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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: BOSTON Matches Found: 125 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "BOSTON, LINCOLNSHIRE", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "oh, boston, boston, thou hast nought to boast on" Last Line: And a coast as souls are lost on Subject(s): "boston, England; "OFF FROM BOSTON [MARCH 4, 1776]", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "sons of valor, taste the glories" Last Line: "from this land, so happy, driven, / never stain its bosom more" Subject(s): American Revolution;boston A BALLAD OF THE BOSTON TEA-PARTY [DECEMBER 16, 1773], by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No! Never such a draught was poured Last Line: And cheer the wakening nations! Subject(s): Boston Tea Party; Freedom; Patriotism; United States - Colonial Period; Liberty A BALLAD OF THE FRENCH FLEET; OCTOBER, 1746, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A fleet with flags arrayed Last Line: With thine horses through the sea! Subject(s): Boston; French & Indian Wars; Navy - France; French Navy A BOSTON BALLAD, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To get betimes in boston town I rose this morning early Last Line: You are mighty cute -- and here is one of your bargains. Subject(s): Boston A POEM CONTAINING SOME REMARKS ON THE PRESENT WAR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Britons grown big with pride Last Line: Their raptured tongues do tell / their joys great Subject(s): American Revolution;boston A PROCLAMATION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: America! Thou fractious nation Last Line: "fear bute, fear mansfield, north ane me, / and be blest as slaves can be" Subject(s): "boston;gage, Thomas (1721-1787);u.s. - Colonial Period; A SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "smile, massachusetts, smile" Last Line: "defiance bid to tyrants' frown, / and glory will your valor crown" Subject(s): American Revolution;boston AFTER THE FIRE [NOVEMBER 9, 1872], by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While far along the eastern sky Last Line: The cloudless azure whence they came! Subject(s): Boston Fire (1872) AN AMERICAN POEM, by EILEEN MYLES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was born in boston in Subject(s): Self; Gays & Lesbians; Ancestors & Ancestry; Boston; Social Classes; Social Commentaries; Poetry & Poets; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Heritage; Heredity; Caste AN APPEAL FOR 'THE OLD SOUTH', by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Full sevenscore years our city's pride Last Line: Help, each, and god help all! Subject(s): Old South Church, Boston AN OCCASIONAL ADDRESS, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The comic, tragic muses, in western climes Last Line: North end forever! Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Belknap, Jeremy (1744-1798); Boston; Montgomery, Richard (1738-1775); Ramsay, David (1749-1815); Trumbull, John (1750-1831); Trumbull, John (1756-1843); Warren, Joseph (1741-1775) BACK BAY, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My adult unemployed son and I Subject(s): Boston; Clothing & Dress; Shopping BACK BAY, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My adult unemployed son and I Last Line: That catches light, then spills it like a god Subject(s): Boston; Clothing And Dress; Shopping BOSTON, by SAMUEL C. BUSHNELL Poem Full Text First Line: I come from the city of boston, / the home of the bean and the code Last Line: And lowells speak only to god. Variant Title(s): On The Aristocracy Of Harvard Subject(s): Boston BOSTON, by SAMUEL C. BUSHNELL Poem Source First Line: I come from the city of boston, %the home of the bean and the code Last Line: Where cabots speak only to lowells, %and lowells speak only to god Variant Title(s): On The Aristocracy Of Harvar Subject(s): Boston BOSTON, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rocky nook with hilltops three Last Line: Or union nevermore again. Subject(s): Boston Tea Party BOSTON, by JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O broad-breasted queen among nations! Last Line: Has conquest achieved. Variant Title(s): The Great Fire Of November 9, 1872 Subject(s): Boston Fire (1872) BOSTON, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My northern pines are good enough for me Last Line: In letters by warm hands I cannot reach. Subject(s): Boston BOSTON, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I come from the city of boston Last Line: Where the cabots speak only to the lowells, %and the lowells speak only to god Subject(s): Boston BOSTON, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The river curving to the sea Last Line: Your ample guerdon, just to serve. Subject(s): Boston BOSTON COMMON: 1630, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All overgrown with bush and fern Last Line: The parson on his brindled bull! Subject(s): Boston BOSTON COMMON: 1774, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The streets are thronged with trampling feet Last Line: The pipe-clayed belts of gage's men. Subject(s): American Revolution; Boston BOSTON COMMON: 1869, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Around the green, in morning light Last Line: He led our sires who won them all! Subject(s): Boston BOSTON IN DISTRESS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: While pleasure reigns unrivalled on this shore Last Line: "like isaac's sons let britons meet again, / nor be one bother by the other slain" Subject(s): Boston BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, by JAMES FENIMORE COOPER Poem Source First Line: Dark-coated men with instruments: a sound Subject(s): Boston Symphony Orchestra BOSTON YEAR, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: My first week in cambridge a car full of white boys Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Alienation (social Psychology); Americans; Boston; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; United States; Estrangement; Outcasts; America BOSTON YEAR, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My first week in cambridge a car full of white boys Last Line: No one. Red notes sounding in a grey trolley town Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Alienation (social Psychology); Americans; Boston; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; United States BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, by DOROTHY ALLISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Boston, massachusetts, many years ago Last Line: They made her pour the gasoline %over her head Subject(s): Boston; Homosexuality BOSTON: 1961, by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: Boston hulks displeasured on the bay Last Line: The river charles is babbling at its bank. Subject(s): Boston; Decay BOSTON; SONNET, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: St. Botolph's town! Hither across the plains Last Line: That lies concentred in a single word. Subject(s): Boston CALEF IN BOSTON; 1692, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the solemn days of old Last Line: For the wrong he suffered here. Subject(s): Boston; Truth CENTENNIAL ODE, by CHARLES SPRAGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not to the pagan's mount I turn Last Line: To guard and guide the pilgrim's land! Subject(s): Boston CHESTNUT STREET, BOSTON, by HAROLD VINAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the bulge of his tall candles you sit Last Line: Of a bacchante, starting from the gloom. Subject(s): Boston CHRIST CHURCH, by EDWIN B. RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: Gray spire, that from the ancient street Last Line: That cannot change, nor pass away. Subject(s): Boston; Churches; Cathedrals CHRISTMAS, BOSTON 1989, by PATRICIA SPEARS JONES Poem Source First Line: This is how I know god exists Last Line: Across the parched milky sky, %electric lights bloom Subject(s): Boston; Christmas; Cities CHURCH BELLS, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The air is hushed; the street is holy ground Last Line: His heart lies warm among his triple hills! Subject(s): Bells; Boston; Churches; Cathedrals CITIES, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: As there are books on beehives Last Line: A book indeed Subject(s): Boston; China; Cities; London; New York City; Paris, France CLEAR AND COLDER; BOSTON COMMON, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I went down through the common Last Line: The pace of the winter town. Subject(s): Boston; Winter COMMUNICATION TO THE CITY FATHERS OF BOSTON, by GEORGE STARBUCK Poem Source First Line: Dear sirs: is it not time we formed a boston Last Line: There were such men. Or why remember boston? %strange how not one prepared a dirge for boston Subject(s): Boston CRISPUS ATTUCKS, by OLIVA WARD BUSH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The nation's heart beat wildly Last Line: That attucks died for liberty. Alternate Author Name(s): Bush-banks, Oliva Ward Subject(s): African Americans; Attucks, Crispus (1723-1770); Boston Massacre; Stock Exchange; Negroes; American Blacks CRISPUS ATTUCKS, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Name in a footnote. Faceless name Last Line: By bayonets, forever falling Subject(s): African Americans; Attucks, Crispus (1723-1770); Boston Massacre CRISPUS ATTUCKS, by JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where shall we seek for a hero Last Line: And so great a boon, by a brave man's death, is never dearly bought! Subject(s): African Americans; Attucks, Crispus (1723-1770); Boston Massacre; U.s. - Colonial Period; Negroes; American Blacks CRISPUS ATTUCKS, by JAY WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we speak Last Line: Another season drums your intense, communal daring Subject(s): African Americans; Attucks, Crispus (1723-1770); Boston Massacre; Negroes; American Blacks CRISPUS ATTUCKS, by JAY WRIGHT Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we speak Subject(s): African Americans; Attucks, Crispus (1723-1770); Boston Massacre DE NIGGER'S GOT TO GO, by DANIEL WEBSTER DAVIS Poem Text First Line: Dear liza, I is bin down town Last Line: "wez not a gwine to go." Subject(s): African Americans; Attucks, Crispus (1723-1770); Boston Massacre; Racism; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry DRIVING TOWARD BOSTON, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight we are driving past lac qui parle toward boston Last Line: High as the dakota mountains! High as the great mountain near fargo! Subject(s): Boston; Poetry & Poets EPIGRAM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "rudely forced to drink tea, massachusetts" Last Line: The one who begins or resists the assault? Save Subject(s): American Revolution;boston Tea Party EPIGRAM ON THE POOR OF BOSTON EMPLOYED ... PAVING STREETS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "in spite of rice, in spite of wheat" Last Line: "they cry for bread; the mighty ones / instead of bread, give only stones" Subject(s): Boston;u.s. - Colonial Period FATHER, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: An east wind asperges boston with lynn's sulphorous brine Last Line: Come home, dead man, who made your mind my home Subject(s): Boston; Fathers FIFTY YEARS (1863-1913), by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O brothers mine, today we stand Last Line: God cannot let it come to naught. Subject(s): Abolitionists; African Americans; African Americans - History; Attucks, Crispus (1723-1770); Boston Massacre; Brown, John (1800-1859); Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Garrison, William Lloyd (1805-1879); Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Lovej FILIGREE OF THE FAMILIAR, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: Here, all the men wear mustaches Last Line: Linking the outbound voyage to the everyday Subject(s): Boston; Continents; Maps; Travel FOR THE CENTENNIAL DINNER, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear friends, we are strangers; we never before Last Line: And thy dividends flow like the waves of the sea! Subject(s): Boston; Wharves; Piers FOR THE DEDICATION OF THE NEW CITY LIBRARY, BOSTON, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Proudly, beneath her glittering dome Last Line: The queen, the handmaid of them all! Subject(s): Boston; Librarians & Libraries; Library; Librarians FOR THE UNION DEAD, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The old south boston aquarium stands Variant Title(s): Colonel Shaw And The Massachusetts 54 Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Boston; Duty; Heroism; Massachusetts; Monuments; Racism; Saint-gaudens, Augustus (1848-1907); Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers; United States - History; Heroes; Heroines; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry FOR THE UNION DEAD, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old south boston aquarium stands Last Line: A savage servility %slides by on grease Variant Title(s): Colonel Shaw And The Massachusetts 5 Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Boston; Duty; Heroism; Massachusetts; Monuments; Racism; Saint-gaudens, Augustus (1848-1907); Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers; U.s. - History GRANDMOTHER'S STORY OF BUNKER HILL BATTLE, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis like stirring living embers when, at eighty, one remembers Last Line: All are here! Subject(s): American Revolution; Boston; Bunker Hill, Battle Of HOW WE BECAME A NATION [APRIL 15, 1774], by HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography 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 IN THE FANTASY, by LE BARON COOKE Poem Text First Line: Lightly the breeze Last Line: The stiffness of stalks. . . . Subject(s): Fenway Park, Boston; Green (color) IN THE OLD SOUTH CHURCH; 1677, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She came and stood in the old south church Last Line: And plead for the rights of all! Subject(s): Boston INSCRIPTION PROPOSED FOR A SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' MONUMENT IN BOSTON, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To those who died for her on land and sea Last Line: In lives like theirs, at duty's summons spent. Subject(s): Boston; Monuments ISLANDS IN BOSTON HARBOR, by DAVID MCCORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How many islands in the bay? Last Line: And everywhere - the sea, the sea! Subject(s): Boston; Islands IT IS A REAL PLACE, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Lies high in my thought Subject(s): Boston JOHN L. HAS GONE, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The years fly swiftly, and we know the dawn Last Line: Of graying age—for sullivan has gone! Subject(s): Death; Praise; Sullivan, John L. (1858-1918); Dead, The; Boston Strong Boy KINGFISH, by AFAA MICHAEL WEAVER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Box cars and snake eyes Last Line: I'm going for the split. %hit me! Alternate Author Name(s): Weaver, Michael S. Subject(s): Boston LADY'S ADIEU TO HER TEA-TABLE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Farewell the tea-board, with its gaudy equipage Subject(s): Boston Tea Party LINES SUGGESTED BY HEARING MUSIC ON THE BOSTON COMMON, by THOMAS COLE (1801-1848) Poem Text First Line: Music it was I heard, and music too Last Line: The cave of silence their eternal tomb. Subject(s): Boston; Music & Musicians LINES WRITTEN IN BOSTON ON A BEAUTIFUL AUTUMNAL DAY, by SARAH MARGARET FULLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As late we lived upon the gentle stream Last Line: I would not nature these last loving words in vain should say Alternate Author Name(s): Fuller, Margaret; Ossoli, Marchioness; Ossoli, Margaret Fuller Subject(s): Autumn; Boston; Seasons LOCAL RHYME, ONCE KNOWN AROUND BOSTON, LINCOLNSHIRE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Boston boston boston! %thou hast nought to boast on Last Line: And a proud conceited ignorant people, %and a coast which souls get lost on Subject(s): Boston, England LOUISBERG SQUARE, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A quiet little space, set in Last Line: A quiet dream. Subject(s): Louisburg Square, Boston; Quiet Life MARY CHILSON, by GEORGE BANCROFT GRIFFITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair beams that kiss the sparkling bay Last Line: And poets' praise to mary due. Subject(s): Boston MEMORIES OF WEST STREET AND LEPKE, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only teaching on tuesdays, book-worming Variant Title(s): Life Studies: Memories Of West Street And Lepke Subject(s): Boston; Conscientious Objectors; Lepke, Louis (1897-1944); Prisons & Prisoners; World War Ii; Convicts; Second World War MEMORIES OF WEST STREET AND LEPKE, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only teaching on tuesdays, book-worming Last Line: Hanging like an oasis in his air %of lost connections Variant Title(s): Life Studies: Memories Of West Street And Lepk Subject(s): Boston; Conscientious Objectors; Lepke, Louis (1897-1944); Prisons And Prisoners; World War Ii MIRACLE IN BOSTON, by CHARLES ABRAHAM WAGNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On boston common their heart ash blows Last Line: O man's deliverance out of night! Subject(s): Boston; Mankind; Miracles; Spring; War; Human Race MOLOCH IN STATE STREET, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon has set: while yet the dawn Last Line: God of the free! Subject(s): Boston; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Pilgrim Fathers; Antislavery Movement - United States NEW BOSTON (1), by GEORGE TRIBUNE Poem Source First Line: Sitting in the %filthy station Last Line: Of badly misplaced %values Subject(s): Boston NEW BOSTON (2), by GEORGE TRIBUNE Poem Source First Line: Sitting in the %filthy station Last Line: Of temporal values %run amuck Subject(s): Boston NIGHT IN BOSTON, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the roof the night's the color Last Line: Like any rubber ball. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Boston; Love Affairs; Night; Bedtime ODE; FOR THE CELEBRATION OF ... COCHITUATE WATER INTO BOSTON, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My name is water: I have sped Last Line: That never will make slaves of you. Subject(s): Boston; Water ON A FORTIFICATION AT BOSTON BEGUN BY WOMEN, by BENJAMIN TOMPSON Poem Text First Line: A grand attempt some amazonian dames Last Line: But the beginners well deserve the praise. Subject(s): Boston; Philip, King (native American Chief); Women; Metacomet; King Philip's War (1675-76) ON BOSTON COMMON, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the boston common elms Last Line: Calls me to kindred life! Subject(s): Boston ON COMMONWEALTH AVENUE AND BRATTLE STREET, by DIANA DER-HOVANESSIAN Poem Source First Line: Last year the magnolias flared Last Line: With those when we, a levitated pair, %walked above them all. Subject(s): Boston POINT SHIRLEY, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From water-tower hill to the brick prison Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Boston; Sea; Ocean POINT SHIRLEY, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From water-tower hill to the brick prison Last Line: Against both bar and tower the black sea runs Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Boston; Sea POST WAR BALLAD, by DOROTHY VENA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: If crispus attuck's statue Subject(s): African Americans; Attucks, Crispus (1723-1770); Boston Massacre PROMETHEUS AT FENWAY, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: Carl yastrzemski, the boston red sox outfielder/first Last Line: Running the turf of our years Subject(s): Baseball; Fenway Park, Boston; Mythology - Classical; Sports PUBLIC GARDEN, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Burnished, burned-out, still burning as the year Last Line: The fountain's failing waters flash around %the garden. Nothing catches fire Subject(s): Boston; Parks RAOUL DUFY AT FENWAY PARK, 1950, by FLOYD SKLOOT Poem Source First Line: The letter %dr. Homburger at his desk in boston Last Line: Like a spray of anemones from their vase Subject(s): Dufy, Raoul (1877-1953); Fenway Park, Boston; Paintings And Painters RUNNING THE BLOCKADE, by NORA PERRY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the french fleet lay Last Line: Who had run the blockade! Subject(s): American Revolution; Boston Harbor, Blockade Of (1778); Navy - France; Navy - Great Britain; French Navy; English Navy SEVEN CITIES OF AMERICA, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How they walled the sea, and felled the woods Subject(s): Boston; Charleston, South Carolina; Chicago SUNDAY EVENING IN THE COMMON, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Look - on the topmost branches of the world Subject(s): Boston SUNDAY IN BOSTON, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fags and their gay dogs are patrolling Last Line: In turn give back the hollow sound of bells Subject(s): Boston SUNDAY IN BOSTON, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fags and their gay dogs are patrolling Last Line: The suburbs send us their stifling cars, and we %in turn give back the hollow sound of bells Subject(s): Boston TAXI TO THE FLAME, by VICKIE KARP Poem Source First Line: Halloween, I ride the subway to an early evening class Last Line: And where, in tonight's sunset, %is the piece of that flame? Subject(s): Boston; Cities THE ANSWER OF BOSTON, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Boston! With all thy glory, thy history high with / praise Last Line: Hath pictured the greater boston through the fearless, future years. Subject(s): Boston Massacre; History; Historians THE BELFRY PIGEON, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the cross-beam under the old south bell Last Line: And, lapped in quiet, bide my time. Subject(s): Boston; Pigeons THE BOHEMIANS OF BOSTON AND THEIR WAYS; A MEMORY OF THE JACOBEAN CRAZE, by FRANK GELETT BURGESS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The 'orchids' were as tough a crowd Last Line: "this shocking outrage -- ""beacon h -- ll!" Alternate Author Name(s): Burgess, Gelett Subject(s): Boston; Clubs (associations); Evil; Police; Restaurants; Cafes; Diners THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou dear and well-loved haunt of happy hours Last Line: And man's blind foolishness so quickly mar. Subject(s): Boston; Boston Anthenaeum THE BOSTON TEA PARTY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: As near beauteous boston lying Last Line: "tell your masters they were dreamers, / when they thought to cheat the brave" Variant Title(s): A New Song Subject(s): "boston Tea Party;revere, Paul (1735-1818);u.s. - Colonial Period; THE BRITISH GRENADIER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "come, fill up your glasses" Last Line: Then huzza! Huzza! Huzza! Huzza! / for the british grenadier Subject(s): Boston;u.s. - Colonial Period THE CHURCH OF THE REVOLUTION, by HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Loud through the still november air Last Line: Long may it stand! Subject(s): Boston Fire (1872); Old South Church, Boston THE DORCHESTER GIANT, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a giant in time of old Last Line: And pay for the punch beside. Subject(s): Boston; Stones; Granite; Rocks THE EMANCIPATION GROUP, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Amidst thy sacred effigies Last Line: And righteousness than wrong. Subject(s): Boston; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Antislavery Movement - United States THE HARBOR, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Scattered within the peaceful bay Last Line: Without a calm delight. Subject(s): Boston THE KING DINES; IMPRESSION, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two people on a bench in boston commons Last Line: Of the day round him for his dining-room. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Boston Common; Food & Eating; Homeless THE KING OF OO-RINKTUM-JING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dainty baby austin Last Line: And the whale he rode acrost on? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Boston THE KING'S MISSIVE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the great hill sloping bare Last Line: Is gospel and law where the martyrs died. Subject(s): Boston; Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); Endicott, John (1588-1655); Friends, Religious Society Of; Religious Discrimination; Shattuck, Samuel; Endecott, John (1588-1655); Quakers; Religious Conflict THE LANDMARKS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the streets of marblehead Last Line: "what she was is boston still!" Subject(s): Boston; Landmarks THE MIDNIGHT CONSULTATIONS; OR A TRIP TO BOSTON, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Small bliss is theirs, whom fate's too heavy hand Last Line: And she be glorious -- but ourselves as free! Subject(s): American Revolution; Boston THE PUBLIC GARDEN, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Burnished, burned-out, still burning as the year Subject(s): Boston; Parks THE SEVEN CITIES OF AMERICA, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How they walled the sea, and felled the woods Subject(s): Boston; Charleston, South Carolina; Chicago THE SOUL OF BOSTON, by FENTON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My cobblestones are red with england's blood Last Line: For I have kept thy faith despite the age. Subject(s): Boston THE THANKSGIVING IN BOSTON HARBOR [JUNE 12, 1630], by HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Praise ye the lord!' the psalm today Last Line: But psalms from boston bay. Subject(s): Boston; Holidays; Thanksgiving Day; Winthrop, John (1588-1649) TO FANEUIL HALL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men! If manhood still ye claim Last Line: Up, to faneuil hall! Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Faneuil Hall, Boston; Antislavery Movement - United States TO THE BOSTON WOMEN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o boston wives and maids, draw near and see" Last Line: "if not, we'll cut your throats, and burn your town" Subject(s): American Revolution;boston;women TRI-MOUNTAIN, by HENRY THEODORE TUCKERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through time's dim atmosphere, behold Last Line: The city of the mind. Subject(s): Boston TRIMOUNTAIN, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The land that has no song Last Line: Thou darling town of ours! Subject(s): Boston TWILIGHT ON BOSTON, by KENDRA BORGMANN Poem Source First Line: The decision had just turned to night Last Line: With sheets of rain spilling down, %the long, clear walls Subject(s): Boston; Night; Rain UNCLE JIMMY, by ANDREW L. COHEN Poem Source First Line: When I was nine, my mother took me to boston so Last Line: This tuft of hair - uncle jimmy has a wonderful view %of the common Subject(s): Boston; Children; Memory; Uncles UNHAPPY BOSTON, by PAUL REVERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unhappy boston! See thy sons deplore Last Line: Shall reach a judge who never can be bribed. Subject(s): Boston Massacre; Collective Behavior; Social Protest; U.s. - History; Mobs; Crowds VAUXHALL GARDENS, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There, beneath the evening star Last Line: And chasten'd pleasures foots it there! Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Boston; Gardens & Gardening; Vauxhall Gardens, London WABASH VIOLETS, by EARL MARBLE Poem Text First Line: What? Sho'! You don't! Do you mean it, though? Last Line: My love for them now is sp'iled. Subject(s): Boston; Flowers; Indiana; Marigolds; Poppies; Violets WALK ACROSS BOSTON, by WILLIAM CORBETT Poem Source First Line: Fog around the prudential's ears Last Line: For bookends ...Yesterday, these %tempted me from poetry Subject(s): Boston WHAT STATE STREET SAID TO SOUTH CAROLINA ..., by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Muttering 'fine upland staple,' 'prime sea island finer,' Last Line: "blind in that pestilent anakim, sumner!" Subject(s): Abolitionists; Boston; Slavery; South Carolina; Sumner, Charles (1811-1874); Anti-slavery; Serfs YOU BOSTON FOLKS & ROXBURY PEOPLE, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Will want tom hyde to mend your kettle Subject(s): Boston; Roxbury, Massachusetts |
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