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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: BUILDINGS & BUILDERS Matches Found: 68 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A TRUTHFUL SONG, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I tell this tale, which is strictly true Last Line: Both: we tell these tales, which are strictest true, etc. Subject(s): Bricklayers; Buildings & Builders; Sailing & Sailors; Shipbuilding; Seamen; Sails ANTWERP, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Towers - eternal towers against the sky Last Line: And from their towers of tyranny hurled down. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Antwerp, Belgium; Architecture & Architects; Buildings & Builders; Stones; World War I; Granite; Rocks; First World War APARTMENT PARTNERS, by FRANCIS MARTIN BOTELHO Poem Text First Line: Tidy apartment / airy and high Last Line: Is so short of breath. Subject(s): Buildings & Builders ARCHITECTS, by EDITH CLAIRE CAM Poem Text First Line: Pythagoras, the wise, who in those lost days Last Line: Is to rebuild the world. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Buildings & Builders; Pythagorus (580-500 B.c.) BUILDERS, by GLADYS TAGGART Poem Text First Line: We built for us a fairy house Last Line: With rare bright holidays. Subject(s): Buildings & Builders BUILDING, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I see a brave building Last Line: Here it stands Subject(s): Buildings & Builders BUILDING, by GARY SNYDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We started our house midway through the cultural revolution Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; History; Historians BUILDING A PAINTING A HOME, by BOB HICOK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I built a barn I'd build it right into the sky Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Sky BUILDING BOOM, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The avenue of willows leads nowhere Last Line: Their beauty cannot save them Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Deforestation BURLESQUE ADDRESS; ON OPENING OF NEW PARK THEATRE, 1821, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ladies and gentlemen, / enlighten'd as you are, you all must know Last Line: The lord bless beekman and john jacob astor. Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; New York City - 19th Century; Theater & Theaters; Stage Life CAREFULLY, by ETHEL JACOBSON Poem Text First Line: Carefully, on the safe and solid rock Last Line: To the amused, victorious enemy. Subject(s): Buildings & Builders CASTLES IN THE AIR, by WILLIAM J. LAMPTON Poem Text First Line: I builded a castle in the air Last Line: And the whole darn thing fell down. Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Castles; Crowns; Stones; Temples; Granite; Rocks; Mosques CAT-GODS' CHANNEL, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: We elegant erasers of mice Last Line: And so, with ancient yelps, we torch your maps Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers CAUTION AND ECONOMY, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The plan reduced from small to less to make his house compacter Last Line: The builder, his own architect, became his own contractor. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Buildings & Builders; Houses CENTER, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: How did you come Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Popular Culture; Art & Artists EDDY-GRAMS: 1. EDDY BLEW HIMSELF, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: When eddy bilt his mountin camp Last Line: He'll blow his hed off yet. Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Camping; Camps; Summer Camps EDDY-GRAMS: 2. EDDY BUM PROOF CELLER, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: When eddy blasted out that hole Last Line: Oh boyfur me his celler. Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Camping; Camps; Summer Camps ELEVATOR, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We jumped in, trusting Last Line: Sister! He wailed, as I sank deep into the ground. Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Elevators; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple ENDEAVOR'S CORNER-STONE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lift the building fair and strong Last Line: Out of christ, its corner-stone. Subject(s): Buildings & Builders F. HOPKINSON SMITH, by JOHN HUSTON FINLEY Poem Text First Line: Hop' smith, who built the lighthouse on race rock Last Line: And told a tale as only he could tell. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Art & Artists; Buildings & Builders; Smith, Francis Hopkinson (1838-1915); Statue Of Liberty FOR THE NEW WORLD, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first idea was man walking through space in a tower Last Line: The first idea was man walking through space in a tower Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Chicago; Cities; Urban Life FROM DUST THOU ART, by FRANCES WADDLE Poem Text First Line: And we shall build upon the earth Last Line: But even us, its builders. Subject(s): Buildings & Builders GLASS HOUSE, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everything obeyed our laws and Subject(s): Buildings & Builders HAIL TEESSIDE!, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old ironmasters and their iron men Last Line: And earn fresh honours for our own teesside. Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Creation; Enterprise (ship); Iron & Steel Industry; Printing & Printers; Towns HOWARD SHAW, ARCHITECT; DIED MAY 6, 1926, by AGNES LEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Remember? We, the city, shall remember Last Line: The features of a building or a man. Alternate Author Name(s): Freer, Otto, Mrs. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Buildings & Builders; Death; Memory; Shaw, Howard Van Doren (1869-1926); Dead, The IMAGINARY PRISONS, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A piranesian interior. Operatic space Subject(s): Piranesi, Giambattista (1720-1778); Buildings & Builders; Imagination; Fancy INCONGRUOUS BUILDERS, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Too bad if the forests wilts into pereskia stalks Last Line: Around a few ghosts more real than they appear / incongruous builders Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Environmental Abuse; Buildings & Builders KUBLA KHAN, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In xanadu did kubla khan / a stately pleasure dome decree Last Line: And drunk the milk of paradise. Variant Title(s): Romance;the Sacred River Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Dreams; Heaven; Kubla Khan (1214-1294); Mysticism; Nightmares; Paradise LAST SONG FOR THE MEND-IT SHOP, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today some buildings were blown up Last Line: It tasted like. Subject(s): Bakeries & Bakers; Buildings & Builders; Landmarks; Retail Trade; Singing & Singers; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers; Songs LINES TO THE BOSTON Y.M.C.A., by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Thou mighty force which builds today and well Last Line: Has made this great association last. Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Walls MUSHROOM CITY, by FREDERIC SAUSER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Toward the end of 1911 a group of yankee financiers Last Line: City, that was also looking for a name. Alternate Author Name(s): Cendrars, Blaise Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; City Planning; Labor Unions; Machinery And Machinists; Steel OBSTETRICS OF A BUILDING, by ROGER L. WARING Poem Text First Line: At last this infant building has a life Last Line: So I who am alone am not alone. Subject(s): Buildings & Builders POST-CONSTRUCTION, by KAY RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who knows better / than the builder Subject(s): Buildings & Builders SECURITY, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On old interminable strife Last Line: Comes clattering down in storm. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Strength SHOVEL DINOSAURUS, by ROGER L. WARING Poem Text First Line: A shovel dinosaurus feeds her brood Last Line: From which, with groans and squeals, a building hatches. Subject(s): Buildings & Builders SONGS OF NEW YORK: NEW BUILDINGS, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The turrets leap higher and higher Last Line: The woodpeckers of the town. Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple SONNET: 29, by ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the fair picture of my life's estate Last Line: To wreck, and then rebuild it, stone by stone. Alternate Author Name(s): Knish, Anne Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Labor & Laborers; Loss; Memory; Solitude; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Work; Workers; Loneliness THE BRIDGE BUILDER, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of old the winds came romping down Last Line: Lay silent, far below! Subject(s): Buildings & Builders THE BUILDER, by CAROLINE GILTINAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The edges of the stones are sharp Last Line: Until a temple stands. Alternate Author Name(s): Harlow, Leo P., Mrs. Subject(s): Buildings & Builders THE BUILDER, by WILLARD WATTLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Smoothing a cypress beam Last Line: "heaven,"" he said." Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Carpenters; Christmas; Heaven; Nativity, The; Paradise THE BUILDERS, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Never a jungle is penetrated Last Line: Newark -- city that builds his dreams. Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Newark, New Jersey THE BUILDERS, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Into the dust of the making of man Last Line: For ever in the temple of our breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Patriotism; Princeton University THE BUILDERS; A NOCTURNE IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On what dost thou dream, solitary all the night long Last Line: Drawing to thee, and the slow feet of fate. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Monasteries; Rest; Spirituality; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Abbeys THE BUILDERS; FOR TRISHA, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Midnight: the field becomes white stone Last Line: But filled with light. Subject(s): Buildings & Builders THE BUILDING, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whence these hods, and bricks of bright red Last Line: Chaos transfigured into lineament. Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Details; Things THE BUILDING, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The building stands alone Last Line: As to what to do with ourselves Subject(s): Buildings & Builders THE BUILDINGS, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The buildings are all womanly. Their roofs Last Line: In its welcome, a vine with yellow flowers shading the door Subject(s): Buildings & Builders THE CHAPEL BELL, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before my hall I stood; with sated eye Last Line: Glory to god!not all, not all is vain. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Churches; Vanity; Cathedrals THE GOBHAN SAER, by THOMAS D'ARCY MCGEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He stept a man out of the ways of men Last Line: His name and towers for centuries shall stand. Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Ireland; Irish THE GROTTO; WRITTEN UNDER THE NAME OF PETER DRAKE, A FISHERMAN, by MATTHEW GREEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Adieu awhile, forsaken flood Last Line: A woman wise men canonize. Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Courts & Courtiers; Houses; Richmond Park, England; William Iii, King Of England (1650-1702); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE HUT, by FANNY HOWE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up the hill is a hut made of sound Last Line: It dwells in ashen buildings where the present sleeps Subject(s): Buildings & Builders THE MASTER BUILDER, by DAVID RITCHIE Poem Text First Line: A master builder he, who with his hands Last Line: Who over the world have held a potent sway? Subject(s): Buildings & Builders THE MIRACULOUS ESCAPE OF ROBERT ALLAN, THE FIREMAN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1888, and on october the fourteenth day Last Line: And be sure to escape the pains of hell. Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Escapes; Fire; Firefighters; Heroism; Fugitives; Heroes; Heroines THE NEXT FIFTY YEARS, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Turn, tremble at honk Last Line: To where road starts again Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Cities; Future Life; Labor & Laborers; Urban Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Work; Workers THE RAILWAY BRIDGE OF THE SILVERY TAY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful railway bridge of the silvery tay! Last Line: Near by dundee and the magdalen green. Subject(s): Bridges; Buildings & Builders; Engineering And Engineers; Railroads; Steel; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips THE RIVETER'S SONG, by GLADYS V. JACKSON Poem Text First Line: Skyward reaching to bridge the span Last Line: The rollicking riveter's song.... Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Rivets & Riveting THE ROPEWALK, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In that building, long and low Last Line: And the spinners backward go. Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Rope THE SONG OF THE PYRAMID-BUILDERS, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We lived below the elephantine / in a papyrus-wattled village Last Line: And woe to him who flayed us! Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Egypt; Pyramids; Slavery; Serfs THE SORCERESS OF THE MOON, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Its gates are griffin-guarded gates Last Line: The sorceress of the moon! Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Courts & Courtiers; Guard Duty; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE TEMPLE OF VENUS, by SOAME JENYNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In her own isle's remotest grove Last Line: And steer by chloe's eyes. Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Mythology - Classical; Statues; Temples; Venus (goddess); Mosques THE TOWER, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sunk between cool meadows Last Line: The snowy gables of the sky. Subject(s): Buildings & Builders THE TOWER, by AGNES LEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now that the tower is standing Last Line: Imposed against the sky! Alternate Author Name(s): Freer, Otto, Mrs. Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Size & Shape; Height THE TOWER OF ERCILDOUNE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a stillness on the night Last Line: Except to lead us nearer heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Desolation; Haunted Houses; Scotland; Walls THE VACANT LOT, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: They're going to build a flathouse on the lot next door to me Last Line: Where we may live forever in a little bungalow. Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Love THE WORD OF AN ENGINEER, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She's built of steel Last Line: That he has in an engineer! Subject(s): Art & Artists; Buildings & Builders; Engineering & Engineers; Steel TO A CERTAIN VERY UGLY BUILDING: THE ARMORY, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Minotaur of madness, you certainly belong there Last Line: O slumtown symbol of war's grim insanity! Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Army - Ireland; Buildings & Builders; Death; Pacifism; Social Protest; War; Weapons; Ammunition; Dead, The; Peace Movements TO AN UNFINISHED CHURCH, by BEULAH H. LYON Poem Text First Line: Where once a simple dwelling stood, your walls Last Line: Forbid your roof to ever shut god out! Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Churches; Cathedrals TO PENSHURST, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art not, penshurst, built to envious show Last Line: May say their lords have built, but thy lord dwells. Subject(s): Animals; Buildings & Builders; Houses; Penshurst, England; Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586) |
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