDOW; OR, THE SONG OF THE WRENS: SPRING Poem Text First Line: Birds' love and birds' song Last Line: And all in a nest together. Subject(s): Birds; Wrens THE WINDOW; OR, THE SONG OF THE WRENS: THE ANSWER Poem Text First Line: Two little hands that meet Last Line: Break, break, and all 's done. THE WINDOW; OR, THE SONG OF THE WRENS: THE LETTER Poem Text First Line: Where is another sweet as my sweet Last Line: Somebody knows that she'll say ay! Subject(s): Love THE WINDOW; OR, THE SONG OF THE WRENS: WHEN? Poem Text First Line: Sun comes, moon comes Last Line: And honor all the day. THE WINDOW; OR, THE SONGS OF THE WRENS: WINTER Poem Text First Line: The frost is here Last Line: But not into mine. Subject(s): Winter THE WRECK Poem Text First Line: Hide me, mother! My fathers belong'd to the church of old Last Line: And gone -- that day of the storm -- o mother, she came to me there! Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks THEN, WHILE I BREATHED IN SIGH OF HEAVEN, HE THERE, TOO, FLUSHED GANYMEDE, HIS ROSY THIGH THOU CAMEST TO THY BOWER Poem Text First Line: Thou camest to thy bower, my love, across the musky grove Last Line: But oh! Their lustre could not match one beauteous tear of thine! TIMBUCTOO Poem Text First Line: I stood upon the mountain which o'erlooks Last Line: Had fallen from the night, and all was dark! Subject(s): Timbuctoo, Mali TIME: AN ODE Poem Text First Line: I see the chariot, where Last Line: Live, when imperial time and death himself shall die! Subject(s): Time TIRESIAS Poem Text First Line: I wish I were as in the years of old Last Line: May prove as peaceful as his own. TITHONUS Poem Text First Line: The woods decay, the woods decay and fall Last Line: And thee returning on thy silver wheels. Subject(s): Immortality; Love - Marital; Marriage; Mythology; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO - (1) Poem Text First Line: I send you here a sort of allegory Last Line: Of angels to the perfect shape of man. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO - (2) First Line: All good things have not kept aloof TO - (3) Poem Text First Line: Sainted juliet! Dearest name! Last Line: Changed into fire, and blown about with sighs. TO - (4) Poem Text First Line: Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn Last Line: In the dim tract of penuel. TO -, AFTER READING A LIFE AND LETTERS Poem Text First Line: You might have won the poet's name Last Line: To tear his heart before the crowd! TO A LADY SLEEPING Poem Text First Line: O thou whose fringed lids I gaze upon Last Line: Over heaven's parapet the angels lean. TO ALFRED TENNYSON, MY GRANDSON Poem Text First Line: Golden-haired ally whose name is one with mine Last Line: Mayst thou never be wrong'd by the name that is mine! Subject(s): Grandchildren; Grandsons; Granddaughters TO CHRISTOPHER NORTH Poem Text First Line: You did late review my lays Last Line: Fusty christopher. Subject(s): "criticism & Critics; Wilson, John (""christopher North""); TO DANTE Poem Text First Line: King, that hast reign'd six hundred years Last Line: Cast at thy feet one flower that fades away. Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) TO E. L., ON HIS TRAVELS IN GREECE Poem Text First Line: Illyrian woodlands, echoing falls Last Line: And fluted to the morning sea. Subject(s): Greece; Lear, Edward (1812-1888); Greeks TO EDWARD FITZGERALD Poem Text First Line: Old fitz, who from your suburb grange Last Line: And I more pleasure in your praise. Subject(s): Fitzgerald, Edward (1809-1883) TO H.R.H. PRINCESS BEATRICE Poem Text First Line: Two suns of love make day of human life Last Line: The light and genial warmth of double day. TO J. S. Poem Text First Line: The wind that beats the mountain blows Last Line: Lie still, dry dust, secure of change. Subject(s): Death; Spedding, James (1808-1881); Dead, The TO MARY BOYLE (WITH THE POEM 'THE PROGRESS OF SPRING') Poem Text First Line: Spring-flowers!' while you still delay to take Last Line: And whispering oak. TO ONE WHO RAN DOWN THE ENGLISH Poem Text First Line: You make our faults too gross Last Line: May seem the black ox of the distant plain. Subject(s): England; English TO PROFESSOR JEBB Poem Text First Line: Fair things are slow to fade away Last Line: Blossom again on a colder isle. Subject(s): Jebb, Sir Richard Claverhouse (1841-1905 TO SIR WALTER SCOTT Poem Text First Line: O great and gallant scott Last Line: To have seen thee, and heard thee, and known. Subject(s): Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832) TO THE DUKE OF ARGYLL Poem Text First Line: O patriot statesman, be thou wise to know Last Line: In changing, chime with never-changing law. Subject(s): Campbell, George John (1823-1900); Statesmen; Argyll, 8th Duke Of TO THE MARQUIS OF DUFFERIN AND AVA Poem Text First Line: At times our britain cannot rest Last Line: Will mix with love for you and yours. Subject(s): Blackwood, Frederick (1826-1902); Death - Children; India; Death - Babies TO THE MASTER OF BALLIOL Poem Text First Line: Dear master in our classic town Last Line: Stark and dark in his funeral fire. Subject(s): Oxford University TO THE PRINCESS FREDERICA ON HER MARRIAGE Poem Text First Line: O you that were eyes and light to the king Last Line: He blesses the wife. Subject(s): Frederica Of Hanover, Princess TO THE QUEEN Poem Text First Line: Revered, beloved - o you that hold Last Line: And compass'd by the inviolate sea.' Subject(s): Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901) TO THE REV. F.D. MAURICE Poem Text First Line: Come, when no graver cares employ Last Line: January, 1'54. Subject(s): Maurice, Frederick Denison (1805-1872) TO THE REV. W.H. BROOKFIELD Poem Text First Line: Brooks, for they call'd you so that knew you Last Line: God bless you! I shall join you in a day. Subject(s): Clergy; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops TO ULYSSES Poem Text First Line: Ulysses, much-experienced man Last Line: A gift of slenderer value, mine. Subject(s): Palgrave, William Gifford (1826-1888) TO VICTOR HUGO Poem Text First Line: Victor in drama [or, poesy], victor in romance Last Line: To younger england in the boy, my son. Subject(s): Hugo, Victor (1802-1885); Writing & Writers TO VIRGIL Poem Text First Line: Roman virgil, thou that singest Last Line: Ever moulded by the lips of man. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Virgil (70-19 B.c.); Writing & Writers; Vergil TOMORROW Poem Text First Line: Her, that yer honor was spakin' to? Whin, yet honor? Last year Last Line: Yer honor 'ill give me a thrifle to dhrink yer health in potheen. Subject(s): Ireland; Irish ULYSSES Poem Text Recitation First Line: It little profits that, an idle king Last Line: To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. Variant Title(s): Ulysses Impatient Of Rest Subject(s): Aging; Explorers; Labor & Laborers; Mythology - Classical; Old Age; Perseverance; Religion; Sea; Ulysses; Wandering & Wanderers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Work; Workers; Theology; Ocean; Odysseus; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes VASTNESS Poem Text First Line: Many a hearth upon our dark globe sighs after many a vanish'd face Last Line: The dead are not dead but alive. WAGES Poem Text First Line: Glory of warrior, glory of orator, glory of song Last Line: Give her the wages of going on, and not to die. WALKING TO THE MAIL Poem Text First Line: I'm glad I walk'd. How fresh the meadows look Last Line: As you shall see, -- three pyebalds and a roan. WHEN THE SCHEMES OF ALL THE SYSTEMS WHO? WHO? First Line: Who -- who -- the bride will be? Last Line: I not the bride can be! WILL Poem Text First Line: O, well for him whose will is strong Last Line: The city sparkles like a grain of salt. Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery WILL WATERPROOF'S LYRICAL MONOLOGUE; MADE AT THE COCK Poem Text First Line: O plump head-waiter at the cock Last Line: And one became head-waiter. Variant Title(s): Will Waterproof's Lyrical Monologue Subject(s): Restaurants; Cafes; Diners WRITTEN BY AN EXILE OF BASSORAH, WHILE SAILING THE EUPHRATES Poem Text First Line: Thou land of the lily! Thy gay flowers are blooming Last Line: My course on this earth thro' the storms of mischance! Thompson, Anna Sanford 1 poems available by this author O ROCK-A-BY, DEARS First Line: Rock-a-by, baby, on the treetop Tice, Bradford E. 2 poems available by this author NICKEL First Line: Weekends in my youth, my grandmother took me Last Line: Dimmed flicker of history, miracle of how we go on REST IS SILENCE First Line: Yet what of hamlet after the curtain fell? Last Line: As he searches for pirates on the distant horizon Tighe, Mary Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Blachford, Mary 25 poems available by this author 1802 Poem Text First Line: Thy summer's day was long, but couldst thou think Last Line: Nor seek a shelt'ring bower for sure approaching night? ADDRESS TO MY HARP Poem Text First Line: Oh, my loved harp! Companion dear Last Line: To pensive gloom a silent prey. Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres CAN I LOOK BACK, AND VIEW WITH TRANQUIL EYE DREAMS OF DELIGHT, FAREWELL First Line: With fond embrace she clasped her long lost son Last Line: Fast from the fading lines the vivid colours flee! GLIMPSE OF LOVE First Line: Mid the blue waves, by circling seas embraced Last Line: The threatened ills to learn by auguries and signs HAGAR IN THE DESERT First Line: Injured, hopeless, faint, and weary ON RECEIVING A BRANCH OF MEZEREON WHICH FLOWERED AT WOODSTOCK Poem Text First Line: Odours of spring, my sense ye charm Last Line: Who asks your lingering thoughts. Subject(s): Grief; Life; Sorrow; Sadness POOR, FOND DELUDED HEART! Poem Text First Line: Poor, fond deluded heart! Wilt thou again Last Line: And my charmed soul sinks vanquished by her strain. PSYCHE: CANTO 1 First Line: And in the grassy centre of the isle Last Line: The secret grief she owns, for which she lingering sighed Subject(s): Psyche (mythology) PSYCHE: CANTO 2 Poem Text First Line: Oh happy you! Who blest with present bliss Last Line: Hope like the morning star once more shall re-appear. Subject(s): Happiness; Psyche (mythology); Joy; Delight PSYCHE: CANTO 3 First Line: Yet though the knight close wrapt in slumber lay Last Line: See where the lion's lord pursues thy hardy course! Subject(s): Psyche (mythology) PSYCHE: CANTO 6 First Line: Almost unconscious they saw their course pursue Last Line: Nor damp the constant joys these scenes for thee disclose Subject(s): Psyche (mythology) PSYCHE: PROEM First Line: Let not the rugged brow the rhymes accuse Last Line: The tenderness I prize lightly from me remove! SONNET Poem Text First Line: Tis past the cruel anguish of suspense Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement SONNET ADDRESSED TO MY MOTHER First Line: Oh, thou! Whose tender smile most partially Last Line: The soul which loves to own whate'er it has is thine! Subject(s): Mothers SONNET, MARCH 1791 Poem Text First Line: As the frail bark, long tossed by stormy winds Last Line: And then, adorn her with thy grace divine. Subject(s): God; Weariness; Fatigue THE LILY Poem Text First Line: How withered, perish'd seems the form / of yon obscure unsightly root Last Line: Eternal spring! Shall burst the gloom. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies TO DEATH Poem Text First Line: O thou most terrible, most dreaded power Last Line: From life itself contentedly may part. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TO TIME Poem Text First Line: Yes, gentle time, thy gradual, healing hand Last Line: And still the loaded streams in torrents pour. WHEN GLOWING PHOEBUS QUITS THE WEEPING EARTH WRITTEN AT KILLARNEY. JULY 29, 1800 Poem Text First Line: How soft the pause! The notes melodious cease Last Line: Shall those sweet sounds recall this rapturous hour! WRITTEN AT ROSSANA. NOVEMBER 18, 1799 Poem Text First Line: Oh, my rash hand! What hast thou idly done? Last Line: To bask beneath contentment's beam serene! WRITTEN AT SCARBOROUGH. AUGUST, 1799 Poem Text First Line: As musing pensive in my silent home Last Line: To each new storm which frets the angry main. Subject(s): Memory WRITTEN AT THE EAGLE'S NEST, KILLARNEY. JULY 26, 1800 Poem Text First Line: Here let us rest, while with meridian blaze Last Line: Shall paint this happiest scene with pencil soft. Subject(s): Nature WRITTEN IN AUTUMN Poem Text First Line: O autumn! How I love thy pensive air Last Line: Throbs with vain pangs, here will I love to rest. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall Torrey, Bradford 1 poems available by this author NOT SO IN HASTE, MY HEART Subject(s): Religion Trotter, Crawford 1 poems available by this author IN GETHSEMANE First Line: Dear lord, how withered were the flowers Ufford, Edward Smith 1 poems available by this author THROW OUT THE LIFE-LINE Vaughan-thomas, Wynford 3 poems available by this author FAREWELL TO NEW ZEALAND First Line: Super-suburbia of the southern seas Last Line: I've seen the catch, and here's my partiing crack - %it's under-sized; for god's sake throw it back! Subject(s): New Zealand; Travel HIRAETH IN N.W. 3 First Line: The sight of the english is getting me down Last Line: A lecture on marx; his importance today, %all the raptures of love from a bangor b.A.! TO HIS NOT-SO-COY MISTRESS First Line: Time's winged chariot (poets say) Last Line: For those who sipped love in their prime %must gulp it down at closing time Wakeford, Amelia 1 poems available by this author THOU ALONE CANST SAVE Poem Text First Line: Jesus, and didst thou condescend Last Line: For thou alone canst save. Subject(s): Jesus Christ Walford, William W. 1 poems available by this author SWEET HOUR OF PRAYER! Wallingford, V. O. 1 poems available by this author THE WANDERER Poem Text First Line: I wonder, wayward child of mine Last Line: I'll clasp your hand, and share your joy! Subject(s): Children; Farewell; Parents; Wandering & Wanderers; Childhood; Parting; Parenthood Walpole, Horace (horatio) Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Orford, 4th Earl Of 9 poems available by this author ANNA GREVILLE, COUNTESS TEMPLE, ... POET LAUREATE TO KING OF FAIRIES Poem Text First Line: By these presents, be it known Last Line: The shortest night of the year. Variant Title(s): Countess Temple Subject(s): Fairies; Elves ENTAIL First Line: In a fair summer's radiant morn Subject(s): Entail EPITAPH ON LADY OSSORY'S BULLFINCH Poem Text First Line: All flesh is grass and so are feather too: / finches must die, as well as I & yo Last Line: What serves for one will serve for t' other. Variant Title(s): Epitaph On Two Piping-bullfinches Of Lady Ossry's Subject(s): Epitaphs; Feathers; Finches; Funerals; Rest; Burials INSCRIPTION FOR THE NEGLECTED COLUMN IN THE PLACE OF ST. MARK AT FLORE First Line: Escap'd a race, whose vanity ne'er rais'd Last Line: And like a god, shall say, let there be liberty Subject(s): Florence, Italy LEFT ON THE DUCHESS OF QUEENSBURY'S TOILET, ... FINDING HER FROM HOME Poem Text First Line: To many a kitty, love his car Last Line: Retains it for an age. SONG First Line: What a rout do you make for a single poor kiss SONG; FROM THE ITALIAN OF GIUSEPPE MARIA BUONDELMONTE First Line: Love often in the comely mien Last Line: He's still himself, and still is love Subject(s): Florence, Italy TO LADY ANNE FITZPATRICK, WHEN ABOUT FIVE YEARS OLD Poem Text First Line: O nymph, compar'd with whose young bloom / hebe's herself an ancient fright Last Line: —and some years hence he'll send the rest. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Sea; Shells; Toys; Youth; Childhood; Ocean; Conchology TO MADAME DE DAMAS LEARNING ENGLISH Poem Text First Line: Though british accents your attention fire Last Line: For who would teach you but the verb 'I love'? Subject(s): English Language; Love Watson, James Wreford Alternate Author Name(s): Wreford, James 4 poems available by this author EARLY WILLOWS Poem Text First Line: There is no bargain basement no Last Line: At last will credit you. Subject(s): Nature; Spring KIRKLAND LAKE Poem Text First Line: Under the dark industrial sky Last Line: They die for freedom that are free. Subject(s): Freedom; Social Classes; Social Protest; Liberty; Caste WINTER SUNSET First Line: Not long ago the sunset, like a bird, took wings Last Line: Their roots in secrecy, who wait the voiceless coming of petitioned night WINTER WEATHER Poem Text First Line: Wintering time and weather with Last Line: Eternity, but not this hour. Subject(s): Love; Winter Weatherford, Carole Boston 32 poems available by this author AUNT LIZZIE'S PICTURES First Line: Aunt lizzie's mantel is like a museum Last Line: Where family ends and pride begins Subject(s): Cities BEA THE BEAUTICIAN First Line: I think the beautician Last Line: Oh, the tricks bea can do Subject(s): Cities BLUEBIRD First Line: Sactuary: bathroom locked Last Line: Cried, the blues ran cold and deep Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds CARDBOARD BOX First Line: What can you do with a cardboard box? Last Line: Save it to jazz up a rainy day Subject(s): Cities CHARLESTON BASKETS First Line: In a lawn chair at the marketplace Last Line: To its base, its origin at the center of her art. %the old souls crossed the water but once CHOCOLATE BUDDIES First Line: We take a break from kickball Last Line: As we chill out on the stoop Subject(s): Cities CITY MARKET First Line: The city market's lively stalls Last Line: Above the buzz of crowded aisles Subject(s): Cities COOL POOL First Line: The park pool %is an isle of cool Last Line: We bask in golden sun Subject(s): Cities DAY'S WORK First Line: Early ride EAT AT MOE'S First Line: Crispy, crunchy, golden brown Last Line: As folk chow down at the greasy spoon Subject(s): Cities GROWING ROOM First Line: My room is small Last Line: A room to grow %in love and grace Subject(s): Cities HAND DANCING First Line: Friday nights, my parents Last Line: I bet they were really something Subject(s): Cities HANGING TREE First Line: The ditchdigger pumped the pedal Last Line: He was lynched before nightfall. %her eyes did kill LADIES OF DIMBAZA First Line: My soul is all things LAUNDROMAT First Line: When the laundromat opens %at seven-thirty Last Line: I were still three months old Subject(s): Cities LOU'S BARBERSHOP First Line: Inside the storefront, snake plants thrive Last Line: I feel as if I'm a prince on a throne Subject(s): Cities LUCKY NUMBERS First Line: Before uncle zeke rises from bed Last Line: Wonder if that means I'll get 100? Subject(s): Cities MIGRANT MAN First Line: Picked every crop ON THE CORNER First Line: The shoeshine man pops a cloth Last Line: Be careful crossing the street, honey' Subject(s): Cities ONE RED CENT First Line: On the pavement, there's a penny Last Line: I'll make that penny mine Subject(s): Cities RUBBER-TIRE GARDEN First Line: A rubber tire yields surprise Last Line: Such sweet perfume Subject(s): Cities SCIATICA First Line: The shade pull grazed liniment bottles Last Line: And fill the house with shrill hymns SHEJAZZ First Line: Downbeat, up tempo SIDEWALK CHALK First Line: Big and bold now, write your name Last Line: Keep the score for sidewalk games Subject(s): Cities SO MANY FAITHFUL First Line: So many churches- %storefronts, stone Last Line: On bended knee %so deep in prayer Subject(s): Cities STRAYS First Line: Hazel harris lives alone Last Line: Her backyard gate's a welcome mat Subject(s): Cities TAN CHANTEUSE First Line: Coquetting through chiffon and rose bouquets Last Line: And lurk amidst debris in stagnant pools TAR BABY ON THE SOAPBOX First Line: Snowy white,' the tar baby promised Last Line: In damp linens, cradled in a willow basket, %mouthing white lies THIS BLOOD First Line: The double-edged sword WASH AND WAX First Line: Saturdays, soap bubbles Last Line: Ladies take a shine %to a fine ride' Subject(s): Cities WHERE I LIVE First Line: Where I live %there are no trees Last Line: And my branches %lift the sky Subject(s): Cities YEAST ROLLS & WATER BISCUITS First Line: The kitchen was her sanctuary; she hummed hymns to keep it Last Line: Hopes that gaves rise to yeast rolls and water biscuits %andgave wings to dreams Welford, Gabrielle 2 poems available by this author DAY(M) IN BROOKLYN First Line: Dere wuss dis dame. She wuss in du priema Last Line: Thu saym. K.O.'d bya dame SEAWALK AND SPEECH OF THE STUBBORNHEARTED First Line: The boat is leaving. She stands at water's edge and watch Last Line: Behind her. The shadow of his boat cannot escape Whiteford, A. W. 1 poems available by this author COMMON RANK AND FILE First Line: This world's a varied race of men Wilford, Thomas F. 1 poems available by this author WOMAN'S VENGEANCE First Line: I thank you for your sympathy Willems, J. Rutherford 1 poems available by this author HEBREW IN THE TREES First Line: The stick was almost a staff Last Line: And the sun was the same as yesterday Williams, Crawford Poet's Biography 1 poems available by this author THE ARCHER Poem Text First Line: I saw the bowman bend his straining arc Last Line: Sings its short song. . . . How little space is spanned! Subject(s): Arrows Williford, Rhonda 1 poems available by this author YEARS AFTER TEREZIN First Line: No matter how the cloud ribbons melt-- Last Line: Sizzle out into ashes which only seem to disappear Witheford, Hubert 5 poems available by this author ALONE First Line: The silence still and no sun burns above AT THE DISCHARGE OF CANNON RISE THE DROWNED First Line: The morning that he drowned the white ship came Subject(s): Drowning ELEGY IN THE ORANGORANDGO VALLEY First Line: Sundered form this beauty is its fond lover INVASION First Line: Tumultuously move against my heart MAGNOLIA TREE First Line: Forth from earth's opened side Wofford, Jan Bailey 1 poems available by this author LEAVING First Line: Twice now she has dreamed of buying twins Last Line: To the woman she remembers: rising in %the night to tuck a blanket, to free a thumb Wofford, William Arnette 3 poems available by this author AUTUMN HILL Poem Text First Line: Some silver night when all the world is still Last Line: And death and I shall walk the silent street. EARLY AUTUMN Poem Text First Line: Now is the season of slow days Last Line: Dear god! Must autumn come again? Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall PRAYER FOR AN OLD MAN IN HEAVEN Poem Text First Line: Dear lord, when grandpa stiles knocks at your door Last Line: Oh, give him one. It will please him lots, I know. Subject(s): Grandparents; Heaven; Prayer; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Paradise Wood, Clifford 1 poems available by this author TULIP CHILD First Line: His month of life will grow around him still Woodall, Rayford, Sr. 2 poems available by this author CONTROL First Line: If people could only read our minds INSIGHT First Line: Freedom's intricate plan Woodford, Bruce Powers 1 poems available by this author IMAGO First Line: I saw my skull inside a glass Wreford, Heyman 1 poems available by this author CHRIST IS COMING Poem Text First Line: Christ is coming! We are waiting Last Line: Christ is coming! Come, lord, come! Subject(s): Jesus Christ Wreford, John Reynell 1 poems available by this author LORD! WHILE FOR ALL MANKIND WE PRAY Young, Orford 1 poems available by this author BOY WHO FOUND PUCK First Line: A boy went looking for puck one day |
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