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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: TENNIS Matches Found: 31 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLADE OF LAWN TENNIS, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some gain a universal fame Last Line: I like the game of tennis best. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Games; Sports; Tennis; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements A GAME OF LAWN TENNIS, by AMY LEVY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What wonder that I should be dreaming Last Line: Of you in the garden to-day. Subject(s): Tennis A GAME OF TENNIS, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: The court is rolled, the net is set Last Line: "and cry: ""come, help me find her!" Subject(s): Love; Puns; Sports; Tennis A SUBALTERN'S LOVE-SONG, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Miss j. Hunter dunn, miss j. Hunter dunn Subject(s): Tennis BALZAC AND TENNIS, by J. S. VENIT Poem Source First Line: Does the past ... Exist? All those feverish moths Last Line: And your smile smiling through the open veins Subject(s): Past; Tennis BORG, BORG, BORG, by DOYLE WESLEY WALLS Poem Source First Line: Break, break, break, %of the cold stony-eyed swede! Last Line: But the tender grace of a champion %is something you still do not know Subject(s): Borg, Bjorn; Tennis; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892) FIVES'-COURT, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes at night I stand within a court Last Line: And sleep for evermore? Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Tennis JUST TENNIS, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: You leap and twist, you skip and flop Last Line: An awful mark at tennis! Subject(s): Failure; Tennis LAND OF SAINTS, by J. D. SMITH Poem Source First Line: No one is practicing his backhand Last Line: Of what delight consists in, %where it might be found Subject(s): Tennis LAWN TENNIS, by JAROSLAV SEIFERT Poem Source First Line: Forget your dark thoughts Last Line: Sitting in the wicker easy chair Subject(s): Grief; Tennis LIMERICK, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There was a young lady of venice Last Line: You don't know how prolific my hen is Subject(s): Eggs;tennis LOVE, by CAROL SUE MUTH Poem Source First Line: Too close Subject(s): Tennis MIDNIGHT TENNIS MATCH, by THOMAS LUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are tired %of this maudlin country club %and you are tired of his insults Last Line: You pour a gallon of water on his face. %he still has two more serves Subject(s): Sports; Tennis OLD DOMINION, by ROBERT HASS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The shadows of late afternoon and the odors Subject(s): Chekhov, Anton (1860-1904); Hope; Jarrell, Randall (1914-1965); Tennis; Optimism OLD DOMINION, by ROBERT HASS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shadows of late afternoon and the odors Last Line: Whites who look so graceful from this distance Subject(s): Chekhov, Anton (1860-1904); Hope; Jarrell, Randall (1914-1965); Tennis OLYMPIC GIRL, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sort of girl I like to see Subject(s): Tennis ON THE TENNIS COURT AT NIGHT, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We step out on the green rectangle Last Line: As winter comes on, all the winters to come Subject(s): Sports; Tennis ON THE TENNIS COURT AT NIGHT, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We step out on the green rectangle Last Line: As winter comes on, all the winters to come Subject(s): Sports; Tennis PROTHALAMION, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The far court opens for us all july Last Line: And the square I live in, measured out with lime Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Tennis SUBALTERN'S LOVE-SONG, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Miss j. Hunter dunn, miss j. Hunter dunn Last Line: We sat in the car park till twenty to one %and now I'm engaged to miss joan hunter dunn Subject(s): Tennis TENNIS, by MARGARET AVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Service is joy, to see or swing Subject(s): Tennis TENNIS, by FRANK ERNEST HILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Men tangled life within a narrow green Last Line: Men weave a rhythmic, swift finality. Subject(s): Competition; Tennis TENNIS, by CAROLINE MOLYNEUX Poem Source First Line: The net's too high Last Line: That stroke is dead. %throw away my 'heaaaaaaaaad Subject(s): Tennis TENNIS, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The nerve to make a high toss and the sense Subject(s): Tennis TENNIS, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The nerve to make a high toss and the sense Last Line: By understanding the world, and all its parts Subject(s): Tennis TENNIS IN THE CITY, by FRANK HIGGINS Poem Source First Line: He could help us out %selling papers or sacking groceries Last Line: And I want you to start staying %in that alley an hour longer, hear? Subject(s): Sports; Tennis TENNIS TROPHY, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back in boyhood, game was all Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Tennis TENNIS WITHOUT A NET, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Courts finally empty, everyone gone Last Line: Disappeared in the unlit july night Subject(s): Play; Summer; Tennis THE CHANGE, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The season turned like the page of a glossy fashion magazine. Last Line: And we were changed Subject(s): Tennis; Race Relations; Racial Equality THE MIDNIGHT TENNIS MATCH, by THOMAS LUX Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are tired / of this maudlin country club / and you are tired of his insults Subject(s): Sports; Tennis TWO SEASONS, by CLARENCE BLENDON BURLEIGH Poem Text First Line: Oft through the summer vacation Last Line: Gainst the world just over the net. Subject(s): Friendship; Tennis |
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