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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LONELY COAST, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: A lonely coast, where sea-gulls scream for wrecks
Last Line: Till, waking, found 'twas only what I dreamed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


A POEM OF EXILE; FOR NELL ALTIZER, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The boat is always going by, set afloat
Last Line: Alone along the looming foreign shore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Boats; Courts & Courtiers; Exiles; Seashore; Travel; Beach; Coast; Shore; Journeys; Trips


A SEA-SIDE IDYL, by ELIZABETH DREW (BARSTOW) STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I wandered to the shore, nor knew I then
Last Line: "farewell! Dull sands, and rocks, and sedge, farewell."
Alternate Author Name(s): Stoddard, Richard, Mrs.
Subject(s): Mattapoisett, Massachusetts; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


A SONG BY THE SHORE, by RICHARD HOVEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lose and love,' is love's first art
Last Line: The strong surf sobbing!
Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


A SOUTH COAST IDYLL, by ROSAMUND MARRIOTT WATSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath these sun-warm'd pines among the heather
Last Line: And feel the wind of tresses unbeholden.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tomson, Graham R.
Subject(s): Nature; Nymphs; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


A STORY OF THE SEA-SHORE, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I sought the long clear twilights of my home
Last Line: For, though he slay me, I will trust in god.
Subject(s): Beauty; Children; Christianity; Death; Decay; God; Homecoming; Longing; Love; Nature; Sea; Seashore; Story-telling; Waiting; Childhood; Dead, The; Rot; Decadence; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore


AFTERNOON OF SAND, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like retarded water
Subject(s): Seashore; Wind; Beach; Coast; Shore


AMORETTI: 75, by EDMUND SPENSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: One day I wrote her name upon the strand
Last Line: Our love shall live, and later life renew.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Variant Title(s): "her Name;our Love Shall Live;to Immortalise His Love;one Day I Wrote Her Name;eternizing Her;""one Day I Wrote Her Name Upon The Strand,"";
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Immortality; Love; Names; Seashore; Thought; Beach; Coast; Shore; Thinking


AN EVENING WALK BY THE SEA-SIDE, by CHARLOTTE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis pleasant to wander along on the sand
Last Line: Alike of the universe speak him the lord.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Birds; Seashore; Seaweed; Beach; Coast; Shore


ANNAPOLIS AT EVENING, by IVY LINDSLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Across the restless waters of the bay
Last Line: Leave her in vanished glory, proud, devout.
Subject(s): Cities; Life; Night; Seashore; Urban Life; Bedtime; Beach; Coast; Shore


AS PEBBLES IN THE SEA, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Who shall judge man from his manner
Last Line: But as pebbles in the sea
Subject(s): Sea;seashore;stones; Ocean;beach;coast;shore;granite;rocks


AT DIEPPE: 2. ON THE BEACH, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Night, a grey sky, a ghostly sea
Last Line: Blots out the very hope of day.
Subject(s): Dieppe, France; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


AT SAINTE-MARGUERITE, by TRUMBULL STICKNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The gray [or, grey] tide flows and flounders in the rocks
Subject(s): France; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


AT THE BEACH, by ROBERT WRIGLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What are they, those burrowing crustaceans, the ones
Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


AT THE SEASIDE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I was down beside the sea
Last Line: Till it could come no more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Variant Title(s): Beside The Sea;a Child's Garden Of Verses: 3
Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


AUTUMN BY THE SEA, by JOHN GALSWORTHY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We'll hear the uncompanioned murmur of the swell
Last Line: Of life's encompassings.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John
Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


BEACH KITES, by ANNE STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is this a new way of being born?
Subject(s): Seashore; Kites; Beach; Coast; Shore


BLANK VERSE. WRITTEN ON THE SEA SHORE, by HANNAH COWLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Delicious morning! How thy gentle beams
Last Line: All, all around is bliss -- the bliss of taste!
Alternate Author Name(s): Matilda, Anna; Parkhouse, Hannah
Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


BOAT PEOPLE, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After midnight they load up
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr.
Subject(s): Seashore; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Beach; Coast; Shore


BOATMEN OF THE SKY, by GRACE BROWN PUTNAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The south-bound geese sail honking past
Last Line: Grim boatmen of the sky.
Subject(s): Boats; Sailing & Sailors; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


BY THE PACIFIC OCEAN, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here room and kingly silence keep
Last Line: Their ghosts illume my lurid west.
Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin
Subject(s): Pacific Ocean; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


BY THE SEA-SHORE, by JOHN WHITE CHADWICK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The curved strand / of cool, gray sand
Last Line: That one such day has ever been.
Subject(s): Marblehead, Massachusetts; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


BY THE SEASHORE (FRAGMENT), by WILLIAM CALDWELL ROSCOE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon the reedy margin of the shore
Last Line: Not grieved and not elate.
Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


BY THE TYRRHENE SEA, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The shepherd folds his white
Last Line: I fold my thought of thee.
Subject(s): Love; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


CALIFORNIA COAST, by DORIS CALDWELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Not in small painted towns whose color rips
Last Line: And lost wings circling near a ghost-white star.
Subject(s): California; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


CHILDREN, THE SANDBAR, THAT SUMMER, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sunlight the tall women may never have seen
Subject(s): Seashore; Children; Beach; Coast; Shore; Childhood


CHOSEN, by PABLO MEDINA    Poem Source                    
First Line: They stand on the shore
Last Line: A plangent hope, a culture of water?
Subject(s): Cuba; Exiles; Miami Beach; Seashore; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


COAST SCENERY, by AUBREY DE VERE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                
First Line: These iron-rifted cliffs, that o'er the deep
Last Line: Its caverned base, the ocean's melancholy thunder?
Subject(s): Ireland; Landscape; Seashore; Irish; Beach; Coast; Shore


CONEY ISLAND BY NIGHT, by GUSTAV DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: City of dreams, / I watch you from the ocean's edge tonight
Last Line: Forever and forever. ...
Subject(s): Coney Island, New York City; Dreams; Seashore; Nightmares; Beach; Coast; Shore


CORONADO, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the beach at coronado curves the shore in crescent wise
Last Line: Curves to met the benediction of the californian skies.
Subject(s): Dreams; Islands; Night; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Stars; Nightmares; Bedtime; Beach; Coast; Shore


CORSONS INLET, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I went for a walk over the dunes again this morning
Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R.
Subject(s): New Jersey; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


DENOUEMENT, by ELIZABETH LOU SELLERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Your shoulders were so neatly square
Last Line: But, darling, I loathe knobby knees.
Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


DICHTER-HERZ, by MOISHE NADIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am the sand through which the waters of the spring
Last Line: As they drink the water I have made clear for them.
Subject(s): Seashore; Spring; Water; Beach; Coast; Shore


DOVER BEACH, by MATTHEW ARNOLD    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sea is calm to-night
Last Line: Where ignorant armies clash by night.
Subject(s): Desire; Doubt; Dover, England; England; Faith; Love; Love - Marital; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Sea; Seashore; Social Protest; Time; War; Skepticism; English; Belief; Creed; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Theology; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore


DOWN AT THE DOCKS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Down at the docks-when the smoke clouds lie
Last Line: With a secret tide to a secret sea.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Sailing & Sailors; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Beach; Coast; Shore


DREAM SHIP, by MARY E. HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: My dream ship sails on strange, uncharted sea
Last Line: In life, and going on, I grow dismayed.
Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


DRIFTWOOD, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: God's castoff sculpture on the lesser scale
Last Line: Gesture, these crumbling continents, god's juvenilia.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Creation; God; Sculpture & Sculptors; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


EAST ANGLIAN BATHE, by JOHN BETJEMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh when the early morning at the seaside
Subject(s): East Anglia, England; Resorts; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


EASTERN LONG ISLAND, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beach grass tangled by wind--the sound rushes
Last Line: Reclamation by the proximate meek, who shall inherit.
Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Nature; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Seashore; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore


EVENING STORM - NIPIGON, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon the beach, with low, quick, mournful sob
Last Line: And so the day before its time is dead.
Subject(s): Seashore; Storms; Beach; Coast; Shore


FARTHER SHORES, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Their ships sailed on-sailed on; was left
Last Line: Whose ships sailed on and far away.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


FENCES, by PAT MORA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mouths full of laughter
Subject(s): Seashore; Labor & Laborers; Social Classes; Beach; Coast; Shore; Work; Workers; Caste


FINISTERRE, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This was the land's end: the last fingers, knuckled and rheumatic,
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Cliffs; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


FISHERMEN (THE JERSEY COAST), by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They stand as still as shapes in bronze
Last Line: The crush and roar of modern life—and christ in galilee!
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; New Jersey; Seashore; Anglers; Beach; Coast; Shore


FLIGHTS, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: English herons brought for sport to a new land
Last Line: For worlds of outer space?
Subject(s): Explorers; Herons; Seashore; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Beach; Coast; Shore


FLOOD TIDE, by ALAN CREIGHTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Across a swirl of covered beach
Last Line: And sniffs the coming sea.
Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


FOR A POSTCARD OF MY MOTHER AT THE BEACH, by RUTH STONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My oyster weeps the pearls of denouement
Subject(s): Seashore; Women - Old Age; Beach; Coast; Shore


FOR THE NEW YEAR 1791, by HENRY JAMES PYE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When from the bosom of the mine
Last Line: Unbought by scenes of woe, and undefil'd with blood.
Subject(s): Explorers; French Revolution (1789); Holidays; New Year; Pitt, William, The Younger (1759-1806); Seashore; Trade; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Beach; Coast; Shore


FROM THE CABRILLO AT SANTA BARBARA, by EMILY WILSON SANDER    Poem Text                    
First Line: One by one the white cohorts advance
Last Line: In the sun, with garlands in her hair.
Subject(s): Mountains; Seashore; Waves; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Beach; Coast; Shore


GENTLY ON THE STREAM OF TIME, by JULIA A. MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gently on the stream of time
Last Line: On life's journey going home.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan
Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


GEOGRAPHY AS WARNING, by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wildcat drilling started in 1919, the year
Last Line: Wrecks containing treasure, the flowering skull.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


GOSPORT BEACH, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: On gosport beach I landed
Last Line: "sweet lass, I'll marry you"
Subject(s): London;seashore; Beach;coast;shore


GRAY MOOD, by MARJORIE AKERMAN B.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Long, sweep
Last Line: And the slow waves sing.
Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


HAMPTON BEACH, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sunlight glitters keen and bright
Last Line: Of this brief thoughtful hour of musing by the sea.
Subject(s): Hampton, New Hampshire; Sea; Seashore; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore


HENDECASYLLABLES, by D. M. LOW    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come children, come away, to where the tawny
Last Line: Playing, dancing away the careless evening.
Subject(s): Children; Oxford University; Seashore; Childhood; Beach; Coast; Shore


HIBISCUS ON SLEEPING SHORES, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I say now, fernando, that on that day
Subject(s): Seashore; Moths; Beach; Coast; Shore


HIGH TIDE ON THE VICTORIA EMBANKMENT: 3. THE LOOM OF LONDON, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Strange far lives, manifold, each from the other
Last Line: "and again whispers to the walls of the unheeding city ""life."
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): London; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Beach; Coast; Shore


HIGH TIDE ON THE VICTORIA EMBANKMENT: 4. THE QUEEN'S SONS, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The tide of the sea-listen, its breathing voice is triumphant
Last Line: "mine are thy sons!' he calls to thee, 'queen, rejoice in my children.'"
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Beach; Coast; Shore; Journeys; Trips


HIGH TIDE ON THE VICTORIA EMBANKMENT: 5. THE DARK VISION, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But the sea is immortal, he knows nothing, he cannot / divine
Last Line: First he found thee and crowned thee in waste dominions a queen.
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): Mothers; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Beach; Coast; Shore


HIKING TOWARD LAUGHING GULL POINT, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once I saw a gull catch a bait in midair
Last Line: A hook, the end of the line.
Subject(s): Investments; Sea; Seashore; Stocks; Bonds; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore


HIS NAME WAS KEKO, by THEODORE BRIDGMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Under the kiawe he lies -
Last Line: Sleep well -- little keko --
Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Seashore; Speech Disorders; Beach; Coast; Shore; Stuttering; Muteness


HYMN OF PROGRESS, by BYRDIE L. MARTIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dauntless as the pioneers / that pressed
Last Line: Moving, ever, with the dawn.
Subject(s): Pioneers; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Beach; Coast; Shore


IF SOMETHING SHOULD HAPPEN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For instance / if the sea should break
Subject(s): Erosion; Seashore; Tides; Beach; Coast; Shore


IMPRESSIONS, by JEAN MUTTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Cold gray mist, o'er a gray sea swelling
Last Line: A ship in the mist, at break of day.
Subject(s): Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Beach; Coast; Shore


IN GUERNSEY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The heavenly bay, ringed round with cliffs and moors
Last Line: Beloved and blest.
Subject(s): Guernsey; Night; Roundels; Sea; Seashore; Bedtime; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore


IN THE BAY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beyond the hollow sunset, ere a star
Last Line: No sunrise and no sunset marks their day.
Subject(s): Evening; Sea; Seashore; Sunset; Twilight; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore


INLAND SEAS, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a majesty in fields of wheat
Last Line: The beauty of an ocean night anew.
Subject(s): Fields; Nature; Seashore; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Beach; Coast; Shore


JANUARY NIGHT, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In front of me on my desk
Last Line: And climb towards the sun
Subject(s): January; Night; Seashore; Storms; Winter; Bedtime; Beach; Coast; Shore


JEKYL ISLAND; EBB TIDE, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fading light on a lonely beach
Last Line: And frets the silted sand.
Subject(s): Islands; Sea; Seashore; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore


JOHN JONES: 3. ON THE SANDS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was nothing at all in the case (con
Last Line: Till one night -- 'is god off now? Or on?
Subject(s): Love; Sea; Seashore; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore


JUST BELOW THE SURFACE, by JANE HIRSHFIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Just below the surface, fish, still
Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


KALALOCH, by CAROLYN FORCHE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The bleached wood massed in bone piles
Alternate Author Name(s): Sidlosky, Carolyn
Subject(s): Seashore; Lesbians; Beach; Coast; Shore


LAKE LOUISE, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I think that when the master jeweler
Last Line: As if a finger on their lips were laid!
Subject(s): Lakes; Peace; Seashore; Silence; Pools; Ponds; Beach; Coast; Shore


LATE AFTERNOON, ST. JOHN, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A little blue heron has landed
Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


LEAVING HARBOR, by ISLA PASCHAL RICHARDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: A sandy beach, shell - strewn, where jellyfish
Last Line: A fearless, stately ship puts out to sea!
Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


LIFE ON THE LAKES: ALONGSHORE, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The storm swings over the waters wide
Last Line: "off the men—running high—going fast—getting thick."
Subject(s): Seashore; Storms; Beach; Coast; Shore


LIFE ON THE LAKES: DOWN ON THE BEACH (1), by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The storm-light fades from the cloud-banked west
Last Line: The far lamp glows.
Subject(s): Seashore; Travel; West (u.s.) - Exploration; Beach; Coast; Shore; Journeys; Trips


LIMITLESS SUPPLY, by ALICE TROXWELL MCCOUN    Poem Text                    
First Line: How often have I watched an ocean wave
Last Line: Then lay our garnered fruitage at his feet.
Subject(s): Seashore; Waves; Beach; Coast; Shore


LINCOLNSHIRE SHORES (AT MABLETHORPE), by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here often, when a child, I lay reclined
Last Line: Dim shores, dense rains, and heavy-clouded sea!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


LITTLE SOPHY BY THE SEASIDE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Young sophy leads a life without alloy
Last Line: No greed dispute the freedom of the sand.
Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


MAKE YOURSELF INVISIBLE, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Drew islands with palm trees
Subject(s): Seashore; Family Life; Beach; Coast; Shore; Relatives


MEETING AT NIGHT, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The gray sea and the long black land
Last Line: Than the two hearts, beating each to each.
Variant Title(s): Meeting;night And Morning
Subject(s): Innocence; Love; Night; Sea; Seashore; Bedtime; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore


MERCY, by OLGA BROUMAS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out in the harbor breaths of smoke
Last Line: A wrinkle on the water.
Subject(s): Aids (disease); Grief; Mythology - Classical; Seashore; Sickness; Women's Rights; Sorrow; Sadness; Beach; Coast; Shore; Illness; Feminism


MISSION BEACH, by WINIFRED DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Of old it lay without a name - unplaced
Last Line: To dedicate today joy's high event.
Subject(s): Seashore; Time; Beach; Coast; Shore


MONMOUTH SANDS, by HENRY NEHEMIAH DODGE    Poem Text                    
First Line: On monmouth sands the full tides rise and fall
Last Line: And weave the lasting fabric of our life.
Subject(s): Seashore; Towns; Beach; Coast; Shore


MUSINGS, by MICHAEL J. CAMPIONE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Have ever you sat by a midnight shore
Last Line: Were always, and will always be?
Subject(s): Seashore; Water; Waves; Beach; Coast; Shore


NEITHER OUT FAR NOR IN DEEP, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The people along the sand
Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


NEW YORK BAY AT DUSK, by MILDRED I. MCNEAL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now comes the fragrant night in from the sea
Last Line: In the safe care of thought and time and truth.
Subject(s): Islands; New York Harbor; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


NEW YORK IN SUNSET, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The island city of dominion stands
Last Line: And hers the fame of babylon and tyre.
Subject(s): Islands; New York City; Seashore; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Beach; Coast; Shore


NOCTURNE MILITAIRE, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Imagine or remember how the road at last led us
Last Line: As the night patrol of bombers climbs through the rain and is gone
Subject(s): Miami Beach; World War Ii; Second World War


NOON: AMAGANSETT BEACH, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Glory -- glory to god in the highest -- and on earth
Last Line: Upon the everlasting waters, upon the everlasting ways.
Subject(s): Amagansett, New York; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


NORTH AMERICAN SEQUENCE: MEDITATION AT OYSTER RIVER, by THEODORE ROETHKE            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Over the low, barnacled, elephant-colored rocks
Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


NOSTALGIA, by LAURA M. GRADICK    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am homesick for the ocean
Last Line: And my humble, seaside home!
Subject(s): Homesickness; Nostalgia; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


NOVEMBER BEACH, by ALAN CREIGHTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: With swoop of open chase
Last Line: No walls make peace!
Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


OCEAN BEACH, by WINIFRED DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Evading headlong breakers, ocean beach
Last Line: With roses trailing down its tilted lanes.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


ON A SOUTHERN BEACH, by W. A. GODWARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Far endless stretches of bright yellow sand
Last Line: We shall have this with which to compensate!
Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


ON RE-VISITING THE SEA-SHORE, AFTER LONG ABSENCE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: God be with thee, gladsome ocean
Last Line: I cannot die, if life be love.
Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


ON THE BEACH, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We lay together on the beach
Last Line: And on my lips are the salt lips of the sea.
Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


ON THE BEACH, by JANE HIRSHFIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Uncountable tiny pebbles
Subject(s): Nature; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


ON THE BEACH AT EVENING, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Out on the beach at evening, under the shining stars
Last Line: And the mute stars shine above the brine through the precious, priceless hours.
Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


ON THE BEACH AT FONTANA, by JAMES JOYCE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wind whines and whines the shingle
Last Line: Ache of love
Subject(s): Fathers; Love; Men; Prayer; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


ON THE BEACH; LINES BY A PRIVATE TUTOR, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the young augustus edward
Last Line: Which I bought for one and sixpence on the beach.
Subject(s): Seashore; Souvenirs; Beach; Coast; Shore


ON THE COAST NEAR SAUSALITO, by ROBERT HASS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I won't say much for the sea
Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


ON THE DUNES, by ANNE SEXTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If there there is any life when death is over
Subject(s): Seashore; Future Life; Beach; Coast; Shore; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


ON THE LAST DAY OF THE WORLD, by SHEROD SANTOS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As usual, the guard who worked
Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


ON THE SAND, by RUTH CLAY PRICE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Do ghost lobsters mock this scrap
Last Line: Knowing lobsters, traps, and me.
Subject(s): Hunting; Irony; Lobsters; Seashore; Hunters; Beach; Coast; Shore


ON THE SAND DUNES, by RENA CAREY SHEFFIELD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh! The sand dunes are warm
Last Line: To weep by the salt sea shore.
Subject(s): Dunes; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


ON THE SHORE, by MARY CROSS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A glow of crimson glory floods the west
Last Line: Where deeds like stars may glow.
Subject(s): Sea; Seashore; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore


ON THE STRAND, by GREGOIRE LE ROY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lie on the sand and thro' thy fingers drain
Last Line: To fall and mingle on the eternal strand.
Subject(s): Future Life; Life; Seashore; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Beach; Coast; Shore


ONCE BY THE PACIFIC, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The shattered water made a misty din
Last Line: "before god's last ""put out the light"" was spoken."
Subject(s): Judgment Day; Pacific Ocean; Seashore; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Beach; Coast; Shore


POWER FAILURE, by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Walking the shore, augustine hoped to comprehend
Last Line: The mist will rise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Subject(s): Beachcombers; Seashore; Weather; Beach; Coast; Shore


QUARTET, by OCTAVIO PAZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A landscape familiar but always strange
Subject(s): Landscape; Seashore; Tourists; Beach; Coast; Shore


RALEGH'S PRIZES, by ROBERT PINSKY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And summer turns her head with its dark tangle
Subject(s): Summer; Seashore; Amusement Parks; Beach; Coast; Shore


RECORD CROWD AT BEACHES, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Delicatessen and carnival, the beach
Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


RHODE ISLAND, by WILLIAM MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here at the seashore they use the clouds over & over
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris
Subject(s): Rhode Island; Seashore; Summer; Beach; Coast; Shore


RISING, by RUTH STONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the government offices the rules and regulations
Last Line: That the house is going out with the tide.
Subject(s): Birds; Erosion; Gulls; Seashore; Waves; Seagulls; Beach; Coast; Shore


RIVER BATHERS, by ELAINE TERRANOVA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This was no paradise
Last Line: The grass and rusting iron furniture.
Subject(s): Rivers; Seashore; Water; Beach; Coast; Shore


SAN DIEGO AND MATISSE: 1. INSIDE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A TREE, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful women in smoky blue culottes
Subject(s): Admiration; Beauty; San Diego, California; Seashore; Tourists; Travel; Women; Beach; Coast; Shore; Journeys; Trips


SAN DIEGO AND MATISSE: 2. OUTSIDE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A ROCKING..., by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shadow of lighthouse along the beach
Subject(s): Admiration; Marine Animals; Seashore; Tourists; Travel; Whales; Beach; Coast; Shore; Journeys; Trips


SAND, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sterile sister though I be
Last Line: Breathing immortality.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Immortality; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


SAND & SPRAY: SEA-SYMPHONY. 2. VARIATIONS: 3. THE SANDS, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shalllow pools of water
Last Line: Oozing upwards slowly in the dark wind-wrinkled sand.
Subject(s): Sea; Seashore; Wind; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore


SAND DUNES, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sea waves are green and wet
Last Line: For the one more cast off shell.
Subject(s): Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Poetry & Poets; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Beach; Coast; Shore


SANDY BEACH AT CRANE CREEK, by LEONARD KRESS    Poem Text                    
First Line: There are no cranes in these marshes, there never were
Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


SANDY HOOK, by GEORGE WASHINGTON WRIGHT HOUGHTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: White sand and cedars; cedars, sand
Last Line: Rattling their life-boats down the sand!
Subject(s): Seashore; Towns; Beach; Coast; Shore


SANTA BARBARA BEACH, by FREDERICK RIDGELY TORRENCE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now while the sunset offers
Last Line: "shall feed my wells with tears."
Subject(s): Santa Barbara, California; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


SEASHORE, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Over her great museum of lost nations
Subject(s): Seashore; Girls; Sunbathing; Beach; Coast; Shore


SEASHORE (2), by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here chimes no clock, no pedant calendar
Last Line: And give my guest eternal afternoon.
Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


SEASIDE, by JOHN J. KERRIGAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The place is empty
Last Line: Over gray stone.
Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


SENECA IN MIAMI BEACH, by PABLO MEDINA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am seneca beholding
Last Line: Clear as old cruelty
Subject(s): Miami Beach; Temptation


SEX, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I see the bare feet on the warm boardwalk
Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


SHEKLA: A VISION, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Shekla's magic island lay
Last Line: Writes this tale of shekla here.
Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Heaven; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Seashore; Shipwrecks; Dead, The; Paradise; Seamen; Sails; Beach; Coast; Shore


SHIPS AT ANCHOR, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: I love to watch them rocking to and fro
Last Line: To find the rushing high-ways of the sea.
Subject(s): Anchors; Harbors; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Beach; Coast; Shore; Journeys; Trips


SHORE LINE, by LENA HALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: When the dry land appeared, and seas were called
Last Line: That god made not a man -- and then a shore!
Subject(s): Creation; Sea; Seashore; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore


SHORE PICNIC, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The whole vast shelving shore serves for our / platter
Last Line: Green-furred and root enfolding.
Subject(s): Picnics; Seashore; Barbecues; Beach; Coast; Shore


SHORE-SPELL, by RICHARD CALLAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: A spell is woven
Last Line: Only the rugged pine trees know.
Subject(s): Seashore; Wind; Beach; Coast; Shore


SIMILE, by STANLEY PLUMLY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This heart I found at low tide this morning
Subject(s): Seashore; Detritus; Beach; Coast; Shore


SITTING ON THE SHORE, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The tide has ebbed away
Last Line: Till then, thou, father -- wilt our spirits keep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria
Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


SKETCH, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Crooked gnarled cedars fringe grey sea
Last Line: More, more, more!
Subject(s): Seashore; Waves; Beach; Coast; Shore


SKIN CANCER, by MARK JARMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Balmy overcast nights of late september
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


SNOW COME, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Her tongue mimicked the color of her bikini
Last Line: The sun-bleached, primeval hoops of teeth.
Variant Title(s): Snow Cone
Subject(s): Desire; Seashore; Story-telling; Beach; Coast; Shore


SONG OF THE SHIPS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The great ships go a-shouldering
Last Line: And sail no more, no more!
Subject(s): Decay; Sailing & Sailors; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Rot; Decadence; Beach; Coast; Shore


SONNET, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not so! You stand as long ago a king
Last Line: With that soft woman's hand? Nay, love, not so.
Subject(s): Love; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


STANZAS ADDRESSED TO SOME FRIEND GOING TO THE SEA-SIDE, by BERNARD BARTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Since summer invites you to visit once more
Last Line: Those joys which on you in reality wait.
Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet
Subject(s): Seashore; Vacation; Beach; Coast; Shore


STONES, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Small yellow stones
Last Line: Of an unfoaming far unvisioned sea.
Subject(s): Bones; Death; Seashore; Dead, The; Beach; Coast; Shore


STRANGE HARBORS, by EDITH CHANDLER HAUBOLD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Let me set sail for strange harbors
Last Line: And strange new harbors, in remembered eyes.
Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


SUMMER CONSTELLATIONS, by DANIEL HALPERN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They are sorry, they bring up umbrellas
Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


SUNRISE FROM THE JERSEY SHORE, FR. ECHOES AND REALITIES, by WALTER PRICHARD EATON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Across the salt-cool, restless river way
Last Line: To clothe thy bareness in her morning lights!
Subject(s): Dawn; Seashore; Sunrise; Beach; Coast; Shore


SURF, by ISRAEL NEWMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sea-ache, and sea-scent, and the welter of white
Last Line: Of wave-heaps trailing tresses drowned in green!
Subject(s): Sea; Seashore; Surfing; Water; Waves; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore


SURF - JONES BEACH, by MARCIA NICHOLS HOLDEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: White to the lips, the waves
Last Line: Back to eternity.
Subject(s): Jones Beach, New York


THE BATHERS, by IRVING FELDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Can there be women alone and no serpent near?
Subject(s): Seashore; Women; Desire; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE BEACH, by DAVID O'NEIL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The chill clung to the water
Last Line: On snowy mornings.
Subject(s): Seashore; Winter; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE BEACH IN AUGUST, by WELDON KEES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The day the fat woman
Last Line: Condition. The tide goes in and goes out
Subject(s): Seashore; Transience; Aging; Body, Human; Beach; Coast; Shore; Impermanence


THE BEACH OF ACRE, by MARY BRENT WHITESIDE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The camel train moves slowly in the dawn
Last Line: Godfrey of bouillon, a remembered name.
Subject(s): Camels; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE BEACH PICNIC, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I went down to the outing sea
Last Line: No place for beaus.
Subject(s): Picnics; Seashore; Barbecues; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE CASE OF EDGAR ABBOTT AND PHILIP RIDD, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was edgar alvin abbott, who had
Last Line: "leaping bravely to her rescue, cried: ""I'ii save you!"" and he did."
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Lifeguards; Seashore; Swimming & Swimmers; Water; Beach; Coast; Shore; Swimmers


THE CLIFF-TOP, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The cliff-top has a carpet
Last Line: The sea beneath my feet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2)
Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE DOGS AT LIVE OAK BEACH, SANTA CRUZ, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: As if there could be a world
Last Line: Does your smeared forehead out-top the gracious mountain?
Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE FARTHER SHORE, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: We gazed far out upon the lonely main
Last Line: And guide my vessel o'er this sea to her!
Subject(s): Absence; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Separation; Isolation; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE FESTA, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have seen a vision pure
Last Line: That fair scene by that fair shore.
Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE FISHER'S BOY, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: My life is like a stroll upon the beach
Last Line: And I converse with many a shipwrecked crew.
Variant Title(s): Upon The Beach
Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE FOREIGN SAILOR, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is what I heard from a foreign sailor
Last Line: Whispering, and gesturing with lean, dark hands!
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Water; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE FORTUNATE ISLANDS; A DREAM IN JUNE, by ANDREW LANG    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In twilight of the longest day
Last Line: And wakened half the world with me!
Subject(s): Islands; Sailing & Sailors; Seashore; Seamen; Sails; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE HAUNTED BEACH, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon a lonely desert beach
Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE LADY IN ORANGE COUNTY, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful lady, loops of country road
Subject(s): Seashore; Beauty; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE MERMAID OF MARGATE, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On margate beach, where the sick one roams
Last Line: With the spirit of peter fin!
Subject(s): Biffen, Sarah (1784-1850); Margate, England; Mermaids & Mermen; Puns; Seashore; Biffin, Sarah; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER EMPTIES INTO THE GULF, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And the gulf enters the sea and so forth
Subject(s): Mississippi River; Past; Rivers; Seashore; Time; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE MIST AND THE SEA, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mist crept in from the sea
Last Line: The mist crept back to the sea.
Subject(s): Mist; Sea; Seashore; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE NORTH SHORE WATCH, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All things are lovely as they were, and still
Last Line: With phosphorescent gleams, and dark oars dropping light.
Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Nature; Seashore; Dead, The; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE OLD SEAPORT, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When winds were wailing round me
Last Line: The wild seas made reply.
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Culross, Perthsire, Scotland; Death; Funerals - At Sea; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Gulls; Seashore; Dead, The; Burials At Sea; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE ONSET; A CALIFORNIA BEACH, by JESSIE BELL RITTENHOUSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wet sands were grey-blue that afternoon
Last Line: Love can defy.
Alternate Author Name(s): Scollard, Clinton, Mrs.
Subject(s): Birds; California; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE PATH OF GOLD, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dawn on the world's new shores. The path
Last Line: O path of gold to human destiny!
Subject(s): Freedom; Sailing & Sailors; Seashore; Liberty; Seamen; Sails; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE PHANTOM LINER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The fog lay deep on georges bank
Last Line: Into the fog again
Subject(s): Fog;seashore;ships - Abandoning Of;tides;waves; Haze;beach;coast;shore


THE PIMPERNEL, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She walks beside the silent shore-
Last Line: Forgotten, is the pimpernel.
Subject(s): Flowers; Longing; Love; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE PINES AND THE SEA, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Beyond the low marsh-meadows and the beach
Last Line: The mournful strain was in thyself alone.
Subject(s): Pine Trees; Seashore; Soul; Trees; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE PIRATEER, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The lightning flashed and thunder crashed
Last Line: Lay still in a secret sea.
Subject(s): Pirates; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Piracy; Buccaneers; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE REEF, by DAVID ST. JOHN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The most graceful of misunderstandings
Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE RISING TIDE, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An idle man, I stroll at eve
Last Line: And still the lessening light is sweet.
Subject(s): Evening; Seashore; Tides; Walking; Sunset; Twilight; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE SAND PLAINS OF NEW JERSEY, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: These sandy wastes are tributes to a mighty past
Last Line: That won a splendid victory o'er ploughing main.
Subject(s): Life; New Jersey; Sea; Seashore; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE SEA-SHORE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I should like to dwell where the deep blue sea
Last Line: And I ask no home but beside the deep.
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE SEASIDE, IN AND OUT OF FASHION, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In summer-time it was a paradise
Last Line: Comes down the sea-wind on the golden hair.
Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE SHORE, by DAVID ST. JOHN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So the tide forgets, as morning
Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE SKY-GYPSY, by WALTER BARDECK    Poem Text                    
First Line: I long / to sweep the sky
Last Line: On some strange shore.
Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Seashore; Nightmares; Bedtime; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE SPARROW, by GERALD STERN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Sparrows; Food & Eating; Mothers; Miami Beach


THE SPIRIT OF THE NORTH, by OSCAR WILLIAMS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The sea blood slumbering in our veins
Last Line: That the old north spirit moves again.
Subject(s): North, The; Seashore; Waves; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE SURF, by JURGIS BALTRUSHAITIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The day's wild ocean sings and thunders
Last Line: On hour in restless monotone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Baltrushaitis, George; Baltrushaitis, Iurgis; Baltrushaitis, Yurgis
Subject(s): Floods; Seashore; Surfing; Thunder; Water; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE TEAL'S WING, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: About the tide line above the dead
Subject(s): Animals; Death; Seashore; Dead, The; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE TENT ON THE BEACH: 1, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I would not sin, in this half-playful strain
Last Line: "we'll pitch this tent of ours in type another year."
Subject(s): Fields, James T. (1817-1881); New Hampshire; Seashore; Taylor, Bayard (1825-1878); Beach; Coast; Shore


THE TENT ON THE BEACH: 2. THE WRECK OF RIVERMOUTH, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rivermouth rocks are fair to see
Last Line: Mingled in peace like the night and day!
Subject(s): Disasters; Hampton, New Hampshire; Seashore; Shipwrecks; Witchcraft & Witches; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE TRUTH, by CARL PHILLIPS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And now, / the horse is entering
Subject(s): Seashore; Horses; God; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE VASSAL, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wind of the north, o far, wild wind
Last Line: They claim me vassal yet!
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE WAITING SEA, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The children built a barrier of sand
Last Line: "do you not see the breastwork we have made?"
Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: THE SHORE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Can it be women that walk in the sea-mist under the cliffs there?
Last Line: The sorrow whose sound is the wind, and the roar of the limitless sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Netherlands; Seashore; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Beach; Coast; Shore; Journeys; Trips


THE WELLESLEY FLOAT, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Swan-like in grace and rhythm-like in motion
Last Line: The pageant closes, and the scene is bare.
Subject(s): Boats; Canoes And Canoeing; Navigation; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE WIND IS BLOWING WEST, by JOSEPH CERAVOLO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am trying to decide to go swimming
Last Line: Just going in
Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE WINTER SHORE, by THOMAS WADE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A mighty change it is, and ominous
Last Line: Reigneth omnipotent.
Subject(s): Seashore; Seasons; Water; Wind; Winter; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE WIZARD, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Somewhere, nobody knows
Last Line: And the bones drift by with a rustling sound.
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Mystery; Seashore; Tragedy; Dead, The; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE WONDERFUL FISHING OF PETERKIN SPRAY, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A fisherman bold was peterkin spray
Last Line: And he sailed and he sailed and he sailed away.
Subject(s): Boats; Fish & Fishing; Sailing & Sailors; Salmon; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


THREE WASH DRAWINGS: 2. SURF, by WINIFRED WALDRON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wild white legions of foam!
Last Line: Ever the living pursuing the dying.
Subject(s): Seashore; Surfing; Water; Beach; Coast; Shore


TIDE TURNING, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Through salt marsh, grassy channel where the shark's
Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters; Seashore; Tides; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Sea Serpents; Beach; Coast; Shore


TIDES, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here to the sweep of the shore
Last Line: Shall send to pilot thee.
Subject(s): Death; Sailing & Sailors; Seashore; Tides; Wales; Water; Dead, The; Beach; Coast; Shore; Welshmen; Welshwomen


TIDEWATER, by BEATRICE WITTE RAVENEL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Were the burned sand of aeaea
Last Line: Of carolina.
Variant Title(s): Coasts
Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


TO YOU, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My thoughts are little boats
Last Line: It is my thought of you.
Subject(s): Absence; Memory; Romance; Seashore; Separation; Isolation; Beach; Coast; Shore


TOOTHPASTE KIDS SUNBURN, by JORDAN DAVIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I tell you I will not make any more raids
Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. THE COAST OF LIGURIA, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A thousand years are nothing
Last Line: And crown their slopes with gladness.
Subject(s): Christianity; Daphne (mythology); Modern Life; Religion; Seashore; Theology; Beach; Coast; Shore


TWO LOVERS AND A BEACHCMBER BY THE RED SEA, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cold and final, the imagination
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


UNDER THE WHARF, by IDA COLE BARTLATT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Silurus shoals and water butterflies
Last Line: Rising from this dark flood to seek eternal breath?
Subject(s): Birds; Death; Floods; Gulls; Seashore; Water; Dead, The; Seagulls; Beach; Coast; Shore


UNDINE: THE SONG OF THE UNDINES OR WATER-SPIRITS, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: We dwell in the depths of the opaline sea
Last Line: Are but for a day!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Rest; Seashore; Storms; Beach; Coast; Shore


UP AGAINST THE SEA, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At the foot of the cliff, the sea is taking back
Subject(s): Seashore; Erosion; Beach; Coast; Shore


VACATION: CALIFORNIA COAST, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Maybe it's because we're all born into this world
Last Line: Splitting, and wedding, and breaking, and healing
Subject(s): Divorce; Healing; Seashore; Water; Cures; Beach; Coast; Shore


VANISHING JOY, by ROY WALTER JAMES    Poem Text                    
First Line: I went down to the beach to play
Last Line: To woe within a looking glass.
Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


VARIATIONS ON A THEME, by ALFRED GOLDSWORTHY BAILEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: If charon drove a hearse along the beach
Last Line: And then be gone?
Subject(s): Charon; Hearses; Seashore; Styx (river); Beach; Coast; Shore


VERSES TO SOME FRIENDS RETURNING FROM THE SEA-SIDE, by BERNARD BARTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Forget not the moments
Last Line: Yours on the morn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet
Subject(s): Friendship; Memory; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


WAIKIKI, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the famous beach in honolulu a small japanese girl cried and cried
Last Line: Made and funneled up the billion particles into a mound.
Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Honolulu; Seashore; Travel; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Beach; Coast; Shore; Journeys; Trips


WAR, by ETHEL GODFREY LOUD    Poem Text                    
First Line: We changed our route to visit it again
Last Line: That's war!
Subject(s): Guests; Seashore; War; Visiting; Beach; Coast; Shore


WAVE, by MARK JARMAN            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Always offshore, or already broken, gone
Subject(s): Nature; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


WAVES AND TIDES, by JOHN RENWICK TAYLOR    Poem Text                    
First Line: In sweep the waves to wash the sands
Last Line: Of laughing ever after.
Subject(s): Laughter; Sea; Seashore; Tides; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore


WE LYING BY SEASAND, by DYLAN THOMAS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We lying by seasand, watching yellow
Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


WHITSUN, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is not what I meant:
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Picnics; Seashore; Barbecues; Beach; Coast; Shore


WHY ALL GOOD MUSIC IS SAD, by CHASE TWICHELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Before I knew that I would die
Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


WINTER; THE JERSEY COAST, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Along the river's level sheet of ice
Last Line: Loom hostelries whose summer guests have flown.
Subject(s): New Jersey; Seashore; Winter; Beach; Coast; Shore


WISHES, by EDWARD BLISS REED    Poem Text                    
First Line: Could I, with joshua of old
Last Line: We shall be cruising still.
Subject(s): Cruise Ships; Sailing & Sailors; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


WRITTEN ON THE SEA-SHORE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How awful, how sublime this view
Last Line: And now an awful stillness reigns around.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore