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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: PARKS Matches Found: 122 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 2E2. TRANSATLANTIC CROSSING. THIRD DAY., by RITA DOVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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 haltand 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 |
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