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| Searching... Subject: ATHLETES Matches Found: 39 A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 19. TO AN ATHLETE DYING YOUNG, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The time you won your town the race Last Line: The garland briefer than a girl's. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Variant Title(s): A Shropshire Lad: 19 Subject(s): Athletes; Death; Dead, The ATHLETIC ODE, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hear a rumour and a shout Last Line: Youth has her perfect crown, and age her old desire. Subject(s): Athletes; Youth BACK AGAIN, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The scribe returns from training camp, Last Line: "comes that one chant, ""how do they look?" Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Sports COBB'S MEMORIES, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: A few more weeks, and tyrus cobb will be Last Line: Supreme—awhile—then dropped beside the road? Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Cobb, Ty (1886-1961); Middle Age; Sports EPIGRAM: ON MILL, MY LADY'S WOMAN, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When mill first came to court, the unprofiting fool Last Line: First bearing him a calf, bear him a bull. Subject(s): Athletes IN PERFECT HARMONY, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The pitcher knows that he could play the field Last Line: And fairly aches to run that baseball club! Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Leadership; Sports JACK CHESBRO, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Jack chesbro, good old hurler, you were a Last Line: It's hard to say it, jack, old friend, but you will get the hook! Subject(s): Aging; Athletes; Baseball; Chesbro, Jack (1874-1931); Sports JAKE DAUBERT, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: No finer player ever flashed the spikes Last Line: And waved him outward through the unknown gate! Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Daubert, Jake (1884-1924); Death; Sports; Dead, The JOHN MCGRAW, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: I'd like to play in old new york, Last Line: "and that's his only law!" Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Mcgraw, John (1873-1934); New York City; Sports; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple LOVE SONNET OF A PLAYER, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Say, kid, d'you know, I just can't understand Last Line: I'll kill three baseball scribes by monday night! Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Language; Sports; Words; Vocabulary MY FATHER'S HEROES, by ALLISON JOSEPH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not jfk, not mlk Last Line: The last words %she'd give them Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Athletes; Fathers; Jazz; Music And Musicians OLYMPIAN VICTORS, by HORACE SPENCER FISKE Poem Text First Line: I stood on the slope of kronos gray, above the olympian plain Last Line: And played in the porch of echo with a murmur long and sweet. Subject(s): Athletes; Olympia, Greece; Temples; Victory; Mosques PLAY BALL!, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Flags dance, bands bray, the gates are thrown ajar; Last Line: "to that one crashing chorus of ""play ball!" Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Sports SHERWOOD MCGEE, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Dusk was approaching, when the lengthy game Last Line: Such matchless doings by one s. Magee! Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Sports SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#24), by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A common goal-to defy gravity Last Line: He is not mass but ballast %his fingerprints are intimate with gravity Subject(s): Athletes; Sports STEPPING DOWN, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Going out of the big league Last Line: I am not yet thirty-three! Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Sports; Success STRUGNELL'S RUBAIYAT: 12, by WENDY COPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Some men to everlasting bliss aspire Last Line: Oh, use your credit card and waive the rest - %brave music of a distant amplifier! Subject(s): Athletes; Fitzgerald, Edward (1809-1883); Music And Musicians STRUGNELL'S RUBAIYAT: 7, by WENDY COPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Another pint! Come, loosen up, have fun! Last Line: Time's spacecraft all too soon will carry you %away - and lo! The countdown has begun Subject(s): Athletes; Drinks And Drinking; Fitzgerald, Edward (1809-1883); Honor THE ART OF PRESERVING HEALTH: BOOK 2. RUSTIC INTERIOR, by JOHN ARMSTRONG Poem Text First Line: Nothing so foreign but th' athletic hind Last Line: Grow wiser, lesson'd by the dropping teeth. Subject(s): Athletes; Food & Eating; Health THE CATCHER, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Like a rhinoceros, in style and grace Last Line: And he holds on—the mainstay of the team! Variant Title(s): The Old Catcher Subject(s): Aging; Athletes; Baseball; Sports THE CHAMPION'S BAT, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Heavy and thick and long Last Line: Where is the champion now? Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Sports THE COLLEGE ATHLETE, by WALLACE RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Statue-like standeth he forth, quick, elate Last Line: Such as hath given martyrs mortal birth. Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De Subject(s): Athletes; Marble; Sculpture & Sculptors; Statues THE COMEBACK, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: He made a rep in the minors, and he thought Last Line: "(and it's cost you a lot of money) that at last you are wanting me!" Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Conceit; Money; Sports THE GLORIOUS TOUCHDOWN, by GEORGE ADE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the crisp autumnal zephyrs whistle through the leafless trees Last Line: By going into training — the result will be the same. Subject(s): Athletes; Football; Sports; Track Athletics; Victory; Running Races; Pole Vaulting; Discus Throwing; Shot Putting; Running Hurdles THE HURDLERS, by HENRY DE MONTHERLANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They near the hurdle full speed Last Line: Dying beyond the line. Subject(s): Athletes; Legs THE NO-HIT GAME, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Round after round they were falling, nobody Last Line: "yet they kept on repeating, ""that bird ain't got a darned thing!" Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Sports THE OLD CATCHER, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The aged catcher dons his mask- Last Line: The backbone of the team! Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Old Age; Sports THE OLD PITCHER, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: He hobbles lamely from the bench Last Line: Those boys with iron hand! Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Knowledge; Old Age; Sports THE OLD-TIMER, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Show me a catcher like ewing-- Last Line: "about ""the advance of the game""!" Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Sports; Success THE PITCHER, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The pitcher stands upon the hill, his pose is won- Last Line: "aw take him out! For mikes' sake, take him out!" Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Failure; Sports THE RUNNER, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On a flat road runs the well-train'd runner Last Line: With lightly closed fists and arms partially rais'd. Subject(s): Athletes; Sports THE SOUTHPAW, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: They kid him and they razz him, and the fans Last Line: And yet—somehow—the southpaws often win! Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Sports TO A MAIDEN; WINNER IN THE THOUSAND-METER RACE, by HENRY DE MONTHERLANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let me look at you in silence, until I lower my head Last Line: The old, virgin surprise of the savage beholding a maid. Subject(s): Athletes; Health; Mothers; Sports; Victory TO ALEXANDER THE GREAT, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: No more he walks across the field Last Line: When he comes home again! Subject(s): Alexander, Grover Cleveland (1887-1950); Athletes; Baseball; Soldiers; Sports; World War I; First World War TOO MUCH COUE, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The pitcher stood upon the mound Last Line: And then the maddened umpire spoke—and gave them both the gate! Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Failure; Sports TRAIN-MATES, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Outside hove shasta, snowy height on height Last Line: As discus-thrower and as laureate? Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Athletes; Poetry & Poets VERS LIBRE OF BASEBALL, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The veteran stands forth and swings a bat Last Line: "get outa here!" Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Competition; Sports WALTER JOHNSON, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: He may not have the arm of old-- Last Line: It's still darned hard to hit him! Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Johnson, Walter (1887-1946); Sports WASTED ENERGY, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The new-come pitcher, tall and strong Last Line: That he was deaf and dumb! Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Deafness; Sports |
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