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Subject: BROOKLYN BRIDGE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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


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


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


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


OF BEING NUMEROUS, 5, by GEORGE OPPEN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The great stone
Subject(s): Brooklyn Bridge


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 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