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Allen Ginsberg's Poetry, by first line

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  • A Desolaltion
    Now mind is clear
    as a cloudless sky.
    23 lines, 1 comment
  • Sunflower Sutra
    I walked on the banks of the tincan banana dock and sat down under the huge shade of a Southern Pacific locomotive to look for the sunset over the box house hil
    90 lines, 3 comments
  • Fourth Floor, Dawn, Up All Night Writing Letters
    Pigeons shake their wings on the copper church roof
    out my window across the street, a bird perched on the cross
    7 lines
  • An Eastern Ballad
    I speak of love that comes to mind:
    The moon is faithful, although blind;
    8 lines, 1 comment
  • Hospital Window
    At gauzy dusk, thin haze like cigarette smoke
    ribbons past Chrysler Building's silver fins
    38 lines
  • Song
    The weight of the world
    is love.
    71 lines
  • America
    America I've given you all and now I'm nothing.
    America two dollars and twentyseven cents January
    117 lines, 4 comments
  • Hum Bom!
    Whom bomb?
    We bomb'd them!
    126 lines
  • Wild Orphan
    Blandly mother
    takes him strolling
    40 lines
  • CIA Dope Calypso
    In nineteen hundred forty-nine
    China was won by Mao Tse-tung
    60 lines, 1 comment
  • Cosmopolitan Greetings
    Stand up against governments, against God.
    Stay irresponsible.
    38 lines
  • War Profit Litany
    To Ezra Pound
    These are the names of the companies that have made
    40 lines, 1 comment
  • Those Two
    That tree said
    I don't like that white car under me,
    7 lines, 1 comment
  • Psalm IV
    Now I'll record my secret vision, impossible sight of the face of God:
    It was no dream, I lay broad waking on a fabulous couch in Harlem
    20 lines
  • Plutonian Ode
    I
    What new element before us unborn in nature? Is there
    161 lines
  • Making The Lion For All It's Got -- A Ballad
    I came home and found a lion in my room...
    [First draft of \
    18 lines
  • The Lion For Real
    I came home and found a lion in my living room
    Rushed out on the fire escape screaming Lion! Lion!
    61 lines, 2 comments
  • Homework
    Homage to Kenneth Koch
    20 lines, 1 comment
  • Five A.M.
    Elan that lifts me above the clouds
    into pure space, timeless, yea eternal
    21 lines
  • Feb 29, 1958
    Last nite I dreamed of T.S. Eliot
    welcoming me to the land of dream
    41 lines
  • Father Death Blues
    Hey Father Death, I'm flying home
    Hey poor man, you're all alone
    27 lines, 1 comment
  • Crossing Nation
    Under silver wing
    San Francisco's towers sprouting
    37 lines, 1 comment
  • An Asphodel
    O dear sweet rosy
    unattainable desire
    20 lines
  • First Party At Ken Kesey's With Hell's Angels
    Cool black night thru redwoods
    cars parked outside in shade
    19 lines, 4 comments
  • Haiku (Never Published)
    Drinking my tea
    Without sugar-
    85 lines
  • Nagasaki Days
    I -- A Pleasant Afternoon
    for Michael Brownstein and Dick Gallup
    76 lines
  • Kraj Majales (King Of May)
    And the Communists have nothing to offer but fat cheeks and eyeglasses and
    lying policemen
    66 lines
  • To Aunt Rose
    Aunt Rose—now—might I see you
    with your thin face and buck tooth smile and pain
    63 lines
  • Footnote To Howl
    Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy!
    Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy!
    40 lines, 2 comments
  • In The Baggage Room At Greyhound
    In the depths of the Greyhound Terminal
    sitting dumbly on a baggage truck looking at the sky
    99 lines
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