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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 54045, by JOAN SALVAT-PAPASSEIT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The turning dynamo moves its fiery members
Last Line: In truth I didn't have one friend
Subject(s): Language; Tourists; Travel; Trolley Cars


A DESCRIPTIVE POEM ON THE SILVERY TAY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful silvery tay
Last Line: To view the beautiful scenery along the banks of the silvery tay.
Subject(s): Landscape; Rivers; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips


A VISIT FROM ABROAD, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A speck went blowing up against the sky
Last Line: And flew away. ... I fired at him but missed.
Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Guests; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Journeys; Trips


ABORTED WHALE WATCH, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The tent-sized umbrella I have foolishly brought
Last Line: Spouts mingling with the mist, then in the hush %create sound waves, create language, create music
Subject(s): Marine Animals; Psychoanalysis; Relationships; Sea Voyages; Seasickness; Tourists; Travel; Whales


AIRBORNE, by MARIE HARRIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the racetrack parking lot, just a few spaces down from 'the tent
Last Line: Or the whistles or the screaming engines
Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Air Travel; Balloons; Tourists


ALIEN, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The foreign woman %asks for a drink
Last Line: Tattoos of her %sorrows
Subject(s): Exiles; Islands; Maps; Tourists; Travel


AN ADDRESS TO THE NEW TAY BRIDGE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful new railway bridge of the silvery tay
Last Line: Near by dundee and the bonnie magdalen green.
Variant Title(s): The Railway Bridge Of The Silver Tay
Subject(s): Railroads; Tourists; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips


AN ENGLISHMAN VISITS PHILADELPHIA, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Yes, I have seen your city
Last Line: "I shall remember its chaste dignity."
Subject(s): Cities; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Tourists; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips


ART IS PARALLEL TO NATURE, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cezanne saw the parallel so well and
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Cezanne, Paul (1839-1906); Nature; Paintings & Painters; Roads; Tourists; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


ART IS PARALLEL TO NATURE, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cezanne saw the parallel so well and
Last Line: Waiting for reinvigoration
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Cezanne, Paul (1839-1906); Nature; Paintings And Painters; Roads; Tourists; Travel


AUSTIN, TX, by JACK DONAHUE    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the juncture of congress and colorado
Last Line: In my ageless, tearing eyes
Subject(s): Austin, Texas; Hospitality; Tourists; Travel


BALLADE OF A TRAVELLER'S JINX, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Over the country, from coast to coast
Last Line: Mine is the trunk that goes astray.
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips


BALLADE OF EGREGIOUSNESS, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I travelled now from coast to coast
Last Line: "I never called a waiter ""george."
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips


BALLOONISTS, by LARS GUSTAFSSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: See the tall man there in the top hat
Last Line: And the cheering imperceptibly subsides
Subject(s): Air; Balloons; Tourists; Travel


BALMORAL CASTLE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful balmoral castle
Last Line: And thee dark river dee.
Subject(s): Castles; Guests; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Journeys; Trips


BEAUTIFUL ABERFOYLE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mountains and glens of aberfoyle are beautiful to sight
Last Line: When the face of nature's green in the spring of the year.
Subject(s): Guests; Hotels; Mountains; Sight; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips


BEAUTIFUL BALMERINO, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful balmerino on the bonnie banks of tay
Last Line: They can walk along the braes o' the silvery tay.
Subject(s): Castles; Guests; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Journeys; Trips


BEAUTIFUL BALMORAL, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye lovers of the picturesque, away and see
Last Line: As ye walk along the bonnie banks o' the river dee.
Subject(s): Balmoral Castle, Scotland; Rivers; Tourists; Travel; Vacation; Journeys; Trips


BEAUTIFUL COMRIE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye lovers of the picturesque, away, away!
Last Line: Also pines, ferns, and beautiful oaks, I do declare.
Subject(s): Tourists; Travel; Vacation; Villages; Wandering & Wanderers; Journeys; Trips


BEAUTIFUL EDINBURGH, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful city of edinburgh, most wonderful to be seen
Last Line: Therefore I pronounce you to be the pride of fair scotland.
Subject(s): Edinburgh, Scotland; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips


BEAUTIFUL MONIKIE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful monikie! With your trees and shrubberies green
Last Line: Which supplies the people with water belonging dundee.
Subject(s): Lakes; Tourists; Travel; Pools; Ponds; Journeys; Trips


BEAUTIFUL NAIRN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All ye tourists who wish to be away
Last Line: Therefore I would recommend nairn for balmy pure air.
Subject(s): Hotels; Tourists; Towns; Travel; Vacation; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Journeys; Trips


BEAUTIFUL NORTH BERWICK AND ITS SURROUNDINGS, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: North berwick is a watering-place with golfing links green
Last Line: Where the tourist can enjoy himself and be free from strite
Subject(s): Scotland; Tourists; Travel; Villages; Journeys; Trips


BEAUTIFUL ROTHESAY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful rothesay, your scenery is most grand
Last Line: After viewing the beautiful scenery of rothesay.
Subject(s): Guests; Maps; Scotland; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Journeys; Trips


BEAUTIFUL TORQUAY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All ye lovers of the picturesque, away
Last Line: And 'tis good for the health to reside there.
Subject(s): England; Guests; Tourists; Travel; Vacation; English; Visiting; Journeys; Trips


BLUE FLAME, by THOMAS CENTOLELLA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Another day forcing me into place
Last Line: And who. And never once asked why
Subject(s): Monuments; Tourists; Travel


BOGOTA, by CEES NOOTEBOOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Three at night %I drag this naked life along
Last Line: Stride toward yet another passage, step into the water and live
Subject(s): Boats; Fishing And Fishermen; Latin America - History; South America; Tourists; Travel


BONNIE CALLANDER, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bonnie helen, will you go to callander with me
Last Line: And revel amongst romantic scenery in the beautiful sunshine.
Subject(s): Guests; Mountains; Nature; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips


BONNIE DUNDEE IN 1878, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, bonnie dundee! I will sing in thy praise
Last Line: And in conclusion, I will call thee bonnie dundee!
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Praise; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips


BONNIE KILMANY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bonnie kilmany, in the county of fife
Last Line: Chorus—
Subject(s): Country Life; Fields; Mountains; Tourists; Travel; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips


BONNIE MONTROSE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful town of montrose, I will now commence my lay
Last Line: Because you are one of the bonniest towns in scotland at the present day.
Subject(s): Dundee, Scotland; Tourists; Towns; Travel; Journeys; Trips


BROOKLYNESE CAPITOL, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The asia of new england
Last Line: The schnitzel of the alps %the smell way
Subject(s): Brooklyn, New York; Hotels; Tourists; Travel


BROUGHTY FERRY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ancient castle of broughty ferry
Last Line: From the top the ships sailing on the silvery tay.
Subject(s): Castles; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips


BUS NORTH, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I saw him looking, I held myself in
Last Line: And we are honoured you see to travel so far
Subject(s): Buses; Guests; Hotels; Tourists; Travel


CACHOEIRA, by MARILYN NELSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We slept, woke, breakfasted, and met the man
Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson
Subject(s): Cachoeira, Brazil; Tourists; Slavery; Convents; Serfs


CALLE MIGUEL ANGEL, by SUEJIN SUH    Poem Source                    
First Line: You stood %hands close to your side
Last Line: With the crowd %on the madrid metro
Subject(s): Language; Madrid, Spain; Tourists; Travel


CATGUT: A PLACE: 2. CIRCA 1990, by JEAN PEDRICK    Poem Source                    
First Line: It catgut, where the tourists come
Last Line: You can settle your gut with cutty
Subject(s): Harbors; Tourists


CHINATOWN BLUES, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Waiting for the streetcar in san francisco
Last Line: A second ballroom appears. / empty
Subject(s): Chinatown, San Francisco; Shopping; Streets; Tourists; Travel; Avenues; Journeys; Trips


CHINATOWN BLUES, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Waiting for the streetcar in san francisco
Last Line: A second balloon appears, %empty
Subject(s): Chinatown, San Francisco; Shopping; Streets; Tourists; Travel


CHINATOWN UNVISITED, by GEORGE MACDONALD MAJOR    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the sybil book of youth
Last Line: Chinatown, o chinatown.
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips


CHINATOWN VISITED, by GEORGE MACDONALD MAJOR    Poem Text                    
First Line: From sullen skies a cheerless rain
Last Line: "china gel no li!"
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips


CITY IMAGE, by LENNART SJOGREN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I saw a pike's head
Last Line: When she ate of the grass %at the river's edge
Subject(s): Cities; Tourists; Travel


COLUMBIA RIVER SUITE: ACROSS FROM CELILO FALLS, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Above goldendale we sat on a power relay tower
Last Line: We danced and sang the dance of the white deer
Subject(s): Rivers; Salmon; Tourists; Waterfalls


COLUMBIA RIVER SUITE: THE GLACIER, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: At one of its sources the river
Last Line: And our swift journeys beneath the stars
Subject(s): Alaska; Glaciers; Ice; Pacific Ocean; Tourists; Travel


COME WITH ME, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was on the verge of the actual genuine
Subject(s): Tourists; Motion Pictures; Man-woman Relationships; Movies; Cinema; Male-female Relations


DAY COACH, by MALCOLM COWLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tickets please
Last Line: He stumbled off with his burden of stars and hills.
Subject(s): Railroads; Stations Of The Cross; Tourists; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips


DEAR SIR, THOUGH MANY CHECKS PREVENT, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Be sent to messrs foord and dickenson
Subject(s): Banks And Banking; Money; Tourists


DEBT, by GRACIELA REYES    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is a sad debt that cannot be repaid
Last Line: Any personal items on the plane
Subject(s): Affliction; Aviation And Aviators; Tourists; Travel


DEMONSTRATION: WOMEN'S HOUSE OF DETENTION, 1965, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Blood-inked political leaflets pelted village streets
Last Line: Women's house of d
Subject(s): Booksellers; Exhibitions; History; Macdougal Street, New York City; Prisons And Prisoners; Revolutions; Tourists


DESCRIPTIVE JOTTINGS OF LONDON, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As I stood upon london bridge and viewed the mighty throng
Last Line: Mr spurgeon was the only man I heard speaking proper english I do declare.
Subject(s): London; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips


DIAMONDS IN THE CARNEGIE MUSEUM, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our guide was blind and kind, chatting about diamonds
Last Line: In the heart of earth too radiant to see
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Diamonds; Tourists


EDINBURGH, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful city of edinburgh!
Last Line: But that you are the grandest city in scotland at the present day!
Subject(s): Cities; Edinburgh, Scotland; Tourists; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips


EYE OF THE COLD, by KEN WALDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: First-time nome visitors see history
Last Line: An impenetrable flux of culture and trash- %into winter's dark mirror of gold
Subject(s): Cold; Eskimos; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Tourists; Travel; Winter


FACING NORTH, by JOHN F. DEANE    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is little to do with me, I thought, waiting
Last Line: There was no soundness in her, suppurating %bruises, sores and wounds. My hands are full of blood
Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Tourists; Travel


FAILURE IS AN OPTION, by JOHN+(2) NORTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: All tourists are lost
Last Line: The powerful create monuments %to ensure salvation
Subject(s): Failure; Tourists


FIRENZE IN AUGUST, by BERNADETTE HIGGINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lizards, rosemary and %an adder cannot compensate
Last Line: Or whether, here too, %I would be an alien abroad
Subject(s): August; Tourists


FOR THE STRANGER, by CAROLYN FORCHE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Although you mention venice
Last Line: We will give it to each other.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sidlosky, Carolyn
Subject(s): Tourists


FOR THE STRANGER, by CAROLYN FORCHE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Although you mention venice
Alternate Author Name(s): Sidlosky, Carolyn
Subject(s): Tourists


FROM HAWTHORNDEN CASTLE, by RICHARD FOERSTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've always dreaded this kind of dislocation
Last Line: Upon my back, with words (now pray) my hoist and mortar
Subject(s): Castles; Scotland; Tourists; Travel


FUJI, by CEES NOOTEBOOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here, on the slow, scalloped flanks
Last Line: Through the sky %beyond the tract of time
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Fuji, Mount; Poetry And Poets; Tourists; Travel


GIGGLE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: If this coastal erosion continues
Last Line: Used to be
Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Erosion; Ruins; Tourists


GLACIER PARK, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: At last we've reached the famous place
Last Line: When the tenderfeet intrude.
Subject(s): Animals; Hotels; Parks; Tourists; Travel; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Journeys; Trips


GLASGOW, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful city of glasgow, with your streets so neat and clean
Last Line: Chorus.
Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips


GOOD TOURISTS, by JOHN N. MORRIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Everything these two see is recommended
Subject(s): Tourists


GREENLAND ICY MOUNTAINS, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Greenland's icy mountains are fascinating and grand
Last Line: Let them think of the cold and hardships greenland sailors have to fight.
Subject(s): Continents; Earth; Greenland; Tourists; Travel; World; Journeys; Trips


HA'INA IA MAI ANA KA PUANA: 1. A CONTEMPORARY EXPLANATION OF THE TERM, by CAROLYN LEI-LANILAU    Poem Source                    
First Line: His 'lani' in leilani was gesture
Last Line: The blue eyes had arrived and 'the possibilities were endless
Subject(s): Hawaii; Native Americans - Languages; Tongues; Tourists; Travel


HAWAII, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: In hawaii I know
Last Line: I am going to write of this beautiful %uniformed island, I warn them. %what a grand idea, they urge
Subject(s): Hawaii; Islands; Tourists; Travel


HAWAII BOUND: 2. POETRY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Once more the sun is shining
Last Line: Defy the sea again!
Subject(s): Guests; Harbors; Honolulu; Islands; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Journeys; Trips


HAZARDS OF IMAGERY: AT THE TOMB OF.. IMPROPERLY TRAINED BOMBADIERS, by PAUL RANDOLPH VIOLI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the saddest work I have ever seen
Last Line: To simply go around them
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Graves; Guests; Museums; Poetry And Poets; Tourists


HAZARDS OF IMAGERY: IN THE GIFT SHOP AT THE LUNATIC ASYLUM, by PAUL RANDOLPH VIOLI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Always on sale, the figurines
Last Line: I dare not say what!
Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Retail Trade; Tourists


HITTING THE MOON, by F. JOHN HERBERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hitting the moon and the soviet photograph
Last Line: Joint efforts made a snow letter and russia would not forget
Subject(s): Biltmore Hotel (los Angeles); Tourists; Travel


HOTEL ONTARIO, by RUBEN MARTINEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fractured sun through the crossbeamed skylight
Last Line: To break the glass door
Subject(s): Hotels; Rooms; Tourists


HUNGARY, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: You're home
Last Line: For a flicker of happiness
Subject(s): Hungary; Language - Pronunciation; Tourists; Travel


IMAGINE YOURSELF, by EVE MERRIAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Imagine yourself the fairly affluent tourist
Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva
Subject(s): Tourists; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes


IN A MUSEUM, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: This is a curious place
Last Line: Of golden dreams!
Subject(s): Museums; Tourists; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Art Gallerys; Journeys; Trips


IN AN AEROPLANE, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Merged in a moving picture earth goes by
Last Line: Close to the confines of eternity.
Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Sky; Tourists; Travel; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Journeys; Trips


IN PASSING, by ANITA OLACHEA BUCCI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The bee man sells his honey down the road, where the sign says 'park
Last Line: Away; 'I wonder if anything's changed at all here in five hundred years.'
Subject(s): Fields; Roads; Tourists; Travel


ISN'T IT ROMANTIC, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The guide book promised birds of paradise
Last Line: Whirl me from this place I most wanted to be.
Subject(s): Disappointment; Indonesia; Tourists; Dutch East Indies


IVBIE: A SONG OF WRONG, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Is it not late now in the day
Last Line: An innocent in sleep of the ages
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Archeology; Tourists; Travel


JERUSALEM NOTEBOOK: 4. TOURISTS, by HARVEY SHAPIRO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She is crying over three olives
Last Line: Where I come in %at night, the city is so beautiful
Subject(s): Jerusalem; Tourists


KOMODO DRAGON, by TERESE SVOBODA    Poem Source                    
First Line: You can get there only from kuala lumpur, not timor
Last Line: We are lucky, however, to believe everything wild %tastes like chicken, except ourselves
Subject(s): Indonesia; Komodo Dragons; Lizards; Tourists


LAKE, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We won't return. Like seeds, awkward as auks
Last Line: Twelve heretics condemned in secret trials, %a noblewoman singing to herself.
Subject(s): Canoes And Canoeing; Lakes; Poetry And Poets; Sailors And Sailing; Tourists; Travel; Water


LATE RETURNS: 7. BESIDE THE HOLY CITY'S SACRED POOL, by RANDY BLASING    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once at hierapolis, a booked-up ghost town
Last Line: With wads of cash. I gave her all I had
Variant Title(s): Beside The Holy City's Sacred Poo
Subject(s): Greece; Tourists


LATER HISTORY OF THE OWL AND THE PUSSY-CAT, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My dear miss violet
Last Line: Believe me, %yours sincerely, %edward lear
Subject(s): Animals; Boats; Grief; Sailors And Sailing; Tourists; Travel


LEAP YEAR, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the language of the spirit
Last Line: Of not knowing the ending
Subject(s): Tourists; Travel


LEAVING SARAJEVO, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The bus driver stops to pick plums
Last Line: Our hearts are no longer our own
Subject(s): Buses; Sarajevo, Bosnia; Tourists; Travel


LETTER TO NORA DECIE, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My dear nora
Last Line: Way round cape matapan & so to the piraeus as fast as we can
Subject(s): Guests; Sea Voyages; Tourists; Travel


LETTER TO RICHARD HUGO FROM DRUMCLIFF, by JAMES J. MCAULEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dear dick, this kind of travel is cheap enough
Last Line: Getting pissed off at xerxes, as you say. Best, jim
Subject(s): Hugo, Richard (1923-1982); Tourists; Travel


LISTENING TO HMONG RADIO, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA    Poem Source                    
First Line: A woman sings intersection
Last Line: Grandfather, look at all %these other people %visiting the
Subject(s): Music And Musicians; Radio; Singing And Singers; Sound Recordings; Tourists


LOCAL COLOR, by LOIS RANDOLPH    Poem Text                    
First Line: The navajo shepherd tends his sheep
Last Line: She-tha-sie.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Navajo Indians; Tourists; Writing & Writers; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


LOCH LEVEN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful loch leven, near by kinross
Last Line: And the old wall around it is mouldering away
Subject(s): Leven (lake), Scotland; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips


LOCH NESS, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful loch ness, / the truth to express
Last Line: Oh, beautiful loch ness! I must bid you good-bye.
Subject(s): Landscape; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips


LUSTMORD (RETROSPECTIVE: NEW YORK SCHOOL), by DEENA LINETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: All the tiny bones %lie in rows on the table
Last Line: And she'd seem happy, as perhaps she is
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Exhibitions; Museums; New York City; Saint Kilda (scotland); Tourists


MAGIC TOURS, by CHARLOTTE LOUISE BERTLESEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I hear the far-off whistle of a train
Last Line: Because a train has whistled on the track.
Subject(s): Railroads; Rome, Italy; Tourists; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips


MAKING THE BED, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Her regimen's inviolate. They squabble
Last Line: Side smoothing the fold of sheet over blanket.
Subject(s): Marriage; Tourists; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


MAN IN THE WHITE SHIRT, by ANN S. GOLDSMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here we all are, on the deck of the s.S. Something
Last Line: Someone to remember this moment, and him in it
Subject(s): Tourists


MAN WITH THE GOLDEN EYE, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I remember the nun who studied in the jagiellonian
Last Line: While I spoke to a tourist, %while I kept looking at you
Subject(s): Museums; Tourists; Travel


MANHATTAN, 1609, by EDWIN MARKHAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where now the bells of trinity are heard
Last Line: Up went the flag of holland like a flame!
Subject(s): New York City; Sea Voyages; Tourists; United States - History; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


METAPHOR, by CHIAO-JAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My tao: at the root, there's no me
Last Line: So I know I really mean that
Subject(s): Tourists; Travel; Zen Buddhism


MIAMI: 2.CALLE OCHO, by PABLO MEDINA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Because the ebb and flow
Last Line: Riding the edge of the sea
Subject(s): Cuba; Exiles; Love; Sea Voyages; Tourists; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


MIDWESTERN AUTUMN, by IMRE ORAVECZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sun still shines warmly
Last Line: To the recent immigrants
Subject(s): Guests; Presidents, United States; Roads; Tourists; Travel


MIRROR LAKE, by FLORENCE MARSHALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: What do the tourists say? I asked our guide
Last Line: I held my breath, lest I might break the spell.
Subject(s): Lakes; Tourists; Pools; Ponds


MOMENT IN ARCADIA, by CEES NOOTEBOOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: The landscape is painted
Last Line: The always blinder painted eye %sees it and writes
Subject(s): Arcadians; Monuments; Paintings And Painters; Tourists; Travel


NATIVE TOURIST IN HUNGARY, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My daughter is asleep with her chin propped in her palm
Last Line: In my clandestine homeland
Subject(s): Americans In Europe; Hungary; Tourists; Travel


NEW CIRCUS, by PABLO MEDINA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The new circus has come to town
Last Line: And the immutable stars
Subject(s): Audiences; Circus; Tourists


NEW MEXICAN MOUNTAIN, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I watch the indians dancing to help the young corn at taos pueblo
Subject(s): Mountains; Native Americans; New Mexico; Tourists; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


NEW MEXICAN MOUNTAIN, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I watch the indians dancing to help the young corn at taos pueblo
Last Line: Tribal drum, and the rockhead of taos mountain, remember that civilization is a transient sickness
Subject(s): Mountains; Native Americans; New Mexico; Tourists


NIAGARA, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Arriving early, before the lovers
Last Line: The days that carry us could be these.
Subject(s): Niagara Falls; Tourists; Travel; Waterfalls; Journeys; Trips


NO EXEMPTION FOR TOURISTS, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A foreign family -- mother, father
Last Line: To the bright ribbon of river.
Subject(s): Indonesia; Suicide; Tourists; Dutch East Indies


NO ONE GOES TO PARIS IN AUGUST, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A montparnasse august / with view of the cimetiere. A yard of bones
Subject(s): Montparnasse, Paris; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips


NO ONE GOES TO PARIS IN AUGUST, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A montparnasse august %with view of the cimetiere. A yard of bones
Last Line: As we do in their blue shade
Subject(s): Montparnasse, Paris; Tourists; Travel


NOCTURNO DE WASHINGTON: 1, by PABLO MEDINA    Poem Source                    
First Line: They called forth the train whistle at midnight
Last Line: Blinking and defecating
Variant Title(s): Nocturno De Washingto
Subject(s): Grief; Railroads; Tourists; Travel; U.s. - History; United States; Washington Monument


NOCTURNO DE WASHINGTON: 2, by PABLO MEDINA    Poem Source                    
First Line: At midnight the washington monument rises
Last Line: The sound of a pebble swept against a bamboo stalk
Subject(s): Tourists; Washington Monument


NOMAD'S STORY, by BARBARA SZERLIP    Poem Source                    
First Line: We would like to have heard his story, to have spent an afternoon with
Last Line: Clothes. He was gone in a week. We never spoke with him, or knew his %name
Subject(s): Farewell; Hotels; Tourists; Travel


NOTE TO TONY TOWLE (AFTER WS), by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: One must have breakfasted often on automobile primer
Last Line: Rather than attribute, towards the brush with open sea
Subject(s): Business; Tourists; Trade; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001)


NOTHING IS TAKEN THAT IS NOT GIVEN, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The rap beat of arrested development flared through the red
Last Line: Nothing was taken that was not given
Subject(s): Anthropology; Ethnic Identity; Explorers; Native Americans - History; Native Americans - Reservations; Tourists; Travel


NOTICE TO TOURISTS, by LEONARDO [PSEUD.]    Poem Text                    
First Line: But most avoid italia's coast
Last Line: For british virtues left behind?
Alternate Author Name(s): Leonardo
Subject(s): Earth;tourists;travel; World;journeys;trips


OBAN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Beautiful oban with your lovely bay
Last Line: And feast my eyes on your beautiful scenery, enchanting and gay.
Subject(s): Cities; Tourists; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips


ON A WALK, by JORGE J. RODRIGUEZ-FLORIDO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Today I go the the zoo
Last Line: Toward the street
Subject(s): Animals; Tourists; Travel; Zoos


ON THE CIRCUIT, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Among pelagian travelers
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Subject(s): Tourists; United States; America


ON THE CIRCUIT, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Among pelagian travelers
Last Line: God bless the u.S.A., so large, %so friendly, and so rich
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Subject(s): Tourists; United States


ORLANDO FURIOSO: CANTO 34. ASTOLFO VISITS THE MOON, by LUDOVICO (LODOVICO) ARIOSTO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Twere infinit to tell what wondrous things
Last Line: As that one substance all the other past
Subject(s): Cities; Tourists; Travel


OSLOBODJENJE, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The first year of the siege
Last Line: And there were many days without bread
Subject(s): Buses; Commuters; Sarajevo, Bosnia; Tourists; Travel


PAINTED DESERT, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When we got to the painted desert
Subject(s): Grand Canyon, Arizona; Pictures; Roads; Tourists; Travel


PALMIST, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: She touches a stranger's hand, turns it into the light
Last Line: That all of our lines will change
Subject(s): Desire; Love; Strangers; Tourists; Travel


PARADYS, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of paradys ne can not I speken propurly
Last Line: If ever we desire to enter. %chiang mai thailand
Subject(s): Museums; Thailand; Tourists; Travel


PARIS, by BILLY COLLINS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the apartment someone gave me
Last Line: As they float down the river of this momentous day
Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Paris, France; Tourists; Showers & Showering


PARIS, by BILLY COLLINS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the apartment someone gave me
Last Line: The boats of the strange %as they floated down the river of whatever day it was
Subject(s): Baths And Bathing; Paris, France; Tourists


PARIS PLAN IN HAND, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Every day you are one and I am, too. Paris city-plan in hand
Last Line: Continuously, we are two
Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Paris, France; Restaurants; Seine (river), France; Tourists; Travel


PASSION CONCH, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No sun today, the rainy %season barely begun, so
Last Line: Of flame, a gift, %a name. %hua hin thailand
Subject(s): Marine Animals; Mollusks; Seashore; Tourists; Travel


PERFECTIONIST, by ROGER BLAKELY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our tourist descends a switchback to lakeshore. Split rock lighthouse
Last Line: By evening
Subject(s): Perfection; Tourists; Travel


PERMANENT COLLECTION, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a rich provincial city there is a museum as imposing and quite as
Last Line: With their faces shining?
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Cities; History; Museums; Tourists; Travel


PERMANENT TOURISTS, by PATRICIA KATHLEEN PAGE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Somnolent through landscapes and by trees
Last Line: As rivers %draw ruined columns to their placid glass
Alternate Author Name(s): Page, P. K.
Subject(s): Tourists


PINK FLAMINGOES, KAANAPALI BEACH, by SUZANNE GRAHAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: This manicured stretch of maui coast brings well-heeled tourists
Last Line: Like transplanted pink flamingoes
Subject(s): Flamingos; Hawaii; Seashore; Tourists


PLUS CA CHANGE, by ALAN+(2) SULLIVAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A gray pall drops from mount pelee
Last Line: Mounting the cracked and weathered stairs %so ominously overhung
Subject(s): France; Tourists


POSTCARD FROM THE CENTER OF THE CONTINENT, by JAY MEEK    Poem Source                    
First Line: The big story from out here
Last Line: You could go almost anywhere
Subject(s): Hotels; North Dakota; Tourists; Travel


POSTCARD TO STEVEN FROM SKYE, by DEENA LINETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Finally got here!!! It's as dick says, surpassing
Last Line: Molten sun, but cold, and steams. Love, maggie
Subject(s): Hotels; Saint Kilda (scotland); Tourists; Travel; Writing And Writers


PURCHASE, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once you've bought into the suspension of disbelief
Last Line: To buy a thing you don't want
Subject(s): California; Pacific Ocean; Poetry And Poets; Tourists; Travel


PURPLE CALIFORNIA MOUNTAINS, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Late afternoon; see what I can see
Last Line: These boundaries were always
Subject(s): California; Mountains; Nature; Tourists; Travel


QUARTET, by OCTAVIO PAZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A landscape familiar but always strange
Subject(s): Landscape; Seashore; Tourists; Beach; Coast; Shore


QUI'AMIYAT DIKAKAH, by CEES NOOTEBOOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have seen you far below
Last Line: Until I am the first to die
Subject(s): Birds; Boundaries; Falcons; Tourists; Travel


REVERIE: FOREIGN MOVIE IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY, by STEPHEN ORLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is something innocent and indecent about a foreigner
Last Line: And shook with public laughter
Alternate Author Name(s): Orlen, Steve
Variant Title(s): Reverie: Foreign Movie In A Foreign Country [for Reg Gibbons
Subject(s): Italy; Motion Pictures; Strangers; Tourists


ROCK AND A HARD PLACE, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A tough day on the mesa
Last Line: Since a beginning, and we survive %doubts of an ending
Subject(s): Earth; Stones; Tourists; Travel


ROMANESQUE ARCHES, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Inside the huge romanesque church the tourists jostled in the half-darkness
Last Line: And inside each of them vault opened behind vault endlessly
Subject(s): Churches; Rome, Italy; Tourists; Travel; Cathedrals; Journeys; Trips


ROMANESQUE ARCHES, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Inside the huge romanesque church the tourists jostled in the half-darkness
Last Line: And inside them all vault opened behind the vault endlessly
Subject(s): Churches; Rome, Italy; Tourists; Travel


SACRED LANE/LA SACRA CORSIA, by PASQUALE VERDICCHIO    Poem Source                    
First Line: We felt it %the sisma
Last Line: And back into the place from where %it did not come
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Tourists; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


SAIDA, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your body, turning lightly in bed
Last Line: A unicorn cutting his flesh on the coral
Subject(s): Commuters; Sea; Ships And Shipping; Tourists; Travel


SAN DIEGO AND MATISSE: 1. INSIDE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A TREE, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful women in smoky blue culottes
Subject(s): Admiration; Beauty; San Diego, California; Seashore; Tourists; Travel; Women; Beach; Coast; Shore; Journeys; Trips


SAN DIEGO AND MATISSE: 1. INSIDE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A TREE, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful women in smoky blue culottes
Last Line: Smell of saltwater swimming in the room
Subject(s): Admiration; Beauty; San Diego, California; Seashore; Tourists; Travel; Women


SAN DIEGO AND MATISSE: 2. OUTSIDE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A ROCKING..., by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shadow of lighthouse along the beach
Subject(s): Admiration; Marine Animals; Seashore; Tourists; Travel; Whales; Beach; Coast; Shore; Journeys; Trips


SAN DIEGO AND MATISSE: 2. OUTSIDE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A ROCKING..., by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shadow of lighthouse along the beach
Last Line: Blue smoke snaking up the pink sky
Subject(s): Admiration; Marine Animals; Seashore; Tourists; Travel; Whales


SANTA MARIA NOVELLA, by MACDARA WOODS    Poem Source                    
First Line: This lonely angular man in railway stations
Last Line: And the catch of the station clock flips over
Subject(s): Commuters; Florence, Italy; Railroads; Tourists; Travel


SCENES OF TRANSLATION, by JOAN RETALLACK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Local travelling -- excursions -- sight-seeing
Last Line: Moca moco moscas usw etc
Subject(s): Language; Tourists; Translating And Interpreting; Travel


SEAT MATE, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: I hate the way the inside of his nostrils twitch
Last Line: So pathetic to think I'm free
Subject(s): Flight; Love; Tourists; Travel


SEEING SANTA FE AT NEW YEAR, by CYNTHIA HOGUE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Evening burnishes the sangre de cristos
Last Line: In language so fresh %we cannot imagine
Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Tourists; West (u.s.)


SIGHTS, by ASHER REICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The wagon of johann the neighbor
Last Line: Summer is sunk in the deep
Subject(s): Tourists


SNOW, by CEES NOOTEBOOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: As if it doesn't snow in your head
Last Line: Over the white %of what is %not
Subject(s): Tourists


SOMNAMBULISTS' HOTEL, by JACK ANDERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Only sleepwalkers stay there
Last Line: And all vow to stay here should fate ever lead them this way again
Subject(s): Hotels; Sleepwalking; Tourists; Travel


SPEECH NEVER GIVEN ON THE 11 A.M. HOUSE TOUR, by SHERRY FAIRCHOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'll grant you, we need their five-dollar bills
Last Line: Like a moth, until someone came
Subject(s): Houses; Tourists


SPRING BREAK, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's a universal business that's brought them here
Last Line: Stitched robes, to anything we wouldn't know how to undo
Subject(s): Tourists; Travel; Vacation


ST. ANDREW'S HEAD, by KEVIN PILKINGTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the tenth century a.D.
Last Line: His eyes closed to the world
Subject(s): History; Italy; Tourists; Travel


STONE NOTES, by PATTY SEYBURN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The tour guide said, consider the nature of age
Last Line: Saying, thank you, thank you, you poor dead gods
Subject(s): Stones; Tourists


TAKE OFF, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: From one dot %on the map %to the other %the airplane clocks
Last Line: And fly incrementally %towards fire
Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Aviation And Aviators; Flight; Sky; Tourists; Travel


TAKE THIS TOUR, by F. JOHN HERBERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Take this tour any day except monday or tuesday
Last Line: The water and the coin and the nickels of commission. %it remains salvaged. It pours a column
Subject(s): Tourists; Travel


TERRA INCOGNITA, by BARBARA SZERLIP    Poem Source                    
First Line: We've walked since morning, the landscape, as before, perfect sem
Last Line: Any he's seen before, swears there's not a constellation he can recognize
Subject(s): Camping; Sea Voyages; Tourists; Travel


THE ANCIENT TOWN OF LEITH, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ancient town of leith, most wonderful to be seen
Last Line: Because they have always been very kind to me.
Subject(s): Scotland; Tourists; Towns; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE BEAUTIFUL CITY OF PERTH, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful and ancient city of perth
Last Line: You cannot be surpassed at the present day.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Guests; Maps; Scotland; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Journeys; Trips


THE BEAUTIFUL VILLAGE OF PENICUIK, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The village of penicuik, with its neighbouring spinning mills
Last Line: And drink the pure water from their crystal rills.
Subject(s): Mountains; Tourists; Travel; Villages; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips


THE BRACELET, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Two days I bargained over this brass round
Last Line: "not at least the way we would mind, for sure."
Subject(s): Indonesia; Jewelry & Jewelers; Tourists; Travel; Dutch East Indies; Journeys; Trips


THE CASTLE OF MAINS, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ancient castle of the mains
Last Line: To hear the birds singing and the humming of the bee.
Subject(s): Castles; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE CHRISTIAN TOURISTS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No aimless wanderers, by the fiend unrest
Last Line: The righteousness of heaven!
Subject(s): Europe; Tourists


THE CITY OF PERTH, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful ancient city of perth
Last Line: You're one of the fairest cities of the present day.
Subject(s): Cities; Courts & Courtiers; Rivers; Statues; Tourists; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips


THE DEN O' FOWLIS, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful den o' fowlis, most charming to be seen
Last Line: And such a blessing to the people shouldn't be forgot.
Subject(s): Guests; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Journeys; Trips


THE EAGLE RIDE; OR, SEE FIRST THY NATIVE LAND, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The bell tolled 'ten'; then sang 'eleven' in glee
Last Line: "see first of all thy native land."
Subject(s): Mount Hood, Oregon; Native Americans - Reservations; Tourists; Travel; West (u.s.); Yellowstone National Park; Journeys; Trips; Southwest; Pacific States


THE EMPRESS HOTEL POEMS, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Just get up / and sit down again. Then
Last Line: In the other poem.
Subject(s): Hotels; Housekeeping; Language; Rooms; Tourists; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Words; Vocabulary


THE GHOST, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Woodsmoke guides us through the mist
Last Line: Wept as though he'd met his future's ghost.
Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Thailand; Tourists


THE GUIDE, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He leads us to our village destination
Last Line: The culture with the most things wins.
Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Thailand; Tourists


THE INDIAN SIGN, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whenever I'm touring
Last Line: "detour!"
Subject(s): Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE PALACE, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They come, they come, with fife and drum
Last Line: Though they bring grist to the lessees.
Subject(s): London; Tourists


THE PRAIRIE SPEAKING, by FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am the prairie
Last Line: I am the prairie
Subject(s): Love; Sea; Tourists; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips


THE PURCHASE, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once you've bought into the suspension of disbelief
Last Line: To buy a thing you don't want
Subject(s): California; Pacific Ocean; Poetry & Poets; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE RIVER OF LEITH, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As I stood upon the dean bridge and viewed the beautiful scenery
Last Line: Because the river of leith scenery cannot be beat.
Subject(s): Nature; Rivers; Sight; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE TOURIST AND THE TOWN (SAN MINIATO AL MONTE), by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Those clarities detached us, gave us form
Subject(s): Tourists


THE VILLAGE OF TAYPORT AND ITS SURROUNDINGS, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All ye pleasure-seekers, where'er ye be
Last Line: Along the bonnie banks o' the silvery tay.
Subject(s): Tourists; Travel; Villages; Journeys; Trips


THIEF, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a roman tram, where the famous roman mob
Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Tourists


THREE PERSPECTIVES OF SAN FRANCISCO: FROM ALCATRAZ, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: San francisco at noon
Last Line: Surrounding her white flesh
Subject(s): Botticelli, Sandro (1444-1510); Paintings And Painters; San Francisco; Tourists; Travel


THREE PERSPECTIVES OF SAN FRANCISCO: FROM OAKLAND, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Is san francisco at noon
Last Line: On crates of doves.'
Subject(s): Hotels; San Francisco; Tourists; Travel


THREE PERSPECTIVES OF SAN FRANCISCO: FROM SAUSALITO, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Is san francisco at noon
Last Line: Of a sprawling, white hospital
Subject(s): Sausalito, California; Tourists; Travel


THUNDERSTRUCK, by ALLEN GROSSMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hey kid! Sex and the death of men bring tourists
Last Line: And then thunder and, soon enough, the rain
Subject(s): Thunder; Tourists


TIPPERARY: 3. AS THE INTERLINEARS MIGHT TAKE IT FROM XENOPHON, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He spoke as follows: (that) it is ten parasangs
Last Line: Exist the vitals of me.
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Farewell; Tipperary, Ireland; Tourists; Travel; Parting; Journeys; Trips


TIPPERARY: 5. BY OUR OWN EUGENE FIELD, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I've been on many a lengthy trip since that I was
Last Line: There.
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Field, Eugene (1850-1895); Tipperary, Ireland; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips


TO A SALESGIRL IN JUAREZ, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: She stood in the cool shaft
Last Line: Of seeing the black, swollen tongues of poets
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Tourists


TO BLUNT THE KNIFE, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Range / a rest / face off
Subject(s): Friendship; Poetry & Poets; Tourists; Travel; Women - Abused; Journeys; Trips; Wife Beating


TO BLUNT THE KNIFE, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Range %a rest %face off
Last Line: I sought the wild animal %salamat jalan
Subject(s): Friendship; Poetry And Poets; Tourists; Travel; Women - Abused


TOUR DIRECTOR PUNCHES OUT CLIENT, by KENNETH LEONHARDT    Poem Source                    
First Line: No more
Last Line: Mr. %nice guide
Subject(s): Tourists


TOURING, by MICHAEL COFFEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Guys who first learned to drive
Last Line: A nothing in the air
Subject(s): Driving And Drivers; Tourists; Tractors; Travel


TOURING THE SOUTHWEST, by KATHERINE MERCURIO GOTTHARDT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The drive from santa fe
Last Line: Lifting dust from mouth to tongue, sitting as time permits
Subject(s): Cities; Roads; Tourists; Travel; West (u.s.)


TOURIST, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: He strolls down vaci street
Last Line: That sports a communist donald duck
Subject(s): Budapest, Hungary; Tourists; Travel


TOURIST AND THE TOWN (SAN MINIATO AL MONTE), by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Those clarities detached us, gave us form
Last Line: And you are theirs and of their mystery
Subject(s): Tourists


TOURIST HOME, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, by MARIE HARRIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mrs. Brown's visitors come in the wrong door and must be
Last Line: Brown stanly brown nina brown nina brown stanley brown %nina
Subject(s): Tourists


TOURIST TIME, by FRANCIS REGINALD SCOTT    Poem Text                    
First Line: This fat woman in canvas knickers
Last Line: O rapid transit!
Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, F. R.
Subject(s): Tourists


TOURISTS, by JON LOOMIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The pilgrims landed here in 1620, camped
Last Line: Except for the weather, the people, the food
Subject(s): Pilgrims And Pilgrimages; Tourists


TOURISTS, by HOWARD MOSS            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cramped like sardines on the queens, and sedated
Subject(s): Tourists


TOURISTS, by HOWARD MOSS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cramped like sardines on the queens, and sedated
Last Line: Subsiding like lawrence in florence, or crazily %ending up tending shop in fiesole
Subject(s): Tourists


TOURISTS AT ENSENADA, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sunlight, like rouault, draws a line
Last Line: With cries as real and shadowy as foreign fear
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Clowns; Colors; Mexico; Prostitution; Resorts; Tourists; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. ON AN ATLANTIC STEAMSHIP, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mid-ocean, night
Last Line: Light sways slowly.
Subject(s): Sea; Ships & Shipping; Steamboats; Tourists; Travel; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Ocean; Journeys; Trips


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. FROM TURIN TO PARIS, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tireless, hour after hour, over mountain plains and rivers
Last Line: And the glitter and the roar already, and the rush of the life of paris.
Subject(s): Paris, France; Railroads; Tourists; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. TWIN STATUES OF AMENOPHIS III AT THEBES, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thousands of years
Last Line: "and placed them here—to last as long as heaven."
Subject(s): Statues; Thebes, Greece; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips


TRAIN WINDOW GOING AND COMING, SELS, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I ride backwards to see what I'm missing
Last Line: I look forward to going back, either way
Subject(s): Commuters; Fields; Nature; Railroads; Tourists; Travel


TRAVEL, by JULIO CORTAZAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: When famas go on a trip, when they pass the night in a
Last Line: Never take the trouble
Subject(s): Cities; Tourists; Travel


TRAVEL JUST STARTS, by GUY BENNETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: A listener awaiting %the long scratch
Last Line: To build itself as earth %includes the attempt
Subject(s): Tourists; Travel


TRAVELER, by CEES NOOTEBOOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the tormented reeds those two women
Last Line: I am a traveler, looking only for rest
Subject(s): Tourists; Travel; Wanderers And Wandering


TRAVELING MAN, by MARIE HARRIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where were you born? %I was born in puerto rico
Last Line: Charter and I have many wonderful holidays. Just the two of us
Subject(s): Air Travel; Aviation And Aviators; Passports; Tourists; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


TREKKING THE HILLS OF NORTHERN THAILAND, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The english girl is being sick in the bushes
Last Line: That there always be other hills.
Subject(s): Thailand; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips


TRIALS OF A TOURIST, by ANNE TIBBLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is three o'clock in the morning
Subject(s): Tourists


TRINIDAD, by CEES NOOTEBOOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: This I have often been
Last Line: In which the three of us will meet %in the form %of one
Subject(s): Air Travel; Aviation And Aviators; Tourists; Travel; Trinidad And Tobago


TUNNELS, by KATHERINE HARER    Poem Source                    
First Line: American tourists are looking for new ways to spend their dollars. They
Last Line: Enlarge them, renovate history. This will be done
Subject(s): History; Tourists; Travel; Vietnam


TURTLES OF SANTA ROSA, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Haul their leathery, pock-marked backs
Last Line: Might then remember me
Subject(s): Deserts; Food And Eating; Reptiles; Seashore; Tourists; Travel; Turtles; Zoos


VENETIAN CANDY, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How long will our bewildered heirs
Subject(s): Venice, Italty; Tourists


VIZCAINO, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here at cape vizcaino in mendocino
Last Line: Take care. See you soon
Subject(s): Mendocino, California; Tourists; Travel; Vizcaino, Sebastian (1550-1616)


WANDERER IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At that time, after being robbed of everything, I was a wanderer
Last Line: Theirs were fixed positions, no upward mobility
Subject(s): Poverty; Solitude; Tourists; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


WANDERER IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At that time, after being robbed of everything, I was a wanderer
Last Line: Lonely stranger, we loved having you among us, go home in peace
Subject(s): Poverty; Solitude; Tourists; Travel; Wanderers And Wandering


WELCOME, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the front gate of trinity college
Last Line: At the book of kells
Subject(s): Exhibitions; Reproductive System; Tourists


WELCOME, TO THE CAVES OF ARTA, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Such subtile filigranity and nobless of construccion
Last Line: It is some poor touristers, in the depth of obscure cristal,%wich deceased of their emocion on a pas
Subject(s): Caves; Mallorca; Tourists


WELSHMAN TO ANY TOURIST, by RONALD STUART THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We've nothing vast to offer you, no deserts
Last Line: But shame has kept them late in bed
Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S.
Subject(s): Tourists; Wales


WHEAT EARS, by HEID E. ERDRICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Driving into blue january cold, I take
Last Line: Will close on my home town tonight
Subject(s): Africa; Tourists; Travel


WHEN I TRY TO TRANSLATE, by DANEEN WARDROP    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Might be wished to blow our skins together?
Subject(s): Tourists; Travel