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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MIDDLE WEST Matches Found: 55 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A HOST OF THE ARKANSAS VALLEY, by SELDEN LINCOLN WHITCOMB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The river creeps through arid lands Last Line: "tain't just what I want, but they'll keep it neat." Subject(s): Arkansas; Middle West; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States AS I STEP OVER A PUDDLE AT THE END OF WINTER, I THINK OF AN ANCIENY CHINESE GOVERNOR, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Po chu-I, balding old politician, Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Middle West; China; Seeking; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States BUFFALO DUSK, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The buffaloes are gone Subject(s): Buffaloes; Environment; Middle West; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States BUFFALO DUSK, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The buffaloes are gone Last Line: And the buffaloes are gone Subject(s): Buffaloes; Environment; Middle West CHANCES R, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Red glow on the tables Last Line: "wichita traversed with streetlight Subject(s): Middle West; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States CHANCES R, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Red glow on the tables Last Line: Wichita traversed with streetlight %on the plain Subject(s): Middle West CRABAPPLES, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweeten these bitter wild crabapples, illinois Subject(s): Middle West; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States CRABAPPLES, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweeten these bitter wild crabapples, illinois Last Line: Earth under, they know you from last year, %the year before last year, october sun Subject(s): Middle West CRICKET MARCH, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the corn becomes higher Subject(s): Middle West; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States CRICKET MARCH, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the corn becomes higher Last Line: The summer crickets come to a marching army Subject(s): Middle West DAYBREAK, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daybreak comes first / in thin splinters shimmering Subject(s): Middle West; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States DAYBREAK, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daybreak comes first %in thin splinters shimmering Last Line: And day whispers, 'soon now, soon.' Subject(s): Middle West FRAGMENTS WRITTEN WHILE TRAVELING...A MIDWESTERN HEAT WAVE, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: However lonely we were before / becomes unclear Last Line: By setting-free the soil Subject(s): Farm Life; Heat; Middle West; Oklahoma; Summer; Weather; Agriculture; Farmers; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States FROM A MIDWEST MOTEL WINDOW, by LEN KRISAK Poem Source First Line: Across the field and far beyond Last Line: When night comes on, and god's sun stops Subject(s): Hotels; Middle West; Windows GIFT OF GRASSROOTS, by WENDELL MINOR Poem Source First Line: I am a son of the soil Last Line: Though we are of different seasons, we share a love of the land and are bound together by our grassr Subject(s): Middle West; Sandburg, Carl (1878-1967) GRASSROOTS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grass clutches at the dark dirt with finger holds Subject(s): Middle West; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States GRASSROOTS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grass clutches at the dark dirt with finger holds Last Line: Grassroots down under put fingers into dark dirt Subject(s): Middle West HARVEST, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the corn stands yellow in september Subject(s): Middle West; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States HARVEST, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the corn stands yellow in september Last Line: They are cut down %and piled high %and burned. %their fire %lights the west in november Subject(s): Middle West IN THE MIDWEST, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He saw the iron wings of daybreak struggling Last Line: He saw the gouged bodies of the unborn Subject(s): Nature; Middle West IOWA & OTHER ACCIDENTS, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: There was snow that afternoon covering the road Last Line: Always there about to happen Subject(s): Accidents; Iowa; Middle West; Winter JOHNNY APPLESEED; A BALLAD OF THE OLD NORTHWEST, by WILLIAM HENRY VENABLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A midnight cry appalls the gloom Last Line: In god's grand greenwood chapel. Subject(s): Appleseed, Johnny; Chapman, John (1774-1845); Middle West; Native Americans; Patriotism; Pioneers; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America JUST BEFORE APRIL CAME, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The snow-piles in dark places are gone Subject(s): Middle West; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States JUST BEFORE APRIL CAME, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The snow-piles in dark places are gone Last Line: I might ask: who are these people? Subject(s): Middle West MAN AND DOG ON AN EARLY WINTER MORNING, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a tall slough grass Subject(s): Middle West; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States MAN AND DOG ON AN EARLY WINTER MORNING, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a tall slough grass Last Line: This is a proud place to come to.' Subject(s): Middle West METAMORPHOSIS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When water turns ice does it remember Subject(s): Middle West; Science; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States; Scientists METAMORPHOSIS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When water turns ice does it remember Last Line: When ice turns back into water does it remember it was ice? Subject(s): Middle West; Science MID-WEST, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Across those plains where once there roamed the indian and the scout Last Line: The swede with alcoholic breath sets of cabbage out Subject(s): Middle West MIDDLE ILLINOIS, by JEFF VANCK ZANDE Poem Source First Line: Sometimes this state is a lie Last Line: In the narrow, noiseless huddle, idiot %conferences and death Subject(s): Middle West MIDWEST TOWN, by RUTH DE LONG PETERSON Poem Source First Line: Farther east it wouldn't be on the map Last Line: And a great pulse beating strong in towns like these Subject(s): Middle West MIDWESTERN ANCESTORS, by MARVIN MALONE Poem Source First Line: Fortified by the truth that Last Line: Became good corn and good wheat Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Malone, Marvin (d. 1996); Middle West MIDWESTERN FOUNDATION MYTH, by GEORGE JAY O'LEARY Poem Source First Line: A cunning oracle withholds the best Last Line: Heifer wandered onto that great plain Subject(s): Middle West; Mythology ODE TO THE MIDWEST, by KEVIN YOUNG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want to be doused Subject(s): Middle West; Conduct Of Life; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States ON THE EMIGRATION TO AMERICA AND PEOPLING WESTERN COUNTRY, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To western woods and lonely plains Last Line: Than all the eastern sages knew. Subject(s): Middle West; Pioneers; United States; West (u.s.); Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States; America; Southwest; Pacific States PEARL HORIZONS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under a prairie fog moon Subject(s): Middle West; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States PEARL HORIZONS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under a prairie fog moon Last Line: Takes up again its even smooth november Subject(s): Middle West RED AND WHITE, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nobody picks a red rose when the winter wind howls and the Subject(s): Middle West; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States RED AND WHITE, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nobody picks a red rose when the winter wind howls and the Last Line: Dreamy drifts winter and summer - roses and snow Subject(s): Middle West ROAN HORSE', by CARL SANDBURG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ran horse is young and will learn: the roan horse buckles into harness Last Line: Has a rusty jag of hair between the ears hanging to a white star %between the eyes Subject(s): Middle West SITTING IN A SMALL SCREENHOUSE ON A SUMMER MORNING, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ten more miles, it is south dakota. Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Middle West; Horses; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States SIX FEET SIX WAS DAVY TIPTON, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Big rivers ought to have big men.' Subject(s): Middle West STILL LIFE, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cool your heels on the rail of an observation car Last Line: Lovers pass whispering. Subject(s): Middle West; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States SUMMER GRASS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summer grass aches and whispers Subject(s): Middle West; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States SUMMER GRASS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summer grass aches and whispers Last Line: Coming; the rain wets the face of the grass Subject(s): Middle West THE BATTLE OF TIPPECANOE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Awake! Awake! My gallant friends Last Line: Come gaul or briton; if arrayed / for fight - he'll feel a freeman's blade Subject(s): "harrison, William Henry (1773-1841);middle West;native Americans;tippecanoe, Battle Of (1811);" Midwest;old Northwest;central States;north Central States;indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America THE BOY ON THE PRAIRIE, by EDWIN FORD PIPER Poem Text First Line: At thirteen he first saw a railway train Last Line: With grant and lincoln as his greatest men. Subject(s): Children; Middle West; Prairies; Childhood; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States; Plains THE MOTHERS OF THE WEST, by WILLIAM DAVIS GALLAGHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mothers of our forest-land! Last Line: "the dark and bloody ground." Subject(s): Middle West; Pioneers; United States; Women; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States; America THE PRAIRIE STATES, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A newer garden of creation, no primal solitude Last Line: To justify the past. Subject(s): Middle West; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States THE ROAN HORSE', by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The roan horse is young and will learn: the roan horse buckles into harness Last Line: Hanging to a white star between the ears Subject(s): Middle West; Horses; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States THE TOMB OF THE BRAVE; IN COMMEMORATION OF BATTLE ON WABASH, by JOSEPH HUTTON Poem Text First Line: When darkness prevail'd and aloud on the air Last Line: And glory thus bloom o'er the tomb of the brave. Subject(s): Middle West; Native Americans; Tippecanoe, Battle Of (1811); Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America TIMBER MOON, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a way the moon looks into the timber at night Subject(s): Middle West; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States TIMBER MOON, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a way the moon looks into the timber at night Last Line: There is a way the moon finds company early in the fall-time Subject(s): Middle West TO WESTWARD, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Westward I had expected reminders: somewhere in the dakota's carpet Last Line: Men going nowhere, hands pocketed, heels kicking the wall Subject(s): Middle West; Travel; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States; Journeys; Trips TO WESTWARD, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Westward I had expected reminders: somewhere in the dakota's carpet Last Line: Men going nowhere, hands pocketed, heels kicking the wall Subject(s): Middle West; Travel |
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