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Subject: CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS Matches Found: 25 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) |
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