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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: POSTAL SERVICE Matches Found: 86 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A ROUTE OF EVANESCENCE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: An easy morning's ride Subject(s): Postal Service A SUGGESTION, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I send, transmit, consign, convey Last Line: "I wish you ""merry christmas." Subject(s): Christmas; Expressionism - Poets; Letters; Postal Service; Nativity, The; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen A TWO-CENT STAMP, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Most potential traveller! Last Line: Just a two-cent postage stamp! Subject(s): Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen AIR MAIL, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the hunt for a letter-box Last Line: No one makes it his own Subject(s): Letters; Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen AIR MAIL, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the hunt for a letter-box Last Line: No-one makes it his own Subject(s): Letters; Postal Service ARIA FOR THE U.S. MAIL, by MAX GARLAND Poem Source First Line: Some days it's all the hope you get Last Line: Or worse, in its own shy way, %demanding an answer Subject(s): Postal Service BEST WORKER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: If the letter was not from america Last Line: He was the best worker in the place Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Postal Service BY PARCELS POST, by GEORGE ROBERT SIMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sent my love a parcel Last Line: Eight-and-twenty years ago. Alternate Author Name(s): Dagonet Subject(s): Marriage; Postal Service; Seasons; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen CLAUSEWITZ'S MAIL, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An aide found her is a shop in berlin Last Line: And touched %at night before darkness screamed Subject(s): Letters; Postal Service GETTING THE MAIL, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk back / toward the frog pond, carrying Subject(s): Farm Life; Postal Service; Agriculture; Farmers; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen GETTING THE MAIL, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk back %toward the frog pond, carrying Last Line: And the kyrie of a chainsaw down off wheelock mountain Subject(s): Farm Life; Postal Service HARBINGER, by KURT J. FICKERT Poem Source First Line: The postman comes on less than winged feet Last Line: When the postman comes on less than winged feet %and scatters tattered letters down the street Subject(s): Letters; Postal Service IN THE DEAD-LETTER OFFICE, by R. STEWART Poem Text First Line: Come, rip the mail-bags open, chaps, and sort the stuff away Last Line: "you'll maybe murmur with a sigh, ""the perth dead mail is in." Subject(s): Death; Gold Mines & Miners; Postal Service; Dead, The; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen LAST LINES, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies wrapped up tight in sod Last Line: May be opened for inspection Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Variant Title(s): Epitaph For A Postal Cler Subject(s): Postal Service LETTER, by OTTO ORBAN Poem Source First Line: I found the letter in a drawer among old bills and papers. 'if Last Line: Indifferent curtain on the stage of delusion Subject(s): Death; Letters; Messengers; News; Postal Service LETTER FROM THE OLD SOD, by DENNIS MICHAEL MALONEY Poem Source First Line: My dear brother: %it is now drawing near xmas Last Line: Wishing ye all a very merry xmas %your fond sister Subject(s): Absence; Letters; Postal Service; Travel; Writing And Writers LETTER TO JAIPUR, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wanted to tell you Last Line: Lint slanting in the sun's column Subject(s): Letters; Postal Service LETTER TO MY YOUNG SON FROM SZIGLIGET, by MAGDA GUTAI Poem Source First Line: The yewtree is ailing with catarrh Last Line: Inside your chest? Subject(s): Letters; Messengers; Parents; Postal Service; Sons LETTER, POSSIBILITY, by MICHELE BOWMAN Poem Source First Line: Copper %today the forecast came by mail Last Line: When I reach the station I tear %a page from it %I make it yours Subject(s): Letters; Paper; Postal Service LIKE A WELL OF SWEET WATER, by LORI POWELL Poem Source First Line: That is your mailbox Last Line: The cat's in the well %and the bird sings, sings Subject(s): Postal Service MAIL, by RAYMOND CARVER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On my desk, a picture postcard from my son Subject(s): Postal Service MAIL, by CHARLES DARLING Poem Source First Line: My latest letter really got around Subject(s): Postal Service MAIL, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: But then, are your ideas so clear Last Line: All written %for nothing Subject(s): Postal Service MAIL CALL, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The letters always just evade the hand Subject(s): Army Life; Postal Service; World War Ii; Drills & Minor Tactics; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen; Second World War MAIL CALL, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The letters always just evade the hand Last Line: The soldier simply wishes for his name Subject(s): Army Life; Postal Service; World War Ii MAILMAN, by NAZIM HIKMET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whether at dawn or in the middle of the night Last Line: Highwaymen block the roads-- %your letter can't get through Alternate Author Name(s): Ran, Nazim Hikmet Subject(s): Postal Service MAILMAN, by MARK STRAND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is midnight Last Line: You shall forgive Subject(s): Forgiveness; Postal Service MAILMAN CARRYING THE VILLAGE CORRESPONDENCE, by JOAN BROSSA Poem Source Last Line: Moments later a carriage pulled up Subject(s): Letters; Postal Service MR LEAR RECEIVES A LETTER FROM MARIANNE NORTH, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mr lear refuses to pay for a letter insufficiently stamped and sends it away Last Line: Mr lear stamps and dances for joy on securing miss north's letter Subject(s): Letters; Postal Service MYTH OF THE PERFECT MOVE, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: I moved in a dazzling black taxi Last Line: If she decides, to come back this way again Variant Title(s): In Search Of The Perfect Mov Subject(s): Moving And Movers; Postal Service; Travel NIGHT MAIL (COMMENTARY FOR A G.P.O. FILM), by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the night mail crossing the border Last Line: For who can bear to feel himself forgotten? Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Postal Service ON RECEIVING A SOUVENIR POSTCARD, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the little desk before me Last Line: And we're chums and lovers still. Subject(s): Postal Service; Youth; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen OPENING THE MAIL, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She used to work down in the copy center, and Subject(s): Women - Employment; Ambition; Automobile Racing; Postal Service; Professional Women; Women In Business; Women's Careers; Race Car Driving; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen OPPOSITES: 37, by RICHARD WILBUR Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite of post, were you Subject(s): English Language; Postal Service; Synonyms & Antonyms; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen OPPOSITES: 37, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite of post, were you Last Line: To put your letters in the mail Subject(s): English Language; Postal Service; Synonyms And Antonyms POST OFFICE, by RICK CANNON Poem Source First Line: Some childhood remains: Last Line: As that second swift of air the best one %cools my face Subject(s): Postal Service POST OFFICE ETCHINGS: 10. BIRKENHEAD POST OFFICE, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Sunday. Deserted square. Upon Last Line: Odious, immune, unnoticed, slips into the sun. Subject(s): Birkenhead (ship); Labor & Laborers; Postal Service; Work; Workers; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen POST OFFICE ETCHINGS: 11. POSTAL SURVEYOR'S 'TRAVELLING CLERK', by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: My man loads up. We start Last Line: Of zennor, sea-girt, sacred ... Zennor of my heart. Subject(s): Letters; Office Employees; Postal Service; Clerks; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen POST OFFICE ETCHINGS: 12. HEAD-POSTMASTER, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Into the early air Last Line: Ahead, new life, new light, enlargement ... Liberty! Subject(s): Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen POST OFFICE ETCHINGS: 3. LEICESTER POST OFFICE, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Twin doors swing wide. They close on me, revealing Last Line: "whisp'ring: ""they'll put you right!" Subject(s): Etching; Letters; Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen POST OFFICE ETCHINGS: 6. INSTRUCTION, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Midnight, and duty. Dully, I divide Last Line: Taken and trapped ... And slave. Subject(s): Duty; Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen POST OFFICE ETCHINGS: 7. POSTAL INVESTIGATOR (A), by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Ten of the clock. An airless, august night Last Line: Of loss, alike, of liberty and pension. Subject(s): Letters; Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen POST OFFICE ETCHINGS: 8. POSTAL INVESTIGATOR (B), by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Draper's assistant. Doomed to be Last Line: To her in anglesey. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Letters; Postal Service; Work; Workers; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen POST OFFICE ETCHINGS: 9. POSTAL INVESTIGATOR (C), by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Plaints about postal packets, gone Last Line: She looks at me, reproachful, like some hunted fawn. Subject(s): Etching; Letters; Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen POSTAGE DUE, by JOHN M. BENNETT Poem Source First Line: The magazine came back marked deceased and with 21 cents postage due Last Line: Of my hands, staring out the window, my eyes focused on nothing in %particular Subject(s): Death; Messengers; News; Postage Stamps; Postal Service POSTAL CONFESSIONS, by MAX GARLAND Poem Source First Line: The sorting machine whirs like the blades of a fan Last Line: Shore, as if even the shadows were richer there Subject(s): Postal Service POSTAL SAVINGS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well, wife, they've given us at last Last Line: Of trusty uncle sam. Subject(s): Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen POSTCARDS, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear barney Last Line: Alice Subject(s): Holidays; Letters; Love; Postal Service; Valentine's Day; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen POSTMAN, by ANNE EMILIE POULSSON Poem Source First Line: The postman trudges through the street Alternate Author Name(s): Poulsson, Emilie Subject(s): Postal Service POSTMAN, by LAURA ELIZABETH HOWE RICHARDS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hey! The little postman Last Line: I wish you'd go away! Alternate Author Name(s): Richards, Laura E. Subject(s): Postal Service POSTMAN, by CLIVE SANSOM Poem Source First Line: Rat-a-tat-tat, rat-a-tat-tat Subject(s): Postal Service POSTMAN, by ALICE TODD Poem Source First Line: Bring me a letter, postman! Subject(s): Postal Service POSTMAN'S KNOCK, by RODNEY BENNETT Poem Source First Line: Rattat! Rattat! Subject(s): Postal Service POSTMAN, / POSTMAN / DO YOUR DUTY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Get it to her %right away Subject(s): Postal Service R.F.D. MAILBOX, by S. A. WALSH Poem Source First Line: I was haven Last Line: Sole monument Subject(s): Farm Life; Postal Service ROAD SIGN TO FORGETTING, by CHRIS GAGE Poem Source First Line: There should have been a letter Last Line: Is disorienting without a pale blue egg %for the eye to alight upon Subject(s): Birds; Postal Service SAD MAIL, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's strange to think how letters used to be letters, letting you know Last Line: Time. Subject(s): Letters; Postal Service; Writing & Writers; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 7, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eight o'clock / the postman's knock Last Line: And three for dear mamma. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): The Postman Subject(s): Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen SONG OF THE GPO, by GERRY HAMILL Poem Source First Line: I'm the bloke that's trained to sit behind the public stamp machines Last Line: Than to write yer flippin' letter %after five, then you deserve to go without Subject(s): Office Employees; Postal Service STAMP COLLECTOR, by CHARLES W. PRATT Poem Source First Line: Old mr. Higgins lives alone Last Line: And his grey mustache, and works on his stamps Subject(s): Collectors And Collecting; Postal Service SWEETEST WORDS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Inclosed find check!' the sweetest Last Line: "world is glad that was a wreck, changed by the words, ""inclosed find check." Subject(s): Letters; Postal Service; Writing & Writers; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen THE AGE OF AIDS, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our postman, jim was always after me Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Postal Service; Aids (disease); Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE AIR MAIL, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No stunting's allowed in the service Last Line: We're carrying uncle sam's mail! Subject(s): Air Travel; Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen THE COUNTRY LETTER-CARRIER, by ELIZABETH Poem Text First Line: It thaws. On field and roadway the packing drifts have Last Line: Cheer. Alternate Author Name(s): Sylva, Carmen; Pauline Elizabeth Ottilie Luis Subject(s): Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen THE DE CARLO LOTS, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are parceled out over the post office Last Line: Measuring the lots, the dreams by Subject(s): Exchange Students; Farewell; Letters; Postal Service; Universities & Colleges; Foreign Exchange Programs; Parting; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen THE DISHONEST MAILMAN, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: They are taking all my letters, and they Subject(s): Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen THE MAIL, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The star route man downshifts Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen THE MAIL HAS COME, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the bitter pangs of hope deferred Last Line: Each kind letter thence is thrice welcome to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): American Civil War; Postal Service; United States - History; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen THE MAILBOY'S RIDE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: He rode from port bowen bravely Last Line: The boy brought the royal mail Subject(s): Heroism;pain;postal Service;story-telling; Heroes;heroines;suffering;misery;postmen;post Office;mail;mailmen THE MAILMAN, by NAZIM HIKMET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whether at dawn or in the middle of the night Alternate Author Name(s): Ran, Nazim Hikmet Subject(s): Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen THE MAILMAN, by MARK STRAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is midnight Subject(s): Forgiveness; Postal Service; Clemency; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen THE MAILMAN'S RIDE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I scanned the dark and lowering sky Last Line: I think of that wild ride Subject(s): Animals;crimes & Criminals;deception;horses;postal Service; Postmen;post Office;mail;mailmen THE MIDNIGHT MAIL, by WILLIAM HURD HILLYER Poem Text First Line: Resonant, full, and deep Last Line: That wait for the midnight mail! Subject(s): Messages & Messengers; Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen THE NIGHT MAIL NORTH (EUSTON SQUARE, 1840), by HENRY CHOLMONDELEY-PENNELL Poem Text First Line: Now then, take your seats! For glasgow and the north Last Line: For the night .. Mail .. To the north? Alternate Author Name(s): Pennell, Henry Cholmondeley Subject(s): Postal Service; Railroad Stations; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen THE OVERLAND MAIL, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the name of the empress of india, make way Last Line: In the name of the empress the overland-mail. Subject(s): Duty; India - British Rule; Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen THE PARCEL POST, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What farms and factories produce Last Line: The shining parcel post! Subject(s): Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen THE POSTILION, by NIKOLAUS FRANZ NIEMBSCH VON STREGLENAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Passing lovely was the night Last Line: In my ear kept tingling. Alternate Author Name(s): Lenau, Nikolaus Subject(s): Cemeteries; Memory; Mourning; Postal Service; Graveyards; Bereavement; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen THE POSTMAN, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The postman goes along the street Last Line: Than men who richer, wiser are. Subject(s): February; Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen THE R. F. D., by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the works of uncle sam Last Line: The r. F. D.! Subject(s): Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen THE ROYAL MAIL, by E. LYTTLETON FOX Poem Text First Line: Quick! Ho, ye honest gentle-folk! Last Line: The royal mail is past. Subject(s): Postal Service; Yale University; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen THE SMITHS, by E. G. MURPHY Poem Text First Line: We had many problems set us when coolgardie was a camp Last Line: And the maidens who were promised still await the absent smith. Alternate Author Name(s): Dryblower Subject(s): Deception; Names; Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen THE TRAVELLING POST OFFICE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The roving breezes come and go, the reed - beds sweep and sway Last Line: My letter chases conroy's sheep along the castlereagh. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Australia; Drovers; Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen TO A POST-OFFICE INKWELL, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many humble hearts have dipped Last Line: Put heaven on a postal card. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen TO MY FRIEND, GROWN FAMOUS, by EUNICE TIETJENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mail has come from home Last Line: Of flowers, of laughter, of the flash of wings. . . . Alternate Author Name(s): Head, Cloyd, Mrs. Subject(s): Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen TO THE POSTMAN, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Most welcome of all sights and sounds Last Line: One note ere day departs! Subject(s): Fate; Fortune; Life; Memory; Postal Service; Destiny; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen WHEN THE STAGE GITS IN, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pap'll git a letter, 'nd uncle zed a book Last Line: Ill be here when the stage gits in. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Pancakes; Postal Service; Smells; Stagecoaches; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances |
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