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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: COMPETITION Matches Found: 28 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A COWBOY RACE, by JO CULBERTSON DAVIS Poem Text First Line: A pattering rush like the rattle of hail Last Line: The gauntlet is flung and the race is begun! Subject(s): Competition; Cowboys; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States BRONCHO VERSUS BICYCLE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The first that we saw of the high-tone tramp Subject(s): Animals;bicycles;competition;cowboys;horses;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Cycling;southwest;pacific States CARTEL, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Crime in the street Last Line: We love competitors. Customers we hate.' Subject(s): Business; Competition; Crime And Criminals COMPETITION, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Because he played games seriously %and therefore knew grace Last Line: To them, how to agree, %ever, about dignity and fairness? Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Basketball; Competition; Sports COMPETITION, by CHARLES C. MYERS Poem Source First Line: Competition began with man on this earth Last Line: Competition is all pretty much the same-%trying to win is the name of the game Subject(s): Competition COMPETITION, by MARIN SORESCU Poem Source First Line: One, two, three Last Line: Stay standing %as for the national anthem Subject(s): Competition; Human Rights COMPETITION, by CHARLES DAVID WEBB Poem Source First Line: It's been decreed Subject(s): Competition CRY OF DESPAIR, by RICHARD MOORE Poem Source First Line: North and south, east and west Last Line: When I can judge a whole humorous poetry contest %without cracking a smile Subject(s): Competition; Poetry And Poets EVENING GAME, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: We sat along the sturdy planks Last Line: To o toward where the sun had set Subject(s): Competition; Games FIGHT! (HARVARD-DARTMOUTH FOOTBALL GAME, 1908), by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: The stadium is nervous, johnny harvard's feeling Last Line: Please to whip him good and clean. Subject(s): Competition; Dartmouth College; Football; Harvard University; Sports GAME, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Not from the stern Last Line: Let me alone, I shall not spoil thy game. Subject(s): Competition HOW THE WINNING FOUR WEST HOME, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Superb in pride we strained upon the golden chariot-pole Last Line: Though slumber takes us—still they talk low-whispering in the ilex walk! Subject(s): Chariot Racing; Collective Behavior; Competition; Driving & Drivers; Games; Victory; Mobs; Crowds; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements INTERNAL HARMONY, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Assured of worthiness we do not dread Last Line: And thus I keep this instrument in tune. Subject(s): Competition LEAVING IT ALL BEHIND, by JAMES A. AUTRY Poem Source First Line: There were days when we still didn't get it Last Line: Before all that, %we would get out Subject(s): Business; Competition MY CORPORATE LIFE, by ROBERT MCDOWELL Poem Source First Line: So steve just wants to get ahead. Who don't Last Line: Fat chance,' he tells himself, 'and no regrets' Subject(s): Business; Competition RECKONINGS, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: God, what a feeling! We declared Last Line: The waves were bigger now: one carried a contestant %miles down the beach, then left him churning in Subject(s): Competition; Elections; Seashore; Surfing; Water; Waves REGATTA, by IVAN SWIFT Poem Text First Line: We have heard the roll of the signal - gun! Last Line: We've heard our signal-gun! Subject(s): Competition; Surfing; Track Athletics; Waves; Wind; Running Races; Pole Vaulting; Discus Throwing; Shot Putting; Running Hurdles ROOF, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Look! Two magpies are battling it out Last Line: Lonesome on the roof %of a famous library. Subject(s): Competition; Librarians And Libraries; Snobs And Snobbery SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 73, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I was at the foot of the almond tree Last Line: A stranger came and took it Subject(s): Competition; Love - Loss Of TENNIS, by FRANK ERNEST HILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Men tangled life within a narrow green Last Line: Men weave a rhythmic, swift finality. Subject(s): Competition; Tennis THE CHESS-PLAYERS, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: The clock, unheeded, peals the midnight hour Last Line: And each automaton becomes a man. Subject(s): Chess; Competition; Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE CHRISTENING OF THE STADIUM, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: It was the greatest game that year that mortal ever / saw Last Line: The celebrated christening in famous oughty-three. Subject(s): Competition; Memory; Sports; Youth THE RACING CARS, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The great cars careening come roaring round the curve Last Line: Throbbed away through chaos that claimed the dragon breed! Subject(s): Automobile Racing; Competition; Driving & Drivers; Sports; Race Car Driving THE RIVAL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I so loved once, when death came by I hid Last Line: In love with death, not me. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Competition; Death; Love; Dead, The THE ROSCIAD, by CHARLES CHURCHILL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis First Line: Roscius deceased, each high aspiring player Last Line: Nor quit it—till thou place an equal there. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Comedy; Competition; England; Garrick, David (1717-1779); Actresses; English TO MY OLD FRIEND, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You, who through every change remain Last Line: The days of eighteen-ninety-five! Subject(s): Change; Competition; Nostalgia; Poetry & Poets; Time; Writing & Writers VERS LIBRE OF BASEBALL, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The veteran stands forth and swings a bat Last Line: "get outa here!" Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Competition; Sports WOOING MEDIOCRITY, by MARGUERITE WARREN WATSON Poem Text First Line: There are times when I'd rather be Last Line: Oh! Take me—mediocrity. Subject(s): Competition |
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