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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ARCHITECTURE & ARCHITECTS Matches Found: 43 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A NAVVY'S PHILOSOPHY, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across life's varied ways we drift Last Line: Beside the master of the hall. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Brotherhood; Death; Labor & Laborers; Sacrifices; Dead, The; Work; Workers ANTWERP, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Towers - eternal towers against the sky Last Line: And from their towers of tyranny hurled down. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Antwerp, Belgium; Architecture & Architects; Buildings & Builders; Stones; World War I; Granite; Rocks; First World War ARCHITECTS, by EDITH CLAIRE CAM Poem Text First Line: Pythagoras, the wise, who in those lost days Last Line: Is to rebuild the world. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Buildings & Builders; Pythagorus (580-500 B.c.) ARCHITECTURE, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What manner of building shall we build? Subject(s): Architecture & Architects ATMOSPHERE, by LOUISE A. JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: The house stood out-lined harsh against the sky Last Line: A loveliness we scarce suspect is there. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Desolation; Houses, Deserted; Love BEFORE THE APOLLO OF THE BELVEDERE, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The horizon stirs us to boredom or to liveliness Last Line: Accept it, human, and return, divine. Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme Subject(s): Apollo; Architecture & Architects; Mythology - Classical; Sculpture & Sculptors CAPITAL SQUARE, by PATRICK JOHN MCALISTER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Danger is silent in the bloodless square Last Line: Harden and echo at a statue's voice. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Statues CAUTION AND ECONOMY, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The plan reduced from small to less to make his house compacter Last Line: The builder, his own architect, became his own contractor. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Buildings & Builders; Houses CHARLES GARNIER, by RICHARD HOWARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If no one had heard of you, it was hardly Last Line: Of a very brave ram, cornered but not cowed Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph Subject(s): Garnier, Charles (1825-1898); Architecture & Architects COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE, SEPTEMBER 3, 1802, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Earth has not anything to show more fair Last Line: And all that mighty heart is lying still! Variant Title(s): Sonnet;sonnet Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, London, 1802;calm;morning In London;upon Westminster Bridge;westminster Bridge Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Cities; England; London; Morning; Nature; Rivers; Time; Urban Life; English DUNS SCOTUS'S OXFORD, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Towery city and branchy between towers Last Line: Who fired france for mary without spot. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; England; Oxford, England; Poetry & Poets; English ESSAY: NOAH & THE WASHING MACHINE, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To erase all color Last Line: The name, the pleasure porch / / all this that / I was sitting on Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Geology F. HOPKINSON SMITH, by JOHN HUSTON FINLEY Poem Text First Line: Hop' smith, who built the lighthouse on race rock Last Line: And told a tale as only he could tell. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Art & Artists; Buildings & Builders; Smith, Francis Hopkinson (1838-1915); Statue Of Liberty FROZEN MUSIC, by ANDREW MOTION Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An eye, shaded for better judgment Subject(s): Architecture & Architects GLOTTO'S TOWER, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many lives, made beautiful and sweet Last Line: But wanting still the glory of the spire. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Florence, Italy GOD THE ARCHITECT, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who thou art I know not Last Line: In the heart of man! Variant Title(s): God, The Architect Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; God; Religion; Theology GRAND ARMY PLAZA, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: 10:00 at night in brooklyn Last Line: Where the sky salts a wither of grass. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Brooklyn, New York GREEK ARCHITECTURE, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not magnitude, not lavishness Last Line: But reverence for the archetype. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Greece; Greeks HE MADE NO LITTLE PLANS, by RUTH SCOTT DANCER Poem Text First Line: He bade us make no little plans lest they Last Line: But built for generations yet unborn. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Burnham, Daniel Hudson (1846-1947); City Planning HOMAGE TO P. MELLON, I.M. PEI, THEIR GALLERY AND WASHINGTON, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Granite and marble Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Art & Artists; Museums; Homage & Respect; Art Gallerys HOUSE OF CARDS, by SARA ROBERTA GETTY Poem Text First Line: I builded carelessly, nor gave much thought Last Line: Unless love helps to build the cornerstone. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects HOWARD SHAW, ARCHITECT; DIED MAY 6, 1926, by AGNES LEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Remember? We, the city, shall remember Last Line: The features of a building or a man. Alternate Author Name(s): Freer, Otto, Mrs. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Buildings & Builders; Death; Memory; Shaw, Howard Van Doren (1869-1926); Dead, The LO, WHERE HAUSSMANN COMES, SEE WHERE HE COMES, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Haussmann, Georges-eugene (1809-1891); Paris, France; Architecture & Architects MANNAHATTA, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I was asking for something specific and perfect for my city Last Line: City nested in bays! My city! Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple ODES: 15, by BASIL BUNTING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing/substance utters or time Subject(s): Architecture & Architects ON A FOUNTAIN AND ITS ARCHITECT, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A wat'ry heap by a fresh torrent fed Last Line: When in the sky there's neither cloud nor shower. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Fountains PISA'S LEANING TOWER, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tower in tiers of architraves Last Line: A would-be suicide! Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Art & Artists; Pisa, Italy REVERIE, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here in the unfrequented noon Last Line: Our brief and variable state. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Boredom; Government; Ennui SONG OF THE COLUMNS, by PAUL VALERY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet columns, with / chaplets adorned with day Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Singing & Singers THE ABBEY MASON (WITH MEMORIES OF JOHN HICKS, ARCHITECT), by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The new-vamped abbey shaped apace Last Line: And upon nothing rear a name. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Monasteries; Abbeys THE ARCHITECT (1), by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The only places I can find you Last Line: Forms most faithfully the face of god. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Churches; Faith; Fathers & Daughters; Cathedrals; Belief; Creed THE ARCHITECT (2), by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever his dreams have been it is now hard to say Last Line: He hears the wind that cries through feathered wings. Subject(s): Ambition; Architecture & Architects; Memory THE ARCHITECT AT THE EDGE OF THE SEA, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My stride was two to my father's by the sea Last Line: Surge, master of the arch of element. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Fathers & Daughters; Memory; Poetry & Poets THE CHICAGO POEM; FOR TED BERRIGAN AND ALICE NOTLEY, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bridges of chicago / are not the bridges of paris Last Line: Modern times Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Berrigan, Ted (1934-1983); Chicago; Cities; Berrigan, Edmund Joseph; Urban Life THE CHILD ALONE: 6. BLOCK CITY, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What are you able to build with your blocks? Last Line: I'll always remember my town by the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Architecture & Architects THE INNOVATOR, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I said, 'why should a pyramid Last Line: But -- lord, how usual! Subject(s): Architecture & Architects THE OLD BRIDGE AT FLORENCE; SONNET, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Taddeo gaddi built me. I am old Last Line: Hath leaned on me, I glory in myself. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Art & Artists; Bridges; Florence, Italy; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE TEMPLE OF ART, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The temple of art lies open evermore Last Line: And one man enters in a thousand suns! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Art & Artists; Temples; Mosques THE YOUNG GLASS-STAINER, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These gothic windows, how they wear me out Last Line: Mary, and think of aphrodite's form.' Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Glass & Glassblowers; Labor & Laborers; Paintings & Painters; Glaziers; Work; Workers TRUMMERFRAUEN (THE RUBBLE-WOMEN), by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the old paintings, the ones with silken oils Last Line: Never stop: tap tap, tap tap, tap tap. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Altars; Architecture & Architects; Museums; Paintings And Painters; Pyramids; Art Gallerys UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 34. SKERRYVORE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For love of lovely words, and for the sake Last Line: The name of a strong tower. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Lighthouses; Sea; Ocean UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 38, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say not of me that weakly I declined Last Line: Around the fire addressed its evening hours. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Architecture & Architects VENICE; SONNET, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White swan of cities, slumbering in thy nest Last Line: In air their unsubstantial masonry. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Venice, Italy |
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