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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: COAL MINES & MINERS Matches Found: 23 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A COAL FIRE IN WINTER, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Something old and tyrannical burning there Subject(s): Coal Mines & Miners; Fire; Men A DESCRIPTIVE POEM, ADDRESSED TO TWO LADIES, SELECTION, by JOHN DALTON Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: Agape the sooty collier stands Last Line: Creative commerce, these are thine! Subject(s): Caves; Coal Mines & Miners; Earth; Rivers; Stones; Caverns; World; Granite; Rocks A MEDITATION ON RHODE ISLAND COAL, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sat beside the glowing grate, fresh heaped Last Line: And melt the icicles from off his chin. Subject(s): Coal Mines & Miners; Rhode Island BANKING COAL, by JEAN TOOMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whoever it was who brought the first wood and coal Last Line: All money ever saved by banking coal. Subject(s): Coal Mines & Miners BARNSLEY COLLIERY EXPLOSION, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far, far below - oh! Far below Last Line: Avert the dangers of the mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Coal Mines & Miners; Death; Tragedy; Dead, The COAL, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A valley, narrow as the pit Last Line: Coal. Subject(s): Coal Mines & Miners; Labor & Laborers; London; Work; Workers ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY COAL-BIN, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The furnace tolls the knell of falling steam Last Line: To bring my morning coffee to a boil. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Coal Mines & Miners; Furnaces; Standard Oil Company; Kilns FORGOTTEN OF THE FOOT, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Equisetum, horsetail, railway weed Subject(s): Coal Mines & Miners GO EASY, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fireman, spare that coal Subject(s): Coal Mines & Miners; Conservation MY LAWRENCE, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The future, rain in every syllable and cell Last Line: It was raining and no one knew who lawrence was Subject(s): Fathers; Family Life; Coal Mines & Miners; Lawrence, David Herbert (1885-1930) NEWS FROM NEWCASTLE; UPON THE COAL-PITS ABOUT NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, by JOHN CLEVELAND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: England's a perfect world, has indies too Last Line: And gives her a black bag for a green gown. Subject(s): Coal Mines & Miners; Newcastle-upon-tyne, England OSTRAVA, by PETR BEZRUC Poem Text First Line: A hundred years mutely I dwelt in the pit Last Line: A day when we'll take what we owe. Subject(s): Coal Mines & Miners SAYINGS OF HENRY STEPHENS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you get enough money Subject(s): African Americans; Racism; Farm Life; Coal Mines & Miners; Springfield, Illinois'; Strikes; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; Agriculture; Farmers; Labor Disputes; Lockouts THE CHEERY COAL, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I like the coal Last Line: And never, never is a pessimist! Subject(s): Coal Mines & Miners THE COAL BREAKER (PENNSYLVANIA), by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the house where, up from ages gone Last Line: In the bright waving hearth-fire calm and deep. Subject(s): Coal Mines & Miners THE COAL YARD, by LOUIS GINSBERG Poem Text First Line: The night was hushed and the street was dark Last Line: Huddled and crowded into pieces of coal! Subject(s): Coal Mines & Miners THE CRY OF THE CHILDREN, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do ye hear the children weeping, o my brothers Last Line: Than the strong man in his wrath.' Variant Title(s): The Bitter Cry Of The Children Subject(s): Child Labor; Coal Mines & Miners; Freedom; Social Protest; Liberty THE HARTLEY COLLIERY CATASTROPHE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dark gulf of death! Black cavern of despair! Last Line: The widows' judge is he in holiness. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Coal Mines & Miners; Death; Tragedy; Dead, The THE NOBLER ARMY, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The men who fight in europe - they fight to maim and kill Subject(s): Coal Mines & Miners; World War I; First World War THE PETRIFIED WOMAN, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As she turns the corner, daylight begins to fail Last Line: Inside out, potosi become huakajchi, the mountain that cried Subject(s): Coal Mines & Miners; Women; Strikes THE SACRAL DREAMS OF RAMON FERNANDEZ, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ramon fernandez did not live Last Line: He said, god has brought me here Subject(s): Coal Mines & Miners VERSES UNDER A PORTRAIT OF THOMAS BRITTON, A COAL MERCHANT, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though doomed to small-coal, yet to arts applied Last Line: Had kneller painted, and had vertue graved. Variant Title(s): Lines Subject(s): Britton, Thomas (1644-1714); Coal Mines & Miners; Kneller, Sir Godfrey (1649-1723); Music & Musicians; Vertue, George (1684-1756); Kniller, Gottfried WILLY TO JINNY, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Duskier than the clouds that lie Last Line: Coming from the colliree. Subject(s): Coal Mines & Miners |
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