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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: BRIDGES Matches Found: 104 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BRIDGE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the church there stands a bridge Last Line: "and the green weed's lazy beside his stone." Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Bridges; Time A SONG OF BRIDGES, by MIKHAIL DUDIN Poem Text First Line: Bridges of hatred Last Line: From earth to space. Subject(s): Bridges; Hate AFTER WHISTLER, by AGNES KENDRICK GRAY Poem Text First Line: This mezzo-tint of mist and smoke blue sir Last Line: This river dusk to you. Subject(s): Bridges AT DARIEN BRIDGE, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea here used to look Subject(s): Bridges AT DARIEN BRIDGE, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea here used to look Last Line: Out of which all miracles leap Subject(s): Bridges BEAUTY OR FLIGHT, by DENVER BUTSON Poem Source First Line: The man who jumped from the highway bridge one afternoon Last Line: Who was trying to regain some sense of beauty, some sense of flight, %in its final dying seconds Subject(s): Beauty; Bridges; Death; Flight; Suicide BRIDGE, by J. REDWOOD ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: Here, with one leap Subject(s): Bridges BRIDGE, by JUAN CAMERON Poem Source First Line: Beneath this bridge the lovers died Subject(s): Bridges BRIDGE, by ALLAN A. DE FINA Poem Source First Line: The gray bridge Last Line: Broken whie lines Subject(s): Bridges BRIDGE, by ADEL KARASHOLI Poem Source First Line: Thus spake abdula to me Last Line: And the bridge spans %meridian %to meridian Subject(s): Bridges BRIDGE, by JOHN MILLETT Poem Source First Line: Two boys fish Last Line: Backwards and forward - %backwards and forward Subject(s): Bridges BRIDGE, by ERIN NOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: The walls of constantinople Last Line: Remembered. Not even for that Subject(s): Bridges; Constantinople BRIDGE, by FREDERICK PETERSON Poem Source First Line: Across the foaming river Subject(s): Bridges BRIDGE, by LEOPOLD STAFF Poem Source First Line: I didn't believe, %standing on the bank of a river Last Line: I don't believe I crossed it Subject(s): Bridges BRIDGE FOR THE LIVING, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Isolate city spread alongside water Subject(s): Bridges BRIDGE FOR THE LIVING, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Isolate city spread alongside water Last Line: The best of what we are and hold as true: %always it is by bridges that we live Subject(s): Bridges BRIDGE I LIVE BY, SPANNING THE OCEAN, by ALEXANDRA THURMAN Poem Source First Line: They tell a story here about a woman who flew Last Line: It was her own. And, hearing it %for the first time, she died Subject(s): Bridges; Suicide BRIDGE INN, LETHBRIDGE, by D. SIDJAK Poem Source First Line: And all my life I'd been thinking guilt Last Line: And into the net of our endless %revision of history Subject(s): Bridges; History; Memory BRIDGEING, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Being together is knowing Subject(s): Togetherness; Bridges BROOKLYN BRIDGE, by W. A. FAHEY Poem Source First Line: They'd say: brooklyn bridge Subject(s): Bridges; Brooklyn Bridge BROOKLYN BRIDGE, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No lifeless thing of iron and stone Last Line: The rock respects your stable towers. Subject(s): Bridges; Brooklyn Bridge BROOKLYN BRIDGE, by KAY RYAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unbuild the Subject(s): Bridges; Brooklyn Bridge BROOKLYN BRIDGE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dream the titans came by night Last Line: This super-human thing? Subject(s): Bridges; Brooklyn Bridge BROOKLYN BRIDGE AT DAWN, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the cleansing night of stars and tides Last Line: Is wrought of human thunder, iron and blood? Subject(s): Bridges; Brooklyn Bridge BROOKLYN BRIDGE TOWERS (AS UNCONNECTED), by GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brother! Are you waiting Last Line: Is the charioteer! Subject(s): Bridges; Brooklyn Bridge; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple BROOKLYN, MY BROOKLYN, by RHEINHART KLEINER Poem Text First Line: Though other scenes might lure me far Last Line: A place in which to die! Subject(s): Bridges; Brooklyn Bridge BY THE BRIDGE, by TED WALKER Poem Source First Line: I recall, before the banks Last Line: The dance %of the multiple suns is done Subject(s): Bridges CITY OF BRIDGES, by JO SLADE Poem Source First Line: I will tell you... %over each bridge I threw Last Line: Spare detached pared down %nothing to bear Subject(s): Bridges CITY THAT DOES NOT SLEEP, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis First Line: In the sky there is nobody asleep. Nobody, nobody Last Line: The lying goblets, and the poison, and the skull of the theatres Subject(s): Bridges; Brooklyn Bridge; New York City COVERED BRIDGES, by JENNIE PENDLETON HALL Poem Text First Line: Does anyone build covered bridges now? Last Line: Does anyone build covered bridges now? Subject(s): Bridges CREATION, WITH A BRIDGE, by PAUL GRANT Poem Source First Line: There's no need to choose between them Last Line: Here come the escapees from paradise Subject(s): Bridges; Creation CROSSING A FOOTBRIDGE ON SALT CREEK EARLY MORNING IN MID-AUGUST, by TWYLA HANSEN Poem Source First Line: This time the great blue heron doesn't take flight Last Line: It's taken my whole life to become this harmless Subject(s): August; Bridges; Courage; Morning CROSSING THE BRIDGE: 2, by HUGH HENNEDY Poem Source First Line: It took a while but then Last Line: He'd found himself reliving %after crossing the bridge Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Bridges CROSSING THE YANG-CHIA BRIDGE ONCE MORE, by CHING AN Poem Source First Line: The face reflected in the stream's Last Line: As I pass this place once more Subject(s): Bridges; Zen Buddhism DESIGN OF A BRIDGE, by LUELLA STONE Poem Text First Line: Star-rayed and beamed with dreams, it seems Last Line: Of steel instead of dreams. Subject(s): Bridges EVENING AT GRANDPONT, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who under a stone bridge in the dark Variant Title(s): Evening At Grandpoint Subject(s): Swans; Bridges FOR ROBERT BRIDGES, by ANITA WINTZ Poem Source First Line: All women born are so diverse Last Line: No man should miss their charms assessing Subject(s): Bridges, Robert Seymour (1844-1930); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights FRANKLIN AVE. BRIDGE, by MADELON SPRENGNETHER Poem Source First Line: If I walk down to the river, on a near-freezing, near-thawing januaruy Last Line: (as much as the darkness that is to come) in the world's open palm? Subject(s): Bridges; Rivers FROM A BRIDGE, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw my mother standing there below me Subject(s): Bridges; Mothers GEPHYROPHOBIA (FEAR OF BRIDGES), by GARY ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: Disbelief is the final emotion Last Line: Onto those vast plains of forgetting Subject(s): Bridges; Fear GIRLS ON THE BRIDGE, by DEREK MAHON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Audible trout, %notional midges. Beds Last Line: A mile from where you chatter, %somebody screams Subject(s): Bridges; Munch, Edvard (1863-1944); Women GONDOLIER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "gondolier, gondolier, my dear" Last Line: Neath the bridge of sighs Subject(s): Bridges;love;night; Bedtime GRANITE AND STEEL, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enfranchising cable, silvered by the sea Subject(s): Bridges; Brooklyn Bridge GRANITE AND STEEL, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enfranchising cable, silvered by the sea Last Line: German's tenacity's also; %composite span - an actuality Subject(s): Bridges; Brooklyn Bridge HELL GATE BRIDGE, by TONY SANDERS Poem Source First Line: Funny how an entire era can be summed up by the parabolic arch of the steel Last Line: Nor the evanescent clouds overhead, both of which are in their way more determined %than we are Subject(s): Bridges; Hell IOWA, by BENJAMIN ROSENBAUM Poem Text First Line: If yeats, remembering the swans in irish Last Line: With many songs! Subject(s): Bridges, Robert Seymour (1844-1930); Iowa; Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936); Poetry & Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) KELVINBRIDGE: A NODE, by FRANK KUPPNER Poem Source First Line: A terrible day - strong winds, heavy rain. After reading Last Line: And what, may I ask, will have just collided with what? Subject(s): Bridges; Glasgow, Scotland KING'S BRIDGE, by FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dew falls fast and the night is dark Last Line: And so doth death! Subject(s): Bridges; Death; Dead, The KISSING BRIDGE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No roebling reared that primal way Last Line: As then in old nieuw amsterdam! Subject(s): Bridges; Kisses; New England; New York City - Dutch Period LESSON, by ROBIN COOPER-STONE Poem Source First Line: A little girl asks her mother Last Line: Who climbed the rope %to reach the living Subject(s): Bridges; Girls; Religion LESSONS, by LESLEY CARLIN Poem Source First Line: My mother takes my hands Last Line: Of me is held here, recalling all simple lessons: heat's movement, gravitational force, the building Subject(s): Bridges LIUZHI, by XIE WUNIANG Poem Source First Line: Close to the water, a thousand withes brush the painted oar Last Line: Add the oriole's cry: it is still more forlorn Subject(s): Bridges LOEW'S BRIDGE: A BROADWAY IDYL, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For hours I stood upon the bridge Last Line: "I leave thee love and hope." Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): Bridges; Broadway, New York City; Loew, Charles E.; New York City; Wall Street, New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple LONDON BRIDGE, by DANIEL IRVING GROSS Poem Text First Line: I hear an old song of my youth Last Line: And make us friends around the world. Subject(s): Bridges LONDON BRIDGE, by ANN LAUINGER Poem Source First Line: London bridge is falling down Last Line: Silence is shapely. Make no sound Subject(s): Bridges; London LONDON BRIDGE (1), by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: London bridge is broken down Last Line: My fair lady. Subject(s): Bridges LONDON BRIDGE (3), by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: London bridge is falling down Last Line: London bridge is falling down, %my fair lady Subject(s): Bridges MORNING AT THE NERETVA RIVER. NOVEMBER 8, 1993, by JOY DWORKIN Poem Source First Line: The world is one, but its name must not be one Last Line: It bears this unheard prayer downstream to be undone Subject(s): Bridges; Morning; Rivers NEW ENGLAND COVERED BRIDGE, by ADELBERT M. JAKEMAN Poem Source First Line: I know an old new england covered bridge Subject(s): Bridges NEW YORK DAYS, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis something for a poet's lip Last Line: By brotherhood of song and pain. Subject(s): Bridges; Brooklyn Bridge; New York City - Buildings; Skyscrapers NIPPLED TREES OUTLAST AN AGE OF STEEL, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: Lawn mowers and can openers hammered into arks Last Line: In the midst of wild grasses Subject(s): Bridges; Nature; Niagara River; Progress ON STURMINSTER FOOT-BRIDGE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reticulations creep upon the slack stream's face Last Line: As a lattice-gleam when midnight moans. Subject(s): Bridges; Rivers ON THE BA RIVER BRIDGE: SENT HOME TO MY WIFE: 2, by WANG SHIH-CHEN Poem Source First Line: Mount tai-hua and mount zhong-nan Last Line: In autumn rain and autumn wind %I cross ba river bridge Subject(s): Bridges; China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) ON THE BRIDGE, by ARTHUR REED ROPES Poem Text First Line: All the storm has rolled away Last Line: Down the ladders of the leaves. Alternate Author Name(s): Roos, Adrian Subject(s): Bridges; Storms ON THE BRIDGE, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Midnight falls across hollow gulfs of night Last Line: We together, we alone together in the night. Subject(s): Bridges; Togetherness ON THE REPORT OF A WOODEN BRIDGE WAS TO BE BUILT AT WESTMINSTER, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By rufus' hall, where thames polluted flows Last Line: While o'er his head the circling waters foam. Subject(s): Bridges; Thames (river) ON THE SPRINT OF THE NARROW VALLEY, by ISABELLA LICKBARROW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Riv'let of the narrow valley Last Line: Swell a nobler river's pride. Subject(s): Bridges; Kent River, England; Sprint River, England PONT MIRABEAU, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath pont mirabeau flows the seine Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): Bridges; Paris, France PONT MIRABEAU, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Under pont mirabeau flows the seine Last Line: The days go running - I stay here Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): Bridges; Paris, France; Transience PONTOON BRIDGE MIRACLE, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Prophets, preaching in new stars Last Line: So, come let us forget our ivory-towers, brothers %come let us be bold with our songs Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Bridges PUNT GLIDING UNDER A CHAIN OF SMILES, by TILLA BRADING Poem Source Last Line: Two people considering whether to Subject(s): Bridges; Riddles RIGHT IDEA, WRONG RIVER, by NED PASTOR Poem Source First Line: Washington crossed the delaware Last Line: Across the hudson for that man? Subject(s): Bridges; Memory; Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799) ROBERT BRIDGES, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And you, robert bridges, you made your last will Subject(s): Bridges, Robert Seymour (1844-1930); Poetry And Poets SEVEN BRIDGES, by SUSAN STEWART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes before I wake I see Subject(s): Bridges THE BARMOUTH SEA-BRIDGE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the train cross'd the sea, 'mid shouts of joy Last Line: Across the waters, to the land of rest! Subject(s): Bridges THE BRIDGE, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I gazed on darkness where the pit most dread Last Line: "what is thy name?"" said I. He answered ""pray'r." Subject(s): Bridges; Prayer THE BRIDGE, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stood on the bridge at midnight Last Line: And its wavering image here. Subject(s): Bridges; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Courtship THE BRIDGE, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the dawn light these white girders Last Line: Return to yourself. Subject(s): Bodies; Bridges; Death; Dead, The THE BRIDGE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where, as a lordly dream Last Line: From shore to shore! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Bridges; Life THE BRIDGE BUILDER, by WILL ALLEN DROMGOOLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An old man, going [or, traveling] a lone highway Last Line: "good friend, I am building the bridge for him." Variant Title(s): Building The Bridge [for Him] Subject(s): Bridges; Religion; Theology THE BRIDGE BY THE TAY, by THEODOR FONTANE Poem Text First Line: When shall we three meet again?' Last Line: "what the hand of man hath wrought!" Subject(s): Bridges THE BRIDGE OF FIRE, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: High on the bridge of heaven whose eastern bars Last Line: Whiten in habitations monumental cold. Subject(s): Bridges THE BRIDGE OF LODI, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When of tender mind and body Last Line: Guesses why and what I sing! Subject(s): Bridges; Napoleon I (1769-1821); War THE BRIDGE: PROEM. TO BROOKLYN BRIDGE, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many dawns, chill from his rippling rest Last Line: And of the curveship lend a myth to god. Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Americans; Bible; Bridges; Brooklyn Bridge; Freedom; Imagination; Religion; United States; Vision; Liberty; Fancy; Theology; America THE BRIGS OF AYR, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The simple bard, rough at the rustic plough Last Line: At sight of whom our sprites forgat their kindling wrath. Subject(s): Ayr (river), Scotland; Bridges THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE [MAY 24, 1883], by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A granite cliff on either shore Last Line: And winds the sea-clouds bear! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Bridges; Brooklyn Bridge THE HAUNTED BRIDGE, by WILLIAM CANTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With high-pitched arch, low parapet Last Line: With heads against the clear brown stream. Subject(s): Bridges THE INVISIBLE BRIDGE, by FRANK GELETT BURGESS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'd never dare to walk across Last Line: I fear that I should be! Alternate Author Name(s): Burgess, Gelett Subject(s): Bridges; Fear; Nonsense THE IRON BRIDGE, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am standing on a disused iron bridge Last Line: With no end or name, some boundless province of water Subject(s): Cormorants; Bridges; Mothers; Water; Death THE OLD BRIDGE, by AUGUSTE ANGELLIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the old, old bridge, with its crumbling Last Line: But we, -- no more! Subject(s): Bridges; Old Age 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 RAILWAY BRIDGE OF THE SILVERY TAY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful railway bridge of the silvery tay! Last Line: Near by dundee and the magdalen green. Subject(s): Bridges; Buildings & Builders; Engineering And Engineers; Railroads; Steel; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips THE TRAGEDY OF ASGARD: NAGELFARI, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blinded he sped, the stars around him thrown Last Line: The embattled host of heaven expectant held. Subject(s): Bridges; Horseback Riding; Mythology - Norse; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE WATER CROWVOOT, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O small-feac'd flow'r that now dost bloom Last Line: Fair small-feäc'd flow'r o' the frome. Subject(s): Bridges; Brooks; Flowers; Water; Streams; Creeks THE WATERLESS BRIDGE, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of water though the channel bare is Last Line: A little water buy. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Bridges; Water THE WISHING BRIDGE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among the legends sung or said Last Line: "but in his own best way!" Subject(s): Bridges; Marblehead, Massachusetts TO R. B., by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fine delight that fathers thought; the strong Last Line: Now, yields you, with some sighs, our explanation. Variant Title(s): To R.b. Subject(s): Bridges, Robert Seymour (1844-1930) TOM'S PHILOSOPHY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The bridges mingle with the river Last Line: Since I've lost my key Subject(s): Bridges UPON ECKINGTON BRIDGE, RIVER AVON, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O pastoral heart of england! Like a psalm Last Line: Turns in her sleep, and murmurs of the spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Variant Title(s): Ode Subject(s): Avon (river), England; Bridges; England; Rivers; English VENICE BRIDGE: FOR A PAINTING, by HILDA CONKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Away back in an old city Last Line: And end in the sky. Subject(s): Bridges; Paintings & Painters; Venice, Italy VERSES ON VIEWING THE ACQUEDUCT BRIDGE OVER KELVIN ..., by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: If architecture's pride in modern time Last Line: While thy huge fabrric, tow'rs above the rest, %and stands the monarch of the group confess'd Subject(s): Bridges; Glasgow, Scotland WATERLILIES AND JAPANESE BRIDGE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is the drowsy girl who rows 'between the sleeping Last Line: "-is it from him? Or around him? His old man's forehead / Subject(s): Bridges; Flowers; Japan; Japanese WATERLILIES AND JAPANESE BRIDGE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is the drowsy girl who rows 'between the sleeping Last Line: - is it from him? Or around him? His old man's forehead %garlanded Subject(s): Bridges; Flowers; Japan WRITTEN ON A BRIDGE, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When soft september brings again Last Line: And find thee changeless, pont-y-wern. Variant Title(s): Pont-y-wern Subject(s): Bridges; September; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen |
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