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| Searching... Subject: MAILMEN Matches Found: 47 A SUGGESTION, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I send, transmit, consign, convey Last Line: "I wish you ""merry christmas." Subject(s): Christmas; Expressionism - Poets; Letters; Postal Service; Nativity, The; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen A TWO-CENT STAMP, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Most potential traveller! Last Line: Just a two-cent postage stamp! Subject(s): Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen AIR MAIL, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the hunt for a letter-box Last Line: No one makes it his own Subject(s): Letters; Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen BY PARCELS POST, by GEORGE ROBERT SIMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sent my love a parcel Last Line: Eight-and-twenty years ago. Alternate Author Name(s): Dagonet Subject(s): Marriage; Postal Service; Seasons; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen GETTING THE MAIL, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I walk back / toward the frog pond, carrying Subject(s): Farm Life; Postal Service; Agriculture; Farmers; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen IN THE DEAD-LETTER OFFICE, by R. STEWART Poem Text First Line: Come, rip the mail-bags open, chaps, and sort the stuff away Last Line: "you'll maybe murmur with a sigh, ""the perth dead mail is in." Subject(s): Death; Gold Mines & Miners; Postal Service; Dead, The; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen MAIL CALL, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The letters always just evade the hand Subject(s): Army Life; Postal Service; World War Ii; Drills & Minor Tactics; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen; Second World War ON RECEIVING A SOUVENIR POSTCARD, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the little desk before me Last Line: And we're chums and lovers still. Subject(s): Postal Service; Youth; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen OPENING THE MAIL, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She used to work down in the copy center, and Subject(s): Women - Employment; Ambition; Automobile Racing; Postal Service; Professional Women; Women In Business; Women's Careers; Race Car Driving; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen OPPOSITES: 37, by RICHARD WILBUR Poet's Biography First Line: The opposite of post, were you Subject(s): English Language; Postal Service; Synonyms & Antonyms; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen POST OFFICE ETCHINGS: 10. BIRKENHEAD POST OFFICE, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Sunday. Deserted square. Upon Last Line: Odious, immune, unnoticed, slips into the sun. Subject(s): Birkenhead (ship); Labor & Laborers; Postal Service; Work; Workers; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen POST OFFICE ETCHINGS: 11. POSTAL SURVEYOR'S 'TRAVELLING CLERK', by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: My man loads up. We start Last Line: Of zennor, sea-girt, sacred ... Zennor of my heart. Subject(s): Letters; Office Employees; Postal Service; Clerks; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen POST OFFICE ETCHINGS: 12. HEAD-POSTMASTER, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Into the early air Last Line: Ahead, new life, new light, enlargement ... Liberty! Subject(s): Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen POST OFFICE ETCHINGS: 3. LEICESTER POST OFFICE, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Twin doors swing wide. They close on me, revealing Last Line: "whisp'ring: ""they'll put you right!" Subject(s): Etching; Letters; Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen POST OFFICE ETCHINGS: 6. INSTRUCTION, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Midnight, and duty. Dully, I divide Last Line: Taken and trapped ... And slave. Subject(s): Duty; Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen POST OFFICE ETCHINGS: 7. POSTAL INVESTIGATOR (A), by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Ten of the clock. An airless, august night Last Line: Of loss, alike, of liberty and pension. Subject(s): Letters; Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen POST OFFICE ETCHINGS: 8. POSTAL INVESTIGATOR (B), by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Draper's assistant. Doomed to be Last Line: To her in anglesey. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Letters; Postal Service; Work; Workers; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen POST OFFICE ETCHINGS: 9. POSTAL INVESTIGATOR (C), by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Plaints about postal packets, gone Last Line: She looks at me, reproachful, like some hunted fawn. Subject(s): Etching; Letters; Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen POSTAL SAVINGS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well, wife, they've given us at last Last Line: Of trusty uncle sam. Subject(s): Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen POSTCARDS, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear barney Last Line: Alice Subject(s): Holidays; Letters; Love; Postal Service; Valentine's Day; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen SAD MAIL, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's strange to think how letters used to be letters, letting you know Last Line: Time. Subject(s): Letters; Postal Service; Writing & Writers; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 7, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eight o'clock / the postman's knock Last Line: And three for dear mamma. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): The Postman Subject(s): Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen SWEETEST WORDS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Inclosed find check!' the sweetest Last Line: "world is glad that was a wreck, changed by the words, ""inclosed find check." Subject(s): Letters; Postal Service; Writing & Writers; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen THE AIR MAIL, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No stunting's allowed in the service Last Line: We're carrying uncle sam's mail! Subject(s): Air Travel; Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen THE COUNTRY LETTER-CARRIER, by ELIZABETH Poem Text First Line: It thaws. On field and roadway the packing drifts have Last Line: Cheer. Alternate Author Name(s): Sylva, Carmen; Pauline Elizabeth Ottilie Luis Subject(s): Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen THE DE CARLO LOTS, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You are parceled out over the post office Last Line: Measuring the lots, the dreams by Subject(s): Exchange Students; Farewell; Letters; Postal Service; Universities & Colleges; Foreign Exchange Programs; Parting; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen THE DISHONEST MAILMAN, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: They are taking all my letters, and they Subject(s): Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen THE MAIL, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The star route man downshifts Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen THE MAIL HAS COME, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the bitter pangs of hope deferred Last Line: Each kind letter thence is thrice welcome to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): American Civil War; Postal Service; United States - History; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen THE MAILBOY'S RIDE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: He rode from port bowen bravely Last Line: The boy brought the royal mail Subject(s): Heroism;pain;postal Service;story-telling; Heroes;heroines;suffering;misery;postmen;post Office;mail;mailmen THE MAILMAN, by NAZIM HIKMET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whether at dawn or in the middle of the night Alternate Author Name(s): Ran, Nazim Hikmet Subject(s): Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen THE MAILMAN, by MARK STRAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is midnight Subject(s): Forgiveness; Postal Service; Clemency; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen THE MAILMAN'S RIDE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I scanned the dark and lowering sky Last Line: I think of that wild ride Subject(s): Animals;crimes & Criminals;deception;horses;postal Service; Postmen;post Office;mail;mailmen THE MIDNIGHT MAIL, by WILLIAM HURD HILLYER Poem Text First Line: Resonant, full, and deep Last Line: That wait for the midnight mail! Subject(s): Messages & Messengers; Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen THE NIGHT MAIL NORTH (EUSTON SQUARE, 1840), by HENRY CHOLMONDELEY-PENNELL Poem Text First Line: Now then, take your seats! For glasgow and the north Last Line: For the night .. Mail .. To the north? Alternate Author Name(s): Pennell, Henry Cholmondeley Subject(s): Postal Service; Railroad Stations; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen THE OVERLAND MAIL, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the name of the empress of india, make way Last Line: In the name of the empress the overland-mail. Subject(s): Duty; India - British Rule; Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen THE PARCEL POST, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What farms and factories produce Last Line: The shining parcel post! Subject(s): Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen THE POSTILION, by NIKOLAUS FRANZ NIEMBSCH VON STREGLENAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Passing lovely was the night Last Line: In my ear kept tingling. Alternate Author Name(s): Lenau, Nikolaus Subject(s): Cemeteries; Memory; Mourning; Postal Service; Graveyards; Bereavement; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen THE POSTMAN, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The postman goes along the street Last Line: Than men who richer, wiser are. Subject(s): February; Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen THE R. F. D., by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the works of uncle sam Last Line: The r. F. D.! Subject(s): Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen THE ROYAL MAIL, by E. LYTTLETON FOX Poem Text First Line: Quick! Ho, ye honest gentle-folk! Last Line: The royal mail is past. Subject(s): Postal Service; Yale University; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen THE SMITHS, by E. G. MURPHY Poem Text First Line: We had many problems set us when coolgardie was a camp Last Line: And the maidens who were promised still await the absent smith. Alternate Author Name(s): Dryblower Subject(s): Deception; Names; Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen THE TRAVELLING POST OFFICE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The roving breezes come and go, the reed - beds sweep and sway Last Line: My letter chases conroy's sheep along the castlereagh. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Australia; Drovers; Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen TO A POST-OFFICE INKWELL, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How many humble hearts have dipped Last Line: Put heaven on a postal card. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen TO MY FRIEND, GROWN FAMOUS, by EUNICE TIETJENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mail has come from home Last Line: Of flowers, of laughter, of the flash of wings. . . . Alternate Author Name(s): Head, Cloyd, Mrs. Subject(s): Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen TO THE POSTMAN, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Most welcome of all sights and sounds Last Line: One note ere day departs! Subject(s): Fate; Fortune; Life; Memory; Postal Service; Destiny; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen WHEN THE STAGE GITS IN, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pap'll git a letter, 'nd uncle zed a book Last Line: Ill be here when the stage gits in. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Pancakes; Postal Service; Smells; Stagecoaches; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances |
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