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Subject: ATLANTIC OCEAN
Matches Found: 18

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SEASHORE IDYL, by ELLEN W. CUNNINGHAM    Poem Text                    
First Line: Atlantic, by the sea we stand
Last Line: Alluding to the wild—wild waves.
Subject(s): Atlantic Ocean; Sea; Waves; Ocean


CROSSING THE ATLANTIC, by ANNE SEXTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We sail out of season into an oyster-gray wind
Subject(s): Atlantic Ocean; God; Religion; Sea; Sea Voyages; Theology; Ocean


CROSSING THE ATLANTIC, by ANNE SEXTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We sail out of season into an oyster-gray wind
Last Line: This dead street never stops
Subject(s): Atlantic Ocean; God; Religion; Sea; Sea Voyages


CROSSING THE ATLANTIC BY PLANE, by NAOMI FLOWE FAUST    Poem Source                    
First Line: The man-made wonder soared
Last Line: And which named the more awesome - %the waters, the clouds, or the plane?
Subject(s): Air Travel; Atlantic Ocean


EVENING SONG: 4, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The cloudlets are lazily sailing
Last Line: To have a better stare!
Subject(s): Atlantic Ocean; Happiness; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight; Songs


GIFTS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: What does the blue atlantic bring
Last Line: And a black, tiny fly, stinging
Subject(s): Atlantic Ocean; Morning; Nature; Sea


I'VE COME HERE LOOKING, by PHILIP MEMMER    Poem Source                    
First Line: For exactly this chill, this atlantic damp
Last Line: From center stage, blues in the neon lamps
Subject(s): Atlantic Ocean; October


INVITATION TO A PAINTER: 3, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let me take you by the murvagh, sprinkled with those golden weeds
Last Line: Round its rocks and sandy verges.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Fairies; Landscape; Atlantic Ocean; Elves


NIGHT STORM, by WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This tempest sweeps the atlantic! - nevasink
Subject(s): Atlantic Ocean; Sea; Storms


NORTH ATLANTIC, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the sea is everywhere
Subject(s): Atlantic Ocean


NORTH ATLANTIC, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sea is always the same
Last Line: It is neither saturday nor monday, %it is any day or no day,%it is a year, ten years
Subject(s): Atlantic Ocean


SEAWEED, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When descends on the atlantic
Last Line: Household words, no more depart.
Variant Title(s): The Equinox
Subject(s): Atlantic Ocean; Sea; Seaweed; Storms; Ocean


THE ATLANTIDES, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The smothered streams of love, which flow
Last Line: And the ventures of past years.
Subject(s): Atlantic Ocean


THE CASTAWAY, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Obscurest night involved the sky, / the atlantic billows roared
Last Line: And whelm'd in deeper gulfs than he.
Subject(s): Atlantic Ocean; Drowning; Sea; Ocean


THIN ICE, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now this paste of ash and water
Last Line: This cold's life, death's steamy mark and target.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Absence; Atlantic Ocean; Death; Ice; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The


WIND FROM THE SEA, by JOSE-MARIA DE HEREDIA (1842-1905)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Garden and wold by winter's hand are gript
Last Line: The bud that in america was blown.
Subject(s): Atlantic Ocean; Sea; Wind; Ocean


WIND, MOON, AND TIDES, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Look when the clouds are blowing
Last Line: Is flung upon the shore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic
Subject(s): Atlantic Ocean


WITH THE S/S ITALIA, by RIGAS KAPPATOS    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was in 1963 or '64
Last Line: I could not retrieve her name from the years. %what is her name?
Subject(s): Atlantic Ocean; Ships And Shipping