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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: HOTELS Matches Found: 197 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A HUNDRED COLLARS, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The doctor slid a little down the pillow. Subject(s): Hotels; Relationships; Fear; Money; Collars; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses A TRUE STORY, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One afternoon in my room Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses A.K.A. MATA HARI, by BARBARA SZERLIP Poem Source First Line: She suggested we meet for lunch the next day at cafe americaine Last Line: Brow. 'a kiss,' she said, bestowing one, and was off Subject(s): Hotels; Restaurants; Reunions; Travel ADULTERY, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have all been in rooms Subject(s): Hotels; Love - Marital; Marriage; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ADULTERY, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have all been in rooms Last Line: God bless you. Guilt is magical Subject(s): Hotels; Love - Marital; Marriage ADVANCING, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: A bank yesterday Last Line: A prison tomorrow Subject(s): Banks And Banking; Hotels; Prisons And Prisoners; Professions AN OLD INN BY THE SEA, by ODELL SHEPARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All night long we had heard the voice of the sea Last Line: He sent this last dark cohort crashing in? Subject(s): Hotels; Sea; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Ocean AT A HOTEL IN ANOTHER STAR, by JEAN VALENTINE Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: At a hotel in another star. The rooms were cold and Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses AT THE ALGONQUIN, by HOWARD MOSS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He sat at the algonquin, smoking a cigar Last Line: Filled the room above the carpet's roses, %and, getting up, he said, 'ah, there you are!' Subject(s): Hotels; Poetry And Poets AT THE DAYS END MOTEL, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I turned on the waterworks and said Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses AT THE DAYS END MOTEL, by JAMES TATE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I turned on the waterworks and said Last Line: And was surprisingly convivial Subject(s): Hotels AT THE END OF THE AFFAIR, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That it should end in an albert pick hotel Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Hotels AT THE FOXTROT MOTEL, by WILLIAM CARPENTER Poem Source First Line: It was october in presque isle, potato season Last Line: Falling in the same direction, at the same blinding speed Subject(s): Hotels AT THE MEADOWLANDS HOTEL, by PETER E. MURPHY Poem Source First Line: On this discounted weekend a yahoo threatens sleep Last Line: To defeat the offenses of the night before Subject(s): Hotels AT THE PRINCETON HOTEL, by PETER E. MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Behind the swedish resort Last Line: Adios, he sighs to the wounded, %adios to the healing Subject(s): Hotels; Princeton, New Jersey AT THE ROADHOUSE: IN MEMORY OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: You hearken, fellows? Turned aside Last Line: The velvet jacket at the door. Subject(s): Hotels; Poetry & Poets; Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894); Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses AT THE WATERLOO HOTEL, by PETER E. MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Here dreams are interrupted by a woman Last Line: Of your own rooms Subject(s): Hotels BARBIZON: THE BARBIZON HOTEL FOR WOMEN, by NICOLE BROSSARD Poem Source First Line: An intuition of reciprocal knowledge Last Line: With ultimate certainty without respite Subject(s): Hotels BEACHCOMBER HOTEL, PAPEETE, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: While katie crashes after our nine-hour flight Last Line: Pulls itself, dripping, out of the gold sea Subject(s): Hotels; Seashore BEAUTIFUL ABERFOYLE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mountains and glens of aberfoyle are beautiful to sight Last Line: When the face of nature's green in the spring of the year. Subject(s): Guests; Hotels; Mountains; Sight; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips BEAUTIFUL NAIRN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All ye tourists who wish to be away Last Line: Therefore I would recommend nairn for balmy pure air. Subject(s): Hotels; Tourists; Towns; Travel; Vacation; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Journeys; Trips BED AND BREAKFAST, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We drive on, hoping for fair weather Last Line: With its steady thread of flame Subject(s): Travel; Hotels BELLY DANCER AT THE HOTEL JEROME, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Disguised as an arab, the bouzouki player Last Line: Are ours, rising now, as bravos Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Hotels; Lust BLACK BULL OF ALDGATE, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black bull of aldgate, may thy horns rot from the sockets Last Line: Than ever hasty clement's did with bloated harry! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hate; Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses BLACK MARE, by LYNDA HULL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It snakes behind me, this invisible chain gang Last Line: Terminal hotel, the world shuddering with trains Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Hotels; Love - Complaints; Disappointmenr; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses BOARDING HOUSE, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The blind man draws his curtains for the night Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses BOARDING HOUSE, by TED KOOSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The blind man draws his curtains for the night Last Line: Under the blind man's door, and all is right Subject(s): Hotels BROOKLYNESE CAPITOL, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: The asia of new england Last Line: The schnitzel of the alps %the smell way Subject(s): Brooklyn, New York; Hotels; Tourists; Travel BUS NORTH, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I saw him looking, I held myself in Last Line: And we are honoured you see to travel so far Subject(s): Buses; Guests; Hotels; Tourists; Travel CHAMBERMAIDS IN THE MARRIOTT IN MID-MORNING, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are having a sort of coffee klatch as they clean Last Line: Through the marriott's morning soaps up and down every corri Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Hotels CHANEL NO. 5, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life had become a sort of gorgeous elegy Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses CHANEL NO. 5, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life had become a sort of gorgeous elegy Last Line: Inclined her head to smell her own gardenia Subject(s): Hotels CHECKING OUT, by MARY ELIZABETH PARKER Poem Source First Line: I took everything I wanted from that hotel room Last Line: No tears and no censer to perfume my way Subject(s): Hotels CHORUS AT THE GREEN BEAR INN, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ruddy old shepherd, blithe of cheer Last Line: (long may it march before us!) Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Song Writing; Hotels CRIES, by JAY MEEK Poem Source First Line: Waking in my motel room Last Line: That we could have kissed Subject(s): Hotels; Love; Travel DANCING AT THE CHELSEA, by DIONISIO D. MARTINEZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is no longer a question of balance and yet Last Line: Made in the aisle of an abandoned pullman. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Hotels; New York City; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple DAWN ON THE HILLS (FROM A HOTEL WINDOW), by LILLIAN ATCHERSON Poem Text First Line: My home is a suite on the third floor up Last Line: May I walk with my fellowmen. Subject(s): Dawn; Hotels; Sunrise; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses DESERT MOTEL BEFORE DAWN, by GREG PAPE Poem Source First Line: Up at 4:00 a.M., and hour and a half Last Line: Who may or may not come Subject(s): Hotels DESIRE, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a small wrought-iron balcony Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses DESIRE, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a small wrought-iron balcony Last Line: Already remembering this past he would desire Subject(s): Hotels DISCOVERY, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Across the urban sky the slow bass sound Last Line: Once violence was real Subject(s): Explorers; Hotels; Travel; United States DOWN ON WRIGGLE CRICK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mostly, folks is law-abidin' Last Line: Down on wriggle crick! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Brooks; Crime & Criminals; Hotels; Streams; Creeks; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses EBENEZER-GRAMS: 2. UNKEL EB IS SPEEDIN', by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Unkel eb is now a speedin' Last Line: Wher weery peeple pass. Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Hotels; Travel; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Journeys; Trips ENORMOUS AQUARIUM, by SHEROD SANTOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All morning long from inside the lobby Last Line: Like some ancient and magnificent tribe Subject(s): Aquariums; Hotels EPITAPH IN HOLY TRINITY CHURCH FOR RICHARD PHILLPOTS, D.1766, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: To tell a merry or wond'rous tale Last Line: That fatal stroke has laid him here in dust %to rise again once more with joy we trust Subject(s): Hotels FEEDING THE DUCKS AT THE HOWARD JOHNSON MOTEL, by SUSAN MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: I wouldn't say I was dying for it Last Line: Smell of something baking rising %from my flesh Subject(s): Hotels FOR THE SAKE OF AMELIA, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tending a cliff-hanging grand hotel Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses FOR THE SAKE OF AMELIA, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tending a cliff-hanging grand hotel Last Line: And the mask of tragedy over her pubic hair Subject(s): Hotels FORGETTING' HE SAID, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And what we had wanted %to forget Subject(s): Arabs; Aviation And Aviators; Hotels; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Travel FRENCH LESSON: HOTEL D'EUROPE, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cheap paris hotel, a true bargain Last Line: Quite as satisfactory as this Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Paris, France; Hotels; French Language FROM A MIDWEST MOTEL WINDOW, by LEN KRISAK Poem Source First Line: Across the field and far beyond Last Line: When night comes on, and god's sun stops Subject(s): Hotels; Middle West; Windows GEM INN, KANDY, by MARILYN KRYSL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is the window in a wall of windows in the room Last Line: This glass half full of light, half full of dark Subject(s): Hotels GLACIER PARK, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: At last we've reached the famous place Last Line: When the tenderfeet intrude. Subject(s): Animals; Hotels; Parks; Tourists; Travel; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Journeys; Trips GLENWOOD SPRINGS, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under doc holliday's / weary eyes Last Line: As mountains Subject(s): Hotels; Travel; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Journeys; Trips HARD EVIDENCE, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A room walled-in by books where the hours withdraw Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses HILLTOP HOUSE INN, by LISA HURWITZ Poem Source First Line: The cackles of women chosen by god Last Line: Wives without men, and women chosen %by god to keep me awake Subject(s): Hotels; Religion; Women HOLIDAY INN BLUES, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a dark cave called fuzzy's Last Line: With tongues alack %for love Subject(s): Hotels HOTEL, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My room is shaped like a cage Last Line: I don't want to work I want to smoke Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): Hotels HOTEL, by GAYLE GIBLIN Poem Text First Line: A thousand rooms in a beautiful home Last Line: This home is a grotesque fantasy. Subject(s): Home; Hotels; Rooms; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses HOTEL, by SHERARD VINES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The great bestial bulk of it looms into the night Last Line: Till one night lady death fingers the cups ere dawn? Subject(s): Hotels; Oxford University; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses HOTEL, by RENATE WOOD Poem Source First Line: It sat under a hood of snow and pine Last Line: And is still and incomprehensible Subject(s): Hotels HOTEL BY ANY OTHER NAME, by EVA MACEY WATSON Poem Source First Line: Love -- even forbidden love -- doesn't deserve linoleum Last Line: Street and nowhere else, it will stand, clapping Subject(s): Hotels HOTEL BY THE SEA, by SUSAN MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: In the hotel by the sea a man is playing the piano Last Line: A pack of anything anywhere Subject(s): Hotels; Play HOTEL DES GRANDES ECOLES, by RICHARD GARCIA Poem Source First Line: The window across from the bed Last Line: To settle a running argument about clouds Subject(s): Hotels HOTEL DU NORD, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the lawn of the old hotel at twilight Last Line: There is no elsewhere Subject(s): Hotels HOTEL INSOMNIA, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I liked my little hole Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses HOTEL INSOMNIA, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I liked my little hole Last Line: For a moment, I was sobbing myself Subject(s): Hotels HOTEL LENOX, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And she loved loving Last Line: And the lemon light flew over the river Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses HOTEL LENOX, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And she loved loving Last Line: And the lemon light flew out over the river Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Hotels HOTEL LOBBY, by NIKIA LEOPOLD Poem Source First Line: After edward hopper Last Line: Which can't quite reach her Subject(s): Hotels HOTEL ONTARIO, by RUBEN MARTINEZ Poem Source First Line: Fractured sun through the crossbeamed skylight Last Line: To break the glass door Subject(s): Hotels; Rooms; Tourists HOTEL ROOM, CANTICLE, by MELODY GOETZ Poem Source First Line: I didn't want to go to the party-nothing to say, too tired to be funny, & Last Line: (this is how we are, are you listening Subject(s): Conversation; Hotels; Rooms HOTEL SIERRA, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The november air Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses HOTEL SIERRA, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The november air Last Line: Drawn simply by the seasons, by their lives Subject(s): Hotels HOTEL ST. LOUIS, NEW YORK CITY, FALL 1969, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I went inside, the manager said, `you don't want to live Last Line: Sunday mornings, a bright orange football helmet that glowed like the sun. Subject(s): Hotels; New York City; Survival; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple HOTEL WINDOW, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aura of absence, vertigo of non-being Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses HOTEL WINDOW, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aura of absence, vertigo of non-being Last Line: And it was dizzying, relentless, eternal Subject(s): Hotels HOTEL WITH BIRDS, by LEWIS HYDE Poem Source First Line: Across the courtyard from the balcony Last Line: All shoulder and breast beneath the bobbing, servant head Subject(s): Hotels HOTEL-KEEPERS, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All that would meet Last Line: To their own rewards Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hotels ILLUMINATION, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In that hotel my life Last Line: The key %which blinded me Subject(s): Hotels IMPROMPTU ON AN INNKEEPER NAMED BACON, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At brownhill we always get dainty good cheer Last Line: But why always bacon-come, tell me a reason? Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses IN A HOTEL WRITING-ROOM, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We artists have strange nerves! Last Line: We had met before this scene. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Faces; Friendship; Hate; Hotels; Summer; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses IN A LODGING HOUSE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Get to thy room, a voice told me Last Line: And less thy hope than older men. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses IN A RENTED ROOM, by DENIS JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is a good dream, even if the falling is Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses IN A RENTED ROOM, by DENIS JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is a good dream, even if the falling is Last Line: Darknesses before I strike the correct sleep, and dream Subject(s): Hotels IN GEORGETOWN; HOLIDAY INN, WASHINGTON, D.C., by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is not where the rich and famous pursue their lifestyles Last Line: "melodiously at the door: ""are you all right, sir? Are you all right in there?" Subject(s): Americans; Corruption In Politics & Government; Hotels; Politics; Social Protest; United States; Washington, D.c.; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Politicians; Political Poetry; America IN THE BLUEMIST MOTEL, by GREG PAPE Poem Source First Line: I hear voices in the next room Last Line: Is falling asleep in his own bed Subject(s): Hotels; Popular Culture - United States IN THE HOTEL, by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whir. The invisible sponsored again by white Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses IN THE HOTEL, by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whir. The invisible sponsored again by white Last Line: In which you say yourself, in which you say %only yourself Subject(s): Hotels IN THE LOBBY OF THE HOTEL DEL MAYO, by RAYMOND CARVER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The girl in the lobby reading a leather-bound book Last Line: Everyone will remember this moment for the rest of their lives Subject(s): Hotels IN THE WILDERNESS MOTEL, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Red star hovering Last Line: The comfort, the company of ruin. Subject(s): Abandonment; Decay; Hotels; Nature; Desertion; Rot; Decadence; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses IN THIS NEW ENGLAND INN'S BED, by MARTHA RHODES Poem Source First Line: I dream I'm a go-go dancer Last Line: And bite down hard against the pain Subject(s): Hotels INHOSPITABLE, by MARK COX Poem Source First Line: You, too, have walked the carpeted halls Last Line: To explain your absence from school Subject(s): Hotels INSCRIPTION ON THE 'FLITCH OF BACON' INN AT DUNMOW, ESSEX, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Painted in gold Last Line: %and pledge it %in a toaste Subject(s): Hotels IRISH HOTEL, by DAVID WEVILL Poem Source First Line: This is the last hotel Last Line: To love his rocks' black bodies Subject(s): Hotels JACKSON HOTEL, by LYNDA HULL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes after hours of wine I can almost see Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses JACKSON HOTEL, by LYNDA HULL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes after hours of wine I can almost see Last Line: So small I could cup her in my hands Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Hotels JOURNAL OF BRANWELL BRONTE, SELS., by DAVID MIDDLETON Poem Source First Line: In this dark place where visions fail Last Line: Than those outside the black bull's doors Subject(s): Hotels KEEPER OF THE DEAD HOTEL, by AGHA SHAHID ALI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In one room upstairs Last Line: The moon splashed everywhere Subject(s): Hotels KOZY KORNER MOTEL, by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: Easy, the franchise-man had said, Last Line: Bending to the breeze. Subject(s): Business; Hotels; Travel LAMENT FOR LOST LODGINGS, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, do you remember an inn Last Line: On a long veranda, %I'll motor no more, miranda Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Hotels LANDLORD'S KIND CAUTION TO HIS CUSTOMERS; NORFOLK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Right welcome all who visit here Last Line: The one he takes it in disdain, %the other will my house refrain Subject(s): Hotels LATEST HOTEL GUEST WALKS OVER PARTICLES THAT REVOLVE, by RUTH STONE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is an old established hotel Last Line: Counting from ten to zero Subject(s): Hotels LEAVING THE MOTEL, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Outside, the last kids holler Last Line: We would no doubt have other rooms then, %or other names Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D. Subject(s): Absence; Erotic Love; Hotels LETTER L, by LUCIE BROCK-BROIDO Poem Source First Line: Someday I won't feel things anymore Last Line: Late winter, last of the 1900's %someone is still awake Subject(s): Hotels LOOKING FOR THE GULF MOTEL, by RICHARD BLANCO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: There should be nothing here I don't remember Last Line: And pretend for a moment, nothing lost is lost Subject(s): Travel; Hotels; Marco Island, Florida; Journeys; Trips; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses MAN ON THE HOTEL ROOM BED, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He shifts on the bed carefully, so as Last Line: The daylight grows so bright the man sees %the next darkness already forming inside it Subject(s): Hotels MARMION: CANTO 3. THE HOSTEL, OR INN, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The livelong day lord marmion rode Last Line: The first notes of the morning lark. Subject(s): Flodden Field, England; Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses MARRY AT A HOTEL, ANNUL ?ÇÖEM, by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Language; Hotels; Words; Vocabulary; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses MARY, THE MAID OF THE INN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is yonder poor maniac, whose wildly fixed eyes Last Line: Of poor mary the maid of the inn. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hotels; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Male-female Relations MIDSUMMER: 3, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the queen's park hotel, with its white, high-ceilinged rooms Last Line: A breeze strolls down to the docks, and the sea begins Subject(s): Hotels; Summer; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses MIDSUMMER: 3, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the queen's park hotel, with its white, high-ceilinged rooms Last Line: A breeze strolls down to the docks, and the sea begins Subject(s): Hotels MIDSUMMER: 36, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The oak inns creak in their joints as light declines Subject(s): Environment; Hotels; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses MIDSUMMER: 36, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The oak inns creak in their joints as light declines Last Line: Of shallow or silence in their fading garden Subject(s): Environment; Hotels; Trees MOON WINX MOTEL, by EMILY HIESTAND Poem Source First Line: The moon winx with its neon eyes and sly smile Last Line: And one unknown: the so-called, still secret: 7x Subject(s): Hotels; Popular Culture - United States MOSCOW, by JESSY RANDALL Poem Source First Line: The doorman thinks I look like anna karenina Last Line: Whispering to me in our little moscow bed Subject(s): Hotels; Moscow; Travel MOTEL ROOM CURTAINS, by BRUCE BERGER Poem Source First Line: Light through motel room curtains Last Line: Halfway somewhere else Subject(s): Hotels MOTEL SEEDY, by THOMAS LUX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The artisans of this room, who designed the lamp base Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses MOTEL SEEDY, by THOMAS LUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The artisans of this room, who designed the lamp base Last Line: Though not tonight, for a dollar fifty less Subject(s): Hotels MOTEL, EAST OHIO, by DON COLBURN Poem Source First Line: The woman behind the makeshift front desk Last Line: But a daughter's need to hear them again %above the traffic Subject(s): Hotels; Ohio; Poetry And Poets NARROW FOR LOVE THAT MUST BE FITTED IN, by SOPHIE HANNAH Poem Source Last Line: Once made it will (like love) be made again Subject(s): Beds; Hotels; Riddles NOMAD'S STORY, by BARBARA SZERLIP Poem Source First Line: We would like to have heard his story, to have spent an afternoon with Last Line: Clothes. He was gone in a week. We never spoke with him, or knew his %name Subject(s): Farewell; Hotels; Tourists; Travel OASIS MOTEL, by WILLIAM OLSEN Poem Source First Line: I touch you like the waves admire the weirs Last Line: Is lost to sight, and is heading forth Subject(s): Hotels ON A WINDOW IN THE PELICAN INN, NEWBURY, by JAMES QUIN Poem Source First Line: The famous inn at speenhamland Last Line: May well be called the pelican %from its enormous bill Subject(s): Hotels ON THE GABLE GATE OF THE INN AT FORD, OXFORDSHIRE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ye weary travellers that pass by Last Line: Then ye will own ye men of sense %that neare was better spent six pence Subject(s): Hotels OUT OF SEASON, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I stayed at the grand hotel Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses OUT OF SEASON, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I stayed at the grand hotel Last Line: In one place rather than another Subject(s): Hotels OUTSIDE ROOM SIX, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down on my knees again, on the linoleum outside room six Last Line: Black square, white square goes the linoleum Subject(s): Hotels; Popular Culture - United States; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses OUTSIDE ROOM SIX, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down on my knees again, on the linoleum outside room six Last Line: Black square, white square goes the linoleum Subject(s): Hotels; Popular Culture - United States PARADISE MOTEL, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Millions were dead; everybody was innocent Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses PARADISE MOTEL, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Millions were dead; everybody was innocent Last Line: Had too much red in it, too much pink Subject(s): Hotels PEN-Y-GWYRDD; TO TOM HUGHES, ESQ., by CHARLES KINGSLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no inn in snowdon which is not awful dear Last Line: And so, goes to my children's school and 'umbly makes my bow. Subject(s): Hotels; Wales; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Welshmen; Welshwomen PLOT OF A SUPPOSITION, by FRIEDERIKE MAYROCKER Poem Source First Line: When I had inspected the interior of the wardrobe, he said Last Line: When I had remembered to have supposed Subject(s): Homecoming; Hotels; Travel POETS OF THE NEW YORKER, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To weep for the dead can be found / in cemeteries Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Hotels POSTCARD FROM THE CENTER OF THE CONTINENT, by JAY MEEK Poem Source First Line: The big story from out here Last Line: You could go almost anywhere Subject(s): Hotels; North Dakota; Tourists; Travel POSTCARD TO STEVEN FROM SKYE, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: Finally got here!!! It's as dick says, surpassing Last Line: Molten sun, but cold, and steams. Love, maggie Subject(s): Hotels; Saint Kilda (scotland); Tourists; Travel; Writing And Writers RAMADA INN BIRD CAGE SCARE, by MICHAEL CATHERWOOD Poem Source First Line: Insurgents scheme in the bathroom, tug Last Line: The apostrophe, then invent the dance called red Subject(s): Birdcages; Hotels RED LION INN, by E. J. MILLER LAINO Poem Source First Line: This is what I know today and will know Last Line: Of guards, what changes outside a window Subject(s): Hotels; Knowledge REMEMBERING, by ANNA PRIESTLEY Poem Text First Line: I remember a little inn Last Line: Only beauty's ghost? Subject(s): Hotels; Memory; Moon; Spring; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses REMOVED AT THE MOMENT OF PERFECTION, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The earth has moved forward, in a sense, or does it merely turn Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses ROMANTICISM, by LAWRENCE RAAB Poem Source First Line: Tonight rain spills from the clogged gutters Last Line: Spilling off the roof, just so Subject(s): Hotels ROOMS BY THE NIGHT OR HOUR, by DENNIS NURKSE Poem Source First Line: Remember how we used to meet Last Line: Hidden by last night's news Subject(s): Hotels; Relationships; Sex RUBBING THE FACES OF ANGELS, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the balcony of the golden eagle motor inn Last Line: Me the reclining skeleton of thomas pool. Subject(s): Charleston, South Carolina; Death; Hotels; Southern States; Dead, The; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; South (u.s.) SAINTS AND LODGERS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Ye saints, that sing in rooms above Last Line: Some pensions take -- such are our lodgers. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses SAVANNAH, SLEEPLESS, by RICHARD TILLINGHAST Poem Source First Line: A bell has rung twelve times Last Line: And the blue atlantic draws a breath Subject(s): Hotels; Insomnia SIGNATURE OF LOVE, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In missoula, someone has punched Last Line: Beneath the signature of love on the ceiling. Subject(s): Hotels; Love; Sex; Vandalism; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses SOMNAMBULISTS' HOTEL, by JACK ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: Only sleepwalkers stay there Last Line: And all vow to stay here should fate ever lead them this way again Subject(s): Hotels; Sleepwalking; Tourists; Travel SONNETS IN A LODGING HOUSE: 1, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each morn she crackles upward, tread by tread Last Line: Please leave the tub as you would wish to find it! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses SONNETS IN A LODGING HOUSE: 2, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men lodgers are the best, the mrs. Said Last Line: Take my advice and let your rooms to gents! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses SURFACE AND STRUCTURE: BONAVENTURE HOTEL, LOS ANGELES, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Four black glass silos Last Line: Broken from a necklace. Subject(s): Decay; Hotels; Los Angeles; Rot; Decadence; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses TARANTELLA, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you remember an inn, / miranda? Last Line: Of the far waterfall like doom. Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses TEARING DOWN THE HOTEL, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: They are tearing down the oldest hotel Subject(s): Demolition; Past; Hotels; Nostalgia; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses TERMINAL HOTEL, by JAMES HAUG Poem Source First Line: There's always a vacancy here Last Line: The doorman's pocket full of change Subject(s): Hotels TH INN BY THE WOOD, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rank raw mist clung close like a hood Last Line: And I supped like a king at the inn by the wood. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Forests; Hotels; Woods; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THAT NIGHT I DIDN'T MAKE LOVE AT THE FLAMINGO MOTEL IN LONG PRAIRIE, by JOHN REINHARD Poem Source First Line: Only yesterday someone swiped it Last Line: Under the last of these %last snows Subject(s): Hotels; Love; Passion; Travel THE ARTEMUS OF MICHIGAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grand haven is in michigan Last Line: Potts! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Hotels; Michigan; Towns; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND EYES: THE LOST PINES INN, by LYN HEJINIAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lost pines inn would be a good name for a motel, or no sheep in the meadow Last Line: P.T. Cruiser that got me home by bedtime Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE BOROUGH: LETTER 11. INNS, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the comforts of life in a tavern are known Last Line: Took the green-man, and is a master now. Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE COLLAPSE OF THE TWO-RIVERS HOTEL, by SAADI YOUSSEF Poem Text First Line: The desert is not far from it Alternate Author Name(s): Youssef, Saddi; Yusuf, Sa'di Subject(s): Hotels; Nostalgia; Ruins; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE CROWN INN, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Round all its nooks and corners goes Last Line: While empires shudder into night. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Hotels; Landscape; English; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE EMPRESS HOTEL POEMS, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just get up / and sit down again. Then Last Line: In the other poem. Subject(s): Hotels; Housekeeping; Language; Rooms; Tourists; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Words; Vocabulary THE ENORMOUS AQUARIUM, by SHEROD SANTOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All morning long from inside the lobby Subject(s): Aquariums; Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE HOTEL DU NORD, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the lawn of the old hotel at twilight Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE INN AT LOCH RANZA, by WILLIAM MCQUEEN (1841-) Poem Text First Line: There's a neat little inn cuddled close by the hills Last Line: Not far from the inn at loch ranza. Subject(s): Hospitality; Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE INN OF THE FIVE CHIMNEYS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It had five chimneys, had that inn Last Line: And rumor said it was soiled with sin! Subject(s): Hotels; Sin; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE INN THAT MISSED ITS CHANCE (THE LANDLORD SPEAKS, AD. 28), by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What could be done? The inn was full of folks! Last Line: The birthplace of messiah, -- had I known! Subject(s): Christmas; Hotels; Nativity, The; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE INN: AN OLD EPITAPH, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Post-haste we ride the road of men Last Line: Who soonest goes hath least to pay. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Hotels; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE INVERSNAID INN, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The season is ended, the cold days begin Last Line: We are left in the storm, like the inversnaid inn! Subject(s): Hotels; Scotland; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE KEEPER OF THE DEAD HOTEL, by AGHA SHAHID ALI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In one room upstairs Last Line: The moon splashed everywhdre Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE KEY, by RICHARD JONES Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is my key to happiness Last Line: My sugar and my cream. Subject(s): Algeria; Hotels; Keys; Travel; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Journeys; Trips THE LANDLADY IN BANGKOK, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Because, separated from us by a language Last Line: From samsara to nirvana. Subject(s): Hotels; Landlords & Tenants; Thailand; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE LATEST HOTEL GUEST WALKS OVER PARTICLES THAT REVOLVE, by RUTH STONE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is an old established hotel Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE LODGING HOUSE FIRE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: My birthday - yesterday Last Line: Poison the score. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Fire; Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE MAN ON THE HOTEL ROOM BED, by GALWAY KINNELL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He shifts on the bed carefully, so as Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE QUIET LODGER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man that rooms next door to Last Line: This man that rooms next door to me! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Faces; Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE WAYSIDE INN; SUDBURY, MASSACHUSETTS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Set by the meadows, with great oaks to guard Last Line: Songs that will echo sweet the ages down! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Guests; Hotels; Massachusetts; Visiting; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THREE PERSPECTIVES OF SAN FRANCISCO: FROM OAKLAND, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Is san francisco at noon Last Line: On crates of doves.' Subject(s): Hotels; San Francisco; Tourists; Travel TO A COUNTRY HOTEL TOWEL, by ELMER CLEVELAND ADAMS Poem Text First Line: I'll touch you not, you much abus-ed rag Last Line: Trying to don you for an undershirt. Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses TO A WATCH LEFT IN A HOTEL ROOM, by DEBORA GREGER Poem Text First Line: Not long ago the sun was shining Subject(s): Hotels; Loss; Watches; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses TRANSIENT HOTEL SKY AT THE HOUR OF SLEEP, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the late shift, front desk Last Line: By the desk, then leered %at the jabbering smokers Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Hotels; Popular Culture - United States TRUE STORY, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One afternoon in my room Last Line: Will do what the romans do Subject(s): Hotels TWO FROM THE MONTEREY HOTEL: 1. LET'S RAISE A GLASS OF PORT TO THE OLD, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Didn't know much about the old guy Last Line: Weighing as much as two full golf bags Subject(s): Hotels; Monterey, California; Old Age; Rooms TWO HEARTS IN A FOREST: HOTEL PHILHARMONIC, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We have arrived drunk, jobless Last Line: Through the night's caesura Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Hotels; Love; Night; Sex TWO TRIPS TO IRELAND, by DAVID POLLOCK YOUNG Poem Source First Line: Well-eye, gazing at daytime stars Last Line: By a man so trapped in time Subject(s): Hotels; Ireland; Roads; Travel UNION OF WOMEN, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At a literary gathering in santa monica Last Line: So here's to solidarity, cinquains, brave bearded ladies -- hooray! Subject(s): Beards; Hotels; Labor Unions; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Feminism UNNATURAL ACTS, by GREG HEWETT Poem Source First Line: Somewhere along the line Last Line: Style, style, style Subject(s): Dreams; Hitchhikers; Hotels; Nature; Travel UP-HILL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Last Line: Yea, beds for all who come. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Uphill Subject(s): Death; Faith; Heaven; Hotels; Life; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Religion; Time; Travel; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Paradise; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Theology; Journeys; Trips VERSES AFFIXED TO THE INN AT COLLINS GREEN, OXFORDSHIRE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Stop, traveller - stop: within this peaceful shade Last Line: Sought in a cheerful glass his cares to drown, %and chang'd a guinea, ere he lost a crown Subject(s): Hotels VERSES HUNG BY THE MANTELSHELF AT THE ISAAC WALTON INN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Lord me grace what even I Last Line: To give no more than true report! Subject(s): Hotels WARM DAYS IN JANUARY, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full 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 WESTERN HOTEL, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: People sip drinks below a mountain lion Last Line: A child's tiny casket, large and empty as a mine Subject(s): Hotels WHAT THE BRAND NEW FREEWAY WON'T GO BY, by RICHARD HUGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The block is bare except for this five-story Last Line: Live here -- we'll never treat you badly again Subject(s): Hotels WHAT THE MAGDALENE SAW, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This fat cum pig more than eager to drop Subject(s): Hotels; Sex; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses WORLDLINESS, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I close my eyes Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses WORLDLINESS, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I close my eyes Last Line: Anonymously hard that I forgave him Subject(s): Hotels WRITTEN AT AN INN, by GEORGE HORNE Poem Text First Line: From much-loved friends whene'er I part Last Line: "arise, my soul, and let us go." Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses WRITTEN AT AN INN AT HENLEY, by WILLIAM SHENSTONE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To thee, fair freedom! I retire / from flattery, cards, and dice, and din Last Line: The warmest welcome at an inn. Subject(s): Freedom; Hotels; Liberty; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses |
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