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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: WHEELS Matches Found: 27 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A VERMONT GRINSTONE, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our old big grinstone used to stand Last Line: And leaves him only one to turn. Subject(s): Railroads; Stones; Vermont; Wagons; Wheels; Railways; Trains; Granite; Rocks AT THE WHEEL, by DONALD EVANS Poem Text First Line: She holds my lost illusions in her hands Last Line: Untouched she turns the wheel. She has not heard. Subject(s): Death; Faith; Soul; Wheels; Dead, The; Belief; Creed ENIGMA: 21, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though constantly we're in the mire Last Line: And multiply your puny force. Subject(s): Wheels FIGURED WHEEL, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The figured wheel rolls through shopping malls and prisons Last Line: There, figured and pre-figured in the nothing-transfiguring wheel Subject(s): Wheels IXION'S APOLOGIA FROM THE WHEEL, by JOSEPH S. SALEMI Poem Source First Line: She welcomed me, those ox-eyes clear Last Line: I'll still shout for the world to hear: %she welcomed me! Subject(s): Wheels; Women LIVING AT THE AIRPORT, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because they lived near a major airport Last Line: Wings? Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Travel; Wheels; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Journeys; Trips MAUD MULLER A-WHEEL, by SAMUEL ELLSWORTH KISER Poem Text First Line: Maud muller, on a summer's day Last Line: Be not allowed to block the way! Subject(s): Automobiles; Driving & Drivers; Household Employees; Social Classes; Wheels; Cars; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Caste MY BICYCLE, by FRANKLIN VERZELIUS NEWTON PAINTER Poem Text First Line: The sun looks o'er the mountain fair Last Line: Can bring me such a joy and power. Subject(s): Bicycles; Grass; Landscape; Mountains; Wheels; Cycling; Hills; Downs (great Britain) ODE TO THE FERRIS WHEEL, ON ITS NINETY-NINTH BIRTHDAY, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, mr. Ferris, what an invention! Last Line: The luck of the circle and the sun Subject(s): Ferris Wheels PARADISE LOST, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I sat at the wheel of the fire chief's car Last Line: At the wheel of the fire chief's car. Subject(s): Automobiles; Driving & Drivers; Firefighters; Labor & Laborers; Wheels; Cars; Work; Workers RINGS, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A veairy ring so round's the zun Last Line: On elem boughs, on mossy limbs. Subject(s): Games; Play; Wheels; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE DARK WAGGON, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The water-wraith shrieked over clyde Last Line: Sir william wallace stept! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Horseback Riding; Travel; Wagons; Wheels; Journeys; Trips THE FIGURED WHEEL, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The figured wheel rolls through shopping malls and prisons Subject(s): Wheels THE OLD WATER-WHEEL, by JOHN RUSKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It lies beside the river; where its marge Last Line: How they once sounded. All is silent now. Subject(s): Water-wheels 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 SAKIYEH, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How long shall man be nature's fool?' man cries Last Line: Bound blindfold to the groaning wheel of time. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Egypt; Water-wheels THE SPIRIT OF TRANSPORTATION, by ROY GEORGE Poem Text First Line: Time, and the wheel, and the infinite sphere Last Line: Bring the new to view. Subject(s): Wheels THE SWITCH YARD, by JOHN CURTIS UNDERWOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the glimmer of arc lights and spaces of shade Last Line: Past the tall signal tower holding the void in survey. Subject(s): New York City; Subways; Wheels; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE VERMONT THRASHERS ARE COMING, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yep; there they come there down the road Last Line: "say; jabe, you've got to 'feed 'er in.'" Subject(s): Travel; Vermont; Wheels; Journeys; Trips THE WATERWHEEL, by ELEANOR VAN WINKLE Poem Text First Line: Unending was the path the camel trod Last Line: Serving a man-made god -- and they are blind! Subject(s): Egypt; Water-wheels THE WHEEL, by WENDELL BERRY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the first strokes of the fiddle bow Subject(s): Christianity; Dancing & Dancers; Religion; Time; Wheels; Theology THE WHEEL, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How can I turn this wheel that turns my life Subject(s): Wheels WHEEL, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the first strokes of the fiddle bow Last Line: And turn with them in the dance %in the sweet enclosure %of the song, and timeless %is the wheel tha Subject(s): Christianity; Dancing And Dancers; Religion; Time; Wheels WHEEL, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How can I turn this wheel that turns my life Subject(s): Wheels WHEEL, by MICHAEL PAUL NOVAK Poem Source First Line: My father spins the wheel Last Line: Dark, circles the room %dusting her world to shine. %the dirt's my destiny Subject(s): Wheels WHEELS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who made the first wheels in the ages past? Last Line: But all men will ride on those wheels some day. Subject(s): Wheels WHEELS OF TRAINS, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are there just the same Last Line: For all my travels Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Railroads; Wheels |
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