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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: URBAN LIFE Matches Found: 340 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD UPON A WEDDING, by JOHN SUCKLING Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I tell thee, dick, where I have been Last Line: With bridget and with nell. Variant Title(s): A Wedding Subject(s): Cities; Love; Marriage; Wedding Song; Urban Life; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Epithalamium A BUSY STREET, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: All up and down the busy street Last Line: And that is why they hurry so. Subject(s): Cities; Collective Behavior; February; Streets; Traffic; Urban Life; Mobs; Crowds; Avenues A CITY DWELLER, by JACQUES REDA Poem Text First Line: The street I walk along I often see Last Line: Magazine. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life A CITY ECLOGUE, by W." "J. [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: "'twas sunday morning, quite serene the air" Last Line: "let us poor cits do whatsoever we may, / our headstrong spouses still will have their way!" Alternate Author Name(s): "j., W.; Subject(s): Cities;marriage;old Age; Urban Life;weddings;husbands;wives A CITY FLOWER, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To and fro in the city I go Last Line: That had settled over my heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life A CITY GARDEN, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hid in a close and lowly nook Last Line: God grant some day your dreams come true. Subject(s): Cities; Gardens & Gardening; Urban Life A CITY GARDEN, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sun-warmed, where hudson meets the sea Last Line: My suzeraine -- the faery queen. Subject(s): Cities; Fairies; Gardens & Gardening; New York City - Colonial Period; Urban Life; Elves A CITY VOICE, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Outside here in the city the burning pavements lie Last Line: And god's green trees and god's blue skies above me for a space. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Cities; Nature; Urban Life A DAY IN THE CITY, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dismounting from stools and benches, pouring through bars Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life A HILL OF BEANS, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One spring the circus gave Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life A LAZY THOUGHT, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There go the grownups Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life A LEGEND OF THE MOON, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nightlong I yearned so madly toward the moon Last Line: Of moons and mortals and of olden days. Subject(s): Cities; Death; Earth; Legends; Life; Mankind; Moon; Urban Life; Dead, The; World; Human Race A MAN AGAINST TIME, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Names of vast cities off beyond your years Last Line: But for my faith in my abandoned peers. Subject(s): Cities; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Urban Life A MUNICIPAL REPORT; DEDICATION TO 'THE SEVEN SEAS', by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cities are full of pride Last Line: And mine I hold at her hands! Variant Title(s): To The City Of Bombay Subject(s): Bombay, India; Cities; Urban Life A NOCTURNE AT GREENWICH, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far out, beyond my window, in the gloom Last Line: Out yonder in the gloom. Subject(s): Cities; Night; Rivers; Ships & Shipping; Urban Life; Bedtime A REMOVAL FROM TERRY STREET, by DOUGLAS DUNN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a squeaking cart, they push the usual stuff Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life A STRANGE CITY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: A wondrous city, that had temples there Last Line: As I do now, in these dear months I love. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life A STREET, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two narrow files of houses scowl Last Line: The sweetness here of any rose. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life A STREET SCENE, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The east is a clear violet mass Last Line: Turns back, and looks again. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life A TALE OF TWO CITIES, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rhone and rhine they run so free Last Line: My mortal part in hampton gay! Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Subject(s): Cities; Oxford University; Urban Life ACROSS THE CITY, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: I stood upon a dizzy roof which towered Last Line: Reveals but mounds of vanished majesty. Subject(s): Cities; Streets; Urban Life; Avenues AD ASTRA: 33, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Then cities shall arise, both sweet and fair Last Line: Health the handmaid of peace and child of love. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Cities; Environment; Health; Urban Life; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation ADVICE TO A CITY, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O city, cage your poets! Hem them in Last Line: The savage, sweet, unpalatable truth! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Cities; Hearts; Poetry & Poets; Urban Life AFTER A CITY WINTER, by HANIEL (CLARK) LONG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hill tops are forms of silence Last Line: And the blue curve of a wing. Subject(s): Cities; Winter; Urban Life AFTER THE NEWSCAST, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Past tribal heart's rusty twists Last Line: It's time Subject(s): Cities; Democracy; News; Urban Life ALGIERS, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Gold-vestured suns and silver-fretted nights Last Line: Algiers!—inch' allah!—sleeping! Subject(s): Algiers; Cities; Urban Life AMONG THE MISSING, by RICHARD HOWARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Know me? I am the ghost of gansevoort pier Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph Subject(s): Cities; New York City; Urban Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple AN ABIDING CITY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My city walls are builded sure Last Line: Pass in a dream of light. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Cities; Comfort; God; Walls; Urban Life 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 AN OLD HYMN FOR IAN JENKINS, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: All things we value in terms of contrast Last Line: Of the dream is place. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Cities; Dreams; New York City; Southern States; Estrangement; Outcasts; Urban Life; Nightmares; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; South (u.s.) AN ORDINARY MORNING, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man is singing on the bus Subject(s): Cities; Detroit, Michigan; Urban Life AN URBAN ECLOGUE, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: How favoured are we, phyllis Last Line: A million years ago! Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life ANIMA URBIS, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You, city, by two rivers made an isle Last Line: Since I have so loved you -- do you love me? Subject(s): Cities; Life; Love; Nature; Soul; Urban Life ANNAPOLIS AT EVENING, by IVY LINDSLEY Poem Text First Line: Across the restless waters of the bay Last Line: Leave her in vanished glory, proud, devout. Subject(s): Cities; Life; Night; Seashore; Urban Life; Bedtime; Beach; Coast; Shore ANY CITY, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into the staring street / she goes on her nightly round Last Line: The night with its pitiless stars. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Cities; Social Problems; Urban Life APARTMENT DWELLER, COUNTRY BRED, by KATHERINE R. MARSH Poem Text First Line: I want a row of hollyhocks and spotted tiger lilies Last Line: To go back home again! Subject(s): Cities; Country Life; Homesickness; Urban Life ARRIVAL AT KENNEDY, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reduce the supply while the demand stays constant and the Subject(s): Cities; New York City; Urban Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple ASCENSION OF A CITY FOG, by FRANCES COFFIN BOAZ Poem Text First Line: The avaricious sun dripped no gold Last Line: In the ascension of a shimmering, city fog... Subject(s): Cities; Fog; Urban Life; Haze ASPHALT AND CHROMIUM GLORY, by MARGARET LATHROP LAW Poem Text First Line: Go, build your sky-scrapers higher and higher Last Line: Beauty shall drape the mildewed bone. Subject(s): Cities; Heaven; Life; Sky; Urban Life; Paradise AUGUST IN THE CITY, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The brooding hours, through the dull afternoon. Last Line: Where the glad, fresh rain beats!) Subject(s): August; Cities; Urban Life AVENUE, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They stack bright pyramids of goods and gather Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life BACK TO THE LAND!, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Acres out of cultivation! Last Line: Peace in her imperial eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Cities; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Urban Life; British Empire; England - Empire BALLAD OF ORANGE AND GRAPE, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: After you finish your work Subject(s): Cities; Harlem (new York City); Urban Life BALLADE OF HIS OWN COUNTRY; TO C.H. ARKCOLL, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let them boast of arabia, oppressed Last Line: With the smell of bog-myrtle and peat! Subject(s): Arabia; Cities; Patriotism; Urban Life BARE HANDS, by ALICE G. HARVEY Poem Text First Line: A lad with eager, anxious eyes Last Line: To pay for a place to sleep. Subject(s): Cities; Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Urban Life; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers BEAUTIFUL CITY, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful city, the centre and crater of european confusion Last Line: Roll'd again back on itself in the tides of a civic insanity! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life BEHIND THE CLOSED EYE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I walk the old frequented ways Last Line: On the city's strife and din. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life BEING FROM ST. LOUIS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the nickel-gray bridges Last Line: Its name on our knees. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Cities; Railroads; Travel; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Urban Life; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips BLUE SUNDAY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chestnut flowers are falling Subject(s): Cities; Houses, Deserted; Solitude; Urban Life; Loneliness BOWLING GREEN, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A pleasant breadth of open space Last Line: The city's heart is bowling green. Subject(s): Bowling Green, New York City; Cities; New York City - Colonial Period; Peace; Urban Life BROADWAY, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under grand central's tattered vault Last Line: The jewel of love for us Subject(s): Cities; New York City; Urban Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple BUFFALO, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many times I wait there for my father Subject(s): Buffalo (city), New York; Cities; Fathers & Daughters; Urban Life BURIED CITIES; FATHER CHARLES, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No paler monk than father charles, and none so gaunt or lean Last Line: With thirty buried cities upon his reverend pate. Subject(s): Aging; Cities; Clergy; Death; Monks; Urban Life; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The BUYING AND SELLING, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the way across the bay bridge I sang Subject(s): Cities; Salespersons; Urban Life; Selling CALIFORNIA, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: I've seen the world, I've traveled far Last Line: My heart doth yield to thee. Subject(s): California; Cities; Home; Roads; Travel; Urban Life; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips CARRYING THE BANNER, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: (which is tramp-argot for walking the street / all night) Last Line: And I said 'thank god' with all my heart, for it was day again! Subject(s): Cities; Night; Solitude; Walking; Urban Life; Bedtime; Loneliness CENSUS, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seven cities have been excavated Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life CITIES, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can we believe - by an effort Last Line: Await the new beauty of cities? Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Cities; Urban Life CITIES, by MARY BRENT WHITESIDE Poem Text First Line: Jerusalem is like a tower in the east Last Line: Accursed of all the ages -- kerioth. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life CITIES OF ELD, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the orient uplands afar Last Line: And even their gods unknown. Subject(s): Asia; Cities; Dancing & Dancers; Fate; Life; Love; Soul; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Urban Life; Destiny CITIES OF THE PLAIN, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where are the cabalists, the insidious committees Last Line: We wish we had our little sodom back! Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life CITIES: THE LAST LIGHTS OFF THE WEST, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In darkness a paperweight Last Line: Are these? (curtains.) Subject(s): Cities; West (u.s.); Urban Life; Southwest; Pacific States CITY, by LAURENCE HARTMUS Poem Text First Line: Sullen city of motile skies Last Line: That is why I mock your law that says I should be as other men. Subject(s): Cities; Traffic; Urban Life CITY AND VILLAGE, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once again within the city, 'mid its multitudinous din Last Line: Or in my walks at night-time when the village is at rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Cithern (musical Instrument); Cities; Railroads; Villages; Urban Life; Railways; Trains CITY AT TWILIGHT, by OSCAR WILLIAMS Poem Text First Line: The swinging bells engrave in sunset golds Last Line: Faintly, the music of milleniums ...... Subject(s): Cities; Evening; Urban Life; Sunset; Twilight CITY CHRISTMAS, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now is the time when the great urban heart Last Line: We hear too late or not too late Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Christmas; Cities; Nativity, The; Urban Life CITY CONTRASTS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A barefooted child on the crossing Last Line: Equality in the grave Subject(s): Cities;life; Urban Life CITY DWELLERS, by STANTON ARTHUR COBLENTZ Poem Text First Line: For all they see, the stars might never glow Last Line: Fragrance and light, and food for every sense! Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life CITY MOON, by JAMES RORTY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A thin moon hurrying, blown from the sea Last Line: Leaps the last chimney-pot, hurries, and fades. Subject(s): Cities; Moon; Urban Life CITY NIGHTS: 1. IN THE TRAIN, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The train through the night of the town Last Line: The dazzling vista of streets! Subject(s): Cities; Railroads; Urban Life; Railways; Trains CITY NIGHTS: 2. IN THE TEMPLE, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The grey and misty night Last Line: Neath the weeping moon! Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life CITY OF DREADFUL THIRSTS, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stranger came from narromine and made his little joke Last Line: That narrow-minded person on his road to narromine. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Cities; Clouds; Rain; Thirst; Urban Life CITY ROOFS, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Roof-tops, roof-tops, what do you cover? Last Line: The driftwood of the town who have no roof-top and no home! Subject(s): Cities; Roofing & Roofers; Urban Life CITY SONNET, by FLORENCE DAVIDSON STROTHER Poem Text First Line: Watering plants from a wedgewood cup today Last Line: With a tear or two perhaps. Subject(s): Cities; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Urban Life CITY SQUARE, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: I had a diploma Last Line: Since they don't like diplomas, not anywhere there. Subject(s): Cities; Education; Job Hunting; Universities & Colleges; Urban Life CITY SUNSETS, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Compassionately, tenderly, they throw Last Line: Bathed in light! Subject(s): Cities; Farewell; Travel; Urban Life; Parting; Journeys; Trips CITY TREES, by VERE DARGAN Poem Text First Line: The trees along our city streets Last Line: Are lovely, gallant things. Subject(s): Cities; Trees; Urban Life CITY TREES, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The trees along this city street Last Line: I know what sound is there. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Cities; Trees; Urban Life CITY VIGNETTE: DAWN, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The greenish sky glows up in misty reds Last Line: And hear the milk-cart jangle by alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life CITY VIGNETTE: DUSK, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The city's street, a roaring blackened stream Last Line: And over all the pale untroubled skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life CITY VIGNETTE: RAIN AT NIGHT, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The street-lamps shine in a yellow line Last Line: By the tread of homing feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Cities; Rain; Urban Life CITY VISIONS, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the blind milton's memory of light Last Line: And open unseen gates with key of gold? Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life CLARA TO CLOE; EPISTLE FROM CITY LADY TO COUNTRY COUSIN, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear cloe - I'm deeply your debtor Last Line: C. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life CLOUDS (AGRO ROMANO), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As though the dead cities Last Line: In the heights of heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Cities; Clouds; Heaven; Rome, Italy; Urban Life; Paradise COMING HOME, DETROIT, 1968, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A winter tuesday, the city pouring fire, Subject(s): Cities; Detroit, Michigan; Homecoming; Industry; Labor & Laborers; Urban Life; Work; Workers COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE, SEPTEMBER 3, 1802, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Earth has not anything to show more fair Last Line: And all that mighty heart is lying still! Variant Title(s): Sonnet;sonnet Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, London, 1802;calm;morning In London;upon Westminster Bridge;westminster Bridge Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Cities; England; London; Morning; Nature; Rivers; Time; Urban Life; English COOPER'S HILL, by JOHN DENHAM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis First Line: Sure there are poets which did never dream Last Line: And knows no bound, but makes his power his shores. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life COQ D'OR, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fountain is frozen in the plaza Last Line: Will be tumbling about us. Subject(s): Cities; News; Newspapers; War; Urban Life; Journalism; Journalists DAWN SONG, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The city lifts toward heaven from the continent of sleep Last Line: And the footsteps of early workers are building the streets to the river Subject(s): Cities; Dawn; Urban Life; Sunrise DEEP IN EUROPE, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I a dark hull floating between two lock-gates Last Line: The blackened cathedral, heavy as a moon, causes ebbs and flows Subject(s): Cities; Europe; Streets; Travel; Urban Life; Avenues; Journeys; Trips DESIRE, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is not turner's venice Last Line: Abating in the huge green hesitations of the trees Subject(s): Cities; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Urban Life DESTINATIONS, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dark highway is lighted Last Line: Where there is only you. Subject(s): Cities; Hearts; Love; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips DISCOVERING THE PHOTOGRAPH OF LLOYD, EARL, AND PRISCILLA, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These are the great discoveries of my middle age Last Line: Its separate ghost Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Cities; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Urban Life DISCOVERY, by MARY D. SPENCE Poem Text First Line: Crowded city streets I trod Last Line: Breathes of immortality. Subject(s): Cities; God; Immortality; Streets; Urban Life; Avenues DO WHAT YOU CAN, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the church of I am she hears there is a time to heal Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life DOOMED BRIGHT CITY, by MARGERY SWETT MANSFIELD Poem Text First Line: Remembering I had sold the sight Last Line: No epitaph is needed for the race. Subject(s): Apples; Cities; Flowers; Fruit; Urban Life DREAMS, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have our dreams; not happiness Last Line: Nor care a penny what we dream Subject(s): Cities; Dreams; Urban Life; Nightmares EAST OF THE LIBRARY, ACROSS FROM THE ODD FELLOWS BUILDING, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: That bummy smell you meet Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life 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 ELKHORN CITY, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O elkhorn city, little town! Last Line: Around and over you. Subject(s): Cities; Life; Love; Urban Life ENFLEURAGE, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As from a water lily, periplum Last Line: Unconsciously - and, white birds casting a dark shadow, fly out of themselves. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life EPISTLE TO MISS TERESA BLOUNT, ON HER LEAVING THE TOWN, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As some fond virgin, whom her mother's care Last Line: Look sow'r, and hum a tune -- as you may now. Variant Title(s): Epistle To Miss Blount, On Her Leaving The Town;to A Young Lady On Her Leaving The Town Subject(s): Absence; Cities; Separation; Isolation; Urban Life ESSAY: THE HANGING PARADOGS SLIP, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is an octave between us Last Line: To this you, you take it Subject(s): Cities; Essays; Retail Trade; Urban Life; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers EVENSONG, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This song is of no importance Last Line: The perfect quiet that comes after rain. Subject(s): Cities; Singing & Singers; Urban Life; Songs EXPATRIATE, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: City towers that have prisoned me Last Line: It will not be a dream! Subject(s): Cities; Country Life; Urban Life FACE TO FACE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long weeks I walked the city's crowded ways Last Line: I meet you, face to face! Subject(s): Cities; Faces; God; Urban Life FALLEN CITIES, by GERALD LOUIS GOULD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I gathered with a careless hand Last Line: By silent hill and idle bay! Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life FAR AWAY, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is weeping as is customary and good Last Line: Lover no children no poetry Subject(s): Cities; Grief; New York City; Urban Life; Sorrow; Sadness; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple FIAT LUX, by LYNDA HULL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Static from the radio stippled gray as anesthesia dream Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life FINIAS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the torch-lit city of finias that flames on Last Line: Here! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Cities; Fire; Immortality; Laughter; Secrets; Urban Life FISH IN CHAINS, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Along the hudson across manhattan to the triborough Last Line: It nearly rained that's what people had to say Subject(s): Cities; Courtship; Love - Beginnings; Love - Unrequited; New York City; Urban Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple FLOWER DAY, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: On flower day the gardens came Last Line: On flower day. Subject(s): Cities; Poverty; Urban Life FOR THE NEW WORLD, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first idea was man walking through space in a tower Last Line: The first idea was man walking through space in a tower Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Chicago; Cities; Urban Life FOREBODING, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Why do these tragic fancies throng Last Line: The way is pity, margaret. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Cities; Future Life; God; Urban Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life FRAGMENT (1), by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The silence of a city, how awful at midnight! Last Line: Of her huge temples. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: A SUBTERRANEAN CITY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I followed once a fleet and mighty serpent Last Line: Whose earthquake-shaken leaves bore graves for nests. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life FROM THE CITY, by ALLAN UPDEGRAFF Poem Text First Line: On every side the endless, hurrying press Last Line: And yet not all; one lacking -- can you guess? Subject(s): Cities; Yale University; Urban Life FROM THE TRAIN WINDOW, by GRACE MANSFIELD Poem Text First Line: Lost children, and hurt dogs Last Line: The great dumps of the city! Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life GEBIR: 5, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once a fair city, courted then by kings Last Line: "take this,"" she cried, ""and gebir is no more." Variant Title(s): Masar Subject(s): Cities; Death; Egypt; Giants; Nymphs; Urban Life; Dead, The GIFT AND COUNTRY IN THE FALL: A LONG-DISTANCE ECLOGUE, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Morrison. Hello! Hello! Is that you, wetherbee? Last Line: Later, you'd better look for us in town. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Autumn; Cities; Country Life; Seasons; Fall; Urban Life GLASGOW, by ALEXANDER SMITH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Sing, poet, 'tis a merry world Last Line: Dwells in thy noise and smoky breath. Subject(s): Cities; Glasgow, Scotland; Urban Life GREEN PLACES IN THE CITY, by MARY ELIZABETH HEWITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye fill my heart with gladness, verdant places Last Line: We, by these glimpses, may remember thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, Mary Elizabeth Subject(s): Cities; Gardens & Gardening; Urban Life HARBOR LIGHTS, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm coming home through the red lacquered lobby Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life HARD DRIVE, by HETTIE JONES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saturday the stuffed bears were up again Variant Title(s): Untitled (teddy Bears On The Highway) Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life HAVING BEEN HER, by HETTIE JONES Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: On the bus Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life HOCKNEY: BLUE POOL, by DAVID TRINIDAD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Los angeles, / california: / a summer afternoon Subject(s): Cities; Hockney, David (b. 1937); Gays & Lesbians; Lakes; Los Angeles; Urban Life; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Pools; Ponds HORIZONS, by CHRISTIE JEFFRIES Poem Text First Line: Where canyon walls of cities rise Last Line: Immeasurable and limitless. Subject(s): Cities; Walls; Urban Life I SAW THREE TEMPLES, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw three temples, dead and desolate, Last Line: And all about them blooms the flower of death! Subject(s): Cities; Paestum, Italy; Temples; Urban Life; Mosques I SEE A TRUCK, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see a truck mowing down a parade Last Line: Working for a living Subject(s): Cities; Labor & Laborers; Urban Life; Work; Workers IN A CITY PARK, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A stretch of lawn as smooth as happiness Last Line: A beauty, and a promise, and a dream. Subject(s): Beauty; Cities; Parks; Sin; Urban Life IN A STRANGE CITY, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dusk-and a hunger for your face Last Line: And I am lonelier than ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Cities; Solitude; Urban Life; Loneliness IN CITIES, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In cities you watch the way of wind with smoke Last Line: Delights deeper than any a city divines. Subject(s): Beauty; Cities; Hearts; Memory; Trees; Urban Life IN CITY PENT, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, sweet at this sweet hour to wander free Last Line: Dancing and prancing in mad caprioles. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life IN THE CITY, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Away from the silent hills and the talking of Last Line: And under her shadowed hair the gardens of paradise. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life IN THE DARK CITY, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a harper plays Last Line: The passion and sorrow of the eternal doom? Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life IN TOWN, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Toiling in town now is 'horrid' Last Line: Toiling in town now is 'horrid.' Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life IN TOWN, by LOUIS JONES MAGEE Poem Text First Line: We dwellers on the city street Last Line: Or roof of thatch. Subject(s): Cities; Towns; Urban Life INLAND CITY, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She lies far inland, and no stick nor stone of her Last Line: Moor in my little boats vigilantly! Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life INSCRIPTION FOR A CITY'S GATE OF WARRIORS, by HENRI FRANCOIS JOSEPH DE REGNIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fear not the shadow! Open, lofty gate Last Line: Stains of clear blood from sandals steeped in red. Subject(s): Cities; Death; Kisses; Lips; War; Urban Life; Dead, The IVY LANE (A SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY LOVE SONG), by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ivy lane in devon Last Line: That's the place for me! Subject(s): Cities; Devonshire, England; London; Love; Urban Life JOTTINGS: THE EDGE OF THE POSSIBLE, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Vast is the city, concealing fires behind its walls, its Last Line: Tripping along, breathless, on the edge of the possible. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life JUBILEE SONG, by JAMES NORTH Poem Text First Line: All hail to atlantic! This festival 'wakens Last Line: Move to the strains of the glad jubilee. Subject(s): Cities; Sea; Urban Life; Ocean KEEP DRIVING, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Atsuko / steering her smooth burgundy car Last Line: Leave. Subject(s): Cities; Driving & Drivers; Japan; Streets; Urban Life; Japanese; Avenues LA NOCHE, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind let loose in the dark Last Line: For the long journey across a room Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life LATIN MUSIC IN NEW YORK, by JESSICA TARAHATA HAGEDORN Poet's Biography First Line: Made me dance with you Alternate Author Name(s): Hagedorn, Jessica Subject(s): Cities; Hispanic Americans; Urban Life; Latinos LIE-AWAKE SONGS: 2, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: The city is so kind to me Last Line: Or is it just -- the city? Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life LIES AND LONGING, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Half the women are asleep on the floor Subject(s): Cities; Greece; Women; Urban Life; Greeks LINES TO ACCOMPANY FLOWERS FOR EVE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The florist was told, cyclamen or azalea Last Line: Though once we lay and waited for a death. Subject(s): Cities; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Flowers; Hospitals; Women; Women's Rights; Urban Life; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin; Feminism LONDON, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let shepherds carol of the pearly mead Last Line: The human soul not yet regenerate. Subject(s): Cities; London; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Urban Life LONDON BY LAMPLIGHT, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There stands a singer in the street Last Line: That throngs the shameless song this night! Subject(s): Cities; London; Singing & Singers; Urban Life LOS ANGELES, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In that city we were perfect Subject(s): Cities; Los Angeles; Urban Life LOSS AND WASTE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up to far osteroe and suderoe Last Line: To see the lost things found, and waste things used. Subject(s): Cities; Life; Loss; Sea; Urban Life; Ocean MADAME LA GRIPPE, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the seas meet the land, and the land quits the seas Last Line: So providence shield us from madame la grippe! Subject(s): Cities; Sickness; United States; Urban Life; Illness; America MAN ON A FIRE ESCAPE, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He couldn't remember what propelled him Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life MAN'S PLANS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He sat beside me by the fire, and chattered Last Line: "abroad,"" and didn't need to take his wad." Subject(s): Air Travel; Aviation & Aviators; Cities; Urban Life MATINAL SURVEY OF THE CITY, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: O justly made divine, unclose thy hands, sweet dawn, those fingers Last Line: Sweet to me, against white walls the sound of all these shutters blue! Subject(s): Chimney Sweepers & Chimneys; Cities; Spring; Urban Life MESSAGE, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER Poem Text First Line: City toilers in tumult and noise Last Line: See, you have missed all the daisies! Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Cities; Travel; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips MIDDLEBROOK, by EDWARD C. JONES Poem Text First Line: The lowly huts of middlebrook Last Line: Nor by their sons be lost. Subject(s): Cities; New Jersey; Urban Life MIRAGE, by FRANK ERNEST HILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a city islanded in light Last Line: Clear to the eyes, lost to the feet of men. Subject(s): Cities; Mirages; Urban Life MISPLACED SYMPATHY, by ZOE H. FELDWISCH Poem Text First Line: Poor city man! I pity you Last Line: Your unseeing eyes need my sympathy! Subject(s): Cities; Country Life; Sympathy; Urban Life; Empathy MONMOUTH, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ladies, in silks and laces Last Line: Wander awhile with me. Subject(s): Cities; New Jersey; Urban Life MOONRISE ON MANHATTAN; FOR LOUIS H. WETMORE, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Out in the harbour, silence and the moon Last Line: In coronation on manhattan's shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Cities; Moon; New York City; Night; Urban Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Bedtime MURIAS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the sunken city of murias Last Line: In the city of murias. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Aging; Cities; Love; Sea; Youth; Urban Life; Ocean MY DIAMOND STUD, by ALICE FULTON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: He'll be a former cat burglar Last Line: That wasn’t once alive Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life MY LADY, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: My lady has returned to town Last Line: The love that warms my formal phrases. Subject(s): Cities; Country Life; Fashion; Man-woman Relationships; Urban Life; Male-female Relations NEW NEIGHBORHOOD, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sold my brownstone windows full of leaves Last Line: Their clopping rhythm muffled in fresh snow. Subject(s): Cities; Moving & Movers; Winter; Urban Life NEW YORK, by EDWIN DAVIES SCHOONMAKER Poem Text First Line: Sea - rimmed and teeming with millions poured out on Last Line: Till the new day quenches the lamps and flares over tyre. Subject(s): Cities; Immigrants; Labor & Laborers; Mysticism; New York City; Urban Life; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Work; Workers; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple NEW YORK, by ANNEKE VAN ZINDRAN Poem Text First Line: My city, maligned and found wanting Last Line: We shall go wandering. Subject(s): Cities; Wandering & Wanderers; Urban Life NEW YORK IN SUMMER: INSOMNIA, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath trees whose leaves Last Line: I must try to sleep. Subject(s): Cities; Insomnia; Nicaragua; Travel; Urban Life; Sleeplessness; Journeys; Trips NEW YORK MAP COMPANY (1), by JOHN YAU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Acton town manufacturing Subject(s): Cities; New York City; Urban Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple NIGHT SCENE AT THE FALL OF SEBASTOPOL, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The toils, the flames, the thunders of the siege Last Line: A crumbling mass of ruin and decay. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Cities; Death; Freedom; Night; War; Urban Life; Dead, The; Liberty; Bedtime NIGHT SOLITUDE, by LOUISE LOUIS Poem Text First Line: Far down the dark avenue of trees Last Line: Toys. . . . Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life NOISE OF THE CITY, by ANDRE SPIRE Poem Text Last Line: And the beating of my heart. Subject(s): Cities; Human Behavior; Laughter; Men; Noises; Urban Life; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature 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 OCEAN GROVE HYMN, by ELWOOD H. STOKES Poem Text First Line: God of the grove, where leaves of green Last Line: And all be pure at ocean grove. Subject(s): Cities; New Jersey; Urban Life ODE TO MASTER ANTHONY STAFFORD [TO HASTEN HIM INTO COUNTRY], by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, spur away, / I have no patience for a longer stay Last Line: To civilise with graver notes our wits again. Variant Title(s): Ode On Leaving The Great Town;an Ode To Mr Anthony Stafford To Hasten Him Into The Country Subject(s): Cities; Country Life; Urban Life OLD NASSAU, by H. P. PECK Poem Text First Line: Tune every heart and every voice! Last Line: Long life to old nassau! Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life ON A MANHATTAN ROOF, by ANNETTE WILCOX Poem Text First Line: I've been on a sea voyage Last Line: Of car and voice and feet. Subject(s): Cities; Life; New York City; Urban Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple ON AN ACURA INTEGRA, by PAUL RANDOLPH VIOLI Poem Full Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Please think of this as not merely a piece Last Line: From new american writing Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Cities; Poetry & Poets; Urban Life ON CITY STREETS, by MARGARET E. BRUNER Poem Text First Line: There have been times when on a city street Last Line: We fear to change the old, established way. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life ON TO THE EAST, by NAPHTALI HERZ IMBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your loins let girt be Last Line: March to zion! Ye brave! Alternate Author Name(s): Imber, Naftali Herts Subject(s): Cities; Jerusalem; Jews; Sea Voyages; Zionism; Urban Life; Judaism OUR CITY, by FLOSSIE FAITH SAWINGS Poem Text First Line: I looked upon our city and her people Last Line: Despair grow deeper on our city's face. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life PARIS SOUS LA PLUIE (AN EARLY BONNARD), by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Each has his france; and mine's three feet by two Last Line: From their talk, in that café, in its smoke-loud air. Subject(s): Bonnard, Pierre (1867-1947); Cities; Paris, France; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips PEACE NOT PERMANENT, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great cities seldome rest; if there be none Last Line: T'invade from far: they'l finde worse foes at home. Subject(s): Cities; Peace; Urban Life PIGEONS AT CANNON STREET, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O ye pigeons of the station with your loveliness of hues Last Line: Lost the verdant county acres and the freedom of the blue! Subject(s): Cities; London; Pigeons; Urban Life POEMA DEL CITY, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I live in the city Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life POEMA DEL CITY 2, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A light chill on the knees Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life POET FLAYS TEMPTATIONS OF CITY LIFE, by MORRIS GILBERT BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, abominable city! Last Line: -- but at times I wonder how they found it. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life PORPHYROGNE, by JUDITH JAMES Poem Text First Line: The moon tonight is like a tarnished crown Last Line: We can remember, we can build as well! Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life PRAYERS OF STEEL, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Lay me on an anvil, o god Last Line: White stars. Subject(s): Cities; Skyscrapers; Steel; Urban Life PROMETHEUS AT CONEY ISLAND, by QUENTIN ROWAN First Line: Up over the swell of hot sugar Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Teenagers; Urban Life PSALM FOR DISTRIBUTION, by JACK AGUEROS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life RAIN IN THE CITY, by ANNETTE TEMIN Poem Text First Line: There is abroad this night in every place Last Line: Walk sleepless now and troubled in the rain. Subject(s): Cities; Rain; Urban Life REAR-PORCHES OF AN APARTMENT-BUILDING, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sky that has never known sun, moon or stars Last Line: On brick walls. Subject(s): Cities; Poverty; Urban Life RISK MANAGEMENT, by ALICE FULTON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Relentless escalators bore us Last Line: Before they're caught Subject(s): Cities; Conventions; Urban Life RIVERS AND MOUNTAINS, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: On the secret map the assassins Subject(s): Separation; War; Cities; Urban Life ROAD LAW, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drive a ford or a packard six Last Line: "a load of stone has the right of way." Subject(s): Automobiles; Cities; Driving & Drivers; Roads; Traffic; Cars; Urban Life; Paths; Trails ROADSIDE POEMS: A MANCHESTER POEM, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a poor drizzly morning, dark and sad Last Line: Dearer than eden-groves with rivers four. Subject(s): Christianity; Cities; Decay; Flowers; God; Home; Labor & Laborers; Manchester, England; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Urban Life; Rot; Decadence; Work; Workers SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A red band of light stretches across the west Subject(s): Air Travel; Cities; Urban Life SAND NIGGER, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In the house in detroit Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Cities; Detroit, Michigan; Dissenters; Exiles; Lebanon; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts; Urban Life SET OF MOON, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The archeress had gone Last Line: The city of the gods that never sleep. Subject(s): Archers And Archery; Cities; Moon; Urban Life SHUTTLE, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She is making stuffing for the turkey Last Line: As he watches the snow fall and fall. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life SILENCE, by ? LYNCH Poem Text First Line: In silence mighty things are wrought Last Line: Is strengthened silently. Subject(s): Cities; Silence; Urban Life SILENCE, by SYDNEY KING RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: Silence walks through the city Last Line: How beautiful she was. Subject(s): Beauty; Cities; Silence; Urban Life SKETCH: EPISODE B AT GOLD CITY, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As an aid / for apprehending the vanishing point Last Line: You Subject(s): Cities; Maps; Paintings And Painters; Urban Life SKYSCRAPERS, by RACHEL (LYMAN) FIELD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do skyscrapers ever grow tired Subject(s): Cities; Imagination; Skyscrapers; Urban Life; Fancy SLEEP, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The city sleeps; the fierce metallic roar Last Line: They sleep. Subject(s): Cities; Corpses; Dreams; Moon; Sleep; Urban Life; Cadavers; Nightmares SMOKING IN AN OPEN GRAVE, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: We bury ourselves to get high Last Line: So much of us already geared for the journey. Subject(s): Cities; Death; Labor & Laborers; Poverty; Urban Life; Dead, The; Work; Workers SOLEA, by JESSICA TARAHATA HAGEDORN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There are rapists / out there Last Line: Anymore Alternate Author Name(s): Hagedorn, Jessica Subject(s): Cities; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Rape; Urban Life SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: While a thousand fine projects are planned every day Last Line: Contrive that the poor may have something to eat Subject(s): Cities;england;free Trade;markets;poverty; Urban Life;english;supermarkets SONNETS: CITY CHILDREN, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pale flowers are you, that scarce have known Last Line: O little flowers that blossom but to fade! Subject(s): Children; Cities; Childhood; Urban Life SOUNDS OF THE CITY, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: From where I sit the city's ceaseless roar Last Line: Whose every hour a tragedy reveals. Subject(s): Cities; Fights; Labor & Laborers; Urban Life; Work; Workers SPARROW, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When august hangs the bough with plums Last Line: For men and birds of wit and taste. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): August; Cities; Country Life; Sparrows; Urban Life SPARTA, by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed of sparta...Of the withered hill Last Line: On athens of the everlasting light. Subject(s): Cities; Sailing & Sailors; Sparta, Greece; Towns; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips SPRING DAY: NIGHT AND SLEEP, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day takes her ease in slippered yellow. Electric signs gleam out Last Line: . . . I smell them in the air. Subject(s): Cities; Night; Sleep; Spring; Urban Life; Bedtime STAG AT BAY, by BIMSLEY PEABODY Poem Text First Line: Oh, how I long for the things Last Line: A drab world at bay. Subject(s): Cities; Imagination; Urban Life; Fancy STREET SONGS: 1. THE PIGEONS, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over the houses and into the sky Subject(s): Cities; Pigeons; Urban Life STREET SONGS: 2. THE BEGGAR, by WALLACE STEVENS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet in this morn there is a darkest night Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Cities; Urban Life STREET SONGS: 3. STATUARY, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The windy morn has set their feet to dancing Subject(s): Cities; Statues; Urban Life SUMMER NIGHT-BROADWAY, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night is the city's disease Last Line: Looking for children to sing to. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Cities; Injustice; Urban Life SUNRISE IN THE CITY, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sunrise over the houses! Last Line: And the christ-light shining in ' Subject(s): Cities; Dawn; Religion; Urban Life; Sunrise; Theology TEN OXHERDING PICTURES: ENTERING THE CITY WITH BLISS-BESTOWING HANDS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have come to the gates Last Line: They tremble as they rise Subject(s): Animals; Cities; Oxen; Urban Life TEN YEARS OLD, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A city child, rooms are to him no mere Last Line: "richard! Get through! And put your stockings on." Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Children; Cities; Childhood; Urban Life THE 'FRISCO EARTHQUAKE, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While the earth shook and trembled and hungry Last Line: Sad, ah, sad was their fate! Subject(s): Cities; Death; Disasters; Earthquakes; Urban Life; Dead, The THE AERIAL CITY, by AFANASY FET SHENSHIN Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: But proffers no pinions to fly. Subject(s): Cities; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips THE AVENGER, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With a smile that was ecstatic billings Last Line: And the people made him mayor of the town! Subject(s): Cities; Mayors; Urban Life THE BALLADE OF DEAD CITIES; TO ANDREW LANG, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Where are the cities of the plain? Last Line: Where are the cities of old time? Subject(s): Cities; Jews; Urban Life; Judaism THE BEAUTIFUL CITY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The beautiful city! Forever Last Line: And loosen the trump at the gates. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beauty; Cities; Fantasy; Sea; Urban Life; Ocean THE BEAUTY OF A CITY, by ELIZABETH DAWSON Poem Text First Line: The beauty of a city seems to be Last Line: In the rain; and smiles on passing faces. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THE BIRD BATH, by EDITH HARRIET JONES Poem Text First Line: He paused without surprise / upon the verge Last Line: Sophisticated city ways. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THE BIRTHDAY, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The trees were dripping, dank and still Last Line: And thoughts to linger in. Subject(s): Birthdays; Children; Cities; Fire; Rites & Ceremonies; Childhood; Urban Life THE CALL OF THE COAST, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: Let the roar go up from the city! Last Line: Shall strew the earth with flowers. Subject(s): Cities; Freedom; Urban Life; Liberty THE CHICAGO POEM; FOR TED BERRIGAN AND ALICE NOTLEY, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bridges of chicago / are not the bridges of paris Last Line: Modern times Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Berrigan, Ted (1934-1983); Chicago; Cities; Berrigan, Edmund Joseph; Urban Life THE CITY, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Much have we cursed the city. It has been Last Line: By secret acts of broad humanity. Subject(s): Cities; Humanity; Urban Life THE CITY, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A shining city, one Last Line: With happy wayfaring. Subject(s): Cities; Science; Urban Life; Scientists THE CITY, by WILLIAM BRIAN HOOKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a crown upon her brow that seems Last Line: Dancing in all her jewels before the king. Alternate Author Name(s): Hooker, Brian Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THE CITY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: What domination of what darkness dies this Last Line: By the thronged gods, tall, golden-coloured, joyful, young. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Cities; God; Science; Urban Life; Scientists THE CITY, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What structures here among god's works appear Last Line: More wealth provided, and more high. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THE CITY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I watched the country harden to a town Last Line: Far in the golden city of the skies. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THE CITY AND THE SEA, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To none the city bends a servile knee Last Line: But her sweet soul is god's. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Cities; God; Mankind; Sea; Urban Life; Human Race; Ocean THE CITY AND THE SEA, by MARION COUTHOUY SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Struck like a blur of gold across the night Last Line: The thunders of his old unconquered might. Subject(s): Cities; Sea; Urban Life; Ocean THE CITY AT NIGHT, by MARGUERITE AVIS WHITCOMB Poem Text First Line: With light on light the city streets now blaze Last Line: We babel view, and feel our earthborn might. Subject(s): Cities; Pride; Urban Life; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE CITY AT THE END OF THINGS, by ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the pounding cataracts Last Line: Is deathless and eternal there. Subject(s): Cities; Night; Soul; Time; Urban Life; Bedtime THE CITY CALLS, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My little garden wall is gray Last Line: With watching the wild birds fly. Subject(s): Cities; Traffic; Urban Life THE CITY DWELLER, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These things I cannot forget: far snow in the night Last Line: The motion of men resounds like the thundering sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Cities; Thunder; Wind; Urban Life THE CITY IN THE SEA, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! Death has reared himself a throne Last Line: Shall do it reverence. Subject(s): Cities; Death; Sea; Urban Life; Dead, The; Ocean THE CITY OF DESPAIR, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn comes not: / and I have waited Last Line: Above the sodden citadel of tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Cities; Dawn; Despair; Evil; Urban Life; Sunrise THE CITY OF LAISH, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have you read of the orient people of / laish in the olden time Last Line: Christ came and his presence declared it, so the dream may not utterly die. Subject(s): Asia; Cities; Death; Dreams; Jesus Christ; War; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Urban Life; Dead, The; Nightmares THE CITY OF MY YOUTH, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: The town I knew is sunk from sight Last Line: Thy happiness my tears. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Cities; Youth; Urban Life 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 CITY OF SALT, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the sun-drenched Last Line: And sweet to taste. Subject(s): Cities; Mothers; Salt; Urban Life THE CITY OF THE GILDED TEAR, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Babylon, o babylon Last Line: City of the gilded tear? Subject(s): Babylon; Cities; Judgments; Urban Life THE CITY OF THE OLESHA FRUIT, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Outside the window past the two hills there is the city Last Line: Somewhere inside the mind. Subject(s): Cities; Kisses; Man-woman Relationships; Physical Disabilities; Weather; Writing & Writers; Urban Life; Male-female Relations; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples THE CITY REVISITED, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The grey gulls drift across the bay Last Line: We have our heaven on earth -- sometimes! Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THE CITY [OF THE DEAD]., by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They do neither plight nor wed Last Line: For the lie at ease and know that life is done. Subject(s): Autumn; Cities; Death; Life; Seasons; Singing & Singers; Fall; Urban Life; Dead, The; Songs THE CITY'S CROWN, by WILLIAM DUDLEY FOULKE Poem Text First Line: What makes a city great? Huge piles of stone Last Line: Till every stone shall be articulate. Subject(s): Cities; Religion; Wealth; Urban Life; Theology; Riches; Fortunes THE CITY: 1. VILLAGE FANTASY - THE QUEST, by STIRLING BOWEN Poem Text First Line: Outside we heard the january wind Last Line: So happy as to wake in tim's back room. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THE CITY: 2. THE CITY, by STIRLING BOWEN Poem Text First Line: And now I roam the wide and thronging square Last Line: One listening, for what no one can say. Subject(s): Cities; Solitude; Urban Life; Loneliness THE CONTRAST, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With ripples of blinding fire all broadway / wavered ashine Last Line: He tossed me a silver coin ... I let it lie in the street ... Subject(s): Cities; Class Struggle; Taxis; Urban Life THE COTTAR'S SONG, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Here the birds still chirp and twitter Last Line: Of a world supine. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Birds; Cities; Nature; Urban Life THE DEAD CITY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I rambled in a wood Last Line: And I straightway knelt and prayed. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Cities; Death; Fear; Forests; Grief; Urban Life; Dead, The; Woods; Sorrow; Sadness THE DEMONS OF THE CITIES, by GEORG HEYM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They wander through the cities night enshrouds Last Line: About their hooves, where flint-struck fires rise. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THE DESIRE FOR STRANGE CITIES, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each street means something other than it says Last Line: Rio, buenos aires, haifa, hong kong, prague. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THE DIRGE OF THE FOUR CITIES, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Finias and falias, / where are they gone? Last Line: The city of murias. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Cities; History; Lament; Nostalgia; Time; Urban Life; Historians THE DOOMED CITY, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! Death hath rear'd himself a throne Last Line: Shall give his undivided time. Subject(s): Cities; Death; Sea; Urban Life; Dead, The; Ocean THE DRAGON AND THE UNICORN: 5, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: New york a grey haze with flights of Subject(s): Cities; Dragons; Unicorns; Urban Life THE ESCAPE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the dreadful city's roar Last Line: Far from these clattering stones. Subject(s): Bones; Cities; Escapes; Lakes; Trees; Urban Life; Fugitives; Pools; Ponds THE FOUNDERS, by DAVID MACLURE Poem Text First Line: Here where a giant city's pulses throb Last Line: Proud of his home, the city beautiful. Subject(s): Cities; Pride; Urban Life; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE GREAT CITIES, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How wonderful are the cities that man hath builded Last Line: And in the heart of man I have set the city. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THE GREAT CITY, by FAITH EVELYN PACKARD Poem Text First Line: The great city / stretches out huge steel claws Last Line: The souls of the young. Subject(s): Cities; Hearts; Soul; Youth; Urban Life THE HERETIC: 3. MOCKERY, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God, I return to you on april days Last Line: For this, o god, my silence -- and my doubt. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THE HOMING INSTINCT, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There we see him, driving Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THE HUDSON, by STARR HOYT NICHOLS Poem Text First Line: With tranquil majesty our river flows Last Line: As souls melt theirs in death's infinity. Subject(s): Cities; Hudson River; Hudson Valley, New York; Urban Life THE IDEAL CITY, by WASHINGTON GLADDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O you whom god hath called and set apart Last Line: To serve. Subject(s): Cities; Worship; Urban Life THE LAST MAN: SUBTERRANEAN CITY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can it then be, that the earth loved some city Last Line: Yet legible? Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THE LITTLE TOWN O' TAILHOLT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You kin boast about yer cities, and their stiddy growth and size Last Line: But the little town o' tailholt's good enough fer me! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Cities; Pride; Towns; Urban Life; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE LORD MAYOR'S SHOW; SUNG BY MR. MATTHEWS FOR THE SPRING MEETING, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How well I remember the ninth of november Last Line: All, all to see the lord mayor's show. Subject(s): Cities; Festivals; Mayors; Urban Life; Fairs; Pageants THE MADONNA OF THE CURB, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the curb of a city pavement Last Line: Madonna of the curb! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Children; Cities; Poverty; Childhood; Urban Life THE MAID SUBURBAN, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: I must confess that I'm afraid Last Line: Give me the sweet suburban! Subject(s): Cities; Courtship; Man-woman Relationships; Suburbs; Women; Urban Life; Male-female Relations THE MAN WITH THE SAXOPHONE, by FLORENCE ANTHONY Poet's Biography First Line: New york. 5 a.M. Alternate Author Name(s): Ai Subject(s): Cities; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Urban Life THE MARSHES, by MABEL WARD RUDD Poem Text First Line: Where, through rank thatch, the grasping sea has put Last Line: To see the last trace of the marshes pass? Subject(s): Birds; Cities; Native Americans; Swamps; Urban Life; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Bogs; Fens; Marshes THE MIGRATION OF CITIES, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We love paris Last Line: Ports where the red flag has secretly flown for years. Subject(s): Chicago; Cities; Communism; Florence, Italy; Paris, France; Socialism; Urban Life THE MOMENT OF TRUTH, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pure poetry of paranoia was his as he emerged Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THE NEXT FIFTY YEARS, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Turn, tremble at honk Last Line: To where road starts again Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Cities; Future Life; Labor & Laborers; Urban Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Work; Workers THE PASSING OF SPAIN FROM THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: The lord communed with his heart in heaven Last Line: The passing away of spain. Subject(s): Cities; Messages & Messengers; Spain; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips THE PASSING SHOW, by AMBROSE BIERCE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know not if it was a dream. I viewed Last Line: A wolf sat howling on a broken tomb. Subject(s): Cities; Death; Dreams; Sleep; Soul; Urban Life; Dead, The; Nightmares THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 220, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As long as I stay in the village Last Line: And sparrows will dance like lords Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Cities; Villages; Urban Life THE POET, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You would procure the oil of forgiveness from the angel Last Line: With great humility, bathed in tears and barefoot. Subject(s): Americanization; Cities; Decay; Modern Man; United States; Urban Life; Rot; Decadence; America THE POOR MAN'S AUTOMOBILE, by EDWIN L. SABIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the day's stint is finished, and master and man Last Line: But I doubt if a nabob is gayer than we. Subject(s): Automobiles; Cities; Driving & Drivers; Travel; Wheels; Cars; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips THE RETURN, by LAURIE SHECK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And then he entered the city: in the old stories Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THE RUSH AND WHIRL, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: The rush and whirl of urban ways Last Line: The rush and whirl! Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THE SATISFACTION COAL COMPANY, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What to do with a day Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THE SEEKERS, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friends and loves we have none, nor wealth, nor blest abode Last Line: But the hope, the burning hope, and the road, the lonely road. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Cities; Earth; Roads; Solitude; Travel; Urban Life; World; Paths; Trails; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips THE SHOPPING BAG LADY, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You told people I would know easily what the murdered Variant Title(s): The Shopping-bag Lady Subject(s): Cities; Greece; Urban Life; Greeks THE SLEEPING, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have imagined all this Last Line: Who lay in the dark thinking roses, roses, roses Subject(s): Cities; New York City; Rothko, Mark (1903-1970); Urban Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE STRAY CAT, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's just an old alley cat Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Animals; Cities; Urban Life THE STREET, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Streaked and fretted with effort, the thick Subject(s): Cities; Streets; Urban Life; Avenues THE STREET BEHIND YOURS, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night droops down upon the street Last Line: And the gutter grumbling down! Subject(s): Cities; Night; Urban Life; Bedtime THE STREET LAMP, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Homes stand in slumber. Sleep broods shadowingly Last Line: Sadly you wane. How sad, and oh, how wise! Subject(s): Abandonment; Cities; Grief; Homeless; Poverty; Desertion; Urban Life; Sorrow; Sadness THE TEA-TABLE; A TOWN ECLOGUE, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saint james's noon-day bell for prayers had tolled Last Line: And all again that night at ombre met. Subject(s): Cities; Food & Eating; Tea; Urban Life THE TRAMP, by ROSALIND TRAVERS Poem Text First Line: I have turned my face away from the city Last Line: Away from sight and life; o, take me in! Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Cities; Estrangement; Outcasts; Urban Life THE TREES OF HADDONFIELD, by THOMAS J. MURRAY Poem Text First Line: I sing of haddonfield, west jersey's town Last Line: The starry banner and the union jack. Subject(s): Cities; New Jersey; Trees; Urban Life THE UNDERGROUND, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cities arise Last Line: The glaciers have set up their tents Subject(s): Cities; Glaciers; Hallucinations And Illusions; Sex; Violence; Urban Life THE UNDERWORLD, by GARRETT KAORU HONGO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the cone of flurried light Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THE VOYAGE, by EUGENE JOLAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have buried the city Last Line: The train is thundering toward eternity. Subject(s): Cities; Earth; Railroads; Travel; Urban Life; World; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips THE WHITE BONE, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When first I saw the city lone Last Line: With the white bone. Subject(s): Cities; Civilization; Deserts; Food & Eating; Hallucinations And Illusions; Urban Life THE WIND'S MESSAGE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There came a whisper down the bland between the dawn and dark Last Line: And strike once more the bridle-track that leads along the bland. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Cities; Life; Trees; Voices; Wind; Urban Life THE WRECKAGE ENTREPRENEUR, by ALICE FULTON Poet's Biography First Line: It takes faith - this tripping through the mixed bessings Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THERE I AM AGAIN, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see it again, half darkness in its brown light Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THERE'S A BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL CITY, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a bright and beautiful city Last Line: For they never, never die. Subject(s): Cities; Life; Urban Life THESE LACUSTRINE CITIES, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: These lacustrine cities grew out of loathing Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THINGS (FOR AN INDIAN) TO DO IN NEW YORK (CITY), by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Walk down the avenue of the americas Last Line: She loves me, she loves me Subject(s): New York City; Native Americans; Identity; Urban Life TIMGAD, by ELLEN VINTON Poem Text First Line: A forest of pillars in a barren plain Last Line: Reaching so far into this desert land. Subject(s): Cities; Rome, Italy; Urban Life TO A BIRD IN THE CITY, by MATTHIAS BARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, bird! I bless thee in my heart; god knows I love to see Last Line: Such things speak plainer far to me than all that man can say. Subject(s): Birds; Cities; Urban Life TO A FRIEND SETTLED IN THE COUNTRY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Richard, the lot which fate to thee has given Last Line: Sweet solace to the wearied soul can yield. Subject(s): Cities; Comfort; Country Life; Fate; Soldiers; Urban Life; Destiny TO CELIA, by HENRY FIELDING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hate the town and all its ways Last Line: Since she possesses all I love. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life TO THE GLORY OF JERUSALEM, by YEHUDA HALEVI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful height! O joy! The whole world's Last Line: Than honey—the earth of thee? Alternate Author Name(s): Halevi, Judah; Judah Ha-levi; Abu Al-hasan Subject(s): Cities; Jerusalem; Jews; Zionism; Urban Life; Judaism TO THE GREATEST CITY IN THE WORLD, by ROLFE HUMPHRIES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No permanent possession of the sky Last Line: Your rusting, huddled, fragmentary bones. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life TO WOUNDED FRANCE, by ANDRE GERMAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Land of my birth, basket laden with all the fruits of life Last Line: Fragrance dissolved, your shattered diadem! Alternate Author Name(s): Cendre, Lois Subject(s): Cities; France; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips TOWN AND COUNTRY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They's a predjudice allus 'twixt country and town Last Line: Fer theyr gran'pap to waller 'em round! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Cities; Country Life; Forests; Prejudice; Urban Life; Woods; Bias; Intolerance TOWN AND COUNTRY, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've thought, my cousin, it's extremely queer Last Line: And mean to come again another year. Subject(s): Cities; Country Life; Urban Life TRIALS OF A SPRING POET, by JULIAN FRANCIS SMITH Poem Text First Line: I sat me down beneath a tree Last Line: In safety in the city. Subject(s): Cities; Country Life; Creative Ability; Urban Life; Inspiration; Creativity TWO CITIES, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Girt with the river's silver zone Last Line: Upon the old foundations, build! Subject(s): Chicago Fire (1871); Cities; Corruption In Politics; New York City; Urban Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple TWO MOMENTS IN VENICE: 2. CITY OF EVENINGS, by JAMES WRIGHT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is still too early for evening, and the smoke of early september is gath Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Cities; Venice, Italy; Urban Life TWO VOICES, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet are the lanes and the hedges, the fields made red with the clover Last Line: And the sun of freedom shall shine across our graves to the ages!' Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Cities; Country Life; Freedom; Socialism; Urban Life; Liberty UPTOWN LOVE POEM, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't mind it so much any more Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life WANDERING, by SAMUEL ROTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little man of sorrows, whither would you wander? Last Line: "I am going to the country where my fathers ruled of old." Subject(s): Cities; Grief; Homecoming; Jews; Zionism; Urban Life; Sorrow; Sadness; Judaism WASHINGTON, by EVALYN TERRY BROOKS Poem Text First Line: O washington, the beautiful, our city glorious Last Line: Salute our washington! Subject(s): Cities; Love; Pride; Urban Life; Self-esteem; Self-respect WAYFARERS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind is very cold! Last Line: "follow the wind!" Subject(s): Cities; Dreams; Memory; Sea; Soul; Wind; Urban Life; Nightmares; Ocean WHAT ARE CITIES FOR?, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The earth has covered sicilian syracuse, there asphodel grows Subject(s): Cities; Time; Urban Life WHAT THE CITY WAS LIKE, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The city was full of blue devils Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life WHEN SKYSCRAPERS WERE INVENTED IN CHICAGO, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think of it as a large moment with shadows Subject(s): Chicago; Cities; Skyscrapers; Urban Life WHEN YOU WALK, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you walk in a field Last Line: The beautiful clouds go by! Subject(s): Cities; Country Life; Walking; Urban Life WHITE NOISE, by LAURIE SHECK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The faces are lifted up into the jumpy light Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life WINDOWS, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We're livin' out here in the country now Last Line: Where I watched as the world went by. Subject(s): Cities; Collective Behavior; Streets; Windows; Urban Life; Mobs; Crowds; Avenues WITH LEE REMICK AT MIDNIGHT, by RON PADGETT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lights shoot off the windows at the plaza Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life WRITTEN IN MONTAIGNE'S ESSAYS, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dictate, o mighty judge, what thou hast seen Last Line: While talbot tells the world, where montaigne erred. Subject(s): Cities; England; France; Judges; Wisdom; Urban Life; English YELLOW COIN, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the only changes are Last Line: The only wall that holds my history. Subject(s): Change; Cities; Memory; Urban Life YELLOW LIGHT, by GARRETT KAORU HONGO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: One arm hooked around the frayed strap Subject(s): Cities; Los Angeles; Urban Life YOUR TURN, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dewdrop ode sweet licks Last Line: Make neurons dance in world muse impulse book Subject(s): Cities; Melodies; Music & Musicians; Urban Life |
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