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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: FIREFIGHTERS Matches Found: 25 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AT THE FIRE-FIGHTERS' POST, by CAMILLA DOYLE Poem Text 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 |
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