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Subject: CANALS
Matches Found: 13

AGED PILOT MAN, by SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the erie canal, it was
Last Line: A moment stood. Then wondering turned, %and speechless walked ashore
Alternate Author Name(s): Twain, Mark
Subject(s): Canals


BUNG TOWN CANAL, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Do you remember, tom, billy, and sal
Last Line: N dive off once agin in the bung town canal.
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): Canals


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


CROSSING A CANAL-LOCK, by JOSEPH U. HARRIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: From this old canal-lock
Last Line: Over a corpse.
Alternate Author Name(s): Upper, Joseph
Subject(s): Canals; Water


EPIGRAM ON THE SOUTHAMPTON CANAL, by HENRY JAMES PYE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Southampton's wise sons found their river so large
Last Line: When his great hole was cut for the first to go through, %would a little one have for the little one
Subject(s): Canals; Southampton, England


HALT ON THE CANAL, by PAUL CLAUDEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now, -- passing the place where old men and women congregate
Last Line: Dim earth of the fields of colzas shine like blows of light
Subject(s): Canals; China; Cities


INSCRIPTIONS FOR THE CALEDONIAN CANAL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Athwart the island here, from sea to sea
Last Line: Opening a passage through the wilds subdued.
Subject(s): Canals; Earth; Islands; Sea; Travel; World; Ocean; Journeys; Trips


NEAR AMSTERDAM; AFTER ALBERT CUYP, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sober gray skies and ponderous clouds
Last Line: Smokes placidly the stout de witt.
Subject(s): Amsterdam, Netherlands; Canals


OXFORD CANAL, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When you have wearied of the valiant spires of this county town
Last Line: Forgotten they live, and forgotten die.
Subject(s): Canals; Oxford, England


THE CANAL, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where so dark and still
Last Line: Swift and seeing?
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Canals


TWO CANALS, by AGNES LEE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The old canal forlorn, forsaken crawls
Last Line: The flowers grow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Freer, Otto, Mrs.
Subject(s): Canals


TWO MOMENTS IN VENICE: 1. UNDER THE CANALS, by JAMES WRIGHT            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All one needs to do is follow the sound of water
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): Canals; Venice, Italy; Water


TWO MOMENTS IN VENICE: 1. UNDER THE CANALS, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All one needs to do is follow the sound of water
Last Line: Under the water who have more than all the time they need
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): Canals; Venice, Italy; Water