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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SUGGESTION, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I send, transmit, consign, convey
Last Line: "I wish you ""merry christmas."
Subject(s): Christmas; Expressionism - Poets; Letters; Postal Service; Nativity, The; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


A TWO-CENT STAMP, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Most potential traveller!
Last Line: Just a two-cent postage stamp!
Subject(s): Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


AIR MAIL, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the hunt for a letter-box
Last Line: No one makes it his own
Subject(s): Letters; Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


BY PARCELS POST, by GEORGE ROBERT SIMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I sent my love a parcel
Last Line: Eight-and-twenty years ago.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dagonet
Subject(s): Marriage; Postal Service; Seasons; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


GETTING THE MAIL, by GALWAY KINNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I walk back / toward the frog pond, carrying
Subject(s): Farm Life; Postal Service; Agriculture; Farmers; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


IN THE DEAD-LETTER OFFICE, by R. STEWART    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come, rip the mail-bags open, chaps, and sort the stuff away
Last Line: "you'll maybe murmur with a sigh, ""the perth dead mail is in."
Subject(s): Death; Gold Mines & Miners; Postal Service; Dead, The; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


MAIL CALL, by RANDALL JARRELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The letters always just evade the hand
Subject(s): Army Life; Postal Service; World War Ii; Drills & Minor Tactics; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen; Second World War


ON RECEIVING A SOUVENIR POSTCARD, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the little desk before me
Last Line: And we're chums and lovers still.
Subject(s): Postal Service; Youth; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


OPENING THE MAIL, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She used to work down in the copy center, and
Subject(s): Women - Employment; Ambition; Automobile Racing; Postal Service; Professional Women; Women In Business; Women's Careers; Race Car Driving; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


OPPOSITES: 37, by RICHARD WILBUR            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The opposite of post, were you
Subject(s): English Language; Postal Service; Synonyms & Antonyms; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


POST OFFICE ETCHINGS: 10. BIRKENHEAD POST OFFICE, by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sunday. Deserted square. Upon
Last Line: Odious, immune, unnoticed, slips into the sun.
Subject(s): Birkenhead (ship); Labor & Laborers; Postal Service; Work; Workers; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


POST OFFICE ETCHINGS: 11. POSTAL SURVEYOR'S 'TRAVELLING CLERK', by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: My man loads up. We start
Last Line: Of zennor, sea-girt, sacred ... Zennor of my heart.
Subject(s): Letters; Office Employees; Postal Service; Clerks; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


POST OFFICE ETCHINGS: 12. HEAD-POSTMASTER, by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Into the early air
Last Line: Ahead, new life, new light, enlargement ... Liberty!
Subject(s): Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


POST OFFICE ETCHINGS: 3. LEICESTER POST OFFICE, by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twin doors swing wide. They close on me, revealing
Last Line: "whisp'ring: ""they'll put you right!"
Subject(s): Etching; Letters; Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


POST OFFICE ETCHINGS: 6. INSTRUCTION, by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Midnight, and duty. Dully, I divide
Last Line: Taken and trapped ... And slave.
Subject(s): Duty; Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


POST OFFICE ETCHINGS: 7. POSTAL INVESTIGATOR (A), by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ten of the clock. An airless, august night
Last Line: Of loss, alike, of liberty and pension.
Subject(s): Letters; Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


POST OFFICE ETCHINGS: 8. POSTAL INVESTIGATOR (B), by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Draper's assistant. Doomed to be
Last Line: To her in anglesey.
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Letters; Postal Service; Work; Workers; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


POST OFFICE ETCHINGS: 9. POSTAL INVESTIGATOR (C), by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Plaints about postal packets, gone
Last Line: She looks at me, reproachful, like some hunted fawn.
Subject(s): Etching; Letters; Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


POSTAL SAVINGS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Well, wife, they've given us at last
Last Line: Of trusty uncle sam.
Subject(s): Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


POSTCARDS, by ALICE NOTLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear barney
Last Line: Alice
Subject(s): Holidays; Letters; Love; Postal Service; Valentine's Day; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


SAD MAIL, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's strange to think how letters used to be letters, letting you know
Last Line: Time.
Subject(s): Letters; Postal Service; Writing & Writers; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 7, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Eight o'clock / the postman's knock
Last Line: And three for dear mamma.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Variant Title(s): The Postman
Subject(s): Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


SWEETEST WORDS, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Inclosed find check!' the sweetest
Last Line: "world is glad that was a wreck, changed by the words, ""inclosed find check."
Subject(s): Letters; Postal Service; Writing & Writers; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


THE AIR MAIL, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No stunting's allowed in the service
Last Line: We're carrying uncle sam's mail!
Subject(s): Air Travel; Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


THE COUNTRY LETTER-CARRIER, by ELIZABETH    Poem Text                    
First Line: It thaws. On field and roadway the packing drifts have
Last Line: Cheer.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sylva, Carmen; Pauline Elizabeth Ottilie Luis
Subject(s): Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


THE DE CARLO LOTS, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You are parceled out over the post office
Last Line: Measuring the lots, the dreams by
Subject(s): Exchange Students; Farewell; Letters; Postal Service; Universities & Colleges; Foreign Exchange Programs; Parting; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


THE DISHONEST MAILMAN, by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: They are taking all my letters, and they
Subject(s): Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


THE MAIL, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The star route man downshifts
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


THE MAIL HAS COME, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now the bitter pangs of hope deferred
Last Line: Each kind letter thence is thrice welcome to me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine
Subject(s): American Civil War; Postal Service; United States - History; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


THE MAILBOY'S RIDE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: He rode from port bowen bravely
Last Line: The boy brought the royal mail
Subject(s): Heroism;pain;postal Service;story-telling; Heroes;heroines;suffering;misery;postmen;post Office;mail;mailmen


THE MAILMAN, by NAZIM HIKMET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whether at dawn or in the middle of the night
Alternate Author Name(s): Ran, Nazim Hikmet
Subject(s): Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


THE MAILMAN, by MARK STRAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is midnight
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Postal Service; Clemency; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


THE MAILMAN'S RIDE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I scanned the dark and lowering sky
Last Line: I think of that wild ride
Subject(s): Animals;crimes & Criminals;deception;horses;postal Service; Postmen;post Office;mail;mailmen


THE MIDNIGHT MAIL, by WILLIAM HURD HILLYER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Resonant, full, and deep
Last Line: That wait for the midnight mail!
Subject(s): Messages & Messengers; Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


THE NIGHT MAIL NORTH (EUSTON SQUARE, 1840), by HENRY CHOLMONDELEY-PENNELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now then, take your seats! For glasgow and the north
Last Line: For the night .. Mail .. To the north?
Alternate Author Name(s): Pennell, Henry Cholmondeley
Subject(s): Postal Service; Railroad Stations; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


THE OVERLAND MAIL, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the name of the empress of india, make way
Last Line: In the name of the empress the overland-mail.
Subject(s): Duty; India - British Rule; Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


THE PARCEL POST, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What farms and factories produce
Last Line: The shining parcel post!
Subject(s): Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


THE POSTILION, by NIKOLAUS FRANZ NIEMBSCH VON STREGLENAU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Passing lovely was the night
Last Line: In my ear kept tingling.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lenau, Nikolaus
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Memory; Mourning; Postal Service; Graveyards; Bereavement; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


THE POSTMAN, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The postman goes along the street
Last Line: Than men who richer, wiser are.
Subject(s): February; Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


THE R. F. D., by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of all the works of uncle sam
Last Line: The r. F. D.!
Subject(s): Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


THE ROYAL MAIL, by E. LYTTLETON FOX    Poem Text                    
First Line: Quick! Ho, ye honest gentle-folk!
Last Line: The royal mail is past.
Subject(s): Postal Service; Yale University; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


THE SMITHS, by E. G. MURPHY    Poem Text                    
First Line: We had many problems set us when coolgardie was a camp
Last Line: And the maidens who were promised still await the absent smith.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dryblower
Subject(s): Deception; Names; Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


THE TRAVELLING POST OFFICE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The roving breezes come and go, the reed - beds sweep and sway
Last Line: My letter chases conroy's sheep along the castlereagh.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Australia; Drovers; Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


TO A POST-OFFICE INKWELL, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How many humble hearts have dipped
Last Line: Put heaven on a postal card.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


TO MY FRIEND, GROWN FAMOUS, by EUNICE TIETJENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The mail has come from home
Last Line: Of flowers, of laughter, of the flash of wings. . . .
Alternate Author Name(s): Head, Cloyd, Mrs.
Subject(s): Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


TO THE POSTMAN, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Most welcome of all sights and sounds
Last Line: One note ere day departs!
Subject(s): Fate; Fortune; Life; Memory; Postal Service; Destiny; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


WHEN THE STAGE GITS IN, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pap'll git a letter, 'nd uncle zed a book
Last Line: Ill be here when the stage gits in.
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): Pancakes; Postal Service; Smells; Stagecoaches; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances