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Subject: CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ANIMAL, VEGETABLE AND MINERAL, by LOUISE BOGAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On gypsum slabs of preternatural whiteness
Last Line: Impatiens roylei walpers acts the same
Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs.
Subject(s): Flowers; Bees; Pollination; Cambridge, Massachusetts


BOSTON YEAR, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: My first week in cambridge a car full of white boys
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Alienation (social Psychology); Americans; Boston; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; United States; Estrangement; Outcasts; America


BOSTON YEAR, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My first week in cambridge a car full of white boys
Last Line: No one. Red notes sounding in a grey trolley town
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Alienation (social Psychology); Americans; Boston; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; United States


CAMBRIDGE, FIRST IMPRESSIONS, by GREGORY NUNZIO CORSO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is not easy to walk
Last Line: To sneak out a back door
Alternate Author Name(s): Corso, Gregory
Subject(s): Cambridge, Massachusetts


FIRST CAPRICE IN NORTH CAMBRIDGE, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A street-piano, garrulous and frail
Last Line: Oh, these minor considerations!
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S.
Subject(s): Cambridge, Massachusetts


GODMINSTER CHIMES; IN AID CHIME OF BELLS FOR CHRIST CHURCH, CAMBRIDGE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Godminster? Is it fancy's play
Last Line: And hear my son in heaven!
Subject(s): Bells; Cambridge, Massachusetts


IN THE CHURCHYARD AT CAMBRIDGE, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the village churchyard she lies, / dust is in her beautiful eyes
Last Line: In your own secret sins and terrors!
Subject(s): Cambridge, Massachusetts


MEMORIAL HALL, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Amid the elms that interlace
Last Line: In deathless glory with their names.
Subject(s): Cambridge, Massachusetts


MOUNT AUBURN, by ISAAC MCLELLAN JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet auburn! O'er thy rolling slopes
Last Line: Whereon day's latest incense burns.
Subject(s): Cambridge, Massachusetts


MOUNT AUBURN, by WILLIAM WINTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Auburn! Sweet auburn! Lovely and beloved!
Last Line: Where pain can weary not, nor passion enter in.
Subject(s): Cambridge, Massachusetts


MOUNT AUBURN CEMETERY, by BEATRICE HAWLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: We are in the trees around you
Last Line: These foolish animals lie down %only to feed us
Subject(s): Cambridge, Massachusetts


MOUNT AUBURN CEMETERY, by JANE REBECCA THOMAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The grave is clad in beauty! Nature's hand
Last Line: When from its gloom a conqueror he rose.
Subject(s): Cambridge, Massachusetts; Cemeteries; Graveyards


OUR HOME - OUR COUNTRY, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your home was mine, - kind nature's gift
Last Line: "I am a cambridge boy!"
Subject(s): Cambridge, Massachusetts


SECOND CAPRICE IN NORTH CAMBRIDGE, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This charm of vacant lots!
Last Line: Under a sunset yellow and rose
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S.
Subject(s): Cambridge, Massachusetts


SONNET - REALITIES: 1, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls
Last Line: Moon rattles like a fragment of angry candy
Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E.
Subject(s): Cambridge, Massachusetts; Social Protest


ST. JOHN'S, CAMBRIDGE; SONNET, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I stand beneath the tree, whose branches shade
Last Line: "be and abide with you forevermore!"
Subject(s): Cambridge, Massachusetts


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 CAMBRIDGE CHURCHYARD, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our ancient church! Its lowly tower
Last Line: Might call a tear on mine.
Subject(s): Cambridge, Massachusetts; Churchyards


THE HERONS OF ELMWOOD, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Warm and still is the summer night
Last Line: Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.
Subject(s): Cambridge, Massachusetts


THE SPHINX AT MOUNT AUBURN, by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How grand she is enthroned among the dead
Last Line: Dread as the lion in his majesty.
Alternate Author Name(s): Roge, Mme.
Subject(s): Cambridge, Massachusetts; Egypt; Sphinx


THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under a spreading chestnut-tree
Last Line: Each burning deed and thought!
Subject(s): Blacksmiths; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Home; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers


THREE FRIENDS OF MINE: 2; SONNET, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In attica thy birthplace should have been
Last Line: That thou shouldst die before thou hadst grown old!
Variant Title(s): Felton And Sumner
Subject(s): Cambridge, Massachusetts


THREE FRIENDS OF MINE: 4; SONNET, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: River, that stealest with silent pace
Last Line: To cover up the embers that still burn.
Variant Title(s): Felton And Sumner
Subject(s): Cambridge, Massachusetts


THREE FRIENDS OF MINE: 5; SONNET, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The doors are all wide open; at the gate
Last Line: And summer is not summer, nor can be.
Variant Title(s): Felton And Sumner
Subject(s): Cambridge, Massachusetts


UNDER THE OLD ELM; READ AT CAMBRIDGE ON 100TH ANNIVERSAY ..., by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Words pass as the wind, but where great deeds were done
Last Line: Virginia, fitly named from england's manly queen!
Subject(s): American Revolution; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)