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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A HOLIDAY, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Along the pastoral ways I go
Last Line: And I its happy guest.
Subject(s): Vacation


A NEW-ENGLAND TOWN-AT NOON, by MARJORIE MUIR WORTHINGTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I walked thru an old new england town
Last Line: Without purpose or will to stop itself.
Alternate Author Name(s): Muir, Marjorie
Subject(s): City & Town Life; New England; Travel; Vacation; Journeys; Trips


AFTER A HOLIDAY, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Three little ducks by a door
Last Line: From the pain of this tarrying-place.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Vacation


ANTICIPATORY GRIEVING, by JANE BAILEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Second to the last day of the workshop
Last Line: We will, I mutter. Tomorrow, we will
Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Vacation


BACK AGAIN FOR THE HOLIDAYS, by JOHN BETJEMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh what a host of questions in me rose
Subject(s): Vacation


BACK FROM VACATION, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Back from vacation,' the barber announces
Last Line: The evidence says, though their hearts cry, 'not so!'
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Vacation; Work; Workers


BACK FROM VACATION, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Back from vacation,' the barber announces
Last Line: Warm as if never shucked. The world is so small, %the evidence says, though their heart cry, 'not so
Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Vacation


BEACH AT FALMOUTH HEIGHTS, SUMMER, 1952, by THOMAS RABBITT    Poem Source                    
First Line: All the way from boston to the cape my daughters cry
Last Line: To settle for being when those we loved are gone
Subject(s): Family Life; Vacation


BEAUTIFUL BALMORAL, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye lovers of the picturesque, away and see
Last Line: As ye walk along the bonnie banks o' the river dee.
Subject(s): Balmoral Castle, Scotland; Rivers; Tourists; Travel; Vacation; Journeys; Trips


BEAUTIFUL COMRIE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye lovers of the picturesque, away, away!
Last Line: Also pines, ferns, and beautiful oaks, I do declare.
Subject(s): Tourists; Travel; Vacation; Villages; Wandering & Wanderers; Journeys; Trips


BEAUTIFUL NAIRN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All ye tourists who wish to be away
Last Line: Therefore I would recommend nairn for balmy pure air.
Subject(s): Hotels; Tourists; Towns; Travel; Vacation; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Journeys; Trips


BEAUTIFUL TORQUAY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All ye lovers of the picturesque, away
Last Line: And 'tis good for the health to reside there.
Subject(s): England; Guests; Tourists; Travel; Vacation; English; Visiting; Journeys; Trips


BOSTON IN SUMMER, WITH A CONFESSION, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Neglected transcripts on the steps of
Last Line: And april dung storms.
Subject(s): Confessions; Summer; Travel; Vacation; Journeys; Trips


BRAZEN HAND, by KARL KIRCHWEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Late in the day we realized:
Last Line: Given what it had cost
Subject(s): Vacation; Worth, Patience


BROWN'S VACATION, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I've had a vacation,' said timothy brown
Last Line: "a change of the seeing instead of the scene."
Subject(s): Vacation


BUFFALO - ISLE OF WIGHT POWER CABLE, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Writing a letter he said
Last Line: Slowly he drove up to the starting line
Subject(s): Isle Of Wight; Travel; Vacation; Journeys; Trips


CHANEL LIPSTICK, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Daddy always said this many
Last Line: Photo lipsticked like this
Subject(s): Cosmetics; Passports; Retail Trade; Shopping; Travel; Vacation


COLORADO, by FLORA BELLE DENNIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Colorado, you are glorious
Last Line: Near the mountains of our god.
Subject(s): Colorado (state); Rest; Travel; Vacation; Journeys; Trips


DOG DAYS IN VERMONT, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The cistern on the hill, sucked dry and sizzling
Last Line: Imagination's limits, how they fade... %even the dogs are sleeping in their pens.
Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Mountains; Nature; Travel; Vacation; Vermont


FIRE IN THE OLD WAY, by FLORENCE FRIESEN LARSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: God, so young!' you groan of the photo
Last Line: How we knew to keep that flame %burning
Subject(s): Caves; New Mexico; Pictures; Travel; Vacation


FIRST VACATION DAY, by JUTTA SCHUTTING    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Vacation


FROM AN ALBUM OF GHOSTS, LAKE WASHINGTON, 1941, by HALLIE MOORE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Look at the camera
Last Line: In which she must walk away %out of the water, alone
Subject(s): Lakes; Photography And Photographers; Vacation


HOLIDAYS, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Of all, the flowers love a holiday
Last Line: Love the days when school is out.
Subject(s): Children; Holidays; Play; Summer; Vacation; Childhood


IN THE MOTEL, by X. J. KENNEDY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bouncing! Bouncing! On the beds
Last Line: What a bang-up holiday!
Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph
Subject(s): Family Life; Vacation


IN THE VIRGIN ISLANDS, by RONALD W. WALLACE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sunset: a smattering of rain
Last Line: Has something important to sing about %and all the warm night to sing it in
Alternate Author Name(s): Wallace, Ron
Subject(s): Escapes; Nature; Vacation


INVISIBILITY 0, by VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Planets of air
Last Line: Of the faithful pupils
Subject(s): Earth; Islands; Vacation


ISLAND SUN, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When tghe albums of this century's intermingling
Last Line: Whose back is gilden each time the planet turns
Subject(s): Vacation


JULY, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Goodbye to the town!- goodbye!
Last Line: Hurrak! For the sea and the sky!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Vacation


JUNE, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sunny, balmy june is here
Last Line: For all school-girls and boys.
Subject(s): June; Vacation


LEAVING THE ISLAND, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We roll up the rugs and strip the neds by rote
Subject(s): Summer; Vacation; Moving


LITTLE ESKIMO, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Little eskimo, are you
Last Line: Like to live in our land, too?
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Summer; Travel; Vacation; Inuit; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Journeys; Trips


MOHONK MOUNTAIN HOUSE, ROOM 638, by MATTHEW J. SPIRENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: There was the view we would
Last Line: It was thirty years and more growing into that night
Subject(s): Memory; Vacation


MOVIES FOR THE HOME, by HOWARD MOSS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I see the map of summer, lying still
Last Line: And still not see things as they really are, %only as they were, if that is where you are
Subject(s): Vacation


ON AN ISLAND, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Islanded, my wife turned on the radio for news of home
Last Line: A still moon plates the sealed spot where they were
Subject(s): Vacation


ON AN ISLAND, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Islanded, my wife turned on the radio for news of home
Last Line: A still moon plates the sealed spot where they were
Subject(s): Vacation


ON VACATION, by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Things seem empty
Last Line: Driven by that density home
Subject(s): Emptiness; Vacation


ON VACATION, by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Things seem empty
Last Line: Driven by that density home
Subject(s): Emptiness; Vacation


ONE WEEK IN THE VILLAGE, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: But he saw my lost look %near other women bathing
Last Line: No books to brace %them in the havoc
Subject(s): Vacation; Villages


OUR FLORIDA VACATION, by NICOLE NIEMI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Noon %the asphalt is lava
Last Line: We can have it all, it's all behind the curtain
Subject(s): Florida; Vacation


OUR SLIDES OF VENICE, by RANDOLPH THOMAS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here we are the final day, tired, our eyes
Last Line: Brush against the stones while we dress
Subject(s): Vacation; Venice, Italy


PAID VACATION, by JOAN OLIVER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've decided to go away forever
Last Line: Lives in exile
Subject(s): Exiles; Farewell; Travel; Vacation


PAST AND PRESENT, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On four-horse coach, whose luggage pierced the sky
Last Line: Shot like a pellet from his own pop-gun.
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Past; Progress; Schools; Time; Travel; Vacation; Students; Journeys; Trips


RAINING IN MAGENS BAY, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sky, paid to be blue
Last Line: The way for man to be is mixed %with sun and salt and sea and shadow
Subject(s): Vacation


ROAD BACK, by ANNE SEXTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The car is heavy with children
Last Line: Like a persistent rumor %that will get us yet
Subject(s): God; Religion; Vacation


SOOTHING THE BURN, by ELIZABETH POLINER    Poem Source                    
First Line: My sister and I, barely teenage
Last Line: I feel her palms gather the burn, open to fire
Subject(s): Grandparents; Sisters; Sunbathing; Vacation


SPRING BREAK, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's a universal business that's brought them here
Last Line: Stitched robes, to anything we wouldn't know how to undo
Subject(s): Tourists; Travel; Vacation


STANZAS ADDRESSED TO SOME FRIEND GOING TO THE SEA-SIDE, by BERNARD BARTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Since summer invites you to visit once more
Last Line: Those joys which on you in reality wait.
Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet
Subject(s): Seashore; Vacation; Beach; Coast; Shore


SUNDAY ESCAPE, by BARBARA HIRSHFELD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Away we go / with the snow in our eyes
Last Line: A hopeful heart that sings.
Subject(s): Vacation


THE CAMPUS IN VACATION, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The road winds grey, deserted
Last Line: Waiting for many feet.
Subject(s): Roads; Travel; Vacation; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


THE GENTLE SNORER, by MONA VAN DUYN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When summer came, we locked up our lives and fled
Subject(s): Vacation; Snoring


THE IDLER'S CALENDAR: DECEMBER. AWAY TO EGYPT, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Enough, enough! This winter is too rude
Subject(s): Winter; Vacation; Egypt


THE PREACHER'S VACATION, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "the old man went to meetin', for the day was bright and fair"
Last Line: "jesus absent on vacation, heaven closed till his return"
Subject(s): Clergy;vacation; Priests;rabbis;ministers;bishops


THE PRELUDE: BOOK 4. SUMMER VACATION, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bright was the summer's noon when quickening steps
Last Line: Then sought with quiet heart my distant home.
Subject(s): Summer; Vacation


THE ROAD BACK, by ANNE SEXTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The car is heavy with children
Subject(s): God; Religion; Vacation; Theology


THE VACATION, by WENDELL BERRY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once there was a man who filmed his vacation
Subject(s): Vacation; Nature; Vacation


VACATION, by WENDELL BERRY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once there was a man who filmed his vacation
Last Line: Would not be in it. He would never be in it
Subject(s): Nature; Vacation


VACATION, by RITA DOVE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I love the hour before takeoff,
Subject(s): Vacation


VACATION, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Where am I going? Damn if I know
Last Line: My folks expect I'll stick at home.
Subject(s): Home; Vacation


VACATION, by MRS. A. J. STUKENBERG    Poem Text                    
First Line: I love to lie beside a babbling brook
Last Line: I realize the presence of my god.
Subject(s): Vacation


VACATION HINTS FOR YOUNG VERMONTERS, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ho! All you young vermonters
Last Line: The state you're living in.
Subject(s): Animals; Camping; Country Life; Deer; Hunting; Mountain Life - Vermont; Vacation; Camps; Summer Camps; Hunters


VACATION IN THE COUNTRY, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If I lived in the country every day
Last Line: To find some place to hide, and stay behind.
Subject(s): Children; Country Life; Vacation; Childhood


VACATION ON EARTH, by THOMAS M. DISCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Chiefly, it is blue
Subject(s): Vacation


VACATION TALE, by BRIAN BARTLETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: In a small house where farmhands had slept
Last Line: Swallowed up in the wind?
Subject(s): Farm Life; Vacation


VACATION TIME, by FRANK WALCOTT HUTT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Good-bye, little desk at school, good-bye
Subject(s): Vacation


VACATION TIME, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I catch my grandfather basking in the sun
Last Line: Flora und fauna in den alpen
Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; Vacation


VACATION'S END, by WENDY BREUER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Already the shasta daisies look
Last Line: And your children %who've scattered
Subject(s): Old Age; Summer; Vacation


VISIT, by LARS LUNDKVIST    Poem Source                    
First Line: Before he came home from america
Last Line: Thanks for the burbot soup, vanja
Subject(s): Guests; Travel; Vacation


WEEKEND AT THE BEACH, by DEENA LINETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Also in the room but out of view, the man
Last Line: Of blue, at home in buoyant seawash, phosphor, salt
Subject(s): Love - Age Differences; Love Affairs; Romance; Saint Kilda (scotland); Seashore; Vacation


WEEKEND IN MONTAUK, by HARRY BURRUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I looked at my watch
Last Line: Pleased %everything was going okay
Subject(s): Montauk Point, Long Island (new York); Vacation


WHAT HE THOUGHT, by HEATHER MCHUGH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: We were supposed to do a job in italy
Subject(s): Vacation


WHEN THE VACATION IS OVER FOR GOOD, by MARK STRAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It will be strange
Last Line: We are dying.
Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Nuclear War; Vacation; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb


YOUR FRIENDS HAVE GONE TO FLORIDA, by RALPH SNEEDEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where the intracoastal waterway is a sort of styx
Last Line: A month of wearing whatever makes the least sense
Subject(s): Florida; Vacation