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Subject: HUDSON RIVER
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SCENE ON THE BANKS OF THE HUDSON, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cool shades and dews are round my way
Last Line: And I to seek the crowd of men.
Subject(s): Hudson River


BARGE LIGHTS ON THE HUDSON, by DICK ALLEN    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Glass door to the balcony slid open
Subject(s): Hudson River; Boats


CHELSEA, 1860, by ARTHUR CLEVELAND COXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When old canute the dane
Last Line: From chelsea's student train.
Subject(s): Churches; Hudson River; New York City; Cathedrals; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


DOBBS HIS FERRY; A LEGEND OF THE LOWER HUDSON, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The days were at their longest
Last Line: And buy a place at dobbs!
Subject(s): Dobbs Ferry, New York; Ferry Boats; Hudson River


ELEGY; FOR JAMES WRIGHT, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not only doesn't the ohio
Last Line: In rags, half in radiance.
Subject(s): Chestnut Trees; Death; Grief; Hudson River; Nature; Ohio River; Plane Trees; Rivers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Sycamores


GREAT IS DIANA OF THE MANNAHATTOES!, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Northward! Northward! Goddess of the tower
Last Line: The smoke of sacrifice!
Subject(s): Hudson River; Native Americans; New York City; Ships & Shipping; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


HENRY HUDSON LOOKS AT THE HUDSON, by DAVID SHAPIRO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Henry hudson turned to me and said
Last Line: Rather compalin, like a man, that there is no %river
Subject(s): Hudson River; Hudson, Henry (1550-1611)


HUDSON, by HUGH SEIDMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Unwavering noon, self-minus
Subject(s): Hudson River


HUDSON, by VESTA HARDY VANDEVEER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh, lovely river! Shining in the sun
Subject(s): Hudson River


MONTGOMERY'S RETURN, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How black the barge of trailing pall
Last Line: Montgomery came home.
Subject(s): Fame; Homecoming; Hudson River; Love; Montgomery, Richard (1738-1775); New York City; Reputation; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


NOCTURNES: 2, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: While the romantic contribution - that one sees oneself by perceiving
Last Line: As sheer presence
Subject(s): Architecture And Architects; Buildings And Builders; Hudson River; New York City


ON THE CITY ENCROACHMENTS ON THE RIVER HUDSON, 1800, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where hudson, once, in all his pride
Last Line: And time restore him all you take.
Subject(s): Hudson River; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


RAMBOUT VAN DAM; THE FLYING DUTCHMAN OF THE TAPPAN ZEE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On tappan zee a shroud of gray
Last Line: A sound -- and naught beside.
Variant Title(s): Rambout Van Dam
Subject(s): Legends; New York City - Dutch Period; Tappan Zee, Hudson River


THE GATES OF THE HUDSON, by WILLIAM OSBORN STODDARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: So bright the day, so clear the sky
Last Line: Forever and forever.
Subject(s): Hudson River


THE HUDSON, by MARGETTA FAUGERES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Nile's beauteous waves, and tiber's swelling tide
Last Line: And sloping pastures speck'd with fleecy sheep.
Subject(s): Hudson River


THE HUDSON, by GEORGE SIDNEY HELLMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Where in its old historic splendor stands
Last Line: And saw his mother waiting at the door.
Variant Title(s): Sonnet To The Hudson
Subject(s): Homecoming; Hudson River


THE HUDSON, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas a vision of childhood that came with its dawn
Last Line: Till the channel is dry where its waters have rolled!
Subject(s): Hudson River


THE HUDSON, by STARR HOYT NICHOLS    Poem Text                    
First Line: With tranquil majesty our river flows
Last Line: As souls melt theirs in death's infinity.
Subject(s): Cities; Hudson River; Hudson Valley, New York; Urban Life


THE LAST MAN'S CLUB, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My grandfather was always sad. Sadly, as a boy, he paddled his canoe
Last Line: After that he was never sad, not even when the river died
Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Hudson River; Life; Old Age; Dead, The


TO THE HUDSON, by ELIZABETH OAKES PRINCE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, river! Gently as a wayward child
Last Line: That like the ocean call invites me to its strand.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Seba (e. Oakes), Mrs.; Oakes-smith, Elizabeth
Subject(s): Hudson River


VIEW ON THE HUDSON, by BARTHOLOMEW SIMMONS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sound to the sun thy solemn joy for ever
Last Line: To spread her worship o'er a second world.
Subject(s): Hudson River; United States; America