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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: EMIGRATION Matches Found: 347 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 13TH ARRONDISSEMENT BLUES, by BARBARA HAMBY Poem Source First Line: When we sit down for yet another sublime meal Last Line: And if only we could swim, we might be free Subject(s): Food And Eating; Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration 35-MM CLIPS, by RICHARD BLANCO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here is my past. I'm able to remember none of it Last Line: In this silent film, your back to the camera Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration A NEW SONG, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come honies of congress, pray do not be smoking me Last Line: You are bother'd from head to the tail. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Immigrants; Lyon, Matthew (1746-1822); Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration A PROBLEM IN AESTHETICS, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They sent him away Last Line: And one of us forgot. Subject(s): Immigrants; Poetry & Poets; Russia; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Soviet Union; Russians A TOURIST AT ELLIS ISLAND, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I found him, jankel olenik, Subject(s): Immigrants; Fathers; Ellis Island, New York Harbor; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration A WANDERING LIFE, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Breathes there the man with soul so dead Last Line: Or the one that permits us to live? Subject(s): United States - Immigration & Emigration ABSENCE (1), by PETER MEINKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Some people like broken glass Last Line: Out of touch %with the times Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration AL AND BETH, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My uncle al worked in a drugstore Subject(s): Immigrants; Patriotism; Family Life; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Relatives ALIEN IN AMERICA, by FRANCIS GARDNER CLOUGH Poem Text First Line: I have no ear to hear your alien word Last Line: And faith! -- the heart's last-labored codicil. Alternate Author Name(s): Clough, F. Gardner Subject(s): Aliens; Immigrants; United States; Extraterrestrials; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; America AMBERGRIS, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Caught in the cobblestones, her heel Last Line: And the great barrier reef --%knocked, bone on bone Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States AMERICA SPEAKING, by DAVID RIVARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Speech; Immigrants; United States; Oratory; Orators; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; America AMERICAN DREAM, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: The paiute in modesto Last Line: Began to sound the night, like crickets Subject(s): Dreams; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; United States AMERICAN SUITE FOR A LOST DAUGHTER, by JACK ROGERS RIDL Poem Source First Line: I am the last greylag on the left side of the v Last Line: The nights we walked and tried %to see only the stars Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration AMERICANIZATION OF THE IMMIGRANT, by FELIX STEFANILE Poem Source First Line: Your words, genoveffa Last Line: That words are dreams Subject(s): Americanization; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration AN EMIGRANT, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is she asleep, asleep Last Line: Rest she adream, adream. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Immigrants; Rest; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration ANA IN MIAMI, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Every morning in miami Last Line: Is one more morning's blessing Subject(s): Cuba; Exiles; Miami, Florida; Survival; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration AND WAKE UP WHERE?, by DAVID LAZAR Poem Source First Line: A generation of mothers sings 'over the rainbow' in ruby bedroom slippers Last Line: Place like home, there was no place Subject(s): Family Life; Girls; Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration ANGEL IN FLORIDA, by RANDALL MANN Poem Source First Line: And I, wishing to be back in cuba Last Line: Purpling only the mountains of cuba Variant Title(s): Dust And Broughtoni Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration ANY TUNAY NA LALAKI STALKS THE STREETS OF NEW YORK, by NICK CARBO Poem Source First Line: Looking to harvest what makes him happy Last Line: For a preparation h commercial-al moranas, %american but with a filipino flair Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration APOLOGY, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: I demand an apology Last Line: Marked by the scars of memory %fragile and alone Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Exiles; Human Rights - Argentina; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration ARTURO, by MARIA MAZZIOTTI GILLAN Poem Source First Line: I told everyone Last Line: Do not call me marie Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Loss; Minorities - United States; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; U.s. - Race Relations AT ELLIS ISLAND, by GEORGE LAWRENCE ANDREWS Poem Text First Line: We speak of them as but a crazy bunch Last Line: Awaiting what were idle to protest. Subject(s): Ellis Island, New York Harbor; Immigrants; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration AT THE BAR, by RICARDO PAU-LLOSA Poem Source First Line: German, who swam along the coast, %german, who reached guantanamo base Last Line: Dimelo. What do you get from those songs? Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration AT THE GATE, by NATHAN FREDERICK SPIELVOGEL Poem Text First Line: They drive me out of my country Last Line: They'll be led by the alien jew. Subject(s): Exiles; Jews; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Judaism; Journeys; Trips AT THE SHRINE, by RICHARD KENDALL MUNKITTRICK Poem Text First Line: A pale italian peasant Last Line: Are sold on barclay street. Subject(s): Immigrants; New York City; Prayer; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple AUGER, by RODNEY THEODORE SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Through cold salt wash %and the bilge stench Last Line: In the throes of dream at least %I listen and obey Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, R. T. Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by STUART JOHN DYBEK Poem Source First Line: Beneath the dripping udders %of tarpaper roofs Last Line: Like a saxophone %noodling through broken english Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration AVENUE BEARING THE INITIAL OF CHRIST INTO THE NEW WORLD, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pcheek pcheek pcheek pcheek pcheek Last Line: Our little lane, what a kingdom it was! %oi weih, oi weih Subject(s): New York City; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration BANAL EL DORADO, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: The same pain as always Last Line: Sister, we have arrived at this boulevard %in los angeles to stay Subject(s): Los Angeles; Memory; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration BARBIE, MADAME ALEXANDER, BRONISLAWA WAJS, by VIVIAN SHIPLEY Poem Source First Line: I told jerzy ficowski, if you print my songs in problemy Last Line: Have more than the sound of one lifetime, more than my own Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration BARTHOLDI'S PHAROS, by GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Manhattan bay in glory lay Last Line: And only art is glory! Subject(s): New York City - History; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration BEACH ROGUE, by JOANNE LOWERY Poem Source First Line: Unevenness and sand giving away Last Line: Will run up to him %crying out his eminent name Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration BEAUTY QUEEN, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: Whenever I swallow dust Last Line: Of making me remember %the differences, %our childish game %of giving in slowly, %of telling each ot Subject(s): Children; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration BELLES LETTRES, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: She had learned %to sip tea from a glass Last Line: They'd called it a 'vestibule,' %which made her love words Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States BODWIN'S MADMEN, by JOHN LUNDBERG Poem Source First Line: Rain slams the window, ripples the hills Last Line: That pelts his face, and looses omnipotent yells Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration BOOK OF LAMENTATIONS, by ERIC PANKEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We all have a story to tell. Mine begins Last Line: Well-edged, sharp to the point, has been my fortune Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration BOOK OF RUTH, by CAROLYN BEARD WHITLOW Poem Source First Line: I learn to live by guile, to do without love Last Line: To do without sleeping to avoid death, tired of sleep Subject(s): Literary Form; Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration BOOMERS, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: This is the last fallout shelter poem Last Line: Clinging to half-lives, as we are now Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States BREAKING AND ENTERING, by WILLIAM BAER Poem Source First Line: When he was done, he sat in their living room Last Line: Too bad. He liked it here; it felt like home Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration CALIFORNIA, by PAUL HOOVER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From the cool electric gaze of a hollywood enigma Last Line: Swallows borders. A wilderness shines Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration CALLE DE LA AMARGURA, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: On the street of bitterness Last Line: Calle de la amargura, no one is surprised %at the awful taste of paradise Subject(s): Castro, Fidel (b. 1926); Cuba - Rebellions Against Spanish Rule; Exiles; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration CANA, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: I walk the dog beside the sound Last Line: Just as the harbor waters turn to wine Subject(s): Cana, Galilee; Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States CANTO 37, by EZRA POUND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou shalt not', said martin vanburen. 'jail 'em for debt' Subject(s): United States - Politics & Government; Immigrants; Debt; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration CARTOGRAPHY, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: The map speaks Last Line: The sky is not on the map Subject(s): Continents; Maps; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration CAUTION HORSES, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Hang their heads over the fence Last Line: Sweep the ground %at their feet Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States CHANGING THE NAME TO OCHESTER, by ED OCHESTER Poem Source First Line: When other grandpas came to ellis island %the immigration people asked 'name?' Last Line: It was good and lasted %a long, long time Subject(s): Fathers; Grandparents; Loss; Moving And Movers; New York City; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration CHART, by MYUNG MI KIM Poem Source First Line: Purpose lost Last Line: To be precisely from nowhere Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Korea; Pacific Ocean; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration CHERRY-RIPE, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Here you are again, on that shaky ladder in the south Last Line: Chose one more night without love and left me barren Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States CHINA CAMP, CALIFORNIA, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: Here's the long trough, covered by a screen Last Line: Tangling in the empty nets and sinking %to the coldest dark water Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration CHISHOLM, by RUTH EVELYN REID Poem Text First Line: Melting pot of the world, ore center Last Line: That their children might become americans! Subject(s): U.s. - Immigration And Emigration CHOSEN, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: They stand on the shore Last Line: A plangent hope, a culture of water? Subject(s): Cuba; Exiles; Miami Beach; Seashore; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration CITY OF ANGELS, by LUIS J. RODRIGUEZ Poem Source First Line: Somewhere out there, lies the city Last Line: Thundering against the sides of this %city of angels %so far removed from heaven Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration CLOUD OF UNKNOWING, by DEBORA GREGER Poem Source First Line: Why did I not die at birth Last Line: And put the ash on my tongue Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration COACHING MY FATHER ON HIS TEMPORARILY MOVING INTO MY OLD BEDROOM, by MILES G. WATSON Poem Source First Line: When you sleep, don't pick sides Last Line: Bats held high and their eyes still on you, %waiting for the next signal Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration COLORS OF A FREE LIFE, by MARIANNE POLOSKY Poem Source First Line: In the war, we were always %running out of things Last Line: I bask in the sunshine, %kissing the air with my song Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration COME TO FIND OUT, by JACQUELINE DEE PARKER Poem Source First Line: Might can, they say in louisiana Last Line: This way, I might can %come to find out %more, for sure Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration COMPOSING ON THE COMPUTER, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: I've learned to love the clicking of the keyboard -- Last Line: Background noise now for every poem Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States CONFESSION, by STEPHEN ORLEN Poem Source First Line: Forgive me, adonai, lord of the jews Last Line: What sort of job I have done on this earth Alternate Author Name(s): Orlen, Steve Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration CORAL WAY, NEAR THE ROADS, by ORLANDO RICARDO MENES Poem Source First Line: Though this sunday afternoon is torrid Last Line: Idyllic memories are merely a jeweled noose Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration CORPORAL WORKS OF MERCY, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Can there be passion in a house Last Line: One calls out into the fields %the other comes Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States CORSICAN DROVER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: How chang'd the scene of late has been Last Line: And drove them back from paris Subject(s): France;immigrants;london; Emigrant;emigration;immigration CREDO, by LILACE MELLIN Poem Source First Line: I believe in highways, %maps more healing than scripture Last Line: And the well-worn disappointments of home Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration CROSS-CULTURAL GENRES, by WENDY BISHOP Poem Source First Line: Here is an eskimo abc book. Here is tununak graveyard, filled with snow Last Line: Graves fill, grass bows down, as bs cs tussle with sea wind. They leave, they %leave without saying Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration CROSSTOWN, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back in new york I grab a cab at port authority Subject(s): New York City; Taxis; Immigrants; City & Town Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration DARK SONGS: SLAVE HOUSE AND SYNAGOGUE, by LAURENCE LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: A few museum florid paintings by unknown Last Line: Dug up by their roots, torn from the soil & hurled %across the sea, from one tiny carib %outpost to Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration DAVID'S RUMOR, by LIAM RECTOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am busy doing drawings Last Line: This riot, that hall, that vacancy and pressure %wherein we draw towards goodbye Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Loss; Marginality, Social; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration DEATH OF A WAR HERO, by MICHAEL H. BUGEJA Poem Source First Line: So many rambo movies have been made Last Line: Opening wide so that he could escape Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration DEATH OF THE EMIGRANT, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The way is long,' the father said Last Line: "the fatherless are mine." Subject(s): Death; Immigrants; Dead, The; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration DEATH'S DETAILS, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: She irons her mother's dress for the open casket Last Line: Into the shape of the neat collar she'll wear into the ground Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States DEPORTED, by KATHRYN WHITE RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The transports move stealthily to sea Last Line: Oh, do not notice! Subject(s): Immigrants; Sea Voyages; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration DIALECT, by MARK JARMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can't remember the air, the light, the voices Last Line: Surveying burning blocks by helicopter Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration DIASPORADIC, by PATTY SEYBURN Poem Source First Line: When I saw the jews floating, I knew Last Line: By the waters -- now where are they going Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration DIGGING UP PEONIES, by VIVIAN SHIPLEY Poem Source First Line: Overcoming fear of stalks that are too close Last Line: I can of my mother, of my father from this earth, %from the dissolution that binds us after all Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration DISLOCATION, by RALPH ADAMO Poem Source First Line: We move the word into the river Last Line: If there ever were a word-deeply silenced Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration DISTANCE, by CAROLINA HOSPITAL Poem Source First Line: Distance has made of us all strangers Last Line: And the habitual echoes of empty rooms Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration DIVERSITY OF CREATURES, by CORINNE HUNTINGTON JACKSON Poem Text First Line: The huntingtons within me stand aloof, and coldly distant Last Line: But—ah, the phinneys hearken, puckish-wise, their celtic tongues in cheek. Subject(s): Immigrants; Language; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Words; Vocabulary DIXIE, by DAVID BAKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had no idea Last Line: And wish the same old wish, that we were %anywhere but here Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; Southern States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration DWARF WITH VIOLIN, GOVERNMENT CENTER STATION, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The long-distance connections fade and rectify Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration DWARF WITH VIOLIN, GOVERNMENT CENTER STATION, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The long-distance connections fade and rectify Last Line: Everything looked alive as if forgotten Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration EAST RIVER PRISON BARGE, by HUNT HAWKINS Poem Source First Line: The powerboats cut the water Last Line: Escape for their long weekends Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration EASTER, CIRCA 1960, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such a clattering of black shoes. Mine are very tight and have pointed toes Last Line: To my room. Lie down. Click my cuban heels Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration EL BALSERITO, by CAMPBELL MCGRATH Poem Source First Line: Because my spanish is chips-and-salsa simple, and I am desirous of improving Last Line: Of the journey, shells of arrival, shells of departure Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration ELEGY WRITTEN ON A BLUE CEMENT GRAVESTONE (TO YOU, THE ARCHEOLOGIST), by BENJAMIN ALIRE SAENZ Poem Source First Line: What history is: %a mound of gathered rocks. In time the rocks will Last Line: The earth will break us all Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration ELLIS ISLAND, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN Poem Source First Line: Drains in the middle of the stone floor Last Line: Her back turned to ellis island Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Ellis Island, New York Harbor; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration ELLIS ISLAND, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three thousand miles of atlantic seas and a throb Last Line: "the grain of sand, the earth, the soul, our country—the word ""god!" Subject(s): Ellis Island, New York Harbor; Jews; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Judaism; Journeys; Trips EMIGRANT, by KATHERINE SANCHEZ Poem Source First Line: I am the boy, stomach flat on the sand Last Line: I am the homeland. %your family sings %in my quicksand Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration EMIGRANT IRISH, by EAVAN BOLAND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like oil lamps we put them out the back Last Line: And all the old songs. And nothing to lose Variant Title(s): The Emigrant Ma Subject(s): U.s. - Immigration And Emigration EMIGRATION, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No packing list, and no money Last Line: And good evening from a lighted coast Subject(s): Immigrants; Travel; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Journeys; Trips EMIGRATION, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are always, in each of us Last Line: The reach of fantasy, or fiction. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Immigrants; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration END OF AUTUMN, by JULIO ORTEGA Poem Source First Line: The night falls between the hills as if they were real Last Line: And docility of another day -- always this fictitious moment Subject(s): Ohio; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Winter END OF SOUP KITCHENS, by MARK TAKSA Poem Source First Line: You put your money on the pavement Last Line: Declares the end of soup kitchens Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration END OF THE RANGE, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weep ye protein herders weep Last Line: And the foreigners are fighting back Subject(s): Aliens; Immigrants; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Extraterrestrials; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Native Americans - Removal EPITHALAMION, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: The carpenters came %who invited Last Line: That stirred her %and a black wing Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States ESTRANGEMENT OF LUIS MORONE, by STUART JOHN DYBEK Poem Source First Line: Luis morone %cuts adrift Last Line: Don't worry mother %you aren't blind %nobody sees him Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration EUROPE AND AMERICA, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father brought the emigrant bundle Last Line: As guns pounded on the shore Subject(s): Fathers; Immigrants; Fathers; Immigrants; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration EVERYDAY WE GET MORE ILLEGAL, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Immigrants; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration EXILE, by SANDRA M. CASTILLO Poem Source First Line: We are gitanas Last Line: Because he knows %he is my first obsession Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration EXILE, by STEPHEN DALE COREY Poem Source First Line: Everywhere I turn I find homes Last Line: But there are days when learning means nothing Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration EXPEDITION, by XUEFEI JIN Poem Source First Line: Again the grand eunuch was dispatched Last Line: Would cleave the indian ocean %and pry open our shores Alternate Author Name(s): Jin, Ha; Ha Jin Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration EXTINCT HOMELAND-A CONVERSATION WITH CZESLAW MILOSZ, by ANA DOINA Poem Source First Line: Home? Somewhere we belong? The metaphor Last Line: I worshiped. I am my own myth, the first memory, nebulous %like any beginning Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration FARRAGUT NORTH, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the tunnel-light at the top of the station two or three Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration FARRAGUT NORTH, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the tunnel-light at the top of the station two or three Last Line: Truant spirit, moving dead leaves with the wind among the shadows Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration FIRST HAIR CUT, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: The barber's rough bristles brushed Last Line: The fluorescent light licked %my bare neck to stone Subject(s): Barbers; Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States FIRST NIGHT OF FIREFLIES, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: It would be this way: twilight Last Line: With a grass nest, a punctured lid %he was coming over Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States FLESH, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Your newborn neck recalls the potter's fragrant spit Last Line: Just as mad and milky dim as when we buried them Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States FLIGHT OUT OF MIAMI, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: I am going away Last Line: What you cannot remember Subject(s): Cuba; Miami, Florida; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration FLOCK OF PHANTOM LIMBS GATHERS AT THE BORDER, by BRUCE BOND Poem Source First Line: An amputee is a brood of indecisions; %the scent of smoke lingers in her shirt Last Line: He hears the thrum of planes like some immense stone %bearing down through a hole in the world Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration FLOOD PLAIN: THE RIGHT-OF-WAY, by JAMES LEONARD SHUGRUE Poem Source First Line: Are we ever anywhere, can we ever feel Last Line: Laying claim to absence, I will own %no region but the evicted heart Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration FLORA, by VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ Poem Source Last Line: The caterpillar makes itself a dress Subject(s): Books; History; Poetry And Poets; Puerto Ricans - New York City; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration FLOWERING CHERRY AND AUTUMN MAPLE WITH POEM SLIPS: 1, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Poems pressed into your palm with your fare receipt Last Line: Poems clipped and filed with family recipes Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States FLOWERING CHERRY AND AUTUMN MAPLE WITH POEM SLIPS: 2, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Poems (the smell of mothballs, of cedar) pinned to wirehangers Last Line: Was like to feel the garment from inside Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States FLU SEASON, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: We keep passing the fever between us, a monster's Last Line: While you are spiking, soaked in your own sweat Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States FONTANELLE, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: The soul keeps pouring in before it closes Last Line: More gently here on top, %before the small skull shuts Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States FOR BORSCHT, by RODGER LEE KAMENETZ Poem Source First Line: A bowl of borscht-sea of blood Last Line: Borscht shekhinah, borscht mother of us all Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration FOR SOMEONE CONSIDERING DEATH, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: I told you. %life is one big hanon Last Line: In that small, closed room Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration FOR THE OLD RIDER AT THE MALL IN SIOUX FALLS, by DONALD MORRILL Poem Source First Line: I didn't have change for a jug of thunderbird Last Line: And the helpless thing lives, bruising, human Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration FOR THE SAKE OF TIGER LILIES, by C. DALE YOUNG Poem Source First Line: In a clearing, in a swell of grasses Last Line: Always the sound, always the salt licking the air Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; West Indies FOREIGN LAND, by WASHINGTON DELGADO Poem Source First Line: I work in a foreign country Last Line: And I'll have lost everything in a foreign country Subject(s): Absence; Exiles; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration FOUR CLOUDS LIKE THE IRISH IN MEMORY, by CAMPBELL MCGRATH Poem Source First Line: First memory of school: sitting in the grass beneath a dogwood tree Last Line: I had no idea there were such great forests left Subject(s): Clouds; Loss; Memory; Moving And Movers; Refugees; Schools; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration FREEDOM, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: A few months after Last Line: Take care Subject(s): Cuba; Exiles; Freedom; Hunger; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration FRESH SNOW, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN Poem Source First Line: Snow rolls off the roof Last Line: That stun you like rum Subject(s): Snow; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Winter GALLERY, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When my grandfather stepped from the boat Last Line: And pretty as a picture Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration GENERATIONS, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: Somewhere a shop of hanging meats Last Line: An empty plate. This is the place Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration GENTLEMAN'S DREAM, by XUEFEI JIN Poem Source First Line: Dead drunk, he snores %like a bellows under the linden Last Line: He drowns them in an ocean of urine Alternate Author Name(s): Jin, Ha; Ha Jin Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration GHOST PASSENGER, DAY AND NIGHT, by MICHAEL DENNISON Poem Source First Line: Each morning, I wake batlike upside down Last Line: The face in here is here to stay, %even after the light is gone Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration GRUDNOW, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When he spoke of where he came from Subject(s): Grandparents; Immigrants; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration GUIDE TO THE TOKYO SUBWAY, by HALVARD JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: At shinjuku station %one entrance is haunted Last Line: Happy to be alive %not knowing which way to turn Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration HA'INA IA MAI ANA KA PUANA: 2. WHEN LAND IS BROKERED LIKE PORK BELLIES, by CAROLYN LEI-LANILAU Poem Source First Line: Lani of leilani is body Last Line: There were possibilities Subject(s): Hawaii; Native Americans; Story-telling; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration HANDS OF LIBERTY, by M. COLLEEN OWEN Poem Source First Line: They came in a manner uniquely their own Last Line: As her arms gave way in the darkness Subject(s): Social Protest; Statue Of Liberty; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration HAZEL, SOUTH DAKOTA, by BOB JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: Just before sunset on the first day of may Last Line: To whenever it all began, %wherever Subject(s): Homecoming; Past; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration HEAT WAVE: LIBERTY, MISSOURI, by CAROLYNE WRIGHT Poem Source First Line: I can't wait to see %that evening sun go down Last Line: Before the bedroom mirror, %touching my nipples to the glass Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration HERE'S A CHRISTMAS CARD, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: With the blank look of abbot thayer's angel Last Line: And not in the bright throbbing of the stars Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States HISTORY CLASS, by TINO VILLANUEVA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To enter was to breathe in Last Line: And not the ones of infamy, %those of the blinding fraud Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration HOMECOMING, by ERIC PANKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In time, thunder unshackles the rain Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration HOMECOMING, by ERIC PANKEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In time, thunder unshackles the rain Last Line: The bird for the objection its sustains? Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration HOW IT BEGINS-HOW IT ENDS, by RICHARD BLANCO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere, somehow the clever dust slips in Last Line: Into an almost invisible earth I taste, inhale, take it in Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration HOW THE STREETS IN FRONT OF KAUFMANN'S DEPARTURE STORE TELL ME ....., by RICK CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: For years I have been lost. Some nights I have known it Last Line: For the light to change, together at last Variant Title(s): How The Streets In Front Of Kaufmann's Department Store Tell Me.... Subject(s): Home; Loss; Moving And Movers; Night; Pennsylvania; Refugees; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Walking HOW TO LOOK WEST FROM MOUNT PLEASANT, UTAH, by SETH TUCKER Poem Source First Line: Your brushstrokes licked dryly at cheap canvas Last Line: At what the color of soil %looks like on canvas Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration I AM YOUR WAITER TONIGHT AND MY NAME IS DIMITRI, by ROBERT HASS Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Immigrants; War; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration IMMIGRANT, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN Poem Source First Line: America, you welcomed me Last Line: On prickly branches Subject(s): Americans; Children; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration IMMIGRANT WOMAN, by ROSE HENDERSON Poem Text First Line: Thin, patient face, with scars of pain and care Last Line: Tossed by the tide upon an alien shore. Subject(s): Fear; Immigrants; Women; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration IMMIGRANTS, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: To be always carrying Last Line: Where the grains of sand are stars Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Immigrants; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration IMMIGRANTS, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No ship of all that under sail or stream Last Line: Has been her anxious convoy in to shore Subject(s): Immigrants; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration IMMIGRANTS WRESTLING WITH SOUNDS, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN Poem Source First Line: The blackboard is parcelled like a small farmer's field Last Line: Don't buy an immigrant dog Subject(s): English As A Second Language; Hungary; Language - Pronunciation; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration IMMIGRATION, NATURALLY, by DAVID SMITH-FERRI Poem Source First Line: Myth: u.S. As global madonna Last Line: Of oppression %across the western world Subject(s): U.s. - Immigration And Emigration IN A HOSPITAL CORRIDOR, by ANNE-ELISE ROANE WINTER Poem Text First Line: She was an alien. Her large sloe- black eyes Last Line: Forgetting all her agony -- she smiled! Subject(s): Hospitals; Language; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Words; Vocabulary IN CALIFORNIA, by KATHY FAGAN Poem Source First Line: One either believes in god %or believes one is Last Line: You have, maestro, who planted me here Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration IN HEAVY FOG OUTSIDE BISHOPVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, by DAVID STARKEY Poem Source First Line: I held the slippery secret of life %between my thumb and forefinger Last Line: But I know I was at peace Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration IN THE CHIPS, by WILLIAM REGINALD GIBBONS Poem Source First Line: A self steps out of the self, pauses Last Line: An armful of white red & blue Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration IN THE GLORIOUS YEMEN RESTAURANT, by KHALED MATTAWA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: 25 on atlantic avenue, faces kneaded Subject(s): Restaurants; Immigrants; Arab Americans; Cafes; Diners; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration IN THE TWILIGHT ZONE ALL I KNOW IS THE COMMERCIALS, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Big things in the wind: %big dirty things in the wind Last Line: Well I'd like to know whose they are Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration INTERNAL EXILE, by RACHEL LODEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What you will not grieve %is forced on you Last Line: As some enter a shrine, %not to worship %but to be forgotten Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration JASMINE, by GEORGE KALAMARAS Poem Source First Line: There is no beginning and no end Last Line: Who and what you are Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration JEW'S HARP, by RODGER LEE KAMENETZ Poem Source First Line: Held lightly against the teeth, lightly Last Line: Throb, a tone deep and urgent %and a breath like a sigh Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration JOHANNA PEDERSEN, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mouth prickled by crumbs of flatbrod Last Line: Rocked in the swell of the old. Subject(s): Denmark; Immigrants; Danes; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration JOINT VENTURE, by MARILYN KRYSL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Shanti doesn't talk -- sweet Last Line: And walk out, free, lonely Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration JOSE CANSECO BREAKS OUR HEARTS AGAIN, by GUSTAVO PEREZ FIRMAT Poem Source First Line: Out for the season, what's new Last Line: When jose, like a certain country I know, %will break our hearts again Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration JULY 4TH, by GAYLORD BREWER Poem Source First Line: It doesn't attack %as scripture details Last Line: You can begin today %to be magnificent Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration KING OF WOUNDS, by SEAN BRENDAN-BROWN Poem Source First Line: He lived on our place %since before I was born Last Line: On those barren islands %they die blamed and blaming Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration LA MIGRA, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let's play la migra Last Line: You do not understand / get ready Subject(s): Mexican Border; United States – Immigration & Emigration LABORS, by MYUNG MI KIM Poem Source First Line: With foremost authority assume Last Line: A bearing. Affix Subject(s): Explorers; Immigrants; Korea; Labor And Laborers; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration LABYRINTH OF HEARING, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Sound, no Last Line: The labyrinth of hearing Subject(s): Cuba; Ethnic Groups - United States; Poetry And Poets; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration LAMENT OF THE DAUGHTERS OF ZION, by J. F. Poem Text First Line: Away from our land Last Line: J. F. Subject(s): Immigrants; Jews; Lament; Zionism; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Judaism LAMENTATION CANZONE, by SEAN THOMAS DOUGHERTY Poem Source First Line: Why after so much breath %do you return to me from the body, the city Last Line: My grasp is the suburb of your new city Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration LEDA'S CHILDREN, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: The swan honking of the woman Last Line: Shit she leaves behind, only to %step, once more, in my own Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States LENOX HILL, by AGHA SHAHID ALI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hun so loved the cry, one falling elephant's Last Line: When I remember you-beyond all accounting-o my mother? Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration LES ONCLES, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Snow on the roof but fire in the cellar' Last Line: I had learned enough of that language to ask %'but didn't you use the familiar?' Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States LETTER, by KASEY JUEDS Poem Source First Line: He didn't want to remember ireland, %my mother says: her grandfather Last Line: In the pit's extravagant black- %and just as fragile, as needed Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration LETTER TO MIRTA YANEZ, by ORLANDO RICARDO MENES Poem Source First Line: I read some place in ruins, %your recent book of poems, and that title Last Line: Invisible behind bars %of sugar cane Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration LILIES OF THE FIELD, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The road is full of people Last Line: And her english has much improved Subject(s): United States - Immigration & Emigration LINES ON THE DEPARTURE OF EMIGRANTS FOR NEW SOUTH WALES, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On england's shore I saw a pensive band Last Line: Assuage its wrath, and guide you on the deep! Subject(s): Immigrants; New Zealand; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration LITERALLY, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Abortion was merely a metaphor Last Line: I am now trying my best to ignore Subject(s): Abortion; Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States LIVING CLOISTERS, by MEGAN HARLAN Poem Source First Line: They raise themselves around us, %sudden shelters Last Line: In a root, arterial language Subject(s): Language; Poetry And Poets; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration LOOKING FOR LEVEL GREEN, by JUDITH VOLLMER Poem Source First Line: Seneca once told a white man Last Line: Dark pines down in there %alive and holy, alive with her Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration LOOKOUT, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He sets his campus security cap on the stairs Subject(s): Immigrants; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration LOOSE SUGAR, by BRENDA LYNN HILLMAN Poem Source First Line: I hardly remember any sounds from childhood Last Line: I disagreed with the concept of 'need' Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration LOST AND FOUND, by MAXINE CHERNOFF Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am looking for the photo that would make all the difference in my life. It's Last Line: Come back to me, you little fool, before I find I can live without you Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration LOT'S WIFE, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: The last time we cast shadows %on the wall Last Line: And god, his mouth, his wet mouth, %always the taste of Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States LOVE IN THE WESTERN WORLD, by KATHY CALLAWAY Poem Source First Line: Think of family, ulster irish Last Line: The old fishline unreeling again Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Ulster, Ireland LOVE OF BLONDES, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: I don't know what I would be Last Line: And I obliging Subject(s): Cuba; Exiles; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration LOVE PENNED RED, by SEAN BRENDAN BROWN Poem Source First Line: My mother finished her life in side-boxes Last Line: That'd do it; god willing she'd be his halting place Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration MAN WHO TOUCHED THE TWELVE-ARMED GODDESS, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: I am clever,' says the man. 'the guards Last Line: Curving ram's horns, necklace of claws, tiger teeth Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States MANIFESTO, by MARGOT SCHILPP Poem Source First Line: Look in the window and extract a name Last Line: Terraces erode, groves lie fallow- %order is cognate of joy Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration MASK, by MARCOS MCPEEK VILLATORO Poem Source First Line: Today I will consider tekum uman Last Line: Across my white carpet, newly shampooed Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration MAX BECKMANN & QUAPPI IN BLUE, by J. J. BLICKSTEIN Poem Source First Line: 1924 pleasure %possible bed fanatic clean Last Line: The tattooed crown and the reality %of the undreamed imagination Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration MEETING THE BARBARIANS: AN OPIUM SMOKER, by XUEFEI JIN Poem Source First Line: After the eleventh pipe Last Line: Twist like a possessed worm Alternate Author Name(s): Jin, Ha; Ha Jin Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration MEETING THE BARBARIANS: ETIQUETTE, by XUEFEI JIN Poem Source First Line: As only one sun rules heaven Last Line: Actually the letter had been drafted before macartney came Alternate Author Name(s): Jin, Ha; Ha Jin Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration MEETING THE BARBARIANS: TRADE, by XUEFEI JIN Poem Source First Line: The sea barbarians live by trade Last Line: Is no more than a crippled dinosaur Alternate Author Name(s): Jin, Ha; Ha Jin Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration MEETING YOU AT THE PIERS, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I should like to describe amerika to you Subject(s): United States; New York City; Immigrants; Kafka, Franz (1883-1924); America; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration MERCY AND THE BRAZOS RIVER, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My great-greats came to hardscrabble plains Last Line: Caliche canyon and haul back barrels of water %from the river of the arms of god Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Prairies - Texas; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration MESA BLANCA (1), by VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ Poem Source First Line: If I were writing on rock Last Line: To lick the invisible %generations Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Language; Poetry And Poets; Puerto Ricans - New York City; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration MI VIDA: WINGS OF FRIGHT, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The refugee's run Last Line: Found himself %knelling on the floor %with a paper towel Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration MIAMI: 1.DIXIE HIGHWAY, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Miami the sun Last Line: The buzz of a hummingbird Subject(s): Castro, Fidel (b. 1926); Cuba; Miami, Florida; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration MIAMI: 2.CALLE OCHO, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Because the ebb and flow Last Line: Riding the edge of the sea Subject(s): Cuba; Exiles; Love; Sea Voyages; Tourists; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration MIDWIFE, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Fingers a pelvis model %thrust on a stick like sculpture Last Line: Clatters his trucks, like anybody's son Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States MINKS, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the backyard of our house on norwood, Last Line: The shining of the soul, gives us each %character and beauty. Variant Title(s): Captivity: The Mink Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970; Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration MISSION, by XUEFEI JIN Poem Source First Line: He was sent by our emperor to the west Last Line: Use barbarians to subdue barbarians Alternate Author Name(s): Jin, Ha; Ha Jin Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration MOMENT, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A person wakes from sleep Last Line: Who must so love their lives Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration MORNING REPORT FROM YOUR ROOM IN BUDAPEST, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN Poem Source First Line: The warning flutes of owls wake you Last Line: You left with a thirst Subject(s): Budapest, Hungary; Childhood Memories; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration MY FATHER LEARNS TO SPEAK (AGAIN), by C. V. DAVIS Poem Source First Line: When you left the appalachian farm for Last Line: Safe in the valley between those mountains %you would soon leave behind Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration MY FATHER RECOUNTS A STORY FROM HIS YOUTH, by KEVIN PRUFER Poem Source First Line: He who discovered Last Line: And he is surrounded by everything that is Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration MY FATHER'S CORNET, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: The parched leather case, flecked in the corners Last Line: To. We never learned much more Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States MY GRANDMOTHERS IN AMERICA, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: When I take you out Last Line: Swimming in your children Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Grandparents; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration MY MOUNTAINS, by JOAQUIN GOMEZ VERGARA Poem Source First Line: I am far from my country Last Line: O my beautiful mountains! Subject(s): Mountains; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration MY PARENTS BUY A BURIAL PLOT, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: It took her fifteen years to get him Last Line: I'll be in hell if she's been right all along Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States NATURALIZATION PAPERS, by MYRIAM MOSCONA Poem Source First Line: We daughters of foreign women Last Line: So our blood will fall on terra firma %till our roots are lost in history Subject(s): U.s. - Immigration And Emigration NEW YORK, by EDWIN DAVIES SCHOONMAKER Poem Text First Line: Sea - rimmed and teeming with millions poured out on Last Line: Till the new day quenches the lamps and flares over tyre. Subject(s): Cities; Immigrants; Labor & Laborers; Mysticism; New York City; Urban Life; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Work; Workers; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY, by SUSAN THOMAS Poem Source First Line: Five young men get off the boat in new york city Last Line: To the library, where he studies %astronomy and insects Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration NINETY-ONE IN THE SHADE, by ROBERT PATRICK DANA Poem Source First Line: It's always the same Last Line: Into the hot gust %like a word remembered %that we do not say Alternate Author Name(s): Dana, Robert Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration NO LIVING IN PARKED VEHICLES, by STEVE FAY Poem Source First Line: Only the dead may park, all others Last Line: Happy motoring. Now, make it happy Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration NOD, by CHRISTOPHER DAVIS Poem Source First Line: In this mind %beyond dry cornstalks Last Line: If there's no solid place to go %no world called home Subject(s): Automobiles; Homosexuality; Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration NORTHERN DARKNESS, by DIXIE LEE HENDERSON PARTRIDGE Poem Source First Line: Winds die and shadows wrap us %in trunks of trees. We anticipate silence Last Line: The faint hymn of our breath %pales visibly Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration NOTE ON MY SON'S FACE, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight, I look, thunderstruck %at the gold head of my grandchild Last Line: The worst is true. %everything you did not want to know Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Loss; Minorities - United States; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; U.s. - Race Relations NOVEMBER, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Here comes our last storm with thunder Last Line: And the dust that settles in the cleavage %of ripe plums? Subject(s): Autumn; Catholics - United States; Seasons; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States NUNS, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: When our nun drove the idiot's head into the blackboard Last Line: Not even from thirst, or from hunger Subject(s): Catholics - United States; Nuns; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States NUTCRACKER, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Not to be confused with the little wooden priapus Last Line: Secretly. I clicked her empty legs like castanets Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States ON BEING TOLD I DON'T SPEAK LIKE A BLACK PERSON, by ALLISON JOSEPH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Emphasize the h, you ignorant ass Last Line: Greetings familiar %in any language Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Loss; Marginality, Social; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration ON FORGETTINGS, by PATTY SEYBURN Poem Source First Line: My father's cemetery planted squarely in detroit Last Line: We say the wait is worse when we mean, the forgetting Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration ON LEAVING CUBA, by GERTRUDIS GOMEZ DE AVELLANEDA Poem Source First Line: Pearl of the sea! Star of the tranquil west! Last Line: Now cleaves the waves, and flies in silence fast! Subject(s): Boats; Cuba; Farewell; Sea; Sea Voyages; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration ON THE NATURALIZATION BILL, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come all ye foreign strolling gentry Last Line: And you shall have meat, drink, and clothes. Subject(s): Immigrants; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration ON THE NATURALIZATION BILL (2), by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With languages dispers'd, men were not able Last Line: How high a castle may be built in air! Subject(s): Immigrants; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration ON THE NATURALIZATION BILL (3), by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This act reminds me, ge'men, under favour Last Line: John bull Subject(s): Immigrants; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration ON THE NATURALIZATION BILL: ADVERTISEMENT, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now upon sale, a bankrupt island Last Line: Faction, is to be thrown in gratis. Subject(s): Immigrants; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration ON THE PIAVE, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: We called 'em wop and dago, and often Last Line: And we'll know italians better in the long years yet to come! Subject(s): Immigrants; Italy; World War I; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Italians; First World War OUR STARS COME FROM IRELAND, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of him that I loved Last Line: When the whole habit of the mind was changed, %the ocean breathed out morning in one breath Subject(s): Ireland; Poetry And Poets; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration PANAMA, by E. ETHELBERT MILLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the early twenties Subject(s): Immigrants; Language; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Words; Vocabulary PARISH, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: The priests, the priests %in their loneliness imagined our lives Last Line: The men you imagine yourselves to be Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States PASSPORTS, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Naah,' she says, voice too low for a wheedle Last Line: The irishman I married %is half handsome chinese %half russian jew Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration PATRIOT, by CHRISTOPHER DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Confused, using no maps, oldies Last Line: No turning knob. No flowered oz. No hope of god Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration PERSONA, by BRIGITTE BYRD Poem Source First Line: I suddenly feel slav, oh, no, not suave, rather slavic. You know Last Line: To the old rich uncle stories. I am la tante d'amerique who builds up a stock of words Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration PHONOGRAPH, by TODD JAMES PIERCE Poem Source First Line: And so I come to you, my uncle Last Line: Can be found on my lips as well Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration PHOTO, 1945, by FRANCISCO ARAGON Poem Source First Line: The only photo of you black and white Last Line: I've never really seen, %or touched Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration POEM 1, by ABELARDO SANCHEZ LEON Poem Source First Line: What happens here happened to my grandfather and my father Last Line: Dragging the head of the land down Subject(s): Children; Family Life; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Women POEM AT AN UNMARKED GRAVE, by JUDITH VOLLMER Poem Source First Line: Your grave is untouched by flowers Last Line: A college education is a room with a fire %inside a strange city Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration POEM FOR A VIETNAMESE STUDENT, by LEROY V. QUINTANA Poem Source First Line: Some words have tongues sharp as punji stakes Last Line: Repeat after me: gobbledygook, gobbledygook, gobbledygook Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration POEM FOR MY FATHER, by VIRGIL SAUREZ Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: At night, long after the midnight movies Subject(s): Immigrants; Fathers; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration POEM FOR PANCHO GONZALES, by LEROY V. QUINTANA Poem Source First Line: This was the world of white lines, a game Last Line: A dish, a lamp, an ashtray at a time Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration POEM FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY, by MARGOT SCHILPP Poem Source First Line: The flowers have checked their suitcases Last Line: To heat me so that I didn't %burn from the inside out Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration POLITICAL OR NOT, HERE COMES THAT POEM, by WENDY BISHOP Poem Source First Line: My mother, who happens to be dead, %had little or nothing to say about Last Line: Or the serviceable plaid pattern of our lives Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration POMEGRANATE SEASON, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: First frost-the sugar-shocked leaves Last Line: Darkness-god, I'd barter my soul for these Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States POPULATION, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Prune center is a hustling town. For Last Line: Then why invite him to your town, and beg that he will settle down? Subject(s): Immigrants; Towns; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration PORTRAIT OF A COUPLE AT CENTURY'S END, by SHEROD SANTOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Impatient for home, %the after-work traffic fanning out along Last Line: By a beeswax candle pooling beside %their dinnerware Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration POSTCARDS FROM FLORIDA, by LARRY WAYNE JOHNS Poem Source First Line: The vertical blinds separate and come back together Last Line: By clearing the understory, %allowing more light to reach the ground Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration POSTCARDS TO COLUMBUS, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beginning at the front door of the white house, travel west Last Line: Of your television set? Can you hear ghosts of drums approaching? Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration POSTMODERNISM, by DAVID BAKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The scene you loathe, the sheer fervor, the speed Last Line: And now even your pity is worthless Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration PRODIGAL, by PETER COOLEY Poem Source First Line: You had walked out, carrying the rain Last Line: Erect, lifting how far it took you to get here Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration PROSPECTIVE IMMIGRANTS PLEASE NOTE, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Either you will Subject(s): Americans; Immigrants; United States; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; America PUBLIC SCHOOL NO. 18, PATERSON, NEW JERSEY, by MARIA MAZZIOTTI GILLAN Poem Source First Line: Miss wilson's eyes, opaque %as blue glass, fix on me Last Line: And my rage will blow %your house down Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Loss; Minorities - United States; Moving And Movers; New Jersey; Refugees; Schools; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; U.s. - Race Relations QUESTIONS FOR ECCLESIASTES, by MARK JARMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What if on a foggy night in a beachtown, a night when the pacific leans close Last Line: People who needed urgently to hear it, god kept a secret Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration RAFAEL HERNANDEZ, by VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ Poem Source First Line: Born exactly in aguadilla %north coast puerto rico Last Line: To the children of %eternal liberation Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration RANCHO ARRIBA, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: Rancho arriba is far from the crowds Last Line: Rancho arriba is a thorn that reminds me, %that reminds them of who I am, %of who we are Subject(s): Latin America - History; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration READING JAMES WRIGHT, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: If I go down all the way with you Last Line: Lank and rambling? She never %threw herself into the sea Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States; Wright, James (1927-1980) READING KEROUAC, YORKSHIRE, by STEVE WILSON Poem Source First Line: Today, jack, your words won't console Last Line: We would taste in our minds Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration REAPPEARED, by VIJAY SESHADRI Poem Source First Line: Long after we stopped remembering, word of him Last Line: Resurface, and simply swim away Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration RED FINGERNAILS, by BRENDA LYNN HILLMAN Poem Source First Line: Briefly I dwelt upon my mother's tongue Last Line: Before the first one has to be lifted away Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration REFUGEE, by VIJAY SESHADRI Poem Source First Line: He feels himself at his mind's borders moving Last Line: Pinned like a flower on the genocidal past Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration RESUME, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN Poem Source First Line: Nicholas kolumban was born and raised in hungary Last Line: And let his toes be mistaken %for toy mice Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Hungary; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration RETABLO, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: The park bench is unoccupied Last Line: Tomorrow is christmas Subject(s): Cuba; Exiles; Homeless; Marriage; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration RETURNED CRANE, by XUEFEI JIN Poem Source First Line: Then I land on the belfry Last Line: I was told I'd lose nothing %but my human flesh Alternate Author Name(s): Jin, Ha; Ha Jin Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration RETURNING, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: While in the barrio no one spoke Last Line: So that later, %under the northern skies, %we could begin to dream %about returning Subject(s): Dreams; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration RUINED STATUES IN THE LOUVRE, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Infant love left his palm print on this aphrodite's naked back Last Line: Against each other in their tombs-for the hundredth time or so %that day, you let my hand go Subject(s): Catholics - United States; Louvre, Paris; Statues; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States RUNNING TO AMERICA, by LEROY V. QUINTANA Poem Source First Line: They are night shadows %violating borders Last Line: Kissing black earth %then run to america Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration RURAL PARTICLES, by BARRY SILESKY Poem Source First Line: Asters, yarrow, an enormous oak at the edge of the bank leading down Last Line: He won't be there to see, and it's time to go. It doesn't make sense at all. It's %something he unde Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration SACRED LANE/LA SACRA CORSIA, by PASQUALE VERDICCHIO Poem Source First Line: We felt it %the sisma Last Line: And back into the place from where %it did not come Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Tourists; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration SALT LONGING, by AUSTIN HUMMELL Poem Source First Line: Inland far though and away Last Line: Its scorched, ashen soil Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration SCOURED, by DAVID STARKEY Poem Source First Line: My two daughters chase each other %in the laundromat, past the banks Last Line: I have nothing at all to give Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration SEIZURE, by MICHELE WOLF Poem Source First Line: You spoke in a language only you could imagine Last Line: The entire hidden field, sparking and rumbling Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration SEVEN & SEVEN, by PETER MEINKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Looking back at it now he Last Line: Everything can be fixed o %lord anything can be fixed Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration SHOYN FERGESSIN: 'I'VE FORGOTTEN' IN YIDDISH, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But now it's the yiddish itself I'm forgetting Last Line: Anything for a minute. So that's what I said. They asked me %my name and I said I've forgotten Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Yiddish SICILIAN EMIGRANT'S SONG, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O -- eh -- lee! La -- la Last Line: Donna! Donna! Maria! Subject(s): Immigrants; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration SIRENS OF LOS ANGELES, by BRUCE BOND Poem Source First Line: All summer as the blacktop softens, drugged Last Line: For land and feasting, longing to be poured Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration SONG OF AMERICAN RESIDENT IN FRANCE, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, we are the bold expatriate band! Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Immigration & Emigration; France SONG OF THE COLONISTS DEPARTING FOR NEW ZEALAND, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Steer, helmsman, till you steer our way Last Line: We'll plough a smiling land. Subject(s): Immigrants; New Zealand; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration SONG OF THE SPANISH JEWS, by GRACE AGUILAR Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Oh, dark is the spirit that loves not the land Last Line: And seek not and wish not a lovelier rest. Subject(s): Exiles; Immigrants; Jews; Spain; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Judaism SONG, FR. THE EMIGRANT, by ALEXANDER MCLACHLAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old england is eaten by knaves Last Line: Nor a foreign foe land on her shore. Subject(s): England; Immigrants; Poverty; English; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration SORCERER, by XUEFEI JIN Poem Source First Line: When the slave arrived as %a tributary article from a vassal state Last Line: Though another sister of mine is widowed in her early teens Alternate Author Name(s): Jin, Ha; Ha Jin Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration SOUL, by WILLIAM KLOEFKORN Poem Source First Line: Each time I look at my friend's %red sunset maple, in season Last Line: Not even the occasional snick of a %delicate motor, %missing Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration SPLITTING WOOD, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: It's best when you take off your shirt Last Line: Winter, this will burn between us Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States STAR-SPANGLED BANNER, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was sure then, as I sang along Last Line: Ricky's accent so much like how she remembers yours Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration STEERAGE, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By now, the sachel's leather has reclaimed its living redolence Subject(s): Grandparents; Immigrants; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration STILL KICKING IN AMERICA, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: Now that I'm older, %the old ones ask %the same questions Last Line: Hoping for words %to come out right in english Subject(s): Family Life - India; Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration STOWAWAYS, by DAVID RIVARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Immigrants; Conduct Of Life; Heritage; Heredity; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration 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 SUCH WERE THE MORNINGS, by F. R. MCCLEARY Poem Text First Line: When my first father in america Last Line: The urge of his step and his planting. Subject(s): Immigrants; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration SUNRISE, by H. PALMER HALL Poem Source First Line: A moment in the thicket, that time Last Line: Soft, moist, and in the light, white wings flutter Variant Title(s): Into The Thicket; Big Thicket Requie Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration SURVIVOR'S SONG, by ROBERT PHILLIPS Poem Source First Line: All my good friends have gone away Last Line: There's nothing more I want to say Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration SYMMETRY, by BARRY BALLARD Poem Source First Line: This body's stretched with its patchwork tilled so Last Line: From a need for fences with no escapes? Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration TEACHER TO A MAD STUDENT: 1, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Your face is like an angel's %I've kissed it Last Line: Mundane as a supermarket, %it's my life too Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States TEACHER TO A MAD STUDENT: 6, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: I wish you could have heard ginsberg Last Line: But cover the fire, boy, %cover the fire Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States TESHUVAH, by LAMAR THOMAS Poem Source First Line: Gathering up all the dolphins %in my dreaming. %I'm coming home Last Line: Toward what must be made romantic %in a world that says no Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration THE BALLAD OF THE CHILDREN OF THE CZAR, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The children of the czar Subject(s): Nicholas Ii, Czar Of Russia (1868-1918); Children; Ancestors & Ancestry; Immigrants; Childhood; Heritage; Heredity; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration THE BEASTS, by CARL RAKOSI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fresh mollusk morning puts a foot Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): City & Town Life; Capitalism; Social Commentaries; Social Classes; Immigrants; Caste; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration THE CORNISH EMIGRANT'S SONG, by ROBERT STEPHEN HAWKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! The eastern winds are blowing Last Line: In north americay.' Alternate Author Name(s): Hawker Of Morwenstow; Hawker, R. S. Subject(s): Cornwall, England; Immigrants; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration THE EMIGRANTS, by FERDINAND FREILIGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot take my eyes away Last Line: And crown each true heart's pure desire! Alternate Author Name(s): Freiligrath, Hermann Ferdinand Subject(s): Immigrants; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration THE FOREIGNERS: 1, by CARLOS BULOSAN Poem Text First Line: Fear grips their lives Last Line: Look and examine us! Subject(s): Fear; Immigrants; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration THE FOREIGNERS: 2, by CARLOS BULOSAN Poem Text First Line: Builder of skyscrapers Last Line: This is the hour for perfect waking. Subject(s): Immigrants; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration THE GREEK EMIGRANTS SONG, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now launch the boat upon the wave Last Line: And free the man, and free the mind. Subject(s): Freedom; Greece; Immigrants; Liberty; Greeks; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration THE GREEK QUARTER, by JOHN MYERS O'HARA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cryptic letters of the golden tongue Last Line: The blue Ægean sparkling in the day. Subject(s): Coffee Houses; Greek Language; Immigrants; New York City; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE NEW COLOSSUS, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not like the brazen giant of greek fame Last Line: "I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" Subject(s): Americans; Art & Artists; Freedom; Immigrants; Religion; Statue Of Liberty; United States; Liberty; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Theology; America THE NEW COUNTRY, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was with my grandfather when the boat landed Last Line: Glimmer of a glimmer in his bloodshot eye Subject(s): Grandparents; Immigrants; Past; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration THE NEW ENGLAND EMIGRANT'S FAREWELL, by DANIEL PIERCE THOMPSON Poem Text First Line: New england, farewell! With thy evergreen mountains Last Line: As I bid thee a long and a lasting adieu. Subject(s): Farewell; Immigrants; New England; Parting; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration THE PILGRIM MAIDEN, by DOROTHY WHITEHEAD HOUGH Poem Text First Line: Lo, I have come a weary way Last Line: Dedicated to love of god and liberty. Subject(s): Footprints; Immigrants; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Travel; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Journeys; Trips THE PRAIRIE IMMIGRANT, by RACHEL COLE KATTERJOHN Poem Text First Line: The wind wailed over a granite stone Last Line: Alone— forever alone! Subject(s): Immigrants; Prairies; Solitude; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Plains; Loneliness THE REGENT'S EXAMINATION, by JESSIE WALLACE HUGHAN Poem Text First Line: Muffled sounds of the city climbing to me at the window Last Line: Neuter and safe shall it be? Or a flame to burst us asunder? Subject(s): Examinations; Immigrants; Racism; United States - Race Relations; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry THE SWISS EMIGRANT, by LUCY AIKEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, farewell, my native land Last Line: In absence near, -- in misery true. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Lucy Subject(s): Immigrants; Switzerland; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Swiss THE VIEW AT GUNDERSON'S, by JOSEPH WARREN BEACH Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting in his rocker waiting for your tea Subject(s): Immigrants; Conduct Of Life; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration THE WESTERN EMIGRANT, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An axe rang sharply 'mid those forest shades Last Line: Mid the lov'd scenery of his native land. Subject(s): Immigrants; New England; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration THE WOODS OF KYLINOE; SONG OF THE IRISH EMIGRANT IN NORTH AMERICA, by ELLEN FITZSIMON Poem Text First Line: My heart is heavy in my breast- my eyes are full / of tears Last Line: On all -- but most of all on thee, my native kylinoe. Subject(s): Immigrants; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration THIEVES OF LIGHT, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We all knew about gus Last Line: I had to close my eyes Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration THIRTY AND FIVE BOOKS, by MYUNG MI KIM Poem Source First Line: Never having been here when the sun rose Last Line: All harmonics sound Subject(s): Aliens; Ethnic Groups - United States; Korea; Labor And Laborers; Navigation; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration THREE PULLS OF THE LOOM: 1. IMMIGRANT, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: Immigrant %years ago in a japanese castle %my long hair sashed loosely Last Line: In america, a girl can be anything she dreams Subject(s): U.s. - Immigration And Emigration TO A FRENCH GIRL IN AMERICA, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: I cannot tell just where the difference lies Last Line: —mabel kingsley richardson Subject(s): Freedom; History; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; United States; Liberty; Historians; America TO AN IONIAN BOY, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Boy of mitylene! Thou Last Line: Fairer than hath fallen to me! Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Greece; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Greeks TO BE SUNG ON THE FOURTH OF JULY, by WYATT PRUNTY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We come to this country %by every roundabout Last Line: Because well-being needs a grief %to make the feeling last Subject(s): Literary Form; Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration TO BECOME AN ISLANDER, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Steal a sloop from the harbor Last Line: Burn your face brown before sunset Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States TO PERSCEUTED FOREIGNERS, by PENINA MOISE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fly from the soil whose desolating creed Last Line: Come to the homes and bosoms of the free. Subject(s): Anti-semitism; Freedom; Immigrants; United States; Liberty; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; America TO SEDNA, THE INUIT SEA GODDESS, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: In the storm when your father flung Last Line: Has brought your father, and all his work, down Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States TO THE BOUGAINVILLAEA, by C. DALE YOUNG Poem Source First Line: How could I have imagined your absence? Last Line: And everywhere bougainvillaea, bougainvillaea Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; West Indies TO THE CLOSE FRIEND MOST UNLIKE ME, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Sunday I thought of you-- Last Line: The little boy under the wheel of that car, for instance--alive Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States TO THE ROMAN PONTIFF ON THE DISCIPLINE OF FATHER MCGLYNN, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The german tyrant plays thee for his game Last Line: Cease to be freemen when they bow to god! Subject(s): Immigrants; Mcglynn, Edward (1837-1900); Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration TODOROV AT ELLIS ISLAND, by MAXINE CHERNOFF Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The secret of narrative %in the sight of the lovely Last Line: To turn, as if spoken to %into what we represent Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration TOWNS, by ANGELA BALL Poem Source First Line: Somewhere in midcentury %things spread out, scattered Last Line: Replied, 'yes. But our village %will not be here' Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration TRANSLATING MY PARENTS, by ALLISON JOSEPH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When my father would growl, %wash the wares now, I always thought Last Line: As in zipper, as in zero, and write %it plainly, so I can read it Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration TRAVELING MAN, by MARIE HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Where were you born? %I was born in puerto rico Last Line: Charter and I have many wonderful holidays. Just the two of us Subject(s): Air Travel; Aviation And Aviators; Passports; Tourists; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration TWO SORTS OF EMIGRANTS, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His debts are paid, but all his land is gone Last Line: And sing as bravely to the southern morn. Subject(s): Immigrants; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration TWO SOUNDS, by MICHAEL H. BUGEJA Poem Source First Line: Grandmother came here in the cargo hold Last Line: Which always fade, as I will, in the night Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration TWO UNCERTAINTIES, by PAUL HOOVER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Around the attic bird, the century is silent Last Line: Please bind us to a version of ourselves Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration UNDERWATER, by HEATHER SELLERS Poem Source First Line: Well, we are underwater here and I am Last Line: Just one eye on the tiniest of the peculiar glowing fish Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration UNDISCOVERY OF AMERICA, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: On the sand a squinting little man Last Line: Song he finds the music of his veins Subject(s): Cuba; Key West, Florida; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration VANITY OF THE ATLANTIC OCEAN, by JOHN BRADLEY Poem Source First Line: Face it, michael. She never loved you. The ocean with as many lovers as there Last Line: Way memory spills when you try to remember, and all you get is sexless salt, %bisected water Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration VARIATIONS FOR HENDRIX AND VIETNAM, by MONIFA LOVE Poem Source First Line: We %not white %not yellow %corner sounds Last Line: A circle of grey petals %at our feet %quiet Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration WAIT, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: The day slows, fills Last Line: Is making his way across the universe Subject(s): Absence; Cuba; Home; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Waiting WAITING ON FAMILY COURT, by JEFF KNORR Poem Source First Line: I know little of lawyers and courts Last Line: After grandfather's slick-handled %brushes are hung, away on their nails Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration WALKING BACK, by WILLIAM TROWBRIDGE Poem Source First Line: I have no business here, a bearded stranger Last Line: On the last bell, rubs the shiny nickel in his pocket Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration WHAT HURTS, by GUSTAVO PEREZ FIRMAT Poem Source First Line: We are called broken %because we do not humor the age Last Line: We break them with our brokenness %until they are broken too Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration WHEREABOUTS, by ROBERT PHILLIPS Poem Source First Line: Isn't it odd how anyone who disappeared Last Line: Just before fadeout, their famous last scene Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration WILD GIRLS, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Wild girls are all around us %and the memory of snow Last Line: Wild girls are dancing %bears groan in the forest Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States WILLIE AND THE TRAIN, by CARISSA NEFF Poem Source First Line: Willie carsten opens the bakery early Last Line: Take my chances %like immigrants did Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration WIND CHILL FACTOR, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You point to a photo of your family Last Line: Into a perfect circle at the nape of my neck, %insulating me, still, against the chill Variant Title(s): Wind-chill Facto Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration WINTER SOLSTICE, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Our new pup backs into her plastic den Last Line: As she leapt straight for him into the sun Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States WISH YOU WERE HERE, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: My dear friend: Last Line: That you were here with us. Hugs and kisses. Greetings from my %husband. %your dear friend Subject(s): Absence; Dreams; Las Vegas, Nevada; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration WOMEN AND MEN: A RETROSPECTIVE, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: I know they exist, I saw them -- Last Line: Bearing burdens on their backs, %walking uphill, fully clothed Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States WORKING BLACK, by DAVID RIVARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The part of stockholm I saw at 22, I saw as an employee & thief Subject(s): Restaurants; Jobs; Immigrants; Cafes; Diners; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration WORKING CLASS, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: How often in my presence someone's used Last Line: And he was. And they were. And we have been Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States YEARS, by WILLIAM REGINALD GIBBONS Poem Source First Line: My grandmother's russian/ %english dictionary-she must Last Line: Newspapers spill %the years into my eyes Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration YES, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: According to culture shock: %a guide to customs and etiquette Last Line: Then study his lips, wondering if I'll be able to decipher %what he means by his yes Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration YOU, IF NO ONE ELSE, by TINO VILLANUEVA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Listen, you %who transformed your anguish Last Line: In this round hour now %where your voice strikes time Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration |
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