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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR Matches Found: 30 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BUSY STREET, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: All up and down the busy street Last Line: And that is why they hurry so. Subject(s): Cities; Collective Behavior; February; Streets; Traffic; Urban Life; Mobs; Crowds; Avenues BARTLEME FAIR, by GEORGE ALEXANDER STEVENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While gentlefolks strut in their silver and satins Last Line: And thus ends the ballad of bartleme fair-o. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevens, G. A. Subject(s): Collective Behavior; Festivals; Singing & Singers; Mobs; Crowds; Fairs; Pageants BREATHING, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By day the brook is subsumed Last Line: Sucked down in its liquid mouth. Subject(s): Children; Collective Behavior; Noises; Childhood; Mobs; Crowds CONFESSION, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The general's men sit at the door. Her eyes Last Line: It has kept you from loneliness like a mob. Subject(s): Collective Behavior; Corpses; Mobs; Crowds; Cadavers CONNOISSEUR'S GUIDE TO THE BAY AREA: 5. TOWN MEETING, by GILBERT SORRENTINO Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Sure, the quality of life that is Last Line: Don't cotton much to actual people Subject(s): Collective Behavior; Socialism; Spain; Towns HOW THE WINNING FOUR WEST HOME, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Superb in pride we strained upon the golden chariot-pole Last Line: Though slumber takes us—still they talk low-whispering in the ilex walk! Subject(s): Chariot Racing; Collective Behavior; Competition; Driving & Drivers; Games; Victory; Mobs; Crowds; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements LIMERICK, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old person of stroud Last Line: That impulsive old person of stroud Subject(s): Collective Behavior; Old Age LYNCH-LAW, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The deed he had done was a terrible one Last Line: At eve, and cut it down. Subject(s): Collective Behavior; Country Life; Death; Lynching; Violence; Mobs; Crowds; Dead, The MAN, THE MAN-HUNTER, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw man, the man-hater Last Line: The -- son of a bitch. Subject(s): Collective Behavior; Hate; Social Protest; Mobs; Crowds MOB CONTRA MOB, OR, THE RABBLERS RABBLED, SELS., by WILLIAM MESTON Poem Source First Line: Now of all wars the ecclesiastick Last Line: Backward in haste unto their lodging Subject(s): Collective Behavior; Great Britain - Politics & Government; Great Britain - Religion MORE GIFTS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Who stands in the middle of the sick crowd Last Line: Offering gifts of contaminated blood? Subject(s): Blood; Collective Behavior; Sickness MUSIC HALL, by NICOLAS BEAUDIN Poem Text First Line: Crowd with alcoholic eyes Last Line: High evening, bored by the apotheosis. Subject(s): Bands; Collective Behavior; Music & Musicians; Theater & Theaters; Violins; Orchestras; Mobs; Crowds; Stage Life NOT UNAVANGED!, by WILLIAM HENRY BURLEIGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not unavenged, oh brother! Shall thy blood Last Line: Death to oppression! Freedom to the slave! Subject(s): Collective Behavior; Social Protest ONE WHO MOBS THE MOB, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you understand how to infuse your reason - among thieves Last Line: He is a wit and a bully himself Subject(s): Collective Behavior; Social Protest RUFFIAN RALLY, SELS., by JOHN PIERPONT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Brother ruffians! Ye who dwell Last Line: Shout, 'hurra for law and order!' Subject(s): Collective Behavior; Social Protest RUNNY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Death, thou shalt die' he quotes to himself Last Line: At the same time Subject(s): Collective Behavior; Lavatories; Shame THE BROOK: SUMMER, by LAURA ABELL Poem Text First Line: Clustering ferns lie cool Last Line: Beside the current's murmuring. Subject(s): Brooks; Collective Behavior; Pleasure; Streams; Creeks; Mobs; Crowds THE CHEER LEADER, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Arrayed in white, e'en on the coldest day Last Line: A reigning sovereign, in imperial poise! Subject(s): Collective Behavior; College Sports; Sports; Mobs; Crowds THE FINEST DAY OF ONE'S LIFE, by JACQUES BARON Poem Text First Line: Today is as a festive day Last Line: One can have a good time Subject(s): Collective Behavior; Colors; Festivals; Holidays; Mobs; Crowds; Fairs; Pageants THREE IS A CROWD, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The first sweet kiss Last Line: Come between. Subject(s): Collective Behavior; Kisses; Mobs; Crowds TO A FRIEND IN LOVE DURING THE RIOTS, by WILLIAM PARSONS Poem Text First Line: In times like these, when widows, orphans weep Last Line: Glow at a smile and sicken at a frown! Subject(s): Collective Behavior; Fire; Riots; Tyranny & Tyrants; Mobs; Crowds TO A MOB, by ROBERT N. PERRY JR. Poem Text First Line: A howling crowd possessed of one wild thought Last Line: And cursed its giver who before it stood. Subject(s): Collective Behavior; Mobs; Crowds TRAMPLERS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Why do they trample Last Line: Near the door of the irish %cancer society? Subject(s): Bicycles; Collective Behavior; Innocence TUMULT, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You came -- and like a stormy wind your love Last Line: In troubled multitude, broken and blind. Subject(s): Collective Behavior; Storms; Mobs; Crowds UNHAPPY BOSTON, by PAUL REVERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unhappy boston! See thy sons deplore Last Line: Shall reach a judge who never can be bribed. Subject(s): Boston Massacre; Collective Behavior; Social Protest; U.s. - History; Mobs; Crowds UNITE, by JACK HIRSCHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a hundred, no, Last Line: Come on! It's spring! Subject(s): Collective Behavior; Spring WHEN VIRTUE'S TEMPLE FALLS, by SOPHIA L. LITTLE Poem Source First Line: And did ye think, ye tyrants! That these deeds Last Line: And lifts, in faith, to heaven, her glory-streaming eyes! Subject(s): Collective Behavior; Social Protest WHITE CONDUIT HOUSE, by WILLIAM WOTY Poem Text First Line: Wished sunday's come: mirth brightens every face Last Line: So long, white conduit house, shall be thy fame.' Subject(s): Collective Behavior; Food & Eating; Houses; Restaurants; Waiters And Waitresses; Mobs; Crowds; Cafes; Diners WINDOWS, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We're livin' out here in the country now Last Line: Where I watched as the world went by. Subject(s): Cities; Collective Behavior; Streets; Windows; Urban Life; Mobs; Crowds; Avenues WOLVES OF THE BORDER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The foul human vultures Last Line: And the crown of his harvest %is life out of death Subject(s): Collective Behavior; Social Protest |
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