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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: BOARDING HOUSES Matches Found: 91 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A HUNDRED COLLARS, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The doctor slid a little down the pillow. Subject(s): Hotels; Relationships; Fear; Money; Collars; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses A TRUE STORY, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One afternoon in my room Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses ADULTERY, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have all been in rooms Subject(s): Hotels; Love - Marital; Marriage; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AN OLD INN BY THE SEA, by ODELL SHEPARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All night long we had heard the voice of the sea Last Line: He sent this last dark cohort crashing in? Subject(s): Hotels; Sea; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Ocean AT A HOTEL IN ANOTHER STAR, by JEAN VALENTINE Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: At a hotel in another star. The rooms were cold and Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses AT THE DAYS END MOTEL, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I turned on the waterworks and said Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses AT THE ROADHOUSE: IN MEMORY OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: You hearken, fellows? Turned aside Last Line: The velvet jacket at the door. Subject(s): Hotels; Poetry & Poets; Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894); Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses BEAUTIFUL ABERFOYLE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mountains and glens of aberfoyle are beautiful to sight Last Line: When the face of nature's green in the spring of the year. Subject(s): Guests; Hotels; Mountains; Sight; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips BEAUTIFUL NAIRN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All ye tourists who wish to be away Last Line: Therefore I would recommend nairn for balmy pure air. Subject(s): Hotels; Tourists; Towns; Travel; Vacation; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Journeys; Trips BLACK BULL OF ALDGATE, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black bull of aldgate, may thy horns rot from the sockets Last Line: Than ever hasty clement's did with bloated harry! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hate; Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses BLACK MARE, by LYNDA HULL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It snakes behind me, this invisible chain gang Last Line: Terminal hotel, the world shuddering with trains Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Hotels; Love - Complaints; Disappointmenr; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses BOARDING HOUSE, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The blind man draws his curtains for the night Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses CHANEL NO. 5, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life had become a sort of gorgeous elegy Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses DANCING AT THE CHELSEA, by DIONISIO D. MARTINEZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is no longer a question of balance and yet Last Line: Made in the aisle of an abandoned pullman. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Hotels; New York City; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple DAWN ON THE HILLS (FROM A HOTEL WINDOW), by LILLIAN ATCHERSON Poem Text First Line: My home is a suite on the third floor up Last Line: May I walk with my fellowmen. Subject(s): Dawn; Hotels; Sunrise; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses DESIRE, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a small wrought-iron balcony Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses DOWN ON WRIGGLE CRICK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mostly, folks is law-abidin' Last Line: Down on wriggle crick! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Brooks; Crime & Criminals; Hotels; Streams; Creeks; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses EBENEZER-GRAMS: 2. UNKEL EB IS SPEEDIN', by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Unkel eb is now a speedin' Last Line: Wher weery peeple pass. Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Hotels; Travel; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Journeys; Trips FOR THE SAKE OF AMELIA, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tending a cliff-hanging grand hotel Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses GAYHEART, A STORY OF DEFEAT, by DANA BURNET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gayheart came in june, I saw his heels Last Line: But I behold him in the city's eyes. Subject(s): Boarding Houses; Poetry & Poets; Success; City & Town Life GLACIER PARK, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: At last we've reached the famous place Last Line: When the tenderfeet intrude. Subject(s): Animals; Hotels; Parks; Tourists; Travel; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Journeys; Trips GLENWOOD SPRINGS, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under doc holliday's / weary eyes Last Line: As mountains Subject(s): Hotels; Travel; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Journeys; Trips HARD EVIDENCE, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A room walled-in by books where the hours withdraw Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses HOTEL, by GAYLE GIBLIN Poem Text First Line: A thousand rooms in a beautiful home Last Line: This home is a grotesque fantasy. Subject(s): Home; Hotels; Rooms; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses HOTEL, by SHERARD VINES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The great bestial bulk of it looms into the night Last Line: Till one night lady death fingers the cups ere dawn? Subject(s): Hotels; Oxford University; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses HOTEL INSOMNIA, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I liked my little hole Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses HOTEL LENOX, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And she loved loving Last Line: And the lemon light flew over the river Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses HOTEL SIERRA, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The november air Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses HOTEL ST. LOUIS, NEW YORK CITY, FALL 1969, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I went inside, the manager said, `you don't want to live Last Line: Sunday mornings, a bright orange football helmet that glowed like the sun. Subject(s): Hotels; New York City; Survival; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple HOTEL WINDOW, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aura of absence, vertigo of non-being Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses IMPROMPTU ON AN INNKEEPER NAMED BACON, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At brownhill we always get dainty good cheer Last Line: But why always bacon-come, tell me a reason? Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses IN A HOTEL WRITING-ROOM, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We artists have strange nerves! Last Line: We had met before this scene. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Faces; Friendship; Hate; Hotels; Summer; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses IN A LODGING HOUSE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Get to thy room, a voice told me Last Line: And less thy hope than older men. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses IN A RENTED ROOM, by DENIS JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is a good dream, even if the falling is Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses IN GEORGETOWN; HOLIDAY INN, WASHINGTON, D.C., by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is not where the rich and famous pursue their lifestyles Last Line: "melodiously at the door: ""are you all right, sir? Are you all right in there?" Subject(s): Americans; Corruption In Politics & Government; Hotels; Politics; Social Protest; United States; Washington, D.c.; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Politicians; Political Poetry; America IN THE HOTEL, by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whir. The invisible sponsored again by white Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses IN THE WILDERNESS MOTEL, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Red star hovering Last Line: The comfort, the company of ruin. Subject(s): Abandonment; Decay; Hotels; Nature; Desertion; Rot; Decadence; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses JACKSON HOTEL, by LYNDA HULL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes after hours of wine I can almost see Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses LOOKING FOR THE GULF MOTEL, by RICHARD BLANCO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: There should be nothing here I don't remember Last Line: And pretend for a moment, nothing lost is lost Subject(s): Travel; Hotels; Marco Island, Florida; Journeys; Trips; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses MARMION: CANTO 3. THE HOSTEL, OR INN, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The livelong day lord marmion rode Last Line: The first notes of the morning lark. Subject(s): Flodden Field, England; Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses MARRY AT A HOTEL, ANNUL ?ÇÖEM, by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Language; Hotels; Words; Vocabulary; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses MARY, THE MAID OF THE INN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is yonder poor maniac, whose wildly fixed eyes Last Line: Of poor mary the maid of the inn. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hotels; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Male-female Relations MIDSUMMER: 3, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the queen's park hotel, with its white, high-ceilinged rooms Last Line: A breeze strolls down to the docks, and the sea begins Subject(s): Hotels; Summer; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses MIDSUMMER: 36, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The oak inns creak in their joints as light declines Subject(s): Environment; Hotels; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses MOTEL SEEDY, by THOMAS LUX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The artisans of this room, who designed the lamp base Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses OUT OF SEASON, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I stayed at the grand hotel Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses OUTSIDE ROOM SIX, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down on my knees again, on the linoleum outside room six Last Line: Black square, white square goes the linoleum Subject(s): Hotels; Popular Culture - United States; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses PARADISE MOTEL, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Millions were dead; everybody was innocent Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses PEN-Y-GWYRDD; TO TOM HUGHES, ESQ., by CHARLES KINGSLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no inn in snowdon which is not awful dear Last Line: And so, goes to my children's school and 'umbly makes my bow. Subject(s): Hotels; Wales; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Welshmen; Welshwomen REMEMBERING, by ANNA PRIESTLEY Poem Text First Line: I remember a little inn Last Line: Only beauty's ghost? Subject(s): Hotels; Memory; Moon; Spring; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses REMOVED AT THE MOMENT OF PERFECTION, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The earth has moved forward, in a sense, or does it merely turn Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses ROOMING HOUSES ARE OLD WOMEN, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rooming houses are old women Last Line: "unknown and desired / Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Rooming & Boarding Houses RUBBING THE FACES OF ANGELS, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the balcony of the golden eagle motor inn Last Line: Me the reclining skeleton of thomas pool. Subject(s): Charleston, South Carolina; Death; Hotels; Southern States; Dead, The; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; South (u.s.) SAINTS AND LODGERS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Ye saints, that sing in rooms above Last Line: Some pensions take -- such are our lodgers. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses SIGNATURE OF LOVE, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In missoula, someone has punched Last Line: Beneath the signature of love on the ceiling. Subject(s): Hotels; Love; Sex; Vandalism; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses SONNETS IN A LODGING HOUSE: 1, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each morn she crackles upward, tread by tread Last Line: Please leave the tub as you would wish to find it! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses SONNETS IN A LODGING HOUSE: 2, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men lodgers are the best, the mrs. Said Last Line: Take my advice and let your rooms to gents! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses SURFACE AND STRUCTURE: BONAVENTURE HOTEL, LOS ANGELES, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Four black glass silos Last Line: Broken from a necklace. Subject(s): Decay; Hotels; Los Angeles; Rot; Decadence; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses TARANTELLA, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you remember an inn, / miranda? Last Line: Of the far waterfall like doom. Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses TEARING DOWN THE HOTEL, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: They are tearing down the oldest hotel Subject(s): Demolition; Past; Hotels; Nostalgia; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses TH INN BY THE WOOD, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rank raw mist clung close like a hood Last Line: And I supped like a king at the inn by the wood. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Forests; Hotels; Woods; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE ARTEMUS OF MICHIGAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grand haven is in michigan Last Line: Potts! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Hotels; Michigan; Towns; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND EYES: THE LOST PINES INN, by LYN HEJINIAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lost pines inn would be a good name for a motel, or no sheep in the meadow Last Line: P.T. Cruiser that got me home by bedtime Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE BOROUGH: LETTER 11. INNS, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the comforts of life in a tavern are known Last Line: Took the green-man, and is a master now. Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE COLLAPSE OF THE TWO-RIVERS HOTEL, by SAADI YOUSSEF Poem Text First Line: The desert is not far from it Alternate Author Name(s): Youssef, Saddi; Yusuf, Sa'di Subject(s): Hotels; Nostalgia; Ruins; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE CROWN INN, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Round all its nooks and corners goes Last Line: While empires shudder into night. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Hotels; Landscape; English; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE EMPRESS HOTEL POEMS, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just get up / and sit down again. Then Last Line: In the other poem. Subject(s): Hotels; Housekeeping; Language; Rooms; Tourists; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Words; Vocabulary THE ENORMOUS AQUARIUM, by SHEROD SANTOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All morning long from inside the lobby Subject(s): Aquariums; Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE HOTEL DU NORD, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the lawn of the old hotel at twilight Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE INN AT LOCH RANZA, by WILLIAM MCQUEEN (1841-) Poem Text First Line: There's a neat little inn cuddled close by the hills Last Line: Not far from the inn at loch ranza. Subject(s): Hospitality; Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE INN OF THE FIVE CHIMNEYS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It had five chimneys, had that inn Last Line: And rumor said it was soiled with sin! Subject(s): Hotels; Sin; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE INN THAT MISSED ITS CHANCE (THE LANDLORD SPEAKS, AD. 28), by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What could be done? The inn was full of folks! Last Line: The birthplace of messiah, -- had I known! Subject(s): Christmas; Hotels; Nativity, The; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE INN: AN OLD EPITAPH, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Post-haste we ride the road of men Last Line: Who soonest goes hath least to pay. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Hotels; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE INVERSNAID INN, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The season is ended, the cold days begin Last Line: We are left in the storm, like the inversnaid inn! Subject(s): Hotels; Scotland; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE KEEPER OF THE DEAD HOTEL, by AGHA SHAHID ALI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In one room upstairs Last Line: The moon splashed everywhdre Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE KEY, by RICHARD JONES Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is my key to happiness Last Line: My sugar and my cream. Subject(s): Algeria; Hotels; Keys; Travel; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Journeys; Trips THE LANDLADY IN BANGKOK, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Because, separated from us by a language Last Line: From samsara to nirvana. Subject(s): Hotels; Landlords & Tenants; Thailand; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE LATEST HOTEL GUEST WALKS OVER PARTICLES THAT REVOLVE, by RUTH STONE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is an old established hotel Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE LODGING HOUSE FIRE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: My birthday - yesterday Last Line: Poison the score. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Fire; Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE MAN ON THE HOTEL ROOM BED, by GALWAY KINNELL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He shifts on the bed carefully, so as Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE QUIET LODGER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man that rooms next door to Last Line: This man that rooms next door to me! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Faces; Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE WAYSIDE INN; SUDBURY, MASSACHUSETTS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Set by the meadows, with great oaks to guard Last Line: Songs that will echo sweet the ages down! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Guests; Hotels; Massachusetts; Visiting; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses TO A COUNTRY HOTEL TOWEL, by ELMER CLEVELAND ADAMS Poem Text First Line: I'll touch you not, you much abus-ed rag Last Line: Trying to don you for an undershirt. Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses TO A WATCH LEFT IN A HOTEL ROOM, by DEBORA GREGER Poem Text First Line: Not long ago the sun was shining Subject(s): Hotels; Loss; Watches; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses UNION OF WOMEN, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At a literary gathering in santa monica Last Line: So here's to solidarity, cinquains, brave bearded ladies -- hooray! Subject(s): Beards; Hotels; Labor Unions; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Feminism UP-HILL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Last Line: Yea, beds for all who come. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Uphill Subject(s): Death; Faith; Heaven; Hotels; Life; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Religion; Time; Travel; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Paradise; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Theology; Journeys; Trips WARM DAYS IN JANUARY, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It has never been so easy to cry Subject(s): City & Town Life; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Ancestors & Ancestry; Hotels; Male-female Relations; Heritage; Heredity; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses WHAT THE MAGDALENE SAW, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This fat cum pig more than eager to drop Subject(s): Hotels; Sex; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses WORLDLINESS, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I close my eyes Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses WRITTEN AT AN INN, by GEORGE HORNE Poem Text First Line: From much-loved friends whene'er I part Last Line: "arise, my soul, and let us go." Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses WRITTEN AT AN INN AT HENLEY, by WILLIAM SHENSTONE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To thee, fair freedom! I retire / from flattery, cards, and dice, and din Last Line: The warmest welcome at an inn. Subject(s): Freedom; Hotels; Liberty; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses |
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