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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: IMMIGRANTS Matches Found: 196 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 8 HOPE ROAD, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: This is not my story Last Line: On its hinges, milk left to curdle %in the pitcher on the table Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States A NEW SONG, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come honies of congress, pray do not be smoking me Last Line: You are bother'd from head to the tail. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Immigrants; Lyon, Matthew (1746-1822); Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration A PROBLEM IN AESTHETICS, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They sent him away Last Line: And one of us forgot. Subject(s): Immigrants; Poetry & Poets; Russia; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Soviet Union; Russians A TOURIST AT ELLIS ISLAND, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I found him, jankel olenik, Subject(s): Immigrants; Fathers; Ellis Island, New York Harbor; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration AIDED BY THE LANGUAGE OF MORNING, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN Poem Source First Line: The gruff, throaty complaints of blue jays Last Line: And my mind which seeks to recover my history, %my splintered past Subject(s): Americans In Europe; Childhood Memories; Immigrants; Language AL AND BETH, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My uncle al worked in a drugstore Subject(s): Immigrants; Patriotism; Family Life; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Relatives ALIEN IN AMERICA, by FRANCIS GARDNER CLOUGH Poem Text First Line: I have no ear to hear your alien word Last Line: And faith! -- the heart's last-labored codicil. Alternate Author Name(s): Clough, F. Gardner Subject(s): Aliens; Immigrants; United States; Extraterrestrials; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; America AMERICA SPEAKING, by DAVID RIVARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Speech; Immigrants; United States; Oratory; Orators; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; America AN EMIGRANT, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is she asleep, asleep Last Line: Rest she adream, adream. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Immigrants; Rest; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration ANGEL ISLAND POETRY, by EMMA GEE Poem Source First Line: Across from alcatraz island was another kind of prison Last Line: And avenge %past wrongs Subject(s): Abandonment; Farewell; Immigrants; Sacrifices APOLOGIA, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: How long have you measured the lives %of my people as you arrow Last Line: It's as close as I can get to freedom Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Fields; Immigrants; Minnesota APPLE, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Father %watching you peel the fruit Last Line: Eating the white meat %with the serpent Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States APSARA, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: To carry the dead Last Line: Each time you traverse the sea Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States AT ELLIS ISLAND, by GEORGE LAWRENCE ANDREWS Poem Text First Line: We speak of them as but a crazy bunch Last Line: Awaiting what were idle to protest. Subject(s): Ellis Island, New York Harbor; Immigrants; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration AT THE ENTRANCE TO AN UNDERGROUND, by JOSEP VICENC FOIX Poem Source First Line: Stairs of glass on the solar platform Last Line: In the open they wave torn flags Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Immigrants; Travel AT THE SHRINE, by RICHARD KENDALL MUNKITTRICK Poem Text First Line: A pale italian peasant Last Line: Are sold on barclay street. Subject(s): Immigrants; New York City; Prayer; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple AWAKENING, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: My mother is pinned to the clothesline Last Line: All these years they have lain silent Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States BABUSHKA, by ANNA WASESCHA Poem Source First Line: All this land Last Line: My mother says: the road to perham gets shorter every year Subject(s): Grandparents; Immigrants; Poland BECAUSE I COULD NOT GO HOME FOR MY AUNT'S FUNERAL, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: Because my mother's parents were immigrants Last Line: She coasts down the hill, poised, a surfer riding the big wave Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Aunts; Family Life; Immigrants BOTH MY GRANDMOTHERS 1. MY POLISH GRANDMA, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grandma and the children left at night Last Line: To go to a new country Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Family Life; Grandparents; Immigrants; Relatives BRONISLAW, by MARGARET C. SZUMOWSKI Poem Source First Line: Mother's borsht was steaming red Last Line: Bronislaw,' he answered Subject(s): Family Life; Immigrants; Poland CALYPSO, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Dese days, I doh even bada combing out mi locks Last Line: Well, dat the only romance I goin give de time a day Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States CANTO 37, by EZRA POUND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou shalt not', said martin vanburen. 'jail 'em for debt' Subject(s): United States - Politics & Government; Immigrants; Debt; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration CHOICE MADE, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: At night I feel the ocean Last Line: Nothing but bad luck will follow %all the days of your life Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States CORSICAN DROVER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: How chang'd the scene of late has been Last Line: And drove them back from paris Subject(s): France;immigrants;london; Emigrant;emigration;immigration COUPLE OF GEESE OVER PHOENIX, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source Last Line: It's unmistakable: fall is in the air Subject(s): Immigrants; Japanese Americans - Internment; Oregon; Prisons And Prisoners CROSSTOWN, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back in new york I grab a cab at port authority Subject(s): New York City; Taxis; Immigrants; City & Town Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration DARKLING I LISTEN, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: If I could write the truth Last Line: And moulting; the silence %of cannibal grass and trees Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States DAUGHTER, LEFT, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: In dreams my mother returns Last Line: Go down to the sea %and fish for your true face Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States DEATH OF THE EMIGRANT, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The way is long,' the father said Last Line: "the fatherless are mine." Subject(s): Death; Immigrants; Dead, The; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration DEBT, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: All day she scrubs the house Last Line: This too is not enough Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States DEPORTED, by KATHRYN WHITE RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The transports move stealthily to sea Last Line: Oh, do not notice! Subject(s): Immigrants; Sea Voyages; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration DIVERSITY OF CREATURES, by CORINNE HUNTINGTON JACKSON Poem Text First Line: The huntingtons within me stand aloof, and coldly distant Last Line: But—ah, the phinneys hearken, puckish-wise, their celtic tongues in cheek. Subject(s): Immigrants; Language; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Words; Vocabulary DOVE, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Imagine if you could have either cherry or stove Last Line: Of falling rain, a lover's hand grazing your neck Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States DRAMA IN THE PORT, by JOAN SALVAT-PAPASSEIT Poem Source First Line: Slosh of ocean Last Line: Beyond the harbor the seagulls rest Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Immigrants; Sea Voyages; Thunder; Waves DREAM SONGS: 292, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The irish sky is raining, the irish winds are high Last Line: & the last voice in drawled; 'henry? A brick' Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Immigrants; Nationalism - Ireland EL SALVADOR, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Eva tells me %that she is from el salvador Last Line: Not even the jews Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; El Salvador; Escapes; Exiles; Human Rights - Argentina; Immigrants; Memory; War ELLIS ISLAND, SEPTEMBER 1907 (1), by ANDREA HOLLANDER BUDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sadie, who was only twelve, wrote each letter down Last Line: Where she could become it Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Immigrants; Jews; Marginality, Social; Names ELLIS ISLAND, SEPTEMBER 1907 (2), by ANDREA HOLLANDER BUDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On me, the imported skies Last Line: The conscience of columbus %watery and round Subject(s): Immigrants EMIGRANT, by LUCY MAROULLETI Poem Source First Line: The sea Last Line: I started my search %for a new homeland Subject(s): Immigrants EMIGRANT'S SONG, by JOHN DUFFRESNE Poem Source First Line: Over the hills in veterans park Last Line: It slips from her throat like the voice %of someone talking in her sleep, %past help, past disbelief Subject(s): Immigrants EMIGRANTS, by KJELL ESPMARK Poem Source First Line: Do we darken the night sky for you Last Line: We're trying in the next galaxy Subject(s): Automobiles; Continents; Exiles; Immigrants; Travel EMIGRATION, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No packing list, and no money Last Line: And good evening from a lighted coast Subject(s): Immigrants; Travel; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Journeys; Trips EMIGRATION, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No packing list, and no money Last Line: Passport checkpoint, the lighted coast [or, and good evening from a lighted coast] Subject(s): Immigrants; Travel EMIGRATION, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are always, in each of us Last Line: The reach of fantasy, or fiction. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Immigrants; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration EMIGRES, by TED WALKER Poem Source First Line: Visiting from britain, I take my ease Last Line: Not to mention the droughts, the six-foot snows, %in the yard where nothing english ever grows Subject(s): Immigrants; Travel; United States END OF THE RANGE, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weep ye protein herders weep Last Line: And the foreigners are fighting back Subject(s): Aliens; Immigrants; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Extraterrestrials; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Native Americans - Removal ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE, 1927, by CYNTHIA SOBSEY Poem Source First Line: New on the block Last Line: She got an a in class %held her new words like the star spangled banner Subject(s): English Language; Grandparents; Immigrants; Jews - Women ENOUGH, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Every morning he brings coconut water Last Line: He coos, offering me the seeds %of his fettered fruit Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States EUROPE AND AMERICA, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father brought the emigrant bundle Last Line: As guns pounded on the shore Subject(s): Fathers; Immigrants; Fathers; Immigrants; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration EUROPE AND AMERICA, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father brought the emigrant bundle Last Line: As the knife fell; while I have slept %as guns pounded on the shore Subject(s): Fathers; Immigrants EVERYDAY WE GET MORE ILLEGAL, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Immigrants; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration EVOLUTION OF USEFUL THINGS, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Consider a hammer %striking a nail Last Line: Hanging at odd angles %like broken limbs Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States EXCHANGE, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: The first sound was his guitar Last Line: Than live in the vast, unbridled sea Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States EXODUS, by JAIME TORRES BODET Poem Source First Line: They came from the terror and tumult Last Line: On a soil that yesterday was a country Subject(s): Escapes; Immigrants FEAST TO CELEBRATE HIS MAJESTY'S BIRTHDAY, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: When I woke, I could hear them bleating Last Line: To her voices still echoing %yu hear me? Hear me gal? Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States FIRST RITES, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: At the top of the mountain Last Line: Think it is the face of god Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States FISHERMAN'S WIFE, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Each day I will make you Last Line: Like salome's last veil come undone Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Seashore; Women Immigrants - United States FLYING GEESE, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: The candy box spills over with quilt pieces Last Line: The sound of their many wings taking flight Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Immigrants; Memory FOR YOU SWEETHEART, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: I'll forget I have a name Last Line: Knowing you love %to watch flowers bloom Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States FOUR EPIGRAMS ON THE NATURALIZATION BILL, SELS., by JOHN BYROM Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): England; Immigrants FROM JOSEF IN THE REST HOME, by SHARON CHMIELARZ Poem Source First Line: I'm still alive Last Line: By the t.V. Tray Subject(s): Fathers And Sons; Immigrants; Nursing Homes; Old Age; Poland; United States FRUIT, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Spaghetti sliding %down our kitchen walls Last Line: To paint a smiling face upon Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States GOODY FOR OUR SIDE AND YOUR SIDE TOO, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Foreigners are people somewhere else Last Line: You may be a native in your habitat, %but to foreigners you're just a foreigner Subject(s): Immigrants GRUDNOW, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When he spoke of where he came from Subject(s): Grandparents; Immigrants; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration HARMATAN, by PAUL RANDOLPH VIOLI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday also has its leaves, newspapers Last Line: Of the earth ceaselessly emptying itself Subject(s): Europe; Immigrants; Memory; Middle East - Conflicts; Poetry And Poets; Poverty; Protestantism; Racism; Refugees; Sahara Desert; Solitude; U.s. - Foreign Population HISTORY OF LITERATURE. POETS, by LEV HAKAK Poem Source First Line: The few different and innocent Last Line: Before they're worn out by the burden of kids and taxes Subject(s): Immigrants; Jews HOLLYWOOD AND HYDROQUINONE, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She lightened her skin %played sousa and joplin Last Line: I am your mother invent me Subject(s): Immigrants; Language - Pronunciation; Maryland I AM THE LITTLE IRISH BOY, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And I’m four years old Subject(s): Immigrants; Poverty I AM YOUR WAITER TONIGHT AND MY NAME IS DIMITRI, by ROBERT HASS Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Immigrants; War; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration I ARRIVED IN THAT TOWN, EVERYONE GREETED ME AND I KNEW NO ONE, by JOSEP VICENC FOIX Poem Source First Line: What's the name of this town Last Line: Who awaits me around the corner Subject(s): Immigrants; Poetry And Poets; Towns; Travel I HAVE LOST THE ADDRESS OF MY COUNTRY, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Last Line: I have lost the address of my country Subject(s): Women Immigrants - United States; Islam I PROMISE YOU THIS, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Water finds its own level Last Line: The hint of water %already filling their cribs Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States IMMIGRANT WOMAN, by ROSE HENDERSON Poem Text First Line: Thin, patient face, with scars of pain and care Last Line: Tossed by the tide upon an alien shore. Subject(s): Fear; Immigrants; Women; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration IMMIGRANTS, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: To be always carrying Last Line: Where the grains of sand are stars Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Immigrants; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration IMMIGRANTS, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No ship of all that under sail or stream Last Line: Has been her anxious convoy in to shore Subject(s): Immigrants; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration IMMIGRANTS, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No ship of all that under sail or stream Last Line: Has been her anxious convoy to shore Subject(s): Immigrants IN MY OTHER LIFE, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: I was born with a stone in my hand Last Line: I was a goat on a hillside %sure of the path Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States IN THE GARDEN OF BANANA AND COCONUT TREES, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Before the woman's hips Last Line: Clapping hands, bells jingling %on her ankles Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States IN THE GLORIOUS YEMEN RESTAURANT, by KHALED MATTAWA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: 25 on atlantic avenue, faces kneaded Subject(s): Restaurants; Immigrants; Arab Americans; Cafes; Diners; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration ISLA, by VIRGIL SAUREZ Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In los angeles I grew up watching the three stooges, Subject(s): Women Immigrants - United States; Cuba; Mothers; Popular Culture - United States IT'S A YOUNG COUNTRY, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And we cannot bear to grow old Last Line: Pack lightly we move so fast Subject(s): Immigrants; Travel; United States JACK MANDOORA ME NO CHOOSE NONE, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: It begins when the mother Last Line: Chopping steadily %into the silent woods Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States JAMAICA, 1978, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: It was always about the coconut tree Last Line: Yu haffa aks yuself: is who this tree go a shade from sun? Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States JAMAICA, OCTOBER 18, 1972, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: You tell me about the rickety truck Last Line: The water between us becoming a river Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States JOHANNA PEDERSEN, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mouth prickled by crumbs of flatbrod Last Line: Rocked in the swell of the old. Subject(s): Denmark; Immigrants; Danes; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration JOURNEY SOUTH, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: How have you been, %my beautiful friend Last Line: Bless us, %eucalyptus Subject(s): California; Immigrants; Travel; United States LABORS, by MYUNG MI KIM Poem Source First Line: With foremost authority assume Last Line: A bearing. Affix Subject(s): Explorers; Immigrants; Korea; Labor And Laborers; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration LAMENT OF THE DAUGHTERS OF ZION, by J. F. Poem Text First Line: Away from our land Last Line: J. F. Subject(s): Immigrants; Jews; Lament; Zionism; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Judaism LETTER TO IBN GABIROL, by LEV HAKAK Poem Source First Line: Los angeles, april, 1987 Last Line: Who dropped out tired of lice and lamentations Subject(s): Immigrants; Jews LINES ON THE DEPARTURE OF EMIGRANTS FOR NEW SOUTH WALES, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On england's shore I saw a pensive band Last Line: Assuage its wrath, and guide you on the deep! Subject(s): Immigrants; New Zealand; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration LISTEN MR. OXFORD DON, by JOHN AGARD Poem Source First Line: Me not no oxford don Last Line: I making de queen's english accessory/to my offence Subject(s): English Language; Immigrants; Oxford University LOOKOUT, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He sets his campus security cap on the stairs Subject(s): Immigrants; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration LOSING FOOTING, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Did your father's breathing become the rasping Last Line: As you lifted your palms to the light? Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States LULLABY, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Your hands resting %against my scalp Last Line: Wind blowing in %colder than your kiss Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States MAY-81, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: I was leaving my ninth year Last Line: With hair of coiling flames %each turned away his face Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States MEETING, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: In school, I kept my papers neat Last Line: And I did %god help me, I did Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States MEETING THE BARBARIANS: THE FIRST EUROPEAN, by XUEFEI JIN Poem Source First Line: Having waited for twenty years Last Line: Dangers encountered and labors endured Alternate Author Name(s): Jin, Ha; Ha Jin Subject(s): Immigrants; Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees MEETING YOU AT THE PIERS, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I should like to describe amerika to you Subject(s): United States; New York City; Immigrants; Kafka, Franz (1883-1924); America; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration MISS SALLY'S WISDOM, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Chiniman say yu put purse pon ground Last Line: Up against yu chest. But remember, %wanty wanty no getty getty Subject(s): Women Immigrants - United States MOOFER, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: I remember skin the color of tea %wrapped his large-boned body. He wore Last Line: Such self-satisfied %little universes, %such lost children, %such americans Subject(s): Farm Life; Immigrants; Old Age; Prairies MOTHER, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: What were the angels' demands? Last Line: One by one, pulled from sleeping hands Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States MOTHER LOVE, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: I know what she knew Last Line: Moon still in its place. The water on the table Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States MY NAME, by JOHN MINCZESKI Poem Source First Line: My name arived from poland in 1910 stowed away in the engine room Last Line: Given it years of pain. My name has forgotten how to cry Subject(s): Identity; Immigrants; Names; Poland NEW COUNTRY, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was with my grandfather when the boat landed Last Line: A glimmer in his bloodshot eye Subject(s): Grandparents; Immigrants; Past NEW YORK, by EDWIN DAVIES SCHOONMAKER Poem Text First Line: Sea - rimmed and teeming with millions poured out on Last Line: Till the new day quenches the lamps and flares over tyre. Subject(s): Cities; Immigrants; Labor & Laborers; Mysticism; New York City; Urban Life; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Work; Workers; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple OF IMMIGRATION, by JUDD TELLER Poem Source First Line: My mother leads me through streets Last Line: Of a little jew Subject(s): Immigrants; Jews - United States ON BEING OUT-CLASSED BY CLASS, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where I came from is torn down Last Line: Up art! Up the I.R.A.! Subject(s): Immigrants: Irish-americans ON THE NATURALIZATION BILL, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come all ye foreign strolling gentry Last Line: And you shall have meat, drink, and clothes. Subject(s): Immigrants; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration ON THE NATURALIZATION BILL (2), by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With languages dispers'd, men were not able Last Line: How high a castle may be built in air! Subject(s): Immigrants; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration ON THE NATURALIZATION BILL (3), by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This act reminds me, ge'men, under favour Last Line: John bull Subject(s): Immigrants; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration ON THE NATURALIZATION BILL: ADVERTISEMENT, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now upon sale, a bankrupt island Last Line: Faction, is to be thrown in gratis. Subject(s): Immigrants; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration ON THE PIAVE, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: We called 'em wop and dago, and often Last Line: And we'll know italians better in the long years yet to come! Subject(s): Immigrants; Italy; World War I; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Italians; First World War ONE WORD, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: I have in my throat one word Last Line: And my flesh abroad with no soul Subject(s): Immigrants; Language - Pronunciation; Travel PAKI GO HOME, by HIMANI BANNERJI Poem Source First Line: 3 p.M. %sunless Subject(s): Canada; Immigrants; Racism; Women PANAMA, by E. ETHELBERT MILLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the early twenties Subject(s): Immigrants; Language; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Words; Vocabulary PERFECT HEART, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: I am alone in the garden, separated Last Line: I would have cut away the crescent moon Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States PERSEPHONE SETS THE RECOED STRAIGHT, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: You are all the rage these days Last Line: Who wouldn't exchange %one hell for another? Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States PLEASANT HILL, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: This is the house you don't want to remember Last Line: Of the child waiting to be hushed Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States POEM BY THE WELLSIDE, by MEENA ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Body, you're a stranger here Last Line: At nightfall, in your mother's country Subject(s): Asian Americans; Immigrants POEM CONTEMPLATING POETS, by LEV HAKAK Poem Source First Line: And saul spear in hand Last Line: David playing by hand %and saul spear in hand Subject(s): Immigrants; Jews POEM FOR MY FATHER, by VIRGIL SAUREZ Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: At night, long after the midnight movies Subject(s): Immigrants; Fathers; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration POEM WHERE MY MOTHER AND FATHER ARE ABSENT, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: My sisters and I %on the winding path Last Line: The empty porch swing %creaking in the wind Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States POPPIES, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: In the corner of a room Last Line: But expecting %snow Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States POPULATION, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Prune center is a hustling town. For Last Line: Then why invite him to your town, and beg that he will settle down? Subject(s): Immigrants; Towns; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration PROGRESS IN LEARNING, by MYUNG MI KIM Poem Source First Line: May be called Last Line: Polity harvest other human constructs Subject(s): Immigrants; Korea; Learning PROSPECTIVE IMMIGRANTS PLEASE NOTE, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Either you will Subject(s): Americans; Immigrants; United States; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; America PROSPECTIVE IMMIGRANTS PLEASE NOTE, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Either you will Last Line: Makes no promises %it is only a door Subject(s): Americans; Immigrants; United States REMAINS, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: I left the knife in the sink Last Line: Dearest. All I left for you to find Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States ROYAL TREATMENT, by JULIE KIZERSHOT Poem Source First Line: Snap of white sheet slipped Last Line: Bill gone through the wash Subject(s): Immigrants; Labor And Laborers SATIRE: 3. ROME A GREEK CITY, by DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENALIS Poem Source First Line: The nation by the great, admired, carest Last Line: Our long, long slavery thought upon no more Alternate Author Name(s): Juvenal Subject(s): Immigrants; Rome, Italy SEA RETURNS, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Mother, mother, I hear the sound at the door Last Line: Daughta? Daughta? Daughta? Og gawd. She caan swim Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States SEED, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: I am a child of the sun, balancing Last Line: The husk and the heart %of the fruit Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States SICILIAN EMIGRANT'S SONG, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O -- eh -- lee! La -- la Last Line: Donna! Donna! Maria! Subject(s): Immigrants; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration SING ILLINOIS, by HELEN DEGAN COHEN Poem Source First Line: How easy it was to write american poems Last Line: Than my true gods Subject(s): Illinois; Immigrants; Poland SIREN ISLES, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Stranger %this is not your home Last Line: I am a fish no desire %will allow you to reach Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States SIRENS' DEFENSE, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: When we sing Last Line: Steering them %into these rocks Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States SOMETHING LIKE FLYING, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: You point them out to me Last Line: Another coming up to take the lead Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States SONG OF THE COLONISTS DEPARTING FOR NEW ZEALAND, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Steer, helmsman, till you steer our way Last Line: We'll plough a smiling land. Subject(s): Immigrants; New Zealand; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration SONG OF THE SPANISH JEWS, by GRACE AGUILAR Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Oh, dark is the spirit that loves not the land Last Line: And seek not and wish not a lovelier rest. Subject(s): Exiles; Immigrants; Jews; Spain; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Judaism SONG, FR. THE EMIGRANT, by ALEXANDER MCLACHLAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old england is eaten by knaves Last Line: Nor a foreign foe land on her shore. Subject(s): England; Immigrants; Poverty; English; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration SPELL, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: A hag is riding my back Last Line: But the moon turns to stone Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States STEERAGE, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By now, the sachel's leather has reclaimed its living redolence Subject(s): Grandparents; Immigrants; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration STOWAWAYS, by DAVID RIVARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Immigrants; Conduct Of Life; Heritage; Heredity; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration SUCH WERE THE MORNINGS, by F. R. MCCLEARY Poem Text First Line: When my first father in america Last Line: The urge of his step and his planting. Subject(s): Immigrants; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration SUNSET ON THE WHARF, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: John crows fill the red sky. Coming in Last Line: Grains disintegrating under the dying light of the sun Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States SWEDISH LESSON, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: Talk about the mother tongue Last Line: Buried alive in this, their language Subject(s): Immigrants; Language; Sweden; United States TALISMAN, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: You leave the house in its stillness Last Line: The iridescent husk spill %from your hands Subject(s): Women Immigrants - United States TANGIERS, by HENRIK NORDBRANDT Poem Source First Line: The ferry couldn't have had a better name Last Line: But traveled finally, as we went home with these words Subject(s): Immigrants; Travel TANGLEHAIR'S DREAM, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Your voice, like rain %blowing across the fields Last Line: Wolves bay in the distance. %the owl cries into the dawn Subject(s): Women Immigrants - United States TANGLEHAIR'S MOTHER, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: You are the sound of scissors %that will not let me sleep Last Line: I am the fox, the wolf, the hawk Subject(s): Women Immigrants - United States THE BALLAD OF THE CHILDREN OF THE CZAR, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Full 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 BEASTS, by CARL RAKOSI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fresh mollusk morning puts a foot Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): City & Town Life; Capitalism; Social Commentaries; Social Classes; Immigrants; Caste; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration THE CORNISH EMIGRANT'S SONG, by ROBERT STEPHEN HAWKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! The eastern winds are blowing Last Line: In north americay.' Alternate Author Name(s): Hawker Of Morwenstow; Hawker, R. S. Subject(s): Cornwall, England; Immigrants; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration THE EMIGRANTS, by FERDINAND FREILIGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot take my eyes away Last Line: And crown each true heart's pure desire! Alternate Author Name(s): Freiligrath, Hermann Ferdinand Subject(s): Immigrants; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration THE FOREIGNERS: 1, by CARLOS BULOSAN Poem Text First Line: Fear grips their lives Last Line: Look and examine us! Subject(s): Fear; Immigrants; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration THE FOREIGNERS: 2, by CARLOS BULOSAN Poem Text First Line: Builder of skyscrapers Last Line: This is the hour for perfect waking. Subject(s): Immigrants; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration THE GREEK EMIGRANTS SONG, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now launch the boat upon the wave Last Line: And free the man, and free the mind. Subject(s): Freedom; Greece; Immigrants; Liberty; Greeks; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration THE GREEK QUARTER, by JOHN MYERS O'HARA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cryptic letters of the golden tongue Last Line: The blue Ægean sparkling in the day. Subject(s): Coffee Houses; Greek Language; Immigrants; New York City; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE NEW COLOSSUS, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not like the brazen giant of greek fame Last Line: "I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" Subject(s): Americans; Art & Artists; Freedom; Immigrants; Religion; Statue Of Liberty; United States; Liberty; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Theology; America THE NEW COUNTRY, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was with my grandfather when the boat landed Last Line: Glimmer of a glimmer in his bloodshot eye Subject(s): Grandparents; Immigrants; Past; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration THE NEW ENGLAND EMIGRANT'S FAREWELL, by DANIEL PIERCE THOMPSON Poem Text First Line: New england, farewell! With thy evergreen mountains Last Line: As I bid thee a long and a lasting adieu. Subject(s): Farewell; Immigrants; New England; Parting; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration THE PARLOR JOKE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You won't hear unless I tell you Last Line: If it's trouble up-to-date. Subject(s): Immigrants THE PILGRIM MAIDEN, by DOROTHY WHITEHEAD HOUGH Poem Text First Line: Lo, I have come a weary way Last Line: Dedicated to love of god and liberty. Subject(s): Footprints; Immigrants; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Travel; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Journeys; Trips THE PRAIRIE IMMIGRANT, by RACHEL COLE KATTERJOHN Poem Text First Line: The wind wailed over a granite stone Last Line: Alone— forever alone! Subject(s): Immigrants; Prairies; Solitude; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Plains; Loneliness THE REGENT'S EXAMINATION, by JESSIE WALLACE HUGHAN Poem Text First Line: Muffled sounds of the city climbing to me at the window Last Line: Neuter and safe shall it be? Or a flame to burst us asunder? Subject(s): Examinations; Immigrants; Racism; United States - Race Relations; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry THE SWISS EMIGRANT, by LUCY AIKEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, farewell, my native land Last Line: In absence near, -- in misery true. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Lucy Subject(s): Immigrants; Switzerland; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Swiss THE VIEW AT GUNDERSON'S, by JOSEPH WARREN BEACH Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting in his rocker waiting for your tea Subject(s): Immigrants; Conduct Of Life; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration THE WESTERN EMIGRANT, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An axe rang sharply 'mid those forest shades Last Line: Mid the lov'd scenery of his native land. Subject(s): Immigrants; New England; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration THE WILLIES, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I asked johan why he left home Subject(s): Immigrants THE WOODS OF KYLINOE; SONG OF THE IRISH EMIGRANT IN NORTH AMERICA, by ELLEN FITZSIMON Poem Text First Line: My heart is heavy in my breast- my eyes are full / of tears Last Line: On all -- but most of all on thee, my native kylinoe. Subject(s): Immigrants; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration THREE EMIGRATIONS: 1. THE BOY, by MICHAEL DAVID RILEY Poem Source First Line: The eloquence of old photographs Last Line: This life still moving in its stillness Subject(s): Immigrants; Photography And Photographers THREE EMIGRATIONS: 2. PEOPLE OF THE ELAND, by MICHAEL DAVID RILEY Poem Source First Line: Like the old ones who daubed their dreams Last Line: The eland runs away with his soul Subject(s): Elands; Immigrants THREE EMIGRATIONS: 3. THE MAN AND WOMAN, by MICHAEL DAVID RILEY Poem Source First Line: Together in this cave with windows Last Line: From the slag, the bones and straw of our time Subject(s): Immigrants; Men; Women TIFFIN FOR TEA, LORRY FOR TRUCK, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To say he got out of his village by cunning Last Line: Fog owns the morning and you can't travel Subject(s): Fathers; Immigrants TO PERSCEUTED FOREIGNERS, by PENINA MOISE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fly from the soil whose desolating creed Last Line: Come to the homes and bosoms of the free. Subject(s): Anti-semitism; Freedom; Immigrants; United States; Liberty; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; America TO THE ROMAN PONTIFF ON THE DISCIPLINE OF FATHER MCGLYNN, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The german tyrant plays thee for his game Last Line: Cease to be freemen when they bow to god! Subject(s): Immigrants; Mcglynn, Edward (1837-1900); Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration TRAGEDY OF THE MERMAID, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Is not that she must leave her home Last Line: She must not feel an ocean %falling from her eyes Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States TRANSFORMATION, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: They sailed from cobh with a skeletal crew Last Line: Another qe2 Subject(s): Cobh, Ireland; Immigrants; Sailors And Sailing; Ships And Shipping; Travel TWO SLIDES: 1. THE ASPARA ADDRESSES THE FISHERMAN, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: There is no boat Last Line: This catch will be the one %to harvest your soul Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States TWO SLIDES: 2. THE FISHERMAN RESPONDS, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: You are the silver light Last Line: I am the water %filling your gills Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States TWO SORTS OF EMIGRANTS, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His debts are paid, but all his land is gone Last Line: And sing as bravely to the southern morn. Subject(s): Immigrants; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration VERY IDEA OF 2 LEGS, by MARY MOLINARY Poem Source First Line: The lower %part of the body, an idea pressed thin Last Line: Singular and blue-dyed: a desire. An excretion of worms. %glimmering Subject(s): Beauty; Factories; Labor And Laborers; Legs; Women Immigrants - United States WAR, by EDITH MEDBERY FITCH Poem Text First Line: Relentless mars, indulging insane wrath Last Line: Unleashed the lusts of men, and called it—war! Subject(s): Child Molesting; Cruelty; Death; Insanity; War; Women Immigrants - United States; Child Abuse; Dead, The; Madness; Mental Illness WARNING, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: I am the shoal you cannot cross Last Line: To which your mother warned you %not to listen Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States WAS YOU BORN HERE?, by LEIGH PALMER Poem Source First Line: Cause you don't talk like you Last Line: You're from somewhere, aren't you?' Subject(s): Ethnic Identity; Immigrants; Strangers WHAT I SAVED, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: You %drinking milo Last Line: Your tongue unable to form an r as you called my name Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States WHAT I'M TELLING YOU, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: My father played music. He played a guitar and sang. My father Last Line: Four or five as a recoed somewhere in a studio in jamaica started to spin Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States WHAT LIES BENEATH, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: The woman inside turns flour to dumplings Last Line: Kept at bay by a few pieces of wood Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States WHAT MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: When god closes a door, there are no windows Last Line: Even careful chickens get caught by the hawk Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States WHAT THE ORACLE SAID, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: You will leave your home Last Line: The sea will never take you back Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States WHAT THE STORIES TEACH, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: The man playing the flute Last Line: Beneath the caramel glaze Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Seashore; Women Immigrants - United States WHAT WE FORGET, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: He died the same month Last Line: The tingling of her skin bein healed Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States WHEN I THINK OF YOU, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: You are still diving into the sea Last Line: A stream of darkness in your wake Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States WORKING BLACK, by DAVID RIVARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The part of stockholm I saw at 22, I saw as an employee & thief Subject(s): Restaurants; Jobs; Immigrants; Cafes; Diners; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration YOU NO SEND. ME NO COME, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: The first night back and rain falls Last Line: What assures them they will come down? Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States |
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