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Subject: CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK CITY
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BEETHOVEN IN CENTRAL PARK, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The thousand-windowed towers were all alight
Last Line: With his own grief, and his own majesty.
Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Central Park, New York City; Composers; Dreams; Grief; Music & Musicians; Nations; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness


CENTRAL PARK, by JOHN MYERS O'HARA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The little lake, sequestered from the wind
Last Line: And mammon yields arcadia a day.
Subject(s): Central Park, New York City


CENTRAL PARK AT DUSK, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Buildings above the leafless trees
Last Line: The world is waiting for the spring.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Central Park, New York City


CENTRAL PARK WEST, by MICHAEL COFFEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Shakes the pavement, city traffic
Last Line: The avenue its long, cold face
Subject(s): Central Park, New York City; Cities; Traffic


HYMN; SUNG AT THE PRESENTATION OF THE OBELISK TO THE CITY OF NEW YORK, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Great god, to whom since time began
Last Line: Hear us, o god in heaven!
Subject(s): The Obelisk, Central Park, New York City


IN THE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, by SIV CEDERING    Poem Source                    
First Line: My getting locked in the museum of natural history was no accident
Last Line: Write
Subject(s): Central Park, New York City; Dinosaurs; History; Museums


MAY EVENING IN CENTRAL PARK, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lines of lamp light
Subject(s): Central Park, New York City; Youth


MIDWINTER WALK IN CENTRAL PARK, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What heather is parading along the park in a
Last Line: Underbrush.
Subject(s): Central Park, New York City; Death; Nature; Seasons; Winter; Dead, The


MORNING IN CENTRAL PARK, by JAMES OPPENHEIM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the morning sun
Last Line: Brood on the rocks and the unstirring trees!
Subject(s): Central Park, New York City; Morning


MY FIRST TIME IN NEW YORK CITY, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Into the sky %like a star ed their heads
Subject(s): Booksellers; Central Park, New York City; Poetry And Poets; Travel


PICNIC: CENTRAL PARK, by KAY ANN MURPHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the april sky kites glitter
Subject(s): Central Park, New York City; Picnics


SHAKESPEARE'S STATUE; CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In this free pantheon of the air and sun
Last Line: The reverence of what he was shall call it down
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Central Park, New York City; Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Statues


SPRING, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In central park the lovers sit
Last Line: To lose your battle in the end?
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Central Park, New York City; Love


THE BUNTLING BALL, 1884, by EDGAR FAWCETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: O proud new york, that wast new amsterdam
Last Line: When compared with central park.
Subject(s): Balls; Central Park, New York City


THE FLAT-HUNTER'S WAY, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: We think we'll stay another year.
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Family Life; City Snd Town Life; Wity And Humor; Apartments; Central Park, New York City; Relatives


THE FLAT-HUNTER'S WAY, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We don't get any too much light
Last Line: We think we'll stay another year.
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Central Park, New York City


THE LAKE IN CENTRAL PARK, by JAY WRIGHT    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It should have a woman's name
Subject(s): Central Park, New York City; Lakes; Pools; Ponds


THE MAY PARTY, by JAMES OPPENHEIM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O million-singing comes the may
Last Line: Had given birth to man!
Subject(s): Central Park, New York City; Music & Musicians; Parks; Parties; Summer


THE PINES, SIXTY-SEVENTH STREET; CENTRAL PARK, LOOKING SOUTHWARD, by HARVEY MAITLAND WATTS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Though winds are bleak this greening tells of may
Last Line: And ceaseless flows this restless human tide.
Subject(s): Central Park, New York City; Pine Trees; Trees; Winter


WHISTLES AT NIGHT, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At night in the city when the far-off whistles blow
Last Line: And the dawn comes slow.
Subject(s): Central Park, New York City; Memory; Night; Parks; Streets; Bedtime; Avenues