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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CHILD OF TODAY, by JAMES BUCKHAM    Poem Text                    
First Line: O child, had I thy lease of time! Such unimagined things
Last Line: How strange! -- perhaps death's conqueror sits smiling on my knee!
Alternate Author Name(s): Pastnor, Paul
Subject(s): Children; Modern Life; Childhood


AFTER TENNYSON, by AMBROSE BIERCE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: You ask me why, though ill at ease
Subject(s): Modern Life; Freedom; Politics & Government; United States; Liberty; America


AFTER THEATER, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Into the exit-ways the winter air
Last Line: And here the place where dreams and dramas live.
Subject(s): Modern Life; Theater & Theaters; Stage Life


CANADA: CASE HISTORY: 1945, by EARL (EARLE) BIRNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the case of a high-school land
Subject(s): Canada; Youth; Modern Life; Canadians


COLUMBIS CIRCLE SWING, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old mr. Christopher sailed an egg
Subject(s): Modern Life


COUSIN NANCY, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Miss nancy ellicott
Last Line: The army of unalterable law.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S.
Subject(s): Girls; Modern Life


DOCUMENTAL, by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let's you and I be a camera
Last Line: My tears, / my obsession
Alternate Author Name(s): Flakoll, Darwin, Mrs.
Subject(s): Nicaragua; Modern Life; Poverty


ENCODED DITHYRAMB, by TERRY RANDOLPH HUMMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He sits on the bridge rail at midnight, watching
Alternate Author Name(s): Hummer, T. R.
Subject(s): Modern Life; Rivers


FEBRUARY 30TH, by FREDERICK SEIDEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The speckled pigeon standing on the ledge
Subject(s): Pigeons; War; Modern Life; Politics & Government


HISTORIC PUN, by GEORGE OPPEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: La petite vie, a young man called it later,it had been
Subject(s): Paris, France; Modern Life


IN THE NEW GARDEN, IN ALL THE PARTS, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: You, born years, centuries after me, I seek
Subject(s): Modern Life; Time


INTERREGNUM, by WELDON KEES    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Butcher the evil millionaire, peasant
Last Line: Away from everything that moves with blood
Subject(s): War; Social Commentary; Modern Life


JERUSALEM THE GOLDEN: 39, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What are you doing in our street among the automobiles, horse?
Subject(s): Horses; Modern Life


LADY GERALDINE'S COURTSHIP, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear my friend and fellow-student, I would lean my spirit o'er you!
Last Line: And I shall not blush in knowing that men call him lowly born.'
Subject(s): Modern Life; Courtship


LEAFLETS, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The big star, and that other
Subject(s): Modern Life; Poetry & Poets


LOVE IN AMERICA, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whatever it is, it's a passion
Subject(s): Americans; Modern Life; United States; America


OF BEING NUMEROUS, 11, by GEORGE OPPEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is that light
Subject(s): Modern Life; Empire State Building, New York City


POWERS OF CONGRESS, by ALICE FULTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How the lightstruck trees change sun
Subject(s): Modern Life; United States - Congress


SO FAR, AND SO FAR, AND ON TOWARD THE END, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And you, contemporary america
Subject(s): United States; Poetry & Poets; Modern Life


THE END OF SCIENCE FICTION, by LISEL MUELLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is not fantasy, this is our life.
Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel
Subject(s): Modern Life


THE GREAT RACE PASSES, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They were the fair-haired achaeans
Last Line: The great race is passing.
Subject(s): Modern Life


THE MASQUE OF BLACKNESS, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The news stirred first in very dead of winter
Subject(s): Modern Life


THE SOCIOLOGY OF TOYOTAS AND JADE CHRYSANTHEMUMS, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Listen here, sistren and brethren, I am goddamn tired
Last Line: Four-wheeled jade chrysan- / themums around here
Subject(s): Dilthey, Wilhelm (1833-1911); Modern Life


THE SOUL OF JESUS IS RESTLESS TODAY, by CYPRUS R. MITCHELL    Poem Text                    
Last Line: But eternally undismayed
Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Modern Life


THE WAY IT IS, by MARK STRAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I lie in bed
Subject(s): Modern Life; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


THE WORLD'S WONDERS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Being now three or four years more than sixty
Last Line: Crawls in; and a tortured jew became god
Subject(s): Modern Life; Experience


THREE, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What of our time?
Last Line: What it was; what it shall be; unfound, -- and unsought.
Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S.
Subject(s): Modern Life


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. A MIGHTIER THAN MAMMON, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At last, after centuries, when the tension and strain
Last Line: And they achieved a real distinction, and the finest kind of aristocracy.
Subject(s): Humanity; Modern Life; Nations; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. THE COAST OF LIGURIA, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A thousand years are nothing
Last Line: And crown their slopes with gladness.
Subject(s): Christianity; Daphne (mythology); Modern Life; Religion; Seashore; Theology; Beach; Coast; Shore


TWENTIETH-CENTURY BLUES, by KENNETH FEARING            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What do you call it, bobsled champion, and you, too, olympic rollercoaster ace
Subject(s): Modern Life


UNHISTORICAL EVENTS, by BOB KAUFMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Appollinaire / never knew about rock gut charlie
Subject(s): Apollinaire, Guillaume (1880-1918); Modern Life; Poetry & Poets; Surrealism


WEALTH OF NATIONS, by TIMOTHY LIU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tired of the gawking. Conspicuous
Last Line: Putting out after the khrushchev thaw–
Subject(s): Modern Life; Social Commentaries