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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SKYSCRAPERS Matches Found: 29 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CITY, by MARY YORK SAMPSON Poem Source First Line: The skyscraper windows %like eyeless masks Last Line: Pass in antiphon %to empty bleachers Subject(s): Skyscrapers CITY-SCAPE, by ELENI Z. AUERBACH Poem Source First Line: The yellow-white of wheat fields Last Line: As large as a straight line %driven into sky Subject(s): Cities; Skyscrapers FROM THE WOOLWORTH TOWER, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Vivid with love, eager for greater beauty Last Line: Victors. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): New York City - Buildings; Skyscrapers; Woolworth Building, New York IN THE BLACK COUNTRY, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hell hath its uses; here each mortar mouth Last Line: An earth of ashes and a sky of brass? Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Skyscrapers; Staffordshire, England MADISON SQUARE: CHRISTMAS, by WILLIAM BRIAN HOOKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here is our worth. We cannot rear the towers Last Line: And every one a star of bethlehem. Alternate Author Name(s): Hooker, Brian Subject(s): Christmas; Happiness; Madison Square, New York City; Skyscrapers; Theater & Theaters; Nativity, The; Joy; Delight; Stage Life MONODY ON THE ASTOR HOUSE, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lament, o muse, and heave a suspiration Last Line: Shades of the woolworth tower!—another year! Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Lament; New York City - Buildings; Skyscrapers; Woolworth Building, New York NEW YORK DAYS, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis something for a poet's lip Last Line: By brotherhood of song and pain. Subject(s): Bridges; Brooklyn Bridge; New York City - Buildings; Skyscrapers NEW YORK, FROM A SKYSCRAPER, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up in the heights of the evening skies I see my city of Last Line: Prayer? Subject(s): New York City - Buildings; Skyscrapers OF BEING NUMEROUS, 2, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: So spoke of the existence of things Subject(s): Skyscrapers; City & Town Life PRAYERS OF STEEL, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Lay me on an anvil, o god Last Line: White stars. Subject(s): Cities; Skyscrapers; Steel; Urban Life SKYSCRAPER, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: By day the skyscraper looms in the smoke and sun and Last Line: By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars and has a soul. Subject(s): Skyscrapers; United States; America SKYSCRAPERS, by RACHEL (LYMAN) FIELD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do skyscrapers ever grow tired Subject(s): Cities; Imagination; Skyscrapers; Urban Life; Fancy SKYSCRAPERS, by RACHEL (LYMAN) FIELD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Do skyscrapers ever grow tired Last Line: And never get up at all? Subject(s): Cities; Imagination; Skyscrapers SKYSCRAPERS, by MARGARET WITTER FULLER Poem Text First Line: Is steel no more than steel? - stone more than stone? Last Line: As sons at home among the sons of god. Subject(s): Skyscrapers SKYSCRAPERS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sky was glad of the towers of trade Last Line: Only a gloomily deeper street. Subject(s): Skyscrapers SKYSCRAPERS OF THE FINANCIAL DISTRICT DANCE WITH GASMAN, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The skyscrapers are dancing by the river Subject(s): Skyscrapers; Wall Street, New York City SONG OF THE BUILDERS, by JESSIE WILMORE MURTON Poem Source First Line: O beams of steel are slim and black Last Line: But the city's towers grow straight and tall! Subject(s): Buildings And Builders; Skyscrapers STREAMLINERA: SKYSCRAPER-ELEVATOR, by PAULINE JONES BURNS Poem Text First Line: A great metallic bird in sudden flight Last Line: He snatches up a few remaining crumbs. Subject(s): Elevators; Skyscrapers THE BUILDING OF A SKYSCRAPER, by OTTO FREUND Poem Text First Line: The hollow screech of riveters is heard Last Line: In far blue realms of loveliness and rest. Subject(s): Skyscrapers THE CLOCK IN THE AIR, by JOHN CURTIS UNDERWOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High on manhattan's tallest tower Last Line: Teaching the toilers how to dream. Subject(s): New York City - Buildings; Skyscrapers THE EMPIRE CITY, by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Huge steel-ribbed monsters rise into the air Last Line: Her dreams in iron and her thoughts of stone. Subject(s): New York City - Buildings; Skyscrapers THE METROPOLITAN TOWER, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We walked together in the dusk Last Line: Was reckoned from that hour. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Metropolitan Life Building, New York; Skyscrapers THE SKYSCRAPERS OF THE FINANCIAL DISTRICT DANCE WITH GASMAN, by MARGE PIERCY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The skyscrapers are dancing by the river Subject(s): Skyscrapers; Wall Street, New York City THE TOWERS OF MANHATTAN, by DONALD ROBERT PERRY MARQUIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the middle arch of the bridge I stood Last Line: For a crown for her head! Alternate Author Name(s): Marquis, Don Subject(s): New York City - Buildings; Skyscrapers THE WOOLWORTH BUILDING, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Enormously it lifts Last Line: Circles and flows the restless human tide. Subject(s): New York City - Buildings; Skyscrapers; Woolworth Building, New York TWO SONNETS FROM NEW YORK: TOWERS, by ADELAIDE NICHOLS BAKER Poem Text First Line: Something there is in me exults in towers Last Line: From pennons on the turrets of their time. Subject(s): New York City; Skyscrapers; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple VILLANELLE OF CITY AND COUNTRY, by ZOE AKINS Poem Text First Line: Beneath the arches of the leaves I lie Last Line: But oh, the towers set in gotham's sky! Subject(s): Ferry Boats; New York City; Romance; Skyscrapers; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple WHEN SKYSCRAPERS WERE INVENTED IN CHICAGO, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think of it as a large moment with shadows Subject(s): Chicago; Cities; Skyscrapers; Urban Life WHEN SKYSCRAPERS WERE INVENTED IN CHICAGO, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think of it as a large moment with shadows Last Line: Even as houses, american houses, were growing on the prairie Subject(s): Chicago; Cities; Skyscrapers |
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