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Subject: BROOKLYN, NEW YORK Matches Found: 26 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ALLEGORICAL FIGURE OF BROOKLYN, by TONY TOWLE Poem Source First Line: The allegorical figure of brooklyn is right here Last Line: By the figure, and back toward home on the bmt %we smile at the tender figure and wave goodbye Subject(s): Brooklyn, New York BROOKLYN, by EDWARD FALCO Poem Source First Line: Street buried in it buried street talisman glass coke bottle Last Line: Sometimes money %buried under under it even now now after all these all this Subject(s): Brooklyn, New York BROOKLYN, by CARL WATSON Poem Source First Line: Worlds within worlds kill worlds Subject(s): Brooklyn, New York BROOKLYN 1948 THE MARINE PARKWAY BRIDGE, by MYRON ERNST Poem Source First Line: My blue steel Last Line: And brighter, at last %after the weight of their breaking Subject(s): Brooklyn, New York BROOKLYN BOUND, by BARBARA ELOVIC Poem Source First Line: As if posed for a picture called 'restless youth' Last Line: As the flight of any bird, away from the water Subject(s): Brooklyn, New York; Cities BROOKLYN HEIGHTS, by HARVEY SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In this corner of the world Last Line: All walking %where the ferryboats sparkle Subject(s): Brooklyn, New York BROOKLYN HEIGHTS, by JOHN WAIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the gay cliff of the nineteenth century Last Line: Breathe the ozone older than the name of commerce: %be the citizens of the true survival! Subject(s): Brooklyn, New York; Travel BROOKLYN HEIGHTS: 1, by HARVEY SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'm on water street in brooklyn Last Line: I turn to see the cordage %of the brooklyn bridge, and behind it %the battle-gray manhattan Subject(s): Brooklyn, New York BROOKLYN HEIGHTS: 2, by HARVEY SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This room shelved high with books Last Line: Swayed aloft there, %the lower bay before them, they can %bring me back my city line by line Subject(s): Brooklyn, New York BROOKLYN NIGHTS, by HARVEY SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We are like inhabitants Last Line: The power of redemptive love, like %new jersey red, has gone into the clouds. %everyone must feel it Subject(s): Brooklyn, New York BROOKLYNESE CAPITOL, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: The asia of new england Last Line: The schnitzel of the alps %the smell way Subject(s): Brooklyn, New York; Hotels; Tourists; Travel CAGE, by JOHN MONTAGUE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My father, the least happy Last Line: Accident beating on his ghostly forehead Subject(s): Brooklyn, New York CROSSING BROOKLYN FERRY, by CHARLES TOMLINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To cross a ferry that is no longer there Last Line: Have the whole east river to reflect upon %and the tall solidities it liquefies Subject(s): Brooklyn, New York; Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) CROSSING BROOKLYN FERRY, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Flood-tide below me! I see you face to face Last Line: Great or small, you furnish your parts toward the soul. Subject(s): Americans; Brooklyn, New York; Ferry Boats; United States; America DAY OF THE DEAD, by PATRICIA SPEARS JONES Poem Source First Line: Here is brooklyn Last Line: Happy for the privilege Subject(s): Brooklyn, New York; Cities GRAND ARMY PLAZA, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: 10:00 at night in brooklyn Last Line: Where the sky salts a wither of grass. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Brooklyn, New York HOW TO GET THERE, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Turn left off henry onto middagh street Subject(s): Brooklyn, New York; Firehouses I'M STILL ON THE DOCKS, by JOHN JOSEPH MCKERNAN Poem Source First Line: In brooklyn -- beneath the bridge Last Line: Come direct from nowell's arc Subject(s): Brooklyn, New York; Water LETTER TO MR. PULITZER, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dear mr. Pulitzer: I beg to mention Last Line: The sudsy foam of her own fountain basin Subject(s): Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, New York MEDITATION ON THE BMT, by PAUL BLACKBURN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, at the beginning of the new season Last Line: Nearly empty train / empty Subject(s): Brooklyn, New York; Subways MEDITATION ON THE BMT, by PAUL BLACKBURN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, at the beginning of the new season Subject(s): Brooklyn, New York; Subways RETURN TO BROOKLYN, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Half an hour early for my appointment Last Line: And said she was bathing the baby now %too fearful to let me in Subject(s): Brooklyn, New York; Psychoanalysis; Relationships ROMARE BEARDEN RETROSPECTIVE AT THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM, by CORNELIUS ROBERT EADY Poem Source First Line: Opera! All that cardboard Last Line: The headlines of a world %that threatens to rip open Subject(s): Brooklyn, New York; Cities; Museums THE CENTENARIAN'S STORY, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give me your hand, old revolutionary Last Line: Stands forever the camp of that dead brigade. Subject(s): American Civil War; Brooklyn, New York; Old Age; United States - History; Veterans THE HYACINTH GARDEN IN BROOKLYN, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A year ago friends Last Line: In paradise. Subject(s): Brooklyn, New York; Gardens & Gardening; Hyacinths TO A PORTRAIT OF WHISTLER IN THE BROOKLYN ART MUSEUM, by ELEANOR ROGERS COX Poem Text First Line: What waspish whim of fate Last Line: It's I or none at all! Subject(s): Brooklyn, New York |
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