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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: NATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS - AMERICAN Matches Found: 18 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CHALLENGE TO AMERICANS, by DORA WARD Poem Text First Line: Americans, we've built a nation great Last Line: "we're the greatest nation in all the world!" Subject(s): Americans; Flags - United States; National Characteristics - American; American Flag CHARLES BON CONSIDERS HEAVEN, by JIM MURPHY Poem Source First Line: I must admit, the bravura of fine music has never moved my blood Last Line: We are to victory. Every face ash gray, blood gone. My brothers Subject(s): National Characteristics - American; U.s. - Description And Travel CONTINENTAL'S GAMING TABLES, by JIM MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Plush pullmans rumble through the gaps Last Line: Unsteady compulsions and the drumming rails Subject(s): National Characteristics - American; U.s. - Description And Travel ELMORE JAMES STEPS OUT OF A STALLED CAR, by JIM MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Careful not to curse the steaming pile of rust, himself Last Line: What to say about the hour, and location of the nearest phone Subject(s): National Characteristics - American; U.s. - Description And Travel ETUDES IN THE NEXT WORLD, by JIM MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Transcription flickers in the tallow light Last Line: Nowhere else to look and I don't recognize a thing Subject(s): National Characteristics - American; U.s. - Description And Travel FLORIDA RESORT SCENE, 1964, by JIM MURPHY Poem Source First Line: A number one record warping in the april sun Last Line: Deep at the waist, and slips his body down Subject(s): National Characteristics - American; U.s. - Description And Travel GIFT AND PRIZE, by JIM MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Manners still intact, smack of poor talk Last Line: For the shameless moment, I covet my own life Subject(s): National Characteristics - American; U.s. - Description And Travel INVISIBLE PHILADELPHIA, by JIM MURPHY Poem Source First Line: In rittenhouse square, a white man pirouettes Last Line: Did you see that? He carried his own case Subject(s): National Characteristics - American; U.s. - Description And Travel JUNK TRAVEL THROUGH WEST MEMPHIS, by JIM MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Woman with a starshell light behind her eyes Last Line: She slips and taps inside its iridescent wave Subject(s): National Characteristics - American; U.s. - Description And Travel MARSDEN HARTLEY PREDICTS THE INTERSTATES, by JIM MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Square backs and air pressure - humid new york city Last Line: Each dull gray line undulate and surge from point to point Subject(s): National Characteristics - American; U.s. - Description And Travel MISSING MEMPHIS' DESIRE SIGNS, by JIM MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Up from the hollow storefronts and caverns Last Line: With thoughts of people bound for memphis Subject(s): National Characteristics - American; U.s. - Description And Travel MOMENTS WITH MS. GOLIGHTLY, by JIM MURPHY Poem Source First Line: White cake and glass after glass of dry champagne Last Line: As if to judge them, she waits for what I have to say Subject(s): National Characteristics - American; U.s. - Description And Travel PATRIOTISM, by RAYMOND JOSEPH KRESENSKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's all you need to do Last Line: That's patriotism. Subject(s): National Characteristics - American; Patriotism; War ROUTES TO KANSAS CITY STAR, by JIM MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Roanoke park to rosedale park, a few winding blocks Last Line: Classifieds. 'marketplace.' a make-do hat for the rain Subject(s): National Characteristics - American; U.s. - Description And Travel STONE DOVES OF WILLIAM EDMONSON, by JIM MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Nashville, 1937 %they suit for bath or grave. Anywhere under the sun Last Line: He hung a tombstone out for me to make Subject(s): National Characteristics - American; U.s. - Description And Travel TRANSACTIONS UNDER GLASS, by JIM MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Why not let the whole morning turn on the brick cylinders Last Line: Having cleared her throat for nothing Subject(s): National Characteristics - American; U.s. - Description And Travel VICTORY THEATER, by JIM MURPHY Poem Source First Line: The marquee almost comes alive when sun Last Line: The marquee almost comes alive Subject(s): National Characteristics - American; U.s. - Description And Travel WHAT MAKES TODAY'S COLD KITCHEN, by JIM MURPHY Poem Source First Line: A woman played harp in purple flannel Last Line: Like road salt, all across an empty space Subject(s): National Characteristics - American; U.s. - Description And Travel |
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