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Author: brooks, timothy
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Brooks, Charles Timothy    Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Brooks, C. T.
9 poems available by this author


A PLEA FOR FLOOD IRESON    Poem Text    
First Line: Old flood ireson! All too long
Last Line: Shall cleanse the stain and expiate all.
Subject(s): Disasters; Ireson, Floyd; Marblehead, Massachusetts; Shipwrecks


FISHERMAN'S HUT       
First Line: Go, boy, and light the torch! The night


GOD BLESS OUR NATIVE LAND    Poem Text    


GREAT VOICES       
First Line: A voice from the sea to the mountains


LINES: COMPOSED AT THE OLD TEMPLES OF MARALIPOOR       
First Line: Speak out your secret, bellowing waves
Last Line: But, ocean! How my heart would yearn %to come and be a friend of thine!


OUR ISLAND HOME       
First Line: Though here no towering mountain-steep
Last Line: Whose waves intone, with trumpet-swell, %the hymn of law andliberty!
Subject(s): Islands


SUCH IS LIFE       
First Line: Life is a sea; like ships we meet


THE OLD THIRTEEN    Poem Text    
First Line: The curtain rises on a hundred years
Last Line: She on her anchor, hope, leans, and will ever lean.
Subject(s): United States - Colonial Period


VOICE OF THE PINE       
First Line: O tall old pine! O gloomy pine!
Subject(s): Pine Trees; Transcendentalism; Trees