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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SERVICE Matches Found: 179 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LEGEND OF SERVICE, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It pleased the lord of angels (praise his name!) Last Line: "who serves the king must serve with perfect trust." Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Service 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 ABOU BEN ADHEM, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Abou ben adhem (may his tribe increase!) Last Line: And lo! Ben adhem's name led all the rest! Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Variant Title(s): Abou Ben Adhem And The Angel Subject(s): Brotherhood; Religion; Service; Theology ADDRESS TO THE GARDNER OF BOTHWELL ON COMPLETING 50TH YEAR OF MINISTRY, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pastor revered, beloved! The muse would fain Last Line: The choir of heaven with harp and song! Farewell! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Clergy; Honor; Service; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops ADDRESS TO THE REV. DR. JOHN MUIR, ST JAMES' PARISH, GLASGLOW, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Servant of god! Through fifty honoured years Last Line: Our god, our faith, our hope, our church, the same! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Clergy; Glasgow, Scotland; God; Religion; Service; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Theology 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 AIR: 'CAPTAIN JINKS', by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm captain hans of the submarines Last Line: I'm in the german navy! Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Military Service, Voluntary; Sailing & Sailors; Submarines; Seamen; Sails; Submarine Warfare; U-boats 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 BIGLOW PAPERS: LETTER ... TO JOSEPH T. BUCKINGHAM, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mister eddyter, our hosea wuz down Last Line: Ef there's thousands o' my mind Subject(s): Military Service, Voluntary; Slavery; Soldiers; U.s. - Mexican War (1846-1848) BRITISH VOLUNTEERS, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the call of the bugle, and the roll of the drum Last Line: True hearts and true rifles she trusts not in vain. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): England; Military Service, Voluntary; Patriotism; Soldiers; English 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 BY THE LITTLE BIG-HORN, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down to their death in the valley of silence Last Line: The eight nameless horsemen who never shall die. Subject(s): Courage; Heroism; Honor; Little Bighorn, Battle Of; Loyalty; Military Service, Compulsory; Monuments; Soldiers; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service CAR WASH AT THE MALL, by DAVID BAKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even mud makes a halo of a steaning, still body Last Line: With a thirst so profound it brings joy Subject(s): Automobiles – Service Stations CIVIL SERVICE, by JAMES DOYLE Poem Source First Line: The bureaucracy is the final beast Subject(s): Civil Service 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 CONJECTURAL POEM, by JORGE LUIS BORGES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Doctor francisco laprida, set upon and killed the Last Line: And across my throat the intimate knife Subject(s): Assassination; Independence; Military Service, Compulsory; Poetry And Poets; Revolutions CRY TO BATTLE, by JONATHAN MITCHELL SEWALL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ye see mankind the same in every age Last Line: But the whole boundless continent is %yours! Subject(s): American Revolution; Heroism; Military Service, Compulsory; Tyranny And Tyrants; U.s. - History DESPOILED, by GEORGE E. BOWEN Poem Text First Line: If I could read my title clear, among the wolves that yelp Last Line: Well, if you're not tight-muzzled, they're just a song to sing. Subject(s): Income Tax; Service DIFFERENT MINDS, by RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some murmur when their sky is clear Last Line: Such rich provision made. Variant Title(s): Content [and Discord] Subject(s): Human Behavior; Service; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature DIXIE, by ALBERT PIKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Southrons, hear your country call you! Last Line: And conquer peace for dixie! Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Military Service, Voluntary; Patriotism; United States - History; Confederacy DOXOLOGY, by TOM CHANDLER Poem Source First Line: Father and mother returned from the service Last Line: Lost in the laughter of children downstairs Subject(s): Children; Parents; Service DRAFT AGE, by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You probably thought you were going to go through life Subject(s): Military Service, Compulsory; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service EASY HOURS, by IRENE WILLIS Poem Source First Line: I didn't just fall into this job Last Line: Take a vacation once in a while. Hey, look, %in three years I'll be vested Subject(s): Civil Service; Labor And Laborers EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: BOMBER IN LONDON, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On land and sea I strove with anxious care Last Line: To escape conscription. It was in the air! Subject(s): Military Service, Compulsory; World War I; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service; First World War EX-BASKETBALL PLAYER, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pearl avenue runs past the high-school lot Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Basketball; Sports; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops EX-BASKETBALL PLAYER, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pearl avenue runs past the high-school lot Last Line: Beyond her face toward bright applauding tiers %of necco wafers, nibs, and juju beads Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Basketball; Sports FAST GAS; FOR RICHARD, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before the days of self service Last Line: Is come close and touch me. Subject(s): Accidents; Automobiles - Service Stations; Baby Boom Generation; Love; Women; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops FILLING STATION, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, but it is dirty! Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops FILLING STATION, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, but it is dirty! Last Line: Somebody loves us all Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations FLOWERS WITHOUT FRUIT, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Prune thou my words, the thoughts control Last Line: Which bloom their hour, and fade. Subject(s): Religion; Service; Theology FOR THE EXAMINATION ST HO-NAN-FU: SONGS OF TWELVE MONTHS: 1, by LI HO Poem Source First Line: Stars rest cold by shoals of cloud Last Line: Blazoned in brightness, the little dipper gleams Subject(s): Civil Service - Examinations FREE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: When he bends the knee is when Last Line: He cuts free Subject(s): Freedom; Service GAS, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That year, my mother was dying. And other things Last Line: Behind you say it's time to step on it buddy and go Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Gasoline; Memory GAS STATION, by THOMAS LUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I own a gas station. It's at the edge of the mojave desert. The only gas Last Line: To look like a glass of water Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Gasoline; Perseverance 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 GOTHIC, by ANTHONY WALTON Poem Source First Line: They come quietly Last Line: To the promise of heat, %homage, %ilumination Subject(s): Churches; 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 IF WE HAD BUT A DAY, by MARY LOWE DICKINSON Poem Text First Line: We should fill the hours with the sweetest things Last Line: If we had but a day. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Service; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature 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 JOY OF SERVICE, by ALICE HIRSH Poem Text First Line: Among the joys which friendship can bestow Last Line: Reflected from a guardian angel's face. Subject(s): Service JUNKYARD, by WYN COOPER Poem Source First Line: I built this junkyard Last Line: After a light rain Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Junk And Junkyards LA VIDA ES..., by LUCIANO ERBA Poem Source First Line: The pleasant gliding of the public transport Last Line: Gliding along beneath the horse chestnut trees Subject(s): Public Service LADY THAT'S KNOWN AS LOU GIVES R. W. SERVICE A PIECE OF HER MIND, by ELISAVIETTA RITCHIE Poem Source First Line: Our boys were whooping it up just fine till you swung through Last Line: Me quicker than those poor stiffs. But before any amour, I gotta mop this bloodyfloor Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Service, Robert (1874-1958); Women's Rights 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 LEARNING TO SERVE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The minister for hellth is arguing his case Last Line: Where they will learn to serve the deep needs of mankind Subject(s): Government; Politics; 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 MOON OF HUNGER, MOON OF COYOTE HOWL, by JUDY JORDAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heat waves rose with gas fumes from the pump Last Line: Earth this dark, dark star Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; African Americans; Family Life; Poverty; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops; Negroes; American Blacks; Relatives 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 MY OWN LITTLE CIVIL WAR, by CHARLES PENZEL WRIGHT JR. Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I come from the only county in tennessee that did not secede Last Line: And half the weight and half-life %of a half-healed and hurting world Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Charles Subject(s): American Civil War; Civil War; Military Service, Compulsory; Soldiers' Writings; U.s. - History MY SERVANT (2), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If what unto the least I do Last Line: Thy service unto me. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): 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 NOT LOVED ENOUGH, NOR YET QUITE LOST, by SUNITI NAMJOSHI Poem Source Last Line: I am too dear for your possessing Subject(s): National Health Service (great Britain); Riddles ODE ON THE DEATH OF HAIG'S HORSE: 7, by DOUGLAS GARMAN Poem Text First Line: An army's voice! We have an army yet Last Line: Our loyal passion for our tasteless kings. Subject(s): Haig, Douglas. 1st Earl Haig (1861-1928); Military Service, Compulsory; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service OH! BE SOMETHING!, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Be something! - oh! Be something! Last Line: Without a purpose there! Subject(s): Desire; Fame; Service; Usefullness; Reputation ON FAILING THE EXAMINATION, by MENG CHIAO Poem Source First Line: The dawn moon struggles to shine its light Last Line: These thoughts like wounds from a knife! Subject(s): Civil Service - Examinations; Grief 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 OTHERS, by CHARLES D. MEIGS Poem Text First Line: Lord, help me live from day to day Last Line: That I may live like thee. Subject(s): Religion; Service; Theology OUR COUNTRY'S CALL, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lay down the axe; fling by the spade Last Line: And glorious must their triumph be. Subject(s): American Civil War; Military Service, Voluntary; Patriotism; United States - History OUTCAST; A TALE OF A LADIES' CRICKET MATCH, by PELHAM GRENVILLE WODEHOUSE Poem Source First Line: Out in the silent rockies Last Line: There's a thin, sad, pale, grey hermit: %folks know him as 'jaundiced jim' Subject(s): Courtship; Cricket (game); Man-woman Relationships; Men; Service, Robert (1874-1958); Sports PALMYRA: OCTOBER 18, 1862, by CAROLINE COLLINS Poem Source First Line: Missouri: dark wind in the trees Last Line: Renegade, unrepentant, unforgiving Subject(s): American Civil War; Capital Punishment; Crime And Criminals; Fights; Military Service, Voluntary; Soldiers; U.s. - History; Violence POEM FOR BOB, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Protected by a .357 / magnum out of sight Last Line: Cheap / no tricks!! Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops POEMS ON MY DWELLING IN THE REAR PARK: 2, by ZHAO YI Poem Source First Line: I've suffered poverty knocked at my door Last Line: No civil servants lie there starving to death Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912); Civil Service; Poverty 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 PRAISE FOR MERCIES [SPIRITUAL AND TEMPORAL], by ISAAC WATTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever I take my walks abroad, / how many poor I see! Last Line: And try to serve thee best. Subject(s): Service PRE-TOWNMEETING TALK IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: About a week before town meeting Last Line: "will make our wallets mighty sick." Subject(s): Public Service; Towns; Vermont 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 RECRUITING DRIVE, by CHARLES STANLEY CAUSLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the willow the willow Alternate Author Name(s): Causley, Charles Subject(s): Military Service, Compulsory; Social Protest; War; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service RECRUITING DRIVE, by CHARLES STANLEY CAUSLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Under the willow the willow Last Line: And caught in the snare of the bleeding air %the butcher-bird sings, sings, sings Alternate Author Name(s): Causley, Charles Subject(s): Military Service, Compulsory; Social Protest; War 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 RUBBER TIRES, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some soothing balm the soul requires, when Last Line: "as they leave, on learning bent, they whisper, ""what a sinful gent!" Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Labor & Laborers; Youth; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops; Work; Workers 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 SELF-SERVICE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Always I wanted to do it myself Last Line: I pinch off my share, and pay Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops SELF-SERVICE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Always I wanted to do it myself Last Line: I pinch off my share, and pay Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations SERVICE, by ADA NEILL CLARK Poem Text First Line: Let me, each day, perform some useful task Last Line: "may I with gladness hear thy words, ""well done." Subject(s): Service SERVICE, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A dime %in the slot Last Line: And who knows at what price? Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Africa; Money; Plantation Life; Service; Smoking SERVICE, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the hospital he moans he was wrong, insists through delirium Last Line: Who'll mix the strychnine from which they'll sip, sewing up %the practical details of their faith Subject(s): Chandler, Raymond (1888-1959); Service; Suicide 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 SIR GALAHAD, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My good blade carves the casques of men Last Line: Until I find the holy grail Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): The Pure Heart Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Service; Arthur, King SMALL BEGINNINGS, by CHARLES MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A traveller through a dusty road strewed with acorns on the lea Last Line: Ye were but little at the first, but mighty at the last. Variant Title(s): Little And [or, But] Great;song Of Life Subject(s): Hope; Religion; Service; Optimism; Theology SOGGARTH AROON, by JOHN BANIM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Am I the slave they say Last Line: Soggarth aroon! Subject(s): Ireland; Service; Irish SOLDIERS, APPOMATTOX, by KEVIN MCFADDEN Poem Source First Line: They do a fine job at the court house, walking the line Last Line: Permission to drum and dutifully die. Granted. Fall in Subject(s): American Civil War; Civil War; Military Service, Compulsory; Soldiers; U.s. - History SONG FOR THE NINETEENTH, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The morning sky is hung with mist Last Line: Why say 'twas in your nineteenth year. Subject(s): Military Service, Compulsory; Youth; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service 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 SPECIMEN DAYS: PATENT-OFFICE HOSPITAL, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: February 23. - I must not let the great hospital at the patent-office pass Last Line: From there, and it is now vacant again Subject(s): Amputees; Hospitals; Medicine; Military Service, Voluntary; Nurses; War Injuries 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 STILL WEARING A SIZEABLE HANGOVER AT DUSK I FIND MYSELF AT A MARATHON, by JEFF ROBERT WORLEY Poem Source First Line: I stop for gas a fresh mountain dew Last Line: Of old overholt and challenge me - as I search %the cracked mirror of his face - to take the first d Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Automobiles - Service Stations STUDY IN BLACK & WHITE, by PAUL MARIANI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seven days a week, six till ten, Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Fathers & Sons; Childhood Memories; Friendship; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops 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 SWORD AND BUCKLER; OR, SERVING-MAN'S DEFENCE, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man that's neither borne to wealth, nor place Last Line: The serving-man to no estate comes short. Subject(s): Civil Service; Fights; Knights & Knighthood; Military; Patriotism; Soldiers; Swords TEXACO, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The nozzle of the gas pump Last Line: From some strange thirst Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops THAT GREAT DAY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Dear jesus, when I realize Last Line: My soul for that great day. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Prayer; Service; Work; Workers 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 CONSCRIPT, by MAURICE BARING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It were disloyalty you say to change Subject(s): Military Service, Compulsory; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service 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 LAST RALLY, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the midnight, in the rain Last Line: And another laughs with flashing eyes, sitting bolt upright. Subject(s): Military Service, Compulsory; World War I; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service; First World War 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 PASSING OF THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER, by VILDA SAUVAGE OWENS Poem Text First Line: They are bearing him home through the old virginia valley Last Line: Offer a prayera tear! Subject(s): Heroism; Honor; Military Service, Compulsory; Military Service, Voluntary; Unknown Soldier; War; Heroes; Heroines; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service THE PIED PIPER, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The huge pied piper, in a giant dance Last Line: And the millions perished in a jigging rigadoon. Subject(s): Death; Military; Military Service, Voluntary; Patriotism; Pipers; Soldiers; War; Dead, The 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 SEA-KING'S BURIAL; BY THE MIDSHIPMITE'S MOTHER, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I, as his henchman served Last Line: Most of all men? Subject(s): Death; Loyalty; Service; Wishes; Dead, The THE SELF-EXILED, by WALTER CHALMERS SMITH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: There came a soul to the gate of heaven Last Line: And the angels were not silent. Subject(s): Heaven; Service; Paradise THE SERVANT, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Now on my conscience thou art right Last Line: Best have it, when I have it not at all. Subject(s): God; Humility; Service THE SERVANT'S REWARD, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Falls a benediction from the loving skies? Last Line: Thou art serving friendship, since friendship serveth thee. Subject(s): Service THE SISTER OF CHARITY, by GERALD JOSEPH GRIFFIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She once was a lady of honor and wealth Last Line: With the life and the deeds of that high-born maid? Subject(s): Nuns; Service 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 THE TWO ANGELS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God called the nearest angels who dwell with him above Last Line: "henceforth its sweetest song shall be the song of sin forgiven!" Subject(s): Angels; Service THE VISION OF SIR LAUNFAL, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over his keys the musing organist Last Line: But is lord of the earldom as much as he. Subject(s): Religion; Service; Theology THE VOLUNTEER, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He leapt to arms unbidden Last Line: This was the man we knew. Subject(s): Military Service, Voluntary THE WAR AT HOME, by WILLARD WATTLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God of our fathers, with bowed heads we come Last Line: Which makes humanity the nations' nation. Subject(s): Humanity; Military Service, Compulsory; Prayer; Veterans Day; War; War - Home Front; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service THYESTES, ACT 2: CHORUS, by LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Climb at court for me that will Last Line: Death to him's a strange surprise. Alternate Author Name(s): Seneca Variant Title(s): Of The Meane And Sure Estate;epigram: 11 Subject(s): Death; Public Service; Dead, The THYESTES, ACT 2: CHORUS, by LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Climb at court for me that will Last Line: Death to him's a strange surprise. Alternate Author Name(s): Seneca Variant Title(s): Of The Meane And Sure Estate;epigram: 11 Subject(s): Death; Public Service; Dead, The 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 HARRY WAKELYN SMITH, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Not as that other man who, slow to see Last Line: They set your altar in the heart of youth! Subject(s): Altars; Friendship; Honor; Service 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 TO THE TENTH LEGION, NEW YORK STATE VOLUNTEERS, 1862, by RUTH NATALIE CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Marching along!-marching to the war Last Line: "for god and their country, they were marching along." Subject(s): American Civil War; Marching & Marches; Military Service, Voluntary; New York City - 19th Century; Patriotism; United States - History TURNED BACK, by GILLIAN CONOLEY Poem Source First Line: So hot at the filling station Last Line: Someone bringing the sunglasses back down Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations VISITING MY MOTHER'S FAMILY CHURCH, by DEBRA JANE KAUFMAN Poem Source First Line: The women wear black stockings Last Line: Amen. Amen. Now we can eat Variant Title(s): Visiting My Mother's Family's Churc Subject(s): Churches; Family Life; Service VOLUNTEER BOYS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hence with the lover who sighs o'er his wine Last Line: But health and success to the volunteer %boys Subject(s): American Revolution; Courage; Military Service, Voluntary; Soldiers WAR DISPLAY, by EDMUND VANCE COOKE Poem Text First Line: This is the song of the thousand who are multipled by twelve Last Line: For oh, we are proud that we flaunt this flesh in the markets of dismal death! Subject(s): Death; Military Service, Compulsory; Military Service, Voluntary; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; Youth; Dead, The; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service WHAT I LIVE FOR, by GEORGE LINNAEUS BANKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I live for those who love me, / whose hearts are kind and true Last Line: And the good that I can do. Variant Title(s): Why Do I Live;my Aim Subject(s): Human Behavior; Religion; Service; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Theology 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 WORDS FROM ROBERT SERVICE, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: The things you had no right to do, the things you should have done Last Line: Though where I don't exactly know, and don't precisely care Subject(s): Service, Robert (1874-1958) |
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