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Subject: CONNECTICUT Matches Found: 54 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 8, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And wove his forest dreams into quaint prose Last Line: Of murdered maidens, wives, and little ones Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Connecticut AN ORDINARY EVENING IN NEW HAVEN, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The eye's plain version is a thing apart Variant Title(s): An Ordinary Evening In New Haven, Selection Subject(s): New Haven, Connecticut AUTHORS' RESIDENCES, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mark twain's opinion was, he was entitled Subject(s): Hartford, Connecticut; Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955); Twain, Mark (samuel Langhorne Clemens) AUTHORS' RESIDENCES, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mark twain's opinion was, he was entitled Last Line: In boston. Writers, know your place %before it gets too modest to be known Subject(s): Hartford, Connecticut; Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955); Twain, Mark (samuel Langhorne Clemens) AUTUMN IN CONNECTICUT, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Why does my heart leap with the fall Last Line: Fresh leaves may yet take root Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Autumn; Connecticut; Leaves; Seasons BRIDE BROOK, by GEORGE PARSONS LATHROP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wide as the sky time spreads his hand Last Line: But all the rest has passed away. Subject(s): Saybrook, Connecticut CONNECTICUT, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And still her grey rocks tower above the sea Last Line: To the green land I sing, then wake; you'll find them there. Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Connecticut CONNECTICUT RIVER, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair river! Not unknown to classic song Last Line: And the white spire that points a world of rest. Subject(s): Connecticut River CONNECTICUT ROAD SONG, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the wide and rocky pasture where the cedar trees are gray Last Line: And I have to get to colchester before the break of day. Subject(s): Connecticut CONNECTICUT TRILOGY, by LEILA JONES Poem Source First Line: These roads that run from redding ridge to kent Subject(s): Connecticut CONNECTICUT: 1, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They burnt their last witch in connecticut Last Line: On the last page of that year's almanac Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Connecticut CONNECTICUT: 2, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some warning and well-meant remarks were made Last Line: When told at fire-sides eves by those who saw %executed - the lady and the law Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Connecticut CONNECTICUT: 5, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And hushed the night-bird's solitary hymn Last Line: And changed to banquet-board the bier of death Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Connecticut CONNECTICUT: 6, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: None knew - except a patient, precious few Last Line: The greek or welshman does not always lie Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Connecticut; Mather, Cotton (1663-1728) CONNECTICUT: 7, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Know ye the venerable cotton? He Last Line: He wandered freely, like a bird or bear Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Connecticut; Mather, Cotton (1663-1728) ERYK'S MOBIL, by JEFFREY GREENE Poem Source First Line: Sometimes in the evening, the gulls come Last Line: Mondo oscenita ...The corruption of christina Subject(s): Automobiles; New Haven, Connecticut GLIMPSES OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD IN NEW HAVEN: 1. THE ANGELS, by JEFFREY GREENE Poem Source First Line: When a latin king falls, the angels Last Line: There are many angels in new haven %and a heaven in each one Subject(s): New Haven, Connecticut GLIMPSES OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD IN NEW HAVEN: 10. VISIONS, by JEFFREY GREENE Poem Source First Line: You live with a little dog that no one likes but you Last Line: Or shaking your box of cornflakes for the morning Subject(s): New Haven, Connecticut GLIMPSES OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD IN NEW HAVEN: 11. THE POISONED RIVER, by JEFFREY GREENE Poem Source First Line: Love has its colors too Last Line: In the light that is love %to no truer waters Subject(s): New Haven, Connecticut GLIMPSES OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD IN NEW HAVEN: 2. THE Q BRIDGE, by JEFFREY GREENE Poem Source First Line: On a power line high above the q bridge Last Line: Transparency and sense Subject(s): New Haven, Connecticut GLIMPSES OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD IN NEW HAVEN: 3. THE DIVINITY SCHOOL, by JEFFREY GREENE Poem Source First Line: In the low vault of winter, in snow-suffused night Last Line: The white face lowered from the sky Subject(s): New Haven, Connecticut GLIMPSES OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD IN NEW HAVEN: 4. RIP VAN WINKLE, by JEFFREY GREENE Poem Source First Line: You are giving a reading from your new book of poems Last Line: For a man who missed his life Subject(s): New Haven, Connecticut GLIMPSES OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD IN NEW HAVEN: 5. HIS OWN IDEAS, by JEFFREY GREENE Poem Source First Line: Your grocer doesn't try to sell you produce Last Line: What else is there but his own ideas? Subject(s): New Haven, Connecticut GLIMPSES OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD IN NEW HAVEN: 6. VANISHINGS, by JEFFREY GREENE Poem Source First Line: In colonial times, new haven was meant to be a major port Last Line: Where possibility has anchored like a ship Subject(s): New Haven, Connecticut GLIMPSES OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD IN NEW HAVEN: 7. EVENING OF THE WHALE, by JEFFREY GREENE Poem Source First Line: What brings this whale tonight Last Line: That something destructible %is about to touch ground Subject(s): New Haven, Connecticut GLIMPSES OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD IN NEW HAVEN: 9. OFFICE OF VITAL STATS, by JEFFREY GREENE Poem Source First Line: There are two women near retirement age Last Line: It was as if she challenged the authority of heaven Subject(s): New Haven, Connecticut GLIMPSES OF THE WORLD IN NEW HAVEN: 8. BLUE LIGHTS, by JEFFREY GREENE Poem Source First Line: When undergraduate christian prince offered his wallet Last Line: And the division of sub-particles of atoms %at the essence of matter Subject(s): New Haven, Connecticut HARTFORD DAYLIGHT, by JOHN CAREY Poem Source First Line: On the bus ride home Last Line: Are walking free %among the people in the street Subject(s): Hartford, Connecticut; Politics HORSESHOE CONTEST, by JEFFREY HARRISON Poem Source First Line: East woodstock, connecticut Last Line: To be able to do anything %that well Subject(s): Connecticut; Fourth Of July; Horseshoes IN A GARDEN, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world is resting without sound or motion, Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Landscape; Connecticut NEW HAVEN SPRING, by JEFFREY GREENE Poem Source First Line: If I could touch %my tongue to the moon Last Line: Going somewhere %in half circles Subject(s): New Haven, Connecticut NEW LONDON, by FRANCES M. CAULKINS Poem Text First Line: When this fair town was nam-e-aug Last Line: Laid deep for us these firm foundations. Subject(s): New London, Connecticut OCTOBER IN CONNECTICUT, by LOUISE B. OLMSTEAD JENNINGS Poem Text First Line: Oh! October the king of the months is here Last Line: King october we love thee, we can't let thee go! Subject(s): Connecticut; October ODE TO THE CONNECTICUT RIVER, by JOSIAS LYNDON ARNOLD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On thy lov'd banks, sweet river, free Last Line: With joy I'd live, and die with joy. Subject(s): Connecticut River OF HARTFORD IN A PURPLE LIGHT, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A long time you have been making the trip Subject(s): Sun; Light; Colors; Hartford, Connecticut ORDINARY EVENING IN NEW HAVEN, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The eye's plain version is a thing apart Last Line: Is a solid. It may be a shade that traverses %a dust, a force that traverses a shade Variant Title(s): An Ordinary Evening In New Haven, Sels Subject(s): New Haven, Connecticut PLOWDEN HALSEY; 1812, by CAROLINE FRANCES ORNE Poem Text First Line: Live the name of plowden halsey Last Line: Plowden sleeps below. Subject(s): Disasters; New London, Connecticut; Shipwrecks QUI TRANSTULIT SUSTINET, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The warrior may twine round his temples the leaves Last Line: The vine that our forefathers planted. Subject(s): Connecticut RIVER OF RIVERS IN CONNECTICUT, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a great river this side of stygia Last Line: Of each of the senses; call it, again and again, %the river that flows nowhere, like a sea Subject(s): Connecticut; Rivers ROARING BROOK; A PASSAGE OF SCENERY IN CONNECTICUT, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was a mountain stream that with the leap Last Line: To loiter with these wayside comforters. Subject(s): Brooks; Connecticut; Landscape; Streams; Creeks SCIENCE HILL, by JEFFREY GREENE Poem Source First Line: There's a pure air in sterile hoods Last Line: And a moment's light tossed over %a dim celestial shoulder Subject(s): New Haven, Connecticut SLEEPING GIANT; A HILL IN CONNECTICUT, by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The whole day long, under the walking sun Last Line: And winter pulled a sheet over his head Subject(s): Children; Connecticut; Giants; Mountains; Poetry And Poets TALES OF A WAYSIDE INN: THE FIRST DAY: THE BIRDS OF KILLINGWORTH, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was the season, when through all the land Last Line: Amid the sunny farms of killingworth. Variant Title(s): The Poet's Tale Subject(s): Birds; Killingworth, Connecticut THE BURYING-GROUND, by NATHANIEL LANGDON FROTHINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, where are they whose all that earth could give Last Line: Deep in my stricken heart, and shrine them only there. Subject(s): Cemeteries; New Haven, Connecticut; Graveyards THE CAPTAIN, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Solemn he paced upon that schooner's deck Last Line: Riding at anchor, by a meeting-house. Subject(s): New London, Connecticut; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails THE CAPTAIN'S DRUM; APRIL, 1775, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In pilgrim land one sabbath day Last Line: Has drummed its way across the age. Subject(s): American Revolution; Enfield, Connecticut THE DESCENT ON MIDDLESEX, by PETER ST. JOHN Poem Text First Line: July the twenty-second day Last Line: The tories took me from the shore. Subject(s): American Revolution; Middlesex, Connecticut THE ELMS OF NEW HAVEN, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The leaves we knew Last Line: The hearts he touch'd drew to him. Subject(s): Elm Trees; Hillhouse, James (1754-1832); New Haven, Connecticut THE INLAND CITY, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Guarded by circling streams and wooded mountains Last Line: Ours is the fairest one. Subject(s): Norwich, Connecticut THE PHANTOM SHIP, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In mather's magnalia christi, / of the old colonial time Last Line: He had sent this ship of air. Subject(s): Mather, Cotton (1663-1728); New Haven, Connecticut; Ships & Shipping THE RIVER OF RIVERS IN CONNECTICUT, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a great river this side of stygia Last Line: The river that flows nowhere, like a sea Subject(s): Connecticut; Rivers THE SLEEPING GIANT; A HILL IN CONNECTICUT, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The whole day long, under the walking sun Subject(s): Children; Connecticut; Giants; Mountains; Poetry & Poets; Childhood; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE TENT ON THE BEACH: 11. ABRAHAM DAVENPORT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the old days (a custom laid aside / with breeches and cocked hats) Last Line: That simple duty hath no place for fear. Subject(s): Hartford, Connecticut; Law & Lawyers; Politics & Government; Attorneys TO CONNECTICUT RIVER, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From that lone lake, the sweetest of the chain Last Line: Of yon vast deep whose waters grasp the world. Subject(s): Connecticut River |
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