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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: BOXING & BOXERS Matches Found: 20 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A NEW DAY, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The headlights fading out at dawn Subject(s): Boxing & Boxers AMATEUR FIGHTER, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Boxing & Boxers; Fathers; Housekeeping BOXING, by RICHARD FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Couldn't afford not to, my friends / insisting: with my long reach Subject(s): Boxing & Boxers HARRY GREB, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The pittsburgh windmill keeps right on Last Line: This greb go on forever! Subject(s): Boxing & Boxers; Greb, Harry (1894-1926); Sports JACK DEMPSEY'S GRAVE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Far out in the wilds of oregon Last Line: "unmarked, leave dempsey's grave" Subject(s): "boxing & Boxers;cowboys;dempsey, Jack (1895-1983);graves;oregon;ranch Life;west (u.s.);" Tombs;tombstones;southwest;pacific States JANGLING JINGLES, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: We bet on a champion boxer-- Last Line: And hyrant—oh, he's running yet! Subject(s): Boxing & Boxers; Gambling; Horse Racing; Wrestling And Wrestlers; Wagering; Betting LOVE SONNETS OF A BOXER: 1, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Kid, I don't getcha. You say I should box Last Line: He'll be twice homelier than I am to-day! Subject(s): Beauty; Boxing & Boxers LOVE SONNETS OF A BOXER: 2, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: What's that? Yuh wanta see me scrap? Yuh say Last Line: Might make me look three times as good as now? Subject(s): Boxing & Boxers; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations ON HURRICANE JACKSON, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Jackson, Tommy Hurricane (1931-1982); Boxing & Boxers SHADOW BOXING, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes you almost get a punch in Subject(s): Boxing & Boxers; Sports THE APPOINTMENT, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Genaro was standing Last Line: You can all go to hell Subject(s): Boxing & Boxers; Physicians THE BLIND BOXER, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: He goes with basket and slow feet Last Line: Thy working face and pity thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Blindness; Boxing & Boxers; Cowardice; Pity; Visually Handicapped THE BOXING GAME, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Some years ago, the irish held Last Line: It's only what you are! Subject(s): Boxing & Boxers THE BOXING MATCH, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Am I really a sports fan, I ask myself Last Line: And I am glad for him / and admire him Subject(s): Boxing & Boxers THE CHAMPION, by LIDA WILSON TURNER Poem Text First Line: My daddy is the strongest man Last Line: Would it be cheating, do you s'pose, if I made him the winner? Subject(s): Boxing & Boxers THE CHAMPION (SUGGESTED BY A STORY OF JACK LONDON), by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It ain't the kid that's sittin' over there Last Line: It's youth will slip the same thing to myself! Subject(s): Boxing & Boxers THE GARDEN OF GLOVES, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Hues of the rainbow, green, and red, and blue Last Line: Has been the garden plot where men raise gloves! Subject(s): Boxing & Boxers THE GYMNASIAD, OR BOXING MATCH: BOOK 3, by PAUL WHITEHEAD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As when two monarchs of the brindled breed Last Line: High soared applause on acclamation's wing. Subject(s): Applause; Boxing & Boxers; Fights; Heroism; Victory; Heroes; Heroines THEN AND NOW, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Under the spreading chestnut tree Last Line: Invented the auto biz! Subject(s): Boxing & Boxers VERS LIBRE OF BOXING, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The champion strides in. He gazes 'round Last Line: "fake! Fake! Oh, what a fake!" Subject(s): Boxing & Boxers |
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