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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A TRUTHFUL SONG, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I tell this tale, which is strictly true
Last Line: Both: we tell these tales, which are strictest true, etc.
Subject(s): Bricklayers; Buildings & Builders; Sailing & Sailors; Shipbuilding; Seamen; Sails


ANTWERP, by PERCY MACKAYE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Towers - eternal towers against the sky
Last Line: And from their towers of tyranny hurled down.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace
Subject(s): Antwerp, Belgium; Architecture & Architects; Buildings & Builders; Stones; World War I; Granite; Rocks; First World War


APARTMENT PARTNERS, by FRANCIS MARTIN BOTELHO    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tidy apartment / airy and high
Last Line: Is so short of breath.
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders


ARCHITECTS, by EDITH CLAIRE CAM    Poem Text                    
First Line: Pythagoras, the wise, who in those lost days
Last Line: Is to rebuild the world.
Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Buildings & Builders; Pythagorus (580-500 B.c.)


BUILDERS, by GLADYS TAGGART    Poem Text                    
First Line: We built for us a fairy house
Last Line: With rare bright holidays.
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders


BUILDING, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I see a brave building
Last Line: Here it stands
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders


BUILDING, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We started our house midway through the cultural revolution
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; History; Historians


BUILDING A PAINTING A HOME, by BOB HICOK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I built a barn I'd build it right into the sky
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Sky


BUILDING BOOM, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The avenue of willows leads nowhere
Last Line: Their beauty cannot save them
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Deforestation


BURLESQUE ADDRESS; ON OPENING OF NEW PARK THEATRE, 1821, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ladies and gentlemen, / enlighten'd as you are, you all must know
Last Line: The lord bless beekman and john jacob astor.
Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; New York City - 19th Century; Theater & Theaters; Stage Life


CAREFULLY, by ETHEL JACOBSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Carefully, on the safe and solid rock
Last Line: To the amused, victorious enemy.
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders


CASTLES IN THE AIR, by WILLIAM J. LAMPTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I builded a castle in the air
Last Line: And the whole darn thing fell down.
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Castles; Crowns; Stones; Temples; Granite; Rocks; Mosques


CAT-GODS' CHANNEL, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We elegant erasers of mice
Last Line: And so, with ancient yelps, we torch your maps
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers


CAUTION AND ECONOMY, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The plan reduced from small to less to make his house compacter
Last Line: The builder, his own architect, became his own contractor.
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Buildings & Builders; Houses


CENTER, by JOSEPHINE MILES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: How did you come
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Popular Culture; Art & Artists


EDDY-GRAMS: 1. EDDY BLEW HIMSELF, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When eddy bilt his mountin camp
Last Line: He'll blow his hed off yet.
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Camping; Camps; Summer Camps


EDDY-GRAMS: 2. EDDY BUM PROOF CELLER, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When eddy blasted out that hole
Last Line: Oh boy—fur me his celler.
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Camping; Camps; Summer Camps


ELEVATOR, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We jumped in, trusting
Last Line: Sister! He wailed, as I sank deep into the ground.
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Elevators; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


ENDEAVOR'S CORNER-STONE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lift the building fair and strong
Last Line: Out of christ, its corner-stone.
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders


F. HOPKINSON SMITH, by JOHN HUSTON FINLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hop' smith, who built the lighthouse on race rock
Last Line: And told a tale as only he could tell.
Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Art & Artists; Buildings & Builders; Smith, Francis Hopkinson (1838-1915); Statue Of Liberty


FOR THE NEW WORLD, by EDWARD HIRSCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The first idea was man walking through space in a tower
Last Line: The first idea was man walking through space in a tower
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Chicago; Cities; Urban Life


FROM DUST THOU ART, by FRANCES WADDLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: And we shall build upon the earth
Last Line: But even us, its builders.
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders


GLASS HOUSE, by HEATHER MCHUGH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Everything obeyed our laws and
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders


HAIL TEESSIDE!, by CECIL DAY LEWIS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old ironmasters and their iron men
Last Line: And earn fresh honours for our own teesside.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Creation; Enterprise (ship); Iron & Steel Industry; Printing & Printers; Towns


HOWARD SHAW, ARCHITECT; DIED MAY 6, 1926, by AGNES LEE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Remember? We, the city, shall remember
Last Line: The features of a building or a man.
Alternate Author Name(s): Freer, Otto, Mrs.
Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Buildings & Builders; Death; Memory; Shaw, Howard Van Doren (1869-1926); Dead, The


IMAGINARY PRISONS, by STANLEY PLUMLY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A piranesian interior. Operatic space
Subject(s): Piranesi, Giambattista (1720-1778); Buildings & Builders; Imagination; Fancy


INCONGRUOUS BUILDERS, by AIME CESAIRE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Too bad if the forests wilts into pereskia stalks
Last Line: Around a few ghosts more real than they appear / incongruous builders
Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Environmental Abuse; Buildings & Builders


KUBLA KHAN, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In xanadu did kubla khan / a stately pleasure dome decree
Last Line: And drunk the milk of paradise.
Variant Title(s): Romance;the Sacred River
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Dreams; Heaven; Kubla Khan (1214-1294); Mysticism; Nightmares; Paradise


LAST SONG FOR THE MEND-IT SHOP, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Today some buildings were blown up
Last Line: It tasted like.
Subject(s): Bakeries & Bakers; Buildings & Builders; Landmarks; Retail Trade; Singing & Singers; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers; Songs


LINES TO THE BOSTON Y.M.C.A., by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thou mighty force which builds today and well
Last Line: Has made this great association last.
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Walls


MUSHROOM CITY, by FREDERIC SAUSER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Toward the end of 1911 a group of yankee financiers
Last Line: City, that was also looking for a name.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cendrars, Blaise
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; City Planning; Labor Unions; Machinery And Machinists; Steel


OBSTETRICS OF A BUILDING, by ROGER L. WARING    Poem Text                    
First Line: At last this infant building has a life
Last Line: So I who am alone am not alone.
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders


POST-CONSTRUCTION, by KAY RYAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who knows better / than the builder
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders


SECURITY, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On old interminable strife
Last Line: Comes clattering down in storm.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs.
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Strength


SHOVEL DINOSAURUS, by ROGER L. WARING    Poem Text                    
First Line: A shovel dinosaurus feeds her brood
Last Line: From which, with groans and squeals, a building hatches.
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders


SONGS OF NEW YORK: NEW BUILDINGS, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The turrets leap higher and higher
Last Line: The woodpeckers of the town.
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


SONNET: 29, by ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the fair picture of my life's estate
Last Line: To wreck, — and then rebuild it, stone by stone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Knish, Anne
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Labor & Laborers; Loss; Memory; Solitude; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Work; Workers; Loneliness


THE BRIDGE BUILDER, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of old the winds came romping down
Last Line: Lay silent, far below!
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders


THE BUILDER, by CAROLINE GILTINAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The edges of the stones are sharp
Last Line: Until a temple stands.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harlow, Leo P., Mrs.
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders


THE BUILDER, by WILLARD WATTLES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Smoothing a cypress beam
Last Line: "heaven,"" he said."
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Carpenters; Christmas; Heaven; Nativity, The; Paradise


THE BUILDERS, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Never a jungle is penetrated
Last Line: Newark -- city that builds his dreams.
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Newark, New Jersey


THE BUILDERS, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Into the dust of the making of man
Last Line: For ever in the temple of our breast.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Patriotism; Princeton University


THE BUILDERS; A NOCTURNE IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On what dost thou dream, solitary all the night long
Last Line: Drawing to thee, and the slow feet of fate.
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Monasteries; Rest; Spirituality; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Abbeys


THE BUILDERS; FOR TRISHA, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Midnight: the field becomes white stone
Last Line: But filled with light.
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders


THE BUILDING, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whence these hods, and bricks of bright red
Last Line: Chaos transfigured into lineament.
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Details; Things


THE BUILDING, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The building stands alone
Last Line: As to what to do with ourselves
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders


THE BUILDINGS, by WENDELL BERRY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The buildings are all womanly. Their roofs
Last Line: In its welcome, a vine with yellow flowers shading the door
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders


THE CHAPEL BELL, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Before my hall I stood; with sated eye
Last Line: Glory to god!—not all, not all is vain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Churches; Vanity; Cathedrals


THE GOBHAN SAER, by THOMAS D'ARCY MCGEE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He stept a man out of the ways of men
Last Line: His name and towers for centuries shall stand.
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Ireland; Irish


THE GROTTO; WRITTEN UNDER THE NAME OF PETER DRAKE, A FISHERMAN, by MATTHEW GREEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Adieu awhile, forsaken flood
Last Line: A woman wise men canonize.
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Courts & Courtiers; Houses; Richmond Park, England; William Iii, King Of England (1650-1702); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens


THE HUT, by FANNY HOWE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up the hill is a hut made of sound
Last Line: It dwells in ashen buildings where the present sleeps
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders


THE MASTER BUILDER, by DAVID RITCHIE    Poem Text                    
First Line: A master builder he, who with his hands
Last Line: Who over the world have held a potent sway?
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders


THE MIRACULOUS ESCAPE OF ROBERT ALLAN, THE FIREMAN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas in the year of 1888, and on october the fourteenth day
Last Line: And be sure to escape the pains of hell.
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Escapes; Fire; Firefighters; Heroism; Fugitives; Heroes; Heroines


THE NEXT FIFTY YEARS, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Turn, tremble at honk
Last Line: To where road starts again
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Cities; Future Life; Labor & Laborers; Urban Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Work; Workers


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 RIVETER'S SONG, by GLADYS V. JACKSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Skyward reaching to bridge the span
Last Line: The rollicking riveter's song....
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Rivets & Riveting


THE ROPEWALK, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In that building, long and low
Last Line: And the spinners backward go.
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Rope


THE SONG OF THE PYRAMID-BUILDERS, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We lived below the elephantine / in a papyrus-wattled village
Last Line: And woe to him who flayed us!
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Egypt; Pyramids; Slavery; Serfs


THE SORCERESS OF THE MOON, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Its gates are griffin-guarded gates
Last Line: The sorceress of the moon!
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Courts & Courtiers; Guard Duty; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens


THE TEMPLE OF VENUS, by SOAME JENYNS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In her own isle's remotest grove
Last Line: And steer by chloe's eyes.
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Mythology - Classical; Statues; Temples; Venus (goddess); Mosques


THE TOWER, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sunk between cool meadows
Last Line: The snowy gables of the sky.
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders


THE TOWER, by AGNES LEE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now that the tower is standing
Last Line: Imposed against the sky!
Alternate Author Name(s): Freer, Otto, Mrs.
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Size & Shape; Height


THE TOWER OF ERCILDOUNE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a stillness on the night
Last Line: Except to lead us nearer heaven.
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Desolation; Haunted Houses; Scotland; Walls


THE VACANT LOT, by NATHALIA CRANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: They're going to build a flathouse on the lot next door to me
Last Line: Where we may live forever in a little bungalow.
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Love


THE WORD OF AN ENGINEER, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She's built of steel
Last Line: That he has in an engineer!
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Buildings & Builders; Engineering & Engineers; Steel


TO A CERTAIN VERY UGLY BUILDING: THE ARMORY, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Minotaur of madness, you certainly belong there
Last Line: O slumtown symbol of war's grim insanity!
Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Army - Ireland; Buildings & Builders; Death; Pacifism; Social Protest; War; Weapons; Ammunition; Dead, The; Peace Movements


TO AN UNFINISHED CHURCH, by BEULAH H. LYON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Where once a simple dwelling stood, your walls
Last Line: Forbid your roof to ever shut god out!
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Churches; Cathedrals


TO PENSHURST, by BEN JONSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou art not, penshurst, built to envious show
Last Line: May say their lords have built, but thy lord dwells.
Subject(s): Animals; Buildings & Builders; Houses; Penshurst, England; Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586)