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Subject: RAILROAD STATIONS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A POEM WRITTEN UNDER AN ARCHWAY IN A DISCONTINUED RAILROAD STATION, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Outside the great clanging cathedrals of rust and smoke
Last Line: Of old age
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): Railroad Stations


AT THE VILLAGE DEPOT, by ELIZABETH WILCOX BEASLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Why sure, we come down when the train pulls in
Last Line: When that fast train comes whistling down the line.
Subject(s): Railroad Stations


BUSINESS GIRLS, by JOHN BETJEMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From the geyser ventilators
Last Line: Trolley-bus and windy street!
Subject(s): Commuters; Railroad Stations; Travel; Journeys; Trips


COLLEGE SPECIAL, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Plush lines the metal train, making the steel
Subject(s): Railroad Stations; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


DEEP IN THE WESTERN SUBURBS, by JOEL FRIEDERICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Autumnal moths rose
Last Line: A collection of raw thirsts
Subject(s): Commuters; Railroad Stations; Travel


IN A RAILWAY STATION, by MARY SINTON LEITCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How strangely memory serves us! Here tonight
Last Line: "will have gone twenty miles tonight for naught."
Subject(s): Memory; Pity; Railroad Stations; Women - Middle Aged


IN FREIBURG STATION, by RUPERT BROOKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In freiburg station, waiting for a train
Last Line: I saw a bishop with puce gloves go by.
Subject(s): Clergy; Gloves; Railroad Stations; Soldiers' Writings; Travel; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Mittens; Muffs; Journeys; Trips


ON THE PLATFORM, by TOM SLEIGH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The omen I didn't know I was waiting for
Subject(s): Railroad Stations; Bombs


PENN CENTRAL STATION AT BEACON, N.Y., by ED OCHESTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: An immense room as quiet
Last Line: Manhattan manhattan manhattan manhattan
Subject(s): Railroad Stations; Railroads


POEM WRITTEN UNDER AN ARCHWAY IN A DISCONTINUED RAILROAD STATION, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Outside the great clanging cathedrals of rust and smoke
Last Line: He smiles with the sinister grief %of old age
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): Railroad Stations


STATION SWEEPER, by IONE MORRISON RIDER    Poem Text                    
First Line: These large imposing marble corridors
Last Line: And dignity attends him down the hall.
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Railroad Stations; Work; Workers


STATIONS, by PHILIP BOOTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The old, their big shoulders humped
Last Line: To end, the far side of the macon station
Subject(s): African Americans; Railroad Stations; Negroes; American Blacks


STATIONS, by PHILIP BOOTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The old, their big shoulders humped
Last Line: To end, the far side of the macon station
Subject(s): African Americans; Railroad Stations


TERMINALS, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A railroad station at the city's heart
Last Line: Romance to every wharf at which they swing.
Subject(s): Railroad Stations; Trade; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE HOME EXPRESS, by HORACE SPENCER FISKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: When the city's rush is over, and the monthly ticket shown
Last Line: In the twilight and the moonlight just begun!
Subject(s): Homecoming; Railroad Stations; Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips


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 NORTHEAST CORRIDOR, by DONALD REVELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The bar in the commuter station steams
Subject(s): Railroad Stations; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE TRAVELLER, by RANDALL JARRELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As she rides to the station
Last Line: She gives no answer
Subject(s): Railroad Stations; Money; Terrorism


THE WARMTH OF MEMORY, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In rail transportation the old-fashioned station
Last Line: Brute of a waiting-room stove!
Subject(s): Railroad Stations


WHILE ASLEEP, by JOSE FONTINHAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Were it not for the teddy bear forgotten on the lawn, the
Last Line: Shepherd, it is much too soon to die, first I must learn to throw a good hard stone
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Poetry And Poets; Railroad Stations; Sleep; Travel