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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: RAILROAD STATIONS Matches Found: 20 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A POEM WRITTEN UNDER AN ARCHWAY IN A DISCONTINUED RAILROAD STATION, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Outside the great clanging cathedrals of rust and smoke Last Line: Of old age Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Railroad Stations AT THE VILLAGE DEPOT, by ELIZABETH WILCOX BEASLEY Poem Text First Line: Why sure, we come down when the train pulls in Last Line: When that fast train comes whistling down the line. Subject(s): Railroad Stations BUSINESS GIRLS, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the geyser ventilators Last Line: Trolley-bus and windy street! Subject(s): Commuters; Railroad Stations; Travel; Journeys; Trips COLLEGE SPECIAL, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Plush lines the metal train, making the steel Subject(s): Railroad Stations; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple DEEP IN THE WESTERN SUBURBS, by JOEL FRIEDERICH Poem Source First Line: Autumnal moths rose Last Line: A collection of raw thirsts Subject(s): Commuters; Railroad Stations; Travel IN A RAILWAY STATION, by MARY SINTON LEITCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How strangely memory serves us! Here tonight Last Line: "will have gone twenty miles tonight for naught." Subject(s): Memory; Pity; Railroad Stations; Women - Middle Aged IN FREIBURG STATION, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In freiburg station, waiting for a train Last Line: I saw a bishop with puce gloves go by. Subject(s): Clergy; Gloves; Railroad Stations; Soldiers' Writings; Travel; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Mittens; Muffs; Journeys; Trips ON THE PLATFORM, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The omen I didn't know I was waiting for Subject(s): Railroad Stations; Bombs PENN CENTRAL STATION AT BEACON, N.Y., by ED OCHESTER Poem Source First Line: An immense room as quiet Last Line: Manhattan manhattan manhattan manhattan Subject(s): Railroad Stations; Railroads POEM WRITTEN UNDER AN ARCHWAY IN A DISCONTINUED RAILROAD STATION, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Outside the great clanging cathedrals of rust and smoke Last Line: He smiles with the sinister grief %of old age Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Railroad Stations STATION SWEEPER, by IONE MORRISON RIDER Poem Text First Line: These large imposing marble corridors Last Line: And dignity attends him down the hall. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Railroad Stations; Work; Workers STATIONS, by PHILIP BOOTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old, their big shoulders humped Last Line: To end, the far side of the macon station Subject(s): African Americans; Railroad Stations; Negroes; American Blacks STATIONS, by PHILIP BOOTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old, their big shoulders humped Last Line: To end, the far side of the macon station Subject(s): African Americans; Railroad Stations TERMINALS, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A railroad station at the city's heart Last Line: Romance to every wharf at which they swing. Subject(s): Railroad Stations; Trade; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE HOME EXPRESS, by HORACE SPENCER FISKE Poem Text First Line: When the city's rush is over, and the monthly ticket shown Last Line: In the twilight and the moonlight just begun! Subject(s): Homecoming; Railroad Stations; Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips THE NIGHT MAIL NORTH (EUSTON SQUARE, 1840), by HENRY CHOLMONDELEY-PENNELL Poem Text First Line: Now then, take your seats! For glasgow and the north Last Line: For the night .. Mail .. To the north? Alternate Author Name(s): Pennell, Henry Cholmondeley Subject(s): Postal Service; Railroad Stations; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen THE NORTHEAST CORRIDOR, by DONALD REVELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bar in the commuter station steams Subject(s): Railroad Stations; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE TRAVELLER, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As she rides to the station Last Line: She gives no answer Subject(s): Railroad Stations; Money; Terrorism THE WARMTH OF MEMORY, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In rail transportation the old-fashioned station Last Line: Brute of a waiting-room stove! Subject(s): Railroad Stations WHILE ASLEEP, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: Were it not for the teddy bear forgotten on the lawn, the Last Line: Shepherd, it is much too soon to die, first I must learn to throw a good hard stone Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Poetry And Poets; Railroad Stations; Sleep; Travel |
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