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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: TENNESSEE Matches Found: 24 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AMNESIA IN MEMPHIS, by GREGORY NUNZIO CORSO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who am I, flat beneath the shades of isis Last Line: Fall unto the jackal's plate Alternate Author Name(s): Corso, Gregory Subject(s): Amnesia; Memphis, Tennessee AT SUNSET, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've seen the moon, with lifted wing Last Line: To me, remembering tennessee. Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Tennessee DIXIE QUEEN, by SCOTT HIGHTOWER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Tennessee williams knew how Last Line: And red / glass lanterns Subject(s): Williams, Tennessee (1911-1983) FAIR TIMES IN OLD TENNESSEE, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Lord, when I die, jes' take me whar a fair is allers gwine! Subject(s): African Americans; Southern States; Tennessee; Negroes; American Blacks; South (u.s.) KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE, by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I always like summer / best Last Line: And sleep Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki Subject(s): African Americans; Americans; Appalachia; Family Life; Knoxville, Tennessee; Summer; United States; Women; Negroes; American Blacks; Relatives; America LAST NIGHT IN ELVISVILLE, by LYDIA TOMKIW Poem Source First Line: Even memphis smells pretty Last Line: So much wanting whatever we can get Subject(s): Cities; Memphis, Tennessee; Presley, Elvis (1937-1977) LONGIN' FUR TENNESSEE (A LAMENT FROM YANKEE LAND), by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, I'm longin' jes'er longin' fur a sight ob / tennessee Last Line: Fur er grabe in tennessee. Subject(s): Farm Life; Homesickness; Plantation Life; Sheep; Slavery; Tennessee; Agriculture; Farmers; Serfs MEMPHIS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was raised %on the shore Last Line: So many questions %northern born Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Memphis, Tennessee MEMPHIS RESURRECTION, by HONOREE FANONNE JEFFERS Poem Source First Line: The big rock by my door Last Line: And brown, mingle %with old dirt Subject(s): Memphis, Tennessee OLD TENNESSEE, by A. J. HOLT Poem Text First Line: The land of pure and balmy air Last Line: In battle-scarred old tennessee. Subject(s): Tennessee READING BIBLES IN TENNESSEE, by ROSS MARTIN Poem Source First Line: Because there is faith they will be replaced Last Line: Stories are read and forgotten like %the ones before Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Tennessee REVIVAL COMES TO KNOXVILLE, 1970, by PARKS LANIER Poem Source First Line: On a warm evening, the city is the new jerusalem Last Line: Unto caesar what is caesar's, and unto god very little at all Subject(s): Cities; Knoxville, Tennessee; Life; Travel SEQUATCHIE VALLEY, by CLAUDIA WATSON STEWART Poem Text First Line: Sprawled beneath the blue sky's cover Last Line: For troubled heart and harassed mind! Subject(s): Sequatchie Valley, Tennessee SHADOWS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the latter days Last Line: Girl girl wake up. %somebody calling you Subject(s): Memphis, Tennessee; Past; Southern States SUNSET ON THE TENNESSEE, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The valley rolls to the river Last Line: They guard the valley below. Subject(s): Nature; Tennessee; Valleys TENNESSEE; A CENTENNIAL POEM, 1897, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sun-shimmer'd fields of dreaming green Last Line: Love of thee. Subject(s): Confederate States Of America; Freedom; Military; Soldiers; Tennessee; Confederacy; Liberty TENNESSEE; PRIZE CENTENNIAL ODE (1896), by VIRGINIA FRAZER BOYLE Poem Text First Line: She is touching the cycle - her tender tread Last Line: The paeans of tennessee! Subject(s): Tennessee THE BAY FIGHT, by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three days through sapphire seas we sailed Last Line: The green were one wide grave. Subject(s): American Civil War; Mobile Bay, Battle Of (1864); Patriotism; Tennessee (ship); United States - History THE LILY OF FORT CUSTER, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And you want me to tell you the story, lad Last Line: The lily of fort custer—and she blooms in tennessee. Subject(s): Militarism; Soldiers; Tennessee; War Injuries THE OLD PLANTATION, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O I'm sick an' tired an' lonely Last Line: Kiss 'em good-night now forever—an' then lay me down to sleep. Subject(s): African Americans; Plantation Life; Slavery; Tennessee; Negroes; American Blacks; Serfs THE TENNESSEEAN TO THE FLAG, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We followed you first in the days of old Last Line: Than the love of our people for thee. Subject(s): Confederate States Of America; Flags; Patriotism; Soldiers; Tennessee; Confederacy TO MONTEAGLE, by HARRY HARRISON KROLL Poem Text First Line: A nearly empty highway Last Line: And I am again come to monteagle. Subject(s): Cumberland Mountains; Monteagle, Tennessee WILDFLOWER WALK, EAST TENNESSEE, by LIZ MCGEACHY Poem Source First Line: Here, it is not possible to drag along Last Line: Humming as you wander along Subject(s): Home; Solitude; Tennessee YORK OF TENNESSEE, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They say his rifle, ringing Last Line: Bold york of tennessee! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Courage; Soldiers; Tennessee; York, Alvin Cullum (1887-1964); Valor; Bravery |
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