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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: NEW YORK CITY - BUILDINGS Matches Found: 11 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` DIGGING FOUNDATIONS AT NIGHT; CORTLAND STREET, by HARVEY MAITLAND WATTS Poem Text First Line: Here, where the forges sound their giant scale Last Line: Some new aladdin's dream, scraping the very skies. Subject(s): New York City - Buildings FROM THE WOOLWORTH TOWER, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Vivid with love, eager for greater beauty Last Line: Victors. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): New York City - Buildings; Skyscrapers; Woolworth Building, New York MONODY ON THE ASTOR HOUSE, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lament, o muse, and heave a suspiration Last Line: Shades of the woolworth tower!—another year! Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Lament; New York City - Buildings; Skyscrapers; Woolworth Building, New York NEW YORK DAYS, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis something for a poet's lip Last Line: By brotherhood of song and pain. Subject(s): Bridges; Brooklyn Bridge; New York City - Buildings; Skyscrapers NEW YORK, FROM A SKYSCRAPER, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up in the heights of the evening skies I see my city of Last Line: Prayer? Subject(s): New York City - Buildings; Skyscrapers THE ANGEL OF THE CORNICE, by FLORENCE WILKINSON EVANS Poem Text First Line: Listen to me, ye creeping ants of men Last Line: Ye, too, shall learn the love that is remorse. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkinson, Florence Subject(s): Angels; Heroism; New York City - Buildings; Heroes; Heroines THE CLOCK IN THE AIR, by JOHN CURTIS UNDERWOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High on manhattan's tallest tower Last Line: Teaching the toilers how to dream. Subject(s): New York City - Buildings; Skyscrapers THE EMPIRE CITY, by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Huge steel-ribbed monsters rise into the air Last Line: Her dreams in iron and her thoughts of stone. Subject(s): New York City - Buildings; Skyscrapers THE MORAINE, by JOHN CURTIS UNDERWOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look down, love, from the bridge's height Last Line: To share with others while we may. Subject(s): Home; New York City - Buildings THE TOWERS OF MANHATTAN, by DONALD ROBERT PERRY MARQUIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the middle arch of the bridge I stood Last Line: For a crown for her head! Alternate Author Name(s): Marquis, Don Subject(s): New York City - Buildings; Skyscrapers THE WOOLWORTH BUILDING, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Enormously it lifts Last Line: Circles and flows the restless human tide. Subject(s): New York City - Buildings; Skyscrapers; Woolworth Building, New York |
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