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Subject: BOWERY, NEW YORK CITY
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "BOWERY GALS, 1850", by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: As I was lumbering down de street
Last Line: "chorus: den de bowery gals, etc"
Subject(s): "bowery, New York City;


AWAY FROM TOWN, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: High-perched upon a boxcar, I speed, / I speed, to-day
Last Line: He longs for a place to stretch in, he hankers for country cheer.
Subject(s): Bowery, New York City; Homeless; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


BOWERY, by CHARLES SUMNER HOYT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh! The night that I struck new york, I went out for a quiet
Subject(s): Bowery, New York City; New York City


BOWERY, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bums are the spirit of us parked in ratty old hotels
Last Line: "of your wealth, the long hours filled
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Bowery, New York City; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse


BOWERY, by LUCY MAROULLETI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Spare a quarter
Last Line: Is what counts for you %and for me,a s human beings
Subject(s): Bowery, New York City; Poverty


BOWERY BLUES, by JOHN KEROUAC    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For I %prophesy
Last Line: Okay. %quit. %mad. %stop
Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack
Subject(s): Bowery, New York City


BOWERY BUMS, by CHARLES PLYMELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I see their tattered faces changing in the flame
Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Bowery, New York City


THE BALLOON, 1819, by MOSES Y. SCOTT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Huzza! Huzza! Clear, clear the way!
Last Line: "the balloon—don't ascend to-day!"
Subject(s): Balloons; Bowery, New York City; Friendship