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Subject: FIRE Matches Found: 417 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "BETHLEHEMS BEAUTY, LONDONS CHARITY, AND THE CITIES GLORY", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Story no more shall antient fabricks boast Last Line: "free citizens o' th' new jerusalem, / to raign with him was born in bethlehem" Subject(s): Charity;hospitals;london Fire (1666); Philanthropy;great Fire Of 1666 "TROIA REDEVIVIA, OR THE GLORIES OF LONDON", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When my parnassus vanisht quite away Last Line: And may your happy days with good presage / equal in length the grecian nester's age Subject(s): London;london Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 3:00 A.M.: QUESTIONING CASSIOPEIA, by SARAH GETTY Poem Source First Line: On burning soles, I corss the bedroom floor Last Line: It is our lot - we burn, and then we cool Subject(s): Fire A CAMP IN THREE LIGHTS, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Against the darkness sharply lined Last Line: The faded fire, the aurora's loss. Subject(s): Camping; Fire; Camps; Summer Camps A COAL FIRE IN WINTER, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Something old and tyrannical burning there Subject(s): Coal Mines & Miners; Fire; Men A FIFTH AVENUE PARADE, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is this silent, dark crowd Last Line: Machines and armies sensitive as souls. Subject(s): Funerals; New York City; Parades; Triangle Factory Fire (1911); Women; Burials; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple A POEM ON THE BURNING OF LONDON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: We owne no muses now; what now inspires Last Line: "then shall it's harmony our thebes advance, / and make rude stones into a city dance" Subject(s): London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 A POEM, BEING AN ESSAY ON THE RUINS IN ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL, by JAMES WRIGHT (1643-1713) Poem Text First Line: Was it a vain curiosity or no? Last Line: A beauty grow out of deformity? Subject(s): London Fire (1666); St. Paul's Cathedral, London; Great Fire Of 1666 A QUADRUPLE ACROSTICK ON LONDON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: L-o! What a chaos this unhappy fall Last Line: "n-othing but clouds appear, the sun is go" Subject(s): London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 A REFUSAL TO MOURN THE DEATH, BY FIRE, OF A CHILD IN LONDON, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Never until the mankind making Subject(s): Air Warfare; Death - Children; Fire; Innocence; Mourning; World War Ii; Death - Babies; Bereavement; Second World War A SHORT AND SERIOUS NARRATIVE OF LONDONS FATAL FIRE, by SAMUEL WISEMAN Poem Text First Line: When the black chamberlain of gloomy night Last Line: In humble manner now their scornful feet. Subject(s): London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 A TOWER PARABLE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A burning city's raging ire Last Line: To diamond and chrysolite! Subject(s): Fire A TRUE ACCOUNT OF TALKING TO THE SUN AT FIRE ISLAND, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun woke me this morning loud Subject(s): Fire Island; Sun ABBEY THEATRE FIRE, by AUSTIN CLARKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pride made of yeats a rhetorician Last Line: Those firemen might have spared their water Subject(s): Abbey Theatre, Dublin; Fire; Poetry And Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) ABBEY THEATRE FIRE, by AUSTIN CLARKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One of our verse-speakers, driving Last Line: Ill match, would bring his curtain down Subject(s): Abbey Theatre, Dublin; Fire; Poetry And Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) AFTER THE FIRE, by JOSEPH+(2) GREEN Poem Source First Line: I don't want to think of huff waking up Last Line: Someone else had been there %once, making sense Subject(s): Fire; Life AFTER THE FIRE [NOVEMBER 9, 1872], by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While far along the eastern sky Last Line: The cloudless azure whence they came! Subject(s): Boston Fire (1872) AFTERMATH, by ROBERT GIBB Poem Source First Line: Driving past them again today Last Line: And laid bare as flotsam %left rotting along that shore Subject(s): Driving And Drivers; Fire AFTERMATH, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Compelled by calamity's magnet Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Fire ALADDIN LAMP, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With luck and the slow hand of the lover Last Line: In the window blazes. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Antiques; Fire; Lamps ALBION MILLS ON FIRE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Wednesday, march the second day Last Line: Tho' the albion mill's burnt to the ground Subject(s): Disasters; Fire AMATORY SALUTE, by SANDRA STONE Poem Source First Line: I want to be negligent tonight in front of the eye of the fire Last Line: I am stunned by its fiery narrative, %its salutary tongue Subject(s): Fire AN ANSWER, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If one should bring a rose that had been fair Last Line: Square in your face I throw your offering. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Fire; Flowers; Hearts AN EXECRATION UPON VULCAN, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And why to me this, thou lame lord of fire Last Line: Thy wife's pox on thee, and bess braughton's too. Subject(s): Fire AN INCIDENT OF THE FIRE AT HAMBURG, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tower of old saint nicholas soared upward to the skies Last Line: "pealed forth the grand old german hymn, -- ""all good souls, praise the lord!" Subject(s): Fire; Hamburg, Germany AN OLD HOUSE BURNS, by ALYS TOWNES Poem Text First Line: He said once, 'I will build a viking ship Last Line: And like a blackened mast fall, shattered, down. Subject(s): Fire; Houses ANDREW, 1993, by BONNY BARRY SANDERS Poem Source First Line: First the lights went out Last Line: Next to our neighbors for the first time %and ate our soup Subject(s): Fire; Homeless ANNA IMROTH, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cross the hands over the breast here - so Last Line: It is the hand of god and the lack of fire escapes. Subject(s): Child Labor; Fire ANNIE WEATHERBY, by BOB KAVEN Poem Source First Line: Father woke me. He claimed the house was burning Last Line: Like a quick, small engine. I told them to leave Subject(s): Family Life; Fire; Survival APOLOGUE: THE THOUGHT SUGGESTED BY A SPANISH SAYING, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seek for me in the arab maid's bower Last Line: Parted once, we part for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Air; Fire; Shame; Water ARIZONA SUMMER, by ELEANOR BALDWIN Poem Text First Line: If then at last this ordeal shall be done Last Line: Winter will be more kind than any lover. Subject(s): Fire ARMAND BARBES, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fire out of heaven, a flower of perfect fire Last Line: Thy day shall be commensurate with time. Subject(s): Fire; Heaven; Love; Soul; Paradise ARSONIST, by MARK JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: It is the standing back Last Line: In my groin: hot, cold, %hot, cold, hot Subject(s): Arson; Fire ASHES DENOTE THAT FIRE WAS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Into what carbonates Subject(s): Fire AT THE FIRESIDE, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love the dusky twilight hour Last Line: Might die as soon to its last spark! Subject(s): Fire AT THE NORTH AVENUE FIRE, by A. M. WHITE JR. Poem Text First Line: The boy stood in the burning block Last Line: But saved the feather bed. Subject(s): Fire AT THE SITE OF LAST NIGHT'S FIRE, by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I scrape char off a board with a dull knife Last Line: The marks where bumbling flame has licked my face Subject(s): Fire BAPTISMAL, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The lightning inside the black cloud put slabs Last Line: To walk over the fire like a lake. Subject(s): Baptism; Fire; Christenings BASHFUL GLEESON, by EDWARD DYSON Poem Text First Line: From her home beyond the river in the parting of the hills Last Line: Anyhow, they're three years married, and he isn't bashful now. Alternate Author Name(s): Dyson, E. Subject(s): Bashfulness; Fire; Heroism; Love; Marriage; Shyness; Heroes; Heroines; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BEING THERE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The stranger set fire to me Last Line: Be there when I call Subject(s): Fire; Strangers BELTANE (FIRE OF GOD), by MARGARETTE BALL DICKSON Poem Text First Line: Red flares the pile with the flames mounting higher Last Line: God of the fire rides forth at the dawn! Subject(s): Battleships; Death; Fire; War; Dead, The BIG FIRE AT THE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, by ANDREI VOZNESENSKY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There's a fire Last Line: Now, let's go see %that movie Alternate Author Name(s): Voznesenskii, Andrei Subject(s): Fire BILL JINKS, by MARCUS ANDREW HISLOP CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Bill jinks was a miner on ballarat Last Line: Sits the soul of william jinks. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, A. T. Subject(s): Fire; Heroism; Mines & Miners; Heroes; Heroines BILL SWEENY OF THE BLACK GANG, by JAMES BARNES Poem Text First Line: Ther's a feller in the black gang Last Line: If they don't — say! — I'd like to know! Subject(s): Fights; Fire; Firefighters BLACK CHURCHES BURNING, by SALVATORE GALIOTO Poem Source First Line: Patriotic, family oriented %religious, angry white men Last Line: Hey mom, pass me the bottle %and the gasoline Subject(s): African Americans - History; Churches; Fire BLAZES, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A man come home with my brothers Last Line: I thought of a burning bush Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Fire; Love - Nature Of; Youth BLAZING, by LUIGI FONTANELLA Poem Source First Line: Only the blazing matters Last Line: To make the flame be flame again Subject(s): Fire; Fireplaces BODY OF WATER, BODY OF FIRE, by TOM HANSEN Poem Source First Line: Water wants to get Last Line: Or show us the way Subject(s): Bodies; Fire; Water BONFIRE, by JAMES KEIR BAXTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They have lighted a bonfire on the beach beyond Last Line: And be a masterless man Alternate Author Name(s): Hemi; Baxter, James K. Subject(s): Fire BONFIRES, by EDITH HASKELL TAPPAN Poem Text First Line: You ask me why so sad a look is mine? Last Line: Will calm the fires forever in my soul. Subject(s): Fire BOSTON, by JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O broad-breasted queen among nations! Last Line: Has conquest achieved. Variant Title(s): The Great Fire Of November 9, 1872 Subject(s): Boston Fire (1872) BROTHER FIRE, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When our brother fire was having his dog's day Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): Fire; World War Ii; Second World War BROTHER FIRE, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When our brother fire was having his dog's day Last Line: Echo your thought in ours? 'destroy! Destroy' Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): Fire; World War Ii BUILDIN' FIRES, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To build a fire is better fun Last Line: Do all the pokin' there's to do. Subject(s): Boys; Fire BURN, by HENRY J. MORRO Poem Source First Line: I am cold so I add wood to the fire Last Line: Are piled up in ashes Subject(s): Fire; Wood BURN THIS, by ROBERT HILL LONG Poem Source First Line: No match, no candle Last Line: Balance in our %likeness of hands Subject(s): Fire BURNING BRUSH IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Most farms, in any place you please Last Line: To burn a rousing batch of brush. Subject(s): Farm Life; Fire-weeds; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers BURNING HOUSE TURNED OUR NIGHT CLOTHES YELLOW. STANDING AT THE, by GARY YOUNG Poem Source Last Line: In the dark Subject(s): Fire; Smoke BURNING OF THE EXETER THEATRE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1887, which many people will long remember Last Line: Because whatever is given towards a good cause they will it regain. Subject(s): Christianity; Death; Fire; Dead, The BURNING RIVER, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will tell my son over and over again Last Line: Four times the river Subject(s): Rivers; Fire BURNING STRAWPILES, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG Poem Text First Line: On autumn nights when heaven is hung Last Line: Are roused by strawfires blazing near. Subject(s): Desire; Fire BURNING THE DOLLS, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: That last night, unable to sleep Last Line: I burned and burned and burned. Subject(s): Dolls; Fire; Grief; Loss; Toys; Sorrow; Sadness BURNING THE RAIN FOREST, by JANICE N. HARRINGTON Poem Source First Line: I watched webster hold an ax blade to a gray Last Line: And child, I can see the smoke from illinois Subject(s): Fire-weeds; Memory; Rain Forests BURNNG THE LETTERS, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I made a fire; being tired Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Letters; Fire BUSY FLAME, by WINIFRED WELLES Poem Text First Line: Oh, child, with what a will Last Line: Still as a dog before a fire! Alternate Author Name(s): Shearer, Harold H., Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Fire BUTANE, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The huge aluminum airship Subject(s): Gas; Fire; Airships CALAMITY IN LONDON; FAMILY OF TEN BURNED TO DEATH, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1897, and on the night of christmas day Last Line: Every night before to your beds ye retire. Subject(s): Cruelty; Death; Fire; Firefighters; Tragedy; Dead, The CARELESSNESS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I strike a match upon my boot, and light Last Line: Black my starry eyes. Subject(s): Fire CASPAR HAUSER SONGS: 5. FIRST LIGHT, by NEIL AZEVEDO Poem Source First Line: Smoke travels from a burning house Last Line: Not dark but lusterless, and deep Subject(s): Fire; Insanity CHANGE, by A. A. HEDGE COKE Poem Source First Line: Thirteen years ago, before bulk barns and Last Line: Of before that time and it %floods my memory Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Fire-weeds; Migrant Labor; North Carolina; Smoke; Tractors CHICAGO, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blackened and bleeding, helpless, panting, prone Last Line: The gifts her kinship and our loves reveal. Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): Chicago Fire (1871) CHICAGO, by JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gaunt in the midst of the prairie Last Line: "answering her ""miserere!" Subject(s): Chicago Fire (1871) CHICAGO [OCTOBER 8-10, 1871], by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men said at vespers: 'all is well!' Last Line: And love is still miraculous! Subject(s): Chicago Fire (1871) CHRISTMAS CAROL, by ROBERT NAZARENE Poem Source First Line: Don't even begin to try to understand this poem Last Line: Lord jesus, I am losing my mind Subject(s): Death; Fathers And Daughters; Fire CHRISTMAS MERRYMAKING, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fire with well-dried logs supplied Last Line: At such high tide, her savoury goose. Subject(s): Christmas; Fire; Nativity, The CHURCH BURNING, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: Already it is almost nothing, a darkness Last Line: With a guttural spark: niggers, niggers. %his ancient prayer flares Subject(s): African Americans; Churches; Fire; Georgia (state) CIGARETTES, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father burned us all. Ash Last Line: Smoldering halls. Subject(s): Children; Fathers; Fire; Parents; Smoking; Childhood; Parenthood; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes CLEANSING FIRES, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Let thy gold be cast in the furnace Last Line: And the furnace of living pain! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Fire; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness CLINKERS, by ROSA ZAGNONI MARINONI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She claimed her love for him Last Line: For the clinkers. Subject(s): Fire COMBUSTION, by PAUL KARAN Poem Source First Line: God it's cold Last Line: Do you want to go outside %and look Subject(s): Automobiles; Cold; Fire CORNET; MANNER OF LOVING & DYING OF CHRISTOPHER RILKE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Riding, riding, riding, day and night in the saddle Last Line: There he saw an old woman's tears Subject(s): Death; Fire; Flags; Flowers; Friendship; Grief; Love; Melancholy; Mothers And Sons; Roses; Sex; Soldiers; Travel; War CREMAINS, by BERNHARD HILLILA Poem Source First Line: When leaves no longer live, they Last Line: They happen to be tobacco Subject(s): Fire; Leaves; Politics CRUDE LAMENT, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother of flames Last Line: Would god they had taken me with them! Subject(s): Mothers; Fire DEL INFERNO, by EDWARD SAPIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A world in flames! Last Line: "a world in flames!'" Subject(s): Devil; Fire; Hell; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub DINNER PARTY, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fire is lit in the hearth, and flickers Last Line: Lifts his cup, and calls for more wine. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Conversation; Dinners & Dining; Fire; Guests; Tableware; Visiting; Cutlery; Forks; Plates DISCOVERIES OF FIRE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remember %when the skin of your fingers healed Last Line: Once animals and now %men Subject(s): Fire; Smoke DON QUIXOTE: SONG, by THOMAS D'URFEY Poem Text First Line: Let the dreadful engines of eternal will Last Line: And so I fairly bid 'em and the world good night. Subject(s): Courtship; Desire; Fire DRESS OF FIRE, by DAHLIA RAVIKOVITCH Poem Source First Line: You know, she said, they made you %a dress of fire Last Line: I'm not wearing a dress at all %what's burning is me Variant Title(s): The Dress; For Yitzak Livn Subject(s): Fire DRIFTWOOD FIRE, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Remember how you piled the driftwood high Last Line: The vast sea-creatures move against our keel. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Driftwood; Fire ECCLESIA RESTAURTA; .. REBUILDING OF ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL, by JAMES WRIGHT (1643-1713) Poem Text First Line: What beauteous tumor's this, with royal grace Last Line: And beauty, equals their magnificence. Subject(s): London Fire (1666); St. Paul's Cathedral, London; Great Fire Of 1666 ELEGY FOR THE BURNED, by PATRICIA HAMPL Poem Source First Line: Anthracite sours the air Last Line: All those flimsy pink blossoms Subject(s): Czechoslovakia - Communist Regime; Fire EMPTYING ASHES, by MAXWELL ANDERSON Poem Text First Line: The leaves blow like ghosts through the blur of Last Line: And I empty the ashes, watching the leaves, after all. Subject(s): Fire ENGLAND'S PASSING BELL, by THOMAS GILBERT (1613-1694) Poem Text First Line: I am no prophet, no, nor prophet's son Last Line: And let her ruins be under thine hand. Subject(s): Bells; Death; London Fire (1666); Dead, The; Great Fire Of 1666 EPICUREAN PORTRAITS, by ELISA ALBO Poem Source First Line: You tasted of caramel %caramelo the hue of honey Last Line: I'll begin again. %you tasted of ashes Subject(s): Creation; Fire; Taste (sense) EPIGRAM: 17, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some time I fled the fire that me brent Last Line: Mashed in the breers that erst was all to torn. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 59 Subject(s): Desire; Fire EXPERIENCE: EMBERS, by MILDRED WHITNEY STILLMAN Poem Text First Line: It is not your fault, and you need not know Last Line: No heat, no light. Subject(s): Fire EXPLANATION, by VIRGINIA A. ALLIN Poem Text First Line: You say, I am playing Last Line: ..... And light another. Subject(s): Fire; Punishment EYE PAINTS THE MIND, by JOHN DICKSON Poem Source First Line: In the farthest booth of the restaurant's dark Last Line: It's then that he ends his striking of matches, %pays his check and leaves Subject(s): Fire FALSE ALARMS, by ADELAIDE O'KEEFFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One day little mary most loudly did call Last Line: For giving mamma false alarms. Alternate Author Name(s): O'keefe, Adelaide Subject(s): Children; Fire; Girls; Lies; Tragedy; Childhood FIELD'S ON FIRE, by NANCE VAN WINCKEL Poem Source First Line: But it's so far, we can't be sure Last Line: Hoping it would stop ending like this Subject(s): Fields; Fire FIGHTING FIRE, by HAMLIN GARLAND Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A creeping serrate line of dusty red Last Line: Swinging in the wind, the smoke shuts down %and all is lost to sight Subject(s): Fire FIGHTING FIRE, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First the fire engines shake the night, the red blare Last Line: Blazes up, light flickers over mouths shut on the word / nothing Subject(s): Fire; Homeless FINIAS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the torch-lit city of finias that flames on Last Line: Here! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Cities; Fire; Immortality; Laughter; Secrets; Urban Life FIRE, by DUANE ACKERSON Poem Source First Line: Once, fire was used to put out water. When a house was drowning Last Line: Lightning bolt that breaks for enough fire to water our gardens Subject(s): Cooking And Cooks; Fire; Heat; Lightning FIRE, by MICHAEL DENNIS BROWNE Poem Source First Line: You love a fire; you love to sit and watch Last Line: As I write this; you are ten (just); you are %seven Subject(s): Fire; Growth FIRE, by STANTON ARTHUR COBLENTZ Poem Text First Line: Here, where the wavering hearth-fire pants and glows Last Line: In one gray smoky ruin come roaring down! Subject(s): Fire FIRE, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blandly glowing, richly bright Last Line: A ruined soul and blackened fame. Subject(s): Fire FIRE, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Clear smoke Last Line: To go on Subject(s): Fire; Solitude; Loneliness FIRE, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clear smoke Last Line: We can leave it all %to go on Subject(s): Fire; Solitude FIRE, by NICK FLYNN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: More the idea of the flame than the flame, Subject(s): Fire FIRE, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Fire gonna burn ma soul! Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Variant Title(s): Fir Subject(s): African Americans; Fire FIRE, by KONDO AZUMA Poem Source First Line: The distant range of the mountains, like a shark's lower jaw Last Line: Laughed the laugh of god and man Subject(s): Fire FIRE, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All begins in fire and ends in fire Last Line: Consumes the zeal of burning for the last day. Subject(s): Desire; Fire; Soul FIRE, by EMMA REED SHOAFF Poem Text First Line: Thou flame of the soul, o thou fountain of life Last Line: For 'twould seem that 'tis thou that the earth doth control. Subject(s): Fire FIRE, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes there would be a fire and I would walk into it Subject(s): Fire FIRE, by EUNICE TIETJENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love, let us light Last Line: Fire is a strange thing, burning in your head. Alternate Author Name(s): Head, Cloyd, Mrs. Subject(s): Fire FIRE AND ICE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some say the world will end in fire, / some say in ice Last Line: And would suffice. Subject(s): Death; Desire; Fire; Hate; Ice; Judgment Day; Men; Time; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man FIRE AND THE ROSE, by FRANK X. GASPAR Poem Source First Line: Some days are meant to be filled with shame Last Line: That this, or something like this, would be possible Subject(s): Fire; Flowers; Roses FIRE AT NIGHT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fire! Fire! Ring! And ring! Last Line: Wonder where their old fire's at! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Bells; Fire; Night; Bedtime FIRE CEREMONY, by SUSAN STEWART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A girl called out to her horse Subject(s): Fire; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers FIRE FANTASY, by FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS GIFFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flame flies up in the chimney black Last Line: Coming -- back ----? Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Fannie Stearns Subject(s): Fire FIRE IN THE WINDOW, by MARY ELIZABETH MAPES DODGE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fire in the window! Flashes in the pane! Last Line: The sun's going down, sir, I haven't a doubt Subject(s): Fire FIRE IS, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Cockleshell of, / cockleheart Subject(s): Fire; Man-woman Relationships FIRE ISLAND, by BARON JAMES ASHANTI Poem Source First Line: A different method of caring Last Line: Of emotional questing: eternal and satin soft %as a deep kiss speaking in tongues! Subject(s): Fire Island FIRE ISLAND, by RITA MAE BROWN Poem Source First Line: The sea is obsidian Last Line: Whose capped and sterile teeth %whisper the great lie, 'love' Subject(s): Fire Island FIRE ON THE HILLS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The deer were bounding like blown leaves Subject(s): Fire; Men FIRE ON THE HILLS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The deer were bounding like blown leaves Last Line: The destruction that brings an eagle from heaven is better than mercy Subject(s): Fire; Men FIRE SEASON, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the angels of tie siding were on fire Subject(s): Fire FIRE TO FIRE, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All smolder and oxblood Last Line: Which is why the corona’d seedhead flashes the finches down Subject(s): Fire; War FIRE TO FIRE, by MARK DOTY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All smolder and oxblood Last Line: The corona'd seedhead flashes the finches down Subject(s): Fire; War FIRE!, by WILLY BAL Poem Source First Line: There was the cottage blazing Last Line: If you want to live quietly, turn a deaf ear Subject(s): Fire FIRE-EATER, by T. CARMI First Line: She left me a souvenir Subject(s): Fire-eaters FIRE-EATER, by ERNST HERBECK Poem Source First Line: The fire-eater pours gasoline Subject(s): Fire-eaters FIRE-EATER, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those stars are the fleshed forebears Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Fire-eaters FIRES, by MIKLOS RADNOTI Poem Source First Line: Fires break out and slowly die forever Last Line: Soldiers' ghosts fly to the bright meridians Subject(s): Fire; War FIRES IN ILLINOIS, by JOHN JAMES PIATT Poem Source First Line: How bright this weird autumnal eve Last Line: But, numberless as the stars above, %the windows shine below! Subject(s): Fire; Illinois FIRES OF DRIFTWOOD, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On what long tides Last Line: Ashes blown along the shore! Subject(s): Driftwood; Fire; Sea Voyages; Tides FIRES OF LOVE, by VILETA NELSON CHARTIER Poem Text First Line: You lit the spark of love one day Last Line: The embers warm. Subject(s): Fire; Love - Loss Of FIRESONG, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Born green we were Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Fire FIRESTARTER, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Since this morning he's gone through Subject(s): Fire; Firefighters; Oregon; Smoke; Women FIRESTARTER, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since this morning he's gone through Last Line: And I can't take my eyes from the light Subject(s): Fire; Firefighters; Oregon; Smoke; Women FIREWEED, by ELNA L. VON PINGEL Poem Text First Line: The woodsman and his ax have conquered Last Line: On slopes where once great forests trod. Alternate Author Name(s): Rasmussen, Elna Subject(s): Fire-weeds; Trees FIRE_FLOWERS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And only where the forest fires have sped Last Line: And life revives, and blossoms once again. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Fire; Forests; Nature; Survival; Woods FLAME, by EDITH GRAHAM MIRICK Poem Text First Line: I am cold as milk-white stone Last Line: Turn, oh, turn me back to stone! Subject(s): Desire; Fire FLAME, by EUGENIE CATHERINE PAUL Poem Text First Line: Out of the twisted faggots rise Last Line: Silver of silence and of grief. Subject(s): Fire FLAME, by ELIZABETH GREENE STREATER Poem Text First Line: At midnight I awoke from tranquil sleeping Last Line: When beauty, love, and life can never burn? Subject(s): Fire FLAME, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The breath %the road Last Line: The eyes %the burning Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Fire FLAME / INNOEKNTY ANNENSKY, by STEPHEN BERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I thought my heart was empty and hard Last Line: Now fumes from the black wick %choke me Subject(s): Annensky, Innokenty (1856-1909); Fire FLAME ON THE WIND, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O wind without that moans and cries, o dark Last Line: Mid dirges of white shapes that plunge and sway. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Desire; Fire; Hearts; Pain; Soul; Wind; Suffering; Misery FLAME WATCH, by JACK SEYBOLD Poem Source First Line: In my child-mind Last Line: With any slightest movement Subject(s): Children; Fire; Memory FLAMES, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I watched a log in the fire-place burning Last Line: That life so freely gave to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Fire FORMS OF FIRE, by APRIL OSSMANN Poem Source First Line: In the beginning, I was the candle flame Last Line: The stairs had been saying something %you had to lose the house to hear Subject(s): Fire FOUNDATIONS FOR FIRE, by SANDRA MEEK-HENSON Poem Source First Line: Will we talk of it, of what filled Last Line: Circling with these words, rubbing these too %green sticks against air Subject(s): Change; Fire FOUR ELEMENTS: FIRE, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: An essentially mineral element, fire resides in stones and eggs Last Line: Collected in sour cream Subject(s): Fire; Nature FRAGMENT, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sleep. The panoply of sense Last Line: The full theme of the song? Subject(s): Hearts; Fire FRANCISCA DILIGENTE; MAY TO AUGUST, 1906, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: No more 'indifferent to fate Last Line: In watchings round the golden gate. Subject(s): Ingratitude; San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906); Ungratefulness FRANCISCA DOLOROSA, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Fore-doomed the horror of the age to bear Last Line: A resurrexit in a requiem chant. Subject(s): Death; Disasters; San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906); Smoke; Dead, The FRANCISCA GLORIOSA, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: A crown on her head and triumphant, francisca shall / mount to her seat Last Line: "then the world shall unite with her children to hail her, ""francisca the blest!" Subject(s): Disasters; Lightning; San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906); Smoke; Lightning Rods FRANCISCA MADRE; NEW YEAR, 1907, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: What cheer, francisco madre, what of cheer Last Line: There's a cheer, francisca madre, there is cheer. Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Happiness; Holidays; Memory; New Year; San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906); Joy; Delight FRANCISCA REINA, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: A stricken queen, but still a queen of queens Last Line: "with orisons unto the rising sun." Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Drought; Sacrifices; San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906); Smoke FRANCISCA REINA: INTRODUCTION, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: The horror which surpassed all telling Last Line: Lord god! Help us forget. Subject(s): San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906) FRANCISCA'S THANKSGIVING, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: When the hordes of barbarian persians Last Line: And the triumphs the future shall hold. Subject(s): Holidays; San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906); Thanksgiving; Turkey FRENCH PARK, by MAGDA GUTAI Poem Source First Line: Ashes hover above the neat park Last Line: And the swans begin their dance shyly Subject(s): Fire-weeds; Forests; Parks; Smoke; Trees GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 21, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They bit by bit are building again Last Line: "is stirr'd with indignation." Subject(s): Birds; Hamburg Fire (1842); Kisses; Love GOD, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is that face at the window? Last Line: I refuse to believe in god! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Faces; Fire; God; Jesus Christ; Lies; Love; Wine GREAT BRITAINS GLORY, by THEOPHILUS" "PHILALETHES [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: "my muse advance, flye to parnassus hill" Last Line: Who was the founder of / great brittain's glory Alternate Author Name(s): "philalethes, Theophilus; Subject(s): "london Fire (1666);royal Exchange, London;" Great Fire Of 1666 GREAT BRITTAINS BEAUTY; OR, LONDON'S DELIGHT, by GEORGE ELIOTT Poem Text First Line: Go view earth's globe, take eagles wings and fly Last Line: Thoul't be the worlds chief metropolitan. Subject(s): London; London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 HAIKU, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To be lifted in Last Line: Remembering the fire Subject(s): Fire HALLOWEEN 1996, by C. T. LAWRENCE Poem Source First Line: In the afternoon there is the surprise of driving by fire Last Line: Light and dark. Everything has a seam in it; if it splits, %we get to see the fire inside Subject(s): Fire; Halloween; Pumpkins HANDS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Close to boiling water spilled Last Line: Burning now Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Fire; Hands HARD AS ASH, by PETER GIZZI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some trees cannot grow without fire. Subject(s): Fire HE LIT A FIRE WITH ICICLES, by KAY RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: This was the work / of st. Sebolt, one Subject(s): Fire; Ice HE THANKS HIS WOODPILE, by LEW WELCH Poem Source First Line: The wood of the madrone burns with a flame at once Last Line: (which is not, at last, estrangement) Subject(s): Fire 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 HIGH NOON AT LOS ALAMOS, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To turn a stone / with its white squirming Last Line: For the silence Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Fire; Heat; Noon; Solitude; Sun; Loneliness HISTORY OF FIRE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My mother is a fire beneath stone Last Line: Fanning the flame Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Fire; Smoke HITCHHIKING, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Awake: / the white hand of Last Line: By a miraculous hatred. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Fire; Hitchhikers; Tragedy HOUSE FIRE, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: Parents talked Last Line: The bright cloth %crawled out of my hands Subject(s): Fire; Houses HOUSEFIRE, by MIRANDA FIELD Poem Source First Line: The spark struck in secret, beneath the stairs in the dust Last Line: With its somoke, our sleeping faces. To take us dreaming Subject(s): Fire; Houses HOW WE WENT OUT, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: She wore five skirts, he wore two hats Last Line: A yellow angel, but disguised. Subject(s): Disasters; Dreams; San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906); Smoke; Nightmares HYMN TO FIRE, by KONSTANTIN DMITRIYEVICH BALMONT Poem Text First Line: Oh, fire who purgeth us Last Line: Shed perpetual light! Subject(s): Desire; Fire; Passion; Prayer Meetings; Sabbath; Sunday I BUILD THREE FIRES, by PAT POE Poem Text First Line: Build me a fire, lover Last Line: And leave me alone. Subject(s): Fire ICARUS ON FIRE ISLAND, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two loves I have, each one Subject(s): Fire Island; Gays & Lesbians; Mythology - Classical ICARUS ON FIRE ISLAND, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two loves I have, each one Last Line: Where light drains away Subject(s): Fire Island; Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical IF YOU ARE FIRE AND I AM FIRE, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: As if it had not been? Subject(s): Fire IN AS MUCH AS IT IS ALWAYS ALREADY TAKING PLACE, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: Outside, smoke mushrooms with the ghosts of sarajevo Last Line: Alvalanche. Inferno. Nations buckling %with its roar Subject(s): Death; Disappeared Persons; Fire; Tragedy; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) IN TERMS UNFAMILIAR, by ADAM DICKINSON Poem Source First Line: It has been thirty years %since fire bared and bent across the hillside Last Line: A crow in a nearby mountain ash %flicked a glance of coal Subject(s): Fire; Forests; Spring INTERIOR OF BEESWAX CHAMBER, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: Stickled nectars seized in Last Line: Blossoms. The wind's %picking up Subject(s): Death; Disappeared Persons; Fire; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) IS IT DONE?, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is done! In the fire's fitful flashes Last Line: Will dream they are playing their parts. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Fire; Happiness; Hearts; Hope; Kisses; Pain; Nightmares; Joy; Delight; Optimism; Suffering; Misery JANUARY FIRE: THIRD AVENUE FLOPHOUSE, by CORRINNE CLEGG HALES Poem Source First Line: We are neighbors, so we tell them Subject(s): Fire; Flop-houses JOHNNY, by FRANK WILMOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By chance I heard some person say Last Line: How you and yours fared in the burn. Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley Subject(s): Fire JOTTINGS: THE FLAME, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is the tiny flame of my match that gives itself Last Line: Vanishes? Subject(s): Fire JUPITER'S HORSES; OR, THE MODERN LOCOMOTIVE, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: How often at night I have stood on the hill Last Line: "old jupiter's horses are coming to drink." Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Locomotives; San Francisco Earthquake & Fire (1906) KALEVALA: FIRE, by UNKNOWN+186 Poem Source First Line: Ilmarinen struck %fire, vainamoinen Last Line: The copper mantle trembled %as the fire was lulled Subject(s): Fire KINDS OF KINDLING, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Laughing thorns crackled beneath my kettle: would Last Line: Bay crashing, verdant, against my brow Subject(s): Fire LAND OF ALVARGONZALEZ: THE DREAM, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And alvargonzalez, %like jacob, sees a ladder Last Line: Glitters an iron hatchet Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Fire LAS ANIMAS, by MARIO LUZI Poem Source First Line: Fire everywhere, the gentle fire of brushwood Last Line: Is awareness for ardor or the dark Subject(s): Death; Fire LAVENDER, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just for experiment I am burning the lavender Subject(s): Fire; Lavender; Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances LAVENDER, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just for experiment I am burning the lavender Last Line: And the box full of silk, I was such an enemy Subject(s): Fire; Lavender; Smells LES GRANDES PASSIONS MANQUEES, by IRVING FELDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Had she survived her immolation Last Line: Was earthen and too insipid to burn Subject(s): Fire; Passion; Survival LES GRANDES PASSIONS MANQUEES, by IRVING FELDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Had she survived her immolation Last Line: Was earthen and too insipid to burn Subject(s): Fire; Passion; Survival LI PO, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fire makes noises like snow on wet panes Last Line: The fire is less naster of the cold night than the snow Subject(s): Fire; Snow LIFE, by HENRIK NORDBRANDT Poem Source First Line: You struck a match and its flame blinded you Last Line: And pain made you forget what you were looking for Subject(s): Fire; Life LIGHTED FIRE, by MERLE PRICE Poem Text First Line: A lighted fire upon the hearth at evening Last Line: A lighted fire will warm the heart as well. Subject(s): Fire LIGHTS, by PIERRE REVERDY Poem Source First Line: We know that the fires will all meet up Last Line: And everything that remains of this world %after the storm Subject(s): Fire; Light LINES FER ISAAC BRADWELL, OF INDIANAPOLIS, IND., by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through fire and flood this book has passed Last Line: Than 'fore they tried to burn the thing! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Books; Fire; Poetry & Poets; Reading LIVING BY I-5, AUGUST 6, 1995, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: No, not the 100,000 year-old ice dam Last Line: Each car has an aura of blue flame Subject(s): Bombs; Death; Fire; Graves; Hiroshima, Japan; Nuclear War; Radiation And Radiation Sickness LONDON SECOND TEARS, by JOHN CROUCH Poem Text First Line: Thou queen of cities, whose unbounded fame Last Line: Shall rise a fairer phoenix after death. Subject(s): London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 LONDON SURVEYED AND ILLUSTRATED, by JOHANNEM ADAMUS Poem Text First Line: What dire calamities have enforced me Last Line: Of londons trophies and our time and tense. Subject(s): London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 LONDON UNDONE; OR A REFLECTION UPON THE LASTE DISTEROUS FIRE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: No more historians your surmise recant Last Line: "then you'll conclude with me, the flames were kind, / she was not so much ruin'd, as refin'd" Subject(s): London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 LONDON'S FATAL-FALL; BEING AN ACROSTICK, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: L o! Now confused heaps only stand Last Line: Y ield us more blessings unto those before Subject(s): London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 LONDON'S INDEX; OR SOME REFLECTIONS ON NEW BUILT MONUMENT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: What strange idea can present Last Line: "london, built so nigh heaven, is chamber to the king" Subject(s): "fire Monument, London;london Fire (1666);" Great Fire Of 1666 LONDON; ANAGRAM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "though now I am unwilling, woes attend" Last Line: Unto 'em such other in the end Subject(s): London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 LONDONS NONSUCH; OR, THE GLORY OF THE ROYAL EXCHANGE, by HENRY DUKE Poem Text First Line: Well done deare, honest, ehver kynd Last Line: For he is ehver kynd. Subject(s): London Fire (1666); Merchants; Royal Exchange, London; Great Fire Of 1666 LONDONS REMAINS, by SIMON FORD Poem Text First Line: All you whose cheeks my londons obsequies Last Line: More glorious by your overthrow. Subject(s): London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 LONDONS RESURRECTION, by SIMON FORD Poem Text First Line: My salamander-muse, which newly sprung Last Line: Ev'n so to die, that so she might arise. Subject(s): London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 LONDONS STATELY NEW BUILDINGS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: O thrice illustrious famous city london Last Line: "rich london cryes, vail bonnet unto me" Subject(s): London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 LONGINGS (BURNS MODEL LODGING-HOUSE), by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is clatter on the pavement, there is hurry / in the street Last Line: My father's homely cottage in kilcar. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Death; Fire; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise LOVE SONG, by DOROTHY MCFARLANE Poem Text First Line: Out of all splendor that there is Last Line: No one can own it. Subject(s): Fire LUCI FER-', by MARGARET AHO Poem Source Last Line: For %fire Subject(s): Fire; Marriage MAG, by FREDERICK MUNDLE Poem Source First Line: Long after aunt mag went up Last Line: For ourselves -- now there's no need %to mention our paranoia Subject(s): Aunts; Fire MEXICAN NURSERY SONG: 16, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The negro girl's house is burning down Last Line: It will burn her pumpkin brown Subject(s): Fire MILL FIRE, by JAMES FINNEGAN Poem Source First Line: In this part of town all the mills Last Line: Back when the mills were working Subject(s): Fire; Mills And Millers MY CIGARETTE, by CHARLES FLETCHER LUMMIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My cigarette! The amulet Last Line: And nought is left me but the ashes. Subject(s): Evening; Fire; Smoking; Sunset; Twilight; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes MYTH OF THE BLAZE, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Night-sky bird's world Subject(s): Fire MYTH OF THE BLAZE, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night-sky bird's world Last Line: Bread each side of the knife Subject(s): Fire NIGHT IN CAMP, by SARAH SPENCER ROE Poem Text First Line: Sparks ascending from the fire Last Line: Presently to die. Subject(s): Camping; Fire; Fireplaces; Forests; Wood; Camps; Summer Camps; Woods NIGHTTIME FIRES, by REGINA BARRECA Poem Source First Line: When I was five in louisville Last Line: Rearview mirror, eyes like hallways filled with smoke Subject(s): Family Life; Fire NORTH HILLOCK, by P'EI TI Poem Source First Line: On north hillock of south mountain Last Line: Bright like fire against the green grove Subject(s): Fire-weeds; Hiking; Zen Buddhism ODDA, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: The smoke rises from the earth Last Line: At night as fiery pillars %over israel Subject(s): Fire; Israel; Smoke; Volcanoes OF THAT FIRE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inside I am on fire. Imagine, though, coming up to city hall Last Line: Not knowing they are dying in the fire that was lit in them,born of that fire Subject(s): Fire OFF FIRE ISLAND, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With snapping flag against the gray Last Line: The flashing bluefish leaps -- for life! Subject(s): Fire Island; New York City - Colonial Period; Sea; Ocean OLD BRADDOCK, by JOHN VANCE CHENEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fire! Fire in allentown Last Line: Know how he fell—dead. Subject(s): Courage; Fire; Valor; Bravery OLD FIRES, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fire burns low Last Line: Dawn's wild fires through the casement glow. Subject(s): Fire OLD LETTERS, by W. L. KITCHEL Poem Text First Line: There's a letter from home I was dreading Last Line: Together blaze billet and bill. Subject(s): Fire; Letters ON A PIECE OF UNWROUGHT PIPECLAY, by JOHN FREDERICK BRYANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rude mass of earth, from which with moiled hands Last Line: That threats my eyeballs with extinction dire! Subject(s): Fire; Genius; Science; Scientists ON BOW-CHURCH AND STEEPLE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Look how the country-hobbs with wonder flock Last Line: "to you who steeple upon steeple set, / cut my cocks-comb, if e're to heaven you get" Subject(s): London;london Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 ON FIRE, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: It begins as combustion, this making of heat and light Last Line: The remnants of a life rise up, sunlight %descending into trees Subject(s): Fire; Hallucinations And Illusions; Heat ON FIRE, by SUSAN WOOD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Someone was playing with fire, I'd hear Last Line: And awe for him, and, yes, / with shame Subject(s): Fire; Love ON REFLECTION, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Fire; Reality ON THE FALL OF THE MITRE TAVERN IN CAMBRIDGE, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lament, lament, ye scholars all Last Line: But now we'll drink like doctors. Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Cambridge, England; Fire; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons ON THE REBUILDING OF LONDON, by JEREMIAH WELLS Poem Text First Line: What a devouring fire but t'other day Last Line: And heavens obliged while he is implor'd. Subject(s): London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 ON THE SLOW TRAIN PASSING THROUGH, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's moody furniture and the town of moody. Also the display Last Line: The conductor hitched up the trolley and they went on with their regular day. Subject(s): Disasters; Fire; Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips OUR DRIFTWOOD FIRE, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How we delighted in our driftwood fire Subject(s): Fire; Driftwood PEACH FIRES, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out in the orchards the dogs stood Subject(s): Trees; Fire; Winter PHOENIX, by MARGARETTE BALL DICKSON Poem Text First Line: The fire has faded as I knew it must Last Line: Of all the souls who grieve and lose and yearn. Subject(s): Fire; Light; Memory PILLAR OF FIRE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though %claimed %or spoken for Last Line: Genes don't go hog-wild in derision Subject(s): Fire; Marriage PLAYING WITH FIRE, by ELIZABETH TURNER (1755-1846) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The friends of little mary green Last Line: Again, before she died! Subject(s): Accidents; Death - Children; Fire; Girls; Play; Death - Babies POPPIES, by LIANE STRAUSS Poem Source First Line: Sleep. Oh, I could sleep! But for the noise of fire Last Line: Until they fill and pull the floater under Subject(s): Fire PORTENTS, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Today they invent Last Line: "sooner or later, Subject(s): Computers; Fire; Inventions And Inventors; Omens PRAIRIE FIRES, by HAMLIN GARLAND Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A curving, leaping line of light Subject(s): Fire PROLOGUE SPOKEN THE FIRST DAY OF THE KING'S HOUSE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So shipwreck'd passengers escape to land Last Line: Your presence here, for which we humbly sue, %will grace old theatres, and build up new Subject(s): Fire; Theater And Theaters PROMETHEUS, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day beneath the bleak indifferent skies Last Line: Quick fire enough to set his world alight. Subject(s): Fire QUATRAINS (FOR FOUR DRAWINGS BY JORGE PALOMINO): 4. HATE, by CHARLES PHILLIPS (1880-1933) Poem Text First Line: Cold in the chambered darkness of the brain Last Line: Bursts the hot deed in flame of leaping fire! Subject(s): Fire; Hate QUESTION AND ANSWER, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That which is being the only answer Last Line: And with the sun rises perpetual day. Subject(s): Fire; Flowers RAIN IN CAMP, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The camp-fire smoulders and will not burn Last Line: Alas, shall there no man paint or tell. Subject(s): Camping; Fire; Rain; Camps; Summer Camps RAKE THE FIRE, by MURDOCH MACLEAN Poem Source Subject(s): Fire RED SHADOWS, SELECTION, by DONA WAYLAND Poem Text First Line: Black wraiths, - undulating fiends Last Line: The memory of those scorching -- yellow fangs! Subject(s): Fire REFUSAL TO MOURN THE DEATH, BY FIRE, OF A CHILD IN LONDON, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never until the mankind making Last Line: After the first death, there is no other Subject(s): Air Warfare; Death - Children; Fire; Innocence; Mourning; World War Ii REGARD, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In regard to their own movement Last Line: Turning through the fire . Subject(s): Fire; Winter REJECTED ADDRESSES: THE REBUILDING, BY R. S., by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am a blessed glendoveer Last Line: "no, thank you! One tumble's enough!" Subject(s): Death; Fire; Law & Lawyers; Southey, Robert (1774-1843); Tears; Dead, The RESCUE, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN Poem Source First Line: The smoke alarm wails like a pig Last Line: The people are not there Subject(s): Fire; Firefighters; Smoke RUN DOWN, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the grim dead end he lies, with passionless filmy / eyes Last Line: To a shift beyond the skies. Subject(s): Accidents; Cemeteries; Death; Fire; Graves; Tragedy; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones RUNE OF THE FOREST FIRE, by HELEN HOYT (1887-1972) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The swift-skimming shuttles Alternate Author Name(s): Lyman, W. W., Mrs. Subject(s): Fire SAID HANRAHAN, by P. J. HARTIGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We'll all be rooned,' said hanrahan / in accents most forlorn Last Line: "before the year is out." Alternate Author Name(s): O'brien, John+(2) Subject(s): Drought; Fire; Floods; God; Pessimism SAMSON PREDICTS FROM GAZA THE PHILADELPHIA FIRE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It will be your hair Last Line: If you do not they will Subject(s): African Americans; Fire; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Samson; Survival; Negroes; American Blacks SAN FRANCISCO, by JOHN VANCE CHENEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who now dare longer trust thy mother land? Last Line: Mother, what hast thou done, what hast thou done! Subject(s): San Francisco Earthquake & Fire (1906) SAN FRANCISCO, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such darkness as when jesus died! Last Line: The fairest sight beneath the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906) SAN FRANCISCO: 1 (APRIL, 1906), by JOHN VANCE CHENEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who more shall trust thee, nature; who so dare Last Line: Thine own, yet ours — mother, what hast thou done? Subject(s): Disasters; Nature; San Francisco Earthquake & Fire (1906) SAPPHO'S HOUSE ON FIRE, by PENELOPE BOUTOS Poem Source First Line: The old house caught fire again last night Last Line: Meanwhile, on the roof, the firemen were pissing in the chimney Subject(s): Fire; Sappho (610-580 B.c.) SCORCHER, by CARRIE HEIMER Poem Source First Line: These homemade hips Last Line: That burns gold and hot copper and fire Subject(s): Fire; Gold SCROLL OF FIRE 1, by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK Poem Source First Line: All of that night oceans of fire boiled and tongues of fire leaped over the Last Line: God a galloping fire, give unto god a dance of heat and flame! Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman Subject(s): Fire; God SCROLL OF FIRE 2, by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK Poem Source First Line: And when the dawn glimmered on the mountains and pale vapors spread in Last Line: Upon the ruins and went into hiding Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman Subject(s): Fire; God SEASONABLE THOUGHTS IN SAD TIMES, by JOHN TABOR Poem Text First Line: The war still slaughters, & the plague destroys Last Line: The cause, the cure we shall the better know. Subject(s): London Fire (1666); St. Paul's Cathedral, London; Great Fire Of 1666 SISTER MARY APPASSIONATE LECTURES SCIENCE CLASS: DOCTRINES OF ELEMENTS, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: God's a bag of wind, primum mobile, push come Last Line: Our bodies vessels shaped to hold god's love Subject(s): Fire; Water SITTING BY THE FIRE (1), by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Barren age and withered world! Last Line: Trooping to and fro! Subject(s): Fire SITTING BY THE FIRE (2), by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! The solace in the sitting Last Line: Sitting by the fire. Subject(s): Fire; Sleep SIXTH MONTH OF 408: WE HAD A FIRE, by T'AO CH'IEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My thatch hut was set in a narrow lane Last Line: But since I wasn't born in those times, %I'll just go on watering my garden Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Fire SMOKE, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Who would want to give it up, the coal Subject(s): Death; Fire; Smoke; Tragedy; Women; Dead, The SMOKE, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who would want to give it up, the coal Last Line: Like the ghost the night will become Subject(s): Death; Fire; Smoke; Tragedy; Women SMOULDERING EMBERS BLUSH, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Prometheus never knew Variant Title(s): Poem: 1132; Poem: 114 Subject(s): Fire SOME VERSES UPON THE BURNING OF OUR HOUSE JULY 10, 1666, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In silent night when rest I took Last Line: My hope and treasure lies above. Variant Title(s): Upon The Burning Of Our House July 10th 1666;here Follows Some Verses Upon The Burning Of Our House July Subject(s): Americans; Children; Fire; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; United States; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness; America SONG, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mirrors we lay wherein desire Last Line: Night's pleasure and the press of weather Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Desire; Fever; Fire SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 6, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Phillis, since we have both been kind Last Line: And pretty chloris stays for me. Subject(s): Fire; Love; Nature; Pain; Pleasure; Soul; Suffering; Misery SONNET TO THE FIRE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My friendly fire, thou blazest clear and bright Last Line: And o'er my ashes muse, as I will muse o'er thine. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Fire; Legacies; Muses; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Inspiration; Creativity SONNET: FIRE AT BAKER'S, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sky is glowing in one ruddy sheet Last Line: And cheaper way of making toast-and-water! Subject(s): Fire SPARKS AND SNOW FELL, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: The house was heart of pine Last Line: Red ashes in the snow Subject(s): Fire; Snow SPARKS, SPARKING, by ANDREA ADOLPH Poem Source First Line: I want to dream my thumb Last Line: Dry grass sparking %across the horizon Subject(s): Fire SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the mattress was a day-old newspaper rolled into a scroll Last Line: Him and her, in the levitating bed, in the flames. Subject(s): Fire; Passion SPOON RIVER GARLAND: 5. DOUBLE SHOOTING, by MICHAEL JOSEPH BUGEJA Poem Source First Line: I would have quizzed my executioner Last Line: And then the guilt, so I fired again Subject(s): Fire; Guns; Murder TENEMENT BODY, by BRIAN TEARE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The air swells - pure burn; the windows sweat Subject(s): Bodies; Fire TENEMENT BODY, by BRIAN TEARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The air swells - pure burn; the windows sweat Last Line: A thrill of combustion, its wings awash in ash Subject(s): Bodies; Fire THALIA, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fierce flames fell on your brow upturned Last Line: The dwelling of the dead. Subject(s): Death; Fire; Tragedy; Dead, The THE AMERICAN FIREMAN, by CHRISTOPHER BANNISTER Poem Text First Line: A clamor and clatter of galloping hoofs Last Line: Had half such a guerdon won. Subject(s): Fire; Firefighters; Heat; Smoke; Water THE ASSIGNATION: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long betwixt love and fear phillis tormented Last Line: That I'm forsaken. Subject(s): Fear; Fire; Hearts; Love; Night; Singing & Singers; Bedtime; Songs THE BIRTHDAY, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The trees were dripping, dank and still Last Line: And thoughts to linger in. Subject(s): Birthdays; Children; Cities; Fire; Rites & Ceremonies; Childhood; Urban Life THE BLACKSMITH, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis the tamer of iron Last Line: Whence issued the world. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Blacksmiths; Fire; Furnaces; Sin; Kilns THE BLAZED TRAIL, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just when the path is lost to me Last Line: The trail shows broad and plain. Subject(s): Fire; Roads; Paths; Trails THE BONFIRE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, let's go up the hill and scare ourselves Last Line: "and have our fire and laugh and be afraid." Subject(s): Fire; War THE BONFIRES, by MARJORIE WELBORN SMITH Poem Text First Line: Through the dim unlighted street Last Line: The bonfires gleam and glow. Subject(s): Fire THE BURNING BEECH, by MIMS THORNBURGH WORKMAN Poem Text First Line: Four-thirty it was. He says he can remember Last Line: "that day in arkansas among the pine." Subject(s): Beech Trees; Fire; Trees THE BURNING BUSH, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A quick flare takes the leaves Last Line: The bush stands bare at the edge of the silent prairie Subject(s): Fire THE BURNING GLASS, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A shaft of fire that falls like dew Last Line: Behind the glass, within the glow. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Desire; Fire THE BURNING OF THE PEOPLE'S VARIETY THEATRE, ABERDEEN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1896, and on the 30th of september Last Line: But I hope they are now in heaven, amongst the heavenly choir. Subject(s): Death; Fire; Heroism; Survival; Tragedy; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines THE BURNING OF THE SHIP 'KENT', by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good people of high and low degree Last Line: And when their feet touched english soil their hearts felt gay. Subject(s): Accidents; Fire; Ships & Shipping THE BURNING OF THE STEAMER 'CITY OF MONTREAL.', by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A sad tale of the sea I will relate, which will your hearts appal Last Line: Therefore be prepared for that happy land where all troubles are o'er. Subject(s): Courage; Disasters; Fire; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Smoke; Steamboats; Valor; Bravery THE BURNS FESTIVAL, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stir the beal-fire, wave the banner Last Line: In the wreath of burns's fame! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Festivals; Fire; Poetry & Poets; Scotland; Success; Fairs; Pageants THE BURNT-OFFERING, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thrice-happy he whose heart, each new-born night Last Line: Sleep's ashes only hide a glowing fire. Subject(s): Christianity; Fire; Rites And Ceremonies; Sacrifices THE CAMPFIRE, by MARGARET ADELAIDE WILSON Poem Text First Line: Until that eve I never knew you Last Line: Just you and I: outside the night! Subject(s): Camping; Fire; Camps; Summer Camps THE CHARCOAL PAN, by H. HEAD Poem Text First Line: Though huts like ours were rather scarce Last Line: Whose names were scarcely known. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Fire; Tents; Dead, The; Relatives THE CHOIRE, by JAMES WRIGHT (1643-1713) Poem Text First Line: Th' almighty architect forms in mankind Last Line: Twas fiction then, but now we see it, here. Subject(s): London Fire (1666); St. Paul's Cathedral, London; Great Fire Of 1666 THE CHURCH OF THE REVOLUTION, by HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Loud through the still november air Last Line: Long may it stand! Subject(s): Boston Fire (1872); Old South Church, Boston THE CITZEN'S JOY FOR THE REBUILDING OF LONDON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "london lies grovelling on the earth, yet beggs" Last Line: "no discontent, but all replete with joy; / london's rebuilding now, vive le roy" Subject(s): London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 THE COACHMAN'S YARN, by EDWIN JAMES BRADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This a tale that the coachman told Last Line: Nimitybell on monaro. Alternate Author Name(s): Brady, E. J. Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Cold; Death; Fire; Story-telling; Winter; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Dead, The THE CONFLAGRATION OF LONDON, POETICAL DELINEATED, by SIMON FORD Poem Text First Line: What ayls the poet? What unwonted fire? Last Line: That's such an one, and let him stand for me. Subject(s): Langham, Sir John (1584-1671); London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 THE CORONA, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Knife-edge / days and shimmering nights Last Line: Makes us pause and move on. Subject(s): Fire; Parents; Parenthood THE CRACKLING DEATH, by STEWART VAN DER VEER Poem Text First Line: And then dawn came, night's curtains were furled Last Line: And a match. Subject(s): Fire; Forests; Woods THE DIFFERENCE, by HENRY KITCHELL WEBSTER Poem Text First Line: All in the days of long ago Last Line: A fairly rapid scorcher. Subject(s): Fire THE DISASTROUS FIRE AT SCARBOROUGH, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1898, and on the 8th day of june Last Line: And pray that god o'er us in the night watch will keep. Subject(s): Disasters; Fire THE DRAFT, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My hearth is bright Last Line: But it draws my soul on high! Subject(s): Fire THE DREADFUL BURNING OF LONDON, by JOSEPH GUILLIM Poem Text First Line: While urgent sleep our heavy eyes did close Last Line: Another, vvhose high tovvers may urge the skies. Subject(s): London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 THE EARTHQUAKE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: A rolling, grinding rumble: a sharp shudder Last Line: Dust and darkness! Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Fire THE FIRE, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Near the house flowed, or paused, the black / canal Last Line: Men that defeated ruinous angels and shall still defeat. Subject(s): Fire; Firefighters; Heat; Smoke THE FIRE AT THOMPSON'S FORD, by WAMBA [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: Hottest of hot december's days Last Line: "'shearers wanted, union rates.'" Alternate Author Name(s): Wamba Subject(s): Fire;labor & Laborers;sheep THE FIRE OF FRENDRAUGHT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The eighteenth of october Last Line: And the day it's well return'd again Subject(s): Fire THE FIRE SIDE; A PASTORAL SOLILOQUY, by ISAAC HAWKINS BROWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thrice happy, who free from ambition and pride Last Line: Direct to st. J[ame]s's and takes up the s[eal]s. Subject(s): Fire; St. James Park, London; Wisdom THE FIRE-MAIDEN AND THE SNOW-PEAKS; AN INDIAN LEGEND OF THE COLUMBIA, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Loowit, the beautiful maiden Last Line: Rolls proudly at their side. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Columbia River (north America); Fire; Legends, Native American; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE FIREMAKER, by SUSIE KERIN Poem Text First Line: Chela chis-chela, your hands on your breast Last Line: Your smile, and your signal and welcome to me. Subject(s): Fire; Light THE FIREMEN'S BALL, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give the engines room Last Line: Clang . . . Clang . . . Clang. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Bands; Dancing & Dancers; Fire; Firefighters; Life; Music & Musicians; Orchestras THE FIRESIDE, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear chloe, while the busy crowd Last Line: And smooth the bed of death. Variant Title(s): A Paradise Below Subject(s): Fire; Happiness; Home; Life; Love - Marital; Joy; Delight; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE FIRST FIRE, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ha, old acquaintance! Many a month has past Last Line: And feel a glow beyond material fire! Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Fire; Winter THE FOREST FIRE, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These pines could feel the wind, the snow Last Line: Who find in flame their blossoming. Subject(s): Fire THE GARDENER, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Among the flowers, like flowers, her slow Last Line: And sees a garden blowing in the fire. Subject(s): Fire; Gardens & Gardening THE GREAT CHICAGO FIRE, by JULIA A. MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The great chicago fire, friends Last Line: With such a great fire no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan Subject(s): Fire THE GREAT FIGURE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among the rain Last Line: Through the dark city. Subject(s): Fire THE HEARTH SONG, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the hearth-fire Last Line: Are they as red and hungry as I? Subject(s): Fire THE HORSES RUN BACK TO THEIR STALLS, by LINDA GREGERSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: It's another sorry tale about class in america, I'm sure Subject(s): Horse Racing; Fear; Panic; Fire THE LARGEST FIRE EVER KNOWN, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To be again burned down Subject(s): Fire THE LAST FIRE, by HERBERT S. GORMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You saw the last fires burning on the hill Last Line: In dust of ashes in your eyes today. Subject(s): Fire; Love THE LETTER-BURNING, by TRISTRAM LIVINGSTONE Poem Text First Line: What hand of ice, freezing the heart's Last Line: Gulls unmolested, and the gale's dread sound. Subject(s): Fire THE LITTLE FIRE IN THE WOODS, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even these stones I placed crudely once Last Line: Good night / good night Subject(s): Fire; Forests; Woods THE LODGING HOUSE FIRE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: My birthday - yesterday Last Line: Poison the score. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Fire; Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE LONDONERS LAMENTATION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Let water flow from every eye Last Line: "if we still hate each other thus, / god never will be friends with us" Subject(s): London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 THE LONG TRAIL: THE PRAIRIE FIRE, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: So the summer is done. Then high and higher Last Line: The back-fire's stifling, scarred retreat. Subject(s): Fire THE LUTE OF LIFE, by ARVIA MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ash and flame, sand and dew Last Line: Upon the cross the spirit sings. Subject(s): Earth; Fire; Lutes; World THE MIRACULOUS ESCAPE OF ROBERT ALLAN, THE FIREMAN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1888, and on october the fourteenth day Last Line: And be sure to escape the pains of hell. Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Escapes; Fire; Firefighters; Heroism; Fugitives; Heroes; Heroines THE MISFORTUNES OF ST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Could we consult th' eternal mighty fates Last Line: "till then, we'll not disgrace the name of paul; / but thee misfortunes hieroglyphic call" Subject(s): "london Fire (1666);st. Paul's Cathedral, London;" Great Fire Of 1666 THE MOUNTAIN FIRES, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Light the hills! Till heaven is glowing Last Line: "be her mighty unforgot!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Variant Title(s): The Beltane Fires Subject(s): Fire; Snowdon (mountain), Wales; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen THE MYSTIC'S PRAYER, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lay me to sleep in sheltering flame Last Line: My soul's desire. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Desire; Fire; Mysticism; Prayer; Religion; Sleep; Theology THE NATURAL FIRE, by CLIFFORD ALLEN Poem Text First Line: This is no hearth-kept blaze. If only Last Line: The searched and seaching protoflame! Subject(s): Fire THE NIGHT FIRE, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No engines shrieking rescue storm the night Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): Fire THE OIL FIRE, by GEORGE BOND Poem Text First Line: The lightning strikes, a sudden blinding flash Last Line: Is smouldering ruin, shriveled, seared and black. Subject(s): Fire; Oil Fields THE OLD CHIMNEYPIECE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Outside fall the snowflakes lightly Last Line: And the kitten's burnt, alas! Subject(s): Chimney Sweepers & Chimneys; Dreams; Fire; Nightmares THE PHOENIX REBORN FROM ITS ASHES, by LOUIS ARAGON Poem Text First Line: On love it has been written Last Line: On night no one at all has had anything to say. Subject(s): Fire; Firefighters; Phoenix (mythical Bird); Rebirth THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 196, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fire and smoke raged within Last Line: They were fools indeed Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Fire; Ignorance; Wealth; Dullness; Stupdity; Riches; Fortunes THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 253, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Children I implore you Last Line: Are free to go where they want Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Buddhism; Children; Chinese Literature; Fire; Buddha; Buddhists; Childhood THE PRAIRIE ON FIRE, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The long grass burned brown Last Line: Are weeping for joy. Subject(s): Fire; Summer THE PYRE, by LOUISE S. BABER Poem Text First Line: I'm building one last bonfire friend Last Line: But blindly fling them in the flame. Subject(s): Fire THE REASON WHY, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Up and down the face of telegraph hill Last Line: And mayhap would have changed the end. Subject(s): Disasters; Gray (color); San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906); Smoke; Grey (color) THE ROSE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, edith! Spare the rose; it lives, it lives Last Line: And fill with eden odours all the air. Subject(s): Fire; Flowers; God; Grace; Innocence; Prayer; Punishment; Roses; Salvation THE SACRAMENT OF FIRE, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Kneel always when you light a fire! Last Line: To god for his unfailing charity! Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Fire; Religion; Sacraments; Theology THE SACRED FIRE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They lit a fire within their land that long was ashes cold Last Line: To make thee warm once more, kathleen, to bid thee live again. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Death; Fire; Dead, The THE SCARE-FIRE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Water, water I desire Last Line: Than by one to hazard all. Subject(s): Fire THE SECRET GATE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From out the dark of sleep, I rose, on the wings of desire Last Line: "ope not the gate." Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Desire; Fear; Fire; Sight; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips THE SIMPLE LIFE - IN CLUBS; APRIL 1906, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: From various junketings with fate Last Line: To break the record of the thirst. Subject(s): Clubs (associations); San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906); Smoke THE SIMPLE LIFE - IN TENTS, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Ten thousand khaki tents or more Last Line: For living proves a coarse burlesque. Subject(s): Camping; San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906); Smoke; Tents; Camps; Summer Camps THE SIMPLE LIFE - ON SIDEWALKS; APRIL 1906, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: A lady, dainty, young, and fair Last Line: Was worth the burdens it disguised. Subject(s): Firefighters; Heat; San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906); Smoke THE SONG OF THE CAMP-FIRE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heed me, feed me, I am hungry, I am red-tongued with desire Last Line: The foot-print of a god, all-radiant fire. Subject(s): Camp-meetings; Fire THE SONG OF THE ELEMENTS, by MARY ANN BROWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sit amidst the universe Last Line: Of its own unvanquished power. Alternate Author Name(s): Gray, James, Mrs.; Gray, Mary Anne Browne Subject(s): Air; Earth; Fire; Universe; Water; World THE SONNETS OF ISHTAR: 3, by GEORGE CABOT LODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once was my name as fire, and once my wine Last Line: And still the pained blood throbs thro' limbs of snow! Subject(s): Fire; Love; Names THE SPARK FROM THE ENGINE, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: The wood by the side of the railway is burned Last Line: And to the son I shall not see. Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Fire-weeds THE SUN IN THE CRADLE OF CORNFIELDS, by PAMELA MCCLURE Poem Text First Line: His laughter the burning of kindling Subject(s): Farm Life; Fire; Agriculture; Farmers THE SUN-THIEF, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A desolate mountain region. Snow and Last Line: Cold and clear in the moonlight. Unbroken silence.] Subject(s): Earth; Escapes; Fire; Grief; Hermes (mythology); Humanity; Love; Mythology; Prisons & Prisoners; Prometheus; Religion; Sun; Zeus; World; Fugitives; Sorrow; Sadness; Convicts; Theology THE TORCHES, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Limbs lopped off, the fathers Last Line: (2001) Subject(s): Death; Fire; Kent State University - Riot, 1970; Murder; Nicaragua; Dead, The THE TRIANGLE, by FLAVIA CAMP CANFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One stick burns not alone Last Line: The third stick burns up the home. Subject(s): Triangle Factory Fire (1911) THE TWO FLAMES, by ELOISE BRITON Poem Text First Line: Behind my mask of life there lies a shrine Last Line: My leaping flames, the red one and the white. Subject(s): Fire; Friendship; Life; Love; Passion; Red (color); White (color) THE UNEXTINGUISHED, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clouds glow like coals just fresh from fire, a flare Subject(s): Fire; Light THE VOLUNTEERS: A CHALLENGE, by CHARLES MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come if you dare, reivers and raiders! Last Line: Yes! Every one of you, come if you dare! Subject(s): Bullets; Courage; Fire; Guns; Valor; Bravery THE WEDDING PARTY, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the large frame of the window collapses in the fire Last Line: For the hat that he wore to a wedding. Subject(s): Fire; Marriage; Parties; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WEIRD OF MICHAEL SCOTT, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wild wind moaned: fast waned the light Last Line: A black corpse tossing on the tide. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Fire; Mountains; Soul; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE WORLD; THE LOVERS; FALLING STARS, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Peaked in an immortal flame Last Line: Lingers when a star was there Subject(s): Fire; Love; Stars THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 20, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fire, fire, fire, fire! Last Line: That else must burn, and with me fall. Subject(s): Desire; Fire; Pain; Rivers; Suffering; Misery THOUGH NOT ADMONISHED OF YOUR INTENTIONS IN WORK, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soft thumps in the earth as you approach Last Line: No longer visit my love Subject(s): Fire; History; Historians THREE WEEDS; FIREWEED, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For towhees, mice, and mule deer, fireweed blazes Last Line: Of a woman in a pickup, pulling over %to let him in. The burning. The flowering. Subject(s): Fire-weeds; Nature 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 LOG OF WOOD UPON THE FIRE, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When horace, as the snows descended Last Line: To realms celestial. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Death; Earth; Fire; Life; Wood; Dead, The; World TO SAN FRANCISCO, by S. J. ALEXANDER Poem Text First Line: If we dreamed that we loved her aforetime Last Line: Leash at her feet. Subject(s): San Francisco Earthquake & Fire (1906) TO VULCAN, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy sooty godhead, I desire Last Line: Acceptance it might find of thee. Subject(s): Fire TOBACCO, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tobacco is a harmful weed, the learned Last Line: Means an early tomb. Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Fire; Health; Lungs; Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes TRUE ACCOUNT OF TALKING TO THE SUN AT FIRE ISLAND, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun woke me this morning loud Last Line: Darkly he rose, and then I slept Subject(s): Fire Island; Sun TWO CITIES, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Girt with the river's silver zone Last Line: Upon the old foundations, build! Subject(s): Chicago Fire (1871); Cities; Corruption In Politics; New York City; Urban Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple UPON REBUILDING THE CITY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "nor could prometheus, when he would have stole" Last Line: "if not, I'le say no more, but this will swear, / bedlam and bishopsgate neer neighbours are" Subject(s): London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 UPON THE LATE LAMENTABLE ACCIDENT OF FIRE ..., by JOHN ALLISON (1645-1683) Poem Text First Line: Awake proud man, and take a view Last Line: It begun strangely, and it ended so. Subject(s): London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 VALEDICTORY; THE SCHOLAR TO THE ASHES OF HIS LIBRARY, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Gone the books of many names Last Line: Be the man that they should make. Subject(s): Death; Fire; Librarians & Libraries; World War Ii; Dead, The; Library; Librarians; Second World War VOLCANOES, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO Poem Source First Line: Each volcano lifts its profile Last Line: Like tumbled baskets, spilling flowers Subject(s): Fire; Stones; Travel; Volcanoes VOLCANOS, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO Poem Source First Line: Every volcano rears its outlined height Last Line: Baskets o' erturned, that pour abroad their flowers Subject(s): Desire; Fire; Hearts; Passion; Volcanoes VOX CIVITATIS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "what news, my neighbours of the riming trade?" Last Line: "I in my glorious sons, you in your mother. / licenced. R.L.E'strange" Subject(s): London Fire (1666);old Age;women; Great Fire Of 1666 WATER, WINTER, FIRE, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the little light of dawn Last Line: Now it is useless to be home. Subject(s): Death; Fire; Home; Loss; Water; Winter; Dead, The WATERLILY FIRE, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Girl grown woman ... Fire... Mother of fire Subject(s): New York City; Fire; Life; Change; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple WE WERE THREE, WE WERE TWO, IT WAS ME ALONE, WE WERE NONE, by JOSEP VICENC FOIX Poem Source First Line: We were three, our heads down, in the darkness of vintages Last Line: Sets out, watchfully, towards the brilliant instant Subject(s): Fire; Smoking; Solitude; Survival WEIGHT OF THE SHADOW, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: Night must have already fallen, the river's skin had darkened Last Line: Upon my heart, pushing me toward waters ever nearer and more deserted Subject(s): Animals; Fire; Hunting; Wolves WHAT COMES AFTER THIS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Water earth fire air Last Line: After this -- whether it is air %or it is nothing Subject(s): Air; Earth; Fire; Future; Introspection; Water WHAT GROWS NOW, by KRISTI MARIE STEINMETZ Poem Source First Line: House beams, charred wood, nothing stood, after the fire Last Line: And to all new growth longing %to grow in the field Subject(s): Fire WHEN THE WATCHMAN SAW THE LIGHT, by CONSTANTINE P. CAVAFY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Winter, summer, on the roof of atreus's house Last Line: Instantly one can always find another of that sort Alternate Author Name(s): Kavafis, Konstantinos; Cavafy, C. P. Subject(s): Fire WHERE IS FIRE HEADED?, by PAUL HAMILL Poem Source First Line: Fire lives upside down Last Line: When we learned to dream Subject(s): Fire WINTER FIRE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: How bleak and cold the air is now Last Line: Into the chimney overhead. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Fire WINTER FIRE, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The presence of nature in my winter room Last Line: That rise between our fate, and the lost garden. Subject(s): Fire; Nature; Winter WITH THE BREAKDOWN SQUAD, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A tanner down on a three spot, / losing again, he blowed!' Last Line: "business is doing well." Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Fire; News; Railroad Wrecks; Dead, The; Train Wrecks WOMAN OF AIR, WOMAN OF WATER, by GLORIA DIEZ Poem Source First Line: I know that a seaweed wind Last Line: Will be a woman of earth %a woman of fire Subject(s): Earth; Fire; Human Rights; Water; Wind WOOD AND FIRE, by KHUONG VIET Poem Source First Line: Deep inside wood sleeps primal fire Last Line: Where does a tinder spark from? Subject(s): Fire WORLD OF NO FIRE, by NICHOLAS SAMARAS Poem Source First Line: What is this haze of time obscuring Last Line: A workable past fanning %last embers to see by Subject(s): Fire; Survival WRITTEN TO A YOUNG LADY, by MAURICE BARING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw you in the tumult of the fire Subject(s): Helen Troy; Fire YOSHIKO 1, by TAKATO MASAKO Poem Source First Line: The streets are a melting pot Last Line: In flames %burning %yoshiko Subject(s): Fire; Streets YOU AGAIN, by RON PADGETT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think I'm smoking too much too many cigarettes Last Line: Every day this week and I'm glad I don't drink so there Subject(s): Fire; Smoking; Substance Abuse; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes; Addictive Behavior YOU CANNOT PUT A FIRE OUT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And tell your cedar floor Subject(s): Fire; Floods YOU EXPECT THE NOON-ALARM AT CITY HALL, by SIMON PERCHIK Poem Source Last Line: Without holding on to your hands %or the world Subject(s): Fire; Firefighters; Smoke; Terror YOUNG FIRE EATERS OF MEXICO CITY, by RAYMOND CARVER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They fill their mouths with alcohol Last Line: They are called milusos. 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