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Subject: ARCTIC
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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