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First Line: Panel of gray silk. Liquefied ashes. Dingy percale tugged over
Last Line: Well. I'd go home if I knew where to get off
Subject(s): Parks, Rosa (b. 1913); Sea; Travel


ADDRESS TO COL. D. C. R. CARRICK-BUCHANAN, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hail! Noble mind, that formed the liberal plan
Last Line: Heaven's richest, choicest blessings ever share!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Generosity; Labor & Laborers; Marriage; Parks; Work; Workers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


AMUSEMENT, by LEE WILSON DODD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Laughter of comrades, laughter
Last Line: Day after day . . . After day . . . . .
Subject(s): Amusement Parks


AN AUTUMN PARK, by DAVID GASCOYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dark suffocates the world; but such
Subject(s): Parks


AUTUMN PARK, by DAVID GASCOYNE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dark suffocates the world; but such
Last Line: To whose that walk to-day there to forget, the true %and imminent glory breaking through man's circu
Subject(s): Parks


BALLET UNDER THE STARS, by ROBERT STEWART    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now, the people are getting their art
Last Line: Silent drama edging us together %safe now: every bug that can fly %is down at the spotlight
Subject(s): Parks


BATTERSEA PARK, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, brickbat park I name it
Last Line: And help the bill of fare.
Subject(s): London; Parks


CARNY, by B. J. BUHROW    Poem Source                    
First Line: As we watch him work under
Last Line: Until we can't breathe, %until our screams are perfect
Subject(s): Amusement Parks; Labor And Laborers; Relationships


CHILD HAROLD: IN EPPING FOREST, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How beautiful this hill of fern swells on
Last Line: Planting her beech and thorn about the sweet fern hill
Subject(s): Parks


CLAUDETTE COLVIN GOES TO WORK, by RITA DOVE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Menial twilight sweeps the storefronts along lexington
Last Line: Whenever sleep comes down on me
Subject(s): Bus Terminals; Parks, Rosa (1913-2005); Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


CLAUDETTE COLVIN GOES TO WORK, by RITA DOVE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Menial twilight sweeps the storefronts along lexington
Last Line: Whenever sleep comes down on me
Subject(s): Bus Terminals; Parks, Rosa (b. 1913); Racism


CLIMBIN IN, by RITA DOVE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Teeth
Last Line: Head over tail %down the clinking gullet
Subject(s): Parks, Rosa (b. 1913); Survival


COME TO THE PARK, by STEFAN GEORGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come to the park now left for dead and see
Last Line: Lightly above the autumnal countenance ·
Subject(s): Parks


CONEY ISLAND, by FILLMORE HYDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Go to coney island where the bright lights twinkle
Last Line: See a half a million faces %and you won't know one
Subject(s): Amusement Parks; Coney Island, New York City


COUNTRY COMMISSIONS, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cousin charles, please to send down to-morrow
Last Line: I cannot do half what you wish!
Subject(s): Country Life; Parks; Poetry & Poets


CROSSING THE PARK, by HOWARD MOSS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Crossing the park to see a painting
Last Line: To leaves and lives whose forms dispute %those parks, those paintings in which I live
Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Parks


DEER PARK, by P'EI TI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Morning and night I see cold mountain
Last Line: And again the moss is brilliant green
Subject(s): Parks; Zen Buddhism


DISNEY: THE WALL, by PHILIP DACEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'll never forget the way snow hite
Last Line: In the hands of the disney corporation: %it's the most american thing we could have done
Subject(s): Amusement Parks; Disney, Walt (1901-1966); Patriotism; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975


DOG TAG, by CHARLES OWEN LAWSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Today I walked my name around the park
Last Line: Along with four rejection letters and an overdue %gas bill
Subject(s): Names; Parks


ENACTMENT, by RITA DOVE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Can't use no teenager, especially
Last Line: And sit down in the seat %we have prepared for her
Subject(s): Parks, Rosa (b. 1913); Racism


FALSE SUMMER, by MARYA ALEXANDROVNA ZATURENSKA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It might have been in the heart of a deep forest
Last Line: And the uneasy charm is broken, %the angel music from a demon's throat
Subject(s): Parks


FREEDOM RIDE, by RITA DOVE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: As if, after high street
Last Line: Or a mosque adrift on a milk-fed pond
Subject(s): Buses; Parks, Rosa (1913-2005); Civil Rights Movement


FREEDOM RIDE, by RITA DOVE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As if, after high street
Last Line: But where you sit is where you'll be %when the fire hits
Subject(s): Bus Terminals; Parks, Rosa (b. 1913)


FRENCH PARK, by MAGDA GUTAI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ashes hover above the neat park
Last Line: And the swans begin their dance shyly
Subject(s): Fire-weeds; Forests; Parks; Smoke; Trees


GARDEN GIRLS, by JEAN EARLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Movements on a land - single
Last Line: And the old ways. And the garden girls, %spending their summers
Subject(s): Parks


GLACIER PARK, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: At last we've reached the famous place
Last Line: When the tenderfeet intrude.
Subject(s): Animals; Hotels; Parks; Tourists; Travel; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Journeys; Trips


GREETINGS, by SUSAN LASHER    Poem Source                    
First Line: As if one of the humbler statues %in the park - robert burns, schubert
Last Line: Order, and the million forms of farewell
Subject(s): Farewell; Greetings; Language; Parks; Statues


HECKCHER STATE PARK, by R. OKUAKI LIEBER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The windsurfers scissor the bay, their sails
Last Line: To shore, their boards in tote like a burden %they long to savor
Subject(s): Parks


HIGH GROUND, by PHIL WEIDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Today heidi & I hiked
Last Line: Wet but with a good view
Subject(s): Mountains; Parks


IN A CITY PARK, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A stretch of lawn as smooth as happiness
Last Line: A beauty, and a promise, and a dream.
Subject(s): Beauty; Cities; Parks; Sin; Urban Life


IN A NATIONAL PARK (IN GRATITUDE TO HENRY GEORGE), by MARGERY SWETT MANSFIELD    Poem Text                    
First Line: This soil is for remembrance that the land is ours
Last Line: "reclaimed their own, but ransomed beauty first."
Subject(s): George, Henry (1839-1897); National Parks


IN HOWARD PARK, by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Call me away not yet a vagrant while!
Last Line: Here will I come and dream again my dreams.
Subject(s): Grief; Parks; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness


IN SCHEVCHENKO PARK, by LUISA VILLANI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The trumpets and balalaikas above the grass
Last Line: Tears to light your way %or rain to grow a new city
Subject(s): Parks


IN THE LARGE PARKS, by ROLF JACOBSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The small fountains in large parks
Last Line: Lean over your bench and quietly ask: %which star do you come from?
Subject(s): Parks; Romance


IN THE LOBBY OF THE WARNER THEATRE, WASHINGTON, DC, by RITA DOVE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: They'd positioned her - two attendants flanking the wheelchair
Last Line: Waiting for the moment to take her
Subject(s): Parks, Rosa (1913-2005); Washington, D.c.


IN THE LOBBY OF THE WARNER THEATRE, WASHINGTON, DC, by RITA DOVE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They'd positioned her - two attendants flanking the wheelchair
Last Line: Like the history she made for us sitting there, %waiting for the moment to take her
Subject(s): Parks, Rosa (b. 1913); Washington, D.c.


IN THE PARK, by EUGENIO MONTALE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the magnolia's ever
Last Line: Your face with bits of straw
Subject(s): Laughter; Love; Parks


IN THE PARK ONE DAY, by EDWARD BOCCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: People came to admire the statue
Last Line: Somebody threw a beer can at him
Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Parks


IN THE SNAKE PARK, by WILLIAM PLOMER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A white-hot midday in the snake park
Last Line: The girl who screamed had fallen in a faint
Subject(s): Parks; Zoos


INSTRUCTIONS FOR A PARK, by BRAD WALKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: These apartment acres, good only
Last Line: That even that one, like a shadow %passing over a park, flows into air
Subject(s): Parks


JEREMIAD, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After a night of opium and alcohol, edgar poe
Last Line: As they sometimes will in baltimore.
Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; Food & Eating; Hallucinations & Illusions; Parks; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin


JOHN HAY AND ROSA PARKS, by MICHAEL CERAOLO    Poem Source                    
First Line: The architect of the american empire
Last Line: Is honored with a small, lightly traveled, almost alley-like side street
Subject(s): Hay, John Milton (1838-1905); Monuments; Parks, Rosa (b. 1913)


LAS CALANDRIAS, by CARLOS CORTEZ KOYOKUIKATL    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the plazuela in el paso
Last Line: To load down yet another tree
Subject(s): Fruit; Nature; Parks; Trees


LEDA HIDDEN, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Christmas eve, unseasonable cold
Subject(s): Christmas; Parks; Snow; Nativity, The


LEDA HIDDEN, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Christmas eve, unseasonable cold
Last Line: And the snow and the odor %of the frosty water
Subject(s): Christmas; Parks; Snow


LINES WRITTEN IN KENSINGTON GARDENS, by MATTHEW ARNOLD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In this lone open glade I lie
Last Line: Before I have begun to live.
Subject(s): Kensington Gardens; Parks; Religion; Theology


LONDON VERSUS EPPING FOREST, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The brakes, like young stag's horns, come up in spring
Subject(s): Parks


MARLBOROUGH FAIR, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I warr'nt our street be near so wide
Last Line: And the long down is whispering low 'goodnight.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): Abandonment; Amusement Parks; Animals; Children; Churchyards; Circus; Country Dances; Country Life; Entertainers; Festivals; Fiddles; Games; Guns; Lions; Marlborough, England; Merry-go-grounds; Mourning; Musical Instruments; Night; Pleasure; Desertion; C


MEDICI FOUNTAIN, by JAY MEEK    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the luxembourg gardens, I unfold a map of paris over my knee
Last Line: That is overwhelming
Subject(s): Fountains; Parks


METAPHORS OF THE TREE, by RUTH STONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The play yard with its automobile tire
Last Line: Where the wind does not pause.
Subject(s): Leaves; Parks; Trees


MICHIGAN SUMMER, by THOMAS DEL VECCHIO    Poem Text                    
First Line: By sweat and hunger, stealth and guile
Last Line: Will find it easy now to die.
Subject(s): Lakes; Michigan; Nature; Parks; Summer; Pools; Ponds


MIDDLE-AGED WALK IN THE PARK, by JOAN STERN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now is the sweet season when summer
Last Line: Facing west and dazzled by the sun
Subject(s): Parks; Summer


MINDFUL LOITERING, by MICHAEL ATTIE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Park benches make the best zendo
Last Line: Either way, %the pain seems inescapable
Subject(s): Idleness; Nature; Parks; Poetry And Poets


MONTGOMERY, by SAM CORNISH    Poem Source                    
First Line: White woman have you heard %she is too tired to sit in the back
Last Line: Seats will ride through twon %I walk for my children %my feet two hundred years old
Subject(s): African Americans; Civil Rights Movement; Parks, Rosa (b. 1913); Poetry And Poets


MOTHER IN THE PARK, by B. J. BUHROW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Her children could drown
Last Line: At the corner of her badly %lipsticked mouth
Subject(s): Automobiles; Children; Mothers; Parks; Summer


NAIROBI NATIONAL PARK, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ostrich and giraffe peek
Last Line: In embakasi plain
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Animals; Baboons; National Parks; Prairies


OLD AMUSEMENT PARK (BEFORE IT BECAME LA GUARDIA AIRPORT), by MARIANNE MOORE            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hurry, worry, unwary / visitor, never vary
Subject(s): Americans; Amusement Parks; United States; America


OLD AMUSEMENT PARK (BEFORE IT BECAME LA GUARDIA AIRPORT), by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hurry, worry, unwary %visitor, never vary
Last Line: When the triumph is reflective %and confusion, retroactive
Subject(s): Americans; Amusement Parks; United States


ON ST. JAMES PARK, AS LATELY IMPROVED BY HIS MAJESTY, by EDMUND WALLER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of the first paradice there's nothing found
Subject(s): Parks


ON THE FINE ARTS GARDEN, CLEVELAND, by RUSSELL ATKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The park's beautiful
Last Line: Silent figures %move reposefully into the living shadows %and then the golden lamps %the while %slow
Subject(s): Parks


ON THE OPENING OF FIRST PUBLIC PLEASURE-GROUND AT BIRMINGHAM, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Soldiers of industry! Come forth
Last Line: To feel and understand.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Birmingham, England; Parks


ON THE PLAZA, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One august day I sat beside
Last Line: A personality was there!
Subject(s): New York City; Parks; Streets; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Avenues


ONE POSSIBLE MEANING, by CHARLIE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This afternoon the park is filled with brides
Last Line: Releases a magic that changes everything
Subject(s): Children; Parks; Childhood


PARK, by JUAN MARTINEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is a park where autumn
Last Line: And does not set me free from oblivion
Subject(s): Parks


PARK, by DAVID ST. JOHN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was I think in a small town in ohio
Last Line: Where all of the others wish to go
Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Parks


PARK, by JAMES STERLING TIPPETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm glad that %I live near a park
Last Line: On a hill
Subject(s): Parks


PARK AT NIGHT, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Unwearied / the coo and choke
Last Line: Some cellophane.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Absence; Parks; Separation; Isolation


PARK IN THE PUBLIC'S OR IN THE PUBLIC, PARKS, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cessible / inack / cessibleinack
Last Line: Ny. Inack kyack
Subject(s): New York State; Parks


PARK IN THE PUBLIC'S OR IN THE PUBLIC, PARKS, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cessible %inack %cessibleinack
Last Line: N.Y. Inack kyack
Subject(s): New York State; Parks


PARK POEM, by PAUL BLACKBURN            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Parks


PATERSON: BOOK 2. SUNDAY IN THE PARK, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Outside / outside myself
Last Line: Typewriter; at least the easiest to do something about
Subject(s): Parks


PATERSON: BOOK 2. SUNDAY IN THE PARK, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Outside
Last Line: White cloud at evening - before the shuddering night
Subject(s): Parks


PEAK ACTIVITY IN BOADWALK HAM CONCESSION, by JOSEPHINE MILES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What was that they heard past the peal
Subject(s): Amusement Parks


PENNY ARCADE, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: This pale and dusty palace under the el
Subject(s): Amusement Parks


POND, PORCH-VIEW: SIX P.M., EARLY SPRING, by RITA DOVE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I sit, and sit, and will my thoughts
Last Line: Anyplace but here. %who am I kidding? Here I am
Subject(s): Parks, Rosa (b. 1913); Spring


PUBLIC GARDEN, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Burnished, burned-out, still burning as the year
Last Line: The fountain's failing waters flash around %the garden. Nothing catches fire
Subject(s): Boston; Parks


RALEGH'S PRIZES, by ROBERT PINSKY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And summer turns her head with its dark tangle
Subject(s): Summer; Seashore; Amusement Parks; Beach; Coast; Shore


ROLLER COASTER CHILD, by ANN S. GOLDSMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The roller coaster child is still at the fair
Last Line: Is no different from the one behind
Subject(s): Amusement Parks


ROSA, by RITA DOVE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How she sat there
Subject(s): Etiquette; Parks, Rosa (1913-2005); Manners; Courtesy


ROSA, by RITA DOVE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How she sat there
Last Line: When they bent down to retrieve %her purse. That courtesy
Subject(s): Etiquette; Parks, Rosa (b. 1913)


SAKURA PARK, by RACHEL WETZSTEON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The park admits the wind
Subject(s): Parks


SIT BACK, RELAX, by RITA DOVE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lord, lord. No rest
Last Line: Just plain grieves
Subject(s): Parks, Rosa (1913-2005); Religion; Theology


SIT BACK, RELAX, by RITA DOVE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lord, lord. No rest
Last Line: Stand by me in this, my hour
Subject(s): Parks, Rosa (b. 1913); Religion


SITUATION IS INTOLERABLE', by RITA DOVE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Intolerable: that civilized word
Last Line: O yes. O mercy on our souls
Subject(s): Parks, Rosa (b. 1913); Racism


SONGS OF NEW YORK: THE PARKS, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There are green islands in the city sea
Last Line: There are green islands in the city sea.
Subject(s): New York City; Parks; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


SOUTH END, by CONRAD AIKEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The benches are broken, the grassplots brown and bare
Last Line: These are the city's earliest and tenderest loves
Subject(s): Parks


SOUTH END, by CONRAD AIKEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The benches are broken, the grassplots brown and bare
Last Line: These are the city's earliest and tenderest loves
Subject(s): Parks


SPRING IN THE PARK, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This day of april ardors, a careless passerby
Last Line: Blossomed and blessed the hour, redeemed the town.
Subject(s): April; Beauty; Happiness; Japan; Parks; Peace; Spring; Joy; Delight; Japanese


ST. JAMES PARK, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas june, and many a gossip wench
Last Line: "may be a little altered too."
Subject(s): London; Nature; Parks; Pride; Time; Self-esteem; Self-respect


ST. MORITZ ON THE PARK, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I eat your heart with a spoon: like honey, pure honey
Last Line: A dam beneath the light. How deliciously subdued and sleepy
Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Parks


STOP FOURTEEN, by BOB HICOK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Don't get too excited about the albino
Last Line: Green thought the world has ever had
Subject(s): Cowell, Henry (1897-1965); Parks; Trees


SUMMER GARDEN, by LAURIE BYRO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I want to see the roses
Last Line: And what of their loneliness? %and what of mine
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Parks; Roses; Summer


THE CITY-BOUND IN A PARK, by MARY C. SLEVIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: This! This is earth! Beneath my heel
Last Line: Riding with fierce abandon past his shining face!
Subject(s): Earth; Parks; Time; World


THE DEER IN GREENWICH PARK, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pathetic in their rags, from far and near
Last Line: Bondman, or brute that dies?
Subject(s): Deer; London; Parks


THE ENACTMENT, by RITA DOVE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Can't use no teenager, especially
Last Line: We have prepared for her
Subject(s): Parks, Rosa (1913-2005); Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


THE FUN HOUSE FABLE, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After the mirror of his mother died
Last Line: And the roller coaster clocked to the top.
Subject(s): Amusement Parks; Death; Dead, The


THE GIANT SLIDE, by TED KOOSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beside the highway, the giant slide
Subject(s): Amusement Parks; Transience; Impermanence


THE HILL-SIDE PARK, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Some banks cropped close, and lawns smooth mown
Last Line: And still sails flecked its face of silver-grey.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Parks


THE LINCOLN HOME, by ZELLA ACKERMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: One sunday, on july the twelfth
Last Line: We know his creed lives -- others can, who will.
Subject(s): Heroism; History; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Parks; Presidents, United States; Heroes; Heroines; Historians


THE MAN AND THE PARK, by ALBERT DOYLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Who can relate in simple verse
Last Line: The breathless beauties of the place.
Subject(s): Parks


THE MAY PARTY, by JAMES OPPENHEIM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O million-singing comes the may
Last Line: Had given birth to man!
Subject(s): Central Park, New York City; Music & Musicians; Parks; Parties; Summer


THE MERRY-GO-ROUND, by E. A. L. GRIFFIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: What blissful thrills of merriment are found
Last Line: Till, lo! He calls a halt—and comes the end.
Subject(s): Amusement Parks; Children; Games; Merry-go-grounds; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Carousels


THE NATIONAL PARKS, by JOSEPHINE MILES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Does the world look like a park to you? Yes, almost suddenly
Subject(s): National Parks


THE PARK, by ALAN CREIGHTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here we have life with sunlit hair
Last Line: Beyond the grass, beyond the leaves.
Subject(s): Parks


THE PARK, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The prosperous and beautiful
Last Line: Leads all souls to the good.
Subject(s): Parks


THE PARK, by NEWMAN HOWARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a park where oaks of atlas girth
Last Line: Lest on time's pitiless road I fall and faint!
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Parks; Time; Trees; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens


THE PLAYGROUND AT PAOWNYC, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: There's a playground hid in the forest's depths
Last Line: With tender care and love.
Subject(s): Camping; Children; Games; Leisure; Parks; Camps; Summer Camps; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements


THE POND, PORCH-VIEW: SIX P.M., EARLY SPRING, by RITA DOVE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: I sit, and sit, and will my thoughts
Last Line: Who am I kidding? Here I am
Subject(s): Parks, Rosa (1913-2005); Spring


THE PUBLIC GARDEN, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Burnished, burned-out, still burning as the year
Subject(s): Boston; Parks


THE SITUATION IS INTOLERABLE', by RITA DOVE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Intolerable: that civilized word
Last Line: O yes. O mercy on our souls
Subject(s): Parks, Rosa (1913-2005); Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


THE THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 3, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Indigenes of furnished rooms
Subject(s): Parks


THE THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 4, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Chill and abandoned, the pavillion
Subject(s): Night; Parks; Bedtime


THE THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 5, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The absorbent, glimmering night
Subject(s): Night; Parks; Bedtime


THE VILLAGE GREEN, by JANE TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the cheerful village green
Last Line: On a cheerful village green.
Subject(s): Parks


THEY WALK, SIT IN THE PARK, by ENDRE KUKORELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: They walk, sit in the park, an outing, the sun
Last Line: The sun and the wind, about these
Subject(s): Parks; Walking


THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 3, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Indigenes of furnished rooms
Last Line: Infinitely memorable things
Subject(s): Parks


THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 4, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Chill and abandoned, the pavillion
Last Line: And revealed the moon, rushing dead white %over the city
Subject(s): Night; Parks


THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 5, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The absorbent, glimmering night
Last Line: Mountains slide silently into the sea
Subject(s): Night; Parks


THIS MORNING I WALKED THROUGH THE PARK, by NOVICA TADIC    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Carrying my arms, my heroic arms and weeping
Subject(s): Parks


TO THE SUPERIOR NATIONAL FOREST, by KARL E. MUNDT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You are the last great wilderness
Last Line: I'd find you glorified.
Subject(s): Forests; National Parks; Woods


WHISTLES AT NIGHT, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At night in the city when the far-off whistles blow
Last Line: And the dawn comes slow.
Subject(s): Central Park, New York City; Memory; Night; Parks; Streets; Bedtime; Avenues


WHITE LAKE, by JAMES APPLEWHITE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Rimmed in by cypresses, tin water flashed
Last Line: A tree-tall whirling as if spun by a giant
Subject(s): Amusement Parks