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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: LONG ISLAND (N.Y.) Matches Found: 70 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD OF DOROTHY, by ARTHUR KETCHUM Poem Text First Line: It's dorothy! Where's dorothy? Last Line: Why, who but dorothy? Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.) A SONG, by FRANCIS CHARLES MCDONALD Poem Text First Line: This I learned from the birds Last Line: Only you, dear, you. Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.) AFTERNOON: AMAGANSETT BEACH, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The broad beach, %sea-wind and and the sea's irregular rhythm Last Line: His footprint is his image fallen from heaven Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.) AMAGANSETT BEACH REVISITED, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Once more I move among you, dear familiar places Last Line: On the now vanished past Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.) ANDY, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: I'm sitting in this casino restaurant Last Line: And play your favorite %numbers: 3, 13 and 33 Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs AT BAY RIDGE, LONG ISLAND, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pleasant it is to lie amid the grass Last Line: Daisies are trembling over keats's grave. Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.) BACHELOR SONG, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: It's saturday night and lisa Last Line: Like a whistled song Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs BEACH, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: While they met with the real estate brokers Last Line: They were going over bids, strategies Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs BLACK JESS, by PETER KANE DUFAULT Poem Source First Line: He was no good. Somewhere Last Line: One day in the marine atlases of the world to designate %a dot on long island sound Subject(s): African Americans; Long Island (n.y.); Wanderers And Wandering COLOPHON, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The occident and the orient Last Line: Dares climb the other? Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Long Island (n.y.); United States; America COUNTING, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: I'd walk close to buildings counting Last Line: With the foul ball, waving for tv Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs DARK MORNING, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: Mom woke me. Power was out Last Line: And the stinging smell of menthol Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs EASTERN LONG ISLAND, by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beach grass tangled by wind--the sound rushes Last Line: Reclamation by the proximate meek, who shall inherit. Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Nature; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Seashore; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore EASY, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: When mom screwed up the courage she drove to bohack's Last Line: Freezer, vapor rolling out the sides and down her legs Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs FERRYMEN, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: The parents in our town ferried us Last Line: The good witch was good and the bad bad Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs GAY, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: Margie was a sprinter, fastest girl Last Line: Stockings. Are you sure? Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs HAIRCUT, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: Three old jewish men sit ahead of grandpa. One has a Last Line: Is pat it and wish it well Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs ISN'T THAT BEAUTIFUL, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: When I opened my eyes Last Line: Don't mock your mother Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs JACK NICKLAUS, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: My father follows jack nicklaus Last Line: Puts his finger to his lips %and says, shh Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs KEY, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: I have memorized the coastline Last Line: And whispered, this belongs to me Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs LAWYER, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: In the outer office, there were mossy rugs with coffee stains Last Line: Smiled again, showing all the tartar on her teeth Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs LAY IT DOWN, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: Brigit, I took a bus through your state Last Line: I tell the man, but that sounds right Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs LIVING ALONE, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: You take the homeless guy Last Line: Cooking as you climb the stairs Subject(s): Cities; Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs LONG ISLAND, by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The things I did, I did because of trees Last Line: And life in the upturned bellies of the fishkill in the creek. Subject(s): Children; Long Island (n.y.); Mathematics; Memory; Childhood LONG ISLAND, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As cars drive by on southern state parkway Last Line: Speeding apart Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Long Island (n.y.) LONG ISLAND, by MARCY S. POWELL Poem Source First Line: The island's strange, it seems to me Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.) LONG ISLAND, by IRA SADOFF Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've spent the last few years with an eraser Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.) LONG ISLAND, by IRA SADOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've spent the last few years with an eraser Last Line: That looked like jewels were really roaches Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.) LONG ISLAND PASTORAL, by TONY TOWLE Poem Source First Line: Again and again there is something to see Last Line: The world as we think we know it, %images active in the constant sea Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.) LONG ISLAND POEMS; 1. I WAS ALWAYS, by BRUCE BAWER Poem Source First Line: I was always so careful about friends Last Line: Each time letting blood Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.) LONG ISLAND POEMS; 2. THE SNOW BOY, by BRUCE BAWER Poem Source First Line: He came from sunny california Last Line: And he was light in your arms as you crunched %along the path Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.) LONG ISLAND POEMS; 3. A LETTER TO CAMBRIDGE, by BRUCE BAWER Poem Source First Line: This is just to let you know Last Line: Nothing of you but a moment's thought Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.) LONG ISLAND RAILROAD, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brown-skinned manhattan students take the train Last Line: They bag their beer at pennsylvania station Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); New York City; Railroads LONG ISLAND SPRINGS, by HOWARD MOSS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long island springs not much went on Last Line: Russian cossack horses leap across %the stone, the stone parentheses of years Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.) LOOKING FOR AN APARTMENT, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: I suppose I could go on living on chinese food Last Line: Walk in shivering, see if it feels like home Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs LOVE IN VEGAS, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: I thought money was love when you Last Line: And hit the bed in one another's arms Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs MARY, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: I promise not to touch you if we pull Last Line: And lay it back upon you like a blanket Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs MIDWAY, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: At least he knows when to get drunk Last Line: Half the world is better than him %half worse Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs MRS. BRITT'S, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: She wore her black hair twisted around chopsticks, or Last Line: Opened the door, got in, the car sinking with his weight %and drove us home Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs NAPLES, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: You come out the maze of alleys by the sea Last Line: Up sauce with your bread. Delicious Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs NOBODY'S HELL, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: At the bus stop on the first frigid Last Line: Someplace warm, someplace that is nobody's hell Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs NORTH FORK, by AMY CLAMPITT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The humped, half-subterranean Last Line: With their sometime chattels, %and whose memory too is now %worn down to stone Variant Title(s): Paumono Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Nature NORTHPORT, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: The girl who fucked was margaret pritchard Last Line: Good grades, staying out of rumors Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs NOT MY LIFE, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: Her name was lisa, the fourth Last Line: And know I will be old in a blink Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs ON THE ISLAND, by LOUIS EDWARD SISSMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We issue from the meat of pineapple street Last Line: As I can profit by a visit to %the fish-shaped island, population two Alternate Author Name(s): Sissman, L. E. Subject(s): Islands; Long Island (n.y.) ONLY HOME, by CHARLES PIERRE Poem Source First Line: Living on this shifting island Last Line: Where the only home is another poem Subject(s): Home; Long Island (n.y.); Poetry And Poets OZYMANDIAS REVISITED, by MORRIS GILBERT BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I met a traveller from an antique land Last Line: Of 17 west 4th street, oyster bay. Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) PARTNER, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: At 2 a.M. I rode the subway to manhattan Last Line: Ah got married today Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs PIG'S LUNGS, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: They only called it a dissection Last Line: Going up our mouths, into our chests Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Pigs; Suburbs PORT JEFFERSON, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My whole life coming to this place Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.) PORT JEFFERSON, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My whole life coming to this place Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.) PRAISE YOU HARRY GORDON, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source Last Line: Shirt, shoes, trousers, underpants, teeth Subject(s): Cities; Long Island (n.y.); Mankind; Suburbs RICE, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: I didn't know rice until I traded places with rusty and went next door to eat Last Line: Husband and cleared her throat. Rusty just hung his head, like his brothers, and %chewed his mother' Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Rice; Suburbs RONNY, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: During a heart attack, my favorite uncle Last Line: And just enough money for a used camaro Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs SELF-PORTRAIT WITH RADIO, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: A blue plastic radio on the table Last Line: Him, his radio, his struggle for happiness Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs SHORT SONG, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: The self is a ship in the bottle Last Line: Or the way home Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs SLEEPING WITH GRANDPA, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: Beneath king-size bedclothes Last Line: I think the pulling sheet %is his loose skin Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs SONNET: 3, 11, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long island! Yes! When first my vision swept Last Line: Craftily quaint the tale he told to me. Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.) SONNET: 3, 12, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Young silas long, a carrier through these woods Last Line: Ran back, ten steps or more, and nothing found ... Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.) SONNET: 3, 13, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes! The dead pines and deersfoot on the ground Last Line: Laid fire to his pipe and phewed away. Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.) SPLENDOR, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: When I was fourteen reading rebecca Last Line: By the sea was as blank as the green glass %of the shut off magnavox Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs STANDING UP STIFF, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: When I told my mom I hated her Last Line: Standing up stiff Subject(s): Absence; Children; Divorce; Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs STARTING FROM PAUMANOK, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Starting from fish-shape paumanok where I was born Last Line: O to haste firm holding -- to haste, haste on with me. Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Religion; Theology SUCH A GOOD DANCER, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: Desperate to be part of the night Last Line: Such a good dancer Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs THE DEVIL'S STEPPING-STONES, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A sky of gold, a sea of blue Last Line: Long island keeps the devil. Subject(s): Devil; Legends; Long Island (n.y.); New York City; Sailing & Sailors; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Seamen; Sails THREE BLIND DATES, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: She has chosen a beautiful italian cafe Last Line: All those relatives in concentration camps Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs TO THE LITTLE HOUSE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear little house, dear shabby street Last Line: But little queer suburban streets! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Home; Long Island (n.y.) WALKING WOUNDED, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: Spring came and we had to hide our boners Last Line: And big, while she stroked and licked it? Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs WALLS, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: In the suburbs our lives were seperated Last Line: That couldn't even stay up in the head Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs WHEREVER YOU WANT, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: When I said fuck you to my father for not paying child sup- Last Line: To juice, smeared the rest back up again, and again, until it all dissolved Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs |
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