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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: FACTORIES Matches Found: 53 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ADDRESS TO THE FACTORY OF MSSRS. J. & W.I. SCOTT & CO., by ELLEN+(2) JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: Hail! Royal sovereign of the factory race Last Line: And let me ever kneel before thy shrine, %rejoicing still - prosperity is thine Subject(s): Factories; Glasgow, Scotland AN ABANDONED FACTORY, DETROIT, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gates are chained, the barbed-wire fencing stands, Subject(s): Factories; Detroit, Michigan ASSEMBLY LINE, by ADRIEN STOUTENBURG Poem Source First Line: Henry had something on his mind Last Line: Beneath, the earth is six feet deep; %the grass is optional and spare Subject(s): Automobiles; Factories; Ford, Henry (1863-1947) AUGUST IN THE NEW ALL-GLASS GENERAL MOTORS PLANT, by MARY ROBERTS RINEHART Poem Source First Line: This is the most modern of factories Subject(s): Automobiles; Factories BLAST FURNACE, by LUIS J. RODRIGUEZ Poem Source First Line: A foundry's stench, the rolling mill's clamor Last Line: It is blasting a bullet through your brain, %the last dying echo of one who enters %the volcano's mo Subject(s): Factories; Politics BREAD FACTORY, by RAY A. YOUNG BEAR Poem Source First Line: The tribal bread factory is missing Last Line: In black knit socks behind splints %of chrome steel Subject(s): Bread; Factories BURNED, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have to go back into the forge room Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Factories; Jews; World War Ii; Farewell; Fathers; Grief; Conduct Of Life; Work; Workers; Judaism; Second World War; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness CHANGSHA SHOE FACTORY, by WILLIS BARNSTONE Poem Source First Line: The lady director is a gentle guide Subject(s): Factories; Labor And Laborers COMING CLOSE, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take this quiet woman, she has been Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Factories; Women; Work; Workers DRUM, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the early morning before the shop Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Factories; Work; Workers EDGE-HILL: BOOK 3, SELS., by RICHARD JAGO Poet's Biography Subject(s): Factories ELEANOR, by MIQUEL MARTI I POL Poem Source First Line: Eleanor was Last Line: And said 'yes sir' and 'good afternoon' Subject(s): Factories; Labor And Laborers; Women - Employment FACTORY, by FREDERIC BERTHOFF Poem Source First Line: I stepped to the head of u.N.I.C.O.R Last Line: As we both knew all along Subject(s): Factories; Industry; Labor And Laborers FACTORY, by DAVID BRESKIN Poem Source First Line: Ninety dollars an hour in angola Last Line: Turns your mind against itself. Sleep through it Subject(s): Factories FACTORY CHIMNEYS, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Motionless blood-hued styluses that scrawl on the infinite Last Line: In hieroglyphs rolling and tumbling, red, black, purple and gold. Subject(s): Factories; Industrial Revolution; London; Smoke FACTORY GIRL, by J. A. PHILLIPS Poem Source First Line: She wasn't the least bit pretty Subject(s): Factories; Labor And Laborers FACTORY RAINBOW, by ROSE SAADI Poem Source First Line: I open my eyes Subject(s): Factories; Labor And Laborers FACTORY WINDOWS ARE ALWAYS BROKEN, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Something is rotten - in denmark. %end of the factory-windowsong Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Factories; Windows FAMOUS LOWELL GIRLS, by F. JOHN HERBERT Poem Source First Line: That's that for those famous lowell girls Last Line: Bruce o'hanlon is in the low light of market citizenship %after two years the govering of a factory Subject(s): Factories; Labor And Laborers; Women FLOWERS IN THE FACTORY, by RUTH PITTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The firedew, the glow-worm light Last Line: Lights a candle in the cruel grave Subject(s): Factories; Flowers FRIDAY LUNCHBREAK, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At noon, still wearing their white Last Line: And wrestle, angels of meat. Subject(s): Beef; Calves; Factories; Food & Eating; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers I SEE, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Hunters dressed in sunlight, I see roes with dogs Last Line: The night smells in ca' foscari Subject(s): Factories; Labor And Laborers; Slavery IN A FACTORY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: If you made your picture Last Line: Of me and you. Subject(s): Factories; Poetry & Poets IN THE BINDERY, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shift begins. Metal clanks Last Line: A change of heart but then goes on. Subject(s): Factories; Industrial Workers Of The World (i.w.w.); Labor & Laborers; Labor Unions; Work; Workers INSTRUMENT FACTORY, BRAZIL, by KATHLEEN MCGOOKEY Poem Source First Line: It's simple enough to give away the coins in your heart, when dust settles Last Line: #name? Subject(s): Factories; Labor And Laborers; Musical Instruments; Sao Paulo, Brazil JERUSALEM THE GOLDEN: 40, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rooted among roofs, their smoke among the clouds Subject(s): Factories; Pollution LIFE AND LUCUBRATIONS OF CRISPINUS SCRIBLERUS, SELS., by JAMES WOODHOUSE Subject(s): Factories LITTLE FACTORY GIRL TO A MORE FORTUNATE PLAYMATE, by HARRIET H. ROBINSON Poem Source First Line: I often think how once we used in summer fields to play Subject(s): Factories; Labor And Laborers NIGHT SHIFT, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was not a heart, beating. Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Noises; Factories NOME INDUSTRY, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Along the bering sea coast Last Line: To a dark and vast computer- %driven wilderness: the office Subject(s): Factories; Industry; Labor And Laborers; Nome, Alaska NOTICE, by MIQUEL MARTI I POL Poem Source First Line: All ground floor Last Line: Inside the main door Subject(s): Factories; Labor And Laborers OLD GLASS FACTORY, by ISABEL FISKE CONANT Poem Text First Line: There's not a villager now left to show Last Line: Holds up for bids; a curio from that year. Subject(s): Factories; Glass & Glassblowers; Glaziers PRETTY BLOUSES, by HELEN MINTUS Poem Source First Line: In a factory room %dark, dreary and stifling Last Line: Each stitch blocks the sun, %making pretty blouses Subject(s): Factories; Labor And Laborers; Sewing SONG OF A FACTORY WORKER, by RUTH COLLINS Poem Source First Line: Red brick building Subject(s): Factories; Labor And Laborers SONG OF THE FACTORY GIRLS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh, sing me the song of the factory girl Subject(s): Factories; Labor And Laborers SOOT, by HENRIETTE CLARKE Poem Text First Line: It was true, the plant was closed Last Line: Now prayed for a smudge of soot. Subject(s): Factories SUBVERSIONS: KINSLER'S COAT FACTORY, by ELIZABETH STOESSL Poem Source First Line: Valerie stilled her treadle when they raised the piecework Last Line: Returned. The women followed. The men kept cutting, %did not look up Subject(s): Factories; Labor And Laborers THE DESERTED FACTORY, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It stands apart, forlorn, grotesque, immense Last Line: Amid the dust once stirred by workmen's feet. Subject(s): Factories; London THE FACTORY GIRL'S COME-ALL-YE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Come all ye lewiston fact'ry girls Last Line: "sing dum de whickerty, dum de way" Subject(s): Factories;labor & Laborers;women THE FACTORY; 'TIS AN ACCURSED THING!, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There rests a shade above yon town Last Line: There is a curse on thee! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Factories; Industrial Revolution; Pollution THE JOB; FOR TOBEY, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When my friend lost her little finger Last Line: To what's turning in the world. Subject(s): Accidents; Factories; Fingers; Touch (sense) THE MAGNETIC FIELDS: FACTORY, by ANDRE BRETON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The great legend of the railways and reservoirs Last Line: Maliciously with the star of enlistment Subject(s): Dadaism; Factories THE VILLAGE MUNITIONS CO., INC.; FORMERLY THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under spreading chestnut tree Last Line: Has earned two thou. Per cent. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Business; Factories; Labor & Laborers; Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882); Money; Wealth; Businessmen; Businesswomen; Work; Workers; Riches; Fortunes THEN AND NOW, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you remember those mornings after the blitzes Last Line: Make real, of glory, common wealth, and home. Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Factories; Labor & Laborers; Labor Unions; Memory; News; Strikes; Surrey, England; Unemployment; Work; Workers; Labor Disputes; Lockouts THOSE CONDEMNED BY APPETITE TO EAT THEMSELVES, by DENNIS SCHMITZ Poem Source First Line: Two weeks into the night shifts Last Line: Where I too would be robbed Subject(s): Factories; Labor And Laborers TO LABOR, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: O ye who toil at forges! Last Line: Which rightly is your own. Subject(s): Factories; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. IN A MANUFACTURING TOWN, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I walked restless and despondent through the gloomy city Last Line: Little child. Subject(s): Capitalism; Democracy; Depressions, Economic; Environment; Factories; Labor & Laborers; Poverty; Smoke; Recessions; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Work; Workers TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. SUNDAY MORNING NEAR A MANUFACTURING TOWN, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sunday, a still autumn morning, and all the roads on the outskirts Last Line: Overlie you much longer. Subject(s): Environment; Factories; Smoke; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation TOYMAKER GLOOMY BUT THEN AGAIN SOMETIMES HAPPY, by MICHAEL BENEDIKT Poem Source First Line: (1) how can a person practically drowning in the seas of circumstance Last Line: Which, every now & then, sometimes even dances Subject(s): Children; Creative Ability; Factories; Toys TWIN-SCREW SET - 1902, by WILLIAM J. FRASER HUTCHESON Poem Source First Line: Week after week I watched the darlings growing Last Line: The funnel tops; and, fed with coal aplenty, %what care they if it blow! Subject(s): Factories; Glasgow, Scotland VERY IDEA OF 2 LEGS, by MARY MOLINARY Poem Source First Line: The lower %part of the body, an idea pressed thin Last Line: Singular and blue-dyed: a desire. An excretion of worms. %glimmering Subject(s): Beauty; Factories; Labor And Laborers; Legs; Women Immigrants - United States VISTAS OF LABOR: 4. FACTORY CHILDREN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here toil the striplings, who should be a-swarm Last Line: "my kingdom is made up of such as these." Subject(s): Child Labor; Factories; Life; Religion; Youth; Theology VOICE FROM THE FACTORIES, SELS., by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline Subject(s): Child Labor; Factories |
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