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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CITY & TOWN LIFE Matches Found: 150 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A FILIAL REPUBLIC, by SUSAN WHEELER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And out on the plaza, there were more people Alternate Author Name(s): Wheeler, Sue Subject(s): City & Town Life A NEW YORK CHILD?ÇÖS GARDEN OF VERSES, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In winter I get up at night Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Youth; City & Town Life; Family Life; Relatives A NEW-ENGLAND TOWN-AT NOON, by MARJORIE MUIR WORTHINGTON Poem Text First Line: I walked thru an old new england town Last Line: Without purpose or will to stop itself. Alternate Author Name(s): Muir, Marjorie Subject(s): City & Town Life; New England; Travel; Vacation; Journeys; Trips A SIDE STREET, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the warm sunday afternoons Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): City & Town Life ADMISSIONS AGAINST INTEREST, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Taking my time, literal as I seemed, crazy Last Line: But sell it cheaply to survive Subject(s): Arab Americans; City & Town Life AFTER MIDNIGHT, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dark streets are deserted, Subject(s): Night; City & Town Life; Bedtime ALL LIFE IN A LIFE, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His father had a large family Subject(s): Family Life; City & Town Life; Wealth; Social Protest; Capital Punishment; Conduct Of Life; Relatives; Riches; Fortunes; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty AND TO SEE THE CITY AGAIN AND TO SEE IT AGAIN, by PATRIZIA CAVALLI Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): City & Town Life AUBADE, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up and down the street the sound Last Line: Up and down the street the sound Subject(s): City & Town Life AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN GREEN, by LINDA PASTAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At summer camp, / I wrapped my arms around Last Line: In my own small commonwealth Subject(s): Camping; Trees; Bronx, New York City; Country Life; City & Town Life; Nature; Camps; Summer Camps BARBED WIRE, by DAVID LEE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It aint no easy way / to find the endpiece of wore Last Line: Won't never get this damn fence done Subject(s): City & Town Life - Utah; Farm Life; Inventions & Inventors; Agriculture; Farmers BEANS AND FRANKS, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When newberry's closed Subject(s): Novelty Stores; Store Closings; City & Town Life BEYOND WORDS, by KEVIN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you bomb / the ind Subject(s): Music & Musicians; City & Town Life; Social Commentaries; Popular Culture - United States BLOOD ON THE WHEEL, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blood on the night soil man en route to the country prison Last Line: Bronze dead gold & diamond deep. Blood be fast Subject(s): Blood; Social Commentary; City & Town Life BUDAPEST, MARCH 1928: THE GENIUS OF FRIENDSHIP, by SUSAN STEWART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was not so much terror then Subject(s): Budapest, Hungary; Photography & Photographers; City & Town Life CALMLY WE WALK THROUGH THIS APRIL'S DAY, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Time; Transience; City & Town Life; Memory; Impermanence CAPTIVE, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Oh, kirkwood is a fine town, snugly nestled by the / hills Last Line: Holds me captive to the music of the multitude's great heart. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; City & Town Life CHARMING, by DAVID BAKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The remnant industry of a dying town's itself Subject(s): City & Town Life CITY AT NIGHT, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The blue-black plumes of the fountain Subject(s): City & Town Life; Night; Bedtime CITY ELEGEIS: 1. THE DAY DREAMERS, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day all over the city every person Subject(s): City & Town Life CITY ELEGIES: 2. EVERYWHERE I GO, THERE I AM, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hot days of errands and badges, paper, shrill rage Subject(s): City & Town Life CITY ELEGIES: 3. HOUSE HOUR, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the pale honey of a kitchen light Subject(s): City & Town Life; Houses CITY ELEGIES: 4. STREET MUSIC, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet babylon, headphones. Song bones. Subject(s): City & Town Life; Music & Musicians CONSTRUCTION, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the sidewalk Subject(s): City & Town Life COUVRE-FEU; AFTER PAUL ELUARD (IN PEACETIME), by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What could you expect Last Line: Were on flesh one bone Subject(s): City & Town Life CROSSTOWN, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back in new york I grab a cab at port authority Subject(s): New York City; Taxis; Immigrants; City & Town Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration DECLINE AND FALL, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We had a city also. Hand in hand Subject(s): City & Town Life; Ruins; Defeat DIMANCHE BLEU, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chestnut flowers are falling Subject(s): City & Town Life; Abandonment; Desertion DOCTOR FROLIC, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): City & Town Life; Social Commentaries; Physicians; Doctors DOG, by WELDON KEES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This night is monstrous winter winter when the rats Last Line: And where my name must be Subject(s): Dogs; City & Town Life DRINKS IN THE TOWN SQUARE, by RACHEL WETZSTEON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No sooner had they carried their martinis Last Line: Fists in their pockets, daggers in their eyes Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; City & Town Life; Wine EAST SIXTY-FIFTH, by CHARLES MARTIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Erotic cannibals, we eat up Subject(s): City & Town Life ELEVATED, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fifty years the butcher shop Subject(s): City & Town Life; Time EVENING, STARY SACZ, by ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun sets behind the market square, and the nettle leaves reflect Subject(s): City & Town Life EVERYTHING'S A FAKE, by FANNY HOWE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Coyote scruff in canyons off mulholland drive. Fragrance of sage and rosemary, now Last Line: But a symptom nonetheless Subject(s): City & Town Life; Social Commentary; California FLAMMONDE, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man flammonde, from god knows where Last Line: Horizons for the man flammonde. Subject(s): City & Town Life; Mystery FLOOD SERMON, by DAVID BAKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the night, we got up, surely half the town Last Line: That the world was leass good than it was bad Subject(s): Floods; City & Town Life FOGHORN IN HORROR, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know that behind these walls is the city, over these rooftops in the sun Subject(s): City & Town Life; Fog; Haze FRAGMENT OF THE HEAD OF A QUEEN, by CATE MARVIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have you known the roar of an estranging city Subject(s): Heads; Statues; City & Town Life FROM TOWN, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We're the children of the open and we hate / the haunts o' men Last Line: Ee—yow! A-ridin' up the rocky trail from town! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Variant Title(s): Ridin' Up The Rocky Trail From Town Subject(s): City & Town Life; Cowboys; Ranch Life; Roads; West (u.s.); Paths; Trails; Southwest; Pacific States GAIN, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A backwall of mirrors in a deserted store Last Line: Yellow in the whites of my eyes. Pretend to wonder why Subject(s): City & Town Life 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 GENIUS LOCI, by BRIAN TEARE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Make it / the place Subject(s): Oakland, California; City & Town Life; Life Choices HOMETOWN, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The three pronged armory tower, the civic statue Subject(s): Home; City & Town Life HOTEL FRANCOIS 1ER, by GERTRUDE STEIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a very little while and they had gone in front of it. It was that they had liked it Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Friendship; Language; City & Town Life; Art & Artists; Social Commentaries; Male-female Relations; Words; Vocabulary IN CITIES, BE ALERT, by ANNIE FINCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You may hear that your heartbeat is uneven Subject(s): City & Town Life INCREMENT, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So populous the region Subject(s): City & Town Life INDUSTRIAL LACE, by ALICE FULTON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The city had such pretty clotheslines. Subject(s): City & Town Life IT'S NOT ME SHOUTING AT NO ONE, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Before dawn, on the street again Last Line: To be alone Subject(s): City & Town Life; Social Commentary JERUSALEM THE GOLDEN: 15, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the street I have just left Subject(s): City & Town Life KALIGHAT IN CALCUTTA, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Calcutta, India; City & Town Life LETTER TO A CITY UNDER SIEGE, by CAROLYN FORCHE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Turning the pages of the book you have lent me of your wounded city Alternate Author Name(s): Sidlosky, Carolyn Subject(s): City & Town Life LIFE ON THE LAKES: ORDERS, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: It is in or out as the orders send Last Line: To the weathered wharves of the grey old town. Subject(s): City & Town Life; Memory LIFE ON THE LAKES: OUTWARD BOUND, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: The waters lap by the pier's green side Last Line: In ghostly sheath. Subject(s): City & Town Life; Fields; Home; Travel; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Journeys; Trips LIKE NEW, by LINDA GREGERSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ones too broke or wise to get parts Subject(s): City & Town Life; Baltimore, Maryland LOOKING OUT THE WINDOW POEM, by DENIS JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sounds of traffic Last Line: It shines so Subject(s): City & Town Life; Social Commentary LOVE IN THE CITY OF LIGHT BENT BACK, by CHARLES MARTIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Being deceives, they believe: their existence Subject(s): City & Town Life; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature MEAT, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How much meat moves Subject(s): City & Town Life MILWAUKEE AVENUE, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Asphering sky, like a drop curtain hangs Subject(s): Chicago; City & Town Life MOON, MOON, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon follows me street by street Subject(s): Moon; City & Town Life NIGHT CELESTIAL, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You know the towns by neon. The plants and camps Subject(s): City & Town Life ODE, by ANACREON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Listen to the muse's lyre Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): City & Town Life; Drinks & Drinking; Wine OF BEING NUMEROUS, 10, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Or, in that light, new arts! Dithyrambic, audience-as-artists! But I will listen to a man Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; City & Town Life OF BEING NUMEROUS, 13, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Unable to begin Subject(s): Alienation Social Psychology); City & Town Life OF BEING NUMEROUS, 14, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot even now Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Veterans; City & Town Life; Estrangement; Outcasts OF BEING NUMEROUS, 19, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Now in the helicopters the casual will Subject(s): City & Town Life; Life, Modern OF BEING NUMEROUS, 2, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: So spoke of the existence of things Subject(s): Skyscrapers; City & Town Life OF BEING NUMEROUS, 6, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: We are pressed, pressed on each other Subject(s): City & Town Life OF BEING NUMEROUS, 7, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Obsessed, bewildered Subject(s): Shipwrecks; City & Town Life OF BEING NUMEROUS, 8, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Amor fati / the love of fate Subject(s): Fate; City & Town Life; Destiny ON THE NIGHT EXPRESS, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Click-clack, click-clack, shouts the trampled track Last Line: But the cities their scenery. Subject(s): City & Town Life; Railroads; Railways; Trains ONE NIGHT IN BALTHAZAR, by FANNY HOWE Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The hotel bar downstairs Last Line: As if he was the one Subject(s): City & Town Life OUT OF METROPOLIS, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Variant Title(s): Film Noir: Train Trip Out Of Metropolis Subject(s): City & Town Life; Travel; Railroads; Journeys; Trips; Railways; Trains PANORAMA, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Street sights! Street sounds! The wonder of it grows Last Line: And flamed from every star! Subject(s): City & Town Life PEDESTRIAN, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Tottering and elastic, middle name of groan, Subject(s): City & Town Life PEOPLE WHO MUST, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I put my easel on the roof of a skyscraper Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; City & Town Life PHOTO OF A MAN ON SUNSET DRIVE: 1914, 2008, by RICHARD BLANCO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: And so it began: the earth torn, split open Last Line: For years after I too disappear into a photo Subject(s): City & Town Life; Photography & Photographers PIGEONS AT DAWN, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Extraordinary efforts are being made Subject(s): Morning; City & Town Life; Pigeons PLEASURES OF TOWN AND COUNTRY, by THOMAS FITZGERALD Poem Text First Line: No! No! 'tis in vain, in this turbulent town Last Line: "would be sentenced to dig in the mine?" Subject(s): City & Town Life; Country Life POEM ABOUT PEOPLE, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The jaunty crop-haired graying Subject(s): City & Town Life; Social Commentaries; Relationships; Jews; Judaism PREGNANCY, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inside the pomegranate is the blue sky Subject(s): Wisconsin; Paris, France; Animals; City & Town Life; Country Life PROLETARIAN PORTRAIT, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A big young bareheaded woman Subject(s): City & Town Life PROLOGUE, by JUDY JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In winter’s spider-eyed light strung through steam grates, the Last Line: Lover boy & philly boy. Wanna-be’s and gonna-be’s Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; Human Behavior; City & Town Life; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature PROSE 22, by PALMER. MICHAEL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Plan of the city of o. The great square Subject(s): City & Town Life PUPPET-MAKER, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In his fear of solitude, he made us. Subject(s): City & Town Life; Solitude; Night; Loneliness; Bedtime READY FOR THE CANNERY, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm tired of phrases chock full of praise Subject(s): New York City; City & Town Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple RELATING TO ROBINSON, by WELDON KEES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere in chelsea, early summer Last Line: The boats moved silently and the low whistles blew Subject(s): Ghosts; City & Town Life SAN FRANCISCO UNDER FOG, by GLADYS ADELINA LEWIS Poem Text First Line: City of my dreams, like pearl the dew Last Line: The city of my dreams! Alternate Author Name(s): Lewys, Georges Subject(s): City & Town Life; San Francisco SEVENTH STREET, by JEAN TOOMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Money burns the pocket, pocket hurts Subject(s): African Americans; City & Town Life; Social Commentaries; United States - Prohibition (1919-1933); Negroes; American Blacks SHORT ODE TO MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS, by RACHEL WETZSTEON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Convergence of worlds, old stomping ground, Subject(s): Morningside Heights, New York City; City & Town Life SLAUGHTER STREET, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One time years ago a man tried to sell Subject(s): Children; Abandonment; City & Town Life; Childhood; Desertion SLUMS, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The slow day burns across the rubble dial Subject(s): Slums; City & Town Life; Tenements SOLITAIRE, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When night drifts along the streets of the city Subject(s): Night; City & Town Life; Imagination; Bedtime; Fancy SONNET: 10. TO A FRIEND, by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go, then, join the murmurming city's throng Subject(s): City & Town Life; Friendship SPRING DAY: MIDDAY AND AFTERNOON, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Swirl of crowded streets. Shock and recoil of traffic. Subject(s): Spring; City & Town Life STATE AND 32ND, COLD MORNING BLUES, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A girl in a torn chemise Subject(s): City & Town Life; Morning STREETS, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I wandered through the eight hundred and eight streets of the city Subject(s): Women; Beauty; City & Town Life STREETS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A man leaves the world Subject(s): Death; City & Town Life; Sleep; Streets; Dead, The; Avenues SUBMERGED CITY, by ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That city will be no more, no halos Subject(s): City & Town Life SUMMER IN A SMALL TOWN, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, the young mothers are beautiful Last Line: Now. Steal pleasure Subject(s): City & Town Life TATTOOED CITY, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, who am only an incomprehensible Subject(s): Self; City & Town Life THE AVENUES, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Some nights when you're off Subject(s): Solitude; Night; Restaurants; City & Town Life; Love; Bedtime; Cafes; Diners THE BEASTS, by CARL RAKOSI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fresh mollusk morning puts a foot Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): City & Town Life; Capitalism; Social Commentaries; Social Classes; Immigrants; Caste; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration THE BOARDING, by DENIS JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One of these days under the white Last Line: I’m telling you out of my soul Subject(s): City & Town Life; Social Commentary THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: GAULEY BRIDGE, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Camera at the crossing sees the city Subject(s): City & Town Life THE CITY'S LOVE, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For one brief golden moment rare like wine Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): City & Town Life THE COFFEE CUP, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The newspaper, the coffee cup, the dog's Subject(s): Death; City & Town Life; Dead, The THE DAY THE WINDS, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day the wnds went underground I gasped for breath Subject(s): Breath; Wind; City & Town Life; Pollution THE FRIENDS OF HERACLITUS, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Your friend has died, with whom Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Imaginary Conversations; City & Town Life; Philosophy & Philosophers; Dead, The THE GOOD TOWN, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look at it well. This was the good town once Subject(s): City & Town Life THE GRAVE, THE MINE, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Taking off from the city Subject(s): City & Town Life THE HOMESICK COWBOY, by EARL ALONZO BRININSTOOL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm tired and sick of the city Subject(s): City & Town Life; Cowboys; Homesickness THE INITIATE, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: St. John of the cross wore dark glasses Subject(s): City & Town Life THE LIFE OF TOWNS: APOSTLE TOWN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After your death Last Line: Beautiful the nerves pouring around in her like palace fire Subject(s): City & Town Life; Death THE LIFE OF TOWNS: DESERT TOWN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the sage came back in Last Line: Waiting itself Subject(s): City & Town Life; Homecoming; Waiting THE LIFE OF TOWNS: ENTGEGENWARTIGUNG TOWN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard you are coming after me Last Line: You went past. Subject(s): City & Town Life; Fear THE LIFE OF TOWNS: HOLDERLIN TOWN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are mad to mourn alone Last Line: Props hurtle past you Subject(s): City & Town Life; Mourning THE LIFE OF TOWNS: LEAR TOWN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clamor the bells falling bells Last Line: Into the kill-hole Subject(s): City & Town Life; Winter THE LIFE OF TOWNS: SEPTEMBER TOWN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One fear is that Last Line: Brother from the police Subject(s): City & Town Life THE LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF SPRING ONCE AGAIN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring is always like what it used to be' Last Line: Reached us Subject(s): City & Town Life; Spring THE LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF THE DEATH OF SIN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is sin? Last Line: Black as a wind over the forests Subject(s): City & Town Life; Sin THE MINNEAPOLIS POEM, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder how many old men last winter Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Minneapolis; City & Town Life; Brothers; Death; Half-brothers; Dead, The THE SONGS OF MAXIMUS: SONG 1, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Colored pictures Subject(s): Language; City & Town Life; Words; Vocabulary THE SONGS OF MAXIMUS: SONG 2, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All / wrong Subject(s): Travel; City & Town Life; Journeys; Trips THE SOURCE, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If the city has roots, they are in filth Subject(s): City & Town Life THE TIRED WORKER, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O whisper, o my soul! The afternoon Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): City & Town Life THE TOWN BY THE RIVER, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Said the watcher by the way Subject(s): City & Town Life THE WANDERER, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm talking about what isn't there anymore, Subject(s): Friendship; Family Life; City & Town Life; Farewell; Love; Relatives; Parting THE WHARF ON THAMES-SIDE: WINTER DAWN, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Day begins: cold and misty on soiled snow Subject(s): Morning; Winter; London; Wharves; City & Town Life; Piers THE WHEELCHAIR BUTTERFLY, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O sleepy city of reeling wheelchairs Subject(s): City & Town Life THE WHITENESS, by HILDA MORLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deep, deep under white now I longed to be Alternate Author Name(s): Auerbach, Hilda; Wolpe, Stefan, Mrs. Subject(s): Snow; City & Town Life THERE IS, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): City & Town Life THERE'S MANY A LONESOME DAISY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: There's many a lonesome daisy where never a child can be Last Line: As if there were never a brooklet and never a daisy grew! Subject(s): City & Town Life; Children THERE'S TROUBLE EVERYWHERE, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There the blind man and his personal dark Subject(s): Blindness; Homeless; City & Town Life; Visually Handicapped THIS CITY, by LIAM RECTOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: This apartment with no furniture, Subject(s): City & Town Life THREE STAGES, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When a city undergoes diaster, it moves as a mass Subject(s): City & Town Life; Disasters TO NOWHERE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I carry my keys like a weapon Last Line: On a mission to nowhere Subject(s): Fear; Keys; City & Town Life TO TOWN, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He never laughed or saw the need for laughter Subject(s): City & Town Life UPPER BROADWAY SUNDAY, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is high noon over upper broadway Last Line: Dionysos has swallowed apollo Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; City & Town Life URBAN GALLERY, by RACHEL WETZSTEON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the wind invades the treetops Subject(s): Human Behavior; City & Town Life; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature VI, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Midsummer stretches beside me with its cat's yawn. Subject(s): City & Town Life VICTORY, by FANNY HOWE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no rescue mission where it isn’t freezing Last Line: Into hip-hop? Dunno—but it’s wonderful Subject(s): Youth; Social Commentary; City & Town Life VIEW FROM THE HOTEL LOBBY, by SHEROD SANTOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bleary by noon, the whitewashed Subject(s): City & Town Life; Landscape 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 WEST FOURTH STREET, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sycamores are leafing out Subject(s): Imigrants; City & Town Life; Greenwich Village, New York City WILD GARDENS OVERLOOKED BY NIGHT LIGHTS, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Parking lot trucks overlooked by night lights. Buildings Subject(s): City & Town Life; Reality WINTER WORDS, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Day after day in a high room between Subject(s): Harlem (new York City); City & Town Life YOU CAN?ÇÖT WARM YOUR HANDS IN FRONT OF A BOOK BUT YOU CAN WARM YOUR HOPES THERE, by FANNY HOWE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Feathers fluffed the ashtray bin at the bottom of the elevator. Feathers and a smeared Last Line: His rilke with a gentle smile Subject(s): City & Town Life YOU: PART 18, by RON SILLIMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: P=h=I=l=a=d=e=l=p=h=I=a. Under the dogwood tree, Subject(s): Language Poetry; City & Town Life YOUR MART AND MINE, by MABEL A. HANSON Poem Text First Line: I wish I could sing of the cities Last Line: In shop, or in office, or wide-sloping hill. Subject(s): City & Town Life; Hearts; South Dakota |
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