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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: NEW ENGLAND Matches Found: 91 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A NEW-ENGLAND TOWN-AT NOON, by MARJORIE MUIR WORTHINGTON Poem Text First Line: I walked thru an old new england town Last Line: Without purpose or will to stop itself. Alternate Author Name(s): Muir, Marjorie Subject(s): City & Town Life; New England; Travel; Vacation; Journeys; Trips A SPRINGTIME PILGRIMAGE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Feet on the hills and heads in the sky Last Line: Here in the hollow of tarrytown. Subject(s): New England; New York City - Dutch Period; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Spring A TRIAL IN NEW AMSTERDAM, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye who have chafed at the law's delays Last Line: "verdict for plaintiff. Said beer was good." Subject(s): New England; New York City - Dutch Period; Trials ADDRESS TO THE SCHOLARS OF NEW ENGLAND, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When sarah pierrepont let her spirit rage Subject(s): Harvard University; New England; Scholarship & Scholars ADDRESS TO THE SCHOLARS OF NEW ENGLAND, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When sarah pierrepont let her spirit rage Last Line: And if there's passion enough for half their flame, %your wisdom has done this, sages of harvard Subject(s): Harvard University; New England; Scholarship And Scholars AH, 'TIS IN VAIN THE PEACEFUL DIN, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: By no laconian rill Subject(s): New England; American Revolution AN EPISODE OF THE GREAT AWAKENING IN NEW ENGLAND, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: As night pushes its red forerunners Subject(s): Revivals; Religion; New England; Religious Revivals; Theology BESIDE THE SHORE ROAD, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Here lies an old, worn highway winding far Last Line: Defying sense to fathom. Subject(s): New England; Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips BLACK OAKS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The leaves of the black oak linger the winter through Last Line: I forget the plains, I behold new england's face. Subject(s): New England; Oak Trees CONFLUENCE, by WYN COOPER Poem Source First Line: How the snow melts to keep this river flowing Last Line: The light of day on the other Subject(s): New England; Romance; Winter CONVIVIAL SONG, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come fill each brimming glass, boys Last Line: At our next fed'ral meeting. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Fourth Of July; New England; Patriotism; Independence Day CROSS-CURRENTS, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through twelve stout generations Last Line: Who chose him for my sake. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; New England; Heritage; Heredity DESCRIPTION OF A NEW ENGLAND COUNTRY DANCE, by THOMAS GREEN FESSENDEN Poem Text First Line: How funny 't is, when pretty lads and lasses Last Line: Raptures extatick. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; New England DESERTED FARMS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A foretimes, fruitfulness and tilth were here Last Line: Or toward the peopled cities set your face. Subject(s): Farm Life; Memory; New England; Agriculture; Farmers DRIVING THROUGH NEW ENGLAND, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: These wheatfields %white poets call the past Subject(s): Fields; New England EAST WIND, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dream of a languorous, tideless shore Last Line: And the sea wind is the east wind, as the sea wind ought to be! Subject(s): New England; United States - Immigration & Emigtration EXACT MOMENT, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: Our fingers apprised of the situation begin to flirt and flicker across the Last Line: Without sound, without insight Subject(s): Desire; Love; New England; Travel EXILE FROM NEW ENGLAND, by DOROTHY HALE SMITH Poem Text First Line: Where, o heart, are the cedared pastures Last Line: To the wind on the hills and the lake in the valley of home. Subject(s): New England FARM ANIMALS' DESERTION, by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where have you gone, o cherished lexington Last Line: Like all the million acres of new england %that bear no crop except these rags, these bones Subject(s): Animals; New England FATHERS OF NEW ENGLAND, by CHARLES SPRAGUE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Behold! They come, those sainted forms Subject(s): New England; Pilgrim Fathers FOREFATHER'S SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: New england's annoyances you that would know them Last Line: "but bring both a quiet and contended mind, / and all needful blessings you surely will find" Subject(s): New England;u.s. - Colonial Period FROM A HOUSE IN NEW ENGLAND (TO A FRIEND IN THE WEST), by WILLARD JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: There is a window in this magic house Last Line: Running away -- knowing us one too few! Subject(s): Absence; Friendship; Magic; New England; Separation; Isolation FROST'S FARM ROAD, by JAMES HAYFORD Poem Source First Line: I pocketed a pebble Last Line: In or just under the great world Subject(s): Frost, Robert (1874-1963); New England; Poetry And Poets GHOSTS, by MARGUERITE MOOERS MARSHALL Poem Text First Line: They call you cold new england Last Line: To guard the flames below! Subject(s): Ghosts; New England; Supernatural; Witchcraft & Witches GOD'S CONTROVERSY WITH NEW ENGLAND, SELECTION, by MICHAEL WIGGLESWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Good christian reader judge me not / as too censorious Last Line: No man may disregard. Subject(s): New England GRANITE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: New england doesn't kid around Last Line: When I'm blinder than stone Subject(s): Graves; New England; Stones GULLS AND BUOYS, by ANNE LEMIEUX Poem Source First Line: Gulls swoop, gulls soar Last Line: Raucous caucus, birds of a feather Subject(s): New England; Sea Gulls KISSING BRIDGE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No roebling reared that primal way Last Line: As then in old nieuw amsterdam! Subject(s): Bridges; Kisses; New England; New York City - Dutch Period LILACS, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lilacs / false blue Last Line: Since certainly it is mine. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs; New England LITERARY NEW ENGLAND (1), by SAM CORNISH Poem Source First Line: All night walking Subject(s): New England LITERARY NEW ENGLAND (2), by SAM CORNISH Poem Source First Line: I saw hawthorne's %gravestone one autumn Last Line: Man %is his stories Subject(s): New England LUNCH IN TOWN, by MILDRED WHITNEY STILLMAN Poem Text First Line: I like you better far in country places Last Line: I wish I had not come to town today. Subject(s): Lunch; New England MARSHALL WASHER, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are cowshit farmers, these new englanders Last Line: "and flagged aisles saturated with a century’s Subject(s): Cows; Farm Life; New England; Agriculture; Farmers MIDSUMMER IN NEW ENGLAND, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The royalty of midsummer is here! Last Line: Their hearts' midsummer found, with bliss are dumb. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): New England; Summer MOGG MEGONE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who stands on that cliff, like a figure of stone Last Line: Ruth boniton is dead! Subject(s): Death; Missions & Missionaries; Native Americans - Wars; New England; Norridgewock, Maine; Penobscot Bay, Maine; Rale, Sebastien (1654-1724); Saco (river), New Hampshire And Maine; U.s. - Colonial Period; Waterfalls; Dead, The MOUNTAIN AND PRAIRIE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where narrow little valleys snugly lie Last Line: And prairies too! Subject(s): Homesickness; Mountains; New England; Prairies; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Plains NAMES, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From somerset and devon Last Line: One race, one truth, one speech. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; England; Names; New England; Heritage; Heredity; English NATIVITY, by PHILIP H. CUMMINGS Poem Text First Line: There is a warm brownness Last Line: Of my new england. Subject(s): New England NEW ENGLAND, by BETTIE MARGOT CASSIE Poem Text First Line: Smug little towns Last Line: "I do not choose to run." Subject(s): Coolidge, Calvin (1872-1933); New England NEW ENGLAND, by EDNA LEMONT MALONE Poem Text First Line: You stand a worthy sentinel Last Line: Those are the things we prize. Subject(s): New England; Sea; Ocean NEW ENGLAND, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hail to the land whereon we tread Last Line: Our hand. Subject(s): New England NEW ENGLAND, by SUSAN N. PULSIFER Poem Text First Line: Houses of generous, ample line Last Line: Tell of past springs the heart remembers. Subject(s): Landscape; Life; New England; Time NEW ENGLAND, by THERESA MARIE READ Poem Source First Line: I am caught with %its springtime Subject(s): New England NEW ENGLAND, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here where the wind is always north-north-east Subject(s): New England NEW ENGLAND, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here where the wind is always north-north-east Last Line: Cheerful as when she tortured into fits %the first cat that was ever killed by care Subject(s): New England NEW ENGLAND, by PHILIP HENRY SAVAGE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Whoe'er thou art, who walkest there Subject(s): New England NEW ENGLAND, by WILBERT SNOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Inside, gray smoke curls up Last Line: What is left then? Alternate Author Name(s): Snow, Charles Wilber Subject(s): New England NEW ENGLAND, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is a condition Last Line: To end “walking on air” Subject(s): New England NEW ENGLAND, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is a condition Last Line: Smile-a thought of indians %on chestnut branches %to end 'walking on the air' Subject(s): New England NEW ENGLAND BALLAD, by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He saw the drab and dreary town Subject(s): New England NEW ENGLAND CAPITALIST, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What are his machines Last Line: Now let him make a harp! Subject(s): Capitalism; New England NEW ENGLAND IS NEW ENGLAND IS NEW ENGLAND, by BRENDA HELOISE GREEN Poem Source First Line: Is seacoast fog, is starfish caught Subject(s): New England NEW ENGLAND LANDSCAPE, by DUBOSE HEYWARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a sepia ground Last Line: Is slowly unwinding its skein. Subject(s): Landscape; New England NEW ENGLAND LIGHTHOUSE, by REBECCA KAI DOTLICH Poem Source First Line: It's a tower %of stone Last Line: As they pass %through the night Subject(s): Lighthouses; New England NEW ENGLAND MIND (FOR EMILY DICKINSON AND PERRY MILLER), by JOHN WILLIAM ELSBERG Poem Source First Line: T %hed Last Line: E -- dit Subject(s): New England NEW ENGLAND PORTRAIT, by KATHRYN WORTH Poem Text First Line: She faces life across a willow plate Last Line: Who rings herself with aureoles of race! Subject(s): Family Life; New England; Relatives NEW ENGLAND WALLS, by AMORY HARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not from the blow that shall deliver death Last Line: My flesh would pass, leaving my spirit here. Alternate Author Name(s): Hutchinson, Amory Hare Subject(s): Death; Love; Memory; New England; Walls; Dead, The NEW ENGLAND WOODS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: New england woods are fair of face Last Line: A pine, communing with the skies. Subject(s): Forests; New England; Woods NEW ENGLAND'S GROWTH, by WILLIAM BRADFORD Poem Text First Line: Famine once we had Last Line: If you will take the pains them to seek for. Subject(s): New England; United States - Colonial Period NEW ENGLAND'S MOUNTAIN-CHILD, by FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where foams the fall - a tameless storm Last Line: New england's mountain-child! Alternate Author Name(s): Vane, Violet Subject(s): Children; Independence; Love; New England; Simplicity; Childhood NEW ENGLAND, AUTUMN, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our daughter dreamt of magnolias Last Line: I woke with a start as if we had set an alarm. Subject(s): Blood; Dreams; Family Life; New England; Nightmares; Relatives NEW ENGLAND, SPRINGTIME, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Emerson thought the bride had one eye Last Line: Cattle cars rattling by at sunset. Subject(s): Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Missionaries & Missions; New England; Spring OUR NEIGHBOR, by HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old neighbor, for how many a year Last Line: Into horizons vaster far! Subject(s): New England OUR YANKEE GIRLS, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lest greener lands and bluer skies Last Line: God bless our yankee girls! Subject(s): Girls; New England PHI BETA KAPPA POEM; HARVARD, 1914, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, friends, and scholars, we are here to serve Last Line: The sunrise kindling all the peaks with fire. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Duty; Harvard University; Idealism; New England; Tradition; Heritage; Heredity POPHAM OF THE NEW SONG: 5; FOR R.P. BLACKMUR, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: There are the countless, returning new england widows Last Line: With alabaster. And suffer affliction like an insect. Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Habits; New England; Widows & Widowers RETREATS, by CARRIE ADAMS BERRY Poem Text First Line: New england has her rocky walls, enclosing hilltop fields Last Line: To find the way to ultimates which give the soul new birth. Subject(s): New England; Soul; Walls SEEKING, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For old new england Subject(s): New England SEMI-CENTENIAL CELEBRATION OF THE NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: New england, we love thee; no time can erase Last Line: God bless all her children! Good night to you all! Subject(s): New England SLEEPY HOLLOW, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the drowsy moon of falling leaves Last Line: That hears the murmur of pocantico. Subject(s): Forests; Magic; New England; New York City - Dutch Period; Woods SPECIMEN OF A POETICAL PARAPHRASE OF OUR GENERAL'S JOURNAL, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In that famed town, which sends to boston mart Last Line: Cetera desunt Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Heath, William (1737-1814); New England SPRING IN NEW ENGLAND, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The long years come and go Last Line: Telling us spring has come again! Subject(s): New England; Spring; Time STONE WALL BUILDERS, by EDITH HASKELL TAPPAN Poem Text First Line: Sturdy and staunch were those new england men Last Line: In this the land we love! Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; New England; Stones; Walls; Work; Workers; Granite; Rocks STONE WALLS OF NEW ENGLAND, by CATHERINE CATE COBLENTZ Poem Text First Line: O walls of stone, built carefully and straight Last Line: Gray guardian walls in silent witness lie. Subject(s): New England; Walls SUCH WATER DO THE GODS DISTILL, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of helicon again. Subject(s): Water; New England THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One by one, the scholars come to learn the puritan tongue Last Line: The thirteen parallel pioneer stripes, justified and multiplied. Subject(s): Language; New England; Puritans; Words; Vocabulary THE BALLAD OF HIRAM HOVER; A BALLAD OF NEW ENGLAND LIFE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the moosatockmaguntic Last Line: Comfort for a wedded pair! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): New England; Women THE BUTTERYFLY'S ASSUMPTION-GOWN, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: in a new england town! Subject(s): Butterflies; New England THE LAMENTABLE BALLAD OF BLOODY BROOK, by EDWARD EVERETT HALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come listen to the story of brave lathrop Last Line: From that dark and cruel day, -- cruel day! Subject(s): Deerfield, Battle Of (1675); Deerfield, Massachusetts; Lathrop, Thomas; New England; Philip, King (native American Chief); Metacomet; King Philip's War (1675-76) THE NEW ENGLAND EMIGRANT'S FAREWELL, by DANIEL PIERCE THOMPSON Poem Text First Line: New england, farewell! With thy evergreen mountains Last Line: As I bid thee a long and a lasting adieu. Subject(s): Farewell; Immigrants; New England; Parting; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration THE PILGRIMS, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How slow yon tiny [or, lonely] vessel ploughs the main! Last Line: Kneel, and renew the vow they breath'd to god Subject(s): New England; Pilgrim Fathers THE RATTLE-WATCH OF NEW AMSTERDAM, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark to the rattle's discordant swell! Last Line: If our patrolmen were paid in coal! Subject(s): New England; New York City - Dutch Period; Night; Police; Sailing & Sailors; Bedtime; Seamen; Sails THE WESTERN EMIGRANT, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An axe rang sharply 'mid those forest shades Last Line: Mid the lov'd scenery of his native land. Subject(s): Immigrants; New England; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration THRENODY, by ROBERT SILLIMAN HILLYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I made a slow lament for you, lost magic Last Line: Orchards, hurried on, and soon forgot. Subject(s): New England; Orchards TO MY SISTER, WITH A COPY OF SUPERNATURALISM OF NEW ENGLAND, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear sister! While the wise and sage Last Line: For the sweet bells of morning! Subject(s): New England; Sisters; Supernatural TO YOUR HEART, by VIRGINIA LYNE TUNSTALL Poem Text First Line: The path to your heart is a new england roadway Last Line: And ends with a stone. Subject(s): Hearts; New England; Roads; Paths; Trails TWO MOUNTAINS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Monadnock looms against the pale blue dome Last Line: Like emerson midst shifts of humankind. Subject(s): Earth; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Freedom; Mountains; New England; Sky; World; Liberty; Hills; Downs (great Britain) UPON THE FIRST SIGHT OF NEW ENGLAND, by THOMAS TILLAM Poem Text First Line: Hail, holy land, wherein our holy lord Last Line: Come yee my servants of my father blessed Subject(s): New England; Pilgrim Fathers WHAT IS - 'PARADISE', by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: As new england used to be Variant Title(s): Poem: 215; Poem: 24 Subject(s): New England WINTERGREEN, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: New england woods are softly fair Last Line: A grace that shines in deepest snows! Subject(s): Forests; New England; Woods WOOD WITCHERY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The way ran under boughs of checkered green Last Line: Unaging beauty by another name. Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Nature; New England; Nymphs; Poetry & Poets |
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