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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: NEW YORK CITY Matches Found: 1077 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "BOWERY GALS, 1850", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: As I was lumbering down de street Last Line: "chorus: den de bowery gals, etc" Subject(s): "bowery, New York City; "EVACUATION OF NEW YORK BY THE BRITISH, 1783", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: They come!-they come!-the heroes come Last Line: "and bless, oh! Bless america!" Subject(s): American Revolution;freedom;new York City - Revolutionary Period;peace;victory; Liberty "FANNY ELSSLER, 1840", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "the clock has struck, we mean st. Paul's" Last Line: "in mazy beauty only clad, / she moves-we're mad!" Subject(s): "ballet;dancing & Dancers;elssler, Fanny (1810-1884);new York City - 19th Century; "THE TWEED RING, 1868", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The great moguls of gotham! Their proud purses Last Line: Sleeps in the throttles of this ruthless three Subject(s): "depressions, Economic;income Tax;money;social Classes;tammany Hall, New York City;tweed, William Marcy [boss] (1823-78);wealth;" Recessions;caste;riches;fortunes 14TH STREET WAS GUTTED IN 1968, by CHERYL CLARKE Poem Source Last Line: For themselves %endangered %or extinct Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; New York City; U.s. - Race Relations 63RD AND BROADWAY, by REUBEN M. JACKSON Poem Source First Line: My hotel room's small Last Line: And the city where I am happiest %alone Subject(s): New York City 96 AND B'WAY, by FLORENCE CASSEN MAYERS Poem Source First Line: One a.M. %two cops Last Line: Four plea bargains, three sentences $six months/one year Subject(s): New York City A BALLAD OF CLAREMONT HILL, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The roar of the city is low Last Line: You have made my life more sweet, on the edge of claremont hill? Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): New York City; Patriotism; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple A BALLAD OF DEAD GIRLS, by DANA BURNET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Scarce had they brought the bodies down Last Line: To lock his doors again. Subject(s): Child Labor; New York City; Social Protest; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple A BALLAD OF ST. VITUS, by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Girls fidget with their fans. Scarce heard Last Line: Prince vitus stalks along broadway! Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Dancing & Dancers; Vitrus, Saint (3rd Century) A BROADWAY PAGEANT, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over the western sea hither from niphon Last Line: They shall now also march obediently eastward for your sake libertad. Subject(s): Broadway, New York City A CITY GARDEN, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sun-warmed, where hudson meets the sea Last Line: My suzeraine -- the faery queen. Subject(s): Cities; Fairies; Gardens & Gardening; New York City - Colonial Period; Urban Life; Elves A DEAL IN REAL ESTATE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Barendt cuyler, indian trader Last Line: "brother -- let us dream no more!" Subject(s): Dreams; Native Americans; New York City - Dutch Period; Smoking; Nightmares; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes A DREAMER, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies a little boy who made believe Last Line: The world believe his make-believes were true. Subject(s): Imagination; New York City; Fancy; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple A FAUN IN WALL STREET, by JOHN MYERS O'HARA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What shape so furtive steals along the dim Last Line: Hymettus and the hills of hellas rise. Subject(s): Stock Exchange; Wall Street, New York City A FIFTH AVENUE PARADE, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is this silent, dark crowd Last Line: Machines and armies sensitive as souls. Subject(s): Funerals; New York City; Parades; Triangle Factory Fire (1911); Women; Burials; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple A FORGOTTEN BARD, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a dim nook beneath the street Last Line: Some book of mine be housed and read? Subject(s): Books; New York City; Poetry Readings; Reading; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple A LEGEND OF HELL GATE, 1675, by GIDEON JOHN TUCKER Poem Text First Line: A saucy boat was the annetje block Last Line: When the hell gate tide is out. Subject(s): Death; Legends; New York City - Dutch Period; Sea Voyages; Tragedy; Dead, The A LEGEND OF MAIDEN LANE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas dusk in the dale, but the clover ... Last Line: "as a sweete, wholesome laugh from ye hearte of a mayde!" Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Legends; New York City - Dutch Period; Temptation; Work; Workers A LILT IN FALL, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The brown of her eyes in the oaken leaf Last Line: Oh, all the world shall sing of her! Subject(s): Autumn; New York City - Dutch Period; Seasons; Singing & Singers; Fall; Songs A RAID OF THE NEUTRAL GROUND, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up! Bully boys of the nepperhan!' Last Line: Peace rules the vale of the nepperhan. Subject(s): New York City - Revolutionary Period; Soldiers; War A RHYME ABOUT AN ELECTRICAL ADVERTISING SIGN, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I look on the specious electrical light Last Line: That is climbed by the rainbow-clad spirits of prayer. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Advertising; Broadway, New York City; Signs & Signboards A SCANDAL IN NEW AMSTERDAM, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across the inlet's ebb and rise Last Line: "I firmly believe that the tale was true!)" Subject(s): Defamation; Marriage; New York City - Dutch Period; Slander; Libel; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A SEA CHARM, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Winds that waft the fisher-fleet Last Line: My mermaiden! Subject(s): Mermaids & Mermen; New York City; Sea; Wind; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Ocean A SONG IN JUNE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On a rosebush that grows in the garden you Last Line: And it would not be june if it were not for you. Subject(s): Flowers; June; New York City - Dutch Period; Orioles; Roses; Singing & Singers; Songs A SPRINGTIME PILGRIMAGE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Feet on the hills and heads in the sky Last Line: Here in the hollow of tarrytown. Subject(s): New England; New York City - Dutch Period; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Spring A STONE IN ST. PAUL'S GRAVEYARD (NEW YORK), by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, where enormous shadows creep Last Line: He was john jones, son of john jones. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death - Children; St. Paul's Catherdral (new York City); Graveyards; Death - Babies A STROKE OF SKY, by TESS GALLAGHER Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); Innocence; New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 A SUMMER SUMMARY, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shall I, lying in a grot Last Line: What care I how bad they be? Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): New York City; Summer; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple A SWEETHEART: THOMPSON STREET, by SAMUEL DUFF MCCOY Poem Text First Line: Queen of all streets, fifth avenue Last Line: I am called liberty! Subject(s): Freedom; New York City - Streets; Liberty A TRIAL IN NEW AMSTERDAM, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye who have chafed at the law's delays Last Line: "verdict for plaintiff. Said beer was good." Subject(s): New England; New York City - Dutch Period; Trials ABOVE THE CITY, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You know our office on the 18th Last Line: True relationship Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Empire State Building, New York City ADDRESS FOR THE OPENING OF THE FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hang out our banners on the stately tower! Last Line: Friends, lovers, listeners! Welcome one and all! Subject(s): New York City - Theaters ADIOS, VAYA CON DIOS, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: (scene: Last Line: A kiss on each cheek to soften the blows Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City ADVERTISEMENT FOR THE WALDORF-ASTORIA, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fine living...A la carte?? Last Line: Reservations: telephone el. 5-3000 Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Variant Title(s): Come To The Waldorf-astori Subject(s): African Americans; Waldorf-astoria Hotel, New York City AENEAS AT NEW YORK, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You have sir said it well but I have if Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen Subject(s): Aeneas; Mythology - Classical; New York City AFTER THE PLAY, by HAMILTON FISH ARMSTRONG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The great gold room is heavy with the scent Last Line: Yet this day twenty thousand men have died. Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Music & Musicians; New York City - Theaters; Plays & Playwrights ; Dramatists ALPHABET LETTERS, by KADYA MOLODOVSKY Poem Source First Line: In the bronx, in brooklyn and in new york city Last Line: For the card clubs and boy scout troops to which they belong Subject(s): Family Life; Jews - United States; New York City AMARANTH AND MOLY, by AMY CLAMPITT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The night we bailed out jolene from riker's island Last Line: And jolene was not only amaranth and moly, she was poetry %leaping the turnstiles of another century Subject(s): Cities; New York City AMBITIOUS RAINS OF MOIST SEPTEMBER, by VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ Poem Source Last Line: The flowered illusion %pano-ramas Subject(s): Caribbean Sea; Desire; Flowers; Kisses; Love; Puerto Ricans - New York City; Singing And Singers AMERICA, by STEPHEN SONDHEIM Poem Source First Line: Puerto rico, you lovely island Last Line: Everyone there will have moved here Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City AMERICAN, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: We gave birth to a new generation Last Line: Word, american, america! Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City AMERICAN ACTRESS (1907-1961), by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Anna may wong Last Line: Speaking chinese %with american accent Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City AMONG THE MISSING, by RICHARD HOWARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Know me? I am the ghost of gansevoort pier Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph Subject(s): Cities; New York City; Urban Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple AMONG THE MISSING, by RICHARD HOWARD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Know me? I am the ghost of gansevoort pier Last Line: Disclosures of the kind I do so well, %I with the other ghosts am laid at last Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph Subject(s): Cities; New York City AN APRIL ROMANCE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The crystal spears of slantwise-driven rain Last Line: The princess daffodil, of trembling gold. Subject(s): April; New York City - Dutch Period; Rain AN EVENING WALK, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the clash and clang of cars Last Line: The wraith of aaron burr! Subject(s): Burr, Aaron (1756-1836); New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple AN IVORY MINIATURE, by HELEN GRAY CONE Poem Text First Line: When state street homes were stately still Last Line: This woven wreath of rhymes. Alternate Author Name(s): Green, Coroebus Subject(s): Murray Hill, New York; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple AN OLD BUILDING ON HUDSON STREET, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was an old building Last Line: Coming closer, trying to hear Subject(s): New York City – Buildings AN OLD HYMN FOR IAN JENKINS, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All things we value in terms of contrast Last Line: Of the dream is place. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Cities; Dreams; New York City; Southern States; Estrangement; Outcasts; Urban Life; Nightmares; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; South (u.s.) AN OLD ROAD, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In days that were- no matter when Last Line: The road that leads not anywhere. Subject(s): Life; New York City - Dutch Period; Roads; Paths; Trails AND AS FOR MAN, by LOREN EISELEY Poem Source First Line: In the railroad yards, leaving the city of darkness Last Line: They will start to climb then, they will have had enough of waiting, and as for man, he will not be Subject(s): Farewell; New York City; Railroads AND IF I SAID 'MING' TO YOU, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Would you hear me Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City AND SO MANHATTAN BECAME AN ISLE OF JOY, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not know the name of the last chief of the manhattan indians Last Line: Boy, is my face red! Subject(s): New York City ANDERSONVILLE SHACKLES, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: It took a piece of luck %then some real evil doin' Last Line: Our photograph to the wall %cripples out on a picnic Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) ANNIE MCSORLEY: 1. IN PASSING, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: I never entered your pub %not then, but I do now Last Line: Then that ceaseless staring %what wasteful god is this? Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) ANNIE MCSORLEY: 2. IN CONFESSION, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: I will tell you this %in the tompkins market Last Line: I'll get will's ghost %to hear truth yet Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) ANNUNCIATIONS, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Robbed of titian at the national gallery Last Line: Forgive me, forgive me-I am not without sin Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City ANOTHER POEM (NEW YORK REVISITED), by TONY TOWLE Poem Source First Line: Spirits fill the spirit of the classic air- %one is jeremiah towle's perhaps Last Line: A voice remains. But nonetheless I direct it %and to such a tiny pinnacle Subject(s): New York City APRIL IN NEW YORK, by NICHOLAS CHRISTOPHER Poem Source First Line: Vapor is curling from the manhole Last Line: As if her life depended on it Subject(s): Cities; New York City ARAB, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: Allah be praised Last Line: Victory, %your %name! Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City ARGUMENT RESUMED; OR UP THROUGH TRIBECA, by THOMAS M. DISCH Poem Source First Line: It may not be forever Last Line: Glows among other peaches in the fruitbowl. %such and no other is the soul Subject(s): Cities; New York City ARRIVAL AT KENNEDY, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reduce the supply while the demand stays constant and the Subject(s): Cities; New York City; Urban Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple ARRIVAL AT KENNEDY, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reduce the supply while the demand stays constant and the Last Line: When freedom meant driving a car over a cliff & jumping out at the last possible moment Subject(s): Cities; New York City ASIDE FROM THE TREES IN COLUMBUS PARK, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Forgetting the fan-shaped leaves of wind %and ripple Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City ASSEMBLY: HARLEM SCHOOL, by EUGENE T. MALESKA Poem Source First Line: My country, 'tis of thee Subject(s): Harlem (new York City); Schools AT HALF-PAST FIVE; A FEBRUARY FANCY, by ANDREW EDWARD WATROUS Poem Text First Line: This is a common dream enough Last Line: As night came down at half-past five. Subject(s): Broadway, New York City AT MY FATHER'S FUNERAL, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My father, a free-thinker, who Last Line: Merge-when I kiss him it is as if %I were kissing myself goodbye Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City AT THE FARRAGUT STATUE, by ROBERT BRIDGES (1858-1941) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: To live a hero, then to stand Last Line: Still helps to make them loyal, strong, and free! Alternate Author Name(s): Droch Subject(s): Farragut, David Glascow (1801-1870); Heroism; Statues; Washington Square, New York City; Heroes; Heroines AT THE FILLMORE, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The music was going on Subject(s): Fillmore (music Hall), New York City AT THE FILLMORE, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The music was going on Subject(s): Fillmore (music Hall), New York City AT THE FRICK, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before a grotto of blue-tinted rock Last Line: Of the wind's brother francis in the flesh Subject(s): Art And Artists; Bellini, Giovanni (1430-1516); Francis Assisi, Saint (1181-1226); Frick Museum (new York City); Paintings And Painters; Saints AT THE NIGHT GAME (FLUSHING, QUEENS), by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: Like lyrics from a lost land Last Line: Love is a distant whisper %and a listening in Subject(s): Games; Queens, New York City; Sports 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 AT TRINITY, by ANDREW EDWARD WATROUS Poem Text First Line: Where wall street's head from full broadway Last Line: Where peace sole reigneth. Subject(s): Churchyards; Death; New York City; Trinity Churchyard (new York); Dead, The; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple ATLAS OF THE DIFFICULT WORLD: 7 (THE DREAM-SITE), by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some roof-top, water-tank looming, street-racket strangely quelled Last Line: Known and unknown %living its life Subject(s): New York City AUTHOR IN MCSORLEY'S CIRCA 1970, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: In vast childhood time %always tomorrow to tell Last Line: In just such sawdust design %she will speak her truths Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN GREEN, by LINDA PASTAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At summer camp, / I wrapped my arms around Last Line: In my own small commonwealth Subject(s): Camping; Trees; Bronx, New York City; Country Life; City & Town Life; Nature; Camps; Summer Camps AUTOBIOGRAPHY: NEW YORK, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is not to be bought for a penny Last Line: And along the streets of los angeles Subject(s): New York City; Social Commentaries AVENUE BEARING THE INITIAL OF CHRIST INTO THE NEW WORLD, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pcheek pcheek pcheek pcheek pcheek Last Line: Our little lane, what a kingdom it was! %oi weih, oi weih Subject(s): New York City; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration AWAKING IN NEW YORK, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Curtains forcing their will Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple AWAY FROM TOWN, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High-perched upon a boxcar, I speed, / I speed, to-day Last Line: He longs for a place to stretch in, he hankers for country cheer. Subject(s): Bowery, New York City; Homeless; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes BABUSHKA FROM CHERNOBYL, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: Amya, from chernobyl I am %there I sell the vegetables Last Line: Yes, with pocks %and black weeps Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) BACKSTAGE AT THE FILLMORE, by ELAINE DEMAKAS Poem Source First Line: Swimming by me was a man Subject(s): Fillmore (music Hall), New York City BALLAD OF ORANGE AND GRAPE, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: After you finish your work Subject(s): Cities; Harlem (new York City); Urban Life BALLAD OF ORANGE AND GRAPE, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After you finish your work Last Line: Pouring orange into grape and grape into orange forever Subject(s): Cities; Harlem (new York City) BALLADE OF BARRISTERS, by CHAUNCEY CLARK STARKWEATHER Poem Text First Line: To the shy, sweet face that I saw this morning Last Line: And the rattle of broadway never is still. Alternate Author Name(s): Starkweather, C. C. Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Law & Lawyers BARTHOLDI'S PHAROS, by GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Manhattan bay in glory lay Last Line: And only art is glory! Subject(s): New York City - History; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration BEEKMAN DOWNTOWN, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: The elevator smells of an operation Last Line: The moment they enter the door Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City BEETHOVEN IN CENTRAL PARK, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The thousand-windowed towers were all alight Last Line: With his own grief, and his own majesty. Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Central Park, New York City; Composers; Dreams; Grief; Music & Musicians; Nations; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness BEHIND THE CHATTER, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: You can have the ocean Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City BELOW FOURTEENTH STREET, by GERALD STERN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere above fourteenth he pulled up his shirt sleeves Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple BELOW FOURTEENTH STREET, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere above fourteenth he pulled up his shirt sleeves Last Line: The man in busy cuffs, the cat in the harness Subject(s): New York City BEN, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: The day before I joined up %this was june of '43 Last Line: Only eight men in the old photo %it's a mystery, I say Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) BILL MCSORLEY: 1. ON A FATHER DYING, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: Now you join mum in calvary %separated by kitty's plot Last Line: I fear I must raise the price Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) BILL MCSORLEY: 2. CHANGES, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: Plumbing done, the big pissers %installed, urinals they say Last Line: For 'tis your name on the bar %mcsorley's old ale house Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) BILL MCSORLEY: 3. SPEAKEASY WALLS: A MIDNIGHT, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: Hear me, father? You do. %I feel you, moving slowly Last Line: All the rest hanging on the gasline %wishbones of the dead growing dust Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) BILL MCSORLEY: 4. A MIDNIGHT IN SUMMER, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: For years I've been old bill %a cynic, gloomy an' stingy Last Line: I move slower as the light fades %my fingers clawed like my soul Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) BILL MCSORLEY: 5. SELLING OUT, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: I've done the deed an' sold to %o'connell who loves this place Last Line: The reasons for the way 'tis %the silence in your walls Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) BIRTH OF THE JACKELOPE, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: Once white was I %an innocent jack %deep as the sandman Last Line: The antelope %was left to rot %god knows where Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) BLACK, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: Full moonlight in central park Last Line: Come %song, %song, %song! Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City BLACK SAPPHO, by FREDERICK SEIDEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suddenly the pace Subject(s): Harlem (new York City) BODA, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: The boda gathering modeling a wide display Last Line: Atlar' Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City BOGDAN THE DRUNK, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: I know it why %I am big drunk Last Line: I am big drunk %I know it why Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) BOLLES, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: Doing what I want to do %red bandanna round my head Last Line: I sit in my silver flask %all ashes and a bit of bone Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) BOOK, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: The day arrived, %published book date Last Line: Allowed myself to call me %beautiful Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City BORGER JORIS'S HAMMER, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A landholding freeman, a burgher of pith Last Line: "the mortals who wield them with power and will." Subject(s): Blacksmiths; Gnomes; Iron & Steel Industry; New York City - Dutch Period BORICUA, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: We are a people Last Line: Lovers who love %to love respect Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City BOWERY, by CHARLES SUMNER HOYT Poem Source First Line: Oh! The night that I struck new york, I went out for a quiet Subject(s): Bowery, New York City; New York City BOWERY, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bums are the spirit of us parked in ratty old hotels Last Line: "of your wealth, the long hours filled Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Bowery, New York City; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse BOWERY, by LUCY MAROULLETI Poem Source First Line: Spare a quarter Last Line: Is what counts for you %and for me,a s human beings Subject(s): Bowery, New York City; Poverty BOWERY BLUES, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For I %prophesy Last Line: Okay. %quit. %mad. %stop Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack Subject(s): Bowery, New York City BOWERY BUMS, by CHARLES PLYMELL Poem Source First Line: I see their tattered faces changing in the flame Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Bowery, New York City BOWLING GREEN, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A pleasant breadth of open space Last Line: The city's heart is bowling green. Subject(s): Bowling Green, New York City; Cities; New York City - Colonial Period; Peace; Urban Life BOWLING GREEN, by LOUISE MORGAN SILL Poem Text First Line: Where the city's rushing throng Last Line: On the green. Subject(s): Bowling Green, New York City; Leisure; New York City - Dutch Period BOYHOOD, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: Behind our puerto rican santurce Last Line: We kept the secret Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City BRAVA, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: They kept on telling me Last Line: Is full of premature short- %comings Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City BREAD, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Come walk the streets of the bowery where time is not Last Line: Bundles of raggedy andy dolls %and tell me you care Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City BREAD #2, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Black voices hit the air Last Line: Archie shepp's fire escape %a prostitute's window Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City BROADWAY, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On this day of brightest dawning Last Line: Stern and silent, through broadway! Subject(s): Broadway, New York City BROADWAY, by MARK DOTY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under grand central's tattered vault Last Line: The jewel of love for us Subject(s): Cities; New York City; Urban Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple BROADWAY, by MARK DOTY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under grand central's tattered vault Last Line: Are replenishing the jewel of love for us Subject(s): Cities; New York City BROADWAY, by HERMANN HAGEDORN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How like the stars Subject(s): Broadway, New York City BROADWAY, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I shall never forget you, broadway Last Line: In the dust of your harsh and trampled stones. Subject(s): Broadway, New York City BROADWAY, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the quiet hour; the theaters Last Line: A strain of music thru an open door. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Broadway, New York City BROADWAY, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What hurrying human tides, or day or night! Last Line: Thou visor'd, vast, unspeakable show and lesson! Subject(s): Broadway, New York City BROADWAY LIMITED, by PEG CARLSON LAUBER Poem Source First Line: How many bobbysoxers did it bear Last Line: At least I tried, at least I tried, at least I tried.' Subject(s): Broadway, New York City BROADWAY'S CANYON, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is like the nave of an unfinished cathedral Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Cities BRONX, 1818, by JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sat me down upon a green bank-side Last Line: And hear a voice long loved in thy wild minstrelsy. Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Bronx, New York City; New York City - 19th Century BROOKLYN BRIDGE TOWERS (AS UNCONNECTED), by GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brother! Are you waiting Last Line: Is the charioteer! Subject(s): Bridges; Brooklyn Bridge; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple BROWN, OF GRACE CHURCH, 1864, by PETER MARIE Poem Text First Line: O glorious brown! Thou medley strange Last Line: The pew, the ball, the hearse, the wine! Subject(s): Grace Church, New York City; New York City - 19th Century; Saints BRYANT PARK, by PAUL BLACKBURN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think it is its location Subject(s): Bryant Park, New York City BUILDING 520, BELLEVUE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Building 520 at bellevue is a temple Last Line: When I signed the form she took me out into the light of day Subject(s): Bellevue Hospital, New York City; Morgues; Suicide BURLESQUE ADDRESS; ON OPENING OF NEW PARK THEATRE, 1821, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ladies and gentlemen, / enlighten'd as you are, you all must know Last Line: The lord bless beekman and john jacob astor. Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; New York City - 19th Century; Theater & Theaters; Stage Life BUTTERMILK CHANNEL, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pray tarry, nancy blossom' Last Line: Fore the sun went down! Subject(s): Farm Life; New York City; New York City - Colonial Period; Travel; Agriculture; Farmers; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Journeys; Trips CAFE, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: Dry %roasted %out %of %sun Last Line: Light %mmmm %cafe %sabor Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City CALL IN THE MIDST OF THE CROWD: APRIL. BILLIE'S BLUES, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Their red lamps make a childlike stab Last Line: Him. Sounds universal to me Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music And Musicians; New York City; Singing And Singers CALL IN THE MIDST OF THE CROWD: APRIL. IMPRESSION, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brightness of the may five o'clocks Last Line: Starched shirt collar scratches slightly Subject(s): New York City CALL IN THE MIDST OF THE CROWD: APRIL. SPRING AND SUMMER, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only three seasons in this city, really Last Line: Leaving my city and the people behind Subject(s): New York City CALL IN THE MIDST OF THE CROWD: APRIL. TWO PARKS, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sundays the park-fast opposite Last Line: An image of blind, of minute, indefatigable purpose Subject(s): New York City CALL IN THE MIDST OF THE CROWD: JANUARY, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night swallows up everything but doesn't Last Line: A word shine through the white noise of the world Subject(s): New York City CALL IN THE MIDST OF THE CROWD: JANUARY. BY FIRELIGHT, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three heats sting us almost back from numbness Last Line: Drank at a fire, silenced by separate dreams Subject(s): Hudson, Henry (1550-1611); New York City CALL IN THE MIDST OF THE CROWD: JANUARY. MIDNIGHT WALK, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Biography repeats itself. Couples break Last Line: Are simpler now, really. Just what's wrong with them Subject(s): New York City CALL IN THE MIDST OF THE CROWD: JANUARY. NINE TO FIVE, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first days of the new year go on trial Last Line: A halftone photograph of january Subject(s): New York City CALL IN THE MIDST OF THE CROWD: JANUARY. SOME NEW RUINS, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Certainly a revolution hardens Last Line: The ambiguities speak for themselves Subject(s): New York City CALL IN THE MIDST OF THE CROWD: JANUARY. TOKYO WEST, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eating out alone, one makes solitude Last Line: I belong. They swim forward to greet me Subject(s): New York City CALL IN THE MIDST OF THE CROWD: JULY. BIKE RIDE, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I brake to talk to m. -- on top of his van, installing a skylight Last Line: Saying good-bye. End of summer Subject(s): New York City CALL IN THE MIDST OF THE CROWD: JULY. BIRTHDAY LUNCH, AUGUST 14, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some birthdays seem to say more than others Last Line: And shows by shining life is still awake Subject(s): New York City CALL IN THE MIDST OF THE CROWD: JULY. CITY ISLAND, PELHAM BAY PARK, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We keep meaning to visit pelham manor Last Line: We stare. We wonder why we came back here again Subject(s): New York City CALL IN THE MIDST OF THE CROWD: JULY. DECLARATION, JULY 4, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It enters its second hundredth Last Line: To be self-evident: that all men Subject(s): Fourth Of July; New York City CALL IN THE MIDST OF THE CROWD: JULY. FIRE: THE PEOPLE, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Toplight hammered down by shadowless moon Last Line: An offered covenant -- love that gives them each a name Subject(s): New York City CALL IN THE MIDST OF THE CROWD: JULY. SUMMER VERTIGO, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twilight ushered in still so late Last Line: So far denied to you Subject(s): New York City CALL IN THE MIDST OF THE CROWD: JULY. SUNDAY MORNINGS IN HARLEM, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Overcast skies I never welcome Last Line: Of a drawing, a tattoo it still hurts to touch Subject(s): Harlem (new York City); New York City CALL IN THE MIDST OF THE CROWD: OCTOBER. AFTERNOON, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Scudding clouds give happenstance to the walls Last Line: See, that there always be one of this day Subject(s): New York City CALL IN THE MIDST OF THE CROWD: OCTOBER. AIR: THE SPIRIT, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Real but departed, like remembered clouds Last Line: The world has become manageable again Subject(s): New York City CALL IN THE MIDST OF THE CROWD: OCTOBER. ANOTHER YEAR, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Driving west on the l.I.E. Somewhere in Last Line: And failure, at last, to be solved, repaired? Subject(s): New York City CALL IN THE MIDST OF THE CROWD: OCTOBER. FIFTY-SEVENTH ST. AND FIFTH, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hard-edged buildings; cloudless blue enamel Last Line: For better or worse, the ground rules. A fate Subject(s): New York City CALL IN THE MIDST OF THE CROWD: OCTOBER. ORLANDO FURIOSO .. PUPPET, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A painted flat as houselights dim becomes Last Line: Orlando, sword aloft, speak: what happens next? Subject(s): New York City; Puppets CALL IN THE MIDST OF THE CROWD: OCTOBER. PHOTOGRAPHS OF OLD NEW YORK, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They stare back into an increate future Last Line: The human fate given a human face Subject(s): New York City CALL IN THE MIDST OF THE CROWD: OCTOBER. SHORT STORY, A COVENANT, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Together again under the same roof Last Line: All make toward engulfment, doomed; and joyful Subject(s): New York City CANTE JONDO, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Segovia says lorca was killed Last Line: Homosexuals die violent deaths, segovia %says, playing a bach fugue on his guitar Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City CANTONESE OPERA AT SUN SING THEATER, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Diamonds glitter in black hair Last Line: The rumble of the night train to brooklyn Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City CARNEGIE HILL BIRDLORE, by GRACE SCHULMAN Poem Source First Line: Today a robin hopped between stalled cars Last Line: From scant but lustrous rooms, our residence Subject(s): Birds; New York City CATALPA TREE ON WEST TWELFTH STREET, by AMY CLAMPITT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: While the sun stops, or Last Line: And perfume of an all %too terminable process Subject(s): Greenwich Village, New York City CEILING HAIKU, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: Two coconuts hang %gifts from gaugin to big john Last Line: Slaves and sailors lashed bloody %mouthing cotton seas Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) CELEBRATING MY BIRTHDAY IN GREENWICH VILLAGE, by SANDRA STONE Poem Source First Line: This week, my life took a turn. I'm not ailing. But then, who knows Last Line: After I survive what it's not Subject(s): Birthdays; Greenwich Village, New York City CELEBRATION, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Bravo for wondrous circumstance Last Line: Celebrate the one asian american in the crowd Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City CENTRAL PARK, by JOHN MYERS O'HARA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The little lake, sequestered from the wind Last Line: And mammon yields arcadia a day. Subject(s): Central Park, New York City CENTRAL PARK AT DUSK, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Buildings above the leafless trees Last Line: The world is waiting for the spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Central Park, New York City CENTRAL PARK WEST, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: Shakes the pavement, city traffic Last Line: The avenue its long, cold face Subject(s): Central Park, New York City; Cities; Traffic CENTRAL PARK, CAROUSEL, by MEENA ALEXANDER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: June already, it's your birth month, Last Line: If I die leave the balcony open! Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); Merry-go-rounds; New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 CHANGING THE NAME TO OCHESTER, by ED OCHESTER Poem Source First Line: When other grandpas came to ellis island %the immigration people asked 'name?' Last Line: It was good and lasted %a long, long time Subject(s): Fathers; Grandparents; Loss; Moving And Movers; New York City; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration CHARNEL GROUND, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upstairs jenny crashed her car & became a living corpse, jake sold grass, the w Last Line: With words: 'the whole point seems to be the idea of giving away the giver.' Subject(s): Aging; New York City CHAUL, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Chinese %silk Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City CHELSEA, 1860, by ARTHUR CLEVELAND COXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When old canute the dane Last Line: From chelsea's student train. Subject(s): Churches; Hudson River; New York City; Cathedrals; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple CHINA, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: On west lake Last Line: Crouching in the dark Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City CHINATOWN HEARTBREAK, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Uncertain of the days to come Last Line: Nights when love lit up her lanterns Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City CHINATOWN SIGN, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Sweet olives Last Line: 4 for 10c Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City CHINATOWN UNVISITED, by GEORGE MACDONALD MAJOR Poem Text First Line: In the sybil book of youth Last Line: Chinatown, o chinatown. Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips CHINATOWN VISITED, by GEORGE MACDONALD MAJOR Poem Text First Line: From sullen skies a cheerless rain Last Line: "china gel no li!" Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips CHINATOWN, SAN FRANCISCO, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Oldtimers play pinball to quicken the heart Last Line: You are a sight for sore eyes %I am in a state of reverie Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City CHINATOWNJ, by DEREK MAHON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And whips the pagodas of confucius square Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City CHINESE, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: All %those %fa %ces Last Line: Age %to %the %wise Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City CHINESE DENTIST, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: With your apartment Last Line: Hoping to save a few dollars Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City CHINESE NEW YEAR, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: See me on sunday Last Line: As we feast for three nights Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City CHINESE NEW YEAR. YELLOW CHRYSANTEMUMS, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Follow. Oranges to cut. Shrimp chips %flowering Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City CHINESE POEM, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Since we last saw one another Last Line: To feast on a bowl of noodles Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City CHINESE WOMEN, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Old woman at the window Last Line: I hope your reverie and view %do not leave you unhappy Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City CHOPSTICKS, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: A memory of ivory chopsticks Last Line: Like a pair of ivory chopsticks Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City CHORNA, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: Tembandumba, now an elder Last Line: Time and time and time and time again! Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City CHRISTMAS IN CHINATOWN, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They're off doing what they do Subject(s): Chinatown. New York City; Christmas; Nativity, The CITIES, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: As there are books on beehives Last Line: A book indeed Subject(s): Boston; China; Cities; London; New York City; Paris, France CITIES: 7. NEW YORK, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A young amazon Last Line: Or proud mother of new and mighty tomorrows. Subject(s): New York City; Sea; United States; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Ocean; America CITY HALL PARK, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ere cabot's prow was westward turned Last Line: Unroofed beneath the sky. Subject(s): Freedom; New York City - Colonial Period; Liberty CITY LYRICS, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come out, love - the night is enchanting! Last Line: Is not more unhappy than I! Subject(s): Courtship; New York City - 19th Century CITY THAT DOES NOT SLEEP, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis First Line: In the sky there is nobody asleep. Nobody, nobody Last Line: The lying goblets, and the poison, and the skull of the theatres Subject(s): Bridges; Brooklyn Bridge; New York City CITY THAT HAS WHAT IT TAKES, by EDOARDO CACCIATORE Poem Source First Line: Beyond whipping rain and battling of eyelids Last Line: You are a road and people cross it Subject(s): New York City CITY WITHOUT WALLS, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those fantastic forms, fang-sharp Last Line: Go to sleep now for god's sake! %you both will feel better by breakfast time Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): New York City COCKROACH DREAM NIGHTMARE. BANGING, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Overturned on its back struggling. I %must reread metamorphosis Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City COLLEGE SPECIAL, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Plush lines the metal train, making the steel Subject(s): Railroad Stations; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple COLUMBIA COLLEGE, 1796, by JOSIAH SHIPPEY Poem Text First Line: Columbia college! Alma mater! Well Last Line: Mother, these acts in ninety-six were done! Subject(s): Columbia University; New York City; Scholarship & Scholars; Teaching & Teachers; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple COMING OF AGE ON THE HARLEM, by JOAN+(1) MURRAY Poem Source First Line: My father would tie a life jacket Last Line: Just carefully enough to lead us here? Subject(s): Ferry Boats; Harlem River, New York; New York City COMMONWEALTH, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: No, not yet, no, not yet Last Line: Options, maybe then, hope Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City COMMONWEALTH. COMMON POVERTY, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A visitor comes from hungary as from outer space Last Line: We, their future, have become what they most feared Variant Title(s): Commonwealth, Common Povert Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City CONCERT: LEWISOHN STADIUM, by FRANCES M. MILLER Poem Source First Line: So might a maid have sat in other days Subject(s): Lewisohn Stadium (new York City); Symphonies CONEY, by VIRGINIA SCHONBORG Poem Source First Line: There's hot corn Last Line: And franks Subject(s): Coney Island, New York City CONEY ISLAND, by FILLMORE HYDE Poem Source First Line: Go to coney island where the bright lights twinkle Last Line: See a half a million faces %and you won't know one Subject(s): Amusement Parks; Coney Island, New York City CONEY ISLAND, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why did you bring me here? Last Line: Come, let us go. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Coney Island, New York City CONEY ISLAND BY NIGHT, by GUSTAV DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: City of dreams, / I watch you from the ocean's edge tonight Last Line: Forever and forever. ... Subject(s): Coney Island, New York City; Dreams; Seashore; Nightmares; Beach; Coast; Shore CONFIANZUDA, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She touched me Last Line: Parted and waiting %hour after dumb hour %while we in twilight %mourned Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City CONSECRATED GROUND; READ AT THE NEW YORK CITY HALL, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let there be prayer and praise Last Line: There where the deathless climb the deathless skies. Subject(s): Fourth Of July; New York City; Independence Day; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple COOPER SQUARE, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A mother on long island buys her son Last Line: And beg beyond all affluence. Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple COPING SKILLS, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I said how sad it was Last Line: I remember nothing Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City COUGH REMEDY, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: A loving gesture Last Line: I was so tickled Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City CRADLE SONG FOR MIEKO, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Dark-eyed baby Last Line: A home in the country Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City CRAQUEAO, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: Four and one half billion Last Line: Seguro, y tu craqueao!' Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City CRASH; OCTOBER, 1987, WALL STREET, by JONATHAN HOLDEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Passion was supposed to be great fun Last Line: Because he's neither here nor there Subject(s): Stock Exchange; Wall Street, New York City CRIOLLO STORY, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: I was drunk, sunday morning Last Line: As we had serenaded the moon Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City CROSSING THE COLOR LINE, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Harlem %has a black belt Last Line: Where white men %seek a little hell Subject(s): Harlem (new York City) CROSSTOWN, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back in new york I grab a taxi at port authority Last Line: X-rays, so it’s cancer Subject(s): New York City; City Traffic; Taxis; Buses; Democracy; War; Politics & Politicians; African Americans; Racism; Nightmares CROSSTOWN, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem 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 CRY UNCLE, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They say he was a revolutionary Last Line: There's no one left to justify %his failure, to render his lifelong mission holy Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City CUSTOMER HAIKU, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: Dirty common men %white potbelly of hot coals %lies to pump false pride Last Line: Paint the everyday noble %eyes chasing the real Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) CYCLOPS THE SNIPER, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: In mcsorley's 1972 %a blustery gray paddy's day Last Line: I can still pop 'em quiet %right there in the heart Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) DAN LYNCH, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: Back in the old sod I taught %history, arcane celtic secrets Last Line: I kept seeing mum %cooking me a fry Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) DANCE OF DEATH, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The mask. Look at the mask Last Line: Over the faulty pain of new york Subject(s): Death; Depressions, Economic; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Parades; United States DANCING, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: I'll go out dancing Last Line: We danced %the night %away Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City 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 IN THE CITY, by CHARLES DE KAY Poem Text First Line: The city slowly wakes Last Line: Vaulted above, like them with a fresh sea of blue. Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple DAY IN THE CITY, by LOUIS EDWARD SISSMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The dead in queens lean westward from their stones Last Line: And him as colin, awkward, forward, witty, %against the pre-cast forest of the city Alternate Author Name(s): Sissman, L. E. Subject(s): New York City DAYS IN NEW YORK, by SHIV K. KUMAR Poem Source First Line: Here I live in a garbage can Last Line: How long will this eclipse last? Subject(s): New York City DECATUR'S TOAST, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up rose, triumphant, from his seat Last Line: "our country! -- right or wrong!" Subject(s): Decatur, Stephen (1779-1820); Heroism; Nations; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Toasts; Heroes; Heroines DEDICATION FOR A BUILDING, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Excavation for the new Subject(s): Bellevue Hospital, New York City DEITER THE JUICEMAN, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: They called me juiceman %with electrics I was the best Last Line: My own blood got me %me, the fucking juiceman Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) DELIA (A.K.A. MARY) MCSORLEY, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: I saw mother's ghost last night %her wide sad eyes broke me Last Line: That nags herself so %what ghost is this? Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) DELICIAE NOVI EBORACI, 1839, by JEDEDIAH VINCENT HUNTINGTON Poem Text First Line: With much the soul that fetters and degrades Last Line: Of masts and spars their blackened lines relieve. Subject(s): Battery Park, New York; New York City - 19th Century DEMONSTRATION: WOMEN'S HOUSE OF DETENTION, 1965, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Blood-inked political leaflets pelted village streets Last Line: Women's house of d Subject(s): Booksellers; Exhibitions; History; Macdougal Street, New York City; Prisons And Prisoners; Revolutions; Tourists DEPARTURE TO THE DEPTHS OF HEAVEN, VIA GRAND CENTRAL STATION, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's closing, grand central station Last Line: Where nothing looks particularly familiar yet is, like the hospital I can't remember, but in which I Subject(s): Grand Central Station, New York City DESCRIPTIVE VIEW OF NEW YORK, 1813, by THOMAS EATON Poem Text First Line: The lord supreme the basis laid Last Line: Makes us forget where we have been. Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; New York City - 19th Century; Quakers DETAIL WAITING FOR A TRAIN, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The main floor of penn station, early Subject(s): Pennsylvania Station, New York City; Death; Dead, The DIARY OF A POET RECENTLY MARRIED: DEEP NIGHT, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: New york deserted -- without a person Last Line: Around the night in the sky, now toward the west Subject(s): Abandonment; Diaries; New York City; Solitude DIEGO RIVERA ROCKEFELLER CENTER MURAL NEW YORK CITY..., by BRIAN JOSEPH GROTH Poem Source First Line: Frida kahlo said %to her friend Last Line: All the state desires %? Subject(s): New York City; Rivera, Diego (1886-1957) DIGGING FOUNDATIONS AT NIGHT; CORTLAND STREET, by HARVEY MAITLAND WATTS Poem Text First Line: Here, where the forges sound their giant scale Last Line: Some new aladdin's dream, scraping the very skies. Subject(s): New York City - Buildings DIMOUT IN HARLEM, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down the street young harlem Last Line: Down the street young harlem %in the dark Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Harlem (new York City) DIRECTIONS FOR CARRYING EXPLOSIVE NUCLEAR WASTES THROUGH ..., by JUNE JORDAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enter the long island expressway at brookhaven Last Line: And look out for the crazies. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Driving & Drivers; New York City; Nuclear Waste; Trucks & Trucking; Nuclear Freeze; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Teamsters; Truckers; Freight DISCOVERY OF THE SECRET POWER TO, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Wired mobile. I don't think I %can read them Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City DIVORCE, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On saturdays her grandmother Last Line: Whatever she has done, hoping %they'll forget that she must go Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN IT SEEMED THE WHOLE WORLD, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Eternal windowshoppers %we women are sometimes like children Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City DOC ZORY, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: Big z was my old man %first gypsy violinist %to play carnegie hall Last Line: The gypsy men bowed %weeping axes Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) DOMESDAY BOOK: HENRY BAKER, AT NEW YORK, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One partner may consult another -- james Last Line: And chase came to the coroner and spoke: Subject(s): Death; Letters; New York City; Undertakers; Dead, The; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple DON LUIS A. FERRE, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: There were no paintings Last Line: One of his dreams had said, 'yes' Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City DON'T LEAVE ANY RICE IN YOUR, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Needed to cook the rice with %index finger Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City DONDE SE VENDEN PAVOS, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Old woman from el salvador Last Line: Warm smiles and always the parting %que le vaya bien Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City DOUBLE TEN (10/10 DAY), by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Early morning Last Line: The strong smell of black mushrooms Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City DOWNTOWN IN A BREEZE, by CHRIS STROFFOLINO Poem Source First Line: There is, I think, a writhing volition in every Last Line: And letting them flirt with you Subject(s): Change; Wall Street, New York City DREAM COLLECTION, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: A man with dashiki lips Last Line: Two peaches beneath a tree Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City DUGGAN THE DRIFTER, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: I stayed two years behind the bar Last Line: To see ice cream in the desert Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) DUST ON SPRING STREET, by LOUIS GRUDIN Poem Source First Line: The floor boards have a sour breath Last Line: Fear not the man of hell, %and seize his fiery hand Subject(s): Spring Street, New York City DUTCHMAN'S BREECHES, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the month when lilacs bloom Last Line: The garments of the great ten broeck. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Legends; May (month); Nature; New York City - Dutch Period DUTCHMAN'S QUIRK, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Broadway reaches northward from fair bowling Last Line: "is, just as I've shown you, a ""dutchman's quirk!" Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple DWARF IN UNION SQUARE WITH HAT, by LAUREL SPEER Poem Source First Line: Cornell and burckhardt are wandering around union square Last Line: This is the whole picture in one shot. %now crop and print Subject(s): Dwarfs; Photography And Photographers; Union Square, New York City EAST BRONX, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the street two children sharpen Subject(s): Bronx, New York City EAST BRONX, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the street two children sharpen Last Line: Always alone and always %the sun shining Subject(s): Bronx, New York City EAST SIDE MOVING PICTURE THEATRE - SUNDAY, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An old woman rubs her eyes Last Line: Were standing before their last heaven. Subject(s): Heaven; Lower East Side, New York City; Motion Pictures; Prayer; Sabbath; Paradise; Movies; Cinema; Sunday EASY SERMON, by MARK JARMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Sermons are easy Last Line: When the highest powers fall Subject(s): Sermons; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 EATING ORANGES, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: An orange eaten the chinese way Last Line: Picks one up %sucks on it Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City EAVESDROPPING ON HOUDINI'S HANDCUFFS, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: Houdini was here. %those are his cuffs up there Last Line: Fuckin' houdini. %yeah. Got away again Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) ECHOES OF THE NIGHT TRUCKS, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Brave cross mott street on a %diagonal Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City EDWARD MCSORLEY, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: Sensation was all. %warm milk from her nipple Last Line: But there wasn't strength %in my lips for the suck Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) EIGHT OARS AND A COXSWAIN, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eight oars compel Last Line: "steady! Pull it thr-o-o-ough!" Subject(s): Boats; New York City - Dutch Period; Rowing; Sea Gulls; Sports ELECTION RETURNS AT TAMMANY HALL, 1819, by GULIAN VERPLANCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The time next may-the place, suppose Last Line: On rockland, putnam, orange, kings. Subject(s): New York City - 19th Century; Tammany Hall, New York City ELEGY FOR SCOTT LIVING IN NYC, by KAREN CARCIA Poem Source First Line: The next time %we did it again. Gentle Last Line: Because what we all try %never to say is Subject(s): New York City ELEVATOR, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We jumped in, trusting Last Line: Sister! He wailed, as I sank deep into the ground. Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Elevators; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple EMPIRE STATE TOWER, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The far lands melt to orange and to grey Subject(s): Empire State Building, New York City EMPORIUM VERSUS NEW YORK, 1854, by JACOB BIGELOW Poem Text First Line: With head erect and stately stride Last Line: Emporium,not new york! Subject(s): New York City - 19th Century EN BUSCA DEL BARRIO CHINO DE LIMA..., by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Chan-chan, chunga...Chan chung Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City ENCHULA, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: Unfortunately, my new loves are Last Line: Me tiene la vida enchula Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City ENGLISH, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: So %exquisite %general %overtones Last Line: Growth %of %the %world Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City EPITAPH FOR ANY NEW YORKER, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, who all my life had hurried Last Line: "take your eternity,"" he said." Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): New York City; Patience; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple EPITAPH FOR PETER STUYVESANT, 1682, by HENRICUS SELYNS Poem Text First Line: Here lieth stuyvesant-stir not too deep the sand! Last Line: Insufferable. At first too rich; at last too poor. Subject(s): Epitaphs; New York City - Dutch Period; Stuyvesant, Peter (1610-1672) ESQUINA DUDE, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: I like and dislike, like the good Last Line: You know exactly what I mean, gracias Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City ESSAY: ON THE WORLD AS WILL OR WILL NOT, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Accident, come / from the side of the walk I forgot Subject(s): Essays; New York City; Taxis; Travel; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Journeys; Trips EVACUATION OF NEW YORK BY THE BRITISH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: They come! They come! The heroes come Last Line: "the toast is, 'freedom's favorite son, / health, peace, and joy to washington" Subject(s): American Revolution;new York City; "manhattan;new York, New York;the Big Apple; EVENING: NEW YORK, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blue dust of evening over my city Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple EVERY SUNDAY WE GO TO 'JEW STREET,' ORCHARD TOWN, TO, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Heads, one-armed, even one naked bride with no nipples Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City FACES, by LOLA RIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A late snow beats Last Line: With some ungainly dolls. Alternate Author Name(s): Lawson, David, Mrs. Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple FACTORIES, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everywhere in new york city there are factories Last Line: Pumping blood through the stillness of our arteries Subject(s): Industry; Labor & Laborers; New York City; Work; Workers FAITH, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes when I witness the blindness of faith Last Line: When I least expect it, stuns me %with a right hook to the eye of reason Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City FALCON IN NEW YORK, by DAVID SHAPIRO Poem Source First Line: The falcon Last Line: Who never learned %to hunt Subject(s): Falcons; New York City FANNY: 112, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ere long the air of broadway or park place Last Line: Forgot a while, and every eye on fanny Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Broadway, New York City; Theater And Theaters FANNY: 137, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He woke, in strength, like samson from his slumber Last Line: Gave, in the slang phrase, pearl street the go-by, %and cut,for several months, st. Tammany Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Houses; Mortgages; Theater And Theaters FAR AWAY, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is weeping as is customary and good Last Line: Lover no children no poetry Subject(s): Cities; Grief; New York City; Urban Life; Sorrow; Sadness; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple FEBRUARY, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A chimney, breathing a little smoke Subject(s): Winter; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple FEBRUARY EVENING IN NEW YORK, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the stores close, a winter light Subject(s): New York City; Evening; Winter; Aging; Conduct Of Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Sunset; Twilight FEBRUARY THAW, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: A cabbie gets out of his cab in the breezeway at penn Last Line: Today, and the police are using grappling hooks in &hopes of finding the bodies Subject(s): Commuters; New York City; Travel FEDUH THE IMMIGRANT, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: Feduh, they call me feduh %from ukraine I am Last Line: I get cure, go home soon %see family %amerika, no problem Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) FIELD DAY, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The red-tailed hawk on the meadow by Last Line: Can snare the senses, stir a woman's %envy, a man's unswerving thirst Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri; Puerto Ricans - New York City FIFTH AVENUE-SPRING AFTERNOON, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world's running over with color Last Line: Rises your face! Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Fields; Fifth Avenue, New York City; Flowers; Primroses; Spring; Pastures; Meadows; Leas FIRE, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The fire broke out in 1b, the garden Last Line: But my grandmother and I were ready- %as ready as we would ever be Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City FIRST MANHATTAN, by STEVEN REESE Poem Source First Line: God's first refinement Last Line: For an instant, our separate skies Subject(s): New York City FIRST OF MAY IN NEW YORK (CHATHAM GARDEN, 1825), by ROBERT STEVENSON COFFIN Poem Text First Line: First of may, clear the way! Last Line: Devil take the first of may. Subject(s): May Day; Moving & Movers; New York City - 19th Century FISH IN CHAINS, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Along the hudson across manhattan to the triborough Last Line: It nearly rained that's what people had to say Subject(s): Cities; Courtship; Love - Beginnings; Love - Unrequited; New York City; Urban Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple FITZ-GREENE HALLECK, AT THE UNVEILING OF HIS STATUE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among their graven shapes to whom Last Line: The lines of halleck's name. Subject(s): Halleck, Fitz-greene (1790-1867); New York City - 19th Century; Statues; Writing & Writers FIVE POINTS, 1838, by LAUGHTON OSBORN Poem Text First Line: Fast by the dike, where frown the granite eaves Last Line: In laurens street, the southern side of broom. Subject(s): Five Points, New York City; Homeless; Hunger; New York City - 19th Century FLOATING POEM: MANHATTAN, MIDDAY, by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: Dressed in patent leather pumps and a wool dress coat Last Line: A wrist to take the pulse? Subject(s): Ambulances; Death; New York City; Poetry And Poets; Women FLORA, by VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ Poem Source Last Line: The caterpillar makes itself a dress Subject(s): Books; History; Poetry And Poets; Puerto Ricans - New York City; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration FLOWER LIFTS ON MOTT STREET, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: That sings a fresh song %every dawning Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City FLOWERS OF MANHATTAN, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: ... Early morning petal-strewn sidewalks of manhattan Last Line: Makes a fist and throws punches at the air. Love’s no secret now Subject(s): Flowers; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple FLOWERS OF MANHATTAN, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: ... Early morning petal-strewn sidewalks of manhattan Last Line: Makes a fist and throws punches at the air. Love's no secret now Subject(s): Flowers; New York City FOLLIES, by SCOTT HIGHTOWER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: December, 1971. A light snow. The taft hotel. Subject(s): Broadway, New York City FOR A LION DANCER, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Beneath bright colors of a lion mask Last Line: Strike a strong lion's pose for me %dance into my life Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City FOR LI PO, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: They read your poem still Last Line: We remember your middle name Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City FOR MY GRANDFATHER'S FRIEND, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: They said you were a gambler Last Line: I wonder are they flowering still Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City FOR THAT DAY ONLY; NEW YORK, JUNE 11, 1883, by GRACE SCHULMAN Poem Source First Line: Daybreak, and she left her poppy-seed roll Last Line: The next day and the next one and the next Subject(s): Cities; New York City FOR THE AVERY 'KNICKERBOCKER', by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shade of herrick, muse of locker Last Line: This the muse can never do! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Boughton, George Henry (1833-1905); New York City - Dutch Period; Poetry & Poets; Smoking; United States - Dutch Settlements; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes FORT TRYON, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again there's a golden haze Last Line: Rides alone in a peaceful sky! Subject(s): Death; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Dead, The FOUND CHINESE POEM, 1944, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Mango bird Last Line: Sweet spirit of rice Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City FOUR WINDOWS, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Near grandma's tree-sconced house in brooklyn Last Line: My fact - touches me so quick, quick as life. Subject(s): Life; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple FRANK O'SHAUGNESSY, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: In some woods near cologne %in cold sunlight Last Line: My heart blew up %isn't that a fuckin' bitch Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) FRAUNCES' TAVERN, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Restore, o thought, whose potent weird Last Line: The honest love of gallant men! Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Fraunces' Tavern, New York City; Memory; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Past; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons FREELY ESPOUSING, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A commingling sky Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States; Social Commentaries; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple FROM A HIGH WINDOW , by SARA TEASDALE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From a high window, this december night Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple FROM A HIGH WINDOW (NEW YORK, DECEMBER, 1931), by SARA TEASDALE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From a high window, this december night Last Line: Though I am lovely, I am not for long Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): New York City FROM THE TOWERS, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Insanity is not a want of reason. Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 FROM THE WOOLWORTH TOWER, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Vivid with love, eager for greater beauty Last Line: Victors. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): New York City - Buildings; Skyscrapers; Woolworth Building, New York FRUIT MUTATIONS, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Grape approaching lichee Last Line: Peach approaching mango Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City FULL FLIGHT, by HICOK. BOB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I’m in a plane that will not be flown into a building Last Line: We’ve begun our descent, and then I sense the falling Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); Airplanes; Air Pilots; New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 GEOGRAPHICAL REFLECTION, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bronx! Last Line: No, thonx! Subject(s): Bronx, New York City GEORGE MCSORLEY, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: A beachcomber I was %my toes sinking in hot sand Last Line: Breaking my neck in %invisible places %which, nonetheless, %had been marked Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) GEORGE MEREDITH TO MISS DIXON (JUNE 9, 1892), by HENRY W. KING Poem Text First Line: From box hill, dorking, so the heading reads Last Line: Wrought by the glowing letters of his name. Subject(s): Meredith, George (1828-1909); New York City; Novels & Novelists; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple GHAZALS: 30, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am walked on a leash by my dog and am water Last Line: An apple, the fat off the lamb, raw and coreless. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): New York City; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Songs GHOST SHIRT, by LUCIA MARIA PERILLO Poem Source First Line: The blue whale swam through blue air in the basement Last Line: From people lighting candles in front of the public library Subject(s): History; Museums; New York City GHOSTS OF BROADWAY, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wan ghost of the moon Last Line: Who had not died! Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Ghosts; Supernatural GIANT NIGHT, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Awake in a giant night Last Line: Just like what is here one minute and not the next. Subject(s): Christmas; December; Family Life; Holidays; New York City; Nativity, The; Relatives; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple GIVE ME THE SPLENDID SILENT SUN, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling Last Line: Manhattan faces and eyes forever for me. Subject(s): New York City; Sun; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple GIVEN IN PERSON ONLY, by MARK WUNDERLICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tompkins square park's a mess of shopping carts Last Line: Some common flame, or the one Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Tompkins Square Park, New York Cit GLENN, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: I had some genius %I did %deniro & me, when we were kids Last Line: I wondered if it might help %to tell them I knew bobby Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) GLIMPSES OF LIGHT: 1, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A brown towhee nudges us awake with its song Last Line: Still lazy from sleep. Feel %drafts from an open door glaze %my skin with the scent of pinon Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City GLIMPSES OF LIGHT: 2, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am in an adobe womb about to be born Last Line: Worship its bark, pray at its roots: %it yields words Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City GLIMPSES OF LIGHT: 3, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Light makes fools of us Last Line: Only to catch a glimpse of myself %in a shiny car fender %asclown Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City GLIMPSES OF LIGHT: 4, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At night I am in my rights. Days Last Line: I am condemned to recreate %the cursive shadows of the sun, coaxing thought %across the bleached pul Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City GLIMPSES OF LIGHT: 5, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday afternoon the mountains Last Line: Time to take stock, put it all together- %sandhya on sandia-ya es dia Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City GLIMPSES OF LIGHT: 6, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From this room I can see the world Last Line: My life, long a solar eclipse, %is destined for the good side of the moon Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City GLORY, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It spreads, the campaign - carried on Variant Title(s): Carnegie Hall: Rescued Subject(s): Carnegie Hall, New York City; Landmark Preservation; Music & Musicians; Stern, Isaac (1920-2001) GLORY, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It spreads, the campaign - carried on Last Line: For rushing to the rescue %as if you'd heard yourself performing Variant Title(s): Carnegie Hall: Rescue Subject(s): Carnegie Hall, New York City; Landmark Preservation; Music And Musicians; Stern, Isaac (1920-2001) GLOSSARY, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: A piece of rice--term applied to a lazy person Last Line: Duck shit green--olive green Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City GLOSSARY OF LITERARY TERMS FOR MY SON, by VIVIAN SHIPLEY Poem Source First Line: Sunday, leaving grand central station, at 125th street Last Line: Your pain is white, is blinding as light [or, your pain is as blinding as white light] off chrome bu Subject(s): Children; Language; Literary Form; New York City GLOVES, by MARGARET RANDALL Poem Source First Line: Yes we did march around somewhere and yes it was cold Last Line: The gloves are still there, in the cold, %passing from hand to hand Subject(s): Gloves; New York City; Politics; Social Protest GOLDEN HILL, by HAMILTON FISH ARMSTRONG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: East of the rumble of broadway Last Line: On top of golden hill. Subject(s): New York City - Revolutionary Period GOOFY LALA WAS THE WICKED WOMAN WHO LIVED ON ELIZABETH, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Away quickly because she threw bottles when she became %angry Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City GRACE CHIMES, by MEREDITH NICHOLSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lead, kindly light,' I heard the glad bells ring Last Line: And thought how god existeth everywhere. Subject(s): God; Grace Church, New York City; Religion; Theology GRAFFITERS, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: In the near %distant future Last Line: Remembered for %whatever else %emerged' Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City GRAFFITI IN TIMES SQUARE SUBWAY, by HELEN BRYANT Poem Source First Line: They won't last, as those in %pompeii did Last Line: At the train's passing, simply said %manandgod Subject(s): Graffiti; New York City GRAFFITO, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This morning I had my first flying dream Last Line: Last night described his first kill, %his first feast of dove Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City GRAMERCY PARK, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The little park was filled with peace Last Line: If we should dare to enter in. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Gramercy Park, New York City GRAVEYARD IN QUEENS, by JOHN MONTAGUE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We hesitate along Last Line: The slow pride %of a lament Subject(s): Cemeteries; Queens, New York City GREAT AMERICAN YELLOW POEM, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: She heard tales about saving grapefruit skins for cooking Last Line: Visions of ochre and citronella eluded her Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City GREAT IS DIANA OF THE MANNAHATTOES!, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Northward! Northward! Goddess of the tower Last Line: The smoke of sacrifice! Subject(s): Hudson River; Native Americans; New York City; Ships & Shipping; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple GREEK, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: Looking to find modern mythology Last Line: Twenty-four hours a day %in new york Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City GROUND ZERO, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: What's after or before Last Line: All turned to dust Subject(s): Politics & Government; War; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 GUATEMALA, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Two babies sitting in the doorway of the hotel Last Line: The sign on one doorway %se venden tortillas Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City GUERNICA IN NEW YORK, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: We shall talk Last Line: The way of love you %guernica %painted once more %in each skyscraper %in each rape %in each victim Subject(s): Advertising; Art And Artists; New York City HAARLEM HEIGHTS, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They've turned at last! Goodby, king george Last Line: That we shall claim our own! Subject(s): American Revolution; Harlem Heights, Battle Of (1776); New York City - Revolutionary Period HAIRCUT, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I get off the irt in front of the schomburg center Last Line: Dying every day Subject(s): Barbers; Harlem (new York City) HALF A MAN, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: One cold christmas night Last Line: You wouldn't be here %waiting for no damn bus Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City HALLOWEEN CHARM, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fern seed, hemp seed, water of the well Last Line: Take my secret thought to him and call him home again! Subject(s): Halloween; Life; New York City - Dutch Period; Peace HARE KRISHNA PEOPLE COME, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Their shaven heads. They look %like pale white ghosts Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City HARLEM, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want to sing harlem on an ebony flute Last Line: "rest, and dream, my dark delight!" Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music; Harlem (new York City); Music & Musicians HARLEM, by JEAN BRIERRE Poem Source First Line: I have seen you suffer in the midst of winters Subject(s): Harlem (new York City) HARLEM, by PAUL LARAQUE Poem Source First Line: Yesterday's fires and tomorrow's fires Last Line: And all the false heavens %of yesterday and today Subject(s): Harlem (new York City) HARLEM, by WALTER DEAN MYERS Poem Source First Line: They took the road in waycross, georgia Last Line: And has not ended %harlem Subject(s): African Americans; Harlem (new York City) HARLEM GALLERY: BOOK 1, THE CURATOR: LAMBDA, by MELVIN BEAUNORUS TOLSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the mouth of the harlem gallery Last Line: If old satchmo had never been born!' Alternate Author Name(s): Tolson, Melvin Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Armstrong, Louis (1900-1971); Harlem (new York City); Jazz; Music And Musicians HARLEM GALLERY: BOOK 1, THE CURATOR: MU, by MELVIN BEAUNORUS TOLSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hideho heights / and I, like the brims of old hats Last Line: Of the indigo combo. Alternate Author Name(s): Tolson, Melvin Variant Title(s): The Harlem Gallery: Mu Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music; Harlem (new York City); Jazz; Music & Musicians HARLEM MARY, by SAMUEL WOODWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They sing of blue-eyed mary Last Line: Tis planted in her heart. Subject(s): Harlem (new York City); New York City - 19th Century; Women HARLEM SHADOWS, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the halting footsteps of a lass Last Line: In harlem wandering from street to street. Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Harlem (new York City); Poverty; Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels HARLEM SWEETIES, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have yhou dug the spill Last Line: Delicious, fine sugar hill Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Harlem (new York City) HAZARDS, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: Whenever I walk in a new york street Last Line: The driving is safer there after it's dark. Subject(s): Automobiles; Driving & Drivers; New York City; Cars; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple HE 2-104: A TRUE PLANETARY NEBULA IN THE MAKING, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the universal clock, sagan tells us Last Line: Blaze as one across the southern skies- %no longer crab but butterfly Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City HE CAME DOWN THE HALL WITH BLACKNESS IN HIS PUPILS,, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: You leave, he will ask you to bring toothpicks the next %time you come Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City HE WAS GROWING OLD, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: She wanted more Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City HE WEARS A UNIFORM OF RED AND BLACK, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Twenty years now. They are empty and %full of dust Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City HENRY MOORE'S STATUE AT LINCOLN CENTER, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After listening to durufle's requiem Last Line: Of shapes which refuse to explain. Subject(s): Moore, Henry (1898-1986); New York City; Statues; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple HERALD SQUARE, by JOHN CURTIS UNDERWOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You who have felt the pressure and made good Last Line: God's sheet moves on. You would not change your places. Subject(s): Herald Square, New York City; Hunger; Winter HIGH WIND AT THE BATTERY, by RALPH POMEROY Poem Source First Line: The corner bank has lost a great window Last Line: That the city is getting a needed dusting - %means that we're that much nearer to slow-coming spring Subject(s): New York City; Wind HISTORY OF THE AIRPLANE, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: And the wright brothers said they thought they had invented Last Line: "fill the air Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 HONG KONG, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Into the hallway Last Line: While we drop coins %into her plate Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City HOSPITAL WINDOW, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At gauzy dusk, thin haze like cigarette smoke Subject(s): Hospitals; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple 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 HOW COME?, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm in new york covered by a layer of soap foam Last Line: Who will die of soap foam Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple HOW COME?, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm in new york covered by a layer of soap foam Last Line: God help the many %who will die of soap foam Subject(s): New York City HOW PEARL STREET WAS PAVED, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In wouter van twiller's manorial pale Last Line: We manage the streets of the city to-day. Subject(s): Cows; New York City - Dutch Period; Streets; Avenues HOW SPRING CAME TO NEW YORK, by HERMANN HAGEDORN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Between the windy dusk, and the first pale light Last Line: "the millions woke, tingling, and whispered, ""spring!" Subject(s): New York City; Spring; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple HOW TO GET THERE, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White the october air, no snow, easy to breathe Last Line: For a couple of hours, but I am not that person Subject(s): New York City HUDSON, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ma-hican-ittuck! / river to the mountains Last Line: Beats warm and unafraid. Subject(s): Hearts; Mountains; New York City - Dutch Period; Rivers; Hills; Downs (great Britain) HUDSON'S VOYAGE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the ice of nova zembla, through the fogs that held Last Line: "so unmoor, and set the tiller for the sea-road to cathay!" Subject(s): Hudson, Henry (1550-1611); New York City - Dutch Period HYMN OF THE CITY, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not in the solitude / alone may man commune with heaven, or see Last Line: The vast and helpless city while it sleeps. Subject(s): New York City - 19th Century HYMN; SUNG AT THE PRESENTATION OF THE OBELISK TO THE CITY OF NEW YORK, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great god, to whom since time began Last Line: Hear us, o god in heaven! Subject(s): The Obelisk, Central Park, New York City I ALWAYS SAY THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE NEW YORK IN THE SUMMER, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Estivation means passing the summer in a torpid condition Last Line: Nibbling those tasty garden-fresh vegetables raised in a twelfth-floor dining alcove by hydroponics Subject(s): New York City I AM FRUIT CRAZY. I LOVE SIX, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Translucent skin. Spanish fruits %are feminine Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City I CALL HER THE TEA LADY (TO MYSELF) BECAUSE I, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Association. She seems imported Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City I DISCOVER THE OTHER WOMEN IN MY FAMILY. MY, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Limited to sentences like, 'I've just eaten half %an orange at grandma's.' Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City I HAVE VERY LITTLE, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: It grows and obeys me Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City I WENT TO SLEEP LAST NIGHT, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: To a pawnshop %one day Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City IF IT IS TRUE THAT YOU ARE WHAT YOU, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Discovery of a field of chrysanthemums %in a teapot Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City IL BAMBINO: BABE RUTH, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: This is a good place %to stop and rest Last Line: The whole damn crowd fused %into this cancerous lump Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO FAMILIAR AMERICAN TREES, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't get it about the natural world Subject(s): New York City; Trees; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple IN A CORNER OF THE SUBWAY DOOR DISCOVERED, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: And you in every tree Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City IN BROADWAY, by VANCE THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I walk in broadway to and fro Last Line: I make the sign of the cross. Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849) IN HOBOKEN: 1., by JOEL LEWIS Poem Source First Line: The empire state building Last Line: You ain't gonna hellenize me!' Subject(s): Empire State Building, New York City IN HOBOKEN: 9. RIVER STREET, by JOEL LEWIS Poem Source First Line: What's happening %on the other Last Line: Of the clam broth house Subject(s): New York City IN LOWER NEW YORK, by MARIANNA GRISWOLD VAN RENSSELAER Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Stand here with me. The throngs dissolve away Last Line: When the calm darkness bids them rest again. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Rensselaer, Mrs. Schuyler Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple IN NEW YORK, by CLIFFORD BAX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stood with men upon the crowded curb Subject(s): New York City; Grief; Mankind; Crowds; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Sorrow; Sadness; Human Race IN NEW YORK, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I heard a crow from home Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Nature; New York City IN NEW YORK, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: In new york, which is a bad friend Last Line: How bored god must be Subject(s): New York City; Poetry And Poets IN NEW YORK, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within the modern world, deformed and vast Last Line: The monstrous secret that propels the stars. Subject(s): Calvary; Life, Modern; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple IN NEW YORK: 1. ON SUNDAY MORNING, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far, far from here the church bells ring Last Line: As she prays for her child. Subject(s): Bells; New York City; Religion; Sun; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Theology IN NEW YORK: 2. THE SONG YOU LOVE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I have sung the sweet songs and the sad Last Line: Restless with words it could not sing. Subject(s): New York City; Singing & Singers; Soul; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple IN NEW YORK: 3. WEARINESS, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sometimes think thou art my secret love Last Line: Then give, beseech thee, give me sleep. Subject(s): Dreams; Kisses; Life; Love; New York City; Nightmares; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple IN PRAISE OF NEW YORK, by THOMAS M. DISCH Poem Source First Line: As we rise above it, row after row Last Line: Where for weeks they will dream of our faces %drenched with an unbelievable light Subject(s): Cities; New York City IN ROBERT MOTHERWELL'S CAR, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: Above a cliff %a boy could see it Last Line: And still don't know %what lasts of what's written Subject(s): Driving And Drivers; New York City; Roads; Travel IN RUBBLE, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Right after the bomb, even before the ceiling Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 IN SEARCH OF CHINESE MADNESS, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Red and green doors Last Line: Chinatown is open tonight Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City IN SIMON; CATERER FOR FASHIONABLE SUPPER-PARTIES, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear simon! Prince of pastry-cooks Last Line: And bid them twine your bust with roses. Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Friendship; Memory; New York City - 19th Century; Parties; Statues IN SUSPENSE, by GEORGE BRADLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The composition of many particulars Last Line: Into a difficult place, though we weren't particular. Subject(s): Travel; Verrazano Narrows Bridge, New York City; Journeys; Trips IN THE DARK BACKWARD, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How is it I was not raised Last Line: Children, like windswept echoes from %a ghost ship, could free my grief? Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City IN THE MIDST OF THE CROWD; SELS. EARTH: STONE, BRICK, METAL, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It has the shape of %a boat with the battery Last Line: Of this place -- a question not yet answered Subject(s): New York City IN THE MOON OF MAKING FAT, by MALENA MORLING Poem Source First Line: Summer has opened its bag of heat Last Line: And the sunlight that is pushng through fibers. %and the drawn curtains Subject(s): New York City; Summer IN THE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, by SIV CEDERING Poem Source First Line: My getting locked in the museum of natural history was no accident Last Line: Write Subject(s): Central Park, New York City; Dinosaurs; History; Museums IN THE VILLAGE, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I came up out of the subway and there were Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple INTELLECTUAL, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: So historically total Last Line: And be dead %from the start Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City INVITATION TO GROUND ZERO, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into the smouldering ruin now go down: Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 IRISH, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: March song %bobby sands irish land Last Line: To free ireland Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City ISAAK WALTON IN MAIDEN LANE, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In that manhattan alley long yclept Last Line: Thine image, isaak, pored upon a bream. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Maiden Lane, New York City; Walton, Izaak (1593-1683) ISLANDIS, by VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ Poem Source First Line: This is the taste of the Last Line: Wearing crowns of %bird gone feathers Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Islands; Puerto Ricans - New York City; Travel IT IS THE SAME WALK, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: For whom did you think it would change color? Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City IT WOULD HAVE BEEN NICE IF PEOPLE SAW HER AS SHE SAW, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Friends wrote from europe wishing her a happy %valentine's day Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City ITALIAN, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: Young dude %is old dude Last Line: So always always sing %please, blue eyes Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City JAMAICAN, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: Reach their guts into the caribbean Last Line: Good, yeah, real good! Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City JAMES MCSORLEY, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: There was no I %in the normal way %not yet, not yet Last Line: Even as this small shade %I move lonely near others %still seeking her touch Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) JAPANESE, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: He was ten years old in 1942 Last Line: Had he thought the japanese %had won the war Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City JENNIE MCSORLEY, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: I heard him say it. %in the past tense. %no longer am I a beauty Last Line: Did the clouds die? I asked. %I waited for my float dream Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) JERUSALEM THE GOLDEN: 52. WINTER SKETCHES, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now that black ground and bushes Subject(s): Winter; Snow; New York City; Subways; Landscape; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple JEWISH, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: We stand the pain of time Last Line: But never, never, again Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City JFK LAUGHING, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: I was here once %right after the war Last Line: Christmas is best %me wearing santa's hat Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) JIBARO, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: End of spring harvest Last Line: And then, the song, %cancion Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City JOHN J. MCSORLEY, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: Leathery horse balls %smoke off the turds Last Line: Would rear an' I slip down %where the big wheel came Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) JOHN MCGRAW, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: I'd like to play in old new york, Last Line: "and that's his only law!" Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Mcgraw, John (1873-1934); New York City; Sports; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple JOHN MCSORLEY, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: But a smidgen in time %my baby body red an' wet %a kicker I was so kicked Last Line: Real hot an' real cold %then this rollin' darkness Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) JOHN MCSORLEY: 1. IN WAITING NOW, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: Hurly-burly of ale an' flesh %young lads out a gashing Last Line: We must speak before leaving %this limbo Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) JOHN MCSORLEY: 3. YOURS, MY SON, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: The pub's yours, my son, all yours Last Line: What ye might do to the poor girl Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) JOHN MCSORLEY: 4. WINGLESS, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: There's nought here methinks %baubles to tary the mind Last Line: I wish a ghost would pass Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) JOHN MCSORLEY: 5. A WAIT FOR WIVES, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: Annie thought me nought %but foul an' coarse, catering Last Line: The roaring chaos of this city %seeing no love 'cept in the young Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) JOHN MCSORLEY: 6. THE MODERN, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: I see the ladies in their glory %drinking an' smoking Last Line: I wish a ghost could die Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) JOHN MCSORLEY: 7. CHANGING, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: Little did I know will %loved me in death so Last Line: Where once sloan sketched me %an old man sitting at a window Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) JOHN MCSORLEY: 8. A FATHER'S BLIGHT, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: Ah, will, little did I know ye %methinks a vision cramped Last Line: O, ghosts of my loved ones %waiting right here, I am Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) JOHN MCSORLEY: WISHBONES, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: No luck for some of our lads %so their bones shall gather dust Last Line: Let their dust go to dust %as we living bear witness Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) JOTTINGS OF NEW YORK; A DESCRIPTIVE POEM, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh mighty city of new york! You are wonderful to behold Last Line: For bonnie dundee, my heart it felt as light as a cork. Subject(s): Dundee, Scotland; New York City; Travel; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Journeys; Trips JUDITH, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: Alone in mcsorley's %fingers across old oak Last Line: Me at this windowtable %having a moment of my life Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) JUKE BOX LOVE SONG, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could take the harlem night Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Harlem (new York City); Love; Singing & Singers; Negroes; American Blacks; Songs JUKE BOX LOVE SONG, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could take the harlem night Last Line: Dance with you, my sweet brown harlem girl Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Harlem (new York City); Love; Singing And Singers JUNG SAYS THE SOUL IS ROUND (TOMPKINS SQUARE PARK), by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jung says the soul is round Last Line: Over the fair round and round-freckled redhead Subject(s): Tompkins Square Park (new York City) KALEIDOSCOPE, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Chinatown Last Line: Tie a red bow around it Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City KATE, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: Hey! Petey the sot! It's me! %your sweet kate, ha! Last Line: In your mind %yep, love's a killer Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) KATHERINE LORETTA MCSORLEY, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: Buttery bread so warm %my favorite taste Last Line: Warm but I cough %I cough to breathe Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) KELLY'S GENERATION, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: Before I went off to war Last Line: In winter afternoons %I hear us talking %around and around %talking softly Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) KEVIN THE MAD STROKER, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: I loved 'em, loved 'em all! %I didn't care none 'bout looks Last Line: So they laid me down %in this field called potters Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) KINDNESS, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In manhattan I learned a public kindness Last Line: It might be better to turn us away Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Kindness; New York City KISSING BRIDGE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No roebling reared that primal way Last Line: As then in old nieuw amsterdam! Subject(s): Bridges; Kisses; New England; New York City - Dutch Period KITTY MCSORLEY, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: You being the older man %you knew the mystery Last Line: Tugging on that thread %ravelling our fates Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) KITTY'S SUMMERING, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have you seen e'er a sign of my kitty? Last Line: On the south side of washington square. Subject(s): Longing; New York City; Summer; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple KOREAN COMMUNITY GARDEN IN QUEENS, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the vacant lot nobody else wanted to rebuild Last Line: Who stop at nothing, see life and paradise as one [or, life the one paradise they wanted] Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953; Queens, New York City L'ENVOI, by JOHN HUSTON FINLEY Poem Text First Line: When we're pegged out for good upon our board Last Line: I'd rather be a live centurion here. Subject(s): Century Association (new York City) LANDING IN THE RAIN AT LA GUARDIA, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The death-grip of the chalky clouds lets slip Last Line: Unpreaching stony water. Whumppf; we're down Subject(s): Air Travel; La Guardia Airport, New York City LANDING IN THE RAIN AT LA GUARDIA, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The death-grip of the chalky clouds lets slip Last Line: The world's fair globe, a toy. Shea stadium. %upreaching stony water. Whumpff: we're down Subject(s): Air Travel; La Guardia Airport, New York City LATCHKEY KID, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Instead of butterscotch caramels Last Line: She turns on the light %it casts a shadow across her life Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City LAVENDER WINDOWPANES AND WHITE CURTAINS, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: Lavender window panes! They are like a pedigree of nobility Last Line: Homesick for earth Subject(s): New York City - Colonial Period; United States LE GRENIER, by ROBERTSON TROWBRIDGE Poem Text First Line: Here is the street-the house is standing yet! Last Line: And all the world to win, at twenty years! Subject(s): Army Life; Broadway, New York City; Courage; Marching & Marches; New York City - 19th Century; Soldiers; Drills & Minor Tactics; Valor; Bravery LEARNING MY NAME, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We have a dialogue, this tree and I Last Line: I heard my name Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City LEAVING MY ROOMMATES IN NEW YORK, by RUTH STONE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snow falls upon snow fastening its delicate hooks Last Line: To the subliminal sounds of ermines living in the lath. Subject(s): Homeless; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple LEGEND OF THE FLAMBOYAN: 1, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was a good old-fashioned Last Line: Gold for the holy faith, %gold for the glory of spain Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City LEGEND OF THE FLAMBOYAN: 2, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The darkness of the mines Last Line: Into themselves like secrets %whispered only in the safety %of brown arms Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City LEGEND OF THE FLAMBOYAN: 3, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A wrecked vessel washed ashore Last Line: Splashes of blood- %blooming all over the island Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City LENOX HILL, by BRUCE BAWER Poem Source First Line: A month from ninety, my grandmother lay Last Line: I noticed, was the same as that of his lover Subject(s): New York City LETTER FROM A HOMESICK TRAVELER TO A FELLOW NEW YORKER, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If you could only hear the chatter Last Line: The wild cockatoos continue their wordless %conversation. And I envy them Subject(s): Country Life; Nature; New York City; Travel LETTERS, by RAY DIPALMA Poem Source First Line: Against the most tender feelings Last Line: The unproven place on the road or at the table on the other side %of the wall painted with a dragon Subject(s): Hudson Valley, New York; Letters; New York City LETTERS FROM MY SISTER, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mi querida hermanita, she'd begin Last Line: The same nose, the same sad eyes, %the same big smiles Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City LICENCIADO DON PEDRO ALBIZU CAMPOS, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: Like the year eighteen ninety-eight Last Line: Forever imbedded in our souls Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City LIFE OF JIMMY FATS, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: Call me jimmy %I'm not fat, I'm obese %nowhere to hide, pal Last Line: But how's anybody to know %you know %what really happened? Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) LILACS IN THE CITY, by WILLIAM BRIAN HOOKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Amid the rush and fever of the street Last Line: God's answer to the wisdom of this world. Alternate Author Name(s): Hooker, Brian Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple LILIES IN NEW YORK, by MARK DOTY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A drawing: smudged shadow, deep worked areas of graphite Last Line: Open. And who could hope to draw that? Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple LOEW'S BRIDGE: A BROADWAY IDYL, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For hours I stood upon the bridge Last Line: "I leave thee love and hope." Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): Bridges; Broadway, New York City; Loew, Charles E.; New York City; Wall Street, New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple LONG ISLAND RAILROAD, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brown-skinned manhattan students take the train Last Line: They bag their beer at pennsylvania station Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); New York City; Railroads LORCA VARIATIONS (32) 'FIRST NEW YORK POEM', by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Science & the paradise of labor give hope to those who live Last Line: Crowds with faded light Subject(s): New York City LOSING: II. FRIENDS; NEW YORK CITY, 1985, by DONNA BROOK Poem Source First Line: Sometimes you win Last Line: Or mine distinquished %from any stranger's block Subject(s): New York City LOVE IN A BUS, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was born in perhaps the holland tunnel Last Line: Human, impermanent and permanently good Subject(s): Chicago; Love; New York City; Prostitution; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Harlots; Whores; Brothels LOVE POEM FOR THE FORTY-SECOND STREET LIBRARY, by DAVID IGNATOW Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With my eyes turned to the sky Subject(s): Librarians & Libraries; New York City; Library; Librarians; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple LOVE POEM FOR THE FORTY-SECOND STREET LIBRARY, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With my eyes turned to the sky Last Line: This way, my eyes shimmering and turned %upwards Subject(s): Librarians And Libraries; New York City LOVE SONG, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: A young chinese scholar writes Last Line: The garden of peonies in your dress %was it by the pearl river Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City LOVE'S CANOPY, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Can of peas Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City LOVERS, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Once loved a man downtown Last Line: Loved me in an ancient way Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City LOWER EAST SIDE: THE GEORGE BERNSTEIN STORY, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It starts on the lower east side Last Line: To sing the grand finale: %lower east side Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Music, Popular; New York City LOWER NEW YORK- A STORM, by DONALD ROBERT PERRY MARQUIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: White wing'd below the darkling clouds Last Line: To all but greed and gain? Alternate Author Name(s): Marquis, Don Subject(s): New York City; Storms; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple LOWER NEW YORK: 1. BEFORE DAWN, by GEORGE CABOT LODGE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Time has no spectacle morn stern and strange Last Line: Weary and still, here seems more dead than death, %aimless and empty as an idiot's mind Subject(s): New York City LOWER NEW YORK: 2. AT DAWN, by GEORGE CABOT LODGE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here is the dawn a hopeless thing to see Last Line: And know, for yet another human day, %the world's dull, dreadful labor is begun! Subject(s): New York City LUNCH AT THE RUSSIAN TEA ROOM, by ROGER WEINGARTEN Poem Source First Line: My mouth reflected in the glass Subject(s): Lunch; Russian Tea Room (new York City) LUNCH RESPITE, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: Friday at lunchtime: %onions, sawdust & ale Last Line: He exits %arranging %his apron Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) LUNCHTIME AT THE FACTORY IS A FAMILY AFFAIR. MOTHER AND, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Replicas of your own dust-ridden window. Lunchtime is %suddenly over Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City LUSTMORD (RETROSPECTIVE: NEW YORK SCHOOL), by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: All the tiny bones %lie in rows on the table Last Line: And she'd seem happy, as perhaps she is Subject(s): Art And Artists; Exhibitions; Museums; New York City; Saint Kilda (scotland); Tourists M'IJA, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: I've been dying to call you m'ija Last Line: A ti todo, para eso somos amigas Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City MACARONI, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis made of the flour of wheat, so they say Last Line: And don't you forget the chianti! Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Food & Eating; Italian Americans; New York City; Pasta; Restaurants; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Spaghetti; Lasagna; Noodles; Macaroni; Cafes; Diners MACDOUGAL STREET, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I went walking up and down to take the evening air Last Line: (truly I shall be ill unless I stop these tears!) Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Macdougal Street, New York City MAD DEEGAN, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: On the bustling sidewalk %as the last gray light slides Last Line: The pariah dog is here %is here somewhere Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) MADAME BLAVATSKY IN NEW YORK, 1875-77, by DIANE BONDS Poem Source First Line: A great russian bear' shambling Last Line: Cretins' she had cast aside, both still %living somewhere in russia... Subject(s): Blavatsky, Helena P. (1831-1891); New York City; Russia; Theosophy MADISON SQUARE: CHRISTMAS, by WILLIAM BRIAN HOOKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here is our worth. We cannot rear the towers Last Line: And every one a star of bethlehem. Alternate Author Name(s): Hooker, Brian Subject(s): Christmas; Happiness; Madison Square, New York City; Skyscrapers; Theater & Theaters; Nativity, The; Joy; Delight; Stage Life MAGICIAN GROWING BEAN SPROUTS, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Looking for the right one Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City MAH-JONG PLAYERS, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Under the halo Last Line: Circles birds flowers %swirling through the game Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City MAIDEN LANE, by LOUISE MORGAN SILL Poem Text First Line: Down maiden lane, where clover grew Last Line: And let us stroll down maiden lane. Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple MALCRIADA, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Te voy a dar una paliza, muchacha Last Line: Into his vest pocket, and gives me %two new pennies for an eskimo pie Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City MANAHATTA, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My city's fit and noble name resumed Last Line: Coming, going, hurrying sea waves. Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple MANGO DID NOT KNOW WHAT SHE WANTED, NOT FROM THE, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Important. Afraid that she would lose her power to dream Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City MANHATTAN, by PAUL MARIANI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thirty years, and the six-inch scar still there Subject(s): New York City; Religion; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Theology MANHATTAN, by PAUL MARIANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thirty years, and the six-inch scar still there Last Line: I come up with for questions 2 & 3 & 4 Subject(s): New York City; Religion MANHATTAN ARMING, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First o songs for a prelude Last Line: But now you smile with joy exulting old mannahatta. Variant Title(s): Drum-taps Subject(s): American Civil War; New York City - 19th Century; Soldiers; United States - History MANHATTAN CITY; A PICTURE, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair mistress of a warlike state Last Line: And nova-scotia only claims. Subject(s): American Revolution; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple MANHATTAN DELI, by ANTHONY TRACY Poem Source First Line: These plastic sunglasses %are cheap by consumer standards Last Line: Clearing their throats %and naming thier dues Subject(s): Consumerism; New York City MANHATTAN ELEGY, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I left behind a mother, father Last Line: New york, my city of adults Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple MANHATTAN ISLAND POEM, by GREGORY ORR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thin river woman with a concrete star Last Line: At night I am a jar of fireflies dying. Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple MANHATTAN NEW YEAR, by KATE CRICHTON GREDLER Poem Text First Line: The whistles blow and through the city street Last Line: The new year enters at a cottage door. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; New York City; Night Clubs; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple MANHATTAN THIRTIES FLASH, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long stone streets inanimate, repetitive machine crash cookie-cutting Subject(s): New York City; United States; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; America MANHATTAN THIRTIES FLASH, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long stone streets inanimate, repetitive machine crash cookie-cutting Last Line: Con edison skyscraper clock-head gleaming gold-lit at sun dusk Subject(s): New York City; United States MANHATTAN, 1609, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where now the bells of trinity are heard Last Line: Up went the flag of holland like a flame! Subject(s): New York City; Sea Voyages; Tourists; United States - History; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple MANHATTAN: 14, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When, sick of all the sorrow and distress Last Line: "the jealous city, whispering always -- ""home!" Variant Title(s): The City Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple MANHATTAN: 9, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Man's greatest miracle is accomplished here Subject(s): New York City MANNAHATTA, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I was asking for something specific and perfect for my city Last Line: City nested in bays! My city! Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple MARKET STREET, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dusky harlem %here in the middle west Last Line: And I have not escaped it yet Subject(s): African Americans; Harlem (new York City); Market Street, St. Louis MARRIAGE SIGNS, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Two incense sticks burn as one Last Line: You drink the tea I pour for you Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City MARY MURRAY OF MURRAY HILL, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lady of belmont looked out to the east Last Line: "kind hostess, thy bounty hath cost us too dear!" Subject(s): Army Life; Murray Hill, New York; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Drills & Minor Tactics MAY EVENING IN CENTRAL PARK, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lines of lamp light Subject(s): Central Park, New York City; Youth MEETING YOU AT THE PIERS, by KENNETH KOCH Poem 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 MELPOMENE IN MANHATTAN, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As she walked she would look back Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple MELPOMENE IN MANHATTAN, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As she walked she would look back Last Line: Or into hostile crowds Subject(s): New York City MESA BLANCA (1), by VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ Poem Source First Line: If I were writing on rock Last Line: To lick the invisible %generations Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Language; Poetry And Poets; Puerto Ricans - New York City; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration METROPOLITAN NIGHTMARE, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It rained quite a lot, that spring. You woke in the morning Last Line: He pried fom the insect's jaws the bright crumb of steel Subject(s): New York City; Termites; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple METROPOLITAN NIGHTMARE, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It rained quite a lot, that spring. You woke in the morning Last Line: He pried from the insect jaws in the bright crumb of steel Subject(s): New York City; Termites MEXICO, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: The smell of tortillas and cilantro Last Line: Fresh smell of el campo %luciernagas Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City MID-LIFE, LOOKING NORTH, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: Tendering motes in falls of light Last Line: Iron-lunged, a soul turning into things Subject(s): New York City; North, The MIDDLE DAUGHTER, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: How soft it felt Last Line: Who leaves home only to return again Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City MIDSUMMER: 5, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hemispheres lie sweating, flesh to flesh Last Line: Rolls his bullets like beads. Glued to his own transistor Subject(s): Summer; New York City; Hamptons, New York MIDWINTER WALK IN CENTRAL PARK, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What heather is parading along the park in a Last Line: Underbrush. Subject(s): Central Park, New York City; Death; Nature; Seasons; Winter; Dead, The MILK, by EILEEN MYLES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I flew into new york Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple MINETTA WATER, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deer-hoof dint and moccasin print Last Line: Through the crumbled homes of men. Subject(s): Animals; Brooks; Hunting; New York City - Dutch Period; Streams; Creeks; Hunters MINNIE THE CAT: 1. LAZING ABOUT, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: My o my, it's me %minnie Last Line: My grayness a presence %loping through decades Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) MINNIE THE CAT: 2. STALKING, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: It came out of the shitter Last Line: I love the skittering legs %in my mouth Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) MISYCK, THE NIGHT WATCHMAN, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: I sit alone here at night, listening Last Line: Lincoln, woodrow wilson, %maybe the fat nude, too Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) MOMMY'S HUBBY, by LEO CONNELLAN Poem Source First Line: We were drinking buddies in high old time town Last Line: Plots and perpetual flowers Subject(s): Greenwich Village, New York City; Jazz; Music And Musicians MONODY ON THE ASTOR HOUSE, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lament, o muse, and heave a suspiration Last Line: Shades of the woolworth tower!another year! Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Lament; New York City - Buildings; Skyscrapers; Woolworth Building, New York MONTGOMERY'S RETURN, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How black the barge of trailing pall Last Line: Montgomery came home. Subject(s): Fame; Homecoming; Hudson River; Love; Montgomery, Richard (1738-1775); New York City; Reputation; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple MOONRISE ON MANHATTAN; FOR LOUIS H. WETMORE, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Out in the harbour, silence and the moon Last Line: In coronation on manhattan's shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Cities; Moon; New York City; Night; Urban Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Bedtime MORNING IN CENTRAL PARK, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the morning sun Last Line: Brood on the rocks and the unstirring trees! Subject(s): Central Park, New York City; Morning MOSQUITO, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Love song %tonight Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City MOTOWN, ARSENAL OF DEMOCRACY, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fog used to bloom off the distant river Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple MOUNT TAMALPAIS, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: A picnic for all soothing times Last Line: I read o book of poems in a wheatlike meadow Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City MOVIE THEATER FILLED WITH STICKY, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Apartments as eyes focus on a slightly %different world Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City MOVING PICTURES, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I see in movie stills Last Line: A close-up of the hand remains. %hard. Seamed. Like a mannequin's Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City MULBERRY STREET, by RUTH HERSCHBERGER Poem Source First Line: I saw the festivities in the streets Last Line: It was not likely the pope should suffer the cold, %nor truthfully, those presidents that sat upon t Subject(s): New York City MUSIC, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I rest for a moment near the equestrian Subject(s): Americans; New York City; United States; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; America MUSIC, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I rest for a moment near the equestrian Last Line: But no more fountains and no more rain, %and the stores stay open terribly late Subject(s): Americans; New York City; United States MY CITY, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I come down to sleep death's endless night Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple MY CITY, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I come down to sleep death's endless night Last Line: To be dead, and never again behold my city Subject(s): New York City MY FATHER, ON THE OTHER HAND, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My father, on the other hand, did Last Line: From the deep. Yet I remain curiously %inviolate: he cannot pierce my heart Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City MY FIRST TIME IN NEW YORK CITY, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source Last Line: Into the sky %like a star ed their heads Subject(s): Booksellers; Central Park, New York City; Poetry And Poets; Travel MY ITALIAN GIRLFRIENDS DRESSED UP ON SUNDAYS IN DRESSES AND, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Our separate ways on sundays Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City MY LIFE AS A BOOK OF FICTION, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With my aunt will die the secrets Last Line: With errors, omissions, dangerous %legends and, before long,addenda- %left to me, a total stranger Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City MY MOTHER CUNNING, YET INNOCENT, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Not knowing then, no, not yet knowing - %trusting her to be mine forever Variant Title(s): My Mother Cunning Yet Innocen Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City MY SAD SELF, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes when my eyes are red Subject(s): New York City; Self; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple MY SAD SELF, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes when my eyes are red Last Line: In the mind to come %where all manhattan that I've seen must disappear Subject(s): New York City; Self N.Y., by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My city, my beloved, my white! Ah, slender Last Line: And thou shalt live for ever. Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple NABBY, THE NEW YORK HOUSEKEEPER, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, nanny, I am sorry to find, since you write us Last Line: The beefe is half rawand the bell rings for dinner! Subject(s): Friendship; Housekeeping; New York City - Revolutionary Period; United States - Congress NATHAN HALE, by CHESTER FIRKINS Poem Text First Line: Somewhere beneath the thundering city's pave Last Line: His solemn and triumphant requiem Subject(s): Cemeteries; Hale, Nathan (1755-1776); New York City; Graveyards; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple NATHAN HALE [SEPTEMBER 22, 1776], by FRANCIS MILES FINCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To drum-beat and heart-beat Last Line: The name of hale shall burn! Subject(s): American Revolution; Freedom; Hale, Nathan (1755-1776); New York City; Patriotism; Liberty; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple NATHAN HALE, SEPTEMBER 22, 1776, by JOHN MACMULLEN Poem Text First Line: Come all alumni gather round Last Line: Amidst the patriot band. Subject(s): American Revolution; Capital Punishment; Hale, Nathan (1755-1776); Memory; New York City; Patriotism; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple NATURALIZED CITIZEN, SELS., by CAROL J. PIERMAN Poem Source First Line: You take the e train uptown to the modern. You are metinlg your lover Last Line: Marks time. The kid stands there, his back to you. If he comes, you can't %tell Subject(s): Commuters; New York City NAVIDAD, ST. NICHOLAS AVE., by ALFRED DEWITT CORN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An infant quirk of a pine Last Line: Todo el mundo back to his side Subject(s): Harlem (new York City); Hispanic Americans NEGRO IN NEW YORK, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I had forgotten so much in the south Last Line: For this is one thing that you do not know, new york Subject(s): African Americans; New York City NEIGHBOR, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down home / he sets on a stoop Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Harlem (new York City); Negroes; American Blacks NEIGHBOR, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down home %he sets on a stoop Last Line: Sometimes %he don't drink %true, %he just %lets his glass %set there Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Harlem (new York City) NEON LIGHTS THAT WARM NO ONE. HOW LONG, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Stare as if under a pond. The %irony reeks Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City NEON SIGNS, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wonder bar / wishing well / monterey Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Harlem (new York City); Negroes; American Blacks NEON SIGNS, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wonder bar %wishing well %monterey Last Line: Mirror-go-round %where broken glass %in the early bright smears re-bop %sound Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Harlem (new York City) NEW YEAR'S DAWN - BROADWAY, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the horns wear thin Last Line: Dizzy and sick. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S EVE ON BROADWAY, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Friends, what are we seeking this new year's eve Last Line: But a bursting blossom of life. Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Holidays; New Year NEW YOR I, by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: New yor I! Graveyard bristling with monuments Last Line: You yearn westward toward india %you have yet to take passage for Subject(s): New York City NEW YORK, by ANDREI CODRESCU Poem Source First Line: The street of this strange metropolis Last Line: Like the breeze of hereafter Subject(s): New York City NEW YORK, by FLORENCE WILKINSON EVANS Poem Text First Line: Into the violet vastness of shoreless and moaning / twilight Last Line: The infinite hulk of the ship of my city pushes her course unreturning. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkinson, Florence Subject(s): New York City; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Journeys; Trips NEW YORK, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I live in a beautiful place, a city Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple NEW YORK, by ABRAHAM GLANTS-LEYELES Poem Source First Line: Metal. Granite. Uproar, racket. Clatter Last Line: And jungle, crush, upheaval, wild absurd Subject(s): New York City NEW YORK, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The city is cutting a way Last Line: Twill be a great place when it's done! Subject(s): New York City; Patriotism; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple NEW YORK, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It wasn't ringworm he Last Line: Of household goods Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): New York City NEW YORK, by RICHARD HOVEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The low line of the walls that lie outspread Last Line: O torrent of the living down broadway! Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple NEW YORK, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night, new york all gussied up. So Last Line: "arms or legs,"" she says, ""even if he were a stump" Subject(s): New York City; Love; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple NEW YORK, by MARIE LUHRS Poem Text First Line: New york is not so different from the ocean Last Line: A sea of granite worthy of a god. Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple NEW YORK, by DONALD ROBERT PERRY MARQUIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She is hot to the sea that crouches beside Last Line: The beat of the heart of a world. Alternate Author Name(s): Marquis, Don Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple NEW YORK, by CLYDE ROBERTSON Poem Text First Line: Tramp, tramp, a moiling, toiling tread Last Line: A towering wilderness of steel and stone. Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple 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 NEW YORK, by WENDELL PHILLIPS STAFFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O titan daughter crouching by the sea Last Line: As april mornings overflow the skies! Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple NEW YORK (1), by E. ETHELBERT MILLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How did you find god in this city Subject(s): New York City NEW YORK (2), by E. ETHELBERT MILLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the pictures we are always Subject(s): New York City NEW YORK (3), by E. ETHELBERT MILLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each day I think I will leave Subject(s): New York City NEW YORK (4), by E. ETHELBERT MILLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the 1940s Subject(s): New York City NEW YORK (FOR JAZZ ORCHESTRA: TRUMPET SOLO), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: New york! At first I was confused by your beauty Last Line: And the seventh day he slept the great sleep of the negro Subject(s): Harlem (new York City); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Negritude (literary Movement) NEW YORK (OFFICE AND ATTACK), by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Beneath all the statistics Last Line: Where the hudson is getting drunk on its oil Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Death; Men; New York City - Revolutionary Period NEW YORK AT NIGHT, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A near horizon whose sharp jags Last Line: Instead the glaring, man-filled city groans below! Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple NEW YORK AT NOON, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: The city burrows toward the shade Last Line: On the silver-bristled swine. Subject(s): Geography; New York City; Travel; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Journeys; Trips NEW YORK CITY, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: New york, it would be easy to revile Last Line: Offers a soul to your reluctant dirt. Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple NEW YORK CITY - 1935, by GREGORY NUNZIO CORSO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was 5 years old %it was new york december %horses pulling wagons Last Line: And it's driver %head bowed %walking slowly %like the sad italian peasant %he was Alternate Author Name(s): Corso, Gregory Subject(s): Accidents; New York City; Poetry And Poets NEW YORK CITY MIRA MIRA BLUES, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From the freeway you can almost Last Line: A shroud of down, stilling, if only %for a moment, the island's screams Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; Puerto Ricans - New York City NEW YORK CITY WORLD'S FAIRS 1939 AND 1964, by JUDITH BAUMEL Poem Source First Line: We visited the world's fair Last Line: Shaped tent to pick him up again Subject(s): Exhibitions; New York City NEW YORK CLOUDS, by TONY TOWLE Poem Source First Line: In 1963 I wrote that new york was a cloud Last Line: And reflects it with minutes of clouds Subject(s): Clouds; New York City NEW YORK DAYS, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis something for a poet's lip Last Line: By brotherhood of song and pain. Subject(s): Bridges; Brooklyn Bridge; New York City - Buildings; Skyscrapers NEW YORK IN 1826, by GEORGE POPE MORRIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two years have elapsed since the verse of s.W. Last Line: Be what I now wish youa happy new year. Alternate Author Name(s): Morris, George Perkins Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; New York City - 19th Century; Woodworth, Samuel (1785-1842) NEW YORK IN A JEWISH MOOD, by JUDD TELLER Poem Source First Line: Big-city streets Last Line: Under the pointing hand %of a reader Subject(s): Jews; New York City NEW YORK IN SUNSET, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The island city of dominion stands Last Line: And hers the fame of babylon and tyre. Subject(s): Islands; New York City; Seashore; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Beach; Coast; Shore NEW YORK LOVE SONG (PART 1 - LOWER EAST SIDE), by LYDIA TOMKIW Poem Source First Line: Here I am again, doubled over, I'm here, pretending I know what I'm doing Last Line: I don't know how to make it stay Subject(s): Cities; New York City NEW YORK MAP COMPANY (1), by JOHN YAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Acton town manufacturing Subject(s): Cities; New York City; Urban Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple NEW YORK MAP COMPANY (1), by JOHN YAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Acton town manufacturing Last Line: Zanzibar courier service Subject(s): Cities; New York City NEW YORK SKYSCRAPERS, by JOHN S. MBITI Poem Source First Line: The weak scattered rays of yellow sun Last Line: That blanket them with transparent wax Subject(s): New York City NEW YORK SUBWAY, by HILDA MORLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The beauty of people in the subway Alternate Author Name(s): Auerbach, Hilda; Wolpe, Stefan, Mrs. Subject(s): Subway; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple NEW YORK, FROM A SKYSCRAPER, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up in the heights of the evening skies I see my city of Last Line: Prayer? Subject(s): New York City - Buildings; Skyscrapers NEW YORK: FIRST SWIM, by ASHER REICH Poem Source First Line: As usual, as in the beginning, it all began with water Last Line: To the frozen future of the american dream Subject(s): New York City; Swimming; Water NEW YORK: SECOND SWIM, by ASHER REICH Poem Source First Line: Through a lit tunnel, under the river Last Line: And all your fears were thoroughly eroded Subject(s): New York City; Water NEW YORK; A NOCTURNE, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES Poem Text First Line: Down-gazing, I behold Last Line: Let there be light! Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple NEW YORKERS, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everywhere else in the country, if someone asks, Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple NEW YORKERS, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was born here Last Line: She lifted her lips %in the dark: the same old spark! Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; New York City NEWSPAPER, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They manufacture newsprint with a grain Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 NIGHT IN NEW YORK, by GEORGE PARSONS LATHROP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Haunted by unknown feet Last Line: And behold, it is day! Subject(s): New York City; Night; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Bedtime NIGHT LIGHT, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: On the coral night lamp Last Line: Small beauty floods the room Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City NIGHT MOVEMENT - NEW YORK, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the night, when the sea winds take the city in their arms Subject(s): New York City; Night; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Bedtime NIRVANA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I am / a clam! Subject(s): "clams;coney Island, New York City;sea;" Ocean NO ONE USES WORDS SUCH AS, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: 78 rpm chinese records Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City NOCTURNES: 2, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: While the romantic contribution - that one sees oneself by perceiving Last Line: As sheer presence Subject(s): Architecture And Architects; Buildings And Builders; Hudson River; New York City NOCTURNES: 3, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: The gods are fighting to stay awake Last Line: And white light, transfixing the northeast, is discord Subject(s): Architecture And Architects; Buildings And Builders; New York City; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NOCTURNES: 6, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: Just as there is no legitimate beginning the broadway building Last Line: Amounting to a virtual solar system racing within the confines of our orbit? Subject(s): Architecture And Architects; Broadway, New York City; Buildings And Builders NOISE METER, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: So open out and hear Last Line: That sound that seems enough then %then is not enough Subject(s): Cities; New York City; Noises; Traffic; Violence NOT A MOVIE, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well the rocked him with road-apples Last Line: But, thank god , he wasn't dead! %and there ain't no ku klux on a 133rd Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Elections; Harlem (new York City); Racism; Southern States NOTES TOWARD A POEM OF REVOLUTION, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What did we in all honesty expect? Last Line: Do they hate me Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 NOTHING TO WEAR', by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Miss flora mcflimsey, of madison square Last Line: Wear! Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; New York City; Women; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple NOVEMBER 4TH, 1937, by LEONARD BACON (1887-1954) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As ogden nash might say, I hate intenchly Last Line: May they be merry then as we are now. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Century Association (new York City); Literature; Writing & Writers NOW AN OUTLANDER, ONCE A POET IN N.Y., by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The souls of lorca and crane a daily solstice Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; New York City; New York State; Poetry And Poets NUYORICAN LAMENT, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: San juan you're not for me Last Line: Listening for a song- %a wisp of song- %that begs deep in my heart Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City O CITY, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: City / o my delilght! Nourishment to the fat Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple OBIT: NEW YORK, by BRUCE FELD Poem Source First Line: Snow came and the skeletons were covered Last Line: And, yes, my dear, the statue of prometheus melted Subject(s): New York City ODE TO A PATCHWORK QUILT, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Hanging delicately on the wall Last Line: The aura of times no longer Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City ODE TO FORTUNE, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair lady with the bandaged eye! Last Line: T were cruelty to tumble down. Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Fortune; New York City - 19th Century OEDIPUS IN HARLEM, by GERRY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Yo! Muthafucker Subject(s): Harlem (new York City) OF BEING NUMEROUS, 11, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem 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 OF BEING NUMEROUS, 3, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The emotions are engaged Subject(s): Language; New York City; Words; Vocabulary; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple OF BEING NYMEROUS, 4, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: For the people of that flow Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple OF CITY FLOWERS; ON READING CERTAIN POEMS IN PRAISE OF NEW YORK, by SHAEMAS O'SHEEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My city! How the younger poets mock Last Line: My grief alone, thou knowest, will be real. Alternate Author Name(s): Shield, Shaemus; O Sheel, Seamus Subject(s): New York City; Praise; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple OF HER GLORIOUS MADNESS, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The city's mad: through her prodigious veins Last Line: They ask to take the veil, and be a nun! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple OF THREE MINDS, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Forest selva Last Line: Bamboo bambu Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City OFF FIRE ISLAND, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With snapping flag against the gray Last Line: The flashing bluefish leaps -- for life! Subject(s): Fire Island; New York City - Colonial Period; Sea; Ocean OH LUCKY ME, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Chinese food was delicious? Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City OLD LOVE, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What keeps you going? Last Line: Fame! I just had to wait for someone to take me up the side of the mountain Subject(s): Love; New York City OLD SAWS AND SEE-SAWS, by ANDREW EDWARD WATROUS Poem Text First Line: From eighth street up, from eighth street down Last Line: A see-saw rhyme and a see-saw town. Subject(s): Eighth Street, New York City; New York City - Streets OLD ST. PAUL'S, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Park row and broadway-rush and din Last Line: Who gathered them here 'neath the churchyard wall? Subject(s): St. Paul's Catherdral (new York City) OLD TRAILS, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I met him, as one meets a ghost or two Last Line: I wish the bells in boris would be quiet. Subject(s): Washington Square, New York City OLD TRINITY, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This was a merchant, and that was a belle Last Line: Sorrow and ecstasy, hatred and love. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Passion; Sailing & Sailors; Dead, The; Seamen; Sails OMNI-ALBERT MURRAY, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: (three four) the ancestors are humming: write a poem, girl Subject(s): African Americans; Ellington, Edward Kennedy ('duke'); New York City; Negroes; American Blacks; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple OMNI-ALBERT MURRAY, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: (three four) the ancestors are humming: write a poem, girl Last Line: Omni-albert murray omni omni albert murray Subject(s): African Americans; Ellington, Edward Kennedy ("duke"); New York City ON 52ND STREET, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down sat bud, raised his hands Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Night Clubs; Jazz; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple ON A FORGOTTEN BY-WAY, by ANDREW EDWARD WATROUS Poem Text First Line: The shabby street-cars jingling go Last Line: To their sweet manes this light rhyme. Subject(s): Death; Graves; New York City - 19th Century; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones ON A MANHATTAN ROOF, by ANNETTE WILCOX Poem Text First Line: I've been on a sea voyage Last Line: Of car and voice and feet. Subject(s): Cities; Life; New York City; Urban Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple ON A SUBWAY EXPRESS, by CHESTER FIRKINS Poem Text First Line: I who have lost the stars, the sod Last Line: Is this wild ride -- with god. Subject(s): New York City; Subways; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple ON BROADWAY, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: About me young careless feet Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): Broadway, New York City ON BROADWAY, by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great jewels glitter like a wizard's rain Last Line: Without salute the vessel of the lord. Subject(s): Broadway, New York City ON CEDAR STREET, NEW YORK, by HELEN HAY WHITNEY Poem Text First Line: I, whose totem was a tree Last Line: "calm and sweet abide with you." Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; New York City - Streets ON GRACE CHURCH CORNER, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the stone-flowered, lozenged steeple Last Line: A white dream cleaves the sky! Subject(s): Bells; Broadway, New York City; Churches; Streets; Travel; Cathedrals; Avenues; Journeys; Trips ON NEW YEAR'S EVE WE THROW THE, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: The power of the great Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City ON SATURDAY, IT IS 14TH STREET FOR SHOPPING. CLOTHES AT A, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Your daughter on an uptown street Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City ON SICK LEAVE, 1916, by HAMILTON FISH ARMSTRONG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He limped beneath the arch, across the square Last Line: That smell which only is where war has been. Subject(s): Washington Square, New York City; World War I; First World War ON THE BRITISH BLOCKADE, AND EXPECTED ATTACK ON NEW YORK - 1814, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old neversink, with bonnet blue Last Line: And cockburn miss a handsome plunder. Subject(s): Naval Blockades; Navy - United States; New York City - War Of 1812; War Of 1812; American Navy ON THE CITY ENCROACHMENTS ON THE RIVER HUDSON, 1800, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where hudson, once, in all his pride Last Line: And time restore him all you take. Subject(s): Hudson River; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple ON THE DEMOLITION OF FORT GEORGE, 1790, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As giants once, in hopes to rise Last Line: And plant her seat of commerce here. Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple ON THE HARLEM, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hand that ruled the helm was yours Last Line: And gunwale-deep in goldenrod. Subject(s): Boats; Harlem River, New York; New York City - Dutch Period ON THE PASSING OF THE LAST FIRE HORSE FROM MANHATTAN ISLAND, by KENNETH SLADE ALLING Poem Text First Line: I remember the cleared streets, the strange suspense Last Line: They came, and they are gone, and unreturning. Subject(s): Animals; Firefighters; Horses; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple ON THE PLAZA, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One august day I sat beside Last Line: A personality was there! Subject(s): New York City; Parks; Streets; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Avenues ON THE PROSPECT OF RETURNING TO NEW YORK, AFTER THE WAR, IN 1815, by JOSIAH SHIPPEY Poem Source First Line: For thee, new york, my much-loved home I sigh Last Line: There let me live, o heaven, there let me die Subject(s): Home; New York City - 19th Century ON THE STUMP, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: I sit amongst these people %commoners of which I am one Last Line: We know each other %to seek the high ground Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) ONE BLACK BOY ON A CLASS TRIP, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Excitedly: hey, look at that %ninety year man! Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City ONE CHINESE APPLE, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Take small crimson bites Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City ORIGINALLY CALLED 7/20/96, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: Days without sentiment %as the occasion for a poem Last Line: As the gas pump dings, dings, dings Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Emotions; Grief; Memory; New York City; Poetry And Poets ORPHANS, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When my father died, leaving me Last Line: We thrive on luck, she said, %there is no father's love in that Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City OTHER ISLAND, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, listen, for a moment! Listen Last Line: And I, bare and barely stirring, %in this new york city taxi heading west Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City OTTO, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: My name is otto the german %though I hated my landsmen Last Line: Rap the cane on the floor %-bullshit, my black utterance Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) OUR COLONEL, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep loving, well knowing Last Line: "but always said, ""come, boys!" Subject(s): New York City - Revolutionary Period; Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919) OUT OF BOUNDS IN KANSAS, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: These days I live in a treehouse Last Line: From our high perch, had not the ocean %beckoned to him-as it does me-to come home Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City PACIFIC AVENUE, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Chinese voices fly up from the street Last Line: Even the vegetables take on new forms Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City PAN IN WALL STREET, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just where the treasury's marble front Last Line: The quarter sounded from the steeple. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Stock Exchange; Wall Street, New York City PANA, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: I was in jail, brother. Jail, brother Last Line: You know why, bro, porque %ese tipo es mi pana Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City PARIS DAY, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've had it here craving for new york city every day Last Line: Let's go back immediately! Subject(s): Berrigan, Ted (1934-1983); New York City; Writing & Writers; Berrigan, Edmund Joseph; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple PARTY TRAIN, by JACK ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: To bring joy and friendliness to the new york subway system Last Line: The party train might finally stop for him Subject(s): Happiness; Music And Musicians; New York City; Parties PENNSYLVANIA STATION, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pennsylvania station in new york Last Line: To glorify the earth - and you - and me Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Pennsylvania Station, New York City; Railroads PERSONAL POEM, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now when I walk around at lunchtime Subject(s): Baraka, Amiri (leroi Jones); Likes & Dislikes; New York City; Poetry & Poets; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple PERSONAL POEM, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now when I walk around at lunchtime Last Line: Back to work happy at the thought possibly so Subject(s): Baraka, Amiri (leroi Jones); Likes And Dislikes; New York City; Poetry And Poets PETER MCSORLEY, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: I remember the lumberyard %the leather drivin' wheels Last Line: An' walked to decide me fate %goin' west an' gone for good Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) PETER STUYVESANT'S NEW YEAR'S CALL, 1 JAN. 1661, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where nowadays the battery lies Last Line: To breakfast at his bouwery. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; New York City - Dutch Period; Patriotism; Stuyvesant, Peter (1610-1672); United States - Dutch Settlements PHILODENDRON PLANTS. MONK'S FOOD AND, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Moved along canal street fascinates me Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City PICNIC: CENTRAL PARK, by KAY ANN MURPHY Poem Source First Line: In the april sky kites glitter Subject(s): Central Park, New York City; Picnics PIROPOS DE LA CHINITA, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Mamita linda Last Line: Corazon de melon Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City PLEASANT AVENUE, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is in manhattan / as only those who live there know Last Line: I have nothing to fear Subject(s): New York City; Italian Americans; Neighbors PLEASE DON'T TELL ME YOU'RE SORRY. DON'T BOTHER. THAT, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Door, leaving your shadow standing on the wall Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City POE'S COTTAGE AT FORDHAM, by WALTER MALONE Poem Text First Line: Here stands the little antiquated house Last Line: And israfel sings poe's supreme renown. Subject(s): Fordham, New York City; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849) POEM, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: St. Mark's place caught at night in hot summer Subject(s): St. Mark's Place, New York City; Self; Solitude POEM FOR AN INDIAN SCHOLAR, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: A friend sent me a book of asian love poems Last Line: And write poems %I wonder is it that easy Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City POEM FOR NEW YORK, by PAUL LARAQUE Poem Source First Line: The central heating's birds sing in the pipes Last Line: But the snows of capital are not eternal %and only the struggle of the damned henceforth counts Subject(s): New York City POEM: 2, by KEITH ALTHAUS Poem Source First Line: Distance dwarfs mementos Last Line: The sound of typewriter keys %finding their first words Subject(s): Cities; New York City POLITICAL, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: I'm pushed, I'm being pushed, pushed Last Line: And I made a citizen's arrest Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY: GAINE'S LIFE, CITY OF NEW YORK, 1783, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To the senate of york Last Line: Your humble petitioner -- honest -- hugh gaine. Subject(s): American Revolution; Gaine, Hugh (1726-1807); Municipal Government; New York City; Newspapers; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Journalism; Journalists POLLY & THE NUDE, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: A copy of a courbet %just shows to go ya Last Line: A secret is a secret %yep! Ain't life grand! Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) POLLY CORTELYOU, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pretty polly cortelyou, / mistress of the ...' Last Line: Woo the farmer lasses! Subject(s): Farm Life; Love; New York City - Colonial Period; Agriculture; Farmers POPULAR, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: Limbo %limping in circles Last Line: Man carousel, turning like the %old man carousel Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City PORTO RICO, by GEORGE E. BOWEN Poem Text First Line: Oh, the soft blue waves of the southern sea Last Line: That is what it seems to be. Subject(s): Freedom; Islands; Puerto Ricans - New York City; South Sea Islands; Liberty POSSESSION, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When soft I lay in the mossy bed Last Line: "we all belong to the sweet, green woods!" Subject(s): Animals; Forests; Love; New York City - Dutch Period; Woods POST IMPRESSIONS: 8, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was sitting in mcsorley's. Outside it was new Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple POST IMPRESSIONS: 8, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was sitting in mcsorley's. Outside it was new Last Line: Outside.(it was new york and beautifully,snowing Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): New York City PRACTITIONER, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was my grandfather who fed me Last Line: My grandmother soothed me, but it was %my grandfather who kept me alive Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City PRAYER, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Padre nuesto Last Line: The inner light eternal- %ly dimmed like %a wasted bulb %in the spirit's %socket %ah men Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City PROJECTION, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the day when the savoy Last Line: Wonderful! Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Divine, Father (george Baker, 1877-1965); Harlem (new York City); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Negroes; American Blacks PSYCHOMACHIA, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Old woman, you took so long in dying Last Line: To meet on that unlabeled plain: I %to cradle you, you to teach me pain Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City PURPLE POEM, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Shades of lilac and lavender Last Line: By the light of the full moon Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City PUSH-CART, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you haven't the push-cart mind Last Line: To be buried in. Subject(s): New York City; Peddlers & Peddling; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple QUALITY HILL, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Quality hill! It looked down on the town Last Line: The motley and medley of quality hill. Subject(s): New York City; Wealth; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Riches; Fortunes QUEENS CEMETERY, SETTING SUN, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Airport bus from jfk Subject(s): Cemeteries; New York City; Graveyards; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple RAINY SUNDAY, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The soft, grey garment of the rushing rain Last Line: The mother throned serene amid the rest. Subject(s): Commuters; New York City; Rain; Streets; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Avenues RAMBOUT VAN DAM; THE FLYING DUTCHMAN OF THE TAPPAN ZEE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On tappan zee a shroud of gray Last Line: A sound -- and naught beside. Variant Title(s): Rambout Van Dam Subject(s): Legends; New York City - Dutch Period; Tappan Zee, Hudson River READING OF THIS POEM, by JACK ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: It is evident from the very first words that the subject of the poem Last Line: If you are bright, lively, and gay, why not say yes to me Subject(s): Homosexuality; New York City; Poetry And Poets READY FOR THE CANNERY, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm tired of phrases chock full of praise Subject(s): New York City; City & Town Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple RECTUM LIPS, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: It isn't my fault %I'm fat and pasty Last Line: I just like to watch Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) RECUERDOS DE LA CHINITA EN GUATEMALA, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: The call of chinita Last Line: Give away my chinese fan Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City REFERENCES TO YOUR HOME AS A GHETTO. ANCIENT, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Tenements. Sociological labels. A chinese %wonderland Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City REMEMBER WARING! (THE CITY AGAINST TAMMANY), by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again the bugle-blow Last Line: Remember waring. Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; Tammany Hall, New York City REMEMBERING THE SIGNS, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father took me to coney island Last Line: Getting to see it all as it was then Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Coney Island, New York City; Memory RETURN TO NEW YORK, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far and free o'er the lifting sea, the lapsing wastes and Last Line: Love that sings, on the sea-wind's wings runs on to greet thee his very own. Subject(s): Homecoming; New York City; Travel; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Journeys; Trips REVOLUTIONARY, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: It %is %no %myth Last Line: Love %knows %no %compromise Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City RHYTHM CITY, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: Winter salt stains white on the sidewalk Last Line: It is this, he admits, looking down %can't dance Subject(s): Abandonment; Absence; Cities; New York City; Orphans; Poetry And Poets; Winter RIDING THE SUBWAY IS AN ADVENTURE, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Pennies in the first pocket have disappeared, %she knows that she is home Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City RIVERSIDE, by JOHN MYERS O'HARA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across the slopes whose wooded spaces hide Last Line: Shines like a limpid jewel in the night. Subject(s): Riverside Drive, New York City ROCKEFELLER THE CENTER, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Roland is dead and the ivory broken Subject(s): Rockefeller Center, New York City ROMAIOS, by WILLAM GAY BALLANTINE Poem Text First Line: Twas in the crowded avenue; o'erhead Last Line: To shine resplendent in thy future's crown! Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Greek Language; New York City; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple ROMANCE, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last farewells were said, friends hurried ashore Last Line: Ere it goes down to darkness, whence it came! . . . Subject(s): Betrayal; Boats; Death; Happiness; Lies; Love; New York City; Youth; Dead, The; Joy; Delight; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple RONDEAU A LA NEW YORK, by ROBERT GRANT (1852-1940) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A pot of gold! O mistress fair Last Line: A pot of gold. Subject(s): Love; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple ROSES IN THE SUBWAY, by DANA BURNET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A wan-cheeked girl with faded eyes Last Line: My mother ... Stooping down. Subject(s): Commuters; New York City; Steel; Subways; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple RUSSIAN, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: She scraped the church floor Last Line: She polished fourteen carat chalices Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City S & M, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: The masochist confesses that his pain Last Line: Even if I have to be ... %what is that word they used? %even if I have to be ... A sadist.' Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Ethnic Groups - United States; Latin America - History; Protest, Social; Puerto Ricans - New York City; Tyranny And Tyrants SA GOW, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: In my father's village in china Last Line: Posing for a proud portrait %in my father's village in china Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City SAD SONG ABOUT GREENWICH VILLAGE, by FRANCES PARK Poem Source First Line: She lives in a garret Last Line: And even if she's dead %there's nobody to know Subject(s): Greenwich Village, New York City SAILOR SUIT, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She tells him how when she is hurt Last Line: He tells her she can throw away %her sailor suit forever Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City SANTA FE JOURNEY: 1. MONTE DE LAS PIEDRAS ROSAS, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There's a pinon tree outside Last Line: The whole tree shuddered %and, a breath later, it is bare Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City SANTA FE JOURNEY: 2. LOS ALAMOS, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Why the name? Not a poplar in sight Last Line: They do not wave as we drive by Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City SANTA FE JOURNEY: 3. PROMESAS, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To el santuario de chimayo Last Line: The light outside is blinding Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City SANTA FE JOURNEY: 4. CHIMAYO, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A dog ambles across the empty dusty road Last Line: I am the bear that comes at nightfall %to greet the new moon%soy india, soy mexicana %soy mujer %soy Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; Puerto Ricans - New York City SANTA FE JOURNEY: 5. RETURN TO THE CITY OF HOLY FAITH, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Signs back to santa fe are incongruous Last Line: Tucked resolutely beneath his arm- %defying windmills, imperialism, death. Away! Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City SARAH MCSORLEY, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: I outlived all of you %though no good to me Last Line: I hear these ghosts moanin' %still waitin' for us to talk Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) SAXON HARVEST HEALTH, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here's to the plow that furrowed Last Line: The blessing of sheaves of grain. Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; New York City - Colonial Period; Agriculture; Farmers SCENES GATHERED FROM A CHINESE-ENGLISH DICTIONARY, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Clouds clearing away Last Line: My dull mind is suddenly opened Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City SCHMITTY, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: In this old bar %I've come for years %to watch for love Last Line: To watch for love %believe me, %it's not here Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) SCUM O' THE EARTH', by ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the gate of the west I stand Last Line: In the wealth of the richest bloods of earth. Subject(s): Freedom; New York City; Patriotism; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Liberty; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple SEA-GULLS OF MANHATTAN, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Children of the elemental mother Last Line: While the river flows to meet the sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; New York City; Seagulls; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple SEVEN SANDWICHMEN ON BROADWAY, by JEFFERSON BUTLER FLETCHER Poem Text First Line: Shuffling and shambling, woebegone, they pass Last Line: Of fear, of hate,of the thrice false weights of gold! Subject(s): Advertising; Broadway, New York City SHADOW BOX WITH CITY FOR MICHAEL, by MARIS BRASON Poem Source First Line: I love the city in this fleeting hushed fog- Last Line: We remain - two figures locked inside %a shadow box this city undreamed abandoned Subject(s): New York City SHAKESPEARE'S STATUE; CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In this free pantheon of the air and sun Last Line: The reverence of what he was shall call it down Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Art & Artists; Central Park, New York City; Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Statues SHE IS MORE TO BE PITIED THAN CENSURED, by WILLIAM B. GRAY Poem Text First Line: At the old concert hall on the bowery Last Line: No -- he asked for god's mercy and said: Subject(s): New York City; Pity; Prostitution; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Harlots; Whores; Brothels SHOPPING, by NICOLETTE NICOLA Poem Source First Line: In the bargain section of the banana republic on fifth Last Line: While I try on his beret. 'I live on 85th,' he says, 'wanna stop %by?' Subject(s): Miller, Arthur (b. 1915); New York City; Shopping SHORT ODE TO MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS, by RACHEL WETZSTEON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Convergence of worlds, old stomping ground, Subject(s): Morningside Heights, New York City; City & Town Life SILENCE OF THUMBS, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: Whoever heard %of a shithouse door %with mullioned windows Last Line: Disappear, and (thumbs %being what they are) %this will all begin again Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) SIR HENRY CLINTON'S INVITATION TO THE REFUGEES, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, gentlemen tories, firm, loyal, and true Last Line: Who are born to be hang'd, will never be shot. Subject(s): American Revolution; Clinton, Sir Henry (1738-1795); New York City; Refugees; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple SIRO DELMONICO, by SAMUEL WARD Poem Text First Line: He lieth low whose constant art Last Line: Than siro's memorable feasts. Alternate Author Name(s): W., S. G. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Feasts; New York City - 19th Century SITTING ACROSS FROM ME ON THE BUS A CHINESE, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: With the stage sometimes shifting to the %subway Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City SIXTY-FIFTH STREET POEMS; 1. BEGINNING, by BRUCE BAWER Poem Source First Line: Love, here we stand at the beginning Last Line: To find a unique point Subject(s): New York City SIXTY-FIFTH STREET POEMS; 2. GLOVES, by BRUCE BAWER Poem Source First Line: It's barely the middle of january Last Line: In silent darkness, into the gray, wet snow Subject(s): New York City SIXTY-FIFTH STREET POEMS; 3. AUGUST NIGHT, by BRUCE BAWER Poem Source First Line: A quarter after midnight, and the light Last Line: At the glory of these nights and days Subject(s): New York City SIXTY-FIFTH STREET POEMS; 4. BEDTIME, by BRUCE BAWER Poem Source First Line: Turning out the light, I take Last Line: I fret even as I weep with wonder Subject(s): New York City SIXTY-FIFTH STREET POEMS; 5. BOOKSHELVES, by BRUCE BAWER Poem Source First Line: On the industrial fringe of park slope Last Line: Has marveled at it all more than ourselves Subject(s): New York City SIXTY-FIFTH STREET POEMS; 6. CONFIRMATION, by BRUCE BAWER Poem Source First Line: How is that an old devotion calls Last Line: Finding it, lifts with a different hand? Subject(s): New York City SIXTY-FIFTH STREET POEMS; 7. THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS, by BRUCE BAWER Poem Source First Line: It was a june morning, and we'd met Last Line: Of bodies in midair: the garden %of earthly delights Subject(s): New York City SKETCHES, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In new york, bus drivers are the only happy men Last Line: That reads drink blotto! Subject(s): Cruelty; New York City; Violence; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple SKYSCRAPERS OF THE FINANCIAL DISTRICT DANCE WITH GASMAN, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The skyscrapers are dancing by the river Subject(s): Skyscrapers; Wall Street, New York City SLEEK FOR THE LONG FLIGHT, by JAMES HARMS Poem Source First Line: Rain in quick eight notes Last Line: Different, you said, %and almost good Subject(s): Driving And Drivers; New York City; Rain SLEEPING, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have imagined all this Last Line: When my father and mother made love above rothko %who lay in the day thinking roses, roses, roses Subject(s): Cities; New York City; Rothko, Mark (1903-1970) SLEEPY HOLLOW, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the drowsy moon of falling leaves Last Line: That hears the murmur of pocantico. Subject(s): Forests; Magic; New England; New York City - Dutch Period; Woods SMILEY, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: I'm old with ten teeth %arthritis grips me %my memory's shiteshot Last Line: I wonder if he knows %how great this joint is Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) SNOW, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snow comes down on new york city Last Line: You will later eat before it is cooked. Subject(s): New York City; Snow; Winter; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF REALITY AT CONEY ISLAND: 1. IDEAL DISORDERS, by IRVING FELDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Miles of rows of orange trash cans Subject(s): Coney Island, New York City SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF REALITY AT CONEY ISLAND: 2. A NEW WORLD, by IRVING FELDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Torn maps, pages in spume Subject(s): Coney Island, New York City SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF REALITY AT CONEY ISLAND: 4. THE TOWER, by IRVING FELDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A tower of men Subject(s): Coney Island, New York City SOME COMMON TERMS IN LATIN THAT ARE LARGER THAN OUR LIVES, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mutant-engineered bloodsucker djinns, invisibility rays Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 SONG FOR A VENISON DINNER AT MR. BUNYAN'S, by JOSEPH STANSBURY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Friends, push 'round the bottle, and let us be drinking Last Line: Has strengthened the hands of these upstart pretenders. Subject(s): Bunyan, John (1628-1688); Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating; Friendship; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple SONG TO THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING, by PRICE DAY Poem Source First Line: Goggle-eyed, %the centuries con Last Line: The excellence %of fragile things Subject(s): Empire State Building, New York City SONG-FLOWER AND POPPY: 1. IN NEW YORK, by WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He plays the deuce with my writing time Last Line: Nothing is good for long. Subject(s): New York City; Transience; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Impermanence SONGS OF NEW YORK: A CITY SUNSET, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A cross the roof-tops of the town Last Line: Of gladness sped upon its way. Subject(s): Evening; New York City; Sunset; Twilight; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple SONGS OF NEW YORK: BROADWAY, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here surge the ceaseless caravans Last Line: I wonder who would care? Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple SONGS OF NEW YORK: DOWNTOWN, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun has gone, and from the ferryboat Last Line: And breathe a little prayer for them, and sigh. Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple SONGS OF NEW YORK: FIFTH AVENUE AT NIGHT, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like moonstones drooping from a fair queen's Last Line: Tread of far feet. Subject(s): Fifth Avenue, New York City; Night; Streets; Bedtime; Avenues SONGS OF NEW YORK: NEW BUILDINGS, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The turrets leap higher and higher Last Line: The woodpeckers of the town. Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple SONGS OF NEW YORK: NEXT DOOR, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We saw the tapers burn Last Line: And my neighbor grieves -- alone, alone! Subject(s): Death; New York City; Dead, The; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple SONGS OF NEW YORK: THE LIGHTS, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ten thousand jewels flash out Last Line: Till the stars have faded away. Subject(s): Light; New York City; Tears; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple SONGS OF NEW YORK: THE PARKS, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are green islands in the city sea Last Line: There are green islands in the city sea. Subject(s): New York City; Parks; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple SONGS OF NEW YORK: THE VOICES, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the voice of the city Last Line: Forever blue is the sky! Subject(s): New York City; Voices; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple SONGS OF NEW YORK: TO A HURDY-GURDY, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here's to you, brave hurdy-gurdy Last Line: With but half as brave a heart! Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple SONGS OF NEW YORK: TRAFFIC, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hoof-beats thundering on the paves Last Line: If only in my dream!) Subject(s): New York City; Traffic; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple SONNET IN PRAISE OF TACT, by WILLIAM MCFEE Poem Text First Line: Earth hath not anything to show more fair,' said wordsworth Last Line: The trolley cars upon the jersey shore. Subject(s): Loitering; New York City; Police; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple SONNET TO A NEGRO IN HARLEM, by HELENE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You are disdainful and magnificent Last Line: You are too splendid for this city street. Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Americans; Harlem (new York City); United States; Negroes; American Blacks; America SONNETS FOR NEW YORK CITY: 1. NEW YORK AT SUNRISE, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When with her clouds the early dawn illumes Last Line: I see my city with an enlightened eye. Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple SONNETS FOR NEW YORK CITY: 2. A POLITICAL 'BOSS', by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Has he no country? Is he of alien breed? Last Line: I felt the burning garments of thy shame. Subject(s): New York City; Politics & Government; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple SONNETS FOR NEW YORK CITY: 3, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shame on thee, o manhattan, whom I love! Last Line: I felt the burning garments of thy shame. Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple SONNETS FOR NEW YORK CITY: 4. THE FOUNTAIN OF LIFE, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This day into the fields my steps are led Last Line: But to plunge in the fountain of its living blood. Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple SONNETS OF SEVEN CITIES: NEW YORK, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her mouth is carmine and her cheeks too red Last Line: Faith that endures and loyalty that stays! Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple SOUTH BRONX, by ROBERT RONNOW Poem Source First Line: While I'm reading a poem about it on the previous page Subject(s): Bronx, New York City SOUTH BRONX TESTIMONIAL: 3, by SANDRA MARIA ESTEVES Poem Source First Line: We were all insane,the eternal Last Line: Or molested, the list %goes on Subject(s): Bronx, New York City; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations SPANISH, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: Your language outlives your world power Last Line: I'm gonna fight for you, I love you, spanish, %I'm your humble son Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City SPECULATIVE REFLECTION, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder if the citizens of new york will ever get sufficiently wroth Last Line: To remember that tammany cooks spoil the broth Subject(s): New York City SPRING, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In central park the lovers sit Last Line: To lose your battle in the end? Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Central Park, New York City; Love SPRING COMES TO MURRAY HILL, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sit in an office at 244 madison avenue Last Line: Instead of being confined on madison avenue I could soar in a jiffy to second or third Subject(s): Madison Avenue, New York; Murray Hill, New York; New York City; Spring SPRING IN THE BRONX, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Spring is sprung Last Line: Duh little wind in on duh boid Subject(s): Bronx, New York City; Spring SPRING IN THE SUBWAY, by ELSA GILL Poem Text First Line: In these dim corridors of shattering sound Last Line: Of cotton buttercups upon her hat. Subject(s): New York City; Spring; Subways; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple SPRING IN TOWN, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The country ever has a lagging spring Last Line: And your loud wheels unheeded rattle by. Subject(s): New York City - 19th Century; Spring SPRING NIGHT, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The park is filled with night and fog Last Line: Why am I crying after love? Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): New York City; Spring; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple SPRING STREET BAR, by MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And last night a man came in Last Line: When there had been a sky, to write about the sky Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; New York City; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple ST. PAUL'S AND WOOLWORTH, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stood on the pavement Last Line: Saint frank in the sun! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): St. Paul's Catherdral (new York City); Woolworth, Frank W. (1852-1919) STANZAS, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To sleep in peace when life is fled Last Line: And stars behold our bones again. Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Fort George, Battle Of (1813); Graves; New York City; Skeletons; Cadavers; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple STATEN ISLAND FERRY: BACK, by MARIELLA Poem Text First Line: This is the thing I had not dreamed Last Line: Who only dreamed to have the sea. Subject(s): Ferry Boats; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple STILL LIFE: CONEY ISLAND & COUNTRY GYM, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: The guys who wrestled Last Line: Through the sand, love %I can feel it shaking Subject(s): Coney Island, New York City; Fights; Wrestling And Wrestlers STILLS, by VICKI GRAHAM Poem Source First Line: He is always half-turned away Last Line: Disciplined as a camera, %knows each bone Subject(s): New York City; Photography And Photographers STONE, by PAUL BLACKBURN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stone found me in bright sunlight Last Line: He had been shaped like a drunken pyramid, irregularly triangular. %I liked him Subject(s): New York City; Stones STORM ON FIFTH AVENUE, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sallow waiter brings me six huge oysters Last Line: O babylon! O carthage! O new york! Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple STORM SIGNALS, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cloud-wreath, mist-sheath Last Line: The foam is bound to fly! Subject(s): New York City - Dutch Period; Sea; Storms; Ocean STORY, by SUSAN MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: There is a bar I go to when I'm in chicago Last Line: Whoever you are, this poem is for you Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Chicago; Cities; New York City STREET OF NAMED HOUSES, by ROBERT DAVID COHEN Poem Source First Line: My sun, %you smile at the granite of milton Last Line: Singing on a wall, come to dance. Soon, soon, %my love Subject(s): Harlem (new York City) SUBWAY GRAFFITI: AN ANTHROPOLOGIST'S IMPRESSIONS, by WENDY ROSE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Day-glo signs of survival Last Line: Parngs of hair, toenail, %spirit and song Subject(s): Anthropology; Cities; New York City; Subways; Travel SUBWAY TRACK-WALKERS, by DANA BURNET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who are ye hopeless who go with dull faces Last Line: That I may ride to my true love to-day? Subject(s): Commuters; New York City; Railroads; Steel; Subways; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Railways; Trains SUCCESS STORIES, by RICHARD COLE Poem Source First Line: I'm still addicted to the 'new york times' Last Line: Rambling down into the earth again, toward %manhattan, wealth, and our steady jobs Subject(s): Advertising; New York City; Success SUMMER NIGHT, RIVERSIDE, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the wild soft summer darkness Last Line: This year's blossoms, clinging in its coils? Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Love; Riverside Drive, New York City; Summer SUMMER NIGHT-BROADWAY, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night is the city's disease Last Line: Looking for children to sing to. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Cities; Injustice; Urban Life SUMMER NIGHTS WE SPENT ON THE COOL STOOPS. WE WORE, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Between two chairs and it turned into a bazaar of %miscellaneous goodies Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City SUMMER: WEST SIDE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When on the coral-red steps of old brownstones Last Line: By one more night’s deposit of vigil Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple SUMMER: WEST SIDE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When on the coral-red steps of old brownstones Last Line: Seem slightly darkened %by one more night's deposit of vigil Subject(s): New York City SUNRISE, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The sunrise of new york Last Line: As though recently rescued from a shipwreck of blood Subject(s): Homeless; New York City - Streets; Poverty SURREALISTS ON EAST HOUSTON, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: A brick wall is painted in layers of piss and smells Last Line: And wears a pin in the form of a palette %the surrealists dream of red sneakers Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City SWEET DISTURBANCE OF THE PEACE, by STACEY FRUITS Poem Source First Line: I like it best when love forgets itself, when love is loud Last Line: Window box and watch me bloom inside the dead of winter Subject(s): Cities; Harlem (new York City); Noises; Poetry And Poets TAIWAN, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: The place where Last Line: Became sun and %everything came true Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City TALKING BLUES, by CALVIN FORBES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Raccoon you better be cool Subject(s): Raccoons; Harlem (new York City) TAMMANY HALL, 1819, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a barrel of porter at tammany hall Last Line: Is that barrel of porter at tammany hall. Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Variant Title(s): Song Subject(s): New York City - 19th Century; Tammany Hall, New York City THANKSGIVING, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What's sweeter than at the end of a summer's day Subject(s): Native Americans; Thanksgiving Day; New York City; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THAT DEAR CONEY, by CHESTER FIRKINS Poem Text First Line: A city walled against the golden day Last Line: "for here the ways of light and laughter lie." Subject(s): Coney Island, New York City THAT STIFF FIGURE THERE, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: And the tears they come Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City THAT ZEN TIME IN THE SNOW, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Everything is pleasant Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City THE 'CLERMONT', by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A roar of smoke from the iron stack Last Line: For all the fleets of the world to follow. Subject(s): Fulton, Robert (1765-1815); New York City; Rivers; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Ocean THE 'GOED VROW' AND THE DUTCH PILGRIM FATHERS, MAY 4, 1626, by EDWARD HOPPER Poem Text First Line: The old dutch pilgrims were a solid race Last Line: For those strong words that bind our states together! Subject(s): New York City - Dutch Period; United States - Dutch Settlements THE 'STAY AT HOME'S' PLAINT, 1878, by GEORGE AUGUSTUS BAKER JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The spring has grown to summer Last Line: They've left behind in town. Subject(s): Home; New York City - 19th Century THE ANGEL OF THE CORNICE, by FLORENCE WILKINSON EVANS Poem Text First Line: Listen to me, ye creeping ants of men Last Line: Ye, too, shall learn the love that is remorse. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkinson, Florence Subject(s): Angels; Heroism; New York City - Buildings; Heroes; Heroines THE AVENUE BEARING THE INITIAL OF CHRIST INTO THE NEW WORLD, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pcheek pcheek pcheek pcheek pcheek Subject(s): New York City; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE BALL, 1789, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The town is at the ball to-night Last Line: And they ran away together. Subject(s): Balls; Conventions; New York City; Assemblies; Meetings; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE BALLAD OF CHRISTOPHER STREET, by FLOYD DELL Poem Text First Line: Is it still there, I wonder, down in christopher street Last Line: Eleven christopher street. Subject(s): Change; Christopher Street, New York City; Greenwich Village, New York City; Time; Youth THE BALLAD OF JOHN PAUL JONES, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He hath masted the flag of the crimson bars Last Line: By the sweep of the moonlit steel! Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Jones, John Paul (1747-1792); New York City - Revolutionary Period; British Empire; England - Empire THE BALLOON, 1819, by MOSES Y. SCOTT Poem Text First Line: Huzza! Huzza! Clear, clear the way! Last Line: "the balloondon't ascend to-day!" Subject(s): Balloons; Bowery, New York City; Friendship THE BLOCK-HOUSE IN THE PARK, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The north wind storms my rugged front Last Line: May all their wars be such as these! Subject(s): Dreams; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Nightmares THE BOOK LINE; RIVINGTON STREET BRANCH, NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, ye that despair of the land Last Line: Yet shall rear to the skies! Subject(s): Future; Legends; Librarians & Libraries; Nations; New York City; Library; Librarians; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE BRIDGE: 7. THE TUNNEL, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Performances, assortments, resumes Last Line: Gatherest -- Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Class Struggle; Imagination; New York City; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Subways; Vision; Fancy; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE BUNTLING BALL, 1884, by EDGAR FAWCETT Poem Text First Line: O proud new york, that wast new amsterdam Last Line: When compared with central park. Subject(s): Balls; Central Park, New York City THE BURIAL OF GRANT; NEW YORK, AUGUST 8, 1885, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye living soldiers of the mighty war Last Line: And made it free and great. Subject(s): Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); New York City - 19th Century THE CHARNEL GROUND, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Http://media.Sas.Upenn.Edu/pennsound/authors/ginsberg/chicago-1959/ginsberg-allen_01_howl_big-table- Subject(s): Aging; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE CHILDREN, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the spring on the pavements of the city Last Line: With the receding day. Subject(s): Children; New York City; Childhood; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE CITY, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, dear is the song of the pine Last Line: For the ships of all the earth! Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Music & Musicians THE CITY, by MARION COUTHOUY SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the shining water, serene she sits in state Last Line: As far across the bay's clear stretch is borne her silver chime. Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE CITY, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not mine with infancy's film'd eyes Last Line: Thy singer here reborn. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Home; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE CITY (1925), by CARL RAKOSI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under this luxemburg of heaven Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): New York City; Conduct Of Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE CITY, 1850, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love the city, and the city's smoke Last Line: Good-bye! I'm going by the evening train! Subject(s): Farewell; New York City - 19th Century; Streets; Parting; Avenues THE CLOCK IN THE AIR, by JOHN CURTIS UNDERWOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High on manhattan's tallest tower Last Line: Teaching the toilers how to dream. Subject(s): New York City - Buildings; Skyscrapers THE COLUMBUS PARADE, 1893, by STARR HOYT NICHOLS Poem Text First Line: Huge warships of all nations side by side Last Line: The fragile oak of christopher's caravel. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; New York City - 19th Century; Parades; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers THE COMPLAINT OF NEW AMSTERDAM, by JACOB STEENDAM Poem Text First Line: I'm a grandchild of the gods Last Line: So that prussia she'll disdain. Subject(s): New York City; U.s. - Dutch Settlements; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE CONGRATULATION, by JONATHAN ODELL Poem Text First Line: Joy to great congress, joy an hundred fold Last Line: Saint denis and saint tammany, go rot. Subject(s): American Revolution - French Involvement; Clergy; Estaing, Jean Baptiste De (1729-1794); New York City - Revolutionary Period; Saints; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops THE CRITICS, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moon was up and I was young Last Line: Had washed those erring lines away. Subject(s): Animals; Critics & Criticism; Moon; New York City - Dutch Period; Night; Bedtime THE CROTON ODE, by GEORGE POPE MORRIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gushing from this living fountain Last Line: Like the gathered waters here. Alternate Author Name(s): Morris, George Perkins Subject(s): Croton Aqueduct, New York; New York City - 19th Century THE CURB-BROKERS, by FLORENCE WILKINSON EVANS Poem Text First Line: Hail, ye frenzied creatures, antic, mask-like figures Last Line: And did ye ever walk among the rustling rows of corn? Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkinson, Florence Subject(s): Brokers; Business; Stock Exchange; Wall Street, New York City; Businessmen; Businesswomen THE DEVIL'S STEPPING-STONES, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A sky of gold, a sea of blue Last Line: Long island keeps the devil. Subject(s): Devil; Legends; Long Island (n.y.); New York City; Sailing & Sailors; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Seamen; Sails THE DOG-STAR RAGES, 1850, by GEORGE POPE MORRIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unseal the city fountains Last Line: Long live the valiant mayor! Alternate Author Name(s): Morris, George Perkins Subject(s): Battery Park, New York; New York City - 19th Century THE DROWNED MAN: DEATH BETWEEN TWO RIVERS, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Someone moves through the jungle Last Line: Someone is born with the bright face of your brother Subject(s): Death; Drowning; New York City; Dead, The; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE DUTCH PATROL, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When christmas-eve is ended Last Line: Proclaim 'tis christmas day. Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; Memorial Day; Netherlands; New York City - Dutch Period; U.s. - Dutch Settlements; Nativity, The; Declaration Day; Holland; Dutch People THE DYCKMAN HOUSE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Plain as the brass of an old sword-hilt Last Line: "shall look the world in the face again." Subject(s): Faith; Freedom; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Belief; Creed; Liberty THE EAST RIVER BRIDGE MARKET, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The riveted rafters drip the rain and the twilight pave Last Line: Mother, that your strange heart might know you are the fount of a future race! Subject(s): New York City - Markets; Poverty THE EMPIRE CITY, by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Huge steel-ribbed monsters rise into the air Last Line: Her dreams in iron and her thoughts of stone. Subject(s): New York City - Buildings; Skyscrapers THE EMPIRE STATE, by LUCY BURGMAN Poem Text First Line: They tell me of lands that are fairer than Last Line: And free men are tilling thy soil. Subject(s): New York City; North, The; Winter; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE ENCHANTED ISLAND; IN ABSENCE, BY ONE WHO RETURNS NO MORE, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Art thou there, between thy rivers Last Line: Loosed, my soul shall wing to thee! Subject(s): Islands; New York City; Travel; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Journeys; Trips THE FACTORIES, by MARGARET WIDDEMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have shut my little sister in from life and light Last Line: God of life! Creator! It was I! It was I! Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H. Subject(s): Child Labor; Labor & Laborers; New York City; Work; Workers; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE FASHIONS, 1806, by LEWIS BEACH Poem Text First Line: A lad came down from our town Last Line: And turn'd them out of door, sir. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Fashion; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE FATE OF THE HESSIAN, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who blusters along with his clattering blade Last Line: And field, camp, and prison knew friedrich no more! Subject(s): Fate; Hate; Legends; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Soldiers; Destiny THE FLAT-HUNTER'S WAY, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: We think we'll stay another year. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Family Life; City Snd Town Life; Wity And Humor; Apartments; Central Park, New York City; Relatives THE FLAT-HUNTER'S WAY, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We don't get any too much light Last Line: We think we'll stay another year. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Central Park, New York City THE FLEET, by CHESTER FIRKINS Poem Text First Line: Gaunt rocks of death that darkly lay Last Line: Went forth for peace, or war. Subject(s): Battleships; Heroism; New York City; War; Heroes; Heroines; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE GATEWAY, by HARVEY MAITLAND WATTS Poem Text First Line: What rome in sheer abandonment of pride Last Line: Glad millions press to life's exultant noon! Subject(s): Commuters; Pennsylvania Station, New York City; Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips 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 HALL OF FAME, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A noble fane of marble wall and moonlit ... Last Line: Entered new names on the roll of fame. Subject(s): Death; Fame; Halloween; Harlem River, New York; New York City; Dead, The; Reputation; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE HARLEM DANCER, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Applauding youths laughed with young prostitutes Last Line: I knew her self was not in that strange place. Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Harlem (new York City) THE HOUSE OF BLAZES, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where spuyten duyvil's waves environ Last Line: "and right forninst the spittin' divil!'" Subject(s): Blacksmiths; Home; Legends; New York City - Colonial Period 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 KNICKERBOCKER'S ADDRESS TO THE STUYVESANT PEAR TREE, 1647-1857, by HENRY WEBB DUNSHEE Poem Text First Line: Fam'd relic of the ancient time, as on thy form I / gaze Last Line: Till light no more shall bless the land where liberty was born. Subject(s): Government; Memory; New York City - Dutch Period; Stuyvesant, Peter (1610-1672) THE LAKE IN CENTRAL PARK, by JAY WRIGHT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It should have a woman's name Subject(s): Central Park, New York City; Lakes; Pools; Ponds THE LAST BOHEMIANS, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We meet in a cheap diner and I think, god Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Greenwich Village, New York City; Bohemians; Old Age THE LAST OF THE NEW YEAR'S CALLERS, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The door is shut-I think the fine old face Last Line: In front of the old-time door that's shut. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE LEGEND OF THE BRONX, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With sword and bible, brood and dame Last Line: "come to our valley of homes!" Subject(s): Bronx, New York City; Legends; New York City - Dutch Period; Peace; Summer THE LIGHTS OF NEW YORK, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lightning spun your garment for the night Last Line: A fire that neither wind nor rain can dim. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE LITTLE FRUIT-SHOP, by FLORENCE WILKINSON EVANS Poem Text First Line: The little broadway fruit-shop bursts and glows Last Line: Lo, a swart faun-god mid his votive fruit. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkinson, Florence Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Fruit; Retail Trade; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers THE LORCA VARIATIONS (32) 'FIRST NEW YORK POEM', by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Science & the paradise of labor give hope to those who live Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE LORD OF THE DUNDERBERG, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Goblin and kobold and elf and gnome Last Line: Strike flag to the lord of the dunderberg! Subject(s): Fantasy; Gnomes; New York City - Dutch Period; Ships & Shipping THE MAIN DRAG, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm mightily fond of manhattan Last Line: Girls! Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE MARCH OF THE REGIMENT, 1861, by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here they come!-'tis the twelfth, you know Last Line: The lilies and palms of god. Subject(s): Marching & Marches; Militarism; New York City - 19th Century; Patriotism; Soldiers; War THE MAY PARTY, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O million-singing comes the may Last Line: Had given birth to man! Subject(s): Central Park, New York City; Music & Musicians; Parks; Parties; Summer THE MENU, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I beg you come tonight and dine Last Line: Excepting alfred tennyson. Variant Title(s): Maecenas Bids His Friend To Dine;another Invitation Subject(s): Food & Eating; New York City; Parties; Smoking; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes THE MORAINE, by JOHN CURTIS UNDERWOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look down, love, from the bridge's height Last Line: To share with others while we may. Subject(s): Home; New York City - Buildings THE MYSTIFIED QUAKER IN NEW YORK, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Respected wife: by these few lines my whereabouts thee'll learn Last Line: So I left them in disgust: plain-spoken men like me / with such perverters of our tongue can have no Subject(s): "friends, Religious Society Of;new York City;speech;" "quakers;manhattan;new York, New York;the Big Apple;oratory;orators; THE NEW YORK CLUBWOMAN MEDITATES ON HAMLET, by OLIVE TAIT SUTHERLAND Poem Text First Line: To be on time, or not to be; that is the question Last Line: Thus conscience does make cowards of us all. Subject(s): City Traffic; Clubs (associations); Lateness; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE OLD 'CONSTITUTION', by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before the wind that greets the sun Last Line: A hundred years ago. Subject(s): Constitution (ship); Freedom; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Sailing & Sailors; Liberty; Seamen; Sails THE OLD APPLE-WOMAN; A BROADWAY LYRIC, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She sits by the side of a turbulent stream Last Line: And the gates of a heavenly city. Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Poverty; Rivers; Women THE OLD BREVOORT FARM, by GIDEON JOHN TUCKER Poem Text First Line: A snug little farm was the old brevoort Last Line: Eleventh street's not opened through, to this day! Subject(s): Farm Life; New York City; Agriculture; Farmers; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE OLD LYCEUM; FOURTH AVENUE AND 23RD STREET, by A. E. LANCASTER Poem Text First Line: The end has come. Dare we, who face you thus Last Line: Because the new springs from the old lyceum! Subject(s): New York City - Theaters THE PALISADES, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hear an ancient indian legend told in many a Last Line: "tempest-quelling, stand forever; matchless, changeless, unafraid!" Subject(s): Evil; Legends; Native Americans; New York City; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE PINES, SIXTY-SEVENTH STREET; CENTRAL PARK, LOOKING SOUTHWARD, by HARVEY MAITLAND WATTS Poem Text First Line: Though winds are bleak this greening tells of may Last Line: And ceaseless flows this restless human tide. Subject(s): Central Park, New York City; Pine Trees; Trees; Winter THE PIRATE'S SPUKE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Leave the dull present, to seek awhile Last Line: And the force of an iron will. Subject(s): Devil; New York City - Dutch Period; Pirates; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Piracy; Buccaneers THE PITY OF THE PARK FOUNTAIN, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a summery day in the last of may Last Line: And the fountain will play on! Subject(s): Fountains; New York City - 19th Century THE PRINCE'S BALL, 1860, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, haven't you heard how an english prince, prince, prince Last Line: Of the splendour and fame of the prince's ball! Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; New York City - 19th Century; U.s. - Dutch Settlements; Quakers THE PRISON SHIPS, 1776, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: O martyrdom of hope!-to lie Last Line: Holds back to god,earth's brightest answering star. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Monuments; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Prison Ships; Ships & Shipping THE RATTLE-WATCH OF NEW AMSTERDAM, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark to the rattle's discordant swell! Last Line: If our patrolmen were paid in coal! Subject(s): New England; New York City - Dutch Period; Night; Police; Sailing & Sailors; Bedtime; Seamen; Sails THE RED BOX AT VESEY STREET, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Past the red box at vesey street Last Line: Through the red box at vesey street. Subject(s): Homeless; Kindness; New York City - Streets; Poverty THE REGIMENT, 1909, by JOHN CURTIS UNDERWOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The traffic clears, and the crowd to the curb shifts to Last Line: But still the red blood corpuscles shall vitalize the race. Subject(s): Death; Marching & Marches; Militarism; New York City; Soldiers; Dead, The; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE RIVER, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What may the gray gull know Last Line: That glide on the sable stream. Subject(s): New York City - Colonial Period; Night; Rivers; Bedtime THE RIVER OF LIGHT: 1. BROADWAY, 103RD TO 96TH, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lights foam and bubble down the gentle grade Last Line: To pour in gathering torrent through the dark. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Broadway, New York City THE RIVER OF LIGHT: 2. BELOW 96TH, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The current quickens, and in golden flow Last Line: It bursts in cataracts upon times square! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Broadway, New York City THE ROAD, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My way of life is a winding road Last Line: "and something coming around the bend!'" Subject(s): Life; New York City - Dutch Period; Roads; Singing & Singers; Paths; Trails; Songs THE SHADOWY CITY LOOMS; NEW YORK FROM THE NORTH RIVER, by LLOYD MIFFLIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In deepening shades the haunting vision swims Last Line: Seems a lost star. Subject(s): New York City; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Journeys; Trips THE SIDEWALKS OF NEW YORK, by JAMES W. BLAKE Poem Text First Line: Down in front of casey's old brown wooden stoop Last Line: On the sidewalks of new york. Subject(s): History; New York City; Historians; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE SIEUR DE ROCHEFONTAINE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Picardy, provence, touraine Last Line: For the sieur de rochefontaine. Subject(s): Bechet, Etienne Nicholas Marie (d. 1798); Death; St. Paul's Catherdral (new York City); Rochefontaine, Sieur De; Rochefontaine, Stephen; Dead, The THE SKYSCRAPERS OF THE FINANCIAL DISTRICT DANCE WITH GASMAN, by MARGE PIERCY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The skyscrapers are dancing by the river Subject(s): Skyscrapers; Wall Street, New York City THE SLEEPING, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have imagined all this Last Line: Who lay in the dark thinking roses, roses, roses Subject(s): Cities; New York City; Rothko, Mark (1903-1970); Urban Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE STAMP ACT IN NEW YORK, 1765, by GEORGE LANSING RAYMOND Poem Text First Line: The night before the stamp-act Last Line: The stamp act was repeal'd. Subject(s): Freedom; New York City - Colonial Period; Stamp Act (1765); Liberty THE STONE, by PAUL BLACKBURN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stone found me in bright sunlight Last Line: I liked him Subject(s): New York City; Stones; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Granite; Rocks THE STORM SHIP, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her sails are wove of the fogs that flee Last Line: For the waves wax rich where the storm ship rides. Subject(s): New York City - Colonial Period; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Seamen; Sails; Ocean THE STORMING OF STONY POINT [JULY 16, 1779], by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Highlands of hudson! Ye saw them pass Last Line: "over the parapet, ""spear in hand!" Subject(s): American Revolution; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Soldiers; Stony Point, Battle Of (1779); Wayne, Anthony (1745-1796) THE STREETS, 1869, by WILLIAM OSBORN STODDARD Poem Text First Line: Our city is born of the pure, blue sea Last Line: In leaving our streets all hid in the dirt. Subject(s): New York City - 19th Century; Refuse & Refuse Disposal; Streets; Avenues THE SWEEP'S CAROL, 1826, by GEORGE POPE MORRIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the streets of new york city Last Line: Carol-o-a-y-e-o! Alternate Author Name(s): Morris, George Perkins Subject(s): New York City - 19th Century; Singing & Singers THE SWITCH YARD, by JOHN CURTIS UNDERWOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the glimmer of arc lights and spaces of shade Last Line: Past the tall signal tower holding the void in survey. Subject(s): New York City; Subways; Wheels; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE THANK-OFFERING, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Overbeck, the forest preacher Last Line: "loveth god, alone." Subject(s): Churches; New York City - Colonial Period; Praise; Rain; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology THE TOMB OF THE PATRIOTS, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Britain! We cite you to our bar, once more Last Line: These, once so wretched near manhattan's shore. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Patriotism; Prison Ships; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE TOWERS OF MANHATTAN, by DONALD ROBERT PERRY MARQUIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the middle arch of the bridge I stood Last Line: For a crown for her head! Alternate Author Name(s): Marquis, Don Subject(s): New York City - Buildings; Skyscrapers THE TROPICS IN NEW YORK, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Bananas ripe and green, and ginger root Last Line: I turned aside and bowed my head and wept. Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): Fruit; Nature; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE TRUE NEW YORKER, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He wears the pride of mighty throngs Last Line: Will crush them all at last. Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE TWELVE-FORTY-FIVE (FOR EDWARD J. WHEELER), by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within the jersey city shed Last Line: God bless the train that brought me here. Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Subject(s): Gratitude; Home; Love; New Jersey; New York City; Railroads; Travel; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips THE TWIN TOWERS ARCANE, by JACK HIRSCHMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such mourning as we Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 THE VILLAGE, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hate greenwich village like vachel lindsay said Subject(s): Greenwich Village, New York City; Ginsberg, Allen (1926-1997) THE VOICE OF THE CITY, by J. L. SINCLAIR Poem Text First Line: So this is new york! Last Line: When do we eat! Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE WALL STREET PIT, MAY, 1901, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see a hell of faces surge and whirl Last Line: And, under all, the silence of the dead! Subject(s): Business; Stock Exchange; Wall Street, New York City; Businessmen; Businesswomen THE WALLABOUT MARTYRS, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Greater than memory of achilles or ulysses Last Line: The stepping stones to thee to-day and here, america. Subject(s): American Revolution; New York City - Revolutionary Period THE WEST FORTIES: MORNING, NOON, AND NIGHT, by LOUIS EDWARD SISSMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On this hotel, their rumpled royalties Alternate Author Name(s): Sissman, L. E. Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE WHITE LIGHTS, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When in from delos came the gold Last Line: That there was triumph in the air. Subject(s): Broadway, New York City THE WINDOW, AT THE MOMENT OF FLAME, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: And all this while I have been playing with toys Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 THE WOOLWORTH BUILDING, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Enormously it lifts Last Line: Circles and flows the restless human tide. Subject(s): New York City - Buildings; Skyscrapers; Woolworth Building, New York THEIR WEDDING JOURNEY - 1834, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear mother, / when the coach rolled off Last Line: "please write, ""I know." Subject(s): Marriage; New York City - 19th Century; Travel; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips THERE ARE MORE CHINESE BUMS, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: One of them looks like a poet Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City THERE IS A GROUP OF CHINESE-AMERICAN MEN WHO THINK OF, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Calligraphy, consult the ching and go to sword flicks to %blow their minds Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City THEY ARE SEEN IN DIFFERENT, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Saw a man waiting for a bus %tonight. Womanless Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City THEY DRESS ALIKE AND CUT THEIR BLACK HAIR INTO, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Get a permanent. They speak chinese sprinkled %with many english words Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City THEY MUST HAVE ME LEARN MY LESSONS OF VIOLENCE, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: No more pepperoni in the toilet bowls Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City THEY WANT ME TO SETTLE DOWN, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Whispers that I haven't seen peking Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City THINGS (FOR AN INDIAN) TO DO IN NEW YORK (CITY), by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Walk down the avenue of the americas Last Line: She loves me, she loves me Subject(s): New York City; Native Americans; Identity; Urban Life THIS CHINESE WARRIOR, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: And tells no one his name Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City THIS WORLD IS A CONFUSION OF THREE WORLDS, by ROBERT BLY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dark figures of politics hover in the air Subject(s): China; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THREE O'CLOCK: MORNING, by FREDERICK RIDGELY TORRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The jewel-blue electric flowers Last Line: But time goes out in grey. Subject(s): New York City; Railroads; Streets; Subways; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Railways; Trains; Avenues THREE PEASANT DAUGHTERS, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: One wore glass bangles from canton Last Line: One looked out over blue water %dreaming of falling stars Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City THREE POEMS FOR NEW YORK, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into oiur brick acropolis returns Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THUNDERSTORM, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The smiths of the heavens are mending the weather Last Line: Proclaims to the world that the weather is mended. Subject(s): New York City - Dutch Period; Storms TIMMY BOYLE, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: Me, timmy boyle! %up there with babe ruth Last Line: I'm up there forever: %me, timmy boyle! Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) TO A NEW YORK SHOP-GIRL DRESSED FOR SUNDAY, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Today I saw the shop-girl go Last Line: Surely his angels lay their kiss. Subject(s): Beauty; Clothing & Dress; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple TO A POETICAL TRIO IN THE CITY OF GOTHAM, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bards of the island city! - where of old Last Line: "ye shall be blessed with, and not ""damned to fame""!" Subject(s): Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878); Jackson, Andrew (1767-1845); Lawson, James (1799-1880); Leggett, William (1801-1839); New York City; Poetry & Poets; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple TO FIFTH AVENUE, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O beautiful, long, loved avenue! Last Line: Where thy gaslights leave off or the starlights begin. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Fifth Avenue, New York City; Light; Night; Bedtime TO MYRTILLA OF NEW YORK, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rockies, I own, are a beautiful sight Last Line: There's nothing like you in the west. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): New York City; Travel; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Journeys; Trips TO NEW YORK, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: New york! I had first been confused by Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); New York City TO NEW YORK, AWAKENING, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O city of a thousand towers Last Line: "man is as mighty as his noblest dream." Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple TO NEW YORK: 1, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: New york! At first I was bewildered by your beauty Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple TO NEW YORK: 1, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: New york! At first I was bewildered by your beauty Last Line: And murky streams carry away hygenic loving %like rivers overflowing with the corpses of babies Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); New York City TO NEW YORK: 2, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now is the time for signs and reckoning, new york! Now is Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple TO NEW YORK: 2, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now is the time for signs and reckoning, new york! Now is Last Line: Listen to the distant beating of your nocturnal heart, %the tom-tom's rhythm and blood, tom-tom bloo Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); New York City TO NEW YORK: 3, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: New york! I say new york, let black blood flow into your Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple TO NEW YORK: 3, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: New york! I say new york, let black blood flow into your Last Line: Created heaven and earth in six days, %and on the seventh slept a deep negro sleep Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); New York City TO THE LADY IN THE CHIMSETTE WITH BLACK BUTTONS, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know not who thou art, oh lovely one! Last Line: My love shall hover round thee! Subject(s): New York City - 19th Century; Women TO THE PATRONS OF NEW NETHERLAND, 1656, by EVERT NIEUWENHOF Poem Text First Line: Still amstel's ancient burghers live Last Line: But when their loss brings gain, doubly rejoice. Subject(s): Engraving And Engravers; New York City - Dutch Period; Van Der Donck, Adrian (1620-1655); Yonkers, New York TO THE TENTH LEGION, NEW YORK STATE VOLUNTEERS, 1862, by RUTH NATALIE CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Marching along!-marching to the war Last Line: "for god and their country, they were marching along." Subject(s): American Civil War; Marching & Marches; Military Service, Voluntary; New York City - 19th Century; Patriotism; United States - History TOGETHER, by MARGARET ELIZABETH SANGSTER (1894-1981) Poem Source First Line: They lay together in the sun and waited for the end Last Line: Peter, from delancey street, in new york town Subject(s): New York City; Togetherness TOM BROWN'S DAY IN GOTHAM, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'll tell you a story of thomas brown Last Line: At the old park-gate, the regular shilling! Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple TRANTER IN AMERICA, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Tranter, John (b. 1943); New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple TRAVELING TO NEW YORK, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: I turned my oral tradition into an endless scream Last Line: Driven there by the lust of two, which is greater than any solitary form Subject(s): Marriage; New York City TREAD THE DARK: 40. SOUTH BRONX, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bronx, New York City TREMENDOUS WIND AND RAIN, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Now a resident of paradise Subject(s): New York City; Storms TUBBY HOOK, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mevrouw von weber was brisk though fat Last Line: That super-cleanliness may go wrong! Subject(s): Cleanliness; Love; New York City - Colonial Period; Witchcraft & Witches TULIPS, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: In crayon gardens Last Line: Lamp tulip tree %tulips in bloom Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City TURTLES, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Orrick, poet-laureate of st. Louis Last Line: Is it feet carry them? Subject(s): New York City; Poetry & Poets; Turtles; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Tortoises TWILIGHT BY THE MALL, by SELDEN LINCOLN WHITCOMB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moonlight creeps across yon gilded roof Last Line: Defiant, private note must pass away. Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Retail Trade; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers TWO CITIES, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Girt with the river's silver zone Last Line: Upon the old foundations, build! Subject(s): Chicago Fire (1871); Cities; Corruption In Politics; New York City; Urban Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple TWO PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROBERT FRANK: 2. MANHATTAN, by MIRIAM GOODMAN Poem Source First Line: A moment in a vast and empty square: a man under a slanting hat cross Last Line: The scaffolding come down, ropes on the pulleys, loose ends, rise Subject(s): New York City; Photography And Photographers TWO RONDEAUX TO NEW YORK: 1. WINTER, by MAY FOLWELL HOISINGTON Poem Text First Line: I love new york in winter time Last Line: I love new york! Subject(s): New York City; Winter; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple TWO RONDEAUX TO NEW YORK: 2. SUMMER, by MAY FOLWELL HOISINGTON Poem Text First Line: New york, I love you - dog-days, too Last Line: New york, I love you! Subject(s): New York City; Summer; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple TWO SONNETS FROM NEW YORK: QUESTIONS, by ADELAIDE NICHOLS BAKER Poem Text First Line: Where in the crowds that blunder through the street Last Line: Make even blind men serve her high desire? Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple TWO SONNETS FROM NEW YORK: TOWERS, by ADELAIDE NICHOLS BAKER Poem Text First Line: Something there is in me exults in towers Last Line: From pennons on the turrets of their time. Subject(s): New York City; Skyscrapers; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple TWO WOMEN, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shadows lay along broadway Last Line: By man is cursed alway! Variant Title(s): Unseen Spirits;broadway Subject(s): Adversity; Broadway, New York City; New York City - 19th Century UNCLE SAM TO JOHN BULL, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: John bullikins, my jo, john Last Line: John bullikins, my jo. Subject(s): Friendship; New York City - Revolutionary Period UNDER THE PALISADES, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Light as a leaf on the lifting swell Last Line: I shall be deathless when ye are naught! Subject(s): Mountains; Native Americans; Nature; New York City; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple UNION SQUARE, by WALTER MALONE Poem Text First Line: I watch the water lilies in this pond Last Line: Homeless and friendless, here in union square. Subject(s): Union Square, New York City UNION SQUARE, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With the man I love who loves me not Last Line: In the lights of union square. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Union Square, New York City UPPER BROADWAY SUNDAY, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is high noon over upper broadway Last Line: Dionysos has swallowed apollo Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; City & Town Life URBS CORONATA (SONG FOR THE CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK), by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O youngest of the giant brood Last Line: And be the city's crown. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): City College Of New York; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple VARICK STREET, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: At night the factories Last Line: Sell you, of course, my dear, and you'll sell me Subject(s): Modern Man; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple VARICK STREET, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At night the factories Subject(s): Modern Man; New York City VIET NAM, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Viet nam %bomb Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City VILLANELLE (TO A LOVER OF MANHATTAN), by HENRY S. CHURCHILL Poem Text First Line: O city of astounding towers Last Line: Thy beauty changes with the hours. Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple VILLANELLE OF CITY AND COUNTRY, by ZOE AKINS Poem Text First Line: Beneath the arches of the leaves I lie Last Line: But oh, the towers set in gotham's sky! Subject(s): Ferry Boats; New York City; Romance; Skyscrapers; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple VILLANELLE OF WASHINGTON SQUARE, by WALTER ADOLPHE ROBERTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The starshine on the arch is silver white Last Line: The green-robed spring has come to town tonight. Subject(s): Washington Square, New York City VISITING DAY AT SCHOOL, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My mother is sitting on a swing Last Line: I want to go to her, claim her, %but there is no room for me, no room Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City WALKING ALONG THE BOWERY, CAN'T, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Of blind prostitutes in hong kong Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City WALL HAIKU I, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: On june 15, 1904 the side-wheel steamer caught fire in the Last Line: Wellington meets you know who %old news on the wall Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) WALL HAIKU II, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: I flew the ocean %fame swollen like the cold sea Last Line: Mystery in boyish games %never safe at home Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) WALL HAIKU III, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: Barren gray old man %stars and stripes over cold rock %shadow of machine Last Line: Hatching for the public good %thinking in a cave Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) WALL HAIKU IV, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: Life is ravenous %beef an' spuds, cheese an' onions Last Line: Sunlit love flirts in the eye %george dove to his death Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) WALL STREET, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strait river, with its hoarse and feverous flood Last Line: Christ above mammon, love before the world. Subject(s): Money; Rivers; Wall Street, New York City WALL STREET, by ROBERT WINNER Poem Source First Line: Getting money, not poems Last Line: %can never deny me %its voice Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Poetry And Poets; Wall Street, New York City WALL STREET WAIL, by ENID CRAWFORD PIERCE Poem Text First Line: Up and down where wall street is a - rumbling Last Line: But -- let this woolly lamb escape the shearing. Subject(s): Wall Street, New York City WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even the bad bews came slowly and was afraid Last Line: For the ice truck, buried the dead, called it home Subject(s): Washington Heights, New York City; Childhood Memories WASHINGTON IN WALL STREET, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sublime, where traffic's billows beat Last Line: Their father blesses them. Subject(s): Love; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Presidents, United States; Wall Street, New York City; Washington, George (1732-1799) WASHINGTON SQUARE, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the end of town I love the best Last Line: The cross of light,that looms from the sacred tower. Subject(s): Washington Square, New York City WASHINGTON SQUARE, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Starless and still Last Line: She is thinking of me. Subject(s): Washington Square, New York City WASHINGTON SQUARE, NORTH, by WALTER PRICHARD EATON Poem Text First Line: Red-brick and sunny in a cheerful row Last Line: Unsoiled, unwearied, when my day is done. Subject(s): Washington Square, New York City WATER: CITY WILDLIFE AND GREENERY, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The most prolific seem to be imports: Last Line: Hunger, begging, violence, early death. %spring gives some relief to this sad business. Variant Title(s): A Call In The Midst Of The Crowd: April. Water: City Wildlife .. Subject(s): New York City WATERLILY FIRE, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Girl grown woman ... Fire... Mother of fire Subject(s): New York City; Fire; Life; Change; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple WE ARE SAILING OFF, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: And a lovely drunkenness %washes over me Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City WE SPENT SUMMER AFTERNOONS CATCHING FLIES THAT HOVERED, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Spaghetti. Only now do I realize what the pink neon sign %read--wines Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City WE STOLE A SNAIL FROM THE OUTDOOR BASKETS IN FRONT OF THE, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Our fingers to see if it was home Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City WE USE NEWSPAPER FOR A, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Food when I am older Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City WEDDING, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Wishes cover the red silk Last Line: To make of the feast one nightblooming flower Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City WELCOME TO CHINATOWN LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Where happiness has resigned itself %to have tea every sunday afternoon Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City WEST 58TH STREET, by MELVILLE CANE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight / from this high window Last Line: Snarl and prey and devour. Subject(s): New York City; Taxis; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple WEST FORTIES: MORNING, NOON, AND NIGHT, by LOUIS EDWARD SISSMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On this hotel, their rumpled royalties Last Line: In its black cage, funebrially slow, %to stygian forty-seventh street below Alternate Author Name(s): Sissman, L. E. Subject(s): New York City WEST FOURTH STREET, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sycamores are leafing out Subject(s): Imigrants; City & Town Life; Greenwich Village, New York City WHAT HAS BECOME OF THE GODS, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Full often I have heard it said Last Line: Repeat their old olympic labors. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple WHEN BROADWAY WAS A COUNTRY ROAD, by CHARLES COLEMAN STODDARD Poem Text First Line: No rushing cars, nor tramping feet Last Line: To broadway as a country road. Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Country Life; U.s. - History WHEN MY DOMESTIC STUNT-DOUBLE STOPPED SHOWING UP, by STACEY FRUITS Poem Source First Line: I auditioned for the part of mafia princess Last Line: Bobbing brightly, face down, on the surface Subject(s): Domestic Relations; New York City WHEN THE TOWERS FELL, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From our high window we saw the towers Last Line: Each life, put out, lies down within us Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 WHEN THE WATER IN THE POT IS, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Water is singing a song Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City WHERE IS THE COCKROACH WHO LEFT, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Its footprint on my bowl? Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City WHERE YOU WANT TO BE, by KEVIN PILKINGTON Poem Source First Line: You wake early again Last Line: Her hungry and ready %to eat the sky Subject(s): Cities; New York City WHISTLES AT NIGHT, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At night in the city when the far-off whistles blow Last Line: And the dawn comes slow. Subject(s): Central Park, New York City; Memory; Night; Parks; Streets; Bedtime; Avenues WILLIAM THE TESTY, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Afar in the ages of quaint renown Last Line: That governs the town of new amsterdam! Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; Kieft, Willem (1597-1647); New York City - Dutch Period; Politics; Quarrels; Politicians; Political Poetry; Arguments; Disagreements WINTER FESTIVAL, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Unearthing a new voice Last Line: Our rice pot so full %its lid won't stay put Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City WINTER WIND SITS IN THE LIVING ROOM, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: What do we wear when we go outside? Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City WINTER WORDS, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Day after day in a high room between Subject(s): Harlem (new York City); City & Town Life WINTER, 1825, by SAMUEL WOODWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nor is stern winter's icy sceptre swayed Last Line: Till new-year's happy morning crown'd the whole. Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; New Year; New York City - 19th Century; Seasons; Winter; Nativity, The WINTRY PARIS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "oh, the dingy winter days" Last Line: When contrasted with the blues I had in paris Subject(s): "new York City;paris, France;winter;" "manhattan;new York, New York;the Big Apple; WISHBONES, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: Flesh we wore so long ago Last Line: Mornings after %godspeed to all ghosts Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) WITH MY BACK TO CITY HALL, ON YOM KIPPUR, by JORDAN DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gnats love the highway dividers, Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple WIZARD'S WELL, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Trudchen! Trudchen!' teased the maids Last Line: Tell me -- did that wish come true? Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Girls; Kisses; New York City - Dutch Period WOMEN'S ROOM IN PENNSYLVANIA STATION, by KATE DANIELS Poem Source First Line: Covered with rags and cardboard and nothing Last Line: Carrying away its cargo of men Subject(s): Homeless; Lavatories; Pennsylvania Station, New York City; Women WORDS READ BY LIGHTNING, by ELAINE EQUI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Big silver raucous stem Last Line: Already full %with what is Subject(s): Cities; New York City WOUTER VAN TWILLER, 1633, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When wouter van twiller sailed over the sea Last Line: The image of grasping old wouter van twiller. Subject(s): New York City; U.s. - Dutch Settlements; Van Twiller, Wouter [walter] (1580-1646); Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple Y2K, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mutation of bells. Chapels vanishing in fog Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 YJUANAS, by VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ Poem Source First Line: There's not an iguana that isn't drawn up Last Line: A place that can never be told in words Subject(s): Caribbean Sea; Puerto Ricans - New York City; Reptiles YO VIVO EN EL BARRIO CHINO, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Times when chinatown is the %only place to live... Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City YOUNG MAN DRESSED IN WHITE IS A BARBER AT, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Smiles and walks away in the direction of the %men's room. You are on the way to lima Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City YOUTH, by SAMUEL DUFF MCCOY Poem Text First Line: You say new york is lovelier than ever? Last Line: But, oh, how gay it was! What prophecies! Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Food & Eating; New York City; Restaurants; Youth; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Cafes; Diners YUPPIE INVESTMENT BROKER, by JOSEPH S. SALEMI Poem Source First Line: How hard you worked for wall street cash Last Line: The blue chips of your fantasy Subject(s): Investments; Wall Street, New York City ZENGER THE PRINTER, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Zenger the printer, through storm and stress Last Line: Bulwark of freedom, a fearless press! Subject(s): Law & Lawyers; New York City - Colonial Period; Politics & Government; Printing & Printers; Zenger, John Peter (1697-1746); Attorneys ZEPP, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW Poem Source First Line: I did a liddle a dis %a liddle a dat Last Line: I drink an' tink of my old man Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City) |
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