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Subject: NEWARK, NEW JERSEY
Matches Found: 10

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CELEBRATION ODE, by LYMAN WHITNEY ALLEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Great city of our love and pride
Last Line: Newark belongs to the world.
Subject(s): New Jersey; Newark, New Jersey; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect


NEWARK AND PHILIP KEARNY, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: City that sits where calm passaic's tide
Last Line: "give us another fearless ""fighting phil!"
Subject(s): Kearny, Philip (1814-1862); Newark, New Jersey


NEWARK'S MORNING SONG, by LEONARD HARMON ROBBINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: At morn she rises early, as a busy city should
Last Line: Who follow to the calling of her steam calliope!
Subject(s): Morning; Newark, New Jersey


NEWARK: 1666, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sunset on the hills; with dark below
Last Line: Thro' urgent years, the passaic knows.
Subject(s): Newark, New Jersey


NEWARK: 1766, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: A flame thro' the whole great countryside
Last Line: O little town of one hundred years!
Subject(s): Newark, New Jersey; War


PORT NEWARK TERMINAL, by EDWARD STEVENS RANKIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: In his office on the meadows
Last Line: To our docks along the bay.
Subject(s): Newark, New Jersey


THE BALLAD OF SETH BOYDEN'S GIFT, by ALICE READE ROUSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: High in the square his statue stands
Last Line: Might wear a poet's wreath.
Subject(s): Heroism; Newark, New Jersey; Heroes; Heroines


THE BUILDERS, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Never a jungle is penetrated
Last Line: Newark -- city that builds his dreams.
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Newark, New Jersey


THE CITY OF HERITAGE, by ANNA BLAKE MEZQUIDA    Poem Text                    
First Line: Down where the swift passaic
Last Line: The city men love to-day!
Subject(s): Newark, New Jersey; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect


THE SMITHY OF GOD, by CLEMENT WOOD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am newark, forger of men
Last Line: I am newark, forger of men.
Subject(s): Newark, New Jersey