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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: RHODE ISLAND Matches Found: 71 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A MEDITATION ON RHODE ISLAND COAL, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sat beside the glowing grate, fresh heaped Last Line: And melt the icicles from off his chin. Subject(s): Coal Mines & Miners; Rhode Island A NEW SONG CALLED THE GASPEE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Twas in the reign of george the third Last Line: "find out any of those hearts of gold, / though he should offer fifty fold" Subject(s): Gaspee (ship);rhode Island;u.s. - Colonial Period A NEWPORT ROMANCE, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say that she died of a broken heart Last Line: She has been with my soul to-night! Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): Newport, Rhode Island A NOVEMBER LANDSACPE, by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How like a rich and gorgeous picture hung Last Line: With all its kindling lamps the distant city rose. Subject(s): Flowers; Memory; November; Providence, Rhode Island A SEPTEMBER EVENING ON THE BANKS OF THE MOSHASSUCK, by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Again september's golden day Last Line: And I can only think of thee. Subject(s): Moshassuck (river), Rhode Island BEAUTIFUL NEWPORT ON THE BRAES O' THE SILVERY TAY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bonnie mary, the maid o' the tay Last Line: Along the bonnie braes o' the silvery tay. Subject(s): Newport, Rhode Island; Travel; Journeys; Trips CANONICUS AND ROGER WILLIAMS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Content within his wigwam warm Last Line: "yea, and his own soul did he save / from burning in hell-fire" Subject(s): "canonicus (american Indian Leader);providence, Rhode Island;williams, Roger (1604-1683); FROM WOONSOCKET HILL, by JOHN L. OSBORNE Poem Text First Line: The earth, this beautiful summer's day Last Line: Framed in the sunshine golden light! Subject(s): Woonsocket, Rhode Island IN NARRAGANSETT CHURCHYARD, by ESTHER VERNON CARPENTER Poem Text First Line: A lonely slope of fairest green Last Line: "manhood and womanhood were ours." Subject(s): Cemeteries; Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island; Graveyards IN THE JEWISH SYNAGOGUE AT NEWPORT, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, where the noises of the busy town Last Line: Before the mystery of death and god. Subject(s): Jews; Newport, Rhode Island; Synagogues; Judaism KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 1. SALUTATIONS, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: Are of two sorts and come immediatley before the body. The pro Last Line: So slow otherwise %so close Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 10. OF THE SEASON OF THE YEERE, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: They have thirteen moneths and are content to settle for Last Line: Membranes %undercuts the alibi Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 11. OF TRAVELL, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: What paths their swift of foot have cut in history and philosophy Last Line: Inside and add %it up to zero Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 12. CONCERNING THE HEAVENS AND, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: Which they adore, above acknowledging colonization. The stellar Last Line: Take territory %from imperative Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 13. OF THE WEATHER, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: It may bee wondred why, new england being 12 neerer to Last Line: Big masculine history %on tap Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 14. OF THE WINDS, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: Accounts for eight cardinalls flying out of context though Last Line: Tongue tied %into another language Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 15. OF FOWLE, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: Auchaui. Gone afowling. The crows eat up the sky, and Last Line: Of certain planets %totally opaque Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 16. OF THE EARTH AND FRUITS, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: They are exact and punctual in the bounds of property and Last Line: All terms are %physical Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 17. OF BEASTS, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: Netasuog. Cattell. Is the name the indians give tame beasts Last Line: Though without clear %direction into prey Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 18. OF THE SEA, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: A site of passage, of dreadful to move on, of depth between Last Line: Beyond displacement %in exchange Subject(s): Language; Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Sea; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 19. OF FISH AND FISHING, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: Rising from sleep teeming with cold, bass, mackerel, salmon Last Line: As equal opportunity Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 2. OF EATING AND ENTERTAINMENT, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: Indian corne, boiled with free will and predestination is a Last Line: All flesh considered %as a value Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 20. OF THEIR NAKEDNESSE, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: They have a two-fold nakednesse they scan for traces of the Last Line: It's for the birds to flock %a semblance %of together Subject(s): Clothing And Dress; Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 21. OF RELIGION, THE SOULE, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: They won't deny englishman's god made english men, but Last Line: With curtains drawn %to higher aspirations Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 22. OF THEIR GOVERNMENT AND, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: Caunounicus, the elder sachim, far removed from probability Last Line: The elements lie %evenly in periods Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 23. OF MARRIAGE, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: Flesh, considered as cognitive region, as opposed to undifferentiated Last Line: Through periods of waxing and weaning Subject(s): Language; Marriage; Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 24. CONCERNING THEIR COYNE, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: Indians are ignorant of europe's coyne yet call it moneash Last Line: Does not differ Subject(s): Language; Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 25. OF BUYING AND SELLING, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: Amongst themselves they trade great plains of experience Last Line: Cosaumawem. You aske too much Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 26. OF DEBTS AND TRUSTING, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: They are desirous to come into debt and have bequeathed Last Line: Of keeping warm not infinite Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 27. OF THEIR HUNTING, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: First they pursue their game in grammatical components when they drive the wood Last Line: And home, time and %the western world Subject(s): Language; Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 28. OF THEIR GAMING, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: Their public games, whether cards (rushes), dice or football Last Line: A necessary part %of the material world Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 29. OF THEIR WARRE, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: Surplus valor comes as messenger and heaves ambush. Shottash Last Line: My self the self of others Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 3. CONCERNING SLEEPE AND LODGING, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: They will sleepe without the doores, above sea-level, with Last Line: An empty %promise %lodged against me Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 30. OF THEIR PAINTINGS, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: 1. They paint their garments Last Line: Refinanced memory %washes white Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 31. OF SICKNESSE, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: The indians' misery appeares they have no physick other Last Line: By fatigue %at this point %of the instep Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 32. OF DEATH AND BURIALL, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: He that hath death in his house blackes his face. Soot clotted Last Line: Be understood forward %or backward Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 4. OF THEIR NUMBERS, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: Without the help of wall street, how quick they are in Last Line: Could come apart %and tell %their seeds Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 5. OF THEIR RELATIONS, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: They hold it red and wear it on their skin, a bond prey to Last Line: To make it safe to have a self Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 6. OF THE FAMILY AND BUSINESSE, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: A sloemne word, family, that no one trained to explore celestial Last Line: Their gums their genes their lovingly Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 7. OF THEIR PERSONS, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: Great bunch of hayre raked from darkness, yet as organized Last Line: Like fog in anywhere Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 8. OF DISCOURSE AND NEWES, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: Tiding on condition, a corresponding sign to sound which our Last Line: Matter how %he can't forget Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 9. OF THE TIME OF THE DAY, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: How high the sun Last Line: The frame around the body Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Time; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) KING PHILIP, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: On pokanoket's height / all life is hushed beneath the summer heat Last Line: And told his wrongs in words that still we see / recorded on the page of history Subject(s): "mount Hope, Rhode Island;philip, King (native American Chief);" Metacomet;king Philip's War (1675-76) MEDITATION ON RHODE ISLAND COAL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I sat beside the glowing grate, fresh heaped Last Line: Then the west india negroes may go play %the banjo, and keep endless holiday Subject(s): Coal Mines And Miners; Geology; Rhode Island MOUNT HOPE, by WILLIAM AUGUSTUS CROFFUT Poem Text First Line: I stroll through verdant fields to-day Last Line: O, that this blossom had a tongue to tell its woe! Alternate Author Name(s): Croffut, W. A. Subject(s): Mount Hope, Rhode Island; Philip, King (native American Chief); Metacomet; King Philip's War (1675-76) MOUNT HOPE, by JAMES WALLIS EASTBURN Poem Text First Line: The morning air was freshly breathing Last Line: To bend above the glorious wave. Subject(s): Mount Hope, Rhode Island NARRAGANSETT BAY, by JAMES WALLIS EASTBURN Poem Text First Line: The sun is sinking from the sky Last Line: As gently breathes the evening breeze. Subject(s): Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island NEWPORT, by ALICE DUER MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On these brown rocks the waves dissolve in a spray Last Line: "to win religious liberty for these?" Subject(s): Newport, Rhode Island; Sacrifices; Tradition NEWPORT BEACH, by HENRY THEODORE TUCKERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wave after wave successively rolls on Last Line: In one o'erwhelming surge! Subject(s): Newport, Rhode Island NIGHTFALL ON THE SEACONNET SHORE, by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We sat together, you and I Last Line: "and our hearts whispered, ""all is well." Subject(s): Seaconnet Point, Rhode Island PAWTUCKET FALLS, by JOB DURFEE Poem Text First Line: At last a sound, like murmurs from the shore Last Line: Thy falls, pawtucket, and where seekonk wound. Subject(s): Pawtucket Falls, Rhode Island PROVINCETOWN, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We laughed about the pine tree laying Last Line: Great loss, and that the liquor stores didn't close / until midnight Subject(s): Providence, Rhode Island; Love RHODE ISLAND, by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From that far island in the midland sea Last Line: Though of the nation's cluster, smallest star! Alternate Author Name(s): Roge, Mme. Subject(s): Rhode Island RHODE ISLAND, by T. CLARKE BROWN Poem Source First Line: Here's to you, belov'd rhode island Subject(s): Rhode Island RHODE ISLAND, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here at the seashore they use the clouds over & over Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Rhode Island; Seashore; Summer; Beach; Coast; Shore RHODE ISLAND, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here at the seashore they use the clouds over & over Last Line: Until after labor day. He just lays there Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Rhode Island; Seashore; Summer RHODE ISLAND, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The state of country byways, quaintly lined Last Line: Spirit of roger williams, come again! Subject(s): Rhode Island ROGER WILLIAMS, by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Listen to his rich words, intoned Last Line: In liberty and law. Subject(s): Providence, Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683) STORM ON SEACONNET, by GEORGE SHEPARD BURLEIGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Round and red in a golden haze Last Line: Of the island cliff as they backward rolled. Subject(s): Seaconnet Point, Rhode Island; Storms THE BOMBARDMENT OF BRISTOL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In seventeen hundred and seventy-five Last Line: And all their firing and their racket / shot off the topmast of a packet Subject(s): "american Revolution;bristol, Rhode Island; THE CLIFFS AT NEWPORT, by RUTH DANA Poem Text First Line: O newport! Chosen sweetheart of the sea Last Line: From one who hopes, and, trusting, waits for me. Subject(s): Newport, Rhode Island THE ENGINEER'S SIGNAL, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two low whistles, quaint and clear Last Line: Guild lay under his engine, dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Variant Title(s): Gould's Signal;guild's Signal Subject(s): Disasters; Guild, William; Providence, Rhode Island; Railroad Wrecks; Train Wrecks THE JEWISH CEMETERY AT NEWPORT, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How strange it seems! These hebrews in their graves Last Line: And the dead nations never rise again. Subject(s): Bible; Cemeteries; Jews; Newport, Rhode Island; Religion; Social Protest; Graveyards; Judaism; Theology THE NEWPORT TOWER, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a rude old monument Last Line: "the spot where I am laid." Subject(s): Monuments; Newport, Rhode Island THE QUAKER ALUMNI, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the well-springs of hudson, the sea-cliffs of maine Last Line: And winnow in mercy our good from the ill! Subject(s): Alumni; Friends, Religious Society Of; Newport, Rhode Island; Religious Freedom; Quakers THE ROMANCE OF A ROSE, by NORA PERRY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is nearly a hundred years ago Last Line: "from beginning to end is a rose and a glance." Subject(s): Newport, Rhode Island THE SKELETON IN ARMOR, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Speak! Speak! Thou fearful guest! Last Line: Thus the tale ended. Subject(s): America - Exploration; Newport, Rhode Island; Scandinavia & Scandinavians; Vikings; Vinland THE WAVES AT MIDNIGHT; THE CLIFFS, NEWPORT, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seen in the night by / their snows, as they crush Last Line: Wail, crushed at an answerless cliff-wall for me. Subject(s): Newport, Rhode Island; Sea; Waves; Ocean TO THE WEATHERCOCK ON OUR STEEPLE, by ALBERT GORTON GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dawn has broke, the morn is up Last Line: As thou hast been to thine. Subject(s): Providence, Rhode Island VERAZZANO AT RHODES AND RHODE ISLAND, by HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the tides of the warm south wind it lay Last Line: Bears the fairest isle of the western coast. Subject(s): America - Exploration; Rhode Island; Verazzano, Giovanni Da (1485-1528) YANKEE DOODLE'S EXPEDITION TO RHODE ISLAND, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "from lewis, monsieur gerard, came" Last Line: "for clinton's name alarmed his mind, / and made him stir his stumps, sir" Subject(s): "american Revolution;navy - France;newport, Rhode Island;" French Navy |
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