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Subject: SMOKE
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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