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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: AVENUES Matches Found: 56 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BUSY STREET, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: All up and down the busy street Last Line: And that is why they hurry so. Subject(s): Cities; Collective Behavior; February; Streets; Traffic; Urban Life; Mobs; Crowds; Avenues A CITY STREET IN SUMMER, by LOUIS GINSBERG Poem Text First Line: It stumbles, numbed and prostrate Last Line: Whence god is crying out! Subject(s): Streets; Summer; Avenues A FRAGMENT, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: And then it seem'd I was a bird Last Line: Twas then I knew it was a dream! Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Birds; Dreams; Singing & Singers; Streets; Nightmares; Avenues A STEP AWAY FROM THEM, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's my lunch hour, so I go Subject(s): Lunch; Reverdy, Pierre (1889-1960); Streets; Avenues A STREET SKETCH, by JOSEPH ASHBY-STERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the kerb, a maiden neat Last Line: Upon the kerb! Subject(s): Streets; Women; Avenues ACROSS THE CITY, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: I stood upon a dizzy roof which towered Last Line: Reveals but mounds of vanished majesty. Subject(s): Cities; Streets; Urban Life; Avenues ANGLOSAXON STREET, by EARL (EARLE) BIRNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dawndrizzle ended, dampness steams from Last Line: Waiting brief for milkhind, mornstar and worldrise. Subject(s): Ghettos; Streets; Avenues ANTICLIMAX, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I walked a city street, and suddenly Last Line: Fell on a mood more merry than mine own. Subject(s): Hearts; Night; Streets; Tears; Bedtime; Avenues APRIL IN 'THE STREET', by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: April of shining tresses, / tearful mouth, and laughing eyes! Last Line: Cease to grind awhile! Subject(s): April; Streets; Avenues BOND STREET, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Lavender fresh are your looks Last Line: Getting a hat! Subject(s): London; Streets; Avenues BROAD STREET, by AUGUSTUS WATTERS Poem Text First Line: When lilacs bloom in urban bowers Last Line: What port the later pilgrims reach. Subject(s): New Jersey; Streets; Avenues BRUGES: QUAI DES AUGUSTINS; AFTER VAN DER VEER, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within the sad, deserted street Last Line: To silence and the waning day. Subject(s): Bruges, Belgium; Streets; Avenues CHINATOWN BLUES, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Waiting for the streetcar in san francisco Last Line: A second ballroom appears. / empty Subject(s): Chinatown, San Francisco; Shopping; Streets; Tourists; Travel; Avenues; Journeys; Trips CHRYSALIDS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Her gaze meets his as he looks down Last Line: Are chrysalids of winged dreams Subject(s): Earth;reality;socialism;streets;towns; World;avenues DEEP IN EUROPE, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I a dark hull floating between two lock-gates Last Line: The blackened cathedral, heavy as a moon, causes ebbs and flows Subject(s): Cities; Europe; Streets; Travel; Urban Life; Avenues; Journeys; Trips DEFORMED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crouched at the corner of the Last Line: Leaves crimson trails of bliss. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Birth Defects; Faces; Streets; Vision; Avenues DISCOVERY, by MARY D. SPENCE Poem Text First Line: Crowded city streets I trod Last Line: Breathes of immortality. Subject(s): Cities; God; Immortality; Streets; Urban Life; Avenues DRAB STREET, by JEAN HOLMES MINTY Poem Text First Line: I rather love a drab street Last Line: Love, and lovely things. Subject(s): Love; Poverty; Streets; Avenues DYING TOWN, by LESLIE MCDONALD Poem Text First Line: The sun is hot on unpaved streets Last Line: Men keep a watch for signs of fire. Subject(s): Streets; Towns; Avenues EVENING SONG ON OUR STREET, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was almost bedtime, and something was wrong Last Line: By both my hands again, and we walked home Subject(s): African Americans; Sickness; Singing & Singers; Streets; Negroes; American Blacks; Illness; Avenues HOW PEARL STREET WAS PAVED, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In wouter van twiller's manorial pale Last Line: We manage the streets of the city to-day. Subject(s): Cows; New York City - Dutch Period; Streets; Avenues IN THE STREETS, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Boy, my boy, it is lonely in the city Last Line: Oh boy—god help her! Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Grief; Streets; Sorrow; Sadness; Avenues INDIANS SELL THINGS ALONG OUR STREETS, by EVELYN MABEL WATSON Poem Text First Line: Watercress from a wind-blown mountain fall Last Line: With wind-flowers in my exquisite bouquet. . . . Subject(s): Flowers; Mountains; Native Americans; Salespersons; Streets; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Selling; Avenues IT'S THE GYPSY IN ME, by FRANCES BRAGAN RICHMAN Poem Text First Line: When I am old I hope to sit up nights Last Line: And take no chance on that which sleep might take. Subject(s): Streets; Avenues KEEP DRIVING, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Atsuko / steering her smooth burgundy car Last Line: Leave. Subject(s): Cities; Driving & Drivers; Japan; Streets; Urban Life; Japanese; Avenues LIGHT STREET WHARF, BALTIMORE, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Perhaps you have tasted the salty tang Last Line: And the sea-wind's salty tang. Subject(s): Streets; Travel; Avenues; Journeys; Trips LOCKERBIE STREET, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such a dear little street it is, nestled Last Line: My rhyme-haunted raptures of lockerbie street. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Night; Streets; Towns; Bedtime; Avenues MANHOLE COVERS, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The beauty of manhole covers - what of that? Subject(s): Streets; Avenues ON GRACE CHURCH CORNER, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the stone-flowered, lozenged steeple Last Line: A white dream cleaves the sky! Subject(s): Bells; Broadway, New York City; Churches; Streets; Travel; Cathedrals; Avenues; Journeys; Trips ON THE BOULEVARD, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, it's pleasant sitting here Last Line: Sitting on the boulevard! Subject(s): Paris, France; Streets; Avenues ON THE PLAZA, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One august day I sat beside Last Line: A personality was there! Subject(s): New York City; Parks; Streets; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Avenues RAINY SUNDAY, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The soft, grey garment of the rushing rain Last Line: The mother throned serene amid the rest. Subject(s): Commuters; New York City; Rain; Streets; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Avenues SATURDAY NIGHT, by MARY COLBURNE VEEL Poem Text First Line: Saturday night in the crowded town Last Line: Walking in arcady, land of love. Subject(s): Earth; Neighbors; Night; Streets; Towns; World; Bedtime; Avenues SENLIS: THE LITTLE SILENT STREET, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: The stormy silence stirs and hums. Will there be none that this way comes? Last Line: The stormy silence stirs and hums. Will there be none that this way comes? Subject(s): Silence; Storms; Streets; Avenues SONGS OF NEW YORK: FIFTH AVENUE AT NIGHT, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like moonstones drooping from a fair queen's Last Line: Tread of far feet. Subject(s): Fifth Avenue, New York City; Night; Streets; Bedtime; Avenues SONNET: 24. THE STREET, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They pass me by like shadows, crowds on crowds Last Line: A dead soul's epitaph in every face! Subject(s): Streets; Avenues SOUTH STATE STREET, CHICAGO, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rows of blankly box-like buildings Last Line: Into the poised lyric of the sky. Subject(s): Chicago; Streets; Avenues STEPPING ON IT, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: At a bad corner of the street Last Line: Honk! Brakes! Meet! Subject(s): Automobiles; Driving & Drivers; Streets; Cars; Avenues STRAW IN THE STREET, by AMY LEVY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Straw in the street where I pass to-day Last Line: Straw in the street ? Variant Title(s): Roundel: Straw In The Street Subject(s): Straw; Streets; Avenues STREET MUSIC, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O how the dance-tune trips it through the street Last Line: From a bleared woman, sick and old and sad! Subject(s): Life; Music & Musicians; Spring; Streets; Avenues STREETS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A man leaves the world Subject(s): Death; City & Town Life; Sleep; Streets; Dead, The; Avenues THE CITY, 1850, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love the city, and the city's smoke Last Line: Good-bye! I'm going by the evening train! Subject(s): Farewell; New York City - 19th Century; Streets; Parting; Avenues THE CLUB, by FREDERIC SAUSER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The street although indicated on the official plan Last Line: Then a mint-julep, a mother's milk, a prairie-oyster, and a night-cap. Alternate Author Name(s): Cendrars, Blaise Subject(s): Clubs (associations); Streets; Avenues THE IRISH NEW POLICEMAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "your pardon, gents and ladies all" Last Line: For don't myself get half the booty? Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;ireland;police;streets; Irish;avenues THE LAMENT OF A ONE-WAY STREET, by EDITH CAROLYN NEWLIN Poem Text First Line: All day Last Line: And I, once more, a two-way street. Subject(s): Streets; Avenues THE OMNIBUS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "the 'bus, the 'bus, the omnibus!" Last Line: While I am snugly seated in thee Subject(s): Buses;streets; Avenues THE STREET, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Streaked and fretted with effort, the thick Subject(s): Cities; Streets; Urban Life; Avenues THE STREET, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here comes the subway grating fisher Subject(s): Streets; Avenues THE STREET OF THE MANY LITTLE LOVERS, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gaunt gray street goes up the hill, over the hill / and down Last Line: But love walks there with weary eyes and mudbedraggled gown. Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Love; Lust; Man-woman Relationships; Streets; Male-female Relations; Avenues THE STREETS, 1869, by WILLIAM OSBORN STODDARD Poem Text First Line: Our city is born of the pure, blue sea Last Line: In leaving our streets all hid in the dirt. Subject(s): New York City - 19th Century; Refuse & Refuse Disposal; Streets; Avenues THREE O'CLOCK: MORNING, by FREDERICK RIDGELY TORRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The jewel-blue electric flowers Last Line: But time goes out in grey. Subject(s): New York City; Railroads; Streets; Subways; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Railways; Trains; Avenues TWILIGHT ON SIXTH AVENUE AT NINTH STREET, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the tops of the houses Last Line: Washes a lonely wood. Subject(s): Evening; Streets; Wind; Sunset; Twilight; Avenues TWO STREETS, by EMMETT MALOY COUNTS Poem Text First Line: Today, while walking through a hardened street Last Line: Today I walked upon a velvet street. Subject(s): Asphalt; Streets; Walking; Wandering & Wanderers; Concrete; Pavements; Avenues; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes VISTAS, by ODELL SHEPARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I walked through the dream-peopled streets Last Line: The night breeze ruffle by. Subject(s): Streets; Avenues WHISTLES AT NIGHT, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At night in the city when the far-off whistles blow Last Line: And the dawn comes slow. Subject(s): Central Park, New York City; Memory; Night; Parks; Streets; Bedtime; Avenues WINDOWS, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We're livin' out here in the country now Last Line: Where I watched as the world went by. 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