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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MODERN LIFE Matches Found: 32 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CHILD OF TODAY, by JAMES BUCKHAM Poem Text First Line: O child, had I thy lease of time! Such unimagined things Last Line: How strange! -- perhaps death's conqueror sits smiling on my knee! Alternate Author Name(s): Pastnor, Paul Subject(s): Children; Modern Life; Childhood AFTER TENNYSON, by AMBROSE BIERCE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: You ask me why, though ill at ease Subject(s): Modern Life; Freedom; Politics & Government; United States; Liberty; America AFTER THEATER, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Into the exit-ways the winter air Last Line: And here the place where dreams and dramas live. Subject(s): Modern Life; Theater & Theaters; Stage Life CANADA: CASE HISTORY: 1945, by EARL (EARLE) BIRNEY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the case of a high-school land Subject(s): Canada; Youth; Modern Life; Canadians COLUMBIS CIRCLE SWING, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old mr. Christopher sailed an egg Subject(s): Modern Life COUSIN NANCY, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Miss nancy ellicott Last Line: The army of unalterable law. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Girls; Modern Life DOCUMENTAL, by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let's you and I be a camera Last Line: My tears, / my obsession Alternate Author Name(s): Flakoll, Darwin, Mrs. Subject(s): Nicaragua; Modern Life; Poverty ENCODED DITHYRAMB, by TERRY RANDOLPH HUMMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He sits on the bridge rail at midnight, watching Alternate Author Name(s): Hummer, T. R. Subject(s): Modern Life; Rivers FEBRUARY 30TH, by FREDERICK SEIDEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The speckled pigeon standing on the ledge Subject(s): Pigeons; War; Modern Life; Politics & Government HISTORIC PUN, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: La petite vie, a young man called it later,it had been Subject(s): Paris, France; Modern Life IN THE NEW GARDEN, IN ALL THE PARTS, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: You, born years, centuries after me, I seek Subject(s): Modern Life; Time INTERREGNUM, by WELDON KEES Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Butcher the evil millionaire, peasant Last Line: Away from everything that moves with blood Subject(s): War; Social Commentary; Modern Life JERUSALEM THE GOLDEN: 39, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What are you doing in our street among the automobiles, horse? Subject(s): Horses; Modern Life LADY GERALDINE'S COURTSHIP, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear my friend and fellow-student, I would lean my spirit o'er you! Last Line: And I shall not blush in knowing that men call him lowly born.' Subject(s): Modern Life; Courtship LEAFLETS, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The big star, and that other Subject(s): Modern Life; Poetry & Poets LOVE IN AMERICA, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever it is, it's a passion Subject(s): Americans; Modern Life; United States; America OF BEING NUMEROUS, 11, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: It is that light Subject(s): Modern Life; Empire State Building, New York City POWERS OF CONGRESS, by ALICE FULTON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: How the lightstruck trees change sun Subject(s): Modern Life; United States - Congress SO FAR, AND SO FAR, AND ON TOWARD THE END, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And you, contemporary america Subject(s): United States; Poetry & Poets; Modern Life THE END OF SCIENCE FICTION, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is not fantasy, this is our life. Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Modern Life THE GREAT RACE PASSES, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They were the fair-haired achaeans Last Line: The great race is passing. Subject(s): Modern Life THE MASQUE OF BLACKNESS, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The news stirred first in very dead of winter Subject(s): Modern Life THE SOCIOLOGY OF TOYOTAS AND JADE CHRYSANTHEMUMS, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Listen here, sistren and brethren, I am goddamn tired Last Line: Four-wheeled jade chrysan- / themums around here Subject(s): Dilthey, Wilhelm (1833-1911); Modern Life THE SOUL OF JESUS IS RESTLESS TODAY, by CYPRUS R. MITCHELL Poem Text Last Line: But eternally undismayed Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Modern Life THE WAY IT IS, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lie in bed Subject(s): Modern Life; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE WORLD'S WONDERS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Being now three or four years more than sixty Last Line: Crawls in; and a tortured jew became god Subject(s): Modern Life; Experience THREE, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What of our time? Last Line: What it was; what it shall be; unfound, -- and unsought. Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Modern Life TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. A MIGHTIER THAN MAMMON, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At last, after centuries, when the tension and strain Last Line: And they achieved a real distinction, and the finest kind of aristocracy. Subject(s): Humanity; Modern Life; Nations; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. THE COAST OF LIGURIA, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A thousand years are nothing Last Line: And crown their slopes with gladness. Subject(s): Christianity; Daphne (mythology); Modern Life; Religion; Seashore; Theology; Beach; Coast; Shore TWENTIETH-CENTURY BLUES, by KENNETH FEARING Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What do you call it, bobsled champion, and you, too, olympic rollercoaster ace Subject(s): Modern Life UNHISTORICAL EVENTS, by BOB KAUFMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Appollinaire / never knew about rock gut charlie Subject(s): Apollinaire, Guillaume (1880-1918); Modern Life; Poetry & Poets; Surrealism WEALTH OF NATIONS, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tired of the gawking. Conspicuous Last Line: Putting out after the khrushchev thaw– Subject(s): Modern Life; Social Commentaries |
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