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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: NEW JERSEY Matches Found: 112 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A COLLEGELANDS CATECHISM, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Which is known as the orchard county? Subject(s): Knowledge; New Jersey A LONG BRANCH SONG, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some days in may, little stars Subject(s): Long Branch, New Jersey A PHYSICAL MOON BEYOND PATERSON, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: William carlos williams had finished Last Line: The holiest dish to whiteness passing over... Subject(s): Birth; Happiness; New Jersey; Rebirth; Snow; Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963); Child Birth; Midwifery; Joy; Delight AT THE PRINCETON HOTEL, by PETER E. MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Behind the swedish resort Last Line: Adios, he sighs to the wounded, %adios to the healing Subject(s): Hotels; Princeton, New Jersey ATLANTIC CITY, by EDWARD A. DOUGHERTY Poem Source First Line: Throbbing lack %of warmth. The rain is gone Last Line: Atlantic city is no place to die Subject(s): Atlantic City, New Jersey AVON-BY-THE-SEA, NEW JERSEY, by BETH ANN FENNELLY Poem Source First Line: This has been a mighty musical fury,' pronounced Last Line: Made us waltz, so innocent, so weaponless Subject(s): New Jersey; Seashore BEYOND THE MEADOWS OF JERSEY, by WILLIAM WOODFORD ROCK Poem Text First Line: Over the meadows and far away Last Line: Is my snug little home in jersey. Subject(s): Fields; New Jersey; Pastures; Meadows; Leas BOONTON, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know a bright world of snowy hills at boonton Last Line: With the winter sun drawing cold blue shadows from the trees. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): New Jersey; Towns BROAD STREET, by AUGUSTUS WATTERS Poem Text First Line: When lilacs bloom in urban bowers Last Line: What port the later pilgrims reach. Subject(s): New Jersey; Streets; Avenues CALDWELL OF SPRINGFIELD [JUNE 23, 1780], by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's the spot. Look around you. Above on the height Last Line: But not always a hero like this, -- and that's all. Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): American Revolution; Caldwell, James (1734-1781); New Jersey; Patriotism; Revenge CAMP-MEETING SUNDAY AT OCEAN GROVE, by ETHEL LYNN BEERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the bud of a cloud-calyxed midnight Last Line: When the wave bears us up the bright shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, Ethelinda; Lynn, Ethel Subject(s): Camp-meetings; New Jersey CASINO, by ERNEST KROLL Poem Source First Line: The old gods dead, all hope of heaven Last Line: Up in this tabernacle raised to chance Subject(s): Atlantic City, New Jersey CELEBRATION ODE, by LYMAN WHITNEY ALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great city of our love and pride Last Line: Newark belongs to the world. Subject(s): New Jersey; Newark, New Jersey; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect CORSONS INLET, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went for a walk over the dunes again this morning Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R. Subject(s): New Jersey; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore CORSONS INLET, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went for a walk over the dunes again this morning Last Line: That tomorrow a new walk is a new walk Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R. Subject(s): New Jersey; Seashore ELIZABETH, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not in a night it rose--no careless labor Last Line: Our pride in our estate. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Elizabeth (city), New Jersey; New Jersey EXCELLENT COFFEE SHOP, by ROBERT LONG Poem Source First Line: Where did it go? Some guy Last Line: Bust through the schoold oors at 2:32, %and where do they go? Subject(s): Coffee; New Jersey; Restaurants EXILED FROM NEW JERSEY, by EDWARD BARTOK-BARATTA Poem Source First Line: I wanted to come back, brother, and visit Last Line: I will walk without shoes each of the million streets Subject(s): Exiles; New Jersey FACTS, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bus station in princeton, new jersey Subject(s): Bus Terminals; Princeton, New Jersey FACTS, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bus station in princeton, new jersey Last Line: I haven't the heart for it. Not even in you rolls Subject(s): Bus Terminals; Princeton, New Jersey FISHERMEN (THE JERSEY COAST), by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They stand as still as shapes in bronze Last Line: The crush and roar of modern life—and christ in galilee! Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; New Jersey; Seashore; Anglers; Beach; Coast; Shore FOOTSTEPS, IN A SOUTH JERSEY SUBURB, by EDWARD BARTOK-BARATTA Poem Source First Line: Something, there in the dark, beyond Last Line: She begins to take her mother's milk Subject(s): New Jersey FOR THE INAUGURATION OF A PUBLIC SCHOOL, CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An old man's thought of school Last Line: To girlhood, boyhood look, the teacher and the school. Subject(s): Camden, New Jersey; Memory; Old Age; Schools; Students FORTIES PHOTOGRAPH, by LOUIS BRYAN Poem Source First Line: Standing against an iron fence somewhere in south jersey Last Line: A portrait of my mother and father %still life in black and white Subject(s): New Jersey; Parents; Photography And Photographers GLEN GILDER, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How curves the little river through glen gilder, o glen Last Line: Or whispering lovers walking in glen gilder? Subject(s): Nature; New Jersey; Towns HOBOKEN, 1825, by ROBERT STEVENSON COFFIN Poem Text First Line: To the dark, bloody shore of hoboken is gliding Last Line: The flowers of the nightshade his temples around. Subject(s): Friendship - False Friends; Hoboken, New Jersey; Fair Weather Friends HOUSE OF RIMMON, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There's no one here; the garden is asleep Last Line: Nothing can harm me, since my lord has come. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): New Jersey; Poetry And Poets IKEA RESTAURANT, ELIZABETH, NJ, by ANNELIESE WAGNER Poem Source First Line: The mother's calm pursuit %of swedish meatballs sliding Last Line: Will goad, time after time %to search for, find again Subject(s): New Jersey; Restaurants IN A PROMINENT BAR IN SECAUCUS ONE DAY, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And she blew us a kiss as they copped her away %from that prominent bar in secaucus, n.J Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Aging; Bars And Bartenders; Carpe Diem; New Jersey IN HOBOKEN: 2., by JOEL LEWIS Poem Source First Line: Here's that woman I've seen Last Line: & laugh it about it, later Subject(s): New Jersey IN HOBOKEN: 5., by JOEL LEWIS Poem Source First Line: I take my stand here Last Line: But not as profound Subject(s): New Jersey IN PATERSON: 1, by JOEL LEWIS Poem Source First Line: Train sets off to Last Line: Of garret mountain's marine intrusion Subject(s): Paterson, New Jersey IN PATERSON: 2, by JOEL LEWIS Poem Source First Line: Locked drab and sudden Last Line: I stand %unseen Subject(s): Paterson, New Jersey IN PATERSON: 3, by JOEL LEWIS Poem Source First Line: Streets wide enough to welcome soot Last Line: Is eating my manuscripts Subject(s): Paterson, New Jersey IN PATERSON: 6, by JOEL LEWIS Poem Source First Line: Heaven is deep in the scales Last Line: & the watchung sunset reminds me %of tomato paste Subject(s): Paterson, New Jersey IN PATERSON: 7, by JOEL LEWIS Poem Source First Line: Now another finality - back streets Last Line: The bronx in color.' Subject(s): Paterson, New Jersey IN THE GREAT FALLS HISTORIC DISTRICT IN PATERSON: 5, by JOEL LEWIS Poem Source First Line: In 1976, %gerald ford came Last Line: This city %could probably use your ideas Subject(s): Paterson, New Jersey IN THE OLD GRAVEYARD, PRINCETON, by FRANCIS CHARLES MACDONALD Poem Text First Line: Now to this quiet place the living come Last Line: "leave us at greater distance every day . . ." Subject(s): Cemeteries; Princeton, New Jersey; Graveyards INVENTION OF NEW JERSEY, by JACK ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: Place a custard stand in a garden Last Line: A faintly bilious look %perpetually on her face Subject(s): Hate; New Jersey JERSEY BAIT SHACK, by DAVID BALAKIAN Poem Source First Line: If I can find this place near-abandoned Subject(s): New Jersey JERSEY BLUE, by RICHARD HOWELL Poem Text First Line: To arms once more our hero cries Last Line: And dash to the mountains, jersey blue. Subject(s): New Jersey; Police JERSEY MARSH, by DAVID GALLER Poem Source First Line: Under the financier's %gaze from the tower window Last Line: How they no longer have %much to do with each other Subject(s): New Jersey JERSEY RAIN, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now near the end of the middle stretch of road Subject(s): New Jersey; Rain JERSEY SKIES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The skies that loom o'er jersey Last Line: That do not lovers know! Subject(s): New Jersey; Sky LATE CRETACEOUS REVERIE, by STEPHEN SANDY Poem Source First Line: We are never very far from %waking on the hillside of a past Last Line: Where from each plot of bog a whiff of mist rises %as dull footfalls continually plod Subject(s): Evolution; New Jersey LEGEND, by JOHN VAN ALSTYN WEAVER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder where it could of went to Last Line: On a drizzly night. Subject(s): New Jersey LONG BRANCH SONG, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some days in may, little stars Last Line: The daily record for thirty-five years Subject(s): Long Branch, New Jersey LOOKING FOR THE TRUE INTIMACY ON THE NEW JERSEY TURNPIKE, by KRISTI MARIE STEINMETZ Poem Source First Line: This is ot the kind of love that sits you down Last Line: Until death do you part with new brunswick exit 9 %off the new jersey turnpike back east Subject(s): New Jersey; Roads LOU COSTELLO, 1942 IN PATERSON: 4, by JOEL LEWIS Poem Source First Line: Hello out there to all Last Line: Of a 'nite owl' %paterson morning call Subject(s): Paterson, New Jersey MAIN STREET, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I like to look at the blossomy track of the moon upon the sea Last Line: But the only thing I think it is, is main street, heaventown. Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Subject(s): New Brunswick, New Jersey; New Jersey MAY RAIN, PRINCETON, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Green, green, the luminous maples preen Subject(s): Rain; Princeton, New Jersey METAPHYSICIANS OF SOUTH JERSEY, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Because in large cities the famous truths Last Line: About this place and what a world it was Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Cities; New Jersey; Physicians MIDDLEBROOK, by EDWARD C. JONES Poem Text First Line: The lowly huts of middlebrook Last Line: Nor by their sons be lost. Subject(s): Cities; New Jersey; Urban Life MONMOUTH, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ladies, in silks and laces Last Line: Wander awhile with me. Subject(s): Cities; New Jersey; Urban Life NEW JERSEY, by FRED CLARE BALDWIN Poem Text First Line: My native state, to thee I sing Last Line: My heart with endless gain! Subject(s): New Jersey NEW JERSEY, by MILDRED W. CLARK Poem Text First Line: State of my birth Last Line: "god, I thank thee!" Subject(s): Nature; New Jersey; Praise NEW JERSEY, by JAMES E. RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: The white, strong sun, the stinging water-smells Last Line: I set them down, -- misprized, beloved land! Subject(s): New Jersey NEW JERSEY TRANSIT, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rusted up industrial natures you spy Subject(s): Railroads; New Jersey; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips NEW JERSEY: OCTOBER 1997, by HERBERT R. COURSEN Poem Source First Line: Map is a concept azimuths of hope Last Line: Them words are similar but strangers talk %them only the cartography of dreams knows when Subject(s): Change; Home; New Jersey NEWARK AND PHILIP KEARNY, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: City that sits where calm passaic's tide Last Line: "give us another fearless ""fighting phil!" Subject(s): Kearny, Philip (1814-1862); Newark, New Jersey NEWARK'S MORNING SONG, by LEONARD HARMON ROBBINS Poem Text First Line: At morn she rises early, as a busy city should Last Line: Who follow to the calling of her steam calliope! Subject(s): Morning; Newark, New Jersey NEWARK: 1666, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: Sunset on the hills; with dark below Last Line: Thro' urgent years, the passaic knows. Subject(s): Newark, New Jersey NEWARK: 1766, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: A flame thro' the whole great countryside Last Line: O little town of one hundred years! Subject(s): Newark, New Jersey; War NEWARK: 1866, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: The dying roar of artillery Last Line: O city of two hundred years! Subject(s): History; New Jersey; Peace; War; Historians NEWARK: 1916, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: Sheeted gas flaring down the hard-fought field Last Line: Thro' fifty and two hundred years! Subject(s): New Jersey; War OCEAN GROVE HYMN, by ELWOOD H. STOKES Poem Text First Line: God of the grove, where leaves of green Last Line: And all be pure at ocean grove. Subject(s): Cities; New Jersey; Urban Life OFF BARNEGAT, by ETHEL LYNN BEERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sunset, athwart the winter sea Last Line: "that faith-song still, ""sweet by and by!" Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, Ethelinda; Lynn, Ethel Subject(s): Barnegat Bay, New Jersey ON BARNEGAT SHOALS, by WILLIAM H. FISCHER Poem Text First Line: The wind blows east on barnegat Last Line: But ship and souls are gone. Subject(s): Barnegat Bay, New Jersey ON THE ASSEMBLY LINE, by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cousin irene worked in the cold of a warehouse Subject(s): Hands; Labor & Laborers; New Jersey; Work; Workers ON THE ASSEMBLY LINE, by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cousin irene worked in the cold of a warehouse Last Line: That have rooted her life to so much work and possibility Subject(s): Hands; Labor And Laborers; New Jersey PATERSON, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What do I want in these rooms papered with visions of money Subject(s): Paterson, New Jersey PATERSON, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What do I want in these rooms papered with visions of money Last Line: By the bayoux and forests and derricks leaving my flesh and my bones %hanging on the trees Subject(s): Paterson, New Jersey PATERSON: BOOK 1. PREFACE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To make a start Subject(s): Paterson, New Jersey PATERSON: BOOK 1. PREFACE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To make a start Last Line: To paterson Subject(s): Paterson, New Jersey PATERSON: BOOK 1. THE DELINEAMENTS OF GIANTS, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Patterson lies in the valley under the passaic falls Last Line: "earth, the chatterer, father of all Subject(s): Paterson, New Jersey PATERSON: BOOK 1. THE DELINEAMENTS OF GIANTS, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Patterson lies in the valley under the passaic falls Last Line: Earth, the chatterer, father of all speech Subject(s): Paterson, New Jersey PATROLING BARNEGAT, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wild, wild the storm, and the sea high running Last Line: That savage trinity warily watching. Variant Title(s): Patrolling Barnegat Subject(s): Barnegat Bay, New Jersey; Sea; Storms; Ocean PORT NEWARK TERMINAL, by EDWARD STEVENS RANKIN Poem Text First Line: In his office on the meadows Last Line: To our docks along the bay. Subject(s): Newark, New Jersey PRINCETON, by LYMAN WHITNEY ALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Reposeful spot horizoned by the stress Last Line: "and cries, ""the day!"" across the reddening dawn." Subject(s): Princeton, New Jersey PRINCETON, by CHARLES WILLIAM KENNEDY Poem Text First Line: He dropped his book; he left his task Last Line: Where he lies to-day. Subject(s): Princeton, New Jersey PRINCETON, by HERBERT EDWARD MIEROW Poem Text First Line: Changed with the passing years, yet still the same Last Line: And love of unseen things that do not die. Subject(s): Princeton, New Jersey PRINCETON - 1917, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here freedom stood, by slaughtered friend and foe Last Line: And smile from souls at peace. Subject(s): Princeton, New Jersey PRINCETON: FEBRUARY, 1916, by EDMUND WILSON Poem Text First Line: She sleeps like some old town with guarded gate Last Line: Young and half-seeing with bewildered eyes. Subject(s): Princeton, New Jersey PROMETHEUS IN JERSEY, by DANIEL MACINTYRE HENDERSON Poem Text First Line: The early winter dusk comes down Last Line: A thousand spears of friendliness! Subject(s): New Jersey; Prometheus PUBLIC SCHOOL NO. 18, PATERSON, NEW JERSEY, by MARIA MAZZIOTTI GILLAN Poem Source First Line: Miss wilson's eyes, opaque %as blue glass, fix on me Last Line: And my rage will blow %your house down Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Loss; Minorities - United States; Moving And Movers; New Jersey; Refugees; Schools; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; U.s. - Race Relations SPIRIT OF THE EVERLASTING BOY, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The british bard who looked on eton's walls Last Line: God bless old lawrenceville! Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Boys; Lawrenceville School (new Jersey) SUBURBAN REPORT, by J. ALLYN ROSSER Poem Source First Line: In the suburns of new jersey, some 20 miles Last Line: To shape the ancient o, the skulls %outlined beneath them mouthing cheese Subject(s): New Jersey; Suburbs THE BALLAD OF SETH BOYDEN'S GIFT, by ALICE READE ROUSE Poem Text First Line: High in the square his statue stands Last Line: Might wear a poet's wreath. Subject(s): Heroism; Newark, New Jersey; Heroes; Heroines THE BROWN-EYED GIRLS OF JERSEY, by HENRY MORFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before my bark the waves have curled Last Line: Some brown-eyed girl of jersey! Subject(s): New Jersey; Women THE BUILDERS, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Never a jungle is penetrated Last Line: Newark -- city that builds his dreams. Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Newark, New Jersey THE CITY OF HERITAGE, by ANNA BLAKE MEZQUIDA Poem Text First Line: Down where the swift passaic Last Line: The city men love to-day! Subject(s): Newark, New Jersey; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE CORN ON JOSIE'S TOE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: The board walk, atlantic city Last Line: Tis a corn on josie's toe. Subject(s): Accidents; Atlantic City, New Jersey; Feet; Toes; Walking THE COW-CHACE, by JOHN ANDRE Poem Text First Line: To drive the kine one summer's morn Last Line: Should ever catch the poet. Subject(s): American Revolution; Caldwell, James (1734-1781); New Jersey; Soldiers; Wayne, Anthony (1745-1796) THE DESTRUCTION OF LONG BRANCH, N.J., by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When they came out with artifical turf Subject(s): Homecoming; Childhood Memories; Long Branch, New Jersey THE INVENTION OF NEW JERSEY, by JACK ANDERSON First Line: Place a custard stand in a garden Subject(s): Hate; New Jersey THE JERSEY MARSHES, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When april rains and the great spring-tide Last Line: Twice in the day, continuously. Subject(s): New Jersey; Swamps; Bogs; Fens; Marshes THE MARSHLANDS, by EDWARD NELSON TEALL Poem Text First Line: Oh, the marshlands of new jersey Last Line: Blowing wind and flowing tide. Subject(s): New Jersey; Swamps; Bogs; Fens; Marshes THE MODERN JONAS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: You know there goes a tale Last Line: "returned back, / from not one third their number" Subject(s): "american Revolution;clinton, Sir Henry (1738-1795);new Jersey; THE NEW JERSEY MONUMENT, by ELLEN CLEMENTINE DORAN HOWARTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Build high the monument! We will remember Last Line: Those hero-hearted sires. Subject(s): Monuments; New Jersey THE OLD STONE CHURCH, by FRANCIS DE HAES JANVIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The old stone church, time-worn and gray Last Line: The pastor and his flock repose. Subject(s): Churches; New Jersey; Cathedrals THE OLD WAGON-MARKET, by RUTH GUTHRIE HARDING Poem Text First Line: When came I first to paterson Last Line: I left them all unsung . . . Alternate Author Name(s): Burton, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Markets; Paterson, New Jersey; Supermarkets THE PINELANDS OF MONMOUTH, by EDWARD NELSON TEALL Poem Text First Line: I have scaled the steeps of sussex Last Line: In the pinelands by the sea! Subject(s): New Jersey THE SAND PLAINS OF NEW JERSEY, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These sandy wastes are tributes to a mighty past Last Line: That won a splendid victory o'er ploughing main. Subject(s): Life; New Jersey; Sea; Seashore; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore THE SMITHY OF GOD, by CLEMENT WOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am newark, forger of men Last Line: I am newark, forger of men. Subject(s): Newark, New Jersey THE TOWN (FOR MORRISTOWN, NEW JERSEY), by DAVID MORTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Men loved not athens in her maiden days Last Line: How, with the town -- and them -- it still is well. Subject(s): Morristown, New Jersey; New Jersey THE TREES OF HADDONFIELD, by THOMAS J. MURRAY Poem Text First Line: I sing of haddonfield, west jersey's town Last Line: The starry banner and the union jack. Subject(s): Cities; New Jersey; Trees; Urban Life THE TWELVE-FORTY-FIVE (FOR EDWARD J. WHEELER), by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within the jersey city shed Last Line: God bless the train that brought me here. Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Subject(s): Gratitude; Home; Love; New Jersey; New York City; Railroads; Travel; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips THE WASHINGTON HEADQUARTERS, by CHARLES DAVIS PLATT Poem Text First Line: What mean these cannon standing here Last Line: For which our fathers dared to die. Subject(s): New Jersey THE WRECKER'S OATH ON BARNEGAT, by HENRY MORFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One night mid swarthy forms I lay Last Line: And hurling out as dread an oath. Subject(s): Barnegat Bay, New Jersey; Disasters; Shipwrecks WEEHAWKEN, by ROBERT CHARLES SANDS Poem Text First Line: Eve o'er our path is stealing fast Last Line: The instant ere the death-shot came. Subject(s): Weehawken, New Jersey WEEHAWKEN, 1820, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weehawken!-in thy mountain scenery yet Last Line: Nor feel the prouder of his native land. Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Nature; Weehawken, New Jersey WINTER; THE JERSEY COAST, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Along the river's level sheet of ice Last Line: Loom hostelries whose summer guests have flown. Subject(s): New Jersey; Seashore; Winter; Beach; Coast; Shore |
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