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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: HERITAGE Matches Found: 148 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 1950, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: 1950 was the perfect year to be born Subject(s): Time; Life; Ancestors & Ancestry; Heritage; Heredity 8:00 P. M., FARMHOUSE, by CAROL ELY HARPER Poem Text First Line: Thin high nose. Furrowed cheeks Last Line: They listen respectfully. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Pioneers; Heritage; Heredity A FAMILY RECORD, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not to myself this breath of vesper song Last Line: Take my last offering ere I cross to thee! Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Fathers & Sons; Heritage; Heredity A FAR CRY FROM AFRICA, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A wind is ruffling the tawny pelt Subject(s): Africa; African Americans - History; Ancestors & Ancestry; Black Heritage; Heritage; Heredity A SERIOUS STEP LIGHTLY TAKEN, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between two burrs on the map Last Line: And forty-five presidents Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Farm Life; Heritage; Heredity; Agriculture; Farmers A WOMAN FROM CONNAUGHT, by ROBERT KELLY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My great-great-great-great-grandmother Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Connaught, Ireland; Family Life - Ireland; Grandparents; Heritage; Heredity; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers AFRICA, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Thus she had lain Last Line: Although she has lain Subject(s): African Americans - History; Black Heritage ALBUM, by RON PADGETT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mental pictures I have of my parents and grandparents and my childhood are Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Death; Heritage; Heredity; Dead, The AN AMERICAN POEM, by EILEEN MYLES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was born in boston in Subject(s): Self; Gays & Lesbians; Ancestors & Ancestry; Boston; Social Classes; Social Commentaries; Poetry & Poets; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Heritage; Heredity; Caste ANCESTRESS, by MARGUERITE JANVRIN ADAMS Poem Text First Line: When I become as history, - long - past history Last Line: When our great-grandson bends above my hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Adams, M.j. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Future; History; Heritage; Heredity; Historians ANCESTRY, by JULIA CRISWELL Poem Text First Line: She delves among old books. Old photographs Last Line: About ancestral kin she never knew. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Heritage; Heredity ATLANTA EXPOSITION ODE, by MARY WESTON FORDHAM Poem Text First Line: Cast down your bucket where you are Last Line: For all one flag, one flag for all. Subject(s): African Americans - History; Exhibitions; Racial Equality; Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915); Black Heritage; World's Fairs; Expositions ATLAS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am used to the heft of it Last Line: To carry everything. Subject(s): African Americans - History; Forests; Labor & Laborers; Strength; Black Heritage; Woods; Work; Workers AUTOBIOGRAPHY 3, by PALMER. MICHAEL Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Self; Aging; Ancestors & Ancestry; Heritage; Heredity BEGINNING WITH 1914, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since it always begins Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): World War I; Ancestors & Ancestry; Fathers; Time; First World War; Heritage; Heredity BERNARD AND SARAH, by HENRY SPLAWN TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hang them where they'll do some good,' my grandfather Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Photography & Photographers; Heritage; Heredity BLUE, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As through marble or the lining of Subject(s): Race Awareness; Ancestors & Ancestry; Heritage; Heredity BLUE BLOOD, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We thought at first, this man is a king for sure Last Line: Was lout, son of lout, by old lout, and was da to a lout! Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Heritage; Heredity BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The word is writ that he who runs may read Last Line: Like the keen prow of some on-forging ship. Subject(s): African Americans - History; Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915); Black Heritage BURIAL RITES, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Did anyone ever believe that the dead woman Last Line: Without expectation. They did them in despair. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Death; Despair; Graves; Tradition; Heritage; Heredity; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones CANZONE A LA SONATA (TO. E.P.), by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What do you find to boast of in our age Last Line: Gape openwhere's your grinning melody? Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Youth; Heritage; Heredity CHINESE SPACE, by MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Family Life; Houses; Beijing. China; Ancestors & Ancestry; Relatives; Heritage; Heredity COMING BACK, by JOSEPH BRUCHAC Poem Text First Line: When they woke me Last Line: Move in dance to a distant drum Subject(s): Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage COYOTE'S DISCOURSE ON POWER, MEDICINE, AND WOULD-BE SHAMANS, by PETER BLUE CLOUD Poem Source First Line: Good evening, friends. You notice this long, straight branch I'm Last Line: Money, it will be a very happy basket. %thank you Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Creation; Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage; Speech CREOLE, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Roman Empire; Names; Ancestors & Ancestry; Language; Creoles; Heritage; Heredity; Words; Vocabulary CRESCENT MOON ON A CAT?ÇÖS COLLAR, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I come from a family of madmen and extravagant women. Last Line: Of the opal triumph of my voice Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Heritage; Heredity CROSS-CURRENTS, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through twelve stout generations Last Line: Who chose him for my sake. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; New England; Heritage; Heredity DEVON TO ME!, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where my fathers stood Last Line: Devon to me! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Devonshire, England; Heritage; Heredity DOCKERY AND SON, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Relationships; Disappointment; Ancestors & Ancestry; Middle Age' Universities And Colleges; Youth; Heritage; Heredity DR. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON TO THE NATIONAL NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER SR. Poem Text First Line: Tis strange indeed to hear us plead Last Line: When money clinks its story. Subject(s): African Americans - History; Business; Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915); Black Heritage; Businessmen; Businesswomen EAST OF CARTHAGE: AN IDYLL, by KHALED MATTAWA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look here, marcus aurelius, we’ve come to see Last Line: Ts tentacles sewing a rupture I had nursed for too long Subject(s): Coming Of Age; Middle Age; Aging; Libya; Ancestors & Ancestry; Family Life; Mythology; Heritage; Heredity; Relatives EMILY DICKINSON AND GERARD MANELY HOPKINS, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My notebook shows they took a formal cruise, Last Line: Was warped for good. I am the living proof. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Variant Title(s): Emily Dickinson And Gerard Manley Hopkins Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Hopkins, Gerard Manley (1844-1889); Heritage; Heredity ENSLAVED, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh when I think of my long-suffering race Last Line: To liberate my people from its yoke! Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): African Americans - History; Slavery; Black Heritage; Serfs FAMOUS MAN, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: Fluttered across his face Last Line: Of his father. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Family Life; Parents; Heritage; Heredity; Relatives; Parenthood FAR MEMORY: 1. CONVENT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My knees recall the pockets Last Line: And certainly attended. Subject(s): African Americans - History; Convents; Memory; Sisters; Women & Religion; Black Heritage FAR MEMORY: 4. TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THIS LIFE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who did I fail, who Last Line: Of rescue, rescue. Subject(s): African Americans - History; Life; Sisters; Women & Religion; Black Heritage FOR AL-TAYIB SALIH, by KHALED MATTAWA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I come here to retrieve a shoe Subject(s): Moors (people); Ancestors & Ancestry; Shoes; Love; Spain; Heritage; Heredity; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers FOR MY SON, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You come from poets, kings, bankrupts, preachers, Subject(s): Sons; Ancestors & Ancestry; Heritage; Heredity FOR THE CONFEDERATE DEAD, by KEVIN YOUNG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These are the last days Subject(s): African Americans - History; Black Heritage FOR THIEVES ONLY, by LOIS RED ELK Poem Source First Line: Don't tell me Last Line: I'll show you what you never learned Subject(s): Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage FOREFATHERS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here they went with smock and crook Last Line: Who made honey long ago. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; England; Landscape; Heritage; Heredity; English FORERUNNERS, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long I followed happy guides, / I could never reach their sides Last Line: Peace that hallows rudest ways. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Heritage; Heredity FURY; FOR MAMA, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remember this Last Line: For this woman's sake. Subject(s): African Americans - History; Obedience; Women - Abused; Black Heritage; Wife Beating GAULZERY (GALSWORTHY) MOOR, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Moor of my name [or, fathers]- [where] the road leads high Last Line: And homed him here, and gave me name. Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Moors (land); Heritage; Heredity GENEALOGICAL, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was my grandfather's grandfather's grandfather's Last Line: And I think he explains my lifelong liking for indians. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Heritage; Heredity GENEALOGY, by DIANE GLANCY Poem Source First Line: I was not raised in the traditional way, and you can ask what right have I Last Line: When I wake in the morning, having been there in the night Subject(s): Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage GENEALOGY OF FIRE, by KHALED MATTAWA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My sister held an old piece of bread Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Arabs; Family Life; Heritage; Heredity; Relatives GENTLY BENT TO EASE US'; FOR BILL KNOTT, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rainmakers are these second growths Last Line: Like the emerald gear of a long-dead martyred king. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Creative Ability; Mexico; Heritage; Heredity; Inspiration; Creativity GRACE'S CHOICE, by CHARLES BATTELL LOOMIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When first I saw fair-featured grace Last Line: But wealth andlooks and pedigree. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Beauty; Marriage; Wealth; Heritage; Heredity; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Riches; Fortunes HAINES' CORNERS, by KATE CRICHTON GREDLER Poem Text First Line: When we who live in bedford town Last Line: For me, their unknown, grateful heir. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Heritage; Heredity HAUNTING FULL BLOOD, by SUZANNE RANCOURT Poem Source First Line: Oh. Indian woman that sold butter Last Line: Where my grandmothers bathed %and the rocks are that smooth Subject(s): Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage HEAVEN, by CATHY SONG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He thinks when we die we'll go to china Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; China; Heritage; Heredity HEIRLOOM, by ABRAHAM MOSES KLEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My father bequeathed me no wide estates Alternate Author Name(s): Klein, A. M. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Jews; Heritage; Heredity; Judaism HEREDITY, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A soldier of the cromwell stamp Last Line: To one, the quick, unreasoning heart. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Heritage; Heredity HEREDITY, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am the family face Last Line: That heeds no call to die. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Life Change Events; Heritage; Heredity HEREDITY, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That swollen paunch you are doomed to bear Last Line: And yet, away, you charnel thing! Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Character; Evil; Heritage; Heredity HERITAGE, by THERESA VIRGINIA BEARD Poem Text First Line: Thou art fairer than the lilies that grow beside the pool Last Line: Of the little wind-blown flower that in my garden grew. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Heritage; Heredity HERITAGE, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is africa to me Subject(s): Africa; African Americans - History; Black Heritage HERITAGE, by SELMA DERRY Poem Text First Line: Through the lengths of many winds Last Line: I, daughter of gaunt women. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Women; Heritage; Heredity HERITAGE, by MAY BRYANT FULLAM Poem Text First Line: Our birdman loved his ship Last Line: To take his place with friends and kin e'en as he did on earth. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Courage; Explorers; Heritage; Heredity; Valor; Bravery; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers HERITAGE, by DEMIE GENAITIS Poem Text First Line: These laughter-honeyed children, dirty-faced Last Line: In the arch company of stars and burning suns. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Beauty; Children; Heritage; Heredity; Childhood HERITAGE, by BEATRICE RUTH GIBBS Poem Text First Line: What is there here, in these small country places Last Line: England, that is our children's heritage. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; England; Heritage; Heredity; English HERITAGE, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Door, I was, yes, afraid of you Last Line: That stand and wait outside. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Heritage; Heredity HERITAGE, by BLANCHE LEE Poem Text First Line: I have been down the long twisting road of pain Last Line: I know the road the wizards built for elfin lads and lasses. Alternate Author Name(s): Lee-adams, Blanche Ruby Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Pain; Roads; Tears; Heritage; Heredity; Suffering; Misery; Paths; Trails HERITAGE, by AMY CROCKER LEIGHTON Poem Text First Line: We are a cordon-rope of love Last Line: To mount the universal stair. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Death; Love; Heritage; Heredity; Dead, The HIDES, by DIANE GLANCY Poem Source First Line: I can't say I'm of the bear clan or the elk people Last Line: If only through the imagination in your own head Subject(s): Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage HISTORY OF MY FACE, by KHALED MATTAWA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My lips came with a caravan of slaves Subject(s): Libya; Faces; Ancestors & Ancestry; Heritage; Heredity I AM MERELY POSING FOR A PHOTOGRAPH, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The propellers churn Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Heritage; Heredity I AM OF THE REHOUSE CLAN, by MAZZI/REX LEE JIM Poem Source Last Line: I am from the household of hastin ohodiiteel Subject(s): Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage I ASK MY MOTHER TO SING, by LI-YOUNG LEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She begins, and my grandmother joins her Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Heritage; Heredity I WAS SLEEPING WHERE THE BLACK OAKS MOVE, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We watched from the house Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Heritage; Heredity ILLUSTRIOUS ANCESTORS, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rav Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Hasidism; Zalman, Shneur (1745-1813); Heritage; Heredity INDIAN SOLILOQUY, by HORTENSE SMITH MACDOUGALL Poem Text First Line: They cling to me, those ancient memories Last Line: Great father guides me where I ought to go. Subject(s): Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage INDIANS, by ROXY GORDON Poem Source First Line: Hank williams was an indian Last Line: Living is indian, %expecting to live forever ain't Subject(s): Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage INTRODUCTION, by JOHN YAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It had to be from someone whose grandparents were born in shanghai Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Asian Americans - Chinese; Self; Heritage; Heredity; Chinese In The United States JES' TAKE MY ADVICE, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jes' a little sunshine, jes' a little rain Last Line: Jes' sech little tings as dat got dis coon in jail. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): African Americans - History; Black Heritage KIN, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): African Americans; Ancestors & Ancestry; Negroes; American Blacks; Heritage; Heredity LEDA: 1, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is nothing luminous Last Line: Fucking god fucking me. Subject(s): African Americans - History; Curses; Leda; Mythology - Classical; Black Heritage LINEAGE, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My grandmothers were strong Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1) Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Alienation (social Psychology); Alphabet Verse; Ancestors & Ancestry; Women; Estrangement; Outcasts; Heritage; Heredity LLANO VAQUEROS, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Padilla unloads mangy herd of mexican Subject(s): Cowboys; Ancestors & Ancestry; Heritage; Heredity MAN AND THE ASCIDIAN; A MORALITY, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ancestor remote of man Last Line: Revert to the ascidian. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Morality; Heritage; Heredity; Ethics MID-AMERICA PRAYER, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Standing again / within and among all things Last Line: Strength, vision, unity and continuance Subject(s): Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage; Togetherness MISS KILMANSEGG AND HER PRECIOUS LEG: HER BIRTH, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What different dooms our birthdays bring Last Line: Of lord althorp's -- now earl spencer. Variant Title(s): Diversity Of Fortunes Subject(s): Adversity; Ancestors & Ancestry; Heritage; Heredity MISS KILMANSEGG AND HER PRECIOUS LEG: HER CHRISTENING, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though shakespeare asks us, 'what's in a name?' Last Line: And that was the end of the christening. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Heritage; Heredity MISS KILMANSEGG AND HER PRECIOUS LEG: HER EDUCATION, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: According to metaphysical creed Last Line: With which he walk'd behind her. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Education; Heritage; Heredity MISS KILMANSEGG AND HER PRECIOUS LEG: HER PEDIGREE, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To trace the kilmansegg pedigree Last Line: At the lord knows what per quarter! Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Heritage; Heredity MY FORE-ELDERS, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When from the child that still is led Last Line: Their child's late child. And know of me! Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Heritage; Heredity MY GREAT UNCLE PATRICK HENRY, by JAMES TATE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a fortune to be made in just about everything Subject(s): Family Life; Disappointment; Ancestors & Ancestry; Relatives; Heritage; Heredity NAMES, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From somerset and devon Last Line: One race, one truth, one speech. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; England; Names; New England; Heritage; Heredity; English NEVER WENT TO BIRDLAND, by GERALD STERN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never went to birdland, so what, went to the y, Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Jews; Love - Beginnings; Heritage; Heredity; Judaism OEDIPAL STRIVINGS, by FREDERICK SEIDEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A dinosaur egg opens in a lab Subject(s): Jews; Ancestors & Ancestry; Weather; Judaism; Heritage; Heredity ON A MINIATURE, by HENRY AUGUSTIN BEERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thine old-world eyes - each one a violet Last Line: Beauty like thine makes usurpation fair. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Heritage; Heredity ON MY FATHER'S SIDE, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Off the coast of council bluffs, great grandfather's Last Line: Through my father's impossible speech. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Heritage; Heredity OREGON HOLLY, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: As holly tells of feudal days Last Line: Has both their charms together. Subject(s): Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage; Oregon; Patriotism; West (u.s.) - Exploration OUR HERITAGE, by ISIDORE G. ASCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We own no kingdom and we flaunt no king Last Line: The jews draw strenuous force and vigorous life. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Israel; Jews; Heritage; Heredity; Judaism PASSING, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When the famous black poet speaks, Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Heritage; Heredity PHI BETA KAPPA POEM; HARVARD, 1914, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, friends, and scholars, we are here to serve Last Line: The sunrise kindling all the peaks with fire. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Duty; Harvard University; Idealism; New England; Tradition; Heritage; Heredity PHOTOGRAPH OF A GATHERING OF PEOPLE WAVING, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No sound, the whole thing Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Farewell; Photography & Photographers; Pictures; Silence; Heritage; Heredity; Parting PRE-TEXT, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Archaic, his gestures / hieratic, just like caesar or sappho Subject(s): Babies; Ancestors & Ancestry; Time; Infants; Heritage; Heredity PRIDE OF ANCESTRY, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The deacon's wife was a bit desirish Last Line: Accounts for their genius and love of drink Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Heritage; Heredity PRIDE OF RANK, by JAMES SHERIDAN KNOWLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Descent / you'll grant, is not alone nobility Last Line: I trust I seem not bold, to argue so. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Heritage; Heredity PROMISES: 2. COURT-MARTIAL, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the cedar tree Subject(s): American Civil War; Lynching; Confederate States Of America; Soldiers; Veterans; Ancestors & Ancestry; Confederacy; Heritage; Heredity RATIONAL, by HELEN CHALAKEE BURGESS Poem Source First Line: She don't look indian all the time Last Line: Grandma passed %... Again, twin nods Subject(s): Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage REFLECTION, by MARK TURCOTTE Poem Source First Line: Back when I used to be an indian Last Line: A long, black bird bursts %from my throat Subject(s): Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage REMEMBER, by JOY HARJO Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remember the sky that you were born under Last Line: Remember. Subject(s): Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage REWARD, by KEVIN YOUNG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Run away from this sub- / scriber for the second time Subject(s): African Americans - History; Slavery; Escapes; Black Heritage; Serfs; Fugitives ROCK COUNTRY, by RANDY BLASING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here the dead far outnumber the living Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Oxford County, Maine; Cemeteries; Heritage; Heredity; Graveyards SENSES OF HERITAGE, by NTOZAKE SHANGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My grandpa waz a doughboy from carolina Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, Paulette Subject(s): Race Awareness; African Americans; Ancestors & Ancestry; Trees; Moon; Family Life; Negroes; American Blacks; Heritage; Heredity; Relatives SHE, I AND THEY, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was sitting Last Line: And unable to keep up their sturdy line.' Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Heritage; Heredity SKETCH FOR A JOB APPLICATION BLANK, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My left eye is blind and jogs like Last Line: Warmth, more warmth, I cry.) Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Labor & Laborers; Memory; Self-doubt; Heritage; Heredity; Work; Workers SNOWMEN, by AGHA SHAHID ALI Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: My ancestor, a man Last Line: On their melting shoilders Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Heritage; Heredity SOME LAST QUESTIONS, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the head Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Curiosities & Wonders; Human Rights; Heritage; Heredity; Enigmas; Oddities SOMETHING LIKE A SONNET FOR PHILLIS MIRACLE WHEATLEY, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Girl from the realm of birds florid and fleet Subject(s): African Americans - History; Wheatley, Phillis (1753-1784); Black Heritage SOUTH SONG, by ROY ADDISON HELTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm for the south, - for the black-eyed south Last Line: From beauty's warm lips on the bride-bed of june. Subject(s): African Americans - History; Southern States; Black Heritage; South (u.s.) STOWAWAYS, by DAVID RIVARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Immigrants; Conduct Of Life; Heritage; Heredity; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration THE AMEN STONE, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On my desk there is a stone with the word “amen” on it Last Line: A jigsaw puzzle. Child’s play Subject(s): Jews; Ancestors & Ancestry; Judaism; Heritage; Heredity THE ANCESTRESS; A DRAMATIC SKETCH, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is in this we differ; I would seek Last Line: Castle hide the whole. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Guilt; Punishment; Heritage; Heredity THE BALLAD OF THE CHILDREN OF THE CZAR, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem 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 BED, by JOSE-MARIA DE HEREDIA (1842-1905) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let it be draped with serge or with brocade Last Line: Bids welcome and farewell to all his kin. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Beds; Sleep; Heritage; Heredity THE BLACK FAMILY PLEDGE, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because we have forgotten our ancestors Subject(s): African Americans; Ancestors & Ancestry; Negroes; American Blacks; Heritage; Heredity THE BLACK RIDERS: 22, by STEPHEN CRANE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I saw mountains angry Last Line: Who stood against the mountains. Variant Title(s): Ancestry Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Heritage; Heredity THE DESCENDANT AND THE ID (MONOLOGUE IN REGARD TO HEREDITY), by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once, when the scholar - in his book, you know Last Line: God, in my hand, had written a new name. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Heritage; Heredity THE DIATRIBE OF THE KITE; FOR KHENPO KARTHAR RINPOCHE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They come from the white barrier of noon Last Line: Those ancestors for whom we are ashamed. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Asia; Kites; Heritage; Heredity; Far East; East Asia; Orient THE DISTURBED WASP; TO WILLIAM BEEBE, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER Poem Text First Line: They beat in rhythm all Last Line: Man! Have you no heart? Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Heritage; Heredity THE DREADFUL HAS ALREADY HAPPENED, by MARK STRAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The relatives are leaning over, staring expectantly Subject(s): Babies; Time; Ancestors & Ancestry; Infants; Heritage; Heredity THE DREAM OF A LACQUER BOX, by KIMIKO HAHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wish I knew the contents and I wish the contents Subject(s): Mothers; Heritage; Dreams; Nightmares THE FAMILY NAME, by CHARLES LAMB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What reason first imposed thee, gentle name Last Line: No deed of mine shall shame thee, gentle name. Alternate Author Name(s): Elia Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Names; Heritage; Heredity THE HANDING DOWN: 1. THE CONVERSATION, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Speaker and hearer, words Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Heritage; Heredity THE IDEA OF ANCESTRY, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Taped to the wall of my cell are 47 pictures: 47 black Subject(s): African Americans; Ancestors & Ancestry; Fathers; Korean War, 1950-1953; Men; Prayer; Prisons & Prisoners; Negroes; American Blacks; Heritage; Heredity; Convicts THE KEY; A MOORISH ROMANCE, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moor leans on his cushion Last Line: To seek the ancient door! Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Moors (people); Heritage; Heredity THE LIVING, by KEVIN YOUNG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After independence day / all our toys began to tear Subject(s): Cotton; Farm Life; African Americans - History; Agriculture; Farmers; Black Heritage THE NEGRO SPEAKS OF RIVERS, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've known rivers Last Line: My soul has grown deep like the rivers. Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans - History; Holidays; New Year; Racism; Rivers; Time; Black Heritage; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry THE PEDIGREE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I bent in the deep of night Last Line: And the stained moon and drift retook their places there. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Heritage; Heredity THE PSALMIST, AFTER JOHNNY CASH'S 'OH BURYME NOT', by VIRGIL SAUREZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is found in mote of dust a float in shaft Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Cuba; Heritage; Heredity THE TRAVELLER AT THE SOURCE OF THE NILE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In sunset's light, o'er afric thrown Last Line: Thine own sweet paths in search of thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Africa; African Americans - History; Nile (river); Travel; Black Heritage; Journeys; Trips TIGUA ELDER, by PAT MORA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How do I tell my children Last Line: There is forgetting in my own true name Subject(s): Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage TO BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside our way the streams are dried Last Line: And lead us to the promised land! Subject(s): African Americans - History; Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915); Black Heritage TO INSURE SURVIVAL, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You come forth Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Heritage; Heredity TO MY COAST SALISH ANCESTORS, by DUANE NIATUM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the late evening, rain and fog Last Line: I am of this coast and its keeper Subject(s): Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage TO THE DIASPORA: YOU DID NOT KNOW YOU WERE AFRIKA, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you set out for afrika Last Line: Your work, that was done, to be done to be done to be done Subject(s): African Americans; Ancestors & Ancestry; Negroes; American Blacks; Heritage; Heredity TO WALTER LIONEL DE ROTHSCHILD ON HIS BAR-MITZVAH, by LOUIS BARNETT ABRAHAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thine is the heritage of ancient birth Last Line: Thy heart shall know a peace no pain can mar. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Bar & Bat Mitzvahs; Jews; Heritage; Heredity; Judaism TWO STANDARDS, by ELISE PASCHEN Poem Text First Line: Joan's one eighth. I'm a quarter Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Authors - Conferences And Workshops; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage; Women; Estrangement; Outcasts; Writer's Conferences And Workshops TWO STANDARDS, by ELISE PASCHEN Poem Source First Line: Joan's one eighth. I'm a quarter Last Line: I will take that ancestral one Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Authors - Conferences And Workshops; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage; Women ULYSSES S. GRANT (1822-1885), by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The treasury voted nine to one against your ordinary Last Line: As she lies without a coat of arms. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Death; Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); Heritage; Heredity; Dead, The UNVEILING, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the cemetery Subject(s): Cemeteries; Ancestors & Ancestry; Graveyards; Heritage; Heredity VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 4: SATIRE: 3, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Vvhat boots it pontice, tho thou could'st discourse Last Line: More than his life, or lands, or golden line. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Life; Nature; War; Heritage; Heredity WAITING THERE, by MICHAEL ANANIA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing but this continent Last Line: That fronted on the open west Subject(s): West - U.s.; Ancestors & Ancestry; Heritage; Heredity WARM DAYS IN JANUARY, by DONALD REVELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It has never been so easy to cry Subject(s): City & Town Life; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Ancestors & Ancestry; Hotels; Male-female Relations; Heritage; Heredity; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses |
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