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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: STREETS Matches Found: 107 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BUSY STREET, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: All up and down the busy street Last Line: And that is why they hurry so. Subject(s): Cities; Collective Behavior; February; Streets; Traffic; Urban Life; Mobs; Crowds; Avenues A CITY STREET IN SUMMER, by LOUIS GINSBERG Poem Text First Line: It stumbles, numbed and prostrate Last Line: Whence god is crying out! Subject(s): Streets; Summer; Avenues A FRAGMENT, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: And then it seem'd I was a bird Last Line: Twas then I knew it was a dream! Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Birds; Dreams; Singing & Singers; Streets; Nightmares; Avenues A STEP AWAY FROM THEM, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's my lunch hour, so I go Subject(s): Lunch; Reverdy, Pierre (1889-1960); Streets; Avenues A STREET SKETCH, by JOSEPH ASHBY-STERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the kerb, a maiden neat Last Line: Upon the kerb! Subject(s): Streets; Women; Avenues A SWEETHEART: THOMPSON STREET, by SAMUEL DUFF MCCOY Poem Text First Line: Queen of all streets, fifth avenue Last Line: I am called liberty! Subject(s): Freedom; New York City - Streets; Liberty ACROSS THE CITY, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: I stood upon a dizzy roof which towered Last Line: Reveals but mounds of vanished majesty. Subject(s): Cities; Streets; Urban Life; Avenues ANGLOSAXON STREET, by EARL (EARLE) BIRNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dawndrizzle ended, dampness steams from Last Line: Waiting brief for milkhind, mornstar and worldrise. Subject(s): Ghettos; Streets; Avenues ANOTHER STREET, by DAVID HUMPHRIES Poem Source First Line: The only explanation Last Line: The night inside the night on my street %is as silent as a fist Subject(s): Streets ANTICLIMAX, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I walked a city street, and suddenly Last Line: Fell on a mood more merry than mine own. Subject(s): Hearts; Night; Streets; Tears; Bedtime; Avenues APRIL IN 'THE STREET', by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: April of shining tresses, / tearful mouth, and laughing eyes! Last Line: Cease to grind awhile! Subject(s): April; Streets; Avenues AUCTION STREET, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Consider the drum Last Line: The ground you walk is holy Subject(s): Streets BOND STREET, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Lavender fresh are your looks Last Line: Getting a hat! Subject(s): London; Streets; Avenues 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 BRUGES: QUAI DES AUGUSTINS; AFTER VAN DER VEER, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within the sad, deserted street Last Line: To silence and the waning day. Subject(s): Bruges, Belgium; Streets; Avenues CANZONE, by RICK SNYDER Poem Source First Line: The streets widen %on a windy day Last Line: To the museum %where maureen is waiting Subject(s): Streets; Traffic CHANGING FACE OF AIDS: 9. THE FAILURE OF EMPATHY ON CENTER STREET, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On center street, one finds all: the art Last Line: Your heart is human. Never let it close Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Streets CHINATOWN BLUES, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Waiting for the streetcar in san francisco Last Line: A second ballroom appears. / empty Subject(s): Chinatown, San Francisco; Shopping; Streets; Tourists; Travel; Avenues; Journeys; Trips CHINATOWN BLUES, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Waiting for the streetcar in san francisco Last Line: A second balloon appears, %empty Subject(s): Chinatown, San Francisco; Shopping; Streets; Tourists; Travel CHRYSALIDS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Her gaze meets his as he looks down Last Line: Are chrysalids of winged dreams Subject(s): Earth;reality;socialism;streets;towns; World;avenues CITY STREETS, by GERARD JOHN CONFORTI Poem Source First Line: Along the city streets Subject(s): Cities; Streets CROSSING, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: A little twig in the green shuffled her tennies Last Line: She was about to say something Subject(s): Human Behavior; Streets DEEP IN EUROPE, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I a dark hull floating between two lock-gates Last Line: The blackened cathedral, heavy as a moon, causes ebbs and flows Subject(s): Cities; Europe; Streets; Travel; Urban Life; Avenues; Journeys; Trips DEEP IN EUROPE, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I a dark hull floating between two lock-gates Last Line: The blackened cathedral, heavy as a moon, causes ebb and flow Subject(s): Cities; Europe; Streets; Travel DEFORMED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crouched at the corner of the Last Line: Leaves crimson trails of bliss. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Birth Defects; Faces; Streets; Vision; Avenues DISCOVERY, by MARY D. SPENCE Poem Text First Line: Crowded city streets I trod Last Line: Breathes of immortality. Subject(s): Cities; God; Immortality; Streets; Urban Life; Avenues DRAB STREET, by JEAN HOLMES MINTY Poem Text First Line: I rather love a drab street Last Line: Love, and lovely things. Subject(s): Love; Poverty; Streets; Avenues DYING TOWN, by LESLIE MCDONALD Poem Text First Line: The sun is hot on unpaved streets Last Line: Men keep a watch for signs of fire. Subject(s): Streets; Towns; Avenues EVENING SONG ON OUR STREET, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was almost bedtime, and something was wrong Last Line: By both my hands again, and we walked home Subject(s): African Americans; Sickness; Singing & Singers; Streets; Negroes; American Blacks; Illness; Avenues GREETINGS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: A solitary condom, sad and crinkled Last Line: Greets the bells greeting %sunday morning air. Subject(s): Birth Control; Sabbath; Streets GUARDS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Look at the yellow flowers guarding the blue gate Last Line: Whose blood is that pooled in the street? Subject(s): Blood; Flowers; Streets HALLOWEEN ON HENNEPIN, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: It's halloween going on midnight. Boo Last Line: Hey. Happy halloween.' Subject(s): Halloween; Religion; Streets HELL 2, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: Nothing %can you believe here Last Line: Oh! These silent streets Subject(s): Danger; Hell; Human Rights; Silence; Streets; Tyranny And Tyrants HOW PEARL STREET WAS PAVED, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In wouter van twiller's manorial pale Last Line: We manage the streets of the city to-day. Subject(s): Cows; New York City - Dutch Period; Streets; Avenues I'M EXPLAINING A FEW THINGS, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are going to ask: and where are the lilacs? Last Line: Come and see the blood %in the streets! Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Madrid, Spain; Poetry And Poets; Streets I'M WALKING DOWN THE STREET, MINDING MY OWN BUSINESS, by THOMAS CENTOLELLA Poem Source First Line: Chitchatting with my ebullient consort, peach of a summer afternoon Last Line: Whatever - maybe, just maybe, toward you Subject(s): Conversation; Streets IN THE STREETS, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Boy, my boy, it is lonely in the city Last Line: Oh boygod help her! Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Grief; Streets; Sorrow; Sadness; Avenues INDIANS SELL THINGS ALONG OUR STREETS, by EVELYN MABEL WATSON Poem Text First Line: Watercress from a wind-blown mountain fall Last Line: With wind-flowers in my exquisite bouquet. . . . Subject(s): Flowers; Mountains; Native Americans; Salespersons; Streets; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Selling; Avenues IT'S THE GYPSY IN ME, by FRANCES BRAGAN RICHMAN Poem Text First Line: When I am old I hope to sit up nights Last Line: And take no chance on that which sleep might take. Subject(s): Streets; Avenues KATHMANDU, by SAMRAT UPADHYAY Poem Source First Line: 2 a.M. When the city streets Last Line: We are beautiful, they think Subject(s): Cities; Morning; Streets KEEP DRIVING, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Atsuko / steering her smooth burgundy car Last Line: Leave. Subject(s): Cities; Driving & Drivers; Japan; Streets; Urban Life; Japanese; Avenues LIGHT STREET WHARF, BALTIMORE, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Perhaps you have tasted the salty tang Last Line: And the sea-wind's salty tang. Subject(s): Streets; Travel; Avenues; Journeys; Trips LOCKERBIE STREET, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such a dear little street it is, nestled Last Line: My rhyme-haunted raptures of lockerbie street. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Night; Streets; Towns; Bedtime; Avenues LYONS AVENUE, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ramesh, ice-t dripping from headphones Last Line: In space, a time too brief %to believe by any measure but faith Subject(s): Neighbors; Streets MANHOLE COVERS, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The beauty of manhole covers - what of that? Subject(s): Streets; Avenues MANHOLE COVERS, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The beauty of manhole covers - what of that? Last Line: Strong with its cryptic american %its dated beauty Subject(s): Streets MEANWHILE, by RICHARD SIKEN Poem Source First Line: Driving, dogs barking, how you get used to it, how you make Last Line: It's simple: it isn't over, it's just begun. It's green. It's still green Subject(s): Life; Streets MOTOR CITY TIRADE, by DAWN MCDUFFIE Poem Source First Line: Send us your homeless, your crazy Last Line: When the load just gets too heavy Subject(s): Cities; Poverty; Streets NEON ICON, by THOMAS ROSENLOCHER Poem Source First Line: When I turned the corner Last Line: Hurling my wretched, flapping shadow %at the wall Subject(s): Amsterdam, Netherlands; Streets O' STREET, LINCOLN NE, by JR. JOEL B. PECKHAM Poem Source First Line: You have heard the rumor that this street ends somewhere Last Line: Traveling the corridors of the throat saying o and again o and o, o, o Variant Title(s): 'o' Street, Lincoln, Nebrask Subject(s): Streets OLD SAWS AND SEE-SAWS, by ANDREW EDWARD WATROUS Poem Text First Line: From eighth street up, from eighth street down Last Line: A see-saw rhyme and a see-saw town. Subject(s): Eighth Street, New York City; New York City - Streets ON BELMONT, by WILLIAM REGINALD GIBBONS Poem Source First Line: Watch it! Brother, he said, who had come up beside me without my Last Line: Everybody like me Subject(s): Cities; Commuters; Danger; Streets ON CEDAR STREET, NEW YORK, by HELEN HAY WHITNEY Poem Text First Line: I, whose totem was a tree Last Line: "calm and sweet abide with you." Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; New York City - Streets ON GRACE CHURCH CORNER, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the stone-flowered, lozenged steeple Last Line: A white dream cleaves the sky! Subject(s): Bells; Broadway, New York City; Churches; Streets; Travel; Cathedrals; Avenues; Journeys; Trips ON THE BOULEVARD, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, it's pleasant sitting here Last Line: Sitting on the boulevard! Subject(s): Paris, France; Streets; Avenues ON THE CORNER OF CAMPBELL AND KENNEDY STREETS, by EMILY GROSHOLZ Poem Source First Line: The baby's droll, sweet face Last Line: Cross which the lovely vessel disappears Subject(s): Babies; Parents; Streets ON THE PLAZA, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One august day I sat beside Last Line: A personality was there! Subject(s): New York City; Parks; Streets; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Avenues ON THE STREET, by RUTH STONE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each day you pass this woman Last Line: To all you have hidden from yourself Subject(s): Streets; Women PLACE, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: How did we get here? My ankle in your hand Last Line: As in the equation for the rest of our lives Subject(s): Cities; Driving And Drivers; Streets; Travel; Washington, D.c. PLAZA AND THE BURNING ORANGE TREES, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: See roaming through these old streets Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Cities; Memory; Streets; Travel PRAYER, by FRANCIS (FRANK) STEWART FLINT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: As I walk through the streets Subject(s): Streets PRODIGAL SON ON GREEN DOLPHIN STREET, by DIONISIO D. MARTINEZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Or, to be precise, on a distant variation of it. Some things you can Last Line: One of the two men - hard to say which one - is doomed and the street will %get the better of him Subject(s): Streets RAINY SUNDAY, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The soft, grey garment of the rushing rain Last Line: The mother throned serene amid the rest. Subject(s): Commuters; New York City; Rain; Streets; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Avenues SATURDAY NIGHT, by MARY COLBURNE VEEL Poem Text First Line: Saturday night in the crowded town Last Line: Walking in arcady, land of love. Subject(s): Earth; Neighbors; Night; Streets; Towns; World; Bedtime; Avenues SENLIS: THE LITTLE SILENT STREET, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: The stormy silence stirs and hums. Will there be none that this way comes? Last Line: The stormy silence stirs and hums. Will there be none that this way comes? Subject(s): Silence; Storms; Streets; Avenues SILENCE, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Along the city streets Last Line: There is nothing else beside Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Cities; Silence; Streets SONGS OF NEW YORK: FIFTH AVENUE AT NIGHT, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like moonstones drooping from a fair queen's Last Line: Tread of far feet. Subject(s): Fifth Avenue, New York City; Night; Streets; Bedtime; Avenues SONNET: 24. THE STREET, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They pass me by like shadows, crowds on crowds Last Line: A dead soul's epitaph in every face! Subject(s): Streets; Avenues SOUTH STATE STREET, CHICAGO, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rows of blankly box-like buildings Last Line: Into the poised lyric of the sky. Subject(s): Chicago; Streets; Avenues STEP AWAY FROM THEM, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's my lunch hour, so I go Last Line: And back to work. My heart is in my %pocket, it is poems by pierre reverdy Subject(s): Lunch; Reverdy, Pierre (1889-1960); Streets STEPPING ON IT, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: At a bad corner of the street Last Line: Honk! Brakes! Meet! Subject(s): Automobiles; Driving & Drivers; Streets; Cars; Avenues STRAW IN THE STREET, by AMY LEVY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Straw in the street where I pass to-day Last Line: Straw in the street ? Variant Title(s): Roundel: Straw In The Street Subject(s): Straw; Streets; Avenues STREET, by GENE BARO Poem Source First Line: The street climbs upward steeply Last Line: She is noiseless on the stones Subject(s): Streets STREET, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, who cant tell what feet shall fare the roadway Last Line: And all that years of life contain from failure up %to glory Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Streets STREET, by ANA MARIA IZA Poem Source First Line: For you the streets wait Last Line: And do not cleanse them %until the clean day is new born Subject(s): Streets STREET, by GERARD JOSEPH MALANGA Poem Source First Line: The morning approaches Last Line: The camera has finally run out of film Subject(s): Cameras; Streets STREET, by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hers is a long and silent street Last Line: And rises and stays when he sees me: nobody Subject(s): Streets STREET, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Streaked and fretted with effort, the thick Last Line: Dangerous %gray bark of the street Subject(s): Cities; Streets STREET, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here comes the subway grating fisher Subject(s): Streets STREET CORNER, by KRISTJANA GUNNARS Poem Source First Line: Three drunks shout in animated conversation about art Last Line: What happens to the soul after hermiting the north Subject(s): Dreams; Streets STREET MUSIC, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O how the dance-tune trips it through the street Last Line: From a bleared woman, sick and old and sad! Subject(s): Life; Music & Musicians; Spring; Streets; Avenues STREET-TALKERS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: They're pourin' plaudits on his head.' Last Line: Jaysus, he must be dead!' Subject(s): Streets STREETS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A man leaves the world Subject(s): Death; City & Town Life; Sleep; Streets; Dead, The; Avenues SUMMER MORNING, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: I saw a person get hit in traffic today Last Line: Clearing throats, making %any kind of noise Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Cities; Death; Noises; Streets; Traffic SUNRISE, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The sunrise of new york Last Line: As though recently rescued from a shipwreck of blood Subject(s): Homeless; New York City - Streets; Poverty THE CITY, 1850, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love the city, and the city's smoke Last Line: Good-bye! I'm going by the evening train! Subject(s): Farewell; New York City - 19th Century; Streets; Parting; Avenues THE CLUB, by FREDERIC SAUSER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The street although indicated on the official plan Last Line: Then a mint-julep, a mother's milk, a prairie-oyster, and a night-cap. Alternate Author Name(s): Cendrars, Blaise Subject(s): Clubs (associations); Streets; Avenues THE IRISH NEW POLICEMAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "your pardon, gents and ladies all" Last Line: For don't myself get half the booty? Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;ireland;police;streets; Irish;avenues THE LAMENT OF A ONE-WAY STREET, by EDITH CAROLYN NEWLIN Poem Text First Line: All day Last Line: And I, once more, a two-way street. Subject(s): Streets; Avenues THE OMNIBUS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "the 'bus, the 'bus, the omnibus!" Last Line: While I am snugly seated in thee Subject(s): Buses;streets; Avenues THE RED BOX AT VESEY STREET, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Past the red box at vesey street Last Line: Through the red box at vesey street. Subject(s): Homeless; Kindness; New York City - Streets; Poverty THE STREET, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Streaked and fretted with effort, the thick Subject(s): Cities; Streets; Urban Life; Avenues THE STREET, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here comes the subway grating fisher Subject(s): Streets; Avenues THE STREET OF THE MANY LITTLE LOVERS, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gaunt gray street goes up the hill, over the hill / and down Last Line: But love walks there with weary eyes and mudbedraggled gown. Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Love; Lust; Man-woman Relationships; Streets; Male-female Relations; Avenues THE STREETS, 1869, by WILLIAM OSBORN STODDARD Poem Text First Line: Our city is born of the pure, blue sea Last Line: In leaving our streets all hid in the dirt. Subject(s): New York City - 19th Century; Refuse & Refuse Disposal; Streets; Avenues THREE AMORETTI: 2. ON CANAL & BROADWAY, by RICK BAROT Poem Source First Line: Since you came back I've been all rhymes Last Line: Here,' you say - word enough for me for now Subject(s): Cities; Friendship; Streets; Walking THREE O'CLOCK: MORNING, by FREDERICK RIDGELY TORRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The jewel-blue electric flowers Last Line: But time goes out in grey. Subject(s): New York City; Railroads; Streets; Subways; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Railways; Trains; Avenues TO MY ACADEMIC FRIENDS WHO SIT TIGHT ON THEIR DOCTORAL THESE, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You who will drive forward Last Line: Again and again with fresh wares Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Streets; Traffic TRAFFIC, by SESSHU FOSTER Poem Source First Line: We look upon the surface of the ocean but neither of us sees Last Line: And our children can read our books as they burn Subject(s): Accidents; Streets; Traffic TWILIGHT ON SIXTH AVENUE AT NINTH STREET, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the tops of the houses Last Line: Washes a lonely wood. Subject(s): Evening; Streets; Wind; Sunset; Twilight; Avenues TWO STREETS, by EMMETT MALOY COUNTS Poem Text First Line: Today, while walking through a hardened street Last Line: Today I walked upon a velvet street. Subject(s): Asphalt; Streets; Walking; Wandering & Wanderers; Concrete; Pavements; Avenues; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes VISTAS, by ODELL SHEPARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I walked through the dream-peopled streets Last Line: The night breeze ruffle by. Subject(s): Streets; Avenues WEEDS, by JIM DANIELS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tina's dog got hit by a cab yesterday Last Line: What can we do but bend down %and shove our hands in it Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dogs; Drugs And Drug Abuse; Neighbors; Streets WHISTLES AT NIGHT, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At night in the city when the far-off whistles blow Last Line: And the dawn comes slow. Subject(s): Central Park, New York City; Memory; Night; Parks; Streets; Bedtime; Avenues WINDOWS, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We're livin' out here in the country now Last Line: Where I watched as the world went by. Subject(s): Cities; Collective Behavior; Streets; Windows; Urban Life; Mobs; Crowds; Avenues YOSHIKO 1, by TAKATO MASAKO Poem Source First Line: The streets are a melting pot Last Line: In flames %burning %yoshiko Subject(s): Fire; Streets YOUR WAY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: If you want to find your way through dublin Last Line: The manic street will part for you Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Explorers; Sky; Streets |
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