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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: NEW YORK CITY - COLONIAL PERIOD Matches Found: 15 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 |
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