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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: HARLEM (NEW YORK CITY) Matches Found: 35 ASSEMBLY: HARLEM SCHOOL, by EUGENE T. MALESKA Poem Source First Line: My country, 'tis of thee Subject(s): Harlem (new York City); Schools BALLAD OF ORANGE AND GRAPE, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: After you finish your work Subject(s): Cities; Harlem (new York City); Urban Life BALLAD OF ORANGE AND GRAPE, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After you finish your work Last Line: Pouring orange into grape and grape into orange forever Subject(s): Cities; Harlem (new York City) BLACK SAPPHO, by FREDERICK SEIDEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suddenly the pace Subject(s): Harlem (new York City) CALL IN THE MIDST OF THE CROWD: JULY. SUNDAY MORNINGS IN HARLEM, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Overcast skies I never welcome Last Line: Of a drawing, a tattoo it still hurts to touch Subject(s): Harlem (new York City); New York City CROSSING THE COLOR LINE, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Harlem %has a black belt Last Line: Where white men %seek a little hell Subject(s): Harlem (new York City) DIMOUT IN HARLEM, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down the street young harlem Last Line: Down the street young harlem %in the dark Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Harlem (new York City) HAIRCUT, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I get off the irt in front of the schomburg center Last Line: Dying every day Subject(s): Barbers; Harlem (new York City) HARLEM, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want to sing harlem on an ebony flute Last Line: "rest, and dream, my dark delight!" Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music; Harlem (new York City); Music & Musicians HARLEM, by JEAN BRIERRE Poem Source First Line: I have seen you suffer in the midst of winters Subject(s): Harlem (new York City) HARLEM, by PAUL LARAQUE Poem Source First Line: Yesterday's fires and tomorrow's fires Last Line: And all the false heavens %of yesterday and today Subject(s): Harlem (new York City) HARLEM, by WALTER DEAN MYERS Poem Source First Line: They took the road in waycross, georgia Last Line: And has not ended %harlem Subject(s): African Americans; Harlem (new York City) HARLEM GALLERY: BOOK 1, THE CURATOR: LAMBDA, by MELVIN BEAUNORUS TOLSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the mouth of the harlem gallery Last Line: If old satchmo had never been born!' Alternate Author Name(s): Tolson, Melvin Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Armstrong, Louis (1900-1971); Harlem (new York City); Jazz; Music And Musicians HARLEM GALLERY: BOOK 1, THE CURATOR: MU, by MELVIN BEAUNORUS TOLSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hideho heights / and I, like the brims of old hats Last Line: Of the indigo combo. Alternate Author Name(s): Tolson, Melvin Variant Title(s): The Harlem Gallery: Mu Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music; Harlem (new York City); Jazz; Music & Musicians HARLEM MARY, by SAMUEL WOODWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They sing of blue-eyed mary Last Line: Tis planted in her heart. Subject(s): Harlem (new York City); New York City - 19th Century; Women HARLEM SHADOWS, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the halting footsteps of a lass Last Line: In harlem wandering from street to street. Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Harlem (new York City); Poverty; Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels HARLEM SWEETIES, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have yhou dug the spill Last Line: Delicious, fine sugar hill Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Harlem (new York City) JUKE BOX LOVE SONG, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could take the harlem night Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Harlem (new York City); Love; Singing & Singers; Negroes; American Blacks; Songs JUKE BOX LOVE SONG, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could take the harlem night Last Line: Dance with you, my sweet brown harlem girl Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Harlem (new York City); Love; Singing And Singers MARKET STREET, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dusky harlem %here in the middle west Last Line: And I have not escaped it yet Subject(s): African Americans; Harlem (new York City); Market Street, St. Louis NAVIDAD, ST. NICHOLAS AVE., by ALFRED DEWITT CORN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An infant quirk of a pine Last Line: Todo el mundo back to his side Subject(s): Harlem (new York City); Hispanic Americans NEIGHBOR, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down home / he sets on a stoop Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Harlem (new York City); Negroes; American Blacks NEIGHBOR, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down home %he sets on a stoop Last Line: Sometimes %he don't drink %true, %he just %lets his glass %set there Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Harlem (new York City) NEON SIGNS, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wonder bar / wishing well / monterey Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Harlem (new York City); Negroes; American Blacks NEON SIGNS, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wonder bar %wishing well %monterey Last Line: Mirror-go-round %where broken glass %in the early bright smears re-bop %sound Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Harlem (new York City) NEW YORK (FOR JAZZ ORCHESTRA: TRUMPET SOLO), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: New york! At first I was confused by your beauty Last Line: And the seventh day he slept the great sleep of the negro Subject(s): Harlem (new York City); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Negritude (literary Movement) NOT A MOVIE, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well the rocked him with road-apples Last Line: But, thank god , he wasn't dead! %and there ain't no ku klux on a 133rd Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Elections; Harlem (new York City); Racism; Southern States OEDIPUS IN HARLEM, by GERRY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Yo! Muthafucker Subject(s): Harlem (new York City) PROJECTION, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the day when the savoy Last Line: Wonderful! Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Divine, Father (george Baker, 1877-1965); Harlem (new York City); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Negroes; American Blacks SONNET TO A NEGRO IN HARLEM, by HELENE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You are disdainful and magnificent Last Line: You are too splendid for this city street. Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Americans; Harlem (new York City); United States; Negroes; American Blacks; America STREET OF NAMED HOUSES, by ROBERT DAVID COHEN Poem Source First Line: My sun, %you smile at the granite of milton Last Line: Singing on a wall, come to dance. Soon, soon, %my love Subject(s): Harlem (new York City) SWEET DISTURBANCE OF THE PEACE, by STACEY FRUITS Poem Source First Line: I like it best when love forgets itself, when love is loud Last Line: Window box and watch me bloom inside the dead of winter Subject(s): Cities; Harlem (new York City); Noises; Poetry And Poets TALKING BLUES, by CALVIN FORBES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Raccoon you better be cool Subject(s): Raccoons; Harlem (new York City) THE HARLEM DANCER, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Applauding youths laughed with young prostitutes Last Line: I knew her self was not in that strange place. Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Harlem (new York City) WINTER WORDS, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Day after day in a high room between Subject(s): Harlem (new York City); City & Town Life |
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