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| Searching... Subject: TAVERNS Matches Found: 69 8-BALL AT THE TWILITE, by DAVID BAKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The team of budweiser horses Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Popular Culture - United States; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons A BALLAD OF AN ANTI-PURITAN, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They spoke of progress spiring round Last Line: Will someone take me to a pub? Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K. Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Cynicism; Puritans; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons A STORY OFTEN TOLD IN BARS: THE READER'S DIGEST VERSION, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: First I was born and it was tough on mom Last Line: The life that matters not the one I've led Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Popular Culture - United States; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons ALLMAN'S BAR, by TED KENEALLY Poem Text First Line: Come and have a drink at allman's,' said a hard-faced lad from yass Last Line: "but tonight I shore a thousand while you lads were at the bar." Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Labor & Laborers; Sheep; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Work; Workers ANOTHER BEER, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The first one was for the clock Last Line: Traveling on its tongue of / all the way home Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons ANY NEWS FROM ALPHA CENTAURI, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dog suddenly punched the back of his knee with its snout Last Line: All its doors Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Bars & Bartenders; Native Americans; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America AT A SEACOAST TAVERN, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: We sat at drinking with our merry host Last Line: "for honor's sake, for truth and liberty." Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Drinks & Drinking; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Wine AT THE TAVERN, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What'll you have, john Last Line: "of staying too long." Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons AT THE TAVERN, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A lilt and a swing Last Line: For a drink is more kind than a priest. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Bars & Bartenders; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons BACK FROM KINLOCHLEVEN, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The waterworks are finished and the boys have / jacked the shovel Last Line: But at any rate you'll know them by their curses when in town. Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Death; Desolation; Drinks & Drinking; Labor & Laborers; Quarrels; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Dead, The; Wine; Work; Workers; Arguments; Disagreements BAD NEWS (MCSURLEY'S BAR), by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your flame is married I understand' Last Line: As we shuffled the cards and played the game. Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Card Games; Gambling; Single People; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Playing Cards; Wagering; Betting; Bachelors; Unmarried People BAR TIME, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In keeping with universal saloon practice Last Line: The late edition like a flag in his pocket Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons BAR XANADU, by LYNDA HULL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A perfect veronica, invisible, scallops air Last Line: Riffling your skirt in the scent of blood oranges and sweat Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Prostitution; Disappointment; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Harlots; Whores; Brothels BEER, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet's Biography First Line: After the store and the gas station close Last Line: The movements, and how everything goes together / for hours Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Bars & Bartenders; Beer; Drinks & Drinking; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Ale; Wine BRASHEANNA; SONNETS ON PETER BRASH, A PUBLICAN: 1, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We found him first as in the dells of may Last Line: Still as we fled, we heard his idiot screech Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons BRASHEANNA; SONNETS ON PETER BRASH, A PUBLICAN: 2, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We found him and we lost. The glorious brash Last Line: In futile anger grinned across the zinc. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons BRASHEANNA; SONNETS ON PETER BRASH, A PUBLICAN: 3, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There let us often wend our pensive way Last Line: Gibbers and gurgles at the shades of men. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons BRASHEANNA; SONNETS ON PETER BRASH, A PUBLICAN: 4, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! That while the beautiful and strong Last Line: Should idiot brash go hobbling up to god. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons BRASHEANNA; SONNETS ON PETER BRASH, A PUBLICAN: 5, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To goodness or greatness: to be good and die Last Line: Dejects the traveller and collects the crows. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons CAFE TORTONI ('81), by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Edouard manet (solus) Last Line: I left them—well—a living world! Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Food & Eating; France; Restaurants; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Cafes; Diners DANCING WITH POETS, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The accident' is what he calls the time Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Dancing & Dancers; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons DEAD EASY, by J. BARR Poem Text First Line: When bill shakes hands with all the mob Last Line: "I'm stopping at the pub!" Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Drinks & Drinking; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Wine DEATH OF THE KAPOWSIN TAVERN, by RICHARD HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I can't ridge it back again from char Subject(s): Abandonment; Bars & Bartenders; Decay; Kapowsin, Washington; Desertion; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Rot; Decadence DECOR, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brown dominates this bar Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Brown (color); Pubs; Taverns; Saloons DEER DANCER, by JOY HARJO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nearly everyone had left that bar in the middle of winter Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Dancing & Dancers; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons DIGGER, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Would you believe I went to college? Yeah, Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Prisons & Prisoners; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin; Convicts DISCOVERING THE PHOTOGRAPH OF LLOYD, EARL, AND PRISCILLA, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These are the great discoveries of my middle age Last Line: Its separate ghost Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Cities; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Urban Life DRAFT OF THE SMOKY LIFE, by FORREST GANDER Poet's Biography First Line: As the store windows light up Last Line: Into the men's room holding hands Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons ENCOUNTER IN A LOCAL PUB, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As he looked up from his glass, its quickly melting ice Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Goats; Bars & Bartenders; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons FRAUNCES' TAVERN, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Restore, o thought, whose potent weird Last Line: The honest love of gallant men! Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Fraunces' Tavern, New York City; Memory; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Past; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons GIG AT BIG AL'S, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a special privacy on stage Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons HOUSE OF SILENCE, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The winter sun, golden and tired Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons IN JIMMY'S GRILL, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The girl in blue-jean shorts\ Last Line: Where a beer gut rolls like a melon on the green pool table. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Bars & Bartenders; Country Life; Country Music; Sex; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons IOWA BLUES BAR SPIRITUAL, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little tokyo bar -- / ladies night, smoky gauze balcony, whispering tommy becker Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Popular Culture - United States; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons JUNGHEIMER'S, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In western fields of corn and northern timber lands Last Line: Riots. Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons KNOWING THE END, by SUSAN WOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's like knowing a girl named roxy Last Line: The climax comes, the screen goes dark Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons LINES ON THE MERMAID TAVERN, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Souls of poets dead and gone Last Line: Choicer than the mermaid tavern? Variant Title(s): The Mermaid Tavern Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Poetry & Poets; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons LONG JIM, by R. HOLT Poem Text First Line: We'd made a lively start away when 'mulga' had cut-out Last Line: "it's time, I think,"" said mayne, ""for us to clear." Alternate Author Name(s): 6 X 8 Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Death; Escapes; Fights; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Dead, The; Fugitives MINGUS AT THE HALF NOTE, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two dozen bars or so into better get it Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Mingus, Charles (1922-1979); Pubs; Taverns; Saloons MINGUS AT THE SHOWPLACE, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was miserable, of course, for I was seventeen Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Jazz; Mingus, Charles (1922-1979); Music & Musicians; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons MULLIGAN'S MARE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, mulligan's bar was the deuce of a place Last Line: And send you a flyer like mulligan's mare. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Bars & Bartenders; Drinks & Drinking; Horses; Racing; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Wine NIGHT OUT, by JOY HARJO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen you in the palms of my hands Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Native Americans; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America ON GOING TO A TAVERN, by WANG CHI Poem Text First Line: These days, continually fuddled with drink Last Line: How can I alone remain sober? Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kung; Wang Ch'i Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Pubs; Taverns; Saloons ON THE FALL OF THE MITRE TAVERN IN CAMBRIDGE, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lament, lament, ye scholars all Last Line: But now we'll drink like doctors. Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Cambridge, England; Fire; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons ON THE ROCKS, by PAUL BLACKBURN Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons ONE MEAT BALL, by THOMAS LUX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You gets no bread with Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Popular Culture - United States; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons RICH MAN, POOR MAN, by FRANCIS HILL Poem Text First Line: Oh, joy that burns in denver tavern Last Line: But he is back in his own land. Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Home; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons SPRING STREET BAR, by MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And last night a man came in Last Line: When there had been a sky, to write about the sky Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; New York City; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple TAKE GOOD CARE OF YOURSELF, by MARK WUNDERLICH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the runway at the roxy, the drag queen Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Gays & Lesbians; Popular Culture - United States; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men TAVERN SONG, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When winterly weather doth pierce to the skin Last Line: And ho! For a tankard of ale at the inn. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Drinks & Drinking; Singing & Singers; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Wine THE BAR-TENDER'S STORY, by DAVID LAW PROUDFIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I knowed him at first there was suthin' Last Line: And a baby was into the same. Alternate Author Name(s): Arkwright, Pegleg Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Beer; Drinks & Drinking; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Ale; Wine THE BARKEEPER (A POEM HAPPILY OUT OF DATE), by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The barkeeper -- what fearful heap Last Line: And him that keeps the door of hell! Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Temperance; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Prohibition THE BARMAID AND THE ALEXANDRITE, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Route 66, a rut of scenery and cigarettes Last Line: From telluride, to taos, to galisteo. Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Stones; Travel; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Granite; Rocks; Journeys; Trips THE COACHMAN'S YARN, by EDWIN JAMES BRADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This a tale that the coachman told Last Line: Nimitybell on monaro. Alternate Author Name(s): Brady, E. J. Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Cold; Death; Fire; Story-telling; Winter; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Dead, The THE FALLEN TREE HOTEL, by WILL CARTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the lonesome line of traffic Last Line: Of the fallen tree hotel. Alternate Author Name(s): Prooshan, The Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Drovers; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons THE GUILE OF DAD MCGINNIS, by W. T. GOODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When mcginnis struck the mining camp at jamberoora creek Last Line: "so, good morning, mr kangaroobie riley!" Alternate Author Name(s): Goodge, William Thomas Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Practical Jokes; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Pranks THE HARVEST HOME, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: The harvest home's a home indeed Last Line: Is -- by my soul and body -- ale! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Beer; Drinks & Drinking; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Ale; Wine THE LANDLORD OF THE BLUE HEN, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once, a long time ago, so good stories begin Last Line: But whatever it was, he was certainly dead! Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Bars & Bartenders; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons THE MIRACLE, by R. J. CASSIDY Poem Text First Line: Excitement reigned at piker's pub. Even old piker gazed Last Line: Jamboree joe had ridden by—yes, he had ridden by! Alternate Author Name(s): Gilrooney Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Drinks & Drinking; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Wine THE NIGHT MAN AT THE BLUE LITE, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Luther benton is talking to his heart again Last Line: In those golden streets, but luther Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons THE PASSING OF MALONEY, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the chill of anaemic december when the snow on / the ditchway lay Last Line: When nature was yelling in anguish and the turbulent tempest was loud. Subject(s): Anger; Bars & Bartenders; Quarrels; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Arguments; Disagreements THE PIANO AT RED'S, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a hole called red's saloon Last Line: Back in red's saloon! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Cowboys; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons THE REMARKABLE OBJECTIVITY OF YOUR OLD FRIENDS, by LIAM RECTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We did right by your death and went out Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons THE STATE OF THE NATION, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Understand that they were sitting just inside the door Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Indifference; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons THE TAVERN OF THE FOOLS, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I knew of an honest cleanly inn where men much profit had Last Line: To hear that cryptic laughter in the tavern of the fools. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Fools; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Idiots THE YEARS; I.M. CHARLES BUKOWSKI, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I met her at the west end bar. I mounted Last Line: I was a nice guy. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Bars & Bartenders; Bukowski, Charles (1920-1994); Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons THINGS TO DO IN SALZBURG, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Walk, alone / the narrow lane from st. Peter's Last Line: As my father. Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Drinks & Drinking; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Wine VALHALLA INN, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere in valhalla is a double swinging door Last Line: And trade the purple barroom tales that men tell other men! Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Odysseus VERMONT 'TAVERN STANDS', by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hope our quaint old tavern stands Last Line: Before a tavern stand. Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Public Meetings; Vermont; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons |
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