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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: DIRT Matches Found: 13 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BARCOO JIM'S BATH, by C. H. WINTER Poem Text First Line: The water was scarce on the dead horse run one year when the land was bare Last Line: That the brownest man on the dead horse run is that very same barcoo jim. Alternate Author Name(s): Riverina Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Dirt; Disappointment BRAVADO, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I am put to bed by death Last Line: Senselessness to any thrust. Subject(s): Death; Dirt; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones DANCE OF DEATH: FARMER, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walked with plow Last Line: Et, ecce, nunc in pulvere dormio Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Dirt; Farm Life; Fields DEAD LEAVES, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fallen leaves were lying thick upon the Last Line: Be all wrong. Subject(s): Dirt; Gardens & Gardening; Lawns; Leaves; Nature; Public Health DUST, by ALICE R. FRIMAN Poem Source First Line: The lawn rolled back like a rug Last Line: Watch the dust rise. See him run Subject(s): Cleanliness; Dirt I'M SKULKING BY THE SCANDAL AND THE HANDLE, by JOHN HEGLEY Poem Source Last Line: I'm what you want to keep out when you've got %an open hurt Subject(s): Dirt; Riddles IN A CHOP-SUEY JOINT, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Climb up a flight of darkly-winding stair Last Line: Whose voice betrays her painted wantonness. Subject(s): Dirt; Poverty; Restaurants; Cafes; Diners INVOCATION, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dirt and stone, if I may know you as you know yourselves Last Line: As if already they were partners of the stones and dirt Subject(s): Creation; Death; Dirt; Stones LADY MUDFLAP, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: A gash, a slit, %shut close and sleeping Last Line: She is a nest of weeds %replete with seeds Subject(s): Dirt; Nature SERFS, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Winter has planted the fields black with crows Last Line: To make an earth that can be made a hell. Subject(s): Birds; Dirt; Farm Life; Winter; Agriculture; Farmers STATE OF THE UNION: 3. THE CLEANERS, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Look at the crew Last Line: And cast so freely at a few Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Cleanliness; Dirt THE DIRT EATERS, by VIRGIL SAUREZ Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever we grew tired and bored of curb ball, Subject(s): Dirt; Food & Eating; Children; Childhood THE MUD CAKE, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little drops of water Last Line: Of sweet felicity. Subject(s): Babies; Dirt; Play; Infants |
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