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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: TOURISTS Matches Found: 227 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 hereto 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 |
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