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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: EMIGRANT Matches Found: 69 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A NEW SONG, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come honies of congress, pray do not be smoking me Last Line: You are bother'd from head to the tail. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Immigrants; Lyon, Matthew (1746-1822); Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration A PROBLEM IN AESTHETICS, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They sent him away Last Line: And one of us forgot. Subject(s): Immigrants; Poetry & Poets; Russia; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Soviet Union; Russians A TOURIST AT ELLIS ISLAND, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I found him, jankel olenik, Subject(s): Immigrants; Fathers; Ellis Island, New York Harbor; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration AL AND BETH, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My uncle al worked in a drugstore Subject(s): Immigrants; Patriotism; Family Life; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Relatives ALIEN IN AMERICA, by FRANCIS GARDNER CLOUGH Poem Text First Line: I have no ear to hear your alien word Last Line: And faith! -- the heart's last-labored codicil. Alternate Author Name(s): Clough, F. Gardner Subject(s): Aliens; Immigrants; United States; Extraterrestrials; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; America AMERICA SPEAKING, by DAVID RIVARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Speech; Immigrants; United States; Oratory; Orators; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; America AN EMIGRANT, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is she asleep, asleep Last Line: Rest she adream, adream. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Immigrants; Rest; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration AT ELLIS ISLAND, by GEORGE LAWRENCE ANDREWS Poem Text First Line: We speak of them as but a crazy bunch Last Line: Awaiting what were idle to protest. Subject(s): Ellis Island, New York Harbor; Immigrants; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration AT THE SHRINE, by RICHARD KENDALL MUNKITTRICK Poem Text First Line: A pale italian peasant Last Line: Are sold on barclay street. Subject(s): Immigrants; New York City; Prayer; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple CANTO 37, by EZRA POUND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou shalt not', said martin vanburen. 'jail 'em for debt' Subject(s): United States - Politics & Government; Immigrants; Debt; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration CORSICAN DROVER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: How chang'd the scene of late has been Last Line: And drove them back from paris Subject(s): France;immigrants;london; Emigrant;emigration;immigration 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 DEATH OF THE EMIGRANT, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The way is long,' the father said Last Line: "the fatherless are mine." Subject(s): Death; Immigrants; Dead, The; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration DEPORTED, by KATHRYN WHITE RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The transports move stealthily to sea Last Line: Oh, do not notice! Subject(s): Immigrants; Sea Voyages; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration DIVERSITY OF CREATURES, by CORINNE HUNTINGTON JACKSON Poem Text First Line: The huntingtons within me stand aloof, and coldly distant Last Line: But—ah, the phinneys hearken, puckish-wise, their celtic tongues in cheek. Subject(s): Immigrants; Language; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Words; Vocabulary EMIGRATION, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No packing list, and no money Last Line: And good evening from a lighted coast Subject(s): Immigrants; Travel; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Journeys; Trips EMIGRATION, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are always, in each of us Last Line: The reach of fantasy, or fiction. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Immigrants; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration END OF THE RANGE, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weep ye protein herders weep Last Line: And the foreigners are fighting back Subject(s): Aliens; Immigrants; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Extraterrestrials; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Native Americans - Removal EUROPE AND AMERICA, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father brought the emigrant bundle Last Line: As guns pounded on the shore Subject(s): Fathers; Immigrants; Fathers; Immigrants; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration EVERYDAY WE GET MORE ILLEGAL, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Immigrants; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration GRUDNOW, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When he spoke of where he came from Subject(s): Grandparents; Immigrants; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration I AM YOUR WAITER TONIGHT AND MY NAME IS DIMITRI, by ROBERT HASS Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Immigrants; War; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration IMMIGRANT WOMAN, by ROSE HENDERSON Poem Text First Line: Thin, patient face, with scars of pain and care Last Line: Tossed by the tide upon an alien shore. Subject(s): Fear; Immigrants; Women; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration IMMIGRANTS, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No ship of all that under sail or stream Last Line: Has been her anxious convoy in to shore Subject(s): Immigrants; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration IN THE GLORIOUS YEMEN RESTAURANT, by KHALED MATTAWA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: 25 on atlantic avenue, faces kneaded Subject(s): Restaurants; Immigrants; Arab Americans; Cafes; Diners; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration JOHANNA PEDERSEN, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mouth prickled by crumbs of flatbrod Last Line: Rocked in the swell of the old. Subject(s): Denmark; Immigrants; Danes; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration LAMENT OF THE DAUGHTERS OF ZION, by J. F. Poem Text First Line: Away from our land Last Line: J. F. Subject(s): Immigrants; Jews; Lament; Zionism; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Judaism LINES ON THE DEPARTURE OF EMIGRANTS FOR NEW SOUTH WALES, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On england's shore I saw a pensive band Last Line: Assuage its wrath, and guide you on the deep! Subject(s): Immigrants; New Zealand; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration LOOKOUT, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He sets his campus security cap on the stairs Subject(s): Immigrants; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration MEETING YOU AT THE PIERS, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I should like to describe amerika to you Subject(s): United States; New York City; Immigrants; Kafka, Franz (1883-1924); America; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration NEW YORK, by EDWIN DAVIES SCHOONMAKER Poem Text First Line: Sea - rimmed and teeming with millions poured out on Last Line: Till the new day quenches the lamps and flares over tyre. Subject(s): Cities; Immigrants; Labor & Laborers; Mysticism; New York City; Urban Life; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Work; Workers; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple ON THE NATURALIZATION BILL, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come all ye foreign strolling gentry Last Line: And you shall have meat, drink, and clothes. Subject(s): Immigrants; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration ON THE NATURALIZATION BILL (2), by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With languages dispers'd, men were not able Last Line: How high a castle may be built in air! Subject(s): Immigrants; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration ON THE NATURALIZATION BILL (3), by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This act reminds me, ge'men, under favour Last Line: John bull Subject(s): Immigrants; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration ON THE NATURALIZATION BILL: ADVERTISEMENT, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now upon sale, a bankrupt island Last Line: Faction, is to be thrown in gratis. Subject(s): Immigrants; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration ON THE PIAVE, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: We called 'em wop and dago, and often Last Line: And we'll know italians better in the long years yet to come! Subject(s): Immigrants; Italy; World War I; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Italians; First World War PANAMA, by E. ETHELBERT MILLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the early twenties Subject(s): Immigrants; Language; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Words; Vocabulary POEM FOR MY FATHER, by VIRGIL SAUREZ Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: At night, long after the midnight movies Subject(s): Immigrants; Fathers; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration POPULATION, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Prune center is a hustling town. For Last Line: Then why invite him to your town, and beg that he will settle down? Subject(s): Immigrants; Towns; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration PROSPECTIVE IMMIGRANTS PLEASE NOTE, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Either you will Subject(s): Americans; Immigrants; United States; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; America SICILIAN EMIGRANT'S SONG, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O -- eh -- lee! La -- la Last Line: Donna! Donna! Maria! Subject(s): Immigrants; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration SONG OF THE COLONISTS DEPARTING FOR NEW ZEALAND, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Steer, helmsman, till you steer our way Last Line: We'll plough a smiling land. Subject(s): Immigrants; New Zealand; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration SONG OF THE SPANISH JEWS, by GRACE AGUILAR Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Oh, dark is the spirit that loves not the land Last Line: And seek not and wish not a lovelier rest. Subject(s): Exiles; Immigrants; Jews; Spain; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Judaism SONG, FR. THE EMIGRANT, by ALEXANDER MCLACHLAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old england is eaten by knaves Last Line: Nor a foreign foe land on her shore. Subject(s): England; Immigrants; Poverty; English; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration STEERAGE, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By now, the sachel's leather has reclaimed its living redolence Subject(s): Grandparents; Immigrants; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration STOWAWAYS, by DAVID RIVARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Immigrants; Conduct Of Life; Heritage; Heredity; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration SUCH WERE THE MORNINGS, by F. R. MCCLEARY Poem Text First Line: When my first father in america Last Line: The urge of his step and his planting. Subject(s): Immigrants; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration THE BALLAD OF THE CHILDREN OF THE CZAR, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The children of the czar Subject(s): Nicholas Ii, Czar Of Russia (1868-1918); Children; Ancestors & Ancestry; Immigrants; Childhood; Heritage; Heredity; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration 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 CORNISH EMIGRANT'S SONG, by ROBERT STEPHEN HAWKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! The eastern winds are blowing Last Line: In north americay.' Alternate Author Name(s): Hawker Of Morwenstow; Hawker, R. S. Subject(s): Cornwall, England; Immigrants; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration THE EMIGRANTS, by FERDINAND FREILIGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot take my eyes away Last Line: And crown each true heart's pure desire! Alternate Author Name(s): Freiligrath, Hermann Ferdinand Subject(s): Immigrants; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration THE FOREIGNERS: 1, by CARLOS BULOSAN Poem Text First Line: Fear grips their lives Last Line: Look and examine us! Subject(s): Fear; Immigrants; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration THE FOREIGNERS: 2, by CARLOS BULOSAN Poem Text First Line: Builder of skyscrapers Last Line: This is the hour for perfect waking. Subject(s): Immigrants; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration THE GREEK EMIGRANTS SONG, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now launch the boat upon the wave Last Line: And free the man, and free the mind. Subject(s): Freedom; Greece; Immigrants; Liberty; Greeks; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration THE GREEK QUARTER, by JOHN MYERS O'HARA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cryptic letters of the golden tongue Last Line: The blue Ægean sparkling in the day. Subject(s): Coffee Houses; Greek Language; Immigrants; New York City; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE NEW COLOSSUS, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not like the brazen giant of greek fame Last Line: "I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" Subject(s): Americans; Art & Artists; Freedom; Immigrants; Religion; Statue Of Liberty; United States; Liberty; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Theology; America THE NEW COUNTRY, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was with my grandfather when the boat landed Last Line: Glimmer of a glimmer in his bloodshot eye Subject(s): Grandparents; Immigrants; Past; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration THE NEW ENGLAND EMIGRANT'S FAREWELL, by DANIEL PIERCE THOMPSON Poem Text First Line: New england, farewell! With thy evergreen mountains Last Line: As I bid thee a long and a lasting adieu. Subject(s): Farewell; Immigrants; New England; Parting; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration THE PILGRIM MAIDEN, by DOROTHY WHITEHEAD HOUGH Poem Text First Line: Lo, I have come a weary way Last Line: Dedicated to love of god and liberty. Subject(s): Footprints; Immigrants; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Travel; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Journeys; Trips THE PRAIRIE IMMIGRANT, by RACHEL COLE KATTERJOHN Poem Text First Line: The wind wailed over a granite stone Last Line: Alone— forever alone! Subject(s): Immigrants; Prairies; Solitude; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Plains; Loneliness THE REGENT'S EXAMINATION, by JESSIE WALLACE HUGHAN Poem Text First Line: Muffled sounds of the city climbing to me at the window Last Line: Neuter and safe shall it be? Or a flame to burst us asunder? Subject(s): Examinations; Immigrants; Racism; United States - Race Relations; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry THE SWISS EMIGRANT, by LUCY AIKEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, farewell, my native land Last Line: In absence near, -- in misery true. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Lucy Subject(s): Immigrants; Switzerland; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Swiss THE VIEW AT GUNDERSON'S, by JOSEPH WARREN BEACH Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting in his rocker waiting for your tea Subject(s): Immigrants; Conduct Of Life; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration THE WESTERN EMIGRANT, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An axe rang sharply 'mid those forest shades Last Line: Mid the lov'd scenery of his native land. Subject(s): Immigrants; New England; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration THE WOODS OF KYLINOE; SONG OF THE IRISH EMIGRANT IN NORTH AMERICA, by ELLEN FITZSIMON Poem Text First Line: My heart is heavy in my breast- my eyes are full / of tears Last Line: On all -- but most of all on thee, my native kylinoe. Subject(s): Immigrants; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration TO PERSCEUTED FOREIGNERS, by PENINA MOISE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fly from the soil whose desolating creed Last Line: Come to the homes and bosoms of the free. Subject(s): Anti-semitism; Freedom; Immigrants; United States; Liberty; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; America TO THE ROMAN PONTIFF ON THE DISCIPLINE OF FATHER MCGLYNN, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The german tyrant plays thee for his game Last Line: Cease to be freemen when they bow to god! Subject(s): Immigrants; Mcglynn, Edward (1837-1900); Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration TWO SORTS OF EMIGRANTS, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His debts are paid, but all his land is gone Last Line: And sing as bravely to the southern morn. Subject(s): Immigrants; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration WORKING BLACK, by DAVID RIVARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The part of stockholm I saw at 22, I saw as an employee & thief Subject(s): Restaurants; Jobs; Immigrants; Cafes; Diners; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration |
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