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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: FOOTBALL Matches Found: 44 A FOOTBALL TRAGEDY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "she clung to him, the game was o'er" Last Line: For I am only half-back Subject(s): Boredom;fools;football;nonsense; Ennui;idiots A MAD FIGHT SONG FOR WILLIAM S. CARPENTER, 1966, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Quick on my feet in those novembers of my loneliness, Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Carpenter, William S., Jr.; Football; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 A NUTTY SEASON, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Who are the football champions? Who are the Last Line: For which is best when all the best were tumbled, tossed, and whaled? Subject(s): Football AFTER THE LAST PRACTICE; GRINNELL, IOWA, NOVEMBER 1941, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone said, I remember the first hard crack Last Line: Promised land of the empty endzone Subject(s): Football; Memory AFTER THE LAST PRACTICE; GRINNELL, IOWA, NOVEMBER 1941, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone said, I remember the first hard crack Last Line: And then someone began singing in the darkness Subject(s): Football; Memory ALUMNUS FOOTBALL, SELS., by GRANTLAND RICE Poem Source First Line: For when the one great scorer comes Last Line: He marks - not that you won or lost - %but how you played the game Subject(s): Football; Religion; Sportsmanship AT THE START OF A NEW JOURNEY, by ROBERT JOE STOUT Poem Source First Line: Miami is beating notre dame Last Line: In us, %in me Subject(s): Football AUTUMN BEGINS IN MARTINS FERRY, OHIO, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In the shreve high football stadium Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Autumn; Education; Football; Industry; Labor & Laborers; High Schools; Fall; Work; Workers AUTUMN BEGINS IN MARTINS FERRY, OHIO, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the shreve high football stadium Last Line: And gallop terribly against each other's bodies Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Autumn; Education; Football; Industry; Labor And Laborers; Schools; Seasons; Sports BREAKING TRAINING, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The football player, as he casts aside Last Line: Count nothing now—just see those battlers eat! Subject(s): Dieting; Food & Eating; Football CARLISLE FOOTBALL SONG, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Our fathers, heap long time ago Last Line: Us maul each pale-faced sinner! Subject(s): College Sports; Football; Singing & Singers DARKENING HILLS, by MICHAEL CAREY Poem Source First Line: It went on longer than anyone thought possible. During full regulation Last Line: Hills Variant Title(s): The Distant Hill Subject(s): Football; Games; Sports - Arenas And Stadia FAREWELL, O KING!, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Farewell, king football! 'tis with keen regret Last Line: Die as king football goes upon his way! Subject(s): College Sports; Football FIGHT! (HARVARD-DARTMOUTH FOOTBALL GAME, 1908), by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: The stadium is nervous, johnny harvard's feeling Last Line: Please to whip him good and clean. Subject(s): Competition; Dartmouth College; Football; Harvard University; Sports FOOTBALL, by LOUIS JENKINS Poem Source First Line: I take the snap from center, fake to the right, fade back Last Line: One has to make choices. This isn't right and I'm not going to throw it Subject(s): Football; Men; Sports FOOTBALL, by WALT MASON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The game was ended, and the noise at last had died away Subject(s): Football; Sports FOR THE DEATH OF VINCE LOMBARDI, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I never played for you. You'd have thrown Last Line: We're with you all the way you're going forever, vince. Dickey Subject(s): Football; Lombardi, Vince (1913-1970); Sports FOR THE DEATH OF VINCE LOMBARDI, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I never played for you. You'd have thrown Last Line: You're going forever, vince Subject(s): Football; Lombardi, Vince (1913-1970); Sports HIS LETTER, by WILLIAM RICHARD HEREFORD Poem Text First Line: Dear father / please excuse,' he wrote Last Line: And hastened to the -- foot-ball game. Subject(s): Football IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE, by LILLIAN MORRISON Poem Source First Line: In the beginning was the %kickoff Last Line: And always the beautiful %trajectories Subject(s): Football IN THE POCKET, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Going backward Last Line: Come up leaf stand kill die strike / now Subject(s): Football LOOSE LUNATICS, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The baseball fan gets up and loudly yowls-- Last Line: He's dippy! Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Baseball; Football; Horse Racing; Sports MY FATHER'S FOOTBALL GAME, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He watched each tv game for all he was worth, while swaying Subject(s): Fathers; Football NO ALIBIS!, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: When you have the foe defeated, and the ninth Last Line: Then your alibi won't go! Subject(s): Football OCTOBER LITE, by DANIEL RAY CAMPION Poem Source First Line: The football squad is grunting on the field Last Line: Come fall, the porcine gods control our stars Subject(s): Football OUR DARLING, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Bounding like a football Last Line: That's our heart's delight. Subject(s): Babies;football; Infants PIGSKIN ABBEY, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The twilight gun is victory assured Subject(s): Football QUITTING FOOTBALL, by MICHAEL BERRYHILL Poem Source First Line: This decision has not been easy Last Line: I've been a free agent long enough Subject(s): Football SAY GOODBYE TO BIG DADDY, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Big daddy lipscomb, who used to help them up Subject(s): Football; Lipscomb, Eugene ('big Daddy'); Sports SAY GOODBYE TO BIG DADDY, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Big daddy lipscomb, who used to help them up Last Line: The world won't be the same without big daddy %or else it will be Subject(s): Football; Lipscomb, Eugene ("big Daddy"); Sports STRUGNELL'S RUBAIYAT: 1, by WENDY COPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Awake! For the morning on the pitch of night Last Line: The incandescent football in the east %has brought the splendour of tulse hill to light Subject(s): Fitzgerald, Edward (1809-1883); Football; Sports SUDDEN DEATH, by AILEEN GRUMBACH Poem Source First Line: Tv light flicks your smile Last Line: This penalty for holding Subject(s): Football THE COLLEGE CHEER, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The football heroes are but shapes that go Last Line: To tell how the college spirit never dies! Subject(s): College Sports; Football; Sports; Universities & Colleges THE FOOTBALL CASABIANCA, by WILBUR DICK NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The boy stood on the football field Last Line: "they get some gasoline!" Subject(s): College Sports; Fields; Football; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE GLORIOUS TOUCHDOWN, by GEORGE ADE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the crisp autumnal zephyrs whistle through the leafless trees Last Line: By going into training — the result will be the same. Subject(s): Athletes; Football; Sports; Track Athletics; Victory; Running Races; Pole Vaulting; Discus Throwing; Shot Putting; Running Hurdles THE GLORY OF THE GAME, by WILLIAM HAMILTON CLINE Poem Text First Line: A song to the football players Last Line: And the honors and glories he bears! Subject(s): Football; Games; Play; Sports; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE GREEN GRENADIERS, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: If your sporting blood is royal you won't curse me if / I'm loyal Last Line: For my heart is with the big green grenadiers. Subject(s): Football; Sports; Universities & Colleges THE LINE MEN, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The full he may punt for fifty-odd Last Line: Down in the muck of the line. Subject(s): Football; Yale University THE QUARTERBACK, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: He's a lively little fellow, much the smallest in Last Line: Yet this battered little demon turns up grinning at the close! Subject(s): College Sports; Football; Sports THE RED AND THE RED AND BLACK, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: When the big red team and the red and black Last Line: Big red and red and black! Subject(s): College Sports; Football THE SLEEPER, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was the sissy of the block who nobody wanted on their / team Last Line: If only he could find the special role Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Football; Boys THE WAY OF AN INDIAN, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The red man ranged the forests--hunted game Last Line: He's civilized, but he has lots of fun! Subject(s): College Sports; Football WHY I LOVE FOOTBALL, by DELORES BRYANT Poem Source First Line: It started with my father Last Line: Just %there Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Football ZIMMER DRUNK AND ALONE, DREAMING OF OLD FOOTBALL GAMES, by PAUL ZIMMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I threw the inside of my gizzard out, splashing Last Line: I cut for home, a veteran broken field drunkard, %with my bottle tucked up high away from fumbles Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Football |
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