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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: DUBLIN, IRELAND Matches Found: 40 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AMBITION, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: As a boy, he wished to be a comedian Last Line: Dublin would have lost a genuine clown Subject(s): Ambition; Dublin, Ireland; Fools; Political Campaigns AS WELL HIM AS ANOTHER, by DANIEL J. LANGTON Poem Source First Line: My name is molly. I read the odd book Last Line: Now that it's written, now that it's written down Subject(s): Books; Dublin, Ireland; Joyce, James (1882-1941); Writing And Writers AT CURRABWEE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Every night at currabwee Last Line: And where the vardar loudly roars? Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Ireland; Irish CHRISTMAS IN DUBLIN, by NUALA ARCHER Poem Source First Line: It is the cat within us Last Line: And to gather the guarded crumbs Subject(s): Christmas; Dinners And Dining; Dublin, Ireland; Family Life - Ireland; Holidays; Travel DOLLS MUSEUM IN DUBLIN, by EAVAN BOLAND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wounds are terrible. The paint is old Last Line: With a terrible stare. But not feel it. And not know it Subject(s): Dolls; Dublin, Ireland; Museums; Toys DREAM SONGS: 299, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The irish have the thickest ankles in the world Last Line: Depressed, down on my knees Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Labor And Laborers; Prayer DRUNKEN LADIES, by MACDARA WOODS Poem Source First Line: There was one drunken lady in dublin Last Line: There was one drunken lady in spain Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Dublin, Ireland; Travel; Women DUBLIN, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grey brick upon brick Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Variant Title(s): From The Closing Album Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland DUBLIN, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grey brick upon brick Last Line: Grey stone, grey water, %and brick upon grey brick Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Variant Title(s): From The Closing Albu Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland DUBLINESQUE, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down stucco sidestreets, Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Funerals; Burials FACING NORTH, by JOHN F. DEANE Poem Source First Line: It is little to do with me, I thought, waiting Last Line: There was no soundness in her, suppurating %bruises, sores and wounds. My hands are full of blood Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Tourists; Travel FAR FROM THE LAND, by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Kippure' we heard him matter. He was dying Last Line: To his mountain or his heaven. So he died. Subject(s): Death; Dublin, Ireland; Memory; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips FATHERS, by MICHAEL JOSEPH HEFFERNAN Poem Source First Line: We talked to our jamesons at closing time Last Line: To somebody else two or three blocks over %who yelled back once. It got quiet after that Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Dublin, Ireland; Family Life - Ireland; Fathers FUNNY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Corruption rhymes with dublin Last Line: Relax. Enjoy the funny, stinking play. Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; Dublin, Ireland GIGGLE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: If this coastal erosion continues Last Line: Used to be Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Erosion; Ruins; Tourists GUMMING, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: I asked malachy brandon, eighty - two Last Line: And don't give a fuck Subject(s): Aging; Apathy; Dublin, Ireland; Love HEART, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: In the heart of dublin, not even the long Last Line: Can undo the blackbird's song Subject(s): Ambulances; Birds; Dublin, Ireland; Fire HERBERT STREET REVISITED, by JOHN MONTAGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A light is burning late / in this georgian dublin street Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Love - Erotic HERBERT STREET REVISITED, by JOHN MONTAGUE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A light is burning late %in this georgian dublin street Last Line: Their hooves through the moonlight Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Erotic Love HUMOURS OF DONNYBROOK FAIR, by CHARLES O'FLAHERTY Poem Source First Line: Oh! 't was dermot o'nowlan mcfigg Subject(s): Donnybrook Fair, Dublin, Ireland HUMOURS OF DONNYBROOK FAIR, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: To donnybrook steer, all you sons of Subject(s): Donnybrook Fair, Dublin, Ireland IF EVER YOU GO TO DUBLIN TOWN, by PATRICK KAVANAGH Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Yet he lived happily %I tell you Alternate Author Name(s): Monaghan, Patrick Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland JUST ANOTHER DAY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Dear dublin, you sleep tonight in a bed Last Line: Will the good word be always late? Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Gossip; Hate; History LITERARY DUBLIN, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Damn near where'er you look, a writer's ghost Last Line: And daedalus's execration hung %above the city like a blind man's blessing Subject(s): Behan, Brendan (1923-1964); Dramatists; Dublin, Ireland; Joyce, James (1882-1941); Plays And Playwrights; Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900) ON VISITING THE GREAT DUBLIN BREWERY, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brewing the best way hard money to win is Last Line: Guinness makes porter, and porter makes guineas. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Beer; Drinks & Drinking; Dublin, Ireland; Ale; Wine SAMUEL BECKETT'S DUBLIN, by DONALD DAVIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When it is cold it stinks, and not till then Last Line: Who barely living therefore altogether %live till they die; and sweetly smell till then Subject(s): Beckett, Samuel (1906-1989); Dublin, Ireland SILKSTONE, YORKSHIRE, AND DUBLIN; A COMPARISON, by JOHN+(2) FORD Poem Source First Line: Two famous places I record Last Line: But I prefer the coal, though some %declare that whisky's warmer Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Silkstone, England SMALL DEFEATS: IN A DUBLIN CATACOMB, IN A RETIREMENT CONDO, by GORDON WEAVER Poem Source First Line: In a dublin catacomb, I saw a nun's mummy Last Line: And raise up all your fallen flesh! Subject(s): Condominiums; Dublin, Ireland; Retirement SO FAR, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Ah! Me jewel an' darlin' dublin, me capital star Last Line: Only three murders this weekend, so far Subject(s): Cynicism; Death; Dublin, Ireland; Murder SPECIAL, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: There's a special poison to be found Last Line: Until all flesh %is dust. Subject(s): Death; Dublin, Ireland; Fear ST. MICHAN'S CHURCHYARD, by ROSE KAVANAGH Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: Inside the city's throbbing heart Last Line: The peace of heaven was everywhere. Subject(s): Churchyards; Dublin, Ireland; Emmet, Robert (1778-1803) THE DOLLS MUSEUM IN DUBLIN, by EAVAN BOLAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wounds are terrible. The paint is old Last Line: With a terrible stare. But not feel it. And not know it Subject(s): Dolls; Dublin, Ireland; Museums; Toys; Art Gallerys THE DREAM SONGS: 299, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The irish have the thickest ankles in the world Last Line: Depressed. Down on my knees Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Labor & Laborers; Prayer; Work; Workers THE MUSIC OF ST. PATRICK'S, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Again! Oh! Send that anthem-peal again Last Line: Our nature's limit in its proudest hour? Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin THE RATTLING BOY FROM DUBLIN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm a rattling boy from dublin town Last Line: Chorus. Subject(s): Courtship; Dublin, Ireland THE ROCKY ROAD TO DUBLIN, by MARY FRANCES MARTIN Poem Text First Line: If my feet were on the rocky road Last Line: On the rocky road to dublin. Alternate Author Name(s): Cearnach, Conal Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Greetings; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE SINGER'S MUSE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I brought in these to make her kitchen sweet Last Line: "her bashful singer and her servant boy." Subject(s): Babylon; Dublin, Ireland; Fame; Flowers; Parnassus (mountain), Greece; Sex; Spring; Troy; Reputation VIKING DUBLIN: TRIAL PIECES, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It could be a jaw-bone %or a rib or a portion cut Last Line: Lightly as pampooties %over the skull-capped ground Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Vikings WARNING, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Dublin is gridlocked, cork crippled Last Line: There's a loose cow on the road. Subject(s): Cows; Dublin, Ireland; Traffic YOUR WAY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: If you want to find your way through dublin Last Line: The manic street will part for you Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Explorers; Sky; Streets |
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