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Subject: NEW YORK CITY - STREETS
Matches Found: 5

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SWEETHEART: THOMPSON STREET, by SAMUEL DUFF MCCOY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Queen of all streets, fifth avenue
Last Line: I am called liberty!
Subject(s): Freedom; New York City - Streets; Liberty


OLD SAWS AND SEE-SAWS, by ANDREW EDWARD WATROUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: From eighth street up, from eighth street down
Last Line: A see-saw rhyme and a see-saw town.
Subject(s): Eighth Street, New York City; New York City - Streets


ON CEDAR STREET, NEW YORK, by HELEN HAY WHITNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I, whose totem was a tree
Last Line: "calm and sweet abide with you."
Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; New York City - Streets


SUNRISE, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: The sunrise of new york
Last Line: As though recently rescued from a shipwreck of blood
Subject(s): Homeless; New York City - Streets; Poverty


THE RED BOX AT VESEY STREET, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Past the red box at vesey street
Last Line: Through the red box at vesey street.
Subject(s): Homeless; Kindness; New York City - Streets; Poverty