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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CARS Matches Found: 50 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 54045, by JOAN SALVAT-PAPASSEIT Poem Source First Line: The turning dynamo moves its fiery members Last Line: In truth I didn't have one friend Subject(s): Language; Tourists; Travel; Trolley Cars A CROWDED TROLLEY CAR, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Trolley Cars; City & Town Llife A STREET CAR SYMPHONY, by ROY ADDISON HELTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rumble along, over the water Last Line: Back into town on the spruce street car. Subject(s): Trolley Cars A TRACT FOR AUTOS, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, all you little runabouts Last Line: Developed planes and flew! Subject(s): Automobiles; Cars ARTIE BUCK'S MACHINE, by P. C. KIBBE Poem Text First Line: By intense toil a rig I wrought Last Line: And crush cold logic's steady light. Subject(s): Automobiles; Love - Materialism; Cars AUTOMIBILES AT NIGHT, by CHRISTINE ROSE WHITNEY Poem Text First Line: Like big black cats Last Line: Like big black cats. Subject(s): Automobiles; Cars BUICK, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As a sloop with a sweep of immaculate wing on her delicate spine Subject(s): Automobiles; Love - Erotic; Cars CABLE CAR, by ERNEST KROLL Poem Source First Line: A scroll-fretted Last Line: What's %this we're sliding %into %but %van ness Subject(s): Cable Cars (streetcars) CABLE CAR TURN AROUND (TAKEN FROM A PHOTOGRAPH), by LAURA FELDMAN Poem Source First Line: Creating a visa to enter the site as again a poseur now both Last Line: Ent sense of peace and the circular. Its resemblance to the %kiva Subject(s): Cable Cars (streetcars) CAR RADIO, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: An in-joke and the long days of faltering Subject(s): Automobiles; Radios; Travel; Cars; Journeys; Trips DRIVING ALONGSIDE THE HOUSANTONIC RIVER ALONE ON A RAINY APRIL NIGHT, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember asking Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Shadows; Automobiles; Cars DUET, WITH MUFFLED BRAKE DRUMS, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where gray walks slope through shadows shaped like lace Last Line: Two gold and velvet notes – there rolls met royce Subject(s): Automobiles; Rolls, Charles Stewart (1877-1910); Royce, Frederick Henry (1863-1933); Cars EDDY-GRAMS: 3. EDDY PARKED HIS CAR, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: When eddy went ter turn around Last Line: Wuz in his car that day. Subject(s): Automobiles; Ford Motor Company; Cars FROM A CAR WINDOW, by LEONA BOLT MARTIN Poem Text First Line: Woodlands and prairies all rolling and green Last Line: Thus briefly our lives perhaps touch -- then they're gone. Subject(s): Automobiles; Cars FROM THE ROAD, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What stops me is the big indifference Subject(s): Automobiles; Travel; Cars; Journeys; Trips HAZARDS, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: Whenever I walk in a new york street Last Line: The driving is safer there after it's dark. Subject(s): Automobiles; Driving & Drivers; New York City; Cars; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple JERUSALEM THE GOLDEN: 42, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Permit me to warn you Subject(s): Automobiles; Cars LAY OF THE MOTOR-CAR, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We're away! And the wind whistles shrewd Last Line: That stuff on the wheel? Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Automobiles; Driving & Drivers; Roads; Cars; Paths; Trails MADISON IN THE MID-SIXTIES, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Names, can you talk without their mirage? Subject(s): Automobiles; Driving; Social Classes; Cars; Caste 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 GRANDMAMMA'S SEDAN, by JENNIE BETTS HARTSWICK Poem Text First Line: The ladies of st. James'' / went 'swinging to the play' Last Line: With skill and grace, comes on apace, my grandmamma's sedan! Subject(s): Automobiles; Grandparents; Cars; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers OLD SONG FOR THE BO, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hip hop to the auto shop Last Line: Gonna be the king of the automobiles. Subject(s): Automobiles; Cars 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 PARKED CARS AT NIGHT, by MARY C. SLEVIN Poem Text First Line: All night / every night Last Line: Pawing in the dark cars. Subject(s): Automobiles; Night; Cars; Bedtime PLEASURES OF THE POOR, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Oh, what I like's a touring car Last Line: The best of reasons why! Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Automobiles; Poverty; Cars PORTRAIT OF A MOTOR CAR, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's a lean car - a long-legged dog of a car - a gray ghost eagle car Last Line: Gray-ghost car. Subject(s): Automobiles; Cars PUMBERLY POTT'S UNPREDICTABLE NIECE, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Automobiles; Food & Eating; Cars REAR VISION, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cars in the mirror come swiftly forward Subject(s): Automobiles; Time; Cars 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 RUSH HOUR, by BRUCE A. JACOBS Poem Text First Line: My honda drops Subject(s): Automobiles; Escapes; Family Life; Racism; Cars; Fugitives; Relatives; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry SILHOUETTE, by IDELLA PURNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Green evening drooped in silence to the street Last Line: A motor car—behind a high-peaked hat! Subject(s): Automobiles; Mexico; Cars SPEED, by GLORIA GODDARD Poem Text First Line: We glide along the glistening road that lies Last Line: On -- on -- Subject(s): Automobiles; Cars STEPPING ON IT, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: At a bad corner of the street Last Line: Honk! Brakes! Meet! Subject(s): Automobiles; Driving & Drivers; Streets; Cars; Avenues STILL START, by KAY RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As if engine / parts could be Subject(s): Automobiles; Cars THAT'S THE SUM OF IT, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't know which to mourn. Both have died on me, my wife and my car Subject(s): Automobiles; Marriage; Mourning; Cars; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement THE AUTO, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An auto is a helpful thing Last Line: The auto is a helpful thing. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Automobiles; Cars THE AUTOMOBILE, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fluid the world flowed under us: the hills Last Line: The shrill, primeval hawk gazed down -- and screamed. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Automobiles; Cars THE CATALOGUE, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: I have a snappy picture book Last Line: We should have had one long ago. Subject(s): Automobiles; Cars THE EGG AND THE MACHINE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He gave the solid rail a hateful kick Last Line: Will get this plasm in it goggle glass Subject(s): Hate; Automobiles; Cars THE END OF THE LINE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Finally the last passengers Subject(s): Trolley Cars THE GREEN AUTOMOBILE, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: If I had a green automobile Subject(s): Automobiles; Denver, Colorado; Cars THE HORSE - A CENTURY OF PROGRESS, by MAX GOODLEY Poem Text First Line: A thunderpulse of rhythmic speed encased Last Line: And pluck the insects from his radiator. Subject(s): Animals; Automobiles; Horses; Progress; Cars 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 STORM, by DANIEL HALPERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The italian police stopped us today Subject(s): Italy; Storms; Automobiles; Italians; Cars THE SUITOR, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My automobile loves the saintly wood Last Line: Against the woodland's closed, inviolate shrine? Subject(s): Automobiles; Forests; Cars; Woods THE WORM TURNS, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You can drive an old hunk of scrap-iron and junk Last Line: The bozos who yell at my ford! Subject(s): Automobiles; Driving & Drivers; Ford Motor Company; Cars VERNISSAGE, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the opening day of the automobile show Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Automobiles; France; Cars WHAT I'VE BELIEVED IN, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Propped on blocks, the front half of a packard car rides the hillside Last Line: Waited years to be asked Subject(s): Automobiles; Junk & Junkyards; Rust; Cars WILLIAM'S VISIT, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He came like a slipknot his car Last Line: Pretend it's paris june light until eleven o'clock Subject(s): Automobiles; Guests; Travel; Cars; Visiting; Journeys; Trips WINDSHIELD, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are supposed to roll your windows up Last Line: Of yours, man, right in his bones Variant Title(s): Windowglass Subject(s): Automobiles; Windows; Cars |
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