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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: PARADES Matches Found: 35 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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 NEW STORY, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Several years ago Last Line: "no,"" I said. No" Subject(s): Native Americans; Parades A ROUTE FOR THE PROCESSION, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where shall the veterans march to-day Last Line: "soon we too shall be lying here." Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Parades; Declaration Day A VERMONT BOOTMAKER, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's lots of other themes and things Last Line: The boots that loren lawrence made? Subject(s): Marching & Marches; Parades; Vermont ARMISTICE DAY, by HELEN HUTCHCRAFT Poem Text First Line: I can hear a sound Last Line: As the drums go by. Subject(s): Holidays; Parades; Peace; Veterans Day ARMISTICE PARADE, by MARGARETTE BALL DICKSON Poem Text First Line: Down the street the khaki-clad are marching with a band Last Line: Back she creeps to read again. ... Worn letters with french stamps. Subject(s): Army Life; Flags; Marching & Marches; Military; Parades; Soldiers; Drills & Minor Tactics CANADA DAY PARADE, by LORNA CROZIER Poem Source First Line: Two days later and I've turned the parade Last Line: The blades of his propeller %stopped Subject(s): Parades CIRCUS PARADE, by OLIVE BEAUPRE MILLER Poem Source First Line: Tomorrow, tomorrow's the circus parade! Last Line: And the wheezing, old calliope is %the very tail end of the show! Subject(s): Calliopes (musical Instruments); Circus; Parades CIRCUS PARADE, by KATHARINE PYLE Poem Source First Line: One day we took our lunches Subject(s): Circus; Parades CIRCUS PARADE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Circus; Parades CIRCUS PARADE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The circus! - the circus! - the Last Line: The clash and the clang of the cymbals %that beat, %as the glittering pageant winds down %the long s Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Circus; Parades CONTINUING DEMANDS, by RALPH SNEEDEN Poem Source First Line: I came to the tuba late in life Last Line: Of some struggling, desperate heart Subject(s): Music And Musicians; Parades 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 DRIVER SMITH, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas driver smith of battery a was anxious to see a fight Last Line: And drawing a hundred pounds a week to tell how he won the fight. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Leadership; Parades; Soldiers; War FACULTY-PARADE, by JOSEPH KLING Poem Text First Line: Tossing cap-tassel: crest of owls Last Line: And owls. .... Subject(s): Parades HIGH SCHOOL RODEO PARADE, by TERESE SVOBODA Poem Source First Line: It starts when the cop drops the wax paper Subject(s): High School Students; Parades; Rodeos HOW TO BE UNCLE SAM, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father knew Subject(s): Fathers; Parades IN CHRISTMAS LAND, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In the beams and gleams came the christmas dreams Last Line: To the homes and hearts of you! Subject(s): Children;christmas;dreams;parades;soldiers; "childhood;nativity, The;nightmares; IT'S A GRAND PARADE IT WILL BE, MODERN DESIGN, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saint patrick was a proper man, a man to be admired Last Line: And jam the bloody airwaves on the seventeenth of march Subject(s): Parades; Patrick, Saint (5th Century) LAST PARADE, by NORA E. HUFFMAN Poem Text First Line: Boatman, look to your oars Last Line: All has been done, and said. Subject(s): Death; Parades; Dead, The PARADE, by PHILIP LEGLER Poem Source First Line: Summer and I heard the sound of it Last Line: And the calliope piping, piping Subject(s): Calliopes (musical Instruments); Parades PARADE, by EDITH LOVELL Poem Text First Line: I don't know why Last Line: "and life to maim humanity." Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Parades; Women; Anti-war Protests PARADE, by ALBERTA M. PARIS Poem Text First Line: We watched together, my neighbor and I Last Line: And a small gold star. Subject(s): Memory; Parades PARADE'S END, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The most that can be said Subject(s): Parades PARADE'S END, by OLIVE STODDARD Poem Text First Line: Parade, you little soldiers - strut! Last Line: (your parade gives me no pleasure!) Subject(s): Parades POSTMASTER-GENERAL WILL HAYS ENTERS INTO HOLLYWOOD, by STODDARD KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hays came first, with a guard of marines Last Line: "we are saved, will hays, we are saved!" Subject(s): Hollywood, California; Parades PROCESSIONAL FOR DEMETRIUS POLIORCETES, by HERMOCLES Poem Text First Line: See how the mightiest gods, and best-beloved Last Line: Or to stone will charm him. Variant Title(s): Demeterius Enters Athens Subject(s): Athens, Greece; Heroism; Parades; Heroes; Heroines THANKSGIVING, by ED OCHESTER Poem Source First Line: On the tube, the old parade Last Line: The aleppo shrine horse patrol and placido domingo %(`hey man, don't step in the placido domingo!') Subject(s): Holidays; Parades; Thanksgiving THE CIRCUS-DAY PARADE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! The circus-day parade! How the bugles played and played! Last Line: Filled all the hungry hearts of us with melody sublime! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Circus; Parades 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 GERMAN BAND, by EARL DERR BIGGERS Poem Text First Line: Just a german band a-playing in a narrow alley-way Last Line: Just a german band a-playing in a narrow alley-way. Subject(s): Bands; Marching & Marches; Music & Musicians; Parades; Patriotism; Orchestras THE LAST PARADE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With never a sound of trumpet Last Line: Moved off from their last parade. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Nations; Parades THE PARADE, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How exhilarating it was to march Subject(s): Parades WAR NOTES: 3. TWO PARADES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The uniforms gleam bright, and as of yore Last Line: The bronzed and battered veterans limp by. Subject(s): Parades; Veterans; War YOUR NAME ENGRAVED ON A GRAIN OF RICE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blazing pink shirts spill into streets, garden green, full-throated Last Line: Bubbling and softening, changing its life? Subject(s): Parades; Parties |
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