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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: STRIKES Matches Found: 55 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CHILD AT THE WICKET, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little isle: it is for some Last Line: A thing of love, a slender lute? Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Ellis Island, New York Harbor; Labor Unions; Strikes; Labor Disputes; Lockouts AFTER THE LONG STRIKE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Well, we've been beaten, beaten all to smash Last Line: Go anywhere except to schuykill county Subject(s): Coal Mines And Miners; Labor Unions; Strikes BIG HOLE IN THE GROUND, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Draw near to me, friends, form a circle around Last Line: In franklin b. Gowen's big hole in the ground Subject(s): Coal Mines And Miners; Labor Unions; Strikes BLACKLEGS, by PATRICK JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Curiosity caused me one evening to ramble Last Line: The childer's alone, I must be away Subject(s): Coal Mines And Miners; Labor Unions; Strikes BREAD AND ROSES, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As we come marching, marching, in the Last Line: But a sharing of life's glories: bread and roses, bread and roses! Subject(s): Justice; Labor Unions; Social Protest; Strikes; Labor Disputes; Lockouts CASEY JONES (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Come all you rounders if you want to hear Last Line: Took his farewell journey to the promised land Subject(s): Labor Unions;railroads;strikes; Railways;trains;labor Disputes;lockouts CASEY JONES (2), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come all you rounders if you want to hear Last Line: And you've got another papa on that salt lake line Subject(s): Labor Unions; Railroads; Strikes CASEY JONES, THE UNION SCAB, by JOE HILL Poem Source First Line: The workers on the s.P. Line to strike sent out a call Last Line: That's what you get for scabbing on the s.P. Line Alternate Author Name(s): Hillstrom, Joesph; Hagglund, Joel Subject(s): Labor Unions; Social Protest; Strikes COTTON LORDS OF PRESTON, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Have you not heard the news of late Last Line: When we gain the victory %and beat the lords of preston Subject(s): Labor Unions; Strikes EZLN, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Note this / a range of which Subject(s): Clubs (associations); Freedom; Human Rights; Labor Unions; Mexico; Military; Poverty; Strikes; Liberty; Labor Disputes; Lockouts EZLN, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Note this %a range of which Last Line: Terra-cotta idols %smashed to the ground Subject(s): Clubs (associations); Freedom; Human Rights; Labor Unions; Mexico; Military; Poverty; Strikes HARD WORKING MINER, by PATRICK J. O'NEILL Poem Source First Line: I'm a hardworking man, you can see by my hands Last Line: And they'll say to their mamma, 'here's dad' Subject(s): Coal Mines And Miners; Labor Unions; Strikes HIKING ON THE COAST RANGE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The skirl of the kingfisher was never Subject(s): Labor Unions; Murder; San Francisco; Strikes; Labor Disputes; Lockouts HIKING ON THE COAST RANGE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The skirl of the kingfisher was never Last Line: There is no %other source than this Subject(s): Labor Unions; Murder; San Francisco; Strikes HOLDING THE LINE, by TOM WAYMAN Poem Source First Line: Eleven days that september Last Line: Go on %holding the line Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Labor Unions; Strikes HUNGER STRIKE, by ROBYN EVERSOLE Poem Source First Line: In sucre, the embryology students Last Line: Scraping posters scrap by scrap from walls, %hours under the sun Subject(s): Labor Unions; Schools; Strikes KNIGHTS OF LABOR STRIKE, by JOHN HORY Poem Source First Line: We're brave and gallant miner boys Last Line: And our brothers on the railroad %in free americ-a Subject(s): Coal Mines And Miners; Labor Unions; Strikes LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 8. THE EVICTION, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In early morning twilight, raw and chill Last Line: And firesides buried under fallen thatch. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Grief; Labor Unions; Landlords & Tenants; Orphans; Police; Poverty; Strikes; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Foundlings; Labor Disputes; Lockouts LET'S PICKET-OUT THIS SCAB SUMMER, SUN, by TOM PICKARD Poem Source First Line: Half moon %over camden town Last Line: We're the lowest form of life %we are scabs Subject(s): Labor Unions; Mines And Miners; Strikes; Thatcher, Margaret (b.1925) LONG STRIKE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come all you jolly colliers, wherever you may be Last Line: Traitors to their fellow miners, likewise society Subject(s): Coal Mines And Miners; Labor Unions; Strikes LOOKING FOR TROUBLE, by ROQUE DALTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night of my first cell meeting it was pouring rain Last Line: Mother scolded me for coming home late Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Labor Unions; Strikes; Wages; Work; Workers; Labor Disputes; Lockouts; Salaries LOOKING FOR TROUBLE, by ROQUE DALTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night of my first cell meeting it was pouring rain Last Line: Mother scolded me for coming home late Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Labor Unions; Strikes; Wages ME JOHNNY MITCHELL MAN (1), by CON CARBON Poem Source First Line: Now you know mike sokolsky Last Line: So shtrike kin come, like son-of-a-gun - %me johnny mitchell man Subject(s): Coal Mines And Miners; Labor Unions; Strikes ME JOHNNY MITCHELL MAN (2) [WITH MUSIC], by CON CARBON Poem Source First Line: Oh, you know joe silovatsky, dat man ny brudder Last Line: Un shtrike kin come, like son-of-a-gun - %me johnny mitchell man Subject(s): Coal Mines And Miners; Labor Unions; Strikes MEMORY OF DUST AND LIGHT, by JULIO ORTEGA Poem Source First Line: The sun comes up: a day in june. Time sinks Last Line: In the scorching sun %one day in june Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Labor Unions; Markets; Memory; Riots; Strikes MUNDUS MOROSUS (THE WORLD MOROSE), by FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the wild beasts in the woods complain Last Line: None love us, trust us, welcome us, but thou. Subject(s): Grief; Labor Unions; Mourning; Strikes; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; Labor Disputes; Lockouts NOVEMBER, by LEONA GOM Poem Source First Line: If has always happened somewhere else Last Line: Tired, and changed in a way %we will never forgive Subject(s): Labor Unions; Strikes NUMBER SIX PICKS UP AGAIN, by JOSEPH GALLAGHER Poem Source First Line: Old number six is brisky, she has risen from the dead Last Line: For old number six, my birthplace, I'd lay me down and die Subject(s): Coal Mines And Miners; Labor Unions; Strikes ON JOHNNY MITCHELL'S TRAIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I'm an honest union laboring man Last Line: Likewise the conductors %on johnny mitchell's train Subject(s): Coal Mines And Miners; Labor Unions; Strikes PAT MULLALY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There's pat mullaly who never kept tally Last Line: And keep the market clear of coal, %and then they'll raise our pay Subject(s): Coal Mines And Miners; Labor Unions; Strikes PICKETS, by JULIA GLASGOW Poem Text First Line: They're the advance guard of the mighty throngs Last Line: Heard only by those who are yet to be. Subject(s): Labor Unions; Strikes; Labor Disputes; Lockouts PORK CHOPS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Oh mammy ca'line %a nigger polack ain't shit Subject(s): Fields; Labor Unions; Plantation Life; Strikes PRAYER AT THE GRAVES OF THE MURDERED STRIKERS, by CICERO QUEENS Poem Source First Line: O lord jesus christ, here are my men in their coffins Last Line: If he were to come to carolina? Subject(s): Labor Unions; Social Protest; Strikes RESIGNATION; AN ODE TO THE JOURNEYMEN SHOEMAKERS, SELECTION, by JOHN WOLCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sons of saint crispin, 'tis in vain! / indeed 'tis fruitless to complain Last Line: A truth that grandeur wishes not to know. Alternate Author Name(s): Pindar, Peter; Wolcot, John Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Labor Unions; Oppression; Shoes; Strikes; Wages; Work; Workers; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers; Labor Disputes; Lockouts; Salaries ROMANCE (SEAMEN'S STRIKE), by FRANK WILMOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Proud legions strode the valley of the days Last Line: Their surly clamour for a louseless bed. Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley Subject(s): Labor Unions; Sailing & Sailors; Strikes; Labor Disputes; Lockouts SAYINGS OF HENRY STEPHENS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you get enough money Subject(s): African Americans; Racism; Farm Life; Coal Mines & Miners; Springfield, Illinois'; Strikes; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; Agriculture; Farmers; Labor Disputes; Lockouts SHOOT THE BEAST!, by MORRIS ROSENFELD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Don't spare the bullets! Load your gun Last Line: No man will hear, no god assist him Subject(s): Labor Unions; Social Protest; Strikes SLIDING SCALE, by THOMAS MORGAN Poem Source First Line: Come all ye jolly miners who love to hear a song Last Line: How the operators would be fixed upon the sliding scale Subject(s): Coal Mines And Miners; Labor Unions; Strikes STRANGER AT THE SCOOP, by PATRICK J. O'NEILL Poem Source First Line: I came to this country a stranger unknown Last Line: And we'll strike for more wages than a dollar a day Subject(s): Coal Mines And Miners; Labor Unions; Strikes STRIKE OF THE LONDON CABMEN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Oh! Here's a great and glorious row Last Line: All through the strike of the cabmen Subject(s): Driving & Drivers;labor Unions;london;strikes; Labor Disputes;lockouts STRIKERS, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the mud and scum of things Last Line: Nothing shall keep us dumb! Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Insanity; Labor Unions; Social Protest; Strikes; Madness; Mental Illness; Labor Disputes; Lockouts STRIKERS IN HYDE PARK, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A woof reversed the fatal shuttles weave Last Line: The other's rote of evil and of change. Subject(s): Hyde Park, London; Labor Unions; Strikes; Labor Disputes; Lockouts STRIKES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who is struck when the workmen strike? Last Line: If you give him the law, with the law he will strike. Subject(s): Labor Unions; Strikes; Labor Disputes; Lockouts SUFFRAGE, 1917: IMPRISONED FOR OBSTRUCTING TRAFFIC, by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: I could not sleep thinking of the girl Last Line: Cell by cell, line by line, the voiceless and the free Subject(s): Fights; Labor Unions; Police; Prisons And Prisoners; Strikes; Women - Captives THE HIDING PLACE, by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last time I saw it was 1968 Last Line: No -- tell them no -- Subject(s): Labor Unions; Paris, France; Riots; Strikes; Labor Disputes; Lockouts THE PETRIFIED WOMAN, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As she turns the corner, daylight begins to fail Last Line: Inside out, potosi become huakajchi, the mountain that cried Subject(s): Coal Mines & Miners; Women; Strikes THE STRIKE OF THE SMITHS, by FRANCOIS COPPEE Poem Text First Line: Messieurs les juges! My story shall be brief Last Line: And if you send me to the scaffold—thanks! Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Labor Unions; Strikes; Work; Workers; Labor Disputes; Lockouts THE STRIKER, by ELIZABETH HARDY Poem Text First Line: Now we have struck and the strike is won for all Last Line: Streamer of smoke across the endless sky! Subject(s): Labor Unions; Strikes; Labor Disputes; Lockouts THEN AND NOW, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you remember those mornings after the blitzes Last Line: Make real, of glory, common wealth, and home. Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Factories; Labor & Laborers; Labor Unions; Memory; News; Strikes; Surrey, England; Unemployment; Work; Workers; Labor Disputes; Lockouts TRIUMPHAL MARCH, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After the long strike Last Line: What did it matter we'd lost? Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Labor Unions; Strength; Strikes; Work; Workers; Labor Disputes; Lockouts VIGNETTES OVERSEAS: 10. STRESA, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon grows out of the hills Last Line: From shore to shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Labor Unions; Strikes; Labor Disputes; Lockouts W.B.A., by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: An' fwat ar yez wantin' paddy from cork Last Line: An' in your place we'll get the chinee Subject(s): Coal Mines And Miners; Labor Unions; Strikes WHAT MAKES US STRIKE?, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: How far to pottsville?' stranger, did you say? Last Line: And mind, tell them we're like other men Subject(s): Coal Mines And Miners; Labor Unions; Strikes WHEN JIM GETS TO KLONDIKE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Good mornin', and how do you do, mrs. Murray Last Line: To me own darlin' jimmy, 'way out in klondike Subject(s): Coal Mines And Miners; Labor Unions; Strikes WHEN THE COCK CROWS; TO THE MEMORY OF FRANK LITTLE, by ARTURO GIOVANNITTI Poem Source First Line: Six men drove up to hsi house at midnight and woke the poor woman who kept it Last Line: Even then, even then, I shall not deny him Subject(s): Labor Unions; Social Protest; Strikes; World War I |
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