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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CAMP IN THREE LIGHTS, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Against the darkness sharply lined
Last Line: The faded fire, the aurora's loss.
Subject(s): Camping; Fire; Camps; Summer Camps


A TENT BESIDE A RIVER, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Remembering lanterned, canvas-sprawled fields
Last Line: Nor their words ferried anyone safely anywhere.
Subject(s): Bible; Camping; Faith; Parents; Camps; Summer Camps; Belief; Creed; Parenthood


ACTING ON A TIP, by JAMES TATE            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: We went to the bug-eating state
Subject(s): Camping; Insects; Camps; Summer Camps; Bugs


ACTING ON A TIP, by JAMES TATE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We went to the bug-eating state
Last Line: They announced in unison, 'we are camped here.'
Subject(s): Camping; Insects


AN ANSWER TO VARIOUS BARDS, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Well, I've waited mighty patient while they all came rolling in
Last Line: And then return to sydney and vermilionize the bars.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Camping; Death; Hearts; Poetry & Poets; Camps; Summer Camps; Dead, The


AT CAMP, by ANDREW HUDGINS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Everyone says the deep woods are soothing
Last Line: Howling for howling, the best kind of howl
Subject(s): Camping; Camps; Summer Camps


AT SUMMER CAMP, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Someone is leaving - tears. Someone
Last Line: Taking a lost one home, past the trees %and the lake and all you wanted to say
Subject(s): Camping; Religion


AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN GREEN, by LINDA PASTAN            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At summer camp, / I wrapped my arms around
Last Line: In my own small commonwealth
Subject(s): Camping; Trees; Bronx, New York City; Country Life; City & Town Life; Nature; Camps; Summer Camps


AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN GREEN: 3., by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At summer camp, %I wrapped my arms around
Last Line: For its silence, blaming, %blaming
Subject(s): Camping


BLACK ASHES, by MARTHA HASKELL CLARK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sometime we shall remember them, the little camping
Subject(s): Camping; Nature


BREAKING CAMP, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Having spent a hard-earned sleep, you must break camp
Subject(s): Camping; Camps; Summer Camps


BUNYIP AND THE WHISTLING KETTLE, by JOHN STREETER MANIFOLD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I knew a most superior camper
Last Line: And loud it screamed, the lifeless metal, %far into the malicious night
Subject(s): Camping; War


CAMPING AT THE HEADLANDS OF THE RAPPAHANNOCK, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We love each landscape
Subject(s): Camping; Camps; Summer Camps


CAMPING IN THE CASCADES, by JOSEPH EDWARD POWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hungry for bootprints, shades of differences
Last Line: Heavenly bodies shine through our sleep
Subject(s): Camping; Nature


CAMPING OUT, by WILLIAM EMPSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And now she cleans her teeth into the lake
Subject(s): Camping; Camps; Summer Camps


CAMPING OUT, by WILLIAM EMPSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And now she cleans her teeth into the lake
Last Line: See where they blur, and die, and are outsoared
Subject(s): Camping


CAMPING SONG, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Has your dinner lost its savor?
Subject(s): Camping; Nature


CHANT, by BOB VANCE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where is the smell of sweetgrass here
Last Line: The smell of %sweet %grass
Subject(s): Camping; Grass; Nature


CONTINUED NICE, by JAMES HAUG    Poem Source                    
First Line: That night we camped outside the city
Last Line: Before we had to tear it all down
Subject(s): Camping


COUNTRYSIDE CAMP, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gypsy man and gypsy woman drinking tea
Subject(s): Animals; Camping; Farm Life; Horses; Wagons; Camps; Summer Camps; Agriculture; Farmers


COUNTRYSIDE CAMP, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the blue shadow of the wagon
Last Line: Round and round the marigold
Subject(s): Animals; Camping; Farm Life; Horses; Wagons


DIANA ABNEY, WELCH CAMP, NEVADA, 1864, THE MORNING AFTER THE MINERS, by ROBERT JOE STOUT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dreamed of wales. Gypsy %carts. The rhondda fair
Last Line: And caress her callused, quivering hand
Subject(s): Camping; Mines And Miners; Nevada


DIARY OF DIANA ABNEY, WELCH CAMP, NEVADA, 1863, SELS., by ROBERT JOE STOUT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Three weeks into winter she wrote simply
Last Line: I'd take my chance with wolves
Subject(s): Camping; Diaries; Nevada


EDDY-GRAMS: 1. EDDY BLEW HIMSELF, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When eddy bilt his mountin camp
Last Line: He'll blow his hed off yet.
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Camping; Camps; Summer Camps


EDDY-GRAMS: 2. EDDY BUM PROOF CELLER, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When eddy blasted out that hole
Last Line: Oh boy—fur me his celler.
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Camping; Camps; Summer Camps


FINE ARTS CAMP, by JULIE MOULDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A motorcycle idles, and from its exhaust, I rise, choking black %smoke
Last Line: In the morning, if his bones were carefully placed back together
Subject(s): Camping


FOG ON KENNESAW, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We pitch our tent on kennesaw mountain
Last Line: Maneuvering on kennesaw.
Subject(s): Camping; Confederate States Of America; Fog; Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia; Camps; Summer Camps; Confederacy; Haze


FOUR POEMS FOR ROBIN: SIWASHING IT OUT .. IN SISULAW FOREST, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I slept under rhododendron
Subject(s): Camping; Oregon; Love; Youth; Memory; Camps; Summer Camps


FOUR POEMS FOR ROBIN: SIWASHING IT OUT .. IN SISULAW FOREST, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I slept under rhododendron
Last Line: I think back when I had you
Subject(s): Camping; Oregon


HAVE YOU?, by HARRY M. DEAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Have you ever built a camp-fire at the closing of the
Subject(s): Camping; Nature


INDIAN DRUMS, by ISABEL WINSLOW    Poem Text                    
First Line: Indian summer camps in the hills
Last Line: Where her bright fires are burning!
Subject(s): Camping; Camps; Summer Camps


JOHNSON'S ANTIDOTE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Down along the snakebite river where the overlanders camp
Last Line: Somehow seems to dodge the subject of the snakebite antidote.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Animals; Camping; Life; Snakes; Camps; Summer Camps; Serpents; Vipers


LAKESIDE PAVILION, by P'EI TI    Poem Source                    
First Line: From the window a rippling of waves
Last Line: Everywhere hibiscus begin to open
Subject(s): Camping; Guests; Lakes; Zen Buddhism


LATE AUBADE & EXPLANATION, by KATE NORTHROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Once in a field, in a wide rising stretch of paintbrush
Last Line: An outline. Better, I knew, to slip %unheld, an opening into mist.
Subject(s): Camping; Drinks And Drinking; Night


LETTERS, by MAXINE W. KUMIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear muzz,' I wrote, the summer I was ten
Last Line: Darling ... Your visit ... Even ... So brief
Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine
Subject(s): Camping; Children; Letters


LIGHTS IN THE SKY ARE STARS: THE GREAT NEBULA OF ANDROMEDA, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We get into camp after
Last Line: To murder you while you sleep
Subject(s): Andromeda (constellation); Camping; Love


MORNING IN CAMP, by HERBERT BASHFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A bed of ashes and a half-burned brand
Last Line: Great, pulsing heart of bold, advancing day!
Subject(s): Camping; Camps; Summer Camps


NIGHT IN CAMP, by HERBERT BASHFORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fierce burns our fire of driftwood; overhead
Last Line: The darkness pushing down upon the land.
Subject(s): Camping; Camps; Summer Camps


NIGHT IN CAMP, by SARAH SPENCER ROE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sparks ascending from the fire
Last Line: Presently to die.
Subject(s): Camping; Fire; Fireplaces; Forests; Wood; Camps; Summer Camps; Woods


NON-VERBS, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Jumping, running, boating
Last Line: Uncorking, signalling by semaphore
Subject(s): Camping; Explorers; Travel


OH LOVELY ROCK, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: We stayed the night in the pathless gorge of ventana creek, up the east fork.
Last Line: Felt its intense reality with love and wonder, this lonely rock
Subject(s): Camping; Nature; Camps; Summer Camps


PACK-TRIP SUITE, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Night is revery awake
Last Line: Quiet admits the dark intense.
Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers
Subject(s): Camping; Night; Camps; Summer Camps; Bedtime


PENANCE IN POETRY CAMP, by MICHAEL RANNEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The poet sits inside her tent
Last Line: Certain with time to find my shame again
Subject(s): Camping; Poetry And Poets


PINE CAMP, by GORDON BAINE CLARK    Poem Text                    
First Line: There were the three of us and we were young
Last Line: We hear winds in whisper with far-distant pines.
Subject(s): Autumn; Camping; Seasons; Wind; Fall; Camps; Summer Camps


POETIC HISTORY OF THE 7TH IOWA REGIMENT: MARCH TO CAMP MONTGOMERY, by GEORGE S. RUTHERFORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Again we have orders, from high sources to march
Last Line: We completed this journey of four or five miles.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Camping; U.s. - History; Walking; Camps; Summer Camps


RAIN IN CAMP, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The camp-fire smoulders and will not burn
Last Line: Alas, shall there no man paint or tell.
Subject(s): Camping; Fire; Rain; Camps; Summer Camps


RATS AT ALLATOONA, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Over the lake the stars scatter their crumbs of light
Last Line: The lobe of an ear.
Subject(s): Camping; Rats; Refuse & Refuse Disposal; Camps; Summer Camps


RURAL PROGRESS; OR WE'RE LIVIN' 'MOST IN TOWN, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: So you're sorry for us fellows
Last Line: Are a-livin' 'most in town.
Subject(s): Camping; Country Life; Fields; Towns; Camps; Summer Camps; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


SALTBUSH BILL, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now this is the law of the overland that all in the west obey
Last Line: How the best day's work that he ever did was the day that he lost the fight.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Camping; Peace; Camps; Summer Camps


SALTBUSH BILL'S GAMECOCK, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas saltbush bill, with his travelling sheep, was making his way / to town
Last Line: Remarked, 'discharged with a clean discharge -- the assault was justified!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Camping; Cooking & Cooks; Fate; Sin; Camps; Summer Camps; Destiny


SALTBUSH BILL, J. P., by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beyond the land where leichhardt went
Last Line: Their saltbush bill, j.P.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Animals; Camping; Horses; Camps; Summer Camps


SOUTHWIND CAMP, by JANE M. MCCLELLAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: February. The camp stands clean
Last Line: Of a change in weather
Subject(s): Camping; Children; Nature


SPEARFISH CANYON, by CORIE DAVIS HENTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: My camp fire smoke wreathes in and out the trees
Last Line: And rest, by nature soothed, carefree, content.
Subject(s): Camping; Canyons; Explorers; Camps; Summer Camps; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers


SPRING RAIN, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The smoke of our campfire lowers
Last Line: The throb and hiss of the rain
Subject(s): Camping; Forests; Rain; Spring


STORY OF MONGREL GREY, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the story the stockman told
Last Line: The purchase money of mongrel grey.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Animals; Camping; Dogs; Forests; Moon; Camps; Summer Camps; Woods


TELLING THEM OF TAMPA, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "weary months I've spent in tampa, where the luscious hardtack grows"
Last Line: Down at -- o! Confound old tampa. Sister! Won't you pass / the cake!
Subject(s): Camping;war Bonds;weariness; Camps;summer Camps;fatigue


TERRA INCOGNITA, by BARBARA SZERLIP    Poem Source                    
First Line: We've walked since morning, the landscape, as before, perfect sem
Last Line: Any he's seen before, swears there's not a constellation he can recognize
Subject(s): Camping; Sea Voyages; Tourists; Travel


THE CAMPER, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Night 'neath the northern skies, lone, black, and grim
Last Line: Watch o'er his hemlock bed—his sinless sleep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Camping; Nature; Night; Solitude; Camps; Summer Camps; Bedtime; Loneliness


THE CAMPFIRE, by MARGARET ADELAIDE WILSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Until that eve I never knew you
Last Line: Just you and I: outside the night!
Subject(s): Camping; Fire; Camps; Summer Camps


THE FIRST SURVEYOR, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The opening of the railway line! - the governor and all!
Last Line: I'm sorry, but I can't come down -- I'm dining out tonight!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Animals; Camping; Cattle; Horses; Hunting; Camps; Summer Camps; Hunters


THE LIGHTS IN THE SKY ARE STARS: THE GREAT NEBULA OF ANDROMEDA, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We get into camp after
Last Line: To murder you while you sleep
Subject(s): Andromeda (constellation); Camping; Love; Camps; Summer Camps


THE OLD CAMP COFFEE-POT (WRITTEN FOR EBEN W. MARTIN), by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Old camp-mate, black and rough to see
Last Line: From your black throat, old coffee-pot.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Subject(s): Camping; Cowboys; Camps; Summer Camps


THE OLD CAMP; WRITTEN IN A ROMAN FORTIFICATION IN BAVARIA, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a cloud before the sun
Last Line: If sadness fits the past.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin)
Subject(s): Bavaria; Camping; Life; Roman Empire; Camps; Summer Camps


THE PLAYGROUND AT PAOWNYC, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: There's a playground hid in the forest's depths
Last Line: With tender care and love.
Subject(s): Camping; Children; Games; Leisure; Parks; Camps; Summer Camps; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements


THE SIMPLE LIFE - IN TENTS, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ten thousand khaki tents or more
Last Line: For living proves a coarse burlesque.
Subject(s): Camping; San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906); Smoke; Tents; Camps; Summer Camps


THE SUMMER CAMP, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here slacken rein; here let the dusty mules
Last Line: And gird our loins for action. Let us go!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Camping; Forests; Life; Past; Travel; Camps; Summer Camps; Woods; Journeys; Trips


THE SUMMER-CANP BUS PULLS AWAY FROM THE CURB, by SHARON OLDS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whatever he needs, he has or doesn't
Subject(s): Camping; Summer; Farewell; Camps; Summer Camps; Parting


THE TENT ASTRONOMER, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As a barrier against mosquitoes
Last Line: Let lens and mirror lift me up toward light.
Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers; Camping; Solitude; Tents; Camps; Summer Camps; Loneliness


TO A WOMAN GLANCING UP FROM THE RIVER, by LARRY LEVIS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On either bank
Subject(s): Camping; Rivers; Camps; Summer Camps


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


VACATION HINTS FOR YOUNG VERMONTERS, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ho! All you young vermonters
Last Line: The state you're living in.
Subject(s): Animals; Camping; Country Life; Deer; Hunting; Mountain Life - Vermont; Vacation; Camps; Summer Camps; Hunters


VISITATION, by BRUCE BERGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I stargazed from my bedroll
Last Line: Scrawl of our galaxy
Subject(s): Camping; Nature


WANDERERS, by JAMES HEBBLETHWAITE    Poem Text                    
First Line: As I rose in the early dawn
Last Line: Pull up the stakes and go!
Subject(s): Camping; Wandering & Wanderers; Camps; Summer Camps; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


WELCH CAMP, NEVADA, 1864: DIANA ABBEY MEETS THE MAN SHE EVENTUALLY WIL, by ROBERT JOE STOUT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The boys, used to rattlers, wolves, explosions
Last Line: A new little tower of children's blocks, %'you buy kerchief? Or perfume?'
Subject(s): Camping; Marriage; Nevada


WOHELO, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Down in maine at camp wohelo
Last Line: In our hearts their fame will live.
Subject(s): Camping; Children; Games; Girls; Maine (state); Sports; Camps; Summer Camps; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements


YANKEE DOODLE UP TO DATE, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Old spain took cuba by the hair
Last Line: "those islands will come handy."
Subject(s): Boys; Camping; Children; Camps; Summer Camps; Childhood