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Subject: FIREFIGHTERS
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First Line: This was a stately victorian drawing-room
Last Line: How happy you were.
Subject(s): Firefighters; Past


BILL SWEENY OF THE BLACK GANG, by JAMES BARNES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ther's a feller in the black gang
Last Line: If they don't — say! — I'd like to know!
Subject(s): Fights; Fire; Firefighters


CALAMITY IN LONDON; FAMILY OF TEN BURNED TO DEATH, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas in the year of 1897, and on the night of christmas day
Last Line: Every night before to your beds ye retire.
Subject(s): Cruelty; Death; Fire; Firefighters; Tragedy; Dead, The


CIVIC DUTIES: MY NEIGHBOR, VOLUNTEER FIREMAN, by JANA HARRIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: If there's a fire over on the reservation
Last Line: His mouth puckered in bad feeling, %'of setting another house free'
Subject(s): Firefighters


CONVERSATION WITH A FIREMAN FROM BROOKLYN, by TESS GALLAGHER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He offers, between planes, / to buy me a drink. I've never talked
Last Line: "who want to love you, to love you, /
Subject(s): Firefighters; Sexism


CONVERSATION WITH A FIREMAN FROM BROOKLYN, by TESS GALLAGHER    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He offers, between planes, %to buy me a drink. I've never talked
Last Line: Who want to love you, to love you, %love you
Subject(s): Firefighters; Sexism


FIRE-FIGHTER'S WIDOW ON HER FIRST MEMORIAL DAY OUTING, by CAROL-ANN LUMLEY RUMENS    Poem Source                    
First Line: We ride in the hired coach
Last Line: At the grass, the flowers, my shoes
Subject(s): Firefighters; Widows And Widowers


FIRESTARTER, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Since this morning he's gone through
Subject(s): Fire; Firefighters; Oregon; Smoke; Women


FIRESTARTER, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Since this morning he's gone through
Last Line: And I can't take my eyes from the light
Subject(s): Fire; Firefighters; Oregon; Smoke; Women


HABEAS CORPUS BLUES, by CONRAD AIKEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the cathedral the acolytes are praying
Last Line: While, in his attic, the poet is still playing, %the poet is playing the habeas corpus blues
Subject(s): Firefighters; Poetry And Poets


HERE IS MUSIC: FIRE GUARD AREA OFFICER: 2, by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: For full three years
Last Line: Obey blest beckonings till I draw last hungry breath.
Subject(s): Courage; Fights; Firefighters; Memory; War; Valor; Bravery


HERE IS MUSIC: FIRE GUARD AREA OFFICER: 1, by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: What time, day long, from house to house, from door
Last Line: "honour be yours, strong, brave, true, steadfast countrymen."
Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Courage; Fights; Firefighters; Guard Duty; Honor; Patriotism; Valor; Bravery


HERE IS MUSIC: FIRE GUARD AREA OFFICER: 3 (A CROWDED HOUR), by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A kentish cafe, chock-a-block
Last Line: I'll natheless make meet off'ring to the great god, chance.
Subject(s): Firefighters; Smoke; Soldiers


ON THE PASSING OF THE LAST FIRE HORSE FROM MANHATTAN ISLAND, by KENNETH SLADE ALLING    Poem Text                    
First Line: I remember the cleared streets, the strange suspense
Last Line: They came, and they are gone, and unreturning.
Subject(s): Animals; Firefighters; Horses; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


PARADISE LOST, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I sat at the wheel of the fire chief's car
Last Line: At the wheel of the fire chief's car.
Subject(s): Automobiles; Driving & Drivers; Firefighters; Labor & Laborers; Wheels; Cars; Work; Workers


RESCUE, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The smoke alarm wails like a pig
Last Line: The people are not there
Subject(s): Fire; Firefighters; Smoke


THE AMERICAN FIREMAN, by CHRISTOPHER BANNISTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: A clamor and clatter of galloping hoofs
Last Line: Had half such a guerdon won.
Subject(s): Fire; Firefighters; Heat; Smoke; Water


THE CLEPINGTON CATASTROPHE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas on a monday morning, and in the year of 1884
Last Line: To help the widows and the fatherless is god's command.
Subject(s): Courage; Disasters; Firefighters; Valor; Bravery


THE FIRE, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Near the house flowed, or paused, the black / canal
Last Line: Men that defeated ruinous angels and shall still defeat.
Subject(s): Fire; Firefighters; Heat; Smoke


THE FIREMEN'S BALL, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Give the engines room
Last Line: Clang . . . Clang . . . Clang.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): Bands; Dancing & Dancers; Fire; Firefighters; Life; Music & Musicians; Orchestras


THE HABEAS CORPUS BLUES, by CONRAD AIKEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the cathedral the acolytes are praying
Last Line: Imprisonment or indefinite time in prison without a trial
Subject(s): Firefighters; Poetry & Poets


THE MIRACULOUS ESCAPE OF ROBERT ALLAN, THE FIREMAN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas in the year of 1888, and on october the fourteenth day
Last Line: And be sure to escape the pains of hell.
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Escapes; Fire; Firefighters; Heroism; Fugitives; Heroes; Heroines


THE PHOENIX REBORN FROM ITS ASHES, by LOUIS ARAGON    Poem Text                    
First Line: On love it has been written
Last Line: On night no one at all has had anything to say.
Subject(s): Fire; Firefighters; Phoenix (mythical Bird); Rebirth


THE SIMPLE LIFE - ON SIDEWALKS; APRIL 1906, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: A lady, dainty, young, and fair
Last Line: Was worth the burdens it disguised.
Subject(s): Firefighters; Heat; San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906); Smoke


YOU EXPECT THE NOON-ALARM AT CITY HALL, by SIMON PERCHIK    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Without holding on to your hands %or the world
Subject(s): Fire; Firefighters; Smoke; Terror