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Subject: BUFFALO (CITY), NEW YORK
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First Line: Tis not the president alone
Last Line: And with new yearnings in her eyes / climbs to her watch-tower - reassured
Subject(s): "assassination;buffalo (city), New York;mckinley, William (1843-1901);


BUFFALO, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES    Poem Text                    
First Line: A transient city, marvelously fair
Last Line: And swallow up that radiance in night?
Subject(s): Buffalo (city), New York


BUFFALO, by MOLLY PEACOCK    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Many times I wait there for my father
Subject(s): Buffalo (city), New York; Cities; Fathers & Daughters; Urban Life


BUFFALO, by MOLLY PEACOCK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Many times I wait there for my father
Last Line: Behind bar blinds we were caged, %some motes of sunlight cathedrally beaming
Subject(s): Buffalo (city), New York; Cities; Fathers And Daughters


BUFFALO WAR, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: War over %everybody gone home
Last Line: Nobody dead %everybody dying
Subject(s): Buffalo (city), New York; War


LEAVING BUFFALO, by CHARLES MARTIN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Others, many others, must have known
Subject(s): Buffalo (city), New York; Farewell; Weather; Parting


NIAGARA, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Within the town of buffalo
Last Line: The cataract niagara.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): Buffalo (city), New York; Niagara Falls; Waterfalls; World War I; First World War


PERSISTENCE OF ANCESTORS, by CHARLES MARTIN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The nineteenth century is not over yet
Subject(s): Red Jacket. Seneca Chief (1756-1830); Buffalo (city), New York; Time


SLANTS AT BUFFALO, NEW YORK, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A forefinger of stone, dreamed by a sculptor, points to the sky
Last Line: ...Erie with norse blue eyes ... And the white sun.
Subject(s): Buffalo (city), New York


THE FAILURE OF BUFFALO TO LEVITATE, by ROBERT HASS    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Millard fillmore died here
Last Line: Are imprisoned in the chandeliers
Subject(s): Buffalo (city), New York


TO THE HONOURABLE W. R. SPENCER; FROM BUFFALO, UPON LAKE ERIE, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou oft hast told me of the fairy hours
Last Line: Have many a mile to journey, ere we meet!
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Buffalo (city), New York; Delaware (river); Homesickness; Lake Erie; Mississippi River; Missouri River; Rivers; Schuylkill River


TWO BLOCKS FROM HOME THE LIONS MOAN, by ANN S. GOLDSMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Just now returned from hunting them
Last Line: Nearby, eyes open in the palms of leaves
Subject(s): Buffalo (city), New York; Zoos


WAY IT WAS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: New things was coming %you
Subject(s): African Americans; Buffalo (city), New York; Labor And Laborers