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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CHICAGO Matches Found: 86 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A FLIRTATION ON THE CARS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I did not even know her name Last Line: I'm free years old! Subject(s): Chicago A GARDEN IN CHICAGO, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the mid-city, under an oiled sky Subject(s): Chicago; Gardens & Gardening A GUY I KNOW ON 47TH AND COTTAGE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day of the strong rap Subject(s): Chicago A RETROSPECTION, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'se a sittin' neaf de ole magnolia tree Last Line: Well, hit mus' be in de family, seems to me. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Chicago AT O'HARE, by JOHN CIARDI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You!' we chanted together. 'how long has it been' Subject(s): O'hare Airport (chicago); Time AT O'HARE, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You!' we chanted together. 'how long has it been' Last Line: Longer now. This time forever Subject(s): O'hare Airport (chicago); Time BAD OLD DAYS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The summer of nineteen eighteen Last Line: And the misery, and the %anger, and the vow are the same Subject(s): Chicago; Evil; Past; Poverty BEFORE THE JUDGE (LOUIS LINGG: CHICAGO, 1886), by DAVID EDELSHTADT Poem Source First Line: Once, great of heart and great in soul Last Line: The poison-cup of socrates Subject(s): Chicago; Haymarket Square Riot; Social Protest BELLY BUTTON, by STUART JOHN DYBEK Poem Source First Line: What was it about the belly button that connected it to the old country? Last Line: At that knotted opening that promised to lead inward, but never did Subject(s): Chicago; Cities; Ghettos BRONZES: 1, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bronze general grant riding a bronze horse in Last Line: And make to ride his bronze horse out into the hoofs and guns of the storm. Subject(s): Lincoln Park, Chicago; Statues BRONZES: 2, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cross lincoln park on a winter night when the snow Last Line: Hold them past midnight and into the dawn. Subject(s): Lincoln Park, Chicago; Statues CHICAGO, by DAVE ETTER Poem Source First Line: City of the bent shoulders, the bum ticker, the bad back Subject(s): Chicago; Sandburg, Carl (1878-1967) CHICAGO, by MATTHEW GRAHAM Poem Source First Line: I have no memory of that chicago Subject(s): Chicago CHICAGO, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blackened and bleeding, helpless, panting, prone Last Line: The gifts her kinship and our loves reveal. Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): Chicago Fire (1871) CHICAGO, by MILDRED PLEW MEIGS MERRYMAN Poem Source First Line: Burst to bloom, you proud white flower Alternate Author Name(s): Meigs, Mildred Plew Subject(s): Chicago; History CHICAGO, by ROBERT MILLS Poem Source First Line: Big-shouldered, brawling city Subject(s): Chicago CHICAGO, by JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gaunt in the midst of the prairie Last Line: "answering her ""miserere!" Subject(s): Chicago Fire (1871) CHICAGO, by WALLACE RICE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, mother and queen, beautiful, strong, and alert Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De Subject(s): Chicago CHICAGO, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hog butcher for the world Last Line: Player with railroads, and freight-handler to the nation. Subject(s): Chicago CHICAGO, by PETER SEARS Poem Source First Line: He asked the waitress if she liked it here Subject(s): Chicago CHICAGO, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN TAYLOR Poem Source First Line: A wide-winged bird, a schooner brown Subject(s): Chicago CHICAGO, by MARK TURBYFILL Poem Source First Line: O city of beauty Subject(s): Chicago CHICAGO, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One day I saw chicago river move Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1) Subject(s): Chicago CHICAGO, by WANG CH'ING-LIN Poem Source First Line: In chicago we push buttons to make love, ride mechanical Last Line: Under that lonely overpass Subject(s): Chicago CHICAGO CABARET, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That was a strange game of chess Subject(s): Chicago; Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels CHICAGO CABARET, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That was a strange game of chess Last Line: Pure indian that kid %and some jazz' Subject(s): Chicago; Prostitution CHICAGO EXPOSITION ODE, by MARY WESTON FORDHAM Poem Text First Line: Columbia, all hail! Last Line: Columbia! Be thine. Subject(s): Chicago CHICAGO POEM, by LEW WELCH Poem Source First Line: I lived here nearly 5 years before I could Last Line: A small part of it will die if I'm not around %feeding it anymore Subject(s): Chicago CHICAGO SCENE, by JOHN+(1) LOGAN Poem Source First Line: At the bar called Last Line: Of the plugged moon Subject(s): Chicago; Jazz; Music And Musicians CHICAGO [OCTOBER 8-10, 1871], by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men said at vespers: 'all is well!' Last Line: And love is still miraculous! Subject(s): Chicago Fire (1871) CHICAGO'S CONGO, by FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chicago is an overgrown woman Subject(s): Chicago; African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks CHICAGO: 1966, by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: Dimly through frenetic snow, Last Line: Stoic streetlamps stiffly glow. Subject(s): Chicago; Snow CHICAGO: 1, by JOHN GILL Poem Source First Line: The backyard %where all things start Last Line: But a childhood honed on bare backyard alkali and weeds Subject(s): Chicago CHICAGO: 3, by JOHN GILL Poem Source First Line: My sister and her girlfriend left the light on late Last Line: Perhaps they were repolishing their nails %calling, so I imagined, piteously, like cats behind damp Subject(s): Chicago CHICAGO: 4, by JOHN GILL Poem Source First Line: I was digging to china and almost through Last Line: And entered without knowing it another of adam's worlds Subject(s): Chicago CHRISTMAS IN CHICAGO, by A. M. WHITE JR. Poem Text First Line: The girl from chicago arose sharp at eight Last Line: Concealed in the toe of her stocking. Subject(s): Chicago CITY SCENE: CHICAGO, by GEORGE HERBERT NELSON Poem Text First Line: Today in a dull gray afternoon Last Line: Were like a shower of polka dots. Subject(s): Chicago CLARK STREET BRIDGE, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dust of the feet Last Line: Softer than the mist. Subject(s): Chicago FOR THE NEW WORLD, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Full 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 FOR THE NEW WORLD, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Source 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 And Builders; Chicago; Cities HALSTED STREET CAR, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come you, cartoonists Last Line: Empty of dreams. Subject(s): Chicago; Streetcars HUCCUM IT SO, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Huccum de cows so early home Last Line: I tole yo' I don't know. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Chicago IN A BREATH; TO THE WILLIAMSON BROTHERS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: High noon. White sun flashes on the michigan avenue Last Line: Trapsing along in flimsy clothes, play of sun-fire in their blood. Subject(s): Chicago LAND OF STEADY HABITS, by DARA WIER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Goats with baby goats chewed on shirts Subject(s): Time; Nature; Chicago LEGEND, by GARRETT KAORU HONGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In chicago, it is snowing softly Last Line: Let the weaver girl cross the bridge of heaven %and take up his cold hands Subject(s): Chicago; Violence LOVE IN A BUS, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was born in perhaps the holland tunnel Last Line: Human, impermanent and permanently good Subject(s): Chicago; Love; New York City; Prostitution; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Harlots; Whores; Brothels METAMORPHOSES: 3. THE RE-BIRTH OF VENUS, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And now the sea-scoured temptress, having failed Subject(s): Chicago; Haymarket Square Riot; Newspapers; Social Protest; Journalism; Journalists METAMORPHOSES: 3. THE RE-BIRTH OF VENUS, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And now the sea-scoured temptress, having failed Last Line: Stayers, and searchers of the fanged pool Subject(s): Chicago; Haymarket Square Riot; Newspapers; Social Protest METONYMY, by ALYCE MILLER Poem Source First Line: After sundown in chicago, %riding the el Last Line: A red petal falling through the air %and believes the sky is full of flowers Subject(s): Chicago MILWAUKEE AVENUE, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Asphering sky, like a drop curtain hangs Subject(s): Chicago; City & Town Life MONTERREY - CHICAGO, by JORGE HERNANDEZ Poem Source First Line: Many things I don't know Last Line: And air flows between my thighs Subject(s): Chicago; Chicanos NOBODY KNOWS WHERE O'CONNOR WENT: CHICAGO: CITY ON THE MAKE, by NELSON ALGREN Poem Source First Line: An october sort of city even in spring. With somebody's washing al Last Line: For keeps and a single day Subject(s): Chicago O CHICAGO! O DIALECTIC!, by VOLKER BRAUN Poem Source First Line: Now, brecht, did you let your cigar go out? Last Line: And there it is, your nothing-much-worth- %mentioning Subject(s): Chicago ODE TO CHICAGO, by ELAINE EQUI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In my city Last Line: We remember our origins Subject(s): Chicago; Cities OUTER DRIVE AT NIGHT (CHICAGO), by MARTHA F. SIMMONDS Poem Text First Line: The waves dash at the piled stones in frenzy Last Line: I would drink deeply of this night. Subject(s): Chicago; Night; Bedtime PICNIC BOAT, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sunday night and the park policemen tell each other it is dark as a stack ... Last Line: For the home-comers. Subject(s): Boats; Chicago SECOND SCROLL: CHICAGO, by ANNE BECKER Poem Source First Line: City of shriners, pig slaughterers, incendiary cows, science Last Line: Spouts from my head in flames Subject(s): Chicago SEVEN CITIES OF AMERICA, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How they walled the sea, and felled the woods Subject(s): Boston; Charleston, South Carolina; Chicago SONNETS OF SEVEN CITIES: CHICAGO, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep bosomed, buxom, at first glance, mature Last Line: To heights of labor, love and sacrifice. Subject(s): Chicago SOUTH STATE STREET, CHICAGO, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rows of blankly box-like buildings Last Line: Into the poised lyric of the sky. Subject(s): Chicago; Streets; Avenues SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: CARL HAMBLIN, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The press of the spoon river clarion was wrecked Last Line: "but the multitude saw why she wore the bandage." Subject(s): Chicago; Haymarket Square Riot; Newspapers; Social Protest; Journalism; Journalists STORY, by SUSAN MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: There is a bar I go to when I'm in chicago Last Line: Whoever you are, this poem is for you Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Chicago; Cities; New York City STREET IN PACKINGTOWN (CHICAGO), by WILLA SIBERT CATHER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the gray dust before a frail gray shed Last Line: With hate, perhaps, a threat, maybe, %lithuania looks at me Subject(s): Chicago; Lithuania; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration STUDY FOR A GEOGRAPHICAL TRAIL; 2. ILLINOIS, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man shot at me. The bullet missed Subject(s): Chicago THE BAD OLD DAYS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The summer of nineteen eighteen Subject(s): Chicago; Evil; Past; Poverty THE CAPTIVE OF THE WHITE CITY, by INA DONNA COOLBRITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flower of the foam of the waves Last Line: O rain-in-the-face? Subject(s): Chicago; Death; Flowers; Love; Dead, The THE CHICAGO POEM; FOR TED BERRIGAN AND ALICE NOTLEY, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bridges of chicago / are not the bridges of paris Last Line: Modern times Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Berrigan, Ted (1934-1983); Chicago; Cities; Berrigan, Edmund Joseph; Urban Life THE EXPANDED COMPOSITION, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let's see how we feel today Last Line: Everything to her now makes sense Subject(s): Chicago THE HYMN OF ARMAGEDDON, by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Apocalyptic thunders roll out of the crimson east Last Line: Shall rise the mystic commonwealth, the city of the lord! Subject(s): Chicago THE MIGRATION OF CITIES, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We love paris Last Line: Ports where the red flag has secretly flown for years. Subject(s): Chicago; Cities; Communism; Florence, Italy; Paris, France; Socialism; Urban Life THE SEVEN CITIES OF AMERICA, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How they walled the sea, and felled the woods Subject(s): Boston; Charleston, South Carolina; Chicago THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dripping of formaldehyde Subject(s): Chicago, University Of THE WIDOW'S JAZZ, by MINA LOY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The white flesh quakes to the negro soul Alternate Author Name(s): Cravan, Arthur, Mrs.; Lowy, Mina Gertrude; Haweis, Stephen, Mrs. Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music; Chicago; Jazz; Music & Musicians THE WINDY CITY: 1, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lean hands of wagon men Subject(s): Chicago THE WINDY CITY: 6, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wheelbarrows grin, the shovels and the mortar Subject(s): Chicago TO MAX MORISE, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chicago/the trams make a noise light doughnut batter Subject(s): Chicago TONIGHT IN CHICAGO, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "it's a sitting-pretty, windy-city kind of a place" Last Line: Candlelight and spotlight / kind of a place Subject(s): Chicago TRUTH SQUAD, by DENNIS SCHMITZ Poem Source First Line: Roped against the bridge-pier so that Last Line: At least one of us will write your secret Subject(s): Chicago; Truth TWO CITIES, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Girt with the river's silver zone Last Line: Upon the old foundations, build! Subject(s): Chicago Fire (1871); Cities; Corruption In Politics; New York City; Urban Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple VISITING A DEAD MAN ON A SUMMER DAY, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In flat america, in chicago, Subject(s): Cemeteries; Chicago; Graveyards WANTING DEFINITION, by DENNIS SCHMITZ Poem Source First Line: Mongrel need & the fire %distributed equally: one dog Last Line: Wanting, if not fortunate singularity, %coupled torpor Subject(s): Chicago; Poetry And Poets WELCOME TO THE CHICAGO COMMERCIAL CLUB, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chicago sounds rough to the maker of versse Last Line: From the green of the sea to the blue michigan! Subject(s): Chicago WHEN SKYSCRAPERS WERE INVENTED IN CHICAGO, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think of it as a large moment with shadows Subject(s): Chicago; Cities; Skyscrapers; Urban Life WHEN SKYSCRAPERS WERE INVENTED IN CHICAGO, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think of it as a large moment with shadows Last Line: Even as houses, american houses, were growing on the prairie Subject(s): Chicago; Cities; Skyscrapers WIDOW'S JAZZ, by MINA LOY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The white flesh quakes to the negro soul Last Line: Of unpeopled space Alternate Author Name(s): Cravan, Arthur, Mrs.; Lowy, Mina Gertrude; Haweis, Stephen, Mrs. Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Chicago; Jazz; Music And Musicians WINTER IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When is chicago not too cold or too hot? Last Line: Or at least keep kissing in the doorway Subject(s): Chicago; Cold; Weather; Winter |
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