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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: AMERICA - EXPLORATION Matches Found: 80 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ADRIAN BLOCK'S SONG, by EDWARD EVERETT HALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hard aport! Now close to shore sail! Last Line: And I name it roses island. Subject(s): America - Exploration; Block, Adrian; Netherlands; Holland; Dutch People ADRIFT, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Abandoned by wind, the squadron drifts, bereft Last Line: Until he becomes the blue eye of god Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers AFTER SUNRISE, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Whitecaps rise like blossoms on the waves Last Line: Trembling like the flame inside the sun Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers ALL NIGHT, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Slaves to the vagaries of weather, displaced Last Line: Is the axis. Their beaks align with light Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers AMERICA, by ARTHUR CLEVELAND COXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, who has not heard of the northmen of yore Last Line: He gave them the spirit his own to defy. Subject(s): America - Exploration; Rollo The Viking (855-931); Vikings ANCESTORS, by RICARDO JAIMES FREYRE Poem Source First Line: Lake of the sun, that near the clouds dost slumber Last Line: To make the new world's race which lives today! Subject(s): America - Exploration; Ancestors And Ancestry; Civilization; Incas; South America APRIL IN ANDALUSIA, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: God lacks for nothing in andalusia -- rivers Last Line: The decoration, something that god will forgive Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers AT ANCHOR, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: And still the hills of hierro, and still the moon Last Line: Painted into angels burns behind their eyes Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers AT GRAN CANARIA, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: He believes in the burden of his name Last Line: Lifting a skirt to let the light seep through Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers BALBOA, by NORA PERRY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With restless step of discontent Last Line: Divinely guided, reached the goal. Subject(s): America - Exploration; Balboa, Vasco Nunez De (1475-1519); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers BECALMED, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: He scans the rich green valley, hills rounded Last Line: Riding the perfect breath that pumps the sea Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers BEFORE SUNRISE, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Iam lucis orto sidere Last Line: The trinity his ships cut on the waves Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers BRANCH OF FIRE, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: This is the anarchy of stars, prophesied Last Line: And make of this a miracle, a sign Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers BREAKING DOWN, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Monday is all perturbation. The pinta's Last Line: They turn like gulls into the blackening sky Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers BREEZES, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: He breathes the elegant air, studies the clouds Last Line: But the body of the air is beatriz Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers CIPANGO, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: The horizon cuts its oar into the sky Last Line: The moon is his mistress. He watches her rise Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers COLUMBUS, by JOAQUIN CASTELLANOS Poem Source First Line: He strove against the winds and waves of fate Last Line: The mystical america of heaven! Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Sailors And Sailing; Travel COMPASS, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Tonight the compass turns, all lozenges Last Line: To music -- outside thought, outside time Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers CONDORS' EYES, by ROBERTO BRENES MESEN Poem Source First Line: A dream is into lily-water pouring Last Line: For some new caesar bold, lord of our western world! Subject(s): America - Exploration; Birds; Latin America - History; Wings CONTRARY WIND, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: They've had too much of ease, too much os scudding Last Line: Of noblemen. He covets the trophy of stars Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers DISCOVERY AND CONQUEST OF AMERICA, by JAMES MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then first columbus, with the mighty hand Last Line: His gold and he were every nation's prey. Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot Subject(s): America - Exploration; Gold; Greed; Avarice; Cupidity DONA BEATRIZ, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: The hand that greets his is gloved in fawn Last Line: He has left in her pillow will smell of waves Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers DOUBLE RECKONING, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Truth is a wall. He builds in it a window Last Line: They could remember the light of the farthest stars Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers FALSE LANDFALL, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: The rigging is full of sailors, ladders lost Last Line: Dark and rugged and windswept, holding on Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers FIXING THE RUDDER, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Fresh-hewn timber, how these boards arch Last Line: Nothing. And when it falls, it turns the world Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers FLIGHT OF BIRDS, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: In nature there is always the exception Last Line: Destiny, the roseate stain of wings Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers FLYING FISH, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Gunshot, a flock of fish spills up from the sea Last Line: Than any ship, more plentiful and higher Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers FRIGATE BIRD, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: How does a bird explain the sorrow of Last Line: As blameless as a sould without belief Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers GIRL, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: A girl is watching. The men in boots come Last Line: Becomes less salty. All of her tears are returned Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers GOMERA, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: In caves, deep in the breathing mountain's side Last Line: In birdsong -- come home! Come home Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers GUANAHANI, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: White laurel. White parrots. The lanterns Last Line: They paint their faces red. They will bathe in dust Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers HENRY HUDSON'S QUEST [1609], by BURTON EGBERT STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out from the harbour of amsterdam Last Line: "good time,"" quoth he." Subject(s): America - Exploration; Hudson, Henry (1550-1611) HIGH SEAS, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: And the sea rose and the sky became a wall Last Line: Stands firm, his legs apart. He is the wave Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers IMAGINING THE INDIES, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: All things in the indies overflow Last Line: And all the dust that sifts through stones is gold Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers ISABELA, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Dusk balances upon the mountain Last Line: The fruit. %their kisses withered in the sun Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers JOHN SMITH'S APPROACH TO JAMESTOWN [MAY 13, 1607], by JAMES BARRON HOPE Poem Text First Line: I pause not to speak of raleigh's dreams Last Line: And breathed her fragrance on the lofty pines. Subject(s): America - Exploration; George, Saint (3rd Century); Jamestown, Virginia; Smith, John (1580-1631) KILL, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: He thinks that he despises violence: war Last Line: The sea is a fresh grave covered with bouquets Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers LANDFALL, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Flotsam of branches; flotsam of wildest rose Last Line: The sands are rolling; the waves raping the land Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Landfall LIGHT, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: He cannot trust his senses: light is uncertain Last Line: Round as the back of a turtle and as strong Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers MORNING, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: All things are opening to him, and none Last Line: Rainspout, whirlpool, total eclipse of sun Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers MUTINY, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Exhausted from the constant flex of courage Last Line: And ungrateful, into the promised land Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers NOREMBEGA, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The winding way the serpent takes Last Line: Who hath the heavenly found. Subject(s): America - Exploration; Champlain, Samuel De (1567-1635); Penobscot (river), Maine ORIGINS, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The flowering breaker detonates its surf] Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); America - Exploration ORTIZ (1528), by HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go bring the captive, he shall die Last Line: "away with the warrior's plume!" Subject(s): America - Exploration; Cuba; Ortiz, Juan (16th Century); Slavery; Serfs PONCE DE LEON, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You that crossed the ocean old Last Line: Where old souls their age renew? Subject(s): America - Exploration; Ponce De Leon, Juan (1460-1521) PROEM: TO WATER, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: All things in the end return to water Last Line: Will be released. Whatever is done, undone Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers QUIVIRA, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Francisco coronado rode forth with all his train Last Line: The city of quivira whose streets are paved with gold. Subject(s): America - Exploration; Coronado, Francisco Vasquez De (1510-54); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers RAIN, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Most of his life is gone, spent far from land Last Line: Emerged: head first and dreaming, like a seed Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers RERIGGING THE NINA, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Like the gulls that play the wind at sagres Last Line: Of a world, half hidden, half revealed Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers SARGASSO SEA, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: They sail upon the copse of weed, a shallow Last Line: Even the longest voyage ends too soon Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers SIR HUMPHREY GILBERT [1583], by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Southward with fleet of ice Last Line: Sinking, vanish all away. Subject(s): America - Exploration; Gilbert, Sir Humphrey (1539-1583); Sea; Ocean STAVE CHURCHES, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: I believe in the darkened churches Last Line: All the days are evil, there's no hope anymore, but we %sail on, sail on. %laudate pueri dominum, la Subject(s): America - Exploration; Andalusia, Spain; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Sailors And Sailing; Ships And Shipping STONE, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Idleness has made a boy a killer Last Line: Fish feed on bread and the ashes of the heart Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers SUNRISE, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Another sunrise, a month and a week of fading Last Line: Is not a point to be imagined, but found Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers TERN, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: His ship is a dark city. No bird wavers Last Line: Landlessness, the same elusive bird Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers THANKSGIVING, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: The men have grown impatient, unhappy Last Line: The deep and teeming stillness they obey Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers THE FALL OF MAUBILA (1540), by THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hearken the stirring story Last Line: I wait my latter day. Subject(s): America - Exploration; De Soto, Hernando (1500-1542) THE FIRST AMERICAN SAILORS, by WALLACE RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Five fearless knights of the first renown Last Line: Upon american sailors. Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De Subject(s): America - Exploration; Drake, Sir Francis (1540-1596); Gilbert, Sir Humphrey (1539-1583); Grenville, Sir Richard (1542-1591); Hawkins, Sir John (1532-1595); Sailing & Sailors THE FIRST VOYAGE OF JOHN CABOT [1497], by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He chases shadows,' sneered the british tars Last Line: "fair fall the shadow-seekers!"" quoth the king." Subject(s): America - Exploration; Cabot, John (1450-1499) THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH: A DREAM OF PONCE DE LEON, by HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A story of ponce de leon Last Line: The beautiful fountain of youth. Subject(s): America - Exploration; Florida; Fountain Of Youth; Ponce De Leon, Juan (1460-1521) THE LEGEND OF WAUKULLA (1513), by HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through darkening pines the cavaliers marched Last Line: Waukulla. Subject(s): America - Exploration; Bimini (island); Fountain Of Youth THE LUST OF GOLD, by JAMES MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rapacious spain Last Line: And left a blank among the works of god. Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot Subject(s): America - Exploration; Gold; Spain THE MYSTERY OF CRO-A-TAN, by MARGARET JUNKIN PRESTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The home-bound ship stood out to sea Last Line: The tale of cro-a-tan! Subject(s): America - Exploration; Dare, Virginia (1587-?); Virginia (state) THE NORSEMEN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gift from the cold and silent past! Last Line: Of an immortal origin! Subject(s): America - Exploration; Vikings THE RISING GLORY OF AMERICA, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now shall the adventurous muse attempt a theme Last Line: And future years of bliss alone remain. Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Native Americans; Science; United States; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Scientists; America THE SKELETON IN ARMOR, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Speak! Speak! Thou fearful guest! Last Line: Thus the tale ended. Subject(s): America - Exploration; Newport, Rhode Island; Scandinavia & Scandinavians; Vikings; Vinland THE TORTURE OF CUAUHTEMOC, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Their strength had fed on this when death's white arms Last Line: And turned his face against the wall -- and died. Subject(s): America - Exploration; Mexico THE VOYAGE TO VINLAND: 1. BIORN'S BECKONERS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now biorn, the sun of heriulf, had ill days Last Line: "ourselves a dream, and dreamlike all we did." Subject(s): America - Exploration; Vinland THE VOYAGE TO VINLAND: 2. THORWALD'S LAY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So biorn went comfortless but for his thought Last Line: The first rune in the saga of the west. Subject(s): America - Exploration; Vinland THE VOYAGE TO VINLAND: 3. GUDRIDA'S PROPHECY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Four weeks they sailed, a speck in sky-shut seas Last Line: Mighty of bone. Subject(s): America - Exploration; Vinland TO ROOSEVELT, by FELIX RUBEN GARCIA SARMIENTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The voice that would reach you, hunter, must speak Last Line: And though you have everything, you are lacking one thing: god! Alternate Author Name(s): Dario, Ruben Subject(s): America - Exploration; Imperialism; United States TO THE CANARIES, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: It is always spring in the canaries Last Line: Seem to become, at dusk, the hilt of a sword Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers TOKEN, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Breakfast is a salty biscuit, a piece Last Line: In harmony, breathing the same stale air Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers TOKINISH, by JAMES THOMAS STEVENS Poem Source First Line: Truth is a native Last Line: Drunke, and they shall sleep a perpetuall sleepe, and not wake Subject(s): America - Exploration; History; Islands; Native Americans; Navigation; Sea Voyages; Trail Of Tears (1838-39) TREE, by JOSE JOAQUIN OLMEDO Poem Source First Line: In the calm, wide-spreading shadow Last Line: Underneath the desert's tree Subject(s): America - Exploration; Nature; Sea Voyages; Travel; Trees VERAZZANO AT RHODES AND RHODE ISLAND, by HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the tides of the warm south wind it lay Last Line: Bears the fairest isle of the western coast. Subject(s): America - Exploration; Rhode Island; Verazzano, Giovanni Da (1485-1528) VOLCANO, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: O fountain! O black smoke and loud report Last Line: Decks. Like skaters they glide in the pantomine Variant Title(s): In Praise Of Music And Poetr Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers WEEDS, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: He would like to be odysseus, tied to Last Line: Of eternity: the perfumed shroud of kings Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers WHALE, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: What rich milk has fed the beast to size Last Line: The handiwork of god, pities the whale Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers WIDOW, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Heraldic like a banner on the bow Last Line: Prepared again to winnow, prepared to thrive Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers |
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