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Subject: ATHLETES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 19. TO AN ATHLETE DYING YOUNG, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The time you won your town the race
Last Line: The garland briefer than a girl's.
Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E.
Variant Title(s): A Shropshire Lad: 19
Subject(s): Athletes; Death; Dead, The


ATHLETIC ODE, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I hear a rumour and a shout
Last Line: Youth has her perfect crown, and age her old desire.
Subject(s): Athletes; Youth


BACK AGAIN, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The scribe returns from training camp,
Last Line: "comes that one chant, ""how do they look?"
Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Sports


COBB'S MEMORIES, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: A few more weeks, and tyrus cobb will be
Last Line: Supreme—awhile—then dropped beside the road?
Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Cobb, Ty (1886-1961); Middle Age; Sports


EPIGRAM: ON MILL, MY LADY'S WOMAN, by BEN JONSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When mill first came to court, the unprofiting fool
Last Line: First bearing him a calf, bear him a bull.
Subject(s): Athletes


IN PERFECT HARMONY, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The pitcher knows that he could play the field
Last Line: And fairly aches to run that baseball club!
Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Leadership; Sports


JACK CHESBRO, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Jack chesbro, good old hurler, you were a
Last Line: It's hard to say it, jack, old friend, but you will get the hook!
Subject(s): Aging; Athletes; Baseball; Chesbro, Jack (1874-1931); Sports


JAKE DAUBERT, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: No finer player ever flashed the spikes
Last Line: And waved him outward through the unknown gate!
Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Daubert, Jake (1884-1924); Death; Sports; Dead, The


JOHN MCGRAW, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I'd like to play in old new york,
Last Line: "and that's his only law!"
Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Mcgraw, John (1873-1934); New York City; Sports; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


LOVE SONNET OF A PLAYER, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Say, kid, d'you know, I just can't understand
Last Line: I'll kill three baseball scribes by monday night!
Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Language; Sports; Words; Vocabulary


MY FATHER'S HEROES, by ALLISON JOSEPH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not jfk, not mlk
Last Line: The last words %she'd give them
Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Athletes; Fathers; Jazz; Music And Musicians


OLYMPIAN VICTORS, by HORACE SPENCER FISKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I stood on the slope of kronos gray, above the olympian plain
Last Line: And played in the porch of echo with a murmur long and sweet.
Subject(s): Athletes; Olympia, Greece; Temples; Victory; Mosques


PLAY BALL!, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Flags dance, bands bray, the gates are thrown ajar;
Last Line: "to that one crashing chorus of ""play ball!"
Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Sports


SHERWOOD MCGEE, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dusk was approaching, when the lengthy game
Last Line: Such matchless doings by one s. Magee!
Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Sports


SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#24), by MARVIN BELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A common goal-to defy gravity
Last Line: He is not mass but ballast %his fingerprints are intimate with gravity
Subject(s): Athletes; Sports


STEPPING DOWN, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Going out of the big league
Last Line: I am not yet thirty-three!
Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Sports; Success


STRUGNELL'S RUBAIYAT: 12, by WENDY COPE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some men to everlasting bliss aspire
Last Line: Oh, use your credit card and waive the rest - %brave music of a distant amplifier!
Subject(s): Athletes; Fitzgerald, Edward (1809-1883); Music And Musicians


STRUGNELL'S RUBAIYAT: 7, by WENDY COPE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Another pint! Come, loosen up, have fun!
Last Line: Time's spacecraft all too soon will carry you %away - and lo! The countdown has begun
Subject(s): Athletes; Drinks And Drinking; Fitzgerald, Edward (1809-1883); Honor


THE ART OF PRESERVING HEALTH: BOOK 2. RUSTIC INTERIOR, by JOHN ARMSTRONG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Nothing so foreign but th' athletic hind
Last Line: Grow wiser, lesson'd by the dropping teeth.
Subject(s): Athletes; Food & Eating; Health


THE CATCHER, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Like a rhinoceros, in style and grace
Last Line: And he holds on—the mainstay of the team!
Variant Title(s): The Old Catcher
Subject(s): Aging; Athletes; Baseball; Sports


THE CHAMPION'S BAT, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Heavy and thick and long
Last Line: Where is the champion now?
Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Sports


THE COLLEGE ATHLETE, by WALLACE RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Statue-like standeth he forth, quick, elate
Last Line: Such as hath given martyrs mortal birth.
Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De
Subject(s): Athletes; Marble; Sculpture & Sculptors; Statues


THE COMEBACK, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: He made a rep in the minors, and he thought
Last Line: "(and it's cost you a lot of money) that at last you are wanting me!"
Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Conceit; Money; Sports


THE GLORIOUS TOUCHDOWN, by GEORGE ADE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the crisp autumnal zephyrs whistle through the leafless trees
Last Line: By going into training — the result will be the same.
Subject(s): Athletes; Football; Sports; Track Athletics; Victory; Running Races; Pole Vaulting; Discus Throwing; Shot Putting; Running Hurdles


THE HURDLERS, by HENRY DE MONTHERLANT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They near the hurdle full speed
Last Line: Dying beyond the line.
Subject(s): Athletes; Legs


THE NO-HIT GAME, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Round after round they were falling, nobody
Last Line: "yet they kept on repeating, ""that bird ain't got a darned thing!"
Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Sports


THE OLD CATCHER, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The aged catcher dons his mask-
Last Line: The backbone of the team!
Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Old Age; Sports


THE OLD PITCHER, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: He hobbles lamely from the bench
Last Line: Those boys with iron hand!
Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Knowledge; Old Age; Sports


THE OLD-TIMER, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Show me a catcher like ewing--
Last Line: "about ""the advance of the game""!"
Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Sports; Success


THE PITCHER, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The pitcher stands upon the hill, his pose is won-
Last Line: "aw take him out! For mikes' sake, take him out!"
Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Failure; Sports


THE RUNNER, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On a flat road runs the well-train'd runner
Last Line: With lightly closed fists and arms partially rais'd.
Subject(s): Athletes; Sports


THE SOUTHPAW, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: They kid him and they razz him, and the fans
Last Line: And yet—somehow—the southpaws often win!
Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Sports


TO A MAIDEN; WINNER IN THE THOUSAND-METER RACE, by HENRY DE MONTHERLANT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let me look at you in silence, until I lower my head
Last Line: The old, virgin surprise of the savage beholding a maid.
Subject(s): Athletes; Health; Mothers; Sports; Victory


TO ALEXANDER THE GREAT, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: No more he walks across the field
Last Line: When he comes home again!
Subject(s): Alexander, Grover Cleveland (1887-1950); Athletes; Baseball; Soldiers; Sports; World War I; First World War


TOO MUCH COUE, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The pitcher stood upon the mound
Last Line: And then the maddened umpire spoke—and gave them both the gate!
Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Failure; Sports


TRAIN-MATES, by WITTER BYNNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Outside hove shasta, snowy height on height
Last Line: As discus-thrower and as laureate?
Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel
Subject(s): Athletes; Poetry & Poets


VERS LIBRE OF BASEBALL, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The veteran stands forth and swings a bat
Last Line: "get outa here!"
Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Competition; Sports


WALTER JOHNSON, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: He may not have the arm of old--
Last Line: It's still darned hard to hit him!
Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Johnson, Walter (1887-1946); Sports


WASTED ENERGY, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The new-come pitcher, tall and strong
Last Line: That he was deaf and dumb!
Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Deafness; Sports