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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: BOATS Matches Found: 287 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BOAT, by JORDAN DAVIS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I am sitting at my desk and I have feelings Subject(s): Boats A CANADIAN BOAT SONG; WRITTEN ON THE RIVER ST. LAWRENCE, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Faintly as tolls the evening chime Last Line: The rapids are near, and the daylight's past! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Boats; Canada; St. Lawrence River; Canadians A MORNING, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have carried it with me each day: that morning I took Subject(s): Boats; Solitude; Loneliness A POEM OF EXILE; FOR NELL ALTIZER, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full 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 PRAYER FOR THE SAILOR, by EMMETT MALOY COUNTS Poem Text First Line: Outside my window howls the wind Last Line: May find his way to shore. Subject(s): Boats; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Storms; Seamen; Sails; Ocean A SLOOP OF AMBER SLIPS AWAY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The son of ecstasy Subject(s): Boats A TALE OF THE SEA, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A pathetic tale of the sea I will unfold Last Line: Will think of the hardships of poor mariners while at sea. Subject(s): Boats; Fish & Fishing; Hunger; Sea; Survival; Ocean ABOUT TO FLY AWAY, by YMITRI JAYASUNDERA Poem Source First Line: My back is jammed on the door Last Line: You couldn't navigate, the boat turning and turning, %the oars crushing the flowers Subject(s): Boats; Fathers; Travel ABRIDGED BESTIARY, by MAXINE CHERNOFF Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As the story goes, noah took animals of every variety Last Line: Recreated, according to the discarded pictures that the %monkey had saved for god Subject(s): Boats; God; Noah (bible); Religion; Sea Voyages ACROSS THE BAY, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If we throw our eyes way out to sea Last Line: That boat. Subject(s): Absence; Boats; Mothers; Sea; Water; Separation; Isolation; Ocean ACROSS THE SEA OF LIFE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: I gazed into a maiden's eyes Last Line: Engulfed in glory light. Subject(s): Boats; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Seamen; Sails; Ocean ADRIFT! A LITTLE BOAT ADRIFT!, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And shot — exultant on! Subject(s): Boats ADVENTURES OF MR LEAR & THE POLLY (& THE) PUSSEYBITE ON THEIR WAY., by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mr lear goes out a walking with a polly & the pusseybite Last Line: A deep hole & are never seen or distinguished or heard of never more %afterwards Subject(s): Boats; Lear, Edward (1812-1888); Sea; Travel AIR: 'CAPTAIN JINKS', by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm captain hans of the submarines Last Line: I'm in the german navy! Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Military Service, Voluntary; Sailing & Sailors; Submarines; Seamen; Sails; Submarine Warfare; U-boats AMSTERDAM, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN Poem Source First Line: You two drink beer on a bench next to a gracht Last Line: Int he water of the canals Subject(s): Amsterdam, Netherlands; Boats; Love; Travel AN OPEN BOAT, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O what is that whimpering there in the darkness? Last Line: To fret the bare seas at the breaking of day. Subject(s): Boats; Death; Faces; Sea; Voices; Wind; Dead, The; Ocean AT THE ROSEBUD BRIDGE, by MARY FRANCES MARTIN Poem Text First Line: They have bridged you, o missouri Last Line: The romance of yesteryear. Alternate Author Name(s): Cearnach, Conal Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Ferry Boats; Missouri; Travel; Journeys; Trips ATTITUDE OF RAGS, by DARA WIER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It felt like a story sorry sorry it'd lost all its sentences Last Line: Was. We were rags in all in the hands of a nacroleptic duster Subject(s): Boats; Nature BACK AND FORTH, by MITCHELL GOODMAN Poem Source First Line: Give it to me Subject(s): Ferry Boats BARGE, by ROSE FYLEMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a great barge Last Line: Oh, think what a joy %to look after a barge Subject(s): Boats BARGE LIGHTS ON THE HUDSON, by DICK ALLEN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Glass door to the balcony slid open Subject(s): Hudson River; Boats BELLEVUE RIVER QUEEN, by FREDRICK ZYDEK Poem Source First Line: She's quiet now. %the last hungry human Last Line: On a clear vision of the sea Subject(s): Boats; History; Rivers BILL BOWLS THE SAILOR, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bill bowels was an amiable gentle youth Last Line: And they were taken on board and landed safe in fair england. Subject(s): Boats; Courage; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Valor; Bravery; Ocean BLESSING THE BOATS (AT ST. MARY'S), by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: May the tide Last Line: Adventure & adventurers; boats; fear; Subject(s): Adventure & Adventurers; Boats; Fear BLUE RAPIDS, by LU YU (1125-1210) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A hundred men shouting at once, helping to rattle the oars Last Line: When I was young I used to dream of the joys of official travel, %older now, I know just how hard th Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kuan; Lu You Subject(s): Boats BOAT, by TREE BERNSTEIN Poem Source First Line: Darling little death boat Last Line: Rock me in your cradle, sing my last song Subject(s): Boats; Death BOAT, by CAROL FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Miscalculation the day's first high Subject(s): Boats BOAT, by ROSE FYLEMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sleeping in a cabin is as jolly as can be Last Line: I do like living on a boat Subject(s): Boats BOAT, by CHRISTINE GARREN Poem Source First Line: He built it sure that it was huge in a clearing of %the pines Last Line: With an ordinary foolishness Subject(s): Boats; Harbors; Sea BOAT, by LENNART SJOGREN Poem Source First Line: At 8:35 in the evening he drops the anchor Last Line: He stands looking at what has happened Subject(s): Boats; Disasters; Sea; Shipwrecks; Storms BOAT, by JOZE UDOVIC Poem Source First Line: Let me stay %this night far out Last Line: Not knowing %where it will land Subject(s): Boats; Sea Voyages BOAT MOORING BY THE RIVERSIDE, by WANG WEI+(3) Poem Source First Line: A boat floats on in the void without end Last Line: Vast, vast the desolate mist, an angling boat all alone Subject(s): Boats BOAT SONG, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, lovely girl Last Line: "forelands of the heart." Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon Subject(s): Boats; Love BOAT-BUILDING IN SPAIN, by RAY LEDYARD Poem Text First Line: Just a bit of drift-wood gray Last Line: Softly ask if he loves me! Subject(s): Boats BOATBUILDER, by RACHEL ROSE Poem Source First Line: He is a man who strangled dogs with his hands Last Line: And the land without which I would drown Subject(s): Boats; Buildings And Builders BOATING ON WEST LAKE: TO ZHANG SHAN, ACDEMICIAN & FISCAL COMMISSIONER, by OU YANGXIU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Light on the waves, colors of willows Last Line: There were mansions and terraces high and low %in the light of the evening sun Alternate Author Name(s): Ou-yang Hsiu; Ou-yang Xiu Subject(s): Boats; China - Song Dynasty (960-1278) BOATING WITH ZHONG XING AND OTHER GENTLEMEN AT NIGHT ..., by WANG WEI+(3) Poem Source First Line: Whither does the light boat float? Last Line: Enjoy ourselves freely for a thousand years before we return? Subject(s): Boats BOATING-SONG, by ALBERT M. FREEMAN Poem Text First Line: Oh, life is fair when the eyes are bright Last Line: Then merrily heave, ye ho! Subject(s): Boats; Death; Life; Dead, The 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 BOATS AT NIGHT, by EDWARD SHANKS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How lovely is the sound of oars at night Subject(s): Boats BOATS IN A FOG, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sports and gallantries, the stage, the arts, the antics of dancers Last Line: Earnest elements of nature. Subject(s): Fog; Boats; Art & Artists; Boats; Fog; Sea; Haze; Haze; Ocean BOATS IN A FOG, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sports and gallantries, the stage, the arts, the antics of dancers, Last Line: Earnest elements of nature. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Boats; Fog; Sea; Haze; Ocean BOGOTA, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: Three at night %I drag this naked life along Last Line: Stride toward yet another passage, step into the water and live Subject(s): Boats; Fishing And Fishermen; Latin America - History; South America; Tourists; Travel BOOK OF VERSES TO E.V.M.: 6. ON THE FERRY, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fog, now, and a bell Last Line: Toll the stale brain dissolved %in images of storm Subject(s): Ferry Boats BOYS BUILDING MODEL BOATS, by RICHARD MORRIS DEY Poem Source First Line: The shavings fall away like leaves Last Line: All fathers and sons in the family tree Subject(s): Boats; Boys; Fathers BROKEN LINE, by ANDRE BRETON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We the dry bread and water in the prisons of the sky Last Line: The belly of our words is golden tonight and naught any longer is in vain. Subject(s): Boats; Mourning; Prisons & Prisoners; Water; Bereavement; Convicts CANAL DU MIDI, by SARAH ROSSITER Poem Source First Line: We enter, and doors lock behind us Last Line: Rising, to where all waters meet as one? Subject(s): Boats; Canals; Death; Water CAPTAIN KIDD, by T. B. HUNT Poem Text First Line: A buccaneer, a bad man Last Line: "I'd knife ye!"" and I would." Subject(s): Boats; Racism; Sea; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; Ocean CARMINA: 4. THE YACHT, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stranger, the bark you see before you says Last Line: Herself, as long as she survives and floats. Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius Subject(s): Boats CHARON, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my cottage near the styx Last Line: Charon, cerberus, and co. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Charon; Death; Ferry Boats; Styx (river); Dead, The CHILDREN OF NEWPORT BEACH, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: There is sun and sea Last Line: But you and I %have discovered %that they only know %how to be children Subject(s): Boats; Seashore; Youth CLASSIC OF POETRY: 17, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The dews are soaking the way Last Line: You still will not have your way Subject(s): Boats; China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.) CLASSIC OF POETRY: 26, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: That boat of cypress drifts along Last Line: I cannot spread wings to fly away Subject(s): Boats; China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.) CLASSIC OF POETRY: 46, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: That boat of cypress drifts along Last Line: Won't you put faith in me? Subject(s): Boats; China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.) COMING OF AGE ON THE HARLEM, by JOAN+(1) MURRAY Poem Source First Line: My father would tie a life jacket Last Line: Just carefully enough to lead us here? Subject(s): Ferry Boats; Harlem River, New York; New York City CONVOY, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: The smoke hung low on the sand-duned shore Last Line: Sound four? Subject(s): Disasters; Ferry Boats; Sea; Shipwrecks; Ocean CREST, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night was a bad one. Subject(s): Driving; Ferry Boats; Night; Rain; Relationships; Bedtime CROSSING BROOKLYN FERRY, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Flood-tide below me! I see you face to face Last Line: Great or small, you furnish your parts toward the soul. Subject(s): Americans; Brooklyn, New York; Ferry Boats; United States; America DANSE MACABRE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The broken oarshaft was stuck in the hill Last Line: Its cruel nail to its true pencil. Subject(s): Animals; Boats; Horses DEAD FISH ON THE SHORE WITH CLAMS, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: It is winter Last Line: To abandon hope Subject(s): Absence; Boats; Clams; Cuba; Death; Marine Animals; Sea Voyages DEATH, by PADRAIG J. DALY Poem Source First Line: And must I leave this world of music Last Line: O christ eb near, o christ, and pity me Subject(s): Boats; Death; Sea Voyages DEID FOLKS' FERRY, by ROSAMUND MARRIOTT WATSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis they, of a veritie Last Line: Through the mirk an' the saft sea-mist Alternate Author Name(s): Tomson, Graham R. Subject(s): Ferry Boats DEJEUNER SUR L'HERBE, by TU FU Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's pleasant to board the ferry in the sunscape Last Line: It will be cold, going back. Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Ferry Boats; Rain DESCENDING THE RIVER, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: Well, let these men continue to sleep Last Line: I sit among the peace of all the earth in the harvest solitudes Subject(s): Boats; Rivers DOBBS HIS FERRY; A LEGEND OF THE LOWER HUDSON, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The days were at their longest Last Line: And buy a place at dobbs! Subject(s): Dobbs Ferry, New York; Ferry Boats; Hudson River DOOM FERRY, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Boatman, have they crossed? Not all Last Line: Dabbling, at my cool dead ease there. Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Boats; Jealousy ECHO AND THE FERRY, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, oliver! I was but seven, and he was eleven Last Line: Comes after -- with laughter comes after. Subject(s): Children; Churches; Echo (mythology); Ferry Boats; Childhood; Cathedrals EDDY, by CAROL FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Against wind's silk direction the tide is flowing, Subject(s): Boats EIGHT OARS AND A COXSWAIN, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eight oars compel Last Line: "steady! Pull it thr-o-o-ough!" Subject(s): Boats; New York City - Dutch Period; Rowing; Sea Gulls; Sports EITHER OAR, by SUSAN LASHER Poem Source First Line: Of all the dialogues Last Line: While the rower looks backward, %moving almost imperceptibly Subject(s): Boats; Rowing EMBARQUEMENT, by PADRAIG J. DALY Poem Source First Line: You must walk over the mud Last Line: Great swelling of water will carry you Subject(s): Boats; Sea Voyages; Travel EMPTY BOAT, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Will volunteer for anything Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Boats; Nature FABLES: 2ND SER. 5. THE BEAR IN A BOAT, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That man must daily wiser grow Last Line: Derision shouts along the strand. Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Boats FATE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: As two proud ships upon the pathless main Last Line: So we two parted. Shall we meet again? Subject(s): Boats;dreams;farewell;ships & Shipping; Nightmares;parting FERRY FABLE; FROM SALTASH, CORNWALL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A bumkin came to the river's side Last Line: Tis simply this you have to know - %he was a married man! Subject(s): Ferry Boats FERRY FROM THE VINEYARD, by PETER RENNICK Poem Source First Line: Too late to get beyond the kitsch-laden streets Last Line: Rescue, no rescue, drowning, return Subject(s): Death; Ferry Boats FERRY TO NOWHERE, by CHARLES EDWARD CARRYL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O come and cross over to nowhere Variant Title(s): Ferry Tal Subject(s): Ferry Boats FERRYBOAT AND THE TRAVELER, by HAN YONG-WOON Poem Source First Line: I am a ferry boat. A traveler, you tread on me Last Line: I am a ferryboat. You are a traveler Subject(s): Ferry Boats FISHERMEN, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you think how big their feet are in black rubber Last Line: We lay wreathes on the sea when it has drowned them Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Boats; Fishing And Fishermen; Food And Eating; Seashore FORGOTTEN CAPTAIN, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have many shadows. I was walking home Last Line: That too is a game, made heavy %with what is to come Subject(s): Battleships; Boats; Bombs; Death; Sailors And Sailing; Sea; War FREIGHT BOATS, by JAMES STERLING TIPPETT Poem Source First Line: Boats that carry sugar Last Line: As they carry anything %from any place you will Subject(s): Boats FROM THE BOAT, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What is it, then -- between us Last Line: Sliding into the troughs Subject(s): Boats; Relationships GALSWORTHY TAKES THE FERRY, by ELMER GUSTAFSON Poem Text First Line: Old charon had momentous freight that day Last Line: Met and with diffident good-will clasped hands. Subject(s): Charon; Ferry Boats; Galsworthy, John (1867-1933); Styx (river) GIGGING ON ALLATOONA, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Light bleeding onto pines Last Line: Rolling away from the boat far out across the black water. Subject(s): Boats; Country Life; Hunting; Men; Hunters GROTTO VINH HA LONG (BAY OF THE LANDING DRAGON) TONKIN GULF, by MONG-LAN Poem Source First Line: The rower gaunt as his oar Last Line: Stalagmite meeting stalactites coincidences %taking forever to form Variant Title(s): Grott Subject(s): Boats; San Francisco; Vietnam; Water HARBOR: 1. MOSAIC, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your face clears of expression, your eyes Last Line: Our flesh/fish bodies puddling molten Subject(s): Boats; Relationships; Water HARBOR: 2. BATH, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Buoyancy lifting us on each wave's crest Last Line: The swell of your razoring whiplash tail Subject(s): Boats; Water HARBOR: 4. HARPOON, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wooden handle cracked but seasoned tough Last Line: Crystal on crystal holding fast Subject(s): Boats; Relationships HE HAS LIVED IN MANY HOUSES, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Furnished room, flats, a hayloft Last Line: Toward his sanctuary, harborage, saltbox, / home Subject(s): Houses; Boats HEAVEN REVEALS ITSELF ON A CLOUDY DAY, by KATHLEEN BOGAN Poem Source First Line: Those of you awaiting it %can stop. Heaven Last Line: This is the eternal hallowedness of houseboats: %the illusion of travel, the port of home Subject(s): Boats; Heaven HOMEMADE BOAT, by SHELBY SILVERSTEIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This boat that we just built is just fine Last Line: The sides and the back are divine- %it's the bottom I guess we forgot... Alternate Author Name(s): Silverstein, Shel Subject(s): Boats HYMN FOR THE BOATMEN, AS THEY APPROACH THE RAPIDS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jesu! Bless our slender boat Last Line: Miserere domine!' Subject(s): Boats; Rivers; God I LOVE ALL THINGS THAT CLUSTER ROUND THE SEA, by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND Poem Text First Line: I love all things that cluster round the sea: Last Line: And drop their anchors in the quiet bay. Subject(s): Anchors; Boats; Disasters; Harbors; Sea; Shipwrecks; Water; Ocean I MASCHI, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: The masked rowers %came for him Last Line: A sight he would never again see Subject(s): Boats; Sailors And Sailing; Shadows; Solitude IBIZA 60, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: Again we had ourselves locked up Last Line: Free us from these left-over %lies Subject(s): Boats; Sea; Sea Voyages; Water IN A JON BOAT DURING A FLORIDA DAWN, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sunlight displaces stars Last Line: Or the red tick anchored in the pit of your knee. Subject(s): Boats; Florida; Swamps; Bogs; Fens; Marshes IN ANOTHER COUNTRY: SUITE FOR VILLA SERBELLONI: 14. VARENNA FERRY, by JIM BARNES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After a morning's climb up the mountain Last Line: Or the knowledge we will be crossing more %than we think to try the castello's door Subject(s): Ferry Boats; Italy IN HARBOR (ST. JOHN'S, NEWFOUNDLAND), by ALEXANDER KINMAN LAING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One cannot call it sorrow any more Last Line: That might as well have stopped and anchored there. Subject(s): Anchors; Boats; Harbors; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails IN LATE SUMMER, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: Twilight: the last ferry leaves vancouver Last Line: They knew were out there, %willing them to appear Subject(s): Ferry Boats; Islands IN PASSING, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the canadian side, we're standing far enough away Subject(s): Boats; Rain IN THE VISITORS' BOOK, FOWEY CRUISING SCHOOL, CORNWALL, 1975, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Let others think about hour angle Last Line: But mark my words, I want no port - nor %starboard - mostly,no water Subject(s): Boats IT TOSSED AND TOSSED, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To break for you Subject(s): Boats JEANNE PHYLLIS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Fill us full of canned goods Last Line: And made us holler so? Subject(s): Boats; Children; Sea; Travel; Childhood; Ocean; Journeys; Trips JOHN ROUAT THE FISHERMAN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Margaret simpson was the daughter of humble parents in the county of ayr Last Line: And on a rude pallet lay poor margaret rouat cold and dead. Subject(s): Boats; Fish & Fishing; Marine Animals; Water JUMP, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sundays. Sun-narrowed eyes. My father Last Line: What I want most is on the other Subject(s): Arabs; Boats; Fathers; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine KAL. APR., by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hate your vulgarian ill-mannered Last Line: Do lend me an as! Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Subject(s): Boats; Latin Language; Racing LA CHALUPA, THE BOAT, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am twenty, Subject(s): Boats LATER HISTORY OF THE OWL AND THE PUSSY-CAT, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dear miss violet Last Line: Believe me, %yours sincerely, %edward lear Subject(s): Animals; Boats; Grief; Sailors And Sailing; Tourists; Travel LEAF BOAT, by RAD SMITH Poem Source First Line: Tiny bugs on this maple leaf Last Line: And then they're going down Subject(s): Boats; Leaves LES CAMARADES EN VOYAGE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: The vessel is restlessly rushing over the waters Last Line: And as they step upon the pier, lo the whiteness there! Subject(s): Boats; Moon; Solitude; Travel; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips LET MY CASSIA BOAT, by KEJU Poem Source First Line: Let my cassia boat be tied Last Line: Alone, I'll take my boat across Subject(s): Boats; Solitude; Travel LETTER WRITTEN ON A FERRY WHILE CROSSING LONG ISLAND SOUND, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am surprised to see / that the ocean is still going on Subject(s): Ferry Boats; God; Long Island Sound; Nuns; Religion; Theology LETTER WRITTEN ON A FERRY WHILE CROSSING LONG ISLAND SOUND, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am surprised to see %that the ocean is still going on Last Line: They call back to us %from the gauzy edge of paradise, %good news, good news Subject(s): Ferry Boats; God; Long Island Sound; Nuns; Religion LOAD OF SUGAR-CANE, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The going of the glade-boat Last Line: When they rise %at the red turban %of the boatman Subject(s): Boats; Sugar LORD WILLIAM, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No eye beheld when william plunged Last Line: Heard william's drowning scream. Subject(s): Boats; Drowning; Ghosts; Murder; Secrets; Supernatural; Vengeance LOST, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Desolate and lone Last Line: And the harbor's eyes. Subject(s): Boats; Great Lakes LOUIS ANTOINE DE BOUGAINVILLE, WHO CIRCUMNAVIGATED THE GLOBE (1766-, by MARIE HARRIS Poem Source Last Line: At docks? Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Boats; Explorers; Navigation; Sea Voyages; Travel LOVE'S VOYAGE, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As once I sat upon the shore Last Line: Year after year renews the lover's lease of life. Subject(s): Boats; Life; Love; Sea; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips MAGIC, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We passed old farmer boothby in the field Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Maine (state); Farm Life; Boats; Landscape; Agriculture; Farmers MAIDEN VOYAGE, by D. NURSKE Poem Source First Line: My father made me Last Line: Around a missing mouth Subject(s): Boats; Children; Fathers; Rivers MARCH 5, 1180. IN EARLY MORNING CROSSING THE GREAT MARSH FERRY: 1, by YANG WAN-LI Poem Source First Line: The river and hills beyond the fog Last Line: Printed by my straw sandals %is the very first mark Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Ferry Boats MARE LIBERUM, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You dare to say with perjured lips Last Line: Till liberty is safe on sea and shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Lusitania (ship); Patriotism; Submarines; World War I; Submarine Warfare; U-boats; First World War MISSING THE BOAT, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is not so much that the boat passed Subject(s): Boats MOORED ON FALL RIVER, by KUAN HSIU Poem Source First Line: Banks like late tung-t'ing, but Last Line: The fisherman's %nightmare Subject(s): Boats; Fishing And Fishermen; Lakes; Rivers; Zen Buddhism MY BOAT, CUT, by KUJI Poem Source First Line: My boat, cut from tallest pine Last Line: Back into dark rip tides Subject(s): Absence; Boats; Love - Loss Of; Tides MY PLAN, by MARCHETTE CHUTE Poem Source First Line: When I'm a little older %I plan to buy a boat Last Line: And all the hudson river %in which to wash my dishes Subject(s): Boats; Play NEAR YARMOUTH; TO EDWARD J. O'BRIEN, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The river holds no more the fishing boats Last Line: The river sleeps, the boats are gone again. Subject(s): Boats; Fish & Fishing; Marine Animals; Sea; Anglers; Ocean NEMESIS, by JAMES WILLIAM FOLEY Poem Text First Line: The man who invented the women's waists that button down Last Line: Of the man who invented the backstairs waist and he sank with the leaky boat! Alternate Author Name(s): Foley, J. W. Subject(s): Boats; Enemies; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails NEW ZEALAND ELEGY, by MARY KAY RUMMEL Poem Source First Line: Sometimes a boat just slips from its mooring Last Line: Sometimes a boat just slips from its mooring Subject(s): Boats; New Zealand; Sea Voyages NORDEN, by MONICA OCHTRUP Poem Source First Line: Our daughter, jennifer, comes home from her trip to west germany. She Last Line: On the table. People look up. Converstion stops. When you take light %from the candle a sailor dies Subject(s): Boats; Germany; Harbors; Travel NORTH TO TAOS, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The aspen twig Last Line: The boat is moored to sky. Subject(s): Boats; Nature; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States NOW DRY THE EYES, by MIKHAIL ALEXEYEVICH KUZMIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now dry thy eyes, and shed no tears Last Line: As a keen lance with edges burning. Subject(s): Boats; Navigation; Poetry & Poets OFFERING, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Father, you must have been Last Line: "ah . . . Dearest father, dear Subject(s): Boats; Fathers; Men OLD IRONSIDES, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, tear her tattered ensign down Last Line: The lightning and the gale! Subject(s): Americans; Boats; Constitution (ship); Navy - United States; Patriotism; Sea; United States; American Navy; Ocean; America ON A FERRY BOAT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The river widens to a pathless sea Last Line: From all that fondles life and feeds the heart. Subject(s): Doves; Ferry Boats; Rain; Rivers; Sea; Ocean ON A FERRYBOAT AT NIGHT, by ALTER ABELSON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ploughing away with a pang and a groan Last Line: Wrought as a ferry of eons and souls, the door of a dream to a dream Subject(s): Ferry Boats; Dreams ON BIG SANDY RIVER, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun-bathed hills were beautiful Last Line: On dear old sandy river. Subject(s): Boats; Rivers ON COMO, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A rainless darkness drew o'er the lake Last Line: Where on to the alps the muteness passed. Subject(s): Boats; Lakes; Nature; Pools; Ponds ON LEAVING CUBA, by GERTRUDIS GOMEZ DE AVELLANEDA Poem Source First Line: Pearl of the sea! Star of the tranquil west! Last Line: Now cleaves the waves, and flies in silence fast! Subject(s): Boats; Cuba; Farewell; Sea; Sea Voyages; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration ON THE BAY, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This watery vague how vast! This misty globe Last Line: Shows through the gray, itself in grayness lost! Subject(s): Ferry Boats; Harbors; Lighthouses; New York Harbor ON THE BEACH, by YU KYONGHWAN Poem Source First Line: In a silk rustle she sheds her scales Last Line: The nude, motor-boat starts its engine %after sundown Subject(s): Boats ON THE DEATH OF MY DEAR BROTHER, MR. H.S., DROWNED: THE BOAT, by WILLIAM HAMMOND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How well the brittle boat doth personate Last Line: Weigh'd up to bliss. Subject(s): Boats; Sandys, Henry ON THE DEATH OF THE FERRYMAN, GLAUCUS, by ANTIPHILUS Poem Source First Line: Glaucus, pilot of the nessus strait, born Last Line: So the old man might sail his own boat to hades Subject(s): Ferry Boats ON THE HARLEM, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hand that ruled the helm was yours Last Line: And gunwale-deep in goldenrod. Subject(s): Boats; Harlem River, New York; New York City - Dutch Period ON THE RIVER: AN IMPRESSION, by MARION COUTHOUY SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A river of silver and azure Last Line: The dome, the sky, the sail. Subject(s): Boats; Rivers ON THE WILLOW BRANCH, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the pond is still and the softest paddle stroke eases Last Line: To the spine. Subject(s): Boats; Solitude; Loneliness OVER THE SKY; A BOATING SONG, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Row, row, row, row Last Line: And out of the world we are going. Subject(s): Boats OVER THE WATER TO CHARLIE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "come boat me o'er, come row me o'er" Last Line: We'll o'er the water Subject(s): Ferry Boats;water OVER THE WATER WI' CHAIRLIE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come boat me o'er, come row me o'er! Last Line: Or we lippen again to chairlie! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Boats; Travel; Water; Journeys; Trips PASSING AND PERMANENT, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stately boats, with happy crowds Last Line: Do not drain your glass! Subject(s): Boats; Gardens & Gardening; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness PASSING TIME, by MARIE HARRIS Poem Source First Line: If I had a boat Last Line: How I prefer a chosen end: me upon my pony on my boat Subject(s): Boats; Sea Voyages; Travel PENNIES FOR LUCK, by LINDA M. HASSELSTROM Poem Source First Line: A heron flaps upstream, the color of fog over the river Last Line: Where you are Subject(s): Boats; Fishing And Fishermen; Luck; Rivers PERISCOPES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As the up-to-date destroyer Last Line: Let us smash our periscopes! Subject(s): Submarines; Submarine Warfare; U-boats PICKING STONE, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: The earth pushing up its stone Last Line: Not this year. Plant around it Subject(s): Boats; Fields; Labor And Laborers; Stones PICNIC BOAT, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sunday night and the park policemen tell each other it is dark as a stack ... Last Line: For the home-comers. Subject(s): Boats; Chicago PIRATES OF PENANCE, by SHAWN STURGEON Poem Source First Line: Well, often, standing upon the poop-deck Last Line: But that wavy hair, those bedazzling eyes! Subject(s): Boats; Sea PLEASURE-BOAT, by RICHARD HENRY DANA (1787-1879) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Come, hoist the sail, the fast let go! Last Line: My head is growing gray Subject(s): Aging; Boats; Nature POEM FOR THE SEVENTH DAY, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Propel no more. Leave off the oars Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Boats POET CHARGED IN SCRAPE, by JOHN+(2) MORGAN Poem Source First Line: As the ferry approached morse rock Last Line: The coast guard said Subject(s): Accidents; Ferry Boats; Sailors And Sailing POPHAM OF THE NEW SONG: 6. THE JOYOUS, THE LAKE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How two women can be the same, for instance, in poland Last Line: Drops down from a tree in the sun in marseille. Subject(s): Boats; Warsaw, Poland; Women; World War Ii; Second World War PROCESS, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were floating downstream for hours Subject(s): Boats; Rivers RAVEN BOAT, by NORA MARKS DAUENHAUER Poem Source First Line: The rapids are very scary Last Line: When they awaited the schooner Subject(s): Alaska; Boats; Native Americans; Sailors And Sailing; Sea Voyages RECUERDO, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were very tired, we were very merry Last Line: And we gave her all our money but our subway fares. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Charity; Ferry Boats; Love; Selva, Salomon De La (1893-1959); Philanthropy RED BOAT, by JULIE CARR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sheep say no Last Line: With the motor's growl - %high, diminishing Subject(s): Boats RIDING IN A MOTOR BOAT, by DOROTHY WALTER BARUCH Poem Source First Line: A putta putta putt Last Line: Tingly %and cold Subject(s): Boats ROMANCE, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last farewells were said, friends hurried ashore Last Line: Ere it goes down to darkness, whence it came! . . . Subject(s): Betrayal; Boats; Death; Happiness; Lies; Love; New York City; Youth; Dead, The; Joy; Delight; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple RUDIGER, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bright on the mountain's heathy slope Last Line: Adown the dark profound. Subject(s): Birds; Boats; Curses; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Soldiers; Swans; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SAILING, by DOROTHY ALLEN Poem Text First Line: Swiftly cutting through the water Last Line: Nor sigh; but sing and laugh with me. Subject(s): Boats; Play; Sailing & Sailors; Sports; Waves; Seamen; Sails SAILING, by MAXINE CHERNOFF Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Benjamin franklin used to lie naked on the water, attach a kite to his Last Line: Grin behind his badly blistered gums Subject(s): Boats; Sailors And Sailing SAILING TO AN ISLAND, by RICHARD MURPHY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The boom above my knees lifts, and the boat Subject(s): Boats SAILING TO AN ISLAND, by RICHARD MURPHY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The boom above my knees lifts, and the boat Last Line: Boats ae careened in the harbour. Here is a bed Subject(s): Boats SAND & SPRAY: SEA-SYMPHONY. 2. VARIATIONS: 1. SAILBOATS, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Light as thin-winged swallows pirouetting and gyrating Last Line: Heeling and tossing about in the estuary. Subject(s): Boats; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Seamen; Sails; Ocean SEA, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Few think of its going on %when we are inland Last Line: Nearer and nearer the doors banging shut far beyond our farms Subject(s): Boats; Man-woman Relationships; Sailors And Sailing; Sea SEA DRIFT, by EILEEN BERRY Poem Source First Line: They would sit, two or three of them as a rule, on the cast-iron seat Last Line: The slow pace of nature's change gave them some kind of peace Subject(s): Boats; Fishing And Fishermen; Marine Animals; Sea; Shrimp SEA RHAPSODY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By day, the tremble of the boat Last Line: Restless, that yet bring rest. Subject(s): Boats; Dreams; Earth; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Sleep; Youth; Nightmares; World; Seamen; Sails; Ocean SEVEN AFTERNOONS: SARGASSO, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Time of the floating eye Last Line: Somewhere to go Subject(s): Boats; Sea Voyages SEVEN TIMES SEVEN [- LONGING FOR HOME], by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A song of a boat Last Line: Ah me! Subject(s): Boats; Dreams; Homesickness; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Songs SHIP NEWS, by A-N Poem Text First Line: Piraeus - salamis - what sails are these Last Line: Piraeus . . . Salamis . . . They are lost between . . . Subject(s): Boats; Disasters; Greece; Shipwrecks; Greeks SHORE LINE, by CARL RAKOSI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We speak of mankind. Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): Waves; Boats & Boating; Fathers & Sons SMALL SKIFF HAS BEEN ROWED, by PETER READING Poem Source Last Line: And there is autumnal evening precipitation Subject(s): Boats; Water SONG, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The boat is chafing at our long delay Last Line: To reach a land unknown. Subject(s): Boats; Sea Voyages SONGS OF THE DAYS AND NIGHTS: SONGS OF THE SUMMER NIGHTS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dreary wind of night is out Last Line: With stars that shine and see. Subject(s): Boats; Death; Night; Rivers; Solitude; Summer; Dead, The; Bedtime; Loneliness SONNETS: 2, by ALLAN PARK PATON Poem Text First Line: How sweet thus in an idle boat to lie Last Line: A wandering spirit it will seem to me! Subject(s): Boats SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 18, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I do not say that my boat Last Line: In her movements, I do say Subject(s): Boats; Sea SPEEDBOAT ON LEWIS AND CLARK LAKE, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: We cannot hear each other speak Last Line: The missouri intent on freeing herself back to river Subject(s): Boats; Lakes STANZAS, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the lake of young life is a fairy boat Last Line: And holy the haven they find at last. Subject(s): Fairies; Boats; Love; Truth; Elves STATEN ISLAND FERRY: BACK, by MARIELLA Poem Text First Line: This is the thing I had not dreamed Last Line: Who only dreamed to have the sea. Subject(s): Ferry Boats; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple STATEN ISLAND FERRY: OVER, by MARIELLA Poem Text First Line: This is the sea! And these are gulls Last Line: Than to see the ocean? Subject(s): Ferry Boats; Staten Island STORY OF THE FOUR LITTLE CHILDREN WHO WENT ROUND THE WORLD, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once upon a time, a long while ago, there were four little people whose Last Line: Their father's house as a diaphanous doorscraper Subject(s): Boats; Children; Sailors And Sailing; Sea Voyages STREETS IN SHANGHAI, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The white butterlfy in the park is read by many Last Line: We look almost happy out in the sun, while we are bleeding fatally from %wounds we don't know about Subject(s): Ferry Boats; Shanghai, China; Travel SUBMARINE BADINAGE, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a little oyster and he met a Last Line: Is because I can't supply them with another word to say! Subject(s): Marine Animals; Submarines; Submarine Warfare; U-boats SUMMER OF '94, by ROBERT VANDERMOLEN Poem Source First Line: My legs were sore from swimming Last Line: A couple of times a week Subject(s): Boats; Fishing And Fishermen; Summer; Sun; Swimming SUNRISE, TISANG RIVER, by SEAN BRENDAN BROWN Poem Source First Line: Anchor line snapped, the boat drifts Last Line: Trusting sleep; it's better that way Subject(s): Boats; Dawn; Rivers SWIMMER, by THOMAS LUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I jumped from the bow of the ocean liner I had three things in Last Line: His own life, the man who is an obvious liar Subject(s): Boats; Lakes; Swimming; Water TALL SHIPS, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The one who reaches the crow's-nest Last Line: And by turning his face to the blind dial of the cosmos Subject(s): Boats; Perception; Vision THE BALLAD OF BAZILE BORGNE, by IDA COLE BARTLATT Poem Text First Line: Always the river called to him Last Line: Arms unseen now cling to him! Subject(s): Boats; Pirates; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Piracy; Buccaneers; Seamen; Sails; Ocean THE BALLAD OF THE BOAT, by RICHARD GARNETT (1835-1906) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stream was smooth as glass. We said: 'arise and let's away' Last Line: O stream, is this thy bar of sand? O boat, is this the bay? Subject(s): Boats THE BOAT ON THE SERCHIO, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our boat is asleep on serchio's stream Last Line: It rushes to the ocean. Subject(s): Boats; Williams, Edward THE BOAT RACE, by ERNESTINE PORTER Poem Text First Line: Far out at sea, just where the rougher blue Last Line: The resurrected romance of the sea. Subject(s): Boats; Racing THE BOATIE ROWS, by JOHN EWEN Poem Text First Line: O weel may the boatie row Last Line: That wish the boatie speed! Subject(s): Boats THE BOATMAN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ferry me across the water Last Line: "I'll ferry you." Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): The Ferryman;sing-song; A Nursery Rhyme Book: 88 Subject(s): Ferry Boats THE BOATMEN, by THEOPHILE DE VIAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Darling little winged boys are clinging to our skulls Last Line: Above a ship with such a prize betwixt her stern and bow. Alternate Author Name(s): De Viau, Theophile Subject(s): Boats; Sailing & Sailors THE BWOAT, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where cows did slowly seek the brink Last Line: Aye, all but my own ruffled mind. Subject(s): Boats; Brooks; Love; Streams; Creeks THE CANAL-BOAT PILOT, RETIRED, by HARRINGTON GREEN Poem Text First Line: Lazily floating between the green hills Last Line: Then under the bridges of brunswick town! Subject(s): Boats; Delaware (river) THE CARGO BOATS, by THOMAS FLEMING DAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love to see them, laden deep Last Line: Again a sailless, shipless waste. Subject(s): Boats THE CHILDREN'S BOATS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O little loop of water, with the green Last Line: In that far spring men call eternity? Subject(s): Boats; Children; Future Life; Games; Spring; Childhood; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE COASTERS, by THOMAS FLEMING DAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Overloaded, undermanned / trusting to a lee Last Line: From cruz to quoddy head. Subject(s): Boats; Nature THE DEATH OF THE FATHERS: 3. THE BOAT, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father / (he calls himself 'old sea dog') Last Line: Bailing the boat Subject(s): Fathers; Boats THE DROWNED, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Arms finned-out across the water Last Line: As though fascinated by something I couldn't see. Subject(s): Boats; Drowning THE EDGE OF THE RIVER, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It has been a long journey Last Line: Of the water Subject(s): Boats; Rivers THE EXCURSION, by TU FU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How delightful, at sunset, to loosen the boat! Last Line: By the time we reach the shore, it seems as though the fifth month were autumn. Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu Subject(s): Boats; Poetry & Poets; Sea Voyages THE FAMOUS TAY WHALE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the month of december, and in the year 1883 Last Line: That is to say, if the people all are willing. Subject(s): Boats; Dundee, Scotland; Fish & Fishing; Sea; Whales; Ocean THE FERRY, by CH'IEN WEN OF LIANG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of marsh-mallows my boat is made Last Line: So long you tarry at the crossing. Alternate Author Name(s): Jian-wen; Xiao Gang; Ch'ien Wen-ti Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Fear; Ferry Boats; Love - Complaints THE FERRY OF GALLAWAY, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the stormy waters of gallaway Last Line: "love is thy conqueror, death!"" she cried." Subject(s): Ferry Boats THE FISH-OF-WAR, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have you heard of the wonderful fish-of-war Last Line: It's rather a game for fish! Subject(s): Submarines; Submarine Warfare; U-boats THE FLASHBOAT, by JANE COOPER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A high deck. Blue skies overhead. White distance. Subject(s): Boats THE FLEET, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each night upon the bed's dry sea Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Boats THE FORGOTTEN CAPTAIN, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have many shadows. I was walking home Subject(s): Battleships; Boats; Bombs; Death; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; War; Dead, The; Ocean THE HARBOR: 1. MOSAIC, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your face clears of expression, your eyes Last Line: Our flesh/fish bodies puddlng molten Subject(s): Boats; Relationships; Water THE HARBOR: 2. BATH, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Buoyancy lifting us on each wave's crest Last Line: The swell of your razoring whiplash tail Subject(s): Boats; Water THE HARBOR: 4. HARPOON, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wooden handle cracked but seasoned tough Last Line: Crystal on crystal holding fast Subject(s): Boats; Relationships THE HAYSWATER BOAT, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A region desolate and wild Last Line: What living hand hath brought it here? Variant Title(s): Hayswater Subject(s): Boats THE INVALID, by VIRGINIA FOLEY Poem Text First Line: Old ships are tired sailing into port Last Line: I dream the vagabondage they have known! Subject(s): Boats; Freedom; Japan; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Sicily; Liberty; Japanese; Seamen; Sails THE JOLLY YOUNG WATERMAN, by CHARLES DIBDIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And did you not hear of a jolly young waterman Last Line: When he's married and never in want of a fare? Alternate Author Name(s): Dibdin, Charles Isaac Mungo; Dibdin, Charles, Jr. Subject(s): Ferry Boats THE KEEPER OF THE LOCK, by AGNES LEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rich are talking of their money's worth Last Line: Said the daughter marjory. Alternate Author Name(s): Freer, Otto, Mrs. Subject(s): Boats THE KING'S SHIPS, by CAROLINE S. SPENCER Poem Text First Line: God hath so many ships upon the sea! Last Line: This deep is but the hollow of his hand. Subject(s): Boats; Courts & Courtiers; God; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; War THE LAKE BOATS, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In an old print Last Line: They are longing for the spring! Subject(s): Boats; Lakes; Pools; Ponds THE LAST DAY: A SUBMARINE JAUNT, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As yawns an earthquake, when imprison'd air Last Line: And sails secure within the dark retreat. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Submarines; Ocean; Submarine Warfare; U-boats THE LOAD OF SUGAR-CANE, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The going of the glade-boat Subject(s): Boats; Sugar THE LOST LAND, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We question of the captains Last Line: Nor craft, nor skill, nor wish, nor will lead back to arcady. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Arcadians; Boats; Arcadia THE MASTER OF MY BOAT, by JOSEPH ADDISON RICHARDS Poem Text First Line: I owned a little boat a while ago Last Line: And his my will. Subject(s): Boats; God THE MIDNIGHT FERRY, by MAX J. HERZBERG Poem Text First Line: I cried to my god Last Line: Beneath the moon so cried the sea in pain. Subject(s): Ferry Boats THE MOSELLE BOATMAN AND HIS DAUGHTER (2), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When first we took the stream, the maiden held Last Line: Rose from her seat, to make her rowing tell. Subject(s): Boats; Rowing THE NIGHT-JAR, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the river, in the shallows, on the shore Last Line: Which is death. Subject(s): Boats; Death; Nature; Night; Dead, The; Bedtime THE OAKEN BOAT, by SUSAN STEWART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wide of the mark, I dreamed again of the oaken boat Subject(s): Boats THE OLD FERRYMAN, by ANTIPHILUS OF BYZANTIUM Poem Text First Line: Glaucus, the islander, whose ferry crossing Last Line: Across the styx the veteran might ferry. Subject(s): Ferry Boats THE OLD YACHT, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Proud is phaselus here, my friends, to tell Last Line: To castor and the twin of castor vowed. Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius Variant Title(s): His Boat Subject(s): Boats THE OPEN BOAT, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With no place to lay my head Last Line: Afraid, afraid / of a human Subject(s): Boats; Solitude; Alienation (social Psychology) THE PENDULUM, by JURGIS BALTRUSHAITIS Poem Text First Line: When the dumb darkness most heavily clings Last Line: Cold, ineluctable footsteps of time. Alternate Author Name(s): Baltrushaitis, George; Baltrushaitis, Iurgis; Baltrushaitis, Yurgis Subject(s): Ferry Boats; Harbors; Poetry & Poets; Sea; Ocean THE PHANTOM BOAT, by ELISHA NORMAN GUNNISON Poem Text First Line: The tide comes in, and the tide goes out Last Line: "her wedding dress was her funeral shroud." Alternate Author Name(s): Gunnison, E. Norman Subject(s): Boats; Gloucester, Massachusetts THE PLEASURE-BOAT [DIFFERENT VERSION], by RICHARD HENRY DANA (1787-1879) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, hoist the sail, the fast let go! Last Line: But them I hear no more. Subject(s): Boats THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 54, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gathering lotuses we called to each other Last Line: Letting our thoughts surge on Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Boats; Chinese Literature; Quiet Life THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 68, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Aboard this boat of rotten wood Last Line: Alas it's due to bitterness Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Boats; Chinese Literature THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 27, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Partial to pine cliffs and lonely trails Last Line: Trusting the current like an unmoored boat Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Boats; Chinese Literature; Laughter; Roads; Paths; Trails THE SHIPS OF ARCADY, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thro' the faintest filigree Last Line: In the misty filigree. Subject(s): Arcadians; Boats; Moon; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Water; Arcadia; Seamen; Sails; Ocean THE SISTER, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the little quiet town Last Line: And ships upon the sea? Subject(s): Boats; Children; Laughter; Sisters; Childhood THE SONG OF THE LIGHT CANOE, by HORACE SPENCER FISKE Poem Text First Line: When the dew is fresh and the grasses wet Last Line: When the flush of the sunset dies. Subject(s): Boats; Canoes & Canoeing; Rivers; Sailing & Sailors; Water; Seamen; Sails THE SONG OF THE WIND IN THE CLOUD, by ELLEN ROLFE VEBLEN Poem Text First Line: Rock, rock, my hollow boat! Last Line: Shiver by thy spell. Subject(s): Boats; Clouds; Cruise Ships; Motion; Sea; Singing & Singers; Ocean THE STORY RETOLD, by MRS. R. B. HALSTEAD Poem Text First Line: Little boat, I made you, you're mine Last Line: "with love divine on calvary." Subject(s): Boats; Craftsmanship THE U-BOAT CREWS, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, alas for those blond boys who stalk Subject(s): Navy - Germany; Submarines; World War I; Submarine Warfare; U-boats; First World War THE UNKNOWN HAVEN, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Break, o waves of ocean Last Line: On some distant strand. Subject(s): Boats; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Water; Waves; Seamen; Sails; Ocean THE VESSEL, by ROSALIND TRAVERS Poem Text First Line: She dashed up the river Last Line: By the old stone quay. Subject(s): Boats THE WAY OF THE WORLD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A boat that sails upon the sea Last Line: And watch and prayer. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Boats; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean 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 WHITE SHIPS AND THE RED, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With drooping sail and pennant Last Line: But one -- shall be like blood. Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Subject(s): Ghost Ships; Lusitania (ship); Submarines; World War I; Submarine Warfare; U-boats; First World War THE WILLIAM P. FRYE [FEBRUARY 28, 1915], by JEANNE ROBERT FOSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw her first abreast the boston light Last Line: To make the harbor glad because she's come. Subject(s): Submarines; William P. Frye (ship); World War I - United States; Submarine Warfare; U-boats 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 THE WRECK OF THE 'THOMAS DRYDEN'; IN PENTLAND FIRTH, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I stood upon the sandy beach Last Line: And got lodgings for the night! Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Ferry Boats; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Shipwrecks; Tragedy; Dead, The; Ocean THE WRECK OF THE EMMELINE, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This tack might fetch absecom bar Last Line: Stuck fast an' firm on the outer bar. Subject(s): Boats; Disasters; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks THE WRECK OF THE THRESHER, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stand on the ledge where rock runs into the river Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Submarines; Death; Shipwrecks; Submarine Warfare; U-boats; Dead, The THERIOT COVE, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the lights of the boathouse that lead you Subject(s): Boats; Parties TO THE SCHOONER CASCO, DEAR TO R.L.S., by GRACE HAZARD CONKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Has he forsaken heaven quite Last Line: To anchor in the floating moon. Subject(s): Boats TOILERS OF THE SEA, by SANDRA STONE Poem Source First Line: What will has ordered this small boat Last Line: Waging to the debited sea Subject(s): Boats TRIUMPH OF THE BLUE, by LUIS G. URBINA Poem Source First Line: The glowing red of dawn paints the lake to pale blood Last Line: Distance, the sail of a boat places its sweet note of virginal white Subject(s): Boats; Lakes; Paintings And Painters; Water TWAS SUCH A LITTLE, LITTLE BOAT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: My little craft was lost! Subject(s): Boats; Loss TWICKENHAM FERRY, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: Ahoy! And o-ho! And it's who's for the ferry?' Last Line: There's danger in crossing to twickenham town. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Variant Title(s): A Verse From A Song, Once Painted On A Board At Twickenham Subject(s): Ferry Boats; Love; Moon; Twickenham, England TWICKENHAM FERRY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hoi-ye-ho, ho-ye-ho, who's for the ferry! Subject(s): Ferry Boats; Twickenham, England TWO POETS BY THE LAKE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lakeshore modulated to a cove Last Line: The balked need urgent in your words, and mine. Subject(s): Boats; Lakes; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Wright, James (1927-1980); Writing & Writers; Pools; Ponds; Feminism ULULANI; A SEA TALE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: When ululani went to feed Last Line: Will shine for ululani. Subject(s): Boats; Children; Fish & Fishing; Sea; Story-telling; Travel; Childhood; Anglers; Ocean; Journeys; Trips UN BRUIT QUI COURT, by MAUREEN GIBBON Poem Source First Line: On the island, women are moored like boats Last Line: Split silently so that you would never know Subject(s): Ferry Boats; Harbors; Islands UNDER JOCASSEE, by RON RASH Poem Source First Line: One summer morning when Last Line: A grave you've just passed over, %wondering why she looked up Subject(s): Boats; Death; Rivers UNKNOWN HARBOR, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Housebound in a house not our own Last Line: For the festival by way of an unknown harbor Subject(s): Boats; Camping; Harbors; Sea Voyages VALE; FOR PAULINE JOHNSON, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lone voyager! Thy ship of dreams Last Line: The end of distance brings you rest! Subject(s): Boats; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Journeys; Trips VILLANCICO - 'I'LL BE A MARINER', by LUIS DE CAMOENS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'll go to yon boat, my mother Last Line: And be a mariner too Alternate Author Name(s): Camoes, Luis De; Camoens, Luiz Vaz De Subject(s): Boats; Love; Sailors And Sailing; Sea VILLANELLE OF CITY AND COUNTRY, by ZOE AKINS Poem Text First Line: Beneath the arches of the leaves I lie Last Line: But oh, the towers set in gotham's sky! Subject(s): Ferry Boats; New York City; Romance; Skyscrapers; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple VOTIVE TABLETS: EXPECTATION AND FULFILLMENT, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O'er ocean, with a thousand masts, sails forth the stripling bold Last Line: One boat, hard rescued from the deep, draws into port the old! Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von Subject(s): Boats WAITING FOR THE STORM, by SHEROD SANTOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The morning sun struck, like flint, the banked Subject(s): Boats; Storms WAKULLA: CHASING THE GATOR'S EYE, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you catch a gleam between pad stalks Last Line: The reptile that moves beneath you. Subject(s): Alligators; Boats; Night; Reptiles; Bedtime WATCHING THE NEEDLEBOATS AT SAN SABBA, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard their young hearts crying Last Line: Return, no more return Subject(s): Boats; Farewell; Parting WATER SPORT, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come all who hear our song say yalding bells Last Line: Shine like an angel to the mill boy's sight. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Boats; England; Landscape; English WHERE GO THE BOATS?, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dark brown is the river Last Line: Shall bring my boats ashore. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): A Child's Garden Of Verses: 14 Subject(s): Boats; Imagination; Rivers; Fancy WHETHER MY BARK WENT DOWN AT SEA, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Out upon the bay Subject(s): Boats; Soul WHITE BOAT, by DARA WIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The birds are sleeping, it's far from morning Last Line: The white boat doesn't want to go home Subject(s): Boats; Nature WICK, by JUDITH H. MONTGOMERY Poem Source First Line: We keep watch at dock edge, dusk Last Line: That flickers, and is gone Subject(s): Boats; Disasters; Sailors And Sailing; Sea Voyages; Shipwrecks WILLIAM OF THE FERRY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Near clyde's gay stream there dwelt a maid Last Line: With william of the ferry Subject(s): Ferry Boats;humility;peace WINTER IN SITGES, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old man building a boat on the beach Last Line: Built to make shapes in the waves Subject(s): Boats; Sea Voyages; Spain; Travel WRITTEN AT CANDIDATE HSU'S VILLA ON THE TI RIVER, by PAO T'AN Poem Source First Line: The distant %ferry road blurs Last Line: Missing only %a gibbon's howl Subject(s): Ferry Boats; Travel; Zen Buddhism |
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