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| Searching... Subject: SPORTS Matches Found: 1091 1-SEP, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: Like christmas; my gift's Last Line: Glows, searching for %a trick Subject(s): Baseball; Sports 1920, WHEN CARL MAYS BEANS RAY CHAPMAN, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source Last Line: The stranger, not here, not now Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports 1960, THE YEAR HOOK HANSEN OWNED THE CAFE, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source Last Line: No phosphates %nothing from the grill Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports 1973, BUZZING OVER YANKEE STADIUM, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source Last Line: To rise above the plane's drone Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports 400-METER FREESTYLE, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poet's Biography First Line: The gun full swing the swimmer catapults and Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Sports; Swimming & Swimmers 400-METER FREESTYLE, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The gun full swing the swimmer catapults and Last Line: Near one more and makes its final surge Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Sports; Swimming 4TH BASE, by GARY GILDNER Poem Source First Line: Decked out in flannels and gripping my mitt Last Line: Covered their eyes, and mumbled, and wouldn't look at me Subject(s): Baseball; Sports A BALLADE OF LAWN TENNIS, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some gain a universal fame Last Line: I like the game of tennis best. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Games; Sports; Tennis; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements A CAREER, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Too long I've been dubbing away at the game Last Line: I'm taking up golf in a serious way! Subject(s): Golf; Sports A COLLEGE BREAKFAST-PARTY, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Young hamlet, not the hesitating dane Last Line: And leave the soul in wider emptiness. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): College Sports; Food & Eating; Parties; Philosophy & Philosophers; Shakespeare - Hamlet A CREW POEM, by EDWARD AUGUSTUS BLOUNT JR. Poem Text First Line: So happy were columbia's eight Last Line: The cock-swain almost crew. Subject(s): College Sports; Columbia University; Rowing A CRICKET BOWLER, by EDWARD CRACROFT LEFROY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two minutes' rest till the next man goes in Last Line: And the mid-stump three somersaults in air. Subject(s): Cricket (game); Sports A FOOL THERE WAS, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: A fool there was, and he made his prayer, Last Line: (even as you and I!) Subject(s): Baseball; Fools; Gambling; Sports; Idiots; Wagering; Betting A GAME OF TENNIS, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: The court is rolled, the net is set Last Line: "and cry: ""come, help me find her!" Subject(s): Love; Puns; Sports; Tennis A LESSON FROM GOLF, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He couldn't use his driver any better on the tee Last Line: For the man who keeps his temper is the man that's sure to win. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Golf; Sports A SKATER, by MARION STROBEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You who wear battle grey Last Line: Only lovliness! Only lovliness! Alternate Author Name(s): Mitchell, James Herbert, Mrs. Subject(s): Skating & Skaters; Sports A SKATING SONG, by EPHRAIM PEABODY Poem Text First Line: Away! Away! Our fires stream bright Last Line: There is the place for me. Variant Title(s): The Skater's Song Subject(s): Skating & Skaters; Sports A SUMMER SERMON FOR MEN, by OLIVER MARBLE Poem Text First Line: I have fought a good fight,' the parson said, his weekly text declaring Last Line: Felt of his muscle on the sly — and felt like god's anointed! Subject(s): Baseball; Games; Play; Sermons; Sports; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements A SURVEY OF THE AMPHITHEATRE, by MOSES BROWNE Poem Text First Line: On, pegasus! Why, whither turn ye? Last Line: To die—but get their living by't. Subject(s): Fights; Italian Renaissance; Sports - Arenas & Stadia; Theater & Theaters; Travel; Stage Life; Journeys; Trips A TRANSCRIPTION, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This young man comes from your way, tom Last Line: "there's nothen now for nobody, only sorrow." Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Grief; Home; Nostalgia; Sports; Sorrow; Sadness ADVANTAGES OF BEING A WORLD-CLASS ATHLETE, by ANTHONY LACAVARO Poem Source First Line: In the end, when the doctors circle around Last Line: One foot appears to be larger than the other' Subject(s): Sports AESTHETICS, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: Invisible in her dark lectures %I'd see my prof's eyes Last Line: When she'd say, 'god, that's a gorgeous slide' Subject(s): Baseball; Sports AFRICAN JUMP BALL, by AFAA MICHAEL WEAVER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Can you dribble? Aw, man, you can't dribble Last Line: See there, we done set the net on fire Alternate Author Name(s): Weaver, Michael S. Subject(s): Basketball; Friendship; Sports AFTER A GAME OF SQUASH, by SAM ALBERT Poem Source First Line: And I thought of how impossibly alone we were Subject(s): Sports AFTER READING THE GREAT AMERICAN MARBLE BOOK, by MICHAEL CLEARY Poem Source First Line: Ring taw? Ringer? Chasies Subject(s): Games; Sports AFTERBURNER, by JR. CHARLES R. SMITH Poem Source First Line: Like the sound %of st-st-staccato drums Last Line: From my afterburner Subject(s): Basketball; Sports AGAINST ALL ODDS, by ROBERT L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: The age of 'magic' Last Line: The final point %is made Subject(s): Basketball; Sports ALL HAIL TO A NIGHT, by WILLIAM DOUW LIGHTHALL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All hail to a night when the stars ...' Alternate Author Name(s): Schuyler-lighthall, William Douw Subject(s): Sports; Winter ALL-GIRL RODEO, 1959, by DAN LAMBERTON Poem Source First Line: My mother wore red-leather riding boots Last Line: As ours, where, in shades of bunch grass, cloud and granite,%their own wild horses would be strainin Subject(s): Rodeos; Women In Sports ALLEGIANCE, by FORREST HAMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I loved the supremes as much as baseball Last Line: And your whole team holding you responsible Subject(s): Sports ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE MYSELF, by JR. CHARLES R. SMITH Poem Source First Line: They call me Last Line: Names they call me Subject(s): Basketball; Sports ALONE ON EARTH, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: He turned up at the baseball park-- Last Line: And all alone on earth! Subject(s): Baseball; Friendship; Solitude; Sports; Loneliness ALWAYS AND STILL THE LITTLE GUY, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: I %bring %the %ball Last Line: M e %h o t. %you %burn Subject(s): Basketball; Sports AMERICA WITHOUT BASEBALL, by PHILIP DACEY Poem Source First Line: When baseball died Last Line: And felt for the first time %released into free agency Subject(s): Baseball; Sports; United States AMERICANS PLAYING SLOW-PITCH SOFTBALL AT AN AIRBASE ..., by HALVARD JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Early september %the first game of Last Line: Don't look back. Something may be %gaining on you.' Subject(s): Army Life; Baseball; Korean War, 1950-1953; Sports AN IMPROMPTU ON ROLLER SKATES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rumble, tumble, growl and grate! Last Line: On your glittering vertebrae! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Skating & Skaters; Sports ANALYSIS OF BASEBALL, by MAY SWENSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's about %the ball Last Line: Home, and it's %about run Subject(s): Baseball; Sports AND THE RIVER GATHERED AROUND US, by DON ALLEN JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: After they wheeled away the town Subject(s): Baseball; Sports ANDY STANKIEWICZ, YANKEE ROOKIE, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: Hooray for the bright neon swing Last Line: Making a comeback for andy stankiewicz Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports ANGLING, A DAY, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though day is just breaking / when we fling two nightcrawlers Subject(s): Sports ANGLING, A DAY, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Though day is just breaking %when we fling two nightcrawlers Last Line: There are days when you don't catch anything Subject(s): Sports ANNOUNCER, by AUSTIN STRAUS Poem Source First Line: Makes up the game Subject(s): Sports ANTHEM, by STEPHEN VINCENT Poem Source First Line: America, if you were a basketball court Subject(s): Sports ANTHROPOLOGY: CRICKET AT KANO, by STEWART BROWN Poem Source First Line: Cerulean and jet, the tuareg Last Line: Centuries old, our rootlessness %a fragile bond that will not bear embrace Subject(s): Cricket (game); Nigeria; Sports; Travel ARCHERY INSTRUCTOR, by RICHARD ALDRIDGE Poem Source First Line: My boys walk down the range intent to find Subject(s): Sports ARCHIVES; COOPERSTOWN, N.Y., by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Photos and clippings fade; / no one can find a real signature Subject(s): Baseball; Sports ARCHIVES; COOPERSTOWN, N.Y., by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Photos and clippings fade; %no one can find a real signature Last Line: But endorsements, turnstyles. %'let's play two' Subject(s): Baseball; Sports ARGUMENT ONE: THE LADY SHEWS HOW SHE IS FORSAKEN, by JUDITH JOHNSON SHERWIN Poem Source First Line: Now, put me near your chess Subject(s): Sports ARMCHAIR GOLFER, OR WHIMPERS OF A SHORTCHANGED VIEWER, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's thirty-five miles from chesapeake bay Last Line: Just be grateful you're there for the final four, %and the hell with the first fourteen Subject(s): Golf; Sports ART OF BASEBALL POETRY, by MIKE SHANNON Poem Source First Line: A baseball poem should be high and tight Last Line: Calisthenics in the arizona sun and a bird dog in the bushes. %a baseball poem should be %poetry Subject(s): Baseball; Sports ASSIMILATION, by HARVEY SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Carl hubbell, a pitcher for the giants Last Line: It has nothing to do with shined shoes %and slicked-down hair Subject(s): Baseball; Sports AT LORD'S [CRICKET GROUND], by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is little I repair to the matches of the southron folk Last Line: O my hornby and my barlow long ago! Subject(s): Cricket (game); Sports AT PENN STATION THE TEAM BOARDS THE YANKEE SPECIAL, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source Last Line: At the mercy of the stars Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports AT THE BALL GAME, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The crowd at the ball game Last Line: Permanently, seriously %without thought Subject(s): Baseball; Sports AT THE HOUSE OF GHOSTS, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: I'm back after twenty years of baiting the trap of the past. This is where I Last Line: The world awaits him as it once awaited me Subject(s): Native Americans; San Francisco; Sports AT THE NIGHT GAME (FLUSHING, QUEENS), by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: Like lyrics from a lost land Last Line: Love is a distant whisper %and a listening in Subject(s): Games; Queens, New York City; Sports ATHLETE, by JAMES HUMPHREY Poem Source First Line: Since I was 8, all I wanted in life Last Line: A lost tribe, confined to isolate areas %speaking entirely to itself Subject(s): Baseball; Sports AUTUMN BEGINS IN MARTINS FERRY, OHIO, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the shreve high football stadium Last Line: And gallop terribly against each other's bodies Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Autumn; Education; Football; Industry; Labor And Laborers; Schools; Seasons; Sports BABE & LOU, by FRANZ DOUSKEY Poem Source First Line: When babe hit Subject(s): Sports BABE DIDRIKSON, by GRANTLAND RICE Poem Source First Line: From the high jump of olympic fame Subject(s): Didrikson, Babe (1913-1956); Sports - Women BABE RUTH, by ALFRED DAMON RUNYON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He's no apollo belvedere Alternate Author Name(s): Runyon, Damon Subject(s): Sports BACK AGAIN, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The scribe returns from training camp, Last Line: "comes that one chant, ""how do they look?" Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Sports BAD SPORT, by BETH KALIKOFF Poem Source First Line: Prairie women quilted Subject(s): Sports BALL GAME, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Caught off first, he leaped to run to second, but Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BALL POEM, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What is the boy now, who has lost his ball Last Line: With all that move me, under the water %or whistling, I am not a little boy Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Sports BALLAD OF DEAD YANKEES, by DONALD PETERSEN Poem Source First Line: Where's babe ruth, the king of swat Last Line: For all of these, the early dead, %who've gone where no ovations are Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BALLADE OF CRICKET, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The burden of hard hitting: slog away! Last Line: "this is the end of every man's desire!" Subject(s): Cricket (game); Sports BALLADE OF THE GOLFER IN LOVE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the 'foursome' some would fain Last Line: "haste and play a quiet ""twosome""!" Subject(s): Golf; Love; Sports BANTAM LEAGUE, by CALEB CORKERY Poem Source First Line: My brother's jacket reads: tim Last Line: Put one back, %practiced Subject(s): Brotherhood; Ice; Sports BASE STEALER, by ROBERT FRANCIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Poised between going on and back, pulled Last Line: He's only flirting, crowd him, crowd him %delicate, delicate, delicate, delicate - now! Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BASEBALL, by THOMAS WILLARD CLARK Poem Source First Line: One day when I was studying with stan musial, he pointed out Last Line: That is, one may choose the kind of pitch one wants. There %is no ball Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Tom Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BASEBALL, by DAVE ETTER Poem Source First Line: We stand for 'the star-spangled banner.' the home-plate umpire Last Line: Third-base foul line Subject(s): Baseball; Flags - United States; Sports BASEBALL, by ROBERT GIBB Poem Source First Line: Vivaldi would have loved it Last Line: Violin and violin echo, %across the outside of the plate Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BASEBALL, by PAUL HOOVER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the world finally ends Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BASEBALL, by PAUL HOOVER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the world finally ends Last Line: Love's green mounument still, %at two in the afternoon Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BASEBALL, by GAIL MAZUR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The game of baseball is not a metaphor Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BASEBALL, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you tried to tell me Subject(s): Sports BASEBALL, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When you tried to tell me Last Line: And you said: that's it. %yes Subject(s): Sports BASEBALL AND CLASSICISM, by THOMAS WILLARD CLARK Poem Source First Line: Every day I peruse the box scores for hours Last Line: The day she went 5 for 5 against vic raschi Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Tom Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BASEBALL AND WRITING, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting Subject(s): Sports BASEBALL AND WRITING, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting Last Line: Your stars are muscled like the lion Subject(s): Sports BASEBALL AS A FACT OF LIFE, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: A simulated pie crust of poured concrete, with pitchfork marks Last Line: #name? Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BASEBALL BY THE OLD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "this is the time of the year, my boys" Last Line: The gray - head who would play baseball! Subject(s): Baseball;games;play;spectator (periodical);sports; Recreation;pastimes;amusements BASEBALL CANTO, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Watching baseball Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BASEBALL CANTO, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Watching baseball Last Line: In the territorio libre of baseball Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BASEBALL CARDS, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: That first baseball card I saw myself Last Line: I say %I was Subject(s): Baseball; Baseball Cards; Sports BASEBALL PLAYERS, by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Against the bright Last Line: Waits %under the footbridge Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BASEBALL PLAYERS WAIT, by BOBBY BYRD Poem Source First Line: In the dudley dome Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BASEBALL'S SAD LEXICON, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: These are the saddest of possible words Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BASEBALL: DIVING COMEDY, by ROBERT A. FINK Poem Source First Line: You count on it [baseball] Last Line: He charts, with glee, %the multifoliate levels of the wind Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BASEBALL: THE SEVENTH INNING: 1, by DONALD HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Baseball, I warrant, is not the whole Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BASEBALL: THE SEVENTH INNING: 1, by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Baseball, I warrant, is not the whole Last Line: Her cheekbones cool water; water flows %in her rapid hair. I drink water Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BASEBALL: THE SEVENTH INNING: 7, by DONALD HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Quickly exhaust this night of farewell Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BASEBALL: THE SEVENTH INNING: 7, by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Quickly exhaust this night of farewell Last Line: To add two teams. Therefore minor league %playerrs will advance all too quickly Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BASEBALL: THE SEVENTH INNING: 8, by DONALD HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With boys in the bigs who wouldn't have Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BASEBALL: THE SEVENTH INNING: 8, by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With boys in the bigs who wouldn't have Last Line: Kurt, I get the notion that you were %another who never discarded Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BASEBALL: THE SEVENTH INNING: 9, by DONALD HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Anything, a keeper from way back Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BASEBALL: THE SEVENTH INNING: 9, by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Anything, a keeper from way back Last Line: A collage. Ongoing life became %material for kurtschwitters ball Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BASKET COUNTS: THREE, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: Minutes as I move around her moving body Last Line: Shot foul line: one and two %is %always %three Subject(s): Basketball; Sports BASKET CATCH, by BART SCHNEIDER Poem Source First Line: It was in '58, the year they moved out Subject(s): Sports BASKET COUNTS: FIVE, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: Fingers on each %hand Last Line: In circle together. T h e y are my t e a m Subject(s): Basketball; Sports BASKET COUNTS: FOUR, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: Short %quarters and four points b e h I n d Last Line: End of the team bench Subject(s): Basketball; Sports BASKET COUNTS: ONE, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: Boy %on foul line Last Line: The %single %one point %score Subject(s): Basketball; Sports BASKET COUNTS: TWO, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: Points for my team Last Line: Two %points for my team Subject(s): Basketball; Sports BASKETBALL, by LOUIS JENKINS Poem Source First Line: A huge summer afternoon with no sign of rain...Elm trees in the farm Last Line: Horizon Subject(s): Basketball; Sports BASKETBALL SEASON BEGINS, by NORBERT KRAPF Poem Source First Line: Except for the throng Subject(s): Basketball; Sports BASKETBALL: A LOVE SONG BECAUSE IT IS, by TOM MESCHERY Poem Source First Line: I will always remember Last Line: Backspinning beauty through the net Subject(s): Basketball; Sports BASKETBALL: A RETROSPECTIVE, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My ethics were %a good pair of hands Last Line: Could thread a needle Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Basketball; Sports BATHERS, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Man and woman, they enter the sea Subject(s): Sports BEAN TOWN SAGAS: 14. IN COLD FIELDS, by THOMAS SHEEHAN Poem Source First Line: They left us then Last Line: We long ball hitters Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BECAUSE DUST DELIVERS EACH DROP OF RAIN, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: Billy knows %there's a point in ricky's steal Last Line: Cold headfirst slide Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports BEFORE MY MOTHER YELLS HER DINNER INVITATION, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: Even %before my father is ready to check my homework Last Line: For the post %game %in ter view s Subject(s): Basketball; Sports BIG GIRL MUST HAVE MOVED, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: Out of the far north woods Last Line: Into the very h a r d %w o o d f l o o r Subject(s): Basketball; Sports BIG SISTER, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: S h e can run fast Last Line: Realiza tion %of %g a m e Subject(s): Basketball; Sports BIG SIX, by THOM ROSS Poem Source First Line: Christy mathewson stepped out of the centerfield clubhouse Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BILLY COULD RIDE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the way that billy could ride! Last Line: "but o the way that billy can ride!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Sports BILLY COULD RIDE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Billy was born for a horse's back Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Sports BILLY MARTIN, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: Haggard but anchored by a scowl Last Line: To cover up %the places you've been Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports BILLY RAY SMITH, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who's been squashing billy ray smith? Subject(s): Sports BIRTH OF THE SNOWSHOE, by SAMUEL MATHEWSON BAYLIS Poem Source First Line: Time the red-man had dominion Subject(s): Sports; Winter BIRTHDAY ON THE BEACH, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At another year Last Line: Except when I jog %I joggle Subject(s): Aging; Sports BLACK FROST, by MARTIE MCCLEERY PALAR Poem Source First Line: Losing the sky, that pale blue feeling of leaving Last Line: Etched with the endless brocade messages of black frost Subject(s): Sports BLACK HAIR, by GARY SOTO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At eight I was brilliant with my body Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Sports; United States - Race Relations BLACK HAIR, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At eight I was brilliant with my body Last Line: To the arms of brown people Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Sports; U.s. - Race Relations BLACK LADY IN AN AFRO HIARDO CHEERS FOR CASSIUS, by R. ERNEST HOLMES Poem Source First Line: Honey-hued beauty, you are Subject(s): Sports BLUES FOR BENNY KID PARET, by DAVE SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For years I've watched the corners for signs Last Line: To dump you dizzied and dreaming in the green grass Subject(s): Boxing And Boxers; Paret, Benny Kid; Sports BODY, by MAXINE SCATES Poem Source First Line: When in interviewed for my first job %as an usherette at the fabulous forum Last Line: After all, I was a forum girl Subject(s): Sports - Arenas And Stadia; Women BODY AN SOUL, by B. H. FAIRCHILD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Half-numb, guzzling bourbon and coke from coffee mugs Last Line: And blue-eyed bringer of truth, who will not easily be forgiven Variant Title(s): Body And Sou Subject(s): Sports BOMB, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: Time slows %one frame at a time Last Line: Cleated black nike paws dirt %like a bull's challenge Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BOTTOM OF THE NINTH, by PATTY SEYBURN Poem Source First Line: Stan drove a fly ball to deep centerfield Last Line: To see the ball committing its inexorable arc Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BOXING MATCH, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Am I really a sports fan, I ask myself Last Line: And I am glad for him %and admire him Subject(s): Sports BOXING TOWARDS MY BIRTH, by JACK DRISCOLL Poem Source First Line: My mother wanted to name me after an irish thinker Last Line: Towards the anger of that first punch %I aimed so willingly at myself Subject(s): Sports BOY IS KNOCKING, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source Last Line: Of babe's black, shiny hair Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports BOY JUGGLING A SOCCER BALL, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After practice: right foot %to left foot, stepping forward and back Last Line: As he wanders, on the last day %of summer, around the empty field Subject(s): Soccer; Sports BOYHOOD BASEBALL, by ROGER GRANET Poem Source First Line: At bat, in bed, beneath the Last Line: To be summer star far into the night Subject(s): Sports BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: Sat down with the old-timers Last Line: And ordered some more decaf %told no stories Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BRIGGS STADIUM, by LAWRENCE PIKE Poem Source First Line: While hank greenberg was out fighting japs Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BRONCO BUSTING, EVENT #1, by MAY SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stall so tight he can't raise heels or knees Subject(s): Americans; Sports; United States; America BRONCO BUSTING, EVENT #1, by MAY SWENSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The stall so tight he can't raise heels or knees Last Line: A horn squawks. Up from the dust gets a buster named tucson Subject(s): Americans; Sports; United States BROOKLYN, by JR. CHARLES R. SMITH Poem Source First Line: In the county of kings %defense rules Last Line: But defense %still rules Subject(s): Basketball; Sports BROWN BOMBER, by SAM CORNISH Poem Source First Line: Fist: joe louis the brown Last Line: Fighting from radio to radio Subject(s): African Americans; Boxing And Boxers; Louis, Joe (1914-1981); Sports BUDDHISTS HAVE THE BALL FIELD, by JAMES TATE Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Begins. It would have been called anyway, they %think suddenly Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BULL AND THE PICADOR, by JOSE ZORILLA Poem Source First Line: Pawing the earth, and snorting in his Last Line: His shoulder bleeding, the great crowd in Subject(s): Bullfights And Bullfighters; Spain; Sports - Arenas And Stadia BULL RIDER'S ADVICE, by DAVID ALLAN EVANS Poem Source First Line: What I'm saying is Subject(s): Sports BULL-DOG!, by COLE PORTER Poem Source First Line: Bull-dog! Bull-dog! Bow, wow, wow, eli yale Subject(s): Music, Popular; Sports; Yale University BULLHEAD, by JOHN ENGELS Poem Source First Line: Sprawled belly-down on the damp planks, %the breath squeezed in my chest Last Line: In my gullet, the tongue %in my mouth like a worm Subject(s): Sports BUS DEPOT REUNION, by DAVID ALLAN EVANS Poem Source First Line: Just over the edge Subject(s): Sports BYRON VS. DIMAGGIO, by PETER MEINKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday I was told Last Line: Have to admit that dimag played %sweet music %out there in the magic grass %of center field Subject(s): Baseball; Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Dimaggio, Joseph ("joe"); Poetry And Poets; Sports CALLED SHOT HOME RUN, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: The cubs leading by a sneer Last Line: Breathing forever and ever %into box scores Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports CALLED UP: TINKER TO EVERS TO CHANCE, by DOROTHY BARRESI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In three weeks he will be back down talking %drunk in the econo lodge Last Line: Then runs down the dugout steps and out of sight Subject(s): Sports CALLING, by JUDY KATZ-LEVINE Poem Source First Line: Falling asleep in the aftenoon Subject(s): Baseball; Sports CANADIAN WINTER SONG, by WILLIAM WYE SMITH Poem Source First Line: I sing you a song of canadian winter Subject(s): Sports; Winter CAPPER KAPLINSKI AT THE NORTH SIDE CUE CLUB, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What's it like? You take it from me Last Line: We're playing or ain't we? Subject(s): Billiards; Life; Sports CAREER, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: It seems like yesterday %it seems like never Last Line: It seems like yesterday %it seems like never Subject(s): Baseball; Sports CARLISLE FOOTBALL SONG, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Our fathers, heap long time ago Last Line: Us maul each pale-faced sinner! Subject(s): College Sports; Football; Singing & Singers CASEY - TWENTY YEARS LATER, by S. P. MCDONALD Poem Text First Line: The bugville team was surely up against a rocky game Last Line: "I'm mighty casey who struck out just twenty years ago." Subject(s): Baseball; Sports CASEY AT THE BAT (1), by ERNEST LAWRENCE THAYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It looked extremely rocky for the mudville nine that day Last Line: But there is no joy in mudville -- mighty casey has struck out. Subject(s): Baseball; Sports CASEY AT THE BAT (2), by ERNEST LAWRENCE THAYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The outlook wasn't brilliant for the mudville nine that day Last Line: But there is no joy in mudville -- mighty casey has struck out. Subject(s): Baseball; Sports CASEY'S DAUGHTER AT THE BAT, by AL GRAHAM Poem Source First Line: The outlook wasn't brilliant for the mudvillettes, it seems Subject(s): Sports CASEY'S REVENGE; A REPLY TO 'CASEY AT THE BAT', by JAMES WILSON (19TH CENTURY) Poem Text First Line: There were saddened hearts in mudville Last Line: But mudville hearts are happy now -- for casey hit the ball! Subject(s): Baseball; Sports CATCH, by RAYMOND CARVER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Happy to have these fish Last Line: He abandoned everyone %he once loved Subject(s): Sports CATCH, by ROBERT FRANCIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Two boys uncoached are tossing a poem together Subject(s): Language; Men; Sports CATCH, by ETHNA MCKIERNAN Poem Source First Line: I imagine us dancing, a mexican ballroom somewhere Last Line: Like a school of tiny iridescent fish %(darling, take my heart) %you sing at last Subject(s): Sports CATCHER AND SON AT GROSSINGER HOTEL AND COUNTRY CLUB, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: The flurries against the hotel Last Line: His catcher's mitt Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports CAUGHT, by GASTON DUBOIS Poem Source First Line: I stand beside the sea and cast Subject(s): Sports CENTER FIELD, by RICHARD JACKSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I don't think it will ever come down Last Line: To turn towards home as the night falls, as the ball, %as the loves, the deaths we grab for our own Subject(s): Baseball; Sports CHAIR LIFT, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nobody holds your hand up there Last Line: And then, with a whir, you're off at the top Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Sports CHANNEL-STANE, by JOHN USHER Poem Source First Line: Up! Curlers, up! Oor freen' john frost Subject(s): Sports; Winter CHEAP SEATS, THE CINCINNATI GARDENS, PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL, 1959, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The less we paid, the more we climbed. Tendrils Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Sports CHEAP SEATS, THE CINCINNATI GARDENS, PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL, 1959, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The less we paid, the more we climbed. Tendrils Last Line: With noise, unlike the kind I had at home %with no clock running down, and mirrors Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Sports CHIN MUSIC, by ALAN SOLDOFSKY Poem Source First Line: The high hard one - up Last Line: Bravado among cars, tempting fate, %standing in while everything %comes at them headlong Subject(s): Sports CHINESE CHECKERS, by ARLEEN COHEN Poem Source First Line: The dragons Subject(s): Sports CHOSING CRAFT, by MAY SWENSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Striped equilateral sails Subject(s): Sports CHRISTMAS HUNTER, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With blare of horn and holloa Subject(s): Sports; Winter CHRISTMAS IN THE FOREST, by ALOYSIUS COLL Poem Source First Line: Softer than footfalls cushioned in the deep Subject(s): Sports; Winter CITY BLOOD AND COUNTRY JAY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Clarence percy smith de vere / was a youth of high degree Last Line: Pays to learn his name is mud Subject(s): Country Life;grief;pity;sports; Sorrow;sadness CITY SPRING, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: Early on saturday %morning Last Line: That %hang %from %hoops Subject(s): Basketball; Sports CLASS A, SALEM, THE ROOKIE LEAGUE, by GARY FINCKE Poem Source First Line: We were drinking for free, bumming beers Last Line: Like athletes, setting our last story %deep as we could in the farm system Subject(s): Sports CLASS OF '80, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: Don't have to read the alumni news to know Last Line: The goddamn alumni news %takes note Subject(s): Baseball; Sports CLEAN, by LANCE NEWMAN Poem Source First Line: Break, kid. You get one chance Subject(s): Sports CLIPPER SEED, by EDWIN L. SABIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, for the winters that used to be! Subject(s): Sports; Winter CLOSING OF THE RODEO, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The lariat snaps, the cowboy rolls Last Line: Good-bye, say the barber poles. %dark drum the vanishing horses' hooves Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Rodeos; Sports CLOTHESPINS, by STUART JOHN DYBEK Poem Source First Line: I once hit clothespins Subject(s): Sports CO-OPERATION, by RUTH COMFORT MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He had not made the team. The ultimate moment Last Line: This was his victory: he had made the team! Alternate Author Name(s): Young, Sanborn, Mrs. Variant Title(s): Revelation Subject(s): Sports COACH GOES DOWN THE HALL WONDERING WHERE ALL THE MEN WENT, by JACK ROGERS RIDL Poem Source First Line: Where are they, for christ's sake Last Line: Feels an urge to throw an elbow, %trip anyone driving for the hoop Subject(s): Basketball - Coaching; Sports COACH ON VACATION, by JACK ROGERS RIDL Poem Source First Line: Swathed in number 4 coppertone, coach Last Line: He can hear the catcalls-- 'you're %a bum, coach. You're a lousy bum.' Subject(s): Basketball - Coaching; Sports COACH SITS IN CHURCH DRAWING, by JACK ROGERS RIDL Poem Source First Line: In two days, it'll be wampton high Subject(s): Basketball - Coaching; Sports COASTING DOWN THE HILL, by WILLIAM MCKENDREE CARLETON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There's a glory in the speeding of a horse Alternate Author Name(s): Carleton, Will Subject(s): Sports; Winter COBB WOULD HAVE CAUGHT IT, by ROBERT STUART FITZGERALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In sunburnt parks where sundays lie Last Line: Cool reek of the field. Reek of companions Subject(s): Baseball; Cobb, Ty (1886-1961); Sports COBB'S MEMORIES, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: A few more weeks, and tyrus cobb will be Last Line: Supreme—awhile—then dropped beside the road? Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Cobb, Ty (1886-1961); Middle Age; Sports COEFFICIENTS OF EXPANSION (A GUIDE TO THE INFANT SEASON), by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What happened in the hot stove league last winter? Last Line: Not intended .. To express for aforementioned expansion said lifelong fan's enthusiasm, approval, or Subject(s): Baseball; Sports COLONEL TIL, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: We have seen scores of magnates come Last Line: Colonel til! Subject(s): Baseball; Farewell; Praise; Sports; Sportsmanship; War; Parting COMPANY, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm in a fair way to go mad Last Line: Just putter there! Subject(s): Golf; Sports COMPARATIVE THEOLOGY, by LARRY MOFFI Poem Source First Line: He is a lesson in theology Subject(s): Baseball; Sports COMPETITION, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Because he played games seriously %and therefore knew grace Last Line: To them, how to agree, %ever, about dignity and fairness? Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Basketball; Competition; Sports CONNOISSEUR'S GUIDE TO THE BAY AREA: 9. TRAFFIC HEAVY AND VERY SLOW, by GILBERT SORRENTINO Poem Source First Line: The stars are being pitched into Last Line: Of vast machines always alert Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Baseball; Games; Sports; Traffic CONTEST, by SUSAN BRIGHT Poem Source First Line: I let roots pull foot tendons Subject(s): Sports COUNTRY SLEIGHING (2), by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Push back the tables, and from the stables Subject(s): Sports; Winter COUPLET, by DONALD HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the tall puffy Variant Title(s): Old Timers' Day Subject(s): Aging; Baseball; Sports COUPLET, by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the tall puffy Last Line: Among shades the shadow %of achilles Variant Title(s): Old Timers' Da Subject(s): Aging; Baseball; Sports COVERING FIRST, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: After you've thrown your pitch Last Line: And throw the ball further outside %next time Subject(s): Baseball; Sports CRICKET, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cricket, chirring in the autumn twilight Last Line: Fare forth singing! Subject(s): Cricket (game); Mortality; Sports CRICKET; AN HEROIC POEM, SELECTION, by JAMES DANCE Poem Text First Line: When the returning sun begins to smile Last Line: And often grasps the well-disputed prize. Alternate Author Name(s): Love, James Subject(s): Balls; Sports CRIMINAL, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One woman has nothing out of place Last Line: The other can't control her face Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Sports CROSS PATCH, by HORACE HOLLEY Poem Text First Line: Her ardent spirit ran beyond her years Last Line: All hearts meet at last. Subject(s): Horseback Riding; Women In Sports CRYING UNCLE, by TOM HANSEN Poem Source First Line: Uncle fred never gave up Subject(s): Sports CURLER'S ELEGY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When winter muffles up his cloak Subject(s): Sports; Winter CURLERS AT DUSK, by DAVID RODERICK Poem Source First Line: At first we look like nomads plodding %against wind, black-booted, fur-clad Last Line: Across ice, our shadows yoked %in the low arc of the fading light Subject(s): Curling (sport); Sports CURLING SONG, by HENRY DUNCAN Poem Source First Line: The music o' the year is hush'd Subject(s): Sports; Winter CURLING SONG, by NORMAN+(2) MACLEOD Poem Source First Line: A' nicht it was freezin,' a' nicht I was Subject(s): Sports; Winter CURT FLOOD, by TIM PEELER Poem Source First Line: Try to tell 'em curt Last Line: Your smokey gray eyes %are two extra zeroes %on every contract Subject(s): Baseball; Sports CUSTOM, by CAROL FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As if it had forgotten everything - hatred, vindictiveness, the Last Line: The assembly roared – by his actions they knew they knew better who they are Subject(s): Sports CUSTOM, by CAROL FROST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As if it had forgotten everything - hatred, vindictiveness, the Last Line: The assembly roared - by his actions they knew they knew better who they were Subject(s): Sports DA GREATA BASEBALL, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Source First Line: Oh! Great game ees baseball Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Baseball; Sports DARKENING HILLS, by MICHAEL CAREY Poem Source First Line: It went on longer than anyone thought possible. During full regulation Last Line: Hills Variant Title(s): The Distant Hill Subject(s): Football; Games; Sports - Arenas And Stadia DARTMOUTH'S WINTER CAMPS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When we're crowdin' to the fireside up at Subject(s): Sports; Winter DAUGHTER OF THE SNOW, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Though the panther's footprints show Subject(s): Sports; Winter DAVE AT SUNDOWN, by CATHERINE BOWMAN Poem Source First Line: There's a caliche pit not far from here Last Line: Out for test flights: slow and prehistoric, %petroglyphs of winged jaguars come to life Subject(s): Sports DAVID CLEEK, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot think that death will press his claim Last Line: To everlasting golf consigns your soul. Subject(s): Golf; Soldiers' Writings; Sports DAY AND NIGHT HANDBALL, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poet's Biography First Line: I think of corner shots, the ball Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Sports DAY AND NIGHT HANDBALL, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I think of corner shots, the ball Last Line: The four walls around you %creating the hardship, the infinite variety Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Sports DAY AT THE PARK, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: Good to see you again %you are right Last Line: Full %of the mind of god Subject(s): Baseball; Nostalgia; Sports DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY: TRIPTYCH, by DICK ALLEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The lake beyond the two boys playing basketball Last Line: November day, then night.... Two boys playing ball Subject(s): Basketball; Boys; Memory; Sports DAY I MEET BILLY MARTIN, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: In an aisle this colorman tries Last Line: As his black hair slicks back %toward his yankee world Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports DAYS OF SUCCESS, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The sun shines with a brighter beam, Last Line: "the club ""is going good!" Subject(s): Baseball; Happiness; Sports; Success; Joy; Delight DEANIE MCLEANIE, by WALTER DEAN MYERS Poem Source First Line: Deanie mcleanie is a basketball genie Last Line: And there's nothing on the court that the kid can't do Subject(s): Basketball; Sports DEAR MOM, by PAUL ZARZYSKI Poem Source First Line: The night that devil danced on me Subject(s): Sports DEATH OF RAY CHAPMAN; HE WAS THE BEST FRIEND I HAD - TRIS SPEAKER, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Carl mays had hit five batters Last Line: That fall chicago went to hell in dark socks %and cleveland ruled the world Subject(s): Baseball; Sports DEATH OF THE TRACK STAR, by WILLIAM JOSEPH MEISSNER Poem Source First Line: It all happens in a moment, telephone - still Subject(s): Aging; Sports DEDICATED TO F.W., by ERNEST HEMINGWAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lives of football men remind us Subject(s): Sports DEDICATED TO F.W., by ERNEST HEMINGWAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lives of football men remind us Subject(s): Sports DELIVERANCE, by BARBARA CROOKER Poem Source First Line: Putting in below the dam, watching Subject(s): Sports DELIVERY, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: Oriole is whistling, blue jay brays Last Line: Choiring with a manager's lungs Subject(s): Baseball; Sports DEREK JETER, by ROBERT MYLES HERSHON Poem Source First Line: From under the stands, looking out at the brilliant green Last Line: Williams-dimaggio, a touch of clemens and wells %and on to jeter jr. For ken griffey iii Subject(s): Baseball; Jeter, Derek; Sports DIVER, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sank through easeful Last Line: Somehow began the %measured rise Subject(s): Scuba Diving; Sea; Sports DIVER, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Was balanced on the edge of the platform Last Line: The sun the sailor takes his warning from Subject(s): Sports DIVERS, by CHARLES GHIGNA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We were different when we returned to earth Subject(s): Sports DIVERS, by CHARLES GHIGNA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We were different when we returned to earth Last Line: And carried the dead fish in our feet %away to dreams of distant seas Subject(s): Sports DON LARSEN'S PERFECT GAME, by PAUL GOODMAN Poem Source First Line: Everybody went to bat three times Subject(s): Baseball; Larsen, Don; Sports DON LARSEN'S PERFECT WORLD SERIES GAME, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: Despite the fall, eden buzzed Subject(s): Baseball; Larsen, Don; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports DOUBLE PLAY, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: I come into a one out, one on jam Last Line: I panicked in the right direction %is what I think Subject(s): Baseball; Sports DOUBLE PLAY, by ROBERT WALLACE Poem Source First Line: In his sea-lit Last Line: (the pitcher walks), casual %in the space where the poem has happened Subject(s): Baseball; Sports DREAM OF A BASEBALL STAR, by GREGORY NUNZIO CORSO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed ted williams Alternate Author Name(s): Corso, Gregory Subject(s): Baseball; Sports; Williams, Theodore (ted) DREAM OF A BASEBALL STAR, by GREGORY NUNZIO CORSO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed ted williams Last Line: Hosannah the home run! D sun Alternate Author Name(s): Corso, Gregory Subject(s): Baseball; Sports; Williams, Theodore (ted) DREAM OF THE RING: THE GREAT JACK JOHNSON, by GEORGE+(2) BARLOW Poem Source First Line: I'll be the first Last Line: When I become jack johnson Subject(s): Boxing And Boxers; Johnson, Jack (1878-1946); Sports DREAMS SHOULD NOT DOG GREAT CENTERFIELDERS, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: Who come in from the pasture Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports DRINKING ALONE, by KENT FIELDING Poem Text First Line: These were the first years of an old life Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Baseball; Sports; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse DUCK, by KIM WHITE Poem Source First Line: His dream is to be an olympic champion Last Line: And the world holds its breath while he cuts through Subject(s): Sports; Swimming DUSK SONG FOR THE BROWN BOMBER, by SAM CORNISH Poem Source First Line: A credit to his race in the ring Last Line: For joe %(they stink worse than feet but's good eatin) %somehog meat for joe made real fine Subject(s): African Americans; Boxing And Boxers; Louis, Joe (1914-1981); Sports EIGHT OARS AND A COXSWAIN, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eight oars compel Last Line: "steady! Pull it thr-o-o-ough!" Subject(s): Boats; New York City - Dutch Period; Rowing; Sea Gulls; Sports EIGHTH INNING, by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Kurt, terror is merely the thesis Last Line: Fenway of january and snow, %we find ticket stubs in our wallets Subject(s): Sports ELEGY FOR RICHARD HUGO FROM GAINESVILLE, by RICK CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: I will not say there is anything good in this Last Line: Leap high and backhand one going over. %for you friend, for you Variant Title(s): Well Don Subject(s): Baseball; Pennsylvania; Sports; Travel ELFIN SKATES, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They wheel'd me up the snow-cleared garden way Subject(s): Skating And Skaters; Sports ELGIN BAYLOR, by MARK SHECHNER Poem Source First Line: You had to see it Last Line: How %he could %dance Subject(s): Basketball; Sports ELK CAMP, by RAYMOND CARVER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Everyone else sleeping when I step Last Line: Ready to kill, or not Subject(s): Sports ENDING THE ONE-GAME CATACLYSM, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: Yastrzemski pops to nettles at third Last Line: That runs deep into the heart of all things Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports ENOS SLAUGHTER, by JIM LAVELLA HAVELIN Poem Source First Line: My friend's father, I love this story Subject(s): Baseball; Slaughter, Enos (1916-2002); Sports ENTERING THE LOST COUNTRY OF DAVE WINFIELD, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: The sun, oppresive %as a rest stop view Last Line: It could eat a leaf Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports EVENT, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: The small arena almost filled Last Line: You recognize that roaring in your ears Subject(s): Boxing And Boxers; Sports EVERYTHING BUT EVERYTHING, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: When elizabeth at last accepts darcy Last Line: We watch the coastline and assume we know %everything but [or, about] everything Subject(s): Baseball; Sports EX-BASKETBALL PLAYER, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pearl avenue runs past the high-school lot Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Basketball; Sports; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops EX-BASKETBALL PLAYER, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pearl avenue runs past the high-school lot Last Line: Beyond her face toward bright applauding tiers %of necco wafers, nibs, and juju beads Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Basketball; Sports EXECUTION, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The last time I saw my high school football coach Subject(s): Education; Schools; Sports; Students EXECUTION, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The last time I saw my high school football coach Last Line: Machine-like fury, perfect execution Subject(s): Education; Schools; Sports EXERCISE IN PREPARATION FOR A PINDARIC ODE TO CARL HUBBELL, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poet's Biography First Line: Long after, carl Subject(s): Sports EXERCISE IN PREPARATION FOR A PINDARIC ODE TO CARL HUBBELL, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Long after, carl Subject(s): Sports EXTRA INNINGS, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Oh father, dear father, come home with me Last Line: Ere she bounces an iron off your brow! Subject(s): Baseball; Fathers; Sports EXTRA INNINGS, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: Playing since two, I look up Last Line: Diving for a liner in the top of the hundred %thousandth, spearing it to keep us tied Subject(s): Baseball; Sports EXTRA INNINGS, by ARTHUR SMITH Poem Source First Line: Back then the ballpark grass was so overgrown Subject(s): Baseball; Sports EXTRA INNINGS: THE TWELFTH INNING: 1., by DONALD HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before lights, kurt, baseball games were sometimes delayed Subject(s): Baseball; Sports EXTRA INNINGS: THE TWELFTH INNING: 1., by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Before lights, kurt, baseball games were sometimes delayed Last Line: The dogers beat the yankees in the world series %for the first time, as johnny podres won three game Subject(s): Baseball; Sports EXTRA-INNING BALLGAME, by HALVARD JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Wanting things to go on forever Subject(s): Sports FALL, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: Across the infield grass Last Line: We all need a home. Free agency. %choose Subject(s): Baseball; Sports FANCY DIVE, by SHELBY SILVERSTEIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The fanciest dive that ever was dove Last Line: And looked down and saw that the pool had no water Alternate Author Name(s): Silverstein, Shel Subject(s): Sports FANS VERSUS ED WHISTON, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: Their world in his hand Last Line: Their children, any great blind face Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports FAREWELL, O KING!, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Farewell, king football! 'tis with keen regret Last Line: Die as king football goes upon his way! Subject(s): College Sports; Football FAST BREAK, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A hook shot kisses the rim and Last Line: Floating perfectly through the net. Subject(s): Basketball; Sports FERNANDO, by MARCI RIDLON Poem Source First Line: Fernando has a basketball Last Line: He says he never misses. %my crazy friend fernando Subject(s): Basketball; Sports FIFTH INNING, by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Kurt, last night dwight evans put it all Last Line: Deep; we lost three or two, unable %to rally back. Then the long drive home Subject(s): Sports FIGHT! (HARVARD-DARTMOUTH FOOTBALL GAME, 1908), by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: The stadium is nervous, johnny harvard's feeling Last Line: Please to whip him good and clean. Subject(s): Competition; Dartmouth College; Football; Harvard University; Sports FIGHTER LEARNS OF HANDS, by CHARLES GHIGNA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hands were not made for hitting Last Line: Dreaming of stars, until those stars are in your hands, %until your hands are awake, and beating Subject(s): Sports FINAL SCORE, by LEE BENNETT HOPKINS Poem Source First Line: Eventually %there's Last Line: That's all Subject(s): Sports FINISH, by DANIEL GERARD HOFFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The first runner reached us Last Line: To re-enact the finish Subject(s): Sports FIRST GREEN HERON, by GARY FRANCIS MARGOLIS Poem Source First Line: I wouldn't have seen her Subject(s): Sports FIRST LOVE, by CARL LINDNER Poem Source First Line: Before sixteen Subject(s): Sports FIRST PRACTICE, by GARY GILDNER Poem Text First Line: After the doctor checked to see / we weren't ruptured Subject(s): Education; Hate; Poetry & Poets; Schools; Sports; Students FIRST PRACTICE, by GARY GILDNER Poem Source First Line: After the doctor checked to see %we weren't ruptured Last Line: But I don't want to see %any marks when you're dressed, %he said. He said, now Subject(s): Education; Hate; Poetry And Poets; Schools; Sports FISH, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I caught a tremendous fish Last Line: And I let the fish go Subject(s): Environment; Fishing And Fishermen; Sea; Sports FISH STORY, by HENRY CARLILE Poem Source First Line: All the fishermen here remember the one Subject(s): Sports FISHING, by SOLVEIG NILSEN Poem Source First Line: I've got the best seat in the boat Subject(s): Sports FISHING IN WINTER, by RALPH BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man staring at a small lake sees Last Line: Two songs, two breaths on the water Subject(s): Sports FISHING IN WINTER, by RALPH BURNS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A man staring at a small lake sees Last Line: Two songs, two breaths on the water Subject(s): Sports FISHING THE DREAM, by MICHAEL DELP Poem Source First Line: Half asleep %my hand begins to itch %where, hours ago Last Line: Trying to bring me in %so he could cut me free Subject(s): Sports FLY BALL, by CAROL MASTERS Poem Source First Line: A fly ball Subject(s): Baseball; Sports FOOTBALL, by F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Poem Source First Line: Now they're ready, now they're waiting Subject(s): Sports FOOTBALL, by LOUIS JENKINS Poem Source First Line: I take the snap from center, fake to the right, fade back Last Line: One has to make choices. This isn't right and I'm not going to throw it Subject(s): Football; Men; Sports FOOTBALL, by WALT MASON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The game was ended, and the noise at last had died away Subject(s): Football; Sports FOR BROTHERS EVERYWHERE, by TIMOTHY SEIBLES Poem Source First Line: There is a schoolyard that runs %from here to the dark's fence Last Line: An' they're fillin that sucker up Subject(s): Basketball; Sports FOR HOYT WILHELM, by JOEL OPPENHEIMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ball dances in Subject(s): Sports FOR HOYT WILHELM, by JOEL OPPENHEIMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The ball dances in Subject(s): Sports FOR JOHN, WHO DID NOT CHOOSE BASEBALL, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: Because I loved the bone-white hardness of the ball Last Line: I smile and open my hands to you Subject(s): Baseball; Boys; Sports; Sports - Arenas And Stadia; Teenagers FOR THE DEATH OF VINCE LOMBARDI, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I never played for you. You'd have thrown Last Line: We're with you all the way you're going forever, vince. Dickey Subject(s): Football; Lombardi, Vince (1913-1970); Sports FOR THE DEATH OF VINCE LOMBARDI, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I never played for you. You'd have thrown Last Line: You're going forever, vince Subject(s): Football; Lombardi, Vince (1913-1970); Sports FOR WILLIE STILL IN CENTER, by DAVE SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The walls of southern pine or northern brick Last Line: Their children are not on their toes, whose cleats %dig in like bombs, whose eyes are something to s Subject(s): Baseball; Sports FOREST PATH IN WINTER, by ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Along this secret and forgotten road Subject(s): Sports; Winter FOUL SHOT, by EDWIN A. HOEY Poem Source First Line: With two 60's stuck on the scoreboard Last Line: Dives down and through Subject(s): Basketball; Sports FOUL SHOTS: A CLINIC, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Be perpendicular to the basket, / toes avid for the line Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Sports FOUL SHOTS: A CLINIC, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Be perpendicular to the basket, %toes avid for the line Last Line: From the arcs those foul shots %leave behind when they go in Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Sports FOUR POEMS FOR THE ST. LOUIS SPORTING NEWS: 1, by JACK SPICER Poem Source First Line: Waiting like a trap-door spider for a rookies sell-out Last Line: People are starving Subject(s): Newspapers; Sports FOUR POEMS FOR THE ST. LOUIS SPORTING NEWS: 2, by JACK SPICER Poem Source First Line: I would like to beat my hands around your heart Last Line: Going to get knocked out of the box, %baby Subject(s): Newspapers; Sports FOUR POEMS FOR THE ST. LOUIS SPORTING NEWS: 3, by JACK SPICER Poem Source First Line: Pitchers are obviously not human. They have the ghosts of dead people Last Line: Even when the game isn't over Subject(s): Newspapers; Sports FOUR POEMS FOR THE ST. LOUIS SPORTING NEWS: 4, by JACK SPICER Poem Source First Line: God is a big white baseball that has nothing to do but go in a curveor straight Last Line: I was not the only one who felt these things Subject(s): Newspapers; Sports FOUR-FLUSHERS, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Great is the four-flush. In the sporting world Last Line: For life is just a four-flush, after all! Subject(s): Duplicity; Poverty; Sports; Deceit FREE THROW, by MARK KRAUSHAAR Poem Source First Line: It's thirty years ago Last Line: You begin again. %there isn't a sound Subject(s): Sports FROM ALTITUDE, THE DIAMONDS, by RICHARD HUGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You can always spot them, even from high up Last Line: He has loved forever, on his magnificent tiny way %to an easy stand-up three Subject(s): Baseball; Sports FROM HOOSIER HOOP-LA, by ROBERT PETER TRISTRAM COFFIN Poem Source First Line: Hoosiers make a whole religion Last Line: Cleaving the net-loops with the ball Subject(s): Basketball; Sports FROM THE XXIII SUMMER OLYMPICS, THE POET AS REPORTER, by JOSEPH C. FISCHER Poem Source First Line: Another high jumper Subject(s): Sports FULL COUNT, by DABNEY STUART Poem Source First Line: The umpire's blind %and the pitcher's throwing tin cups Last Line: Wheneve the end comes-- %we will still be here, settled %into the voice of our calling Subject(s): Baseball; Sports FUR KING, by SAMUEL MATHEWSON BAYLIS Poem Source First Line: My kingdom by the frozen sea Subject(s): Fur Trade; Sports; Winter FUTURE, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: Remember that mountain? %at season's end we chose one known Last Line: Hand in hand, shades wed, %rehearsing for the journeying ahead Subject(s): Baseball; Sports GAME, by JOHN OLIVER SIMON Poem Source First Line: Indise my heart the page of pentacles Subject(s): Baseball; Sports GAME RESUMED, by RICHMOND LATTIMORE Poem Source First Line: My locker, green steel Last Line: (forgotten and unseen), %my self Subject(s): Aging; Middle Age; Sports GATHER ROUND, ALL YE GOOD MEN, by SAMUEL MATHEWSON BAYLIS Poem Source First Line: Parched 'mid the dust of the hot summer's Subject(s): Sports; Winter GENUINE POEM, FOUNDED ... STORY CITY IOWA, by TED KOOSER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If you strike Subject(s): Sports GHOSTS OF STEELTOWN, by PETER F. VAIRA Poem Source First Line: At night mr. Frick and mr. Carnegie walk their mill in swallow tail coats Last Line: Stand quiet men, %who talk of baseball scores Subject(s): Baseball; Sports GIL MCDOUGALD, YANKEE INFIELDER, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: Your luck too, religious boy Last Line: Strange offerings %to the lord Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports GILIAD, by PHIL RIZZUTO Poem Source First Line: I was with gil mcdougald the other day Last Line: I said, thanks gil Subject(s): Baseball; Sports GIVE ME A GIRL, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Give me a girl who understands the game Last Line: "give me a girl—who understands the game!" Subject(s): Baseball; Ignorance; Sports; Women; Dullness; Stupdity GIVE PRAISE FOR BASES, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source Last Line: As he crosses home plate Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports GOING TO JIM THORPE, by WILLIAM CORBETT Poem Source First Line: Watch your footing down the iron steps - they ring Last Line: Gather up the things that are yours %as they are gathered up in you Subject(s): Sports; Thorpe, Jim (1886-1953) GOING TO THE BALLGAME, by CHARLES B. WHEELER Poem Source First Line: Peenuts, pop-corn, crackerjax! Last Line: Over the sink, said to me %'well, what are you going to do today?' Subject(s): Baseball; Sports GOLDEN RULES FOR THE YOUNG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "in batting, hold your bat upright" Last Line: A butter-fingers is worst of all Subject(s): Country Life;cricket (game);sports GOLF, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: On uncle ebenezer's farm Last Line: That gives me weariness. Subject(s): Golf; Play; Sports GOLF, by LAURA LINNEA JENSEN Poem Source First Line: It seems always two years ago Subject(s): Golf; Sports GOLF, by VERN RUTSALA Poem Source First Line: Though they seem carefree and childlike, golfers are Last Line: Vast apparatus of golf has been developed to accomplish a single purpose: assasination Subject(s): Golf; Sports GOLF, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: You find the links and make a 'tee' Subject(s): Golf; Sports GOLF AFTER MANY YEARS, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For nine and twenty years they've said Last Line: Shall celebrate, beside some cup, %our thirty years of looking up! Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Golf; Sports GOLF AND LIFE, by SAMUEL ELLSWORTH KISER Poem Text First Line: Life's but a game of golf Last Line: "to ""hole down"" at the end." Subject(s): Golf; Life; Sports GOLF FIEND, by R. F. B. Poem Source First Line: Now who shall tackle the golfer mad Subject(s): Golf; Sports GOLF LUCK, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As a golfer I'm not one who cops the money Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Golf; Sports GOLFER'S RUBAIYAT, by HENRY WALCOTT BOYNTON Poem Source First Line: Wake! For the sun has driven in equal flight Subject(s): Golf; Sports GOLFERS, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One-gloved beasts in cleats, they come clattering Last Line: Mere men, old boys, lost, the last hole a horror Subject(s): Golf; Sports GOLFERS, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One-gloved beasts in cleats, they come clattering Last Line: Mere men, old boys, lost, the last hole a horror Subject(s): Golf; Sports GOOD D, by JAMES MCKEAN Poem Source First Line: Their center blocks out and the ball %falls into his lap like the coach's book Last Line: To sit back down, to say anything %for what's been stolen Subject(s): Sports GOOD TRAINING FOR POETRY, by JACK ROGERS RIDL Poem Source First Line: Thanks,' my father said, and slapped Last Line: On the bench, a daughter %dashing home from first, %a father dropping out of sight Subject(s): Baseball; Sports GRANDSTANDER, by ANNE HAEUSLER Poem Source First Line: The score was tied Last Line: For winning the game Subject(s): Basketball; Sports GREATEST OF WEAPONS, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The jawbone samson swung was great--it served its purpose well Last Line: As that large bat, the monster bat, the warclub of babe ruth! Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Baseball; Sports GREEN DIAMONDS OF SUMMER, by JOE BOLTON Poem Source First Line: What I love in this isn't what you might think Last Line: And then I make dale throw me one more pitch, which I usually miss Subject(s): Baseball; Family Life; Sports GROUND SWELL, by MARK JARMAN Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Is nothing real but when I was fifteen, Last Line: Where things began to happen and I knew it Subject(s): Teenagers; Sports; Surfing GROUND SWELL, by MARK JARMAN Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Is nothing real but when I was fifteen Subject(s): Sports; Surfing GROUND SWELL, by MARK JARMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Is nothing real but when I was fifteen Last Line: Where things begin to happen and I knew it Subject(s): Sports; Surfing GUDE GAUN GAME O' CURLIN', by JAMES A. SIDEY Poem Source First Line: Cheer up, my lads, for auld john frost Alternate Author Name(s): Sidney, James A. Subject(s): Sports; Winter GULF, by LINNEA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Looking at it Subject(s): Golf; Sports GYMNASTS, by IRVING FELDMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Legs v-ed out from the groin's nugget Subject(s): Sports HA LF TI ME, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: I %lie %on %the %flo or Last Line: Drips %out %my %mouth Subject(s): Basketball; Sports HAIKU #2, by JR. CHARLES R. SMITH Poem Source First Line: The soft leather pings Last Line: Fast %and in control Subject(s): Basketball; Sports HAIKU #3, by JR. CHARLES R. SMITH Poem Source First Line: Sneakers squeak %on floors Last Line: A sound %all its own Subject(s): Basketball; Sports HAIKU #4, by JR. CHARLES R. SMITH Poem Source First Line: The trick to the ball Last Line: A flick of the wrist Subject(s): Basketball; Sports HAITI: SKIN DIVING, by JANE SHORE Poem Source First Line: My legs break Subject(s): Sports HALF TIME, OGLALA HIGH, 1970, by DEBRA NYSTROM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Waiting in green-and-white pleats Last Line: It off, then was gone before the scream? Variant Title(s): Half-time, Pine Ridge High, 197 Subject(s): Sports; Women HALFTIME, by ADAM LEFEVRE Poem Source First Line: October night nesting on the stadium Last Line: Is how it is, this %is how it ought to be Subject(s): Sports HALL OF FAME, by BRUCE GUERNSEY Poem Source First Line: So mantle made it, pop Subject(s): Baseball; Mantle, Mickey (1931-1995); Sports HAMLET AGAIN, by BARRY SILESKY Poem Source First Line: Tis bitter cold and I am sick at heart Last Line: Country they say crazy horse's nostril is the size of a house as he grows %over the plains Subject(s): Baseball; Sports HANDICAPPED CHILDREN SWIMMING, by MICHAEL DENNIS BROWNE Poem Source First Line: A measure of freedom. Mike, floating Subject(s): Physical Disabilities; Sports; Swimming HANOVER WINTER SONG, by RICHARD HOVEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ho, a song by the fire! Last Line: Skoal! Variant Title(s): Dartmouth Winter Song Subject(s): Dartmouth College; Sports; Winter HARDBALL, by RANDY BLASING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After barrel-chested earl torgeson Last Line: Freed me to play the game I'd choose Subject(s): Baseball; Sports HARPER TO MIFFLIN TO CHANCE, by ELWYN BROOKS WHITE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Come harper, come schuster, come appleton all Last Line: They'll kiss you goodbye for the first pretty royalty. %comeon, pater Alternate Author Name(s): White, E. B. Subject(s): Baseball; Publishing; Sports HARRY GREB, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The pittsburgh windmill keeps right on Last Line: This greb go on forever! Subject(s): Boxing & Boxers; Greb, Harry (1894-1926); Sports HARVEST MOONRISE, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: The moon rose out of a cloud in centerfield, gold Last Line: Moon climbing against the quickening %dark Subject(s): Baseball; Sports HAYES IVERSON, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: The score is tied Last Line: The ball %drops %in, %69-68 Subject(s): Basketball; Sports HAZARD'S OPTIMISM, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Harnessed and zipped on a bright Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Sports HAZARD'S OPTIMISM, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Harnessed and zipped on a bright Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Sports HEART, by JERRY ROSS Poem Source First Line: You've gotta have heart Subject(s): Sports HERNIA, by ROSS GAY Poem Source First Line: The gingko bones shiver a bit, dream Last Line: Exactly as I want: silently and %in my dreams Subject(s): Sports HEROES, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On uneven bars, our grandson tumbles his routine Last Line: How to spring and tumble, how to fall Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Children; Sports HIGH FIVE, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: 1. Strap a jet propulsion pack on my back Last Line: 5. I close my eyes above the rim. %and lunch %eat my Subject(s): Basketball; Sports HIGH JUMPER, by DON WELCH Poem Source First Line: Looking at the standards Subject(s): Sports HIGH STICK, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bobby orr's marble Subject(s): Sports HIS RUNNING MY RUNNING, by ROBERT FRANCIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mid-autumn late autumn Subject(s): Sports HISTORY OF GOLF - SORT OF, by THOMAS L. HIRSCH Poem Source First Line: On scotland's rolling highlands in Subject(s): Sports HITS AND RUNS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I remember the chillicothe ball players grappling the rock Last Line: And the umpire's throat fought in the dust for a song. Subject(s): Baseball; Sports HITTERS, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: Williams ss Last Line: Cobb p Subject(s): Baseball; Sports HITTING AGAINST MIKE CUTLER, by JONATHAN HOLDEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One down. I step into the narrow Last Line: The hornet hisses, vanishes with a bang. Stee-rike! %the catcher grins. Good chuck, good chuck, he c Subject(s): Baseball; Sports HITTING GOLFBALLS OFF THE BLUFF, by JEFFREY HARRISON Poem Source First Line: They come back now, those nights my friend and I Last Line: With envy now, now deep red with desire Subject(s): Sports HITTING THE CUTOFF, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: Into the corner after an extra-base Last Line: As angels fly: %a straight line Subject(s): Baseball; Sports HOCKEY, by SCOTT BLAINE Poem Source First Line: The ice is smooth, smooth, smooth Subject(s): Sports HOCKEY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When you hack a fellow's shin Subject(s): Sports; Winter HOMAGE TO THE BROWN BOMBER, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Speed of the punch, / its dancing, rhythmic fluency Last Line: "bright lungs blanching tomorrows, Subject(s): Sports HOMAGE TO THE BROWN BOMBER, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Speed of the punch, %its dancing, rhythmic fluency Last Line: Bright lungs blanching tomorrows, %barrows at rest Subject(s): Sports HOME GAME, by DON ALLEN JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Heat lightning silhouettes the hills Last Line: His silver adirondack %stuck into the storm, daring the lightning down Subject(s): Baseball; Sports HOME GAMES, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: Three afternoons Last Line: On the same %team Subject(s): Basketball; Sports HOMETOWN, by STUART JOHN DYBEK Poem Source First Line: Not everyone still has a place from where they've come, so you try to de Last Line: Look at him Subject(s): Baseball; Games; Sports HOMETOWN PIECE FOR MESSRS. ALSTON AND REESE, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Millennium,' yes; 'pandemonium!' / roy campanella leaps high. Dodgerdom Subject(s): Baseball; Brooklyn Dodgers (baseball Team); Sports HOMETOWN PIECE FOR MESSRS. ALSTON AND REESE, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Millennium,' yes; 'pandemonium!' %roy campanella leaps high. Dodgerdom Last Line: Watching everything you do. You won last year. Come on Subject(s): Baseball; Brooklyn Dodgers (baseball Team); Sports HOODOO, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Owned a pair o' skates onc't Last Line: And crick - tail-race - all together, %froze so tight, cat couldn't scratch Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Sports; Winter HOOK, by FLOYD SKLOOT Poem Source First Line: My father limps on the leg that healed short Last Line: For the ball's return so I can heft it %again and aim down the gleaming alley Subject(s): Bowling; Sports HOOP BEHIND THE BEDROOM DOOR, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: Any soft small %round Last Line: Behind the bedroom door Subject(s): Basketball; Sports HORSEBACK, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Never afraid of those huge creatures Last Line: I just wanted to tell you about it, ray. Subject(s): Carver, Raymond (1939-1988); Horseback Riding; Sports; Women; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Feminism HOUSE ACROSS THE STREET, by RODNEY GOVE DENNIS Poem Source First Line: She called me victor, which is wrong Last Line: Is trying to climb in through my window Subject(s): Life; Skating And Skaters; Sports HOW EASY IS THIS?, by JR. CHARLES R. SMITH Poem Source First Line: Shake %left Last Line: And say %'all %day!' Subject(s): Basketball; Sports HOW I LEARNED ENGLISH, by GREGORY DJANIKIAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was in an empty lot Subject(s): Baseball; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Sports; United States - Race Relations HOW I LEARNED ENGLISH, by GREGORY DJANIKIAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was in an empty lot Last Line: Hum baby' sweetly on my lips Subject(s): Baseball; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Sports; U.s. - Race Relations HOW MCDOUGAL TOPPED THE SCORE, by THOMAS E. SPENCER Poem Text First Line: A peaceful spot is piper's flat. The folk that live around Last Line: For we played molongo cricket—and mcdougal topped the score! Subject(s): Animals; Cricket (game); Dogs; Practical Jokes; Sports; Pranks HOW SINGULAR!, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: You cant's play football with a golfing stick-- Last Line: How curious is their way! Subject(s): Humorists; Sports HOW TO PLAY NIGHT BASEBALL, by JONATHAN HOLDEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A pasture is best, freshly Last Line: And routine grounders get lost in %the sweet grass for extra bases Subject(s): Baseball; Sports HUMMER, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: First he drew a strike zone Last Line: As if he'd tried to hold it %back, but it escaped. Thwap Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Baseball; Sports HUNTERS, by ERNEST THOMPSON SETON Poem Source First Line: The white owl sits on a low snowdrift Subject(s): Sports; Winter HUNTING, by JACK SHEEDY Poem Source First Line: In harry's discounts men & boys Subject(s): Sports HUNTING FOR GROUSE, by ROSEANN LLOYD Poem Source First Line: It's the yellow time when tamarack sheds Subject(s): Sports HUNTING SEASON, by MYKIE SILZ REIDY Poem Source First Line: One november Subject(s): Sports HURDLER, by GRACE BUTCHER Poem Source First Line: He quietly steps over the air Subject(s): Sports I AM THE RUNNING GIRL; SELS., by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: I am the running girl Last Line: Say %hello Subject(s): Sports I TRY TO TURN IN MY JOCK, by DAVID HILTON Poem Source First Line: Going up for the jump shot, %giving the kid the head-fakes and all Last Line: But, shit, %the shot goes in Subject(s): Aging; Basketball; Sports I'VE NEVER WRITTEN A BASEBALL POEM, by ELISAVIETTA RITCHIE Poem Source First Line: I didn't even make Subject(s): Sports ICE SKATING, by SANDRA OLSON LIATSOS Poem Source First Line: Higher and higher %I glide in the sky Last Line: In place anymore Subject(s): Sports ICE-FISHING, by DENISE PENDLETON Poem Source First Line: The men cut windows into ice Subject(s): Sports ICE-FISHING IN WINTER, by JOHN HARRINGTON KEENE Poem Source First Line: Ho! Sing of your trout in the spring betimes Subject(s): Sports; Winter ICEBOAT, by ALICE WARD BAILEY Poem Source First Line: There is a thing so fair, so free Subject(s): Sports; Winter IDEA OF FLORIDA DURING A WINTER THAW, by GAIL MAZUR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Late february and the air's so balmy Last Line: She stretches a hand toward the toothy sleeper %then takes a step back, to be safe as she reaches Subject(s): Baseball; Sports IF A BASEBALL PLAYER DOES HIS JOB CORRECTLY 30 PERCENT OF THE TIME ..., by BOB KING Poem Source First Line: I once heard the best place to sit Last Line: Like children who need their parents to believe for them Subject(s): Baseball; Motion Pictures; Sports IF A.E. HOUSMAN HAD TRIED TO HIT BIG LEAGUE PITCHING, by GENE FEHLER Poem Source First Line: When I was one-and-twenty Subject(s): Baseball; Sports IN ANSON'S TIME, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: They may have been crude men, and sadly dense, Last Line: In anson's time. Subject(s): Anson, Adrian (cap) (1852-1922); Baseball; Honesty; Ignorance; Sports; Dullness; Stupdity IN CASE YOU THOUGHT THEY PLAYED FOR MONEY, by ROBERT A. FINK Poem Source First Line: Next saturday catch baseball's game of the week Last Line: An apple pie is cooking on the sill, %she's set an extra plate for dinner Subject(s): Baseball; Sports IN MEMORY OF THE UTAH STARS, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Each of them must have terrified Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sports IN MEMORY OF THE UTAH STARS, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Each of them must have terrified Last Line: How brutally well the universe %works to be beautiful %how we metabolize loss %as fast as we have to Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Sports IN MY MEANEST DAYDREAM, by GARY GILDNER Poem Source First Line: I am throwing hard again Subject(s): Baseball; Sports IN PERFECT HARMONY, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The pitcher knows that he could play the field Last Line: And fairly aches to run that baseball club! Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Leadership; Sports IN THE BOX, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: A baseball knows %its calculus Last Line: Invisible %and always in the way Subject(s): Baseball; Sports IN THE MIDST OF A LONG BASEBALL STRIKE, G. MCDOUGALD'S DEAFNESS IS LIF, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: After twenty years his hearing paints Last Line: In the body of the first man Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports IN THE OCEAN, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At first my mother would be shy Last Line: Mother and sea calves gliding, %floating as if all three of us were flying Subject(s): Sports IN THE POCKET, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Going backward Last Line: Come up - leap stand kill die strike %now Subject(s): Sports IN THE SERIES' SIXTH GAME, REGGIE COURTS THE MOON, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: Across his chest %reggie felt a ripening of pinstripes Last Line: By self-induced lighting %in a nearby grove Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports IN YOUR FACE, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: I %w a n t %y o u %t o %r e c o g n I z e Last Line: The %b a c k %o f %m y %h e a d Subject(s): Basketball; Sports INDEPENDENCE, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: Without %america's %invention there's no baseball, no paychecks Last Line: As if I could catch cancer, %jerked away Subject(s): Baseball; Sports INLAND GOLF, by R. K. RISK Poem Source First Line: I hate the dreadful hollow, in the shade of the little wood Subject(s): Golf; Sports; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892) INSANITY, by GASTON DUBOIS Poem Source First Line: Hit! Subject(s): Sports INSIDE (9), by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: I am standing at home plate watching that fast ball Last Line: Strike three %three %out Subject(s): Baseball; Sports INSTRUCTION, by CONRAD ARTHUR HILBERRY Poem Source First Line: The coach has taught her how to swing Last Line: And stare incredulously at the ump Subject(s): Education; Schools; Sports INSTRUCTION, by CONRAD HILLBERRY Poem Source First Line: The coach has taught; her how to swing Last Line: Her fist into her cathcer's mitt, %and stare incredulously at the ump Subject(s): Baseball; Sports INTERNATIONAL SKY-FLYING CHAMPIONSHIP OBERSDORF, by ELISAVIETTA RITCHIE Poem Source First Line: Protected by thick brick walls Subject(s): Sports INTERVIEW WITH A WINNER, by DONALD FINKLE Poem Source First Line: What was it like? Subject(s): Sports INTO THE BACKDROP, by JAY S. NEBEL Poem Source First Line: Playing hoops down on the park blocks Last Line: We played four hours straight - so tough, %we could break concrete Subject(s): Basketball; Children; Sports INTO THE WIND, by BARBARA J. PETOSKEY Poem Source First Line: Away %out Subject(s): Sports IT IS THE FEEL OF THE PEBBLE RUBBER BALL, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: On fingers %on palm Last Line: Way down the court Subject(s): Basketball; Sports IT NEVER HAPPENED, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The fullback bowed politely and made away Last Line: "on more than one sure winner in a race!" Subject(s): Humorists; Sports IT'S GREAT WHEN YOU GET IN, by EUGENE GLADSTONE O'NEILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They told me the water was lovely Subject(s): Sports JACK CHESBRO, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Jack chesbro, good old hurler, you were a Last Line: It's hard to say it, jack, old friend, but you will get the hook! Subject(s): Aging; Athletes; Baseball; Chesbro, Jack (1874-1931); Sports JACK JOHNSON DOES THE EAGLE ROCK, by CORNELIUS ROBERT EADY Poem Source First Line: Perhaps he left the newspaper stand that morning Last Line: As though it was meant to happen Subject(s): Sports JACKIE ROBINSON, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ran against walls / without breaking Last Line: Entered the conquering dark Subject(s): Baseball; Robinson, Jackie (1919-1972); Sports JACKIE ROBINSON, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ran against walls %without breaking Last Line: Over whitestone fences, %entered the conquering dark Subject(s): Baseball; Robinson, Jackie (1919-1972); Sports JACKIE ROBINSON, by SAM CORNISH Poem Source First Line: The uniform and ball Last Line: And jackie robinson negro Subject(s): Baseball; Robinson, Jackie (1919-1972); Sports JACKLIGHT, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poet's Biography First Line: We have come to the edge of the woods Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Sports JACKLIGHT, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We have come to the edge of the woods Last Line: And now they take the first steps, not knowing %how deep the woods are and lightless. %how deep the Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Sports JAKE DAUBERT, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: No finer player ever flashed the spikes Last Line: And waved him outward through the unknown gate! Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Daubert, Jake (1884-1924); Death; Sports; Dead, The JEEP CHEROKEE, by BRUCE A. JACOBS Poem Text First Line: You've never known Subject(s): Sports Utility Vehicles JIM BOUTON: UNWRITING, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: The gall it took %to drill that peephole you called ball four Last Line: Are again model prisoners Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports JIMMY ALLEN AT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, by PAUL MARION Poem Source First Line: The folklore researchers, all ph.D.'s Last Line: Throwing a strike for american folklife Subject(s): Baseball; Scholarship And Scholars; Sports JINGLE BELLS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Dashing thro' the snow Subject(s): Sports; Winter JINX, by JONATHAN HOLDEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After the fifth inning Last Line: By accident %almost Subject(s): Baseball; Sports; Superstition JOAN BENOIT, by RINA FERRARELLI Poem Source First Line: During the third mile Subject(s): Sports JOCKEY, by RONALD BOYD KOERTGE Poem Source First Line: Named kovacs went down Subject(s): Sports JOE DIMAGGIO NEVER SWINGS A BAT AT OLD TIMERS' GAMES, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source Last Line: Staring back from the scoreboard Subject(s): Baseball; Dimaggio, Joseph ("joe"); New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports JOE LOUIS, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They worshipped joe Last Line: But the gossips had no %'the say' %to latch onto %for joe Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Boxing And Boxers; Louis, Joe (1914-1981); Sports JOE LOUIS, by NUBIA KAI Poem Source First Line: Golden gloves melt on the hot sands Last Line: For us he lives in the silent wind catching snakes Subject(s): African Americans; Boxing And Boxers; Detroit, Michigan; Louis, Joe (1914-1981); Sports JOE PASS GUITAR SOLO, by ROBERT ALEXANDER Poem Source First Line: I've fallen asleep in the afternoon. It's november and the radio is playing Last Line: Wheeling into fenway park. My father and I look up amazed at the bird-filled june sky Subject(s): Baseball; Sports; Williams, Theodore (ted) JOGGER ON RIVERSIDE DRIVE, 5:00 A.M., by AGHA SHAHID ALI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The dark scissors of his legs %cut the moon's Last Line: From the air, from himself, %his heart beating far, far %behind him Subject(s): Sports; Track Athletics JOGGING INJURY, by FLEDA BROWN JACKSON Poem Source First Line: All day I have lain, foot propped Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Fleda Subject(s): Sports JOHN MCGRAW, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: I'd like to play in old new york, Last Line: "and that's his only law!" Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Mcgraw, John (1873-1934); New York City; Sports; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple JOLLY CURLERS, by JAMES HOGG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Of a' the games that e'er I saw Alternate Author Name(s): The Ettrick Shepherd; The Bard Of Ettrick Subject(s): Sports; Winter JOSHING, by ALFRED L. WOODS Poem Source First Line: When joe louis knocked out schmeling Last Line: Jackie robinson %can you hit another ball Subject(s): African Americans; Baseball; Boxing And Boxers; Louis, Joe (1914-1981); Robinson, Jackie (1919-1972); Sports; Stock Exchange JUGGLER, by AUSTIN STRAUS Poem Source First Line: Died %at thirty-five, not even Subject(s): Sports JUMP SHOOTER, by DENNIS TRUDELL Poem Source First Line: The way the ball %hung there %against the blue or purple Last Line: Breathe deeply and begin %to whistle %as I walked back home Subject(s): Basketball; Sports JUMP SHOT, by RICHARD PECK Poem Source First Line: Lithe, quicker than the ball itself Last Line: Yet neatly, neatly weaving in the pattern Subject(s): Basketball; Sports JUMPER, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: She %has %springs in Last Line: And %cling %ing %net Subject(s): Basketball; Sports JUNK BALL, by FRED CHAPPELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: By the time it gets to the plate Subject(s): Baseball; Sports KARATE, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If I could chop wood. %if I could just cut through %this furniture Last Line: If I could only drive nails %deep into the hard rose of the wood Subject(s): Sports; Wrestling And Wrestlers KARATE KID, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: I am wind %I am wall Last Line: Peace %power Subject(s): Sports KICKER'S LAST STEPS, by WILLIAM JOSEPH MEISSNER Poem Source First Line: One point behind, ten seconds left Subject(s): Sports KID, by KEVIN BEZNER Poem Source First Line: One day I watched ted williams Subject(s): Sports KNOT HOLE GANG, by BRENDAN JAMES GALVIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Demarco said the special bus Last Line: With our lunch bags sweating %sandwich oils through the long afternoon Subject(s): Sports LADY OF SNOWS, by C. N. BUZZARD Poem Source First Line: Ghostly, etheral, mystical form! Subject(s): Sports; Winter LANKY HANK FARROW, by HAROLD VERNON WITT Poem Source First Line: What can you do when you're six five Subject(s): Sports LASH OF THE NORTHLAND, by ANDREW F. UNDERHILL Poem Source First Line: Where the rafters of the world-roof fade Subject(s): Sports; Winter LAST BASEBALL SAMURAI, by THOMAS WILLARD CLARK Poem Source First Line: In his final world seried, pete rose Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Tom Subject(s): Sports LAST DITCH, by JACK ROGERS RIDL Poem Source First Line: Thirty-one seconds on the clock. Coach is down on one knee Last Line: And jeannie cups her hand around my neck Subject(s): Basketball; Sports LAST GAME, by CARY WATERMAN Poem Source First Line: Today your old golf clubs arrived Subject(s): Sports LAST QUARTER'S LAST RESORT, by JACQUELINE SWEENEY Poem Source First Line: That guard is like Last Line: And if this weren't enough %I'm short Subject(s): Basketball; Sports LAST STANDS, by THOM ROSS Poem Source First Line: Eddie and I took our Subject(s): Baseball; Sports LATE INNINGS, by NEAL BOWERS Poem Source First Line: Bucking and bolting before the hurrying dark Last Line: And the last boy digs in at home with the crickets, %the gathering dew, waiting for the long, dark c Subject(s): Baseball; Moore, Marianne (1887-1972); Sports LATE ROUND, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: When the fighters slow down, moving towards eaach other Last Line: And are separated, but they don't let go Subject(s): Boxing And Boxers; Fights; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Sports LED BY THE HEBREW SCHOOL RABBI, by JUDITH BAUMEL Poem Source First Line: Those good students, who only loved working Subject(s): Sports LET'S GO, METS, by LILLIAN MORRISON Poem Source First Line: Mookie and hubie and strawberry Subject(s): Sports LETTER TO MANTSCH FROM HAVRE, by RICHARD HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear mike: we didn't have a chance. Our starter had no change Subject(s): Baseball; Sports LETTER TO MANTSCH FROM HAVRE, by RICHARD HUGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dear mike: we didn't have a chance. Our starter had no change Last Line: I cannot shout loud as this local truth: well done, mike. Dick Subject(s): Baseball; Sports LIFEGUARD, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In a stable of boats I lie still Last Line: And hold in my arms a child %of water, water, water Subject(s): Lifeguards; Sports LIFTING, by DOROTHY BARRESI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If muscles are the currency of dreams, %you are flesh life Last Line: Vow I am almost ready to put foolish things down Subject(s): Sports; Weight Lifting LIMBO, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: Flying %east years ago to my Last Line: Each player, each lover %safe, %home Subject(s): Baseball; Sports LINE DRIVE CAUGHT BY THE GRACE OF GOD, by LINDA GREGERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Half of america doubtless has the whole Subject(s): Sports LINE DRIVE CAUGHT BY THE GRACE OF GOD, by LINDA GREGERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Half of america doubtless has the whole Last Line: That makes the weeks go by so personal, %so hand in glove Subject(s): Sports LINES, by BARBARA SMITH Poem Source First Line: Anchoring, I watched him climb Subject(s): Sports LINES TO A GOLF WIDOW, by JAMES J. MONTAGUE Poem Text First Line: If you had said eight months ago Last Line: To know! Subject(s): Golf; Sports LINKS, by MATT ROBINSON Poem Source First Line: Dead turtle why? Last Line: Birdie %putts Subject(s): Golf; Religion; Sports LISTENING TO BASEBALL IN THE CAR, by GAIL MAZUR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This morning I argued with a friend Last Line: The white ball in the glare. Subject(s): Baseball; Sports LITTLE GIRL BLUE, by UNKNOWN+261 Poem Source First Line: Before you know what years are made of they are lost Subject(s): Games; Sports LOCKER ROOM ETIQUETTE, by CRAIG ARNOLD Poem Source First Line: Please refrain from frankly ogling your neighbor's Last Line: Seventy, eighty pounds, up to the weight of %nobody watching Subject(s): Sports LONELINESS OF THE OUTFIELD, by MICHAEL CULROSS Poem Source First Line: They never liked me Last Line: To finish: their team %somehow managed to %lose it without me Subject(s): Baseball; Sports LONG DISTANCE, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: Sound %of her voice -- huge, as if I'd put my ear Last Line: Trying to fix on her %and our rookie of the year Subject(s): Baseball; Sports LOOSE LUNATICS, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The baseball fan gets up and loudly yowls-- Last Line: He's dippy! Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Baseball; Football; Horse Racing; Sports LOST HEROES, by MICHAEL CULROSS Poem Source First Line: The exhibition at pocatello Last Line: The front office continues to hope %signed contracts for next year will turn up Subject(s): Baseball; Sports LOST SPIRITS, by H. GANDY Poem Source First Line: That gnomes abound on mountains, sad Subject(s): Sports; Winter LOST TRAIL, by FRANK LILLIE POLLOCK Poem Source First Line: While the drizzle falls on the slimy Subject(s): Sports; Winter LOU, HERE'S TO YOUR JOYRIDE TO THE STADIUM, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source Last Line: The sunlight heightens %to its own awareness Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports LOUISVILLE FEARED IN MIDEAST, by STEVEN BRYAN BIELER Poem Source First Line: You can't buy baseball bats in israel Subject(s): Sports LOUSY IN CENTER FIELD, by JAMES TATE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thank god %the manager is blind, %the coach is deaf %and the owner dead Last Line: Wriggling at the hairdresser, %I chatter before abrupt sleep Subject(s): Sports LOVE FIFTEEN, by LILLIAN MORRISON Poem Source First Line: Swing to wallop Last Line: That pounds and bounces %in the light Subject(s): Sports LOVE SONNET OF A PLAYER, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Say, kid, d'you know, I just can't understand Last Line: I'll kill three baseball scribes by monday night! Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Language; Sports; Words; Vocabulary LUCKY SEVEN WISH LIST, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: 1. Give me l o n g legs Last Line: 7. Just %give me the dunk Subject(s): Basketball; Sports LUGGIE, SELS., by DAVID GRAY (1838-1861) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now underneath the ice the luggie growls Subject(s): Sports; Winter MAIN ST. BRIDGE; PAWTUCKET, RI, by THOMAS MICHAEL MCDADE Poem Source First Line: Spitting off %main st. Bridge Last Line: Out of him and %into the rivers Subject(s): Sports MAKIN' JUMP SHOTS, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He waltzes into the lane / 'cross the free-throw line Subject(s): Sports MAKIN' JUMP SHOTS, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He waltzes into the lane %'cross the free-throw line Last Line: To a silent beat, gliding %as he sinks two into the chains Subject(s): Sports MAN THEY CALL DR. J., by PETE VECSEY Poem Source First Line: Doesn't just shoot Last Line: Another impossible two-pointer Subject(s): Basketball; Sports MAN WHO BEAT HEMINGWAY, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In 1937, robert johnson Last Line: Leaves out your name Subject(s): Sports MANTLE, by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mantle ran so hard, they said Subject(s): Baseball; Mantle, Mickey (1931-1995); Popular Culture - United States; Sports MANTLE, by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mantle ran so hard, they said Last Line: Now a fastball, now a slow %curve hanging %like a model's smile Subject(s): Baseball; Mantle, Mickey (1931-1995); Popular Culture - United States; Sports MARIS AND DYLAN CAME SCOWLING OUT OF HIBBING, MINNESOTA, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: This town boasts the world's largest hole Last Line: In a place just the other side of music Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports MARIS OF THE CARDS, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: At thirty-three, singles lined his forehead Last Line: And his swing slung the hash of happenstance Subject(s): Baseball; Maris, Roger (1934-1985); New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports MARVIN PICKETT, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: When I wear my football jersey to class Subject(s): Sports MEAN RUFUS THROWN DOWN, by DAVE SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He waits perpetually crouched, teeth Last Line: Swiftly out to second eating the silky %air of the proudest runner, ending the game Subject(s): Baseball; Sports MEANING OF BASEBALL, by MAX GARLAND Poem Source First Line: We sit on the bench like shy freight Last Line: Our couch, as lie on our gurney %counting backwards from ten Subject(s): Baseball; Sports MEDALS AND MONEY: A RE-EVALUATION, by BARBARA LAMBLIN Poem Source First Line: I loved swimming until it became a nightmare for Subject(s): Sports MEETING MY BEST FRIEND FROM THE EIGHTH GRADE, by GARY GILDNER Poem Source First Line: He says when he comes in a bar Last Line: We bend our beer cans like dummies, and sit Subject(s): Sports MEMORY, by RALPH BURNS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Didn't I think of the clasp Last Line: Out of the wild time unseen, sweet flower %of improvisation Subject(s): Sports MERLE BASCOM'S .22, by DONALD HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was twelve when my father gave me this .22 Subject(s): Sports MERLE BASCOM'S .22, by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I was twelve when my father gave me this .22 Last Line: I cannot throw it away; it was my father's gift Subject(s): Sports MICHAEL HOLLEY, BRUTHAMAN BOSTON GLOBE SPORTS WRITER, COVERS THE ..., by AFAA MICHAEL WEAVER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's the old teams you see at night Last Line: In this room it is sane to be profane Alternate Author Name(s): Weaver, Michael S. Subject(s): Loss; Sports MICHAEL JORDAN, by CHARLES COMFORT Poem Source First Line: Performs his acrobatics Last Line: They name those sneakers after him Subject(s): Basketball; Sports MICKEY, ONCE OUR DAYS MADE THEIR FACE IN YOU, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source Last Line: The blue veins feeding %us in secret Subject(s): Baseball; Mantle, Mickey (1931-1995); New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports MIDNIGHT TENNIS MATCH, by THOMAS LUX Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You are tired %of this maudlin country club %and you are tired of his insults Last Line: You pour a gallon of water on his face. %he still has two more serves Subject(s): Sports; Tennis MINOR LEAGUE BUS RIDE TO DUBUQUE, CHATTANOOGA, BLUEFIELD, AMARILLO..., by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: Rubber spins on white-lined asphalt Last Line: On a divided highway of youth %and america rolls by Subject(s): Baseball; Sports MISS SUMMERFEST, by SUSAN FIRER Poem Source First Line: First, the mandatory poses Subject(s): Sports MISSED INDICATORS, by BOB STANLEY Poem Source First Line: Somewhere in that last season Subject(s): Baseball; Sports MISSOULA SOFTBALL TOURNAMENT, by RICHARD HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This summer, most friends out of town / and no wind playing flash and dazzle Subject(s): Softball; Sports MISSOULA SOFTBALL TOURNAMENT, by RICHARD HUGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This summer, most friends out of town %and no wind playing flash and dazzle Last Line: The wives, the beautiful wives are with their men Subject(s): Softball; Sports MONTREAL CARNIVAL SPORTS, by GEORGE MARTIN Poem Source First Line: The frost king sat on a throne of snow Subject(s): Sports; Winter MOORER DENIES HOLYFIELD IN TWELVE, by OLENA KALYTIAK DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Caesar's palace Last Line: I had to let my cutman go Subject(s): Sports MOOSE-HUNTING IN WINTER, by ISAAC MCLELLAN JR. Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the winter snowfall lies heavy and deep Subject(s): Sports; Winter MORNING AFTER, by DENNIS COOLEY Poem Source Last Line: So loud it hurts Subject(s): Cold; Marriage; Skating And Skaters; Snow; Sports; Winter MORNING ATHLETES, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Most mornings we go running side by side Subject(s): Sports; Women MORNING ATHLETES, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Most mornings we go running side by side Last Line: And we talk and pant, pant and talk %in the morning early and busy together Subject(s): Sports; Women MOST PLAYERS DON'T GO PRO, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source Last Line: Into the next %g e n er a tion Subject(s): Basketball; Sports MOUSE, by GARY GILDNER Poem Source First Line: Yesterday at batting practice Last Line: And other things to teach - %but not on any fields that I knew of Subject(s): Baseball; Mice; Sports; Warsaw, Poland MUSCLES' HOUGEN COMES OUT OF SOFTBALL RETIREMENT, by JUDITH HOUGEN Poem Source First Line: Years ago, I was so lovely Last Line: Leather hand to reach into that much beauty Subject(s): Baseball; Memory; Sports MY BOAT, by RAYMOND CARVER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My boat is being made to order. Right now it's about to leave Subject(s): Sports MY FATHER DREAMS OF BASEBALL, by LAURENCE LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: On hot september nights, when sleep is scarce Last Line: The features are fixed with the dull metallic glow %of an ancient face, cast in bronze or brass Subject(s): Baseball; Sports MY FATHER TOURED THE SOUTH, by JEANETTE NICHOLS Poem Source First Line: My father and hs muscles Subject(s): Sports MY GRANDFATHER'S CAP, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are so few photographs of him Subject(s): Sports MY GRANDFATHER'S CAP, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There are so few photographs of him Last Line: Seems of this yet distant, yet pale, future %and now forever-rising moon Subject(s): Sports MY KNICKS ARE GOING TO BEAT YOUR SPURS.............., by CATHERINE BOWMAN Poem Source First Line: Spurs knicks spurs knicks spurs knicks spurs knicks spurs Last Line: Spurs knicks spurs knicks spurs knicks spurs knicks spurs knicks Subject(s): Sports MYSTERY BASEBALL, by PHILIP DACEY Poem Source First Line: No one knows the man who throws out the season's first ball Subject(s): Baseball; Sports NARRATIVE: ALI; A POEM IN TWELVE ROUNDS, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My head so big Last Line: Myself, %muhammad Subject(s): Ali, Muhammad (cassius Clay); Boxing And Boxers; Sports NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF THE BULLET, by PATRICK WORTH GRAY Poem Source First Line: Our quarterback kept throwing higher Subject(s): Sports NEED TO WIN, by THOMAS JAMES MERTON Poem Source First Line: When an archer is shouting for nothing Subject(s): Sports NEVER BE AS FAST AS I HAVE BEEN, by ROBERT HAHN Poem Source First Line: When tony was found dead in his Subject(s): Sports NEW WORDS, by JIM DANIELS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Saturday afternoon, alone in the living room Last Line: To my dartboard and took my pleasure. %pimp, I whispered, pimp Subject(s): Baseball; Sports NEW WORLD IN THE MORNING, by NORMAN GERMAN Poem Source First Line: Somewhere on the outskirts Last Line: Tonight they subdue with serenity. %next year they take the title Subject(s): Sports NIGHT GAME, by ROLFE HUMPHRIES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Only bores are bored, --wrote william saroyan Last Line: Alike and different, after the game is over, %streaming away to the exit, and underground Subject(s): Baseball; Sports NIGHT GAME, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Some of us believe Last Line: He refused to pitch on yom kippur Subject(s): Baseball; Fasts And Feasts; Ford, Edward ("whitey"); Jews; Koufax, Sandy; Sports; Worship; Yom Kippur NIGHT GAME IN MENOMONIE PARK, by SUSAN FIRER Poem Source Last Line: Saint mary of czestochowa throws a small festival, but %oshkosh women's softball - that's a whole ot Subject(s): Baseball; Sports NIGHT GAMES, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: It's hard %to come Last Line: Taking my place in the order Subject(s): Baseball; Sports NIGHT IN CLEVELAND, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: Late innings, we're winning %cleveland indians surround Last Line: As voices and syllables %blend in a chorus of boooooos Subject(s): Baseball; Sports NIGHT JOE LOUIS WENT 21-0 BY DROPPING TAMI MAURIELLO, by WILLIAM KLOEFKORN Poem Source First Line: I'm babysitting he garlow boy Last Line: We'd otherwise indulge by crying Subject(s): African Americans; Boxing And Boxers; Louis, Joe (1914-1981); Sports NIGHT ON THE SKATING RINK, by GEORGE MARTIN Poem Source First Line: Our rink is in motion %like waves of the ocean Subject(s): Sports; Winter NIGHT RUNNER'S PRAYER, by MYKIE SILZ REIDY Poem Source First Line: Tonight I run past the city limit Subject(s): Sports NINE CHARMS AGAINST THE HUNTER, by DAVID WAGONER Poet's Biography First Line: In the last bar on the way to your wild game Subject(s): Hate; Sports NINE CHARMS AGAINST THE HUNTER, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the last bar on the way to your wild game Last Line: Whose dull knife beats the inside of your chest Subject(s): Hate; Sports NINE TRIADS, by LILLIAN MORRISON Poem Source First Line: Three grand arcs Subject(s): Sports NO SECOND PLACE, by BOB STANLEY Poem Source First Line: Just as you remember Subject(s): Baseball; Sports NOBODY'S FAN, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: Buck paulson, you were big Last Line: We wouldn't know for years %what you had done Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports NORTH, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: Calgary's a jewel %and an appalling place for baseball Last Line: Enough %baseball for one night Subject(s): Baseball; Sports NORTHERN MINNESOTA, by MONTA W. KIRKCONNELL Poem Text First Line: Land of lakes, where pines stand tall Last Line: For the northland winter sport! Subject(s): Lakes; Minnesota; Sports; Pools; Ponds NORTHERN TRAPPERS TRAIL, by GEORGE WELDON Poem Source First Line: Have you ever stooped in the frosty morn Subject(s): Sports; Winter NORTHERN WINTER'S WELCOME, by C. TURNER Poem Source First Line: Hurrah for the ski! And the taut snowshoe Subject(s): Sports; Winter NOTHING BUT BAD NEWS, by JENNIFER RICHTER Poem Source First Line: As the man next door on his porch %too small for bleachers or an ump Last Line: Too many out there %laughing themselves sick Subject(s): Sports NOTHING BUT NET, by ROY MARTIN SCHEELE Poem Source First Line: The jump shot? It's all in the wrist Subject(s): Basketball; Sports NOTRE DAME VICTORY MARCH, by JOHN SHEA Poem Source First Line: Cheer, cheer for old notre dame Subject(s): Notre Dame University; Sports NUDE SWIM, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the southwest side of capri Last Line: Shut down as if they were %suddenly ashamed Subject(s): God; Religion; Sports OBJECTS OF PITY, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Full many a big and brawny youth Last Line: Who can neither play nor shout! Subject(s): College Sports; Lament; Pity OCTOBER, by DAVID ZAUHAR Poem Source First Line: After osip mandelstram Last Line: That sent everybody home %introspective and afraid Subject(s): Sports; Trees ODE TO BEN OGILVIE, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: Spied you %in batting practice Last Line: That lethal swing %out of overconfidence Subject(s): Baseball; Ogilvie, Ben; Sports ODE TO DICK HOWSER, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: He wore highway patrol sunglasses Last Line: And always saved %that pat on the back Subject(s): Baseball; Howser, Dick (1937-1987); Sports ODE TO WEIGHT LIFTING, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tony eats apples Last Line: With a paw swiping at air Subject(s): Sports OF KINGS AND THINGS, by LILLIAN MORRISON Poem Source First Line: What happened to joey on our block Last Line: Disappearing down the street %skinny and shining in the nightfall light Subject(s): Baseball; Sports OF SKATING, by COULSON KERNAHAN Poem Source First Line: She's just at my back, and Subject(s): Sports; Winter OFFENSIVE DEFENSIVE, by RICHARD ARMOUR Poem Source First Line: Our team, though quite tall Last Line: Who sits up on top of the basket Subject(s): Basketball; Sports OH LET ME FLY LIKE MICHAEL, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: Over %the s t r e t c h I n g hands Last Line: Oh let me fly like michael Subject(s): Basketball; Sports OKLAHOMA YANKEE, by LOUIS DOMINICK SCALZETTO Poem Source First Line: A budding ballplayer named mickey mantle Last Line: Mickey mantle, the oklahoma yankee %will forever be the american inspiration Subject(s): Baseball; Mantle, Mickey (1931-1995); Sports OLD (G)LOVE, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: Mushy leather %burnt brown Last Line: And holding you %feels so right Subject(s): Baseball; Sports OLD MEN PLAYING BASKETBALL, by B. H. FAIRCHILD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The heavy bodies lunge, the broken language Subject(s): Lathes; Sports OLD MEN PLAYING BASKETBALL, by B. H. FAIRCHILD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The heavy bodies lunge, the broken language Last Line: At their backs. The ball turns in the darkening air Subject(s): Lathes; Sports OLD WARHORSE PITCHING COACH TO YOUNG COLT, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: He said %ya gotta strap it on Last Line: That's what I thought %as I nodded my head Subject(s): Baseball; Sports OLD-FASHIONED SPORTSMEN, by FRANCIS OSBERT SACHEVERELL SITWELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We thank thee Alternate Author Name(s): Sitwell, Sir Osbert; Sitwell, Osbert Subject(s): Sports ON AN EARLY EVENING IN LATE JUNE, ALMOST ANYWHERE, by JONATHAN HOLDEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rock an' fire! Be a hitter! Way to be! Last Line: Haranguing them, driving them into the dust, singing %the only song they know: be. Be Subject(s): Baseball; Sports ON CEDAR LAKE, 1957, by RUTH FIRESTONE BRIN Poem Source First Line: Before our skates had touched the pond that day Last Line: Take flight and dip and swerve %like gulls. We fly, we fly Subject(s): Prayer; Sports ON DECK, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: I'm 'in the hole' %as they call it Last Line: The voice of god %bellows my name Subject(s): Baseball; Sports ON THE FIELDS OF RUGBY, by M. ANNE SWEET Poem Source First Line: Water bleeds from my face Last Line: Naked in a wind of bitter blades? Subject(s): Perspiration; Sports ON THE TENNIS COURT AT NIGHT, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We step out on the green rectangle Last Line: As winter comes on, all the winters to come Subject(s): Sports; Tennis ON THE TENNIS COURT AT NIGHT, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We step out on the green rectangle Last Line: As winter comes on, all the winters to come Subject(s): Sports; Tennis ON THE TOMB OF KALAMACHIUS, THE JOGGER, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: He slowed once Subject(s): Sports ON TO CUBE!, by FRANKLIN MCDUFFEE Poem Source First Line: Listen to the wind, fellows Subject(s): Sports; Winter ON WEATHERING GALES, by ELISAVIETTA RITCHIE Poem Source First Line: Whether to rig the sea anchor Subject(s): Sports ONE TO NOTHING, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bibulous eagle behind me at the ball game: Last Line: Shucks a'mighty. If you're an eagle, you just go. Subject(s): Baseball; Birds; Eagles; Sports; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism OPENING DAY, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Every fan is packed as closely as a neatly packed Last Line: Baseball has been duly started—it's the close of opening day! Subject(s): Baseball; Sports OPENING DAY, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: The event %like the playoffs, all-star game, world series Last Line: In a world of war %between white lines Subject(s): Baseball; Sports ORIGIN OF BASEBALL, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Someone had been walking in and out Last Line: So he wanted to throw something %and he picked up a baseball Subject(s): Anger; Baseball; Sports ORLANDO'S MAGIC, by WILLIAM REVAS Poem Source First Line: I know, a rookie Last Line: That's a poem right there Subject(s): Basketball; Sports OSCAR ROBERTSON: PERIPHERAL VISION, by WILLIAM (BILL) PEARLMAN Poem Source First Line: They clear the left side for him Last Line: And painfully kept open %corners of his eyes Subject(s): Basketball; Sports OTHERWISE EMPTY PUBLIC POOL (1965), by DEZSO TANDORI Poem Source First Line: As if we were at an empty pool Last Line: Among other things Subject(s): Diving And Divers; Lakes; Sports; Swimming; Water OUR HARDY DADS, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Our daddies sat upon unpainted planks Last Line: Our daddies must have been the all-wool stuff! Subject(s): Baseball; Fathers; Past; Sports OUR SKATER BELLE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Along the frozen lake she comes Last Line: "from grace to grace successive led, / a noble maiden, nobler wife!" Subject(s): Nature;skating & Skaters;sports OUT FISHING, by BARBARA HOWES Poem Source First Line: We went out, early one morning Subject(s): Sports OUT IN LEFT FIELD, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: Crack! %the world contracts: a spot of white Last Line: With stitches %to earth, to the raised mound Subject(s): Baseball; Sports OUT ON THE COURSE, by WILLIAM J. VERNON Poem Source First Line: On roads, the race drew me outside Subject(s): Sports OUTCAST; A TALE OF A LADIES' CRICKET MATCH, by PELHAM GRENVILLE WODEHOUSE Poem Source First Line: Out in the silent rockies Last Line: There's a thin, sad, pale, grey hermit: %folks know him as 'jaundiced jim' Subject(s): Courtship; Cricket (game); Man-woman Relationships; Men; Service, Robert (1874-1958); Sports OVER THE FENCE IS OUT, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: In home-away- %from-home green Last Line: Three %machine guns trained on me Subject(s): Baseball; Sports OVER THE ICE WITH A CURVING SWING, by EDWARD W. SANDYS Poem Source Subject(s): Sports; Winter PARADISE, by MICHAEL ALAN MCFEE Poem Source First Line: We arrive by shuttle bus, precious tickets Last Line: Into the dry moat behind the outfield wall %that we fill with our cries of joyful disbelief Subject(s): Baseball; Games; Sports PARALLEL BARS, by JEFFREY STOCKWELL Poem Source First Line: The sun reveals the galaxy of dust Subject(s): Sports PARENTHETICAL STATEMENT FOR THE SEVENTH GAME, by BOBBY BYRD Poem Source First Line: (there is very little poetry ...) Subject(s): Baseball; Sports PASSAGE RITE, by JOHN CADDY Poem Source First Line: They call them wet and dry Subject(s): Sports PASTTIME, by EMILIO DEGRAZIA Poem Source First Line: A girl, nine years of wonder Subject(s): Sports PAT MORAN, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: He lived the game-to him 'twas all; yet he Last Line: The game is better for the part he bore. Subject(s): Baseball; Leadership; Moran, Pat (1876-1924); Sports PATRICK EWING TAKES A FOUL SHOT, by DIANE ACKERMAN Poem Source First Line: Ewing sweating, %molding the ball Last Line: And pupils jump %because he jumps Subject(s): Basketball; Ewing, Patrick (b. 1962); Sports PAUL O'NEILL, DESCENDANT OF MARK TWAIN, STARTS US DOWN THE WIDE RIVER, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: With that whimsical lift of his right foot Last Line: Five daggers of an unleashed star Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports PENANCE, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I remember sun Last Line: They can possibly hold Subject(s): Sports PENANCE, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I remember sun Last Line: Ness, between the hands reach- %ing up and everything %they can possibly hold Subject(s): Sports PERSONAL BEST, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: In the end the ball slides in down the hoop Last Line: A d d I t I o n. %personal best Subject(s): Basketball; Sports PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE CURVEBALL, by JONATHAN HOLDEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It came to us like sex Last Line: Or the strikeout victim have %to mean what cannot be and means what is? Subject(s): Baseball; Sports PHOTOGRAPH, by BARBARA DRAKE Poem Source First Line: I promised to take your picture Subject(s): Sports PHOTOGRAPH OF MY FATHER IN HIS TWENTY-SECOND YEAR, by RAYMOND CARVER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: October. Here in this dank, unfamiliar kitchen Last Line: And don't even know the places to fish? Subject(s): Sports PICKEREL-FISHING, by ISAAC MCLELLAN JR. Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Wide o'er the lake's transparent plain Subject(s): Sports; Winter PIKE, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The river turns Last Line: The pike strikes Subject(s): Sports PIONEER LEAGUE, BUTTE V. POCATELLO, by FORD SWETNAM Poem Source First Line: Fertilizer plants in their summer layoff Last Line: We have another chance to catch the runner Subject(s): Baseball; Sports PITCHER, by ROBERT FRANCIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His art is eccentricity, his aim Subject(s): Baseball; Language; Men; Sports; Words; Vocabulary PITCHER, by ROBERT FRANCIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: His art is eccentricity, his aim Last Line: Not to, yet still, still to communicate %making the batter understand too late Subject(s): Baseball; Language; Men; Sports PITCHER IS A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN IN AN OLD MOVIE, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source Last Line: Who batting could not hit their own weight Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports PITCHER'S JUICE, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: Adrenaline and blood flow, mix Last Line: Frustrated %frozen in his work Subject(s): Baseball; Sports PITCHING COUPS, by RON WELBURN Poem Source First Line: The arc of the pitching arm %unwinds a circle of dreams Last Line: Pitchers all. %coyotes too. %'skins Subject(s): Baseball; Sports PITTSBURGH, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: It's fifteen years since pittsburgh town Last Line: They'll realize their dream! Subject(s): Baseball; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Sports; Victory PLACE, by BOB HICOK Poet's Biography First Line: A speedball at the old college above olmsted's Subject(s): College Sports PLACE, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A speedball at the old college above olmsted's Last Line: More sustaining than panic, bones %to cherish as if unearthing treasure Subject(s): College Sports PLAY BALL!, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Flags dance, bands bray, the gates are thrown ajar; Last Line: "to that one crashing chorus of ""play ball!" Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Sports PLAYERS, by E. ETHELBERT MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When mickey mantle died Subject(s): Baseball; Mantle, Mickey (1931-1995); Sports PLAYERS, by E. ETHELBERT MILLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When mickey mantle died Last Line: Projects so many could %not escape Subject(s): Baseball; Mantle, Mickey (1931-1995); Sports PLAYERS, by RUTH ROSTON Poem Source First Line: Early october, maple trees Subject(s): Sports PLAYING BASKETBALL WITH THE VIET CONG, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You never thought it would come to this Subject(s): Politics & Government; Soldiers' Writings; Sports; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PLAYING BASKETBALL WITH THE VIET CONG, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You never thought it would come to this Last Line: There may be other scores to settle Subject(s): Politics; Soldiers' Writings; Sports; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PLAYING SOLITAIRE, by STEVEN FORTNEY Poem Source First Line: My teacher and I sit down Subject(s): Sports PLAYING THE GAME, by BARBARA GOLDOWSKY Poem Source First Line: You stick out your fist: stone Subject(s): Games; Sports PLAYING TIME, by THERESA PAPPAS Poem Source First Line: On the front steps, our mothers wait for us, flushed Subject(s): Games; Sports POEM FOR ED WHITEY FORD, by JONATHAN HOLDEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I wanted my name %curt: ed %ford: a name that gave away Last Line: Empty, cruel, accurate. %our beauty pure expertise Subject(s): Baseball; Ford, Edward ("whitey"); Sports POEM FOR MY FATHER, by QUINCY TROUPE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Father, it was an honor to be there, in the dugout Last Line: Father, a harbinger, of shock waves, soon come Subject(s): African Americans; Baseball; Fathers & Sons; Sports; Negroes; American Blacks POEM FOR THE 1985 SEASON OF DOUBLE A BALL ..., by BOBBY BYRD Poem Source First Line: Last night I saw mike cuellar Subject(s): Baseball; Sports POETS' CORNER, by WILLIAM TROWBRIDGE Poem Source First Line: They put me in right field Last Line: Little priss, some kind %of percy bitch shelby Subject(s): Baseball; Memory; Sports POINT GUARD, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: You bring the ball down the court Subject(s): Sports POINT SCORED, by CHARLOTTE CARDENAS DWYER Poem Source First Line: Up against the backboard Last Line: Almost in Subject(s): Basketball; Sports POLE VAULTER (1), by DAVID ALLAN EVANS Poem Source First Line: The approach to the bar Last Line: (knowing the best jump %can be cancelled %by a careless elbow) %and open my hands Subject(s): Sports; Track Athletics POLO GROUNDS, by ROLFE HUMPHRIES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Time is of the essence. This is a highly skilled Subject(s): Baseball; Sports POLO PONIES PRACTICING, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The constant cry against an old order Subject(s): Sports POLO PONIES PRACTICING, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The constant cry against an old order Last Line: On the shapes of the mind Subject(s): Sports POOL IS A GODLESS SPORT, by JAMES HAUG Poem Source First Line: I like the articulate crack %the cue ball makes Last Line: Fresh as promise, %and let the rolling geometry %plot our next move Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Pool And Billiards; Sports POP, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: Issue of my miraculous news Last Line: You're never %too young, either Subject(s): Baseball; Sports POP, POP, POP!, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Pop goes the pop fly Last Line: Pop, pop, pop! Subject(s): Baseball; Drinks & Drinking; Sound; Sports; Wine POST CARD OUT OF PANAMA, by WILLIAM D. BARNEY Poem Source First Line: The young man at the plate, bat bristling Last Line: With every sinew, bone and cell alive-- %my father was exceedingly rich Subject(s): Baseball; Sports PRACTICE, by TIMOTHY REID STEELE Poem Source First Line: The basketball you walk around the court Last Line: Returning it to you on the ricochet Subject(s): Basketball; Sports PREDATOR, by JR. CHARLES R. SMITH Poem Source First Line: Perched in hiding like a hawk Last Line: And retreats to the nest until the next play Subject(s): Basketball; Sports PREFONTAINE, by CHARLES GHIGNA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He wore old oregon on his chest Subject(s): Sports PREPAREDNEDD, by FELICIA LAMPORT Poem Source First Line: When you've had yourself accoutered Subject(s): Sports PROMETHEUS AT FENWAY, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: Carl yastrzemski, the boston red sox outfielder/first Last Line: Running the turf of our years Subject(s): Baseball; Fenway Park, Boston; Mythology - Classical; Sports PROSPERO CALIBAN CRICKET, by JOHN AGARD Poem Source First Line: Prospero batting %caliban bowling Last Line: But from far it look like politics Subject(s): Cricket (game); Sports PUMPING IRON (1), by DIANE ACKERMAN Poem Source First Line: She doesn't want %the bunchy look %of male lifters Last Line: A trim waist %two hands might grip %as a bouquet Subject(s): Sports; Weight Lifting Q&A, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: He asked %microphone in hand Last Line: I realized %my daddy said a lot of things Subject(s): Baseball; Sports QUESTION AND ANSWER (2), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "what is that, mother?" Last Line: That he is swell enough to play at golf? Subject(s): Games;golf;mothers;sports; Recreation;pastimes;amusements QUITE FREQUENTLY, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The manager, with stony glare, Last Line: The ozone green and blue! Subject(s): Baseball; Leadership; Sports RABBIT-HUNTER, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Careless and still Last Line: (nor I) have wit %to comprehend Subject(s): Sports RACE AT PETIT COTE, by WILLIAM EDWARD BAUBIE Poem Source First Line: Did you ever see mah ponay - Subject(s): Sports; Winter RACER'S WIDOW, by GARY GILDNER Poem Source First Line: The elements have merged into solicitude Last Line: How even he did not get to keep that lovely body Subject(s): Sports RADIO WONDERS, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The sacks were full, the babe was up-- Last Line: Be planted out in mars! Subject(s): Baseball; Ruth, George Herman (babe) (1895-1948); Sports RAIN DELAY, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: In the box seats %the bright, laughing umbrellas are smug Last Line: Decks of cards with rainy %bad-weather hearts Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports RAINMAKER, by JR. CHARLES R. SMITH Poem Source First Line: Rainmaker steps %on court %to perform Last Line: And all this was done %without breaking a sweat Subject(s): Basketball; Sports RAVENS, by GARY GILDNER Poem Source First Line: We do wind sprints, we play catch Last Line: All right, all the way to moscow boom boom %and landing on lenin's tomb Subject(s): Baseball; Sports; Warsaw, Poland REF, by JACK ROGERS RIDL Poem Source First Line: Heading for the next game, ref Last Line: The game easy, the outcome %one's he sure of Subject(s): Basketball - Referees; Sports; Sports - Corrupt Practices REGGIE, by ELOISE GREENFIELD Poem Source First Line: It's summertime %and reggie doesn't live here anymore Last Line: Thinks he's kareem %and not my brother Subject(s): Basketball; Sports RELIEF PITCHING, by TED FLOREA Poem Source First Line: Because his dad was coach Last Line: My dreams too wild %to say out loud Subject(s): Baseball; Fathers And Sons; Sports REMEMBERING YOU, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Skiing the mountain alone Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Sports RETRIEVING OLD BONES, by WILLIAM SHELDON Poem Source First Line: The lightning drives him %upstairs Last Line: Under %as long as it takes Subject(s): Sports REUNION: SWIMMING, by WILLIAM JOSEPH MEISSNER Poem Source First Line: To save yourself Subject(s): Sports REVISITING THE FIELD (2), by WALTER DAVID PAVLICH Poem Source First Line: I come back to cold lights Last Line: Didn't we all block big as trees? Subject(s): Baseball; Fields; Memory; Sports REWASH, by MYRA COHN LIVINGSTON Poem Source First Line: Like it %was a greased pig Last Line: Pounded us, we played good enough to win Subject(s): Basketball; Sports RIDING LESSON, by HENRY SPLAWN TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I learned two things Subject(s): Horseback Riding; Sports RIDING LESSON, by HENRY SPLAWN TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I learned two things Last Line: They're gonna throw you, get off' Subject(s): Horseback Riding; Sports RIGH WHERE HE LEFT OFF, by CRAIG WEEDEN Poem Source First Line: Big willie's back for the war Subject(s): Sports RIGHT CROSS, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sun rising over the mountains Last Line: Back to our beds for the day's last work Subject(s): Sports RING LARDNER WATCHES THE BABE TAKE BATTING PRACTICE, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: Oh how his flesh of plenty Last Line: The envious hearts of angels Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports RIVALS, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: In scattered dodger neats Last Line: More so than when they played Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports ROAN HUNTER, by JANA HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Again she learns to move Subject(s): Sports ROCK CLIMBERS, by ROBERT FRANCIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In this soft age, in my soft %middle age, the rock climbers Last Line: Craggy to break the mind %on and to cool the mind Subject(s): Sports RODEO TANGENT, by KENDRA BORGMANN Poem Source First Line: Woman in front of you's black hair blowing over itself-some man loves Last Line: Mouth-does he hold it back-does the night smell like yarrow crushed %underfoot Subject(s): Rodeos; Sports ROGER MARIS, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: In 1961, when j.F.K. Brought his dazzling wife Last Line: And tried with their might to hold him up Subject(s): Baseball; Maris, Roger (1934-1985); New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports ROUNDHOUSE VOICES, by DAVE SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In full glare of sunlight I came here, man-tall but thin Last Line: On my knees to cry, who the hell are you, kid Subject(s): Baseball; Railroads; Sports RUN BEFORE DAWN, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Most mornings I get away, slip out Last Line: Of darkness, the world going by, and my breath, and the road Subject(s): Sports RUNNING, by BRENDAN JAMES GALVIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Experts say for me to do it well Last Line: Dowitcher coot yellowlegs %brant bufflehead knot Subject(s): Sports RUNNING, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What were we playing? Was it prisoner's base Subject(s): Sports RUNNING OF THE BALL, by JR. CHARLES R. SMITH Poem Source First Line: Slippery slidin' %soles %make molds Last Line: Crush %the tin Subject(s): Basketball; Sports RUNNING: 2. PATRIOT'S DAY, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Restless that noble day, appeased by soft Last Line: Rocked in his will, at rest within his run Subject(s): Sports RUNNING: 3. DODWELLS HILL ROAD, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I jog up out of the woods Last Line: Flying full tilt already Subject(s): Sports RUSS JOY LITTLE LEAGUE, by DOUGLAS CARLSON Poem Source First Line: God help me, liberal mothers Last Line: To a jetty where we sit growing older, %not competing with fish we never catch Subject(s): Baseball; Sports RYNE DUREN, YANKEE RELIEVER, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: As a nation sleeping under ike Last Line: A whole decade nobody saw Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports S.E., by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She passes up and down life's various ways Last Line: Makes her more precious and more wise and dear. Subject(s): Baseball; Mothers; Sports SACRIFICE, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: It was like a kamikaze Last Line: I ain't that stupid Subject(s): Baseball; Sports SACRIFICE BUNT, by LUCKY JACOBS Poem Source First Line: You hold the bat at eye-level Subject(s): Sports SAILING, by DOROTHY ALLEN Poem Text First Line: Swiftly cutting through the water Last Line: Nor sigh; but sing and laugh with me. Subject(s): Boats; Play; Sailing & Sailors; Sports; Waves; Seamen; Sails SAILING, by AL ZOLYNAS Poem Source First Line: After years by the ocean Subject(s): Sports SAILING, SAILING, by LILLIAN MORRISON Poem Source First Line: There is no impeding Last Line: Of the ocean %get the basin Subject(s): Sports SAL MAGLIE, by DAVID HENDERSON Poem Source First Line: Time grew upon his beard Subject(s): Baseball; Sports SATAN VOWS TO MAKE A COMEBACK, by PHILIP WEDGE Poem Source First Line: Yeah, they're sending me down to the lowest Last Line: The union won't stand for less than equal %shares all round.Man, I'm talking equity Subject(s): Baseball; Sports SAY GOODBYE TO BIG DADDY, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Big daddy lipscomb, who used to help them up Subject(s): Football; Lipscomb, Eugene ('big Daddy'); Sports SAY GOODBYE TO BIG DADDY, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Big daddy lipscomb, who used to help them up Last Line: The world won't be the same without big daddy %or else it will be Subject(s): Football; Lipscomb, Eugene ("big Daddy"); Sports SCENE LENDS ITS AID, by O'HARA BAYNES Poem Source Subject(s): Sports; Winter SCHSSSSSSSSS, by MARTIN STEINGESSER Poem Source First Line: Schusssssssss %swoop %-steel %edge/to/ice/edge Last Line: Across the blue %snow mountain %air Variant Title(s): The Skibombe Subject(s): Skiing; Sports SCRUT GETS MARTY CROWE FOR SOCIAL STUDIES, by GEORGE+(2) ROBERTS Poem Source First Line: And while his gray voice drones on from the front desk Subject(s): Sports SEASIDE GOLF, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How straight it flew, how long it flew Subject(s): Golf; Sports SEASON WISH, by LINDA MIZEJEWSKI Poem Source First Line: In turns of season Last Line: Built for me stone bases %on his knees there in the dirt Subject(s): Baseball; Sports SELF-PORTRAIT WITH 1911 NY YANKEES CAP, by FLOYD SKLOOT Poem Source First Line: The subtlest approach would be to ignore Last Line: I was wearing gives me a new idea %which, as I turn to note it, I forget. Subject(s): Baseball; Physical Disabilities; Sports SEPTEMBER IN THE BLEACHERS, by THOMAS WILLARD CLARK Poem Source First Line: In the bathroom the bad dudes Last Line: He goes right ahead & does it before my eyes Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Tom Subject(s): Baseball; Sports SERVANTS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: I dream, ophelia, how I'd love Last Line: I'll be your caddy Subject(s): Golf; Relationships; Shakespeare - Hamlet; Sports SEVENTH ROUND, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Give it to him! Last Line: Drop your own. Take Subject(s): Sports SEX WITHOUT LOVE, by SHARON OLDS Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: How do they do it, the ones who make love Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Lust; Sex; Sports SEX WITHOUT LOVE, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How do they do it, the ones who make love Last Line: Single body alone in the universe %against it own best time Subject(s): Erotic Love; Lust; Sex; Sports SHADOW BOXING, by JAMES TATE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes you almost get a punch in Subject(s): Boxing & Boxers; Sports SHADOW BOXING, by JAMES TATE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes you almost get a punch in Last Line: And larger, darker and darker. The black moon Subject(s): Boxing And Boxers; Sports SHADOW DANCING, by JR. CHARLES R. SMITH Poem Source First Line: Shadows %dance %and prance Last Line: Beat %of %my %groove Subject(s): Basketball; Sports SHADOW-CASTING, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This boy's father dies. / fine. / it always happens. / the boy knows Last Line: This boy, it always happens, doesn’t know what to do anymore Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Sons; Fish & Fishing; Life; Sports; Dead, The; Anglers SHE SKATES ALONE, AND SWIFT AS SWALLOWS FLY, by PHILIP VERRILL MIGHELS Poem Source Subject(s): Sports; Winter SHERWOOD MCGEE, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Dusk was approaching, when the lengthy game Last Line: Such matchless doings by one s. Magee! Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Sports SHOOTING, by B. H. FAIRCHILD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dusk was best. Searching Last Line: Somewhere in the dark Subject(s): Basketball; Sports SHOOTING OF THE MOOSE, by THEODORE GOODRIDGE ROBERTS Poem Source First Line: All day through woodland stillnesses Alternate Author Name(s): Roberts, T. G. Subject(s): Sports; Winter SIDE LINE PLAYS, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: She %grips the wide %drip Last Line: S l a m d u n k s %junk %into baskets Subject(s): Basketball; Sports SIDEWALK RACER, OR ON THE SKATEBOARD, by LILLIAN MORRISON Poem Source First Line: Skimming %an asphalt sea Last Line: Human auto %mobile Subject(s): Imagination; Skating And Skaters; Sports SIGN FOR MY FATHER, WHO STRESSED THE BUNT, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the rough diamond Last Line: I'm getting a grip on the sacrifice. Subject(s): Baseball; Fathers; Selflessness; Sports SILVER SURFER, by JEFF HALBERT Poem Source First Line: He begins at midnight. He paddles Last Line: Soon you won't hear him anymore. %then he will not be there Subject(s): Night; Sports; Water SKAITER'S MARCH, by CHARLES DIBDIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This snell and frosty morning Alternate Author Name(s): Dibdin, Charles Isaac Mungo; Dibdin, Charles, Jr. Subject(s): Sports; Winter SKATE, by LAUREL BLOSSOM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Off %balance, into the wide wide world Subject(s): Sports SKATE, by NANCY VIEIRA COUTO Poem Source First Line: What she has gotten herself into is a boat Last Line: As if nothing had happened Subject(s): Sailors And Sailing; Sea Voyages; Skating And Skaters; Sports; Storms; Women SKATEBOARD, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tow head on his skateboard Last Line: Therefore suggest the spirit Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Skateboards; Sports; Youth SKATEBOARDS, by JULIA VINOGRAD Poem Source First Line: I watch the skateboard rodeo Last Line: Soon, they'll be riding beds %down the center of the street,%leaning on lovers like horns %to warn o Subject(s): Skateboards; Sports SKATER, by TED KOOSER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She was all in black but for a yellow pony tail Subject(s): Memory; Skating & Skaters; Sports SKATER, by TED KOOSER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She was all in black but for a yellow pony tail Last Line: At the woman she'd been just an instant before Subject(s): Memory; Skating And Skaters; Sports SKATER, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My glad feet shod with the glittering steel Last Line: And I turned and fled, like a soul pursued, %from the white,inviolate solitude Subject(s): Sports; Winter SKATER, by ORTH HARPER STEIN Poem Source First Line: Beneath her skates the curved steel bars Subject(s): Sports; Winter SKATER AND WOLVES, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Source First Line: Swifter the flight! Far, far and high Subject(s): Sports; Winter SKATER BELLE, by SAMUEL MINTURN PECK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Along the ice I see her fly Subject(s): Sports; Winter SKATER IN BLUE, by JAY PARINI Poem Source First Line: The lid broke, and suddenly the child Subject(s): Drowning; Sports SKATER'S SONG AT NIGHT, by HORACE SPENCER FISKE Poem Source First Line: When glass-like glints the cracking ice Subject(s): Sports; Winter SKATER'S VALENTINE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What if the air has a nipping tooth! Subject(s): Sports; Winter SKATERS, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Black swallows swooping or gliding Subject(s): Sports SKATERS, by MARY HEILING Poem Text First Line: Silver flashes / across the ice in rhythm swinging Last Line: Across the ice, raising silvered dust at turn of heel. Subject(s): Skating & Skaters; Sports SKATERS, by CHARLES GORDON ROGERS Poem Source First Line: Far in the west the dead day's pyre Subject(s): Sports; Winter SKATERS, by VERN RUTSALA Poem Source First Line: There are many tonight and the rink Last Line: The rubber-kneed drunks, bad %music in the background, %and love pledged in the balcony Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Sports SKATERS' SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Away on the glist'ning plain we go Subject(s): Sports; Winter SKATING, by PHILIP DACEY Poem Source First Line: Skating on the surface of my life Subject(s): Sports SKATING, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: It was saturday, Last Line: Through the rise of pines. Subject(s): Cold; Skating And Skaters; Sports; Water; Winter SKATING, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We speed o'er the star-lighted mirror along Subject(s): Sports; Winter SKATING AFTER SCHOOL, by BARBARA CROOKER Poem Source First Line: In the space between school & supper Subject(s): Sports SKATING IN PLEASANT HILL, OHIO, by KATHLEEN ANN IDDINGS Poem Source First Line: I flew past theising's drug store Last Line: I'd say, 'not today, my lavey,' %unstrap my skates %and scramble back up the hill Subject(s): Sports SKATING SONG, by JR. HORACE HOWARD FURNESS Poem Source First Line: Fresh the breeze, the morning bright! Subject(s): Sports; Winter SKATING SONG, by ARTHUR GRISCOM Poem Source First Line: As swift and light as a bird in flight Subject(s): Sports; Winter SKATING SONG, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Swing! Swing! Swing! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Skating And Skaters; Sports SKATING SONG, by DAVID POTTER Poem Source First Line: The sound of the bugle over the hill - Subject(s): Sports; Winter SKATING SONG, by CHARLES GORDON ROGERS Poem Source First Line: Whisper a song as we glide along, ye pines Subject(s): Sports; Winter SKATING SONG, by CORA ISABEL WARBURTON Poem Text First Line: Moon so bright / stars alight Last Line: Over the ice away. Subject(s): Skating & Skaters; Sports SKI CHANTY, by J. SWINBURNE Poem Source First Line: The sky is blue, the snow lies deep Subject(s): Sports; Winter SKI SONG OF THE U.S. ARMY'S TENTH MOUNTAIN DIVISION, by W. T. LEVITT Poem Source First Line: Men of steel and sons of mars Subject(s): Sports SKI-JOURNEY, by BJORNSTJERNE MARTINIUS BJORNSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How they go hurrying %how they go scurrying! Subject(s): Sports; Winter SKI-SONG OF THE BRAEMAR POSTMAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ah! The tang o' the snell hill-air Subject(s): Sports; Winter SKIING, by BOBBI KATZ Poem Source First Line: Skiing is like being %part of a mountain Last Line: And the mountain is me Subject(s): Sports SKIS, by WALTER PRICHARD EATON Poem Source First Line: A pale new moon hung in the western sky Subject(s): Sports; Winter SKYDIVERS, by JOSEPH COLIN MURPHEY Poem Source First Line: This is the fervent time Subject(s): Sports SLAM DUNK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The game Last Line: Score! Score! Score Subject(s): Basketball; Sports SLAM, DUNK, & HOOK, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fast breaks. Lay ups. With mercury's Last Line: Through a lyric slipknot %of joy, & we knew we were %beautiful & dangerous Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Sports SLEEPER, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I was the sissy of the block who nobody wanted on their %team Last Line: If only he could find the special role Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Sports SLEIGH RIDE, by ARTHUR GRISCOM Poem Source First Line: When all the world is robed in white Subject(s): Sports; Winter SLEIGH-RIDE SONG, by J. D. VINTON Poem Source First Line: The silver moon is beaming Subject(s): Sports; Winter SLEIGHING, by ORRIN CHALFONT PAINTER Poem Source First Line: Brightly beams the moon tonight Subject(s): Sports; Winter SLIDE, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: Level %as the field Last Line: By blood, relieved by dirt Subject(s): Baseball; Sports SLOW, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I go out to find whatever comes %but the first fifteen minutes Last Line: After the first two hours %(when it gets easier) Subject(s): Sports SMALL MIRACLES, by MARCIA SOUTHWICK Poem Source First Line: Knitting lessons on the terrace. The old neighborhood Last Line: And your highest goal is the perfectly struck golf ball Subject(s): Golf; Miracles; Perfection; Sports SNORKELING IN THE CARIBBEAN, by ALIXA DOOM Poem Source First Line: Flapping flippered feet Subject(s): Sports SNOW SHOE TRAMP, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Up! Up! The morn is breaking Subject(s): Sports; Winter SNOWSHOE TRAIL, by ISAAC RUSLING PENNYPACKER Poem Source First Line: Out on the open windswept spaces Subject(s): Sports; Winter SNOWSHOE TRAMP, by BEATRICE HARLOWE Poem Source First Line: Away, away o'er the glittering snow Subject(s): Sports; Winter SNOWSHOER, by THEODORE GOODRIDGE ROBERTS Poem Source First Line: Under the moon and the stars Alternate Author Name(s): Roberts, T. G. Subject(s): Sports; Winter SNOWSHOERS SONG, by JOSEPH NEVIN DOYLE Poem Source First Line: Tighten the toque, and girdle the sash Subject(s): Sports; Winter SOCCER, by LEE BENNETT HOPKINS Poem Source First Line: Twenty-two %prayers Last Line: Sacred %ball Subject(s): Sports SOFTBALL AT JULIA TUTWILER PRISON, by RODNEY THEODORE SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The pitcher shot her husband Last Line: For guilt and the electric fence, %swing like hell for all of us Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, R. T. Subject(s): Softball; Sports SOFTBALL DREAMS, by KAREN KEVORKIAN Poem Source First Line: I did not know why I liked it, all the waiting Subject(s): Softball; Sports SOLITARY PRACTICE, by WILLIAM REVAS Poem Source First Line: Dribble, dribble and shoot Last Line: Why can't I do this in a game Subject(s): Basketball; Sports SOME PRACTICE, by JR. JAMES ROSCOE GRABILL Poem Source First Line: The object might be the subject Last Line: You can do what you do %roundly, in clarity Subject(s): Basketball; Sports SOMETIME SPORTSMAN GREETS THE SPRING, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When winter's glaze is lifted from the greens Subject(s): Sports; Spring SOMETIMES THE YANKEES LOVE US BACK, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source Last Line: All the world's %pain with him Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports SONG BIRD OF THE SPRING, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: You make talk about your bobolinks, and the Last Line: But the umpire is the bird of birds, the song-bird of the spring! Subject(s): Baseball; Birds; Sports; Spring SONG OF CONSOLATION FOR POOR GOLFERS, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Golf is an art, a timely knack Last Line: So when you err with game at stake %part wity your pelf %then tell yourself %few great men ninety ev Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Golf; Sports SONG OF RACQUETBALL, by DAVID ALLAN EVANS Poem Source First Line: I celebrate racquetball and sing racquetball Last Line: I sit here close to the phone, waiting for you Subject(s): Racquetball; Sports SONG OF SNOHOMISH, by WILLIAM S. WALLACE Poem Source First Line: Catfish, mudcat, ducky, coot Subject(s): Sports SONG OF THE CHAMOIS HUNTER, by THOMAS BUCHANAN READ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, brave may be those bands, perchance Subject(s): Sports; Winter SONG OF THE FISHERMAN'S LOVER, by ROSEANN LLOYD Poem Source First Line: You stump your way through the tangled Subject(s): Sports SONG OF THE SKI, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A king, I ween, it must have been Subject(s): Sports; Winter SONG: TAKE WHO TAKES YOU, by FRED GARDNER Poem Source First Line: Ice man, magic, bird and mcadoo Subject(s): Sports SONGS OF THE CANADIAN WINTER, by JAMES K. LISTON Poem Source First Line: Down the st. Lawrence winter storms begin Subject(s): Sports; Winter SONJA HENIE SONNET, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In high school we danced trhe lindy white-style Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Sports SORING, by KENT CARTWRIGHT Poem Source First Line: The pass zaps Subject(s): Sports SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#24), by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A common goal-to defy gravity Last Line: He is not mass but ballast %his fingerprints are intimate with gravity Subject(s): Athletes; Sports SPEAKING IN TONGUES, by GARY GILDNER Poem Source First Line: In a light just right Last Line: And my guys are trying hard to catch %the lingo and the rhythm Subject(s): Baseball; Sports SPEARTHROWER, by LILLIAN MORRISON Poem Source First Line: She walks alone %to the edge of the park Last Line: Come on! Subject(s): Sports SPEED, by MONICA KULLING Poem Source First Line: No hands %down the hill Last Line: All I need Subject(s): Sports SPIEL, by HALVARD JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Touching the leg of a girl Subject(s): Sports SPIRIT OF THE CARNIVAL, by LILY ALICE LEFEVRE Poem Source First Line: Onward! The people shouted Last Line: Their honour brilliant as thy skies, %and stainless as thy snow! Subject(s): Sports; Winter SPITBALLER, by FRED CHAPPELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A poet because his hand goes first Last Line: He draws a second salary as maintenance man. %since while he pitches he waters the lawn Subject(s): Baseball; Sports SPORT STORY OF A WINNER, by GLYN MAXWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He was a great ambassador for the game Subject(s): Sports SPORTING WITHOUT A LICENSE, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a charm when spring is young Last Line: What charm of life is wanting? Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Charm; Death; Hunting; Singing & Singers; Sports; Spring; Dead, The; Hunters SPORTS, by MARIE HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Manny loves the gear. The cleats and shin pads, the balls and bats, clubs Last Line: Rink music, weaving through the fabric of slower couples like a tailor's %needle. There's a pretty g Subject(s): Activity; Adolescence; Boys; Skiing; Sports SPORTS SUNDAYS, by ROBERT MICHAEL O'HEARN Poem Source First Line: A jolt & hue, a cry of humanity Last Line: In those spaniard streets %sunday after sunday Subject(s): Spain; Sports SPORTSFAN, by GERALD WILLIAM BARRAX Poem Source First Line: Its appearance is human Last Line: To marry one Subject(s): Sports SPRING, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: Even the grass is yearning Last Line: Where birds don't sing Subject(s): Baseball; Sports SPRING FEVER, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: My right shoulder aches when snow melts, %air softens, and baseballs Last Line: Citizen, old ballplayer that I am, I walk %my aching shoulder home Subject(s): Balls; Baseball; Boys; Sports; Youth SPRING PLOWING, 1965, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: The game of the week calls Last Line: His voice crackling %among the ruins Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports SPRING THAW, by MARK VINZ Poem Source First Line: Up and down march streets Last Line: Last time mother calling more Subject(s): Basketball; Sports SPRING TRAINING DREAM, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: Under the gray blanket of cold Last Line: Spinning with raised seams cutting through air Subject(s): Baseball; Sports SPRINGBOARD, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Like divers, we ourselves must make the jump Last Line: Swifter, more sure than any will of ours Subject(s): Sports SQUIRE EBBETS, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: He gave the game all that he had--the game Last Line: "when will we see one like ""the squire"" again?" Subject(s): Baseball; Sports STADIUM, by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The stadium is filled, %for this is the third night the moon Last Line: Would weep softly in the dark aisles, %catching their difficult breath Subject(s): Baseball; Sports STALLION, FR. SONG OF MYSELF, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A gigantic beauty of a stallion, fresh and responsive to my Subject(s): Sports STANDING BROAD JUMP, by RICHARD FROST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Good at something, I practiced till I broke Last Line: And fly my whole ten feet to the measured sand Subject(s): Sports STELAE, by JOHN OLIVER SIMON Poem Source First Line: There are stelae from palenque Subject(s): Baseball; Sports STEPPING DOWN, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Going out of the big league Last Line: I am not yet thirty-three! Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Sports; Success STICKBALL AT CHARLESTOWN HIGH, by CHARLES FANNING Poem Source First Line: The scoring is easy Last Line: There is no traffic %and the kids are safe. %today is sunday Subject(s): Baseball; Sports STILL HUNTING, by DON WELCH Poem Source First Line: Once there were mallards ahead of a blizzard Subject(s): Aging; Sports STOLEN BASES, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: I run the northern-prairie, small-town blocks Last Line: The half hour after I run, coming down, coming down Subject(s): Balls; Baseball; Boys; Sports STORM SURF, by GREG PAPE Poem Source First Line: Rumor had it there had been %a bell of a storm or a tsunami Last Line: Carried out of the sea in strong %but humble arms Subject(s): Sports STRANGE CASE OF THE AMBITIOUS CADDY, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Once upon a time there was a boy named robin bideawee Last Line: Tomorrow you shall caddy for odgen nash Subject(s): Golf; Sports STRANGE PEOPLE, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All night I am the doe, breathing Last Line: All day, asleep in clean grasses, %I dream of the one who could really wound me Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Native Americans; Sports STRATEGY FOR A MARATHON, by MARNIE MUELLER Poem Source First Line: I will start Subject(s): Sports STRIKE ZONE, by FRED CHAPPELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Like the presidency its size Last Line: But gives no sign. %ball 3 Subject(s): Baseball; Sports STRIKING OUT MY SON IN THE FATHER-SON GAME, by RON SMITH Poem Source First Line: Caught in the open in broad daylight Subject(s): Baseball; Sports STRINGBEAN SMALL, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stringbean small was tall and trim Subject(s): Basketball; Sports STRINGBEAN SMALL, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Stringbean small was tall and trim Last Line: The coach screamed, 'stop! Don't nibble it! %I wanted you to dribble it!' Subject(s): Basketball; Sports STRUGNELL'S RUBAIYAT: 1, by WENDY COPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Awake! For the morning on the pitch of night Last Line: The incandescent football in the east %has brought the splendour of tulse hill to light Subject(s): Fitzgerald, Edward (1809-1883); Football; Sports STUTTERING UMPIRE, by ROBERT KIRKLAND KERNINGHAM Poem Source First Line: Oh, we had our share of trouble Subject(s): Baseball; Sports SUICIDE, by JUDY GOLDMAN Poem Source First Line: The newspaper lied. %they did not find you Last Line: As if there were nothing at all %left to explain Subject(s): Baseball; Sports SUNDAY SKATERS, by MARY JO SALTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: These days Last Line: Lines over, and over again Subject(s): Sports SURFERS AT SANTA CRUZ, by PAUL GOODMAN Poem Source First Line: They have come by carloads Subject(s): Sports SWIMMER, by ROBERT FRANCIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Observe how he negotiates his way Subject(s): Sports SWIMMER, by ROBERT FRANCIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Observe how he negotiates his way Last Line: To float. - the swimmer floats, the lover sleeps Subject(s): Sports SWIMMER, by CONSTANCE KLING LEVY Poem Source First Line: The sun %underwater Last Line: To what fish feel %and think about Subject(s): Sports SWIMMING IN THE PACIFIC, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At sunset my foot outreached the mounting pacific's Last Line: Saw your face, slow, take shape, %like a dream that all years had moved to Subject(s): Sports SWINGING ON THE FIRST PITCH, by DABNEY STUART Poem Source First Line: You go up there cocked Last Line: Delivers. It's a fast ball, %big as a globe, 110 %miles an hour, coming %right at your head Subject(s): Baseball; Sports SWITCH HITTER, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: I miss pitching so much %don't miss it at all, sick of it Last Line: I've seen enough, heard enough %wonder who they're playing tonight? Subject(s): Baseball; Sports TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALL GAME, by JACK NORWOOD Poem Source First Line: Nelly kelly loved baseball games Last Line: At the old ball game Subject(s): Baseball; Sports TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALL GAME, by JACK NORWORTH Poem Source Subject(s): Sports TALLY-HO, by SAMUEL MATHEWSON BAYLIS Poem Source First Line: I sing you a song tonight, my lads Subject(s): Sports; Winter TAO IN THE YANKEE STADIUM BLEACHERS, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Distance brings proportion. From here Last Line: Hold motionless while berra flies to left Subject(s): Baseball; Chinese Literature; Sports TAO IN THE YANKEE STADIUM BLEACHERS, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Distance brings proportion. From here Last Line: And, distant as a paradise, experts, passionate and deft, %wait while berra flies to left Subject(s): Baseball; Chinese Literature; Sports TARGET, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: He is leaning over Last Line: Extra %s l o w. %just enough Subject(s): Basketball; Sports TEACHING A GIRL TO SKATE, by THOMAS WINTHROP HALL Poem Source First Line: Oh, there's nothing in all the world so fine Subject(s): Sports; Winter TELEPATHY, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: Skip scampers out %reaches me at the hill Last Line: To his pillbox %safe from the line of fire Subject(s): Baseball; Sports TEN TO LEARN, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: 1. Tie laces tight knot two times then tuck in ends Last Line: 10. H a v e a l l t h e s w e a t y w e t f u n Subject(s): Basketball; Sports TENNIS, by ELWYN BROOKS WHITE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Circled by trees, ringed with the faded folding chairs Alternate Author Name(s): White, E. B. Subject(s): Sports TENNIS IN THE CITY, by FRANK HIGGINS Poem Source First Line: He could help us out %selling papers or sacking groceries Last Line: And I want you to start staying %in that alley an hour longer, hear? Subject(s): Sports; Tennis THAT HOCKEY GAME, by JR. E. C. POTTER Poem Source First Line: What is that noise that rings out clear Subject(s): Sports; Winter THE ACE OF THE RACE, by WAYNE B. WALTERS Poem Text First Line: Speed, nerve and thrills galore Last Line: The end of a perfect day. Subject(s): Automobile Racing; Sports; Victory; Race Car Driving THE AMATEUR, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: He doesn't play the game for glory Last Line: Won't even know what it is all about! Subject(s): Baseball; Games; Ignorance; Man-woman Relationships; Sports; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Dullness; Stupdity; Male-female Relations THE BALL POEM, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is the boy now, who has lost his ball Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Sports THE BASE STEALER, by ROBERT FRANCIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poised between going on and back, pulled Subject(s): Baseball; Sports THE BASEBALL PLAYERS, by DONALD HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Against the bright Subject(s): Baseball; Sports THE BIG GAME--HERE AND OVER THERE, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Stands are packed and bleachers crowded Last Line: "shall call ""safe"" ere evening falls!" Variant Title(s): The Big Game-here And Over There Subject(s): Baseball; Soldiers; Sports; War; World War I; First World War THE BOY ON FIRST, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forgive me, folks, if I am proud Last Line: Your dad is proud of every day. Subject(s): Baseball; Sports THE BULLPEN PITCHER, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The beaver and the busy bee Last Line: A bullpen pitcher—that is all! Subject(s): Baseball; Labor & Laborers; Sports; Work; Workers THE CATCH, by RAYMOND CARVER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Happy to have these fish Subject(s): Sports THE CATCHER, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Like a rhinoceros, in style and grace Last Line: And he holds on—the mainstay of the team! Variant Title(s): The Old Catcher Subject(s): Aging; Athletes; Baseball; Sports THE CHAMPION'S BAT, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Heavy and thick and long Last Line: Where is the champion now? Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Sports THE CHEER LEADER, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Arrayed in white, e'en on the coldest day Last Line: A reigning sovereign, in imperial poise! Subject(s): Collective Behavior; College Sports; Sports; Mobs; Crowds THE CHICKEN; OR, MY FIRST INTRODUCTION TO THE ANCIENT GAME OF GOLF, by S. F. OUTWOOD Poem Text First Line: Once upon a day most dreary, I was wandering weak and weary Last Line: And would play it never more! Subject(s): Games; Golf; Sports; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE CHRISTENING OF THE STADIUM, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: It was the greatest game that year that mortal ever / saw Last Line: The celebrated christening in famous oughty-three. Subject(s): Competition; Memory; Sports; Youth THE CLOSING OF THE RODEO, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poet's Biography First Line: The lariat snaps, the cowboy rolls Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Rodeos; Sports; Work; Workers THE COLLEGE CHEER, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The football heroes are but shapes that go Last Line: To tell how the college spirit never dies! Subject(s): College Sports; Football; Sports; Universities & Colleges THE COMEBACK, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: He made a rep in the minors, and he thought Last Line: "(and it's cost you a lot of money) that at last you are wanting me!" Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Conceit; Money; Sports THE CRICKET BAT SINGS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "willow and cane is all I am, with a wisp of waxen thread" Last Line: "willow and cane is all I am, yet look at the hosts I sway" Subject(s): Country Life;cricket (game);sports THE CRICKET FIELD AT GERMANTOWN, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The field-the fair and level green Last Line: As when a victory is won! Subject(s): Cricket (game); Sports; Sports - Arenas And Stadia THE DEACON, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The deacon wandered forth one day and saw a Last Line: He now stands for good, clean ball games, even on the sabbath day! Subject(s): Baseball; Clergy; Sabbath; Sports; Temptation; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Sunday THE DEATH OF THE RACE CAR DRIVER, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have not slept for a week. / it is matchless-this feeling Last Line: Sack for eternity. Subject(s): Automobile Racing; Dreams; Insomnia; Memory; Sports; War; Race Car Driving; Nightmares; Sleeplessness THE DIVER, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN Poet's Biography First Line: Sank through easeful Subject(s): Scuba Diving; Sea; Sports; Ocean THE DUMB BELLE, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: What cares the dumb belle for the baseball game? Last Line: And yet, you simp, you'll take her there again! Subject(s): Baseball; Ignorance; Sports; Women; Dullness; Stupdity THE EIGHTH INNING, by DONALD HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Kurt, terror is merely the thesis Subject(s): Sports THE FAN, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: He's out there, freezing on the chilly bleachers Last Line: Where would be this good old game of ball? Subject(s): Baseball; Sports; Sports - Arenas And Stadia THE FAN BLUES, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: They say that the winter is gentle and mild Last Line: Oh, misery! Subject(s): Baseball; Grief; Sports; Sorrow; Sadness THE FIFTH INNING, by DONALD HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Kurt, last night dwight evans put it all Subject(s): Sports THE FINISH, by DANIEL GERARD HOFFMAN Poet's Biography First Line: The first runner reached us Subject(s): Sports THE FISH, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I caught a tremendous fish Subject(s): Environment; Fish & Fishing; Sea; Sports; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Anglers; Ocean THE FOOTBALL CASABIANCA, by WILBUR DICK NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The boy stood on the football field Last Line: "they get some gasoline!" Subject(s): College Sports; Fields; Football; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE GENTLEMEN CRICKETERS' TEAM, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: I've a toast to propose you -- so, gentlemen, hand on Last Line: "the health of ""the gentlemen cricketers' team." Subject(s): Cricket (game); Sports THE GLORIOUS TOUCHDOWN, by GEORGE ADE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the crisp autumnal zephyrs whistle through the leafless trees Last Line: By going into training — the result will be the same. Subject(s): Athletes; Football; Sports; Track Athletics; Victory; Running Races; Pole Vaulting; Discus Throwing; Shot Putting; Running Hurdles THE GLORY OF THE GAME, by WILLIAM HAMILTON CLINE Poem Text First Line: A song to the football players Last Line: And the honors and glories he bears! Subject(s): Football; Games; Play; Sports; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE GOFF; AN HEROI-COMICAL POEM: CANTO 3. VICTORY ON THE LAST GREEN, by THOMAS MATHISON Poem Text First Line: To free the ball the chief now turns his mind Last Line: The echoing shore resounds castalio's name. Subject(s): Balls; Golf; Sports; Victory THE GOLF LINKS, by SARAH NORCLIFFE CLEGHORN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The golf links lie so near the mill Last Line: And see the men at play. Variant Title(s): Quatrain Subject(s): Child Labor; Golf; Social Protest; Sports THE GREEN GRENADIERS, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: If your sporting blood is royal you won't curse me if / I'm loyal Last Line: For my heart is with the big green grenadiers. Subject(s): Football; Sports; Universities & Colleges THE HUMMER, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: First he drew a strike zone Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Baseball; Sports THE HUNT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: We have no mind to reach that pole Last Line: With all our faculties in play. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): England; Hunting; Sports; English; Hunters THE LIFEGUARD, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a stable of boats I lie still Subject(s): Lifeguards; Sports THE LITTLE TOBOGGAN, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Interpretation is an overworked word Last Line: For them it is heaven to climb and to ride. Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Sports Utility Vehicles; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE LOSER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: And the next I remembered I'm on a table Last Line: And I’ve been fighting / ever since Subject(s): Sports THE LOSING HABIT, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: When you get the losing habit, it is hard, so Last Line: When that losing habit lingers grimly by your side! Subject(s): Baseball; Habits; Sports THE MANAGER, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: When all goes wrong, and when your dear old club Last Line: To give the manager your loud applause? Subject(s): Baseball; Leadership; Sports THE MIDNIGHT SKATERS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hop-poles stand in cones Last Line: And let him hate you through the glass. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Death; England; Landscape; Skating & Skaters; Sports; Dead, The; English THE MIDNIGHT TENNIS MATCH, by THOMAS LUX Poet's Biography First Line: You are tired / of this maudlin country club / and you are tired of his insults Subject(s): Sports; Tennis THE NIGHT GAME, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some of us believe Subject(s): Baseball; Fasts & Feasts; Ford, Edward ('whitey'); Jews; Koufax, Sandy; Sports; Worship; Yom Kippur; Judaism THE NO-HIT GAME, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Round after round they were falling, nobody Last Line: "yet they kept on repeating, ""that bird ain't got a darned thing!" Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Sports THE NUDE SWIM, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the southwest side of capri Subject(s): God; Religion; Sports; Theology THE OFFICIAL SCORER, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: He sits down in the press-box, knowing well Last Line: Is general derision and the razz! Subject(s): Anger; Baseball; Labor & Laborers; Sports; Work; Workers THE OLD CATCHER, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The aged catcher dons his mask- Last Line: The backbone of the team! Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Old Age; Sports THE OLD PINE TREE, by WILLIAM HENRY DRUMMOND Poem Text First Line: Listen my child,' said the old pine tree to the little one nestling near Last Line: "drifts are lying." Subject(s): Snow; Sports; Winter THE OLD PITCHER, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: He hobbles lamely from the bench Last Line: Those boys with iron hand! Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Knowledge; Old Age; Sports THE OLD-TIMER, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Show me a catcher like ewing-- Last Line: "about ""the advance of the game""!" Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Sports; Success THE ORIGIN OF BASEBALL, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Someone had been walking in and out Subject(s): Anger; Baseball; Sports THE PIKE, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The river turns Subject(s): Sports THE PITCHER, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The pitcher stands upon the hill, his pose is won- Last Line: "aw take him out! For mikes' sake, take him out!" Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Failure; Sports THE QUARTERBACK, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: He's a lively little fellow, much the smallest in Last Line: Yet this battered little demon turns up grinning at the close! Subject(s): College Sports; Football; Sports THE RABBIT-HUNTER, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Careless and still Last Line: To comprehend Subject(s): Sports THE RACING CARS, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The great cars careening come roaring round the curve Last Line: Throbbed away through chaos that claimed the dragon breed! Subject(s): Automobile Racing; Competition; Driving & Drivers; Sports; Race Car Driving THE RED AND THE RED AND BLACK, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: When the big red team and the red and black Last Line: Big red and red and black! Subject(s): College Sports; Football THE RIGHT CROSS, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun rising over the mountains Subject(s): Sports THE ROUNDHOUSE VOICES, by DAVE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In full glare of sunlight I came here, man-tall but thin Subject(s): Baseball; Railroads; Sports; Railways; Trains THE RUBAIYAT OF BASEBALL, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The spring approaches, and each eager fan Last Line: "the season's coming—""and the game's still there!" Variant Title(s): The Rubaiyat Of Battle Subject(s): Baseball; Sports THE RUNNER, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On a flat road runs the well-train'd runner Last Line: With lightly closed fists and arms partially rais'd. Subject(s): Athletes; Sports THE SCOUT, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: He ranges in the little, scrubby circuits Last Line: And he does that—he fires the luckless scout! Subject(s): Baseball; Scouting & Scouts; Sports THE SIDEWALK RACER, OR ON THE SKATEBOARD, by LILLIAN MORRISON Poem Text First Line: Skimming / an asphalt sea Subject(s): Imagination; Skating & Skaters; Sports; Fancy THE SKATERS, by GRACE W. LEACH Poem Text First Line: Above the frozen floods Last Line: Silently by. Subject(s): Skating & Skaters; Sports THE SLUGGER'S FAREWELL TO HIS WAR CLUB, by C. P. MCDONALD Poem Text First Line: Farewell, good old pal of the national pastime Last Line: And now we must travel our separate ways. Subject(s): Clubs (associations); Farewell; Games; Sports; Travel; Parting; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Journeys; Trips THE SOMETIME SPORTSMAN GREETS THE SPRING, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When winter's glaze is lifted from the greens Last Line: Hope springs eternally, but spring hopes fade Subject(s): Sports; Spring THE SOUTHPAW, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: They kid him and they razz him, and the fans Last Line: And yet—somehow—the southpaws often win! Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Sports THE SPORTING EDITOR, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The morning finds him with a thousand friends Last Line: So they all squawk and hand the scribe the razz! Subject(s): Editors; Sports THE STADIUM, by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stadium is filled, / for this is the third night the moon Subject(s): Baseball; Sports THE STRANGE PEOPLE, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All night I am the doe, breathing Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Native Americans; Sports; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE VOYAGEUR, by WILLIAM HENRY DRUMMOND Poem Text First Line: Dere's somet'ing stirrin' ma blood tonight Last Line: An' drink to de voyageur. Subject(s): Sports; Winter THE WAY OF AN INDIAN, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The red man ranged the forests--hunted game Last Line: He's civilized, but he has lots of fun! Subject(s): College Sports; Football THEN BLUE, by MARTIE MCCLEERY PALAR Poem Source First Line: Swirl or print, letters straight or slant Last Line: The wind is your hand, images course like stars Subject(s): Sports THEY ALL MUST FALL, by MUHAMMAD ALI Poem Source Subject(s): Sports THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD GIRLS AND HANDSOME KEVIN MAAS, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: Before he drives the ball Last Line: When he turns on a pitch Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports THIS MIGHT BE HITTING THE BASEBALL, by STEVEN REESE Poem Source First Line: Of course there's the brain's play-by-play Last Line: Spending the night - some twist or turn %that meant everything Subject(s): Baseball; Sports THIS SHORT GIRL, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: With %long %colt %legs Last Line: My %b u t t. %b a b y %sis ter Subject(s): Basketball; Sports THIS TERM THE SILVER SPOKES, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: Can spin and fly and clutch Last Line: On my m o v I n g feet Subject(s): Basketball; Sports THOUGHTS AFTER A FORTY MILE BIKE RIDE, by ROY WESSON Poem Source First Line: My feet Last Line: Are beat Subject(s): Sports THURMAN DREAMING IN RIGHT FIELD, by PAUL ZIMMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In right field I am so far out Last Line: In that far field where %I am dreaaming once again Subject(s): Baseball; Sports THURMAN MUNSON, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: Get me out of here, you said Last Line: Get me out of here, please Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports THURMAN'S SLUMPING BLUES, by PAUL ZIMMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One day out in right field Last Line: The paper tells me that %this is last place Subject(s): Baseball; Sports TIES, by DABNEY STUART Poem Source First Line: When I faded back to pass Last Line: Beneath the dark, like a star Subject(s): Sports TIME TO QUIT, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: I'm warmin up in san francisco Last Line: A shower %and a quick flight home Subject(s): Baseball; Sports TO A MAIDEN; WINNER IN THE THOUSAND-METER RACE, by HENRY DE MONTHERLANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let me look at you in silence, until I lower my head Last Line: The old, virgin surprise of the savage beholding a maid. Subject(s): Athletes; Health; Mothers; Sports; Victory TO A MAYFLY, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Hampshire woods are in summer's keeping Last Line: Wait till saturday, then you'll see! Subject(s): Golf; Sports TO ALEXANDER THE GREAT, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: No more he walks across the field Last Line: When he comes home again! Subject(s): Alexander, Grover Cleveland (1887-1950); Athletes; Baseball; Soldiers; Sports; World War I; First World War TO BEAR BRYANT, SOMEWHERE ON THAT TALLER TOWER, by DON WELCH Poem Source First Line: In innocence the lines of our palms Subject(s): Sports TO BERT CAMPANERIS, by THOMAS WILLARD CLARK Poem Source First Line: You've had your problems Last Line: How good you know english %fon't count for everything Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Tom Subject(s): Baseball; Sports TO COMFORT CATCHERS OF THE KNUCKLEBALL, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: Yes, there's a moment before the knuckler Last Line: And the mind itself floats and twists Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports TO KATE, SKATING BETTER THAN HER DATE, by DAVID DAICHES Poem Source First Line: Wait, kate! You skate at such rate Last Line: And don't you want to hear him, kate? Subject(s): Skating And Skaters; Sports TO KILL A DEER, by CAROL FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Into the changes of autumn brush / the doe walked, and the hide, head and ears Last Line: Heard riot in the emptied head Subject(s): Hunting; Sports; Hunters TO KILL A DEER, by CAROL FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Into the changes of autumn brush Subject(s): Hunting; Deer; Hunting; Sports; Hunters TO KILL A DEER, by CAROL FROST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Into the changes of autumn brush %the doe walked, and the hide, head and ears Last Line: The night wind blowing through her fur, %bread riot in the emptied head Subject(s): Hunting; Sports TO MATTINGLY IN THE SHADOW OF HIS AILING BACK, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: Dark notes in the cheering now Last Line: Leading fans through the deep, rich woods of your bat Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports TO MY HOCKEY STICK, by VIOLET HELEN FRIEDLAENDER Poem Source First Line: Time's up! The season starting next october Subject(s): Sports; Winter TO OUR CAPTAIN (ON THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN ANSON), by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: They have waited--waited yonder for their captain of the past Last Line: Such was the towering commander—such was the captain we knew! Subject(s): Anson, Adrian (cap) (1852-1922); Baseball; Leadership; Past; Sports TO SATCH, by SAMUEL ALLEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I feel like I will never stop Last Line: And look over at god and say %how about that! Alternate Author Name(s): Vesey, Paul Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Sports TO SWIM, TO BELIEVE (CENTRE COLLEGE, DANVILLE, KENTUCKY), by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The beautiful excess of jesus on the waters Last Line: Together I am supplicant. I am bride Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Sports; Swimming TO THE FIELD GOAL KICKER IN A SLUMP, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It must be something Subject(s): Sports TO THE FIELD GOAL KICKER IN A SLUMP, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It must be something Subject(s): Sports TO THE MAN SAYING COME ON SEIS AT HOLLYWOOD PARK, by DAVID HAYWARD Poem Source First Line: All the great jockeys were born premature Last Line: Must look to the horse who's won them Subject(s): Sports TOBOGGAN SONG, by HORACE SPENCER FISKE Poem Source First Line: Tonight, how crisp the air Subject(s): Sports; Winter TOMORROW!, by MILTON BRACKER Poem Source First Line: Hoorah! Hooray! Last Line: Back in flower! Subject(s): Sports TOO MUCH COUE, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The pitcher stood upon the mound Last Line: And then the maddened umpire spoke—and gave them both the gate! Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Failure; Sports TOOLS OF A SCHOLAR, by LOUIS DOMINICK SCALZETTO Poem Source First Line: Bronx bomber bill dickey Last Line: You can vision bill dickey and his tools of a scholar Subject(s): Baseball; Sports TOOLS OF CONTENTION, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: In winter I'd find whitey ford's curve Last Line: With my finger traced their very backbones Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports TOUCH FOOTBALL, by JACK DRISCOLL Poem Source First Line: I tackle my father so hard Last Line: Still grips our empty hearts, awakened %and unable to forgive Subject(s): Aging; Sports TRACKIN' RABBITS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The fleecy flakes come fallin' down Subject(s): Sports; Winter TRAGEDIES, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The pitcher had a no-hit game Last Line: This mark for quip and banter! Subject(s): Humorists; Sports TRASH CAN'S ALL RIGHT FOR BASKETBALL, by RICHARD J. MARGOLIS Poem Source Last Line: If you don't want to lean, %keep your city clean Subject(s): Basketball; Sports TRASH ON THE COURT, by JR. CHARLES R. SMITH Poem Source First Line: Didn't I see a picture of your Last Line: Cause I'm %raining all %over you!' Subject(s): Basketball; Sports TRYING TO CATCH UP, by GARY GILDNER Poem Source First Line: I'm coaching the warsaw baseball team Last Line: And throwing - ok, strong as bulls - %but looking as if they're about to fall over Subject(s): Baseball; Sports; Warsaw, Poland TWELFTH NIGHT SONG, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Heaped be the fagots high Subject(s): Sports; Winter TWO WRESTLERS, by ROBERT FRANCIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Two bronzes, but they were passing bronze before Last Line: One wrestler challenging-oh how unsafe- %himself Subject(s): Sports; Wrestling And Wrestlers TWO YEARS RETIRED, BOBBY MURCER MAKES A COMEBACK BID, 1985, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: After your ascent into the Last Line: As you dream back your speed, %run faster then you can run Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports TWO!, by JERRY SPINELLI Poem Source First Line: Lost amid %the bleachers' squall Last Line: Of net to ball Subject(s): Basketball; Sports TYRONE (3), by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The governor has sent out Last Line: And if we buffalo soldiers was sports fans %we sure would cheer Subject(s): Baseball; Robinson, Jackie (1919-1972); Sports ULYSSES, by CLAUDE CLAYTON SMITH Poem Source First Line: There is yet some elastic Subject(s): Sports UMPIRE, by WALKER GIBSON Poem Source First Line: Everyone knows he's blind as a bat Last Line: People like to watch baseball games, %where things are not to be confused with names Subject(s): Baseball; Sports UNEVEN PARALLEL BARS, by PATRICIA GARY Poem Source First Line: Twisting swing a Subject(s): Sports UNITAS, by EDWARD GOLD Poem Source First Line: Dignified and thin Subject(s): Sports UNSOUND CONDITION, by RICHARD ARMOUR Poem Source First Line: They're checking the ping-pong ball Subject(s): Sports VERS LIBRE OF BASEBALL, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The veteran stands forth and swings a bat Last Line: "get outa here!" Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Competition; Sports VERSES FROM THE 'ANNALIA DUBRENSIA', by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You faire assemblies that renowne Last Line: Rarius eveniunt solatia—— Subject(s): Animals; Games; Horseback Riding; Hunting; Rabbits; Sports; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Hunters; Hares VICTORY CALYPSO, by EGBERT MOORE Poem Source First Line: Cricket, lovely cricket Last Line: After all was said and done, %second test and west indies won! Subject(s): Cricket (game); Sports VITAI LAMPADA, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a breathless hush in the close tonight Last Line: "play up! Play up! And play the game!" Variant Title(s): The Torch Of Life;play The Game Subject(s): Cricket (game); England; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Patriotism; Sports; War; English; British Empire; England - Empire VIVE LE ROI!, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: One in a long dark pigtail cries Last Line: The noble game of basket ball Subject(s): Basketball;games;sports; Recreation;pastimes;amusements VOCATIONS, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: My attorney said %'we've gotta get you a job' Last Line: I don't think well with a suit on Subject(s): Baseball; Retirement; Sports VOLLEYBALL MATCH, by WILLIAM (BILL) PEARLMAN Poem Source First Line: Now we gathered for the match Subject(s): Sports WALTER JOHNSON, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: He may not have the arm of old-- Last Line: It's still darned hard to hit him! Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Johnson, Walter (1887-1946); Sports WAR AGAINST BABE RUTH, by STEVEN GOLDLEAF Poem Source First Line: The elegant japanese general listens to his infantry Subject(s): Baseball; Sports WASTED ENERGY, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The new-come pitcher, tall and strong Last Line: That he was deaf and dumb! Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Deafness; Sports WATCH ME SWING, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I was the fifth man hired Last Line: Yelling, 'watch me swing, boss, %watch me swing' Subject(s): Baseball; Hispanic Americans; Sports; Welfare WATCHFUL WAITING, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Nothing to do but sit around-- Last Line: Muster their clans in the south! Subject(s): Baseball; Longing; Sports; Waiting; Winter WATCHING FOOTBALL ON TV, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It used to be only sunday afternoons Subject(s): Sports WATCHING TACKLES IN SLOW MOTION, by DAVID ALLAN EVANS Poem Source First Line: Up floats the turf the shark is rising Subject(s): Sports WATCHING THE JETS LOSE TO BUFFALO AT SHEA, by MAY SWENSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The feel of that leather baby Subject(s): Sports WATER & LIGHT, by NOAH BLAUSTEIN Poem Source First Line: It was too soon %to think of her passing Last Line: Let the wind mix the salt into my brow Subject(s): Sports; Surfing WE MILDLY WONDER, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Sometimes we wonder why the timely hit Last Line: —omar kayenne. Subject(s): Baseball; Sports WE START WITH EARLY MORNING, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: Even before the school bus Last Line: The ball is always in my hand Subject(s): Basketball; Sports WE STILL HAVE BASKETBALL, SARA, by LISA OLSTEIN Poem Source First Line: That one long year we moved %in and out of each other's rooms Last Line: About ewing's broken wrist, I was sorry %I ever gloated over his bad knees Subject(s): Sports WEST IS WEST, by WILLIAM (BILL) PEARLMAN Poem Source First Line: Whenever stardom in light Last Line: Scoring at the edge of the key Subject(s): Basketball; Sports WHAT THEY DO TO YOU IN DISTANT PLACES, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I never told you %there was a woman - in the greening season Last Line: In the gross odors of my labors %if I had known what she was doing %perhaps she's with you now Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Sports WHAT'S THE SCORE?, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's football, baseball, auto, yacht Last Line: "the open outcome, ""what's the score?" Subject(s): Sports WHEN FATHER PLAYED BASEBALL, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The smell of arnica is strong Last Line: The day he played baseball. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Baseball; Fathers & Sons; Sports WHEN FOR WEEKS THE SEA IS FLAT, by RICK NOGUCHI Poem Source First Line: Wherever kenji takezo goes %he must surf %the perfect ride Last Line: Even though the largest wave ever %was not coming to drown him Subject(s): Sports WHEN I GOT IT RIGHT, by CARL LINDNER Poem Source First Line: The ball would lift Subject(s): Basketball; Sports WHEN I WAS A KID, by LILLIAN MORRISON Poem Source First Line: I played outfield %in the stickball games Last Line: No smiling white mustaches, %no happy red face Subject(s): Baseball; Sports WHEN IT IS OVER GOD SLIPS A FINGER INTO THE MIDDLE OF YANKEE ST., by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source Last Line: We become %heartbeats in god Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports WHEN MY FRIEND WALTER SAYS, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: We are going to play some ball Last Line: Through %one %steel %hoop Subject(s): Basketball; Sports WHEN THAT SPIRAL AT THE FINISH, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source Last Line: Off the ladder of his bones Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports WHEN THE BABE STORMED NEW YORK, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: The snows burned brighter Last Line: In a hundred years Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Ruth, George Herman (babe) (1895-1948); Sports WHEN THE CELTICS LOSE, by RALPH FLETCHER Poem Source First Line: My face has crusted Last Line: The sound of one bird's sad song Subject(s): Basketball; Sports WHERE'S THE BALL?, by ROBERT L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: They found the hoops Last Line: Were just having fun Subject(s): Basketball; Sports WHICH ONE ARE YOU?, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The pessimist sits glumly in the stand Last Line: And, if we don't—we'll surely win to-morrow! Subject(s): Baseball; Hope; Pain; Pessimism; Sports; Optimism; Suffering; Misery WHITE EVENING, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On hills, beneath the steely skies Subject(s): Sports; Winter WHITE WORLDS, by H. GANDY Poem Source First Line: Like cameos carved on a purple sky Subject(s): Sports; Winter WHO TAUGHT CADDIES HOW TO COUNT?, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have never beheld you, o pawky scot Last Line: In such an humble, contemptful gamie %how anyone plays together Subject(s): Golf; Sports WHO'S ON FIRST, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source Last Line: In the web of his mitt Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports WHY BALLPLAYERS SPIT SO MUCH, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: On the close-up instant Last Line: To land %hard %in dust Subject(s): Baseball; Sports WHY WE PLAY BASKETBALL, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In december, snow %covered the court Last Line: We build small fires Subject(s): Sports WILL YOU SIGN MY BRAND-NEW BASEBALL, LOUIE?, by DAVID ALLAN EVANS Poem Source First Line: The best thing in my head Last Line: Fans cheer and cheer and %cheer for both of their heroes Subject(s): Baseball; Sports WILLY SMITH AT THE BALL GAME, by GEORGE STERLING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Happy, he heard the crass brass band Subject(s): Baseball; Sports WILT CHAMBERLAIN, by R. R. KNUDSON Poem Source First Line: Wilt was so built Subject(s): Aging; Chamberlain, Wilt (1936-1999); Sports WILT CHAMBERLAIN, by MAY SWENSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Wilt was so built Last Line: For wilt's famous torso %to fit inside Subject(s): Basketball; Chamberlain, Wilt (1936-1999); Sports WINTER ABROAD, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On blithesome frolics bent, the youthful Subject(s): Sports; Winter WINTER BALL, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The squat man under the hoop Last Line: With dark coming on and the cold Subject(s): Sports WINTER CAMP, by THEODORE GOODRIDGE ROBERTS Poem Source First Line: The walls of log are thick and stout Alternate Author Name(s): Roberts, T. G. Subject(s): Sports; Winter WINTER CAMP FIRE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Above the mountain, bleak and bare Subject(s): Sports; Winter WINTER HUNTERS, by ISAAC MCLELLAN JR. Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mounted on snowshoes, with their food Subject(s): Sports; Winter WINTER IN CANADA, by J. L. LEPROHON Poem Source First Line: Nay, tell me not that with shivering fear Subject(s): Sports; Winter WINTER NOCTURNE, by BERNARD FREEMAN TROTTER Poem Source First Line: With me is revelry and light Subject(s): Sports; Winter WINTER RECALLED, by ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Life is not all for effort; there are hours Subject(s): Sports; Winter WINTER SONG FOR THE SLEIGH, by C. P. TRAILL Poem Source First Line: Hurrah for the forest - the wild pine-wood Subject(s): Sports; Winter WINTER SPEEDING, by HORACE SPENCER FISKE Poem Source First Line: Robe-wrapped and capped, with faces bold Subject(s): Sports; Winter WINTER SPORTS, by ISAAC MCLELLAN JR. Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Slow sinks the golden sun behind the woods Subject(s): Sports; Winter WINTER UPLANDS, by ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The frost that stings like fire upon my cheek Subject(s): Sports; Winter WISH-XAM, by ELIZABETH A. WOODY Poem Source First Line: Rattle seedpods, shed skins, to translucent hulls Last Line: Rich with oils and segments of heartbeat in sturgeon, %the river like the snake rests its spine by d Subject(s): Native Americans; Rivers; Sports WITCH BASEBALL, by STEVEN KROLL Poem Source First Line: The game's the same Last Line: After each inning %the witches go swimming Subject(s): Baseball; Sports; Witchcraft And Witches WITH GLEAMING SAIL, by EVELYN GAIL GARDINER Poem Text First Line: Speeding before the gale Last Line: Who would be other than gayest of gay? Subject(s): Play; Sailing & Sailors; Sports; Waves; Seamen; Sails WITH GOOD STEEL RINGING, by COULSON KERNAHAN Poem Source First Line: When the wan white moon in the skies feels Subject(s): Sports; Winter WITHOUT YOU, LOVE, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Without you, love, my life is but a void-- Last Line: Since I broke you in two, my favorite bat! Subject(s): Baseball; Love - Materialism; Sports WOHELO, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Down in maine at camp wohelo Last Line: In our hearts their fame will live. Subject(s): Camping; Children; Games; Girls; Maine (state); Sports; Camps; Summer Camps; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements WOLF HUNT, by WALLACE DAVID COBURN Poem Source First Line: Over the hills on a winter's morn Subject(s): Sports; Winter WOLVERINE WINTER, by PAUL F. SIFTON Poem Source First Line: The chickadee came in the morning Subject(s): Sports; Winter WOMAN SKATING, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A lake sunken among Last Line: Over all I place / a glass bell Subject(s): Skating & Skaters; Sports WOMAN SKATING, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A lake sunken among Last Line: Over all I place %a glass bell Subject(s): Skating And Skaters; Sports WOMEN, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: If you take them to the ball game Last Line: The contradictory fish! Subject(s): Baseball; Contrariness; Man-woman Relationships; Sports; Women; Male-female Relations WOMEN'S TEAM AT L. BAMBERGER & CO., by LILLIAN MORRISON Poem Source First Line: Our best forward %wasn't very tall Last Line: The frosty air outside %seemed to greet us with kisses Subject(s): Basketball; Sports WOMEN'S TUG OF WAR AT LOUGH ARROW, by TESS GALLAGHER Poet's Biography First Line: In a borrowed field they dig in their feet Subject(s): Sports WOMEN'S TUG OF WAR AT LOUGH ARROW, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In a borrowed field they dig in their feet Subject(s): Sports WORLD CHAMPIONS, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A cardinal is perched upon a bad Subject(s): Sports WORLD SERIES, by EILEEN B. HENNESSY Poem Source First Line: By then the war had been over for three years, and the men were Last Line: Got free of its skin. Then I heard the fans on the radio roar. I heard the %announcer say, 'that's I Subject(s): Baseball; Memory; Sports WORLD SERIES BLUES, by NEAL BOWERS Poem Source First Line: Summer always looks good in spring training Last Line: In crisp, white uniforms to take the field, %ready to play hardball Subject(s): Baseball; Sports WORLD SERIES, 1968, by JIM DANIELS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My mother's friend angie from work Last Line: The world series, the world series ... %but I was still cold Subject(s): Baseball; Sports WORLD WAR II PREMIUM FROM BATTLE CREEK, by JOHN CADDY Poem Source First Line: Breakfast more than he could want Subject(s): Sports WRESTLING THE BEAST, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: This guy is an animal. A pig? Squealing sinus breathing Subject(s): Sports Y, by BRENDA LYNN HILLMAN Poem Source First Line: They are bringing back the bones of che guevara Last Line: Survival or if they wanted to be touched, there Subject(s): Sports YACHT FOR SALE, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My youth is Last Line: You can see now Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Sports YACHT FOR SALE, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My youth is Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Sports YANKEES BEND TO THE COOL, CLEAR WATER OF MIRRORS, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: In the old days mirrors were wild Last Line: They are calling it mother Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports YO-YO KING, by SYMA CHERIS COHN Poem Source First Line: When he showed up on the sidewalk in the old neighborhood Subject(s): Games; Sports YOGI, THOUGH YOU'RE NO ONE-EYED HUNCHBACK, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: At the plate sometimes, your pendulum, a club Last Line: Dressed in the dust of this world Subject(s): Baseball; Berra, Laurence (yogi); New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports YOU'VE GOT TO LEARN THE WHITE MAN'S GAME, by MBEMBE MILTON SMITH Poem Source First Line: The 5th black law student Subject(s): Sports YOUNG WRESTLERS, by GRACE BUTCHER Poem Source First Line: The beautiful boys curve and writhe Subject(s): Sports YOUR STREAK'S GENEROUS NATURE, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: How it keeps the foul lines crying Last Line: And perching at our door Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports YULE-LOG, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hale the yule-log in! Subject(s): Sports; Winter ZONE DEFENSE, by ANITA WINTZ Poem Source First Line: Hey, stay outta my space Last Line: Your motion, I'm gonna suspend. %zig-zag, zap Subject(s): Basketball; Sports |
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