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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: BROADWAY, NEW YORK CITY Matches Found: 39 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD OF ST. VITUS, by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Girls fidget with their fans. Scarce heard Last Line: Prince vitus stalks along broadway! Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Dancing & Dancers; Vitrus, Saint (3rd Century) A BROADWAY PAGEANT, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over the western sea hither from niphon Last Line: They shall now also march obediently eastward for your sake libertad. Subject(s): Broadway, New York City A RHYME ABOUT AN ELECTRICAL ADVERTISING SIGN, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I look on the specious electrical light Last Line: That is climbed by the rainbow-clad spirits of prayer. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Advertising; Broadway, New York City; Signs & Signboards AFTER THE PLAY, by HAMILTON FISH ARMSTRONG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The great gold room is heavy with the scent Last Line: Yet this day twenty thousand men have died. Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Music & Musicians; New York City - Theaters; Plays & Playwrights ; Dramatists AT HALF-PAST FIVE; A FEBRUARY FANCY, by ANDREW EDWARD WATROUS Poem Text First Line: This is a common dream enough Last Line: As night came down at half-past five. Subject(s): Broadway, New York City BALLADE OF BARRISTERS, by CHAUNCEY CLARK STARKWEATHER Poem Text First Line: To the shy, sweet face that I saw this morning Last Line: And the rattle of broadway never is still. Alternate Author Name(s): Starkweather, C. C. Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Law & Lawyers BROADWAY, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On this day of brightest dawning Last Line: Stern and silent, through broadway! Subject(s): Broadway, New York City BROADWAY, by HERMANN HAGEDORN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How like the stars Subject(s): Broadway, New York City BROADWAY, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I shall never forget you, broadway Last Line: In the dust of your harsh and trampled stones. Subject(s): Broadway, New York City BROADWAY, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the quiet hour; the theaters Last Line: A strain of music thru an open door. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Broadway, New York City BROADWAY, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What hurrying human tides, or day or night! Last Line: Thou visor'd, vast, unspeakable show and lesson! Subject(s): Broadway, New York City BROADWAY LIMITED, by PEG CARLSON LAUBER Poem Source First Line: How many bobbysoxers did it bear Last Line: At least I tried, at least I tried, at least I tried.' Subject(s): Broadway, New York City BROADWAY'S CANYON, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is like the nave of an unfinished cathedral Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Cities FANNY: 112, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ere long the air of broadway or park place Last Line: Forgot a while, and every eye on fanny Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Broadway, New York City; Theater And Theaters FANNY: 137, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He woke, in strength, like samson from his slumber Last Line: Gave, in the slang phrase, pearl street the go-by, %and cut,for several months, st. Tammany Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Houses; Mortgages; Theater And Theaters FOLLIES, by SCOTT HIGHTOWER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: December, 1971. A light snow. The taft hotel. Subject(s): Broadway, New York City GHOSTS OF BROADWAY, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wan ghost of the moon Last Line: Who had not died! Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Ghosts; Supernatural IN BROADWAY, by VANCE THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I walk in broadway to and fro Last Line: I make the sign of the cross. Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849) LE GRENIER, by ROBERTSON TROWBRIDGE Poem Text First Line: Here is the street-the house is standing yet! Last Line: And all the world to win, at twenty years! Subject(s): Army Life; Broadway, New York City; Courage; Marching & Marches; New York City - 19th Century; Soldiers; Drills & Minor Tactics; Valor; Bravery 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 NEW YEAR'S DAWN - BROADWAY, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the horns wear thin Last Line: Dizzy and sick. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S EVE ON BROADWAY, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Friends, what are we seeking this new year's eve Last Line: But a bursting blossom of life. Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Holidays; New Year NOCTURNES: 6, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: Just as there is no legitimate beginning the broadway building Last Line: Amounting to a virtual solar system racing within the confines of our orbit? Subject(s): Architecture And Architects; Broadway, New York City; Buildings And Builders ON BROADWAY, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: About me young careless feet Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): Broadway, New York City ON BROADWAY, by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great jewels glitter like a wizard's rain Last Line: Without salute the vessel of the lord. Subject(s): Broadway, New York City ON GRACE CHURCH CORNER, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the stone-flowered, lozenged steeple Last Line: A white dream cleaves the sky! Subject(s): Bells; Broadway, New York City; Churches; Streets; Travel; Cathedrals; Avenues; Journeys; Trips SEVEN SANDWICHMEN ON BROADWAY, by JEFFERSON BUTLER FLETCHER Poem Text First Line: Shuffling and shambling, woebegone, they pass Last Line: Of fear, of hate,—of the thrice false weights of gold! Subject(s): Advertising; Broadway, New York City SONGS OF NEW YORK: BROADWAY, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here surge the ceaseless caravans Last Line: I wonder who would care? Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple SUMMER NIGHT-BROADWAY, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night is the city's disease Last Line: Looking for children to sing to. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Cities; Injustice; Urban Life THE CITY, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, dear is the song of the pine Last Line: For the ships of all the earth! Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Music & Musicians THE LITTLE FRUIT-SHOP, by FLORENCE WILKINSON EVANS Poem Text First Line: The little broadway fruit-shop bursts and glows Last Line: Lo, a swart faun-god mid his votive fruit. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkinson, Florence Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Fruit; Retail Trade; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers THE OLD APPLE-WOMAN; A BROADWAY LYRIC, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She sits by the side of a turbulent stream Last Line: And the gates of a heavenly city. Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Poverty; Rivers; Women THE RIVER OF LIGHT: 1. BROADWAY, 103RD TO 96TH, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lights foam and bubble down the gentle grade Last Line: To pour in gathering torrent through the dark. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Broadway, New York City THE RIVER OF LIGHT: 2. BELOW 96TH, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The current quickens, and in golden flow Last Line: It bursts in cataracts upon times square! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Broadway, New York City THE WHITE LIGHTS, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When in from delos came the gold Last Line: That there was triumph in the air. Subject(s): Broadway, New York City TWILIGHT BY THE MALL, by SELDEN LINCOLN WHITCOMB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moonlight creeps across yon gilded roof Last Line: Defiant, private note must pass away. Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Retail Trade; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers TWO WOMEN, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shadows lay along broadway Last Line: By man is cursed alway! Variant Title(s): Unseen Spirits;broadway Subject(s): Adversity; Broadway, New York City; New York City - 19th Century UPPER BROADWAY SUNDAY, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is high noon over upper broadway Last Line: Dionysos has swallowed apollo Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; City & Town Life WHEN BROADWAY WAS A COUNTRY ROAD, by CHARLES COLEMAN STODDARD Poem Text First Line: No rushing cars, nor tramping feet Last Line: To broadway as a country road. Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Country Life; U.s. - History |
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