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  • Dominic has  + (Bibliographic Information Author Bibliographic Information</br> </br> </br> Author </br> </br> Cummings, Edward Estline </br> </br> </br> Genre </br> </br> Poetry </br> </br> </br> Journal or Book </br> </br> E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962 </br> </br> </br> Publisher </br> </br> Liveright </br> </br> </br> Year of Publication </br> </br> 1958 </br> </br> </br> Pages </br> </br> 680</br> </br> </br> Additional information </br> </br> -</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> dominic has</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> a doll wired </br>to the radiator of his </br>ZOOM DOOM</br> </br> </br> </br> car car part metaphor sound onomatopoeia </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> icecoalwood truck a</br> </br> </br> </br> car </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> wistful little </br>clown </br>whom somebody buried</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> upsidedown in an ashbarrel so</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> of course dominic </br>took him </br>home</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> & mrs dominic washed his sweet</br> </br> </br> </br> car </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> dirty </br>face & mended </br>his bright torn trousers(quite</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> as if he were really her &</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> she </br>but)& so </br>that</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> 's how dominic has a doll</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> & every now & then my </br>wonderful </br>friend dominic depaola</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> gives me a most tremendous hug</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> knowing </br>i feel </br>that</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> we & worlds</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> are </br>less alive </br>than dolls &; worlds are less alive than dolls &)
  • The Road  + (Bibliographic Information Author Bibliographic Information</br> </br> </br> Author </br> </br> Johnson, Helene </br> </br> </br> Genre </br> </br> Poetry </br> </br> </br> Journal or Book </br> </br> Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life </br> </br> </br> Publisher </br> </br> -</br> </br> </br> Year of Publication </br> </br> 1926 </br> </br> </br> Pages </br> </br> 225</br> </br> </br> Additional information </br> </br> -</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> Ah, little road all whirry in the breeze, </br>A leaping clay hill lost among the trees, </br>The bleeding note of rapture streaming thrush </br>Caught in a drowsy hush </br>And stretched out in a single singing line of dusky song.</br> </br> </br> </br> road wind tree topography sound metaphor </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> Ah little road, brown as my race is brown, </br>Your trodden beauty like our trodden pride, </br>Dust of the dust, they must not bruise you down. </br>Rise to one brimming golden, spilling cry!</br> </br> </br> </br> affect dust road road condition African American scenery road condition African American scenery)
  • The Road of Human Life  + (Bibliographic Information Author Bibliographic Information</br> </br> </br> Author </br> </br> Jamison, Roscoe C. </br> </br> </br> Genre </br> </br> Poetry </br> </br> </br> Journal or Book </br> </br> Negro Soldiers (“These Truly are the Brave”) and other poems by Roscoe C. Jamison </br> </br> </br> Publisher </br> </br> Press of the Gray Printing Company </br> </br> </br> Year of Publication </br> </br> 1918 </br> </br> </br> Pages </br> </br> -</br> </br> </br> Additional information </br> </br> -</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> metaphor metaphysics death </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> Along the Road of Human Life, </br>So very near, on either side, </br>With winds and storms and billows rife, </br>There is a sea that's wide; </br>And woe to him who trips and falls </br>Into that darkening tide.</br> </br> </br> </br> road metaphor affect death </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> Oh! it is all that Hope can do </br>To keep lifted our eyes </br>And day by day our strength renew </br>With visions and dream-lies; </br>To lead us by that awful flood </br>From which no soul may rise.</br> </br> </br> </br> affect </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> Despair! Despair! That is the sea </br>Which ever is at our feet, </br>Seeks to envelop you and me, </br>In ruin full, complete, </br>Cause us to deem this life a curse </br>And make death's name sound sweet.</br> </br> </br> </br> affect coast death </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> Work, Laugh and Love! Thus only can </br>The trembling spirit hold, </br>Its journey true across the span </br>Of years that doth unfold, </br>Amid earth's barren scenery </br>Until life's tale is told!</br> </br> </br> </br> affect scenery! affect scenery)
  • The Watershed  + (Bibliographic Information Author Bibliographic Information</br> </br> </br> Author </br> </br> Auden, Wystan Hugh </br> </br> </br> Genre </br> </br> Poetry </br> </br> </br> Journal or Book </br> </br> W. H. Auden </br> </br> </br> Publisher </br> </br> Faber and Faber </br> </br> </br> Year of Publication </br> </br> 1927 </br> </br> </br> Pages </br> </br> 3</br> </br> </br> Additional information </br> </br> -</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> Who stands, the crux left of the watershed, </br>On the wet road between the chafing grass </br>Below him sees dismantled washing-floors, </br>Snatches of tramline running to the wood, </br>An industry already comatose, </br>Yet sparsely living. A ramshackle engine </br>At Cashwell raises water; for ten years </br>It lay in flooded workings until this, </br>Its latter office, grudgingly performed. </br>And further here and there, though many dead </br>Lie under the poor soil, some acts are chosen </br>Taken from recent winters; two there were </br>Cleaned out a damaged shaft by hand, clutching </br>The winch the gale would tear them from; one died </br>During a storm, the fells impassable, </br>Not at his village, but in wooden shape </br>Through long abandoned levels nosed his way </br>And in his final valley went to ground.</br> </br> </br> </br> road forest road condition engine personification risk safety death winter storm </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> Go home, now, stranger, proud of your young stock, </br>Stranger, turn back again, frustrate and vexed: </br>This land, cut off, will not communicate, </br>Be no accessory content to one </br>Aimless for faces rather there than here. </br>Beams from your car may cross a bedroom wall, </br>They wake no sleeper; you may hear the wind </br>Arriving driven from the ignorant sea </br>To hurt itself on pane, on bark of elm </br>Where sap unbaffled rises, being Spring; </br>But seldom this. Near you, taller than grass, </br>Ears poise before decision, scenting danger.</br> </br> </br> </br> affect risk car metaphor wind ocean tree spring sound safety wind ocean tree spring sound safety)
  • The Baker's Boy  + (Bibliographic Information Author Bibliographic Information</br> </br> </br> Author </br> </br> Newsome, Mary Effie Lee </br> </br> </br> Genre </br> </br> Poetry </br> </br> </br> Journal or Book </br> </br> Golden Slippers: An Anthology of Negro Poetry for Young Readers </br> </br> </br> Publisher </br> </br> Harper & Row </br> </br> </br> Year of Publication </br> </br> 1927 </br> </br> </br> Pages </br> </br> 26</br> </br> </br> Additional information </br> </br> -</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> The baker's boy delivers loaves </br>All up and down our street. </br>His car is white, his clothes are white, </br>White to his very feet. </br>I wonder if he stays that way. </br>I don't see how he does all day. </br>I’d like to watch him going home </br>When all the loaves are out. </br>His clothes must look quite different then, </br>At least I have no doubt.</br> </br> </br> </br> car road whitenessdoubt. car road whiteness)
  • Sunday Morning  + (Bibliographic Information Author Bibliographic Information</br> </br> </br> Author </br> </br> MacNeice, Louis </br> </br> </br> Genre </br> </br> Poetry </br> </br> </br> Journal or Book </br> </br> The Faber Book of Modern Verse </br> </br> </br> Publisher </br> </br> Faber and Faber </br> </br> </br> Year of Publication </br> </br> 1923 </br> </br> </br> Pages </br> </br> 304</br> </br> </br> Additional information </br> </br> -</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> Down the road someone is practising scales, </br>The notes like little fishes vanish with a wink of tails, </br>Man’s heart expands to tinker with his car </br>For this is Sunday morning, Fate’s great bazaar, </br>Regard these means as ends, concentrate on this Now, </br>And you may grow to music or drive beyond Hindhead anyhow, </br>Take corners on two wheels until you go so fast </br>That you can clutch a fringe or two of the windy past, </br>That you can abstract this day and make it to the week of time </br>A small eternity, a sonnet self-contained in rhyme.</br> </br> </br> </br> pleasure speed maintenance car part road </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> But listen, up the road, something gulps, the church spire </br>Opens its eight bells out, skulls’ mouths which will not tire </br>To tell how there is no music or movement which secures </br>Escape from the weekday time. Which deadens and endures.</br> </br> </br> </br> architecture music sound metaphor haptic death metaphor haptic death)
  • On The Road to Nowhere  + (Bibliographic Information Author Bibliographic Information</br> </br> </br> Author </br> </br> Lindsay, Vachel </br> </br> </br> Genre </br> </br> Poetry </br> </br> </br> Journal or Book </br> </br> Selected Poems of Vachel Lindsay </br> </br> </br> Publisher </br> </br> Macmillan </br> </br> </br> Year of Publication </br> </br> 1916 </br> </br> </br> Pages </br> </br> 101-102</br> </br> </br> Additional information </br> </br> -</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> Upon Returning to the Country Road</br> </br> </br> </br> rural </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> On the road to nowhere </br>What wild oats did you sow </br>When you left your father's house </br>With your cheeks aglow? </br>Eyes so strained and eager </br>To see what you might see? </br>Were you thief of were you fool </br>Or most nobly free?</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> Were the tramp-days knightly, </br>True sowing of wild seed? </br>Did you dare to make the songs </br>Vanquished workmen need? </br>Did you waste much money </br>To deck a leper's feast? </br>Love the truth, defy the crowd </br>Scandalize the priest? </br>On the road to nowhere </br>What wild oats did you sow? </br>Stupids find the nowhere-road </br>Dusty, grim and slow.</br> </br> </br> </br> metaphor plant road condition slowness </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> Ere their sowing's ended </br>They turn them on their track, </br>Look at the caitiff craven wights </br>Repentant, hurrying back! </br>Grown ashamed of nowhere, </br>Of rags endured for years, </br>Lust for velvet in their hearts, </br>Pierced with Mammon's spears, </br>All but a few fanatics </br>Give up their darling goal, </br>Seek to be as others are, </br>Stultify the soul. </br>Reapings now confront them, </br>Glut them, or destroy. </br>Curious seeds, grain or weeds </br>Sown with awful joy. </br>Hurried is their harvest, </br>They make soft peace with men. </br>Pilgrims pass. They care not, </br>Will not tramp again.</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> O nowhere, golden nowhere! </br>Sages and fools go on </br>To your chaotic ocean, </br>To your tremendous dawn. </br>Far in your fair dream-haven, </br>Is nothing or is all... </br>They press on, singing, sowing </br>Wild deeds without recall!inging, sowing Wild deeds without recall!)
  • Our California  + (Bibliographic Information Author Bibliographic Information</br> </br> </br> Author </br> </br> Reynolds, Elsbery Washington </br> </br> </br> Genre </br> </br> Poetry </br> </br> </br> Journal or Book </br> </br> AutoLine o’Type </br> </br> </br> Publisher </br> </br> The Book Supply Company </br> </br> </br> Year of Publication </br> </br> 1924 </br> </br> </br> Pages </br> </br> 20</br> </br> </br> Additional information </br> </br> -</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> We wrote to a friend back east one day, </br>And told him all we thought to say. </br>We filled a dozen pages or more, </br>Of the glories of this far western shore.</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> He said, when he answered in reply, </br>"I thought that heaven was up on high. </br>From what you say of your state so fair, </br>I think that heaven must be out there."</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> "If your highways all are paved so grand, </br>And stars so bright o'er all the land, </br>The mountain streams beyond compare, </br>Then surely heaven must be out there."</br> </br> </br> </br> infrastructure highway mountain river road surface sublime metaphysics </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> "I thought that heaven was free from toil, </br>But your letter says you till the soil. </br>Yet, if you have such wonderful air, </br>Where is heaven if not out there?"</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> "The rising sun you say is fine, </br>And the early morning like red wine. </br>To be sure," he said, "I must declare, </br>From what you write me heaven is there."</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> "Have you received your starry crown?" </br>He said, "Your cross, have you laid down, </br>Do all the angels have blonde hair, </br>In this heaven you write me of out there?"</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> "You say it's filled with those who play, </br>And more are coming every day, </br>Yet, there is always room to spare. </br>Please tell me more of heaven out there."</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> We wrote him, "We can tell no more, </br>But when you reach this western shore, </br>Studebakers you'll see them everywhere." </br>Then, he said, "Heaven is there."</br> </br> </br> </br> affect car car model west metaphysics </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> —The Car with Character. —The Car with Character.)
  • Who Lies?  + (Bibliographic Information Author Bibliographic Information</br> </br> </br> Author </br> </br> Reynolds, Elsbery Washington </br> </br> </br> Genre </br> </br> Poetry </br> </br> </br> Journal or Book </br> </br> AutoLine o'Type </br> </br> </br> Publisher </br> </br> The Book Supply Company </br> </br> </br> Year of Publication </br> </br> 1924 </br> </br> </br> Pages </br> </br> 24</br> </br> </br> Additional information </br> </br> -</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> Somebody said it can't be done, </br>Salaries to all and commissions none. </br>We smiled till tears were in our eyes, </br>For can't is a word we do despise. </br>We have done the thing that couldn't be done.</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> Somebody scoffed it can't be done, </br>Seven per cent to every last one. </br>No compound rate or broker's fee, </br>Will send you sure into bankruptcy. </br>We have done the thing that couldn't be done.</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> Somebody sneered it can't be done, </br>Carry your paper for each mother's son. </br>You can't collect, your loss run high, </br>Let broker and banker cut the pie. </br>We have done the thing that couldn't be done.</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> Somebody croaked it can't be done, </br>Service by night without the sun. </br>Expenses great will bring you ruin, </br>We heard them not with all their wooin'. </br>We have done the thing that couldn't be done.</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> Somebody mocked it can't be done, </br>Back with you name the cars that 'ave run. </br>Your profits will in them surely go, </br>The public be d—d so take them low. </br>We have done the thing that couldn't be done.</br> </br> </br> </br> car </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> Somebody gibed it can't be done, </br>This thing and that and the other one. </br>So we took off our coat and defied the whole ring, </br>And we started to sing as we tackled the thing. </br>We have done the thing that couldn't be done.</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> Some people live neath clouds of dread </br> And never see a single star. </br> Happier, they would be, if dead </br> And riding in a Studebaker Car. </br> </br> </br> </br> car model </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> —The Car with Character. —The Car with Character.)
  • On Broadway  + (Bibliographic Information Author Bibliographic Information</br> </br> </br> Author </br> </br> McKay, Claude </br> </br> </br> Genre </br> </br> Poetry </br> </br> </br> Journal or Book </br> </br> Spring in New Hampshire and Other Poems </br> </br> </br> Publisher </br> </br> Grant Richards Ltd </br> </br> </br> Year of Publication </br> </br> 1920 </br> </br> </br> Pages </br> </br> 18</br> </br> </br> Additional information </br> </br> -</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> About me young and careless feet </br>Linger along the garish street; </br> Above, a hundred shouting signs </br>Shed down their bright fantastic glow </br> Upon the merry crowd and lines </br>Of moving carriages below: </br>O wonderful is Broadway—only </br>My heart, my heart is lonely.</br> </br> </br> </br> urban </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> Desire naked, linked with Passion, </br>Goes strutting by in brazen fashion; </br> From playhouse, cabaret and inn </br>The rainbow lights of Broadway blaze </br> All gay without, all glad within; </br>As in a dream I stand and gaze </br>At Broadway, shining Broadway—only </br>My heart, my heart is lonely.</br> </br> </br> </br> urban is lonely. urban)
  • Spring in California  + (Bibliographic Information Author Bibliographic Information</br> </br> </br> Author </br> </br> Fraser, Vonard </br> </br> </br> Genre </br> </br> Poetry </br> </br> </br> Journal or Book </br> </br> Motor Land </br> </br> </br> Publisher </br> </br> -</br> </br> </br> Year of Publication </br> </br> 1922 </br> </br> </br> Pages </br> </br> 24</br> </br> </br> Additional information </br> </br> -</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> There's a strident call in the Open Road </br>Where the Spring's glad message lies, </br>And the motor sings me a joyous song </br>With a lilt of the azure skies.</br> </br> </br> </br> car sound music personification pleasure road sky spring </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> O’er the ribboned line of the Great Highway, </br>Where the wildflower carpet's laid, </br>Where the poppy opens her golden cup </br>As a symbol of Spring arrayed.</br> </br> </br> </br> highway plant metaphor road spring </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> Through the forests, born in an ancient day, </br>With their banks of moss and bloom, </br>And the bordered aisles of the canyons dim </br>Where the giant Redwoods loom.</br> </br> </br> </br> forest tree plant </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> Then o'er hill and dale to the realm of snow, </br>To the mirrored lakes and rills, </br>While the skylark's call from the meadows green </br>Can be heard on a thousand hills.</br> </br> </br> </br> snow lake animal sound </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> For the feverish press in this Game of Life </br>What a balm does Nature bear! </br>What a draught of health in the new-turned earth, </br>What a change from the realm of Care!</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> O, the key to much that the world loves best </br>Can be found beside the way, </br>If your motor sings you a joyous song </br>At the dawn of a bright spring day.</br> </br> </br> </br> car personification pleasure music sound springtion pleasure music sound spring)
  • The Love-Hour  + (Bibliographic Information Author Bibliographic Information</br> </br> </br> Author </br> </br> Oppenheim, James </br> </br> </br> Genre </br> </br> Poetry </br> </br> </br> Journal or Book </br> </br> Songs for the New Age </br> </br> </br> Publisher </br> </br> The Century Co. </br> </br> </br> Year of Publication </br> </br> 1914 </br> </br> </br> Pages </br> </br> 90-91</br> </br> </br> Additional information </br> </br> -</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> city urban </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> Where may she of the hall bedroom hold the love-hour? </br>In what sweet privacy find her soul before the face of the belovéd? </br>And the kiss that lifts her from the noise of the shop, </br>And the bitter carelessness of the streets? </br>Neither is there garden nor secret parlor for her: </br>And cruel winter has spoiled the shores of the sea; </br>The benches in the park are laden with melting snow, </br>And the bedroom forbidden...</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> But ah, the love of a woman! She will not be cheated! </br>Up the stoop she went to the vestibule of the house, </br>And beckoned to me to come to that darkness of doors: </br>Here in a crevice of the public city the love-hour was spent...</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> Outside rumbled the cars between drifts of the gas-lit snow, </br>And the footsteps fell of the wanderers in the night... </br>Within, the dark house slept... </br>But we, in our little cave, stood, and saw in the gleaming dark </br>Shine of each other’s eyes, and the flutter of wisps of hair, </br>And our words were breathlessly sweet, and our kisses silent...</br> </br> </br> </br> car sound night snow </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> Where is there rose-garden, </br>Where is there balcony among the cedars and pines, </br>Where is there moonlit clearing in the dumb wilderness, </br>Enchanted as this doorway, dark in the glare of the city?ark in the glare of the city?)
  • Civilization  + (Bibliographic Information Author Bibliographic Information</br> </br> </br> Author </br> </br> Oppenheim, James </br> </br> </br> Genre </br> </br> Poetry </br> </br> </br> Journal or Book </br> </br> Songs for the New Age </br> </br> </br> Publisher </br> </br> The Century Co. </br> </br> </br> Year of Publication </br> </br> 1914 </br> </br> </br> Pages </br> </br> 9-10</br> </br> </br> Additional information </br> </br> -</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> Civilization! </br>Everybody kind and gentle, and men giving up </br>their seats in the car for the women... </br>What an ideal! </br>How bracing!</br> </br> </br> </br> car car part </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> Is this what we want? </br>Have so many generations lived and died for this? </br>There have been Crusades, persecutions, wars, and majestic arts, </br>There have been murders and passions and horrors since man was in the jungle... </br>What was this blood-toll for? </br>Just so that everybody could have a full belly and be well-mannered?</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> But let us not fool ourselves: </br>This civilization is mostly varnish very thinly laid on... </br>Take any newspaper any morning: scan through it... </br>Rape, murder, villany, and picking and stealing: </br>The mob that tore a negro to pieces, the men that ravished a young girl: </br>The safe-blowing gang and the fat cowardly promoter who stole people’s savings... </br>Just scan it through: this news of civilization...</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> Away then, with soft ideals: </br>Brace yourself with bitterness: </br>A drink of that biting liquor, the Truth...</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> Let us not be afraid of ourselves, but face ourselves and confess what we are: </br>Let us go backward a while that we may go forward: </br>This is an excellent age for insurrection, revolt, and the reddest of revolutions...t, and the reddest of revolutions...)
  • The Old Homestead  + (Bibliographic Information Author Bibliographic Information</br> </br> </br> Author </br> </br> Reynolds, Elsbery Washington </br> </br> </br> Genre </br> </br> Poetry </br> </br> </br> Journal or Book </br> </br> AutoLine o'Type </br> </br> </br> Publisher </br> </br> The Book Supply Company </br> </br> </br> Year of Publication </br> </br> 1924 </br> </br> </br> Pages </br> </br> 25</br> </br> </br> Additional information </br> </br> -</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> nostalgia </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> Nothing can make our heart so warm, </br>As visions of where we first were born, </br>As the memory of that first Christmas tree, </br>Where the old homestead used to be.</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> The smile and song and the merry laughter, </br>That rang from the cellar clear to the rafter, </br>Each loved one's face we yet can see, </br>Where the old homestead used to be.</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> The fires were burning the coals were glowing, </br>From all of our hearts affection was flowing, </br>In honor of Him was our Christmas tree, </br>Where the old homestead used to be.</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> Pictures of those long passed away, </br>Hung on the walls and watched our play, </br>They shared with us in all our glee, </br>Where the old homestead used to be.</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> Those hearts of the long ago we treasure, </br>In the memory with unstinted measure, </br>All gathered around that Christmas tree, </br>Where the old homestead used to be.</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> The beauty that gathered in that dominion, </br>Was though it had dropped from angel pinion, </br>For the birth of Him who made us free, </br>Where the old homestead used to be.</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> The place to us was one of splendor, </br>And cherished yet in our memory tender, </br>And the glory of that first Christmas tree, </br>Where the old homestead used to be.</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> Some day again we will see the place, </br>And, too, in our memory each one's face, </br>In a Six Studebaker so easy and free, </br>Where the old homestead used to be.</br> </br> </br> </br> car model </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> —The Car with Character. —The Car with Character.)
  • The Road to Glory  + (Bibliographic Information Author Bibliographic Information</br> </br> </br> Author </br> </br> Reynolds, Elsbery Washington </br> </br> </br> Genre </br> </br> Poetry </br> </br> </br> Journal or Book </br> </br> AutoLine o'Type </br> </br> </br> Publisher </br> </br> The Book Supply Company </br> </br> </br> Year of Publication </br> </br> 1924 </br> </br> </br> Pages </br> </br> 38</br> </br> </br> Additional information </br> </br> -</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> religion </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> We know a good old Missouri town, </br>Where "niggers" a-plenty live all around. </br>On a little hill down near the mill, </br>The "nigger" church is standing still.</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> When we were there some years ago, </br>This church each night gave quite a show. </br>To enter the house we had to strive, </br>For the building was packed to all revive.</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> The snow outside the church was deep, </br>Inside were shouts while some did weep. </br>The preacher's voice above the din, </br>Proclaimed to all their awful sin.</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> He said, "I's read de Good Book thro', </br>I's fahmiliar with all de ol' an' new. </br>Now you's all bette' believe in dis story, </br>If you's a gonna get yo' a home in glory."</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> Just then a gal, big, black and tall, </br>Shouted, "Fo' de story I sho' does fall. </br>With de dev'l I's fightin' both day an' night, </br>But with yo' story I's winnin' de fight."</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> The preacher replied, "My siste' host, </br>You's get on de side o' de Holy Ghost. </br>He'll look down deep in yo' po' ol' heart, </br>You'll sho' beat de dev'l if yo' do yo' part."</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> "lf yo' read de Book fo' to get yo' light, </br>Yo' can dodge de ol' dev'l an' keep out o' sight. </br>Jus' read fo' to keep from makin' colleesions, </br>'Bout Paul with his 'pistle after the 'Phesians."</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> "If yo' faith go to shakin' an' yo' go to slippin', </br>Jus' read de Good Book without no skippin', </br>De dev'l am swif', but yo' stick to yo' Maker, </br>Yo' can beat him to glory in de Six Studebaker."</br> </br> </br> </br> car model </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> —The Car with Character. —The Car with Character.)
  • From an Automobile  + (Bibliographic Information Author Bibliographic Information</br> </br> </br> Author </br> </br> MacKaye, Percy </br> </br> </br> Genre </br> </br> Poetry </br> </br> </br> Journal or Book </br> </br> Scribner’s Magazine </br> </br> </br> Publisher </br> </br> -</br> </br> </br> Year of Publication </br> </br> 1910 </br> </br> </br> Pages </br> </br> 114</br> </br> </br> Additional information </br> </br> -</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> Fluid the world flowed under us: the hills, </br> Billow on billow of umbrageous green, </br> Heaved us, aghast, to fresh horizons, seen </br>One rapturous instant, blind with dash of rills </br>And silver rising storms and dewy stills </br> Of dripping boulders, then the dim ravine </br> Drowned us again in leafage, whose serene </br>Coverts grew loud with our tumultuous wills.</br> </br> </br> </br> pleasure topography sound metaphor </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> Then all of nature’s old amazement </br> Sudden to ask us: "Is this also Man? </br> This plunging, volant land-amphibian— </br>What Plato mused and Paracelsus dreamed? </br> Reply!" And piercing us with ancient scan, </br>The shrill primeval hawk gazed and screamed.</br> </br> </br> </br> intertext sound animalintertext sound animal)
  • Abide the Adventure  + (Bibliographic Information Author Bibliographic Information</br> </br> </br> Author </br> </br> Oppenheim, James </br> </br> </br> Genre </br> </br> Poetry </br> </br> </br> Journal or Book </br> </br> Songs for the New Age </br> </br> </br> Publisher </br> </br> The Century Co. </br> </br> </br> Year of Publication </br> </br> 1914 </br> </br> </br> Pages </br> </br> 39-40</br> </br> </br> Additional information </br> </br> -</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> Neither from the woe, </br>Nor from the war, </br>Think ye to escape... </br>It helps nothing that ye shut your eyes, oh, cloistered </br> cowards and gilded idlers! </br>For neither shall cushion nor buffet ease the sharp </br> shock of life, </br>Neither shall delicate music in hushed hotels drown out </br> the roar of the battling streets . . . </br>Neither shall wingéd wheels carry you away to the </br> place of peace . . . </br>How can ye go from yourselves, deluded ones?</br> </br> </br> </br> affect car part road sound metaphor </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> Make but a world of rest: </br>Swifter than striking lightning </br>The Aladdin of the soul builds in the heart </br>A world of unresting hell... </br>And, oh ye shunners of war, ye are gruelled in a war </br> of the spirit, </br>In a battle of nerves and blood-vessels and the ghost- </br> haunted brain, </br>And the death of delight... </br>Hence, whip ye to battle: </br>Live ye to the uttermost: </br>Abide the adventure.he uttermost: Abide the adventure.)
  • Washington Square  + (Bibliographic Information Author Bibliographic Information</br> </br> </br> Author </br> </br> Oppenheim, James </br> </br> </br> Genre </br> </br> Poetry </br> </br> </br> Journal or Book </br> </br> Songs for the New Age </br> </br> </br> Publisher </br> </br> The Century Co. </br> </br> </br> Year of Publication </br> </br> 1914 </br> </br> </br> Pages </br> </br> 115-116</br> </br> </br> Additional information </br> </br> -</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> Starless and still... </br>Who stopped this heart? </br>Who bound this city in a trance?</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> With open eyes the sleeping houses stare at the Park: </br>And among nude boughs the slumbering hanging moons are gazing: </br>And somnambulant drops of melting snow glide from the roofs and patter on the pave... </br>I in a dream draw the echoes of my footfall silvery sharp...</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> Sleep-walking city! </br>Who are the wide-eyed prowlers in the night? </br>What nightmare-ridden cars move through their own far thunder? </br>What living death of the wind rises, crackling the drowsy twigs?</br> </br> </br> </br> urban car personification sound </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> In the enchantment of the ebb of life, </br>In the miracle of millions stretched in their rooms unconscious and breathing, </br>In the sleep of the broadcast people, </br>In the multitude of dreams rising from the houses, </br>I pause, frozen in a spell.</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> We sleep in the eternal arms of night: </br>We give ourselves, in the heart of peril, </br>To sheer unconsciousness: </br>Silently sliding through space, the huge globe turns.</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> I cannot go: </br>I dream that behind a window one wakes, a woman: </br>She is thinking of me.ne wakes, a woman: She is thinking of me.)
  • Our Support  + (Bibliographic Information Author Bibliographic Information</br> </br> </br> Author </br> </br> Reynolds, Elsbery Washington </br> </br> </br> Genre </br> </br> Poetry </br> </br> </br> Journal or Book </br> </br> AutoLine o'Type </br> </br> </br> Publisher </br> </br> The Book Supply Company </br> </br> </br> Year of Publication </br> </br> 1924 </br> </br> </br> Pages </br> </br> 75</br> </br> </br> Additional information </br> </br> -</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> efficiency </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> Fortune comes through diligence and skill, </br>There is always a way where there is a will, </br>Industry of hand as well as of brain, </br>Makes everything easy that’s worthy of gain.</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> Our labor should always be well directed, </br>No slighting for cause to be rejected. </br>Genius may all great works begin, </br>Labor’s the thing that makes them win.</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> This rule is good for most every man, </br>The more we do, the more we can. </br>More busy we are, more leisure we have, </br>For play to serve as our safety valve.</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> The mind of man has been so made, </br>That happiness in him will quickly fade, </br>If slothful habits he does acquire, </br>And industry is not his chief desire.</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> Industry will our talents improve, </br>Deficiencies from our abilities remove. </br>With energies noble it is in accord, </br>It brings to all its highest reward.</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> Industry travels the road with joy, </br>Duty is also along to convoy. </br>There is no possible way to progress, </br>If we no love for labor possess.</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> The bread we earn by sweat of the brow, </br>Is bread most blessed we must allow. </br>It is far sweeter may all confess </br>Than the tasteless loaf of idleness.</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> As long as one lives and stirs all around, </br>There’s food and dress for him to be found. </br>Industry is said to be a health maker, </br>We find it in selling the Six Studebaker.</br> </br> </br> </br> car model </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> —The Car with Character.ar with Character.)
  • Finis  + (Bibliographic Information Author Bibliographic Information</br> </br> </br> Author </br> </br> Parker, Dorothy </br> </br> </br> Genre </br> </br> Poetry </br> </br> </br> Journal or Book </br> </br> Enough Rope </br> </br> </br> Publisher </br> </br> Horace Liveright </br> </br> </br> Year of Publication </br> </br> 1926 </br> </br> </br> Pages </br> </br> 82</br> </br> </br> Additional information </br> </br> -</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> Now it’s over, and now it’s done; </br>Why does everything look the same? </br>Just as bright, the unheeding sun,— </br> Can’t it see that the parting came? </br>People hurry and work and swear, </br> Laugh and grumble and die and wed, </br>Ponder what they will eat and wear,— </br> Don’t they know that our love is dead? </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> Just as busy, the crowded street; </br> Cars and wagons go rolling on, </br>Children chuckle, and lovers meet,— </br> Don’t they know that our love is gone? </br>No one pauses to pay a tear; </br> None walks slow, for the love that’s through,— </br>I might mention, my recent dear, </br> I’ve reverted to normal, too. </br> </br> </br> </br> car street urban traffic)
  • Man's Idiosyncrasy  + (Bibliographic Information Author Bibliographic Information</br> </br> </br> Author </br> </br> Reynolds, Elsbery Washington </br> </br> </br> Genre </br> </br> Poetry </br> </br> </br> Journal or Book </br> </br> AutoLine o'Type </br> </br> </br> Publisher </br> </br> The Book Supply Company </br> </br> </br> Year of Publication </br> </br> 1924 </br> </br> </br> Pages </br> </br> 150</br> </br> </br> Additional information </br> </br> -</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> He went to war and gained renown, </br>In every fight he stood his ground, </br>Bullets passed him thick and fast, </br>Not a scratch from first to last.</br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> </br> We now relate this sorry fact, </br>He’s been a month upon his back, </br>On both his cheeks he’ll have a scar, </br>He stepped in front of a motor car.</br> </br> </br> </br> car riskor car. car risk)
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  • Newsome, Mary Effie Lee  + (Gender Female Ethnicity/Race African-American Nationality American Life span 1885-1979 Texts from Newsome, Mary Effie Lee The Baker's Boy)
  • Johnson, Helene  + (Gender Female Ethnicity/Race African-American Nationality American Life span 1906-1995 Texts from Johnson, Helene The Road)
  • Lowell, Amy  + (Gender Female Ethnicity/Race Caucasian Nationality American Life span 1874-1925 Texts from Lowell, Amy A South California Forest)
  • Wilson Baker, Karle  + (Gender Female Ethnicity/Race Caucasian Nationality American Life span 1878-1960 Texts from Wilson Baker, Karle The Small Town Celebrates)
  • Teasdale, Sara  + (Gender Female Ethnicity/Race Caucasian Nationality American Life span 1884-1933 Texts from Teasdale, Sara May Day)
  • H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)  + (Gender Female Ethnicity/Race Caucasian Nationality American Life span 1886-1961 Texts from H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) Cities)
  • Parker, Dorothy  + (Gender Female Ethnicity/Race Caucasian Nationality American Life span 1893-1967 Texts from Parker, Dorothy Finis)
  • Hersey, Marie Louise  + (Gender Female Ethnicity/Race - Nationality - Life span - Texts from Hersey, Marie Louise Provincetown)
  • Huntington, Julia Weld  + (Gender Female Ethnicity/Race - Nationality - Life span - Texts from Huntington, Julia Weld Off the Highway)
  • Weeks, Carrie Foote  + (Gender Female Ethnicity/Race - Nationality - Life span - Texts from Weeks, Carrie Foote The ABC of the Automobile)
  • Trinkle, Florence M.  + (Gender Female Ethnicity/Race - Nationality American Life span - Texts from Trinkle, Florence M. Coast to Coast in a Brush Runabout)
  • Wyatt, Edith  + (Gender Female Ethnicity/Race - Nationality American Life span 1873-1958 Texts from Wyatt, Edith On the Great Plateau)
  • Moore, Marianne  + (Gender Female Ethnicity/Race - Nationality American Life span 1887-1972 Texts from Moore, Marianne People's Surroundings)
  • Lavell, Edith  + (Gender Female Ethnicity/Race - Nationality American Life span 1892-? Texts from Lavell, Edith The Girl Scouts' Motor Trip)
  • Dunbar, Paul Laurence  + (Gender Male Ethnicity/Race African-American Nationality American Life span 1872-1906 Texts from Dunbar, Paul Laurence A Roadway)
  • Braithwaite, William S.  + (Gender Male Ethnicity/Race African-American Nationality American Life span 1878-1962 Texts from Braithwaite, William S. A White Road)
  • Jamison, Roscoe C.  + (Gender Male Ethnicity/Race African-American Nationality American Life span 1888-? Texts from Jamison, Roscoe C. The Road of Human Life)
  • Hughes, Langston  + (Gender Male Ethnicity/Race African-American Nationality American Life span 1901-1967 Texts from Hughes, Langston Baby Florida Road Workers)
  • Jones, Joshua Henry  + (Gender Male Ethnicity/Race African-American Nationality American Life span ?-1955 Texts from Jones, Joshua Henry The Roadway)
  • McKay, Claude  + (Gender Male Ethnicity/Race African-American Nationality Jamaican-American Life span 1890-1948 Texts from McKay, Claude Dawn in New York)
  • Naylor, James Ball  + (Gender Male Ethnicity/Race Caucasian Nationality American Life span - Texts from Naylor, James Ball The Song of the Motor Car)
  • Frost, Robert  + (Gender Male Ethnicity/Race Caucasian Nationality American Life span 1874 - 1963 Texts from Frost, Robert On a Tree Fallen Across The Road)
  • MacKaye, Percy  + (Gender Male Ethnicity/Race Caucasian Nationality American Life span 1875-1956 Texts from MacKaye, Percy From an Automobile)
  • Sandburg, Carl  + (Gender Male Ethnicity/Race Caucasian Nationality American Life span 1878-1967 Texts from Sandburg, Carl Clean Curtains)
  • Lindsay, Vachel  + (Gender Male Ethnicity/Race Caucasian Nationality American Life span 1879-1931 Texts from Lindsay, Vachel On The Road to Nowhere)