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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 boy—god 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