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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SMOKE Matches Found: 46 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DUMP HEAD, by RUTH MOOERS Poem Text First Line: A dump heap burning at sunset Last Line: The refuse of another day. Subject(s): Evening; Refuse & Refuse Disposal; Smoke; Sunset; Twilight AD ASTRA: 32, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Tho' factory smoke and film of whirring loom Last Line: And nature's harness'd powers his will subserve. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Environment; Pollution; Smoke; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation ALL THAT SMOKE, by RON DE MARIS Poem Source First Line: Monet's haystacks rotting in the ripe Last Line: Those trains, those haystacks, %all that smoke Subject(s): Smoke BURNING HOUSE TURNED OUR NIGHT CLOTHES YELLOW. STANDING AT THE, by GARY YOUNG Poem Source Last Line: In the dark Subject(s): Fire; Smoke CHANGE, by A. A. HEDGE COKE Poem Source First Line: Thirteen years ago, before bulk barns and Last Line: Of before that time and it %floods my memory Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Fire-weeds; Migrant Labor; North Carolina; Smoke; Tractors CITY SMOKE, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the smoke of the city Last Line: Over the city. Subject(s): Pollution; Smoke DARTMOOR, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I crossed the furze-grown table-land Last Line: Call down the hiveless swarms. Subject(s): Dartmoor, England; Railroads; Smoke; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips DISCOVERIES OF FIRE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remember %when the skin of your fingers healed Last Line: Once animals and now %men Subject(s): Fire; Smoke FACTORY CHIMNEYS, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Motionless blood-hued styluses that scrawl on the infinite Last Line: In hieroglyphs rolling and tumbling, red, black, purple and gold. Subject(s): Factories; Industrial Revolution; London; Smoke FIRESTARTER, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Since this morning he's gone through Subject(s): Fire; Firefighters; Oregon; Smoke; Women FIRESTARTER, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since this morning he's gone through Last Line: And I can't take my eyes from the light Subject(s): Fire; Firefighters; Oregon; Smoke; Women FRANCISCA DOLOROSA, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Fore-doomed the horror of the age to bear Last Line: A resurrexit in a requiem chant. Subject(s): Death; Disasters; San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906); Smoke; Dead, The FRANCISCA GLORIOSA, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: A crown on her head and triumphant, francisca shall / mount to her seat Last Line: "then the world shall unite with her children to hail her, ""francisca the blest!" Subject(s): Disasters; Lightning; San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906); Smoke; Lightning Rods FRANCISCA REINA, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: A stricken queen, but still a queen of queens Last Line: "with orisons unto the rising sun." Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Drought; Sacrifices; San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906); Smoke 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 HERE IS MUSIC: FIRE GUARD AREA OFFICER: 3 (A CROWDED HOUR), by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: A kentish cafe, chock-a-block Last Line: I'll natheless make meet off'ring to the great god, chance. Subject(s): Firefighters; Smoke; Soldiers HISTORY OF FIRE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My mother is a fire beneath stone Last Line: Fanning the flame Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Fire; Smoke HOW WE WENT OUT, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: She wore five skirts, he wore two hats Last Line: A yellow angel, but disguised. Subject(s): Disasters; Dreams; San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906); Smoke; Nightmares IN THE HILLS, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shadow crawls up canyon walls; the Last Line: Somewhere the loud streets thunder, and one time there was a war. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Canyons; Cowboys; Disasters; Hunger; Smoke; Soldiers; War LIKE SMOKE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ground, the apartment house Last Line: Modestly, like smoke / going up Subject(s): Smoke MY TRUTH, INSCRIBED IN LETTERS OF SMOKE...', by CHRISTIAN VIREDAZ Poem Source Last Line: Deep down in your eyes Subject(s): Language; Smoke; Truth ODDA, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: The smoke rises from the earth Last Line: At night as fiery pillars %over israel Subject(s): Fire; Israel; Smoke; Volcanoes RESCUE, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN Poem Source First Line: The smoke alarm wails like a pig Last Line: The people are not there Subject(s): Fire; Firefighters; Smoke SMOKE, by DAVID BAKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The young and the moneyed have blown Last Line: To be smoke floating up to the stars Subject(s): Farm Life; Smoke SMOKE, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Who would want to give it up, the coal Subject(s): Death; Fire; Smoke; Tragedy; Women; Dead, The SMOKE, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who would want to give it up, the coal Last Line: Like the ghost the night will become Subject(s): Death; Fire; Smoke; Tragedy; Women SMOKE, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can you imagine the air filled with smoke? Last Line: From poetry Subject(s): Family Life; Smoke; Relatives SMOKE, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sit in a chair and read the newspapers Last Line: I sit in a chair and read the newspapers. Subject(s): Smoke SMOKE, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Light-winged smoke! Icarian bird Last Line: And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame. Variant Title(s): "light-winged Smoke, Icarian Bird""; Subject(s): Icarus; Mythology - Classical; Nature; Smoke SMOKE, by MARK TRUSCOTT Poem Source First Line: I was thinking walls Last Line: Itself were in thought. %the cats playing Subject(s): Reason; Smoke SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES, by TERRY STOKES Poem Source First Line: Your heart. You have a hard time telling me Last Line: That never blossoms, that never ends Subject(s): Eyes; Relationships; Smoke SMOKE IN WINTER, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sluggish smoke curls up from some deep dell Last Line: As some refulgent cloud in the upper sky Subject(s): Smoke STRAYED, by CHARLES ERSKINE SCOTT WOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sunburned dryad of the lanes Last Line: For the swallows in the eaves. Subject(s): Dryads; Smoke; Sun THE AMERICAN FIREMAN, by CHRISTOPHER BANNISTER Poem Text First Line: A clamor and clatter of galloping hoofs Last Line: Had half such a guerdon won. Subject(s): Fire; Firefighters; Heat; Smoke; Water THE BURNING OF THE STEAMER 'CITY OF MONTREAL.', by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A sad tale of the sea I will relate, which will your hearts appal Last Line: Therefore be prepared for that happy land where all troubles are o'er. Subject(s): Courage; Disasters; Fire; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Smoke; Steamboats; Valor; Bravery THE FIRE, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Near the house flowed, or paused, the black / canal Last Line: Men that defeated ruinous angels and shall still defeat. Subject(s): Fire; Firefighters; Heat; Smoke THE REASON WHY, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Up and down the face of telegraph hill Last Line: And mayhap would have changed the end. Subject(s): Disasters; Gray (color); San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906); Smoke; Grey (color) THE SIMPLE LIFE - IN CLUBS; APRIL 1906, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: From various junketings with fate Last Line: To break the record of the thirst. Subject(s): Clubs (associations); San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906); Smoke THE SIMPLE LIFE - IN TENTS, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Ten thousand khaki tents or more Last Line: For living proves a coarse burlesque. Subject(s): Camping; San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906); Smoke; Tents; Camps; Summer Camps THE SIMPLE LIFE - ON SIDEWALKS; APRIL 1906, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: A lady, dainty, young, and fair Last Line: Was worth the burdens it disguised. Subject(s): Firefighters; Heat; San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906); Smoke THREE PIECES ON THE SMOKE OF AUTUMN, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Smoke of autumn is on it all. Subject(s): Autumn; Smoke; Fall TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. IN A MANUFACTURING TOWN, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I walked restless and despondent through the gloomy city Last Line: Little child. Subject(s): Capitalism; Democracy; Depressions, Economic; Environment; Factories; Labor & Laborers; Poverty; Smoke; Recessions; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Work; Workers TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. SUNDAY MORNING NEAR A MANUFACTURING TOWN, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sunday, a still autumn morning, and all the roads on the outskirts Last Line: Overlie you much longer. Subject(s): Environment; Factories; Smoke; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation TRAIN SMOKE, by THELMA ANDA Poem Text First Line: Naked trees - manikins for train smoke Last Line: Wraithlike, disappears. Subject(s): Smoke WOODSMOKE AT 70, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How it is never the same Last Line: Swirl and it's gone... Subject(s): Old Age; Smoke YOU EXPECT THE NOON-ALARM AT CITY HALL, by SIMON PERCHIK Poem Source Last Line: Without holding on to your hands %or the world Subject(s): Fire; Firefighters; Smoke; Terror |
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