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First Line: My old man, says a mountain woman
Last Line: And is silent
Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Animals; Horses; Man-woman Relationships; Newspapers


A GRUB STREET RECESSIONAL, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O noble gracious english tongue
Last Line: The gift of thy simplicity.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): English Language; Newspapers; Journalism; Journalists


A NEWSBOY'S PLAINT, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some fren's o' mine is tryin' hard ter put me on de / queer
Last Line: A—a—ll a—bout de moider—buy a papeh, suh?
Subject(s): Children; Newspapers; Childhood; Journalism; Journalists


A SYMPATHETIC READER, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Old mr. Solomon reeder has a philosophic mind
Last Line: With universal brotherhood a-glimmering in his eye.
Subject(s): Newspapers; Journalism; Journalists


AFTER THE LAST BULLETINS, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After the last bulletins the windows darken
Subject(s): Newspapers; Journalism; Journalists


AFTER THE LAST BULLETINS, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After the last bulletins the windows darken
Last Line: With confident morning sound %the songbirds in the public boughs
Subject(s): Newspapers


AN EPITAPH (AFTER THE GREEK EPIGRAMS), by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here lies a journalist. I wish you would
Last Line: Tell them in fleet street, for their good.
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Newspapers; Journalism; Journalists


ATOPOS: WITHOUT PLACE, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Kitchen pans tumble, %the medicine cabinet shakes
Last Line: The story will unfold, translate as yours, translate to mine
Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; Newspapers; Travel


B&B, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let's begin here: three years later
Last Line: & one struck match arcs into the grill. Whoosh
Subject(s): Children - Lost; Death; News; Newspapers; Tragedy


BALLADE OF A SPECIAL EDITION, by AMY LEVY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He comes; I hear him up the street
Last Line: Your double murder in mile end.
Subject(s): Murder; Newspapers; Journalism; Journalists


CHILDREN OF THE STREET, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bright boys vociferous
Last Line: Some vague philosopher.
Subject(s): Child Labor; Great Britain; Newspapers; Poverty; Journalism; Journalists


CLOUD FORESTS OF SUMATRA, by B. J. BUHROW    Poem Source                    
First Line: The fire, two towns away
Last Line: I still couldn't have told %him where sumatra is
Subject(s): News; Newspapers


COQ D'OR, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The fountain is frozen in the plaza
Last Line: Will be tumbling about us.
Subject(s): Cities; News; Newspapers; War; Urban Life; Journalism; Journalists


CRIES OF THE NEWSBOY (NEWS! SUN! OR WORLD!), by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cruel the roar of the city ways
Last Line: From some imagined sward or thicket near
Subject(s): Child Labor; Newspapers


CROSSARMS, by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On a cold day, this six-foot stepladder's a hardship
Last Line: Will sleep as one, our names written on water.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Subject(s): Newspapers; Poetry & Poets; Journalism; Journalists


DAY EVERYBODY WAS HONEST, by MARC LEVY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nobody disputes the morning edition's version of the truth
Last Line: At midnight, the old crime reporter lips his bottle of vermouth
Subject(s): Newspapers; Towns; Truth


DEADLINE, by DAVID E. THOMSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: No time to think, to rvise
Last Line: Out of the time machine for you don't %know how long? That's another story
Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Newspapers


EDITORIAL IMPRESSIONS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He seemed so certain 'all was going well'
Last Line: Ah, yes, but it's the press that leads the way!'
Subject(s): Newspapers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Journalism; Journalists; First World War


EPIGRAM, OCCASIONED BY TITLE OF RIVINGTON'S ROYAL GAZETTE, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Says satan to jemmy, 'I hold you a bet'
Last Line: "a sett of new types, and a sett of new lies."
Subject(s): American Revolution; Lies; Newspapers; Rivington, James (1724-1803); Journalism; Journalists


EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: JOURNALISTS; ON A PANEL ..., by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We have served our day
Last Line: We have served our day.
Subject(s): Newspapers; World War I; Journalism; Journalists; First World War


EVERY MORNING, by MARY OLIVER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I read the papers
Subject(s): Newspapers; Journalism; Journalists


EXTRA TIME, by MONA VAN DUYN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Today the morning paper's nearly buried
Subject(s): Newspapers; Journalism; Journalists


FLEET STREET, by SHANE LESLIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I never see the newsboys run
Last Line: About their brave unwearied feet.
Subject(s): London; Newspapers; Journalism; Journalists


FOLDING HIS USA TODAY HE MAKES HIS POINT IN THE BLUE STAR CAFE, by MILLER WILLIAMS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's this bird I saw in the paper, they said
Last Line: Anyone's cooked a sparrow, raise your hand
Subject(s): Extinct Animals; Newspapers


FOREST AND NEWSPAPER, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They sent my forest to a paper-mill
Last Line: And calmly strong as thine own parent tree?
Subject(s): Newspapers; Journalism; Journalists


FOUR POEMS FOR THE ST. LOUIS SPORTING NEWS: 1, by JACK SPICER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Waiting like a trap-door spider for a rookies sell-out
Last Line: People are starving
Subject(s): Newspapers; Sports


FOUR POEMS FOR THE ST. LOUIS SPORTING NEWS: 2, by JACK SPICER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I would like to beat my hands around your heart
Last Line: Going to get knocked out of the box, %baby
Subject(s): Newspapers; Sports


FOUR POEMS FOR THE ST. LOUIS SPORTING NEWS: 3, by JACK SPICER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Pitchers are obviously not human. They have the ghosts of dead people
Last Line: Even when the game isn't over
Subject(s): Newspapers; Sports


FOUR POEMS FOR THE ST. LOUIS SPORTING NEWS: 4, by JACK SPICER    Poem Source                    
First Line: God is a big white baseball that has nothing to do but go in a curveor straight
Last Line: I was not the only one who felt these things
Subject(s): Newspapers; Sports


HEADLINE HISTORY, by WILLIAM PLOMER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Grave charge in mayfair bathroom case
Last Line: Not the end of world,' says well-known red
Subject(s): Newspapers


HERALD, by JOSEPHINE MILES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Delivers papers to the doors of sleep
Last Line: Wakes; wakes coin, day, greeting, herald, sir.
Subject(s): Newspapers; Journalism; Journalists


ILLUSTRATED BOOKS AND NEWSPAPERS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Discourse was deemed man's noblest attribute
Last Line: Nothing? Heaven keep us from a lower stage!
Subject(s): Magazines; Newspapers; Journalism; Journalists


IT IS DANGEROUS TO READ NEWSPAPERS, by MARGARET ATWOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While I was building neat
Last Line: Another village explodes
Subject(s): Newspapers; War; Journalism; Journalists


IT IS DANGEROUS TO READ NEWSPAPERS, by MARGARET ATWOOD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While I was building neat
Subject(s): Newspapers; War


JOBSON OF THE STAR, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Within a pub that's off the strand and handy to the bar
Last Line: And I am just a bloody tramp, and will be till I die.
Subject(s): Newspapers


LINES IN REPLY TO THE BEAUTIFUL POET, WHO WELCOMED NEWS OF MCGONAGALLS, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear johnny, I return my thanks to you
Last Line: Or else you'll get the famous weekly news a bad name.
Subject(s): Gratitude; News; Newspapers; Poetry & Poets; Publishing; Journalism; Journalists; Publishers


LINES OCCASIONED BY RIVINGTON'S NEW TITUAL TYPES ..., by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Well - now (said the devil) it looks something better!
Last Line: Of him and his arms I'll be the engraver.
Subject(s): American Revolution; Newspapers; Rivington, James (1724-1803); Journalism; Journalists


LUNCH HOUR, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the newspaper, another feature
Last Line: From one story to the next
Subject(s): News; Newspapers; Story-telling


MAN WHO NEVER COMES BACK, by THOM TAMMARO    Poem Source                    
First Line: He's always in his 60s or 70s
Last Line: A long time for you. We thought you'd never come
Subject(s): Death; Detective Stories; Mystery; News; Newspapers


METAMORPHOSES: 3. THE RE-BIRTH OF VENUS, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And now the sea-scoured temptress, having failed
Subject(s): Chicago; Haymarket Square Riot; Newspapers; Social Protest; Journalism; Journalists


METAMORPHOSES: 3. THE RE-BIRTH OF VENUS, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And now the sea-scoured temptress, having failed
Last Line: Stayers, and searchers of the fanged pool
Subject(s): Chicago; Haymarket Square Riot; Newspapers; Social Protest


MY BULLETIN BOARD, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the comet's bulletin
Last Line: Would it, would it, hold the crowd?
Subject(s): Newspapers; Journalism; Journalists


NAY, TELL ME NOT TO-DAY THE PUBLISH'D SHAME, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: All day to these give audience
Subject(s): Newspapers; United States


NEWMAN'S ADDRESS (1786), by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old eighty-five discharg'd and gone
Last Line: And now, our toils reward
Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Newspapers; Writing And Writers


NEWS, by DENNIS SCHMITZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: The chronicle 'green sheet' dries out
Last Line: That they flake & snow %down on us lost, unrecoverable lives
Subject(s): Newspapers


NEWSBOY, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bearing his way through the traffic, under his arm
Subject(s): Newspapers; Boys; Journalism; Journalists


NEWSMAN'S ADDRESS (1784), by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What tempests gloom'd the by-past year
Last Line: That wrangling is the life of news
Subject(s): Army - United States; News; Newspapers; Sailors And Sailing


NEWSPAPER, by PENINA MOISE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whither excursive fancy tends thy flight?
Last Line: The elements that form this typic world
Subject(s): Newspapers


NEWSPAPER DEATHS, by LAURA TOHE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I can flip my life back to the page
Last Line: And the police just added another number to their records
Subject(s): Death; Native Americans; Navajo Indians; News; Newspapers


NEWSPAPER FINDINGS: 1867, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Quiet an' cozie, but an' ben
Last Line: At the paris exhibition.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): England; Newspapers; Politics & Government; Rome, Italy; Social Problems; English; Journalism; Journalists


NEWSPAPERS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The people's mind in daily black and white
Last Line: And ye who see it, gladden, and salute!
Subject(s): Newspapers; Journalism; Journalists


NOME NEWSPAPERMAN, by KEN WALDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: From across the street, I raise my camera
Last Line: About-face, pulls open the door, and disappears %inside to report the latest casualty
Subject(s): Newspapers; Nome, Alaska; Television - Interviewing; Writing And Writers


ON MR. RIVINGTON'S NEW ENGRAVED KINGS ARMS .. ROYAL GAZETTE, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From the regions of night, with his head in a sack
Last Line: "the inventor, as well as the printer of lies."
Subject(s): American Revolution; Newspapers; Rivington, James (1724-1803); Journalism; Journalists


ON REPORTING THE MURDER OF A YOUNG PROSTITUTE, by JUDITH VOLLMER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I stood over her, %thought: draw me something
Last Line: I offer her a sip of my pepsi %& half of my sandwich. %to her I'm blind
Subject(s): Newspapers; Prostitution


ON THE FATE OF NEWSPAPERS, by ISABELLA LICKBARROW    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What changes time's swift motion brings
Last Line: If so, we'll write and sing again.
Subject(s): Newspapers; Refuse & Refuse Disposal; Writing & Writers; Journalism; Journalists


PALLADIUMS, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the newspaper office - who are the spooks?
Last Line: Speak easy -- the sacred cows must be fed.
Subject(s): Newspapers; Journalism; Journalists


PERSONAL COLUMN, by TOM PAULIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: These messages are secret, the initials
Last Line: Lonely but hopeful, to a bed somewhere?
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love; Newspapers


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


READING THE NEWSPAPER ON MICROFILM, by MILLER WILLIAMS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I let it go for the fact of it fast as it will
Subject(s): Microfilm; Newspapers


SONNET FOR NEWSPAPERMEN, by THOMAS DEL VECCHIO    Poem Text                    
First Line: These lies are not my life, which is ill-met
Last Line: Few men have suffered thus, or died just so.
Subject(s): Newspapers; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Journalism; Journalists


SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: CARL HAMBLIN, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The press of the spoon river clarion was wrecked
Last Line: "but the multitude saw why she wore the bandage."
Subject(s): Chicago; Haymarket Square Riot; Newspapers; Social Protest; Journalism; Journalists


SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: DAISY FRASER, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Did you ever hear of editor whedon
Last Line: To the school fund of spoon river!
Subject(s): Newspapers; Journalism; Journalists


SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: EDITOR WHEDON, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To be able to see every side of every question
Last Line: And abortions are hidden.
Subject(s): Editors; Newspapers; Journalism; Journalists


STAR-LEDGER, by B. J. WARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: 287 was the long raod to the newspaper plant
Last Line: When the world redelivered him in the morning
Subject(s): News; Newspapers


SUNDAY REVIEW SECTION, by BARON WORMSER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Beneath the marmalade, muffins, and tea
Subject(s): Newspapers


THE AMERICAN PUZZLE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am the newspaper, vivid and wonderful
Last Line: I am the newspaper: pray tell me what I am.
Subject(s): Newspapers; Journalism; Journalists


THE BIGLOW PAPERS: 6. THE PIOUS EDITOR'S CREED, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I du believe in freedom's cause
Last Line: To feed ez they hev fed me.
Variant Title(s): The Candidate's Creed
Subject(s): Newspapers; Journalism; Journalists


THE CIRCULATION OF NEWSPAPERS RISES GREATLY IN TIME OF WAR, by EVE MERRIAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pure as the oyser's pure incest
Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva
Subject(s): War; Newspapers; Journalism; Journalists


THE CORNER NEWSBOY, by VICTORIO ACOSTA VELASCO    Poem Text                    
First Line: Shout aloud your merchandise, loud, louder
Last Line: Winter morning's breakfast.
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; News; Newspapers; Work; Workers; Journalism; Journalists


THE DOUBLE STANDARD, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Important is the nation's health
Last Line: Says advertising mr. Hyde
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Editors; Newspapers; Publishing; Writing & Writers; Journalism; Journalists; Publishers


THE MORNING STAR, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rumors open up
Last Line: I vote for mr. Anderson.
Subject(s): Morning Star; Newspapers; Slavery; Journalism; Journalists; Serfs


THE NEWSMONGER, by ROYALL TYLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of mazy faction, politics, and love
Last Line: Let deep reflection mark the varied tale.
Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S.
Subject(s): Newspapers; Journalism; Journalists


THE NEWSPAPER, by GEORGE CRABBE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A time like this, a busy, bustling time
Last Line: And rise the thurlow of the future age.
Subject(s): Newspapers; Social Protest; Journalism; Journalists


THE NEWSPAPER MIRROR, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mirror of the times! In golden frame
Last Line: It is the most repulsive thing in town!
Subject(s): Newspapers; Journalism; Journalists


THE NURSE AND THE NEWSPAPER; AN OCCASIONAL EPILOGUE, by ELIZABETH COBBOLD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hush! Pretty darling, hush! -- bye, bye, bye, bye
Last Line: And give us safe deliv'ry from our terrors.
Alternate Author Name(s): Knipe, Eliza
Subject(s): Babies; Charity; Newspapers; Nurses; Infants; Philanthropy; Journalism; Journalists


THE PRESS, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A worthy parson, once upon a time
Last Line: On freedom's shores a weak and venal press.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Books; Freedom; History; Libraries & Librarians; Literature; Newspapers; Poetry & Poets; Reading; Liberty; Historians; Journalism; Journalists


THE ROBBER, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The moon hangs lightly on yon western hill
Last Line: I ever read in my life.
Subject(s): Newspapers; Journalism; Journalists


THE SICK JOURNALIST, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Throb, throb, throb, weariness, ache, and pain!
Last Line: When I cannot write a line?
Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert
Subject(s): Newspapers; Socialism; Journalism; Journalists


THE WESTERN JOURNALIST, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's a wonderful town,' said the newspaper
Last Line: "nor climate a career."
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Newspapers; Television - Interviewing; Travel; Work; Workers; Journalism; Journalists; Journeys; Trips


THE YELLOW MIND, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Do you seek, when you take up your paper
Last Line: Make the yellow, sensational press.
Subject(s): Newspapers; Journalism; Journalists


TO A DEAD JOURNALIST, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The busy trade of life is over now
Last Line: Lost in time's void! Thou wind of nothingness!
Subject(s): Newspapers; Journalism; Journalists


TO A DEAD JOURNALIST, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Behind that white brow
Last Line: "to have found so monstrous
Subject(s): Newspapers; Journalism; Journalists


TO A DEAD JOURNALIST, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Behind that white brow
Last Line: To have found so monstrous %an obscurity
Subject(s): Newspapers


TO A GENTLEMAN WHO SENT HIM A NEWSPAPER, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Kind sir, I've read your paper through
Last Line: And pray a' gude things may attend you.
Subject(s): Newspapers; Journalism; Journalists


TO MY FRIENDS AND CRITICS, by JULIA A. MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come all you friends and critics
Last Line: I leave you to decide.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan
Subject(s): Newspapers; Journalism; Journalists


TO MY PAPER, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My daily paper! Years ago
Last Line: Thy press!
Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D.
Subject(s): Newspapers; Journalism; Journalists


TO THE PUBLIC, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This age is so fertile of mighty events
Last Line: That the world shall approve -- and his %news shall be true
Subject(s): Newspapers; Revolutions


TRUTH ANTICIPATED, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What brilliant events have of late come to pass
Last Line: For all his life long he did little but lie.
Subject(s): Lies; Newspapers; Rivington, James (1724-1803); Journalism; Journalists


VICTORIAN JOURNALISM, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB    Poem Text                    
First Line: An old song sung by an aged old pate
Last Line: And the queen's old editor.
Subject(s): Editors; Newspapers; Journalism; Journalists


WAR IS KIND: 12, by STEPHEN CRANE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A newspaper is a collection of half-injustices
Last Line: Roaming through a fenceless world.
Variant Title(s): A Newspaper
Subject(s): Newspapers; Journalism; Journalists


WHAT DID HAPPEN?, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Do I ask you , reader, if that's your own hair?
Last Line: Or did I see them in a coffee-table book? %what's the difference? Now they belong to you
Subject(s): Books; Critics And Criticism; Newspapers; Publishing


WHEN THE NEWSPAPERS HAVE NOTHING BETTER, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They arrested weary willie
Last Line: And so on.
Subject(s): Newspapers; Journalism; Journalists


WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS, by JOHN HUSTON FINLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: A strong and simple-souled ohio boy
Last Line: So triumphed this firm-fibred westerner.
Subject(s): Editors; Howells, William Dean (1837-1920); Newspapers; Journalism; Journalists


YOU CANNOT HOPE, by HUMBERT WOLFE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: No occasion to
Subject(s): Bribery; Newspapers