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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ARCTIC Matches Found: 33 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 27,000 MILES, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These two asleep...So indrawn and compact Subject(s): Arctic; Birds; Migration A VERY EXCEPTIONAL ESKIMO, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shall I tell you a few of the things I know Last Line: If he didn't, the cold might freeze his dreams! Subject(s): Arctic; Eskimos; Native Americans; Snow; Winter; Inuit; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America ARCTIC AGRARIAN (SCENE: THE ADIRONDACKS), by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here in these hills the spring comes slow Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Arctic ARCTIC AGRARIAN (SCENE: THE ADIRONDACKS), by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here in these hills the spring comes slow Last Line: The spring comes slow Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Arctic ARCTIC CHART: 1. THE PARRY ISLANDS, by SHEENAGH PUGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Winter man, first of your kind Last Line: Living in awe; more humbled %by each new wonder Subject(s): Arctic; Explorers; Parry, William Edward (1790-1855) ARCTIC CHART: 2. FURY BEACH, by SHEENAGH PUGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the breast of beaches, open to the gales Last Line: Wrecked on a lucky day Subject(s): Arctic; Explorers ARCTIC CHART: 3. KANE BASIN, by SHEENAGH PUGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dead man running round the world, chasing Last Line: Live half as much, dead man, as you did Subject(s): Arctic; Explorers ARCTIC CHART: 4. BELLOT STRAIT, by SHEENAGH PUGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Little bellot %they called you Last Line: The smallest strait %in the arctic Subject(s): Arctic; Explorers ARCTIC CHART: 5. M'CLINTOCK CHANNEL, by SHEENAGH PUGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It grinds down from the beaufort sea, slow Last Line: Man of few words, every one exact Subject(s): Arctic; Explorers ARCTIC CHART: 6. LADY FRANKLIN BAY, by SHEENAGH PUGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It lies in the north, lady Last Line: So much as your name Subject(s): Arctic; Explorers ARCTIC JOURNEY, by KIRSTI KATARIINA SIMONSUURI Poem Source First Line: Fog only makes this emptiness vaster Last Line: In the fog out there, I'd find my way Subject(s): Arctic ARCTIC SEAS, by VICENTE HUIDOBRO Poem Source First Line: The arctic seas %hanging from the sunset Last Line: I search for the lark which flew from my breast Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Arctic; Aviation And Aviators; Birds; Flight; Wings ARCTIC THAW, by BESMILR BRIGHAM Poem Source First Line: In the first days of the heavy north melt Last Line: In their steady lay cold Subject(s): Arctic; Cold; Ice; Snow ARCTIC THUMB, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Perk's job: to teach college science and math Last Line: Plus greenhouse tomatoes, zucchinis, peas. %working the elements, he prevailed by degrees Subject(s): Arctic; Nome, Alaska; Teaching And Teachers; Universities & Colleges BALTO, THE DOG, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: A trackless stretch of icy snow, Last Line: "comes the grateful cry: ""you can trust a dog!" Subject(s): Animals; Arctic; Dogs HOTEL THULE, by KERRI WEBSTER Poem Text First Line: Voluptuous, then merely sticky: to absorb him through Subject(s): Arctic KANE, by FITZ-JAMES O'BRIEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Aloft upon an old basaltic crag Last Line: By the good christian knight, elisha kane! Subject(s): Adventure & Adventurers; Arctic; Explorers; Kane, Elisha Kent (1820-1857); Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers KIMONO-MAKER CONTEMPLATES ICE, by GREG HEWETT Poem Source First Line: One dawn ice appears Last Line: Summer kimono %he knows Subject(s): Arctic; Explorers; Ice; Winter NORDLAND, by MADELYN CAMRUD Poem Source First Line: This winter I've lost the feeling Last Line: In that space, so empty and so clean Subject(s): Arctic; Cold; North, The; Winter NORTH WINTER, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Coming of winter Last Line: North is / nothing Subject(s): Arctic; Winter POLAR EXPLORER, by JOSEPH BRODSKY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: All the huskies are eaten. There is no space Subject(s): Explorers; Arctic; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers PREFERENCE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: I don't mind a journey through arctic wind Last Line: But I'd rather leave that man behind Subject(s): Arctic; Travel; Wind PRUDHOE BAY, by JOAN CUSACK HANDLER Poem Source First Line: A few springs of arctic cotton, the flat grey back of tundra, two ... Last Line: L -- I -- n -- g %we have no right to be here Subject(s): Arctic; Cold; Nature SIR JOHN FRANKLIN, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, whither sail you, sir john franklin? Last Line: We passed the northern sea! Variant Title(s): A Ballad Of Sir John Franklin Subject(s): Arctic; Explorers; Franklin, Sir John (1786-1847); Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers SIR JOHN FRANKLIN; ON THE CENTOTAPH IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not here! The white north has thy bones Last Line: Toward no earthly pole. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Arctic; Explorers; Franklin, Sir John (1786-1847); Westminster Abbey; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers SONG OF THE NORTH, by FRANK ASCH Poem Source First Line: Salmon knows how to spawn in northern lakes Last Line: Who hears the song she sings? Subject(s): Animals; Arctic STORM AND CALM, by HENRY TIMROD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet are these kisses of the south Last Line: And rust or rot in idle joy! Subject(s): Arctic; Avalanches; Disasters; Storms THE ARCTIC, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it a shroud or bridal veil Last Line: Above a warmer grave? Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Arctic THE ARCTIC LOVER, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gone is the long, long winter night Last Line: Till that long midnight flies. Subject(s): Arctic; Love THE CONGER EEL, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The waters dance on the ocean crest, or swirl in Last Line: That vampire conger eel. Subject(s): Arctic; Bones; Death; Marine Animals; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean THE FROZEN GRAIL (TO PEARY AND HIS MEN), by ELSA BARKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why sing the legends of the holy grail Last Line: And lift his warm lips to the frozen grail. Subject(s): Arctic; Explorers; Peary, Robert Edwin (1856-1920); Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers THE MOOSE, by ROBERT BLY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The arctic moose drinks at the tundra's edge Subject(s): Moose; Arctic TREES AT THE ARCTIC CIRCLE, by ALFRED WELLINGTON PURDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They are 18 inches long Last Line: The dwarf trees of baffin island Alternate Author Name(s): Purdy, Al Subject(s): Arctic; Trees |
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