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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: NEWS Matches Found: 95 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 17-JAN-32, by MIKLOS RADNOTI Poem Source First Line: I went hiking into the morning mountains Last Line: Take care! Subject(s): Death; Exiles; News; Prisons And Prisoners A LETTER TO R. L. ESQ, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear peter, if thou canst descend Last Line: Can cure him of that fiddling phrenzy. Subject(s): Letters; Messages & Messengers; Muses; News A LETTER, ON HIS DEPARTURE FORM LONDON; TO R.L., ESQ., by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear peter, your absence at present I rue Last Line: If so, I'll go see it, or 'twill be a hard case. Subject(s): Expressionism - Poets; Letters; News; Pens & Pencils; Writing & Writers ABSTRACTION, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They came that morning, in gowns of pale green and white Last Line: Unprovisioned and naked, had fled. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Escapes; Forests; News; Secrets; Soldiers; Fugitives; Woods AFTER THE NEWSCAST, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Past tribal heart's rusty twists Last Line: It's time Subject(s): Cities; Democracy; News; Urban Life ALL THESE HEADLINES, by F. JOHN HERBERT Poem Source First Line: All these headlines about cabinets Last Line: And the heavy arms in london could be our teacher. %I hope this plot we have to play in the descent Subject(s): News; United States AS THEY PASS, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: Red shout, hair %flaming, the wind cannot stop drilling holes Last Line: The stunned air now %unbearable Subject(s): Death; News; Terrorism; Tragedy; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) B&B, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Let's begin here: three years later Last Line: & one struck match arcs into the grill. Whoosh Subject(s): Children - Lost; Death; News; Newspapers; Tragedy BALLADE OF THE FAN, by WILLIAM FREDERICK KIRK Poem Text First Line: Madly I long for the day Last Line: Ho for the crack of the bat! Subject(s): Admiration; Fans; Games; News; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements BARROOM MATINS, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Popcorn, peanuts, clams and gum Last Line: Give us this day our daily news Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): News BELLMAN, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oyez, oyez'...I hear him cry Last Line: Clanging his bell as if in town. Subject(s): Bells; Messengers; News; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen BODIES BROKEN ON, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Sing for red dust and black clay %good news about the earth Subject(s): News CLOUD FORESTS OF SUMATRA, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: The fire, two towns away Last Line: I still couldn't have told %him where sumatra is Subject(s): News; Newspapers CONDITION OF THE WORLD, AUGUST 1997, by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Channel 4 says latex kills slowly Last Line: Lub dubbed like a fetal kitten in a red silk sack. %how clean the body was, split open Subject(s): Earth; News; Sex COQ D'OR, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fountain is frozen in the plaza Last Line: Will be tumbling about us. Subject(s): Cities; News; Newspapers; War; Urban Life; Journalism; Journalists CORRAL, by JIM DANIELS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight I'm watching the news Last Line: When the kids got shocked. The wire is thin, %almost invisible Subject(s): Animals; Horses; News DOMESDAY BOOK: ARCHIBALD LOWELL, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Archibald lowell, owner of the times Last Line: And brings them to the jury in these words: -- Subject(s): Death; Life; Marriage; News; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DOMESDAY BOOK: AT FAIRBANKS, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bill, look here! Here's the times. You see this picture Last Line: Within the banner: to be brave, nor flinch. Subject(s): Death; News; Dead, The DOMESDAY BOOK: WIDOW FORTELKA, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Marie fortelka, widow, mother of josef Last Line: To swim to shore! He couldn't walk the waves! Subject(s): Death; Life; News; Soul; Widows & Widowers; Dead, The EGGSTRAX FROM THE MALOJA GAZETTE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is our painful duty to denounce to a repugnant public, a most fearful Last Line: Qed as a mucilaginous but merited motto, worked in periwinkle %shells Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Disasters; Fear; News; Travel EVENING NEWS II, by DAVID FERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The face looking into the room; Subject(s): News; Popular Culture FLOWER CAST, by F. JOHN HERBERT Poem Source First Line: A flower cast has taken place for three days Last Line: Films in new york and a worldwide gold sealer %summed up that's one small step for %man one small st Subject(s): News; Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States; Radio FRONT PAGE, by ARTHUR MORTENSEN Poem Source First Line: A tunnel's marked with blood; a ritual ends Last Line: That waits for us parked in its dark garage Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Death; News GOOD NEWS BLUES, by JAMES MCKEAN Poem Source First Line: I'm not myself whoever that is 7:00 saturday morning Last Line: Before ecstasy. How's the family? How's the garden growing? %thanks for stopping by Subject(s): Good; Morning; News GOOD NEWS FROM GEORGIA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "yassir, I'm a no'thern coon" Last Line: Dat dat's de news from georgy Subject(s): News HEADLINES, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Headlines shriek today, are dead tomorrow Last Line: Their corpses fuck, breed shrieks of sorrow. Subject(s): Death; News HOW BAD NEWS COMES, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: A telephone ringing %like an emergency Last Line: Fall to the floor Subject(s): Conversation; Messengers; News; Telephones HOW NEWS MUST FEEL WHEN TRAVELLING, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A thing to tell remain? Variant Title(s): Poem: 1319; Poem: 137 Subject(s): News HOW THE NEWS CAME, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a hawk first caught the glimmer from the top of bradford's hill Last Line: And the rooster by his crowing told the gladsome news to me. Subject(s): News I AM GERMAN: GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS, by GARY DUEHR Poem Source First Line: I am german.' this is the central meaning Last Line: The anonymous witness' face a vague stain Subject(s): News I SEE FROM BACK PORCHES - DOMESTIC BACK PORCHES, by VICENT ANDRES ESTELLES Poem Source Last Line: The air's full of bottles with messages from the shipwrecked Subject(s): Disasters; News; Shipwrecks I SUED THE NEWS YET FEARED THE NEWS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Thrown open wide to me Variant Title(s): Poem: 1360; Poem: 139 Subject(s): News I WATCHED HER FACE TO SEE WHICH WAY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: As flower at fall of frost Subject(s): News IN THE SLEEP OF REASON, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The pilot, returned, sees the village Last Line: At 40,000 feet Subject(s): Air Force - United States; Film (photography); News; War INFO; FOR JOE CARDARELLI, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A bunch of gods Last Line: Hey wow that's some good info Subject(s): Messages & Messengers; News LETTER, by OTTO ORBAN Poem Source First Line: I found the letter in a drawer among old bills and papers. 'if Last Line: Indifferent curtain on the stage of delusion Subject(s): Death; Letters; Messengers; News; Postal Service LINES IN REPLY TO THE BEAUTIFUL POET, WHO WELCOMED NEWS OF MCGONAGALLS, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear johnny, I return my thanks to you Last Line: Or else you'll get the famous weekly news a bad name. Subject(s): Gratitude; News; Newspapers; Poetry & Poets; Publishing; Journalism; Journalists; Publishers LUNCH HOUR, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the newspaper, another feature Last Line: From one story to the next Subject(s): News; Newspapers; Story-telling MAN WHO NEVER COMES BACK, by THOM TAMMARO Poem Source First Line: He's always in his 60s or 70s Last Line: A long time for you. We thought you'd never come Subject(s): Death; Detective Stories; Mystery; News; Newspapers MEANING, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: No money means no man Last Line: If you can find it anywhere Subject(s): Money; News MEDITATION, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: Trumper blasts, that kind of morning Last Line: And more, and more, %a sum of untended time Subject(s): Death; Meditation; News; Soul MESSENGERS, by BORIS NIKOLAYEVICH BUGAYEV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In fields hopeless and dumb Last Line: They file doorward, in pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Belyi, Andrey; Bely, Andrei Subject(s): Messages & Messengers; News MILKING THE COW, by MATTHEW LIPPMAN Poem Source First Line: I've been reading the paper all morning and can't get my eyes of the barn Last Line: As it races over the brown wheat grass to meet me head on %between the pink udders of one brown cow Subject(s): Cows; Farm Life; News; Storms; Winter MYSELF CAN READ THE TELEGRAMS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But sweeter so than mine Variant Title(s): Poem: 1089; Poem: 104 Subject(s): News NEW REPUBLIC IS INFURIATED AT THE NEWS COVERAGE, by GEORGE STARBUCK Poem Source First Line: Teletype-music. Ok, maestro, hit it Subject(s): News NEWPORT NEWS, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The huge sea monster, the 'merrimac' Last Line: And that is the picture of newport news. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): American Civil War; Monitor (ship); Newport News, Virginia; Sea Battles; U.s. - History; Virginia (ship); Naval Warfare; Merrimac (ship) NEWS, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the low west falls suddenly shining Last Line: Is contented in faery land. Subject(s): Discontent; News; Rain; Storms; Wind; Dissatisfaction NEWS, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: What haste, fond jock! Nay thou shalt longer stay Last Line: But grant these old things are the greatest news. Subject(s): News; Prayer NEWS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everything changes the old Last Line: Dead things could stumble back %and kill us Subject(s): News NEWS, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: Filters through thin gauze, like the dark Last Line: Could we endure it, even secondhand Subject(s): News NEWS, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These afternoons seem to occur more Last Line: Like a sudden flow of blood from the mouth Subject(s): News NEWS, by RUTH STONE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What have you to say to that Last Line: That single body casting itself into the future Subject(s): News NEWS, by LINDA WING Poem Source First Line: The news goes by so fast this month. Andrea and I come home, september Last Line: And hoping they live beautiful,or at least die with purpose Subject(s): Homecoming; News NEWS ARRIVING ON A SNOWY DAY, by DANIEL RAY CAMPION Poem Source First Line: Nims's brilliant st. John of the cross Last Line: Those whirling clouds of stars? John's new translation Subject(s): News; Snow NEWS FROM ETHIOPIA AND THE SUDAN, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Armies and lemmings do not go Last Line: But are for their arms and skin alone Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Hunting; News; Plague NEWS REPORT, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At two a.M. A thing, jumping out of a manhole Last Line: Through perfume and a bath Subject(s): News; Violence NEWSMAN'S ADDRESS (1784), by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What tempests gloom'd the by-past year Last Line: That wrangling is the life of news Subject(s): Army - United States; News; Newspapers; Sailors And Sailing NEWSPAPER DEATHS, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: I can flip my life back to the page Last Line: And the police just added another number to their records Subject(s): Death; Native Americans; Navajo Indians; News; Newspapers NORTH: 1991, by JOHN DUFFRESNE Poem Source First Line: In the euphoria that followed Last Line: Of saws, the rise and fall, %a crackling in the hard wood Subject(s): Air Warfare; News; Nuclear War; United States NOTHING AT ALL IN THE PAPER TO-DAY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Nothing at all in the paper today Last Line: There was nothing at all in the paper to-day? Subject(s): News OF TOLLING BELL I ASK THE CAUSE?, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A good news should be given Subject(s): Heaven; Bells; News ON THE DEATH OF OLD BENNET THE NEWS-CRIER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "one evening, when the sun was just gone down" Last Line: "homer and bennet were in this agreed, / homer was blind, and bennet could not read" Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;death;grief;news;silence; "dead, The;sorrow;sadness; OUR PRINCIPAL, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beat his wife. / we did not know it then Last Line: What he says. Subject(s): Marriage; News; Quarrels; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Arguments; Disagreements POSTAGE DUE, by JOHN M. BENNETT Poem Source First Line: The magazine came back marked deceased and with 21 cents postage due Last Line: Of my hands, staring out the window, my eyes focused on nothing in %particular Subject(s): Death; Messengers; News; Postage Stamps; Postal Service SNOW IN JERUSALEM, by JERRY MAZZA Poem Source First Line: Reports the new york times Last Line: The simmering landscape's pyre Subject(s): Floods; News; Snow; Winter SOMETIME TODAY, OR YESTERDAY, by JAMES CERVANTES Poem Source Last Line: Of news from so long ago %amplified by hard surfaces Subject(s): Birds; News; Nightingales; Television STAR-LEDGER, by B. J. WARD Poem Source First Line: 287 was the long raod to the newspaper plant Last Line: When the world redelivered him in the morning Subject(s): News; Newspapers STRATFORD PLACE GAZETTE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We regret to state that at 4 p.M. This day the well known author & Last Line: Our liveliest regards & compliments Subject(s): News; Suicide; Tragedy TELEVISION SPEAKS, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Buy “burgers” and sticky sweets Subject(s): Television; News THE CORDIAL. IN THE YEAR 1657. A SONG, by THOMAS FLATMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Did you hear of the news (o the news) how it thunders! Last Line: Sing and play, while the city was burning. Subject(s): Indifference; News THE CORNER NEWSBOY, by VICTORIO ACOSTA VELASCO Poem Text First Line: Shout aloud your merchandise, loud, louder Last Line: Winter morning's breakfast. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; News; Newspapers; Work; Workers; Journalism; Journalists THE EDITOR'S COMPLAINT, by IDA L. MELBY Poem Text First Line: News, news, news! / it's enough to give a man the blues! Last Line: Anything, anything, just so it's news. Subject(s): News THE MESSENGER, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The messenger runs, not carrying the news Last Line: And again, on his way? Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Feet; News; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE NEWS, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From each house on the street Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): News; Neigbors THE NEWS, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The news, indeed! - pray do you call it news Last Line: As sin and folly, rust and must and mould! Subject(s): News THE NEWS, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What have you to say to that Subject(s): News THE NEWS AND THE WEATHER, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Serene night cold november Last Line: Quarrelling hair greyer almost / sixty Subject(s): News; November; Weather THE NEWS FROM THE WORLD, by GEORGE EKLUND Poem Text First Line: From the sunlit room the body pulls air Subject(s): News THE NEWS PHOTO, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This idiot had suffered his own faults Last Line: He could grin for his picture Subject(s): News; Photography & Photographers THE NIXY OF NEWS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was on the good dominion, of the famed dominion line Last Line: "you fools, that want to-morrow! How have you used to-day?" Subject(s): News THE SKIES CAN'T KEEP THEIR SECRET!, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In your new-fashioned world! Subject(s): Gossip; News THEN AND NOW, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you remember those mornings after the blitzes Last Line: Make real, of glory, common wealth, and home. Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Factories; Labor & Laborers; Labor Unions; Memory; News; Strikes; Surrey, England; Unemployment; Work; Workers; Labor Disputes; Lockouts THIS DAY, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shrill of doorbell still returning to my ears Subject(s): News; Politics & Government THOSE SEINFELD DAYS WHEN NOTHING HAPPENS EXCEPT I LOVE YOU, by E. ETHELBERT MILLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even on bad days Subject(s): News; Disinterest; Love TO A FRIEND: MR. BAKER IS WELL, by THOMAS CHATTERTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O'erwhelm'd with pleasure at the joyful news Last Line: The beauteous hoyland shall employ my line. Subject(s): Friendship; Happiness; Men; News; Joy; Delight TO CAPTAIN RIDDEL ON RETURNING A NEWSPAPER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your news and review, sir, I've read through and Last Line: And then all the world, sir, should know it! Subject(s): News TO MASTER GEORGE SANDYS TREASURER FOR THE ENGLISH COLONY IN VIRGINIA, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friend, if you thinke my papers may supplie Last Line: So (noble sandis) for this time adue. Subject(s): News; Sandys, George (1578-1644); Virginia (state) TO WILLIAM JEFFREYS, CHAPLAINE TO THE LORD AMBASSADOUR IN SPAINE, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My noble friend, you challenge me to write Last Line: And so my jeffreyes for this time adue. Subject(s): News TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. FLY MESSENGER, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fly messenger! Through the street of the cities Last Line: He is come to dwell on the earth! Subject(s): Messages & Messengers; News TURN OFF THE NEWS, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Anxiety gallops through chatter Last Line: Sneeze Subject(s): Anxiety; News TV NEWS: DETOX CLOSED, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: No comment, just image after image Last Line: Now tell me you wouldn't go Subject(s): News; Story-telling; Television; War Correspondents WE BILLION CHEERED, by GLYN MAXWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): News; Popular Culture WHEN THE STORY BREAKS, by OLIVER RICE Poem Source First Line: Evolved in a furnished room Last Line: That is absent from every bouquet Subject(s): Flowers; News WILD, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even the eagle Last Line: & tuns in hastily %to the weather reports Subject(s): Animals; Nature; News WITH THE BREAKDOWN SQUAD, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A tanner down on a three spot, / losing again, he blowed!' Last Line: "business is doing well." Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Fire; News; Railroad Wrecks; Dead, The; Train Wrecks |
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