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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: PENNSYLVANIA Matches Found: 130 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD OF THE CONEMAUGH FLOOD, by HARDWICKE DRUMMOND RAWNSLEY Poem Text First Line: The windows of heaven were wide open Last Line: "did they hear heaven's great ""well done""?" Subject(s): Conemaugh (river), Pennsylvania; Johnstown Flood (1889) A PROPHECY (1764), by ARTHUR LEE Poem Text First Line: Ere five score years have run their tedious rounds Last Line: T is all they ask -- or all a crown can give. Subject(s): Carlisle, Pennsylvania; French & Indian Wars; Native Americans; Prophecy & Prophets; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America AGAIN, VIETNAM, by RICK CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: In the stubble of a frosted beanfield Last Line: Better left to dark and moon; the things I saw Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel AN ENGLISHMAN VISITS PHILADELPHIA, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Yes, I have seen your city Last Line: "I shall remember its chaste dignity." Subject(s): Cities; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Tourists; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips ANGELS FLYING YOU HOME, by RICK CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: Once I read you a poem Last Line: Bras markets long gone green %in the industrial rain, wait Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel BAMBOO, by RICK CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: Six years ago it was small Last Line: From our own soft hearts Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel BODY SONG, VIETNAM, by RICK CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: The bodies should have been marked Last Line: I had a lover who died Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel BREATHERS, ST. MARK'S LIGHTHOUSE, by RICK CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: I stand at the point of the oyster bar Last Line: Air. Today, together, we are so old, %the world begins again Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel BY THE CONEMAUGH, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES Poem Text First Line: Foreboding sudden of untoward change Last Line: "but I cannot hide them away from him!" Subject(s): Conemaugh (river), Pennsylvania; United States - History CANDLES AT MARGARET MARY CATHOLIC CHURCH, by RICK CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: The body parts of 132 souls %are red flagged with baggage tickets Last Line: I would know well what earth rushes to claim me Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel CATERPILLARS, by RICK CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: In crabapple trees white cocoons Last Line: This time you have gone too far Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel CHANSON D'OUTRE TOMBE, by PHILIP WHALEN Poem Source First Line: They said we was nowhere Last Line: Wrecking your white expensive world Subject(s): California, Pennsylvania; Nuclear Waste CIA, by RICK CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: The utility room has become a death Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel CONEMAUGH, by ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS WARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fly to the mountain! Fly! Last Line: "teach us, altho' we die, to stand." Alternate Author Name(s): Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart; Phelps, Mary Gray Subject(s): Conemaugh (river), Pennsylvania; Johnstown Flood (1889) CONFLUENCE, by RICK CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: While last night %venus, mars, and jupiter Last Line: Under this rare %historical sky Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel CREELY CURSING IN CHURCH, by RICK CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: Fuck, he said. %why not? Where I come from god damn it Last Line: His strange mark on every beam %poured that week Variant Title(s): Creeley Cursing In Churc Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel DESIRE, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is not turner's venice Last Line: Abating in the huge green hesitations of the trees Subject(s): Cities; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Urban Life DESIRE, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is not turner's venice Last Line: The rare acres of stars, the thin wind %abating in the huge green hesitations of the trees Subject(s): Cities; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania DETAIL WAITING FOR A TRAIN, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The main floor of penn station, early Subject(s): Pennsylvania Station, New York City; Death; Dead, The DISCOURSE, by RICK CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: The ones I like best seem to be Last Line: Across miles of fields and memories Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel DROWNED SON, by RICK CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: You want the body to rise Last Line: It is the sound of your life Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel DUTCH GRAVES IN BUCKS COUNTY, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Angry men and furious machines Subject(s): Bucks County, Pennsylvania; Graves; Tombs; Tombstones DUTCH GRAVES IN BUCKS COUNTY, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Angry men and furious machines Last Line: Time was not wasted in your subtle temples %no: nor divergennce made too steep to follow down Subject(s): Bucks County, Pennsylvania; Graves EAST MAUCH CHUNK, by WILLIAM CORBETT Poem Source First Line: East bear mountain %I come again Last Line: Even as he mounted and rode away %I come again Subject(s): East Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania; Homecoming EASTER IN PITTSBURGH, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even on easter sunday Last Line: The bathroom mirror and %had to learn a long psalm Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ELEGY (FOR 'MOVE' AND PHILADELPHIA), by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Philadelphia / a disguised southern city Subject(s): Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Social Protest ELEGY (FOR 'MOVE' AND PHILADELPHIA), by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Philadelphia %a disguised southern city Last Line: Lying in wait. For honor and peace. %one day Subject(s): Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Social Protest ELEGY FOR RICHARD HUGO FROM GAINESVILLE, by RICK CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: I will not say there is anything good in this Last Line: Leap high and backhand one going over. %for you friend, for you Variant Title(s): Well Don Subject(s): Baseball; Pennsylvania; Sports; Travel ELIZABETH WALKS IN THE AIR ABOVE PENNSYLVANIA, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: She is dreaming of the damp press Last Line: Becomes a walking root Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Walking EVEN THE OHIO CAN CHANGE, by RICK CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: The river I grew up on was rank Last Line: Fallen from a willow branch Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel FISHING THE ENCAMPMENT, by RICK CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: Where the encampment slowed %to wander through a meadow, I stood Last Line: By then about trust, about what you think %you know about life, or love Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel FOR THE OLD MEN AT THE GRINDSTONE FACTORY, by RICK CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: Vinnie told me everyday Last Line: Docks waited for our rough fruit Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel GASOLINE, by RICK CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: Ten feet above the boat dock bar Last Line: Any time. Any weather. Any direction Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel GEOGRAPHY OF DESIRE, by RICK CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: If you insist on history Last Line: It's just a hole between the last time I saw you %and now, this life, our life Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel HANGING TOBACCO, by RICK CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: Blue gauze air, laces of light Last Line: Down the red clay roads home Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel HARMONICA LESSON, by RICK CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: Don't showboat if you can't do the train Last Line: It should sound like kansas Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel HISTORY OF STEEL, by RICK CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: In winter we wore thick coats Last Line: Like scholars, we are the subjects %of our own idle debate Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel HORSESHOE CRABS MATING AT CARRABELLE BEACH, by RICK CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: Through shallow water %warm as a bath Last Line: Something we could mistake for love Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel HOW THE STREETS IN FRONT OF KAUFMANN'S DEPARTURE STORE TELL ME ....., by RICK CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: For years I have been lost. Some nights I have known it Last Line: For the light to change, together at last Variant Title(s): How The Streets In Front Of Kaufmann's Department Store Tell Me.... Subject(s): Home; Loss; Moving And Movers; Night; Pennsylvania; Refugees; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Walking HYMN OF THE DUNKERS; KLOSTER KEDAR, EPHRATA, PENN. (1738), by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wake, sisters, wake! The day-star shines Last Line: Wake, sisters, wake! Arise and pray! Subject(s): Dunkers; Pennsylvania IN PHILADELPHIA, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen sunsets gold the pillared steam Last Line: An old, old woman, who had once been young. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Philadelphia, Pennsylvania IN THE CHINA SEAS, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once, lying in my berth at night Last Line: You must I love until I die! Subject(s): Home; Pennsylvania INTERCOURSE, PA, by JOHN HOPPENTHALER Poem Source First Line: After tourist traps, the wax museum Last Line: Dark of intercourse, a postcard %yellowing on your freezer door Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel JESUS CLOSES HIS EYES, by RICK CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: In the parish where my grandfather Last Line: No one here understands Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel JOHN BRASHEAR, by HANIEL (CLARK) LONG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still another pittsburgher, still another life, still another way of life Last Line: And there is handel's aria, 'when thou appearest, all will be restored to me!' Subject(s): Brashear, John Alfred (1840-1920); Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania JUNO BEACH AND THE SEA TURTLE, by RICK CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: Old enough to sense the confusion Last Line: Glanced off the hoods of cars Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel LANCASTER, by SARAH STEELE SAMPLE Poem Text First Line: I came to live in a storybook town Last Line: I have told this tale as it looks to me. Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Villages LATE NOVEMBER, THE COMING OF WINTER AT STATE STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, by RICK CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: Down on state street %the locust and maple trees Last Line: And the sun fell behind %the ohio's escarpment Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel LEAVING BARTRAM'S GARDEN IN SOUTHWEST PHILADELPHIA, by W. S. DI PIERO Poem Source First Line: Outside the gate, the scrawny trees look fine Last Line: I can't tell one name from another Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania LEAVING HOME, PITTSBURGH 1966, by RICK CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: From the gray sky and the gray river Last Line: Our tongues are making long vowels, %slowing, warming to our task Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel LEGEND, by RICK CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: He came from a land that didn't need words Last Line: It's for you and you haven't come yet Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel LETTER TO KATHY FROM A FRIGATE AT SEA, by RICK CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: The ship is dark. Red light echoes Last Line: And deliver my letters by hand Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel LETTERS HOME: KUAA PUEBLO, by RICK CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: You would have loved this Last Line: Will tell which fork I chose Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel LETTERS HOME: SPRING STORM, SANTA FE, by RICK CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: You would have hated this. Cold Last Line: I'll stay in the sun Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel LINES WRITEN IN A PITTSBURGH SKYSCRAPER, by DIANE ACKERMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: It has taken me three years Last Line: Carnal, mute, wholly flowing, %unburdened toward a distant shore Subject(s): Cities; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania LINES WRITTEN ON LEAVING PHILADELPHIA, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alone by the schuylkill a wanderer roved Last Line: As he stray'd by the wave of the schuylkill alone! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Philadelphia, Pennsylvania LONG DISTANCE CALL 3/95, by RICK CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: I'm raining in my soul here Last Line: They are forging for its long last days Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel MEDITATION ON TODAY'S LIMIT OF PLEASURE, by RICK CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: Sometimes the cicadas come riding in wild Last Line: The hint of mercy saying we can't stand anymore %this song this sun this blue these cicadas Subject(s): Leadership; Pennsylvania; Pleasure; Travel MEETING OF THE SUSQUEHANNA WITH THE LACKAWANA, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rush on glad stream, in thy power and pride Last Line: So fair, as the vale of wyoming to me. Subject(s): Lackawana (river); Pennsylvania; Susquehanna (river) MORNING HARVEST, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pennsylvania spiders / not only stretch their silk between the limbs Subject(s): Civilization; Insects; Pennsylvania; Spiders; Bugs MORNING HARVEST, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pennsylvania spiders %not only stretch their silk between the limbs Last Line: Bringing language and mathematics and religion into darkness Subject(s): Civilization; Insects; Pennsylvania; Spiders MORRISON'S, 1968, by RICK CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: In the riviera beach black morning %where the secret cold is hidden Last Line: To the stockroom. One more day, he thinks Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel MOVE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They had begun to whisper Last Line: Move / away Subject(s): African Americans; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Negroes; American Blacks NATURAL WORLD: 2, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On hawk mountain in pennsylvania Last Line: Slaughtered for pleasure. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Birds; Death; Hawk Mountain, Pennsylvania; Hawks; Dead, The NEAR EASTON, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: January 2 there was a body moving north Last Line: On the loud music, and I was keeping time Subject(s): Pennsylvania OCCASIONED BY GENERAL WASHINGTON'S ARRIVAL IN PHILADELPHIA, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The great unequal conflict passed Last Line: And all the pageant scene expires. Subject(s): American Revolution; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799) ODE TO THE INHABITANTS OF PENNSYLVANIA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Still shall the tyrant scourge of gaul Last Line: "our inexperienced troops inspire, / and conquest's laurels gain!" Subject(s): French & Indian Wars;pennsylvania;u.s. - History OHIO RIVER SUNDAY, by RICK CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: I liked to say %et cum spritu tuo %and imagine Last Line: Joined the doves, and drifted off to god Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel ON MISSING THE FIRST STEP ON THE MOON, by RICK CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: That summer I paid no attention Last Line: Drifting toward a history all my own Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel ON THE WATER OF MY MISTAKES, by RICK CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: Vaguely deserving my fate, %I knew another chance wouldn't save me Last Line: That was always shining. %how easy this is Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel ORANGE NIGHTS, COLD STARS, by RICK CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: Hippies with money %were buying subdivided orange groves Last Line: Like settlers homesteading acres of dreams Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel PENNSYLVANIA HALL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not with the splendors of the days of old Last Line: Its consecration unto freedom's god! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Arson; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs PENNSYLVANIA STATION, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pennsylvania station in new york Last Line: To glorify the earth - and you - and me Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Pennsylvania Station, New York City; Railroads PENSACOLA STREET SUNRISE, by RICK CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: The new mount zion baptist's %roadside marquee Last Line: Could take them for holy %but hardly ghosts Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel PHILADELPHIA, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you're off to philadelphia in the morning Last Line: They are all in pennsylvania this morning! Subject(s): Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Travel; Journeys; Trips PHILADELPHIA, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: The coffee has redeemed itself by now Last Line: This is the dream the coffee drowned Subject(s): Philadelphia, Pennsylvania PITTSBURGH, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And my beautiful daughter Last Line: Pain, in the love of daughter and father. Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Children; Grief; Love; Parents; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Parenthood PITTSBURGH, by TERRANCE J. LAPPIN Poem Source First Line: Surly drunk Last Line: Keep the silence Subject(s): Mills And Millers; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania PITTSBURGH, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: It's fifteen years since pittsburgh town Last Line: They'll realize their dream! Subject(s): Baseball; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Sports; Victory PITTSBURGH IS', by TERRANCE HAYES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A large woman gabbing at the bus stop. Last Line: My stout, blabbering metaphor Subject(s): Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania PLEASE FASTEN YOUR SEAT BELTS, WE ARE APPROACHING PHILADELPHIA, by MALCOLM FARLEY Poem Source First Line: One end of a great beam of light had fallen on the red Last Line: All mud and mahogany from flooding far upstate Subject(s): Philadelphia, Pennsylvania POEM IN THE RIVER, by RICK CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: Someday you'll find this Last Line: And I'm throwing it off the bridge Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel PRELIMINARY SKETCHES: PHILADELPHIA, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fish-man comes with trout and fresh crabs Last Line: Brother brother brotherly love Subject(s): Philadelphia, Pennsylvania PROVING LAKE OKEECHOBEE, by RICK CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: We drive below the sod earth rim Last Line: And the unseen geography of our lives Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel RESURRECTION, INTRACOASTAL WATERWAY, by RICK CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: The sun falls through the water Last Line: And drifts on the tide %south to hamlin's landing Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel RETURNING NATIVE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What can you say about pennsylvania Last Line: And gets the cement to deliver a kiss Subject(s): Homecoming; Pennsylvania RETURNING NATIVE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What can you say about pennsylvania Subject(s): Homecoming; Pennsylvania RITNER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thank god for the token! One lip is still free Last Line: "our country and liberty! God for the right!" Subject(s): Abolitionists; Pennsylvania; Ritner, Joseph (1780-1869); Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs RUMORED CONVERSATION WITH ONESELF CONTINUES IN PITTSBURGH, by DIANE ACKERMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: And also a city with quiet pockets Last Line: Across from a city whose incandescence %obscures even the most frantic stars Subject(s): Cities; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania SAMSON PREDICTS FROM GAZA THE PHILADELPHIA FIRE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It will be your hair Last Line: If you do not they will Subject(s): African Americans; Fire; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Samson; Survival; Negroes; American Blacks SEARCHING FOR PITTSBURGH, by JACK GILBERT Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fox pushes softly, blindly through me at night, Subject(s): Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania SEASHELL SALESMAN, by RICK CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: Abalone ashtrays littered with butts Last Line: Leaves rattled in the offshore breeze Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel SEED HARVEST, GILROY, CALIFORNIA, by RICK CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: Each cold morning we drove Last Line: Across the map. Petaluma. %mendocino. Albion Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel SEEN ON A WAR-SHRINE IN PENNSYLVANIA, by E. M. GREEVES-CARPENTER Poem Text First Line: Silent and unbetrayed, a carven rood Last Line: Whose crown of victory followed cross and thorns. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Death; Jesus Christ; Mothers & Sons; Pennsylvania; Shrines; Soldiers; War; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The SETTING PINS, 1966, by RICK CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: Billy and I got a job Last Line: Bombs drifted like feathers %to the checkered earth below Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel SETTING THE WORLD IN ORDER, by RICK CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: In your cambridge winter, %though I couldn't name poetry Last Line: And leave us looking back at where we had been Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel SHILLINGTON, by JOHN UPDIKE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The vacant lots are occupied in the woods Subject(s): Home; Shillington, Pennsylvania SHILLINGTON, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The vacant lots are occupied in the woods Last Line: We have one home, the first, and leave that one. %the having and the leaving go on together Subject(s): Home; Shillington, Pennsylvania SIXTEEN MINUTES, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There in the sky above lewisburg Last Line: Through all the killing and hounding, we all but worshipped Subject(s): Ireland; Jews; Lewisburg Penitentiary (pennsylvania) SONNETS OF SEVEN CITIES: PHILADELPHIA, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She sits in quaker garb and seems to drowse Last Line: While she pretends they are not there at all. Subject(s): Philadelphia, Pennsylvania SONNETS OF SEVEN CITIES: PITTSBURGH, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A factory girl with smudges on her cheek Last Line: She cannot wholly free her hands of grime. Subject(s): Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania SOUTH STREET (PHILADELPHIA), by EDWARD S. SILVERA Poem Source First Line: South street is not beautiful Subject(s): Philadelphia, Pennsylvania SPRING IN TEVEBAUGH HOLLOW, by RICK CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: It was across the creek %and the tar road, shadow cut Last Line: Seams fat as tracks on a railroad crossing sign Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel STEPHEN FOSTER, by HANIEL (CLARK) LONG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Another pittsburgher, another life, another way of life Last Line: Oft made hyperion ache Subject(s): Foster, Stephen Collins (1826-1864); Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania STILL WRITING, by RICK CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: When friends ask you are still writing Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel SUSQUEHANNA, ST. CLAIR & FRACKVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA, by MYRON ERNST Poem Source First Line: The old rows of company houses Subject(s): Coal Mines And Miners; Pennsylvania THE BRIDGE (PITTSBURGH), by BENNETT WEAVER Poem Text First Line: Dull thunders troubled the great hills / and moaning lay upon the land Last Line: Gathered and sank within my blood. Subject(s): Lightning; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Rivers; Thunder; Lightning Rods THE CAPTIVE'S HYMN (1764), by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The indian war was over Last Line: That morning in carlisle. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Carlisle, Pennsylvania; French And Indian Wars; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE GATEWAY, by HARVEY MAITLAND WATTS Poem Text First Line: What rome in sheer abandonment of pride Last Line: Glad millions press to life's exultant noon! Subject(s): Commuters; Pennsylvania Station, New York City; Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips THE MAN WHO RODE TO CONEMAUGH, by JOHN ELIOT BOWEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Into the town of conemaugh Last Line: "run for your lives to the mountain side!" Subject(s): Conemaugh (river), Pennsylvania; Courage; Johnstown Flood (1889); Valor; Bravery THE OLD PENNSYLVANIA FARMER, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well - well! This is a comfort, now - the air is mild as may Last Line: There can't be rivers there and fields, without some sort o' farm! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Farm Life; Pennsylvania; Spring; Agriculture; Farmers THE OUTCAST'S DREAM, by OLIVE BELL Poem Text First Line: From morn till noon the golden glow Last Line: Some old home song or old love strain? Subject(s): Dreams; Pennsylvania; Nightmares THE PENNSYLVANIA PILGRIM, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail to posterity! Last Line: The world forgets, but the wise angels know. Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Germantown, Pennsylvania; Pastorius, Francis Daniel (1651-1720); Pilgrim Fathers; Spener, Philipp Jacob (1635-1705); U.s. - Colonial Period; Quakers THE PENNSYLVANIA SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: We are the troop that ne'er will stoop Last Line: "nor slaves nor cowards we will prove, / great britain shall soon see" Subject(s): American Revolution;pennsylvania;soldiers THE RELIC, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Token of friendship, true and tried Last Line: And turn the spoiler from his prey. Subject(s): Arson; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Antislavery Movement - United States THE TRIUMPHAL ARCH; REJOICINGS IN PHILADELPHIA, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Toward the skies Last Line: And heaven with pleasure views its works no more. Subject(s): American Revolution; Independence; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania THEIR DIVORCE & THE REMAINING LANDSCAPE, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: Suddenly it was silent--the snow Last Line: When we walk in the continuing snow. Subject(s): Divorce; Family Life; Ohio; Pennsylvania; Snow THOMAS EAKINS: THE BADLANDS, by PHILIP DACEY Poem Source First Line: How far away from philadelphia Last Line: Decamped only when I went to chase a steer Subject(s): Eakins, Thomas (1844-1916); Philadelphia, Pennsylvania THOUSAND MILES FROM DELLA ROSE, by RICK CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: When little I remember survives Last Line: You are my new river Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel TIME #2, by ESTHER IVEREM Poem Source First Line: I do know this Last Line: Never run %quite like before Subject(s): Cities; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania TO JENNIFER, THINKING OF LI PO, by RICK CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: Now, with you in seattle Last Line: Like loaves of bread, like whales Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel TO PENNSYLVANIA, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O state prayer-founded! Never hung Last Line: And thy triumphal song. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Pennsylvania; Slavery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Serfs TO THE PENNSYLVANIANS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Days undefiled by luxury or sloth Last Line: To upper air from mammon's loathsome den. Subject(s): Pennsylvania TRYING TO GET PREGNANT, FLYING TO IOWA, by RICK CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: In the blue morning I left you Last Line: Flying to iowa, the heart of the land Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel WALK IN THE WOODS, by RICK CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: Sun leaves the ground like fall Last Line: Playing over pine needles on the sand Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel WALL, by RICK CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: This is the topo map of the world Last Line: Of home, where we stood 'in free,' waiting %for him to be it again Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel WHAT GOES THROUGH IT, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: Of all places, tonight you're by the ocean Last Line: You can forgive yourself. Subject(s): Fathers; Forgiveness; Pennsylvania; Relationships WOMEN'S ROOM IN PENNSYLVANIA STATION, by KATE DANIELS Poem Source First Line: Covered with rags and cardboard and nothing Last Line: Carrying away its cargo of men Subject(s): Homeless; Lavatories; Pennsylvania Station, New York City; Women WYNCOTE, PENNSYLVANIA: A GLOSS, by THOMAS KINSELLA Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A mocking-bird on a branch Subject(s): Pennsylvania WYNCOTE, PENNSYLVANIA: A GLOSS, by THOMAS KINSELLA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A mocking-bird on a branch Last Line: Ever more painstaking care Subject(s): Pennsylvania |
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